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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Photos and CD collection This is a special collection. CDs are interviews Jeff did with Ted. The photos are stuck together and couldn’t be separated without damage so we are not touching them. Probably only about 6 photos and two are of Ted. Jeff said the note on back of the envelope of his contacts as early as 1940s that he new were in the field of parapsychology. Jeff definitely said the 1940s. One article from 1973 was found in this folder so will leave it and not move it to larger true folder of 1973 as my goal is to replicate the files and documents electronically without moving them. The interviews were probably conducted in the 1980s. And the photos appear to be sent by Ted January 1975 but of course the photos of people could be much older. As they say in translation, if there is a mistake or lack of clarity in the original language, then also make it a mistake or unclear when translating it. Andy Eastman Misc files Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens Interviews with Jeff CD (Notes only) https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/52d46500fbc8853b4cb1ac891d8777df.pdf f87496d46e714e837fd85db397c18df7 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c568b8c5bf81b7464fa8d5696f716a32.txt b991af34c2b7d6f7b662e6901a173cff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 The Anomalist Home/News Journal Issues Related Books Site Archives The Store About Us Books... # The Anomalist Awards for the Best Books of 2000 I'm going to do something a little different this year. (I do something a little different *every year*.) Like last year, I am again the sole reviewer (I don't get any offers clamoring to help). I even review some of my own books. (You don't have to read them; you don't have to buy them.) But this year I'm only going to give out the awards to a tiny handful of books--those that really stand out from the rest. That's not to say the rest aren't worthy of your attention--and for that reason I will append my mini-reviews to most of the other books submitted for consideration as well as a few that were not. If you have a book you would like considered for the Anomalist Awards 2001, send it to: The Anomalist, PO Box 577, Jefferson Valley, NY 10535--*Patrick Huyghe* ---------- ## The 2000 Award Winners **The Magic of Shapeshifting** by Rosalyn Greene Explores the myth, legends, sightings, and New Age beliefs about shapeshifting, then compares it to other occult phenomena, including spirit materialization and out-of-body experiences. The author clears away misconceptions and is clear about the sources of her information--which happens to includes personal experience. The perspective may at times make shapeshifting seem like a semantic game, but it's obviously more than that with the author providing ample warning of its dangers. The book turns into a how-to guide to our own inner animal selves, which in some cases, like the author's, is a werewolf, and includes information about a subculture of shapeshifters. Yes, the book is new agey and way out-there, but it's also straightforward, groundbreaking, and totally original. **Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers-1952** by Micahel D. Hall and Wendy A. Conners An extremely detailed biography of Edward Ruppelt that focuses on his years of service as the head of Project Blue Book and the year 1952 in particular. Contains lots of material from Ruppelt's personal papers, quotes from early drafts of his *Report on Unidentified Flying Objects*, and interviews with those who knew and served with Ruppelt. But it is not without faults--it contains too many "thank you" throughout the text, captions, everywhere, in fact, and the tone is sometimes too personal--"Have you seen *The Day the Earth Stood Still*?" Ruppelt's book is a key text in the history of UFOlogy and this book is now the indispensable companion to any reading--and understanding--of that classic book. **Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet** by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick is an excellent storyteller, Cayce was one of the century's The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 2 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 most remarkable men, and the author had access to transcripts of Cayce's trances as well as his personal letters and papers. That makes for an absolutely winning combination. Though the author doesn't pass judgment on the legitimacy of Cayce's psychic powers, he is clearly partial towards his subject. This book certainly won't convince any skeptics, and you'll either love or hate it. Despite it's faults, I think it's an excellent biography. The Pk Man: A True Story of Mind-Over-Matter by Jeffrey Mishlove Many, many years ago, while I edited a publication called UFO Commentary, a strange man making strange claims contacted me. His name was Ted Owens. He claimed that he could control the weather, the outcomes of NFL games, and a whole lot more thanks to his friends in high places--the "Space Intelligences" up there in flying saucers above the Earth. I immediately put his correspondence in the nut file. But Jeffrey Mishlove didn't. The budding psychologist found in Owens an ideal subject. He struck up a friendship and a began, with the help of Scott Rogo, a study of Owen. It was a rather informal study, made so in large part by Owens' volatile personality. In reading this fascinating work I found Mishlove a bit gullible at times. And I wish he had done a more thorough job of trying to understand his subject. But who am I to talk? What a story it is. The story of a man whose PK powers seemingly ranged to the criminal. Staggering. Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special by Bob Rickard and John Michell If you missed the their 1977 work, Phenomena, or their follow-up five years later, Living Wonders, then Rough Guides have done you a big favor. The authors have combined chapters from both and updating the whole. So you'll find a lot of old favorites like teleportation, frog falls, and spectral armies, as well as many new topics that have emerged in the past two decades like crop circles, chupacabras, and more. Rickard and Michell are at the top of their form here, insightful, reasoned, and humorous. They also bring a much needed long-term perspective to the field, noting, for example, that while crop circles were nearly non-existent before 1980, other phenomena like sea serpents have decreased dramatically, while still others like rat kings and toads-in-the-hole are now virtually non-existent. This excellent volume rivals Jerome Clark's The Unexplained as the best one-volume examination of fortean phenomena. I just wish they had spelled my name correctly in the index. Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience by Willaim F. Williams (editor) More than 2,000 entries--from Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy, as the subtitle explains, and covering phenomena, personalities, events, topics, places, and more--were written by a variety of contributors who were allowed their own points of view. For the most part the entries are balanced, offering both pro and con comments and a bibliography--the exceptions are obviously slanted toward the skeptical. Not all the entries are successful or as complete as some would like, and the photo captions are horrendous, but I found many entries covering subjects that were new to me. Some readers have expressed shock to find entries on scientific subjects in this volume--on Louis Pasteur, the big bang theory, biofeedback, continental drift, and Sir Isaac Newton, for instance--but that illustrates just how thin the line between science and pseudoscience really is. A top-notch, though pricey, one volume The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 3 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 encyclopedia of the anomalous. **Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi** by Roger Jewell We know that 20 million pounds of copper was mined and removed from the Lake Superior region 4,500 years ago. But where did all the copper go? It's not in North America. By following the clues back to their source, Roger Jewell marshals a wealth of evidence all pointing to Minoan traders. Though the book is marred by poor production values, this is one the best presented and most convincing theories of pre-Columbian visitors to the New World I have ever read. (Available from Arcturus Books; for info send email.) ## Other Noteable Books **The Ghost Rocket File** Jan L. Aldrich (compiled by) This book is really nothing more than a compilation of government documents and news articles on the strange objects seen over Scandinavia in the pre-Kenneth Arnold year of 1946. But with more than 1,500 reports of this "ghost rocket" phenomenon made to the Swedish Defense Staff, the period qualifies as a major UFO event that provides some much-needed perspective on what came after. (Available from Arcturus Books; for info send email) **The Dragon's Tail: Rediscovering the Tenth Planet** by Anthony Austin, Brian Crowley On tap here is a tale of Planet X. According to the authors, every 892 years the Earth suffers some dire calamity--Atlantis sinks, the flood (Noah's ark), plagues in Egypt, Little Ice Age, and more. These disasters are caused by the passages of an outermost planet the authors call Draco. While there very probably is a tenth planet out there, I doubt it's responsible for the variety of calamities cited here. In any case, I'll never know the truth and neither will you--Draco is not due to make its next pass until 2115. **The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Physics** by Julian B. Barbour Do you have doubts about that wonderful creation of modern physics called "space-time"? Independent physicist Julian Barbour certainly does and goes even further than that. He says, "time does not exist at all, and ...motion itself is pure illusion." The book seeks support in physics for this controversial view. I personally think that our limited understanding of time is what makes many mysterious phenomena so mysterious in the first place. Worth serious consideration. **The Coming Global Superstorm** by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber A well-written exploration of a frightening topic--could global warming lead to a humongous superstorm that reeks havoc on civilization? The book goes in two directions at once. It looks into the past for other possible examples of superstorms and frankly doesn't uncover any definite examples that could not have alternate explanations. And it details a fictional scenario of what such a superstorm would be like today. Terrifying, yes, but the science is rather thin. **More Chicago Haunts: Scenes From Myth and Memory** by Ursula Bielski 50 Chicago haunts, each a "true encounter told by the encounter," but the author either The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 4 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 introduces or paraphrases most of the accounts--thankfully. Each tale has a photograph illustration of some kind. Good for what it is, but I wish there was more an of effort to come to grips with the phenomena--at least a summary statement of some kind. Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard K. Bloom Science writer Bloom advances the maverick notion that all lifeforms are part of an emerging global consciousness. It's happened, he says, via group selection, which is arguably more convincing than individual selection. Bloom dazzles with his broad knowledge, which gives the book great historical and scientific scope, but the central theme is never clearly spelled out. Bloom concludes by warning of an approaching war that pits mankind against bacteria. But is this "war" really all that new? The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story by Jan Harold Brunvand, Erik Brunvand If you have his others books, like the classic The Vanishing Hitchhiker, then this one may come as a disappointment to you. He has covered most of these legends before in his previous books, but those he does discuss he seems to go into greater depth than usual. This one is more of a textbook and it's very light on the paranormal, but it's top-notch urban legend fare. Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence by Etzel Cardena, Steven Jay Lynn and Stanley Krippner(Editors) This American Psychological Association volume is an attempt to examine a category of phenomena--tales of strange, extraordinary and unexplained experiences--that have fallen between the cracks of contemporary mainstream psychology. While much of the book deals with conceptual and methodological issues, it covers a range of subjects from hallucinatory experiences, synesthesia, and lucid dreaming, to out-of-body, psi-related, alien abduction, past-life, near-death, mystical, and anomalous healing experiences. All are written by recognized scholars whose focus is on psychological factors and whose aim is to show that these topics can be approached scientifically. Will this book serve as a wake-up call for psychologists who tend to ignore such phenomena? Probably not, but it's a worthy volume nonetheless. Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress As usual Childress takes the kitchen-sink approach, throwing together everything imaginable relating to the topic, this time "technology of the ancients," meaning such subjects as ancient flight, megalith building, ancient high tech weapons, their use of electricity, and much more. He draws his material from reliable and unreliable sources, as usual. Speculates freely and wanders off-subject. He does provide lots of illustrations, altogether making it a good place to start exploring the subject. Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial & Otherworld Beings by Jerome Clark Do alleged extraterrestrials belong in the same book as fairies and other "oherworldly beings"? Perhaps. Do entries on "Elvis as Jesus" and "Gef," the talking Mongoose? Probably not. Clearly Clark knows his stuff when it comes to UFO-related matters, much of it recycled from his UFO encyclopedias. But for a book that tries to go beyond the usual UFO material, it fails miserably when it comes to including personality profiles, for instance, of anyone outside the UFO field. In fact, there is very little mention of those who have grappled with and tried to come to terms with this kind of material--the works of Hilary Evans, Thomas Bullard, Jader Pereira, and Katherine Briggs, for instance, are either mentioned briefly or not at all. There is a plethora of entries on channeled entities, which suggests to me that there are probably many more not in this book. And some entries are simply inadequate, like the entry on Sasquatch, which doesn't even mention the work of Jack Lapseritis, regardless of what you think of him or the possibility of a Bigfoot-extraterrestrial connection. I am a big fan of Clark's work, but this one is a miss, especially at this price. Then again this book is not intended for The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 5 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 the casual consumer but for libraries and comparable institutional markets. ### Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown by Gordon Cooper Our interest in this book obviously, is: what does this famous astronaut have to say about UFOs? Quite a bit actually. About 20% of this book is devoted to the subject. He recounts his own sighting, which took place in Europe in 1951, and about some other UFO incidents he heard about or was peripherally involved with, including some photos of a crashed saucer taken by an Air Force master sergeant. But I lost all faith in his accounts when, after meeting contactee Dan Fry, he actually expected to go out into the desert with him and take a ride in a saucer. Didn't happen. ### Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the History of Human Evolution by Garniss H. Curtis, Roger Lewin, Carl C. Swisher I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology-related titles that Loren Coleman recommends. ### Biographies of Scientific Objects by Lorraine Daston (editor) The item of greatest interest her is the editor's own contribution: "Preternatural Philosophy," the predecessor of the science of anomalies. She traces how a miscellany of rare phenomena was consolidated into a into a coherent category of investigation in early modern natural history and natural philosophy, how specific cultural circumstances charged these strange facts with significance, and finally how and why Preternatural Philosophy dissolved in the early 18th century. Interesting discussions of how topics become of interest to science then sometimes fall out of favor. ### The Zuni Enigma by Nancy Yaw Davis I have yet to see this book in a store and the publisher hasn't seen fit to send me a copy, but William Corliss offers it to his Sourcebook list, so it must be good. This book, which he said is "meticulously researched," presents evidence such as common symbols, blood links, and dentition to support the notion that about 700 years ago a group of Japanese reached the west coast of North America, moved inland, and were absorbed by the local inhabitant, creating a mix we know as the Zuni. ### The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Earth Mysteries by Paul Devereux In this beautiful, well-illustrated book, Paul Devereux explores a range of topics from death roads to the Nazca lines, spirit traps to rock art, psychic archeology to the bicameral mind, crop circles to hallucinogens--all dealing in some way with earth mysteries. Readers will be familiar with many but not all of these topics, though in any case Devereux's analysis of each is a delight to read. While he rightly debunks some oversensationalized topics, he adds depth to our fascination with others. Though not ground-breaking in any sense, it's a very solid work. ### UFOs and the National Security State by Richard M. Dolan An excellent first volume (1941-1973) of a proposed two-volume set on UFOs and the intelligence and military communities. Puts the UFO issues in a historical context. While not more objective than David Jacob's seminal history of the subject, The UFO Conspiracy in America, it certainly is more complete and up-to-date, given the wealth of information that has become available on the subject since the release of Jacob's book in 1975. Manages to be reasonable and reasoned despite the fact that Dolan is obviously a believer in a government UFO conspiracy and the alien presence. But UFOs were just a pawn in a national security game of cat and mouse played by the US and the USSR; they don't have to exist in any other sense of the word to have been--or continue to be--a national security concern. The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 6 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 ### The Field Guide to Ghost and Other Apparitions by Hilary Evans and Patrick Huyghe Can't very well review my own book, now can I? Of course, I can! I won't tell you how great it is--you already know I would say that--but it's a good read and deals rationally with the many puzzles ghost pose, including their relation to time. The book contains at least one fascinating case that has never been published before and many other obscure ones. I think you'll find that it is at once the most historical and most up-to-date volume on the subject currently available. ### Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism by Fred M. Frohock Frohock's treatment of paranormal topics--from out of body experiences and healing, to ESP, alien abductions and mysticism--will please neither believers nor skeptics. That kind of attitude makes us stand up and pay attention. The author has conducted many in-depth interviews, which are especially valuable, though you might find that his theoretical discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the limitations of scientific inquiry go on a bit too long. It's the personal touch that makes this volume so distinctive. Not only are there accounts of the author's personal experiences he cannot explain, but in the last chapter he analyzes the success and failure of psychic predictions for his own life. A truly undogmatic and refreshing look at these topics from an academic. ### Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects by Martin Gardner I never received a review copy of this book so I can't be too specific. But I've read Gardner's pieces in Skeptical Inquirer and many of the past volumes in the series and I'm sure these chapters on "dubious subjects," as he calls them, are well-written, informative, and highly opinionated. That's what makes them interesting, of course, even if the heavy-handed skeptical point of view turns your stomach at times. ### The Undergrowth of Science : Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty by Walter Gratzer We did not receive a copy of this book for review, but we feel it's worth noting. It's about how good science goes bad--at least according to the author--and shows how sober mainstream scientists can be wildly off the mark. Topics covered include cold fusion, N-rays, polywater, spoon bending, mitogenic radiation, and more. ### Champ Quest 2000: The Ultimate Search Field Guide & Almanac for Lake Champlain by Dennis Jay Hall A little field guide to Champ by one who claims to have seen Champ on 20 occasions! Gives background and historical information, some details on a dozen recent sightings, photographs, and some search tips on when you've got the best chance to see Champ from the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont. For the real lake monster buff only. ### The International Directory of Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Hauck is back with a round-the-world version of his United States survey, Haunted Places: The National Directory. As you might expect, most of the 700 entries involve places in Great Britain, North America and Australia; most get a one paragraph description saying that this or that place is haunted and by whom. Actually, most of the places aren't strictly "haunted," in other words a ghost may have been seen at a place once or twice, but this really doesn't qualify as a haunt. I think the phenomenon is largely transient; location being a artifact. ### Haunted Michigan: Recent Encounters with Active Spirits by Reverend Gerald S. Hunter An ordained United Methodist minister investigates 29 modern ghost stories--all in The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 7 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 Michigan. The stories are okay, but "Rev. Gerry's official Haunt Meter" rankings, from a one star meaning "pretty lame haunting" to a five star "watch your backside," was a turn-off. Especially since nothing in the book gets less than two-and-a-half stars. UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge by David M. Jacobs (editor) Jacobs designed this book for scholars and scientists who wouldn't normally think twice about this controversial subject. It's got contributions from all the big and/or respectable names in the field including Michael Swords, Jerome Clark, John Mack, Thomas Bullard and Budd Hopkins. But a few surprises, too, like the essay by Michael Persinger, who is not a true believer by any means. Nothing new here for the UFO hard-core but overall a fine presentation of the issues in and around this amazing subject. Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys Keys, a journalist, reveals the literal meaning of the words "Dark Ages." In this book he argues that sometime in A.D. 535, a worldwide disaster--he favors a great volcanic eruption (mega-Krakatoa) rather than an impact event--struck and uprooted nearly every culture then extant. Orthodox historians will call Keys' thesis "challenging" at best and "catastrophic" at worst, but Keys effectively marshals environmental, demographic, political, and religious material in support of his historical detective tale, which unfortunately is not always well-told. An important work, nonetheless. Through the Labyrinth: Designs and Meanings over 5,000 Years by Hermann Kern This big, beautiful, well-illustrated book deserves praise as "the ultimate source" on labyrinths. It deals with all the historical, architectural, astrological, mathematical, and mythological aspects of the subject matter. Jeff Saward and John Kraft do a terrific job of updating the original 1982 German edition by the late Hermann Kern. I find labyrinths and mazes endlessly fascinating and if you do, too, you'll find this volume well worth the hefty price of admission. Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine by Peter Krassa Did an Italian Benedictine monk named Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti build a time machine--the chronovisor--which allowed him to watch Christ die on the cross, and attend a performance of a now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius, in Rome in 169 B.C.? So claims Krassa, a German journalist. This is a fun read, like a Umberto Eco mystery, only real. But is it? Visitations from the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing by Lee Lawson A touching collection of first-person accounts about "visitations," those a spontaneous encounters with a departed loved one. The accounts are framed by Lawson's comments and her attractive artwork. Most interesting was the chapter entitled "Evidential Visitations: The Unknown Made Known," the rest being mostly in the "love and healing" category. UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth by James R. Lewis No question about it, UFOs and its associated phenomena have had a widespread and profound(?) inpact on popular culture--from movies to literature and advertising. There are hundreds of entries on the subject here, and for the most part it's quite well done. Lewis tries to draw the connections in an Introduction, which he wrote, and in a Foreword by Thomas Bullard, but I would think that a narrative would have better served the author's purpose than all these separate entries. I would also argue that a large part of this cultural influence comes more--and more directly--from science fiction The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 8 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 than from UFOlogy per se. But then for some people there is no difference. ### UFO/FBI Connection by Bruce S. Maccabee The FBI angle is a bit of a come on. The truth is the FBI files aren't that interesting; they basically fill in a few holes in the early history of the US government's involvement and illustrate the inter-agency squabbles that characterized the times. Maccabee essentially uses the FBI files to tell the story of the Air Force's growing involvement in UFOs. And because the FBI was often just one of the many recipients of a document that originated at another agency, Maccabee is forced to speculate about the FBI's reactions--"one can only imagine" or "one wonders what Hoover." That sort of thing only goes so far--and we know where Maccabee is coming from. An interesting history nonetheless. ### The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex by W. Adam Mandelbaum This volume is a history of psychic spying from the Old Testament to the CIA of the 1990s by a "New York attorney, practicing psychic, and former intelligence officer." There are some juicy tidbits here and there, including some interesting profiles of the big names in remote viewing, but if you've followed the literature of the subject recently--and there have been a number of books on the subject--you won't find much new here. ### Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs I want you to know where I'm coming from: I'm not one to believe in conspiracies; small ones, yes; but big ones spanning all of history, including the power to start and stop wars--I don't think so. Yes, the author's overview of the history of secret societies and the power they have wielded--and continue to wield--is a page turner, as histories of this kind are generally pretty turgid. The end of the book almost reads like a cross between his Crossfire and Alien Agenda works, but I don't for a minute buy his documentation to prove that we come from aliens. ### Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook by Joseph McMoneagle When it comes to remote viewing, McMoneagle is one of the best in the business. Unlike his previous books, like his excellent Mind Trek, this one has no narrative. It's a handbook, a how-to-do-it book that's well organized and very useful. If you seriously want to do remote viewing, this book is a must. ### Weird Georgia by Jim Miles Wow, a nice fat book of fortean incidents! It's like Loren Coleman's classic, Mysterious America, only it contains a lot more UFO material and is devoted entirely to Georgia. Georgia? Limiting your collection of fortean events to a single state is, of course, rather meaningless. It's a literary convenience. But it does show that you can take almost any slice of earthly real estate and come up with a wealth of fortean and otherwise anomalous events to ponder. The big drawback to this collection is that unlike Mysterious America, it's just a collection; out of more than 400 pages of material you only get a handful of pages of analysis. ### Searching For Eternity: A Scientist's Spiritual Journey to Overcome Death Anxiety by Don Morse A scientist searches through as much of the evidence as he could find to document the possible existence of God, a surviving soul, and an afterlife. After shifting through tons of information, summarized in this 400-plus page book, he concludes that some form of afterlife does exist. I don't think that anyone has covered the subject of overcoming the The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 9 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 death anxiety in as much depth as Morse. It's worth noting that he considers NDEs the best scientific evidence for survival, not OBEs, apparitions, dreams, channeling, or reincarnation. ### The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat Mowat relies heavily on the work of a maverick Canadian archeologist to show that the earliest European settlement in North America preceeded the Vikings by several centuries. Using longhouses --which probably used leather boats for roofs--and ancient stone beacons as his evidence, Mowat theories that the Canadian Artic and Newfoundland were first settled by a group of capitalist voyagers he calls the Albans. Mowat is a great writer and I'm willing to buy into his thesis, but I'm not a fan of the fictional vignettes he uses to fill in the gaps of the historical record. ### The Roswell Encyclopedia by Kevin Randle Nuff said. ### Best Evidence by Michael Schmicker The subtitle says it all: "An Investigative Reporter's Three-Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincanation and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear." Schmicker has done an excellent job condensing an enormous amounts of material and picking cases he views as the "best evidence" for each of the topics in his subtitle. All in all a good primer accessible to everyone. I only wish he had delved deeper into each of those best evidence cases. ### The UFO Book of Lists by Stephen Spignesi Not eye-candy, not ear-candy, but UFO-candy. Nearly 50 lists on UFO subjects, some interesting--"13 Possible Explanations for Daylight UFO Sightings," and "24 Medical Procedures Performed on UFO Abductees"--but many are rather silly or way off the mark--"9 Oceanic Names for Landmarks of Our Arid Moon," (What?) "6 Baffling UFO abduction Cases" (They're all baffling), 9 Steven King Stories about UFOs or Aliens (So what?), and the "95 chapters of Jerome Clark's One Volume Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial" (Big Deal.). For rabid UFO buffs only. ### The Field Guide to UFOs: A Classification of Various Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon by Dennis Stacy and Patrick Huyghe Yeah, another one of my books. I'll just say this about it. There's a lot of junk in this field and very few honest efforts to grapple with the phenomenon that's been on display for the past 50 or so years. We are skeptics and believers. We are merciless at throwing out the junk, and cautious in displaying the gems. There's something going on here. There are lots of things going on here. We provide some reasonable answers. ### Mysteries of the Sacred Universe by Richard Thompson Is ancient India's Puranic literature only mythological? Or did this sacred text encode information about the terrestrial, astronomical, and spiritual planes all at once? You can guess what point of view Thompson argues in great detail. Of course, all this ties-in with the notion of the existence of an ancient, scientifically advanced civilization presently unrecognized by today's historians. Seems at times like Thompson is reading too much into things, but his thesis is certainly worth serious consideration by scholars. ### A Glimmer of Light from the Eye of a Giant by Joseph Turbeville In number tables created by the author, Turbeville finds representations of many of the The Anomalist Book Awards 2000.html[12/2/25, 21:02:00] === Page 10 of 10 The Anomalist Book Awards 2000 exact measurements made at the Great Pyramid of Giza, as well as in natural forms like petal counts and pine cones. Looks like the pitfalls of playing with numbers to me--reading too much into numbers, in other words--but then what do I know? Great title though. **The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar** by Peter Tyson, Russell A. Mittermeier I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology-related titles that Loren Coleman recommends. **Odyssey of the Gods** by Erich Von Daniken Two dozen books later (post-*Chariots of the Gods*) and our good Swiss guide to the ET wonders of the ancient world continue. This time Von Daniken focuses on Ancient Greece and its stories, like Atlantis. The Greek Gods were ET beings, he agues, and interbred with humans and produced those mythological creatures we know as centaurs and Cyclops. While Von Daniken's thesis has become more detailed over time, it has not become more convincing. **A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth** by Samantha Weinberg I never saw this book, but it's one of three cryptozoology titles that Loren Coleman recommends. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 43 Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 531-576, 2001 0892-3310/01 © 2001 Society for Scientific Exploration # BOOK REVIEWS **The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease** by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. Published by the New Trends Publishing Co., Washington, D.C., 2000, xiv+297 pp. $20.00 (p). ISBN 0-9670897-0-0. With courage and care Dr. Ravnskov exposes the lack of experimental evidence for the diet-heart theory (DHT), which claims that eating less fat and cholesterol will prevent atherosclerosis. He shows how the abstract or conclusions of a number of papers are at odds with the actual data in the papers. He demonstrates how the use of one statistical method in preference to another can give a false impression that there is an effect of drug or diet in lowering total death rates, where there is, in fact, no significant effect. "This book was written to give you and your doctor some facts about cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). They are facts that even your doctor may not know because these facts have been misunderstood; or because many scientists, health authorities and representatives of the drug companies have suppressed them altogether" (p. 5). Surprisingly, this author has included about 2 dozen cartoons to make this very wrenching expose more palatable. The chapters are called "Myths." Here are the chapter titles, which certainly show the direction of this book: "Myth 1: High-fat foods cause heart disease" "Myth 2: High cholesterol causes heart disease" "Myth 3: High-fat foods raise blood cholesterol" "Myth 4: Cholesterol blocks arteries" "Myth 5: Animal studies prove the diet-heart idea" "Myth 6: Lowering your cholesterol will lengthen your life" "Myth 7: Polyunsaturated oils are good for you" "Myth 8: The cholesterol campaign is based on good science" "Myth 9: All scientists support the diet-heart idea" In a striking graph from one of the papers of John Yudkin, M.D., Ravnskov shows that the number of deaths from CHD in England and Wales between 1910 and 1956 is closely correlated with the number of new radio and television sets purchased each year. This is a perfect example of a correlation without a cause. Another line on the same graph shows that the number of grams of animal fat consumed per day changed by only ~10% during this period. There is no correlation whatsoever between fat consumption and death rates from CHD, which increased 6-fold during this time period. He notes that in the US, coronary mortality increased about 10 times between 1930 and 1960, leveled off during the 1960s, and has since decreased slowly. During the decline of heart mortality the consumption of animal fat declined also, but during the 30 531 === Page 2 of 43 532 Book Review years of sharply rising coronary mortality, the consumption of animal fat also decreased. In another example: "While the death rate from coronary disease increased in most countries after World War II, it decreased in Switzerland. If this decrease had been preceded by a decline in the intake of animal fat, Switzerland would have been a model for health care in other countries. But the diet-heart proponents never mention Switzerland because during the decline in heart mortality, the Swiss intake of animal fat increased by 20%" (p. 31). In still another example: "The Masai [of Kenya] drink 'only' half a gallon of [whole] milk each day.... Their parties are sheer orgies of meat; on such occasions four to ten pounds of meat [eaten] per person is not unusual, according to Professor [George] Mann [of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA]. If the diet-heart idea were correct, coronary heart disease would be epidemic in Kenya. But Professor Mann found that the Masai do not die from heart disease--although they might die from laughter if they heard about the campaign against foods containing cholesterol and saturated fat. But this was not the only surprise. The cholesterol of the Masai tribesmen was not sky-high as Mann had expected; it was the lowest ever measured in the world, about 50% lower than the value of [that of] most Americans" (pp. 32-33). Major frauds are decried: "Most supporters of the diet-heart idea think that the increased risk of CHD is present at all cholesterol levels. Those who have a cholesterol level of 200 mg/dL, for example, are worse off than those with a cholesterol level of 150 mg/dL; and those who have a cholesterol level of 250 mg/dL are at even greater risk. The pharmaceutical companies love this concept for it implies that almost everyone should be treated, even those with normal cholesterol levels.... The truth, were it known, would send pharmaceutical stocks plunging. In most studies, the increased risk is present only above a level of cholesterol that includes just a small percentage of the total population. [These are the approximately 0.5% of people with a genetic defect called familial hypercholesteremia (FH).] And women can stop worrying immediately because high cholesterol is not a risk factor for the female sex.... In fact, it seems more dangerous for women to have low cholesterol than high. Dr. Bernard Forette and a team of French researchers found that old women with very high cholesterol live the longest... <1/5 times the death rate of... women who had very low cholesterol. In their report, the French doctors warned against cholesterol lowering in elderly women. But they could as well have warned against cholesterol lowering in any woman, or, to be more precise, in anyone at all" (p. 59). Your reviewer checked one of the citations on MRFIT (Paul et al., 1982) to find that the summary noted honestly that the treatment group had less mortality from CHD and more total mortality than the controls did. That the former was not statistically significant was in the abstract; that the latter was not statistically significant was not in the abstract, but only in the body of the paper. Another problem with both this and some other studies is that the interventions included diet, anti-hypertensive drugs and smoking cessation all at once. === Page 3 of 43 Book Reviews 533 The authors thought that less smoking was beneficial and that anti-hypertensive drug therapy was harmful. But the diet for the treatment group called for lower saturated fat and cholesterol intake and higher polyunsaturated fat intake; the authors did not admit the possibility that this intervention could have been harmful. In an end note Ravnskov simplified a table in this paper and showed that the entire difference in death rates of certain sub-groups was due to quitting smoking, which cut the death rate in half. Dr. Ravnskov went on to show that higher levels of high-density-lipoprotein (HDL, "good" cholesterol) are not protective against CHD and that lower levels of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL, "bad" cholesterol) are not beneficial, although the expected associations of each with CHD are present. Triglycerides were said to be even less correlated with CHD than cholesterol is; the assay for triglycerides is worthless unless the patient has been fasting 12 hours, and the assay is only accurate to ±50%. Intimations in papers that there are "many" or "definitive" studies in reports and papers supporting the DHT were shown to be false by showing that citations often led to other reviews, each trusting the last, and ending in very few original studies, and that even those were often flawed statistically. Dr. Ancel Keys was one of the main proponents of this myth that eating fat causes CHD. In a paper published in 1958, Keys showed a graph of the percent calories from fat in the food of various countries vs. the mean serum cholesterol levels. The data points fell on a smooth curve, showing an excellent correlation. Dr. Ravnskov added data points from a number of countries deliberately ignored by Dr. Keys. These fall nowhere near the curve. Furthermore, CHD death rates among subjects in Finland, Greece and Yugoslavia with similar serum cholesterol levels varied 5-fold depending on which area of the country the individuals lived in! Four studies in the US, one in the UK, one in Israel and one in Finland failed to show any correlation between diet and serum cholesterol levels. "Numerous studies have shown that in people who eat a normal Western diet, the effect on blood cholesterol of eating 2 or 3 extra eggs per day over a long period of time can hardly be measured" (p. 108). Ravnskov dealt with the smear campaign against eggs as follows: "To find out how egg consumption influenced my own blood cholesterol, I once used myself as a human guinea pig without asking the ethics committee at my university. Before and during the experiment I analyzed my [total serum] cholesterol. My usual egg consumption is one or two eggs per day, and my cholesterol value at the start of the experiment was 278 mg/dL, very close to a determination of [my] blood cholesterol made 10 years earlier." On day 0, Dr. Ravnskov ate 1 egg; on day 1, 4 eggs; on day 2, 6 eggs; and on days 3-8, 8 eggs per day! "The data from my daring experiment showed that instead of going up, my cholesterol went down a little [to 246 mg/dL]" (p. 109). Dr. Ravnskov explains that older people have higher concentrations of cholesterol in their blood than younger people. If the serum cholesterol is graphed against the degree of atherosclerosis with all age groups lumped together, === Page 4 of 43 534 Book Review there seems to be a direct relationship. But if only people of about the same age and sex are considered, there is only a weak relationship with a correlation coefficient of 0.29. When the subjects with FH are left out, even the weak correlation vanishes. Some early research was ignored: "The first study designed to demonstrate a possible correlation between blood cholesterol and degree of atherosclerosis was published by the pathologist Kurt Land, and the biochemist Warren Sperry of the Department of Forensic Medicine at New York University... [in] 1936. They studied large groups of individuals who had died violent deaths. To their surprise, they found absolutely no correlation between the amount of cholesterol in the blood and the degree of atherosclerosis.... Because Land and Sperry were cautious and methodical, their study should have nipped the DHT in the bud. Or, more accurately, if those who promoted the DHT later on had read Land and Sperry's paper before beginning their research, they would probably have dropped the idea at once.... But the few who remember Land and Sperry misquote them and claim that they found a connection, or they ignore their results by arguing that cholesterol values in the dead are not identical with those in the living.... [To resolve this argument]... In the city of Agra in India, Dr. K. S. Mathur and his co-workers performed a similar study [in 1961]. Their first step was to measure blood cholesterol in 20 patients shortly before death and then a varying number of hours afterwards. They found that the cholesterol values were nearly the same if samples [were taken] before death and within 16 hours afterwards. Thus, blood samples taken very shortly after death are reliable--an important confirmation of the study done by Drs. Land and Sperry. Dr. Paterson's group in Canada confirmed this.... Next Dr. Mathur and his colleagues studied 200 people who had died in an accident, without any preceding disease. Like Drs. Land and Sperry, and like Dr. Paterson, the Indian researchers could find no connection between cholesterol values and the degree of atherosclerosis. Those with low cholesterol had just as much atherosclerosis as those whose cholesterol was high" (p. 118-120). A report from the Framingham Study found a weak correlation coefficient, 0.36. Dr. Ravnskov found what distinguished this report from all the others he studied: only 14% of the Framingham dead were chosen for autopsy, not close to 100%, as in the other studies. The risk of preferentially selecting subjects who probably had FH hypercholesteremia was said by Ravnskov to be great. To prove that high cholesterol is the villain--and not just an innocent bystander--demands that a change in the cholesterol concentration in each individual is followed by a change in degree of atherosclerosis in the same direction. Examination of all studies on this relationship showed no correlation. Dr. Ravnskov reviewed the evidence presented earlier--that cholesterol levels in blood, or HDL or LDL levels, or the ratio of the latter are not correlated with either atherosclerosis or heart attack rates. It follows that forcible reductions of cholesterol levels by drugs (since diet alone does not change the levels much) would not be expected to change the rate of CHD by lowering cholesterol levels. However, two things are possible with drugs. First, some === Page 5 of 43 Book Reviews 535 unknown mechanism unrelated to cholesterol could lengthen lifespan. Second, some side effect unrelated to cholesterol could shorten lifespan. Furthermore, the pervasive misconceptions about cholesterol have made it nearly impossible to carry out a placebo-controlled trial of new drugs because it is mistakenly considered unethical not to treat people with high cholesterol levels! "In the 1960s, Professor Jeremy Morris of London, England, led a team of physicians and scientists in an investigation to see whether the replacement of animal fat with soybean oil could have some preventive effect on CHD. This oil is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, those that are considered [erroneously to be] protective against atherosclerosis and CHD. Enrolled in the trial were about 400 middle-aged men who had previously been admitted to 4 London hospitals because of a heart attack; half of these received a diet containing large amounts of soybean oil. (This is one of the few trials sponsored solely by a government, and not by a drug company or any other vested interest.) . . . . . . . . . . When the researchers analyzed the results 4 years later, they could find no beneficial effects from using soybean oil. Although, in this particular trial, blood cholesterol had decreased considerably in the treatment group, 15 had died of a heart attack. In the control group, 14 had died; and the number of non-fatal heart attacks was the same in both groups" (p. 144-145). Other trials gave the same result. These trials on patients who already had symptoms of CHD are called "secondary prevention" trials. Now Ravnskov describes some of the "primary prevention" work, that is, trials with healthy or at least symptomless patients. Much larger numbers of subjects are needed in an attempt to obtain good statistical results, and compliance is always suspect because of the severe side effects of many of the treatments or drugs used in subjects who are basically healthy, and thus may not be compliant because they lack any fear of poor health. When you recall the conclusions in Myth 2, that high cholesterol does not cause CHD, you will not be surprised at the negative findings he has described. In 1967 the Coronary Drug Project tested nicotinic acid, clofibrate, thyroid hormone, and estrogen to lower cholesterol levels in middle-aged men who had already had at least one heart attack. After 7 years the death rates were the same as those of the controls. Worse, all 4 drugs had severe side effects. The researchers fell victim to the "surrogate endpoint." This is the use of an easily measured factor, such as total cholesterol level or blood pressure, as a surrogate or substitute for what is really important--increasing lifespan or the quality of life. In a later chapter Ravnskov calls this a "surrogate outcome." In 1970 the Upjohn Co. (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) sponsored a trial on 2000 men and women with high cholesterol involving its then-new drug colestipol. Two years later no effect was seen in the women. The number of heart attacks in the men in the treatment group was cut in half, a remarkable result never seen before or since. But Ravnskov found the snag: The selection of the patients to be in either the treatment or control groups was done by Upjohn's scientists with the results of the participants' blood assays in hand; it was any- === Page 6 of 43 536 Book Review thing but random. Ravnskov noticed that there were too many control patients with FH. Your reviewer notes that, in the 1996 Physicians Desk Reference entry for this drug, there is not a shred of evidence for longer lifespan; moreover, there were no restrictions on prescribing this drug for women. For the World Health Organization trial, researchers assayed blood cholesterol in 30,000 healthy, middle-aged men in Edinburgh, Prague and Budapest. The 10,000 men with the highest blood cholesterol levels were selected for the trial, half to receive clofibrate, half placebo. After 5 years there were more fatal heart attacks in the clofibrate group. There were 128 total deaths in the clofibrate group and 87 in the placebo group. "Yet clofibrate is still recommended in many countries as a useful drug" (p. 151)! The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute embarked on a new jumbo trial called The Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (LRC) to test the effectiveness of cholestyramine (Bristol-Myers Squibb). To find about 4,000 test subjects, the 0.8% of 500,000 middle-aged men with the highest cholesterol levels were selected. All were given a few weeks of dietary indoctrination to solve the supposed ethical dilemma of not otherwise treating the controls. Half received cholestyramine and half placebo for 7-8 years. Of those treated, 190 (10%) had nonfatal heart attacks, vs. 212 (11.1%) of the controls. For fatal heart attacks the figures were 1.7% and 2.3%, a difference of 0.6% absolute or 12 individuals. In the summary of the paper on this trial these unimpressive results were presented as a 19% lowering (relative risk) of nonfatal heart attacks and a 30% lowering of fatal heart attacks. This is an example of scientific fraud among efforts to support the DHT. Ravnskov notes how the reporting of differences in fatality rates by percent reduction (say, a 50% reduction in relative risk) is actually misleading when the actual death rates are quite small in both the treatment and control groups of subjects in diet or drug studies. For example, a treatment that changes the absolute survival rate over a multi-year period from 99.0% to 99.5% represents a 50% reduction in relative risk, from 1% to 0.5% absolute. This is often described in papers as a 50% reduction in death rate. However, when the difference is barely significant statistically, as was often the case, Ravnskov points out that there is no real reason to recommend adoption of the treatment, especially if there are potentially serious side effects. Ravnskov continues: "And this was not the only way in which the LRC figures were manipulated. In order to reach their 30% figure, the LRC directors included the uncertain cases, those who may or may not have died from a heart attack, and to reach their 19% figure, they excluded the uncertain cases. If it had been the other way around the results would have been 24% rather than 30, and 15% rather than 19. In other words, they selected data that gave them the results they were seeking." Even worse, the directors abandoned the 99% confidence level with a 2-tailed t-test and settled for a 95% confidence level with a 1-tailed t-test. [In an end note Ravnskov points out that scientists have agreed that a 1-tailed t-test should be used only when it is certain that the result === Page 7 of 43 Book Reviews 537 will go in just one direction. It is not supposed to be used when the drug (or other intervention) may do harm rather than good.] Very revealing is the absence of the number of deaths from all causes. More men in the treatment groups died by violence or suicide (11 vs. 4). In the misleading manner used by the LRC to present results, they could have said that violent death was 175% more likely in the treatment group. In order to achieve essentially nothing, the treatment group suffered gas, heartburn, belching, bloating, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting; contrarily, the study's report assured readers that the side effects were not serious. Some promoters then claimed that "now that it had been proven that it is worthwhile to lower cholesterol no more trials were necessary!". Ravnskov goes on to show that trials with a seemingly positive result, even for a surrogate endpoint, are cited much more frequently than trials with a negative result. This gives a positive feedback effect, reinforcing the dogma that reducing cholesterol level is beneficial, but this sort of misdirected effort actually does not produce better health. A study showed that patients treated with lovastatin and colestipol had their coronary arteries narrowed as shown by X-rays. The title of the paper on this study indicated the opposite: "Regression of coronary artery disease as a result of lipid lowering therapy..." Ravnskov then presents the results of a meta-analysis of 26 cholesterol-lowering trials that met his standards. Result--no benefit. Ravnskov presents the results of a number of trials of statin drugs in which total death rates are slightly lower than those of the controls. But in an early trial (EXCEL) of lovastatin (Merck's Mevacor) on 8,000 healthy subjects with cholesterol levels between 240-300 mg/dL, the absolute death rate from all causes after just 1 year was 0.5% vs. 0.2% in the placebo group. In another trial with lovastatin on healthy subjects, 5,000 men and 1,000 women, 2.4 % in the treatment group died after 5.2 years vs. 2.3% of the controls. Regarding studies carried out on lovastatin, studies lasting 10 years, Ravnskov found no reports on total death rates. Ravnskov queried Merck & Co. directly and was told that the trial was not designed to measure the total clinical outcome! Deaths from heart attacks were significantly lower in some trials of other statin drugs, but total deaths were 3% absolute lower at best. In the CARE trial, Ravnskov showed that a 12% reduction in heart attacks (- 1% absolute) was overbalanced by a 1,500% increase in cases of breast cancer (+4% absolute). Total deaths were not given. Once again this shows that women should not be treated with statin drugs (or at all), and the benefit for men is quite limited at best with simvastatin and pravastatin. The incidence of breast cancer was said to be a fluke, and was not observed in the LIPID trial lasting 6 years, in which overall mortality was said to be reduced by 22%, but this was relative risk; an overall drop in mortality of 3% absolute was achieved in subjects with a broad range of initial cholesterol levels (Tonkin et al., 1998). In middle-aged men with hypercholesteremia treated with pravastatin for 5 years, death from all causes was reduced by 22%, but this was relative risk; an === Page 8 of 43 538 Book Review overall drop in mortality of 1% absolute was achieved (Shepherd et al., 1995). Ravnskov tries to explain what the polyunsaturated oils are chemically. His effort is one of the few weak points in this book. The degree of saturation actually refers to whether hydrogen can be added to the oil. If so, some of the carbon-carbon bonds in the fatty acid portion of the oil molecule must have been double bonds, which may take up 2 hydrogen atoms each. Olive and canola oils are the best examples of monounsaturated oils (a sole double bond in each fatty acid portion), and safflower, cottonseed and soybean are examples of polyunsaturates (2 or more double bonds in each fatty acid portion). If hydrogen cannot be added in the presence of a catalyst, the oil (or more likely the fat) is said to be saturated, meaning that it cannot take up any more hydrogen. Palm and coconut oils are the best examples. Tallow, lard and chicken fat have some saturated and some monounsaturated fatty acids in their molecules; they are not made entirely of saturated fatty acids by any means. The risk of eating *trans* fats is presented at some length. Ravnskov gives examples of reports of interventions with little or no statistical significance being denied time for presentation at meetings and explains that offers to write minority dissenting reports on certain trials were being denied on the grounds that the conference was supposed to produce a consensus. Statements of DHT proponents and their recommendations are quoted followed by a Ravnskov's refutation of the claimed evidence. He reiterates that even drastic lowering of cholesterol levels with drugs (diet being ineffective) is of no benefit to women and of marginal benefit to men. Ravnskov presents arguments against trying to lower cholesterol levels in children. If Ravnskov were a lone voice among the Philistines, his credibility would be lowered. In Myth 9 he gives the names of several of the scientists who support his position. This includes Mary S. Enig, President of the Maryland Nutritionists Association, whose research concerned the hazards of trans fats and who has written *Know Your Fats*, a book on the composition and effects of fats in the diet. Michael Gurr, Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford University, pointed out the insufficient correspondence in vascular pathology between animal models and man, the selection bias in epidemiological evidence, the lack of correlation between CHD and fat consumption, and the lack of improvement in coronary mortality after dietary and drug intervention. George Mann, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), realized from his studies of the Masai in Kenya that animal fat could not possibly be the cause of high cholesterol and CHD, and he has been open and fearless in his criticism of the LRC directors and has called the DHT "the greatest scientific deception of this century, perhaps of any century." Michael F. Oliver, former Professor and Director of the Wynn Institute for Metabolic Research (London, UK), has warned against campaigns for cholesterol lowering in the general population; criticized those who think that the increased mortality from non-medical causes in trials, such as suicide, is due to chance; and is uneasy about the link be- === Page 9 of 43 Book Reviews 539 tween low cholesterol and cancer. Edward R. Pinckney, editor of a number of medical journals, published a book in 1973 called *The Cholesterol Controversy*, which summarized all the inconsistencies in the cholesterol literature; he describes the dangers of lowering one's cholesterol and devotes an entire chapter to the political drama preceding an early anti-cholesterol campaign. Raymond Reiser is a former Professor of Biochemistry at Texas A&M University. He decried the practice of referring to other reviews, each taking the last on faith, which has led to the acceptance of a phenomenon (diet-heart) that may not exist. He reviewed work on fatty acids in the diet, found flaws in most of the studies, and concluded that the type of fat in the diet does not make much difference. He analyzed the references used by the American Heart Association in its rationale for dietary recommendations and found no supportive studies but found instead some that contradicted the recommendations. Ray Rosenman is the retired Director of Cardiovascular Research in the Health Sciences Program at SRI International in Menlo Park (California) and Associate Chief of Medicine, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. In a recent review he wrote that neither diet nor the identity of serum lipids (fats or oils) can explain wide national or regional differences in rates of CHD, or the 20th century variations in rates of CHD. He also pointed out that the CHD preventive effects of diets and drugs have been exaggerated by a tendency in trial reports, reviews, and other papers to cite and inflate supportive results while suppressing discordant data. The late Russell Smith was an American experimental psychologist with a strong background in physiology, mathematics and engineering. In his 1989-91 review of the diet-heart theory he wrote: "...studies are often poorly designed and data are often inappropriately analyzed and interpreted.... Much of the literature, therefore, is nothing less than an affront to the discipline of science...." He considered much of the work of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and of the American Heart Association to be "incompetent" and "sloppy," and that their political and financial power is enormous and without equal, producing a juggernaut willing and able to suppress evidence and logic. "Equally culpable are the editors of the many journals who publish articles without regard to their quality or scientific import. It is depressing to know that billions of dollars and a highly sophisticated medical research system are being wasted chasing windmills." In an extensive 2-part review, William E. Stehbens, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand, demolished the diet-heart theory and gave specific examples of misinterpretation of data, of the misleading use of relative risk rather than absolute death rates, and of the medical folly of trying to lower cholesterol levels in almost anyone (Stehbens, 2001). Now retired, Lars Werkö, previously Professor of Medicine at Sahlgren's Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, Scientific Director at the Astra Co. (now Astra-Zeneca), and head of the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, criticized the design of the Framingham Study and pointed out inaccuracies and sloppy data gathering in the MRFIT trial. === Page 10 of 43 540 Book Review As it happens, a number of other physicians and scientists in addition to the ones in Myth 9 agree with Ravnskov's positions. Linus Pauling, in his 1986 book *How to Live Longer and Feel Better* noted that the Framingham Study showed no correlation between CHD and fat intake or with cholesterol intake. Thomas J. Moore, a medical reporter based in Washington, D.C., wrote an article in the September 1989 issue of *The Atlantic Monthly* actually called "The Cholesterol Myth," in which he examined the literature, much as Ravnskov did. Moore's conclusions: "Lowering your cholesterol is next to impossible with diet, and often dangerous with drugs--and it won't make you live any longer." This review was also used in Moore's 1989 book *Heart Failure: A Critical Inquiry into American Medicine and the Revolution in Heart Care.* William Campbell Douglass, Jr., M.D., in 1993 wrote a brochure called *Eat Your Cholesterol: How to Live Off the Fat of the Land and Feel Great!* (Atlanta, GA: Second Opinion Publishing). Many of the dietary studies and trials are the same ones evaluated by Ravnskov, but they are treated in a very popular tone. John B. Allred came to nearly the same conclusions as did Dr. Ravnskov (Allred, 1993). An even more extreme view aired in the United Kingdom is that serum cholesterol level is a relatively poor predictor of CHD, that the many misclassifications may have damaging psychological effects, and that in most cases, even testing cholesterol level, as well as treating raised concentrations, is a waste of National Health Service resources (Sheldon, 1998). Kilmer S. McCully, Ph.D., M.D., in technical papers (McCully, 2001) and in his book (McCully, 2000) wrote, "But no study anywhere has ever proven that lowering the amount of cholesterol in the diet reduces the risk of heart disease. And lowering cholesterol through drugs won't prevent arteries from hardening if homocysteine is high." McCully is the discoverer of the fact that the undesirable amino acid called homocysteine is an actual cause of atherosclerosis and CHD. Charles T. McGee, M.D., wrote, "The cholesterol theory is a fraud on the American public... the theory will be exposed as a scam," in his book *Heart Frauds: Uncovering the Biggest Health Scam in History* (2001, p. 76). The authors of 2 recent reports on the use of electron beam tomography (EBT) to detect calcified plaques in coronary arteries were very circumspect in interpreting their findings, especially in their abstracts, perhaps not fully aware of how completely their findings demolished the DHT. While EBT was very predictive of hard coronary events in both studies, the difference in hypercholesterolemia between the patients with events and those without was not significant. There was absolutely no significance for HDL cholesterol (HDLC) levels as predictive, and the spread in the values for LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol (TC), TC/HDLC and triglycerides shows none of these to be usefully predictive despite the low p values (Hecht et al., 2001; Raggi et al., 2001). Based on Ravnskov's meticulous analyses as well as the considerable support for his stance shown by others who have also studied the cholesterol data, === Page 11 of 43 Book Reviews 541 this book is recommended without reservation. Physicians and other health professionals as well as anyone threatened with cholesterol-lowering treatments would be enlightened and better able to resist worthless treatments. Health insurers might reconsider compensation for frequent (or any) clinical assays for cholesterol or triglycerides, let alone expensive treatments to lower cholesterol levels that reduce quality of life without prolonging it significantly. Joel M. Kauffman Research Professor Chemistry University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 600 South 43rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 ### References Allred, J. B. (1993). Lowering serum cholesterol: Who benefits? *Journal of Nutrition*, 123, 1453-1459. Hecht, H. S., & Superko, H. R. (2001). Electron beam tomography and National Cholesterol Education Program Guidelines in asymptomatic women. *Journal of the American College of Cardiology*, 37, 1506-11511. McCully, K. S. (2001). The biomedical significance of homocysteine. *Journal of Scientific Exploration*, 15, 5-20. McCully, K. S., & McCully, M. (2000). *The Heart Revolution: The Extraordinary Discovery that Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest*. New York: Harper Perennial. Paul, O., et al. (>200 authors listed) (1982). *Journal of the American Medical Association*, 248, 1465-1477. Raggi, P., Cooli, B., & Callister, T. Q. (2001). Use of electron beam tomography to develop models for the prediction of hard coronary events. *American Heart Journal*, 141, 375-382. Sheldon, T. (1998). Effective Health Care Bulletin [4(1)] in Kmietowicz, Z. (1998). *BMJ*, 316, 725. Shepherd, J., Cobbe, S. M., Ford, I., Isles, C. G., Lorimer, A. R., MacFarlane, P. W., McKillop, J. H., & Packard, C. J. (1995). Prevention of coronary disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolemia. *New England Journal of Medicine*, 333, 1301-1307. Stehbens, W. E. (2001). Coronary heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, and atherosclerosis. I. False premises and II. Misrepresented data. *Experimental and Molecular Pathology*, 70, 103-119 and 120-139. Tonkin, A., et al. (>100 authors listed) (1998). The Long-Term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischemic Disease (LIPID) Study Group. Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of cholesterol levels. *New England Journal of Medicine*, 339, 1349-1357. **The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health** by Howard Brody with Daralyn Brody. New York: Cliff Street Books (HarperCollins), 2000. 312 pp. $25, cloth; ISBN 0-06-019493-6; HarperTrade, 2001, $14, paper; ISBN 006093297X. "The placebo response occurs when we receive certain types of messages or signals from the environment around us. These messages work in some fashion, at some level, to *alter the meaning* of our state of health or illness" (p. xvi; italics in original). === Page 12 of 43 542 Book Review Howard Brody has a Ph.D. in philosophy as well as a medical degree, is a practicing physician and medical educator, and has been interested from the beginning of his career in the placebo response. This book is written in casual "talking-to-you" style and brings to bear common sense as well as a wealth of practical clinical experience. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. The Placebo Response offers much food for thought about the powerful, mysterious placebo,¹ and anomalists will discern significant possible implications for psychic as well as for psychological phenomena. For example, the emphasis on alteration of meaning is intriguingly consonant with the psychotherapeutic approaches of Albert Ellis² (humanistic psychology, rational emotive therapy) and Maxie Maultsby³ (rational behavior therapy): intellectual or rational interventions effect desired emotional or affective changes. Those approaches emphasize doing something oneself as opposed to having a psychiatrist or psychotherapist do something, and Brody also emphasizes that "previous writing about the placebo response has treated it as something done to you, over which you have little if any control. I'm proposing that, if we line up the scientific clues in the right order, we'll master a variety of means by which we can employ the placebo response and the inner pharmacy to benefit ourselves" (p. xix). The book then proceeds to line up plausible scientific clues and to explain what the inner pharmacy is. Relevant to parapsychology is that the personality trait of acquiescence--which is by no means the same as passivity (pp. 48, 240, 246)--may be linked to placebo responsiveness (pp. 35-36). That is reminiscent of a considerable body of anecdote or folklore that psychic phenomena cannot be controlled at will, and with the sometime suggestion from the PEAR group that the mechanism at work in mind-machine interactions is one of sensing information rather than of exerting physical influence⁴,⁵ (Figure 7 in the latter reference affords a striking illustration of this idea). Chapter 1 of The Placebo Response considers what the placebo response is and how it arises. Important seem to be expectancy that something good will happen; conditioning can help, to some stimulus that has often been associated with good things happening; and meaning, how we interpret what is going on--symbols carry great significance. Thus, when mothers routinely employ Band-Aids to soothe children, those sticky pads in themselves may become able to evoke a response to the mother's loving care, even in absence of the mother (p. 8). [Perhaps the happy faces on some adhesive pads designed for children are more than a marketing gimmick!] Brody now refines his definition of placebo response: "A change in the body (or the body-mind unit) that occurs as the result of the symbolic significance which one attributes to an event or object in the healing environment" (p. 9). The typical "sugar pill" acts because of a symbolic effect; "body-mind" indicates a refusal to "regard physical and mental treatments as being in fundamentally different categories" (p. 10); and "change" acknowledges that the placebo response can be positive or negative (in the latter case it is often === Page 13 of 43 Book Reviews 543 termed *nocebo*). Brody points out here that some commonly used terms for placebo--"inert treatment" and "nonspecific responses"--are misleading. Moreover, the emphasis on meaning undercuts the common misconception that deception on the part of a healer is required to induce a placebo response in the patient (p. 14). The next chapter reviews the history of attitudes toward placebo. Once synonymous with lies or quackery, it has come to be recognized as a usable phenomenon. Denigration of "suggestible" people, and the idea that some things are "only in the mind", have been superseded: the distinction between physical and mental illness is acknowledged nowadays to be artificial. As to "suggestibility", Chapter 3 reveals that "we are all potentially placebo receptors". Deception is not needed to arouse a placebo response--if for no other reason than that some of us, when given a placebo and told that it is a placebo, choose to believe otherwise (pp. 38-40); it is, after all, common knowledge that clinical trials call for some sort of blinding and even double-blinding, so we know that what we are told we are getting may not be what we are in fact getting.⁶ The "inner pharmacy" is Brody's term for the illness-resisting, self-healing mechanisms that living systems possess: the immune system, the capacity to release endorphins, and presumably much that we do not yet know about or understand. This inner pharmacy is "hard-wired" to the mind in some fashion, and so mental activity--the controlling software--can influence it. But how all this works to produce placebo responses remains largely mysterious and there are many individual variations: "What turns on my inner pharmacy may not turn on yours; or what turns on mine in one situation may fail to do so in another situation; or what turns mine on full blast one time, may turn it on only a little on another occasion". Ulcers have responded to placebo--at a rate of 10% in some clinics and 80% in others.......... (pp. 49-53). Chapter 5 reports material evidence of the extraordinary effectiveness of placebo at least occasionally: for example, overriding or even reversing the physiological response induced by an administered medication. Ligation of mammary arteries to ease angina, and arthroscopic treatment of arthritis of the knee, turned out to be no more effective than placebo--in these cases, *pretended surgery*. In one psychiatric study, the *physicians'* expectations turned out to influence the outcome of a clinical trial. Altogether, though, placebo response does seem to correlate with *expectancy of cure*. Chapter 6 argues that this is not, however, the whole story: *conditioning* can evoke a placebo response. Thus, childhood experience that painful injections are associated with powerfully effective medication may cause painful injection to induce a greater placebo response than a painless injection does (p. 75). Conditioning may, however, work through producing expectancy, and Brody acknowledges the difficulty of designing studies to clarify that. He notes (p. 77) that laboratory studies are not necessarily valid indicators of real-life situations; this is one of the obvious similarities between the phenomenon === Page 14 of 43 544 Book Review of placebo and of psychic happenings. *If psychic phenomena are real, then they must involve the body-mind connection in some manner that is like what happens in the placebo response: therefore, it may not be feasible to elucidate fully the nature of spontaneous psychic phenomena by controlled laboratory investigations. Thus, "scientific" studies of consciousness-related phenomena necessitate a more encompassing approach than the traditional protocols that the natural sciences have evolved.*$^{7,8}$ In discussing conditioning and expectancy, Brody points to a largely unstudied question of considerable practical import: "Before now, when medical scientists considered the impact of how many times a medicine was taken each day, they usually had only one thing in mind: If we have to take medicines three or four times a day, we tend to forget or to give up; while if we take them only once or twice a day, we are more likely to be 'compliant.' But what if it turns out that the more often we take the medicine, compliance goes down, yet the conditioned response goes up?... For some people the fewer-times-a-day approach might be best; for others the more-times-a-day approach might be superior" (p. 81). The importance of *meaning and symbols* is discussed in Chapter 7. The uncomfortable fact of nocebo is dealt with in the following chapter, one example being that of mass hysterias. Brody suggests that nocebo likely acts through the same pathways as does placebo; that suggests the optimistic view that methods for harnessing the placebo response would at the same time be methods for avoiding a nocebo effect. Biochemical and neurological processes are reviewed in Chapter 9. Our present knowledge is rudimentary. One study indicated that pain relief by expectancy-induced placebo might work through activation of an endorphin-releasing process, whereas conditioning-induced placebo seemed to work in a different manner (p. 115). How much remains to be investigated! "The stress pathway is the oldest example in twentieth century medical science of linking biochemistry with the mind, yet there are few, if any, studies which tie it directly to the placebo response" (p. 115). How difficult the problems are is illustrated by the reports that "the best placebo responders are people with a moderate level of anxiety when they first see the physician" (p. 122): moderate by contrast to both high and low! Another illustration of the difficulty is that the once highly touted "psychoneuroimmunology has not yet produced many of the remarkable gains it first promised" (p. 125). A fuller discussion of how difficult it is to study the placebo response is provided in Chapter 10, "The Placebo Response and its Mimics". Illnesses are typically self-limiting: how to distinguish placebo effects from natural recovery? Observational studies are subject to statistical fluctuations and their misinterpretations: chance correlations can occur (p. 134), and there are random variations and regressions to the mean. The mere fact of being in a clinical trial may induce behavioral changes conducive to better health (the Hawthorne effect, pp. 135-136), and minor problems may be noted and treated for clinic at- === Page 15 of 43 Book Reviews 545 tendees that would generally make them healthier and make them feel better (see also note 4 below). Where self-reporting is the only real measure, as with pain relief, the "obliging-subject" phenomenon may make it appear that there is a placebo response even where there is none (p. 136). Some "inactive" placebo pills may actually exert a physiological effect, because an appropriate placebo must feel exactly the same to the subject as the actual medication. Semantics can also get in the way: some workers apparently deny that there is a placebo effect while admitting the existence of psychosomatic effects (pp. 137-138). In Chapter 11, the similarities and differences between conventional and alternative medicine are discussed with considerable insight. Chapters 12 through 15 provide practical and sensible suggestions for accentuating one's placebo response, and Chapter 16 talks about choosing a helping healer. The Epilogue pays respect to placebo as a part of the mystery of healing: "Just how and why it happens may remain a mystery. That it happens is as certain as anything can be in the practice of medicine" (p. 254). Henry H. Bauer Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University hhbauer@vt.edu www.henryhbauer.homestead.com **Endnotes** ¹ See also reviews in *JSE* 14 (2000), pp. 485-491, of *The Powerful Placebo--From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician*, by Arthur K. Shapiro & Elaine Shapiro and of *The Placebo Effect--An Interdisciplinary Exploration*, by Anne Harrington. ² Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper. (1975). *A New Guide to Rational Living*. North Hollywood, CA: Wilshire Book Co., ISBN 0-87980-042-9. ³ Maxie C. Maultsby. (1975). *Help Yourself to Happiness Through Rational Self-Counseling*. New York: Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, ISBN 0-917476-07-7 and 0-917476-06-9. ⁴ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (1988). *Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World*. New York: Harper Brace Jovanovich. ⁵ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (2001). A modular model of mind/matter manifestations. *Journal of Scientific Exploration*, 15, 299-329. ⁶ Toward the end of May 2001, the news media (e.g., *Washington Post*, May 24, p. A1) cited a Danish analysis that challenges the reality of the placebo effect: more than a hundred studies in which various treatments had been compared with placebo as well as with "no treatment" showed no difference between placebo and "no treatment" other than a minor difference as to perception of pain. I choose to disregard this Danish analysis until it is ex- === Page 16 of 43 546 Book Review plained how one can study patients under a "no treatment" protocol without inducing a placebo response. They must know that they are in a trial, otherwise they could not be studied. How can they be prevented from hoping that what is happening to them will be of benefit? Presumably the investigators in these cases had made the common but erroneous presumption that "placebo" means "sugar pill". I suggest that the small effect noted on pain perception may show that, so far as pain management is concerned, a dummy pill adds significantly to the placebo response consequent on the symbolic significance of participating in a clinical trial. Moreover, Brody (pp. 285-286) cites a meta-analysis done in 1994 that confirmed the reality of the placebo response, contrary to the Danish study. $^7$ Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne. (1997). Science of the subjective. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11*, 201-224. $^8$ Imants Baruss. (2001). The art of science: science of the future in light of alterations of consciousness. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15*, 57-68. **Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science** by Halton Arp. Montreal: Aperion, 1998. iv +314 pp. Softcover, $25.00. ISBN 0-9683689-0-5. Don't read this book! For if you should decide after reading this review to disregard this advice, you will need to prepare to have your universe turned upside down. Should you then make your way through this small-print, 306-page tour de force, you will very likely come away doubting what you thought you knew of the large-scale structure of the universe. The cosmological interpretation of redshift for quasars and active galaxy nuclei has been challenged often before, although never so successfully. But one seldom sees serious suggestions that even the redshift-distance relation for ordinary galaxies may be wrong, as you will see here. And as if the implied revolution in cosmology were not enough, your view of the professionalism of scientists and academics in general, and of astronomers in particular, will be another casualty of your reading. One can consume this book to different degrees. For example, a short summary of the evidence and implications appears on pages 239-241. If the writing proves too technical in places, even with the aid of the extensive glossary, one can get the essence of the evidence by just scanning the plates (8 pages in color), figures, and captions that appear on almost every page. For example, it's not difficult to look at the picture of the x-ray filaments in Markarian 205, featured on the book cover as well, and to grasp the deep implications of that image. For if a low-redshift Seyfert galaxy is physically connected to and interacting with two high-redshift quasars, one on either side, then redshift can be neither a distance nor a velocity indicator. And that single picture then disproves the Big Bang and most of mainstream cosmology in its present form. Arp knows the extragalactic sky perhaps better than any other living astronomer. He builds his case against the customary interpretation of redshift === Page 17 of 43 Book Reviews 547 methodically. The earliest hints of problems with redshift came in 1911 with the discovery that the bright, blue stars in our own Milky Way galaxy have systematically higher redshifts than the rest of the stars by about 10 km/s. Later observations showed that the O-stars in clusters within our galaxy are redshifted with respect to the B-stars by another 10 km/s or so--something called the "K-effect" and still disputed because it has no accepted theoretical explanation. However, doubts about the validity of the data were undercut and the K-effect confirmed by more recent measures of the redshifts of supergiant stars in the two Magellanic Clouds, nearby companion galaxies of the Milky Way. These too are redshifted by about 30 km/s with respect to other stars in those small galaxies. Yet no one suspects that all supergiant stars in our galaxy or in our immediate neighbors are fleeing away symmetrically from our own location well out toward one edge of the Milky Way. Companion galaxies in general seem to have net redshifts that exceed that of their parents. All eleven companion galaxies in the Local Group have redshifts with respect to their parent, the Andromeda galaxy in the center of the group. Likewise, all eleven companion galaxies of the neighboring M81 group have redshifts relative to M81. Yet, if these companions were orbiting their parent galaxy, roughly 50% of them ought to have been blueshifted. Although the evidence for companion redshifts is less definitive for more distant galaxy groups, it is still statistically significant. Excess redshifts over blueshifts for companion galaxies relative to their parents is apparently a verifiable feature of the local universe. And that means the redshift must have some cause other than velocity. We begin to get some clues about what may be happening when Arp reminds us of basic facts about radio galaxies. These were discovered long ago to have giant, usually double, radio lobes to either side, presumably the result of explosions and ejections of material from the parent galaxy. Higher resolution radio telescopes have found filaments connecting these lobes to the central galaxy. And the ejected radio pairs are now known to correspond closely with x-ray pairs across the same galaxy. That brings us to the keys to unlocking the whole puzzle--the quasars--because quasars also often correspond with x-ray sources. High and low redshift quasars are associated far more often than reasonable chance allows. These sometimes display interactions and connections and often form pairs across low-redshift objects, which unrelated objects would not do. Working entirely from the observational data, Arp shows us that ejections from active galactic nuclei at speeds up to 10% of the speed of light lead to escape. But ejections at slower speeds may not, especially since all ejections apparently decelerate on the way out. Slower objects end up captured at about 400 kpc from their parent galaxy. But both captured and escaped quasars end up with quite small peculiar velocities. Moreover, the closest and therefore most recent ejections have the highest relative redshifts and the lowest intrinsic luminosities. This leads Arp to suggest that the redshift of matter is an inverse === Page 18 of 43 548 Book Review function of the age of that matter. As much as one wishes to resist this conclusion, Arp shows case after case that conforms to it, many found well after this hypothesis was in print, each with odds of thousands to one against chance. Moreover, these apparently ejected quasars with redshifts ordered inversely with distance from their parent also tend to line up along the minor axis of the parent galaxy. The generality of these startling conclusions is shown by repeated examples, such as the Arp/Hazard pair of similar triplet quasars, having discordant redshifts and a Seyfert galaxy between them. Many other good examples were discovered by mainstream astronomers. However, even when looking in depth at single examples, Arp makes a compelling case against coincidence. A survey of all bright quasars showed that these have a concentration around the Virgo cluster at the center of the Local Supercluster, despite having redshifts that should place them far out into the universe in that direction and make them unrelated to one another. The most conspicuous quasar in the sky is 3C273, one member of a pair of quasars almost exactly aligned across the brightest galaxy in the Virgo cluster center. A peculiar hydrogen cloud known to be in the Virgo cluster near the coordinates of 3C273 has a long, narrow shape pointing back toward the quasar, which itself has a jet pointing toward the hydrogen cloud. An x-ray radiation map (see Figure 5-16) also shows connections between the cluster to the quasar. Yet the quasar is supposed to be 54 times farther away than the cluster, according to its redshift. As Arp says, over 30 years ago, the field of astronomy took a gamble against odds of a million to one that this situation was an accident. The newer x-ray and hydrogen cloud evidence have confirmed that this was a bad gamble, although the field is not yet ready to accept its losses and move on. Because redshift is not a good distance indicator, Arp points out that apparent brightness often is. Quasars near M49 appear relatively random on a sky map until just the brighter ones in a half-magnitude range are plotted. Then magically, there appears a line of quasars emerging from M49, with redshifts decreasing with distance, just as the observation-driven model predicts. Whenever secondary distance indicators are available, they support this picture. In some cases, Faraday rotation caused by traversing a magnetized plasma can be measured for quasars. So the amount of such rotation ought to be a distance indicator. But it was then discovered that quasars with redshifts of about 2 had only 1/3 as much Faraday rotation as quasars with redshifts of about 1, when they ought to have had twice as much rotation. By contrast, this is in accord with Arp's model because the redshift $z = 2$ quasars are intrinsically fainter and therefore are generally seen only at closer distances than those with $z = 1$. Arp concludes that quasars are initially faint, point-like objects of high redshift that transform into lower-redshift, compact objects surrounded by a fuzz as they evolve. These develop into small, high-surface-brightness galaxies with more material around them. Ultimately these mature into normal, quies- === Page 19 of 43 Book Reviews 549 cent galaxies. In this new view of relationships among astrophysical objects, Seyfert galaxies and their close cousins, BL Lac objects, are short-lived evolutionary stages associated with quasar ejection from active galaxy nuclei. In effect, Seyferts are quasar factories. Strong quasar number counts are associated with a nearly complete sample of bright Seyferts, as compared with non-Seyfert control fields. Some of these associations have laughable explanations in mainstream journal articles. Quasar GC0248+430 is described as a "possibly microlensed quasar behind a tidal arm of a merging galaxy," which just happens to be a Seyfert. Indeed, quasars look to astronomers like small portions of active (Seyfert-like) galactic nuclei. Their pairing across such nuclei, their alignment with radio emission pairings, the correspondences of x-ray maps, and the data from optical emission lines all strongly support the ejection interpretation. If nature has not already provided enough hints, an apparent magnitude vs. redshift (Hubble) diagram shows that Seyfert galaxies have too much redshift at fainter magnitudes and do not follow the same relationship as normal galaxies. Indeed, the Hubble diagram for Seyferts trends toward that for quasars, which likewise do not show a normal Hubble relationship between brightness and redshift. One wonders how many different ways nature must repeat this message about redshift not corresponding to distance before it sinks in with the astronomers. Other astrophysical objects are in accord with this message. Water maser emissions are also seen in pairs roughly aligned with quasars. X-ray filaments or jets emerge from Seyfert galaxies and end at quasars, often in pairs of similar redshift on opposite sides of the minor axis of the galaxy between. And high-luminosity spiral galaxies have excess redshifts compared to normal spirals, as judged by the Tully-Fisher method of judging distances from rotation rates (which is independent of redshift). One might well wonder what galaxy clusters have so say about this, since these are clearly physically associated groupings of galaxies. The supporting evidence they provide is truly extensive. Classically, whole galaxy clusters obey a Hubble diagram relation between redshift and brightness, with a dispersion of just a few tenths of a magnitude. But 14 clusters north of Cen A have a much larger dispersion, with a maximum range of 4 magnitudes. Such clusters have no relationship of the type claimed for ordinary galaxies and call into question that the classical Hubble relationship can have the meaning usually attributed to it--that redshift indicates distance--for anything. We may simply have been fooled by both luminosity and redshift being functions of mass, which would lead to an apparent Hubble relationship despite no true distance dependence. Some of the cluster examples are certainly head-turners. Abell clusters of galaxies with higher redshifts are distributed right down the spines of both the Virgo cluster and its Southern Hemisphere twin, the Fornaz cluster. A com- === Page 20 of 43 550 Book Review plete sample over a large region of the southern sky showed that the strongest x-ray cluster concentration had the two brightest galaxies (M83 and Cen A) at its center, despite much larger redshift for the x-ray clusters. In general, x-ray clusters appear more commonly with redshifts of about 0.06 than chance allows, which in Arp's interpretation marks them as young and intrinsically redshifted. Supporting data includes cooling flow measures, which indicate that at least 100 solar masses per year are being lost from these clusters. This implies 100 billion solar masses in a billion years. Where are they going? The obvious possibilities can all be ruled out. BL Lac objects, at redshifts intermediate between quasars and cluster galaxies, are apparently progenitors of clusters of galaxies. Normal galaxies within certain redshift ranges tend to align on the sky in strings, with the lowest redshift galaxy near the center. For example, 13 of the 14 brightest Northern Hemisphere spiral galaxies in uncrowded fields fall on well-marked lines of galaxies that have concentrations of fainter, higher redshift galaxies. And there are anomalous faint, blue, often active galaxies that fill out clusters in the redshift range between 0.2 and 0.4. These apparently evolve into the higher luminosity, lower redshift objects seen at $0.02 < z < 0.2$. Finally, below redshifts of about 0.02 we find strings of galaxies aligned through the brightest nearby spiral galaxies, presumably representing the last evolutionary stage of protogalaxies before becoming the slightly higher redshift companions of the original ejecting galaxies. We are so accustomed to thinking of this sequence as a time evolution that it takes some effort to rethink the whole picture as a mass-luminosity-redshift evolution at a nearly fixed time. So the young-appearing objects with the highest redshifts are aligned on either side of eruptive objects, which implies the ejection of protogalaxies and the association of redshift with youth. Increasing distance from parent leads to brighter, lower redshift objects, so this is the direction of evolution with age. At redshifts of about 0.3 and distances of about 400 kpc from the parent, quasars become very bright at optical wavelengths and in x-rays and evolve into BL Lac-type objects--a short-lived stage because there are few of them. Finally, these evolve into clusters of galaxies, which are seen to appear at comparable distances to the BL Lac objects, implying that clusters may originate from the breakup of BL Lac objects. There is more. Tight multiple-quasars-image groupings were originally dismissed as observational errors until the gravitational lens theory was invoked. Then many more examples were quickly found. G2237+0305 was essentially a high-redshift quasar in the nucleus of a low-redshift galaxy. Lensing was the only way out for cosmologists. The four quasar images were all within one arc second of the galaxy nucleus. But Hoyle computed the probability of such a lensing event as two in a million. Moreover, instead of being arcs as lensing theory predicted, the quasar images are extended back toward the central galaxy. Real arc images don't look much like the predicted arcs either, but === Page 21 of 43 Book Reviews 551 rather like part of an expanded shell. This alternative is in better agreement with the existence of radial arcs, jet arcs, dog-leg arcs, and ejected jets that end in transverse arcs. The last main observational area deals with the quantization of redshifts. In essence, redshifts do not take on all values with equal ease, as they must if they are caused mainly by the velocities of the observed objects. For example, redshifts near 0.061, 0.3, 0.6, 0.91, 1.41, and 1.96, etc., occur more frequently than chance permits. Smaller redshifts too occur at preferred periodic intervals, as Tifft has shown in a study confirmed in an independent sample by Guthrie and Napier. The existence of preferred values for redshifts proves that either we are at the center of a series of expanding shells, or redshift does not indicate velocity. Arp cautions that faint quasars with high redshifts do not continue to show this effect, perhaps because the form of the relationship changes at great distances from us (as faintness would suggest). Also, much of the spread that exists around these preferred redshift values is apparently due to the speed of ejection, which can be up to 0.1 c. The average redshift of a quasar pair generally falls closer to a preferred redshift value than does either individual redshift. BL Lac objects show the same quantization, but to a less pronounced degree, as befits their relationship to quasars. Figure 8-16 shows a striking set of bands and gaps for galaxy redshifts in the x-ray cluster Abell 85 that illustrates the redshift quantization effect at a glance. Arp's strength is observational extragalactic astronomy. With theory he is less proficient, but he has enlisted the aid of Narlikar, Hoyle and others. The concept of mass increasing with age has no adjustable parameters (the characteristic age being given by the measured age of our own galaxy), yet it allows prediction of intrinsic redshifts for objects from K-effect stars to quasars, with results better than an order of magnitude. The Big Bang with many adjustable parameters cannot do as well. Redshift, then, indicates youth. And the slope of the Hubble diagram comes directly from our own galaxy's age. Since luminosity evolves with mass squared, the apparent brightness-redshift relationship is coincidental, and not an indicator of distance. I am no doubt biased here by seeing simpler theoretical explanations for Arp's observational constraints than his variable-mass theory can provide. But Arp concedes in places that theories need to evolve with discoveries, something that the Big Bang stopped doing at a fundamental level a generation ago. Some of the most entertaining reading in this book is provided by Arp's interactions with his colleagues and with referees and journal editors. Arp spices up these exchanges with a bit of his own philosophy. Despite its pessimism, I wonder how any of us could have evolved a philosophy much more optimistic if we had been in Arp's shoes. Anonymous referees frequently use abusive language (such as "ludicrous") or unwarranted generalizations (such as "bizarre conclusions based on an extreme bias of the authors wishing to find non-cosmological redshifts"). It was not infrequent to find referees suggesting that the implications should have been used to prove the observations wrong! A Nobel === Page 22 of 43 552 Book Review laureate and former teacher is quoted as saying "Arp did not get anything right in my course. I should have flunked him but I could not bear to have him repeat the course with me." We see in the anecdotes frequent occurrences of "sniping," unbacked claims that something is true or false for some reason that is not presented to the author for rebuttal. One example: "Oh those claims have been completely disproved." Arp introduces a few names for some of these battle tactics himself. The "Pleiades maneuver" is one such: Measure so much background that the statistical significance of the obvious foreground (such as the Pleiades cluster) is reduced to insignificance. Reaction to the x-ray map showing the connection of the Virgo cluster and quasar 3C273 produced five arrogant and patronizing referee rejections at two journals and were viewed even by some colleagues "like a grisly auto accident along the highway." Sadly, the mainstream is well adapted for survival. So when Arp succeeds in running the minefield and getting his results published despite the referees, an unwritten understanding is that no discussion or citations will follow, so the embarrassing result will soon be forgotten. Arp suggests that a sampling of referee reports, showing "manipulative, sly, insulting, arrogant, and above all angry" referees, ought to be published because it would allow people to evaluate the objectivity of the information they are being allowed to read. Here are some brief quotes outlining what Arp has learned from these exchanges. * "When presented with two possibilities, scientists tend to choose the wrong one." * "The stronger the evidence, the more attitudes harden." * "The game here is to lump all the previous observations into one 'hypothesis' and then claim there is no second, confirming observation." * "No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again." * "If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality." * "When looking at this picture no amount of advanced academic education can substitute for good judgment; in fact it would undoubtedly be an impediment." * "Local organizing committees give in to imperialistic pressures to keep rival research off programs." * "It is the primary responsibility of a scientist to face, and resolve, discrepant observations." * "Science is failing to self-correct. We must understand why in order to fix it." The book has many more like these. === Page 23 of 43 Book Reviews 553 As with any work of such length and depth, a few errors turned up along with a few points that are of dubious merit. None of us can be experts in everything, and we are always pushing the limits of our knowledge and training. Worth a comment are these points: * Arp's arguments against tired light models (p. 97) make a common invalid assumption that quantum particles must be responsible for the energy loss. But there is good reason to suspect that quantum particles are by no means fundamental. * Arp's proposal (p. 219) that even planetary and satellite masses may be quantized uses an invalid statistical argument when bridging large ranges of mass. But he may well be right for small mass differences. Origin in twin pairs by fission usually creates masses in the approximate ratio of 5 to 4, which may partly explain Arp's planet statistics. It might also explain his magical 1.23 redshift quantization ratio if a similar fission process is responsible for the twin ejections in galaxies. * On p. 234, Arp cites the surface brightness test, which must vary as $(1 + z)^4$ in the Big Bang. He applies that to his own model on the assumption that observations support it. However, the observed dependence goes as $(1 + z)^2$. Evolution of galaxies is said to be responsible for the difference in the Big Bang, but that argument would not apply to Arp's model. * On p. 237, Arp incorrectly states that the cosmic microwave radiation must come from a thin shell, saying that this has not been explained. But that radiation is supposed to have flooded the universe shortly after the Big Bang and been cooling ever since. So every point in the universe is today receiving cooled radiation, and there is no shell anywhere. Arp correctly goes on to provide more probable explanations for the radiation than a fireball residue. * Arp's use of statistics cries out for him to explain the difference between *a priori* and *a posteriori* probabilities, if only to assure us that he understands the difference and its importance. * It was disappointing to see no mention of the role of giant elliptical galaxies in the evolutionary scheme of things. Arp correctly points out that one side in this meaning-of-redshift debate must be completely and catastrophically wrong. This leads him to wonder how many other uncertain assumptions might exist in other areas affecting our daily lives about which we are innocently overconfident. That is perhaps the most sobering thought of all. Tom Van Flandern Meta Research http://metaresearch.org Revised and reprinted with permission from *Meta Research Bulletin*, 7, 58-61 [December 15, 1998]. === Page 24 of 43 554 Book Review **A Different Approach to Cosmology** by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jayant V. Narlikar. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 400 pp. $59.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-5216622-3-0. Beginning about fifty years ago, the community of astronomers was gripped by one of the great scientific debates of the twentieth century. The issue was "Has the Universe existed forever, or was it created in a singular event, from nothing?" Although the question is one to be answered by science, it has a theological tinge and it touches on such fundamental matters regarding who we are and what our place is in the larger scheme. Not surprisingly then, the debate between the major protagonists was often heated and appears to have been driven as much by philosophical as by scientific considerations. For most astronomers, the issue was settled in 1965, with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), interpreted as the relict radiation from the cooling fireball of the big bang. Here were all the ingredients of a popular drama: the titanic conflict, the crucial prediction, the dramatic confirmation. Since that time, the dominant view has been that the Universe originated in a big bang about 14 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. Possibly about 99% of working cosmologists adhere to this position. There is, however, a tiny handful of dissidents, mostly elderly survivors of the pre-CMB earlier era, who continue to maintain that the Universe had no such origin, that it expands and has done so forever, maintaining a quasi-steady state by the episodic creation of matter to fill up the emptiness which would otherwise develop. This book has been written by three of these dissidents; one of the authors, Fred Hoyle, died on 20 August 2001. A *Different Approach* is in part a polemic. It advocates the authors' particular cosmology and argues that modern cosmology is suffused with conformity and led by zealots. One of the most striking images in the book is a marvellous photograph of a flock of waddling geese, with the caption "We have resisted the temptation to name some of the leading geese." However, the polemics leaven rather than dominate the book, and indeed the final chapter is devoted to a discussion of problems which have so far gone unexplained in any cosmology, including the quasi-steady state one advocated by the authors. Such open-mindedness is a welcome change from most articles and books the author has seen in this field. The book is also a first-class exposition of modern cosmology and an account of its development from its roots in the early twentieth century. This historical perspective alone gives a breadth and depth which I have not seen elsewhere (except perhaps in Kragh's *Cosmology and Controversy*, which puts emphasis on the sociology of the debate). In the United States, American astronomers in Arizona and California made the first spectroscopic observations of spiral nebulae, accumulating the spectra of about 90 spirals within twenty years, by which time it was recognized that these nebulae are galaxies lying === Page 25 of 43 Book Reviews 555 beyond our own. It was found that the spectra of the galaxies were systematically shifted toward the red. The only known cause of this phenomenon is a velocity of recession, and the discovery that the redshifts of the nebulae increased *pro rata* with their distances from the observer led to the view that the Universe is expanding. Meanwhile, in Europe, in 1917, Einstein and de Sitter were applying the equations of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity (general relativity) to the Universe as a whole. At that time the Universe was considered to be static in the mean and Einstein was dismayed to find that his theory did not permit this: rather, his equations predicted that either the cosmos would collapse in on itself or be in a state of expansion. To save the situation, and to yield the desired static cosmos, he had to arbitrarily insert a repulsive term in his equations in order to balance the attractive gravitational one. This arbitrary "cosmological constant," inserted for the wrong reason, has acquired great significance in recent years with the discovery that there does indeed seem to be a repulsion driving the expansion at an accelerating speed. The centrepiece of the historical material is, however, the great debate, which spanned fifteen years. A major centre of this cauldron of controversy was Cambridge, where the new radio telescope built by Martin Ryle was mapping the sky at radio wavelengths. It was here that "the war of the source counts" was fought out between Martin Ryle and his group on the one hand, and Fred Hoyle and his colleagues on the other. The battleground was the number of radio sources plotted as a function of their flux at radio wavelengths. A universe whose properties are unchanging on a large enough scale yields one predicted relationship, an evolving universe yields another. If for simplicity we take all radio sources to have the same intrinsic luminosity, then in a steady-state universe, the number N of sources brighter than some flux S should, on a log-log plot, appear as a straight line of slope - 1.5. If the Universe is evolving, then by looking into deep space, one looks further back in time to an era when galaxies were more closely crowded together, and the fainter sources should be more abundant than expected. In that case the slope should be steeper, say - 2 or - 3. According to the authors, Ryle and his group at the Cavendish were extremely secretive about their research, keeping their data out of reach of the steady-staters until a public announcement was made, claiming that the slope was inconsistent with the steady-state theory. Unfortunately, the Cambridge radio group kept getting it wrong, and the announced slope declined from - 3 in 1955 to - 2.2 and then to - 1.8 in 1961. The modern result, after all the furor of these years, is that there is indeed a small excess of faint sources, which can equally be explained by the canonical hot big bang or the quasi-steady-state theory. It is now known that the Universe is inhomogeneous on scales of about 300 million light years, which is more than enough to yield the observed flux excess without requiring far-reaching cosmological postulates. The big bang theory is founded on three pillars: (1) the Universe is seen to be === Page 26 of 43 556 Book Review expanding, consistent with the concept of creation from a singular event perhaps 14 billion years ago; (2) the light elements helium and deuterium have the precise abundances expected if they were indeed created in a hot, dense fireball; and (3) we are immersed in an isotropic, thermal radiation of 2.73 degrees absolute, expected as relict radiation of the primeval creation event (although the specific temperature is not predicted with precision). There is a pleasing simplicity about this theory. For example, the relative abundances of the light elements are accounted for by a single free parameter, the photon-to-baryon ratio. Further, it has survived a number of tests which could have killed it off; for example, no stars or galaxies are known for sure to have ages in excess of the supposed age of the Universe. Can we then write off *A Different Approach* as relict radiation from the hot fireball of the debate which consumed the participants almost half a century ago, as a polemic by a handful of people who have stubbornly held on to a long-outmoded hypothesis? In the opinion of most cosmologists, the answer is probably "yes." In this reviewer's opinion, it is emphatically "no!" The list of unsatisfactory features in the standard model is formidable: (a) From the big bang perspective, the homogeneity, isotropy and "flatness" of the Universe and the magnitude of the density fluctuations which will seed the growth of galaxies are all built in by postulate; they have no explanation in terms of the theory. Widely separated regions of the Universe, which have always been causally disconnected because of the speed of light, nevertheless have similar properties, including for example identical elements. If the Universe, starting from the size of a football or less, went through a period of superluminal expansion or inflation, then these problems can be solved, and the construction of such inflation-driven cosmological models is a cottage industry. In effect it is postulated that, in the first microseconds of the Creation, there was a large cosmological constant which has since gone to zero. There is, however, no known microparticle foundation for the hypothesis, it appears to make no testable predictions, and the amount of fine-tuning required to get it to work (itemized by Hoyle et al.) is horrendous. (b) Whenever a new result appears it is never as expected, but there is always a parameter to tweak to make agreement appear. This is described by the practitioners as refining the model, but it does raise questions about the predictive power of the theory. For example, recent observations of distant supernovae have revealed that the expansion of the Universe, having slowed, seems to be picking up again. Extraordinary fine tuning is required to stop galaxies from having accelerated out of sight of each other. (c) There are exotic compact objects connected by filamentary structures to some spiral galaxies. To the eye these look like ejecta; the problem is that the redshifts of these apparently connected objects are often wildly different, which is inconsistent with reasonable ejection speeds. And there is a statistically sound excess of quasars, supposedly distant objects from their redshifts, around nearby galaxies. To the authors, these are nearby ejecta of new matter, whose properties are evolving and which yield non-velocity redshifts. In terms === Page 27 of 43 Book Reviews 557 of mainstream cosmology, it can only be assumed that these are striking line-of-sight coincidences. (d) There are the periodicities which exist in the redshift distributions of galaxies and quasars. These appear most strongly in quasars or galaxies angularly close to each other. These periodicities have been claimed over a thirty-year period and have been statistically validated several times with fresh, expensively obtained high-precision data. They stand unrefuted in the refereed literature and are universally ignored: there seems to be no way to fit them into the standard paradigm. On the largest scales, there appears to be a significant excess of structure over theoretical expectations on scales of order of 400 million light years. Much depends on which evidence one chooses to emphasize. If the canonical picture is given *a priori*, then anomalous and periodic redshifts are simply oddballs which will presumably disappear at some stage. If, on the other hand, emphasis is given to the "anomalies," and if the fine tunings and epicycles of the canonical view are seen as warning signs, then the canonical view acquires less credibility. But which evidence gets the emphasis, and why? The role of historical accident in the development of a paradigm is beautifully illustrated in several passages of the book. Thus, in the war of the source counts, forceful advocacy by Ryle persuaded Jan Oort, one of the foremost astronomers of the day, that the Universe was evolving rapidly and that the steady-state description was therefore false. Oort's influence in turn was a major factor in turning opinion against the steady-state cosmology. As stated above, it would later emerge that these radio source counts were completely erroneous; but the damage had been done, and the direction of opinion had been set. What, then, of the cosmic microwave background, the supposed relict radiation from the fireball? Hoyle et al. draw attention to a curious coincidence. Helium-4, which is supposed to have been created primarily in the cosmic fireball, is also synthesized in stars, the energy from these stars yielding a radiation background. If all the helium-4 has been produced in this way rather than in a fireball, then the energy density (say in ergs per cc) of the starlight so produced matches rather precisely the energy density of the CMB. Thus, in a Universe of infinite age, a single mechanism which is known to occur, namely nuclear burning in stars, can account for both the helium-4 abundance and the 2.7-degree microwave background. For this to work, the starlight has to be thermalized. The authors propose that carbon and metallic whiskers could achieve this. Their required space density is low and could readily be accounted for as supernova ejecta. In fact, predictions that there ought to be a 3~K background temperature, arising from reprocessed starlight, can be found scattered through the literature as far back as the 1930s. Some weaknesses in the quasi-steady-state model (to date) are its failure to make quantitative statements about the remarkable degree of thermalization and isotropy of the microwave background and the tiny fluctuations observed in it, and the lack of a detailed model of clustering of galaxies (galaxies are created by the ejection of new matter from other galaxies). A major failing in both === Page 28 of 43 558 Book Review the authors' model and the standard one is the inability to account for the amazing fine-tuning required for life to be possible in a cosmic environment. It could well be that, a few centuries down the line, our current understanding of the cosmos will look downright Ptolemaic. To sum up, this is an excellent and clear account, delivered in lively style, of modern cosmology as seen through the eyes of three protagonists in the great debate. The equations and occasional technical patches will, unfortunately, act as a barrier to many readers even although the essence of the story can be read between them. A charming feature of the book is that the authors, having been involved in the early debates, provide a unique "insiders" perspective on the rough-and-tumble of the period, bruised egos, dirty tricks and all. The villains are clearly identified! Finally, what of the authors' claim that modern cosmology is conformist and dominated by a few "leading geese"? Certain facts are hard to refute. No doctoral student would dare to question the canonical picture, nor would a supervisor lead him into such a minefield. There is almost no chance that a proposal for telescope time to examine any aspect of (say) the discordant redshift claims would get through an allocation panel. No researcher on the make would risk her reputation by getting involved, and any paper giving support to (say) redshift periodicity would have to surmount a wall of hostility. For such reasons, at least in the short term, this book will have no significant influence on the community of cosmologists. I can thoroughly recommend it. Bill Napier Armagh Observatory Armagh, Northern Ireland **Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts** by David Ray Griffin. Albany: State University of New York, 2000. xvii +345 pp. paperback, ISBN 0-7914-4564-X, hardcover ISBN 0-7914-4563-1. With this book, David Ray Griffin, general editor of the *SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought* (now nearly two dozen volumes) and himself author, co-author, or editor of half of the volumes in the series (as well as many other books and papers), has contributed a volume that should be required reading for all scientists, theologians, and philosophers--not only those who feel some unease with the current picture of the world as painted by either religion or modern science, but more importantly for those who do *not*. Readers--scientists and theologians alike--should come away from this book with the conviction that some radically new approach to or perspective on the problems of consciousness, free will, life, and their place in the material universe is badly needed. Even if all readers are not entirely convinced by the particular theoretical perspective that Griffin offers, most should come away also with === Page 29 of 43 Book Reviews 559 the conviction that his general argument is correct: that the continued polarization of scientific and religious views about controversial issues is not only unproductive but unnecessary, that both religion and science have discovered fundamental truths about the world but have reached erroneous conclusions by excluding those truths recognized by the other side, and that a more complete and accurate world view will emerge only when the facts and truths from both sides can be fit into some larger framework. This "tertium quid" approach to controversial issues (as Edmund Gurney [1887] termed it) was the guiding principle behind the founding and development of psychical research (or parapsychology) in the late 19th century (Kelly, 2001), but it, like psychical research, seems to have been largely ignored in wider intellectual circles. It is heartening, therefore, to see that Griffin introduces the general SUNY series on postmodern thought with a statement defining his version of postmodernism as an approach that attempts to go beyond *both* the premodern (religious) world view and the modern (scientific) world view by taking the strengths from both and forging a third, postmodern world view. The central question for this book, therefore, as described in the Preface and in Chapter 1, is whether such a merging of the two views is even possible--that is, whether there is anything *essential* to science that absolutely conflicts with anything *essential* to religion. Griffin concludes that there is not, that the dualistic supernaturalism that has been assumed to be essential to the religious world can and must be replaced by naturalism, which acknowledges the lawful regularity of basic causal processes in the universe's operation, but, conversely, that the mechanistic, physicalistic, reductionistic, nihilistic, and atheistic "maximal" version of naturalism, currently assumed to be essential in the modern scientific world view, can and must be replaced by a "minimal" version of naturalism that is nondualistic (in the traditional sense of Cartesian dualism) but that nonetheless also acknowledges will and purpose (whether divine, human, or both) as basic, ongoing natural influences in the world's operation. In Chapters 2 and 5, Griffin argues that "the rise of modern science itself was heavily conditioned by theological ideas and motives" (p. 110) and that, ironically, the materialistic, atheistic world view is deeply rooted in the supernaturalistic dualism of founders such as Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. This original theism is depicted in the familiar picture of inert, mechanical, purposeless matter; a free, active, and immortal soul; and an omnipotent God who made the interaction of the two possible. The glaring problem in this picture, however, of accommodating the evil and suffering in the world with an omnipotent God began a long process in which the concepts of God, purpose, free will, and meaning were gradually pushed off the stage, in a retreat from theism to the deism of scientists like Darwin, who believed in God as the first cause but as having no subsequent role in the operation of the world, to the ultimate nihilism of the modern scientific world view. This world view, however, is inadequate to account for the rise of conscious === Page 30 of 43 560 Book Review experience out of inert matter and for human freedom in a deterministic world, a freedom that all of us, scientists included, assume in action. In failing to account for such fundamental phenomena--"the reality, the efficacy, and the freedom of consciousness" (p. 167)--modern "maximal" naturalism shows itself inadequate not only for religion and ethics, but also for science. As a result, religious thinkers are increasingly challenging the adequacy of the modern scientific world view, and in Chapter 3 Griffin describes three recent attempts to accommodate both the religious and the scientific perspectives. In Griffin's estimation, however, all such attempts fail because they fail to recognize that *both* the supernaturalism assumed to be essential to religion and the materialism assumed to be essential to science are false. In Chapter 6 Griffin argues that the core of the problem with all modern world views, dualistic as well as materialistic, is that they are rooted in the early modern scientific view of matter as inert. Griffin argues that what is needed now is a more serious consideration of pantheism, and in Chapters 4 and 6, he describes the version of pantheism that he finds most persuasive, the "panentheism" or "panexperientialism" of Alfred North Whitehead, so-called because in it all matter has some degree, not of mind or consciousness, but more fundamentally of experience and spontaneity. In Whitehead's system, as described here by Griffin, observations and experiences that led to religious views can be accommodated with those that led to modern scientific views. First of all, Whitehead's system includes a naturalistic theism, in which natural laws are not part of an externally imposed and fixed or unyielding mechanism but are simply longstanding "habits" of the universe that are shaped and directed to varying degrees by many causal factors, the most basic and universal of which is divine influence. Divine influence, therefore, should be understood as "persuasive" and not "coercive," involving no "miracles" or "interruption of the normal cause-and-effect pattern" but being instead "an essential factor in that pattern" (p. 94). Second, Whitehead's system involves a more open, comprehensive scientific naturalism in which complex levels of perception, freedom, mind, and consciousness can be seen as having arisen, not *ex nihilo*, but out of the elementary experience and spontaneity of elementary levels of matter. Even the creation of the universe itself, in Whitehead's naturalism, did not involve an exception to the natural order, because it is seen as a process of bringing order out of chaos, not creation out of nothing (pp. 97, 312). Whitehead's God is not the "God of the gaps," as depicted by supernaturalism, but more fundamentally the universal force permeating every pore of the universe. In two final and lengthy chapters, Griffin discusses in some detail two specific areas of scientific research that expose the modern scientific world view as having many "gaps" of its own. In Chapter 7 he discusses the controversy about parapsychology, which he considers "religion's basic science" (p. 20), even though most orthodox religious thinkers and liberal theologians, like most scientists, have ignored or rejected it. He concludes that parapsychology does in- === Page 31 of 43 Book Reviews 561 deed conflict with the modern scientific world view, and most especially with its assumption that there can be no causal influence at a distance, an assumption that he describes as growing historically out of modern science's foundation on classical dualism's mechanism and supernaturalism. On the other hand, he believes that parapsychological data directly support the more open naturalism advocated by Whitehead and thus provide a strong empirical basis for the development of a postmodern reconciliation of science and religion. Moreover, because the present scientific world view fails so completely to account for other important aspects of human experience, such as consciousness, free will, and aesthetic and ethical norms, "the fact that psi is not consistent with it provides no reason whatever for being suspicious of psi" (p. 219). Finally, in Chapter 8, Griffin discusses the problem of evolutionary theory, not only because it has been so central in the conflict between science and religion, but also because in its modern, neo-Darwinist form, it illustrates many of the failings as well as strengths of modern scientific thought. Griffin first describes fourteen features of current Darwinian evolutionism, in an effort to identify which aspects are valid and essential for a naturalistic theory of life and its many forms and, conversely, which may be inadequate or invalid. He then summarizes some of the more important shortcomings of modern Darwinism. Some of the difficulties are philosophical, such as its materialism and positivism; but perhaps its more glaring weaknesses are its empirical shortcomings, two of which Griffin discusses in some detail. First, there is evidence, contrary to Darwinian theory, that some kind of Lamarckian, or need-induced, inheritance occurs, and new findings in genetics suggest that this is no longer an implausible hypothesis. As Griffin points out, the importance of such an hypothesis is three-fold in that it suggests "that there are factors involved other than natural selection of random variations... [that] purposes can directly bring about structural changes... [and] that all living things, rather than being passive results of forces acting on them, are self-determining organisms" (p. 276). Second, there is the problem of major gaps--the absence of transitional forms of life--in the fossil record, gaps that have become more, not less, pronounced during the 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin's day. Moreover, the issue involves not only this evidential problem, but several related conceptual problems, including how new and complex species could have developed through random variations, when the viability of a species would often have required the simultaneous and instant appearance of several interacting organs, skeletal structures, or other features; and also how life itself arose, especially how the myriad forms of complex life arose so suddenly and rapidly, at the time of "Biology's Big Bang" during the Cambrian period. In the remainder of the chapter, Griffin outlines "how the wider naturalism articulated in this book provides a more helpful framework" (p. 290) for addressing these and other problems and, more broadly, how it takes into account the strengths of the hitherto polarized views of religious creationists and neo-Darwinian scientists. === Page 32 of 43 562 Book Review This is a complex, challenging book, so full of ideas that it is not easy to read, and even less easy to summarize; I have only scratched the surface in my summary here. Griffin examines closely a variety of controversial issues and provides extensive references for readers who want to look more deeply into them. More importantly, he has also presented in detail his--and Whitehead's--proposal for a scientific naturalism that goes beyond the polarization of thought in which all of these issues remain mired. I share completely Griffin's belief that a reconciliation of religious and scientific perspectives in the context of a wider naturalism is essential for any significant advancement in either religion or science. I am less convinced--or perhaps just puzzled--by some of his specific arguments. His explanation (pp. 219-229) of paranormal phenomena in the context of Whitehead's theories was bewildering to me, perhaps because I have not read enough of Whitehead's own work to understand fully his ideas. I also found puzzling Griffin's categorical denial of the possibility of precognition (pp. 228-229). Given his castigation of theologians and scientists who reject phenomena *a priori*, based on their beliefs, world views, or systems of philosophy, one would think that he would be more cautious or restrained in rejecting the idea of precognition as "logically impossible"; and I found completely unconvincing his explanation (p. 229) of why his *a priori* rejection of precognition is different in kind from the similar rejection of psi by other scientists and philosophers. (Another reviewer in this journal of one of Griffin's books finds his dismissal of precognition equally unconvincing; see Beloff [1998] ). Similarly, like many other people before him, Griffin rejects classical dualism in part because of the interaction problem: "We realize that mind and body do interact. We realize, further, that if they were different in kind, this interaction would be impossible," apart from the influence of a *deus ex machina*. The conclusion, according to Griffin, must therefore be that mind and body are not different in kind and "that the mechanistic view of matter must be untrue" (p. 148). This conclusion may be perfectly valid (I am inclined to think it is), but I am unconvinced by his premise, that two unlike things cannot interact, because I do not think that Griffin (or anyone else) has found a more adequate definition of causation than Hume's basically neutral description of it as simply our observations of "constant conjunction." As Griffin himself points out, this understanding of causation provides "no good reason to stipulate *a priori* that only things with a common nature can causally interact" (p. 148), and without a more definitive understanding of the nature of causation, I do not see how we can do otherwise but take an agnostic position on what can and cannot interact. Perhaps the most important problem, however, that I find with the Griffin/Whitehead position is that, although Griffin says that "panexperientialism..., and apparently it alone, can solve the mind-body problem" (p. 173), it is not so clear to me that it really does. As Griffin explains it, in panexperientialism "a distinction is made between experience as such, which even the low- === Page 33 of 43 Book Reviews 563 est-level individuals (i.e., particles of matter) are said to have, and *conscious experience, which emerges only in very high-level individuals*" (p. 167). Furthermore, a distinction is made between two ways in which low-level individuals can be organized: into 'compound individuals,' in which a higher-level of experience (which might be conscious) emerges, and merely 'aggregational societies,' such as rocks and telephones, in which no higher-level experience emerges. (p. 167) In other words, in some complex aggregates of particles, a higher-level entity--a "mind"--emerges that makes the aggregate a "*self-determining organism*" (p. 155). In other complex aggregates, no such "higher-level experience" emerges from the group of particles. This distinction is not an "ontological dualism" but instead "*an organizational duality*" between compound individuals, which are "*self-determining*," and aggregational societies, which are not (pp. 176, 155). But what makes a higher level of experience emerge in one group of particles (e.g., a bird, or a human) but not in another (e.g., a rock, or [I would add] a computer)? Perhaps more problematically, what makes a higher level of experience emerge in one set of particles (e.g., a living bird) but not in the (apparently) same set at another time (the corpse of the same bird)? Panexperientialism, or any form of panpsychism in the broad sense, is in my view a theory deserving much more serious consideration, as Griffin urges, than it has so far received, in large part because it answers a problem fundamental in materialistic philosophies, namely, how (and when) life, mind, and consciousness emerge from insentient, inert matter. Unfortunately, in the Griffin/Whitehead system the problem of emergence has simply been placed on another level, that of how consciousness emerges from some sets of particles and not from others. The problems that I have in fully understanding or accepting all aspects of Griffin's panexperientialism in no way detracts from what I believe is the importance of this book. One can argue with details or even with Griffin's whole theoretical system; one cannot, I am convinced, argue with the premise that the reconciliation of religious and scientific perspectives, data, and insights within the framework of a wider theory of naturalism is essential, and long overdue. Emily Williams Kelly Division of Personality Studies University of Virginia Health System P.O. Box 800152 Charlottesville, VA 22908-0152 ewc2r@virginia.edu **References** Beloff, J. (1988). Parapsychology, philosophy and spirituality: A postmodern exploration. *Journal of Scientific Exploration, 12*, 324-326. === Page 34 of 43 564 Book Review Gurney, E. (1887). *Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions*. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench. Kelly, E. W. (2001). The contributions of F.W.H. Myers to psychology. *Journal of the Society for Psychical Research*, 65, 65-90. **Outposts of the Spirit** by William M. Justice. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2000, 213 pp. $12.95. Softcover, ISBN 1-57174-157-7. William M. Justice was a Protestant minister for most of his professional life. His interest in understanding the implications of psychical research urged him to consult with many personalities of the day, ranging from scholars such as Albert Einstein, Robert Thouless, and Robert Crookall to celebrated psychics like Edgar Cayce and Arthur Ford. Justice subsequently presented these interactions and the ideas they evoked in a book entitled *Outposts of the Spirit*. That work, published approximately twenty years ago, reflected Justice's striking spiritual interpretation of psychic phenomena, phenomena that he felt were ways to achieve "communion with God." "Outposts of the Spirit are those outpoints along the front lines to which the brave pioneers of the human race have reached in their search for the truth" (p. vii). In the editor's introduction to this reprint, the question is posed, "Why publish a book written almost twenty years ago about a rapidly evolving field that moves forward with new developments almost every month?" (p. v). The Editor's answer is that there still persists the need for a way of looking at the field that accommodates prior beliefs, doubts, and natural skepticism. To assess the veracity of this answer as well as Justice's conclusions would place any reviewer in an uncomfortable position. Given my skeptical attitude toward the purported evidence for spirit communication and the paranormal in general, I am not persuaded by Justice's convictions that parapsychological phenomena provide evidence for God. Yet his convictions are admirably strong and well-articulated. Therefore, I would like to offer a possibly better reason why it was helpful to reprint *Outposts of the Spirit*. A reader does not have to agree with the contents in order to appreciate this book. At the very least, this book offers a wonderful case study on how an intelligent and spiritual man was confronted by and subsequently integrated the paranormal into his personal and professional life. This is true human drama. To be sure, an increased interest in spiritual matters, a sense of well-being, and optimism frequently attend paranormal or transcendent experiences (Kennedy & Kathamani, 1995a,b). However, facing anomalous phenomena can also pose a serious challenge to a person's world views and psychological stability. Many people to this day struggle to accomplish what Justice did--and the inclusion of the new diagnostic code "Religious or Spiritual Problem" in the *DSM-IV* (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p. 685; cf. Turner et al., 1995)--demonstrates that such struggles === Page 35 of 43 Book Reviews 565 are prevalent enough to warrant the attention and concern of professional clinicians. Justice's religious beliefs, in part, allowed him to successfully make sense of psychical research. In turn, psychical research reinforced his religious beliefs. I imagine many *JSE* readers will not share Justice's convictions, but we all can appreciate the personal journey that shaped those convictions. The stories that we are privileged to read are as fascinating as they are entertaining. On the production level, this reprint includes new sections in addition to the "Editor's Introduction"--a foreword by George G. Ritchie, an epilogue by Lincoln B. Justice, and an afterword (biographical sketch) by William Yates. The epilogue, written by Justice's son, is particularly poignant. It is aptly entitled "The After-Death Experiences of William Justice." Three days after W. M. Justice's death, his son was in prayer. "Words in a small voice" came to the son's mind. The voice related in detail how his father was well, happy, and reunited with loved ones on the other side. The voice also confirmed some of the convictions held by W. M. Justice in life, convictions about the nature of psychic phenomena and how we relate to it as humans. My own father died in 1991, so I can only imagine the joy and serenity this experience provided Justice's son. Who wouldn't want the experience of knowing absolutely that our deceased loved ones are eternally happy? I admit that jealousy came over me while reading the epilogue. Nevertheless, in my opinion, psychical research tells us more about the living than it does about the dead. I also imagine that many *JSE* readers will not agree with that assessment. The point is that the awesome power of paranormal and transcendent experiences is in their ability to inspire some of us to behave more kindly toward our fellow man, to force some of us to understand what they reveal about the human condition, and to draw some of us into a relationship with a higher power. Justice experienced this latter dimension to paranormal experiences. If he is enjoying life after death, no doubt he feels added elation that his personal journey to understand the implications of psychical research touched his son: "It is with great joy that I can witness the fact that my faith in God and in the power of the Holy Spirit has grown stronger as a result of the fearless way that my father sought after truth" (Lincoln B. Justice [epilogue], p. 196). James Houran SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Springfield, IL jhouran@siumed.edu ### References American Psychiatric Association. (1994). *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders*. 4th Ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Kennedy, J. E., & Kanthamani, H. (1995a). An exploratory study of the effects of paranormal and spiritual experiences on people's lives and well being. *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research*, 89, 249-264. === Page 36 of 43 566 Book Review Kennedy, J. E., & Kanthamani, H. (1995b). Association between anomalous experiences and artistic creativity and spirituality. *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 89*, 333-343. Turner, R. P., Lukoff, D., Barnhouse, R. T., & Lu, F. G. (1995). Religious or spiritual problem: A culturally sensitive diagnostic category in the DSM-IV. *Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 183*, 435-444. **Remote Viewing Secrets** by Joseph McMoneagle. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1125 Stoney Ridge Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (2000), 296 pp. $14.95, ISBN 1-57174-159-3. Remote viewing (RV), according to Mr. McMoneagle, "is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information." RV has had a lengthy history throughout the world but probably has had only around twenty-five years of scientific study in this country. What makes Mr. McMoneagle's method different than most others is this use of strict scientific protocol. Mr. McMoneagle points out in his book that he does not wish to rewrite the history of remote viewing but instead offers an in-depth history written by Mr. Ingo Swann, which can be accessed at: www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/RealStoryMain.html. I have read this and would recommend the site to anyone interested in this subject. It is about fifty-two short chapters, from which the reader will gain a vast knowledge into the history of RV. Two other requirements that must be met are that all persons present during an RV should essentially be blind to the target, and there should be some form or means of validating the material after the RV has been accomplished. About sixty people in eight or nine laboratories in the United States over the past twenty-five years have established these necessary scientific protocols. Using strict scientific protocol is probably what separates Mr. McMoneagle's RV from some other systems of RV or other methods used by some psychics, such as scrying from a crystal ball or interpreting tarot cards, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, etc. While these methods generally do not use a set scientific protocol but rather are quite varied and are dependant on the individual or psychic and therefore do not meet his requirements for being termed RV, Mr. McMoneagle does not discredit any methods if they work. Many people confuse RV with "out-of-body experiences," but they are two completely different things. While a person experiencing "out-of-body experiences" feels as though he has left his physical body behind and has journeyed somewhere else, the person experiencing RV receives information by way of symbols, sounds, feelings, tastes and other both accurate and inaccurate stimuli. The advantages of RV over out-of-body experiences is that during an RV session, a "viewer" can discern feelings and other things that would be hidden === Page 37 of 43 Book Reviews 567 from a person during an out-of-body experience. RV operates best for producing information on things known to exist, and is not generally useful for information on mythical creatures, UFOs etc. After completing high school, Mr. McMoneagle enlisted in the U.S. Army. After completing basic training he was recruited into the Army Security Agency and spent thirteen consecutive years overseas. After returning to this country he accepted a commission as a Warrant Officer and was assigned to Headquarters, Intelligence and Security Command. Less than one year later he became Remote Viewer #001 for the top-secret STARGATE project, which was a physic spy unit known by various names throughout its history. As one of the original viewers, Mr. McMoneagle helped design and build an effective paranormal unit that serviced nearly all major Intelligence Agencies within the Federal Government for seventeen years. After retirement from the Army he was hired by Cognitive Science Lab, which was the laboratory responsible for the research and development of the STARGATE project. He is currently fully employed by them today, doing both research on psychic functioning's and RV. I would highly recommend his book to anyone interested in the subject of RV. Bruce Norman MS 8391 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 bruce.norman@nist.gov **From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing** by Adam Crabtree. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993, 413 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-300-05588-9 (retrospective). I was asked to examine this book, which had been obtained from a remainder catalog, as a possibility for a "Retrospective Review." In these reviews, appropriate older books that deserve current attention can be presented. I found *From Mesmer to Freud* in a local library, and a little research on my part revealed that the book is still available from major distributors. This is fortunate for those with an interest in hypnotic phenomena, especially "magnetic sleep." It has been claimed that the 1784 discovery of magnetic sleep--an artificially induced trancelike state--marked the beginning of the modern era of psychological healing. Crabtree, a psychologist (Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Toronto), presents the story of the discovery of magnetic sleep and its relation to psychotherapy and the healing arts. I cannot remember reading a more carefully crafted presentation of hypnosis. This book is a comprehensive and outstanding analysis of the personal, social and cultural dynamics that shaped the study of this topic along with the personalities that defined this === Page 38 of 43 568 Book Review field. But the book is also much more than that. The subtleties involved in the evolution of this field shocked and sometimes outraged me. In particular, Crabtree's work, outside of its academic value, is also a sobering case study of how the politics of scientists can operate in disservice to science. Postmodernists will especially appreciate Crabtree's historical analysis because it uncovers and highlights information and ideas that the field disregarded as it adopted the materialistic perspective of Western medicine. I have seen other informal reviews of this book that independently echo this point to the extent that some JSE readers might believe that I have read the minds of these other reviewers or plagiarized their writings. For this reason, I initially hesitated to prepare a lengthy review. Upon reflection, I feel justified in publishing comments very similar to previous reviews because it substantiates that I am not alone in what I think is valuable about this book. In short, some aspects of Western medicine overlap with Eastern medicine, though the labels they ascribe to concepts might differ (e.g., chi or energy). Throughout this work many topics of interest to the SSE are discussed, including possession, dissociation, multiple personality, and paranormal effects associated with "animal magnetism." The scope is impressive and relevant to many areas of current research. Why have I never heard of this book before? This is an example of a valuable work that was missed, but happily may now receive deserved attention. No doubt many good books are unavoidably overlooked. Before reading this book, and despite the fact that one of my graduate school mentors was a hypnotherapist and student of Milton H. Erickson, I had no deep-seated interest in or extensive knowledge of hypnosis. After reading and digesting this book, I can say that each of those issues has changed to an appreciable degree. If you cannot find it in a library, I highly recommend you search it out. At a remainder catalog price, the book is a steal for anyone. At the $55.00 list price from Amazon.com, it is a good deal for serious students or scholars and scientists. Perusing the various reviews posted on the Amazon.com Web page for this work will show you that I am not alone in my sentiments. This is one book that I want for my personal library, and I might never have known about it except for the kind alert. Who knows what other overlooked treasures await to enhance our knowledge and research? James Houran SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychology Springfield, IL === Page 39 of 43 Book Reviews 569 **The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter** by Jeffrey Mishlove. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2000. 283 pp. $14.95, paperback, ISBN 1-5717-4183-6. Jeffrey Mishlove is a talented parapsychologist used to handling controversial subjects, and in *The PK Man*, he tackles Ted Owens, a tough one indeed. Owens was a well-known "super-psychic," with apparent phenomenal psychokinetic (PK) abilities, especially with regard to the weather. Mishlove's avowed purpose in this book is to present his many years' documentation of Ted Owens' spectacular powers. He started in 1976, after meeting Owens at a parapsychology conference. Mishlove kept a growing file of newspaper articles, affidavits, personal testimonials, and letters about Owens' predictions and warnings and their often dramatic fulfillment. Mishlove was often in contact with Owens, who would tell him when he was causing another storm, or what football team he was going to have win a game. Mishlove also sometimes enlisted other parapsychologists to help design another "experiment" around Ted Owens, and to help him gather affidavits and check for appropriate newspaper articles. Mishlove's documentation is impressive, although, of course, it is not rigorous proof for the skeptical-minded. If Owens predicted a great storm and it occurred, as evidenced by newspaper articles, scientific proof is certainly incomplete. But at the very least, it brings up the old parapsychological conundrum of whether an event has been psychokinetically caused or precognitively predicted. *The PK Man* is very well written using simple, clear prose. The story sometimes reads like a spy thriller; it is truly fascinating. Mishlove includes his own reactions to Owens' personality and powers, which is a useful gauge for the reader, since Mishlove is a parapsychologist with experience in psychic matters. But readers may not be satisfied with Mishlove's treatment of a fundamental issue about Ted Owens: his vindictive, vengeful, egocentric nature, which led him to cause many PK events that caused massive property damage and also cost human lives. Ted Owens was born in Indiana in 1920 and was largely raised by his grandparents. Psychic phenomena were familiar to the family--his great-grandmother was an expert at the ouija board and could predict deaths; his grandfather taught him to dowse. Mishlove recounts Owens' discovery of his extraordinary psychic powers. By Owens' own account, these powers began to manifest themselves when he was four; he spontaneously levitated one afternoon at his house. His early reading concentrated heavily in psychic matters. As a teenager he became a stage hypnotist and gave public demonstrations. After Navy service in World War II, Owens wrote to Dr. J. B. Rhine, head of the famous parapsychology lab at Duke University in North Carolina. Rhine invited Owens to Duke, and Owens worked there as Rhine's assistant for a time. Owens was best known in his lifetime for his PK control of the weather. === Page 40 of 43 570 Book Review Owens told Mishlove he really realized his weather control abilities in 1963, when he was living in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife. It was extremely hot and Owens, remembering a conversation at Duke about weather control among shamans, decided to try to bring rain. So he pointed at the sky and focused his mental imagery on storms and rain. A little while later, a rain and lightning storm developed. Owens was delighted and began doing many weather experiments. A key aspect of Owens' work, which Mishlove explores at length, is Owens' claim that he was the contact person for Space Intelligences (SIs, as Owens called them). He apparently was not in regular conscious contact with them until the 1950s. But then his psychic powers began slowly to be enhanced, and by the 1960s he communicated with them regularly. In 1965 he wrote in his diary, "Tonight they told me that they could give me only so much power, so much knowledge, at a time. Matter of fact, they said I'm an experiment with them--to find out just how much of the PK power a human being can absorb and stand" (p. 65). For a long time the SIs initiated all the contacts. Only once Owens had developed (with their help) a visualization technique was he able to also contact them. Owens claimed he was the "prophet" of the SIs and that his demonstrations of massive, and often dangerous, PK were done at their behest and with their power. Owens placed himself in the rank of the great prophets. As Mishlove states, "Owens used many metaphors to justify the outrageous ends to which he focused his mental powers. He often compared himself to Moses wreaking the ten plagues upon Egypt with the help of God" (p. 7). Mishlove points out that this metaphor is "inappropriate and vainglorious," but he doesn't engage the issue deeply. Owens tried to help sometimes, such as in predicting and then (by his own account) causing storms that ended a drought in California in 1976, and similarly in England the same year. But when people disbelieved his predictions or ridiculed his claimed powers, he often slashed an entire city or state with vengeful weather. Owens was a football fan, and when teams he disliked were on winning streaks, or when a team to whom he had offered his psychic help scorned him, he vengefully caused that team to lose many games, sometimes even an entire season's worth of games. He predicted his revenges ahead of time to Mishlove as well as publicly, so Mishlove was able to collect newspaper articles about the fulfillment of Owens' predictions. Mishlove notes, "...many of Owens' so-called demonstrations had an unsavory aspect to them. There is a clear sense that he went about with a chip on his shoulder--challenging the world to believe in his miracles and then lashing out when people reacted with sarcastic ridicule" (pp. 90-91). But Mishlove did not really explore Owens' unhappy background as part of the reason he used his PK as he did--Owens' father took to gambling, his mother rejected the child, and he was raised by his grandparents. Mishlove also half-heartedly seems to agree with Owens' characterization === Page 41 of 43 Book Reviews 571 of himself as a prophet, without analyzing the vast difference between a prophet, whose spiritual character is humble and sophisticated, and Owens, who was vengeful and childish. Mishlove was clearly disturbed by Owens; near the end of their lengthy relationship, he wrote Owens a long letter chastising him for his unwillingness to grow spiritually. But his basic conclusion is that Owens was the way he was mostly because he received so little respect from society for his powers. This is quite a weak conclusion, especially concerning a man who misused his massive powers so stupendously. However, Mishlove explicitly encourages readers to draw their own conclusions about Owens' behavior. He also addresses several other major issues, including Owens' ability to manifest UFOs and his allegations that the power came from beings. This last is an interesting topic, little researched. But, as Mishlove points out, these superpowers may in fact come from extraterrestrial beings, though smaller paranormal powers, more widely distributed, may not. He also provides a short end chapter on some of the new ideas in modern physics that make many of Owens' claims less outrageous than they might otherwise seem. There is no other book like this one about a unique man and his abilities. Mishlove has done a very good job by bringing the issues before the public eye, and for this we should be thankful to him. Alexander Imich Anomalous Phenomena Research Center 305 West End Avenue, Suite 1401 New York, NY 10023 aimich@juno.com **The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity** by David Horrobin. London: Bantam Press (Transworld Publishers), 2001. 275 pp. £18.99, cloth. ISBN 0593-046498. (Available through amazon.co.uk.) "All the good and bad characteristics of humanity seem writ large in the children of schizophrenic parents" (p. 144). Much evidence for this empirical claim is adduced in this fascinating book, which has several facets. In the first instance, it is essential reading for anyone who knows sufferers from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or dyslexia; the book offers intriguing hints about the genesis of the problems and some genuine hope for better treatments. In addition, this book offers a far-reaching, detailed, and plausible scenario of genetic mutations and environmental factors that led to the evolution of *Homo sapiens* from an ancestor held in common with chimpanzees. For anomalists and students of science, the book offers illustrations of serendipitous discovery (p. 64) and of the (grudging, inadequate, or dismissive) reception of genuinely novel ideas (p. 160). For medical scientists and practicing physicians, the book illustrates the wealth of knowledge and understanding attainable through careful clinical observation of apparent === Page 42 of 43 572 Book Review correlations and happenings. For all of us there is food for thought about how to maintain scientific progress as it increasingly calls for cross-disciplinary work (see, for example, pp. 210, 224, and the epilogue) and how to expand medical knowledge under the (ethically quite proper) constraints imposed on clinical trials in most developed countries (see p. 221). Horrobin has, among other things, taught medicine, founded biotech companies, and been advisor for 3 decades to the Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain. Evidence from a number of directions supports his grand synthesis, which is also made all the more plausible by several testable hypotheses that are likely to be tested within a decade or two. It is, furthermore, persuasive that he reports (e.g., on p. 224) some results that were not what he had anticipated. Along the way some fascinating facts are cited, for example, that a standard treatment for severe schizophrenia (in the 20th century!) was deliberate infection with malaria and that a Nobel Prize was awarded in 1927 for discovery of this treatment. It is tempting to describe in more detail both Horrobin's intriguing syntheses and the many remarkable facts cited along the way. However, this book has some of the appeal that a mystery novel does; the best service to readers probably is to recommend the book in the strongest possible terms while preserving an element of suspense about the details. Readers should, however, be forewarned that there is a degree of repetition throughout the book, possibly inevitable as the various strands of evidence and argument are pulled together; and in places the technicalities of physiology or biochemistry may seem daunting. In that case, by all means skip the technical stuff, but don't fail to read further. Among the questions discussed or clues adduced are these: * What is the most obvious physical or physiological difference between chimpanzees and other apes on the one hand, and humans on the other? * What does it signify that our brains are 250% larger than those of chimps but contain only 100% more neurons? * What clues to evolutionary scenarios are afforded by the way in which human physiology makes use of water? * Why has the rate of cultural progress of *Homo* and ancestors changed so dramatically at least a couple of times, about 100,000 and again about 10,000 years ago? And why were these changes also associated with a dramatic rise in the diversity of cultures? * Is there truth to the popular folklore that genius and madness are closely allied? Is it really the case that "Without the genes which in combination cause schizophrenia we would be like Neanderthals or *Homo erectus*" rather than *Homo sapiens*? (p. 207) * Will further work substantiate initial indications that simple dietary supplements can synergize or even substitute for anti-schizophrenic drugs? Can diet really reduce the incidence of violence (by between 30 and 50%!) among prison populations? "Perhaps it is possible, by manipulat- === Page 43 of 43 Book Reviews 573 ing the environment, to prevent the expression of the illness even in those who have a 100% genetic risk" (p. 208). * How does it come about that the incidence of schizophrenia is much the same in all studied populations: "from the Canadian Arctic to Patagonia, from Lapland to the Cape of Good Hope, from Siberia to the world of the Australian Aborigines" the incidence is between "0.5 and 1.5%--and usually between 0.7% and 1.0% . . . . No other illness shares a similar distribution." (p. 119) * Why should parents in the United States using milk formula for their babies prefer that formulated for premature babies? (see p. 93) * Why are schizophrenics so much less prone to arthritis? Why do they not flush under large doses of niacin? Can there be a physical diagnostic test for this psychiatric disorder? In addition, Horrobin's theses and lines of argument have implications for some other topics as well: * Are the dietary habits of adolescents much more important, even, than is currently believed? If dietary supplements can lessen the incidence of violence in prisons, might they also do so in schools? (see p. 170). * Does this evolutionary scenario have implications for the probability of extraterrestrial intelligences? About the likely longevity of extraterrestrial civilizations? If none of these questions interest you, then you may not find this book as exciting as I did. Henry H. 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Searle** Further reply to Libet ## OBITUARY NOTICE **Evan Thompson** Francisco J. Varela (1946-2001) [full text](full%20text) ## CONFERENCE REPORT **Bill Faw** Whither Consciousness Studies? ASSC-5 Conference at Duke, June 27-30, 2001 [full text](full%20text) JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8.html[12/2/25, 20:48:23] === Page 2 of 3 JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8 # BOOK REVIEWS **Josh Weisberg** Jerry Fodor, *The Mind Doesn't Work That Way* **Chris Nunn** Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (ed.), *The Cauldron of Consciousness* **Hans Dooremalen** Scott Sturgeon, *Matters of Mind, Consciousness, Reason and Nature* **Julian Paul Keenan** Todd E. Feinberg, *Altered Egos* **Bruno Deschenes** Ciarán Benson, *The Cultural Psychology of Self, Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds* **Gary Fuhrman** Radu Bogdan, *Minding Minds* **Rahul Banerjee** Yvonne P. Bouin, *Effects of Meditation on Respiration and the Temporal Lobes* **Rüdiger Vaas** Sangeetha Menon et al. (ed.), *Scientific and Philosophical Studies on Consciousness* **John Dance** Mary Midgley, *Science and Poetry* **John McCrone** G. Lynn Stephens & George Graham, *When Self-Consciousness Breaks* **Peter W. Ross** Michael Tye, *Color, Consciousness, and Content* **Rocco J. Gennaro** Jospeh Levine, *Purple Haze* **Gary Schouborg** Charles T. Tart, *Mind Science* **Alexander Batthyany** Daniel D. Hutto, *Beyond Physicalism* **Imants Barušs** Jeffrey Mishlove, *The PK Man* ---------- **Andrew Botterell** ## Conceiving What Is Not There Abstract: In this paper I argue that certain so-called conceivability arguments fail to show that a currently popular version of physicalism in the philosophy of mind is false. Concentrating on an argument due to David Chalmers, I first argue that Chalmers misrepresents the relation between conceivability and possibility. I then argue that the intuition behind the conceivability of so-called zombie worlds can be accounted for without having to suppose that such worlds are genuinely conceivable. I conclude with some general remarks about the nature of conceivability. Correspondence: Andrew Botterell, Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA. Email andrew.botterell@sonoma.edu ---------- **Edward Feser** JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8.html[12/2/25, 20:48:23] === Page 3 of 3 JCS Journal of Consciousness Studies 8,8 # Qualia: Irreducibly Subjective but not Intrinsic Abstract: The indirect realist theory of our knowledge of the external world which Russellian philosophers of mind have appealed to in formulating and defending a unique version of the mind-brain identity theory can be applied also to the formulation and defence of a unique version of functionalism. On the view that results, qualia turn out to be features which do not exist over and above the natural world (as materialistic functionalists and Russellians would agree), and are irreducibly subjective (as dualists and Russellians would agree) but are non-intrinsic properties of brain states (as functionalists would agree but Russellians would not). This view, which can be called 'Hayekian functionalism' (after F.A. Hayek, some of whose neglected writings inspired it), thus shows how we can combine the best insights of functionalism with the respect for the subjectivity of qualia which critics of functionalism claim it cannot accommodate. Correspondence: Edward Feser, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045. Email: edwardfeser@hotmail.com ---------- **David Holdcroft and Harry Lewis** # Memes, Consciousness, Design and Social Practice It has been proposed by Dawkins, Dennett and others that memes are the units of cultural evolution. We here concentrate on Dennett's account because of the role it plays in his explanation of human consciousness -- which is our principal target. Memes are claimed to be replicators that work on Darwinian principles. But in what sense are they replicators, and in what way are they responsible for their own propagation? We argue that their ability to replicate themselves is severely limited, particularly in the case of language-borne memes. We contend, too, that the theory has unacceptable consequences for the role of design in accounting for cultural change, unless we seriously want to entertain the thought that design has as little relevance to cultural evolution as it does to the evolution of species. 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Title A name given to the resource Transcript of Mishlove's Monologue on Space Intelligences https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/15d0b9d47e2f39aa6204889dd97b0bb6.pdf a80e04f293af9b2d4b9eaee23e6bee44 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/42e4de13a02168ad690e16ebad0b93ad.txt 78ea5e628b019037559a4da16ae59783 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 N.R.L. - F.S.D N.A.S. Patuxent River MD. #20670 Dr. Jeffery Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, Calif #94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: Under instructions from Ted Owens, who has listened to this tape, I am sending it to you - considering there is mention of using his book "How To Contact Space People" in it - and results from doing so - plus other para-normal events noted down and dated - I recorded this for a UFOlogist in New Jersey, Mr. Tom Benson - P.O. Box 1174 Trenton N.J. 08606 === Page 2 of 8 - 2 - I have just taken Jedi Training which he has said was given him by the UFO's (SI's) He also said that anyone who comes to him for that training, has been sent there for one reason or another, by UFO's - There were several things which he said were very similar in which our minds were on the same frequency - so the training would be that much better between me and himself - 1. He had been wanting to get his Teddy (10) a space ship (Toy) and finances were such that he was unable to - I had just completed a model of the movie starship enterprise in which lights worked by Battery power - I brought === Page 3 of 8 - 3 - this for his son because I could not find another one like it Amt Corporation quit making them - (2) He had some time ago, admired a set of Black Cross pens which he could not buy - I spied the exact same and bought them for him as a gift when I came (3) The UFO's left dolls for him to find. I brought one for little Jerome to cuddle with - (4) When he went to Scotland - for some strange reason I "saw" the very same castle and fog & lake & when he went to Egypt I was there where he was under a well or cave - and just last month when he was pouring out energy - I "felt" this energy - & saw it too - For many years I have traveled (I am in the service) and each time I have gone to a different place - that day - or next - I would see a disk - shaped object in === Page 4 of 8 - 4 - the sky - I would look up see it - and it would disappear just as fast. But now, I have the training and, according to Ted Owens - am closer to the UFO entities than ever before - he said also, that I had a very strong mind - I had always thought I was weak - but that was because of my childhood fears and allowing others to dominate me with theirs - Listen to the tape and let me know what you think - Thank you very much for taking up some of your precious time in your busy schedule - I have been reading from a very "rough" manuscript which I was going to write as a book - Very Sincerely Carolyn Valentine === Page 5 of 8 MENSA® A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION CHARTERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 50 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 November 9, 1973 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet", and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFO's and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973. Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owen's letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place. Sincerely, Max L. Fogel Max L. Fogel, Ph.D. Director of Science and Education CHAIRMAN, Herbert Ahrend; FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN, Dr. Emerson Cowie; SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN, Joseph Frisch; EASTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Fred Lowenstein; MID-WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Lou McGowan; WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Ellison Jack; SECRETARY, Irene Turchin; TREASURER, Sander Rubin; LOCAL GROUPS OFFICER, Stuart Friedman; RESEARCH OFFICER, Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.; LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Jack Weinstein; MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Vernon K. Schumann; PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Allan Wikman; RECORDING SECRETARY, Carol H. Stephens; SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST, Allan H. Frankle, Ph.D.; EDITOR MENSA BULLETIN, Lee Russell; GREATER L. A. REPRESENTATIVE, Mel Springer; N.Y.C. REPRESENTATIVE, Ita Solomon; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Margot Seitelman. === Page 6 of 8 November 28, 1966 On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle: The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future. The above to take place not later than September, 1966. (Only the time element was off a bit) Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew. Oct. 26, 1966, the J.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others. Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tug to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired. Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery". Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii. Nov. 10, 1966, nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. Also, on Nov. 5, '66, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was certainly a blow to our seat of government. Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966 Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 # Carrier Hit By Nautilus Under Sea **Crewman Hurt, A-Sub's Tower Badly Damaged** NORFOLK, Va. Nov. 10 (UPI) - The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, rammed the aircraft carrier Essex while running submerged off the North Carolina coast Thursday, slightly injuring one crewman. The Navy said the mishap occurred during a routine anti-submarine warfare exercise. The Nautilus, commissioned Sept. 21, 1954, suffered heavy damage to its conning tower, the Navy said, and immediately surfaced. It struck out for the New London, Conn., submarine base with an unidentified destroyer as an escort. **CARRIER DAMAGED** The 27,100-ton Essex, a 24-year-old anti-submarine warfare ship, was reported damaged below the waterline. It was commanded by Capt. S. W. Fly, was taking some water, but that it was under control. The Navy said the Essex was heading for Quonset Point, R.I. # Johnson's Doctors Negotiate On a Site, Time for Surgery By LAWRENCE M. O'ROURKE Of The Bulletin Staff JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Nov. 11 - Getting several busy doctors to agree on a single time and place for surgery is a difficult task, even when the patient is President Johnson. Mr. Johnson apparently still doesn't know when or at what hospital his abdomen and throat will be operated on. He hopes it will be early next week in the Bethesda Army Medical Center in Maryland. That is only a half hour helicopter flight from his LBJ ranch. Mr. Johnson could decide. A high official in the Johnson Administration asserted that Mr. Johnson could fix the time and place in a minute. He could call the doctors on the phone and say he wanted them to come to Texas, and they'd come. But the President doesn't want to impose his will on the physicians, though he has made his own desires clear through Dr. George G. Burkley of the White House staff. The complications arise from the fact that there are four doctors involved. Four are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one is in New York City, another is in Atlanta, and Dr. Burkley is in Washington. Sources say that the operations may be done at the same time at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., or at a hospital associated with Mayo. **Shoulder Soreness** The President, resting more than normal and soaking up the sun on his LBJ Ranch, feels fine despite a number of ailments. In addition to the abdominal and throat problems which were revealed by surgery, the President has felt soreness in his right arm and shoulders. The White House said today that it is nothing serious, although it is unexplained. Mr. Johnson has reportedly had massages to ease the discomfort. The doctors have checked out the soreness, White House acting press secretary George C. Smith said, and found nothing serious. A high administration official himself is at a loss to explain the soreness, but he said it's not from cutting wood. **Sometime Next Week** At a news conference yesterday - the first since he came to his LBJ ranch, the President said the surgery will take place next week. Surgeons will repair an abdominal defect at the lower end of the scar on the President's abdomen left by gall bladder and kidney stone surgery 13 months ago. The surgery will involve the closing of an incisional hernia, a weak spot in the stomach wall. There is a lump at the site the size of a golf ball. While Mr. Johnson is under anesthesia, a throat specialist will remove a small non-malignant polyp from near the President's right vocal cord. The polyp will be examined immediately to determine if there is malignancy. The doctors said that nearly all polyps are non-malignant. # Background # Navy Has Rough Sailing WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AP) - THE Navy has had a tough time in the way of ocean safety the past 16 days. Thursday's collision of a submerged submarine with a carrier in the Atlantic marked at least the sixth accident involving Navy vessels since Oct. 26 when a flash fire swept the aircraft carrier Oriskany off Vietnam. That fire claimed 44 men. "When you have several hundred ships operating at sea, these things are bound to happen," one high officer said. "The best you can hope to do is take steps toward preventing them." Here are recent accidents: Oct. 26 - A fire that broke out in a locker containing flares swept the Oriskany off Vietnam. The flattop, from which U.S. jets strike at North Vietnam, had to be pulled off its "Yankee Station" and sent home for repairs. Nov. 3 - The submarine Tiru ran aground on a reef in the Coral Sea off Australia and was stuck four days before it could be towed away. None of the 80 men aboard was injured. Nov. 4 - The LST (Landing ship, transport) Churchill County rammed the top of the Bay Tunnel at Norfolk, Va., and had to be pulled away by two tugs. No injuries. Nov. 5 - The carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt operating in South China seas, was hit by a fire which killed eight men. The carrier remained on station. Nov. 7 - Fire erupted in a storage room of the 24,000 ton aircraft transport ship Kula Gulf stationed at Pearl Harbor. No one was injured; the blaze was brought under control in three hours. Nov. 10 - The submarine Nautilus rammed the carrier Essex during a maneuver 35 miles east of Wilmington, Del. The atomic sub suffered extensive damage to a super-section but surfaced with only one injury, a possible broken arm sustained by one of the crewmen. The Essex was not damaged. One of the Navy's more embarrassing incidents of recent months occurred in July, however, when a radar picket destroyer, the Frank Knox, was hung up for five weeks on a reef in the South China Sea. The Navy later reprimanded the commander of the destroyer after a court martial on charges of "negligently failing to keep himself informed of the ship's position." # Burned Carrier Is Home to Prepare for Next Round San Diego, Calif., Nov. 16 - (AP) - The fire-scarred attack carrier Oriskany and her proud, weary men returned from war today, their home-coming saddened by the loss of 44 men. Band played and an estimated 2,000 wives, children and friends greeted the huge 42,000-ton carrier as it docked under gray skies. Forty-four men, including 25 pilots, were victims of the tragic Oct. 26 fire, evidence of which still lingers on scorched walls of the hangar bay and living quarters. Ten other Oriskany pilots were lost on strike missions over Viet Nam. **Morale 'Terrific'** The skipper of the 21-year-old carrier, Capt. J. H. Iarrobino of Coronado, Calif., praised his 2,500-man crew and said he hoped the ship would not miss its third rotation back to the Viet Nam war zone. "The morale of the men is terrific," the skipper said. "This ship's performance was really outstanding - not just outstanding, but great. "We were in a state of shock for a short period of time," Iarrobino said. "But we're digging ourselves out now. This ship will answer the bell for the next round." **Inquiry Under Way** After a week in San Diego the ship goes to San Francisco for three or four months of repair and overhaul, followed by another tour of war duty. Meanwhile, a board of inquiry investigating all aspects of the fire will take "roughly another two weeks to finish," Iarrobino said. "We don't know whether it was a malfunction of a flare or personnel fault that caused the fire," the captain said. He said that as yet no disciplinary action has been taken against two men who were handling the magnesium illumination flares that triggered the three explosions. ILLUSTRATION # 2 === Page 7 of 8 forces which are responsible for the events. Either hypothesis offers a para-normal explanation; however, one hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is a passive, receptive, or perceptive participant of these unusual conditions, while the other hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is an active, or manipulative, agent in these unusual conditions. The events are worthy of scientific investigation, but the hypothesis of active manipulation is one which is morally bothersome to me. - R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D. === Page 8 of 8 LIPPINCOTT & CROWELL, PUBLISHERS 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017 LAWRENCE PEEL ASHMEAD Executive Editor March 31, 1980 Ron Bernstein THE RON BERNSTEIN AGENCY 200 W. 58th St., suite 10C New York, NY 10019 RECEIVED APR 12 1980 Dear Ron: Without a supporting publishing program of science fiction novels we'd have a very difficult time launching just one category novel like Rogo's EARTH'S AMBASSADOR. Thank you for letting me see this, Ron, and I'm sorry I can't be more enthusiastic. Best, Larry LPA/cdn enclosure P.S.: Good to see you at Judy's Friday evening. xc: D. SCOTT ROGO 4/14/80 - [x] JEFFREY MISHLOVE Phone: 212-687-3980 TELEX: 83-4566 TWX: 7106700974 Cable: Lippcot, New York Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 22 bad bit of paper - Hope this lasts until you read it. seems "aged" + breaking up. Warned if I'm going to rewrite it. From Ethel Balch Post Office Box 63, Alpaugh, Cal. 93201. Friday, May 25th. Results Book Send Books "Occult" address Answer 4/5 Dear Ted: Received your welcome letter yesterday, and was greatly relieved you and Beau had arrived safely back home after your arduous trip. Re: your escape from injury in the car crash - I too had a narrow escape -- my own proof of protection. I had occasion to go to Visalia. Driving down the main blvd. my attention was to the left when I heard a loud frantic blast on a car horn. Evidently the man in front of me had suddenly decided to turn into a driveway on my right and was probably blocked momentarily by a car ahead of it - the back end of his car stuck out like a sore thumb in my path. I was right on it before I saw it AS I WAS PASSING IT- I swear I didn't miss it by a hair breadth - even had the impression I had passed THROUGH it. I've heard of such things, and drove on undisturbed, and forgot it until I got to a friend's house. Note: Yet another car through car?!! Ted. To begin with I had taken what I thought was a short cut -- then I seemed lost in the maze of country roads. I was unfamiliar with the town signs on the road, but kept going, turning this way and that wondering where I would end up, and finally found myself at last passing the airfield I remembered passing once before going into Visalia and I knew I was headed right. My friend, greatly disturbed, wanted to know what took me so long, and, reciting my adventures to her the enormity of the car incident hit me full blast, and I felt weird! and weak-kneed! not with fright - but the sudden realization of THE CIRCLE OF PROTECTION! Sunday, May 27th. Got side-tracked. Information, please re. auto-hyp--- Why is the count sometimes 1 to 10 and then again -- 1-2-3? Does it really make a difference which is used. Sometimes you just said - "use your auto-hyp mech...but which one? Perhaps the 1-10 was used in - for instance, going back in memory for refreshing good memories: also, going back to the birth moment -- those were two trips regressing to time tempo, but otherwise its the "use your auto-hyp mech" I've stubbed my toe on -- which mech? No difference? As to books we made a list of -- your book on "How to Contact Space People: Predictions of Glenn McWane for 1973: and Occult America. I cant find them in this god-forsaken valley and you said you would send them to me. I managed to get "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain" thru ad. literature that came to me in the mail. Your book and Glenn McWane's Predictions I would very much like to have - I'll of course include postage with the cost of the books. === Page 2 of 22 Infinity Newsletter -5- David Graham, Editor Decorah, Iowa DIRECT VOICE MEDIUM is being sought for a research project by a group of scientists engaged in psychical research on survival, according to a notice in SFF Newsletter. For full information, write to: Mr. Julius Weinberger, 8 Milburn Lane, Huntington, NY 11743. ********** SPIRITUAL FRONTIERS FELLOWSHIP is planning the 1975 Annual Conference. It will once again be at the Bismark Hotel, Chicago, May 22-24. Info: SFF, 800 Custer Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202. ********** NIXON PREDICTION--A letter from Irene Hughes, 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. "There was an interesting little item in your recent newsletter (IN September) about Ted Owens being the only psychic that predicted Richard Nixon would be forced out of office. It indicates that he made his prediction in 1971. I would like to say that he is not the only one--that I made the prediction before Mr. Nixon was elected in 1968. It is a matter of published record and in a number of different papers and in my own column. I indicated that there would be a scandal that would touch Mr. Nixon and that three members of his cabinet would immediately resign. That happened. At that time, I also predicted that he would not stay throughout his term of office and that he would probably leave two years before it was up, or at least one year before it was up and that would not be due to assassination or health. Also, I indicated that when it was over, that he would come out smelling like a rose! Actually, part of this prediction is included in my book, KNOW THE FUTURE TODAY. That book was published in 1970 and the materials for much of it was available in 1959." In a current prediction, Mrs. Hughes says, "The moment that Ford became President, I said, Mr. Ford will never be elected President in 1976, and that by the end of June of 1975 that he will be in such grave difficulties due to economic problems in this nation, and due to international problems, that he will have thoughts in his mind to resign." ----Thank you, Irene. dg. ********** AWAREHOUSE, 436 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois. An emerging concept of how life is meant to be. Offering classes in Meditation, Graphology, Astrology, Hatha Yoga, Hypnotism, Qabala as well as classes dealing with everyday problems of alcohol, divorce, etc. Chicago area residents may call 328-1852 (Mornings) or 973-1843 (afternoons). ********** A TELEPATHIC COMPUTER. Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park, California, is working on a computer system that will read minds and obey unspoken words. The computer is said to monitor and identify patterns in human EEG signals that are associated with language. Accuracy of the test equipment ranges from 60 to 100 percent, depending on the words used. "Up" and "stop" are the most easily recognized words, while "near" and "far" are the most difficult for the computer. ********** LUCIUS FARISH, Route 1, Plumerville, Arkansas 72127, UFO researcher, would like to hear from anyone having information on historical UFO reports (pre-1947), such as the 1897 flap, etc. Lou will be glad to exchange data, provide information on books, magazines, etc. ********** BIORHYTHM, HEALING AND KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY will be the subjects of a conference at Holiday Inn, 1501 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois October 19-21. For further info: Michael R. Zaeske, 331 Ashland Avenue, Highwood, IL 60040, or phone (312) 433-2147. ********** ECKANKAR, Box 5325, Las Vegas, NV 89102 will hold its 8th World Wide Seminar at the Exposition and Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 19-21. Sri Darwin Gross will be there. Theme of the Seminar is "The God Worlds of ECK." ********** YES EDUCATION SOCIETY, 1035 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007, is offering classes and seminars in metaphysical and esoteric subjects. Full information on request. ********** INFINITY NEWSLETTER is $6.00 for 12 issues, published monthly. Be sure to include your Zip Code along with your check or money order when subscribing. === Page 3 of 22 SPECIAL NOTE TO MY DISC PEOPLE.......... I have just returned from a long trip to Scotland and England. There I spent many, many nights on Loch Ness...communicating with the "Loch Ness Monster". It came up twice in front of me. Also I communicated, there in the dead of night...with UFO's...and they appeared all around me. One came down to where I was. One night on famous Cradle Hill, outside Warminster, about 1 AM in the morning...while I stood in the dark...the "Tin Bird" sound, made by UFO's (read Arthur Shuttlewood's great book, "Warnings From Flying Friends"...meaning UFO's...in which he describes this sound coming from UFO's...) anyway this weird sound came to me as the UFO came down to where I was...and I have it on my tape recorder. Matter of fact...all those nights spent in haunted castles, on Loch Ness, on famous "UFO hills" like Cradle Hill, Elm Hill, etc...were taped by my tape recorder. And the tapes are priceless. It takes me, under the conditions which I work...two days to make a duplicate set of tapes from my seven originals (I used hour tapes... try to get them onto 90's). Very well. For those few people who would like a complete set of these priceless tapes...with me in person, night after night after night at Stonehenge, at Urquhart Castle, at Old Sarum Castle, on Cradle Hill...and much more...(and bear in mind that I had to actually break into many of these places...like a burglar...in order to do my work)... I will personally take two days and make you a duplicate set of tapes...plus a complete written report...astounding report...only one of its kind... for any of you who will contribute $100 or more to my work and research. Not only my work and research...but this year I must write a complete book of my incredible life (and remember that I have accomplished hundreds of miracles...most of them fully documented) and your money will help me to get this done. Not only will you get the set of priceless tapes...and the fully written report...but I will keep your name on a special list and after my book is published, will send you an autographed copy. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens (PK Man) === Page 4 of 22 SCIENTISTS..........Report on my trip to California for five weeks. Started out April 5. As Beau (my boy, age 10) and I drove across country, low-south..........through Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, those states..........it began to rain behind us, and flood behind us. (Then as we returned, swinging across the upper part of the U.S., Wyoming and those states, weeks later..........it began to flood behind us again. Denver was drowned out.) Starting out, we ran into heavy fog in Alabama..........and doing 40 mph, discovered a car parked flat across our half of the road directly in front of us! Not at an angle, but straight across the road, like a roadblock. I took a chance and passed around it fast..........shot a glance at the parked car and saw a man just sitting there like a robot, staring straight ahead. Not moving. This parked car in the fog seemed like some deliberate thing. By rights we should have hit it head-on. In the next town we came to I stopped at a police car, and reported the parked car across the highway. We got to California and went to visit my daughter, Lori Rodriguez, and her husband, Julio. I got into a hassle with him, and our week-long stay was shortened to a one-day stay. I then taught two different doctors my Si System..........special mental system shown me years ago by the UFO entities. Next I took Beau to Disneyland, where he had a fine time. Then the movie director, Ted Mikels, and the producer, Paul Burkett, came to get us at Disneyland..........and took us to Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where they showed us their offices and staff. The movie they plan to make of my life was discussed, and how to make it. Since it is a "first"..........i.e., I'm the first human to accomplish 190 miracles..........just how to make the movie, is a puzzlement. Mr. Mikels, the director, took Beau and I out to his home in the hills, where he had a big party and we met movie people. I had lots of fun because a sultry redheaded girl jumped into my lap, whispered sweet nothings into my ear, and so on. This was totally unexpected, since I was sitting minding my own business sipping a scotch and talking to someone. However, as I told the redhead, it was about the nicest thing that had happened to me in 15 years. Unfortunately the redhead's stint in my lap was a short one..........from behind us came a boy's voice..."Oh, oh, daddy...I'm going to tell momma!" Beau had been playing downstairs in the rumpus room...but that special ESP brain of his had told him that daddy's brain was emitting odd signals. True. If he only knew how odd. Dam. Beau and I then spent several days visiting with friends in the Thousand Oaks area. I shot lots of 50 point straight pool..........and beat everybody. Had already beat Julio Rodriguez, a "shark"..........took on a fellow called Davey, another shark, and beat him..........took on two more champ-type shooters and beat them..........and I'd had a 10-year layoff with the cuestick! Either everybody decided to let me win..........or somehow my reflexes and accuracy have become super-sharp. We then went to Alpaugh, further north, where I trained a nice lady in the System. Beau and I saw "phenomena" over her house at night..........all the sky was black, except over her house, at 10 PM. There was a hole in the blackness, and light poured through. Neither Beau or I had seen anything like it. After we'd left, the Si's communicated and told me to call her LD and trade her out of her pickup truck. She said no. Then we drove to Chico, California, and stayed with Al and Piler Bailey for days, as their guest. I taught Al the System. Years ago he'd been in contact with UFO's over radio, and had co-authored a book on it. === Page 5 of 22 2 While with Al and Pilar, I showed Al, outside the motel he owns, how to "make" storms with the mind. He asked me if my instruction...would result in an actual rainstorm, since I'd actually used my methods...and I told him yes, but it might take days, because the sun was shining, it was warm...so the "PK" might have to "bring in" materials from a distance to do the job. (That was May 1. On the 4th of May it poured rain; lightning attacked the town of Chico; and radio and TV stations were knocked out.) When we got ready to leave Al and Pilar shocked me almost senseless...by presenting Beau and I with their personal Lincoln Continental, loaded with everything! This, of course, was the finest gift I'd ever been given in my life. So Beau and I left our dog-eared '65 Merc there, and proceeded onward in style, luxurious style. We drove to Lake Tahoe, where I trained a nice lady, Ruth Jahnke. Then Beau and I pointed the nose of our car toward home...driving across the upper part of the U.S. After a couple of days, about noon, we were crossing desert...and I told Beau I was going to communicate with the SI's and ask them to show themselves, if they wouldn't mind. Shortly thereafter, I got strangely sleepy, and couldn't keep my eyes open. It was about 1 in the afternoon. We pulled over near some rock formations...and suddenly my sleepiness vanished. Beau and I got out and strolled into the rocks. Suddenly at my feet was a face. Instantly I knew I was looking at the same face as one sketched by witnesses who'd seen a UFO land, and creatures come out. I picked up what looked like a rock, but could not be. It seems to be a small petrified head. Two eyes, identical, geometrically, each one having a slit in the center, again, geometrically perfect. Below there is a tubular mouth. No nose or ears. As I say, at 53, I know a rock when I see one. This is no rock. It is a face, in stone. That night Beau and I sat in our car and watched a giant tornado swirling down out of the sky, across the road from us. A huge, black funnel, stretching down from far, far up, to the ground. Gave us an eerie feeling. Meanwhile radio reports were telling us of great floods below us in Denver, and elsewhere behind us. About this time...Beau and I heard what sounded like eerie music in our car. I checked the radio, it was off. A sort of ghostly music...low, moaning, melodious. I'd never heard anything like it; neither had he. At the time we were speeding along the highway, alone on the road, pretty much. We reached Dallas, where we spent a few days as the guests of the Kennedy sisters. I was working with Rita Kennedy, had her in light waking hypnosis and was building in an autohyp system...in the afternoon...when a roaring airplane swept low over the Kennedy house, and I was infuriated because of the delicate mental training going on with my pupil...and I jabbed my fist in anger up at the ceiling toward the plane noise. Then the airplane crashed with a booming noise. (Some years ago I'd gotten very angry at a large turtle we'd caught and put into a cardboard box in the back of our car. We were broke and had to sleep in the car, and the turtle was scratching noisily trying to get out...and kept me awake. So I picked up the box and set it outside the car, got back in, and went to sleep. Next morning when we woke up we looked outside the car and the turtle, box and all had been smashed flat like an elephant had stepped on it! It is just a suspicion...but I believe that when I get angry...my mind uses great force on a subconscious level at the target of my anger.) === Page 6 of 22 2 within a week! (According to the man who managed the Parascience Conference, and who also lectured at that Conference...Peter Maddock.) Therefore my work must have completely baffled England's top meteorologists who forecast no substantial rainfall through September! I worked on telepathing to the SIs the night of August 26, upon my arrival in London; then again the next morning, on the 27th; this paper, The Times, came out in the morning and I snipped out the newsclip...and the rains began pouring down shortly afterward! (See the running account of this in this file!) Meanwhile...what has happened to PK Man...who brought all of this good thing about by working with his UFOs? (1) I have been notified by The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, who have been xeroxing all of the files that you have for years...that they can no longer do my xeroxing. I have no other source for xeroxing...so this could be your very last "miracle" reported by documentation! (2) I haven't a cent of money, after xeroxing and mailing this approx. 115-page file to 50 contacts. Am broke, in other words, with nothing coming in. (3) Today my car's transmission went out completely...the old '66 Lincoln Continental given me as a gift years ago by a pupil of mine in California. So...now I am on foot, and that is bad, for it is utterly necessary for me to be mobile; have a car. With no money, of course, I cannot buy a car. Maybe I should have told the Governor of California that I'd end the drought there if he'd furnish me a new car. Or told Queen Elizabeth I'd end England's horrible drought if she'd send me an English Rolls Royce. Ha ha. Well, there doesn't seem to be much gratitude floating around these days. At any rate, the UFO connection will not allow me to put a price tag on my work. As their "human ambassador", or link to the human race...I am not allowed to act like a human...i.e., seek profit from such a vast accomplishment as ending England's worst drought in 500 years. (4) Word has been passed to me that very shortly my family and I will be forced by our landlord to leave our rented house. When that happens...with no money; no car; no place to move to; no way to move our things out of the house...I'll be ruined, rather completely. (Brown and Root, wealthy Texas company, has just bought up most of the land around Cape Charles, because the company is moving into Cape Charles to look for oil just off this coast...and already many families here have been forced out of their rented houses, which are being repainted and repaired...and are being put up for sale (instead of rental) at three times the price they are worth. And since this will be a 'boom area' they will sell quite readily...probably to Brown and Root employees. I almost fell off my chair laughing, this morning, thinking about the above four points. Here I'd just saved California and England from a dire fate...yet I myself am almost completely wiped out. Certainly, under the present circumstances, I'll not be able to function further as I have the past six years, as a foremost psychic with proper documentation. Take away my tools...money, car, xeroxing, home...and there's little left for me to work with. It also fascinates me...that out of the 50 contacts I SOSd for expense money to xerox and mail this huge report file...ONLY SIX HAVE CHIPPED IN! No matter...it will get xeroxd somehow, and mailed somehow...and out to the 50 contacts. 15 of the contacts are wonderful folks, and send in a little if they can when the chips are down once in a great while...the other 35 do not seem to give a dam, ever. Oh, well... Ted Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens (110 === Page 7 of 22 3 The next strange thing that happened...a miracle...was that Rita, Beau and I went out into a pasture to help a horse that had gotten a rope tangled around its neck and was strangling. While I was trying to help that horse, Rita, who was standing three feet from me, approx., was kicked savagely by yet another horse standing nearby...a huge huge horse which lashed out behind it with both hooves...and caught Rita squarely in the body...one hoof struck her on the hip, the other hoof on the spine as she spun from the impact of the first hoof...and she was knocked flat. Strangely, as if I were dreaming, I just smiled, went over, not at all concerned or worried...picked her up...and neither was she hysterical, concerned or worried. Beau, of course, was horrified...standing nearby and witnessing it. Rita and I walked to the house...she was not broken or injured, but should have been fractured or killed, easily (if you'd seen the way it happened). She did have a bruise on the thigh. Next day her two sisters insisted on taking her to their family daughter...who pronounced her fine, okay. It is interesting to note...that she was in fact recuperating from a fractured shoulder when this horse-kicking happened! Yet the shoulder wasn't re-injured, either, when she was kicked flat! Beau and I left and headed for home. Before we got to Atlanta, Georgia...I told Beau that I feared trouble in Atlanta of some kind. I had a feeling about it. Now, go back and note that the Si's had instructed me to ask Ethel Bolch in Alpaugh, over long distance phone, if she'd be willing to trade her pickup truck for our car, because the Si's wanted us to have a larger, heavier, safer car. But Ethel wouldn't. Then Al and Pilar gave us the larger, heavier car, the Lincoln Continental. We got to Atlanta amidst a big storm...the wind was blowing cars and trailers off the road. We gassed up at a filling station, I checked the road both ways...and nothing was in sight...no cars at all within driving distance. I made a left turn and proceeded to the corner...when there was a loud crash. We'd been hit from behind...by a car doing 60 mph. (This car came from nowhere...the same as the truck that came from nowhere a couple of days ago in Cape Charles, when Ken Gregerson was with me...and I have his affidavit on it!) Beau and I got out...broken glass was everywhere...the other car was demolished...telescoped. We walked to the back of our car expecting the worst. Yet not one light was broken. Not one scratch. Just one dent in our trunk! I had delicate machinery inside the trunk...camera, Brain Wave Synchronizer, etc., yet when I tested them later...they were 100% okay! I tell you that it was unbelievable. A wrecker came and dragged the other car away. The police came and charged the driver of the other car. And Beau and I then drove home to Virginia. Our car was perfect; absolutely nothing wrong with it in any way, mechanically. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * this communication on the part of the Si's indicated they knew our car would be hit, days & days later, in Atlanta!! === Page 8 of 22 # Reports Flood in on North State, National UFO Sightings By United Press International Unidentified Flying Objects, some with spider legs and some that omitted blue-green flashes, were swarming over the San Francisco Bay Area and other Northern California places, according to reports today. Numerous sightings were reported by people and law officers in Oakland. Others saw them in San Jose, Mill Valley, Sausalito and other areas. A woman in Oakland called police Tuesday night about 10 p.m. saying that she was just about to give up a three-hour saucer-watch at her home when she saw it--a craft with spider like legs--settle down on a golf course. Police went there but didn't find the saucer. Oakland police checked out other reported landings, including one at busy 55th and Grove Streets. Then officers themselves saw something hovering over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It turned out to be a weather balloon. In suburban Marin County north of the Golden Gate, Sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth Froberg said he spotted a "bluish green flash" in the sky Tuesday night that lasted about five seconds and then disappeared. "It was coming out of the sky at an angle to the earth," Froberg said. "It had a long orange tail with articles flying from it." Tuesday night Mrs. Ruth Wilson of Mill Valley said she was getting out of her car in a parking lot near Marin General Hospital when she also saw a "bluish green object" low in the sky over San Quentin Prison. It vanished in the direction of Oakland, she said. In San Francisco, radio stations reported numerous calls about unidentified flying objects of various description. At San Jose, Mrs. Ann Rodriguez said she was walking with her little girls Tuesday night when they saw something land near the road. It emitted flashes "like they were taking pictures of us" and then took off, she said. There have been a number of recent sightings of strange flying objects in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia, and some people, mostly those who have done the sighting, are beginning to get concerned. Ray Stanford of Austin, Tex., told a late-night radio talk show host Tuesday his group, the Association for the Understand-ing of Man, is setting up a huge signal light to attract unidentified flying objects. He said the light, in Central Texas, can be seen by the naked eye as far as 150 miles into space. People reported seeing strange flying objects at a Pascagoula, Miss., fishing hole, near the Beckley, W.Va., airport and in the piney woods of Louisiana. A woman in New Orleans said she saw something shaped like the Houston Astrodome hover over her home. The Air Force chief of staff said UFOs touched off fighting during the Vietnam war, and even the Russians have been hearing things from outer space. The Tass News Agency said Soviet scientists are hearing unusual radio signals--never heard before--coming in pulses after definite lapses of time, lasting for several minutes and being repeated several times a day. "It is not precluded that they may be sent by a technically developed extraterrestrial civilization," the Russian report said. Two Pascagoula shipyard workers said they were hustled aboard a blue, fish-shaped craft by three weird creatures who gave them the once-over with an eye-like scanning device. And they're going to take lie detector tests to prove it. At Pine, La., sheriff's deputies chased five orange-reddish flying objects 12 miles through the woods. Pilots at the Raleigh County Airport at Beckley, W.Va., saw a mysterious night flyer that turned red, then green, then white. "Where they are coming from and why they were here is a matter of conjecture," said Northwestern University astronomer Dr. Allen Hynek. "But the fact that they were here on this planet is beyond a reasonable doubt." Dr. Robert G. Connell, an LSU astrophysicist, disagrees with Hynek. "There's probably some mundane explanation for the ones right now and for probably any UFOs," he said. O'Connell said he was skeptical of most UFO reports, especially the Pascagoula case. "I don't necessarily dispute what they're saying," he said. "It could be a hoax. The hoax could be on two levels: the people themselves or somebody else carrying out a hoax." "This area (of UFO reports) is notorious for hoaxes." In Chicago, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. George S. Brown told a news conference Tuesday UFOs were reported in Vietnam during the war and even triggered an air-sea battle near the Demilitarized Zone in 1968 in which an Australian destroyer was hit. "I don't know if this story has ever been told," Brown told a news conference, "but they (UFOs) plagued us in Vietnam during the war." "I think it's nothing," Brown said. "I think it is atmospheric." Dozens of UFOs were again reported by citizens and police officers in southern and central Ohio Tuesday night including a woman who said three UFO's forced her car off a roadway. The objects, mostly described as orange in color, were reported in several areas including Columbus, Coshocton in east-central Ohio, and in the southwestern part of the state at Middletown and Greenfield. date? === Page 9 of 22 QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder # TED OWENS--FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY 22 SAGA === Page 10 of 22 TORNADO WINDS UP THE AREA For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth. NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN! It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP. Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me Illustration by Gil Cohen SAGA 23 === Page 11 of 22 QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES TED OWENS FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder 22 SAGA === Page 12 of 22 PERSONAL SERVICES..........BY OWENS (PK MAN) -- (1) THE SI SYSTEM I refer you to the article that appeared in Saga Magazine, February, 1972... written by myself: This article outlines the system... by which human beings can learn to have SUPERIOR minds... and to have SUPERIOR POWERS. It is a System... given me by UFO intelligences... which will enable an individual to do things, accomplish things, solve things... that normally he or she could not cope with. First, my Pupil is taught Auto (Self) Hypnosis. Then, my Pupil is provided with mental mechanisms, each containing a secret code (trigger)... WHICH CAN CHANGE THE ENTIRE LIFE OF MY PUPIL FOR THE BETTER, after the mechanisms are put into action. (Note: to my knowledge, nothing else like this Si System exists in the world, OR HAS EVER EXISTED.) My Pupil must come to where I live; be able to stay at a nearby motel for two days, while I train him or her. Since my time is priceless, and very limited... only those who contribute $200 or more to my work and research in ODP (other-dimensional-phenomena)... will be accepted by me for personal training. (2) THE SI DISC Some years ago the Si's (UFO intelligences) instructed me how to code discs and send the discs to people who had need for them... Since then I have received hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters from people who have received their Si Disc... then had something miraculously good happen! People's lives were saved... after they wore their Si Disc. People found new and better jobs... after they received their Si Disc. All sorts of good and wonderful things happened, too numerous to list here... for the Si Disc People, after they received their Disc. My time is very limited; I cannot get out too many discs (takes me 20 minutes to code one and prepare it to send out) therefore only those who contribute $5 to my work and research... will get a Si Disc now. Others who request a disc, but contribute little or nothing to my work... may have to wait a year or two for their disc. Books mentioning my work: "Revelation: The Divine Fire", Brad Steiger, 104 1/2 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, 52101. "Occult America", John Godwin, your book store. $7.95 Owens (PK Man) Mr. Ted Owens (PK man) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 13 of 22 SCIENTISTS NOTE: FIRST MY "UFO" ATTACK ON CHICAGO PRODUCED RECORD HEAT. NEXT, HURRICANE WINDS AND TORNADOS. NEXT, RECORD SNOW BLIZZARD. (ADD A LIGHTNING ATTACK ALSO. SEE FILE.) SINCE I ANNOUNCED MY INTENT TO CAUSE ALL THIS CHAOS IN CHICAGO AND SURROUNDING AREA IN MY OCT. 8, 1975, LETTER TO DOUG DAHLGREN, AND TO YOU... ANYONE WHO READS THIS FILE, WITH AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE... AND SAYS I HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED MY UFO ATTACK... WOULD BE A STUPID IDOT. === Page 14 of 22 OH 430 John Hancock Patriot U.S. Postage 10¢ Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St San Francisco, CA 94115 © USPS 1978 === Page 15 of 22 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 1103 E. Church Marion, OH. 43302 Dear Mr. Mishlove: Please have your friend, Ted Owens, make a U.F.O. appear over my home here in Marion, I have seen U.F.O.'s on three other occasions, so I know what they look like. Sincerely yours Dr. Dan Moran === Page 16 of 22 Dear Tony + Staff... I have just finished reading the story of China and its surrounding area... It was a help. Documented fully and completely. Thanks. Love, Jan X === Page 17 of 22 Part of the screen at the Crystal Lake Theater, an outdoor drive-in in Crystal Lake, was blown down, according to McHenry County sheriff's police. In Chicago's Loop, winds blew roofing material onto Michigan Avenue and the sidewalk just north of the river. A roll of tarpaper and several city trash cans were blown into the middle of Michigan Avenue. The Sunday night storm came after nine days of what the National Weather Service called the warmest weather in Chicago history for the first days of November. Sunday's high of 73 degrees at Midway also tied a record for the date set in 1931. ELSEWHERE IN THE Midwest, severe winds from at least two confirmed tornadoes injured three persons in Terre Haute, Ind., and 10 more persons in Andrews, Ind. The winds were accompanied by heavy thunderstorms. In Iowa, a tornado tore down power lines and caused scattered damage to Waterloo homes and businesses. In Dunkerton, at least 10 homes were destroyed in a new residential area. Up to four inches of snow was reported in northern Wisconsin. === Page 18 of 22 UFO SIGHTING? - The tiny light appearing in a twisting pattern in this photo is a UFO which Mrs. Sandra Hodgson of Grapevine says is keeping watch on the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. FOUR OF THE FIVE witnesses who say they have seen numerous UFOs taking off at night from a remote western area of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport point to the spot they say one of them landed in a clearing in the woods. See March 22 letter to Bunch Dictionary of Symbols p. 14 Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot, Philosophical Library, 15 E 40th St. NY NY === Page 19 of 22 # MESSAGE OR MYSTERY traption he suddenly realized his car was heating up. Not only his idling engine, but the entire car! After a bewildering few seconds, panic hit him. He lunged from the car and rolled into the ditch beside the road. Smoke curled from under the car's dashboard. The engine burst into flames. Now the object rose slowly into the air. Raper said "it sorta cranked up" and sounded like a large Diesel engine. In a few moments it was swallowed in the low clouds overhead. Raper scrambled out of the muddy ditch and ran toward Provencal just as the car's gas tank exploded, splashing flaming gasoline where he had just lain. He awakened the town marshal, who alerted authorities. Although Raper was driven to near-distraction by the unexpected, nightmarish confrontation on the night road, the really upsetting mystery stands out today: what did the English language-type inscription mean? Did the familiar "UN" mean the saucer was Earth-made? Is it possible that Raper's mind, shocked and surprised by the sudden meeting, distorted an alien inscription into something reassuring and familiar from Earth? Or did the intruders deliberately camouflage their vehicle with counterfeit lettering to make us think it was of our manufacture? In our recent past UFOs have overflown and-landed near witnesses who got clear, close views of their details. Several objects were marked with symbols or insignia and many witnesses have photographed or accurately sketched them, fresh from their memories. If the UFOs through the ages have not been mysterious enough in themselves, they have further confounded their purpose with the mysterious markings seen on their surfaces. Although certain of the symbols resemble Earthly ones, none appear to be identical. Yet, they must mean something to someone. But what? And to whom? They have (Continued on page 37) 17 ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three horizontal lines] The underside of a UFO seen in June of 1967 on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three curved lines] The underside of a UFO seen by Jose Luis Jordan in February 1966 near Madrid, Spain. ![Illustration of the underside of a UFO with three distinct symbols] On the underside of a UFO photographed along a coastal road in 1959 by Helio Aguiar of Salvador city, Brazil, these three markings were clearly revealed. # IX1478 These characters appeared on the lower one-third of the UFO seen by Morris Heflin of Oklahoma City in April and May of 1971. # UN On a landed UFO near his home in Provencal, Alabama one night in 1957, Haskell Raper clearly saw the letters "U N" preceding several other characters which, in his excitement, he could not recall. # TL 4138 # (OR) # TL 4738 Eddie Laxon saw these characters on a lighted, fish-shaped object that blocked Highway 70 eight miles from Temple, Texas early one morning in March of 1966. ![Illustration of a circular emblem with a lightning bolt and a diagonal line] A 28-year old Belgian observed a UFO for almost four minutes as it hovered over his garden wall in December of 1973. He took careful note of the emblem on its body. === Page 20 of 22 RID MICE OFFER BY MIRACLE MAN A Virginian (U.S.) "miracle worker" has offered to rid Queensland of its mouse plague in one day. This is claimed in a letter to the editor of The Chronicle from an Innisfail woman, Mrs. Winifred Mossop. "I don't want you to toss aside this suggestion as a crackpot, as it's for real," Mrs. Mossop writes. "And since I was once farming in your district and know what crop loss means, I think anything is worth trying once." Mrs. Mossop said she had spoken to the man, Ted Owens, known as "P.K." or the "flying saucer missionary," by phone at Cape Charles, Virginia. The call, with two extensions, cost her $17. "He said that if any farmer in Australia would pay his return fare, he would guarantee to get rid of the mice in a day," Mrs. Mossop says. Mr. Owens gets his miracle working power, according to Mrs. Mossop, from Unidentified Flying Objects. He believes U.F.O.s are here to help us, and to stop man from wiping out earth. Quoting the American Saga magazine as her source of information, Mrs. Mossop says Ted Owens:-- * Warned the Weather Bureau that U.F.O.s would work up three hurricanes simultaneously. Beulah, Chloe and Doris faithfully showed up on the same week-end in June 1967 and smashed their way into Florida. * Worked up a lightning storm over Philadelphia on a specified night in 1966. * Predicted the explosion of a French submarine Euridice in the Mediterranean with the loss of 60 lives; and * Saved a corn crop by sending rain. Mrs. Mossop lists several other accomplishments of Mr. Owens. "He said if all the farmers put a little each towards his fare, he will do them a good deed." She says Mr. Owens can be contacted by telephoning Cape Charles, Virginia, 3311208, or at his home address P.O. Box 48, Cape Charles. NO TRACE BRISBANE. -- Detectives yesterday conducted investigations in the city, Clayfield, Amberley and Ipswich in the hunt for missing W.R.A.A.F. policewoman Gaye Christine Baker. However, they said the leads had revealed no trace of the 23-year-old woman, who was last seen in the Clayfield area last Sunday. MIRACLE WORKER WILL 'END PLAGUE OF MICE' TOOWOOMBA.--A Virginian (US) "miracle Worker" has offered to rid Queensland of its mice plague in one day. This is claimed in a letter from an Innisfail woman, Mrs Winifred Mossop. Mrs Mossop says she had spoken to the man, Ted Owens, known as "PK" or the "Flying Saucer Missionary", by phone at Cape Charles in Virginia. The call, with two extensions, cost her $17. "He said that if any farmer in Australia would pay his return fare he would guarantee to get rid of the mice in one day," Mrs Mossop says. Mr Owens gets his miracle-working power, according to Mrs Mossop, from unidentified flying objects. He believes UFOs are here to help us and stop man from wiping out earth. "He said if all the farmers put a little each towards his fare, he will do them a good deed." CONTACTS THESE ARTICLES APPEARED RECENTLY IN THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS. Owens === Page 21 of 22 C O N T A C T S Leo The attached case, within, shows the beginning...and the end... of the hardest and most exciting project I have ever taken on! I had to do two things: make seven monster lava flows miss people and villages; and then I had to put the volcano out. (Of course, I also called the UFO's in on it and used them and their powers, as well as my own mind.) I was 100% successful...in my first battle with a live, belching fiery volcano. Study this carefully. You will see how much work I put into it. Had to leave out some pages...not enough money for the xeroxing of all the pages. Just this alone cost $30. (Anyone want to send in a few bucks to help me on it, feel free to do so.) As I told Maddry, Norfolk reporter, before beginning this project... "If I can stop this volcano, and save the people and villages... then I can stop 13 pro football teams." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS - Of course, not only Maddry the columnist, was notified in advance of my taking on this fiery volcano - but four scientists also were notified right from the onset. (Plus lawyers, etc.) (So this is soundly documented.) Ted === Page 22 of 22 WHKUK. TECIOWUIUS We were in the parasci. conf. in London with you. We very much enjoyed meeting you and hearing your fantastic story. You mentioned you would send us a BIG picture of you looking straight ahead please if you will we'd love it. Hy J. Byars and Grocel Byars % Verelst 26 Sporthalenplein 2610 Wilrijk Belgium Antwerpen 53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Folder Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # Misc Folder This is a true folder in the Ted Owens files that says misc. 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Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 July 6, 2025 Welcome to anyone else working on digitizing or creating a database of the Ted Owens articles. I wanted to give you an introduction to the processes I am using for the digitization. We are always open to any suggestions on how the process can be improved. Although all we are doing is just taking photos of articles on a cell phone or scanning and putting dates on them, it is still important to have a basic understanding of Ted Owens' work and to be aware of some of the patterns and themes of the articles. This can help when for example you understand that sometimes Ted Owens put notes on the second page of an article that refers to the previous page and those two pages thus need to be digitized as single document not separate documents. Or for example of why we need to keep each article filed under month received instead of by actual date of the article. This will be explained more later. Furthermore, please remember to put the articles back in the storage boxes as you found them. Unstaple and re-staple as few as documents as possible and try to keep any loose envelopes next to the article they appear with. Fortunately, there are very few times I ever have to take out a staple and re-staple the document. Please keep any duplicate pages in the files. Ted Owens was sending articles more than just to Jeff and occasionally people would send the exact same article from Ted Owens to Jeff. Jeff filed the duplicates received in the files. Of course, you don't need to scan the duplicates but just keep both of them in the storage boxes. These articles will be researched for centuries and we need to protect their original condition as much as possible. These articles also represent person's life's work and story and I think we need to respect that. Once you begin to read or research the articles it will dawn on you what a treasure trove and amazing collection of primary source material these articles are!!! I have been completely blown away. === Page 2 of 11 ### Background The copies of newspaper articles sent by Ted Owens number in the thousands. They were sent to Russel Targ and his colleagues from 1966 to 1976 and to Jeffrey Mishlove from approximately 1976 to 1987. These photocopied newspaper articles were mostly sent in 8 x 11 clasp envelopes containing several pages. Regular size envelopes were used from time to time when Ted Owens just sent typed letters. We have no idea where the original articles are that Ted Owens photocopied. The original regular size envelopes for letters appear every now and then. So far I have not seen any of the paper size 8 x 11 clasp envelopes. Jeffery first met Ted Owens in 1976 at a conference in England. At about that same time Russell Targ asked if Jeff would like to take on the work of collecting the articles. Some of the 1976 to 1987 newspapers articles and letters are addressed to Jeffrey so I would assume that prior to 1976 we will see some of the articles and letters addressed to Russell Targ and his colleagues. Jeffrey categorized the articles by month and year he received them in and kept them in large storage boxes. Sometimes Jeffrey would receive an envelope a couple times a week and sometimes just a couple times a month. Sometimes a month may only contain 20 articles and sometimes month perhaps as much as 100. But they just kept coming. === Page 3 of 11 ### The articles The pages sent to Jeffrey could be single articles photocopied on one page or 2 or 3 articles or more photocopied on one page. Sometimes the articles were just single pages not attached together. But most pages were either stapled or paper clipped together. Staples were definitely far more common than paper clips. Perhaps that represented a batch from one envelope sent to Jeffrey? As mentioned before, we don't have the original clasp envelopes so we don't know for sure which pages were a batch from a single envelope. Whether or not they were a batch sent together in one envelope or not is most likely not very important but there is that angle to research more deeply if it is important to you. Typically, there was a similar theme for articles appearing on a single page or if they were 5 or 6 pages attached together. For example, a theme of the articles might be weather, sports or nuclear power. And less often there simply wasn't a similar theme in the attached articles. Sometimes Ted Owens wrote notes next to the articles for additional details. I notice sometimes Jeffrey's handwriting appears next to the articles as well but it usually just short sentences or phrases to help categorize the theme of the articles. Sometimes Jeffrey's writing would provide further details on the articles but that was rare. Jeffrey's very fancy and clear cursive is very easy to spot compared to Ted Owens' handwriting. === Page 4 of 11 ### Digitizing and dating them I simply took a photo of each page with my cell phone and then downloaded them to my computer from iCloud. I then attached a date to each digital file pertaining to one of the dates of an article. For example, a page may have one article dated March 2, 1980 or two articles with one dated March 2 and one dated March 3rd. I would then date the digital file March 2nd or March 3rd 1980. Thus, the articles being digitized match the copies kept in storage boxes and also categorized by month and year. And when articles that I titled had the same date, then I would add a number for example March 30 1980 1 and March 30 1980 2 etc. We considered that scanning them as a group into a scanner and that might be faster. If that works for you then please use the scan method. The challenge is that this might hinder one's ability to decipher when two pages need to be entered as a single digital document. One would also have to remove and replace the staples. Regardless, taking single photos of each page doesn't add that much time to the process as most of your time will be spent adding dates to the documents. You will have to search for a reliable place in your room that gets good lighting without casting shadows. === Page 5 of 11 After a long discussion with Jeffrey, we decided to create one photo per page. And if the article was two pages or if there were notes on the second page that referred to the article on the first page I then combined them into one digital document. Due to time constraints, I technically speaking just took a screen shot on my computer of the two pages next to each other. There are other ways of documenting the articles of course. For example, one could create one digital file per batch of articles stapled together. But would create other issues and take a tremendous amount of time. === Page 6 of 11 # Challenges with dates that sometimes occur Taking photos and attaching dates on the digital file was very easy task. Basically 99% pages were very straightforward with clear dates of the articles. The articles either had a date already in the article or Ted Owens wrote the date of the article by hand. But there were of course some exceptions that occurred every now and then. For example, there were every now and then articles didn't have dates. In that case I would assign a date closest to the date of the article on the next page. And I wrote down the new date assigned to the article in the storage box with a Post It note. And sometimes there were articles with dates from different months on the same page. In that case, I just chose a date from one of the articles that corresponded to the batch of monthly files currently digitizing. For example, from February folder a page would have two articles with one date being February 2nd and the other being January 30th. As this was from the February folder, obviously I would use February 2nd as the date. Occasionally this would get a little more complicated with a two or three page document consisting for example of an article from March 14th with letter written on Feb 16th on the second page and then a handwritten note dated March 20th. In that case I would simply choose a date that made sense to me. Sometimes I asked Jeffrey for more guidance when something like this occurred. He was kept in the loop how things were getting digitized. === Page 7 of 11 ### Letters, notes and telegrams Ted Owens also sometimes sent typed letters to Jeffrey. And sometimes Ted Owens photocopied some letters he sent to several people. A few times Ted Owens sent telegrams to people. I attached "letter" or "telegram" onto the digital file in case someone wants to distinguish between letters/telegrams and articles. There are also random handwritten notes that appear from time to time that I can't tell if they are notes pertaining to an article or simply a handwritten letter to unaddressed person. Note: I need to go back and check if the letters addressed to Jeff were actual original letters or copies. ### Quality of the photocopies The articles in the storage boxes have been very well taken care of and most of the articles and letters are clear and easy to read. Ted Owens sending most of the articles on clasp envelopes so the paper wasn't folded helped a lot. Very few times were there any issues of articles going off the frame of the page. Sometimes it was as small as just having one or two letters of a single word off the page and sometimes slightly more than that. There were a few exceptions which occurred every now and then in regard to clarity of the articles. For example, one time I saw he wrote one letter that went to several people by photocopying the original in which the copies sent were a little unclear. Another exception to clarity was that some boxes received water damage in the early 2000s when in storage facility in Las Vegas, NV. I actually remember going to the storage facility with Jeffrey to pick them up. It wasn't major water damage but Jeffrey still paid a restoration company to restore them as they Ted Owens files are so important. Fortunately, the water damage at this point is a very small issue. Very few times did I ever have to take out a staple to gain a better photo in the margins. And there were a few times I wish I could have taken out the staples but the staples were so embedded in the paper that I basically couldn't take them out without a lot of tears to the paper. So, I chose not to take out the staple. === Page 8 of 11 **Other people researching the boxes of articles** The articles appear to be in the original state Jeffrey received them. I know a few people have gone through the files in the storage boxes over the last 40 years. There a few instances where you see a missing paper clip or sheets of paper that have the staple removed or even restapled. I am not seeing any article organized by the wrong month. The people who previously viewed the articles obviously respected their original state. I will do the same. Occasionally I have to remove a staple and restaple it to get a good view for a picture but that is rare. Occasionally I find a regular size envelope attached by paper clip. Occasionally I find a loose regular size envelope that I don't know which letter it pertains to. === Page 9 of 11 ### One potential issue on document titles that may need to be fixed As mentioned before sometimes a page would have different months of article on the same page. For example, a page might have March 30th and April 1st articles on the same page. That is easy to manage. But for some months this would be taken a step further with articles entered under one month containing several articles entirely from the previous month or even two months back. April 1980 is a great example. For the April 1980 articles there were about 15 articles entirely with March dates in addition to April dates for the articles. That would mean there could be an article intitled March 30 1980 in the March file and an article intitled March 30 in the April file. I am going to leave them as is right now. But at some point we will need to distinguish between the two March 30 articles and many others. Depending on methods used, this might also affect how the articles are entered into the database. Regardless it won't take much time to add numbers by the duplicate dated articles. I simply don't have the time to correct these right now. And of course, we have no intention of physically reorganizing all the articles in the storage boxes to the exact month. If you have March articles that arrived in March and April that simply represents when Jeffrey originally received the articles or letters in the clasp envelopes. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you have any suggestions on how I can make it easier for other people in the next steps of digitizing the articles into a database. Best regards, Lewis Barlow LewisBarlow@hotmail.com 702 239-5907 === Page 10 of 11 1982-1987 Misc & Testimonials TED OWENS FILES SAVE!!!! TED OWENS FILES SAVE!!!! 1966-1974 OCTOBER 1981 SEPTEMBER 1981 APRIL 1981 JUNE 1981 AUGUST 1981 MAY 1981 MARCH 1981 NOVEMBER 1980 AUGUST 1980 OCTOBER 1980 SEPTEMBER 1980 JULY 1980 MAY 1980 JUNE 1980 JANUARY 1980 === Page 11 of 11 MARCH 1980 Storm Cuts Deadly Path In Broward "World power" attack Trojan to close in April for refueling, fix-ups By THE OREGONIAN STAFF PORTLAND - Portland General Electric's Trojan nuclear plant will be shut down for about seven weeks beginning April 11 for its annual refueling and maintenance, a PGE spokesman said Wednesday. PGE spokesman David Heintzman said the shutdown is expected to last until about June 1. The refueling and maintenance work will be done by about 1,000 PGE and contract workers. Heintzman said the shutdown will be the fourth for the 1.1 million-kilowatt plant since it began commercial operation in 1976. The plant was shut down for about 13 weeks in 1978 and about 11 weeks in 1979 for refueling and maintenance. In addition to the refueling, Heintzman said, workers will perform routine maintenance on the plant's turbine and generator and will continue work on the plant's control building to meet seismic safety standards. The seismic work, which has been under way for about 18 months, involves the addition of steel plates to the building's walls and the installation of additional anchor bolts for equipment. Heintzman said the refueling and maintenance work will cost about $10 million. The cost of the seismic work is estimated at about $15 million. During the shutdown, PGE will purchase power from other utilities to replace the power normally generated by Trojan. Heintzman said the cost of the replacement power will be about $1 million a day. Twister Linked To Cold Front By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI - The tornado that ripped through Broward County early Sunday was spawned by a fast-moving cold front that swept across South Florida, the National Weather Service said. Weather service meteorologist Robert Ebbs said the cold front, which moved through the area at about 20 to 30 miles per hour, collided with warm, moist air over the Everglades. "The warm air was forced up over the cold air, and that's what caused the instability that led to the tornado," Ebbs said. Ebbs said the tornado was on the ground for about 10 miles, from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean. He said the tornado's path was about 100 yards wide. The tornado caused an estimated $1 million in damage to homes and businesses in Broward County. No serious injuries were reported. Shutdowns When a nuclear power plant shuts down, it's not like turning off a light switch. It's a complex process that can take several days. The first step is to reduce the power level of the reactor. This is done by inserting control rods into the reactor core. The control rods absorb neutrons, which slows down the fission process. Once the power level has been reduced, the reactor is cooled down. This is done by circulating water through the reactor core. The water absorbs heat from the reactor and carries it away to a heat exchanger. After the reactor has been cooled down, the fuel assemblies can be removed. This is done using a special crane. The fuel assemblies are then placed in a storage pool, where they will remain until they are cool enough to be transported to a reprocessing plant or a permanent disposal site. Dr. Mishlove "The world power" attack N-plant shuts off TOKYO (AP) - A nuclear power plant in the northern district of western Japan shut down automatically Sunday when the water level in a vapor-generator rose abnormally, a plant official said. The official, Hiroshi Maruta, said there was no danger of radiation leakage outside the Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plant No. 2, 220 miles west of Tokyo. The 826,000-kilowatt power plant is Japan's second-largest generator of electricity. According to Maruta, the governor shut down automatically after a pilot valve controlling water supplies in the secondary cooling water malfunctioned, allowing a buildup of water in the vapor-generator. It was not known if there was any leakage of contaminated water inside the plant. FBI probes 3 mysterious reactor shutdowns By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating three mysterious shutdowns at nuclear power plants in the past two weeks, a government official said Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be identified, said the shutdowns occurred at the Trojan plant in Oregon, the Indian Point plant in New York, and the Zion plant in Illinois. In each case, the reactor shut down automatically after a sensor detected a problem. However, investigators have been unable to find any mechanical or electrical cause for the shutdowns. "We're looking into the possibility of sabotage," the official said. "But at this point, we don't have any evidence to support that." The FBI is working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the utilities that operate the plants to determine the cause of the shutdowns. The Trojan plant, which is operated by Portland General Electric, shut down on March 12. The Indian Point plant, which is operated by Consolidated Edison, shut down on March 15. The Zion plant, which is operated by Commonwealth Edison, shut down on March 18. All three plants have since returned to service. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource 2004 Andy Eastman - Ted Owens Modern Moses Website Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Andy Eastman Research He did some research on Ted Owens in early 2000s I believe. Might be some audio interviews others did included in this material I am not 100% sure. Lewis: CDs are in garage storage and can't get to them right now but once more easily accessible, you need to get them out and double-check how many there are and categorize them into Ted Owens Jeff Interviews and separate them from Eastman info and any interviews form the Eastman CD. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1237b7684d15f747fedcf5a3fb477849.pdf 790b80183c27fc139db03ebf2919168a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0e1c6cbe56b2949e4c4a8d60384c5c14.txt 8c551a5bfa00e43e140dc7272e91e734 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/30388b5a690f75f36d4229f3f22b660e.pdf 9a3120565f3a90ad2287737ed4928a32 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d66c02eb3829fc8a8418afe2e8fa3479.txt cd238293ef55cf18e9be1228b7897672 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 From Ted Owens : Modern Moses by Andy Eastman © 2004 - 2005 |Home||Contents| Contents # Childhood Ted was born into a family of European descent who probably lived in the United States of America. His birth year was about 1920 and he would live as a physical person until 1987, a total of about 67 years. It is obvious that Ted had a very adequate diet of food and plenty play, exercise and work as a child. Later in life his physical stature was about six foot six inches (200cm) in height and about 250 pounds (115kg) in weight with plenty muscle and good bone structure. (Since Ted was living in a EuroRussian society in North America, among human baboons, it is possible that his physical size was predestined, a great advantage in persuading human baboons to have extra regard and respect for himself and his Higher Being friends.) Ted was probably quite healthy early in life and had above average intelligence with few if any psychological problems. Unfortunately Ted, like many other children of EuroRussian culture, never developed enough caution towards the use of drugs like alcohol. Also he was probably ignorant of the fact that people like many other mammals, have a vegetarian digestive system. Because of a lack of good childhood health education Ted's life was shortened by use of alcohol, eating meat and other unhealthy practices. It is possible that Ted was an Advanced Being (AB) before his birth on Earth and that SI's specially planted, monitored and guided part of his childhood. Sometimes children know they are special in certain ways related to AB's or have gifted talents. As a child Ted might have known he was to become one of the most unusual people to ever live on Earth. Ted rarely mentioned religious doctrine or dogma. He perhaps had an exposure to Christian Judaism as a child and knew about the historical characters such as Moses and Christ. (He would later claim to be a modern day Moses and that Christ was possibly one of the SI's). He probably went through the usual schooling for 12 years. However something terrible yet secretly necessary happened to Ted. He suffered horrific head injuries on several occasions. In one of these incidents Ted was the victim of violence perpetrated by other youths. Despite these extreme injuries Ted developed a very active, strong and healthy mind and brain. Ted probably never had severe mental or emotional illness due to the injuries. In summary Ted inherited a physical body with excellent genetic heritage, had a healthy childhood and enjoyed a fully functional physical, emotional, mental and Soulful start to life. At the boundary between childhood and adulthood Ted was like a worker or soldier fresh and ready for the fields of toil or battle. |Home| |Contents| |Search| |GuestBook| |DownLoad| Please Send Nature-Friendly Recycled Paper Mail to: Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2004 Andy Eastman Ted Owens childhood bio Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Andy Eastman Ted Owens Childhood One page document found in the files. Not in a particular folder. But I will replace it into the folder that has the CDs and other misc. items Note: In the CDs, there are the electronically saved Andy Eastman interviews of Ted Owens. I also backed up these CDs in my files. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f11dfd77ce56acef8d25d5bdb1051b8d.pdf c257f05c996d4a48b14098a25453a05e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bff6d89898d8c0c3d7af884b9c24b4e9.txt 5f5e022a24490007c4bf1c3ca97300d3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles, Notes, and Content Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 July 27, 1981 Jeffrey Reagan will be forced by circumstance (and my UFO.) to resign and Bush will take over. Also CIA Casey will be forced to quit. Owene === Page 2 of 10 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 28 JUL 1981 USA 18c ...for amber waves of grain Dr Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St (Research Center) San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 10 July 20, 1973 SCIENTISTS.......... There will be loud wailing...and crying...and wringing of hands... all over the United States, in near time ahead. Something terrible, ghastly...is going to happen...in the United States! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 10 COPY Oct. 18, 1974 Precog Predictions. President Ford will not be made President in the elections coming up, if he runs. America is now in greater danger...than during Nixon's "Watergate" presidency...because while Nixon was in he was simply a tool of the Rich Gang who controlled things. Now the Rich Gang is trying to get Rockefeller (one of their members) into the Presidency...(the lord only knows what trick they'll pull to get Ford out, but the Rich Gang will see to it)...i.e., whereas before the Rich Gang had a "President in their pocket"...with one of their own in as President, the Rich Gang will have not only the pocket, but the entire suit! If, that is, Rockefeller is made VP. I am using my powers against that...for whatever it is worth. === Page 5 of 10 Oct. 25, 1974 PRECOG -- by Ted Owens (PK Man) (1) All hell..........is fixing to break loose in the United States. Cannot figure out...what it will be...but it will be BIG... (2) Four to six...major psychics...world psychics...will expire, die or be killed within 1-2 years from now. (None of them at present in any danger, or sick.) (3) Get your money out of the bank...banks will begin to fold very soon... fail and close up...all over the United States...as the Greatest Depression Ever begins. (4) Organized crime...is getting everything together...for an unprecedented attack on armored cars, banks, etc., in near time ahead. This will be on a scale never before witnessed by police or FBI. The key to this: police formerly honest will now go on the take...sell their services to criminals. Crime is going to skyrocket in near time ahead, over what it is now. In 1975-76, you will see The Greatest Depression Ever...begin its horrible plunge downward! Note: What I predicted, in "What The Seers Predict For 1971" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith..Lancer Books...IS NOW BEGINNING! Owens === Page 6 of 10 Nov. 14, 1974 PRECOG PREDICTION Within 1-2 years world-famine will have spread to half of the United States; all of South America and half of Argentina; All of Spain; half of Russia; half of China; all of Laos; half of Japan; all of Africa; nearly all of Libya; most of Albania; all of France, England, Ireland, and half of Scotland. All of India also. By "world-famine"...I mean, there will be no food available; lack of food and food products. And the water shortage...will be right behind the food shortage, surprisingly. This will all cause an astonishing amount of mental illness....among the peoples of these countries...due to lack of nourishment and oxygen to the human brain caused by these shortages. Owen === Page 7 of 10 Dr Tang February 16, 1974 C O P Y Mr. William Randolph Hearst, c/o San Francisco Examiner Newspaper Dear Mr. Hearst: At the moment your daughter is in the hands of kidnappers. "mistakenly to San F. Chronicle" I sent you the following telegram Feb. 13, 1974: AM ONE OF NATIONS FOREMOST PSYCHICS. AM POSITIVE COULD FURNISH INVALUABLE INFORMATION TO RECOVER YOUR DAUGHTER IF COULD GET THERE AND TALK WITH YOU. SEVERAL YEARS AGO I FORETOLD THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD BE IN DANGER FROM CUBAN KIDNAPPERS AND THREE WEEKS LATER THEY CAUGHT THE KIDNAPPERS. THIS IS ON RECORD AND DOCUMENTED. SUGGEST A TEAM OF TOP PSYCHICS, HURKOS, JEAN DIXON, MYSELF, AND SEVERAL OTHERS...BE ASSEMBLED THERE, EACH SPEND HALF AN HOUR WITH YOU AND PERSONAL OBJECTS OF YOUR DAUGHTER, AND ALL PREDICTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM THE PSYCHICS BE COLLATED AND WOULD GIVE YOU AND THE FBI INFORMATION YOU COULD NOT GET OTHERWISE. CURRENTLY A CHAPTER ON ME IS IN PREDICTIONS FOR 1974, BOOK BY WARREN SMITH, AWARD BOOKS AT NEWSSTANDS. I have received some strong "impressions" here at Cape Charles with regard to your daughter, and those holding her, and will list them as follows: Your daughter is being held on a boat, off the beach south of San Francisco. However, the BG's (bad guys) have two other locations where they hide her, and they move her from location to location every two days. The second location is east of the boat-location...inland...and sense a ranch or farm; something to do with chickens, livestock. From there they take her into Frisco's Chinatown...a basement-type place in a run-down sleazy wino-type area. Sense a laundry connected with this hideout...and they use a laundry truck to transport her down to the boat location from there. It is a triangular system...i.e., Frisco location down to boat location; boat location sideways over to farm or ranch location; then up and over again to Frisco location, on an alternating two-day basis. I sense they use an egg-truck, or chicken-carton truck...to transport her from the ranch or farm up to Frisco. The main man...holding her...is a foreigner...from mideast, I believe... Lebanese?...anyway, sense he has been connected in the past with murder at airports, plane hijackings...in the same sense as the murder of the Israeli athletes last year at the Olympic games in Germany. He wants to murder the Hearst girl...so that their next targets in the U.S. will be genuinely frightened...but another important BG has a different plan...to smuggle the girl out of the U.S. by boat, down the coast, through or around Mexico...to Central America. Costa Rica? If the throat-cutter has his way...she'll be dead in a week's time. The throat-cutter is a genius, by the way, at guerilla warfare...teaches it. The Symbionese have links with negro groups, Chinese groups, the Mafia...it is not that they are a large group...they do not have to be...because they link up with large groups. That is the meaning of Symbionese, of course, "symbiotic"...dissimilar living things that can work together as a unit. In this case, dissimilar people, races, groups...working together for a common cause. Symbiotic. (While I think of it...the group of top psychics could also use telepathy and psychometry on the two captured Symbionese...to great effect!) My impression of the Symb. leader...he is small, 5'5 approx., dusky complexion, mustache, penetrating eyes, high IQ, fanatical, foreign, highly trained in arms-handling, ambush, assassination, and could be from same area approx. as Sirhan-Sirhan, RFK assassin. He has two female lovers, one American girl, one black girl. === Page 8 of 10 2 Dr. Tang The Symbionese have other key kidnap targets to hit. Hearst is to be used as an example...so that later kidnap targets will kick in quickly with the Symbionese demands...like the old protection racket used by gangsters in the old prohibition days. One major plan...I have picked up from the minds of the Symbionese minds...is to hijack a half-dozen airplanes, commercial liners, simultaneously. Using no guns or weapons on the planes whatsoever. Their plan...is to kidnap the President of the airline and his family...instruct him to order certain planes turned over to Symbionese...half a dozen at once, in different locations where the Symbionese are waiting. I.e., several Symbionese will be in Chicago airport; New York airport; Philadelphia airport, etc., waiting for the signal to board the planes and tell the pilots where to fly. And if the airlines president does not comply...zap. Entire family. And the Symb. will use it as another example, for the next target. This letter...will probably never be seen by you...but I have tried my best...doing what I do best...all the way from Virginia. Incidentally...if you wonder how I can pick up thoughts of the Symb. in California...know that in reading minds...distance and time are no barrier at all. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Ph: (804) 331-1208 Owens === Page 9 of 10 August 1, 1980 Jeffrey... just a note confirming my phone call to you informing you that SI (UFOs) are readying an 8 on the Richter scale earthquake for California (entire length) in hours, days or weeks. Owens (PK Man) === Page 10 of 10 These predictions phoned Monday afternoon, October 25, 1982, To Cliff Linedecker National Examiner, West Palm Beach, Florida Owens. President Reagan will not finish his term. (Mental or physical malfunction.) But should he somehow finish his term...he will definitely not be re-elected. There will be no "upturn" for U.S. economy in this next year, as govt. experts predict. The economy will get progressively worse; jobs will become scarcer and scarcer; and unemployment is heading non-stop for 20%. Failure of businesses and banks will increase dramatically this coming year. Although the general public does not suspect it, the Stock Market is sick with a "terminal illness" and this coming year could be when it collapses entirely...therefore the man on the street should get rid of his stocks and bonds. Any U.S. citizen should try to avoid flying in any military or commercial craft airplane because this next year the skies are going to become extremely dangerous from an effect known only to myself. I.e., U.S. people should not fly in airplanes. During this next year there will be freakish weather; actually caused by abnormal heat from the interior of the earth itself and from the sun's rays...solar flares...that is, flares from the sun, also will create havoc upon earth, during this next year. During this next year the people of the United States will rebel against the United States government in an unprecedented manner against the wasting of money of the administration...especially the top echelons of the administration...and the folly of the U.S. administration, the people who are supposed to be running the country. The people of the U.S. will begin to rebel in full force against the top government. Food will become scarce in the United States this coming year, as it becomes more and more expensive and fewer and fewer people have jobs and can buy it...as farmers go out of business...as breakdowns in government occur and as farms fail and more and more strikes occur; the trucking industry and probably the railroad industry making it more difficult to deliver food and pick up food and so forth...so the food problem is going to be a very big one for the American people this coming year. Crime...robberies, rape, burglaries, and so forth...will escalate to unprecedented proportions this coming year. The ordinary people, and families, will have to arm themselves and defend their loved ones as never before in the history of the United States. Keep their guns!!! Interest rates on houses and other items will skyrocket...will be much much higher than at present this coming year. What would be an interest rate at 15% now, for example, will go to 20% or 25% this coming year. It is going to be terrible. There will be outstanding freak weather this coming year. It will be caused by the earth heating up from the earth's core radiating to the earth's surface...it will become hotter and hotter and as the heat exudes from the earth's core in an unprecedented manner it will change the exterior of the earth with living things upon it. Also there will be unusual heat from the sun this coming year which will have a devastating effect upon earth. There will be also numerous giant solar flares in unprecedented number of scope. There will be an unprecedented number of military air crashes and air mishaps in the United States this coming year. The skies will not be safe. The black people of the United States will rise up in an unprecedented manner against whites and white authority. There will be an explosion of violence of blacks against whites this coming year. And white authority. Especially at higher levels of government. Nature itself is against the whole human race at the present time...for ruining its animals, its fish, its birds, its air, its water...and hell hath no fury like Nature in a war against anything or anybody. Finally, in my opinion alone, God, the omniscient and omnipresent force for good in this world... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America # Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America ---------- Compiled by Marc Carlson It was last edited 9 June 2004 ## North America (N.b.: An Asterisk indicates someone who was specifically involved in the Salem Proceedings (1692), regardless of their town of origin) ---------- | Date | Place | # | Name | Sex | Notes and sources: | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 16?? | NEngl/MA | 1 | Dutch, Grace | f | Accused? (Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*)) | | 1622 (9/11) | VA/Jamestown | 1 | Wright, Goodwife Joan | f | Although she was arraigned, she was not clearly tried. Her husband was Robert Wright and they had been married for 16 years, apparently in Virginia. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) [N.B. although they were to have been married in Virginia, it would have been in 1606, thereby predating the colony of Jamestown] | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 1 | ? | f | Mother. A mother and a daughter, charged with witchcraft for midwifery. It doesn't appear to ever have come to trial. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnexion*, 1996 [n.b. I am trying to backtrack this citation as it seems to have vanished. You may want to discount it]. | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 1 | ? | f | Daughter. A mother and a daughter, charged with witchcraft for midwifery. It doesn't appear to ever have come to trial. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnexion*, 1996 [n.b. I am trying to backtrack this citation as it seems to have vanished. You may want to discount it].) | | 1641 | Virginia | 1 | Barker, Mrs. George | f | Accused by Jane Rookens, the court acquitted her, and the Jane Rooken's husband was charged to pay the Barker's court fees. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1645 | NEngl/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Hugh | m | May not have been specifically accused in 1645, but "several were disturbed" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1645 | NEngl/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Mary | f | May not have been specifically accused in 1645, but "several were disturbed" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1647 | NEngl/CT Windsor | 1 | Johnson, Mary | f | Although she is the traditional first person executed, there is no documentary evidence to support this. She may be the same as Mary Jonson from Wethersfield. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | | | | | | | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 2 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | Year | Location | Count | Name | Sex | Outcome/Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1647 (5/25) | NEng/CT Windsor | 1 | Young, Alse | f | Hanged, She is acknowledged as the first person executed as a witch in North America. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 | NEng/MA Charleston | 1 | Jones, Thomas | m | Arrested, final fate unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 (12/7) | NEng/CT Wethersfld | 1 | Jonson, Mary | f | Hanged. This Mary Johnson left a definite record of her fate (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1648 (6/15) | NEng/MA Charleston | 1 | Jones, Margaret | f | Executed at Boston. She used medicines to cure the sick. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1649 | NEngl/CT Windsor | 1 | Grant, Matthew | m | Acquitted. He disappeared from the colony shortly after his trial (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1649 | NEng/MA Boston | 1 | Oliver, Mary | f | Confessed to Witchcraft, Fate unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1650 | NEng/MA Boston | 1 | Lake, Mrs. H. | f | Executed (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/Untd Colonies | ? | "Hostile Indians" | ? | Harassed Uncas, a Mahegan Sachem. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/CT Stratford | 1 | Bassett, "Goody" | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/MA Rowley | 1 | Bradstreet, John | m | Fined 20 shillings and a whipping. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | Freed her "under suspicion" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 | NEng/MA Cambridge | 1 | Kendal, Mrs (fnu) | f | Executed. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (3/6+) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Carrington, Joan | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (3/6+) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Carrington, John | m | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (5/31) | NEng/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Hugh | m | Acquitted. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1651 (5/29) | NEng/MA Springfield | 1 | Parsons, Mary | f | Executed. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1653 | NEng/MA Andover | 1 | Godfrey, John | m | Final trial not held until 1659, final outcome unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | | | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 3 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | Year | Location | Count | Name | Gender | Notes/Sources | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1653 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Knapp, "Goody" | f | American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1653 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Staples, Mary | f | Acquitted and her accuser, Roger Ludlow, was fined 20 Pounds for defamation. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1654 | VA/Jamestown | 1 | Grady, Kath | f | Hanged at sea. (Sources: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1654(10/16) | Maryland | 1 | Manship, Mrs. (fnu) | f | Acquited, her Accuser Peter Godson was judged to have defamed and slandered Mrs. Richard Manship (Sources: Maryland Archives, v.10 p.399. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1654 (6/23) | Maryland | 1 | Lee, Mary | f | Hanged at sea, No verdict found on John Bosworth, Master of the *Charity*, whose crew Hanged her. (Sources: Maryland Archives, v.3 p.306. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1654 (9) | NEng/CT Winsor | 1 | Gilbert, Lydia | f | Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Bayley, Mrs. Nicholas | f | Freed, but banished from the Colony. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Bayley, Nicholas | m | Freed, but banished from the Colony. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 (9/?) | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | (Second Trial) Verdict "Suspicious of Witchcraft" (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1655 (10/4) | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Godman, Elizabeth | f | (Third Trial) Verdict "Suspicious of Witchcraft", released upon payment of 50 Pounds security against her future good conduct. (As she was poor, and likely a begger the payment of this fine is dubious). (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 | NEng/NH Hampton | 1 | Cole, Eunice | f | Discharged and released. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 | NEng/NH Dover | 1 | Welford, Jane | f | Freed upon condition of good behavior. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1656 (11) | VA/Nrthmberland | 1 | Harding, William | m | Ten Stripes from a lash, and permanent panishment from the county. His accuser was Reverend David Lindsay. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725 Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1656 (6/19) | NEng/MA Salem | 1 | Hibbins, Anne | f | Hanged (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | Batchelor, | | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 4 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Goodwife | f | in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hogg (fnu) | ? | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hogg, Jane | f | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 | NEng/CT New Haven | 1 | Meaker, William | m | Acquitted. (It's likely that this is the same "William Meeker" who, in 1649 married Sarah Preston, and who later relocated to Newark, N.J.) (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1657 | NEng/MA | 1 | Pope, Anne | f | Final result unknown. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694- 725) | | 1657 (1/12) | Virginia | 1 | Wingborough, Barbara | f | Acquitted (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1658 | Maryland | 1 | Elizabeth, Richardson | f | Hanged at sea, No verdict found on the complaint brought by John Washington against Edward Prescott, Master of the *Sarah Artch*, whose crew Hanged her. (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.41 p.327-329. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1658 | NEng/Easthampton | 1 | Garlick, Eliz. "Goody" | f | Brought before the Magistrates of East Hampton on 5/5/1658, and sent to Connecticut for trial. Released but had to pay court costs. Husband Joshua Garlick of East Hampton. (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869):273-6. Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 | NEng/Jamestown | 1 | Grade, Katherine | f | Hanged at sea, Cpt. Bennet was call for by a jury, but no verdict (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 (9/5) | NEng/CT Saybrook | 1 | Jennings, Margaret | f | Released when the jury became Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1658 (9/5) | NEng/CT Saybrook | 1 | Jennings, Nicholas | m | Released when the jury became Hanged. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1659 (12) | Virginia | 1 | Robinson, Mistress | f | Not tried. Her accuser, Ann Godby, was fined three hundred pounds in "Tobacco and Caske". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49., Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1660 | NEng/MA Cambridge | 1 | Holman, Winifred | f | Unknown Verdict. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1660 | NEng/Plymouth | 1 | Holmes, Mrs. W (fnu) | f | Acquitted. Her accuseer needed to make a public statement. (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | | | | | | Acquitted. She had been accused of witchcraft in Oyster Bay, and | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 5 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1660 | NEng/Long Island | 1 | Wright, Mary | f | sent to Massachusetts for trail; Convicted of being Quaker and banished. (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6. Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725; ) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1661 | Maryland Charles Co. | 1 | Mitchell, Joan | f | Technically not a Witchcraft Trial, but rather an accused witch bringing suit against four people for slandering her. However, it appears that Joan Mitchell had long been accused. (Sources: *Maryland Archives, Charles County Court Proceedings* (1658-1662) Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Ayres, Goodwife | f | Deathbed accusation by the 8 year old daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" both her and the older Anna Cole. Found guilty by the Water Test, she escaped prison and fled the Colony. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Ayres, William | m | Accused by the daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" Anna Cole. Found guilty by the Water Test, he escaped prison and fled the Colony. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Farmington | 1 | Barnes, Mary | f | Accused (by Rebecca Greensmith's confession?) with Elizabeth Seager, and tried on 6 Jan, 1662-3. Hanged (Probably on 1/20). (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Grant, Mrs. Peter | f | ? (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Greensmith, Rebecca | f | Hanged. Accused by William Ayres and the victim of "disturbing" Anna Cole. She confessed and implicated her husband and several others. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Palmer, Katherine | f | ? (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Sanford, Mary | f | Hanged. Accused by William Ayres and the victim of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 3 | Seager, Elizabeth | f | Wife of Richard Seager. Tried three times, acquitted twice. She was found guilty the last time, but was discharged "under suspicion". Accused of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 6 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Varleth, Judith | f | Found guilty 1/6. She was released after her brother in law, Peter Stuvesant, intervened. Accused of "disturbing" the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1662 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Wakely, James | m | Verdict unknown, but since he quickly escaped to Rhode Island, it was probably Guilty. Accused of "disturbing" the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 1885): 788-817) | | 1662 (1/20) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Greensmith, Nathanial | m | Hanged (2/24). Accused by his wife Rebecca, and either by the deathbed statement of the daughter of John Kelley of "disturbing" Anna Cole. (Fairly well-to-do). He had been accused in 1650 of stealing by William Eares (Ayres) (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1662 (1/20) | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Sanford, Andrew | m | Acquitted. Accused of "disturbing" Anna Cole or the daughter of John Kelley. (Sources: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725, Levermore, Charles H. "Witchcraft in Connecticut" *New Englander* 44 (1885): 788-817) | | 1665 | NEng/NY Brookhaven | 1 | Hall, Mrs Ralph (Mary) | f | Acquitted (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6., Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1665 | NEng/NY Brookhaven | 1 | Hall, Ralph | m | Acquitted (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6.) | | 1665(16/10) | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Bennett, Elizabeth | f | Charged by Philip Calvert. Acquitted "Cleared by Proclaimation". (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.49 p.476,486,508. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1668 (11) | Virginia | 1+? | | f | Not tried. Charges brought against the accuser of a "Woman and her Children". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1669 | NEng/MA | 1 | Hutchinson, Anne | f | Her miscarriage was ascribed to her "relationship with the Devil" (i.e., she was a Quaker)(Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1669 | NEng/MA | 1 | Dyer, Mary | f | Her miscarriage was ascribed to her "relationship with the Devil" (i.e., she was a Quaker)(Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1670 | NEng/CT Wethersfld | 1 | Harrison, Katharine | f | Found Guily and banished from Connecticut (Sources: Lyon, John "Witchcraft in New York" *New York Historical Society Collections* 2 (1869): 273-6.) | | 1670 | Mexico, Mexico City | 1 | Gruber, Bernardo | m | Two men accused of talismanic magic in 1668 at Quarai Pueblo are tried by the Inquisition. Bernadro finally escaped the Inquisition, only to be killed by Apaches on his way back to Sonorro. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnxion*, 1996.) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 7 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1670 | Mexico, Mexico City | 1 | Serrano, Juan | m | Two men accused of talismanic magic in 1668 at Quarai Pueblo are tried by the Inquisition. Bernadro finally escaped the Inquisition, only to be killed by Apaches on his way back to Sonorro. (Source: Hill, David V.. *The Interconnxion*, 1996.) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1671 | NEmg/CT, Groton | 1 | ???? | f | Accused by 16 year old Elizabeth Knap. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1671 | VA/Northmbrlnd | 1 | Neal, Mrs Christopher | f | Not tried. Charges brought against the accuser of a "Woman and her Children". (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1674 | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Cowman, John | m | Charged and convicted for under the Statute of James I for witchcraft, conjuration, sorcery or enchantment upon the body of Elizabeth Goodale. He received a reprieve from execution from the Upper House of the Assembly. (Sources: *Maryland Archives*, v.2 p.425-426. Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1675 (6/15) | VA/Norfolk | 1 | Jenkins, Jane/Joan | f | Not tried. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 3 | ? | m | Hanged. Governor Juan Francisco de Treviño has 47 influential men of the Pueblo arrested on a charge of witchcraft. 3 are hanged, and the remainder are beaten up before being released. (Source: Spanish Mission in New Mexico (1609-1700), http://etss.simplenet.com/hts/hts2/notes2.html 15 March 1999). | | 1631 | New Mexico, Santa Fe | 44 | ? | m | Beaten up. Governor Juan Francisco de Treviño has 47 influential men of the Pueblo arrested on a charge of witchcraft. 3 are hanged, and the remainder are beaten up before being released. (Source: Spanish Mission in New Mexico (1609-1700), http://etss.simplenet.com/hts/hts2/notes2.html 15 March 1999). | | 1678 (1/15) | VA/Norfolk | 1 | Cartwrite, Alice | f | Acquitted. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1679? | VA/Accomack Co. | 1 | Carter, Paul | m | ? The change in the condition of the corpse of his victim was sufficient to prove his guilt (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1679 | NEng/MA Newbury | 1 | Gowell, Caleb | m | A seaman accused of disturbing the Morse household. He served his apprenticeship with the "Wizard" Francis Norwood (Source: Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1683 | NEng/CT Hartford | 1 | Desborough, Nicholas | m | Suspicioned. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1684 | Pennsylvania | 1 | Mattson, Margaret* | f | Two "Old Swedish Women" and "Quakers". Acquitted by order of the Governor William Penn. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; E-mail from Janet Ortman, (descendant)) | | 1684 | Pennsylvania | 1 | ? | f | Two "Old Swedish Women" and "Quakers". Acquitted by order of the Governor William Penn. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | | | | | | Executed. N.b. She lived in Calvert County. (Sources: Parke, Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 8 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1685 (10/3) | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Fowler, Rebecca | f | Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1686 | Maryland St Mary's | 1 | Edwards, Hannah | f | Acquitted. N.b. she lived in Calvert County. (Trial 4/27-5/10) (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1688 (11/15) | NEng/MA Salem | 1 | Glover, "Goody" | f | Executed. Probably the last person Hanged for witchcraft in Boston. (May be the Irish Catholic that Cotton Mather wrote about) (Source: Drake, Frederick C. "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" *American Quarterly* 20 (1968):694-725) | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Clawson, Elizabeth | f | Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Harvey, Hannah | f | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Harvey, Mary | f | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Miller, "Goody" | f | Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Staples, Mary | f | (Second Trial) Acquitted. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/CT Fairfield | 1 | Disborough, Mercy | f | Convicted, but reprieved. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Abbott, Goodman | m | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich* | 1 | Abbott, Arthur | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Abbott, Nehemiah | m | Cleared of charges. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (5/31) | NEng/MA Boston* | 1 | Alden, John (Cpt) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Andrew, Daniel | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Andrews, M. | m | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Baker, Mrs. Ebeneazer | f | Accused (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, Abigail | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, William (Jr.) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barker, William (Sr.) | m | Confessed. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Barry, William | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | | | | | | Examined. Maiden name Hood. Daughter-in-Law of a Lynn | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 9 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Bassett, Mary | f | Quaker William Basset (Sr.) and wife of William Bassett (Jr) (Sources: Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Bassett, Sarah | f | Examined. (N.B. She is either the same as Mary Bassett, or possibly a daughter of William Bassett Sr.)(Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Wenham* | 1 | Bibber, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (6/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Bridget | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Edward | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Bishop, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Black, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) Slave? (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (9/9) | NEng/MA Salisbury* | 1 | Bradbury, Mary | f | Tried and condemned 9/9 (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bradstreet, Justice Dudley | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bradstreet, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Mary (Jr) | f | Accused. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Mary (Sr) | f | Accused. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bridges, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Bromage, Hannah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buckley, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buckley, Sarah (Jr) | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/Maine, Wells* | 1 | Burroughs, Rev. George | m | Hanged. Arrested in Wells, Maine and extradited to Salem. (5/4) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Buxton, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Candy | f | Examined Barbados Slave. Acquitted on 2 charges of Witchcraft. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Charleston* | 1 | Carey, Elizabeth | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) (aka Cary, Elizabeth Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Charleston* | 1 | Carey, Nathaniel | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA | 1 | Carrier, | m | Verdict? Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 10 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Andover* | | Andrew | Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Martha | f | Hanged (People in Andover had been living in fear of her "Powers" for years) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Richard | m | Verdict? Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Sarah | f | Confessed. Daughter of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Age 8) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Carrier, Thomas (Jr.) | m | Confessed. Son of Thomas and Martha Carrier (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Carroll, Hannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Carter, Bethia (Jr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Carter, Bethia (Sr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Cave, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/9) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Churchill, Sarah | f | Examined. One of the "Afflicted "girls. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Clarke, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich* | 1 | Clenton, Rachel | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (2/29) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Cloyce, Sarah | f | Examined. Rebecca Nurse's sister (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Coffin, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Cole, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Cole, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Colson, Elizabeth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Colson, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/16) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Corey, Giles | m | Pressed to Death. Note that he refused to plead to the indictments to his case (possibly because he did not accept the legality of the court he was in) and thereby brought about his own torture. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Corey, Martha | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Dane, Deliverance | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Dane, Mrs Nathan | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Wenham* | 1 | Davis, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | | NEng/MA | | | | ??? Daughter of Margaret Prince (Source: Heyrman, Christine. | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 11 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | Gloucester* | 1 | Day, Phoebe | f | Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Derick, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | DeRich, Mary | f | (Aka Rich, Mary de) Examined. Sister of Elizabeth Proctor and daughter of the Lynn Quaker, William Bassett Sr. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Derrill, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/ME Piscataqua* | 1 | Dicer, Elizabeth | f | Examined. Listed as the wife of a Seaman from Gloucester. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dike, Rebecca | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dolliver, Anne | f | Examined. The daughter of Salem Reverend Higginson, and married a Gloucester seaman, who deserted her. She was living in Salem with her family at the time. (n.b., aka Ann Dolliber) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich?* | 1 | Downing, Mehitabel | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Draper, Joseph | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Dustin, Lydia | f | Examined. Died in prison. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Dustin, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Dyke, Rebecca | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Anne Dolliver's sister in law (Sources: Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Eames, Daniel | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Eames, Rebecca | f | Tried and condemned, Reprieved? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Bixford as her home) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Bixford* | 1 | Eames, Robert | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/18) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Easty, Mary | f | Released after examination. After the public outcry, she was arrested a second time. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Topfield as her home)) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Easty, Mary | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA | 1 | Elwell, Esther | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Daughter of Grace Dutch, who had been accused of witchcraft ???? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 12 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Gloucester* | | | Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) |---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Emerson, Martha | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Manchester* | 1 | Emons, Joseph | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (4/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | English, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | English, Philip | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Farrer, Thomas (Sr) | m | (aka Farrar) Examined on charge of Wizardry (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Farrington, Edward | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Abigail (Jr) | f | Tried and condemned, pleaded Pregnancy. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Abigail (Sr) | f | Tried and condemned (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977)) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Faulkner, Dorothy | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Flood, Capt John | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives Romney Marsh as her home)) | 1692 | NEng/MA Malden* | 1 | Fosdick, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Foster, Ann | f | Tried and condemned. Died in Prison? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Manchester* | 1 | Frost, Nicholas | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Fry, Eunice | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Good, Dorcas | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) [Good, Dorothy? Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)] | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Good, Sarah | f | Hanged (Wife of a common laborer) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Green, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | 1692 | NEng/ME, Piscataqua* | 1 | Hardy, Thomas | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 (The latter gives his home as Great Island)) | 1692 | NEng/ME, Andover* | 1 | Harrington | ? | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Hart, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | NEng/MA Ipswich? | | Hatfield, | | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem* Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 13 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | * | 1 | Rachel | f | Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Hawkes, Margaret | f | Examined. May be related to the Quaker Hawkes' of Marblehead? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Hawkes, Sarah | f | Examined May be related to the Quaker Hawkes' of Marblehead? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 (9/21) | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Hoar, Dorcas | f | Confessed. Her execution was delayed. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, Abigail | f | Tried and condemned, She confessed (4/19) Repreived? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, Deliverance | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Hobbs, William | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | How, Elizabeth | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | How, James | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Howard, John | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Hubbard, Elizabeth | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Hutchins, Francis | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Indian John (or Indian, John) | f | Tituba's Husband, and accused? (Source: Mitchaell, Roger, *Witchcraft, the history and mythology*. 1995). | | 1692 | NEng/MA Lynn* | 1 | Ireson, Mary | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Jackson, John (Jr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Jackson, John (Sr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, George (Jr) | m | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, George (Sr) | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Margaret | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Martha | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Jacobs, Rebecca | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Abigail | f | Examined. Age 11. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Elizabeth (Jr) | f | Examined. Age 22. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 14 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Elizabeth (Sr) | f | Examined. Age 51. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Rebecca | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Johnson, Stephen | m | Examined. Age 13. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lacy, Mary (Jr) | f | Tried and condemned. Age 15. Grandaughter of Ann Foster. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/17) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lacy, Mary (Sr) | f | Tried and condemned. Reprieved? Daughter of Ann Foster (Andover) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Demonology and Witchcraft. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Laundry, John | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Lee, John | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Lewis, Mercy | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Malden* | 1 | Lilly, Jane | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Marston, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Amesbury* | 1 | Martin, Susannah | f | executed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Merrill, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (5/2) | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Morey, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Nurse, Rebecca | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Osborne, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (5/10) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Osborne, Sarah | f | She died in prison in Boston. A Widow, she possessed a considerable estate. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Osgood, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Paine, Ellizabeth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) (Aka Payne, Elizabeth) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Parker, Alice | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Parker, Mary | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Parker, Sarah | f | Examined (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Pease, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Peney, Joan | f | Examined. Impoverished widow (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 15 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | | | | | Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Post, Hannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Post, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Prince, Margaret | f | Examined. A Widow. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Prince, Mary | f | (May also be listed as Martha Prince) Daughter of Margaret Prince (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Benjamin | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/6) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Elizabeth | f | Tried, Convicted, Plead Pregnancy. Sister of Mary de Rich and daughter of the Lynn Quaker, William Bassett Sr. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977, Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750*) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, John | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Proctor, William | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Pudeator, Anne | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Marblehead* | 1 | Reed, Wilmott | f | (Aka "Mammy Redd") Hanged. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Rice, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem* | 1 | Riels, Mary de | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Riste, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Gloucester* | 1 | Roe, Abigail | f | Accused by "Salem Girls". Examined. Margaret Prince's Granddaughter. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Roots, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | | NEng/MA | | | | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem* | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 16 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 | Andover* | 1 | Salter, Henry | m | Witchcraft papers. 1977) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Sawdy, John | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Rowley* | 1 | Scott, Margaret | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Woburn* | 1 | Sears, Ann | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem ? * | 1 | Sheldon, Susannah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Somes, Abigail | f | Examined. An Invalid. Sister of John Somes, a Boston Quaker. She is listed by some sources as a resident of Gloucester. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977 Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Chelmsford* | 1 | Sparks, Martha | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Reading* | 1 | Taylor, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 (2/29) | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Tituba | f | Tried, Held in Jail. Carib Indian Slave (sometimes refered to as a Negro slave) tried (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Beverly* | 1 | Tookey, Job | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977)(Aka Tukey) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, (fnu) | f | Examined. (Daughter of Mary) (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Jerson | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977)(aka Jason) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Billerica* | 1 | Toothaker, Roger | m | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Hannah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Johanna | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Tyler, Martha | f | Confessed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA ?* | 1 | Usher, Hezekiah | m | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Ipswich? | 1 | Vinson, Rachael | f | (aka "Widow" Vincent) Examined. Some sources suggests that she was from Gloucester. Her family had allegedly been implicated in an earlier witchcraft case? (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650- 1750) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Mercy | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. The Salem Witchcraft papers. 1977) | | | | | | | Hanged. Probably the "Village Fortune Teller" (Sources: Boyer | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 17 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1692 (9/22) | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Samuel | f | and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977; Heyrman, Christine. *Commerce and Culture, The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1650-1750*) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wardwell, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Warren, Mary | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | Warren, Sarah | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (T)* | 1 | White, Mrs | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1692 (7/19) | NEng/MA Topsfield* | 1 | Wildes, Sarah | f | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Haverhill* | 1 | Wilford, Ruth | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 (8/19) | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Willard, John | m | Hanged (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Williams, Abigail | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wilson, Sarah (Jr.) | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Wilson, Sarah (Sr.) | f | Confessed (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) | | 1692 | NEng/MA Salem (V)* | 1 | Witheridge, Mary | f | Examined. (Sources: Boyer and Nissenbaum. *The Salem Witchcraft papers*. 1977) (aka Whittredge, Mary) | | 1693 | NEng/CT Stratford | 1 | Crotia, Hugh | m | Jury found no bill. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971). | | 1693 | NEng/MA Andover* | 1 | Post, Sarah | f | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1694 | VA/Kg & Queen Co | 1 | Cane, Nell | f | ??? Mrs Ball accused her of having "Ridden" her twice. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1694 (1/11) | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Money, Phyllis | f | Acquitted. She countersued her accuser, William Earle for defamation, but received no damages. She was alleged to have cast a spell on Henry Dunkin's horse, and to have taught her daughter, Dunkin's wife to be a Witch, and to have taught Dunkin to be a Wizard. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Dunkin, Elizabeth | f | Acquitted. Henry Dunkin accused John and Elizabeth Dunkin. She countersued for 40000 Pounds in damages, and received 40. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Westmoreland | 1 | Dunkin, James | m | Acquitted. Henry Dunkin accused John and Elizabeth Dunkin. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1695 | VA/Kg & Queen | 1 | Morris, | f | ??? Mrs Ball accused her of sorcery. Mrs. Morris's husband countersued for defamation, and received 500 Pounds (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 18 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | | Co | | Eleanor | Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1697 | NEng/CT, Hartford | 1 | Benham, Winifred | f Excommunicated, but Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Taylor, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1697 | NEng/CT, Hartford | 1 | Benham, Winifred | f Excommunicated, but Acquitted. Daughter of the above. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Taylor, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1697 (2/4) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1697 (2/4) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, James | m Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (7/8) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Byrd, Anne | f Acquitted. Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (7/8) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Byrd, John | m Acquitted. Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (9/10) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1698 (9/10) | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, James | m Acquitted, Countersued accuser for defamation (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | | 1702 (1/15) | Maryland Charles Co. | 1 | Prout, Katherine | f Technically not a Witchcraft Trial, but rather Charles Killiburn brought suit against the witch. She was fines 100 pounds of Tobacco. He later re-sued her for slander and was awarded 1101 lbs of tobacco. She countersued one of the witnesses for slandering her. (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", Maryland Historical Magazine 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271- 298.) | | 1703 | S. Carolina | ? | ? | ? Judge Nicholas Trott of Charleston. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1705 | VA/Pr.Anne (Nrflk) | 1 | Sherwood, Grace | f After declining to appear before the court, she was arrested and put to the Water Test. She was remanded to to the county jail and clapped in irons. The record ends there, although there is a record of her will being written 8/20/1733. (Source: Davis, Richard Beale "The Devil in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957) 131-49.) | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America.html[12/2/25, 20:47:48] === Page 19 of 19 Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America | 1709 | S. Carolina | ? | ? | ? | (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1712 (5/10) | Maryland Annapolis | 1 | Violl, Virtue | f | Acquitted. Spinster. She lived in Talbott County. (Sources: Parke, Frances Neal "Witchcraft in Maryland", *Maryland Historical Magazine* 31:4 (Dec 1936) p.271-298.) | | 1724 | NEng/CT, Colchester | 1 | Spencer, Sarah | f | Accused. Awarded damages against Elizabeth and John Ackley of 1 shilling. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | 1730 | NEng/NJ, Mount Holly | * | * | * | A Hoax perpetrated by Benjamin Franklin in the *Pennsylvania Gazette*. No such trial ever occured. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | | 1760 | NEng/CT, Bristol | 1 | Norton, (fnu) | f | Suspicioned. No record of the outcome. (Source: Taylor, John M. *The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697*. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971) | | after 1762 | New Mexico, La Cañada | ? | ? | ? | Condemned into servitude. Governor Thomas Velez Cachupin has a number of indians living at Albiquiú tried for witchcraft (Sources Twitchell, Ralph Emerson, *Leading Facts of New Mexican History* Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1911). | | 1878 | NEng/MA, Salem | 1 | Spofford, Daniel | m | The "Ipswich Witchcraft Case", both plantif and defendant were students of Mary Baker Eddy. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. *The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology*. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) | Added to these should be the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" trials of the late 20th century. ## Some Statistics: | 1645-1662 | New England 58 ??? ? | |---|---| | | Tried. 75% Women; 36.6 executed (Source: in Levack.) | | 1663-1692 | New England 250+ ??? ? | | | Arrests; 19 executed, 3 died in prison, 1 under torture. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 103 JEFFREY MISHLOVE 3103 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770 July 22, 1977 Millie Miller 635 Paul Avenue, Apt. # 1 San Fransisco, CA 94134 Dear Millie, I have recently received two communications from Ted Owens which were sent by you. Since I can't write directly to Ted, I am sending this letter to you and ask you to pass it on to him. I am very disturbed by Owens allegation with reference to me in the letter of July 17, which states, "Jeffrey Mishlove and his company of government agents refused to let this message get to the public." The statement is blatantly untrue, for the following reasons: (1) I published material about Ted Owens in Psychic Magazine with his picture in the company of several distinguished scientists. (2) I put Ted on the radio in Berkeley, where several thousand people heard his state that he could control the drought. (3) I helped arrange another radio interview for Ted on KFAT. (4) I loaned Ted $300, out of my educational budget, when he needed money. This allowed him to come to San Francisco. (5) I arranged another $150 grant for Owens--for which he had to do nothing in return. (6) I arranged for Owens to meet with Milan Ryzl, a psychic researcher. (7) I arranged for Owens to meet with Alan Vaughan, the editor of New Realities magazine. (8) I notified over 70 scientists and government officials of Owens UFO demonstration from November 7 until February 7. (9) I notified them all of the preliminary results of that research, which included one major UFO sighting, one UFO abduction case and one power blackout. (10) I am still working, with Jo Ann Partridge, on a high-quality scientific paper which will discuss the details of that experiment. === Page 2 of 103 (2) (11) I arranged for Ted to have the use of a house in Sonoma County for eight days, when he had no place to stay. (12) I introduced Ted to numerous other people in the hope that they might be able to help him obtain his base in Oregon. (13) I don't have a "company" of any sort and furthermore, none of my friends, acquaintances, or associates are government agents. Frankly, I would have no objection at all if some of them were--but this is simply not the case. I have no idea what sort of impulse led Ted Owens to make such an unfair attack on me. In fact, I genuinely am sorry that he wasn't able to reach some of the right people with his message. If I had had more advance notice of his arrival I might have been able to do more for him. However, neither I nor any of my associates did anything at all to prevent Owens from getting his message to the public--quite the opposite. I suppose Ted thinks that he knows these untrue things about me through his psychic abilities--in spite of all the above mentioned evidence to the contrary. It's unfortunate if he does, because he is wrong. Perhaps there are some government agents in my company that I am not aware of. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, the thrust of his attack is essentially misguided. Last January, Ted predicted an assassination attempt against Carter's life during the inauguration. This never happened. Later Ted wrote and told me that he must have actually been picking up on the Hanafi Muslim terrorism in Washington, D. C. So, his accuracy in these things is often partial. In the meantime, I am very angered by his attack on me and have no motivation whatsoever to continue to work in Ted's behalf until he corrects his unfortunate mistake. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 3 of 103 Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 April 29, 1980 Dear Ted, I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you. As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists. Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows: (1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems. (2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me. Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals. === Page 4 of 103 217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083 # Peter Jordan 8/21/79 Dear Jeff: Your letter brought me unexpected shock and disappointment. I have always been of the opinion that, when an offer is made, it is fulfilled. Although I greatly admire the work of Scott Rogo, I feel as though you have dealt me an undeserved hand. To pass Rogo the same offer originally made to me is, I feel, cold and unethical. John Keel once advised me of the instability of the Fortean field, and cautioned me against involving myself in its "seamy" activities. He told me it was his experience that many of the investigators, writers, and researchers within the field have little regard for each other, and generally are manipulative, cold, self-serving, and immature. I doubt very much that such brash, descriptive adjectives could be applied to your character, but it is increasingly becoming my opinion that traditional codes of honor have no place or meaning in this unfeeling world. I hope you succeed without sacrificing your spirit. Yours, Peter A. Jordan === Page 5 of 103 Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770, 668-0482 August 24, 1977 Peter A. Jordan 217 Connecticut Road Union, New Jersey 07083 Dear Peter: I have received your letter of August 21, expressing your disappointment regarding the book with Owens. Let me clarify the situation as I see it. Your letter implies that I originally made an offer to you to write this book with me, which I then in a "cold and unethical" manner abruptly withdrew. I'm sure that if you review our previous correspondence, you will discover a different story. You originally proposed to me the possibility of co-authoring a book about Owens, based presumably on my years of research with him. My response was twofold: (1) I believed that a book on Owens should be done, and that my editor at Harcourt would be interested; and (2) I was concerned about both your writing experience in handling such a difficult project, and the possible conflict of interest if you attempted to simultaneously write about Owens and conduct research. I can see that my response may have raised your hopes, but it can hardly be considered an "offer" which I was not ready to make without further interaction with you. Frankly, in your second letter to me, you avoided dealing in a substantive way with the issues I had raised in point (2), except to make an offhand remark that you had published some articles in FATE magazine. Frankly, I do not feel that I have violated any "traditional codes of honor" in dealing with you. However, I believe that in your accusations that you have violated some traditional codes of clarity. If this situation repeats itself, there can be no basis whatsoever for any continued cooperation with you on the Owens research. Owens has forwarded to me copies of your letter of 8-14 to him about research and his responses to that letter. He has asked that I mediate in the organization of further experiments. For your information, I am enclosing a suggestion by Eisenbud for an experiment which has caught Owens' imagination. If you are seriously interested in initiating research with Owens, I suggest that you contact some biochemists about setting up the protocols and equipment for this experiment in cooperation with the ASPR or PRF. Owens is also interested in fogging photographic film simultaneously. He believes that he will require about two weeks to complete the experiment, concentrating on the target apparatus for about eight hours a day. Everything must be set up with the strictest experimental controls, so that if results are obtained Owens cannot later be accused of fraud. Furthermore, Owens is interested in this research for scientific purposes. He is not seeking popular acclaim if he succeeds; nor does he desire any public announcements should he fail to succeed in controlled experiments of this sort--which, after all, will constitute a new effort for him. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 6 of 103 | 1-11-77 | 10:10 am | I return Owens' call | |---|---|---| Trying to keep demonstration as scientific as possible. Something he must tell me, can't keep it to himself. "When I got irked, I did a bad thing." Dictated notes into tape recorder. Looked at map and hit it with a couple of sledgehammer blows in my mind." Promised never to it again. Dec. 31st! I'm going to hit SF with all the power I can hit it with. On tape he says he forbids me to do the book, but he apologizes for that now. === Page 7 of 103 Ted Owens 3:07 pm 1-19-77 Serious attempt to kill Carter in next two weeks. Local militants. Using same man used to kill JFK. Short, red hair. An "ace" at killing. 1 team & back-up team. Doesn't know motive. He trains teams. Tomorrow or in next two weeks. It won't succeed if we can tip them off & alert them. Code name, "Apple" Diversion that they would use with a woman so they can hit at Carter. Some weapon pistol or rifle. Schmidt, Mueller, Scott, Bill Underground militants, revolutionaries - led by "aces" outside US - Germany - Noon & 3 pm - planned for inaug. - flexible plan. - "I'm very excited about it." - "They bought off some people to get near President Carter, bought off guards (secret service)" === Page 8 of 103 - doesn't have complete security. - because he can't be controlled! - S. Cal. based - (for fun) Michaels, Michelles - One or more women involved - at a ball or party. - attempt to blow whole place up with grenade or mortar. - wipe out everyone === Page 9 of 103 Ted Owens 6 UFOs in a circle around SF. 1 over SF EM effects between them. Radius 100 miles "time is short for the world" Power blackouts EM streetcars running backward lightning Millie Miller 635 Paul Ave., Apt. 1 467-7456 Send Ted a map Dr. Dierkins, Brussels, Belgium England Carol Stebbing 804 331-2999 EM Grid over Frisco Radio & TV interference Ted Owens Uri Geller 1st third Owens 2/3 of Spectrum PK on people who kill without needing === Page 10 of 103 Feb 9 8:00 am Ted Owens higher plane "I know what I could do" I once gave an earthquake demonstration around the world for scientists in Phila. Time is short for US - nuclear shootout with Russia. SIs want a big negative dem. so that he can get backing to direct nuclear war. "I can't see it that way. One little child wouldn't be worth it." Put on demonstrations for Russia's benefit. __________ Richard Austin $\rightarrow$ 387-8190 461-4012 Cal. Inst. Asian Studies __________ Birth Data __________ Lon __________ send Rauty __________ Dorothy Gundling - MPI - music & physiology - 5 min each, diff types of music - 3 aura readers __________ Human Targets for remote viewing === Page 11 of 103 Dec. 31, 2:20 p.m. - Ted Owens Professional gunman hired bodyguard ========== equiv. of shooting a 45 magnum at target - "psis never lied to him" - "something rough will happen" - "all hell is going to break lose in this area" - "I'll give you hell in that area." ---------- 12:30 p.m. Ted Owens 1-1-77 - apologize - Idi Amin: "I'm not allowed to hit a person." - an area, not people ========== each person has a pattern: I can't interfere. - "I don't complete every pass." - just enough to win games enough - Over 300 demonstrations - not all completely the way I wanted - 4 pts. out of 6 - like a good quarterback - Amin: the only thing I missed in years. - UFO Saga. Quite - from military: - knocked out Fla. radar. === Page 12 of 103 ② - article says Owens "tampered with by UFOs" - Owens has choices, can be wrong. - BIs say that they have fulfilled the sightings - FBI, NASA, SS, NSA - dossiers on Owens - indep. of the others - UFO reports squelched! - write to people again, ask if anything! === Page 13 of 103 1-8-77 51's told Ted to call and tell me to 1. pass the word on 2. forget $1,000,000 in Swiss Bank 3. States of Cal. & Oregon to obtain top of hill in Oregon for Owens & family. - [x] Cave - [x] tourist attraction - [x] cafeteria in cave - [x] Hotel - [x] legend of bear, bush, hole, cave - [x] use as headquarters - [x] with employees - [x] everyone else off the hill - [x] $25,000 for a year they will end drought over Cal & whole USA take MENSA test! Carter -- tell him about MENSA -- get together the best psychics as US Gov't team === Page 14 of 103 November 29, 1977 Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Jeffrey: Received your letter of Nov. 25, for which, thank you. Your book outline looks very good. Would recommend "The UFO Connection" (singular). Also, I am quite amenable to the terms which you outline, and when your co-worker sends the contract I shall sign it and return it. In the interests of accuracy... see Chapter V...I have never, ever, "psychically attacked you"... nor would I, or will I, ever. I felt an extraordinary friendly warmth toward you when we first met...and this has never changed. Sometimes I get angry...but friends can and do get angry, sometimes, but remain good friends nonetheless. At any rate, I will never throw any OD mechanisms your way...and you have my sacred oath, word, on it...and the SIs are witness to it. I haven't gotten anything out for a long while...because my electric typewriter was inoperative. Thankfully Henry (Dr. Monteith) made me a gift of a beautiful, brand-new, manual Royal typewriter. So now I can perk. The Selectric had blinding speed; I did over 100 wpm on it...can only do about 20-30 wpm on this Royal...but at least, it will not break down every other week like the Selectric. When we hit town here we were riding in a busted U-Haul and didn't have a dime. Had to pawn a whole bunch of stuff (which is still in pawn at Liberty Loan) just to get up a month's rent so we could move in some place quickly and unload the truck. It's been like that ever since...last week was down to $13, and nothing coming in. Am explaining this to you so that you will realize that I have been unable to get together any money to send to you to repay your loan. As soon as something good happens financially, I will take care of it, you can rest assured. Through Henry (Dr. Monteith) I discovered that the scientists and government agencies in this area are absolutely venomously hostile toward me. He even tipped me off that they were planning a PR attack on me in the newspapers, attacking my credibility. The SIs instructed me to disengage myself completely, then, from Henry as a scientist...from the other scientists and govt. people in this area. They told me my job had been completed...what they had led me here for and literally forced me down here for. (I === Page 15 of 103 2 was forced to set down in this area...and forced to even take this particular mobilehome in this particular small town, 17 miles from Albuquerque...out in the country...filled with Mex and Indians.) Evidently the SIs wanted to know if I would be accepted by, and treated well by, the scientists and govt. agencies in this tremendously sensitive government area. I was not..so they found out what they wanted to know. Henry is an incredible chap...he doesn't lie, no matter what. He told me some of the bad things which some people were saying about me...even some of my regular contacts, when he checked with them about me. When I asked him if my phone was tapped, he admitted that it was. Came right out with it. He told me that if he had the base money for Oregon, personally, he'd give it to me...just to see what I could do. He told me that the 'hostiles' local govt agencies had published that letter in the News relative to my working to produce UFO phenom in this area within 60 days...in order to embarrass me. He said that even if a UFO did appear...they would pay me nothing...that they would insist that I prove that I was connected with the sighting. I've never met a scientist like Henry. And both the kids and I are extremely fond of the man. He is colored, you know. A most brilliant man. He is a physicist...his hobbies are theoretical physics and the study of UFOs and paranormal phenomena. In Chap. V of your outline you describe the difficulty of conducting and analysing such experiments...that is what Henry brought up. He told me to move things on a table, like the French lad. He said that if I were such a hotshot at PK, as I claimed, then I could do a little thing like that. I pointed out to him that I had already done that...30 years ago, already...in 1946, for Dr. Rhine, his wife Louisa, Dr. McMahan and Dr. Humphreys at Duke...when Dr. Rhine set up scissors on a table, 8-10 feet away, and asked me to knock the scissors down with my mind. And I did so. (You can check with Rhine...he is hostile toward me, but if he is truthful, he will admit it.) Well, Henry argued, he and other scientists had to have something out of me that they could measure...and if I could pull 1,000 pounds then surely I could pull an ounce. The SIs comm'd and told me to tell Henry that they had given me the brain of Future Man...and they did not want me to back up 30 years to === Page 16 of 103 3 where the human scientists are now...instead the SIs want the scientists (or whichever of them are capable) to progress forward to where my mind and my work are...which is far, far ahead. They want the scientists to try and understand other-dimensional mechanisms and how they work; how they affect Nature, etc. To do that, the scientists must come to where I am. Nothing is gained for the SIs if I must regress 30 years to do something some other humans are doing now. Do you understand? They told me to tell Henry...if I have taken 30 years to learn how to pull 1,000 pounds, I would be an idiot now to pull an ounce. Henry told me, "Ted, I thought I was a rebel...but you're more of a rebel than I am!" Coming from Henry, that's a compliment. Now to a few inaccuracies in your outline, again...Chap. VI... "One researcher has diagnosed him as clinically psychopathic." Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is inferred...then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. (Remember, my major at Duke in 1946 was psychology...and even at that age I was an expert at abnormal psychology...the subject of.) All right. I have never had 'delusions of grandeur'. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king; Jesus; or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens...a human with lots of faults and weaknesses...who has goofed all over the place at times. The only 'grandeur' you could attach to me, is that I claim that I work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times where I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. Look at the affidavit from Dr. Fogel, for whom I had a UFO appear in a certain area of Virginia, under certain conditions, at a certain time. Look at the affidavit from Margulies, partner in the huge law firm of Cohen, Shapiro, Berger, Polisher and Cohen in the PSFS Bldg. in Philadelphia...to the effect that I caused a lightning bolt to hit a specific target that he pointed out (after challenging me) from the tall building there. Look at the newspaper column confirmation of === Page 17 of 103 4 Stan Hochman, of the Philadelphia News...who challenged me to go with him and Bill Shefski to a pro football game and demonstrate the power of the UFOs to control a game. I did go, and did so demonstrate...100% successful. Where was the delusion in any of these things? Then plow through dozens...hundreds...of like demonstrations, affidavits...and you get the same answer. No, there was never any 'delusion'. It happened. While working for Cohen, Shapiro, etc., in Philly, I told the lawyers there that I would cause, with UFO help, a major power blackout on the East Coast (this in 1967). You should have seen their scared, white faces when the lights went out and phones went dead and typewriters went dead...when it happened just as I had told them it would. No 'delusion'. It happened. All power knocked out in five States, on the East Coast, before June 21st, as I had said I would cause it to happen. Delusions of persecution? Ha ha ha. Hundreds of people no doubt were accused of that...when Nixon was in power. Now, after the fact...we all know that hundreds or thousands of innocent people were in fact surveilled, phones tapped, mail opened. But never mind them. Henry, who speaks for the scientists in this area, has already admitted that my phone is tapped. So do I imagine that? In Cairo, Egypt...I was followed and surveilled by both British and Egyptian intelligence agents. Imagination on my part? My pro guide, Abo...told me that Egyptian intelligence were tailing me. I knew that already (see my file on it) but it amused me. As for the British...one of their agents sat at a table with me in the Hilton Restaurant, let me know who and what he was. Do you think I imagined that? Thus my phone is tapped; I am followed; my mail is checked (I found out there was a mail cover on me in Philly in 1968 when the Postmaster mistook me for a govt. Agent and gave it away, by accident.) Add to this the fact that I have received innumerable phone calls and letters...threatening my life because of what I do (I have one such call on tape...threatening to cut my brain out.) Any wonder then that I walk wary...and remain on the defensive? Henry himself pointed out how the govt. agencies here were planning to persecute me, through PR means. So where is my 'delusion'? === Page 18 of 103 5 There is no question of my being 'normal'. No member of Mensa could be 'normal'. But a "psychopath"? It is to laugh. Do I carry weapons? Sure I do. I have already explained why...the threats, etc. Remember that I am a special person to the SIs... they have taken ages to find and develop me...they have caused me to learn boxing, judo, quick-draw...to protect myself for their work. It figures. And my personal philosophy is...if some freak out of the woodwork comes at me with a gun...I do not intend to stand there and be butchered like a hog. I intend to go down shooting at him, or them. I will have that much satisfaction, at least. Remember, I am not Jeffrey Mishlove. How many people want to kill you? I am PK Man...and religious fanatics and just plain kooks all over the United States have expressed a desire to eliminate me by violence. I do not intend to just sit or stand while they do it. And even if they get in the first shot or blast...I intend to try, at least, to take them with me. Try to get your mind in gear with this. On July 19, 1977, after the kids and I had left your friend's cabin and headed down through an isolated area of northern California...the SIs let me know for sure, concretely...what they had telepathed to me for years. THEY WERE INDEED WITH ME. 28 of them overhead, within hours. One huge one, just over my head where I could bounce a rock off it. And they stayed there for hours, too. And Beau watched them, too. Me deluded? Ask Beau. So at last I knew the tremendous power that I have...within a rock's throw at any time, I imagine. If you'd have been there, you'd have been scared witless. For years I took the SIs pretty much on faith...through the miracles that they supplied me with. But on this "haunted night" as Beau and I call it...they simply put themselves, and their power, right in front of my eyes, to see! Tell you what...if you have any doubt...hook a phone up to an PSE outfit (psychological stress evaluation) and call me and ask me to tell you all about it. Ask whatever you want. You'll get an accurate readout. Talk to Beau, too. All I ask is...be on the level...not one of the govt. agencies dirty tricks boys on dallas style..and print the results in your book! That night...was the highlight of my entire life. Can you imagine your seeing three Big Foot creatures === Page 19 of 103 6 and 28 UFOs overhead...in one night, Jeffrey? Think about it. And remember...both Beau and I...saw them. In Chap. VII..."Filled with paranoid visions (I resent that very much) he blames secret government agents for hindering his efforts.." Not so. As a matter of fact...the SIs have let me know that in fact GOVT. AGENTS HAVE AT TIMES HELPED ME. That letter you got from Millie...was Millie's own thought...had nothing to do with me, that crack about govt. agents...and I did apologize for it. This sentence is completely out of line. Then it goes on.."and declares all out war on the United States." Not true. I, Ted Owens, did not declare all out war on the U.S. -- the SIs did and told me, their spokesman (just as Henry is here for the scientists) to report it. I am the man in the middle, Jeffrey. Then the SIs kicked the bejesus out of California. Not me. I have no such powers. (Oh, you can check with the Cape Charles police...some "dark skinned men" tried to break into my house there at 1:30 at night by cutting the glass on my bedroom window for entry...and the next-door neighbors saw them and yelled and ran them off. It was reported to the police it is in their records. But this was only one of three attempted "hot-prowl" entries into our house. Add this paragraph to the 'paranoid delusions of persecution' part of this letter.) Incidentally, I wish you the best of luck...all good things... on your getting your PhD, Jeffrey. In closing, you mention 'apparent poltergeist effects' centered on the files of materials about me. Ha! We had those in our house in Cape Charles...but here it is even worse! Two weeks ago, after I had put Teddy to bed in his own bedroom...I heard loud, savage, leopard-like growls coming from his room. I thought that somehow he was making the noises, and told Beau about it the next day. But last week, one night...about 4 in the morn, I was wakened in my own bedroom...by loud, savage, animal growls, at the foot of my own bed. I got up, checked the room with a flashlight...but nothing there. Next morning when I got Teddy up... first thing he said was, "Daddy, something was growling real loud in my room last night!" I.e., he and I had both heard the loud, horrible growls (that would raise the hair on your head.) Also at === Page 20 of 103 Timothy Leary San Diego get police report "insulators" - 4" square article insulating-like - Santa Cruz police were called in. - Man went to get friend friend saw it just receding - 3 am, - landed on Pacific & Laurel Sentinel, Santa Cruz (last week) 11-17 === Page 21 of 103 This sighting discussed with Nick Herbert & Jim Harder. - Harder suggests that in letters to the police, I not mention Owen's name - but say that a computer made the predictions. Note: this sighting in Oct '76 - witness unreliable. === Page 22 of 103 Ted Owens 3-29-77 Last night being taught by some man in my sleep. - [ ] 10 commandments being given to aliens. - [ ] Podgorny: wake up in sleep all night - [ ] gone to Africa from Russia - [ ] Dynamite. === Page 23 of 103 US Govt not to try & shoot down and interfere with UFOs. __________ "let them alone" === Page 24 of 103 K.H. Newton Denny Pulis x3487 Ralph Fairchild x3136 Outages every day 80,000 meters PG&E News Bureau 77 Beale St. S.F. 94106 === Page 25 of 103 Bodega Susan, Chairman of Art History 12 years ago, Upstate NY Poughkeepsie band of black on the bottom of the sides larger than plane on sides not luminous when I saw it Oakland 12-11-76 Stephen Poleskie Carl Sagan === Page 26 of 103 Shorter Paper in mail tomorrow! stockholder suit SF Foundation Exxon Foundation Media Support Bright light on black mountain. North Marin Water Board Esalen Dianne Vaughan === Page 27 of 103 6:10 p.m. 9-28-80 Ted Owens Wants to do demonstration for T.V. Chew up all pro-football teams. Rhine seeing psychiatrists a result of his work. Working with Greenpeace __________ Knows what Russia are doing Af. is a start, jigsaw puzzle __________ Judged this is time to start. Perhaps in W. Germany. 1000 fires for Russia - make moves. === Page 28 of 103 TED OWENS BIOGRAPHY He claims that at the age of three he was abducted by the saucer intelligences (SI's) who performed some sort of brain surgery which modified the left hemisphere to enable him to establish instantaneous two way telepathic contact with these beings. He claims to have mastered some fifty different skills in his life and credits the modification for this flexibility. For over ten years, he has created "demonstrations" of unusual abilities ranging from apparent feats of psychokinesis, healing, geological and atmospheric disturbances of massive proportions and causing the appearances of UFO's. Although vague about the exact relationship between himself & the SI's, he projects the image of both liaison between the SI's and humans and the image of a forceful character whose interests are mainly for personal gain. His personality, as he admits, is abrasive and straight forward. He speaks with undertones of resentment towards the skeptical scientific and scholarly community. Self contradiction is the predominant factor in his philosophy of governing the ethical use of his alleged psychic abilities. He has come under attack by psychics and scientists, not only for the possibility of fraud (as he has failed polygraph tests) but also for the destructive use of his alleged PK ability. Owens has been very vague about his personal code of ethics and his plans for the future use of his alleged powers. However, throughout the years, virtual mountains of documented information in the form of clippings, affidavits, letters and articles have been amassed about this controversial figure and his exploits throughout the world. MAJOR EVENTS 14 November 1969 Apollo 12 -- Owens notified NASA that the SI's were angry due to lack of his recognition and that they were going to sabotage the moonshot by striking the craft with a bolt of lightning. Owens arranged with the SI's to have the attack before the craft lifted off to avoid injury. The Apollo 12 was struck 36.5 seconds into lift-off, however NASA ordered the astronauts to continue the mission. No lasting harm was done and the lightning was explained as the result of the rocket piercing a rain cloud. It should be noted that in 1964 and 1965, Owens warned NASA of this same attack and it was ignored. A sworn affidavit testifying to Owens' prediction was signed by two court reporters and a secretary on this date. ? ? 1967 Philadelphia -- Owens and two witnesses, Charles Ray and Kenneth Batch, tried another lightning experiment in which City Hall was the first target. Within minutes of the moment when Owens pointed his hands, three bolts in succession struck on or about the City Hall building. A second target was chosen some minutes after in a different section of the sky. Again within minutes, lightning appeared in that section and not anywhere else. It should also be noted that between the choosing of the targets no lightning struck anywhere at all. Both witnesses signed sworn affidavits on 12 August 1967, both were of high integrity judging from their occupations. === Page 29 of 103 Business / TM Dramatic positive Intuition Natural motivation A good feeling for Gigi's career Dream Music comes forward === Page 30 of 103 May 3, 1996 A 'Knockout Blow' to be delivered against the skeptics of psi. My work moves congenially, effectively to highest levels of society - broadest levels. Long, healthy life === Page 31 of 103 University Extension University of California Berkeley EIGHT-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY JEFFREY MISHLOVE # Parapsychology and ESP Learning July 11-September 2 Mishlove is one of the major catalysts in the field, a student, supporter and synthesizer who suggests connections others are simply less equipped to see as possibilities. I have worked in this area for more than 25 years, and I know it well. But I know of no one today with as good a grasp of the many facets of this most fascinating of all fields. MICHAEL SCRIVEN, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Education, UC, Berkeley; President-Elect, American Educational Research Association Research in parapsychology has been advancing for more than 100 years. Since 1969 parapsychology has been officially recognized as a branch of science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of psychic abilities in business, medicine, crime detection, archaeology, scientific exploration, and personal growth has been widely reported. Unfortunately, perhaps, there has also been resistence to training in psychic development. Civilization has yet to provide comprehensive models for psychic training comparable to the well-developed programs and incentives in athletics, music, science, and art. Recently, however, Milan Ryzl, Charles Tart, and others, have scientifically demonstrated that some individuals can learn to use their ESP abilities. This eight-week intensive program deals with the latest research in parapsychology and ESP learning. It is divided into four credit courses and individual and group sessions. Participants learn of the latest research findings; receive training in increasing their skills in hypercognition (mental processes extending rational thought, such as relaxation, concentration, and visualization); join in laboratory and field studies using ESP; explore their own ESP potential talents; and become familiar with research design and methodology in parapsychological research. The eight-week program meets from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday each week, with the series of evening lectures each Wednesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A complete daily schedule will be sent upon request. **Parapsychology X 109.3 (3)** Study of psychic phenomena and transpersonal psychology. Use of meditation and biofeedback to enhance and comprehend altered states of consciousness. Parapsychology in medicine; Zen, Tibetan, alchemical, and shamanistic systems of transpersonal psychology; psychic events in hypnotic, psychedelic, and psychotic episodes; psychokinetic phenomena, and work with psychics. **Analytical and Experiential Approaches to the Study of Hypercognitive Skills X 106.5 (3)** Hypercognitive skills are mental processes--other than strictly rational thinking--for perceiving, knowing, and acting. These processes involve relaxation, concentration, creativity, and self-awareness. This course familiarizes participants with the literature on hypercognition, demonstrates hypercognition training techniques, and help in discriminating between legitimate uses of these techniques and their abuses for fradulent or unethical purposes. **Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4 (2)** This course provides experiences as subjects in parapsychological experiments, and critical tools necessary for the evaluation of experimental reports in the literature. It deals with principles of experimental methodology and technique, the differences between field investigation of spontaneous ESP experiences and the experimental exploration of ESP, and the issue of repeatability and ESP learning. Please note: A separate evening section is available to those who cannot enroll in the entire program. **New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3 (2)** A series of evening lectures by researchers involved in experimental research and evaluation. Topics and speakers: July 13 Factors affecting ESP performance--JOHN PALMER, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis July 20 Remote-perception of natural targets--HAROLD PUTHOFF, Ph.D., and RUSSELL TARG, Ph.D., Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park July 27 Ganzfeld studies and psychokinesis--EDWIN MAY, Ph.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York Aug. 3 Hypnosis and ESP learning--MILAN RYZL, Ph.D., formerly with the Czechoslovakia Institute of Biology, Prague Aug. 10 Psychic integration counseling: ESP and mental health--ELEANOR CRISWELL, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, California State College, Sonoma Aug. 17 Learning to use extrasensory perception--CHARLES T. TART, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis; President, Parapsychological Association Aug. 24 Physical properties of Psi phenomena--ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC, Berkeley Aug. 31 Philosophical overview of parapsychology--MICHAEL SCRIVEN Please note: The lecture series is open to enrollment apart from the entire program. **Coordinator and Instructor: JEFFREY MISHLOVE**, Ph.D. candidate, UC, Berkeley, and author of *Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science and Experience*, published by Random House/Bookworks, 1975. For the past nine years he has led courses and workshops on psychic exploration, mysticism, and consciousness development at colleges throughout the United States. He has produced more than 300 radio programs that approach psychic consciousness from the scientific, experiential, humorous, social, and artistic perspectives. The eight-week program has been developed as a whole, and enrollment may not be made for individual courses, except for the Wednesday evening lecture series "New Research in Parapsychology" and a section of "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," which will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. **Prerequisite:** upper division standing or consent of the instructor. If you are enrolling for the entire program, please submit with your enrollment form a résumé of your interest and experience in parapsychology and a statement of why you wish to take these courses. Enrollment is limited. **Dates:** July 11-Sept. 2; Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m. for the entire program. Evening courses: "New Research in Parapsychology," July 13-Aug. 31; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m.; and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," July 12-Sept. 1; Tues. Thurs., 7-10 p.m. **Location:** All sessions meet in International House, Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way, Berkeley, with the exception of "New Research in Parapsychology," which meets in 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC, Berkeley campus. **Housing:** Rooms are available at International House for this period. Housing information will be sent upon request. Please write to Dept. SBHS, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, or call (415) 642-1064 in Berkeley. **Credit:** 10 quarter units in Psychology for the entire eight-week program; 2 quarter units each for "New Research in Parapsychology" and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation." **Fees:** $450, entire program (edp 105304); $55, New Research in Parapsychology lectures (edp 105312); $7.50 individual lectures, available at the door, space permitting; $75, Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation (edp 105320) **For Information:** write Continuing Education in Behaviorial Sciences, University Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; or call (415) 642-1064. To enroll: complete and return the form on the reverse side of this announcement. ---------- === Page 32 of 103 # ENROLLMENT FORM Please mail to: Dept. B, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720 Name __________ __________ __________ last first middle Address __________ number and street __________ __________ __________ __________ city state ZIP daytime telephone Social Security number (Please note, if you are enrolling for credit: Your Social Security number is the basis on which records are kept. Pursuant to the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, disclosure of this number is mandatory. This record-keeping system was established prior to January 1, 1975, by authority of the Regents of the University of California under Article IX, Section 9, of the California Constitution.) I enclose $ .......... to cover ..... enrollment(s) in the following: - [ ] edp 105304 Eight-Week Summer Program Conducted by Jeffrey Mishlove, $450 - [ ] edp 105312 New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3, $55 - [ ] edp 105320 Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4, $75 Please make check payable to The Regents of the University of California, or if using BankAmericard give: __________ __________ your account number date card expires __________ and your signature to authorize charge Please use a separate sheet giving above information for others covered by this enrollment. As required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (45 CFR 86) the University of California does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission to or employment in the educational programs and activities that it operates. Inquiries concerning Title IX may be directed to the Assistant for Legal Affairs to the Vice Chancellor, Administration, 228 California Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 20203. === Page 33 of 103 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 34 of 103 Schneider leaves Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider. "Saga", Mish/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk show hosts w/ me. February 23, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The above may simply be one of those famous 'coincidences' connected with me which Dr. Hynek has attributed to me. But then again, it might not. Do you remember, in the early 1970's, when Saga Magazine did five different big articles about me and my work? Just afterward the Editor responsible for the Otto Binder articles was fired...a new Editor Brought in...and Saga from that time on studiously ignored me and my work...IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE FIRST EDITOR INFORMED OTTO BINDER THAT THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT ME BROUGHT SAGA MORE MAIL FROM ITS READERS THAN EVER BEFORE IN SAGA HISTORY! Logic would demand...why, with the bringing in of a new Editor, would I then be blacklisted, in effect, with Saga. D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove wrote a brilliant book about my work and it was purchased by a famous publishing house in New York, which provided thousands of dollars in advance money. Suddenly, what do you know, the Editor who chose the book mysteriously resigned and a new Editor came in and rejected the book. Back again to the newsclip up at the top of this sheet. Schneider, the publisher of Western News, suddenly departed and a new publisher came in...immediately after a very large article appeared in the Western News about me and my work. Not only the above 'coincidences' happened...but through the years I appeared on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and she and her mother vanished from Libby. Friend === Page 35 of 103 UFOs Sun Attack G Reis 3/9/83 # Weather forecasting # A long way from perfect The art of forecasting still has quite a ways to go. Economic forecasts of recent years are noted more for being wrong than being right. Recent forecasts of electricity demand turned out to be so far off that they helped trigger the near downfall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. And, to add to the list of "misforecasting" achievements, we have the weather. Last fall, weather experts checked their isobaric maps, ocean temperature gradients and charts of the jet stream and other pertinent data and announced that the prospect was for the coldest winter in years. A consensus of meteorologists, quoted in U.S. News and World report last October, said the United States "was heading for a brutal winter, perhaps the coldest of the century." Ominous signals abounded. Autumn weather began two to four weeks ahead of schedule, with record lows for September reaching as far south as Alabama. Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the earth from warming sunlight. Peter Leavitt, vice president of Weather Services Corp., a commercial weather-forecasting company, noted that the high-altitude jet stream did not make its usual shift to the Arctic. That meant large parts of Canada and the Eastern United States never really warmed up during the summer. Then there were measurements of a slight decrease in the energy Earth receives from the sun, which could have devastating effects on the planet. Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, concluded: "When you combine winter trends over the last few years with this fall's chilly temperatures, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this is going to be a long, hard winter." This winter isn't over yet, but so far it has been noted for its extreme mildness. Here in the Northwest, this January and February rank as among the warmest on record. In the East, energy experts report that many billions of dollars in fuel costs have been saved because of generally warm temperatures. While many meteorologists are willing to go out on a limb with long-range forecasts, the National Weather Service has adopted a highly cautious attitude. Donald L. Gilman, chief meteorologist there, observes that a forecast for the coming winter made in September is probably "no more accurate than the flip of a coin." And that comes from one of the nation's top weathermen. For the rest of us, it fortunately is not necessary to have a track record for accuracy in order to be able to talk about the weather. We can continue to talk about the weather and can continue to do nothing about it for as long as we like. March 9, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS I told you well in advance of the above information, of course, that my UFOs were going to deflect the sun's rays onto Earth...causing the center of the Earth to gradually increase in heat-intensity also causing weather anomalies on the face of the Earth. The UFOs are also causing the "intelligence" of the Sun to attack the Earth. You will read above: "Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the Earth from warming sunlight." Obviously those experts were not aware of the Sun attack my UFOs are inflicting onto Earth. Also, above, you will note that all of the experts predicted an almost-record cold winter...and what they got was record heat in many places and a warm winter. Caused by the work of my UFOs, of course! The UFOs Sun Attack seems to have affected Australia the most, first; I have written to the Prime Minister, as you now know...and if they contract with me to give me the Base if I, with my UFOs, produce enough water for them...then the UFOs Sun Attack will be removed from its effect on Earth...after my UFOs and I get that Base. Owens === Page 36 of 103 Date: 2/28/83 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN A few years ago Ted Owens (PK Man) sent me documentation to the effect that he was working on ending a terrible drought in Australia at that time; following documentation indicated that he and his UFOs had indeed ended the drought in Australia. Then Owens informed me that he had been insulted by an authority in Australia who had been closely cooperating with him, sending him maps and documents, etc., but that, after he, Owens, had ended the drought, the man in authority had rudely broken off their connection without even a word of thanks from the Australian government. Owens told me at that time that, to redress this wrong, he would bring back an even greater drought in Australia, a drought ten times worse than the drought he had ended. Owens has requested that I supply him with a notarized affidavit of the above facts and I am doing so. George E. Delavan George E. Delavan Des Plaines, Illinois Joan H. Citro Notary Public === Page 37 of 103 UFOs Sun Attack # Australian brushfires controlled; 69 killed SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Fire brigades fought brushfires around Melbourne on Thursday but controlled most of the conflagration that has swept across Australia's southeast coast like "a panzer division." Police said at least 69 people were killed. "It was like a giant flame thrower," said one weary firefighter. "The wind was like it came from a huge hair dryer," said a man who lost his house -- one of 3,000 homes destroyed in seven towns that were consumed by wind-driven flames Wednesday and Thursday. "A panzer division going through could not have caused so much damage," said Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser after an inspection tour. More than 4,000 firefighters had most of the fires under control by Thursday. The flames, fanned by gale-force winds, devastated 2,600 square miles of drought-stricken farmland, forest and scrub along a 500-mile stretch of Australia's southeast coast in the states of South Australia and Victoria. Exhausted firefighters were still battling outbreaks late Thursday in the hills around Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Elsewhere, they remained on guard. Police said 69 bodies had been found. With 46 bodies already found in Victoria and 23 in the state of South Australia, police expected the total to exceed the 71 killed in Victoria in 1931 in the worst brushfire in Australian history. Some died in their automobiles, trapped as they tried to flee the flames. About 900 people were reported injured. Officials estimated property damage at more than $400 million. With the Southern Hemisphere's summer at its height, the worst drought in Australian history spawned brush fires that 60-mile winds from the central desert whipped through the Adelaide Hills and down the south coast past Melbourne into the Dandenong Ranges. Foreign Minister Tony Street, whose election district in Victoria was badly hit, said the winds were so strong they sent the fire truck in Airey's Inlet "sailing down the road" even though the fire chief "had his foot on the brake and the handbrake jammed on." "He ended up in a ditch and got up and ran for his life," said Street. "Another man was driving down the road and saw a complete roof of a house pass him about 12 feet up." Twelve volunteer firemen were incinerated Wednesday at Cockatoo, 31 miles from Melbourne, when flames surrounded their two trucks. But 120 children in a Cockatoo school were spared when two men sat on the roof hosing down the building while the children huddled under wet towels. February 23, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS You may or may not recall that several years ago I worked on ending the then terrible Australian drought. I was actually approached, through the mails, at that time, by a person of authority in Australia, requesting that I take that action, which I did. The man sent me all sorts of huge maps of Australia and government books showing the drought, month by month...and I brought in huge rains all over Australia and wiped out the drought. To my amazement the man then wrote me and said that all correspondence must cease...I must not write to him again. In short...once I got the job done they didn't want to know me...evidently for fear the fact would get out that PK Man, with UFOs, had worked on ending their drought. Well, I informed Mr. George Delavan, computer specialist and close friend of mine...that I would restore the Australian drought "ten times worse than the one I ended." Australia is in that drought now. As you can see above it is "the worst drought in Australian history." (I always keep my word, if humanly possible.) When an area incurs my wrath (Australia, England, Texas, etc.) then God help it. CALIFORNIA Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 38 of 103 Schneider leaves Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider. "aga" mesh/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk shows note w/oe. February 23, 1983 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and her mother vanished from Libby. === Page 39 of 103 Partly Cloudy High 70, Low 48 Details, Page A2 The Virginian-Pilot Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Thursday, March 10, 1977 112th Year, No. 110 Price 20 Cents # Muslim Terrorists Seize 3 Buildings, Take Scores Hostage in Washington Two hostages released from B'nai B'rith headquarters wait in a rescue vehicle. By WALTER R. MEARS WASHINGTON (AP)--Terrorists invaded the headquarters of a Jewish organization, a Moslem religious center, and Washington's City Hall Wednesday, killing a radio newsman and seizing scores of hostages. The gunmen held their captives into the night in buildings ringed by police, who sealed off sections of Pennsylvania Avenue, close by the White House, and Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of Embassy Row. Police are in contact with the terrorists, seeking release of the hostages. The apparent leader of the four invaders at the B'nai B'rith headquarters, a Jewish service organization, demanded and got cancellation of the premiere of a motion picture, "Mohammed, Messenger of God." The gunmen demanded that five men convicted of the 1973 massacre of seven Hanafi sect Moslems in Washington be brought to the building. As the takeovers unfolded, at least 11 people were shot, stabbed, or beaten. A city councilman was shot in the chest and the mayor of Washington was, for a time, barricaded in his office against the intruders. The man known killing was at the District of Columbia Building. Radio station WHUR said the victim was Maurice Williams, 22, a staff reporter. Police said there are two gunmen holding hostages in that building. A police spokesman said the invasions are the work of Moslems, apparently members of the predominantly black Hanafi sect, and were coordinated. Victims of the 1973 slayings were members of the same sect. J. E. Sarner, a police spokesman, said the gunmen talked to each other on the telephone. At nightfall, four intruders were holding more than 100 hostages at the B'nai B'rith building. They made the public demands. "I'm a Muslim, that's it," one of the gunmen told a radio reporter who telephoned from WBE in Boston. "Now get that straight or I'll hang up on you. . . Do you remember they killed my family in 1973? . . . Now we are fighting for our lives because we are not going to let this picture be shown in this country." The intruder told an Associated Press reporter that the film tries to make a joke of his religion. In New York, Irwin Yablans, U.S. distributor of the movie, said it had been ordered out of American theaters. He said people were asked to leave theaters where the film was showing in Los Angeles and New York. At the Rivoli Theater in New York, the film was halted during showing, and about 1,000 patrons got refunds or rain checks. Aside from the apparent quest for retribution and the insistence that the movie be cancelled, there were no clear demands. Police negotiated with the gunmen by telephone and by shouting through office-building stairwells. "We're asking what their demands are and they said we'll find out later," Sarner said. The three invasions happened within hours. First came the strike at B'nai B'rith, headquartered seven blocks north of the White House. Then at least one gunman invaded the Islamic Center, a mosque on Embassy Row, taking 15 hostages. Then came the shootings at the District of Columbia Building. (See Terrorists, Page A7) WASHINGTON, D.C. The invaded buildings are all within 1 1/2 miles of the White House. # U.S. to Ban Saccharin Soon Because of Cancer in Animals WASHINGTON (AP)--The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is banning saccharin, the only artificial sweetener approved for use in the United States, because it causes cancer in laboratory animals. Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner said that it will take at least until July to complete the administrative requirements before the ban goes into effect. But he called on manufacturers "to discontinue use of saccharin as soon as possible, even while we are drafting the documents needed to accomplish this action." The FDA said that it will not order a recall of the many soft drinks and foods that contain the sugar substitute since tests "do not indicate an immediate hazard to public health." A similar ban was announced simultaneously by the Canadian government, whose scientific studies were the basis for the U.S. action. Under the FDA's order, it will take 30 days for the agency to draft the ban. The FDA then will allow 60 days for comments from interested parties. The agency will then take another 30 days to make the rule final, making July the earliest month the ban could take effect. Americans eat or drink more than 5 million pounds of saccharin a year, about three-quarters of it in diet soft drinks and the rest in coffee, tea, and diabetic foods such as canned fruits, gelatin desserts, jams, ice creams, and puddings. It also is used in some mouthwashes, cosmetics, and over-the-counter drugs. The Canadian study involved feeding 100 rats a diet of 5 per cent pure saccharin during their entire lives, from conception until death. Fourteen of the rats developed cancerous bladder tumors compared to only two such tumors in a group of 100 animals given no saccharin. In order to consume an equivalent amount of saccharin, a person would have to drink 800 12-ounce diet sodas a day for a lifetime, the FDA said. The FDA order was denounced by an officer of Sweet 'N Low, a large saccharin user. "Any call for a ban of saccharin is an outrageous and harmful action based on flimsy scientific evidence that has absolutely no bearing on human health," said Marvin E. Eisenstadt, executive vice president of the company. "It is an action that provides no public benefit, and indeed, could cause great harm to the millions of Americans who need an artificial sweetener for medical reasons and as an aid in weight control." The federal law under which the FDA acted prohibits the use in food of any ingredients shown to cause cancer in animals or humans. Gardner said that he could not assess the economic impact of the FDA's decision but said that it will be "substantial, no question about it." # Confirmed The Senate, after days of heated debate, has confirmed Paul Warnke as President Carter's chief negotiator for strategic arm talks with the Soviets. Warnke also was confirmed as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Story is on Page A7. # Apology on Chile Not Policy: Carter WASHINGTON (AP)--President Carter said Wednesday that a newly recruited American diplomat's apology for past U.S. action in Chile was "inappropriate," and the State Department promptly announced that the envoy was being called in for "consultations." Brady Tyson, deputy leader of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, expressed regrets in a speech Tuesday "for the role some government officials, agencies, and private groups played in the subversion of the previous, democratically elected Chilean government." Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference that he did not have advance notice of Tyson's remarks, which he characterized as "a personal expression of opinion by that delegate." Carter also spelled out some of his thoughts on a possible Middle East settlement, announcing that he soon will begin exploring his ideas with Arab leaders. And he announced that he is lifting restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia effective March 18. Saying that Tyson's words did not reflect government views, Carter said Senate investigators found no evidence that the United States was involved in the 1973 overthrow of the Chilean government of Salvador Allende. Shortly after Carter's meeting with reporters, a State Department spokesman said Tyson had been called into the department for a review of his speech. The State Department also said "the procedures for coordinating U.S. policy" will be reviewed in the consultations with Tyson. The State Department said the action does not represent a recall of Tyson from Geneva, because Tyson was planning to return to the United States on Wednesday, anyway. Carter's apparent candor on the superpower arms race and on the Middle East of his free-wheeling disclosure at his first news conference Feb. 8 of proposals for conducting arms-related negotiations with the Soviet Union--an action that surprised many conventional U.S. diplomats. At the broadcast news conference, Carter said he can foresee a Middle East settlement in which Israeli forces might be permitted to go beyond that country's established boundaries to provide protection against any sudden Arab attack. He also talked about the possible use of international forces to police a demilitarized zone that might extend, he said, for 20 kilometers or more. Having met here this week with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carter said, "I will be meeting in the next few weeks with representatives of the Arab countries when they come." Carter plans to consult with leaders of the Arab nations most directly involved by mid-April. The President acknowledged that the search for a Middle East settlement "will be a long, tedious process." But he pledged "to mount a major effort in our own government" to bring the parties to a Geneva conference in the last half of the year. Carter also: * Said the United States is concerned about human rights under the present Chilean government. (See Carter, Page A7) # In Today's Pilot | | | | |---|---|---| | Ann Landers | | D4 | | Bridge | | A25 | | Business | | B5-7 | | Classified | | C9-19 | | Comics | | B2 | | Dr. Thosteson | | A14 | | Editorials | | A10 | | Movies | | C8 | | Obituaries | | A12 | | People Column | | A14 | | Sports | | C1-7 | | Tidewater Living | | D1-7 | | TV-Radio | | B4 | | Weather | | A2 | # Today's Chuckle Little boy's description of his baby sister: "She has some teeth, but her words haven't come in yet." # Friend's $153,000 Bequest Stuns Beach Couple By GEORGE BRYANT Virginia Beach City Editor VIRGINIA BEACH--"My husband and I just kind of looked at each other to make sure we weren't dreaming," the wife of a Virginia Beach man said this week after being informed that her family will inherit an estimated $153,000 from a family friend. "We knew his father left him some money but not to the extent of this," said Mrs. Jerold A. Goldy as she reminisced about her husband's Navy buddy, who died in September. In a will probated in Ohio last month, retired Corpsman Robert Edward Lee, 49, named the Goldys beneficiaries of his entire estate, which lawyers estimate is worth $133,000 in cash and property before taxes. The Goldys said Lee, who never married, "just kind of adopted us as his family." Goldy met Lee seven years ago while stationed at Oceana. "He was a good friend," Goldy said. "He enjoyed the same things we liked." For several years Lee "lived with us on and off. He was kind of like a built-in boarder," Mrs. Goldy recalled, "a permanent resident of our sofa." Lee referred to the Goldys' three daughters, aged 12, 13, and 16, as his girls, she said. When an Ohio attorney notified the Goldys of the will they couldn't believe the amount. But the fact the Goldys were beneficiaries was not completely new. Lee's sister, Mrs. Mary M. Brown of Akron, told the Goldys shortly after Lee's death that they were the beneficiaries of his $20,000 Navy insurance policy. But the rest was a complete surprise. Lee died of a heart attack on an Akron street corner on his way back to Virginia after a 10-day visit, his sister said. His sister and friends were unaware he had heart trouble, though Lee apparently knew, because relatives found unfilled prescriptions for a heart ailment in his personal belongings. Goldy said Lee once mentioned in passing that he was going to look after the children, but never said any more about it. Mrs. Brown said this week that her brother had few friends, but the Goldys were special. "Their family was his family." Lee was a small, shy person who "was never one to make friends," Mrs. Brown said, "but he would always do anything for anybody." Despite his shyness, Mrs. Brown said, her brother would give a beggar on the street $100 if the mood struck him. "And that was just the kind of person he was." The Navy was Lee's life. "When he got out . . . he never did go to work. He just didn't seem to have a life afterwards, except for the Goldys, his sister said. She speculated that Goldy's active-duty status was Lee's link to his 20-year Navy career. "The ironic thing is we couldn't even go to his funeral," Mrs. Goldy said. Her husband was at sea at the time and she and her children could not afford the plane fare. "I had airline tickets reserved for the girls and myself," Mrs. Goldy said, "but I knew I couldn't afford it." Goldy has had part-time jobs and his wife has worked most of the 18 years they've been married, but they still have to make an occasional extra. But Lee spoiled her daughters, Mrs. Goldy said. "It was nothing for him to hand them a $10 bill to go roller-skating when all they needed was a dollar," she said. Lee even offered to buy 16-year-old Angela a car for her birthday but the Goldys put their foot down on that. "It hurt his feelings but I didn't feel that a 16-year-old needed to be given a car," Mrs. Goldy said. But Angela said Lee told her in a phone conversation the night before he died that he would figure a way to get her that car when he got back to Virginia. "He was good to us," she said. It will be a year under Ohio law before the Goldys actually receive the proceeds of the estate, but they have no immediate plans except to fulfill a promise Lee made to take the children to Disney World and possibly send them to college. Beyond that, they hope their good fortune won't change their way of life, and they're already leery of those who might have 'good deals' for them. === Page 40 of 103 # Terrorists Continued from Page A1 lumbia Building, within sight of White House grounds. Police said they believe eight to 10 hostages are being held at the District building, with an undetermined number of workers barricaded in their offices. Mayor Walter E. Washington was for a time locked in his own office before he was able to escape the building. City Council President Sterling Tucker, first reported a hostage, later was found to have eluded the gunmen. But Councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest, underwent surgery, and was reported in stable condition. At B'nai B'rith, Daniel Thursz, the executive director, said the gunmen apparently released about 20 hostages who were not Jewish. President Carter ordered the FBI into the case. FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said Carter ordered the bureau to investigate "all violations of federal law involved in the terrorist-type activities being perpetrated in the Washington, D.C., area." The terrorists struck as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin concluded a three-day visit to Washington. Departure ceremonies near the Washington Monument were canceled abruptly, and Rabin's motorcade sped without stopping to his waiting airplane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. At all three buildings, police cordoned off the streets. Police riflemen and special weapons units stood at the ready. "We're just sitting and staring at each other," said a woman barricaded in her fifth-floor office at the B'nai B'rith building. She said there were five coworkers with her. "We're fine. We're barricaded in," she told a reporter by telephone. At the B'nai B'rith, a gunman who identified himself as Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis demanded withdrawal of the movie and said the invaders want retribution for the 1973 murder of the seven members of the Hanafi sect. The Hanafi group is a predominantly black sect of the Islamic movement in the United States, independent of the much larger Black Muslims. The Hanafis are thought to number about 1,000. In January 1973, seven sect members, five of them children, were killed in Washington in a house owned by professional basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Five men associated with the Black Muslim mosque in Philadelphia were convicted of the murders and are serving long sentences. Here is how the three episodes unfolded: Photos by The Associated Press An unidentified woman peers from a fifth-floor window of the B'nai B'rith headquarters. * At B'nai B'rith headquarters, at midday four men entered the white-brick building in a downtown area of offices and embassies. They carried weapons gangland style, in what looked like guitar cases. When police arrived, they found the door lashed shut with chains. They cut their way in, and officer William Stansbury said a half-dozen people were lying on the floor, along with two bayonets and a pistol. "There was blood on the floor," Stansbury said. He said a hail of gunfire ricocheted from above when police started climbing the stairs. The police retreated, escorting out the people they found in the lobby. Police said the intruders had rifles, two of them automatic, apparently carried some pistols, and were armed with knives and a machete as well. At least eight people were shot, stabbed, or beaten. The takeover began on the fifth floor. A woman employe there said she and six others locked themselves in their office after staff members shouted warnings. Another employe said the warning came at about 11:10 a.m. EST. "And about a quarter of 12, we heard three shots. . . ." Office workers barricaded their doors with chairs, desks, and bookcases, and waited it out. The terrorists took no more than 20 hostages at first, but captured more as they moved to two other floors, finally taking up positions on the eighth floor. Police said they used rollers to paint over rear windows in the building, apparently to block the view of police sharpshooters. Steven Hurwitz, a B'nai B'rith official in Richmond, Va., said he was talking by telephone with Dr. Sidney Clearfield at the D.C. headquarters when he heard a commotion over the line. He said he heard a voice, and while he isn't sure of the exact words, they amounted to "Up against the wall or we'll blow your head off." Clearfield didn't return to the phone. Thursz, B'nai B'rith executive director, said "there was blood and glass all over the place" when he went into the building with police to set up an operations center in the lobby. Thursz said he and B'nai B'rith President David Blumberg were on their way to lunch with Rabin when the takeover occurred. By nightfall, the four gunmen were holed up in a cafeteria on the top floor, and police said they had more than 100 hostages. Khalifa did most of the talking, telling newsmen who telephoned his stronghold that the film "Mohammed, Messenger of God" is offensive to his faith. "Tell everybody we don't want that picture playing, trying to make my religion into a joke," he said. He also posted the demand for the murderers of the Hanafi Moslems, and said at one point that the gunmen want the slayer of Malcolm X brought to them. * In the second invasion, police said one and possibly two gunmen walked into the Islamic Center mosque on Washington's plush Embassy Row during the lunch hour and seized 10 to 15 hostages. No shots were fired and no injuries reported. Among the hostages is the director of the center, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, a traditional Moslem religious official in Washington. Dr. Rauf lives at the mosque with his family. Also seized was an unidentified Chilean student who was with a group touring the mosque, and the tour director, the Rev. Robert Teasdale of New York City, president of the World Association for Travel Exchange. John Ashton of Fredericksburg, Va., who was among more than 40 members of the tour group who escaped at the outset of the incident, said he first noticed something was wrong when he saw a mailman suddenly drop his bags and flee the building. Outside the mailman told a policeman there was a man with a gun in the mosque, Ashton said. Ashton then warned members of his group and also fled. Within half an hour after police first learned of the seizure, about 50 officers converged on the scene. Traffic was blocked off along a three-block section of Massachusetts Avenue, a heavily traveled four-lane street lined on either side by foreign embassies. The mosque serves as a religious and social center for Moslems from several embassies as well as Americans of that faith. * At about 2:15 or 2:30 p.m. two men armed with a shotgun and a handgun entered the District Building, rode an elevator to the fifth floor, and opened fire, according to accounts by witnesses. They killed Maurice Williams, 22, a black man employed for the last 18 months by Howard University's radio station, WHUR-FM. The gunmen wounded Councilman Marion Barry and two guards. By nightfall the invaders were holding about 15 hostages. Mayor Washington remained for several hours in his office in the building, under police protection, then went to police headquarters. Barry, interviewed later at Washington Hospital Center, said the shot that hit him apparently was a ricochet. "The doctors say if it had been a direct hit I wouldn't be here talking to you," he said. A hospital spokesman said doctors removed a bullet from Barry's chest, where it had lodged a quarter-inch from his heart. Barry said guards warned him of trouble when he entered the District Building, and two of them rode up with him on an elevator. On the fifth floor, he said, "I heard two shots and my instinct was to hit the floor and move out of the way." Then he heard a third shot, and felt a burning sensation in his chest. Knowing he was hit, he stumbled into the City Council room, where a sparsely attended hearing was in progress on the economic development of the district. Barry said he waited 20 to 25 minutes before medical help arrived, and heard intermittent gunfire during that time. === Page 41 of 103 WASHINGTON STREET RESEARCH CENTER 3101 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94115 Ted Owens Research Project Preliminary Proposal for Continuing Investigation Project originator Jeffrey Mishlove proposes to continue research and development work on the case of Mr. Ted Owens along the following lines: (1) Continued collection and analysis of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations. (2) Collection of statistical data bases regarding phenomena symptomatological to the Owens effect; such as lightning, UFO sightings, hurricane activity, tornado activity, drought, rain, and power blackouts. (3) Interviews with individuals associated with previous demonstrations by Owens. (4) Medical and neurological studies relating to Owens' claim that the "SIs" have surgically operated on half of his brain. Some records may be available from tests done at the Mayo Clinic. (5) Hypnotic regression of Owens, if possible, to periods relating to his alleged actual physical contact with the "SIs." (6) Personality tests and in depth clinical interviews of Owens for the purpose of elucidating the relationship between his psi abilities and his psychological makeup. (7) Analysis of Owens' PK techniques in order to determine whether these apparent skills can be learned by other individuals. (8) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to control weather in ways beneficial to people, i.e. causing rain in drought stricken areas. (9) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to produce UFO appearances, or other forms of contact, under circumstances where physical measurements can be made. The duration of the proposed work will depend on specific project objectives and on availability of personnel, facilities and funding. The Washington Street Research Center (WSRC), can accept tax exempt contributions through its affiliation with a sponsoring tax-exempt public foundation, the Regional Young Adult Project, or can accept non-exempt contributions directly. WSRC is committed to maintaining high technical and ethical standards in the conduct of its research programs, and encourages communication between research associates and funding sources, through regular reports and through informal discussion as needed. === Page 42 of 103 PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF EVENTS WHICH SUGGEST THE POSSIBLE APPLIED PSI ABILITY OF MR. TED OWENS Jeffrey Mishlove 3103 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 December 1977 === Page 43 of 103 Note: This factual report is one of the most unusual documents, non-fiction or fiction, that you are likely ever to have read. The author would appreciate readers monitoring their personal, psychological reactions to this report as well as their critical comments. === Page 44 of 103 Introduction Mr. Ted Owens--currently of Bernadillo, New Mexico--is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included UFO sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The present investigation with Ted Owens utilizes two methods: (a) collection and evaluation of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations during the past ten years and (b) observations from a ninety day, pilot demonstration during which Owens attempted to have the SIs produce a variety of unusual phenomena in the San Francisco area. History of Owens' Demonstrations The data upon which this historical evaluation is based has been gathered from the files of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, whose correspondence with Owens begins in 1970; and Dr. Harold Puthoff and Mr. Russell Targ, of SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, whose correspondence with Owens dates back to about 1974. Owens has been sending his predictions to these researchers, at their request. Some of the items in the files go back as far as 1966, but were apparently sent to these researchers years later. These files document Owens' financial difficulties, his family life, his religious speculations, and his many conflicts with the outside world. Many of the records contain instances in which Owens seems to be taking credit for events which one would not reasonably think he predicted in advance. In other instances, Owens' predictions are clearly inaccurate. Often the events which Owens predicted occurred nearly, but not exactly, as he claimed they would. When the events did occur as Owens === Page 45 of 103 2 predicted, it is often difficult to determine whether the prediction was actually psi-mediated rather than being the result of informed intuition, or perhaps misleading or even fraudulent documents. Finally, when the dramatic probabilities suggest an actual psi-mediated event, we are often unable to distinguish SI intervention from PK or precognition. In reviewing 144 claims by Owens, I have arrived at a preliminary judgement that over 73 of these cases would suggest paranormal functioning to a rational person who is already willing to accept this as at least a possibility. 42 cases exist which are not likely to support Owens' hypothesis and another 29 cases are clearly disputable. These judgements have emerged from a sympathetic, but critical, theoretical orientation. Others are likely to differ in both directions. The following highlights from Owens' career are selected not always for their evidential nature but also because they provide interesting information about Owens and his work. These cases have not been personally investigated with the thoroughness than a criminologist might apply. **March 10, 1966:** In a letter to Lyndon Johnson, Owens warned that "our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from Viet Nam with their lives...regardless of all our military might." Owens also told LBJ that the SIs will bring rain to end the five year drought on the East Coast. He warned that after the drought has ended, if he is still ignored by the U. S. government, then the SIs will create something even worse. Newspaper clippings from May 1966 through July 1967 show continuing rain on the East Coast, and in fact many floods in 1967. Clippings from **U.S. News and World Report**, July 7, 1967, indicate that experts did not then have a handle on the reasons for the drought or its end in massive rains. Contrary to the indications provided by Owens, the rains of 1966 alone were insufficient to end the entire drought although conditions did substantially improve. **June 13, 1966:** In a letter to Mr. George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency, Owens warned that the SIs will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, === Page 46 of 103 3 or a carrier catastrophe, by September of 1966. Owens also predicted a "serious blow" to the White House. None of these events happened within the specified time limits. However, on November 10, 1966, the U. S. nuclear submarine Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. On October 26, 1966, the U. S. aircraft carrier Orinsky was struck by a fire which killed 44 men. Two other submarine accidents and four other carrier accidents were reported during September, October and November of 1966. Also in November of 1966, LBJ received surgery in both his throat and abdomen--possibly a serious blow to our seat of government. The Owens files are periodically confounded by the fact that unusual events which Owens predicted seem to have occurred just beyond the specified time limits. Owens believes that this is because the SIs operate from a different dimension of time. **May 8, 1967:** In a sworn affidavit, Sidney Margulies, partner in a Philadelphia law firm, states that Owens caused lightning to strike the Camden Bridge, a target preselected by Margulies. Lightning struck within minutes after Owens pointed his hand at the target. Margulies states that there was no other lightning either before or after the experiment. Other affidavits testify to similar lightning demonstrations. The logic of this experiments suggests psychokinesis. **August 1970:** Science writer Otto O. Binder published an article about Owens in Saga based on files which I have not seen myself. One prediction mentioned by Binder is of interest: "On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: 'A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days.' Signed: 'PK man' (Owens). A little more than ten days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness." **January 1971:** Owens published his predictions for the year in Saga. He states, "President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur and he will either resign or be forced out of office." This may be the earliest Watergate prediction on record. **March 23, 1971:** In a letter to government agencies and scientists unnamed, === Page 47 of 103 4 Owens stated that the SIs want earthlings to "get your earth back into good condition before you even think about outer space." Owens warned that the SIs would attack space shots and cause death to astronauts. May 9, 1971, newspaper clippings indicate a disappointing failure in the NASA Mariner 8 Mars launch. "Officials reported after studying radio data that the second stage began to deviate from course about 20 seconds after ignition and that it tumbled out of control at an altitude of 92 miles." On May 12, 1971, in a letter to NASA officials Owens specifically warned against sending up the Apollo 15 moon shot. On June 16, 1971, minutes after scientists put the moonship through a mock launch, the umbilical tower next to the rocket was struck by lightning damaging power units that had been knocked out by lightning the previous day. In his letters, Owens refers to previous undocumented demonstrations where he had caused lightning to strike "lightning proof pads" at Cape Kennedy. The Apollo 15 shot was, nevertheless, eventually successful. On May 20, 1971: In a letter to Larry Maddry, an editor with the Norfolk Virginia Pilot newspaper, Owens stated that he will use his PK to save farms and villages from being destroyed by molten lava from Mt. Etna which had then erupted in Sicily. Copies of this letter were sent to three scientists. Newspaper clippings from May 20 indicated that thousands of villagers in Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo lived in the path of the lava flow. Newspaper clippings from June 9, 1971, indicate that while the lava caused $8 million in damages, destroying about 50 buildings, the villages of Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo narrowly missed destruction. Priests called it a miracle. July 18, 1971: Mr. Bill Bell, a placekicker with the Atlanta Falcons signed the following sworn affidavit: While the Russian cosmonauts were up in orbit, and everything was going perfectly, I phoned Owens at midnight on Friday, June 25, 1971, and asked him why the UFOs had not killed the Russian cosmonauts up in orbit. He answered that he was sure the UFOs were curious about what they were doing; would watch them carefully until the end of their experimentation, and then "clobber" them with it came time for them to come down. He said he did not know for sure what the UFOs would === Page 48 of 103 5 do to the cosmonauts, but that it would be "drastic." He further stated adamantly that the UFOs never said anything they did not mean; that they were always deadly serious; and if they said they would kill humans from now on in orbit or outer space...well, that's what they meant. Several days later I told some of my friends of Owens' dire prediction concerning the Russian cosmonauts. On Wednesday, June 30, 1971, I was amazed to hear that the Russian cosmonauts had been found dead. January 22, 1972: In a letter to Otto Binder, Owens speculated that his PK operates subconsciously, which is why he believes several people who "double crossed" him have been mysteriously killed. January 29, 1972: The following handwritten statement is signed by Juan Jose Arenas, M. D., Post 16 N, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: Last night, Friday night, Ted Owens sat with my son, Kevin, and I on our veranda overlooking the mountains, and I requested that Owens make a flying saucer (UFO) appear over our house! He said that he would communicate with UFOs, and try to bring one over our home. For quite a long while we waited. The sky was absolutely clear. Then peculiar clouds began to fill the sky directly in front of us, until our immediate field of vision was obscured. I went in to bed. Shortly thereafter my son, Kevin, rushed in to tell me that a UFO had in fact appeared. I went out to the veranda, with binoculars, and observed the UFO carefully. It was standing above a line of trees, on a mountain top. It had the appearance of a brilliant star (but seemed to have more brilliance than a star). It kept changing color from red to gold to blue to yellow. It also kept moving, slowly, in an erratic manner in a slight zig-zag direction. It rose upward slowly and then moved horizontally across the sky to another point some distance away, where it stayed, but still moving about erratically. At this point I, being a physician and having put in a very hard day at my clinic, decided to go to bed, which I did. However, I am making an honest, true, and accurate statement of facts as they occurred: Ted Owens told us that he would try to make a UFO appear, following which a UFO did in fact appear, observed by me, my son Kevin and Owens. March 7, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary stamp and confusion of dates), Otto Binder made the following statement: My name is Otto Binder. I am an author. Last night, Sunday night, February 27, 1972, Ted Owens called me long distance from Cape Charles, Virginia. The time of the call was approximately 8:00 PM. He told me that it was his intent to stop the Jupiter shot at Cape Kennedy, which was forthcoming about an hour later and that he would do this with his mind...the power of his mind. He explained that the UFO intelligences had given him a new technique to use...which he had === Page 49 of 103 6 used the past week to obtain earthquakes on the West Coast (which he had documented with scientists several months past). He also informed me that he had telephoned the city editor last night at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, and left the message for Larry Maddry, columnist, as follows: "Jupiter rocket going up tonight. Will not allow success." What followed, factually, was that around 8 PM (the same time, approximately, as Owens' call) all power facilities around the Jupiter rocket at Cape Kennedy went utterly dead. Without power the rocket could not go up, and did not. I am confirming these true and accurate facts at the request of Ted Owens, who keeps a file of such things, I understand. In order to maintain a semi-scientific approach to all this, I have telephoned the Virginian-Pilot editor, and actually confirmed that Owens did indeed make the other call and left the message that he would make the shot unsuccessful with the city editor. So all is in order. I swear that this is a true and accurate statement of facts as I know them. In his own remarks on the Jupiter shot, Owens noted that the newspapers attribute the power failure to a storm over the area two hours before. Questioning this interpretation, Owens asked why the power failure didn't occur earlier at the time of the actual storm. Double Space **April 19, 1972:** In a letter to six scientists who have been interested in his demonstrations, Owens discussed his purported PK control of the Apollo 16 moon shot. Owens claims that he telephoned Otto Binder and J. Allen Hynek on the evening of April 15, 1972, the day before the flight and told them the following: I am going to give this NASA Apollo space shot fits. Will try to knock out power before it goes up. Failing that, will pursue it with my mind, my PK mechanisms to cause it all sorts of troubles and difficulties. Give them fits. I will build into the intelligence of this PK attack that it not injure or kill the astronauts. I will do whatever I can to make the mission a failure for NASA. The reason for this is that the government has not cooperated with me; neither has anyone else. Therefore their reason must be that they do not think I have any such power. I will do what I can to show them I do indeed have such power. There is nothing in the files from Binder or Hynek to support Owens' claim that he did, in fact, notify them in advance of the flight. There is only a copy of the "PK Map" which Owens drew with the rocket as his target, and also copies of telegrams Owens sent to Binder and Hynek after the flight which state, "I have done exactly what I told you I would do." Newspaper clippings subsequent to the flight indicate that an unusual number of problems occurred. The insulation on the outside of the lunar landing module was torn into shreds. An errant electrical surge confused a spaceship computer and caused ut === Page 50 of 103 7 it to send commands which locked the guidance system of the spacecraft, wiping out the basic references needed to for the craft to steer itself in space. Mission control later indicated that the electrical surge which flashed through the craft was as if it had been struck by lightning in space. Communications systems were dropping out because the lunar command ship, Casper, was spinning slowly in space and the antenna was pointing away from earth three times an hour. This happened when Casper's steering mechanism failed to work. It was the first failure in space of the command ship's main propulsion system. Problems also occurred with the astronauts. Orange juice seeped into their helmets and dried like glue, preventing the helmets from being unlocked later on. Several major scientific experiments were lost as the astronauts stumbled over power cables and failed to throw crucial circuit breakers. Later reports indicated that the astronauts were exposed to radiation from the first solar flare ever to occur during a manned moon mission. Finally after the mission had safely returned to earth the space capsule's fuel tank exploded causing damage to the capsule and blowing a hole through the roof 250 feet above. In his letter Owens gladly took credit for all of the mishaps involved, including the fact that, in spite of the difficulties, none of the astronauts were injured. I could imagine that, after his failure to stop the Apollo 15 flight, Owens was hedging his bets on Apollo 16 and therefore failed to insure adequate documentation of his intentions before the flight. I have no evidence which directly suggests that Owens, himself, has ever been dishonest regarding his demonstrations. April 27, 1972: The National Tattler received the following prediction from Owens, which he had actually made the previous month for Warren Smith: "George Wallace will be assassinated in time ahead. Shot." On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot. April 30, 1972: In a letter to John Kerr, vice-president of the Virginia Squires basketball team, Owens predicted that he was going to use his PK powers to cause Kerr's team to lose its ABA playoff series against the New York Nets. At the time ens === Page 51 of 103 8 the letter was written, the Squires were ahead 3-2 in the seven game series. Owens stated in his letter that he was angered when he received a call from a representative of the team asking him to help out also--but refusing to pay him a fee for his service. Furthermore, the Squires had hired a "PK Master" called "The Great Kahuna" to help them win the series (and to entertain the audience at halftime). Newspaper clippings indicate that the Squires lost the next two games and thus the series. One article states that in the final game the Squires missed 57 of 91 shots and made the fewest number of points since moving to Virginia two years previously. There are dozens of similar cases in the files where Owens has used his PK abilities to affect the outcome of basketball and football games with apparent success. Sportswriters have generally received Owens' claims favorably and presented him as something of a hero opposing the big business management of the teams. His exploits have even received coverage in several national sports magazines. **May 30, 1972:** In a letter to six unnamed scientists, Owens stated that he was going to embark on a demonstration in the Cleveland-Akron area in order to teach a lesson to the people who mistreated him during a recent visit to that city. Owens stated that he would produce the following phenomena: Power blackouts there...big ones. More than the usual number of fires. All kinds of electrical disturbances. Lightning storms...with lightning striking many places. Planes being forced down; power failure, etc. Ships sinking just offshore. Blazing hot drought. The people in the area behaving peculiarly more than usual. Odd animal behavior (dogs, cats, etc.). Possible epidemics. 60-90 mile-per-hour winds. In a sworn affidavit, Otto Binder states that Owens told him personally in June of 1972 that he would also "hit" the Cleveland Browns football team with his PK mechanisms. Newspaper clippings indicate that the Clevela === Page 52 of 103 9 nd area was hit with an unusual heat wave in July of 1972. One article states that the heat caused the city streets to buckle and manhole covers to "blow their tops." Another article in the Cleveland **Plain Dealer**, dated July 23, 1972, stated that crackpots were swarming to City Hall to see the mayor: The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week. Other articles discuss lightning striking which killed three people and caused power blackouts. The heatwave, combined with pollution blanketed the area with a rotten egg smell for four days. Cars were stalling and failing to start === Page 53 of 103 10 in the heat. In Akron, over a million pounds of garbage went uncollected by July 25 in the heat as municipal workers went out on strike on July 10. Residents were dumping their garbage in the city parks. Another article stated that Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns was hospitalized for surgery on July 13 after walking through a sliding glass door at his New York home. In subsequent letters about his Cleveland demonstration, Owens made a number of interesting points. Owens had appeared as a guest on the Pete Franklin show on Tuesday, May 23, 1972, where he felt publicly insulted and walked out of the studio "sizzling mad." The next day there were two major power failures in the downtown Cleveland area. When Owens returned to Virginia on Monday, May 29, and shortly thereafter a newspaper clipping reports power blackouts throughout the Norfolk area. Owens suggests that the strong emotions he felt triggered these blackouts-something like a super RSPK effect. Owens also sent to his scientific correspondents a UPI clipping, dated August 9, 1972, documenting an enormous sunspot which according to a scientist at Boulder, Colorado, was "sort of like getting snow in Atlanta in July." Owens points out that the concentration technique he was using during the Cleveland demonstration involved an intensification of the sun's energy onto the Cleveland area. The sunspot, he suggests, may have been caused by his mind. June 29, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary seal) Bill Richards, a radar expert from Cape Charles, VA, stated that Owens' description of a radar experiment was accurate in every way. Owens' story is as follows: Yesterday afternoon (June 26, 1972), the UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and told me to get to a radar screen and try to demonstrate phenomena on a radar screen....So I phoned a man I know who by chance is a radar expert....The upshot of it was last night I wound up in a huge radar setup, sitting before a radar screen with my friend sitting beside me. This was not done through official government channels.... First my friend explained what was what, patiently. Then mentally I called the SI's to appear on the radar screen. Then a strange ring of objects appeared on the screen, in a concentric circle. My friend, who is a top expert, would not identify these objects. He could readily point out ships, airplanes, etc. After a bit the ring of strange objects faded out and vanished. Then after a bit, they reappeared again. Before my === Page 54 of 103 11 session was over another ring of strange objects appeared inside the first ring. But the big result was this: I'd been concentrating for about an hour on the screen when suddenly what my friend called "spokes" or "strobes" began to appear. These were heavy, straight lines of light revealed when the sweeping arm went over them. My friend explained that sometimes these spokes could be seen at sunup or sunset, but never at 10 to 11 PM at night (when we were working on this demonstration). My friend got very excited at these spokes which began to appear at different points of the circle. After checking he stated that these spokes were caused by something very powerful RIGHT OVER THE RADAR DOME WHERE WE WERE OPERATING! ...I used my regular excitatory technique, same as I use on TV screens to control pro football games, exuding PK power from my brain, backed by verbal exclamations. AS SOON AS I DID THIS CLUSTERS OF SPOKES APPEARED CLEAR AROUND THE CIRCLE, IN EVERY DIRECTION! Up until I used this PK "attack" technique, there had only been a spoke here, a spoke there. But immediately when I began to exude PK force, psi-force, the spokes appeared in multiples, everywhere. This lasted for a brief time, then the spokes vanished entirely. The radar expert told me that he had never seen this phenomena in all his years of radar work. The above quotation is taken from a letter by Owens to J. Allen Hynek, which in his affidavit Richards stated is accurate. The affidavit continued to add further details regarding the experiment: Furthermore, Owens told me personally the night that he did his radar screen experiment that the technique which he was using on the screen could probably result in immediate rainstorms, because he was using on the radar screen lightning coming from his fingers which was the same technique that he used to make storms at other times. (And weather was clear.) Last night, the night following the experiment, there was a huge rainstorm here in Cape Charles, Virginia, then again today, two days later, there was yet another rainstorm; rather two, one in the afternoon and another tonight. Furthermore, on Monday night Owens told me that as a result of his use of psi-force over the radar screen ships might sink and planes might crash in the Chesapeake Bay area (which the radar screen denoted). Tonight a Navy Phantom Jet airplane crashed in the Chesapeake Bay area (this is Wednesday night, two days later after Owens prediction). And furthermore, Owens told me on Monday night to watch the television and newspapers for just such a happening! This news of the plane crashing appeared on local television tonight! (June 28, 1972) I swear that all of these statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Subsequent to Richards' affidavit, the files indicate a number of other crashes and accidents in the Chesapeake Bay area. Up to three inches of rain was reported === Page 55 of 103 12 in some Tidewater locations on June 28 and there were also many power outages throughout the area. On June 29, a newspaper clipping reports a variety of unusual "gremlin" type phenomena interfering with a Navy change of command ceremony for the Vice-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk. Also a Navy jet was almost lost near the Chesapeake Bay when a wheel dropped off the jet was flying. Only tremendous flying skill got the plane down without crashing. On July 10, 1972, a fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal caused some $12 million dollars in damages. A sailor who was caught setting one small fire was charged with arson and newsclips mentioned a possible death penalty. On August 6, Owens wrote a lengthy letter to the attorney defending this sailor suggesting that he, Owens, was responsible for the fire as a by-product of his radar demonstration. The attorney's reply indicated that while he was very interested in Owen's argument, it would hold no weight at all in a court of law. On July 28 a small twister hospitalized two people and damaged several motels and automobiles in Virginia Beach. July 29, 1972, lightning struck and killed two people in Norfolk, VA. On August 1, a civilian pilot was killed in a crash near Zuni, VA. An accident occurred with a Navy Blue Angels Phantom jet on August 3, 1972, in Kingston, N.C., which was within the 150200 mile range of the radar demonstration. On August 10, another Navy jet crashed at the Ocean Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach after returning from field carrier landing practice at Fentress Air Station in Chesapeake. The pilot was killed. Another Navy jet crashed off of the Virginia coast on September 14, 1972. On September 21, 1972, an empty barge, drifting in high winds and heavy seas, slammed into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, heavily damaging the structure and forcing it to close. A survey showed no fewer than 30 impact points. The bridge was closed for about three weeks. Owens claimed that this bridge was actually the === Page 56 of 103 13 main focus of his PK radar demonstration. The storm which occurred at the time of the accident which was the worse in that area in over ten years. **October 25, 1972:** In a letter to "my six scientists," Owens states that he will create a giant psi-force demonstration with the help of his UFO friends: I propose to CREATE summerlike weather this winter--warm, pleasant weather, little or no snow or cold. In this manner the fuel shortage need not happen, and people in the U.S. will not suffer. To do this I am going to communicate with my four huge giant UFO's and arrange for one (or two) on the far side of the earth to reflect the sun's rays onto THIS side of the earth, these rays to then be reflected downward onto OUR side of the earth by the one or two huge UFO's on THIS side. Whether my understanding of the sun is correct or not, I am going to use the four huge UFO's positioned around this earth to furnish heat to the U.S. this winter! So that the U.S. can have one of the warmest winters in its history. Newspaper clippings from the winter of 1972-1973 reveal that it was, indeed, a warm winter. Norfolk, VA, reported 73º sunshine on December 5, the warmest weather for that day in 47 years. An AP story dated January 21, 1973 shows that New York City set a new record high for the day of January 18 with a temperature of 66º. The City of Washington, D.C. set a new record by going without snow all winter according to a UPI article dated February 14, 1973. An article dated March 20, 1973, in the Philadelphia Inquirer states that that city "logged an interesting 'first'--its first winter with no measurable amounts of snow." The fuel shortage never did manifest during the winter of 1972-73, however it did get very cold in parts of the western United States and in February 1973 the southeastern states were blasted with the worst snowstorm in a century. Newsclippings show that Governor Jimmy Carter's home in Plains, GA, was buried under two feet of snow. In a letter dated March 27, 1973, Owens noted that it snowed in the south for about a week where it hadn't snowed in ten years. This, he said, was nature's way of maintaining its delicate ecological balance. **January 22, 1973:** In a letter to his six scientists, Owens made the following === Page 57 of 103 14 claim: Since no government takes me seriously and just a few scientists are even interested, they (the SIs) deem it necessary to give a demonstration of their powers further in order to prove that they are real and that I am indeed a living link with them, as no other human being is. This last year was called "The Year of the Flood" (a special television show to that effect, outlined the many floods and heavy rainfall, which I had in fact predicted in Brad Steiger's book, "What the Seers Predict for 1972" a year ahead of time). All right. Ahead is NOT the year(s) of the flood. But the REVERSE. The SIs are going to produce world-wide drought, intense heat, and LACK of rainfall and water. Otto Binder once asked me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" The above is it. Newspaper and magazine articles document terrible drought conditions in 1973. Owens' plan was to use his powers to end the droughts in various countries when the various governments would ask him to do so. None asked. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle dated June 14, 1973, states that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations listed 28 countries stricken by drought that year. "The prolonged series of dry spells, the worst in 25 years, has killed cattle and reduced crops in wide areas of Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East." "'Too many countries have had droughts simultaneously,' said Anthony Leeds, of FAO's basic foodstuffs service. 'They came at a time when there has been a big drop in grain production in the world.'" An article in Newsweek dated June 4, 1973, called 1973 "The Year of the Famine." Newspaper clippings stated that Britain, famed for the moistness of its climate, had its lowest rainfall since 1749. China, the Soviet Union and Australia were all effected. Africa had the worst drought in 60 years. November 9, 1973: The following letter, written on MENSA letterhead stationary is signed by Max L. Fogel, Ph. D., Director of Science and Education for Mensa: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet," and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFOs and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, === Page 58 of 103 15 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973. Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owens' letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place. Interestingly enough, one of the two witnesses of this sighting was Marion Owen, the Chase City police radio dispatcher who first sighted the object after noticing an unusual light reflection on the window of the police station. Ted Owens, in later correspondence, claimed that the similarity in names is a signature from the SIs to acknowledge that the sighting was, in fact, one of his demonstrations. There are several other instances in the files where this name similarity seems to occur. Actually, in Owens' original letter to Fogel, he stated that he would cause UFOs to appear all over Virginia. He would almost have to make such a large claim as the country was already in the middle of a major UFO flap in October of 1973--having been triggered by the famous Pascagoula, Mississippi, case. Owens, in his correspondence, took credit for having caused the entire wave of UFO sightings throughout the country--although he admitted there was no documentation to support this claim other than in his personal notes. February 12, 1974: In a letter to Ed Busch, of Radio Station WFAA, Dallas, Texas, Owens--who had been on Busch's radio program the week before--made the following prediction: If you recall, on the program itself you requested that I make it snow instantly, and your colleague wanted heat. All right. The SIs have given their permission. This is not for "funzies." I will notify the scientists who are observing my work, thus it will be a large-scale demonstration. There are four, huge, giant UFOs circling our earth (on your show, we didn't even scratch the surface of all that could be brought out) and I am going to utilize them to reflect heat back onto earth, the bullseye being Dallas, Texas. This will cause freakish weather and, of course, heat. Normal summer heat, coming up, should be amplified tremendously, perhaps to break a record. You will have great storms, lightning attacks, etc. Built into this will be the intelligence not to cause death or injury to Texas people, but to show how I, and the UFO entities, can control the weather anyplace in the world. On February 16, 1974, newspaper clippings record that an earthquake centered === Page 59 of 103 15 in the Texas panhandle shook parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The tremor registered between 4 and 4.5 on the Richter scale. On March 20, 1974, a storm developed over Texas and moved rapidly to the northeast. By the time it arrived in Georgia, winds reached up to 100 miles per hour. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said, "It's the strongest wind I've ever seen in the continental United States." Large areas of Texas were under tornado watch and at least two were reported on the ground. No injuries were reported. On March 24, unexpected freezing rain glazing the roads of north and west Texas, "and the resulting auto accidents brought deaths to the highways." Midland, Texas, recorded a record low temperature for that day of 28°. All of the above news items were clipped by Owens, who didn't have access to Texas newspapers, from the Virginian-Pilot. In a sworn affidavit, dated May 7, 1974, Ed Busch made the following statement regarding the Texas demonstration: ...Owens sent me a letter, stating that he, working with the UFOs would produce a "major demonstration" of weather control over Texas. Following Owens' letter Texas was struck by an earthquake, 4.5 on the Richter scale. Then Texas was struck by high winds and tornados. Then Texas had the coldest weather ever in its history. Then Texas was struck by hot winds that destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop. I am submitting this statement of fact to Owens at his request. It is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Whether Owens had any connection with the above weather phenomena, I do not know; perhaps it was mere coincidence. But I am stating the plain facts as they occurred, at Owens' request. **April 4, 1974:** In a letter "TO THE SCIENTISTS," Owens presented a very intimate story of his psi abilities interacting with a personal relationship: I am writing this special, very sad, report...because I am collaborating with a scientist actively in the search for Truth as pertains to the UFO enigma. Thus, it is more important, in the matter of values...to bring out the Truth as I know it...since I am part space-intelligence, and work for and with them. Believe me when I tell you...this is one report I do not wish to send you. Several weeks ago, after I had been challenged by Ed Busch, of Radio WFAA, in Dallas, Texas, to produce freak weather in Texas...the SIs produced first an earthquake; then a tornado attack; then unexpected cold that broke the Texas record. I had informed Mr. Busch in advance...that the SIs would do so. But the SIs were making their point...they could === Page 60 of 103 17 produce tornados! Now it is necessary to go back to early March. The SIs communicated with me then (or was it late February...somewhere in there) and told me that they were sending a female to me, for a purpose. They told me what the purpose was...and I wrote it down on a slip of paper and put it in my wallet. I told no one of this. Weeks later a girl called me from California, named Judy. She was in danger and did not know what to do...and she had my disc. (Ed note: Owens sells these SI charged discs at a nominal price.) During her call the SIs communicated and told me that this was the female. So I told her to come to Cape Charles and I would see that she was protected until the danger was over. Several days later she called from Phoenix...she'd changed her mind and was going back home to Los Angeles; had written me a letter to that effect, but was calling anyway. I told her that it was a great mistake; to come ahead. She did, changing from bus to airplane...and arrived at Norfolk airport, where I met her. During the first hour of meeting her, over coffee at the airport, I told her that the SIs had informed me a month earlier of her coming...and showed her the slip of paper containing notes re their communication, from my wallet. I was also very angry, because I thought that the SIs had made a ghastly mistake. This female did not resemble in the least...what they said they were sending. I told the girl this, and she cried. The general purpose of the SIs sending the female, as of that moment as I knew it...was to save my life. I have pointed out before that the SIs regard me, PK Man, as priceless to them...and to their plans to save the human race. But, known only to myself, and the SIs...my will to live had been getting lower and lower with each passing year, until this year, 1974, it barely flickered. By the next day...I discovered that the girl wore a disguise. (Dress, hair and make-up.) True. And she was in absolute fact...what the SIs had promised me. And I fell deeply in love with her, as I have never loved another female in my lifetime. (But I had to...as it turned out, because the SIs had planned it that way. And evidently they had been able to pick out this one female...perfect for me...an absolute stranger to me...and motivate her to come to me. Which can give you some inkling of the infinite intelligence, and powers, of the SIs.) All right. She was to stay in Cape Charles for a month, under my protection. I had fallen deeply in love with her in 24 hours (sooner, really). And for several days all I could do was watch her move around and talk, speechless myself with the wonder of it all...absorbing her warmth and personality. For years it had been my habit to drink Scotch, whenever I felt like it. She lectured me about that. She showed me how to cook vegetables and cut my food bill in half. Then...came the shock. Remember, for years and years and years...each day has been like the next day. Suddenly, like a flower blooming in the springtime...I am deeply in love...and long-fading feelings, deep feelings...are fanned within me to a lovely, roaring blaze. Also remember...PK Man has a brain. A powerful brain. The most powerful brain, in fact, in the whole world. Most of you are familiar with the hundreds of miracles I have CAUSED to happen...if not, I can show you the documentation. What kind of brain...would it take, think === Page 61 of 103 18 you...to cause those kind of miracles? So...what would be an ordinary human emotion in an ordinary male...strong human emotion...would be magnified god knows how many times in PK Man. I.e., as I have long told my friends, when PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. Quite unlike...the ordinary human. And also remember...the SIs had gone to a great deal of trouble to bring this female to me...and nothing they do is trifling. Whatever they do, has tremendous significance. So, the SIs thought they had arranged it...to extend my lifespan by ten to twenty years. The shock: several days after she arrived, the female...well, it happened like this. Each day I slept late, until ten in the morning...before driving far out to her motel to bring her into Cape Charles. But on Saturday morning the SIs woke me early in the morning...about 7:30...and warned me to go to the female quickly. I got dressed and drove out to her motel. She was dressed, and in the lobby. We went to the coffee shop. I was puzzled, but said we'd have breakfast before going into Cape Charles for the day. Then she dropped the bomb. "Would you be upset," she asked me, "if I left today?" I just sat and stared at her. Now, at this point...I only knew that the SIs had brought her, and why. I thought to myself, oh, no....and I'm in love with her...and the SIs are monitoring...and she's leaving the SI plan! (You see, human choice is most important to the SIs...they cannot force humans to carry out their wishes; just set up their plans, and hope that the humans follow through.) So I thought to myself...my God, will the SIs be upset! She told me that she'd already booked a plane in Norfolk, to fly away. So I drove her to the Norfolk airport, and saw her onto her plane. Her previous long distance call to me from Phoenix, as I have described...had been an error on her part...but she'd taken my advice then and come ahead. I knew...that this decision on her part to leave abruptly...was an even greater error.... On Monday following her departure...the SIs communicated and told me they'd sent the female, having picked her from all other females, knowing full well that I would fall in love with her...and that the result would be eliminating my drinking Scotch and beer which, they said, was due to shorten my life considerably ahead. (They can see ahead; precognition.) She also had another, much more important function...but that will be in confidence. But I could sense, from the tone of their communication...that they were disturbed. The SIs do not emote as humans do...but since I am half-SI, I share and sometimes sense...what they are "feeling". And...they were disturbed. Their plan...an excellent one...had been sabotaged by the female's decision to leave just a few days after arriving. And now the reason for the writing of this report...after the necessary background. On Wednesday, yesterday, April 3, 1974....tornados struck in eleven of the U.S. states. The radio said that it was the worst tornado attack in the history of the United States. I wondered...on hearing this...about the coincidence...of my SI tornado demonstration just several weeks ago in Texas...to prove a point there. Could there be any connection? Today, Thursday...the SIs communicated with me...said they had done it on purpose. To demonstrate their intense anger over the shattering of === Page 62 of 103 19 their plan...and to show you scientists, and the government...what very serious powers they have. They said that I am no joke; I am so important to them...they must keep me alive and well and happy and healthy...yet they cannot get humans to subsidize me and my work with them, and provide situations where they, the SI s, can keep me alive, happy and well. And the massive, enormous tornado attack...was their signature to the "letter" of their Texas demonstration of several weeks past. I.e., if they could make a few tornados in Texas to prove a point...then they would produce and eleven state tornado attack to prove a point as well. The record tornado attack was the SI equivalent of a small child stamping its foot in a rage of frustration. Why, you say...if they are so infinitely intelligent...yes, I say, but they do not think like humans. And in their communication today...they reminded me of years ago...when they deliberately burned up three astronauts on the pad at Cape Kennedy...because the night before, a killer tried to wipe out me and my family in our apartment in Philadelphia by setting fire under us, and we barely escaped. At that time they were furious...because I wasn't being given ample protection by the government, or somebody...being as important to them as I was...their only link with the human race. The reason for the female being here...was just as important...to save my life. But it was not her fault for wanting to leave...and the SIs knew it. But they also know...I cannot go on much longer as I have been going on...financially supported mainly by the help of one man, George Delavan, in Illinois...who has been sending me several hundred dollars a month, sometimes more...to help me keep my head above water. They know my life-flame has burned too low (will to live) because of the unemotional, dull life that I lead (hence bringing in the female). Something has to give...and the eleven-State tornado attack was a SI warning...that whatever has to give, it had better not be PK Man. With this letter is a copy of the Virginian-Pilot dated April 5, 1974, with the following headline story: Death Toll From Tornadoes Mounts -- Injured, Homeless In the Thousands. **July 23, 1975: The following letter from Owens:** SCIENTISTS.... In this file you will find some strange documentation re the Kennedy airplane crash. I was returning from Egypt, from Cairo via Rome...and showing my Saga magazine writeups to the stewardesses and others...particularly the page where the artist has my face looking up into the sky...where an airplane is being struck by lightning...and on the page are the words "Tornado Winds Rip Area." Then my plane began its approach to Kennedy Airport and the pilot told everyone to buckle seatbelts for landing. But the plane, going down, veered off...circled over the ocean...went to another airport for a while...then returned to Kennedy and landed. When I went through customs the customs officer looked at my flight ticket...said, "You are lucky to be here. You know that don't you?" I asked what he meant...and he told me that the plane ahead of ours had been struck by lightning; had crashed. Words to that effect. All of the action, move by odd move, is on my "crash" tape.... === Page 63 of 103 20 The other material is self-explanatory. There were so many military plane crashes IN THIS AREA that the government grounded those type of planes everywhere. It was caused by my radar demonstration of some time ago. The power is still active here. To bad the government will not subsidize my work. In the file with this letter is a newspaper clipping about the airplane crash at Kennedy Airport, dated June 25, 1975. The article states, "More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U. S. aviation." "At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plowed into an area of parkland north of the airport." Owens includes a xerox of his flight ticket for TWA flight 491 into JFK airport on June 24 from Cairo. A copy of the Saga article and illustration is shown, as Owens described it in his letter. In a newsclipping of June 26, 1975, winds are now cited as the cause of the airline crash. One one other time in U.S. aviation history has there been a case where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash. And never had lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly, according to a spokesman from the National Transportation Safety Board. Then follow a series of articles about two more jet crashes in the Virginia area and the Navy grounding all 139 of its multimillion dollar F14 fighter planes because of suspected engine problems. A number of other miscellaneous articles follow including one which states that "Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch--Black Magic Blackballed." "Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note." OCTOBER 8, 1975: In a letter to Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station === Page 64 of 103 214 WCFL, Chicago, Illinois, Owens told some stories about his past and promised another demonstration: ...Shortly thereafter a stranger sent money to me to move to Colorado. So we packed up and drove to Colorado. But once there things went wrong as far as this stranger was concerned, so we drove towards Florida, at the direction of the SIs. A UFO followed us overhead all the way. We would get out and look at it, and it would go into a cloud...wait until we drove on...then emerge from the cloud and keep following us. When we reached Dothan, Alabama, we parked for the night on top of a high hill, and I spread some blankets on top of the station wagon and slept up there. I was wakened by a blinding flash of light...then a loud crash nearby our car. Strangely I simply went back to sleep. In the morning a car came rushing up to our car...and a man leaped out and asked if we had seen an army helicopter. I pointed over to the side of our car and said, there it is. He shouted for us not to go near the copter, because it had secret equipment in it...leaped in his car and drove away. I sauntered over to the copter and a negro in uniform leaned out the window with a .45 in his hand and cheerily told me to stay right where I was because he had orders not to let anyone approach the copter. I asked him what had happened. He said the copter had flown down over our car and turned their searchlight on us...and at that exact instant all the power in the copter went dead. Lights, radio, everything. He couldn't even radio out for help...and the copter of course crashed. Then a whole fleet of cars, officers, and heavy equipment arrived to try and extricate the copter. I showed the army officers my book re UFOs...and warned them not to buzz my car again, because the UFO that had followed us from Colorado had evidently thought we were being attacked by the copter, and had downed it.... Now, to the business at hand. You have requested that I give a UFO demonstration over Chicago. I can do much better than that...and have cleared it with the SIs by direct communication today. Please note in the March 1971 Saga Mag article, "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary" by Otto Binder. In this article is described one of my 300 miracles...causing all sorts of weird things to happen in and around Norfolk, Virginia...as well as the appearance of a UFO over Norfolk. I am going to duplicate this miracle, with some embellishments, for the benefit of Chicago. And I will spell out what I am going to do, and then notify my scientists, so that they can observe. UFO appearances...will ask the SIs to appear outstandingly in and around the Chicago area, and possibly do some very strange things to accompany the appearances. EM phenomena...I will cause electromagnetic changes in the Chicago area. This will cause power blackouts and various forms of magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies. It should also cause many lightning strikes, violent storms and high winds. Poltergeist phenomena...I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the === Page 65 of 103 22 poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. But the football games of the Bears in that Stadium, in the months ahead...should be wild, freakish, and downright funny. And all sorts of strange things should happen at O'Hare Airport. Instruments going crazy; tires blowing out; etc. Not to mention human error by the bushelful. The Grid...I will set up an other-dimensional grid over the Chicago area. Won't tell you what it will do...but you'll see the results. Now...I have never yet failed in a demonstration on this huge scale. Never. But the difficulty here is...to try and minimize the effects so that no one gets hurt. In short...I have far too much power for such an experiment. Sort of like using a shotgun to shoot a fly in a barrel. This will not make too much sense to you, but believe me I know what I am talking about.... P.S. The time element on this: will set it all up today. Things should start popping within days or weeks. The entire demonstration should cap and climax within 90 days. It could well be the wildest 90 days in the history of Chicago! An extensive assortment of newspaper and magazine clippings accompanies the file of Owens' Chicago demonstration. The Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975, reports that "A Mysterious radio signal apparently coming from the Michigan Avenue bridge has caused occasional brake failures on new buses operated by the Chicago Transit Authority and the United Motor Coach Co...." A Chicago Tribune article of October 15, 1975, states that, "Police are investigating the possibility that the recent slaughter of two calves and the beheading of a rabbit in an area 50 miles Northwest of Chicago may have been the work of a mysterious "UFO" group reportedly traveling across the country from Oregon." A letter to Owens from Doug Dahlgren, on December 1, 1975, states, "We even had the UFO sightings within the prescribed area. We tried to call the parties who were involved but they refused to talk to us." A Newsweek article of December 22, 1975, reports on unusual traffic jams that have occurred recently at O'Hare Airport. A Tribune article of December 13, 1975, states that there have been four near collisions between commercial jets flying to or from O'Hare field in less === Page 66 of 103 23 than two weeks. The October 14 Tribune states, "After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 88 degrees breaking the old mark of 83 set nineteen years ago. The following day also set a record high temperature. A Tribune article of November 10, 1975, ran the bold headline, 75-mile winds pound city. Several tornadoes were also reported. While early November was the warmest in Chicago history, the November 28 Tribune reports "The worst Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history." Again on December 1, the Tribune reported high winds and tornadoes across northern Illinois. A Tribune article of December 2 states that November 1975 was the "second warmest November in 100 years" and the warmest since 1931. A series of Tribune articles on Bear football games seem to bear out Owens' prediction. On October 13, "Lions ax Bears in 'laughter' 27-7." Coach Jack Pardee is quoted as saying, "This is the first teach I've ever been associated with where we were so bad the opposition laughed at us on the field." October 20, "Steelers crumple bumbling Bears." October 29, "Vikes' TD a Freak," referring the the play when the Bears had only 10 men on the field. In the Tribune of October 29, 1975, columnist Jack Mabley remarks on Owens' demonstration as follows: **The Bears Are Bugged:** I've come across an interesting theory about what's happening to the Chicago Bears. Poltergeists. From flying saucers. When a team lost a close game because on one play they had only 91 per cent of their team on the field, you've got to look for more sophisticated reasons than bad coaching or missed signals. The poltergeist theory is contained in an "I told you so" letter from one Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., who calls himself "The UFO Prophet," to one Doug Dahlgren of WCFL. Apparently Dahlgren challenged Owens to produce UFO phenomenon in Chicago. On October 8 Owens announced he would "send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings." He says he has connections with the occupants of the flying objects, === Page 67 of 103 22 and set this up with instructions that nobody was to get hurt. ..........Of the caliber of the Bears' play I'd say the poltergeists had some of their greatest moments Monday night when the Bears had only 10 men on the field as Tarkenton tossed the winning touchdown, I could almost see the little men sitting in their saucer over Soldier Field with the lights out, hugging their sides in mirth. What's cooking for the next game, fellows? On November 3, "Have mercy...don't laugh at Bear comedy." November 17, "Bears can't win for fear of losing." January 30, 1976: Owens' letter: TO MY SCIENTISTS I am giving you notice well in advance...of major phenomena that I am going to cause...over the State of California.... Last night over TV the evening news showed a stricken California. No water. "The worst drought in 72 years." "Only three times in the entire history of the State of California...has such a drought appeared." Crops are dead and dying...and the animals are in pitiful condition. Now I, Ted Owens, PK Man...will change all of that. Within the next 90 days from the time of this letter...I will pour and pour and pour rains onto and into the State of California...until it is swimming in water, and the dangerous drought is completely over. There will be storm after storm, lightning attack after lightning attack, and high winds.... A UPI clipping from February 1, 1976, confirms Owens statement about drought. "The cost of a California winter-drought has mounted to about $310.5 million Saturday, and dried-out Kansas wheat lies vulnerable to wind erosion." "Ten more days of drought could precipitate an emergency in the livestock industry. But there is little moisture in sight." However by February 6, 1976, the headlines changed: San Francisco Snowed by a Record Snowfall. "...the biggest snowfall in exactly 89 years hit the city and surrounding areas." "The storm also featured lightning and sleet. A giant television tower on Mt. San Bruno, south of San Francisco was hit by lightning about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday knocking several TV stations off the air." The following newsclip was sent to Owens by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, who had received Owens prediction only days earlier. From the Palo Alto Times, Thursday, February 5, 1976: Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula. "The unexpected and unfamiliar weather was at odds with a forecast Wednesday that the dry spell would === Page 68 of 103 25 continue in the Bay Area." "Not since the morning of Jan. 21, 1962, have Mid-peninsulans awakened to find their homes blanketed with snow." Puthoff and Targ wrote Owens the following note with the clippings, "Ted--Just as you predicted in your letter of January 30. Kinda makes me stop and wonder." The Oakland Tribune of February 5 goes on to state that the storm brought with it "nearly every phenomenon in the weatherman's book throughout the Bay Area." "Snow, hail, sleet, light rain, thunder and lightning hit the Bay Area after weeks of dry, Balmy weather." "Varying amounts of rain fell upon the lower two-thirds of the state..." "In northwestern California, there are gale warnings..." On February 10, a UPI story states, "The rainy season continued in California for the sixth consecutive day. Some mountainous regions of the state have received 6 to 8 inches of rain and coastal areas have measured 3 to 4 inches." The San Mateo Times of January 31, 1976, reports that several nights earlier "half a dozen law enforcement agencies reported a cigar shaped object with flashing lights leaving what looked like a vapor trail in the sky over southwestern Nevada and southeastern California." A San Francisco Chronicle reports a UFO sighting in Siskiyou mountains of northern California on February 8 and 9 by Tom Gates, director of the De Anza College Space Center, and Paul Cerny, mechanical engineer for an electronics firm. Both of these men were investigating earlier sightings reported in December for Northwestern University's Center for UFO Studies when their own sighting occurred. On March 10, 1976, a large power failure hit state government offices in downtown Sacramento. The lights went out shortly after 1:30 p.m. and remained out all through the rest of the afternoon. On April 19, 1976, a giant fireball was reported near San Jose. On April 8, massive outages affected more than 600,000 electricity customers in California from two to ten minutes. With regard to the April 8 power blackout, Owens told an interesting story. In a letter of April 9, 1976, Owens wrote: TO MY SCIENTISTS: === Page 69 of 103 246 A most astounding thing has occurred: The SIs...my UFO connection...have "spoken"... in their own inimitable way...before I could even get the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, off to you! I typed ten copies of the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, Wednesday afternoon...then had to desist because I had the flu...also was shook up by the IRS agents...and was so angry that I could have cussed. Matter of fact...I did cuss. (This emotional response of my part is important in your understanding of what follows.) All right. Wednesday night late...about 3 AM Thursday morning, really...all power went out on the West Coast from Portland, Oregon, down to almost Los Angeles, California...for from 3 to 7 minutes depending on where you lived there. (Millie, my San Francisco friend and scout...called me long distance on Thursday and told me about it...said that it was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper...and I will document it later in my last file on the "California Miracle.") That's "one." Also...in that same time-frame...there was an earthquake in California...approximately 5 on the Richter scale...reported here in Virginia on our TV set. That's "two." I.e., the SIs...UFO connection...en rapport with the "alien" half of my brain (belonging to them) (Ed. note: Owens claims that his brain was operated on by the SIs. He does, in fact, have an unusual groove in the back of his head where he says the incision occurred.)...picked up my distress caused by the Wednesday IRS agent happening...and decided to show the United States government, on a small scale, what they could do. They did it to California because that is where I am putting on a UFO-connection demonstration at the present time. (If they had knocked out the power and put an earthquake anywhere else in the U. S., it would have had little meaning with regard to me and my demonstration in California.) Enclosed with his April 9 letter is a letter dated April 7, which describes several incidents of apparent harassment and makes a number of dire predictions. In the April 7 letter, Owens stated: Anyway, I want you to know...that I am being harassed...and I can tell you...that the SIs...my UFO connection...will be greatly angered by this. Because they feel...that the U.S. Government is my "host government"...i.e., I am their ambassador to the human race, residing in the United States. So that...anything bad...that befalls their "Ambassador"...they will retaliate...in their own, UFO, way. I myself first learned of Owens, shortly after his California demonstration, when Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ eagerly shared with me the snowstorm story. This sort of phenomena was outside the boundaries of their experimental investigations, however they hoped that someone, like myself, would follow up on the case. A news brief in Psychic Magazine of April 1976, mentioned Owens apparent === Page 70 of 103 28 success with this demonstration. This news item led to Owens being invited to end the drought in Britain. It should be noted that, in spite of the unexpected storm following Owens' prediction, the drought continued in many areas of California. By February 27, 1976, Governor Brown had declared 29 of the state's 58 counties as economic disaster areas due to crop losses. **May 10, 1976:** Owens wrote the following letter to Susanne Stebbing in Kent, England, who had written to him requesting that he use his powers to end the terrible drought in England: In your letter...you state that you are a friend of Professor John Taylor of King's College in London...and that he is doing research into the paranormal...he has studied Uri Geller and various children with mind-bending powers. You state that Dr. Taylor is "one of the top men in science at the Dept. of Mathematics at King's College." You go on to state: "As you may know, England is in the midst of a severe drought - the worst in over 150 years and our water supply will be cut off to domestic use and industry within 6 weeks from now - unless some heavy rains fall." ...In order to work to produce prodigious amounts of rain onto England within the next 90 days...all during that period, and starting right away...it would be proper for Dr. Taylor to write me a personal letter on his stationary, requesting this...because I thoroughly document all that I do and his personal approach on his own stationary would be a necessity for me.... Since time is of the essence...I will accept you at your word...re Dr. Taylor...and set up this demonstration at once...this very day. Obviously it takes much time for a letter to reach you...judging from the date on your own letter...so that we can save England much anguish from prolonged drought if I begin my work at once, without waiting for Dr. Taylor's personal letter before commencing.... Very well, this demonstration of producing massive amounts of rain for England during the next 90 days...will do the following: Rain, rain and rain...in huge amounts, and over all of England. Lightning attacks accompanying. High winds, sometimes at hurricane force. Appearance of UFOs...and UFO creatures. And my demonstration should end England's drought.... In this demonstration...I need your assistance, and also that of Dr. Taylor. His letter, for one thing. Then, as the phenomena unfolds...I need clippings from your English newspapers re what I am doing, sent to me so that I can put them together, xerox them, and get the completed 90 day file out to my scientists at this end (copy to you and to Dr. Taylor).... I begin. Will await word from Dr. Taylor, personally. And will be a pleasure to hear from you again. === Page 71 of 103 28 (Ed. note: Owens frequently uses the three dot...punctuation in his own writing, for non-grammatical reasons. Therefore, in indicating that I have skipped over nonessential material, I have used four dot punctuation....) In a letter to Owens dated June 4, 1976, Susanne Stebbing indicated that Professor Taylor was too busy to write to Owens for the time being. However, she had arranged for Owens to be invited to speak at a conference to be held in August at City University of London (at his own expense) and hoped that Owens could meet Dr. Taylor there and also be tested in Taylor's laboratory. She also added, "The drought here has been aborted slightly, but the danger to reservoirs still remain. We have had some showery rain in local areas which just keeps the crops and gardens in order. Also a few local thunderstorms and 'cloud bursts' mentioned on local news bulletins. Any phenomena you could produce including UFO activity would certainly interest Prof. Taylor and his colleagues." Newspaper clippings in the England file indicate some rain in June, particularly on the courts of the $100,000 women's tennis tournament and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. However the drought continued. The following letter, from John Taylor, University of London King's College, is dated July 12, 1976: I have received letters and copies of letters sent by yourself to Miss Susan Stebbing. You said in your letter of May 10th to Miss Stebbing that you would attempt to produce rain in England as rapidly as possible. It is now July 12th and since May 10th there has indeed been very low rainfall and England has got into a worse and worse state. I am afraid that clearly your attempt, at least from what I can see has failed dismally. If, when storms do come in about three or four days time, according to the weather forecast, you then claim success I can only say that of course if you wait long enough certainly rain will come. However, if you have been trying at the highest level that you can since May 10th, then I can only say that I have no faith at all in your powers. I look forward to discussing this further with you at the City University conference, to be held here in London shortly. Owens response (as tape recorded by me later in London) to Taylor's remark that the drought must end eventually was that there had been longer droughts in Africa === Page 72 of 103 29 and other countries and that the British drought would continue until he personally ended it. Another letter from Taylor is dated July 14, 1976: ..........I hope you have received by now my brief response to your earlier letter to her (Stebbing). I am afraid that I am not at all convinced by your demonstration as yet; the weather reports for the last two months have been uniformly hot and dry and that there is no alleviation of the drought. There have been rains in the north-west of the United Kingdom, but they have in no way touched the east, nor have they alleviated the drought. Indeed there is now rationing in parts of Wales, and this will have to be brought elsewhere. I would only hope that they will indeed be alleviated, but I don't see any clear prospect of this, at least according to the meteorological forecast. Looking forward to seeing you at the City University as I said. The British drought did not end within the 90 period specified by Owens. When I arrived in London on August 27 for the Parascience conference, conditions were severe. Residents of London were being asked to reduce their water consumption to 1/3 of normal use. In some villages, the only water was brought by trucks twice a week. On August 24, Prime Minister Callaghan called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the drought. A London **Times** article dated August 27 states the following: **Water chief see no end to drought in long-range forecast** Britain could not count any any early substantial rainfall to relieve the drought, Lord Nugent of Guildford, chairman of the National Water Council, said yesterday after being shown a preview of the September long-range weather forecast to be published next week. However, the British forecasters failed to take into account the fact that Ted Owens would be arriving in person on August 27, 1976. I was there myself and friends told me I could get my picture on the front page of the **Times** if I only walked through Piccadilly Circus with my umbrella open. However a UPI story dated Friday, August 27, 1976, states: "Rain fell on London today for the first time in 38 days and showers dampened the southeast of England but weathermen said it made no difference to Britain's worst drought in 500 years." On the following day, August 28, the London **Evening News** carried a story about a power failure, causes unknown, which halted the entire underground subway system for about a half hour. Thirty trains were stopped. And the rains continued along with hail. === Page 73 of 103 39 The rains continued and continued. On September 29, 1976, the British Environment Ministry announced that the drought was officially over. In his presentation at the London Parascience conference, Owens stated that it was he who was ending the drought. There were many cultists who were getting coverage in the news at the time for similar claims. To answer this, Owens pointed out the power failure which occurred when he arrived in London. This, he said was a feature common to his many demonstrations. Owens also predicted at this conference that droughts would continue around the world until the nations of this planet called on him to bring rains. June 7, 1977: Owens writes the following document: STATEMENT OF FACT FOR THE SCIENTISTS The first of June...I telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles...Mr. Charles Powell...and informed him of my INTENT to cause a hurricane to come to this area, which is composed of Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore plus the Tidewater Area just across the Chesapeake Bay. I warned him to get into his police car and drive away from this area quickly as soon as he heard that the monster storm was coming. He said that he couldn't...that he has a family here and that it would not be practical to do so. I told him that I wanted to warn him anyway. Yesterday, June 6, 1977...a FREAK monstrous storm of hurricane force (98 miles per hour winds; hail the size of a fist, etc.) struck this area...just grazing the Eastern Shore but knocking the stuffings out of the Tidewater Area just across the Bay. Boats were knocked over and sunk; radar screens were completely blanked out for a while; TV stations were knocked out; people hung on trees just to keep from being blown away; huge loaded trucks were blown off the road; airplanes were blown over...and so forth. All of this described, and more, in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk, this date. The reason I am informing you of this...is simply to let you know that I told the Police Chief here in Cape Charles in advance. Another great point of interest to you scientists...is the fact that this freak monstrous storm is the SAME as the freak monstrous storm that struck the San Francisco area during my demonstration there for Jeffrey Mishlove, the young....scientist who lives in that area. Both freak storms came out of nowhere (as described by various witnesses in the newspapers following both storms in both areas) and were NOT anticipated by the Weather Bureaus of either the San Francisco area or this area. Upon receiving this letter, I immediately telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles, VA, who was indeed Mr. Charles Powell. Powell confirmed every detail of === Page 74 of 103 30 Owens' story and added that he had signed a statement for Owens to that effect. The Virginian-Pilot, June 7, 1977, ran the following banner headline: **5 Killed in 98-m.p.h. Wind that Leaves Cities Stunned.** "The storm caught Tidewater by surprise. Although the Weather Service had predicted thunderstorms, a severe thunderstorm watch did not go into effect until 3 p.m. At 4:15 p.m. a tornado warning was put into effect." One witness described the storm as follows: "I was out at 3 p.m., and it was sunshiney, and all of a sudden it got dark and you could hear the wind and you could see the hail. You can't describe it. It's such an eerie feeling to see it light one minute and dark the next. If the wind wasn't so hard, the hail wouldn't have caused so much damage. I have a very small fist, but the hail was about the size of my fist." Admittedly, the above episodes are not documented in sufficient detail for a qualified scientific or judicial opinion regarding Owens' activities. Further documentation exists and will be made available to serious researchers. The history has been presented in such a fashion as to suggest possibilities, rather than certainties. I myself can no more accept Owens' story than I can discount the likelihood of enormously significant events taking place. === Page 75 of 103 My Encounter with Ted Owens outline I learn about snowstorm at SRI I read Owens' book. Owens speaks in London The rainbow UFO connection. The San Francisco demonstration. My letter exchange with Owens. Owens visit to SF Owens stays with Janelle California fires Am I a government agent? Poltergeist on Owens files. I write the report. My personal reaction to this experience. The public response. Ethical issues. === Page 76 of 103 LOG 3. OWENS REPORT PP 10-31 21 PAGES 6. TED OWENS REPORT PART I, PAG 9 PAGES 7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES 8. PAG OWENS 10 22 PAGES PAGES AVAILABLE: 10 === Page 77 of 103 LOG 6. OWENS 30 PAGES 7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES PAGES AVAILABLE: 25 === Page 78 of 103 Prophetic Power: The Fury of Ted Owens by Jeffrey Mishlove 2430 Lake Street, Apartment 4 San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 79 of 103 Jeffrey Mishlove is a doctoral candidate in parapsychology at the University of California at Berkeley through the individual, interdisciplinary doctoral program. He is the first individual to create a doctoral major in parapsychology at any accredited university in the United States. Mishlove is also the author of The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation through History, Science and Experience (Random House, 1975) which is used by dozens of college and university courses as an introductory parapsychology text. The material in the following article is factual. Photographs of Ted Owens as well as photostats of relevant affidavits and newspaper headlines are available. === Page 80 of 103 Copyright (c) 1978 by Jeffrey Mishlove. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced in whole or in part or in any form without written permission. === Page 81 of 103 Forward Mr. Ted Owens is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The data which relates to Owens' claims is presented in this book. I do not believe that we can approach the Ted Owens case in an objective manner unless we are willing to examine our own predisposed attitudes to this subject matter. Thus, I feel it is incumbent for the reader to understand my basic stance in relationship to the Owens data. In 1975, before I knew anything about Owens, I had published in my first book, The Roots of Consciousness (New York: Random House/Bookworks) a chapter which argued that there was a legitimate relationship between UFOs and psi phenomena. Similar positions have been held by many researchers who have a first-hand familiarity with the UFO data such as J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, James Harder, Leo Sprinkle, D. Scott Rogo and Berthold Schwarz. Nevertheless, this is a position which is as emotionally repugnant to some today as Freudian concepts of sexuality were to those of the nineteenth century. My position has been sarcastically treated in the two major American academic parapsychology journals. I have answered the charges brought against my position in both the Journal of Parapsychology (March, 1977) and The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (April, 1977). However, the logical issues surrounding my position are not all that seems to be at stake. The very fact that the "UFO-psi" viewpoint is treated with such contempt--in the face of a considerable body of evidence--indicates that raw nerves are being touched === Page 82 of 103 Forward somewhere. We may be dealing with a situation analogous to what T. S. Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) has called a "shift in paradigms." The Owens phenomena may challenge not only our research capabilities, but also the very notions of space and time upon which much of our research is predicated. (I say "much of our research" because developments in quantum physics and general relativity have already severely challenged our common sense notions of space and time.) Even more distressing, the evidence herein presented suggests a new understanding of our notions of mind and personality. In presenting the Owens files, I have attempted to let the data speak for itself. Admittedly I have selected from the files those cases which I believe highlight the radical possibility that Owens is, in fact, in possession of unusual talents related to both psi and UFOs. Another selection of cases could paint a different picture. Owens hasn't always called the shots correctly. My best estimate is that he is at least 50% accurate in predicting events with an a priori chance probability of less than 1%. So, for all of his faults and errors, the pattern of his apparent successes stands out from the "rubbish" in the data. Whether I have endangered my own scientific objectivity, integrity and reputation by presenting this material is a question which you, the reader, may well ask for purposes of your own evaluation. I have certainly not shied away from presenting my own subjective impressions and from including myself as a character in the Ted Owens story. If I were the reader of this book, I would have to ask tough questions. Recently I had lunch with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle who for many months has been interested in my experiments on ESP learning. This research had not been published for my scientific colleagues, so I was reluctant to allow him to report on my studies in the press. Instead, I steered the conversation to Ted Owens and the research report I had published on Owens. At first the newsman was very 2 === Page 83 of 103 Forward interested, but the more I told him of the story the more disgusted he became. Finally he looked at me and angrily stated, "I have to deal with reality. I can't afford to indulge in fantasies like this." With that he abruptly left the table. The experience was not a pleasant one for me. It brought home quite clearly the fact that my integrity is being questioned every time I mention the Ted Owens material. Those who will accept the psychokinesis (PK) are unwilling to accept the UFOs--as in the case of this reporter and most of the parapsychology community. Those who can accept both psi and UFOs are unwilling to accept Ted Owens' ego--as in the case of other investigators who have known Owens during the past ten years. And a large segment of the population accepts none of the premises which led me to this study in the first place. Until now, no individual with any claim to scientific credentials has been willing to tell the Ted Owens story. And although my first book, The Roots of Consciousness, is used as a standard parapsychology text in dozens of colleges and universities, I am still a graduate student myself at the time of this writing. I hope to retain my status with the University of California in spite of my inquiry into this rather taboo area. Like any other scientist, my reputation cannot stand on my story alone. It stands on the corroborating evidence, on the testimony of other witnesses, on the ability of the data to withstand careful scrutiny, and on the ability of Owens to continue to repeat the phenomena for more scientists under conditions where more controls can be instituted and more careful measurements can be made. I have asked Ted Owens to tell his own story in subsequent chapters of this book. He has done so candidly and, in my opinion, with style. This story is his, from his own memories, in his own words. He claims, for instance, that he learned to read instantly at the age of four when he was taught by a beautiful red-haired woman who mysteriously appeared to him. 3 === Page 84 of 103 Forward Many people would argue that I have lost all claim to scientific objectivity if I let such stories pass in a book such as this without challenging them. I concur with this view. I find it perfectly reasonable and healthy to challenge all of Owens' claims. I certainly do not endorse all of them myself. It is not my intention to present anything that Ted Owens states in this book as fact--but rather as data, as testimony to be analyzed and critically evaluated by the reader. I feel that the reader has a right to be informed of our scientific progress in all stages of its development. Were this presentation limited only to the results of the hard-core, controlled experimental tests there would be no book whatsoever. Nevertheless, I feel it is my obligation as a scientific writer to present only that material which is what it claims to be. This I have done. However, I caution the reader to be careful in distinguishing the extent of my own qualifications for any piece of data. I regard as most evidential the material presented in relationship to my 90 day pilot experiment with Owens in San Francisco and those cases which are from the scientific files I have gathered on Owens where his predictions have been sent in advance to scientists. Next most evidential are those cases where I have personally interviewed witnesses. I have explicitly stated in the text when this has occurred. Most of these witnesses are available to be interviewed by other serious inquirers into the Owens affair. After this, I hold as most evidential those cases for which I have signed statements and affidavits from witnesses who I have not been able to interview. From a scientific perspective, Owens own claims and interpretations of his life are least evidential. From a humanistic perspective, they are of the greatest importance and it is particularly for that reason that they are included in this book. I cannot vouch for the entire accuracy of Owens' story. However, I can vouch with absolute certainty that it is his story. 4 === Page 85 of 103 Forward Many people have asked me why, with all of his alleged powers, hasn't Owens become rich, famous or powerful in the world. Often the question is meant to imply that these powers cannot be real; or, if they are real, they cannot be of any value. Whether or not Owens' powers are real, of course, depends only on the facts and not on our preconceived notions of whether or not such powers can exist or what they must be like if they do exist. I cannot emphasize this point enough. The value which these powers have, be they real, depends as much on us, who give value and shape events by our mutual agreement, as it does on Ted Owens. We are all, in our own ways, as powerful and as powerless as he seems to be. === Page 86 of 103 PK Man Scientists who know about Ted Owens have found it convenient to pretend that he doesn't exist. Skeptics who learn of his claims are outraged. Occult fanatics have sent hate letters to Ted Owens and mysterious strangers have threatened to kill him. Millie Miller, a sweet older woman who works for the telephone company in San Francisco, admires Owens' work as a cosmic agent. For years she has been providing financial support for his work--as has George Delevan, a computer specialist in Cleveland. As a scientific parapsychology researcher, there have been many moments when I would rather not have had to confront the enigma which Ted Owens represents. I first learned about Owens in the parapsychology research laboratories of SRI International, in Menlo Park near San Francisco, California, the military-industrial think tank complex, where physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ have achieved public acclaim for their experiments with Uri Geller, Ingo Swann and other talented psychic subjects. Owens contacted Puthoff and Targ in 1973, shortly after their work with Geller received attention in the national media. In a letter to these researchers, Owens described himself as "the world's greatest psychic" and offered himself as a subject for testing. Puthoff and Targ declined the offer, but did continue to receive correspondence from Owens for several years documenting his "demonstrations." In January of 1976, Owens wrote to Puthoff and Targ telling them that he was going to show them his powers directly by causing storms over the San Francisco area to end the drought which was then reaching significant proportions. Days later, it snowed and stormed with hail and sleet and rain throughout the Bay area. The Palo Alto Times ran a headline story on the event which stated, "Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula." The storm was completely unexpected by weather forecasters. Puthoff and Targ sent Owens a note congratulating him on his successful prediction and received a telegramed response from him stating that it was not a === Page 87 of 103 PK Man prediction--but that he, Owens, had caused the snowstorm. This was food for thought and when I visited Puthoff and Targ some months later, they eagerly discussed this case with me. Puthoff and Targ showed me the intriguing book authored by Ted Owens in 1969 titled, How to Contact Space People. The book was sensationalistic and poorly written. It contained loose descriptions of a variety of demonstrations which Owens claimed he had provided for both NASA and the CIA, naming the officials he had interacted with in each case. For the CIA, Owens maintained that he had used his powers to interfere with military exercises and for NASA he had demonstrated his control over lightning. Nevertheless, Owens pointed out that these agencies still refused to take him seriously. Owens also described the visualization techniques which he used to communicate with the Space Intelligences (SIs). He saw them as insect like creatures looking into a screen where his thoughtforms appeared. Other people could communicate with them using this same method, he stated. They were the ones who really had the power to control the weather and create other phenomena. It was through their aid that Owens believed he caused his psychokinetic (PK) effects. What fascinated me most about Owens' book was a section where he described past events in his life relating to his UFO contact. There were instances where thugs would ominously approach him with weapons bared only to suddenly pale and run away from him. This puzzled Owens until it dawned on him that the SIs were protecting him. Another fascinating story in Owens' book is his description of how the SIs captured him and operated on his brain--causing him to become half human and half alien. He still carries a thick scar at the base of his skull which he says is the result of this operation. In August 1976, some months after learning about Owens, I had the opportunity of inspecting this scar for myself at the City University of London where he was an 2 === Page 88 of 103 PK Man invited speaker at an international conference sponsored by the Parascience Foundation. Owens was an impressive speaker with a large frame and a booming voice which rang throughout the auditorium. His words were clear and articulate. His manner was confident. His eyes sparkled with charisma and precocious genius. He rocked the audience with his claim that he had established telepathic contact with other dimensional space intelligences. He described how they, the SIs, had guided his career since infancy through over fifty different occupations--bodyguard, bullwhip artist, judo expert, jazz musician, knife thrower, dance instructor, shorthand expert, high speed typist, parapsychology researcher at Duke University--so that his mind would be flexible enough to manipulate their complicated symbolic system. He stated that while he was not a scientist, he was a member of MENSA an organization limited to individuals with high IQ test scores. He presented statements from a MENSA researcher on official letterhead stationary stating that he, Owens, had predicted UFO sightings and other events. He spoke of hundreds of demonstrations which he had documented for scientists and he carried with him a stack of newspaper clippings two feet thick documenting his exploits. He shocked the audience with the claim that he was being used by the space intelligences to end worldwide drought and that he would also be useful in psychic warfare against the Soviet Union. Because the conference was running behind schedule, Owens was asked by the moderator to finish his talk early. When he received this abrupt news, his manner changed. Like an obedient, but bitter, child he left the podium not even taking advantage of the few minutes time remaining. The conference was of a scientific nature and, in this context, Owens was out of place. He was speaking as a "psychic" to scientists who are by nature and profession skeptical of individual psychic claims beyond those which they have investigated or have been reported in the scholarly literature. To make matters worse, another psychic speaker preceded Owens on the podium--Susan Padfield, the wife of noted British === Page 89 of 103 PK Man physicist Ted Bastin. Padfield, whose psychokinetic (PK) abilities had been extensively tested by Benson Herbert at the British Paraphysical Laboratory, spoke about "psychic support figures." She claimed that when she first started doing PK, she assumed that UFO intelligences were working through her. Since then she has come to realize that the powers were her own and that the notion of a UFO intelligence was a "psychic support figure" necessary only to satisfy her emotional needs and not to explain her PK abilities. She stated that other psychics who claimed to work with spirit guides, or saints or deities were also satisfying this same emotional need. When Owens got up to speak, the cards were stacked against him. Even if people did accept the seemingly outlandish claim that he could cause large scale weather changes, they were not likely to accept the notion that he did so through the agency of UFOs. They were not likely to embrace his desire to use his talents in psychic warfare with the Soviet Union; and they were not likely to accept his claim that he was the supreme representative on earth of UFO intelligences. Either Owens was a liar or a madman, an evil magician or an egotistical maniac. Few people saw him as a human being struggling to communicate and share with other humans the methods by which he had cultivated powers so rare we think they are either nonexistent or demonic. Few people realized that Owens had travelled across the ocean--at Millie Miller's expense--in order to ask for help from the small group of individuals who might be able to appreciate his situation. Owens has been asking for scientific help for over a decade. One researcher, Professor J. B. Hasted, had little difficult in imagining that Owens' claims were real. Hasted, who is Chairman of the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has conducted laboratory tests with half a dozen individuals who have shown remarkable psychokinetic abilities to bend metal under controlled conditions. Hasted presented a paper at the Parascience Conference on his PK studies which have been continuing with success for two years. 4 === Page 90 of 103 PK Man Hasted's work with PK began when he and his colleagues tested Uri Geller at Birkbeck College. Before that he had shown no interest whatsoever in psychical research. Since then, however, he has shown an extraordinary talent in working with gifted subjects in the laboratory. Because of his communist sympathies, Hasted has rarely been allowed to present his research findings in the United States. Undoubtedly he would have taken more of a personal interest in working with Owens, had he not been horrified at Owens suggestion that someday his PK abilities would be needed by Western powers to use against the Soviet Union. During one of the breaks in the scientific program, I took the opportunity to meet Owens personally and also to interview him for radio broadcast in America. While we were in the middle of this interview the conference organizers interrupted us to announce that one of the scheduled speakers had not shown up and that his time would now be made available to Owens to make up for the previous disruption of his talk. We walked together into the auditorium and, realizing Owens' precarious position at the conference, I volunteered to make a brief introductory statement regarding my knowledge of the San Francisco snowstorm demonstration. Perhaps this move on my part helped to increase Owens' credibility; however, again he was cut short when the scheduled speaker arrived late. Flustered, Owens left the lecture room amid a loud display of hissing and applause. Later that day, Owens described to me how the SIs had taught him 150 different techniques for telepathic transmission and psychokinetic weather control. The most important of these, which he used every day, he claimed was a visualization of the "rainbow UFO." Coincidently I was at that moment wearing a pin with the image of a UFO in front of a rainbow. It was a gift to me and I had never paid much attention to its symbolism. Owens expressed a strong desire to have that pin and, after much reluctance, I finally parted with it. In exchange he later sent me a fancy Swiss watch with two dials on it which he claimed he had taken with him on his "Egyptian adventures." Since then Owens and I have enjoyed a good, albeit sometimes stormy, 5 === Page 91 of 103 PK Man working rapport. I returned from London to San Francisco with my head full of ideas about Ted Owens. If he was real, he was undoubtedly the most powerful psychic in the history of paranormal research. And I had by then become aware that a fair amount of documentation existed to support Owens' story. During a subsequent visit to SRI International, I managed to obtain from Puthoff and Targ their accumulation of correspondence and documentation from Ted Owens: a stack of letters, affidavits, and newspaper clippings over six inches thick. Much of this material seemed almost nonsensical to me. In his "Egyptian" file, Owens claimed to have established telepathic linkage with "Pyrcre" an occult creature that lived inside the great pyramid and was the source of its mystical powers. In another file, Owens claims to have communicated telepathically with the Loch Ness monster. Oddly enough in this file there were also signed statements and a newspaper clipping from Inverness, Scotland, testifying that a UFO had appeared over the town at the time Owens was staying there. The files also contained numerous letters from individuals who have received "SI disks" from Owens. These are poker chip sized pieces of plastic with Owens' SI insignia engraved on them. For years, Owens has sold them as good luck charms for a nominal price. Dozens of letters testified to miraculous healings, narrow escapes and other moments of fortune and grace bestowed upon disk recipients. The files also contain a few crank letters threatening Owens' life. One item of interest in the files was an affidavit signed by Ed Busch of radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, dated May 7, 1974. The affidavit stated that after Owens had promised to produce freakish weather in the Texas area the following events occurred: an earthquake, high winds and tornadoes, record cold weather followed by a heat wave. 6 === Page 92 of 103 PK Man I spoke to Ed Busch on the telephone to confirm the affidavit. Busch acknowledged that all of the events did occur as stated in the affidavit--although he couldn't recall whether or not he had actually signed such a statement. What he did remember quite well were the events which preceeded Owens' Texas demonstration. It seems that Owens had been publicly challenged by another "psychic" from Chicago, named Joe DeLouise, who felt that Owens' activities were giving the whole psychic field a bad name. He was convinced that Owens was a liar, or a criminal who should be punished. Ed Busch offered to help settle the dispute by arranging for Owens to take a lie detector test. The test results indicated that Owens was not telling the truth when he stated that he was in telepathic contact with UFO intelligences. It was after this experience that Owens offered to demonstrate his abilities directly for Busch in Texas. Owens' own version of the lie detector test was that he failed the test because he was intimidated by the operator of the lie detector apparatus. Many of his anxieties had been triggered by his recollections of having been arrested in Texas years earlier for practicing medicine without a license. The "medicine" that Owens was engaged in at the time was hypnosis. Owens felt the lie detector test was invalid. After reading through the files, I asked Owens about his apparent use of PK ability for harmful or destructive ends. There were many instances in the files which seemed to point to this. Football players were injured when Owens wanted their teams to lose. Businessmen who refused to play ball with Owens suffered losses. Ships sank, planes crashed, lightning struck and killed people--all after Owens predicted that he would cause these events. In one letter Owens remarked on the mysterious accidents which had killed several people who had "double-crossed" him. Owens' response was quite simple. He claimed that the SIs would never allow him to use his abilities for evil or destructive purposes. His intention was never 7 === Page 93 of 103 PK Man harmful he maintained even though his PK demonstrations were sometimes hazardous. In many instances, Owens claimed that he had warned government officials of the possible harmful side effects of some of his demonstrations so that appropriate safeguards could be taken. But, sadly enough, he was never listened to. Owens stated that he deeply regretted the damage that he has inadvertently caused. The injuries to athletes were always minor, he claimed; enough to remove them from the game but not to seriously hurt them. Owens felt that if a few innocent people were hurt during his demonstrations, it was regrettable; it was nevertheless essential for him to prove to scientists and to the world at large that he had these powers. The good that he could do would always outweigh the inadvertent harm that might be caused. This logic is not uncommon. It justifies over 50,000 automobile deaths a year in the United States as well as a variety of other occupational hazards. Of course, it also justifies military activity and covert dirty tricks. What seemed more insidious was the possibility that Owens was capable of injuring other human beings unconsciously, or perhaps in a fit of rage. Owens does, in fact, have a very temperamental personality. Fits of rage are not unknown to him. Perhaps the SIs who work with Owens are his personification of dynamic forces within his unconscious mind, or even the larger collective unconscious in the Jungian sense. Owens does not claim that he can account for the behavior of the SIs. If they choose to punish a person or an institution, Owens states that there is nothing he can do to intervene, even though he has at times begged and prayed that they would cause no more harm. The issue is complicated by Owens' notion that he himself is half SI, because of the mysterious operation on his brain. One is never clear whether Owens' demonstrations are the results of his own PK abilities (after all he does call himself "PK Man") or if the SIs, if they exist, are creating these effects 8 === Page 94 of 103 PK Man through their own powers after Owens telepaths to them. Another possibility is that Owens is not involved causally with these events at all. Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming at Laramie who has been studying the Owens case, prefers the hypothesis that he is simply precognizing the events which he claims to cause. The sceptic, of course, would suggest that Owens utilizes both a shrewd, logical understanding of events and the gullability of others who will believe him. To me, this hypothesis does not square with the evidence. Sceptics generally don't care to look at the actual evidence, since they are already convinced by their theories. In Owens' eyes, it sometimes appears that the SIs take it upon themselves to punish people who maliciously or rudely block his work. In fact, sometimes it even appears as if the SIs attempt to extort financial support for Owens by the implied threat of such punishment. This, Owens claims, he has no control over. For example, during the summer of 1977 Owens unexpectedly appeared in San Francisco. Owens wanted to tell people that he could end the drought in California, if he were invited to do so by the people or their government representatives. The SIs had instructed him, he believed, to communicate this message through the newspapers and television media. So, like one of the Beverly hillbillies, he drove over to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle with his family in a rented truck. Unfortunately, he never got past the guards in the lobby who simply asked him to leave. Of course, he was infuriated, and perhaps the SIs even moreso. In a fit of anger he wrote to his scientific correspondents that the SIs had declared war against the United States to retaliate for the awful way he had been received in San Francisco. Owens predicted that there would be outbreaks of poltergeist activity and fires all over the state, as well as lightning attacks. Weeks later, when the State of California was ablaze with forest fires which set a record by burning over 400,000 acres, I was able to assuage my mind by asserting that this was the result of the drought and that anyone might have been able to predict it. 9 === Page 95 of 103 PK Man Certainly no government official would dare blame Mr. Ted Owens for setting over 1000 fires across the state by using either psychokinesis or UFO aid. In fact, no government official, journalist, or "responsible" scientist would even entertain the thought for more than thirty seconds. When Owens wrote that the SIs were declaring a war, there was a record low amount of forest fires in California, despite the drought. People, recognizing the fire hazards, were simply being more careful in the woods. Normally most forest fires are caused by human carelessness, less than 20% are the result of lightning. However, last summer the forest fires in California mostly resulted from lightning. Lightning is Owens' PK specialty. I have personally interviewed, over the telephone, the Philadelphia lawyer who signed an affidavit in 1967 stating that Owens had provided for him a remarkable demonstration of his ability to make lightning strike a target preselected by the lawyer within a few minutes after Owens pointed his finger at the target. The probability that this would happen by chance is less than one in a million according to researchers at SRI International who have been studying lightning. The logic of this incident very strongly suggests that Owens does, in fact, use psychokinesis. If Owens or the SIs used PK control over lightning to cause the rash of fires in California in the summer of 1977, then we are faced with an ethical dilemma of considerable proportions. Were it not the result of psychokinesis, such an act would be criminal arson. But who is to blame? Although there is no real legal issue today, we might remember that there have been periods in our history when this would indeed have been a criminal issue. Certainly in a superstitious society, the laws against witchcraft created more problems than they solved. Apparently, however, our own age is still not sufficiently enlightened to nurture the talents that Owens and others seem to exhibit and to guide them in a positively healthy direction. 10 === Page 96 of 103 PK Man Owens takes credit for this damage--which he claims he greatly regrets. He suggests that the good that he could do, if people would only listen to his claims, would more than make up for the inadvertent destruction caused in getting people to believe him. Owens believes that he and the SIs have used all of the nondestructive means at their disposal to convince the people whose support he desires that his powers are real. Furthermore Owens maintains that the SI war against the United States is still continuing and will remain in effect until he, Ted Owens, is granted official recognition as the Ambassador to the United States from the Space Intelligences. This sounds like madness, since Owens' behavior is severely lacking in political or social effectiveness and hardly fits our image of diplomatic dignity. A psychiatrist might label it the behavior of a paranoid, schizopathic personality. Such a diagnosis, however, must be tempered by a study of Owens' unusual psychic abilities as well as the social stigmas attached to these alleged abilities. Perhaps there is little justification for taking Owens at face value. However, there is no valid, scientific justification whatsoever for ignoring Owens. There are only justifications of disinclination and perhaps personal safety. If his claims regarding psychokinetic ability are true, continuation of a "head in the sand" attitude may result in continued destruction because of both Owens' rage and frustration and our inability to understand the safety factors surrounding these apparent powers. If his talent is primarily precognitive, the ball-game is less dangerous, and the scientific payoff is not reduced. I suspect that both types of psi are active in Owens and that, through intensive investigation of his case, we can learn to activate such abilities in many people with positive social support and social benefit. Perhaps we would do well to accord Owens the respect which he asks for. === Page 97 of 103 PK Man As for the charge of madness, Owens has his own answer. He acknowledges that he is eccentric, but asks us whether any individual with his apparent talents might not be judged insane by his contemporaries. Owens acknowledges the many rough edges and signs of stress in his personality. While, at a deep level he is puzzled by his own abilities, his sense of braggadocio imbues him with mountains of occult rhetoric to hide his ignorance and fear of the powers within his mind. Nevertheless, through the complexities of his personality, he seems to have retained his rationality, as exemplified in the following statement in answer to my suggestion that he might be losing his sanity: Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is implied, then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. All right. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king, Jesus, or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens--a human being with lots of faults and weaknesses, who has goofed all over the place at times. The only "grandeur" you could attach to me is that I claim to work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times when I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. I have interviewed over a dozen individuals who have had interactions with Owens. In most cases these persons, with no vested interest of their own, have completely confirmed Owens' accounts of various events. In some cases, events were recalled similarly but the witnesses differed with Owens' interpretations. In a few minor instances, witnesses have recalled factual events differently than Owens. Sociologists would expect rational, sane people to disagree in similar circumstances. None of the people I interviewed from Owens' past, who knew his character, thought that he would deliberately falsify information. Owens is a very human person with very human faults. He incessantly smokes cigars; he has not given up drinking although he has stated that the SIs would like him to do so. He is temperamental and irascible, rough and hardy. 12 === Page 98 of 103 PK Man Owens has an ego and a temper, much like some members of my own family or faculty. My conversations with him vary from moments of great clarity and affinity to moments where I lose all trust completely. My mind explores the notions that Owens is a con man trying to use me, that he is a madman, that he is dangerous, that he is immature and irresponsible. Whether he is these things, I am learning, is as much my decision as it is his. He is very quick and responds instantly to my labels. One might well think of Owens as an "ordinary man in extraordinary situation." We have had our arguments; and our differences have been heated ones. He has been as much a gentleman as I have been with him and my politeness has been strained at times. He has been honest with me as far as I have been able to determine. And Owens has always treated me with respect. He is willing to learn from others, to communicate frankly, to anguish with some authentic awareness of his existential dilemma. He asks that we accept him. Ted Owens' activities and our responses to him are most aptly described by the fictional Lacombe in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* as an "event sociological." If we are looking for insanity, we must look at the behavior of many people, not just Owens himself. My own background as a conscientious objector provides something of a contrast to Owens love for fighting. One incident has occurred which brought my pacifism into direct conflict with Owens' fiery temperament. Over the years, many people have suggested to Owens that he provide some sort of simple laboratory demonstration of his abilities. To a scientist, it is much more impressive for Owens to create a psychokinetic effect under controlled conditions in a laboratory, such a moving a small object in a sealed container, than all of his large scale weather demonstrations. === Page 99 of 103 PK Man To these requests Owens' response has been that such experiments would be too trifling for his powers. Back in the mid-1940s when he was at Duke University he provided some small scale demonstrations. Since then, Owens claims that the SIs have expanded his abilities in a manner such that it is now easier for him to control the weather over thousands of square miles than it is to effect the fall of dice in a laboratory test. Nevertheless, the pressure continues for Owens to repeat such small scale tests on demand. One day, in January of 1978, I received a phone call from Owens who urgently insisted that I contact some of the individuals who might have witnessed his demonstrations at Duke University over thirty years ago. He felt that it would be important to have their testimony on the record for historical reasons and, I suspect, also to help him deal with the continual pressure to engage in further experiments of a trivial nature. I telephoned several researchers (who wish to remain unnamed) who remembered Owens from that time period. They all emphasized very strongly to me the arguments which they had had with Owens about the scientific necessity to institute experimental controls for all possible alternative explanations to psychokinesis before assuming that it did in fact occur. They felt Owens was too quick to interpret events as examples of psychokinesis. While they suspected that Owens did have psychokinetic ability, they all emphasized that they had never personally observed any extraordinary PK phenomena around Owens under controlled conditions. I have no reason to doubt either the memory or the integrity of those researchers. They all remembered Owens quite well and spoke of the fondness which they had for him. They were aware to some extent of his subsequent career as "PK Man," and one researcher told me, "It seems as if Ted takes himself a little too seriously." 14 === Page 100 of 103 PK Man Nothing could have been closer to the truth. Owens went into a rage after he pried the information from me that the individuals in question would not authenticate the story that he had psychokinetically caused an object to levitate. (Some remembered the incident, but were unimpressed with the experimental controls; others didn't even recall the incident.) His anger at that moment was as heated as it had ever been. I imagine that he had been drinking as well. We did not spend much time on the telephone. Minutes later, Owens phoned back again to announce that he had just received a communication from the SIs. They were angry, he claimed, at the pettiness of the researchers who would not support his story. These researchers would have to be taught a lesson and so, to make their point, the SIs were going to cause airplane crashes on the East Coast. I became furious with Owens and lost my temper myself. Even if the alleged levitation incident occurred exactly as he had stated, I told him that the SIs were not justified in causing any harm to humans to retaliate for the fact that some scientists remembered an event differently after thirty years. I was well aware of the pressure on parapsychological researchers to make public statements only about the most foolproof of cases--and then to suffer the sarcasm of clever skeptics who draw innuendos of fraud and carelessness with a literary vengeance. Owens and the SIs might be fighting for the truth; I'm convinced that Owens believed that he was. But, in the most forceful terms, I told him that there was something more important than truth! My statement caught Owens off guard. His anger subsided and he asked me what I meant. When I answered very simply that compassion and love were more important than truth, Owens quietly mumbled that he wished he had a blond in bed with him that night. And I agreed, I wished that he did also. The conversation ended there. He hung up on me. 15 === Page 101 of 103 PK Man Frankly, I didn't know what to make of things. My mind was working overtime wondering how I had ever gotten involved with Owens and trying to compute scenarios. I knew I would feel terribly guilty if there were any plane crashes, just on the chance that Owens' abilities were real and that my interaction with him triggered such destruction. I had given Owens and the SIs a choice. If they decided to teach a lesson to those researchers from the past, they would lose one researcher in the present who was very actively on the case. For I was clear that no matter how valuable the scientific payoff, I was not about to continue to cooperate with such destructive forces. I was also relishing the strength I had found within myself to confront Owens during one of his bad moods. It reminded me of Captain Kirk's most dramatic scenes in Star Trek where he forcefully persuades powerful aliens to abandon their destructive intentions towards humans. Somewhere within me I was certain I had reached Owens and that he would abandon this foolish notion to cause airplane crashes. It's clear to me that on this occasion and many others, Owens has set himself up in a position where he cannot win. If the airplanes did crash, people would have strong emotional needs not to believe that he caused it; and if they did believe, they could only feel repugnance toward him. If airplanes failed to crash, Owens would still look like a fool. The next day, Owens called again and apologised to me for losing his temper. There really had never been a danger, he claimed, because the SIs would never have allowed him to cause such destruction even though he had wanted to. I was puzzled because on the previous day he had told me that it was the SIs, and not he, who were going to cause all the crashes. In fact, he said that he himself didn't desire it at all. When I confronted him on this discrepancy, he reminded me of the operation on his brain and the notion that he is himself half alien. The matter ended in that confusion which I have still not been able to resolve to my satisfaction. I have no 16 === Page 102 of 103 PK Man idea to what extent the SIs exist outside of Owens' imagination. I am simply comfortable in knowing--even if the SIs are at war with the United States--that I seem to be able to work with Owens without my actions endangering myself or other people. My position has been to allow a deep sympathy for Owens' situation to emerge. I have encountered his world view and I have survived so far. My sympathy for his predicament is occasionally almost overwhelming and at times my antipathy is almost overwhelming. I might never have compiled this report if it were not for an apparent outbreak of poltergeist activity surrounding the Owens files which were then in the possession of one of my assistants, Joe D'Ambria. While I was busy with other research, D'Ambria was organizing the Owens material. For a two week period in late October, 1977, Joe reported strange events in his own apartment. Lights would go on and off by themselves; the stereo would go on and off in the middle of the night; strange footsteps were heard and doors would lock by themselves. One evening the box in which the Owens files were contained apparently moved by itself twelve feet across the room. For several evenings in a row, Joe took special care in placing papers inside the box in chronological order before he went to bed. He reported that on two occasions he awoke in the morning to find that the papers which he had organized were rearranged in totally random order. In July of 1977, Owens had predicted an outbreak of poltergeist effects in California. Oddly enough, during the same time that Joe D'Ambria and his wife reported these incidents to me, several other acquaintances independently reported similar poltergeist stories. Owens himself reports constant poltergeist activity in his own home. Owens claims that he desires to use his abilities to help the planet by improving the climate, and improving economic and political stability "in a thousand different 17 === Page 103 of 103 PK Man ways." If this is madness, I am for it. As a humanist, my intention is to direct Owens' apparent abilities in a positive direction--just in case he is for real. Perhaps Owens is a mad god mirroring the mental images of those with whom he interacts. As a scientist my intention in working with Owens is to continue the investigation. There are a thousand questions to be answered. Owens himself is willing to explore his abilities in a positive way with individuals who treat him with professional respect. For over ten years he has expended his time and funds in order to document his talents for sympathetic scientists. During this time he has been largely ignored by the scientific community. He has lived under considerable social, economic and psychological stress. Perhaps he is simply too far ahead of his time. Or perhaps the scientific community is as much responsible for Owens' sad state of affairs as is Owens himself. Owens is asking for our attention and our help. He has now agreed to the possibility of engaging in controlled PK experiments. He is willing to stand on the evidence and explore its mysteries with scientists, scholars and concerned individuals. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 48 Oct. 7, 1972 Mr. Joseph DeLouise, Psychic Chicago c/o National Tattler fella.... A friend of mine in Chicago saw an article today, in which you say some nasty things about me in Tattler. You even have the gall to insinuate, as he explained it long distance, that I might be a "fake and phony". Let's take it one step at a time. You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind... and mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact action. But you have chosen to insult me...as did Long John Nebel, some years ago (then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer)...and so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So...you are a dumb bunny. Second: (we've taken up the mental, now the psychic)....as a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanos, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations...and on and on and on. And all of it is documented; proved. I have notarized, signed affidavits from lawyers, scientists, etc., as to the truth of what I have just stated...so there can be no argument. I have even had UFO's appear at certain times and places so that scientists and others could examine them with binoculars, etc. This, also, is proven. So...you have to be stupid to call me a fake or a phony. Third: why try to dare football players to come to Cape Charles and punch me in the nose? My, how brave you are! Let's you and him fight, you say. Well, fella...I live at 619 Randolph Street, Cape Charles, Virginia. I say you are a dirty, lowdown yellow coward. That is what I label you. Now, if you aren't...come on down, and we'll square off in my backyard with bare fists. I am 52 years old, with a potbelly, and years out of condition...but it would be a pleasure to give you a lesson in manners. Look at it any way you can turn it, fella...mental, physical or psychic...you are light years away from being anything, or doing anything, like Ted Owens, PK Man. And for your sake you'd better believe it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 cc: National Tattler, === Page 2 of 48 Jeffrey... this is a most intelligent rebuttal against "Owens just uses precog" from a learned man. Thought Bernstein might want it. Ted (The following is copied from page 84 of March 1971 Saga magazine article written by Otto Binder, entitled "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary." This is Binder's argument...against my critics who say that I have no powers and cannot communicate with UFOs...that I am merely talented at the use of precognitive ability. Owens.) ..."It is quite impressive to look over Ted's list of "PK feats accomplished" and see that many are marked as occurring in "three days," "five days," or "nine days." Some are even overnight, while others take a month or more. But the numerous close-hitting cases compel one to seek a paranormal rather than a "chance" or a "luck" explanation. "One question remains. Is Ted unwittingly using pure cognition and only that? That is, does he have the power (miraculous in itself) to peer into the future and see coming events that turn out true 85% of the time? The SIs and his contact with them could then be sheer mental "window dressing" out of his subconscious mind, as it delves with uncanny accuracy into the future. This would mean too that all his so-called powers are imaginary -- that he does not control or make hurricanes, and has never spoiled a space shot with a PK shot. "He would, in short, be foreseeing those events by his purely prophetic powers, and nothing more, with his subconscious imagination supplying the rest. But, because of his overwhelming list of "hits," that would still make him the greatest seer of all time, far above Jeanne Dixon or any others today, and even dwarfing the feats of the biblical prophets or the Oracle of Delphi. "Explaining a fantastic phenomenon by one even more fantastic, is hardly a rational way of solving a riddle. "Dr. Rhine would be the first to snort at this explanation, for his precognition experiments with ESP cards have revealed no such enormous prophetic powers in the human mind or psyche. Thus, with the precognitive theory, there is nothing to explain why Ted Owens should alone be able to read the future like a book -- unless God himself has lent him divine powers. "The other explanation gives us something more rational as a method -- that other-dimension beings with their super-science have given Ted PK powers to perform feats he merely announces in advance. === Page 3 of 48 2 "And one other strong point backs up Ted's SI-contact claims. There are flying saucers seen all around earth (unless you are a last-ditch skeptic). If the UFOs exist, then the people who fly them exist. Certainly they cannot be ordinary humans but must be far beyond us in intellectual power. "Thus, there is no great assumption to make as to the very probable existence of the SIs that Ted claims to talk to. Nor does his contact by ESP -- now a well-established phenomenon -- in any way stretch the imagination. "The pure-precognition theory is barely possible while the SI-contact explanation is more highly probable..." (Note: Otto Binder was co-author of the book, "Mankind - Child of the Stars," with Max Flindt (a Fawcett Gold Medal Book). The foreword of the book was done by Erich von Daniken, author of "Chariots of the Gods." In the foreword, von Daniken states, of Otto's book..."I know of no work since Darwin that deserves as much attention with regard to the evolution of man." Otto Binder was a noted author - and his thinking was highly regarded by many experts in the field of the paranormal, and UFOs. This should be kept in mind while reading the afore-mentioned material. Owens.) === Page 4 of 48 21 March 1977. Jeffrey Mishlove % PSYCHIC (New Realities) 680 Beach Street San Francisco, Ca. 94109. Dear Jeffrey: Read your article in "Psychic", Jan./Feb. '77 on the subject "Parapsychology in Europe" and found your report very interesting. Well, it is a great magazine! Now---------- in regard to Ted Owens, I don't know how he does it or if he does it or if he has some deal going with the C.I.A. in regard to the so-called "U.F.O.'s". (I knew "Castaneda" was full of it, I couldn't take any interest in his books, and there have been several that have taken his books apart in the last few years. I couldn't waste my time). Owens, like so many, makes many claims. Chicago psychic Joseph De Louise has called Owens a liar and has evidentially proven it via these lie detector tests. See enclosed. It would be interesting for Rick Bennett (up here) and his voice stress tests to interview Owens and ask him if he has some connection with any government agency or some research group that may have some connection. It seems to me that the government really wants us to believe that all this is from another planet rather than a new source of free energy??? Most thinking people are quite aware that these government agencies are the instruments useful to the multi-national corporations and the owners of the capital stock (i.e. financial houses). This is news? So---------- people like Ted may jolly well fit right into this pattern for the (they hope) unthinking masses. Best of luck young man---------- Aron Abrahamsen has moved to Everett, Wa. and to escape the land upheavels in California. I should think you fellows would really begin to think about this very seriously, especially Jim Bolen. 1524 nw 52 Seattle, Wa. 98107 Best Regards, Ruth Ingalls (Ruth Ingalls) === Page 5 of 48 THE NATIONAL TATTLER October 20, 1974 # War of the Seers! ## Chicago's Joe DeLouise Spurs Virginia's Ted Owens To Take Lie Test, Which He Flunks, in Latest Round EDITOR'S NOTE: A bitter war between psychics Joe DeLouise and Ted "PK Man" Owens has raged ever since the former challenged the latter's abilities in a TATTLER article two years ago. Owens claims to receive communications from outer space intelligences and to have hexed professional sports teams and personalities. He is a phony, DeLouise claims. Here is the latest report from the war front. By TOM VALENTINE Of the Tattler Staff Psychic Ted "PK Man" Owens has failed a lie detector test about the alleged powers he claims to possess. Those powers have been the subject of a long-standing debate between Owens and seer Joe DeLouise, a fight that began in the Oct. 22, 1972, TATTLER, when the two men launched charges and countercharges about each other's ability. According to a polygraph expert, Owens has failed to tell the truth when stating he has communicated with super-beings from outer space, caused injuries to professional football players and the death of a radio personality. The mystic from Cape Charles, Va., submitted to the test at the insistance of Ed Busch, host of a popular radio talk show on WFAA, Dallas, Tex. "I'd read about the claims made by Owens and the rebuttal by DeLouise in TATTLER," Busch said. "So I asked Owens if he would submit to a test. He agreed." Owens originally angered DeLouise by claiming he caused injuries to sports personalities and the death of radio announcer Long John Nebel and his wife. "HE'S HURTING the image of legitimate ESP," DeLouise said. "What's wrong with his claims is, if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail -- if not, he should shut up." Basis for the dispute began in 1966, when Owens tried to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles football team owner Jerry Wolman. Wolman requested a demonstration. Owens joined him in the stands and made the New York Giants play miserably, he claimed. But the Eagles played worse and lost. Wolman booted Owens out. In retaliation, the psychic threw a hex on Wolman's team. He tried the same stunt with Baltimore Colts former owner Carroll Rosenbloom in 1971, that time asking $100,000. When Rosenbloom refused, he cast another hex, he said. OWENS CLAIMS responsibility for injuries to quarterback Roman Gabriel and other stars, as well as the death of Nebel, who was openly critical about the psychic's abilities years ago, lost his own show and his wife by suicide before contracting cancer and dying himself. "If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Joe Namath, who is injury-prone, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt," DeLouise said. "If he insists his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon." Owens answered DeLouise by calling him "stupid" for not accepting substantiations of his powers. He invited the Chicagoan to Virginia so the two could literally slug out their differences in his backyard. THE VIRGINIAN cited his membership in Mensa, an organization of people with genius IQs, as proof of his superior intellect. When contacted by radio announcer Busch this summer, Owens again professed the ability to contact space beings, perform mind-over matter feats (including changing the weather) and control sports teams. A skeptical Busch then asked the psychic if he would care to appear on his talk show and submit to a lie detector test. Owens agreed. The trial was administered by Wayne Baker, who directs the polygraph division of the Dallas-based American Bureau of Intelligence, Inc., a highly reputable firm. "THE EVALUATION of Owens' polygrams revealed criteria indicating deceptive responses to several relevant questions," Baker said. Four times, Baker asked Owens direct questions about the latter's relationship with UFO entities. Four times, Owens professed having such a relationship. Each time, the polygraph indicated "deception." Twice, Baker used reverse questioning procedure, asking his subject, "Have any of the miracles you say are documented been falsified in any way?" "No," Owens replied. Again, the machine registered "deception." "Have you made any false statements to the public concerning your psychic powers?" Baker queried. "No." Again, the machine indicated deception. WHEN INTERVIEWED by Busch after the test had been completed, Owens challenged the results, stating: "Lie detector tests often lie themselves. This test proves nothing." When DeLouise learned about the results, he told TATTLER: "I could have told you that. It's too bad the rest of the psychics who are sincere and trying to build credibility have to be linked with a character like Owens." # HOW TO HANDLE A HANDGUN TATTLER PEOPLE === Page 6 of 48 Article by Eva Åström, Journalist, from the Swedish magazine, Saxons veckotidning, Sveavägen 145, 106 63 Stockholm, Sweden. HALF MY BRAIN IS POWERED BY FORCES FROM SPACE...! (Caption on picture) YOU MAY THINK WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT TED - BUT HE IS AN EXCITING PERSON. (Caption on picture) TED OWENS HAS PERFORMED 307 MIRACLES. HERE HE SUMMONS SUPERIOR FORCES... Ted Owens is a remarkable man. To say the least. He is not only a sociable person of great talent - he also maintains that half his brain is governed by forces from outer space. Read and judge for yourself the truth of the accounts of his experiences. By Eva Åström Photo: Kurt Pettersson He is a man in his late middle age. Big, loud and with an eternal cigar glued to the corner of his mouth. Ted Owens has the capability of dominating a large group of people. Not in an unpleasant manner but through his imposing personality. The things he tells make people shut up and listen. Ted, who has flown to London from his home in Virginia, USA, over the weekend, maintains determinately that he is no longer an ordinary earth being. Unflinchingly, he declares that his brain has been modified by space creatures. His brain is only half human. The other half is a UFO-brain! I have looked upon all reports about UFOs, flying saucers, with the greatest scepticism myself. Still Ted is treated with the greatest respect by professors and other prominent scientists. Even if maybe they are not always convinced about the truth in all that Ted tells - and those are fantastic things - they don't seem to regard Ted as a fake. The story about Ted's UFO brain starts in Texas in 1953. - I was driving alone through the desert in a 1937 Chevrolet. I had been driving on and on for several days. The perspective of time had lost its meaning to me. One evening I stopped the car and hiked out into the desert. Why, I did not know. It was merely an irresistible impulse. - That was the last I remembered. Gradually I woke up. It was hot and in the middle of the day. All round me there was the marks after some strange type of fence. === Page 7 of 48 2. - Well, the car was still there and I drove to the nearest gas station, considerably confused. I filled up at the gas station and bought the daily newspaper. To my amazement it became apparent that 3 days had elapsed since I stopped the car in the desert. Several days were just gone! Ted lights the butt of his cigar and takes another gulp from his glass of beer. We are all awaiting the continuation of the story breathlessly. - All the time I felt strange. Still I drove on. I did not go very fast, maybe 60 miles an hour, when I entered a sharp curve. I was terrified, noticing that my body was as though it had been paralyzed. The car of course continued in its direction straight forward, down toward the ravine at the side of the road. - I hardly dared to keep my eyes open. Without my touching the steering wheel the car turned up the road again all by itself and went on running. The paralysis ceased immediately. (Caption) 307 MIRACLES The strange occurrences continued during Ted's journey. He drove into Mexico and ended up in a strange hotel. To start with the hotel had been an old castle. Now the saying was that the hotel was haunted. Ted spent the night in the room which according to hearsay was the one most afflicted by the ghosts. Unfortunately, they refused to appear before him. - On the road back to San Antonio I happened to run into another car. Nothing serious, I could go on driving. Once in the city I felt so exhausted that I had to rest. I checked in at the Hilton and asked for the most moderately priced room. - The bellboy took my little bag and directed me to the most lavish suite. There must be some mistake, I said. But the boy persisted that it was the right room. Tired as I was, I didn't feel like arguing but went straight to bed. - The next time I woke up, 3 more days had passed! Furthermore, I had been moved to an entirely different room. - What had happened was that SI, Science Intelligence, had taken me up to one of their spaceships and operated on my brain. When I felt the back of my head, I noticed a huge scar running along my skull. It was the scar from the operation. === Page 8 of 48 3. From that day on Ted was an entirely different man. His intelligence was tremendously increased and he soon became aware that the operation had led to unexpected possibilities. - Up till now I have performed 307 documented miracles. I've made hurricanes, floods, electromagnetic disturbances, governed football games and made UFOs appear. Among other things. Everything happens at the command of the UFO-men, SI. Ted stops for an effective interval and lets his message sink into our minds. We giggle nervously, looking at each other. What is one to believe? Ted is composed. He does not need to think anything! He knows... We are sitting in the home of George, one of Ted's new friends and admirers in London. George's two Labrador dogs run excitedly around the PK-man, as Ted calls himself. Ted seems to think that we have had enough time to digest his statements and goes on: - Each time I intend to perform a miracle I first write a letter to six different scientists and predict what is going to happen. That is, I really don't predict things - I arrange so that they happen. - At home I've several rooms filled with documents showing that I have been right. I've only brought a fraction of all my material with me to London, says Ted, pointing at a huge bag. The bag is filled with letters and newspaper clippings and presented as proof of the fact that Ted's miracles have really occurred. Bending forks like Uri Geller does is something that Ted frowns at with contempt. - I want to do GREAT things. Some years ago in 1972 I wrote to different scientists in California. There had been a prolonged drought in the state. It had lasted for several years. I made so that it should rain for exactly 90 days, which I also wrote in my predictions. (Caption) IT RAINED FOR 90 DAYS. - Not only did I promise rain, but also snow and hailstorms. === Page 9 of 48 4. Five days later the storms began and lasted as predicted for 90 days. In a desert region, where there had been no snow for 15 years, the depth could be measured in decimeters. The newspaper San Francisco Chronicle of February 6 the same year prints an interview with a meteorologist: - What has happened is so complicated and unexpected that I don't even understand it myself. I can't recall that a similar type of weather has ever occurred... In 1966 Ted wrote to the Meteorology Station in Florida that he could control the hurricane Inez, which threatened to pass in over land. Ted would see to it that it would instead be routed over northern Cuba. A day or two later Inez quite unexpectedly changed course and followed the route directed by Ted. - I have of course not always been right in my predictions. But 85 per cent of them come true, says Ted modestly. SI are very good at arranging weather changes, but their technique is not entirely perfect. Ted shows me a book from 1971 where he foretold what was going to happen within the nearest future. "President Nixon will not remain in office. Something very unusual is going to happen. He will resign or be forced to resign..." We certainly all remember the Watergate scandal and its consequences. "Millions of cars will be brought to a standstill in the U.S. and the whole western world. There will be no gasoline to run them." Some years later there was the oil crisis. - In July of 1966 I got a command from SI to write to CIA. They wanted to prove that they really existed. SI promised to appear over the North as well as the South Pole and cause electromagnetic disturbances. A few days later, on the 8th of July, one could read in the newspapers about a mysterious saucerlike object, which had landed at the South Pole. It was observed by several scientists, who also managed to take several color photos of the object. === Page 10 of 48 5. At the same time strange electromagnetic disturbances afflicted the area... What is the purpose of the spacemen's weather interferences and other phenomena? Are they out to conquer the Earth? - Strange as it may seem, I know very little about their purposes, Ted declares. It may seem as though they wanted to hurt mankind, but I'm convinced that whatever occurs is part of a major plan for the good of humanity. (Caption) INVISIBLE UFO-MEN - SI have an intelligence by far superior to man's. They are not created from the same matter as we, they consist entirely of energy. Consequently, they are invisible. I've never seen any of them. - Through the exchange of thoughts and symbols we maintain our contact. SI are thousands of years ahead of us in development. They don't live, as one might think, on another planet, but in an entirely different dimension. By means of their symbols, I believe I've been able to understand what their intentions with man are. - The white man is about to annihilate the Earth. That's what SI want to prevent. Before we began to conquer the Earth and enslave other people, they used to live in harmony with the nature. - SI want the Indians to get back their country, the USA, the blacks Africa and the Eskimos their territories. The natural disasters are punishment and an exhortation from SI for man to reconsider his actions. They don't govern man - they give guidance - but man decides his own fate. In April of 1972 Ted wrote to NASA and told them that he would incapacitate the electric system of Apollo 16, create electromagnetic disturbances and cut off the radio contact. But no astronaut should come to any harm. Ted reads aloud out of a newspaper from the day after the homecoming of Apollo 16. "4-5 things happened to Apollo 16 which have never happened to a space capsule before. It is a total mystery. The rocket had problems with the antenna, the computer which was supposed === Page 11 of 48 6. to guide it, broke down and the main engine malfunctioned. The orange juice leaked into the space suits of the astronauts. They could hardly remove their helmets." "When they had landed at Cape Kennedy the gasoline truck, which was supposed to empty Apollo of its fuel, exploded. The rocket was destroyed by fire. Investigations show that the astronauts had been exposed to radioactive radiation." (Caption) UFOs BUILT PYRAMIDS - I'm not the only one in contact with SI. Moses was one of the first. Without the cooperation of SI the Egyptians would never have been able to build the pyramids. - The pyramids have ever since been protected by the SI. Enclosing the pyramids there is still another invisible pyramid. Its power punishes those who enter the pyramid. What it protects is not any worldly riches. It is guarding the old knowledge. The knowledge, among other things in the form of unexplained murals, can only be used by humans possessing the powers of a medium. - Now and then I'm being tested by the SI. Once I dreamed that I flew over the city. SI asked if I wanted to go on flying. I looked down at all the people who walked there, heavy and earth-bound on the ground. It would have been tempting... but... I knew that my place was with the humans. I wanted to remain with my wife and our child. Before the transformation of Ted's brain he lived an exciting and varied life. He had had 50 different professions and in his leisure time he practiced knife-throwing, judo and hypnosis. Music is another great interest of his. He was so good at it that he played the drums with several well known jazzbands. The claim that he is a crackpot is rejected by Ted by way of showing his membership in the very exclusive society MENSA. To become a member you have to have an IQ of at least 148. Ted has 153. A person with an IQ above 140 is generally regarded as a genius. - I exercise my brain like any other muscle. Through training you can increase the capacity of your brain with at least 80%, maintains Ted. My brain is not completely developed as yet. SI have promised to improve my brain further. === Page 12 of 48 7. Around his neck Ted wears a strange pendant. Its sign looks like a Danish O with a bolt of lightning running through it. The cipher symbolizes Ted himself. - I always wear it. It has saved me from disasters and assaults many a time. I've in my possession letters from several people, who have been saved from disasters only by wearing the pendant, Ted tells us. In December of last year Ted performed his most complicated and controversial miracle. A TV-company wanted Ted to prove that he really possessed supernatural powers. Ted made a list of no less than 11 phenomena which were to happen in Chicago within the nearest future: Chicago would be hit by both record heat and an unusually powerful snow blizzard. The sky will be ablaze from lightning and hurricanes and tornadoes would sweep the region. Electric blackouts and strange radio signals were to paralyze the life of the city. Waves were to destroy many vessels, UFOs would appear, airports were to practically stop functioning and strange things were to happen to Chicago's football team, the Chicago Bears. Everything came about in rapid succession. Record temperatures of 86°F were registered in December. The day after all traffic was paralyzed by snow blizzards. Three tornadoes with a wind velocity of 80 miles an hour caused great damage. Radio signals made drawbridges open and close by themselves. The bus services of Chicago broke down, when the buses started and stopped without anybody touching the instruments. Chicago's main airport had more accidents than ever. Several planes were very close to collision. Nobody could find an explanation. An entirely new safety system at a cost of millions of dollars had to be ordered. The Chicago Bears had their worst season ever. The players were injured and were taken ill all the time. The few remaining, capable of playing, acted like beginners on the field. The predictions of Ted are well documented. He shows the letters he wrote before everything happened and clippings with surprising newspaper articles from the following months. It is rather weird to leaf through Ted's book of newspaper clippings. His success cannot be explained by pure luck or chance. He has been found right too many times. What can we expect from next year, according to Ted? === Page 13 of 48 8. - Mostly bad things. Huge natural disasters will strike as punishment for man's destruction of the Earth's natural resources. Ex-president Nixon will die, possibly he will be murdered. Also Pat Nixon will die. Kissinger will be subjected to an assault which may prove to be fatal. -The President of Uganda, Idi Amin, will be murdered or thrown out of his country. The stock market will experience a crisis of about the same magnitude as the depression of the 1930s. Ted cannot promise anything positive for the future. Much depends upon how man takes care of his Earth. Before we part Ted shows me a letter where he promised that England should be afflicted by rain when he came for a visit. Quite right, it started to rain the same day he arrived after many months of drought and heat. As soon as I get back to my hotel I take out a Swedish evening paper of yesterday's date. Maybe Ted had looked at the weather forecast before he predicted the weather. I quote from the paper: "Not a single cloud over England. The high pressure covers large parts of Europe. England lies within its central parts and the problem with the drought remains." === Page 14 of 48 NATIONAL TATTLER, OCT. 22, 1972 Joseph DeLouise Raps A Fellow Psychic # 'Seer Ted Owens Is Ruining Legitimate Image Of ESP' By TOM VALENTINE Famous Chicago psychic Joseph DeLouise has accused another famous seer, Ted Owens, of "hurting legitimate ESP's image." "We psychics have enough trouble with the skeptical public without having some guy popping off with phony claims," DeLouise said. DeLouise told TATTLER in an exclusive interview that Owens, a seer who claims he talks with outer space intelligences, is "opening a Pandora's box with some of his claims about his influence on professional sports teams." Owens claims he has put a "whammy" on such teams as the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams of pro football, the Baltimore Bullets in pro basketball, and everything in Philadelphia. "What's wrong with his claims," DeLouise points out, "is if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail--if not, he should shut up." Here's what Owens has claimed: He started in 1966 trying to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman. Wolman asked for a demonstration, so Owens sat in the stands with the club owner and made the New York Giants play miserably, he said. However, the Eagles played worse and lost, so Wolman booted Owens out. Seeking revenge, Owens claims he hexed the Eagles and they went steadily downhill. Owens claims his hex was responsible. Last year, he offered his services to the Baltimore Colts' owner Carroll Rosenbloom and this time the price was $100,000. Rosenbloom said no, so Owens claims he's the one that hexed them out of the Superbowl against Dallas in 1971 and cost them the playoff against Miami in 1972. When Rosenbloom made his unprecedented franchise trade of the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave the owner a second chance. He wrote to Rosenbloom on June 30 suggesting: "You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services." Rosenbloom ignored him. On July 17, Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and the Rams are hindered despite having a fine team. The Cleveland Browns are another team Owens claims to have personally wrecked: "One of the team's executives called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio. Well, you'll notice that Art Modell, (Browns owner) has had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins, I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback." DeLouise is furious at such claims. "If a person caused another person harm with a club or a gun, they'd go to jail; so if Owens is really doing these things as he claims, he should be locked up. If not, then his outrageous lies are giving all psychics a black eye." DeLouise said he does not doubt the powers of hexing. "The human mind can do many things, good or evil, and what he claims to be doing is evil. "If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath, who is injury prone and must face the danger of getting hurt, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt." DeLouise suggested the owners of a team Owens claims to have hexed take him to court. "If he insists that his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon." De Louise Says Owens Should Be Tossed In Jail # 'If I were Namath, Unitas or Gabriel, I'd punch Owens in the nose' === Page 15 of 48 LARRY DONKO "I've done over 400 miracles". -Ted (PK Man) Owens OH, oh. Ted Owens is at it again. He has cranked up that force he refers to as PK Power. While trying to keep a cigar lit, Owens told me, "Using only my mind, I'm going to hit the current Nato exercises with PK Power to scramble them as much as I can. This may cause ships to come together, airplanes and helicopters to fall down. "This may cause all kinds of freak things to happen, making everything go wrong that can go wrong." "PK Power" is a short phrase for psychokinesis power. This is the talent to move things with psychic force. Years ago in Texas, Owens became acquainted with space intelligences who traveled in a cigar-shaped craft. Ever since then, these persons (?) have been using Owens as a transmitter for mysterious energy. Said Owens. "I can sit here in my living room with my cigar and a can of beer and, with my mind, control a whole professional team for a whole season. Or control a whole Appollo moon shot. Or hit an entire city, like I did with Cleveland." ## Power proclaimed Owens isn't bashful. He announces the miracles in advance. From a 2-story frame home on Randolph Street in Cape Charles, Owens sends bulletins to college professors, writers, astronomers, newsmen and others. During my visit, Owens told me, "I will build into my mental attack on the Nato exercise the intelligence to prevent anyone from being killed or hurt." Nato's Operation Strong Express opened yesterday and will continue until Sept. 28 in European waters. It is the largest combined land, sea and air maneuver for Nato since 1968. The operation involves 64,000 men, 300 ships and 700 aircraft. The U.S. Navy is participating with 37 ships. "I refer to this as a huge laboratory experiment for PK Power; just like the Olympics." I said to Owens, "You don't mean that YOU and the PK Power made that mess in Munich?" "At first," said Owens, "I was going to employ my mental powers against the Russians. The U.S. refused to cooperate. So, instead of experimenting with the Russian team, I switched to the Americans. You saw what happened." ## An evil force? To hear Owens describe PK Power, it sounds are welcome as the heartbreak of rasis. Question: is this PK Power the devil's work? Is it a curse upon mankind? "Not at all," said Owens. "I'm proving I'm demonstrating that the power of the mind has infinite ability. People don't realize this. So, I'm making miracles. I do it on a scale to impress, to boggle the mind." Since last spring, Owens has been working on several miracles of the first rank. They include: Inflicting Apollo 16 with everything from a fouled up guidance system to a lost lunar lander cover to orange jucie in the space suits of the astronauts. "I affected the whole thing, from here to the moon, with my mind. I made all kinds of freak things happen." The blitz of Cleveland. "For the first time, I controlled an entire city for a week. I caused intense heat, severe lightning, made people do crazy things. It all hit. Pow! Here are the clippings. Look and you'll see reports of a heat wave, streets buckling, lighting hitting railroad tracks, high winds, people calling City Hall to say they've been talking to Howard Hughes." ## Football teams target Dooming 15 pro football teams to disappointing seasons. "None of the teams will get into the Super Bowl. I will control them and see that they lose enough personnel, enough games to miss taking all the marbles." The teams are Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, New England, Houston, Denver, Kanssa City, New York Jets, Phalidalphia, Cleveland and San Diego. Before the training camps opened, Owens wrote to 15 teams and offered to help with PK Power. His fee is $25,000. None accepted. So, Owens will turn on the teams, hurling the PK Power at them by way of television. He did it to Baltimore last season. He did it to the Virginia Squires in basketball. "I give the teams a fair chance to employ PK Power to help them win. I would use the money for my little church, the Church of Sota. So far, I have made no money from PK Power." Last year, Owens zapped the Colts when owner Carrol Rosenbloom would not meet his terms. In 1972, Rosenbloom took control of the Los Angeles Rams. When Owens zaps somebody, they stay zapped. As Rosenbloom assumed ownership of the Rams, quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and quarterback Jerry Rhome was burned in a garage fire. ZAP. === Page 16 of 48 3/20/72 The Sun Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio # PINCH HITTING ## Psychic Force to Wreck Browns By Dan Coughlin I'm afraid that Browns fans had better hedge their bets this season if they believe the track record of a well-known mystic. The seer is Ted Owens, who claims he can talk with Space Intelligences from an alien dimension. Owens, 52, who lives in a suburb of Norfolk, Va., maintains that he derives psychokinetic powers from his friends in outer space. He tells his gift KD Power and he says he is directing it against the Browns. He promises they'll finish under .500 this fall. This isn't Owens' first intrusion into the world of sports. In recent years he claims to have put the whammy on the Virginia Squires, Baltimore Bullets, Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams and everything in Philadelphia. HE FIRST DABBLED in pro football in 1966. Needing money to support his family and to further his own research, Owens asked Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman for a job. He promised to hex opposing teams for a stipend of $25,000. Wolman was skeptical but he also was desperate, so he consented to a demonstration. Owens sat in the stands in Franklin Field and made the Giants play miserably. Unfortunately, the Eagles played worse and lost the game. Wolman booted him out. Further correspondence went unanswered. "No one is perfect," said Owens, who claims to have a batting average of 92%. The next season an angered Owens turned his powers AGAINST the Eagles, and they went from 9-5 to 6-7-1. Owens was in high gear in 1968 when the Eagles dropped to 2-12 and Wolman went bankrupt and lost the club. CONVINCED OF HIS POWERS, last year he offered his services to each team in pro football. Some filed his letter under junk mail. One who replied was Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom. Owens' price by now was up to $100,000, and Rosenbloom backed off. So Owens directed his evil eye at Rosenbloom and claims to be personally responsible for the Colts losing the Super Bowl game to Dallas. He doesn't explain how they got that far. When Rosenbloom traded the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave him a second chance. I have a copy of the letter dated June 30 in which Owens wrote, "You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services." No answer. On July 17 Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung. BASKETBALL HAS NOT escaped his voodoo, either. In 1971 Owens warned in advance that the Baltimore Bullets would lose four straight playoff games to the Milwaukee Bucks because a Baltimore newspaper editor had been rude to him. The Bullets lost four straight. He apparently gives Jabbar no credit. Sports has been only a sidelight for the mystic. He points to other catastrophes. For example: On Oct. 26, 1965, he cabled the CIA that a terrible catastrophe would hit the United States within 10 days. Actually it took 13 days. On Nov. 9 the biggest power failure in history hit the east and became known as the Big blackout. He takes credit for it. HIS FORECASTS HAVE been studied by several university scientists, including Dr. Max Fogel of Norristown, Pa. Duke University's School of ESP also has perused him at length. Dr. Fogel, incidentally, is the international scientist for Mensa, the organization of persons with IQ's over 148, which is generally accepted as genius level. Upon learning that Owens' IQ is 150, I was reminded of that old fable that there's a thin line of difference between genius and lunacy. In 1968, however, Owens was accepted to Mensa, which usually tries to purge its rolls of known loons. WHY, I ASKED HIM, was he turning his great might on the poor Cleveland Browns, who had enough trouble winning their division title last year. "The reason is Pete Franklin," said Owens. I knew there had to be something sinister. "He called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio," Owens explained. "You'll notice," Owens pointed out, "that the Browns owner Art Modell recently had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback." I didn't tell him about Bill Nelson's knees. Slick Runway Sept 1972 # Worms Close Airport CLEVELAND (UPI) -- The longest runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was closed for 30 minutes Thursday as a motorized broom swept the concrete clear of hundreds of thousands of earthworms. Captains of four jetliners reported that braking action on landing was extremely poor because of the worms. The 9,000-foot northeast-southwest runway was closed and traffic diverted to shorter runways which did not have the problem. A tower air traffic controller said recent heavy rains in the area apparently brought the worms to the surface of the ground around the runway. "This is the worst we've ever had," said a spokesman in the airport operations office. "Usually we just ignore them, and when the sun comes out they go away. "But this time there were so many on the last one-third of the runway that we had to sweep them off to the side and scoop some up," he said. "We have places in fields beyond the airport where we can take them." Both of these items are recent, and both from recently-PK'd Cleveland. Owens (PK Man) === Page 17 of 48 # THE PLAIN DEALER OHIO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER 1801 SUPERIOR AVE. CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 PUBLISHED BY THE FOREST CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 Sept. 13, 1972 Mr. Ted Owens (PKMan) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Dear Ted, Please forgive the delay in returning this material to you. It was fascinating to peruse. I enclosed several copies of a column I did on you which appeared in The Plain Dealer on Sunday, Aug. 20. So far, your power directed against the Browns seems to be working. They look pathetic. A key defensive player, defensive end Joe Jones, has been lost for the season with a knee injury. Team owner Art Modell's right hand is still partially paralyzed as a result of that accident in July. You itemized several other atmospheric conditions that would hit the Cleveland-Akron area this past summer, however, which weren't quite so close. For instance, you forecast blazing hot drought. In reality, Cleveland had it's rainiest summer in 102 years. There were no major power blackouts, just the usual breakdowns at the Muny Light plant. There were no 60 to 90 mile per hour winds except a couple windstorms where the breeze reached close to 60 in gusts, but that isn't unusual for a Cleveland summer. That usually happens a couple times. However, you also predicted planes would be forced down and ships sunk offshore. It seems to me that more small planes crashed in the Cleveland area this summer than in recent years. Also, one storm ---------- I think it was the backwash of Hurricane Bertha ---------- caused considerable damage to boats at local marinas and several were sunk. I don't have any comparison figures on the number of small plane crashes, however. I do know we had a helluva rainstorm, though. Thanks for your cooperation. I hope you like the column I did on your powers. Sincerely yours, Dan Coughlin Dan Coughlin === Page 18 of 48 # Psychic Sees Jackie O. Being Murdered, Burton Dumping His Aging Liz ![Image: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton] Liz Taylor and Richard Burton -- their marriage will come apart, Owens predicts. ![Image: Jackie Onassis] Jackie Onassis: more violence, says Owens. ![Image: President Nixon] President Nixon will be unable to finish his term. BY PAUL ADELSON Jackie Onassis faces more violence and suffering. Richard Burton is going to dump Liz. Russia will soon rule the world. These are just a few of the predictions made by Ted Owens, a 52-year-old "UFO Prophet" from Cape May, Va. "I don't make the predictions," Owens began. "They're given to me by the SI's, Space Intelligence." Space Intelligence, Owens explained, are beings from flying saucers. He said that these beings are responsible for increasing the ESP ability he has had since childhood. Owens said he has been guided by the UFO people since 1965. "One night, I was riding down the highway with my daughter, when we lived in Ft. Worth, Tex.," he explained. "A cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared over a nearby field and then floated toward my car. "It didn't make any noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming out of the end of the craft." Owens never met the men in the spacecraft. But, from that moment, his entire life changed. "Suddenly, I learned to develop my powers," he said. "I started experimenting with mind over matter to control nature's forces." Owens can recall hints of his ESP power during his childhood in Bedford, Ind. "My teachers and family figured I was dumb and stupid," he said. "Even as a child though, I was capable of using my ESP abilities. Later, I took an intelligence test and found I had an I.Q. of 150. "An I.Q. of 140 means you're a genius." Because of his I.Q., Owens belongs to "Mensa," a society of people who are geniuses. Owens elaborated on his relationship with the beings from outer space. "The SI's used my brain to set up a two-way radio with me," he said. "I have the power to cause things to happen by using PK, or psychokinesis." For many, the story about the spacemen is hard to swallow. But Owens has indeed "made things happen." With 85 per cent of his predictions correct, Owens has a reputation for accuracy. Larry Bonko, a newspaper columnist for the Norfolk Ledger-Star, wrote about one example of Owens' ability: "Owens was at the post office in Norfolk when a thought struck him about a bomb," Bonko wrote. "He went up to a man at the counter and said, 'My special ESP ability and powerful mind have picked up the thoughts of some bad people who are planning to bomb the post office here.'" People laughed at this prediction. But, shortly afterwards, somebody firebombed the post office in Norfolk. Bonko has documented other accurate predictions, such as the great East Coast power blackout in 1965, three hurricanes, and the 1969 Cuban plot to kidnap President Nixon. Owens doesn't like it when people scoff at his powers. In fact, when ![Image: Ted Owens] Ted Owens, the "UFO Prophet." === Page 19 of 48 some of the professional football teams laughed at his offers to make them win for a price, Owens hexed them. Now they wish they never had laughed. In February, 1971, Owens cast his evil eye on the Baltimore Colts. The spell would be lifted, he said, only if they paid him $100,000. Team owners ignored his demands. But soon enough, bad luck hit the Colts. Johnny Unitas hurt his heel tendon and was sidelined. Top player Sam Havrilak sprained an ankle. Running back Tom Matte was hospitalized with Appendicitis. Team owner Carroll Rosenbloom finally decided it was no joke and personally wrote a letter to Owens, asking him to please remove the hex. Since then, Owens has hexed other teams, including the Baltimore Bullets basketball team. "Make no mistake about it," Owens disclosed in his form letter to several teams, who are all suffering unexplainable losing streaks. "I can control your teams!" Owens sees an ominous future for some jet set celebrities. Concerning Jackie Onassis, Owens said there is an aura of violence hanging over her. "I see Jackie murdered. I see her lying covered with gore. Ari will be delighted to see her exit. He hates her. When the murder happens, he will be away somewhere, with a perfect alibi." On Liz and Burton, Owens predicted that the aging actress will soon be dumped. "Liz hates men. She rapes and robs them. But Time has caught up with her. As she gets wrinkles, and more fat, her screen of beauty will fade away. Burton will divorce her." And when will all this happen? "I can't give the exact time for either prediction," Owens stated. "I find it hard to pinpoint predictions in a time reference. I can only say what shows up on my 'mental screen.'" Owens offered some other predictions for the coming months: The ground level in Nevada has started to sink, and Owens predicts the entire state will suffer natural catastrophies. The Russians will gain additional power in the near future. In effect, Russia will rule the world. But the Red Chinese will be quietly sneaking up on Russia behind her back. Mexico and Canada will become openly hostile towards the United States. The borders of these countries will be partially sealed off. Long-range predictions: There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the United States, probably in the Midwest. President Nixon won't complete his second term in office. He will either resign, or be forced out. The wealthy will lose their riches as businesses go broke. Jobless people will roam the land. THE NATIONAL NEWS EXPLOITER, Volume 7, Number 12, September 17, 1972 Second class postage paid at Chicago, Ill., and additional entry. Authorized as second-class mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa, Canada and for payment of postage in cash. Copyright © 1972 and published weekly by Novel Books, Inc., 2715 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Ill. 60639. Subscriptions: 26 issues, $6.00; 52 issues, $10.00. Advertising inquiries invited. Right is reserved to reject any ad without explanation. Publisher not responsible for unsolicited material though ideas for features from qualified writers and photographers are welcomed. All manuscripts should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Publisher is not responsible for specific opinion expressed in this paper. Written permission from publisher required to reprint all or part of articles appearing in this publication. === Page 20 of 48 Psychogenetic Systems 1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98 © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd. Printed in Great Britain # Letter Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1953 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them. The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972). It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon. ### REFERENCES Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, 66, 145-154. Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959. Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971. Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139. JULE EISENBUD, 4634 East 6th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220, U.S.A. === Page 21 of 48 BILLS? I owed $12,000 and no way out! Interstate Acceptance showed me the EASY way! Send your name and address and we will send you our NOBODY REFUSED HELP APPLICATION up to $20,000. NOT A LOAN COMPANY WE CAN HELP YOU RETURN THIS COUPON TODAY! IF COUPON IS CUT OUT, SEND NAME & ADDRESS TO: INTERSTATE ACCEPTANCE 139 MATHEWSON ST. PROV., R. I. 02903 (COUPON) PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY (COUPON) E-18 NAME __________ ADDRESS __________ CITY __________ STATE ZIP __________ __________ Please Rush Me Your FREE Application 64 - [ ] SAGA (Continued from page 62) Sun's strange activity could mean something else.) The Indian astronomer and mathematician, Chandrasekhara Vekata Raman, now an American citizen, studied how a star reaches supernova explosiveness. Any star with a mass less than one and a half times that of our Sun (called "Chandrasekhara's limit") is believed to be incapable of exploding. Instead, it's supposed to die slowly as the star evolves from blue giant babyhood to white dwarf senility. The shrinking process supposedly maintains the energy equilibrium. When the energy cannot be radiated into space fast enough, pressure rapidly builds up in the core. Stars with greater mass and volume therefore, are unable to maintain their pressure balance by shrinking. The result is an explosion of such terrible violence that in addition to destroying all of its planets, the total volume of the star stuff may expand as far as the next nearest star. Our Sun is one of the most enigmatic objects we know. Since the modern astronomical symbol for the Sun, as well as the chemical symbol for hydrogen, its most abundant element, is a circle with a dot in the center, it seems a rather odd "coincidence" that two disciplines which developed independently should arrive at the same symbol for the major component of the Sun and the Sun itself. Until the discovery of the neutrino no one knew that an accurate representation of the Sun and its neutrino core was a dot surrounded by a circle. This raises the interesting question of how ancient astronomers (circa 4000 to 2400 B.C.) with no admitted knowledge of chemistry (let alone atomic particle physics, spectroheliograms, or radio astronomy) arrived at this most simple, all inclusive Solar symbol imaginable. This evidence suggests prehistoric solar disturbances that may have caused radical changes throughout the entire planetary system. Such disturbances could have been responsible for all the cataclysmic effects so painstakingly recorded by Immanuel Velikovsky. Extremely long solar cycles could have resulted in exactly the kind of Earth and solar disturbances that Velikovsky writes about--and as the geological and fossil records indicate. A crash "Sunwatch" program is now underway--with OSOs (Orbiting Solar Observatories), SOEPs (Solar Orbit Experiment Packages), and many similar probes. No one expects too much from them. The best we can hope for is an early warning system. Whether the current solar disturbances indicate short or long-range upheavals, there's just no foreseeable way to escape even a minor solar catastrophe. ★ THE END JIM LINDENSMITH "If you think you're bad off, you should see the car!" === Page 22 of 48 EXPLODING SUN (Continued from page 31) the eye, so that estimate could mean that a catastrophe is frighteningly imminent! Every star must have equilibrium. If the energy generated at the core exceeds the amount being radiated into space from the Sun's photosphere (visible surface) one of two things can happen: the Sun's great volume will shrink or expand in a sudden increase of light, heat, and energy. This could be up to a billion times its former output. The Sun would explode into nova or even supernova violence. Gravity is the main clue to solar activity. It varies. Scientists can describe what it does, but no one knows exactly what it is, except that there are periodic changes in the Sun's gravitational activity. At times gravity is very intense in one area of the Sun and very weak at others. Because we depend on its steady, uninterrupted heat, light, and energy for our very existence, any disturbance, however slight, in the Sun's internal mechanism is an alarming prospect. Astronomers admit they know very little--almost next to nothing--about this source of all life. More than 90 percent of what they do know has been learned since 1955, and almost all of that knowledge, moreover, has been learned during the past seven years. Until the odd coincidence between the great solar eruptions last August and the discovery of the outburst from Cygnus in September, it was universally believed that (with the exception of occasional magnetic storms, flares, and sunspots) the Sun was a stable, main sequence star (yellow-white stars about the Sun's age). But like so many recently overturned scientific beliefs, the serene picture of the Sun as a nearly changeless nuclear energy mechanism seems about to be overthrown. Any great change in temperature or variation of the Sun's magnetic or gravitational activity would mean the end of all life on Earth. Such upheavals may very well signal an impending nuclear chain reaction that could convulse the star and trigger a nova. Such an event would, of course, mean the virtual destruction of every planet in the solar system. But there are other, less dramatic solar mechanisms--possibly undiscovered cycles that could bring on another ice age or--worse--turn the Earth into a burning, lifeless desert. The energy we receive from the Sun has strange properties. For example, if it were physically possible to immerse your arm in the Sun's kinetic (cool molecular vibration) temperature, you could come into contact with temperatures as high as 20,000 degrees without even blistering your skin. On the other hand, if the Sun's radiant (hot) temperature suddenly became equal to the kinetic, every planet in the system would be vaporized! However, in spite of everything astronomers have learned, the Sun is still largely a mystery. Within a range of 93 million miles we have a splendid specimen of a main sequence star which could have been studied intensively, yet modern astronomers have preferred to concentrate on distant stars and galaxies. Few laymen are aware that the Sun (surprisingly) possesses an atmosphere--and clouds! These enormous formations of metallic gases, calcium vapor, and hydrogen float between 15,000 and 30,000 miles above the Sun's visible surface. They often last for weeks. The Sun rotates in approximately 25 days, but due to inertia, its polar regions spin faster than the equatorial region which lags by about 10 days per revolution. Oddly enough, the Sun's axis is tilted (like the Earth's) from the plane of the ecliptic, but the inclination is only about seven degrees (Earth's is 23.5 degrees). No one knows why the Sun rotates or even why it shines. We've only recently learned how. There's almost no scientific agreement about why the Earth spins on its axis. This professed ignorance is probably due to the survival of the dogma of the 19th Century scientific materialists that the solar system--in fact the entire Universe--is a vast accident and that its order and reason exist only in the mind of man. If one assumes that the entire cosmos is an accident, the logical conclusion would then be that "all is chaos." However, it seems both logical and reasonable that the Sun's light, heat, and energy is specifically engineered to provide the most hospitable environment for the generation of life. The Earth seems to rotate for pretty much the same reason. If it didn't, the dark side of the planet would be plunged into eternally lifeless cold and ice, and the sunlit side would be just as sterile from the ceaseless intensity of the solar furnace. Trying to grasp such complex, interfaceted functions is like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper. But we're practically forced to see it from a viewpoint of purposefulness. "The Sun appears," said the late French Jesuit philosopher-scientist Teilhard de Chardin, "to be a great engineering achievement." Our local star operates on the power of the atom, which is how it generates energy. This energy spreads from the incredibly dense core to the Sun's visible surface by conduction (i.e., through physical contact between the energy particles). Still there is almost nothing material in the near vacuum of space between the Sun and the Earth. The Sun's life-giving energy is transmitted through space by radiation. To maintain its critical balance, the escape of heat energy from the photosphere has to be exactly equal to the amount of energy being generated by nuclear fusion at the Sun's core. Although the solar core is gaseous, it is far denser than the hardest metal and has a temperature range between 10 and 70 million degrees Centigrade! The atoms of this gas are under such enormous pressure that their outer electron shells are smashed and the atomic nuclei swarm together. Although a cubic inch of this star stuff weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 tons, it is still a gas. Some of the energy emitted by the reflecting or reversing layer of the Sun's photosphere is absorbed by the chromosphere (the reddish layer of incandescent gases seen surrounding the Sun during an eclipse) and the corona (the Sun's halo, also visible only during eclipses of the Sun). The rest of the energy radiates through space, and by the time it reaches the Earth it is further filtered by the thick layer of ionized gases in the highest reaches of our atmosphere (the ionosphere) which absorb most of the ultraviolet rays. The Earth's atmosphere is only about 12 miles high while the Sun's atmosphere extends for millions of miles, up to about 3,000 miles, the solar temperature (between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees Centigrade) is the same as that of its photosphere, but instead of becoming cooler with increasing altitude, its atmospheric temperature starts to climb! At a height of 5,000 miles it reaches 20,000 degrees Centigrade. In the highest reaches of the chromosphere (at an altitude of 9,000 miles) the temperature rises to 100,000 degrees! In the corona itself, the heat goes as high as a million degrees or more. The kinetic temperature alone rises to many millions of degrees. As it is, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the highest and lowest parts of the corona have many effects on the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere. Solar magnetic storms bombard our ionosphere with charged particles, thus altering it and the underlying troposphere. About 50 years ago, the Sun was thought to be the center of everything, and the extent of the "universe" was considered to be the 10,000 to 50,000 stars visible with a telescope on a good night. No one had any idea of the shape of our Milky Way Galaxy until in 1948 American astronomer Harlow Shapley put forth the most remarkable theory since Copernicus deduced that the Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun is just like any other star, he said, inasmuch as it orbits the galactic nucleus. He calculated the location of the heart of the galaxy by figuring out the center of gravity of the great globular clusters of stars positioned around the galaxy. Beyond these globular clusters there are star systems hundreds of times larger. These "satellites" of our galaxy are about 100,000 light-years away and contain about 10 million stars apiece. Beyond these satellites of the Milky Way there are an entire family of galaxies clustered into a single system. The nearest of these is the giant galaxy named Andromeda--two million light-years away. Astronomers call these scores of galaxies "The Local Group." 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Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and European records are in complete agreement about the time and place of this great exploding star. Such a supernova produces more light, heat, and energy than all the other stars in the galaxy--combined! After almost a thousand years, the remains of that explosion are still visible--as the Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. Although it is 4,000 light-years distant, it is still expanding at a speed of 680 miles per second, and has now reached a diameter of five light-years. In November 1572, the famous Danish astronomer-astrologer Tycho Brahe, discovered another exploding star. At its period of maximum brilliance it too could be seen in full daylight. In 1604, Tycho's pupil, Johannes Kepler, discovered still another brilliant nova. There hasn't a notable stellar explosion near our Sun until 1918 when an extremely brilliant star destroyed itself in the constellation of Aquila. At least 20 stars explode every year within our Milky Way Galaxy, but supernovae are 10,000 times more powerful than ordinary novae and exceed the brilliance and energy output of the Sun by a factor of several billion. So far, 25 well-established examples of supernovae have been detected. And, science writer and astronomer, John Rublowski said last year, "Our own galaxy is just about due for another of these spectacular displays." No one can guess which star will face utter destruction. Astronomers theorize that stellar anomalies should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets that lie within the "life zone" of a star before it goes nova. One of these anomalies is increased activity, especially on or within a flare star like our own. What other clues indicate that such a star is due for a supernova explosion? The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who played such an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, was the first man to investigate pre-supernova conditions. He proved that it takes at least 150 million pounds of pressure per square inch at the Sun's center for the atoms to arrive at a collapsed state. In this condition there are no "elements" as we know them, only shattered atoms--electrons, protons, neutrons, etc., all whirling around each other. At this pressure, atoms collapse and become what is called Fermi gas. (The Earth's internal pressure is only about 22 million pounds === Page 24 of 48 per square inch. The entire mass and density of the planet aren't enough to crush a single atom.) Due to the fantastic pressures at the Sun's neutrino (collapsed particle) core, hydrogen is constantly being changed into helium, thus balancing the energy being generated by the energy being radiated into space through the photosphere. Now that the Sun's hydrogen which provides the fuel for its nuclear chain reactions has been almost half-consumed, its equilibrium may be drastically tipped much sooner than anyone suspected. Judging from the Sun's recent dramatic eruptions and the corresponding changes in terrestrial weather--record-breaking rainfalls, floods, summer hailstorms, a drop in global temperature, etc.--we may be facing an imminent decline in the energy being produced by the Sun. It seems only natural to assume that as the Sun's fuel is used up, its production of heat energy will decline very gradually, and that in a few hundred thousand to a few billion years our local star will slowly die, becoming colder and dimmer with each passing century until the blazing nuclear fire simply goes out like a smoldering ash. That's logical enough, but happens to be wrong. Investigators such as Dr. George Gamow, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, have discovered that the *exact opposite* would happen. Instead of becoming dimmer and colder as its supply of hydrogen reaches the critical stage of depletion or (as some astronomers now fear) half-depletion, the Sun will act up dramatically, with an increase in flares, magnetic storms, and huge sunspots which are out of phase with its 11-year cycle. Under these conditions, the Sun will grow larger, hotter, and brighter. As the hydrogen decreases and the supply of helium increases, the difference in the proportions of these gases will produce even greater changes. Helium is not as transparent as hydrogen. Consequently it would become more difficult for the nuclear energy generated from the core of the Sun to penetrate the more opaque helium than it did when a greater amount of the more transparent hydrogen was present. This halfway stage is almost here. The duration of the deterioration period as the helium increases and the hydrogen supply diminishes could be anywhere between 10 years and a thousand, but the Sun's nuclear energy will have an increasingly difficult time fighting its way from the core to the photosphere. At this point the crucial balance between energy generated and energy radiated will have been tilted the other way; more energy will be generated than the Sun can safely release. According to Dr. Gamow, these conditions will raise the interior pressure of the Sun to astounding proportions. Moreover, the nature of the nuclear reactions at the solar core will itself undergo drastic changes. These reactions also depend on the temperature that triggers the Sun's atomic fusion. 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Name Address City State __________ Zip Code __________ SAGA - [ ] 61 === Page 25 of 48 2) that the normal course of stellar development consists of cycles of violent activity; the Sun appears to undergo periodic upheavals, some of which result in (or are caused by) changes in magnetic polarity. This would account for the interruption of history and the occurrence of interplanetary disturbances recounted in such vivid detail by Velikovsky. Science is beginning to fit the pieces together, and they do not conform to the picture of slow, orderly, quiet evolution painted by the Gradualists and Uniformitarians of science. Catastrophism appears to be an indispensable part of natural evolution. In early August 1972, during what was supposed to be the lowest ebb of the 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun erupted in a violent series of flares and major magnetic storms. Astronomers classified them as the most severe ever recorded. There was some speculation about the possibility that the Sun was "changing its magnetic polarity." In immediate, numerous and complex ways, the Earth responded to the solar upheaval. The aurora borealis (which is caused by charged solar particles caught in Earth's magnetic field), previously visible only in the polar regions, was seen in the U.S. as far south as Richmond, Va. Radio communications were garbled and disrupted as the highest reaches of the Earth's atmosphere were ripped apart by magnetic storms of unprecedented intensity. Something strange and foreboding does seem to be happening to the Sun, and it baffles the world's leading scientists. ### Astronomers believe that the beginnings of a star's violent death throes should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets within its life zone. One such sign is increased activity--such as violent solar flare activity, magnetic storms, and a sudden surge of X-ray and radio wave emissions. Even though there has been no publicity, worried scientists have been observing our Sun going through just such a strange, hyperactive stage at this very moment! tists. Nothing in astronomy or astrophysics provides a solid clue to the Sun's unprecedented outburst of radio wave broadcasts and X-rays. On the night of September 2nd, exactly one month after the solar upheaval, radio astronomers in Canada and the U.S. who had been observing a binary star (two stars orbiting each other) called Algol were surprised by two extremely interesting flares. But because of bad weather, astronomer Philip C. Gregory figured he would check out an object in Cygnus which was known for its radio bursts and X-rays. He tuned in on a star in our galaxy called Cygnus X-3 but could hardly believe his own senses. There was a rapid increase of 220 times in the amount of radio emissions from Cygnus X-3--something that had never been seen before! "At first I thought something had gone wrong with the receiver," Gregory said, "and I had to keep turning the sensitivity down." Within an hour he alerted Robert Hjellming of the U.S. National Radio Observatory at Greenbank, W. Va. "Would you believe an increase of 220 times more flux units from Cygnus X-3?" Gregory asked incredulously. Before the night was over they had confirmation from Greenbank, as well as from astronomers at the University of Toronto, and Queens University (also Toronto). "What makes this even more spectacular," Hjellming said, "was that only the night before, emissions from Cygnus X-3 had dropped to below the lowest they had ever been! We're now sitting on reams of unpublished data, and are frankly puzzled. We've never seen anything like this outburst!" The subsequent galvanic activity was reminiscent of science fiction film. By the following Sunday morning scientists were vigorously investigating and had alerted six observatories. Astronomers in charge of orbiting telescopes in space were also alerted to make observations over the entire radio spectrum. "In a celestial event as violent or abrupt as this--at such high temperatures--we'd expect to detect bright X-rays as high as 10 million degrees Kelvin," Gregory said. Paradoxically astronomers at Mount Palomar Observatory said they saw "nothing obvious" in the visual range of Cygnus X-3 (which is 50,000 light-years from Earth). "This is a very, very strange object," Gregory admits. "The outburst is as hot as a nova or supernova, but we'd expect to see some optical brightening from such an explosion." Astronomers E. R. Seaquist and P. P. Kronberg of the University of Toronto have suggested that flare stars (such as our Sun), X-ray stars and others experience cycles of much longer duration than those recorded since the birth of modern observational astronomy. Last year the X-ray satellite Uhuru confirmed that Cygnus X-3 was an X-ray source. In June 1972, it was also discovered to be a radio source. "It's compact and very powerful, and behaves very erratically," says American astronomer Riccardo Giacconi, the foremost investigator of the Uhuru data. On September 7th, astronomer Chi Chao Wu of the University of Wisconsin discovered still further evidence of anomalous stellar energy outbursts. With raw data from Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, he reported a remarkable increase in the output of ultraviolet rays from Cygnus X-3--enough for scientists to press the latest orbiting telescope, Copernicus, into service to help in trying to solve the unnerving Cygnus X-3 mystery. Why all this fuss over the violent activity of a distant star? Is it possible that whole groups of blazing suns in line with our own undergo regular pulsations in sequence, like a string of Christmas tree lights? "All we know right now," says Giacconi, "is that something very weird is going on." Since that announcement, the astronomical community as a whole has become increasingly reticent in making public statements about the immediate fate of our Sun. All they are willing to admit is that "we need more study and observation to find out exactly what is happening." The eruption of our normally quiet Sun on August 7th was the most severe ever recorded. According to David McLean of the Space Environmental Sciences Center at Boulder, Colo., "the exceptionally large centimeter-wave radio bursts that accompanied the unexpected flares indicated that this was a most extraordinary solar event. The August 7th flare ran the X-ray sensors right off the scale!" It's generally known that the Sun's gravity holds all the planets, comets, and other bodies of the solar system in strict orbits, and that sunlight is the original source of all our energy, such as that stored in our food and fuels. Solar energy is used by green plants in photosynthesis and also powers our weather, for example. The Sun's diameter is 865,400 miles and its volume about 1.3 million times that of the Earth. Its mass is almost 700 times the total mass of all other bodies in the solar system and 332,000 times that of the Earth. Since prehistoric times, men have pondered the mystery of the strange "fire" which causes the Sun to radiate such enormous amounts of heat, energy, and light without becoming either cooler or hotter. Only during the past couple of decades have scientists deduced the nature of the forces that cause the Sun to "burn." While our local star is a life-supporting system for Earth--and possibly other worlds in our solar system--by its very nature, our life-giving Sun could also be the cause of mass extermination! Like all stars, the Sun must maintain its equilibrium in order to radiate. It does this by converting hydrogen (the most abundant element in the Universe) into helium. Astronomers figure that this process has been going on in the Sun for about 5,000 million years. 30 - [ ] SAGA === Page 26 of 48 FATE MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW DEPT. "Earth's Ambassador" by D. Scott Rogo and Jeffrey Mishlove. Now, Fate readers, first I must explain something to you. The Editor of Fate Magazine asked me not to review this book. Because, you see, I wrote it. But I explained to him sincerely that, as a scientific investigator I am scrupulously honest and objective and would not even think about praising a book just because I happened to write it. (Mishlove didn't write the book. I did. He just did the introduction. I did all the work.) Another reason I wanted to review this book - the other book reviewers at Fate Magazine would probably give it a bad review, you see. As for the book itself, it reflects month of research and the documentation of the cases is impeccable. If I do say so myself, the author did a brilliant job of putting together a book on a difficult subject. And after I had finished the first completed copy of the book I began to read the first part of it and found that I had made the subject matter so interesting that I couldn't put the book down until I had finished all of it! Frankly, I would place the book in the "superior" category. As for what is in the book...it is about some idiot who thinks he can talk to flying saucers; thinks he can make it rain; and imagines that he can cause football players to fall down. Ha ha ha! Nevertheless, I was given the chore of writing the book, so I went up to Vancouver, Washington, to personally interview the moron. (Mishlove warned me beforehand to wear a bulletproof vest and take nothing to eat or drink that might be offered to me, for safety's sake. He even offered to loan me his own bulletproof vest, the one with hearts and flowers design all over it, but I declined.) Well, Owens was what I expected him to be. A regular slob. He had no taste whatsoever in clothes. Tacky, you know? He had no taste in good music, preferring horrible jazz music to my own beautiful classic music. He prefers banging around on drums instead of playing a decent musical instrument like my own oboe. And he had no couth at all. The chap sat around swilling scotch and beer and yelling at his TV set. Really, now, I ask you. To cap it all off he inveigled me into playing some games of pool and he beat me five games to three. But it was the way he won the games that infuriated me! I noted, with my scientific investigator techniques, that during the first game he was pushing glass after glass of white wine into my hand. Soon I was smashed, and Owens got ahead of me. The man has no scruples whatsoever, and simply is not to be trusted, if you see what I mean. Not since W. C. Fields laced Baby LeRoy's lemonade with gin have I seen such a dastardly ploy. Anyway, rush out and buy this book. It is one you will not want to miss. Or write me and I'll sell them to you by the dozen. (I have to move fifty million of these books, you see.) The author, D. Scott Rogo. === Page 27 of 48 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 31 JAN 1980 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 28 of 48 Rus devastating droughts followed by floods. be in chaotic condition. Farmer vote will be im- in the elections. The elderly who resent prevailing conditions will come out to vote in a strong block. Prominent newspapers in different localities will disappear from the scene. **Ted Owens, Predictions From Space Intelligences** In a letter dated May 23, 1971, we received from Ted Owens, the man who claims he serves as Earth's intermediary for Space Intelligences, details of "one of the most exciting things" that he had ever done. "You know, of course," he reminded us, "how I have documented in advance . . . creating three simultaneous hurricanes . . . guiding hurricanes against the predictions of the Hurricane Center in Miami . . . ending droughts . . . creating droughts . . . making UFO's appear over cities . . . and so on, for about 250 miracles. Here is a new one. For the first time I have gone one-on-one with a molten, lava-belching volcano!" The astounding Ted Owens told us that he had specified to columnist Larry Maddry of the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that he would try to save Sant-Alfio, Sicily, the village that lay in the path of erupting Mt. Etna, by Sunday, May 23rd. In the letter, Owens told me that his UFOs had saved the village, and he went on to tell us exactly how it happened. "Last Thursday, I read where the fiery molten lava was pouring down on this town of Sant-Alfio in Sicily. The news item read that the lava couldn't miss--the people and the town were directly in its path. So I picked up the phone and called Larry Maddry, reporter for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk and told him that I would use my considerable powers 134 and telepath to the UFO intelligences that I am linked up with to save this village and its people. On that day, Thursday, I sent a letter to him (Maddry) backing it up in writing with copies to Otto Binder and two scientists who are overseeing my work. (It is thoroughly documented.) "I used a shotgun approach--my own brain, plus telepathing to SI control--to bring this about. "Saturday night, two days later, the fiery flow of lava--a mile wide and eighteen feet deep--burning up everything in its path, miraculously diverted and flowed to one side of the town, saving the 4,000 people there. "No finer demonstration of SI power would you ever want to see. I told four very responsible people two days in advance specifically what I was going to try to accomplish. And I accomplished it." Along with his letter, Owens sent a newsclip that headlined, "Lava diverted past town." According to the Associated Press, a "flaming river of lava" from Mt. Etna was suddenly diverted from the village of Sant-Alfio and had begun a two and one-half mile path down the Cavagrande Canyon to the sea. The new course had no town or village in its path. A few days later, Owens sent us a full-page story in the Virginian-Pilot that chronicled "The Day Heywood Hale Broun Came to Town." The reason for CBS' colorful sports essayist's coming to Norfolk had been to interview Ted Owens on his amazing documented ability to, ostensibly, psychically "zap" professional football teams. Owens is a prolific letter writer to his "contacts," and we receive on an average of two letters a week advising us on the activities of the Space Intelligences and their Earthly emissary. We must admit that he has told us which teams have been singled out to be on some kind of cosmic smear list, and, fantastic as it may seem, something invariably happens to key players on those teams. Of course, one does not have to be voodooed to sustain a barrage of injuries in the less-than-gentle world of professional football. On April 8, 1971, Ted Owens sent the following open letter to all pro football teams: 135 === Page 29 of 48 "The attached newsclip (telling about Johnny Unitas' injury and Tom Matte's attack of bleeding ulcers) is a special delivery letter to you from my SI's (UFO intelligences). What am I talking about? "Weeks ago, Don Klosterman, General Manager of the Colts, dropped me a line inquiring about my reason for using "PK" (psychokinesis) on the World Champion Colts. I answered and explained that I must demonstrate each year my incredible powers by holding back the winner of the Pro Championship the preceding season, as I have done with the Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and now must do with the Colts. "I warned Mr. Klosterman and Mr. Rosenbloom, Sr. specifically and clearly that my mental attack had already been placed in motion against the Colts, was affecting them now, and if they intended to hire me (for $100,000) they had better do it quickly before the PK began to tear the team apart. (You don't believe this? Then check with the two gentlemen.) "They ignored me (always a terrible mistake, but no one seems to learn from it) and two of their fine stars are zonked, Unitas and Matte, both in the same hospital at the same time, both struck down in the same time period of 24 hours. "Also, just recently, my number two PK target, the Cowboys, have had two star players . . . and one of their coaches zonked. "And the regular season hasn't even begun yet! "I keep on giving these fantastic demonstrations of how my 150 or more other-dimensional powers can take pro teams apart, stop them cold, etc., yet none of them seems to want this hair-raising power on their side! This, to me, is unbelievable. "Last year, I stopped approximately fifty million dollars worth of pro football teams. This coming season . . . let's see, what's thirteen times ten million?" The May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated took official notice of the PK man in their "People" section: ". . . back in February Owens decided to cast a spell upon 136 the Baltimore Colts. And charge $100,000 to unhex them. Now, was it Owens' fault that Johnny Unitas tore his Achilles' tendon, Tom Matte got appendicitis and Sam Havrilak sprained his ankle? Well, when a Philadelphia writer challenged Owens to 'prove you can do something' the PK man announced he would hex Tom Woodeshick of the Eagles, and within 15 minutes, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting. Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom has dropped Owens a polite note requesting him to remove Baltimore from his list of losers. 'If you will advise me as to a course of action which we could follow . . . I will do whatever I can to comply,' Rosenbloom wrote. But the question seems to be, will he come across with $100,000?" Although Ted Owens generally limits his sports activities to hexing football teams with PK, he claims that he also whammied a basketball team this year when coach Gene Shue of the Baltimore Bullets made the mistake of publicly refusing Owens' offer of assistance over television. "They had a right to refuse the PK man," he said, "but not over television." Within moments of the insult to his pride, Owens telephoned the Baltimore Sun and told them that he would have his revenge. The Milwaukee Bucks downed the Bullets 102 to 83. "I sat by my television set and followed the game play by play," Owens told us. "Everytime the Bullets got the ball, I called in power on the court so they would make mistakes. My power would then throw off their timing and make them miss their shots. After the game, the Bullets admitted that they got enough shots at the basket to have provided them with a winning margin, but they simply could not get their shots through the hoop!" In last year's annual, we told you Ted Owen's incredible story of how he has established mental contact with the SI's, who are using his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. Owens, who was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920, says that he first acquired his contact with the Space Intelligences one night in 1965 when he was living in Fort 137 s reveal 1976 ks: Air mishaps yweight cham- ad Ali will be of a baby boy. assis and her e, will reveal ble wedding s year.. destined to world's ppists. sion near u peaks will occur ne last week of March, 1976. Two other tragic air mis- === Page 30 of 48 Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared and came floating toward their automobile. No space-suited aliens stepped forth to converse with Ted, but he writes in his book How to Contact Space People: "From that day on, my life changed radically . . . while in Fort Worth, I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers, I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Ted, a married man with three sons in addition to his daughter, Lornie, is also a member of Mensa, the high intelligence society, proving, at least to several peoples' satisfaction, that he is no dummy on any level of consciousness. "Not only are my regular ESP powers outstanding in the world," Ted told us, "but combined with these powers, I am able to communicate with, and receive answers from, UFO intelligences--and prove it! I am able to utilize these powers from their world, or dimension, in this, our own dimension and world." Owens prefers to call his strange friends "Spatial Intelligences," and he says that they have "fantastic, awesome powers." Ted Owens claims that he is the only psychic in the world who can cause and create major national and international events to happen. He says that he had documented such occurrences time and time again. He points out Otto Binder's articles in Saga magazine, his frequent letters to "contacts," and the fact that he is working ". . . under the scrutiny of three of the world's best scientists, Owens says, has given him a notarized affidavit pertaining to one of his psychic feats. "At present I am using my powers and the SI powers to try and stave off a Russian nuclear strike," Owens told us ominously. "If you're reading this now, we will have been successful!" In regard to his predictions, Owens reminded us that he 138 would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because ". . . in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is." Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is." The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues." Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972: Weather Phenomena During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods. see next page In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida. Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados. Money and the Stock Market By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit. Animals, Birds, and Fish Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy 139 === Page 31 of 48 those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time. In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works. ### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life. ### Rains in Africa In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was. 140 ### Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. ### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. ### Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 === Page 32 of 48 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 The above discussed sports demonstration can possibly be shelved in the event that one of the above-named teams should hire me to help it. In this case, I shall remove the thirteen-team PK attack and simply help my team win as many games as it can, which should be considerable. You will know if this happens, because it should appear in the newspapers--if the team allows it to be publicized, that is. After making his predictions for 1972, Ted Owens informed us that if he should receive the financial backing to carry out certain SI assignments, much of what he had prognosticated would not come to pass. "Because then I will be using my powers to stop wars all over the Earth, to stop hating, killing, and corruption, to stop pollution of all kinds, and so on," he said. How will we know if Ted obtains the necessary backing to carry out his work? "I will issue a statement to the newspapers which will probably be carried nationwide, and you will see it," he told us. "The only thing that will not be changed is the space-PK. Earth must be cleared up first; mankind must be brought back into proper balance with Nature. And that will take years to clear up, with me working full time with the SI's. God bless you, and keep you!" And there we have Ted Owen's predictions for another year. Owens never fails to stir up controversy with his SI point of view, and program hosts who have had him as a guest on radio and television talk shows state that he always keeps the lines humming. Interested readers may contact Ted Owens, the PK man, at Box 3134, Norfolk, Virginia 23514. 143 === Page 33 of 48 Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record, Thursday, May 3, 1973. Page 6B Ted Owens # Famed Psychic Visits Here By CATHY STOTT (Enterprise-Record Intern) One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway. Acclaimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen. He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl. In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend. In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred. Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas. "I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said. Owens, who claims an IQ of 153 -- genious level -- is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists. Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena." Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said. Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico. Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son. MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS.......... When being interviewed by Miss Stott...she kept a poker face throughout, for approximately an hour. At the finish...after she'd seen my documentation... she stared at me, still pokerfaced, and said calmly, "You've just blown my mind." This was so funny, thought you'd like a chuckle on it. Ted === Page 34 of 48 Tattler Special Report January, 1976 # Top Psychics Foresee Massive UFO Sightings in Coming Year AMONG THE NOTED psychics who predict that UFO sightings will increase during 1976 are Marc Vito (left) and Ted Owens. They and other seers are in agreement that aliens from space will transport many humans to other worlds. However, the psychics say, the aliens mean us no harm and actually only want to help us develop more advanced techniques. By CLIFF LINEDECKER Of the Tattler Staff Top psychics contacted by Tattler claim there will be more sightings of UFO's in 1976 than ever before and hundreds of vanishings as alien intelligences transport humans to other dimensions and worlds. However, the psychics agree that the aliens mean no deliberate harm. Instead, some psychics say, the beings from other worlds are already helping mankind develop solar energy and to advance other areas of knowledge. As the number of sightings and contacts increases, according to psychic Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., the U.S. government will reluctantly admit the UFO's are a reality. Owens, who is known as "The UFO Prophet," says there will be so many reputable witnesses, including scientists and police, that the government will be forced to admit that UFO's are observing mankind. "The government's job is to protect the people of the U. S. In this case, we are talking about the military, but if the military knows unequivocally that it cannot protect people from UFO's, then it doesn't want to admit that," explains Owens. "So they've been covering up the sightings hoping the whole thing will go away." OWENS SAYS there is nothing to fear, however. The UFO's are not hostile. "If they were, they would have taken us over long ago. My estimate is that the UFO's could take over the surface of the earth in a matter of minutes if they wished - but they don't wish to and have no reason to." The "UFO Prophet" says there are two types of beings responsible for the phenomena and claims to have been working personally with higher intelligences from another dimension for years. "They claim to have worked with Moses," he says, "and they never die. They are all knowing, and using telepathy, have personally gained much valuable knowledge from them." The second group of UFO's, Owens refers to as "O.I.'s," or "Other Intelligences." Although meaning no deliberate harm to life on this planet, he says, they are of lower intelligence than the other dimension beings and sometimes cause injury through carelessness. "O. I.'s are from other planets, and they can be rough on humans. The O.I.'s are responsible for some of the cattle mutilations. There is also some cult involvement, but the O.I.'s are the ones involved in the the very mysterious cases where surgical procedures come in that even our top surgeons could not accomplish." "WHY ARE THEY doing it? They don't want to interfere with our culture, but they do want to study life here. So they sneak around the periphery of our culture, dissecting some of these strange animals (cattle) and taking them back to their planet for closer examination." === Page 35 of 48 Three leading psychics reveal their predictions for 1976 Ted Owens: Violent storms Maris De Long: Small riots THREE of America's foremost psychics this week revealed their latest predictions exclusively for The Star's readers. Among the startling events they foresee for 1976 are: * President Ford's life will be in extreme danger. He will not be reelected. * Jackie Onassis and her teenage daughter Caroline will have a double wedding. * Violent storms will wreak havoc across the entire nation. Maris De Long of Los Angeles was Marilyn Monroe's personal psychic and predicted Kissinger's marriage and the death of Aristotle Onassis. She predicts: Ronald Reagan will be Ford's running mate in the national election. But Ford will not be re-elected. An obscure politician will go to the White House. Small riots will erupt in Los Angeles about mid-year. Christina Onassis will bear a son and heir to the Onassis fortune. But health problems will surround her at this time. Henry Kissinger's marriage will be rocky in 1976. There will be persistent rumors of divorce. Dr. K will resign from the Ford Administration. His wife will accept a public affairs appointment in the near future and become a famous stateswoman. Ted Owens, a prophet and healer from West Virginia, foretold the Watergate scandal and Nixon's historic departure from the White House. He predicts: America's economy will nosedive in 1976, causing an epidemic of crime and unemployment. President Ford is now in the greatest physical danger of his life. In the next few months an assassination attempt will be made on him that is not amateurish. A storm of revolution will sweep America during 1976 and in the following year. Politicians and government workers will be mobbed in the streets by angry citizens. More great celebrities will pass away in 1976 than in any previous year. Violent weather will wreak havoc on most parts of the nation. Freak tornados, hurricanes, droughts and raging storms will be reported more often than ever before. Jandolin Marks, a former model who lives in Alaska, foresaw the United Air Lines crash that killed 43 persons including the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. She predicts: Jandolin Marks: Air mishaps World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali will be the proud father of a baby boy. Jacqueline Onassis and her daughter Caroline, will reveal plans for a double wedding ceremony later this year. Patty Hearst is destined to become one of the world's most loved philanthropists. A mid-air collision near snow covered peaks will occur in the last week of March, 1976. Two other tragic air mishaps will be reported during January -- one involving a military plane crash on a mountain side, the second caused by a thunder storm. THE Star 30c Jan. 13, 1976 America's liveliest family weekly === Page 36 of 48 December 27, 1973 TO MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS, MY REGULAR CONTACTS, AND THE UFO (SI) DISC PEOPLE.......... Listed below are the books and magazines which, so far, have carried articles and pictures of me in them...which have described my work, in part or in whole. And soon there will be two more books coming out doing same. (BOOKS) "Occult America" by John Godwin, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY $7.95. "Revelation: The Divine Fire", Brad Steiger, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. $7.95. "How To Contact Space People", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (or from Saucerian Pubs., Clarksburg, W. Va.)...$5 "Predictions For 1973", Glenn McWane, Award Books, #AQ1032, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017 $1.25. "What The Seers Predict For 1972", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25. "What The Seers Predict For 1971", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25. "The Devil Is Alive And Well And Living In America Today", Jason Michaels, $1.25 Award Books, AQ1137, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017 "Flying Saucer Intelligences Speak", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, $1.25. "Other Dimensions: 1974" by Brad Steiger, Other Dimensions Inc., 104 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, 52101, $1.25. "Danger On The Moon", Michael X, Saucerian Pubs, Box 2228, Clarksburg, W. Va. $1.50 "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974", WARREN SMITH, BOX 897, CLINTON, IOWA, 52732, $1.25. (MAGAZINES) Saga Magazine, 333 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York...the following issues: (at 60¢) August, 1970 September 1970 January 1971 March 1971 April 1971 October 1971 January 1972 February 1972 Saga Annual 1972...75¢ January 1973 Saga Annual 1973...75¢ and Saga UFO Special 1973...75¢ Sport Magazine, 205 E. 42nd St., NY NY...50¢. (July 1971, Vol. 52, No. 1) There you have it to date. Of course there have been dozens and dozens of newspaper articles written about my work...also articles in National Tattler publication. They contain detailed descriptions of my work, my miracles, my predictions...and will give you a wealth of information about PK Man! Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 37 of 48 Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7 # 'PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated By FRANK VEHORN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer Ted Owens, a man who claims to have stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports. A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams. The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens said his powers were used in disrupting athletic teams. In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates. Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets. Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists. In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased." Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power. "I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt. Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans. ![TED OWENS ... removes hexes] For the post several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win. Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle. Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched. Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him. But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury. The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense. Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens. Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series. In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping." Not ever Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through. But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most. "It started back in 1968 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team. "He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse." So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens. Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball. Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him." Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television. Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television. Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win. Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score. Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost. "From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs. "I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win." Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment. "I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas." Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires. "In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength. "I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers." If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens. Now, that can't happen. 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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11206 EXCELLENT REPORTING Three cheers for SAGA. You've done it again. Your article about strange findings on the moon in your March issue was marvelous. Your magazine does more to inform the public about UFOs, astronomy, psychic discoveries, and related subjects than any other magazine, newspaper, ra- dio or television, and I, for one, am most grateful. Joseph Goodavage, the author of "What Strange-and Fright- ening-Discoveries Did Our Astronauts Make on the Moon?", is an excellent re- porter, and he has many admirers among the thinking public. Please continue to do such an excellent job of reporting on Ted Owens, Mariner findings, and other data and discoveries on related subjects. The moon article real- ly held my attention, and I bought several copies and passed them out to friends. You deserve a lot of credit for giving us the truth. It's what we need the most right now. Future success to your magazine. K.S. Phinney Sepulveda, Calif. SLOWER IS FASTER In the April Sound Off you ran a letter headlined Time Travel. The writer presented a case for using time travel in star travel. He built his case pretty well but he completely missed the most likely and best method of using time travel in space exploration. This method is what I call the "Time Di- lation Effect." It consists of 2 concentric spheres of time traveling at different speeds. The outer sphere will travel at a much slower pace than normal speed, holding the ship back in time. The inner sphere will travel at the same pace as the normal universe. Thus the outside world can make a trip to a star at a speed slow- er than light, but to the people inside the ship and on the parent world it would ap- pear to be traveling faster than light. In this way you have circumvented the speed of light barrier without breaking it. If you cannot understand this it is be- cause your human brain is not powerful enough to conceive of something on so high an order. David Mortimere Goffstown, N.H. GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION To begin with, you deserve a big pat on the back and a warm thank you for telling it like it is. All of your articles are great and informative, but being a UFO buff for a long, long time now, I refer to your cov- erage of the UFO controversy. It gives me a secure feeling to know that at least one part of the news media-your maga- zine-keeps the general public informed about things which they are concerned about and which really matter to them in their everyday lives. I firmly believe that our government should be doing the same thing that SAGA is doing; keeping the public aware so we won't be in the dark about what to do or expect if, by chance, we are con- tacted by spacecraft and beings from an- other planet. There is no doubt in my mind that the government is suppressing and hiding facts and evidence that we should know about. Because of your pub- lication, and the way you dig up material for us to read, we will at least be a whole lot smarter and wiser about what is going on. You are doing a superior job. Name and address withheld by request UFOs EXPLAINED This concerns "Amazing Super Sci- ence Of The Ancients" by Joseph F. Goodavage (April 1974). Forty years ago when I was in the third grade, I looked around one day and said to myself, "this cannot be all there is to it. There have been those before us and there will be those who will follow!" I had already had a taste of biblical teachings on the creation, which occurred 8,000 years ago, and wondered who was trying to kid whom! As time passed and I found out more about the world and about what has been discovered by different investigators, the more I tried to convince others that the Bible is an unproved book of folktales and mythology. Our society is so bound up by religious doctrine that it is a wonder to me that the radio has ever been accepted as a fact. One can tear a radio apart and not find where the voices and music come from. so one can say the radio doesn't exist! UFOs don't "exist" because they are impossible according to most of the sci- entific and engineering brains (?) of the world. Former civilizations are impossible because no mechanical artifacts have been found. Even if bulldozers and au- tomobiles were to be dug up, the diggers and scientific minds would not accept the facts before their eyes! WHY? Because we all are told that we started from Adam and Eve 8,000 years ago, and they did not have clothing much less any machinery. I may be the only one on Earth who tru- ly feels the way I do, but I think it's a won- der that the human race as we know it ever learned to hunt and fish and use fire to cook with. Because, by and large, the scientific and ruling types are so utterly pigheaded and dense when anything new is even mentioned as a possibility! Every time progress has been made in (Continued on page 6) SAGA 4 === Page 39 of 48 Psychoenergetic Systems 1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98 © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd. Printed in Great Britain # Letter Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1957 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them. The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972). It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon. REFERENCES Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, **66**, 145-154. Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959. Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971. Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139. JULE EISENBUD, 4634 East 6th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220, U.S.A. 98 === Page 40 of 48 Are you playing apps. with Owens? copy for Jeff people 20 San Francisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974 # When Superbrain Makes It Happen By Kevin Wallace Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro-ball games. "I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play." Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain. "I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture: "I have a special brain, half UFO, half human. "I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench -- say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers -- and the most powerful psychic would win." He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors. Next he produced an SI Disc -- a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it. "I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures. SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said -- and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor. But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for -- "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was motoring along on a drive through Texas. "They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them -- and survive it -- since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish. With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area. "But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain,' which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this." He shuddered pleasurably. Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes -- and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" -- it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request. By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance -- the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows. Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends -- asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?" From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chattanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets. A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" -- though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage -- "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport -- which was nothing. "The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO -- well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor." Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on. "But she's had phenomena happen to her. Like the knife floating around in the kitchen. And the night she came in screaming from the balcony, after a little creature had dropped down beside her. And the time she saw this pigeon with a radar antenna around its neck." Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite. Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand. The next-youngest, Beau -- "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" -- first showed his own gift four years ago. "I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself -- two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 8 at the time!" ted Owens keep Sounds like a real nut or a clever money game!! === Page 41 of 48 Best to Dr. Sprinkle... Owens (PK Man) PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE Ted Owens Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff Prof. Hans Bender John Eccles 56 === Page 42 of 48 Courtyard of the Utrecht cathedral Dr. John Hasted by Jeffrey Mishlove The 1976 convention of the Parapsychological Association was held under the shadow -- in fact, virtually in the courtyard -- of an 800 year old gothic cathedral at the State University of Utrecht in Holland. Located in the center of the Netherlands, the University of Utrecht is the largest in the country with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. Combining ancient traditions with modern science, the university actually houses two separate parapsychology laboratories. Dr. Martin Johnson, president of the P.A. and host of the conference, is a modern researcher, steeped in both the philosophy of science and empirical research methods. His colleague, 88 year old Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, Europe's first academic parapsychologist, is still an active researcher. The conference itself was a mixture of old and new approaches to psychical research at a level of intensity rarely, if ever, equalled in the history of this emerging science. Over 80 papers were presented covering phenomenal new research in psychokinesis, ganzfeld techniques, out-of-body experiences, physiological measures, hypnosis, meditation, subliminal perception, and general ESP. The keynote address was delivered by Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate in physiology, who described his dualistic theory of mind-body interaction; and, of particular interest, specified psychological experiments which, in his opinion, indicated both precognition and psychokinesis taking place *within the brain!* The precognitive experiment involves conscious detection of a signal a fraction of a sec the neural impulses act the cortex. As for psy the brain, the exa supports J.B. that an act ing a o Psychic -- January/February 1977 57 === Page 43 of 48 Even if Hasted's paper had been the only one presented, the P.A. Convention would have still been an important scientific landmark. In one of his experiments, Hasted made simultaneous electronic measurements of the PK "strain" on three keys which were suspended from the ceiling of the laboratory, equidistant and out of reach of his young subject. The results show a comparable, but not exactly identical, force affecting all three keys simultaneously. In another study, aluminum strips which were left alone in a room became twisted and braided like pigtails within a matter of seconds. The subject was in an adjoining room. Electronic strain gauges recorded a force on the metal unlike anything that would be seen by normal human bending. The extraordinary success of the PK research has led some experimenters to seriously question ethical ramifications. Dr. Zbigniew W. Wolkowski of Paris announced (at a later conference in London) the discontinuation of his PK research, after he was asked to explore the use of psychokinesis to modify genetic material. Citing the admonitions of philosophers and spiritual teachers, Wolkowski stated his opinion that psychokinetic forces were of a "low level," and possibly quite destructive. He maintained that clear ethical positions should be formulated before such research is allowed to continue much further. On the other hand, Hasted suggested that in a few years, commercial applications of PK and telekinesis would be possible. Important breakthroughs were also announced in ESP research. Ernesto Spinelli, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Surrey, England, created a ripple of excitement when he reported the results of a three-year study relating chronological age to ESP abilities. Over 700 subjects ranging in age from 3 to 35 participated in over 7,500 experimental trials. The results were remarkable and will probably have a profound effect on our understanding of developmental psychology. Children in the age range of 3.3 to 3.7 years scored 672 hits out of 1500 trials in a situation where only 300 hits would be expected by chance. The experimental task was a uniquely designed card-guessing test which was electronically monitored with rigorous controls against sensory leakage or cheating. The chance probabilities of such incredible results is less than one in $10^{90}$. Children in the age range of 4.5 to 4.9 years also scored significantly above chance, obtaining 523 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score being obtained by chance is less than one in $10^{30}$. Children between 5 and 8 years of age achieved 386 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score occurring by chance is less than one in a thousand. Above the age of eight years, the ESP scores in Spinelli's experiment dropped to the scoring level of most average adults, less than one percent above chance expectations. When they are repeated, these results should clearly establish the important role of psychical research in developmental psychology. Other studies explored the relationship between ESP and meditation, psychotherapy, relaxation, erotic stimulation, openness of personality, call-time, cognitive modes of awareness, classroom experience, mother-child relationship, emotionally loaded targets and experimenter personality. Nicholas Tornatore, a psychologist from Staten Island, N.Y., conducted a survey of over 600 psychiatrists regarding the incidences of psi during therapy with their patients. Twenty-eight percent of the psychiatrists reported that they had personally had at least one paranormal experience. Over ten percent of the psychiatrists noted paranormal phenomena during their sessions with patients. The data tended to support the notion that psi occurred at times in the therapy when significant emotional breakthroughs or shifts in attitude were taking place. In half of the cases, the psychiatrists felt that the paranormal incident aided in the analysis of the patient. Often, however, the analyst was not aware of the implications which the incident might have for therapy. Tornatore concluded his paper by suggesting that institutions providing training for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists should be concerned with psi phenomena and their relationship to therapy (see his report in this issue). Following the Utrecht convention, many researchers traveled to London for the Institute of Parascience conference at the City University of London. The presentations at this meeting covered a greater range of topics than at the Parapsychological Association Metal objects sealed in tubes developed paranormal bends in the presence of Hasted's young subjects. Straightened paperclips intertwined themselves in a few moments while placed in a glass globe. Perhaps the key point in evaluating the success of the glass globe experiment is that, after two years Hasted has been unable to discover any technicians or magicians who have been able to produce comparable bending of the paper clips using normal means. Hasted has now gathered enough solid data to begin forming theories regarding the vectors and forces required for the phenomena he has observed. Psychic--January/February 1977 59 === Page 44 of 48 how to encourage and foster the psychic aptitudes of their children, before the major governments of the world establish reliable lines of communication with civilizations beyond the earth? After attending the research conferences in Utrecht and London, I can clearly imagine the possibility that these events will occur before the end of this century. (Continued from 40) that "the basic underlying idea is the same. More fascinating and important, however, is their view that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs, by toxic substances and by anoxia (often characteristic of dying persons) result in deathbed visions, apparitions and other unusual mental experiences. They further suggest that it is such experiences that are the source of the eschatological mythologies that are to be found in the world's religions. They provide interesting data in substantiation of these claims. In Part III, Chapter XIII--the only chapter that is devoted entirely to a parapsychological approach to survival after bodily death--Rosalind Heywood relates a number of her own psychic experiences which are suggestive of survival. Her paper is well-written, interesting and makes only modest claims, but it adds no new theoretical knowledge to this sort of presentation. One noticeable error in the volume is Koestler's attribution of "the best of all possible worlds" doctrine to Hegel. This is a view for which Leibniz is widely known. Frederick C. Dommeyer, Ph. D. (Dr. Dommeyer is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.) ========== ALSO OF NOTE ========== **Seeing with the Mind's Eye** by Mike and Nancy Samuel. New York/Berkeley, Random House Bookworks, 1975. 331 pp. $9.95. The history and practice of visualization; contains a chapter on parapsychology. **Occult Illustrated Dictionary** by Harvey Day. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. 156 pp. $8.50. A dictionary of terms used in parapsychology and occult sciences. **The Paranormal Perception of Color** by Yvonne Duplessis. New York, Parapsychology Foundation, 1975. 117 pp. $4.50 (Paperback). Skin vision and the use of color for ESP tests. **Vibrations** by Daniel Logan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1976. 193 pp. $7.95. Well-known psychic tells how to help yourself channel and deal with ESP experiences. **The Space Gods Revealed** by Ronald Story. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. 139 pp. $7.95. An expose of van Daniken's views and facts. **The Healing Environment** by Cristina Ismael. Millbrae, Ca. Celestial Arts, 1976. 206 pp. $4.95. A survey on occult, psychic, and mental healing. **A Meditator's Diary** by Jane Hamilton-Merritt. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. A western woman's experiences with meditation in Thailand. # Bibliography **PSYCHIC COUNSELING** EISENBUD, J., *Psi and Psychoanalysis*. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1970. HONORTON, C., "Psi-Conducive States of Awareness," in Mitchell, E. D. et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's 1974. ROGERS, C., *Client-Centered Therapy*. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1971. ULLMAN, M., "Psi and Psychiatry," in Mitchell, E. D., et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's, 1974. **THE PARANORMAL EVENT IN PSYCHIC THERAPY** COLEMAN, M. L., "The paranormal triangle in analytical supervision," *Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review*. 1958, Vol. 45, pp. 73-84. EHRENWALD, J., *Telepathy and medical psychology*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1966. EHRENWALD, J., "Presumptively telepathic incidents during analysis," *Psychiatric Quarterly*, 1950, Vol. 24, pp. 726-743. EISENBUD, J., "Telepathy and problems of psychoanalysis," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. EISENBUD, J., *Psi and psychoanalysis: Studies in the psychoanalysis of psi-conditioned behavior*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970. FREUD, S., "Dreams and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. JUNG, C. G., *Memories, dreams, reflections*. New York: Vintage, 1961. SERVADIO, E., "Psychoanalysis and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953. ----------, "Telepathy and psychoanalysis," *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research*, 1958, Vol. 52, pp. 127-133. # Astrobiology TAKING THE PLACE OF # Parapsychology? ASTROBIOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE Th. Gudjonsson 208 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Price $ 7.00. Is parapsychology only something about relations between people -- plants and animals perhaps also -- but nothing else? Or is there an extraterrestrial source of the phenomena involved? If you think so **ASTROBIOLOGY** by Th. Gudjonsson is the book for you. In Astrobiology, the cosmic philosophy from Iceland and its relations to recent discoveries, is being introduced. BIORADII I enclose check or m.o. for $.......... payment in full for ..........copy(ies) of Astrobiology. The Science of the Universe. Airmail delivery and guaranteed refund. ---------- To Bioradii Publications, P.O. Box 722, Reykjavik, Iceland. Psychic--January/February 1977 61 === Page 45 of 48 signal a fraction of a second before the neural impulses actually reach the cortex. As for psychokinesis in the brain, the example Eccles chose supports J.B. Rhine's contention that an act of pure will, such as lifting a finger, is evidence of mind over matter. To do this properly, there should be no apparent stimulus for the action. Eccles discussed the neurophysiological concomitants of such an act. His dualistic notion of mind-body interactions was provocative in that it contradicted both the orthodox neurophysiological view and the newer theories of consciousness now being put forth by quantum physicists. A major highlight of the conference was a Japanese television film which documented the spectacular talents of Dutch psychic sleuth Gerard Croiset. Croiset was flown to Japan from Amsterdam in order to locate a missing child. Upon his arrival he was taken straightaway to a television studio in front of the cameras. Immediately, on seeing a photograph of the missing child, he began furiously drawing a map of the area where he thought she should be found. Then Croiset went to bed, but the television crew used his map to find the actual site and set up TV cameras there before dawn. As the sun came up, the film shows the young girl's body rising out of the lake, where Croiset had pinpointed her--before either Croiset or the police had arrived on the scene. A further interview shows the amazement of the police chief when he arrives. Many experimental researchers found loopholes in the TV film presentation and stated their opinion, quite accurately, that from an evidential point of view the film was too uncontrolled and proved nothing. Yet the purpose of such a film wasn't to provide proof, but rather documentation for those who were willing to assume the basic honesty of the participants. The film drew a loud applause from the hundred participants who had missed lunch and packed into a hot crowded room to see it. Under the direction of Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, in-depth personality studies with talented "paragnosts" such as Croiset have been the main focus of research for many decades. Tenhaeff has studied over 500 police cases solved by Croiset, and even more failures. As Croiset has shown a particular talent for locating the bodies of drowned children, it is interesting to note that he himself nearly drowned in a lake at the age of six. The event left a lasting impression on his mind. A touching moment for the audience of researchers occurred when Dr. Hans Bender, director of the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, described his long friendship with Tenhaeff--which had inspired him to create his own laboratory in Germany. Bender was reduced to tears when he recalled how their association had been disrupted during the painful years of the second world war in Europe. Of great importance to contemporary parapsychology were the reports of unusually talented psychokinetic subjects from around the world--whose abilities were generally triggered when they learned of Uri Geller's amazing talents. E. Alan Price reported studies with ten such subjects in South Africa. Other reports came from France, Germany, Denmark and England. Dr. John B. Hasted, chairman of the physics department at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been conducting intensive studies with six subjects over the past two years. Hasted's documentation of extraordinary PK phenomena seems to exceed that of any other scientist in the world. He has shown the bending of metals (Fry's #11 alloy) normally so brittle that they would fracture sooner than bend. Hasted has now conducted over twenty experiments in which his young subjects are asked to cause metal-bending in unfolded paper clips which are placed inside of a glass globe six inches in diameter. This experiment has produced marvelous results. Sometimes as many as eighty paper clips become entirely knotted, gnarled, twisted and intertwined--packing the globe so tightly that it will not rattle when shaken. Sometimes the experiment is done twice, first with silver colored clips, then with copper clips which become intertwined with the others. The experiment does have a few drawbacks. First the globes are not entirely sealed. A small hole, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, is left so that the clips may be inserted. The experiment has not been successful when the glass is completely sealed (although Zbig-niew Wolkowski in Paris has done this successfully with Pierre Gerard). Also, the subjects are generally alone when the metal bending occurs, without any scientists watching (again, Wolkowski in Paris has actually seen the metal bending in the sealed glass container). Once in a while Hasted and his colleagues are fortunate enough to actually see, and videotape the bending of the paper clips in the glass globes. *Straight pieces of metal braid themselves together while the subject is in the next room at Prof. Hasted's laboratory.* *Metal so brittle that it breaks rather than bends was deformed by one of Prof. John Hasted's subjects.* 58 === Page 46 of 48 convention, and were also addressed to a wider audience. Topics ranged from theoretical physics and cybernetics to testimonies of personal encounters with UFO intelligences. Noted novelist Colin Wilson spoke on the Gurdjieff techniques of psychic development. The general tone of the meeting was lively and personal. Scottish physicist and astronomer, Axel Firsoff, presented a paper on theoretical physics and parapsychology. Then he discussed his experimentation on reincarnation in cats and his personal encounters with UFOs. Professor John Taylor, of King's College in London, showed videotapes which had captured the apparent materialization of a small metal object, as well as several other objects bending in front of the camera without being touched. Unfortunately, Taylor's videotape was made in the home of his subject, using equipment that Taylor had left with him, at a time when no scientists were actually present. It's therefore not impossible that the image on the videotape was fraudulently produced. Taylor, nevertheless, affirmed his trust in the subject. Furthermore, examination of the actual magnetic tape showed no evidence that it had been tampered with. Other calculations made it seem to Taylor highly unlikely that the metal object was thrown at high speed to produce an effect similar to materialization. Dr. Keith Birkenshaw of University College in London suggested that the entire issue of psychokinetic metal bending may be a "non-problem" comparable to the efforts of early explorers to find the edge of the earth. Suzanne Padfield, a well-known psychic whose PK talents have been extensively tested in the British Paraphysical Laboratory of Benson Herbert, presented an interesting paper on the use of "psychic support figures." These are the "guides," "spirits," "space-brothers," "masters," and other assorted other-dimensional entities to which many psychics attribute their powers. Padfield stated that in the beginning of her psychic work, she thought that her powers had come through extraterrestrial sources. Since then she has learned to take responsibility for her psychokinesis as a natural human talent. She suggested that parapsychologists should be tolerant of the needs of psychics to maintain "psychic support figures," without letting these extraneous concepts interfere with good research and theoretical understanding of psi. Perhaps more than other psychics, Padfield is sensitive to the different conceptual frameworks which distinguish psychic practice from scientific practice. Her husband, Ted Bastin, an eminent British physicist, presented a paper on the philosophical issues in attempting to reduce psychic phenomena to the language of quantum physics and relativity. Padfield's presentation was followed by what might be considered the most unusual talk ever to be presented on a scientific podium. Mr. Ted Owens, "the PK Man," from Cape Charles, Virginia, spoke before the parascience conference on his own psychic achievements which he claims resulted from his personal communication with flying saucer entities. To back up his claims, Owens produced piles of affidavits, newspaper clippings, letters and documents sufficient to astound the most open-minded and experienced researcher of the paranormal. A letter from Max L. Fogel, Ph.D., director of science and education for Mensa in America testified that in 1973, two days after a written "prediction" from Owens, a UFO was sighted by a policeman in Chase City, Virginia. Owens claimed that he had actually caused that sighting by signalling his UFO "friends" to appear. In California, last April, two days after Owens sent a letter to scientists at the Stanford Research Institute, claiming that he was about to have his UFOs interfere with the weather, it snowed for the first time in over ten years in the City of Menlo Park. Newspaper clippings indicated that some teenagers had never seen snow before! An affidavit from a radio producer in Dallas, Texas, stated that within weeks of Owens' public claim that he would produce a "major demonstration" of his power over the weather in Texas there was an earthquake of 4.5 on the Richter scale, high winds and tornadoes, the coldest weather in Texas history, followed by hot winds which destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop. Other documents indicated similar "demonstrations" in Cleveland and Chicago. The parascience conference was not totally prepared to handle a character the likes of Owens. Outrage was expressed by such notable members of the audience as Professor J.B. Hasted when Owens suggested that the U.S. government should use him as an agent of psychic warfare against the Russians. Due to irregularities in the schedule, Owens took the podium on several occasions but was abruptly cut short by the moderator. This produced loud cheers and hisses from the assembled crowd. Many felt that if Owens wasn't an outright liar, that he was a dangerous character. There was little sympathy in the room for his messianic proclamations as the premier representative on earth of the UFO cosmic intelligences. His claims were difficult to accept, yet the documentation was there for all to look at. I had already known of Owens' snowstorm prediction in Menlo Park, so perhaps I took him more seriously than most and am now in the process of carefully reviewing his documented claims. Later on, as things calmed down somewhat, Owens appeared in a panel discussion with Dr. Alan J. Mayne, a UFO researcher from University College in London. UFO researchers feel certain that all of the reported sightings cannot be explained away as ball lightning, cloud formations, temperature inversions, meteors, aircraft, weather balloons, poor observation, fraud, etc. Many cases, which have been observed by reliable witnesses under good conditions still remain unexplained. A number of these cases involve claimed contact with UFO occupants and often involve a parapsychological dimension. Only time will tell if the enormous breakthroughs implied by the reports of Croiset, Hasted, Spinelli, Owens and others will lead to a new era in parapsychology--perhaps even a psychic revolution. Since the time of D.D. Home and Sir William Crookes in the last century, Europeans have seen many apparently well-documented psychic claims come and go without leaving an appreciable dent in the texture of society's institutions. Perhaps the events of the summer of 1976 presage something different. How long will it be before psychokinesis and dematerialization have found reliable commercial applications, before psychic detective training is considered a regular adjunct to police academies throughout the world, before a new Dr. Spock tells millions of mothers 60 === Page 47 of 48 SAGA Science Special # IS OUR SUN ABOUT According to science writer and astronomer, John Rublowsky, our galaxy is due for another spectacular and unbelievably destructive upheaval--with a star going nova or even supernova (literally burning itself out in just a few months or years). Although no one knows exactly which star will go critical, or when, increasing signs of violent instability are now being displayed by our Solar System's very own Sun! Astronomers recently reached the alarming conclusion that the nearby cosmos is not the changeless, serene environment it had always been believed. "Something weird," says Robert Hjellming of the U.S. Radio Astronomy Observatory, "is happening to the star system called Cygnus X-3." Even more ominously from our viewpoint, new studies indicate that our Sun is beginning to exhibit signs of instability. When an unprecedented solar storm passed OSO-7 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 7) on Aug. 7, 1972, the chief of solar physics for NASA reported that the solar eruption released more energy in one hour than the U.S. could consume in 100 million years. By the time the incredibly hot solar wind from this storm rocked Pioneer 10 on its voyage to Jupiter (at a distance of 204 million miles from the Sun), the temperature of its gas particles had increased to about two million degrees Fahrenheit--20 times higher than normal. The interplanetary magnetic fields in space were more than 100 times stronger than usual. American Pioneer and Explorer satellites, which were tuned in to the storm, were quickly joined by two Soviet and three European Space Research Organization satellites. Astronomers and physicists are deeply concerned about this turn of events on the Sun. So much so that three emergency sessions were held at the American Geophysical Union's special meeting in San Francisco in December. Is it possible for the familiar, life-giving Sun to act in such a destructive way that all life on Earth will be affected? Astronomers have always believed that Sol would blaze on for billions of years. Why, then, all this talk about a premature cycle of solar instability? For one thing, during the last two periods of lowest activity in the 11-year sunspot cycle, scores of eyewitnesses reported that the Sun had apparently "moved." They seemed to be experiencing a subjective preview of how the Sun would appear if the Earth--through some mysterious gravitational anomaly--suddenly began to wobble on its axis. Any such interruption of what we regard as the normal orderly activity of the solar system would necessarily originate from the Sun--and it would be catastrophic. Lunar samples returned by the Apollo astronauts and close-up pictures of the Moon have revealed fused, glazed particles from the topmost layer of lunar crust. Because this condition on the Moon is extensive, geologists have concluded that during some brief period of instability, the Sun blazed forth with 100 times as much energy and heat as usual. They've fixed the time of this near-catastrophe at about 1500 B.C., thus adding still more evidence to that compiled by Immanuel Velikovsky in his monolithic book Worlds in Collision, which documents massive civilization-destroying natural disasters that occurred eons ago. The Sun's symbol--a circle with a dot in the center is also the symbol for the chemical hydrogen, Sol's most abundant and indispensable element. It is an extremely ancient symbol and provides tantalizing evidence to support two unorthodox theories: 1) that human knowledge was far more scientifically advanced in prehistoric times than anyone up to now has dared to admit; and 28 SAGA === Page 48 of 48 Only recently, astronomers still believed that this atomic process would continue indefinitely--for at least another 10 billion years before all the hydrogen was depleted and the Sun shrank to white dwarf size, less than 15 miles in diameter. Under these conditions the atoms' electron shells are compacted together and crushed. The escaping radiation of heat, light, and energy from such a super-compacted dwarf star would be insufficient to support life on Earth. But even more recent spectroheliographic analysis has revealed that almost half the Sun's store of hydrogen has already been used up! Scientists estimate that the Sun will "burn out" in five billion years instead of 10. However, as new data keeps flowing into NASA's computer banks from orbiting planetary satellites, the solar observatories, a strangely disquieting picture is emerging. The Sun is beginning to behave in odd and unpredictable ways. Instead of gradually growing cooler over a period of billions of years, the critical stage of Sol's existence could be reached very quickly when the amount of hydrogen is balanced by the helium produced in the nuclear fusion process at its superhot, superdense core. This may be much sooner than anyone had previously suspected. The current estimate is anywhere from a decade to a few hundred thousand years. In cosmic terminology a million years is a mere blink of (Continued on page 57) A total eclipse of the Sun, top left, in 1970 showing details of the corona. Top right, this photograph of the Sun shows some regions that generated major flares. Above, solar flares seen during an eclipse. Magnetic storms, after flares, disrupt radio broadcasts. Lately, the Sun has been behaving unpredictably. May, 1973, Saga SAGA - [ ] 31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Misc Articles and Notes Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Articles and Notes Appears to be mostly documents from 1972 The more I scanned these documents the more I realized how this blank folder was very valuable and needed to have a name attached. So I renamed it Articles and notes. Many interesting documents besides just newspaper articles including a national enquirer article about Ted Owens and another article that is difficult to find the title page. Perhaps they are the same article? There was article about parapsychology in Europe written by Jefferey and at about two more articles that mentioned Ted Owens. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/3232ceffea80d452d85c90838c2ca036.pdf bf26238687c6fcf23140965fb62c561b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/566ee77281353fef89c3781aaa062930.txt 9670dfc294fe938dbbc6e4c095821553 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens: Author & Subject Description An account of the resource A selection of magazines, articles, and news clippings. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 ARCHETYPAL SYNCHRONISTIC RESONANCE: A NEW THEORY OF PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE JEFFREY MISHLOVE, PhD, is dean of consciousness studies at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. He is former host and producer of the *Thinking Allowed* public television series. He serves as president of the nonprofit Intuition Network. He received his doctoral degree in parapsychology from the University of California, Berkeley. BRENDAN C. ENGEN, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently completing his postdoctoral clinical training at a private practice in southeastern Georgia. His research interests include the psychology of art and creativity, the control-mastery approach to psychotherapy, consciousness studies, and the philosophical assumptions of psychotherapeutic practice. Summary This article proposes a new theory, archetypal synchronistic resonance (ASR), to explain ostensible paranormal experiences that can be neither accepted as literally construed nor dismissed as mere artifact or error. Drawing on ideas from Jung, ASR holds that ostensible paranormal experience is the result of archetypal-synchronistic functioning. To illustrate this theory, the authors analyze several mutual, emotionally potent, apparently synchronistic experiences involving the Stoic philosopher and Roman statesman Seneca and the concept of reincarnation. The authors discuss phenomenological features of the theory's resonance component and bring to light nontrivial parallels between ASR and Maslow's account of *peak-experience*, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 47 No. 2, April 2007 223-242 DOI: 10.1177/0022167806293006 © 2007 Sage Publications 223 === Page 2 of 11 224 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 225 between ASR and Otto's description of the numinous, and between ASR and Frankl's construal of *super-meaning*. The authors conclude with a discussion of a competing "error-theory" of the phenomenon, which holds that putative paranormal experiences are products of apophenia, the mistaken attribution of intent or meaning to events that in fact are meaningless or purely chance occurrences. **Keywords:** *archetypes, Jungian psychology, synchronicity, reincarnation, paranormal phenomena, paranormal experience, parapsychology.* ### INTRODUCTION AND CLARIFICATION OF THESIS Ostensible paranormal experiences have been the subject of continuous scientific investigation since the founding of the British Society for Psychical Research in 1882. During this extensive period, certain categories of analysis have emerged to become salient within both the professional discipline and popular culture. These are exemplified by such standard nomenclature as *extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, survival of the human personality after death*, and (in particular, with regard to this article) *reincarnation*.¹ Scientific evaluation of paranormal claims has reached something of a stalemate in recent decades. On the one hand, parapsychologists and psychical researchers have been unable to convince either themselves or the scientific community at large that there as yet exists an adequate theoretical model for explaining the anomalous phenomena they endeavor to study.² On the other hand, after many decades, honest skeptics have found themselves in the frustrating position of being unable to explain away as artifact or error the many statistically improbable findings that have been observed under well-controlled conditions and documented in the parapsychological literature (Mishlove, 1980).³ Conspicuous in its absence hitherto has been any sustained attempt among researchers to break free of this impasse in a way that theoretically integrates both honest skepticism and anomalous evidence. This article seeks to fill that gap. We postulate that conventional explanations of paranormal experience, from both skeptical and traditional parapsychological camps, are so deeply and inextricably embedded within incongruent conceptual systems or paradigms--each being predicated on an incommensurable set of unspoken (unconscious) assumptions, such as epistemological norms and ontological commitments--that the aforementioned stalemate will continue indefinitely in the absence of a reasonably thorough process of conceptual analysis, clarification, and eventual revision. The following pages, we hope, are at least a small step in that direction. This article offers a new approach for resolving this stalemate. It considers ostensible paranormal experience from a naturalistic, depth-psychological perspective. Drawing on some of the ideas of Carl G. Jung, we propose a model which we have dubbed "archetypal synchronistic resonance" (ASR).⁴ As we discuss it in the subsequent pages, we highlight how ASR illuminates many of the more baffling experiential aspects of paranormal experience. We also point out some affinities that ASR shares with Abraham Maslow's account of the "peak-experience" and Viktor Frankl's description of the experience of "super-meaning." Furthermore, we address an anticipated objection to ASR--a competing "error theory" that holds ostensible paranormal or synchronistic experience to be the manifestation of the psychological phenomenon known as *apophenia*, the paranoid attribution of esoteric meanings to random occurrences or inherently meaningless events. ### DEFINING KEY CONSTRUCTS It is reasonable to ask what ASR means and what its distinctive phenomenological features are. The experience's *archetypal* aspect refers to the activation of primordial ideas or universal models (e.g., hero, mother, anima, persona, shadow, rebirth, etc.) that are hypothesized to be native endowments of the prepersonal or collective unconscious, according to Jungian psychological theory (Jung, 1990). Psychological archetypes, according to Jung (1990), are "unconscious but nonetheless active--living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions" (p. 79). He points out that archetypes are not, strictly speaking, inherited ideas but rather "inherited *possibilities* of ideas" (p. 66). Therefore, being innate idea-forming dispositions of the psyche (or basic organizing structures of the unconscious), archetypes are not learned or acquired but rather *actuated* or *released* in response to relevant stimulating events. At this point, we wish to note that Jung's concepts of archetype and collective unconscious need not be conceived in idealist, mystical, or non-naturalistic ways. For, given his strong developmental === Page 3 of 11 226 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 227 and heritability language, it is not hard to see how Jung's concept of archetype might be preserved within the framework of a psychology informed by evolutionary theory. Indeed, some contemporary Jungians reconstrue or redefine archetypes, using terminology from evolutionary psychology and the Lorenz-Tinbergen ethological theory, as "innate releasing mechanisms"--namely, modules of instinctive behavior that remain dormant or inhibited until the organism is exposed to the relevant "sign stimulus" (Stevens, 2000, 2003). From a Darwinian standpoint, if this ethological construal is correct, then archetypes qua innate releasing mechanisms must have conferred survival advantages of some sort on our evolutionary ancestors who presumably passed them on to us (Stevens, 2000). In other words, the existence of archetypes conceivably has a natural and scientifically warrantable explanation (Stevens, 2000, 2003; Van Eenwyk, 1997). The personal accounts that shortly follow involve a situation in which at least one operative archetype is the hero (the hero in this instance being the ancient Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who is someone long admired by both coauthors). According to Jungian theory, the hero represents the urge for "individuation"--that is, the inborn drive to become a distinctive, integrated self against the onrush of conflicting, fragmenting impulses (Edinger, 1992). As we shall see, another archetype implicated in the reported experience below is the rebirth archetype, which involves the myth of someone, usually a god or hero, dying and subsequently being restored to life, often in a glorified form. Jung notes that this archetype has concrete expression in many ancient cult rituals that enact the death and rebirth of a mythic hero, such as Osiris, Adonis, Mithras, Demeter, Quetzalcoatl, and Jesus Christ. The archetype evokes from the ritual participants a vivid identification with the hero, such that his or her death and rebirth symbolically becomes their own (Jung, 1990). Jung (1990) theorizes that the rebirth archetype symbolizes the process of individuation as a natural transformation of the personality, an inherent law of psychological development: "Nature herself demands a death and a rebirth. . . . There are natural transformation processes which simply happen to us, whether we like it or not, and whether we know it or not" (p. 130). More abstractly considered, the rebirth archetype is an instinctive prefiguration of what is both continuous and restlessly self-transcending in the human psyche (Jung, 1990). We postulate that archetypes, such as those mentioned above, serve as the central organizing components of a given paranormal experience. The elusive means by which this organization occurs is denoted by Jung's (1976) term synchronicity. In his paper "On Synchronicity," written in the mature years of his theorizing, he defines synchronicity as "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved" (p. 505). In his subsequent development of this concept, he described it as an "acausal" connecting principle, namely, a subjectively significant relationship between two or more events or states of affairs that appear to be causally independent of each other from the standpoint of current scientific or objective analysis (Jung, 1973). He attributes much of the enduring appeal and influence of archaic divination systems such as the I Ching and astrology to this principle (Jung, 1976). All systems of divination, according to Jung, endeavor to discern an occult or empirically hidden conjunction between the macrocosm and the microcosm--the subjective and objective worlds--the awareness of which reportedly enables one to see into the future or into invisible realms of being (Jung, 1973). He speculates that synchronicities prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche. (Jung, 1976, p. 518) In addition, there is a mysterious, cognitively jarring, awe-inspiring quality that distinguishes synchronistic experience from most other types of observed conjunctions (Jung, 1976). To witness a synchronicity is to experience being caught up in--or perhaps even overwhelmed by--the presence of a meaningful orderedness that surpasses comprehension. Felt as a shock whose origin is alien and unfathomable, the synchronistic experience resembles in this respect Rudolf Otto's (1959) description of the experience of the numinous: "It is the emotion of a creature, submerged and overwhelmed by its own nothingness in contrast to that which is supreme above all creatures" (p. 10). Finally, the resonance component of ASR refers to the person's experience of likeness, affinity, identification, or otherwise deep empathic familiarity with another (who may be separated from him or her by vast stretches of space or time). Phenomenologically, this resonance quality can be unpacked in greater detail, and we === Page 4 of 11 228 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance will do so after presenting some personal examples of paranormal experience. REINCARNATION/REBIRTH Reincarnation or rebirth doctrines figure prominently in many world religions and spiritual traditions. Indeed, in several established varieties of Buddhism, Hinduism, indigenous folk tradition, New Age mysticism, and neo-pagan and Goddess religion movements, endorsement of some or other rebirth or reincarnation notion arguably plays a foundational role in their respective constructions of the self and its world (Garrett, 2005; Harris, 1990; Smith, 1991). In the scientific, parapsychological literature (Stevenson, 1967), the term reincarnation is used as an explanatory concept to account for well-documented instances in which young children appear to have verifiable memories concerning the experiences of deceased individuals. In some instances (Stevenson, 1997), these children are actually discovered to have birthmarks corresponding to the death wounds of the remembered, deceased individuals. This article does not address the type of evidence produced by Stevenson and his colleagues.⁵ However, we claim that, in principle, even that strong evidence could be explained within the framework of ASR. The West has witnessed something of a proliferation of interest in reincarnation during the past few decades. It appears to be a topic that has readily captivated the modern spiritual imagination, regardless of the validity of reincarnation concepts and doctrines. One has only to scan the self-help and spirituality sections of the local bookstore to see ample evidence of this popular interest. Certain books on the subject of reincarnation, such as Brian Weiss's (1988) *Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy that Changed Both Their Lives*, even attain bestseller status from time to time. We suspect that at least part of the widespread appeal of the reincarnation idea stems from its roots in the mind's archetypal functioning and atavistic fantasies about indestructible life. Reincarnation is an anglicized term of Latin derivation that literally means "reinfleshment" or the re-embodiment of a nonphysical Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 229 self, soul, or personality that has somehow survived the death of its previous bodily machinery (de Purucker, 1958). In subtle contrast, rebirth, according to the *American Heritage Dictionary*, means "a second or new birth" (and, in figurative use, a "renaissance, revival, or recurrence") but does not logically require or imply the existence of a discarnate self or soul. Some traditions to which we alluded in the preceding paragraph, such as Theravada Buddhism, that disaffirm the reality of an ego or soul entity capable of "reinfleshment" (the doctrine of *anatta* in classical Buddhist thought) may prefer to use the latter English term over the former for this reason (Obeyesekere, 2002; Rahula, 1974; Wallace, 2003).⁶ These terminological distinctions reveal just a few of the many confusing interpretative and philosophical issues implicated in the rebirth doctrine and alleged rebirth experiences--issues that we hope the following pages will elucidate and make some headway toward resolving. Although approaching this subject from different backgrounds and theoretical orientations, we share a deep fascination with putative accounts of rebirth experiences and an interest in some of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological questions they entrain. We are admittedly skeptical that reports of the rebirth experience, however sincere, well documented, or internally consistent, are veridical testimony of the transmigration of consciousness from one body to another. At the same time, however, we are convinced that there is something cognitively valuable and edifying to be gleaned from such reports and experiences. We submit that alleged rebirth or reincarnation experiences--as emblematic of all ostensible paranormal experiences--ought neither to be dismissed as delusory confabulations or defensive self-deceptions nor accepted literally and uncritically. A third alternative is available. We might profitably regard alleged reincarnation experiences as signs of archetypal-synchronistic activation, manifesting in, for example, uncanny impressions of a kinship, resonance, or identification with a long-deceased individual. Using personal experiences to illustrate this idea, we will next attempt to show how certain concepts from analytical psychology can illuminate some of the latent meanings and values of the reincarnation experience without thereby committing one to belief in the transmigration of souls or even belief in the survival of the personality beyond death. === Page 5 of 11 230 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance THE SYNCHRONICITIES THAT INSPIRED THIS ARTICLE Mishlove's Initial Synchronistic Resonance With Seneca In the late 1980s, Jeffrey Mishlove was put into a hypnotic trance by Dr. Martin Rossman for the purpose of demonstrating the principle of the "inner healing advisor." This session was videotaped for the InnerWork series produced by Mishlove's production company, Thinking Allowed Productions (Rossman & Mishlove, 1988). On returning to normal consciousness, Mishlove described the imagery he experienced. He stated that he encountered a man wearing a toga who identified himself as the Roman Seneca referred to previously. After a detailed discussion (in the trance state), Mishlove asked this figure how he should proceed to work with him as a "healing advisor," and Seneca responded by saying, "Study my life." At this point in Mishlove's life, he was consciously aware of only miniscule details regarding the life of Seneca some 2,000 years earlier. Rossman, the hypnotist, had made no specific suggestions pointing toward Seneca (nor any other specific figure) as Mishlove's "inner healing advisor." Interestingly, Seneca's last moments allegedly exhibited some of the features of an archetypal hero transcending death--in this case, a moral hero bravely facing his imminent end and overcoming his attachment to life rather than a savior or god-man magically resurrected. Seneca lived during the reign of Emperor Nero, whom he had tutored and advised in statecraft during the early years of the young emperor's reign. After retiring in 62 C.E., Seneca eventually lost favor with Nero and in 65 C.E. was accused of being involved in a conspiracy against the emperor (an event known as the Piso Conspiracy), for which he was ordered to either commit suicide or suffer a more degrading and (in Roman eyes) shameful execution by the centurion's sword (Hadas, 1958). Good Stoic that he was, Seneca is said to have accepted his sentence graciously and severed the arteries of his arms without protest. Tacitus reports the last scene: Seneca calmly requested tablets for making a will, and on the centurion's refusal turned to his friends and declared that as he was prevented from showing gratitude for their deserts he would leave them his only, but fairest, possession, the pattern of his life; if they heeded this they would win reputation for good character and the reward of steadfast friendship. (cited in Hadas, 1958, p. 7) Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 231 Tacitus depicts Seneca in this scene as a man who heroically retains his philosophical integrity, his compassionate concern for his friends, even his deportment and civility up to the bitter end. On reading this passage, Mishlove noticed that the message he received from the Seneca figure in hypnosis, "Study my life," resonated synchronistically with Tacitus's account of Seneca's last words. He does not remember reading this passage at any point prior to his hypnotic experience with Dr. Rossman. Mishlove did make a point of studying the life of Seneca. On subsequent occasions, also, Mishlove was surprised to hear from two independent, purported psychics that they believed him to have been Seneca in a past lifetime. Engen's Synchronistic Resonance With Seneca Eighteen years later, in the summer 2005, Brendan Engen had one of the most unusual experiences of his life. His wife, who is interested in the idea of reincarnation, bought him a "past life" reading with a trance-medium as a present for having graduated from his doctoral program in clinical psychology. The medium supposedly "channels" various extradimensional entities that offer spiritual and practical guidance to his clients. Engen was intrigued by the gift but was doubtful that this telephone appointment would offer anything beyond entertainment value. As it turned out, the reading left a powerful impression and was thought-provoking. The entity allegedly "channeled" by the trance-medium made a number of interesting claims about Engen's past and present lives. He reported that in one of Engen's "past lives" he had lived in a rural area near Rome a little less than 2,000 years ago and that he had been a devoted student of the Stoic Seneca. A remarkable feature of this report is that Engen had had, long before meeting this medium, an abiding interest in the prose writings of Seneca and other ancient Stoic philosophers. In fact, several years earlier, he had written, for a graduate seminar, a paper that compared ancient Stoicism to some of the ideas and philosophical commitments of modern cognitive therapy. One might say that Seneca functioned for Engen as an archetypal hero.⁷ However, Engen had not mentioned this particular connection during his telephone appointment with the trance-medium. This, also, was an instance of synchronistic resonance. === Page 6 of 11 232 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Engen was also told by the trance-medium that he would "meet Seneca again" in the future or, rather, meet the person who had been Seneca. He was, in fact, told that this person was Mishlove. Engen had enjoyed watching episodes of Mishlove's *Thinking Allowed* interview program on public broadcasting, but he had had no prior contact or correspondence with Mishlove and knew very little about him at that point. Engen was bemused by his reading from this medium and was definitely of two minds about it. His more objective or rationally inclined and tough-minded nature dismissed the medium's report as emotionally stimulating but factually unsupportable, even unfalsifiable, and therefore unworthy of further attention and reflection. Yet his more tender-minded, imaginative self was enchanted by these mystical claims, entertained the possibility that it might be true. He wondered if he really had been this student of the Stoic Seneca in a "previous incarnation" and would meet this teacher again. He wondered if he were presented with some important "karmic lessons" from that previous life, as the medium had claimed, that he yet needed to fulfill to develop spiritually. He wondered if rebirth is real in the most robust sense of the word, and this life and this world he now knew are not the last. These and relevantly similar possibilities left Engen in a state of perplexity. Confident that he had had an experience that was vaguely meaningful although still largely enigmatic, Engen decided to contact Mishlove by e-mail and inquire as to his thoughts about the reading and its contents. The day following the reading, Engen found Mishlove's e-mail address through an Internet search. He composed and sent an e-mail to Mishlove introducing himself and detailing the above account; he was particularly interested to see whether Mishlove had felt any affinity with Seneca and, if so, how he interpreted that affinity in light of the trance-medium's claims. Because the content of the e-mail was admittedly odd and Engen was a complete stranger to Mishlove at that point, he did not expect a response. ### Synchronicities Between Mishlove and Engen Mishlove received Engen's e-mail while he was at a conference in Madrid, Spain, about to take a brief vacation in Cordoba, the city of Seneca's birth. This was the third synchronicity in this series. Describing his deep parallel interest in Seneca, Mishlove noted that Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 233 he has felt a spiritual connection with Seneca for nearly 20 years. Mishlove added that he was familiar with the trance-medium and his claims but that he similarly remained deeply skeptical and made mention of his own rendering of such affinities. He pointed out that he was *much more* comfortable with a Jungian interpretation than with thinking of reincarnation in a literal way. He added that receiving Engen's e-mail just as he was embarking on a journey to Cordoba seemed a confirmation of the synchronistic perspective. Thus began an interesting correspondence between the authors on the topic of rebirth and ASR that continues to this day. As fate would have it, Engen experienced a fourth synchronicity just a day or two after receiving Mishlove's first e-mail. He traveled to Walnut Creek, California, from his home in San Francisco and browsed through a bookstore before meeting friends at a nearby restaurant. While there, he found and purchased a used book entitled *The Looking-Glass God*, by Nahum Stiskin (1972), which compared conceptions of divinity in Shinto, Taoism, and contemporary Western philosophical theology, a topic that seemed strangely interesting. Opening and examining the book more closely some time after his purchase, Engen was quite startled to discover the following inscription from the previous owner on the frontispiece page: "Jeffrey Mishlove / MIND'S EAR / Received 5-12-73." Interestingly, this book had been previously owned by Mishlove and somehow ended up in a Walnut Creek bookstore and ultimately in Engen's hands--and all this very shortly after making first contact with Mishlove by e-mail!¹⁸ ### PHENOMENOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS AND EXISTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS After examining and comparing their own "reincarnation experiences," the authors have noted several distinct experiential aspects. That is to say, an alleged rebirth experience can be said to be "resonant" in the following ways. The experience is *inspiring, mobilizing intense interest* in the experience. One may feel a vital connection to the past figure and be highly motivated, perhaps even compelled, to learn as much one can about the past figure with whom one feels the resonance. There is often an onrush of excitement and enthusiasm about the experienced resonance, such as we described several pages above. === Page 7 of 11 234 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance The experience involves a sense of *uncanny familiarity*. Often a feeling of déjà vu, which one cannot adequately account for in terms of one's background, memories, and current self-knowledge, is powerfully triggered on learning details (even apparently insignificant ones) about the past figure with whom one is resonant, such as the person's name, major life events, professional trade, and so on. For example, long before Engen had his reading with the trance-medium and gave any thought to rebirth concepts or the other topics addressed in this article, he felt a particular interest in and affinity with those portions of Seneca's writing that he addressed to Lucilius (e.g., his essay on providence, his *Letters on Morality to Lucilius*, which are epistolary essays on practical ethics, and his *Natural Questions*, which are philosophical treatises on nature and statements of his version of Stoic physics and cosmology). It also conveys a related quality of *intimacy at a distance*. In addition to the inexplicable déjà vu feeling noted above, there is also the perception of a "good fit" or "match" between one's own life and personality and that of the resonant figure from the past. As one continues investigation into the life of the resonant figure, one may discover some interesting parallels between one's own life history and that of the past figure in terms of personality dispositions, values, key life traumas, ambitions, talents, career and professional attainments, relationships, or even facial architecture and physical appearance. The rebirth experience is also commonly experienced as *edifying*. The past figure with whom one feels resonant may appear, say, in spontaneous fantasies or in dreams, as something of a healing guide, spiritual teacher, or wise counselor, in the same way that Seneca figured in Mishlove's fantasy during the hypnotic session mentioned earlier. Alternatively, just studying the figure's life or extant works may prove personally instructive and relevantly action-guiding ("Study my life . . ."). Finally, the experience is *numinous* in the sense described earlier (Otto, 1959). That is, there is an impression of directive forces immeasurably larger than the self at work, whose meaningfulness is real but inscrutable. However, this numinous aura need not imply the presence of a personal god, protective spirit, anthropomorphic intelligence, or other supernatural entity; in such moments of numinous encounter, one may even regard the aforesaid theistic and supernaturalistic constructs as obsolete and distorted--merely historically and culturally conditioned phrasings of a natural ecstatic experience or peak experience (Maslow, 1970). In fact, the numinous Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 235 object often has a disturbingly impersonal, non-humanlike quality whose source eludes our categories or our powers of conceiving it. For instance, it might strike the person experiencing it as an impersonal truth, principle, realm of being, or "suchness" (Maslow, 1970). One may sense that one is in the midst of "something I know not what," for which one can find no suitable philosophical or theological reference points and that can only be put into figurative or symbolic (archetypal) or otherwise highly abstract language. In short, one may find oneself frustratingly confined to poetic or metaphysical phrasings in one's best attempts to communicate the experience. We are reminded of Ludwig Wittgenstein's (2001) admonition that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent. The preceding description of the ineffability of the numinous element in the paranormal experience is redolent of logotherapist Frankl's (1986) discussion of "super-meaning"--that is, the meaning of the world or of existence considered as a whole. Frankl explains, We cannot begin to question the "purpose" of the universe. Purpose is transcendent to the extent that it is always external to whatever "possesses" it. We can therefore at best grasp the meaning of the universe in the form of a super-meaning, using the word to convey the idea that the meaning of the whole is no longer comprehensible and goes beyond the comprehensible. (p. 31) His account suggests that when we experience the numinous, we are (usually unconsciously) bumping up against a "super-meaning," namely, a meaning that cannot be defined or grasped because its referent encompasses the very source of meaning itself. Frankl points to the therapeutic, redemptive, and indefatigably hopeful existential implications of such an encounter: It is self-evident that belief in a super-meaning--whether as a metaphysical concept or in the religious sense of Providence--is of the foremost psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic importance. As a genuine faith springing from inner strength, such a belief adds immeasurably to human vitality. To such a faith there is, ultimately, nothing that is meaningless. Nothing appears "in vain"; "no act remains unaccounted for" (Wildgans). The world appears to manifest something akin to a law of the conservation of spiritual energy. No great idea can vanish, even if it never reaches public circulation, even if it has been "taken to the grave." In the light of such a law, the drama and tragedy of a man's inner life never have unfolded in vain, even when played out in secret, unrecorded, === Page 8 of 11 236 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance uncelebrated by any novelist. The "novel" which each individual has lived remains an incomparably greater composition than any other that has ever been written down. Every one of us knows somehow that the content of his life is somewhere preserved and saved. Thus time, the transitoriness of the years, cannot affect its meaning and value. Having been is also a kind of being--perhaps the surest kind. And all effective action in life may, in this view, appear as a salvaging of possibilities by actualizing them. Though past, these possibilities are now safely ensconced in the past for all eternity, and time can no longer change. (p. 33) THE PROBLEM OF APOPHENIA Frankl's (1986) therapeutic endorsement of a faith for which there is "ultimately, nothing that is meaningless" (p. 33) and Jung's (1976) assertion that alleged synchronicities show that "the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche" (p. 518) have met with plausible criticism. Recent psychological research suggests that reported experiences of synchronicities, such as those recounted in the authors' reports above, might be more economically explained as basic errors of interpretation rather than veridical perceptions of occult conjunctions. These erroneous interpretive processes constitute a psychological phenomenon known as *apophenia*--that is, the mistaken ascription of meaningful connections to coincident occurrences that are unrelated or merely accidental, even in cases of statistical improbability (Brugger, 2001). As a rival to ASR, these critics would propose an "error-theory" of apparent synchronicities, according to which paranormal experience is the result of an invalid construing tendency, something like a design flaw in human cognition. This error theory, they would claim, has the decided advantage of being more conceptually parsimonious because it does away with the need to posit any transcendental meanings, said to belong to a world of nonphysical dimensions while at the same time supervening on observable cause-effect relationships.⁹ In other words, the all-too-human tendency to construe subjectively significant coincidences as synchronistic may in fact reflect nothing more mysterious than a "glitch" or breakdown in reality testing. An illustration of this kind of processing glitch is found in the life of Bishop James A. Pike (1913-1969) who, shortly after the suicide of his son, reported picking up meaningful messages in such things as a stopped clock, the angle of an open safety pin, or the juxtaposition of postcards lying on the floor (Christopher, Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 237 1975). Pike judged that these common household items were conveying actual messages about the time that his son had shot himself (Christopher, 1975). Additional salient examples are readily found in clinical settings with persons undergoing a paranoid psychotic episode. For these unfortunate individuals, the most innocuous of phenomena--for example, the position of a cup on a coffee table, an upholstery pattern, the sound of street traffic--can readily take on diabolical and terrifying significance. Is it possible that the ostensibly synchronistic experiences of the authors were *mere* apophenic "glitches"? We hold that it is indeed possible. Visionary states and other vivid episodes of archetypal activation provide no guarantee of objective truth, validity, or even psychohygienic value and certainly no conclusive indication of "gnosis," theophany, or revelation, as Jung (2002) himself was well aware. Such experiences are deeply ambiguous, *both* cognitively and morally. They can obsess, distort, and figuratively hijack human consciousness as much as they enrich and liberate it in other circumstances (Corrington, 1997; Edinger, 2002; Jung, 2002; Neher, 1996).¹⁰ Eisenbud (1992) has documented cases from his psychiatric practice in which synchronicities and other paranormal events have acted in the service of an individual's unconscious self-destructive tendencies. Mishlove has observed similar cases in his own psychotherapy practice. We acknowledge that mere subjective conviction about allegedly meaningful conjunctions is not evidence of genuine synchronicity, as cases of psychotic delusion and hallucination make apparent. We acknowledge, too, that Jung spoke in this vein not as a psychologist but rather as a philosopher and to that degree took something of a leap of faith because his concept involves not only states of the psyche but also allegedly meaningful correspondences between those psychic states and events in the external world. These concerns notwithstanding, we remain unpersuaded that the phenomenon of apophenia can adequately account for all ostensibly paranormal experiences. Of course, we are unable to defend this claim on the basis of observational considerations and criteria alone. Yet error theory proponents find themselves in a similar position--unable to discredit all ostensible synchronistic experiences according to empirical decision procedures *tout court*. This state of affairs brings to light the unavoidable theory-ladenness of our judgments about the evidence and, more to the point, about what validly constitutes "evidence" (Feyerabend, 1993; Rorty, 1981). Unawareness of one's === Page 9 of 11 238 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance set of background beliefs and guiding assumptions leads theoretical opponents to the kind of figurative stalemates mentioned previously, in which each camp inevitably accuses the other either of begging the question at issue or of excluding relevant evidence in advance of reflective appraisal. Our assessments of theories are informed not only by a conscious and methodical thinking and deliberating but also by a rich network of implicit, unconscious, "latent" background beliefs--that is, assertions about the way the world is, which we may not, in a given instance, even be aware that we endorse (Haack, 1995; Rorty, 1981). For this reason, it has been observed that debates concerning a particular theory's evidentiary claims can naturally mutate into debates about competing frameworks of background beliefs or competing epistemic systems (paradigms; Kuhn, 1977; Rorty, 1981). One assumptive philosophical issue that figures prominently in the present controversy and could easily escape notice is the immemorial disagreement between nominalist and Platonic/realist theories of meaning--that is to say, the conflict between the view that abstract ideas, values, and meanings have no independent existence but exist only as names or words (nominalism) and the view that ideas, values, and meanings have reality in their own right and cannot be reduced to denotative speech or other verbal behavior (Platonism/realism). In a short article, of course, it is not possible to adequately address the deeper theoretical and philosophical issues that motivate this debate, but we think it important to point out that the present dispute is more complex than it might first appear. To be sure, attributing meaningful connections to what are in fact intrinsically meaningless coincidences is a lamentable, even potentially dangerous error of judgment. We believe that it is also important to avoid making the opposite possible mistake--construing connections that are authentically significant and valuable as meaningless or false. NOTES 1. The relationship between these topics and the field of humanistic psychology has been explored regularly in the pages of this journal (Criswell, 2000; Feinstein, 1998; Frick, 2001; Keutzer, 1984; Krippner, 1994; Krippner & Murphy, 1973; Levitt, 1999; Parapsychological Association, 1989; Tart, 1992; Taylor, 1991; Teguis & Flynn, 1983; Vaughan, 2002; Walsh, 2001). Jeffrey Mishlove, Brendan C. Engen 239 2. This conclusion is based on several informal polls taken on e-mail discussion groups of professional parapsychology researchers. 3. As the Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus first pointed out many centuries ago, "dogmatic skeptics," of course, are faced with the logically impossible task of proving a negative (Hallie, 1985). This creates something of an interesting asymmetry in their debates with empiricists, who are armed with data but lack a theory. 4. This particular terminology was developed by Mishlove in his attempt to explain various attributions of reincarnation associated with his person by different psychics and mediums. He was influenced in this effort by Dr. Jean Houston's (1996) explanation of an uncanny psychological connection with the 5th century neoplatonic philosopher Proclus. In addition, Mishlove was also influenced by Dr. John Palmer's (1979) presidential address to the Parapsychological Association, during which Palmer suggested that synchronicity might be an alternative explanation with the potential of supplanting traditional parapsychological terminology. 5. In fact, Stevenson and his colleagues would certainly maintain that the personal experiences recounted in this article fall far short of their standards for scientific evidence suggestive of reincarnation. 6. Naturally, the question arises as to what could possibly be reborn, according to such Buddhist thinkers, if not a discarnate soul or self. In a short article, it is not possible to address these issues adequately without venturing too far afield from the article's central issues. Suffice it to say that many Buddhist proponents of the anatta doctrine submit that what is really "reborn" from one life to another is not a substantial self or reified ego but rather a supervenient or second-order pattern of volitional and noetic states and dispositions that are more or less distinctive of a given personality (Thera, 1996). Interested readers are referred to Thera's (1996) philosophically sophisticated and plausible treatment of this question from a Theravada Buddhist perspective (pp. 63-66). 7. With regard to this particular archetypal function, Engen notes that he has been most drawn to (and generally profited most from) reading Seneca's writings on Stoic philosophy during periods of dislocation or existential indecision or periods when he felt himself to be unfocused or scattered. Revisiting and studying Seneca's ideas and his biography often brought renewed order and moral clarity to whatever confusing circumstance he happened to find himself in at the time. From the standpoint of analytic psychology, what Seneca has represented for him at such times was an integral and centered self or a self that had become conscious of its own values, potentials, and realizations against the sway of "psychic entropy"--pathogenic forces of unconsciousness and dissolution (Edinger, 1992; Jung, 1990). 8. Engen later learned that Mishlove had been given this copy prior to interviewing the author about three decades before on his KPFA-FM radio program, The Mind's Ear, in Berkeley, California, which is not far from Walnut Creek. As it turned out, mention of the book's rediscovery elicited interesting e-mail correspondence between the authors about Jung's discussion of the "godhead archetype," a psychic content perhaps only vaguely or remotely implicated in the synchronistic experiences that are reported above but relevant to the very principle of synchronicity. For === Page 10 of 11 240 Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance considerations of space and relevance, the authors do not discuss this archetype in this article. 9. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 52 Air Force Closes Its Bluebook ARGOSY UFO See P. 21 02256 JANUARY 1977 $1.00 Russians Encounter Problems With UFOs / Ted Owens: Earth's Link With Spacecraft? TV Star Mike Douglas Is Serious About UFOs Astronauts Sightings Of UFOs Unexplained Appearance Of Cone Shape UFOs On Increase Electro Magnetic Field A Key To Space Objects? === Page 2 of 52 TED OWENS: EARTH'S LINK WITH SPACE CRAFT? He might well be the world's most controversial--and most unorthodox psychic. He is Ted Owens of Virginia, and he claims to have established a strong communication link with UFO intelligences. BY BILL R. QUINALTY Other-Dimensional forces are saturating this area," remarked the husky, middle-aged man sitting next to me in the car. His voice had a ring of authority and, during the two days ahead, I would become convinced myself of the existence of that mysterious "Other-Dimensional" (OD) power to which he referred. The man?--Ted Owens. But he is not just an ordinary man--at least not by ordinary standards. He is a very controversial (and somewhat unorthodox) psychic! With an impressive background of ESP research and many related mental/psychic skills, plus experience gained from diverse professions, it was probably only natural that Ted would develop extraordinary psychic abilities. In ages past, he might have been called a prophet, magician or wizard. Today he is most widely known as "PK man." (PK stands for psychokinetic) From the psychic viewpoint, Ted Owens may have advanced far ahead of his time, because he not only predicts coming events but--with help from the UFOs--actually commands the forces of nature to bring them about on occasions! A virtual library of documented evidence and testimonials of 'OD' miracles now back him up. Prior to our actual meeting, I had learned of the 'PK' man due to my interest in metaphysics and psychic matters. But merely reading was not enough. Determined to see for myself what type of person he really was--in addition to expanding new mental skills--I set out for Cape Charles, Virginia, in July of 1973. I had expected the psychic to be a super-cool, slightly aloof personality. Reality proved otherwise--psychics are human too! In fact, had I not known Continued on page 56 ARGOSY UFO 21 === Page 3 of 52 TED OWENS Continued from page 21 exactly where we were meeting, I could have mistaken this heavily-framed, casually-dressed gentleman in brown shirt and black trousers for an average "man on the street." Upon approaching closer, however, I instinctively sensed an aura of power radiating from him. I then realized I was in the presence of a dynamic person. Ted Owens has accomplished nearly 500 proven "miracles"--true! That is simple fact, and the list grows longer daily. Though he does not "beat around the bush" about his accomplishments, one should be careful not to confuse this directness (typical of Ted) with arrogance. A family man, who is quite fond of his loved ones, Ted says, ". . . My children and my wife . . . are my life. Without them, there would be no meaning." His activities and lifestyle are unpretentious. One feels welcome in the friendly, warm atmosphere of the Owens' home--an old-style, but neat, two-story building, nestled in pleasantly simple surroundings. With the fantastic psychokinetic strength he has developed throughout years of intense training, this master psychic claims to have literally unleashed powerful storms and caused hurricanes to change their course, when desirable; yet he has a subtle gentleness about him that is not always apparent but that is recognized and trusted by children. Both "Beau" (Bograde Owens, age 10) and "Teddy" (age 2½) regard their dad as a real pal. And, why not? He's a man who always finds time to lovingly hug or play around with his youngest son Teddy, no matter how busy his life may be. Like any other human being, psychic or not, Ted has down-to-earth traits too. Among other things, he appreciates good food, ("Chef" Owens prepared a scrumptious breakfast on my second day there) and enjoys an occasional cold beer during hot weather. The Owens' are not petty, but simply likable people--as some folks might say, "neighborly." "Just make yourself at home," Ted admonished immediately after my arrival. Ted's manner of speaking was notable. He talks with conviction and his brisk conversation reminded me of a radio or television commentator's style. After introducing ourselves, we shook hands and Ted motioned me to his car. As we stepped inside, I glanced back at the quaint combination drugstore-bus station I had just left, situated in the heart of downtown Cape Charles (a small, quiet community on Virginia's eastern shore peninsula). I had left Norfolk at 4:30 that morning on a northbound bus and arrived in Cape Charles at 6 a.m.--the early departure being necessary since busses stop in Cape Charles only twice a day. After exchanging a few more casual comments with Ted, I looked around once more. We drove slowly down the street and I observed a few people starting to mill about. A couple of "old timers" could be seen sitting outside a store, talking--possibly sharing past experiences still vibrant in their memories. Across the street, a woman was busily toting a bag of groceries to her car. A young couple strolled by, oblivious to all but their own emotional world. The whole business area, consisting entirely of a few small stores, one food market and a gas station further down the street, reminded me of similar country towns in my own native state (Arkansas). At first we discussed conventional topics. Then Ted changed the conversation: "I'll take you for a short drive to show you around." A few sailboats and small fishing craft could already be seen dotting the water. In the distance, the long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel was partially visible, and a new morning sun was peaking through the clouds as if to assure us of a clear day ahead. As we approached the curved cape road outlining a beach strip, a rustic wood-framed hotel appeared on my right. "It's all rather scenic," I remarked, glancing down toward the beach that was now coming into view. Ted agreed, emphasizing that he also liked the area because it was far removed from larger cities with their pollution and noise. But, "Most of all, I've always wanted to buy my own place and settle down near the ocean some day," he added. Reflecting his innate love for the sea. I then remembered that there was another great psychic who had settled down and carried on his life's work not too far from this very spot--Edgar Cayce, the famous "sleeping prophet" of Virginia Beach, who is said to have literally tapped the Universal Mind. A wisdom far beyond his own seemed to guide Cayce from childhood, as he gave fantastic health readings and life-changing philosophy to thousands. There are definite parallels between the two Virginia psychics. First, Edgar Cayce practiced the art of healing by utilizing a (then, unorthodox) system that combined psychological and physical methods, tailored to individual patients. He also believed in higher spiritual intelligences, who apparently channeled vital information through him while in a trance. In addition, many of Cayce's prophesies, like Ted's, were of the earth-shaking variety: earthquakes, shifting of large land masses, violent disruption and sinking of continents, and other dramatic changes in the physical (as well as moral) planet environment. (However, out of such turmoil an age of love and enlightenment is eventually to emerge.) With the exception of so-called "readings," Ted has done all the psychic marvels that Cayce has done, perhaps more. However, his system has expanded far beyond the confines that limit most modern psychics. He works with mysterious but powerful "Other-Dimensional" mechanisms, which, according to Ted, "are not within the framework of this world's physical laws." There are testimonials of healing in Ted's files that back this claim--some cases were beyond the help of conven- === Page 4 of 52 tional medical science, when he stepped in and turned the tide. Nevertheless, Ted does not oppose the medical profession. He urges the use of doctors and medicine in circumstances where it is practical, but reminds people that the "giant subconscious mind" can also be depended on to supplement medical or dental aid. At one period during Ted's long years of work with psychic forces, he came in contact with advanced beings who are not of this world. Evidently, they recognized his potential and singled him out as the one-in-a-billion earth creatures worth establishing communication with. Called "SI's" (space intelligences) by Ted, these awesome entities have formed a link between Ted Owens and themselves. They are the underlying influence behind many of the psychic's fantastic "miracles." As to their ultimate purpose, Ted has only been able to conclude that they are working within some kind of universal framework. Part of their mission at present is to get this sick planet back into balance and to save nature from man's contamination. Through their spokesman, Ted, the SI's are also trying to get the attention of those in authority and impress upon them that they do exist and are trying to help us. It is also evident that the SI's stand by to defend the cause of justice, if mankind continues to disregard its moral responsibilities. Interrupting my wandering thoughts, Ted announced, "I just completed an experiment a few weeks ago at a large radar installation near here . . . controlled the radar with my mind while experts watched." "It was rather strange how the whole thing came about," he added, candidly. Apparently Ted had an acquaintance who worked at the complex. While talking with him on the telephone one day, Ted was casually asked if he might be interested in seeing the installation. He admitted that he *would* like to visit, but that he knew tight security must surround such a place, since it was government-operated. Nevertheless, Mr. Owens was assured that much of the red tape could be cleared within a few days for him--and it was. After a brief tour of the station, Ted received a go-ahead from higher officials for a psychokinetic experiment that would demonstrate the awesome nature of what he terms "Other-Dimensional" powers. Ted stood near the center of the main complex for a while, observing its impressive electronic array. Then he gazed directly into a computer-linked radar console, as if in deep contemplation. Suddenly, mouths dropped and eyes widened as they fastened on the screen. The radar had suddenly "lit up like a Christmas tree!" From twenty to fifty UFOs appeared, streaks of light flashed, and, to top things off, a huge "shaft" of white, glowing light appeared across the screen. An amazed technician gasped with excitement--explaining later the reason for his reaction: The shaft was, he said, an indication that "a powerful force is coming from somewhere right in this room." "Don't you think it might be coming from my mind?" Ted inquired. (This phenomena, incidentally, is well documented. A notarized statement was signed by a government official at the installation.) Not fully realizing at the time just how much power he had unleashed in the area, Ted became somewhat concerned over the secondary effects of "OD" forces. "You see, Other-Dimensional energy takes weeks, sometimes months to wear off," he explained to me with a note of seriousness, pointing out that, although such was not purposely intended, it could cause adverse reactions in the atmosphere, affecting aircraft and possibly ships at sea, for miles around. We then drove to a restaurant along the nearby highway and had a quiet breakfast while discussing general topics, in addition to mysteries of the human mind. Ted described the "SI system," which I had wanted him to teach me (a mind conditioning program developed by him over the years, under the direction, he claims, of the Space Intelligence themselves.) Next, we stopped briefly at the motel where I was to spend the night and checked in. Ted went over the room thoroughly; turning on the television to check its operation, testing the firmness of the bed's mattress with his hand, and making sure things were in order. I later learned that there was good reason for this. First, I was told that a good, sound night's sleep would be essential, as a heavy build-up of "OD" energy would tax the body. Ted explained that "OD" recharges one's whole system during training, somewhat as a battery is recharged. Nevertheless, the body has to slowly adjust to such additional "voltage--by letting it settle, so to speak. (Once during our sessions, after Ted recommended a half-hour break, I was made even more aware of "OD" effects on one's system. I could almost sense a subtle, but vital, "electric" influence in the air. I took a short walk to a local cafe--and promptly dozed off while sipping coffee!) As for the television adjustment, apparently the SI's are able to project needed symbols and/or general communications into a television set, where they are absorbed and, in turn, used by one's deeper mental levels. While en route to Ted Owens' home, I asked numerous questions and absorbed more information. I was told of a recent trip he had made to California with his oldest son, and of the sighting of a "golden globe of light" by Ted, his boy, and another witness who happened by while they were traveling in the Arizona desert. (This incident is also documented.) Evidently, the SI's were observing the psychic throughout his trip. In addition, he was later directed to stop at a spot in the road, where he discovered a smooth, round rock, strongly resembling an alien face, complete with eyes, nose, mouth and other features. Ted wonders if perhaps this is a "petrified head" of some small UFO humanoid who once walked the earth ages ago. ARGOSY UFO 57 === Page 5 of 52 Before we entered Owens' house, Ted delighted in showing me a once-withered plant that had been transplanted and was showing marked signs of recuperation. First we went through the spacious back yard, where I observed his pets--a small squirrel monkey and a white rabbit. As we approached for a closer observation, Ted explained: "The mother rabbit actually adopted the baby monkey as her own." The little fellow, sensing a stranger, was now clinging closely to his "mother's" back. Ted talked to the animals and we watched their antics a while before entering the house. A large number of Ted Owens' uncanny demonstrations revolve around a highly-advanced psychokinesis (mind over matter) system, which in turn is linked up via his brain with Other-Dimensional ("OD") forces. "OD" energy normally functions outside of our own third-dimensional plane, and is awesome in its scope. The very possibility that such phenomena could exist fascinated me from the beginning. Later, on the basis of personal experience and observation, I was able to accept much of what Ted claimed myself. With a background in metaphysics, it was probably natural for me to recognize parallels between Ted's situation and certain biblical events. For example, in Sunday school most of us learned how prophets of old, such as Moses, Elijah and others commanded nature's forces to do their bidding: Elijah caused "fire" (lightning?) to descend from "heaven." He also caused both draught and rain. Moses was constantly surrounded by paranormal events--influences potent enough to push aside a path in the sea, manifest "pillars" of fire and smoke, cause intense plagues, etc. In Ted's case, we seem to be dealing with similar Other-Dimensional phenomena--only with a more modern terminology being used to describe it. According to Ted, Other-Dimensional power expands--that is, like other things in nature, it grows with time--and is essentially used to radiate a constructive influence. The Space Intelligences are able to tap this energy directly, but they often relay it through Ted. (He uses "OD" in his healing work and to promote better weather conditions.) Extraordinary results have appeared in countless cases. Nevertheless, since Ted Owens works with the "SI's," who have a superior knowledge and better overall perspective of things, he admits he cannot always "call the shots." Many plastic "SI" discs have been carefully and patiently charged with beneficial "OD" forces by Ted--then distributed to those in need of them. Healings, protection, good luck, better jobs and other benefits are reported by people who wear the discs. Other-Dimensional forces appear to be linked up with the universal principle of cause and effect, and Ted has been quite outspoken in this area. He is concerned about mankind's continued abuse of nature and disregard for moral responsibility. Perhaps the "bad seeds" we have sown over the years (war, intolerance, greed, etc.) are now bringing their unpleasant harvest in full force. Most psychics feel that the long build-up of negative energies has only started to unleash unpleasant retribution. Logically, the Higher Intelligences would find it necessary to take appropriate steps towards normalizing conditions. Unfortunately, however, if the ancient prophets are on target, our planet could be in for a period of cataclysmic change brought about by natural and cosmic agents in order to purify it. Such assumptions coincide with the Space Intelligences' messages issued through Ted. One of their earliest communications was a warning to planet earth; yet, in the same note, the UFO/Inter-dimensional entities promised to help us, if we would only cooperate with higher powers, with nature and with our fellow man. Ted has constantly tried to get proper recognition from government spokesmen and scientific officials for his important work. For the most part, he has been dismissed lightly, without fair and unbiased consideration. Ted feels that disaster can be averted in numerous cases--in spite of ourselves--if we but wake up and take proper steps in time. But, we are told, it may already be too late! Beings of higher wisdom such as the SI's, wish to set a "salvage" plan in operation that will bring everything back into balance on this planet--and they indeed have the means to do it--but since they respect human choice, they will not force it down our throats. In a letter to various scientists observing his work, Ted explains why the ways in which Other-Dimensional effects are manifested often seem so unusual to humans: "The reason my psychic work is so hard and difficult to understand . . . is because I work other-dimensionally . . . with that half of my brain that the SI's changed, modified, to link my brain with/into their dimension. And being other-dimensional . . . the laws of that other dimension do not apply to, or agree with, the physical laws in this dimension. But they will bring about cause and effect with our physical laws nonetheless. Why modify half of my human brain? Because, in this way, I can 'translate' the SI Other-Dimensional effects into this dimension . . . so that (they) . . . can be understood in our own cause and effect language." Although a good percentage of Ted Owens' prophesies appear startling, they are often accompanied by even more unbelievable demonstrations. The evidence is impressive and well-documented. It would take a large volume to cover all the varied types of predictions and "miracles" Ted has to his account. His first major psychokinetic experiments involved weather and other activities of nature. More specifically, they involved such activities as: drenching chosen areas with torrents of rainfall (for days at a time), unleashing powerful thunder and lightning storms, and--believe it or not--directing and/or diverting the course of hurricanes! His 58 === Page 6 of 52 book, How to Contact Space People contains accounts of these experiments, as well as the large east coast "blackout" ordered by Ted, which occurred in the late 1960s. One can only conclude that the SI's mean business; and, even though their initial purpose was to help us, they will not sit back at present and be passive while we senselessly try to destroy ourselves (and our world). The major areas covered by Ted's amazing psychic foresight in the last few years include: **EXTREME WEATHER PHENOMENA** Note the following headlines gleaned from US News and World Report (June 11, 1973): Odd Weather: No End in Sight. Among the unusual weather patterns that year were-- * Heavy rainfall in the east, while . . . * Drought was experienced in the northwest * Floods "damaged crops over a vast area" * An unprecedented volley of disastrous tornadoes occurred (169 in a four-day period!) In his November, 1971 newsletter, Ted had written: "My demonstrations will be . . . in the skies and heavens overlooking our earth," adding that it would be his own work and not involve the Space Intelligences. It is very interesting to note that the aforementioned odd weather news account stated that erratic jet streams flowing through the upper atmosphere were responsible for most of the unusual weather. You may inquire: "But can Other-Dimensional forces actually control the jet streams?" They did, according to Owens. **EARTHQUAKES AND ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA** Major quakes and minor tremors have also been plentiful in the 1970s. But a specific case loosely tied in with erratic atmospheric behavior (predicted by Ted) took place about mid 1972. Ted, in a letter to his circle of scientists and researchers, reminded them that he had been working to cause an earthquake in northern California: "One was produced," he affirmed, ". . . off target somewhat, but in the time frame specified." The major part of the quake occurred in Hawaii--200 miles southeast of Oahu Island on April 1, 1973. It was indeed quite mysterious at that! During the earthquake, the ionosphere apparently vanished, mystifying scientists considerably. Various other strange things "smacking of science-fiction" according to an AP report, also took place in the atmosphere shortly before a major tremor reached the largest island. Suddenly, long-wave radio signals, "began drifting and not making sense. The ground vibrated for about two hours," (after the quake first registered) whereas it should have ceased within about a half-hour span. One person was quoted as saying the quake "shook this island like a rug." Because of such unusual circumstances, one is tempted to conclude that a paranormal force was, in actuality, at work here. California was not entirely spared either: From the April 12, 1973 Costa Mesa Register, we read of, "The fourth earthquake in two weeks" which struck the Fontana-Rialto area west of San Bernardino (registering 3.5 on the Richter scale). One man was reportedly knocked out of bed, but "otherwise there were no reports of damage." On the same day tremors, registering 5.0 on the Richter scale were reported in Mexico City (as in the above account, however, reports of damage or casualties were not evident). **FLOODS** In August, 1972, Ted Owens again reminded contacts of the earlier prediction, adding: "Now I would assume from here on . . . planes might be in danger, and the water attack (catastrophic flooding) that I write of . . . might be even more dangerous than it has been." (Hurricane Agnes in West Virginia, floods in South Dakota, etc., not to mention the worst typhoon in Philippine history) "So here it is. The power I 'sent up' in 1971 . . . has arrived." Referring briefly to the "lag" in this particular prediction, Ted explained that there are occasional time variations due to dimensional differences between our world and that of the SI's. In 1971, Ted made comments on prior floods: "This (situation) was brought about . . . because my word of warning was not heeded . . . regarding further pollution. Now . . . the very air of the earth overhead . . . will be a no-man's land . . ." Each day new and formerly unknown dangers threaten an atmosphere already saturated with poison. Some experts say that we may have already passed the point of no return in atmospheric pollution. As Ted predicted in 1973, nature has truly started her war of retribution on man. We can expect more unusual weather patterns and drastic earth and atmospheric changes to come, warns Ted. **WORLDWIDE DROUGHT** In the latter part of 1972, the SI's informed Ted that they had set in motion drought conditions to "demonstrate their reality . . . their power to control the natural resources of our earth," and to teach "the human race a lesson it badly needs to learn . . . not to pollute and waste the earth's water." Note the following evidence: From the San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 1973, we read the heading: "Dry Spell Worst in 25 Years." The report says, "The United Nations early warning system for famine is signaling a red alert." Major world areas such as Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East were affected by prolonged dry spells. Ted realizes that some people will claim that droughts occurred prior to his prediction, but he points out that these scattered situations did not all jell together in a specific time/group pattern until shortly afterward. For the short period involved, it seems they intensified and multiplied unusually fast! Realizing the harshness of these lessons, Ted assured correspondents that he felt "very deeply for the people all over the earth," who were deprived of water; he noted that 60 === Page 7 of 52 the droughts were not something he wished on the earth. Instead it was a temporary, though drastic, measure taken by Higher Intelligences who have the whole progressive cosmic plan in mind, not just one egotistical, uncooperative little planet. In spite of man's inhumanity toward his fellow beings, Ted has not completely given up hope for the human race. For that reason he has won SI approval to carry out a plan: Willing to go the "second mile" rather than merely express concern, Ted volunteered to use his own personal psychokinetic ability to influence nature and work to replenish stricken areas. His offers to help countries if their officials would simply contact him are a matter of record. But, in spite of proven credentials, there seem to be no authorities interested in such quick, unorthodox methods. Nonetheless, Ted Owens is no "quack," nor is he a "crackpot." He is a man of both high ideals and intelligence--a member of "Mensa," an international organization requiring an exceptionally high IQ for membership, a devoted family man, and an individual with straight-forward, simple manners who is deeply concerned about the problems of our country and our world. His warning to those who would try to obtain and abuse supernormal powers from advanced spiritual entities leaves no room for doubt: "If they feel you will use them selfishly (against your fellow man), they will ignore you, for the SI's are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively!" It is a fact that Ted Owens has used paranormal powers to successfully rid select areas of drought, even though proper credit has not always been given where due. It is clear to many scientists and far sighted thinkers that, through nature's erratic patterns, she is trying to tell us something vital. The point is, will we take heed? A most unusual warning, recently circulated by Ted Owens concerns what he calls the "rich gang" (an international underground organization of economic manipulators). These men, he feels, are the power behind much of the political corruption and inner turmoil in this country. He stresses that they try to gain control of key officials in various countries through advanced psychological tactics, financial power or graft, and occasionally, downright violence in subtle forms. We have only recently discovered a few small exposed "cogs" within the vast machinery built by these power-crazed, wealth-hungry men. The largest portion still remains well hidden--and, as long as individuals allow greed to rule their better judgment, it will remain so. Ted does not beat around the bush about the "rich gang's" diabolical objectives: "Their purpose was to 'take' the world . . . by first gaining control of the U.S., the most powerful country . . . on down the line . . . so that they could make and dictate our policies, rig the market, control things," says Ted. "The only shield against them . . . is principle, morals, ethics. Their money goes over, under and around just about everybody's principles, morals, and ethics . . . except a handful. They'll be back with a 'new ballgame' in time ahead," warns Ted. He thinks this "gang" may have been the "incredibly intelligent brains" behind numerous assassinations of progressive leaders. Other murders and 'dirty work' are made to look accidental. The "rich gang" gains governmental advantage by setting up puppets within certain essential areas of the particular system's structure. Whether the puppets are aware of it or not, they can be used to advantage by the diabolical manipulators. According to Ted, these men are "picked . . . and patiently maneuvered into position." The "rich gang" is not just made up of dishonest, wealthy financial Barons or Mafia types; it may also include corrupt individuals who are their "dupes" and who have infiltrated the ranks of politics, religion, business and various organizations, such as unions, industry, media and higher educational institutions. Unfortunately, since a large majority of the people in our land today are apathetic, their attitudes add immensely to the "rich gang's" success. We can gain courage however, from the fact that spiritual forces such as the SI's are causing a "chemicalization" (or stirring of negative forces like this to the surface, much as impurities are brought to the surface of a liquid mixture and skimmed off for purification). It is a painful, trying process, but a necessary one. ### SPACE EFFORTS The SI's appear to be keeping a close eye on our space shots, probably to insure that we do not spread our destructive tendencies and greed to other worlds. Some noteworthy researchers into extraterrestrial and Other-Dimensional theories, such as Brinsley LePoer Trench, feel that earth was placed in a type of "quarantine" in the distant past by space people. They tell us that once enough men of strong character, linked with higher perception, emerge from this present challenging age, however, our planet will gravitate toward harmony, and the quarantine will be lifted. Earth will again have open communication with advanced races--as did the ancient masters. In the meantime, "They (the SI's) simply do not want us humans 'up there' fouling outer space as we have 'fouled' our own nest," remarks Ted in his typical direct manner. News media accounts of instances where space shots were dogged by difficulties are quite plentiful. In addition, the space programs involving astronauts have often had a pattern of bad luck mysteriously clinging to them. Such events are now a matter of history, so they will not be covered in detail here. Suffice it to say, the troubles have been many. For example, consider the Skylab missions. Skylab III was "peppered with problems from the beginning," according to a spokesman. One AP report quotes the flight director as saying that troubles had been so numerous, "I have the feeling somebody doesn't like us," add- === Page 8 of 52 ing later, "It can't be real." Ted's reaction to this was . . . "It always seems with SI miracles good and/or bad . . . 'it can't be real!' " CELEBRITY TRAGEDIES Ted has accurately predicted the tragic fate of a number of movie stars or well known personalities--for instance, the suicide of a government official (Congressman Mills), the divorce of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the death of several celebrities within a two week period . . . Robert Ryan, Veronica Lake, Joe E. Brown, Lon Chaney and Jack Hawks. PRESIDENT NIXON Over five years ago, Ted predicted that President Nixon would not be able to complete his term in office for some reason. In What the Seers Predict for 1971, by Warren Smith (Lancer Publications), Ted says: "President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he either will resign or be forced out of office." THE FUTURE As to the future, here is a summary of things we may expect. (Many are already well underway): * more inflation and eventual depression * failing crops * insect invasions * shortages of food and water * strange new ailments (due to negative influences from outer space) * more drastic earth changes (in the form of unusual weather, earthquakes, etc.) * discoveries of new lifeforms in space. * more exposure of corruption in "high places" There is a positive note to add to such bleak news as the above: The SI's have led Ted into new, expanded areas of assignment concerning constructive OD. So far, he has successfully experimented with "coding" numerous SI disks with OD mechanisms, then spreading them over large areas--such as farms. The objective is "to produce favorable weather and growing conditions," and also, "to control insect infestation of crops." Ted writes: "My new project . . . told to me by the SI's just last week (and I had been standing by for months waiting for their instructions) . . . is to get around the world, putting things right that go wrong . . . by using OD mechanisms and powers (stopping destructive volcanos; blocking hurricanes from hitting land mass; and so on and on in a thousand different mediums). "All of the above, of course is positive and constructive . . . and they have 'jumped me up' to a higher plateau . . . requiring much more issuance of OD power on my part . . . so evidently my mental power has grown much more this past year, or they would not consider me ready for this assignment." From the moment I met Ted Owens, unusual things happened! Most of my initial curiosity over his work centered around that mysterious group of entities Ted calls SI's (space intelligences). While with him, I continually had the feeling we were not alone! Was he indeed in contact with higher intelligences, as claimed? Ted had told me that the SI's kept him under constant observation with one invisible UFO craft hovering overhead at all times--no matter where he was. However, I did not expect them to provide us with an impressive demonstration soon after my arrival! The first phenomena occurred at Ted's home where I was to receive training in the SI System mentioned earlier. Early in the training sessions, I had sensed a presence of some kind within the room, followed by a strong feeling that I was under close observation. Instinctively, my impression was that this was a friendly influence so there was no alarm. And the "third person" did not limit him (or her) self to just one demonstration. A factual description, recorded by Ted on the spot, gives the details of this case: "At 6 P.M. Bill and I (Ted Owens) seated ourselves at a table at a local restaurant to have dinner. The waitress called over to Bill and me from a distance of 20 feet away: 'How many of you? Are there three of you?' Bill and I looked at each other puzzled. We were sitting at a table by ourselves, no other people within 30 feet. I called the waitress over, remembering that Bill had experienced sensing a third person present in my office today, when in fact there was none, and asked her why she had asked if there were three at our table. She said, 'Why I thought I saw another person sitting with you!' I was stunned. Two different people today, strangers to each other, and in different geographical locations . . . had seen or sensed another person near me!" A placemat--the only paper immediately available on which to write--was signed by the waitress and witnessed by myself. Ted still has it in his files. "The SI's are directing various people to me for training." Ted had informed me earlier. His task was to wake up these "sleepers" to a fuller psychic potential. But, from that time onward, their progress would be measured in proportion to their own initiative. According to Owens, the SI's could, quite logically, appoint people from all walks of life to work with directly. However, he emphasizes that the requirements are very challenging and require strong character as well as mental discipline. Ted explains that the SI's have ingenious methods of testing one's real motivations--such as dream projections testing reactions to different simulated situations in these dreams. The fact remains that only the SI's themselves know whom they will ultimately select as contacts and coworkers. The training sessions with Ted Owens were most memorable. In addition to giving the subject the ability to program his mind into positive patterns, Ted states that he "recharges the batteries" psychically--meaning that their whole system is energized while conditioning takes place. One might compare the psychic channel, Ted, to a sort of receiver/transmitter for Other-Dimensional forces. Basically, the program deals with all essential areas of a person's makeup (mental, spiritual, physical). In 64 === Page 9 of 52 # Before I joined the Payroll Savings Plan all I could save was string. When it comes to saving money, most of us can use all the help we can get. Joining the Payroll Savings Plan is one easy way to force yourself to save. When you sign up, an amount you specify is set aside from each paycheck and used to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. It's automatic. Everything is done for you. And now there's a bonus interest rate on all U.S. Savings Bonds--for E Bonds, 5½% when held to maturity of 5 years, 10 months (4% the first year). That extra ½%, payable as a bonus at maturity, applies to all Bonds issued since June 1, 1970 . . . with a comparable improvement for all older Bonds. Stick with the plan and before you know it you'll have a bankroll waiting. That's when you'll find you can do a lot more with money than you can with string. SERIES E Bonds are safe. If lost, stolen, or destroyed, we replace them. When needed, they can be cashed at your bank. Tax may be deferred until redemption. And always remember: Bonds are a proud way to save. ## Take stock in America. Now Bonds pay a bonus at maturity. The U.S. Government does not pay for this advertisement. It is presented as a public service in cooperation with The Department of the Treasury and The Advertising Council. 66 addition, Ted often has the uncanny ability to 'psyche out' certain problem areas, injecting a more personal approach toward specific 'hangups' when needed. During breakfast Saturday morning, as we discussed present world conditions and our country's domestic problems, Ted pointed out the need for better political leadership in our country, for stronger officials with greater integrity to steer us through the storms of social and political unrest and turmoil. I could see that he was greatly concerned about the world's present situation. I was not told just exactly how the SI's plan to deal with such conditions on this planet, but I was made to realize that, in the larger perspective of things, their purpose is constructive. In spite of occasional "chastisement," the SI's are here to implement a positive plan to salvage this planet before it is too late. By working through people and events, they are bringing about a needed balance. Remembering various supernormal interventions described in Biblical accounts, I asked, "Could the SI's be compared to angels of ancient times?" "They were probably called angels back then," affirmed Ted, stressing that early men, with a limited technical background would see them from a slightly different perspective than we do and, therefore, attach a different label. But whether seen from the eyes of ancients or moderns, these UFO entities possess vast knowledge of the universe far beyond the realm of known science. From previous articles on Ted, I learned that the SI's are from another dimension entirely outside our own space/time continuum and that they possess fantastic powers that could make our most cherished marvels look puny by comparison. They provide the channel for the 'OD' powers. Why they selected Ted as a contact is yet another lengthy story which has been covered well in numerous other magazine articles (See Saga Magazine: August and September, 1970; March and April, 1971). Nearly a dozen books by noted writers in the occult/psychic field also describe his works. Ted is certainly not a "fly by night" operator. He claims the SI's have been working with him since childhood. For over 50 years, he has been involved in numerous mental/psychic innovations including the initial ESP experiments at Duke University years ago. And his communications with space intelligences is the result of painstaking effort over a large number of years. Presently he is in touch with various scientists who are observing his psychokinetic experiments. When a man devotes most of his life to developing powerful mental and psychic aptitudes, he should have ample basis for claiming psychokinetic (mind over matter) ability. One thing is evident: Profit has not been Ted's major motive. He has unselfishly given much time and effort to the SI's plan (to save this planet), while also saddled with the responsibility of supporting his family. Sometimes the going has been rough, because no one has seemed interested in giving the SI work the support it needs in order for Ted to be freer to devote more time to his research; yet he has often used his ability to help numerous people in need without asking compensation. Though his approach is unusual in comparison to most other psychics, Ted might truly be considered a master psychic--perhaps an essential earth link to other dimensions. One might even call him a UFO Prophet. === Page 10 of 52 SAGA THE MAGAZINE FOR MEN FEBRUARY 1972 Vol. 43, No. 5 JOHN J. PLUNKETT Publisher MARTIN M. SINGER Editor GEORGE A. RADA Art Director GEORGE T. GAMBELLA General Manager ROBERT BROWN DAVID ELRICH associate editors ALAN GOLDFARB sports editor PATRICK SNOOK outdoors editor ARTURO F. GONZALEZ, JR. european editor JOHN WASHINGTON asst. art director WARREN GIBSON JOHN F. 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Executive and Editorial Offices at 333 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11206. 4 - [ ] SAGA FEATURES CONQUERING VENUS Exclusive report on science's most ambitious project Adrian Berry 11 SPEARING THE CHABUNKWA MAN-EATER A spear was all they had to keep them from becoming the lion's 11th and 12th victims Peter Hathaway Capstick 14 PRESIDENT NIXON'S VA MEDICINE IS KILLING OUR VETERANS VA hospital fund slashes have created a crisis of nightmarish proportions Roy Norton 18 $20 MILLION IN SPANISH TREASURE--BURIED IN CARSON NATIONAL FOREST! A scorched document tells of the hundreds of buried gold bars Thomas Hilton 22 NEW HEALTH CRISIS--ANTIBIOTICS IN OUR FOOD! 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Only those manuscripts accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes with sufficient postage will be returned. Foreign editions handled through International Division of MacFadden-Bartell Corp., 205 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. === Page 11 of 52 Ted Owens, the PsychoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control groups of humans. * Help and heal human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about with your mind! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 - [ ] SAGA === Page 12 of 52 Best wishes to Dr. Leo Sprinkle Owens "PK Man" 3/18/72 Illustrated by Morgan Harris === Page 13 of 52 Ted Owens, the PyschoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens Best wishes to Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Owens "PK Man" 3/18/72 Illustrated by Morgan Harris First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control groups of humans. * Help and heal human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about with your mind! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 ☐ SAGA === Page 14 of 52 Ezekiel? Way back in Biblical days? But more important to you is who is Ted Owens and what does he do? What are his credentials for making such seemingly wild claims? If that's what you're thinking, then you're thinking correctly, and we're getting somewhere already. I'm Ted Owens, the "PK Man" who uses psychokinetic powers and special effects to produce miracles; Otto Binder wrote about me in SAGA in August and September of 1970 and again in March and April of 1971. I've already done the seemingly impossible things listed above, and have sworn, notarized affidavits saying so from responsible people. As a matter of fact, I've performed over 200 recorded "miracles" to date, using mind over matter power. Just recently, in a span of three weeks, with scientists watching "over my shoulder," so to speak, I brought a tremendous rainstorm to the Norfolk area--which had been stricken by months of ruinous drought--directed lightning attacks on the Norfolk area; produced a hurricane and brought it so close to Norfolk that the rain fell unceasingly for four days; and just to put the "icing on the cake," I had a UFO ("mysterious halo in the sky" as the TV stations called it) appear over Norfolk so that all could see it . . . simply as a "signature" to the other phenomena I had produced. But before all this happened I had notified scientists, government agencies, and local newspapers by letter that it would happen, so that when it did occur it could not conceivably be called "just a coincidence." I have sworn affidavits to this event. All the above are only a few of the over 200 miracles I've performed. All right . . . so I have credentials strong enough to impress an army of skeptics. What's the next step as far as you are concerned? Well, before we get down to fundamentals on how you can proceed to perform miracles, we first need some general background information so you'll have a better idea of how this all came about. I was born in Bedford, Ind., 50 years ago. Forty of those years were spent learning and perfecting the *powers you will be able to use after you read this article!* But that should not be so surprising--Edison conducted 50,000 experiments over many years before he perfected his first workable light bulb. Once he had it and made it public knowledge, anybody could build a light bulb in short order. Actually, I am only part human. My brain was modified by UFO intelligences (who we'll call SIs, for "space intelligences") so it would become a two-way sending and receiving set for the SIs. Once you follow my instructions, the same thing can happen to you, and then you will also be able to not only communicate with these UFO creatures, but perform miracles as well. There are a few books you should read. *Secrets of the Ages*, by Robert Collier, is one. *The Sky People*, by Brinsley le Poer Trench, is another. *Flying Saucers Are Watching Us*, by Otto Binder is yet another. These are must reading in order for you to obtain a proper background for what I'm teaching. The books are easy to read and easy to understand, yet all three are key books. Once you've received the proper background and mastered the instructions in this article, then you will perhaps be able to "move the world." The obvious question arises--why place this priceless information before the general public? Isn't it dangerous? Suppose someone with evil intent got hold of it and used it against the U.S. or the world? That's a fair enough question. Now I'll answer it. There are certain people among us now who are "sleepers"--that is, people who have the potential to become great--to enrich humanity--given the proper training and instruction. It's no secret that the U.S. is now in deep trouble. The SIs are going to try to help us out of the mess we are in by finding and activating these "sleepers," just as they found and activated me. As soon as my instructions are 36 - [ ] SAGA === Page 15 of 52 The goal of the Space Intelligences (who come from another dimension and whose powers and intellects are unimaginably superior to ours) is to help mankind. If after scanning your past, present, and future, they decide you have the capacity for it, they may bestow superhuman powers on you. But if they feel you will use them selfishly--to obtain money, or hurt, rob, kill, or hate your fellow man--they will ignore you, for the SIs are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively! first pass exhaustive, rugged IQ tests--the minimum IQ necessary is 148. Yet the SIs may choose a farmer, a soldier, a secretary, a truck driver--that is, anyone who might follow the instructions in this article--and build up their minds so they will have superhuman brains that would put a member of Mensa to shame! That person could very well be you! All right. Enough background. Let's get down to business now. You want the instruction; the system. Now bear in mind that it is unorthodox. But never mind that. While you are learning it, putting it into practice, *do not discuss what you are doing with anybody*, except your "helper"--one person, who will assist you, as I'll soon describe. **F**irst thing in the System--get the book, *Roth's Memory Courses*, by D. Roth. This book teaches you how to memorize lists of words by associating unusual thoughts. It is only necessary that you master the first 20 words. For instance, No. 1 is "hat" . . . and what you want to memorize, like an airplane, goes with a hat, as No. 1. To memorize it, you simply see a giant 747 plane taxiing around the rim of a tophat. Silly, yes? It's supposed to be. Helps you to remember. This is the technique of "mental imagery," and mental imagery is one of the two keys to becoming a superhuman. Get Roth's book, practice the first 20 words to be memorized therein . . . hat, hen, ham, hare, hill, shoe, cow, hive, ape, woods, tide, tin, team, tire, hotel, dish, dog, dove, tub, and nose. Practice getting up in front of groups (this will make you a big hit at parties) and letting members of the group call out objects, one at a time, which another member writes down on a pad, starting with No. 1. When you've gotten to 20 stop them, *and then you can call back the entire list in any order, backwards or forwards!* Now why, you ask, is this parlor trick necessary in order to become superhuman? When you finally communicate with the SIs, and when you perform your miracles, assuming you get to that point, it will all be done through mental imagery. Therefore, while you are performing your "parlor trick" of giving memory demonstrations, you are actually building a muscle in your mind for mental imagery! Each time you do the memory exercises, it will easier and easier for you to see pictures in your mind, and to *control* these mental pictures. Let me give you an idea of how important this mental imagery is to become superhuman. While in Maine several years ago I told a prominent real estate man, Mr. Ed Ames, I would communicate with the UFO (Continued on page 66) mastered and put into operation the SIs will be alerted. At that time they'll scan your mind, telepathically, just like you are reading this article. All that you have been and done will be "seen" by them. Also everything you can do in the future will be observed, because they can "see ahead" in time. They will decide then whether or not to contact you, modify your brain, give you superhuman powers, as they did with me, and use you to benefit and lead mankind. Should you be interested in hurting, hindering, robbing, killing, hating your fellow man, or acquiring money and riches, they will ignore you. **T**HE SIs ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN FINDING AND DEVELOPING THOSE HUMANS WHO WILL USE THEIR NEW POWERS TO ADVANCE MANKIND CREATIVELY AND CONSTRUCTIVELY. So I assure you, there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of "bad people" using these priceless secrets to harm either the human race or the U.S. Now, you would think that the SIs would find and develop only the brilliant minds among us, wouldn't you? For instance, I happen to belong to "Mensa," an international organization of some 15,000 members whose IQs are exceptionally high. In order to be accepted by this organization you have to SAGA ☐ 37 === Page 16 of 52 # THIN HAIR RECEDING HAIRLINE? **FACT: As some men become older, the dermis of the scalp becomes thin. This limits blood circulation to hair follicle. Eventually the hair dies.** | NORMAL YOUNG SCALP | OLDER SCALP thin dermis | |---|---| | Normal Dermis is fairly thick, acts as a cushion, and allows blood to circulate freely to hair follicle. | * Less fatty tissue between scalp and skull. 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Or take the case of Brenda Sue Pennington, a girl in a hospital just outside Washington, D.C., who had a crushed skull and was dying. Her parents asked me to try to save her. I used mental imagery to contact the SIs and "tell" them what I was attempting, then stood inside the girl's hospital room and used mental imagery to place other-dimensional symbols onto the girl so that they would grow and help her. One, for instance, was a rainbow effect on top of her head, which would then spread and grow larger with the passing of each day, until it eventually filled her entire hospital room! That was the turning point for the girl, who'd been given up for dead by the doctors; today she is living in West Virginia. The point, is, without mental imagery the whole thing would have been impossible. (That case also is documented.) I first stumbled upon, and learned, the Roth memory system when I was 18 years old. Of course, I hadn't really "stumbled" onto it; the SIs had led me telepathically to it, just as they would lead me, a "sleeper," to all the other necessary materials for communicating and working with and for them. So you can see how vitally important it is for you to learn and develop this mental imagery technique! It isn't hard; it's lots of fun; it's entertaining to your friends; and best of all it will make your brain more powerful! (By the way, if any of you have questions about any of this, or difficulty in following the directions for this System, just write to me care of SAGA magazine, 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206, and I'll help you personally, as much as my time allows, by answering your letters. It could take a while for me to answer, so please be patient.) The next step in learning this System, is the most important! A famous scientist, who wants to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, thoroughly investigated me and my work and stated unequivocally that it had to be my mastery of self-hypnosis that was the key to the SIs being able to give me superhuman power! And that is your next step -- to hypnotize yourself. I'll make it simple for you, too. Some people take years to learn autohypnosis, but you'll be able to do it in days. Actually, self-hypnosis is the key that unlocks a secret door in your mind that leads to a storehouse of tremendous === Page 17 of 52 BILLS? I owed $12,000 and no way out! Interstate Acceptance showed me the EASY way! Send your name and address and we will send you our NOBODY REFUSED HELP APPLICATION up to $20,000. NOT A LOAN COMPANY WE CAN HELP YOU RETURN THIS COUPON T-O-D-A-Y-! ---------- IF COUPON IS CUT OUT, SEND NAME & ADDRESS TO: INTERSTATE ACCEPTANCE 139 MATHEWSON ST. PROV., R. I. 02903 (COUPON) PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY (COUPON) E-3 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Please Rush Me Your FREE Application 68 - [ ] SAGA surgery first, Charlie," I yelled at him. "Then use auto-hyp." Control of useless pain is only one of thousands of possible uses for self-hypnosis. One man learned autohypnosis because he had a deathly fear of dentists--hadn't been to one for 12 years. As soon as he mastered the technique, he marched to the nearest dentist and had 12 teeth pulled, all under self-hypnosis! In order to find out more you should read some good books on autohypnosis. There are a number of them, so I'll leave the choice up to you (they are for background and general instruction). I'm going to teach you a superior method right here, which is sufficient for your use. Before teaching you how to hypnotize yourself, let me give you some preliminary instruction. Pain is a warning signal; you should only use self-hypnosis to deaden pain in an emergency, until you can get to a doctor; then you should remove the autohypnosis, because you need the pain as an indicator for the doctor to work with. ALWAYS WORK WITH THE DOCTOR. Self-hypnosis should not be used to take the place of medicine, or doctors, or surgery! I can't stress that point enough. By the way, allow me to quote some people who I taught self-hypnosis (names are unimportant, but they are identified by profession, to show its scope). Business owner: "Since I've used autohypnosis I find that people can't irritate me or insult me anymore. It just seems to bounce off me. I'm much happier. I feel like a new man!" Court reporter: "Since I've learned autohypnosis from you I've been amazed at the good results of it! And I've been deeply happy since using it!" Jeweler: "Money could not buy what your autohypnosis has done for me, Mr. Owens!" Secretary: "Nothing happened the first two weeks but suddenly I've become happier than at any other time in my life. I can't believe it, and I'm scared that it might go away. I'm so happy!" Lawyer: "My work has improved 30 percent because of the autohypnosis you taught me. It's really working!" Court reporter: "This week I have been happier, made more money, and got more work done that at any time in my entire life! I even increased my stenotype speed by 25 words per minute by using my autohypnosis. This autohypnosis is the best thing that ever happened to me!" Nurse: "It's like a miracle! Now I'm sleeping like I used to years ago! For years I have only gotten half a night's sleep, until now." Electronics expert: "I didn't believe in this for a couple of weeks, but now I'm sleeping without pain, and soundly." These comments from former pupils go on and on but you can see how powerful and effective this method is. Used intelligently (with the cooperation of your doctor, if you so desire), self-hypnosis can improve your life tremendously! But even more important, it can lead you directly to the SIs and to superhuman power. (Two superior books I suggest you read are: Autoconditioning by Dr. Hornell Hast, and Hypnosis by Drs. S. J. Van Pelt, Gordon Ambrose and George Newbold.) Now, the autohypnosis I'm going to teach you is designed to lead you to the SIs. However, here are a few of the things it can do for you when it is used simply for itself: * It can make you feel happy and cheerful, instead of depressed and blue. * It can give you the courage to face anything. * It can refresh you in minutes, if you are tired. * It can keep you wide awake, if that is necessary (be careful not to extend this over too long a period of time.) * It can put you soundly to sleep, all night long, or at any time. * It can relieve pain and discomfort. (Useless pain, that is. Read those books I referred you to concerning this point.) * It can help you break bad habits, such as procrastination, overeating, smoking drinking, etc. * It can remove panic, fear, tension, self-consciousness, etc. * It can help improve your personality and your attitude toward people, and situations. * It can help you improve your income, by improving you. But what is the "secret" of self-hypnosis Just this: in your normal conscious state your thoughts do not register very deeply upon your subconscious mind. In contrast, when you utilize your autohypnotic "trigger" mechanism, all your mental power is focused on whatever you are concentrating on, and when you come out of your self-hypnosis your mind is set, just like an alarm clock, to get the maximum results that you have ordered while under autohypnosis. (This is called posthypnotic suggestion.) You see, in your normal conscious state you use a mere five to 10 percent of your brainpower. But your subconscious mind, controlled by your self-hypnosis, gives you access to approximately 70 to 90 percent of your brainpower! Quite a difference! O.K. Now I'll teach you exactly how to hypnotize yourself, step by step. The first step is to have you hypnotized by your "helper"--your husband or wife, or girlfriend or boyfriend. Someone you trust who will take this seriously and not make fun of it, and will above all else, be considerate and cautious. If you have any doubts or reservations, you should not attempt it (and that goes for any step along the way). A pendulum will be needed--one can be acquired in novelty or magic shops, or you can simply tie a ring to a six-inch string. Turn off all the lights in the room except one just above and behind your head, as you lie on a couch. Your helper will be seated beside the couch in such a position that he can hold the end of the string of the pendulum and let it dangle in front of your eyes, swinging it back and forth. He can put this page in his lap and read the instructions below, as he slowly swings the pendulum back and forth about six inches in front of and slightly above your eyes, so that you have to look up at it. Then he begins reading out loud as you keep your eyes focused on the swinging pendulum, moving it slowly back and forth: "Now, all you have to do is listen to my suggestions, and imagine the suggestions taking effect. Just watch the pendulum. (Continued on page 70) === Page 18 of 52 unused power! Let me give you a few examples of what can be done with self-hypnosis. Some years ago in Texas, I bought a car from a salesman named Charlie Turner. Charlie was English, and his accent interested me. We chatted as I filled out the necessary papers, and he said it had been the first car he'd sold in several months, that he was broke. I "scanned" his mind and telepathically ascertained that here was an unusual man, one with great potential. So I told him that I taught self-hypnosis, and that he should learn it. He said he hadn't the money to pay for the instruction. I said that it wasn't necessary, I'd be glad to train him for nothing. So he made an appointment, and I began training him. Shortly after learning self-hypnosis he quit selling cars, and started an import-export business. Within months he'd become fantastically successful! He had quite a bit of money in the bank and was becoming widely known in his field. He attributed all this success to his learning of autohypnosis and application to his daily life. But that wasn't all. One night Charlie, who lived far out in the suburbs, lifted an outboard motor on top of his stove to repair it, and the stove's pilot light ignited the motor; it blew up, spraying flaming gasoline on Charlie's left hand and arm. Charlie quickly doused the flames and called an ambulance, which didn't get there for almost half an hour (this happened at 3:30 in the morning). Charlie told me that if he hadn't used self-hypnosis on himself to deaden the excruciating pain, he'd have gone out of his mind. But worse was to come. After Charlie reached the hospital he removed the self-hypnosis from his arm (as I had taught him to do) so the doctors could work on him, that's when he was told that they couldn't give him a shot to ease his pain until the doctor arrived to authorize it! Therefore because the pain was unbearable, Charlie put himself under hypnosis again, and sat for 40 minutes until the doctor got there. The doctor told Charlie that he might never be able to use the arm again. It was burned that badly. And then, at that point, Charlie deviated from my instruction and told the doctor he would treat the arm himself without the doctor's help! Charlie took a cab home and stayed in bed for a week, using autohypnosis not only to deaden the pain in his arm but also to rebuild and restore the skin and muscle! 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Listen closely to my voice for it is going to help you, and you will not listen to other sounds, and they will just fade away. Now feel your feet, your legs, your hands, your arms growing heavier and heavier and more and more relaxed. Let your hands become as limp as though they were pieces of cloth, or two empty gloves lying on top of a dresser, completely heavy and limp. Remember, all you have to do is listen to me and imagine what I am suggesting. And the better you concentrate your mind on listening to my suggestions, the better the results you will obtain through the power of your mind. Now be aware of any tense muscle in your body, and simply let it relax, let it go limp. Just let go and keep on letting go. Now your entire body is getting heavy, limp, quiet, and relaxed. Feel your hands getting still heavier and heavier, and more and more relaxed. "Feel more and more peaceful. Feel a sense of peace and well-being coming over you. Feel at peace with yourself. Now turn your attention to your face and neck and let all tension and nervousness go out of your face and neck. Just relax your face and neck and let those areas become quiet, peaceful, and relaxed. Feel a great peacefulness. Feel at peace with yourself. Now, with your entire body relaxed, quiet, peaceful, limp, and relaxed, I am going to count from one to four, and as I count feel this relaxation and quiet peacefulness sinking in, deeper and deeper. One, more relaxed. Two, deeper and more peaceful. Three, more quiet, more relaxed. Four, still deeper, more quiet, more peaceful. Now you are deeply relaxed, and must not try to come out of your concentration until I count back to zero. "Now listen carefully... from this minute on, whenever you practice your self-hypnosis, it will be five times deeper and five times more powerful for you than ever before! And each day, as you use your self-hypnosis, you will become happier and more relaxed and your nerves will become calmer and calmer, and you will be able to relax more quickly each time you practice it and more easily each time you use it. And each time you practice you will be able to let yourself sink into the concentration more easily, and more quickly. "Now, listen to me carefully, and ac- === Page 20 of 52 cept each of my suggestions. The following suggestions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully for the rest of your life. Powerfully! "From now on, whenever you wish to hypnotize yourself, look at the moon of either of your thumbnails, and simultaneously say, or think, the words 'deep asleep.' Always remember these two key words, 'deep asleep.' Then feel your eyes get heavy, and let them close. Next picture in your mind a dark light bulb and touch your forehead between your eyes and see this light bulb in your mind click on. Now, that much is your 'trigger mechanism,' and the instant you have completed it you have turned off your conscious mind and turned on your giant, subconscious mind . . . although there will be no apparent difference to you, that you're aware of. Next, count to three, slowly. Then you are ready to give yourself your autosuggestion . . . and you must speak to yourself with emotion and feeling . . . also over and over, to make it stronger. For instance, instead of just saying, 'I'll be happy today,' say 'Today and every day I'll be happy, relaxed and calm, and the things that have been worrying me, irritating me, will no longer have the power to upset me; they will just bounce off me like a rubber ball off a wall.' In other words, give yourself a regular pep talk under your own hypnosis . . . then repeat it over and over several times, to make it even stronger. Then you are ready to wake yourself, and for this you always follow the same procedure, saying 'I'll waken now at the count of zero, wide awake, refreshed and happy, with my mind and body in perfect balance, and going with God.' Then you count backward . . . four, three, two, one, zero . . . see the light bulb in your head click off when you touch your forehead, say to yourself out loud, 'wide awake now!', open your eyes, and snap your fingers right in front of your eyes . . . just to make sure that your are out of your deep concentration. Do you have these instructions in mind? (He or she nods) "Good. Now I'll touch your forehead and these instructions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully! Powerfully!" (The helper touches the subject on the forehead between the eyes and says "there!") "Now, before you come out of your deep concentration, a few more instructions. For the next two weeks do not try to analyze what is going on or it might keep it from working. It would be like your going into a dark closet with a bright light to see if there was any dark in there. The secret to obtaining powerful results is to just let yourself go, and follow these instructions. Also, it will take two to four weeks before you have completely mastered this skill, so do not expect any miraculous results before that time. Now, for two minutes there will be quiet." (At this point the helper puts his hand on the listener's forehead, closes eyes, and says a personal prayer . . . asking God to make the listener happy and healthy.) 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In Melbourne, the capital of this particular sport, crowds of more than 100,000 frequently show up to watch big games. * * * **Actor** Marcello Mastroianni has been telling the gossip columnists about his ill-fated romance with actress Faye Dunaway which lasted for 3 years before it ended suddenly. "Faye is the woman I loved most," Marcello said. "I was going to divorce and marry her. It was the first time in my life I was completely whole with someone." Their affair broke up when Faye left for Madrid. There she met another man and dropped Marcello. He followed her to Spain to get her to change her mind. He sighs, "When she finally agreed to see me for a few minutes to confirm that our love was over, she was as cold as a German officer." What Marcello is only now beginning to realize is that his appearance may have had something to do with the turn-down. He had completely shaved off his hair for a film role and looked like a fugitive from a police line-up rather than an Italian star. Friends figuring out how Faye might feel urged him to buy a wig before he went to Spain but he refused. When he showed up at her door, it was not Marcello the Magnificent but a bald-headed Italian, and Faye wasn't buying. Evidently Yul Brynner wouldn't stand a chance with her. CHALKS FLYING SERV PORT OF ENTRY **The** world's oldest airline is also one of the smallest, and probably the most unique. Chalk's Flying Service on Miami's Biscayne Bay began in 1919 and its owner, Arthur "Pappy" Chalk is 83 years old. Pappy still comes down to the tiny terminal (which he built himself with stones he picked up on the waterfront) a couple of times a week. Today his airline consists of 4 Grumman Gooses and 3 Mallards and flies twice daily between Miami and Bimini in the Bahamas, as well as shuttling charter passengers to any of 750 nearby islands. This remarkable airline has always been accident free. "We've been flying across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas for 52 years and haven't hurt anyone yet," Pappy says proudly. Besides flying services, Pappy's pilots run errands for Bimini residents, too. "When someone has a yen for a steak in Bimini," Pappy says, "they just call Chalk's. We go to a Miami store, have the steak cut to order, and deliver it on the next flight." ★ THE END 72 - [ ] SAGA === Page 22 of 52 (Continued from page 71) and mind in perfect balance, and going with God. Your nerves will be relaxed and quiet. All tension will be gone from your body and mind. Your body will feel refreshed and light. If there have been any worries, fears, or anxieties on your mind, they will be gone when you come out of your concentration. Four, three, two, one, zero! Wide awake!" (The helper snaps his finger right in front of the listener's just-opened eyes.) All right, now, readers. That is the rather long, but necessary "magic formula" for your helper to teach you the self-hypnosis routine. The entire procedure outlined above should be repeated once more the next evening or at some time during the same week. Then all you have to do to hypnotize yourself at any time during the rest of your life is look at the white, or moon, of either your left or right thumbnail, say or think the words "deep asleep," close your eyes, count to three slowly . . . one, two, three . . . and you are ready to tell yourself the suggestion you want to take effect. All that remains now to reach the SIs, the UFO intelligences, is: type or print on a card, which you will keep in your handbag or wallet, the following: "I am now sending my mind back through the ages . . . to the times of the ancient Egyptians, Incas, Aztecs . . . to learn the great secrets of those times, and to bring those secrets back to me here, so that I can know them and use them in the world I live in today to help mankind." Now, you will take that formula to bed with you twice a week after you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Just before going to sleep you'll autohyp, go through the routine, and tell yourself before you open your eyes that "when I open my eyes, what I read to myself will take effect on my life with all the power of Nature." Then simply open your eyes and read that formula off the card. When finished, set the formula aside, turn off your light, and go to sleep. On a second card, type a second formula, which reads as follows: "I hereby give my mind, my soul, and my body to God, to do with as He sees fit to improve the world, to improve mankind. But I deny and reject the Devil and evil completely and entirely!" You use this second formula twice a week, but in the morning just after you awaken. Just go through your autohyp routine, open your eyes and read this formula out loud to yourself, close your eyes and count backward and bring yourself "out." And you'll have a happy day. O.K. . . . let's take a brief look at what you need to do: learn Roth's memory system, at least the first 20 words, but practice until you are an expert with those 20 words. Get your helper and have him teach you autohypnosis as outlined above. All he or she has to do is use the pendulum to make your eyes tired, read the passages from these pages, and presto, you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Once that is done, make out your two formula cards and begin to use each of them twice a week on yourself, under your autohyp. Any questions? If your helper should at any time deviate from my written instructions and give suggestions of his own, then you just come awake and get another helper at some future time. You must have a helper you can trust. I've worked out this formula word by word, precisely, with thousands of people, and it works like a charm, if followed correctly. That is why I stress that your helper must be someone you can trust. Some of you will read this and say, I haven't time to learn a memory system and all these instructions. Too much trouble. Interesting, though. And you'll close the magazine and watch TV. Some of you will read this, go to the trouble to get Roth's book, learn the 20 words, become a whiz at entertaining at parties, and let it go at that. Some of you will go further--you'll learn the memory system and develop a strong mental-imagery technique; then you'll get a helper and learn autohypnosis as outlined above. And you'll feel like a million. You'll get happier, and as time goes by your entire life will change for the better. But the cards and formulas will seem silly to you, and you'll skip that. A few of you will go the whole route: learn the memory system master the autohypnosis, use it as instructed, and apply the formula system as instructed. Then one of two things will happen: the SIs will be alerted automatically, as if you'd rung their doorbell, so to speak . . . and they will scan your mind to determine if you are the right kind of person to handle the awesome responsibilities of secrets from Infinity . . . from another world, their dimension. If when they scan your mind and find you wanting, or weak, or power hungry, or greedy, or mean and cruel--and they can see it clearly, no matter how you've fooled the people around you--then it will not go any further. The superhuman powers will be denied you. But somewhere in your midst--perhaps a housewife, an office clerk, a truck driver, a lawyer or ballplayer, perhaps even a college youngster--will be a chosen few "sleepers" who will zealously master what I've written . . . use the formulas . . . have their minds scanned by the SIs . . . and pass the test! From that point on the SIs will take you in hand and bestow on you superhuman powers. Just as they did with me. And the rest will be history. The world will hear about you and the "miracles" you'll perform. You are needed badly, right away, by the SIs for training and use, because the world is in a dangerous state today. Mankind could be destroyed on any day of the week. But if some of you can be found by the SIs--and accepted and trained--then perhaps there is still a chance for the world to be made a happy, safe place. Healthy to live in and with no more wars and killing and hate. I want to express my deepest thanks to SAGA magazine for allowing this unusual message and set of instructions to be printed for the general public. SAGA is probably the only magazine in the world with enough interest in mankind to try this unorthodox approach. The SIs also wish to thank SAGA. In closing let me say God bless you, readers, whoever you may be, and if you feel inspired, or feel the urge to follow these instructions, please do it, for God's sake! ★ THE END # ESCAPE TO SEA (Continued from page 40) can have it. If you want embroidered roses and plastic daisies, that's available too. The choices are as limitless as there are different people. Boat builders offer endless choices of color and materials, or you can even start from scratch and be your own designer. You can buy old or new, revamp some other man's ideas or create your own. You can build of wood or fiber glass, from a prepared kit or from dozens of different blueprints or pay $1,000 for a hull that needs work, or any amount you can afford. The word "secondhand" doesn't mean the same thing in boats as it does in cars. A car can go out of style, but a boat is like a house--it's basically good or bad. You can buy any number of boats that are 10, 15, 20 or more years old. You can find dowagers from the 30s that are still in first class condition, and which you would be proud to own. Usually, the largest boat you can afford is the one to buy. Dr. Don Thomas, a Midwest dentist paid $35,000 for a 100-foot Scandinavian freighter and converted it into a virtual floating palace. It has 2,000 square feet of living space with plenty of room for his wife, two children and their two teen-aged friends. The freighter was completely renovated before Thomas took off, even to the addition of paisley wallpaper in the playroom. He sold all his belongings and cashed in his life insurance to do it, and it's still not as complete as he would like. But even though his "Shangri-La" doesn't have all the comforts most Americans consider standard--air conditioning, television, telephones, and cars--Thomas has no regrets. "When the money for food and fuel runs out, I'll start drilling teeth again," he says. With his white beard, battered blue sneakers, and old work clothes, Thomas looks every bit the seadog as he stands on the fantail of his bright red steel ship looking out to sea. "I wanted to see how other people live, learn their customs and understand their problems. Just thinking about it took my mind off mundane things." He plans to visit the Caribbean, South America, and eventually the South Pacific. "The only reason to go back to work is to eat." Pete Allison lives in dread of being called back to work at Pan American Airways, where he has been a high salaried mechanic for 12 years. He was layed off in a cutback over a year ago and hopes they never call him back. The reason? He's living on his 30-foot cruiser and makes frequent trips to the Bahamas to dive for treasure. (Continued on page 78) 74 - [ ] SAGA === Page 23 of 52 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20, 1971 from Ms. Calu Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM 22 - [ ] SAGA === Page 24 of 52 (Left) The cross bears legend "Here Custer Fell, June 25, 1876." The surrounding white shafts represent the estimated (exact number is not known) 260 troopers who were killed at the Little Big Horn. Map indicates (arrow) the position of the Far West at the time treasure was buried. Photo Courtesy of West Point Museum Collections, United States Military Academy for more than 20 miles before Marsh sighted a break in the shore line and a body of water leading inland. Marsh anchored here and wondered if this was the mouth of the Little Big Horn, where he had been ordered to station the Far West. Or was it an unknown creek or stream swollen by the recent rains? Captain Baker volunteered to find the answer. He was rowed ashore with some of his infantrymen. They traveled for four miles up the waterway and upon their return Baker expressed his conviction that it was not the Little Big Horn. loaded to her 400 ton capacity she drew four and a half feet. When soundings showed that the depth of the river had dwindled to three and a half feet Marsh decided not to venture any farther. He was also now convinced that he overshot the mouth of the Little Big Horn that the "creek" explored by Captain Baker was the river they had been seeking. Baker also had been having second thoughts about it and had reached the same belated conclusion. "We'll anchor here for the night ### The slaughter of "Yellow Hair" and the 261 officers and men of his command has long obscured the fact that three quarters of a million dollars in miner's gold is still resting along a bank of Montana's Big Horn River--only 15 miles from the national monument honoring Custer and his valiant men! During the next several months I managed to assemble other bits of pertinent information. Over a span of years in tracking down the fact and fiction of lost treasures many turned out to be legend or folklore. But this one began fitting together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. There was no doubt that Marsh had endeavored to carry out Terry's directive. He had piloted the Far West up the Big Horn through treacherous rapids and a twisting channel full of snags, sandbars, and tiny islands. The vessel journeyed Marsh was still dubious but permitted himself to be persuaded by Baker. He weighed anchor and traveled 15 miles farther up the Big Horn without observing another break in the shore line. He became increasingly worried as the river shallowed. The Far West, 190 feet in length with a beam of 33 feet, had been constructed in Pittsburgh in 1870 expressly for navigating such tricky rivers as the upper Missouri and the Yellowstone. She drew only 20 inches of water when empty; when and head back downstream in the morning," Marsh told him. A short time later, just before his evening meal, Marsh was informed that a mule-drawn freight wagon had appeared on shore. It had three occupants, the driver, Gil Longworth and two armed guards, Dickson and Jergen. Longworth hailed the Far West, was rowed out to her and requested to see the captain. Marsh related later that the mule driver was weary and agitated, "and with good reason." The (Continued on page 66) SAGA - [ ] 21 === Page 25 of 52 By Otto O. Binder Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 26 of 52 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20, 1971 from Mr. Calu Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM By Otto O. Binder 22 SAGA Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 27 of 52 In Part I of the Ted Owens story (SAGA-March), Otto Binder described the amazing fulfillment of the predictions made by the incredible PK man. Now, in Part II, Binder explains how Ted came into possession of his fantastic powers, and why the Saucer Intelligences chose him to be the agent for their vital mission to Earth. Somewhere in another eerie dimension, strange beings of pure energy cast their all-seeing eyes upon the tiny planet earth. They see strife and trouble and moral degeneration there. Moreover, they see organic creatures (humans) defiling their beautiful world, spreading pollution senselessly. They pity the disorganized earthlings who are unknowingly heading for worldwide disaster and eventual oblivion. A voice booms out to the DIs, (Dimension Intelligences), an omniscient voice, one that the DIs, through ages of spiritual development, have often tuned in directly. The Voice commands--"Go to that doomed planet and help those pitifully blundering souls to save themselves before it is too late. Go!" Obediently, the DIs utilize their ultra-scientific and supernormal powers to penetrate to the earth-dimension in craft shaped like flying saucers. The DIs are now the SIs, or the Saucer Intelligences, as far as earth is concerned. Their super-ray monitors scan the teeming millions on earth below. Where can they find a human mind less primitive than the average and capable of receiving ESP communications from them? It is no easy task to match minds from two utterly different dimensions. No such mind is found, not one that would withstand their powerful and indeed lethal thought-impulses. Ah, but that child--his brain and mind might be developed to the point where it would not be blasted and burned out by an interchange of communication. It would take time--an earthly lifetime, in fact--but there is no other alternative. They must begin now, for time is running out for earth. . . . Harry T. Owens was born in Bedford, Ind., in 1920. The "T" doesn't stand for anything, but an aunt began calling him Ted and the name stuck. From the beginning, Ted was a "loner," uninterested in joining other children in their "silly" games. Only sports interested him, somewhat, in school. And here the first indications of his strange powers became evident. In basketball, he would make a 20-foot shot with his back to the basket. The ball would swish through the hoop miraculously. When he passed the ball, nobody saw it move, yet the boy he shot it to would suddenly find it in his hands. Needless to say, his friends began to shun him for his mysterious doings. Ted took up boxing later, excelling in it. However, when he fought a much bigger boy, he was battered savagely in the head and suffered a latent concussion. As Ted sees it today, this seemed to have been deliberately planned by the SIs. Even before that, at age five, Ted had been playing in the street when a car struck him and knocked him 15 feet, leaving him unconscious for hours. Then, after the boxing incident, he received more "brain-rattl- Ted Owens was parked on a one lane mountain road years ago when a car passed through his! 24 - [ ] SAGA === Page 28 of 52 ing" blows as if his brain were being "shook up" or "scrambled"--for a purpose. While playing, another boy rolled a huge log down on Ted that ripped his scalp open. As a teen-ager, Ted was a passenger in a car that ran off the road at 90 miles per hour. The car was totally smashed, and Ted's head was almost split open. Ted's head and brain received four brutal blows, from which he always miraculously recovered. That is certainly, and oddly, more than most people suffer. Ted has since found out from the SIs, he says, that these "accidents" were necessary in order to allow one of the invisible SI entities to enter his brain at the moment of injury and perform a strange healing that altered his brain each time, for future SI communications. This becomes more credible when one remembers that head and brain injuries have played a part in the careers of noted psychics. Peter Hurkos fell off a ladder onto his head, for instance, and thereafter gained his famed psi-powers (a fully documented story). Dr. Franz Polgar was shot in the head in WW I and lived to become a noted "sensitive." There are hints from the SIs that those men, and others, might have been earlier experiments of theirs to reshape a human brain into an SI "receiving station," but without success. Only in the case of Ted, it seems, could the SIs go all the way. Sheer imagination? Blatant nonsense? Then read these excerpts from Ted's diary. July 4, 1966--"Woke up this morn with two sore spots on back of head, proportionately spaced. . .two little bumps. Family noticed them immediately, said they were never there before." July 1, 1968--"Martha (his wife) pointed out this morn. . .two deep scars under my ear, on neck. . .that have never been there before. Did the SIs do something to me overnight?" Then, in April, 1970, a deep indentation appeared behind Ted's right ear. Martha exclaimed--"Why, Ted, it looks like something has been inserted there!" In October 1968, Ted also had felt a new ridge of bone at the back of his head, below the brain case. Now the other "indentations" and "scars" might conceivably have been ordinary bruises that Ted received unknowingly. But when a ridge of solid bone appears overnight--and stays--we can't explain that away. Another remarkable change in Ted's physiognomy occurred recent- **One astrophysicist, who has studied UFO phenomena for many years, became quite excited after a careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats and called him "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today!"** ly, in July, 1970. Ted woke up with two sets of eyebrows. In the mirrors, he distinctly saw a new growth of reddish hair over his normal brown eyebrows. It could have been another sign of brain "tampering" by the SIs. The SIs have since told Ted what they are up to in these brain "modifications." It was a form of "psychic surgery" to beef up the right lobe of his brain in order to allow him to perform PK feats and also to receive their high-voltage ESP messages. These weird alterations within Ted's brain are given strong credence by Dr. Ansel Kowzak (his real name is not given to protect his position), an astrophysicist as well as an expert in paranormal phenomena. Kowzak told Ted that the government had performed secret autopsies on several "contactees," notably the famed George Adamski. The results were startling. In all the dead contactee brains, a pattern of odd growths were found on the frontal lobe of the cerebrum. They were called "dendrites" and seemingly had something to do with the ESP communications the contactees claimed to have had with the saucer people. (In medical terms, dendrites are bunches of tiny sensory tips which link up brain cells. The more dendrites, the more sensory impressions going through the brain. Presumably, large growths of dendrites were found in the dissected brains of the contactees, which might have given them extra-sensory powers. This would give more credence to their stories of receiving ESP messages from saucer people.) This story naturally cannot be verified, if true, as it would obviously be classified by the government to camouflage its secret interest in the "non-existent" UFOs. Ted is sure that something similar to dendrites have been implanted in his brain by the SIs to make him a sensitive ESP receiver. Up until March, 1965, Ted had believed he was in communication with the "Intelligence behind Nature" who had given him his PK powers to create or guide storms. Then, as related in the previous issues of SAGA (August and September, 1970), Ted suddenly became aware that he was being contacted by the SIs. At first their ESP communications were vague, but gradually, as the SIs "modified" his brain properly, the messages became more direct. The exact contact method kept changing, too. For example, in August, 1965, the SIs switched (Continued on page 70) SAGA - [ ] 25 === Page 29 of 52 (Continued from page 68) head down past the islands. . . ." Taking a deep breath Marsh signaled to Foulk who moved his engine levers to "slow ahead." Marsh swung the Far West cautiously about, bucking the swift current, and headed her downstream. He intended to maintain a midchannel course but soon groups of hostile Sioux arrived at sharp bends in the river and galloped along the bank, shooting flaming arrows at the deck and pilothouse. They succeeded in starting several fires, which were extinguished by the crew. Marsh signaled to Foulk for more speed and swung dangerously close to the far bank. Taut with suspense, he piloted the Far West around the bends and through menacing rapids, reaching the Yellowstone without grounding her. Here he tied up to await the arrival of Reno and Gibbon and ferry their mauled commands across to the north bank of the river. Despite Terry's other instructions to make all haste conveying the wounded to Bismarck he was compelled to hold the Far West back throughout July 1st and most of July 2nd before the slowly moving columns arrived. On the following morning he ferried the tired cavalrymen and their mounts across the river and experienced further delay when one of the wounded, Pvt. William George of H troop, succumbed and was buried in a grave on shore. So it was that the Far West, after another stop at the cavalry encampment at Powder River to take aboard the personal effects left there by officers and men killed on the battlefield, did not begin her record dash of 700 miles to Bismarck until five p.m. on the afternoon of July 3rd. From here on Marsh and Campbell spelled each other at the wheel in four hour shifts, both remaining in the pilothouse. They reached Fort Stevenson in North Dakota on the afternoon of the 5th, and the Far West halted so that a deckhand could be sent ashore to obtain whatever black cloth was available. Then the vessel proceeded to Bismarck with her derrick and jackstaff draped in mourning. She completed her epic run shortly after 11 p.m. Marsh hurried to the telegraph office, and the wounded were transported to Fort Lincoln. Carnahan, the telegrapher on duty, had a badgered look. He had been pounding the key for hours and had no rest since the first report of the Custer massacre reached Bismarck. He waved a sheaf of telegrams at Marsh. "Everyone is asking for confirmation of the death of General Custer. Wires have been pouring in from all over the East." "Which is the most urgent?" "General Sheridan. We've received several from his headquarters in Chicago." Marsh heaved a sigh. Tired as he was he felt that this was still something he had to do. "All right, let's get at it." Throughout the next day anxious women visited Fort Lincoln to inquire about their soldier husbands. Some, a pitiful few, found them among the wounded survivors. Others were sympathetically informed that advance reports of the deaths had been confirmed. Among those who called was the widowed Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Captain Marsh was permitted short time to rest from his arduous journey. Both his skill and his ship were vitally needed. Army headquarters reluctantly acknowledged: "The Indians have secured a resounding victory over the U.S. Army unparalleled in history. General Custer's violation of the principles of maneuver and security have cost dearly. It is imperative that the U.S. Army immediately take steps to rectify the situation. All posts in the military division of the Missouri are to supply reinforcements." Marsh continued to skipper the Far West in the service of the U.S. Army throughout the Indian campaigns. He transported soldiers and supplies on the Missouri and its tributaries and was cited by General Sheridan for his "zeal, competence and energy," a commendation he highly prized. In 1879 he had a river boat, the Andrew S. Bennett, constructed at Sioux City for use as a local ferry. While it was being built he found time to go to Bozeman where he made an unsuccessful effort to locate the freighting company whose driver, Gil Longworth, had entrusted the $750,000 gold shipment to his care. He learned that following the death of Longworth and several other attacks on drivers by roving Indian war parties the company had been forced out of business. Nor could he contact any of the miners whose gold had been in the shipment for the company's records of the names of the individual shippers could not be found. Marsh, himself, did not attempt to recover the treasure. On returning to Sioux City he learned that the Far West had been sold--literally--down the river and was to ply between St. Louis and other cities along the river. His mate, Ben Thompson, decided to go with her. The last heard of him was on October 20, 1883, when the Far West hit a snag in Mullanphy Bend, seven miles below St. Charles, and went aground so hard that she was subsequently disposed of to a wrecking company. As far as known Thompson never tried to retrieve the treasure either. Marsh, following the sale of the Far West, took command of another packet, the F. Y. Batchelor, traveling between Bismarck and the Yellowstone. George Foulk went along with him as the engineer. Early in November 1881, the F. Y. Batchelor was caught in a sudden blizzard on the Yellowstone. Marsh ordered her tied to shore and waited for the storm to blow itself out. Instead, there was one storm after another, and the snow became so deep that not even a train could move anywhere in northern Minnesota or the Dakotas until late in March. Marsh left Foulk and nine crewmen as caretakers on the ship and returned to Sioux City with the others after an arduous trip. When he returned early in the spring he found that Foulk was in poor health. This is the last news of Foulk, who was taken back to Sioux City and, presumably, had neither the stamina nor inclination to make his own search for the treasure. According to old river boat records Capt. Grant Marsh retired in 1906 following the death of his wife, to whom he had been married for 46 years. He died in 1916 at the age of 82. There is good reason to believe that the $750,000 is still hidden, all but forgotten, where Marsh, fearing an Indian attack, left it. Clues and circumstances indicate that the cache awaits a lucky finder. I, for one, am convinced it is still there. ********** THE END # UFO PROPHET OF DOOM-- (Continued from page 25) from vague "voices" in Ted's mind to "mental TV." Ted then saw two odd creatures appear called Twitter and Tweeter. They appeared on a "screen" and relayed messages to him from "Control." This involved changing earth language into "color and sound codes" and then into the SIs' own language. By September, 1965, Ted writes--"The SIs have taught me to write what I want on a (mental) tablet . . . on 'Men-Tel.' What I write then changes to odd symbols that 'crackle and pop' into odd sounds . . . and the SIs read those sounds." Evidently this was part of a program to improve communications, for only a few days later, Twitter and Tweeter did not appear on the Men-Tel screen and instead a figure with a shadowy head used a long pointer. The figure seemed to ask Ted what he wanted and told him to use mental images, which were then mirrored on the huge screen. The shadowy figure, Ted learned, was the great "Control" himself, the top commander aboard the SIs' most gigantic spaceship hovering far above earth. Thus Ted had been "graduated" from the roundabout T and T method to direct mental contact with Control. On June 27, 1968, Ted's diary entry is--"Control will flash 'yes' or 'no' on screen now, instead of flashing a light." This was the first yes-no contact, which Ted is using today, plus a unique method of passing along information. As Ted explains it, he calls for Control when he wants contact and immediately the Men-Tel image of the shadowy form leaps into his mind's eye. Ted then transmits his questions or requests, and the screen lights up with a "yes" or "no." For example, if Ted wants to perform some PK feat, he first asks permission. If he gets a "yes," Control also sends along a "capsule" of rapid-fire information on how to accomplish the task. In one split second, Ted is given an intricate series of instructions about PK units, "boxes," and other PK manipulations. So much for mere communications. Now, just what are the awesome PK powers the SIs have bestowed on Ted? More than earthly "psychokinesis," for Ted has been allowed to tap a reservoir of powers called the ODE forces. ODE stands for "Other Dimensional Effects." These ODE powers extend Ted's PK performances into any and all conceivable 70 - [ ] SAGA === Page 30 of 52 areas, via various "boxes" and "bubbles" and other amazing devices he visualizes in his mind. We cannot go into this deeply without getting too complicated, but a partial list of these mental devices will give an inkling of the ODE range--Electromagnetic Field Box, Laser PK-Light Projector, Emmy-Emma Roll-ing Lightning Box, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Poltergeist Box, Magnetic Bar PK, Crystallization PK, Floating Wand PK, PK Fist, Earthquake Box, Moonray PK, Rainbow Door, Nature's Mailbox, etc. The list goes into many more eerie avenues and subdivisions. Ted has been making precise and orderly lists of these PK-ODE powers and how each or several were applied to a particular case. Ted's record is a glimpse into the awesome powers and forces that the SIs wield. Probably only a tiny portion has been relegated to Ted for use on earth. All these facets of Ted's life and his partnership with the SIs are necessary for a full understanding of why the UFOs are here on earth--the big riddle we promised to answer in the previous issue of SAGA. And there is still more to tell about Ted's personal life, which ties in strongly with the great "mission" that the SIs have revealed to Ted recently. If this sounds "over-dramatic," you will see that, if anything, it falls short of describing the SI's Master Plan. After examining Ted's life, we find that "paranormal" incidents have always happened to him, everywhere he goes. For one thing, he seems to make that old legend of the "charmed life" come true. Years ago, while driving out west at night, Ted followed a winding mountain road wide enough for only one car. He stopped and worriedly thought that if another car came from the opposite direction, he would have to back down a long way for it to pass. Suddenly, to his horror, a car's headlights appeared, coming straight for him. Seeming not to see his parked car blocking the way, the other vehicle roared closer. Ted prayed and awaited the deadly crash. But nothing happened! Ted opened his eyes to see the other car behind him, speeding safely away as if it had gone right through his car! There was no other possible explanation. Another time, while lifting the hood of his automobile to show a mechanic a problem he was having with his engine, Ted carelessly stuck his hand into the engine's whirling fan-blades. The mechanic turned white, expecting Ted's hand to be sliced into bloody shreds. Ted withdrew his hand, unmarked. But even more dramatic are the cases where mysterious assailants seemed to be after Ted's life. At least six times, cars or trucks deliberately tried to run him down. In some cases they missed as some sixth sense made Ted jump aside, but in two cases Ted swears the vehicles struck him--and passed through his body without harm (as in the above case out west). There are other episodes in Ted's diary where attempts on his life were made in various ways, and he often mentions odd-looking men in dark clothes. 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Ted thinks he has found the explanation for his "charmed life" since those things happened. As early as 1965, the SIs told him how to put protective and good-luck "bubbles" around himself and his family, which would account for his narrow escapes from death or bodily harm. But there's more to the picture. In November, 1968, a medium met Ted and notified him that she could see an invisible Indian "guide" behind him, named White Eagle, who acted as his "guardian angel," apparently allocated to him by the SIs. Furthermore, Ted has had several messages from the SIs saying his "life is too valuable to lose," and that they are "monitoring" him night and day, using a peculiar ray from above that penetrates solid matter so they can observe him anywhere. Ted can only surmise (some things are never made crystal clear to him) that many of the psi-phenomena that dog his footsteps are manifestations of the SIs guarding him and aiding him in difficult situations. Once, during an interview regarding a radio appearance, the questioner was hostile but suddenly turned friendly and arranged a long four-hour show for Ted, cancelling other programs. The SIs later told Ted they had sent down a ray to "change his mind." As if to also remind and reassure Ted at all times that he is their special "ward," the Owens TV set--no matter where they live--has for years shown crawly things like tarantulas superimposed over the screen. These are different TV sets and could not all exhibit the same aberration if they needed repairs. His wife and children see them as clearly as Ted does. The crawly figures are somewhat similar to Twitter and Tweeter who had "grasshopper" forms. Ted thinks these "tarantulas" on TV are some form of lower life in the SI's world, whose images they project as a "sign" to Ted that they are always around. Another significant event in Ted's life includes his acceptance by Mensa in 1968. Mensa is the group for people who have IQs of 148 or above (genius level). Its members include those from the top two percent of the human race; in short, the intellectual elite. Ted's basic IQ is 148 but it can vary up to 152. And for those among you who perhaps put Ted down as a "madman" for telling his "wild" story about being the SI's representative--a seemingly paranoid syndrome--it should be noted that the Mensa organization with its lofty intellects is far too canny to be fooled into accepting a psychotic. Thus Mensa, in effect, has put its stamp on Ted's mental balance, clearing him of being any sort of crackpot with vivid hallucinations, illusions, delusions, or what have you. The Mensa tests are exhaustive and thoroughly preclude any "mad genius" gaining their sanction. Ted Owens, the PK Man, is of sound mind. 72 SAGA This is further borne out by Dr. Ansel Kowzak, the earlier-mentioned astrophysicist who has also studied UFO phenomena for many years. When he heard Ted's story in 1965, he did not laugh or edge away or call the men in the white coats. He became more and more excited, and, after careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats, he pronounced Ted to be "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today." Dr. Kowzak, far from doubting any of Ted's testimony, flatly stated (in writing) that his PK deeds were authentic and also that it was proof positive that the SIs did exist around earth in their flying saucers--Condon Report and Project Blue Book to the contrary. Kowzak was dismayed that the government would not recognize Ted or even acknowledge the presence of aliens in our skies. In only one area did Dr. Kowzak differ with Ted, saying that Ted was "erroneously" using the SI's PK power for "destructive" deeds of a negative nature. What good would it do the world for the SIs and Ted to create hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and plane crashes? This is the most difficult thing for Ted to put across to people--that in actuality, the aims of the SIs are to help earth, not destroy it. And that their seemingly "brutal" methods have a definite and positive purpose for good. Even Ted himself rebelled at times against the disasters planned by the SIs (Ted plans very few of them). As we noted in the previous issue, the astronauts of the Apollo 12 and Apollo 13 moon flights were "saved" by Ted himself. The SIs had grimly informed Ted that their crews would die (to jolt the U.S. into realizing once and for all that some greater "power" existed in space). In his diary, Ted records how he "hotly protested" this until the SIs gave in. They then allowed both astronaut crews to return alive. Then, in his entry for April 26, 1968, Ted wrote--"SIs told me to write letter . . . would bring down airplanes over cities . . . but I chickened out." Ted, in fact, refused to PK any planes out of the skies, but the SIs adamantly carried out the program on their own. Many of the plane crashes that have occurred around the world are listed in Ted's files as SI-caused. But Ted balked even more in this entry of June 6, 1970--"Just had an earthquake that tore up Peru and killed 50,000. God! I contacted Control and quit. But Control argued back . . . if we quit now we've wasted those lives for nothing. The demos (demonstrations) have to be completed to impress U.S. government to cooperate." Therein lies the crux of the whole SI venture with Ted as the earthly focus of their mighty ODE (PK) powers--they are trying to get the attention of the world, and particularly the U.S. government, in order to help the world out of its many difficulties! A question immediately pops into mind--why don't they just land on the White House lawn and introduce themselves to the President? In answer to that old chestnut of UFOlogy, Ted writes--"That is so funny, to me. Because nobody knows what it is like to be close to the SIs." Ted describes an experience years ago, which his former wife and her mother shared. First Pat (his ex-wife) went into the living-room and ran out screaming about a huge shadowy "thing" in there. Pat's mother scoffed and went in to take a look for herself--and she too ran out hysterical. After calming them down, Ted decided to solve the mystery and entered the other room. "It is an experience that is indelibly engraved on my brain," Ted wrote in a detailed account. "As I went into the room, every step was against a powerful force . . . a force I could feel into the bone. At the same time my hair simply and truthfully stood right up on my head . . . goosepimples covered me, and I gasped for air. I felt like electricity was running through me. I wanted to yell, scream. I made it to about the middle of the room and could stand no more exposure to it (the shadowy figure) and ran out as fast as I could." Ted draws a simple but eloquent truth from this--"That is the sort of thing the President would be exposed to. He'd last about two seconds." Ted was never able to adequately describe the alien presence, for he later found out the SIs are from another dimension entirely, are invisible, and are only known to us as a vague shadow, exuding terrific forces that no human body can withstand. They seem to have no way of "toning down" these deadly forces. And for this reason, quite logically, Ted is not a typical "contactee"--he has never met the SIs face to face or taken a ride in their saucerlike spaceships. And the SIs ultra-alien forms would naturally lead to their desire to contact some human being by ESP alone from afar. That person would then become their "spokesman"--and Ted was chosen. Actually, he was pegged for the job as a child, and the above episode might have been an "experiment" by the SIs, with their forces toned down, that didn't work. Thus it is Ted who would meet the President and transmit SI messages to him. But the government has never accepted Ted's "credentials" (his mighty PK-feats), much less the many messages from the SIs constantly relayed by Ted. All their efforts were laughed at, forcing Ted and the SIs to draw attention through major PK feats, not nice ones like making flowers shower down on a city, but "destructive" feats. What else would really put fear and wonder in people's hearts? Ted had one slight ray of hope in August, 1970, when he received a letter from a government official (whose name of course is wrapped in security) who said the government was "interested" and that if Ted could furnish documentation of his PK powers, and also perform some striking PK feat for them exclusively, they might "computerize" his powers and come to some "favorable conclusion." Typical official doubletalk that means "try and prove it!" When Ted tried to make further arrangements with that mysterious party, nothing came of it--the same old story. Ted has been "pestering" the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, National Security Council, NASA, and many other government agencies for years for a "fair hearing" in (Continued on page 74) === Page 32 of 52 (Continued from page 72) behalf of the SIs, with no result except a chilling silence (plus routine investigations by the FBI which could only clear him of any "maniac" tendencies or plans). What is the urgent message from the SIs that earthly authorities must heed? The full and stark message? Through Ted, the SIs have constantly warned that a "great crisis" faces the world, and that they, the SIs, need a "base of operations" in the U.S. in order to stave off that catastrophe. And now we are coming close to the great revelation Ted recently perceived--just why the SIs here on earth are operating through Ted Owens. What tremendous "crisis" could possibly require their inconceivable supernormal powers? To give the answer its proper perspective, we must first examine certain key "insights" that came to Ted through the years. The answer lies partly in the Bible. Ted scrawled in his diary some years ago--"I was horrified at the death and destruction which ensued (after he had contacted the SIs). I asked them, why such horrendous deeds?" The SIs gave a rather strange answer: that Ted was the first human being they were able to communicate with since Moses; and that he would find the answer to his agonized question in the Biblical account of Moses. As we know, Moses warned the Egyptians that "seven plagues" would strike them if they did not free his people, the Israelites, from bondage. When the Egyptian Pharaoh "hardened his heart," the "predictions" of Moses came true--plagues of locusts and vermin and diseases and storms that ravaged Egypt, until the Israelites were released. Ted saw the analogy with himself--in order to achieve a good thing, Moses had been forced to be the harbinger of evil things, but only because of the stubbornness of the ruthless Pharaoh and his priests (the "authorities" of that era). Ted also saw that he was akin to a modern Moses. Substitute "U.S. government" for "Pharaoh" and there it was plain as day. Significantly enough, when Ted and his small daughter were first visited by a low-flying UFO back in 1965 (SAGA, August and September, 1970) it was a pillar-shaped object. Moses led his people through the desert, guided by a "pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." These are excellent descriptions of today's UFO sightings by day and by night. However, his role as latter-day Moses did not fully satisfy Ted. Things did not quite fit. He wasn't freeing enslaved people and leading them to a promised land except in a vague symbolic sense. And then, in 1968, came the really blinding insight, when the SIs informed Ted he was partly like Moses but more like Ezekiel. First of all, as some of you may know, Ezekiel's vision in the Bible is an unmistakably clear description of a flying saucer coming down, with its "wheels within wheels" (or disks) . . . "glowing metal in the midst of fire" . . . "burnished brass" . . . "wings" . . . and many more "technical" terms utterly surprising when read in the scriptures. Secondly, the voice of the "Lord"--obviously the commander of this imposing UFO--boomed down and told Ezekiel that he must prophesy all sorts of catastrophes that would be visited on the people of that time, who had fallen into decadence. That should immediately remind you of Ted Owens, for Ted has repeatedly warned that civilization is going downhill morally, with the general breakdown in law and order and the spreading of social conflicts. Can anyone deny the steep rise in crime today, the constant threat of war, juvenile drug-taking to "escape reality," corruption of public officials, race riots, poverty in the midst of affluence, and all the other evils of present-day society? Hardly anyone believes the "world is still a good place to live in." But take Ezekiel's day. The UFO-master (Lord) enumerated all the "sins" of the ancient people--oppression of the poor, usury for illicit wealth, whoredom or promiscuous sex, slayings and savage little wars, worship of the money idol, and most of all, pollution of the land. Who can deny that all these earmarks of a declining culture exist today and are steadily--or rapidly--increasing? Another analogy between Ted Owens and the prophet Ezekiel is uncanny. . . . Ezekiel was told to "smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot" to cause widespread famine, pestilence, and upheaval--how else but through some mighty "PK power"? Similarly, Ted Owens has been constantly ordered by the SIs to whip up hurricanes, lightning, violent storms. But why do you think Ted Owens, who often balked at the SI's "holocausts," did not simply bow out and decline their offer to be their "representative?" Ezekiel was plainly warned by the Lord that if he did not give his prophetic warnings and carry out his feats, the blood of the dead would be on his (Ezekiel's) hands. In several diary entries, Ted reiterates that the SIs gave him no other choice--"Carry out our plans or you will suffer." The SIs are not playing patty-cake. But now we can reveal the full scope of the SIs "grand mission" on earth (akin to the Biblical "angels" and "messengers" of the Higher Power who runs the entire cosmos)--and with it, Ted's ultimate mission. The SIs made it all clear in the following "message to earth" via Ted Owens (which was ignored by the national press and printed only in a limited-circulation UFOlogy pamphlet)--"Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of faraway places, of advanced technology. But better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race YOU ARE UTTERLY DOOMED AS OF NOW. Many civilizations before you (on earth) have so doomed themselves." There you have the stark truth, that civilization is doomed unless mankind changes for the better with the aid of the SIs. Sheer nonsense? The twisted thinking of a "messianic" mind that has gone mad? Someone else, oddly enough, seems to think Ted's mission is somewhat like John the Baptist's. Dr. Morris K. Jessup, before he died in 1959, was an eminent scientist who also researched UFOs thoroughly. He wrote five penetrating books on UFOs, including UFO and the Bible. Jessup in that book analyzes portions of the Bible, particularly the Gospel according to St. Mark, Chapter 13, and comes to the conclusion that Christ's prophecies of destruction to the world--when it had become too "evil" to exist--could very likely come true in our time. "'The imminence of catastrophe," wrote Jessup in 1950, "may be measurable on a comparable (future) scale or on a shorter one. 'Even at the doors' (Christ's warning after all his prophecies of intervening events had taken place) may mean tomorrow, or this afternoon. It may mean next month or next year--perhaps 10 years from now; but it almost certainly does not mean 100 years from now, and perhaps not even 50." After further analysis of the "time scale," Jessup comes to a shocking conclusion--"If that is correct (his analysis), and if we have a margin of about a generation in which to anticipate destruction, then we can roughly say that something (of world destruction) should be expected within the 30-year period starting sometime in the postwar decade (after WW II)." He comes to the grim point--"Should we say, then, between 1950 and 1980?" Now Ted Owens has consistently been warning the U.S. government (and the world through them, presumably) that a great crisis is imminent. Ted has never been given any exact time by the SIs, but he has the urgent feeling it will be soon, within a few years at the most. His warnings from the SIs have more and more included words like--"Tell your people the time is running dangerously short." Is there a "deadline for doom?" And will it be before 1980 as Dr. Jessup calculated? At first, Ted thought the SI's warnings might mean to beware nuclear war engulfing the world. But very recently, a new illumination came to Ted from the SIs, and now he knows it will be NATURE'S WAR ON MAN that will wipe out humanity. And "Nature's War" does not necessarily mean the SIs will destroy mankind with storms, but that man himself will bring about his own end. In Ezekiel, key words appear over and over--pollution, filthiness, fouling, defilement. The Israelites were polluting their environment and their minds. Are we not doing the same today, asks Ted? 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As Ted puts it, "Nature has started to turn its hand against Man. Nature has had it with Mankind and only wants to rid the earth of him." And who would replace man on earth? Ted has an ominous answer out of the documented files of UFOLOGY. The Mothman, the Michigan Monster, the "little men" humanoids, and the various other non-human creatures seen emerging from flying saucers--they may be SI experiments to find a being able to replace man on earth. They are "monsters" only in our egocentric eyes. In the eyes of the SIs, human beings may be the worst "monsters" known. Yet the world can be saved! That's what SI messages through Ted Owens indicate. Suppose the miracle happened. Suppose the U.S. government "unhardened its heart" and backed up Ted. All he asks for is sanction and the means to meet the SIs in person, at some isolated spot where others can't be harmed. Ted himself will somehow be protected from the SI-forces radiated by their pure-energy bodies. Ted would then return with absolute proof of their existence, plus a world plan for reversing the self-inflicted doom syndrome to which all of humanity is heedlessly contributing. These plans would include, Ted says, a way to totally disarm the world and outlaw war... to end poverty and injustice... to wipe out disease and prolong life... to bring new joy and understanding to human spirits. A large order? All wishful thinking? Then read the book of Ezekiel in the later chapters, and see what the "Lord" promised his people if they repented. If there is any truth in the Bible at all, those are the kind of magnificent "world reforms" that the SIs perform as "angels." Ted's personal plans--if the world follows the SI program--are equally altruistic. He yearns to found the Church of Sota, a long-time dream of his. "Sota" means Secrets of the Ages. And in that, Ted includes healing secrets, both for the body and mind. Ted has fully outlined his grand establishment, which will include the Sota Library of Great Books, the Sota Hospital, the Sota Research Foundation (into "faith healings"), the Sota Haven for the Poor, and many other programs that will strive to uplift humanity. Even with his Church of Sota unborn, Ted for years has still sent out his PK disks to anyone requesting them--free. Each one is "charged and coded" with PK power to aid the particular person receiving it. And it is on record (SAGA, August and September, 1970) that Ted has received thousands of letters from grateful people, stating that "miracle cures" occurred when they wore his disk, or sudden "good luck" came to the despairing. Ted bears all the cost and effort of making the disks, charging them, mailing them, and writing long sympathetic letters to each claimant. There is a plain and simple word for it--humanitarianism. Perhaps you believe nothing of what has been written above. You, the reader, have the right to call it all sheer poppycock; the ravings of a demented man with illusions of grandeur, compounded by a messiah complex. But Dr. Jessup had this to say--"Seers and prophets, such as are quoted and written about in the Bible, would be considered crackpots today and reckoned insane." It's all well and good if you want to call Ted Owens, the SIs' Soothsayer, an insane crackpot. But suppose... just suppose... that Ted Owens is RIGHT? * THE END SAGA 75 === Page 34 of 52 In the most extraordinary symposium of its kind, SAGA has gathered the forecasts for the next 12 months of the nation's most outstanding seers, clairvoyants, and astrologers. Here, EXCLUSIVELY, are the # SENSATIONAL PREDICTIONS FOR '71 ## From 19 of America's GREATEST PSYCHICS By Warren Smith & Brad Steiger POLICE 18 - [ ] SAGA January, 1971 === Page 35 of 52 sons while the grand old man labored 40 years to displace Sir Gordon Richards--his mounts have earned over 42 million dollars; he has won 82 $100,000 races; he has won 485 races in one season; he led the jockeys' list in races won five times and in money won 10 times; he has ridden six winners in a single day nine times; and his lifetime average is 25 percent, and that's one winner for every four rides! There is, simply, no one in the same class with him. It was not my intent to do a biography on Shoemaker--his career has been probed ad infinitum--I was looking for the maelstrom beneath the placid exterior. But after a week of talking with people whose lives touch his I have yet to find anyone who put the knock on him. Dr. Robert Kerlan, nationally known orthopedic surgeon who administered to Shoe after his two recent, violent spills, regarded me intently for several moments before replying to my inquiry about him. "He is a giant," he said at last. "A very rare human being. I think Bill could achieve anything he wanted to achieve." Burt Bacharach, Academy Award-winning song writer, horse owner, tennis player, and actress Angie Dickinson's husband, also left little doubt as to his feelings: If you're looking for something to spice up a story on Shoe, forget it. He's a class guy. The closer you get to him the better you like him." Famed trainer Charlie Whittingham, for whom Shoemaker has ridden such outstanding horses as Pretense, Tell, Pinjara and Fiddle Isle, will tell you Shoe is the same person today he was the first time he met him in the paddock at Santa Anita in 1950. "And after all he's achieved that's saying a lot." Even jockey Alvaro Pineda, a fiery aggressive competitor, could not criticize Shoemaker. "What can I tell you?", he said. "He's a consistently good rider." "How about more coffee?" Shoe asked, smiling that slow, easy smile, reaching for my empty cup. "Sorry about that call," he said, "I just couldn't get rid of him." He sat at the end of the table holding the warm coffee cup to his cheek. "So, shoot," he said, "but what can I tell you that I haven't told you before?" I told him what I wanted. How does a little bit of a guy from Texas grow up so damn well adjusted? Where are the scars from the fights he had to have as an El Paso version of Tom Thumb? Where were the neurotic hang-ups from watching the other kids take the good looking girls to the prom while he quietly went to the movies? Why isn't he psychologically bent? I've done maybe a half-dozen short pieces with Shoe over the years but have never really been close to him. I wondered, momentarily, if I had been too frank? But he only smiled. "I've had to fight for everything I've ever gotten," he said. "So much so that now I guess it's just a way of going. I even had to fight for my life. I was born prematurely, and they tell me that for a while it didn't look like I'd make it. My mother and father are average size so I guess I wouldn't be where I am today if I wasn't premature. "I had the usual fights in school--yeah, they bugged me a little about size--but I never gave it much thought. I hung around with the bigger kids, and now that I look back at it, I think most of them wanted to protect me. "We left Fabens, Tex., a little town about 30 miles east of El Paso, when I was about 10 and moved to California. In high school I didn't have many dates, but, honestly, I never thought much about that either. There was always a group of guys who didn't go to the dances and parties, and we'd get together and go to a show and afterwards we'd hang around some of the neighborhood spots. I was small but I always felt I belonged." He paused a moment and stretched lengthily, his fingers forming fists over his head. "You want a laugh. I went out for foot- (Continued on page 72) SAGA - [ ] 17 === Page 36 of 52 rid of him." at call," he said, ty cup. able holding " . . . A terrible earthquake will rock South America!" " . . . Fidel Castro will lose out in Cuba, be assassinated, or die!" " . . . President Nixon could be very close to death!" **These** are but a few of the sensational predictions for 1971 from the nation's foremost psychics, clairvoyants, ESP practitioners, and astrologers. It has often been said that momentous events cast their shadows before their occurrence; as testimony to the truth of that saying, these amazing men and women have demonstrated their ability in the past to predict the future. We may not understand their methods of forecasting, but we can note their predictions and keep score on their hits and misses during the next 12 months. Our participants are listed alphabetically. They are: **Countess Amaya, Santurce, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.:** Gypsy Markoff Amaya is the well-known former entertainer who survived the 1943 Lisbon Flying Clipper airplane crash. Of the 39 entertainers aboard, 24 were killed. Countess Amaya and actress Jane Froman were among the survivors. The Countess underwent 30 operations to regain her health, made a dazzling comeback in show business, and is now a well-known psychic. Her predictions for 1971 and beyond include: * The outlook for the coming year is as topsy-turvy as events of the past 12 months have been. I foresee a trend where our individual rights must be guarded with vigor and courage. * Expansion for economic growth in the 70s will begin in June 1971; however, money will remain tight until 1972. The signs for money are extremely foggy and very unpredictable. * Although there are no indications for another world war, defense spending will continue at a peak. * There will not be enough troops removed from Vietnam to satisfy critics of the war. I also foresee another foreign crisis that will create an emergency for the President and the United States. * President Nixon: There are dangerous vibrations around the figure of the President, and he could be very close to death. He may also discover that those he believes to be his friends are not acting in his behalf. He must exercise great care due to these adverse vibrations. If anything happens to the President, there will be disaster on the world's stock markets. * Russia: I see a new leader coming to the fore. China: This nation will be struck by a plague. Cuba: There are strong indications that Castro will be replaced by another man. South America: Fewer revolutions, but financial problems and instability. Middle East: The war will continue, but there are good vibrations from mid-1971 to 1973. Israel will continue to be courageous. England: A great strain will be imposed upon Queen Elizabeth; the event will break her spirit although she will hold out until the last moment. **Doc Anderson, Rossville, Ga.:** A towering, six-foot, two-inch giant, Doc Anderson is an internationally known psychic, often called the "Living Edgar Cayce." He is an impressive ESP practitioner who has proved his prowess as a prophet. His view of the future includes: * Business: A pick-up by mid-1971 . . . more strikes in several industries . . . interest rates remaining high "so long as President To Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a rare scientist with an objective, open mind, from Ted Owens (PK Man) SAGA - [ ] 19 === Page 37 of 52 Nixon remains in office" . . . the possibility that wage-price controls will become a reality. "I also foresee problems with the U.S. gold supply," Anderson said. * General U.S. Predictions: A top leader of our country will die in 1971 . . . The Vietnam War will continue into 1971, and it will be some time before we realize our true enemies in Asia are North Korea and Red China . . . I foresee startling revelations swirling around the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad . . . There will be movement toward repression of individual rights in the U.S. . . . Church membership will drop . . . There will continue to be turmoil on the nation's college campuses . . . The "brown-outs" and "black-outs" of utility services will continue into the coming year. * International Predictions: "This will be a year of great tension in the world," Anderson declared. "We will see Castro's reign end in the near future. There will be continued strife in the Middle East, although Israel will prevail. The key to the Arab-Israeli war has now shifted to the Arab guerilla forces. They hold the true power in the Mideast." Japan: The old War Lords are starting to rise again. Africa: Continued strife. China: More clashes along the Russian border. I have predicted previously that Russia and China will go to war, and the U.S. and Russia will team up to end the Chinese peril in the Orient. These events are moving toward a climax. India: Famine and strife; unsettled political conditions. Vietnam: More shocking stories about the Saigon government. Formosa: Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek will die soon. Russia: A change in leadership is forthcoming. Britain: More racial clashes in the headlines. Ireland: Religious conflict dominates the news. Korea: More clashes between U.N. and North Korea forces; trouble is smouldering there. Quanah Bollen, Peoria, Ill.: "My first psychic experience occurred when I was 19 years old," reported Mrs. Bollen. "However, even as a child I knew things before they took place." She has studied psychic subjects for several years and was ordained in September 1963, in the International General Assembly of Spiritualists. Her predictions for the future are: * An assassination attempt: I predict that there will be an attempted assassination of President Nixon. A high-powered bullet will pass through the body of a secret service agent and enter into the body of Mrs. Nixon. She will be seriously, but not critically, injured. * Peace in Vietnam: By March 1971, there will be peace, and the terms will be dictated by the U.S. * Danger for Howard Hughes: Billionaire financier Howard Hughes will be lost in a plane over a rugged, mountainous region. It will be several days before he is found--alive, but seriously injured. * Power Struggle in the Catholic Church: I predict that Pope Paul will be taken from this earth in 1971. In early 1972 there will be a great struggle for power in the church. * Russia-China: There will be border clashes with the Chinese as the aggressors. A possible war: Russia and China could start another war by mid-1971. * International Predictions: Cuba: I predict Castro will die as violently as he lived. The date: 1971! South America: A devastating earthquake across the top of the continent. Britain: In this coming year, the people of Great Britain will be stunned and shocked by a scandal. This will be followed by tragic deaths that will make news around the world. Japan: Be aware that Japan has not given up her dream of expansion into the Western hemisphere. Mrs. Bollen also predicts changes in television programming, movies, and plays with less emphasis on nudity, obscenity, and 20 - [ ] SAGA === Page 38 of 52 sex. "The nations of the world are now manipulating and maneuvering for world power," Mrs. Bollen said. "Within five years, I predict they will be fighting nature for survival." Bertie Catchings, Austin, Tex.: Mrs. Catchings has received considerable acclaim as a "psychic person" in the southwest. The Daily American-Statesman, Austin, Tex., reported that she "has gained considerable local reputation for her ability to predict the future." Mrs. Catchings believes no single psychic receives impressions of total future events. "Things are given in part to different psychics around the world," she said. "We can join these pieces of the puzzle together to see a picture of the future." Her psychic glimpses of the future in 1971 and beyond include: * An assassination of a high U.S. political figure will occur in 1971. * Many deaths from an avalanche in France or Switzerland. * Earthquakes in China, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Alaska, Ecuador, California, and Rumania. * There will be a major oil fire in Louisiana. * The Oakland Raiders will be the Super Bowl champions in 1971. *Topics covered range from: politics, President Nixon will be in danger; to international events, new clashes along the Russian-Red Chinese border; to business, a collapse in the credit card industry; to religion, power struggle in the Catholic Church; to weather, major earthquakes will wrack California, Alaska, and South America; to celebrities, marital problems for Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Tiny Tim, Princess Grace of Monaco; and DOZENS OF OTHER PREDICTIONS!* * There will be a major space disaster in 1971. * A well-established magazine will be discontinued. This will shock the nation because this is a very popular publication. * A scandal will be centered around a large oil corporation. * Arkansas will win the Southwestern Conference Championship and play against Ohio State to decide the national championship. These two teams may tie, or seem to tie. If the tie is broken, Arkansas will be the National Champions. Malva Dee, West Guilford, Ontario, Canada: Canada's charming seeress is acclaimed for her impressive psychometric talents. Malva is one psychic who feels there will not be world-wide devastation. She believes the future holds the promise of greater understanding and the arrival of true brotherhood among mankind. Her predictions for 1971 and the near future include: * Heaviness hangs over Elizabeth Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Pope. They must consider matters of health very carefully. * Vietnam: The unrest in the Far East will spread to Laos and Burma . . . The U.S. will be forced to send more troops, rather than less, to the Far East. * The White House will enforce tighter security measures as violence erupts in Washington. Fire bombs will be thrown at the nation's capitol by a highly organized group with big money behind them. The incident will be a carefully planned maneuver to place the blame on black militants. This same money-backed group will be responsible for a rift between the President and Vice-President. (Continued on page 88) SAGA - [ ] 21 === Page 39 of 52 Not a myth (although it was a dying Mexican's last-gasp directions that led them to the ancient site), this fabulously rich gold mine was last worked in 1935--at the height of the Depression. And back then they managed, with relatively crude equipment, to net thousands of dollars in just a few months--before the "bandidos" drove them off. Incredible as it may sound, the millions they left behind are still there, waiting for someone to reopen the # CABORCA BONANZA By Edwards Hay "Senor Evans, you have been good to me and my people. I am about to die. Although I am more than 100 years old, I suddenly remember as if it was only yesterday, the richest gold mine in all of Mexico." The year was 1934, and my friend Earl Evans of Douglas, Ariz., was working a silver mine in the Sierra Madres of Mexico, east of the Rio de Bavispe and 28 miles from Moctezuma, Sonora. Earl realized that his friend, Pablo Miguel, was having a "flashback." Pablo was now clearly remembering when he was seven years old. But the old Mexican was fading rapidly, and Earl had to quickly write down the directions Pablo was giving him or it would be too late. The closest thing he could find to write on in that primitive silver mining camp was a wrapper from a package of dynamite. A cartridge he pulled from his pocket served as his lead pencil. Illustration by Marv Friedman === Page 40 of 52 Continued from page 86) after holding my gun at an awkward angle. We moved as soon as we could, relieved to work out our aching muscles. Almost immediately I saw, left-back stage as it were, a single young buffalo bull leisurely skirting the main line of trees. He caught our motion. I will never know what his intention was, whether it was one of those rare occasions when a buffalo decides to attack unprovoked, or whether it was the fact that the ground sloped from him to me, or whether perhaps he was some kind of herd rear guard, checking against hyenas or lions that might be tailing the herd and thus keyed up for action. For one of those reasons maybe, he came running toward me. I was still very stiff and my hands and arms were just beginning to lose their cramps. I sat down, so that I could support my unsteady left elbow on my knee for better control, and to get a peek at the buffalo's chest. An effective head-on shot at a buffalo is not an easy thing. When he was 30 feet away I fired. He swerved to the right and stopped, clearly dying on his feet. At the sound of the shot a crashing noise came from the forest, and the entire buffalo herd, about 60 strong, came hurtling down-slope toward us in a full-blown stampede. I dived for the only vaguely protected spot within reach, a small hump of earth that marked the base of a long-vanished tree, with Kula right beside me. There was no time to do more, and we huddled close together hoping for the best. I could have touched a dozen of the animals as they galloped by, heads bobbing under the weight of the horns. Then they were gone into the bush below us, from which we had come. In the same general area, there was a buffalo bull I wanted very much. He belonged to a sizable herd, and I had spent many early mornings and evenings trying to get near him. I had even gone so far as to trail the herd all night, hoping to have a better chance with the first light. We would locate the herd in the evening as it came out to graze, then place ourselves on its flank a few hundred feet away and move with it, guided by its sounds. In the dark, like blind people, we learned to interpret the various goings on by sound. I found this fascinating, and the hunt for my big buffalo became more a pretext than the main pursuit. We would wait until the noises outdistanced us by a few hundred yards, catch up with them, find a comfortable place under some trees and settle down, sleeping now and then. There seemed to be some danger that we might run into other predators following the herd in the dark (such as lions and hyenas), when we would be at a disadvantage. But as no carnivore got in our way, such worries lost their edge. One late afternoon, when we had a good idea where the herd would come out of the woods, we sat in the grass some 50 feet away from the forest edge, sheltered from sight by a bush and prepared for an hour's wait. I knew that my bull was often with the first group to come out. With a little luck I may get a very close shot at him. Sure enough, a little later we started hearing the unmistakable noises of a buffalo herd coming to life after a day's rest in the thickets. There was splashing and the clatter of stones coming from the bed of a little stream in the forest, sucking noises as heavy feet were lifted out of mud, a crackling of branches, a swishing of leaves and terse, sonorous grunts. They were surely coming this way. The wind was right, and I was full of expectation. They would come out exactly where predicted, and if we sat still we would not be seen but we could see well enough. The bushes moved and a large, wet, black muzzle appeared, sniffing. For a while nothing else happened, then the rest of the head emerged. Against the foliage, it looked a little like a stuffed head hanging on the wall of a trophy room, but it certainly was not my buffalo. It was an old cow, with one horn deformed and pointing backwards. With jerky, nervous little steps she minced out of the greenery and stopped again, sniffing, listening. She was very big, like a bull, and I decided that she must be nearly blind. Even so, the amount of precaution she was taking surprised me. We sat absolutely still through a long sniffing and listening routine. The cow moved a few steps forward, halted and the reason for her caution came to light. Behind her came a flock of eight calves of assorted sizes, some quite young, others bigger, already with six or eight-inch horns. They came out in a tight little group, shouldering each other out of the way and generally behaving like kids of most mammalian species, including man. When the old cow moved forward, they followed, when she stopped, they staggered to a halt. In this manner, the procession came to within 20 feet of us. The cow stopped once more and turned toward us, realizing there was something wrong but clearly unable to see us properly. We sat like statues, barely breathing while she took several nervous steps toward us. With the edge of my vision I saw beads of perspiration on Kula's forehead. He was right, I could not allow this to go on much longer. I had been hoping that the cow would pass without spotting us, but now she was obviously worried, aware of our nearness and position. It was anybody's guess whether she would choose to protect her charges through flight or by attacking us. I knew that I would kick myself from here to kingdom-come if I shot her. I had to panic her before she made up her mind, so I sprang to my feet, shouting and waving my arms. The old cow quivered, spun around nudging the calves ahead of her, and a moment later they were gone among the trees. We listened to the racket as the alarmed herd retreated deeper into the forest. They would not come out until after dark and we could not guess where, so we returned to camp. The country where this happened--Lolgoricn is the name on the map--was the land of milk and honey as far as my wife and I were concerned. When the time came to leave the circular mud huts which I had put up in preference to tents because of the length of our stay, I suggested to Ellen that we make a final tour of the countryside. We stood on a small ridge overlooking a field that stretched away into the distance. The yellow grass was two feet high, and a few trees were scattered over it. We saw something move close to the ground, in the shade of one of the trees. Not enough was in sight to identify the animal. We decided it must be a warthog but curiosity led us down into the plain. Cautiously we made our way to a cluster of bushes close to our objective and peered. Lying down peacefully under the tree and looking more or less our way was a bull buffalo of huge size. He was not asleep. He kept turning his head leisurely from side to side, then gazing for a while toward a single point. He did not see us, partly perhaps because he was old. If the distance between his eartips was close to three feet, which is par for a big bull, the spread of his horns must have been well over four feet. Their bases were nearly joined, forming the massive looking boss on his forehead which is one of the glories of the African buffalo bull. This was an exceptional trophy. A breeze was swaying the long grass, the strong shadows were getting longer and it was a scene of the peace and the might of nature. Ellen was staring, fascinated by the enormous beast. She whispered, maybe a little too dramatically, "Now I've seen creation." It suited the circumstances. After some time, the big bull stood up and wandered off in the opposite direction from us, to graze. I slung my gun over my shoulder and we went away. ★ THE END PREDICTIONS FOR 1971 (Continued from page 21) * A plane carrying dignitaries will be the target for espionage and only the alertness of a crew member will avert disaster. * I foresee that Premier Kosygin will be ousted from power in Russia. A new leader will take control. The threat to world peace is not Russia, but Red China. * Two important U.S. Ambassadors will be kidnapped and held for ransom in South America. They will not necessarily be taken together, but the one kidnapping seems to trigger the other. * A team of Arctic explorers will disappear into the vast wastelands. * President Nixon will, I believe, run for office again. He will know conflict within his own party, but I feel his candidacy will be supported. Joseph DeLouise, Chicago, Ill.: The windy city's clairvoyant crime-buster has had extrasensory awareness since age five. He achieved national attention by predicting on television the collapse of a major bridge--three weeks before the Ohio River bridge disaster at Point Pleasant, W. Va., in December 1967! Since then, he has turned his psychic abilities to the Sharon Tate Murder Case and California's "Zodiac" killer. His psychic reports on the cases were of considerable assistance to the police officials. "My predictions for the future are very gloomy," DeLouise remarked. "I see revolutions breaking out all over the world: Japan, the Philippines, South America, and the Caribbean areas. I see the same problems for the U.S. and other countries. "In the coming year I predict there will (Continued on page 90) 88 ☐ SAGA === Page 41 of 52 Continued from page 88) be many attempts to bomb and burn police stations," DeLouise continued. "Government installations, banks, and any institution that represents society, will also be a target." Other predictions: * We will be entering a depression starting in 1970 and ending in 1976. This will be a financial depression that is unparalleled in the history of our nation. Thousands of business firms will be bankrupted and millions of families will be displaced when they are unable to pay the taxes on their homes. The U.S. will face severe problems of unemployment, and the number of jobless will reach as high as 15 million within three years. I also predict the collapse of the unions as we know them today. I also feel that wage and price controls will go into effect within two years. * There will be great concern in the free world over an impending change of government in Russia. * There will be a breakthrough in cancer research; this will have something to do with the blood. * I predict the deaths of three political figures; one will die due to an accident. I also foresee the assassination of certain civil rights leaders in the Midwest. The Black Panthers, and similar groups, will be outlawed. * Haile Selassie, the ruler of Ethiopia, is in great danger for his life. Joseph DeLouise also foresees an assassination attempt on the life of Vice President Agnew. "The Vice President will be shot at, but he will not be killed," DeLouise said. "I have seen a speeding car in the shooting, and I believe this will happen in the near future." The full story of Joseph DeLouise will be published in a forthcoming book by the Henry Regnery Company, Chicago. **Joseph Donnelly, Sebring, Fla.:** A spiritualist seer, Donnelly retired from an executive position with the City of New York in 1963 and moved to Florida. His psychic talents were first manifested in 1917, and he has studied many areas of the occult. Mr. Donnelly's spirit teachers are of many races, and many religious faiths. "I have never been a professional public medium," he declared. His predictions for our future include: * There will be a collapse of the credit card business due to overextension of credit to poor risks, unwarranted buying, and unreliable debtors. It feeds inflation and there will be government controls. * There will be no good news from the stock market for a long time. * We are rapidly approaching a fascist state. At the time of preparing these impressions (June 1970) I saw wage and price controls within 23 months. Also, control of the unions by government fiat. * The war in Vietnam will increase in intensity and will continue in surrounding areas. It will last for many years. The Chinese are biding their time to strike. * The sporadic war in the Middle East could erupt into a major confrontation with Russia. If both sides are not brought to the conference table soon, then look for a serious and more plaguing war than Vietnam. * There is an underground plot afoot in California to foment armed insurrection to take over the government. The initials of this organization are LARGO. The FBI is aware of their activities. * The United Nations will go the way of the League of Nations. * The day of high-priced stars is about over in both movies and television. TV will soon be in decline . . . Nightclubs are in their last throes now . . . Football has replaced baseball as the national pastime. Baseball is past its prime, and many baseball clubs will soon have financial problems. * The NASA space agency will have more setbacks due to economic conditions and from interference from Unidentified Flying Objects. **Reverend A. William Goetz, presiding Bishop, National Christian Spiritual Mission, Houston, Tex.:** Born in Milwaukee in 1890, Reverend Goetz is one of the oldest--yet, most active--clairvoyants in the nation. One of the most remarkable feats of his spiritual ministry occurred from 1941 to 1944, when Reverend Goetz walked as Peter walked during Biblical times. "I made four trips from coast-to-coast, carrying no script, no money, no purse," he stated. "I carried nothing except my Bible." Predictions given by Rev. Goetz during trance include: * The war between the Arabs and Israel will increase until we shall hear and read of things which will be a horror. * The Vietnam situation will reach a climax in 1971. The U.S. will leave in dishonor because our troops were not allowed to fight to win. * The Pope will need the prayers of his people because of illness. * Russia's space program will collapse. * The earthquake that was mentioned in my prophecies for 1970 occurred recently in the Andes Mountains, of South America. This will be a minor disaster compared to the one that is coming in 1971. * The U.S. will be struck by three hurricanes in 1971. They will do much damage to the Gulf, South Atlantic, and North Atlantic States. We will have earthquakes in unusual places, and there will be storms out of the ordinary. Chicago and New York will have extremely large fires. They will be larger than the Chicago fire of years ago. **David Hoy, who is known as the "Grand Panjandrum of ESP,"** is a former Baptist minister who encountered a series of dramatic experiences indicating he was endowed with the gift of ESP. Today, Mr. Hoy is popular on the lecture circuit as well as nightspots such as the Playboy Clubs. He has lectured to executives of U.S. Steel, RCA Whirlpool, Bell Telephone, and many other large corporations. Here are a few of his many predictions for 1971: * I feel May 1971, will go down in history as a month of major change in Soviet foreign policy. * I sense a plot for blowing up the Statue of Liberty. The scheme will be thwarted by the FBI in February 1971. * I prophesy that President Nixon will announce plans to visit Russia during 1971. * I predict that the cave-in of two large dams, one in California, one in Mississippi, will cause flooding in both states during the Spring of 1971. * I see startling news of Mafia contacts in a high government agency that will stir the nation in March 1971. * I forecast that a nuclear sub base will be discovered in Cuba during the summer of 1971. * I have been predicting since 1965 that the war in Vietnam will be over by late 1971, when it will be settled by negotiation. David Hoy predicts the following good news during the coming 12 months: No assassinations in the U.S., no severe recession, no major California earthquakes, no crashes of a 747 airliner, and no major blackouts. **Irene Hughes, Chicago, Ill.:** The predictions of Irene Hughes have consistently placed her in the top ranks in the international prediction world. Her predictions are always printed well in advance of the event in her weekly newspaper column. From her offices in Chicago, Mrs. Hughes offers counsel and advice to people from all walks of life. A few of Mrs. Hughes predictions include: * I predict that much talk will center around controls or methods of controlling the news, which means the beginning of oppression and suppression of the news media. On the other hand, an innovative type of magazine format that will appear in 1971 will prove to be highly successful. * There will be changes in the space program which will allow for two major trips in 1971. One will involve a fire, which will not be totally devastating. * The stock market faces a critical low trend in the spring of 1971. A rough year all the way through for the market. * The accidental death of a movie star will provide startling news. * The ties between Russia and Red China will begin to loosen to such an extent that they become entirely separate. * With the current rise of neo-Nazism, Germany will be on the march again within 25 years. * There will be earthquakes throughout the year--again in and near Iran, Japan, Alaska, South America, and various parts of the U.S., touching upon Canada. * Red China will become more deeply embroiled in the Middle Eastern war. **Al Manning, The ESP Laboratory, Los Angeles, Calif.:** Al Manning graduated magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in Business Administration from University of California (L.A.), and he is one of the most unusual people in the predictive field. A practicing psychic of considerable repute, Manning prefers to encourage others to develop their latent ESP talents. On June 8, 1970, a seance was held, and these predictions were made through Al Manning: * We look now upon the economy of the U.S. and find 1971 yet another nervous year for the stock market. But, through the nervousness and worry, we find a general up-trend without the very deep valleys found in 1970. * The sleeping dragon (China) rattles (Continued on page 92) 90 - [ ] SAGA === Page 42 of 52 (Continued from page 90) her tail and breathes fire, but this is for show. We find no major confrontations that shed great blood between China and any of her neighbors . . . There will be a replacement of their leader as Mao will either be cast aside or will die. * President Nixon's plan to withdraw American troops from Vietnam seems to continue gradually in 1971, not to the complete satisfaction of the peace forces, but it is in a continual direction of progress. * We feel that Jacqueline Onassis will reach toward separation from the present husband. Dr. Ernesto A. Montgomery, Los Angeles, Calif.: Dr. Montgomery, pastor of the Universal Metaphysical Church, was born in Jamaica on October 2, 1925, of royal Ethiopian parentage. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Montgomery served in the British Armed Forces and with police departments in Britain and the U.S. His psychic talents manifested themselves early in life, and he has predicted the future for such world luminaries as Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Princess Margaret, and many others. In addition to his ministerial work, Dr. Montgomery holds healing services in his church and sponsors healing crusades throughout the western states. He is also the executive director of the Youth Opportunities League, an organization to assist young people. He also operates a "hot-line" phone service for people who are in trouble. His forecasts for the future include: * Former President Lyndon Johnson will suffer a "heart attack" in 1971. * I predict race relations in the summer of 1971 will take a downward trend with race rioting in New York, Cincinnati, Dallas, Miami, and Alabama. Martial law will be declared and damages from rioting will run into millions of dollars. * I predict there will be a new U.S. Military involvement in 1971. * I predict that as a result of confrontation between the Red Chinese and the Russians, a new Korean crisis, the continuous war in Vietnam, riots, and the destruction of property, and confrontations between radicals and the police, the stock market will take a plunge. This will hamper the economy of the nation. * There will be continued hostility in the Middle East, with U.S. troops landed there. * I predict the East Germans will stop all traffic to Berlin, prompting another airlift and a new East-West confrontation. * I predict that King Hussein of Jordan will be overthrown and a Castro-type dictatorship will replace the monarch. * I predict that birth control pills will soon be outlawed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Montgomery also forecasts marital problems for Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Tiny Tim, Princess Grace of Monaco, and Audrey Hepburn. He also predicts several deaths among Hollywood stars. Reverend Marion Owens, pastor, The Temple of Light, New York, N.Y.: Reverend Owens' psychic gifts have been widely reported in numerous publications. Marion Owens attended New York University's School of Journalism and also completed nine years of post-graduate work in Business Administration. She has also attended Hunter College and Columbia University. She became interested in developing her psychic talents and is now pastor of the Temple of Light church, a Spiritualist Church, affiliated with the Independent Associated Spiritualists. Rev. Owens was the channel for these "predictions from the spirit world": * Curfews, as of old times, will be established in many localities to restrain people from venturing forth during the night hours. * War in some form will continue in the Asiatic region. We predicted nine years ago that the war in Vietnam would last for 10 years before it would be interrupted and transferred to another region close by. This will come to pass in the coming year, although some troops will continue to remain in Vietnam. * The draft will continue. * The Third World War is in the offing. * A partial withdrawal of U.S. Forces from the Mediterranean will take place in 1971. There will be a considerable withdrawal of U.S. troops from European countries. * Interest rates will soar in the U.S. and banks will be frantic for customers to invest large sums. Banks will need a flow of money to offset bankruptcies and other deficits. * The President will call upon Congress during the immediate future to enact laws freezing salaries and prices. * New York City will witness an uprising of persons of Spanish derivation, especially Puerto Ricans, who feel they have been discriminated against as U.S. citizens. * You will read about slumps in utility services: lack of controls, defects in service, and the inefficiency of the Post Office will become a political issue. * Inflation, until it is controlled, will be the chief problem in what will be more than a recession. Ted Owens, Norfolk, Va.: Known as the "UFO Prophet," Ted Owens claims to receive his glimpses of the future through the SIs--Space Intelligences. He has documented more than 200 predictions during the past six years, sending his forecasts to writers, journalists, and news media in advance of the actual occurrence. Owens' unusual story was published in the August and September issues of SAGA. "Time is a fooler when it comes to predicting," Ted Owens declared. "I am not sure of the order in which these things will occur. I am sure that they will occur." His predictions: * There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the U.S. that will cause havoc. I believe it will occur in the southern Midwest. * I see the White House in flames. Washington, D.C. will be a no man's land. Militants will even poison the water reservoirs. * President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office. * The wealthy citizens of the U.S. will lose their riches. I can see them shaking their heads in stunned disbelief, trying to imagine their lives ahead of them. I see empty houses everywhere, and empty towns, as people who have lost their jobs wander aimlessly. Everyone is broke. Business is broke. * I foresee the time when the U.S. will be virtually leaderless. The total government structure will begin to break down . . . Our military will be confused, with general against general, admiral against admiral . . . There will be millions of cars stalled on the streets, with no gas and no repair parts . . . People by the millions will "head for the woods" to escape the cities . . . The cities will be deadly jungles--virtually deserted except for armed gangs of killers, mostly blacks . . . It is at this point that a new Civil War begins . . . whites against the blacks, both races fighting without mercy. We can only hope that these fearful prophecies of the future do not come true. (Continued on page 94) SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL SPACE SPORTS ADVENTURE ANIMALS GIRLS GUNS ASTROLOGY ACTION You've just spent 60¢ for this issue of SAGA and if you're like hundreds of thousands of men you buy SAGA each month at your local newsstand. 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Harold Schroeppel received his graduate training in chemistry at the University of Notre Dame and has worked full-time as an analytical chemist in various industries. During WW II, he was a flying radio operator and mechanic with General Chennault's famed "Flying Tigers" in China. "We were not born psychic," they declared, "and we believe psychism can be taught. We are primarily dedicated as teachers in this field." Lasca Schroeppel's direct psychic predictions include: * In the fashion world, there will be trends toward freedom of choice of styles. * In student rioting, more avenues will open for professors to hear students, and they will both realize their respective roles. * In education, there will be a re-investigation of existing systems by Federal authorities. (Psychically, I see the detectives "first degree" lamp, she stated.) The astrology based predictions for 1971 include: * The pressures around Senator Ted Kennedy; the heavy effort to subvert young people; the turmoil in the churches; and the continual breakdown of centralized planning when it gets over-extended, i.e., one man walks through a computer room with a magnet and kills a huge company. * There is a plan now in motion (June 1970) to kidnap one of Jackie Onassis' children. The motive is political, not individual. Jackie Kennedy Onassis will find that great wealth brings more danger than it does prestige. * Mayor Daley will lose his next election in Chicago. He will get "clobbered" on the police and bribery issue. * Several attempts will be made on the Pope's life. The outlook for him personally looks grim. There may also be an attempt to destroy Vatican City. * A revolutionary group headquarters in New York will be uncovered. This group will be found to be actively engaged in destroying our country. * Other Predictions: Earthquakes in the Philippines, Japan, Malay states, and New Zealand . . . I feel Alaska is due for another good shake . . . Prices will keep rising . . . Plane hi-jackings will continue and several hi-jackers will be killed . . . New feet will land on the moon in 1971 . . . Atomic Energy will be used for the excavation of a harbor or canal this year. * Political assassinations will remain at about the same level. About 70 to 100 attempts will be made on President Nixon's life. There will be more assassinations in South America! LaVerne Shaw, Tinley Park, III.: Mrs. Shaw is the mother of four children who has been gifted with psychic powers all of her life. "I was an orphan, and I have been doing psychic readings for people since I was 13 years old," she related. "Prophesying dreams is very easy to me. I was instructed entirely through dreams to reproduce what I was shown so that others might see and know." Mrs. Shaw is forthright about the problem of timing predictions: "I can't be phony about dates," she said. "I can't date these predictions because the time is not always given to me." Some of her predictions are: * A member of the Royal family will marry a commoner as his uncle did. Because of this event, a change may come about in the Royal system. * There will be an attempted assassination of a prominent black leader by a woman of his own race. This will fail, but the victim's eyesight will be affected. * Another large state will legalize abortion. * There will be a breakthrough in cancer research and a cure for some types of this illness will be found within a year. * A person in high office will make an attempt on his own life. * Marijuana will become legalized in some states. * An official of a state will be caught using state funds illegally. His apprehension will create a national scandal that will have an effect on an election. * In 1972 or 1973 there will be a severe earthquake in California. I also foresee a quake in the Midwest. Cora Sitrusis, Sitrusis School of Astrology, Denver, Colo.: Cora Sitrusis is a graduate of Stephen's College, holds a bachelor of science degree and has done advance studies at Germany's University of Heidelberg. "I began studying astrology in 1963 under Dr. Frederic Mazain, a contemporary of Max Heidel, one of the world's greatest astrologers," she reported. "I feel compelled to bring astrology up to the scientific level where it should be, and once was, in the past." She operates her school of astrology and has a private practice. Her astrological predictions for education in 1971 are: * It is my belief that the turmoil on campus and in our schools will intensify in destructiveness, disruption, and scope. This will be particularly noticeable during the semester change at the end of January 1971. * Beginning the week of May 17th, there appears to be a general rebellion of the entire student body of the U.S. This could take an aspect similar to civil war. It is my belief that from May 17th through June 30, 1961, we will see much bloodshed on our campuses. * The uprising will lead to many replacements on the teaching staffs, administrative heads will roll, and a complete transformation of our educational system will ensue. It is my belief that many of our educational facilities will be closed--some permanently, others for the summer semester. "I believe this summer of 1971 ends our student rebellion," Cora Sitrusis declared. "I sincerely hope that my interpretation of the chart for the U.S. in the educational area is completely wrong. However, when you have the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars all in square aspect to Saturn, as we have in the 1971 United States chart, you can expect the indications I have given here." Paul Twitchell, Eckankar-Asost, Las Vegas, Nev.: "Any person can predict the future if they have mastered the art of soul travel," reports Paul Twitchell, the world's leading authority on the spiritual philosophy of Eckankar. "ECK teaches the chela, or student, to transcend his physical form and explore the spiritual worlds in his soul body." The seer arrived at these predictions through the ECK method of prophesy. "This is known as ECK-Vidya," he stated. Twitchell travels extensively throughout the world to meet with his followers. His predictions include: * Greece will again be torn by riots and a bloody revolution during 1971. * Heavy earthquakes will shake San Francisco during April 1971, causing some destruction. There will be panic and rioting among the citizens. Many people will leave the city permanently to make their homes in other places. * Racial troubles will break out more widely during the summer of 1971 in most of the metropolitan areas of the country. * The announcement of Tricia Nixon's engagement will be made during the middle part of the year. * There will be another jump in prices for food, shelter, and clothing. * Everyone will be happier because of the uptrend on the stock market and the general economy. * There will be a break-up in the Hanoi government in spring 1971. * There will be serious repercussions in China following the death of Mao Tse-tung in the late Spring of 1971. Civil war will rock the Chinese mainland and Russia will be blamed for the destructive riots. * President Nixon will make a decided change in his cabinet during 1971, in hope that it will give him a better administrative record. He wants to run again for the Presidency in 1972. * The death ray will be the next weapon which the military forces of the world will develop. Ron Warmoth, New York City and Hollywood: Mr. Warmoth has read the Tarot cards on television for Garry Moore, for other famous celebrities, and unemployed youngsters needing advice on their future. "I don't believe the Tarot can be used for predicting definite happenings," Ron Warmoth revealed. "However, it can reveal approaching trends. Distinct future happenings must be done through psychic projection of the Tarot reader." His Tarot-psychic predictions include: * There will be race riots in Trenton and Atlantic City, N.J., during the summer. * There will be an earthquake in Wyoming in the early summer. * War in the Middle East will be stepped up in 1971. The U.S. will become involved during the early part of the year. * A general recession in the U.S. economy will occur in 1971. * Cuba will be in an underground revolution, striving to overthrow Castro. 94 - [ ] SAGA ★ THE END === Page 44 of 52 SPORT MAGAZINE JULY, 1971 SPORT TALK BY RAYMOND HILL **THE PK MAN** To all Baltimore Bullet fans, a plea for justice: Don't blame the team's failure in the NBA championship series on Lew Alcindor or the Big O. Don't blame it on the Baltimore players, either. Put the blame where it belongs. Blame it on Ted Owens. How's that? Ted who? Just a moment, fans. Ted Owens happens to have super-human power. By simply concentrating, Ted Owens says, he can control events anywhere on earth or in space--all without leaving his living room. And when the Bullets made Ted Owens mad, he used his power. It happened during the first quarter of the second playoff game. The Bullets were trailing the Bucks, but not by much, when telecaster Keith Jackson mentioned that "a man in Virginia has offered to cast the evil eye on Milwaukee to help Baltimore win." The man from Virginia (Norfolk) was 51-year-old Ted Owens and he had made that offer to Bullet coach Gene Shue, who politely declined it. "That was bad enough," says Owens, "but when Keith Jackson made it public on TV, I immediately called the Baltimore Sun and told them: 'I'll wreck the Bullets in the second half. Watch it. I'll make them miss their baskets and I'll throw their timing completely haywire.'" The Bullets trailed by four at the half; they lost the game by 19. The rest of the series was a Milwaukee laugh-in. "I have stumbled on a way to tap powers from another dimension," says Ted Owens, "not the dimension we live in. I have about 150 techniques, or usages, of the power which I lump under the general heading, 'PK.' Now that's a little misleading, because PK, as it's known in scientific circles, is psychokinesis (the power of controlling physical objects by the mind only). It's misleading because psychokinesis is just one of my 150 usages." How did he come by this power? He says solemnly that he inherited it as a child; it was the gift from a race of superintelligent beings from that "other dimension." Owens cannot readily account for the fact that he and nobody else was the recipient of this magic, but he is using it to predict events and to change the course of history, of sports history at least. He claims to be 85 percent accurate at foretelling events. For instance, he warned the government of the great East Coast blackout of 1965 ten days before it happened. He predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft during launch in 1969, and it did. Because of his interest in basketball (he's a big Earl Monroe fan) and football, he has been PKing sports events on TV for the last ten years. Not that he needs television to make it work. "Suppose," he says, "there's a big game and they decide to black it out. All I have to do is draw a square on a card, put a team's name in it, stare at it and project what I want to happen to them and--pluto!--that's it." In the early 1960's Owens began contacting pro football teams and offering his extraordinary services (for a big fee, of course). Most NFL clubs at least answered his letter. One, the Philadelphia Eagles, ignored him. So Owens immediately "doomed" owner Jerry Wolman, coach Joe Kuharich and the whole team to a life of misery following the 1967 season. Wolman is gone, Kuharich is gone and, in the latest bit of Owens' wizardry, quarterback Greg Barton, the man Philadelphia was depending on so much to lead the team back this fall, defected to Canada. The New York Jets were nasty to Owens, too. Several months before the 1970 season, Owens sent the Jets a telegram stating that he would hurt the team through injuries to several key players. Well, you know what happened. Feeling stronger than ever, Owens sent letters to 13 NFL teams last February, announcing his intention to hex **WHAT ARE THESE MEN DOING?** During a game against Houston last April Dodger catcher Bill Sudakis (the hatless player, far left) lost a contact lens. The action came to a standstill, as players and umpires combed the AstroTurf. It was never found, and Sudakis left the game. 18 === Page 45 of 52 VIEWPOINT SOUTH BY PAUL HEMPHILL "Tell you how I wound up here," Scoopie Chappell said, scratching his crew cut and grinning like a little boy. "That was 1950 and I'd won ten straight games for Alex City, when they got this second baseman from a Class-B league and asked me to go on the disabled list so they could make room for him. It was just before a game with LaGrange. I'd already pitched batting practice. So I told 'em to go to hell and they released me on the spot. I walked across the field and signed up with LaGrange, took a uniform off somebody, and went out and beat Alex City, 5-4, in ten innings. And I struck out that second baseman to end the game." It had been a long time since anybody had asked him to get out his scrapbook, or to tell stories about those days. He is 50 years old now, a freelance house painter in the sleepy west Georgia town of LaGrange. He lives in a rented frame house up the hill from the textile mill. "Seems like I've spent my whole life living in a mill village," he says. Now and then, in the taverns or the barber shops, somebody in town will recognize him. But to most people, especially those who are under 30, he is simply Marvin Chappell, the house painter. Has it really been that long? It seems only yesterday that the small towns of the South were throbbing with minor-league baseball. Nearly every town of any size had a minor-league club--the state of Georgia alone once had 22--and the biggest men in town were not the businessmen or the mayor but the .400 hitters and the fireballing pitchers. One of the best leagues was the eight-team Class-D Georgia-Alabama, which was stocked with wide-eyed rookies making $150 a month and fading veterans averaging twice that. It was in this league that Scoopie Chappell found reasons to live. He began to pitch for Alexander City, Alabama, in 1947, after the war, when he was 26. Over a five-year span there and at LaGrange he won 85 games. When he gave up only one hit pitching a doubleheader, he made Ripley's Believe It Or Not. People who remember say he might have gone on up the ladder except for his late start, because he could hit and he had a fastball that hummed. "After that no-hitter a scout came around, but when they told him I was 28 he never talked to me." The league died in 1951. Scoopie was 30, was making only $300 a month and had five kids, so he took a job at the mill. Now he is left with a scrapbook, and memories. There are only two minor-league towns in Georgia now, and even the mills don't have teams anymore. He follows the Atlanta Braves on radio and television, but baseball isn't the same when you aren't involved. "Whenever you threw the knockdown you made sure the catcher got the ball back to you fast so you'd have a weapon if the hitter took it serious," he cracked, sitting on a lawn-chair on his front porch in the afternoon sun. We must have been talking for three hours, swapping stories and laughing over midnight escapades. Then I told him about the scout who once said the death of the minors was merciful from one standpoint--it had eliminated the career bush leaguer, the "baseball bum." Scoopie squinted and thought it over for a while. "Well, I might've been a bum," he said, "but I'll tell you one thing. That was five years I didn't have to work in no textile mill." 20 SPORT TALK CONTINUED them because they either ridiculed him publicly or, worse, ignored him. The jinxed teams are Philadelphia ("it's a year-by-year thing now"), Kansas City, Dallas, the Jets, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, San Diego, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Houston. These teams, according to the PK man, will be lucky to salvage a winning record in 1971. At least one owner got the message. The Colts' Carroll Rosenbloom, shortly after visiting John Unitas in the hospital (yes, Owens' takes full credit for PKing the Unitas injury) dashed off an urgent letter to Norfolk. "If you will please advise me," Rosenbloom's letter read, "as to a course of action . . . I will do whatever I can to comply." Give me a job, came the reply. But the Colts' boss wrote back: "My fellow owners would never forgive me for signing you up." He suggested Owens see Pete Rozelle. Owens wrote the Commissioner. No answer. Owens says now: "Either I get to sign up or I'll wreck the whole pro football mechanism." You're free to believe or not about Ted Owens. But if the 1972 Super Bowl pits Buffalo against Atlanta . . . HE CAME BACK It happened on June 2, 1967. Bob Johnson, then a 24-year-old pitcher for the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Mets of the Eastern League, went motorcycling with a teammate, Jerry Hinsley, after a game. They traveled along a mountain road overlooking the town. Johnson's bike, a new one, was giving him trouble and he fell a good ways behind his pal. He was going about 65 or 70 miles per hour when he hit a pile of gravel on the road. Johnson was thrown from his fish-tailing machine. The motorcycle flipped over and landed on his left leg. Hinsley got Johnson to a nearby hospital in a hurry. He was conscious all the time, unable to take his eyes off the bloody, mangled mess that had (Continued on page 22) === Page 46 of 52 THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1972. # 'The Only Man in History Who Has Done the Things I've Done Is Moses' "I put Bill Bell in professional football and I'm gonna take him out. And any team that hires him will be absolutely zonked." That's the voice of a man scorned. It's the voice of a man that I'm not going to fiddle around with. I'm thankful that he said he likes me. I want to introduce you to Ted Owens, a famous Virginia psychic who says he may be the only hope for the United States, whose actions are controlled by the UFOs, who keeps in practice by controlling professional football and who claims all he has done is fully documented. Bill Bell is an example close to home. Bell, as you know, is the kicker for the Atlanta Falcons and his failure to convert a 10-yard field goal two weeks ago cost the Falcons a victory against New England. "Bill Bell came down to Norfolk over a year ago," Owens said, "and begged me to use my powers to get him a job with the Falcons. He said he had tried for two years without success. I got him on the team and he wrote me back and said he didn't believe I did it. He also wrote a national magazine and called me a fake. He blew the one-in-a-million field goal attempt. And, it's gonna get worse for him. Wait and see." ## A Blast From Chicago Ted Owens was insulted last week in a national newspaper article in which he was blasted by Chicago psychic Joseph DeLouise. The Chicago seer said Owens was hurting legitimate ESP's image and "we psychics have enough trouble with the skeptical public without having some guy popping off with phony claims." He went on to say that if what Owens says is true, he should go to jail and that guys like Roman Gabriel or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath should punch him in the mouth. "That was a naughty article," Owens said, the writer (Tom Valentine of Chicago) is way down with pro football. He's trying to get someone to nit-pick with me. That writer doesn't know the whole picture. If someone has the power I have, it's unlimited. A man who can control weather, radar installations, military exercises. A man who can knock down 12 planes with his mind; this is the kind of guy that governments get together with and work with." Ted Owens feels he can help pro sports teams. He doesn't ## PASSING THE BUCK ### By Buck Johnson (Photo of Ted Owens) mess with the amateurs. If the pro sports teams refuse his help, he talks with outer space intelligences and they direct him as to what happens next. Did you ever wonder. - Why the Baltimore Bullets lost four in a row in the playoffs against the New York Knicks a few years ago? - Why Unitas and Tom Matte were out of action at the same time? - Why Carroll Rosenbloom traded the Baltimore franchise and moved to the Los Angeles Rams? - Why Philadelphia teams never win? - Why the Virginia Squires lost superstars Charlie Scott and Julius Erving? - Why Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and his backup quarterback's house burned? - Why the Cleveland Browns are struggling? - Why the Chicago Bears aren't winning? - If the Dallas Cowboys will repeat as Super Bowl champs? ### Watch What You Say Ted Owens has the answers and here's the way he tells it: "During the first quarter of the first playoff game the Baltimore announcer said I had offered to help the Bullets, but they didn't want to have anything to do with me. I called a Baltimore newspaper and told them that the Bullets had this game and three to go; that it would miss baskets and lose the games. I sent Coach Gene Shue a letter to that effect. Well, the second half they fell apart and won none of the games, just like I said." As for Baltimore and Rosenbloom, Owens said Rosenbloom actually wanted him to help the Colts but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle wouldn't let him. Earlier, however, Owens claims he wrote Rosenbloom and the owner had Coach Don McCafferty answer him. "Standby for a ram," he wrote Rosenbloom, and shortly thereafter Unitas ruptured an achilles tendon and Matte underwent an emergency appendectomy. Owens hits out at quarterbacks first. "I don't get any pleasure in dealing with these teams, but I am trying to block a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia and I need money to buy tools for the UFO. I'm not a mean guy," Owens said. "To get away from me," continued the psychic, "Rosenbloom swapped teams. I wrote him and told him it wouldn't do him any good. A week later Gabriel's lung collapsed and a few days later his backup quarterback's house caught fire." ### Philadelphia Has Had It Owens says he's the only man who can stop these pitfalls and all can be saved except Philadelphia. He claims to have sat in the press box with two sportswriters as witnesses and caused a man (Tom Woodeshick) to be thrown out of a game in five minutes. Lloyds of London called the odds of it happening at 100,000 to one. The Cowboys mauled the Eagles and the ball has never taken such crazy bounces. "I had to show them I could perform a miracle and I did. I've performed over 400 miracles. When's the last time the 76ers or the Phillies won? That town's had it," he said. The pro hockey match at Philadelphia Friday night was postponed because of unfit ice. The psychic has offered the Squires his services. The Squires refused and have lost Scott and Erving and have lost more than twice the number they have won this year. It takes a good memory to remember when the Chicago Bears last won. They are on Owens' list. His primary target now is the Cowboys. "I've kept the Super Bowl champion from repeating now for four years and the Cowboys will not win it this year. The reason is that I'm proving myself. This power is being used in a negative way because the trouble is nobody believes you have it if you don't." The word I'm giving you this morning is to don't mess with Ted Owens. He was kicked off a radio show in Cleveland === Page 47 of 52 BILL BELL The hex is on him CARROLL ROSENBLOOM 'Stand by for a ram' and decided to give the city a lesson with a heat wave. He says he wanted lightning and intense heat and, with six scientists observing his work, it happened two weeks later. The heat buckled sidewalks and, to top if off, city hall got dozens of calls from citizens who claimed the UFOs were talking to them. The Browns haven't set the football world afire, either. Owens claims a farmer by the name of David Watson in Saskatchewan hired him to make it rain so he could get his sunflower crop out. The rains came. Then, with a freeze expected last month, Watson needed heat. He got heat and harvested a fine sunflower crop. A Slip of the Mind The noted seer says he has just finished controlling a radar station with his mind at Cape Charles. "It was linked with a computer and I proposed 25-50 UFOs on the screen. There was some doubt. I told the government agent to let me check to see if it was my mind. I hit the screen with all the power of my mind and it lit up as the arm swept around." The government agent signed a notarized statement to what he saw. Suddenly, Owens exclaimed, "Good lord! I never thought about it, but the power I put over this area could knock down planes and ships." Owens then remembered that since that time 12 planes have crashed in or around Chesapeake Bay, an aircraft carrier caught fire and lightning blasted the entire area. Ted Owens was one of several psychics asked to make one prediction for 1972 a year ago. He predicted (and it's recorded in a book) that UFOs would make bodies of water attack human beings. "They now call this the year of the floods. I warned people about this last year. South Dakota was hit hard and right here in Virginia we have been called a disaster area three times." Owens doesn't worry that DeLouse, his fellow psychic, is rapping him. "I'm an expert in judo and I've fought in the ring and that guy's only a hairdresser. "I'm a family man and I'm not mean. The UFOs have trained me from childhood. I can back up what I say and do with documented evidence. I'm not petty. I have powers and won't use them against an individual without UFO permission. The UFOs determine what is hexed. I explain to them why and they check it out. I've healed a lot of people. "The only man in history who has done the things I've done is Moses." That's Ted Owens. Before he hung up the phone he said he liked me. Boy, am I glad! Note, Contacts... I will be on the Allan Dale Radio Show, KITE, San Antonio, by phone, for an hour, Oct 31 at 8 PM my Va. time, 7 PM Texas time... if you'd like to listen in. Owens === Page 48 of 52 APPROVED FOR VETERANS under new G.I. BILL FREE FACTS mail coupon on how to become a GAME WARDEN FISH-WILDLIFE MANAGER FORESTER GOVT HUNTER Requires Less Formal Education PROTECT FORESTS and WILDLIFE--ARREST VIOLATORS! To guard and protect our forests, fish and wild game, Game Wardens are empowered to enforce the Conservation Laws and arrest violators. Positions of prestige and authority! 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Logical, understandable, rational, Owens's whole approach to the mystery in which he finds himself is scientific and not mystical as with the contactees. This is clearly seen in Ted Owens' own "SI Glossary" in which he defines various ODEs (Other Dimensional Effects): Nature's Mailbox--A visual-image "mailbox" into which he puts "letters" to be acted upon--as when requesting a storm. Angel Box--ODE container which releases good intelligences which can be assigned to sick or hurt persons (apparently the mechanism by which the PK-disks work). PK Bubble--An ODE force placed around a person, thing, city, or even the U.S., to perform a specific task (which may be one clue to how Owens manipulates his PK powers) White Box, Rainbow Door, Messenger Units, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Electromagnetic Bubble, Laser PK, (other ODEs based on scientific extrapolations of known forces and energies.) Let us conclude with some more sensational PK feats and fulfilled predictions made by Ted Owens in the past six years, which far exceed the accomplishments of such nationally known psychics as Jean Dixon and Peter Hurkos. On June 1, 1966, in a written notice to the CIA and other agencies, Ted Owens predicted an early hurricane, within days, long before the traditional hurricane season. Loud laughter from the hurricane center must have turned into gasps when on June 7th, Hurricane Alma rose in wrath, the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland. One June 18, 1966, Owens' predicted that violent electrical storms would soon strike the Philadelphia area. By the end of June and into July, that city was bombarded by electrical bolts seldom seen before. During this period, with a group of friends, Owens pointed and said a lightning flash would strike over a certain building--this happened within minutes. Owens made it strike there, he claims. It will definitely interest UFOlogists to know that the following "classic" sightings of saucers and occupants were predicted in advance by Ted Owens, and in some cases "ordered" by him. * The "Michigan Monster" case of August 1966, in Monroe County, where Christine Van Acker, a 17-year-old girl and her mother came upon a hairy, black, seven-foot monster. * The "meteor" of August 19, 1966, which was so bright that it cast shadows as it flashed across the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio. Puzzled astronomers admitted it was too slow for a genuine meteor. It was, says Owens, a spectacular UFO that he had "promised" would manifest itself over Pennsylvania. * The semi-tragic tale of the saucer named "Floyd"--a police code name. In April 1966, State Police officer Dale Spaur and several other troopers pursued a low-flying saucer from the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania, without ever catching up. The sighting came to haunt Dale Spaur to the point where he lost his job and his wife. He became a broken-down hermit because he, or one of the other policemen, had fired at the UFO, which Ted Owens had prophesied would mean the police would be "without one officer." * The "Penninsula Monster" at Erie, Pa., on July 31, 1966, where Betty Jean Klem and three other hysterical teen-age friends in a car were accosted by a hulking gorilla-like creature, which later flew off in a saucer. But of course Ted Owens' most recent and significant prediction, as of February 1970 (SAGA, July 1970) was that the summer of 1970 would usher in the greatest UFO wave in history as saucers would appear in "great numbers everywhere on earth." Is that worldwide saucer flap going on right now? We might also ask that if the flap is going on is it being successfully smothered by the news blackout that has been clamped on all UFO reports since the Condon Report of 1969? If so, Ted Owens today is a frustrated prophet indeed. Finally, here are two more predictions by Ted Owens, which, if they haven't already been fulfilled, will be in a short time. Owens is confident they will. Prediction 1) There is a "terrible threat" to our forces in or near Vietnam. Owens says the SIs showed him the symbolical image of a black triangular mass silently converging there, either through the air or the water. He is not clear as to the exact nature of the threat but it's a "blockbuster force" and will be a major headline about Vietnam. Prediction 2) That Nigeria, because of its inhuman treatment of the conquered Biafrans after their war ceased, will suffer greatly unless they change their policy. "The long unlimited hand of the UFO intelligences," wrote Owens in a letter to President Nixon, "will now reach out and strike at the Nigerian government and teach them a lesson they will never forget. From now on, Nigeria is a marked country, until the present government and all the people responsible for the miseries of the Biafran innocents have been struck down with illness and death and misery themselves." Owens seems to imply that something akin to the "seven plagues" that struck Egypt in Biblical times will scourge the Nigerians. It is a matter of record that as of mid-February, a deadly new virus struck Nigeria only, with a frightful fatality rate of 50 percent. Three out of five medical lab technicians sent by the U.S. died promptly of this Lassa Fever, as it is called, and medical authorities called it an emergency. "The greatest mystery," to quote the New York Times, "is where the disease came from." An SI warning to the U.S. about trouble in Vietnam (not caused by the SIs), and an SI vengeance on Nigerian cruelty. So says Ted Owens, mouthpiece of the SIs. * THE END === Page 49 of 52 This Is What Started It # BATTLE OF THE PSYCHICS! ********** # Seer Ted Owens Answers DeLouise Charges That He's a 'Fake, Phony' Joseph DeLouise Raps A Fellow Psychic 'Seer Ted Owens Is Ruining Legitimate Image Of ESP' By TOM VALENTINE 'If I were Namath, Unitas or Gabriel, I'd punch Owens in the nose' By TOM VALENTINE A tremendous "battle of the psychics" has erupted between Chicago's Joseph DeLouise and "PK man" Ted Owens of Virginia. It all started with the Oct. 22, 1972, edition of the TATTLER when DeLouise criticized the claims and tactics employed by Owens. "He hurts the image of legitimate ESP," DeLouise charged. After reading the TATTLER story, Owens flipped his psychic wig and wrote a scorching letter to DeLouise and dared TATTLER to print it. In addition, he told TATTLER he would "hex" the Chicago Bears pro football team. In his letter, Owens writes to DeLouise: "You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind..." "Mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact actions. But you have chosen to insult me... as did Long John Nebel some years ago, then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer... and, so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. "You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So... you are a dumb bunny. "As a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanoes, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations... and on and on..." Owens signed his letter "Ted Owens, PK man" evidently the initials stand for "psychokinesis," the ability to control matter with one's mind. DeLouise reacted calmly to the tirade in writing, he told TATTLER: "I think Mr. Owens smelled publicity; and that's fine. But, after reading his letter, I have even more doubts about him than before. He claims he can control all those things, but it appears he can't control his mouth too well. "As for his promise to hex the Chicago Bears, I'm laughing... since his so-called hex the Bears, who hadn't won a game, won three straight... some hex. With results like that, I hope he hexes me." Owens claimed he "doubled the power of P.K." against the Bears and they will continue "to lose games and lose men to injuries until DeLouise makes a public apology to me." Owens charged DeLouise with seeking publicity by attacking him in the first place. DeLouise, however, stuck to his original guns. "I am convinced that Mr. Owens' claims are a detriment to legitimate ESP. In his letter to me, he actually takes credit for doing terrible harm to another human being -- Long John Nebel, the New York radio man. He claims he causes football players' injuries. "That's an easy claim to make, football players are always getting hurt. However, I do understand the power of the human mind and the forces of psychokinesis... it is entirely possible to do others harm in the manner Owens claims. Therefore, if he insists on taking credit for causing injuries, he should be jailed for assault with a deadly weapon." TATTLER asked Owens why he made such claims and what reasons did he have for attacking pro sports. "I do what I do to make people aware of the existence of higher spiritual entities who are not happy with the trends of our society." Owens claims that, by attacking pro sports, he attacks a decadent level of society without doing great harm to the masses of people. One of Owens' followers, Bernard Brugger of Edmonton, Canada, wrote TATTLER with the Owens' point of view: "Mr. Owens' activities (as attacked by DeLouise) have been taken out of context and I can assure you that Mr. Owens' purpose is not, but absolutely not, to hex football teams, etc., for the sake of doing evil or forcing the teams' owners into hiring him for a handsome salary. "He is using his tremendous mind powers in order to make people realize that such powers exist and that space people exist, too." Brugger lauded Owens' healing ability and the positive side of the man who claims he caused Los Angeles Rams pro football quarterback Roman Gabriel's lung ailment earlier this year. In ending his defense of Owens, Brugger wrote: "What do you think of Moses? Didn't he use sinister powers as Ted Owens? Sometimes, in a spectacular way, you have to admit. Should he have been jailed, also?" DeLouise, upon reading Brugger's defense, said: "Some people will believe anything. I accept that Owens could be an excellent healer and psychic -- I don't attack healers and psychics who use their abilities for beneficial purposes, but his reasons for putting the hex on football players and persons who he feels insult him are weak and a little sick. "Moses didn't pick on the little things, like Egyptian chariot racers, he reluctantly used his God-given powers only when absolutely necessary. Moses and Jesus and other Higher Beings who worked among the masses never used their powers to deliberately harm another individual... they taught their philosophies by example, they showed others the right way with their actions. "Owens, then, is teaching others that if the world doesn't take your word for something you believe, you have every right to cause injury, sickness and even death. This is simply not true nor logical. "I'm not giving this character any more of my time or energy... as far as I'm concerned, I've made my point and that's that." In an effort to get expert opinion, TATTLER asked Jeane Dixon, one of the world's leading prophets, to comment on the controversy: "I don't like to grace such a thing publicly, but all persons with the psychic gift should use their talents for constructive reasons. I use my talents to help people. I'm here to help and not destroy." Caught In Gas War, This Station Owner Drives His Tanker To Rival Station And Says... 'Fill 'Er Up' Here's Owens' Reply Tattler editor... read this first before forwarding. Funny that you didn't publish it! Owens Oct. 7, 1972 Mr. Joseph DeLouise, Psychic Chicago c/o National Tattler Fella,... A friend of mine in Chicago saw an article today, in which you say some nasty things about me in Tattler. You even have the gall to instruct me, as he explained it long distance, that I might be a "fake and phony." Let's take it one step at a time. You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind... and mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact action. But you have chosen to insult me... as did Long John Nebel, some years ago (then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer)... and so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by. You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So... you are a dumb bunny. Second: (we've taken up the mental, now the psychic)... as a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanoes, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations... and on and on. And all of it is documented; proved. I have notarized, signed affidavits from lawyers, scientists, etc., to the truth of what I have just stated... so there can be no argument. I even have UFO's appear at certain times and places so that scientists and others could examine them with binoculars, etc. This, too, is proven. So... you have to be stupid to call me a fake or a phony. Third: why try to dare football players? I want to show Charles and much on the coast! No, now hear me real! Let's you and him fight, you say, "wait, fella..."! I live at 619 Shadwell Street, Cape Charles, Virginia. I weigh 200 and 10 lbs., 10-inch yellow coward, that is when I label you, Mr. If you aren't a coward, come on down, and we'll settle off in my backyard with our fists. I am 52 years old, with a phlebitis, and you're out of condition... but it would be a pleasure to give you a lesson in manners. Look at it any way you turn it, fella... mental, physical or psychic... you are far, far away from being anything, or being anything, like Ted Owens, PK Man... so for your sake you'd better believe it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 4, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens (PK Man) cc: National Tattler, Joseph DeLouise ... 'Owens can't even control his mouth'. Ted Owens ... His hex on the Bears didn't work. === Page 50 of 52 # Pastor Takes Sunday Sermon to Rich Sipping Drinks Aboard Luxury Yachts The Rev. Jerry Hunter preaches his Sunday sermon from a riverbank while his congregation sits sipping martinis aboard their luxury yachts. The Chatham, Ont., minister figures it's the only way he can reach the rich pleasure-seekers. Every Sunday during the summer months, Rev. Hunter sets up his pulpit on a well-trimmed lawn along a river that leads into Lake St. Clair, a favorite playground for hundreds of boaters. He usually speaks about the problems of businessmen's "pressure-cooker" lives and some practical and spiritual solutions to them. Most of the boaters are businessmen trying to relax for the weekend. As he talks, the cocktail parties on the boats grow quiet and the bathing suit-clad yachtsmen drift closer. While they might not dump their cocktails into the lake, they do listen to Rev. Hunter. And most think his dockside ministry is a good idea. "It's the only way I can get my kids to go to church," commented one Detroit boater. "We've been to the services at Chatham three times this summer and we plan to come more often next year." Rev. Hunter's services are sponsored by a local church group and a large motel. He never takes up a collection, even though his congregation could well afford it. **YOUR WEEK THAT WILL BE (Dec. 3-9)** Travel, new modes of communicating -- these are apt to be very much featured during this, the week that will be. Psychic healing and ESP and cosmology and related areas grab headlines. At forefront, much to consternation of his more conservative associates, is apt to be CAPT. EDGAR D. MITCHELL, one of the astronauts who walked on the moon. As we forecast months ago in these TATTLER columns, Mitchell has left the Space program and the military, renounced former materialistic aims, declares he intends to devote himself to the study of man and why he is here, what his purpose is -- and to open a center in Houston, Tex. to concentrate on and promote such subjects as psychic phenomena, ESP, psychic healing. Mitchell, it will be recalled, was the astronaut who conducted ESP tests with persons on earth while he was on his way to the moon. Mitchell is a no-nonsense Virgo, analytical, disciplined. I feel his studies and his associates eventually will be probing the question of the survival of human personality after bodily death, a bigger story, when proven, than even man walking on the moon. Developments in this area in Russia and other Iron Curtain countries far outdistance us. The Soviets want to use this area, including astrology, for military purposes among others. It is good we have a Capt. Mitchell. Lunar cycle this week will be high for SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS, CAPRICORN and AQUARIUS. When cycle is high, your judgment is apt to be correct. It is time to take initiative, to make contacts and new starts. When cycle is low, let others take initiative. Listen and observe. Wait. Cycle will be low for TAURUS, GEMINI, CANCER and LEO. KEY NUMBERS: 7, 4 and 3. # in your stars ### astrological forecast by world-famous Sydney Omarr **ZODIACAL BIRTHDAY TABLE** | | | |---|---| | ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19) | LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) | | TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20) | SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) | | GEMINI (May 21-June 20) | SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) | | CANCER (June 21-July 22) | CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) | | LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) | AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) | | VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) | PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) | **AT LAS VEGAS OR THE TRACK:** Scorpio should stick with number 7. Leo can win with 3 and Virgo might show a profit with number 4. **BEST PLANTING DAY:** 3rd. **BEST FISHING DAY:** 5th. **AVOID PLANE TRAVEL:** 5th and 9th. **NEWSMAKERS:** Pisces and Virgo. **MOST SIGNIFICANT DAY:** 5th. **For ARIES**, this is week to delve inward -- find out what it is you actually desire. Avoid fooling yourself. Face facts as they exist. Open lines of communication. Correspond with those at a distance. Travel, travel plans dominate. Come down to earth about budget, money affairs. You face opposition it is likely to evaporate. Accent is on legal matters, joint efforts, partnership and marriage. Confusion results if you attempt to force issues. Play waiting game. When you don't know what to do, do nothing. This is a week when you should let others reveal their views, plans. Change routine. **For CANCER**, there is a swing away from fantasy and back to the practical. Family obligations, a slowing down, a coming to grips with reality -- this is featured. You may be pulled in two directions simultaneously. Aquarian plays prominent role. Trust hunch. Share knowledge. Diet and health in general require special consideration. Take one step at a time and you will achieve goal. **For LEO**, this is a week of greater freedom, more creativity, intensified relationship with opposite sex. Romance is highlighted. You meet people, go places and do things. You come alive. Health improves because you feel more vital. Sagittarian is likely to be in picture. Travel is indicated and so is publishing, advertising. Your efforts become known to more persons. You are feted, congratulated. **For VIRGO**, be thorough. Insist on facts, not rumors. Build on solid base. Emphasis is on completion of projects, on property, on cementing relationships with those who do have your best interests at heart. Important matters come under your scrutiny. You get nothing for nothing. But sincere effort now will pay dividends. **For LIBRA**, you will be more active than usual, taking calls, writing, visiting, receiving visitors, hearing from neighbors and relatives. Short trips are featured and financial gain is shown during early part of week. Gemini and Virgo persons are in picture. Forces are scattered but indications are that you will be enjoying yourself. **For SCORPIO**, cycle is high early in week. You make peace with family. Domestic situation improves, especially if you are diplomatic. Accent also is on paying, collecting, adding to possessions. You find genuine bargain, probably in luxury item. Your life can become more comfortable as you become more comfortable in your home surroundings. Contacts indicated with Taurus, Libra persons. **For SAGITTARIUS**, you pause and seem to be off track early, but you regain rhythm and make fine comeback. You gain access to private information. You will have to decide what is of value, what should be discarded. Pisces person could play key role. By week's end, you will be relaxed, maneuverable, more mobile and able to get along better with neighbors and relatives. **For CAPRICORN**, you could be involved in power play, especially around the 5th. Protect your interests. Take nothing for granted. Another Capricorn figures prominently. Work behind the scenes. Ferret out information that has been held under cover. Refuse to be deceived by appearances. Accept responsibility. But also be sure you get credit deserved. And cash, too! **For AQUARIUS**, accent is on friends, fulfillment of desires. You find understanding from one who previously seemed aggressive, even insensitive. Aries could be involved. Don't be too forceful. What you really require will come to you. Know it and act accordingly. Develop friendships, additional social contacts. **For PISCES**, emphasis is on advancement through original procedures. Adhere to your own style, methods. Leo can lend helping hand. By week's end you gain information needed. Obstacle really is a healthy challenge. Know it and respond accordingly. Accent is on career, ambitions, ability to make room for yourself at top. And until next week ... FOLLOW YOUR LUCKY STARS! === Page 51 of 52 THE NATIONAL TATTLER 20¢ A VOL. 17 NO. 24 WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING FAMILY WEEKLY DEC. 10, 1972 New Book Serialization: 'You Live After Death' See page 12 # Miracle Healing ## Dying Heart Patient Totally Recovered After Surgery By Psychic; MDs Baffled By TOM VALENTINE Dominic Albano's doctors gave him up for dead in 1971, but today he looks back and laughs, thanks to a miracle of "psychic surgery." The 60-year-old Chicago man recently was cured by a remarkable phenomenon that has raised the hopes of sick people everywhere, despite charges of hoax and fraud from orthodox medicine and the press. ### Good Reading Cover-To-Cover: * How To Brighten Your Menus With Plentiful Foods ..........page 4 * He Wants To Buy Rome's Colosseum And Remodel It ..........page 6 * Meet 'Doubleheader,' The World's Only Two-Headed Turtle ..........page 12 * Ex-Witch Claims She Watched Satan Destroy Her Home ..........page 21 * Florida's Costly 'Big Ditch' That Leads To Nowhere ..........page 26 Psychic surgery is performed by a number of spiritual healers in the Philippines. No instruments are used, no anaesthetic is given the patient, yet the body is opened and the affliction cured with no pain to the person being healed. WHEN THE HEALER removes his hands, the opening closes without leaving a scar and there is no post-operative trauma. The patient simply gets up and walks away. Few of the testimonials favoring Antonio Agpaoa, the famous "Dr. Tony" of Baguio City, are as remarkable or as thoroughly documented as the case of Dominic Albano. Said Albano: "In August of 1971, my heart condition was so severe that a team of physicians at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital refused to perform an operation on me. They feared I might die on the operating table. "They gave me anywhere from two weeks to six months to live," Albano added wryly. Dominic Albano's heart pains were so severe and so frequent that he was swallowing up to 30 nitroglycerine pills per day. He was no longer able to work. He had given up all hope. (Continued on page 5) ### Sonny & Cher Split ## Those TV Squabbles Were Real TATTLER has learned that Sonny and Cher have outside romantic interests and stayed together in hatred only because their talent and their contracts bound them to each other. Their image of "groovy togetherness" is smashed after Cher stormed out in the middle of a show. --See Page 3. === Page 52 of 52 Behind The Front Page IT'S A LITTLE hard on the imagination to work around Tom Valentine. You keep asking yourself: "How can one guy be so good at so many different things?" From his days as an award-winning sports editor for a California daily, Tom has moved from one resounding success to another all the way acrosss the whole broad spectrum of American journalism. He has been a top rewrite man for Chicago Today, is the author of a half-dozen books, and for the past year has been TATTLER'S expert-in-residence on just about everything, especially the intriguing world of psychic phenomena. Tom took some time out from the vigors of covering football, baseball, track and golf back in 1963 to begin a serious investigation of ESP, the occult and related subjects "out of curiosity and doubt." Since then, he has turned up enough evidence on these mysterious goings-on to fill several volumes, to convince himself of the reality of many psychic claims, and to become one of the country's leading journalistic authorities on the entire field. In this issue, Tom scores with two exclusive stories out of the psychic world. One is the story of a man who came back from the edge of the grave to become a healthy, normal human being through the miracle of psychic surgery. The second concerns a developing "battle of the psychics," in which some members of the fraternity of prophets are condemning others as vicious charlatans. Certainly, there is no person in the country more qualified to write on these fascinating subjects. Last summer, Valentine became the first U.S. reporter ever to view and photograph psychic surgery in progress during a visit to the Philippines. Jeane Dixon herself, perhaps the most famous seer in American history, has worked with Tom on numerous occasions and each has learned to respect and admire the talents of the other. Our man Valentine with Jeane If you're one of the millions of Americans who share Tom's interest in exploring the unknown, you won't want to miss either of his latest articles. They're on Pages 5 and 7. ********** IF THERE'S ONE thing any average American housewife (and her husband, too, for that matter) should be interested in knowing, it's how to serve good-tasting nutritionally balanced meals. With this in mind, TATTLER'S newly appointed food editor Constance Donnellan, begins a brand-new feature this week, in which she combines recipes for delicious dishes with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly lists of plentiful foods. Starting with this issue, Constance will be offering one or more "plentiful foods" recipes each week. She plans to test most of them in her own kitchen at home before passing them along to TATTLER readers. If you're concerned with "what's for dinner tonight," you'll want to turn right now to Constance's "Food for Thought" column on Page 4.--RJS. It Costs Airlines Only $20 to Fly You Overseas It costs airlines only $20.34 to fly a passenger across the Atlantic, according to technical summaries issued by Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas, manufacturers of the 1011 TriStar and the DC-10. This is the word from George Bryant, a sharp-eyed columnist for the Toronto Star. Bryant reminds outraged airline passengers that the $20.34 covers only direct operating costs for the airplane. Corporate overhead--labor for ground staff other than maintenance workers, airport charges, VIP lounges, etc.--isn't included in that figure. Furthermore, the $20.34 per passenger applies only when every seat is filled (as is the case on charter flights). But the fact remains that air travel is cheaper than you think--or cheaper for the airlines, anyway. Says columnist Bryant, "Ever wonder why charter operators are lining up to carry future passengers for $150, round trip?" THE NATIONAL TATTLER December 10, 1972 Page 2 Wisconsin Basement Houses A Tribute to Shirley Temple By PAUL R. LANE Shirley Temple Black is 44, a housewife, a Nixon appointee (Council on Environmental Quality), and a veteran of breast cancer. But the other Shirley--the bright-eyed little curly-top who charmed Depression America in more than 100 movies--still lives in a Wisconsin basement. "Little Shirley" lives through the hundreds of photos, dolls, jewelry, doll beds, coloring books, autographed movie stills, posters, cereal dishes, press releases, shoes, dresses and effects in Mrs. Ione Wollenzien's personal museum. The Waukesha, Wis., basement is the biggest existing collecting of memorabilia devoted to the movies' littlest superstar. Time-Life Books demonstrated this recently when they sent a camera team out to take more than 700 photos, a number of which appear in the 1930-40 volume of their series, "This Fabulous Century." Mrs. Wollenzien never intended to go into the museum business, she says. "It started in 1963 when my husband brought me home a Shirley Temple doll from San Francisco. I had collected dolls for years. But this particular one intrigued me. Soon, I was advertising in national hobby magazines for other Shirley Temple items." The museum idea owed much to Harley Wollenzien's carpentry ability. He built the floor-to-ceiling cabinets with sliding glass doors that house and protect the priceless collection. "People will send me items they wont sell or give to anyone else, because they know I'll display them, not just pack them away in some box." Mrs. Wollenzien finds herself playing hostess to collectors and Shirley Temple enthusiasts from many states. Recently, she was visited by a man named Lou Angel from New York City. Angel once danced professionally with Miss Temple, and he presented Mrs. Wollenzien with a colorful photo of he and Shirley dancing together. The sheer variety of items in the collection shows the depth of 1930 American's love affair with the curly-haired scamp. Although the items of jewelry are Mrs. Wollenzien's favorites, more than 100 Shirley Temple dolls dominate the display. Mrs. Wollenzien sewed most of the costumes--representing Shirley's roles in her 1930s movies--although she admits that a seamstress made some of the more elaborate ones. A woman in Florida made the boots and shoes that needed replacement. To restore the curly-head trademark, Mrs. Wollenzien set each doll's hair with small plastic curlers. Mrs. Wollenzien and one of many display cases. Mrs. Wollenzien loves to show visitors through her museum. She has a story to tell about every item. 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Title A name given to the resource Argosy & Saga articles et all Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Found these documents the 1972 -1977 box and not in a folder. Created a new folder "Argosy & Saga" At least two other articles by or about Ted Owens as well https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/95d2aca58052e5a331201b9fa9856fa4.pdf 596a584e85e2a8480049b79ec3080c5f https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/90bce40b452e408d96169d09bba43332.txt e4da07334eb94cd6f15a8f734c8ea051 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens: Author & Subject Description An account of the resource A selection of magazines, articles, and news clippings. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 V.A. Hospital Crisis VIETNAM VETERANS VICTIMIZED BY NIXON'S BUDGET POLITICS # SAGA 60¢ FEB./72 MAC 16008 Dateline: 1985 U.S. Colonization of VENUS The Occult Aspects of Political Assassination Vacation Special *Escape The Grind--Jet To Jamaica* $20 Million Spanish Gold Bars Buried In Carson National Forest Saga Salutes *The Tantalizing Donna Theodore* Spear Hunting The Man-Eater of Chabunkwa === Page 2 of 11 Ted Owens, the PyschoKinesis man who has performed over 200 recorded miracles to date (such as controlling hurricanes, earthquakes, and lightning storms, mentally guiding airplanes and ships, summoning rainstorms to drought areas, and helping and healing human beings who were beyond the reach of modern medicine), now shares his secret of the ages-- # How You Can Communicate with UFO SPACE INTELLIGENCES By Ted Owens First, let's get one thing straight. I'm not going to waste your time. This is a "how to do it" article, and if you're interested in doing the following by using your mind, then this is for you: * Hypnotize yourself at will (with a double safety). * Summon storms to rain on drought areas. * Direct lightning at certain targets. * Make and guide hurricanes. * Control airplanes in the sky. * Control ships on the sea (and submarines, too). * Manipulate and control *groups of humans*. * Help and heal human beings who are beyond the reach of modern medicine. * Control the minds of humans, near or far, either singly or collectively. * Create earthquakes and floods whenever you wish, wherever you wish. There is much, much more that you will be able to do, once you learn how to apply the instructions in this article, but the above is only a small sample of what you can bring about *with your mind*! At this point you should be extremely skeptical of the above statement. In fact, you shouldn't believe a word of it. Because to do the things mentioned above would not be humanly possible. Or . . . would it? Now let's see . . . Moses did things like that, didn't he? And 34 - [ ] SAGA === Page 3 of 11 Illustrated by Morgan Harris === Page 4 of 11 Ezekiel? Way back in Biblical days? But more important to you is who is Ted Owens and what does he do? What are his credentials for making such seemingly wild claims? If that's what you're thinking, then you're thinking correctly, and we're getting somewhere already. I'm Ted Owens, the "PK Man" who uses psycho-kinetic powers and special effects to produce miracles; Otto Binder wrote about me in SAGA in August and September of 1970 and again in March and April of 1971. I've already *done* the seemingly impossible things listed above, and have sworn, notarized affidavits saying so from responsible people. As a matter of fact, I've performed over 200 recorded "miracles" to date, using mind over matter power. Just recently, in a span of three weeks, with scientists watching "over my shoulder," so to speak, I brought a tremendous rainstorm to the Norfolk area--which had been stricken by months of ruinous drought--directed lightning attacks on the Norfolk area; produced a hurricane and brought it so close to Norfolk that the rain fell unceasingly for four days; and just to put the "icing on the cake," I had a UFO ("mysterious halo in the sky" as the TV stations called it) appear over Norfolk so that all could see it . . . simply as a "signature" to the other phenomena I had produced. But *before* all this happened I had notified scientists, government agencies, and local newspapers by letter that it *would* happen, so that when it did occur it could not conceivably be called "just a coincidence." I have sworn affidavits to this event. All the above are only a few of the over 200 miracles I've performed. All right . . . so I have credentials strong enough to impress an army of skeptics. What's the next step as far as you are concerned? Well, before we get down to fundamentals on how you can proceed to perform miracles, we first need some general background information so you'll have a better idea of how this all came about. I was born in Bedford, Ind., 50 years ago. Forty of those years were spent learning and perfecting the powers *you will be able to use after you read this article!* But that should not be so surprising--Edison conducted 50,000 experiments over many years before he perfected his first workable light bulb. Once he had it and made it public knowledge, anybody could build a light bulb in short order. Actually, I am only part human. My brain was modified by UFO intelligences (who we'll call SIs, for "space intelligences") so it would become a two-way sending and receiving set for the SIs. Once you follow my instructions, the same thing can happen to you, and then you will also be able to not only communicate with these UFO creatures, but perform miracles as well. There are a few books you should read. *Secrets of the Ages*, by Robert Collier, is one. *The Sky People*, by Brinsley le Poer Trench, is another. *Flying Saucers Are Watching Us*, by Otto Binder is yet another. These are must reading in order for you to obtain a proper background for what I'm teaching. The books are easy to read and easy to understand, yet all three are key books. Once you've received the proper background and mastered the instructions in this article, then *you* will perhaps be able to "move the world." The obvious question arises--why place this priceless information before the general public? Isn't it dangerous? Suppose someone with evil intent got hold of it and used it against the U.S. or the world? That's a fair enough question. Now I'll answer it. There are certain people among us now who are "sleepers"--that is, people who have the potential to become great--to enrich humanity--given the proper training and instruction. It's no secret that the U.S. is now in deep trouble. The SIs are going to try to help us out of the mess we are in by finding and activating these "sleepers," just as they found and activated me. As soon as my instructions are 36 - [ ] SAGA === Page 5 of 11 The goal of the Space Intelligences (who come from another dimension and whose powers and intellects are unimaginably superior to ours) is to help mankind. If after scanning your past, present, and future, they decide you have the capacity for it, they may bestow superhuman powers on you. But if they feel you will use them selfishly--to obtain money, or hurt, rob, kill, or hate your fellow man--they will ignore you, for the SIs are only interested in finding and developing those humans who will use their new powers to advance the human race creatively and constructively! first pass exhaustive, rugged IQ tests--the minimum IQ necessary is 148. Yet the SIs may choose a farmer, a soldier, a secretary, a truck driver--that is, anyone who might follow the instructions in this article--and build up their minds so they will have superhuman brains that would put a member of Mensa to shame! That person could very well be you! All right. Enough background. Let's get down to business now. You want the instruction; the system. Now bear in mind that it is unorthodox. But never mind that. While you are learning it, putting it into practice, do not discuss what you are doing with anybody, except your "helper"--one person, who will assist you, as I'll soon describe. First thing in the System--get the book, Roth's Memory Courses, by D. Roth. This book teaches you how to memorize lists of words by associating unusual thoughts. It is only necessary that you master the first 20 words. For instance, No. 1 is "hat" . . . and what you want to memorize, like an airplane, goes with a hat, as No. 1. To memorize it, you simply see a giant 747 plane taxiing around the rim of a tophat. Silly, yes? It's supposed to be. Helps you to remember. This is the technique of "mental imagery," and mental imagery is one of the two keys to becoming a superhuman. Get Roth's book, practice the first 20 words to be memorized therein . . . hat, hen, ham, hare, hill, shoe, cow, hive, ape, woods, tide, tin, team, tire, hotel, dish, dog, dove, tub, and nose. Practice getting up in front of groups (this will make you a big hit at parties) and letting members of the group call out objects, one at a time, which another member writes down on a pad, starting with No. 1. When you've gotten to 20 stop them, and then you can call back the entire list in any order, backwards or forwards! mastered and put into operation the SIs will be alerted. At that time they'll scan your mind, telepathically, just like you are reading this article. All that you have been and done will be "seen" by them. Also everything you can do in the future will be observed, because they can "see ahead" in time. They will decide then whether or not to contact you, modify your brain, give you superhuman powers, as they did with me, and use you to benefit and lead mankind. Should you be interested in hurting, hindering, robbing, killing, hating your fellow man, or acquiring money and riches, they will ignore you. THE SIs ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN FINDING AND DEVELOPING THOSE HUMANS WHO WILL USE THEIR NEW POWERS TO ADVANCE MANKIND CREATIVELY AND CONSTRUCTIVELY. So I assure you, there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of "bad people" using these priceless secrets to harm either the human race or the U.S. Now, you would think that the SIs would find and develop only the brilliant minds among us, wouldn't you? For instance, I happen to belong to "Mensa," an international organization of some 15,000 members whose IQs are exceptionally high. In order to be accepted by this organization you have to Now why, you ask, is this parlor trick necessary in order to become superhuman? When you finally communicate with the SIs, and when you perform your miracles, assuming you get to that point, it will all be done through mental imagery. Therefore, while you are performing your "parlor trick" of giving memory demonstrations, you are actually building a muscle in your mind for mental imagery! Each time you do the memory exercises, it will easier and easier for you to see pictures in your mind, and to control these mental pictures. 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A-2 Radio City Station New York, N.Y. 10019 World Handwriting Center Copyright © 1971 # UFO INTELLIGENCES (Continued from page 37) intelligences, ask them to bring a UFO into plain sight over the Brewer-Bangor area within a few days' time, and it would be reported in the newspapers! He said all right, he'd like to see if that could happen. So I used mental imagery to contact the SIs, then used mental imagery to show the SIs what I wanted as a demonstration. A few days later a flying saucer was sighted over the Brewer-Bangor area, knocked out automobile power, and then vanished. And the story appeared on the front page of the local newspapers. (I have Mr. Ames's sworn affidavit on this event.) Now, without mental imagery I could not have performed this "miracle." Or take the case of Brenda Sue Pennington, a girl in a hospital just outside Washington, D.C., who had a crushed skull and was dying. Her parents asked me to try to save her. I used mental imagery to contact the SIs and "tell" them what I was attempting, then stood inside the girl's hospital room and used mental imagery to place other-dimensional symbols onto the girl so that they would grow and help her. One, for instance, was a rainbow effect on top of her head, which would then spread and grow larger with the passing of each day, until it eventually filled her entire hospital room! That was the turning point for the girl, who'd been given up for dead by the doctors; today she is living in West Virginia. The point, is, without mental imagery the whole thing would have been impossible. (That case also is documented.) I first stumbled upon, and learned, the Roth memory system when I was 18 years old. Of course, I hadn't really "stumbled" onto it; the SIs had led me telepathically to it, just as they would lead me, a "sleeper," to all the other necessary materials for communicating and working with and for them. So you can see how vitally important it is for you to learn and develop this mental imagery technique! It isn't hard; it's lots of fun; it's entertaining to your friends; and best of all it will make your brain more powerful! (By the way, if any of you have questions about any of this, or difficulty in following the directions for this System, just write to me care of SAGA Magazine, 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206, and I'll help you personally, as much as my time allows, by answering your letters. It could take a while for me to answer, so please be patient.) The next step in learning this System, is the most important! A famous scientist, who wants to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, thoroughly investigated me and my work and stated unequivocally that it had to be my mastery of self-hypnosis that was the key to the SIs being able to give me superhuman power! And that is your next step--to hypnotize yourself. I'll make it simple for you, too. Some people take years to learn autohypnosis, but you'll be able to do it in days. Actually, self-hypnosis is the key that unlocks a secret door in your mind that leads to a storehouse of tremendous === Page 7 of 11 unused power! Let me give you a few examples of what can be done with self-hypnosis. Some years ago in Texas, I bought a car from a salesman named Charlie Turner. Charlie was English, and his accent interested me. We chatted as I filled out the necessary papers, and he said it had been the first car he'd sold in several months, that he was broke. I "scanned" his mind and telepathically ascertained that there was an unusual man, one with great potential. So I told him that I taught self-hypnosis, and that he should learn it. He said he hadn't the money to pay for the instruction. I said that it wasn't necessary, I'd be glad to train him for nothing. So he made an appointment, and I began training him. Shortly after learning self-hypnosis he quit selling cars, and started an import-export business. Within months he'd become fantastically successful! He had quite a bit of money in the bank and was becoming widely known in his field. He attributed all this success to his learning of autohypnosis and application to his daily life. But that wasn't all. One night Charlie, who lived far out in the suburbs, lifted an outboard motor on top of his stove to repair it, and the stove's pilot light ignited the motor; it blew up, spraying flaming gasoline on Charlie's left hand and arm. Charlie quickly doused the flames and called an ambulance, which didn't get there for almost half an hour (this happened at 3:30 in the morning). Charlie told me that if he hadn't used self-hypnosis on himself to deaden the excruciating pain, he'd have gone out of his mind. But worse was to come. After Charlie reached the hospital he removed the self-hypnosis from his arm (as I had taught him to do) so the doctors could work on him, that's when he was told that they couldn't give him a shot to ease his pain until the doctor arrived to authorize it! Therefore because the pain was unbearable, Charlie put himself under hypnosis again, and sat for 40 minutes until the doctor got there. The doctor told Charlie that he might never be able to use the arm again. It was burned that badly. And then, at that point, Charlie deviated from my instruction and told the doctor he would treat the arm himself without the doctor's help! Charlie took a cab home and stayed in bed for a week, using autohypnosis not only to deaden the pain in his arm but also to rebuild and restore the skin and muscle! At the end of that week he climbed up on top of his house and installed a new TV aerial, using the left arm the doctor said would be useless! The following week he was up and about driving his car and doing all his normal chores. The week after that he came to see me, told me the story, and showed me his left hand and arm. Only a tiny brown spot remained on the back of his left hand. The arm was entirely normal! I've gone into this case in detail because it demonstrates how self-hypnosis can help, both your life situation as a whole and in countless emergency situations. Of course, pain is a warning signal, and autohypnosis should be used only in an emergency until you get to a doctor. I bawled Charlie out for not staying in the hospital and following the doctor's instructions. "Medicine and doctors and # MODERN SCIENCE GROWS HAIR EVEN ON BALD HEADS! ### SENSATIONAL -- NEW MODERN MIRACLE!! Whether you are losing your hair, have thinning hair or are already bald. 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One man learned autohypnosis because he had a deathly fear of dentists--hadn't been to one for 12 years. As soon as he mastered the technique, he marched to the nearest dentist and had 12 teeth pulled, all under self-hypnosis! In order to find out more you should read some good books on autohypnosis. There are a number of them, so I'll leave the choice up to you (they are for background and general instruction). I'm going to teach you a superior method right here, which is sufficient for your use. Before teaching you how to hypnotize yourself, let me give you some preliminary instruction. Pain is a warning signal; you should only use self-hypnosis to deaden pain in an emergency, until you can get to a doctor; then you should remove the autohypnosis, because you need the pain as an indicator for the doctor to work with. ALWAYS WORK WITH THE DOCTOR. Self-hypnosis should not be used to take the place of medicine, or doctors, or surgery! I can't stress that point enough. By the way, allow me to quote some people who I taught self-hypnosis (names are unimportant, but they are identified by profession, to show its scope). Business owner: "Since I've used autohypnosis I find that people can't irritate me or insult me anymore. It just seems to bounce off me. I'm much happier. I feel like a new man!" Court reporter: "Since I've learned autohypnosis from you I've been amazed at the good results of it! And I've been deeply happy since using it!" Jeweler: "Money could not buy what your autohypnosis has done for me, Mr. Owens!" Secretary: "Nothing happened the first two weeks but suddenly I've become happier than at any other time in my life. I can't believe it, and I'm scared that it might go away. I'm so happy!" Lawyer: "My work has improved 30 percent because of the autohypnosis you taught me. It's really working!" Court reporter: "This week I have been happier, made more money, and got more work done that at any time in my entire life! I even increased my stenotype speed by 25 words per minute by using my autohypnosis. This autohypnosis is the best thing that ever happened to me!" Nurse: "It's like a miracle! Now I'm sleeping like I used to years ago! For years I have only gotten half a night's sleep, until now." Electronics expert: "I didn't believe in this for a couple of weeks, but now I'm sleeping without pain, and soundly." These comments from former pupils go on and on but you can see how powerful and effective this method is. Used intelligently (with the cooperation of your doctor, if you so desire), self-hypnosis can improve your life tremendously! But even more important, it can lead you directly to the SIs and to superhuman power. (Two superior books I suggest you read are: Autoconditioning by Dr. Hornell Hast, and Hypnosis by Drs. S. J. Van Pelt, Gordon Ambrose and George Newbold.) Now, the autohypnosis I'm going to teach you is designed to lead you to the SIs. However, here are a few of the things it can do for you when it is used simply for itself: * It can make you feel happy and cheerful, instead of depressed and blue. * It can give you the courage to face anything. * It can refresh you in minutes, if you are tired. * It can keep you wide awake, if that is necessary (be careful not to extend this over too long a period of time.) * It can put you soundly to sleep, all night long, or at any time. * It can relieve pain and discomfort. (Useless pain, that is. Read those books I referred you to concerning this point.) * It can help you break bad habits, such as procrastination, overeating, smoking drinking, etc. * It can remove panic, fear, tension, self-consciousness, etc. * It can help improve your personality and your attitude toward people, and situations. * It can help you improve your income, by improving you. But what is the "secret" of self-hypnosis Just this: in your normal conscious state your thoughts do not register very deeply upon your subconscious mind. In contrast, when you utilize your autohypnotic "trigger" mechanism, all your mental power is focused on whatever you are concentrating on, and when you come out of your self-hypnosis your mind is set, just like an alarm clock, to get the maximum results that you have ordered while under autohypnosis. (This is called post-hypnotic suggestion.) You see, in your normal conscious state you use a mere five to 10 percent of your brainpower. But your subconscious mind, controlled by your self-hypnosis, gives you access to approximately 70 to 90 percent of your brainpower! Quite a difference! O.K. Now I'll teach you exactly how to hypnotize yourself, step by step. The first step is to have you hypnotized by your "helper"--your husband or wife, or girlfriend or boyfriend. Someone you trust who will take this seriously and not make fun of it, and will above all else, be considerate and cautious. If you have any doubts or reservations, you should not attempt it (and that goes for any step along the way). A pendulum will be needed--one can be acquired in novelty or magic shops, or you can simply tie a ring to a six-inch string. Turn off all the lights in the room except one just above and behind your head, as you lie on a couch. Your helper will be seated beside the couch in such a position that he can hold the end of the string of the pendulum and let it dangle in front of your eyes, swinging it back and forth. He can put this page in his lap and read the instructions below, as he slowly swings the pendulum back and forth about six inches in front of and slightly above your eyes, so that you have to look up at it. 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Each time you breathe your body will become much heavier and your feet, legs, hands, and arms will become heavier and more limp. Listen closely to my voice for it is going to help you, and you will not listen to other sounds, and they will just fade away. Now feel your feet, your legs, your hands, your arms growing heavier and heavier and more and more relaxed. Let your hands become as limp as though they were pieces of cloth, or two empty gloves lying on top of a dresser, completely heavy and limp. Remember, all you have to do is listen to me and imagine what I am suggesting. And the better you concentrate your mind on listening to my suggestions, the better the results you will obtain through the power of your mind. Now be aware of any tense muscle in your body, and simply let it relax, let it go limp. Just let go and keep on letting go. Now your entire body is getting heavy, limp, quiet, and relaxed. Feel your hands getting still heavier and heavier, and more and more relaxed. "Feel more and more peaceful. Feel a sense of peace and well-being coming over you. Feel at peace with yourself. Now turn your attention to your face and neck and let all tension and nervousness go out of your face and neck. Just relax your face and neck and let those areas become quiet, peaceful, and relaxed. Feel a great peacefulness. Feel at peace with yourself. Now, with your entire body relaxed, quiet, peaceful, limp, and relaxed, I am going to count from one to four, and as I count feel this relaxation and quiet peacefulness sinking in, deeper and deeper. One, more relaxed. Two, deeper and more peaceful. Three, more quiet, more relaxed. Four, still deeper, more quiet, more peaceful. Now you are deeply relaxed, and must not try to come out of your concentration until I count back to zero. "Now listen carefully . . . from this minute on, whenever you practice your self-hypnosis, it will be five times deeper and five times more powerful for you than ever before! And each day, as you use your self-hypnosis, you will become happier and more relaxed and your nerves will become calmer and calmer, and you will be able to relax more quickly each time you practice it and more easily each time you use it. And each time you practice you will be able to let yourself sink into the concentration more easily, and more quickly. "Now, listen to me carefully, and ac- === Page 10 of 11 cept each of my suggestions. The following suggestions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully for the rest of your life. Powerfully! "From now on, whenever you wish to hypnotize yourself, look at the moon of either of your thumbnails, and simultaneously say, or think, the words "deep asleep.' Always remember these two key words, 'deep asleep.' Then feel your eyes get heavy, and let them close. Next picture in your mind a dark light blub and touch your forehead between your eyes and see this light bulb in your mind click on. Now, that much is your 'trigger mechanism,' and the instant you have completed it you have turned off your conscious mind and turned on your giant, subconscious mind . . . although there will be no apparent difference to you, that you're aware of. Next, count to three, slowly. Then you are ready to give yourself your autosuggestion . . . and you must speak to yourself with emotion and feeling . . . also over and over, to make it stronger. For instance, instead of just saying, 'I'll be happy today,' say 'Today and every day I'll be happy, relaxed and calm, and the things that have been worrying me, irritating me, will no longer have the power to upset me; they will just bounce off me like a rubber ball off a wall.' In other words, give yourself a regular pep talk under your own hypnosis . . . then repeat it over and over several times, to make it even stronger. Then you are ready to wake yourself, and for this you always follow the same procedure, saying 'I'll waken now at the count of zero, wide awake, refreshed and happy, with my mind and body in perfect balance, and going with God.' Then you count backward . . . four, three, two, one, zero . . . see the light bulb in your head click off when you touch your forehead, say to yourself out loud, 'wide awake now!', open your eyes, and snap your fingers right in front of your eyes . . . just to make sure that your are out of your deep concentration. Do you have these instructions in mind? (He or she nods) "Good. Now I'll touch your forehead and these instructions will be indelibly engraved upon your subconscious mind for the rest of your life, and will serve you powerfully! Powerfully!" (The helper touches the subject on the forehead between the eyes and says "there!") "Now, before you come out of your deep concentration, a few more instructions. For the next two weeks do not try to analyze what is going on or it might keep it from working. It would be like your going into a dark closet with a bright light to see if there was any dark in there. The secret to obtaining powerful results is to just let yourself go, and follow these instructions. Also, it will take two to four weeks before you have completely mastered this skill, so do not expect any miraculous results before that time. Now, for two minutes there will be quiet." (At this point the helper puts his hand on the listener's forehead, closes eyes, and says a personal prayer . . . asking God to make the listener happy and healthy.) 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Then all you have to do to hypnotize yourself at any time during the rest of your life is look at the white, or moon, of either your left or right thumbnail, say or think the words "deep asleep," close your eyes, count to three slowly . . . one, two, three . . . and you are ready to tell yourself the suggestion you want to take effect. All that remains now to reach the SIs, the UFO intelligences, is: type or print on a card, which you will keep in your handbag or wallet, the following: "I am now sending my mind back through the ages . . . to the times of the ancient Egyptians, Incas, Aztecs . . . to learn the great secrets of those times, and to bring those secrets back to me here, so that I can know them and use them in the world I live in today to help mankind." Now, you will take that formula to bed with you twice a week after you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Just before going to sleep you'll autohyp, go through the routine, and tell yourself before you open your eyes that "when I open my eyes, what I read to myself will take effect on my life with all the power of Nature." Then simply open your eyes and read that formula off the card. When finished, set the formula aside, turn off your light, and go to sleep. On a second card, type a second formula, which reads as follows: "I hereby give my mind, my soul, and my body to God, to do with as He sees fit to improve the world, to improve mankind. But I deny and reject the Devil and evil completely and entirely!" You use this second formula twice a week, but in the morning just after you awaken. Just go through your autohyp routine, open your eyes and read this formula out loud to yourself, close your eyes and count backward and bring yourself "out." And you'll have a happy day. O.K. . . . let's take a brief look at what you need to do: learn Roth's memory system, at least the first 20 words, but practice until you are an expert with those 20 words. Get your helper and have him teach you autohypnosis as outlined above. All he or she has to do is use the pendulum to make your eyes tired, read the passages from these pages, and presto, you learn how to hypnotize yourself. Once that is done, make out your two formula cards and begin to use each of them twice a week on yourself, under your autohyp. Any questions? If your helper should at any time deviate from my written instructions and give suggestions of his own, then you just come awake and get another helper at some future time. You must have a helper you can trust. I've worked out this formula word by word, precisely, with thousands of people, and it works like a charm, if followed correctly. That is why I stress that your helper must be someone you can trust. Some of you will read this and say, I haven't time to learn a memory system and all these instructions. Too much trouble. Interesting, though. And you'll close the magazine and watch TV. Some of you will read this, go to the trouble to get Roth's book, learn the 20 words, become a whiz at entertaining at parties, and let it go at that. Some of you will go further--you'll learn the memory system and develop a strong mental-imagery technique; then you'll get a helper and learn autohypnosis as outlined above. And you'll feel like a million. You'll get happier, and as time goes by your entire life will change for the better. But the cards and formulas will seem silly to you, and you'll skip that. A few of you will go the whole route: learn the memory system master the autohypnosis, use it as instructed, and apply the formula system as instructed. Then one of two things will happen: the SIs will be alerted automatically, as if you'd rung their doorbell, so to speak . . . and they will scan your mind to determine if you are the right kind of person to handle the awesome responsibilities of secrets from Infinity . . . from another world, their dimension. If when they scan your mind and find you wanting, or weak, or power hungry, or greedy, or mean and cruel--and they can see it clearly, no matter how you've fooled the people around you--then it will not go any further. The superhuman powers will be denied you. But somewhere in your midst--perhaps a housewife, an office clerk, a truck driver, a lawyer or ballplayer, perhaps even a college youngster--will be a chosen few "sleepers" who will zealously master what I've written . . . use the formulas . . . have their minds scanned by the SIs . . . and pass the test! From that point on the SIs will take you in hand and bestow on you superhuman powers. Just as they did with me. And the rest will be history. The world will hear about you and the "miracles" you'll perform. You are needed badly, right away, by the SIs for training and use, because the world is in a dangerous state today. Mankind could be destroyed on any day of the week. But if some of you can be found by the SIs--and accepted and trained--then perhaps there is still a chance for the world to be made a happy, safe place. Healthy to live in and with no more wars and killing and hate. I want to express my deepest thanks to SAGA magazine for allowing this unusual message and set of instructions to be printed for the general public. SAGA is probably the only magazine in the world with enough interest in mankind to try this unorthodox approach. The SIs also wish to thank SAGA. In closing let me say God bless you, readers, whoever you may be, and if you feel inspired, or feel the urge to follow these instructions, please do it, for God's sake! ★ THE END # ESCAPE TO SEA (Continued from page 40) can have it. If you want embroidered roses and plastic daisies, that's available too. The choices are as limitless as there are different people. Boat builders offer endless choices of color and materials, or you can even start from scratch and be your own designer. You can buy old or new, revamp some other man's ideas or create your own. You can build of wood or fiberglass, from a prepared kit or from dozens of different blueprints or pay $1,000 for a hull that needs work, or any amount you can afford. The word "secondhand" doesn't mean the same thing in boats as it does in cars. A car can go out of style, but a boat is like a house--it's basically good or bad. You can buy any number of boats that are 10, 15, 20 or more years old. You can find dowagers from the 30s that are still in first class condition, and which you would be proud to own. Usually, the largest boat you can afford is the one to buy. Dr. Don Thomas, a Midwest dentist paid $35,000 for a 100-foot Scandinavian freighter and converted it into a virtual floating palace. It has 2,000 square feet of living space with plenty of room for his wife, two children and their two teen-aged friends. The freighter was completely renovated before Thomas took off, even to the addition of paisley wallpaper in the playroom. He sold all his belongings and cashed in his life insurance to do it, and it's still not as complete as he would like. But even though his "Shangri-La" doesn't have all the comforts most Americans consider standard--air conditioning, television, telephones, and cars--Thomas has no regrets. "When the money for food and fuel runs out, I'll start drilling teeth again," he says. With his white beard, battered blue sneakers, and old work clothes, Thomas looks every bit the seadog as he stands on the fantail of his bright red steel ship looking out to sea. "I wanted to see how other people live, learn their customs and understand their problems. Just thinking about it took my mind off mundane things." He plans to visit the Caribbean, South America, and eventually the South Pacific. "The only reason to go back to work is to eat." Pete Allison lives in dread of being called back to work at Pan American Airways, where he has been a high salaried mechanic for 12 years. He was laid off in a cutback over a year ago and hopes they never call him back. The reason? He's living on his 30-foot cruiser and makes frequent trips to the Bahamas to dive for treasure. (Continued on page 78) 74 - [ ] SAGA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7202 SAGA Ted Owens How you Can Communicate with UFO Space Intelligences Full https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d167fd0b6ee19d06b8172aacb8267793.pdf 0e5a94951b50f37d94cc76373420314c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/61c7ef5176c56956ba64337d4e38a514.txt aa9a05efe08b08a5f6cf49dad4a52f5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens: Author & Subject Description An account of the resource A selection of magazines, articles, and news clippings. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 PART II-- Ted Owens's UFO Mission Received Mar. 20/1971 from Mr. Colin Calvas Although he can't tell precisely why he was selected by the SIs (Space Intelligences) to be their "envoy" on earth, two things he is sure of: 1) he has been "programmed" to receive messages from these ultra-scientific extraterrestrials, and; 2) the feats he's performed with the amazing PK powers they've bestowed on him are merely their way of trying to get the attention of the world, particularly the U.S. Government, in order to help mankind out of its many difficulties. Up to now, no one has paid any attention to his ominous warnings of an imminent crisis, but can we much longer ignore TED OWENS Flying Saucer PROPHET of DOOM 22 - [ ] SAGA === Page 2 of 8 By Otto O. Binder Illustration by Gil Cohen === Page 3 of 8 In Part I of the Ted Owens story (SAGA-March), Otto Binder described the amazing fulfillment of the predictions made by the incredible PK man. Now, in Part II, Binder explains how Ted came into possession of his fantastic powers, and why the Saucer Intelligences chose him to be the agent for their vital mission to Earth. Somewhere in another eerie dimension, strange beings of pure energy cast their all-seeing eyes upon the tiny planet earth. They see strife and trouble and moral degeneration there. Moreover, they see organic creatures (humans) defiling their beautiful world, spreading pollution senselessly. They pity the disorganized earthlings who are unknowingly heading for worldwide disaster and eventual oblivion. A voice booms out to the DIs, (Dimension Intelligences), an omniscient voice, one that the DIs, through ages of spiritual development, have often tuned in directly. The Voice commands--"Go to that doomed planet and help those pitifully blundering souls to save themselves before it is too late. Go!" Obediently, the DIs utilize their ultra-scientific and supernormal powers to penetrate to the earth-dimension in craft shaped like flying saucers. The DIs are now the SIs, or the Saucer Intelligences, as far as earth is concerned. Their super-ray monitors scan the teeming millions on earth below. Where can they find a human mind less primitive than the average and capable of receiving ESP communications from them? It is no easy task to match minds from two utterly different dimensions. No such mind is found, not one that would withstand their powerful and indeed lethal thought-impulses. Ah, but that child--his brain and mind might be developed to the point where it would not be blasted and burned out by an interchange of communication. It would take time--an earthly lifetime, in fact--but there is no other alternative. They must begin now, for time is running out for earth. . . . Harry T. Owens was born in Bedford, Ind., in 1920. The "T" doesn't stand for anything, but an aunt began calling him Ted and the name stuck. From the beginning, Ted was a "loner," uninterested in joining other children in their "silly" games. Only sports interested him, somewhat, in school. And here the first indications of his strange powers became evident. In basketball, he would make a 20-foot shot with his back to the basket. The ball would swish through the hoop miraculously. When he passed the ball, nobody saw it move, yet the boy he shot it to would suddenly find it in his hands. Needless to say, his friends began to shun him for his mysterious doings. Ted took up boxing later, excelling in it. However, when he fought a much bigger boy, he was battered savagely in the head and suffered a latent concussion. As Ted sees it today, this seemed to have been deliberately planned by the SIs. Even before that, at age five, Ted had been playing in the street when a car struck him and knocked him 15 feet, leaving him unconscious for hours. Then, after the boxing incident, he received more "brain-rattl- *Ted Owens was parked on a one lane mountain road years ago when a car passed through his!* 24 - [ ] SAGA === Page 4 of 8 ing" blows as if his brain were being "shook up" or "scrambled"--for a purpose. While playing, another boy rolled a huge log down on Ted that ripped his scalp open. As a teen-ager, Ted was a passenger in a car that ran off the road at 90 miles per hour. The car was totally smashed, and Ted's head was almost split open. Ted's head and brain received four brutal blows, from which he always miraculously recovered. That is certainly, and oddly, more than most people suffer. Ted has since found out from the SIs, he says, that these "accidents" were necessary in order to allow one of the invisible SI entities to enter his brain at the moment of injury and perform a strange healing that altered his brain each time, for future SI communications. **T**his becomes more credible when one remembers that head and brain injuries have played a part in the careers of noted psychics. Peter Hurkos fell off a ladder onto his head, for instance, and thereafter gained his famed psi-powers (a fully documented story). Dr. Franz Polgar was shot in the head in WW I and lived to become a noted "sensitive." There are hints from the SIs that those men, and others, might have been earlier experiments of theirs to reshape a human brain into an SI "receiving station," but without success. Only in the case of Ted, it seems, could the SIs go all the way. Sheer imagination? Blatant nonsense? Then read these excerpts from Ted's diary. July 4, 1966--"Woke up this morn with two sore spots on back of head, proportionately spaced...two little bumps. Family noticed them immediately, said they were never there before." July 1, 1968--"Martha (his wife) pointed out this morn...two deep scars under my ear, on neck...that have never been there before. Did the SIs do something to me overnight?" Then, in April, 1970, a deep indentation appeared behind Ted's right ear. Martha exclaimed--"Why, Ted, it looks like something has been *inserted* there!" **I**n October 1968, Ted also had felt a new ridge of bone at the back of his head, below the brain case. Now the other "indentations" and "scars" might conceivably have been ordinary bruises that Ted received unknowingly. But when a ridge of solid bone appears overnight--and stays--we can't explain that away. Another remarkable change in Ted's physiognomy occurred recently, in July, 1970. Ted woke up with two sets of eyebrows. In the mirrors, he distinctly saw a new growth of reddish hair over his normal brown eyebrows. It could have been another sign of brain "tampering" by the SIs. The SIs have since told Ted what they are up to in these brain "modifications." It was a form of "psychic surgery" to beef up the right lobe of his brain in order to allow him to perform PK feats and also to receive their high-voltage ESP messages. These weird alterations within Ted's brain are given strong credence by Dr. Ansel Kowzak (his real name is not given to protect his position), an astrophysicist as well as an expert in paranormal phenomena. Kowzak told Ted that the government had performed secret autopsies on several "contactees," notably the famed George Adamski. The results were startling. In all the dead contactee brains, a pattern of odd growths were found on the frontal lobe of the cerebrum. They were called "dendrites" and seemingly had something to do with the ESP communications the contactees claimed to have had with the saucer people. (In medical terms, dendrites are bunches of tiny sensory tips which link up brain cells. The more dendrites, the more sensory impressions going through the brain. Presumably, large growths of dendrites were found in the dissected brains of the contactees, which might have given them extra-sensory powers. This would give more credence to their stories of receiving ESP messages from saucer people.) This story naturally cannot be verified, if true, as it would obviously be classified by the government to camouflage its secret interest in the "non-existent" UFOs. Ted is sure that something similar to dendrites have been implanted in his brain by the SIs to make him a sensitive ESP receiver. Up until March, 1965, Ted had believed he was in communication with the "Intelligence behind Nature" who had given him his PK powers to create or guide storms. Then, as related in the previous issues of SAGA (August and September, 1970), Ted suddenly became aware that he was being contacted by the SIs. **One astrophysicist, who has studied UFO phenomena for many years, became quite excited after a careful examination of Ted's record of accomplished PK feats and called him "one of the world's greatest psychics" and said he "might be the most powerful mind on earth today!"** **A**t first their ESP communications were vague, but gradually, as the SIs "modified" his brain properly, the messages became more direct. The exact contact method kept changing, too. For example, in August, 1965, the SIs switched (Continued on page 70) SAGA - [ ] 25 === Page 5 of 8 (Continued from page 68) head down past the islands. . ." Taking a deep breath Marsh signaled to Foulk who moved his engine levers to "slow ahead." Marsh swung the Far West cautiously about, bucking the swift current, and headed her downstream. He intended to maintain a midchannel course but soon groups of hostile Sioux arrived at sharp bends in the river and galloped along the bank, shooting flaming arrows at the deck and pilothouse. They succeeded in starting several fires, which were extinguished by the crew. Marsh signaled to Foulk for more speed and swung dangerously close to the far bank. Taut with suspense, he piloted the Far West around the bends and through menacing rapids, reaching the Yellowstone without grounding her. Here he tied up to await the arrival of Reno and Gibbon and ferry their mauled commands across to the north bank of the river. Despite Terry's other instructions to make all haste conveying the wounded to Bismarck he was compelled to hold the Far West back throughout July 1st and most of July 2nd before the slowly moving columns arrived. On the following morning he ferried the tired cavalrymen and their mounts across the river and experienced further delay when one of the wounded, Pvt. William George of H troop, succumbed and was buried in a grave on shore. So it was that the Far West, after another stop at the cavalry encampment at Powder River to take aboard the personal effects left there by officers and men killed on the battlefield, did not begin her record dash of 700 miles to Bismarck until five p.m. on the afternoon of July 3rd. From here on Marsh and Campbell spelled each other at the wheel in four hour shifts, both remaining in the pilothouse. They reached Fort Stevenson in North Dakota on the afternoon of the 5th, and the Far West halted so that a deckhand could be sent ashore to obtain whatever black cloth was available. Then the vessel proceeded to Bismarck with her derrick and jackstaff draped in mourning. She completed her epic run shortly after 11 p.m. Marsh hurried to the telegraph office, and the wounded were transported to Fort Lincoln. Carnahan, the telegrapher on duty, had a badgered look. He had been pounding the key for hours and had no rest since the first report of the Custer massacre reached Bismarck. He waved a sheaf of telegrams at Marsh. "Everyone is asking for confirmation of the death of General Custer. Wires have been pouring in from all over the East." "Which is the most urgent?" "General Sheridan. We've received several from his headquarters in Chicago." Marsh heaved a sigh. Tired as he was he felt that this was still something he had to do. "All right, let's get at it." Throughout the next day anxious women visited Fort Lincoln to inquire about their soldier husbands. Some, a pitiful few, found them among the wounded survivors. Others were sympathetically informed that advance reports of the deaths had been confirmed. Among those who called was the widowed Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Captain Marsh was permitted short time to rest from his arduous journey. Both his skill and his ship were vitally needed. Army headquarters reluctantly acknowledged: "The Indians have secured a resounding victory over the U.S. Army unparalleled in history. General Custer's violation of the principles of maneuver and security have cost dearly. It is imperative that the U.S. Army immediately take steps to rectify the situation. All posts in the military division of the Missouri are to supply reinforcements." Marsh continued to skipper the Far West in the service of the U.S. Army throughout the Indian campaigns. He transported soldiers and supplies on the Missouri and its tributaries and was cited by General Sheridan for his "zeal, competence and energy," a commendation he highly prized. In 1879 he had a river boat, the Andrew S. Bennett, constructed at Sioux City for use as a local ferry. While it was being built he found time to go to Bozeman where he made an unsuccessful effort to locate the freighting company whose driver, Gil Longworth, had entrusted the $750,000 gold shipment to his care. He learned that following the death of Longworth and several other attacks on drivers by roving Indian war parties the company had been forced out of business. Nor could he contact any of the miners whose gold had been in the shipment for the company's records of the names of the individual shippers could not be found. Marsh, himself, did not attempt to recover the treasure. On returning to Sioux City he learned that the Far West had been sold--literally--down the river and was to ply between St. Louis and other cities along the river. His mate, Ben Thompson, decided to go with her. The last heard of him was on October 20, 1883, when the Far West hit a snag in Mullanphy Bend, seven miles below St. Charles, and went aground so hard that she was subsequently disposed of to a wrecking company. As far as known Thompson never tried to retrieve the treasure either. Marsh, following the sale of the Far West, took command of another packet, the F. Y. Batchelor, traveling between Bismarck and the Yellowstone. George Foulk went along with him as the engineer. Early in November 1881, the F. Y. Batchelor was caught in a sudden blizzard on the Yellowstone. Marsh ordered her tied to shore and waited for the storm to blow itself out. Instead, there was one storm after another, and the snow became so deep that not even a train could move anywhere in northern Minnesota or the Dakotas until late in March. Marsh left Foulk and nine crewmen as caretakers on the ship and returned to Sioux City with the others after an arduous trip. When he returned early in the spring he found that Foulk was in poor health. This is the last news of Foulk, who was taken back to Sioux City and, presumably, had neither the stamina nor inclination to make his own search for the treasure. According to old river boat records Capt. Grant Marsh retired in 1906 following the death of his wife, to whom he had been married for 46 years. He died in 1916 at the age of 82. There is good reason to believe that the $750,000 is still hidden, all but forgotten, where Marsh, fearing an Indian attack, left it. Clues and circumstances indicate that the cache awaits a lucky finder. I, for one, am convinced it is still there. ★ THE END UFO PROPHET OF DOOM-- (Continued from page 25) from vague "voices" in Ted's mind to "mental TV." Ted then saw two odd creatures appear called Twitter and Tweeter. They appeared on a "screen" and relayed messages to him from "Control." This involved changing earth language into "color and sound codes" and then into the SIs' own language. By September, 1965, Ted writes--"The SIs have taught me to write what I want on a (mental) tablet . . . on 'Men-Tel.' What I write then changes to odd symbols that 'crackle and pop' into odd sounds . . . and the SIs read those sounds." Evidently this was part of a program to improve communications, for only a few days later, Twitter and Tweeter did not appear on the Men-Tel screen and instead a figure with a shadowy head used a long pointer. The figure seemed to ask Ted what he wanted and told him to use mental images, which were then mirrored on the huge screen. The shadowy figure, Ted learned, was the great "Control" himself, the top commander aboard the SIs' most gigantic spaceship hovering far above earth. Thus Ted had been "graduated" from the roundabout T and T method to direct mental contact with Control. On June 27, 1968, Ted's diary entry is--"Control will flash 'yes' or 'no' on screen now, instead of flashing a light." This was the first yes-no contact, which Ted is using today, plus a unique method of passing along information. As Ted explains it, he calls for Control when he wants contact and immediately the Men-Tel image of the shadowy form leaps into his mind's eye. Ted then transmits his questions or requests, and the screen lights up with a "yes" or "no." For example, if Ted wants to perform some PK feat, he first asks permission. If he gets a "yes," Control also sends along a "capsule" of rapid-fire information on how to accomplish the task. In one split second, Ted is given an intricate series of instructions about PK units, "boxes," and other PK manipulations. So much for mere communications. Now, just what are the awesome PK powers the SIs have bestowed on Ted? More than earthly "psychokinesis," for Ted has been allowed to tap a reservoir of powers called the ODE forces. ODE stands for "Other Dimensional Effects." These ODE powers extend Ted's PK performances into any and all conceivable 70 - [ ] SAGA === Page 6 of 8 areas, via various "boxes" and "bubbles" and other amazing devices he visualizes in his mind. We cannot go into this deeply without getting too complicated, but a partial list of these mental devices will give an inkling of the ODE range--Electromagnetic Field Box, Laser PK-Light Projector, Emmy-Emma Rolling Lightning Box, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Poltergeist Box, Magnetic Bar PK, Crystallization PK, Floating Wand PK, PK Fist, Earthquake Box, Moonray PK, Rainbow Door, Nature's Mailbox, etc. The list goes into many more eerie avenues and subdivisions. Ted has been making precise and orderly lists of these PK-ODE powers and how each or several were applied to a particular case. Ted's record is a glimpse into the awesome powers and forces that the SIs wield. Probably only a tiny portion has been relegated to Ted for use on earth. All these facets of Ted's life and his partnership with the SIs are necessary for a full understanding of why the UFOs are here on earth--the big riddle we promised to answer in the previous issue of SAGA. And there is still more to tell about Ted's personal life, which ties in strongly with the great "mission" that the SIs have revealed to Ted recently. If this sounds "over-dramatic," you will see that, if anything, it falls short of describing the SI's Master Plan. After examining Ted's life, we find that "paranormal" incidents have always happened to him, everywhere he goes. For one thing, he seems to make that old legend of the "charmed life" come true. Years ago, while driving out west at night, Ted followed a winding mountain road wide enough for only one car. He stopped and worriedly thought that if another car came from the opposite direction, he would have to back down a long way for it to pass. Suddenly, to his horror, a car's headlights appeared, coming straight for him. Seeming not to see his parked car blocking the way, the other vehicle roared closer. Ted prayed and awaited the deadly crash. But nothing happened! Ted opened his eyes to see the other car behind him, speeding safely away as if it had gone right through his car! There was no other possible explanation. Another time, while lifting the hood of his automobile to show a mechanic a problem he was having with his engine, Ted carelessly stuck his hand into the engine's whirling fan-blades. The mechanic turned white, expecting Ted's hand to be sliced into bloody shreds. Ted withdrew his hand, unmarked. But even more dramatic are the cases where mysterious assailants seemed to be after Ted's life. At least six times, cars or trucks deliberately tried to run him down. In some cases they missed as some sixth sense made Ted jump aside, but in two cases Ted swears the vehicles struck him--and passed through his body without harm (as in the above case out west). There are other episodes in Ted's diary where attempts on his life were made in various ways, and he often mentions odd-looking men in dark clothes. 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SAGA ☐ 71 === Page 7 of 8 (Continued from page 72) behalf of the SIs, with no result except a chilling silence (plus routine investigations by the FBI which could only clear him of any "maniac" tendencies or plans). What is the urgent message from the SIs that earthly authorities must heed? The full and stark message? Through Ted, the SIs have constantly warned that a "great crisis" faces the world, and that they, the SIs, need a "base of operations" in the U.S. in order to stave off that catastrophe. And now we are coming close to the great revelation Ted recently perceived--just why the SIs here on earth are operating through Ted Owens. What tremendous "crisis" could possibly require their inconceivable supernormal powers? To give the answer its proper perspective, we must first examine certain key "insights" that came to Ted through the years. The answer lies partly in the Bible. Ted scrawled in his diary some years ago--"I was horrified at the death and destruction which ensued (after he had contacted the SIs). I asked them, why such horrendous deeds?" The SIs gave a rather strange answer: that Ted was the first human being they were able to communicate with since Moses; and that he would find the answer to his agonized question in the Biblical account of Moses. As we know, Moses warned the Egyptians that "seven plagues" would strike them if they did not free his people, the Israelites, from bondage. When the Egyptian Pharaoh "hardened his heart," the "predictions" of Moses came true--plagues of locusts and vermin and diseases and storms that ravaged Egypt, until the Israelites were released. Ted saw the analogy with himself--in order to achieve a good thing, Moses had been forced to be the harbinger of evil things, but only because of the stubbornness of the ruthless Pharaoh and his priests (the "authorities" of that era). Ted also saw that he was akin to a modern Moses. Substitute "U.S. government" for "Pharaoh" and there it was plain as day. Significantly enough, when Ted and his small daughter were first visited by a low-flying UFO back in 1965 (SAGA, August and September, 1970) it was a pillar-shaped object. Moses led his people through the desert, guided by a "pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." These are excellent descriptions of today's UFO sightings by day and by night. However, his role as latter-day Moses did not fully satisfy Ted. Things did not quite fit. He wasn't freeing enslaved people and leading them to a promised land except in a vague symbolic sense. And then, in 1968, came the really blinding insight, when the SIs informed Ted he was partly like Moses but more like Ezekiel. First of all, as some of you may know, Ezekiel's vision in the Bible is an unmistakably clear description of a flying saucer coming down, with its "wheels within wheels" (or disks), "glowing metal in the midst of fire", "burnished brass", "wings" and many more "technical" terms utterly surprising when read in the scriptures. Secondly, the voice of the "Lord"--obviously the commander of this imposing UFO--boomed down and told Ezekiel that he must prophesy all sorts of catastrophes that would be visited on the people of that time, who had fallen into decadence. That should immediately remind you of Ted Owens, for Ted has repeatedly warned that civilization is going downhill morally, with the general breakdown in law and order and the spreading of social conflicts. Can anyone deny the steep rise in crime today, the constant threat of war, juvenile drug-taking to "escape reality," corruption of public officials, race riots, poverty in the midst of affluence, and all the other evils of present-day society? Hardly anyone believes the "world is still a good place to live in." But take Ezekiel's day. The "Sins" of the ancient people--oppression of the poor, usury for illicit wealth, whoredom or promiscuous sex, slayings and savage little wars, worship of the money idol, and most of all, pollution of the land. Who can deny that all these earmarks of a declining culture exist today and are steadily--or rapidly--increasing? Another analogy between Ted Owens and the prophet Ezekiel is uncanny. . . Ezekiel was told to "smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot" to cause widespread famine, pestilence, and upheaval--how else but through some mighty "PK power"? Similarly, Ted Owens has been constantly ordered by the SIs to whip up hurricanes, lightning, violent storms. But why do you think Ted Owens, who often balked at the SI's "holocausts," did not simply bow out and decline their offer to be their "representative?" Ezekiel was plainly warned by the Lord that if he did not give his prophetic warnings and carry out his feats, the blood of the dead would be on his (Ezekiel's) hands. In several diary entries, Ted reiterates that the SIs gave him no other choice--"Carry out our plans or you will suffer." The SIs are not playing patty-cake. But now we can reveal the full scope of the SIs "grand mission" on earth (akin to the Biblical "angels" and "messengers" of the Higher Power who runs the entire cosmos)--and with it, Ted's ultimate mission. The SIs made it all clear in the following "message to earth" via Ted Owens (which was ignored by the national press and printed only in a limited-circulation UFOlogy pamphlet)--"Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of faraway places, of advanced technology. But better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race YOU ARE UTTERLY DOOMED AS OF NOW. Many civilizations before you (on earth) have so doomed themselves." There you have the stark truth, that civilization is doomed unless mankind changes for the better with the aid of the SIs. Sheer nonsense? The twisted thinking of a "messianic" mind that has gone mad? Someone else, oddly enough, seems to think Ted's mission is somewhat like John the Baptist's. Dr. Morris K. Jessup, before he died in 1959, was an eminent scientist who also researched UFOs thoroughly. He wrote five penetrating books on UFOs, including UFO and the Bible. Jessup in that book analyzes portions of the Bible, particularly the Gospel according to St. Mark, Chapter 13, and comes to the conclusion that Christ's prophecies of destruction to the world--when it had become too "evil" to exist--could very likely come true in our time. "The imminence of catastrophe," wrote Jessup in 1950, "may be measurable on a comparable (future) scale or on a shorter one. 'Even at the doors' (Christ's warning after all his prophecies of intervening events had taken place) may mean tomorrow, or this afternoon. It may mean next month or next year--perhaps 10 years from now; but it almost certainly does not mean 100 years from now, and perhaps not even 50." After further analysis of the "time scale," Jessup comes to a shocking conclusion--"If that is correct (his analysis), and if we have a margin of about a generation in which to anticipate destruction, then we can roughly say that something (of world destruction) should be expected within the 30-year period starting sometime in the postwar decade (after WW II)." He comes to the grim point--"Should we say, then, between 1950 and 1980?" Now Ted Owens has consistently been warning the U.S. government (and the world through them, presumably) that a great crisis is imminent. Ted has never been given any exact time by the SIs, but he has the urgent feeling it will be soon, within a few years at the most. His warnings from the SIs have more and more included words like--"Tell your people the time is running dangerously short." Is there a "deadline for doom?" And will it be before 1980 as Dr. Jessup calculated? At first, Ted thought the SIs warnings might mean to beware nuclear war engulfing the world. But very recently, a new illumination came to Ted from the SIs, and now he knows it will be NATURE'S WAR ON MAN that will wipe out humanity. And "Nature's War" does not necessarily mean the SIs will destroy mankind with storms, but that man himself will bring about his own end. In Ezekiel, key words appear over and over--pollution, filthiness, fouling, defilement. The Israelites were polluting their environment and their minds. Are we not doing the same today, asks Ted? Pollution of the air, of water, of the soil; industrial carbon dioxide pouring out in such great volume that it threatens to upset the world's weather balance; mountains of trash and junk piling sky high; litter and debris tossed carelessly to the wind. But even worse is the pollution of the mind by ever-spreading materialistic, greedy, dog-eat-dog, anti-Christian, soulless doctrines. 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Mail coupon today for FREE "DRAFTING CAREER KIT," Sample Lesson, Drafting Aptitude Test including intriguing new 5-Way Drafting Instrument & 20-page Book "Your Future in Drafting"--jam packed with revealing facts on your opportunities to win top pay and job security in Drafting. No salesman will call. Everything sent FREE and WITHOUT OBLIGATION. Write today! North American School of Drafting, Dept. 14454 4500 Campus Dr., University Plaza, Newport, Calif. 92660 Rush "DRAFTING CAREER KIT", including Book, Sample Lesson, Aptitude Test & Drafting Instrument -- ALL FREE! No salesman will call. G.I. Approved. NAME __________ AGE ____ ADDRESS __________ CITY __________ STATE __________ ZIP __________ A home study program in association with Cleveland Engineering Inst. If earth is fouled, where do we go? Hence, Ted Owens, the Ezekiel of the SIs, is not saying the SIs will destroy us. We are doing that job ourselves, in blind stupidity. It will cause a "backlash" by Nature and its natural forces, and the big guns may start soon in the war on man. It's a war man can never win. And has that war already begun? The signs? The corn blight that wiped out much of the crop this year... oil pollution of tidewaters... mice and rat rampages in Europe... the starfish destruction of coral reefs in the South Pacific... the violin spider and fire ant in the southern U.S.... smogs in many big cities causing deaths... tests proving radioactive (nuclear) wastes have poisoned portions of the oceans. All of these and many more may build up to a crescendo of adverse "natural" bombshells all over earth, in time--in a short time. As Ted puts it, "Nature has started to turn its hand against Man. Nature has had it with Mankind and only wants to rid the earth of him." And who would replace man on earth? Ted has an ominous answer out of the documented files of UFOlogy. The Mothman, the Michigan Monster, the "little men" humanoids, and the various other non-human creatures seen emerging from flying saucers--they may be SI experiments to find a being able to replace man on earth. They are "monsters" only in our egocentric eyes. In the eyes of the SIs, human beings may be the worst "monsters" known. Yet the world can be saved! That's what SI messages through Ted Owens indicate. Suppose the miracle happened. Suppose the U.S. government "unhardened its heart" and backed up Ted. All he asks for is sanction and the means to meet the SIs in person, at some isolated spot where others can't be harmed. Ted himself will somehow be protected from the SI-forces radiated by their pure-energy bodies. Ted would then return with absolute proof of their existence, plus a world plan for reversing the self-inflicted doom syndrome to which all of humanity is heedlessly contributing. These plans would include, Ted says, a way to totally disarm the world and outlaw war... to end poverty and injustice... to wipe out disease and prolong life... to bring new joy and understanding to human spirits. A large order? All wishful thinking? Then read the book of Ezekiel in the later chapters, and see what the "Lord" promised his people if they repented. If there is any truth in the Bible at all, those are the kind of magnificent "world reforms" that the SIs perform as "angels." Ted's personal plans--if the world follows the SI program--are equally altruistic. He yearns to found the Church of Sota, a long-time dream of his. "Sota" means Secrets of the Ages. And in that, Ted includes healing secrets, both for the body and mind. Ted has fully outlined his grand establishment, which will include the Sota Library of Great Books, the Sota Hospital, the Sota Research Foundation (into "faith healings"), the Sota Haven for the Poor, and many other programs that will strive to uplift humanity. Even with his Church of Sota unborn, Ted for years has still sent out his PK disks to anyone requesting them--free. Each one is "charged and coded" with PK power to aid the particular person receiving it. And it is on record (SAGA, August and September, 1970) that Ted has received thousands of letters from grateful people, stating that "miracle cures" occurred when they wore his disk, or sudden "good luck" came to the despairing. Ted bears all the cost and effort of making the disks, charging them, mailing them, and writing long sympathetic letters to each claimant. There is a plain and simple word for it--humanitarianism. Perhaps you believe nothing of what has been written above. You, the reader, have the right to call it all sheer poppycock; the ravings of a demented man with illusions of grandeur, compounded by a messiah complex. But Dr. Jessup had this to say--"Seers and prophets, such as are quoted and written about in the Bible, would be considered crackpots today and reckoned insane." It's all well and good if you want to call Ted Owens, the SIs' Soothsayer, an insane crackpot. But suppose... just suppose... that Ted Owens is RIGHT? ★ THE END SAGA ☐ 75 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 00:00:11 This effect shows the new quantum physics was a Pandora's box of occult magic that subverted the naive belief in a mechanical universe completely described by dead forces obeying strict laws of cause and effect. The ERP effect showed that reality is telepathic. 00:00:50 By 1978, von Zimmer was denazified, claiming Jewish ancestry, and was well established in the American academic world with the aid of secret units of the Fourth Reich, operating out of Chile. The Fourth Reich had penetrated multinational corporations and the intelligence organizations of the Western powers. It dominated South American politics and controlled a major part of the Arab oil wealth. It's objective. A coup d'etat of the United States government on July 4th, 1984. Conditions were right. The United States was like Weimar Germany. San Francisco was Berlin. The hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement had their counterparts in Weimar in the 1920s. The United States had lost a war that left great divisiveness within the nation, just as in Germany. An American president had abdicated in disgrace, just like the Kaiser. 00:01:52 Most people were hypnotized into a narcotic despair by the intrinsic brainwashing of compulsive television watching. The American family had disintegrated. Punk rock bands mutilated themselves on stage. One punk musician committed suicide in front of a cheering audience of thousands. The erotically aroused crowd dismembered the body and drank the blood, in a ceremony reminiscent of ancient rituals. The American people suffered from the high cost of oil, just as the German people had suffered from the war reparations dictated to them in the Treaty of Versailles. Inflation and unemployment were irresistibly building tension in the American subconscious. The corporate greed for higher profits using mass media had destroyed the spirit of the West. Our bankrupt leaders declined into a perplexed passivity, displaying weakness and cowardice. The Fourth Reich had secret agreements with the Chinese communists as well as with certain elements in the Soviet state. After all, the precedent had been set in 1939 between the Fuhrer and Stalin. 00:03:14 Technique in the new war against the United States was not military, but psychological. We had entered a new post-industrial phase of warfare. We were all participants in the galactic cyber-war that had been spreading faster than light across the star fields. Earth was caught in the wake of probability storms originating in the galactic center where the telepathic mule dictator of the Union of Worlds was battling the Second Foundation of psychic physicists. The Second Foundation had left a small unit of warriors in San Francisco's North Beach. The leader of this unit, of the elite HIA, the Higher Intelligence Agency of the Second Foundation, was a certain Rabbi Sarfati, whose cover was that of the village idiot of Grant Avenue. HIA's headquarters was the Café Trieste, frequented by myriads of strange denizens of the embattled galaxy. Rumors were rife that new mutants from other galaxies and other realities from the future were also taking demonic possession of native biocomputers that were of woman-born. In all cases, the mechanism for possession of a human by alien intelligence was that of quantum cloning through the extension of the ERP effect. 00:04:59 Meanwhile, back in 1945, von Zimmer, acting under direct orders of the Führer, had activated a deep cover SS unit in Philadelphia where the recipient for the Führer's consciousness was growing up. The reprogramming of this Jewish child's bio-computer began. The Führer's mind was part of the non-local collective quantum wave function, as was the mind of the telepathic mule. This wave function is the pattern of all potential thought, feelings, and behavior in the stream of consciousness, caused and guided by a non-local higher intelligence acting from more complex levels of the stratified reality in which dreams undergird hard facts. The meta-programmer intervenes. What might be is transubstantiated into what is, creating the illusion of historical time, for it is the basic insight of quantum physics: that what is isn't always. 00:06:12 This was the secret of the quantum cloning that the Führer was about to initiate. The last act of the Führer was an act of the ultimate evil. Von Zimmer had decided that it would be best not to possess the biocomputer of the Jewish child in 1945. Rather, he would metaprogram the jump to start in 1945 and end up in the early 1970s, when the child would be grown and sufficiently experienced in the ideology and sales techniques of the sophisticated Fourth Reich. Hans Zimmer would be there to act as midwife to the rebirth of the Führer. 00:07:17 The Fuhrer Bunker rots with the concussions of the heavy Soviet artillery now only hundreds of meters away. The Fuhrer is now in a barbarian frenzy of erotic fanaticism for his final gesture of disobedience to God as the curtain comes down on his production of God of Dameron. The mule, acting as a non-local hidden variable from the future, touches the emotional centers of the limbic regions of the Fuhrer's brain. The Fuhrer displays great bravery at the end under the spell of the mule's extraterrestrial quantum grip of conversion. The Fu replaces the Luger in his mouth and prepares to receive the wafer of Lucifer which will propel him beyond space-time to the projected level where he will ascend the throne of the psychopathic god. It is the moment of glory felt by the punk rock samurai who disembowels himself with his electric guitar. The totalitarian triumph of insanity. The countdown is over for the Blastoff into inner space. The mule in the far future snaps his spindly fingers. The quantum message of feeling without a physical signal triggers a nerve impulse in the Furious Motor Quartet in 1945. The Furious Finger squeezes the trigger of the gleaming black Luger. 00:08:45 The Führer's released negentropic patterns of self-sustained awareness without object, fragment into infinite patterns of Tibetan deities reflected without end in the many worlds of coexisting ultimate reality. The Führer is like Satan flying to Eden out of Hades after his defeat by the armies of the Lord. The Führer is the demented voter whose maniacal laugh tilts down the corridors of time in the zero-point vibrations of the chatter in the stream of everyone's collective unconsciousness. 00:09:30 When Christ said that his Father's house had many mansions, he meant that the intuition of man experiences on the level of quantum potential to the extent that we forget and become as mechanical automata, asleep to the higher occult realities; we cannot feel our schizoid split into the many cracked mirrors of the quantum magic theater. We see through the glass darkly, now fall from the Eden of potential into the irreversible flux of appearance and historical change. But Christ reminds us that the temple of God is the inner quantum order enfolded within the metrical outer layer that we quantify with clocks and measuring rods. The rise of quantum physics has allowed Homo scientificus to enter once more into the hidden wisdom of alchemy. 00:11:27 Our Jewish sacrifice sat in a white recreational vehicle that he purchased with a phony check in Fernwood, Ohio. He had to leave in a hurry when the salesman caught him in flagrante delicto with his wife Mary. Our boy, tired from his long journey in the night, looked at San Francisco Bay from the parking lot at Coit Tower on top of Telegraph Hills. The back of the van was loaded with unsold encyclopedias, organic detergents and cosmetics, and used clothes. Porno magazines. Suddenly, in the glory of a multicolored sunset with a low-flying fog swiftly covering the Golden Gate Bridge, the wave function of the Führer, like a malevolent eagle swooping down on its prey, collapsed onto the world tube that was the body of our Jewish land. 00:12:38 The wave function of our boy and that of the Fuhrer had been correlated by the SS men many years ago in 1945 by ordinary forces of brainwashing. Even though this mechanical interaction had ceased, the irrevocable effects were permanent. It only took the hidden variable of the mule, using von Zimmer as a tool, to collapse the correlated wave function of the Fuhrer and the Jew. It was no mean task to make sure that the designated clone received the most demonic powers of the Fuhrer and diminished. But the mule's relatively weak influence from the future was coherently amplified in a psi laser technique competently executed by von Zimmer, the meticulous midwife. 00:13:42 Von Zimmer, at that moment, was in a remote viewing trance while sitting in a hot tub at a spiritual spa in central California. The Fourth Reich had infiltrated the human potential movement and was about to transfer part of its huge hidden corporate assets to the clone. The mission of the clone was to create a new fifth column under the subterfuge of a mass consciousness expansion training. In fact, the clone would create a powerful political machine ready to take over key government and business positions in the United States by July 4th, 1984. As a symbol of the enlightenment of the clone, now possessed by the essence of the Fuhrer's spirit, the clone changed his Jewish name, proclaiming that he had given up Jewish weakness for German strength. The clone's new name was Ludwig von Braun, The Ludwig came from Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, von Braun from the ex-Nazi rocket engineer, Werner von Braun, designer of the B-2 rocket that killed many in England in World War II. So began the blitzkrieg rise to power of the first psychic dictator of the United States, Ludwig von Braun, Chancellor of Megalomania. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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My favorite theoretical approach is, if we think of the universe itself as being a giant hologram, a hologram is a three-dimensional image. And if you know how holography works, if you take a hologram and cut it in half or cut it in quarters, every little piece represents the whole. So you can see the entire image by shining a laser on just a piece of the holographic film. However, the smaller the piece, the more vagueness, the less distinct it is. And I think that's a very good metaphor. We ourselves are pieces of the whole. We are pieces of the entire universe. But because we are tiny pieces, we see things indistinctly. 00:01:21 There's a certain uncertainty, a certain fuzziness in our picture. And that happens when we look at the future. In that famous encounter of Moses with God, when Moses asked God about his identity and the Hebrew words that came that came back was 'I will be what I will be'. Totally different than our Hellenistic thought 'I am that I am', God says 'I will be what I will be.' So even in the divine there is this evolutionary aspect which has some unpredictable nature to it. And now there's another deeper question as well, because when we talk about intuition, people often, because I'm in parapsychology, and frankly it's my interest as well, there's the question, well, can we use this to make money? 00:02:22 Like, if I can look into the future, I could predict what the stock market's going to do next week. I could predict football games. I could predict election results. And simply by placing some strategic bets, I could accumulate a lot of money. And the answer is, yes, you can. However, there's another function that intuition has. That's not the function of intuition because all of those things can serve to reinforce your sense of separateness. I'm going to do all of these things to build up myself, me, as opposed to everybody else. And naturally, of course, we do want to act in a way that enhances our lives. I'm not saying that that's wrong, but what I am saying is that the function, of intuition runs deeper than that. 00:03:21 Gary Zukoff, whom I've interviewed, the author of The Seat of the Soul, says, you can use your intuition for practical purposes, for seeing into the future, but be aware that whenever you attempt to use your intuition, it will work fundamentally to give you the information and the direction that your soul most needs. And your soul may most need to let go of money or to let go of something to which you are very attached, something to which you are trying to acquire or trying to cling to by looking into the future. The soul may give you just the opposite of what you think you're going to do. You see, it may very well be in your soul's interest for you to have a divorce or a bankruptcy or something that you're not anticipating here. 00:04:15 And that's why I think when we work in this realm of intuition, it's very good to ask the deeper question, what is my purpose? And let your actions flow out of that. What is my highest purpose for being here right now on this planet? How can I best fulfill that purpose? And when you use your intuition in the service of your highest purpose, your destiny, As a human being on this planet, you're less likely to run into the kind of trouble that I have seen people run into when they use their intuition in ways that really enhance their sense of self-importance. Yes? I understood what you said about the uncertainty relating to the future. Intuitively, I tend to think The uncertainty should also apply to the past, or what we call the past. But that doesn't jive with my analytical mind. We have this notion in our culture that the arrow of time. People say time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like bananas. 00:05:42 Shifting ground here. There is another view. There is the Einstein view in which we think of space and time as a four-dimensional matrix. And it's true, in that sense. That if we look into the past, it's uncertain, just as we look into the future. We're not sure about the origins of the universe entirely. We're not sure about evolution and the history of our species on this planet. Why, we don't even know who killed Nicole. And not only that, there are physicists who suggest that we can change the past. Just the way we can change the future because we're living in parallel worlds. There are many pasts and there are many futures and we can jump from one to another. So I think these questions are in both a philosophical and a scientific sense. 00:06:49 They're open. In fact, there was an article in Scientific American not too long ago that said it would be possible to build a time machine to go back and to change the past. As long as whenever that happened, then we jump into a different parallel universe where that was the past. So you could even avoid the problem of killing your own grandfather and then never being born. There are paradoxes like this. There are very strange realms of thought that are becoming are speakable now. I mean, serious people in scientific journals are speaking of them because, let me just expand on that a little bit more. It's 1995 and many of us, I can see we've been around, we've been watching these changes accelerate for the last 10, 20, 30 years. 00:07:46 How many of you have personal computers right now? Okay, how many of you 20 years ago would never have imagined that you would own a personal computer. Right? And the speed of transportation is increasing. The speed of information is increasing. New technologies are coming down the tubes quickly. Nanotechnology, little machines that will be as small as molecules, like tiny little vacuum cleaners that will go into your bloodstream and clean out the cholesterol, are going to be invented. Genetic engineering, virtual reality is around the corner. And these things are going to change our civilization probably as much in the next 20 years as we have seen in the last 2,000. Right on the cusp of all of that. 00:08:37 And it's a time in which we are You know, in addition to all the other reasons that we've been talking about for going within, for getting in touch with your intuition, for getting in touch with your true nature, these changes are going to demand it of us even more strongly. Because with these new technologies comes awesome responsibility. We become almost like gods. And if we're going to have the power of gods, and we do, we have the power to annihilate the whole planet in many different ways now, we have to grow and have the maturity and the responsibility of gods. And that means going deep, deep, deep into the inner worlds, opening up not only to the oneness, but to the many stages of archetypal reality. 00:09:30 The layers of consciousness that lead us into the oneness. Yes, sir? The question is, are happiness and sadness intuition? And the answer is yes and no. The yes is that when you're talking to the director of the intuition network, maybe I'm like a fish swimming in a fishbowl, but as far as I'm concerned, everything is intuition. And I mean that sincerely, and in a deep philosophical sense, intuition underlies all human experience. Before we even know that it's happy or sad, it emerges out of an intuitive level. You're being intuitive right now, just listening to the words that come out of my mouth, because I can speak so rapidly that I don't even pause between the words, and yet you know when one word ends and another word begins, and you know it without knowing how you know. 00:10:31 It's automatic. And with emotions, we respond. At an emotional level, our body is a great intuitive antenna, and when we're happy or sad, we have hormones coursing through our brain and our heart and our body, and those hormones are part of an instinctive, intuitive reaction to the situations around us and within us. So, even when we think we're being very logical, every logical thought, if you follow it to its root, is deeply intuitive. Yes, and then the reason that they are not is because they're emotions. And at another level of discourse, one would distinguish between emotions and intuition, just as one would distinguish between logic and intuition. But I prefer to look at the way intuition underlies everything. I think that's where we understand intuition not just as a concept, but it's meat that we can chew on. 00:11:34 How do you distinguish logic from intuition? The question this lady asks is how do I distinguish logic from intuition? Well, in a conventional sense, logic follows an algorithm. It's a set of rules that you apply to a premise. So I can take a premise, for example, If I take the premise that men typically wear suits, and I can go around the room and look at the people who have suits on and say, well, you're a man, and, oh, you're a man. It won't always apply, but that's a logical operation, applying a principle to a set of premises. But the premises themselves are not logically derived. Where do the premises come from? And every system of logic has to have a premise, and every premise is ultimately arrived at through intuition or experience or common sense, which all of those are different kinds of language for talking about pre-logical human processes that are related in different ways to intuition. 00:12:51 Well, that's what I'm saying. At this level of discourse, you can't separate them. There is a level of discourse which is very meaty, at which intuition underlies everything, virtually everything. But isn't it true, you know, logic follows a premise. And if that premise is incorrect, then the logic is incorrect. For example, you say A doesn't like B because because B cheated A in a transaction. That's a logical premise. But if you said A doesn't like B, and he doesn't know why, that's an intuition. 00:13:40 Lots of times, in daily parlance, we make these distinctions. But you see, Obadiah, what I'm liking to do is reach a little deeper. Let's say, okay, it's perfectly logical to say A doesn't like B because B cheated A. There's nothing intuitive about that. We all know, but if we look a little deeper and we say, what is cheating? What is our sense about cheating? There's a moral sense underneath that, and that's intuitive. In fact, the great philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest of Western philosophers, in his book, A Critique of Pure Reason, points out that there are logical categories that we can't derive from anything else. Space, time, energy, identity, purpose. And these are the most important things that motivate us, that color our life, our sense of good or bad, our sense of values. 00:14:41 They underlie everything else that we do, and they fundamentally grow out of our intuition. Or one might say, well, they grow out of the structure of our brain. There are many things that people will say they grow out of, but they come out of what one would think of as pre-logical. Yes? What is the difference between intuition and God? The question is, what is the difference between intuition and God? That's a very good question. And maybe it would be best to leave you with the thought that there isn't such a difference. That after all, God is undefinable, ultimately. You know, somebody once asked Einstein, did he believe in God? And he sat there for about a half hour. And then he said, you know, there are 30 definitions of God. 00:15:37 Which one do you mean? But Aristotle spoke of God in the sense of being the prime, the unmoved mover, which is the same as saying, you know, the original premise out of which everything else came. And that's the level that I'm thinking of when I talk about intuition here, that there is a sense of the origin, the beginning, the fundamental connection, the eternal, the divine. And one word for that is God, another word is spirit, another word is intuition. So when I use the word intuition, I am definitely pointing in that direction. Yeah. I mean, we could quibble about grammar and semantics and theology and so on, but I would choose to emphasize the similarity there rather than the distinction. Would I say intuition is a tool? 00:16:38 Yes, I could say that intuition is a tool, and I suppose I wouldn't say that God is a tool. I'd rather say that we are God's tool. And maybe the same is actually true of intuition, that it's much better to think of ourselves as the tool of intuition than to think of ourselves as the master of the tool of intuition. But, you know, we're talking about paradoxes within paradoxes within paradoxes. I wouldn't ever advise any one of us to become merely the tool of intuition. Intuition needs to be combined with reason. Actually, the quote that Obadiah opened our talk with points this out, that intuition without experience can lead one into just into the realms of fantasy that are ungrounded. It can take us in any direction. Experience without intuition lacks vision, lacks purpose. 00:17:36 They need to be combined. So maybe the better way to say it is that we are God's tool and God is our tool and the same with intuition. Well, it's just about 12:30. Let me conclude with one final note. If I may, somebody at one of my talks asked me in a deeply imploring way, she said, 'Well, but who am I? Who am I in all of this?' And it reminded me of a story of a great seeker who had climbed to the highest mountain And opened up his robes in ancient times and beat on his chest and looked up at the heavens and said, Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? And just then the clouds darkened and began rolling and there was lightning and a parting of the skies and a deep voice boomed out. Who wants to know? Thank you all. You've been a delightful audience. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 00:00:13 Quite no, we see the future like a distant hologram. Here's how it works, if you want a little scientific explanation. My favorite theoretical approach is, if we think of the universe itself as being a giant hologram, a hologram is a three-dimensional image. And if you know how holography works, if you take a hologram and cut it in half or cut it in quarters, every little piece represents the whole. So you can see the entire image by shining a laser on just a piece of the holographic film. However, the smaller the piece, the more vagueness, the less distinct it is. And I think that's a very good metaphor. We ourselves are pieces of the whole. We are pieces of the entire universe. But because we are tiny pieces, we see things indistinctly. 00:01:21 There's a certain uncertainty, a certain fuzziness in our picture. And that happens when we look at the future. In that famous encounter of Moses with God, when Moses asked God about his identity and the Hebrew words that came that came back was 'I will be what I will be'. Totally different than our Hellenistic thought 'I am that I am', God says 'I will be what I will be.' So even in the divine there is this evolutionary aspect which has some unpredictable nature to it. And now there's another deeper question as well, because when we talk about intuition, people often, because I'm in parapsychology, and frankly it's my interest as well, there's the question, well, can we use this to make money? 00:02:22 Like, if I can look into the future, I could predict what the stock market's going to do next week. I could predict football games. I could predict election results. And simply by placing some strategic bets, I could accumulate a lot of money. And the answer is, yes, you can. However, there's another function that intuition has. That's not the function of intuition because all of those things can serve to reinforce your sense of separateness. I'm going to do all of these things to build up myself, me, as opposed to everybody else. And naturally, of course, we do want to act in a way that enhances our lives. I'm not saying that that's wrong, but what I am saying is that the function, of intuition runs deeper than that. 00:03:21 Gary Zukoff, whom I've interviewed, the author of The Seat of the Soul, says, you can use your intuition for practical purposes, for seeing into the future, but be aware that whenever you attempt to use your intuition, it will work fundamentally to give you the information and the direction that your soul most needs. And your soul may most need to let go of money or to let go of something to which you are very attached, something to which you are trying to acquire or trying to cling to by looking into the future. The soul may give you just the opposite of what you think you're going to do. You see, it may very well be in your soul's interest for you to have a divorce or a bankruptcy or something that you're not anticipating here. 00:04:15 And that's why I think when we work in this realm of intuition, it's very good to ask the deeper question, what is my purpose? And let your actions flow out of that. What is my highest purpose for being here right now on this planet? How can I best fulfill that purpose? And when you use your intuition in the service of your highest purpose, your destiny, As a human being on this planet, you're less likely to run into the kind of trouble that I have seen people run into when they use their intuition in ways that really enhance their sense of self-importance. Yes? I understood what you said about the uncertainty relating to the future. Intuitively, I tend to think The uncertainty should also apply to the past, or what we call the past. But that doesn't jive with my analytical mind. We have this notion in our culture that the arrow of time. People say time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like bananas. 00:05:42 Shifting ground here. There is another view. There is the Einstein view in which we think of space and time as a four-dimensional matrix. And it's true, in that sense. That if we look into the past, it's uncertain, just as we look into the future. We're not sure about the origins of the universe entirely. We're not sure about evolution and the history of our species on this planet. Why, we don't even know who killed Nicole. And not only that, there are physicists who suggest that we can change the past. Just the way we can change the future because we're living in parallel worlds. There are many pasts and there are many futures and we can jump from one to another. So I think these questions are in both a philosophical and a scientific sense. 00:06:49 They're open. In fact, there was an article in Scientific American not too long ago that said it would be possible to build a time machine to go back and to change the past. As long as whenever that happened, then we jump into a different parallel universe where that was the past. So you could even avoid the problem of killing your own grandfather and then never being born. There are paradoxes like this. There are very strange realms of thought that are becoming are speakable now. I mean, serious people in scientific journals are speaking of them because, let me just expand on that a little bit more. It's 1995 and many of us, I can see we've been around, we've been watching these changes accelerate for the last 10, 20, 30 years. 00:07:46 How many of you have personal computers right now? Okay, how many of you 20 years ago would never have imagined that you would own a personal computer. Right? And the speed of transportation is increasing. The speed of information is increasing. New technologies are coming down the tubes quickly. Nanotechnology, little machines that will be as small as molecules, like tiny little vacuum cleaners that will go into your bloodstream and clean out the cholesterol, are going to be invented. Genetic engineering, virtual reality is around the corner. And these things are going to change our civilization probably as much in the next 20 years as we have seen in the last 2,000. Right on the cusp of all of that. 00:08:37 And it's a time in which we are You know, in addition to all the other reasons that we've been talking about for going within, for getting in touch with your intuition, for getting in touch with your true nature, these changes are going to demand it of us even more strongly. Because with these new technologies comes awesome responsibility. We become almost like gods. And if we're going to have the power of gods, and we do, we have the power to annihilate the whole planet in many different ways now, we have to grow and have the maturity and the responsibility of gods. And that means going deep, deep, deep into the inner worlds, opening up not only to the oneness, but to the many stages of archetypal reality. 00:09:30 The layers of consciousness that lead us into the oneness. Yes, sir? The question is, are happiness and sadness intuition? And the answer is yes and no. The yes is that when you're talking to the director of the intuition network, maybe I'm like a fish swimming in a fishbowl, but as far as I'm concerned, everything is intuition. And I mean that sincerely, and in a deep philosophical sense, intuition underlies all human experience. Before we even know that it's happy or sad, it emerges out of an intuitive level. You're being intuitive right now, just listening to the words that come out of my mouth, because I can speak so rapidly that I don't even pause between the words, and yet you know when one word ends and another word begins, and you know it without knowing how you know. 00:10:31 It's automatic. And with emotions, we respond. At an emotional level, our body is a great intuitive antenna, and when we're happy or sad, we have hormones coursing through our brain and our heart and our body, and those hormones are part of an instinctive, intuitive reaction to the situations around us and within us. So, even when we think we're being very logical, every logical thought, if you follow it to its root, is deeply intuitive. Yes, and then the reason that they are not is because they're emotions. And at another level of discourse, one would distinguish between emotions and intuition, just as one would distinguish between logic and intuition. But I prefer to look at the way intuition underlies everything. I think that's where we understand intuition not just as a concept, but it's meat that we can chew on. 00:11:34 How do you distinguish logic from intuition? The question this lady asks is how do I distinguish logic from intuition? Well, in a conventional sense, logic follows an algorithm. It's a set of rules that you apply to a premise. So I can take a premise, for example, If I take the premise that men typically wear suits, and I can go around the room and look at the people who have suits on and say, well, you're a man, and, oh, you're a man. It won't always apply, but that's a logical operation, applying a principle to a set of premises. But the premises themselves are not logically derived. Where do the premises come from? And every system of logic has to have a premise, and every premise is ultimately arrived at through intuition or experience or common sense, which all of those are different kinds of language for talking about pre-logical human processes that are related in different ways to intuition. 00:12:51 Well, that's what I'm saying. At this level of discourse, you can't separate them. There is a level of discourse which is very meaty, at which intuition underlies everything, virtually everything. But isn't it true, you know, logic follows a premise. And if that premise is incorrect, then the logic is incorrect. For example, you say A doesn't like B because because B cheated A in a transaction. That's a logical premise. But if you said A doesn't like B, and he doesn't know why, that's an intuition. 00:13:40 Lots of times, in daily parlance, we make these distinctions. But you see, Obadiah, what I'm liking to do is reach a little deeper. Let's say, okay, it's perfectly logical to say A doesn't like B because B cheated A. There's nothing intuitive about that. We all know, but if we look a little deeper and we say, what is cheating? What is our sense about cheating? There's a moral sense underneath that, and that's intuitive. In fact, the great philosopher Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest of Western philosophers, in his book, A Critique of Pure Reason, points out that there are logical categories that we can't derive from anything else. Space, time, energy, identity, purpose. And these are the most important things that motivate us, that color our life, our sense of good or bad, our sense of values. 00:14:41 They underlie everything else that we do, and they fundamentally grow out of our intuition. Or one might say, well, they grow out of the structure of our brain. There are many things that people will say they grow out of, but they come out of what one would think of as pre-logical. Yes? What is the difference between intuition and God? The question is, what is the difference between intuition and God? That's a very good question. And maybe it would be best to leave you with the thought that there isn't such a difference. That after all, God is undefinable, ultimately. You know, somebody once asked Einstein, did he believe in God? And he sat there for about a half hour. And then he said, you know, there are 30 definitions of God. 00:15:37 Which one do you mean? But Aristotle spoke of God in the sense of being the prime, the unmoved mover, which is the same as saying, you know, the original premise out of which everything else came. And that's the level that I'm thinking of when I talk about intuition here, that there is a sense of the origin, the beginning, the fundamental connection, the eternal, the divine. And one word for that is God, another word is spirit, another word is intuition. So when I use the word intuition, I am definitely pointing in that direction. Yeah. I mean, we could quibble about grammar and semantics and theology and so on, but I would choose to emphasize the similarity there rather than the distinction. Would I say intuition is a tool? 00:16:38 Yes, I could say that intuition is a tool, and I suppose I wouldn't say that God is a tool. I'd rather say that we are God's tool. And maybe the same is actually true of intuition, that it's much better to think of ourselves as the tool of intuition than to think of ourselves as the master of the tool of intuition. But, you know, we're talking about paradoxes within paradoxes within paradoxes. I wouldn't ever advise any one of us to become merely the tool of intuition. Intuition needs to be combined with reason. Actually, the quote that Obadiah opened our talk with points this out, that intuition without experience can lead one into just into the realms of fantasy that are ungrounded. It can take us in any direction. Experience without intuition lacks vision, lacks purpose. 00:17:36 They need to be combined. So maybe the better way to say it is that we are God's tool and God is our tool and the same with intuition. Well, it's just about 12:30. Let me conclude with one final note. If I may, somebody at one of my talks asked me in a deeply imploring way, she said, 'Well, but who am I? Who am I in all of this?' And it reminded me of a story of a great seeker who had climbed to the highest mountain And opened up his robes in ancient times and beat on his chest and looked up at the heavens and said, Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? And just then the clouds darkened and began rolling and there was lightning and a parting of the skies and a deep voice boomed out. Who wants to know? Thank you all. You've been a delightful audience. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cultivating Intuition with Jeffrey Mishlove 002 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c7aff8e8df86b94222957e0590897ed9.mp3 72ecbbb7c01400527564ab113f96d29b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/74e612e3af415208ef2154d5b8a3c5a7.txt 75a77db51f717602fde9c435a9ced7a3 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6d836fd9f6658f5dafb90b61d9d77a7b.txt 28a1e12c9f597b6a5246d4569de26f14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio Archive Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 00:00:00 Right now, Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Thank you. I think I'll try and walk around with the microphone here so that I'm not hiding behind the lectern. I'd like to begin by asking a few questions to help give me an intuitive sense of the people to whom I'm speaking and sharing this time with. How many of you are involved in any traditional, conventional religious practice? A sprinkling. How many of you feel that spirituality is an important part of your life? Isn't that interesting? I suspect it as much. I suspect it as much. We live in an age in which it seems as if, if you want to follow a spiritual path, one of the best steps that you could take is to disassociate yourself with the religion of your upbringing. 00:01:21 Do most of you have felt that way? I don't know if that's really a reason to applaud. I mean, in some ways, it's a very sad comment on our age because isn't that the purpose of religion? I mean, it's wonderful that we have a PRS here, but we're like an oasis in the desert if the religions are not fulfilling that function. And, well, I'm of Jewish origins, and so today is not the Jewish Sabbath. Yesterday was. But today would be, for those of you who have a Christian upbringing, today would be the Sabbath. And I want to share a little bit about the Sabbath to begin with because it's become very important for me. I was bar mitzvahed at the age of 13, and I'm 48 now; 35 years, you barely saw me inside of a synagogue. 00:02:29 I mean, I couldn't wait to not be obliged to attend. And now, something happened to me inwardly. I'd just like to share with you briefly. I was in Israel over the summer on a cruise, speaking as a lecturer on a cruise ship, and we had eight hours in Israel. And when I came back, I found that I was different inside. I could no longer just ignore my Jewish heritage. Something had told me, you know, show up. And it was a struggle. I didn't want to step inside of a synagogue. It was the last thing I wanted to do. But I struggled with it. I took Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holy day, and I decided, well, at least I won't go into the office. I'll stay home. I'll meditate. 00:03:18 I'll read Jewish prayer books. And one thing led to another. Now I find that the Sabbath is one of the most precious gifts that God ever gave to humanity. Because I don't know how many of you are like me. How many of you are workaholics? Come on now, be honest. A sprinkling. Okay. A sprinkling. For those of us who are workaholics, who work from early morning to late at night, what a gift. It is to say, you know, for one day a week, I'm going to meditate, I'm going to read sacred texts, I'm going to enter into an attitude of prayer and reverence today. And so I want to honor that this is a Sabbath day today. And when we talk about intuition, That honoring of the Sabbath is very important because in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Sabbath is a holy day. The reason it is is because God is holy and the Sabbath is a time that we let God into our lives. Now, I'm sure many of you find greater inspiration from the spiritual traditions that are not part of the Judeo-Christian heritage that most of us were educated in in our youth. I would imagine that many of you feel inspired by Buddhist teachings or by American Indian teachings or by Hindu teachings. 00:05:06 Exploration, that there's a common theme that runs through all of these. And that common theme is expressed in Judaism as the idea that there is one God. Hinduism, it's expressed in the idea that there is Brahman, the soul of the universe. And in the Hindu tradition, they talk about the two great principles, Brahman and Atman, the essence of the individual and the essence of the whole universe. And they've come up with perhaps one of the greatest mathematical equations of all time, of all philosophy, that Brahman equals Atman, that the essence of you is the essence of the universe. And in Buddhism, there's a slightly different way of expressing it because Buddhism has the notion of no self. There is no essence of you. There is no essence of the universe, but they are also equal. 00:06:06 It sort of reminds me of the equivalence of modern day. Christians and Jews, such as I'm sure many of us here, what we have in common is that I have a synagogue I don't go to, and you have a church you don't go to. Well, what does all of this have to do with intuition? You know, there are many, many definitions of intuition, and as the director of the Intuition Network, I made it my business to avoid all of them. And the reason I've had to avoid them all is because I want to include them all. And some of these definitions, they exclude other definitions. We have the artificial intelligence crowd, for example, and we try and reach out into the sciences and academia, and they say, well, intuition is subliminal computation. 00:07:07 You see, the brain is really a biocomputer, and it's always cranking away, even if you're not conscious of it. So while you're not aware, the brain is doing computations, and that's intuition. Then you have people who say, well, intuition is the result of experience. You learn, you grow. It's knowledge that has become unconscious. The one thing we do know about intuition is that by definition it's knowing without knowing how you know. But for purposes of those of us here who are on a spiritual path, who are deeply involved in understanding our own consciousness, I think it's fair enough to say that intuition comes out of the roots of consciousness itself. It comes out of that deep interconnectedness that at some fundamental level we are all one. Consciousness is all one. 00:08:12 And so it's no surprise that our consciousness has access to information that we shouldn't have through our senses, through our normal external means, because of course that's not how we got it. Intuitive knowledge doesn't come by some kind of magical mental radio. It comes because we are it. And yet there's this paradox. There's this paradox that we sure spend most of our time feeling very separate from it all. I mean, how do you drive your car if you are it? I am one with this tree. And it started a long time ago. For each of us personally, it started when we were born. Let's see, can I come down here? It started when we were born, you know. As young infants, we don't have this notion that I'm separate, that this is me and that's mommy. 00:09:15 It's like all one. Freud called it sort of an oceanic state of consciousness, and Freudians today still think of the mystical path as nothing more than a regression to an infantile state of awareness. And yet scientific research in my field of parapsychology, I prefer the term psi research, but it shows that young children are more intuitive. That is, in the laboratory, they can demonstrate this ability more. They're more psychic, you might say. And I think it has to do with they're closer to that oceanic state of oneness. They haven't yet been taught that they are not everything. Even a four-year-old, even a seven-year-old has more access. And the older they get, the less of it. Until by the time we're 13, it's pretty much all beaten out of us. 00:10:14 And then we go through an unfolding. We awaken into adulthood and go; we retrace the mystical path. And it can open up for us again. And the beauty of it is that we can simultaneously live in the separateness of our ego and in the oneness. Although there's a lot of social reinforcement in our secular culture at large to live mostly in the separateness and not in the oneness. I love the great Hindu myth of creation, which talks about in the beginning, in the earliest times, there was the One. It's all that was. And out of that oneness, there arose a heat. There arose a desire, there arose a passion, a ferment, and it was out of that passion for the oneness to know, to experience, to touch, to feel itself, that it divided. 00:11:14 And it was out of that division that the great divide was formed between the earth and the sky, between the belly of the dragon and the surrounding chaos, between male and female. And so on followed the differentiation until here we are, you know, each of us in our chair with computers and automobiles and artificial fabrics in our clothing. And so the interesting thing of these teachings is that all of these states exist simultaneously. The oneness never went away. It's just that our consciousness descended, so to speak, that's the theosophical term, that we descended into this material plane from a higher plane of consciousness, a Buddhic plane, a causal plane, an astral plane, an emotional plane, and a mental plane, which are all there, all of these planes of consciousness interpenetrating each other, and now here we are. 00:12:25 In the physical plane. Here we are in our separateness. Here we are in a mode of being. And I'm sure everyone here is very sincere in their spiritual quest, but each of us spends time feathering our nest, acquiring things, taking care of our family, making sure that we look good. Doing things that reinforce the separateness. In other words, we live in both worlds. And we lose touch with that intuition. We lose touch with our source. The Jewish people have a wonderful way of phrasing it because, you know, they lived in exile for 2,000 years from the land of Israel. And so they said that that was symbolic of our exile from God, that it was as if the Shekinah, the bride of God, had been separated from God. 00:13:31 And the bride of God is wandering throughout the world, longing for reunion with the beloved. And so, in a sense, are we in exile? That's one reason I think why I personally have felt so heartened to leave the exile that I had been in from my own heritage and to discover a newfound spirituality in the Reformed Jewish synagogue that I had never experienced during my earlier years. It's funny how you can go full circle. But how do we awaken ourselves? How do we reunite the Shekinah with God? How do we cultivate intuition? Fortunately, this morning, I had the opportunity to look through the library here and find the answer to that question. The answer is very interesting. It's just as in the beginning when there was the great oneness which grew through passion, through desire. 00:14:57 The universe unfolded and so it is for us as we are, you might say, trapped in this physical realm that's not necessarily such. such a prison. We have wonderful things. Look at the beautiful artwork in this room. The wonderful music that we listen to. It's through desire. It's through desire that our soul awakens its own yearning to return back to the source. And that desire can start out as sexual desire. Let's see if I can swing around here. Not really. I could jump, right? It starts out as, you know, the love of a husband and a wife, the love of a parent and a child. It may seem like this is my wife or my husband or my child, but that's the beginning of a love that expands out to encompass everything, to encompass everyone's wife, right? 00:16:04 Everyone's child. And I think that in our age, one of the fullest expressions of what I'm trying to get at comes from the poetry of Walt Whitman. How many of you are familiar with Whitman's poetry? Practically everybody. Isn't that something? You know, they say his great poem, Song of Myself, may be the greatest American poem ever written. Some people find it long and tedious, but he had what the critics call an earthy mysticism. I mean, he had wonderful lines like, 'Boy, I just love the smell of my armpits.' And he must be the person from whom we derive the phrase, 'you know, have you hugged a tree today?' Because in Whitman's poetry, he loves everything. He loves the ocean. He loves the trees. 00:17:05 He loves people from every walk of life and every age, whether they are trappers or Indians or working-class people or dying soldiers. Old and sick people. And he looks at people and he says, 'I recognize you.' I see your yearning. I know that you, scurvy-ridden leper, that you long to be hugged and nurtured and nourished. I love you, air and trees and the crow.' You know, it was love bursting out of everything. And there's that wonderful line in, in Whitman where he goes, he says, 'You can hear my barbaric yap over the rooftops of the world.' It was like bursting out. Bursting out of everything. I love the carpets. I love the flowers. I love the chair. I am that. There is nothing that I am not. 00:18:09 And he would then wax into metaphysical descriptions of the cosmos and the heavens and the realms of astrology and Pythagorean philosophy, and then he would bring it right back down to some smelly canvas sail on a sailboat and say, 'I love that too,' and savor its essence. That there is nothing, there is no molecule. And of course, you know, his great book, Leaves of Grass. I think what he's saying by titling his book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, is even in the most simple, most mundane thing, a leaf of grass, a grain of sand, is a universe, is an infinity. But it's not just the intellect. You know, we all know this intellectually. But to reach out with passion, to reach out with the fullness of our hearts is how we open our consciousness to reclaim the world that we are. Because it's just fundamentally an illusion to think that we are these separate, skin-encapsulated egos sitting in these chairs. That we have been conventionally taught to believe. You know, if I want to see who I am, I just look in the mirror, right? Wrong. That's just the tip of the iceberg. 00:19:46 And as we allow ourselves as mature adults to appreciate that our identity, who we are, extends out beyond this suit and tie and shirt. It extends out beyond the room, extends out beyond the city of Los Angeles or the political culture of Southern California or out beyond North America or out beyond the oceans, out beyond the planet, out beyond the solar system, out beyond the cosmos, and even inside, inside ourselves. inside our organs, inside the molecules that make us up, that we are part of every virus and every bacteria. And at the same time, embracing the dark side, that we are part of that which we conventionally label evil. There are murderers walking amongst us and here in this metropolitan community, and we are they. We are they. 00:21:00 There are thieves, and we partake of that. That's part of who we are. There are rapists, and that's part of who we are. There are people who are cheating on their wives, people who are cheating on their employers. We are they. We have all of that. There are animals living in the woods who live by hunting and killing, and we are them. And certainly at the cellular level, there are amoebas who go around swallowing up other amoebas, and that's part of our consciousness too. Everything that we fear and find loathsome and disgusting and abominable is part of our consciousness, the light side and the dark side, Christ and Satan. Our consciousness embraces it all so that we can feel compassion for all of that. That's the unfolding of intuition. 00:22:08 You know, who is one of the greatest intuitive geniuses of humanity? If I had to put on my list of the top ten, I would put very close to the top, William Shakespeare, of whom Manly Hall wrote. Because in the plays of Shakespeare, we see a couple of things. We see first the Renaissance embodiment of the ancient Celtic mystery traditions, but also we find in Shakespeare a consciousness who extended into the superconscious, but also he could write. From the inside of everybody, a drunkard, a beggar, a king, a lover, male and female, he knew them all. He loved them all. He wrote with great love for all of these figures. And some of his greatest characters are distasteful. They're the villains. Or they're the simple people. 00:23:16 And why I mention Shakespeare, I know that probably nobody in this room has his writing talent. But you see, we all have his consciousness. We all are Shakespeare. We all have the capacity to enter into, to unite with realms of consciousness everywhere. Because our consciousness is a drop in the same ocean. of consciousness that was Shakespeare, that was Beethoven, that was Mozart, or Plato, or Manly Hall, or Obadiah Harris, or Urbindo. Every being, whoever existed, whose life entered into that super-conscious realm, or whose life was an expression of genius, has left their mark in what the theosophists would call the Akashic Records, which is just another realm of consciousness. And had we more time, I could demonstrate this to you. Obadiah talked earlier about the mystery school traditions. 00:24:31 I have had the good fortune of being associated with one such Mystery School run by Jean Houston and I remember over 20 years ago attending one of the first sessions with her and she took a young woman who had some musical ability and she put her into a hypnotic trance state for about 30 seconds and she said, 'now go into the realm of consciousness that is Vivaldi' and come back out with a Piano concerto. Thirty seconds later, that woman came out of the hypnotic state, sat down at the piano, and played a piano concerto in the style of Vivaldi. One that had never been played before. See, she was trained to go into that state. And of course, we can't all play piano, we can't all write, we can't all act, but we can go. 00:25:35 Each of us has a place where we can go. We don't all do Vivaldi or Mozart or Shakespeare, but we each have our own very special channel into the supraconscious realms, into the archetypal realms, the realms of genius, the realms of spirit. Maybe we resonate because of our training in a particular profession or trade. Maybe we resonate because of a past life resonance. I have a past life resonance with the Roman philosopher Seneca, who actually was a playwright and a philosopher and ran the Roman Empire for five years because he was the tutor to Nero. For each of us, it's different. But we get in touch with it through our longing, through our yearning, and through an acknowledgement that that yearning is important. Maybe the most important aspect of our whole life, that yearning for the beloved, that yearning for oneness, that yearning to return to the prime evil source from which we came. That yearning for union with the divine, with the absolute. 00:27:12 I think this would be a good point for me to open up the floor and I'll be happy to field any questions that you may have. Yes, sir. I want to thank you for talking to us as if we know, opening the door of your mind much more so that we could also receive and recognize it. You're welcome. I'm thanking him. Yes. He's talking to us as if we know. He opens the door for you to receive and give us more. As if we may not know. We may offend someone. Did everybody hear that? He's thanking me for talking to you as if you know. And I guess I do feel that way. I don't like to set myself up as the expert on intuition because I run the intuition network. 00:28:01 I happen to feel that every one of you knows something about intuition that I can't quite yet grasp at all. That I can learn something about it from everyone of you. And one of the things that we say in the intuition network, if you want to cultivate your intuition. All you have to do is get together with a small group of people, five or six or ten, and share with each other what you already know. Because every one of you is an encyclopedia of knowledge. If you begin to probe what you already know and have someone to listen to you. Are there other questions? Yes. Hi, Sandy. 00:28:53 Facilitator. And I'm more unconventional. There are three who are really corporate people. And I sat around the table and I tried to show love. They hardly acknowledged me. I mean, not being the victim. But I would feel a happiness if I said there's a reason why I'm there. And I tried to play it through. But I went home and I couldn't wait until I got home and played with my dog and felt more centered. I didn’t want to feel a separation, but the lesson I got, and I want to ask you about it, was that it’s still about nobody out there is going to fix me. It’s still about going within. But I really wanted to be part of these three people who were like the corporate, and it was such a heaviness. 00:29:39 So I know that we’re all one, and we’re all one conscious mind, but I couldn’t seem to do it. I couldn’t wait to get home at night. I mean, I called out and went to dinner with someone, but I could feel joy again. So how do you? Thank you for the question. Did everybody hear that? Okay, what Sandy was saying is that she was in a situation, a business situation, with people with whom she wanted to feel one with, but she didn't feel that. She felt excluded. She felt separate. And she's saying, what can I do to break through? to reach that feeling of oneness. And I have to say that, first of all, what you need to do is accept the separateness. The separateness is there. 00:30:25 It can't be denied. It's part of our condition, living in this world of exile. But once you accept the separateness, there is a whole art to the oneness. One of the words for that art is tantra. It's a practice of oneness. And sometimes it involves things that would be considered socially taboo and things that can even be a little risky, in fact even dangerous, if they're not practiced sometimes with a teacher or in a context where you have some social reinforcements so that you can feel that it's okay, you can understand that it's okay. For example, a tantric practice in this situation might involve letting yourself really enter into an imaginal world, a world of images, in which you are loving those people, even physically. Breaking through that barrier. 00:31:27 There are tantric exercises to that effect. I don't necessarily recommend that you just go home and try that, because it's; The tantric path is considered a path that you really do need a teacher to do it with. But that's one method. And in general, though, you can, if I didn't want to do that, and if I were you, what I would do is I'd take a long walk in the woods, you know, and I'd talk to the trees, not out loud necessarily, but from my heart. I've been very influenced by one of the rabbis of the Hasidic Jewish tradition. One of my favorite prayers is, O Lord, please make it possible for me to walk in the woods every day and let it be possible for me to see the radiance of the plants and the trees and understand the pulse of your spirit that flows through me. 00:32:30 Through them, and let my heart open up and radiate with them, so I can pour out my soul to you in that environment. That's where, you know, you have to find sacred space, moments of oneness, and you can take that situation, for example, to which you just referred that felt so isolating, and when you're in that state of oneness, however it is, if it's in a bathtub for you or if it's in the woods, or if it's in meditation or reading poetry. And from that place of wholeness and oneness, send healing to the place that needs healing in your life. And there's a wonderful secret about healing. I got it out of A Course in Miracles. At the end of A Course in Miracles, there's a lesson on healing, and it's this. 00:33:19 Healing can take place in an instant. It just takes about an instant when you send healing. And the thing that you need to do is always trust that once you've entered into that state, that you've focused on the situation or person which you believe requires healing, enter into a state of healing consciousness, send it, and then let go. Trust that the healing will be accomplished, that the Great Spirit will find a way to heal that situation. Does that help? Oh, great, thank you. You're welcome. Yes? Do we all have the same capacity for intuition? I know we all have that certain part in us, but can we all achieve the same capacity, such as yours? I know it takes years and years and years. Is there a certain time? 00:34:14 The question is, do we all have the same capacity for intuition? And actually, it's very funny because You say it takes years and years and years, and yet I can tell you I don't think I'm as intuitive today as I was when I was born. We all do. We're all born totally open. We're all born totally intuitive. No one is more intuitive than that young baby who can learn how to speak and how to walk. Look at all the things that a baby learns intuitively in their first years of life. The differences between us have nothing to do with our capacity. We all have infinite capacity. The differences between us have to do with how we block ourselves, how deeply we have bought into the illusion that we are separate, that we are not intuitive. 00:35:10 And some of us are much more attached to that illusion than others. But it's still nothing more than an attachment to an illusion. And some who are the most attached can let go the quickest, too. So please don't think that I'm setting myself up as being more intuitive. I'm just a person who's spent more time focusing in on it. On that question, can I read a line from Manley Hall? Yes. Here. Do you want the microphone? Oh, you've got yours. I've got it here. I'm just going to read a line from Manny Hall on that question, if I might. Can you hear me? Yes. Why don't you stand up, Obadiah? I'm just going to read a line from Manley Hall on that question, if I might. 00:35:53 All things derive their life from light, and this light in its root is life itself. This indeed is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. Everybody's got it. Was that, you know, Browning who said, 'there's a divine spark in every person, though he may desecrate it, he cannot quite lose it?' Yeah, I think it really is like that. It's not quite like the skill to be an athlete or the skill to be a great pianist. Intuition is different. Intuition is fundamental. It has to do with the fact that we are part of the oneness. Of the universe. That's where it comes from. That's the source of intuition. And we all partake of that equally. But we all have differences in terms of how we block it. 00:36:50 And we have differences in terms of what talents we have with which we can express it. I will never have the talent to express my intuition the way Shakespeare or Mozart did. Then again, they didn't have the talent to express it the way Jeffrey does. So each of us is unique, and each of us is totally connected to it. One more just short question on the intuition. Are females more intuitive, or are they just more open than males? Well, now, based on what I've just told you, the question is, are females more than males? And actually, everyone's different. I don't think, really, that females are more open. In fact, I recently did a television interview with a spiritual teacher who said it's just the opposite. It's the men who are more intuitive, not the women. 00:37:49 That this is one of these cultural myths, and there's a way in which men are more intuitive. I mean, like, you know, when a man sees a woman he's attracted to, he just goes for it, right? Like, gut level. Whereas a woman, when a woman's looking for a mate, she's thinking, hmm. can he support the kids? So women are more logical in some respects. Yes? You pointed out that we all basically have the ability to be intuitive. Don't you think an important key note is focus? If we don't focus on it, if we don't reach up for it, we don't develop it. If we focus on it, whatever our interests are, then we're going to pull down the intuitive knowledge. 00:38:43 And of course, what she's saying is, we can all be 100% intuitive, but if we don't focus on it, so what? And that's the paradox of all spiritual training. That's the paradox of living in a world where we're separate, and yet we're one. It's like, The Zen people who say, you know, there's nothing to do to get enlightened. You're already enlightened all the time. You just have to kind of appreciate that that's the case. But, you know, that appreciation is a subtle thing. It's a very subtle thing. It's a very special thing. And I've found in my life that it has to do with, like, if I tell you to relax, if you're really tense. How many of you are feeling tense this morning? A couple of you. 00:39:32 See, if I tell you, okay, hey, relax! Right? It's not going to work. What's the matter with you? You can't relax. But, you see, there's an art to relaxation. If I tell you, for those of you who are tense, and many of you are tense and you don't know it, because it becomes so chronic. In fact, all of us, we all walk around with chronic tension. It's true. So if I tell you, you know, squeeze your shoulders up to your neck. Go ahead. It's okay. Do it. And squeeze your fists, right? And tighten your arms and hold it tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter and squeeze your back and your other fist and tighten up your pelvis and tighten it. Tighten your legs. Curl your toes and tighten them. 00:40:21 Okay, and now relax. Right? See, that's how you relax. You tighten. You tighten beyond the level of the chronic tension that we all walk around with. And chronic tension is almost the same as chronic separateness. Because when we're relaxed, then we open up. We breathe and we feel that oneness. It's an equation. Sort of tension is equivalent to separateness. But sometimes it's important to get even tenser and tenser and tenser. And then when we relax, we really open up. So that's part of the striving. That's part of the discipline of spiritual practice, of opening up to intuition. And then there are many tools. You see, there are an infinite number of tools for intuition. Here in this room, there are a thousand intuition training devices, if we care to use them. 00:41:25 Every object can be a device for intuition. You know how Walt Whitman found that he could love every grain of sand and every leaf of grass. He could see God in each, the infinite. With God so near at hand, every manifestation of God is a teacher of intuition. You can, for example, I'll just give you one simple example. How many of you have a problem? Right. I mean, we all have at some level of our life a problem. Whether it is, what am I going to have for lunch? What am I going to do at work? Or what am I going to do with my house? Or with my primary relationship? You can take any little object. It could be a pen. It could be a thread. It could be a flower, a picture, any item. In fact, let's just do it for a second. Focus on an object in this room. It could be something personal. It could be something in the room. It could be anything. It could be a person. And just mentally, to yourself, tell your problem to that object. And in your mind, just wait and see if the object won't speak to you and tell you its answer. How would it advise you with regard to your problem? 00:43:25 Okay, how many of you felt that a message came? About, it looks like about a third of you, and I know I kind of rushed through it and did it spontaneously without much preparation, but if you take a little more time, if you put yourself into a receptive state, you can find answers everywhere. You know, the native peoples called that; let me rephrase that. The anthropologists notice that native peoples do this all the time, and the anthropologists call it animism, which is the idea that everything is filled with spirit. Everything is alive. Everything can speak to you. My wife, who teaches creativity programs, calls that ability holographic thinking. That the holograph of consciousness is everywhere and every image, every shape, every object has its own message. Yes. 00:44:39 The question is whether you can use this method of holographic thinking to predict into the future. And I guess the question depends on a couple of different things. Number one, it depends on the state of awareness that you are in. I do think that we have access to the future just as much as we have access to the past. But it does require you to be centered and really open to that. So, how well you do at any given moment depends on how busy your mind is with other things, how focused you are. And also, with regard to the future, there is a certain amount of uncertainty regarding the future. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 35 January 22, 1976 The Egyptian Report Jeffrey Mishlove received in clasp envelope on July 7, 2025 from Ted Owen's daughter Lori Rodriguez. The file boxes already have copies of these. However, what Lori sent appears to be the original version or a very high quality scan. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 9, 2025 === Page 2 of 35 January 22, 1976..........THE EGYPTIAN REPORT.......... TO MY SCIENTISTS: This...is a long-delayed report with regard to my trip to Egypt, and the priceless information that I discovered there. The trips and the information...were a gift to me and the SI's...from Millie Miller, without whom it would not have been possible. I might add...Millie could only furnish "shoestring" money for the trip... and I used an American Express card for the rest. I nearly ruined myself, that way...because I am unable to proceed as the ordinary tourist would proceed. I have to bribe here, bribe there...to get certain things done. My drivers go out after midnight...or at all hours...sometimes for the entire day...and I cannot count pennies...it has to be all out or nothing at all. So when I got back...I'd spent all Millie's cash...and was deeply in debt to American Express. Sent them back their card...borrowed $500 and sent to them...and still owe about a thousand, which I cannot pay at this time. All right...just wanted you to know how I have been doing it. We are talking now about early June, 1975. I flew to New York and took a plane to Rome airport...where everybody had to leave the plane and be searched by guards with submachine guns...thence on to Cairo, Egypt. I had no plan...knew nothing about where I was going...didn't know one pyramid from another, or even where they were located. But this is the way I have always proceeded...the SI's clue me in as I go along...and lead me unerringly to the right place/places, as they did in Scotland and England. (See your files for that report.) As soon as the plane landed in Cairo...a beautiful young lady seized my arm, and to my amazement hustled me through Customs and Immigration and bypassed me through a bushel of formalities by the authorities. She worked for an organization called "Green Valley"...as it turned out. Without her wonderful help I'd have spent an entire day bumbling about the airport...trying to cope with the bureaucracy there. She asked me where I had a reservation. I said, "what reservation?" and I thought she was going to faint. She explained to me that hotels were all filled in Cairo...nothing to be had without a reservation. Then she got on a phone...and in minutes told me that she had a nice double room for me in the El Borg Hotel in downtown Cairo. A ten minute taxi ride took me to the El Borg, and I went up to my room. It was spacious...and outside was a patio looking down over Cairo. One point bothered me...the patio had no railing as such...no protection... and if anyone wanted to liquidate me (don't laugh...many top UFO investigators have had mysterious "heart attacks" and fatal accidents) this would most certainly be the place to arrange for it. Night came on, and I left the hotel and walked across a long bridge into the city. Thousands of people, cars, busses, were pouring along the streets...most picturesque locale. Went back to the hotel...and doormen and elevator operators began to teach me Egyptian words for "up" "down" etc. I don't know why they did, but it was most helpful and I welcomed the "instant education." Someone had warned me never, but never, drink the water in Cairo...so I bought a fifth of Scotch and dipped my toothbrush in the Scotch...and brushed my teeth thusly during all my time in Egypt. Believe me, it's the ONLY way to brush! Next day, June 12, a Green Valley bus pulled up in front of the hotel and took me far out into the Sahara. My guide was Abo...an Egyptian approximately fifty years old. The first place he took me was to a pyramid...went down inside a secret passageway and came up in hidden rooms. I became greatly excited...because the stone ceilings were 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 3 of 35 Page Two covered with STAR carvings. Stars all over the ceiling. Then Abo further excited me by telling me...that this was the hidden chamber of King Ti Ti. And that the pyramid was made of limestone. Let me explain my excitement. Some years ago...for some reason I wanted to call myself "Ti Ti" and even painted the name on my ties, in oils. When I was a small child everyone called me "Ti Ti"...my family and all my school friends. But there is much more. My grandfather was an orphan...left on someone's back steps. At age six he supported the old folks who took him in...by shooting rabbits with a broken shotgun. At age twelve he went to work in the famous Indiana Limestone stone quarries (limestone). He was a waterboy, and was paid 15 cents a week to carry water to the stone workers. At age 25, he had become Vice President of Indiana Limestone...and was listed as one of the "great men of Indiana." Somehow he had a tremendous genius...he invented methods of coloring the limestone...of getting it out of the ground...of cutting it. The experts would call him on the phone...I was there at the time...and tell him, "John...we need so many tons of limestone, of a certain kind. Where can we find it?" And he would tell them. Then they would say, "How will we get it out of that corner of the quarry?" He'd suck on his corncob pipe, smile, and say, "I'll take tomorrow off and think about it." Next day he would take me (he and his wife, Queenie, raised me, for all practical purposes) out to Williams Dam, get a rowboat, go out onto the dam...toss our fishing poles into the water...and he'd smoke his pipe and think. At sundown we'd come home...he'd get pencil and paper and draw a complicated rig to get the stone out of the ground...call the experts and tell them he had their answer. (same as are in Cairo, Egypt...and in pyramids.) But there is more. When he became rich he himself drew up plans for a huge mansion in Bedford, Indiana. In front of the mansion he placed two life-sized limestone lions...hand-carved to his own specifications. Inside the house he had a huge sunporch...and he brought an artist from New York down to paint on the ceiling of the sunporch a blue sky...filled with STARS...identical to those I saw, and photographed, in King Ti Ti's chamber! He even nicknamed Clonia, his wife..."Queenie"...and bought her a jeweled crown to wear...as if he were a king and she were a queen. All of this...smashed into my awareness and consciousness...as soon as I got into King Ti Ti's hidden room. You are welcome to draw your own conclusions...as to why it did. While in Ti Ti's pyramid...not the SI's, but another entity or intelligence source communicated with me...and warned me NOT to touch the walls or any part of this or any other pyramid with my skin or hands...because ancient "PK" mechanisms had been set, long long ago, to affect interlopers (those who did not belong in the structures) destructively. (It was at this exact time...that I recalled, while in Philadelphia, Pa., some years ago, doing my miracles...the SI's had shown me with an inverted giant pyramid over me...the point of the pyramid inserted into my brain with the huge base far up overhead. I even had drawn a picture of it at the time and notified my usual contacts about it...in 1967, 68. What this meant...I do not know. But here I was...inside pyramids, real ones...not other-dimensional ones.) Abo then took me to the building of the great High Priest of Egypt...Ka Gemni...and instantly the intelligence (from now on I will call it Pyramid Power) informed me that this was a key place that I was looking for...for me to do my work in! Abo also took me to the Great Pyramid, Cheops, and to Cn Ness...and I was instructed by PP (pyramid power) that these places were also key places for me. (or "Pyr Cre" for pyramid creature) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 4 of 35 Page Three Now, understand what the background for all of this was: I'd have to have had training through 50 professions; have a Mensa brain; had special training in parapsychology; had my brain modified by the UFO's, then years later remodified again in Scotland-England; performed over 300 miracles embodying other-dimensional principles and effects; then brought to Egypt. Why was I brought to Egypt? I did not know. I only knew at this point that I had key OD mechanisms (other-dimensional) to use inside key places. So at each location Abo took me to...I shooed him away, as well as the guides... and telepathed the OD mechanisms. This first day...after going through this harrowing mental work...I was knocked out completely. Evidently my telepathing was connecting with the ancient mental powers left behind by the Egyptians, and it was too much for me... (my special half-human, half-Si brain, extra-powerful, notwithstanding.) So I ordered Abo to take me back to Cairo, to the hotel...and to forget the rest of what he was going to show me. When he and I returned to the bus... I found that my tape-recorder, which I had left inside the bus...had been tampered with. Someone had been listening to the tape on it. As I recall, there were just two other men on the bus at that time...and they had stayed behind at the bus while Abo had taken me inside the last pyramid. Or, it is possible that a "bug" had been placed inside my recorder...because I had noticed that I'd been followed...surveillance techniques...in Cairo. Anyway...on the bus back to Cairo...the PP communicated, and explained about the "false doors" Abo had shown me inside the key places. (At the temple of the High Priest, Ka Gemni...a false doorway had been carved into a block of solid rock. It was not a doorway; it didn't open. Just a huge block of solid rock, weighing tons. In the ancient Egyptian days the people would bring gifts of food and jewels and place them in front of this false door, turn their backs, and when they had turned around again the gifts would be gone. The High Priest had come through the solid rock, taken the gifts, then gone back again through the solid rock. The PP explained it to me: UFO entities had come and trained a handful of these High Priests, and given them supernatural powers...one of which was to pass through solid rock wall. (Jesus did, you know, or was alleged to so have done.) Because the High Priests had this special power...the Egyptian Kings, whom they served, knew them for what they were...UFO-trained key people. And every so often...the King would order the High Priest to pass through solid rock. If he could not do so, then he had disobeyed some rule the UFO's had given him (and they did give the High Priests rules to follow) and the King would then tie up the High Priest and leave him up at the top of the Pyramid...where he would then vanish, never to be seen again. Another thing that the PP explained to me was: that the pyramid itself, is the illusion...but the various other-dimensional powers left in it, to grow as time went by...was the reality. Treasure left inside the pyramid was to satisfy, and throw off, the understanding of mere humans. The REAL treasure left inside the pyramids...that is, the key ones...was a TREMENDOUS EDUCATION OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE LEFT BEHIND FOR KEY PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE WHO COULD LINK UP WITH IT, BE TAUGHT BY IT, AND CARRY ON! Obviously I am one of those key people. Nasr, my Egyptian guide and guard who took me up inside Cheops...informed me that he had worked there for thirty years, and only once...one time...had another man such as I...requested that tourists be kept down inside the passageways (as I requested)...so that the man could do mental work up inside the King's Chamber (the key spot of the pyramid. So there had been one other...long ago...doing what I am doing. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 5 of 35 Four Back at the El Borg Hotel I collapsed into bed...at mid afternoon... and conked out. When I awakened it was dusk...and I reflected upon how much I had done...and learned...from the days journey into the Sahara. That the pyramids had been ingeniously designed to satisfy ordinary humans with treasure inside...thus stopping them from discovering anything further...just as is done in Brazil, for instance -- when a rancher brings his herd of cattle to a river, he tosses one cow into the river...and the piranha fish gobble up that cow. While this is going on, the rancher is just down river getting his herd across. The piranha do not get the real treasure...and the humans have never gotten the real treasure of the pyramids, either. This day in the Sahara had turned me completely around. I'd discovered that what I was here for, in Egypt...was completely different than what I'd supposed. I'd supposed that I was here to ACTIVATE pyramids as I had done with Stonehenge. Instead, I had been approached and communicated with by the Pyramid Intelligence, or Power, and TAUGHT AND TRAINED. Notes at this point: At Cheops during the day...the Great Pyramid...one has to climb way way up high inside the pyramid, bent over at a certain angle part of the way. It is my belief...that this passageway was designed in this special manner...in order to HURT INTRUDERS WHO HAD TO CLIMB UP IT...that is, affect them physically and mentally. I know that it absolutely wrecked me...climbing that passageway! Of course, I was carrying a camera and other equipment...but should not have been so affected. I was warned again...inside Cheops...by PyrCre (Pyramid Power) not to touch the walls or any part of the pyramid...that it would be far safer to put my finger inside a live electric socket, or into a cobra's mouth. (Those were the pictures and intelligences flashed into my mind by PyrCre.) Also, I was carefully instructed by PyrCre, telepathically, to be sure and telepath to PyrCre as soon as I entered a pyramid...ASK FOR PERMISSION to be inside...and explain carefully that I was not an intruder...but was borrowing PyrCre's power...to help the human race. I wondered if I should tell Nasr, my pyramid guide...or Abo, my pro guide in general, about the danger of touching any portion of the interior of a pyramid, or key place...but PyrCre telepath'd not to tell them...they had done it for years...and it was too late for them. Later that afternoon Abo called me up, came and got me, and drove me out to see his brother, Abo No. 1. ("My" Abo was called No. 2) They put their heads together, then Abo No. 1 told me that Abo No. 2 would take me to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...that they felt it was in my best interests to go there and see all of the artifacts and have Abo 2 explain their history. We would go to the museum the next afternoon. I felt that this was useless, for my purposes (but as it turned out...I learned invaluable information when I did go the following day!) Added note: During the day I learned that the passageways inside the pyramids were constructed of blocks of stone ingeniously, like a Chinese puzzle...robbers would get through one or two into a passageway...when suddenly they would be confronted by another block of stone which would come crashing down, blocking them. PyrCre telepathed that the real treasure...was not what the robbers found inside the secret passageways...but behind blocks of stone WHICH COULD ONLY BE OPENED BY AN ALIEN MIND OR AN ALIEN-TRAINED MIND using telepathy and psychokinesis (a combination of both). I.e., what was in effect was a PROGRESSION...from the low to the high...from gems and gold, the low...to HIGHER FUNCTIONS OF THE MIND, the high...and this fact was something that ONLY AN ALIEN MIND COULD "SEE" OR DETECT, because of being equipped with higher powers of the mind, than human. This reminded me of a passage in the Bible..."render unto Caesar what is Caesar's...and unto the Lord what is the 06/28/2025 15:0 === Page 6 of 35 ge Five Lord's." In the context of which I have been speaking...the UFO's and the High Priests whom they trained...rendered gems and gold unto "Caesar" (meaning human robbers)...and set up priceless gifts of other-dimensional "time-capsuled wisdom" for later aliens to come to the pyramids, read sign correctly...and "browse in that kind of library." Now, maybe I'd better spell out...what I've been discussing. I understand it easily...but I am dealing with human minds...who just might not understand. If an alien person (from another planet, or another dimension)...or a half-alien like myself who has been trained by aliens and has half-alien brain...comes to the pyramids in Egypt...then that alien quickly realizes what the human beings from centuries past have not realized...that the HUMAN treasure of diamonds, rubies, pearls, gold, etc., found in the pyramids...are merely a DIVERSIONARY MEASURE...put in the pyramids so that the humans will go no further. They have what they want. Things...that will bring them money. All right. But the REAL treasures in the KEY pyramids and temples...are other-dimensional time-capsules left there ages ago...containing wisdom of ages past known only to the High Priests and the UFO entities that taught them...just as if you would walk into a modern library filled with books...the alien walks into a pyramid, uses the correct approach consisting of telepathic key symbols and psychokinesis, blended...and presto, wisdom and knowledge, great great wisdom and knowledge, from the ages past begins to penetrate into their mind or brain in ENCAPSULATED FORM (that is, they will not grasp it all that day, that week, or that month...the information and knowledge will pursue them, wherever they go after that...and they will have it all...IN TIME. Might take years...but that "time-capsule" of wisdom and knowledge will BE GIVEN TO THEM EN TOTO, even after they leave Egypt. This, then...is the VERY REAL treasure...of the Egyptian pyramids (key ones only...there are many pyramids...but only certain ones are the KEY ones...and only an alien brain can separate the key ones from the "dummy" ones...which is why there were so many pyramids built.) Well, back to my hotel. It was night, and I couldn't sleep. The mosquitos were eating me up. In the morning I went into the Hilton restaurant and had breakfast. Since having been in the pyramids I was horribly dehydrated for some reason...and I lined up six huge glasses of orange juice and downed them all...then drank three huge glasses of milk...then bought a huge bottle of mineral water and drank that. The waitress stood by with eyes and face expressing astonishment. (From that time on...whenever I finished my work out in the desert re the pyramids and temples...the same thing happened...I had to get back and down enormous amounts of liquids.) On this particular morning a strange thing happened...I SAW MY DOUBLE. Never in my life have I ever seen a face that looked like mine. But sitting not far away were two men...AND ONE OF THEM WAS THE SPITTING IMAGE OF ME. I mean...if you put the two of us together...I really am sure that you could not tell which one would be me, or him! I rose from my table and walked over to their table...they stared up at me...I said: "Pardon me...but looking at you is like looking into a mirror! You and I are twins!" My look-alike said stiffly "I can assure you that we are not related." I was sort of ill at ease with his cold manner...and I stammered "The only person I've ever met who looked like me was my brother Jack." The man stared at me coldly...with my face and my eyes...and said "Well, I am not your brother Jack." I laughed ha ha and said sure, Jack was dead...and excuse me for bothering them...and returned to my table. But I can tell you...that was a REAL SHOCK! I mean, suppose you looked across the room...AND SAW THE SPITTING IMAGE OF YOURSELF SITTING OVER THERE! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 7 of 35 Page Six Note: After having been inside the secret passageways of the key pyramids and temples for several days...a strange taste and smell had come into my mouth and nose...and would not leave. A strong, musty smell and odor...most peculiar smell and odor. It was powerful in my mouth and nose all the time I was in Egypt...and still lingers on at this late date, 5/19/76) Note: (I am taking these from written notes that I jotted down at the time, or put on my recorder then jotted down later)...while in Egypt and inside the key places...I did not have the feeling or emotion of affection or closeness...that I felt in Urquhart Castle in Scotland. I.e., while in Drumnadrochit, Scotland, area...I felt an emotion of love or affection for the area, somehow; while in England, at Stonehenge and at Warminster on Cradle Hill...I felt as if I were RETURNING after a long absence...but no emotion of affection as in Scotland; and in Egypt I felt the least affection or closeness. But in Egypt...I felt the most psychic power coming at me...than the other places. Might mention prices in the restaurant in Cairo...most amusing. The average meal cost $6.00 to $10.00. Small orange juice, 60 cents; cup of coffee, 45 cents; glass of milk a dollar, and so on. I had thought prices in Paris were murderous...but Paris is a piker compared to Cairo! Abo came to my hotel and got me and off we went to the Cairo Museum. It wasn't long before I understood why PyrCre had had Abo bring me here! Abo showed me the mummies taken from the pyramids; the gold and treasures that had been found inside the pyramids; the weapons and personal ornaments of the peoples of that age...and there, on a huge golden chair taken from a King's chamber inside a pyramid...WAS MY SI DISC! This, from ages past. Next, I saw some figures inside glass cases...carved out of some kind of wood. I asked Abo what they were...for what they were HAD BEEN IN A PHOTOGRAPH I TOOK IN MAINE SOME YEARS AGO! (Which appears in my book. One face looks like a wolf...and another a huge bird with a beak.) Abo explained that they were ancient gods of Egypt...Horus and Anubis. Ah, the disc on the throne, mentioned above...appeared on King Tut's throne. Another interesting thing...among the artifacts were BLOWGUNS. I hadn't known that blowguns existed in ancient Egypt. But they did. Now keep in mind my being called "Ti Ti" as a child, and all about my grandfather and his tremendous genius along the lines of the ancient Egyptians...when I was a small child, about eight years old...the kids in my town of Bedford, Indiana, formed gangs and threw rocks at each other. But not me. I TRAINED MY OWN GANG TO MAKE BLOWGUNS...by utilizing copper tubing, match sticks with the end slotted to put bits of playing cards into for guiding fins...and a needle driven into the other end...blowgun! We went at the other gangs with our blowguns, blowing needle-darts at them...and were greatly feared for this. BUT AGAIN...WHAT INSTRUCTED A SMALL COUNTRY KID IN THE HILLS OF INDIANA TO CONSTRUCT SUCH A WEAPON? The year was 1928. Back to my hotel, the El Borg. Everything in Cairo is done on a bribe basis, I found. Such a bribe system you couldn't imagine! In the Hilton restaurant I'd been leaving a 10% tip...then weeks later discovered that a 10% tip had also been added to all my daily bills, and deducted at the cashier! So I'd been knicked for 20% all along! So I began not tipping the waitress, but just paying the 10% listed on my check...but then the waitresses came to me and told me not to pay any attention to what the printed check said...but to leave them their tip! Ha ha. I had to tip the hotel clerk $30 to extend my stay at the El Borg (because there are no hotel rooms to be found in Cairo, and you can only stay so many days in the one that you have)...at Cheops I had to bribe Nasr, the pyramid guide, twenty bucks to hold back the tourists so that I could get my work done alone up in the King's Chamber, the secret room. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 8 of 35 Page Seven This was every day! By Friday, June 13, 1975, I had paid out $200 in bribes alone. I bumped into a man called Ali...and he invited me to his huge shop where he sold Egyptian things. I carried a small Panasonic radio (they don't have them in Cairo...these tiny portables, it seems, or so he said) and he saw it and went wild. What could he trade me for it, he asked? First we sat down and he offered me hot coffee (thick Egyptian coffee, not to be confused with our coffee) or cold beer. This is done any time you enter any shop in the Cairo Bazaar (part of town, the Bazaar, where most of the shops are). It is custom. Business is not discussed. You sip coffee and chat, then after a polite interval of say, ten or fifteen minutes, and your coffee is finished...you get up, look around, and maybe talk business with the shop owner. I found that the shop owners...although like hawks when it comes to business...are also like small children. Ali finally traded me out of the radio, and Hassan, another clerk in the shop who had first talked to me...asked for a "present" too, from me. I.e., we were not "trading" but giving each other "presents". Ali gave me an inlaid cigar box and a Cleopatra tray, intricately made...as his present. I gave him the Panasonic as his present. That's the way they do it. Another amusing thing the guides did was...after we'd been swapping, Ali said he wanted to take me to meet a friend...and he left the shop and drove us to another shop...his father's shop...and we went through the sipping coffee routine...then his dad tried to sell me Egyptian curios...but I told him that I was not on a buying trip, but thanks anyway. We parted friends, regardless of no business having been transacted. And some days when I'd hire taxi drivers to take me out into the desert...when we'd get back to town they would not take me to the address I'd give them...they would drive up in front of a shop...get out and take me into the shop, telling me that the owner of the shop was their friend and would give me special prices. One day a driver did this. "But I don't want to go into that shop," I told the driver, "I want to go to the Nile-Hilton (the boat I stayed on later.) He stood and sulked, with the shop owner at his elbow...so I just took off and walked the ten blocks to my hotel. You see, they all do this, the taxi drivers...and they get bribed by the shop owners to do it, plus they get a commission from what the shop owner sells the tourist. It reminded me somewhat of the day in Paris when I'd put the family in a taxi and instructed the driver to take us to the Eiffel Tower. He let us out in front of an odd building. I said, "Is this the Eiffel Tower?" He said oh no, that the Eiffel Tower wouldn't be as much fun as this place...a huge park...and for us to go and have a good time in the park! At the time I was very angry at the taxi driver for taking us where he thought we ought to go...instead of where I told him. But as it turned out...we had the best time we had in Paris at that park. But back to Egypt. At 6 PM in the evening I was supposed to catch a bus to the train to leave for Luxor...in upper Egypt...to see the pyramids there. The van driver took me to the train...onto the train...and showed me a compartment, which had other suitcases in the compartment. I hit the ceiling. But he ran out and off the train. See, I had been followed all around Cairo...little men hiding behind potted plants and walking behind me, stopping when I stopped, and so on. I didn't mind surveillance, but this was ridiculous. Evidently Egyptian intelligence or CIA had put a man in my train compartment, for whatever purpose. Well, if they thought I was going to sleep in some train compartment with a strange man...ha ha ha! So I picked up my luggage, left the train, and took a cab back to the El Borg. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 9 of 35 Eight Later PyrCre explained to me that It did not want me to go Luxor...and had caused me to turn back...that the key places for me to do my work...were in the Giza area, the area of the Great Pyramid and all of that. NOT in Luxor. It explained that again, Luxor had been a diversionary measure by the ancient ones...in Luxor they had put oodles of golden things and treasure and places of great beauty...contrasted, say, with the starkness of King Ti Ti's pyramid or the Temple of On Ness or the Temple of Ka Gemni. BUT...the real goodies were at the dull, drab, stark places. Where I was. Not at the flashy, beautiful layouts up in Luxor. At this point in time...I wanted desperately to return home. Yet, I could not. Something held me in place, to stay and keep on doing what I was doing each day...which was to have a driver take me out into the Sahara desert to the key places...go into each key place...to the key place in the key place...and use the mental, other-dimensional mechanisms to activate that particular place. But I had to skip days. The awesome psychic power that I was linking up with...in the key places...absolutely wiped me out on my daily sojourn! So I had to slow down to every day...out to the desert. I had the feeling that if I attempted this work every day...that the power emanating from the key places could kill me. That strong. (Later I was astounded to learn from PyrCre...that during the interval I would be inside a key place, activating the power there...THE POWER WAS TEACHING ME! A reverse process! On a deep level, which I was not aware of.) Listen, something happened most odd! At the Temple of On Ness...I walked on through out into the Sahara Desert, and idly glanced down onto the ground, and saw a stone with a perfect figure of a lady dancing on it! Flint stone. I picked it up and put it into my pocket. The next time I came out to On Ness I walked through the Temple...and an old old man stopped me. "I would like to give you this" he said, in slow English...and he put a coin into my hand. It was a French coin...WITH THE EXACT IMAGE OF THE DANCING LADY ON THE STONE ON IT! I mean...identical. I carry them in my pocket to this day, and every so often take them out, compare them...and wonder. The stone, of course, is ages old. Who was the old man? I'd been alone when I found the stone (among thousands of stones strewn all over)...he couldn't have known about the stone. ????? And why would he have GIVEN the coin to me? In Egypt nobody GIVES anything! All is trade, bribe and barter. A giant hustle. You should see the large image of the dancing lady on this black flint stone...then see the same exact image on the coin...your eyes would pop out! I bumped into Ali in Cairo...and he eyed my camera and other equipment with greedy eyes. Why, he asked me, didn't I leave all my expensive equipment with him at his shop...each day when I went out into the desert? Carefully I refrained from breaking out into hysterical laughter...because all of these shop owners, although like children, are thieves of the first water. "Thanks a lot, Ali" I told him, "but no, I need it with me." For any of you who might ever go to Cairo, Egypt...you could learn something from my experience. Upon first arriving in Cairo...the young lady from Green Valley met me outside the plane and guided me through all the red tape. "And be careful," she told me, "of the Hunters." "The Hunters" I asked? "Yes," she replied, "here in Cairo are some of the greatest thieves in the world...who have shops in the Bazaar. They are called The Hunters...because they hunt tourists and take their money...and are so great at it." 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 10 of 35 Page Nine I was still at the El Borg Hotel. This night I awoke about two in the morning... scratching and covered all over with mosquito bites. I said to hell with it, got up, got dressed, took the elevator down, walked across the bridge over the Nile... and something led me to a boat parked on the Nile outside the Hilton. Now, I knew that there were no rooms to be had in the Hilton... I had tried. I went onto this yacht-boat thing, called the Nile Hilton. Over the gangplank down through doors opened by a doorman I could rent on this boat. I asked the desk clerk if there was a stateroom I could rent on this boat. He smiled and said no. I grinned... having learned something... and said, "Listen, I'll bet you fifty dollars that you do have a room somewhere on here. Will you check your book again and see?" (I bet him he DIDN'T HAVE A ROOM, you see?) If he came up with one, then he gets fifty. He laughs, says "Discuss it with the manager! He's sitting at that table over there in the lobby, listening to us." The manager had heard it all. I turned and bet him fifty he didn't have a room. He examined his finger nails, then called to the clerk to give me stateroom such and so. I handed the manager fifty dollars and said, well, you win and I lose... and moved into the stateroom... which had no bugs, no mosquitos, no busted plumbing. Then went back to El Borg and moved out, and into the Nile-Hilton. The staterooms were on the bottom of the boat. On the topside was a big restaurant on one side; a bar on the other. On the fore deck were about thirty tables with awnings where people could order drinks and look out over the Nile river... which the boat sat right on the edge of. At night it was a gorgeous sight... the black Nile river there in Cairo, where Cleopatra once boated... and now you could see families out in their boats, going up and down the Nile in the evening, enjoying the night air. Mr. Salama was the gent, manager, I'd bribed with fifty. They gave me ten days, too, which is more time than is given to most tourists. Oh, and I had to bribe the clerk at El Borg Hotel five pounds TO GET OUT AND LEAVE THE HOTEL... because I'd bribed them previously to extend my stay there... now I was cutting my stay short. (Remember this particular clerk... he pops up later mysteriously.) Cost fourteen pounds a day to stay at the Nile Hilton. After I moved my things to the Nile Hilton, I went, at four in the morning, into the Hilton to get breakfast at their restaurant, The Ibis (which was to be a sort of headquarters for me while in Cairo... and where I had a lot of fun... as you will see.) Have been extremely ill for days... am weak as a baby... knocked out. Just passed out in my stateroom for a couple of days... didn't know what time it was or what day it was... and couldn't have cared less. (Incidentally... if I accidentally repeat some material herein... forgive me. It could happen. Just be patient.) Ali, Hassan, and Abo... all have begged to take me out to some desert city in the sahara at night... Saraha City, it's called... but have refused... want to keep my mind on my business. Evening... went into the Hilton lobby... and heard wild drums beating! (I'm a former pro drummer, of years past... and these drums were great!) A whole bunch of female voices were yelling like Comanche indians. What it all turned out to be... was an Egyptian wedding. First came about twenty little kids carrying long, tall, lighted candles. Following these kids were about ten women beating on drums... and I mean, it sounded good enough to match Buddy Rich! After them came a belly dancer... dressed in filmy, gauzy gown... writhing and bumping and grinding. Following her came the bride and groom... in bridal attire. I noticed that the groom never once took his eyes off the undulating hips of the belly dancer in front of him... and idly I wondered how his marriage would turn out. His wife to be in a few minutes... kept giving him angry looks. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 11 of 35 167 The next thing that happened...people on both sides of this strange wedding train...began throwing coins onto the floor in front of the couple to be married. I gasped...this, in show business, is the ultimate insult. Another adult behind the couple ran around scooping up all the coins. I asked someone standing nearby what the coins were for...and they explained that it was a sort of dowry for the married couple. Well, anyway, the belly dancers and drummers and kids and married couple all went up the stairway to the upstairs place where the nuptials were to be tied. I went back into the Ibis Cafe to get some orange juice. Now I can't use the Green Valley bunch...to go into the desert. Since the train fracas. It is costing me a lot more money now...have to hire independent drivers, taxi drivers, who park outside the Hilton, each day. Goes like this... I walk up and down the line of taxis and scrutinize the drivers until my mind senses the right one. I go up to him and we begin to bargain. They all know me...Cairo, Egypt, has millions of people...but as far as what goes on is concerned...it is like a town of only 500 people. The shop owners and taxi drivers and hotel employees have a spy system that would put the CIA to shame. And they all share the information...because they can be mutually helpful to each other in steering tourists around and relieving them of money...for a commission, of course. My driver settled for ten pounds for the afternoon in the Sahara, contacting all the key places. The taxi drivers were all anxious to take me out...because each time I went out we'd stop on the way back at a desert oasis place which serves good food and ice cold beer...and I'd let them imbibe and eat all they wanted, as my personal guest. No other tourists gave them this...so they almost fought over who would take me out into the Sahara. I went back to the boat and assembled my tools for the trip...when suddenly someone inserted a key into my stateroom door and opened it. A man stuck his head in. I started for him...his head popped out of sight and the door closed. I went out to the desk in the lobby and complained. The clerk shrugged his shoulders. Watch it, I thought. (This same thing had happened when I was staying at a hotel in Rochester, Minnesota, in early 1975...there was a knock on my hotel door...when I went to the door and opened it, two men ran down the hall, away from me. I chased them to find out who they were. AND THEY VANISHED in an end of the hall that was padlocked. Nowhere they could have gone. Utterly mystifying. At this point...PyrCre telepathed to me and instructed me in the finer points of telepathing to the power in the pyramids and temples I would be going into, for my own safety. It was a sort of mental ritual...to follow...once inside those places...and completely necessary...unless I wanted the Power inside to track me for the rest of my life and finally destroy me...as those Powers had done with so many people (remember 19 of the 20 scientists who broke into one of the Egyptian king's tomb? All eventually died of freak, violent accidents.) It was an odd time for it...but I suddenly realized...what had happened in the court reporters office in Norfolk, Virginia...some years past. I'd been sitting in the office, alone, typing...when suddenly I HAD HEARD A BRAIN WORKING. I said out loud..."Come on in, Frank." (There hadn't been any footsteps or warning noise to alert me.) The office door opened and Frank walked in...a court reporter...with another court reporter, a girl. He was pale and shaking. "My god," he said to me, "how did you know I was out there?" I couldn't explain to him...that I'd heard his brain out there...so I just grinned. And I wondered...why I would remember this thing now. Might mention here...that I spent only 30 minutes inside each key pyramid or temple, using my mental system to contact the Power within. Why not the 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 12 of 35 Page Eleven whole day? Because...it would destroy me. You see, I was bringing the power of my half-alien, modified and re-modified brain...into direct contact with the INFINITELY powerful live intelligence left behind in ancient times...to merge with it...PyrCre, if you will...and after 30 minutes I was exhausted and would have to take a breather until I got to the next place. Just 10 minutes of this action in Cheops alone... would nearly wipe me out, mentally and physically. As PyrCre (Pyramid Creature) explained it to me telepathically...It had waited for ages...for an alien to return to the Pyramids and Temple key places...and activate the places once again, as was done in the old days. You see, Stonehenge...which I had activated at an earlier date (see your files)...was a sort of computer/switchboard for the UFO entities. Stonehenge is linked up...to the key pyramids in Egypt...key pyramids and places in Yucatan (Mayans)...and key pyramids and places in Peru (Incas). When I activated Stonehenge all these other pyramids in other geographical locations were alerted...much like a silent burglar alarm will register off somewhere else in a police station. So I was setting these giant power-sources in motion, after ages of inactivity. And both the SI's and PyrCre were gently guiding me, instructing me, at every step of the way. I dictated into my recorder...Friday morning, the 15th. Then I went across the road to the Hilton...where I was informed that it was SUNDAY THE 17th! I refused to believe it! I went from taxi to taxi, checking the date...and it was true. Somehow...I had lost two days of time! This...has puzzled me ever since. It put me in mind of the two nights when I stood on the lonely, dark parapets of Urquehart Castle...and lost eight minutes each night (see your files.) Of course, this wasn't eight minutes...it was TWO DAYS. Understand, I keep a close record of time...days, hours, minutes...with two recorders constantly kept in action...one in my pocket, and one that I carry. So the chance of my making an error re time or date...is remote, to say the least. Sunday...today...Abo took me out onto the Sahara. One of the key places I'd been activating was the Temple of On Ness...and Abo explained that it meant "Son of God." At this point the SI's, or PyrCre, telepathd to me and explained that they considered me "their child." Inside the secret passage and secret room of the Pyramid of On Ness...is a ceiling covered with stars, mentioned earlier. It is a very powerful room, psychically...and a very special place. After we left there and went to Cheops...and I climbed up inside the secret passageway to the King's Chamber, with Nasr keeping the other tourists far away at the bottom... I found a "bug"...a listening device...behind the casket of the King. Was CIA or Egyptian Intelligence trying to listen and find out what I was doing? Comical...since I am doing it mentally. If they put that thing there to find out what I was saying, or mumbling... other-dimensional "trigger" mechanisms to activate that Key...then they were grossly disappointed! I'll tell you something at this point...which is not very couth. But just in the interests of being accurate as to what is going on...all this Egyptian action took place in June of 1975. Am finally getting around to typing it in May of 1976. Now, every ten minutes, as I type, 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 13 of 35 Page Twelve I find that I have to get up and go to the bathroom and piddle... WHICH WAS ABOUT THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN EGYPT. I.e., just thinking back on all this...seems to have a dehydrating effect on me... Today I walked out of the Pyramid of On Ness...and automatically I turned a corner and walked to the right...in the wrong direction to get back to the Temple, quite a distance away. My native guide called out to me...ran over...and sort of in a daze I told him... This is the right way...there should be a doorway here in the center of the bottom of this pyramid!" It was as if I'd been there before and knew what I was talking about. The old guide studied me, then said: "Long ago there was a building constructed from the Temple, far over there...to this exact spot that you point to. The scientists also have long wondered why the building led to the solid stone blocks of the pyramid here at this point...and have searched for an entrance... but have never found it." He then showed me bits and pieces of stone fragmented over the ground, leading from the pyramid over to the Temple. In the Temple of Ka Gemni, famous and powerful High Priest of ancient Egypt...I made my way through various rooms and hallways...to a back chamber...unerringly...being guided by PyrCre, I suppose. It was a relatively small room...with the colored rock drawings over the walls... but on one wall, on my left, was a huge life-size portrait or picture of the High Priest himself, pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. On my right...was another, exact same, picture of the High Priest pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. Immediately...I knew...that this was the key spot...where the High Priest himself had stood...and what I was to do. I was to stand... arms extended and fingers rigidly extended...and "see" lightning coming out of my fingers, the lighting striking the colored pictures on the far wall (I won't tell you which ones, as am forbidden to do so.) If you think this is far out...please recall that I have documented in the past making lightning strike certain targets, with witnesses present...and I did it in this same manner. You may have this in your files.) This action...would activate the key spot...in this key place...accompanied by the proper other-dimensional mental mechanisms. Oh, I might mention...each time that I went into action in one of these key places...all the Power left behind in the pyramids...focused on me. It was like having some living thing...a formidable living thing...sit and stare at you. z AS I left the temple of the High Priest...(or was it On Ness? my notes got scrambled on this)...I saw a high wall with cobras carved into the top of the wall. I pointed them out to Abo, and asked him if he knew what the cobras meant. He didn't. I made my right arm into a "Z"... the cobras were all alike...coiled into a striking Z...EXACTLY IN THE SAME MANNER THAT PYRCRE HAD INSTRUCTED ME TO HOLD MY ARMS INSIDE THE HIGH PRIESTS KEY ROOM! I.e., the cobra sign...meant the High Priest... with both arms held in a Z shape...lightning coming from his fingers, which were pointed at the key portion of the room. Which...caused magical things to happen. Perhaps you are puzzled about "the power" I am talking about in these key places. Might be easier for you to understand it...as an extremely amplified form of PSI FORCE POWER 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 14 of 35 e Thirteen At Cheops..........the Great Pyramid..........Nasr took me up again to the King's Chamber..........through the secret passageway. He paused, turned to me, and said: "You know, I've been working here for 30 years..........and only one other time has a man come here as you come. He, too, had me hold back people at the bottom of the Pyramid..........while he went up to the King's Chamber to work with his mind up there, he told me." This was most interesting..........that another human had come and done as I am doing. After being in Cheops each time..........it was especially dehydrating..........much more so than the other places..........and when I'd come out I would have to rush someplace to drink bottle after bottle of pop or cold beer. Those who are interested in "pyramid power"..........might take note of that. Abo surprised me..........by now he'd seemed to grasp what I was doing..........and turned to me and said: "Ted, now I understand. At first I did not, and thought that you were a tourist and a crackpot. Now I know that you are not. What you are doing..........is making friends with the ancient High Priests!" Of course, in essence, he was quite correct. Would like to add something that has not much business being in this file. Each trek out into the Sahara..........we would drive through the busy, teeming streets of Cairo..........out out out into the countryside. We'd drive along dirt roads underneath palm trees..........and girls and boys would be swimming naked in the Nile, accompanied not by pet dogs..........but by water buffaloes. Women would be walking along the road..........carrying giant baskets on their heads filled with fruit or laundry..........carrying a baby clutched to their bosom. Little boys and men would come racing along the road, riding their camel. Well, the point I want to make..........they all seemed very happy. Smiling, laughing..........mothers all carrying their babies..........some babies too big, but they'd carry them anyway..........all of them laughing and happy. I've been around the world..........but have never seen such happy people. They have very little, in the way of worldly goods or belongings..........but I'll tell you they are happy. Back in Cairo, went to the Ibis Cafe in the Hilton for supper. Abo surprised me by walking in. He told me that Green Valley had sent him..........because they were upset by my beef with them over that train episode. I said sure, tell them to give me my fifty bucks back. He went rushing off to the telephone, then returned, pulled out a bundle and gave me fifty dollars, saying that they had agreed, wanting to keep peace with me. I tipped Abo fourteen bucks and thanked him. He grinned..........said that Green Valley was also tipping him..........for settling the matter. In the cafe, I noticed for the umpteenth time..........the same surveillance agents peering at me. Never one. Always two, or more. (Later this was brought out into the open by Abo, as you will see. Not my imagination at all.) One would inevitably be English..........the other Egyptian. And they were so cute and funny about it..........I would catch them hiding behind the draperies and peering around the draperies..........jerking their head back when I'd spot them. Ha ha. Now, I was working three major pyramids each time out in the Sahara..........plus some table key spots. PyrCre had instructed me not to roam all over Egypt to other places, north or south..........but to concentrate my powers on activating these three pyramids. Today I looked at a map..........and saw that the three pyramids..........if a line were drawn from one to another..........MADE A PYRAMID! Most interesting. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 15 of 35 Page Fourteen As I have said before, everything in Egypt...revolves around bribery, tipping, corruption, commission. For instance...when Abo took me to Cheops Pyramid today...and Nasr, the government guide, took me into the pyramid while Abo waited outside...Nasr stopped and said, Ted, please do me a favor? When you leave, tell Abo you've paid me another ten dollars...making twenty...will you? (See, I'd already paid, tipped, Nasr twenty to keep the tourists back...but Abo gets a commission off any tip I give to Nasr...and Nasr only reported ten...but innocently, without knowing the setup, I'd told Abo I tipped Nasr twenty. Now Nasr wanted to get straight with Abo...or Abo would steer tourists in the future away from Nasr. Sound complicated? It is, believe me. I told him, okay. So when I left and rejoined Abo...I grinned at Abo and told him I had given Nasr the other ten dollar tip. He grinned at me, and winked and nodded. Nasr walked up to him and slipped the commission from the twenty into Abo's hand...and everyone was friendly again. Next Abo wanted me to ride a camel. I said, man, what? I am here to do something much different than riding camels. But Abo has a charm and persuasiveness which Phil Silvers (Sergeant Bilko) would envy. And before you knew it, he had me on the back of a camel, to ride from Cheops down to the Sphinx. The camel trainer, a young fellow in his teens, held the reins of the camel and ran along beside the camel and me. Abo followed in his taxi about 100 feet behind. Suddenly the young camel driver uttered a command...and the camel began running. Now, I don't know how long it's been since you've been on a camel...but let me explain. A camel is a giant creature, not to be fooled with. To get on it, it must sit down flat...you get onto a huge saddle arrangement...and when it stands back up...you are about eight feet in the air! When it walks, you sway, violently from side to side. A camel walking is one thing. A camel running, is quite another. Those things can run like a bat out of hell! There I was, reeling from side to side in the saddle, camera around my neck going to one side, me to another...clutching my tape recorder in one hand, other stuff in another...and the desert sand a blur beneath the speeding camel. Suddenly the camel driver yelled a command, and the camel stopped. I looked down at the face of the camel driver, who smiled innocently. "Gee," I said, "that was great! Real fun!" His face instantly registered puzzlement and disappointment...and I realized that this was his only way of striking back at the rich tourists and bosses over him...by having his camel scare the living daylights out of them. But I cheered him up...slipped a tip into his hand. He was horrified, and turned and looked at Abo's car which had stopped about 50 feet behind. "Don't let Abo see it," he said, and handed it back to me. Now, when I'd taken the money from my pocket, a small slip of paper had fallen out. A receipt from the Ibic Cafe. We proceeded down the rest towards the Sphinx when Abo's car pulled up alongside us. He got out and handed me the tiny paper. "You dropped this back there," he told me. How he could have spotted that, I don't know...but it revealed to me how closely Abo was watching. Before we got to the Sphinx I managed to slip the tip to the camel driver without Abo seeing it...so the kid wouldn't have to give his commission to Abo. But do you think that fooled Abo? Forget it. We were standing in front of the Sphinx when Abo said: "Did you remember to tip the camel driver?" I just grinned at him. He grinned back and said, "I see that you did. All right." And I knew that Abo would get his cut of that tip. === Page 16 of 35 Page Fifteen Incidentally, when I speak of "activating" these key spots...PyrCre tells me that in doing so...I am USING MORE POWER THAN IS KNOWN ON EARTH ANYWHERE! Also, another fascinating happening today...while climbing down inside the secret passageway of Cheops...a party of lovely German girls were coming up...and to do so they had to climb up a steel ladder at the lower part of the passageway, which I'd reached and gone down the ladder. I decided to help them up. I put my hand under the elbow of the first one and hoisted her up the ladder...BUT SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL VIOLENTLY! She turned, up there, and gave me the most astonished look. I helped a second up...AND SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! I tried another...SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! They looked at me with astonishment and fear, then turned and hurried on up the passageway...AND I REALIZED THAT AFTER HAVING BEEN UP IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AND ACTIVATED THE GREAT PYRAMID...THAT I HAD MY STRENGTH MULTIPLIED somewhere from 20-50 times! I had barely touched the girls...lifting gently underneath their elbows...yet they'd shot upward and bounced, is the only word for it, off the stone! As if they'd been flung...by some giant with supernatural strength. This would be a good place to explain...that on these unusual trips (Paris, Scotland, England, Cairo)...I do not perform in the usual tourist manner or procedure. As you noted from the Scotland/England files...I had to bribe people to do this, do that...get over spiked gates at night into old haunted castles...hire drivers to take me out into the dark isolated countryside when nobody living there in their right mind would consider being out after ten o'clock (it is not the United States.) In Cairo...I was doing the same thing. To get my unusual chores done...I must tip, bribe, and so forth, on and on. Most tourists can cut corners and be economical about the whole thing; but I cannot. To get the results I need to get...I have to employ extraordinary measures...and extraordinary amounts of cash. But, and this is the whole point...I get results that tourists cannot get. They hire cheap guides...I hire the best guides to get me where tourists can't go. Now, I have hired Abo away from Green Valley Tourist Company, for which he usually works as a top tourist guide. I pay him more each day...than Green Valley pays him. But Abo is a real ace in the hole. He gets things done that need to get done...greased, of course, by mucho dinero. Am going in the hole back home with each of these trips...but this is the way I have to operate. It costs more, true...but I get more done this way. Got a shock today. Was sitting in the Ibis Cafe having lunch, when a man and his wife and teenage son asked to sit with me. Sure, I said. Soon he'd struck up a conversation about ESP and parapsych...so to have a little fun I pulled out a ring with a black stone, and asked him what the stone was. He examined it with a puzzled expression, then handed it back and said, "Maybe I'm crazy, but is it from the moon?" Now, the stone is black and polished. It is a tektite...and NASA scientists have stated they think that they fall from the moon...meteorites, you know. I was flabbergasted, to say the least! And told him that he was correct. Another humorous thing that happened...a man and his wife sat down nearby at a table...they had a baby in a high chair sitting all by himself over to one side of the table, crying and screaming. I called my waitress over and told her to move the baby around the table to sit beside its momma. She did, and the baby stopped crying and began cooing. The waitress came over, looked me in the eye, said "You are very intelligent." "No I'm not," I answered. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 17 of 35 Page Sixteen "I just like babies." Tonight I was bored. There is really nothing to do in Cairo. It is not as dull as London, but runs a close second. So I figured well, why not go out to that Sahara City and see the tent show all of them are talking about? So I sashayed out, got a taxi driver who named a fair price, and took off. He seemed a nice sort...had a small black mustache...was very proud of his taxi, as all the drivers are...they all have pictures of their wife and kids inside the front windshield...and all sorts of colorful decorations strung around. He was especially proud of his taxi...which was a Mercedes Benz. Well, we drove way out onto the Sahara Desert under the full moon... to this giant tent...where Egyptian bands played; jugglers juggled; belly dancers bellyed around...all the while the gawking tourists drank cold beer and had all sorts of cheeses and foods thrust at them to go with the beer. I was not impressed at all by the show. You can see a better show almost any night of the week on TV at home. We started to drive back to Cairo across the moonlit desert when the show was over. Now, the driver had asked me to sit up front with him. I'd shrugged, thinking poor fellow, he must be lonesome...so I did. Ha. We'd gone a little ways across the deserted desert...when his right hand grabbed at my groin. My left hand grabbed his right hand. He started telling me he loved me...and what he'd do to me out under the moonlight. I told him that I was queer for girls...and kept fighting his hand off. Finally I had him stop the car, and got into the back seat, and we drove silently, oh so very silently, back into Cairo, where I paid him off and went into my boat. Then I discovered that a valuable silver and amethyst fob was missing from its place on my belt...where it had been held by a keychain. Not being as slow as molasses...I figured it out. While acting "queer" he actually pickpocketed my fob! Beautiful. Probably those men who are bent that way...who would go along with him out of his cab into the desert...would get pickpocketed out of their money, wallet, even the gold in their teeth! Wow. So I learned a valuable lesson...never, but never, sit up front with the hired help! His name was Abraham...remember it, it comes up later on. Note: If I hadn't actually come to Egypt...I would not have been made privy to the discoveries that I have made. I.e., the importance of getting to the OTHER key spots...Yucatan and Peru. Thought: at Cheops, all the tourists went back down from the King's Chamber FACING FORWARD. I did not...I BACKED DOWN on the long ladders and steps...not even thinking about it. But old Cairo Nasr pointed it out to me. Like I had been there before, and knew what I was doing. Note: It has been so easy...to spot my tails...surveillance people... because they all wear dark glasses...hide behind newspapers and peek around them...hide behind draperies and peek around...etc. Sort of like a Marx Brothers comedy. I put a note on my recorder at this point: The SI's took me to Europe for brain remodification...to strengthen my brain (beef it up) for the power that I would encounter among the pyramids. A step by step process. But Millie...was the key...to getting me to the entire thing! (While George held me up, financially, at home.) Note: I have the psychic impression...that Egypt is in great danger of war... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 18 of 35 Page Seventeen in time ahead. Note: the triangulation...me here to ScotlandX, to Egypt and back. Always...the triangle. Check map...me to Scotland and England; Egypt; back. Triangle. Or...pyramid shape. Thought: I have TWO powers to work with now...the SI's and PyrCre. Is there a THIRD power? Are the pyramids like broadcast stations? In the Cairo museum there are many carvings, etc., showing an "eye". You can also see it on a dollar bill...which shows a pyramid with an eye on it. The SI's and PyrCre explained to me what this "eye" meant to the ancient Egyptians. For ages...it has thought to be a "sign" that will ward off evil...by the Egyptian people. But...it is not. I was informed...that it meant, in reality, by the ancient High Priests of Egypt...PyrCre (the Pyramid Creature power)...which was "all seeing"...the eye which would watch and guard...the pyramids and the great knowledge and wisdom that they contain. When the top scientist (Egyptologist) in charge of all the diggings and excavations in the Giza area...came to meet me, and invited me to a personal audience in his chambers...I told him that the stone of the pyramids and treasure within (gems and gold)...were not the reality...that the power and intelligence left behind, still alive...were the great treasure...he knew it. He said, "That is true, Mr. Owens, but how many tourists would know that?" His name: Dr. Ali El-Khouli, Egyptologist, Chief Inspector, Sakkara.....31 El - Galaa St., Cairo. Tel. 79218. He was a fine man...and a tremendously intelligent man. PyrCre telepathd and told me that the pyramid openings would be found in the north...and the treasures found in the south. (Like Egypt itself...northern Egypt the "openings"...but the real treasure, wisdom and knowledge...found in the south.) I told Abo this...and he was very surprised that I knew this. (He's an old pro, remember...and grew up studying egyptology.) Zoroaster's Pyramid...the oldest, 3,800 B.C....Abo took me to it. PyrCre told me that this side is very dangerous...trapped to kill others. Long passage this end...spiral passage to the top...where a secret is. In round cylinders. Parchment. Information re magic and psi force. Also a box with gems. I passed this info on to Abo. At On Ness, this day: I found a real live scarab in the tomb. It was the sacred symbol of the Egyptians. I put it in a paper napkin to bring back. Also...found a rock with a petrified scarab in it. Ka Gemni, the High Priests temple...and King Ti Ti's Pyramid and temple...4th dynasty, 2,560 B.C. (quoting Abo's knowledge.) Went on to Cheops this day...300 feet up to the top, inside secret passageway. I was up inside the King's Chamber, arms up in the cobra (Z) position...when suddenly a guide appeared with some tourists in the chamber. Nasr had goofed, and let some get by him. Anyway, the old Egyptian guide saw what I was doing...realized instantly what it must have been...and jumped backwards a good five feet...out of sight. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 19 of 35 Page Eighteen I couldn't bring a gun to Egypt for self-protection, as is my wont... so I brought along a nunchok... a Korean karate weapon... two sticks connected with a cord... which I have practiced to use. Am carrying that in a small bag, plus a fighting knife on my hip in a holster. Next trip: Abo met me in the Ibis Cafe preparatory to leaving for the Sahara. I took one look at him and told him he'd had a fight with his wife. His eyes bulged out and he said, "How you know that?" Then for the next half hour he talked about it. At On Ness a guard came up... and presented me with a piece of alabaster from the tomb itself. Seems that I am getting to be a sort of celebrity with these people. Word has gotten around. Have noted... that each time I go into the pyramids or tombs... hours later information seems to come pouring into my mind... usually after I retire to bed. Have to get up and get it onto the recorder. Wednesday... got up in the morning and recalled a vivid dream that I'd had... seemed a warning. I'd been walking along and up came a boy I'd been a boy with... Mark Caress. He'd smiled, then pulled a gun and shot me. I pulled my gun and riddled him... then staggered home, blood pouring out of my shirt, to confront my wife... and told her I'd been shot. Strange dream. Abo met me in Ibis Cafe... and told me that Green Valley had put the squeeze on him... had found out about his moonlighting with me. He said I'd have to pay them, and not him, for his services. Well, I refused, knowing that Abo would only get about 10% of it as commission. So... that's the end of Abo's invaluable services for me. I'd have to use a taxi driver that I'd pick out. Found one... miracle of miracles... he told me that he knew me... that he'd been the clerk at El Borg Hotel that I'd bribed... he'd quit there, and now had a taxi. (Peculiar coincidence.) Picked up a news paper in the Hilton and read where Idi Amin of Uganda was getting ready to blow the guts out of two innocent Englishmen with firing squads. So I sent a wire to the British Embassy that I knew how to stop Amin. Some Egyptian words... "why not?" they like to say... is "is lay-la." Thank you... is "choke-a-ron." "Ah-wan" means you're welcome. "Massa lama" means goodbye. The thought occurred to me today: in judo... striking a man with your fist... is not an iota so destructive... as balling your fist and bringing the small point of your fist down over his heart. Can knock out a cow. (According to my old judo instructor, Johnny Osako.) This squares... with PyrCre's instructions to confine my activating activities to a relatively small area of key locations in Egypt... instead of traveling all over Egypt to do it. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 20 of 35 Page Nineteen On desert next: Achmed, my driver. While going out onto the Sahara PyrCre telepathd to change my procedure...gave me a focal point on a different wall...to project OD symbols onto wall. At Ka Gemni and TI TI...the guides and drivers are going nuts trying to understand what I am doing...they are used to tourists just taking photos, and not coming back. I am returning time after time, and not taking photos. PyrCre showed me a new spot on the wall to work on. It also instructed me not to go to Cheops today. Said that the power there was so much greater...too much. I had wondered why I was doing all my work in the daytime...out in the Sahara...until it came to me...that I was working inside dark-black secret passageways and secret rooms...about the same as on top of Castle Urquehart at midnight in Scotland. On the way back to Cairo...I saw a woman trying to carry a baby, leading another baby by the hand...with a giant basket on her head full of laundry. I told the drive to stop and pick her up and give her a ride. But...he refused to do so. A little further on...there was a priest by the side of the road. I told him to pick up the priest and give him a lift, which he did. ????? Back at the Ibis Cafe, tanking up on orange juice and milk...I discovered Vittel water from France. And ordered a batch. Then a government agent came to my table and sat down...I'd noticed him watching me yesterday at the Ibis. He told me that government people wouldn't contact me today (re Idi Amin and my wife wire) because it was a holiday. Then he did something extraordinary. He looked down at the chair beside me...upon which I had laid my nunchok wrapped in a net sack...said: "I see that you're armed for the fray." Nobody, but nobody, could have recognized that as a nunchok! Went up on deck, on the Nile-Hilton yacht that night. I was god-awful lonesome. Took a table at the rail...ordered a cold beer...and gazed out over the Nile. Suddenly PyrCre appeared. Awesome. Huge blazing eyes up close to mine...peering into mine...I had the impression that It knew, in an instant, all that I was, had been, and would be. It studied me. I telepathd was it Horus? It telepathd no. I asked, are we friends? It said yes. I asked would the pyramid power help in what I was doing (helping the human race). It said yes. Then it vanished. The thought then came to me that because of half-alien brain...I was able to see these other-dimensional creatures where other humans could not. Also the thought: after ages, this entity, PyrCre, finds a human popping up in front of it and using the old high priests' techniques of thousands of years ago...must be a shock to it...as it was to me when It popped up! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 21 of 35 Page Twenty Wednesday night...gone to bed; saw myself sleeping and a black cloud hanging over me...the black cloud went down into my body. Then I woke up and recorded this. A warning dream? Thursday...Sayed, my driver again. An agent? (The El Borg clerk.) Today Sayed invited me to his home, in old Cairo, for coffee. He honors me! You won't see another American in old Cairo. In the Ibis Cafe...sitting with Sayed...I explain that the nunchok, which I hold up/..(this dam typewriter)....it is really a musical instrument...clavos...Spanish wood blocks that you knock together. Sayed nearly falls off his chair laughing. So HE KNOWS a nunchok! An Egyptian taxi driver? Fooey. For-git it! He's got to be an agent. Should explain more about Sayed's home...he drove me from the Hilton through "new" Cairo into "old" Cairo...the ancient section. There were no Americans or Europeans obviously present on the streets...only Egyptians and Arabs. Tiny shops and selling stalls lined the small, narrow, crooked streets that we drove through. It was a riot of color, because the "natives" wore colorful headware, scarves, dresses, etc. In front of the shops were baskets full of brightly colored scarves, mats, etc. And the streets were jammed with people, going and coming. Our taxi had to move slowly, inch forward. Finally he turned up an alley, twisted and turned through dark alleys...and came to a sort of wide parking place amidst many alleys. We got out and he took me into a tiny apartment...no doors...just open doorways and open windows. Small ducks ran loose through the apartment. A huge, fat, giant woman moved forward to meet us and he introduced her as his wife. She was dressed in a flowered dress. Soon little children came pouring through the doorway into the apartment. His kids and relatives kids...plus their relatives. His wife made us some thick, black, Egyptian coffee, which we sat and sipped. I hauled out my camera and made some family photos...(which did not come out...I figured the color film wrong with my meter.) I did coin and dish tricks for the kids...and it was a whole lot of fun. Finally we left, Sayed and I, in the Taxi, with the small square outside packed with people who came to see the "foreigner." I had the thought that I should be an Ambassador...I get along so well with foreign people (except the French...can't figure them at all.) We go on out into the Saraha Desert...to On Ness, first stop. When I get out of the car some Egyptian guides who work there come rushing up and say that "the Director" would like to see me. They lead me to a small building nearby. Inside is a heavily-built, intelligent looking man. Serious expression on his face. First, of course, after he introduces himself as the Director of all egyptology and excavation activities in the area...he suggests that we have hot coffee together. I'd been through this lots of times by now...so asked no questions...aides brought us the hot, steaming, thick black Egyptian coffee...and we sipped for a spell. The Director explained to me that he was in charge of all that was going on at present in Sakara...and offered me any help that I needed in my work. He placed himself at my disposal. Did I need to get into any of the places at night...when the places were locked to tourists? If so, he would arrange it. Would I like to see a new tomb that had just been discovered... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 22 of 35 Page Twenty One which contained fifty thousand ibis bird mummies, among other things. I thanked him, but said no, that was not my purpose in the area. After a bit he invited me to visit him any day in his offices nearby (which I did later on.) We both left, and I finished my work at On Ness; went on to Ka Gemni; then to King Ti Ti's place. The guides by this time, of course, all knew me...knew my procedure and what I wanted done...and they would be waiting for me at each place, smiling and beaming. No tourist could go into these select places, of course... without going with these assigned, old, grizzled Egyptian guides (and guards)...but once inside they would withdraw from me, allowing me to proceed to my key place and do what I do. They would not interfere with their personal presence. After I would finish telepathing... I would leave the chamber and pick up the guide who would be waiting outside the chamber...and we would leave the pyramid or temple together, and he would padlock the doors behind us. My On Ness guide was one of the fiercest looking men you would ever see...Abdul...but he grew to like me and called me "Teddy". This day at On Ness, before I got to Abdul...in the Temple that I had to walk through...suddenly a group of six mean, tough looking Arabs appeared around me in a circle as if by magic. By now I'd been there many times, and nothing like this had occurred. I looked around at them...took out my nunchok and shoved it into my belt in the ready position...and switched on my tape recorder and put the happening on tape in pig-latin...just in case I got jumped and somebody found the recorder later. Even with the nunchok I didn't figure to be able to beat six tough Arabs carrying knives (if in fact they did...but I could see bulges under their burnooses...gowns.) (I guess you call a burnoose a gown...anyway, it's what they wear...long, flowing robe...usually dirty looking.) Inside On Ness I began to say my "triggers" out loud...but PyrCre communicated and ordered me to only do it mentally. A strange thing happened...while I was standing, arms outstretched in the "Z" position...running through the trigger mechanisms mentally...the loud buzzing of a fly interrupted the silence. This was most odd. Had never happened before. This is a sealed, locked temple. Nothing, but nothing, can get out or in. I never did spot the fly...but its loud buzzing all around me was a distraction. PyrCre has smoothed out and improved my procedural methods...but has absolutely forbidden me to reveal any of it. (Later on, on the plane homeward-bound, PyrCre appeared and okayed a verbal report only to Millie. One person. Millie, who made it all possible. Following which the airplane ahead of ours got hit by lightning and blown up... but you'll read about that later on.) On the way back to Cairo...we stopped at a small cafe' sitting beside the road...to get a cold drink...and a little Arab boy about five years old came to me and handed me a lovely flower from the garden. (I took it back and put it in a glass of water in the cabin of the yacht.) But my mind went back to Scotland...on the previous adventure...when the tiny three year old girl came up to me and handed me a lovely flower, also (which I still have, pressed into a book to keep.) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 23 of 35 Page Twenty Two Learned two new words today (Egyptian)..........book-er-ah, tomorrow. War-da..........flower. All the writing on store fronts and all along the streets in Cairo..........is in Egyptian..........so there is no way of knowing what the heck anything is. I miss the Scotland-England midnight thrills..........with UFO's overhead. None of that here. Nothing at all..........UFO oriented. Here, it seems, I am activating, and learning. Here the challenge and excitement of the unknown..........is missing. Am especially lonely for Urquehart Castle. I predict..........that I will get back there! Sometime. Upon returning to Cairo, I found a message from Rose..........a representative of the British Embassy..........to call him. I did so, and we arranged to meet at a certain time at the Ibis Cafe..........I told him that I would wear a "purple shirt" for ident purposes. I cleaned up, then went to meet Rose..........wearing a red, candy-striped shirt. Inside Ibis Cafe I waited at a table..........suddenly a man walked inside, looked around the room, came right over to me and extended his hand..........said "I'm Rose." Then he looked me over and chuckled and said, "Purple shirt! Hah!" I didn't point out the obvious..........that he'd known me..........regardless of what shirt I wore..........so the agents that had been following me had briefed him, complete with photographs. I laughed and said yes, I'd make a lousy spy. We sat down and for about an hour I outlined my ingenious plan..........which he liked. The only rub that I could see in the plan..........lay in the fact that I was too blamed close to Amin..........and Uganda. In hours, he could have one or more killers here in Cairo after my scalp. (The plan revolved around the British contacting Amin..........and telling him that I would sic my UFO's onto him if he shot those two Enlishmen. Amin, you see, had only recently seen a UFO with his own eyes..........it was in the newspapers..........so he knew that they were a reality. And my background with UFO's was concrete solid..........I had the Saga articles with me to back it all up. Should note here: my breathing changed while telepathing triggers inside the passageways and secret rooms of the pyramids and temples. I noticed it today. Just as soon as I'd telepath to the key section of the wall..........my breathing would switch into a sort of suspended animation process. Then, as soon as I'd finished..........I'd be forced to get the heck out of there as fast as possible..........and my breathing would go back to its normal pace. Noted also today: since and including yesterday, not one but two of these tough guides..........went into Ka Gemni or Ti Ti..........with me, one in front and one behind me. I wonder why? Is it perhaps extra protection..........or is the extra one an intelligente agent? Don't smile. Egyptian intelligence agents are as thick as flies around me most of the time. (Wait until the incident on the Nile!) So many of the Egyptians are fond of saying "Why not?"..........lay-al. Friday..........Odd procedure today at On Ness. The guide won't talk..........and no special guide to meet me. So I have to find my own way..........it is quite a hike from the temple to the pyramid, and I got lost on a couple of twists and turns..........But finally found it. PyrCre gently 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 24 of 35 Page Twenty Three rebuked me today, in the midst of my telepathing...correctly, as it should have...I was inserting some personal wishes into the telepathing and PyrCre smoothed out the procedure for me. I've got it ALL...the High Priests' methods and procedures...the why and the how and the where! No other human being will ever be able to duplicate this work I am doing. Noted today that the telepathic triggering methods are NOT remaining constant. It is awesome. The methods change daily...due to PyrCre instructing me in the changes...and today I learned a chilling fact! It is because...I am being made a PART OF THE POWER ITSELF IN THE AREA! Closer and closer every day, being absorbed into the Power! At the third place today PyrCre came up close to my face and put its eyes close to my eyes...and looked deeply into me. It is GIANT. Its head is as big as a huge, round table. When those big eyes came close to my eyes...whew! Immediately after, when it vanished...I understood the difference between what I was doing here and in Scotland-England. This has nothing to do with UFO's or UFO work, as in Scotland-England. I have, in effect, been turned over, or passed on, to this Power...and the difference is psychic phenomenon in depth and in scope! I.e., in the U.S. the popular psychic experimentation is done with Zener cards...but the difference between what I am doing in Egypt and Zener card work...is the difference between Einstein's work and a game of mumbly-peg! Might just mention...that PyrCre's eyes were hypnotic...they glowed as if having a blazing fire inside...completely unlike human eyes. Poor Sayed today...we had come into a tiny village along the road in the Nile Valley...and I asked Sayed to stop for a minute for me to take a photo. It was an error. In an instant a huge crowd of people surrounded our car...thrusting their hands through the window, wanting a cigarette, money, anything. Sayed was frightened. I handed him a bunch of coins, which he threw out the window then gunned the car and burned rubber getting out of their at about fifty miles an hour. I couldn't understand why...but I reckon he had a reason. Could be, if Sayed was an Egyptian agent...which I think he was.. he had the responsibility of guarding me and keeping me safe...and it was a lovely spot for some sort of attack. But the people looked peaceful to me. Oh well... Back to the Osiris...the yacht...cleaned up and went up on deck, got a table and a cold drink, and sat down to ponder...looking out over the Nile. It was quite obvious now that the SI's had gotten me to Scotland-England in order to do a brain re-modification...beef up my mental power (because contact with PyrCre takes EVERY OUNCE of my energy and brain power). While telepathing here, in the secret passages and secret rooms...I seem to be in a different world, than the world-world...picking up techniques thousands and thousands of years old...and having to match power with power. This evening my mind and energy are run down. Am just wiped out. I rose and went to the men's room. Upon returning to the outer deck... Achmed, the waiter...had given my table to somebody else (for a bribe, no doubt...you see, these tables are hard to come by...a line waiting for them.) My beer and cigar were gone. I was furious, and stormed downstairs to write a note for Salame...owner of the yacht. I wrote that Achmed should be demoted to Chief Dish Washers. Later in the evening I bumped into Salame...who grinned and said that if I didn't 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 25 of 35 Page Twenty Four forgive the waiter Achmed then he'd have to make Achmed a dish washer. I leaned over and pointed at Salame..."Okay," I said, but remember...make him a CHIEF dish washer!" Salame broke up laughing. Later in the privacy of my stateroom, I contacted PyrCre...and asked permission to give the Direction at Sakara details of what I had learned. The answer was an angry and explosive NO! I gently pointed out to PyrCre that there was no danger...that no other humans, since they had no alien, or half-alien, brain, could activate the key places. The answer was still a definite, angry NO. So...that's it. (Later PykrCre modified this...to allow the details to be passed to Millie in person.) Friday night: scanning the newspapers, learn that one of the two Englishmen has been released by General Amin. One to go, for release... A number of times...someone has opened my door to my stateroom (which is kept locked) and has peered in, then popped out again. I finally figured it out. In Cairo it is against the law to entertain visitors in hotel rooms...and I am constantly talking into the tape recorder, then playing it back...and sounds like a bunch of people...and they keep trying to catch somebody in here with me. Ha hXa! Fun...nee! At night: had another strange dream...was with Aunt Eva, Dad, Jack, and granma...all dead. Was like real. NNext morning took a taxi over to another cafe to eat...and should mention that Cairo taxi drivers drive with suicidal abandon. Whizzing along, if another car gets in their way, they do not slow down...but jam their foot onto the accelerator and strongarm their way around either side of the car...or latch right onto the backend of the front car until it swerves to let them by. Have never seen any crazy driving like in Egypt. When you first get into thXeir taxi...all is sweetness and light. They show pictures of their family, and religious decorations all over the front of their car...then a wild light comes into their eyes...and they declare war on all the other cars in front of them! A screamingly funny thing happened at the cafe, whXure I got breakfast. This pretty waitress comes to my table and takes my order. After she walks away...there is a huge puddle of red blood next to my table where she'd been standing. (This is the sheraton.) About ten feet away there's a waitress station where the waitresses line up and wait their turn to go to tables. I flagged one over, and pointed down at the puddle of blood. She put a hand over her mouth and ran back to the station. One by one the waitresses came over, stared down at the blood...then retreated hurriedly. A rich oil sheik, curious over what was happening...rose from his table across the room, came over, stared down at the large puddle of blood...then with no change of expression walked back to his table and sat back down. A different waitress was assigned to me, who took the order...and also took me to a different table. Sayed has explained to me...that the cars and buses in Cairo are very old, most of them...one bus that we passed, for example, he said was fifty-four years old. But, he explained, they could 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 26 of 35 Page Twenty Five do this because the Egyptian and Arab mechanics in Cairo were so clever and ingenious mechanics. He said they could exchange parts and jerry-rig stuff...and keep a car or bus going practically forever. Saturday morning (still)...Sayed brought his boy, Mahmoud, along with us. He's about ten. I told him to. We stopped and got him some candy to eat on the trip out into the Sahara. At On Ness there was an American woman in the Temple...I chatted with her briefly and found out that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana...which is just a few miles from my home town, Bedford. Found the "dancing lady" on the piece of black flint. Also found a rock laying on the ground...turned it over and there's painting and etching on it...must have broken off a wall from some inner tomb. A museum piece, but I'll keep it. To Ka Gemni, Ti Ti. Went to visit "Dr. Ali" as he is called, The Director, in his offices. He ordered the hot, thick black coffee...and while we waited for it I turned on my tape recorder and pointed it out to him. His eyebrows rose and he said, "Is that turned on?" I said yes. He said harrumph. (Correction...this time he ordered hot Egyptian tea...and it was the best tea I've ever encountered, even in Scotland or England.) We had about an hour's chat...all on tape. He told me that he could tell that I was a powerful psychic...and that I certainly had knowledge not known to tourists...as we chatted along. Today, while making my "rounds" Pyrere instructed me to put the star Chamber (and pyramid containing it) around me at night, mentally, before going to sleep. Saturday night...sat on deck of the Osiris, sipping cold beer and smoking and looking out over the moonlit Nile. I was bored and homesick. Fooey. Instead of just going to bed, as I usually did at this time...I decided to walk down the dark waterfront and find the man called Hassan, who had a boat to rent to go out onto the Nile. So I left the Osiris and climbed down the steep embankment onto the edge of the river and walked along it until I came to a huge 50-foot boat. It was Hassan, who was working on the boat with another tough-looking man. Could I rent the boat for an hour? Yes. I told Hassan just him on the boat with me...not the other guy. (They were eyeing my camera and tape recorder...and if I was going to be jumped it would be by one guy, not two.) They chattered and argued in Egyptian...then Hassan said okay. I jumped on board, he fixed the sails, and the boat edged out onto the black water into the fast current. Hassan sat at the front of the boat at the tiller, guiding...guiding with his fanny...whilst he used his arms to manipulate the giant sails. He jumped off the tiller and tells me to take the tiller while he rigs the sails differently. I couldn't believe my ears! I'm sitting in the middle of the boat, back against the rail...under a bright lantern which is suspended from a skeletal ceiling...so I put my stuff down and leap to the tiller...and the boat steers like a dream! Like a Lincoln-Continental with power steering. We're now speeding down the Nile at high speed, with a full moon overhead. Across on the other side of the Nile is a nightclub 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 27 of 35 Page Twenty Six built onto a yacht...and Egyptian bellydance music is blaring out from it. It's all lit up with lanterns like a Christmas tree. Hassan starts singing and dancing in the middle of our boat...hanging onto the sail ropes. I turn on the tape recorder, because all this is really funny. Hassan is young, dark haired, tough looking. But full of mischief, like most of the other Egyptians I had met. He finally stops dancing, and we leave the music behind us on the dark water...Hassan says that this boat is the biggest boat on the Nile. I can well believe it. He says that he usually rents it to a party of fifty people (i.e., it seats fifty.) Now comes the real fun part of the whole thing. Hassan begins to swear in Egyptian...and points out onto the river. "Police" he yells at me in a low voice. I laughed hysterically. After days and days of being followed by police agents all around the place...THEY'RE EVEN TAILING ME OUT ONTO THE NILE. Sure enough, a large white launch appeared out of the darkness. There are about twenty tough-looking men on board, all on the side facing us...dressed in plain clothes, not uniforms. They stand off, about thirty feet out...and jabber at Hassan in Egyptian in rapid-fire manner. And in no-nonsense, businesslike tone of voice! Soon they swing their big boat around and vanish, moving toward the Osiris, back a ways on the shore. Hassan explains limply that he has received orders, which he does not understand, to return to shore and deposit me there. So he swings the boat around...and becomes strangely silent. But instead of going toward the Osiris...Hassan takes his boat along the other, far shore...and swings it in close to a bunch of giant, bare rocks. As it passes the rocks he yells loudly in Egyptian...and an answering yell comes from the blackness around the rocks. Evidently Hassan had someone there...waiting. Waiting...for what? Then Hassan swings the boat across the Nile toward the Osiris...and his berthing place. Finally he says something to me..."Here," he says, "I am going to let you dock it." I looked at him, dumfounded, then looked at our target area which the huge boat was swooping toward...a small, narrow area sandwiched in between two other, smaller boats. Well, I figured...if he's crazy enough to let an amateur like me try to get this speeding boat into that little space...then I'm crazy enough to try it. So I went over, got the tiller, while he handled the sails. To put our big boat in that space...moving at fast speed, now, remember...I had to figure to make an arc to the left...judge the boat's speed and distance away from the other boats...and time the move exactly right. Otherwise there was going to be the loudest smashing noise ever heard in that area of the Nile, probably. Sweat beaded on my forehead, I figured we were just at about the right angle to make the left turn...and made the arc turn. The boat sped in toward shore. I was about a hundred feet from the other boats...and the space between. "Here, Hassan" I told him, "so far so good...but let's let the expert put this boat in that space...you." I had seen that there were people in the two boats on each side of the space...and if I erred...some people were going to get wet or flattened out. Hassan grunted, came over and took the tiller and eased the boat into the space. I thought...that gives one an idea of how wild these Egyptians can be...to take a chance on me like that! Looking back on the police affair...I think that the police were warning Hassan that I was not the ordinary tourist to be taken, in any way...in short, I may have been getting some protection. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 28 of 35 Page Twenty Seven Incidentally, tonight I saw a UFO flitting up over the opposite bank of the Nile! No question that it was a UFO. Soundless...glowing light...exactly like those I saw so often every night at Loch Ness. Note: Yesterday and today both...early in the morning, as soon as I have emerged from the Osiris boat...a complete stranger has walked up to me...and asked me what my plans were for the day! I simply tell them...they say thanks, and walk away. Hah! Egyptian Intelligence, probably...or British...now that I've cut into the Amin thing. Had a comical thought...after the experience of having the police "surveil" me clear out into the middle of the Nile river at midnight. (Earlier now..."Subject Owens has gone into the old Egyptian quarter...what do we do?) In the boat on the Nile: "Subject Owens has gone out into the middle of the Nile, just before midnight. What do we do?" Ha ha ha. Can you imagine them phoning that into headquarters? Sunday morning...Abo popped up at the Isis Cafe at breakfast, and wants to have a "meet" with me tonight at six. ??? Achmed is my driver today. I notice that as we go out into the Sahara we are followed wherever we go...by a Green Valley car. Achmed suggests today that we go to the Sphinx. I haven't been there yet. I say OK. When we get there he assigns me to one of the Sphinx guides, who tells me proudly that he was in the Ten Commandments movie which was filmed there. The name of his camel is "California." (The name of the camel that I rode was "Whisky.") The old pro guide told me that no opening had ever been found in the Sphinx. I scrutinized the Spinx...there IS an opening. A clever one, yes...but there is one. (Was using my clairvoyant powers.) Also, I knew that the UFO's of that age...had had the High Priests hide THE MOST precious scrolls of secrets and wisdom...inside the head of the Sphinx...along with a box of giant diamonds, emeralds, etc. BUT...this secret room cannot be opened...except by the telepathic/PK process. Which is why it has never been unearthed. (I picked this information up with the alien half of my brain.) What the Spinx "means"...i.e., was carved in the body of a lion with a man's head...is that it stands for "high intelligence"...and that it is the MOST GUARDED OF ALL THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS, TEMPLES, ETC. (By Pyramid Creature.) To make the meaning clearer...the "lion" would attack and spring on...anyone attempting to rob it of its secrets. We left here and went on to On Ness...and as I was walking through the Temple the old man came up to me and gave me the silver coin...which had THE EXACT "DANCING LADY" ON IT AS THE FIGURE ON THE PIECE OF BLACK FLINT ROCK I'D FOUND. Today I made photos of the fierce-looking Egyptian guides. Tough birds. And one could easily observe the bulge of gun or knife underneath their robes. (Note: I've mentioned picking drivers for each day to go out...but haven't told you the comical way it goes: Driver says to me, "No money. Just give me what you want. I love you...you fine man!" So I say all right...four pounds for the day. He says, "Oh no...always get eight pounds!" I say seven. He says OK. ) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 29 of 35 Page Twenty Eight After Ka Gemni...about 20 minutes out onto the road back to Cairo...PyrCre appeared to me...and informed me that IT HAD BEEN TEACHING ME ON A SUBLIMINAL LEVEL, WHILE I HAD BEEN DOING MY "CHORES"...FOR ME TO BECOME AWARE OF AT A LATER DATE! I.e., each 20 minutes that I worked to activate the force at that key spot...PyrCre was working on ME. It told me that I had been trained and taught each place, every time.... "Welcome...mah-habiba. "I am happy"...anna-mahmut. "No good"...mis-guise: "Good"...quise. Incidentally...in this age we do have high frequency sound, or magnetic releases, or photoelectric cells...to open secret doors or vaults. But in those ancient days...the High Priests used parapsych methods to open the most secret places in the pyramids and temples...and at times they would change the frequency of their body and simply pass like an X-ray through the solid stone...the same as SI craft can do to pass through a solid mountain to the center of the mountain HQ...or through the bottom of the ocean floor deep into the earth to a secret HQ there. Sunday night...PyrCre appeared and COMMANDED me NOT to go into the desert tomorrow. It FORBADE me. Warned me that I am being stalked and hunted by the "hunters"...very dangerous Egyptians in Cairo. Met Abo at the Isis Cafe at 6, as per arrangement. He said that he just sincerely wanted to see me one more time...before I left. We spent a couple of hours talking. He said that he is very sad because I have to leave. Then he told me something fascinating. He'd come in earlier and asked Samia, the waitress, if Owens had come in yet. She asked Abo if he was "one of the secret police." He said yes. She said, "I will do as I have been instructed...when I see him enter I will call you." Abo, bless his heart...was tipping me that I was under surveillance. I laughed heartily and told him that I'd known that ever since being there. Abo finally left. For the past few days drivers, waitresses, etc., have been coming up to me and asking me to use my powers to help them. I mean...they are utter strangers to me...but the word has gotten around that I am a "famous psychic from America." Perhaps you wonder why on earth the Egyptian intelligence would place me under surveillance? Or the same in Scotland or England (as was very much the case while I was there.) Very simple. Suppose the famous Russian psychic Wolfe, I believe it is...who can hypnotize people telepathically as well as other things...came to America. And suppose that he could do what I can do...which he cannot...that is, control weather, cities, even countries...through paranormal means, and it had been widely documented. Do you think for a minute that our CIA and FBI wouldn't have agents all around him at all times? You BET they would! Tonight all the lights went out in this fabulous Hilton on the Nile. I was walking through the lobby and blam...darkness. Employees began rushing around lighting candles, etc. I went over to the Osiris boat...and blam...all the lights went out on the boat...and THEY had to get candles! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 30 of 35 Page Twenty Nine This morning Sayed met me at the Isis Cafe...to take me out to the Saraha...but I dismissed him, because of the stern PyrCre warning, which had instructed me to keep to my stateroom on the boat. Yet... something PULLS me to go back out to the pyramids and temples. Well, finally I could stand the pull no longer...and decided to take my chances in order to get in one more "good lick" out on the Sahara, because I'm leaving tomorrow, Tuesday. I went out and canvassed the drivers outside the Hilton, asking for Sayed. BUT NONE OF THEM KNEW SAYED! Now, all these drivers know each other...spend all their spare time fraternizing together...they are like a big family. So...if they do not know Sayed...THEN SAYED MUST BE AN AGENT. A driver I'd never seen then came up to me and said "I hear that you are leaving tomorrow." I'd never laid eyes on him. Which shows you how much all these drivers, waitresses, etc., learn on the sly. Anyway, I left word for Sayed to come to the Ibis Cafe...with the head driver. I went back to the Osiris boat and was writing a letter to Salama, the owner...when I sensed a close presence...turned my head...AND A STRANGE MAN WAS ON TIPPY TOE READING THE LETTER OVER MY SHOULDER. In the newspaper today...I read that the second man, the young man... has been released by Amin also. So...mission accomplished, as far as I am concerned. No, wait...correction...the young man was the first to be released..the older man's time for execution was extended. I'm not done yet. Am down to six cigars now. Can't buy any here...they cost four dollars each here...just ordinary U.S. cigars. Went to Isis for lunch. Suddenly an expensively dressed man was brought to my table by Samia...with empty tables all around...could he sit with me? I said sure, curious, as I always am...what intelligence was up to now. I ignored the man, studiously...not even looking at him. Several times he cleared his throat...finally he started a fast conversation, pumping me for information...all key questions. How long was I staying? Where am I staying. Etc. Said that he was South Korean. He asked me my opinion of politics in Korea...I told him that North Korea would definitely take over South Korea...the country would unify, just as Viet Nam had done. I told him how weak the South Korean military commanders were...compared to the ones in the North. That they were corrupt, too...just as those in South Viet Nam had been. He didn't believe any of this. I told him that after North Korea took over the entire country, that the country would be far better off! He gave a rebuttal based on the economy of South Korea...and the ratio of three military men in South to one in the North. I argued that the North had more character and principle...and that the size of a dog in a fight doesn't determine the outcome of a fight...but the fight in the dog goes! We went around in circles for an hour. I had never previously given any thought to the future of Korea...so this was stimulating to me, to use my psychic powers to probe ahead in time re the matter. Oh, and he asked me would not the U.S. use nuclear missiles if North Korea attacked South Korea? I replied that absolutely and definitely...the U.S. would not. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 31 of 35 Page Thirty After I left the Isis, walked through the lobby of the Hilton to the men's room...when suddenly a strange man came running up to me, said "I hear that you want me!" Then he turned and ran away down the hallway. I just stood there, staring. What? Bought a newspaper and read that Sam Giancana had been murdered. That means one thing to me...Frank Sinatra will be murdered up ahead in time not too far away. He and Sam were big buddies...and confided in each other too much. So the Mob will have to "excise" Frank. At dinner in the Isis a waiter (they use boys and girls both) that I'd nicknamed "The Wart" because of his ugly manner...came over to my table and made friends with me. (We'd spent weeks scowling and frowning at each other.) Will wonders never cease. To give you an idea, a better idea...of what the meals cost there...a small bowl of soup; rolls and butter; cup of coffee; a small plate of roast beef and cauliflower; slices of tomato; bowl of strawberries...cost $8.00 tonight. This is average. That...is eight bucks American translated into Egyptian money. During the meal I brooded over Samia's being a "bird dog" for Egyptian Intelligence. Suddenly a fiendish idea occurred to me. I told my waitress to send Samia over to my table. Samia appeared. I said, "Samia, don't tell anybody...but I am a Chinese secret agent in the Chinese secret service!" She cut me off and said "I no talk" and ran off, having turned pale white (Egyptians are dusky complexioned.) Then I could hear her screaming and having hysterics back in the kitchen. All the waiters and waitresses went running back into the kitchen...then emerged, grinning over in my direction. I got out fast, sensing trouble. The thought occurred to me...that I have a bad combination...a top psychic with a "monkey" sense of humor. Que combinacion! As I swiftly exited from the Isis, I could hear all the waitresses laughing back in the cafe...and Samia was still screaming and yelling out in the kitchen. Had to have a ring re-sized...so the man in the shop called an eight year old boy over and told him to take me down into a place in the city. So the little boy led me about twelve blocks away from the Nile, into downtown Cairo...into dark streets...to a tiny shop. Inside the shop were two smaller boys...six to eight years old. I looked around for the jeweler. The two small boys took the ring and went to work. I was utterly fascinated. They used old Egyptian methods to pound and stretch the gold of the ring. These kids were real pros! On the way back to the Hilton I stopped my eight year old guide at a candy stand...and told him to pick out any candy he'd like to have. Very seriously, like an adult...he pointed out a huge lollipop to the candystand man...who gave the boy change. With real dyed-in-the-wool class...the boy handed the candyman back a big tip! It was one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Evidently, working around the Hilton and watching Americans...some of the American ways had rubbed off on this boy...and he was showing me that he knew a thing or two! Well, PyrCre had won out this day. Sayed hadn't shown...and I hadn't gotten out into the Sahara. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 32 of 35 Page Thirty One Note: In case I hadn't completely made this clear before...the Pyramids (and Stonehenge) are like TV broadcasting stations...having world-wide power. Their scope is awesome! The power that is "broadcast" can help the entire human race. By turning on Stonehenge...and now the key Egyptian pyramids and temples...it has activated the other pyramids all over the world, and alerted them...now the entire network of pyramid power in Yucatan, Peru, etc., is interested and alerted to what I am doing. For such a thing has not been done, evidently, in a long long time. Ages. And the alien half of my brain...which is sort of like "another world"...knows this. Bothersome thought...I am "out of synch" with my regular contacts back in the U.S., going around the world faster than I can fill the contacts in on the action! I had set up an arrangement with Sayed...to take me to Sahara City one more time tonight...since am leaving tomorrow...and am too bored to sit around on the boat tonight. But Sayed shows up at the Osiris, returns my five pounds...says that his wife is sick and he cannot take me. A driver came up to me at the Hilton and asked to drive for me...so I said OK. We had only gone a short distance when the driver begins to talk about my SI discs! (I'd never seen this man before...name of Alexander.) Then he begins to talk about Abraham stealing my amethyst fob. Says that HE IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF ABRAHAM. Ye gods...and here I am driving out into the night...onto the Sahara...with this guy! He mysteriously stops beside the road and sits, waiting...and I ask him what he is doing. He mumbles and looks around, as if looking for somebody...then drives off again. I had my nunchok ready, you bet! Had an impression four of his and Abraham's friends might have been ready to pull me out of the car and beat me up. It's been known to happen. At Sahara City I get a table with two Englishmen...next to a table where a rich Arab sheik sits with his family...from Saudi Arabia, it turns out...since the sheik and I spend a long time talking. He asked for a disc, so I got his address and promised to send him one. Alexander quietly drove me back to the Hilton, later. No action. Good. Next day Sayed showed up to drive me to the airport. He didn't say a word...and tears rolled down his face. I asked what was wrong. With a straight face he said that he was very sad that I was leaving. (These people actually get emotional about things like this, it seems. I know that you must be tired of reading this report...but don't quit now. The most astounding happening of all...is coming up before the report finishes! Finally, got onto the plane at the Cairo airport...and headed for home. Crossing the Atlantic...the seating was like this: sitting on the left of me was a Dr. Riffet. In the seats in front of us, on the left, was a tough specimen. Seated across the aisle...directly to my left and to the left of Dr. Riffet...was another very tough looking specimen. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 33 of 35 Page Thirty Two I had a distinct feeling...that the two "tough specimens" were related, or connected... Dr. Riffet and I chatted extensively...and I told him who and what I was. In the course of our conversation...he mentioned sawing a leg-bone in half (related to his work as a surgeon.) I asked...would there be marrow in the leg-bone? He answered why yes, there would be. So I asked him, with a perfectly straight face..."Well, Dr., if you sawed someone's head in half...then there must be marrow in that skull bone, right?" "Well, yes," he said, "but it is a very narrow layer of bone, you know." "Right," I answered, "then that must be what you'd call 'narrow-marrow'!" I thought he'd fall out of his seat laughing. Shortly thereafter, having gone to the john, before entering to get into my seat past the doctor, I leaned over the tough specimen in front of us and said, "Pardon me...are you not a karate expert?" The man looked up at me, startled...then beamed. He dove into his pocket and took out a bunch of photos...showing him fighting at karate with various opponents. Then he actually climbed out of his seat...took a karate stance...and told me how he could kill anyone with the edge of either hand...and then proceeded to give me a lesson in slow motion of offense and defense with karate...meanwhile the doctor's eyes are popping out in disbelief. Finally I sat down...and the doctor leaned over to me and said, "You know, for a minute there I thought he was going to take you on!" "Doctor," I told him, "that man is a sissy." The doctor reared back, again with a look of disbelief. "True," I said. So he can kill someone with a blow of his hand. But...by using my techniques...I can control an entire city or country. So...who is the most powerful...him? Or me?" (He'd seen the Saga articles). He squirmed in his seat and said that he'd better take a nap. In a few moments the funny thought came to me...here is this doctor...in front of him is a deadly karate killer-type...who can wipe out someone with a swipe of either hand. On his left, across the aisle (unless I am wrong) is another, equally dangerous man (both Egyptians, by the way.) On his right am I...who claims to be able to control a city or country with my mind. Is it any wonder that the good doctor is getting nervous? Ha ha ha! I nudged the doctor and he opened his eyes. I said that I was going to wake him up every five minutes. He asked why. I said...to get even for all the times I've been the hospital and the nurses have waked me up that way. He smiled feebly and closed his eyes once more. After a bit we were served our meals. Then something frightening, to me, occurred. The doctor began arguing with me...on a deep level...that is, about rather deep, abstract subjects. A layman would not have been able to even understand him, let alone rebut him. BUT MY MIND PLAYED WITH HIS MIND LIKE AN ADULT WOULD PLAY WITH A BABY! He would make a profound, logical statement...and answers would flash into my mind like flashes of lightning...and I would take his arguments apart easily and effortlessly. (I had never had these kind of thinking processes before Egypt.) Later...PyrCre appeared in front of me...It gave me permission to tell what I had learned...in detail...to only one living person...the person who had made it possible for me to get to Egypt...Millie...and orally, not over the phone or in writing. In person, orally. It must not be passed on to other humans. I was astounded, because PyrCre had been so 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 34 of 35 Page Thirty Three adamant in Egypt...about my keeping it away from ANYONE. I note...three men on the plane...recognize their faces...same ones that kept following me all around Cairo. The tough man on the left, across the aisle...watches me all of the time. I mean, constantly. Doesn't take his eyes off of me. After the long, grinding flight...we began our approach to New York. Now, follow me closely on this. You'll never hear anything more amazing than this. The pilot talked over the mike to the passengers, "Folks, "he said, "I'm sorry, but we must turn around and fly to an alternate airfield to take on more fuel. We'll make an emergency landing in Connecticut." The plane landed at Windsor Lock, Connecticut, Hartley Airport. The stewardesses would give no explanation. This was too much for me. My legs were all cramped up from the hours and hours and hours of flying from Cairo to New York...so I slid past the doctor and went to the back of the airplane, where they had a lounge section to hang out. In this lounge were two stewardesses, relaxing...plus a tall, important looking man. He was, it seems, a producer for the movie in Russia...which has Elizabeth Taylor in it plus a lot of other big names...and the stewardesses were questioning him about Liz Taylor and the movie. He was explaining all of the snafus and troubles they'd had in making the movie. One stewardess turned to me and asked me who I was, what did I do? Like a robot...I didn't answer but returned to my seat and got the copy of Saga magazine...and returned to them...and showed them what I do. I told them that I had, on many occasions, made lightning strike selected targets. There in the Saga magazine, was a page drawing...showing a bolt of lightening striking the tail of an airplane...with my name on it. The stewardess holding the magazine...her hands began to shake. She looked up at me. "Do you do this with your mind?" she asked. "Yes," I said, "with the help of UFO's. If I think it, it can happen. That's why I have to be so careful...while in planes...and keep my mind off of all of this sort of thing. It might happen." "Oh, my god!" she exclaimed. "Do you know why we turned back from landing at New York?" "Nope," I answered, "why did we?" She shook her head. "If you don't know," she answered, "then I'm not going to tell you. Do you mind...if I take these forward and show them to the Captain in the pilot's section?" (The Saga mags.) I said sure, why not? She took them forward and closed the door to the pilot's section behind her. I sipped my drink...then returned to my seat. She finally came out...after a long interval...and returned the Sagas to me, without a word...and averted her eyes from mine. We finally landed at Kennedy...and the rain was pouring down and lightning was smashing and crackling all around. We hurried from the plane into the terminal. The tall producer passed me and yelled at me, "Did you make this storm?" I grinned and said no. Inside, I went to Customs. The Customs man looked at me, at my ticket...and said, "Were you on this flight?" I answered why, yes. He said, "You're lucky to be alive, do you know that?" I said, what? "Sure," he said, "the plane that tried to land ahead of yours was struck by lightning and it blew up!" "Oh, no," I said, "was anybody hurt?" He gave me a funny look and said, yes. I went from there to the girl clerk at 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 35 of 35 would unhesitatingly destroy the entire United States..........the same way that they did that airplane..........if I am killed or assassinated before my time to go. Page Thirty Four National Airlines counter..........and asked her what had happened. She laid it all out for me..........and I got her complete answer on tape. A policeman near the plane while it was landing saw lightning hit its tail (just like the picture in the Saga article)..........and the airplane exploded. He ran over and picked up what people he could find (the pieces of the airplane were scattered all over the field) and put them in his car and rushed them to a hospital. Now, if you stop and think..........here was a curious circumstance. What happens on the field..........plane struck by lightning..........is exactly as shown on the page of my Saga article..........WHICH I HAD SHOWED TO THE STEWARDESS AND PILOT OF OUR PLANE! I still am in the dark about this. The way it happened..........is the exact way that I document my miracles constantly..........except in this case I didn't know what I was documenting. Were the SI's trying to tell the government something? Or PyrCre? Were they unhappy because of the toughies around me on the flight? I simply do not know. And no answer has been given to me. But one thing I do know is..........that was no accident. Back at Cape Charles..........while washing up..........I showed Beau, my boy, pictures of Horus and Anubis..........as shown in the Cairo museum. "Why, daddy," he exclaimed, "these are the very same pictures of creatures in the photograph in your book!" I said yes, that was true but that I hadn't expected him to realize it so fast and so quickly. He didn't blink an eye.........."and," he continued, "this Egyptian eye..........isn't that on a dollar bill, along with a pyramid?" I looked at him, amazed. This was out of his own mind..........he hadn't studied up on it..........hadn't had time to read it, or even look at a dollar bill. CORRECTION: I have gotten ahead of myself in my notes! A bit later on..........on my tapes..........the SI's communicated with me and said that they had set up the airplane being hit by lightning..........to let the U.S. government and authorities know just how serious my work is with the SI's..........and HOW SERIOUS THEY ARE. Then they flashed pictures into my mind..........of the work Moses did..........killing thousands of first-born Egyptian children..........to make a point. Meaning, they can kill some people, too..........although I am sure that it grieves them to do so..........but to a greater purpose..........like, perhaps, averting a nuclear war which would kill, not a relative handful of people..........but hundreds of millions. They had even controlled me..........had me DOCUMENT the lightning/plane incident..........by showing my mag to the people on the plane..........so that it would be known that I was directly connected with the incident..........with the SI's. And..........they did this also..........TO SHOCK ME. And teach me. What awesome responsibility I have now..........linked up both with UFO power and PyrCre. Also they wanted the U.S. govt. to know. Personally, I hated this incident. And the human half of me cries inside..........for those in that plane. But..........I know what the SI's mean. Hundreds of millions of humans can perish..........unless I survive and progress with my work with the SI's and PyrCre. So..........the FAA and the Fed know now, without any doubt whatsoever..........who I am..........and what I can do..........and what the SI's can do. Understand..........I had nothing to do whatsoever with that airplane explosion. It was an SI demonstration completely. In their infinite chessboard plan of things. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 20 To friend George Teixeira from Ted Owens May 8, 1975 Special Report to Millie... (and scientists) The trip to Europe, Millie...was success beyond your or my expectations. Not only was my brain worked on by the SI's...as far as they could take it without damaging me...but I saw the Loch Ness monster on two different occasions... documented my bringing out UFO's in Scotland...activated Stonehenge for the SI's... and made a shocking discovery about Stonehenge that nobody else knows, or ever will. Am enclosing tape recordings that I made on the trip...live, on the spot, recordings... up inside old haunted castles in the wee small hours of the night...owls hooting... on haunted hillsides...it is all there. I EVEN GOT THE UFO SOUND ON TAPE! Thanks to you, Millie...it was all made possible. (And to George Delavan, for keeping the home fires burning.) To go back in time...in 1965 I discovered in Arizona that I had discovered a psi method of controlling weather. Drove to Washington, D.C., with the family, and got together with CIA and NASA...but they refused to do what the SI's wanted...get me to an old, haunted, isolated castle in Europe. So it took ten years...and your magnificent help...to get done what the SI's wanted. After I went to Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota...and got my torn stomach muscles repaired (which you financed)....I returned home and recuperated, making some trips to New York to pick up necessary equipment for the Europe trip. Finally was ready, and flew to New York. They told me at the airport there that they were holding the plane for me...that I was late...and rushed me, not through, but PAST, Customs. At the time this did not register on me...but later it worried me a lot, in Europe...thinking of the return trip...because I had not declared all my equipment and stuff. (Thank God...they rushed me back the same way, so all was well, and my worries were for naught.) Arrived in London, and without leaving the airport caught a plane for Inverness, Scotland. There, got a room at the Caledonian Hotel. I hadn't the faintest idea of where I was going, or what to do. But I work that way on purpose...leaving it up to the SI's to clue me in (which they do with unerring accuracy, always.) There I treaded water for several days, trying to figure out the lay of the land... how to talk to the Scottish people (no small task) etc. Finally lined up a taxi driver named Ronald Petrie, to drive me way out of town late at night and drop me off at an isolated location on the banks of Loch Ness (where the famed monster resides, allegedly...and not allegedly...it does.) He'd return in an hour or two, and pick me up...was the arrangement. I carried my camera, tape recorder, flashlight (although I didn't use one at all...gave my position away...had it just for some emergency.) Wore special warm clothing purchased in New York just for this trip. Carried lots of other stuff...but these were the main items. The first night out there...Ron dropped me off in the pitchblack darkness, and drove off. At midnight, there is no traffic on that one, lonely road...outside Inverness. So...I was all alone in the blackness. I felt my way toward Loch Ness, and found a 40 foot cliff impeding my progress. So I simply jumped down towards a tree growing out of the cliff, and fell the rest of the way. Hitting the bottom, felt blood running down my right leg. But...I was down on the beach, the edge, of the 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 2 of 20 2 famous Loch Ness, at least. It was freezing cold. I telepathed to the SI's just where I was...also to the Loch Ness creature (which I figure is an other-dimensional entity belonging to the SI's.) Soon a UFO appeared in the sky...darting about, as they do...straight ahead and up over me. Then one by one, three "flying sword UFO's...read Arthur Shuttlewood's book for their description) appeared out over the water, or on the far shore, whichever...hard to determine. Then...heard a splash...and this long neck emerged from the water, with a small, football-shaped head, on top of it...and it stared at me for about five minutes. Then it vanished...after the shock of seeing it wore off and I finally began to grab for my camera (no flash) to try to get a moonlight shot of it. Finally came time to get up to the top of the cliff and over to the road to rendezvous with Ron. I slung everything around me...and climbed up, laboriously, holding on to tree roots, anything. Made it. Ron drove up, lights off, and we returned to Inverness, to my hotel. (Should back up here...and tell you that before taking off for Europe...a flying saucer actually appeared on our TV set at home...completely unlike any color usually on the screen...accompanied by all sorts of odd electrical malfunctions there at home. Also...when I first arrived at Inverness...detectives were busily watching me at the hotel. I could spot them quite easily...and this happened during the course of the entire adventure.) Next day I bought some rope, then when midnight came and Ron dropped me off out in the wilds...I tied the rope carefully to a tree at the top of the high cliff...lowered myself over the edge...and fell down the rest of the way. Actually, it was funny. Like a Marx Bros. comedy. The night before I'd gotten five deep gashes on my right leg. But this fall...just some light scratches on my left leg. Telepathed to the UFO's, and to Nessie. The same four UFO's appeared again...one high in the sky, darting about..and the other three out over the water. This night an owl hooted over to my right for a while...then hooted from directly behind me...then hooted from the far shore. That owl certainly did get around, unless there was a gang of owls, taking turns hooting. And something was scaring the daylights out of the birds across from me on the far shore...they were squawking like mad. Finally I went to the rope, and managed to climb back up the cliff, holding onto the rope. Ron met me, and back we went. Both nights, icy cold...cold wind cutting right through clothing. (Might add that this night telepathed to "sword UFO's" to let me alone...and they went out, changed to red glow. Next day accidentally viewed a TV daytime program called "Tomorrow People" by BBC. Amazingly, it's a show about a few people...who can telepath to UFO's for info and intelligence and help...and who have brains of Future Man, like myself! They might as well have studied my work and past..and done a TV series on it! (Should add...after second night on Loch Ness...felt awful; drained; turned inside out.) Well, I figured I'd done enough at this location...so lined up a plane for Edinburgh the next day. But...I strolled into a small shop and saw a small pamphlet...which told about an old, haunted castle called Urquhart Castle on Loch ness. I cancelled the plane, and hired Ron to drive me to Drumnadrochit, a distance away...and put up at the Glenurquhart Lodge there in that small, country village on the near-vicinity of Urquhart Castle. Well, I lined up a new driver at Drum. Peter Wilson; retired sergeant-major of the British Army. Not a taxi driver at all. Owns an expensive gift shop there. Forget how I met him, but it was accidental...if anything at all on this trip could be termed accidental. Peter had been all over the world in the British Army...tough, tough sergeant-major. He rolled up at the lodge at 11:30, and we drove way out to Urquhart Castle. It's a huge, isolated ruins of a castle...right on the very edge of Loch Ness...and I found out later...is where the Monster has been seen the most! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 3 of 20 3 He let me out...and I slipped like a shadow through the gate at the top of the road (no light ever, remember)...and tippy-toed down the long, long path towards the castle...through another gate....then left on a path along the base of the hill below the castle, left far over to the drawbridge...then up into the shadows of the castle...through the empty rooms and door arches...up to the top, to a parapet which I'd marked earlier in the day when Peter and I had made a daylight, trial run out to the Castle. (Might add here...the gates that I had come through...had huge padlocks on them...but someone had obligingly left the padlocks open. I figured that I had the blessings of someone in high officialdom on this. The Castle is a national treasure...kept intact by the Dept. of Environment. Later, In England...I did not get this cooperation by the High Ones...as you will know.) This was a Thursday night...and I telepathed to the SI's, and to the Monster...from the parapet of the Castle overlooking the Loch. This, incidentally...was the Pluperfect Place for me...as far as the SI's were concerned. Moonlight flooding down on my lonely figure atop this isolated old castle, with the spooky Loch below. I could sense it. That the SI's were pleased that I was there. Anyway, soon a UFO danced up just overhead in the sky...darting all about...beautiful. And a column of white light shot down from the sky also...no planes or copters up there. Everything quiet...strange, eerie stillness throughout. The UFO was hypnotic, and I got a headache just from watching it...and nauseated. Finally when the time came I made my way out of the darkness of the castle, up the hill, and through the gate, where Peter was waiting in his car with no lights. I told him to wait a minute, and played the tape recorder relating the UFO sighting and all. Forgot to add...that up at the castle I'd developed a bad ache in my back, along with the splitting headache and nausea.) Next day Ron Petrie phoned from Inverness and said that many people had seen the UFO over the area...called police, etc...and a story had appeared in the newspaper about it. I asked him to drive out with copies of the paper, so that I could document it. All day long...the people at the lodge asked me if I felt all right...said that I "looked different." In the afternoon some friends took me down into the village to watch a shinty game. Fascinating. Came night time and I had to call Peter and cancel our rendezvous. Something had "clicked off" in my brain, and I couldn't stand the strain of it this night. On Saturday night...midnight at the old castle...another UFO danced up over the castle. Very spooky night...bright moonlight...like one of those TV werewolf movies. Got an excruciating pain at the base of my neck. Tape recorder malfunctioning. Also ran out of tape. I know that the SI's are working on me, night by night...either from a distance, or close by, invisibly. I can sense, also, that I am under surveillance at the castle. By whom or what, I do not know. Sunday Ron drove to Drum. and got me and took me back to Inverness, to his home. There I transferred my small tapes to his large cassette recorder...and rented his recorder from him, to continue with...since my small Norelco 95 was malfunctioning. All this time...the day by day routine is horrible. I have no company; no companionship; nothing to do...from early morn until almost midnight at night, when I go to work. There is no diversion whatsoever. Just a glass of beer at the pub, and watch the people having fun amongst themselves. Monday...had a strange thing happen. Went into the pub of the lodge to have a beer...nothing else to do...in the afternoon...and some big, rough character begins to curse and berate the sweet barmaid, Margaret (Ricky's girlfriend.) 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 4 of 20 4 I tried to use psychology to talk him smoothly...and quiet him down. We three were alone in the pub, with the exception of a salesman over at the side of the room. Well, this character then zeroes in on me...and begins to try to back me into a corner. I could read his mind quite easily...he had a glass of whisky in his hand, and was preparing to slosh it into my eyes...so I got my hands up in a judo posture. He put down the drink and set himself to throw a sneak punch...so I turned with my left side toward him, to give him a small target; also so that I could clobber his neck with a left hand, edge of the hand. Seeing this move, he cannily changed posture and set himself for a kick with his heavy booted foot. Before he could launch the kick...I pivoted around him, out of the corner, to the center of the bar...where I had plenty of room to maneuver. Just then who comes in...but Peter Wilson! Peter positions himself between me and this fractious character. I go over to the salesman, at a table, and leave my camera...then put my watches into my pockets, and ring. Meanwhile the character is still shouting vile curses at the barmaid. I go back to the bar...and flat tell the rat to either shut his vile mouth...or take me on. He starts for me and get ready (just fresh from a double hernia operation, remember...ha) when Peter steps in, spins this thing around....and holds him. Then the manager comes into the pub and tells the character to leave...which he does, promptly. But in all this...it rang as clear as a lead dime. First, I'd seen this character half an hour before he even went into the pub...out in the lodge office. He'd had a full pint of whisky then. In the pub, he still had that same pint...and it stayed full. When he went out, it was with the same full pint. In the bar, he'd had just one small glass of whisky...and he hadn't drunk that, either. This doesn't follow the pattern of a drinker...or a drunk. Also...while he was maneuvering around me...his eyes were clear...and his moves were smart. Remember, I'm an old ring fighter; a judo fighter; and once a nightclub bouncer. I know what I know. This entire situation seemed set up for my benefit....so that British intelligence could find out...how much control I had...if I would resort to quick violence...resort to weapons, or try to handle matters with my hands. Well, if so, they found out...I am very, very controlled...use violence only as a very last resort...and my hands are my first line of defense, even fresh after an operation. (Insert at this point...May 9, 1975...last night I awoke at 4:03 AM by the illuminated clock at bedside...and heard a voice talking to me from the foot of my bed...an unemotional, flat, mechanical voice...instructing me to do something. I listened to it for about five minutes, then inexplicably dropped off to sleep... it must have told me not to remember...because this morning I could not remember what that voice had been telling me. But...the voice was quite, quite real....) Night again, alone, at the isolated, haunted castle Urquehart. Very dark and very cold. I moved through the ruins like a shadow among the shadows...up through the arches, up onto my parapet lookout overlooking Loch Ness. The sky was covered with thick black clouds. Pitch black darkness all about. I telepathed to the SI's, and to the Monster. Soon an amazing thing happened. A circle opened right over me, in the sky. In this circle, the stars and sky were quite clear...but everywhere else in the sky, as far as the eye could see...thick black clouds covered the sky! It seemed like a miracle. Finally the circle of clear sky closed up, and the entire sky once again was all overcast with black clouds. I checked the time on my Pulsar watch at 21 after midnight. Then doublechecked a few seconds later...and it read 28 after 12! I realized that somehow...seven minutes of time had vanished...during which time I had no recollection! (This was like the Dallas incident, years ago, when I was with my daughter, Lornie, and a UFO came down to our car...seemed like a minute...but after it had vanished...we'd lost an hour of time!) === Page 5 of 20 5 I then made my way out of the old castle through the darkness...way up the hill to where Peter waited in his blacked out car...and told him about the missing seven minutes. When I returned to the lodge and went to my room...my neck ached excruciatingly again...at the base, back, of the neck. (Other nights, I might add, I'd felt like I was drugged, after the castle sessions.) But tonight I was clear, and felt all right...except for the pain at the back of the neck. Summed up...I'd had no visual sighting this night...just seven minutes of time vanished. Next night...moved up through the blackness into the castle...up to the parapet. Snowing heavily. Visibility zilch...nothing. Peasoup fog. Then a bright UFO light flickered up overhead, through the blackness. I was protecting Ron's recorder with my body and coat, from the snow. Must have been zero or below. Freezing cold. Telepathed to the SI's, and to Monster. Walked in circles, around and around in the snow, and the blackness, to keep warm, and to keep a keen watch. My ears began to freeze up, so I pulled a ski mask over my entire head...leaving only eye and mouth openings. Completely socked in by fog and snow, and a thick white mist enveloping me. Couldn't even see Loch Ness, 100 feet away. Real spooky. Time seemed distorted up on top of the castle...not like earth time at all...an hour up there seemed like 15 minutes to me...but when I'd get back to Peter he said it seemed like two hours to him. And I had no recollection of time passing at all. Well, I kept circling, watching for SI's, and/or thugs coming at me out of the darkness. Then I saw something moving around in the square of space...an old crumbled room...next to me. It was white...a white blur, 3 or 4 feet wide. The thing moved around...and I drew my knife and went into the enclosure after it. But there was nothing in there. Whatever it was, had vanished. But I'd seen it quite plainly. People in the village had said they wouldn't go to Urquhart Castle after dark for love or money...because a ghost had been seen up inside it many times. Perhaps this was the ghost. Then...that same circle cleared in the sky right over me...with dark sky everywhere else as far as the eye could see. This made the second night in a row...a huge, giant circle had opened up right over me. Next I heard a huge splash in the water near me. Then I saw a UFO right up over me. I knew, for sure, they were working my brain over! Again I got the strong feeling of being watched and observed. I checked my Pulsar at 12:20; then again a few seconds later, and it read 12:29! I had lost more time; time had vanished on me! Finally I made my way out of the dark castle, and back to the road, where Peter awaited me in his darkened car...and told him about the missing time, again. What was striking...was that the missing time was at about the same minute each night...12:20 to 12:28, and 12:20 to 12:29. Next day three reporters converged on me at the lodge...because of my work, and because of the UFO reported in the local paper. They checked my credentials, then took me to the castle for some photos. At this point...I was terribly bored, and homesick. No companionship...nothing. Just sitting around for hours all day, waiting for the night. And it was my little boy Teddy's birthday...so I called him long distance. At night...vibes were horrible; terrible. And everything was going wrong. The lodge phones were not available. The public phone...I could call out, but the party at the other end couldn't hear my voice. The lodge office was closed, and couldn't get at that phone...so I was snookered, as to communication out. Then the gardener (who doubled as a pro hunter) was replaced that day by another man...and he chose to take it out on me...in the pool room he kept calling out loudly... "run the American back where he came from!" Of course, I was the only American there, in this tiny place. But by that time I'd made many friends...and they shut up the ex-gardener. Then the SI's communicated with me and warned me not to go out to the castle any more without an armed guard...because after the newspaper story (which pinpointed where I was going, and when) had made it too dangerous to me. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 6 of 20 .6 To add to all of this...I didn't seem like myself at all. More like another personality, or person. This had never happened before...and I mused whether the SI work on my brain...had caused it. When Peter arrived for rendezvous...I told him we'd better cancel...but he offered to go along as the guard...carrying a huge club. So, we went together. This was the first...and only...time anyone at all accompanied me on any of my night work. We moved up into the dark castle to the parapet. There was a full moon...but visibility was bad; there was a dark overcast. However, with another person present...there was no SI contact! It was the difference between hot and cold; white and black. The feeling was entirely different; no good. The second person present seemed to cancel out everything. Next night Peter assured me that it would be okay to go alone up into the dark castle, so I believed him and went on up by myself into the darkness. There was a full moon. The night was clear and beautiful. The castle was all alight with bright moonlight. I telepathed. (Oh, before I forget...that afternoon the wife of the supermarket owner in Drum. had informed me that she had personally watch the UFO maneuver in the sky, the previous Thursday...and I secured a statement from her...which you will get.) As I turned slowly in a circle, watching the skies, the Loch Ness waters, and the shadows nearby...suddenly I saw a huge black mass break through the water out ahead of me! Must have been about 50 feet in length. (Later, back in Inverness, I got a booklet on the Monster...and there was a photo in the booklet...showing this very same picture...this same black mass up out of the water, allegedly the Monster.) There had been no such black mass coming up out of the water on any other night; at least where I'd had visibility. At this point I realized that my location...this spot that I came to every night...was zeroed in by the SI's...for programming my brain, or for invisible approach. And...the castle by now...seemed like a second home. It fascinates me, holds me, attracts me. The castle actually has some kind of occult hold on me, on my mind. And it is the location...where the most people have seen the Loch Ness Monster, for whatever that is worth. To show you how close Loch Ness is...I just flicked my cigar butt out into the water. At this point my feet were numb with cold...and the fingers inside my sheeplined gloves...were numb with cold. I decided not to watch the time...to heck with it...if time was going to vanish, then it would just vanish. I stamped my feet to get some feeling back into them. It was odd that it was so cold...because the night was clear, and shouldn't have been cold. Tonight there was no owl hoot. ..last night the owl had been hooting (like it had way back the first two nights on the Loch bank, down the cliff) but tonight, nothing. I missed it. It was kind of company. The birds on the far side of the Loch were squawking like blazes...something over there getting them upset. Finally I called it a night and made my way out of the castle, back up to the road to where Peter waited in his darkened car. The next night...was a dilly! To pass the time, I decided to shoot some pool with the villagers in the lodge pool room (contained one single table...and the villagers all assembled there every evening to drink beer and shoot pool). Lovey's wife (he was a wrestler) came up and asked me to be her partner. So I was, for one game. Then she went over and asked Malcolm to be her partner. (Malcolm, some nights earlier...I had beaten at 8ball...and he'd calmly walked past me, then swiftly kicked all the glass out of the door! He'd been in the famed Scots Guard...but had been released (I believe for mental instability.) This night...he ignored her, and played with another partner...and she became infuriated with Malcolm rejecting her...picked up a bottle...went up behind him and smashed it over his head! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 7 of 20 7 He turned around, with a surprised look on his face...grabbed her by her right arm...and flipped her onto the floor, flat onto her back. Then her husband, Lovey, the wrestler, came hurrying over. At this point there were about twenty people in the room...and they began to get out, quickly. Lovey and Malcolm came to grips...and began throwing each other around the room; smashing each other's heads into the walls! banging each other's heads down onto the floor; kneeing each other; etc etc. Meanwhile, I stood there with my cue in my hand...it had been my shot. Everyone else had fled from the room, except Peter...the habitual character and drunk...who'd gone to sleep sitting in a chair against the wall, and not even the sound of the battling had wakened him. Malcolm picked up a heavy chair, threw it across the room right into Lovey. Then he picked up the cue ball off the table and threw it at Lovey...the ball ricocheted around the walls and came to rest, funnily enough...right in poor Peter's lap! Still Peter didn't wake up. They began throwing beer mugs at each other. Beer mugs broke and glass flew all around my head. Chairs flew through the air. Anything went. Both Malcolm and Lovey were in tatters...bloody tatters...both bleeding like stuck pigs. Then I got an idea. But before I could put it into motion...Lovey's wife began to sneak up on Malcolm, who had Lovey down on the floor, fingers intertwined in Lovey's hair, smashing his head down onto the floor. She had a huge glass beer mug in her hand, and was prepared to smash Malcolm over the head with it, from behind. I used a judo handgrab and took it away from her. Fair was fair, I figured. Then I yelled at the two..."someone called the police, you guy's had better get out of here!" Malcolm got up off of Lovey. Lovey called him chicken for quitting the fight, but Malcolm wanted no part of police. Malcolm went out the door, then stuck his head back inside and yelled at Lovey..."but I still say your wife is a bum!" At which point Lovey threw two heavy beer mugs through the glass door at Malcolm. I was still standing there, pool cue in hand, fascinated. Lovey staggered over to the pool table...blood pouring down from innumerable cuts...his clothes in strips and tatters...and said, "Whose shot?" "Your shot," I said...so he picked up a cue, and we finished the game. The room was a complete shambles...you couldn't take a step without walking into broken glass...everything broken and smashed. And Peter was still leaning against the wall, in his chair, sound asleep. Then Peter Wilson drove up...and we left for the castle. Terrible night. Thick fog. No moonlight at all. Pitch black. Could see nothing. And to add to the lack of visibility...a thick white fog up on top of the castle parapet. When I telepathed to the SI's and the Monster...I could easily sense that there was more than one Loch Ness Monster. There's a bunch! For the first time...as I stood in the utter blackness, alone, in the isolated crumbly castle after midnight...I understood something. If any intelligence agencies of any country...wanted to eliminate me because of my link-up with the UFO's...this Scotland situation had been, and still was, pluperfect! I was alone, in the darkness, on the brink of the Loch. Completely and utterly vulnerable to the Dirty Tricks Department of any agency. Also I realized why the SI's had been concerned...there were several characters in Drum who'd cut my throat for the equipment on my back...which would keep them in living expenses for a year or two. I understood another thing...the SI's were remodifying my brain in steps! Quite ingenious of them. If they did it all at once, it would probably ruin me. So...they were doing it piece by piece, place by place...to give my mind time to recuperate, between treatments. And...they would leave it up to me...to judge when my mind, brain, had had enough. And I realized at this point...that they had worked on my brain extensively. The Wednesday before...I had been upset; hostile; a different personality than my normal self. Peter Wilson knew it. Too much work by the SI's on me? That's why they have slacked off, since that time. Then I got a terrible backache, up on the parapet. But had no weight on my back to cause 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 8 of 20 8 it. Then a bright "sword UFO" appeared out over the water, opposite me. And my back kept hurting...at the base of my spine, in the small of my back. Finally time was up...and packed up the equipment...made way out of the dark castle up the hill to Peter's car. Then I hired Ron Petrie to drive me to Edinburgh in his taxi. Got a room at the George Hotel. Bought a new cassette recorder to replace my pocket one that had broken down. Very dull city...ugh. Nice people; but so very very dull. Nothing to do there. No way to relax. But I stayed several days anyway. To relax. What I had been going through...brain modification...had wiped out my energy. Flew to London. At the airport...didn't know whether to take a taxi into London, and cast about for some means of finding Salisbury, or what. The SI's communicated...and told me what to do. So I made inquiry...took a bus to Reading; then a train to Salisbury. Was being watched constantly, by two man teams, I might add. Not imagination, or paranoid thinking. Just a fact. At the Hotel George back in Edinburgh this same man had lurked across the street, watching me come out and checking me back in. Then he'd surprised me...by popping up across the street just outside the front door of the hotel, and accosting me..."What kind of cigar is that you are smoking?" We exchanged cigar chitchat...but I realized that he was peering into my eyes and checking my voice...probably to try and evaluate my stability. British intelligence is not stupid...and they'd most likely been with me in Scotland...American intelligence, you can bet your bottom dollar...wanted to know what I was doing, and how I was doing it...and they'd work with British Intelligence, too. Might drop a note at this point...on the tremendous, overwhelming expense of this entire trip. Beginning with my operation at Mayo...where I'd expected to spend a week...then been held there for a month! Then extensive preparation for the European trip...getting tools and equipment and clothes. And the trip itself.... spending a hundred or two hundred dollars on taxi's, hotels, meals, etc., every time I turned around! It could have only been done...with open-ended funds... which Millie had laid out for all this. (And knowing that my friend George Delavan was covering rent, food, etc., back at home.) Drat it...they lost my luggage carrier on the plane coming to London. Have to get another in Salisbury. Made a mental note to be careful in England...because in Scotland things are more controlled...papers full of crime and skullduggery in England. Secured a room at the White Hart Hotel in Salisbury. Got lucky and quickly found a taxi driver, who agreed to the unusual night hours of taking me out to haunty places. Eric Romaine. Heavy set, pipe smoking gent. Met him at the railroad station, matter of fact...he drove me into town and helped me find a hotel. Said he might have a connection who would help sneak me into Stonehenge. He also knew of an old castle, abandoned, isolated...Old Sarum Castle. In my room, waiting for the magic hour of 11:30, and rendezvous with Eric...I unexplainably fell asleep at 9:20. Woke up some time later, feeling exhausted. Eric arrived on time. We drove out into the black countryside. Cold, icy rain falling. Freezing cold. Eric said he couldn't arrange the Stonehenge deal...so he (and his wife in the back seat...no doubt there because she wondered why, at that hour, Eric would be out) drove me out to Old Sarum Castle, isolated in the country. We got out of the taxi...and found out that the castle was surrounded by a very high fence...only access by way of a drawbridge, which had a gate topped with sharp spikes, and secured by a huge padlock. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 9 of 20 9 So I dismissed Eric and his wife...watched the taxi with darkened lights turn and leave the location...then I picked up my equipment and moved over to the right of the castle...up onto a hill into a clump of trees. An icy wind was blowing. Two UFO's appeared, after my telepathing. Visibility was zilch; but the UFO's fluttering about were perfectly clear. One "sword UFO" came right at me, at my location. It changed from a white star thing to a dull orange glow (like those had done at the Loch Ness locations). The other one, higher up, did the same thing. Then switched back on to bright again. Then a third UFO appeared, and they arranged themselves into a perfect triangle formation...two up above, and one low for the point of the triangle. Then even more UFOs appeared. It seemed they were putting on quite a show. Changing color; jumping about. The night itself was pitchblack; icy cold; cold rain pouring down; sky murky. Was keeping my new recorder carefully covered, from the rain. Came time to leave, I was numb with cold...the SI's comm'd and led me over to the castle drawbridge and told me how to enter into the castle the next night! They wanted me there. Eric drove up in his darkened car, then...I got in...and told him of the SI plan...and he agreed to cooperate with the plan. Might add here...that all these taxi rides were costing me 15-$20 a shot...and I was taking several a day...scouting out the ground, going here and there. Same with Ron and Peter Wilson in Scotland. And others. Also should add...that the SI's do a tremendous job of leading me to my targets. Tonight, for instance, Eric's wife handed me a book written by Arthur Shuttlewood...about a place called Warminster..and certain hills on which UFO's had appeared. From this book, which I would read...I was guided unerringly to Warminster and to the right places there...and the right people. But...suppose she hadn't shown me the book? This sort of thing was happening on the entire trip. Just this kind of "luck" found me Urquhart Castle and Drumnadrochit. Found the perfect suitcase to take the place of my lost luggage carrier...the thing has a built in handle, and built in wheels. Next day...extreme loneliness hit me with a dull thud, again. Depressed me quite a bit. Night...Eric came by...we went out to Old Sarum Castle. He had a thick blanket; a short stepladder. In the darkness we snuck up to the spiked gate...put up the ladder...I wadded the blanket on top of the spikes, swung my butt up onto the blanket...pulled the ladder up with me...and leaped off onto the other side. Eric got the blanket and took it with him to the taxi, as he left. I left the ladder where it was...and moved through the darkness into the castle grounds...not knowing where I was going inside there. I felt my way through the dark rooms and dark grounds...up and up...and finally found a high parapet on top of the castle. Icy cold up there...couldn't see four feet in front of me, visibility so poor. Not like Urquhart...up there I could check out my immediate surroundings for intruders...not here...all spread out...anybody could come at me from any direction and I wouldn't be able to see them. The cold wind soon began to cut through my pants like a knife. Then the sky cleared, and I could see in every direction out over the countryside. A gale wind was blowing...had to hold the hat onto my head to keep it from blowing off. Cold, biting, icy winds. I tried to light a cigar...and after ten successive matches blew out...I gave it up. I'd goofed in another way, also...had worn soft, felt booties...so that I could pad around inside the castle without being heard, by anybody. Yes, but without shoes inside them. And in no time...my feet were freezing off. I heard a rustling noise over to my left...so I knew for sure that I was not alone up there. It made me uneasy to think of how I had to depend on taxi drivers...like Ron, Peter, Eric...because if any of them failed to show up later...I'd be found frozen in the 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 10 of 20 10 morning! I thought back...to earlier in the evening...when Eric and I had been driving out toward the castle...and we'd passed a girl hitchhiking on the lonely country road. I'd said, "Eric, make a U-turn and go back and pick up that girl. We'll give her a lift before she freezes." "It wasn't a girl," he'd said, "it was a man." (We each saw a different thing.) But he made a U-turn, went back, and the human had vanished completely. Eric and I had both been mystified. Well, at 1 I made my way back down again through the old, dark castle...and out to the locked gate. Eric was there in the dark. I put up the ladder and went up it. Eric handed me the blanket, and we reversed the process to get me down onto the other side. We went tippy-toeing back to his darkened car, deposited the ladder and blanket inside the car...and just then a police car swung up the road and parked about 20 feet away! Now, we are talking about after 1 at night...out in the dark countryside...no lights and no people! I said to Eric, what the blazes, Eric? The police car didn't come over and investigate us...just sat there for a few minutes, then started up and left. We switched on our lights and drove back into town...and found the police car silently waiting for us, half-way, on the road. I didn't like this turn of events at all! Next day I engaged Eric to drive me way out to Stonehenge, to scout it out in the daytime. Soon as I got there, I realized what Stonehenge was all about. It was a mechanism...a machine. A psychotronic machine (see "Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain" book by Ostranger, on psychotronic form.) And the key to Stonehenge...so ingeniously planned for in the ages past by the UFO entities...had to be an alien brain set inside it, to activate it! Its power was so intense...that it could not be trusted to a human brain to activate it. Only an alien, UFO brain...with their peculiar laws and compassionate philosophy...could be trusted to turn on all of that power. (Same thing with the pyramids in Egypt, Mexico, etc. They were designed to be turned on, activated, by an alien brain inside same...just like the battery inside an electric watch...and for the same reason.) Now...and this is very important...while activating Stonehenge, several times... I discovered a tremendous secret about Stonehenge...certainly not known to any other humans. Over and above what I have already told you. Stonehenge...has many functions! It came to my mind...that the SI's primary reason to bring me to Europe...might be to activate Stonehenge for them! Secondary reason, the remodifying of my brain (which they did, right enough.) The SI's are most devious...as I have found in the past. Fair as fair, but...devious. Like the time they guided me to Cleveland to "make some food and rent money giving lectures." Uh huh. Turned out...what they really wanted to do...was demonstrate how they could control the entire city of Cleveland...letting me document it for them! Same thing with the country of France...and my small hassle with Dr. Poher there. Discovered twenty pounds (20) missing from my billclip, during the daytime. No way...it could have become lost. Was in left trouser pocket underneath my heavy leather coat. But, you say...perhaps a pickpocket? Not so...the clip itself is of 18K gold...worth $500-$600 at today's gold prices...have had it for years...and no self-respecting pickpocket would take $50 in bills and leave the $500 clip in my pocket! I think it was the SI's...for whatever reason. Because all along the way...things disappeared from my pockets, fingers, belt. But they appeared later, in a different place. This 20 pounds never did reappear. On the way out to Stonehenge, about 3:30 in the afternoon, in April...sunny day... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 11 of 20 11 I explained to Eric, a most intelligent man...how I dreaded going out to Stonehenge on this sunny afternoon...with tourists standing around, gawking and taking photos...while I mentally concentrate on activating the structure-mechanism. Well, as we drove along...the sunshine turned to light snow. By the time we got to Stonehenge galeforce winds were blowing and there was a full blizzard. One could hardly see six feet ahead. I made my way out into Stonehenge...whilst the tourists there were running out of Stonehenge...and I was left alone to do my work! A miracle if you ever saw one! Just as fast as I had used all of the mental "triggers" the SI's had given me, to activate Stonehenge...they comm'd and told me to get out, fast! (I believe this is the first time they have ever done such a thing.) So I did. Left immediately. My impression was...that in activating Stonehenge, according to SI instructions...I released so much power there...that the SI's were fearful that I could be damaged (since I am not a full SI...but a "half-breed"...half SI, half human. The rest of the day, lonesomeness pounded at me...like waves on the beach. Having no one to talk to, or who cares...or to do anything with...gets to you. Just a hotel room. One of the worst experiences...all of this lonesomeness on this European trip...that I have ever gone through. I contacted the SI's and requested that they finish their remodifying of my brain in Warminster...but they comm'd back ... could my brain withstand that? They requested...that I go to Stonehenge this night...break in...activate it...break out...then go to Old Sarum Castle and repeat the entire process. (Oh...before I forget...last night...I had the windows of my hotel room closed...and they steamed over. During the night I heard weird noises...and at bedtime I found pawprints all over the windows. Considering I was on the second floor...a sheer drop down...brick wall...nothing could get to my windows...this was quite puzzling. Except I remembered the time on the Arizona desert...sleeping out in the open in our car...and we'd wakened in the morning and Beau had said he'd seen a "monster face" at my window during the night. Then I'd gotten out of the car and found pawprints and clawmarks in a peculiar stain...all over the car...and something had ripped our back tire, so that it was flat. ) Eric picked me up at 11:30. We drove out to Stonehenge, while I told him what the UFO's wanted me to do. I used the thick blanket up on top of the spikes on the gate...and went over. Now, this is out in the country. Everything dark and pitchblack. No one out there. Stonehenge just a black, dark bunch of rock shadows far over to my left...across a field. Occasionally a car would pass...then I would fling myself flat, to avoid the lights from the car picking up my silhouette in the field. Finally, after getting over several smaller fences...I reached the famous rocks of Stonehenge. I slipped in amongst them...quiet as a mouse in the darkness...found my spot between the two rocks, where I'd been in the afternoon...and commenced using the "triggers" the SI's had given me. But in about 3-5 minutes a light flickered amongst the giant rocks...and I knew I'd been set up. Because lights from the road, far away, wouldn't reach inside Stonehenge. I fell flat between the two rocks, hoping whoever it was would take a quick look and go away. But no...the powerful beam moved straight over to where I was and shone down at me, where I lay inside the rocks. They knew...just where I'd be! I slowly rose...saw a policeman...and thought oh boy, I've had it now! He told me that I'd have to leave, and not come back. That's all he said. He didn't ask me who I was...what I was doing there...or anything. THEN HE TURNED AND WALKED AHEAD OF ME...HIS BACK TO ME...ALL THE LONG WAY BACK TO THE ROAD TO ERIC'S CAR! Now, I'd just broken into a national monument...and you know, and I know, that ordinary police procedure calls for the cop to have me show identification... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 12 of 20 12 give a reason for being there, at that hour of the night...and of course no policeman in his right mind would turn his back on some mysterious breaker-and-enterer...and walk out ahead of him! UNLESS, THAT IS...THE COP KNOWS WHO THE INTERLOPER IS...AND KNOWS THAT THE INTERLOPER IS HARMLESS...WOULDN'T HURT HIM! And this...had to be it. He knew who I was...knew where I'd be standing...knew I wouldn't harm him. Well...I skipped the castle, naturally. The cops had almost gotten us there the night before...and I figured that now they'd zeroed in on me...I'd be a dead-duck if I tried the up-over-the-spikes routine now out at the castle. So...back to the hotel...and I raved and ranted in my hotel room for hours, I was so furious and frustrated...because I'd come a long way, and gone to a lot of trouble and wear and tear...to get this thing done for the UFO's...only to be blocked and frustrated at it. In Scotland...I was not blocked. The castle gates were left unlocked for me. And I got results. UFO's appeared, and were seen by others, as well as myself. But now, in England...fooey. The authorities were smoothly blocking my moves. Then I found that my favorite hunting knife was missing from my belt. I'd had it on me...at Stonehenge. Had it for 20 years, and was my favorite (I have a collection.) I determined to go back to Stonehenge at early morn...before tourists got there...and find it! Early morn...called Eric...went out to Stonehenge before it opened to the public. Was first in line at the ticket window. A voice said "You back again?" I laughed and said sure...and buying a ticket, just like anybody else. It was the same policeman, and he emerged from behind a two-way window. I told him I'd lost something the night before. So he took me back into Stonehenge...it wasn't there...but I found it out in the field. The policeman walked me back to Eric's car, then left. I told Eric...I am going to wait half an hour, then go and buy a ticket, go back inside Stonehenge, and activate it in the daytime again...as long as I can't get in at night. And that's exactly what I did. And this is when...I found out a fantastic secret about Stonehenge! During the day...the SI's comm'd and instructed me to skip that night...just rest. Was having supper at a quaint eating place...when an amusing thing happened. A tall, gray-haired man...and an American, judging from his voice...stood about six feet away, talking to another man. We were probably the only two Americans in Salisbury, England, at the time. I called to him and asked him where he was from. Virginia, he said. (I live in Virginia.) Oh boy, I thought...now I'll have somebody to talk to! So, to kid him a bit and warm things up...I said, oh yes? Tourista! Gringo, go home!" and grinned, thinking he'd come over and join me at my table. Instead he got furious, turned his back on me, and walked out of the room. I laughed for half an hour...at the irony of it. Next move...I took a train to Warminster, England. And the very first thing that happened...was most funny! I asked the driver, Peter, if he could do a very special job for me (meaning my night-routine at haunted castles and hills.) I told him I would like to hire him to pick me up at about midnight to do something special. He studied me for a minute...said, I've got just the man for you. Name of Ricky. And he drove me out to some houses; went in, and brought out a tough looking mug. We three went to a nearby pub, where Peter left us by ourselves. This Ricky took me over to a corner table...and proceeded to let me know how valuable he was...as a fence, handling diamonds! Explained how he'd worked in African diamond mines. I laughed and told him that I wasn't in 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 13 of 20 13 the diamond trade...especially smuggling diamonds (which evidently was his line)...and he quickly got up and departed. I left the place and Peter was waiting outside. I went with him to the Beeline Taxi office and made arrangements with the manager for a night driver to pick me up at 11:30 PM. Then the driver helped me find a room at the Farmer's Hotel. (I'd made prior arrangements, by long distance phone, from Salisbury to Warminster, to stay at another hotel...but the driver told me it was a bad place...to stay at the Farmer's Hotel. So I did.) This hotel...had a ghost, I found out later...had been seen many times...and played tricks on people. The hotel was hundreds of years old. Took a walk into downtown Warminster, and winced. Really mean, tough-looking people here. Gangs of motorcycle riders...clad in black leather...hung all over with swastika pins and the like. I was awfully lonesome..but couldn't even find somebody to talk to. The people there, I discovered...hated Americans. Just like they do in France. Night, and the taxi driver picked me in front of the hotel. The cold was intense...freezing. I told him to drive me out to Cradle Hill, to an isolated location. He drove far, far out...on a country road which would lead to a deadend...but before we got there, another car pulled in front of our car. My driver was astounded. What? he said. Nobody comes out here this time of night...into this isolated country location. At the deadend, the other car made a U-turn, swung around us (and I caught a clear look at the man seated on the righthand side, front...he had a peculiar black beard...a most unusual design)...then the car drove a small way down the road, parked, and switched off lights. I ignored it, and got out. My driver drove off. I climbed over the gate at the deadend, and found three different roads, leading off in different directions. I decided to take the one going up to the top of the hill...where I could see a black outline of trees in the darkness. The driver had said that the hill was barren. The hill was very steep, and I huffed and puffed my way up it, until I'd gotten 2/3 of the way up. Then I could see the outline of a building in amongst the trees. Was it a house? If so...the house might have a vicious dog...or someone might think I was a robber, and begin blasting away with a shotgun...so I stayed where I was, 2/3 of the way up on the hill...on the lonely road...and telepathed to the SI's. A UFO quickly appeared...flashing orange, red and yellow colors. I talked into the tape recorder and pointed out...its color difference from the silvery stars. And as soon as I had done so...the UFO color changed to silver! Just as if it knew what I was saying in the recorder, and made a color correction. This reminded me of Loch Ness...when I had telepathed to the sword UFO's to let me alone that night...and they had immediately turned off...from their brilliant white color to a small, orange glow. Then my tape went bad, of all things...and I could no longer communicate into the recorder. Over to my right...was a huge black cloud...with swirling fog inside it...covering the dimension of a football field. Everywhere else the night was as clear as a bell...so this black cloud stood out like a sore thumb. Finally, as I left my location to go back down the hill...THE BLACK CLOUD FOLLOWED ALONG BESIDE ME! The driver was there; I got in; we drove down off the lonely road...and durned if that same other car didn't pull in behind us from somewhere and begin to follow us. The driver admitted that we were being followed. The other car followed us to my hotel, where I got out, cussing, and went to bed. Speaking of cussing...when you hear the tapes that I made...please forgive my unusual language. Unusual for me...that is. Ordinarily "durn" and "heck" are the extent of my strong language. But night by night exposure to the SI's and 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 14 of 20 14 their powers...seemed to bring pressure on my mind...that caused me to revert to my old Navy language of 194145, long years ago. I found myself cussing like a trooper, as they say...when blocked, frustrated, etc. I apologize for it...when you hear it...but cannot change it...from the standpoint of experimentation and observation...since it happened, and is a part of all that happened. Next day I hired the taxi driver to take me out to Cradle Hill...and I walked way up it to check out that "house"...but discovered that it was a peculiar, sealed up building...LIKE a barn, but not a barn. Beside it...lay the ruins of an old house. I left, and walked back down the hill to the driver, who had waited. He warned me not to go to Starr Hill, because the army was holding secret maneuvers there. As we passed one hill...I liked it...Copheap, off Elm...and made a mental note to return there some night. Back in town...I determined to find this Arthur Shuttlewood...and secure some of his books for Millie, George...and was directed to the owner of Payne's Drugstore, who presumably knew Arthur. (And, this shows...how the SI's were following me and guiding me.) As I stood inside the drugstore, talking to the owner...the owner said, why, there is Arthur's son now...he just walked in! I went over to the lad, about twenty years old...and gave him a message for his dad...relative to a meeting together. (forgot to mention...the night before I'd had a precog dream...dreamed of an elderly woman...who had dark, black spots on her left leg. This day...an elderly woman was my waitress at the hotel...Peggy...had the same face as the woman in my dream. I asked her if she had any dark spots...birthmarks or whatever...on her left leg. She said, why yes...lifted her long skirt...and showed a bunch of dark bruises on her left leg. Said she'd fallen over a bed. The taxi picked me up about 11:30 PM...and out we went again onto the deadend road at Cradle Hill. The night was very dark, and very quiet and still. As we reached the end of the deadend country road...there ahead of us was the "other" car...of the night before...waiting, with lights off. Oh, was I mad! I didn't know who there were...seemed to be three of them in the car...but I had waited all day long to get out here and meet, alone, with the SI's...and these men were blocking me! I could return to the hotel, and play it safe...or...and I decided that it would be "or". I told the taxi driver to take off...and stood there in the blackness of the night, at the locked gate...studying the other car...and cussing (as you'll discover on the tapes!) After a long while the car door opened, and a man got out...and began to slowly approach me. I warned him, and I surely meant it...not to come any closer...and he stopped dead in his tracks. "Aren't you interested in why we are here?" he asked. "Not at all," I told him. "I'm here to do something very important...and it does not concern you." He stood there for about five minutes, it seemed, in the darkness before me...then slowly turned and went back to the car, and got back in. The car sat there for a while longer, then switched on its lights and drove off, back down the hill, out of sight. That left me alone, in the darkness and the moonlight, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I'd been ready to take on all three of them...if I had to. I climbed over the gate, and started up the road to the top, where I'd scouted during the day...but the SI's comm'd and said no, not to go there. So instead, I took the next road...and followed it in the darkness. Soon a bunch of trees caught my eye over to the right (where the dark cloud was)...and I cut over across the field into the trees...and found that the trees were on the edge of a cliff. It was a dandy location, and I settled down 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 15 of 20 15 for a good get-together with my UFO friends. Nobody could come at me, without my discovering them...pitchblack darkness or not...because with the cliff at my back, I could spot anything moving through the darkness toward me from the front... It was icy cold there, inside that clump of trees. I'd walked right inside that peculiar black cloud with the swirling mist inside it. I telepathed to the SI's. Later, as it came time to leave the location...I walked out of the clump of trees...when I suddenly heard these strange, weird, eerie sounds coming from the trees I'd just vacated. (I was approx. 100-200 feet away, I reckon.) I turned to see what on earth could have made those sounds...sort of a cross between a screeching eagle and an animal...and just as I turned...a flaming ball of fire shot down out of the sky...right down in front of me...to the position I'd just vacated! It was a lovely, gorgeous, beautiful sight! In short, a UFO...type I'd never before seen, and I've seen many...had come right down to where I was! And if it hadn't "called to me" I wouldn't have seen it! (You actually have that UFO sound on your tape!) Went down and met my taxi. Thank goodness there was no sign of the other car. Next day I made a startling discovery. My eyebrows had turned gray! Now, the hair on top of my head has been gray for a long while...but my eyebrows have been a deep red color. Not a silver hair among them. Suddenly, today, they are 2/3 gray! I shave looking into the mirror each day...and these had not been evident before. I wondered if the black cloud I'd walked into...and the flaming UFO the night before, which had "called" to me...could have turned my eyebrows gray! In early evening, Arthur Shuttlewood, the famous author, came over to the hotel and spent an hour with me. In our chat, we discovered that his life...and my life...contained many of the same elements (as he points out in his new book, where he's doing a chapter about me ("Invisible Worlds"). (Also, oddly enough, all of the many twists and turns of Edgar Cayce's life juxtapose perfectly with those of my own life! For whatever it's worth, I just mention it in passing....) Now, this ghoulish-looking man had been following me for days...when I'd go into the dining room to eat...he'd go in to eat; and sit and stare at me. When I'd go into the TV room, he'd go in...and sit and stare at me. Well, this night, before the taxi driver arrived...the wife of the hotel owner came running upstairs and begged me to be careful. "This man who's been following you," she said, "looks dangerous...and he's downstairs now" (this at almost midnight, when nobody, but nobody, usually stirred in the hotel but me.) "He's been acting very suspicious this evening," she continued, "so my son and I have been watching him. He's downstairs now, at the foot of the stairs, pretending to be making a phone call. Except he's never dialed the phone. My son and I have been watching him. He's just standing there, waiting for you to come down. So do be careful tonight." I assured her that I was always careful...and thanked her...and went down the stairs. Yes, there was this creep...standing over against the wall, in the shadows, watching me...holding the phone to his ear. I went to the front door and looked out. The creep called over to me..."You waiting for a taxi?" "Yes," I answered back, "but how did you know?" He didn't answer that. My taxi arrived, and I went out and got in. (Next morning the owner's wife told me that the creep had gone out right after I left...and hadn't returned to the hotel all night.) When we drove up the long, dark country road to the deadend dropoff for me, the taxi driver turned to me and said, "You know something? You've got more nerve than I've got." And he looked out into the spooky blackness and shuddered. I got out, and he drove off. I studied the layout around me carefully...to see if anything, or anyone, moved in the shadows or along the ground...but everything seemed all right. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 16 of 20 16 It was icy cold, and a powerful wind was blowing...blowing so strong you could hear it on the tape recorder. Pitch black dark...very spooky. I walked through the darkness up the second road...then as soon as I could make out the clump of trees to my right I wheeled and ran over into them, out of sight completely from the road...or any other place, for that matter. I lay down on my right side under the tree...my back to the cliff...in the pitchblack darkness...and telepathed to the SI's. In my prone position...I had the big advantage of being able to see low...that is, if I stood up, it was so dark I could see almost nothing...except the sky. But down flat on the ground...I could see the rise of the hill where'd I'd come up outlined against the sky...so that if anyone tried to trail me up the hill, I had an excellent chance to spot them. Suddenly there was a UFO right up over me. Then a second UFO flashed over me. Then two more UFO's flashed right over me. It was incredible to me...they were so numerous...so wondrous to see. Next an airplane flew onto the scene...no doubt from the Warminster Army Base, to check out all those UFO's. (I got this on tape.) Finally a last, beautiful UFO fluttered over me...flashing on and off, silent, darting about in sudden, quick movements which only a UFO can do. I realized with a sort of shock that five (5) UFO's had been directly up over me, this night! At time to leave my stand...I walked down the dark hill to the deadend gate, and climbed over. But no taxi. So...I decided to just keep on walking down the pitchblack dark hill road. Am glad that I did...because in a few minutes, to my left...I saw something moving...stopped, and observed it. It was a baby sheep. So cute and darling. Standing to my left, just beside the road...chewing grass in the night darkness. Close by to it, was a second baby sheep...just as cute. I watched them for a while, then continued walking down the road. Finally the lights of the taxi shown in the distance, as it came driving up the country hill road...and when he reached me, walking down, he apologized for being late. Actually...in all the many, many nights I went out to haunted castles and haunted hills to rendezvous with the UFO's...and the flock of taxi drivers who'd taken me out then returned to get me, later on...this was the first, and only, time a driver had goofed. Quite remarkable, I think. When I got back to my hotel, I made a strange discovery. There were five red dots on the palm of my left hand...and they burned like they were afire. Then I made another startling discovery...my "cross" ring had vanished off my left hand. Of my several rings, this one was my favorite...because it had tremendous sentimental value (actually, it was given to me, in a way, by the UFO's themselves)...so, I was horrified. Next morning, early bright, I called the taxi and went out to Cradle Hill, to my "stand" from the night before. As I searched around in the grass for the ring...a car pulled up close to me, on the lonely road (I'd left the taxi driver waiting, far down the hill) and uniformed military officers got out of the car. I thought...oh oh...now what? But they studiously avoided looking at me, although they were quite close by...and sort of walked around in the field near me. I left, went back down the hill to the taxi, went back into town...went to the local newspaper and put a reward offer for the ring in the classified section...then went to the cab office and told the manager I'd give a reward to any taxi drivers who might run across the ring. Then I returned to my hotel, and had supper. When I reached into my pants pocket for my billfold...there was my favorite "cross" ring in the pocket. No way. My pockets are jammed up with objects...scissors, knives of all sizes and shapes, documents, pens and pencils, and so on into the night. And I know where each object is at all times. The materials are all skillfully, intelligently organized. I can instantly reach into any pocket and take out any object I want. The ring simply could not have jumped from the little finger of my left hand...into my pants pocket. Impossible. But...I was delighted to be able to say hello to it again! 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 17 of 20 17 That evening I told the taxi driver to take me to Cradle Hill again...but he surprised me by saying, "I thought that you said you wanted to go to Starr Hill some evening. Why not go there tonight?" Previous to this, no taxi driver had opened his mouth to suggest that I go anywhere...unless I asked him first. So...this unsolicited idea-suggestion came as a surprise. So I told him...okay. He drove us far out into the country, up a winding road, onto a hill...and he said okay, here we are. Just then the SI's comm'd...and instructed me to leave this place alone...and to go to the odd-looking, pointy hill called Copheap, off Elm St. I so instructed the taxi driver...who turned the taxi around in the darkness then drove all the way back to the Cradle Hill area...let me off on the dark road at the bottom of Copheap. I walked across a long, dark field toward the black bulk of the hill...then laboriously climbed up the steep hill in the blackness of the night. Lots of trees and logs...some of which I tripped and fell over, since I never used a light. Up, up onto the top of the hill. It was very very cold. Below and over to the side were the lights of the town. The top of the hill where I stood, slowly circling...was inky black...thick with trees and bushes. It was an absolutely fine SI rendezvous spot...except that, oddly, I sensed intelligence down underneath my feet...and wondered if, perhaps, the army had a secret layout built inside this hill. There's one in West Germany like that...I know because an ex-intelligence man confided in me. Might add here that, while climbing up the hill...two flare-like lights shot up over the hill...but I suspect that they were army devices. Didn't seem like UFO phenomena to me. After a long while...and after telepathing to the SI's...my head began to ache and throb. Something told me...I'd reached the absorption point...the point of no return...from the forces of SI-remodification. So I quickly packed up the equipment and started climbing down the dark, steep hill. As I did so...a sword UFO appeared...brilliant white light with radiating spokes...at ground level, not up in the air...and it followed my descent, followed my every move, as I moved across the dark field toward the road. It seemed like an eye watching me, and following my movement...I waved a hand to it in friendly greeting. While crossing the darkness of the long field...I heard a human cough over to my left, twice...would estimate 50-100 feet distance...so quite obviously I was under human surveillance. The taxi met me at the road, and I returned to the hotel. Now...I felt awful...my head ached; my body ached; and just deep down...I felt terrible. The feeling is indescribable. The SI's must have really unloaded on me, up there on the hill, their powers for remodification. At this point I knew for a certainty that under no circumstances must I expose myself further to SI remodification...because most certainly it would result in damage to me. They do not have limited, human bodies...they have other-dimensional life forces; other physical laws govern them...so it must be up to me to say "enough" when I've had enough. And I have. The next day a newspaper reporter came to the hotel for an interview for a local paper. Also, the SI's comm'd...and instructed me...warned me, in fact...not to proceed further in meeting with them. That remodification had been, in fact, accomplished by them. They told me to rest as much as possible...that it would take time, earth-time, for the other-dimensional forces they had planted in my brain to grow and become effective for use. How long, I asked them back...but there was no reply on that. I inquired re the purpose of the remodification...and received encapsulated intelligence...that the hundreds of miracles which I had accomplished heretofore, with my half alien brain, were as nothing compared to the miracles that I will be able to accomplish in the future...with this remodification process. And...my SI brain will be used to help the human race in a most peculiar manner. They want me to become a sort of "world fireman"... 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 18 of 20 18 dashing off to one country after another..........using other-dimensional powers in a constructive, creative manner..........to "put out world-fires"; i.e., catastrophic events harming the human race yet not helping Nature..........I'd use the analogy of the control of useless pain, wherein a person is tortured and racked by, say, cancer pain..........so that the pain is controlled by drugs, hypnosis, etc. Because Nature uses pain as a most useful mechanism, ordinarily..........but there are situations in which pain has no use at all..........and therefore must be controlled or eliminated by cutting nerves, using drugs, etc. Well..........a geographical area in the world could be beset by "useless pain" in the same manner, causing woe to the humans in that area. A hurricane, say, headed for Miami, Florida..........would serve no useful purpose to Nature, but would cause humans "pain" as it spun towards the large cities. A terrible drought in Africa or India..........would be considered "useless pain" to the humans in that area. A volcano blowing its top and spewing its lava down toward populated cities or towns..........would be an emergency to be controlled by myself and the SI's. And so on. Well, I have documented the control of hurricanes, droughts, and volcano control..........already, in the past..........by myself and the SI's. But ahead in time..........I will be able to do it more easily and quickly..........and on a far more powerful scale..........at least that's what they indicate to me. And of course..........there are many many more world-situations which could conceivably occur as an emergency situation for the humans in various world areas..........for me to go to, and control. For some reason unbeknownst to me..........the SI's wish my physical presence, around the globe, at the location of the miracle to be brought about. I've pointed out to them that I have no monies..........and it would take a fortune to do this sort of thing for them. And that's where it stands with regard to my buying airplane tickets, supplies, etc., to go packing off to India, Egypt, Africa, etc., to help there in those places. They gave me no answer on it. But I cannot conceive that they would go to all of the trouble that they have gone to..........to get me to Europe to redo my brain..........only to let the infinitely-intelligent plan fall through because of lack of human monies to carry it out. Arthur Shuttlewood came over to the hotel..........presented me with a carboncopy of his new book, "Invisible Worlds"..........which contains a chapter on me and my work, and my meeting with him. I packed up and took a taxi to the train station. There a man dressed in black, wearing black gloves, paced all around me, watching me. Got onto the train..........and the same man in black kept walking back and forth outside my compartment, glancing in at me. Went to eat in the diner..........and he came in, took a table, and watched me. He had the strange mustache-beard that the man in the "other" car had had, which kept following me up to Cradle Hill then back to my hotel. Could easily have been the same man. Forgot to mention..........had a deep cut on my thigh this morning, with red edges around it. About two inches long, puffed and swollen. There was no way..........I could have gotten this cut on my thigh during the night..........and didn't have it before. Arrived in London, and took a taxi to the Waldorf Hotel (not to be confused at all with the Waldorf-Astoria in New York!) Room rates reasonable. Was worn out and exhausted..........from the SI work, I suppose..........so just took it easy the rest of the day. Next morning was astonished to discover that I'd slept through..........not to morning, excuse me..........but 3PM in the afternoon! I couldn't believe my watch! When I awoke, it seemed like my usual 9 AM wakening. But 3 PM in the afternoon? Unbelievable, to me. Further, My eyes were red..........and there was a redness of my upper chest and neck..........when I touched it, it turned white, like sunburn does. Except I hadn't been under any sun! What happened last night? Also my brain was groggy and fuzzy. My reflexes were cockeyed..........slow. I felt weak. When I went outside to walk..........I found myself === Page 19 of 20 19 walking aimlessly, without purpose or direction..........quite unlike me. I felt all muddled up inside, and confused. Almost got hit by cars half a dozen times. My timing was bad, and could not judge how to cross streets..........I kept zigging when I should have been jagging. In short..........I was not myself; not Ted Owens..........sure-footed, fast moving, fast reflexes, knowing usually where I was going and what I was doing. Was almost as if there were another intelligence inside of me..........sharing me, you might say..........and it had not yet adjusted to my bodily reflexes and mental processes. Would take some time for it to adjust to my unit; my mechanism (body and mind). But..........if this disorganized state of affairs would be due to a post-reaction to the work the SI's did on me..........then I'd just have to wait to get over it. I remembered the first time the SI's had modified my brain..........in Mexico..........and it took years to get over it. I'd become disorganized and confused, and wandered for some years..........quite unlike my natural self..........until my mind had cleared. I remembered the policeman in that famous case..........the UFO named Floyd..........and the cop had shot at it. Afterward he went haywire..........quit his police job..........left his wife and kids..........and went wandering off to California, where he dropped from sight. Close exposure to SI work..........can have this effect on a human mechanism. And I had just been over-exposed to a great deal of close exposure to many many UFO's! The shock of the UFO work on me, I concluded, was just hitting me. I spent days making copies of my original tapes; fearful that something might happen to my originals before I got back..........wanting a spare set. And as I made the copies, playing the originals over..........I got headaches and dropped off to sleep several times in midday. I hoped that in some way I was not being re-exposed to the SI powers. The next day..........I was my old self again. Sharp and clear; thinking decisive and logical. Timing perfect. Now a phrase kept creeping into my mind..........and I realized that a scrap of material was penetrating into my conscious mind, in spite of the fact that the SI's had undoubtedly given me posthypnotic amnesia: "The hill is the only reality..........your life is an illusion." If the SI's had given me this sort of powerful hypnotic suggestion, while they "had" me..........then it would explain my positive love for Urquehart Castle, and the various haunted places I went to at night. My craving to go back, night after night, into the black darkness..........without any fear whatsoever. Cautious apprehension with regard to human thugs, yes..........but absolutely no fear of the darkness or the UFO entities that I knew were out there. Also a face kept coming to me in my dreams..........and during waking. The face of an alien female. Tiny face; metallic (not human skin)..........but her eyes were the main thing. Like silver metal..........with just a small dark dot in the center. Not like our eye-pupil whatsoever. Cute, sexy little face she had. I reckoned that somehow my mind was recalling a few bits and pieces of what had happened; what I'd seen, etc. Her face was moonshaped; had an elfin expression. The thought came to me..........that if the SI's "boosted" the power in my right lobe, and modified its mechanism..........then it would naturally take time for the left lobe, the human half of my brain..........to adjust and get into a balance..........with the right lobe. A few more fascinating things to mention. While at Mayo Clinic a young lady called me long distance from Beaufort, North Carolina. (Still do not know how she got my phone number at my hotel in Rochester, Minnesota.) Anyway, while we were chatting..........suddenly she said something which had nothing whatever to do with our conversation. 07/25/2025 16:44 === Page 20 of 20 20 She said, out of the blue..."Do you like to go fishing?" We'd been talking about her recent visit to my home in Virginia...and I couldn't see any connection whatsoever to what we were talking about. I blinked, at a loss for words...then gave her some kind of answer. She didn't explain the strange sentence interjected into our conversation. Then I met a young lady there at Mayo Clinic...a registered nurse...who volunteered to come up to the hotel and keep me company, so that I wouldn't be lonesome. She'd sit, knitting, and we'd chat. She discovered during our conversations that I was planning to move from our Virginia home...and actually volunteered to fly to Virginia and help me...because my bilateral hernia operation would make it difficult for me to move without help from some quarter. After I left Mayo she did, in fact, fly to Virginia, and helped my family pack things...she cooked for us...she gave priceless help, where help was needed. As I drove her to her return airplane she said to me..."Ted, do you like to go fishing?" I was dumfounded. That same sentence...spoken out of context with any conversation we were having. The thought occurred to me...had I been programmed somewhere along the way by US Govt. agents and given this posthyp trigger? The way it was done...would simply exclude coincidence. But...it happened again. During the few days in London while I was making tape copies, and trying to relax...I went out to dinner in Soho. Afterward, before returning to the hotel...was walking down the street...about 47th and Frith, I think it was...and a strikingly beautiful young blonde woman in a mink coat walked toward me, a smile on her face...and stopped briefly beside me...looking up into my eyes and smiling. It was an open invitation, and instantly I recalled having read of the London street prostitutes...yet she didn't seem like a pro hustler at all. I smiled back at her, then proceeded on walking. But I glanced back...and saw two men accost her (they'd witnessed her brief pause with me)...and to my surprise she turned up her nose at them...wouldn't speak or look at them...and she walked quickly up the street and turned the corner, out of sight. A while later, after I'd idly gawked into windows up and down different streets...I dropped into a pub to have a beer before returning to the hotel. Was standing at the bar, sipping the lager...when who pops up in front of me but this same pretty girl, smiling into my face. She said, "I've a place inside. Are you interested?" Another invitation. "Come on," she said, "I like you. I really do. DO YOU LIKE TO GO FISHING?" I politely disengaged myself from her and returned to the hotel. But was shaken by this exact, third use of that what must be a key sentence. Well, finally got onto a Jumbo jet back to New York...when the last, astonishing thing happened. I was back in the third section of the plane. Movies were to play in all three sections. Our movie started...then the sound went haywire. The air hostess went to everyone and offered to refund their money. I asked if the other two movies had gone haywire. No, she said...they are fine. I asked her if it was usual for the sound to go crazy during one of these airborne movies. No, she said...it was the first time in all the years she'd been working the planes...and she added that the flight engineer couldn't understand it. I told her about my brain...which causes things like that to happen constantly at my home in Virginia...and showed her a few books and mags re my work. Then my favorite cigar lighter vanished from my top pocket. No way it could have gotten lost. Lighted a cigar; put the lighter inside my pocket carefully...and it was gone! Hostesses came over and searched me, my bag, under the seats...nothing. After I got off the plane a man came running into Customs after me...said the lighter had turned up...and he gave it to me. That made 20 pounds; my knife; my ring; and now my lighter...vanishing. Luckily I got through Customs without getting racked up for not declaring stuff in New York before starting. Closing now. Millie, the SI's and I are forever in your debt for that European work. And George, the same, for keeping me going at home. Ted. 07/25/2025 16:44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Special report to Millie (and scientists) https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f214c5f24f9f43e8ac9b7c2dbb30f151.pdf d6584e484fc4c2360c8a9b128e2ceef8 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2e7d4d184bc3243bbafd729e5dda5b27.txt e0a47c81ca8a5ad2d612ab76a30db79a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 Best wishes always to my old gas-battle-teacher, Murray Bentley, Ted Owens PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE Ted Owens Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff Prof. Hans Bender Sir John Eccles 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 2 of 9 MENSA BULLETIN No. 171 EDITOR: KARL F. ROSS NOVEMBER 1973 MENSA BULLETIN November 6, 1973 MensAchievers Stephanie Caruana, of Los Angeles, CA, has become a contributing editor of Playgirl magazine. A feminist comedy written by her, The Rip-Off, has been video-taped for KVST-TV. Howard H. Crumit, Jr. of Detroit, MI has been promoted to Second Vice President and Operations Officer at Manufacturers National Bank of his city. He is also Chairman of the Public-Relations Committee of the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Rose Jacobowitz of New York City has been appointed Executive Editor for the PRODIST division of Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc., New York. Frank E. Kutcher, Jr. has been appointed Executive Vice President for Foote & Davies, a Division of the McCall Printing Company in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of the National Institute of Financial Executive Institute, and serves on the Board of Governors of Vanderbilt YMCA Men's Athletic Club. Kathleen Ann McMichael, of Wichita, KS, has been chosen as one of the ten President's Australian Science Scholars from the nation's high-school seniors to represent the U.S. at the International Science School at the University of Sydney (Australia) in Late August and early September. Other honors include a National Merit $1,000 Scholarship, listing in the WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, and a scholarship at Princeton University where she is now a sophomore. Scot Morris, Ph.D. of Del Mar, CA, a member of San Diego Mensa, is the co-author (with Wayne McLoughlin) of a humorous article entitled The Fallout Follies scheduled for publication in the October PLAYBOY. Rosaura Esteva Murray of Knoxville, TN graduated with high honors from University of Tennessee, majoring in Political Science. Franklin G. Osberg, M.D., Director of the Drug-Abuse Division of the Indiana Department of Mental Health, has been elected Chairman of the National Association of State Drug-Abuse-Program Coordinators. Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, VA, has been described as one of America's greatest psychics in various books and other publications dealing with occultism. Philip Philbosian, of Honolulu, HI, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Regional Director for Century 21 of Hawaii, a franchisor of real-estate brokers. Joshua Phillips, of Chicago, IL, has been named Assistant to the President of Pioneer Mortgage Company. He holds an MBA degree from Wharton Graduate School of Finance and a BA degree from Williams College. NEW LOCAL SECRETARIES CT & W MA Southern Ct Coord: Dr Robert Pomeranz, POB 473 W-Haven, 47 Chestnut St., West Haven 06516. FLORIDA Indian River: Marguerite Gerstell, 673 St Lucie Crescent, Stuart 33494. NEW YORK Buffalo: Charles Wertz, 147 N. Long St., Williamsville 14221. === Page 3 of 9 NO CONTENT === Page 4 of 9 NO CONTENT === Page 5 of 9 1974 Ted Owens # Famed Psychic Visits Here By CATHY STOTT (Enterprise-Record Intern) One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway. Accalimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen. He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl. In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend. In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred. Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas. "I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said. Owens, who claims an IQ of 153--genious level--is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists. Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena." Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said. Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico. Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 6 of 9 cisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974 # people # When Superbrain Makes It Happen By Kevin Wallace Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro ball games. "I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play." Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain. "I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture: "I have a special brain, half UFO, half human. "I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench - say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers - and the most powerful psychic would win." He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors. Next he produced an SI Disc - a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it. "I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures. SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said - and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor. But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for - "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was mooning along on a drive through Texas. "They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them - and survive it - since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish. With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area. "But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain', which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this." He shuddered pleasurably. Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes - and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" - it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request. By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance - the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows. Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends - asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?" From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chatanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets. A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" - though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage - "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport - which was nothing. "The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO - well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor." Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on. Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite. Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand. The next-youngest, Beau - "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" - first showed his own gift four years ago. "I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself - two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 3 at the time!" 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 7 of 9 SCOTLAND DAILY EXPRESS Thursday March 27 1975 # Ted's hot-line to space helps him find Nessie By Alex Main MONSTERS on demand and a hot-line to outer space are just two modest achievements of Ted Owens. And it's all done by spiritual appointment says the American who whistled up Nessie last week. "Ya gotta believe it, baby. It was so close I could have hit it with a stone," drawled the 55-year-old American in Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire. Mr. Owens's psychic powers stem from a childhood experience when "I was taken aboard a U.F.O. in the Mexican desert and my brain was 'modified' to receive messages." Of his Nessie sighting, he said: "It was dark and impossible to make out detail, but I could see it had a long neck about 6 to 8 inches in diameter and a small egg-shaped head." ![Mr. Ted Owens] Mr. Ted Owens ## Reports Inverness taxi-driver Ron Petri admitted initial scepticism. "Then he told me he had seen a U.F.O. over the loch. The following day there were news reports of similar sightings near Fort William." Fort William police have since confirmed they received several reports of a strange object in the sky. Mr. Owens is author of a book "How to Contact Space-people," which was published in 1968. Why the Loch Ness visit? "I have been informed by U.F.O. that at one of four locations I will receive a psychic operation to the right lobe of my brain which will make my psychic powers even greater. "Loch Ness is one, Stonehenge another." 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 8 of 9 Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7 # PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated By FRANK VEHORN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer Ted Owens, a man who stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports. A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention by performing supernatural wonders, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams. The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens' power did the most severe damage in disrupting athletic teams. In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates. Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets. Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists. In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased." Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power. "I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt. Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans. For the past several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win. Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle. Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched. Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him. But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury. The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense. Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens. **Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series.** In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping." Not even Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through. But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most. "It started back in 1966 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team. "He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse." So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens. Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball. Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him." Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television. Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television. Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win. Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score. Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost. "From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. **Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs.** "I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win." Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment. "I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas." Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires. "In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength. "I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers." If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens. Now, that can't happen. For Ted Owens, whose name can't be found in any record book, is retiring from sports unbeaten. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 9 of 9 SCOTLAND - EVENING EXPRESS WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1975 AMERICAN Ted Owens claims he can make the Loch Ness monster appear at his will. And late on Tuesday night, he says, Nessie rose from the depths of Loch Ness a few yards in front of him. Ted (55), from Indiana, describes it as having a long neck, six to eight inches in diameter, and having a small egg-shaped head. It was pitch black by the lochside and he could not make out details, nor could he take a photograph. But this is the least of Mr Owens' claims. He maintains that he communicates with UFOs and makes them appear. He said that last Thursday he went down to the shores of the loch to make a rendezvous with a UFO and saw it in the sky over Drumnadrochit. The following day, the "Evening Express" carried the story of a Fort-William woman seeing a bright light in the sky. She said it looked like a helicopter light but there was no noise. Mr Owens says he was responsible for the sighting. Speaking from his hotel, the Glenurquhart Lodge, at Drumnadrochit, Mr Owens, who claims he is one of the world's leading psychics, said he was in Scotland on a strange and supernatural mission. "I have been guided by UFO since I was a child. "My brain has been modified so I can make things happen and I am here for one final modification to the right lobe. "The UFOs have told me this type of psychic surgery will take place in one of four locations--Loch Ness, Stonehenge, Germany or France. ● ABOVE--Ted is pictured beside Castle Urquhart where he claims to have seen a UFO. 'Nessie does what I say' 08/08/2025 15:57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1973 - 1975 Articles mentioning Ted Owens https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d9853e954befbbc3f3e68ef0dc1574b0.pdf 7f6aa6e6d0cc0f1aed8052390bec1c56 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b4ba1ba5517a57ac14be7d9d5319c987.txt 945e34d505ef854ae83c7793f54da1aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 PART II of Ted Owens--Flying Saucer "Spokesman"? # THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFO'S MISSION TO EARTH By Otto O. Binder *Illustration by Hal French* According to the man who claims to be their one and only "contact" on Earth, the Space Intelligences are now hovering in four huge, invisible craft positioned around our globe and "are trying to put the world in balance by cancelling out wars, hate, killing... drought, famine, etc." And with their fantastically advanced science, they are determined to make their presence known by unleashing and controlling the very forces of nature! STARTS ON NEXT PAGE 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 2 of 7 "The Space Intelligences are pure energy and are invisible," says Owens. "Only the top members of the SIs can construct a form with their intelligence and pour themselves into it." Where do they come from? "The SIs are from a different world entirely. They are from another dimension. But they have discovered how to switch from their dimension into ours!" NOTICE: The material in this booklet is Copyright 1970 by Gambi Publications, Inc., and is reprinted herein by permission of the original publisher. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of the original copyright owner. Permission is hereby granted to radio and television stations and newspapers to quote from this issue provided a total of not more than 1,000 words is quoted and full credit is given to the title of the magazine and issues as well as the statement, Copyright 1970 by Gambi Publications, Inc. The material in this booklet originally appeared in the August and September, 1970, issues of SAGA magazine. This reprint is published by Gray Barker, Box 2228, Clarksburg, W. Va. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 3 of 7 The Big Blackout of the eastern U.S. on November 9, 1965... Hurricane Inez in 1966 that turned the "wrong way"... Three hurricanes simultaneously hitting the U.S. in 1967... The ending of the northeast's drought in 1967... The mysterious "hex" that in 1968 made the Philadelphia Eagles football team lose 12 out of 14 games... The lightning bolt that struck the Apollo 12 mooncraft in December 1969... These and 200 other headline events (SAGA, August 1970), are claimed as PK (psychokinesis) feats performed by one man--Ted Owens--with the aid of the SI (Space Intelligences). A bold statement, yet Ted Owens has impressive documentation. Signed statements of government officials, lawyers, scientists, radio interviewers, sports writers, and many others all attest that Owens predicted those events. He was able to predict them because, he claims, the SIs had given him enormous PK powers. Whether you believe him or not, it would be difficult to explain all those sworn affidavits. For a man to guess right so many times is equally unbelievable. Keeping a careful account, Ted Owens states that 85 percent of his predictions have been fulfilled. He admits there are misses, for not even the SIs with their uncanny powers can always whip up a hurricane or earthquake on schedule. But the record is remarkable; over 200 fulfilled prophecies in five years, from 1965 to date. The PK Man's predictions have ranged far and wide, covering almost every category of world event--sneak attacks against U.S. aircraft carriers in Vietnam, the loss of three submarines in one year, the series of earthquakes that jolted California in late 1969, the failure of various Ranger moon probes, the unexplained crashes of military planes, a violent lightning storm in 1966...on and on the list goes. These calamitous events--at least those for which Ted and the SIs are responsible--supposedly have a "good purpose," as will be seen later. But first, let's get further insight into the life and mind of Ted Owens. In answer to the question, "Why did the SIs contact you and you only?" Owens replies: "As I have gotten it from them rather spottily, they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke (Univ.) in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability... But the SIs still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth in early 1965 (SAGA, July 1970), and then my work in hypnosis and allied fields...that finally made it possible for them to get through to me." He goes on to explain the actual method of contact. "Now in 1965 when I discovered it was actually UFOs that I was dealing with and not 'Nature,' the UFOs gave me a system to use to call upon them, just as if I'd pick up a phone and talk. They showed me, in my mind's eye, a small chamber. Inside the chamber were two small creatures, resembling grasshoppers, standing on two legs. These creatures looked down into a large round oval machine. In it they could see me. If I talked, they heard the sound, but the machine quickly turned the sound into symbols, and the symbols into very high-frequency sound that they could understand... For very important communications I was to appear on the screen and ask for 'Control,' and their Higher Intelligence would appear and listen to me." Owens bestowed on the two little creatures his own names--Twitter and Tweeter. But were they the actual physical form of the SIs? "No," says Owens, "the SIs are pure energy and are invisible. Only the top members of the SIs can construct a form with their intelligence and pour themselves into it. Twitter and Tweeter are merely convenient bodies for handling their apparatus." Where do the SIs come from? "The SIs are from a different world entirely. They are from another dimension. But they have discovered how to switch from their dimension into our dimension." Questioned closely, Owens shrugs and confesses he doesn't know anything more about their world. They have revealed very little to him, which is quite different from the all-inclusive knowledge most contactees claim to have. "They don't confide things like that. They just give me Owens' plastic disk has "cured" sick people. 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 4 of 7 assignments and training, all pointing at certain objectives." What are those objectives? Owens's voice turns grim and earnest as he gives this brief, chilling answer: "'The SIs will allow Russia and China to destroy us (the U.S.), if we don't cooperate with the SIs. Think of the world as a large field on a farm. If one section of the field won't grow crops, or be productive, then the farmer will just quit planting it and let it go to rot. And that's what will happen to the U.S. if we don't pay attention to the SIs." Owens has reiterated that all the earthquakes, hurricanes, crashing planes, and other events caused by the Owens-SI team via PK, are only spectacular attempts to attract attention to the SIs and prove they exist. And that Owens has been chosen as their sole "emissary" to make formal contact with earth authorities. Their lack of physical form and the handicaps of their alien origin preclude their ever landing and appearing in person on earth. Hence their "training" of Ted Owens and their gift to him of PK power to perform "miracles" of nature is in the hope of getting the U.S. government to accept their presence, and proffered help. So says Ted Owens. When asked why the SIs want to help or "guide" the U.S. in particular, Owens says: "'The SIs are trying to put the world in balance by cancelling out wars, hate, killing, upset weather conditions, drought, famine, etc. They can do all these things easily!" And if they can lend Owens the PK powers that created certain hurricanes and earthquakes, caused vast power blackouts, and ended a six-year drought, they can use these powers in reverse without question. What they can unleash, they can also control. "But first," continues Owens, "they want a base to work from, and they chose the United States, perhaps because it is the most influential nation on earth." Another question really stumped Owens: "Just why have the SIs come here to help earth in the first place?" His candid answer: "'I don't know. I haven't the foggiest notion of why. I have wondered about that myself." Conversely, a bleak future is painted for the U.S. if it continues to ignore the SIs. "Russia and China will combine to attack America and destroy it with both nuclear and biological weapons. The Asian race will become the main power of the world after the U.S. is destroyed, and the black people (of Africa) will become the second largest power." Eventually, Owens finishes, "the whites will practically be nonexistent." Just how the SIs intend to change this course Owens does not know. His only "job" is to keep performing his sensational PK acts, obtain the ear of the government, introduce them to the Space Intelligences by proxy, and then they will tell the U.S. what to do to avoid the above holocaust. This is the "mission" of Ted Owens. The sincerity of his devotion to this cause is beyond question. He has gained no wealth from his "crusade" and in fact, is today in debt with no possessions or home. "Broke at 50," as he puts it. For six years, since 1965, he has wandered with his family to several temporary locations, taking any job he could find. Any confidence man would have given up this poor-paying "racket" long ago, which has netted Owens nothing. One can only assume that Ted Owens, keeping at it doggedly for six years, has no ulterior motives but means exactly what he says. During his life, affluence and Ted Owens never got together. He has two children from a former marriage--Lornie and Rick--but after a divorce, they went with his ex-wife who offered to finance them through college, where they are today. Owens now lives with his second wife and their son, Beau, age 8. His family is one of his strongest supporters. There are signed and notorized statements from his older children on how he drew a map to "guide" a hurricane, or on how he made a prediction on a given date that later hit the headlines when it materialized. One of his most amazing prophecies came in a letter to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson on May 10, 1966: "The SIs warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives, and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or the Johnson Ranch (in Texas). This man has planned this for a long while . . . put it off once, but now is getting 'worked up' to do it. Of course he'll be killed but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-Army flyer . . . service man, anyway." Signed, Ted Owens. One can imagine the reception this got from Presidential aides. Utterly preposterous! No President-hater, no matter how insane, would pull that ridiculous manner of assassination. It couldn't happen in real life. The NEW YORK TIMES, May 4, 1967: "FLIER DENIED BAIL ON THREAT OF CRASHING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. A former Air Force pilot . . . has been jailed pending sentence because of an alleged threat to plunge a plane into the White House. . . ." Somehow, the SIs had read this maniac's innermost mind a year before, and knew that someday he would get up the nerve to commit his spectacular deed. It is doubtful that any other so-called "seer" predicted this unlikely plot, except Ted Owens. Ted Owens still has fascinating revelations about the Space Intelligences: for instance, how they produce earthquakes. Owens reveals that: "There are four great SI craft positioned around our globe. It is these four craft that I signal when I wish to give a demonstration of earthquakes all around the world, as I have done twice for government agencies and scientists." Asking how big those four UFO's are, you get a staggering answer: "'These craft are so big, we couldn't even imagine their size. Each one could be bigger than our earth itself." Yet, being from another dimension, they are completely invisible. Owens explains vaguely that the giant UFOs send down much smaller craft, which are the familiar saucers of sighting reports and which have somehow gained visibility. As to just how they create earthquakes: "After I signaled them, they (the four big UFOs) emitted an electromagnetic effect that slightly affected the rate of the earth's spin or movement, causing earthquakes, floods, and unusual weather." Again rather vague, but if true it means the four SI craft must have a colossal storehouse of electromagnetic power, able to grip the whole planet and give it a slight wrench. Ted Owens must feel like a man in a goldfish bowl, or like an insect under a microscope, because for the past six years: "They have used a monitor on me wherever I go. It is like a beam of light which extends from me through metal, rock, or any material, high up into the sky from wherever I happen to be--in a deep cave underground or on top of a skyscraper, it would make no difference." The SIs Owens says, have often, told him his life is "very important" for their purposes and that they are thus keeping constant watch on him and lending him special PK powers when there is danger. Owens then states that his life has been endangered at least 15 times, and recites several cases, some of which cannot be documented. As a young man, Owens was in Durham, N.C., with a girl friend when six toughs approached, with knives. They cornered the pair on a side street with assault and rape in mind. Owens had a .25 automatic in his pocket but merely withdrew it and handed it to the girl as a last-ditch defense. "Then," says Owens, "I walked right down the street at the gang coming toward us. I stared them all in the eyes and they froze. I grabbed the ringleader by his coat and told him to take his gang and get away from us. And that is just what they did." On other occasions the same thing happened, Owens staring and some mysterious power making a would-be assaulter "freeze" and lose all desire to inflict harm or death. One of the most dramatic cases, and this one fully attested to in writing by his daughter, Lornie, occurred when Owens and Lornie were walking along a street in San Antonio, Tex. Suddenly, a man they had never met rushed at them with a long knife, yelling insanely that he was going to kill them. Owens repeats, rather monotonously: "I stared into his eyes. Suddenly he dropped the knife, got down on his knees, and began to pat Lornie on the head, apologizing for threatening us." Since we have his family's sworn statement that this attack was not a figment of Owens's imagination, how do we explain his extraordinary power to render his assailants helpless without laying a hand on them. If it isn't PK power, what is it? If the SIs are keeping watch on him, they are doing a darn good job. Ted Owens also makes the enigmatic statement that he is part SI. Then he adds, "Somehow, as time went by, they changed the right lobe of my brain so that I could get to this point (to two-way ESP) with them, because the ordinary human 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 5 of 7 brain will not pick up or send back messages to the SIs." If his brain has been modified or altered to accept SI communications, then technically he is part SI. Furthermore, says Owens, "The ordinary human brain will break down under SI communications . . . The other human beings (they attempted to work with) always had a heart attack or brain hemorrhage or broke down completely in some way. That is why I am so rare." In a sense, Owens is then a "tailor-made" human receiver, deliberately fashioned in the mental sense into the most powerful PK mind living today. This brings us to another amazing facet of Ted Owens's powers--healing. Though he disclaims being another Edgar Cayce, he has to a limited degree been able to perform certain "miracle cures." In one case, a young girl savagely beaten by a street gang suffered a skull fracture and doctors gave her only hours to live. Informed by a friend, Owens went to the hospital and obtained permission to see the patient. Though he does not know just how he did it, Owens believes he "radiated" PK healing power so that the girl survived. The attendant doctors shook their heads and called it a "miracle" beyond medical science. To spread whatever he could of his healing powers among the people, Owens had red plastic medallions made; on them were stamped his private "emblem"--a circle with a line through it and a lightning bolt below. By fingering it before mailing it out, Owens believes he "charges" it with PK power that will work beneficially for the recipient. Owens has sent hundreds of these, without charge to whoever requests them. He says, "This is not a commercial enterprise, but an expression of compassion by the SIs for humans, and of their love and affection for us." Do these "charged" disks have any hidden powers? Some of the letters Owens has received may provide the best answer. Mrs. B. C. of Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, writing of her daughter: "Dr. M. (surgeon) had six or seven doctors with him when he operated on Ruth. Cancer was found in tumors which had spread all through her right (side) up into each lung." The doctor added that if she survived the operation, she might live up to six months, no more. Mrs. B. C.'s letter goes on: "Immediately after she'd been operated on, a disk was sent by you (Owens) and placed on Ruth." Almost a year later doctors reviewed her case and "they can't understand how she can still be alive plus the success they are having with her treatments." One item does not prove the case, however. Mrs. E. B. of Lockwood, Mo. "My husband . . . seems almost entirely free of the terrible neck pains he had for two years. They were driving him insane." Her husband kept his disk with him day and night. G. B., a woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, who has a PK disk: "My doctor told me today that my back seemed straight. He was a bit puzzled because he did say he could not straighten it." (Italics added.) Mrs. L. W., of Canoga Park, Calif., a lady whose hands were almost completely crippled by painful arthritis: "As you will notice I am able to write this letter with my hands . . . I am even able to use the sewing machine to make clothes for my family. This is how much I have improved . . . Most of the time this past month I have been free of pain also. . ." The PK disk's power is not limited solely to "faith cures." From Kodiak, Alaska, a woman writes about her husband's luck in fishing for queen crabs: "He put his pots out in one spot in Alitak Bay . . . He only had 13 pots that first time and in seven fishing days he brought in a full load of tanner (queen) crabs, which is real good. Here is the oddest part of it; a whole flock of boats moved in on him, had him surrounded with their buoys and pots. They didn't do any good at all and they picked up their pots and left . . . But he (her husband) got another boatload of 7,500 crabs. He went back and got his third load of crabs from the same spot, while these other boats got so few they picked up their pots and left. . ." Her husband had been carrying the PK disk. There is yet another angle to this story that makes it even more fantastic. This same woman had first written to Ted Owens, on October 30, 1967, requesting a PK-disk, with this explanation: "My husband's problem is this: in 1964 we lost two commercial fishing boats . . . in the Alaskan Good Friday earthquake. We had to get an SBA loan and went $82,000 in debt . . . With the high cost of living in Alaska, we are very much afraid we are going to have our (new) boat repossessed, as my husband is a crab fisherman and just can't make it unless he catches more crabs." Now reread the woman's first letter and you will see why her husband miraculously caught crabs where nobody else could. Fishing luck, of course, is notoriously quixotic, but the kind of luck that fisherman had is incredible! Unless it was more than luck. One more medical case is startling, according to this note from a woman in Pensacola, Fla.: "Concerning my brother . . . being mentally ill and had been for 15 years . . . Don't know what has happened but his mind is OK now and he is home from the hospital." She had left a PK disk with him a month before. In the stack of letters Ted Owens has received from grateful people to whom he sent his PK disk, these phrases appear over and over--"The doctor was amazed," . . . "The doctor couldn't believe it," . . . "The doctor acted stunned." However, Ted Owens is not touting himself as a miracle healer nor usurping the province of doctors. Far from it. He states firmly that: "I warn all that I work with, to work closely with their doctors, dentists, etc., the PK methods certainly do not replace our human medicine and surgery. . . I explain carefully the UFO intelligences cannot pull teeth, or remove an infected appendix . . . OD (Other Dimensional) methods are to be used, with the doctor's permission, only after all regular medicine and surgery have failed." Owens is also careful not to claim god-like powers for the SIs, although he quickly adds that "the SIs are doing God's work." Owens has pondered the past six astounding years of his life and has come to the conclusion that there are certain parallels between him and Biblical people--notably Moses and Ezekiel, who both performed "miracles." How? With the same PK powers that were bestowed upon Owens. Certainly the ability to conjure up lightning storms, turn hurricanes, and heal the sick--if Owens really has this ability--is comparable to Moses making water pour from a rock, or Ezekiel summoning a strange mechanical "whirlwind" to carry him away--which was undoubtedly a UFO! Hence the strong linkage Ted Owens finds between God, the Space Intelligences, and his own superhuman PK powers. Not that he knows all the answers, which he readily admits. Another reason the SIs may be here as "watchdogs" of earth is because of the OIs--Other Intelligences. Owens cannot elaborate on them, except to say the OIs are "evil" as compared to the SIs. When asked if the SIs and OIs are using earth as a battleground, Owens says, "I think it's more like a game of chess between the several kinds of Space Intelligences, and we are the chess pieces. They (the SIs and OIs) are too advanced to shoot at each other, as we do. They think in such dimensions, and at such depths, that it would be beyond our tiny limited minds to even imagine." For this reason Ted Owens tried to obtain $5,000 in 1968 to have a free year in which to contact the SIs more closely and find out all those answers. Owens was thwarted in gaining the backing of the U.S. government. He had planned it this way: "The U.S. would send me to Europe with one Special Forces man, as a bodyguard and witness. I would be guided by the SIs to select an old deserted castle in an isolated location. I would live there for one year. Sometime during that time the SIs would appear to me for a face-to-face meeting, and arrange a way to meet with the President (of the U.S.)." Owens is serious about this being his "mission," however, he has given the government an alternative. He recently wrote President Nixon and offered to spend 30 days in the Bermuda Triangle, if they would furnish him with a comfortable boat plus a submarine nearby to observe. He would also spend 30 days in the Devil's Triangle near Japan. Owens said his mission would be to make contact with the SIs. The PK man would not guarantee results but said the SIs might very well come to him in either or both triangles because he is the only human being who can "call" them. This raises the point that the SIs, as Owens believes, have been training 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 6 of 7 him all along. In a letter to me, Owens states: "Yesterday I awoke, and realized that the SIs had been at work on my brain (during sleep). This time they have given me the key to something that has been puzzling me for years. Namely, what has motivated me to learn 50 professions? . . . "Each profession demanded that I learn a 'language'. With Gregg shorthand (my speed was 200 words per minute) I had to learn all the symbols. . . ." He goes on to list how typing forced him to learn the keyboard system . . . As a steel mill inspector he had to learn calibration and other measurements . . . In teaching autohypnosis, it was the symbology of the Brain Wave Synchronizer . . . and so on. "So," concludes Owens, "when it came to the SIs getting a breakthrough into my mind . . . teaching me their OD (Other Dimensional) symbols . . . I had already developed a strong 'muscle,' so to speak, with which to receive their information." This reminds one of the rigorous training astronauts go through in order to "think space," which, with its zero-G and third-law-of-motion characteristics is entirely different from "thinking earth." Without intensive training, no man could ever have mastered the semi-computerized thought processes necessary to fly a ship into space. Similarly, no human mind could possibly grasp the intricate symbology of pure-energy intelligences from another dimension unless it was thoroughly programmed, like the mind of Ted Owens. Logical, understandable, rational, Owens's whole approach to the mystery in which he finds himself is scientific and not mystical as with the contactees. This is clearly seen in Ted Owens' own "SI Glossary" in which he defines various ODEs (Other Dimensional Effects): Nature's Mailbox--A visual-image "mailbox" into which he puts "letters" to be acted upon--as when requesting a storm. Angel Box--ODE container which releases good intelligences which can be assigned to sick or hurt persons (apparently the mechanism by which the PK-disks work). PK Bubble--An ODE force placed around a person, thing, city, or even the U.S., to perform a specific task (which may be one clue to how Owens manipulates his PK powers) White Box, Rainbow Door, Messenger Units, Sound Force PK, Weight PK, Electromagnetic Bubble, Laser PK, (other ODEs based on scientific extrapolations of known forces and energies.) Let us conclude with some more sensational PK feats and fulfilled predictions made by Ted Owens in the past six years, which far exceed the accomplishments of such nationally known psychics as Jean Dixon and Peter Hurkos. On June 1, 1966, in a written notice to the CIA and other agencies, Ted Owens predicted an early hurricane, within days, long before the traditional hurricane season. Loud laughter from the hurricane center must have turned into gasps when on June 7th, Hurricane Alma rose in wrath, the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland. One June 18, 1966, Owens' predicted that violent electrical storms would soon strike the Philadelphia area. By the end of June and into July, that city was bombarded by electrical bolts seldom seen before. During this period, with a group of friends, Owens pointed and said a lightning flash would strike over a certain building--this happened within minutes. Owens made it strike there, he claims. It will definitely interest UFOlogists to know that the following "classic" sightings of saucers and occupants were predicted in advance by Ted Owens, and in some cases "ordered" by him. * The "Michigan Monster" case of August 1966, in Monroe County, where Christine Van Acker, a 17-year-old girl and her mother came upon a hairy, black, seven-foot monster. * The "meteor" of August 19, 1966, which was so bright that it cast shadows as it flashed across the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio. Puzzled astronomers admitted it was too slow for a genuine meteor. It was, says Owens, a spectacular UFO that he had "promised" would manifest itself over Pennsylvania. * The semi-tragic tale of the saucer named "Floyd"--a police code name. In April 1966, State Police officer Dale Spaur and several other troopers pursued a low-flying saucer from the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania, without ever catching up. The sighting came to haunt Dale Spaur to the point where he lost his job and his wife. He became a broken-down hermit because he, or one of the other policemen, had fired at the UFO, which Ted Owens had prophesied would mean the police would be "without one officer." * The "Penninsula Monster" at Erie, Pa., on July 31, 1966, where Betty Jean Klem and three other hysterical teen-age friends in a car were accosted by a hulking gorilla-like creature, which later flew off in a saucer. But of course Ted Owens' most recent and significant prediction, as of February 1970 (SAGA, July 1970) was that the summer of 1970 would usher in the greatest UFO wave in history as saucers would appear in "great numbers everywhere on earth." Is that worldwide saucer flap going on right now? We might also ask that if the flap is going on is it being successfully smothered by the news blackout that has been clamped on all UFO reports since the Condon Report of 1969? If so, Ted Owens today is a frustrated prophet indeed. Finally, here are two more predictions by Ted Owens, which, if they haven't already been fulfilled, will be in a short time. Owens is confident they will. Prediction 1) There is a "terrible threat" to our forces in or near Vietnam. Owens says the SIs showed him the symbolical image of a black triangular mass silently converging there, either through the air or the water. He is not clear as to the exact nature of the threat but it's a "blockbuster force" and will be a major headline about Vietnam. Prediction 2) That Nigeria, because of its inhuman treatment of the conquered Biafrans after their war ceased, will suffer greatly unless they change their policy. "The long unlimited hand of the UFO intelligences," wrote Owens in a letter to President Nixon, "will now reach out and strike at the Nigerian government and teach them a lesson they will never forget. From now on, Nigeria is a marked country, until the present government and all the people responsible for the miseries of the Biafran innocents have been struck down with illness and death and misery themselves." Owens seems to imply that something akin to the "seven plagues" that struck Egypt in Biblical times will scourge the Nigerians. It is a matter of record that as of mid-February, a deadly new virus struck Nigeria only, with a frightful fatality rate of 50 percent. Three out of five medical lab technicians sent by the U.S. died promptly of this Lassa Fever, as it is called, and medical authorities called it an emergency. "The greatest mystery," to quote the The New York Times, "is where the disease came from." An SI warning to the U.S. about trouble in Vietnam (not caused by the SIs), and an SI vengeance on Nigerian cruelty. So says Ted Owens, mouthpiece of the SIs. * THE END 08/08/2025 15:57 === Page 7 of 7 # NOW - YOU CAN CONTACT THE SPACE INTELLIGENCES! READ TED OWENS' NEW BOOK- IT WILL AMAZE YOU! ![Illustration of a book cover titled "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" by Ted Owens, featuring a stylized grey alien face.] **HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE** **By Ted Owens** **$4.95** The runaway best-selling Saucerian Book. Ted Owens tells us about his communication with the "SI's" (Space Intelligences). He has been able to predict the great Eastern Blackout, influence the occurrences of Hurricanes, and perform other marvels as a result of this vast knowledge he obtained from beings not of this Earth. Owens tells YOU in this book how YOU can contact the "SI's" and obtain wonderful benefits from the superhuman knowledge you can obtain. Warning! If you are not sincerely interested in contacting these beings, or if you wish to use these great powers for selfish purposes, do not order this book. It is powerful medicine! The "SI" DISC, containing the symbol of the Space Intelligences has worked wonders for many people as a parapsychological focal point for these great powers (See below). Many readers have acclaimed "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" as the most important book ever published in this field. It is a large (8½ x 11") volume, with beautiful full-color featuring the painting of a Space Intelligence. AMAZING "SI" DISC DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION! MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IT HAS CHANGED THEIR LIVES We make no claims for this amazing DISC (Actual size 1½" diameter), which contains the powerful symbol of the "SI's" (Space Intelligences), according to Ted Owens. Only a limited number of these left. Money cheerfully returned if you are not 100% satisfied. "SI DISC" $1.00 Order from: SAUCERIAN BOOKS, BOX 2228, CLARKSBURG, W. VA. 26301 08/08/2025 15:57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 TED OWENS FLYING SAUCER SPOKESMAN THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFO'S MISSION TO EARTH 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 2 of 9 HURRICANE INEZ HITS FLA. COAST To my old friend Wray Bentley - who doesn't like to make waves. Ted Owens PK Man Have we been sent--and ignored--messages from spacemen? Do the Saucer Intelligences control our weather, our civilization, our very lives with their incredibly advanced science? Has one man, Ted Owens, really been selected to "relay" their warnings and predictions? Do we have in our midst a # "SPOKESMAN" FOR THE UFO'S? By Otto O. Binder A letter to Pres. Richard M. Nixon, dated July 30, 1969, read in part: "The SIs told me that there is a plot already underway . . . has been completely planned . . . to kidnap you at your Key Biscayne residence (Florida). The 'bad guys' (Cubans) know how well protected you are . . . but they are going to strike at night, by water . . . with fast boats . . . with a highly skilled commando group of 50-100 men." The letter was signed, Ted Owens, PK Man. The Miami Herald on August 24, 1969--only three weeks later--carried the headline: SPY PLOT SHATTERS PROSPECTS FOR RENEWING U.S.-CUBA TIES. After revealing that Fidel Castro's U.N. diplomats doubled as spies, the text stated: "The U.S. public is likely to consider the recruitment of spies for a mission relating to Presidential security very much more seriously than guerrilla activities in a faraway land. There was, according to some reports, a James Bond touch to the recruitment plot . . . These reports claimed the plan was to study President Nixon's movements at his Key Biscayne home, using scuba divers as part of the surveillance team." On March 10, 1966, after years of drought in the Northeastern states, Ted Owens wrote to Pres. Lyndon Johnson: "I have some very good news: from the UFO Intelligences . . . to PK man . . . to you. The SIs have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. In the days, weeks, and months to come there will be rain, rain, rain . . . not just a little, not just 'above average,' but phenomenal rain . . ." From the Philadelphia Enquirer of July 22, 1967: "We were pleased to note . . . the admission by the United States Weather Bureau . . . that the drought which plagued the northeast corner of the country for the last six years, has ended." After citing that abnormal rains had been reported all through the northeast during the spring and early summer, it was stated that New York's reservoirs "could 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 3 of 9 747 CRASHES BLACKOUT ASSINATED! 76'ers Lose Play-off Best wishes always to Gray Basket - a fine man. Owens (PK Man) INJURY CURSE HITS EAGLES 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 4 of 9 hardly be further. The year 1967 was also called the "year that had no spring" because it rained so much. The sunny days of blossoming flowers and awakening life were rare. The rainy spring led to an even wetter summer, as if nature was making up for the six years of drought all in one year. On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: "A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days." Signed: "PK man" (Owens). A little more than 10 days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness. Without electrical power for up to 12 hours, the lights of entire cities flickered out, machines stopped, and TV and radio went off. Emergency measures were required to rescue people trapped in stalled elevators and subway trains. Hospitals switched on their own power generators for critical operations. Was this what the telegram meant? On the morning of November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 was in the final stages of the countdown, ready for lift-off to man's second moon landing. North of Cape Kennedy, in Virginia Beach, Va., three prominent citizens (their signed and sworn affidavits are on file) heard Ted Owens state that lightning would strike either the pad or the spacecraft. Seconds after the giant rocket roared into the overcast sky, the control crew at Cape Kennedy was alarmed to see a sudden drop-off of telemetered data from the spacecraft. Through an alternate voice-circuit, astronaut Charles Conrad told how lights had gone out within the spacecraft, adding: "I don't know what happened. I'm not sure we didn't get hit by lightning." The PK man had done it again. More tragic was the prediction in a letter of March 4, 1968, sent by Ted Owens to government agencies, relaying a warning from the SIs of the "destruction of one or more highly-placed U.S. Government Officials --by assassination." Within 12 weeks, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by assassins' bullets. The above are only a few cases out of more than 200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena originated by Ted Owens. Now, just who is this Ted Owens, the PK Man? He is a tall, broad-shouldered man of 50, with Illustration by Hal French 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 5 of 9 a receding hairline, thin lips, penetrating brown eyes, and an IQ of 150. But that doesn't tell you who or what he really is. Let the man who knows him best do that, Ted Owens himself: "I am the only human being alive able to communicate two ways with the SIs, and prove it. I'm the PK Man." The SIs are Saucer (or Space) Intelligences. PK stands for "psychokinesis," the power to manipulate, move, or otherwise affect physical objects, through mental forces alone. The two are related: Ted Owens claims he gets his PK powers from the SIs. It all began, says Owens, in 1965. In order to support his wife and three children, he had already "mastered 50 professions," a bewildering variety including lecturer, jazz drummer, magician, hypnotist, bodyguard, boxer, private investigator, office manager, fortune teller, teacher of auto suggestion, instructor in knife throwing, designer of jewelry, psychiatric secretary, lifeguard, and last (of this incomplete list) but hardly least--rainmaker. He cheerfully admits he has no academic degree or official standing in the "establishment", yet it's a matter of record that he has an IQ of 150 (genius starts at 140), and for two years worked with Prof. J.B. Rhine at Duke University in various ESP experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, plus friends, Owens startlingly demonstrated his PK powers by causing a scissors to whisk off a table and fly for several feet without being touched. It all really began on that day in 1965...but let Ted Owens himself describe it (from his book--How to Contact Space People--Saucerian Publications, 1969): "While living in Fort Worth, Tex., my daughter and I were driving in the country one night, when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared at our left over a field, and came floating toward our car making no noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming vividly from it. Its nose was tilted down towards the ground. As we watched, it approached close to our car, then instantly vanished, just like a light turned off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although common, saucer sightings. But it was far more than that for Ted Owens, as he wrote: "From that day on, my life changed radically...While in Fort Worth I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers. I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Notice the word "playfully." Owens was soon shocked to discover that his "playing" was real after his family had moved to Phoenix, Ariz., which at that time was in the midst of a bad drought. The idea to experiment with ESP for weather control came to me again, so I gathered my children together and showed them how I would make it storm. It did, so intensely that the city was declared a disaster area." We can infer that Ted Owens was more amazed at his success than he admits, and a bit dubious of his presumed PK powers. "To make sure that it was I who had brought this about, and not just a coincidence, I announced to my family we would make a series of storms--and I wrote to the local papers to that effect." Owens was certainly gambling, for it would be the first publicized demonstration of his PK powers--if he had them. The results were astounding. Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. Ted Owens's past record--200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena--is indisputable testimony of the man's unique role as a "go-between" for the Space Intelligences. For instance, in June 1967 he notified the U.S. Hurricane Center that the SI's would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times! === Page 6 of 9 "It produced eight terrible, rocking thunderstorms complete with tremendous lightning displays, within a period of three weeks." Owens has signed and notarized statements from his family that all this is true. Now all of Owens's doubts vanished. "Electrified by my success, and knowing for certain that I had something, I wrote to government agencies and to many important people, but to no avail. No one would believe me. We moved then to Los Angeles, also in the middle of a drought, and I made some tremendous storms there." This too is fully documented. Owens was careful to document his apparent PK feats by telling various officials or prominent people what he proposed to do, then having them sign an affidavit before or after the event occurred on schedule. Some of these will be quoted later, in connection with more important events. But gradually, there came a greater revelation to Ted Owens. . . "Now, I figured that somehow I had managed to contact the essence of the intelligence behind Nature herself." This seemed to be so, because soon after, when Hurricane Cleo began roaring off the coast of Florida, Owens excitedly drew a rough map and told his family he would "control" the storm. He writes: "To the amazement of my family, the hurricane followed my map to the letter!" Now sure of himself, Owens then stuck his neck out. In October 1966, he boldly announced to the Florida weather bureau exactly what he was going to do--"guide" Hurricane Inez north from Cuba instead of west as expected, then make it backtrack and hit the Florida coast when all the "experts" said it would go out to sea. Inez followed Owens's "schedule" to the hilt. Weathermen admitted it was "unorthodox," almost impossible. Even more "impertinent" was Owens' notice to the Chief of the U.S. Hurricane Center in June 1967, saying that the SI would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September of 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times. Obviously, if he really had this power to turn and guide hurricanes, Owens could perform a great service for the country. He thereupon bombarded government officials in Washington with letters, telling them what he could do and offering his "anti-disaster" powers. Some men, like Clark of the CIA and Eastwood of NASA saw him in person, and admitted a strong interest in his claims, but the regret was, as Owens puts it--"no action." If they didn't consider him a harmless crackpot (he does not resemble one), they were apparently hamstrung in their attempts to reach their superiors. Another big turn in Ted Owens's personal life came when he discovered that he had not, by himself, created or guided storms by some eerie contact with the "essence of the intelligence of Nature." It was some *other* intelligence, and he writes that, after moving to Washington, D.C., in 1965, "I discovered for the first time it was not Nature, but the **UFO Intelligences** who I had been contacting, and who had been guiding me." Owens had become aware of a "saucer flap" in the area, which was part of the great UFO wave of 1965-66. Then, quite unexpectedly, he received a message from the SIs telling him to inform the CIA that incredible magnetic phenomena would occur at the north and south poles. . . After sending this "prediction" to CIA man Clark, Owens wrote: "On July 8 (1965) all the newspapers carried a startling story: FLYING SAUCER IS REPORTED OVER TWO SOUTH POLE BASES! This huge disc-shaped UFO was clearly seen and photographed by many scientists of several nations, and they reported that it created powerful electromagnetic (per Owens's prediction) forces on their instruments. A bombshell burst in Ted Owens's mind. . . "I found out, with a jolt, that what I had been dealing with . . . were UFO Intelligences!" From then on, relates the PK Man, he was able to mentally "tune in" these Space Intelligences at any time. They arranged between them a series of phenomena whereby Owens would "predict" something and the SIs would make it come true. In some cases, they did this by beefing up his PK powers and letting him work the deed. In other cases, the SIs would do the job directly, keeping Owens informed. The result has been the 200-plus PK feats and incredible predictions--all apparently documented--that have flowed from Ted Owens during the past six years. Let's establish one thing here and now: Ted Owens is not a wild-eyed "contactee." He has never met an SI face to face nor has he traveled in their ships; he has not been whisked to their far off Utopian world nor has he eaten their exotic foods. Owens makes it quite plain, repeatedly, that he has only a mental contact with the SIs, that for some reason unknown even to Owens (as he himself freely admits) his brain is the ideal "receiving station" for SI telepathic messages, and most significantly, that he can "talk" directly to them on a two-way hookup. Owens believes that he is the only one on earth today with this remarkable ESP ability, and that in the past, perhaps only Edgar Cayce, Moses, and the wise men from some ancient civilizations had such direct SI contact. Ted Owens variously calls himself a "go-between" for the SIs in their dealings, or attempted dealings, with mankind; their "mouthpiece," their "front," their human "relay station" for messages. Owens constantly reiterates that he is not "responsible" for what the SIs do, even through his own PK powers, as they do all the planning and executing. Their purpose in all their paranormal doings, via Owens, is to prove their presence so that the authorities will listen to them (via Owens) and accept help. Whatever seeming "disasters" Ted Owens has been connected with, in the following accounts, the SIs claim they are here on earth to prevent a *greater* calamity. We will examine the motivations of the SIs more fully later on. Although Ted Owens has never been a UFOlogist or been active in the UFO field in any way, his special and personal relationship with the Saucer Intelligences has shed light on certain UFO phenomena in general. *EM-effects.* In answer to the question "Why do flying saucers affect cars and electrical instruments when they come close?," Owens says: "I'm glad you asked that, because the SIs just recently explained it to me. . . When they come into an area they want to investigate they throw out a 'net,' just like a fisherman throws his net overboard. . . They extend an electromagnetic net all around them that will trap and stop all power in that area in order to keep anybody from being able to communicate with humans outside the SI net, to radio for help, or to radio for airplane interference (from Air Force bases). . . Why don't Forest Rangers, who take care of our national forests, shoot bears and animals instead of tranquilizing them and tagging them? The SIs could actually destroy all humans in that area if they wanted, instead of throwing out a tranquilizing, power-stopping electromagnetic net." This implies (perhaps the most the SIs have revealed to Owens) that those landings which exhibit EM-effects are for the purpose of "tranquilizing" and "tagging" certain human specimens. This activity of course is not seen or reported in saucer sightings. We actually know little about the strange activities the SIs carry on when they mingle with humans. *Falls from the sky.* Though not always directly connected with sightings of UFOs, objects falling from the sky have been a riddle all through history. Huge falls of fish, toads, chunks of meat, blood--almost anything. Hundreds of these reports were collected by Charles Fort and these occurrences still continue in modern times. Sometimes they happen just after a UFO has flown over. And one particular substance--angel hair, a mass of odd fibers--has often been directly seen falling from a UFO. In answer to a question about a recent report of flesh and blood falling from the sky, and whether the SIs had anything to do with it, Owens provides a fascinating answer: "I don't think the flesh and blood fell from the sky. I think the flesh and blood fell out of the other dimension (from which the SIs come). In all the cases where I have read of a shower of fish or rocks falling from the sky, I believe it is caused by the SIs opening a crack in their dimension to let their craft in or out." Owens gives a more specific example in which he supposes that a UFO is rising out of the water and "they see people on the bank of the lake or the ocean, so they switch off into another dimension. But as they have come up out of the water, their power (EM field) might draw fish up with 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 7 of 9 them, or rocks, or even people. When they switch on again into this (Earth) dimension (a moment later), in a different area than before, perhaps clear across the world, then those same fish or rocks or people--or parts of people--come back out with them and shower down." A rather gruesome explanation as to how flesh and blood might fall from the sky. Ruthless? Cruel? But if our spacecraft some day land on another world and the scheduled time for take-off comes, would the astronauts turn off their rockets just because a few natives or animals were within the blast area and might get burned to death? "Monster-men" and "Humanoids." Owens admitted he knew very little about these creatures so often seen during saucer landings. But he ventured this concept, which should interest Coral Lorenzen, who in one of her books advanced the same theory. She wrote that people saw humanoids or "hairy dwarfs" step out of saucers to collect plants or rocks. Owens said: "Yes, these are the SIs pets, which collect samples from earth for the SIs. Just as we use chimpanzees or porpoises, cats and dogs and horses, etc., to do the work for us. But for what purpose they want these samples, I don't really know." He says the SIs do not consult him on weighty matters, nor include him in master conferences concerning Earth's fate. His messages from them are strictly limited to the PK duties he is to perform. This should make most of us pause before calling this man a charlatan or self-deluded kook. Kooks and crackpots, as everyone knows, always place themselves one step below God (if they're modest) and share his omniscience. Various reporters, columnists, and other influential people (who will be named below) have said the PK Man's remarkable predictions might be coincidence or luck, but not likely. The facts seem to speak for themselves. Let's look at one of Owens's most sensational PK feats. Owens once said to a sports writer: "Sports is a superficial thing. But it's an excellent way to demonstrate the SIs power over a small group of men." Owens demonstrated the truth of his dictum by creating havoc with two Philadelphia sports teams, the Eagles of the National Football League and the 76'ers of pro basketball. Why he chose Philadelphia is a question that remains unanswered. He wrote to a dozen sports writers before the 1968 season opened, that he "would take the Eagles apart with PK," and absolutely crush their chances for the championship. He promised that the Eagles would have at least 20 injuries and would lose more games than they won. The Eagles had 30 injuries that season and lost 11 games in a row. That this was totally unexpected and almost weirdly unbelievable is seen from these expressions and quotes in the columns of sports writers: "Injury curse hits Eagles" . . . "Talk of jinxes and voodoo" . . . "The bewitched Eagles" . . . "Some whammy working on the team." Writer Stan Hochman wrote in the Philadelphia Daily News, September 30, 1968, after taking Owens to an Eagles' game, "I figured I'd pin him (Owens) down as to his claims of hexing the team. When the Eagles scored and went ahead 3-0, Owens said, 'The SIs are going to have to get Woodeshick. Get him out of the game.'" Woodeshick was the team's star. A brawl began between two other players and "suddenly there was Woodeshick out there . . . They threw him out of the game for fighting, (italics added) . . . The game even got stranger in the third quarter. . . ." After a fumble, four Eagles were unable to pick up the ball and the Cowboys took possession. The Eagles lost the game. In another column Stan Hochman wrote: "For a while, Ted Owens was content to cause rainstorms where there had been no rain for six years. He did work up that satisfying power blackout in 1967 (June) when he snuffed out the light for the East Coast. But . . . nobody came clamoring after Ted Owens to buy his cloud-bursting, light-snuffing services." Hochman then recited the incredible roster of injuries, freak plays, and hard-luck breaks that overwhelmed the Eagles during the 1968 exhibition season. (They were to continue throughout the regular season). Without endorsing Ted Owens's claims, Hochman reiterated that everything that had happened to the Eagles was foretold by the PK Man and published. Paid attendance to the Eagles' games naturally fell off and Jerry Wolman the team's owner, filed bankruptcy. Was it all a fluke? Were the Eagles destined to flop on their faces in 1968 without the intervention of the PK Man's alleged powers? Owens tested himself again in pro-basketball. On April 23, 1968, a prominent lawyer signed a statement that Owens had predicted the Philadelphia 76'ers would lose their play-off games with the Boston Celtics, and that the 76'ers would miss their shots to an incredible degree. George Kiseda, sports writer: "76'ers shooting is off . . . They might as well have been trying to put a medicine ball in a teacup." Sam Jones of the Celtics was quoted as saying: "I don't think (our) defense is what's beaten them. They're just missing shots." Again a sports writer: "The 76'ers simply couldn't put the ball in the basket." The strange part was that the 76'ers were famed as a "sharp shooting" team. The payoff, as another sports writer put it: "They went blind from the floor . . . and suffered a 122-104 crushing. Back to Boston Wednesday and the blindness continued . . . They shot a pathetic 18-for-68 and the Celtics had little trouble in slipping away with a 114-106 win that evened it all at 3-3 (games)." The Celtics, the underdogs, went on to win the play-offs, the first team even to come from behind and win. Keeping all the above extraordinary factors in mind, either the laws of chance went completely haywire--or the awesome forces exerted by the PK Man fulfilled his threatening prophecy. Take your pick. Some of his more recent predictions have been startlingly fulfilled according to the available evidence. On February 10, 1970, Owens was interviewed by Lawrence Maddry of the Virginian-Pilot, Virginia Beach, Va. Picking a distant state, Owens predicted that a flying saucer would be sighted over the Brewer-Bangor area of Maine, and that some sort of power failure would occur at the same time. The deadline was two weeks but after only one week headlines from the Bangor area press screamed of a flying saucer sighting; there was also the story of one witnesses's car whose battery went dead. During the interview, Maddry had asked: "Well, Mr. Owens. What do you think will happen while you're here?" "I look for some kind of power failure," he said. When the reporter went out to start his car, he had a dead battery. Maddry's column dryly says--"Informed of this, Owens's eyes rolled slightly in their sockets . . . 'Hmm, they must be very close.'" In early January 1970 Owens handed a letter to a reporter stating that he would make one or more earthquakes for the reporter's paper on January 22nd. . . . On that date earthquakes were reported in Berkeley, Calif., and in Japan. In fact, six earthquakes, were reported from # THERE'S A SAGA IN YOUR FUTURE SUBSCRIBE TO SAGA! IF YOU DON'T, you'll miss out on many exciting articles such as the two that have been reprinted herein. SAGA has published the UFO "big-name" authors, such as John A. Keel and Ivan T. Sanderson. Annual subscription, $5.00 per year (add 50¢ per year for Canada). Make check or remittance payable to: SAGA, c/o UFO Dept., 333 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11206. If you can think of it, tell them Gray Barker recommended it. We're not putting a coupon here, for we know you wouldn't want to cut anything out of this exciting reprint. 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 8 of 9 January 22nd to February 12th, which Owens explains as the SIs being unable to control the "echo" earthquakes that resulted from those of January 22nd. More impressive is Owens's bold statement to Lawrence Maddry and other reporters that the SIs would carry on a "private war" with Pan American Airways and that the Atlantic Ocean would become a "no man's land" for their giant 747 superliners. Two days later a Pan Am-747 left Puerto Rico, became disabled over the Atlantic and had to return to the airfield. The next day a 747 leaving London had to jettison fuel and also return to base. The following day a 747 crashed on the runway at Stockton, California. Is that guessing--or knowing? There is much more to tell about Ted Owens that could not be included here but will be presented in the next issue of SAGA. To be covered will be Owens's cases of PK healing, which are far fewer than those of the renowned Edgar Cayce but no less astounding. Also an intriguing explanation of who and what the SIs are, how many UFOs they have, how they operate, and what the fate of Earth will be if their (SIs) battle against the evil OIs (Other Intelligences) does not succeed. Then, there is the strange way the SIs communicate with Owens, involving "Tweeter and Twitter," two amazing SI creatures. Let us conclude with one more prediction by Ted Owens--which is really a message from the SIs as to their future plans. It should make all true UFOlogists sit up and take notice. The written-out and signed prediction is dated February 13, 1970, and was confirmed to me in another letter a week later. Here it is, verbatim: "This time the experiment (of the SIs) will not be confined to just one country . . . it will be a worldwide demonstration of UFO power! As of this date I am contacting the SIs and asking them to activate a special apparatus they have . . . to control weather . . . on a worldwide scale! The object: to prove the existence of the SIs, and their ability to receive communications from me. The objective: to cause violent weather worldwide, from this day on, throughout the entire summer coming up in 1970. "Not only that. But for the SIs 'signature' to this, they will appear in great numbers, here, there and everywhere. "In short, you are now going to be privy to one of the greatest shows ever put on, on this earth. And it will be put on by the UFO Intelligences, using their great powers. And these powers will issue forth from the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Triangle in the Pacific, I am positive." Well, there you have it. Ted Owens has more-or-less staked his reputation on this direct prediction to SAGA. If, when you read this, the world is being plagued by violent storms and disasters, and if there is also the greatest wave of UFO saucer sightings and landings in history, it could be coincidence. 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 NO CONTENT === Page 2 of 5 experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, friends, Owens startlingly dem- off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. === Page 3 of 5 a receding hairline, thin lips, penetrating brown eyes, and an IQ of 150. But that doesn't tell you who or what he really is. Let the man who knows him best do that, Ted Owens himself: "I am the only human being alive able to communicate two ways with the SIs, and prove it. I'm the PK Man." The SIs are Saucer (or Space) Intelligences. PK stands for "psychokinesis," the power to manipulate, move, or otherwise affect physical objects, through mental forces alone. The two are related. Ted Owens claims he gets his PK powers from the SIs. It all began, says Owens, in 1965. In order to support his wife and three children, he had already "mastered 50 professions," a bewildering variety including lecturer, jazz drummer, magician, hypnotist, bodyguard, boxer, private investigator, office manager, fortune teller, teacher of auto suggestion, instructor in knife throwing, designer of jewelry, psychiatric secretary, lifeguard, and last (of this incomplete list) but hardly least--rainmaker. He cheerfully admits he has no academic degree or official standing in the "establishment", yet it's a matter of record that he has an IQ of 150 (genius starts at 140), and for two years worked with Prof. J.B. Rhine at Duke University in various ESP experiments. In a private gathering with Rhine and his wife, Louisa, plus friends, Owens startlingly demonstrated his PK powers by causing a scissors to whisk off a table and fly for several feet without being touched. It all really began on that day in 1965...but let Ted Owens himself describe it (from his book--How to Contact Space People--Saucerian Publications, 1969): "While living in Fort Worth, Tex., my daughter and I were driving in the country one night, when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared at our left over a field, and came floating toward our car making no noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming vividly from it. Its nose was tilted down towards the ground. As we watched, it approached close to our car, then instantly vanished, just like a light turned off." At first glance, this seems to merely be one of the many vivid, although common, saucer sightings. But it was far more than that for Ted Owens, as he wrote: "From that day on, my life changed radically... While in Fort Worth I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers. I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Notice the word "playfully." Owens was soon shocked to discover that his "playing" was real after his family had moved to Phoenix, Ariz., which at that time was in the midst of a bad drought. The idea to experiment with ESP for weather control came to me again, so I gathered my children together and showed them how I would make it storm. It did, so intensely that the city was declared a disaster area." We can infer that Ted Owens was more amazed at his success than he admits, and a bit dubious of his presumed PK powers. "To make sure that it was I who had brought this about, and not just a coincidence, I announced to my family we would make a series of storms--and I wrote to the local papers to that effect." Owens was certainly gambling, for it would be the first publicized demonstration of his PK powers--if he had them. The results were astounding. Ted Owens's past record--200 documented predictions and paranormal phenomena--is indisputable testimony of the man's unique role as a "go-between" for the Space Intelligences. For instance, in June 1967 he notified the U.S. Hurricane Center that the SI's would produce three simultaneous hurricanes. This had happened only four times before since 1886. In September 1967, Hurricanes Beulah, Chloe, and Doris were all active on the same weekend, something that the weather bureau admitted was "unprecedented" in modern times! Ted Owens, shown with his wife Martha and 8-year-old son Beau. 08/08/2025 15:52 === Page 4 of 5 To my loved children, Lorrie and Harvey, who were with me when it started Rain Maker The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 # Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of producing storms to the government. Ted Owens **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. Visual Imagery === Page 5 of 5 who were with me when it The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm for Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain price. "I want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." 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Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 Red Owens Gen. Del. Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 NOV 23 PM 1977 Recd 11/28/77 Probably a booklet sent to my grandfather Wray, who did not like my Dad. My mother Pat had just been killed in a car accident. Maybe the phone call was when Dad was told. Mr Wray Bentley 4 Crown Circle Bronxville, New York FIRST CLASS final === Page 2 of 8 08/08/2025 15:07 Wray - don't worry about your phone. I'll never call you again! Ted. === Page 3 of 8 Sunday, January 1, 1967 Rowland Swenk, C.S.C..R. I see by the newspapers that many "psychics" are foretelling the events of 1967. I disagree with most of what I have read...and you know from my amazing accuracy in the past...that I am qualified as a clairvoyant...whether I use a crystal ball, as the Dixon woman does in Washington, or UFO's for my source. (It amuses me that my work this past year has been much more accurate and astounding than the highly-publicized Dixon woman, and I have been performing my miracles in an absolute vacuum of silence.) Following, therefore, are the predictions of P K Man (Owens) for this year of 1967, and beyond. ---------- President Johnson. I once told Mr. Bunn of CIA that Mr. Johnson was a "bad luck Harry" and would cry. Since then (and the CIA man must have thought me a nut, for he immediately showed me out of the CIA building) but since that day Mr. Johnson has been described by reporters, and photographed, as crying several times. Now, in time ahead he will go beyond crying. He is walking into an area of darkness...of sadness...of tragedy. I predict that he will collapse of a heart-attack by April, for one thing. But there is more than that, all bad, for Mr. Johnson. The ironic part of it is...I could have saved him this, since the UFO's offered their power and their help, and he rejected it. The Si's tell me that Mr. Johnson has thought of committing suicide. And might do so, in 1967. Not with a gun or poison but with an "accident"...car crash, etc. Furthermore, I predict there will be a scandal in the Johnson family...not the "Kennedy Book" affair this time, but something involving either Mrs. Johnson or one of the Johnson daughters. The United States. 1967 will be one of the blackest years in the history of the U.S. During one part of 1967 hysteria and fear will fill the land, for the U.S. will be in the greatest danger of its history from attack...either from Russia or China, or both. May, in fact, be attacked. A NASA outer-space flight will end in tragedy for the astronauts. Nature and the weather will attack the U.S. violently with more than the usual ferocity from tornados, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. A large city in the Western half of the U.S. will be damaged severely by an earthquake. Either Denver, Frisco, or Los Angeles, I believe. Then an epidemic (not flu or anything like that, but much more serious...not polio) will sweep the U.S. and have to be coped with. And an unusually large number of key military men and high government officials will die or be taken out of action in their realm of influence and activity. There will be more than the usual number of plane crashes and accidents; fires, and auto crashes. (Much more) There has been built and structured a hidden power structure composed of military men and scientists, who are interested in taking over and changing our government. (Not CIA) Their presence will not be known until the U.S. is in the midst of a crisis. These are not good men, and their murderous hateful work goes against everything America stands for, even though they rationalize what they are doing is "good for America." (Am not talking about Communists or any known group of revolutionaries.) During 1967 more will be discovered about UFO's and their intelligences than any other period in the past...because of the will of the Si's for this to happen, and their actions in this regard. The Stock Market will get worse and worse and probably crash, worse than '29. Our economy will go to hell. We will have to give up all our big plans to give money to foreign countries, to create a Great Society, to fight overseas wars...for we shall be too broke === Page 4 of 8 5/7/67 P2 Page Two to go on. At last, financial reality will sink into stupid U.S. brains and it will be realized that we cannot pour money into a bottomless yell any longer. And our fabulous giveaways of the past will remain in the past. Providing the U.S. is not destroyed... we will not repeat our mistake in this area, ever. I see the people of the U.S. bewildered, confused and lost...in a strange way as never has happened...in 1967. There are several rays of sunshine through the black clouds over the U.S. One is...the unparalleled threat which will confront the U.S. in 1967 will draw the white and the black people together in a common bond of survival. Also, a good man, now an unknown, will emerge, as Churchill emerged to help England, this year. He will be a "Lincoln" type...wise, uncorruptible by money or politics or people...good in depth. Such a man we have not seen in our history for ages. When he does come forth, the gangster Syndicate, the Mafia, the corrupt politicians...will all try to pull him down, and will fail. This man will have no connection with the revolutionary group now secretly planning against the U.S. government. And his life will be in danger from them. Startling discoveries will be made in the field of television...how the programs affect the minds of people...and this will cause sweeping laws and changes to be made in this regard. (Note: It is possible that some of these predictions may extend on and beyond 1967, provided the U.S. is not smashed by the enemy in 1967...since in this form of precognition it is difficult to judge time accurately as we know it. However, it is my belief that these events will occur in 1967.) The World. China in 1967 will grow infinitely more powerful than ever in history. She will close up Hong Kong. China will begin to take over that portion of the world from India (including India) down through Southeast Asia, and Australia. Russia will begin an overt takeover of Europe...and will clash with China over the Middle East like two dogs fighting over a bone. But China and Russia will unite to smash the U.S., at home and wherever they find U.S. representatives. Russia will try to use portions of West Africa and northern Latin America to set up bases and missiles...directed at the U.S. and Canada. Mexico treacherously makes friendly noises to the U.S. but in fact is in allegiance to Russia...is an ally of Russia. Russia and China are playing for big stakes...and like two pro wrestlers in the ring, are putting on a good show of fighting, for the benefit of the audience. However they have cleverly contrived a plan with which to destroy their powerful common enemy...us, U.S. And their plan involves using nuclear missiles only secondarily...their primary plan will be bacteriological warfare...poisons. If that fails, missiles. With all its vast power the U.S. cannot defeat the Chinese and Russians, just as Rome could not defeat the barbarians in ages past. The only hope for the U.S. lies in help from UFO intelligences, and I repeat once more that I am the key to leading the U.S. toward this help from the Si's. Perhaps, when my predictions all begin to come true, someone will show this to a representative of the U.S. government who will listen...then if there is time, we can reach the Si's, and obtain their help. For the Si's do not wish what is going to happen, to happen. Owens 08/07/2025 17:01 === Page 5 of 8 Monday, January 2, 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Siegel, Landlord Our room is now filled with thick smoke. You can thank Martha, or at this moment you would not have a building left at 1114 Spruce St. 15 minutes ago Martha told me she smelled smoke. We ran outside, and there at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment was a 5'x5' cardboard box filled with papers, crumpled and afire. Flames were shooting up along the wall, and the wall was burning. I rushed back into the apartment, grabbed two pans which were luckily filled with water (to take a bath because there hasn't been hot water in days) and threw it onto the fire. I yelled and got people out, and they threw more water onto the fire. We got it put out. Very lucky. The odd part of it is...never has there been a box of anything, let alone burning newspapers, placed at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment. I talked with firemen who arrived (somebody must have called them after we got the fire out) and the firemen told me that two minutes later the whole wall and ceiling and thus the building would have gone up like a match. They also told me they were fairly certain the fire had been purposely set...and they forced a nearby door to an apartment open to see who might be inside. You owe a great big thank you to Martha, I kid you not. If it hadn't have been for her your building would be a flaming wreck by now...and we are right at the top of the stairs. As a matter of fact, the fire was set exactly so that the stairs below us would be in flames, thus barring our exit. As well as the other people up where we are. Ted Owens 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila. Owens === Page 6 of 8 January 18, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Look for a strong earthquake...over 6 on the Richter scale, to strike the U.S. in the Western coastal region (in a half-moon line, with one point of the "moon" in California and the other point of the "moon" in Colorado) just ahead, in the next few days, or several weeks (not more than 3). This quake should do some damage. P K Man (Owens) Owens Rick - The quake is being made with the "Emmy-Emma" technique. === Page 7 of 8 Lorne, Rick, Pat. January 23, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research (1) You will be interested in learning of more accidents and illness happening in my office to those around me. (See my recent letters on this.) I work for two men, one of whom is a partner in the law firm, Mr. Kerr. His wife and three children this past week have been sick in bed with ulcerated sores. Doctor calls it Herkes Syndrome, or something like. The other man I work for, Mr. Zatman, has his boy sick at home, being looked after by his wife, with a badly infected ear. Last week Zatman himself was sick with diarrhea. Remember the lawyer in my office whose brother dropped dead with a heart attack about two weeks ago? Well, his secretary, Dolores Reardigan, went home last week and found a colored man, burglar, ransacking her apartment. The burglar got in through a bathroom window. He took her valuables and escaped. Luckily he didn't harm her. Bernadette, the secretary who got the terrible black eye in an auto wreck, see past letter, quit her job this week. Gail Alloway, receptionist, injured her leg in a ski accident. Miss Sally Minter, office manager, was out of the office sick Friday. Alice, the switchboard operator, was out last week to go to the hospital for an examination to find out what is wrong with her. She is sick. I don't know what it means...but do know positively it is no happenstance. It has happened in the various offices where I have worked in Wash., D.C. and here. In Washington I worked for a while in a hotel supply office... and one of the men in the office stepped out the office door and was bitten savagely all over his leg by a dog passing by. Things like that. (2) I had closed my file on the airplane crash demonstration the Si's were putting on for the benefit of the U.S. people (govt.) But the Si's definitely were not ready to close their files. They were not finished by a long shot. I will now pick up where I left off in my letter of January 9, which covered the "storm" of airplane crashes up to Jan. 7. Jan. 9, 1967, a Navy bomber crashed and burned near Washington, D.C. It was out of Andrews A.F.B. in Maryland. Jan. 11, a 2,000 mph SR-71 Spy Plane was torn up when it had a landing gear failure during landing at Edwards A.F.B. in Calif. (This was the second Spy Plane (latest model) accident in two weeks.) Jan. 13, a United Airlines Caravelle made an emergency landing because of landing gear trouble, at International Airport, Jan. 17, a T-37 jet plane crashed and burned near Midland, Texas, out of Webb A.F.B. Jan. 17, a C-141 Military Jet Transport carrying 104 people had a door blow off at 33,000 feet. It made an emergency landing at Hawaii (was out of Travis A.F.B., Calif.) One passenger seriously injured. None of the passengers was sucked out of the plane because all had seat belts buckled on. A team of Air Force investigators flew out into the Pacific to find out how it happened. === Page 8 of 8 Pege Two "I warned not long ago that the Si'swere now going to strike among top officials. See recent letter." Jan. 18, a light plane crashed at Zelienople, Pa. Jan. 18, Fowler, 55, Chief of Air Reserve Training for the Navy, was killed at Glenview Air Station in Illinois. He was Commander of 18 Naval Air Stations across the country, with 38,000 aviation reservists and personnel under his command. I feel that this is part of the pattern, although he was not an airplane.* Jan. 18, Stephen Currier, a member of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson's beautification committee and a millionaire, vanished with his wife in their airplane. Jan. 18, another plane like that of the Curriers, and in approximately the same area, vanished off the Florida keys, carrying four prominent people...the Boardmans, etc. Jan. 19, a United Air Lines prop-jet liner with 50 persons aboard crashed into a snow plow while landing at Norfolk, Va., injuring seven passengers. The belly of the plane was ripped away and one wing torn off by the impact. Jan. 19, a Navy H-19 helicopter out of Camp LeJeune, N.C., was lost in the Atlantic ocean. Jan. 19, an Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed near Spokane, Washington. Incidentally, the Currier plane wreck, above, must have been important. They sent out the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Boston, and four submarines, plus 30 other planes and a Coast Guard cutter and two private yachts in the search. Planes in the search were from the Coast Guard, Navy, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force, Puerto Rican National Guard, the Canadian Navy and "other organizations." Friday, Jan. 20, was a big hit for the Si's. An Apollo Moon Rocket simply blew up, while enclosed in its giant gantry, in California. This was kept out of the papers...not a clipping on it I could find in Phila. or New York papers...but was described in TV and a motion picture was shown of it. One minute it was there being worked on...the next minute it just vanished, in a tremendous smoky explosion. And the gantry was destroyed. Jan. 22, two Marine jet bombers collided and crashed at Santa Ana, Calif. Jan. 23, a light plane crashed at Uniontown, Pa., killing three skydivers. I quote my letter again of November 23, 1966: "You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes." I'll simply ask you, was I not right? P K Man (Owens) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Package to father and misc letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7177e83cfb3103394314109808094bac.pdf 1f3ba298d7ee183312ce13ae33be9b07 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/02252797129f3dbaea14bc46c676e3b0.txt 2df25ea273c96af87c996cbff6f21f2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 38 Lonie & Rick Sunday, February 5, 1967 Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Remember you told me...that when I told your Group some of my predictions they just laughed...because they knew how impossible they were...but then my predictions came to pass? This letter they really won't be able to believe. First...am conducting a new sort of experiment with the Si's...and if it is successful, have asked them to appear over Philadelphia plainly, in the near future (few days, few weeks) so they will be written up in the papers. That will be my signal...my experiment has been successful. Now we wait and see. Now to business...the Si's caused the Cape astronaut tragedy. Same with the San Antonio spacecraft tragedy. How? They were there...in the craft with the men. They explain that in pure intelligence form they can't be seen by us humans...our eyes are not geared to pick up the make-up of the vibrations of their form, or something like that. Trouble is, when they are near our materials...they cause fires. Something about their make-up can cause fires, when near our earth materials. Skeptical? Listen further. The Si's are...what we call poltergeists. They have tried, long in vain, to establish contact with humans. They won't risk their craft, so they go, in their pure intelligence (invisible) form, into human habitations, and try to communicate. Remember I told you, and George Clark long ago, they communicate with us generally by "signs"? That is what they have been doing as poltergeists. Trying to communicate by signs. Think for a minute. In most polt cases, what happens? Plates and dishes fly through the air, plus other things. The "other things" are to get attention and perhaps draw those people who might catch on. The plates and dishes...mean flying saucers. They know we call them such...and they are trying to say, "Look, this is what is trying to communicate with you" and they sail some dishes across the room..."see, we are what you call flying saucers...beings." But so far, nobody caught on. Remember, these beings are not vocal...they can't talk...and in pure intelligence form they have power, but no hands or arms. They can cause things to levitate. Let me say it again...when a plate or dish or saucer flies across the room in front of the startled farmer's family...the Si's are trying to say: "Look, there is something invisible in the room...which has intelligence and has force...and we are trying to say, by sailing this dish (plate, saucer, etc.) across the room that we come from the UFO's or flying saucers that are seen in the skies." So from now on scientists can go to the spot, not of a "sighting" but of a "polting" and can try, through reciprocal signs, to communicate with the Si's on the spot. Knowing that the Si's are going to use a sign language of objects and things. As for the astronauts tragedy and the San Antonio space craft tragedy...they deliberately caused it to happen...two almost at once, to show that the one was no accident...to dramatically try to show us by their "sign" method how close we Americans are to a nuclear holocaust. They, who can see ahead, look ahead, are trying to warn us as best they can to let them help us...before it is too late. Just as Cape Kennedy, and the astros, thought everything was safe and all secure...so we Americans think we are safe and all secure...before tragedy strikes the Nation as quickly as it struck in the astros spacecraft. By the way...Aircraft Carrier Essex just ran aground...and U.S. sub just collided. Owens 08/07/2025 17:04 === Page 2 of 38 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Lornie: Why haven't you written for months? Didn't you like your camera? It worked fine for me...sent you some of the pictures. If it arrived damaged, I had it insured for $50. We can have it fixed or replaced. That is a long way to send a camera. I have sent some rings that have gotten to my Sotas broken. And why didn't you answer Irene Kuvala? She is a very nice person. She thinks you haven't written because you think she is a "kook", to quote her. Well, she isn't. Write her, if only to say thanks for writing. She's human. I hope school is going well for you, and your boy friend is working out. I also hope you are being a pal to your little brother, who needs you, and your love, and what guidance you can give him. The Si's just destroyed the Cape spacecraft and astronauts, to put more pressure on the govt. Things are getting "down and dirty." The govt. is so stupid. Write. Love, Dad P.S. Am sending you some pictures of you as a little girl. Keep them, because your future husband and children will enjoy seeing them. === Page 3 of 38 Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1967 Dear Lorrie... good to hear from you. Dr. Irene Kavula's address is 2 Cliff St., Wolcott, Connecticut. Am returning the picture Air Mail, as you request. Have two larger, wallet size pics made for Martha and me...plus a 5x11 pic...and let me know the cost. Will send it to you, and you send me the pics. Okay? This is a fine picture, honey. You look great. And he does, as you say, look like a fine young man. I am very happy that you have such good taste in the opposite sex. So you flunked History, eh? But you did fine in your other subjects. Congratulations on a good score. I had trouble with History, too...had a dull teacher, also. But maybe you can profit from a lesson I learned in high school. In my Senior year I decided to hell with whether I liked the teachers or not...they were my grades that were going to show, and it was my time which would be wasted if I flunked...so Lorrie, believe it or not, all I did was study study study on Physics, the toughest course in Bedford H.S., with the toughest most unliked teacher...and I got a B. The teacher told me himself, afterward, that any other teacher would have given me an A...but being him, he didn't give out A's. Just B's to top students. Ugh. What a man. If I'd based my action and hours of time on whether I liked him or not...I'd have flunked flat out. But I used to be like you in my early H.S. years. Incidentally, your camera will use color film. Just get 35 milimeter film. It has a terrific lens. You know, I sent you some pics from it. Don't worry about presents, hon. Remember all the times when I was flat broke at Xmas or birthdays. Ha ha. Nothing new to us, eh? Beau is something else. Words cannot now describe him. He has to be observed to be believed. It is good that you have to earn your own money, honey. Builds character. I was so proud of you and Rick on our adventuring, when you kids sold card fortunes, ironing board holders, etc. It was for the good of the gang...and no one knows better than I that you two can hold your own, anywhere, any time. Must go now Your three pals love you...always know that. Sincerely, Dad 08/07/2025 17:11 === Page 4 of 38 Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1967 Mr. George Clerk, Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is probably the most important bit of intelligence I have ever brought to your attention. We need to go back a bit. Remember when I came to see you, with my children, in Washington, D.C., in 1965? I told you the entire incredible story...and warned you, rather CIA, that if I died or happened to be killed, accidentally or otherwise, the Si's (it turned out) warned they would destroy the U.S.? They were quite adamant on that point...and it perhaps was the main reason I wound up finding you. Now, you understand...I myself have no power to control weather, attack NASA's rockets, etc., attack the Air Force activities, etc. The Si's do all that. I am the "middle man" telling other humans what the Si's are going to do, before they do it...so that the other humans will know the reality, and the various powers, of the UFO intelligences. In that respect I have incalculable value to the Si's. Actually, there is no one else that can do it. That is why I am so valuable to them. They are counting on getting me isolated, eventually, so they can get to me, to arrange a meeting with U.S. Govt. officials. This is important to them, and most important to the U.S. Govt. Last night, to get to the point, I was shocked when they communicated with me and told me why they caused the great tragedy at Cape Kennedy in which 3 astronauts were lost. The reason? The U.S. Govt., instead of giving me the protection I asked for in 1965, had allowed my life to be jeopardized...threatened...by a fire that was set, deliberately, underneath our apartment January 2. Just a few more minutes undetected, and my family and I would have gone up like a match in this old building. They had planned to merely harass the Moon Shot, and bring about a mechanical failure that would force abandonment of the flight. But when they monitored the near-catastrophe to their one and only link with humans...they decided to show the U.S. Govt. their feelings in the matter...and brought about the stiffest possible punishment they could think of at the time. (The fire in our building happened Jan. 2; the Cape tragedy happened several weeks later.) One of my Sota members, Earl Mack, dropped in last night and pointedly, several times, reminded me that the U.S. Govt. undoubtedly would have me killed, to eliminate a "threat" to U.S. security. After he left, the Si's contacted me and gave me the above startling information. It would be well for the Govt. to remember...even with me gone, the Si's, if they did not destroy the U.S. as they say they will...could go on being destructively hostile...my being gone would not change a thing, since I have no power of my own. The U.S. would simply lose its one really important link with the Si's and their intelligence. Always remember their tip on the North Viet attacking our carriers...and their tip was correct. P K Man (Owens) === Page 5 of 38 Sunday, Feb. 26, 1967 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: The Si's have just communicated with me, and asked me to send the following intelligence on to the U.S. Government: They, the Si's, have severely punished three of the top U.S. Govt. agencies these past several months: (1) NASA (2) CIA (3) AIR FORCE NASA was punished BY THE SI's by having its moon hardware and astronauts destroyed, and the moon program delayed 1 year. CIA has been punished by the recent blow-up of its financial subsidy of NSA and other organizations...and this was quite a heavy punishment, since the lash-back of the blown activity included several negative, damaging ramifications. AIR FORCE has been punished by the Si's by knocking out two Blue Angels fliers, many Air Force plane crashes in the U.S., and just now...a devastating 32 cheating Air Force Cadets who had to resign. As I told you, several years ago when I visited you, this "PK" effect is constantly growing...like an ancient Egyptian curse. That is, the Si's are ever-increasing the scope and depth of their pressure against the U.S. Govt., in an effort to bring them around to paying attention to their requests and, eventually, to manage to meet with the top officials of the U.S. Govt. to make a base in the U.S. - and this would be done through their contact, myself. I told a friend of mine here in Phila. last year that it made no difference whether the Govt. believed me, or cooperated with me, or not...that the Si's phenomenon would go on, and would get worse. And my friend, a member of a scientific group, didn't quite understand this remark. But I think you do. The Communists and Red Chinese...are not the main concern of the U.S. Govt. The Si's are. Until CIA and the Govt. realize this, God help the U.S. Govt. PK Man (Owens) Owens === Page 6 of 38 Show Lornie this UFO article, too. Thursday, Feb. 16, 1967 Dear Rick: No, honey, I am never mad because I don't get a present. Look at all the times I couldn't get you a present, when we were travelling around, broke a lot. Besides, your card and letter were a fine enough present. Beau and "momma" are fine. Martha is changing, almost imperceptibly, into a heavier build...but not fat. Beau has shot way up, is big now. The government has not responded...and I agree with you, they will. Now I mean they have not responded with money or help...actually, Rick, they have responded, about ten times, to my letters. Will tell you about it some time. But what I am waiting for them to do is respond with financial help to get isolated and meet the UFO's in person, as they want to do. Don't worry about my proving how real my communications are with the Si's, Rick...it has been proved by now, without doubt and absolutely. For the past year I have been sending you and Lornie copies of all my letters, care of Pat. So you should know what I am talking about. What upset the Govt. the most, according to Swank, the scientist who is studying my work, was when I told them, against the Weather Bureau and against the Miami Hurricane Center, first that Hurricane Inez would turn right at Cuba and go to the U.S., and then when I told them that Inez would back up and take Betsy's track of the year before. Inez did both things...and Swank says he never saw people so excited in his life, as those Govt. people were, who were keeping tabs on the whole thing. The Si's killed the 3 astronauts in the spacecraft fire...because someone tried to kill Martha and Beau and I a couple of weeks before (Jan. 2) in our apartment building, according to the firemen who investigated the fire. I had actually predicted in my Year 1967 Predictions that astronauts in this year in a space shot activity would wind up in tragedy...and I predicted in August that the Si's would "chew up and clobber" the Moon Shot...which is exactly what happened. Happy Valentine's Day to you, too, pal. If you will give some thought, Rick, to making plans for the day when Russia attacks the U.S. with nuclear bombs (or China does, or both do at once) then you will be way ahead of everybody else, and have a better chance to live. Don't count on any plans ahead more than a year; two at the most. I am sure we will be attacked in that time. That is, during 1967 or 1968, and probably '67. === Page 7 of 38 Now, someone would argue that I shouldn't tell you something like that...might add to your anxiety, etc. Well, it adds to my anxiety, and I believe in facing enemies and fighting them... not pretending my enemies aren't there. Moses was told he was as nutty as a fruitcake because he was building a ship in the middle of the desert (no water around) just because God, or something, warned him to. Well, everybody who thought Moses was a nut...drowned. Moses was ahead of everybody else. And, incidentally...and fill Lornie and Pat in on this...my intelligences tell me that the Coasts are going to be destroyed in quick order...East coast first, West coast second, Gulf coast third. Then the exact center of the U.S. will be devastated, leaving only the "corners" of the U.S. relatively undestroyed. I plan to move, and settle into, the northeast corner, as far from New York as I can get. If you-all are smart, you will do the same. I'll be on the Canadian border, and if destruction begins, we will slip into the Canadian north woods and find a cave somewhere near a lake and dig in and to hell with it. We are going to survive. If you want a laugh some time, get Pat to tell you about the time she and I went to New York and got me a bullet-proof vest, then took it to New Orleans and tried it out with a .32. Ha ha. For a present, she bought me a bear-trap that you could put your hand into and snap it shut with a bang and it wouldn't hurt you. Get her to tell about the time we left a toilet-paper message for our landlord in Des Moines, Iowa. About the picnic we went on in the middle of a driving rainstorm and, I think, tornado. About the seances she was in, with me as medium, at Dr. Rhine's house, where I contacted ghosts and spirits. Get her to tell you about the time six guys jumped on she and I in Durham, and how we beat 'em. Get her to tell you about the time in Las Vegas we did our mind-reading act. You and Lornie will have a ball, if you can get Pat to tell you about those things. Don't worry about getting blue...everybody gets blue once in a while. I bought a picture of Jesus, once...in Ft. Worth, and hung it on my wall. Before you rush out and buy two tape recorders, check and double check to make sure you want to commit yourself to an idea that far. I do that, check myself, and sometimes back away from an idea because it is not good enough, or as good as I thought on thinking it over... or the poker odds on it are not good enough. But if I check it out and think it over, and it still sounds and feels right, then it's green light-go ahead all the way. My Sota deal in Fate mag was that sort. Be good now, or I'll tell Linda how you sat in that girl's lap in Washington D.C., you playboy you. 08/07/2025 17:11 Love -- Your pal Dad === Page 8 of 38 Tuesday, March 7, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: I wrote you a week or ten days ago and told you I was going to liven up Philadelphia with a lightning attack, tornado, storm, etc. It just happened last night...whole town is flooded... water holes two feet deep in the streets...basements flooded out... cars stalled everywhere (all this according to radio reports). The Si's didn't throw in lightning, which puzzles me. Just tons of rain. And it's still raining, later in the day. The reason I didn't give you the date of the letter, and quote, is because Beau, my baby, got all my papers out and made a carpet covering the living room and kitchen...so that we are actually, literally walking on a carpet of papers. I can't find anything at this point. However, because he did this ... The FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service combined, could not have caught what we had in our apartment Sunday night. Now get this...the baby was asleep in front of us. Martha was sitting behind my right shoulder, and we were watching Porgy and Bess on TV. Suddenly I heard somebody walking heavily, very heavily in the kitchen on all the papers Beau had spread on the floor. I wondered why Martha would leave this good show and go into the kitchen. In a few seconds there was a tap on my shoulder. It was Martha, still sitting behind me. "Ted," she whispered, "who is that walking in the kitchen?" "My God," I said, "I thought you got up and went out there!" But she had no moved from her position. I got up and went out into the kitchen and turned on the light, and immediately was struck with the same feeling I had not felt since Durham, North Carolina, in about 1946, when Pat, my ex-wife, her mother and I were having a seance in their house...my hair stood on end, goose pimples broke out all over me, and I felt as if I were charged with electricity. This lasted only for about 30 seconds, then went away. So I knew it was no burglar who'd got in. Nothing could be seen. But we both heard this heavy walking around in the kitchen on the papers, thick on the floor. That's the point. I know absolutely, therefore, the Si's can come into our apartment, and cannot be seen, when they want, in some form. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 9 of 38 Sunday, March 5, 1967 3/5/67 p1 Lornie and Rick: This is an important letter, keep it with all the file letters I have been sending you. Since that couple, written up in Life, were said to have been taken by the Si's into a space ship, then the memory removed, and they lost several hours they couldn't account for...it made something click in my mind, and I used auto-hyp to check it out. While in Noumea, Caledonia, as a sailor, I used to take a little portable radio and hike up high onto a mountain near Noumea, all by myself. Up there high, alone, I could see far out over the sea. And I usually fell sound asleep for hours. Shortly after doing that, I ran across a book in the Red Cross library which got me interested in ESP. I began to experiment, and discovered I could read minds...and proved it with witnesses and signed statements. Then I read in a magazine about Dr. Rhine, wrote him, sent him my experiments, he wrote back and told me to come to Duke when I got back home. Many unusual things happened to me in Noumea...all alone one day, on the beach far from people, I sat looking out to sea...wishing I could get back to the U.S. alive and have children...when suddenly (there hadn't been a sound) little hands came over my eyes. I sat still, because for some reason it didn't scare me at all...although there were still a few Japs hiding out on the island. I turned around, pulled down the little hands, and there were three tiny children...two little boys and a girl, I'd guess about 5 or 6 years old. They didn't say a word, just smiled at me. Immediately, as if they'd told me in words, I knew that something had answered me...that I would go back to the U.S. and have three children. Now I have three children (speaking loosely, of course.) Now, after I got back to the States, I went to Duke, and I am going to tell you the many strange things that happened there. But first let me tell you this. I have a keen memory, absolutely. I can tell you tiny details of my childhood, the names of grade school teachers, etc. Yet there are parts of my life that are blanked out...which I have no memory of...and all of these blanked out portions are in the areas where I made long trips across country, desert and mountains, alone! I'll tell you about those later. Using auto-hyp, I have managed to bring some of it into focus, enough to give me the answer to it. At Duke I worked for Dr. Rhine...and Dr. Rhine investigated my strange powers thoroughly. My powers...for instance, I would be broke...and be walking along and find a $5 bill on the sidewalk. Or, I saw a rich boy with a pearl-handled pocket knife and wished I had one...then couple of days later Pat and I were walking downtown and I looked out into the street and saw a beautiful, expensive pearl-handled knife...and got it. If I walked down the streets at night the lights would go out all along my side of the street. If I dated a girl and we were at home watching her TV...the TV would go dead. When I was inside a building getting my freshman courses lined up...all the lights blew out in the building. When I would date girls...fountain pens would vanish from their purses. Earrings would vanish off their ears...gloves would vanish off their hands...and Dr. Rhine even had his assistants right therealong with me, double-dating, and it still would happen. I was used as a medium by the Rhines, and knocked a pair of scissors off a table about ten feet from where we sat, in full light. With my mind. And got knocks in a === Page 10 of 38 3/5/67 p2 Page Two radiator, consistent knocks in a pattern, to answer questions the Rhines asked. While surrounded by scientists...in full light...and with Pat there. Ask her, she will tell you. Then I discovered Granpa was badly, fatally, sick...in my second semester. I couldn't study, couldn't think, worrying about him...so, with no money and in light clothes, I walked away from Duke onto the highway, in the middle of winter, to make the long trip over the mountains, to Indiana and Granpa. I remember nothing of that trip after being picked up in a car by a man and a woman. I went to sleep in their car, and the next thing I remember I was on the front porch of Granpa's house. I have a vague recollection of offering to tell the couple's fortune in a roadside cafe in exchange for food.. but I believe they smilingly refused, we ate and left. Back at granpa's...one day he was shaving and the light went off over his head. I was sitting nearby and asked him if he wanted the light to come back on. He looked astounded, and said yes. So I told the light to come back on, and it did. He said, "T, I've seen you do some good magic tricks..but how did you do that?" The minute he died (I was alone with him) I saw him get out of bed, apart from his body which was still in bed, dead, come over to me and shake hands. Then he simply walked out the closed windows. Life went on. I went out to Texas with Jack. Married Pat. We travelled, Des Moines, New Orleans, etc. Then Pat's uncle gave us a lot of money, and this tool got us a car...and lo and behold...I began making long long trips, alone. On one occasion, however, with Pat in the car, we were driving across a railroad tracks and the car went dead smack over the tracks...with a train coming. I ran to a bar nearby, yelled to some men, who ran out with me and pushed the car off the tracks and the train went by. This was odd. While Pat and I were in Evanston, with double locks inside our front door, we left Lornie alone for just a few minute in the living room. When we went back, she was gone. We looked under furniture, in other rooms, she was gone. I unlocked the front door and looked down the flight of steps outside, and there was Lornie, sitting, playing with her toes. How she got through a double-locked door, before she could hardly talk or walk, is a mystery. I then made a trip down to Bedford in mid-winter to help granma, who was having an operation. I have no memory of driving down, or driving back. Then I made a long trip across the U.S., driving, through Texas to New Orleans...and should have been killed twice, but was saved by miracles. First, in San Antonio, I bought a magnum pistol. I drove out into the country to test it. I found a lonely, uninhabited spot, and set up paper plates all over the side of a hill. Then I got out my .38's, magnum, .25's, etc., and began target practice. I was walking along, firing, in a little flat valley. Pretty place. Solid ground everywhere, but no birds singing...not a noise. Was an eerie place. Suddenly the ground seemed to open up under me and I went straight down. The magnum pistol saved my life. It flew out of my hands, about five or six feet away...and my main concern, while sinking, was not to lose the pistol. I struggled somehow out, arms reaching for the pistol, and got it. The green ooze had sucked the shoes right off my feet, and I knew I was in a hell of a spot. After about a half of hour of maneuvering into a flat position, I wriggled like a snake out onto solid ground, and just lay there, wondering what the hell it was all about. I was covered with green ooze from head to foot, bare- 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 11 of 38 3/5/67 p3 Page Three footed, with my magnum in my hand. Finally I got up and looked at where I had been. There was absolutely no sign of mud or anything. It was absolutely normal looking ground, grass and all. There was no sign of anything unusual. I gathered up my stuff and got out of there fast. Wait a minute...that was outside Corpus Christie, Texas, after I had left San Antonio. On the way back, across the mountains, atnight...the most unusual thing of my life happened...I was driving up a mountain in the dark of night. To my right was a sheer drop down hundreds of feet, no guard rail. To my left was a solid cliff. I could see the road up ahead, straight, for a far distance. I figured I was going the wrong way, Just then I came to a road, cut through the solid cliff to my left. I checked the long road up ahead...no car lights, and swung the car left into the side road, then I backed it straight out, cutting off the road completely for a minute. At that exact moment I saw, in my rear view mirror, car lights rushing down the mountain right at me, not far behind...I was paralyzed...the car was so close I had no time to do any-thin and even if I made a sudden quick move, I might go over the cliff. So I wrapped my arms around my head and waited for the smash. Then to my amazed eyes...I saw the car clearly in front of my car, going down the mountain road at high speed. It had passed right through my car! I know that sounds mad...but it is exactly what happened. I saw what looked like negros in the car, and an arm waving a bottle out a window. Shaken to the core, I quickly and carefully finished my backing move, and went down the mountain, found the nearest motel, and checked in. I called Pat, I believe, long distance, and told her what had happened. Then there was one other thing I remember about that long trip (and remember, these few things are all I can remember...I don't remember eating, sleeping, or anything other than these few details of this trip which took a week or two. I was driving along mountain tops at night when suddenly I saw a strange looking side road where no side road should be. It was about 10 at night, no cars on the road, and I was very sleepy. So I drove to the left off the mountain highway along this tiny road cut through solid cliffs. It came out on a flat plateau about 1000 feet in diameter. Except for a mountain side at the left, you could look for what seemed hundreds of miles out. It was an out of this world view. So I secured the car, got out my blankets, and rolled up on the ground and went to sleep looking up at thestars. I don't remember leaving there, and could never find the place again on my other trips along that highway, though I looked high and low. After that trip, my mind is hazy on what happened the rest of that year and the few years afterward. I only know I made many long, lonely trips. And do not remember what happened on any of them. I drove to Mexico City one time. In a rattletrap car. I do remember driving down clearly. A long long trip 1500 miles across desert. But coming back...ah, that is something else. I am puzzled how I got back. I had no money, don't remember buying gas, and hadno food. I did have some giant cigars I had bought in Mexico City, and smoked them. I seemed to drive and sleep at the same time. This is true. Also I read, while driving. Once I woke up, going 50 miles an hour down over an embankment where the road made a hairpin turn to the left. Somehow, I don't know how, I managed to swing the car around while it was whizzing down the 10 foot embankment 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 12 of 38 3/5/67 p4 Page Four with a steel fence at the bottom, and run the car alongside the fence until I got it stopped. Then somehow I managed to get it back up the ten foot embankment onto the road again. I don't know how. Some time later at night, driving along the Mexican desert under the stars, I got so sleepy I pulled over...no other cars on the road as far as the eye could see in either direction. I got out my blankets, walked straight out into the desert about 500 feet from the car, lay down on the blanket and fell right asleep. The next thing I knew was a blazing hot sun beating down onto me. I opened my eyes. Things were moving around me. I stood up. There in a perfect circle around me were an army of tarantulas, each as big as my hand. They were moving, backing and forwarding, but keeping a perfect circle, and at about five foot distance from me. I would estimate there were at least 50 of the things. I scooped up my blanket and took a flying leap over the circle, ran to my car, and took off. I wondered why they hadn't got onto me while I was asleep. The sun was high, and evidently I had slept long. The next thing I remember is certainly weird...I woke up in the car, while driving, near a bridge. I wondered what on earth I was doing sleeping, and stopped the car for a moment. Just then I was hit from behind with a terrible smash, which threw me violently forward then whiplashed me backwards. It knocked me out for a minute. When I came to I was lying outside the car. I was mad. I got up, and there was this truck behind me, with two men in it, just sitting there. They didn't talk, didn't say a word, just stared at me. That is all I remember until I was driving out of Juarez into San Antonio. Now another weird thing happened. I must have been out of my head. I had no money to speak of...just a few dollars. So I drove to the finest hotel in downtown San Antonio, the Hilton, in my '36 Chevy, went in, and asked for small inexpensive room. They sent me up to...a penthouse suite. A $300 day layout. I stayed there for a day, sleeping, then they moved me down to a small room. No reason for any of this was given. When they moved me down to the small room, I got delirious...knew nothing for several days. Suddenly my mind cleared and I left for Los Angeles and you kids. How I paid the hotel bill, I don't know. Several years later, while working for Jack Danciger in Ft. Worth, I was driving from Ft. Worth to a tiny town in New Mexico, where Danciger had grown up, to get information on a story I was writing about him. When I got to New Mexico...I only remember three things. On the way to the tiny town one evening there wasn't a cloud in the sky...this was just before dusk. Except one huge white circle of a cloud...an immense thing...looked to be as big as one or two football fields, a perfect circle. I marveled at this, because there was no other cloud to be seen as far as the eye could see in any direction. And the cloud did not move. It was just there. And it didn't wisp or thin out. Was a solid white consistency. Then on the trip back in a few days across New Mexico away from the little town my car kept going dead, and I had to have it repaired in some town. Then one night, at about two in the morning, I noticed I was running out of gas. I pulled into a tiny dark town and there, to my surprise, was a filling station all lighted up. I parked alongside the gas tanks and this man walks up. Instantly I knew this man was a UFO creature. And this at a time when I wasn't even thinking about UFO's. He had green, slanting eyes. His face wasn't human...is all the way I can describe it. When he talked, and I deliberately got him into conversation...he had a strange weird accent...and I am familiar with almost all === Page 13 of 38 3/5/67 3/5/67 P5 Page Five foreign language accents. He spoke broken English. I don't remember even driving away, or the rest of the trip back to Ft. Worth. Back at Ft. Worth, I quit Jack Danciger because suddenly ideas kept coming into my head re how to heal people using light waking hypnosis. I began using these ideas, and people began getting well right and left. I put the ideas into a notebook, and soon the notebook was filled up, jammed with these ideas..........none of which I had ever encountered in psychology or abnormal psychology or the study of hypnotism. About this time Lornie and I found ourselves on a lonely road one night with the cigar shaped UFO near us. Much later, when the AMA ganged up and framed me with a lying man... Lornie and I got into our car and proceeded to drive around the United States in a complete circle...across mountains, across deserts. One night we were driving along the road in the Rocky Mountains...it was so pitch black you couldn't see a thing...there were thick trees lining the road on both sides. Suddenly in our car headlights...walked an old man. In the middle of the pitchblack highway. He couldn't possibly have seen a foot in front of him. Yet there he was, walking along. I stopped the car, and he walked over to us in the pitch blackness. He had a kindly face. I gave him our flashlight, so he could see. He smiled, and put his hand over my hand in an odd way, then walked off into the blackness. Lornie and I talked for a minute or two about how weird this was...and decided to give him something else, I forget what...so we turned the car around and drove up and down the highway, but there was no sign of the old man. He had just disappeared. Just one other miracle thing that has happened...while Pat and I lived in Evanston...we were driving in the downtown area around a circle-like thing in the center of the square...suddenly I saw an old woman in the rain directly in front of our car, in the rain, an instant before our car passed over her. I jammed the car to a halt and said to Pat "My god, did you see that?" She said, "Yes, an old woman. Quick, Ted, let's get out and see." We leaped out...and there was no old woman. No one. We had both seen her. Like the old man in the Rockies, she had come from nowhere, and then disappeared. I imagine Pat remembers this. One other strange occurrence...Pat and I were living in Evanston and I was working at Arthur Murray, teaching dancing. We were in our room one night, going to sleep, when Pat suddenly said, "Ted, there's something in the room." Then she let out a terrible scream. Out of the murky dimness of our room sprang an immense black cat right onto Pat, who was sitting up in bed. Our door was closed, so we don't know where it came from. After the experience of the fields...I now firmly believe that the Si's drew me out into lonely places...many many times...and blanked me out, then turned me loose again. Time and time again. This would account for my spot amnesia and behavior at times which was not like me at all. And I believe that Pat will now understand why many things turned out like they did. Let her tell you about the jeep at the top of the mountain...only me outside, and the brakes went off. I had the regular brake on, plus the hand brake. But they both went off. Now Lornie was tied with a rope inside the car, so she couldn't fall out while we drove 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 14 of 38 3/5/67 p6 Page Six up the almost sheer side of the steep mountain. You must understand, only a miracle could have saved you two and Pat. Rick was being held by Pat, and Lornie was tied in, and the ton or two of jeep was plunging downhill backwards, picking up speed. I believe the Si's wanted to know what value I placed on you three. They found out. Pat used a judo roll and dove out the side with Rick, rolling on her back so Rick wouldn't be hurt. I hooked my left hand onto the inside of the roof, hanging onto the outside of the jeep, with Lornie inside not making a noise, as I recall, but just watching me. By this time the jeep was plunging full speed down the side of the mountain, backwards. I don't know to this day how I did it, or even got the idea, because there was no time to think...out of the corner of my eye to my right I saw a huge boulder, and I reached in with my right hand, still clinging to the side, and twisted the wheel, careening the jeep in a sharp curve at the boulder. The jeep hit, I flew up into the air, and was knocked out for a minute. When I got up, Lornie was scratched. Pat ran down with Rick...said she saw me pinwheel high up into the air, turning over and over. Probably my arduous and thorough judo training saved me and I broke my fall automatically. Anyway, there was no good reason why any of you three should have lived through that. Pat, by all rights, should have gone under the wheels of the jeep, or broken her neck in her dive. And tiny Rick was in her arms. Lornie had no chance at all, tied in with that rope. She should have gone all the way down that mountain in that jeep and smashed to pieces. Pat & I got a bottle of wine afterward and celebrated our "good luck." I have caught the Si's testing me, these past few months. They do it with dreams, believe it or not. They put me in situations...moral situations...and see how I react to them, in dreams. One night I dreamed I was flying (my usual dream) and it was wonderful. But down on the ground below were little Beau and Martha, trying to keep up with me. I flew far ahead, then circled, and went back to them. I wasn't about to fly off and leave them. And in the dream something seemed to ask me...if I could fly...far...would I be willing to leave Martha and Beau, and in the dream I knew it was impossible. I would not leave them on any account, for any reason...even if I could fly. I realized they were the reality of what makes my present world. And I have had other like dreams...clearly testing my thought patterns and moral patterns. You try covering up in a dream...you can't do it. IN a dream you are what you are, and you react as you really are. I believe the Si's had wanted to work with Pat. She and I were drawn constantly into lone, woodsy areas. The side of a hill one night outside Salt Lake City...to a cave in the darkness, one night at Spring Mill Park when Lornie was tiny...many places, many times. But for some reason Pat didn't jell with them. I think Pat subconsciously knew or suspected, and drew away from them...leaving me at key times, breaking up the efforts of the Si's to train her, for she and I were a natural pair together in this area. I am glad to be a part of the Si pattern, willing and able to work with them, trained by them. Perhaps it will come to something worthwhile. We'll see. Meanwhile, you imagine their frustration at not being able to break me loose from the City of Phila. into the lonesome woods again. Love, Dad Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 15 of 38 Tuesday, March 7, 1967 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Have two important things to tell you: (1) A price has just been put on the head of any Kennedy... Jackie... Robert... Ted, etc. This information comes from the Si's... who have given you accurate information before, as you well know. From this day on, they say, no Kennedy will be safe, anywhere, under any conditions. (2) Last chance to let me go to Viet Nam... and let the Si's follow and dissolve the war in favor of the U.S. Only they can do it. Last time I suggested this... Dunn saw me at CIA headquarters, and when I said Pres. Johnson would cry in the future... he evidently thought I was a nut, and showed me out. Well, Johnson did cry... not once, but several times, and it was described in the newspapers. So I was 100% right, and not a nut. And Dunn was wrong not to hear me out. If you don't send me to Viet Nam, and let me have a crack at ending the war with the help of the Si's... the U.S. will have its worst disaster in history. That's a promise. The Si's say so. You might as well start listening to the Si's. You've got everything to gain... and not much to lose, at this point. CIA was just dealt a hell of a blow, as you know. It could do worse... than make friends with the Si's. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Phila. Pa. Owens 08/07/2025 17:17 === Page 16 of 38 Lorne, Rick, Pat March 9, 1967 To All Sota Members - A Special Letter One of our Sota members, has come into a lot of action with the Si's, who are evidently very interested in her. Sota Member#114 Dr. Irene Kavula 2 Cliff Street Wolcott, Connecticut First of all, Dr. Kavula received her Sota ring...and shortly thereafter felt absolutely driven to sit down and write a newspaper article in defense of the Si's. She did so, and submitted it to a newspaper and it was published. Enclosed is a Xerox copy of same. Then Dr. Kavula began to see various phenomena on her TV screen that has occurred in my own apartment, as written about in "Searchlight." She also saw a UFO with her own eyes, in the area of her home. Then the newspapers began to print accounts of UFOs being seen all around her area. For instance a UFO was seen in Bridgeport, Conn., in her area, on February 20. It was seen and observed for a space of 30 minutes by a police officer and other people who were with him. On Oct. 1st a picture of a UFO was taken in New Haven, 17 miles from her home...and printed in Saucer News, Spring Issue. This date was important, Oct. 1st, because she had written her article re the UFO's which appeared in the newspapers Sept. 29! This same UFO was seen by Dr. Kavula. UFO's also have been seen and reported in the papers in Prospect, Conn., and Thomaston, Conn....all within several miles from her home. She reports "It seems that ever since I joined SOTA, and have had my mind on the Si's, that they have been sighted in and around Connecticut, and especially near here." I suggest that you drop Dr. Kavula a line, and ask her what she is doing right...for she is the Sota member getting the most action at this time with the UFO intelligences. P K Man (Owens) President, The Sotas 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 17 of 38 March 20, 1967 Mr. Russell Swank Systems Management Analyses - Organization of Scientific Research Dear Russell: I really enjoyed talking to you today, and was most interested to hear of the large UFO seen in Wynnewood nearby over the weekend. Not a thing in the papers on it, though...? Am confirming, for the record, in writing, what I told you today... Am asking the Si's to double their intensity in another attack on aircraft in the U.S. in the coming days and weeks ahead. This should produce a startling account in the papers of planes down everywhere, under all conceivable conditions...and more heavily in numbers than the last "demonstration." I just hope they don't get tired of constantly proving their point the same old way. I'll also ask them to try and keep from killing or hurting anyone. That's pretty tricky... knocking down planes and keeping the occupants safe. But they did it once with the astronauts, and they have done it since on other times. Always the papers say it is a miracle no one was killed or seriously hurt. Also...I told you how Shiekan broke his foot last week, and is on crutches up at the office. And Steinberg had a heart attack Wednesday and is in serious condition at Pennsylvania Hospital. Today found out that two different secretaries...Marylou Schienblum and Sylvia Gross... both had separate car crashes last Friday. Marylou had her car wrecked completely. Sylvia was badly hurt in a whiplash, and is under intensive doctor's care. Also Miriam, who works in the filing room, had to go to New York over the weekend because her uncle had a heart attack there. Enclosed is the article I sent you, but you didn't get. It is my hope that you will, one of these days, sign and return to me the confirmation I sent you some time ago. Or some confirmation. It would motivate me much more better. (Alliteration, and who cares?) P K Man (Owens) === Page 18 of 38 March 23, 1967 Dear Rick -- I enjoyed your letter. Teddy was on Ed Harvey's "Talk of Phila." radio show. This evening the John Bandy TV Show called me, and wants me on their TV show taped next Tuesday. So if you get the John Bandy Show out there on TV, look for it! I'll send you a TV Guide later. Glad to hear you've found out what a girl is. Good luck with Lynda. She sounds like fun. Remember that wild blonde that sat in your lap in Wash? Laugh, I thought I'd die! So mom says write books. Sure. I type 90 words per minute all day in my law office -- by Sat. so tired I can't wiggle. Somewhere in there I write a book? Hah. Couple of people in school you don't like? Grandpa told me once there'd always be one or two bad things I'd have to take to get the goodies. Life's just that way. Don't let "those few" stop you from being a winner, eh? Beau talks eloquently now. He's brilliant. But he gets hurt too much. Always hitting & bumping his head on things. Julio must be a right guy -- if you and Lorrie pass on him. No, I didn't say I have 150 in the lotas. Only 22. My first one I gave the no. 101, so he wouldn't feel lonely. Too bad Jim accidentally broke the TV set. Well, accidents will happen. I love you too, pal. Be a good boy. You know how. Love, Dad. 08/07/2025 17:24 === Page 19 of 38 April 13, 1967 Kids - read this 1, 2, 3, 4 sequence pics of Martha back to me. Thought you'd appreciate seeing them. Love, Dad Russell Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Dear Russell: (1) In my predictions for 1967...I predicted a possible large earthquake for Denver (one of three cities) and it just had its largest quake in history, 5 1/2 on the Richter Scale. But the damage I "saw" in my mind did not materialize. (2) One of the predictions I made to the four office girls has come to pass...that the UFO's would be seen and reported on a big scale. They sure were. Last Saturday on the radio, KYW, it was reported that hundreds of school children and their teachers watched a flying saucer maneuver for ten minutes in Florida. That same night on Channel 3, TV, the same announcement was made. Not one word in the local papers, or the N.Y. Times, or the Miami or Tampa newspapers. Not a word one. Which shows what a tremendous suppression job someone is doing on the news. But there is more. While checking the Miami paper I discovered that last Friday a Phantom Jet crashed there. This was not reported in the local papers or N.Y. Times - further, on Saturday, the day of the UFO, an airliner with over 100 people had a close call and had to belly-land at the Miami Airport. This was not reported in any of the above-mentioned papers..just the Florida papers. Therefore, in keeping track of my airplane incidents I am not getting the news in the local papers or the N.Y. Times. So I can't tell how many planes the Si's are forcing down, because "they" now seem to be restricting that sort of news to local areas. It's something new. (3) Martha saw that "creature" that dropped down beside her on the balcony not long ago...in our kitchen the other night. It popped its head out from underneath the stove. She said it had an odd "band" that ran up the middle of its face back over its head. She had never in her life seen any animal like it, if that is what it was. I couldn't find it, but I know her, and she was not imagining it. (4) Am "planting the seeds" now for beautiful hurricanes, to come sweeping and swooping in on the Electro (Florida) target in the weeks and months ahead. Am working especially for another "earliest hurricane on record to hit the U.S. mainland." Well, I was successful last year...why not again? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:24 === Page 20 of 38 Friday, April 21, 1967 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA Listed as follows are the rockets, satellites, etc., that have been destroyed, harassed, or their mission ruined..........since I began working with "PR"..........the "intelligence behind Nature" which turned out to be UFO intelligences: (Not exactly in the order ruined): Saturn rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 OGO-A (Orbiting Geo. Observ.) Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman I Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 3A Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor) Snapshot - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure (but still managed to get up and down) OSO Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-15 Experimental Plane Thor Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, with 4 Satellites piggy-back Gemini 6 wrecked; astronauts managed to escape. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. OAO - Orbiting Astron. Laboratory Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape K. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage Apollo Space Craft, Cape K. Lunar Orbiter II, 12/66 Apollo Upper Stage and Gantry blew up, Sacramento, 1/67 Biosatellite I, from Cape K., lost in space. Essa 4 Satellite, failed, 1/67 Space Capsule in Texas, 1/67 Super-Titan Piggy-Back Rocket, blew up after launch, 8/66 Surveyor II, had to be blown up after launch, 9/66 Lunar Orbiter I, failed to complete mission. at Cape K., destroyed, 10/66 Gemini 12 - made flight but seriously harassed by breakdowns and mechanical failures, 11/66 "Handyman" Camera Satellite, up from Cape K., failed to orbit, 4/67 Surveyor 3, readied to shoot at Cape K., found so full of "bugs" had to be returned to West Coast as useless. === Page 21 of 38 4/21/67 p 2 Page Two Now let us look at the devastation among NASA personnel...not in space at all. Dryden, Deputy director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed in crash. One Astronaut killed by a bird that flew into his plane. Two Astronauts killed in plane crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. Three Astronauts killed in Apollo mishap at Cape K. Kris-Kraft, NASA head, plus 13 top NASA officials, attacked by gunman on plane. We must add the destruction by fire of The Space Eye, only one of its kind in the world, in Cape K. area. Also we must add the hurricanes which attacked: Hurricane Cleo Hurricane Dora - all three sideswiped Cape Kennedy Hurricane Dora Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape K. for a time. Hurricane Hilda made a bullseye on the NASA Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy made a bullseye on the Michoud Space Complex, and also made a bullseye on NASA's Bahamas setup. The ones that got away...got by the Si's (UFO intelligences) McNamara's Minutemen from silo, Cape K. Gemini from Cape K., 1/'65 Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape K., 12/'64 OSO, 1/2/65 Cape Rocket, 2/17 Cape Rocket, 2/18 Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 New Polaris, Cape K. Surveyor Moon Rocket Lani-Bird II That's it. === Page 22 of 38 4/21/67 p3 Page Three Let's recap. I notified Cape Kennedy and other government agencies in 1964...that Cape K. would be attacked by hurricanes, lightning strikes, and all shots going up from there would be affected by "PK" (now explained as Other Dimensional Effects from the UFO's). When I talked with you in Washington...I warned you that this force against NASA would increase as time went by. It did, and the latest explosive culmination of the force was the Apollo disaster with the loss of the three Astronauts and the program delayed for a year...not to mention the other disastrous side-effects. As you know...after my warnings...lightning struck a lightning-proof pad at CapeK...and the next year (the day I went on the Jack McKinney radio show here) lightning again struck a rocket pad, actually striking some workers on the pad. Again, lightning struck very near Gemini 5...or actually struck the wiring. Speaking for the Si's...I can assure NASA that they will create more "Apollo disasters" in the future, and keep the NASA program in a semi-helpless state...until their wishes are met, and you know what that is. Govt. aid to me, their middle-man and spokesman, to enable me to meet with them and set up a meeting with top govt. officials. There is no possible way humans can cope with the Si's and their effects from another dimension. There is no possible way we can force the Si's to change their minds...or make them do anything in our way, only their way. The Air Force and the U.S. Govt. proper have also been severely racked up by the Si's...but this report concerns only NASA. It is much later, in Si time, than NASA thinks. I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again...somebody had better get together with me, in a constructive way. The future of NASA depends upon it. NASA has already lost billions of dollars in destroyed space work, and lost good men...from the strange workings of the Si's, who brought it about...and are enabling me to tell you about it these past three years. It's way past time...someone in NASA listened, and paid attention. Remember when I warned you in your letter that the Si's said...what if they destroyed NASA? Then after that Kris Kraft and all the officials had a close call on the airplane with the kid who put a gun to Kraft's head and pulled the trigger, then shot through the floor of the plane? And in the Apollo disaster...this, in a big general way, very badly crippled NASA. You see my point. The Si's are not limited to one method of attack...they utilize unlimited methods of attack. Quite unlike humans. Sincerely, PK-Man Owens === Page 23 of 38 April 2, 1967 Mr. Trotwood, P.A.S.A. Today I communicated with the SI's (saucer intelligences) and asked them to allow the launching of the giant camera-carrying whatever it is next week..........to go unopposed by them, the SI's. For I happen to know they are planning to destroy it. Their answer was.....for NASA, or the U.S. Govt., to furnish me with the money I need to become isolated to meet them, for one year.....then they will consider deflecting their destructive mechanisms away from Cape Kennedy to allow experiments there to succeed. I reminded them that recently I had a bit of luck in bringing their story out to the public. And they told me they would pay back the U.S. Govt. in kind, in their own way, for this. But they are adamant about the Cape. I sincerely urge NASA to think.....contact me Monday or Tuesday, before the Cape shot.....and arrange to honor the SI's wishes. P. K. Enn (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens Kids - I'm on TV for one hour, prime time, Sun. night, April 16, 10 PM - Channel 48, John Bandy Show. Several drawbacks to the program, but the SI's got their message across fully. === Page 24 of 38 Sunday, April 23, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, Org. of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Another one of my predictions has come true...amazingly...and took two years to do so. In No. 16 of the files that you xerox'd, read my letter to George Clark, CIA, dated April 11, 1965, and I quote the last part of it as follows: "And Nature (the Si's) to show you its omniscience - warns that U.S. personnel in Viet Nam, in the future, instead of being attacked with explosives - will be attacked with silent weapons, individually. Watch for blowguns.........." Today, April 23, 1967, in the Phila. Bulletin, appeared the following news clip: "USE POISON DARTS, VIET CONG URGED. Saigon, April 23 (AP)- Vietcong documents captured recently by American troops suggested that terrorists begin utilizing poison darts and blowguns as a means of assassination, the Army reported Sunday. The weapons were particularly recommended for use in Saigon and other crowded cities, and at night, when a gunshot would attract attention and possibly result in capture of the terrorist." PK Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:34 === Page 25 of 38 Lorne, Rick, Pat April 6, 1967 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just as I told you would happen in my letter to you of April 2, "Handyman" was destroyed for its purpose. It was supposed to go up Tuesday night at 9:27. How come it went up on Wednesday night? Not that it would make any difference to the Si's. And so another valuable space rocket bites the dust...because N.A.S.A. continues to ignore the Si's wishes. It is too bad my letter was not given favorable action by N.A.S.A, because right now "Handyman" would be up there percolating and in good condition...instead of hanging up there a piece of useless junk. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens This is red-hot kids - you've got my April 2 letter in your file. Love, Dad === Page 26 of 38 April 2, 1967 Mr. Westwood, N.A.S.A. Today I communicated with the Si's (saucer intelligences) and asked them to allow the launching of the giant camera-carrying whatever it is next week...to go unopposed by them, the Si's. For I happen to know they are planning to destroy it. Their answer was...for NASA, or the U.S. Govt., to furnish me with the money I need to become isolated to meet them, for one year...then they will consider deflecting their destructive mechanisms away from Cape Kennedy to allow experiments there to succeed. I reminded them that recently I had a bit of luck in bringing their story out to the public. And they told me they would pay back the U.S. Govt. in kind, in their own way, for this. But they are adamant about the Cape. I sincerely urge NASA to think...contact me Monday or Tuesday, before the Cape shot...and arrange to honor the Si's wishes. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. LATER... (2) Rocket Trouble Handyman In Poor Orbit CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., April 6 (Thursday) (UPI) -- A new Handyman satellite ran into rocket trouble Wednesday night and was stranded in a poor orbit that was expected to hamper its mission. The satellite, designed to stretch four booms to a record 251 feet in orbit, fell victim to an errant Agena upper-stage rocket that failed to drive the spacecraft properly into its planned 6900-mile-high circular path. It left it, instead, in a long, egg-shaped path. The trouble was blamed on a fuel valve that failed to close properly. Scientists received an indication that there was a problem a few minutes after launch, but this was not confirmed until three hours later. The multipurpose moonlet, equipped with a pair of weather cameras, was supposed to soar into a circular orbit 6900 miles high. To reach it, the Agena had to fire twice and coast a record one hour and 40 minutes between firings. The indication of trouble was radioed back from the rocket as it shut down its engine for the first time. The satellite was the second of five Applications Technology Satellites designed to test new techniques for future weather and communications spacecraft. U.S. Satellite Is Stranded In Wrong Orbit for Test Cape Kennedy, Fla., April 6 (AP)--A $9 million U. S. satellite circled the globe in the wrong orbit today, its mission ruined by a rocket engine failure. The failure apparently doomed a plan for the satellite to transmit television pictures from space that could be seen "live" on television sets in American homes. The satellite--called ATS for Application Technology Satellite--rode an Atlas-Agena rocket into space last night from Cape Kennedy. The Agena upper stage hurled the 815-pound payload into a preliminary orbit ranging from 114 to about 7,000 miles high, but after it fired, a fuel valve failed to close. With the valve open, the engine could not ignite a second time to shove the payload into a 7,000 mile-high circular orbit, and it continued in the long elliptical path. However, the satellite, as planned, deployed six long stabilization booms that gave it the appearance of a giant spider and the nickname of "Daddy Longlegs." The booms, extending to a span of 251 feet, were part of an experiment to use the earth's gravity as a means of keeping one side of the satellite always facing earth. But they were designed to operate at the high circular orbit. In the circular orbit, the earth's gravity pull would have been the same all the way around. But in an elliptical orbit, the pull varied in relation to the changing distance from the earth, causing the satellite to spin out of control. A television camera aboard the craft relayed pictures of the boom deployment to a ground station in Australia. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had hoped to use this camera to transmit live pictures from space to home viewers through the TV networks. === Page 27 of 38 Sunday, April 16, 1967 Mr. Ed Hervey, WCAU Dear Ed: Last week a plane crashed in the Pa. mountains. Not a word of it in the papers...heard all about it on KYW radio. The plane crashed, and the man in it was not hurt. He managed to find help, and was taken to a hospital for examination. Hours later they found out he'd been in a plane crash. But they couldn't get back to the plane that night because of heavy fog. In the morning when the authorities found the plane in the remote mountain area...all its instruments had been removed. Now who do you suppose did that? It could easily have been the Si's...to examine the instruments to see how better they can bring down planes without killing anyone. Now let's look at our plane record since I last wrote you about Johnson's plane trouble. "KENTUCKY CRASH KILLS 9 ON PLANE" - Lexington, Ky. April 3. It was run by Piedmont Airlines and Lexington Air Taxi Service. What was interesting was that Piedmont would not identify the passengers, and Lexington refused to name the pilot. "PLANE CRASHES IN FOG, PILOT NOT BADLY HURT" - Quakertown, April 7. Man crashed in his plane; only had some face cuts. "5 AMERICANS MISSING ON FLIGHT IN LAOS" - plane and Americans vanished. "JET LANDS 105 SAFELY WHILE ENGINE BURNS" - N.Y., April 8, an Eastern Airlines jet with 105 people aboard made an emergency landing at Kennedy International Airport after one of the plane's engines burst into fire after takeoff. Passengers climbed down ladders. No injuries. "ICBM DESTROYED" - Vandenberg AFB, "A malfunction forced Air Force scientists to destroy a Minuteman ICBM. "TEXAS WINDS DAMAGE 100 ARMY HELICOPTERS" - Mineral Wells. "A base spokesman said winds up to 70 miles per hour battered Downing Army Heliport" and wrecked about 100 Army helicopters. Now, get this...Friday, April 7, a Phantom Jet crashed at Avon Park out of Miami, Fla. Next day hundreds of school children and their teachers watched, in broad daylight, a flying saucer play peekaboo with them outside their school for ten full minutes. The saucer would go behind a row of trees...hover up in full view...go down again...etc. That same day, on the front pages of the Tampa Tribune and Miami papers it was reported that an United Airlines jet with 102 aboard made an emergency belly landing at MacDill AFB. They put down foam but the plane missed the foam...and landed okay anyway. No injuries. I had to get all this news from the Florida papers about the planes; nothing in the local papers or N.Y. Times. The UFO sighting came from KYW radio and Channel 3 TV, Phila. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 17:34 === Page 28 of 38 Sunday, April 16, 1967 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, NASA has suffered the tragedy at the Cape with the astronauts... and just lost the giant camera-carrying satellite...and still have chosen to ignore the Si's, and myself. Therefore I can only say that the usual is going to happen...all of the Si's ODE forces will be brought to bear on the Essa shot going up tomorrow for the soft-landing on the moon. They usually get their NASA rocket; only miss very occasionally. So am sure disaster will overtake tomorrow's shot...the Essa rocket with its built-in shovel. The Si's will be after it, to destroy its mission. Interesting that Al Capp, the cartoonist, has a man bringing down NASA shots with double-whammys. Wonder how he stumbled on that plot format? Amazing...the Govt. refuses to give me $5,000 to carry out the Si's wishes...and loses billions. Well, that is exactly why the U.S. Govt. at present is doing so brilliantly at home and abroad, politically and militarily. Brilliant thinking. Save the nail, and lose the horse, and thus the battle. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 29 of 38 May 7, 1967 Mr. Leonard S. Buccellato 444 Saddle Lane GrossePointe Woods Michigan 48236 Dear Leonard: Would you believe...Leonard is 15 years old? I wouldn't. Ye gads. Thank you for the most intelligent letter, Leonard. Let's start with the end-question first. "Should the people know of my 'mission' and of the intelligences." Leonard, they had better know...the future of the U.S., and ultimately the world depends upon it. I am the only human able to communicate with the Si's and prove it...and the Si's...well send 50 cents to I. N. Service, Beckley, 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, New Jersey...ask for the Searchlight book on the Sotas and H. Owens...and your questions will be answered, mostly. Do that, Leonard, without fail. Now, to your questions: I, too, believe either that Christ was one of these Si's (saucer intelligences) or a human who could communicate with them and use their powers. How do I know what I am doing is not ESP? Because I have, by now, predicted to scientists and govt. agencies on five occasions the oncoming appearance of UFO's...on some occasions where and when and what they would do. They are from both beyond our universe, and a zone of another dimension here around us, inside our universe. They can appear and disappear at will. Yes, they can use energy to form into matter, and reverse the process. I do not know how. There are different forms of Si's...some can appear instantly..others use craft for other purposes. They key purpose is to set up a base in the U.S., and from that base to stop all wars and bring peace and harmony back to theworld. No, they are not 'up to something'...if they wanted something for themselves, selfishly, they could take it at will...or destroy us at will. Sincerely, H. Owens, President The Sotas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. 08/07/2025 17:37 === Page 30 of 38 May 10, 1967 Dear Rick...you sent a good letter. Your grades were okay...what did you get A and B in? Quite right about your PK ability and autohyp power...I was a teacher and "recharger", and you left your source of knowledge and power. You could tap power on your own...but you don't know how, and I hadn't taught you yet. When you left you were still a "baby" in the ESP world, and I couldn't teach you many things. Yes, I too hope we see each other, soon. Like I say, if so, bring your pool cue and we'll shoot 50 point straight. You can't beat Dad...but you'll sharpen up your game by playing a pro. Later on, you'll be able to beat your Dad. Sure, we ate good on the long trip. We ate better than I've eaten in Phila. Of course, we did eat in a funny way. Ha ha! Linda...well, she's 13, and has a cute personality, probably. Not too much character there, though...but how could there be? Hasn't had a chance to develop yet. You must be drawn to the fun girls, instead of to the "deep" kind. Be interesting to see how that department goes, as you grow up. I didn't mean to be critical of Julio, Rick...I don't even know him. He must be a dandy if you and Lorrie like him...nobody could fool you and Lorrie. You're too sharp. There was some writing on back of your envelope, so am enclosing it, in case it is important to you. Do you have a transistor radio? If not, I will send you one to replace that one we lost in Washington. Don't worry about Martha Ann, our little darling. She died to teach you and Lorrie an important lesson...not to go off and leave loved ones...to cherish those you love. You won't find many loved ones in this old world...they come few and long years between. So stay close, and take care of their love. Dad, the Predicter, warned you after you went off and left her the first time...and I had to drive back 100 miles and find her myself with ESP...that you'd lose her. So it happened. You've got to take care of what you love. Or you'll lose it. But...the way to look at it is this...you had lots of real love with Martha Ann, and lots of happy memories. Nobody or no thing lasts forever...everything finally passes away...so be happy with the love you had. She gave you, and me, all the love her little heart could give. Could we ask for anything more? And we gave it back to her, and she knew it. She didn't want any more than that. I loved her so much that when she got sick in coast town I was afraid to go near her, or look at her, for fear we would lose her. Funny reaction. Always remember...if you lose somebody you love...don't mourn...but be happy you had their love, and the memories of them. For that is all that really counts. Listen, son, there is a venereal disease epidemic hitting the States. That means, simply...that you can catch horrible disease from any high school girl, or girl...unless you are very careful. Two ways you can catch it...by kissing, or by having sex with them. Wearing rubber prophylactics won't even save you, if they are infected. So, please be careful, for your own sake. And warn Lorrie. Get Pat to enlighten you further, although you could probably enlighten her, and me. It's too important a subject to be bashful or backward about discussing. Am sending some of our recent pictures for you and Lorrie. Be sure and show them to Lorrie, too...they are for both of you. Listen, I want an 8x10 pic of you, and a wallet size. And I will pay, don't argue. Get it done, and let me know the bill. That's an order. Love, Your buddy, Dad Owens === Page 31 of 38 Friday, May 19, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News 303 Fifth Avenue New York, New York Dear Jim: I guess this is the correct place to write, since it was on your stationery. Or should I send your correspondence to Ft. Lee? Anyway, thanks for your card. Will be good to see Saucer News about the middle of June. Will it go on news stands, too? Am asking the Si's to deal NY another power blackout, or show their craft there in a striking way...or do something big and mysterious...before June 22...in NY, to help boost interest in the Convention. Am sure you will get powerful results. Something exciting and unusual. Should affect power and electricity, when it happens. Just one thought, however. I hope there is no misunderstanding on their part. Recently there have been a couple...dozens of tornados instead of the hurricane I asked for, was one. I hope they don't misunderstand this, and demolish New York,...instead of putting on a demonstration. Ted Owens (P K Man) Owens === Page 32 of 38 May 19, 1967 Mr. James E. Webb N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Webb: I refer you to my letter of May 21, 1966, in which I carefully explained...that there would be only failures and catastrophes at Cape Kennedy without the friendship of the UFO intelligences...whom I represent, as an agent. Following that, of course, there has been a horrendous string of lost rockets (Biosatellite, etc etc.) and the astronaut tragedy...and the even worse following catastrophe of both public and Administration wrath toward NASA. A pity that I am not taken seriously. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 33 of 38 Monday, May 22, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News Dear Jim: I quote the following from the New York Times yesterday, May 21, 1967: "ST. ALBANS BLACKED OUT." "St. Albans section of Queens was blacked out for nearly an hour and a half last night in the area bounded by Linden Boulevard, 114th Road and 196th and 202nd Streets." Since I had written you a few days before that, stating that I would ask the Si's to black out New York...it is most interesting that this seems to be a beginning. Remember that...the approach or nearness of their intelligences and/or craft will stop or block most power operations...such as electric, magnetic, electro-magnetic, etc. All the books say it is because of the power from the Si craft, that cars, etc., are stalled with dead batteries and dead radios. But my Si's have explained it to me differently...the Si's exert a force over the area near and around them, to silence all power sources...so that messages cannot be relayed to other points for help, or to attack them. i.e., if your car is on the road at night, and a Si is near...it will stop your car and stop your radio, holding you helpless to signal for help against them. Attack them. P K Man (Owens) === Page 34 of 38 May 26, 1967 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is confirming phone call of today, as follows: Si's state that Israel...and our accompanying problem with Israel...has only one hope. That of Si help. And they offer to give their help at once, to save Israel and bring about peace there. The U.S. Govt. must secure my family, and send me to Israel just as fast as can be done. I am betting, or willing to bet, my life, on the Si's...against Russian brains and weapons in the hands of Egypt, Syria, etc etc. What's the U.S. got to lose to try it? P K Man (Owens) === Page 35 of 38 May 24, 1967 Ida Lewis 108 School Street Morton, Pa. 19070 Dear Ida: If you will look at my 1967 Predictions, you will see that it is beginning to come to pass. I mention "the blackest year for America"...and even now, this is beginning to take place, and will. Either Russia and China, or both, have amply stockpiled Egypt and its cronies with tremendous weapons with which to obliterate Israel. True, Israel has the best military force...but it will be like fighting a tiger with a fly-swatter, when Israel takes on Egypt and its cronies...with their new weapons. Nothing whatever will stop Egypt and its cronies from crushing Israel now. They have been told by Russia and/or China that they will be backed up against the U.S., if it steps in. I predict, therefore, the complete wiping out and obliteration of Israel (much as I like and admire Israel, which has nothing to do with my prediction.) Just as I have predicted the wiping out, and obliteration, of all U.S. peoples in Viet Nam. Now the #1's have a special message: They have told me to pass on the word to the U.S. Govt. that they will demonstrate their control over peoples minds by seeing to the complete and utter humiliation of President Johnson and fellow Democrats at the polls in 1968...if the U.S. survives to get to that point, which is in grave doubt at this time. They will defeat the present Administration leaders with every weapon at their command, the #1's will. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 36 of 38 Monday, May 29, 1967 President Johnson Thesi's told me not to write you any more letters...but I want to confirm a prediction I made...so I might as well add some vital information the si's gave me this afternoon to send to CIA. First, the prediction...see my letter to you of April 5, 1967: (I am talking about "kamikaze" techniques which are going to be adopted by the Viet Cong..." ... to overrun those points with mass suicidal attacks of commandos to silence all communications." The part of my prediction that is yet to come to pass...is the suicidal attacks with planes and ships. But let's get back to the confirmation. In tonight's paper, Phila. Bulletin, UPI, May 29, Saigon: "Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt...three star General, recently assigned to Washington, said the Communists had resorted to suicidal attack against the Allies." Now, today the Si's gave me the following information: Russia has just formulated a new philosophy. They have decided that the U.S. is now weaker than it has been in a long long time, due to confusion in the Administration...conflict between the peoples and the Administration...conflict between the U.S. and foreign countries, etc. They judge the rest of the world is finding the U.S. a villain. And they have discovered if we haven't the brains and the power to settle the hash of N. Vietnam by now, we never will. Plus the fact they have been preparing for nuclear war for years in a reality way (unlike us) by vast underground shelters...and by sneaking agents into our key cities with A-bombs and bacteriological weapons...Trojan horse technique. The A-bombs and bacteriological weapons all to be set into action on a signal from Russia. After all our key cities are stricken, they'll offer to what is left...to come pick up the poor people and put them to work in Russia as slaves. Mind you, not a missile has been fired. If we do lob missiles onto Russia, they will have struck first...their key people will be scattered out in satellite countries...and most of their people will be in under-ground shelters. Ours won't be, when their missiles come. And now, with some new weapons they have, which we do not have, plus the above, they are ready...after all these years. It is no longer a Mexican stand-off, because they are prepared and ready to strike. The Si's thought our U.S. Govt. ought to know this. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 37 of 38 May 29, 1967 Mr. Tim Beckley I. N. Service, Searchlight Dear Tim: Just a note to point out that in my letter to you of January 18, 1967, I said: "Today called them (Roland Swank) and warned of a large earthquake to occur within days, or several weeks at the most, on the West Coast. Will be 6 or above on the Richter scale. A very damaging one. The Si's told me about it today...they will make it happen." The earthquake hit Denver, Colorado, on April 10...later than I had thought. There were widespread reports of damage up to points 120 miles away. The earthquake was so severe it knocked the needle off a seismograph at Regis College in Denver. This was the worst earthquake in history to hit Denver...since it was rated at 5.5 on the Richter scale of 10, and previously the worst quake to hit Denver had been 4.3 on Nov. 21, 1965...so nobody could say, well, this was just another quake. Ted Owens (P K Man) The Sotas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 38 of 38 Monday, May 29, 1967 Lorne Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency, Wash.D.C. Dear George: Was glancing over my files last night...and find that I gave the U.S. Govt. rather accurate warning of the barrel situation the U.S. now finds itself over on the Egypt-Israel problem. (1) In my letter to you of April 15, 1966: "They (the Si's) are getting set to focus their strange wrath now upon the U.S. Govt., or symbols thereof (Note: Israel is an ally). And the U.S. Govt. can consider itself warned in advance...I pick up a thread of something they might have in mind...foreign countries and peoples rising up against us in masses...actively...to the point of a catastrophe...as has never been done before in the history of the United States, and dangerously so...." That was a pretty good call, George, although it did take a year to develop. But not long ago...Nov. 2, 1966, in my letter to Roland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research, I said: "The Si's warn that dead ahead in the near future...the U.S. Govt. is going to be stricken with a dilemma, a quandary, to beat all quandaries. The U.S. will be faced with a unique problem suddenly thrust upon it...and the decision that is made by Johnson and Co. will decide the fate of the U.S., ultimately." "...this happening will be BIG. Something tremendously important." Now, of course, it is clear that the threat of Israel being attacked and wiped out, with all other ramificationsX...is what the above two references pertained to. I had thought it might have been a decision Pres. Johnson made to bomb the Hanoi area...but now I realize this sudden, unexpected twist in the Middle East, which could poleax the U.S. if it develops the way it is going...was what the Si's were warning about. H. Owens (P K Man) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Misc letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/794c695aa3fe54511b3a807b626d0f5d.pdf 4fa77fd5b4829604466ec2a7703147bf https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/051d0d46c4f63978daad7700f7a18065.txt e76f5e319840e20bc930d9cede44f9e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 Love to my "fellow travelers" from Daddy. Owens # FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK BY: Ted H. Owens Suppose a man came to you and said that an earthquake would strike the California coast in a few days...and the very next day a big earthquake on the California coast is reported in all the papers. Then the man comes to you again and says that, in 2 weeks time, by Halloween, he will try to cause a UFO to be seen and reported in the newspapers. And sure enough, on Halloween night a UFO is seen by numerous persons in Camden, N.J. headed for Philadelphia (where the man making these predictions lives) and it is written up in the newspapers, just as the man said it would be. The same man comes to you and says that in the days ahead an early hurricane will appear off Florida...and 5 days later Hurricane Alma appears and hits Florida...the earliest hurricane in history to do so. When Hurricane Inez is born, this man comes to you and tells you that, contrary to what the Weather Bureau says, Inez will turn right at Cuba and go to the U.S. -- IT DOES -- Then, contrary to what the Weather Bureau says, the man says the hurricane will back up and take the same track Hurricane Betsy took last year. WHICH INEZ DOES! The man comes to you and says in the near future President Johnson will have a breakdown in health. In 120 days an unexpected public announcement is made that Johnson will have to have surgery. This same fellow then says that an attack on our warships by the enemy in Viet Nam is imminent...to beware. And sure enough 2 days later North Vietnamese torpedo boats strike with a sneak attack at our aircraft carriers. You are told that within just days a UFO will be seen flying over Philadelphia. In 6 days the now famous "Fireball Over The East Coast" is written up in national magazines and in all the papers. Then he comes to you and says that in the near future the U.S. will suffer a naval catastrophe involving aircraft carriers or submarines...and within 120 days the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany burns; the U.S. Nuclear Sub Nautilus crashes into the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Essex; and altogether there are 10 U.S. Catastrophes involving aircraft carriers and U.S. submarines within this period of time. But all these miraculous predictions are nothing new to you, because this same man has been doing this same thing for TWO years! Over 100 SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIONS ALL INVOLVING MAJOR EVENTS. You would like to try and pooh-pooh all this, but you cannot, because you know the man has given you the predictions IN WRITING ahead of the events...and you know that he has also furnished various government agencies and scientists with the same information, always AHEAD of the event. I am the man making these predictions. The how and what of it all is quite a long and involved account and will be put into print here for the first time. As you might have guessed UFO intelligences were behind all of these predictions, plus over 100 others like them. What you might NOT have guessed is that the UFO intelligences CAUSED all these things to happen. HOW IT ALL STARTED Let's get one thing absolutely straight. I am not a "contactee" in the often thought of way. In the beginning, several years ago, I was. It all began, somehow, in Fort Worth, Texas, where I had sorted out a group of three super-ESP people (one of them a doctor) who were quite advanced in clairvoyance and telepathy. I systematically used hypnotism with them, endeavoring to send their minds to seek out UFOs and establish mental contacts. This they did with considerable success...but that is another story. At that time I lived with my tiny daughter, Lornie, age 8. One particular evening I was out driving along a lonely road in the Texas countryside, with my daughter in the seat next to me, just after dark. Suddenly she said, "Daddy, look, what is that?" and pointed out my driver's window to the left of our car. I took one look, and immediately pulled over to the side of the road and parked. There coming across a field toward us, about 500 feet away, was a cigar-shaped object, with vivid colors streaming from it. White, blue, red and green are the colors I remember strongly now. It seemed to be floating or gliding toward us, making no noise whatsoever. It came fairly close to our car (I would say to within 50 feet or so) then dipped downward and vanished completely. We had watched it for about 2 minutes, I believe. ONLY THE BEGINNING After that evening, strange things began to happen. Ideas began to come to me in a flood. First these ideas helped me to write a book about healing people. Then, as the years passed, something seemed to give me intelligence about national & international events...which came to pass. I thought at first that I had somehow tapped the intelligence behind Nature. I worked with this intelligence, whatever it was, and literally accomplished miracles with it...but that too is another story. (Continued on Next Page) ********** SEARCHLIGHT is an official publication of the INTERPLANETARY NEWS SERVICE issued monthly from 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, N.J. 08901. Each issue contains startling new contact accounts: little men reports, Shaver Mystery, etc. 12 issue subscription $2.00 Editor TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY Assistant Editor JOHN J. ROBINSON FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK is but one such account to be found therein. === Page 2 of 8 Finally I brought my family to Washington, D.C. to place all this information at the service of the United States Government. But they couldn't seem to grasp what on earth it was I was doing, or had. One evening, with the kids (I had my son with me then too) the Intelligence came to me stronger than ever. It told me to give a man I knew in the CIA a message that it would do something at the North/South Pole which would change the electromagnetic field there, and would make the newspapers. They said that when this happened it would be absolute proof of my contact with these then unknown intelligences. Weeks passed and nothing happened. Five months passed... then there it was. The South Pole UFO that parked over the 2 scientific expeditions (making sure it was photographed) altered the electromagnetic equipment at the bases involved. This was of course widely reported on in the newspapers. After this I knew what my contacts were -- UFOs. Shortly after that happened, I received a different sort of intelligence from them, again while seated at the dining table with my two children. I will type it here exactly as it was given to me. INTELLIGENCE FROM AFAR COMMUNICATE First a triangle and rectangle popped into my mind, then the letters A, B and C. I realized that had never happened before... and that the UFOs must be contacting me... so I shushed the kids, grabbed a pencil and paper, and began making notes. The following is what came through at 10 P.M. on Feb. 6th, 1965: "Can't come. Later We'll go find them and blot out." (Here they were talking about some satellites the Government had sent up which the kids and I had been talking about just before the interruption). "When can we meet? We know you. We are friends. Tonight is late, for us. Power low. Keep open mind. We will be back with you. Your needs will be met. A study is being made of how to bring this about. Why are your people crazy? Your earth is disorganized. We would like to help organize it. We did once before, long ago in your time. People wore robes, as you call them, as you call them, then, and wore beards. Hair on their faces." Question: Can you give me an instrument, like a pencil that would do something unusual, that I could use to convince our government of your reality? Answer by Saucer Intelligences: "You could not use what you call a 'pencil' but it is a good idea and we will send you a tool for the purpose. You will know, repeat, know you have talked with us tonight. We will arrange next few days to be seen, by your people, and by that method you will know we are making a signal for you. Count the number of different places we are seen and this will be the number of days before we are able to contact you again. A magnetic condition makes it hard for us to get through to you at all times. You have a question?" Question: Yes, I need money, say $5,000 to buy a car and go across country to meet you. This is money (holding up a bill I had in my pocket). Answer by Saucer Intelligences: "Yes, we know money. But do not use it. (They converse among themselves) Can you use diamonds?" I immediately answered that these could be used to obtain the needed cash. They replied that where they came from they had lots of diamonds. My suggestion was that they fly over me and drop the diamonds. Their reply was as follows: "We will think of it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons." To which I responded that I have tried but to no use. Their answer was a fitting: "Yes, we did not think. Goodbye now, friend." So concluded their contact of Feb. 6th, 1966. One month, to the very day, they again saw fit to communicate with me this time with the following trade of words: Saucer Intelligences: "We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (The kids and I were listening to the radio. I switched it off.) Can't get through tonight very good... very well. Do you have a car machine?" Answer: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That's why I need money. Saucer Intelligences: "We are going to take care of that... money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long (Note: This is one of the things that has NOT come to pass. In fact if anything I have been very much without money since that time.) We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down?" Answer: Yes, in my back yard. I'll let you in. Saucer Intelligences: "Will you be alone?" Answer: Yes I'll have my family stay upstairs. Saucer Intelligence: "No harm will come to us?" Answer: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near by back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased and anxious to meet you. Saucer Intelligences: "Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people... your government... that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep." I somehow managed to blurt out a thank you. === Page 3 of 8 directed me to a YMCA typewriter, and had me type out a message from them to the United States. They told me to take it to the radio show, and they would see that the message got to the people. I typed it, next day went to the radio. I enclosed it. It would be good if you could print it, but if you cannot, all right. Since that time I have been amazing a great many people, including radio commentators, scientists...and assuredly the U.S. Government contacts, with predictions of national and international events ahead, which came to pass. And even more amazing...when UFO's would be seen and written up in the papers. Of course the Saucer Intelligence gave me all the information. In these predictions of national and international events ahead, which came to pass. And even more amazing...when UFO's would be seen and written up in the papers. In these predictions the Si's have demonstrated their tremendous powers. Including the changing of weather conditions all over the U.S., the guiding of hurricanes, the making of hurricanes, and many other unbelievable things. They would tell me to write up my contacts and they would cause a California earthquake within days or weeks...and sure enough, California had several big ones. They would tell me they would make an early hurricane off Florida, to tell my contacts...and sure enough...Hurricane Alma appeared, the earliest on record to hit U.S. They told me to warn the Government the communists were preparing to attack our ships off Viet Nam, our carriers. Just two days later, they struck with a sneak torpedo boat attack. But I had called the CIA and passed the message on and when the Reds struck the U.S. was waiting for them...and knocked them out of the water. Always I have written to the government, scientists, and friends before the various happenings, so there would be a concrete record of it all. And it came to pass. ********** JOIN THE SOTA'S ********** Organized and directed by UFO intelligence, according to communications received. These instructions may enable you to become a UFO contact! Beautiful UFO ring, bracelet or necklace plus membership, etc. Write Ted Owens, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Penna. ********** MY TRIP TO WASHINGTON I went to Washington, D.C. in 1965 where I had come all the way from California to present a gift they could not buy with all the gold in the United States Mint. Now, I had been writing the government for almost a year, and they KNEW I had something tremendous because so many of the major events I had predicted in advance had come to pass. I spent hours with George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency. My two children, Lornie and Rick, were with me there to attest to many of the unbelievable things that had occurred. Mr Clark was a fine and intelligent man and paid the closest attention. Another time at the CIA office I was interviewed by a Mr. Dunn. At NASA I spent hours with Mr. Eastwood, of Inventions, because much of the proof the Saucer Intelligence have been giving me involved NASA. But they refused to take action or act on what I had told them. I was offering to them to place these tremendous powers in the hands of the U.S. Government. So meeting my defeat in Washington I headed for Philadelphia. Here the Saucer Intelligence gave me a plan - which I mentioned just before - of making it storm. The Philadelphia Bulletin printed the story and after that I appeared on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" radio show heard on WCAU. For four hours I was grilled by Mr. McKinney and his assistant, who attempted to find a major flaw in my work. They couldn't. They even called one of several witnesses to my predictions and had him verify what I was saying right on the program. Several days later I was asked to appear on the Ed Harvey "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, again on WCAU and was asked to make it storm then, just three days away. The weather was quite clear when they called and asked. I said I would try, and signalled the Saucer Intelligence and the day I appeared on the show Philadelphia was nearly ripped apart by a thunder, rain and lightning attack! Still, unbelievable, nothing came of all this. A full year later I was invited on the show again. This time to attest to the amazing accuracy of my predictions. But still no word from the United States Government would be forth coming. Yet many more strange and "out of this world" experiences were about to happen which would prove the Saucer Intelligence were with me. ********** NEW BOOK! (HARD COVERED) STAR OF THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT Long John By Dr. Dan W. Fry & Joe Pyne shows! A noted scientist and international lecturer voices his opinions on Flying Saucers and tells of his trip in a UFO and his visits with an alien from outer space. The only book of its kind ever published. Photos...$3.95 ORDER FROM: Timothy G. Beckley, 3 Courtland St., New Brunswick, N.J. === Page 4 of 8 Saucer Intelligence: "You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one." Question: My child is sick. (My baby, little Beau, had just come down with a terrible attack of red spots and high fever, diagnosed as German Measles) Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (this was a girl written up in the newspapers as given up as dying by the doctors, that I had been permitted, under police guard, to go visit her hospital room and use the mysterious healing method that had "come to me" in Fort Worth years before.) will you heal them? (The baby got well almost instantly. The girl, previously given up for dead, because of a crushed skull began to recover and is now living in West Virginia. Saucer Intelligence: "We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again." Question: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? Saucer Intelligence: "Many times." Question: When are you coming to see me? Saucer Intelligence: "Tonight we will try. Flash your light upward (my flashlight) every hour as long as you can." Question: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? Saucer Intelligence: "We can." I then told them that I would "leave a light on so you can see.". To this they replied: "No turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. .........." Question: Where are you from? Saucer Intelligence: "Some...Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye now." Several hours later they contacted me again, that same evening. This time their message was: Saucer Intelligence: "Do not go away, far... Viet Nam (I was trying to do so at the time, through the government). Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully...there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life. Of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell (means a human body) like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shellbodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not." Question: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? (By "great" I didn't mean money and power but doing away with murders, gang wars, teen age vidance, wholesale corruption in high and low places...a return to great moral values this country once had.) Saucer Intelligence: "We can and we will. But you must not go there (Viet Nam). Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish to communicate with fish? (They flashed a picture of people training dolphins.) We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us." I immediately told them I would be. But they never came, and I was most disappointed. However, from the happenings at the South Pole I knew that it was not imagination. Our money got short...and Lornie and Rick, my two teenagers, went off to California at the invitation of my ex-wife, who offered to see that they got into college. This was against my wishes but the kids wanted to go, so I let them. And we moved to Philadelphia. Then things began to happen fast. USED AS A TOOL OF THE S.I.'s Here the UFO intelligence went much farther then the "contactee" stage. They trained me. They gave me the tool with which to prove, without a doubt, to the U.S. Government agencies, that they were real and were major events happen. What I am, instead of a contactee, is the ONLY human representative of the Saucer Intelligence on this earth...able to receive intelligence from these people and transmit it to humans...AND PROVE OUT THE INTELLIGENCE THAT HAS BEEN PASSED! In Philadelphia the Saucer Intelligence told me to write the papers and say that I would make it storm. I did so, naming the dates, and they turned loose some fine storms (this during the height of the drought.) The papers wrote this up, and I was asked to appear on a big radio show in Philadelphia. The night before I was to go on radio "they" contacted me, === Page 5 of 8 past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of RAYS LIKE THEY HAVE, or whatever it is they have, and hurt them or something. So that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." January 12, some 5 months later (evidently they waited so the government wouldn't set a trap) they appeared at the Wanaque Reservoir, near here, and were watched by police, the Mayor, the Civil Defense Director, and countless people, as they stayed ALL NIGHT in the area, maneuvering with their craft...AND THEY SHOWED THEIR RAY! They shined it down onto the ice and the police and others who went to the spot found a large hole burned through the thick ice. On April 19th, 1966 I wrote my contacts: "When you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." Only six days later, the famous "Fireball" flashed over the East Coast...and over Philadelphia. Newsclippings have read "flaming Meteor Seen over Philadelphia" and it was written up in national magazines and debated upon whether it was a UFO or an actual meteor. WHY THEY CONTACTED ME As I have gotten it from "them" rather spottily they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up, they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability by the lab there. But the Si's still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth, and then my work in the field of hypnosis in Fort Worth, and then my work in allied fields, that finally made it possible for them to get through to me, finally. I might add at this point that years ago I did quite a bit of wondering by myself over desert and mountain even across Mexican desert where I am sure they must have contacted me. I recall now several instances when I was alone on a mountain top, or on a desert...under the stars wrapped in a blanket...when various "odd" things occurred. ODD EXPERIENCES You may be interested to know my wife and I have had a small circle of spinning vivid-colored light (many colors) in our apartment in Philadelphia. We woke up one night and there it was suspended overhead in our room. We were NOT dreaming...we watched it, fascinated, until it went away. Then she and I saw some strange things, separately, in our apartment. And just a few Monday's ago she went out onto the fire escape outside our windows for a breath of fresh air and something alive, about two feet long or high, dropped down from nowhere onto the fire escape not more than three feet from her and just crouched there. She dashed inside, scared to death. She saw it fall...heard the thump as it landed...and watched it for a split second as it crouched there, moving only slightly...then ran for dear life. Also we have gotten what looks like long insect-like antennae on our TV screen many times...different programs, so it has nothing to do with the film. These twitching antennae move with life-like movements. Also some other odd things have appeared on there, too. We are fairly certain this must be another way for the Saucer Intelligence to let us both know they are watching over us. EDITOR'S NOTE Timothy Green Beckley It is the stated policy of the Interplanetary News Service neither to accept or reject the various contact stories. We merely print them when they appear to be of interest to most of our members. So it is with the above. We believe that truths unacknowledged "by the many are to be found in the opinions of even the most unlikely." In being fair with Mr. Owens we must state that we have on file notarized statements from at least two persons attesting to the fact that his predictions - exactly as stated above - were made in advance. Whether this is strictly "chance" or proof of actual contact with the "saucer intelligence" must be up to the individual reader to decide. We are interested in hearing from readers of this paper both pro and con on the U.F.O. topic and offer you the same opportunity that Ted Owens has been extended. === Page 6 of 8 MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...FROM THE FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE Sent through Ted H. Owens We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for year in your time, and now he knows much... and will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known for how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back. It would be as if you were trying to teach you earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this is their exact words). Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it to survive. But we can only do so if you listen and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so shall we help the human friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the "Rain Maker". If it pleases him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the drought for a little, and let it rain where it is needed. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you..we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have no blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body electricity at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning it is good. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our crafts in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead, because you do not know it but we will have our craft there as well...we have methods that make our ship so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. You ask if there is anything else, earth friend...Just that, we are happy, and excited for you, and your people, and for us. Be patient and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human friend-link. That is all. === Page 7 of 8 MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........FROM THE FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE Sent through Ted H. Owens We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for year in your time, and now he knows much... and will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known for how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back. It would be as if you were trying to teach you earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this is their exact words). Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it to survive. But we can only do so if you listen and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rain fall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so shall we help the human friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the "Rain Maker". If it pleases him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the drought for a little, and let it rain where it is needed. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you..we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have no blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body electrically at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning it is good. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our crafts in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead, because you do not know it but we will have our craft there as well...we have methods that make our ship so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. You ask if there is anything else, earth friend...Just that, we are happy, and excited for you, and your people, and for us. Be patient and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human friend-link. That is all. === Page 8 of 8 past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of RAYS LIKE THEY HAVE, or whatever it is they have, and hurt them or something. So that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." January 12, some 5 months later (evidently they waited so the government wouldn't set a trap) they appeared at the Wanaque Reservoir, near here, and were watched by police, the Mayor, the Cival Defense Director, and countless people, as they stayed ALL NIGHT in the area, maneuvering with their craft...AND THEY SHOWED THEIR RAY! They shined it down onto the ice and the police and others who went to the spot found a large hole burned through the thick ice. On April 19th, 1966 I wrote my contacts: "When you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." Only six days later, the famous "Fireball" flashed over the East Coast...and over Philadelphia. Newsclippings have read "flaming Meteor Seen over Philadelphia" and it was written up in national magazines and debated upon whether it was a UFO or an actual meteor. WHY THEY CONTACTED ME As I have gotten it from "them" rather spottily they had worked with me since early childhood, attempting to get through to me. As I grew up, they kept trying. I worked for Dr. Rhine at Duke in the ESP experimentation there and was found to be loaded with paranormal ability by the lab there. But the Si's still hadn't gotten through to me. It seems to have been a combination of the close approach of their UFO to our car in Fort Worth, and then my work in the field of hypnosis in Forth Worth, and then my work in allied fields, that finally made it possible for them to get through to me, finally. I might add at this point that years ago I did quite a bit of wondering by myself over desert and mountain even across Mexican desert where I am sure they must have contacted me. I recall now several instances when I was alone on a mountain top, or on a desert...under the stars wrapped in a blanket...when various "odd" things occurred. ODD EXPERIENCES You may be interested to know my wife and I have had a small circle of spinning vivid-colored light (many colors) in our apartment in Philadelphia. We woke up one night and there it was suspended overhead in our room. We were NOT dreaming...we watched it, fascinated, until it went away. Then she and I saw some strange things, separately, in our apartment. And just a few Monday's ago she went out onto the fire escape outside our windows for a breath of fresh air and something alive, about two feet long or high, dropped down from nowhere onto the fire escape not more than three feet from her and just crouched there. She dashed inside, scared to death. She saw it fall...heard the thump as it landed...and watched it for a split second as it crouched there, moving only slightly...then ran for dear life. Also we have gotten what looks like long insect-like antennae on our TV screen many times...different programs, so it has nothing to do with the film. These twitching antennae move with life-like movements. Also some other odd things have appeared on there, too. We are fairly certain this must be another way for the Saucer Intelligence to let us both know they are watching over us. EDITOR'S NOTE Timothy Green Beckley It is the stated policy of the Interplanetary News Service neither to accept or reject the various contact stories. We mearly print them when they appear to be of interest to most of our members. So it is with the above. We believe that truths unacknowledged "by the many are to be found in the opinions of even the most unlikely." In being fair with Mr. Owens we must state that we have on file notarized statements from at least two persons attesting to the fact that his predictions - exactly as stated above - were made in advance. Wheather this is strickly "chance" or proof of actual contact with the "saucer intelligence" must be up to the individual reader to decide. We are interested in hearing from readers of this paper both pro and con on the U.F.O. topic and offer you the same opportunity that Ted Owens has been extended. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1967 Flying Saucer Intelligence Speak https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f7ff30b5ce960113b13dedf56bc28ad8.pdf 8f2165d07f006c27f3ecc02d89564723 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/10cd2291dcc21ad9626399942b695c51.txt a4a1c259ea35aa2dc1f6ba479f618764 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 220 Giving Thanks Jeff === Page 2 of 220 Dear Jeff, I know my father's spirit is very grateful for all you've done and are doing now with Lance on his work. It seems many of his predictions have come about or are in the process. Doesn't appear to be any space or time to predictions! They come about in their own time. I felt so guilty not responding to his many requests. Rick and I were 14+15 to 16+17 For all you are and for what you do. Thank you! all my best, Lori P.S. all in chronological order with exception of newspaper clippings === Page 3 of 220 FILE January 7, 1966 2/7/66 Editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Dear Sir: I had read so much in the newspapers about Consensuses being taken on President Johnson and the U. S. Government...saying that President's popularity is high, and that the people are backing the U.S. Government's action in Viet Nam. Well, this made me very curious. So, last weekend, instead of watching pro football, I flew down to Viet Nam ... to take a consensus there among the peoples, in order to satisfy my own curiosity. The first person I interviewed was a beautiful, sexy Vietnamese bar-girl in a bar in Saigon. Me: "Pardon, Miss, may I ask you two questions?" She: "Five dolla." Me: "Just for answering two questions?" She: "Be quick, fella. My time worth plenty money, you bet." Me: "Very well. First, what do you think of President Johnson?" She: "He cute fella. Send plenty GI boy here with plenty money. I like." Me: "How about Viet Nam? Are you in favor of the war here?" (While I am talking, she leans over and drops a handful of powdered glass in the drink of a GI paratrooper who is looking the other way.) She: "War fine. Plenty GI boy, plenty money. You bet." Me: "I saw you put that poison in the paratrooper's glass. How come?" She: "Not mean nothing. Is just chore. Viet Cong make me do little chores. I no do chore, they not let me entertain Gi's upstairs in my room, make plenty money, you bet. Go way now. I losing money on you." So I made my notations in my notebook, then slunk out into the street, slightly depressed, where I met a Buddhist priest. I asked him about Johnson He: "Ugh." I asked him to please clarify his remark, or at least, quality it a little. 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 4 of 220 4/7/66 P2 He: "My people say they think farming and family life lots more jolly fun than having war. They willing stop fighting any time, they say." At that moment a helicopter comes flying over, and the pilot leans out and sees the Viet Cong talking to me. With a roar forty Phantom airplanes and twenty-five B-52 bombers come down out of the clouds and drop blockbusters and napalm and printed brochures all over the villagers. It's a mess. I make a notation in my book that the villagers are against the war in Viet Nam. I pick up one of the printed brochures, wipe the blood off, and read: PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE WE ARE GOING TO BOMB. LEAVE AT ONCE, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY. SOON WE ARE GOING TO DROP BIG BOMBS ON YOU, BUT FIRST WE WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO RUN. BE SURE TO PACK A LUNCH, AND DON'T FORGET THE CHILDREN. I toss the brochure away, then walk to the highway, where I thumb a ride in a jeep full of paratroopers, all wearing bloody bandages. Me: "Say, men, will you do me a big favor?" They stare at me. "I am taking a consensus down here in Viet Nam. Ha ha. Well, just let me ask you two questions...now...how do you like President Johnson?" He: "I'm in charge of this group. You can put it in the papers that we dearly love President Johnson. I, personally, carry a picture of him in my wallet, next to my heart. We all love the President, don't we, men?" They all nod, all except one GI, who is holding his head on with his hands because his head has been cut off at the neck. He manages to tip his helmet, though. Me: "That's great! I will make the notation here that the President is very popular with the U.S. troops in Viet Nam. Now, the next question: Are you in favor of the war here in Viet Nam?" He: "Oh, we sure are, aren't we, men! We're having a ball here, right?" They all nod, without changing expression. One tips his helmet. Me: "Fine, then I'll put that down, that the U.S. troops are all back of the U.S. Government in the Viet Nam war." But suddenly the leader reaches over and takes my notebook away from me. He: "You won't need this any more, fella." Me: "What?" I am shocked to the core. He: "No, we need it worse. ; Ran out of paper in our latrine. This'll do fine." So I had to return to the U.S. without a true consensus. Like they have here. 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 5 of 220 Saturday January 8, 1966 Copy - Rick Lorne Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Just a note to remind you...that messages from the Si's are not just empty words. When they warned, in my letter to you December 28...that "one disaster area coming up within a few days, or a few weeks" - they weren't kidding. New York has, within the past few days, become a real disaster area.... losing approx. one billion dollars, and now getting help from President Johnson (in my letter I told you President Johnson would have to give his attention to the stricken area coming up.) Mr. Dunn of your Agency said that possibly it might be a mistake, in the Government rejecting my services (with the Si's.) Just a quick glance at my records reveals one billion dollars in damages from Hurricane Betsy, which I could easily have taken out to sea without contact with land. Numerous NASA disasters...so costly that price could hardly be put on them. Now a one-billion dollar or more disaster in New York. ALL SINCE I TALKED WITH MR. DUNN. AND ALL OF WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. No one in Government has yet had the brains or intelligence to check out my claims that I can void these disasters...they KNOW, from my predictions in advance, that the disasters are coming. Yet I do not understand why Government doesn't at least try me for a year, giving complete hurricane protection for Florida and Cape Kennedy...protection against disasters, which I can absolutely do, using Si power. My worth to the U.S. Government, George, as I work with the Si's...in helping the U.S. Government...could not even be calculated. The Si's will never quit or give up their activities...catastrophic for the U.S. - until they ARE recognized and dealt with. No matter what happens to me, they will go on. At least, I can tell you what they are doing, and why. P K Man Dad 08/06/2025 16:08 === Page 6 of 220 January 10, 1966 Dear Lonnie, Your letter came today + we were real happy to hear from you. We had a real nice Christmas. Thank you very much for all the nice presents. The boxes came a few days before Christmas and the birthday box came the same day as the xmas box. You + Rick made our xmas very happy by sending all of the nice gifts. The hair spray holder is very pretty + I put my hair spray in it. The blouse fits O.K. It must have taken you + Rick a lot of time + work to wrap each present certainly. It was real sweet of you both to send us the box. The candy was awfully good too. Beau got a rocking horse. I strung some popcorn + put it on the tree + Beau ate it off of the tree, it was the cracker jay kind of popcorn, anyway I had to take it off because it didn't look very pretty after he chewed some of it off the string. I had an awful time trying to keep him === Page 7 of 220 on opening the presents before xmas. I would put them under the tree + he couldn't keep his hands off of them. He would take them from out under the tree + try to open them. Guess what! Vivian said that she was going to get married during the xmas holidays. His name is Ronnie Massey + he goes to A + M college. She said he is 20 years old + they already have their house + that he had gotten the rings. I can't hardly believe that my baby sister is growing up so fast. I haven't heard from her so I guess everything went all-right. Maggie + the family spent xmas in Texas. They had a two week vacation so they were home during the xmas holidays. Jerry is taking piano lessons + is doing very well. Are you still writing to Jo Jo? He sent us a Christmas card. We didn't go out New Year's just stayed home + celebrated. Thanks a lot for all the nice gifts. I will close for now + I love you. Write soon. Love Always, Mama (over) === Page 8 of 220 Thursday January 6, 1966 Dear Rick: We were glad to get your letter of 12/24. By now, of course, you have heard that we did indeed get your box...and what a big, happy Xmas it gave us. Shades of Queenie and Granpa. Baby Beau got mad because we wouldn't open the packages when they came...about Thursday before Xmas... and he beat on us and wrecked the furniture, etc. But we were adamant, and won out, finally. Christmas Day I made Martha Santy Claus (you know how she passionately loves to open packages...especially hers) and she had a ball...her eyes lit up, she got all excited. Beau is crazy about that stuffed doggy with the big ears. He loved all the presents you and Lornie and "Santa Claus" sent him. The Trachtenburg Method is like magic...and like a game. I love it. But can't remember the rules, either. If I have the book, which I haven't, then I study it, about twice a year, and try to apply it. It is far and away superior to ordinary math. HOWEVER...you won't be able to graduate from H.S. or go to college unless you also master ordinary math, so... master ordinary math, no matter what. Leave Trach. until later college years, if you want to. Use it as a supplement method. Ordinary math taught in school is more important to you, honey. Learn it now. Get fancy later, with Tracht. Glad to hear you have a pussycat. ;That figures. You'd die laughing if you heard some of our conversations...which you no doubt remember. Goes something like this: Me: "Well, Martha, what do you think of those two new hits with PK?" Martha: "Uh huh." Me: "You know...the earthquake in New York, and the N.Y. transit disaster which has cost almost a billion dollars." Martha: "An earthquake?" Me: "Of course, haven't you read about it?" Martha: "I will. Did you get any milk at the grocery?" and so it goes. Be a good boy. I am proud of you. Love Dad P.S. Used Emmy-Emana 3 weeks ago. Hits Pacific Coast the around Be more soon === Page 9 of 220 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 See Rick Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.......... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on SEPT. 28, 1965. Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me...they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above ... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. === Page 10 of 220 1/11/66 P1 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Dear Rick Lornie Some day somebody is going to make fun of you, if you mention what P K Man has done. The attached document should stop them cold.* Remember, Lornie, when we walked by the spot where all the government officials would stand, before Johnson was made President...and I laid down a PK effect to put them all in the hospital...wrote the government that I would...and then they all went to various hospitals? Remember my driving dogs away with PK? Lifting the car off my trapped hand with PK? Remember how you stood there and watched me map out routes for the hurricanes to follow...and they followed; my routes? Remember my using Emmy-Emma technique to cause an earthquake on the California coast, and telling Mangels a day ahead of time, as a witness...and then it hit the next day? Remember the Needles Operation? Remember my throwing fire PK at California, and then those great fires of 1965 hit? And so on and so on. Then we found out that the UFO intelligences were supplying the power, and doing the hitting. I pointed out the targets. If anybody doesn't believe you...show them the attached copy of my March 9 letter to George Clark, CIA, whom you met....telling what the Si's were going to do at the North/South Pole. Then show them one of the newspaper clippings telling what happened five months later...when the Si's carried out this assignment, to PROVE I was working with and for them. Any spot I hit with PK...the grass is never the same again. Anybody I hit with PK, is never the same again, if they survive. And so it goes. And anybody I save with PK, like Brenda Sue Pennington (you were there, Lornie) is never the same again. Reason I am sending this one document to you for proof, instead of any of the hundreds of others I have...is because somebody could say that perhaps it is pure precognition...that I am good at predicting ahead of time what is going to happen, and that's all. They'll say that rules out Si's. But...to say that I could predict a change in the electromagnetic setup of the South Pole, and that it would be reported in the newspapers...is ridiculous for plain precognition. And it happened months later, not days. And a flying saucer was there to prove my Si point...and was seen by scientists. The utterly ingenious way in which this was done...was proof by the Si's, that they tell me what will happen, then make it happen. And they give me power, too. === Page 11 of 220 1/11/66 P2 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on SEPT. 28, 1965. Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me...they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. Love, Dad 08/06/2025 16:13 === Page 12 of 220 S. Pole Bases MY LTR. RE HEAT AT POLAR BASES "J" 1/11/66 R3 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 1965 (AP). - From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. 7/8/65 "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. March 9, 1965. George: (CIA) Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from base, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or location... the party said they would call back... but they never did. I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out at Gelman. ...back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way... and can change mate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants.. done with PK as easily as bringing about storms... knocking down putting officials in the hospital, etc. Mr. McCone's sister passing away... and PK had nothing to do with that, if Mr. C. thought it had... he would send me to V and have me dropped parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places... and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it... that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note; this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes; staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 08/06/2025 16:13 === Page 13 of 220 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Copy - Rick & Lorrie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have instructed me to tell the U.S. Government that, if the government does not ally with them within an appreciably short time... they will use the colored people of the United States as a whip against the white...in a way never before done, and on a scale never dreamed possible. They will use the same method that they used to bring about the strike in New York, making it a financial disaster area. The result will be much more than a billion-dollar Betsy, or billion-dollar NY strike, and will make the L.A. race riots seem like a kindergarten exercise. And you know something, George...I don't doubt for a minute they can do it. Dad *(This is the meaning of the map of the U.S. with the death's head they sent me, then to you...not long ago. An over-all US disaster, not limited to boundaries.) PS They also want me to tell you: They are beaming something (I think it is light, or a sound) at Johnson's head...and so shortly, within days or few weeks...he should have trouble with his head. There is a reason for them telling you this...wanting you to know what they are doing...and how they are doing it. I guess they'll tell the reason later. They do not tell it now; only the action they are taking. === Page 14 of 220 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad === Page 15 of 220 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad PS Not a word of the UFO in Phila. paper!! Means Govt has Phila. sewed up!! === Page 16 of 220 Jan. 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Copy - Rick Dear George: I am appalled by the apathy of the U.S. Government in checking leads, no matter how "far out" they may be. Now, just lately in my correspondence to you I told you that I would try to get the Si's to display a craft at Cape Kennedy for an extended period of time, to prove that I communicate with them and they understand. They chose, instead, to do this in New Jersey, over the Wanaque reservoir. Sent you the info on that yesterday. The point is this...they want to make a personal meeting with me...and the Govt. should have rushed me to that exact spot and given me an opportunity to communicate and bring them down, right there. I have the means of doing this. No one else has. Same thing with their appearance in Michigan, and Florida, some time ago. I should have been sent there by the Govt....rushed...and been given an opportunity to meet them, by talking them down to the spot again. I am talking about the craft, now. We have had Si phenomena in our apartment, believe it or not, these past few weeks...but it is necessary to bring down a craft, and meet it. Two great "fireballs" have landed in Pa. since September, on two different occasions. These were the Si's, and they did not land in Pa. by accident. I am in Pa. They wish to meet me. This was brought out long ago in correspondence, when they stipulated conditions on how they wanted to meet me. But of course, US Govt. made no answer. I wrote you in advance of the events, that the Si's would create an earthquake and a disaster area (this on Dec. 28.) They did just that...a mild earthquake in New York and Pa., followed by a billion-dollar financial disaster in NYC. I told you that Pres. Johnson would be involved in the disaster area. Well, he tried not to be...but it was extended until he was forced into the matter. It is a great pity that I can get no cooperation from my Government to meet a Si craft, and make arrangements with them for future events. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 17 of 220 January 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's want me to repeat to the US Govt. again what they will give, if they are cooperated with: (1) A prosperous United States..........better than ever before in its history. (2) Peace..........wars and discord will cease with other countries, and other countries will no longer react with distrust and anger toward the U.S. (3) Protection from hurricanes and other forms of Nature-disaster that have heretofore stricken the U.S. (4) An end to racial strife in the U.S. Peace among the black and white peoples. (5) Less illness and sickness and disease than ever before in history. (6) New leaders to improve the U.S., of a type and kind scarcely found in our history. (7) An end to drought..........plenty of water for the U.S. (See #3). (8) Help..........with medical and scientific advances toward the betterment of the human race. Their sustained appearances in New Jersey this last Tuesday night were a solid message in symbolic physical form. My communication with them also gives you the above..........which they have stated before, if you will look at your correspondence from me. I only wish Mr. Dunn could have been at Wanaque reservoir last Tuesday night, and then he would believe in my "causal factor." Sincerely, P K Man. === Page 18 of 220 January 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida. Dear Mr. Dunn: I recently made you an offer, based on factual knowledge of my true ability (I know it; you perhaps do not) with regard to keeping hurricanes away from Florida. Complete, and I mean complete, safety from hurricanes. Now allow me to add to my offer: I saw a program on TV, which gave a pictorial outline of a terrible drought in the Florida Everglades National Park. It was pitiful. So, I will include with my hurricane protection for Florida...much rainfall for the Florida Everglades, to the point where the Everglades will have a plentiful supply of water, as long as I am on the job. My causal factor for these seeming impossibilities..........UFO power. I have it at my request and command. I have used it extensively. It has come to pass almost without a miss. Taking me up on the proposition that I made you, and the State of Florida, would be the luckiest and most fortunate thing Florida has ever had happen. And remember...I will willingly go to prison if I fail. Could anything be fairer? Very truly yours, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 19 of 220 January 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: All right. I have tried. The Si's have tried. Still the U.S. Government is not convinced. x So, George, the Si's will demonstrate catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S. in the next few days, next few weeks. I will ask them, also, to appear and be seen, as they were in New Jersey, as a sort of signature to their catastrophe-demonstration. Rick Lorne P K Man P.S. Right now they will end the horrible drought in South Africa - if you'll let them. Fly me over? === Page 20 of 220 January 19, 1966 Miss Ghandi, Prime Minister New Delhi India Dear Miss Prime Minister: I have heard, with great concern, of the terrible drought in India. It lies within my power to bring about all of the rainfall for India that you may need...for that is my specialty. I am a "rainmaker" and have never failed. Should you be interested in allowing me to give your country much rain, to end the drought, please contact me as soon as possible. I wish no fee for my services; my only desire is to help the peoples of India with my incredible talent. Respectfully, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. P.S. I sent this same offer to Prime Minister Shastri, about a week before his tragic death. === Page 21 of 220 January 19, 1966 Ambassador to Africa African Consulate Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find my card. I specialize in creating rain over large areas. And I have never failed. Recently I saw a program on TV that outlined the desperate situation now prevailing in South Africa with regard to the drought. I can end the African drought, completely, and give Africa all of the rainfall that it needs. I alone, have the means to do so. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible. There would be no charge or fee for my services; the only thing that I am interested in is...to help the people of South Africa. And by giving them all the rainfall they need in the coming weeks and months, would be my pleasure. Respectfully, Mr. Sota (P K Man, Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 22 of 220 January 20, 1966 President Johnson The White House Rick Lornie Well, sir, today I am lucky. Have a few spare moments, and access to a typewriter...so will take advantage of the unusual combination, and drop you a line with regard to UFO's...Si's...saucer intelligences. As you probably know...the UFO's made quite an appearance in New Jersey on the night of January 11. And they did just what I had asked them to do...they appeared, and stayed, for a long time, so that many people could see them and there would be no doubt whatsoever about their existence. Not only that...they used some kind of ray to burn a hole in the ice of the Wanaque Reservoir, as a demonstration of their ability with that particular tool, whatever it was. Prior to their appearance I had written George Clark and predicted a U.S. earthquake, a catastrophe of huge dimension, and the appearance of the Si's at Cape Kennedy as a "signature" that when these things happened, ahead in the future, the U.S. Government would know, for sure, that the Si's brought it about. First, the earthquake occurred. (A slight one, but it made the front page of the Philadelphia paper. In New York. Next, the billion-and-a-half dollar New York strike occurred. Here, the Si's were being merciful. Only a money disaster. Not a "people" disaster, or terrible wreckage as occurred with Hurricane Betsy. Third, the Si's made their appearance THEIR way...not at the Cape...but at Wanaque, New Jersey (and many other towns there, as well.) This week, because the U.S. Government still would not cooperate with them, after all their work to prove their point...the Si's had me write George Clark that they would be forced then to provide a real, honest to gosh catastrophe that the U.S. Government could appreciate....then make another UFO appearance as a "signature" to it. What amazes me is...by now there can be no doubt, none whatsoever, that the Si's are for real. After I predicted the South Pole electromagnetic change....and the UFO showed up there, and caused it; and now the long, full appearance of the Si's at Wanaque...the U.S. Government no longer can have any doubt that all of these things I have been writing about the past year, certainly must be true. And when you analyze the scope and variety of the powers utilized to bring about the various phenomena...guiding hurricanes, influencing masses of people, causing earthquakes in specific locations, eliminating planes, ships and attacking subs....and so on and so on...then the U.S. Government, if it has any intelligence at all, to my way of thinking, should not hesitate to reach out to the Si's in 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 23 of 220 1/20/66 P2 January 20, 1966 friendship and accept their offer to help the U.S. in the following way: End the US drought and bring about excellent geographical physical changes in the land, water and soil. End the Viet Nam war, and bring about peace for the US with foreign countries, as well as change the thinking of foreign countries toward the US from hostile to friendly. Help the US Government find some REAL thinkers and REAL men and REAL leaders to help build this great country up again into a magnificent place. Take damaging hurricanes, like Betsy, that threaten the US, off in a harmless direction. Protect US shipping, airplanes, subs, etc., from collisions, fire, etc. Help the US make REALLY great advances in Science and Medicine. And many, many other wonderful things for the U.S. This is what they WANT to do. Once that is done, then they will go to work to fix up and patch up the rest of the world, to get it in good operating condition, without hate...wars...killing, etc. The only thing holding all of these good things back is the failure of the US Govt. to accept me as the Si representative, set me up as I need to be set up to work with them. Because I am the only human that can talk to them, and receive intelligence from them. I do not have all of the answers pertaining to the Si's. And many times I do make errors in communication with them, because of its obvious difficulty. But in the past year, if you'll examine my file with my various contacts, you will see that literally miracles have been accomplished...in a destructive, negative way...the ONLY way necessary to bring this to the attention of the US Govt. and to finally convince the US Govt. (sooner or later.) My wife and I most likely are the only humans who have had the Si's appear in an apartment, as they did our apartment, on several occasions. But they cannot get to us with their craft...and this is a necessity. Right now I should be in England, Ireland, or Scotland...out in the countryside, away from masses of people, so the Si's can bring their craft to me. They want this badly. I haven't yet learned why. Owens P K/Man (Owens) 111 1/4 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 24 of 220 January 21, 1966 President Johnson Dear President Johnson: I have been sending you some mighty unusual letters...based on part with regard to UFO's...and on part, to unusual powers of my own. Now, you can check me out. At Duke University, when I was a secretary for the world-famous scientist, Dr. J. B. Rhine, he personally investigated...with the help of other scientists in the field of parapsychology, my strange abilities. I was able, in full light, at Dr. Rhine's home, surrounded by Dr. Rhine and his associates, to knock a pair of scissors off of a table...by sheer concentration and willpower. The scissors were securely propped up by Dr. Rhine himself on a table fully 10-15 feet away from where I was seated, across the room. I willed the scissors to fall down...but they were knocked flying clear off the table. Dr. Rhine himself then went forward and examined the table, and picked the scissors up off the floor. I think there were about 5-7 scientists present at the time. So you see...when I talk about PK (which was the ability I used above) I do know what I am talking about. Sincerely, Owens PK Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 25 of 220 January 24, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: My accuracy with "PK" work, in conjunction with the Si's, has been roughly 96% accurate. Rarely a miss, but a miss did just occur, and thought you would be interested to know the details of it. When I appeared on the local radio here in Philadelphia, and got the paper write-up...then suddenly everything was cut off...and the "Rain Maker" received no offers, no takers...I consulted with the Si's, and the upshot was that we placed this area in a "PK Bubble" - that is, sealed off the area, so that precipitation in any form would not fall on this area...and if it should, there would not be enough to matter. This worked just fine, beautifully, I might say...matter of fact, if I could have blocked off the snowstorm we had over this weekend, a 100 year record would have been broken here. But...the PK failed to block the snowstorm; it got through...and so, you see, the PK and the Si's do not always hit the bullseye. 96 out of 100 times they do, but I thought you might like to know of this failure. At least, I guess it is a failure. Unless the Si's wanted this precipitation to get the violent storm in this area...for reasons of their own...to cause a disaster area somewhere soon...and this storm was necessary to their plan. We shall see. If suddenly California or a Western area is racked up with a booming, violent storm, creating a real disaster area...then I'll know what the Si's are up to. If it wasn't just a miss. S P K Man (Owens - Rain Maker) P.S. The recent two mysterious "fireballs" that landed in Pennsylvania, and the recent UFO that parked itself over Wanaque reservoir in New Jersey... were my little friends. Odd that the New Jersey newspapers put the "Wanaque UFO" on their front pages, and not a mention in the Philadelphia papers. The Mayor of Wanaque and thousands of N.J. people saw the UFO...responsible citizens even saw it burn a big hole in the ice with a ray. === Page 26 of 220 1/25/66 P1 Lornie - thought you'd like to see this letter from Brenda Sue's mother. Jan 25 - 66 Mr. Ted Owens Dear Mr. Owens Just a few lines to let you know about Brenda Sue. We have talked & wondered about you folks a lot. It seemed I just never got around to writing. Hope you & your family are fine. Brenda has improved a lot although she doesn't walk talk or feed herself. But the Dr said if she continued to improve he would put her in braces in May she seems to know everything you say to her but just can't answer you she does do everything she can when you tell her to so we are still hoping & praying for the best. I want to thank you & your daughter again for what you did. We have had Brenda home since the 7th of May 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 27 of 220 1/25/66 p2 it has been a year today since they found her. I don't guess they are any nearer solving the case than they were then. The Millers are fine I said give you their best regards. Wishing you folks the best in everything. We remain your friends. Thank you for writing us. Mr. & Mrs. Dennie Pennington East Rainelle W.Va. === Page 28 of 220 DUE TO FEB. 11 OPERATION, SHE WAS SINKING; WE WENT SUNDAY FEB. 14 ① " " 21 ② " " 28 ③ 1/25/66 p3 Tuesday February 16, 1965 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Penningtons My daughter and I were very happy to meet you on Sunday, Mr. Pennington...and my daughter expressed regret that she could not meet Mrs. Pennington at the time. It might amuse you, Mr. Pennington, that Lorrie, my daughter, described you as a "great big bear of a man, with real kind, gentle eyes...good eyes." We also appreciated the cooperation of yourselves, the police, and the medical staff in allowing us to enter your daughter's room and use our system in an effort to bring life into your daughter. You might be interested in a few facts pertaining to our System: As far as we know it is not used at any location in the world today, except by ourselves, here in Washington. Our System was used, long ago, during the days of Moses and the Egyptians. It usually takes two to five days to take effect...full effect. Therefore, somewhere between Sunday and Friday, we anticipate that your daughter will open her eyes, and begin to progress, into full health, eventually. And, due to our System, her recovery will be much, much more rapid than under normal circumstances. As a matter of fact, her rate of recovery should be amazing. Our only hope is that we were not called in too late...allowed to come in too late. This factor is very difficult to ascertain. Just how near, or far away, from the line of Life and Death, she may be at the time. However, I used this System on a girl in Texas, near death, and unconscious... and saved her with it. Her father and brother carried her up to my apartment in Fort Worth, deep in a coma. She is alive and happy today. Once we make our initial effort on the scene...in your daughter's room...then we can continue from a distance, with your daughter seen in our mind's eye. And that is what we are doing now, night and day. We work in shifts on it. We would greatly appreciate your letting us know of her progress...how she is... now and then...so that we can gauge our work accordingly. And if we win this battle with death...and your daughter arises, happy and healthy...it is our hope that we may be allowed to visit her at the hospital and say hello to her. Of course, I must add, it is not my daughter and myself who are doing these marvelous things with PK (the name of the System) but it is Nature itself. (The same Nature that puts life into new babies, can put life into your daughter and keep it there.) Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man) 418 Peabody Street, NW Washington, D. C. Phone: RA 30365 Wrote this after Lorrie went to hospital. 08/06/2025 16:16 === Page 29 of 220 1/25/66 P4 # DETECTIVE POSTS REWARD ## Beaten Girl Still in a Coma By BRIAN KELLY Star Staff Writer An Arlington detective investigating the beating of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, more than a month ago has offered to pay a $500 reward personally for information leading to her assailant. Detective Russell L. Runyon said he would pay the reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the person who apparently stole a portable television set and a heavy decanter from the Arlington girl's apartment, and brutally attacked her at the same time last Jan. 25. Runyon said the 14-inch decanter, made of dark, smoked glass, was believed to be the weapon with which Miss Pennington was struck several times on the head. He said a matching decanter was left in her apartment. Still Unconscious A clerical worker has been unconscious in Arlington Hospital since she was found on the floor of her bedroom. She has remained in critical condition despite four skull operations. Runyon appealed to the public to watch for the television set if it is offered for sale in the Washington metropolitan area. He described it as a 19-inch Zenith portable, with the serial number 304-8702. Also missing from Miss Pennington's one-bedroom apartment when she was beaten was her pocketbook containing her wallet and personal papers. Runyon said some 135 persons have been questioned by himself and other Arlington detectives working on the case, but no major leads have been developed. He asked anyone with information regarding the assault to call the Arlington police station at JA 7-2900 and talk to himself, Detective Willard C. Knight, Detective Sgt. George Coppage or Lt. John E. Cullins. Runyon said that Miss Pennington apparently was last seen about 11 a.m. the day before she was found. He said neighbors saw her leave her apartment that Sunday morning with an unidentified man, described as tall, heavy-set blond, and get into a car with him. She was found about 9 a.m. the next Monday morning, lying on the floor of her bedroom next to the telephone. Runyon said he was offering the personal reward money because he felt it was important for residents to feel safe. An Arlington detective has appealed to the public for any information about a television set and a decanter, similar to the ones pictured, taken from the apartment of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, victim of a brutal beating. # Girl in Coma Since Beating Is Moved 3/2/65 Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, an Arlington career girl who has remained unconscious since she was brutally beaten in her apartment two months ago, has been transferred to a West Virginia hospital near her home of Quinnwood. Officials at Greenbriar Valley Hospital in Ronceverte, W.Va., said today Miss Pennington was resting satisfactorily after the transfer Saturday from Arlington Hospital. During her stay at Arlington Hospital, she hovered in critical or near-critical condition for weeks. Miss Pennington was found unconscious in her one-bedroom apartment the morning of Jan. 25. A portable television set, a heavy brass decanter and her purse were missing from the apartment. Meanwhile, a reward fund started by an Arlington detective investigating the case has grown to $900. Detective Russell L. Runyon started the fund with a personal pledge of $500 for information leading to conviction of the assailant. MONTH LATER!! (3/29) SHE LIVED!! WAS TAKEN HOME. I STARTED ON THIS CASE HERE # Beaten Girl in Coma, Condition Is Critical 2/25 Brenda Sue Pennington, the Arlington girl who was the victim of a vicious beating last month, underwent surgery Thursday to relieve pressure on her brain and remained in critical condition yesterday Meanwhile, several Northern Virginians, have begun raising contributions to help pay for Miss Pennington's mounting medical expenses. A fund for the family has been established at the Fidelity National Bank in Arlington. Miss Pennington, 19, was found unconscious in her apartment Jan. 25. Police said she was clubbed on the head a number of times with an unknown instrument. For a few days, she reached semi-consciousness but her parents, who live in West Virginia to maintain a vigil near her, have not been able to communicate with her. Robert M. Cooper, of 407 Park Ave., McLean, announced the drive for contributions yesterday. Although he did not know the Pennington family until the tragedy occurred, he has spoken to the parents and has joined with others to help them, he said. Cooper, who is an electrical inspector for Arlington County, said the nursing fees alone cost the family $330 every five days. Contributors may mail checks, payable to Fidelity National Bank, at 2009 N. 14th St., Arlington. Frank Embrey, bank president, said the checks should be accompanied by a note indicating the money is for Brenda Sue Pennington. # Fund Started for Victim of Beating 2/15 A fund has been started by a 19-year-old Arlington girl who was badly beaten by an intruder in her apartment. The fund, to pay hospital expenses for Brenda Sue Pennington, of 1632 Oak st., is being held by Fidelity National Bank of Arlington. Checks should be accompanied by a note indicating they for the fund. Miss Pennington, a business machine operator, is still unconscious and in critical condition at Arlington Hospital. Last week she underwent brain surgery, an operation that piled even more expenses on bills that exceed $60 daily. Her assailant is still at large. I SAW THESE TWO CLIPS IN PAPER. THE "INTELLIGENCE TOLD ME TO CALL. I DID. POLICE, FAMILY & HOSPITAL (DOCTORS, ETC) OK'D TRYING MY "PK", BECAUSE === Page 30 of 220 January 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: I hope that you are getting along fine in school, and that all is well. Everything is quiet here...right now. But you know, with me...all hell can break loose, any time, any place. Our days are all pretty much the same...to work early, home at 6, where Martha has a hot supper waiting and Beau has a big kiss for me. Then TV, with Beau scrambling to get into my lap. He's so funny...if I bring home a beer, he runs like mad and gets a glass or cup before I even can get the beer out of the sack. And when he climbs into my lap every evening, after supper, to watch TV, first he brings a pillow to put his head on, then his pa-pa (blanket) to hold on to. I tell you he's cute. Once in a while, if Beau gets off my lap to do something, then Martha jumps out of her chair, which is alongside mine, and quickly takes Beau's place in my lap. Then of course Beau runs back and climbs up into her lap, which makes a sort of human pyramid...with me on the bottom trying to smoke a cigar. It is a comical sight. Soon am going to try to make some extra money, some way. Been relaxing long enough, just breaking even. Time to get ahead. This morning Martha said, "Say, if Jim Shannon is so young...like 25 or 27, then why isn't he in the draft, or in the Service?" No matter what PK I hit LA and Calif. with...you kids have no worry. You are protected. Was astonished to see an ad on TV where two kids are in a bubble, floating in the air, and the ad said: "How would you like to have your kids in a bubble of protection?" Be sure, you kids, to read my letters to each other...when I write one, it's for the other one to know about, too. So, take turns. Hope you and Rick liked the color pictures that were taken in Washington. The best one was of you and Beau, upstairs. What did you think of my big, fat letter last week with the photostats of the Si's being seen all night near here in New Jersey...and shooting a ray that burnt a big hole in the ice? The mayor of the town, the cops, and thousands of people saw the Si's that night. Write, Spellbound, when you can. love and kisses.......... P.S. Was there a power blackout in L.A.? If so, please send clipping on it. Tappy Owens 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 31 of 220 January 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is a very important letter, that the Si's have instructed me to send you. First...notice the high incidence of key aircraft destroyed this month, along with key people. Just to name a few recent ones...the nuclear-bomber downed over Spain; the Air India crash over Switzerland, carrying India's top nuclear scientist; the Viet Nam troop plane crash, the worst in the history of the war there with 47 dead; the brand-new top-secret spy plane that just crashed this week in New Mexico - and so on. Now, to understand how the Si's knock down these planes...look at the news clips I sent you on the UFO sighting at Wanaque reservoir...and see how the UFO, while people watched, sent out a ray to burn a hole in the ice of the reservoir. Only, it didn't "burn" a hole. The ray is a force ray. To knock down a plane, they hit it with the ray, and the ray simply sets the plane on fire...although the ray does not contain heat. To eliminate a person, such as Adlai Stevenson, Shastri, etc., they hit them with a ray and it just stops the bodily mechanism cold..doesn't burn them. These UFO's can be as large as the entire United States (they have four of them this size, using rays to affect the world's weather) or they can be as small as the size of a dime..and the small ones are as deadly as the large ones. Or as constructive, whatever is on at the time. The UFO's, which are of light...not actual materials...travel at the speed of light...are controlled by a headquarters, located elsewhere, and obtain their ray-power from headquarters by remote control. They gave me the okay to tell you all of this, without giving me a reason. They never give me reasons, as a rule...just instructions. What they are going to do next is...shrink the monies which are donated to Radio Free Europe, Heart Fund, Cancer Fund...all such. Picture a large circle, which is now the amount of monies donated by peoples to all sorts of activities, government and otherwise...shrink this large circle down to a small spot...and you get the idea. People will simply stop giving. When the U.S. Government is ready to listen...the Si's will tell them exactly what it is that they want. Which is not much at all...and very simple. Their efforts to convince the U.S. Govt. of their reality...have cost the U.S. billions of dollars already. And for only $100,000 and a bit of cooperation, this could have been avoided. And the billions to come that will be lost...could be avoided. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 32 of 220 1/26/66 p2 1/26/66 George: The Si's want me to add this example, or illustration, of the speed of their UFO "craft" - they say: Point a flashlight, angled upward, into a mirror, in a dark room. Then push the button and turn the flashlight on. The speed with which the light hits the mirror, then reflects up onto the ceiling...is the speed with which their craft move (and also may be a clue to how they move.) It also is an indication of how they make "impossible" right-angle or sharp degree turns, at the speed of light. Just like light hitting a mirror and glancing off in another direction. I am not a physicist, or a scientist...but I wish I were...for the above information they gave me would be darn interesting to try and look into. Anyway, they wanted you to have the information. And there it is. P K Man (Owens) === Page 33 of 220 Copy - Rick Loonie January 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The President is, at present, in a quandary. Whether to bomb North Vietnam some more; bomb more extensively; nor hold off entirely. If the Government would like to have the advice of the UFO intelligences (Si's) then I submit it: There is a huge black shadow hanging over U.S. forces in Viet Nam...a threatening force which is not seen at this time by the U.S. An unforeseen factor, disastrous. More extensive aggressive military force by the U.S. there will unleash this force, causing the U.S. forces terrible loss of manpower and equipment, and terrible loss of money. Too much for us to bear. A little military force...just enough to hold the status quo...they say is like being a little bit pregnant. It is no good. Worthless to us as military accomplishment and worthless to us as international prestige. Thus they rule out minimum military action...and they rule out maximum military action. This leaves only complete withdrawal of all military forces as soon as possible. Not on moral grounds; not because we are beaten militarily; not on political grounds....but because U.S. forces there will be destroyed, and we will be terribly hurt financially...if it is not done, quickly. Yes, undoubtedly the Viet Cong will then take over Viet Nam (Saigon) and get even with those who have opposed them. But the Si's say this is not as bad as what will happen if the U.S. extends operations, or tries to hold at a minimum of operation. Better, they say, to retreat, than be wiped out. At West Point they surely must point out, in teaching the history of wars, that many famous war-leaders and Generals had to retreat at times, to avoid catastrophe. They couldn't win 'em all. If Napoleon had sensed a trap at Waterloo, and not committed his forces, he would have gone on to greater victories, probably. If Hitler had sensed a giant trap in Russia, and withdrawn his forces, that, too, would have made a great difference in the war. We, now, are in the same trap. And it is a trap. If we try to go on...quick escalation will lead, as surely as night follows day, a huge war between the forces of U.S. and Asia. And we will not win, either. Because Asia is clear across the globe...and because while we are battling the huge manpower forces of Asia, Russia will be cutting at our backs, thus you have the picture of a big, powerful moose...with wolves in front of it...and wolves in back of it. And our Allies will be much too afraid to try to help us; they will keep out of it, agreement or no PK Man 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 34 of 220 January 31, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: And so, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. On January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a demonstration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. I think this has come about, don't you? And the U.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the radio. Snow and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of cities it has ever been in the memory of those cities. The Si's have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course I mean you as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokes and you are the government spokesman I speak with.) They are now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. They wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't thin it had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong answers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were gettin ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states.. and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disast and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writin as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the follow words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas miss that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning- The NASA program this year has been plagued with mishaps. The co was most unusual, in that it covered the entire United States. T crash of the giant plane is being investigated, because there was apparent sign of trouble. And so forth. One newspaper write-up === Page 35 of 220 Copy - Rick Lornie 1/31/66 P1 , 1966 e Clark ntelligence Agency ge: once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. y 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a ition catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. this has come about, don't you? J.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of t has ever been in the memory of those cities. have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course ou as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokesman, are the government spokesman I speak with.) now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the J.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. it patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong P K Man Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states... and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. The pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning-proof. The NASA program this year has been plagued with mishaps. The cold .......... unusual. in that it covered the entire United States. The .......... because there was no 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 36 of 220 Copy - Rick Lorne 1/31/66 P1 January 31, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency George: So, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a frustration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. I think this has come about, don't you? The U.S. Capitol was the bullseye...hardest hit, according to the radio. Snow and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of cities it has ever been in the memory of those cities. The Si's have just spoken to you .......... again. (When I say "you" of course I mean you as representing the U.S. Government...since I am their spokesman, and you are the government spokesman I speak with.) They are now curious to know...must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. They wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think it had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was...he gives wrong answers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George...when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks...and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states...and giant floods throughout the Midwest...all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative...and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy...was an impossibility. The pad that lightning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning-proof. The war has been plagued with mishaps. The cold entire United States. The 08/08/2025 16:26 === Page 37 of 220 extending the terms of House members but not agree with the President on one important point. Johnson wants future House elections to be concurrent with Presidential elections. Scott is strongly opposed to concurrent elections and argues that they would "deprive the public of any opportunity to correct the excesses of a strong President or the mistakes of a weak one." This shortcoming is one of the arguments that has traditionally been used against moves to lengthen the terms of House members. Scott firmly believes that they should be lengthened so that members of the House will have more time to do their jobs and not be forced to devote so much time to mending political fences back home. But Scott suggests that all Representatives be elected at midterm so that the public will have an opportunity to apprise the President of the people's will. If House terms are to be extended, Scott's midterm proposal would seem to be preferable. # Crackdown on Drug Abuses There were cheers from many quarters last year when amendments to control drug abuses were added to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Those amendments become effective tomorrow. They provide strict penalties for the illegal manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession of more than 300 types of stimulant and depressant drugs. Included in the amendments are barbiturates (goofballs) amphetamines (pep pills) and other drugs that can cause hallucinations or effect the brain. The amendments are fine but they would mean little without some practical method of enforcement. Unfortunately, enforcement will lag. A special branch of the Food and Drug Administration has been created to enforce the amendments. The Bureau of Drug Abuse Control is seeking 278 agents who will work out of five field district headquarters. Philadelphia will be served (it remains to be seen how well) through the New York City district office. The new bureau will not be fully operational until next December. By then, we trust, the new bureau will be making some serious inroads into the illegal traffic in pep pills, goofballs and related drugs--a traffic that brings huge profits to some and potential tragedy to its many victims. # Cookie Time Again This is a delightfully dangerous time of the year for those who must count their calories and, for that matter, those who do not. It's Girl Scout Cookie Sale time again. The 33d annual sale will continue until Feb. 23. Waistline watchers who give in to temptation can at least console themselves with the knowledge that the cookie commission go to a most worthy cause, a cooperative project of some 20,000 girls in 970 troops throughout the city and parts of the suburbs. Help send a girl to camp. Buy a box or two. # Sudden Thought We haven't seen anybody burning a draft card in the war on poverty. # ECONOMIC DRESS SALON The Styles Are Getting Out of Line # Letters to the Editor ## Oppose K-444 The Northeast Chamber of Commerce, after months of study, wish to make known that they are opposed to the new concept of K444 and, rather, endorse the former plan of K633. Among the many reasons, four stand out, as follows: (1) The children at nine and ten years of age would be too young to uproot and transport out of their community and environment to a middle school. (2) With the many demands made on the School Board for extra curricular activities and the new concept of education, it would prove an additional economic burden on the taxpayer with no benefit, we feel, coming back to the children. (3) It would add to the busing problem. (4) Just what is wrong with the present system of elementary, Junior High and Senior High. It has produced many, if not most of the leaders that are the captains of industry and the leaders of our government today. We simply wish to go on record so that the School District might be guided in its decision by the thoughts of the community. --W. B. BEATON, Chairman Public Affairs ## Mischief Making An article has appeared in the paper which has me greatly worried. It says that Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who is a very important, highly-placed man in Government, recently said, "The world is round. Only one-third of the human beings asleep at one time, and the other two-thirds are awake and up to some mischief somewhere." This is terrible. If what he says is true--and surely the Secretary of State wouldn't tell a lie--then Mr. Rusk has to be either: (1) Asleep, or (2) Up to some mischief somewhere. --H. T. OWENS ## Talking Point "Some people are easily entertained. All you have to do is sit down and listen to them." --EARL WILSON ## Proud of Ring In response to George Miller, "Henpecked": I wear my wedding ring proudly. It's not a ball and chain as you make it sound. I come and go as I please. Most wives go out to work to help their husbands with the bills and do all the buying because they run the house and know what it needs. A good name for your club should be the "Gutless Club" for men like yourself don't have any to meet and cope with the responsibilities that go with married life and fatherhood. Georgie Boy--Baloney! --GEORGE JOVINELLI ## A Beginning Your editor's Diagnosis of the Governor's Budget Message is encouraging to say the least. An overdue appraisal of a budget far from what is needed here in Pennsylvania. Governor Scranton's budget ignores vast areas of the Commonwealth face serious economic problems, particularly here in our sister city of Philadelphia, behind in the race for jobs. I do think that it should be noted that the "Diagnosis" you mention, the Economy Report, prepared for the State by Milton Shapp, is used by the Democratic candidate for Governor. This Shapp report was also the basis for the charges made against Scranton by House Minority Leader Joshua Eilberg. It represents a thorough study of the methods of preparing a budget in these economic times. THE COMPLICATED MACHINERY OF SELF-GOVERNMENT "Just remember--drive carefully" === Page 38 of 220 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS An Afternoon Newspaper Published Daily By TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 Telephone LOcust 3-5200 WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PRESIDENT J. RAY HUNT, MANAGING EDITOR MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1966 # Midterm Elections Best If House Terms Extended Much will be written and said in the months ahead on the subject of the length of terms of members of the S. House of Representatives. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson declared his intention of submitting a recommendation for an increase in the length of terms to four years. Pennsylvania's Republican Sen. Hugh Scott is also in favor of extending the terms of House members but he does not agree with the President on one important detail. Mr. Johnson wants future House elections to be held concurrent with Presidential elections. Scott is strongly opposed to concurrent elections and argues that they would "deprive the public of any opportunity to correct the excesses of a strong President or the mistakes of a weak one." This shortcoming is one of the arguments that has traditionally been used against moves to lengthen the terms of House members. Scott firmly believes that they should be lengthened so that members of the House will have more time to do their jobs and not be forced to devote so much time to mending political fences back home. But Scott suggests that all Representatives be elected at midterm so that the public will have an opportunity to apprise the President of the people's will. If House terms are to be extended, Scott's midterm proposal would seem to be preferable. # Crackdown on Drug Abuses There were cheers from many quarters last year when amendments to control drug abuses were added to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Those amendments become effective tomorrow. They provide strict penalties for the illegal manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession of more than 300 types of stimulant and depressant drugs. Included in the amendments are barbiturates (goofballs) amphetamines (pep pills) and other drugs that can cause hallucinations or effect the brain. The amendments are fine but they would mean little without some practical method of enforcement. Unfortunately, enforcement will lag. A special branch of the Food and Drug Administration has been created to enforce the amendments. The # Jerry Doyle's Cartoon [Cartoon depicting three women in dresses labeled "WAGES & PRICES", "TAXES", and "LIVING COSTS" on a runway. A sign says "LATEST SPRING STYLES". The title below reads "ECONOMIC DRESS SALON". A man in the background is watching.] The Styles Are Getting Out of Line # Letters to the Editor ## Oppose K-444 The Northeast Chamber of Commerce, after months of study, wish to make known that they are opposed to the new concept of K444 and, rather, endorse the former plan of K633. Among the many reasons, four stand out, as follows: (1) The children at nine and ten years of age would be too young to uproot and transport out of their community and environment to a middle school. (2) With the many demands made on the School Board for extra curricular activities and the new concept of education, it would prove an additional economic burden on the taxpayer with no benefit, we feel, coming back to the children. (3) It would add to the busing problem. (4) Just what is wrong with the present system of elementary, Junior High and Senior ## Talking Point "Some people are easily entertained. All you have to do is sit down and listen to them." --EARL WILSON ## Proud of Ring In response to George Miller, "Henpecked": I wear my wedding ring proudly. It's not a ball and chain as you make it sound. I come and go as I please. Most wives go out to work to help their husbands with the bills and do all the buying because they run the house and know what it needs. A good name for your club should be the "Gutless Club" for men like yourself don't have any to meet and cope with the responsibilities that go with married life and fatherhood. Georgie Boy--Baloney! --GEORGE JOVINELLI ## A Beginning Your editorial "The Governor's Diagnosis" was an encouraging beginning for the overdue appraisal of the far from wonderful situation in Pennsylvania. Governor Scranton's glowing reports vast areas of the Commonwealth face serious economic problems, and eight of our sister states are far behind in the economic race. I do think you should have noted that the report which you mentioned was the Shapp Report, prepared and financed by Milton Shapp, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. The Shapp Report was also the basis for the charges made against Scranton by House Majority Leader Joshua Eilberg, who called for a thorough study of the methods of preparing and releasing === Page 39 of 220 1-31-66 7/28/66 Rick -- do me a big favor! In one of the letters (copies to you of George Clark's) I put on one of them a notation that I was asking the Si's to appear over Cape Kennedy so they would be seen. I can't find my file copy. Please find yours, & send it to me quickly. I'll send it back. Love -- Dad. === Page 40 of 220 1/31/66 as interesting...was a verbal description, from a witness on the scene, of the fires that devastated the California Coast last year (after I had warned that the area had been hit with "fire PK".) The witness said that the fire seemed to form a giant hand, the hand reaching out over the sea. You know, George, it's funny. No doubt the U.S. Govt. keeps thinking "Well, that disaster area happened...with all those floods and tornados, or, with those fires, or, with that damned hurricane, etc., but that's it. Now that's over, back to business as usual. Yet, catastrophes keep coming on catastrophes...weird happening on weird happening (Great Blackout, Big No Go in New York, storm on the West Coast that could happen "only once in 1000 years")...and disaster areas keep coming. The Si's won't stop. Will never stop. They do not think like we do. To try and solve the problem of the Si's by using logic would be like pitting a 4-year old child against a complex computer. They exist. So, why not admit it? And, admitting it, why not let them help the U.S.? That's what they want...once they get the attention of the U.S. with enough disaster and catastrophes. If it ever comes out before the American people that we could have had the help of the Si's one year ago....and Hurricane Betsy could have been averted, plus all of the other things that happened...I think somebody high up in Washington would get spanked hard. If it doesn't come out soon, that the Si's are with us, helping us...and it is arranged...the Si's will go farther than spanking. That's the sad part of it. P.S. Rick - I used Emmy - Emma last 2 weeks hard - and look what Si's delivered! Paralyzed East Coast & worst cold in South in 100 years!! 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 41 of 220 1/31 was interesting...was a verbal description, from a witness on the scene, the fires that devastated the California Coast last year (after I had warned that the area had been hit with "fire PK".) The witness said that the fire seemed to form a giant hand, the hand reaching out over the sea. You know, George, it's funny. No doubt the U.S. Govt. keeps thinking "Well, so that disaster area happened...with all those floods and tornados, or, with those fires, or, with that damned hurricane, etc., but that's it. Now that's over, back to business as usual." Yet, catastrophes keep coming on catastrophes...weird happening on weird happening (Great Blackout, Big No Go in New York, storm on the West Coast that could happen "only once in 1000 years")...and disaster areas keep coming. The Si's won't stop. Will never stop. They do not think like we do. To try and solve the problem of the Si's by using logic would be like pitting a 4-year old child against a complex computer. They exist. So, why not admit it? And, admitting it, why not let them help the U.S.? That's what they do...once they get the attention of the U.S. with enough disaster area catastrophes. If it ever comes out before the American people that we could have had the help of the Si's one year ago....and Hurricane Betsy could have been averted plus all of the other things that happened...I think somebody high up in Washington would get spanked hard. if it doesn't come out soon, that the Si's are with us, helping us...is arranged...the Si's will go farther than spanking. That's the sad part of it. P.S. Rick -- I used Emmy - Emma last 2 weeks hard -- and look what Si's delivered! Paralyzed East Coast & worst cold in South in 100 years!! === Page 42 of 220 Copy - Rick Lornie February 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's, now that they have given their national demonstration with the winter storm of the century...will concentrate on President Johnson and the White House. They ask...and I don't know what they mean at all..."how would the U.S. like to lose the State of Florida?" Now for a simple suggestion from a simple person....me. Why doesn't the U.S. reverse the Viet Cong's attack? That is, the VC attack Saigon...why don't we (South Vietnamese) attack the capitol of North Vietnam? It's made to order, George, with water all around. Take a force of picked, commando-type Vietnamese to Guam...train them...and fly them back among the usual big bombers. Parachute them near the North Viet Nam Capitol...at the same time let subs pop up and disgorge a lot of frogmen, who go onto the beach in the same area, to attack the capitol and help the chutists. With this shock-wave of tropps raising hell..and going after Ho himself...then let ships come sweeping round the bend and send thousands of men ashore, near the capitol, to attack. The pressure of this should draw troops away from South Viet Nam, quickly. Note, am not recommending American troops for this. Just because it might be a tricky political thing. If it wouldn't make any difference, then they could go in, too. On the Viet Nam chessboard...the action has all been on one side of the board. Time, I would say, to take a crack at the King of the other side of the board. P K Man Owens === Page 43 of 220 Rick Lornie February 2, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Here is the story on the Blizzard of '66. Note that I called a disastrous storm...but picked the wrong half of the country. Ha ha. I knew definitely that the Si's were up to something on their own...because they were over-riding our "bubble" PK we'd slapped on this area. Up to storm-time, they'd blocked precipitation perfectly. Note one other thing: A mysterious fire-ball landed in Pennsylvania...before the tremendous New York City power blackout. A UFO put on a regular exhibition all night, for thousands of people, in the Wanaque, New Jersey, area...just before the Blizzard of '66 struck. You have to notice these things, George. Anyway, as you can see here, on January 18 I told you the Si's would demonstrate, catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S., in the next few days, next few weeks. Even Mr. Dunn could not ask for anything more specific than that. And you got the killer Blizzard of '66. PK Man Rick - am sending you your own personal pool cue. Watch for it. Dad. === Page 44 of 220 2/2/66 P2 COPY January 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See your copy! All right. I have tried. The Si's have tried. Still the U.S. Government is not convinced. So, George, the Si's will demonstrate catastrophe-wise, in a tremendous way, against the U.S. in the next few days, next few weeks. I will ask them, also, to appear and be seen, as they were in New Jersey, as a sort of signature to their catastrophe-demonstration. P K Man === Page 45 of 220 2/2/66 p3 NY TIMES # The Blizzard of '66 2/1/66 From Miami to Montreal millions are still contending with the aftereffects of the (great storm) that may go into history as the blizzard of '66. (The bitter cold, the abundant snow and the piercing wind combined to give us all a humbling lesson on the enormous energy at nature's disposal and the impact it can have upon men's petty plans.) These days scientists can send rockets to the moon, to Mars and to Venus; but for many hours on Sunday airlines were grounded, cities cut off, and the Pennsylvania Railroad could not send trains from Baltimore to Washington. Virginia's Governor had to warn that in his state "no one can be assured of safe travel to any given destination." (Even the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever exploded was but a puny force compared to the sources of the atmospheric maelstrom that produced such disruption all along the Atlantic Seaboard.) At the height of this blizzard 20th-century man was no more able to calm the primitive rage of the elements that were his ancestors who cowered in their caves under similar circumstances many millennia ago. But such helplessness may be nearing its end. There are signs that modern science--which already controls so much of the contemporary environment--may soon be able to do more about the weather than just talk about it. A National Academy of Sciences panel on weather modification recently concluded that rain-seeding experiments using silver iodide and other substances had appreciably increased precipitation "over areas as large as 1,000 square miles [and] over periods ranging from weeks to years." The theoreticians still have a long way to go in understanding the thermodynamics of the atmosphere; but it is becoming increasingly probable that some day men will be able to produce the weather they want. Haha When that time comes, will we still be willing to endure blizzards? Probably not. At that time life may be more predictable, but it will certainly be less interesting. === Page 46 of 220 2/2/66 p4 January 24, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: My accuracy with "PK" work, in conjunction with the Si's, has been roughly 96% accurate. Rarely a miss, but a miss did just occur, and thought you would be interested to know the details of it. When I appeared on the local radio here in Philadelphia, and got the paper write-up...then suddenly everything was cut off...and the "Rain Maker" received no offers, no takers...I consulted with the Si's, and the upshot was that we placed this area in a "PK Bubble" - that is, sealed off the area, so that precipitation in any form would not fall on this area...and if it should, there would not be enough to matter. This worked just fine, beautifully, I might say...matter of fact, if I could have blocked off the snowstorm we had over this weekend, a 100 year record would have been broken here. But...the PK failed to block the snowstorm; it got through..and so, you see, the PK and the Si's do not always hit the bullseye. 96 out of 100 times they do, but I thought you might like to know of this failure. At least, I guess it is a failure. Unless the Si's wanted this precipitation to get the violent storm in this area...for reasons of their own...to cause a disaster area somewhere soon...and this storm was necessary to their plan. We shall see. If suddenly California or a Western area is racked up with a booming, violent storm, creating a real disaster area...then I'll know what the Si's are up to. If it wasn't just a miss. P K Man === Page 47 of 220 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Rick: I'm a little late answering your letter. Forgive me. Yes, you would make a fine tennis player. I wish you luck in whatever you do or take up. It is your life..honey...and there is only one you. You aren't like anybody else, dad or mom or anybody. So do what is in your heart to do. But remember, your body works for you. It depends on you to give it a good deal. That is why I want you to stay out of football and boxing. You wouldn't do your body any favors if you got injured. And you'd be getting injured for nothing. I recommend learning judo, if you wish. Anyway, good luck, boy. Glad to hear your school work is improving. You are very smart and bright. All you have to do is...use those brains the right way, the good way, always, and Nature is on your side. Enclosed is a card showing the outfit I work for. Biggest lawyers in Philadelphia. They just took on a new partner, and I work for the new partner. It's real funny, Rick. I type all day long, and don't even know what I'm typing. Wills, Trusts, Agreements, all that stuff. My top boss owns the Philadelphia Bulldogs. I used PK to help them and they beat everybody in '66...won the Continental League Championship. All my work involves two, three, four million dollars deals. I hate it. But I'm stuck with it. I remember telling Lornie in Ft. Worth, when I was helping people..."Ah, Lornie, it's wonderful knowing I'm teaching auto-hypand don't have to work in an office ever again." Ha ha. Well, one of these days..... We aren't tossing knives because Martha can't stand the show biz route any more...three hundred one week...then lose our storage and can't pay our rent a month later. And she's right. And Beau needs a steady place to live. (Not this one...but that will come.) I have discovered the Si's ruin, flatten, anyone against me. Could tell you about it, but would take too long to do it. I have what might be called "Instant Attack" from their mysterious PK world. I don't even have to direct them...they seem to know when a fly walks across the ceiling. Read the last week's True and Saga mags...good Si accounts in there. Or UFO reports. Might not be my Si's. I don't think regular UFO's are my Si's. Got to put Beau to bed now. Write, honey. Love, Dad === Page 48 of 220 File February 7, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: * * * * * * * A lot of people I know feel real sorry for Hubert Humphrey, because of the way Hubert has to "yes" the President and do as he's told (like Him, or get his ears pulled.) But that's the way it is, when you're only in second place...you have to try harder. * * * * * * * McNamara refused to appear in public, on the matter of Viet Nam. Rumor has it that the real reason for this was because President Johnson called McNamara aside and said, Now, you-all see here, Mac...if those Senators try to get you to appear in public on the Viet Nam issue...jest remember whut ah used to teach mah little pupils in Texas, when ah'd ketch them carvin' their names on our schoolhouse seats. Kids, ah'd tell 'em, always remember what Lyndon tells you...'Fools names and fools faces, always appear in public places.' * * * * * * * People wondered why President Johnson took off so unexpectedly for a trip to Hawaii. Well, he just wanted to get away for a few days to talk to some Generals - and the only State left in the Union without blizzards, freezing cold, transit strikes, power blackouts, race riots, etc., happened to be Hawaii. If, that is, Hawaii's volcano doesn't erupt. * * * * * * * H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 49 of 220 February 7, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Now you have the third proof that the UFO intelligences are in communication with me; me with them; and that they react to my requests (also independently of my requests). The proof is my letter, which is in your file, dated August 6, 1965. In about the eighth paragraph, I told you: "Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long... I will let you in on something. I am calling fleets of UFO's here to Philadelphia... from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real... but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have... and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have... and hurt them or something... so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess." Attached is photostat of actual letter, which you have in your file. They did exactly as I asked them to do... they came down and hovered for hours, instead of half an hour... to prove they are real. But they came down over Wanaque, New Jersey (I sent you newsclips of this just a few weeks ago) because evidently they did not trust the Phila. area. Not only did they come down and prove their reality, absolutely... but they demonstrated the ray I mentioned in my letter to you. The Civil Defense Director of Wanaque, the police, and others, saw the ray, and the police investigated the actual hole the ray burned in the ice. So now, without any doubt whatsoever.... you and the U.S. Government absolutely know that what I have been telling you is true, real, solid.... I am definitely communicating with the Si's and they with me -- and they tell me in advance what is going to happen. The first and second proofs of my being the Si's contact and voice for the people on earth... was the South Pole UFO incident (see correspondence); and their making an appearance in a big way, and hitting everywhere in lightning... after I first wrote you and told you they said they would. P K Man (Owens) 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 50 of 220 2/7/66 p2 He: "GI's chop off head of Buddhist god. I like chop off head Johnson." I made a notation in my book that Johnson's popularity was slipping among the Buddhists. Me: "How about the war in Viet Nam? Are you in favor of it?" He: "What war you mean? War between Buddhist's and Catholics? War between Buddhists and GI's? War between North and South Vietnamese" War between Montagnards and South Vietnamese? War between..." but I held up my hand. Me: "Then I will put you down as not being in favor of it, all right?" Suddenly a bicycle containing a concealed satchel-charge of explosives blew up. Glass shattered and bodies went flying in every direction. The Buddhist priest, in a fit of temper over this outrage, quickly took out a can of lighter fluid and set fire to himself. In the glow of the fire from the burning Buddhist I can see the bar-girl out on the street, counting bodies so that she can estimate her money loss for the evening. Picking steel splinters out of my eyes, I walk moodily back to my hotel. Next morning, Sunday, I go out into the countryside, to take the consensus of the Vietnamese farmers in their village. So I stride into a small, muddy village made up of thatched huts...where tiny children are toddling around and small Vietnamese women are hanging out their wash. Me: "Good morning, there, folks. I have come to take a consensus of opinions from you. Who speaks English here?" A man dressed in black walks forward. He: "I speak English. Me Viet Cong, disguised as farmer to fool American dogs. What you want to know?" Me: "How do you like President Johnson?" He: "How you like have bamboo splinters under your fingernails, fella?" Me: "Well...how about asking all these farmers here, because you're the enemy, and you might be prejudiced." I point to the crowd of peasants around us. He: "Ha ha! They my family, my grand-parents, my children. I raised in this village. Is home. They all same think like me. Every Sunday we cook special dinner we call "President Johnson Special." Boiled dog. Today you invited." Me: "Gee, thanks a lot, but some other time. Now for the second question. Will you ask them if they favor the war in Viet Nam?" He turns and speaks to the peasants. They hiss at me viciously, and jab pitchforks at me. A little dog runs up and bites me on the ankle. === Page 51 of 220 February 8, 1966 Copy - Rick Lomie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The enclosed story by Art Buchwald could just as well be the Si's talking directly through the story, (although written just in fun.) Enclosed is photostats, with added notes of my own to tell the story. Is self-explanatory. Very interesting. P K Man === Page 52 of 220 Escalated Weather By ART BUCHWALD 2/8/66 p2 S. IS ANGERED BECAUSE I COULD GET NO CO-OP ON EAST COAST? Washington - Washington just had one of the biggest blizzards in its history and, although snow had been predicted, no one thought it would be on this scale. One of the reasons for this is the credibility gap where people are suspicious of everything that is announced in the nation's capital. Buchwald I discussed this with a high government official as he was digging his car out of the driveway Monday morning. "Sir, did you know there was going to be a blizzard Saturday night?" "I'm as surprised as anybody," he said. "I heard that bad weather was in the works, but I thought this was just a way of President Johnson making it easier to announce he was going to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam." ********** "Who authorized the blizzard?" "It had to come from the White House. My department certainly knew nothing about it. We weren't even consulted." "Do you think a blizzard was a good thing to have at this time of the year?" "Well, you have to remember the President is the only one who can make this agonizing decision. He has all the facts. While a blizzard may look like the worst thing to give the people, it could, in the long run, be the best thing we could do under the circumstances." (AS PROOF TO GVT.) "There are some people who believe Congress should have decided whether we should have had a blizzard or not." ********** "Congress gave President Johnson a vote of confidence in 1965 and said they would support any decisions he made concerning the weather." "Yes sir, but they thought they were voting for a light snowfall or at the most a white Christmas. They had no idea the President was going to get us into a blizzard." "The President didn't want a blizzard any more than anybody else. For the last three months he has done everything to keep the weather from getting out of hand. (But the elements have been against him (S's) and it is his opinion that, unless we stand firm in the face of heavy snowfall now, we will have a worse blizzard later on.) Every one in this administration is for clear weather, but it has to be clear weather with honor." OR SO ME TH IN G "Isn't one of the dangers of a blizzard that the harder you try to dig out of it, the more chance you have of getting stuck in it?" "Nobody knows the dangers of a blizzard more than the President. He did not arrive at his decision to have one until he consulted with many, many people." ********** "Was Dean Rusk in on it?" "I'm sure of it. He had to notify our Allies what we plan to do." "Have they supported him in the blizzard policy?" "They haven't given snow plows or road-clearing equipment, and there are some of our friends who asked the President to hold off on the blizzard indefinitely and give the elements a chance. But here again the President had to make the final decision." ("Could this lead to larger and larger blizzards?") DEFINITELY, "We certainly hope not. (The dropping of snow at this time should indicate that we mean business and, although we may be up to our necks in snow, this doesn't mean we wouldn't be the first ones to want it all to melt." OR SOME THIN G BUSINESS! ********** ("What happens if the blizzard doesn't work?") (SI PROOF) ("We'll have to cook up some other kind of storm.") (EXACTLY) "It looks like it's going to snow some more," I said. "I'm sure the President would allow no more snow to drop than is absolutely necessary." - THEN LET U.S. GOV'T EMPLOY SI'S PK MAN. WHAT WILL HAPPEN === Page 53 of 220 February 9, 1966 Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Interesting thing happened last Friday night...Si's gave me an important message to wire to you (when they want a thing done, they really push, in a manner of speaking.) I really couldn't afford a wire, but went to Western Union anyhow. Wrote the message to you "Si's say they will make their presence known on Johnson trip to Hawaii" and gave it to the man. That man went back and whispered to another man. They eyed me suspiciously, or something, then whispered some more. Second man sat down and picked up a phone. First man said they'd "have to wait until somebody came back in a few minutes to okay it." This meant only one thing: They were alerted for me, evidently, and had orders to call someone to have me picked up. So I took back my message, and departed. You know, George, might come the day when the Si's would let us know before something really bad happens to us. I'd try to warn you, and be blocked by Western Union. Mailing letters depends on whether I have stamps or not (usually do not) and it takes a day or two. Important events necessitate faster communication. And, based upon the extraordinary (I think) accuracy of my past predictions of "catastrophes ahead" - it would be wise not to block me. So I might send two or three messages where nothing happened immediately. But the fourth might be it. The one that could put you ahead of the event, and be able to handle it. Some of my predictions have taken as long as 5 months to happen. But usually it's a few days, few weeks at the most...when they happen. To add a few predictions: Ky, of South Vietnam, is treacherous, hates Americans, and couldn't be trusted across the street. He'll be disastrous for us. McNamara, Johnson favorite or not...will ruin us, if he hasn't done so already. Johnson himself will become the most hated President in the history of the United States (unless he changes, and Johnson is a man who doesn't change.) I have a little help on these predictions from the Si's. Be interesting to see if I'm right or wrong. My predictions to you have been fairly accurate, so far. Incidentally, I suppose the Si's did zero in on Johnson at Hawaii...re that power blackout for ten minutes. They were doing something, evidently. The blackout in itself is not the end result. Overloaded circuit, sure... when the Si's add their power to any power circuit, it's overloaded and blows up. P K Man (Owens) 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 54 of 220 Rick Lornie February 9, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Hell hath no fury like that of the Si's scorned. They tell me to tell the U.S. that the Great Power Blackout, the billion-dollar transit strike, and the Blizzard of '66 catastrophes...were nothing to what they are getting set to do now. If they must keep on dealing out blow after blow, and proof after proof, to prove their reality...and make arrangements with the U.S., then they will just continue to do so. Since they are working from another dimension, there is little the U.S. can do about it. At least, through me, P K Man, you know the thing is going to happen, and why. Why the Government does not join forces with them, I cannot imagine. What this next will be, I don't know. === Page 55 of 220 February 10, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: It says in the paper that the Post Office is now issuing to mail men mustard-spray guns, designed to keep dogs away. Heck, that's stupid! My dog likes mustard! My suggestion to the Post Office is that they issue a double-barreled gun to their mail men...one barrel for mustard, and one barrel for catsup. ********** The papers say that Ronald Ramsey, who lives in California, sent tapes to Hanoi to play to our American boys who are fighting there, for the purpose of persuading our soldiers to lay down their arms. Shucks, Ramsey is doing it the hard way! My suggestion to the U.S. Government is that they fly Mr. Ramsey to Saigon, all expenses paid, assemble all of our troops, and let Mr. Ramsey explain his advice to those silly mislead boys in person! ********** Was greatly surprised to read in the papers that Senator Morse is trying to block Jack Vaughan from becoming Head of the Peace Corps. For Pete's sake, doesn't Senator Morse know that, considering the qualities of some of our Peace Corps personnel...the U. S. Government needs a professional boxer as Head of the Peace Corps. (Only way he can keep Peace). ********** I read in the paper where "bits of Il Duce's brain were lost at U.S. Hospital." There...see what happens when a dictator loses his head? * ********** Those 1500 members of the Women's Strike For Peace, who picketed the White House recently...were taking an awful chance wearing those white cardboard doves. They might have got shot out of season! ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila. * And even if they can't find it they should remember the old saying, "Half a brain is better than none." === Page 56 of 220 February 16, 1966 File THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I read with utter fascination a long long article by a reporter, on how Philadelphia has escaped catastrophes. He must have been so busy writing his article that he didn't read his own paper...all of those college kids in this area arrested for using and/or selling dope. Now, ain't that a catastrophe? ********** I've read in the papers how the U.S. Government has sent military forces to Santa Domingo...and to Viet Nam...in order to protect the two political parties of those two countries from hurting each other. So, don't be surprised if, one of these days, Russia sends half a million soldiers, heavily armed, along with ships, bombers, fighter planes, etc., here to the United States - to protect the Democrats from the Republicans! ********** I read in the paper yesterday where Chubby Checker married Miss World (beauty queen) and then was arrested last week for allegedly sneaking off to a motel with another former beauty contest queen (other than his wife, that is.) The article added that he had once been a "chicken plucker" in a market here in our own Philadelphia. From all his activity with those beauty queens...I'd say he was still quite a chicken-plucker, 1st Class. ********** Reading the paper, I am highly indignant over the mean and cruel way they are treating that Candy Mosler at her trial. Can't they see what a poor, weak, helpless little thing she is? She faints every day, has a nervous stomach, blinding headaches, and the nervous shakes. It's a wonder she ever got up the strength to stab her husband 39 times. Must have plumb wore her out, pore little thing! ********** An article in the paper written by Ailleen Snoddy was headed: "30% Of Us Are Overweight." Well, I can't speak for Ailleen - but more than 30% of me is overweight! ********** President Johnson admits he doesn't know how to end the war in Viet Nam. BUt my little boy knows how to end it. Sitting in my lap last night, he explained it to me, patiently. "Daddy," he said, "you keep laughing and pointing out how prediction after prediction that man McNamara has made about Viet Nam was wrong....so why not let that McNamara tell President Johnson that we'll lose the war for sure and that the war will last a hundred years! Then, you see, since he's been wrong all along...we'll win the war there and it'll be over tomorrow!" - Well, that makes as much sense as any other suggestions I've heard! H. T. Owens - 1114 Spruce, #33, Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 57 of 220 P.S. You nut-head, of course I haven't gone into any UFO saucers. If I do... I'll wire you about it. It could happen if I could ever get way out somewhere where they'd meet me. 2/14/66 Dear Lorrie - Thank you for your letter, your very sweet birthday card, and the $1.00. We did just as you suggested, and had a party on your $1.00. Thanks, honey. Enclosed is a ring I have made for you. The initials are poorly made, but so are ones carved on a tree. It's a Love Ring for you & Julio (HOO-LEE-O). In case you change boyfriends, send it back & I'll put new initials on it! Major Keyhoe was on TV today (a surprise) telling how the A.F. had fired on UFO's, had lots of pictures of them, and had orders from Wash. to cover up all UFO sightings - hide them from the public. He sneered at sightings by farmers, etc., and stressed again & again that only sightings by Majors, Captains, Colonels, scientists - etc. counted. Anybody else was not a "responsible" source and was only after publicity. Ha ha! He's distorted & twisted that way, but at least he says the AF & US Govt. knows the UFO's are real. He added that the Govt. now is considering changing its policy & telling the US people all about how real the UFO's are. Now, I have two proofs at hand (which I'll send you this week), that the Govt. knows for sure PK Man and his UFO's are quite real - and fear my UFO's. Be sure & read my letters to you, to Rick, and vice versa. Be sure. 08/06/2025 16:26 === Page 58 of 220 Don't worry about C's. You're bright, and you'll get along fine. If you're lucky you'll never need brains (school type.) You'll "first" be a sweet feminine girl, who can cook + sew, and make a cute nest for your man + your children. Now to answer your questions. I do not wish to put UFO information in letters - that is, some of it I wish to keep secret. UFO intelligence (Si's) have been in our bedroom. Martha saw them first (like you did, that UFO in Texas that night) then I saw them. No talk at all. We just watched them, with our eyes bugging out. Not one time, but three different times. Baby tried to talk to them, jabbering away + pointing. And the sound they have - never heard anything like it. The Si's do not relay information to me in "talk" or voices, either inside or outside my head. Another way. Explain it to you sometime. Watch Spanish men, Lorrie. Treachery and double-crossing are second nature to them. But they can be charming. I know them well, honey. Listen - in early 1950's I had a Julio Rodriguez at the private military school, Calif. Military Academy - he was one of my pupils. Also his dad was an officer in Nicaragua, I think. Ask him about this. If so, he'd remember Captain Owens. Congratulations on dropping the sorority. Yes, you can tell Pat anything. You're lucky that way. She is a good pal for you. Honey, send important mail to me Special Delivery! Here, please. === Page 59 of 220 Rick LORNE Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency 2/15/66 Dear George: the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in. The Si's communicated with me this morning...and urged me to pass this following information on to the U.S. Government. Now, I have known this, but I only tell this sort of thing...when they tell me to. Philadelphia recently had a very nice rain. The Si's gave it ********** The Si's, for some reason, want the U.S. to know...that they have a Black Box. Say they are irked with the U.S. Government (which they are..the Administration) so they slide a card into the Black Box...this is sort of like a printed-circuit in a transistor radio...and what happens is this: The U.S. Government then develops "conditions" which lead to all sorts of unusual and unexpected set-backs, ranging from air-ship-sub collisions, etc., to people catastrophes...like two generals, in different parts of the world, smashing themselves to pieces the same week by parachuting out of planes (last year.) The weather will go against the Government...people will turn against the Government...conditions will go against the Government. This is what the Black Box does, when the card or wafer is inserted in it. If the Si's wish to reverse conditions, they remove that card, and insert another, and then all conditions are "go" (to put it into space language) for the U.S. Government. Everything goes right. The weather turns favorable; the people change, and become happy and back the Govt.; ships, planes, and subs stop having accidents; space work, instead of being blocked and hampered by constant set-backs, is speeded forward. The Si's want the U.S. Government to know that they can do this, for it is a different medium of tool than anything we have on earth. They want you to know that they can influence minds, souls and matter on earth, in a way humans cannot. They want you to know that they have let me "see" how "PK" works...that is, take the "Electro" area from Daytona Beach to Miami...over it, now (didn't used to be when I just started the PK work) is a growing garden of violently colored 'things'...not plants, but long long things that extend into the air from the ground. The area is covered with these really beautiful, colored plants (?) which humans cannot see...but which are there, nevertheless, and which affect the area. The 'things' are constantly growing. For instance, when I was given permission to go to try to save the life of Brenda Sue Pennington in Washington, D.C., because she was dying...and because the Si's told me to...I "hit" Brenda Sue with certain kinds of constructive "PK" (that is my term for the process of the Si's which I cannot explain, but can use) and a tiny rainbow of color formed over her head (she was in bed, with police standing by, nurses, etc.) I hit her with all the power I had, and used my daughter to supplement my power, by holding hands with my daughter. 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 60 of 220 2/15/66 p2 Intelligence Agency The rainbow-colored light (which humans could not see, but I am lucky in that the Si's let me see it) seemed alive...it moved. My daughter and I left, as soon as the Si's told me it was done and the girl would live (she had been given up by the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in). As the days went by the Si's let me see the girl in her hospital room...and as the days went by, the tiny small rainbow-light over her head grew in size, until the entire room was filled with beautiful, colored 'things'...and the room pulsated, like a human breathing. That was constructive. The girl is now at home, improving, and alive. The Si's saved her. Electro and Electra, the Calif. coast, are destructive. But the Si's point out that they can only reach humans...prove to humans that they are real...by producing negative conditions, destructive conditions. Just as the only way Moses could convince the Pharaoh that what he was saying was true and real...was by producing negative, destructive conditions. The Si's want you to know they come from another dimension, not outer space. They can produce conditions in our dimension from their dimension, if they wish. Or, they can actually enter our dimension themselves, when they have reason to do so. Before closing, they want you to know they can "melt" the destructive conditions they have set into play in Electro and Electra, and replace with a reverse effect. The weather PK Man === Page 61 of 220 2/15/66 Dear Rick, was good to hear from you. Am returning copy of my letter for your files. Wrong one, but I thank you for going to the trouble of looking. Never mind looking further, I've got it covered. Tell Pat that that time she and her mother and I encountered a tremendous "feeling" in the front parlor of their home in Durham, N.C. - we were in a UFO "force-field" which was created by the extreme closeness of the UFO intelligences which were actually present at the time, although unseen. Rhine's work had drawn their interest...they were near Duke...and my own interests and mind drew them. They've told me. Now, about your pool cue. I went into Brunswick, a few doors from where I work, to get your cue. The expert there said to wait about three weeks, because they have a new cue coming from Japan which is superior to anything they've got in the U.S. It is made of rosewood, and is beautiful, and a terrific shooter. You know, Rick, the best radios are made in Japan...also some of the best cameras Now they are coming out with these pool cues. They are the same price, about $20, as U.S. made, but this expert says they are 100% better in feel, balance, and looks. So, your birthday present will be three weeks late. You'll get a professional pool cue which unscrews and fits into a professional case (one just like you saw in "The Hustler" and a book by Willie Mosconi, one of the all time greats in pool. By the way, Sunday there was a tournament by four of the top pool shooters in the U.S. A Frank McGowan, of Brooklyn...beat the great old-timers he was up against. The old-timers were all about 50-60 years old. This McGowan was in his 30's. They had trick-shot contests, where each one took turns trying to do the same trick shot...and they had straight-pool contests to 100 (not 50). Sunday Electro got the huge Agena rocket they were testing...tore it up at the Cape...and now they are behind the 8-ball in their scheduled target-shot in March. They are "investigating what went wrong." A very very familiar phrase, indeed. Also Sunday Major Keyhoe appeared on a nationally televised program, to my utter surprise, and came out with these gems: (a) The U.S. Air Force has fired upon and attacked UFO's. But orders have now been given for our planes to "force them down to the ground". Ha ha. The AF has clocked the UFO's going 18,000 MPH. (b) Newsmen asked Keyhoe if it seemed "the UFO's were angry with our space efforts, and might be trying to block them." ----------! (c) Keyhoe said the A.F. and U.S. Government knew positively the UFO's are quite real...he'd seen a secret Govt. report on it...and that the A.F. had been under orders to shut up anybody or anything that had seen or heard a UFO, in order to keep it from the general public. He said some top AF men were angry about it...because they had to lie, and they weren't natural liars. But he said the U.S. Govt. was now contemplating telling the public about it...bringing it out into the open. ----------! Keyhoe said the A.F. and CIA had been working on keeping UFO activity secret, === Page 62 of 220 2/15/66 p2 amd away from the general public. The CIA! Looks like I have been writing to the wrong people, Rick. Am having lots of fun with this new thing...sending funnies into the papers... and our kitchen wall is papered with different pages of newspapers that I have got funnies in. Sent you a UFO ring today. And a wrist-band also. Don't wear the wrist-band to school, only around home. These articles were made at the Si's direction, by me for you. Has something to do with a plan they have. Sent Lornie a "boyfriend" wring. I made Martha an out-of-this world beautiful bracelet and necklace for her Valentine. First time I have ever made anything...you know...but so far I have turned out all kinds of things like I'd been doing it for years. Without studying it, or anybody telling me anything...I just went to the right stores and bought the right things, then made the things up. Glad you approve of "hooleeo." That's favorable. You're pretty shrewd judge of character. Am puzzled. You say "The confirmed clipping of the UFO over Cape Canaveral are on their way." You didn't mean this letter of mine, attached, did you? I am 46 now. Always remember...I am 10 years older than Pat. Love always, [Signature] Pat === Page 63 of 220 February 17, 1966 THE EDITOR (Note: Please feel free to add to, subtract from, or change...any of my material, if you wish to use it and deem it advisory...I always say "Editors Know Best.") ********** If those Senators who are complaining so much about the hearings now taking place re President Johnson and Viet Nam...damaging our "image" with the enemy... then how about the article I read in the paper today about the State Police in Atlantic City arresting the teenager during President Johnson's visit there? This desperate, mean kid...see...was packing a toy pistol and a play police badge! When the leader of the Greatest Country in the World is protected against kids with toy pistols...well, if that "image" doesn't convulse our enemy with hysterical laughter, nothing will! ********** Its said in the paper yesterday that in Birmingham, Alabama, a girl was shot by a Valentine. And in a current movie a man gets shot by a brassiere (with the girl in it, of course.) What I say is - when people start getting shot by Valentines and brassieres, then hadn't we better pass a Valentine Law and a Brassiere Law...requiring purchasers to register them? ********** Now that Luci is getting married, I bet that LBJ follows his usual m.o. (that's modus operandi, or what he always does. He'll demand, as Commander In Chief, to arrange the security details...and to marry the couple himself, (since Ship Captains can marry people, and isn't He in charge of Ship Captains?) And of course...he'll have to be Best Man. ********** The questions that kids can ask! I was telling my wife about the body of the unfortunate girl, found recently in a stream with the head cut off. My little boy spoke up and said, "Daddy, whatever dirty rat did it...why did he keep the head and throw the rest away?" ********** Read in the paper recently that "President Johnson is pledging nearly $1 billion in economic aid...to South Viet Nam." Gee, I knew he was a rich man, but I didn't know he could afford to be that generous. I am grateful that he's paying for it out of his own pocket, because I'm so busy paying taxes now on Lady Bird's Beautification Program...that if the Government also wanted me to pay on a billion a year to Viet Nam...I'd scream! Then the article goes on to say, "Several officials, including one of the President's top military advisers, contend the U.S. should concentrate on winning the war before going on a spending binge .. that could add to the country's present turmoil." --- What are they trying to do? Spoil all the President's fun? H. T. Owens, 1114 Spruce #33, Phila. 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 64 of 220 2/18/66 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: In my letter of Feb, 1 I told you that the Si's (UFO intelligences) would turn their attention to Johnson and the White House. Since then...I tried to wire you that they would make a contact with Johnson on the Hawaii trip...and the power in Johnson's hotel went off while he was talking. This is typical of the Si presence. This week Johnson went to Atlantic City...his plane had trouble getting there in thick fog. In the limousine going to his speaking engagement the trunk of the car came open and wouldn't close. When Johnson got out the car door stuck and wouldn't open. And in flying back the fog harassed his plane, which had to be diverted somewhere else to land. All this is typical of Si closeness and action. All put together...it means that they are concentrating on Johnson, for some purpose of their own. Now, with the Space shot coming up next week...and more in March...the Si's want it on record that they will harass the Space efforts, to prove to the U.S. Govt. that we need their help. The Electro area, will, I imagine, be a very interesting place to be in the days of the month ahead...with the Si's working there against NASA. UFO's against NASA. Very interesting. PK Man (Owens) Rich Lorne === Page 65 of 220 2/18/66 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: In my letter of Feb. 1 I told you that the Si's (UFO intelligences) would turn their attention to Johnson and the White House. Since then...I tried to wire you that they would make a contact with Johnson on the Hawaii trip...and the power in Johnson's hotel went off while he was talking. This is typical of the Si presence. This week Johnson went to Atlantic City...his plane had trouble getting there in thick fog. In the limousine going to his speaking engagement the trunk of the car came open and wouldn't close. When Johnson got out the car door stuck and wouldn't open. And in flying back the fog harassed his plane, which had to be diverted somewhere else to land. All this is typical of Si closeness and action. All put together...it means that they are concentrating on Johnson, for some purpose of their own. Now, with the Space shot coming up next week...and more in March...the Si's want it on record that they will harass the Space efforts, to prove to the U.S. Govt. that we need their help. The Electro area, will, I imagine, be a very interesting place to be in the days of the month ahead...with the Si's working there against NASA. UFO's against NASA. Very interesting. P K Man (Owens) Dad Flu + meningitis epidemics are the Si's work. Note increasing rhythm of plane-ship destruction world wide. (Ship-plane-sub PK growing) 08/06/2025 16:47 === Page 66 of 220 2/23/66 Dear Lornie Thank you very much for thinking of my birthday...and sending the gift. Am smoking the cigarettes now. Martha and I deeply regretted missing your birthday but we were coming up out of the hole at the time...and couldn't do a damn thing. We got Rick's birthday covered, as we are now doing a little better. I've only got three things in the hock-shop, and that's an improvement. Show this clipping to Rick. And match it up with the letter copy I sent last week to you listing the things that happened to Pres. Johnson at Atlantic City. The Si's are really after him now. And there's nowhere he can hide. They aren't trying to kill him...they could easily have done that...but are up to something else. We'll see. Today is Martha's birthday...but we're stony broke, so we're going to pretend that it is Saturday...after payday...when we've got four or five bucks to use on it. If anybody ever says, "If he's so smart...why ain't he rich?" - point out that all of the top Christians in the Bible, who accomplished the most in helping the world at that time...and time to follow...were all poor men. Why people must equate knowledge with rubies, emeralds and gold...I do not know. It is quite stupid. And some of the worst people we have ever known...have been rich ones. (Gelman, Danciger, etc.) Work hard, honey, and be good. Make Daddy proud of you. Love and kisses, Dad Owens === Page 67 of 220 2/23/66 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1966 # Johnson Meningitis Scare Blows Over By DOM BONAFEDE Special to The Inquirer And N. Y. Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--The White House experienced a few anxious hours last week when it was feared that President Johnson may have been exposed to spinal meningitis, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. As it turned out, the fears were groundless. INCIDENT AT SHORE The incident, nevertheless, was withheld from the press until Tuesday, when White House officials confirmed it in response to a reporter's inquiry. The story began last Wednesday while the President was visiting Atlantic City, N. J., to speak before the Association of School Administrators in Convention Hall. Among the Secret Service agents guarding the President was Michael Kelly, of the Philadelphia office. FALLS TO PAVEMENT Suddenly, Kelly fell to the pavement outside the hall. He was rushed to Atlantic City Hospital, where it was suspected he was suffering from spinal meningitis. Almost immediately, the President's personal physician, Vice Adm. George Burkley, who was in Washington, was informed. Recalling the incident Tuesday, White House sources said there was "concern" that the President might conceivably have been infected. OUTBREAK REPORTED Only recently a number of cases of meningitis has been reported in U. S. military camps in Texas and California, some resulting in death. Robert Fleming, deputy White House press secretary, said, "While the President was not close to Kelly, there was concern at any possible infection." At the hospital, Kelly was put in an isolation ward. Medical tests were given him. The following day the tests proved negative. Kelly did not have meningitis. Picking up the story, Fleming said, "Dr. Burkley was advised as soon as it was determined the agent did not have meningitis. "And because the Secret Service and Dr. Burkley kept so close to all the checks that were made on agent Kelly, it was not felt there was any danger to the President, and no treatment was given him." As a result of his mysterious fall, Kelly was reported by hospital authorities to be suffering from a concussion. His condition was listed as serious. But Dr. Lawrence Strenger said that tests showed no contagious illness. Kelly, who is assigned to the Philadelphia office of the Secret Service, was sent to Atlantic City to reinforce the President's bodyguard. # Peacenik Bares Undershirt to LBJ NEW YORK (UPI).--"Mr. President," shouted a man in a tuxedo as President Johnson began to speak. "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam . . . peace in Vietnam." With that, the man stood on a chair and stripped off his tux jacket and stiff white shirt. Emblazoned on his undershirt was the same message he had shouted at the President: "Peace in Vietnam." The outburst briefly interrupted the President's address in the Waldorf Astoria's Grand Ballroom. The man who shouted at Mr. Johnson was identified as James Peck, 51, of New York. Secret Service agents, who had been watching Peck because of two previous arrests for demonstrating, seized him immediately. They carried him, his face bloodied, from the plush ballroom. PECK was charged with disrupting a lawful meeting and resisting arrest. He is an employee of the War Resistors League, which sponsored a peace demonstration outside the hotel while Mr. Johnson spoke. Peck had paid $25 for a ticket to the dinner. Nearly 4000 persons picketed the hotel. Six of them carried the orange, blue and yellow flag of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Vietcong. The President entered the hotel from a side street and never saw the demonstrators, nor they him. 2/24/66 08/06/2025 16:53 === Page 68 of 220 2/23/66 Mr. George Clarke Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Re my letter to you of last week, listing the extremely odd things happening to President Johnson on his Atlantic City trip...fog harassing his plane; car trunk coming open; door stuck so he couldn't get out, etc. Now, today, turns out that one of his Secret Service men collapsed and fell, and is in serious condition at the present. The reason for the collapse... unknown...at least, the newspaper says so. You and I know the SS boys judo-train. They can breakfall. So that lets out tripping or accidental falling. They've ruled out meningitis. So...what struck him down? Whatever the cause...it is another, added sign of the nearness of the Si's. You will recall that, on other occasions of Johnson making speeches, strange things have happened. Like last summer when he was talking...and a girl nearby collapsed. Like when he was making an impromptu speech at a White House celebration, and the mike went dead. Like at Honolulu, when the power went dead in his Suite when he was speaking with a group privately (I think it was privately.) Like the power-failure that hit the church when Johnson attended. All....sure signs, to me (for I know the signs by now) of Si activity and nearness. And what happens - the power failures, people collapsing, etc., - is not necessarily what the matter is all about. In these actions the Si's may be sowing seeds that we do not understand....invisible seeds, you might say, that will grow into something strange indeed, in time. It's plain to me...but let's break it down, in case it sounds mixed up to someone else. Let's say the Si's have a "finder" on Johnson, like they have on me...can locate him any time. They follow him to Atlantic City. Now, they can make fog and clouds...so that takes care of the plane trouble. Suppose they "hit" Johnson's limousine with a ray of power, unknown to us...this caused the trunk to fly up and the door to jam. They continued beaming this ray of power over the building where Johnson was speaking...aimed at Johnson and meant to have effect on Johnson..and the SS man was sensitive to the ray and couldn't take it, and collapsed. We know the UFO's are real, don't we. Of course. And we know they have a ray. It was seen at Wanaque. So that much is established. You have only my word that I communicate with the UFO's, and that they are doing something with President Johnson. It is very interesting, George, to consider, isn't it. P K Man Owens === Page 69 of 220 2/23/66 p2 Thought you'd be interested in this. Yesterday I got very very angry in the office where I work...and the lights went crazy...in the office I was in, and the office adjoining...some lights would go on and others would go off...then the others would go on and the first would go out. They sent for an electrician, to fix whatever was wrong. But definitely...it was because I was very angry. This used to happen to me a lot at Duke, when I attended as a student. But yesterday was the most powerful ever. It was never removed; has grown...and no doubt caused the collision of planes, loss of H bomb; crash of giant plane, etc etc. Remember that the PK grows as time goes on. *in Spain P K Man === Page 70 of 220 2/23/66 p3 George Clark Intelligence Agency 4/1/66 Dear George: Would like to point out and remind you that some time ago PK was used to "hit" the US/Spain Military Exercises, as a demonstration to the US Govt. on the effectiveness of PK in the use of military.......... it was never removed; has grown...and no doubt caused the collision of planes, loss of H bomb; crash of giant plane, etc etc. Remember that the PK grows as time goes on. *in Spain P K Man === Page 71 of 220 2/23/66 p4 /66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See where a highly-valued space scientist killed himself today in Inglewood, California? So what? First...the Si's are keeping up their campaign of showing that they mean business...by harassing NASA. Since they can control minds, as well as weather...they eliminated this boy as surely as they aimed the gun. Second...the space scientist was lost in Inglewood...where my own two children live. You remember them...you met them...Lornie and Rick. I believe the Si's are saying something with the death of the NASA man in this particular town. But...haven't interpreted it yet. They "tell" a lot of things by doing things of their own...and the action they create tells their story. P K Man All...sure signs, to me (for I know the signs by now) of Si activity and nearness. My own ESP seems to think this NASA boy was murdered...didn't kill himself at all. Of course, the Si's could arrange this, too, because their PK utilizes anything and everything to obtain their objective. Also...shows me the Si's attention is on Inglewood, where my children are. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 72 of 220 February 24, 1966 Dear Rick: Am sure glad that you like the ring and wristband. Keep wearing one or the other, or both...for they are not purely ornamental. They have a functional use. We pinned the newspaper clippings all over our kitchen walls...and you'd laugh to see them all over the walls. Evidently they finally found out "H.T. Owens" was the same as "P K Man" or "The Rain Maker" because all 3 papers very suddenly cut off printing my stuff, even though I sent in stuff that would make you howl with laughter. Of course, most of it was making fun of Johnson, Hubert, etc. Anyway, I think the Government, in its investigation of me and my activities, have put an iron curtain around me...as far as newspaper items, etc., are concerned. It's too bad...I was just getting warmed up. And the papers really liked my writing, too. Incidentally, have two men ever, to your knowledge, come to Inglewood and talked to you, Lornie, or the Shannon's...asking questions about me? Just wondered, is all. Good news...am mailing your super pool cue, along with super case, and a dandy book on pool...to you tomorrow evening. You should get it early next week, any day. It's a $30.00 outfit, so please...don't break it or lose it, huh? Why do I get you such a fine outfit? First, because you're my pal and you deserve it...and second, because if you ever serious about learning and mastering anything...only get and use the best tools you can find to do it with. Always. And...what in blazes is a "piquet" shot? Don't you mean..."PK"? My masse' is messy. Need more practice. When you play, always play to win. Winning is a state of mind, mostly. Many many times I have gotten behind on pool scores, midway through the game...and I have talked to myself in my mind...telling myself to cut out silly mistakes, shoot softer, figure out the weakness of my opponent (they all have one, and you can beat them with it.) And many many times I have come from behind and won, that way. Incidentally, to test your stick and make sure it's as super as the man at Brunswick said...I took it down town and beat the top pool (pro) hustler in Philadelphia with it. So its good. Don't worry any more about that clipping, Rick. I've got it covered. The UFO contour you ask about...is a sideways silhouette of the UFO. Not looking down at it, but sideways at it. See? One evening last summer I went out on the balcony outside our apartment and there were just two clouds, hanging low over our apartment house...and inside each cloud...was a UFO. They were plain. Easy to see. Just floating there, inside the clouds. Both identical saucer shapes, close together. I think I forgot to tell you about that. About the secret weapon in Viet Nam that you heard about...re mental imagery... would like to know more about what you are talking about. The Si's are active there, you know. Write me in more detail about that, eh? Love, Dad === Page 73 of 220 2/25/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well, just as my letter of last week predicted...the UFO's are raising hell down on Cape Kennedy. The Tiros shot has had to be postponed because of technical trouble and bad weather...postponed twice. The Moon shot has been postponed four times. I suppose eventually they'll get the birds off...and then the UFO's will shoot them down or render them ineffectual (strike one n). P K Man P.S. What did you think of the Commander of the entire South Vietnamese Air Force being killed? He wasn't shot down...his plane didn't crash...he didn't have heart failure...and he wasn't assassinated by the Viet Cong. HIS OWN PLANE RAN OVER HIM WHEN HE GOT OUT OF IT TO CHECK ON THE BOMBS! How freak can the accidents get? This is the sort of thing President Johnson and top Adm. officials must guard against...such freak accidents...plus getting hit by lightning, etc., or falling down like that SS man...and the main time to guard against it is between now and the end of May. That is, from now through May...is the danger period, according to the Si's. Forewarned is forearmed. This is, of course, as I have pointed out many times, not a threat but the opposite...a helpful warning. The UFO's are communicating...not me...and I'm the middle man passing along the information. Myself personally I'm just plugging along, working peacefully in an office, and content to be with my little family. But the UFO's...they are something else! 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 74 of 220 Feb. 28, 1966 Dear Rick and Lornie: The Si's have signalled me that at this point the U.S. Govt. will probably take me out of circulation...so that my story of the UFO's, and what the UFO's are doing, will be shut up and kept secret, along with me...just as as they are doing with other various phases of hushing up UFO findings. Zachow told me, you remember, that he happens to know that the U.S. Govt. spends millions each year in suppressing UFO findings and news from the people of the U.S. So...with me coming up with concrete, solid proof of my connection with the UFO's...the Govt. cannot afford to have me rattling around loose, to talk to just anyone about it. So...the Si's warn the Govt. will "secure" me... arresting me, of course, under some false pretext like "threatening" the President with bodily harm, or some such idiotic thing. Well...we'll wait and see if the Si's are right. They usually know about such things. I have warned the President that the UFO's are a threat to him...but not me, not Ted Owens. I'm just a middle man, passing along information from the UFO's to the President, and to the Govt. Now, another thing.. (I can tell you this today, but may have to retype this tomorrow, and leave it out.) Yesterday a 17 year old woman here in Phila. pushed her little baby girl out of an 8th floor window...the baby fell 8 floors. The woman said "voices told her to do it." She is, quite naturally, assumed to be crazy as a loon. But suddenly...I don't think she is. I think she was instructed to push the baby out the window. Now you'll think I am crazy. But listen...the baby was not harmed. Not a hair of its head was hurt. It fell 8 floors, people picked it up...not even bruised. The little girl is perfectly all right. Now...let us suppose the Si's have a method of injecting themselves into people who die, or who are near death...bringing the body back to life, and carrying on through life...as a Si in a human body. I can recall parachutists falling amile or two, their chute not opening...and their miraculously not being killed, or even injured sometimes. I can recall many cases of people who should have been killed...but were not. Brenda Sue was one. Do you follow me? Remember...the Si's are pure intelligence...they take many forms, and they could easily move into a human. Perhaps they have to time it at the human's moment of death or near death. I, myself, should have been killed a number of times, as Mother or Queenie could tell you. A log fell on my head, splitting it open like a melon... a car hit me in the head and threw me 30 feet...I was out for seven hours... and so on. Oh...I think these humans really do die sometimes...but the Si moves in, and the human "comes back to life." It is something to think about. Just remember, when I tell you this, that I have never heard "voices" when I communicate with the Si's (or any other time) I just suddenly "know" what they are telling me. It is instantaneous. === Page 75 of 220 February 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I was puzzled over the weekend...because the Si's had done what they had said they would do...give NASA fits last week over that Tiros Weather Rocket, and the Moon Rocket. That is, they stopped each shot cold, time and time again. But then...they let the Moon Rocket get up and come down. And today, they let the Tiros get up. (Whether it will survive...I don't know...it shouldn't). This is what I believe they are doing. They are trying to show the U.S. Govt. that they **can** harass NASA...can block shots with weather, with technical difficulties, with freak accidents...but they are also showing the U.S. Govt. that they can and will let the birds go, if they want to. This is not to take a thing away from NASA...they do miraculous work...but they wouldn't have a prayer, if the Si's decided to stop them completely. Can you imagine lightning hitting every rocket....continual storms and rain at launching times, so that NASA would never be able to depend on a weather time-table...every rocket being destroyed that did get up, at its second or third stage...and so on. I do not believe they are trying to destroy the NASA space effort...but they do intend to show the U.S. Govt. that they are here, are present, and are influencing the outcome of things considerably. Now, a human...if he had a "PK" power like that...would stop or block **every** shot...everything NASA moved. But that's a human...the Si's are not human...their wisdom is infinitely more than human wisdom...and I believe they are gently trying to nudge the U.S. into line with them, to cooperate and work with them...with the Si's. You could rebut that hell, of course once in a while NASA has difficulties, so why blame it on Si's? But just reflect how **many** difficulties NASA has had at Cape Kennedy in particular (Electro) this last year or two. And how few successes, compared with the destructs and "freak" accidents. Too too many, George...and the very heavy balance of evidence is on the Si side. I am still trying to get them to go down to the Cape and show their saucer craft there...as the clincher, so I can get down to brass tacks with the U.S. Government, and begin to work with the Si's in earnest. === Page 76 of 220 March 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's fooled me completely. I was watching the Tiros and Moon Shot birds. The Si's toyed with them for three or four days, blocking each shot with bad weather or "technical difficulties" - then the birds got up, and while I was watching them, waiting for something to happen (as it usually does) the Si's switched targets and went for the Astronauts. I knew something was very wrong when the birds got up...have learned by now, from "observing" the actions of the Si's, that when they abandon a project they have started...it is usually for something bigger and harder hitting. I deeply regret the loss of these two good men. As I have stated before, the Si's are rougher than I am...for bringing down birds is one thing, to prove a point. But I am against destroying people. However, the Si's do not think like humans...and are determined to make their point. Forgetting for a moment the money cost (for instance, each Astronaut costs roughly ten million dollars to train - so about twenty million dollars was lost yesterday)....by now key NASA losses in manpower alone are: (1) Astronaut Freeman, killed by a duck, in a plane crash. (2) Astronaut See, killed in plane crash. (3) Astronaut Basset, killed in plane crash. (4) Dr. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, died from cancer. (5) Dr. Lovelace, Director of Space Medicine for NASA, killed in plane crash. (6) Major General Branch, major figure in U.S. Space Military Experimental Program, killed in plane crash. (7) Williams, outstanding young Space Scientist with NASA, a suicide at Inglewood, California. Then consider that Kris Kraft and 13 top Space (NASA) officials, all on the same plane, were almost destroyed by a teenager wielding two guns.... and this gives you an idea of the price NASA has paid...in refusing to listen to me with regard to the UFO intelligences (Si's) and the messages they have given the U.S. Govt. through me. I just pointed out to you in my February 25 letter that all important men in the U.S. Govt. must be on guard from 2/25 through May! It is a danger period, according to the Si's...and I guess the Astronauts were not excluded from the category of "important men in the U.S. Govt." to the Si's. You see, if NASA had believed my letter of the 25th...these two boys wouldn't have been in an airplane yesterday, and wouldn't be dead today! P K Man Owens 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 77 of 220 3/3/66 Dear Lornie It was good to get a letter from you. Sorry to hear about all the flu. Electra, remember. It all started in Los Angeles...swept across the country...bypassed Philadelphia, completely. Bet you did make a good baby-sitter for the sick kids. You probably earned your RN 5th Class. Be sure and don't kiss Juan for a month, or he might get it. Ha ha. Get a copy of current Look mag...there's a hot article in it on sex for the teenager. Glad you like the love-ring. I bought a ring-shank, enamel paint, brushes, powerhouse glue...and made it. Yes, it was great to hear from Mrs. Pennington. Gives you a pretty good idea of how our Si-power works, eh? Too bad we couldn't use more of that kind, instead of what is going on now. Maybe some day someone will listen, and go into action to help me and the Si's. Somebody who counts. Meanwhile they'll keep on losing scientists, astronauts, politicians, planes, subs, ships, H-bombs...you name it. Incidentally, do you remember when I hit the Spanish-U.S. Military Exercises while we lived in Washington? And all sorts of things happened...copters collided, planes crashed, etc? Well, in the same area this year two huge B-52 bombers collided and they lost several H-bombs! Means the PK is still active in the area. If you are following my copies to George...then you will know that I warned that from 2/25 through May...Key government people were in for it, in danger. Following that, a few days later, a Congressman fell down in the White House and broke his hip. On Feb. 18 I wrote George the Si's asked me to put it on record, officially, that they were now out to get NASA to teach it a lesson...and 10 days later (this Monday) the two Astronauts were killed. They'll nver learn. As you know, the Si's (I thought it was nature at that time) told me in Washington that Johnson would be eliminated by May of this year, unless he cooperated with them (while we were in Washington...I made a bet, remember?) Am curious to see what happens. I got birthday dollars...and we had our party. I got your cigarettes. Martha got your birthday $1.25, and lovely hand-made card, which she cherishes on her dresser. With your money she bought a new apron, new pot-holder, and a toy for Beau. Beau doesn't know any English, except "I want ka-ka (candy)". I love you always, my daughter. Keep punching. And never ever lose faith or belief in your Dad. Somewhere along the way people will tell you I'm nuts...I'm having a "change of life"...all sorts of things. Don't you believe it. Love and kisses.......... Dad 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 78 of 220 March 4, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I should have written this yesterday...but do not have a typewriter at home, and could not do it at the office. The Si's yesterday told me they were preparing a series of blows - natural catastrophes - coming up.* And of course the tornados this morning in Alabama and Miss. probably caused a disaster area there. It is rare when I cannot get my message off to you, ahead of the event, but I couldn't do it yesterday. That is why I should have my own typewriter. Now...you have noticed the stock market "storm" lately...dropping, dropping... and I call your attention to my letter to you of January 26: "What they are going to do next is...shrink the monies which are donated to Radio Free Europe, Heart Fund...etc...Picture a large circle, which is now the amount of monies donated by peoples to all sorts of activities, government and otherwise... shrink this large circle down to a small spot...and you get the idea. People will simply stop giving." Well, I believe I misunderstood the Si's...interpreted what they sent me wrongly Evidently they meant they would attack the stock market (they can, because they can influence masses of people to do things.) Therefore, since it is the Si's, to the best of my knowledge...then the U.S. can look forward to a terrible crippling blow in the Stock Market, perhaps a depression without precedent. Also remember I told you the Si's were intending to use the coloreds as a whip against the U.S.? And just last week the Black Muslim leader made the statement that the Muslims could literally destroy the U.S., if they wanted to. Backed by invisible Si cooperation...they certainly could do so, by acting as a base for all coloreds everywhere. Long ago I asked you to please get me some action on this matter, because actually the welfare of the U.S. is at stake...it overrides the Communist threat by a great deal. The Si's control our weather, control our air (skies), and even control our masses of peoples in various ways. It is time to break the great silence, George...and time for the U.S. to accept the Si's as allies and friends. This is bad? With all their power to add to ours? P K Man They have more planned, in the next few days, 2-3 weeks. === Page 79 of 220 3/4/66 p2 d note: I would like to point out that, besides controlling our weather and controlling our skies, and controlling masses of our people...the Si's certainly control the good water that we have. Let me point out that the Wanaque UFO flew over not only the Wanaque Reservoir, but a lake, and I believe another reservoir as well. With its ray it burned a hole in the ice of the Wanaque Reservoir. This actual demonstration, witnessed by people, proved the reality of UFO's conclusively...and also pointed out that no power on earth can stop the UFO's from affecting any or all of the water supply of the U.S. Think about that a while, George. What effect did that ray have on the water of the W. Reservoir? Do you think the UFO was just "playing"? I've got news, it wasn't...they do not have a sense of humor like humans, from what I have managed to glean from my acquaintance with them. There was purpose there...and they wanted it known to our people. At any time, anywhere, they could beam their ray at our drinking water...our good water. What it does, I don't know...although I suspect it carries a way to sensitize people's minds a certain way so that they can be influenced by the Si's. And you know, the tornados that hit Jackson, Mississippi today...isn't that the area where the Si's took Hurricane Betsy, to hit NASA there? Once an area is hit with Si PK...I believe it is peculiarly susceptible from that point onward to more hits of the like. For instance, the B-52 crash over the Spanish Coast...losing the H-bomb (had you thought that perhaps the Si's got it? They most certainly brought about the accident...just as they worked with PK in that area during the American-Spanish Military Exercises there.) The U.S. is very very lucky that the Si's want to be their friend...if and when the U.S. ever accepts them. What would it be like to have them as an ever-increasing powerful enemy? What the Si's could do, if they wished...makes Russia and China about as dangerous as my 3-year old baby. === Page 80 of 220 March 10, 1966 Copy - Rick Lornie 3/10/66 p 1 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: I have some very good news...from the UFO intelligences...to P K Man...to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government. In the days, weeks and months to come there will be rain rain rain...not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rainwater to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record...so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature." Their plan was for me to obtain money enough to have independence, so that I would not have to do ordinary work for a living...since now they can only communicate with me through "cracks and crevices" in time, instead of through an "open door" in time, as would be the case if I were free to work with them constantly. This money mentioned above was to be made by me as "The Rainmaker" and by me breaking the drought on the East Coast for the money. However, my fellow humans would not listen...would not accept. This has certainly happened, on a giant So the Si's will make the stupid humans a present of the rain. But they warn...and mark this well...after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water...then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore P K Man and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the Si's...then the Si's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment. And they do not communicate idle words. So, I am very happy that the East Coast will soon be inundated with rain and water. Our friends, the Si's, will now demonstrate their gentle, good side...and it is their predominant side, as a rule. You, and the U.S. Government, and the people of the U.S., can thank God the Si's are trying to help us, and are on our side. Would be sad if they gave up on us, and took their powers elsewhere to some other, more friendly and cooperative, country to fulfill their pattern of action they are determined upon. P K Man (Owens) Owens Please see my letter of January 1, 1966, and read entire letter. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 81 of 220 3/10/66 P2 March 9, 1966 Dear Mr. President: This is the next important letter of warning to the U.S. Govt. from the UFO intelligences (Si's)..........following their last letter of warning, dated August 11, 1965, written by me to you from their communication. They wish to bring things up to date first. Since their last warning there have been an unprecedented number of airplane and ship accidents..........not at all accidental..........caused by UFO methods. They call it "Ship-Sub-Plane PK", "Storm PK", etc. Although catastrophes have been caused by the UFO's all over the world, to fit their pattern of planning..........we are concerned here with only those catastrophes affecting the U.S., of which, as I said, there have been an unprecedented number and in an ever-increasing cyclical rhythm..........if you have noticed. Unless action is taken by the U.S. Government to cooperate with the Si's..........and form a friendly alliance with them..........matters will get much worse in all departments..........Nature, political, financial, health, etc. As they stated before, in my previous letters, it is as in the days of Moses. Speaking, that is, of their catastrophe-effects. In their last letter of warning to you and the U.S. Govt. they warned that catastrophes would increase in number and scope. This has certainly happened, on a giant scale..........although no attention has been paid, that I know of, to their important warnings by the U.S. Govt. As you can see, from the list that follows, many of these catastrophes have been the worst experienced here in the U.S. in 100 years..........and some of them the worst ever experienced in the entire history of the U.S. - thus bearing out my message to you from the Si's in the last letter of warning that this would be so. Interesting is the fact that the Si's warned in my letter of February 12, 1965, that the Russ would form small teams to smuggle atom bombs into our U.S. cities for a Trojan Horse attack from within the U.S. This was confirmed by articles in the newspapers just yesterday, quoting J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI warning of the Russ planning to do just that, i.e., bring in small atom bombs. Also in my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure, if they wished to do so. These past two weeks you have seen it happen. And unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure. Please see my letter of January 31, 1966, and read entire letter. === Page 82 of 220 3/10/66 P 3 In this letter is a paragraph: "They (the Si's) are curious to know..........must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in the deep freeze? Or it will the U.S. make friends with them?" They had their answer..........the U.S. did not make friends. P K Man was not contacted. so they did many things worse! It would take too long to list all of the great catastrophis which have struck the U.S. since the Si's last warning to you..........so let us just sum up the past two months: Jan. 31: (Following are newspaper headlines which tell the story) "Worst Storm of Century Hits South..........breaking records that date back to 19th Century." "A severe combination of snow, wind, and icy cold hit most of the Nation, tying up highway, rail, and air traffic..........Washington was virtually paralyzed." "Northeast Lashed As Another Storm Blows Up In Plains." Feb. 1: "The fury of one of the worst winter storms in years moved into the North Atlantic last night, leaving the Eastern Seaboard and the South battered." "..........34 Degrees Below Zero At Russellville, Alabama." Feb. 1: "New Storm Hits The South and Midwest" - "A new storm today rolled across the Midwest and South, and moved for the snow-packed Mid Atlantic States. In Florida..........nearly all the crops of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, and poll beans were destroyed." Feb. 1: "30 Foot Drifts Bury Cities In Upper New York" - "Whole counties of Upper New York State lay buried Tuesday, under drifts up to 30 feet deep..........after one of the worst snow storms on record. Winds sometimes approached hurricane velocity." Feb. 2: (Catastrophe in Viet Nam) The First Cavalary was riddled with .50 caliber machine gun fire..........from their own side. Captain Fox there said he had never seen anything to compare with this accident. Sgt. Standfield there said hehad seen no parallel to it in three wars. Feb. 3: "6 men were killed in a C-47 crash in the Navy Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." "It was the worst crash of the Navy's 11-year Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." Feb. 10: "Tornado Hits Houston Area." - "The storm was the worst to hit Houston in years. Winds of 100 mph were reported in Houston." Feb. 11: "Tornados Wrack Texas" - "A massive storm system that spawned tornados..........dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico." (Almost skipped this one..........President Johnson declared American Samoa === Page 83 of 220 3/10/66 p4 3 a major disaster area, because of a hurricane which just recently struck it. Feb. 12: Lightning struck a plane near the airport at Rome. This happened once to a plane Mrs. Johnson was on, as I recall. And it was recently discovered that tremendous air turbulence blew the plane apart near Tokyo recently...as the same thing happened to a plane over Florida last year. Of course, Florida is the "Electro" area...a supercharged PK area. The lightning and the force applied for the air turbulence are of course Si phenomena. (This above is not a catastrophe; but wanted to bring it in as a point of interest.) Feb. 11: Meningitis struck at San Antonio, Texas; Ft. Gordon, Georgia; Lackland AFB, Texas - and other U.S. locations. Feb. 20: "Cold Sweeps 17 State Area" (Broke records everywhere in these areas.) Feb. 21: "Flu Epidemic Grips California - Schools Closed." "Flu Bug Spreads Throughout California" Feb. 23: "Tornados Splash Across South" "Tornados Cause Heavy Damage In North Carolina and Georgia" Feb. 28: "Two Astronauts Killed As Jet Hits Plant Housing Gemini 9" March 1: "Stocks Dive 13.70 Points" "Worst Dip In 8 Months Rocks Stock Market" March 4: "Tornados Kill 60, Hurt 497, In Two Dixie States" March 5: "Snow Still Falling In Blizzard of Central U.S." "This was the worst blizzard in recorded history...since the Weather Bureau began keeping records." Now...Mr. President..the Si's want you and the Government to know absolutely that they created all this damage and harassment to further prove what I have been saying...that I am their "reporter" (as a newspaper hires a reporter to carry the news to the readers) to the U.S. Govt., and that they can and will do what they say they can and will. To summarize the above 2-month list: THE ENTIRE U.S. WAS MADE A DISASTER AREA. EAST COAST - Worst blizzard in 100 years. WEST COAST - Struck with Flu and Meningitis epidemics. SOUTH - Worst cold freeze in 100 years. Killer tornados. 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 84 of 220 3/10/66 P5 NORTHWEST - Worst blizzard in the entire history of the Weather Bureau. MIDWEST - Worst cold in 100 years. Plus blizzard. HOUSTON, TEXAS - Attacked by tornados. MISSISSIPPI - Attacked by tornados. ALABAMA - Attacked by tornados. NORTH CAROLINA - Attacked by tornados. GEORGIA - Attacked by tornados. CALIFORNIA - Killer meningitis. TEXAS - Killer meningitis. NEW JERSEY - Killer meningitis. ALABAMA - Killer meningitis. All this, in only two month's time! It does not include the Great New York Blackout...or the terrible, paralyzing New York Transit Strike...or the many crashes of huge airplanes...or the loss, one way or another, of top key government personnel...and so on. NOTE: The Si's are hereby notifying the U.S. Government that, just as they predicted in their last warning...the catastrophes that have just occurred, record-breaking though they may be, are only a sample of what lies ahead for the U.S. Government...unless the U.S. Government makes friends with them, and accepts them as an ally. Their conditions for this have been spelled out, previously, several times. The Si's warn...brace yourself...because there will be an unexpected twist in Viet Nam...and our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from there with their lives...regardless of all our military might. (But the Si's can extricate us from that mess, and only they can, if we allow them.) The Si's state that only they can stop U.S. catastrophes, and help the U.S. out of all the troubles that it is in. They also think my Government is crazy for not even giving the Si-power a try-out in the U.S.'s behalf. We can spend millions beautifying highways...give millions to foreign countries...but will not trouble to make friends with the Si's...who are the only ones who can help us. President Johnson...once more I respectfully ask that you invite me to your Texas ranch for a weekend and discuss this. It is the last time I will...can...ask. To sum up...in my first "Letter To The American People" I predicted great catastrophes. They came. In my second letter of warning to you, Mr. President, I predicted more and bigger catastrophes. They came. In this, my third letter of warning from the Si's...I am predicting even bigger, even more terrible catastrophes ahead for the U.S. Government. THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. Send for P K Man, UFO representative, immediately, 08/06/2025 16:55 === Page 85 of 220 3/10/66 P6 and arrange to join forces with the Si's. The Si's predict that the day will come when the U.S. Government, when in trouble, will come to P K Man to send a message to the Si's to get them out of trouble...just as you would go to the Western Union to send a wire. If the U.S. Government takes good care of me, that is. If anything happens to me, the U.S. Government will never again have this opportunity in this lifetime. In closing, the Si's want you to know that this message, this letter, comes straight from them...through me...and they are the same UFO intelligences (saucer intelligences) seen over the Wanaque Reservoir not long ago. Also they want to repeat...the catastrophes suffered by the U.S. these past months have been produced by the Si's to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers...to reinforce the message read by Jack McKinney over Jack's "Night Talk" Radio Show last summer here in Philadelphia. P K Man (Owens) Owens 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 86 of 220 March 21, 1966 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: When the two Astronauts were being flown back to the U.S. via Honolulu, and their airplane malfunctioned...the SI's were merely showing NASA their entire control over the Astronauts. They point out that they could have dropped the plane like a rock into the water...or exploded it into a ball of flame...if they had so wished. Also they point out that it would be very very wise of NASA to keep highly-trained, valuable Astronauts out of airplanes entirely, since "PK" has been issued at ships-subs-planes, and is now very highly developed in the skies and in the water. Also they wonder why the U.S. Government does not bring out to the people "the saucer Intelligences (SI) story...that it was not sabotage that injured the Gemini 8 flight, nor was it the fault of the Astronauts, nor was it the fault of NASA. It was done by UFO intelligences, in their campaign to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers...which lie far outside the scope of human sciences. The SI's again ask...what do they have to do to us, to prove their reality...and to join the U.S. as friendly allies? It might be asked, if what they have done thus far can be regarded as "friendly" then we have no need of enemies...but this would be a grave error, a terrible mistake in judgement. Because the saucer intelligences have been gentle, for them. They can at any given time increase the scope of catastrophes, if they wish. So far the catastrophes have been relatively small. They think what they have done, to prove their reality through me, their interpreter, and with the objective of joining the U.S. in order to turn their constructive and creative powers onto the world in general...is worth the small price the U.S. has so far paid. But unless they get some reaction...some results...from their labors, soon...then the U.S. must really sweat some larger catastrophes now beyond our comprehension. They have always given fair warning, and a friendly offer with which to avoid catastrophes. The U.S. Govt. so far has never reacted to them...and the U.S. Govt. has suffered grievously. It need not be so. P K Man Love Dad 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 87 of 220 Sunday 3/27/66 Dear Rick -- Am glad the pool cue pleases you. Make it your friend for a life-time. Take care of it, honey. It's an ace. Don't loan it to any person, ever. If you do, you'll be sorry. How did you like the way PK took care of Gemini 8 & Agena? NASA is still trying to figure out what hit them. Now the Govt. has angered the Si's -- which have appeared recently to prove their reality -- by calling the Si's "marsh gas." So the Si's are going to teach the Air Force a lesson -- they are "hitting" the USAF here on out, with all PK phenomena. If the Govt. continues to ignore me -- the Si's are going to PK all U.S. vehicles -- autos, trucks, busses, etc. It will not be safe for anyone to be in a vehicle. Don't worry about your package (Bean is in my lap now, licking my arm) -- the thought is there, honey. People can't prove love with presents, anyway. Bean is big now. Talks a little. Martha is fine -- but she waited downstairs at the mail box day after day for weeks, expecting your package. She's like a child, you know, and her feelings were hurt when it didn't come. I'm trying every way I know to get the Church of Sata started -- and to get an isolated house, so the UFO's can come to me in their craft -- but nothing has worked out so far. Remember my bet with your friend in Wash. -- that Pres. J. wouldn't live past May, '66? His only chance is to make friends with the Si's. Love, Dad. === Page 88 of 220 Copy - Rick & Leonie Monday, April 4, 1966 George Clark, CIA, Washington, D. C. Dear George: Yesterday I was in communication with the 81's...and they told me that they were going to make a demonstration of their powers before the AF meets with Congress with its info on UFO's...in order to dramatize the meeting. They told me they would do something at Cape Kennedy, or at Washington (the White House)...and today the tornados struck Cape Kennedy! I could have again warned the U.S. Govt. last night of this, but have no one to report to, and no way to do it. Oh, yes...when they told me yesterday of their plan to hit the Cape, or the White House...I asked them to show one of their craft in the area, as a sort of signature. But they didn't do that. Not long ago I sent you a letter with regard to General Ky, of Viet Nam. At the time he was being painted as a mixture of Batman and George Washington, by the U.S. Govt. But I told you what he was really like. And if you will check my letter, you will see that I was correct. The 81's yesterday told me something else...they do not want me to try to meet them in Michigan, or anywhere in the U.S. They want the original plan...U.S. Govt. gives me the money, I go to England...they specify England...and want me to rent an isolated castle there, etc. You know what that plan is. Now, to business. You will remember that I warned weeks ago that U.S. catastrophes would increase (unless the Govt. enlisted the help of the 81's) It has not, and the catastrophes have. Let's just briefly scan the catastrophes that have struck the U.S. Govt. in just the past ten days (10): (1) Today's tornados, chopping up Florida for three hours and bullseying on Cape Kennedy. (2) The railroad strike - "biting into the Nation's economy" as the newspapers put it. This effected hundreds of thousands of workers and jobs, and cost approximately fifty to one hundred million dollars...and created chaos. (3) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday - six days, count them, six - arrangements were made at Cape Kennedy for NASA to get a rocket off the ground...any rocket. But they could not. And these birds were highly publicized, adding insult to injury when they failed to get up. A true catastrophe for NASA, prestige-wise. (4) The "lost" H-bomb off the coast of Spain was dropped accidentally not once but many times, and is now possibly gone for good, until it goes off some day, or Russia steals it. A catastrophe. (5) The people of South Viet Nam, our allies, turned against the U.S. Govt. this week - and now American personnel are not safe among the people they are fighting and dying for. This rebellion of our allies against us, at this time, is a terrible catastrophe. (6) The blowing up of the hotel in Saigon which housed our military men was most certainly a catastrophe. (7) Devastating forest fires have struck five States in the South...most certainly a catastrophe. (8) And Saturday a hurricane (Typhoon Shirley) bullseyed in on the U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base in Australia, hitting it with damaging winds. All this action...in the past ten days alone, George. Catastrophes, ever increasing in number and in scope. The 81's are unhappy because I must work at 2% of my capacity, instead of working with them and for them; and they are unhappy because the U.S. Government has not sent for me to add my material to the report of the AF when it meets Congress, this week - since I am in communication with the 81's, and the AF is not - what can the AF poss 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 89 of 220 4-4-66 P2 IN CONCLUSION: I must add this note. Most of you I have been writing to for about two years. And my estimate of you, both high and low people, is that you are either damn fools, or very very dumb scientists...or both. Now that's not nice, to say that. But I think it is accurate, and I am fully qualified to say it. During these past two years I have accomplished impossible things... made absolutely impossible predictions come true...and proved conclusively my connection with UFO's and my two-way communication system with them. Now you cannot possibly think I am just a "contactee" and some kind of nut...because you have more than enough material in your files to prove this is not so. I could cite roughly 100 cases right now...major happenings...that I have predicted in advance, and in most instances with details of what, when, and how. For the Government not to take advantage of this obviously unusual and tremendous ability, therefore, is damn foolishness. In this case, criminal foolishness, for the Si's have been trying to work with our Govt. For the scientists not to take advantage of this, is completely unbelievable...for what I have done, with the Si's, staggers the imagination...and powers and principles have been employed not even known to mankind, except myself. Therefore, I say that the scientists who may have looked at my correspondence, and done nothing, just have to be stupid. Not long ago I gave the Govt. two days warning...before the Reds struck at our warships, and before the Reds put more and better planes into the air. It was a double-prediction that came true within days. Think of the tremendous value I should have to my Govt., who has had two years to think about it and evaluate my work. Yet we remain poor, shabby, live in dangerous surroundings, my family has had to split up, etc etc. Frankly, folks, you don't deserve the brilliant intelligence I've been giving you this long time. Owen 08/06/2025 17:05 === Page 90 of 220 Wednesday April 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Be warned...all ships, planes and subs in the Atlantic will be in deadly danger in the weeks and months ahead...until the East Coast drought is ended. The high waves and wind that just damaged a ship and killed two people were part of it. The Si's are doing something with the weather, using the Atlantic ocean to supply certain things they need to end our East Coast drought. They are just now beginning to get the elements arranged to end our drought...but it is going to be deadly dangerous to all forms of life and locomotion in the Atlantic, for a while. P K Man (Owens) === Page 91 of 220 Copy - Rick / Levine Wednesday April 20, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: I regret that you have not seen fit to take me up on my unique proposition - of guarding Florida against hurricane activity for the coming season. I can absolutely guarantee plenty of hurricane action in that area this coming season...just as I warned Cape Kennedy that they would have much bad luck with their shots this winter. And they have. Therefore, speaking for my UFO friends and their "PK" power...en garde. Owens P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. The Si's want it definitely understood... in the event of my death, accidental or otherwise, they (UFO intelligences) will see to the total destruction of the United States, in retaliation. For, as their only human interpreter - I am the key to their plans for bringing peace and order to the world. === Page 92 of 220 Copy - Lonnie Rick Kids - you have copy of last week's letter. Tuesday April 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See attached clip, then read this following quote from the letter I just sent you last Tuesday, April 19: "Something momentous is in the wind...with the Si's.; So big that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that...but not until today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia... into Center City...to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city...down around buildings, etc. But...frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle...then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times...but reaching me with one of their large craft...that's something else. So...when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead...you will know who it is linking up with." That's what I wrote you, George...exactly one week ago. Now read clipping. P K Man (Owens) Owens P.S. If you will check the picture of this UFO, in this clipping, taken by the 14 year old boy...you will readily see that this UFO, and the UFO photographed in Australia and pictured in the Life Magazine article on UFO's several weeks ago...are exactly the same. === Page 93 of 220 Flashes Over East 4/26/66 # Thousands Sight 'Fireball' By ROBERT J. HAYES Of The Inquirer Staff A bright ball of fire trailing a long fiery tail startled thousands in the Delaware Valley and most of the Mid-Atlantic Coast as it shot across the sky near sun-down Monday. The object, reported seen in Rochester, N. Y., Boston, in areas of Ohio and the Carolinas, was described soon after it was sighted by astronomers and Federal Aviation Agency authorities as a meteor. Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium, said the fireball was seen by a member of his staff, Edward Bailey, of Bala Cynwyd. "From his description," Dr. Levitt said, "it was most likely a meteor, but there are too many unknowns. "The object," he said, "was very unusual for two reasons. For one, it was as bright as a full moon. It was also very slow. You can usually count on seeing meteors only for about 15 seconds." The object, seen about 8:10 P. M., caused a general swamping of area police switchboards. Philadelphia police headquarters alone reported more than 500 calls--many from policemen. Municipal telephones buzzed to the tune of about 1000 calls. Phone calls swamped police boards in Delaware, Montgomery, Chester and Bucks counties, and in North and South New Jersey. About an hour after the meteor was seen here, Dr. Levitt said he received a report the object had been sighted over Boston. He said observers in New England had reported it was headed for a crash-down in Canada. Whatever it was, Dr. Levitt said, it was big. Its chances of coming down in one piece, he said, depended on its composition. "If it's iron, it could make it down in one piece," he said. "If it's a stone and iron mixture--'friable'--it will probably break up." Apparently the object's destination depended largely upon where you were sitting when you saw it. A private pilot landed at the Bridgeport, N. J., airport and reported seeing "a large, brilliantly green spherical object about 5000 feet in the air going at about 600 miles an hour. "It was headed due west, and extinguished itself in the vicinity of the General Electric plant in Chester." In Washington, reports were that the object landed in the Continued on Page 3, Column 5 === Page 94 of 220 HEAD AT PORTHOLE In Asbury Park, N.J., someone with a wilder explanation told the city's newspaper, "I saw a head peering out a porthole." Near Atlantic City, an engineer at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Corp., at Pomona, told State Police the object was a meteor that exploded on entering the earth's atmosphere. Descriptions of the object ranged from "huge Roman Candle" to "starburst," "fireworks," and "flying saucers." Its color varied in observers' eyes from dazzling white to blue green or red. All agreed on one thing--the object was traveling on a descending course from south to north. 'LANDING' REPORTED Police from the Carolinas to Toronto checked reports of downed aircraft or that the object landed in their areas. "Everyone thought it came down near them," a Coast Guard official said. In Bucks county, a woman called police to say the fireball crashed down on the Levittown parkway. In Scranton, a man was talking on the phone with another man in Binghamton, N. Y. They saw the object at the same time. Meteo AP Wirephoto This photo of long-tailed meteor that streaked across northeast U. S. was taken by 14-year-old Utica, N. Y., youth, Dana DeGeorge, as he stood in his back yard with a friend. 4/26/66 Huge Fireball Sighted Flashing Over East By Startled Thousands Continued from First Page Maryland countryside about 10 miles north of the Capitol. A Ridley Park man said he spotted the thing when his collie, Jamie, began barking at the sky. The man, John W. Brown, of 237 Stoney Hill rd., said the thing, which he spotted from his backyard, "was well over 10,000 or 12,000 feet high. It was directly overhead and going on a bullet trajectory and died out about 15 degrees above the horizon." VAPOR TRAIL LEFT An official of Yale University Observatory in Connecticut said the object might have been a Bolide -- a type of meteor which enters the atmosphere at slower speeds and seems to travel at a level altitude. The object's long tail left a vapor trail similar to that left by jet planes at high altitudes. This brought fears it was a plane burning and about to crash. Flying saucer fears also were 08/06/2025 17:13 === Page 95 of 220 Wednesday May 4 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick I hope you have been well, and things at school are going fine. Just sent you some snapshots...hope you like them. Please convey my deep regrets to Pat, for the loss of Mary. I liked Mary, always did. She was a loss to the family, I know. And her children will miss her very much. Martha hasn't been touched by the virus, but baby and I have really been clobbered. There's a whopping epidemic of it right now in Philadelphia...and it has all started just since the "fireball" appeared over Philadelphia several weeks ago (I sent you a clipping.) I have a vague theory...that perhaps the nearness of a large Si craft might cause humans within their radius to be affected by what humans call "flu" or "virus." Clyde Beatty Circus is coming to town this week...and we are going to see the old gang that we worked with last year. Ain't that a laugh? Stuck here in Philly a whole year? We are going to go to the circus Sunday, spend the whole day, and take pictures. I'll send you some. We get no mail. Spelled with a capitol NO. Can't figure it out. Have literally hundreds of leads and contacts out...yet our mailbox remains empty, week by week. Had a dream about you kids...dreamed I came home from work, went into the kitchen, and there you kids sat with the baby, just looking at me silently. Somehow I didn't feel that you had been gone, or anything was different...I kissed Martha hello and asked what was for supper...and she said, "Ted, look, Lornie and Rick are here." Got to ring off for now. Get back to work Love and kisses.......... Dad Pal 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 96 of 220 Thursday May 12, 1966 Dear Rick: It was good to at last hear from you. I tried to put your good luck card in my pocket, but Martha grabbed it first...to carry it for a while, then she will let me carry it for a while. We are sharing it. Don't worry about your PK work. Could be the magic left you, when we split up. Remember, it's the Si's, not us, doing it. While they are working with me, they might not be working with you. Probably are not, as a matter of fact. I have been working with them on ending the U.S. drought...especially the East Coast...and it is working like a charm. Kind of hard on the fruit crops, though. To get all the rain, you see, there had to be cold air mixing with warm air. Cold records have been broken all over the country...way back past 100 years. Tell you what, my boy...smart thing to do right now is this...forget making weather, shooting pool, etc., and concentrate hard on racking up what good grades you can in the short time left. Then when school is out, shoot pool and things like that. Don't worry about girls. You are an unusually handsome boy...very good looking...loaded with personality. Of course you are kind of stupid and you have big feet, like your daddy, but that doesn't matter. You'll find, as time goes on, you'll have to beat the girls off with a baseball bat. When it happens, remember I told you so. Beau can't say much...just a word here and there. He put his first little sentence together this week. He's so cute and lovable, it doesn't seem possible. But since you kids left, he has stopped eating. I mean it. He's so skinny, and underweight. We have him under medical supervision now. Martha is fine. Wonderful girl. We just celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. We have a canary in a cage now; two turtles; and a goldfish. The Si's have promised to come to me. I can't wait for it to happen. They've never failed yet in their communications, although at times it didn't seem it could possibly happen. (Am talking of their big flying saucer craft, now...not the form they took in our apartment.) Have to go now. Remember, Big Bogarde' and Little Bogarde' and Martha love you. Love - Pappy 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 97 of 220 Lornie Rick P.S. Lornie...get Pat to tell you about the time when you were about 2...we left you in the front of the apartment for a few minutes...when we got back you had somehow gotten through our double-locked front door and down a flight of steps. AND THE DOOR WAS STILL LOCKED! Monday, May 16, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Wonder what on earth ever happened to that Explorer satellite they were going to shoot up at the Cape last Saturday? It was widely advertised...then from Saturday on...no news, nothing. In this shoot going up at the Cape tomorrow..Gemini 9...I wonder how the Si's will treat the astronauts...remembering that they, the Si's, are putting ever-increasing pressure on the U.S. Govt. and NASA. The last two astronauts just barely squeaked through. Reason for this letter: Want to point out that I predicted accurately and correctly two major events of recent note...the drop in auto sales, and the connected battering of the stock market. In my letter to President Johnson of March 9, 1966: "In my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure if they wished to do so...unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure." In my letter of March 4 to yourself: "...they meant they (Si's) would attack the Stock Market...therefore...the U.S. can look forward to a terrible crippling blow in the Stock Market..." In my letter to my two kids in Inglewood, Calif., March 31: "They (Si's) are going to hit all vehicles in the U.S. with PK (Note: I thought the Si's meant they would make vehicles crash and collide when they communicated that to me; instead, they used Nader, radio, and TV, to attack people's faith and confidence in autos.) and they are going to hit the U.S. economy with PK." That's being very specific, George. P K Man (Owens) === Page 98 of 220 5-16-66 p2 P.S. I stopped, some time ago, writing before each bird shoot at Cape Kennedy..........because as I explained - the UFO intelligences plan to attack each and every rocket, missile, etc., going up, as well as ground controls...with 1,001 means at their disposal. As I told you, long ago, if a bird gets up, and completes its job satisfactorily, then gets down again...I would be utterly surprised and astonished. Some of the things the Si's use: Power failure. Fire. Lightning strikes. People error, in the ship, or on the ground. Poltergeist-like activity. Communications disruption. Freak accidents. "PK Force" which forces the missile out of line with its intended direction, or track. Electric failure. "PK Gumming Up" - I call it this, because there are no words to exactly describe it. They issue forth some power, or substance, which acts like glue on the outside of the spaceship, and fouls up external controls. But it is not like glue in that glue is sticky. "Explosive PK" - a form of "PK" which waits for any chance to cause an explosion of any sort...doesn't need a spark. Instrument Failure. Gives false readings and settings. And many many other tools, they have. Then, if they want to do a quick, thorough job...they use the "line of force" I've described previously. So, for Gemini 9, I expect things to go just like they have gone this past year at the Cape. Accidents, technical difficulties, freak weatherXXX....and when the astronauts get down, I will be greatly relieved...because I know what extra dangers they have to cope with, since they do not have the Si's with them, but against them. I would look forward to the day when the U.S. Government puts these UFO intelligences on the side of the astronauts...instead of dangling the astronauts underneath the noses of the UFO's. Believe me, they are not equipped to cope with UFO's...and that is what is happening. You (U.S. Govt.) can train them to handle anything at all, except the "X" factor. Which in this case is the UFO's. As I have said before, "Hell hath no fury like that of the Si's scorned." And the U.S. Govt. has been scorning them thus far. This Gemini 9 shoot is going up just after the Si's were labelled "marsh gas" and a TV program was put forth nation-wide ridiculing them. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 99 of 220 Lonie & Rick Monday May 16, 1966 Mr. Mitarnowski State Police Shade Gap, Pennsylvania Dear Sir: I am the gentleman who called you last Saturday, with regard to using ESP, or in this case...clairvoyance...as a tool to catch the criminal who kidnapped the girl at Shade Gap. However, please hear me out. Here is a complete plan, and I believe an excellent one...with which to catch this man. Spread the word over a wide area there that a famous clairvoyant (something like a witch, they'd better understand) is coming to Shade Gap this next Saturday and Sunday...to use his powers to describe the kidnapper in better detail, and tell the police a great deal more than is known. (I work like Peter Herkos, and you can get this around.) The enclosed sample newspaper story can be used...Wednesday, if possible. Now, the kidnapper, I feel, is very egotistical. He is certainly unbalanced. And he will watch the papers. I am sure that when he reads the newspaper story...and perhaps hears by word of mouth about the strange man coming...he will be sufficiently motivated to try and strike at me, probably Sunday, in the kidnapping area...even though he may be out of it now. My strange, unusual powers may indeed give you some clues...perhaps important. But also add this plan...and we might get results. I can be the bait to catch this criminal. The woods people and mountain people have much more faith in witchcraft and ESP than sophisticated city people, you'd better believe it. And I am sure this kidnapper would try to eliminate me. You would have to transport me there Friday evening or Saturday morning... and furnish me with a concealed walkie-talkie, plus a .357 Magnum pistol for protection. Withdraw any police from my area, and let me go through the woods from the point of the kidnapping. I am sure that if the man is still anywhere in the area, he will try for me...being of that sick ego, and unbalanced. When he does, I'll contact you, and you come in. As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. 08/06/2025 17:14 === Page 100 of 220 5/16/66 p2 article, or one like it, to be published in the Shade Gap newspaper other small towns around...Wednesday of this week, or Thursday.) # WITCHCRAFT TO FIND A KIDNAPPER? Well, almost. A famous clairvoyant, with powerful ESP ability, is coming to Shade Gap this Saturday and Sunday, from Philadelphia, on his own, to give clues to the police that he "senses" and "pictures". These impressions he will get from the area of the kidnapping spot. His name is Owens, and he has been very successful in the past. Like the famed psychic Peter Herkos, Owens gets mental pictures of the criminal, and other important facts as well. When questioned, Owens gave this statement: "Obviously this kidnapper is crazy, insane. And also a coward...to pick on a small girl. I intend to spend Saturday and Sunday in the kidnapping area where the girl was taken, and I am positive that I will be able to get a picture in my mind of the kidnapper, and be able to tell the police of his habits, his work, and other facts which can lead to his capture. Perhaps even his present location." When asked if this might not be dangerous...to be in that same area... Owens replied: "No, this crazy man only picks on helpless girls. I will be alone in the area. As a matter of fact, the police have agreed to stay away and let me work those two days in my own way, by myself there. That way I can concentrate better." Well, it might work. In Philadelphia, Owens is regarded as a powerful ESP worker, or "witch". If that is what it takes to catch a criminal...why not? (Note: The above article would be a personal insult, and dare, to the kidnapper. If he is the "sniper" as the papers think, then he would for sure make a try for me. Then you would get him.) As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa === Page 101 of 220 Wednesday May 18, 1966 Copies - Lonnie & Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Last night in the paper an article read: "Submerged, Pre-Aimed Missile Reported Developed by Reds." This article pointed out Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which can be fired by remote control from containers planted under the sea. All of which is exactly what I wrote to you, about a year or so ago. Remember? I told you to count the fishing boats that visited our shores... because when they left, they would be one short...and the one that went down was especially designed to hold a missile...which could be remote-control fired later on. At the present time I am sure this is what Cuba is all about. Yes, there probably are stores of missiles in deep caves...and perhaps a few launching sites for ground-fired missiles...but George, I'll eat my hat if Russia hasn't planted a formidable number of missiles under water at the far edge of Cuba, to be fired at the U.S. when ready. Perhaps even fired from Russia by special radio signal. P K Man (Owens) === Page 102 of 220 5/18/66 P2 Thursday May 19, 1966 May 20, 1966 The Si's warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives...and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or Johnson's ranch. This man has planned this for a long while - put it off once, but now is getting "worked up" to do it. Of course he'll be killed, but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-army flyer...service man, anyway. Si's say by 1967 the White House will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft, just on this account. P K Man Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. === Page 103 of 220 5/18/66 P3 Thursday May 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief, Weather Bureau, Hurricanes Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Last year I deliberately turned Hurricane Betsy around, with the help of the UFO intelligences, so that it would not go up the East Coast and give rain and moisture in the East Coast area. I had written Govt. agencies before, that I would do this. This year, however, the UFO's are engaged in breaking the 5-year drought on the East Coast...and any and all hurricanes will be brought up the East Coast all the way, in order to give moisture to that area. Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 104 of 220 Monday May 23, 1966 Copy - Rick Lorne Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: A special warning from the Si's...a great danger immediately ahead, dead-ahead, for the country of the U.S. They say...watch carefully our three coastal areas...from the Atlantic side, the Pacific side, and the southern Gulf side. For this is where the greatest threat to us comes from...the water. They way we are foolish at this time to concentrate on outer space, when we should be devising ways to defend our three exposed coastal areas, in depth. They mean...far out for 100 to 300 miles off each coast. To make sure there are no destructive mechanisms within this range now, and to prepare ways and means to insure there will be none in the future. Incidentally, George, only two persons have ever ridiculed to my face my claim of association with the Si's. One was Jack McKinney, whom I like, of the WCAU Phila. radio show...who said he could hardly keep from laughing over the radio - and the City Editor of the Phila. News, when I went up to see him personally not long ago. He was insulting. Well, that same City Editor just dropped dead, while on vacation at Aruba, Dutch West Indies, last Thursday. Did I ever tell you that the key man responsible for my losing my hypnotism business in Ft. Worth, a lawyer named Shelman, dropped dead unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage not long after I left Texas? In looking over my old letters to you, just realized another terrific prediction I made to you came true. On Feb. 12, 1965, my letter to you, 6th paragraph...Si's warned the U.S. Govt. of a fiendish commie plan to sneak small portable A-bombs into key U.S. cities. On March 7, 1966, an article "The Washington Report" by Allen & Scott (in the Phila. News) this same information came out...that the U.S. Govt. had discovered this, and was taking secret steps to combat it - and it was the same info I'd warned you about a year earlier! Since writing you months ago that the Si's were taking away the "drought PK" from over the U.S. and were bringing to an end the years-long drought a radio reporter said yesterday that recent rains in the Northeast Coast area have made the water picture better than it has been in the past three years! And some previously drought-stricken areas on the East Coast have now even been taken off their emergency basis, and water restrictions removed. You'll have to admit that's progress, George. === Page 105 of 220 5/23/66 p 2 May 23, 1966 May 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency This may interest you. The Si's have communicated they will use all their power to see that Johnson & Company lose everything at voting time...at the polls..if indeed they reach that point... because Johnson has rejected their friendly approach. Saw Sec. of Air Force Herald Brown on TV...I would sum him up as a sneaky, two-faced idiot. He and McNamara make a perfect pair. My God!! Where do we get these "top men?" In closing...the Si's warn...the recent stock market clobbering was no accident. You are referred to my letter of June 24, 1965..."unless the U.S. Govt. recognizes its (Si's) agent, P K Man, publicly, and helps P K Man...then Nature (Si's) will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the stock market. It will make the 1929 stock market crash seem like a picnic by comparison." That's what will happen ahead, George, if the Si's continue to be ridiculed and ignored. The U.S. Govt. has paid a terrible price already, by ignoring the Si's...should this stupidly continue? P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 106 of 220 Wednesday May 25, 1966 Rick LORNIE 5/25/66 P2 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my Feb. 25 letter I pointed out that all important people in the U.S. Government must be on guard from 2/25 through May...it would be a danger period. But that prediction, given me by the Si's, has worked out sort of poorly, because not much has happened to validate it. The two astronauts were killed, of course, about ten days after I wrote that to you. Then also I believe some Senator died...Johnson went to his funeral...was it McNamara? Allessandroni was killed in a plane crash...and Milton Shapp's helicopter caught fire and crashed...but he was luckier than Allessandroni, and only got bashed up a little. President Johnson's helicopter caught fire at the White House, but luckily he wasn't in it; his baggage was. Bill Moyers fell down a flight of steps at the White House, hit his head, and went to the hospital with concussion. Senator Dirksen fell down, hit his head and was knocked out, smashing his glasses, and fracturing his hip. Had surgery in Bethesda Hospital. Senator Mike Mansfield went into Bethesda Hospital about a week ago and is still there. Reason not given. Congressman Hardy (Virginia) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital. Congressman MacGregor (Minnesota) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hos. Congressman Moss (California) is now in Bethesda Hospital. Eisenhower has been in the hospital for weeks. Yesterday Bollinger, a top missile scientist with NASA (he developed the hydrogen-oxygen propellant used in the Saturn rocket engine) was murdered in Ohio. And yesterday Congressman Fraser's daughter (Minn.) was killed by a car. But other than that, ;my prediction didn't pan out. Of course, there's still a wee bit of time left. Something might happen yet. P K Man (Owens) === Page 107 of 220 Rick Wednesday May 25, 1966 The Post Master U. S. Post Office 30th and Market Sts. Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Yesterday our mailbox was robbed - an envelope ripped open and a ring, sent by our 16-year-old from California to my wife, as a Mother's Day gift, stolen. As well as a supply of stamps the boy enclosed. We live in an apartment house at 1114 Spruce St., and our mail has been opened many times... then we have found it in our box, already opened. We have complained about it to the postman delivering the mail... but of course all he can say is that the situation is being watched. We have heard other people in the building complain that their boxes are being pilfered, also. Someone broke the lock off our mailbox. Isn't there anything the Post Office can do to stop this? Are thugs free to loot mailboxes here and there, at their whim, without the law stepping in? We would certainly appreciate it, if the law did step in. Enclosed is the envelope the ring and stamps were stolen from, exactly as we found it. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 108 of 220 May 25, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed hearing from you, honey. But you made a big mistake. Remember I wrote you quite a while back...and told you and Lornie never to send anything to us of value, unless it was by Special Delivery? (Costs 30¢) When I got home last night Martha was crying. She got your letter, but some crook had gotten into our mailbox and taken your ring and stamps out of the letter first. You see, that happens all the time here in Philadelphia, and in our building. All the time we find our letters and mail ripped open before we get down to get it. They have even discovered mailmen in this town looting their own mail. So...after Martha went through weeks of going down to meet the mailman to get your package, the package that never came...now she has had this new disappointment with the ring. Tell you what...pick out another ring, identical to the one you sent. Send me the price of it...I'll send you the money, and you send it to her Air Mail, Special Delivery. I'll include the stamp money, too. Okay? Get into action on this, chum. Our pal deserves a better break than what she's getting. Not getting that ring you sent, just broke her heart. You know how she is. We took Beau to the doctors here, for a cold...but now they are jumping up and down with excitement...because they have discovered something about his mind that is quite unusual. They won't tell me what. They did ask me if he had any unusual powers of the mind...if he managed to do things with his mind children usually couldn't do...and I told them about his reading my mind constantly. They are beginning a series of tests on him June 15. Am glad you get pleasure from playing pool with a fine cue. Like a good horse, it will give you good service, if you take care of it. It's heavy...but that's good...like practicing with extra-heavy drum sticks...then when you swing into hot jazz, the lighter sticks seem to fly. And the heavy stick makes your stroke smoother. So Jimmy could talk at 2...so what? Put Jimmy and Beau together, and you'd see the difference! Whew! Beau has the strongest mind of any human being I have ever encountered...bar none. And he's brilliant. Buy the July Fate magazine...and look in the back in the "Personal" ads...and you'll see your dad's ad. The Si's have given me a way to start the Sota's. Love, Dad === Page 109 of 220 May 27, 1966 Dear Lonnie, How are you? We are just fine. I hope you are fine. I received the card & the candy. Thank you very much for the beautiful Mother's Day card & the candy. The candy was very delicious. Beau helped me eat it. Yes, I know about Julia & you two make a cute couple. The picture you sent to us was very good. You both make a handsome couple. He is a nice looking boy. You look very grown up in the picture & a lot older about 18 or 19 years old. My you are really growing fast. Pretty soon you will be taller than Mom (ha ha). Beau had an ear infection about 3 weeks ago. He had a fever. I took him to the doctor & I had to give him medicine & nose drops four times a day. He had a temperature of 102°. He is just fine now. I had a very nice Mother's Day. Beau gave me a very pretty card & we went to the circus. Beau had a ball. We went on lots of rides & we saw the side show, we didn't go to the big tent on Mother's Day. We went back the following Sat. to the big tent. Beau had big eyes trying to see everything. He was so excited. He === Page 110 of 220 remembered us being in there & doing the show. The circus was here May 5 till the 15th. He kept wanting to ride on the bus to the circus. He just loves the circus. He is beginning to say sentences now. He loves to watch Batman. He can't say the Bat in Batman so he says manman. He gets all excited when he comes on T.V. Was so sorry to hear about your aunt Mary dying. It was a shock to us. We have a singing canary. It sings very pretty. I named it twitty pie, it is yellow & very pretty. It doesn't sing to much now because it is molting. Beau teases it sometimes. Sorry to hear that you're not doing to well in school. Have you had your exams? Hope you & Rick pass. When is school out? Hope you get surf princess. Good luck to you. Write & let me know if you get it. Have they already voted or not? The weather is very nice here. It is really hot today. It has been raining a lot here & the weather just got nice & hot here recently. Before it was cold & raining here. I got an electric mixer for Mother's Day. It is real nice. I am so happy to have it. Well, I guess I will close for now. Love, Momma, Beau & Dad (XO XO XO) P.S. I took Beau to an Armed Forces Parade last Sat. It was the first parade he had ever been to. He waved at the soldiers as they went by. He was so excited. === Page 111 of 220 June 1, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Dear George: The SI's today gave me some interesting information to pass on. Seems that when they flew near some police cars, in a recent sighting...the stupid police actually fired guns at their craft. (This was not made public...and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the SI's warn...if they approach in friendly fashion in the future...and are fired upon or attacked in an unfriendly manner...the police will be minus one police car and officers. The SI's will eliminate it, as a lesson to humans. That was pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. P K Man (Owens) === Page 112 of 220 6/3/66 P1 Friday morning June 3, 1966 Dear Rick and Lornie Wednesday afternoon durned if Jack McKinney didn't call me up and ask me to appear on his "Night Talk" show that night, Wed. night. Remember I was on there for four hours, non-stop, last year? This, of course, gave me no chance to prepare material or anything. Last year I took a week to get ready for them. But to my great amazement...although a scientist sat at the table with Jack and myself...there was no attack on me. On the contrary, Jack even testified over the radio that all of the predictions I'd been sending in, had been true (I've been sending him copies, like yourselves.) The "PK Man" (how he addressed me throughout and advertised me late that afternoon) segment lasted until 12:30...2½ hours. They spent an hour letting people call up and talk to me over the "phone". Only one man called me a "good-natured phony"...all the rest of the calls said they believed me, and how they enjoyed hearing the program. And the one man who attacked me...was bawled out severely by another man who called up and said he "felt sorry" for the man who said "phony" because a person such as him couldn't understand what it is I am doing. The man who said I was a "phony" intimated I was sending in letters after things happened, not before. (Which is quite wrong, of course.) Anyway, it was lots of fun....and as usual, their telephone switchboard went absolutely crazy with the amount of calls. When we went off the air at 12:30 (program lasts until 2, and they had two more people to interview) telephone calls were still flooding the switchboard with people wanting to talk to me about the Si's. Now, the Si's would like you to do this: Both of you sit down, and write a long letter to Mr. Jack McKinney, "Night Talk", Radio Station WCAU, Philadelphia, Pa. Tell him in detail of our using PK in Phoenix, and on our long long trip (without telling him we were broke, ha ha). Tell him how we worked with the hurricanes in Myrtle Beach, etc. And ask him, if he tells the people about their report, to give me a call before so I can listen. (Send me a copy of your letter when you write him.) If you have a friend who has one of these "World radios" you could even hear the program. Must run now. Love always Dad P.S. They did an odd thing - Station WCAU did a complete re-play of the entire 2½ hours I did with Jack - when I got home was dialing radio for music (about 1:30) & durned if my === Page 113 of 220 Kids this explains the mysterious re-play! Govt. put me on Wed. instead on purpose! Read below. 6/3/66 P2 Friday morning June 3, 1966 Mr. Jack McKinney Dear Jack: The Si's came through with some very interesting intelligence as I was walking to work today. As you know, they had told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they would ruin the Surveyor shot...and harass the Gemini 9 shot, as they have been doing. Well, the Surveyor took off...and lost an aerial...and the Si's were getting ready to ruin the gadget when suddenly P K Man their Representative, was called up and invited to talk about them, the Si's, over the radio. This had not been anticipated by the Si's. When P K Man went on the program, was given an opportunity to talk more about the Si's and their wishes, and P K Man was not badly treated...that is, was treated as a guest, not a man on trial, this pleased the Si's very much. Now Jack...recall last year when I was on your show...and the Si's made it rain exactly at the time I went on, and closed down the rain as I went off. Then the following week, on "Talk of Philadelphia" show...they made it rain because I'd been invited again to talk about them. And the rain stood for what they were willing to "pay" the United States in exchange for the U.S. Govt. fixing me up so that I could arrange to meet them. In other words, whenever I appeared on the radio, the Si's rewarded the town with rain...and this was at the time of deep drought, remember? When there just was no rain at all. So...the Si's told me this morning...they decided to allow the Surveyor to go on and land and function, just as they allowed the rain to fall last year, as a reward to the people of the U.S. for allowing their case to be further presented to the people. They wish that you would read this letter over the air, to the people, Jack. And it might be pointed out, as far as I am concerned, that one-half of my prediction was correct...that Gemini 9 was blocked Wednesday from taking off...harassed as usual. I am just sorry that I didn't know about the change of mind on the part of the Si's...but the radio program came on too sudden. One other point...the Si's salute NASA and its workers...because, although the U.S. people are not aware of it...NASA has far outdone Russia, in that NASA has had to make all these difficult shots, in the face of Si harassment and hostility. In other words, the Si's have caused practically all of NASA's troubles, but the people do not know it. Nor NASA. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 114 of 220 6/3/63 p3 Rick Lornie Friday June 3, 1966 Dear Jack McKinney: If you get a chance, please read this short letter some evening. It is an afterthought...two days after appearing on your program, and is a rebuttal to the gentleman who phoned in, asking if it was not "childish" of the Si's to kill two of our Astronauts (plane crash not too long ago) and harass NASA and the U.S. Govt., just for the sake of demonstrations of their powers. My rebuttal: Is it not true that we, the United States, have killed goodness knows how many innocent little babies, and their mothers...in Viet Nam...PURELY BY ACCIDENT, MIND YOU...in order to teach North Viet Nam and China a lesson? The U.S. has been giving tremendous bombing demonstrations for one main purpose...to show our muscles to N. Viet Nam and China. And this has resulted in our accidentally bombing and killing not only many innocent Vietnamese...but even many of our own boys...ACCIDENTALLY. Now, I put it to the gentleman who called; If the Si's are "childish" for killing two of our astronauts...what does that make us people, who have done far worse...and for the same reason, teaching a lesson. That would put our U.S. thinking somewhere BELOW childish, I believe. Tell the gentleman to think about it. I'm sure I'm right. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Love Dad === Page 115 of 220 Rick Saturday, June 4, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Been a lot of action since my daughter and I visited you, eh? At that time my "PK" work must have seemed amusing to you. However, by now, after sending you copies of predictions over a long period of time, you are now better able to evaluate properly the results of "PK". You must admit, the Si's have been busy. Below is a list of rockets, missiles, etc., fired up by NASA which were hit by "PK" and duly logged in my little black book, as the action took place on each, AND WHICH WERE THEN DESTROYED OR DISABLED WITH PK MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Saturn Rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-A) Minuteman 1 Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman 1 Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 3A Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset, above) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor, above) "Snapshot" - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure...but still managed to get up and down. O.S.O. Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-19 Experimental Plane Thor-Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, w/4 Satellites aboard. Gemini 8 wrecked; Astronauts escaped, thank God. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. === Page 116 of 220 6/4/66 P2 Page Two (Continued - Rockets Destroyed or Disabled) O.A.O. - Orbiting Astronomical Laboratory. Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage, Miss. (Note: After "testing" PK on the first two of this list, I then began writing the Cape and the State Department of what would happen...and also wrote them that lightning would hit the Cape, as well as hurricanes, as a result of PK work. Then lightning hit a lightning-proof pad at the Cape. Later, last July, lightning hit another pad, actually striking some workers And lightning hit very close to Gemini 5. As for my hurricane prediction...you know well Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, and Hurricane Isbell sideswiped Cape Kennedy. Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape for a time, just from the threat of her. Hurricane Hilda bullseyed on the Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy bullseyed on Michoud Space Complex, and she bullseyed on NASA's Bahamas set-up. These five different hurricanes that hit NASA were guided by PK work. Then we have to add the destruction of The Space Eye, down near the Cape. One Russian spaceship was worked on by PK - the Voshkod Spaceship, and it was brought down exactly as I said it would be. Crashed in the woods. Add to this list further results of the PK - side-effects - which I do not like, but which happened: Dryden, Deputy Director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed in crash. One Astronaut killed when a bird flew into his plane, and it crashed. Two Astronauts killed in another plane crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. ---------- Now, the following list are the "ones that got away" from PK, and were successful shots: McNamara's Minuteman from silo, Cape. Gemini from Cape, 1/'65. Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape, 12/'64 O.S.O., 1/2/65 2/17 Cape Rocket 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 117 of 220 6/4/66 P3 Page Three (Continued - Successful Shots) 2/18 Cape Rocket Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 Polaris, new, Cape Surveyor Moon Rocket ---------- Now just compare the two lists. See the difference? Vandenberg shots were left clear by the Si's, so that the U.S. Govt. could be able to tell the difference between an area inundated with "PK"...and a free area. (Electra, the California coast, is PK'd, but it is a completely different type of PK than the Electro, or Florida coast.) I think the Si's have proved their point terrifically, don't you? Point is, the PK grows, as I explained to you when I met you. It grows as time goes by...gets stronger and more powerful. That is why the Si's cannot be ignored ad infinitum, as they have been in the past... or called "marsh gas" and dismissed with a flip of the hand. And of course, the point of all that destruction PK was not that it was done for meanness or orniriness...but TO PROVE THAT PK FORCES NOW EXIST AND CAN DEFEAT ANY OR ALL PARTS OF THE U.S. EFFORTS TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL. Also, TO PROVE THAT THE UFO'S ARE BEHIND IT, AND ARE DOING IT. Also, TO SHOW THE U.S. GOVT., BY THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THESE TREMENDOUS POWERS, WHAT COULD BE DONE TO HELP THE U.S. GOVT. FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PK COIN. What is a dirty shame...a lowdown dirty shame...is that the people of the United States...the man on the street...cannot be told by the U.S. Government about this...that NASA has actually done a superb job, and the Cape workers, and the Astronauts, have done heroic work...trying in the face of this horrendous PK to succeed in space work...and in a few cases actually succeeding! It's much much later now, Mr. Eastwood...but I repeat, the PK is still growing in size and power on the Cape Kennedy area (Electro). And it can only be taken down, erased, removed, by the Si's. And I do their human talking for them, for better or for worse. Some day somebody had better talk to me. P K MAN (Owens) Owens Love, Dad === Page 118 of 220 Rick P.S. Kids - P.S. At bottom of page is exact replica of "Hurricane Map" I made three weeks ago...when I "planted" twenty "PK Hurricane seeds" in back of Cuba aimed at Cape K. in Florida as soon as they'll grow. I told you I was planting PK hurricane seeds. Dad. Wednesday June 8, 1966 Mr. Dunne, Chief Hurricane Center Weather Bureau Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunne: As I told you a month ago...watch out for the hurricanes coming up..."en garde." Alma is the first. Am trying to guide her up past Miami onto Cape Kennedy, then on up the coast to New York, for their rainfall needed badly there and to help the East Coast drought. (When I say "up past Miami, am taking her to the left of Miami...halfway between Naples and Miami. Am telling you this for an accuracy check later on.) See enclosed item. It is most regrettable that you didn't take me up on my proposition, couple of months ago. Am using that tall tall "moonship" thing that doesn't fly, that NASA hauled out laboriously several weeks ago...as the absolute bullseye center for my hurricane work this year, on the Cape K. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. CAPE ALMA CUBA Kids - send me copy your ltr. where I mentioned planting PK "cane seeds. Will return it. Important! 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 119 of 220 6/8/66 P2 P.S. If you see an inevitable bullseye on Miami from Alma...remember my proposition. I am the only human alive who can take Alma off and away, leaving Florida safe. However, don't wait too long to contract my services...for there is a great difference in diverting a tiger while it's springing in mid-air...and diverting a tiger once it has its teeth in its victim. Then its too late. P K Man (Owens) === Page 120 of 220 Monday, June 13, 1966 Rick Lornie Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's did a bang-up job of handing the AF a smashing blow last week (as I warned they would.) Not only did they cause the destruction of over a half billion dollars in planes - but now it turns out the AF made the infinitely stupid booboo of allowing this to happen merely for a publicity stunt for a private company! So the other half of last week's smashing blow will be the after-reaction of the people and authorities toward this AF mistake. Now I will do the U.S. Govt. a good turn - and warn it to call off the fleet exercises ("Beach Time") involving 40 ships, in the Atlantic and Caribbean, June 13-26. Why? (1) You will remember I warned the Govt. last year, when it held fleet exercises off the Pacific coast. They went ahead - and shot a missile at a drone. The missile ignored the drone and bullseyed on a carrier plane up in the sky somewhere else, destroying plane and pilot. (There were other accidents there, too). (2) I have already warned that the Atlantic now is dangerous for ships, subs, planes - because the Si's are using our Atlantic area to correct our long long drought condition for us. (3) I have loaded the Caribbean area with PK to make hurricanes to bring up the East Coast. (Am working on other June Hurricanes.) (4) On June 5 I made a written prediction to Mr. and Mrs. Hansell, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., that (1) Si's will bring about a nuclear sub catastrophe, or carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U.S. vessels, by September, 1966. (2) Si's will deal our "seat of government" (The White House, Capitol Hill) a serious blow, by Sept., 1966. (These two effects to further demonstrate their powers to humans, and to prove their much-ridiculed reality...marsh gas, etc. (5) Ship-sub-plane PK has been in effect, growing, for over a year now. (6) These vessels will be within the reach of deadly "Electro" - area PK'd from Miami to Jacksonville. Put this all together, and these ships will be holding exercises in very deadly danger! So, let the U.S. Govt. be warned in advance. Just remember Needles Military Exercises; U.S./Spain Military Exercises; N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. In closing, the Si's have instructed me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they were the direct cause of the XB 70A & F 104 crash in the desert. They want it clearly understood...that this was part of their punishment for the Air Force...and no accident at all. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 121 of 220 Copy - Rick, Lorrie Keep this in your file, nuthead! This is priceless! Friday, June 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are frustrated and thus irked, because I am not getting anywhere in an effort to meet them personally...they will not come into downtown Philadelphia, I know...and I cannot get isolated so they can come down without any interference from anyone. Therefore I predict all hell will break loose in the form of catastrophies in the near days and weeks ahead. The Lord only knows what they will think up...they are very ingenious. I wrote you last November about Him and Her, the President's dogs...and in the same letter told you how our dog got ran over and killed. You might be interested in looking at that letter, since the President's dog just got ran over...it's as if the Si's waited until the sense of that letter was accurate, then arranged for Him's accident, so the letter will be read at this time, again. "Him" Whatever happened to OGO, shot up from the Cape a while back? They were supposed to be communicating with it a week ago...but there's not been a word in the papers about it. Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Phila. has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential here for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes. THREE SO FAR Tornados tore up Topeka, Kansas, not long ago. Si's say...that could happen to the White House and Capitol Hill, just as easily. Si's say they are going to demonstrate with the oceans and seas now... make them reject and attack humans like a body rejects a strange live implant (liver, kidney, etc.) Si's say the seas and oceans have a form of intelligence, taken as a whole unit. They are turning them against humans, as a demonstration of one of their strange powers. Si's say the earliest peoples on earth used these "PK" systems...but as they invented hand tools and weapons, their PK power decreased...until finally the power was usually narrowed down to one person in a tribe, The Elder...until the power was lost entirely. (Up until now. I have it.) Thought you might be interested in all the phenomena that has occurred in our apartment on Spruce: Kids - Si's got your tongue? 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 122 of 220 6/17/66 p2 The noise. A strange, weird, deep humming drone, seems about a foot or two away from us. Comes at odd times, lasts about 2-5 minutes, then goes away. Sometimes we do not hear it for weeks; then we'll hear it two or three times in a week. Never heard a noise like it. Things vanish. I put a pound of oleo in the ice-box one night. Got up in the morning and it was gone. My wife and I were baffled. My cigars have disappeared, without anyone touching them. I had a five and ten dollar bill disappear overnight (my wife didn't touch them.) And other odd things have vanished as well. My wife woke me one night and we both saw small UFO's in the room. Then, on several occasions, she saw a small light the size of a marble moving slowly around my head in the dark, after we'd gone to bed. My clothes are all falling apart. Shorts, shirts, pants...all are coming apart, holes forming. It has gotten funny. Practically every shirt, pants, and shorts I have is full of holes, suddenly. And these have nothing to do with moths. They aren't that type of hole, or tear. My clothes now rip and tear like soft paper. The baby keeps pointing at some "man" he sees, excitedly...but we don't see anybody...and the baby doesn't joke. "Man, man!" he cries, pointing. And of course there isn't any man there. I woke one morning about 3:30 and clouds of smoke or fog were filling the room...I could see them boiling up against faint light on the wall. I thought the place was on fire and called my wife, and we got up and frantically checked out in the hall, etc. But there wasn't any fire...and the "smoke" had vanished when we got back. Three different times the baby was waked up screaming in the middle of the night...and not more than 10 minutes afterward, each time...there is a tremendous explosion outside our windows. First the baby screams and wakes us up, then comes the explosion. One night I jammed the hall door open securely. When we got up, the jamming-object had been removed, and the door firmly closed and locked. We didn't do it. Also a heavy art-object had moved from a table to the floor. Martha and I both saw a pigeon on the roof opposite with what looked like a small radar-antennae on its neck...it was a collar, but not flat, the edges cupping outwards. Never saw anything like it. Am expecting a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S., in the shape of a huge "T" - with the top of the T running up and down California, and the bottom of the T running toward Colorado. 3 BIG QUAKES HIT CALIF. SINCE. Owene 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 123 of 220 Rick Lornie Thursday June 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's at this time would like me to list the various PK activities they are engaged in, as well as the predictions they have made for what's ahead: "Electro" - the area from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla., is heavily PK'd, as you know...has been for two years...and it's growing all the time, the PK. "Electra" - the California coast from Frisco to Dago, PK'd. Plane-Ship-Sub PK - been on for over a year, still growing, attacks these three categories constantly in ever-increasing cyclical intensity. Breaking The Drought - Si's are systematically regulating U.S. weather now to bring to an end the 5-year drought here and once again fill the rivers, streams, wells, lakes, with fresh water for us. Air Force - Si's are presently teaching the Air Force a lesson...that they can rebut in their own way their "marsh gas" tag; they have gone to great effort and trouble to prove their reality, only to have the Air Force block their efforts from the American people. So they are going to teach the Air Force not to do this thing. NASA - Si's are harassing all NASA's efforts in space work, in every possible way, with PK effects. Top U.S. Govt. Officials - PK'd. Prediction - A U.S. naval disaster by Sept., 1966. Nuclear sub, aircraft carrier, etc. Not just a collision, but a disaster of some sort. Prediction - Unless U.S. removes troops and personnel from Viet Nam, U.S. will suffer its worst defeat in its entire history there, from an unexpected twist that will take place. Could be a massacre of Americans. Hurricane PK - is out and working, to develop hurricanes for '66 and bring them either to Cape Kennedy or Mississippi Michoud Saturn Space Complex...then on up East Coast for needed rain. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. === Page 124 of 220 6/23/66 P2 2 Prediction - There is great danger for the U.S. now...of nuclear war... through January, 1967. That is, the danger is especially keen right now, more so than usual, due to activities the U.S. is not aware of. The Si's plan to do something very unusual...make an appearance and do something no UFO has done before, in the near future, to prove their reality to the U.S. Govt., and their connection with P K Man. Castro and Cuba - have been PK'd since 1964. Si's are PK'ing bodies of water...seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc... to reject humans and attack humans in many ways (as never done before) in order to further demonstrate their PK powers. Si's warn...if U.S. peoples keep shooting at their craft, and trying to attack their craft, they will reluctantly have to retaliate in kind. They have been trying hard to avoid anything like this. Si's warn us...watch carefully our 3 coasts...Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, for great danger threatens the U.S. from the water on these coasts. Si's warned U.S. to cancel present Fleet exercise in Atlantic and Carribean called "Beach Time" because of heavy concentration of PK in these areas, etc. Si's warn that a man somewhere is planning a kamikaze-style small plane crash, loaded with explosives, into the White House or Johnson's Ranch House...and that because of this the White House and Capitol will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft by '67. "Earth Belt" PK - PK used by Si's in area above earth to affect objects in orbit around earth. Russian Earthquakes - PK has been out on this for over a year. Vehicle PK - Autos, trains, planes, busses, etc., will be affected. Klu Klux Klan PK - Hit by PK over a year ago. Johnson Administration Re-election PK - Si's will work against the present Administration, which has rejected them and failed to cooperate with them. "OGO" PK'd...now up. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 125 of 220 6/23/66 p3 3 June 23, 1966 Philadelphia PK'd for Lightning and Savage Storms and Rain, in the near future. Electrical potential to be built up here. WCAU PK Demonstration - Friendly Si demonstration for the benefit of their radio station friends. Jack McKinney PK - Not a "hit", but some unusual demonstration solely for the amusement and education of Jack McKinney re the Si's. A large-scale blow will be dealt by the Si's to the U.S. Govt. because of the nation-wide CBS hour-long TV UFO spoof, not long ago, "Friends, Foes, or Fantasy." This will happen by October 15, 1966. McNamara PK - The Si's have made McNamara a special PK target of theirs, for stating that there is absolutely nothing to the Si's ... to the American people via newspapers, etc. (If there is nothing to the UFO's, then McNamara has nothing to worry about, has he.) Johnson and White House PK'd - some time ago, and since then many odd things have happened there. Moyers fell down stairs, Him run over, etc. Stock Market PK'd. Prediction - Si's now have something much bigger and more important for P K Man to perform, than what he's been doing in the past. (?) Si's warn that the phrase "Black Power" is a sort of magical phrase which will now truly whip the negros into a frenzy - and Stokely Carmichael is the magician who can make that phrase work to its upmost extent in time to come. Si's warn they may put ideas for weapons and unknown tools of Nature into the minds of peoples elsewhere in the world, other than the U.S., who will then humble our country with them...unless our Govt. cooperates with Si's. Si's warn...they intend to deal our seat of Government, The White House, or Capitol Hill, a serious blow of some kind by Sept., 1966. - - - - - - - - - - I think that's the entire list...oh, they are PK'ing for a major earthquake in California some time this year, around 8 on the Richter Scale. All this...to show their various powers to our people...and try to persuade our Government to join them as friends, and cooperate with them. They are using pressure on our Govt., just as U.S. is pressuring Hanoi. PK Man - Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 126 of 220 Thursday June 23, 1966 Dear Lornie: Daddy thinks your birthday card is wonderful, honey...that's a very cute colored picture...and the artwork inside is very ingenious, also, along with your message. Thank you very much, Lornie. Of course...what else is a dollar for but an ice-cream party? So I am following your instructions, and the three of us will have one of these famous "Owens Cross-Country Ice Cream Binges" on you. Wasn't that funny...? All of us , poised and ready with our portable spoons...huddled all around in the car...with the ½ gallon of ice cream in the middle. Then I'd say go, and everybody went. Ha ha! Messy, messy, messy..... Hope your grades are okay, Lornie. And that you are enjoying your school. The Phila. schools are dangerous...full of drugs, dope addicts, prostitution (they've broken up several rings where the high school boys were selling the girls, here) and like that. So.....you are much better off in that school than you would be here. But we ain't going to be here long. We are GOING just as soon as .... we can bankroll the Leaving Philly Project. We are going to a beautiful, scenic, wooded place somewhere...where we can go fishing and camping on weekends, and things like that. Where's there's lakes and rivers, etc. Phooey on big cities. Phooey. Be good, and mind Pat, Lornie. Remember...mama knows best. And that's for sure. Don't get too big for your britches . Love and kisses, Daddy XXXXX ( ) ( ) ( ) === Page 127 of 220 You have this prediction in your files. Rick Lorne I sent Jack McKinney a ring to wear 2 days before this lightning attack so he wouldn't get hit! Dad. Thursday, June 29, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Another bullseye. Remember my letter to you of June 17: "Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Philadelphia has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes." Here are quotations straight out of today's Philadelphia newspapers (13 days after my "prediction"): "Violent electrical storms raked suburban Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey yesterday afternoon and last night. Heavy rain, hail, lightning, and high winds caused floods, power blackouts, fires, and tree damage." "Chester County received a double punch yesterday with a series of storms in the afternoon, and another sequence last night. The first storms bounced around the county beginning about 3 PM, lasting until 5 PM. Torrential rains flooded some areas and hailstones as big as marbles were reported." "Lightning played havoc with the fire signal board at West Whiteland Fire Co. in Exton and firemen were kept busy checking alarms as the board flashed false signals." "At 2:30 PM the storm concentrated in the western portion of the county and lightning touched off a $100,000.00 fire at the Parkesburg Dress Co." "In the afternoon storm a transformer caught fire at the Milprint, Inc., packaging manufacturing company in Downingtown. The fire was confined to the transformer, which apparently had been struck by lightning." "In New Jersey an estimated 14,000 homes and businesses were without electrical power for varying periods of time ranging from 30 minutes to five hours." "The Public Service Electric & Gas Co. called the storm "one of the most intensive electrical storms in recent years." "Hardest hit were Cherry Hill, Mt. Laurel, and Evesham townships, where Public Service said some 7,000 customers were without electrical service." "About 4,000 homes and businesses were affected in Burlington, Willingboro, and Beverly." "The five hour blackout was in Bellmawr. Other areas without power for almost as long were the Black Horse and White Horse communities of Somerdale * Bulletin, News, Inquirer 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 128 of 220 Page Two 6-29-66 P2 and Magnolia." "In Brick Township, Ocean County, the storm caused flooding and power failures and one house fire." "The Ocean County police and fire radio system was knocked out by lightning. At least six homes were reported struck by lightning in nearby Point Pleasant." "A lightning bolt struck the main police antennae on top of the Seaside Park borough hall and blew out the police and fire department radios." (Note: As I pointed out on the July, 1965, Jack McKinney Show here in Phila., my favorite targets to which I assign lightning hits...are police station towers, fire station towers, radio and TV station towers.) "Lighting struck the home of Carl Belsatti of Willow Grove." "Firemen were called to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Abington where lightning had struck and started a fire in the steeple." "About 900 homesin the Highland Park and Twin Oak sections of Levittown were without electricity for an hour after lightning struck a transformer near Heartwood road." "In Gloucester township a lightning bolt struck near the house of John Kemmler who was sitting on the patio with his wife. The bolt's shock temporarily paralyzed Kemmler's right arm, and stunned Mrs. Kemmler." "Another lightning bolt shattered a brick chimney at the home of D. D. Porterelli, Bellmawr." "Lightning started a fire in a wooded area near the Berlin, N.J. State Police Barracks." "Fire swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Olmstead, West Goshen Township, after a bolt of lightning struck a television set in the living room. The blaze completely destroyed the interior of the house and the furnishings." So, not only did I bring the lightning bolts onto Phila., as I said I would, but the tremendous action also attacked the nearby parts of N.J. adjoining Phila. Remember, George, lightning is my trademark. What was my prediction again? "Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around." Well, I'd like to hear Mr. Dunne rebut the results. They don't call me The Rainmaker for nothing. So, you have further proof added on to a mountain of proof, of the kind of power the Si's back me up with! P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 129 of 220 Wed., June 29, 1966 Lornie Rick Please get copies of LA papers for yesterday and today...Tuesday and Wednesday...and send me all clippings pertaining to the California earthquake. THIS IS IMPORTANT. I predicted it, 11 days ago, in a letter to George (you have a copy, Nov. 17 ltr.) but way over here they just barely mentioned it as being the "worst earthquake California has had in 11 years." Nothing else ...that's all they said. And I need more on it for my file. Matter of fact...any time you see anything you know relates to my file, please send clippings on it. You can help Daddy that way. So...send me the clips, okay? Am very very busy on all sorts of PK projects right now. Especially hurricane work. Love, Dad Owens === Page 130 of 220 Rick - why not write Rex Anderson in San Gabriel? P.S. From July 1 to July 18 I'm laid off. Company shuts down each time this year. Two weeks, and nothing to do with it! July 1, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick Got lucky today, got a little time, and access to a typewriter. Just in the long shot you might want to improve yourself, enclosed is the word-formula I worked up in Ft. Worth, and which worked like a miracle with my pupils there, combined with auto-hyp. You have to use auto-hyp first, close your eyes, tell yourself what you will read out loud will react on you with all the power of Nature... then open your eyes and read it to yourself out loud. Do this once a day, and zowie...watch your smoke! After you read it, don't forget to waken yourself and snap fingers. Just in case you've forgotten the routine. Be sure and send back what I ask you to send back, always. Here's my plan for the Sota Church. Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) Healing and New Life -The Science of the Soul- Start legal church in L.A., lawyers Neiman and Soroty. Find and develop Sota Masters...Master Healers...which I'll teach to use PK, and they'll become Church Heads. But there will be few. Each member of the Sota Church will be assigned to a Master...for their individual needs to be taken care of, and to progress. (My Ft. Worth work, etc.) SOTA LIBRARY - Books pertaining to our teachings and training. Also complete library on psychic phenomena, hypnosis, etc. SOTA HOSPITAL - Medical Doctors, Psychologists, and Sota Masters. THE SOTA SLEEP - under medical framework. If Sota member wishes to withdraw from the world temporarily, let them...to avoid a psychosis or suicide, and use Sota techs on them while they sleep. SOTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - research on UFO's, parapsych, the soul, healing, etc. SOTA HAVEN - will take care of any pregnant mother, no questions asked, delivery of child, and find job afterward for her, plus way to take care of her baby. Complete follow up, no charges for anything. SOTA LODGE - Headquarters and Retreat for the few Masters...each having a small, individual, comfortable cottage. A woodsy place for creative work and thinking, and teaching. SOTA COLLEGE - Classes: Secrets of the Ages Super Memory Trachtenberg Math === Page 131 of 220 7/1/66 p2 Hyp and Auto-hyp techs. ESP techs and usages. Languages (Berlitz method.) Oil painting. Creative writing. Cooking Sewing Music Secretarial Skill: Typing, shorthand, spelling. (The Masters will each be taught individually. It will be a tedious job, and I'm the only one who can do it.) Each Master will be made a Dr. of Philosophy and Dr. of the Soul, and will be issued a special beautiful ring, Sota Ring made out of copper and precious stones. Each Member of the Sotas will be issued a Sota talisman, PK'd, for wear around the neck. There will be a special Lake...PK'd...like Lourdes...will work like Lourdes. There will be special rooms, PK'd for special effects. Remember the PK grows and grows and becomes more powerful...so the PK in the room will take effect on any who go into the room (like the curses on the old Egyptian tombs which took effect long long after all the people vanished, on the British and Americans who plundered the tombs...) except our PK will be constructive and useful, not destructive, in these rooms. And so on. Our motto will be: "And It Came To Pass." Because that's what PK work does...it comes to pass...earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning attacks, etc etc. Brenda Sue, Mrs. White in Ft. Worth...it came to pass that they lived, when they should have died, according to all medical rules. PK made the difference. In case you have forgotten, here are the names of the PK Angels: Lornie...Sahda Rick...Veroque (Ver-o-ka) Ted...Sonyn Martha...Treya Beau...Tranya Well, must bing off now. Be good little chilluns, and mind momma. You know, of all the people I have known, and know, there are only two, besides you two kids, who could qualify to become a Sota Master after PK teaching...Don something in Seattle, and Pat. But neither of them would want to...having their own lives to lead. It is going to be a problem to find a dedicated person, wanting to learn all the PK secrets, and being RIGHT for it. Amar wouldn't do, Lornie, she's too set in her ways. Love, Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 132 of 220 Will appreciate additional information, if available. Thanks. 7/1/66 S. B. EVANS 4407 INGERSOLL HOUSTON, TEXAS 77027 JOIN THE SOTA'S! Organized and directed by Saucer Intelligences, according to communications received: SOTA instructions may enable you to become a UFO contact! Send $10.00 cash or money order for beautiful UFO ring, bracelet or necklace, plus membership, etc.--H. Owens, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 133 of 220 Sat. July 2, 1966 Dear Rick: It was good to hear from you. You type very good. Am proud of you. Practice a lot. Enclosed is my ad in Fate. Soon will have two ads. It's slow, not much action. Just have 7 members thus far. Beau and Martha are fine. If you want to learn to play the guitar real good, then you will wind up playing the guitar real good. Nothing will stop you. And am sure you will make a record, if you keep at it. If I had the time to practice, and the money, I would go into pro pocket championship pool, Rick. I have a genius for it. But... dreary dull everyday plodding work, plus my PK work, rules it out, for now. I had a most wonderful Father's Day. Beau and Martha both gave me cards and presents...fine sport shirt, and new handkerchiefs. Martha worked for the money, to get it, bless her heart. Lornie sent me a dandy card she made herself, and a dollar for an ice-cream party for us...which we had on her. That was it. You will find a girl you like, honey. You will find many you like. As time goes on. There are millions of girls in the world, and there are thousands who would suit you fine...and you'll start clicking with them, finding them, as you go along. Be patient. Everything happens in good time. At one time, long ago, the girls I liked didn't like me, and vice versa...but as time went on things straightened out and I learned how to make the girls who didn't like me, like me. It was because they didn't know, or understand me, that they didn't like me. They got a wrong impression. I'd show them card tricks, read their palm or cards, etc., and after that we made friends. Some girls who don't like you, aren't worth making friends with. Some are. You have to learn to sort them out. You will. The woods of Pennsylvania are beautiful, I happen to know...but we haven't been out of downtown Phila. because we haven't a car, or money to go out. But things will change. Love, your pal.......... Dad 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 134 of 220 Monday, June 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's did a bang-up job of handing the AF a (as I warned they would.) Not only did they ca of over a half billion dollars in planes - but AF made the infinitely stupid booboo of allowin for a publicity stunt for a private company! last week's smashing blow will be the after-rea authorities toward this AF mistake. A-Sub Nautilus, Carrier Collide In the Atlantic Norfolk, Va., Nov. 10--(AP)--The Navy said today that the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus had collided with the aircraft carrier Essex while submerged in the Atlantic Ocean about 360 miles east of Morehead City, N. C. Naval authorities said the ac- SHIP SUB week rely and Now I will do the U.S. Govt. a good turn - and warn it to call off the fleet exercises ("Beach Time") involving 40 ships, in the Atlantic and Caribbean, June 13-26. Why? (1) You will remember I warned the Govt. last year, when it held fleet exercises off the Pacific coast. They went ahead - and shot a missile at a drone. The missile ignored the drone and bullseyed on a carrier plane up in the sky somewhere else, destroying plane and pilot. (There were other accidents there, too). (2) I have already warned that the Atlantic now is dangerous for ships, subs, planes - because the Si's are using our Atlantic area to correct our long long drought condition for us. (3) I have loaded the Caribbean area with PK to make hurricanes to bring up the East Coast. (Am working on other June Hurricanes.) (4) On June 5 I made a written prediction to Mr. and Mrs. Hansell, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., that (1) Si's will bring about a nuclear sub catastrophe, or carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U.S. vessels, by September, 1966. (2) Si's will deal our "seat of government" (The White House, Capitol Hill) a serious blow, by Sept., 1966. (These two effects to further demonstrate their powers to humans, and to prove their much-ridiculed reality...marsh gas, etc. (5) Ship-sub-plane PK has been in effect, growing, for over a year now. (6) These vessels will be within the reach of deadly "Electro" - area PK'd from Miami to Jacksonville. Put this all together, and these ships will be holding exercises in very deadly danger! So, let the U.S. Govt. be warned in advance. Just remember Needles Military Exercises; U.S./Spain Military Exercises; N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. === Page 135 of 220 In the Radar Plane with 19 Down at Sea NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPI) - An Air Force radar picket plane with a crew of 19 went down today in the Atlantic 125 miles east of this resort island. There was no immediate sign of survivors. They were wanted in connection with the discovery of dynamite at SNCC offices in North Philadelphia. Held in $1500 bail each for a hearing next Thursday on charges of possession of explosives. chute into the ocean, were en route from Goose Bay, Labrador. The Coast Guard officials said four-engine HC-130 planes were dispatched to the scene from Bermuda and Goose Bay. Govt. that in the desert. their punish- PLANE <-- === Page 136 of 220 SECOND PAGE GEORGE CLARK CIA 7/13/66 P2 May 23, 1966 This may interest you. The SI's have communicated they will use all their power to see that Johnson & Company lose everything at voting time...at the polls..if indeed they reach that point... because Johnson has rejected their friendly approach. Saw Sec. of Air Force Herald Brown on TV...I would sum him up as a sneaky, two-faced idiot. He and McNamara make a perfect pair. My God!! Where do we get these "top men?" In closing...the SI's warn...the recent stock market clobbering was no accident. You are referred to my letter of June 24, 1965..."unless the U.S. Govt. recognizes it (SI's) agent, P K Man, publicly, and helps P K Man...then Nature (SI's) will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the stock market. It will make the 1929 stock market crash seem like a picnic by comparison." That's what will happen ahead, George, if the SI's continue to be ridiculed and ignored. The U.S. Govt. has paid a terrible price already, by ignoring the SI's...should this stupidly continue? P K Man (Owens) Just remember .......... N.C./S.C. Military Exercises - and what happened to them. 08/07/2025 15:39 === Page 137 of 220 Rick Kids!! Thanks for those quakeclips. We did not get that info here!! Dad Lorne Monday, July 11, 1966 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: The St's warn...of an imminent major happening in Europe which will both shock and amaze the U.S. - and confront us with another major crisis to try and cope with. I warned you in my letters of Feb. 18, 1965, and July 17, 1965, that the Russians had some new weapons which we didn't know about that made them confident of having a big edge over us in case of war. Yesterday one of those weapons was exposed through the newspapers to the U.S. - a missile that can alter its direction. BUT I wrote the U.S. Govt. long ago that the Russ had this missile. I wrote you and told you that Russia had a missile that they could shoot, alter its direction, and bring around at us from a Latin American country...and then who could we pin the blame on. One of their other dandy new weapons they are secretly showing De Gaulle, etc., to persuade our allies it would be far better to switch alliances than to fight. Probably is why Wilson is being invited to Moscow. The U.S. is losing its friends - weak though they be - and the U.S. is slowly getting snookered. We haven't had a good idea in a carload for much too long a time. We've been butting heads with Russia, then with China and Asia - and now we're butting heads with our allies and neutrals. Our own country is butting its head against the wall in its spare time, being divided as it is with colored vs whites, anti-war demonstrators, etc. As I warned you some time ago, things will go from worse to worse to worser - unless the U.S. joins the UFO's. They alone can unravel the whole === Page 138 of 220 ...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball" and Hurricane Alma mess and put things right. 7-11-66 P2 This letter should have gone to you yesterday...but due to no stamps, and no access to typewriter...had to be delayed a day. Good thing nothing really hot was on to warn about, with the exception of the European blowup ahead. The Si's have finally given me a definition for what I have been calling "PK" all this time. They say to tell you that "PK" means "Other Dimensional Effects", which means simply that they have been creating the phenomena from their own dimension to take effect in our dimension. Remember I told you the Si's were going to PK all vehicles? After that there was the terrible ship strike that paralyzed England's shipping; the great hassle over "unsafe" new cars that sort of bent the auto business and almost unhinged the stock market; last week's auto strike; and the present airplane strike...its biggest in history. All vehicles. Plus yea many ship collisions, burnings; auto accidents; plane wrecks; train derailments; etc. The Si's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U.S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt., I know from experience. I direct your attention to my letter of Oct. 24, 1964...the idea therein is still a good one. Incidentaly...another hit. My ltr. to you of January 23, 1965: "I am, therefore, concentrating more deadly PK on Castro...am amazed nothing has happened to him...he is the only one I can remember to resist the PK effects, unless they have a double who has taken his place." Phila. Inquirer, 6/20/66 08/07/2025 15 === Page 139 of 220 7/11/66 p3 Monday, July 11, 1966 2 Mr. George Clark "CASTRO REPORTED SICK IN EUROPE" - "Miami, Fla. June 20 (AP)-An American anti-Castro organization said Monday that it has been informed from inside Cuba that Fidel Castro is undergoing medical treatment in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia and that a double is taking his place in Havana...the committee said that Castro had undergone electroshock mental treatments for three weeks in Havana. Bethel, executive secretary of the committee, said Castro has used doubles more than once in the past several years." So, George, it seems that perhaps my PK did get to the target...and my hunch was certainly rought about Castro using a double. When I "hit" Castro with PK, I glued a magnet onto his face, on a picture, and combined it with my usual PK practice. It is interesting that his trouble is mental. The magnet is still there. You know, after all of my success in predictions...the U.S. Govt. should be beating down my door to utilize my services in this capacity alone. DO YOU REALIZE....what I have accomplished these past several months? (1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within === Page 140 of 220 YOU REALIZE..........what I have accomplished these past several months: 1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within a few days...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball". (2) Predicted an early hurricane, within a few days...and Hurricane Alma appeared in six days. (3) Predicted big earthquake in California in the "near future"...and they then had the strongest quake in eleven years within two weeks, plus two other big quakes on top of it. (4) Predicted that Philadelphia would be attacked by violent lightning attacks "in the near future"...and it has had three such storms shortly afterward. (5) Predicted the Commies would launch an "imminent" attack on our fleet at Viet Nam. It was imminent. They struck with torpedo boats within two days after my warning. (And that was just the prelude to the symphony.) In other words...my information has been such that I feel quite safe in saying no other human being in this world could have duplicated it...and no intelligence service of this or any other government could have duplicated it. Consider the variety of the predictions. Why is why I think the U.S. Government must have some wheels missing...not to utilize my services. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 141 of 220 Lorne Rick (This does not apply to you two.) Date: 7/19/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have decided that (1) The U.S. Govt. is not cooperating with them, and (2) Their representative, P K Man, has not been treated so well. (Was called a "psycho" yesterday on a radio show, over the air; cannot get written confirmation of wonderful predictions of major events made beforehand; cannot get financial help from any source to meet the Si's wishes, etc.) Therefore, say the Si's, the time is over for little miracles...like telling the U.S. Government of a Red attack on warships two days before the attack came; calling earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen, etc. Obviously, they tell me, something must be done on a larger scale to convince those who insult me, and do not cooperate with me. They are going to cause a series of smashing blows, catastrophes, the entire length and breadth of the U.S., and this will be done in the form of a huge "X". See crude drawing below. To further prove this is all real, and that I am speaking for them...they will make "public appearances" in various places (good enough to make the newspapers) as a signature of their own, to this document. They will undertake this action beginning September 1, 1966, if P K Man has not been given cooperation by that time as per the Si's wishes, and signed confirmations have not been given him. P K Man Owens ---------- P.S. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A year ago Zachow, a scientist, told me I was wasting my time and money...that the U.S. Govt. was deaf, dumb and blind to my work. Then I didn't believe him. Now I do. I have proven my connection with the Si's; made astounding predictions ahead of time; and so on. Yet I have not been approached by the Govt.; have not been helped; have not been encouraged - have, in fact, worked in a vacuum under great hardships the while. So now...I quit. I have yet to notify the Si's, and do not know how they will feel. But from now on the Govt. will not know what the Si's are up to...will not know when the Reds are going to strike at our warships, or put more planes into the air against us. Everything from now on will come as a complete surprise to the U.S. Govt. without a P K Man advance tipoff, good or bad. And I guess that's the way the Govt. wants it. So long, you silent people out there...... 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 142 of 220 August 2, 1966, Tuesday P.S. About the only really safe place to be - considering drought, negro riots, polluted air, polluted water, enemy attacks on our 3 coasts - is high north country, near Canada, mid - U.S. Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for writing the letter. I thought perhaps you'd entered a monastery somewhere and wouldn't be out again for ten years. You are right not to worry about your grades. Just do the best you can do, when going to school, learn all that you can...especially the things you are interested in...remember that lots of the teachers are stupid, neurotic wrecks, and they do play favorites...and if your grades are low, then you have the best attitude about it. If you're not figuring on being a nuclear physicist (that dam word I always spell wrong) or like that...then why worry? Just be sure and get your diploma, then toddle off to the Beauty School with the $600 you've saved out of your weekly allowance, and all is well. Why, just think of those heads of hair you can run your fingers through and tie in knots, if they fuss at you. When I think of all the chaos and carnage you can commit on the heads of innocent citizens...why, the scope is limitless! (ha ha - it's a joke.) Actually, in all seriousness, I should think you would be a Champion Hair Dresser, Beautician, or whatever they call it. You are creative...you have quick little hands...and you are very intelligent. So you will do fine. However, let's don't cross any bridges. By the time you get out of High School you just might decide to be a Fireman, or run for Governor, or something like that. Teenagers are notoriously fickle about deciding what they are really going to do. I just hope you don't get out of H.S. then decide what you really want to do is go to college! So, Rick got a surfboard. All he needs now is a loaded .45 automatic. Yes, you had ought to write Martha personal letters, addressed to her. I know she will answer them. Glad you saw "Mice and Men." You see my point, then. What on earth will you do without a phone? You'll get constipation of the conversation, kid. If you get too frustrated...get one of these toy phones in the dime store and sit in your room and make up phone calls to your girl friends and talk away. That's what Beau does. Have you ever taken all my "George" copies and put them in date order in folders, and read them? If not, why not? Your dad has done something no other human being has done since the time of Moses! I have been literally doing miracles! And you two numbnoses do not even seem to realize it. Two other top govt. agencies besides NASA and CIA have recently spent hours with me, going over my material. I can tell you, one of them is not really govt., although made up of top govt. men...NICAP, described in the back of the flying saucer book I sent you to read. The other agency I won't name...but if you put the initials together, you're hissing. One thing for sure...they weren't impressed by our tiny apartment! If you can, get away from the coast. The U.S. coastal areas are going to be destroyed...devastated...one of these days. Love - Dad === Page 143 of 220 Tuesday, August 2, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The Si's have an important message for the U.S. Govt., but nobody now to give it to...since I have cut out contacting CIA, NASA, etc. They have given me much information the past few days, which I won't pass on until the Govt. cooperates with me, or does something constructive. However, this much I had better pass on, to NICAP. The Si's have monitored the Russ "fishing boat" activities on our coasts, and they warn the U.S. of GREAT DANGER. The Russ have, under the pretense of having fishing vessels present on our coastal waters...dropped a weapon down into the waters which we do not have. This is a remote-controlled nuclear device which, when activated, will travel up and out of the water like a Polaris missile out onto our land areas and explode...thus our radar and defense warning set-up will have no warning, since these do not rise high into the air, then come down. The Russ idea is, when they attack, for these special devices to wipe out our three coasts...East, West, and Southern. The Si's say the Russ build these contraptions into a fishing vessel, sail the vessel to our shores, sink the vessel...at which time a mechanism separates the bomb and launcher from the rest of the vessel. The device under the water is hard to see because the Russ camouflage the top of it in a dark, scalloped design. PK Man (Owens) PK Man (Owens) === Page 144 of 220 8/2/66 P2 P.S. The Si's point out that this coastal attack method, plus the Trojan Horse method of planting portable nuclear devices in all of our major cities...would eliminate the necessity for missiles fired from Russia and give us no warning whatsoever. What the Si's recommend: Advertise once a month, in all newspapers over the land, that any enemy agent...foreign agent...who will call the following phone number -- and give any information whatever to the U.S. Govt. relating to enemy attack upon the U.S., i.e. which threatens the security of the U.S. - such as telling the U.S. Govt. of any nuclear devices which might be set up in our cities, or secret bacteriological devices, etc. will get the following reward: $25,000 a year for the rest of your life and complete safety and security, plus a home, for yourself and family. And spell it out and make it simple so he or she will understand: If you, Agent of some other country, show us anything, or prove to us, that there is anything in or near our country which might be a threat...you get this wonderful reward. (Or just offer a flat million dollars...but I think the yearly amount would make more sense, for a family man.) The Si's stress this should be done at once, as they happen to know of some weak agents who might just walk in and tell the U.S. Govt. what, when, and where. As for the Speck killing, and the Whitman killing...I can tell you right now the close proximity of UFO's will have a magnetic effect on the minds of humans...and since UFO's were seen not too long ago in the Austin area, I do believe this is what happened. Their nearness changed Whitman's mind, electrically. Something to think about. P K Man (Owens) === Page 145 of 220 Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Another great prediction has come to pass! And this one makes you blink! My letter to you of July 11, 1966: "The Si's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U. S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt., I know from experience." If you read your newspapers today...you read where a UFO landed in front of a group of people in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night...and a creature six feet tall, with head and shoulders but just a blob from there on down...moved to within five feet of the group, in plain sight! To top it off, it left a claw print (picture of it in the newspaper). The group was scared out of their wits, and the girl who tried to describe the creature was hysterical with fear. Makes you think, George. I'm sure this isn't a figment of my imagination. P K Man (Owens) $Θ$ $ℇ$ This UFO creature walked into Lake Erie! Leaving clear tracks. 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 146 of 220 Monday, August 8, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick: I hope you are both well and happy. Had a visit not long ago from some Secret Service men. Friendly visit, in answer to my letters to the President. They were very much interested in some ideas I had sent. Also, am now being evaluated and analyzed (my work with the Si's is, that is) by a group of General Electric scientists. They think so highly of my work that they just gave me a signed confirmation on a number of my predictions-before-the-events...and they just made me a present of a glistening, brand new Czech portable typewriter of my own. I have had one 3-hour session with them, and one 4½ hour session with them...everything taken down on tape recorder. And these are for-real SCIENTISTS. They say they know I am getting results, but they don't understand how...and they want to help me, scientifically. Am having an awful time at work. Some psychotic woman, the sister of the brothers who own the business...rides me, every day, sadistically. Follows me around calling me jerk and dope, and asking me why I do not make it rain inside the office. She's nuttier than a fruit cake, but mean-nutty. I would quit in a minute to get away from her, if there was anything else to go to. But there isn't in this hell-town. And no way to get out of the town. I told you this Company fined me $55.00 for missing one day to be on the radio. It has put Martha and I behind about six weeks in paying bills, etc., and we hardly eat right, what with the two-week layoff they gave everybody without pay...with no warning. Well, enough sunshine and light. Write once every Christmas and tell me what's going on. Love and Kisses, Dad 08/07/2025 16:02 === Page 147 of 220 Copy - Pat + Kids Sunday, August 21, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swakk, C.S.C.A.R. I called you yesterday afternoon at 2:30, but you were not there, so I left the following message for you with the girl there...whom I took to be your secretary: I told you last week that the Si's were going to do their best to destroy Luob's (Lunar Orbiter I) mission of taking pics of the moon. I sent you the crude map of what the Si's revealed to me of their ODE methods of attack on Luob. The Si's were successful in causing a malfunction in Luob the day it was to go up...but it was caught in time (seven minutes to blastoff) and the shoot was postponed while they fixed it. Once up, the Si's managed to keep Luob from seeing Canopus. So NASA improvised and put Luob's eye on the Moon, instead of Canopus. So the Si's dropped that method attack (and then Luob could see Canopus) and decided to go after the camera in Luob. The Si's thought there was one camera, and so did I. So they blocked the main camera, the high-resolution camera...which success of the mission depended on. But then yesterday I read that there were two cameras...and NASA would try to use the secondary medium-resolution camera. The Si's immediately directed me to a public phone, to call you and tell you they would now go after the other camera, to block it off...and thus stop the Luob mission in its tracks. Today I don't know if they have accomplished it or not, but their word has been true-blue thus far in every respect. Please refer to my letter to you of August 9: "The Si's...will hit Luob with ODE power-force to force it into a wrong climb or orbit." Now let me quote the local newspaper Thursday, 8/18: "Experts said there were unexplained changes in the spacecraft's orbit of the moon..." "All we can say pending detailed studies is that something is influencing the orbit we can't explain," scientist Edmund Brummer, of NASA, said yesterday. (8/17)" Did I, or did I not, call that correctly? Now I direct your attention to my same letter to you: "The Si's will hit Luob with ODE lasers, causing the metals inside to crystallize and break at the wrong time, etc." Now I quote from Friday's local paper: "Something apparently happened to the camera's high resolution system after the first frame was taken." In other words, the first frame took a good picture...then the camera broke. Following pictures were a mess. Now, I told you over the phone that the Si's were going to use a "sponge" ODE technique, to block and confuse communication signals to and from earth to Luob. I quote the Friday N.Y. Times: "The only problems that have been encountered so far appeared to be minor - a faulty transistor in an electric power system and some strange fluctuations in the communications signal." "Some interference in ground transmission, they concluded had accounted for the poor quality of the initial reproductions over television. (Let me point out that the only good picture was received in Spain...the Si's and I didn't know Spain was even in it...but Pasadena, Houston, and Cape K. sure as shooting didn't receive anything worth printing...which was what I told you beforehand would happen! In the same N.Y. Times article: "With its sharpest camera eye mysteriously dimmed, Luob appeared today to be unable to complete successfully its primary mission of taking detailed pictures of potential astronaut landing spots on the moon." Thus, it would seem as of this writing, the Si's have triumphed once again. === Page 148 of 220 8/21/66 p2 Now, Rowland, let's analyze a little. The following are quotes from newspaper articles: "The countdown progressed smoothly Tuesday when suddenly the blockhouse began receiving unintelligible signals from a system..." "As it sped through space, experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here (Pasadena) ordered Orbiter several times to roll and try to locate its programmed reference point, the bright star Canopus. It failed to do so, for reasons not at once learned." "We're not sure what's wrong yet (Friday)" said Jim Martin, Jr., assistant Luob Project Director, "but we found there's a lot of noise in the sensor's electronic system that seems to block out the Canopus signal." "Puzzling Moon Photos a Fluke?... Space scientists were puzzled today over a "marked" difference in the quality of pictures taken... by Luob." "Experts said there were unexplained changes in the spacecraft's orbit of the moon.." "All we can say pending detailed studies is that something is influencing the orbit we can't explain," scientist Edmund Brummer of NASA said yesterday." "Something apparently happened to the camera's high resolution system after the first frame was taken, officials said." So you can see, Rowland, that in conjunction with Luob's flight... there have been a lot of "mysterious"... "puzzling"... "something is influencing the orbit"... something apparently happened to the camera... unintelligible, unexplainable noises interfering with the flight. You're a scientist, Rowland... are you satisfied that something seems to have been at work on Luob, other than NASA's signals from the ground? One thing is for sure... NASA knows it. Now, I refer you to your letter of July 19, where you ask me: "Your July 11 letter indicated the Si's are in the local area and will do something startling. Is there any way that we (you) could get more details on what and when this might be?" As you know by now it happened at Erie, Pa., August 1, when a Si craft landed near a car and people... a creature emerged from the craft, moved to within five feet of the people, then walked into the water out of sight, away from its craft. As far as I know, this has never been done before by Si's in front of people. I have sent to Erie for the write-ups on this, Rowland, and will send them to you this coming week. Thus my prediction was on the nose, right? I couldn't give you any more details because the Si's didn't tell me anything else other than what I gave you. From my file you've copied, see my letter to Mr. Dun, of April 20, 1966: "Therefore, speaking for my UFO friends and their PK power... en garde." Now I quote from a newspaper clipping, August 6: "Hurricane Forecaster Victim of Hitch-Hikers. Miami... The Chief Hurricane Forecaster here, Gordon Dun, was robbed of $25 today by three hitch-hikers who took his car and left him bound with his own clothing in a cemetery. Dun, 61, freed himself, went to a nearby house, where the resident happened to be up at 3 AM practicing his trombone, and called police." En garde, I told him. He wasn't paying attention. I wrote to Kris Kraft, of NASA, also, not long before he had a gun pointed at his head and the trigger pulled, on a plane. The gun didn't go off... and the hitch-hikers didn't harm Dun. === Page 149 of 220 8/21/66 P3 Now let's take up my (Si) control over the world's weather. See my letter to you of July 23, 1966: "Today am going to signal the Si's to activate the four positioned craft (which I call the "Emmy Emma" setup) around the globe. This will cause severe storms, quakes, volcano eruptions, and weather aberrations all over the world in the days and weeks ahead." (I also predicted a hurricane just ahead...which happened...Hurricane Dorothy.) Now, let's see from the paper clips which I have what happened to the world's weather, after that. (Also recall that I phoned you and told you, some time in August, that in order to keep the weather-demonstration going I was activating this Emmy-Emma setup again...and the Si's seemed to do it in a stronger manner than ever before. Remember?) Prediction on July 23. July 24..."Dorothy, the busy season's fourth tropical storm, whipped herself into a hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Sunday while another storm, Ella, popped up in the warm tropical Atlantic." July 26..."Planes from the 7th Fleet carrier Oriskany were limited up to nine missions because of Typhoon Ora's presence in the Tonkin Gulf." July 30..."98 Deaths Reported After Rains in Korea...Floods have left 144,000 homeless..." July 31..."Tornadic Winds Strike Aberdeen, South Dakota." July 31..."Village Flooded in Switzerland." (Oddly, this was done because the gate of a tunnel to a hydroelectric dam was opened by accident.) August 3..."Czech Flood Toll is 4. Last week's floods in Czechoslovakia inundated 148,000 acres and caused $35 million in damages." August 3..."Quake Jolts Wide Area of West Pakistan. An earthquake rocked 2,300 square miles of West Pakistan yesterday, damaging the homes of an estimated 10,000 persons." July 28..."Quake In Yugoslavia." July 28..."Storms Plague Tourists in Italy. Violent wind and rainstorms, rare in July, struck Italy on Thursday, flooding streets, damaging beach resorts and triggering landslides. High waves smashed beach resorts around Naples, carrying wrecked cabins out to sea. Storms swept the whole Sorrentine peninsula south of Naples. Severe rainstorms also swept Piedmont and much of the Venice area in North Italy. Hundreds of cars were stalled along the coastal highway in blinding rain." August 1..."18,000 Flee Taal Area. Manila...The Manila Weather Bureau warned that the volcano, Taal, appeared to be building up to a devastating explosion that could unleash strong earthquakes...flash floods were reported sweeping most sections of the Volcano Island Monday." August 2..."The deadly Taal Volcano belched showers of ashes and quivered with periodic tremors Tuesday while thousands of refugees streamed into government evacuation centers to escape its wrath." August 2...Chamonix, France..."Rescue workers combing the blizzard swept slopes of Mont Blanc found the bodies of four more amateur alpinists on Sunday, boosting to eight the death toll of holiday climbers during a week of freakish weather....blinding snowstorms, etc." August 12...Quakes Rock Capitals of 2 Soviet Provinces. Earthquakes struck two Soviet capitals today." August 13..."Residents Flee Flood in Central Nebraska. Flood waters churned down normally placid streams in the Loup Valley of Central Nebraska, west of Omaha, today following rains of a foot or more. Governor Frank Morrison made an aerial inspection of the area." August 15..."Quake, Rain Kill 15 In India's Capital. An earthquake and torrential monsoon rain struck India's capital today..." August 16..."Japan Floods Kill 19. Torrential rains causing floods and landslides...etc." 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 150 of 220 8/21/66 p 4 August 16..."Storms Rake Italy. Violent storms today broke a heat wave in northern Italy. Rain, lightning and gale force winds damaged power lines and knocked out communications between cities in the north and Rome most of the day." August 16..."Two more sharp earthquakes struck the Soviet Asian city of Tashkent today. Later the city received mild shock waves from a third quake which reportedly was centered in Afghanistan." August 16...Tropical Storm Connie, which had threatened to belt Hawaii with its first hurricane in seven years, wilted yesterday into a gale-force disturbance. The U.S. Weather Bureau said residents of the Hilo, Hawaii, area could expect winds of 35 miles an hour accompanied by heavy rains late today." August 17...Jakarta, Indonesia..."Volcano Erupts. The volcano Mt. Awu has erupted. It said the explosion hurled ashes 3,000 feet in the air, etc." August 18..."Quake Shakes Southwest. Phoenix...A fairly strong earthquake jarred parts of Northwest Mexico, Southern California and Arizona...the quake had a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale." August 18...Italy.."Rain-swollen Alpine rivers burst over their banks in this northeastern Italian region yesterday, flooding key highways and threatening several towns. Steady rain continued throughout northern Italy following violent storms that accounted for at least 40 deaths over the long mid-August holiday weekend." August 18...Moscow..."Torrential rains drenching Russia's border with Communist China for the last week have left at least 2000 families homeless, etc." August 18..."Strong Quake Noted Off Coast of Mexico. A "very strong" earthquake somewhere off the coast of Mexico was recorded today at the Fordham University observatory, etc." August 18...Milan..."Lightning, hail storms and high winds have battered parts of northern Italy for the third day, raising the death toll to at least 12 persons - six of whom have been struck by lightning." August 18...Vienna...Thousands Stranded by Austrian Floods. Floods and landslides in western Austria today left thousands of tourists stranded in numerous summer resorts. A state of emergency was proclaimed in Lienz, capital of the province, police said. Lienz was unreachable, with all roads and railroad lines blocked by landslides and floods." Another clip..."Five Austrians have died in disastrous floods that struck Alpine southern Austria yesterday. Thousands of German tourists were stranded in eastern Tyrol, which was isolated by the waters rise. Mountain rivulets turned into destructive whirlpools overnight, tearing away bridges and submerging villages and whole valleys, etc." August 19..."1,000 Feared Dead As Turkish Quake Hits Mountain Area. Istanbul..More than 500 persons perished Friday in a widely destructive earthquake in eastern Turkey...etc." August 20...Japan..Earthquakes shook towns and cities in eastern and central Hokkaido today, etc." All right, Rowland...since all the above action was not happening before, but did occur after, my prediction re Emmy-Emma...I rest my case on the Si powers with their "Emmy Emma" control. === Page 151 of 220 8/21/66 p5 Let us go on apiece. As you know, I told you weeks ago to get rid of your stocks, because the Si's were going to punish the American economy by attacking the Stock Market...in their own ODE way. August 20..."Stocks Suffer Declines In Every Day of Week. The bears had the action all to themselves last week in the stock market, as the list took its worst plunge in more than four years. On every single day, from Monday to Friday, losses were chalked up. Etc." As you can see, Rowland, some of my predictions hit almost immediately... then even go ahead and extend themselves in time forward. Oh, in reference to the Emmy-Emma section of this letter, see my letter to you of July 24: "Remember I predicted last week my "Emmy Emma" technique, signalling the 4 Si's positioned around the world, to change the world's timing and cause storms, quakes, hurricanes, etc? Well, today we got one fat hurricane and another cane in the making...Dorothy and Ella. You see how I can call the shots? Lord only knows what other violent weather aberrations will take place the next few days." Yes, the next few days, and next few weeks.... ---------- See my letter in your file to George, dated July 7, 1966: "Also the Reds are planning a massive air-strike, with the aid of the Russ and Chinese, against saigon and other key military points...to take control of the air away from us. Etc." Since writing that prediction, the Migs have come up and filled the air...attacking our planes...also here is a newspaper clip from the Inquirer, August 16: "Entire Squadron of F-105's Downed In Month. Saigon.."North Vietnamese anti-aircraft defenses have wiped out the equivalent of an entire squadron of 25 U. S. Air Force Thunderchief jet bombers in the last month...Reliable sources said the squadron of 25 planes was shot out of the skies in recent weeks in ones and twos as the North Vietnamese stepped up their defenses against American attacks." Well, Rowland, we'd never lost a squadron of bombers in a month before my prediction. I let that case stand. ---------- Now, see my letter to you of August 13, 1966: "Furthermore, they will sign their signature to this...by making another startling public appearance, as they did recently at Erie. This appearance...will confirm again that they are indeed bringing all this about, and I am their Representative." Now I quote newsclip, August 19, Pittsburgh: "Hundreds Scared By Bright Meteor. A meteor so bright that it cast shadows flashed through the sky over western Pennsylvania and Ohio early on Friday, frightening hundreds of persons. Spokesmen at the Allegheny Observatory and the Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh said the meteor was of a brightness measured at minus-six magnitude, "the brightest possible." "It lit up the area like a flashbulb," the spokesman said. Etc." This was no meteor, in my opinion, Rowland. It was the Si's with their signal, in answer to the letter to you. ---------- Now a few notes from the past few days. Last night I was astounded when === Page 152 of 220 8/21/66 p6 while turning the knob on the TV...to dial in a football game, pro, on Channel 9...Bears against Redskins. Only thing is, we've never been able to get anything on Channel 9. Our channels are 3, 6, 10, 12, 17, 29, 48. Then I got another surprise...there was a movie on Channel 5, and yet another program on Channel 4. We can't get those channels. As a scientist...and especially in this sort of thing...how could this happen? Furthermore, Fridaynight, while Martha and I were watching TV...suddenly two antennae with protuberances on their end, appeared at the edge of the TV screen, either inside the set or superimposed on the screen somehow. They were animated, as are the antennae on an insect...moving around as if they were on some unseen head. They extended some 3-4 inches long - couldn't have been any insect. We watched them for a few minutes, then they moved out of sight. Thursday, August 18, three of the four people who work in my office group, were out sick. This was one hell of a coincidence. Even the boss, Cotzen, was out sick...and he was out Friday and Saturday, too. Also on Thursday Martha smelled a bad odor in our apartment that made her sick...and at the same time the odor appeared, our canary bird, Tweety Pie, dropped dead in his cage. Si's have told me that, now that I am oriented toward them, I can see and realize their patterns...where other humans cannot. Look, if your Group is in financial trouble, why not let me help? Let the Group furnish me with $1000 (they could borrow it) and I will rent a small office and teach Autohyp, and pay the Group back double in a year. A 100% return on a small investment. My job ends next Friday, and would be an excellent time to do this. If the Group would loan me $3000, I will return it back double, over a period of 3 years ($2000 a year returned) or make them full partners on the Autohyp operation plus my book returns (because it would enable me to have the time to write the book.) Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 153 of 220 Thursday, August 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for the two dandy cigars. They gave me several hours of pleasure. Honey, I don't know what you are talking about when you mention my being sued by a radio station. I haven't been. If anybody did sue me, what could they possibly get? Mebbe an empty bird cage. How did you like my producing Hurricane Faith in just four days? (See my letter to you of last week...Friday.) Those men weren't "detectives", Lornie. They are Secret Service men. I had written President Johnson that I had a bright idea for him to use, re his popularity improvement with the people...and these two S.S. men came up to ask what it is. The idea, briefly, is for Johnson to appear on TV with Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, etc., and get some laughs...and some empathy with the U.S. people. He's too grim and bitter. I pointed out what made Will Rogers lovable, and others, too...and it was a sense of humor, and being able to make the people laugh, even in tough times. No. Costs money for the docs to go ahead and study Beau. And we haven't any right now. These two women here who have ridden my back and abused me worse than anyone in my entire life...are really bad, clear through. I never did hit them with PK, though, much as I was tempted. However, the Si's did...they told me they were putting the two in PK bubbles, enclosing the yellow gas, and attaching two poltergeists to each of their backs...and this condition will go on for the rest of their lives. God. Makes me shudder to think of it. They are walking around, enclosed in that bubble from another dimension, and that horrible stuff inside the bubble with them! For the rest of their lives! Anyway, I didn't do it. But I did resign, to get away from them. Got a fine reference from the Boss, who understands. Tomorrow is my last day. We haven't moved yet. No way to do so. We need a jaloppy, and no way to promote one yet. The papers you sent will help me very much, and I love you for it. It is very humorous that the Commies offered me all I need...yet I can't get it from my own Govt. I was tempted to take it, though. But I cannot. This is my own country, and I am staying with it, stupid though it may be at times. Be a good girl, and Martha and Beau and I miss you. Love, Ted. Dad 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 154 of 220 Joy Lowland - This shows how Si's have shown me - or I've guided - '64 & '65 canes to target, PK man (Owens) Electro. I'm a way a near miss. Si Map 8/25/66 11:30 PM Faith armed with anti-plane O7E "mechanism of Stormfury" FLA CAPE K Miami Nassau Great Inagua Other Puerto Rico FAITH I'm working now to produce a second cane (#7) closer in to Florida & Cuba - to follow on the heels of Faith. In hoping I liked a one-two punch. Call it a Hurricane Party, eh? 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 155 of 220 PHILA. NEWS # 193 Dead, 123 Missing As Typhoons Rip Japan 9/26/66 TOKYO (UPI) - Japan dug out from its worst storm lashing since 1959 today and officials feared deaths from the two-day pounding by typhoons Ida and Helen would swell to more than 300. Police said 193 persons were confirmed killed and 123 persons were missing and feared dead. The storms sent 100-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rains whipping across the populous Tokyo area, touching off massive mudslides, overturning ships in Tokyo Bay and even washing away a small resort hotel. Ida was the worst of the two and hit in the Tokyo area near famed Mount Fuji. Helen roared across the southernmost island of Kyushu inundating homes under tons of mud. THOUSANDS were left homeless and damage was in the millions of dollars. U. S. military officials said the storm had done from $3 to $5 million damage at the U. S. Atsugi Naval Air Station 20 miles west of Tokyo. About $500,000 in damage to homes and other facilities was reported at Camp Zama and another $300,000 at the Sagami depot - both near Tokyo. Yamanashi Prefecture to the west of Tokyo bore the brunt of Ida's assault. Police said 82 persons were confirmed dead in the prefecture (state) and 94 others were missing. Most of the deaths were caused by landslides. RAIN-LOOSENED rock and mud plummeted down the side of Mount Fuji, killing at least 50 persons in two villages. Some 50 others were missing. Reports said the slides crushed 34 of the 40 houses in one village and 20 of the 96 in the other. At least 14 vessels were reported sunk or capsized in Tokyo Bay and along the nearby coast. One body was recovered and six seamen were reported missing. The death toll from the two storms was the highest in Japan since Sept. 26, 1959, when 5041 persons were killed by Typhoon Kitty. JAPAN HONSHU HIROSHIMA KOSE NAGOYA TOKYO Mt. Fuji SHIKOKU TYPHOON IDA STORM AREA STORM HELEN KYUSHU DOUBLE KNOCKOUT - Map shows paths of Typhoons Ida and Helen, whose one-two punch against Japan left more than 190 persons known dead. Unifax 9/28/66 ## New Storm In Caribbean SAN JUAN, P. R. (UPI). - Another tropical storm sprang up today in the wake of Hurricane Inez, which killed five persons in a smash across Guadeloupe and is still rampaging through the Caribbean. The new storm, named Judith, was discovered 650 miles east of the Windward Islands. Forecasters said the new tropical blow had winds of at least 45 MPH, and perhaps stronger. Inez was aiming its mighty 120 MPH punch at the southern shores of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Weathermen said the severe hurricane passed south of the Virgin Islands and was expected to skirt Puerto Rico, but was lashing the popular resorts with fringe gales. Gusts of 65-70 MPH winds were expected along Puerto Rico's south coast. 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 156 of 220 Pat & Kids Thursday, August 25, 1966 Mr. Jack McKinney, WCAU Dear Jack: I think you will appreciate this funny letter. You will remember that I sent you a "PK" map not long ago...to the effect that Station WCAU was going to be harassed by electrical disturbances, lightning, etc? Well...this is the funny part. During one of my lightning-specials (storms I predicted to you) about the middle of August, I told Martha, my wife, that I would signal the Si's to direct a lightning strike at WCAU, just to shake up the station. Instead, it hit KYW. Mr. E. Cummings, Chief Engineer, said it hit about 2:50 AM and knocked out that radio station for about four hours. Incidentally, that lightning is indicated on your map. I see that the PK effect is now working. I see by the paper that WCAU somehow managed to lose a signal yesterday...blanking out Arthur Godfrey for twenty minutes...and causing hundreds of people to call to see what was going wrong. That's the way PK works, Jack. Better get used to it. Any other little freakish things like that happening? Personnel out with bumped heads and colds? Machinery breakdowns? Lightning strikes? Be sporting and keep me informed, will you? Incidentally...am working exclusively with a small group of scientists now who are sporting enough to give me confirmations of my predictions when I am right...and call attention to anything I might miss. I called Hurricane Alma in a letter to them last Friday...four days ahead of time. Am mentioning this to let you know I am still wheeling and dealing with ESP. ESP? Well...whatever it is. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Street, #33 Phila. P.S. Might interest you to know that I terminate with my present job tomorrow...finis. Got one over there available? Secretary, announcer, writer, janitor, pool player? I challenge you personally to two out of three games of 50 point straight pool...$1 on each game, and time. Ha! Owens === Page 157 of 220 Pat + Kids Sunday night, August 27, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The UFO's, it seems like, did not take out the medium-camera in Lunar Orbiter. It puzzles me...a miss for me, I guess. Now, I waited to hear from the Si's...right up to the point where they were going to fire that moon craft from the Cape to another point on the globe. (That's why I didn't get a prediction in to you...they didn't contact me as they usually do.) I finally contacted them...and they did not want to touch that shot. They WANTED the shot to go well. Because it was just a "preliminary". They want to chew up the "main event." And so they are waiting...for the main event, to clobber it. They told me to PK-map the Super Titan with 8 satellites...that they would destroy the mission. So I did, and they did. A hit. (Just to keep my records straight...I will have to list that mooncraft test a miss on my books. But it wasn't. It wasn't anything at all.) ---------- Hurricane Faith was following my map (sent you a copy) right down the line...but she got very weak Saturday, and stopped...so I opened the source-boxes and fed her everything she needed. After that she started again, and grew in power again. I have had to correct her course several times. It's sort of like leading a blind man. As of today, in the morning Inquirer, you can see she's pointed dead at the target...Cape K. My job is to see that she stays right on that aim. When the Govt. FINALLY discovers that I can control hurricanes through Si help...perhaps it will listen to reason, and cooperate. ---------- In my files which you copied you will see where the Si's told the CIA they would help them. Well, what isn't there is...the Si's stopped that cold, when CIA didn't help me with confirmations. Now they are just like any other Govt. agency to the Si's. ---------- #75, the "European Happening Will Shock and Amaze U.S."...would seem to be last week's resignation of the three top West German generals which has caused a government crisis...those are the words used by the papers. They also termed it a military crisis. This, coming out of thin air, must have certainly "shocked and amazed" the U.S. Govt. ---------- #88, my "WCAU PK Harassment"... (I showed you my pk map of the station)... the following was in the newspapers Thursday, August 25: "Lost Signal Puts Godfrey Off The Air...Arthur Godfrey went silent for the last 20 minutes of his taped radio show on WCAU yesterday morning because of a telephone line failure. The station played standby music while trying to restore the lost signal from CBS network, without success. Hundreds of phone calls jammed the local switchboard as callers sought to find out why Godfrey was off the air. The Godfrey radio show, normally heard from 10:10 AM to 11, went silent at 10:39. A WCAU spokesman said the station was at the end of a "signal loop" and was apparently the only one to lose the signal..." This, Rowland, is one of the many ways PK attacks occur. At my office last week I was working on the mimeograph machine...and it went dead. The stamp machine broke down. The power on the elevator went dead. The telephone system failed and broke down. This is all PK phenomenon...Si phenomenon. === Page 158 of 220 8/27/66 P2 Now see #36..."Si Warning Re Stock Market." My letter to George Clerk, CIA: "George, please see my letter to you of March 26, 1965.."before closing, Nature has told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that since it has refused to help me, it's agent, then it will damage the Stock Market. Sort of tit for tat. If I must suffer economically whilst trying to lobby for Nature...then Nature will cause the Govt. to suffer." - "Now, Nature has this message for the U.S. Govt. Unless the Govt. recognizes its agent, P K Man, publicly...and helps P K Man to be hired by New Jersey and New York to bring rain to relieve the drought...then Nature will wreck and demolish the U.S. economy...will ruin the Stock Market - it will make 1929 seem like a picnic by comparison." Well, Rowland, "Nature" turned out to be the Si's...and they waited patiently, as is their nature, for the Govt. to cooperate. But it did not. In #82, my letter to you: "Sell your stocks and bonds, friends...the Si's are going to blast the Stock Market, in order to humble this country a bit, and make it harder for the U.S. to keep up wars overseas..." Okay...since that letter what has happened? All hell has broken loose in the Stock Market, that's what. It has gone down, down...and now is in deep trouble. Like a plane in a spin it can't get out of. Here's a Saturday quote from the New York Times: "Erosion on Wall St." "Long Slide In Prices Wearing Down Spirit of the Baffled Stock Salesmen." "The steady sandpapering of stock prices...the market has gone up only one day in the last two weeks...finally is getting under the skin of brokerage-house salesmen. At noon yesterday a customer telephoned his broker and said, "Where are you?" "I'm hiding behind my desk," came the reply in a faltering Harvard accent. "What can I tell my customers?" asked a bewildered salesman, who appeared to be typical of some 35,000 registered representatives working for member firms of the New York Stock Exchange. "To be perfectly honest, you've got to tell them that you don't know what to tell them." At another Wall Street house a secretary wailed: "This is no longer a tight money policy we're seeing. It's a no-money policy." The statistics were fairly grim at the market's close yesterday. The "paper loss" on all Big Board stocks has soared to a $103.7-billion since the market made its historic high on Feb. 9. The Dow-Jones industrial average has tumbled 21.5 per cent...etc" The Si's are causing this grim economical uproar to call attention to the letter mentioned above...which is, after all, their only way of communicating with humans. Their point...the Govt. had dashed well better start cooperating with PK Man at this point...because they can make things much much worse if it doesn't happen. ---------- The "Emmy Emme" jolt was as rough as I told you it would be. The globe is still being battered. Last week there were more earthquakes in various places...thousands of square miles in Texas and New Mexico were flooded...Hurricane Faith sprang up, etc. I quote a paper clip of Sat. "84 Earth Tremors Recorded" Belgrade, Yugoslavia..."The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said 84 separate earth tremors have been recorded off the Montenegrin coast at Petrovac-On-The-Sea during the past three weeks." And what do you know, Rowland, somebody OUT THERE is beginning to catch on. Here is a local editorial from the paper a couple of days ago..."TURKISH EARTHQUAKE WARNING. "Although the horror of last Friday's major earthquake was concentrated...if that's the word...over hundreds of square miles in four provinces of eastern Turkey, and the death toll mounting now into the thousands confirms how very major it was, there may also have been a warning implicit in it...for all those persons living near === Page 159 of 220 own "fault lines." .......... On the same day, if not precisely at the same hour, it appears that there were substantial shocks felt from northern Italy all the way to Japan. Buildings fell down on Yugoslavia's Montengrin coast; Tashkent...was hit again - although the Soviets don't say how badly. It does not appear to be any small, isolated phenomenon. The violence of the impact in Turkey seems nearly to have gone "right off the scale." The hundreds of subsequent tremors...could be interpreted as meaning that the shifting of the surface, for whatever reasons, is not finished yet.......... It must seem to many laymen that the incidence of tremors and worse has been more frequent than in the past; with the Turkish experience, perhaps they are becoming more terribly destructive, too." This writer was correct...there was a "warning implicit in it"...but not having anything to do with living near fault lines. And finally even editorial writers are noticing that it doesn't appear to be any small, isolated phenomenon. And the phenomenon are becoming more destructive, as the Govt. refuses to cooperate. Believe me, Rowland, when I tell you...this Govt. vs Si's, with me in the middle as representative...is developing into a classic example of the old saying, "For want of a nail...the battle was lost." The nail being the Govt. setting me up for a year to meet the Si's...and the U.S. with its mounting crises and catastrophes, is fast losing the battle. ---------- This is interesting. See #73. Ltr. to George: "Furthermore, the Reds have feinted at us with torpedo boats from the North shore. The Si's were... to look for an attack upon our warships from the south shores...etc. The Reds are now mulling over a plan to obliterate our fleet, and to take control of the waters surrounding Viet Nam themselves." It is now just happening...although in a bit different way than I thought. They (Reds) have just blown up and sunk a bunch of our ships in the south waters. This is something new. And I was correct in what they were going to do. ---------- In #83, "String of U.S. Disasters" - I have added quite a bit since getting back my files from you. So many, why list them? Terrible, freak accidents in Viet Nam...causing maximum embarrassment to the U.S. Govt. Stock Market going down, down. Etc. ---------- This might not seem important, but believe me it is. Last night I had a vivid dream, and when I woke all I could remember of the dream was that the Si's were telling me to tell the Govt. they mean absolute business on their warning that they will turn loose all ODE forms during September and October, unless the Govt. steps in at this point and cooperates. That's all...I've said it. ---------- The "Asian-type critters" referred to in my letter of August 24, as a "sign" from the Sis...could mean that these creatures were destroyed because they got into the wrong geographical area. A shark...fish out of water...would not have been destroyed if it had stayed in its water home. The Asian leopard...would have been safe in its own jungle. Same with the monkey and boa. The point? The U.S. is as out of place in Asia as the shark was in the cornfield. And the Si's are warning of the U.S. being destroyed in Asia just as the out of place critters were destroyed here. We should stay in our own jungle. ---------- Hard to say what will happen now, friend. We have a quarter, that's all, and I have to mail this. No job prospects. No car. Pretty grim. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:12 === Page 160 of 220 Thursday, September 15, 1966 PAT + KIDS Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Something very strange is happening re the Si's, and I don't know what it is. Also, with me. For weeks I haven't cracked a file...after working with my files daily for years. Another thing...the past year or so they have given me notes daily. This has stopped. I know they are up to something, big...but cannot imagine what it might be. Let's recap Gemini Eleven...which, incidentally, I'm putting down as a "miss" in my book. The Si's harassed the take-off beautifully...stymied NASA twice, but finally had to let it go up. They harassed, and stopped, the space-walk and the testing of the power tool (Space repair) and the use of the jet-gun for maneuvering...and then they ceased. This puzzles me, for I know well there is a more than intelligent reason for every little thing they do. I KNOW the Si's were very much in on the Gemini orbit. Of course, they can't destroy the Gemini capsule and astronauts, as they did the Super Titan with the 8 satellites in August, so perhaps this cramps their style. But they did much more on Gemini shots preceding. Bear one thing in mind...because they do not clobber one shot, does not mean they won't clobber the next. Or the next. But the fact remains, they did not, or were not able to, clobber the Gemini Eleven shot...which was brought off excellently by the astronauts and NASA. Now, a prediction has come to pass. See my letter to George of April 13, 1966 (am enclosing a spare copy I had): George, be warned...all ships, planes and subs in the Atlantic will be in deadly danger in the weeks and months ahead...the high waves and wind that just damaged a ship and killed two people were part of it. The Si's are doing something with the weather, using the Atlantic ocean to supply certain things they need to end our East Coast drought...it is going to be deadly dangerous to all forms of life and locomotion in the Atlantic." ALSO...I have a signed prediction made to Zelda Hansell and George Middle, 29 S. Wyoming, Ardmore, Pa., dated June 5, 1966: "The Si's, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. - will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or aircraft carrier catastrophe - i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving U. S. vessels, within the near future...the above to take place not later than September, 1966..." Well, it wasn't a nuclear sub...I missed on that...and not U.S., but West German (our ally). Today's headline read: "U-Boat Sinks; 21 Aboard." It pointed out that it was the worst submarine disaster since the Thresher went down some years ago. But it was a naval disaster; was in September; was a submarine; and happened in the Atlantic. The Si's are now, I believe, off on a new tack of some sort. They said they would put on a tremendous demonstration of their many powers Sept. and October...and I believe they will. They usually do what they say. But...there is something else now with them, and they won't tell me what it is. Let me say this...if something weird and mysterious happens to one of our top military or political leaders...I mean, top...then I might know what they are up to. Something like...the top man referred to just vanishing Suppose, say, Humphrey or Johnson or Dirkson or (who are our top military men nowadays?...well, one of them) suddenly can't be found anywhere. 08/07/2025 16:20 === Page 161 of 220 08/07/20 Something odd like that...then I would know what new tack they would be on. Perhaps they did not like my files being copied, and feel you are not friendly...that their precious information had fallen into the wrong hands. That might be why they have changed their form of contact with me. I feel they are as close as before, but they are not telling me as much as before. A note on the hurricanes that didn't. I have made the cakes, but they fell flat in the oven. I've produced a lot of what should have been fine canes this year, but they either didn't build up entirely into full canes, or they missed the target. Odd. Not like the two previous years. It is possible the Si's have tired of the usual demos, and will some something else on a larger scale, in time to come. ---------- P K Man (Owens) Owens 4 Dear Barford: 1951, 12 September, Wednesday. 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You are a woman now, not a little girl any longer. It's been a long time since Pat took a picture of you perched on my shoulder with an old Cannon camera. I'll always have lots of happy memories of the sweet little child, Lorrie -- who took her lumps and bumps and laughs with Daddy, everywhere. Your birthday present is something money cannot buy. And there's no other like it. And it's beautiful! I made it. Took hours. It has to crack to be made the way I've invented, but don't worry about the tiny cracks. It's firm. Just treat it like the delicate ceramic work that it is. (Take it off before you punch Rick in the nose.) Love & kisses Dad === Page 163 of 220 Thursday, September 28, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Pat & Kids Pat - show all Si letters to Lonnie & Rick, ok? Confirming my phone call to you this afternoon early...I told you I was working to turn Hurricane Inez north (it's headed West); also told you I was working to produce a second hurricane behind Inez. Well, I came off work at 5:45 and bought a News...and read where a great tropical storm had appeared with Inez in the Atlantic. Enclosed is a rather frightening prediction I made August 25. I told you as you can see on the enclosed photostat (and you have a copy) that I would work for a "one-two" punch...twin hurricanes. Oddly, they developed in the wrong location, the Pacific...and hit Japan. (And there is now a third hur - typhoon, same thing, there. Three hurricane-typhoons in the Pacific within one week's time...and giant Hurricane Inez now ripping up the Atlantic, with Judith building up right behind Inez. On my prediction of August 25 I told you "let's have a Hurricane Party." Within one week we've got four full hurricanes steaming and another one in the making...isn't that a hurricane party? What is so startling...were my words of August 25..."in boxing I liked a one-two punch." See the Phila. News write up..."Double Knockout...map shows paths of Typhoons Ida and Helen, whose one-two punch..." And of course, now we have Inez and Judith for a one-two punch in the Atlantic. I wondered why the Si's weren't kicking up catastrophes and all the various phenomena this month...and asked them...and they told me they were getting their craft into position...to just wait, and it would happen. (My sense of time, and their time, are not the same, and when I say September and October it puts a strain on them because that is not the way they measure time.) Anyway, things have been quiet...and that is when to watch out for the Si's. At least they didn't let Surveyor 2 get away from them. We've been having all kinds of Si phenomena in our apartment the past two weeks, hot and heavy. Strange looking hairy arms appearing on our TV screen, on different programs at different times...plus strange looking antennae that move as if alive...plus strange sounds. Word from OSCAR occasionally...will bring better results from me. Dr. Rhine found at Duke that he got his top results from ESP individuals and groups that were encouraged and rewarded. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 164 of 220 Sunday, October 2, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: As I told you Friday, I was working to change the direction of Hurricane Inez...she was heading West, and for my purposes (of proof) she had to change to North. Well, after tearing up Cuba (see my files re my hitting Cuba and Castro with PK in large amounts) it changed direction...and instead of heading for Mexico, began heading for Florida. But she was very very weak by Saturday night...so I worked to put a lot of PK units in her to make her powerful again...and today, Sunday, radio announced she was growing to hurricane strength again. After all, I have produced the many hurricanes and near-hurricanes I outlined for you on the map I sent you with the ten circles (practically, although am still trying to bring in two more) but I have fallen down in putting them on target. Perhaps I can yet. Now...this is most interesting. The middle of September the Si's told me to make some skull and crossbones rings. I did. Also, the last time I was on radio here, the "Talk of Philadelphia" show, I had drawn a skull and crossbones on a map, intending to warn the listeners of great danger to the U.S. not recognized by our Government...but didn't get the chance to get to it because Ed Harvey cut me off. Now, in the papers Sept. 29 was this article, "Marines Kill 50 Reds In Battle Near DMZ, Find Skull Warning." In short, the Marines found a skull on a pole, as a signal to them from the VC. Since the Si's talk to me a great deal by "signs"...and putting two and two together, I am positive at this time that there is great great danger to the U.S. that we are not aware of...immediate danger. In short, a trap is ready to be sprung on the U.S. Might be a mighty trap against the U.S. in Viet Nam. Or could be directed against the U.S. itself. Anyway, just thought I would warn you. There is a deeper wonder in my mind...if the Si's might mean, they are getting deadlier. Remember, I can't understand everything they send me, perfectly. P K Man (Owens) Owens Kids...remember I told you that a tattoo on a human seems to convince that person's subconscious...and the tattoo comes true in his or her life? Also, a person tends to act out his life according to his or her name. That is a man named "Coward" would tend to be cowardly. Etc. Enclosed are some samples I have taken from the papers to illustrate this. Lornie, I enjoyed your letter, and am glad you appreciate that beautiful ring. Since none of my rings are alike...it's the only one there is. Love, Dad Dad === Page 165 of 220 October 3, 1966, Monday Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, I told you Thursday or Friday that I was working to turn Hurricane Inez from going West, to going North, check? -- (ON PHONE) I had to do two things over the weekend...build Inez up to a hurricane again, after she died down to just a storm... then turn her toward Florida. Enclosed is photostat of today's N.Y. Times map of Inez... and you can see for yourself that, although last week she was coming in on Cuba, going West and according to the Weather Bureaus was not supposed to come near the U.S. - she changed direction over the weekend just as I was working for her to do, and shot toward the U.S., just shaving Electro. The paper says Inez's gales and storms are kicking hell out of Electro, but she didn't hit Electro head on. I don't know how much of a miss this is, but it certainly isn't much. I guided Inez 1700 miles in on the target. Not a head on hit, but damn good shooting, nevertheless. Don't you agree? I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside...or if she gets out a little, I'll try to repeat Betsy over again. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 166 of 220 IOWA ILL. IND. OHIO PA. N.Y. CONN. New York City N.J. DEL. MD. MO. KY. W. VA. VA. OKLA. ARK. TENN. N. C. TEXAS MISS. ALA. GA. S. C. LA. Jacksonville FLA. Gulf of Mexico Tampa Miami Palm Beach BIMINI IS. BAHAMA IS. Straits of Florida ANDROS I. CUBA Havana MEXICO BR. HONDURAS GUATEMALA CAYMAN IS. JAMAICA Caribbean Sea Atlantic Ocean BERMUDA PUERTO RICO DOM. REP. MILES 500 The New York Times Oct. 3, 1966 HURRICANE OFF FLORIDA: Storm called Inez heads north on path between mainland and western Bahamas. N.Y. TIMES MON. MORN. OCT. 3, 1966 === Page 167 of 220 10/4/66 p1 Tuesday, October 4, 1966 Mr. Rowlend Swenk, C.S.C.A.R. You have just been in on one of the greatest proofs, speaking for the scientific interest, of the century. Hurricane Inez obeyed me at every twist and turn...and backed up at my command, as did Betsy. AND YOU KNOW THAT I CAUSED HER DIRECTION CHANGES...BECAUSE I TOLD YOU IN ADVANCE OF EACH CHANCE...AND THE CHANCES CAME ABOUT (AS WELL AS MY TELLING YOU OF THEM) IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE MIAMI HURRICANE CENTER, WITH ALL ITS PLANES AND EQUIPMENT...AND THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU...SAID HURRICANE INEZ WOULD NOT HIT THE U.S! (1) When Hurricane Inez was going West toward Cuba...I called you and told you I would work to turn Inez North toward Florida, and confirmed my call in writing Sept. 28. Local paper, Sept. 30: "Forecasters said that the danger that Florida would be hit 'appears remote at this time'." N.Y. Times, Sept. 29: "The Hurricane Center in Miami said there was only a slight chance that the storm would reach the United States mainland." Local paper, Sept. 30: "Forecasters predicted Inez would turn more to the northwest as it entered eastern Cuba. "THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT HURRICANE INEZ WILL HIT THE U.S. MAINLAND, said Gordon E. Dunn, Chief of the National Hurricane Center at Miami. He predicted that a ridge of pressure to the north of the storm would continue to weaken, allowing Inez to turn to the north and thereby pass far to the east of the mainland. All right. So I was telling you differently than Mr. Dunn. I was telling you that I was working to turn the storm at practically right angles, to ram Florida. I was telling the Si's what I wanted with mental imagery...and making "PK Maps" ...and even contacting Inez directly with Mind, because such storms have an intelligence of their own. I put up a "PK wall" at the end of Cuba, so Inez wouldn't go past it, and like a rail bank shot in pool would go on toward the U.S. Also, since I had heavily PK'd Cuba in 1964...and had done this before...I instructed Inez to kick the daylights out of Castro's Cuba while she was there. She did just that. Then she followed my maps and mental instructions, and the Si's, and the PK wall...and turned at almost a right angle and went for Florida. But she missed by an eyelash. So I put up another PK wall to hold her back...and she stalled, as the weather bureau puts it. At that point I told you (my letter of yesterday, Oct. 3) "I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside (Electro)...or if she gets out a little I'll try to repeat Betsy over again (meaning put her in reverse (hurricanes aren't supposed to be able to do that, you know) and sweep her down into Miami like I did Betsy. SHE OBEYED MY MAP AND MENTAL INSTRUCTIONS...AND THE SI'S...PRECISELY. She went into reverse and followed Betsy's track, with a HIT on southern Electro. Of course, she kicked the stuffings out of Nasa's Bahama setup, and also spanked Cape Kennedy good because she was so close. The point of all this? THE SI'S ACTUALLY DID ALL OF THE PHYSICAL WORK WITH INEZ TO SPANK THE U.S. IN ORDER TO GET THE U.S. ATTENTION...AND POINT UP WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH WEATHER CONTROL. They allowed me to call their shots so that it would be on record with humans that this was no "erratic" storm or accident. They brought a big hurricane 1700 miles and put it on target. My hunch about Hurricane Faith was right. They could have rammed the U.S. with it, but it was too destructive, so they 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 168 of 220 10/4/66 P2 put Faith nose-to-nose with the U.S., scaring hell out of everybody, then let Faith ramble off on a safe path. When the U.S. didn't learn any lesson from it...they brought on Inez. If no lesson is learned from Inez, the Si's will no doubt arrange something stronger. If you think the Hurricane Center and weather experts were not fooled completely by the Si's and my PK work, listen to this: Tonight's local paper, Oct. 4: "RUDE AWAKENING...Many of the two million residents of the "Gold Coast" (Miami) had gone to bed believing they were out of danger. They awoke this morning to the roar of wind and rain...angry winds churned Biscayne Bay into a wild fury...as Inez battered the southeast Florida "Gold Coast" with high winds and tides. Power lines snapped and fell in showers of sparks and debris flew through the air as Inez fell on Miami." On Channel 6 of TV tonight on the news: "Hurricane Inez completely stumped the weather experts, and took one of the most erratic paths of any hurricane on record." Meaning...it went North from Cuba, instead of on west...then backed up and kicked Miami when it should have gone on out to sea. I did this with hurricane after hurricane in 1964, my best year...and with Betsy the following year. Am glad I scored this year in such a clear manner...informing you ahead of each change...so now you can realize what I have been doing. You have actual proof of it. Well, that is that. Done and done. Just for the hell of it am working tonight to stall Inez at Key West and get her up to Cape Kennedy anyway, head on. But she's already done what I wanted her to do...show you, a scientist, how a hurricane can be guided by human intelligence and Si's. It's midnight, and won't be able to mail this until morning...and I'm tired of hurricane work...been at it now for what? almost two weeks? If she stalls and goes up into Cape K, good. If she doesn't, I've made my point to you anyway. I repeat over and over. The United States should take me and my family and respect the Si's wishes and place us with the tools we need where the Si's want...so that they can come down, THEIR WAY IN THEIR OWN TIME, and make a personal meeting with me. Because they know me and I know them...I am not afraid...and no other human being is so prepared. The U.S. Govt. is nuttier than a fruit cake, and you can quote me on that. Of course, it could say the same of me...but I have PROVEN my point, again and again and again, dozens of times...which scarcely makes me a nut. I heard on TV Nasa is planning a series of big shoots in the near future. They'd better clear with the Si's first, or they ARE FLAT OUT OF LUCK AT NASA. With kind regards to you, friend...and your brother scientific researchers. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 169 of 220 Pat, Lorne, Rick October 6, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Enclosed is (1) letter I sent to you Oct. 3, when Inez missed Florida and I told you I'd work to turn her back to the left, or in reverse, for a hit on Florida. Note underlined says "Betsy over again." (2) is clipping of October 5 from New York Times. Note in red circled paragraph my effort to turn Inez into Betsy's path...is confirmed by the Times, in the same words. Same page, up at top, on the map...are the two points where I had to "sweat blood" to get Inez to change her course entirely. Remember I telephoned you beforehand before each change of course of Inez, right? Also confirmed by letter. So there's no argument on that, right? Now, before closing on this wonderful hurricane demonstration I have been fortunate enough to give you (courtesy of the Si's) this year, here's a quote from today's Inquirer, 10/6: "Hurricanes don't usually hit Florida and then strike Mexico. But there is nothing usual about Inez. Forecasters, repeatedly confounded by its erratic turns, watched the new course for five hours before announcing an all-clear for South Florida." So you see...even newspaper writers are aware something funny is going on. Hurricanes doing things they aren't supposed to. And one man in the world telling you beforehand...that they are going to. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 170 of 220 October 3, 1966, Monday Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Well, I told you Thursday or Friday that I was working to turn Hurricane Inez from going West, to going North, check? I had to do two things over the weekend...build Inez up to a hurricane again, after she died down to just a storm... then turn her toward Florida. Enclosed is photostat of today's N.Y. Times map of Inez... and you can see for yourself that, although last week she was coming in on Cuba, going West and according to the Weather Bureaus was not supposed to come near the U.S. - she changed direction over the weekend just as I was working for her to do, and shot toward the U.S., just shaving Electro. The paper says Inez's gales and storms are kicking hell out of Electro, but she didn't hit Electro head on. I don't know how much of a miss this is, but it certainly isn't much. I guided Inez 1700 miles in on the target. Not a head on hit, but damn good shooting, nevertheless. Don't you agree? I'm still trying to turn her in left for a head-on hit, because she's alongside...or if she gets out a little, I'll try to repeat Betsy over again. P K Man (Owens) 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 171 of 220 October 11, 1966 (Tuesday) Mr. Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is a newspaper clipping from last week, sent to me by a very good friend in Connecticut. Also enclosed is my letter to George Clark of Central Intelligence, June 1, 1966. Six months ago my UFO friends appeared in a craft and led a string of police cars along the road. Actually this was about all that appeared in the papers. Then on June 1 the Si's gave me the info to send on to George Clark of CIA. When I received this news clip I got quite a shock. First, it verified my letter to George that the cops had fired on the UFO. This officer in the clip was ordered to do so by Headquarters, but the Si's were in his mind, so perhaps he didn't. But the other cars most likely received the same orders. With stupidity like that, no wonder the Si's are clobbering the Space shots and taking so long to get together with the U.S. Govt. An interesting point of this news clip is...in my letter I warned that a police car and officer would be missing if they shot at the UFO's. In this clip, notice that the officer now is "missing"...and dreams that his police car has vanished! Now, even more astonishing...is the fact that my own symbol was on that car (I use a circle instead of a triangle, but that's the only difference! Therefore...you could say that I am connected with this UFO in a way. Let's review. I was connected with the South Pole UFO, in that I predicted it 5 months in advance. I was connected with the major UFO appearances in 1965, in that I predicted them in advance. I predicted the Wauneque UFO in advance. I predicted the East Coast fireball six days in advance. I predicted the Erie, Pa., UFO in advance. Even more astonishing is the fact that I predicted in advance the details of these UFO appearances. I predicted the South Pole UFO would change the electromagnetic conditions at the Pole, and make the newspapers. I predicted the East Coast fireball would appear over Philadelphia. After that I told CIA (its in the files) that the East Coast UFO would appear again soon and do something different that the UFO's hadn't done before. That's when the Erie, Pa., UFO appeared and the creature approached to within five feet of the people, then walked into the water. So this was a first. I predicted the UFO's would appear near here...but would not come down in Phila. for fear we had a ray like they had...then the Wauneque UFO appeared, with its ray. In other words, I've not only predicted before the UFO's appeared, but what the conditions would be. Enough to identify myself with them. Oh, I left out the Michigan Monster appearance...seen by 16 people. That creature grabbed a woman named "Owens"...my own name. So you can see, at least three times the UFO's have directly connected me with them. South Pole; Michigan Monster and this Ohio UFO with the symbol (mine) painted on the car. It's all in the files you copied, Rowland. Checks out perfectly. The Si's want to reach me. They've tried to point it out every way they could. ---------- P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 172 of 220 # Flying Saucer Named Floyd Is Man's Eternal Tormentor EDITOR'S NOTE--Last April 17 hundreds of persons in Ohio reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The Air Force said it was a satellite. But whatever it was, his encounter with the phenomenon proved a strange, grim turning point in the life of a deputy sheriff from Ravenna. By JOHN DE GROOT Akron Beacon Journal Staff Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP)--In his ruined world of loneliness and twisted nightmares, Dale Spaur wonders if the chase will ever end. It began six months ago with seven steps to hell and a flying saucer named Floyd. In the predawn hours of a gentle April morning, Spaur, a Portage County sheriff's deputy, chased a flying saucer 86 miles. Now the strange craft is chasing him. And he is hiding from it, a bearded stranger peering past the limp curtains of a tiny motel room in Solon Ohio. He no longer is a deputy sheriff. His marriage is shattered. He has lost 40 pounds. He lives on one bowl of cereal and a sandwich each day. He walks three miles to an $80-a-week painter's job. His motel room costs $60 a week. The court has ordered him to pay his wife $20 a week for the support of his two children. That leaves Dale Spaur exactly nothing. The flying saucer did it. "If I could change all that I have done in my life," he said. "I would change just one thing. And that would be the night we chased that damn thing. That saucer." He spit the word out. Saucer. An obscenity. Others might understand. Four other officers took part in the April drama. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua saw the craft and photographed it. The pictures turned out badly, an odd fuzzy white thing suspended in blackness. Today, Chief Buchert laughs nervously when he speaks of that night. "I'd rather not talk about it," he says. "It's something that should be forgotten left alone. I saw something, but I dont know what it wa." Special Deputy W. L. Neff rode with Spaur during the chase. He won't talk about it. His wife Jackelyne explains, "I hope I never see him like he was after the chase. He was real white, almost in a state of shock. It was awful. "And people made fun of him afterwards. He never talks about it anymore. Once he told me, 'If that thing landed in my back yard, I wouldn't tell a soul,' He's been through a wringer." Patrolman Frank Panzanella saw the chase end in Conway, Pa., where he works. He saw the craft. Now he is silent. Friends say he had his telephone removed because of calls about that April morning. H. Wayne Huston was a police officer in East Palestine, Ohio. He had worked there seven years. Several months after the saucer passed above him in the night he resigned going to Seattle, Wash., to drive a bus. Huston now goes by Harold W. Huston. He tells you: "Sure I quit because of that thing. People laughed at me. And there was pressure. You couldn't put your finger on it, but the pressure was there. The city officials didn't like police officers chasing flying saucers." Thus the story of the other officers. Three still wear badges, but do not speak of what they saw. Spaur and Huston have turned in their badges. Now Spaur hides in Solon, a fugitive from a flying saucer named Floyd. He cannot escape the strange craft. It remains with him, locked in his mind reappearing in nightly sweating dreams that are a bizarre mixture of reality and fantasy. Of that night: He is driving car 13. Barney Neff is beside him. They are heading east along U.S. 224 between Randolph and Atwater when they spot a red and white 1959 Ford alongside the road. Barney and Dale stop to check it out. The car is filled with walkie-talkies and other radios. A strange emblem is painted on the side. A triangle with a bolt of lightning inside it. Above the emblem is written "Seven steps to hell." 10/11/66 P2 Oct 11. 1966 (Tuesday) 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 173 of 220 10/11/66 p4 June 1, 1966 George Clark Central Intelligence Dear George: The Si's today gave me some interesting information to pass on. Seems that when they flew near some police cars, in a recent sighting...the stupid police actually fired guns at their craft. (This was not made public...and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the Si's warn...If they approach in friendly fashion in the future...and are fired upon or attacked in an unfriendly manner...the police will be minus one police car and officers. The Si's will eliminate it, as a lesson to humans. That was pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. P K Man (Owens) === Page 174 of 220 Wednesday, October 12, 1966 P/L/R Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Enclosed is a clipping indicating how optimistic the U.S. Govt. is at the moment..."things are looking up." If so, it is living in a fools paradise. The Si's have been quiet for the past month...because I believe they suspected PK Man might be getting help to meet with them (which of course would cost about $5000 to set up for a year.) If the help materializes, then all will be well and the U.S. Govt. will have just cause to be optimistic, because the Si's will be on their side for a change. If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or a few weeks). Now, Rowland...I do not know if you recall it or not..but as we were walking outside GE after one of our taping sessions, I told you the Si's were planning to attack the crack U.S. Govt. airplane-stunt teams, as a symbol of their earnestness and because they were mad at the Air Force (Air Force, Navy, Army...to them a plane is a plane is a plane) - well, since that time there have been three devastating crackups of these top flying teams. Today I understand from TV the Air Force ace flyers cracked up at Las Vegas. So I could kick myself for having told you verbally and not writing a letter for my files. As you know, confirmation of my predictions for my files is of the utmost importance to me. Do you remember my telling you that? I did...but wasn't sure if you were paying attention at the time. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 175 of 220 Thursday, Oct. 13, 1966 P/L/R Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This Sunday the Eagles play the Steelers...and the Eagles have five times the team the Steelers have. Regardless, am going to practice using PK against the Eagles to try and make them lose the game. I did this last year with various pro games...was successful with 20, lost two. The PK does two things, actually...thwarts and frustrates the team hit, and improves the other team's chances tremendously. The Si's are trying to get my "near's hideaway money" and this perhaps could be a way. Hope I get them all this year, and don't fail on two. But come to think on it...that's been about my batting average with rockets, etc., up from the Cape K. If you or one of your scientific investigators would like to drop over Sunday afternoon at game time (1:30). I'll show you how to apply other-dimensional effects onto a football game... silly as it sounds. (Have worked on the Eagles the last two games.) Want it on record that am calling to the Si's to make a big public appearance some time between now and Halloween, inclusive, simply because that's my favorite time of year. (If you hear of anybody throwing a Halloween party, get us invited, will you?) The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 States. They'll never pinpoint their action for security reasons, obviously.) Keep your fingers crossed...have a chance to obtain a few thou (3) from a party interested in my calling the UFO's down for a meeting. But was supposed to get the money Tuesday, out of State, and haven't heard from them yet. So I guess this will fall through, dammit. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 176 of 220 Saturday, Oct. 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This is later in the day. I have just decided to conduct a beauty of an experiment. Not only am I going to ask the Si's to appear publicly (newspaper writeups) by Halloween...but I am going to ask them to come down over a crowded pro football stadium (hope they can tell the difference between pro and college) and let all the people in the stadium watch them. If I pull it off as I have the numerous other times, it will establish beyond a doubt that I am in communication with the Si's. Right? Now if I can just convince the Si's it isn't a trap. Oh...and let's do it right. When it comes down over the field, the weather should be cloudy and bad...perfect for them to shine a ray out from their UFO, as further proof. All right. Notice the catastrophes that have begun these past few days since this woman double-crossed me? (She told me last Sunday she was going to send the $3,000 on Monday or Tuesday) - Killer blizzards, killer tornados., fires along the California coast. And it's just begun. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 177 of 220 Saturday, October 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed are stats of an article out in the August Fate mag. I have been telling you and the Govt. that the Si's were close. This sighting I hadn't read or heard about until now. Just happened to see it in Fate by accident. The financial help from a woman in Conn. fell through...because she was advised by a "friend" that I was probably just trying to get her money on false pretenses and wanted to go out and have a big time on it. Ha. I got her letter yesterday. She wrote it Tuesday or Wednesday. The Si's have waited to see what would happen...when it didn't happen they have started turning loose catastrophes....blizzards and 80-90 mph winds in the West N/W and killer tornados in the Midwest. An odd thing has been happening...a half dozen times the Si's have told me what was going to occur, but I haven't written to you because somehow it isn't like writing to CIA...then the things have happened and I'm out any chance of confirmation for my files. Wednesday night, for instance, I saw a skull and crossbones on the weather map on TV on the State of Iowa. Thursday morning I almost wrote to you, then decided..what the heck. I never hear from them. Confirmations I don't get much of. Phooey. So last night killer tornados hit that exact spot. This sort of thing has been going on for weeks. One thing I must report. The Si's have stressed it and underscored it. As things are heading now with the U.S. a circle in the U.S. will be absolutely devastated...literally a hole will be, where States are now. Only the Si's can avert this happening. I will draw a map below to illustrate. See my letter of Oct. 12..."If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or a few weeks.) So...within days you get killer tornados in the Midwest. Real catastrophe there, for starters. ( HOLE ) C A L F FLA PK MAN 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 178 of 220 Sunday, October 30, 1966 Mr. Joe McGinniss, Sports Writer Dear Mr. McGinniss: I wish you would print this. Today you saw a picture-book demonstration of what PK will do in a game between two relatively evenly-matched teams (sports writers gave the Eagles a 3 point edge). The past two weeks the Steelers and Giants were given many opportunities by the PK system, but those two very weak teams failed completely to capitalize on their edge, and just gave their games away. Today was a different story. With the PK causing numerous pass fumbles, dropped kicks, etc., on the part of the Eagles (even a sure Eagle touchdown erased when the PK took the ball into the crossbars of the goal posts) Washington did not throw away their advantages... capitalized on them... and as most teams do (with PK helping them, capitalizing on their many breaks) the Redskins won by two lengths. In closing, would just like to point out that if the Eagles lost by two touchdowns playing an "equal" team... what will happen when they play better teams than the Redskins, fighting against their opponent as well as against the force of PK? All the Eagles opponents have to do... is play heads up ball, take advantage of the many extra breaks they will have, and not give away any foolish touchdowns. And they will all beat the Eagles. Just like the Redskins just did. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. Owens === Page 179 of 220 Thursday, Oct. 20, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: This is a note written under pressure of the Si's insistence. As far as I am concerned, since it isn't a prediction or like that...what's the use? But the Si's have been after me for days to write this, so I will. Perhaps the key to the phenomenon of my work for the past two years... lies in my activity in Ft. Worth, Texas, 6-8 years ago. It really started when a giant UFO came down near our car on a dark deserted road in Texas one night (my daughter, Lornie, was with me.) From that time on...things changed. I was teaching auto-hypnosis as a profession...and began to get stunning ideas on how to help and heal people. I set these down in a black leather book. In a few months the book was filled up. Meanwhile I had formed a "Miracles of the Mind" Club, a free training school for persons without the money to buy my wares. But those who joined were top professional people - doctors, lawyers, architects, etc. From these Club meetings I deliberately tested and culled three top ESP people. These 3 out of the hundreds in the Club were the finest in telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. Mr. Eng, a chinaman, was one: Dr. -, a Chiropractor in a nearby suburb (or was it Osteopath?); and Bill - was the third. Now, to get to the point. We had private meetings, and I would hypnotize one of them...and endeavor to send their mind to find and communicate with UFO's. One night Bill did the unusual...his mind came up inside the earth, instead of up in the sky...where there were tremendously intelligent beings living. We talked with these beings through Bill... found out what they ate, how they reproduced, etc. And finally, one of the beings stated IT WAS COMING TO ME. It didn't know how long it would take, BUT IT WOULD GET TO ME. All of my notes on this were lost in my storage, held by Lyon Van & Storage in San Diego few years ago. I SINCERELY BELIEVE IT IS THESE BEINGS THAT HAVE CREATED ALL THE PHENOMENON THESE PAST TWO YEARS...THAT I CALL "THE SI'S"...AND THAT IS THE REASON THEY ARE NOT LIKE OTHER KNOWN UFO FORMS. THEY CAME TO ME. Am sending a copy of this to George Clark, whose organization can check with Mr. Eng in Ft. Worth and find the other two ESP people...if they want to, to get all the details of this. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 180 of 220 Thursday, October 20, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Another excellent "hit". In my file, that you have, see June 29, 1966, letter to George Clark. In it: (1) I warned the U.S. to watch its Fleet in Viet Nam because it was in imminent danger of attack. TWO DAYS LATER NINE North Viet patrol boats zoomed in to attack U.S. Warships. (2) I warned in the same letter that the Reds would fill the air with planes against U.S. forces. This has since come to pass. (3) I warned in the same letter that the Reds would strike from subs around Viet Nam, using small A-bombs against carriers, Saigon, etc. This did not happen. HOWEVER... in yesterday's Phila. News was the following... THE WASHINGTON REPORT... "Red China's Menacing Nuclear Shift"... An ominous intelligence warning on a new military nuclear development in Communist China is high on the list of BRIEF briefing papers prepared for President Johnson to read on his Asian trip. This highly-classified document, seen only by a handful of Johnson Administration officials, could turn out to be as significant as those U-2 photographs taken over Cuba just four years ago this week. The intelligence report... reveals that Peking's atomic installations are being put under the army's direct control on the orders of Defense Minister Marshal Lin Piao... the ascetic Marshal Lin Piao, the Pentagon's best military experts warn, is capable of launching a sneak nuclear attack against the growing U.S. military forces tied down in a relative small area in South Vietnam. SO MY WARNING IN THE SAME REGARD CAME ABOUT FOUR MONTHS EARLIER THAN OUR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS! That entire letter of June 29, has come to pass... except the last paragraph in the P.S. P K Mon (Owens) === Page 181 of 220 October 26, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is the prediction I made in June re an aircraft carrier disaster. As you know, yesterday there was such an aircraft disaster in the Bay of Tonkin...the "Oriskany"...33 men killed. This came 30 days later than I expected; from now on am not going to set things down precisely in our time span...simply because the Si's work out of our time span, and neither they nor I can be utterly accurate when it comes to timing these events. Incidentally, both the submarine and the aircraft carrier mentioned in my prediction have come to pass, if you will notice. The Si's have done nothing yet re their statement of "deal our seat of government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow." Because I predicted the carrier first, and it just happened...then perhaps the next thing will be the second part of the prediction to happen, coming up. They've performed oddly on the football experiment. Two games perfectly; then two games they ignore and let the Eagles win. (Of course, the Girl Scouts could have beat the Steelers and Giants, but I can't alibi...has to either be a hit or a miss.) I do wonder what they are up to. Hope they confine their PK to the football field and don't try to wipe out the team or something on a bus. Whew! The Si's...are ... well, you never know. P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 182 of 220 Sunday June 5, 1966 10/26/66 p2 Prediction By H.T. Owens (PK Man) (UFO's) The Saucer Intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. -- will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or aircraft carrier catastrophe -- i.e., a naval catastrophe, involving United States vessels, within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government, (the White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow, in the near future. These happenings have a definite "point" -- to show the U.S. Govt. their (sic) power, and to further confirm their reality. H.T. Owens (PK Man) __________ George B. Middle Jr. __________ Zelda S. Hamill __________ P.S. The above to take place not later than September, 1966 -- and probably much sooner -- Owens. Zelda .. 08/07/2025 16:27 === Page 183 of 220 Thursday, November 3, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Not only did I get my Halloween UFO hit, but now I have some other hits to point out to you. See my letter of October 13: "The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 states. etc.) The Hit - Yesterday a tremendous roaring, killer fire swept the Camp Pendleton Military base in California and killed four Marines. See my letter of September 4, 1966: "This is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of PK or ODE mechanisms either in multiple patterns or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc....it will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." The Hit - Within just the past two or three days there have been great killer fires in California, the worst in 33 years. Almost at the same time we've been hit in the U.S. by a "sneak" storm from Canada that has killed 16 people over the U.S. with violent winds, tornados, snows, etc. All kinds of weather records were broken. And twisters and tornados struck in many places. In my letter to you of October 12, 1966: "If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or weeks). It's a hit. Finally, you will remember I warned you a short while back that the U.S. would be shocked by something that would happen in Europe? I quote this morning's paper: "Erhard's Fall Is Viewed as a Defeat For U.S." By Anatole Shub, Bonn, West Germany: "It is a hard but unpleasant fact that the collapse of the three year regime of Chancellor Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder, and Defense Minister Von Hass is being generally interpreted by Germans as a defeat for the United States. It is also more than probable that whatever government now emerges here will be described as...anti-American, etc." So, Rowland, I would seem to be doing very very well. And of course, that UFO showing up right on schedule on Halloween...which was what I was after, for proof....how could you top that? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 184 of 220 Nov. 4, Friday, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: It doesn't seem possible...after just having called the UFO out for Halloween verification...but now I have another very big hit. See my letter of July 24, 1966: "**President Johnson will suffer a breakdown in health - or death - in the near future (coming months). This happening will occur in an unusual way, or be brought about by unusual circumstances.**" The hit - It was just announced that Johnson has to go into hospital and have surgery. Now, a little more of interest...in letter to you of October 26, 1966: Incidentally, both the submarine and the aircraft carrier mentioned in my prediction have come to pass, if you will notice. The Si's have done nothing yet re their statement of "deal our seat of government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow." Because I predicted the carrier first, and it just happened...then perhaps the next thing will be the second part of the prediction to happen, coming up." Next amazing item...just in case of an argument that the West German sub catastrophe would not fulfill my prediction...you now have the Tiru Submarine catastrophe, which is an American submarine. At least the crew were not wiped out...but I can assure you, as an old Navy court reporter, the captain will be disgraced and court-martialled. So that prediction is solid, right? P K Man (Owens) *Owens* === Page 185 of 220 Thursday, November 3, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Not only did I get my Halloween UFO hit, but now I have some other hits to point out to you. See my letter of October 13: "The Si's tell me to pass it on that they are going to pull something very unusual at one of our military bases. Something unfriendly, of course. The U.S. hasn't made friends with them yet. (That's a U.S. base - somewhere in the 48 states. etc.) The Hit - Yesterday a tremendous roaring, killer fire swept the Camp Pendleton Military base in California and killed four Marines. See my letter of September 4, 1966: "This is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of PK or ODE mechanisms either in multiple patterns or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc....it will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." The Hit - Within just the past two or three days there have been great killer fires in California, the worst in 33 years. Almost at the same time we've been hit in the U.S. by a "sneak" storm from Canada that has killed 16 people over the U.S. with violent winds, tornadoes, snows, etc. All kinds of weather records were broken. And twisters and tornado struck in many places. In my letter to you of October 12, 1966: "If the help does not materialize, then I predict right now a string of terrible catastrophes for the U.S. Govt., starting in the near future (within days or weeks). It's a hit. Finally, you will remember I warned you a short while back that the U.S. would be shocked by something that would happen in Europe? I quote this morning's paper: "Erhard's Fall Is Viewed as a Defeat For U.S." By Anatole Shub, Bonn, West Germany: "It is a hard but unpleasant fact that the collapse of the three year regime of Chancellor Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder, and Defense Minister Von Hass is being generally interpreted by Germans as a defeat for the United States. It is also more than probable that whatever government now emerges here will be described as...anti-American, etc." So, Rowland, I would seem to be doing very very well. And of course, that UFO showing up right on schedule on Halloween...which was what I was after, for proof....how could you top that? P K Man (Owens) Owens 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 186 of 220 November 5, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Would you believe...a third aircraft carrier catastrophe since my prediction? (1) Sept. 15, the Oriskany burned up, for all practical purposes. (2) Nov. 2, a helicopter fell onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Guadalcanal at Portsmouth, Virginia, and its blades broke up, shot out like bullets, killing four men and wounding eighteen others. (3) And now yesterday a "flash fire" hit the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, off Viet Nam, killing seven men and injuring others. They can't really explain how any of it happened. Only guess. The Si's are underlining my prediction. Peculiar. I mentioned a sub disaster. After that the West German (our ally) sub sank mysteriously killing all the crew but one. Then the U.S. Sub Tiru thinks its a duck and tries walking on land, and has to yell for help for somebody to come get them. I predicted a blow at the White House...and Johnson amazes everybody by announcing he's going into surgery. Since the Si's heavily underlined the subs and the carriers...then there may be some sort of "underlining" yet to come to the White House blow. That is, something worse than just Johnson going into surgery. It figures, knowing the Si's like I do. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 187 of 220 November 5, 1966 Dear Rick: I was glad to get your letter. Thought maybe you'd turned into a pumpkin. You ask...what have I been doing with PK lately? Ha. My dear boy, you have been getting about three or four letters per week with regard to P K Man and his action. Maybe Lornie is holding out on you, or whoever gets the mail. The scientists here who are evaluating and analysing my work for the past two years told me yesterday that they were extremely "upset" about what I have been doing...Hurricane Inez doing everything it was not supposed to do, and me predicting each contrary move in advance...my asking the Si's to send out a UFO on Halloween to prove I am connected with them (to make the papers) and out it came! I sent all the data to you and Lornie last week. Then, in July I predicted to the Govt. that Johnson would become sick and have a health break-down. The scientists told me yesterday they scoffed at that when they first got it...and now that it has happened, they are again extremely "upset". Not long ago I predicted that the U.S. would have a submarine and aircraft carrier disaster. They've now had two aircraft disasters...no, make that three...and the U.S. submarine "Tiru" just ran itself onto the beach or a reef or someplace mischievous off Australia and had to yell for help for somebody to come get them! Ha ha. Frankly, little buddy, after a quiet spell, I am now hotter than a ceramic oven with PK. Am also using it on the Eagles (no doubt you saw the newspaper writeup I got which I sent you) and the Si's nailed the Eagles last week (tho the gamblers favored the Eagles) and I'm going to have lots of fun with the Eagles this week. The scientists tell me that what I have got...is far too complex for them to comprehend, although they are trying. They are using computers. For instance, I called Swank, the top scientist yesterday at his office at General Electric, and said: "Rowland, I want you to look at that letter of July 24 you have at hand." (Now, for all I knew my records were at his home, because these scientists work at GE and have their hands full there.) But he immediately answered, "Let's see, August, September, July...here it is, handwritten, right?" So (1) How did I know he had hundreds of my Xerox'd copies in front of him on a day I just happened to call? and (2) What's he doing with all my stuff at GE science lab headquarters right in front of him. He said that one of "the group" had already called him yesterday on my hit prediction on Johnson's surgery. I said, "Well, you mean somebody else noticed it besides me?" He said, "Oh, yes, we're following everything you do." He says I am a "hot potato." The U.S. Govt. knows that I am doing all these incredible things; doesn't know how I am doing them; and worse, doesn't know what the hell to do about it! You kiddies can be proud. Your daddy is doing and has been doing what no other person alive in this world can do, or has done, since Moses. I guess you weren't too surprised at the California fires, eh? Had to hit it with red units with intelligence built in to hit a military base. It hit Camp Pendleton. But I regret those Marines. Love, Dad. === Page 188 of 220 November 5, 1966 Dear Lornie: Honey, I told you before and I'll tell you again...you two kids read each others letters, swap, so you'll get all the info and I won't have to repeat lots of material. Also, Rick wrote and asked if I had done anything with PK lately. My god! Suggest you look into this. You kids have got a ton of mail from me on "P K Man." Hope you are enjoying your modern dance lessons. You're a fine dancer. I dreamed about you and Rick last week. You were telling me you were homesick, poorly tho we were and are. I don't know what to tell you about school. Guess I'd better keep my opinions to myself, for your good. But there is one thing that is certain. Without a High School diploma you are dee diddly i dead. So get it. What would make your daddy proud is not a top grade in science or some school effort...but a top grade in TRUTH, LOYALTY, LOVE, PRINCIPLE, VALUES, PERSISTENCE, OLD-FASHIONED GUTS, etc. You can't get these things in school...and these are the REAL things that will make your life ahead a heaven or a hell. Of them all, LOVE is the most elusive - but you will only get it, by giving it. It's a weird reverse-process. You can sit on your fanny with your thumb in your mouth and surround yourself with goodies, TV, candy, money, a fine home, a fine car...and if you haven't got LOVE, forget it. All the goodies will turn to ashes in your mouth. What makes me sick at my stomach are the modern kids...telling lies to get what they want, get by...taking, taking, taking love and not giving any back...cheating and twisting TRUTH to meet their wants...giving up their targets and goals if things get hard or difficult...etc. Pitiful. And the woods of the city jungles are full of these kids. Poor Diogenes, if he went looking for it nowadays. The religious movies are lousy. Too many morons and idiots writing the scripts and directing. To get a good religious movie you'd need Jesus directing, God producing, etc. That's the only way. You have brains, honey. Just use them. They need exercise, like your legs and arm muscles. And use them right. We miss you and Rick. Be good. And please mind Pat. With me, she's the best friend you have in this whole world, even if sometimes it's hard to understand when she is trying to guide you. Be absolutely straight with Pat...she's loaded with ESP and can spot a lie in an instant, and she won't like you for it. Make it a rule absolutely never to cheat on a friend, or lie to a friend. Shouldn't to anyone, but especially to a friend. That's how good character is built deep inside you. Love, Dad P.S. Jack Danziger died. Remember - he gave you a doll when you were a baby. 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 189 of 220 November 6, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, O.S.C.A.R. Si's will go after Lu of just up + Gem. 12 going up Wed. I want to describe my next HIT, if you can stand another one at this point. On Sept. 24, 1966, I wrote you: "Therefore this is what will happen... all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as I told you before, to unleash all forms of "PK" or ODE mechanisms either in multiple pattern or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or service men removed...etc., everything you see there in your copy of my Choice File. It will be a tremendous demonstration of their power." And you have seen it happen, whether you realized it or not. Follow me. Sept. 5 - Boulder, Colo., "Strong Sun Flare Hits Radio Transmission." "The most potent sun flare in nearly six years has wrought havoc...with long range radio transmission throughout the world, etc." Sept. 6 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk becomes ill and is confined to his home. (Thence to the hospital.) Sept. 9 - "Rusk Assistant Is Hospitalized, Too." "Joseph Palmer, Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs has joined his chief, Secretary Dean Rusk, in the hospital." Sept. 8 - San Francisco. "3,500 Fight Blazes in Western Forests." "Uncontrolled forest fires crackled today over more than 17,000 acres in five national forests despite an army of 3,500 firefighters, etc." "Two fires raged in Sierra National Forest, one of them only 12 miles east of Mariposa on Iron Mountain. Some 800 men worked to surround the 1100 acre lightning-caused fire with fire lines. Farther south in the Sierra National Forrest, another lightning-caused blaze flared etc." Sept. 8 - Edwards Air Force Base. "X-15 Test Ended By Fuel Trouble." (Was forced to make an emergency landing). Sept. 11 - Atlanta, Ga. "New Racial Violence Erupts In Atlanta." "Hit and run violence punctuated by gunshots, fire bombs and flying bottles flared Sunday night etc." Sept. 12 - The Harris Survey. "Johnson's Rating Skids to 50 Pct., Lowest In Office." Sept. 12 - Berkeley, Calif. "Quake Hits West Coast." "An earthquake shook a wide area of California and Nevada today...State Houses were rattled both in Carson City, Nev., and Sacramento, California." (It was big; 6.5 on the Richter scale) 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 190 of 220 11/6/66 P2 Page Two Sept. 13 - "Pupils Attacked In Mississippi" (race riot) (big one) Sept. 16 - Indian Springs, Nev. "Acrobatic Jets Collide" "Two F-100 jet planes in the Air Force's Thunderbird flying acrobatic team collided during formation practice today and crashed on the Nevada desert etc." Sept. 17 - Crawfordsville, Ind. "Truck in Wreck Dumps Secret NASA Materiel." "Classified material belonging to NASA was scattered on a highway near here today when a semitrailer truck overturned. State authorities imposed security measures...and NASA officials flew from Cape Kennedy to supervise reloading of the material." Sept. 17 - "James H. Moyers, White House Aide, Dies." "Press Secretary's Brother Dies at 39." Sept. 19 - Saigon. "6 Yanks Killed, 23 Wounded By Own Troops." "The U.S. command reported two new incidents of Americans mistakenly attacking Americans in the South Viet Namese ground war, with a toll of six dead and 23 wounded, etc." Sept. 20 - Vandenberg Air Force Base. "U.S. Missile Explodes Seconds After Firing." "A Minuteman 1 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded seconds after rising from its launching today at this West Coast base. Etc." Sept. 20 - The Harris Survey. "Confidence In Johnson On War Fades To 42%." Sept. 23 - Saigon. "7 GI's Killed, 14 Hurt By Mine...Devices Were Tripped Accidentally." Sept. 22 - "Surveyor 2 Rams Moon." "Surveyor 2 smashed into the moon at 6200 miles an hour Thursday night-a violent end caused by a small rocket motor that refused to fire on command." Sept. 25 - Riggins, Ida. George Skakel, brother of Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, killed in a plane crash due to pilot error. Also killed in the crash was Louis Werner, director of the St. Louis regional office of the Central Intelligence Agency. Sept. 28 - Saigon. "Bombing Error Kills Villagers In South Viet Nam." "U.S. Marine planes...dropped 500 lb. bombs by error yesterday on a friendly South Vietnamese village and the explosions killed 35 persons and wounded 16." Sept. 29 - "Storm Slashes Cleveland, 18 Hurt." "A violent windstorm, possibly combined with a tornado..." (hit Cleveland bad) Sept. 28 - "500 Troops Called In As 2nd Night of Riots Hits San Francisco." (this was a serious riot series) 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 191 of 220 11/6/66 p3 Page Three Sept. 30 - "Congressman O'Konski Treated After Heart Attack." Sept. 30 - Senator Ernest Gruening went into hospital for surgery for a hernia. Sept. 29 - Goldberg and McNamara goof. Goldberg at U.N. made a "we want peace" speech, and at the same time McNamara in a public statement said we were ordering more warplanes for the war. "It was labeled an 'almost unbelievable goof' but blamed the coincidence on the complete lack of coordination between different branches of the govt." Oct. 3 - "Mistaken Attack." "One American was killed and 4 wounded when S. Vietnamese artillery shells accidentally fell on an American armored column. Also a second mistaken artillery barrage, this one fired by U.S. artillery, killed one S. Vietnamese soldier and wounded at least five." Oct. 5 - I succeeded in guiding Hurricane Inez. Oct. 5 - Senator Stuart Symington went into hospital for surgery on a hand injured accidentally while exercising. Oct. 5 - "2nd Vertical Jet Crashes, Pilot Dies." "The second of two $5 million vertical rising research jets crashed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, etc." Oct. 5 - "Two Navy Fliers Lost As Plane Falls Into Sea." A Navy plane rolled over the side of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk at San Diego. Oct. 6 - Announcement was made in the papers that Lunar Orbiter 1 had failed to get the pictures it was supposed to take for landing sites. Oct. 6 - Saigon. "Three 90 mm. tank shells fired in support of the attacking U.S. Marines fell 500 yards short, killing three Marines and wounding seven others. On Friday night a U.S. artillery round hit near the perimeter of one company, killing one Marine and wounding another. On Saturday, during an attack on a hill, another artillery round fell short and wounded four Marines." Oct. 12 - "Troop Plane Falls In Texas." "A huge military troop carrier aircraft from Dyess Air Force Base, crashed and burned northwest of Abilene, Texas, etc." Oct. 13 - "Two Stunt Fliers Die In Aerial Collision." "Two Air Force Thunderbirds air show jets collided at 6,000 feet yesterday during practice maneuvers northwest of Las Vegas." (This announcement from Indian Springs, Nev.) (These were the famous Air Force acrobatic fliers). Oct. 15 - A Bomarc missile blew up immediately after launch at Vandenburg A.F.B. The article said the cause was "a mystery." 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 192 of 220 11/6/66 p4 Page Four Oct. 12 - Killer Blizzards hit the Northwest. Killer tornados hit the Midwest (many) Five "great fires" broke out in Southern California. Oct. 28 - U. S. Soldiers goofed and riddled a group of what they thought was Viet Cong...but which turned out to be 15 women and little children, friendly Vietnamese...eight of which they killed, and wounded seven. Oct. 27 - The aircraft carrier Oriskany mysteriously caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers, many of them pilots, and 9 enlisted men. "The flares apparently ignited themselves"... was the explanation of how the fire started. Oct. 31 - Lani Bird, the Nation's newest communications satellite, failed to make orbit change...its guidance rockets misfired. (Launched from Cape Kennedy). Nov. 2 - Vandenburg A.F.B. "Missile Is Destroyed After West Coast Launch." "A Minuteman ICBM launched from this coastal base early today developed a malfunction and was destroyed, etc. The Air Force said the cause of the malfunction was not immediately determined." Nov. 1 - "10 Die as Brush Blaze Traps Crack Calif. Fire Fighters." (Los Angeles area) Great fires. Also four Marines killed in the fires at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Nov. 4 - Record cold numbed at least seven States of the Southland as the season's first major snowstorm, a killer...etc. The storm's toll of lives totalled at least 32 in six States." (The storm also struck the Northeast and Midwest). Nov. 2 - Helicopter crash on the deck of aircraft carrier Guadalcanal at Norfolk, Virginia, killed four and injured 18. Nov. 2 - U. S. Submarine Tiru runs aground off Australia. Calls for help. Nov. 8 - Flash fire on U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt kills seven. "Captain says cause a mystery." Nov. 5 - President Johnson announces he'll have to go into hospital for two operations. ---------- There you are, my scientist friend...every color in the ODE rainbow. Accidents and catastrophes for the U.S. and U.S. Govt. (same thing?) touching on all of the Choice File. Therefore...my prediction was correct. (Not that this is over...far from it. I've just pointed out what is happening. There's more to come, until the Si's are made friends.) 08/07/2025 16:38 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 193 of 220 11/6/66 p5 Page Five In closing this long prediction-pointer-outer. I have discovered something which, in the interest of science, might interest you. Running through the Si punishment is an identifiable thread. In the killer California fires, the winds changed direction almost in an instant, killing men who had been through hundreds of such fires and were used to coping with wind changes. A sudden wind change. In so many great accidents you read "flash fires...sudden change of wind direction...sudden appearance of giant wave smashes bow of ocean liner...tornados appeared suddenly without warning...the killer snowstorm was a "sneak" storm, completely unexpected, trapping thousands of people...etc. Time, Rowland. A different timing of things than to which humans are accustomed. Another identifiable thread is the constant use of the word "plague" and "plagued by" in news clips, referring to all sorts of things most of which are concerned with Si phenomena. Subconscious discernment? Another identifiable thread is ... well, in the writeup of the recent copter crash on the carrier Guadalcanal: "It was the second recent case in which the American war effort has been hit by mysterious disasters." (I am quoting newsclip) Almost without exception the cause of the many catastrophes cannot be explained...is always under investigation...in many cases is honestly termed "a mystery." (Correction...the above "mystery" newsclip quote came from the mysterious explosion of the ammunition dump in Saigon, because no VC were there and they couldn't figure out how it happened...like the two aircraft carrier fires, where there were no VC either.) One further note; the Si's have told me when they first got to me. I was hit by an auto while standing in a hole by the side of the road, and flung up into the air for 20 feet, when about six. Was knocked out for seven hours. I still remember it all vividly. I was climbing out of the hole in front of my grandfather's house on 14th St., then I woke up in grandpa's bed, seven hours later. In that time, the Si's began their contact. After that, like a case of multiple personality, the Si in me would only "come out" in case of emergency...otherwise it would fade back and let me be myself. This would explain many strange things in my life...like my ability as a hypnotist...like my mind-reading ability, and psychometry ability...like the night while driving my car on a mountain road I tried to turn it sideways halfway up a mountain with a sheer cliff drop on my right...and a car full of negros appeared suddenly without warning coming down the mountain and drove right on through my car, to my utter horror and astonishment...just like a plane flying through a cloud. I got on the phone and told Pat, my wife, long distance about it. Completely unbelievable. I could see far up the mountain before I tried a turn on the narrow, steep cliff road, and saw no car lights. So I turned sharp left into a small road and began to back out, blocking the road completely. Perhaps four or five feet to the steep cliff in back of my car. Suddenly in my rear view mirror I saw car headlights right on top of my car. I closed my eyes and waited for the crash. None came. I opened my eyes and saw this car full of negros, laughing and shouting, driving on PK Man 08/07/2025 16:38 === Page 194 of 220 November 10, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, Organization of Scientific Research. Dear Rowland: What do you think now of my prediction of June 5, 1966, of a nuclear submarine (U.S.) catastrophe and/or U.S. aircraft carrier catastrophe, plus a Si blow struck at our seat of Government, The White House? Since then, would you believe: Three (3) submarine accidents: Sept. 15, West German sub Hai sank with crew. Wipe out. Nov. 4, U. S. sub Tiru runs aground on the rocks; took 3 days to pull it off. Being repaired now in Australia. (When I called you about the Tiru...you asked if the sub was nuclear, as per my prediction, remember?) Nov. 10, today, the nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. (The Si's must have heard you and wanted the prediction perfect to the smallest detail.) Six (6) U.S. Aircraft Carrier accidents: OCT. 5 CARRIER KITTY HAWK, PLANE FELL OVERBOARD, KILLED TWO PILOTS. Oct. 25, Carrier Oriskany burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 1, Carrier Guadalcanal had copter crash on deck that killed 4 and injured 18. Nov. 4, Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt caught fire, 8 killed. (Note: It is interesting that this carrier got hung up the same day as the sub Tiru, just as the accident today hung up the Nautilus and Essex.) Nov. 8, Aircraft Transport (but former aircraft carrier...must look like carrier and fooled the Si's) caught fire, Kula Gulf, at Hawaii. Nov. 10, Carrier Essex crashed into nuclear sub Nautilus. All this...in the short space of about six weeks, after my prediction. And to top it off, the 3rd part of my prediction has come to pass. President Johnson, symbol of the White House and our seat of govt. is going into hospital for surgery. What do you think of that, Rowland? Still on the co-incidence kick? Respectfully, P K Man (Owens) Owens P.S. Remember I warned the Govt. not to hold these naval exercises!! === Page 195 of 220 November 10, 1966 Rowland - An added letter to this envelope. If the documents, with their truth of PK and SI's, in this envelope do not absolutely frighten you as a scientist, my friend, then you are made of rock. Enclosed is a xerox copy of my May 23 letter to George Clark, CIA, stressing that the SI's would hit the Democrats hard at poll time... and you just saw the results yesterday. The Republicans had a sweeping victory. Johnson and party were dealt a mighty blow. Of further interest is something I noticed...did you notice how many Democrat leaders have had accidents these past two months, and heart attacks? There were two fatal ones just today. I quote newsclip: "Death Overtakes Two Who Won In Indiana" - "Two successful candidates in the Indiana elections have died since Tuesday. Kermit Burrous, at Wabash, and Cecil Bingham, Democrat, etc." Then you have the string of Sharp accidents and mishaps, and other Democratic officials who have succumbed. It is something to think about...how the PK worked. (Odd mechanisms). When the SI's said they would use "all their power" they were not wasting words. Enclosed is another xerox copy of my June 13 letter to George Clark, CIA, in which I warned the Govt. not to allow naval exercises in the Atlantic...and I listed the reasons why...even referring to my June 5 prediction to Zelda Mansell, George, and her husband. I had in mind the exercises at that time, but it would not matter when they were held. Then or now. Would be more dangerous now, for PK grows with time. So today the giant aircraft carrier smashed into the nuclear submarine Nautilus. The sub might have gone down with its crew. They were lucky. The next time, and there could be a next time, there might be no survivors. The warning still stands ahead in the future. PK and the SI's are not bound by time limits, I have found. You may recall I warned to you, Rowland, somewhere along the line, that Atlantic waters would be particularly dangerous to ships, subs and planes. Recall? I sent copies of the above two letters to Eastwood, Inventions, Nasa; Louise Shine; my kids, now in Lomita, Calif.; and perhaps to Jack McKinney. Also, I think, to Zelda Mansell in Ardmore, Pa. So there are two more solid hits for my files, Rowland. PK Man (Owens) Owens === Page 196 of 220 Sunday, Nov. 13, 1966 Joe McGinniss, Sports Writer, Inquirer Dear Mr. McGinniss: Last week, and up until last week, I had ignored the Eagles defensive, thinking that if I stopped the Eagles offensive with PK it would be enough for my purposes. To my amazement...the PK worked perfect, the Eagles offensive wouldn't have beaten the Girl Scouts, as a team effort.. but the Eagles defensive unit won the game. The three run backs and the stolen ball just when the Cowboys could have kicked a field goal...were an absolute miracle, you understand. So this week, with the Browns, I not only called on the si's (saucer intelligences) to stop the Eagles offensive, but also to stop the Eagles defensive effort and kickbacks. You saw the result today as the Browns murdered the Eagles, who could not count on a miracle to win this time. I wish you would do an article on this, pointing out that all the Eagles opponents have to do is take advantage of their many opportunities given them by PK...and not give away touchdowns...to win. And send a tear sheet to those coaches of the teams still to confront the Eagles. Let them know about the PK and what it means for them, as an edge. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Street, No. 33 Philadelphia, Pa. Owen === Page 197 of 220 Sunday, Nov. 13, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swenk, O.C.A.R. Forgive me for waking you up at 2 in the morning Sat. night, but as I told you...about 1 o'clock the Si's communicated with me strongly and told me, with mental imagery, that they were dropping "white rain" (more like silver, as per their picture) on the Gemini 12 capsule in space, and that it would have an effect on the capsule, and for me to get dressed, find change, find your phone number, leave my 3rd floor apartment, find a phone and call you. I checked it out once, then twice, with them, and they were adamant. So I followed their instruction, as you know, and called you about. This "white rain" is something new in the OIE vocabulary. Evidently they are experimenting with different effects. Will be interesting to see what comes of the "white rain." P K Man (Owens) Kids - send back my UFO pocket book!!! === Page 198 of 220 November 15, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Nothing could be more important to you and I and the U.S. than this letter...it concerns our survival, I am sure. Last night the Si's let me look through the Window of Time and see what lies ahead. Through the window I could see a gorgeous sunset.. (meaning time, before dark closes in) and there, spread across the sky was a beautiful tiger, in full colors, probably hundreds of miles in length across the sky. I interpret the Si's communication as a prediction that: (1) The Asian race will master the world in the very near future, powerful Russia and U.S. notwithstanding. (2) The Asians will take over complete control and mastery of the skies in Viet Nam, in some way...our great power notwithstanding or (3) The Asians will destroy all of our forces in Viet Nam in the near future. There was more to the communication...that our "house" was mined, set with a booby-trap to blow up the "house". I interpret this as the U.S. has been secretly prepared by enemies to be destroyed, in the near future. Or the U.S. in Viet Nam has secretly been prepared for destruction, which will take place in the near future. PK Man (Owens) === Page 199 of 220 Wednesday, November 23, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I am angry...the Si's are angry. You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes. The Si's have craft everywhere, positioned over our States. They are now going into action to knock down planes, everywhere. I'm a couple of days late sending this communication to you from the Si's...but I thought perhaps you would send me that confirmation. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 200 of 220 Monday, Dec. 5, 1966 Rowland Swank Organization of Scientific Research Dear Rowland: Just a note. Not scientific. But something very unusual and very different happened last night. Better tell it. For some reason none of us were sleepy, as we usually are at midnight. The baby sat at my feet playing with his toys, and I read. About 1 in the morning we still weren't sleepy. I made baby get into bed...and Martha said she felt like walking out onto the balcony outside our windows to get a breath of fresh air. This was quite unlike Martha, because she is afraid of the dark. In about five minutes she ran back inside the apartment, slammed the door, and was hysterical with fear. As I got the story... She went out onto the balcony, where there is a great view of the city at night...and a sweeping view of the sky. She stood there, wondering if there were any flying saucers up there...when suddenly something alive, about two feet high, dropped from nowhere to a position about three feet from her on the balcony, and just stood there. She was scared witless and dashed back inside. The thing was not a cat, she said (she knows cats). She was just standing there when suddenly she saw this dark form drop onto the balcony with a thump...it was about two feet high, and just crouched there where she could see its outline the darkness. I know positively Martha was not imagining it. Once she told me there was a pigeon the roof across, with a collar around its neck, and I told her she must be imagining it. She wasn't. It had something like a radar screen strung around its neck. Another time she woke me up in the middle of the night and said there was a flying saucer in the room, and I thought she must be dreaming. But she wasn't. It was in the room. Sothe Si's have made their first approach to us. Unfortunately it was not me on the balcony. My reaction, however, was typically stupid. I ran out with a throwing knife, a combat knife and a blackjack. Before I thought. And that is the sad history of the human reaction to the nearness of the Si's. In the future, no matter how frightening...I must carry no weapons. P K Man (Owens) P.S. Then we went to bed about 2. And I could not sleep. My mind just would not go to sleep. I fell asleep about 4 or 5. After Martha came back into the room, hysterical with fear, the baby also got terribly frightened and chattered for an hour without stopping. Something he's never done. He scarcely talks. Owens === Page 201 of 220 12/9/66 P1 Dec. 9, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed getting your letters. What do I want for Christmas? Just love and peace of mind. No gifts, thanks very much. I have gotten so dam mad at the crass comercialism now at Christmas I could spit. HOWEVER, please do send baby Beau and Martha a present...for their Christmas is not complete with tree and presents. (Furthermore...I sincerely believe that humans should no longer observe Christmas at all. Honest. Since it is the birthday of Jesus...and that's why we celebrate it...it is no longer a true thing. Because all the rest of the year we humans kill, hate, lie, cheat, steal, corrupt....phooey. Then back on Christmas day we give each other presents. Then back to the stinky rat-race. So I say humans do not deserve the privilege of celebrating the birth of Jesus...until they, humans, become good in all the meanings of the word. Look...right now they are making a big joke out of the word 'holy'. Watch Batman and Robin. Holy this and holy that. It has become a big joke. They have copied the idea on the Milton Berle Show and other shows...holy this and holy that. So now all the tiny kids think the word holy is a joke. Some joke.) Lecture's over. Speaking of lectures, I've been asked to give one at a college here in Philadelphia, on January 11, on the mind. Specifically on memory techniques and hypnotism. Do I think you should go out for pro basketball? Each to his own, pal. Go for basketball in H.S. and see how it develops. You are an ace in my book at basketball. So what if you haven't got all the fine points down yet. They come with practice. Also take up tennis, and take up golf. Golf pros make big money and have lots of fun. But sports aside...you're a dandy writer and typist. I am proud of your good typing. Practice writing stories. Write me a story about our long trip across the United States. That's what I'd really like to have for a Christmas present. Put in everything you can remember. If you could grow up and write books, then you would be doing what I wish I were doing! It's good money, you travel, and you have fun. We have a camera, but it's busted. I'll try to fix it and send you some pictures. You will be interested in my latest project...working with the Si's to end the drought in India (worst in 100 years) and to feed the hunger. 4 million people are supposed to die there this year from hunger. This is a big, good demonstration by the Si's, in the time ahead. Two TV shows have copied my "Knife" idea. That Red Buttons monstrosity which flunked out...and now there's another one going. However, nobody could copy my other novel! Ha ha! "The Love Doll"...remember? You will make a wonderful cheer leader. Always keep a big happy grin on your face and yell real loud. 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 202 of 220 12/9/66 P2 2 Re the "change of atmosphere" - you are sensitive to it, eh? No, the Shannons certainly would not have the atmosphere which surrounds me and mine. But then, the Shannon's eat better, and live better, don't they? One time Dorothy Frye in Ft. Worth Texas begged me to let her take me to a famous "reader" there...a colored woman, paralyzed in bed, who "read" for people at $10 a throw. I finally went with Dorothy. When I was taken into this famous reader's bedroom...she looked up at me...her eyes got wide...and she was quiet for a while. Then she said, "Mr. Owens...there is so much power around you, that you have brought into this room, that it is impossible for me to read for you...and not only that, but after you leave here I am afraid it will be days before the power dies down enough for me to read for other people." If you want my honest statement on it, Rick...I am charged with some kind of strange power. Not just in me, but it extends all around me. Those living with me become saturated with it. Whether it's from the Si's, or something else...I do not know. At any rate...it is some kind of power...it is not money, and you know very well that although I am loaded with strange power I do not have money. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I will gladly take the strange powers...and let everyone else take the money. Even though it's damned inconvenient sometimes. Then there is something else. When you and Lornie were with us, we formed a team. A fine team. Sure we fussed...but even the best pro basketball teams fuss sometimes between themselves...then they go out and work together to beat the other teams. That's the way we were, Rick. You and Lornie sold those jiggers to get us gas...I told fortunes and taught auto-hyp so we could eat...you and me took wrecked cars apart so we could keep going...we nursed the puppies and helped Marthy Ann bring them into the world...and you and I and Lornie and Martha and Beau helped bury Marthy Ann. We slept together, traveled together, were hungry together, and ate fried chicken and ice cream feasts together...all five of us. That made us a team...and together we had power, a form of personality-power. You don't have that at the Shannon's because it isn't the same set-up, the same kind of team. Their needs are different than what our team had. Tell me one thing...where else in the entire world could you, Rick, in one house, sit down at a set of drums like in Seattle and play, then go watch tiny puppies waddle around, then go outside and throw knives, then come inside and talk to a professional about hypnotism, mind-reading, and UFO's? That's what we had. We haven't got it any more. We were building up to it again in Washington. I never quit building up, if I get knocked down. It's always up and at 'em again. However, don't get me wrong...the Shannon's are fine people...Pat's the best. Their way of living is just different than mine (who's isn't?) and so the atmosphere is different. I wanted to teach you a lot of things when you were with me, but couldn't because your judgement wasn't ready for it. Now it's extremely doubtful if I will ever get to teach you anything more. Beau is bigger and cuter than ever. love, Dad 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 203 of 220 12/9/66 p3 COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA 34 SOUTH 11TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. 19107 LO 9-3680 December 8, 1966 Mr. Ted Owens 22d floor 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 Dear Ted: Don Angell's English Composition Class at the Philadelphia Community College accepts with pleasure your kind offer to lecture before it. We are glad you have stated it will be convenient for you to come the evening of January 11, 1967. The class is conducted from 7:30 p.m. to 8:40 p.m. If you do not have that much time to spare, rest assured we shall be grateful for just whatever you think will be effective. You mentioned you were interested in talking about self-hypnosis. I also remember your statement that you dealt with the field of memory improvement technique. The class was vociferous in agreeing that this was what they needed most - guidance so they could improve their ability to retain in their minds the text book material and extra reading assignments showered upon them. We look forward to all the help you can give us in this direction. The classroom number is 211. I think I have given you an understandable map to guide you, and I trust you will not get lost on the way. Remember, the library facilities of the school are at your command if you have time between supper and the witching hour: 7:30 p.m. or as close to that as you can manage. I am sure you would have secured a warm glow of pleasure if you had seen all the hands go up when Don Angell wanted to know if the class would be interested in hearing you. Sincerely, J. M. Poth 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 204 of 220 December 13, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I warned three weeks ago that the Si's were angry, and were going to strike...at planes. My letter to you of November 23, copy, plus overnight news-clips, is self-explanatory. I feel they have been waiting patiently...and not getting any cooperation, have just begun on their "bringing down aircraft" campaign. By the way...the radio reports last night said the SAC bomber carried nuclear bombs when it crashed. The papers said it didn't. Makes you wonder who you can believe. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Owens Navy Helicopter Crash at Sea === Page 205 of 220 12/13/66 P2 Wednesday, November 23, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, C.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I am angry...the Si's are angry. You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes. The Si's have craft everywhere, positioned over our States. They are now going into action to knock down planes, everywhere. I'm a couple of days late sending this communication to you from I thought perhaps you would send that confirmation. Three Airmen Feared Dead As SAC Bomber Crashes McKINNEY, Ky. (UPI). -- A B-58 Strategic Air Command jet bomber on a routine training mission plowed into a rugged mountain section of Kentucky, apparently killing the three crewmen aboard. A spokesman at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind., said the bomber was not carrying nuclear warheads. The plane was headed for Indiana after practice bombing run. Kentucky State Police said one body had been recovered, but identification had not been made. Among those reported aboard was Capt. Clarence D. Lunt, 29, of Williamsport, Pa. Pi Man (Owens) Copter Crashes, 10 Missing SAN DIEGO, Calif (UPI). -- A big Navy jet helicopter carrying eight officers and two enlisted men crashed at sea 30 miles offshore. It was feared all were killed. An intensive air-sea search recovered bits of wreckage of the copter but there was no sign of the occupants. Navy Helicopter Crashes at Sea From Our Wire Services SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 12. -- A Navy H-46 Sea Knight helicopter carrying 10 men crashed at sea 30 miles of-shore late Monday and an intensive search was under way for survivors. The big helicopter left nearby Ream Field at 7:30 P. M. (EST) for the amphibious assault carrier Tripoli, the Navy said. The helicopter, attached to Squadron HC1 at Ream Field, crashed 20 minutes later about four miles short of the carrier. An air-sea search was begun immediately and the crash area was illuminated with flares so the search could continue through the night. Navy and Coast Guard vessels and aircraft participated in the search. NUCLEAR BOMBER!! B-58 With 3 Aboard Crashes on Farm HUSTONVILLE, Ky. -- A U. S. Air Force B-58 bomber with three men aboard crashed Monday night on a farm near here, the Air Force said. The Air Force reported the plane caught fire when it crashed. A spokesman said the flames were caused by the plane's fuel and that there were no munitions aboard. A witness at the scene said he saw the body of the pilot, still in his ejection seat, about 300 feet down the hill from the crash scene. There was no word on the fate of the other two persons aboard. === Page 206 of 220 Kids - am trying to get CIA, etc. confirms. Pat is already a friend of the Si's. Dad. Friday, December 16, 1966 To my contacts and former contacts: Folks: This is what a confirmation looks like. It is a notarized statement of fact, based on predictions made by me in writing before national or international events happened...and which came to pass. I do not ask any of my contacts to state that they believe in UFO's, or believe that I am connected in UFO's, etc. I simply ask them to tell the truth on paper...that I have been doing something no other person in the world has done, or could do. Mrs. Hansell's example is how it is done. It simply states fact. And since most of you got the very same predictions she got...you know absolutely that it is a fact. Jack McKinney, in 1965, scoffed at my predictions and inferred that I perhaps wrote my predictions after the fact. This was a legitimate suspicion, since a person without scruples could do so...but Jack McKinney knows today, absolutely for sure, that the seemingly impossible predictions he scoffed at in 1965 that had come to pass... were in fact sent to CIA and NASA and I said, because Jack has had enough of the predictions ahead of the event...in many various categories (hurricane, earthquake, UFO appearance, etc.)...to know now exactly what I have been doing. That goes for all you others, too. My work in the future will be much more powerful than what I have done in 1964, 1965, and 1966. Those of you who would like to be a friend to PK Man and the Si's, send in a notarized list of simply-stated facts re my "hits". That notarized list puts you on my and the Si's team. Bear in mind I do not ask you to list anything that is false. Why should I, when the predictions I have made that have come to pass by now are well over 100...major events. And much more to come. It is a funny situation. I am doing miracles (saving the girl who would have died in Wash., D.C.; making a hurricane appear early, then making another hurricane go in the direction I want it to go, even back up; making UFO's appear on schedule as proof they are tied in; etc.) yet those to whom I am showing these miracles...instead of being excited about it, and proud to have been shown...seemed ashamed of me, and won't even admit I have done it. What if the people, in the thousands, that Cayce saved, Edgar Cayce, had refused to acknowledge his miracles had helped them or saved them? If you do not want to list any specific happenings...you could at least send a note saying that yes, it is absolutely true that I have predicted many major events before they came to pass. You know I did, so why be ashamed to say so? Owens 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 207 of 220 12/16/66 p2 November 28, 1966 On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle: The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future. They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future. The above to take place not later than September, 1966. ---------- (Only the time element was off a bit) Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew. Oct. 26, 1966, the U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men. Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others. Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tugs to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired. Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain, termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery". Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii. Nov. 10, 1966, Nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. Also, on Nov. 5, 1966, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was, certainly a blow to our seat of government. Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966 Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 Notary Public, Ardmore, Montgomery County My Commission Expires April 25, 1968 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 208 of 220 12/14/66 p3 THE FOLLOWING IS A TESTIMONIAL TO THE VALIDITY OF THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY TED OWENS AND SENT TO ME ON THE DATES STATED. MARCH 10, 1966 - End of drought conditions to occur in near future. (By end of June, Udall had made a report to President Johnson stating that the drought had definitely diminished in intensity.) APRIL 26, 1966 - U.F.O. seen over Philadelphia. This was predicted on April 19 in carbon copy sent to me. JUNE 1, 1966 - Predicted early hurricane. Alma occurred five days later. JUNE 17, 1966 - Predicted major earthquake in California. Same occurred eleven days later. JUNE 18, 1966 - Predicted series of violent electrical storms in Philadelphia area. Several fierce storms occurred during the end of June and in July--unusual amount of lighting. JUNE 29, 1966 - Warned that U.S. Fleet would be attacked off Viet Nam coast. Two days later, torpedo boats attacked U.S. warships. OCT. 15, 1966 - Predicted that a U.F.O. would be seen and reported in the mass media, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, on Halloween. The Camden, N.J. newspaper reported a U.F.O. seen by many people on Oct. 31. It was heading for Phila. Zelda S. Hansell Zelda S. Hansell 29 S. Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Pa. 19003 December 10, 1966 State of Penna. County of Montgomery Sworn to before me this 10th day of December 1966. Maria R. Pavoni Maria R. Pavoni Notary Public My comm. exp. 2/10/69 08/07/2025 16:44 === Page 209 of 220 December 22, 1966 TO ALL CONTACTS Urgent message from Si's today. They say President Johnson will collapse with heart attack within 90 days, placing country in danger without adequate leadership. P K Man (Owens) === Page 210 of 220 December 22, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: Enclosed is xerox of page from my letter to George Clark of July 17, 1965, predicting that President Johnson would be up to his neck in a "bad, smelly scandal"...which of course he is right now, with the Jackie Kennedy material being unloaded in all the newspapers blasting Johnson's motives and actions, etc., in the past. I attached a newsclip to the xerox...the "besmirches" thing...to indicate this. So, another hit. (This is the back-page of letter in your xerox'd files No. 38.) My intuition tells me a different story than appears in the papers. It is this: Johnson found out that the boom was going to be lowered on him in the Jackie Kennedy book...so he sent word to Jackie that he had a dossier on her private life, which is much rawer than the American public could ever imagine. And that if he got clobbered with her book, she'd get clobbered with carefully leaked info on her private life. (The irony is that Bobby Kennedy has a dossier on Johnson's own private life, which is much rawer than the American public could ever imagine, and is prepared to leak out the info if the other two get in a battle of leaked info. Jackie covered her losses in having to make a big show of removing the offensive material from the book...by seeing that the offensive material was leaked out anyway, as it was this week. Ahead, therefore, since the damage has been done to Johnson...the American public will find out through leaks from Johnson friends that Jackie has done such and such with so and so...and Jackie will come off with quite a horrible black eye. After that, the public will find out that Johnson has misbehaved in various ways unbeknownst to the country...which will be leaked out by Bobby Kennedy in retribution for damage done to his sister. And Johnson will be in worse scandal than he is now. That's what I see, looking ahead with intuition (ESP). Let's wait and see if I'm wrong. Incidentally, to change the subject, I refer to my March 26, 1966, letter to George Clark...in the file of Si's vs. Air Force, telling George that Hyneck may have doomed the Air Force by calling the Si's "marsh gas" etc. Well, a few weeks ago, Dec. 17, 1966, front page of the Saturday Evening Post was the article, "Are Flying Saucers Real" "A Surprising Report From The Top Scientific Authority"...namely, Hyneck. An apology of sorts from Hyneck for calling the Si's "marsh gas". It's a The AF has been taking an awful beating. Owens 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 211 of 220 12/22/66 P2 JULY 17, 1965 William S. White 'Leaks' From Kennedy Book Besmirch President Unfairly DEC. 21, 1966 WASHINGTON. THE great controversy over whether the once family-sponsored book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is or is not to be published is an empty one so far as its widely heralded personal attacks upon President Johnson are concerned. Among other things it is precisely these "inaccurate and unfair" references to Mr. Johnson, as Mrs. John F. Kennedy herself honorably describes them, which she now seeks national rudderlessness he was continuously and deeply concerned with the understandable grief of the Kennedy followers and made every effort to show to them sympathy and understanding. frankly that and safe - the completely. that is, if a truck, or has problem about simply academic That is h I happy-ates lit by U.S. 'll become al. George - in one to you, I told help flowers & show up on f Since Her in the eye; the sort of grass-di Mrs. Johnson or dying. copy cull effects bitten 't some ers e dead I am afraid, George, that Pres. Johnson may be up to his neck in a bad, smelly scandal in the near future. Then what will he do, fire himself? PR Man 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 212 of 220 December 27, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: An interesting thing has occurred, which should go on record. On my last job with Fashionbilt Clothes, I pointed out that just about everybody in the two offices on my floor...had an accident or an illness. Oscar Patton, my boss, fell down a flight of stairs and injured his leg and was out for a bit. The girl next to me got a phone call and her mother had crashed her car into another car and been taken to a hospital. My alternate boss had a heart attack. The other woman in our office injured her foot so severely she could hardly hobble about. And at one time everybody was home sick but me and one girl. Now, on my new job...my boss, Mr. Shiekman, was in his car in New York a couple of weeks ago and it was hit by a truck. A friend of mine, a girl, Phylis Moscowitz, was stricken a couple of weeks ago with mononucleosis and has been gone for a couple of weeks, just returned. The office manager, Miss Minter, fell and injured her leg last week and has been hobbling around on it with it all taped up...also her pet cat dropped dead...then last Thursday night her dad, who was standing with her near a highway, was hit and knocked for 12 feet by a car, and he's in a hospital for six months with traction. Drove his eyeglasses into his right eye. And so on. The odd part of it is...these are not people I am angry at or dislike. They are all people I like. That communication to me from the Si's last week re President Johnson was so urgent...that they urged me to leave work and phone it in to George Clark, which I did. They must really see a danger spot for the U.S. just ahead. I tested their info many times for "strength" (feeling) and it was right, it was there...so I passed it on. The Si's have told me to keep passing on information, instead of shelving it until I get proper confirmations. They said they will handle the matter, take care of it themselves. Incidentally, I misunderstood the full meaning when the Si's said they would cause a storm of airplane crashes. I thought they meant just here in the U.S. But they meant just anywhere, everywhere. You will note there were numerous crashes of planes out of the U.S. last week, or involving U.S. people...the Miami to Columbia crash, the Acapulco/Mexican Crash, etc. There have been many in the past week or so. My method of receiving and sending with the Si's is far from perfect as yet. The Si's have said that they have been teaching lessons out away from the top principals involved...that is, storms and hurricanes and floods, etc., and planes downed and subs and carriers affected...but that now they are going to turn their attention to the top men closer to home. They say as long as something happens to somebody else, it doesn't get the attention it would if it happened to you, personally. So now probably top govt. officials will be getting SI phenomena in large doses 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 213 of 220 December 29, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: The Si's are giving me information not known elsewhere...even to our Intelligence agencies. I pass it on. Picture a powerful batter in baseball, like Babe Ruth, swinging a big bat...against a concrete wall with all his might. The Si's say that is what the U.S. with all its power is running up against in Viet Nam. We are the batter; our planes and guns, etc., are the big bat...and the concrete wall is what the Reds have planned for us there. While it is true that Hanoi and Ho fear a Chinese take-over, they hate us more than they fear the Chinese...and so will use Chinese help. The Chinese soldiers, fliers, etc., will be slipped in, slowly at first, until large forces gather in Cong clothes or North Vietnamese uniforms....then hordes will be turned loose from China onto our forces in Viet Nam. The Red trap is most complex...but what it adds up to is...to take the coastal areas until Saigon is surrounded by a Red circle (constantly adding more and more hordes from Red China...and shrink the circle always tightening inward, until all U.S. forces are wiped out and no more Americans are alive (except in captivity), in the center of the circle. No matter what talk there is of the Russ fearing the Chinese, etc., right now we are pitted against the Russ/Chinese combination in Viet Nam. They have us exactly where they want us...the hated Americans far from home base, where supplies can be cut off (and they are planning to do this with planes and subs against our planes and ships)...where half a million or more Americans can be destroyed, thus showing the world America is vulnerable...and costing us horribly in lost ships, planes, men. We are the Russ/Chinese common enemy, and they have us at their mercy in Viet Nam, and they will work together as a team to destroy us there. Our stock market will go down, and lose and lose and lose...until people curse money and money will have little meaning. (Because of the Johnson prediction, heart-attack, then the stock market should lose 15-30 points in a single day or two span within the coming 90 days.) But no one could believe, at this time, what utter devastation the American economy will suffer in the coming time ahead. Financial structures will crumble and fall apart, of every kind and description, like shoes rotting in the jungle. (The Si's point out that the above two catastrophes are of our own making. If we right now got our forces out of Viet Nam and got everything and everybody home...they could be saved. As for economy...we have gone past the point of no return, and will be badly hurt even if we quickly cancelled all nutty government "goody" projects (glorifying the scenery etc etc.) and cut out so much govt. corruption (Powell's throwing money away and all like him, and cut out giving billions away overseas, etc etc. But we would survive if we did these things. Which we won't, being incredibly stupid. So...our entire economy will drop dead, and America will be a ruined nation, economically. As if this weren't enough grief...the Si's warn of a pestilence that will sweep the land in near time ahead. Call it a plague of some sort. It will happen all at once and people will drop like flies all over the land. (If this occurs, as the Si's say it will, I have a good idea of where it comes from.) P K Man (Owens) 08/07/2025 16:51 === Page 214 of 220 December 29, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R. Lomie & Rick Re my last letter stressing the large number of persons working around me who have accidents, illness, etc., add the following: Bruce Clutterbaugh, star defensive player for the Phila. Bulldogs, who worked in our File Room, got a broken toe and broken knee cartilage some weeks ago. He's been gone since. I used to chat a lot with Bruce, and showed him some judo to use on the line against opposing players. Mickey Peskin, girl who works ten feet away from me...had a skillet full of Wesson Oil catch fire last Saturday...flames shot clear up to the ceiling, spread soot throughout the house...she said it was very close, almost set the house afire. Same girl, yesterday, complained of pain in her jaw, went to the dentist, and he opened an abscess in her jaw. Same girl, today, told me she was paralyzed last night by a terrible back pain...she could not move...her mother had to put her to bed and get her covered up. This morning the odd, paralyzing pain had gone. Dolores Reardigan...friend of mine here in the office...caught strep throat last week, was out for days...came back sick...is still sick, tells me she can't keep food on her stomach. She's pale, wan and drawn with no strength. Miriam...in the File Room...was stricken several weeks ago with throat pain. Went to the hospital and had to have surgery, tonsils removed (she's in her 20's). Same girl had to go home yesterday, sick. Shiekman, my former boss, had his vacation trip delayed last Saturday when one of his children fell sick. ---------- Just wanted to add these to make the picture complete. There is definitely something about a radius around me...that seems to affect others. Because this has occurred in the various places I have worked. When I worked for Gelman in Washington in 1965, the same thing happened...freak accidents, part of the ceiling fell on a woman, people suddenly stricken with illness, etc. P K Man (Ovens) === Page 215 of 220 December 29, 1966 12/29/66 PZ Dear Zelda: I appreciate very much your offer to locate me on that little old lady's ranch in Yucca Valley in California. I have had several offers like that ... you know, come stay with us ... no money, just park there. But here is why it wouldn't work. You know me. I couldn't sit in a rocking chair and let a year go by without forging steadily, somehow, toward my personal goal of starting the Sotas (Church) and getting once more into the swing of healing people, as I did once in Texas. To park with somebody for a year without money, would mean depending upon them for our needs ... food, cigars, cigarettes, stamps, paper, etc etc. I couldn't do that at all, since I have the habit of producing our supplies by my own effort. I have two goals, as given me by the Si's (both are) : (1) Get isolated, and arrange for them to meet with me in person. (2) Get the Sota Church founded, organized, and started ... to use Si power for healing, etc., along with spiritual power. These two goals are intertwined. Therefore I plan to somehow raise $3000 to $5000, the minimum necessary ... send $1000 to found the Church (then I am safe in my healing practices) ... get a used car to transport us and our belongings ... find a remote house or farm to operate from, and meet the Si's ... advertise the new form of Church so people with their problems will know where it is and what it does ... and be able to sustain for 3-6 months to get a running start to build up. I also have to buy a Brain Synchronizer and a short-wave radio, and a few other lesser tools. The above plan ... is the only plan that will work in my case, considering the Si's wishes, and my own needs (family). With the above plan, I utilize the year of waiting for the Si's in an isolated spot ... to build up the newly-founded Church of Sota and be helping people the while ... healing impossible cases, etc. And perhaps write a great big book about the whole thing that has occurred. It is an absolute certainty that the Si's will make a personal physical contact with me within that year's time. Face to face. But at the rate of progress I'm making toward my plan ... and the speed with which the nuclear war is building up ... it might never happen before the U.S. is destroyed. And that is a certainty, also ... and it isn't years away, but close. P K Man (Owens) === Page 216 of 220 December 29, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick - Our Christmas was a riot. Went like this. We had enough money to get Martha a nice present (hair drier) but not enough to get a tree and everything and still get Beau a $5 wagon ... so we gave him an IOU for a wagon until next week. For the record, Beau has got more toys than an entire suburban area has got. If you get out of bed you immediately step on Batman's face or go rolling on into the bathroom on Tinkertoy wheels or one or more of the dozen some cars and trucks he has strewn around. We are literally ankle-deep in toys. You wouldn't believe it if you saw it. And remember we live in a tiny, two- room apartment. To open the refrigerator you have to move his full-size merry-go-round horse on springs. We keep his tricycle in the hall outside (I hope somebody steals it, but nobody ever does) with his name on it. Of course he went wild on Christmas, and got so excited he wouldn't mind. So Martha said, "If you don't behave, Beau, I'll get the broom after you." So Beau studies her for a minute, then he runs to the closet, gets the broom, brings it back to Martha, hands it to her, and bends over and points to his rear end, grinning. Martha put her hand over her mouth and tried to keep from laughing. Then Beau ran and got a belt and brought it to Martha and bent over and patted his rear end, grinning. He can put Martha through a KXxxx hoop. And with me he's even more skilled. Remember, he can't even talk yet. A few words ... "me go bed" "ah wan e" (eat) and so forth. To get back to Christmas ... mother sent a box of candy to us and a dandy throw-a-ring toy for Beau (which Martha and I play with). And your box came. So Martha hid them in the closet. So for three days Beau battles to get into the closet and pull out the boxes and open them. And Beau simply doesn't give up. Martha was worn out just pulling him out of the closet. Couple of times he succeeded in getting in there, getting some presents out and opening them. One big present Martha brought in to me couple of days hofuna christmas and said "IVO, know TI77 hat this is a nunca !! T said 11 Van 11 === Page 217 of 220 as standing in the way of TV set) but she went on, "It wouldn't hurt peeked inside, would it?" I said of course not, that we were grown up, Christmas was for children, and most adults looked at their presents ore Christmas. So she undid the top and examined the purse, delighted. en she carefully wrapped it up again and put it with the other unopened resents. She's been pining for a hair-drier for a long time, so I determined to get her one for Christmas. Did. Brought it home. I told her not to peek in the big shopping bag, because her present was in there. "Well," she said, "is it wrapped up?" "No," I told her, "I am Kxxxxx no good at all at wrapping presents." She brightened up, "Then maybe I'd better wrap it, all right?" See how devious she was to find out what her present was? So I said sure, go ahead. So she gets out paper and ribbons and things and wraps it all up then brings me a card ... "Do you want to write me a card?" I said sure, and wrote her a card, which she put on her present and put it with the other things. Christmas Day we got up early and opened presents. As usual I let Martha unwrap everything, which she dearly loves to do. They lay under our giant six-foot-high tree (loaded with angels, sparkling little houses, colored globes, flashing on-and-off lights, etc. and the star Martha made on top). Neither Martha nor I can figure out how to play the Yahtze game ... so we are going to just use the dice and cup and throw for high-dice. Beau latched onto the little toy jeep that runs so well ... and wouldn't play with anything else all day. He loves that jeep. Write and let me know how your Christmas went. Take pictures of your boy- friends, Lornie, and let me see what strange critters you've got hold of. Love, 4 === Page 218 of 220 08/07/2 SOM NIUM, 1 LI VOU VILO LO Dazu, ( she was standing in the way of TV set) but she went on, "It wouldn't hurt if I peeked inside, would it?" I said of course not, that we were grown up, that Christmas was for children, and most adults looked at their presents before Christmas. So she undid the top and examined the purse, delighted. Then she carefully wrapped it up again and put it with the other unopened presents. She's been pining for a hair-drier for a long time, so I determined to get her one for Christmas. Did. Brought it home. I told her not to peek in the big shopping bag, because her present was in there. "Well," she said, "is it wrapped up?" "No," I told her, "I am Kxxxxx no good at all at wrapping presents." She brightened up, "Then maybe I'd better wrap it, all right? See how devious she was to find out what her present was? So I said sure, go ahead. So she gets out paper and ribbons and things and wraps it all up then brings me a card ... "Do you want to write me a card?" I said sure, and wrote her a card, which she put on her present and put it with the other things. Christmas Day we got up early and opened presents. As usual I let Martha unwrap everything, which she dearly loves to do. They lay under our giant six-foot-high tree (loaded with angels, sparkling little houses, colored globes, flashing on-and-off lights, etc. and the star Martha made on top). Neither Martha nor I can figure out how to play the Yahtze game ... so we are going to just use the dice and cup and throw for high-dice. Beau latched onto the little toy jeep that runs so well ... and wouldn't play with anything else all day. He loves that jeep. Write and let me know how your Christmas went. Take pictures of your boy- friends, Lornie, and let me see what strange critters you've got hold of. Love, 0 Dad === Page 219 of 220 we're in mary 31, 1966 Copy- Rick Zanie 1/31/66 PI George Clark tral Intelligence Agency r George: so, once again, the Si's have proven my prediction correct. January 18 I wrote to you and warned you that the U.S. would have a onstration catastrophe within the next few days or few weeks. think this has come about, don't you? | the U.S. Capitol was the bullseye ... hardest hit, according to the ILo. Dw and cold, the worst in 100 years, radio said. Coldest in dozens of ties it has ever been in the memory of those cities. e Si's have just spoken to you ..... again. (when I say "you" of course mean you as representing the U.S. Government ... since I am their spokesman, d you are the government spokesman I speak with.) ey are now curious to know .. . must they do something worse than put the tire U.S. in a deep-freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them. ey wait patiently for some kind of answer, sometime. And I don't think had better come from Mr. Dunn, nice though he was ... he gives wrong iswers. P K Man P.S. Remember last year, George ... when I told you the Si's were getting ready to strike within a few days, a few weeks ... and they did, sending dozens of tornados and near tornados through six states ... and giant floods throughout the Midwest. .. all at the same time, wrecking the area. If the Government were smart, they would count the natural disasters and catastrophic accidents that happened since I have been writing as the Si's representative ... and they would easily see the following words in the newspaper write-ups by the hundreds: "The Atlas missile that blew up on the pad at Cape Kennedy ... was an impossibility. The limkning struck, with the missile on it, was lightning08/07/2005 -1669 . ich mishaps. The cold P S G S Hod le fo PUST epo hat P HOL Toda NC ujau Tox P ladel cran === Page 220 of 220 து- 29383214 CC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1966 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7c88fe70b9868a7a79679987b3dd0353.pdf 848395dda8657d3fcc0fdf1c17f29d1c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1d81ebfa5505757f8e9b9d386e2e388d.txt 6c31d3f2cbb0760e87a87cfa6a75f1c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 2 Message To The American People...from the Saucer Intelligences (SI's) through The Rain Maker, Ted Owens...August 3, 1965 We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much...soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still...you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, though a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson...which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/08/2025 16:45 === Page 2 of 3 2 we will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? so that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. we will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing 08/08/2025 16:45 === Page 3 of 3 the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you... we only wish, as friends, to know you, and to teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have not blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body-electricity at will, and this gives us strength to move and to carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning, it is good. Please, therefore, listen to this human-friend, and accept him, for we wish to help your country, and no other on earth...in your time of trouble, so that you may then properly help the other countries on earth. At this part of time your country has the best philosophy, the best ideas, the best advances, for helping. We can do many many things that you have no dream of, to help you. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our craft in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead in that area, because you do not know it but we will have our own craft overhead...we have methods that make our craft so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. Especially when we want it so. You ask, is there anything else, earth-friends... just that, we are happy, and excited, for you and your people, and for us. Be 08/08/2025 16:45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 08 Message to the America People https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/025047544fcbebf910046e60fb44c267.pdf fa0574896f260fb78fa8b4fa9229544a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/135488609b481d9623a597ccd34f275a.txt e2af7369ed2f3d7ba190554b26175634 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 the circus Friday, May 28 - 65 *Harvey is Rick Dear Lorrie - thanks for the letter. The owner of the Beatty circus sent his chauffeur down to Washington for us - in an air-conditioned $10,000 Cadillac, just as promised. There wasn't room for most of our things including your stuff - and we left a note for Jean to send it collect by Railway Express. We are advertised as the world's greatest knife-throwing act. Yesterday they took pictures of the cats, all together in a group. May send you one later. She has not yet. These pics are great. No word yet if our act will go on the road with the circus or not. They are full up - wanted to "beef up" their show for Philadelphia. So - ? - They had no way to carry us. We have no car, so, fools. Mr Fuller, expecting our whole family as he saw it in Hyattsville, had a beautiful motel room ready for us - at $17.00 a day. Ha ha! TV & all. We took another smaller room. We've been here a week. To tell you all the action that has occurred, would entail writing a full length book. Losh, we need a permanent address so agents can contact us. I'm going to give you as my permanent address, & you forward my mail to me. Okay? For instance, the father of our great flying trapeze act - all his sons & daughters (he's a clown) - wants to get us booked with Mexico's biggest circus in Mexico City - Bell Circus for a month there. But he'll need a permanent address to contact me, cause I'll be gone from here. === Page 2 of 10 Our day goes like this: Flag goes up (red) in front of cook tent at 12 noon, which is signal for all performers to go eat. Food is excellent. All you want, plus big pitchers of hot coffee. Bean has been too excited to eat. From doing absolutely nothing in Washington, to doing everything here, has lit him up like a light-bulb. We have a 12:30 to 1:00 show call - we go to our giant tent (this isn't what you saw at Hyattsville - Beatty has three combined giant shows) and go onto our stage, where our board is set up. Inside the tent it looks like this: Entrance (FRONT) ESCAPE ARTIST Scotch Man Bo Bo Rubber man MYSTINA Electric Girl Sealo - Half man, Half seal CROWD (TIP) BUCK - 8 1/2 FT. TALL BO RUNNING AROUND Barney - Fire Eater Duke The Hawaiian Steel - Magician Bogarde's Lovella Fat Man Tiny - 762 lbs. Count - trick act on skating table PEANUTS SWORD SWALLOWER Blade Box Illusion (swords thru girl) 08/08/2025 16:23 === Page 3 of 10 Sun. May 30 - Jean hasn't sent our things yet! Last night while Bobo The Rubber Man was doing his act one of the marks (crowd) jumped on his platform and heckled him. So Bobo picked up his barrel and hit the mark on the head with it, knocking him off the platform. Let's take the acts. See page 2 - the chart. Bobo is very famous, written up by Ripley's Believe It or Not. He's from the Ringling Circus where he was Emmett Kelly's partner. One thing he does is step inside a narrow barrel bend over put his head, shoulders & arms down inside the barrel - & push the barrel up over him. He somehow gets both legs up back of him - back of his shoulders - and swings on his hands. He's without a doubt one of the world's best contortionists. He filled us in a lot on psychology of the crowds, how they think & act. Now pass on to Myetina, The Electric Girl's platform. She's a pretty blond in gold tights, who stands on a plate which charges her up with electricity. If you hand her a light bulb it lights up. If you touch a kerosene-soaked torch to her hand or tongue - it bursts into flame. Lots of things like that. Sealo is advertised as half-man half-seal. He was born with little teensy flippers attached to his shoulders. He's very happy, shows the crowd how he shaves and eats, etc (he's a regular sleight-of-hand artist with those flippers.) Also he's the "circus philosopher." All the acts like to hang around Sealo's stand because he's always so happy & jolly. He's really so. (Sealo keeps yelling at Bo and flipping him chewing gum.) Buck is the Giant. He's also crazy about Bo and picking him up and plays with him constantly. He's 8 1/2 feet tall and at our eating table in the cookhouse he sits in the center and can reach any part or end of the table. You'll see Buck the Giant, Sealo & all the rest soon so get this pic copied & send it to you. Buck was in Disney movie "Jack & Beanstalk". Bricky is the finest Fire Eater in the world. Any of the most difficult fire-eating tricks he can do. Last year he told us he was badly burned in Canada doing the "blast" - this for fire eaters is like a triple-somersault to the trapeze people. To do the blast he fills his mouth with a whisky glass of gasoline and somehow spews it out in a fan where he lights it with his torches. In Canada, just as he sprayed it === Page 4 of 10 and the wind blew through the tent & blew the flames back onto him - burning off all his hair, etc, & roasting his face. Steel, the magician, came from the Ringling Circus. A 25-yr. old kid, he was "inside talker" on the mike - directing the crowds from act to act. Unfortunately his act came just before ours. Every time he did his act the crowd would walk away from him, half-way through his act, to our platform, wanting to see the knives. This made him furious, and the first two days he'd cut our act short on purpose. Jealous. He'd do knives around & set up for teeth balloon or blindfold - & he'd send the crowd on. But the manager got him straightened out. Then some brunette he liked in the crowd dated him one night. She was married. He "went to New York" the next day. The following day, when he "got back" the husband & the girl's father were at the circus gunning for him. The girl had vanished. She hasn't been found yet. Evidently he's a good magician. Next act - Bogarde & Lovella. My knives in that champagne bucket I bought - look good. Also Peanuts (I'll get to him) loaned me 10 knives he used to use. We'd open with knives around (20 knives covering board.) Then teeth balloon. Then blindfold. We did the shield a few times. We only had time for 2-3 stunts. They use code words. Manager walks around in front of each platform & holds his fingers close together means "short act" - "fast" - because the tip crowd must be rushed to the Blade Box where they make extra money. If he stretches his fingers far apart, means do a long act. If they say over the mike "Is Johnny Robinson in the crowd" then all acts do short acts, to rush the tip out to make room for a new tip. Bo was a hell of a problem. First two days Martha would hold him back of the platform until our act began, then we'd ask a nearby act to hold him until we finished. Finally we discovered if we just him down in the center of the tent he'd play & run & watch the acts - & we could watch him from the platform. Everybody was crazy about him & they'd keep an eye on him too. If he tried to sneak out the front of the tent then Duke the Hawaiian, beating the tom-toms, would shoosh him back inside. === Page 5 of 10 grabbed one of the Duke's tom-tom sticks away from him & the Duke had to chase him all over the tent to get it back. Bo finally (he's very sharp) discovered by watching kids trying to sneak under the tent in, that he could lift the tent & sneak out. Boy! First time he vanished we found him on a kiddy-ride outside, having a ball. He just went over & got in a car & rode & rode & rode. The operators nearly died laughing. They all got to know him cause Martha took him on all the pony rides, car rides, etc (they had 80 different rides.) Bo would swagger around the tent like a grown up man, beaming at people, petting babies. One colored woman had a pretty 2 yr. old colored girl by the hand. Bo grimy dirty by this time in late afternoon, walked over to the little girl. Her face lighted up in a big smile & she held out her tiny hand. Bo took her hand and the 3 went hand in hand around the tent. Finally a colored teenager son of the colored woman came into the tent & went up to his mother. He saw Bo, his face registered utter astonishment & he pointed a finger at Bo & yelled "Where did he come from?" Only once did Bo elude us. I searched high & low. Finally went to the police van. There he was sitting in a chair, calmly jabbering in that Chinese way of his at the cops. I identified myself and one cop said to me, "This is impossible, Bogarde. Your boy is talking Korean!" I said ha ha. But he was serious. "He absolutely is," he said. "I spent years in Korea, I talk in Korean to him & he answers me." You figure that one out. During the day a half-dozen cops clambered onto our platform, at my invitation, put down their billy clubs & learned knife-throwing. They ate it up. And they told me things about their work. In the race riots here weeks ago negros dumped bushel baskets of bricks off the roof tops onto the cops below. One cop is in the hospital from being struck by the bricks, not expected to live. Then the negros poured Drano down onto the cops. De Feo, who told me about it, had a shotgun at the time. === Page 6 of 10 6 It was on the rooftop trying to get these negros. One day they caught a negro who had just flung a can of Drano down onto some cops. De Feo's partner was real mad about it and when their sergeant hollered up from the street, "Get that damn Drano-thrower down here fast" De Feo's partner picked up the negro & threw him off the roof into the street below. They told me many fascinating stories, while I taught them. Next act, Tiny the Fat Man. 6 ft 3, 762 lbs. Bad-tempered, hates people. He just sits there & sells pictures. They had to pile 15 coke cases together to make a chair for him. Tiny is not jolly. One day he slowly, laboriously got himself off the platform and massively moved to the cookhouse for lunch. But they were an hour late. So he bawled out the cook. (Now, he eats a loaf of bread, 2 dozen eggs, 2 lbs. of bacon, and 3 pots of coffee just for breakfast.) Well the cook complained to the manager, & the manager told Tiny to apologize to the cook. Tiny refused to do so, and from that time on refused to eat in the cookhouse. He'd wait until the show was over, then take a cab downtown & eat somewhere. We knew how this hurt Tiny, because he's the tightest man with a dime you've ever seen. Our last day he astonished all the acts by holding out his hand to little Bo, who took it, and Tiny shook his little hand with a smile. Since Tiny is cold as ice, this puzzled everybody, including us. Next, The Count one of our best friends. Colored, colorful, tremendous personality. Been all over the world. Uses a special table with heavy iron legs. To fast jazz music he leaps onto the table on roller skates and tap dances & roller skates like mad. A terrific entertainer. He held Bo for us the most. Now, Peanuts came next, until he got fired, and that's quite a story. Peanuts swallowed bayonets, clothes hangers, swords, etc. In Indian with wild eyes, he'd dash off between shows to the === Page 7 of 10 2 nearest bar and drink. He also drank some kind of dope. He had a rep as a bad, very bad man. But he quickly made friends with me. (What I didn't know was he wanted to take over our knife act.) He took me to his car and took out 10 knives he had made & used. Told me to use them - that his eyes were bad. I said I'd buy them. He said, well I could use the knives during my stint, and he'd consider selling them to me. Two days later, before my show he asked for his knives - said he'd like to practice on my board. I gave them to him but he went out to his car. At showtime he came in and handed them to me in a stack. I put the stack in my bucket & went on to do the show. On the 3rd throw I felt terrific pain in my fingers. There I was, halfway thru knives around, about 300 people watching us. I glanced down & saw two fingers ripped open, deep. Without pausing I grinned at the crowd to cover my slight pause, licked my fingers to get up the blood, & proceeded to finish the act. After the crowd passed on I went to the board & examined that 3rd knife, which had bounced out of the board. Peanuts had taken pliers and twisted the point around so that there were two razor-sharp projections guaranteed to ruin any hand. I used PK instantly, and the cuts were completely healed within hours. Naturally the shows couldn't stop, so I adapted a grip utilizing other fingers. I called Len, acct. mgr. over, showed him the gaffed knife. Then came the double-cross. He went to Peanuts, bought the knives for himself (discovered he wanted to start a knife act - he'd been showing me handcuff escapes in exchange for knife lessons.) Then they fired Peanuts. This made me furious, because I'd been double-crossed. I feel sorry for anyone using those knives after this - & was sporting enough when I left to warn Len that those knives had better not be used around a live target. You understand? === Page 8 of 10 3) Next, the Blade Box. A pretty girl gets in the box and 13 long swords are run thru it at every angle. Then for a dime the crowd can walk back of the box & see how the girl has eluded the knives. This is a real money-maker. Worked fine until the magician, who performed it, vanished for a day, and a sub came in to do it -- and cut the girl twice, putting the knives in. (He didn't give her time enough to guide the blades past her.) The first Blade Box girl, Jane, was secretly smooching with Fuller, the owner (as well as about 20 other assorted males around) until Fuller's wife arrived. Then the girl got fired & they used Julie (Mystina) to run over after her act & do the Blade Box. There are dozens of exciting & wonderful things I could tell you about if I could just think of them. Oh, last nite I almost got ran over by a camel. Those things are like trains! I was standing inside the tent when suddenly the side of the tent lifted and a camel plunged right at me -- knocking the steel tent pole into my arm. I jumped out of the way & Bob, the elephant tender, ran the camel out the opposite side. The crowd was at the opposite end of the tent & they'd decided to run the camels thru our tent to load them in trucks. Just as I was recovering from the shock of this, another damn camel came busting under the flaps at me. It was out of control & just missed me. They got it & took it out. Lots of excitement. We got paid & after advances & 50.00 deductions for taxes -- we had 3.00 left, after hotel rent. I sold my watch for 20.00. Sound familiar? Ha ha! We love you, and Harvey. Be a good girl, and help Harvey be a good boy. (It's your job, as big sister.) Dad ---------- over for P.S. 08/08/2025 16:23 === Page 9 of 10 P.S.: Oh, second day with circus tornado warning came. They got everybody out of tents for 4 hrs (very dangerous in a tent during windstorm.) Martha & baby & I crouched behind the elephants, which were flattened up against a high brick wall. Things were flying thru the air -- must have been 50-75 mph wind. Rained for several days. (Naturally.) Incidentally, have taken off rain PK -- put up sun sata inside PK cover. Harvey knows what this means. Drought -- everywhere. Heat. No water. You'll be reading about it. Worst summer in history of U.S. They asked for it, & they deserve it. Love, Dad (PK Man) (Bogardé) turn page over -- P.P.S. Thumbs down to us meant "the front is off" i.e. no more tip (crowd) to bring in, so they hung "closed" on the outside -- put chains across the front, & closed the tent-flaps. So if a tip was still in the tent, we did one more show for that tip, & were off for a half-hour to 2 hrs., depending on the day. Mon., Tues., Wed., we didn't work too hard. Each day the crowds grow progressively. Fri., Sat., & Sun. are hard days. One show after another in "grind" fashion. If the "grind" is on they really roll. === Page 10 of 10 P.P.P.S. Martha reminded me of some things -- While we were doing our act, several times, we noticed that Bo had left the center of the tent, gotten behind our platform, and was climbing up the steep steps of our flat-bed truck to get to us. So, with a knife in my hand I'd hiss at Count or somebody for heaven's sake get the kid. They did, every time but once! That time he got loose & I was winding up for a throw with the crowd looking on -- and Bo slowly appeared in front of me -- between me & Martha -- dragging his blanket. I waved him on (hoping he'd go on past) and he did, and we completed the act. The crowd roared. It looked like it was rehearsed. Then, between shows, one day Martha yelled "Look out!" I looked around & Bo who was up on the platform with us, had sneaked over, reached up & pulled a knife out of my bucket, toddled over to the board, and threw the knife at the board. He was to do this many many times. Evidently, watching us from the ground he'd observed this and was imitating. Also he'd go up to the board like Martha, stand exactly in the center, facing me with a grin, & point to the knife-bucket. I found a fine cig lighter, a beautiful ring for Martha, a hat for Bo, during the circus. Many of the acts brought him gifts -- three dolls, from Duke, a doll and candy from the Scotch Bagpiper (82 years old -- a hero of WWI -- chewing gum from Seals, boxes of crackerjack from Fuller & the Scotchman -- Buck the Giant a toy dog -- Brisky a toy. Martha, one into, carrying Bo, fell over a chair and skinned her knees badly -- and Bo's head hit the ground real hard. At the cookhouse, alongside Buck the Giant The Fire Eater, the Magician, etc, Bo sat on a plastic crate to reach his plate (he got full meals with everybody else.) One man who operated a dandy hamburger stand on the midway, always gave Bo free a 15¢ pack of cream puffs, or a doughnut. I asked him why he kept it up (about 8-10 times) "Because," he said, "the kid brings me luck. Business always picks up after he's been here." 08/08/2025 16:23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 05 The Circus https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/31a80350f1e32f22b909063b2ca8ee60.pdf 6442ca84e2b7ecc10fc87ef41561c9e9 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/59540c39f7d61b50f715d5de5e83b707.txt cafdbfdd16774a72b73075c3c96f6f40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 140 1/3/65 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence. Dear George: My letter to you of December 28: "The Si's are getting restless...they are going tonudge the United States....I think it would be an earthquake...so, within the next few days or few weeks....." Four days later, Jan. 1, on the front page of the Phila. Bulletin: ""Tremor Is Felt In N.Y., Penna. - "A 15-20 second earth tremor (earthquake) was felt Saturday at 8:24 A.M. in parts of western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and southern Ontario Province in Canada.........." Now, this was small...not a disaster area, George...and when I made inquiry with the Si's, this was the intelligence I received: The Si's are not trying to be overly destructive; they could have made this 7, 8 or 9 on the Richter Scale if they wanted...but it is in the nature of a warning, for now. Merely a warning that they mean what they say, and to look out if we do not pay attention. Also their quick reaction to my letter to you is to underline my letter's validity. They add: they are not from outer space, as some other UFO intelligences are. They are from another dimension. There is a difference. P K Man (Owens) Dad 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 2 of 140 1-3-65 P2 # Tremor Is Felt In N. Y., Penna. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 1 (AP). -- A 15-to-20-second earth tremor was felt Saturday at 8:24 A. M. (EST) in parts of western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and southern Ontario Province in Canada. No injuries or property damage was reported, authorities said. Dr. Austin McTigue, director of the physics department and in charge of the seismograph at Canisius College, said he believed that the tremor originated in the Attica-Warsaw area of Wyoming county in New York State, where there is a known active fault or fracture in the crust of the earth. FRONT PAGE SUNDAY 1/1/66 Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 3 of 140 1-3-65 p3 Mr. Dunne Chief, Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunne: I will make you one of the most unusual offers you have ever had. If you will check my previous correspondence, you will know that I have made some startling discoveries (I claim) in the field of weather control... and specifically in the field of hurricane control. I will make you the following proposition: I will guarantee that Florida will be free from hurricane attack and damage in 1966 (clear through hurricane season to January 1, 1967) for a fee of $100,000. $10,000 down if the proposition is accepted; the balance to be paid on January 1, 1967, if no hurricane hits or damages Florida during the year 1966. This fee is small, compared to the damage one single hurricane can do to Florida (like Betsy). Also, the fee is not as much as that paid to some pro football players. Now...if I fail to keep my guarantee good...then you may have me put in prison for fraud (because I will use the down-payment of $10,000 on renting a house, expenses, etc., in Miami.) That is the confidence I have in my rare and unique ability... I will bet my winning, against a prison sentence for fraud. Should you be interested in my unorthodox approach to weather-control protection for Miami, and Florida, for 1966, contact me as soon as possible. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 4 of 140 2/6/65 p1 (Copy of first UFO message received, at night, at 418 Peabody St., NW, Washington, D.C., with Lormie and Rick present) February 6, 1965 (First came five symbols...triangle, rectangle, "A" "B" "C" - and I realized that the UFO's were testing, much as I would test a microphone, to see if it was working.) They: Can't come (in answer to my request that they come down) - later. Me: Can you knock down satellites up in the sky, as a signal to me that this is real? They: We will go find them and blot out. Me: When can we meet? They: We know you. We are friends. Tonight is late for us. Power low. Keep open! mind. We will be back with you. Your needs will be met. A study is being made of how to bring this about. Why are your people crazy? Your earth is disorganized. We would like to help organize it. We did once before, long ago in your time. People wore robes, as you call them, then, and wore boards, hair on their faces. Me: Can you give me an instrument with which I could demonstrate unusual powers, to convince earth-people that you are real? For instance, a "magic pencil" wand? They: You could not use what you call a "pencil" but it is a good idea, and we will send you a tool for the purpose. You will know...repeat...know you have talked with us tonight. We will arrange next few days to be seen by your people and by that method you will know we are making a signal for you. Count the number of different places we are seen, and this will be the number of days before we are able to contact you again. A magnetic condition makes it hard for us to get through to you at all times. You have a question now? Me: I need $5,000 to buy a car and go across country to meet you. This is money. They: Yes, we know money, but do not use it. (They talk among themselves) Can you use diamonds? Me: Yes, of course, to get the money. They: We have a lot of diamonds. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 5 of 140 2/6/65 p2 2 Me: Perhaps you could fly over me and drop me a supply of diamonds. They: We will think on it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons. Me: I am tired. Not used to this. They: Yes. We did not think. Goodbye now, friend. (Next time they "came in" like osmosis was the evening of March 6, 1965.) They: Do not go away, far, Viet Nam. Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully...there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life, of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shells (people) bodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not. (I got the impression they mean that there are UFO entities which have somehow entered human bodies, and therefore, since they are enemies of these UFO entities, will try to do away with me.) Me: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? They: We can and we will. But you must not go there! Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish, to communicate with fish? We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us. Me: I will. (That same evening, later on, they "came in" again) They: Are you ready? 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 6 of 140 2/6/65 p3 3 Me: Yes. They: We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (My transistor radio.) Me: I did. They: Can't get through tonight very good - ver well. Do you have a car-machine? Me: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That is why I need money. They: We are going to take care of that....money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long. We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down? Me: Yes, to my back door. I'll let you in. They: Will you be alone? Me: Yes. I'll have my family stay upstairs. They: No harm will come to us? Me: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near my back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased, and anxious to meet you. They: Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people...your government... that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep. Me: Thank you. They: You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one. Me: My child is sick. Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (Brenda Sue Pennington. Will you heal them? They: We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time is to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again. Me: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? They: Many times. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 7 of 140 2/6/65 p4 4 Me: When are you coming to see me? They: Tonight we will try. Flash your light (flashlight) upward every hour as long as you can. Me: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? They: We can. Me: I'll also leave a light on so you can see. They: No. Turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. Me: Where are you from? They: Some - Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye, now. Me: Yes, goodbye. ---------- Note: I set up the scene; put the family upstairs, got the flashlight and blinked it for a long while, but no contact. However, during the previous three weeks many flying saucers had been sighted over Washington, D.C., and over nearby Virginia. The night of February 6, many were seen over Washington...and it was written up in the papers. Then....I thought no more about it, since proof was not forthcoming...until the UFO over the South Pole, while I was in Philadelphia, made my prediction come true in detail. There could no longer be any doubt at all, about my having communicated with them, as far as I am concerned. Lornie & Rick can be reached for confirmation: Lornie & Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage St. #3 Inglewood, Calif. 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 8 of 140 Show this to Pat. She appreciates creative beauty--and this is!! 2/10/65? Happy Birthday card...made by hand by Lornie and Rick, for Daddy's 45th birthday. It is utterly beautiful....like the inside of the old car that Rick fixed up. This card has a black outside border, with gold sheet in center, and Chinese lettering saying Happy Birthday inside...also a tree showing fruit, and a Chinese pagoda with what looks just like a flying saucer over it. Inside, the verse, which I consider absolutely priceless: "From this house of confusion There comes this saying - "The Honorable PK Man Great man of our house Spreads his mighty branches Beneath his thunder and his rain Where another of his leaves flutters away with the wind. But as the leaf flies, he grows - another root To the vast ground of the understanding of Nature. Where there eventually will lie golden fruit." Happy Birthday, Harv & Beau Lornie Mamma 08/02/2025 14:44 === Page 9 of 140 ② 3/9/65 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, at 2 S. Pole Bases # Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it sued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 10 of 140 Tuesday, March 9, 1965 Dear George: There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man === Page 11 of 140 7/9/65 ad THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, F ### Sighted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 12 of 140 Tuesday March 9, 1965 COPY 3/9/65 Dear George: Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from the office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, Minn., interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or identification...the party said they would call back...but they never did. So...I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out this week at Gelman. Anyway, back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding success I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current trend of the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change the climate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. This can be done with PK as easily as bringing about storms...knocking down planes...putting officials in the hospital, etc. I regret Mr. McCone's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, I am sure. I imagine if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped in a parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July ('64) the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye turned down; and over a dozen rockers and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK effecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain /s/ PK Man === Page 13 of 140 COPY Lomie & Rick 7/9/65 p1 PRESIDENT JOHNSON July 9, 1965 Dear Mr. President: This letter should be the most interesting letter to yourself, as far as you are concerned, in your entire lifetime. Why? Because it proves conclusively that "P K Man" and all of the unusual things claimed by P K Man, are genuine and real. Simply check with the CIA. I sent "George Clark" of CIA a letter on March 9, 1965: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it." There you are, President Johnson. This morning, you can read in your newspaper, the following: "Flying Saucer Is Reported - Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "....It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well...Nature has proved that it is using me as its representative, just as it said it would...by affecting the South Pole's magnetic condition. Has anyone else lately, in the CIA or the State Department, been able to make such a prediction? I tell you that I am the most valuable human being right now in the entire world, simply because Nature and I can communicate! And the U.S. Government has access to all of this vast power of Nature, which is linked to me...and refuses to use it! Rejects it! Incredible. Respectfully, but very sadly Because I know what is ahead.......... P. K. Man c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 14 of 140 Lornie & Rick 7/9/65 p2 July 9, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, what do you know...after successfully predicting dozens of major happenings (missing only a few times, on space shots) it seems I have missed again! In my letter to you of March 14, 1965, I predicted President Johnson would be gravely ill by June. Tch; tch! Now, how could I have missed that one? And I have been so very very accurate in the past. Also, in the same letter I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it. Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with "sore feet." General Maxwell Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell. And the U.S. drought is getting worse now, isn't it...yet no one will take a wild chance, and let P K Man go to work with PK and Nature, to end the drought. Oh yes, I could go ahead and do it on my own....but I cannot, George, because Nature calls the shots, gives me instructions, brings about the results....and Nature insists that the U.S. Government do it Nature's way. Nature is, after all, most concerned because the U.S. Government has put itself above and beyond Nature....so that now Nature is going to prove, bit by painful bit, that such is not so...that Nature is much mightier than all of the money and hydrogen bombs and power of the U.S., or any other country. Now, here is another thing of VERY GREAT interest to CIA...see my letter to you of March 9, 1965, 4th paragraph: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places....and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: This is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see." All right, this morning in the paper was the clipping: "Flying Saucer Is Reported" "Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "..........It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well, well, George Clark! Now what do you make of that? My prediction of March 9, seems to have been remarkably accurate for July 9, yes? Incidentally, I saw a picture in Life mag of two of the midwest tornadoes (where about 80 tornadoes and near-tornadoes struck) and these two tornadoes in the Life 1 pic were lighted up by lightning. Well, they didn't look like tornadoes to me. I have the picture, and wish I could talk to you about it further. P M MAN (Owens) 08/02/2025 14:49 === Page 15 of 140 July 10, 1965 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: Copy - Lonnie - Rick (Send me cigars & cigarettes, kids. They'll probably come for me.) Enclosed is an exact copy of a letter written by myself and sent to Mr. "George Clark" of your CIA, at Washington 25, D. C. It was sent on March 9, 1965. Notice the paragraph marked in red. Now, four months later, comes the proof, referred to in the marked paragraph. See the newspaper clipping attached to this copy of the letter, taken from yesterday's newspaper. Put the two items together, and you have concrete, absolute proof...that all of my past correspondence to you, and the CIA, and NASA, and the State Department...is valid and true, no matter if it sounded fantastic. And, of course, it did sound fantastic. Only myself, and my family, know that it was true, and now you also, can know it. Mr. Dunn, of the CIA, was interested in knowing the "causal factor" of my "PK" phenomena. At the time I spoke with him, all I could tell him was that the causal factor was the intelligence behind Nature, with which I had managed to arrange a communication, or method of communicating. However, now we know differently. The causal factor, for Mr. Dunn's information, and your own, as well, seems to be these 'flying saucers' - whatever they are. But, whatever they are, they can: Cause earthquakes to occur; cause fires to start; cause people to become ill, singly or en masse; cause floods and tornados and hurricanes; cause planes to explode in mid-air, or on the ground, and so on. These are some of their destructive abilities. Their main purpose is to stop the warfare on earth; the killing, the hate, the black negativism now so current, world-wide. When these saucers telepathically contacted me, and had me relay this information on March 9 to George Clark, of your CIA...then actually gave the needed proof on July 7, over the South Pole...by changing the electro-magnetic condition of the area, and then getting the action put into the newspapers...just as described in my letter of March 9...they not only gave the U.S. Government the proof that it needs, but the actual letter of March 9 must be read more closely...the rest of the material in it...for these saucers, you must remember, are using my mind, my eyes, my voice...for communication...and they will use my typing, also. I am sure that there is other information in that letter which the saucers want the U.S. to know about, and believe. Now, at the time I typed that information, and sent it to CIA, I was perplexed. Because always, before I was told that a storm would happen, or an earthquake, or that people would get sick and go to the hospital. But to be told that "Nature" would change the electro-magnetic condition at the N. and/or S. Pole, and then get it put into the newspapers, as proof that I was representing "Nature" - seemed ridiculous to me, and I hated to send that paragraph to Mr. Clark, because for one thing it seemed impossible that anything could change the magnetic condition at the Poles, and then for it to be publicized also seemed impossible. But of course, I didn't reckon on a "flying saucer" to make it possible. The fact that it was brought about...was done in this manner...by this tremendous intelligence which has been running hurricanes across Florida, etc etc...is an indication of its tremendous knowledge. Any other 09/22/2025 11:45 === Page 16 of 140 7/10/65 p2 phenomena, such as storms, planes falling, etc., that I have predicted to the CIA and NASA...could be pointed to as accidental, or a coincidence, or that it is just good guessing, or that perhaps I am precognitive, but that is all. Now you, the President, and the U.S. Government, stand notified that this is not so. It is not all indeed. I have all of the power of these "flying saucers" and their intelligent beings, in back of me. A study, or analysis of my previous voluminous correspondence, will readily show you how all this has come about, and how it has been brought about. My own children have seen me sketch on a paper the route I have wanted Hurricane Cleo in '64 to take...and a route contradictory to that given by the Weather Bureau...and the hurricane changed direction, not once but several times, to follow my routing - not only my routing, but to pause for a long interval in two places and just sit there and swirl around. Now you, and I, can understand more about this...how it was done. Somehow these saucers either create these hurricanes, or are the hurricanes. The intelligences running these saucers do not, of course, speak English, and must rely on methods of contacting some human on earth telepathically in order to converse with the peoples on earth. This they have been trying to do by landing, then speaking to one or two people in that isolated spot...but of course the humans they have approached have been too frightened or apprehensive to cooperate. My make-up is so peculiar, and perhaps resembles their own so much, in the mind...that they have somehow managed to break through and reach my mind. It is a two-way communication, in that I can signal them and talk to them also...not in words, but in mental pictures of what is wanted, or needed. Visual imagery. President Johnson, let me speak frankly. Your life is in great danger. Not from me, that would be ridiculous. I understand you, and like you. So understand that this is no threat from myself against you. I know that you could have the Secret Service pick me up today and throw me into prison for writing the above, just on suspicion. But I am trusting in your good judgment not to have this done, for this is no personal threat of mine. I am interested right now only in providing a home and background for my family. But, what I mean in the above, when I say that your life is in great danger, is that these "saucer" intelligences will not hesitate to eliminate you, in their own way, if you persist in not listening to them, or in paying attention to them. They are trying desperately to avert a nuclear war on this earth...and temporarily you are standing in their way!...because you will not recognize me as their representative, and be guided by them, through me. Not to mention the power they wish to place at our disposal, once we listen to them, and begin cooperating. Again I reiterate...I am warning you only as a friend warns a friend. I am not threatening you. Believe me, you could book me into the White House tomorrow to do my knife-throwing act, and you could stand in Louella's place, and I would throw my knives around you without touching you. That is how safe you are, and would be, with me. I am talking about are those "saucers". === Page 17 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Harvey July 12, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: "Nature" or the "saucers" or whatever the intelligence is...wants me to tell the U.S. Government what IT wishes from the U.S. Government. So, below, is what It wishes. Incidentally, I was against writing this, for myself, in my own mind...yet this vast, powerful Intelligence insisted that I send this to you, so will do it. (a) Wants the U.S. Govt. to provide me with $100,000, tax-free, so that I can fix my wife and child up with a home in Texas, plus all necessities; get tools which I will need; and take myself to Europe. The money is to last a year, at which time another $100,000 is to be provided, for the rest of my life (which might not be long, if the Russ get to me.) (b) They want me to be given a permit to carry a gun for protection, and want me to have a guard at all times. Say, a Special Forces judo and gun expert, to accompany me wherever I go. (c) They want the U.S. Government to furnish me with a mountain hideaway in Europe, preferably an isolated castle...yes, they stress this heavily...a castle in an isolated spot. Even if I would have to live in discomfort in one room of the darn thing...they want me to be placed in a castle, in an isolated location, in Europe. That is what comes through, loud and clear. I take it they will then attempt to approach me with their machines, and in person, as soon as they are certain that just myself and my bodyguard are in the area. (d) They want the complete story of "P K Man" sent all around the world, for TV and newspaper coverage. Not to advertise P K Man, who can do nothing of himself, but to advertise the fact that the saucers are here, are for real, are at work doing certain things...what some of those things are...and what the aims of the saucers are. And that they, the saucers, are communicating with me, P K Man, and are back of the United States Govt. in bringing peace to the world. (e) Now, don't laugh at this George...I am only repeating what I am told to tell you, just like the March 9 letter. They want a 2-hour TV appearance of P K Man with Pres. Johnson, to lay the entire matter out for the world to know about. Why? Because, they want to scare the Russians and Chinese into line. And, they state, they will back it all up with action, as needed. Just like they backed up the March 9 letter...and other things, earlier. Their suggestion is to open the TV 2-hour show with something that will get the interest of the world immediately...and hold it. Not the usual yakkity political openings...but President Johnson standing in front of a knife-board, and my knives hitting all around him, while he just stands, with a look of boredom on his face. This to show the world his bravery, fearlessness, and spirit of daring. It would tremendously impress much of the people's of the world, and it his highly doubtful if any other President would attempt to equal his feat. Also, and just as important, it would serve to introduce P K Man.... and rivet the attention of the peoples of the world onto the TV screen, as nothing else would. Then for the remainder of the 2 hours, President Johnson would go over the storm-making, hurricanes, etc etc., with P K Man...and it would be brought out that the saucers are on our side, and so forth. This also would make quite an impression on the peoples of the world. (f) I must have freedom at all times...to get where I want...and do what I want...because 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 18 of 140 7/12/65 p2 Page Two since they contact me through telepathic pictures, they wouldn't want me to be rigidly held in any one place...but free to come and go, as necessary. (g) They want me to have quick communication with President Johnson, so that they can tell him things that the U.S. might not know at any given time, which could help us, or he could ask them to perform certain things...which would benefit in bringing about good for the world in general. And they state they are excellent judges of what that might be. There it is...George. I do not hear voices; am not hallucinating. Am not having "delusions of grandeur" or "change-of-life" troubles. I will stack up my predictions and 'hits' against those of any ESP worker. Of course I do not expect any action or answer for the U.S. Government...have been trying too long now, for that. But I have delivered this message, which is what They want. And it's done. Respectfully, P K Man, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Rm. 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 19 of 140 Copy - Lornie + Quick July 14, 1965 Mr. H. Mat Adams Alternate Chairman Delaware River Basin Commission 25 Scotch Road Suburban Square Trenton, New Jersey Reply to: 601 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dear Mr. Adams: With reference to my letter to you of several weeks ago, in regard to alleviating the drought in your area....I appreciate the courtesy of your letter of July 12, 1965, in answer. Especially in view of the fact that my "mysterious suggestion" was not conducive to any serious consideration. However, Mr. Adams, I assure you that the circumstances are unusual, to say the least. Now I am going to tell you something that you will not believe...but it was I who caused the hurricanes of 1964 to hit the area of Cape Kennedy, and Michoud Missile Complex in Louisiana. It was I who caused the floods on the West Coast at Christmas that the newspapers said could never happen again in 1,000 years. And I caused the Midwest tornados and floods, recently. I do not expect you to believe this, of course, even though it is quite true. But I would suggest that you, if you are interested, contact Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D. C., and tell them of the proposition I made you...which costs you absolutely nothing except maintenance of myself and wife and child for a short while. Of course, when the rains and floods come, and you have water enough for years, with the drought completely broken...then my fee still stands. The CIA know of my work. They should tell you, in effect: This man has done some strange things that we can't explain. He could be just an eccentric, a "nut" - however, there are things that he has done which would not fit into the "nut" category, and we would recommend that you give his abilities a try, at least...since the cost is negligible. Should he do what he claims to be able to do, cause rains and storms and floods that will end the drought, it would certainly be worth the fee. I must tell you in all sincerity, Mr. Adams....the drought will get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse. I do not care what you try in order to alleviate it...seeding, etc., it will not work. There is only one source which can bring your area rain in constant and great amounts necessary to end the drought on the East Coast, which has been in effect for some years. That one source is myself. Should you decide to try me, later on, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, either at the current address...or c/o Lornie Owens, Shannon, 505 S. Osage, Inglewood, California. If you want the drought ended in the Delaware River Basin, Mr. Adams, you will most certainly be able to find the small amount of funds necessary to keep me and my wife and child while I break your drought for you. And I will even make you a more sporting proposition than that. If I do not completely break and end your drought within three months time (that has lasted for === Page 20 of 140 7-14-65 P2 2 years) then I will repay you any monies which you have spent in maintaining myself and wife and child for that brief period of time. What could be fairer? Perhaps you should know the entire story, Mr. Adams. As fantastic as it is, you should know it. The tremendous intelligences of the "flying saucers" are in communication with me - the only human being on earth that they can actually converse with, in their own way. For the past months they have been trying to prove this fact to the U.S. Govt., which quite naturally refused to believe it. It was only just recently that they identified themselves..........before that I did not know what it was that was causing storms when I wanted them, where I wanted them...and other things to happen as well. They are now in the process of letting the ...our ... world know that they are real, they are here, and they have great power which we do not have. They do, in fact, want to frighten us with their powers. Their purpose is to stop the warfare now going on; block any possibility of further war; and get people and minds straightened out in the world. In effect, give the world a 10 to 20 year "breather" of peace and true brotherly-love - without war, without hate, without all of the conditions which are now wrecking the world as we know it. The saucers control our weather, when they wish. They can start tornados and hurricanes, and somehow they can guide them. The saucers at this time are creating a world-wide condition of drought. They will dry up the entire earth and make water scarce. This will cause sickness, an imbalance in Nature which will cause trouble with insects, reptiles, etc. Since New York is perhaps the most widely-known part of the U.S., it will be made a drought-example, as well as the entire area surrounding it. Unless, that is, the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. recognize the saucer intelligences, and take steps to ally our government with the saucer intelligences. It is very comical but somewhat sad that at the present time we are desperately trying to woo Hanoi and Russia and DeGaulle, for peace and political discussions...when we should, and had better, turn our efforts toward making friends with the saucer intelligences. You can check this... I wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin newspapers, several weeks ago, informing them that I was here, asking for a write-up, and announcing that I would make a big rainstorm for Phila. All right. I brought the storm last Saturday and Sunday. It was very good. And I intend to bring more "freak" weather into this pinpointed Philadelphia area. I talked to two different reports at the Bulletin here, telling them that I would make the big rainstorm. New York City, and the entire New York-New Jersey area, etc., could have rainstorm after rainstorm...constant rain - with The Rainmaker working. Very truly yours, PK Man THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Caman Hotel, 12th & Walnut === Page 21 of 140 July 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Copy - Kids Dear George: I will have to admit that any Tom, Dick or Harry could write to Cape Kennedy and say, "I am going to cause lightning to strike your rockets, and make hurricanes hit your area." Then lightning does strike one of the Cape's biggest rockets, which sits on a lightning-proof pad. But - this is just a co-incidence. Could happen to anyone, or any Cape. Soon several hurricanes do hit the area of the Cape; but this, also, could be a co-incidence. Anyone could predict, "There will be a major earthquake on the West Coast within a few days -" and then when the quake actually hits Oregon and Washington, the very next day - it could be just a co-incidence. Too, anyone could write the newspapers and government agencies that he would actually cause rainstorms and blizzards and floods in vast and unprecedented amounts, as a 1964 Christmas gift for the U.S., to help alleviate the drought prevalent in the U.S. Following this prediction came the "freak" West Coast floods of Christmas, 1964, which, according to the newspapers, could not occur again in 1,000 years. This, of course, was all just a big coincidence. Then followed the barrage of some 80 tornados and near-tornadoes, plus floods, in the Midwest...then the Northwest. But what the heck, probably just a coincidence. And anyone could predict to the Government that he could make all top government officials sick and ill, and put them all in the hospital. And then, shortly thereafter, they all do collapse into the hospital, with "Executive Flu." More coincidence. However, George, I have a serious question to ask you, and Mr. Dunn, who loves for me to be "specific" in my predictions. -- When I predict specifically that the electromagnetic condition of the North and/or South Pole will be affected - and when I further predict specifically that the absolute fact of this occurrence will be reported in the newspapers - and when I further state that these two things will occur for the specific purpose of proving that I am the representative of Nature, of the vast intelligence behind Nature (which is trying to help the U.S. Govt. but cannot penetrate the Govt. thick-headedness.) - and then, George, a flying saucer makes my predictions come true...makes it happen, just that way, and I send you the clipping and my letter for proof and verification - if anyone infers that this multi-impossibility could be just a coincidence, then I am going to sit down on the floor, George, take a deep deep breath, and scream until I'm purple in the face. One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then, if you'll count up the catastrophes. Ironically, P K Man, and his link with Nature (saucers) is the one hope for the U.S. Government. And as my situation goes, so will go the situation of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Nature says that. As a matter of fact, everything I do, with my family, is followed by Nature (Saucers) and anyone or anything blocking us, attacking us, giving us a hard time, will be dealt with by Nature (Saucers). * For the U.S. PL 07/25/2023 15:43 === Page 22 of 140 July 14, 1965 C O P Y Inquirer Call-Bulletin - newspapers Gentlemen: Shame on you. My name is "The Rainmaker" - or "P K Man" - and two weeks ago I wrote you, and called you also, to the effect that I was in the process of making a big storm for Philadelphia, to prove my ability... so that you would give me a write up...so that I might get an opportunity to perform in the New York-New Jersey areas, and end their drought for them. So, over the weekend you had your biggest storm in six months..just as I worked for it, and called it. It made the front pages of your newspapers, and it made everyone very happy...this great, big rainstorm in the middle of a drought area. I made our weekend storm, and will make more...for I live here, and do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philly will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U.S. this summer. The people here are lucky that way.* But you need to be taught a lesson. I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain-floods...near-tornado winds. Takes a few days, or weeks, to accomplish. But you'll have it, and when it comes, just remember THE RAINMAKER (P K Man), c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Phila., Pa. *As for the people residing in the Delaware River Basin, they had better relocate, because this summer they will be literally toasted alive, burned out, and water evaporated that is there. === Page 23 of 140 Lornie & Rick July 15, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, juast as I have been predicting in my letters....the "PK" is now reaching out and eliminating top officials of the government. Actually, there have been a bunch eliminated, one way or another, these past few weeks. Stevenson, yesterday, was the biggest so far in terms of status. He will be joined shortly, however, by others of like status. The PK, or the saucers, or whatever, are going to work in ernest at this time....part of the reason, of course, is because of their representative, myself and family, being ignored and not helped along the lines the saucers have in mind. There is absolutely no way the U.S. Government, or any other government, can prevent any of this from happening...except to make friends with the saucer-intelligences the same way the U.S. would make friends with a foreign country. Try to give them what they want and need; do not make them enemies, or goad them into war. I knew two weeks ago that one of our top men in government would drop dead, as if an invisible wall had fallen onto them. But I didn't know which one...McNamara, Rusk, Johnson, Stevenson, Humphrey, etc. They are all marked by the saucer-intelligence, I suppose I should tell you, for the same thing that hit Stevenson. There is no warning. Just...that's all. Want to know a peculiar thing that has happened where I just went to work? Sunday last my boss, Mr. Hill, saw his wife have an operation at the hospital. Monday his father had a heart-attack. Tuesday our big brawny guard downstairs, Gene, had a heart-attack, and on the same day one of our top counselors collapsed on the street, reason unknown. They took him to the hospital, then took him home, where he is now. He also is an ex-football player, big and tough, name of Bill Flanagan. This same pattern happened when I worked for Gelman in Washington. Everybody in the place had to go to the doctor or the dentist, for emergency operations, etc., and one woman whom I especially disliked, Rose, had the ceiling fall on her! And this a brand new office in a brand new multi-million dollar building! I am working now, temporarily, for Diagnostic and Relocation Center, 304 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Oh, George, an important bit of information from you. My saucer friends will pass this along to you...the Viet Cong and Chinese have found a serious "Achilles Heel" of the U.S., and are preparing to strike a deadly, paralyzing blow at this glaring weakness of ours they have found. This is all they tell me, to pass on to you....to further prove their real-ness, and their pow er. Many lives could be saved, George, if the U.S. Government would heed me and my message re the saucer-intelligence. Or the "intelligence behind Nature", or whatever. They have also told me to tell you....whatever they say is never forgotten, is etched on time and place like acid on wood...and they remind you and the U.S. Govt. that for every day that their representative, P K Man (me) has to work at ordinary living, instead of for them...as per their instructions, to help them, in their way....they will eliminate a top U.S. official, or important person. I refer you to a letter quite a while back, George. By now, they stand to collect a lot of important people. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 24 of 140 July 16, 1965, Friday Note: Attached letter - wrote George day before Adlai dropped dead - warning them!! Dear Lornie: I enjoyed your letter. It is good to know for sure that you will get my mail, all of it. Never once, not one time, did I interfere or stop a letter from Pat to you kids...even if it meant your getting upset, as it usually did. But I figured it was more important for you to hear from your mother, than for me to have to handle a problem. And I was right. Bet you didn't dream that all those nights I spent working with PK, and clippings, were being guided and watched over by flying saucer intelligences, did you? Wow! And now, there is absolutely no doubt of it. You have the clipping about the saucer that parked over the South Pole and allowed pictures to be taken of it, and a newspaper report written about it...and knocked out the electromagnetic power in the base..........and you have my letter written earlier about this happening, although of course I didn't dream a saucer would bring it about. So, Rick was right after all. It is the saucers, and not the "intelligence behind Nature." Or, maybe they are. And that would explain our weird trip across the U.S., mostly across lonely desert and mountains, and my sleeping on top of the car at night. It explains a lot of things. For instance, who and what was Eric? Where did he disappear to? Nobody knew him; nobody could trace him after he left us. He just plain vanished into thin air, with that woman. But, they parked nose to nose with our car....moved us from broke into about $300 per week; a house, everything in the house....just in time to guide all the tornadoes! If you will remember, just after meeting Eric, I got really "hot" with PK, and began doing tremendous things with it. Still am, as a matter of fact. Back to ordinary things...the baby, Beau, is a doll. And getting bigger by leaps and bounds. And spends most of his time that way...leaping and bounding. Also, he is a little bounder, in more ways than one. But he's learning. Can't talk yet; isn't completely toilet trained yet. But boy, can he point! He absolutely captivates anyone, just anyone, passing by or on the bus or in the restaurant....because he strolls around making friends with everybody, and they light up like a light-bulb with him. Lornie, about my use of PK. You are an utter idiot to think I would ever use it on you or Rick. Of course I wouldn't. Besides, you are protected anyway, so it wouldn't do any good if I did. Which I wouldn't. At one time I liked Jim Shannon, but he alienated me. I couldn't care less now if he got in the way of a PK ripple. As for Pat...you have my absolute word that I would never harm her in any way whatsoever...and especially with PK. She has always been, and will always be, very dear to me, and one of my favorite people. We have had, and have, our differences, but this is nothing..... as far as I am concerned she is to be as protected from PK as you kids. Those people that I hit with PK, Lornie, are very rare. As you know. As a matter of fact, remember how Mangels used to insult me to my face, and make me mad...but I held back the PK. Remember? I did not use it on her. However, Lornie, I will make an exception in the case of anyone blocking me from you kids, interfering with my family, trying to hurt my loved ones, in any way. This area is a deadly area, and no trespassing is allowed. I once offered to Pat, from Dallas, to fly to Los Angeles and whip that Frank, who was bothering her...even though we were separated and had no part of one another any more. Because, I still loved her. And in a way, always will. People do not change that much. Cigars? Am very particular. There is a place in L.A. has my favorite. Will enclose their address. Love & Kisses - Daddy. === Page 25 of 140 Lonnie + Rick July 16, 1965, Friday 7/16/65 p2 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: May I refer you to my letter to you of Sunday, April 11, 1965; second paragraph: "Therefore Nature lets me know that currently it is working to create signs and wonders to impress the U.S. Government of the foolish decision it has made with regard to me, its (Nature's) representative. It lets me know that it is going to strike down, by health, accident, etc., officials of the Government until such time as the U. S. Government obeys its wishes." After this plain, crystal clear warning, George, Senator Johnston died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; Adlai Stevenson just died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; also many key military men have expired since April. ---------- May I refer you to my letter to you of July 9, 1965; second paragraph: "Also, in the same letter (of March 14, 1965) I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it." - And in the paper yesterday, George, it pointed out that Pres. Johnson cried with regard to Stevenson...had tears in his eyes, is the way they put it, I believe.... which would make my prediction a hit. You might go on and read that third paragraph: "Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with sore feet. General Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell." ---------- Now, important, may I refer you to my letter of a few days ago, July 13, 1965, last paragraph: "One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature ...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then for the U.S., if you'll count up the catastrophes. Etc." Next day, George, Stevenson was struck down....did the saucers wish to make their point on this? Yes, they most emphatically did. They are using many ways right now to try to get recognition from the U.S. Government; drought, is one. Elimination of key people in the U.S. Government is another. Constant harassing of the military and space work, is another. Sure, the U.S. Government can ignore my (and the saucer) warnings....but at what horrible cost in lives and dollars to the U.S.? PK Man 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 26 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Rick July 19, 1965 Philadelphia Inquirer Call Bulletin Newspapers, The Editors Gentlemen: Yesterday you just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter to you of July 14...just five days ago...and I quote: "I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain - floods..near tornado winds." Well, is it not so? Can you deny that yesterday you had a whopping storm? And lightning bolts struck all around Philadelphia...destroying $50,000 worth of business goods? And...the high winds blew down trees. I told you ... when it comes, to remember The Rainmaker. For your information I was in Rittenhouse Square the afternoon of Saturday, June 19, having called down the terrific storm then...and even told my wife that I would direct a lightning bolt to knock out the city power...which it did. Then I worked hard to bring in the next big rainstorm, but was not in Rittenhouse Square when it finally broke through and came down. But I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm, and especially the lightning, which is my trademark, you might say. Bear in mind that I could do this for New York City, in much greater volume and consistency. Notice that these two big storms....three, rather, have come on the weekends. That is because I have to work at something else during the week and cannot turn my full power and concentration on rain-making. I do not understand why you do not give me a story...so that I will have a chance, through your story, of being tried by some area in New Jersey or New York...and help those areas thereby by relief from the drought. Well, I will give Philadelphia more lightning...more wind...more rain. I like it cool, and as I say, the lightning is my trademark. THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kids...I brought in another terrific storm yesterday, standing there in the pouring rain directing the lightning to strike...had been working two days on it, just like Phoenix. Was a beaut! The clipping for it attached. Discovered a very weird thing last night...it was so hot in our rooms, I would guess 90-100, because our ventilation is poor...sweat was streaming off of me, dripping down onto my clippings. I went to bed, and put a hand on my chest, and it was as cold as ice-cubes. The area over my lungs, heart, and chest was ice-cold...the rest of me was hot and sweating. Figure that one out. Martha couldn't believe it, and neither could I. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 27 of 140 Copy - Lorrie + Rick July 21, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) My little friends say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs). (2) They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon. ..........the above in an effort to further prove that P K Man is their representative and that they can communicate with PK Man. Note: I told you some time ago that "they" were going to hit the U.S. with the phenomena and afflictions of Moses time. See where they are having the first occurrences of cholera since 1811 (I believe it is) in Washington, D.C. (They had like-illnesses in Moses time, in order to convince the Pharaoh.) Also, they will continue their anti-personnel work. P K MAN Lorrie - tell Rick that he made our old car the prettiest car I've ever seen on the inside. Only trouble with the car it wouldn't go + take too much money to repair it. But the inside of the car way he had it fixed, was beautiful. I was very proud of him. Dad 07/25/2025 15:42 === Page 28 of 140 Rids The day after I wrote this letter and mailed it - lightning hit the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. Killed one, chewed up five for the hospital. Dad Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Dear President Johnson: On July 21, 1966, I wrote George Clark, CIA: "My little friends (in flying saucers; UFO's) say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs.)" "They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon." .......... "The above in an effort to further prove that P K Man (Ted Owens, The Rainmaker) is their representative and that they can communicate with P K Man." Mr. Johnson, when I typed that letter the SI's (saucer intelligences) told me they were sending out UFO's to blanket every State in the U.S. Ready to use lightning, or any other signal I should send. Poised and ready. Today I read in the paper that last weekend they had been sighted in many States over Saturday and Sunday. Do not mistake this. They are very excited, as I am excited. For after centuries of time they have at last managed to set up an effective communication with a human being (myself). They have taken a full year of setting this whole thing up with me... as a matter of fact, until the South Pole sighting I did not know that my work had anything to do with UFO's... I thought that I was contacting the intelligence behind Nature, whatever that was. Now the SI's have given the U.S. Government proof positive, two different ways and two different times, that I am connected with them, with a two-way communication. Which I most certainly am. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 29 of 140 8/3/65-66? P2 2 Today I got a write-up in the Bulletin newspaper here in Phila., and because this was a major aim of the 81's, it made them very happy. If you want to know the details...they were twittering and tweeting excitedly, which is the noise they make when they get excited. Because they have been made happy for a change, instead of frustrated, they will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation...and I think that they will also do something nice for CIA, and perhaps the U.S. Government, in exchange for this show of friendship...this story. Because this story was a key pivotal point in their plans, since I couldn't get through to official Washington. Only one thing bothers the 81's, and gives them trouble...and that is the "time" factor, because they do not know time, or use time, as we know and use it. We measure it by minutes, hours, days, weeks...but they do not. Sometimes when I send them intelligence, and do not get results in a few days, I give up...but it happens, comes about, a week or two later. Sometimes, to my utter amazement, it happens overnight. Such as the Russian spaceship Voskhod. I "hit it with PK" (i.e. sent my instructions to the UFO's) and they got it overnight, just the way I wanted them to. Such as the night I hit the West Coast with "earthquake PK" and by morning Washington-Oregon had the quake. And so on with other examples I could name. I myself do not understand the time angle. Perhaps I will. They are busily telling me things about their activities and themselves, which of course I am faithfully logging. They, and I, do not expect anyone at all to believe us on this...unless it is absolutely proven by them...and that is what I have been doing, and will continue to do. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 30 of 140 Rick Note: By 8/16/65...8/11 Missile Sil 8/11 Los Angeles (Disaster August 3, 1965 (About 9:30 PM) MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........from the Saucer Intelligences (SI'S) through The Rain Maker, Ted Owens.... we are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much...soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us...and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you...and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but better still... you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are flying (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves, and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now, for the first time in long space ages, we are able, through a human's senses, to come to the aid of a good civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson...which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. When, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 31 of 140 2 We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that..........of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. We will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. Already missile silos blew up; L.A. riots catastrophe After your country has accepted our link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing themselves as civilizations, we will make your earth a wonderful place, the way it should be. We have no wish to rule you, or dictate to you... 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 32 of 140 3. XX 3, 1965 (About 9:00 PM) MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..........from the Rain Maker, Ted Owens..........through the Rain Maker, Ted Owens.......... we only wish, as friends, to know you, and teach you, and let you be happy. We are not of flesh and blood such as you. Our composition is that of your grasshopper, so that our bodies will compress and expand with spacework. We have not blood, but different chemicals inside ourselves. We are small, but have the ability to reverse our body-electricity at will and this gives us strength to move and carry great burdens; makes us very strong. Language difficulty makes it difficult for us to send a stream of highly technical information through our human-friend's mind for translation, since he is not a scientist, and must therefore translate as he understands. But for a beginning, it is good. Please, therefore, listen to this human-friend, and accept him, for we wish to help your country, and no other on earth...in your time of trouble, so that you may then properly help the other countries on earth. At this part of time your country has the best philosophy, the best ideas, the best advances, for helping. We can do many many things that you have no dream of, to help you. And may we ask you please be careful not to pursue our craft in your curiosity...not to attack us with your weapons, simply because we are not like yourselves. When our human-friend is in an area, please do not have planes overhead in that area, because you do not know it but we will have our own craft overhead...we have methods that make our craft so that your earth-eyes cannot see them, at times. Especially when we want it so. You ask, is there anything else, earth-friend...just that, we are happy, and excited, for you and your people, and for us. Be patient, and be careful, for we cannot risk losing our human-friend-link. That is all. === Page 33 of 140 August 6, Friday, 1965. Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Westwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and told him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 2, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. I'm trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we have no such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess - 3 DAYS LATER GOT MY BIG STORM!! Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that something terrible some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the === Page 34 of 140 August 6, Friday, 1965 Copy - Lorne & Rick 8/6/65 P1 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So..........you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote M. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 5 1/2 inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 07/25/2025 15:35 === Page 35 of 140 8/6/65 p2 horrible bomber crash in Nan Tan (?) today, because this made us look very bad all over the world, which is mad enough anyway about the Viet Nam war. All those 250 lb. bombs being unloaded there, where the new U.S. Military Headquarters is being set up...and on top of our allies...that is very very bad. A real blow. And the way it was done, is certainly in the pattern of all the rest of this phenomena. Why, when the other bomber made eight passes at it, with all its guns blazing, couldn't it shoot it down, or set off the bombs in it? Then there was the wind...ah yes, the wind...like the rain that put out the Fire Bombing attempt. The wind turned the plane around and took it right onto target. I tell you, George, there is much more to this than meets the eye. Don't you agree? Remember the other two times I warned you that the U.S. would be struck blows, in a similar way...and then in quick order, after each prediction, the U.S. Embassy was blown up...and the Bien something airfield was set off when the bomber exploded there and blew up other planes and everything, accidentally. But there is something nice...because conditions have just recently been good to me here, and I have had a bit of a chance to get my UFO status at least a tiny bit out into the open...the stock market is already improving, as I told you it would a while back (last month, wasn't it?) Sure do wish this was a two-way communication. Wish CIA ... oh, well, keep observing, George, and you will see some very strange things happen yet. PK Man (The Rain Maker) Ted Owens === Page 36 of 140 Monday, August 9, 1965 Letters To The Editor Dear Sir: I would appreciate an opportunity to answer Mr. Rosenberg, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mrs. H. S., of Langhorne, Pa., who placed articles re my rainmaking in your newspaper this evening. WELL-WRITTEN First, Mr. Rosenberg...Mr. Darling, of the Bulletin, is a very intelligent man, and knows that a memory system is simply a memory system, nothing more. I even explained to him at the time of the interview that I learned my memory system from Roth's book. If he should like to take it up. Actually, the demonstration proved only that visual imagery works in this fashion; I am sorrowfully afraid, Mr. Rosenberg, that no matter how I performed a memory system, it would not make me look like a genius, a mind reader or a mystic, for I am certainly none of these things, and did not try to impress the veteran feature writer in that regard (for he has been long a pro at seeing through ruses such as you mention.) You should have been listening to Radio Station WCAU last Wednesday evening. For four hours I endeavored to explain the why's and wherefore's of my modus operandi of making it rain. That was the Jack McKinney Show. And then again today, on Mr. Ed Harvey's Radio Show, WCAU, I went further into the matter. The trick memory system has absolutely nothing to do with it, Mr. Rosenberg. If you would be a good reporter, first get your facts straight. FURTHERMORE, ON LOOKING AT YOUR LIST, I SHOULD LIKE TO STATE UNEQUIVOCABLY THAT MY BASKET WAS NOT SITTING IN YOUR PUDDLE, SIR!! Now Mrs. H. S., after I got through howling at your rainmaking methods, the thought occurred to me...when and if I ever get a session with my wife, and it rains...I hope sincerely that she has the priceless sense of humor that you have. A sense of humor in a wife is worth more than diamonds, rubies and pearls. LIKE YOURSELF In closing, may I point out that the only good rain that Philadelphia has had these past weeks was last Wednesday night, when I went on the air at WCAU to deliver my message re UFO's, and today, when I again went on the air at WCAU. It is a fact that I told Mr. Ed Harvey last Friday that I would do my best to deliver an excellent rain on Monday (today). I believe that this is exactly what has occurred. Station WCAU Anyone interested in my rainmaking work can write to me at the Congress Hotel here in Philadelphia, and I will answer every sincere letter. Ted Owens "THE RAINMAKER" c/o Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P.S. I deliberately brought in storms on both days of my radio broadcasts...therefore Philadelphia owes its present rain to Mr. Darling at the Bulletin; Jack McKinney and Tom Spence, of WCAU; and Mr. Ed Harvey, of the Ed Harvey Show, WCAU. === Page 37 of 140 8/10/65 The Editor Evening Bulletin Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Sir: Something for you to print, of an unusual nature, if you would like it. This is a recap for the past week for my friends in Philadelphia, of the excitement in the air, with the Rain Maker, straight from the Rain Maker. Last Wednesday Jack McKinney had me on his show at WCAU, and we fought like cats and dogs, in a very friendly way, over rain-making and UFO's. For four hours, which is a long time. Mr. McKinny (a fine man, by the way, even if he does not believe in UFO's, ha ha) sought to pin down the facts on my rain-making, and especially since it is connected with the workings of flying-saucers. For help (as if he needed any) he had Tom Spence, who helped me finish my sentences and dot my i's. Of course, I had already made several storms over Philadelphia...and written well ahead of time to the papers here that I was making them, (see the Bulletin story.) And, before the show, I had worked on a storm to dramatize my appearance on his show. It began at the beginning of the evening show, and did Philadelphia a bit of good, water-wise. Then, on Friday, Mr. Ed Harvey called me and asked me to appear on his show the following Monday, at WCAU, and he specifically asked me to make it storm that day (yesterday) Monday. I told him that I would do my best. So, all week-end, I worked for a storm, but in an unusual way, for me. I had to time the storm to hit Monday, instead of Sunday, which is my favorite storm day next to Saturday. The storm-materials were all present and accounted for on Sunday, and I fought to hold them in check. Then, on Monday, I released them. It rained a bit in the afternoon, and I went on the Ed Harvey Show. Now, listen carefully...on the show I told Mr. Harvey === Page 38 of 140 8/10/65 p2 2 that my storms feature lightning..........remember in my Bulletin story, where I said my specialty was lightning? Also, I pointed out to him that on another occasion here in Philadelphia I had endeavored to "aim" lightning at a radio tower downtown, in Center City. Also I aimed lightning at any power-stations in the area, as an experiment. Remember this. I also pointed out to Mr. Harvey that the rule, for my storms, is that they literally cause disaster-areas. They are violent, full of lightning attacks, and flood. Mr. Harvey jokingly asked me not to flood Philadelphia. So after the show, I went home to my apartment. And it rained, hard. It came down in sheets. But one thing was missing..........lightning. So I told my wife that I would add the missing ingredient, and went out onto a balcony outside my apartment, and worked for lightning, lots of it. The results were better than I hoped for. The next rainfall, after an interval, carried lightning with it..........lots of it. And, mark this, next morning I read in the paper that lightning had hit a tower, not here but in New Jersey, and knocked out the power for the police. Also it hit a power-supply, and knocked out the power for many many houses. Just as I had mentioned it in the afternoon..........as if my little UFO friends had been listening and decided to include it. Fantastic? It happened, just that way. Now I have another assignment to carry out for Mr. Harvey. Keep the sky clear of rain Thursday night, for his ball-game. And for Mr. Harvey, it is a downright pleasure. Before closing, would like to point out that on the Jack McKinney show I told the audience that rain would suddenly appear all over the United States === Page 39 of 140 8/10/65 p3 3 as a signal from the UFO's that they are listening, and are in action. Have you looked at your weather maps lately? That is precisely what has occurred. But in the near future I do not think that the East Coast will benefit too much, re drought-relief. They will need the services of a rain-maker; namely, me. And anyone wanting to rent my unique services can write to me care of your paper. For that matter, anyone wanting to write me a personal letter can do that; and I will also be glad to send my message from the UFO's to the American people...the one that Jack McKinney read on his program...to any of your readers who wish it. Sincerely, Ted Owens "THE RAIN MAKER" === Page 40 of 140 Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Lornie, and Rick... I enjoyed your letter, Rick my boy. Don't worry, son, can you remember a time when your daddy keep punching? That'll be the day. All hell is breaking loose in Philadelphia...as a matter of fact, I almost ruined Philadelphia last night. Remember how you and I used to stand out in the yard in Phoenix, and bring on those gangbusters? Well, I brought one on in style, and the results are enclosed, in clippings. You'll be proud, and you'll remember Phoenix...and Los Angeles...etc etc. The beauty of it was...Ed Harvey, who has the radio show for CBS here called "Talk of Philadelphia"...called me last Friday and asked me to make a storm tailor-made for this Monday, the day I was to appear on his program, so that he could be telling about it over the weekend. I told him that I would, and set to work. The weather was hot and clear, then. I worked like the dickens Saturday and Sunday...throwing a lot of oomph into it, but also working to hold it back until Monday, so that it wouldn't bust loose Sunday. I'll enclose a copy of letter to the paper here which am sending in, and it tells you the rest, to save wear and tear on my fingers. The point is, at last, kids, at last, people "out there" are beginning to find out what you have known all along. That I can control storms (have made, and written into the papers well in advance, five good storms now) and perhaps other things as well. Also, and more important, Jack McKinny, on that 4-hour brain-buster last Wednesday, I forced into reading a message from the UFO's to the American people. Now, my storm-work of course carries a lot of weight...and I am positive that the message will get across. Am enclosing a copy. Am absent-minded, you know, and don't remember whether I did before or not. Listen, kids, all those "units" and things were a sort of vocabulary that the UFO's were giving me...it was their way of understanding...so when I would put something into a PK bubble 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 41 of 140 8-10-65 p2 2 put satellites (rain or sun, etc.) over it, and throw so many black, or red "units" at it...etc., they could understand this, and rapidly acted. And how they acted, as you well know. The next logical thing now is for someone to hire me to break the drought for New York...or Philadelphia...or the entire East Coast, which would be as easy, as you know. Following the breaking of the drought will be even bigger things, the little "voice" seeps through to me, like osmosis. You were right, one of you, I can't remember which, when you told me that you thought there was something even bigger ahead than my PK discoveries. You were so...right. Nice thing about it is, I was so bored, just causing storms, bringing down airplanes, lousing up military operations, making earthquakes with Emmy-Emma (Rick's brainchild.) Now things are moving, at last. Funny that the Air Force, the CIA, the US Govt., and the Rhines haven't been jumping up and down to get hold of me. They have my letter-file, calling dozens of big events in advance, in detail. I really do not understand it. The US Government probably doesn't want to be forced by the UFO'S to pay attention...Johnson, especially. But they are dealing with UFO'S, a far greater power than any other existing on this earth. God help them if they delay too much longer. I warned them weeks ago that a terrible blow would be struck at the US Government if they didn't pay attention; and within a week the bomber in Viet Nam turned around, with nobody in it, and flew back and crashed, with all its bombs, on U S Military Headquarters in their allied city, Nan Trang, or something like that. Then today one of their missile silos "accidentally" blew up. They are so dense and stupid. But enough of that. Write often, if you can. Lornie, honey, I like those 15¢ Optimos. They are good cigars. Or those Pats that come 7 in a pack. Love & kisses - Daddy PK Man === Page 42 of 140 Wednesday, August 11, 1965 President Johnson, The White House. Dear Mr. President: This letter is of the utmost importance to you. Please find attached copy of letter I sent to you almost a year ago. Also State Dept. and other Govt. agencies. A more prophetic "intelligence report" you will never find. The missile silo that just blew up, or whatever happened to it...see paragraph marked in red. This is further emphasized at this particularly peculiar time because of the "rain making" work that I am doing in Philadelphia, predicting rainstorms in advance and then bringing them in on schedule, or as close to schedule as possible. So far I have not missed, and would be surprised if I did. Monday's storm in Philadelphia was made by myself, and the lightning attacks co-incide with other letters which you should have in your file, of weeks ago, when the UFO's said they would provide lightning attacks to prove my connection with them. At the time this letter was written, almost a year ago, I believed that I was in contact with the intelligence behind Nature; only lately have I found out that I am in contact with UFO's, as proved by the UFO sighting over the South Pole, and my earlier letter before that, predicting the event in detail sans UFO. Therefore I believe at this time the UFO's are, at a year's interval, warning the people of the U.S. once more...re my "Message to the American people from the UFO's" as read over the radio from Station WCAU last Wednesday, August 4, 1965, on the Jack McKinney Show. Note that in my letter of last year states: "Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees." This sentence should make great sense to you...because since 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 43 of 140 8/11/65 p2 2 this letter was written, and sent to you, you have spent a great deal of time travelling about, inspecting disaster areas...catastrophe after catastrophe, as my letter warned. I would venture to state that never, in the entire history of the United States, has there been a year so filled with natural catastrophes as July, 1964, to July, 1965. To name just a few catastrophes...and areas...the disastrous fires on the California Coast; the disastrous floods last Christmas on the California Coast; the giant earthquake in Oregon-Washington; the horrendous damage from Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, Hurricane Isbell, Hurricane Hilda; crippling floods in North/South Carolina; disastrous floods in the Midwest States; unprecedented tornado attacks in the Midwest; and so on and so on for a long long list. You will note that I state on the first page of last year's letter: "...the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead." This was correct, absolutely. In closing, the UFO's have instructed me to point out that the paragraph of last year's letter which refers to causing missiles to explode in their silos, is now referred to for a reason all their own. (Not mine.) They caused the missile silo tragedy, in order to direct my attention back to this letter, in order for me to write you another letter, one year later...pointing out that this particular paragraph states that it is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability be understood by all. The reason. The causal-factor, as Mr. Dunn of your CIA put it to me. And that is...UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens (P K Man - Rain Maker) Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pa. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 44 of 140 8/12/65 Thursday, Aug. 12, '65 -- Lonnie and Rick Dear pals: Time to sit down now and fill you in on all the excitement. You read the Bulletin story on The Rain Maker. Philadelphia has had only 7 rains since the 1st of June -- and I made all 7. Before each one, usually a week, I wrote the papers and told them it was coming. So I was invited to be on the famous (around here) Jack McKinney "Night Show." I was supposed to be on one hour. After me came a U.S. Senator. After him, Jack Carter, the comedian so much on Ed Sullivan's show. All McKinney knew was I claimed to be a rain-maker. PK Man, he'd never met. He met PK Man 5 minutes after the show started. I laid out my files in front of the battery of mikes and started to work. (I'd been cued in advance by the 'Sir' what to do.) The hour flew by. McKinney and Spence, a man he'd brought in to help attack me -- were sweating blood, and getting nowhere. They'd prepared a perfect case for attacking mere rain-making, but the PK and all I'd done with it -- plus UFO's, were sinking them rapidly. So McKinney, on a station break -- told Spence to call the Senator and Carter at his hotel, and cancel them out. "Boy, I've made two enemies tonight!" he told me, gritting his teeth. The second hour they got a bright idea. They'd call one of my letter-file contacts, unexpectedly, long-distance, to verify my claims that all these impossible === Page 45 of 140 8/12/65 p2 Things had been predicted in advance by me - or caused by me. They asked me, real sneakily, which to call? CIA? NASA? Lonie? Cayce? Mangels? I recommended Cayce, on the terrific double-prediction on Pres. Johnson, 3 months in advance. Aha! Said McKrinny - he must be your co-hort. So we'll call Mangels, that all right? Sure be my guest I told him. So they got hold of Jean - she came through loud & clear. "Miss Mangels," asked McKrinny, "is it true Ted Owens predicted there would be a major earthquake on the West Coast within just a few days - and it happened the next day?" "Yes," said Jeanne, "he did. He absolutely did." McKrinny & Spence frowned, their eyes bulged, and they stared at me unbelievably. "Well" says Mac, "he says he caused the earthquake. Do you believe that?" "No," she answers, "I won't go along with that. I don't think so." "Uh huh" says Mac. "Now did he make any other predictions to you that came true." "Yes," she said, "he did." "How many of his predictions came true?" "I would say four out of five." They thanked her - forgot her - and went ahead with the program. Half an hour later they were to be === Page 46 of 140 8/12/05 p3 by the Control Room that she was still hooked up long distance and was listening to the show over the phone!! Ha ha ha!! Anyway - on the way over to the radio station that Wed. evening the skies were clear. I sent signals to the UFO's desperately to make it rain, fast - to coincide with my program appearance. Half hour later, as I was walking up to the door of the studio, rain began to pour down. During the program people call up, put themselves on the air, and ask questions. I had to answer them. It was great fun. It lasted four hours. And rain soaked the town. It was a nice, quiet downpour. Steady rain all night. Two days later, Friday, I got a call from Ed Harvey, another famous radio personality here with "Talk of Philadelphia" program. He wanted me to be on his program on Monday, Aug. 9. Also, he wanted me to make a storm for Monday - so he could advertise it in advance. (Friday was a smashing, clear day.) I told him I would bring in a rainstorm on Monday + appear on the show. He was nice on the program. Asked me why on earth the Govt. didn't use my services. Why New York didn't hire me. (Oh, it was raining by now lightly, outside.) He told the audience, looking me straight in the eye, "Ted there is no doubt whatever in my mind that you could break the drought on the East Coast." He asked a === Page 47 of 140 8/12/65 p4 personal favor. He was going to an important baseball game Thursday night - could I keep it nice, clear, & no rain that night? (It was raining outside when he asked this.) I assured him I would take the rain away from Phila. for that night. Now during the program, I discussed how I "aimed" lightning - had aimed at two Phila. targets in earlier storms, a radio tower and the power-supply of the city. I'd actually managed to hit the power supply of the city! And I told how I liked lightning - my storms had my "lightning trademark" - it is my specialty. I went home then it began to come down in solid sheets. But no lightning. "Hell!" I told Martha, taking a drink of cold beer, "that's a good storm, but I've got to put more lightning in it!" So I went outside and signalled the UFO's (I have an all-new system now) and told them lightning - lots of lightning. Suddenly there were some lightning flashes and I knew they'd heard me. Took me four or five attempts to get it over to them, though - and each time I'd begin again, the heavy rain would stop. When I'd finish signalling the rain would start up again. It was weird. Like they'd stop the rain temporarily - to find out if I was wanting something else instead. === Page 48 of 140 8/12/65 p5 "Ted," Martha called from inside the window, "why is it the rain stops each time you begin to signal?" Yep. Even she noticed it. (But the day was full of surprises. On the radio show I had told Ed Harvey that every area I had hit with PK had become an official disaster area. He'd laughed and asked me for Heaven's sake not to flood Philly.) Well. After an hour the storm stopped, and I left to go to the YMCA to type some letters. When I came out of the Y, all hell broke loose. You've seen some of my little beauties - knocking out Boggio's windows, lightning bolts hitting our house etc. This storm was a giant compared to those midgets you saw. Rain was driving down so hard you couldn't see. Cars were stalled in the street. Bolts of lightning were hitting in every direction. It was majestic. It was a regular symphony of a storm. (Days before I had told Martha I wanted Monday's storm to hit Philly - pow! and tear it up! Chew it up! Rain so thick you couldn't see a foot away. Lightning everywhere.) In every detail - this was the storm. You read the paper's description of it, but they couldn't do it justice. New York City got a billion gallons of rain-water from this Philly flood (yes, it flooded.) When I brought === Page 49 of 140 8/12/65 p6 6) the storm here, all areas around benefitted from it. okay. Tuesday came. Dozens of different homes had been hit by bolts of lightning. One lightning bolt came inside a man's kitchen while he was cooking supper, and hit his stove. Lightning hit a police radio tower. A bolt hit the Willow Grove (suburb) power supply and knocked out the power. A bolt hit a hospital. And so on. Nobody was hurt. Tuesday there were black clouds in the sky. I knew the UFO's had plenty of materials if I wanted more. But I didn't. I wanted it clear. I signalled them strongly to hold off all rain*. Tuesday passed - a dark, cloudy day just wanting to rain. But it didn't. Wednesday came. Dark boiling clouds overhead. Papers said 6 chances in 10 of rain. I signalled no rain. There was no rain. Today, Thursday, all clouds were gone. Sunny & clear. So Ed Harvey is happy tonight at his ball game. (But Philly could have had two more fine storms. A pity) However, I'm choking off rain out here now with the PK bubble with sun cats, plus other mechanisms. If they want rain now - they play ball with the UFO's. If they don't play ball - there'll be no water. No offers yet. Write Love & kisses, Dad. * Told them to swing the rain west & dump it there. === Page 50 of 140 Friday, August 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: Herein is, I believe, a workable plan to force the Viet Cong in Viet Nam to surrender within two weeks time. They would have to. What is necessary for the satisfactory completion of this surrender is a disaster which will sweep the entire length and breadth of Viet Nam North and South. Repairs can be made later. They will have to be made at any rate after the war is over under ordinary circumstances. Leaflets will be dropped over North Viet Nam that all peoples must vacate Viet Nam completely within two weeks. If they surrender to the U.S. and South Vietnamese, then they will be helped to leave peninsula. If they do not surrender, they will have to vacate the peninsula themselves under their own power. Explain that tremendous tidal waves, caused by the U.S. Govt., will come sweeping over the land at the end of two weeks carrying everything before it. Meanwhile, a gigantic, first-time-in-history evacuation on such a large scale would have to take place, getting U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese off the peninsula. The U.S. would indeed cause giant tidal waves to sweep over the peninsula... by exploding nuclear devices close enough to cause the waves to sweep the island but far enough away so that the land would not be rendered poisoned by the devices. (I assume that there is a way this could be done: being an amateur, and not a scientist, I would have to pass on the details of the operation. All I can donate is the bare idea.) The effect: Giant waves of water would flood the peninsula. Of course houses and cities would be wrecked. It would not be possible should not be for any human to survive the flooding. Therefore, after this was over, with U.S. ships patrolling the waters to prevent VC from returning... and the VC who have surrendered already in U.S. hands - then the Vietnamese people themselves would be returned to their homeland sans VC, and their homes rebuilt and cities repaired. At that time tough controls could be instituted to prevent the VC among the "Vietnamese people" who have returned... from starting anything again. But what would they start it with? All weapons would have been rounded up before the mass evacuation... and those weapons hidden would be ruined by the floods. We would, in effect, be erasing an incorrect formula upon the blackboard (Viet Nam) and then writing upon the board the correct answer. Respectfully, Ted Owens P K Man - The Rain Maker. === Page 51 of 140 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 P.S. Share the enclosed letters + info with Lonnie. Be sure to. Dear Rick Congratulations on your fine PK work. But, what you were doing was using the special PK symbols given me by the UFO's, to call in UFO's, to make the lightning strike + the rain. Honey, haven't you + Lonnie been getting my big, fat letters, with copies of letters to Pres. Johnson, George Clark, etc? Saturday, at 2:30 P.M., I gave a demonstration here to a Tom Wieder (writer) who had asked for an interview, of how to cause a great natural disaster. I told him in South America, drew a map of it -- and set it to happen within days. (I used "Emma-Emma") -- and Sunday a giant series of storms tore up Chile, wrecking 40% of their farms, striking ships, causing huge avalanches. The President, Frei, declared it a disaster area (as usual.) Martha was with me at the time. We were in a restaurant. Took me 2 minutes to do it. Have you considered -- L.A. riots, "mass madness" the papers called it -- L.A. county declared a disaster area -- and "Electra" has been growing!! (Diego + Freco, remember?) May I give you some kindly advice, son? There is an ancient saying in the Bible, "Do not cast your pearls before swine." I. e., do not waste your talent and ability on people who do not appreciate it, or who try to cut you down to their little size. Do not put on demonstrations for anyone who happens to make fun of you, or challenge you. You are wasting valuable time + effort. Even if you do what you say, they'll pooh pooh it or try to brainwash you. It's been tried on me. (Has Jim run down the street naked yet?) 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 52 of 140 8-16-65 p2 Speaking of Jim - I think a warning is in order. Remind him of how (check with Lorrie) a man who crossed me in Texas - who dropped dead mysteriously of a cerebral hemorrhage. Remind him of Mrs. Mangels, who laughed at me and said I was "drinking too much coffee." Then her brother dropped dead; her son's lung collapsed; a negro broke into her daughter's home at night; and a gang beat up Mrs. Mangels. Remind him of Rose, at Gelman's office, who gave me a hard time - and part of the office ceiling fell on top of her. Etc etc. And there were people I didn't hit with PK!! Let Lorrie tell of how I hit all govt. officials before the inauguration to hospitalize them - and did!!! Jim had better be very very quiet. He is in way over his depth. He's like a man, laughing at the pretty kitty-cats surrounding him. And the "pretty kitty-cats" are huge, ferocious tigers!! But then - Jim could "never take Ted seriously." I wouldn't talk PK or UFO's to Pat or Jim, Rick. That's a different world, and they aren't in that world. Sure we are partners, son. But I cannot send by mail the tremendous, great secrets that I have now accumulated in a new book - given me by the Si's. If you had stayed with me, you'd have grown with me, in all my UFO work. But separated - you'll have to use what I taught you until we get together === Page 53 of 140 8-16-65 p3 again, some day. If we ever do. Getting proof, over & over again, that I'm linked with the UFO's, is something I never expected. But it explains everything. Get Lorrie to describe the beautiful UFO that was near us, one night, in Texas. Now - I am causing terrible drought for the purpose that you mention. But read the message from the UFO's to the American people, again. For a time, they will sprinkle rain all over the US, not to end the drought, but to show what they can do. When they've done it, they'll drop the total drought curtain again, and look out!! I congratulate you deeply, son, on that lightning hit on the trees! That is better than what I've done - except my Cape Kennedy Titan & moon rocket pad hits. But that wasn't close up, like yours! All right - we'll team work. Every day there's a weather map in the papers, showing rain over the US. We'll work to keep the map - total US - clear of rain. No precipitation. When the right time comes - and it will - we'll make it rain, at certain places in the US, and we'll call our shots. I need those clippings. This one of lightning strikes is another good clip for my files. Thanks. My price is right. Pres. Johnson is spending 100 million dollars to try to break the drought, his way. Love, Dad P.S. Write on paper like this. === Page 54 of 140 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thanks for your letter. Yes, things have been popping. Cyclical. They fade, then get bigger -- fade, then get even bigger, etc. Have you gotten my letters -- stuffed with copies of letters to George, Pres. Johnson, etc.? You know what? After I called shot after shot after shot here -- even convincing the hard-boiled newspaper veteran reporter, then prep'd a storm for "The Talk of Philadelphia" show (once a week show with current important personality in Philly on it, interviewed) -- and nearly wrecked Philly with the storm (scores of lightning hits, floods, etc -- you saw the news clips?) -- suddenly, snap! like that an iron curtain came down. Must be Air Force pressure of some kind, since UFO's are in it. The orange glow was a UFO, you can bet on it. Tell them about the beauty that was close to our car in the field, that night in Texas. And the window-tape and the green eyes -- at 310 Hemphill. And the doctor I hypnotized & sent his mind to contact UFO's. My contact with the Si's couldn't get any better honey. With the system they've given me I can "see" them and communicate with them, and they with me -- directly. In seconds. Only thing remaining is to get to a faraway, isolated spot, where they will come down and meet me. Last night, Sunday a news report came over the radio. In Brazil, Sunday, a tiny man 28 inches high walked up to a fisherman's hut and said, in English (?) he === Page 55 of 140 8/16/65 p2 from a flying saucer, and wanted to offer proof. He gave the fisherman a piece of metal which he said was not of this earth. Brazilian scientists are now examining the metal. This came over a radio news broadcast. Today there was nothing in the papers. I got 'em all -- even N.Y. papers. Which shows you how the U.S. Govt. controls our so-called "freedom of the press!" And how quickly they shut up, and drop an "iron curtain" around anyone or anything connected with UFO's. Why, I wonder? Be careful there, you + Rick both. These race riots are deadly -- and remember, you are in "Electra." Sure, I have protection over you -- but you wouldn't jump off a high building to test it, would you. Don't tempt Fate! Your school subjects sound interesting. You'll do better in French than I did -- I flunked it. Algebra? $2+2=5$. That's my math. Fortunately, honey, you + Rick have academic brains yo're pappy ain't got. Do sump'n with those brains! Hm?? Love, Dad. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 56 of 140 Wednesday August 18, 1965 Editor Philadelphia Daily News Dear Sir: Here is an interesting item, if you would like to print it. . . . In your story "Blonde Gets Black Eye As 'Thing' Attacks Car", in your paper 8/17/65, the mother of the girl who was attacked. . . and they were both in the car during the attack by the 7-foot, 400 lb. "monster". . . has the name of Rose Owens (I refer you to the clipping.) The girl who was attacked, then, was named Owens before her marriage. A strange coincidence. The Wednesday previously I appeared on The Jack McKinny Show, Station WCAU, here in Philadelphia, and Mr. McKinny was kind enough to read a 3-page letter, or message, given to me by the UFO intelligences to pass on to the American people. So what? What is the coincidence? My name is Ted Owens, and "The Rain Maker." Why not ask your readers if they would like to read this strange message from the UFO's? I will enclose a copy then, and if readers contact your paper, asking for it, if you wish you can print it. I offered it to the Bulletin for printing, but they have evidently decided not to do so, for whatever reasons. The "monster" in your story, above, could be connected with the UFO's. . . note that the womens' car stalled, which is an a usual occurrence when a UFO is near. Kills the power. Owens === Page 57 of 140 8/18/65 p2 (Exact copy of story which appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News, 8/17/65) "BLONDE GETS BLACK EYE AS 'THING' ATTACKS CAR" Monroe, Michigan (UPI) What weighs more than 400 pounds, smells moldy, growls like a mad dog, and dislikes automobiles? Answer X - The Monroe County Monster. That was the latest on the "thing" that has been sighted here and there in Monroe County during the past two months by at least 16 persons, including Christine Van Acker, 17-year old blonde. Miss Van Acker, who goes to a beautician school here, has a black eye she said was inflicted by the monster Friday night. State police were checking her story and patrolling the area at night northeast of this southern Michigan City. Miss Van Acker gave this story of the encounter: "I was driving mother, Mrs. Rose Owens, home. Suddenly there was this bump and a hairy arm grabbed me by the hair. It wasn't human or anything. I tried to go faster but the car stalled." The girl fainted. Mrs. Owens, who jumped out of the car and ran for help, described the ordeal like this: "The first I knew there was this bang and an arm came through the window.; Christine yelled, 'Mommy, help me! Oh my God, help!' "I told her to get the car going...but it stalled. The monster had his paw entwined in her hair and kept banging her head on the side of the car. I decided the best thing to do was go for help." "When I got back with other people, Christine was semi-conscious, and the monster was gone." "The monster was at least seven feet tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and it had a long reach. It was all covered with black, bristly hair, towards the end of the hair it was silver. You couldn't see its face, there was so much hair." "And it growled. It had a real growl, and definitely it was not a bear." Christine said she was sure it was not a bear "because bears have fur and this thing had prickly hair like thorns" She also said she was sure it was not a prankster "because nobody human would do anything like that." The monster sightings have occurred in Frenchtown and Ashe townships within the last 60 days. One man reported the monster climbed onto his car, and thumped on the roof and fenders before disappearing into the woods. A woman reported she saw the monster and it smelled moldy. Etc. === Page 58 of 140 Copy - Lonnie + Rick Thursday, August 19, 1965 Mr. George Eastwood, Inventions NASA Dear George: The Gemini weather trouble...complete with lightning...guess who? You might warn, George, Nasa that this is no time to be sending up a Gemini crew. Consider the number of quick catastrophes the U.S. has had lately: Missile silo explosion. Los Angeles race riots. Bomber that flew the wrong way in Viet Nam and bombed our new Military Headquarters, in an allied village. Loss of face in the world from backing down from the Russians "no pay" in the U.N. (A geo-political tragedy.) ..........all within the past few weeks. Any gambler will tell you, quit gambling when you hit a bad streak, or losing streak, or things are going against you. That is not the time to pull out a new bankroll in the game. And that is what Nasa is doing right now. If anything goes wrong with this Gemini shoot, it will just add to the recent string of catastrophes. My advice, and 10¢, will buy a cup of coffee, George. But there it is, for what it is worth. Ted Owens - P K Man - The Rain Maker 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday morning, at 9 PM, Dave, a psychologist where I work, asked, "Well, ESP man, what's your prediction about the Gemini shot at noon today?" (Friday) I told him, "I'll bet you $10 to $1, ten to one odds, that the Gemini shot will fail." - Came noon, and lightning (mine) did the shot in. They tried again today, idiots! Read my letter I sent them on Thursday above. UFO's told me what to say. === Page 59 of 140 Copy - Rick Thursday, August 19, 1965 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin Newspaper 30th and Market Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Enclosed find a letter from my son, addressed to you and the Bulletin. He didn't know what the name of the people were, or the correct name of the paper. Since I brought practically all of the last six weeks of rain into Philadelphia...and the only thanks I got was from a 16 year-old boy, in a letter to Station WCAU...I thought it only fitting that you see my son's letter, and perhaps publish it in your letters column as an answer to my detractors' letters of attack, which my son refers to. My boy knows what he is talking about...for he has seen daddy perform some incredible feats in the weather-control line. I am proud of him for defending me, at any rate. That's my boy. Sincerely, Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker", 1114 Spruce, Phila., Pa. === Page 60 of 140 8-19-65 p2 (Letter from Rick Owens, 14-year old son of P K Man, "The Rain Maker" (Ted Owens) as sent to The Bulletin from Inglewood, California.) "Dear People of the Bulletin: "A few days ago you had some write-ups on the "Rain Maker." Claiming he was a "phony." I am his son, Rick Owens, and I know that out of all his work with rainmaking, he has missed only once, and he has worked a thousand times and produced record storms for that particular city, and for proof he'll be very glad to show you his "newspaper clippings" about it, which gives definite proof. I wish you would print just this small paragraph on what I'm going to say. "Truth About Rain Maker!" A new era, whether people like it or not, has been discovered. You can shut this fear out, if you like, but someday somebody will have to discover it. H. T. Owens, the Rain Maker, is a genius, and he could have become a scientist. Right now he is trying to help bring out this new discovery that is far advanced than just Indian Rainmaking. In a recent clipping a man who was called Barry Rosenburg called him a phony, but this Rosenburg hasn't seen all of the things, thousands of things, he has done in a lot of years, and so had no right to jump to his own ignorant conclusions. Dr. Rhine will state Owens power - Owens's ESP. H. T. Owens personally worked under Rhine. I admit $10,000 is a lot to ask, and disagree that he should ask this much, but think what we could do with a man with his powers. Just think before you lynch him up. Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage, #3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 61 of 140 Copy Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, PK Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 62 of 140 22 Copy - Lorne & Rick Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 63 of 140 Copy - Lonnie & Rick Monday August 23, 1965 Dear President Johnson: The UFO's (see previous letters) have asked me to pass on this intelligence to you: They caused the power-failure of Gemini-5, of course. Then they could have brought the craft down...and whether the astronauts would have survived is most debatable. Instead, they did something you, personally, could best understand. Politics. Live and let live. You help them, they help you. They turned the power back on. Check with your experts, they tell me to tell you...there is no way that the power could have been restored, as things stood Sunday...unless they, the UFO's had intervened. They have no wish to kill astronauts...to wreck our vehicles...to make us lose face in the world. Their only wish has been expressed to you before, by me, in a long letter. They urge you to consider this, and to contact me here in Philadelphia, as their representative...therefore in a friendly manner...before this coming Sunday...or better still...before this coming Saturday. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man - 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. WA 5-3909 (Mon.-Fri., 9-4:15) === Page 64 of 140 Copy - Lorrie & Rick Tuesday August 24, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is a general letter to the U.S. Government. Since I have received no affidavits from anyone to the effect that I have called any ESP shots in advance; since I have received no communications from any branch of the Government (and I have been soliciting them for a year now); since it is evident that my own Government does not believe that I have the ability to do the things which I have been endeavoring (and have, in fact, been proving) to do - and I think that I have been fantastically successful.......... then it is obvious that the U.S. Government will not lift a finger to utilize my strange powers, or aid myself and my family. My family and I have undergone many hardships this past year, in an effort to prove to this Government that my "PK" system can attack ships, subs, missile silos, control weather, attack rocket-shots, attack planes, and harass military operations. And affect people, too. Oddly, my own bookkeeping shows tremendous success..........beyond any Government's wildest dreams..........were they to recognize and utilize this strange power for their own. But the U.S. Government is peculiar in that it does not seem to care about strange powers. Therefore, if the U.S. Government does not believe me, and does not care to hire me, or utilize my powers..........then the U.S. Government will not mind at all if I take my ESP gifts to some other nation or country. I do not care to submit my family and myself to another year of hardship, for nothing. And with my gifts, I should not have to. Furthermore, I yearn to join a group of scientists who can recognize my gifts and form a structure or framework that I can work within. I.e., when one is a creative artist, or musician..........one does not wish to dig coal in mines. And if one is a master of a branch of ESP, no matter what the causal factor..........he wants to work actively in that field, no other. My present job ends this week, or next week at the latest. Then I am free to spend weeks looking for another..........unless I can find a country interested in my ESP gifts. This being the case, perhaps I can offer my family more security and happiness as well as myself. And that is just what I am going to try to do. I give up on the U.S. Government's responding to my year-long appeal to respond. Respectfully, Ted Owens PK Man - "The Rain Maker" 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. WA 5-3909 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 65 of 140 August 25, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Ever almost get hit by a City Bus...in the middle of a sidewalk? I did, last night. And it was no "figment of my imagination." Had quit work, and turned down a narrow side-street, walking towards big Market Street. Had gone 1/3 of a block when suddenly I looked up and there, turning at a complete angle to the street, driving up onto the sidewalk, about 5-6 feet from me and moving fast, was a City Bus. Pointed right at me. I jumped...sideways. It missed me and moved on down back onto the street and kept going. Just the driver alone in the bus. I laughed at the incongruity of a City Bus driver being that poor a driver, to go up onto a sidewalk and down again into the street. Then I walked to the Congress Hotel and checked for mail. Then I walked a half-block from the Congress and paused at another tiny side-street. When the light was green I stepped down into the street. Suddenly a big black Lincoln Continental, with two men in front and one man in back, gunned its motor and did a speed-acceleration hard-left around the corner and I leaped back for my life, again. (That made twice in a half-hour's time.) The Continental almost got a colored man just behind me, too, and he yelled, "You sons of bitches...you could of killed us!" He and I cussed the Continental driver quite thoroughly as we walked down the sidewalk. Take the two things...City Bus comes onto sidewalk, pointed at me...and two near-misses within a half-hour...and you have a peculiar series of events, which makes you think. Just before leaving work (before the City Bus) I had typed a message to the U.S. Government that I intend to take my PK findings and research to another nation, another government...which will accept me and work with me in cooperation. Copy enclosed. Another thing. We are not getting our mail at all. It's all screwed up. When I told you an "iron curtain" had been dropped around me, I wasn't kidding, kids. Whatever and whoever it is. Just a note to let you know some of the action. Funny I haven't heard from you re my success with the Gemini shot and Seallab cooperative. I got my hurricane that I've been working for, but there was nothing in the papers until the thing got way up almost to Canada. Pretty slippy. Have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, not units. Write, you laggards. Love and kisses, [Hand-drawn lightning bolt symbol] === Page 66 of 140 1 Lorne + Rick Wednesday, August 25, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Catastrophe after catastrophe.......... Gemini 5 could have been one...should have been...but the UFO's spared it...so far. Then the Hong Kong plane, losing more Marines than what we lost last week in Viet Nam fighting the Cong, if the newspapers are correct with their figures. Then the X-19 crash today. Then the OSO Flying Laboratory at Cape Kennedy today, kaput. How fast can catastrophes come? And these are all "Si" signs, George...laugh if you like. Can the Government explain how they occurred? Only when I am accepted by the U.S. Government, and hired according to their instructions, will catastrophes cease...and the U.S. start winning and getting ahead in every direction. As I told you...it is far worse to have the saucer intelligences against us, than it would be Russia and China combined. Incidentally...where President Johnson went to church last Sunday, the power failed and the electric organ would not play. Then the little girl fainted next to Johnson yesterday. These are signs too, George. It means that the Si's have President Johnson zeroed in now, wherever he goes. Enough said. I don't, George. They do. And one last thought...whoever is blocking me from being accepted by the U.S. Government is actually causing these Si catastrophes. You had better believe it! Sincerely, Ted Owens P K Man 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 67 of 140 Thursday, 8/26/65 Copy Lonnie + Rich The Editor Philadelphia Bulletin Dear Sir: I apologize for my former rude manners...in offering two inches of rain to Philadelphia in exchange for another story. The only excuse that I have is...that the story was supposed to perhaps find someone that would help me break the East Coast drought, completely, at no fee. Which, I think, is big of me, even if no one else does. Anyway, let's let bygones be bygones, eh? Let me go at this problem another way. I am going to give Philly some real rain within the next week-10 days. That rain last Sunday was not mine...and it was only 7/10 of an inch...just dew, really. My rain is rain - and you can count on 2-4 inches, at the least. I will not ask anything for it. It will be to make up for my bad manners in trying to bribe you with rain. You know, it is hard for me to understand...as long as I would make rain with chemicals, that is all right. Oh, with parapsychology, that is all right...but when I make rain by communicating with something...that is wrong... Why? As long as Philadelphia gets the rain! Incidentally, I nearly fell off my chair laughing this evening...to read about the New York officials who returned to New York, not having seen that wonderful rain-making invention in California...because it blew a fuse or short-circuited, or something. Ha ha ha. You will note that my storms do not blow fuses or short-circuit. Hoping we still are friends, I remain Sincerely Ted Owens "The Rain Maker" 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 68 of 140 Lornie + Rick Friday, August 27, 1965 Today Zachow, the terrific scientist, called. He said that during the week he had confirmed the reality of my work..and the entities that influenced my work, and that helped to produce results. He had, among other things, consulted one of the great "sensitives" of the U.S., who had confirmed the reality of the Si's; that they come from far away from Earth; are a different type of "si" completely than any other known heretofore. Also the "sensitive" was struck, and almost over-powered with, a tremendous fear, relating to these entities (which are non-breathing.) The sensitive sensed a tremendous "animal force" about them. (The Michigan monster...?) Zachow said definitely that I am producing all of the phenomena that has been produced this past year. He said that it is own energy doing it, but that the Si's use me as a pin-pointing, or locating, instrument, and they help me with their own power. He said that our very conversation this minute would be recorded by them instantly... either by machine or by mind...he doesn't know how they do it. Z disagrees with me on one point..that if I were to die, then these entities would lose their human contact with the earth-people. He says that I am nothing to them... that they "don't give a tinker's dam" about me...and if they did, then I wouldn't be starving and we wouldn't have been stripped of all our things. Z recommends I deliver a mandate to them...either produce a way out of my dilemma in the next week, or I should "resign" as their agent. Then he advises me to quit this completely; put it out of my mind, and go back to ordinary pursuits. Such as knife-throwing. I made a point of asking Z if he thought all of the year's happenings were a "figment of my imagination" as George Clark suggested. He said certainly not; that he had ascertained definitely that I had produced the phenomena, something few humans alive could do - that I had powers far greater in scope than perhaps anyone on earth. But that I was using these powers wrong..destructively. He realizes the ultimate aim of mine...to use these powers to help correct the present ills of this earth...but he states that there seems to be something wrong in the way the Si's are going about it. He added he might be wrong in this, but he feels that way about it. He stated I was a "sending and receiving" radio station for the Si's. He stated that their work, rather than being in the electro-magnetic field... had something to do with the Doppler effect (whatever that is) or laser work of some kind. Within the hour, I had my reply for Arnold from the Si's, attached. === Page 69 of 140 8-27-65 p2 Friday August 27, 1965 Dear Arnold: The Si's wish me to point out to you that they were bringing me along beautifully in Fort Worth, Texas...that I was in fact healing people given up otherwise as hopeless by dentists and the medical fraternity...plus many other things along the lines of auto-hyp, raising the will to live in humans, etc. They were busily teaching me this advanced, far advanced, system of using "something past the mind" - under an umbrella of light-waking-hyp...when my fellow humans tore the entire structure apart. They point out that had people...not them...left me alone...I would have prospered, now living quite happily, and making great strides in the field of helping fellow humans...using their powers constructively. But that people, here on earth, tore down the help they were giving me. They point out that they have no money; they do not use it, or have use for it. What they have is power, and they have given me that...which is all that they have to give. They point out that they have faithfully helped me in every single experiment I have produced, in order to convince my government to take me under its wing, protect me and family, so that then the si's and I can "work around the world" with good, constructive, "white" PK phenomena...healing or putting into balance the present unbalanced weather condition, world-wide; healing, or putting into balance the present unbalanced mental and spiritual condition of the world; etc. They point out that for me to give them a week to bring me money or wealth etc., is ridiculous...because even now my own people are trying to see to it that I am kept in a broke and stripped condition. They point out that my mail and letters may be blocked from coming to me; (I already know that all telephone calls from the radio shows were blocked from me...Mr. Leipziger, at the Congress Hotel, told me. I had dozens of phone calls from people who were interested in me. Leipziger cooly told them I had "checked out!") If the government wishes to keep me broke, that is easy and simple. Any time I get a job a government man unobtrusively goes to see my boss, flashes his credentials...says "Now, actually this man is not a criminal, but will you tell me all you know about him?" Soon I am let go by the boss. This sort of thing is not conducive to longevity in the business world. They point out that they have been trying to help me sustain myself and family, by being hired to break the drought...and they almost succeeded..with the newspaper write-up and the radio shows. They point out, Arnold, that possibly there is an evil force of entities...not themselves...at this point trying to block them, and doing a good job of blocking me. They reiterate that they are only here to help us, humans, restore balance and sanity to an unbalanced and insane world, as it stands today. There it is, Arnold, their rebuttal. It was a pleasure talking to you today. I enjoy your advice, and your conversations, and your wisdom. We do have rapport. And I am still horrified that you went on the defensive when I asked you to watch my fingertips. When I am signalling the Si's, (I have many methods) I "sense" lightning flowing from my fingertips into the skies...and I wondered if you would sense the lightning. Sincerely Ted 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 70 of 140 8-27-65 p3 Oh, Arnold...had to reopen my letter to insert this.... The Si's also point out that Moses, whom they claim to have helped, received their messages...and they guided him. He was a poor sheep herder, and had nothing, just like me. He was given an impossible task...just like me...and he couldn't believe that anybody would listen to him...just like me. "My people will not listen to me or believe me," he told the Bush. "And certainly the Pharaoh will not believe me or pay attention when I ask him to release my people." But the Voice in the Bush gave him instructions and reassured him that everything would work out all right...that he would be listened to, eventually...and that the Pharaoh, with the help of God...would be forced to release his people. On this basis he proceeded...as I have proceeded...except that instead of a Voice from a Bush, it's been a different source, seemingly. Then Moses, with the "magic" staff, proceeded to wreak devastation upon the Egyptians, when they would not listen to him. Sickness over the land. Fouled-up water. Insects swarming all over everything. And so on, ending with the death of poor, innocent babies. And the final destruction of the Egyptian army. That was about as rough as you can get. And it was done for a good purpose, we can now say, with "20-20 hindsight." But at that time Moses own people got very mad at him...because his "destructiveness" was causing the Egyptians to put worse pressure on them. They begged Moses to stop, and forget the whole thing. They would just go on, as always, being slaves. But Moses...one, poor, man...heeded God's voice and orders...and carried on. So that this, later, was reckoned a very great "good" thing in the Bible. It is holy, as a matter of fact. Well, I have no illusions that God is talking to me, or guiding me...I know darn well, as a matter of fact, that it is UFO's, because I have the proof of it. And Arnold, based on how rough the early Christians were...to burn away the dross from man's soul in order to leave the gold...the present activity is definitely not out of line. In early Bible days, remember, Christian bands that roamed and slaughtered entire tribes...killing women and children? The Si's and I aren't that rough. All that they have done is try and get the ear of this government...by tornados, hurricanes, affecting subs, rockets, planes, etc., to show this government what power they have...but from the start they have pointed out that they want only to use their great powers to help this country; most of all this entire world. And all they want for starters is for this country to start helping them help the world. Arnold, if they wanted to be mean, or were vicious, they could have done far, far more destruction and wreaked far far much more havoc, than they have. They have just done a little, to show their power. Which has the greatest intelligence, Arnold...President Johnson and McNamara and Rusk and the rest of the advisors...or the Si's? Which has the greatest ability to see ahead in time? You know the answer. Furthermore, the course that we are steering now, in our own government, is definitely leading to mass destruction. What worse could the Si's do to us? They are desperately trying to halt things! === Page 71 of 140 8-27-65 p4 They also point out that, as for my being poor...without funds, car, TV, house, etc. Moses was just a sheep-herder. The Disciples had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Others that were guided by a Greater Intelligence...no matter what the name... were poor people. Jesus, to name one. They do put up a strong argument, Arnold. And the feeling that I receive, carried with their intelligence, is a good feeling...a constructive, kindly, loving feeling. I am a damn good sensitive myself, Arnold. I have encountered the "bad" controls... === Page 72 of 140 Sat. 8/28/65 Dear Lonnie: I enjoyed hearing from you. You definitely are not getting all my letters. Listen -- any letter I mail to "Lonnie & Rick" means both of you read that letter. Got it? Do not hold any of my letters back from Rick. The enclosed copies of letters reveal the current action, pretty much. Send back the signed affidavit from Dave Richman. As usual I had prepared my "homework" for Gemini-5 before last Thursday -- to get fire, human error, lightning, power-failure, ground-controls, etc. Got just about all of it! Stopped the shot. You know my routine pretty well. The "game" is to harass the shoot without killing the astronauts. I've done well. The idiots then shot up OSO, Flying Laboratory (remember the OGO I got last year?) -- and it blew up. They never learn. Martha encloses letter. Be good, and mind Pat. Love and kisses, honey -- Dad. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 73 of 140 Lornie and Rick August 31, 1965...Tuesday Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Now that the excitement is all over, I would like to respectfully point out that my PK work on Gemini 5 was a classic of what PK effects do. As you well know, if you have read my correspondence this past year, my objectives with PK were: Lightning strikes. Storms. Power failure. Human error. Mechanical malfunction. Communications disruption between ground controls and craft. Electromagnetic interference. I would say that I obtained 80% of my goal. And not the least important..."built in" the PK is the intelligence that the astronauts are not killed or injured in the flight. This was successful. Main purpose, of course, was to show the U.S. Government, as usual, what the "PK" can do with regard to rockets and missiles. Enclosed is a signed prediction that I made, with full confidence, the Thursday morning before the initial Gemini-5 shoot, to a brightly-intelligent college man with a degree, where I work, at Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. I gave him, when he asked me about the Gemini-5 shot, 10-1 odds against success of the shoot. Of course, this was the first, or Thursday, shoot. We did not know then there would be another attempt. My odds were correct. I further told him that the same odds should apply during the following week. And, of course, this was borne out. Even borne out further when the OSO blew up at third stage. I have applied with another, foreign government, to work at their ESP center. Should this go through, I will be able to fulfill my goal of applying PK around the world, in a constructive way. At any event, at some time in the near future I intend to take down, or disarm, the areas that I have activated with PK in order to demonstrate its working to the U.S. Government (Electro, Electra, etc.) The East Coast drought will continue, and nothing man can do will alleviate it. I can end it, however. But that is not NASA's story. Respectfully, Ted Owens, PK Man. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 74 of 140 8/31/65 P2 August 31, 1965...Tuesday COPY Mr. Eastwood, Inventions, NASA, August 26, 1965 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN On Thursday morning, August 19 (last week) 1965, at lunch, Ted Owens predicted to me, (when asked about the success of the Gemini-5 shot to go off later at Cape Kennedy) that the odds, according to him, Owens, were 10-1 against the success of the shot. He stated that if he had the money he would be willing to bet $10 against my $1 that the shot would not be a success...but that, because he is only making $50 a week, he cannot gamble now with money. Mr. Owens also implied that similar odds mitigated against a successful shot for the coming weeks. /S/ David Richman Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority 304 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Note: Mr. Eastwood...I would have won my bet, since there were two objectives to the shoot, on the second attempt: (1) Link-up with REP, (2) 8 full days of flight. The REP contact was not made. Betsy, the Hurricane (also mine) forestalled the 8 days, and brought it down short of full time. I would have won the bet anyway, without that, because I was betting on the Thursday shoot at the time. === Page 75 of 140 Copy - Lornie & Rick Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunted groups, of PK (psychokinesis) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. (Brought 2 back to life last year) Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Govt. try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York... but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro... or get away from me completely (only one did last year..the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, PK Man Ted Owens (PK Man) 111 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 76 of 140 9-1-1965 P1 "17" 29 hrs. 12 / 350 24 110 108 FORCE-FIELDS / $\oplus$ SO HELP FORCE FIELD-!!! STOP!!! CAPE It followed this line - the wrong line. The line of the square. If it there don't use 3rd frame i+z = then path to follow!! 9/1/65 FLA Miami (Where it went wrong) 9/3 9/2 9/3 Tonight I put a light - same as over me - high over Cape K. - for Betsy to "see" and aim toward. She must swing left, West. It could reach Cape K. by Sat. nite, tomorrow nite!! Will send myself tonite to guide Betsy West, left!! (Also to get power from her.) BETSY 8/29 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 77 of 140 9-1-65 P2 9-1-65- P2 Storm Brews In Atlantic SAN JUAN, P. R., Aug. 27 (UPI). - Tropical storm Betsy formed off the northeast coast of South America with 45-mile-an-hour winds late Friday, the first tropical twister to threat-en the Western Hemisphere this season. The San Juan Weather Bureau's advisory located Betsy's center 200 miles southeast of the island of Barbados. It was moving in a northwest direction at about 16 miles per hour. The Weather Bureau said Betsy's highest winds were about 45 miles per hour in a band of squalls extending circle to the north of the center. UNITED STATES FINAL DESCENT COMPLETED 120TH ORBIT 8/29 GEMINI 5 BLASTED OFF AUGUST 21 ST AT 10:00 A.M. EDT. Charleston CAPE HATTERAS Gulf of Mexico Jacksonville KENNEDY 655 MILES 8:52 A.M. EDT AT 9000 FT AN 84.2-FT-DIAMETER MAIN CHUTE OPENED Palm Beach 9/3 HELICOPTER TOUCHDOWN ON CARRIER AT 10:25 A.M. EDT Miami GRAND BAHAMA ABACO ISLAND ASTRONAUTS FROM GEMINI 5 PICKED UP BY HELICOPTER AT 9:58 A.M. EDT ANDROS ISLAND Nassau ELEUTHERA ISLAND Atlantic Ocean BAHAMAS CAT ISLAND Good!! OK! 9/3 SPLASHDOWN AT 8:56 A.M. EDT. COMPLETED A 3,338,200-MILE ORBITAL FLIGHT IN SPACE IN 7 DAYS 22 HRS. 55 MIN. GREAT EXUMA ISLAND SAN SALVADOR LONG IS. "B" Guantanamo GREAT INAGUA CUBA TROPICAL STORM BETSY-BECAME HURRICANE 9 HRS. AFTER SPLASHDOWN OF GEMINI 5 Hurricane Betsy Puffs in Atlantic NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, STORM CROSSING CARIBBEAN AREA Astronauts Observe Course - Eye Poorly Defined the upper atmosphere were "not favorable for intensification." "Also the eastern Caribbean is a notoriously unfavorable location for the development of tropical storms or the intensification of existing storms," he added. The 1965 hurricane season got off to a start with the first storm, called Anna, sighted only Monday north of Bermuda. It was born in the "graveyard of Hurricanes" and soon died in the Atlantic without threatening the mainland. Betsy Winds At 80 MPH MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 29 (AP). - Tropical storm Betsy slowed down Sunday in her forward speed and grew into a full fledged hurricane with winds up to 80 miles an hour. The Miami Weather Bureau said in a 6 P. M. EDT advisory that the center was located MIAMI (UPI). - Hurricane Betsy, nourished by the warmth of the tropical Atlantic, intensified today while churning harmlesslessly across the open ocean. Betsy became the second hurricane of the season yesterday, lashing the Leeward and Virgin Islands with heavy rain and playing the role of a slight spoiler in the U. S. space program. The storm forced astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad to cut their record-breaking space voyage one orbit short. EARLY TODAY Betsy was centered some 300 miles north-northeast of San Juan, P. R., and was moving north-northeast at 12 miles an hour. It carried winds of 80 M.P.H. at its center. Forecaster Raymond Kraft said Betsy "will gradually increase in intensity, but it is no immediate threat to any land area." ?? A decision is expected later today whether attempts will be made to seed the hurricane with silver iodide to force it to disgorge its moisture and weaken it. Illinois Damage Inspected CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (AP) - Northeastern Illinois may be declared a disaster area because of the storm Thursday night and early Friday that caused an estimated $5 million S...ales annual-in redperales waiting for their return." these men and those who are mankind's future, we greet Bonn West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard cabled congratulations to the astronauts and to President Johnson. Heinz Kaminsky, director of the Bochum observatory in West Germany, said of the The people of this region have been unsuccessful. began to enforce laws against killing and other acts. The Forestal 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 78 of 140 9-1-65 p3 "C" # Betsy's Winds Abate, Seeding Today in Doubt From Our Wire Services MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 31.-- Hurricane Betsy dissipated Tuesday night without any help from weathermen, cutting down chances that she would be seeded Wednesday. Her highest winds dropped from 85 to 65 miles an hour, and she was demoted to a tropical storm. BETSY UNDECIDED Weathermen had been waiting for the storm to move forward and pick up higher winds, conditions which would improve the chances of success for the seeding experiment, the largest yet undertaken. But for more than a day and a half the storm has thrashed around about 270 miles north of San Juan, P.R., without deciding which direction to go. Fifteen planes stood ready in Puerto Rico to drop silver iodide crystals into her moisture-laden winds if the signal were given. 'A WEAK STORM' But late Tuesday night the final decision had not been made, according to Dr. Cecil Gentry, head of the Hurricane Research Laboratory, who was in Puerto Rico. "It's a weak storm and conditions at this time do not lead to it intensifying," said Miami hurricane forecaster Raymond Kraft. "Simply, there's more air going in and out, and the circulation is falling apart." The planes would spread the crystals through the hurricane's rainbands close to the center "eye" at levels ranging from 1000 to 40,000 feet every two hours. SELF-DESTRUCTION If the experiments succeeded fully, Hurricane Betsy would be fooled into cooling itself off and thus destroying itself. Stalled far from land, Betsy was in an ideal position for the undertaking. Scientists have been working on limited scale seeding experiments for nearly 20 years. Inquirer Staff Map Map shows original Gemini 5 splashdown site and new one made necessary by storm. UNITED STATES Cape Hatteras BERMUDA Orbit 120 3 CAPE KENNEDY SPLASHDOWN 7 Days 22 Hrs. 56 Mins. Orbit 121 Gulf of Mexico BAHAMAS Havana MEXICO CUBA PUERTO RICO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BETSY JAMAICA HAITI HONDURAS 0 500 Miles Caribbean Sea TROPICAL STORM BETSY cut Gemini 5 flight from 121 to 120 orbits. NEW GEMINI 5 LANDING AREA ORIGINAL LANDING AREA GEMINI 5 Atlantic Ocean PUERTO RICO GUADELOUPE MARTINIQUE BARBADOS 8/29 8/29 Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea BETSY Aug. 29 === Page 79 of 140 Hurricane's Winds Rising # Betsy Heading for Bahamas MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 1 (AP). -- Hurricane Betsy, suddenly a mighty tempest, whipped its peak winds up to 100 miles an hour Wednesday night and bore down on the Bahamas Islands. American space personnel on Grand Turk and Mayaguana Islands battened down under the Air Force's No. 1 alert. (But the Weather Bureau said Betsy probably would not hit the multimillion-dollar tracking stations with its worst punch.) Growing stronger on the warm, blue waters of the tropical Atlantic, Betsy turned slightly to the north after having moved to the west all day. The Weather Bureau said it expected an even more north-easterly track Thursday, easing the threat to the southern tip of the 750-mile Bahamas chain and heightening the threat for the populous islands in the center. Beyond Mayaguana -- whose tracking station was de-stroyed by hurricane Donna in 1960 and never rebuilt -- lay other islands in the Bahamas chain and the southeastern coast of the United States. A hurricane command post was established at Cape Kennedy. It put the 150-man missile tracking station at Eleuthera and the 35-man station on San Salvador on alert status No. 3, meaning winds of 35 m.p.h. or more are expected within 48 hours. The 300 men on Grand Bahamas Island were told to get ready for the possibility of 35-mile winds within 72 hours. Betsy's calm eye was about 750 miles east-southeast of Miami, Fla., and 170 miles east-northeast of Grand Turk. The hurricane was spinning toward the west at 8 m.p.h. and expected to continue that way at least until noon Thursday, when a more northwesterly turn was anticipated. Gordon Dunn, chief of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said the storm posed a potential threat to the U. S. mainland if it continued on its westward course. "But I doubt that it could reach here for at least two days," he said. "It is not moving in perfectly straight lines," Dunn said, "but its net movement is almost due west." He said a slightly more northerly movement was expected Thursday. As Betsy picked up steam, scientists discarded a plan to bombard the storm with silver iodide crystals in an attempt to turn its fury into harmless rain. Its westward movement, they said, made the test risky. In 1949, a seeded storm split in two and one portion hit Savannah, Ga. Weathermen said the seeding was not responsible, but they haven't seeded a hurricane near land since then. | MILES | | | | |---|---|---|---| | 0 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | BERMUDA HURRICANE BETSY BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO HAITI JAMAICA Inquirer Staff Map Symbol indicates position and broken line the course of Hurricane Betsy in the Atlantic. "D" # Betsy Gains Strength, Heads for Bahamas Miami, Sept. 1 -- (UPI) -- Hurricane Betsy rapidly gained intensity today on a course toward the Bahama Islands and forced cancellation of plans to chemically bombard the storm to weaken its force. More than a dozen planes had been scheduled to leave Puerto Rico this morning to attack the storm with silver iodide crystals, but they were grounded as Betsy gained strength after being downgraded during the night to a tropical storm. The storm was last located 200 miles east-northeast of Turks Island on the eastern tip of the Bahamas. Winds were 90 miles an hour. Betsy was centered near latitude 22.2 North, longitude 67.9 West. UNITED STATES 0 200 Miles BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean Miami BAHAMAS BETSY CUBA San Juan PUERTO RICO # Revitalized Betsy Nears Bahamas MIAMI (UPI). -- Hurricane Betsy rapidly gained destructive power today on a course toward the Bahama Islands and forced weather scientists to cancel plans to chemically bombard the storm to weaken its force. More than a dozen planes had been scheduled to leave Puerto Rico to attack the storm with cooling silver iodide crystals, but they were grounded as Betsy gained intensity after being downgraded during the night to a tropical storm. With bombardment, the scientists ran a risk of splitting the hurricane and making its fury worse. Forecasters expected it to gain speed rapidly and pick up more strength from a high pressure area off the Eastern Coast. "On its present course, Betsy bears no immediate danger to land." 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 80 of 140 9-1-65 p 4 "E" ONE of the tonier bakeries in town is Toney's Bakery, located at the world-famous FARMERS MARKET, 3rd & Fairfax. FATHER Earl Toney has been baking for 48 years (he should be done by now) and he's spent the last 16 years at Fmrs. Mkt. Son Eddie moved into the business full-time five years ago. Eddie is the showman these days. He's a color artist and has the touch of a real professional when it comes to matching the cake icing to the color theme of a party. If you're going to paint the town red, for example, Eddie will prepare a cake to match. He does in the elementary grades and the remainder in junior and senior high schools after the term begins Sept. 13. He warned the conferees at an East Los Angeles College meeting that the short session enrollment could grow to 100,000 unless the bond issue is approved by voters. Factors Outlined Continuing classroom shortages, efforts to reduce class size in the first, second and third grades and the recent heavy equipment operators strike were factors in the increasing short sessions, the superintendent said. Last June, there were 26,231 elementary and 4,233 secondary students on abbreviated sessions, or a total of 30,464. the conference that public reaction to the bond proposal is welcomed. The final amount of the bonding will be set by the Board of Education in February, he said, after public hearings. First Since May, 1963 The bond issue election will be the first for the schools since successful passage of a $127.5 million issue in May, 1963. The proposed $15 million program would provide 2,151 classrooms, 25 new schools and sites for 12 schools, designed to keep pace with the annual 25,000 to 30,000 enrollment growth in the city system, second largest in the nation. One of the largest items in the bond program is $22,712,350 for rehabilitation of 45 FINGERPRINTED--cisco tax assessor, Donohue. He was 10 tax assessment S.F. Asse in Tax B Russell L. Wol. Coastline Residents Warned MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Betsy whirled relentlessly northwestward Friday night on a course aimed at the Carolina coast. The Weather Bureau said the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas although her course might suddenly change. There was a better-than-even chance the storm might never touch land at all, the Weather Bureau said. But it asked coastline residents to watch for advisories on Betsy's progress. Bahamas Escape Betsy churned harmlessly past the Bahamas and was expected to pass 250 to 300 miles east of Jacksonville this afternoon. Then the problem will be which steering currents take charge -- ones that would carry the storm westward toward land or more northeasterly up the Atlantic, the Weather Bureau said. Friday night, Betsy, with top winds of 125 m.p.h., was about 500 miles southeast of Charleston, S.C., and heading toward it at 12 m.p.h. 'Hasn't Left Us' "We want to remind the people up there that Betsy hasn't left us yet," said forecaster Sam Pierce. "There always is a big element of unpredictability with hurricanes," he said. "But I'd say chances are better than 50-50 that it will not hit any part of the East Coast of the United States." Small craft owners south of Cape Hatteras were warned not to venture into the Atlantic Ocean because of gradual roughening of waves over the weekend. HURRICANE HALTS OFF FLORIDA; STILL THREAT MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Betsy whirled to a stop 350 miles off the Florida coast Saturday night without a hint as to where it would aim its sledge-hammer winds. "This is a large, severe hurricane and all interests along the southeast coast should keep in continuous touch with advisories and bulletins," the Weather Bureau told thousands of people worried about weekend outings. "Many beaches from the Carolinas to northeast Florida will be awash Sunday," the Weather Bureau said. "Boating, surf-fishing and swimming will be extremely hazardous, if not foolhardy." During the day Betsy had turned slightly northward away from the Carolina coast, raising hopes that it might escape Betsy's peak winds of 135 m.p.h. But then -- caught in opposing steering currents that equalized each other -- the storm stopped. The weather Bureau said nothing was in sight that might cause Betsy to resume forward movement until today. Miami Weather Bureau forecasters delayed from Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 4 9/4/65 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 81 of 140 "F" It got Grand Turk! 9/3/65 "BRINGING BETSY IN" THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1965 Bahamas Spared Blow Temporarily Haha!! Good!!!! Erratic Betsy Puzzles Forecasters MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 3 (Friday). (AP)--Hurricane Betsy whipped itself into an intense and dangerous hurricane Tuesday, likely to worry residents of the Eastern Seaboard for another week. Changing directions daily, the small but powerful hurricane has refused to take a steady course since it was born in the Caribbean last week. VEERS TOWARD ATLANTIC Late Thursday it veered sharply away from the Bahamas toward the open Atlantic. At midnight EDT Betsy was centered near Latitude 24.4 north, Longitude 71.7 west, about 540 miles east of Miami, and was traveling toward the northwest at 8 miles an hour. Winds were reported up to 150 miles an hour. "I wouldn't want to take any bets on what it is going to do," said forecaster Raymond Kraft. 'COULD RUN FOR WEEK' "About the only consolation you have is when it gets level with your latitude, the chances are pretty slim it will turn back. It could run on for a week," he said. "It's going to be another two or three days before we have any firm idea on whether any part of the East Coast is going to be threatened." After that, if Betsy were to go inland, it would take three or more days to wear itself out. If Betsy takes a harmless course up the Atlantic, it would take three or more days to move far enough north to wilt in colder climates. GALES EXPECTED The Bahamas Weather Bureau said, despite the anticipated threat to thinly populated out-islands, it had not decided whether to issue warnings. "Right now, the most we expect is gales," said a forecaster. The 4000 persons on Cat Island and the 6000 on Eleuthera would be buffeted by sustained gales for several hours under the present forecast. But they would likely be spared hurricane-force winds, the Weather Bureau said. WRONG!! MILES 0 100 200 300 400 BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean $ heta$: 51° (FORCE FIELD) HURRICANE BETSY FLORIDA West Palm Beach Miami Key West Havana BAHAMAS Nassau TURKS IS. Caribbean Sea JAMAICA HAITI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO Inquirer Staff Map Map charts path of Hurricane Betsy as it whirls through the Atlantic on erratic course. === Page 82 of 140 9-1-65 "G" P5 # Betsy Whirls North Past Bahamas, Perils Georgia and Carolinas MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 4 (Saturday) (AP)---Hurricane Betsy whirled relentlessly northwestward Friday night on a course aimed at the Carolina coast. The Weather Bureau said the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas, although noting that her course might suddenly change. There was a better than even chance the storm might never touch land at all, the Weather Bureau said. But it asked coastline residents to watch for advisories on Betsy's progress. Betsy churned harmlessly past the Bahamas and was expected to pass 250 to 300 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday afternoon. Then the problem will be which steering currents take charge---ones that would carry the storm westward toward land or more northeasterly and up the Atlantic. At midnight (EDT), Betsy, with top winds of 125 miles an hour, was about 500 miles southeast of Charleston, S. C., and heading toward it at 12 miles an hour. "At this time we do not suggest any change in vacation plans for the holiday weekend on account of the storm," the Miami Weather Bureau said. An expected shift to the north or north-northwest would keep Betsy well at sea and bearing toward cooler waters which always sap the energy of tropical storms shunted over them. # 150-MPH Betsy Skirting Outer Bahama Islands Miami, Sept. 3---(AP)---Erratic Hurricane Betsy skirted the Bahamas' Out Islands today with winds increased to 150 miles an hour. Noting that Betsy had changed directions a half dozen times in the past three days, weathermen said the eastern seaboard will probably have to worry about the storm for another week. Navy reconnaissance last located the center of the hurricane near latitude 25.0 north, longitude 72.9 west, or about 460 miles slightly south of due east from Miami and 120 miles northeast of San Salvador, moving northwest at 10 MPH. Gales extended out from the center band of highest winds 20 miles in all directions except 75 miles to the southwest of the center. Betsy's present course would mean that the center would pass just a short distance north of the Abaco Islands early Saturday morning. GOOD! CHANGE COURSE # Missile Trackers In Betsy's Path 9/3 MIAMI (UPI). --- Hurricane Betsy, boasting peak winds of 150 miles an hour, meandered dangerously near a string of U. S. missile tracking stations in the Bahamas today on a course aimed at the Eastern Seaboard. Weathermen said the storm, if it maintained its present course, would take three days to reach the U. S. Early today Betsy was centered about 165 miles east of the shuttered San Salvador Island tracking station. This was about 540 miles south-southeast of Miami. The hurricane was crawling at 8 MPH on a northwesterly course. Exactly 08/02/2025 14:51 at RogB 8/29!!! R.M.P. MILES 0 100 200 300 400 BERMUDA Atlantic Ocean HURRICANE BETSY Wilmington S.C. Myrtle Beach Charleston Savannah Brunswick Jacksonville Daytona Beach FLORIDA CAPE KENNEDY West Palm Beach Miami Key West Havana Caribbean Sea JAMAICA BAHAMAS HAITI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUERTO RICO Betsy had a "bulls eye" on Cape. Then I went to bed. Inquirer Staff Map Map traces the path of Hurricane Betsy, which has turned to a more northerly direction. # Betsy Grows, But S. Florida Peril Lessens Miami, Sept. 2---(AP)---Hurricane Betsy's winds built up to 115 miles an hour today but a very gradual northward swing in its forward movement lessened the immediate threat to South Florida. Hurricane Betsy was located by aircraft and land-based radar near latitude 23.0 north longitude 70.7 west, or about 635 miles east-southeast of Miami and 100 miles north-northeast of Grand Turk Island moving west at 9 mph. Highest winds were about 115 mph over a small area near the center. Gales extended out 200 miles in all directions except 75 miles in the southwest quadrant. Cape Kennedy, Sept. 2 ---(UPI)--- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, waiting to see where Hurricane Betsy goes, today delayed until Tuesday moving the Gemini 6 spacecraft to its launch site. PUT "LOCK" ON DIRECTION TOWARD CAPE K. FOR NIGHT!! === Page 83 of 140 9-1-65 p6 "H" THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965 # Hurricane Veers From Coast, Raising Hope in the Carolinas ![Map showing the path of Hurricane Betsy along the southeastern coast of the United States, with labels for Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. The storm's eye is marked with a symbol and its path is indicated by a line with arrows.] Sept. 3, 1965 Hurricane's eye (symbol) is moving toward North Carolina. Gales (shading) extend up to 200 miles from eye. MIAMI, Sept. 4 (AP)--The season's second hurricane began to shy away from the United States coastline today and hope rose that the Carolinas might escape the full fury of its winds. In the Miami Weather Bureau, forecasters delayed from hour to hour the posting of a hurricane watch for the vulnerable Carolina coast that juts sharply out into one of the Atlantic Ocean paths often taken by tropic storms. "We're sweating it out until the last minute, to see if Betsy [the name for the hurricane] will continue veering toward the north," said Robert McCaslin, a forecaster. "If the turn persists," he said, "we can take South Carolina off the hook, and maybe later the entire coast. It'll be close--a real squeaker--but the turn has started and we expect it to continue." Winds peaking at 125 miles an hour slammed around the eye of the storm as it roared past the Cape Kennedy missile complex this morning. ### Area Expected to Grow The hurricane then was 360 miles at sea, but the storm sent gale winds lashing out over an area 400 miles wide and churned up 120,000 square miles of Atlantic waters. The area of gales was expected to grow larger. From Cape Kennedy to Cape Hatteras, forecasters warned small craft owners to get into safe harbor before winds and tides rose to dangerous levels. Pending further developments, residents of both North and South Carolina were warned to keep in constant touch with advisories on the dangerous storm. The hurricane was pointed directly at the heavily populated Gold Coast of southeast Florida but on her new course the hurricane only brushed them. On Abaco Island, one of the largest in the chain, winds peaked at 85 miles an hour when the storm passed to the east. ### Normal Crowds on Beaches WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 4 (AP) -- Vacationers, taking their final holiday outing of the summer, frolicked on beaches of the Carolinas today apparently unconcerned over the hurricane threat. "Everything is calm here and we're not worried," observed a spokesman for the Greater Myrtle Beach, S. C., Chamber of Commerce. He said the beach crowds seemed to be about normal for the Labor Day weekend. Skies were generally fair and there was a slight swell in the surf. Along the North Carolina coast, "things are about normal for this time of the year," a spokesman at Elizabeth City said. All points reported winds out of the northeast, ranging from 10 to 20 knots, with gusts a little stronger. Automobiles rolled into beach resorts as radio broadcasts told of the hurricane's location, her force and her forward speed. Parents and children with picnic lunches, beach balls and surf boards spotted the sands, but chilly winds and waters at some points discouraged bathing. Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Morehead City, all in North Carolina, reported scattered showers. Farther up the coast, skies were sunny but beach crowds were about half the normal size. "The sea is pretty rough, but we're having the nicest day we've had in a week," a spokesman at Manteo said. # Betsy Blusters Toward Coast At 125 MPH Miami, Sept. 4--(UPI)--Hurricane Betsy threatened the Carolinas and Georgia with its 125 miles-per-hour winds today, pushing high tides against the coasts where many resorts teemed with Labor Day holiday vacationers. Two Coast Guard lightships moored off the coast reported six-foot seas and increasing winds. The Miami Weather Bureau in a 6 A. M. advisory located Betsy's center near latitude 27.7 north, longitude 75.1 west, or about 315 miles east of Vero Beach, Fla., and 525 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N. C. The storm was moving toward the northwest at eight mph. It was expected to continue on its course several hours and then turn north-northwest. The gale area reached 200 miles out in the northeast semicircle and was expected to expand. The Navy moved 21 aircraft from the Glynco Naval Air Station at Brunswick, Ga., as a precaution. The planes were flown to Stewart Air Force Base at Smyrna, Tenn. The Air Force cancelled the Sunday afternoon drive-through tour of the Cape Kennedy Space Center because of the storm. Betsy also postponed until next Tuesday movement of the two-man Gemini 6 spacecraft to its launch site. The raising of an Atlas-Centaur rocket on its launch pad was also delayed until next week. # Howling Betsy Passes Kennedy, Heads off Carolinas moving forward at nine miles an hour 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 84 of 140 9-1-65 p7 "I" FLA. BETSY BETSY MIAMI BETSY STOP STOP Mon. 9/6/65 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 85 of 140 9-1-65 p8 "J" 1965 # Storm Pearst of orange and agy flashes. A burglar suted above the tim of a tobacco sign, cong to flap free. hopping center of the windows criss-postape like the face Soker, would sudden-hen flash on, then good. OKLA. Oklahoma City ARK. Little Rock MISS. Jackson ALA. Montgomery LA. Baton Rouge TEXAS Dallas Houston Galveston HURRICANE WATCH New Orleans Mississippi River Delta Sarasota Miami Brownsville HURRICANE BETSY Key West Straits of Florida Gulf of Mexico Tampico Vera Cruz Campeche Merida Puerto Juarez CUBA Caribbean Sea BR. HONDURAS GUATEMALA MILES 0 100 200 300 Inquirer Map by Francis Pontari, Staff Artist Hurricane Betsy is charted as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico after smashing South Florida coast. # nps Resorts Strip, Aims ows at Gulf major structural damage in the metropolitan areas, which enacted stiff building codes years ago to guard against just such a threat as Betsy. But utility poles, billboards, power lines, street lights and trees were downed, hundreds of unprotected windows smashed, roofs damaged, patio screens ripped to ribbons, and house trailers overturned. About 80 percent of Miami and Fort Lauderdale was without electricity. Residents faced long days without lights, refrigeration or cooking facilities. An estimated 25,000 telephones were out of service in Greater $18. BROCADE-SOFT GLEAM IN A WOMAN'S PARTY PLANS. The dress alone is pretty important, add the jacket and its dates are legion. Gold or blue/green brocade by Crayne. 14 1/2 to 22 1/2. Mail or call WA 3-2500. Fourth floor; all stores. Red Smith. His column is a rare combination. ports pages of The Philadel- AP Wirephoto via cable from London d Nations Secretary Gen- rport hotel, where Thant Way to India and Pakistan. # Land New Drive Dwarka, sacred to all India's Hindus. Defense Minister Y. B. Cha- an told Indian Parliament the army driving into southeast Pakistan had captured Gadra and was still moving ahead. 20 troops the north had broken out of Kashmir and was advancing. Chavan said the second force crossed the northern frontier not far from the Chamb front of southwest Kashmir, where fight- ing between the two nations broke out last week. This would place the front about 100 miles southwest of Rawalpindi. ORNING. 1946, wherea a Nazi conx (948 the Wh essage fro "the focel outh of Ca dian Gulf. Th map CEN ing of allie hough Afg Turkey, uit after t to be char Communis al enemy and guard nst India, === Page 86 of 140 9-1-65 pg "K" Bullseye! 9/10/65 Hit!!! NEW ORLEANS NASA MICHOUD TITAN COMPLEX LOUISIANA MISS. BETSY Fla. AFT 9/9/65 "7" 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 87 of 140 Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Hi...what are you two up to now? Rick, haven't heard from you for a long time. Am surprised, in lieu of the successes have had with "PK phenomena these past weeks. I wouldn't suppose wild elephants could keep you from writing about it. Right now am working on Hurricane Betsy...naturally...just like last year. Spent hours last night getting Betsy to turn left, hook West. Have had to correct her course several times now. But she's a good little hurricane...and I have added several refinements and mechanisms which I can't discuss here...but which are dandies. For instance, when I read that 15 airplanes were getting ready to attack Betsy, while she was standing still temporarily, with silver iodide, to kill her....I put in anti-plane PK in such a way that Besty had a chance herself to get the planes, before the planes got her. Like they were reading my mind, the government canceled the plane strike. Good thing they did. I have learned so much...so much...since you kids have left. Damn, wish I could tell you all about it. What I have learned is from the saucer intelligences....the ones I got the message from in Washington that night at Mangels. Whatever you do...if anything ever happens to me....be sure and get my files, which I carry mostly in a black bag, wherever I go...Have a bunch of notebooks in there, and a bunch of folders with material. For God's sake keep this until you grow up...I will never be able to forget what happened to the material I sent to Pat to keep for me, when I was in a jam in Phoenix one time...in the ash can it went. So do not let anyone else get their hands on my file. Keep it yourselves, because it is beyond price or value. When I tell you that, you'd better believe it. I have even drawn colored pictures of the insides of the Si's spacecraft...pictures of the different things they do, and how they do them. For instance, they know where I am at all times, and how I am...because they have rigged a "floating light" high overhead in the sky, over me, wherever I go. This light pulsates, and tells them not one thing...just where I am...but my mood, my emotions, how alive I am, and so on. *I made a picture of this.* Yesterday, again, someone in a car tried to hit me. That makes three times in a week it's been tried. Now, someone trying to brainwash you would say, "Ah, he's a paranoid nut." But not so...I have been walking to work for months here, and have never had an accident, or a near accident...until this week. Then suddenly pow pow pow...three "freak" occurrences where cars, instead of letting me walk with the light, suddenly accelerate to high speed and except for my peripheral vision and agility would have settled me for good by now. Whoever is behind it...will give up on cars now...for I am wary of that trap...and will try another angle. Am sure it is not our government, because they seem to place ... well ...I don't think it is. Could be commie. My 4-hour radio stint that one night told the commie's all they needed to hear, to try and get me, before the U.S. Government miraculously finds its right mind and accepts me. Am positive you kids are not getting all of my mail; why, I don't know. But if you were, you would be writing differently, and more often. That is for sure. One day you will see my file...and I have copies of all letters I have sent to you...and you can see very easily what you've gotten and what you haven't. Little Bo is so cute, it is almost unbelievable. And smart....wow! Zachow, the scientist who's been investigating me and my work...says to watch Bo carefully and teach him carefully...because he has my eyes and the same ability to direct "projectionaliz thought-force" with devastating results. If he isn't taught to direct this ab === Page 88 of 140 9-3-65 P2 2 constructive channels, then things could get rough. Because of my newspaper write-up on rainmaking, and the two radio broadcasts... I lost my job...and the agency that was placing me on jobs, dropped me as "some kind of nut." Ha ha ha! Yep, a 5-10 billion dollars nut...that's about what I have cost the government so far with PK. But of course, I expected it, and willingly made the "trade"...as a matter of personal values. I have about three dozen letters I received as a result of the radio programs... from everywhere...Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Delaware...even Canada. Would you like to see these peoples' letters, plus my answers? If so, let me know and will send them...but you must promise to send them back, because they are a part of my files. When do you start to school? Just think, Lornie, you'll be 16 purty soon. My, my, how you do grow. Be no time at all until you have a beautiful home of your own, a fine husband who loves you, and be raising your own little chilluns. Great care must be used, however, in selecting your man...remember that. Teen-agers get "crushes" on fellows their age, sometimes ... oh foo, I'm not going to try and advise you. Sometimes I think maybe teenagers, in their brainless "crush" state...are working on a more accurate "beam" from Nature...than older, more mature people who think they know all of the answers because they are older and more mature. And they still wind up throwing things at their husband, or worse. Who knows? Only Nature. Not people, that's for sure. One thing is for sure...Pat is a fine judge of people, and can steer you straight. She can spot a phony a mile away...just like daddy can. So give momma a look at any of your catches. She'll read him, but good. Well, Rick, what are you doing? Out of town visiting? Be very careful of venereal disease, kids. This week were two articles in the papers...doctors everywhere now are greatly alarmed because just recently VD rate shot up to the moon. They can't understand why, but they are warning all the highschool and college kids to beware.... Write. Love and kisses.... Dad. P.S. Just finished making a dandy rainstorm - which, as a side-product to my prediction - put out a giant 5-alarm fire which the firemen couldn't handle because water facilities were too far away from the scene - people in 10 homes were evacuated because the fire was out of control. Meanwhile I was on the balcony outside our apartment, activating the rain to put the fire out. See attached. === Page 89 of 140 9/3/65 p1 Friday Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Rick, The Rain Maker-- Zachow turned out to be a disappointment. He told me to give the Si's a week... to furnish me money... or quit them and go back to throwing knives. I told Zachow... goo'by friend. Rick, I thank you for the medallion. It is a gift... I have actually wanted to buy for myself, in days past, but couldn't. Back in Ft Worth, long ago, I thought of having those "prayer hands" put on a ring. Anyway, pal, I have put it on the string 'round my neck, and there it will always be. Thanks, from Dad. Nobody can discourage my "PK" work, Rick -- plenty have tried. You say you got my letter. Which one? I've sent about 10. I addressed them "Lonnie & Rick Owens." Right now I'm nudging Hurricane Betsy to the target -- Electro -- the Cape K. Have had to turn her a half-dozen times. She keeps swinging north, and I keep swinging her back west, or north west. It's got the Weather Bureau flippin' their wig, trying to keep up with us (me & Betsy). They announced Thursday that all was well -- Betsy was going north -- away from Florida. I worked hard, and swung her 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 90 of 140 9/3/65 p 2 around again - so Thurs. night she was pointed at the Cape again. Today she swung north again. Tonight I'll swing her around again - and they'll be hopping around in Florida over the weekend. Another car tried to get me this week - makes three attempts. Somebody believes I can do what I say - and fears it. Could I use a thousand? Right now Daddy has 60¢, no food, rent paid until Wednesday, and my job ended today. If we had any money I'd buy a used car and get out of here. We're trapped. Believe me, son, Dad is alone on this deal. Everybody I've met has dropped me like a hot rock. The combination of "UFO's" and me - against - U.S. Govt. nobody wants any part of. It's Dad against everybody. And the joker? I'm trying to help everybody - that is, the Si's are. Actually, I haven't an enemy in the world - except the U.S. Govt. & the Commies. Ha ha. And friends? You know - somebody who'll run thru fire & flames to save you, or dive in deep water when you're going down the third time - ? There aren't any such animal. === Page 91 of 140 9/3/05 P3 It's a shame - but, looking at the picture realistically - it simply could not be any other way. Rick - this is fact. Your Daddy is like Martha Ann running down the highway into the cars. I am using strange powers from another dimension - perhaps hundreds of years ahead of these times. And the reaction of the people and the Govt. is the same stupid insane reaction so prevalent now everywhere - the same reaction an Air Force plane has when it sees a UFO - chase it, shoot it down! The same reaction people had in Michigan when 16 people saw the 7 foot 400 lb. "monster." (See my letter with clipping.) Thousands of people went out to destroy it with knives, pitchforks, guns... and it hadn't hurt anybody! It certainly could have torn any of those 16 limb from limb. But it didn't. To the people, I'm like that "monster." They can't understand me... they are deeply afraid of what I can do. So - destroy. That's all they know in this world. That's what the Si's are trying to change. And by the way - if you hear of me ever "in an accident" - you'll know it's no accident. === Page 92 of 140 9/3/65 p4 And I think as straight as you do - so don't ever let anybody kid you that "Dad's off his rocker." They might try. I mailed you a big, fat letter yesterday, too. Here's a kiss and a hug for my dandy boy. I miss you, my hard-headed pal. Love, Dad. P.S. Your prediction before the riots was excellent! But always get Lorrie, or somebody, to sign as a witness! Like I did Jean Mangels, or Hugh Lynn Cayce. See? Also - keep all my letters in a file-folder, like I do yours. 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 93 of 140 P.P.S. I am glad your planes did not attack Betsy. Betsy was prepared for them, and you might have lost some planes. Good thinking! Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief Hurricane Center Bureau Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Yesterday afternoon, late, I spent two hours getting Betsy back onto the right track. Have had to do that several times in the past few days...but generally Betsy has followed the exact course I plotted for her on 8/29. Target, if course, Cape Kennedy. I do this often enough, and perhaps the U.S. Government will believe in my work and ability. I did it enough last year to convince practically anyone...yet still didn't convince NASA. Well, actions speak louder than words. I have Betsy plotted on the course she has now...to strike on the Cape at Florida. Should she begin to deviate, then I will use my regular corrective measures. But as a rule...when I plot the course for the hurricane...even though it deviates...it readjusts by itself and gets back onto course. I know why this is so, and it is interesting. The reason I work so hard to correct even the slightest deviation...is to make sure. Might interest you to know I have been making storms up here in Philadelphia. Made one just last Wednesday for the Editor of the Phila. "Bulletin," Sept. 1. Clipping attached. Also spent four hours one night going around in circles up here on the Jack McKinny "Night Talk" Radio Show, WCAU, City and Monument Aves., Phila. They put off a U.S. Senator and Jack Carter, the comedian, so that they could hold me on the program for four hours. At least that's what Mr. McKinny said. Then Mr. Ed Harvey, of "Talk of Philadelphia" Radio Show up here, called on Friday and asked me to make a big storm for the following Monday...and appear on his show that day, to co-incide. I told him that I would do my best to make the storm for that day...although I do not usually try to call the exact day. So I had to work to bring in the "materials" then had to work hard not to turn it loose on Sunday. It broke on Monday, and nearly ruined Philadelphia. Dozens of homes hit by lightning; police tower hit by lightning; power station hit by lightning; town flooded..it was a mess. Why am I telling you all this? Because...I have a "control" on weather conditions. I can make storms; I can put a lock on an area and block rainfall; I can make hurricanes, I can guide them, I can sometimes bring them back to life after they are dead (did that twice last year); and I can take the same hurricanes away from areas, if necessary. Of course, last year nobody believed me...although I was calling my shots at Cape Kennedy by letter and by wire. Maybe after this year, all concerned will believe me. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man - "The Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. P.S. What would be fun would be to accompany you, during hurricane season...and I map the route for the 'cane and bring it in on target, while you actually observe how I do it..and try to block it with all the means at your disposal...seeding, etc., not by hanging me. 07/25/2025 15:43 === Page 94 of 140 9-4-65 p1 Thursday I showed Si's the map on Men-Tel, with the squares which would carry Betsy into the Cape. I also asked for sub-craft to "herd" Betsy from square to square. (What followed afterward is unbelievable!!) 7 PM 9/4/65 # Analysis of Hurricane Betsy I missed the target, the Cape, with Betsy - but in doing so I made a positively frightening discovery!! From the beginning of Betsy - I outlined on the map the path she was to follow. I placed this "path" inside 3 progressive squares. (SEE "FORCE FIELDS" SHEET) Betsy faithfully moved from Square 1 to Square 2. But she acted peculiarly. She'd go North, then West, then North, then West. Quinn said, "it is not moving in perfectly straight lines - but its net movement is almost due west." I wondered why Betsy was zig-zagging the course I'd laid out for her - but she was faithfully proceeding toward the target. She was 360 miles from the Cape - and pointed straight at it. Friday I was happy. Then, she swung north and proceeded up a straight line - missing the Cape!!! Why?!! She'd come all that way, right to the target - then taken a wrong turn. I took a long look at my maps. Then the hair felt like it was standing up on my head! Betsy had been following the lines of my 3 squares. That is, she would go up, then over, then up, then over - until she came to Frame 3. Now, I assumed that the 'core' could roam in the square, but would be near the center of the square, eventually. So on 3, Betsy should hit the center of the square. Instead she stayed on the edge of the === Page 95 of 140 9-4-65 P2 (2 3) square - doing what he had been doing - going up then over. This edge of the square was about 300-400 miles out from the Cape. Therefore, in following precisely the lines of my squares - Betsy did an incredibly intricate maneuver!! Far more difficult than simply following a straight line to the Cape!! It was my error, not Betsy's. Now, at 8 PM this evening, Sat., 9/4, am trying to stop Betsy and bring her back onto the Cape - because she's still in the square, although at the edge of it. (Took out Brains & Guides) 12 Midnite - Betsy has stopped!! Evidently either because she knows an error has been made, or because I removed brains. Now: Am putting in large X number red & black units. Am restoring Brain, but putting it on backwards, in reverse. Same w/eyes; w/ears; with Guides. So that Betsy will activate forwards, going South & West instead of North & East - which could run her into Cape. Let's see if this works. (i.e. I've reversed her.) Also have PK'd force field into reverse, to help Betsy go backward. And have used wand on Men-Tel to show her what is needed - Betsy to go back & over to Cape. Sun. morn. 9/5 Betsy still stopped on that spot. I want her to move down to the Cape Kennedy. (Down or over, it would be.) Note: Put new brain in backwards, which was incorrect. Betsy is 360 miles off New Smyrna Beach, Fla. - almost opposite the Cape. So removed brain, etc., then put back eyes, ears, brains, guides - in new position, facing land - & the Cape. (Sun. morn noon, 9/5.) === Page 96 of 140 9-4-65 p3 Sun. nite - about 10 PM 3 Betsy is moving - SOUTH !!! Which means - my removing mechs then replacing mechs in other direction, to take Betsy backward, or sideways - worked!!! Hooray!! Am now working to take her in a U-curve: this would take her right into the Cape! The radio thinks she's going South into the Bahamas - (to clean up NASA's missile-tracking stations she missed on the first pass?) Anyway - I'll stay up tonight, trying to U-turn her, rather than work to bring her back in a circle onto the Cape, later. At least - I succeeded in stopping her; then in redirecting her!! Two big wonderful accomplishments. (Note: If Si Control takes her into Cape Kennedy, then I'll know Si Control can do anything!) __________ Monday morn. 9/6/65 10 A.M Radio says Betsy has changed direction and is moving toward Florida coast! But from what radio says... it is too far down for Cape. So am going to work to take her in sideways, now... which should spark Cape K. Note:!! Sat. evening, while trying to stop Betsy so I could turn her around (after she'd gone past Cape K.) I drew a "stop line" on my maps - see "A" clips - and showed to the Si's. Today, Monday, NY Times explained that what stopped Betsy was a "high pressure ridge," where I drew my line. See clip attached here. Mon. afternoon - Radio announcers said: "When the citizens of Southern Florida went to bed last night before 11:30, they had no way of knowing that when they woke up this morning Hurricane Betsy had done something a hurricane is never supposed to do! Turned around and gone south!" Mon. evening 8 P.M. Am using various PK techniques - plus communication with Si Control, to get Betsy to turn ("slowly at first") and go back up the edge of the Florida Coast - thru Miami to Cape Kennedy. So far: (1) I took her in sight to the target, but short of it. (2) I stopped her. (3) I got her to reverse direction from N to S, figuring to U-turn her. But... so far she hasn't U-turned, dammit!! 08/02/2025 14:51 ( 3 === Page 97 of 140 9-4-65 p4 Tues. morn 9/7/65 Betsy has stopped exactly as per the PK line I drew on map last night - to stop her from going on South. Now to make a "bank shot" with her against my 2 PK walls, to "bank" her in the side pocket - Cape Kennedy. (Put more power into Betsy.) Noon: Removed Betsy's brain, ears, eyes, guide units - then put them back, but repositioned to take her North and a bit West, to the Cape. Note: She has stopped twice as I asked her to do - and as per "PK wall." [Diagram showing a circle labeled "F.F." and a smaller circle labeled "ck" with arrows and lines representing paths and walls] 3:15 P.M. Betsy has started moving... South, dammit!! Am stopping light, sound, etc. from Cape. Am putting 10x Betsy's force & power in front of her, to Cape K. gently push her back North (reversing her direction) toward the target, Cape Kennedy. [Diagram showing a large circle labeled "BETSY" with eyes, positioned above a horizontal line labeled "PK STOP LINE". Two diagonal lines labeled "10-H PK" form a wedge shape pointing towards the circle. An arrow points from "Miami" towards the circle.] 6:30 PM 9/7 BETSY HAS CHANGED DIRECTION AGAIN, AS PER MY MAP - GOING WEST NOW, ON THE "STOP" LINE INSTEAD OF SOUTH. MUST WAIT UNTIL IT HITS MIAMI - THEN TURN HER NORTH! (AM TRYING, BY MAP AND MENTAL - TO SWING HER UP. 11 PM 9/7 AM WORKING TO PUSH BETSY WEST-NORTHWEST STRAIGHT UP TO TARGET, CAPE K. HAVE PK WALL "TRACK" OR "SIDE-RAILS" FOR HER, PLUS 10-H PROPELLANT BEHIND HER, WITH SI CRAFT RINGING HER, LEAVING ONLY PATH TO CAPE K. OPEN. * 1-H = Power of hurricane. 10 H = 10x power of hurricane 08/02/2025 14:51 === Page 98 of 140 9-4-65 p5 Wed. morn. 10 PM 9/8/65 Betsy has made a hit. Her range easily reached up Cape Kennedy. Also, as a bonus, she racked up Cape Kennedy Missile Tracking Stations in Bahamas. As an added bonus, she racked up two huge military bases in Key West, (Navy Base and Air Base.) Am making new map now - and consulting with Si's - bring Betsy full-circle around to bullseye on the Cape. Thursday morn, 9/9/65 Betsy won't circle. So will try to direct her to Michoud Space (Titan) Complex near New Orleans. Afternoon She changed direction (was overshooting Michoud) and is now going in! Night Betsy is going in exactly where I drew her route to follow on the map! At the juncture of Louisiana - Miss., headed for the Michoud Titan Complex (NASA.) She's on a perfect bullseye course. It's 10:30. If I go to bed - she might veer away. So - armed with coffee & cigars, it will be a late late vigil!! Friday morn., 9/10/65 Hit!!! Right on target. Came in on top of New Orleans - thereby Michoud. Will see now if I can get her to make a full circle back. Friday night - She's no longer a hurricane. Am putting fresh units in her to try to bring her back to hurricane life. === Page 99 of 140 Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1965 Lorne & Rick Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin "IT'S HARD TO MAKE A HURRICANE TURN LEFT" ...but I just finished doing it. This has to be one of the most unusual accounts ever reported...if indeed it does reach print. It is true and factual. But if this newspaper is brave enough to print the story, it must be understood by the readers that the newspaper does not condone the actions taken by the writer; nor does the newspaper necessarily believe the account as true. As "The Rain Maker" in Philadelphia, however (Jack McKinny "Night Talk Show" and Ed Harvey "Talk of Philadelphia Show) I, Ted Owens, assure the reader that every word of this account is absolutely true and accurate. You say it's impossible for a human being to influence a hurricane? Nonsense! I did it in 1964...ran three hurricanes (Cleo, Dora and Isbell) across the Cape Kennedy area. Had Hurricane Gladys almost there in the same spot, but lost control of her at the last minute, and she slid up the coast.) You say they just "happened" to come that way? Nope. Wrong again, friend. In July, 1964, I sent letters to Cape Kennedy Space Center, the State Department, and other government agencies, that I was "declaring a one-man war" on the area from Daytona Beach to Miami...nicknamed "Electro". I told them all that I would run hurricanes into this area, as well as lightning strikes. A few weeks later lightning struck the Titan Missile at the Cape; also struck and knocked out of commission its ground controls. An accident, you say? How? The Titan Missile stood on a lightning-proof pad. NASA has never figured that one out. You see, in 1963, I discovered a revolutionary method of weather control. This method enabled me to make small storms for local areas, or big storms for areas far away, geographically. This phenomenon is under- === Page 100 of 140 9-8-65 p2 standable in the context of parapsychology...where time and space are not prohibitive. After making storm after storm, without failing, for months, I wrote to the U. S. Government about my discovery...but could get no answer. Imagine what the U. S. could do with this amazing discovery! I certainly would not have to worry about drought! And hurricanes could be used constructively. If you don't think so...New York City could use about three, right now! At any rate, by "declaring war" against Cape Kennedy, I hoped to get the U. S. Government's attention, thus their cooperation in utilizing this rare ability and discovery. But no...even after the Titan lightning strike and three hurricanes; almost a fourth, in their front yard...not a word from the Government. So this year, July 7, 1965, I wrote to NASA and all government agencies thusly: "Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now (they know me as PK Man, not "The Rain Maker") as I did last July on...to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy." Also I warned them of lightning strikes again this year. About one month later, August 4, 1965 (the day I spent four grueling but fun hours on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" Show, explaining all this) lightning struck the Moon Rocket Pad at Cape Kennedy. I also wrote Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Center in Miami, about all this (in 1964 and again this year, 1965) telling him that if I missed my electro target, southern Florida, then I would take the hurricane away from the east coast so that it would not come up into the northeast coast area. (This just happened with Betsy, if you will think about it.) Now, you have just seen Hurricane Betsy do everything but turn a somersault. All of the newspaper writers have described her as "freakish." But she isn't, really. When she was "born," August 27, she pointed directly === Page 101 of 140 9-8-65 p3 5 at the target, "Electro"..........southern Florida. When she got to Guadaloupe Island, about August 28, she swung around to the north. For several days I struggled to get her back onto the target, Electro. August 31 I turned her, but now she had swung too far, and pointed south. So more work on the maps, and along my specialized lines. Slowly she turned, and once more ran toward the target. Then she began to swing up again, out of line with Electro. Too far in a northwest direction that would put her in Georgia, and lose my shot. I worked for about four days to correct this, and drew a "P K line" that I did not want her to cross. She stopped right at the line, and stalled. Now, Betsy had gotten above Cape Kennedy..........and she did not want to go sideways at all..........so I knew I had to take her backwards, down below Miami, and start her upward again, in the same path I took Cleo, last year. This "putting a hurricane into reverse" I couldn't do last year, although I tried several times. But this year I figured out how to do it, applied the method, and lo and behold Betsy backed up into the Bahamas! (This, incidentally, put a crimp in the Cape Kennedy missile-tracking machinery in that area.) I had drawn a PK line down there, because I didn't want her to go straight south..........and she stopped right on the line, and stalled, as before. I did several other things to bring her over into position in front of Miami..........and over she went. Since her radius was 600 miles, and the Cape was just a couple of hundred miles from Miami, am sure the Space Center felt her breezes. At any rate, it was a "hit" in parapsychological parlance. At this point Betsy got out of control and went on into the Gulf, having done her duty pretty well in harassing the U. S. Military. I repeat to you, as I have repeated to the U. S. Government..........think, just think, what this country, the U. S., could do with this discovery! But do you know what? Guess who knows for sure that these hurricanes 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 102 of 140 9-8-65 p4 in 1964 were controlled...that they do not wander around by accident? Russia! Yes, a story from Moscow, dated September 30, 1964, AP, went like this: "U. S. SAID WAGING WEATHER WAR" "A Soviet Colonel charged in Moscow Wednesday that the Pentagon has directed United States scientists to work out ways of directing hurricanes toward Communist countries. (Cuba) The charge was made by Col. I. Zheltikov in the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star.) He also claimed ...etc." I was greatly amused by this, and wrote to the Kremlin that the U. S. would hardly be running its own controlled hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area, as was happening at the time. And after Betsy, of course, not running over Cuba...I imagine they know this to be a fact. Betsy would have run over Cuba. All I had to do was keep her in a straight line, instead of turning her. Finally you, the reader, say, "Well, you should be shot. Hanged. Spat upon. Shame on you, if you can do what you say!" Not so, gentle reader. What I have done is harass the U. S. Military, true...but for a relatively short time. This revolutionary weather-control method that I have stumbled upon, which works like a charm most of the time, could be of inestimable value to our country, the United States, in the long long years ahead. If, that is, the Government will ever pay attention and do something about utilizing it. Now, let's see...Betsy...the next hurricane starts with a "CE, doesn't it? You, the reader, can have an interesting time on the sidelines now, watching the action. You know the strange duel that is going on. It could even be more fun than watching a pro football game, yes? PK Man (The Rain Maker) Philadelphia === Page 103 of 140 SAT. SEPT. 11, 1965 "A" THIS SINGLE LETTER, TO MR. EASTWOOD OF NASA IN WASH., D.C. (PLUS REGULAR COPIES ELSEWHERE) IS SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF THE DEVASTATING ACCURACY OF MY REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY IN THE FIELD OF WEATHER CONTROL. PER THIS LETTER: (1) HURRICANE BETSY WAS GUIDED TO FLORIDA, (2 MONTHS LATER) (2) LIGHTNING HIT MOON ROCKET PAD, CAPE KENNEDY (APPROX. 1 MONTH LATER) LIGHTNING HIT GEMINI 5 CONTROLS, CAPE KENNEDY - STOPPING THE SHOT (APPROX. 6 WEEKS LATER) (3) I GUIDED "BETSY" TO THE MICHOUD SATURN SPACE COMPLEX (NASA), OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS (APPROX. 2 MONTHS LATER) ADDED LTR. "B" * (4) STOPPED BETSY FROM BRINGING BILLIONS GALLONS WATER N.E. THIS IS JUST ONE LETTER FROM MY FILE WHICH BULGES WITH LIKE PROOF OF OTHER SUCCESSFUL WORK IN THIS FIELD. THE MOST AMAZING DISCOVERY, (NEW SOURCES OF POWER) TO BE MADE IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS!! YET... NO ONE WILL LISTEN. INCREDIBLE! PK MAN (TED OWENS) === Page 104 of 140 9-11-65 P2 "A" July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Wash, D.C. Copy Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. (1) HURRICANE BETSY 9/'65 - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. (2) In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. (3) I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. (3) Rockets Escape Damage in Storm NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11 (AP)--The huge Michoud plant which builds Saturn booster rockets came through Hurricane Betsy with superficial damage, it was reported Saturday. A spokesman said damage was confined to broken glass and peeled roofs, with no apparent injury to space vehicles under construction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility was shut down Thursday afternoon as the storm approached. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 (2) Fire Damage Assessed New Delay Looms In Gemini Launch CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)--Technicians worked today to eliminate a series of problems that delayed for at least two days America's attempts to rewrite Soviet space records (4) OVER→ 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 105 of 140 9/11/65 p3 "B" File Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida. Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups of PK (psychokineses) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. Brought 2 back to life, last year. Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons now. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Government try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. -- NOTE: THEY COULDN'T SEED BETSY!!! 9/7/65. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York...but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro...or get away from me completely (only one did last year...the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, Ted Owens (P K Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NE COAST PK WALL FLA. DURING THIS ACTION WITH BETSY, I DISCOVERED METHOD OF REVERSING HER DIRECTION, FOR FIRST TIME. SO DIDN'T HAVE TO SEND HER OFF THE RIGHT. === Page 106 of 140 Copy and Rick and Lorne Kids - I've dared CIA Pres. Johnson to have govt. men observe me doing this! P.S. Am working on producing three simultaneous hurricanes. Monday, September 13, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Well...am going to give you a most unusual letter. You will probably never get another like it. A day by day, running account of my work with Hurricane Betsy...from the time she was "born" until she hit target... then second target. During the action, I was successful in getting her to turn around; also she went back and picked up the targets she missed on her first pass, in the Bahamas (see my maps.) (A) This was one of my first maps...working in unison with the Si's (saucer intelligences.) I drew the path I wanted Betsy to follow, and placed the path in three frames (force fields). It did excellently in the first two frames, then caught the edge of the third frame and followed it up. (B) Another early map. Bear in mind that I did this all last year with my children around me, watching...and with the same successful results. For verification: Lorne and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. In the newspaper clip here, is humorous to note that "the eastern Caribbean is a notoriously unfavorable location for the development of tropical storms or the intensification of existing storms." This optimistic gentleman was the Miami forecaster, Arnold Sugg. Hidden inside this same clip where you can't see it is another dandy. "A forecaster in Miami described it (Betsy) as a weak storm, with little chance of intensifying significantly. (C) Here you have poor Betsy "dissipating...and she was demoted to a tropical storm. (So at this point I put a great deal of "PK" into Betsy, to give her strength. Dr. Cecil Gentry, head of the Hurricane-Research-Laboratory, in Puerto Rico, said: "It's a weak storm and conditions at this time do not lead to its intensifying. No, correction...that was said by Miami hurricane forecaster Raymond Kraft. (They were considering seeding Betsy, so I put some special effects into Betsy that would give her a chance against the planes.) After that...they couldn't seed. She grew violent. (D) In this interesting clip, the Weather Bureau says "Betsy probably would not hit the multimillion-dollar tracking stations with its worst punch." The Weather Bureau further said it expected an even more northerly track Thursday, easing the threat to the southern tip of the 750-mile Bahamas chain. Here Mr. Dunn was correct...of all the forecasters...when he noted that Betsy "is not moving in perfectly straight lines, but its net movement is almost due west." (E) Here the Weather Bureau...which is having an awful time predicting accurately...says the small but dangerous hurricane posed a threat to Georgia and the Carolinas...there was a better than even chance the storm might never touch land at all." Forecaster Sam Pierce said: "I'd say chances are better than 50-50 that it (Betsy) will not hit any part of the East Coast of the United States." My..so many people..so wrong...the hurricane is dissipated...it won't hit the East Coast...it's going up into the Carolinas. (F) Here Raymond Kraft, forecaster, says "About the only consolation you 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 107 of 140 9/13/65 p2 2 have is when it (Betsy) gets level with your latitude, the chances are pretty slim it will turn back." Wrong again. (G) I had brought Betsy in on a perfect bullseye...when she veered at the last minute. So I had to stop her before she went too far. I drew a PK Wall to stop her (working with the Si's and their craft.) She did stop. (H) Here Robert McCaslin, forecaster, utters his fearless predictions. "If the turn persists," he said (toward the north) "we can take South Carolina off the hook, and maybe later the entire coast. -- the turn has started and we expect it to continue." Wrong again. (I) Is my map, showing my PK "stop" line...plus the disposition of my saucer friends around Betsy, helping in their own way. (J) Map showing track I drew for Betsy to follow (with a sharper turn to the right than she was going at the time...which she took, faithfully.) (K) Final map...my own, to go with the newspaper clip map...crude but effective. Betsy followed it right in. ---------- Also enclosed are my daily entries in my log, as I constantly worked to guide Betsy. Bear in mind that my wife watched me constantly...all maps were drawn and used before Betsy made her moves...and Betsy replied to my intelligence and guidance faithfully, most of the time...enough to hit both targets, Florida and Michoud. Since all of the forecasters were wrong, practically all of the time, it is too bad that the Weather Bureau wouldn't let me forecast...for I could have told them, before Betsy was born, that chances were 9-1 that Betsy would hit Florida, then about 5-1 she would hit Michoud. As a matter of fact, much damage and many lives could have been saved if the U.S. Government had believed me...months ago...and accepted my services. If they didn't accept, they might have at least told my story, so that many people who might believe that I could guide a hurricane to Florida, then to Michoud...could take evasive action accordingly. As a matter of fact, some newspaper could do a great service by telling my story...so that people in the target areas can ignore the expert weather forecasters, and take cover regardless. Loss of life is deeply regretted. Yet how else can I prove to the U.S. Government that I can control weather, unless I demonstrate? I have already offered to President Johnson to end the drought in the Northeast Coast, no fee...but get no answer. Using my ability and power...could save perhaps thousands and thousands of lives in the years to come, warding off hurricanes and typhoons, and ending droughts. Ted Owens - P K Man - "The Rain Maker" 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 108 of 140 9/13/65 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Rick: Thanks for the clippings. Several of them are valuable to me, very. Take the saucer clipping...what jolted me was the mention there that the Si's guide their craft by "mental waves." This is exactly what I have in my notebook...but I got mine straight from the Si's themselves. They described how they have a control board made of octagonal colored lights. They merely have to think which way to go, and their craft obeys... powered and controlled by the big, "mother control craft"...way off somewhere else. Of course, the news in your letter is old by now. I succeeded in doing what we couldn't do in Myrtle Beach...get the 'cane to back up, or reverse. Remember how we tried? But at that time I didn't have the Si's to work with, either. This time I did. I drew a PK Line on the map just above Cape Kennedy to stop the 'cane, and it stopped. Then I took out its brain, eyes, ears, and guides...and put them back in reverse position...and it worked like a charm, when it took off again, it went forwards, backwards. Sure did make the weather experts look silly, eh? But I simply could not get her to go up, into the Cape, when she got to my next PK Line, which was just below Miami. She turned, as I wanted her to, but then went straight ahead west...into the Gulf...so I worked feverishly (stayed up half the night) to direct her to the huge Michoud Saturn complex (NASA). It was a bullseye. It is 43 miles outside New Orleans, and the 'cane was 600 miles wide. You figure out what a hit it was. That made two hits with one 'cane; a new first...as well as backing up the 'cane...another new first. Honey, I told you two weeks ago that I had cut loose from Zachow, when he asked me to just "quit the Si's" if they didn't furnish me with money. 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 109 of 140 9/13/65 p2 2 I concur that he was spying...he wanted to know what I had and how I was doing it. And I showed him. Of course, the joker is...if he tries to use the method. No more Zachow. But I do not believe he was commie...or he would even help me go on with my work, which is a bit rough on the U.S., you know. I mean, where my PK hits...be it hurricane form or Gemini-5 form...the grass doesn't grow again, figuratively speaking. So I believe he was from the U.S. Air Force, pretending to be friendly to get "inside" me and find out what I had, so they could pooh-pooh me. They might have thought I was some kind of nut. When they found it that I was for real, and my work for real, then the next logical step would be to try to stop me with their funny about "giving the Si's a mandate" to either support me financially, or I quit them, the Si's. Ha. Momma sent her letter to you in Lornie's letter. She'll send another one. Yesterday (you know how she is) she asked me if Louisiana was a city, and what state it was in. Bless her heart. She's so sweet. She might not know very much in the way of factual knowledge, but she's a winner when it comes to being "all heart". Be a good boy, and mind Pat. I love you. Sincerely, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 110 of 140 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Best thing that's happened in ages. Put me in mind of the time you and Martha and Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were making fortunes and hypnotizing people...the Sands and the Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much I bought the same Berings as "tips" for reading fortunes between two shows nightly. When we'd pack up at 4:00 A.M., I'd have 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing fortunes. Now it's just dull guiding Hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's. [Post-it note: 16th My birthday was next day 9-14 (smiley face) oops Think he forgot] Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 111 of 140 16th my birthday was next day 9-14 :) oops I think he forgot Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Hadn't smoked a Bering in ages. Put me in mind of the time when you and Rick were with Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were "reading minds" and telling fortunes and hypnotizing people...the works...at the Santa Anita Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much that Pat would take these same Berings as "tips" for reading people's fortunes between our two shows nightly. When we'd pack up to go home I would have 20 to 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! Them were the kooky days. (When I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing magazines...now it's just dull guiding hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's.) Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 112 of 140 9-13-65 p2 2 He is so damned cute and funny...when there's music on the radio he climbs up on a chair and dances wildly, gyrating all over... with his shoulders, his head, his arms, his hips...then when he thinks he's done a good dance, he claps his hands to show us it's time to applaud...and we applaud. Then he dances some more. But we have to applaud. Affectionate? He gives us hugs and kisses constantly. When I am lying down, sleeping, he'll come over and kiss me on the cheeks a lot, and put his little hand on my cheek and pat pat pat away, gently. We've had a little difficulty with him throwing things...like chairs, small tables, anything he can pick up. Believe me. He takes a kitchen chair, heaves it up, and throws it. Martha is afraid to scold him, because if she makes him mad, he attacks. I think you've seen that...but now he's practiced up. He goes in like a football tackle, grabs a leg, and bites. If you try to fend him off with an arm or hand, he bites that. He does have a spirited temper. Yesterday he astonished me by pointing to his ear, then to the radio. He wanted to hear music on the radio. This is the way he communicates. Am glad to hear that everything is going well there. Here it is the usual chaos. A job today; no job tomorrow. Worked three days last week. No night clubs in town worth spitting at, for my shows. No car to get out with, to find a better place. So, meanwhile, East Lynne. Fudge! You've mastered the course, so you know what it is. But we are making it, the while. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 113 of 140 9/13/65 P3 4 The Evening Bulletin B PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 # Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of the city, but enough to produce a good downpour here and .8 of an inch in Montgomery County. **Letter Arrives** The letter came the next day--Monday, July 19. "Well, I told you," wrote the rainmaker. "You just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter. I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm and especially the lightning, which is my trademark." He signed his name THE RAINMAKER, c-o Owens. He was finally located in a Spruce st. hotel. He said he was born in Indiana, has had 20 different "professions" besides knife-throwing and studied extrasensory perception at Duke University. **Says Combination Works** He was living in Phoenix, Ariz. in 1963, he said, when he decided to try combining ESP with the Apache Indian rainmaking act. "The Indians had a good thing going but they didn't really know what they were doing," he said. "They thought they had to dance and take drugs and that sort of thing." To his surprise, the combination worked and he got "eight violent storms in five days," he said. He opened one of three well-stuffed briefcases and pulled out a folder containing newspaper clippings of each of the eight storms. The clippings were neatly pasted up, numbered and dated. "This proves it," he said. "The storms nearly wrecked that part of Arizona." **Our House Hit** One bolt of lightning hit his own house. He said he wasn't scared, "just amused." He moved to Los Angeles and said he produced some rainstorms which culminated in the big landslides of November, 1964. The rainmaker said he doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Pictures of storm damage--houses with the roofs blown off, automobiles wrecked by falling trees--bothered him at first. But he said he got used to them. He went to Washington, D. C. to try to explain his talent for producing storms to the government. **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. **Visual Imagery** "It's partly a matter of contacting the intelligence behind nature," he said. "It also involves imagery." To explain visual imagery, he took a piece of paper and wrote numbers from one to 20 down the left side. He handed the paper to an observer and told him to write down an object after each number, calling out the number and the object as he did so. 1. Umbrella. 2. Puddle. 3. Camera. 4. House, etc. Without looking at the paper, he read off the numbers and the objects, first going from one to 20; then from 20 back to one. He had the observer pick out numbers at random, and he called off the corresponding object. Then he had the observer call the objects and he gave their numbers. Maybe the rainmaker has just been lucky with storms. But there's certainly nothing wrong with his visual imagery. Love to my boy Rick... "The Rain Maker" 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 114 of 140 Read and keep (Dad 9/13/65 p4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Lee Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his back yard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 115 of 140 MONDAY SEPT. 13, 1965 DEAR LORNIE AND RICK, .......... AT THIS POINT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO OVER WITH YOU, MY CHILDREN, MY INTENT AND PURPOSE. AS YOU WELL KNOW, WHEN I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD SOMEHOW OBTAINED A POWER AND ABILITY... NOT KNOWN OTHERWISE TO MANKIND... I DETERMINED TO USE THIS POWER AND ABILITY (WHICH WE CALLED "PK") FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEN THE COMPLETE WORLD PICTURE. ... BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ACCEPT MY WORK... SO I DETERMINED TO PROVE MY POWER AND ABILITY TO THE U.S. THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE... BY DEMONSTRATIONS OF MY SYSTEM, FIRST PREDICTING WHAT WAS TO COME, TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SO THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW THAT IT WAS NO ACCIDENT. FOR OVER A YEAR I HAVE HARASSED THE GOVT. AND THE MILITARY, WITH THIS "PK" SYSTEM. IT HAS COST LIVES, AND FIVE TO TEN BILLION DOLLARS, IN DAMAGE. ("BETSY" ALONE HAS CAUSED ONE BILLION IN DAMAGE.) BUT THIS IS ONLY A FLY-SPECK IN TIME. ONCE MY SYSTEM IS ACCEPTED AND USED, IN COUNTLESS WAYS (TO DIVERT HURRICANES, TORNADOS, TYPHOONS... TO BRING PEACE, WHERE THERE IS WAR, ETC.) COUNTLESS LIVES WILL BE SAVED. IT IS A CASE OF THE PATIENT TAKING A LITTLE PAIN IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. IT IS A CASE OF LOSING A LITTLE, TO GAIN A LOT. AND MANY LIVES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOST, 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 116 of 140 9-13-65 p2 2 PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE GOVT. HAD HEEDED MY PLEAS TO LISTEN. AT THIS MOMENT = COULD BE ENDING THE TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN FLORIDA... ENDING THE TERRIBLE EAST COAST DROUGHT... HELPING CHINA'S DESPERATE DROUGHT PROBLEM... STOPPING THE VIET NAM WAR... STOPPING THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR... PREPARING TO DIVERT OTHER HURRICANES COMING UP, AWAY FROM THE U.S., AND SO ON. BUT UNTIL OUR GOVT., WITH ITS FOOLISH FALSE PRIDE, LISTENS AND ACCEPTS, I AM HELPLESS TO UTILIZE THE GREATEST POWER IN EXISTENCE... THE GREATEST POWER HERETOFORE KNOWN TO MANKIND... IN BEHALF OF THAT SAME GOVT. AND MANKIND. I HAVE OFFERED, TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WITHOUT A FEE, TO END THE N. EAST COAST DROUGHT, HE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE COURTESY OF A REPLY. SO YOU SEE WHAT I, AND MY SP'S HELPERS, ARE UP AGAINST. OUR CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE AID OF THE SP'S. AND OUR GOVT., OF THE UNITED STATES, IS BLOCKING THE SP'S FROM SAVING CIVILIZATION. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THIS IS THE TRUE PICTURE... AND WHY YOUR DAD IS STILL HITTING GEMINI-5 AND GUIDING HURRICANES. Love, Dad (PK Man) === Page 117 of 140 9-13-65 Loriest Rick P3-4 PK Man - "The Rain Maker" The Saturday Sermon A Fool There Was By DR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS Chaplain, United States Senate Washington--FOOL is a barbed word. When hurled it usually carries a stigma. A fool is supposed to be one unbalanced, unable to render a reasonable judgment. A fool is one who plunges ahead with no regard for consequences, who scorns safety first and who refuses to conform. Dr. Harris The old adage declares--"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The greatest fool," says Shaftesbury, "is one who thinks he knows with certainty that which he has least studied and of which he is most profoundly ignorant." A foolscap on dunces relegated to a corner in the school of life is a fit insignia. But history makes clear that across the centuries a foolscap often has been put on the wrong head. FOOL is often the label pasted on a wise man by those about him who are ignorant and timid. Those that one generation has pilloried as fools have more than once turned out to be the wisest of their day and the benefactors of all humanity. It is literally true that the world has moved forward on the legs of the alleged fools! Socrates was a laughing stock on the public streets of Athens because he refused all sensible advice. He was such a fool that he finally drank the hemlock. Cato was held up to ridicule in Rome because the venal citizens of that great capital called him a fool for refusing bribes. When George Stephenson proposed to draw a train of cars by steam at the rate of 14 miles an hour he was regarded as a fit candidate for the madhouse. When Robert Fulton--in whose honor a memorial stamp has been issued in this year 1965--announced his intention to navigate the Hudson River on a steamboat, his idea was ridiculed by men of sense and science as "the silliest that ever entered a silly brain." When William Carey, father of the modern missionary movement, set about sending a group of missionaries to India he was publicly denounced in the House of Commons and his plan was referred to as "the project of a lunatic." Because he "risked the thing" Charles A. Lindbergh, who disappeared over the ocean in a little plane, now a museum magnet for thousands, was dubbed a "flying fool." When he saw a fleet of fishing boats he records, "I flew down, almost touching the craft, and yelled at them asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared! Maybe they thought I was a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land." Over our 49th state, Alaska, is today a bright rainbow of promise as its marvelous resources are developed. But the statesman who saw its potential greatness and secured it for a song, was on all sides called a fool and the whole transaction was labeled "Seward's folly!" What a volume could be written entitled--Posterity's Appraisal of Men Whom Their Own Age Called Fools! When we thrill, gratefully, at the surgical miracles of today performed in the hospitals of every city, we cannot forget the doctors willing to be called fools even as was Pasteur by the medical lights of his day. When the first abdominal operation in the history of surgery was performed by a country doctor down in Kentucky, a frenzied mob patroled the house for two hours ready to lynch the "fool doctor" if the patient died. But with a nerve that failed not, and a hand that did not falter, he went ahead. The life of the woman involved was saved. A Poet's Words Today medical science pays its high tribute to the man who dared the fury of a mob to blaze a new path in surgery. Ah, the valiant men marching ahead of their time who by their contemporaries were decked with foolscaps! A poet listening not to the harsh billingsgate of the day, but hearing the appraisal of the long years, wrote-- Give us now and then a man And life will crown him king; Just to take the consequence Just to risk the thing. Paul Suffered, Too Long centuries ago, Paul, the Apostle, who had suffered all things and had been called almost every vile name, declared he was willing to go even farther. He said he was willing to be called a fool for the sake of the Christ he served. There are those today in this time of destiny who, God forgive them for their ignorance when the truth is so easily available, call certain God-inspired leaders, who in the free world are defying the colossal forces of atheistic communism, fools. But, standing for spiritual verities, and freedom, they are God's fools. Those who sense the real issues of this age on ages telling are crying out in anguish of soul--"Wanted, more fools with unquenchable faith in the precious things we hold nearest our hearts." The world today calls loudly for "fools for Christ's sake" which means--for humanity everywhere threatened by those who have already advanced over half the earth with shackles of slavery. My soul lift up thine eyes; Oh child, in this world's school Wilt thou be counted wise, Or just a fool? 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 118 of 140 9-13-65 Lomie & Rick P 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE ## Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Leo Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his backyard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 119 of 140 9/15/65 P1 Wednesday, September 15, 1965 Miss Katherine Raley Secretary Drew Pearson 1313 29th St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007 Dear Miss Raley: You ask for a brief outline of the story that I have for Mr. Pearson. That "brief" makes it difficult, because of the nature of the story (which the U.S. Government is hushing up...has clamped the lid on.) Never has Mr. Pearson ever had a story of this size or importance...and I will grant you that he's had some important ones. To indicate its importance - Betsy need not have devastated Miami or New Orleans. Gemini-5 did not have to have its many difficulties. The Flying Laboratory sent up recently from Cape Kennedy (OSO) did not have to accidentally explode at its third stage, August 25, 1965. And so on. Am enclosing valued file copies. Please return them. They are a scattered few pieces of my bulging files at home. But you wanted a brief outline, and for my story... this much material, at least, is brief. Let's start in Philadelphia, to explain who I am, what I do. "A" (see enclosed) explains that I am called 'The Rain Maker." I have delivered the only rain in Philadelphia since July (except for one small drizzle.) I wrote the local papers before the storms occurred (one to two weeks before) telling them. Jack McKinny, "Night Talk", WCAU Radio here...asked me to appear for an hour on August 4 on his radio show. So I made a storm that night, which began when I walked into the radio station at 10 PM and ended when I came out at 2 AM. After my hour, then a U.S. Senator was to follow, then Jack Carter, the famous comedian. McKinny called them and cancelled them - and kept me on the program for four hours, non-stop. The following Friday Ed Harve, "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, asked me to be on his program the following Monday - and make it rain that day to coincide with my appearance. I told him that I would do my best. The storm which hit Philadelphia that day that I was on his program flooded Philadelphia. Lightning bolts struck scores of homes; hit a power station, and a police radio towers. And so on. I am trying to lead into this gradually, because I have discovered how to do something which no other human has ever done. Mr. George Clark, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington 25, D. C., has an almost-complete file of all my work. Mr. Eastwood, Inventions Department, NASA, Washington, D. C., has much the same. Mrs. Louisa Rhine, P.O. Box 46, Rt. 3, Hillsboro, North Carolina, has an almost-complete file also. She is the famous author-scientist wife of Dr. J. B. Rhine, famed parapsychologist (ESP) at Duke. I spent hours in Washington with "George Clark", and with Eastwood at NASA; also with a Mr. Dunn at CIA. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 120 of 140 9/15/65 p2 They had plenty of proof of my incredible work! For instance, see "B". To check this, Jack McKinny, on a six-state radio hook-up, called Mrs. Mangels, who verified the authenticity of it...as well as others. "C" - a prediction sent to Clark, CIA, four days before it developed. Note on the newspaper clip the term "symbolic" just as I described it. Better add here that as far as NASA, CIA, Space Center Cape Kennedy, etc., are concerned - I am known as "P K Man." PK stands for psychokinesis, a parapsychological term. "D" is a prediction made re President Johnson, which came true. Self-explanatory. Made to Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of Edgar Cayce, at A.R.E. at Virginia Beach. My family was travelling through, and we stayed there one day. Enough. Have many more of these in my files. Now, what is so important? See letter attached to "E" - MEMO TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. (This was sent to the State Department, the President, Space Center, etc., in August of 1964. But I had warned the Cape, in early July letters. In other words, I started working with my amazing system...against the forces of the U. S. Government, as an experiment...in early July, 1964. In U. S. News and World Report, Sept. 21, 1964: "Before the hurricane blows fell on Florida in August and September, the State had had only one destructive hurricane in the past 13 years. The northeastern Florida area was hit for the first time this century. After a full of years, why had successive hurricanes suddenly battered the coast?" Why, indeed, Miss Raley. As a matter of fact - why have four hurricanes hit the area of Daytona Beach to Miami, since just last July? Why did two hurricanes hit the New Orleans area...43 miles from NASA's huge Saturn Missile Complex? (I'll answer that in the paragraph following this one.) In today's paper, Phila. Inquirer, article by John O'Brien: "U.S. Spends Millions For Disaster Relief"..."Hurricane Betsy...is the latest in the worst spate of natural disasters on record." (Wrong - they were controlled disasters.) "During the fiscal year from July 1, 1964 (when I began my PK work) to July 1, 1965, President Johnson granted requests from 24 Governors for 29 major disaster declarations...and authorized disaster declarations totalling $85,986,100." "Prior to Hurricane Betsy (billion in damages) since July 1 of this year, the President had to make six major disaster declarations, which entailed disaster allocations totalling $44,661,000. Etc." The rest of the article dealt with results from my "PK" work. Now, please re-read "E", second page of Aug. 25 letter attached. Now I'm getting to the point, Miss Raley - unless you've gone to sleep reading all this. "F" of Aug. 30, 1964, to Space Agency, State Department, etc., is self-explanatory. "G" of Sept. 3, 1964, same. "H" of Oct. 4, 1964. I have successfully guided Hurricane Hilda and Hurricane Betsy to the Michoud Saturn Missile Complex. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 121 of 140 9/15/65 P3 "I" of Aug. 31, July 7, and Sept. 11, 1965. .......... There is the general idea. But here is the shocker. Mr. Dunn, of CIA, asked me what the causal factor was in my strange system, or ability. I thought then (months ago) that I had managed somehow to communicate with the intelligence behind Nature. However, on July 8 I found out definitely what the "causal factor" was. See "J". By August 4 they, the UFO's (I call them SI's...for saucer intelligences...) had given me a message, which Jack McKinney read on that four-hour radio show, over the air. See "K". .......... Now, my two teen-agers (16 and 15) have watched me hit missiles with PK, and bring them down. They have watched me make, and guide, hurricanes. Etc. They are: Lorne and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. Feel free to check with them in any way, if you wish. I have offered to CIA and the President to have their men watch me guide hurricanes - tape the process and take pictures, if they like (I work on maps.) I have offered to President Johnson to break the drought on the entire northeastern coast (I can do this.) But no reply from him. Easier, I guess, just to spend a hundred million or so of the taxpayers money to try to figure it out. I will make the same offer to Mr. Pearson. If he can put us up (My wife, baby and I) on his farm for the time it will take then I will break the entire drought on this eastern coast...give New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., as much precipitation as they need to get well....to fill all their rivers, streams, reservoirs, etc. I will do this by making rainstorm after rainstorm...abnormal amounts of rainfall. Also I will guide hurricanes up to New York so that the entire area will benefit from the billions of gallons of water from the hurricanes. Since I have been a court-reporter and an office-manager, it is possible that I could do some typing work at the farm, while I am working on the rainfall and hurricanes. But the rain-making is a seven-day-a-week job. "L" has, on the second page, the main reason Mr. Pearson should try to get this story out from behind the lid the Government has clamped on it. He could thereby save many lives. "M" is yesterday's letter to my children, in California. And the clipped group of documents are in case you are interested enough to read further. There it is, Miss Riley...all true, so help me God. Fantastic though it sounds. The biggest news story certainly of the century...if not further back than that. Think of it...at last man can finally control hurricanes, rain, snow, sunshine, etc. And the system also has other uses. Since the rain which fell on Mr. Pearson's farm in Maryland came from Betsy - then he does indeed owe me a debt of gratitude...for Betsy was "made" by myself. And there will be others. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man, "Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce, #33, Hotel, Phila., Pa. === Page 122 of 140 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Lornie... Thank you very much, honey, for the cigars. I smoked them last evening, and enjoyed them. What box from Washington...? You thought I sent it...but I am not in Washington, honey. Yes, I had great success with Betsy...am that much better this year than last...also now am working in conscious collaboration with the Si's. I can see them, write down what I want, they change it into their writing, then into sound...and poof...it happens. But there is so much happening now, with the Si's, that you don't know about...and I can't put into letters.... They told me just today not to worry about money, house, car, etc., that they are "growing a new brain" in me....containing much wisdom and understanding, like the Bible says...and that my new brain will be worth more than "diamonds, rubies and pearls"...and that what will naturally follow...will be wealth, if I want it. Sounds cockeyed, eh? But all of the facts remain...like a lightning bolt hitting the Moon Rocket Pad...like me guiding Betsy left, right, backwards, then right again...her following, following my directions. The facts remain...thus I know they know what they are talking about. Am glad to hear that your school plans are lining up satisfactorily. Have a lot of fun, and be the good student you were in Washington. You are a good student...and since you have a dear little brother..work with him, gently...leading him, not pushing him...into being a good student, also. Tell him to auto-hyp and tell himself that he can be an A student in anything he wants to be...that he will automatically study hard on that subject. You know what to tell him; you've watched me work with people enough. Seattle might send you a check, one of these days, to send to me. Since I move around, I had to have a permanent address to give them. It will be a substantial check, and of course I need it. As for bills...we haven't any here; as for Washington, nothing. Forget it. I fail to see how it could worry Pat. We only owed a couple of teeny weeny bills in Wash., and they can't do anything out there in California. But at any rate...I certainly am not giving that address to any bill collectors. That irked me. It smacked exactly as of the same tone Jim had when he told me those people didn't want to see us up in San Francisco. You handle any mail that might trickle through to me, honey. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 123 of 140 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Rick: Yes, with Betsy I got several firsts...first 'cane to be able to get to Electro and Michoud in one single shot; first 'cane to be able to put in reverse, or opposite direction (had to work both with the 'cane, and with the force field...something we didn't think of last year.); and first 'cane to stop right on the "PK" line I made for it not to cross (did this twice.) All of which goes to show the tremendous control that I have this year, as compared with last year...although 3 hits on Electro last year were not bad. But I got better performance out of Betsy. Even if I didn't get a dead-bullseye on the Cape. Listen...Rick...quit football. Don't you think Daddy knows what he is talking about? You had some terrible head injuries when you were a baby...and it's taken years for the inside of your head to heal (broken blood vessels, etc.) Now all it would take is a tap, and you might be blinded or paralyzed. Show this to Pat, what I am saying. I warned you, told you, in Washington, to stay away from football, honey....also boxing. They are both suckers game. In football, no matter how good you are...you can get hit from the "blind side" ... that is, from where you are not looking. I had a buddy in high school get killed next to me during a high school football game...Earl Carr, Auburn, Indiana, '36. A kid rammed him after a play was over, head and helmet low into Earl's stomach...tore his guts apart inside, and he hemorrhaged to death before they could get him to a hospital. I held his casket at the funeral. Also, currently they are having a tremendous rash of football deaths in high schools and colleges. They recently had 8 boys killed in 6 days; they cannot explain it. Boxing is just as stupid. The gloves hit your head, do not hurt the outside, but tear loose the tiny delicate membranes and blood vessels inside. And since judo is better than boxing...let boxing go and learn judo. Honey...you know my "sixth sense" and ability to see ahead...predict. Do what I tell you, and get away from football and boxing, like they were poison to you..which they are. Basketball...great! I predict you will be a champion at that. That was my best game, and I played it more than anything else. Now, if I wanted to get rid of you, my boy, I would let you play football and wouldn't say a word. Love, Dad 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 124 of 140 Wed. Sept 22, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thank you for the two good cigars! Smoked them tonight after one of Martha's fried chicken suppers. Beau just fell and split his head open -- an inch from his right eye. Lord! We're calming him down. Martha is reading to him. He came in to have me kiss it & make it well. Little as he is, when he gets hurt -- he believes my kiss will make it well. And it does. (Along with my secret system.) Received a letter back today I had sent you kids to 505 S. Osage. Somebody had returned it... not to us but to an office I had worked. And they thoughtfully got it to me. I returned it to you. Wonder how many other letters I've sent -- have been blocked? You wouldn't know. Bet you had a happy birthday. Your school classes look like fun. French -- ugh! Sewing is dandy, if you learn anything from it. And you're good at it. I pity your driver-instructor. Ha! If he knew what I know he'd walk behind the car. (Still, there is reverse gear -- even that wouldn't be safe! Ha ha) Yes -- I met the people. They gave us vegetables. But they, too, are clunk-heads. Am still yearning to meet somebody interesting. Wrong -- power of any kind never gets extinct, honey. If people were afraid of electricity, it would still be around. You dig? Love and kisses -- Dad. 07/25/2025 16:36 === Page 125 of 140 Copy Rick Lornie Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: President Johnson is not having this operation by accident. If you will glance at my previous correspondence, it spells out the details. I told you that the UFO's had him zero'd in. And they have. And they will continue to have. I have done very poorly these past months; got the newspaper write-up (and so the stock market improved). But nothing has come of it...nobody hired me to break the drought...therefore the stock market is in for a hard time ahead, am afraid. You will see. Sept. 29 two submarines collided off "Electra" (California coast) Oct. 1 two destroyers collided off "Electro" (Florida coast) Oct, 2 two planes collided in Viet Nam. These seemingly separate accidents were not accidents, George...and they were strung like beads on a string...to point out the fact. The UFO's are getting very angry. Ted Owens (PK Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 126 of 140 10/6/65 p2 Copy-Kids (Copy of telegram sent to Mr. George Clark, CIA, 9:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 1965: "A RARE WARNING. SI'S IN FURY. SEE COPY LETTER NASA BEFORE GEMINI SIX SHOT. KEEP IN MIND VANISHING AGENA ROCKET. UNLESS GOVERNMENT COMPLIES WITH SI'S WISHES THEY WILL UNLEASH TERRIBLE U.S. CATASTROPHE WITHIN TEN DAYS. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE IN MIND, BUT LET THE GOVERNMENT BE WARNED. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 127 of 140 Friday, Oct. 15, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you for the cigars, hon. I'll smoke them tonight, while watching TV, and think of you. I am doing plenty of things with PK, sweetheart...but mostly I don't care to put it into letters going to L.A. You understand. Some things, okay. But a great deal of it I have throttled down, because of no reaction from Washington. That is, I do a lot now, but am not writing on it. For instance...you either have in your files, or you've seen in mine...numerous letters of warning with regard to President Johnson, these past months. So wham...he lands flat on his back and his GB is cut out, and his kidneys worked on. A major operation, putting him out of commission for a couple of months. But...it's a warning from the Si's, pure and simple. They have him zeroed in...I warned him and the government of it a month ago...so it's up to them if they want to keep ignoring me and the Si's. And if you had been reading the papers you'd have seen aircraft carriers colliding; destroyers colliding; nuclear subs colliding; and planes colliding. Remember my Plane-Sub-Ship PK, started over a year ago...and growing? You'd better believe it! As for my Hurricane-Hunter Groups...they ran clear out of the alphabet in the Pacific...and have re-started on another round of the alphabet...Typhoon C or D was the last one I heard of, on the second round. The HH Groups, you know, cause hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, tornadoes, and floods. They cause, in other words, violent aberrations of the weather and of the earth itself. (Typhoons are hurricanes, but in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and the HH Groups strike anywhere and everywhere.) As I pointed out in one of my letters to you...they have named a hurricane after you this year, as per my request last year (Laurie, not Lornie, but they never get the name right) and one for Martha, too, as I requested. That Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau in Miami, is nice, and evidently has a sense of humor. I am going to issue more HH Groups today, in an effort to produce enough 'canes out of Florida to get you and Martha down on the map in 'cane form. You have a lot of school work, eh? Well, that may keep you out of mischief, ha ha. But I doubt it. Keep me clued in on Rick's "extracurricular" activity. I worry about him. He needs a strong loving hand to guide him, and there he just ain't got it. Love, maybe, but not the judo-type control I can furnish. He'll be a great boy, a winner, if he gets enough special attention with love attached to it. He's so bright he'll run circles around the Shannons and the Bentleys...and get away with murder. You know it. Lots of love, kisses, and hugs -- Daddy. 07/25/2025 16:24 === Page 128 of 140 Friday, Oct. 22, 1965 Dear Rick: As you can see by the enclosed clipping, there is a good basis for my instructing you to stay away from football like it was poison...which it is, for you. This year there have been twenty-one highschool boys killed playing football. I think I know why this is so, but nobody would believe it, so I won't say it. Anyway, stick to basketball, Rick. You are a genius at it, and I predict that you will be a champion basketball player, able to do trick shots that nobody else can...and score more, too. Not much doing for our little group right now. All is quiet, you might say. I have many irons in the fire, but so far, none of them have gotten hot...well, there's one exception to that...one has sort of gotten hot, but there's no contract yet. If this deal does go through, I'll make two thousand a month. I will either be rich, or starve to death...but I'll be damned if I'll ever "just exist" in between. Beau is more fun than when you were with him; he knows more now, plays more games, can say more words...and is very loving and affectionate. Am sending you some pictures soon; those color pictures, you know. Probably be a week or two. With that camera, you need to stand pretty close, or your subject is sort of far away, and it is necessary for a blow-up to be made of the print in order to see the detail. Will say that the pictures are good. Be a good boy, honey, and make your pappy (yo old grey-haired daddy) proud of you, eh? Love and kisses Dad === Page 129 of 140 Thursday Oct. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie - Thanks very much, honey, for the Bering. The Optimos tear up in the mail, but the Berings don't because of the metal tube...you can send Berings anytime, ha ha. Anyway, 1 Bering is better than 2 Optimos. I smoked your cigar after supper last night, while we watched TV. Beau is so cute and darling...he snuggles up in my lap every night, for hours, watching TV with us. We have a dandy TV set...and can get all the channels, including UHF. Your girl friend sounds cute, and am glad that you have some female companionship and friendship. These "queens and princesses" though...ugh. Their values tend to become warped and shallow. Always remember, "All is not gold that glitters." Every time I see a pretty girl I remember that, and wonder if the girl can also cook good; sew good; has a good heart inside the pretty outside; is loyal and honest with her loved ones; and can she fulfill the main female function, that of giving real love and affection. Few can...but some can. It is my hope that you'll fill the bill re the above, and make some man a happy and successful man, some of these days, after you marry him. Because a man's mate can make him happy and successful in the world...or miserable and a bum. I worked here for a Bureau that rehabilitates alcoholics...and had complete access to their files, and studied the cases rather thoroughly. What I tell you was borne out in the histories of most of these men. Am proud of you for making A's in school. That reflects both brains and hard work. Good for you. A's are never just given; they are earned, the hard way. Am doing a great amount of work at this time with PK. Yes, of course I am in contact with the Si's, honey. I have a 2-way communication with them...and can reach them in seconds. Almost instantly. And they, me. This is nothing "hallucinatory" - but is done through controlled visual imagery. Everyone here has colds...regular epidemic going around. You have heat and poisonous smog there, eh? Keep yourself braced for a possible earthquake, 6 or above on the Richter Scale. That's a tough one. You and Rick have your Angel...and PK protection...therefore even if the houses all came down in LA, you'd be protected. Next week I am sending you a present...you've been so sweet about sending cigars. Am sending you a set of colored pics, the ones taken in Washington, of the bunch. Be on the watch for them. Must go now. Be good, and mind Pat. She knows a lot, even more than you do. Love and kisses.......... Dad 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 130 of 140 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Rick... Thanks for your recent letter, honey. I enjoyed reading it very much. Am glad that you enjoy your school there, and are having a good time. After several years of easy-livin' (?) with yore pappy, I reckon you're glad to get some relaxation. Ha ha. But frankly, I had a ball in Seattle...San Diego...Phoenix...cross-country...Biloxi...Myrtle Beach...Washington, D.C....with you and Lornie. Many, many happy memories to remember. Your and my efforts to keep our car moving...keep tires on it...cross-country...would make a good comedy movie. Ha ha. Little Beau right now is funny as all get out. His head is all curly, yet he's like a small bull. Strong. The other night he got mad, picked up a half-table (we eat snacks on it & watch TV) and threw the table onto my foot. Nearly broke my toe. And you wouldn't know him now, he has grown so much bigger than when you saw him last...his shoulders are getting broad and he's grown a foot, I swear, since you saw him last. He dances a lot to TV music, and he still makes faces at us and does that "whispering" act occasionally. Big, big things have happened with my PK work...and the Si's have done some unbelievable things. They tell me first, before those things happen, and I tell the govt. beforehand. So Electra is getting lots of water now. The Si's are causing drought and lowering water tables, in spite of any rain that occurs. The over-all effect will be that of water-shortage. Of course, in Electra and Electro anything can happen...and I mean, anything. Anything drastic, that is. Both of them "growing gardens" of PK; the same as the inside of the ancient Egyptian tombs sealed with a "curse" protecting the inside. You know. Anyway, you and Lornie are protected, so don't worry. I don't remember if we "bubbled" Pat or not. Try hard to be a good student...and I know you'll be a good boy, as you grow up. Make daddy proud of you, yes? Loves and kisses, Dad (Tekman) 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 131 of 140 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Lorrie, thank you very much for the swell cigar. Enjoyed it very much. Also, thanks for the picture. I have it in my wallet, and show it to my friends proudly. You asked about hurricanes this year. I covered this in a letter to you a month or so ago...as you know, my Hurricane Hunter Groups cause hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc. These Groups are powerful "weather-upsetters" well....a typhoon is a hurricane, and this year in the Pacific they ran clear through the alphabet, and had to start all over on another round of alphabetic names. In the Atlantic, just a few hurricanes...but of course, Betsy was worth ten hurricanes all in one. Nothing quite like Betsy. As for the PK harassing NASA...guess you just read about Kris Kraft, the Head of NASA, having a pistol pointed at his head and the trigger pulled... but the bullet misfired. There were 13 top key NASA men on the plane with him at the time, and the plane could easily have been destroyed by the 9 pistol shots that went into the floor. Also, practically every shot that has gone up lately at the Cape, has flubbed. The last big one...the Agena...simply vanished. Disappeared. They are still scratching their heads over that one. That Agena was the one that the Astronauts were going to go up and chase, and try to catch up with. Of course the East Coast power-failure was caused by the Si's. But they had to make up some reason for it...Johnson ordered an explanation within 24 hours. Ha ha! So they gave him one. But they still haven't really figured it out at all. Supposedly a relay broke down...but there is a paradox in it, in that the relay worked and automatically shut down later. They can't understand that. Also, they don't understand the wide area... the magnitude of it, covered by the power breakdown. Then I would point out that lately there have been a rash of power breakdowns. They just had one in England, for instance. Am glad you are having fun at school. MX I sure do miss you and Rick, and so does Martha. Baby Beau used to having spells of crying...and we wondered why...until we realized it was always after we talked about you in front of him, or showed your and Ricks' pictures. But we are rich in memories...I can still see Beau dancing wildly with you and Rick in the Mangel's living room. And that trip across the U.S. was one of the best things of my life, where I got to know you kids really, and we shared down to rock-bottom. Listen...if you ever get a check sent to me...send it to me by registered letter, because people steal mail out of boxes here. Love & Kisses - Dad. === Page 132 of 140 November 27, 1965 Dear Rick: I was very glad to receive your letter. And was most surprised that you had noticed many of my PK objectives; most of them, in fact. There is a lot going on that I wish I could fill you in on. The Si's have gotten "down and dirty" as the saying goes in poker...and it would not surprise me if they eliminated Johnson from the human race, shortly. Might interest you to know that they sent a special message...to the U.S. Government, through me, about a week ago...they showed me a drawing of the U.S. without any State lines...and with a death's head in the center of it. My interpretation of it is that there is a definite threat to the U.S. at this time, right now...which the Si's know about, but we don't...and they are trying to warn us. Your dollar went to help me buy Beau an expensive Flipper ride-toy, which he is crazy about. He had a big birthday party...lots of fun, cake, ice-cream and the works. He's getting to be a big boy now. He can go get his little potty, pull down his pants, and go by himself. Then he empties the potty, washes it out === Page 133 of 140 Friday Dec. 3, 1965 Dear Rick: Honey, put date on the top of your letter. Good form. Okay? So you have played pool with Jim. Good. Wish it were me you were playing with. But right now we wouldn't have the money, anyway, even if you were here. But I predict that you will be a real champ pool and snooker player, if you play much. I'd beat the daylights out of you for a long time...but if you had guts, you'd stay with it...until finally you'd be beating me. That's the way I learned...by taking on the toughest pool sharks in Bedford..and getting beaten regularly...until suddenly, one day, my game clicked...from then on, I beat them on, and couldn't hardly get anybody to play me. Will mention that some of those pool sharks tried to get me to drink with them, but I wouldn't; tried to get me to shoot dice, and so on...but I was there just to learn to shoot pool, without having any of the usual pool-hall bad habits and bad people rub off on me...and accomplished the mission, miraculously. I would not recommend this procedure to you, or to anybody else; if you go to play pool, go with Pat or Jim or me, no other. Then you're safe. XX Am enclosing a couple more clips on football fatalities of this season. 25 high-school kids killed this year, in football play....is terrible....and you see what I mean. It just ain't worth it, pal. Save your juice, and courage, to learn judo, basketball, etc. Learn to protect your head, at all costs. Your thinking-apparatus, and your eyesight and hearing, are of the highest importance to you...because you are going to walk a long road in life, and these tools you need. And these tools you can lose, if you box, play football, etc. The first thing you learn in judo is how not to get hurt. Karate is fine, too, but do not try breaking things with your hands, whatever you do. That is fine to impress girls with, but you will injure the fine nerves in your hands...and lose your wonderful sense of touch for art work, pool and snooker, etc. Rather than toughen my hands...I would use a blackjack or "stick-fighting". === Page 134 of 140 Monday, Dec. 13, 1965 Mr. Eastwood, NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: I have been instructed to send this following information on to you...from the UFO intelligences. When Chris Kraft had a gun pointed at his head...it was no accident. And when the gun misfired, and Kraft was not killed instantly...it was no accident. The UFO intelligences caused it all to happen, just that way. It was their way of telling NASA, in the best way NASA could understand...that they have their (UFO's) gun pointed at NASA's head...and it will fire, or misfire, as they wish it to. They want you to know that it is they who are blocking the work at Cape Kennedy, and will continue to do so, until they are allowed to make an alliance with the U.S. Government. They wish to point out: (1) March 1, 1965 - Atlas Centaur Moon Rocket (Project Surveyor) blew up on its pad at the Cape. (2) April 14, 1965 - Air Force Star Tracking System Rocket blew up 72 seconds after launch, at the Cape. (3) August 19, 1965 - the Gemini 5 was almost hit by lightning; had a fire on or near the pad; was affected by storm at the time - and of course you know what happened to it when it got up. Everything that could go wrong without killing the astronauts, did go wrong. (4) August 25, 1965 - OSO Flying Laboratory blew up just after launching, at the Cape. (5) October, 1965, the Gemini 6 Agena "Target" Rocket blew up, or vanished, after launching, ruining that entire undertaking. (6) December 12, 1965 - the Gemini 6 again failed to lift off...a very embarrassing National failure, since it was on TV at the time. They, the UFO intelligences, point out that they have consistently blocked the U.S. major space efforts. They point out that it could not be chance or coincidence, if that is what you think. Why, they want to know, doesn't the U.S. Government comply with their wishes...which are very simple wishes...and which would put them, the UFO's, on the side of the U.S. for a change, and allow space work to go ahead? You will recall, Mr. Eastwood, in my letter of October 26, 1965...I told you "For the want of a nail (what the UFO intelligences want)...a battle was lost." Surprisingly Walter Cronkite, on CBS News Television yesterday, Sunday, made this very quote...and went to great lengths to spell it out. He was making a different point...but he was talking about Gemini 6, and of course, in a way, so was I. Odd coincidence. To sum it up...the UFO intelligences want you to know, vividly, that they are in control...and the U.S. Government will suffer catastrophe after catastrophe, until it becomes friends with the UFO's. I would point out the various ship collisions and fires that have struck. The Kitty Hawk; the Independence - giant carriers; nuclear subs, etc. This too is the work of the UFO intelligences. But it has all been on a small scale (for them.) In closing, my wife and I met these intelligences last week. PR Man === Page 135 of 140 Copy - Leonie & Rick Wednesday December 22, 1965 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: So...the UFO intelligences again have demonstrated their lesson to the U.S. Government...with the destruction of the Titan III out of the Cape yesterday. The Titan carrying the four satellites. Also please note that not only were 11 top officials and Chris Kraft threatened with death in an airplane several weeks ago..but NASA lost Dryden, Deputy Commander, and Lovelace, Chief Medico, within the past ten days, also. Why did Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous successfully, without incident? The Si's held their hand because for reasons known best to them they could not interfere with these craft in the air, like they did Gemini 5, without endangering the lives of the astronauts this time...and this they did not wish to do. But a rocket going up without a human aboard...that is different. It is fair game to them. P K MAN (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Will interest you to know that the Si's have put in an appearance on three different occasions at our apartment, within the past two weeks. My wife and I both have seen them. Even our baby tried to talk to them. ALSO HAVE CONTACTED UFO'S AND REQUESTED THEY SHOW THEIR CRAFT AT CAPE KENNEDY AS SIGNAL OF THEIR REALITY AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH P K MAN. === Page 136 of 140 December 22, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Just a note to wish you a Merry Christmas, and send you my love. Your amazing box came yesterday...and the packages are under our little tree. I am immensely grateful to you for giving Martha and Beau (and myself) some sort of Christmas, for we are in the same boat we were in when you were with us. You know. That is why we will send you a small gift for Christmas. But the size of our gift is no indication of what good pals we are.' Little Beau, when your packages were rolled out by the dozen, got so excited...he jumped up and down and said one of his few words, "Want." When we put the packages up, he had a fit, and tried to wreck the place, as usual. I waited ten minutes until the uproar died down, then went about setting chairs and tables upright. Saturday you will know that your immense thoughtfulness and labor in preparing packages (and expense) will give a lot of fun and pleasure to your still-broke pals in Philadelphia. but still scrapping Bless your hearts. Love, Dad. P.S. I am building a PK capsule for little Jimmy -- and assigning an incorporeal agent to guard him -- as you have. Will send name later of agent. (It is Moiria -- moy-nyah.) Am doing this because in our box we found an expression of friendship from Jimmy to Beau. 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 137 of 140 12/28/65 P2 Thursday December 23, 1965 Editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Dear Sir: (1) I believe the Viet Cong is using the "sponge" technique...that is, squeeze a sponge in water, and all the cells fill up and retain water. Instead of cells, they use endless tunnels, which they are constantly making. I believe that, at a given time, although now they are vacating these tunnels, they will assemble almost overnight in all the secret tunnels..and the sponge will be filled with water; i.e., Viet Nam will be loaded with hidden Viet Cong en masse...to strike all at once, everywhere. (2) I believe that television will develop "false" IQs for youngsters. That is, they watch countless blood and thunder stories on TV, written by some neurotic writers, perhaps, that are certainly wrong, value-wise, and mostly wrong moral-wise. Later, when confronted with a real-life situation, the youngster who has watched these sugar-coated damaging Tv shows will react to the real-life situation subconsciously, with a stored-away TV memory of how the neurotic Tv writer handled it...with disastrous consequences. As I understand it, IQ is based on how an individual handles a situation at any given time, based upon past experience and present intelligence. I predict that "TV IQ" will develope, horribly, in millions of youngsters...with the result that their subconscious reactions to real-life situations will grow a catastrophic crop of false, invalid results... which will widen, like a stone dropped into a pond creating ripples, to affect their surrounding environment. (3) An even more horrible thing is taking place. Youngsters watching TV, instead of reading books from the library (as we did in the pre-TV years) will tend to lose their ability to form mental images from words. I.E., when a youngster reads, his mind converts the words that he sees into pictures in his mind. This ability, in a world made of words, is of incalculabe value. But now see....he has stopped reading, and only looks at pictures already formed for him, outside his mind. And the "muscle" inside his mind, formed by word-conversion into picture-images, weakens and grows flabby. Mental-imagery for him will grow increasingly difficult, thereby making it very difficult for him to be creative. For are not all great inventions, paintings, etc., taken from the imagination? To sum up: TV is robbing our children of their ability to have imagination. The Tv screen provides them with "outside imagination" without effort on their part. No muscle was ever made strong without flexing; no imagination-ability was ever made strong without practice; and no mental-imagery ability is possible without effort. ---------- Ted Owens, 1114 Spruce Street, #33, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ted O 08/02/2025 15:28 === Page 138 of 140 Tues. Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you, honey, for giving Martha, Beau and I such a wonderful Xmas. Your and Rick's gifts, of course, were our Christmas. Want a laugh? I started smoking your fine cigars Christmas morning, and ran out the next day at noon. 14 Berings. Ha ha. Boy, they were good. All of your gifts, wrapped and all, must have been quite a tremendous job to fix up, you and Rick...and needless to say, our little group appreciate that fact. Beau reads his little books at night...has worn his new pajamas now since Xmas...plays with the picture-puzzles and the chalk-slate...he's having a ball. And Martha, was she tickled with her presents! You know Martha. Her feelings are right out in the open where you can see them...and she was laughing and whooping and opening everything in sight. The only thing we missed, was yo babysitting Money :) 08/02/2025 14:37 === Page 139 of 140 and Rick. Martha sadly remarked: "Do you know, honey, this is the first Xmas in years we haven't had Lornie or Rick with us?" Well, it was a wonderful Xmas. Have had several vivid, life-like dreams about Pat. Odd. Girl in the apartment next to us came screaming to our door Friday night...prowler grabbed her when she went into her apartment, she escaped, screaming, to our place. I went after him with a handful of knives, but he got away before I could get my pants on (I was in shorts.) Then last night a pane of glass fell on her hand, and cut it...and the boy she lives with was in an auto wreck Sunday, broke two ribs. My boss's wife was in an auto wreck Thursday. Sound familiar? The girl's name is Trina. Love, Daddy === Page 140 of 140 1- Copy - Lorrie + Rick Tuesday December 28, 1965 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are getting restless, because they are getting no help or cooperation from the United States. Therefore, regretfully, they are going to nudge the United States, by giving President Johnson still another disaster area or two to go look at. They do not specify the exact type of disaster...but I think it would be an earthquake. So...within the next few days or few weeks...one disaster area...coming up. And they want me to tell the U.S. Government one more thing...which the Government, of course, will not believe, or even understand the Si's are going to transfer the strong emotions, hate, fear, anguish, frustration....of all dead people who have been killed in Viet Nam, on both sides, to blanket the Capitol in Washington, and the White House, and the LBJ Ranch. They instructed me to tell you; this is something new to me, and I do not know what it is they are talking about, exactly, or what the effect would be, if, in fact, they can do what they are talking about. They also instruct me to again point out my tremendous value to the U.S. - because without me, as a go-between, or interpretor, the U.S. would not know many key things that are happening to it, since I am the only human these particular UFO intelligences have been able to reach. P K Man Dad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1965 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9fb9a3a939f71051f431febb2aa7b623.pdf b90e517b3f734bbab2b1ebee69bef563 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/768e6ea9ff4430fdf66f5b8149a9c52e.txt d5fefbc958659db2c401562df688b21a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 August 25, 1964 MEMO: TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES Very recently lightning struck, and left its mark, on a Titan missile at Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my lightning. Next, Hurricane Cleo formed and descended on .......... Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my hurricane. You are, of course, quite skeptical, and will think, of course, that it would be impossible to be true. Anyone can check with the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy..........or the State Department in Washington, D. C., and if they tell the truth they will tell you that I informed them weeks in advance of the above two events. I even wired the Space Agency that I could stop Hurricane Cleo from striking it .......... even before Cleo reached Miami. They did not reply, so I had no alternative but to let Cleo take her route, which I had laid out for her. (Over three hundred million dollars in damage could have been avoided.) But, there are more important matters than a few hundred million dollars loss.......... hence this unusual communication. And, I might add, the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead. Do I think that I've been elected to 'save the world'? No. Do I think, perhaps, that I am God? No. Or Jesus? No. I am not insane or psychotic. I am a human being, utterly astonished at what is being dealt out through me, by Nature. And, I might add, I am quite willing to accept the awesome responsibility given to me by Nature.......... in spite of the lumps that I know I shall receive from my fellow humans. (It is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability (to cause storms; to direct lightning bolts; to form and guide hurricanes; to cause fires far away from myself; to sink subs far away in the ocean; to cause missiles to explode in their silos) be understood by all.) 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 2 of 3 2 Nature (God) is dedicated to the perpetuation of the human race of mankind. But mankind, at present, is seemingly dedicated toward its own obliteration and destruction. "Man's inhumanity to man" is the banner now flying. Nature, therefore, must step in, in an unusual manner, and show the world, by demonstration, that Nature... not mankind...controls the preservation of the species. That Nature's own secrets hold far greater power and scope than do H-bombs and stockpiles of war materials. Nature has, oddly enough, appointed me as its human voice and representative... to speak its intelligence to you. Furthermore, Nature is fully aware that without signs and wonders you wouldn't believe me. Nature has, therefore, endowed me with unbelievable powers - a small demonstration of which I have already made.* This is what Nature is saying, through my pen: First, it is absolutely necessary that my own country and Government (which has the Bible and Christianity at its core) be convinced of the basic truth of this message. Nature is eager, and completely, wholeheartedly, willing to back me up in any constructive move to bring this about. (Should I misuse this infinite power placed in my hands by a trusting but omnipresent Nature, then it will transfer the power to a more worthy human, to carry on the program. People can be stopped, but Nature never. Then, after my own Government is convinced, this dynamic power of Nature will be directed, focused, upon the mouldy, rotting spots of mankind - and these spots eliminated, so that mankind will stop deteriorating and grow healthy. Mark this: All materials of warfare must be transformed into plowshares - or else. Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees. *By this later date, Sept. 25, have successfully brought down Titan III; 000, the ruined 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 3 of 3 3 Let Kruschev say "God and Religion - phooey! The State will give you candy." Let Papa Duvalier say "My voodoo devils are greater than your God." Let Castro say "Cuba and Russia are friends...we need no God." But Nature wishes to make some drastic changes. Working from my own country, and protected by my government, I will direct certain powers of Nature onto any country filled with the spirit of hate and killing and war. My own country, observing the results, will, when peace in the world is assured, lay aside all weapons of war - or else. And return to a stronger faith in the absolute power of God and Nature than now exists among its peoples. Perhaps from reading this it will be thought that I am 'some kind of nut' - or religious fanatic. But what you may think is really irrelevant and immaterial, for Nature will be heard. It's voice is coming through, loud and clear. You can expect to continue to see signs and wonders, until you believe. Until Nature's voice is recognized, and fully obeyed. H. T. Owens (The PK Man) 6309 Wildwood Trail Myrtle Beach South Carolina 08/02/2025 15:45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1964 08 Memo to the people of the united states aug 25 1964 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/89b55d62d0d596c9f7cd06e9911b5cc3.pdf 6e35a42e632dde121fbffcfd777cc97d https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/aaaa2b049ab9b965c0312d221991854e.txt 4817cb1914b80744ede525ad1bc0c7d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 1964 === Page 2 of 11 July 4, 1964 Lornie -- I wrote you a letter, some time ago, telling you we are at the Congress Hotel, Rm 600, 12th & Walnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also I sent you a giant letter describing the circus. But you have not written. I want a letter from you telling me you got my long circus letter. I **never** held mail from Pat to you kids away from you, even if it caused me lots of trouble. I expect that same privilege to be given me. If I do not hear from you -- then I will know you are not being allowed to get my letters. Then I'll let PK settle the matter. Love, Dad P.S. Enclosed is program from Pres. Johnson's shindig, which we did Saturday. === Page 3 of 11 Kids - thought you'd like this as a souvenir of the beginning of the exciting PK Man work. You were there!! TO: STATE DEPT. FROM THE BEGINNING... (written Before Sin's) October 19, 1964 Gentlemen: I strongly urge you to read this incredible report, because the facts in the report cannot be challenged for validity. I have actual witnesses, and written predictions of these happenings, which are of interest to you, were sent to Government agencies before the actual events took place. For the first time in the history of our world, PK (psychokinetic power - mind power) has been used under absolute control, with fantastic success, to affect government military operations. For the first time, a definite control over ESP (extra sensory perception) has been demonstrably exercised, and proven. Briefly, five geographical areas of the United States were "attacked" with PK (thought force) under definite control, and these five areas were, in each case from one to three weeks later, declared officially a disaster area. In four of the five cases U. S. Government military operations were the target of the destructive PK. Purpose of the PK attacks - to convince the U. S. Government, by actual demonstration, of the reality and existence of this new form of power, so that the U. S. Government would then accept the fact officially and allow PK to be used for, and no longer against, the U.S. I shall stick to documented fact as much as possible. If I should digress, or get part of the material in wrong order...it is because I am not a scientist, writing a scientific report. Before going into the actual Report - allow me to repeat a fact. The U. S. Government has, within its hands, at this time, a weapon and a tool available to no other country in the world. A weapon and a tool which will open up an entirely new field of science, in its application and study. A weapon and a tool which can spell ruin to Communist activity and progress. IF, that is, the Government avails itself of the tool and weapon. REPORT ON "PK MAN" My name is H. T. Owens. I am married, and have three children. My wife's name is Martha, and my teen-age children are Harvey and Lorrie, ages 14 and 15, respectively. (The youngest is Beau, only 2 years, and of course he takes no part in any of this activity.) In August, 1963, it all began. We lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and rented a house from Frank Boggio. It was terribly hot, so my son Harvey and I decided to try to make it rain and storm (my grandfather, John Owens, had shown me how, when I was a child, in Bedford, Indiana. But only once in my life had I attempted "weather control" - when working for Lee Construction Company in Houston, Texas, in 1947. At that time, with three witnesses present, I made lightning strike close by our office on the ship channel, on a clear, sunshiny day.) So August 15, 1963, Harvey and I began our rain-making. On Aug. 18, Phoenix had perhaps one of the worst rain storms in its history. Encouraged, my boy and I...and my daughter joined me for a while... decided, in order to prove it no accident, to prepare a series of storms, 08/02/2025 15:45 === Page 4 of 11 10/19/64 p2 (2) without cease, for that area. I wrote to the local newspapers to that effect, signing my letters "Rainmaker." Something told me I should have something on record. Then followed, within days of each other, eight successive storms... so devastating that the area was officially declared a disaster area. We had to move, then, to Los Angeles, and I read in the LA papers that Los Angeles was suffering from drought and needed rain desperately. So Harvey and I decided to furnish the needed rainstorm. I wrote to both the Los Angeles papers to that effect, on March 12, 1963. And we went to work. March 17 Los Angeles had a terrible windstorm which blew down trees, signs, houses, etc., and started roaring fires. But no rain. We kept on working. March 23 we brought in the rain. The LA Times paper headlined "Rain Plays Havoc." They got their needed rain. While in Los Angeles, during this period of time, I gave considerable thought to the possibilities of what we had done and what we had discovered, and wrote letters to the State Department in Washington, offering to put our abilities at the use of the U. S. Government (weather control being quite a useful tool, both in war and peace.) But no answer. So I decided to force an answer, if possible. I wrote to the State Department and announced that I would "attack" the space center at Cape Kennedy in Florida with PK...and that I would attack Operation Desert Strike, which was to take place at a later date in the Needles, California, area. Shortly thereafter a Ranger VI rocket failed at the Cape; and the Operation Desert Strike turned out to be a deadly, murderous comedy of errors. Also during this time I informed my ex-wife, Pat Shannon (who lives with her husband, Jim Shannon, in Inglewood, California) of my tremendous discovery. I discussed it with my brilliant landlord, Apparicio Ranghel. (Mr. Ranghel can now be reached through the Colombian Consulate in Washington, D.C.) My family left Los Angeles, and proceeded to Las Vegas. We decided to give Las Vegas a storm. In two days they had it. June 8, 1963, the newspaper headlines read "Hurricane Force Winds Lash Vegas." (When they used that word "hurricane" I had no inkling of what was to come later on.) While there, we needed money, but had only $25...so I gambled for three days at the craptables, experimenting with the use of PK. I found that it worked, but slowly, and percentage ate my small amount of money away before the PK could build. While in Las Vegas, I took my son and daughter to the office of the Las Vegas newspaper to see the Editor...and I typed out my work with PK, what we had done, etc., for the Editor, and explained it to him verbally, hoping that perhaps there might be a way of getting the attention of the U. S. Government. I suppose the Editor still has the typed information gathering cobwebs in his file, because nothing came of it. We then drove to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and there I began my work in dead earnest. I wrote to the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy the last week in July; also the State Department; and several other places - === Page 5 of 11 (3). 10/19/64 p3 that in the months ahead I would have my own private "war" with Cape Kennedy and its space work. That I would cause lightning to strike it; would cause human error; fires to start; magnetic disturbances; breakdowns in space equipment; and that I would bring hurricanes into the area. As I have said, this was the last week in July, 1964, and I described my plans in detail, using a map, to Eric Bremmer, a man of German nationality whom I met there. He was a waiter at the Bowery, and was instrumental in my getting a booking there at the Bowery. (Eric is blond, blue eyed, has a wrestler's build (we exchanged Judo knowledge) is covered with tattoos, and travels with his "wife" who lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He had been arrested before on the East Coast for armed robbery; also arrested in Florida for running guns to Cuban rebels...he told me.) Bremmer is not his real name. My family, of course, knew what I was doing, in detail, and my son was working with me on some of my projects with PK. My first big result came on Aug. 19, when lightning struck the Titan II rocket at the Cape, on its "lightning-proof" pad. We had been working for days specifically for lightning strikes. I wrote to the Cape and told them I had caused this, and to look out for havoc and confusion at the space center which would follow in the weeks to come. Hurricane Cleo formed, and I guided it, with my control methods, straight onto my target - the Cape. Now, it is interesting that, before Cleo even reached Miami, I wired to the Cape, offering to stop (divert) Cleo from hitting it, if they would answer and request it. They did not, so I let it strike. A two dollar wire from them would have sent Cleo off to the right into the Atlantic, and saved several hundred millions in damages.) It is also interesting that, as an experiment, when Cleo was officially pronounced "dead" in the papers - I brought her back to roaring life with PK. I did the same thing with Dora, later. Then Titan III was sent up at the Cape, and I brought it down with PK, splashing into the Atlantic. Then newspapers publicized "OGO" - the monster satellite that would be sent up from the Cape. I wrote the Cape again, Aug. 30, warning them. They disregarded the warning, and went ahead. My PK ruined OGO. Meanwhile Hurricane Dora had formed. (My PK method includes the knowledge of how to form hurricanes, as well as how to direct them.) I worked hard to make Dora turn left, because she had been formed aimed in the wrong direction. She did turn, and obeyed, and struck not far from the Cape. Close enough to bother the space center. (While I was giving all of my attention to Dora, Hurricane Ethyl got away from my control and went straight north. I learned a lesson from this.) Would like to point out that, during all this chaos at Cape Kennedy, as I had predicted, missile centers in California were having success with their shots...and this has applied during my months of war with the Cape. Mind you, lightning had struck their Titan II; Titan III came down; OGO had been ruined; and they had had two hurricanes track across them... and still they didn't believe me! All within three weeks time! 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 6 of 11 (4) STATE DEPT. 10/19/64 10/19/64 p4 On Sept. 3 I again wrote to the Cape, outlining what I had accomplished, and what they yet had to expect. I told them there would be other hurricanes to follow. Then in the papers I read about troop exercises that would take place in North and South Carolina. So on Sept. 5 I wrote the State Department (I have my copies of these letters) that I would use my PK against these military exercises. Result: The area was declared a disaster area, during the exercises, from storms and floods.) And, of course, the Cape Kennedy area was declared a disaster area, from Cleo and Dora. On Sept. 5 I again wrote Cape Kennedy. No answer. Hurricane Gladys formed, and I brought her in on a straight line at the Cape..........and for the first time, I erred. Secure in the belief that she would hit the target, I went to bed. Next morning I discovered that while I'd slept she had veered away at the last possible moment, up the coast. I learned a lesson from that. Then I read of an atomic test to take place in a salt dome in Mississippi. So I hit the site with PK. That was Sept. 17. They haven't been able to set it off yet, and I should not like to be near there when they do. Then I read of NATO ship exercises and sub exercises..........and sent PK at it, to cause confusion and accidents. But evidently I accomplished nothing. At least, nothing was published on it. So I do not know. At this point, irked with the slowness of the U. S. Government, I wrote to President Johnson, Edgar Hoover, the National Security Council, and the State Department..........that I would extend the PK field in the Florida area to cover the entire U.S. area (only military operations) and would make a "Cape Kennedy" disaster area out of the California coast. (Although this takes a bit of time..........it is not done overnight.) I went to work. Three days later came the disastrous fires on the California coast. It was soon declared a disaster area, officially. (I also worked on an earthquake there, but it has not yet developed. It will, of course. Looking at my percentage of success, would you bet against it?) They got up a Minuteman II missile at the Cape at this point..........which I then hit with PK..........and for some reason the PK failed. (They also got a big Saturn up and operational, and I had special PK on it..........do not understand why I failed on it. But I had a couple of failures.) On the 29th a Minuteman I missile was shot up from the Cape. I destroyed it. Then an Imp satellite was sent up. I hit it with PK, and it failed. Then Hurricane Hilda formed. I was, at the time, preoccupied with pressing personal matters, and neglected Hilda during her important opening moves. Seeing that she was going too far West to make my Cape target, I guided her onto the new space activity at Michoud, Mississippi. 43 miles from New Orleans, also my Betsy target (NASA-Saturns) 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 7 of 11 (5) 10/19/64 p5 Then my family read an article in the newspapers that brought about hysterical laughter. It was an article from Moscow, Russia, saying that the U. S. Government was controlling hurricanes and running them onto their communist countries (Cuba). Well, at least Russia was more discerning than my own U.S. But they had the wrong guilty party. After all, it would be ridiculous for the U.S. to take hurricanes back and forth over their most important space center, true? (Cleo, Dora, Gladys and Isabell.) Well, from Hurricane Hilda the New Orleans (Michoud space center) area was declared a disaster area. Next the Russians announced that they would send up two space ships, each containing three people. So I decided that enough was enough...that I would begin hitting the Russian efforts. On Oct. 11 I wrote NASA and the National Security Council that I would attack this Russ space shoot with my PK work, and force the space ships down. I directed PK at two space ships. One went up. I do not know what happened to the other one. And the one that went up, came down prematurely. Because, it is believed, there was "trouble." I can assure everyone that there was. Then Hurricane Isabell formed, and I guided her straight onto the Cape target. (With each hurricane making "hits" I have had to correct its direction usually one or more times. Cleo started to turn left into the Gulf, and I had to correct her to the right. Dora was going north; I had to correct her to the west. Isabell was going off into the Gulf; I had to correct her to the right. And I might mention that I was successful in experimenting with Cleo in making her circle and hover, for one or more hours, in an area.) There you have a factual report, unbelievable in content, but perfectly true. Perhaps I have written it poorly, but it has happened, and the facts cannot be denied. The question is: What is the U. S. Government going to do about it? Will they use this tremendous ability and power I have stumbled onto by accident...or will they continue to ignore and disregard it? I think that any country in its right mind would immediately contact me and begin tests and assignments. After all, this controlled PK has a wide variety of uses, both constructive and destructive. And I will tell you that I feel that President Johnson must remain our President, for the safety of our country...and am directing harmless PK against his opponents to utterly defeat them. As I say, PK works in a variety of ways. This is sworn to be an absolutely true report. Martha Owens Harvey Owens HT Owens (PK Man) 08/02/2025 15:49 === Page 8 of 11 SPACE CENTER, CAPE KENNEDY SEPT 3, 1964 GENTLEMEN: AM AFRAID THAT IN SPITE OF THE FACT I'VE HIT CAPE KENNEDY - WITH LIGHTNING; HIT CAPE KENNEDY WITH CLEO; AND KNOCKED DOWN TITAN III... YOU STILL ARE NOT TAKING ME SERIOUSLY. YOU CAN CONTINUE TO WATCH DRASTIC STORMS AND LIGHTNING AND FIRE AND HUMAN ERROR GOOF UP THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA, FROM DAYTONA TO MIAMI, - OR YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH ME. LATER, IF I GET TOO IMPATIENT, YOU'LL HAVE EARTHQUAKES IN CALIFORNIA (HAVE TESTED, THEY ARE EASY) AND YOU'LL HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WEST COAST INSTALLATIONS. (Censored) H. T. Owens (C.K. Man) === Page 9 of 11 Copy: Aug. 30, 1964 9/3/64 P2 In the interest of science and ultimately helping the U.S., I have extended a "PK" field over the area from Daytona Beach to Miami, some six weeks ago. PK, as you know, is Psychokinesis -- powers of the mind over matter. Question -- Can Russia, by finding top ESP personnel, attack US people, US missile bases, Polaris subs, etc -- by using PK? It is fact that I can do this to Russia, for I have discovered a "control" method. Your particular area has been my proving ground for 6 weeks. The lightning and the hurricane were my creation. Around the entire Cape Kennedy area I have set up a PK wall so formidable that technically no missile should be able to take off and become operational. Planes and personnel (human error) can also be affected. The main things to beware of are: (1) Lightning strikes Titan missile & ground controls, Moon Pad Rocket Gemini-5 (2) Tornadoes and hurricanes, Cleo, Dora, Isabell, Betsy '65 (3) Breakdown of small, delicate parts. (4) Fires. Space Eye (5) High % of human error. ↑ These entries added later Your area was set, turned on (like an alarm clock) six weeks ago, and will be (and has been) heavily affected by the above. I could do the same to the California coast & New Mexico installations -- but do not intend to. Yours is the proving ground for PK. in the military. "But I have. -- 'Electra'" (π PK in) === Page 10 of 11 9/3/64 p3 Copy July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 Fire Damage Assessed 165 Gemini Shot EMPRESS A PRINCESS Barr's pure white diamonds The magnificent beauty of 08/02/2025 15:54 === Page 11 of 11 9/3/64 P4 U.S. Pole Bases MY LTR. RE HEAT AT POLAR BASES 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported March 9, 1965. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). - From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. George: (CIA) I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or location...the party said they would call back...but they never did. I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out at Gelman. ..back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change mate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. can be done with PK as easily as bringing about storms...knocking down ..putting officials in the hospital, etc. Mr. McCone's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, me if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped rachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 08/02/2025 15:54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1964 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bb18005e05e461e431fb1d90ec06e174.pdf 68c44c0e73f2ccf8dc89f8b625030eda https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f13bfb37fca5bf42a89d2c5ac9c4fdaa.txt f9c1e331745a535916dcc12996e2b9d7 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2d8cc0193597a86f2461d96998012162.pdf 5eebb5fb4a867ea4811ade58526fa4ce https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b56adf141f67cca82402fd279b314834.txt e07bcbab5d460561c608604f3e8263d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 246 August 28, 1970 Mr. Allan Dale Avco Broadcasting Corporation Box 2641 San Antonio, Texas 78206 Dear Allan: It was a pleasure spending an hour talking with you over the phone last night. I hope...that it was up to your expectations. If your program last night with me...is like the others I've had...you'll be deluged with mail as a result of it. Please let me know if this is so. Reason. This letter is a letter of confirmation...that as of last night I hit San Antonio with various powers from another dimension. The only human being in this world able to do such a thing. The object: to heal the people now sick with diphtheria, in much quicker time than is normally possible (especially the children) and to kill and void the diphtheria germs in San Antonio completely, so that the epidemic which is now in effect there, vanishes quickly. The special powers which I sent...other-dimensional powers from another world than our own...should, besides accomplishing the above, create such a healing atmosphere in San Antonio...that many others who are sick and crippled, will get well (besides the diphtheria patients.) After you hung up last night, I communicated with the 51's instantly...told them the situation, and what was needed, then I released the mental connection and made a cup of coffee...right on schedule came their telepathic "capsule"...a whole lot of information given me telepathically in a split-second. I sat down and wrote it out...my instructions from them on how to proceed...then I proceeded. First; I visualized my "Angel box"...a mental picture of a box with the lid opening, then out flows rainbow-like "things" I have named angels, because they are so dynamically healing. I sent 100 of them flowing into San Antonio, which I also pictured in my mind's eye. Thus, the darkened city of San Antonio was covered with 100 of these gorgeous rainbow creatures whose sole duty it is...is to heal and make happy. Next...I visualized the darkened area that was San Antonio at night...opened a mentally-pictured box called "Healing PK" and let the strange forms from it flow into San Antonio, and as they did they changed the darkened area from black into an x-ray white. Next in my mind I picked up "Nature's Telephone"...just like a phone booth...except that the phone is a direct line to Nature. And requested that Nature heal the sick in San Antonio and especially heal quickly the diphtheria-sick, and kill the diphtheria germs, and if Nature might not like to kill them, at least take them somewhere else other than San Antonio. Next I used my disc method on the hundreds or thousands of sick in San Antonio...simultaneously. I.e., instead of 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 2 of 246 4 charging and coding one disc for an individual...I charged and coded an entire city. Instead of a disc, a city. You see with these intelligences...they think to infinity...their powers extend to infinity...it is as easy to charge and code an entire city as a small disc. I could charge and code the world, for that matter. But I will not, until some conditions are met. Next I used time displacement ....by an ODE process I exchanged the year 1970 in San Antonio, for the year 1968 in San Antonio, (when there was no diphtheria, you see?) So that, if that technique works...the diphtheria epidemic that is going on now, will simply vanish and go back in time to the year 1968. Finally, in conclusion...I prayed to God, in the name of Jesus, for Him to heal the sick in San Antonio, and especially the little children. That's a last but not least thing, because once I merely prayed to God, and made him a 'deal' ..and then experienced three consecutive miracles that you'd never believe sworn on a thousand Bibles. I know, and can testify, how very REAL God is and can be. This is the very first time...I've ever broken down and explained the way or the methods I've used...to approach an experiment of this sort, a SI experiment. I have just concluded here in Norfolk...a multiple miracle, involving rainstorms called down onto a drought area, lightning attacks on a certain area, a UFO over Norfolk a hurricane produced and its rains brought to Norfolk...all within the span of five weeks, documented. But I didn't bother to explain how I did it, to anybody. NOW...I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU. I can't get the San Antonio papers here...and it is absolutely vital for my files to get DAILY CLIPPINGS from the San Antonio papers re the diphtheria epidemic, for the next 2-4 weeks. Will you do me this very great favor? Each day scan the papers for your news, and when you see anything at all about anyone being healed or getting well...anything at all about the diphtheria...clip it out and send it to me. I need these badly, Allan, for my files and my work to help people. Incidentally...I'm sorry I interrupted you last night..you were saying something happened that frightened your wife when she was talking to somebody about the SI's...wasn't that it? Please give me all of the details on that, okay? Your new friend.... Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3134 CHS Norfolk, Virginia 23514 P.S. Wish you'd get some rich Texan to back me...subsidize my work...so that all I could help sick and crippled people, and divert hurricanes. === Page 3 of 246 3/22/79 March 22, 1979 Dear Dr. Miller: It was a pleasure to hear from you. Am a bit tardy, but had to get to Stockholm, Sweden, on a project...and it held me up. Shortly there might be an article re my work in National Enquirer, so you might watch for that. A new hardcover book by Putnam & Son has just been published called "Mysteries", written by Colin Wilson, the famous English author. I feel certain the book would interest you in its thought content. Also it has a nice article on me and my work (he was present in 1976 when I addressed some of the world's scientific greats in parapsych in London...and ended the killer-drought in England.) "UFO Trek" is an excellent paperback book by Warren Smith, which has a chapter on my work (it has also been published under the name of "Book of Encounters." Now, to your letter. Fate must have destined our paths to cross...because your treatise "What Is Thought?" is quite a coincidence in alignment with my mind-training system that I teach a pupil, now and then...the system given to me by my UFOs. There is no other system of its kind in the world and probably there will never be. To explain everything to you...would take a book, so that is not practical. Suffice it to say that the UFOs captured me years ago, modified my brain to make it half-alien, half human...then have worked in cooperation with me to produce over four hundred miracles, all properly documented...some with scientists, some with police, some with lawyers, etc. When I was ten I considered "thought"...and wondered if other humans "thought" in the same manner that I did, or could it be "different" with each human, as each human's fingerprints differ. For instance, in those early years I "knew" what other school kids were thinking, and what the teachers were thinking...i.e., I quite correctly read their minds constantly...and naively assumed that everyone could do the same. Later on, when I found that others could not...this lead me to wonder about the sameness of human thought...or was it? I.e., does everyone see pictures in their mind, as they think? Does everyone "hear" the words that they are thinking...even as they exchange a better selection of word for another in their "mind"? I wondered "what is a 'mind'?" I "teethed" on hypnosis...becoming an expert at the age of 13, and successfully hypnotizing kids in the neighborhood (and almost got run out of town for it in Bedford, Indiana...because of the reaction of infuriated parents when they found out about it.) Long years later...in Ft. Worth, Texas, after an encounter with a UFO on the road with my daughter present...and then the UFOs gave me, telepathically, a full notebook of instructions on how to train the mind of other humans...I began to work full-time using hypnosis to help people, most of whom had been given up by MDs. I got mental patients back to normalcy; got "impossible" alcoholics straightened out; taught female pupils who had had a mastectomy and had excruciating pain to live with...so that they had no pain at all. And so forth. The upshot was...the AMA framed me, had me arrested, fingerprinted, and put on trial...for "practicing medicine without a license." A la Edgar Cayce. The ironical part of it was...that I was working with doctors and dentists at the time! They wanted to appear at my trial and testify in my behalf, but I was told by the DAs office that if they did the AMA would have them blacklisted...so I wouldn't let them, for their own sake. === Page 4 of 246 2 Of course, that was long long years before I began to do "miracles" and become world-famous. What I have become...how I did it...and have proven it...of course makes a mockery of the AMA. I am the only one in the world of its kind...no one else in the world can possibly duplicate my work, and prove it by documentation... and the UFOs have given me the "brain of Future Man", they have told me. In your treatise you state..."by the use of thought per se, actual physical changes could be brought about in the tissues of the body..." I have demonstrated that many many times with my pupils...using a combination of mnemonics (to build a "mental imagery" muscle for them; heterohypnosis; autohyp; plus the priceless "mechanisms" to be "built" into the pupil, given me by the UFOs, using light-waking hyp. For instance...I helped pupils get rid of ulcers quite easily, using my method of "thought" teaching. Horrible burns were healed in nothing flat...using the system. And so forth. (My method of working bypasses the conscious mind and trains the Subconscious mind...which in turn works with the biofield, or life-force field, which surrounds each human body.) "I think, therefore I am," said Descartes..." in your treatise. More accurate, I should say, would be..." I am, therefore I think, and what I think, therefore I become." It is my contention that there is an intelligent power EXTERNAL to each of us, that we draw upon for "thought". In London, listening to a scientist describe his subjects' ability to bend spoons while "using their inner psychic powers" ...I made a note of disagreement. Rather, the subjects draw upon an OUTER power source, intelligent source, to bring this about. I.e., "thinking and thought" need not necessarily stem from the box upon our shoulders, any more than the television picture we are watching on our TV set originates within the set! It is beamed to us from an outside source (as is our radio program, coming to us from that "head" or "box".) I think that the "Unit of Pure Thought" (your term) resides OUTSIDE the meat and bone of each human, and observes and acts through our external biofield, through the energy of said biofield (EM). (This in answer to your comment..."I cannot say where this "Unit of Pure Thought" resides...") When I formulate a mental picture...there is no "thought" whatsoever preceding it. I.e., I can form different and various mental pictures without a thought about it whatsoever...without mentally ordering it up. This puzzles me when I read your material on p. 50 and 51. I.e., with me, in forming mental pictures, no thought whatsoever need precede that action. In your (A) Brain, (B) Mind notation on p. 51...rather, it is my solid belief that our biofield, externally, is in control of and activates the lump of meat we call our brain...and produces our thought and mental pictures, etc. Just as a broadcasting radio station in Portland, Oregon, sends music into my radio set inside my home in Vancouver, Washington. Need all the energy, mechanics, etc., originate WITHIN our body-mind unit. Your paragraph on p. 51, beginning..."When the "Unit of Pure Thought" does assume command..." describes exactly the modus operandi of the ingenious system the UFOs gave to me to help my pupils change their lives and bodies through their own "thought". 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 5 of 246 3/22/79 P3 3 Further down on p. 51, it is stated..."This information is gathered into ourselves from the outside world through all our senses." I.e., EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE is entering our mind and body, forming our life, as it were, from the total world as we encounter it. Why not, then, an external intelligence and power source located within our body-mind radius, our biofield (re Kirlian camera observations, etc.) acting as our "General" upon the many "enlisted"-man parts of our body-mind combination? If a plant is threatened...without touching it...it reacts. Why? Does it have eyes to see or ears to hear the threat? No, the threat can even be telepathic. Doesn't the biofield of the plant understand, intelligently, and signal the threat to the physical plant...which then activates the scientific machine monitoring the plant? Yes, I think so. Then why not be the same with a human being, except on a much larger, much more intelligent plane? The "brain", as you call it...then is the computer...just the mechanical computer. The "mind", as it is called...would then be our external biofield sending signals to our brain-computer, activating it as you yourself would activate a metal, mechanical computer built into a cabinet in front of you. The biofield selects, arranges and compiles intelligence, then forwards it to the computer-brain inside the body-cabinet for storage or reaction. My contention: The biofield is aware, intelligently, of much more data and intelligence than the body that it surrounds. It works around the clock... just as the heart of the body within its field works around the clock...to assemble intelligence and pass this intelligence on to the physical brain within its field, which either/or stores that material or acts upon it, then this combined action determines the direction and purpose of the life of the body-mind lying within the intelligence/EM/force-field of the Biofield surrounding the Body-mind. Your treatise states on p. 52..."I believe we should all make the effort to strengthen our capacity for thinking and thereby to elevate the level of thought..." and on to the end of the paragraph. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SYSTEM DOES FOR A HUMAN (the system given me by my UFOs!) "All" SHOULD make the effort; unfortunately "All" would be unable to make the effort. Again, further down.."You can create an entirely different being..." etc. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY UFO SYSTEM BRINGS ABOUT! I can train a Pupil with my UFO system...AND CAN COMPLETELY TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND...to give them a "mind" totally superior to that which they have formerly had...IN JUST ONE DAY! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 6 of 246 Jeffrey & "Tippy" November 23, 1976 11/23/76? P1 Doctor Jean Dierkens 34, Rue J. Jordaens Brussels 5, Belgium Dear Dr. Dierkens: As per the instructions outlined in your letter of October 29, 1976... I made myself receptive this morning. Nothing unusual occurred, except that my dog seemed frightened...and threw up all over the living room where I was sitting. But I did have a most unusual dream sequence last night...about 4 to 5 AM this morning. It was most realistic. Two men showed me a black box on a table. They went off and sat down at another table, while I examined the black box. Lifting the lid, I saw a lever on the left side, and a lever on the right side. There were also some small gear-handles in the box...but upon examination they turned out to be false, or dummy. One lever had the initial "P" under it; the other lever had the initial "N" under it. (Just after having this dream, which I haven't finished telling you about yet...I woke up and got out of bed and got my tape recorder and taped the information on it. Just turned it on to refresh my memory...and find only loud, explosive sounds on the tape...very unusual. My voice is just barely recognizable on the tape.) After examining the box...and pushing the two levers...I suddenly knew what it was all about...and went to the table and explained it to the two men. When the N lever is pushed down...which pushes up the P lever... (the box is a "unit of action"...can be expressed in a mathematical formula)... (N for negative; P for positive)...when in action (pushing the symbolic lever in the box) is changed from Negative to Positive, N to P...it creates an energy... releases a Positive energy force...just as a radioactive cloud is released into the atmosphere from a nuclear explosion to have an effect somewhere else on something else...then when the action is reversed...from Positive to Negative... this also creates an energy force and releases Negative energy force. After explaining the above to the two men, they gave me two sheets of paper to study...and I was made to know that the papers were my orders...just as I used to get years ago while in the Navy...papers covering my orders to transfer to another location. I studied the two papers...and found that I was ordered to go to an isolated location where a UFO would pick me up. I was to go somewhere, to some meeting. I kept reading the two sheets of paper over and over...there were two men involved, somehow...typing on front and back of both sheets of paper... and I kept wondering why I wasn't going to go by airplane or ordinary transportation. It struck me as strange that the two men had shown me the black box...yet I had explained its workings to them...as the meaning of it unfolded to me slowly... it was dawning on me how it worked. The "black box" was symbolic for a mathematical equation...i.e., everything that happens in this human-race world of ours is either positive or negative...there is no neutral. Each human being is constantly creating either positive or negative effects...releasing energy; a power force...as that human being takes this or that action. (At this point my tape recorder went blank... although I talked considerably on this. To the effect that the masses of human beings on earth constantly created positive or negative effects...which creates either an over-all positive effect on the human race, or an over-all negative effect on the human race at any given time. But it is never in balance. One of the two effects is dominant at any given time.) That was the first dream...and I put it onto tape...but something erased a lot of the material on the tape. Nothing wrong with the recorder; new battery. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 7 of 246 11/23/76 P2 In the second dream I was talking to someone...and said that "I give my mind and soul and body to God, and reject Evil and the Devil completely." At this point the two men appeared again, in this second dream...and they told me that it wasn't my mind, soul and body to give to God...because I was only borrowing them...and they pointed out, to make it even simpler, that I am "hitch-hiking" through time and space...and my present mind, body and soul is the car, vehicle, that has "picked me up" to give me the ride. "The vehicle doesn't belong to me," they said, "to give to anyone." At this point I awoke and got up and put the second realistic dream onto tape. And unlike the first recording...this remained strong and clear on the tape; nothing was erased. Hope that I haven't wasted your time in this long letter, Dr. Dierkens. Regret that no entity appeared at 11 PM, and that I have only the two dreams to report to you, which occurred some hours earlier. Hope that, by now, the "ending England's drought" file has reached you. Over 100 pages in it. Big thing. friendly yours, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 311, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 $\\theta$ Owens $\\lightning$ === Page 8 of 246 March 26, 1976 . 3/26/76 p1. Carl Stone, Research Director, Nutrition Institute of America 200 W. 86th Street, Suite 17A, New York, New York, 10024. Dear Mr. Stone: I have received your February 3, 1976, letter of inquiry...backed by eighteen scientists with varying degrees. That...is ironical. Long years ago...a gentleman by the name of Edgar Cayce was arrested...for "practicing medicine without a license." So was I. Cayce had helped innumerable people...saved quite a few. So did I. When I was arrested...I was so infuriated at the injustice of it that I burned all of the thousands of documents that I had...hundreds of signed, notarized documents confirming that I had healed or saved from death the individuals concerned. This occurred in Forth Worth, Texas...in about 1956-57. I was a "Consultant Hypnotist" and had a sign on my door stating that I was not a doctor or psychiatrist...merely a lay hypnotist...and at my public trial the prosecution waved this sign at the jury and said this sign I had had on my door was a "license to practice medicine." My "practice of medicine" consisted of teaching individuals autohypnosis; also I used heterhypnosis with them to get them started; and then taught them various mental mechanisms which I am sure do not exist elsewhere in the world. I did not touch my pupils; I gave them nothing at all except suggestion. My only equipment was a Brain Wave Synchronizer, which has been described in both Newsweek and the Medical Journal. What happened was...a small group of doctors swung through Texas and gave Texas doctors a quicky course in hypnosis...following which they were designated as "fully qualified medical hypnotists." Ha ha ha. This course, as I heard of it, lasted from 10-20 hours of instruction. I had practiced hypnosis for 14 years by that time. Actively. I knew more about heterohyp and autohyp than these doctors could learn in a lifetime. The AMA decided to make "test" cases out of the lay hypnotists practicing in Texas...Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth...so I was selected to take the beating in Fort Worth...and a beating I took. The AMA produced a "medical hypnotist" at my trial. Prior, I had both doctors and dentists, with whom I had worked...call me and offer to appear in my behalf at the trial. But a member of the AMA called me and warned me that any doctor or dentist who appeared at my trial would be blacklisted in the medical profession...so I had to reject the kind offer from those MD's who offered to appear in my behalf. Later I discovered that my own lawyer, Shelton, had been bought to "throw the trial" in favor of the AMA. During the years of 1953 to 1957 I had discovered a revolutionary method of helping and healing people. It happened just after a UFO came down to the automobile containing my daughter Lornie and myself. We lost an hour of time. Following that, ideas streamed into my mind...which I wrote down in a book...and still have...and which I put into operation. I had been hired originally by Jack Danciger, an oil-rich multimillionaire in Fort Worth, Texas...to write his autobiography in a plush office in his downtown office building. But at night...I taught pupils this new system that I had discovered, at my apartment...and after long months of working for Mr. Danciger...I decided to quit working for him with an assured future with him...because by that time 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 9 of 246 3/24/76 p2 2 I had dozens of letters from my pupils stating how my system had helped them and saved them. My logic worked thus: with Danciger I was merely helping one man aggrandize himself to the public. With my pupils...I was helping and saving dozens upon dozens. I preferred to go with teaching the new system of healing, so I quite Mr. Danciger. He told me that I was "insane" to do this...but at this time, 1976, I have become recognized as one of the world's greatest psychics...if not THE best...so perhaps I was right and Mr. Danciger was wrong. (He has since expired.) After leaving him, I opened a small office in Fort Worth, and went to work in earnest. The results which I obtained with pupils...were fantastic. One woman was brought in to me by her husband...sent by their family doctor. She came in, foul-smelling and drunk. Her husband explained that she had been through three mental institutions and had had several hundred shock treatments. Nothing had helped. I had this woman on her feet, sober, dressing to the teeth, and mentally on balance...within six weeks. And each year for two years thereafter her husband phoned me and thanked me...said that she had never regressed...that the entire family had become like a new family...and that he couldn't put a price on what I had brought about. (I am having to tell you his now from the top of my head...because I destroyed all of those wonderful records after being arrested.) A Mr. Don Whitehead brought in his wife, I recall, sent by their family doctor...because medicine could not save her. She had a very bad heart condition...was eight months pregnant...and when the baby arrived, she would die. Nothing that the doctors could do would be able to stop it. In the small time left to me, I used a combo of auto and hetero hyp, with transference to her family doctor...plus the mysterious techniques that I had in my Black Book. She had previously had a terrible history of childbirth...with one child she was three days in labor...but after my work she was 45 minutes in labor, and the doctor came rushing out to me and her husband...shook my hand...and told me that miraculously she had been so relaxed by my teaching methods...it had been a perfect delivery...she was quite well, and alive...and that very day she was able to go home...and several days later sent a basket of gifts to me and my little daughter. I could go on and on. Another man came to me because of alcoholism...and while training him I spotted some bad teeth and decided that toxicity from the bad teeth could be a contributing cause to his alcoholic condition...so I asked him to go to a dentist. He said that he had a phobia about dentists, and had not been to one in 14 years. I placed him under hypnosis (light waking), took him down the street to a dentist with whom I worked, the dentist pulled ten teeth, after which my pupil "awakened" and asked when the dentist would begin. This dentist told me that he had known my pupil in school...and asked me how I'd been able to bring him in, because the dentist knew about his phobia. I trained judges, lawyers, doctors, an FBI agent, state undercover narcotics agents (narcs), helicopter pilots, a nuclear physicist from Indiana who had heard of my work and come to Texas, and so on. And they all told me how very much my training had improved them and helped them. === Page 10 of 246 3/26/76 P3 3 But the damned small clique of AMA sharpies in Fort Worth decided that I had to go...because I had no degree. So they bounced me out of Fort Worth, on trumped up charges. (The main witness against me on the stand at my trial...was an outright liar; a brazen liar.) In later years, as I read Edgar Cayce's life history...and his being arrested in the same way and for the same reasons...made me very bitter against the AMA and how it operates and what it stands for (as of 1956-57.) At any rate...when I was arrested and disgraced in Fort Worth, that evening when I went home from the trial I got together all of the years of fastidious records that I had been keeping about each and every one of my hundreds of pupils...and burned them out in back of my apartment, in the alley. And I can assure you, positively and concretely...that was a terrible loss...which mankind could not afford. In the years following...I discovered that I had many other psychic abilities besides healing...and of course, by now, it has been proven out by documented work with scientists and other responsible people. Since you are interested solely in healing...I will tell you that in 1965 a notice appeared in a Washington, D.C. newspaper, that a young female secretary, Brenda Sue Pennington, had been found, days later, in her apartment, with her head crushed in. Burglars had entered, attacked her, robbed her, and left her for dead. I contacted her family and asked permission to try and save her...because the newspaper flatly stated that she could not possibly live...and it asked for donations from people to pay her hospital and funeral bill, because her family was poor. Her family sent the police to come pick me up, along with my daughter Lornie...they got the permission of the hospital plus that of the doctor on the case...for me to try the experiment. So my daughter and I were taken to her hospital room, where she was under police guard. Lornie and I stood ten feet from the girl's bed. I used mental mechanisms given me by UFO entities just for this sort of thing...and from that moment on she began to live. At that time tubes were running in and out of her head and a machine was doing her breathing for her. As of 1974 she was still alive in Rainelle, West Virginia, at her home there, where she was taken by ambulance in 1965. I dropped by there and visited her and her parents. She had never fully recovered...because in crushing her head they had destroyed some of her functions...but she was alive, and living. This case...is on public record. Otto Binder, the prominent author, now deceased, described the case in a Saga article some years ago after checking it out. My main work...during the past years...has been in the area of psi-force. And with UFO's. But psi-force can work on the invisible "life-field" which surrounds each human body. If I had the time and energy now...as well as the means...I could save and heal unlimited amounts of people...by using the Brain Wave Synchronizer, heterohyp and autohyp methods...plus the UFO techniques given to me. But I haven't the time, the energy, or the financial means. If you wish to know more about my dynamic psychic work...contact Dr. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, well-known psychologist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member) at 340 Brighton 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 11 of 246 3/26/76 p4 Nutrition Institute of America 4 Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania; or Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. These gentlemen...have been observing my work, through my cooperation with them...during the past years. It is quite safe to say...that no other psychic in the world...perhaps the entire history of the world...has done or can do... what I am doing, in the way that I am doing it and proving it with proper documentation. Now I will add this before closing. Long years ago hypnosis was thought to be, by the medical profession...something akin to palmistry or astrology. Slowly but surely the medical profession discovered that hypnosis was quite real...and could be utilized as a tremendous tool for the medical profession. So they seized it away from the lay hypnotists (crushing them in the process) then they, the MD's, began fighting with the psychiatrists to see who would monopolize it. To me it was vastly amusing...here you had doctors, with a few weeks of training in the techniques and usages of hypnosis, calling themselves "medical hypnotists...with their Boards"...crucifying lay hypnotists who had spent 20 to 40 years in the practice and application of the art... and it is indeed an art. What should have been done, of course...the doctors should have employed the lay hypnotists and trained them along the lines that they wanted...and used them...as today "paramedics" are used in the field by MD's. A fusion, if you like, between the MD's and the lay hypnotists. In like manner, the medical profession today has finally, finally realized that SOMETHING operates behind their limited applications of medicine...to save people...and that it stems from some psychic source. Some paranormal source. So...instead of crushing every "healing psychic" they can find, as they did the lay hypnotists...the AMA should, instead, offer the psychic healers "sanctuary" and train them to suit their AMA purposes and ethics...and work along with them...and continue to study them and their methods. Breakthroughs an discovery of heretofore unknown facts re psychic healing are sure to occur in this manner. It gave me quite a start...to read your letter, and accompanying explanation. Because it is the very first, very first, intelligent approach by the medical profession which I have been able to witness in my entire life... toward a genuine search for Truth...which lies beyond the medical profession... but which can be bridged, ultimately...utilizing teamwork and cooperation between medical scientists and lay hypnotists and lay healers. I know...what most do not know. There is a "life force envelope" which surrounds the human body, and which governs that human body (and brain and soul.) Teeth, of course, must still be pulled; an infected appendix must still be removed surgically, and so forth. But...miracles can be wrought IF the medical profession can learn how to communicate with, and work in tandem with, that invisible envelope around that human body. I learned long ago how to do it (I was always successful in healing stomach ulcers in a matter of weeks, for example...) and I obtained unbelievable results. But I shall never do it again. Once burned by the hot stove of AMA and wracked up traumatically by its crooked machinations...never again. But...the Truth lies there. And I can give you this much information, which took me long long years to learn. I regret that my records were burned. They would have been invaluable to you. All that I can offer you is my current reputation as one of the world's most powerful psychics... and my word in Truth as a former practitioner of the psychic healing arts. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 12 of 246 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W 86 STREET, SUITE 17A "RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT" NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Morton Jacobe Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF Carl Stone Lesslie Lee Neal Koeningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Meginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Saraa Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns Press Release for March 1, 1976 Re: The Paranormal Healing Division of the Nutrition Institute of America. For the past two and a half years, the Nutrition Institute of America has been collecting data in all areas of paranormal healing. Our staff members have traveled around the world seeking scientific evidence of paranormal healing, especially in the areas of faith healing, psychic healing and spiritual healing. The Institute's researchers and camera crews have concentrated their efforts on these phenomena in the United States, England, South America and the Philippines. Our experience in this work has proved to our satisfaction that the gulf which exists between the medical community and those individuals and groups which are working with paranormal healing methods contributes ultimately to the harm of the patient. The people most responsible for this gulf are those physicians who take the position that the healing arts are totally without merit and those healers who feel that their approach should replace medical science. The N.I.A. Investigation of Paranormal Healing has left us with the conviction that there is a great need for a constructive dialogue to be established between the medical community and those actively engaged in the healing arts. Certain healers have proven their ability to treat psychosomatic illness, a malady which has been left relatively unchecked since the days of the general practitioner. Other healers, in the Edgar Cayce tradition, have shown extraordinary accuracy in the area of diagnosis. In this, the age of the specialist, doctors -1- 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 13 of 246 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W. 86 STREET, SUITE 17A "RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT" NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Morton Jacobs Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF C. Stone L. Lee Neal Jenningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Mcginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Sara Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns February 3, 1976 Mr. Ted Owens Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia Dear Mr. Owens: Enclosed find is a recent press release regarding the Paranormal Healing Division here at the Nutrition Institute of America. We welcome any statement and medical documentation you may be able to send us regarding your experiences with paranormal healing. Where documentation is lacking, please send us the names and addresses of those patients and doctors who would be willing to give us statements for our files and future reports. With the cooperation of doctors, patients and those actively involved with the healing arts, we will be able to help remove the cloak of mystery surrounding paranormal healing. Thank you. Best Wishes, Carl Stone Carl Stone Research Director 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 14 of 246 Feb. 5, 1967 Dear Rick: I'm a little late answering your letter. Forgive me. Yes, you would make a fine tennis player. I wish you luck in whatever you do or take up. It is your life..honey...and there is only one you. You aren't like anybody else, dad or mom or anybody. So do what is in your heart to do. But remember, your body works for you. It depends on you to give it a good deal. That is why I want you to stay out of football and boxing. You wouldn't do your body any favors if you got injured. And you'd be getting injured for nothing. I recommend learning judo, if you wish. Anyway, good luck, boy. Glad to hear your school work is improving. You are very smart and bright. All you have to do is...use those brains the right way, the good way, always, and Nature is on your side. Enclosed is a card showing the outfit I work for. Biggest lawyers in Philadelphia. They just took on a new partner, and I work for the new partner. It's real funny, Rick. I type all day long, and don't even know what I'm typing. Wills, Trusts, Agreements, all that stuff. My top boss owns the Philadelphia Bulldogs. I used PK to help them and they beat everybody in '66...won the Continental League Championship. All my work involves two, three, four million dollars deals. I hate it. But I'm stuck with it. I remember telling Lornie in Ft. Worth, when I was helping people..."Ah, Lornie, it's wonderful knowing I'm teaching auto-hypno don't have to work in an office ever again." Ha ha. Well, one of these days..... We aren't tossing knives because Martha can't stand the show biz route any more...three hundred one week...then lose our storage and can't pay our rent a month later. And she's right. And Beau needs a steady place to live. (Not this one...but that will come.) I have discovered the Si's ruin, flatten, anyone against me. Could tell you about it, but would take too long to do it. I have what might be called "Instant Attack" from their mysterious PK world. I don't even have to direct them...they seem to know when a fly walks across the ceiling. Read the last week's True and Saga mags...good Si accounts in there. Or UFO reports. Might not be my Si's. I don't think regular UFO's are my Si's. Got to put Beau to bed now. Write, honey. Love, Dad === Page 15 of 246 Feb. 5, 1987 Dear Lonnie: Why haven't you written for months? Didn't you like your camera? It worked fine for me...sent you some of the pictures. If it arrived damaged, I had it insured for $50. We can have it fixed or replaced. That is a long way to send a camera. I have sent some rings that have gotten to my Sonas broken. And why didn't you answer Irene Kuvela? She is a very nice person. She thinks you haven't written because you think she is a "kook", to quote her. Well, she isn't. Write her, if only to say thanks for writing. She's human. I hope school is going well for you, and your boy friend is working out. I also hope you are being a pal to your little brother, who needs you, and your love, and what guidance you can give him. The Si's just destroyed the Cape spacecraft and astronauts, to put more pressure on the govt. Things are getting "down and dirty." The govt. is so stupid. Write. Love, Dad P.S. Am sending you some pictures of you as a little girl. Keep them, because your future husband and children will enjoy seeing them. === Page 16 of 246 Friday, August 27, 1965 Today Zachow, the terrific scientist, called. He said that during the week he had confirmed the reality of my work..and the entities that influenced my work, and that helped to produce results. He had, among other things, consulted one of the great "sensitives" of the U.S., who had confirmed the reality of the Si's; that they come from far away from Earth; are a different type of "si" completely than any other known heretofore. Also the "sensitive" was struck, and almost over-powered with, a tremendous fear, relating to these entities (which are non-breathing.) The sensitive sensed a tremendous "animal force" about them. (The Michigan monster...?) Zachow said definitely that I am producing all of the phenomena that has been produced this past year. He said that it is own energy doing it, but that the Si's use me as a pin-pointing, or locating, instrument, and they help me with their own power. He said that our very conversation this minute would be recorded by them instantly... either by machine or by mind...he doesn't know how they do it. Z disagrees with me on one point..that if I were to die, then these entities would lose their human contact with the earth-people. He says that I am nothing to them... that they "don't give a tinker's dam" about me...and if they did, then I wouldn't be starving and we wouldn't have been stripped of all our things. Z recommends I deliver a mandate to them...either produce a way out of my dilemma in the next week, I or I should "resign" as their agent. Then he advises me to quit this completely; put it out of my mind, and go back to ordinary pursuits. Such as knife-throwing. I made a point of asking Z if he thought all of the year's happenings were a "figment of my imagination" as George Clark suggested. He said certainly not; that he had ascertained definitely that I had produced the phenomena, something few humans alive could do - that I had powers far greater in scope than perhaps anyone on earth. But that I was using these powers wrong..destructively. He realizes the ultimate aim of mine...to use these powers to help correct the present ills of this earth...but he states that there seems to be something wrong in the way the Si's are going about it. He added he might be wrong in this, but he feels that way about it. He stated I was a "sending and receiving" radio station for the Si's. He stated that their work, rather than being in the electro-magnetic field... had something to do with the Doppler effect (whatever that is) or laser work of some kind. Within the hour, I had my reply for Arnold from the Si's, attached. === Page 17 of 246 Sat. 8/28/65 Dear Lorrie: I enjoyed hearing from you. You definitely are not getting all my letters. Listen -- any letter I mail to "Lorrie + Rick" means both of you read that letter. Get it? Do not hold any of my letters back from Rick. The enclosed copies of letters reveal the current action, pretty much. Send back the signed affidavit from Dave Richman. As usual I had prepared my "homework" for Gemini-5 before last Thursday -- to get fire, human error, lightning, power-failure, ground-controls, etc. Got just about all of it! Stopped the shot. You know my routine pretty well. The "game" is to harass the shoot without killing the astronauts. I've done well. The idiots then shot up OSO Flying Laboratory (remember the OGO I got last year?) -- and it blew up. They never learn. Martha enclose letter. Be good, and mind Pat. Love and kisses, honey -- Dad. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 18 of 246 Monday Sept. 13, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for your Love Cigars. I really enjoyed them very much. Hadn't smoked a Bering in ages. Put me in mind of the time when you and Rick were with Pat and me in Las Vegas. She and I were "reading minds" and telling fortunes and hypnotizing people...the works...at the Santa Anita Turf Club. Well, I liked cigars so much that Pat would take these same Berings as "tips" for reading people's fortunes between our two shows nightly. When we'd pack up to go home I would have 20 to 40 Berings in my briefcase. Ha ha! Them were the kooky days. (When I was just hypnotizing people and memorizing magazines...now it's just dull guiding hurricanes here and there and putting the whammy on Gemini-5's.) Am glad to hear that you are going to school on time. That is a novelty, what? You probably even have all your notebooks and pencils, too. Livin' it up. Ha ha. Good enough. Now if you turn out a pin-headed nitwit you can't holler 'foul'. Along with all your books, clothes, notebooks, etc., be sure you have all your marbles. Beau is so fantastic by now he can't be described. He isn't just bright, he's awesomely brilliant. He actually can read minds. Punto. The other night I started to tell him to go get me a piece of toilet paper to blow my nose on, to see if he would understand...he can't talk yet. But I didn't, figuring it would be useless. I just looked at him, and he grinned, and toddled the other way from the bathroom, into the bedroom. He came back, with a proud grin on his face, holding a piece of Kleenex tissue out to me. I hadn't said a word. Last night he read Martha's mind, and it scared her. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 19 of 246 2 He is so damned cute and funny...when there's music on the radio he climbs up on a chair and dances wildly, gyrating all over... with his shoulders, his head, his arms, his hips...then when he thinks he's done a good dance, he claps his hands to show us it's time to applaud...and we applaud. Then he dances some more. But we have to applaud. Affectionate? He gives us hugs and kisses constantly. When I am lying down, sleeping, he'll come over and kiss me on the cheeks a lot, and put his little hand on my cheek and pat pat pat away, gently. We've had a little difficulty with him throwing things...like chairs, small tables, anything he can pick up. Believe me. He takes a kitchen chair, heaves it up, and throws it. Martha is afraid to scold him, because if she makes him mad, he attacks. I think you've seen that...but now he's practiced up. He goes in like a football tackle, grabs a leg, and bites. If you try to fend him off with an arm or hand, he bites that. He does have a spirited temper. Yesterday he astonished me by pointing to his ear, then to the radio. He wanted to hear music on the radio. This is the way he communicates. Am glad to hear that everything is going well there. Here it is the usual chaos. A job today; no job tomorrow. Worked three days last week. No night clubs in town worth spitting at, for my shows. No car to get out with, to find a better place. So, meanwhile, East Lynne. Fudge! You've mastered the course, so you know what it is. But we are making it, the while. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 20 of 246 in 1964 were controlled...that they found underground by accident? Russia! Yes, a story from Moscow, dated September 30, 1964, AP, went like this: "U. S. AIM WAGING WEATHER WAR". "A Soviet Colonel charged in Moscow Wednesday that the Pentagon has directed United States scientists to work out ways of directing hurricanes toward Communist countries. (Cuba) The charge was made by Col. I. Zheltikov in the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star.) He also claimed...etc." I was greatly amused by this, and wrote to the Kremlin that the U. S. would hardly be running its own controlled hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area, as was happening at the time. And after Betsy, of course, not running over Cuba...I imagine they know this to be a fact. Betsy would have run over Cuba. All I had to do was keep her in a straight line, instead of turning her. Finally you, the reader, say, "Well, you should be shot. Hanged. Spat upon. Shame on you, if you can do what you say!" Not so, gentle reader. What I have done is harass the U. S. Military, true...but for a relatively short time. This revolutionary weather-control method that I have stumbled upon, which works like a charm most of the time, could be of inestimable value to our country, the United States, in the long long years ahead. If, that is, the Government will ever pay attention and do something about utilizing it. Now, let's see...Betsy...the next hurricane starts with a "C", doesn't it? You, the reader, can have an interesting time on the sidelines now, watching the action. You know the strange duel that is going on. It could even be more fun than watching a pro football game, yes? FK Lynn (The "Rain Maker") Philadelphia === Page 21 of 246 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin "I AM GOING TO RUN A HURRICANE ON LEFT" .......... I just finished doing it. This has to be one of the most unusual accounts ever reported...if indeed it does reach print. It is true and factual. But if this newspaper is brave enough to print the story, it must be understood by the readers that the newspaper does not condone the actions taken by the writer; nor does the newspaper necessarily relieve the account as true. As "The Rain Maker" in Philadelphia, however (Jack McKinney "Night Talk Show" and Harvey Clark of Philadelphia Show) I, Ted Owens, assure the reader that every word of this account is absolutely true and accurate. You say it's impossible for a human being to influence a hurricane? Nonsense! I did it in 1964...ran three hurricanes (Cleo, Dora and Isbell) across the Cape Kennedy area. Had Hurricane Gladys almost there in the same spot, but lost control of her at the last minute, and she slid up the coast.) You say they just "happened" to come that way? Nope. Wrong again, friend. In July, 1964, I sent letters to Cape Kennedy Space Center, the State Department, and other government agencies, that I was "declaring a one-man war" on the area from Daytona Beach to Miami...nicknamed "Electro". I told them all that I would run hurricanes into this area, as well as lightning strikes. A few weeks later lightning struck the Titan Missile at the Cape; also struck and knocked out of commission its ground controls. An accident, you say? How? The Titan Missile stood on a lightning-proof pad. NASA has never figured that one out. You see, in 1963, I discovered a revolutionary method of weather control. This method enabled me to make small storms for local areas, or big storms for areas far away, geographically. This phenomenon is under- === Page 22 of 246 serviceable in the context of parapsychology...where time and space are prohibitive. After making storm after storm, without failing, for months, I wrote to the U. S. Government about my discovery...but could get no answer. Imagine what the U. S. could do with this amazing discovery! It certainly would not have to worry about drought! And hurricanes could be used constructively. If you don't think so...New York City could use about three, right now! At any rate, by "declaring war" against Cape Kennedy, I hoped to get the U. S. Government's attention, thus their cooperation in utilizing this rare ability and discovery. But no...even after the Titan lightning strike and three hurricanes; almost a fourth, in their front yard...not a word from the Government. So this year, July 7, 1965, I wrote to NASA and all government agencies thusly: "Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now (they know me as PK Man, not "The Rain Maker") as I did last July on...to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy etc." Also I warned them of lightning strikes again this year. About one month later, August 4, 1965 (the day I spent four grueling but fun hours on the Jack McKinney "Night Talk" Show, explaining all this) lightning struck the Moon Rocket Pad at Cape Kennedy. I also wrote Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Center in Miami, about all this (in 1964 and again this year, 1965 telling him that if I missed my Electro target, southern Florida, then I would take the hurricane away from the east coast so that it would not come up into the northeast coast area. (This just happened with Betsy, if you will think about it.) Now, you have just seen Hurricane Betsy do everything but turn a somersault. All of the newspaper writers have described her as "freakish." But she isn't, really. When she was "born," August 27, she pointed directly === Page 23 of 246 3 at the target, "Electro"...southern Florida. When she got to Guadeloupe Island, about August 28, she swung around to the north. For several days I struggled to get her back onto the target, Electro. August 31 I turned her, but now she had swung too far, and pointed south. So more work on the maps, and along my specialized lines. Slowly she turned, and once more ran toward the target. Then she began to swing up again, out of line with Electro. Too far in a northwest direction that would put her in Georgia, and lose my shot. I worked for about four days to correct this, and drew a "PK line" that I did not want her to cross. She stopped right at the line, and stalled. Now, Betsy had gotten above Cape Kennedy...and she did not want to go sideways at all...so I knew I had to take her backwards, down below Miami, and start her upward again, in the same path I took Cleo, last year. This "putting a hurricane into reverse" I couldn't do last year, although I tried several times. But this year I figured out how to do it, applied the method, and lo and behold Betsy backed up into the Bahamas! (This, incidentally, put a crimp in the Cape Kennedy missile-tracking machinery in that area.) I had drawn a PK line down there, because I didn't want her to go straight south...and she stopped right at the line, and stalled, as before. I did several other things to bring her over into position in front of Miami...and over she went. Since her radius was 600 miles, and the Cape was just a couple of hundred miles from Miami, am sure the Space Center felt her breezes. At any rate, it was a "hit" in parapsychological parlance. At this point Betsy got out of control and went on into the Gulf, having done her duty pretty well in harassing the U. S. Military. I repeat to you, as I have repeated to the U. S. Government...think, just think, what this country, the U. S., could do with this discovery! But do you know what? Guess who knows for sure that these hurricanes 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 24 of 246 August 25, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Ever almost get hit by a City Bus...in the middle of a sidewalk? I did, last night. And it was no "figment of my imagination." Had quit work, and turned down a narrow side-street, walking towards big Market Street. Had gone 1/3 of a block when suddenly I looked up and there, turning at a complete angle to the street, driving up onto the sidewalk, about 5-6 feet from me and moving fast, was a City Bus. Pointed right at me. I jumped...sideways. It missed me and moved on down back onto the street and kept going. I laughed at the incongruity of a City Bus driver being that poor a driver, to go up onto a sidewalk and down again into the street. Then I walked to the Congress Hotel and checked for mail. Then I walked a half-block from the Congress and paused at another tiny side-street. When the light was green I stepped down into the street. Suddenly a big black Lincoln Continental, with two men in front and one man in back, gunned its motor and did a speed-acceleration hard-left around the corner and I leaped back for my life, again. (That made twice in a half-hour's time.) The Continental almost got a colored man just behind me, too, and he yelled, "You sons of bitches...you could of killed us!" He and I cussed the Continental driver quite thoroughly as we walked down the sidewalk. Take the two things...City Bus comes onto sidewalk, pointed at me...and two near-misses within a half-hour...and you have a peculiar series of events, which makes you think. Just before leaving work (before the City Bus) I had typed a message to the U.S. Government that I intend to take my PK findings and research to another nation, another government...which will accept me and work with me in cooperation. Copy enclosed. Another thing. We are not getting our mail at all. It's all screwed up. When I told you an "iron curtain" had been dropped around me, I wasn't kidding, kids. Whatever and whoever it is. Just a note to let you know some of the action. Funny I haven't heard from you re my success with the Gemini shot and Seallab cooperative. I got my hurricane that I've been working for, but there was nothing in the papers until the thing got way up almost to Canada. Pretty slippy. Have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, not units. Write, you laggards. Love and kisses, === Page 25 of 246 Monday August 23, 1965 Dear President Johnson: The UFO's (see previous letters) have asked me to pass on this intelligence to you: They caused the power-failure of Gemini-5, of course. Then they could have brought the craft down...and whether the astronauts would have survived is most debatable. Instead, they did something you, personally, could best understand. Politics. Live and let live. You help them, they help you. They turned the power back on. Check with your experts, they tell me to tell you...there is no way that the power could have been restored, as things stood Sunday...unless they, the UFO's had intervened. They have no wish to kill astronauts...to wreck our vehicles...to make us lose face in the world. Their only wish has been expressed to you before, by me, in a long letter. They urge you to consider this, and to contact me here in Philadelphia, as their representative...therefore in a friendly manner...before this coming Sunday...or better still...before this coming Saturday. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man - 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. WA 5-3909 (Mon.-Fri., 9-4:15) === Page 26 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 27 of 246 Tuesday August 24, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is a general letter to the U.S. Government. Since I have received no affidavits from anyone to the effect that I have called any ESP shots in advance; since I have received no communications from any branch of the Government (and I have been soliciting them for a year now); since it is evident that my own Government does not believe that I have the ability to do the things which I have been endeavoring (and have, in fact, been proving) to do - and I think that I have been fantastically successful.......... then it is obvious that the U.S. Government will not lift a finger to utilize my strange powers, or aid myself and my family. My family and I have undergone many hardships this past year, in an effort to prove to this Government that my "PK" system can attack ships, subs, missile silos, control weather, attack rocket-shots, attack planes, and harass military operations. And affect people, too. Oddly, my own bookkeeping shows tremendous success...beyond any Government's wildest dreams...were they to recognize and utilize this strange power for their own. But the U.S. Government is peculiar in that it does not seem to care about strange powers. Therefore, if the U.S. Government does not believe me, and does not care to hire me, or utilize my powers...then the U.S. Government will not mind at all if I take my ESP gifts to some other nation or country. I do not care to submit my family and myself to another year of hardship, for nothing. And with my gifts, I should not have to. Furthermore, I yearn to join a group of scientists who can recognize my gifts and form a structure or framework that I can work within. I.e., when one is a creative artist, or musician...one does not wish to dig coal in mines. And if one is a master of a branch of ESP, no matter what the causal factor...he wants to work actively in that field, no other. My present job ends this week, or next week at the latest. Then I am free to spend weeks looking for another...unless I can find a country interested in my ESP gifts. This being the case, perhaps I can offer my family more security and happiness as well as myself. And that is just what I am going to try to do. I give up on the U.S. Government's responding to my year-long appeal to respond. Respectfully, Ted Owens P K Man - "The Rain Maker" 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. WA 5-3909 === Page 28 of 246 Thursday, August 19, 1965 Editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin Newspaper 30th and Market Phila., Pa. Dear Sir: Enclosed find a letter from my son, addressed to you and the Bulletin. He didn't know what the name of the people were, or the correct name of the paper. Since I brought practically all of the last six weeks of rain into Philadelphia...and the only thanks I got was from a 16 year-old boy, in a letter to Station WCAU...I thought it only fitting that you see my son's letter, and perhaps publish it in your letters column as an answer to my detractors' letters of attack, which my son refers to. My boy knows what he is talking about...for he has seen daddy perform some incredible feats in the weather-control line. I am proud of him for defending me, at any rate. That's my boy. Sincerely, Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker", 1114 Spruce, Phila., Pa. === Page 29 of 246 (Letter from Rick Owens, 14-year old son of P K Man, "The Rain Maker" (Ted Owens) as sent to The Bulletin from Inglewood, California.) "Dear People of the Bulletin: "A few days ago you had some write-ups on the "Rain Maker." Claiming he was a "phony." I am his son, Rick Owens, and I know that out of all his work with rainmaking, he has missed only once, and he has worked a thousand times and produced record storms for that particular city, and for proof he'll be very glad to show you his "newspaper clippings" about it, which gives definite proof. I wish you would print just this small paragraph on what I'm going to say. "Truth About Rain Maker!" A new era, whether people like it or not, has been discovered. You can shut this fear out, if you like, but someday somebody will have to discover it. H. T. Owens, the Rain Maker, is a genius, and he could have become a scientist. Right now he is trying to help bring out this new discovery that is far advanced than just Indian Rainmaking. In a recent clipping a man who was called Barry Rosenburg called him a phony, but this Rosenburg hasn't seen all of the things, thousands of things, he has done in a lot of years, and so had no right to jump to his own ignorant conclusions. Dr. Rhine will state Owens powerI - Owens's ESP. H. T. Owens personally worked under Rhine. I admit $10,000 is a lot to ask, and disagree that he should ask this much, but think what we could do with a man with his powers. Just think before you lynch him up. Rick Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage, #3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 30 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 31 of 246 Friday August 20, 1965 President Johnson. Dear Mr. President: There is a method by which genuine safety can be obtained from having a nuclear war. That is, a nuclear war will not happen...because a method can be applied so that it will not. Five nations will be fully and completely armed with nuclear weapons: AMERICA (Already are) RUSSIA (Already are) AUSTRALIA (U.S. to furnish) INDIA (U.S. to furnish) WEST GERMANY (U.S. to furnish) (Reason for U.S. to furnish nuclear missiles and ways to shoot them...because we couldn't trust Russia to correctly arm another country for this plan.) Rules: (a) No other nation or country will be allowed to have any nuclear weapons, and if they try they will immediately be attacked by the Big Five. (b) Should one of the Big Five use nuclear weapons on another of the Big Five... then the remaining three Nations of the Big Five will destroy the outlaw aggressor Nation entirely. This plan was given to me by intelligence from UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens, P K Man, 1114 Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 32 of 246 Thursday, August 19, 1965 Mr. George Eastwood, Inventions NASA Dear George: The Gemini weather trouble...complete with lightning...guess who? You might warn, George, Nasa that this is no time to be sending up a Gemini crew. Consider the number of quick catastrophes the U.S. has had lately: Missile silo explosion. Los Angeles race riots. Bomber that flew the wrong way in Viet Nam and bombed our new Military Headquarters, in an allied village. Loss of face in the world from backing down from the Russians "no pay" in the U.N. (A geo-political tragedy.) ..........all within the past few weeks. Any gambler will tell you, quit gambling when you hit a bad streak, or losing streak, or things are going against you. That is not the time to pull out a new bankroll in the game. And that is what Nasa is doing right now. If anything goes wrong with this Gemini shoot, it will just add to the recent string of catastrophes. My advice, and 10¢, will buy a cup of coffee, George. But there it is, for what it is worth. Ted Owens - P K Man - The Rain Maker 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday morning at 9 AM, Dave, a psychologist where I work, asked, "Well, ESP man, what's your prediction about the Gemini shot at noon today?" (Friday) I told him, "I'll bet you $10 to $1, ten to one odds, that the Gemini shot will fail." -- Come noon, and lightning (mine) did the shot in. They tried again today, idiots! Read my letter I sent them on Thursday, above. UFO's told me what to say. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 33 of 246 Friday Dear Lornie Thank you, honey, for the three cigars...but do not run yourself short of spending money, just for cigars for daddy, hear? Although I surely do appreciate the thought...and the smokes. Our letters are hanging up...I don't get yours for maybe a week after you send it...and I know for sure that you aren't getting mine correctly, on time. Something is funny, somewhere...and I don't mean with the Shannons. Mebbe the govt. Beau is all right, just cut the corner of his eye. He is awfully sweet, and plays with me constantly. In fact, I can't hardly get him off my lap. He invents games...and teaches me how to play his games with him. The kid is a little wizard. And tough...good lord...if you think he was rugged when you knew him, you should know him now. Martha is afraid to try to put his pajamas on, or take him away from TV...cause he beats up on her. He charges her, and bites, hits, etc. Puts up a damn good scrap. Lots of spunk. Am writing this at work, without benefit of your letter at hand, so will try to remember the points you made. Your letter is at home, and ordinarily I answer it directly. Am doing any old odd job, looking for a way out of my present predicament...which is, stuck in old Philadelphia where few of my talents count for anything. Am sending my novels to N.Y. and trying to make a deal with a local businessman to start my own business, etc. Then...6 months, a year...of saving...and we'll buy a used car and go to some quiet, countryish place...and I will begin my System-teaching, and we will rent a house, or buy one. Rent one, I guess, on sober thought. Am glad your school is beginning, and you do sound like you are having fun. If any earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, etc., occur, you'll know that Daddy is playing his little games. I am winding up now to swat the West Coast with a big jar of PK; also to make and steer more 'canes into Florida. Debbie was doing all right; she turned right, like I told her to - then stalled just off the Florida coast, and by the time she went into Florida she'd quieted down into a mere 60-70 mile an hour tropical storm, instead of a hurricane. Anyway, I hit Florida with her. Even if I didn't get a hit on Electro directly and in full force. incidentally...last year I wrote Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau at Miami...remember? And asked him to name Hurricanes after you and Martha this year. Well, he did...but as usual, your name got misspelled, and it is "Laurie" on the official Hurricane Charts. "Martha" is there, too. So - you have a hurricane named after you. I am working hard to make that many hurricanes for that area. I have gotten 28 typhoons so far in the Pacific. They ran clear through the alphabet, and are starting over with Typhoon Bess working now. Love and kisses, Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 34 of 246 2/14/66 Dear Lonnie - Thank you for your letter, your very sweet birthday card, and the $1.00. We did just as you suggested, and had a party on your $1.00. Thanks, honey. Enclosed is a ring I have made for you. The initials are poorly made, but so are ones carved on a tree. It's a Love Ring for you & Julio (HOO-LEE-O). In case you change boy friends, send it back & I'll put new initials on it! Major Keyhoe was on TV today (a surprise) telling how the A.F. had fired on UFO's, had lots of pictures of them, and had orders from Wash. to cover up all UFO sightings - hide them from the public. He sneered at sightings by farmers, etc., and stressed again & again that only sightings by Majors, Captains, Colonels, scientists - etc. counted. Anybody else was not a "responsible" source and was only after publicity. Ha ha! He's distorted & twisted that way, but at least, he says the AF & US Govt. knows the UFO's are real. He added that the Govt. now is considering changing its policy & telling the US people all about how real the UFO's are. Now, I have two proofs at hand (which I'll send you this week), that the Govt. knows for sure PK Man and his UFO's are quite real - and fear my UFO's. Be sure & read my letters to you, to Rick, and vice versa. Be sure. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 35 of 246 7 Don't worry about C's. You're bright, and you'll get along fine. If you're lucky you'll never need brains (school type). You'll "first" be a sweet feminine girl, who can cook & sew, and make a cute nest for your man & your children. Now to answer your questions. I do not wish to put UFO information in letters - that is, some of it I wish to keep secret. UFO intelligences (Si's) have been in our bedroom. Martha saw them first (like you did, that UFO in Texas that night) then I saw them. No talk at all. We just watched them, with our eyes bugging out. Not one time, but three different times. Baby tried to talk to them, jabbering away & pointing. And the sound they have - never heard anything like it. The Si's do not relay information to me in "talk" or voices, either inside or outside my head. Another way. Explain it to you sometime. Watch Spanish men, Lonnie. Treachery and double-crossing are second nature to them. But they can be charming. I know them well, honey. Listen - in early 1950's I had a Julio Rodriguez at the private military school, Calif. Military Academy - he was one of my pupils. Also his dad was an officer in Nicaragua, I think. Ask him about this. Also, he'd remember Captain Owens. Congratulations on dropping the sorority. Yes, you can tell Pat anything. You're lucky that way. She's a good pal for you. Honey, send important mail to me Special Delivery! Here, people open our mail & steal anything out of envelopes. Love & kisses, Dad. === Page 36 of 246 Congress Hotel THE Bellevue Stratford 12th Broad and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 CABLE ADDRESS BELLSTRAT TELETYPE 215 569-9703 PENNYPACKER 5-0700 AREA CODE 215 Dear Lorie -- Hope you two are having fun by now. Open any mail I might get, forwarded, & send me anything important. Right now am trying to get $200 - 300 to buy a car & go up to New Jersey and sell my services as The Rainmaker to various towns & counties having a terrible drought. They are out of water and need... rainstorms. Ha! I figured I could get $5000 per town, or county, fee paid after their rain comes. However, since the area would probably become a disaster area, they might not pay me. The rain PK I worked so hard last November to sock the U.S. with -- is slow in going away, to let heat & drought take its place. But I've set up heat & fire (red) PK, not only over the U.S., but the world, for this coming summer (July -- on.) So you should read about drought all over the place. Nature will use this to make the Govt. more reasonable. Remember I wrote Clark, CIA, & told him all phenomena of Moses' day would now occur to U.S. Govt.? Well, first case of cholera since 1911 just struck -- in Wash. D.C. And since I "hit" Viet Nam with PK -- planes are colliding, Marines are shooting each other by accident -- it's really something. Some day they'll learn. Write. Dad Congress Hotel Rm. 600 12th & Walnut Phila., Pa. AIR CONDITIONED GUEST ROOMS, RESTAURANTS AND FUNCTION ROOMS === Page 37 of 246 Thursday Oct. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie - Thanks very much, honey, for the Bering. The Optimos tear up in the mail, but the Berings don't because of the metal tube...you can send Berings anytime, ha ha. Anyway, 1 Bering is better than 2 Optimos. I smoked your cigar after supper last night, while we watched TV. Beau is so cute and darling...he snuggles up in my lap every night, for hours, watching TV with us. We have a dandy TV set...and can get all the channels, including UHF. Your girl friend sounds cute, and am glad that you have some female companionship and friendship. These "queens and princesses" though... ugh. Their values tend to become warped and shallow. Always remember, "All is not gold that glitters." Every time I see a pretty girl I remember that, and wonder if the girl can also cook good; sew good; has a good heart inside the pretty outside; is loyal and honest with her loved ones; and can she fulfill the main female function, that of giving real love and affection. Few can...but some can. It is my hope that you'll fill the bill re the above, and make some man a happy and successful man, some of these days, after you marry him. Because a man's mate can make him happy and successful in the world...or miserable and a bum. I worked here for a Bureau that rehabilitates alcoholics...and had complete access to their files, and studied the cases rather thoroughly. What I tell you was borne out in the histories of most of these men. Am proud of you for making A's in school. That reflects both brains and hard work. Good for you. A's are never just given; they are earned, the hard way. Am doing a great amount of work at this time with PK. Yes, of course I am in contact with the Si's, honey. I have a 2-way communication with them...and can reach them in seconds. Almost instantly. And they, me. This is nothing "hallucinatory" - but is done through controlled visual imagery. Everyone here has colds...regular epidemic going around. You have heat and poisonous smog there, eh? Keep yourself braced for a possible earthquake, 6 or above on the Richter Scale. That's a tough one. You and Rick have your Angel...and PK protection...therefore even if the houses all came down in LA, you'd be protected. Next week I am sending you a present...you've been so sweet about sending cigars. Am sending you a set of colored pics, the ones taken in Washington, of the bunch. Be on the watch for them. Must go now. Be good, and mind Pat. She knows a lot, even more than you do. Love and kisses.......... Dad 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 38 of 246 (Copy of telegram sent to Mr. George Clark, CIA, 9:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 1965: "A RARE WARNING. SI'S IN FURY. SEE COPY LETTER NASA BEFORE GEMINI SIX SHOT. KEEP IN MIND VANISHING AGENA ROCKET. UNLESS GOVERNMENT COMPLIES WITH SI'S WISHES THEY WILL UNLEASH TERRIBLE U.S. CATASTROPHE WITHIN TEN DAYS. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE IN MIND, BUT LET THE GOVERNMENT BE WARNED. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 39 of 246 We missed you this Xmas; Dick. We were thinking about you both on Xmas day. Beau liked the birthday card & he thought it was real cute. The picture is very good of you. Thanks so much for it. === Page 40 of 246 January 10, 1966 Dear Lainie, Your letter came today, and we were real happy to hear from you. We had a real nice Christmas. Thank you very much for all the nice presents. The boxes came a few days before Christmas and the birthday box came the same day as the xmas box. You and Rick made our xmas very happy by sending all of the nice gifts. The hair spray holder is very pretty. I put my hair spray in it and it fits O.K. It must have taken you and Rick a lot of time and work to wrap each present. It was real sweet of you both to send us the box. The candy was awfully good too. Beau got a rocking horse. I strung some popcorn and put it on the tree and Beau ate it off of the tree, it was the cracker jay kind of popcorn, anyway I had to take it off because it didn't look very pretty after he chewed some of it off the string. I had an awful time trying to keep him __________ === Page 41 of 246 from opening the presents before Xmas.) I could put them under the tree + he couldn't keep his hands off of them. He would take them from out under the tree + try to open them. Guess what! Vivian said that she was going to get married during the Xmas holidays. His name is Ronnie Massey + he goes to A + M college. She said she is 20 years old + they already have their house + that he had gotten the rings. I can't hardly believe that my baby sister is growing up so fast. I haven't heard from her so I guess everything went all right. Maggie + the family spent Xmas in Texas. They had a two week vacation so they went home during the Xmas holidays. Jerry is taking piano lessons + is doing very well. Are you still writing to Jo Jo? He sent us a Christmas card. We didn't go out New Year's just stayed home + celebrated. Thanks for a lot for all the nice gifts. I will close for now + love you. Write soon. Love Always, Mama + Beau (over) === Page 42 of 246 Tues. Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you, honey, for giving Martha, Beau and I such a wonderful Xmas. Your and Rick's gifts, of course, were our Christmas. Want a laugh? I started smoking your fine cigars Christmas morning, and ran out the next day at noon. 14 Berings. Ha ha. Boy, they were good. All of your gifts, wrapped and all, must have been quite a tremendous job to fix up, you and Rick...and needless to say, our little group appreciate that fact. Beau reads his little books at night...has worn his new pajamas now since Xmas...plays with the picture-puzzles and the chalk-slate...he's having a ball. And Martha, was she tickled with her presents! You know Martha. Her feelings are right out in the open where you can see them...and she was laughing and whooping and opening everything in sight. The only thing we missed, was you and Rick. Martha sadly remarked: "Do you know, honey, this is the first Xmas in years we haven't had Lornie or Rick with us?" Well, it was a wonderful Xmas. Have had several vivid, life-like dreams about Pat. Odd. Girl in the apartment next to us came screaming to our door Friday night...prowler grabbed her when she went into her apartment, she escaped, screaming, to our place. I went after him with a handful of knives, but he got away before I could get my pants on (I was in shorts.) Then last night a pane of glass fell on her hand, and cut it...and the boy she lives with was in an auto wreck Sunday, broke two ribs. My boss's wife was in an auto wreck Thursday. Sound familiar? The girl's name is Trina. === Page 43 of 246 December 22, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Just a note to wish you a Merry Christmas, and send you my love. Your amazing box came yesterday...and the packages are under our little tree. I am immensely grateful to you for giving Martha and Beau (and myself) some sort of Christmas, for we are in the same boat we were in when you were with us. You know. That is why we will send you a small gift for Christmas. But the size of our gift is no indication of what good pals we are. Little Beau, when your packages were rolled out by the dozen, got so excited...he jumped up and down and said one of his few words, "Want." When we put the packages up, he had a fit, and tried to wreck the place, as usual. I waited ten minutes until the uproar died down, then went about setting chairs and tables upright. Saturday you will know that your immense thoughtfulness and labor in preparing packages (and expense) will give a lot of fun and pleasure to your still-broke pals in Philadelphia. Bless your hearts. Love, Dad. P.S. I am building a PK capsule for little Jimmy -- and assigning an incorporeal agent to guard him -- as you have. Will send name later of agent. (It is Moinga -- (moy-nyah.) Am doing this because in our box we found an expression of friendship from Jimmy to Beau. === Page 44 of 246 Wed. Sept 22, 1965 Dear Larrie -- Thank you for the two good cigars! Smoked them tonight after one of Martha's fried chicken suppers. Beau just fell and split his head open -- an inch from his right eye. Lord! We're calming him down. Martha is reading to him. He came in to have me kiss it & make it well. Little as he is, when he gets hurt -- he believes my kiss will make it well. And it does. (Along with my secret system.) Received a letter back today I had sent you kids to 505 S. Daryl. Somebody had returned it... not to me but to an office I had worked. And they thoughtfully got it to me. I returned it to you. Wonder how many other letters I've sent -- have been blocked? You wouldn't know. Bet you had a happy birthday. Your school clothes look like fun. French -- ugh! Sewing is dandy, if you learn anything from it. And you're good at it. I pity your driver-instructor. Ha! If he knew what I know he'd sit behind the car. (Still, there is reverse gear -- even that wouldn't be safe! He ha) Yes -- I met the people. They gave us vegetables. But they, too, are chuck-a-block. Am still yearning to meet somebody interesting. Wrong -- power of any kind never gets extinct honey. If people were afraid of electricity, it would still be around. You dig? Love and kisses -- Dad. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 45 of 246 Friday November 19, 1965 Dear Lorrie, thank you very much for the swell cigar. Enjoyed it very much. Also, thanks for the picture you sent. I have it in my wallet, and show it to my friends proudly. You asked about hurricanes this year. I covered this in a letter to you a month or so ago...as you know, my Hurricane Hunter Groups cause hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc. These Groups are powerful "weather-upsetters" well....a typhoon is a hurricane, and this year in the Pacific they ran clear through the alphabet, and had to start all over on another round of alphabetic names. In the Atlantic, just a few hurricanes...but of course, Betsy was worth ten hurricanes all in one. Nothing quite like Betsy. As for the PK harassing NASA...guess you just read about Kris Kraft, the Head of NASA, having a pistol pointed at his head and the trigger pulled...but the bullet misfired. There were 13 top key NASA men on the plane with him at the time, and the plane could easily have been destroyed by the 9 pistol shots that went into the floor. Also, practically every shot that has gone up lately at the Cape, has flubbed. The last big one...the Agena...simply vanished. Disappeared. They are still scratching their heads over that one. That Agena was the one that the Astronauts were going to go up and chase, and try to catch up with. Of course the East Coast power-failure was caused by the Si's. But they had to make up some reason for it...Johnson ordered an explanation within 24 hours. Ha ha! "So they gave him one. But they still haven't really figured it out at all. Supposedly a relay broke down...but there is a paradox in it, in that the relay worked and automatically shut down later. They can't understand that. Also, they don't understand the wide area...the magnitude of it, covered by the power breakdown. Then I would point out that lately there have been a rash of power breakdowns. They just had one in England, for instance. Am glad you are having fun at school. MX I sure do miss you and Rick, and so does Martha. Baby Beau used to having spells of crying...and we wondered why...until we realized it was always after we talked about you in front of him, or showed your and Ricks' pictures. But we are rich in memories...I can still see Beau dancing wildly with you and Rick in the Mangel's living room. And that trip across the U.S. was one of the best things of my life, where I got to know you kids really, and we shared down to rock-bottom. Listen...if you ever get a check sent to me...send it to me by registered letter, because people steal mail out of boxes here. Love & kisses, 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 46 of 246 Wednesday, September 15, 1965 Miss Katherine Raley Secretary Drew Pearson 1313 29th St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007 Dear Miss Raley: You ask for a brief outline of the story that I have for Mr. Pearson. That "brief" makes it difficult, because of the nature of the story (which the U.S. Government is hushing up..........has clamped the lid on.) Never has Mr. Pearson ever had a story of this size or importance..........and I will grant you that he's had some important ones. To indicate its importance - Betsy need not have devastated Miami or New Orleans. Gemini-5 did not have to have its many difficulties. The Flying Laboratory sent up recently from Cape Kennedy (OSO) did not have to accidentally explode at its third stage, August 25, 1965. And so on. Am enclosing valued file copies. Please return them. They are a scattered few pieces of my bulging files at home. But you wanted a brief outline, and for my story..........this much material, at least, is brief. Let's start in Philadelphia, to explain who I am, what I do. "A" (see enclosed) explains that I am called "The Rain Maker." I have delivered the only rain in Philadelphia since July (except for one small drizzle.) I wrote the local papers before the storms occurred (one to two weeks before) telling them. Jack McKinny, "Night Talk", WCAU Radio here..........asked me to appear for an hour on August 4 on his radio show. So I made a storm that night, which began when I walked into the radio station at 10 PM and ended when I came out at 2 AM. After my hour, then a U.S. Senator was to follow, then Jack Carter, the famous comedian. McKinny called them and cancelled them - and kept me on the program for four hours, non-stop. The following Friday Ed Harve, "Talk of Philadelphia" radio show, asked me to be on his program the following Monday - and make it rain that day to coincide with my appearance. I told him that I would do my best. The storm which hit Philadelphia that day that I was on his program flooded Philadelphia. Lightning bolts struck scores of homes; hit a power station, and a police radio towers. And so on. I am trying to lead into this gradually, because I have discovered how to do something which no other human has ever done. Mr. George Clark, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington 25, D. C., has an almost-complete file of all my work. Mr. Eastwood, Inventions Department, NASA, Washington, D. C., has much the same. Mrs. Louisa Rhine, P.O. Box 46, Rt. 3, Hillsboro, North Carolina, has an almost-complete file also. She is the famous author-scientist wife of Dr. J. B. Rhine, famed parapsychologist (ESP) at Duke. I spent hours in Washington with "George Clark", and with Eastwood at NASA; also with a Mr. Dunn at CIA. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 47 of 246 2 They had plenty of proof of my incredible work! For instance, see "B". To check this, Jack McKinny, on a six-state radio hook-up, called Mrs. Mangels, who verified the authenticity of it...as well as others. "C" - a prediction sent to Clark, CIA, four days before it developed. Note on the newspaper clip the term "symbolic" just as I described it. Better add here that as far as NASA, CIA, Space Center Cape Kennedy, etc., are concerned - I am known as "PK Man." PK stands for psychokinesis, a parapsychological term. "D" is a prediction made re President Johnson, which came true. Self-explanatory. Made to Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of Edgar Cayce, at A.R.E. at Virginia Beach. My family was travelling through, and we stayed there one day. Enough. Have many more of these in my files. Now, what is so important? See letter attached to "E" - MEMO TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. (This was sent to the State Department, the President, Space Center, etc., in August of 1964. But I had warned the Cape, in early July letters. In other words, I started working with my amazing system...against the forces of the U. S. Government, as an experiment...in early July, 1964. In U. S. News and World Report, Sept. 21, 1964: "Before the hurricane blows fell on Florida in August and September, the State had had only one destructive hurricane in the past 13 years. The northeastern Florida area was hit for the first time this century. After a full of years, why had successive hurricanes suddenly battered the coast?" Why, indeed, Miss Raley. As a matter of fact - why have four hurricanes hit the area of Daytona Beach to Miami, since just last July? Why did two hurricanes hit the New Orleans area...43 miles from NASA's huge Saturn Missile Complex? (I'll answer that in the paragraph following this one.) In today's paper, Phila. Inquirer, article by John O'Brien: "U.S. Spends Millions For Disaster Relief"..."Hurricane Betsy...is the latest in the worst spate of natural disasters on record." (Wrong - they were controlled disasters.) "During the fiscal year from July 1, 1964 (when I began my PK work) to July 1, 1965, President Johnson granted requests from 24 Governors for 29 major disaster declarations...and authorized disaster declarations totalling $85,986,100." "Prior to Hurricane Betsy (billion in damages) since July 1 of this year, the President had to make six major disaster declarations, which entailed disaster allocations totalling $44,661,000. Etc." The rest of the article dealt with results from my "PK" work. Now, please re-read "E", second page of Aug. 25 letter attached. Now I'm getting to the point, Miss Raley - unless you've gone to sleep reading all this. "F" of Aug. 30, 1964, to Space Agency, State Department, etc., is self-explanatory. "G" of Sept. 3, 1964, same. "H" of Oct. 4, 1964. I have successfully guided Hurricane Hilda and Hurricane Betsy to the Michoud Saturn Missile Complex. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 48 of 246 3 "I" of Aug. 31, July 7, and Sept. 11, 1965. .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... There is the general idea. But here is the shocker. Mr. Dunn, of CIA, asked me what the causal factor was in my strange system, or ability. I thought then (months ago) that I had managed somehow to communicate with the intelligence behind Nature. However, on July 8 I found out definitely what the "causal factor" was. See "J". By August 4 they, the UFO's (I call them Si's...for saucer intelligences...) had given me a message, which Jack McKinney read on that four-hour radio show, over the air. See "K". .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Now, my two teen-agers (16 and 15) have watched me hit missiles with PK, and bring them down. They have watched me make, and guide, hurricanes. Etc. They are: Lorrie and Rick Owens, c/o Shannon, 505 S. Osage St., #3, Inglewood, California. Feel free to check with them in any way, if you wish. I have offered to CIA and the President to have their men watch me guide hurricanes - tape the process and take pictures, if they like (I work on maps.) I have offered to President Johnson to break the drought on the entire northeastern coast (I can do this.) But no reply from him. Easier, I guess, just to spend a hundred million or so of the taxpayers money to try to figure it out. I will make the same offer to Mr. Pearson. If he can put us up (My wife, baby and I) on his farm for the time it will take; then I will break the entire drought on this eastern coast...give New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., as much precipitation as they need to get well....to fill all their rivers, streams, reservoirs, etc. I will do this by making rainstorm after rainstorm...abnormal amounts of rainfall. Also I will guide hurricanes up to New York so that the entire area will benefit from the billions of gallons of water from the hurricanes. Since I have been a court-reporter and an office-manager, it is possible that I could do some typing work at the farm, while I am working on the rainfall and hurricanes. But the rain-making is a seven-day-a-week job. "L" has, on the second page, the main reason Mr. Pearson should try to get this story out from behind the lid the Government has clamped on it. He could thereby save many lives. "M" is yesterday's letter to my children, in California. And the clipped group of documents are in case you are interested enough to read further. There it is, Miss Riley...all true, so help me God. Fantastic though it sounds. The biggest news story certainly of the century...if not further back than that. Think of it...at last man can finally control hurricanes, rain, snow, sunshine, etc. And the system also has other uses. Since the rain which fell on Mr. Pearson's farm in Maryland came from Betsy - then he does indeed owe me a debt of gratitude...for Betsy was "made" by myself. And there will be others. Sincerely, Ted Owens (P K Man, "Rain Maker") 1114 Spruce, #33, c/o Colonial Hotel, Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 49 of 246 Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965 Dear Lornie... Thank you very much, honey, for the cigars. I smoked them last evening, and enjoyed them. What box from Washington...? You thought I sent it...but I am not in Washington, honey. Yes, I had great success with Betsy...am that much better this year than last...also now am working in conscious collaboration with the Si's. I can see them, write down what I want, they change it into their writing, then into sound...and poof...it happens. But there is so much happening now, with the Si's, that you don't know about...and I can't put into letters.......... They told me just today not to worry about money, house, car, etc., that they are "growing a new brain" in me....containing much wisdom and understanding, like the Bible says...and that my new brain will be worth more than "diamonds, rubies and pearls"...and that what will naturally follow...will be wealth, if I want it. Sounds cockeyed, eh? But all of the facts remain...like a lightning bolt hitting the Moon Rocket Pad...like me guiding Betsy left, right, backwards, then right again...her following, following my directions. The facts remain...thus I know they know what they are talking about! Am glad to hear that your school plans are lining up satisfactorily. Have a lot of fun, and be the good student you were in Washington. You are a good student...and since you have a dear little brother..work with him, gently...leading him, not pushing him...into being a good student, also. Tell him to auto-hyp and tell himself that he can be an A student in anything he wants to be...that he will automatically study hard on that subject. You know what to tell him; you've watched me work with people enough. Seattle might send you a check, one of these days, to send to me. Since I move around, I had to have a permanent address to give them. It will be a substantial check, and of course I need it. As for bills...we haven't any here; as for Washington, nothing. Forget it. I fail to see how it could worry Pat. We only owed a couple of teeny weeny bills in Wash., and they can't do anything out there in California. But at any rate...I certainly am not giving that address to any bill collectors. That irked me. It smacked exactly as of the same tone Jim had when he told me those people didn't want to see us up in San Francisco. You handle any mail that might trickle through to me, honey. Love, 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 50 of 246 Friday, Oct. 15, 1965 Dear Lornie: Thank you for the cigars, hon. I'll smoke them tonight, while watching TV, and think of you. I am doing plenty of things with PK, sweetheart...but mostly I don't care to put it into letters going to L.A. You understand. Some things, okay. But a great deal of it I have throttled down, because of no reaction from Washington. That is, I do a lot now, but am not writing on it. For instance...you either have in your files, or you've seen in mine...numerous letters of warning with regard to President Johnson, these past months. So wham...he lands flat on his back and his GB is cut out, and his kidneys worked on. A major operation, putting him out of commission for a couple of months. But...it's a warning from the Si's, pure and simple. They have him zeroed in...I warned him and the government of it a month ago... so it's up to them if they want to keep ignoring me and the Si's. And if you had been reading the papers you'd have seen aircraft carriers colliding; destroyers colliding; nuclear subs colliding; and planes colliding. Remember my Plane-Sub-Ship PK, started over a year ago...and growing? You'd better believe it! As for my Hurricane-Hunter Groups...they ran clear out of the alphabet in the Pacific...and have re-started on another round of the alphabet...Typhoon C or D was the last one I heard of, on the second round. The HH Groups, you know, cause hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, tornadoes, and floods. They cause, in other words, violent aberrations of the weather and of the earth itself. (Typhoons are hurricanes, but in the Pacific, not the Atlantic, and the HH Groups strike anywhere and everywhere.) As I pointed out in one of my letters to you...they have named a hurricane after you this year, as per my request last year (Laurie, not Lornie, but they never get the name right) and one for Martha, too, as I requested. That Mr. Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau in Miami, is nice, and evidently has a sense of humor. I am going to issue more HH Groups today, in an effort to produce enough 'canes out of Florida to get you and Martha down on the map in 'cane form. You have a lot of school work, eh? Well, that maykeep you out of mischief, ha ha. But I doubt it. Keep me clued in on Rick's "extracurricular" activity. I worry about him. He needs a strong loving hand to guide him, and there he just ain't got it. Love, maybe, but not the judo-type control I can furnish. He'll be a great boy, a winner, if he gets enough special attention with love attached to it. He's so bright he'll run circles around the Shannons and the Bentleys...and get away with murder. You know it. Lots of love, kisses, and hugs Daddy 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 51 of 246 Copy Rick Lornie Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: President Johnson is not having this operation by accident. If you will glance at my previous correspondence, it spells out the details. I told you that the UFO's had him zero'd in. And they have. And they will continue to have. I have done very poorly these past months; got the newspaper write-up (and so the stock market improved). But nothing has come of it...nobody hired me to break the drought...therefore the stock market is in for a hard time ahead, am afraid. You will see. Sept. 29 two submarines collided off "Electra" (California coast) Oct. 1 two destroyers collided off "Electro" (Florida coast) Oct. 2 two planes collided in Viet Nam. These seemingly separate accidents were not accidents, George...and they were strung like beads on a string...to point out the fact. The UFO's are getting very angry. Ted Owens (PK Man) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 52 of 246 "A" July 7, 1965 Dept. of Inventions, NASA Wash, D.C. Copy Dear Mr. Eastwood: Just a note to tell you that have begun my PK work now, as I did last July on....to start hurricanes south of Florida and then guide them to Florida, and across Cape Kennedy. (1) HURRICANE BETSY 9/'65 - SEPT. 8, "BETSY" HIT ON "ELECTRO" (DAYTONA BEACH TO MIAMI) In other words, the Cape will be target area again. And I learned much last year ... so that this year should be much more successful. Included with the hurricanes will be lightning strikes, freak accidents, sudden storms of less than hurricane intensity, etc. In the event that a hurricane gets away from me, due to an oversight, which happened once last year...then I'll do the same thing I did last year... try to guide it over to the Michoud space complex in Louisiana, near New Orleans. (3) I also may do some work on Houston, Texas. It is my hope that some day someone wise will believe in my rare PK ability, and allow me to proceed with the work that I am now blocked from doing, by the U.S. Government. Respectfully, P K Man (c/o Owens) Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lightning Kills Worker At Saturn Launch Pad Cape Kennedy, Aug. 4 (UPI)--Lightning hit a crane used on a Saturn 5 moon rocket launch pad yesterday, killing one man and injuring five others. The dead man was identified as A. Trieb, 33, of Mitchell, S. D., one construction worker was hospitalized and four others were treated and released at a base medical center. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, overseer of the construction under way here, said the men were pouring concrete on the 40-foot level of the launch complex when lightning traveled down the crane's cables to the wet concrete. Workers standing near the concrete were burned and knocked down by the flash. Rockets Escape Damage in Storm NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11 (AP)--The huge Michoud plant which builds Saturn booster rockets came through Hurricane Betsy with superficial damage, it was reported Saturday. A spokesman said damage was confined to broken glass and peeled roofs, with no apparent injury to space vehicles under construction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility was shut down Thursday afternoon as the storm approached. LIGHTNING STRIKE!! AUG. 19, 1965 Fire Damage Assessed New Delay Looms In Gemini Launch CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)--Technicians worked today to eliminate a series of problems that delayed for at least two days America's attempts to rewrite Soviet space records (4) OVER -> The magnificent beauty of Barr's pure white diamonds === Page 53 of 246 SAT. SEPT. 11, 1965 "A" THIS SINGLE LETTER, TO MR. EASTWOOD OF NASA IN WASH., D.C. (PLUS REGULAR COPIES ELSEWHERE) IS SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF THE DEVASTATING ACCURACY OF MY REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY IN THE FIELD OF WEATHER CONTROL. PER THIS LETTER: (1) HURRICANE BETSY WAS GUIDED TO FLORIDA, (2 MONTHS LATER) (2) LIGHTNING HIT MOON ROCKET PAD, CAPE KENNEDY (APPROX. 1 MONTH LATER) LIGHTNING HIT GEMINI 5 CONTROLS, CAPE KENNEDY - STOPPING THE SHOT (APPROX. 6 WEEKS LATER) (3) I GUIDED "BETSY" TO THE MICHOUD SATURN SPACE COMPLEX (NASA), OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS (APPROX. 2 MONTHS LATER) ADDED LTR. "B" * (4) STOPPED BETSY FROM BRINGING BILLIONS GALLONS WATER N.E. THIS IS JUST ONE LETTER FROM MY FILE WHICH BULGES WITH LIKE PROOF OF OTHER SUCCESSFUL WORK IN THIS FIELD. THE MOST AMAZING DISCOVERY, (NEW SOURCES OF POWER) TO BE MADE IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS!! YET... NO ONE WILL LISTEN. INCREDIBLE! PK MAN (TED OWENS) 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 54 of 246 Lorne & Rick - WHAT MAKES UP DAD - GOOD AND BAD - (✓ = ORDINARY SKILLS FOR BREAD JOBS.) PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERT SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF TED OWENS (BOGA) RAINMAKER (WEATHER CONTROL) Writer Lecturer Rice Univ. stage. Master of Ceremonies Personnel Manager ✓ Jazz Combo Leader Jazz Drummer Dance Choreographer (Arthur Murray Instructor; Stripper Instructor) Magician Court Reporter Ventriloquist Hypnotist Parapsychologist Hand Writing Analyst Bodyguard Pool and Snooker Hustler Boxer; BOXING INSTRUCTOR Portrait Photographer Oil Painting Artist Private Investigator ✓ Idea Man (Advertising, etc.) ✓ Quality Control Inspector, Steel Mill (C.F.I.) ✓ Sales, Closing Specialist ✓ (SWIMMING POOLS, HYPNOSIS, ARTHUR MURRAY LESSONS, JEWELRY, BIBLES, ETC.) Office Manager ✓ Sales Manager ✓ Fortune Teller Party Entertainer Teacher of Autosuggestion (Autoconditioning, autohypnosis) Teacher of Memory Improvement Techniques Teacher of Knife Throwing Techniques Greatest knife thrower in the world. Design, manufacture and sale of precious jewelry. Spanish, speak Semi-pro basketball player; coach of team. Medical Secretary ✓ Legal Secretary ✓ Psychiatric Secretary ✓ (Teacher) Boys' Military School CAPTAIN Treasure Hunter Ships Entertainer + YAWARA EXPERT + LOCKSMITH ASSISTANT (5 sessions) + SHORT ORDER COOK LIFE GUARD SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR === Page 55 of 246 Lorne & Rick THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, # AMATEUR EFFORTS BENEFIT SCIENCE Many Important Discoveries Made in Spare Time WASHINGTON--A janitor, a physician, a Roman Catholic monk, a Unitarian minister, two musicians, and an architect swell the ranks of amateur scientists. The janitor, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, swept out the city hall of Delft in the 17th century, the National Geographic Society says. Townspeople thought he was a little daft because he ground chunks of glass into lenses. They were sure he was crazy when he told them he had looked through one of his lenses into a drop of water, and had seen hundreds of small creatures scurrying about. But Britain's Royal Society was more attentive: Leeuwenhoek had discovered germs. Amateurs have made important discoveries in every field of science. Knowledge of dinosaurs was given to the world by an English country doctor, Gideon Mantell, who liked to pick up fossils; the principles of heredity by an Austrian abbot, Gregor Mendel; oxygen by an English Unitarian theologian, Joseph Priestley, and the Kodachrome color photography process by two American musicians, Lee Godowsky and Leopold Mannes, who experimented in hotel rooms while on tour. Even today, a time of tremendous advances in professional science, the amateur appears in no danger of extinction. There are so many thousands of amateur rocket scientists at work that the American Rocket Society issued a booklet warning them of the risks they run. Only a few years ago an English architect, Michael Ventris, solved a puzzle that had long tormented archeologists -- the decipherment of an ancient language of Crete and Greece known as Minoan Linear B. In the United States, another amateur archeologist, a onetime dishwasher, discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Other sparetime archeologists were the first to investigate Russell Cave, an Alabama cavern inhabited 9,000 years ago. Two teen-age radio hams astounded the scientific community in 1960 by transmitting signals to each other with radio waves bounced off a satellite. A quarter of a century earlier another ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., used his own time and money to build the world's first radio-telescope in his back yard. Horst Gerstenkorn, an amateur astronomer, made computations tracing the position of the moon backward in history and suggested, in 1954, that the moon was a small planet captured long ago by the earth's gravitational field. His work was praised in Science, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The writer expressed amazement that at a time when billions of dollars and rubles are being spent on government moon programs, "a high school teacher having no other assets than his interest and his free time" could still make a contribution. Some observers believe that breakthroughs in each field of science will often come from amateurs. The amateur lacks the professional's training laboratories, staff, and prestige, but he is free to follow his own interests and imagination; he does not have to worry about getting quick results or losing status in the "publish or perish" world. His very ignorance may help sometimes. The German psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered brain waves because, unlike the experts, he didn't know they were regarded as an impossibility. An amateur can still find plenty to do. Take entomology: The world may support 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species. The professionals have hardly begun to catalogue them, let alone record their habits. An amateur can go to work today in his own backyard. === Page 56 of 246 PK Man - "The Rain Maker" ↓ The Saturday Sermon A Fool There Was By DR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS Chaplain, United States Senate Washington--FOOL is a barbed word. When hurled it usually carries a stigma. A fool is supposed to be one unbalanced, unable to render a reasonable judgment. A fool is one who plunges ahead with no regard for consequences, who scorns safety first and who refuses to conform. The old adage declares-- "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The greatest fool," says Shaftesbury, "is one who thinks he knows with certainty that which he has least studied and of which he is most profoundly ignorant." A foolscap on dunces relegated to a corner in the school of life is a fit insignia. But history makes clear that across the centuries a foolscap often has been put on the wrong head. FOOL is often the label pasted on a wise man by those about him who are ignorant and timid. Those that one generation has pilloried as fools have more than once turned out to be the wisest of their day and the benefactors of all humanity. It is literally true that the world has moved forward on the legs of the alleged fools! Socrates was a laughing stock on the streets of Athens because he refused all sensible advice. He was such a fool that he finally drank the hemlock. Cato was held up to ridicule in Rome because the venal citizens of that great capital called him a fool for refusing bribes. When George Stephenson proposed to draw a train of cars by steam at the rate of 14 miles an hour he was regarded as a fit candidate for the madhouse. When Robert Fulton--in whose honor a memorial stamp has been issued in this year 1965--announced his intention to navigate the Hudson River on a steamboat, his idea was ridiculed by men of sense and science as "the silliest that ever entered a silly brain." When William Carey, father of the modern missionary movement, set about sending a group of missionaries to India he was publicly denounced in the House of Commons and his plan was referred to as "the project of a lunatic." Because he "risked the thing" Charles A. Lindbergh, who disappeared over the ocean in a little plane, now a museum magnet for thousands, was dubbed a "flying fool." When he saw a fleet of fishing boats he records, "I flew down, almost touching the craft, and yelled at them asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared! Maybe they thought I was a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land." Over our 49th state, Alaska, is today a bright rainbow of promise as its marvelous resources are developed. But the statesman who saw its potential greatness and secured it for a song, was on all sides called a fool and the whole transaction was labeled "Seward's folly!" What a volume could be written entitled--Posterity's Appraisal of Men Whom Their Own Age Called Fools! When we thrill, gratefully, at the surgical miracles of today performed in the hospitals of every city, we cannot forget the doctors willing to be called fools even as was Pasteur by the medical lights of his day. When the first abdominal operation in the history of surgery was performed by a country doctor down in Kentucky, a frenzied mob patrolled the house for two hours ready to lynch the "fool doctor" if the patient died. But with a nerve that failed not, and a hand that did not falter, he went ahead. The life of the woman involved was saved. A Poet's Words Today medical science pays its high tribute to the man who dared the fury of a mob to blaze a new path in surgery. All the valiant men marching ahead of their time who by their contemporaries were decked with foolscaps! A poet listening not to the harsh billingsgate of the day, but hearing the appraisal of the long years, wrote-- Give us now and then a man And life will crown him king; Just to take the consequence Just to risk the thing. Paul Suffered, Too Long centuries ago, Paul, the Apostle, who had suffered all things and had been called almost every vile name, declared he was willing to go even farther. He said he was willing to be called a fool for the sake of the Christ he served. There are those today in this time of destiny who, God forgive them for their ignorance when the truth is so easily available, call certain God-inspired leaders, who in the free world are defying the colossal forces of atheistic communism, fools. But, standing for spiritual verities, and freedom, they are God's fools. Those who sense the real issues of this age on ages telling are crying out in anguish of soul--"Wanted, more fools with unquenchable faith in the precious things we hold nearest our hearts." The world today calls loudly for "fools for Christ's sake" which means--for humanity everywhere threatened by those who have already advanced over half the earth with shackles of slavery. My soul lift up thine eyes; Oh child, in this world's school Wilt thou be counted wise, Or just a fool? === Page 57 of 246 MONDAY SEPT. 13, 1965 DEAR LORNIE AND RICK,.. AT THIS POINT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO OVER WITH YOU, MY CHILDREN, MY INTENT AND PURPOSE. AS YOU WELL KNOW, WHEN I DISCOVERED THAT I HAD SOMEHOW OBTAINED A POWER AND ABILITY... NOT KNOWN OTHERWISE TO MANKIND... I DETERMINED TO USE THIS POWER AND ABILITY (WHICH WE CALLED "PK") FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEN THE COMPLETE WORLD PICTURE. ... BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ACCEPT MY WORK... SO I DETERMINED TO PROVE MY POWER AND ABILITY TO THE U.S. THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE... BY DEMONSTRATIONS OF MY SYSTEM, FIRST PREDICTING WHAT WAS TO COME, TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SO THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW THAT IT WAS NO ACCIDENT. FOR OVER A YEAR I HAVE HARASSED THE GOVT. AND THE MILITARY, WITH THIS "PK" SYSTEM. IT HAS COST LIVES, AND FIVE TO TEN BILLION DOLLARS, IN DAMAGE. ("BETSY" ALONE HAS CAUSED ONE BILLION IN DAMAGE.) BUT THIS IS ONLY A FLY-SPECK IN TIME. ONCE MY SYSTEM IS ACCEPTED AND USED, IN COUNTLESS WAYS (TO DIVERT HURRICANES, TORNADOS, TYPHOONS... TO BRING PEACE, WHERE THERE IS WAR, ETC.) COUNTLESS LIVES WILL BE SAVED. IT IS A CASE OF THE PATIENT TAKING A LITTLE PAIN IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. IT IS A CASE OF LOSING A LITTLE, TO GAIN A LOT. AND MANY LIVES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOST, IF 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 58 of 246 2) PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE GOVT. HAD HEEDED MY PLEAS TO LISTEN, AT THIS MOMENT I COULD BE ENDING THE TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN FLORIDA... ENDING THE TERRIBLE EAST COAST DROUGHT... HELPING CHINA'S DESPERATE DROUGHT PROBLEM... STOPPING THE VIET NAM WAR... STOPPING THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR... PREPARING TO DEFEAT OTHER HURRICANES COMING UP, AWAY FROM THE U.S., AND SO ON. BUT UNTIL OUR GOVT., WITH ITS FOOLISH FALSE PRIDE, LISTENS AND ACCEPTS, I AM HELPLESS TO UTILIZE THE GREATEST POWER IN EXISTENCE... THE GREATEST POWER HERETOFORE KNOWN TO MANKIND... IN BEHALF OF THAT SAME GOVT. AND MANKIND. I HAVE OFFERED, TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WITHOUT A FEE, TO END THE N. EAST COAST DROUGHT. HE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE COURTESY OF A REPLY. SO YOU SEE WHAT I, AND MY SP'S HELPERS, ARE UP AGAINST. OUR CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE AID OF THE SP'S. AND OUR GOVT., OF THE UNITED STATES, IS BLOCKING THE SP'S FROM SAVING CIVILIZATION. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THIS IS THE TRUE PICTURE... AND WHY YOUR DAD IS STILL HITTING GEMINI-5 AND GUIDING HURRICANES. Love, Dad (PKMan) 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 59 of 246 Wednesday May 4, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have waited for some reaction from U.S. Government. Since none has been forthcoming, they will strike with a series of catastrophes to the U.S. Government...in the near future, "dead ahead." In my previous warnings re the above...I have yet to be wrong. P K Man (Owens) Kids - Where are you? === Page 60 of 246 Wednesday May 4 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick I hope you have been well, and things at school are going fine. Just sent you some snapshots...hope you like them. Please convey my deep regrets to Pat, for the loss of Mary. I liked Mary, always did. She was a loss to the family, I know. And her children will miss her very much. Martha hasn't been touched by the virus, but baby and I have really been clobbered. There's a whopping epidemic of it right now in Philadelphia...and it has all started just since the "fireball" appeared over Philadelphia several weeks ago (I sent you a clipping.) I have a vague theory...that perhaps the nearness of a large Si craft might cause humans within their radius to be affected by what humans call "flu" or "virus." Clyde Beatty Circus is coming to town this week...and we are going to see the old gang that we worked with last year. Ain't that a laugh? Stuck here in Philly a whole year? We are going to the circus Sunday, spend the whole day, and take pictures. I'll send you some. We get no mail. Spelled with a capitol NO. Can't figure it out. Have literally hundreds of leads and contacts out...yet our mailbox remains empty, week by week. Had a dream about you kids...dreamed I came home from work, went into the kitchen, and there you kids sat with the baby, just looking at me silently. Somehow I didn't feel that you had been gone, or anything was different...I kissed Martha hello and asked what was for supper...and she said, "Ted, look, Lornie and Rick are here." Got to ring off for now. Get back to work Love and kisses.......... Dad === Page 61 of 246 Sunday April 10, '66 Dear Lonnie -- Well, how'd you & Rick like my PK work (w/ Sis's) at the Cape last two weeks? Stopped seven launchings in 10 days; blew up a Polaris missile (after it went wild, from Cape Control); and destroyed Atlas-Centaur. To top it off -- have the O.A.O. in deep trouble today. (Remember OGO, while we were at Myrtle Beach, & how we got it?) Do you want these pictures you sent returned, honey? They are cute. Julio is a fine looking boy. Only faults I can "read" from his picture are he might be spoiled, and have a fast temper. Good points easily seen -- high IQ; athletic; superior intelligence; creative genius; warmth of personality; handsome; thoughtful; would be a good debater; leader of various things like clubs or classes, etc. Also quite a young philosopher, I'd say. But from his mouth -- looks like he might fold up under strong stress or strain. If you're deeply interested in Julio, don't try to figure him out. Study his parents. What they believe what they are like, will have stamped deep into Julio and reflect their training of him. They are mostly what Julio will be like. Horse experts at race tracks do not learn too much about a horse itself. They study the horses that horse came from -- and that way they learn a lot, and bet accordingly. There are always exceptions to the rule, of course -- but that's the smartest way to proceed, and they know it. Same with humans. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 62 of 246 2) Lorrie - get & read "Ideal Marriage" by Van de Veld. Never underestimate the importance of sex in marriage. If you have a husband who is a "big brain" & good looking, but a lousy lover in bed - your marriage will be poor. Or, if he's great in bed, but has a lousy character & disposition - you haven't got much, either. Point is... get a man with a loveable, good character & disposition, who also is a dandy lover in bed. This is important. Marriage should not be like buying a box of crackerjack, and after you've bought it & opened it - you don't like the prize inside. I am not for free love - but I do believe it is smarter to try out a boy you might marry to find out if you can "stomach" him sexually. Better than not doing it, then finding him repulsive sexually after you marry him - & either divorcing him or cheating on him. The Bentley's would not approve of the above, but from my rather vast experience & research - I pass the info along because I consider it wise and valuable. Study birth control methods. Do not be promiscuous! The above applies only when you are seriously considering getting married. (Let Rick read this letter.) Martha & I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary this week. Our marriage thrives healthily, in spite of some basic weaknesses in it. I gave her an expensive Sony radio. Remember, honey - you can't learn how to love, be honest, be faithful and loyal - in school or college. This you do on your own time. So, work at it. Love & Kisses -- Dad. P.S. They just announced total failure of the O.A.O.! We got it!! 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 63 of 246 May 27, 1966. Dear Lonnie, How are you? We are just fine. I hope you are fine. I received the cards & the candy. Thank you very much for the beautiful Mother's Day card & the candy. The candy was very delicious. Beau helped me eat it. Yes, I know about Julia & you two make a cute couple. The picture you sent to us was very good. You both make a handsome couple. He is a nice looking boy. You look very grown up in the picture & a lot older about 18 or 19 years old. My you are really growing fast. Pretty soon you will be taller than Dan (ha ha). Beau had an ear infection about 3 weeks ago. He had a fever. I took him to the doctor & I had to give him medicine & nose drops four times a day. He had a temperature of 102. He is just fine now. I had a very nice Mother's Day. Beau gave me a very pretty card & we went to the circus. Beau had a ball. We went on lots of rides & we saw the side show, we didn't go to the big tent on Mother's Day. We went back the following Sat. to the big tent. Beau had big eyes looking at everything. He was so excited & trying to === Page 64 of 246 remembered us. In there being the show, the circus was here. Mary's still the best at it. Kept wanting to ride on the bus to the circus. He just loves the circus. He is beginning to say sentences now. He loves to watch Batman. He can't say the Bat in Batman so he says, "manman." He gets all excited when he comes on T.V. Was so sorry to hear about your Aunt Mary dying. It was a shock to us. We have a singing canary. It sings very pretty. I named it Twitti, it is yellow and very pretty. It doesn't sing too much now because it's molting. I'm losing feathers sometimes. Sorry to hear that you're not doing too well in school. Have you had your exams? Hope you did pass. When is school out? Hope you get surf princess. Good luck to you. Write and let me know if you get it. Have they already voted or not? The weather is very nice here. It is really hot today. It has been raining a lot here, the weather just got nice and hot here recently. Before it was cold and raining here. I got an electric mixer for Mother's Day. It is real nice. I am so happy to have it. Well, I guess I will close for now. Love, Momma, Beau & Dad (XO XO XO) P.S. I took Beau to an Armed Forces Parade last Sat. It was the first parade he had ever been to. He waved at the soldiers as they went by. He was so excited. __________ === Page 65 of 246 Saturday April 30, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson. Dear Sir: I wrote you, not long ago, and told you that the 5-year drought would be ended in the weeks and months ahead, by the UFO intelligences with which I communicate. Since writing you, you have seen a remarkable display of rain... and the Si's (UFO "saucer" intelligences) made your own State a showcase, to prove their point. At this writing, Dallas and some other cities in Texas are now disaster areas...a very familiar term, what? At any rate, the entire half of the United States (East) is under rain today. Certainly you could not call the weather this Spring...typical Spring weather, or typical Spring showers. You are seeing a remarkable display of Si power...and to bring it about they had to make many many adjustments in many many places, in order to pinpoint our area with rain. I could have brought this about a year or more ago, but could get no cooperation from anyone. So the Si's will make the U.S. a present of the rain, to end the years-long drought and end all of the bad things attendant upon drought conditions. Of course, there will be flooding...for the Si's do not do things half way. P K Man Love, Dad Enclosed are two pictures for you. === Page 66 of 246 SUNDAY MAY 1, 1966 DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA HAS DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF UFO'S - SAYING UFO'S ARE MERELY OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. THIS, IN SPITE OF TREMENDOUS EFFORTS BY THE UFO'S TO PROVE THEIR UTTER REALITY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE... THEY ARE, IN FACT, IN THE PROCESS OF ENDING THE LONG U.S. DROUGHT. I COMMUNICATE WITH, AND CAN SPEAK FOR, THE UFO INTELLIGENCES. THEREFORE LET IT GO ON RECORD - THAT MCNAMARA WILL HENCEFORTH BE A SPECIAL TARGET FOR UFO (SAUCER INTELLIGENCE) WRATH AND HOSTILITY!! PK MAN (OWENS) === Page 67 of 246 Monday May 19, 1969 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: To that list of top government officials that I sent you this week, you can add another one... Senator William Pomene (Mich.) dropped dead of a heart attack in a hotel fire, May 17. Important reason for writing this letter: Today the Saturn moon ship set-up blew up at the Saturn Complex in Miss. In earlier correspondence, quite a while ago, I told you the "pk" was aimed there... and that the SI's would strike. But... the point is... they struck just after the two big shoots going up at the Cape this coming week. I know the SI's by now, and their pattern... and today's catastrophe with the Saturn moon ship is a harsh warning not to proceed this week at the Cape, unless the U.S. Govt. makes its peace with the SI's first. Thus... the blowing up of the moon rocket was both a carrying out of the SI's earlier threat, on record, that they would now hit NASA in earnest... plus a warning not to proceed this week. P K Man (Owens) === Page 68 of 246 LORNIE - REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST WILD BILLS? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER -- Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. *note: Frank Stranahan was a golfer who paid expenses and hotel for Dad to hypnotize him. I went with him on the trip. 07/09/2025 16:10 === Page 69 of 246 Sat. 5/21 Dear Lornie: Hi, honey, it was good to hear from you. How do you like my (and Si's) score at Cape K? Haven't missed bringing down a rocket in months there. That's because the Si's added some new PK weaponry...most devastatingly effective. This last Agena I got was said to fall into the Atlantic..but a commercial airplane pilot appeared on a TV program and said he and co-pilot were up in the air near the Agena...and it seemed to vanish into a peculiar yellow cloud. Figure that one out. One turtle just died...and last night the goldfish died...and our canary bird, which is a singing fool...has stopped singing. ???? Yes, read about the 16 year old girl, tortured to death. We are having one to two rapes a day here in Philadelphia...some of them on the torture side. Things are getting rough all over...would advise you to watch your step, especially with the coloreds getting ready to blow up in that area against whites. How about that cop shooting the colored husband who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital? Don't worry about McNamara...the Si's are taking care of him in beautiful shape! He won't last much longer in his present position of power. Martha got her goodies...and you made me very happy by making her very happy. She and baby fought like tigers over the candy...I nearly died laughing. Baby would take one piece, then snatch another with the speed of lightning before Martha could stop him. And she couldn't get it away from him, either. You are definitely not getting my mail. You ask if I had seen the UFO show on NBC. Immediately after the show I wrote George, etc., that the U.S. Government would be severely punished by the Si's for that lousy show....and sent you your usual copy. Which obviously you haven't seen. By now the Si's have clobbered the U.S. Govt. in spades. The Si's, true to their word (see my ltrs.) have been inundating the East Coast with rain to break the drought. Steadily. Love and kisses, Dad === Page 70 of 246 Wednesday May 11, 1966 Rick Dear George: There seems to be no end in sight...for Government stupidity. Last night, over NBC, for an hour UFO's were explained away as anything and everything but UFO's. "Learned" scientists poo-poo'd the idea of UFO's. And so on...for an hour, to millions of American people. Of course, it was quite transparent...the Government is trying to undo the rash of effect of the recent sightings on the people. Good sightings, I might add...solid. However, this was a catastrophic thing for the powers-that-be to do. Why? The UFO's have been trying to prove their reality, and to make friends with us. Last night they were rejected in a big, big way....and actually, the big lie was told to millions of American people about them. For this act, they will retaliate, I am informed. If they do not exist...how can they predict the following, then make it happen? Within the time span of five months they will deal the U.S. Government a smashing blow, probably worse than anything it has experienced these past few years. This will be in payment for that show last night. Simple as that. I do not know what they have in mind. Could be a team of terrible hurricanes sweeping out of the Atlantic onto Florida...could be a terrible disaster in Viet Nam...but will be something on that order, and will be engineered by UFO intelligences. The program was entitled "Friend, Foe, or Fantasy" - and the full hour was spent proving they are fantasy. They will, in the months ahead..show you (U.S. Govt.) what they can be like as a foe. They wanted to be friends. P K Man (Owens) === Page 71 of 246 Wednesday, May 11, 1966 NBC Channel 10 Philadelphia Gentlemen: Last night, in this viewer's opinion, you created a fraud against the American people. It was a terrible thing to do. For a week myself and friends have been waiting for the UFO program... and all the ads said that it would be an "objective" view, giving the "fors" and "againsts". What it was...was a solid hour of explaining that UFO's were marsh-gas, and those who claim to see them are either trying to make money, or are irresponsible, nutty people. I hope enough people rise up in anger, as I did, and as ; my friends did....to register a strong complaint where it counts. IBM, NBC, and Channel 10...should be utterly ashamed of themselves. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 72 of 246 Thursday May 19, 1966 Mr. Dunn, Chief, Weather Bureau, Hurricanes Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: Last year I deliberately turned Hurricane Betsy around, with the help of the UFO intelligences, so that it would not go up the East Coast and give rain and moisture in the East Coast area. I had written Govt. agencies before, that I would do this. This year, however, the UFO's are engaged in breaking the 5-year drought on the East Coast...and any and all hurricanes will be brought up the East Coast all the way, in order to give moisture to that area. Myself and Si's will endeavor to whip up and guide many hurricanes this season to the "Electro" area of Florida, where Cape K. is located, then bring them on up the Coast to "sprinkle the grass" in a giant way all along the East Coast. Brace yourself, friend...as a Hurricane specialist, you'll have a ball this summer and Fall. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 73 of 246 May 20, 1966 The Si's warn that a man is planning to load a small plane with high-explosives...and send the plane, kamikaze style, into the White House or Johnson's ranch. This man has planned this for a long while - put it off once, but now is getting "worked up" to do it. Of course he'll be killed, but he doesn't care. Believe he's an ex-army flyer...service man, anyway. Si's say by 1967 the White House will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft, just on this account. P K Man === Page 74 of 246 May 18, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Last night in the paper an article read: "Submerged, Pre-Aimed Missile Reported Developed by Reds." This article pointed out Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which can be fired by remote control from containers planted under the sea. All of which is exactly what I wrote to you, about a year or so ago. Remember? I told you to count the fishing boats that visited our shores... because when they left, they would be one short... and the one that went down was especially designed to hold a missile... which could be remote-control fired later on. At the present time I am sure this is what Cuba is all about. Yes, there probably are stores of missiles in deep caves... and perhaps a few launching sites for ground-fired missiles... but George, I'll eat my hat if Russia hasn't planted a formidable number of missiles under water at the far edge of Cuba, to be fired at the U.S. when ready. Perhaps even fired from Russia by special radio signal. P K Man (Owens) === Page 75 of 246 DETECTIVE POSTS REWARD 2/19/65 # Beaten Girl Still in a Coma By BRIAN KELLY An Arlington detective has appealed to the public for any information about a television set and a decanter, similar to the ones pictured, taken from the apartment of Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, victim of a brutal beating. Runyon said some 135 persons have been questioned by himself and other Arlington detectives working on the case, but no major leads have been developed. He asked anyone with information regarding the assault to call the Arlington police station at JA 7-2900 and talk to himself, Detective Willard C. Knight, Detective Sgt. George Coppage or Lt. John E. Cullins. Runyon said that Miss Pennington apparently was last seen about 11 a.m. the day before she was found. He said neighbors saw her leave her apartment that Sunday morning with an unidentified man, described as tall, heavy-set with blond, and get into a car with him. She was found about 8 a.m. the next Monday morning, lying on the floor of her bedroom next to the telephone. Runyon said he was offering the personal reward money because he felt it was important for residents to feel safe. # Girl in Coma Since Beating Is Moved 3/2/65 Brenda Sue Pennington, 19, an Arlington career girl who has remained unconscious since she was brutally beaten in her apartment two months ago, has been transferred to a West Virginia hospital near her home of Quinnwood. Officials at Greenbrier Valley Hospital in Ronceverte, W.Va., said today Miss Pennington was resting satisfactorily after the transfer Saturday from Arlington Hospital. During her stay at Arlington Hospital, she hovered in critical or near-critical condition for weeks. Miss Pennington was found unconscious in her one-bedroom apartment the morning of Jan. 25. A portable television set, a heavy brass decanter and her purse were missing from the apartment. Meanwhile, a reward fund started by an Arlington detective investigating the case has grown to $300. Detective Russell L. Runyon started the fund with a personal pledge of $300 for information leading to conviction of the assailant. MONTH LATER!! (3/29) SHE LIVED!! WAS TAKEN HOME. I STARTED ON THIS CASE HERE # Beaten Girl in Coma; Condition Is Critical 2/25 Brenda Sue Pennington, the Arlington girl who was the victim of a vicious beating last month, underwent surgery Thursday to relieve pressure on her brain and remained in critical condition yesterday Meanwhile, several Northern Virginians, have begun raising contributions to help pay for Miss Pennington's mounting medical expenses. A fund for the family has been established at the Fidelity National Bank in Arlington. Miss Pennington, 19, was found unconscious in her apartment Jan. 25. Police said she was clubbed on the head a number of times with an unknown instrument. For a few days, she reached semi-consciousness, but her parents, who came from their home in West Virginia, have not been able to communicate with her. Robert M. Cooper, of 407 Park Ave., McLean, announced the drive for contributions yesterday. Although he did not know the Pennington family until the tragedy occurred, he has spoken to the parents and has joined with others to help them, he said. Cooper, who is an electrical inspector for Arlington County, said the nursing fees alone cost the family $330 every five days. Contributors may mail checks, payable to Fidelity National Bank, at 2009 N. 14th St., Arlington. Frank Embrey, bank president, said the checks should be accompanied by a note indicating the money is for Brenda Sue Pennington Fund. # Fund Started for Victim of Beating 2/15 Miss Pennington, a business machine operator, is still in critical condition at Arlington Hospital. Last week she underwent brain surgery, an operation that piled even more expenses on bills that exceed $30 daily. Her assailant is still at large. I SAW THESE TWO CLIPS IN PAPER. THE "INTELLIGENCE" TOL ME TO CALL. I DID. POLICE, FAMILY & HOSPITAL (DOCTORS, ETC) OK'D TRYING MY "PK", BECAUSE SHE WAS DYING IN SPITE OF THEIR EFFORTS. === Page 76 of 246 SUNDAY FEB. 14 ① " 21 ② " 28 ③ Feb. 14, 1965 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pennington: My daughter and I were very happy to meet you on Sunday, Mr. Pennington... and my daughter expressed regret that she could not meet Mrs. Pennington at the hospital. It might amuse you, Mr. Pennington, that Lorrie, my daughter, described you as a "great big bear of a man, with real kind, gentle eyes... good eyes." We also appreciated the cooperation of yourselves, the police, and the medical staff in allowing us to enter your daughter's room and use our system in an effort to bring life into your daughter. I thought you might be interested in a few facts pertaining to our System: So far as we know it is not used at any location in the world today, except by ourselves, here in Washington. Our System was used, long ago, during the days of Moses and the Egyptians. It usually takes two to five days to take effect... full effect. Therefore, somewhere between Sunday and Friday, we anticipate that your daughter will open her eyes, and begin to progress, into full health, eventually. And, due to our System, her recovery will be much, much more rapid than under normal circumstances. As a matter of fact, her rate of recovery should be amazing. Our only hope is that we were not called in too late... allowed to come in too late. This factor is very difficult to ascertain. Just how near, or far away, from the line of Life and Death, she may be at the time. However, I used this System on a girl in Texas, near death, and unconscious... and saved her with it. Her father and brother carried her up to my apartment in Fort Worth, deep in a coma. She is alive and happy today. Once we make our initial effort on the scene... in your daughter's room... then we can continue from a distance, with your daughter seen in our mind's eye. And that is what we are doing now, night and day. We work in shifts on it. We would greatly appreciate your letting us know of her progress... how she is... now and then... so that we can gauge our work accordingly. And if we win this battle with death... and your daughter arises, happy and healthy... it is our hope that we may be allowed to visit her at the hospital and say hello to her. Of course, I must add, it is not my daughter and myself who are doing these marvelous things with PK (the name of the System) but it is Nature itself. (The same Nature that puts life into new babies, can put life into your daughter and keep it there.) Sincerely, Tod Owens (PK Man) 1216 Peabody Street, NW Washington, D. C. Phone: RA 30365 Wrote this after Lorrie and I went to hospital. === Page 77 of 246 It has been a year today since they found her, and I don't guess they are any nearer solving the case than they were then. The Millers are fine and said give you their best regards. Wishing you folks the best in everything, we remain your friends. Thank you for writing us. Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Pennington East Rainelle W. Va. === Page 78 of 246 Lornie thought you'd like to see this letter from Brenda Sue's mother. Jan 25 - 66 Mr. Jack Owens Dear Mr. Owens Just a few lines to let you know about Brenda Sue. We have talked & wondered about you folks a lot. It seemed I just never got around to writing. Family are fine. Brenda has improved a lot although she doesn't walk talk or feed her self. But the Dr. said if she continued to improve he would put her in braces in May she seems to know every thing you say to her but just can't answer you she does do every thing she can when you tell her to so we are still hoping & praying for the best. I want to thank you & your daughter again for what you did. We have had Brenda home since the 7th of May === Page 79 of 246 2 from a flying saucer, and wanted to offer proof. He gave the fisherman a piece of metal which he said was not of this earth. Brazilian scientists are now examining the metal. This came over a radio news broadcast. Today there was nothing in the papers. I got 'em all -- even N.Y. papers. Which shows you how the U.S. Govt. controls our so-called "freedom of the press!" And how quickly they shut up, and drop an "iron curtain" around anyone or anything connected with UFO's. Why, I wonder? Be careful there, you & Rick both. These race riots are deadly -- and remember, you are in "Electra." Sure, I have protection over you -- but you wouldn't jump off a high building to test it, would you. Don't tempt Fate! Your school subjects sound interesting. You'll do better in French than I did -- I flunked it. Algebra? $2+2=5$. That's my math. Fortunately, honey, you & Rick have academic brains you're pappy ain't got. Do sumpin' with those brains! Hm?? Love, Dad. === Page 80 of 246 Monday, Aug. 16, 1965 Dear Lorrie -- Thanks for your letter. Yes, things have been popping. Cyclical. They fade, then get bigger -- fade, then get even bigger, etc. Have you gotten my letters -- stuffed with copies of letters to George, Pres. Johnson, etc.? You know what? After I called shot after shot after shot here -- even convincing the hard-boiled newspapers veteran reporter, then prep'd a storm for "The Talk of Philadelphia" show (once a week show with current important personality in Philly on it, interviewed) -- and nearly wrecked Philly with the storm (scores of lightning hits, floods, etc -- you saw the news clips?) -- suddenly, snap! like that an iron curtain came down. Must be Air Force pressure of some kind, since UFO's are in it. The orange glow was a UFO, you can bet on it. Tell them about the beauty that was close to our car in the field, that night in Texas. And the window-tape and the green eyes -- at 310 Hemphill. And the doctor who hypnotized & sent his mind to contact UFO's. My contact with the Si's couldn't get any better, honey. With the system they've given me I can "see" them and communicate with them, and they with me -- directly. In seconds. Only thing remaining is to get to a far-away isolated spot, where they will come down and meet me. Last night, Sunday a news report came over the radio. In Brazil, Sunday, a tiny man 28 inches high walked up to a fisherman's hut and said, in English(?) he was === Page 81 of 246 Thursday June 23, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's at this time would like me to list the various PK activities they are engaged in, as well as the predictions they have made for what's ahead: "Electro" - the area from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla., is heavily PK'd, as you know...has been for two years...and it's growing all the time, the PK. "Electra" - the California coast from Frisco to Dago, PK'd. Plane-Ship-Sub PK - been on for over a year, still growing, attacks these three categories constantly in ever-increasing cyclical intensity. Breaking The Drought - Si's are systematically regulating U.S. weather now to bring to an end the 5-year drought here and once again fill the rivers, streams, wells, lakes, with fresh water for us. Air Force - Si's are presently teaching the Air Force a lesson...that they can rebut in their own way their "marsh gas" tag; they have gone to great effort and trouble to prove their reality, only to have the Air Force block their efforts from the American people. So they are going to teach the Air Force not to do this thing. NASA - Si's are harassing all NASA's efforts in space work, in every possible way, with PK effects. Top U.S. Govt. Officials - PK'd. Prediction - A U.S. naval disaster by Sept., 1966. Nuclear sub, aircraft carrier, etc. Not just a collision, but a disaster of some sort. Prediction - Unless U.S. removes troops and personnel from Viet Nam, U.S. will suffer its worst defeat in its entire history there, from an unexpected twist that will take place. Could be a massacre of Americans. Hurricane PK - is out and working, to develop hurricanes for '66 and bring them either to Cape Kennedy or Mississippi Michoud Saturn Space Complex...then on up East Coast for needed rain. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 82 of 246 2 Prediction - There is great danger for the U.S. now...of nuclear war... through January, 1967. That is, the danger is especially keen right now, more so than usual, due to activities the U.S. is not aware of. The Si's plan to do something very unusual...make an appearance and do something no UFO has done before, in the near future, to prove their reality to the U.S. Govt., and their connection with P K Man. Castro and Cuba - have been PK'd since 1964. Si's are PK'ing bodies of water...seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc... to reject humans and attack humans in many ways (as never done before) in order to further demonstrate their PK powers. Si's warn...if U.S. peoples keep shooting at their craft, and trying to attack their craft, they will reluctantly have to retaliate in kind. They have been trying hard to avoid anything like this. Si's warn us...watch carefully our 3 coasts...Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, for great danger threatens the U.S. from the water on these coasts. Si's warned U.S. to cancel present Fleet exercise in Atlantic and Carribean called "Beach Time" because of heavy concentration of PK in these areas, etc. Si's warn that a man somewhere is planning a kamikaze-style small plane crash, loaded with explosives, into the White House or Johnson's Ranch House...and that because of this the White House and Capitol will have to be ringed with anti-aircraft by '67. "Earth Belt" PK - PK used by Si's in area above earth to affect objects in orbit around earth. Russian Earthquakes - PK has been out on this for over a year. Vehicle PK - Autos, trains, planes, busses, etc., will be affected. Klu Klux Klan PK - Hit by PK over a year ago. Johnson Administration Re-election PK - Si's will work against the present Administration, which has rejected them and failed to cooperate with them. "OGO" PK'd...now up. Titan w/8 satellites PK'd...now up. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 83 of 246 3 Philadelphia PK'd for Lightning and Savage Storms and Rain, in the near future. Electrical potential to be built up here. WCAU PK Demonstration - Friendly Si demonstration for the benefit of their radio station friends. Jack McKinney PK - Not a "hit", but some unusual demonstration solely for the amusement and education of Jack McKinney re the Si's. A large-scale blow will be dealt by the Si's to the U.S. Govt. because of the nation-wide CBS hour-long TV UFO spoof, not long ago, "Friends, Foes, or Fantasy." This will happen by October 15, 1966. McNamara PK - The Si's have made McNamara a special PK target of theirs, for stating that there is absolutely nothing to the Si's ... to the American people via newspapers, etc. (If there is nothing to the UFO's, then McNamara has nothing to worry about, has he.) Johnson and White House PK'd - some time ago, and since then many odd things have happened there. Moyers fell down stairs, Him run over, etc. Stock Market PK'd. Prediction - Si's now have something much bigger and more important for P K Man to perform, than what he's been doing in the past. (?) Si's warn that the phrase "Black Power" is a sort of magical phrase which will now truly whip the negros into a frenzy - and Stokely Carmichael is the magician who can make that phrase work to its utmost extent in time to come. Si's warn they may put ideas for weapons and unknown tools of Nature into the minds of peoples elsewhere in the world, other than the U.S., who will then humble our country with them...unless our Govt. cooperates with Si's. Si's warn...they intend to deal our seat of Government, The White House, or Capitol Hill, a serious blow of some kind by Sept., 1966, - - - - - - - - - - I think that's the entire list...oh, they are PK'ing for a major earthquake in California some time this year, around 8 on the Richter Scale. All this...to show their various powers to our people...and try to persuade our Government to join them as friends, and cooperate with them They are using pressure on our Govt., just as U.S. is pressuring Hanoi. PK Man - Paul 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 84 of 246 Thursday June 23, 1966 Dear Lornie: Daddy thinks your birthday card is wonderful, honey...that's a very cute colored picture...and the artwork inside is very ingenious, also, along with your message. Thank you very much, Lornie. Of course...what else is a dollar for but an ice-cream party? So I am following your instructions, and the three of us will have one of these famous "Owens Cross-Country Ice Cream Binges" on you. Wasn't that funny...? All of us, poised and ready with our portable spoons...huddled all around in the car...with the ½ gallon of ice cream in the middle. Then I'd say go, and everybody went. Ha ha! Messy, messy, messy..... Hope your grades are okay, Lornie. And that you are enjoying your school. The Phila. schools are dangerous...full of drugs, dope addicts, prostitution (they've broken up several rings where the high school boys were selling the girls, here) and like that. So.....you are much better off in that school than you would be here. But we ain't going to be here long. We are GOING just as soon as .... we can bankroll the Leaving Philly Project. We are going to a beautiful, scenic, wooded place somewhere...where we can go fishing and camping on weekends, and things like that. Where's there's lakes and rivers, etc. Phooey on big cities. Phooey. Be good, and mind Pat, Lornie. Remember...mama knows best. And that's for **sure**. Don't get too big for your britches. Love and kisses, Daddy XXXXXXXXXX === Page 85 of 246 Friday May 27, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions' NASA Dear Mr. Eastwood: I have a message for Nasa from the Si's (saucer intelligences). Evidently, they say, Nasa hasn't yet learned its lesson, incredibly. So here is what the Si's are going to do: (1) The Surveyor rocket, going up Monday...they are going to try and destroy, going off the ground...if it gets up, they are going to try to force it off its path so that it does not even reach or hit the moon. (2) The Gemini 9 shot ... they'll harass as usual, trying to keep from harming the men, as usual. However, they warn at this time: Ahead, on some manned shot, they are going to turn off all the power in the manned vehicle, and block all communications to and from the ground, leaving the vehicle helpless. Also they will show themselves to the men in the vehicle. Then, when all seems lost...they will give the power and communications back to the manned vehicle, so that it can come down. === Page 86 of 246 Friday June 10, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: PLEASE READ THIS LETTER THROUGH. IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. Six weeks ago I began my usual hurricane work...that I have been so successful with since starting it in 1964. The Si's showed me how to plant "P K seeds" down past Cuba, which would develop into hurricanes. (The U.S. Govt. could use this for peaceful purposes, yes?) Anyway...on June 1 I wrote you a letter. Following is the last paragraph of that letter: "Might mention before closing...I expect a hurricane (an early one) in the near future, out of the Florida direction." 5 days later Hurricane Alma, the earliest hurricane in history to hit Florida, was born. Can the U.S. Govt. possibly, possibly, still doubt that I communicate with the Si's? Or that I can make and guide hurricanes? I was working for a record-breaking early hurricane, and got it. I tried to do this last year, but didn't make a full-fledged hurricane... did hit Miami with a "storm of hurricane wind"...but they didn't call it a hurricane then. At any rate, this year I succeeded. And in that June 1 letter the other information was quite quite accurate...keeping in mind the loss of the half-billion dollars Air Force plane this week, plus the loss of the other important plane, and the loss of one of the best Air Force pilots in the world, plus the loss of Major Cross, another Air Force pilot. Anyway, George, the ability I have, nobody else in the world has. Why isn't my Govt. utilizing it? Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 87 of 246 Wednesday, August 24, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, OSCAR. Dear Rowland: The same old story. I quote my letter to you of August 19, 1966: "I have been neglecting my hurricanes. Will go to work now and try to produce one in the next few days, or few eeks, and this time try and get it to Electro..." Took four days to produce Hurricane Faith, which sprung up August 22 and developed into a real rough cane on the 23rd. But dammit...so far from Electro! Am going to have a hell of a time wrestling it to Electro. In that same letter, I have a sort of an answer to my paragraph about the boa constrictor, monkey, shark, and Asian leopard. These critters are usually found in Asia, not in the U.S. Therefore the Si's, in their "show" language...are trying to tell us something about Asia. Remember how the Si's led the string of police cars to Freedom, Pa.? This is the same sort of "language", I am sure. Anyway, brother Swank, another fine "hit", eh? P K Man (Owens) P.S. Pat - you've got a brave copy. I haven't missed a cane this year! (But am doing poorly in getting them on target.) === Page 88 of 246 Sunday, September 4, 1966 Mr. Rowland Swank, C.S.C.A.R. Dear Rowland: I have been waiting several days for the Si's to contact me...they did today, so I can write at last. First, they want the U.S. to know that, as long as P K Man, their representative, is in trouble...the U.S. is in trouble as a Govt. and as a Nation. Well, I am in trouble...the job went under last week, haven't been able to get another, and we're almost out of food. Therefore this is what will happen...all sorts of catastrophes and crises will hit the U.S. Govt. in the weeks and months ahead. The Si's plan, as told you before, to unleash all forms of "PK" or CDE mechanisms either in multiple patterns, or all at once. This will be something to observe! It hasn't been done before. Fires, plane crashes, floods, tornados, hurricanes, riots, high Govt. or Service men removed...etc, everything you see there in your copy of my Choice File. It will be a tremendous demonstration of their power. Now, I have done poorly with my hurricane work this year. I produced Faith as I said I would, within days...brought Faith in beautifully on target, then dammed if she didn't veer, after coming all the way from Africa, just a few hundred miles from target, and go up the coast. But one thing is very important. Twice I warned Faith she was going to be attacked by seeding planes...and both times she responded like a trained boxer by sidestepping into a safe area for her, thus negating the seeding effort. I have to list Faith as a "miss"...but I cannot understand it. Seems like the Si's did not want to put her into the target. But the Si's wanted to scare the hell out of target, by showing what they could do. After Faith got past the target, I put up a PK wall to stop her, and she stopped, for quite a while. Then she crawled slowly into the PK wall and edged NE. So I worked to turn her NW, or West. She responded by then going NW. But again she went back to the NE route. This cane was determined not to hit land. During the action I called your office almost every day and reported what I was doing so that, fail or succeed, you would know exactly what I was doing. I regret giving such a poor performance, when I did so beautifully in 1964 and 1965. Well, 1966 is not over yet. I told you a couple of weeks ago I would produce another storm after Faith, closer this time to Florida. Today they announced the "Seventh Tropical Storm of the Season... Greta" in the location I was working on, closer to Florida. See where Typhoon Betty ran over the U.S. Base in Korea? Really tore it up. P K Man (Owens) Owens === Page 89 of 246 Sunday, September 4, 1966 TO ALL SOTA MEMBERS The Sota Church, at this particular time, needs a financial transfusion. As President, therefore, I am making a wonderful offer to any member wishing to take advantage of it...and able to do so. At this time I am willing to accept a partner. The cost of the partnership is $3000, with $500 to be sent in advance, as "earnest money," before September 11, 1966. The balance to be paid when my family and I move to that area where the partner lives. My partner will, from that time on, share in the benefits and satisfactions of the Sota Church. It must be pointed out that the partner does not need to do any of the various works necessary to run and build up further this wonderful Church. His, or her, assistance will be purely financial. The $3000 will come back to the partner in a year's time...and he, or she, will still be a partner in one of the greatest Churches-to-be in the United States. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for the lucky person wishing to take advantage of it. Therefore, if you want to be the co-owner of this wonderful Church, send $500 before September 11. Then, after my family and I come to your area to relocate SOTA headquarters, we can complete the partnership. The Si's have instructed me to do this. They want Sota to be out of the Philadelphia area...and this is the best way to move the Sota Church to the right area. H. Owens, President, THE SOTAS 1114 Spruce, No. 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 90 of 246 IN CONCLUSION: I must add this note. Most of you I have been writing to for about two years. And my estimate of you, both high and low people, is that you are either dam fools, or very very dumb scientists...or both. Now that's not nice, to say that. But I think it is accurate, and I am fully qualified to say it. During these past two years I have accomplished impossible things... made absolutely impossible predictions come true...and proved conclusively my connection with UFO's and my two-way communication system with them. Now you cannot possibly think I am just a "contactee" and some kind of nut...because you have more than enough material in your files to prove this is not so. I could cite roughly 100 cases right now...major happenings...that I have predicted in advance, and in most instances with details of what, when, and how. For the Government not to take advantage of this obviously unusual and tremendous ability, therefore, is dam foolishness. In this case, criminal foolishness, for the SI's have been trying to work with our Govt. For the scientists not to take advantage of this, is completely unbelievable...for what I have done, with the SI's, staggers the imagination...and powers and principles have been employed not even known to mankind, except myself. Therefore, I say that the scientists who may have looked at my correspondence, and done nothing, just have to be stupid. Not long ago I gave the Govt. two days warning...before the Reds struck at our warships, and before the Reds put more and better planes into the air. It was a double-prediction that came true within days. Think of the tremendous value I should have to my Govt., who has had two years to think about it and evaluate my work. Yet we remain poor, shabby, live in dangerous surroundings, my family has had to split up, etc etc. Frankly, folks, you don't deserve the brilliant intelligence I've been giving you this long time. Owens 7 === Page 91 of 246 Date: 7/14/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have decided that (1) The U.S. Govt. is not cooperating with them, and (2) Their representative, P K Man, has not been treated so well. (Was called a "psycho" yesterday on a radio show, over the air; cannot get written confirmation of wonderful predictions of major events made beforehand; cannot get financial help from any source to meet the Si's wishes, etc.) Therefore, say the Si's, the time is over for little miracles...like telling the U.S. Government of a Red attack on warships two days before the attack came; calling earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen, etc. Obviously, they tell me, something must be done on a larger scale to convince those who insult me, and do not cooperate with me. They are going to cause a series of smashing blows, catastrophes, the entire length and breadth of the U.S., and this will be done in the form of a huge "X". See crude drawing below. To further prove this is all real, and that I am speaking for them...they will make "public appearances" in various places (good enough to make the newspapers) as a signature of their own, to this document. They will undertake this action beginning September 1, 1966, if P K Man has not been given cooperation by that time as per the Si's wishes, and signed confirmations have not been given him. P K Man ---------- P.S. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A year ago Zachow, a scientist, told me I was wasting my time and money...that the U.S. Govt. was deaf, dumb and blind to my work. Then I didn't believe him. Now I do. I have proven my connection with the Si's; made astounding predictions ahead of time; and so on. Yet I have not been approached by the Govt.; have not been helped; have not been encouraged - have, in fact, worked in a vacuum under great hardships the while. So now...I quit. I have yet to notify the Si's, and do not know how they will feel. But from now on the Govt. will not know what the Si's are up to...will not know when the Reds are going to strike at our warships, or put more planes into the air against us. Everything from now on will come as a complete surprise to the U.S. Govt. without a P K Man advance tipoff, good or bad. And I guess that's the way the Govt. wants it. So long, you silent people out there...... 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 92 of 246 8/27/65 P3 They also point out that, as for my being poor...without funds, car, TV, house, etc. Moses was just a sheep-herder. The Disciples had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Others that were guided by a Greater Intelligence...no matter what the name... were poor people. Jesus, to name one. They do put up a strong argument, Arnold. And the feeling that I receive, carried with their intelligence, is a good feeling...a constructive, kindly, loving feeling. I am a damn good sensitive myself, Arnold. I have encountered the "bad" controls... === Page 93 of 246 8/27/65 P 2 Oh, Arnold...had to reopen my letter to insert this.... The Si's also point out that Moses, whom they claim to have helped, received their messages...and they guided him. He was a poor sheep herder, and had nothing, just like me. He was given an impossible task...just like me...and he couldn't believe that anybody would listen to him...just like me. "My people will not listen to me or believe me," he told the Bush. "And certainly the Pharaoh will not believe me or pay attention when I ask him to release my people." But the Voice in the Bush gave him instructions and reassured him that everything would work out all right...that he would be listened to, eventually...and that the Pharaoh, with the help of God...would be forced to release his people. On this basis he proceeded...as I have proceeded...except that instead of a Voice from a Bush, it's been a different source, seemingly. Then Moses, with the "magic" staff, proceeded to wreak devastation upon the Egyptians, when they would not listen to him. Sickness over the land. Fouled-up water. Insects swarming all over everything. And so on, ending with the death of poor, innocent babies. And the final destruction of the Egyptian army. That was about as rough as you can get. And it was done for a good purpose, we can now say, with "20-20 hindsight." But at that time Moses own people got very mad at him...because his "destructiveness" was causing the Egyptians to put worse pressure on them. They begged Moses to stop, and forget the whole thing. They would just go on, as always, being slaves. But Moses...one, poor, man...heeded God's voice and orders...and carried on. So that this, later, was reckoned a very great "good" thing in the Bible. It is holy, as a matter of fact. Well, I have no illusions that God is talking to me, or guiding me...I know darn well, as a matter of fact, that it is UFO's, because I have the proof of it. And Arnold, based on how rough the early Christians were...to burn away the dross from man's soul in order to leave the gold...the present activity is definitely not out of line. In early Bible days, remember, Christian bands that roamed and slaughtered entire tribes...killing women and children? The Si's and I aren't that rough. All that they have done is try and get the ear of this government...by tornados, hurricanes, affecting subs, rockets, planes, etc., to show this government what power they have...but from the start they have pointed out that they want only to use their great powers to help this country; most of all this entire world. And all they want for starters is for this country to start helping them help the world. Arnold, if they wanted to be mean, or were vicious, they could have done far, far more destruction and wreaked far far much more havoc, than they have. They have just done a little, to show their power. Which has the greatest intelligence, Arnold...President Johnson and McNamara and Rusk and the rest of the advisors...or the Si's? Which has the greatest ability to see ahead in time? You know the answer. Furthermore, the course that we are steering now, in our own government, is definitely leading to mass destruction. What worse could the Si's do to us? They are desperately trying to halt things! 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 94 of 246 8/27/65 p 1 Friday August 27, 1965 Dear Arnold: The Si's wish me to point out to you that they were bringing me along beautifully in Fort Worth, Texas...that I was in fact healing people given up otherwise as hopeless by dentists and the medical fraternity...plus many other things along the lines of auto-hyp, raising the will to live in humans, etc. They were busily teaching me this advanced, far advanced, system of using "something past the mind" - under an umbrella of light-waking-hyp...when my fellow humans tore the entire structure apart. They point out that had people...not them...left me alone...I would have prospered, now living quite happily, and making great strides in the field of helping fellow humans...using their powers constructively. But that people, here on earth, tore down the help they were giving me. They point out that they have no money; they do not use it, or have use for it. What they have is power, and they have given me that...which is all that they have to give. They point out that they have faithfully helped me in every single experiment I have produced, in order to convince my government to take me under its wing, protect me and family, so that then the si's and I can "work around the world" with good, constructive, "white" PK phenomena...healing or putting into balance the present unbalanced weather condition, world-wide; healing, or putting into balance the present unbalanced mental and spiritual condition of the world; etc. They point out that for me to give them a week to bring me money or wealth etc., is ridiculous...because even now my own people are trying to see to it that I am kept in a broke and stripped condition. They point out that my mail and letters may be blocked from coming to me; (I already know that all telephone calls from the radio shows were blocked from me...Mr. Leipziger, at the Congress Hotel, told me. I had dozens of phone calls from people who were interested in me. Leipziger cooly told them I had "checked out!") If the government wishes to keep me broke, that is easy and simple. Any time I get a job a government man unobtrusively goes to see my boss, flashes his credentials...says "Now, actually this man is not a criminal, but will you tell me all you know about him?" Soon I am let go by the boss. This sort of thing is not conducive to longevity in the business world. They point out that they have been trying to help me sustain myself and family, by being hired to break the drought...and they almost succeeded..with the newspaper write-up and the radio shows. They point out, Arnold, that possibly there is an evil force of entities...not themselves...at this point trying to block them, and doing a good job of blocking me. They reiterate that they are only here to help us, humans, restore balance and sanity to an unbalanced and insane world, as it stands today. There it is, Arnold, their rebuttal. It was a pleasure talking to you today. I enjoy your advice, and your conversations, and your wisdom. We do have rapport. And I am still horrified that you went on the defensive when I asked you to watch my fingertips. When I am signalling the Si's, (I have many methods) I "sense" lightning flowing from my fingertips into the skies...and I wondered if you would sense the lightning. Sincerely Ted 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 95 of 246 Thursday 8/26/65 Copy Lorna + Bob The Editor Philadelphia Bulletin Dear Sir: I apologize for my former rude manners...in offering two inches of rain to Philadelphia in exchange for another story. The only excuse that I have is...that the story was supposed to perhaps find someone that would help me break the East Coast drought, completely, at no fee. Which, I think, is big of me, even if no one else does. Anyway, let's let bygones be bygones, eh? Let me go at this problem another way. I am going to give Philly some real rain within the next week-10 days. That rain last Sunday was not mine...and it was only 7/10 of an inch...just dew, really. My rain is rain - and you can count on 2-4 inches, at the least. I will not ask anything for it. It will be to make up for my bad manners in trying to bribe you with rain. You know, it is hard for me to understand...as long as I would make rain with chemicals, that is all right. Or, with parapsychology, that is all right...but when I make rain by communicating with something...that is wrong... Why? As long as Philadelphia gets the rain! Incidentally, I nearly fell off my chair laughing this evening...to read about the New York officials who returned to New York, not having seen that wonderful rain-making invention in California...because it blew a fuse or short-circuited, or something. Ha ha ha. You will note that my storms do not blow fuses or short-circuit. Hoping we still are friends, I remain Sincerely Ted Owens "the Rain Maker" $\}$ 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 96 of 246 Wednesday, August 25, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: Catastrophe after catastrophe.......... Gemini 5 could have been one...should have been...but the UFO's spared it...so far. Then the Hong Kong plane, losing more Marines than what we lost last week in Viet Nam fighting the Cong, if the newspapers are correct with their figures. Then the X-19 crash today. Then the OSO Flying Laboratory at Cape Kennedy today, kaput. How fast can catastrophes come? And these are all "SI" signs, George...laugh if you like. Can the Government explain how they occurred? Only when I am accepted by the U.S. Government, and hired according to their instructions, will catastrophes cease...and the U.S. start winning and getting ahead in every direction. As I told you...it is far worse to have the saucer intelligences against us, than it would be Russia and China combined. Incidentally...where President Johnson went to church last Sunday, the power failed and the electric organ would not play. Then the little girl fainted next to Johnson yesterday. These are signs too, George. It means that the SI's have President Johnson zeroed in now, wherever he goes. Enough said. I don't, George. They do. And one last thought...whoever is blocking me from being accepted by the U.S. Government is actually causing these SI catastrophes. You had better believe it! Sincerely, Ted Owens PK Man 1114 Spruce St., #3B Phila., Pa. === Page 97 of 246 7/11/66 P 3 This letter should have gone to you yesterday...but due to no stamps, and no access to typewriter...had to be delayed a day. Good thing nothing really hot was on to warn about, with the exception of the European blowup ahead. The SI's have finally given me a definition for what I have been calling "PK" all this time. They say to tell you that "PK" means "Other Dimensional Effects", which means simply that they have been creating the phenomena from their own dimension to take effect in our dimension. Remember I told you the SI's were going to PK all vehicles? After that there was the terrible ship strike that paralyzed England's shipping; the great hassle over "unsafe" new cars that sort of bent the auto business and almost unhinged the stock market; last week's auto strike; and the present airplane strike...its biggest in history. All vehicles. Plus yes many ship collisions, burnings; auto accidents; plane wrecks; train derailments; etc. The SI's are near this area, and are about to make a move that will bring them to public notice again, just in case people are forgetting them. Something startling. They are getting restless because I am not getting anywhere with the U.S. Government. That bodes ill for the U.S. Govt.. I know from experience. I direct your attention to my letter of Oct. 24, 1964...the idea therein is still a good one. Incidentaly...another hit. My ltr. to you of January 23, 1965: "I am, therefore, concentrating more deadly PK on Castro...am amazed nothing has happened to him...he is the only one I can remember to resist the PK effects, unless they have a double who has taken his place." Phila. Inquirer. 6/20/66 === Page 98 of 246 7/11/66 B3 P2 2 "CASTRO REPORTED SICK IN EUROPE" - "Miami, Fla. June 20 (AP)-An American anti-Castro organization said Monday that it has been informed from inside Cuba that Fidel Castro is undergoing medical treatment in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia and that a double is taking his place in Havana...the committee said that Castro had undergone electroshock mental treatments for three weeks in Havana. Bethel, executive secretary of the committee, said Castro has used doubles more than once in the past several years." So, George, it seems that perhaps my PK did get to the target...and my hunch was certainly right about Castro using a double. When I "hit" Castro with PK, I glued a magnet onto his face, on a picture, and combined it with my usual PK practice. It is interesting that his trouble is mental. The magnet is still there. You know, after all of my success in predictions...the U.S. Govt. should be beating down my door to utilize my services in this capacity alone. DO YOU REALIZE....what I have accomplished these past several months? (1) Predicted A UFO would fly over Philadelphia and be seen by all within a few days...and that is exactly what happened...the East Coast "fireball". (2) Predicted an early hurricane, within a few days...and Hurricane Alma appeared in six days. (3) Predicted big earthquake in California in the "near future"...and they then had the strongest quake in eleven years within two weeks, plus two other big quakes on top of it. (4) Predicted that Philadelphia would be attacked by violent lightning attacks "in the near future"...and it has had three such storms shortly afterward. (5) Predicted the Commies would launch an "imminent" attack on our fleet at Viet Nam. It was imminent. They struck with torpedo boats within two days after my warning. (And that was just the prelude to the symphony.) In other words...my information has been such that I feel quite safe in saying no other human being in this world could have duplicated it...and no intelligence service of this or any other government could have duplicated it. Consider the variety of the predictions. Why is why I think the U.S. Government must have some wheels missing...not to utilize my services. P K Man (Owens) - Owens 4 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 99 of 246 Kids!! Thanks for those quakclips. We did not get that info here!! Dad Monday, July 11, 1966 Mr. George Clark CIA Dear George: The SI's warn... of an imminent major happening in Europe which will both shock and amaze the U.S. - and confront us with another major crisis to try and cope with. I warned you in my letters of Feb. 18, 1965, and July 17, 1965, that the Russians had some new weapons which we didn't know about that made them confident of having a big edge over us in case of war. Yesterday one of those weapons was exposed through the newspapers to the U.S. - a missile that can alter its direction. BUT I wrote the U.S. Govt. long ago that the Russ had this missile. I wrote you and told you that Russia had a missile that they could shoot, alter its direction, and bring around at us from a Latin American country... and then who could we pin the blame on. One of their other dandy new weapons they are secretly showing De Gaulle, etc., to persuade our allies it would be far better to switch alliances than to fight. Probably is why Wilson is being invited to Moscow. The U.S. is losing its friends - weak though they be - and the U.S. is slowly getting snookered. We haven't had a good idea in a carload for much too long a time. We've been butting heads with Russia, then with China and Asia - and now we're butting heads with our allies and neutrals. Our own country is butting its head against the wall in its spare time, being divided as it is with colored vs whites, anti-war demonstrators, etc. As I warned you some time ago, things will go from worse to worse to worser - unless the U.S. joins the UFO's. They alone can unravel the whole mess and put things right. === Page 100 of 246 9/3/65 p2 2 constructive channels, then things could get rough. Because of my newspaper write-up on rainmaking, and the two radio broadcasts.......... I lost my job..........and the agency that was placing me on jobs, dropped me as "some kind of nut." Ha ha ha! Yep, a 5-10 billion dollars nut..........that's about what I have cost the government so far with PK. But of course, I expected it, and willingly made the "trade"..........as a matter of personal values. I have about three dozen letters I received as a result of the radio programs.......... from everywhere.......... Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Delaware..........even Canada. Would you like to see these peoples' letters, plus my answers? If so, let me know and will send them..........but you must promise to send them back, because they are a part of my files. When do you start to school? Just think, Lornie, you'll be 16 purty soon. My, my, how you do grow. Be no time at all until you have a beautiful home of your own, a fine husband who loves you, and be raising your own little chilluns. Great care must be used, however, in selecting your man..........remember that. Teen-agers get "crushes" on fellows their age, sometimes ... oh foo, I'm not going to try and advise you. Sometimes I think maybe teenagers, in their brainless "crush" state..........are working on a more accurate "beam" from Nature..........than older, more mature people who think they know all of the answers because they are older and more mature. And they still wind up throwing things at their husband, or worse. Who knows? Only Nature. Not people, that's for sure. One thing is for sure..........Pat is a fine judge of people, and can steer you straight. She can spot a phony a mile away..........just like daddy can. So give momma a look at any of your catches. She'll read him, but good. Well, Rick, what are you doing? Out of town visiting? Be very careful of venereal disease, kids. This week were two articles in the papers..........doctors everywhere now are greatly alarmed because just recently VD rate shot up to the moon. They can't understand why, but they are warning all the highschool and college kids to beware.......... Write. Love and kisses.......... Dad. P.S. Just finished making a dandy rainstorm - which, as a side-product to my prediction - put out a giant 5-alarm fire which the firemen couldn't handle because water facilities were too far away from the scene - people in 10 homes were evacuated because the fire was out of control. Meanwhile I was on the balcony outside our apartment, activating the storm. It put the fire out. See attached. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 101 of 246 Friday, Sept. 3, 1965 Dear Lornie and Rick: Hi...what are you two up now? Rick, haven't heard from you for a long time. Am surprised, in lieu of the successes have had with "PK phenomena these past weeks. I wouldn't suppose wild elephants could keep you from writing about it. Right now am working on Hurricane Betsy...naturally...just like last year. Spent hours last night getting Betsy to turn left, hook West. Have had to correct her course several times now. But she's a good little hurricane...and I have added several refinements and mechanisms which I can't discuss here...but which are dandies. For instance, when I read that 15 airplanes were getting ready to attack Betsy, while she was standing still temporarily, with silver iodide, to kill her....I put in anti-plane PK in such a way that Betsy had a chance herself to get the planes, before the planes got her. Like they were reading my mind, the government canceled the plane strike. Good thing they did. I have learned so much...so much...since you kids have left. Damn, wish I could tell you all about it. What I have learned is from the saucer intelligences....the ones I got the message from in Washington that night at Mangels. Whatever you do...if anything ever happens to me....be sure and get my files, which I carry mostly in a black bag, wherever I go...Have a bunch of notebooks in there, and a bunch of folders with material. For God's sake keep this until you grow up...I will never be able to forget what happened to the material I sent to Pat to keep for me, when I was in a jam in Phoenix one time...in the ash can it went. So do not let anyone else get their hands on my file. Keep it yourselves, because it is beyond price or value. When I tell you that, you'd better believe it. I have even drawn colored pictures of the insides of the Si's spacecraft...pictures of the different things they do, and how they do them. For instance, they know where I am at all times, and how I am...because they have rigged a "floating light" high overhead in the sky, over me, wherever I go. This light pulsates, and tells them not one thing...just where I am...but my mood, my emotions, how alive I am, and so on. Yesterday, again, someone in a car tried to hit me. That makes three times in a week it's been tried. New, someone trying to brainwash you would say, "Ah, he's a paranoid nut." But not so...I have been walking to work for months here, and have never had an accident, or a near accident...until this week. Then suddenly pow pow pow...three "freak" occurrences where cars, instead of letting me walk with the light, suddenly accelerate to high speed and except for my peripheral vision and agility would have settled me for good by now. Whoever is behind it...will give up on cars now...for I am wary of that trap...and will try another angle. Am sure it is not our government, because they seem to place ... well ...I don't think it is. Could be commie. My 4-hour radio stint that one night told the commie's all they needed to hear, to try and get me, before the U.S. Government miraculously finds its right mind and accepts me. Am positive you kids are not getting all of my mail; why, I don't know. But if you were, you would be writing differently, and more often. That is for sure. One day you will see my file...and I have copies of all letters I have sent to you...and you can see very easily what you've gotten and what you haven't. Little Bo is so cute, it is almost unbelievable. And smart....wow! Zachow, the scientist who's been investigating me and my work...says to watch Bo carefully and teach him carefully...because he has my eyes and the same ability to direct "projectionalize thought-force" with devastating results. If he isn't taught to direct this ability into 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 102 of 246 2 Today I got a write-up in the Bulletin newspaper here in Phila., and because this was a major aim of the 84's, it made them very very happy. If you want to know the details...they were twittering and tweeting excitedly, which is the noise they make when they get excited. Because they have been made happy for a change, instead of frustrated, they will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation...and I think that they will also do something nice for CIA, and perhaps the U.S. Government, in exchange for this show of friendship...this story. Because this story was a key pivotal point in their plans, since I couldn't get through to official Washington. Only one thing bothers the 84's and gives them trouble...and that is the "time" factor, because they do not know time, or use time, as we know and use it. We measure it by minutes, hours, days, weeks...but they do not. Sometimes when I send them intelligence, and do not get results in a few days, I give up...but it happens, comes about, a week or two later. Sometimes, to my utter amazement, it happens overnight. Such as the Russian spaceship Pashkov. I "hit it with PK" (i.e. sent my instructions to the UFO's) and they got it overnight, just the way I wanted them to. Such as the night I hit the West Coast with "earthquake PK" and by morning Washington-Oregon had the quake. And so on with other examples I could name. I myself do not understand the time angle. Perhaps I will. They are busily telling me things about their activities and themselves, which of course I am faithfully logging. They, and I, do not expect anyone at all to believe us on this...unless it is absolutely proven by them...and that is what I have been doing, and will continue to do. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 103 of 246 Kids - The day after I wrote this letter and mailed it - lightning hit the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. Killed one, injured up to five for the hospital. Dad Wednesday, August 3, 1966 Dear President Johnson: On July 21, 1966, I wrote George Clark, CIA: "My little friends (in flying saucers; UFO's) say that they will appear over one of our major U. S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs.)" "They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon." .......... "The above in an effort to further prove that PK Man (T. C. Owens, The Rainmaker) is their representative and that they can communicate with PK Man." ---------- Mr. Johnson, when I typed that letter the SI's (saucer intelligences) told me they were sending out UFO's to blanket every State in the U.S. Ready to use lightning, or any other signal I should send. Poised and ready. Today I read in the paper that last weekend they had been sighted in many States over Saturday and Sunday. Do not mistake this. They are very excited, as I am excited. For after centuries of time they have at last managed to set up an effective communication with a human being (myself). They have taken a full year of setting this whole thing up with me... as a matter of fact, until the South Pole sighting I did not know that my work had anything to do with UFO's... I thought that I was contacting the intelligence behind Nature, whatever that was. For the SI's have given the U.S. Government proof positive, two different ways and two different times, that I am connected with them, with a two-way communication. Which I most certainly am. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 104 of 246 August 6, Friday, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: I will have an important "intelligence" tip to give you soon, which could conceivably benefit the CIA. For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (*) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. Am I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the === Page 105 of 246 source ture (Copy - 2nd Page) Monday, August 9, 1965 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: I would appreciate an opportunity to answer Mr. Rosenberg, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mrs. R. B., of Langhorne, Pa., who placed articles re my rainmaking in your newspaper this evening. WELL-WRITTEN First, Mr. Rosenberg... Mr. Darling, of the Bulletin, is a very intelligent man, and knows that a memory system is simply a memory system, nothing more. I even explained to him at the time of the interview that I learned my memory system from Roth's book, if he should like to take it up. Actually, the demonstration proved only that visual imagery works in this fashion; I am sorrowfully afraid, Mr. Rosenberg, that no matter how I performed a memory system, it would not make me look like a genius, a mind reader, or a mystic, for I am certainly none of these things, and did not try to impress the veteran feature writer in that regard (for he has been long a pro at seeing through ruses such as you mention.) You should have been listening to Radio Station WCAU last Wednesday evening. For four hours I endeavored to explain the why's and wherefore's of my modus operandi of making it rain. That was the Jack McKinney Show. And then again today, on the Ed Harvey's Radio Show, WCAU, I went further into the matter. The trick memory system has absolutely nothing to do with it, Mr. Rosenberg. I wish you would be a good reporter, first get your facts straight. FURTHERMORE, ON LOOKING AT YOUR LIST, I SHOULD LIKE TO STATE UNEQUIVOCABLY THAT MY BASKET WAS NOT SITTING IN YOUR PUDDLES, SIR!! Mrs. R. B., after I got through howling at your rainmaking methods, the thought occurred to me... then and if I ever get a vacation with my wife, and it rains... I hope sincerely that she has the priceless sense of humor that you have. A sense of humor in a wife is worth more than diamonds, rubies and pearls. LIKE YOURSELF In closing, may I point out that the only good rain that Philadelphia has had these past weeks was last Wednesday night, when I went on the air at WCAU to deliver my message re UFO's, and today, when I again went on the air at WCAU. It is a fact that I told Mr. Ed Harvey last Friday that I would do my best to deliver an excellent rain on Monday (today). I believe that this is exactly what has occurred. Station WCAU Anyone interested in my rainmaking work can write to me at the Congress Hotel here in Philadelphia, and I will answer every sincere letter. Ted Owens "THE RAINMAKER" c/o Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Love - Daddy P.S. I deliberately brought in storms on both days of my radio broadcasts... therefore Philadelphia owes its present rain to Mr. Darling at the Bulletin; Jack McKinney and Tom Spence, of WCAU; and Mr. Ed Harvey, of the Ed Harvey Show, WCAU. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 106 of 246 8/10/65 P3 ...a signal from the UFO's that they are listening, and are in action. Have you looked at your weather maps lately? That is precisely what has happened. But in the near future I do not think that the East Coast will benefit too much, re drought-relief. They will need the services of a rain-maker; namely, me. And anyone wanting to rent my unique services can write to me care of your paper. For that matter, anyone wanting to write me a personal letter can do that; and I will also be glad to send my message from the UFO's to the American people...the one that Jack McKinney read on his program...to any of your readers who wish it. Sincerely, Ted Owens "THE RAIN MAKER" === Page 107 of 246 8/10/65 p2 2 that my storms feature lightning...remember in my Bulletin story, that I said my specialty was lightning? Also, I pointed out to him that on another occasion here in Philadelphia I had endeavored to "aim" lightning at a radio tower downtown, in Center City. Also I aimed lightning at any power-stations in the area, as an experiment. Remember this. I also pointed out to Mr. Harvey that the rule, for my storms, is that they literally cause disaster-areas. They are violent, full of lightning attacks, and flood. Mr. Harvey jokingly asked me not to flood Philadelphia. So after the show, I went home to my apartment. And it rained, hard. It came down in sheets. But one thing was missing...lightning. So I told my wife that I would add the missing ingredient, and went out onto a balcony outside my apartment, and worked for lightning, lots of it. The results were better than I hoped for. The next rainfall, after an interval, carried lightning with it...lots of it. And, mark this, next morning I read in the paper that lightning had hit a tower, not here but in New Jersey, and knocked out the power for the police. Also it hit a power-supply, and knocked out the power for many many houses. Just as I had mentioned it in the afternoon...as if my little UFO friends had been listening and decided to include it. Fantastic? It happened, just that way. Now I have another assignment to carry out for Mr. Harvey. Keep the sky clear of rain Thursday night, for his ball-game. And for Mr. Harvey, it is a downright pleasure. Before closing, would like to point out that on the Jack McKinney show I told the audience that rain would suddenly appear all over the United States 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 108 of 246 Evening Bulletin Thursday, August 10, 1955 Dear Sir: Something for you to print, of an unusual nature, if you would like it. This is a recap for the past week for my friends in Philadelphia, of the excitement in the air, with the Rain Maker, straight from the Rain Maker. Last Wednesday Jack McKinney had me on his show at WCAU, and we fought like cats and dogs, in a very friendly way, over rain-making and UFO's. For four hours, which is a long time. Mr. McKinney (a fine man, by the way, even if he does not believe in UFO's, ha ha) sought to pin down the facts on my rain-making, and especially since it is connected with the workings of flying-saucers. For help (as if he needed any) he had Lou Spence, who helped me finish my sentences and dot my i's. Of course, I had already made several storms over Philadelphia..........and written well ahead of time to the papers here that I was making them, (see the Bulletin story.) And, before the show, I had worked on a storm to dramatize my appearance on his show. It began at the beginning of the evening show, and did Philadelphia a bit of good, water-wise. Then, on Friday, Mr. Ed Harvey called me and asked me to appear on his show the following Monday, at WCAU, and he specifically asked me to make it storm that day (yesterday) Monday. I told him that I would do my best. So, all week-end, I worked for a storm, but in an unusual way, for me. I had to time the storm to hit Monday, instead of Sunday, which is my favorite storm day next to Saturday. The storm-materials were all present and accounted for on Sunday, and I fought to hold them in check. Then, on Monday, I released them. It rained a bit in the afternoon, and I went on the Ed Harvey Show. Now, listen carefully..........on the show I told Mr. Harvey 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 109 of 246 Wednesday August 18, 1965 Editor Philadelphia Daily News Dear Sir: Here is an interesting item, if you would like to print it. In your story "Blonde Gets Black Eye As 'Thing' Attacks Car", in your paper 8/17/65, the mother of the girl who was attacked...and they were both in the car during the attack by the 7-foot, 400 lb. "monster"...has the name of Rose Owens (I refer you to the clipping.) The girl who was attacked, then, was named Owens before her marriage. A strange coincidence. The Wednesday previously I appeared on The Jack McKinney Show, Station WCAU, here in Philadelphia, and Mr. McKinney was kind enough to read a 3-page letter, or message, given to me by the UFO intelligences to pass on to the American people. So what? What is the coincidence? My name is Ted Owens, "The Rain Maker." Why not ask your readers if they would like to read this strange message from the UFO's? I will enclose a copy then, and if readers contact your paper, asking for it, if you wish you can print it. I offered it to the Bulletin for printing, but they have evidently decided not to do so, for whatever reasons. The "monster" in your story, above, could be connected with the UFO's...note that the womens' car stalled, which is a usual occurrence when a UFO is near. Kills the power. Owens === Page 110 of 246 (Exact copy of story which appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News, 8/17/65) "BLONDE GETS BLACK EYE AS 'THING' ATTACKS CAR" Monroe, Michigan (UPI) What weighs more than 400 pounds, smells moldy, growls like a mad dog, and dislikes automobiles? Answer X - The Monroe County Monster. That was the latest on the "thing" that has been sighted here and there in Monroe County during the past two months by at least 16 persons, including Christine Van Acker, 17-year old blonde. Miss Van Acker, who goes to a beautician school here, has a black eye she said was inflicted by the monster Friday night. State police were checking her story and patrolling the area at night northeast of this southern Michigan City. Miss Van Acker gave this story of the encounter: "I was driving mother, Mrs. Rose Owens, home. Suddenly there was this bump and a hairy arm grabbed me by the hair. It wasn't human or anything. I tried to go faster but the car stalled." The girl fainted. Mrs. Owens, who jumped out of the car and ran for help, described the ordeal like this: "The first I knew there was this bang and an arm came through the window. ; Christine yelled, 'Mommy, help me! Oh my God, help!' "I told her to get the car going...but it stalled. The monster had his paw entwined in her hair and kept banging her head on the side of the car. I decided the best thing to do was go for help." "When I got back with other people, Christine was semi-conscious, and the monster was gone." "The monster was at least seven feet tall, weighed about 400 pounds, and it had a long reach. It was all covered with black, bristly hair, towards the end of the hair it was silver. You couldn't see its face, there was so much hair." "And it growled. It had a real growl, and definitely it was not a bear." Christine said she was sure it was not a bear "because bears have fur and this thing had prickly hair like thorns" She also said she was sure it was not a prankster "because nobody human would do anything like that." The monster sightings have occurred in Frenchtown and Ashe townships within the last 60 days. One man reported the monster climbed onto his car, and thumped on the roof and fenders before disappearing into the woods. A woman reported she saw the monster and it smelled moldy. Etc. === Page 111 of 246 8/11/65 p2 2 this letter was written, and sent to you, you have spent a great deal of time travelling about, inspecting disaster areas...catastrophe after catastrophe, as my letter warned. I would venture to state that never, in the entire history of the United States, has there been a year so filled with natural catastrophes as July, 1964, to July, 1965. To name just a few catastrophes...and areas...the disastrous fires on the California Coast; the disastrous floods last Christmas on the California Coast; the giant earthquake in Oregon-Washington; the horrendous damage from Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, Hurricane Isbell, Hurricane Hilda; crippling floods in North/South Carolina; disastrous floods in the Midwest States; unprecedented tornado attacks in the Midwest; and so on and so on for a long long list. You will note that I state on the first page of last year's letter: "...the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead." This was correct, absolutely. In closing, the UFO's have instructed me to point out that the paragraph of last year's letter which refers to causing missiles to explode in their silos, is now referred to for a reason all their own. (Not mine.) They caused the missile silo tragedy, in order to direct my attention back to this letter, in order for me to write you another letter, one year later...pointing out that this particular paragraph states that it is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability be understood by all. The reason. The causal-factor, as Mr. Dunn of your CIA put it to me. And that is...UFO's. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man - Rain Maker) Congress Hotel 1336 Walnut Philadelphia, Pa. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 112 of 246 Wednesday, August 11, 1965 President Johnson, The White House. Dear Mr. President: This letter is of the utmost importance to you. Please find attached copy of letter I sent to you almost a year ago. Also State Dept. and other Govt. agencies. A more prophetic "intelligence report" you will never find. The missile silo that just blew up, or whatever happened to it...see paragraph marked in red. This is further emphasized at this particularly peculiar time because of the "rain making" work that I am doing in Philadelphia, predicting rainstorms in advance and then bringing them in on schedule, or as close to schedule as possible. So far I have not missed, and would be surprised if I did. Monday's storm in Philadelphia was made by myself, and the lightning attacks co-incide with other letters which you should have in your file, of weeks ago, when the UFO's said they would provide lightning attacks to prove my connection with them. At the time this letter was written, almost a year ago, I believed that I was in contact with the intelligence behind Nature; only lately have I found out that I am in contact with UFO's, as proved by the UFO sighting over the South Pole, and my earlier letter before that, predicting the event in detail sans UFO. Therefore I believe at this time the UFO's are, at a year's interval, warning the people of the U.S. once more...re my "Message to the American people from the UFO's" as read over the radio from Station WCAU last Wednesday, August 4, 1965, on the Jack McKinney Show. Note that in my letter of last year states: "Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees." This sentence should make great sense to you...because since 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 113 of 246 8/25/64? P93 Let Kruschev say "God and Religion - phooey! The State will give you security." Let Papa Duvalier say "My voodoo devils are greater than your God." Let Castro say "Cuba and Russia are friends...we need no God." But Nature wishes to make some drastic changes. Working from my own country, and protected by my government, I will direct certain powers of Nature onto any country filled with the spirit of hate and killing and war. My own country, observing the results, will, when peace in the world is assured, lay aside all weapons of war - or else. And return to a stronger faith in the absolute power of God and Nature than now exists among its peoples. Perhaps from reading this it will be thought that I am 'some kind of nut' - or religious fanatic. But what you may think is really irrelevant and immaterial, for Nature will be heard. It's voice is coming through, loud and clear. You can expect to continue to see signs and wonders, until you believe. Until Nature's voice is recognized, and fully obeyed. H. T. Owens (The PK Man) 6309 Wildwood Trail Myrtle Beach South Carolina === Page 114 of 246 8/25/64? Pg 2 2 Nature (God) is dedicated to the perpetuation of the human race of mankind. But mankind, at present, is seemingly dedicated toward its own obliteration and destruction. "Man's inhumanity to man" is the banner now flying. Nature, therefore, must step in, in an unusual manner, and show the world, by demonstration, that Nature... not mankind... controls the preservation of the species. That Nature's own secrets hold far greater power and scope than do H-bombs and stockpiles of war materials. Nature has, oddly enough, appointed me as its human voice and representative... to speak its intelligence to you. Furthermore, Nature is fully aware that without signs and wonders you wouldn't believe me. Nature has, therefore, endowed me with unbelievable powers - a small demonstration of which I have already made. This is what Nature is saying, through my pen: First, it is absolutely necessary that my own country and Government (which has the Bible and Christianity at its core) be convinced of the basic truth of this message. Nature is eager, and completely, wholeheartedly, willing to back me up in any constructive move to bring this about. (Should I misuse this infinite power placed in my hands by a trusting but omnipresent Nature, then it will transfer the power to a more worthy human, to carry on the program. People can be stopped, but Nature never. Then, after my own Government is convinced, this dynamic power of Nature will be directed, focused, upon the mouldy, rotting spots of mankind - and these spots eliminated, so that mankind will stop deteriorating and grow healthy. Mark this: All materials of warfare must be transformed into plowshares - or else. Or else Nature will chastise the erring country with catastrophe after catastrophe. Earthquake, fire, famine, flood, sickness. Nature will select the proper catastrophes to bring the unbelieving country to its knees. ruined *By this later date, Sept. 25, have successfully brought down Titan III; 000, the Satellite; and directed Hurricane Dora onto Cape Kennedy. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 115 of 246 August 25, 1964 pg 1 Lightning struck, and left its mark, on a Titan missile at Cape Kennedy. It was my lightning. Next, Hurricane Cleo formed and descended on . . . Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was my hurricane. You are, of course, quite skeptical, and will think, of course, that it would be impossible to be true. Anyone can check with the Space Agency at Cape Kennedy . . . or the State Department in Washington, D. C., and if they tell the truth they will tell you that I informed them weeks in advance of the above two events. I even wired the Space Agency that I could stop Hurricane Cleo from striking it . . . even before Cleo reached Miami. They did not reply, so I had no alternative but to let Cleo take her route, which I had laid out for her. (Over three hundred million dollars in damage could have been avoided.) But, there are more important matters than a few hundred million dollars loss . . . hence this unusual communication. And, I might add, the aforementioned 'catastrophes' are merely a sample of what lies ahead. Do I think that I've been elected to 'save the world'? No. Do I think, perhaps, that I am God? No. Or Jesus? No. I am not insane or psychotic. I am a human being, utterly astonished at what is being dealt out through me, by Nature. And, I might add, I am quite willing to accept the awesome responsibility given to me by Nature . . . in spite of the lumps that I know I shall receive from my fellow humans. (It is extremely important that the reason for my "PK" ability (to cause storms; to direct lightning bolts; to form and guide hurricanes; to cause fires far away from myself; to sink subs far away in the ocean; to cause missiles to explode in their silos) be understood by all.) 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 116 of 246 Tuesday, August 31, 1965 Mr. Dunn, Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Hurricane Center Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Dunn: You and I are going to have some fun this hurricane season. I am the man who wrote you in 1964. I successfully ran three hurricanes across the Cape Kennedy area...and also managed to direct one to the Michoud Space Complex in Louisiana. Last year I discovered a method of making hurricanes (have sent out 1,000 hurricane-hunter groups, of PK (psychokineses) several months ago...) then guiding them; and bringing them to life after they die. (Brought 2 back to life last year) Last year I managed to make the hurricane hook left into Florida; a first in a century, the papers said. Also Cleo followed my "PK" map. And one other...I forget offhand now, not having my books at hand. Nevertheless, let us have a game...Dunn versus P K Man. I am producing hurricanes and typhoons. But I am interested only in the hurricanes, insofar as I can guide them to target-area...Daytona Beach to Miami...which area is named "Electro." You and the U.S. Govt. try to stop them...and I will bring them in. It will be very interesting. I was going to bring them up the East Coast in order to bring rain to New York...but was rejected by everyone when I offered to break the East Coast drought...so now I am going to do this. After the hurricanes either hit the target, Electro...or get away from me completely (only one did last year..the rest were hits) then I will take them off to the right as soon as they draw near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and send them off to sea. Do not take this lightly. I warn you most seriously. You would be well advised to contact Central Intelligence Agency and NASA for copies of my file, before you pass this letter off as a "crank" letter. And, as I wrote you last year, would greatly appreciate it if you would name one hurricane after my daughter Lornie...Hurricane Lornie. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 111 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Even "seeding" will not stop them, because I have done a little something with the PK to beat seeding. 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 117 of 246 2 8/10/65 put satellites (rain or sun, etc.) over it, and throw so many black, or red "units" at it...etc., they could understand this, and rapidly acted. and how they acted, as you well know. The next logical thing now is for someone to hire me to break the drought for New York...or Philadelphia...or the entire East Coast, which would be as easy, as you know. Following the breaking of the drought will be even bigger things, the little "voice" seeps through to me, like osmosis. You were right, one of you, I can't remember which, when you told me that you thought there was something even bigger ahead than my PK discoveries. You were so...right. Nice thing about it is, I was so bored, just causing storms, bringing down airplanes, lousing up military operations, making earthquakes with Emmy-Emma (Rick's brainchild.) Now things are moving, at last. Funny that the Air Force, the CIA, the US Govt., and the Rhines haven't been jumping up and down to get hold of me. They have my letter-file, calling dozens of big events in advance, in detail. I really do not understand it. The US Government probably doesn't want to be forced by the UFO's to pay attention...Johnson, especially. But they are dealing with UFO's, a far greater power than any other existing on this earth. God help them if they delay too much longer. I warned them weeks ago that a terrible blow would be struck at the US Government if they didn't pay attention; and within a week the bomber in Viet Nam turned around, with nobody in it, and flew back and crashed, with all its bombs, on U S Military Headquarters in their allied city, Nan Trang, or something like that. Then today one of their missile silos "accidentally" blew up. They are so dense and stupid. But enough of that. Write often, if you can. Lornie, honey, I like those 15¢ Optimos. They are good cigars. Or those Pats that come 7 in a pack. Love & Kisses - Daddy PK Man === Page 118 of 246 Tuesday, August 10, 1965 Dear Lonnie, and Rick... - enjoyed your letter, Rick my boy. Don't worry, son, can you remember a time when your daddy didn't keep punching? That'll be the day. All hell is breaking loose in Philadelphia...as a matter of fact, I almost ruined Philadelphia last night. Remember how you and I used to stand out in the yard in Phoenix, and bring on those gangbusters? Well, I brought one on in style, and the results are enclosed, in clippings. You'll be proud, and you'll remember Phoenix...and Los Angeles...etc etc. The beauty of it was...Ed Harvey, who has the radio show for CBS here called "Talk of Philadelphia"...called me last Friday and asked me to make a storm tailor-made for this Monday, the day I was to appear on his program, so that he could be telling about it over the weekend. I told him that I would, and set to work. The weather was hot and clear, then. I worked like the dickens Saturday and Sunday...throwing a lot of oomph into it, but also working to hold it back until Monday, so that it wouldn't bust loose Sunday. I'll enclose a copy of letter to the paper here which am sending in, and it tells you the rest, to save wear and tear on my fingers. The point is, at last, kids, at last, people "out there" are beginning to find out what you have known all along. That I can control storms (have made, and written into the papers well in advance, five good storms now) and perhaps other things as well. Also, and more important, Jack McKinney, on that 4-hour brain-buster last Wednesday, I forced into reading a message from the UFO's to the American people. Now, my storm-work of course carries a lot of weight...and I am positive that the message will get across. Am enclosing a copy. Am absent-minded, you know, and don't remember whether I did before or not. Listen, kids, all those "units" and things were a sort of vocabulary that the UFO's were giving me...it was their way of understanding...so when I would put something into a PK bubble, and 07/09/2025 16:13 === Page 119 of 246 8/12/65 p6 the storm here, all areas around benefitted from it. okay. Tuesday came. Dozens of different homes had been hit by bolts of lightning. One lightning bolt came inside a man's kitchen while he was cooking supper, and hit his stove. Lightning hit a police radio tower. A bolt hit the Willow Grove (suburb) power supply and knocked out the power. A bolt hit a hospital. And so on. Nobody was hurt. Tuesday there were black clouds in the sky. I knew the UFO's had plenty of materials if I wanted more. But I didn't. I wanted it clear. I signalled them strongly to hold off all rain. Tuesday passed - a dark, cloudy day just wanting to rain. But it didn't. Wednesday came. Dark boiling clouds overhead. Paper said 6 chances in 10 of rain. I signalled no rain. There was no rain. Today, Thursday, all clouds were gone. Sunny & clear. So Ed Harvey is happy tonight at his ball game. (But Philly could have had two more fine storms. A pity) However, I'm choking off rain out here now. In the PK bubble with sun cats, plus other mechanisms. If they want rain now - they play ball with the UFO's. If they don't play ball - there'll be no water. No offers yet. Write Love & kisses, Dad. * Told them to swing the rain west & dump it there. === Page 120 of 246 8/12/65 P5 "Ted," Martha called from inside the window, "why is it the rain stops each time you begin to signal?" Yep. Even she noticed it. (But the day was full of surprises. On the radio show I had told Harvey that every area I had hit with PK had become an official disaster area. He'd laughed and asked me for Heaven's sake not to flood Philly.) Well. After an hour the storm stopped, and I left to go to the YMCA to type some letters. When I came out of the Y, all hell broke loose. You've seen some of my little beauties - knocking out Baggio's windows, lightning bolts hitting our house etc. This storm was a giant compared to those midgets you saw. Rain was driving down so hard you couldn't see. Cars were stalled in the street. Bolts of lightning were hitting in every direction. It was majestic. It was a regular symphony of a storm. (Days before I had told Martha I wanted Monday's storm to hit Philly - pow! and tear it up! Chew it up! Rain so thick you couldn't see a foot away. Lightning everywhere.) In every detail - this was the storm. You read the papers description of it but they couldn't do it justice. New York City got a billion gallons of rain-water from this Philly flood (yes, it flooded.) When I brought === Page 121 of 246 8/12/65 pg 4 personal favor. He was going to an important baseball game Thursday night - could I keep it nice, clear, & no rain that night? (It was raining outside when I asked this.) I assured him I would take the rain away from Phila. for that night. Now during the program, I discussed how I "aimed" lightning - had aimed at two Phila targets in earlier storms, a radio tower and the power-supply of the city. I'd actually managed to hit the power supply of the city! And I told how I liked lightning - my storms had my "lightning trademark" - it is my specialty. I went home then it began to come down in solid sheets. But no lightning. "Hell!" I told Martha, taking a drink of cold beer, "that's a good storm, but I've got to put more lightning in it!" So I went outside and signalled the UFO's (I have an all-new system now) and told them lightning - lots of lightning. Suddenly there were some lightning flashes and I knew they'd heard me. Took me four or five attempts to get it over to them, though - and each time I'd begin again, the heavy rain would stop. When I'd finish signalling the rain would start up again. It was weird. Like they'd stop the rain temporarily to find out if I was wanting something else instead. === Page 122 of 246 8/12/65 3 by the Central Room that she was still hooked up long distance and was listening to the show over the phone!! Ha ha ha!! Anyway - on the way over to the radio station that Wed. evening the skies were clear. I sent signals to the UFO's desperately to make it rain, fast - to coincide with my program appearance. Half hour later, as I was walking up to the door of the studio, rain began to pour down. During the program people call up, put themselves on the air, and ask questions. I had to answer them. It was great fun. It lasted four hours. And rain soaked the town. It was a nice, quiet downpour. Steady rain all night. Two days later, Friday, I got a call from Ed Harvey, another famous radio personality here with "Talk of Philadelphia" program. He wanted me to be on his program on Monday, Aug. 9. Also, he wanted me to make a storm for Monday - so he could advertise it in advance. (Friday was a smashing, clear day.) I told him I would bring in a rainstorm on Monday + appear on the show. He was nice on the program. Asked me why on earth the Govt. didn't use my services. Why New York didn't hire me. (Oh, it was raining by now lightly, outside.) He told the audience, looking me straight in the eye, "Ted there is no doubt whatever in my mind that you could break the drought on the East Coast." He reached a === Page 123 of 246 8/12/65 Things had been predicted in advance by me - or caused by me. They asked me, real sneakily, which to call? CIA? NASA? Jeane? Cayce? Mangels? I recommended Cayce, on the terrific double-prediction on Pres. Johnson, 3 months in advance. Aha! Said McKrinny - he must be your co-host. So we'll call Mangels, that all right? Sure, be my guest, I told him. So they got hold of Jean - she came through loud & clear. "Miss Mangels," asked McKrinny, "is it true Ted Owens predicted there would be a major earthquake on the West Coast within just a few days - and it happened the next day?" "Yes," said Jeanne, "he did. He absolutely did." McKrinny & Spence frowned, their eyes bulged, and they stared at me unbelievably. "Well," says Mac, "he says he caused the earthquake. Do you believe that?" "No," she answers, "I won't go along with that. I don't think so." "Uh huh," says Mac. "Now did he make any other predictions to you, that came true." "Yes," she said, "he did." "How many of his predictions came true?" "I would say four out of five." They thanked her - forgot her - and went ahead with the program. Half an hour later they were told === Page 124 of 246 Thursday, Aug. 12, '65 -- Lorrie and Rick Dear pals: Time to sit down now and fill you in on all the excitement. You read the Bulletin story on The Rain Maker. Philadelphia has had only 7 rains since the 1st of June -- and I made all 7. Before each one, usually a week, I wrote the papers and told them it was coming. So I was invited to be on the famous (around here) Jack McKinney "Night Show." I was supposed to be on one hour. After me came a U.S. Senator. After him, Jack Carter, the comedian so much on Ed Sullivan's show. All McKinney knew was I claimed to be a rain-maker. PK Man he'd never met. He met PK Man 5 minutes after the show started. I laid out my files in front of the battery of mikes and started to work. (I'd been cued in advance by the 'Sir' what to do.) The hour flew by. McKinney and Spence, a man he'd brought in to help attack me -- were sweating blood, and getting nowhere. They'd prepared a perfect case for attacking mere rain-making, but the PK and all I'd done with it -- plus UFO's, were sinking them rapidly. So McKinney on a station break -- told Spence to call the Senator and Carter at his hotel, and cancel them out. "Boy, I've made two enemies tonight!" he told me, gritting his teeth. The second hour they got a bright idea. They'd call one of my letter-file contacts, unexpectedly, long-distance, to verify my claims that all these impossible === Page 125 of 246 July 11, 1964 Lomie I wrote you a letter, some time ago, telling you we are at the Congress Hotel, Rm. 600, 13th & Walnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also I sent you a giant letter, describing the circus. But you have not written. I want a letter from you telling me you got my long circus letter. Put to you kids away from you, even if it caused me lots of trouble. I expect that same privilege to be given me. If I do not hear from you - then I will know you are not being allowed to get my letters. Then I'll let PK settle the matter. Love, Dad P.S. Enclosed is program from Pres. Johnson's shindig, which we did Saturday. === Page 126 of 246 Note: Attached letter - wrote George day before Adlai dropped dead - warning them!! July 16, 1965, Friday Dear Lornie: I enjoyed your letter. It is good to know for sure that you will get my mail, all of it. Never once, not one time, did I interfere or stop a letter from Pat to you kids...even if it meant your getting upset, as it usually did. But I figured it was more important for you to hear from your mother, than for me to have to handle a problem. And I was right. Bet you didn't dream that all those nights I spent working with PK, and clippings, were being guided and watched over by flying saucer intelligences, did you? Wow! And now, there is absolutely no doubt of it. You have the clipping about the saucer that parked over the South Pole and allowed pictures to be taken of it, and a newspaper report written about it...and knocked out the electromagnetic power in the base......and you have my letter written earlier about this happening, although of course I didn't dream a saucer would bring it about. So, Rick was right after all. It is the saucers, and not the "intelligence behind Nature." Or, maybe they are. And that would explain our weird trip across the U.S., mostly across lonely desert and mountains, and my sleeping on top of the car at night. It explains a lot of things. For instance, who and what was Eric? Where did he disappear to? Nobody knew him; nobody could trace him after he left us. He just plain vanished into thin air, with that woman. But, they parked nose to nose with our car....moved us from broke into about $300 per week; a house, everything in the house....just in time to guide all the tornadoes! If you will remember, just after meeting Eric, I got really "hot" with PK, and began doing tremendous things with it. Still am, as a matter of fact. Back to ordinary things...the baby, Beau, is a doll. And getting bigger by leaps and bounds. And spends most of his time that way...leaping and bounding. Also, he is a little bounder, in more ways than one. But he's learning. Can't talk yet; isn't completely toilet trained yet. But boy, can he point! He absolutely captivates anyone, just anyone, passing by or on the bus or in the restaurant....because he strolls around making friends with everybody, and they light up like a light-bulb with him. Lornie, about my use of PK. You are an utter idiot to think I would ever use it on you or Rick. Of course I wouldn't. Besides, you are protected anyway, so it wouldn't do any good if I did. Which I wouldn't. At one time I liked Jim Shannon, but he alienated me. I couldn't care less now if he got in the way of a PK ripple. As for Pat...you have my absolute word that I would never harm her in any way whatsoever...and especially with PK. She has always been, and will always be, very dear to me, and one of my favorite people. We have had, and have, our differences, but this is nothing..... as far as I am concerned she is to be as protected from PK as you kids. Those people that I hit with PK, Lornie, are very rare. As you know. As a matter of fact, remember how Mangels used to insult me to my face, and make me mad...but I held back the PK. Remember? I did not use it on her. However, Lornie, I will make an exception in the case of anyone blocking me from you kids, interfering with my family, trying to hurt my loved ones, in any way. This area is a deadly area, and no trespassing is allowed. I once offered to Pat, from Dallas, to fly to Los Angeles and whip that Frank, who was bothering her...even though we were separated and had no part of one another any more. Because, I still loved her. And in a way, always will. People do not change that much. Cigars? Am very particular. There is a place in L.A. has my favorite cigars. I'll send the address. Love & Roses - Daddy. === Page 127 of 246 Lornie + Rick July 16, 1965, Friday Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: May I refer you to my letter to you of Sunday, April 11, 1965; second paragraph: "Therefore Nature lets me know that currently it is working to create signs and wonders to impress the U.S. Government of the foolish decision it has made with regard to me, its (Nature's) representative. It lets me know that it is going to strike down, by health, accident, etc., officials of the Government until such time as the U. S. Government obeys its wishes." After this plain, crystal clear warning, George, Senator Johnston died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; Adlai Stevenson just died, and Pres. Johnson attended the funereal; also many key military men have expired since April. ---------- May I refer you to my letter to you of July 9, 1965; second paragraph: "Also, in the same letter (of March 14, 1965) I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it." --- And in the paper yesterday, George, it pointed out that Pres. Johnson cried with regard to Stevenson...had tears in his eyes, is the way they put it, I believe.... which would make my prediction a hit. You might go on and read that third paragraph: "Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with sore feet. General Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell." ---------- Now, important, may I refer you to my letter of a few days ago, July 13, 1965, last paragraph: "One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature ...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then for the U.S., if you'll count up the catastrophes. Etc." Next day, George, Stevenson was struck down....did the saucers wish to make their point on this? Yes, they most emphatically did. They are using many ways right now to try to get recognition from the U.S. Government; drought, is one. Elimination of key people in the U.S. Government is another. Constant harassing of the military and space work, is another. Sure, the U.S. Government can ignore my (and the saucer) warnings....but at what horrible cost in lives and dollars to the U.S.? PK Man 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 128 of 246 July 21, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) My little friends say that they will appear over one of our major U.S. cities soon, in one of their flying machines. They won't name the city, for security reasons (theirs). (2) They also state that they will begin an attack campaign on the U.S. with lightning. Lightning attacks everywhere. There will be an unusual abundance of lightning bolts striking everywhere, everything, soon. ..........the above in an effort to further prove that P K Man is the ir representative and that they can communicate with PK Man. Note: I told you some time ago that "they" were going to hit the U.S. with the phenomena and afflictions of Moses time. See where they are having the first occurrences of cholera since 1811 (I believe it is) in Washington, D.C. (They had like-illnesses in Moses time, in order to convince the Pharaoh.) Also, they will continue their anti-personnel work. P K MAN Lorne - tell Rick that he made our old car the prettiest car I've ever seen on the inside. Only trouble with the car it wouldn't go & take too much money to fix it. But the inside of the car way he had it fixed, was beautiful. I was very proud of him. Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 129 of 246 # Menu Tomato Juice Cocktail Lemon Wedge + + + Hearts of Celery Ripe and Green Olives + + + Braised Pot Roast of Beef Mushroom Sauce + + + Au Gratin Potatoes New Peas + + + Mixed Green Salad + + + Shoreham Parfait + + + Coffee # Sayonara! With this banquet we gather for the last time under the auspices of the S and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf to mark the end of festivities that began a week ago today. During this past week we have n the finest of the deaf athletes from all over the world compete in the rts arena for the honor of themselves and their nations. We have seen ndships formed and ripened, we have gained new insights on each other l new understanding of ourselves and other people of the world. And such treasures are rare, not to be lightly cast aside, not to be soon gotten or allowed to fall into disuse. It is the hope of this committee that at we have gained here will be of lasting nature, and the friends we have de will continue to be friends for the rest of time. Farewell, Farewell is a lonesome sound, That always brings a sigh So give to me when loved ones part That Sweet Old Word -- Good Bye SAYONARA! # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 130 of 246 Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpreter D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF 07/09/2025 16:14 Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE 3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. We did a show at the Shoreham at 8, then went by bus to Sheraton-Park & did another. === Page 131 of 246 Tuesday, March 9, 1965 Dear George: There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. Any results from the Exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, active PK field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electra; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the Space Eye burned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or got up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain PK Man 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 132 of 246 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, ### sighted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (AP). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports that a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object sued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 133 of 246 Copy - Lonnie & Rick X July 19, 1965 Philadelphia Inquirer Call Bulletin Newspapers, The Editors Gentlemen: Yesterday you just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter to you of July 14...just five days ago...and I quote: "I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature...rain - floods...near tornado winds." Well, is it not so? Can you deny that yesterday you had a whopping storm? And lightning bolts struck all around Philadelphia...destroying $50,000 worth of business goods? And...the high winds blew down trees. I told you ... when it comes, to remember The Rainmaker. For your information I was in Rittenhouse Square the afternoon of Saturday, June 19, having called down the terrific storm then...and even told my wife that I would direct a lightning bolt to knock out the city power...which it did. Then I worked hard to bring in the next big rainstorm, but was not in Rittenhouse Square when it finally broke through and came down. But I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm, and especially the lightning, which is my trademark, you might say. Bear in mind that I could do this for New York City, in much greater volume and consistency. Notice that these two big storms...three, rather, have come on the weekends. That is because I have to work at something else during the week and cannot turn my full power and concentration on rain-making. I do not understand why you do not give me a story...so that I will have a chance, through your story, of being tried by some area in New Jersey or New York...and help those areas thereby by relief from the drought. Well, I will give Philadelphia more lightning...more wind...more rain. I like it cool, and as I say, the lightning is my trademark. THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kids...I brought in another terrific storm yesterday, standing there in the pouring rain directing the lightning to strike...had been working two days on it, just like Phoenix. Was a beaut! The clipping for it attached. Discovered a very weird thing last night...it was so hot in our rooms, I would guess 90-100, because our ventilation is poor...sweat was streaming off of me, dripping down onto my clippings. I went to bed, and put a hand on my chest, and it was as cold as ice-cubes. The area over my lungs, heart, and chest was ice-cold...the rest of me was hot and sweating. Figure that one out. Martha couldn't believe it, and neither could I. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 134 of 246 Daily: Home Delivered TEN CENTS 48 Cents Per Week Torrential Showers In Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased July 14, 1965 COPY Inquirer Call-Bulletin - newspapers Gentlemen: Shame on you. My name is "The Rainmaker" - or "P K Man" - and two weeks ago I wrote you, and called you also, to the effect that I was in the process of making a big storm for Philadelphia, to prove my ability... so that you would give me a write up... so that I might get an opportunity to perform in the New York-New Jersey areas, and end their drought for them. So, over the weekend you had your biggest storm in six months... just as I worked for it, and called it. It made the front pages of your newspapers, and it made everyone very happy... this great, big rainstorm in the middle of a drought area. I made our weekend storm, and will make more... for I live here, and do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philly will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U.S. this summer. The people here are lucky that way. But you need to be taught a lesson. I am going to deliver some freak weather here in Philadelphia, that will teach you a lesson. Lightning displays of an unusual nature... rain-floods... near-tornado winds. Takes a few days, or weeks, to accomplish. But you'll have it, and when it comes, just remember THE RAINMAKER (P K Man), c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Phila., Pa. *As for the people residing in the Delaware River Basin, they had better relocate, because this summer they will be literally toasted alive, burned out, and water evaporated that is there. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 135 of 246 JULY 19, 1965 Daily: Home Delivered 48 Cents Per Week TEN CENTS # Torrential Showers Soak Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased By ALFRED P. KLIMCKE and WILLIAM B. COLLINS Of The Inquirer Staff 7/19 Thundershowers that hit parts of the Upper Delaware River Basin over the weekend swept into Greater Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, drenching some sections with brief but torrential downpours. The showers have eased the water supply crisis for the time-being at least, according to Robert E. Fish, deputy river master. In Philadelphia sporadic street flooding and minor storm damage were reported in sections struck by the quick-skipping storm. Pea-size hailstones that accompanied the rain rattled against windows of Center City office buildings and West Philadelphia homes, stinging hapless pedestrians as they raced for cover. **30 ARE EVACUATED** Weather observers at International Airport reported that .11 inches of rain fell there during one brief, heavy rainstorm and periods of light rain that followed it. A spokesman said heavier rain, up to nearly an inch, fell in some suburban areas west and northwest of the city. More than 30 persons were evacuated from three three-story apartment buildings on Mount Vernon st. after the brick facing on a 10 by 12 foot section of exterior wall at the rear of the center building collapsed minutes after the storm passed through the area. **12 FLEE BUILDING** Residents of 2029 Mount Vernon st. told police of hearing "a rumble," and feeling their floors sag as the brick facing collapsed. Twelve residents of that building, nine of them young children, fled. Residents were also temporarily evacuated from the two adjacent structures. Lightning knocked two-feet off the top of a double chimney at 5028-30 Rorer ave., Feltonville. The brick crashed to a concrete patio in front of the row-house. Winds felled a number of trees and large branches throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 136 of 246 trees and large throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily CUTBACK ORDERED Fish said on Sunday that he was issuing orders for a cutback of the amount of water released from New York City and utility company reservoirs into the Delaware. "In the next two days, we will cut back about one third each day," Fish said. "This isn't a whole lot," he added, "but it is some saving, and we'll save what we can." Fish, who is with the U. S. Geological Survey, emphasized that the drought was not over and that the cutback may be a temporary thing. EMERGENCY STILL ON The water emergency declared on July 7 by the Delaware River Basin Commission still is in effect. Invoking its emergency powers, the commission ordered the release of a total of 466 million gallons a day from reservoirs in the upper basin. The action was taken to guarantee the fresh water supply of Philadelphia and New Jersey communities. With the normal flow of the Delaware River drastically reduced by four years of drought, salt water Continued on Page 20, Column 2 === Page 137 of 246 Lightning Sets Blaze in Store A bolt of lightning started a fire in one of an arcade of shops on Germantown ave. during Sunday afternoon's showers. Some $50,000 worth of men's furnishings were destroyed. Smoke was seen at the Hamilton Men's Shop, 3630 Germantown ave. by Patrolman Robert Magilton and he turned in the alarm at 5:20 P.M. Battalion Chief Edward McGonigle said lightning had struck a wooden utility a half block away during the short, but intense rainstorm, and was probably responsible for the store fire. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J., July 18 -- Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phyllis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia Torrential Showers Hit Area, Ease Crisis Continued From First Page from the Atlantic Ocean was pushing upriver. The commission set the desirable flow for the emergency at 1200 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Montague, N. J., gauge across the Delaware from Milford, Pa. Despite the release of the water from the reservoirs, the river had been decreasing almost daily for the last week. "The river had been falling off gradually for one reason--lack of rain in the basin area," Fish said. Here are the average flows measured at Montague beginning last Monday. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .35 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from two reservoirs. The flow is haven't had anything like this in weeks and weeks here." The "bad" weather which was such good news canceled a helicopter trip that New Jersey's Gov. Richard J. Hughes had planned. Hughes, who is chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission, had planned to go aloft with New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe to tour North Jersey's reservoirs. Philadelphia Inquirer 7/19/65 === Page 138 of 246 store me. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. # Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J., July 18. --Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phylis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. # Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (AP).--Large areas of southeastern Australia were swept by snow, heavy rain and strong winds during the weekend. Hundreds were stranded at resorts on the New South Wales southern tablelands and Blue Mountains by stalled rail and road traffic. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .35 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from its two reservoirs. The flow is from Wallenpaupak set at 200 million gallons daily, and 66 million gallons are to be released from the Mongaup system. Speaking of the thundershowers, Fish said. "This is some slight improvement. We === Page 139 of 246 Leonid Dick July 15, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, just as I have been predicting in my letters....the "PK" is now reaching out and eliminating top officials of the government. Actually, there have been a bunch eliminated, one way or another, these past few weeks. Stevenson, yesterday, was the biggest so far in terms of status. He will be joined shortly, however, by others of like status. The PK, or the saucers, or whatever, are going to work in earnest at this time....part of the reason, of course, is because of their representative, myself and family, being ignored and not helped along the lines the saucers have in mind. There is absolutely no way the U.S. Government, or any other government, can prevent any of this from happening...except to make friends with the saucer-intelligences the same way the U.S. would make friends with a foreign country. Try to give them what they want and need; do not make them enemies, or goad them into war. I know two weeks ago that one of our top men in government would drop dead, as if an invisible wall had fallen onto them. But I didn't know which one...McNamara, Rusk, Johnson, Stevenson, Humphrey, etc. They are all marked by the saucer-intelligence, I suppose I should tell you, for the same thing that hit Stevenson. There is no warning. Just...that's all. Want to know a peculiar thing that has happened where I just went to work? Sunday last my boss, Mr. Hill, saw his wife have an operation at the hospital. Monday his father had a heart-attack. Tuesday our big brawny guard downstairs, Gene, had a heart-attack, and on the same day one of our top counselors collapsed on the street, reason unknown. They took him to the hospital, then took him home, where he is now. He also is an ex-football player, big and tough, name of Bill Flanagan. This same pattern happened when I worked for Gelman in Washington. Everybody in the place had to go to the doctor or the dentist, for emergency operations, etc., and one woman whom I especially disliked, Rose, had the ceiling fall on her! And this a brand new office in a brand new multi-million dollar building! I am working now, temporarily, for Diagnostic and Relocation Center, 304 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Oh, George, an important bit of information from you. My saucer friends will pass this along to you...the Viet Cong and Chinese have found a serious "Achilles Heel" of the U.S., and are preparing to strike a deadly, paralyzing blow at this glaring weakness of ours they have found. This is all they tell me, to pass on to you....to further prove their real-ness, and their power. Many lives could be saved, George, if the U.S. Government would heed me and my message re the saucer-intelligence. Or the "intelligence behind Nature", or whatever. They have also told me to tell you....whatever they say is never forgotten, is etched on time and place like acid on wood...and they remind you and the U.S. Govt. that for every day that their representative, P K Man (me) has to work at ordinary living, instead of for them...as per their instructions, to help them, in their way....they will eliminate a top U.S. official, or important person. I refer you to a letter quite a while back, George. By now, they stand to collect a lot of important people. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 140 of 246 July 14, 1965 Mr. H. Mat Adams Alternate Chairman Delaware River Basin Commission 25 Scotch Road Suburban Square Trenton, New Jersey Reply to: 601 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dear Mr. Adams: With reference to my letter to you of several weeks ago, in regard to alleviating the drought in your area....I appreciate the courtesy of your letter of July 12, 1965, in answer. Especially in view of the fact that my "mysterious suggestion" was not conducive to any serious consideration. However, Mr. Adams, I assure you that the circumstances are unusual, to say the least. Now I am going to tell you something that you will not believe...but it was I who caused the hurricanes of 1964 to hit the area of Cape Kennedy, and Michoud Missile Complex in Louisiana. It was I who caused the floods on the West Coast at Christmas that the newspapers said could never happen again in 1,000 years. And I caused the Midwest tornados and floods, recently. I do not expect you to believe this, of course, even though it is quite true. But I would suggest that you, if you are interested, contact Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D. C., and tell them of the proposition I made you...which costs you absolutely nothing except maintenance of myself and wife and child for a short while. Of course, when the rains and floods come, and you have water enough for years, with the drought completely broken...then my fee still stands. The CIA know of my work. They should tell you, in effect: This man has done some strange things that we can't explain. He could be just an eccentric, a "nut" - however, there are things that he has done which would not fit into the "nut" category, and we would recommend that you give his abilities a try, at least...since the cost is negligible. Should he do what he claims to be able to do, cause rains and storms and floods that will end the drought, it would certainly be worth the fee. I must tell you in all sincerity, Mr. Adams....the drought will get worse, and worse, and worse, and worse. I do not care what you try in order to alleviate it...seeding, etc., it will not work. There is only one source which can bring your area rain in constant and great amounts necessary to end the drought on the East Coast, which has been in effect for some years. That one source is myself. Should you decide to try me, later on, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, either at the current address...or c/o Lornie Owens, Shannon, 505 S. Osage, Inglewood, California. If you want the drought ended in the Delaware River Basin, Mr. Adams, you will most certainly be able to find the small amount of funds necessary to keep me and my wife and child while I break your drought for you. And I will even make you a more sporting proposition than that. If I do not completely break and end your drought within three months time (that has lasted for 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 141 of 246 2 years) then I will repay you any monies which you have spent in maintaining myself and wife and child for that brief period of time. What could be fairer? Perhaps you should know the entire story, Mr. Adams. As fantastic as it is, you should know it. The tremendous intelligences of the "flying saucers" are in communication with me - the only human being on earth that they can actually converse with, in their own way. For the past months they have been trying to prove this fact to the U.S. Govt., which quite naturally refused to believe it. It was only just recently that they identified themselves...before that I did not know what it was that was causing storms when I wanted them, where I wanted them...and other things to happen as well. They are now in the process of letting the ..our ... world know that they are real, they are here, and they have great power which we do not have. They do, in fact, want to frighten us with their powers. Their purpose is to stop the warfare now going on; block any possibility of further war; and get people and minds straightened out in the world. In effect, give the world a 10 to 20 year "breather" of peace and true brotherly-love - without war, without hate, without all of the conditions which are now wrecking the world as we know it. The saucers control our weather, when they wish. They can start tornados and hurricanes, and somehow they can guide them. The saucers at this time are creating a world-wide condition of drought. They will dry up the entire earth and make water scarce. This will cause sickness, an imbalance in Nature which will cause trouble with insects, reptiles, etc. Since New York is perhaps the most widely-known part of the U.S., it will be made a drought-example, as well as the entire area surrounding it. Unless, that is, the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. recognize the saucer intelligences, and take steps to ally our government with the saucer intelligences. It is very comical but somewhat sad that at the present time we are desperately trying to woo Hanoi and Russia and DeGaulle, for peace and political discussions...when we should, and had better, turn our efforts toward making friends with the saucer intelligences. You can check this. I wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin newspapers, several weeks ago, informing them that I was here, asking for a write-up and announcing that I would make a big rainstorm for Phila. All right. I brought the storm last Saturday and Sunday. It was very good. And I intend to bring more "freak" weather into this pinpointed Philadelphia area. I talked to two different reports at the Bulletins here, telling them that I would make the big rainstorm. New York City, and the entire New York-New Jersey area, etc., could have rainstorm after rainstorm...constant rain - with The Rainmaker working. Very truly yours, PK Mar-- THE RAINMAKER, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, 12th & Walnut 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 142 of 246 July 13, 1965 Mr. George Clerk, CIA Dear George: I will have to admit that any Tom, Dick or Harry could write to Cape Kennedy and say, "I am going to cause lightning to strike your rockets, and make hurricanes hit your area." Then lightning does strike one of the Cape's biggest rockets, which sits on a lightning-proof pad. But - this is just a co-incidence. Could happen to anyone, or any Cape. Soon several hurricanes do hit the area of the Cape; but this, also, could be a co-incidence. Anyone could predict, "There will be a major earthquake on the West Coast within a few days -" and then when the quake actually hits Oregon and Washington, the very next day - it could be just a co-incidence. Too, anyone could write the newspapers and government agencies that he would actually cause rainstorms and blizzards and floods in vast and unprecedented amounts, as a 1964 Christmas gift for the U.S., to help alleviate the drought prevalent in the U.S. Following this prediction came the "freak" West Coast floods of Christmas, 1964, which, according to the newspapers, could not occur again in 1,000 years. This, of course, was all just a big coincidence. Then followed the barrage of some 80 tornados and near-tornadoes, plus floods, in the Midwest...then the Northwest. But what the heck, probably just a coincidence. And anyone could predict to the Government that he could make all top government officials sick and ill, and put them all in the hospital. And then, shortly thereafter, they all do collapse into the hospital, with "Executive Flu." More coincidence. However, George, I have a serious question to ask you, and Mr. Dunn, who loves for me to be "specific" in my predictions. -- When I predict specifically that the electromagnetic condition of the North and/or South Pole will be affected - and when I further predict specifically that the absolute fact of this occurrence will be reported in the newspapers - and when I further state that these two things will occur for the specific purpose of proving that I am the representative of Nature, of the Vast Intelligence behind Nature (which is trying to help the U.S. Govt. but cannot penetrate the Govt. thick-headedness.) - and then, George, a flying saucer makes my predictions come true...makes it happen, just that way, and I send you the clipping and my letter for proof and verification - if anyone infers that this multi-impossibility could be just a coincidence then I am going to sit down on the floor, George, take a deep deep breath, and scream until I'm purple in the face. One last point before closing. I spent our last money today to send a wire to LBJ in Texas. After today we'll have no food, no place to stay, nothing. Nature...or the saucers...or whatever it is...isn't going to be happy about this, George. They were very unhappy when I came to Washington and saw you and Dunn, and was turned down several times. Things have gotten very rough since then, if you'll count up the catastrophes. Ironically, I, a Man, and his link with Nature (saucers) is the one hope for the U.S. Government. And as my situation goes, so will go the situation of the U. S. Government and the U.S. As Nature says that, as a matter of fact, everything I do, with my family, is followed by Nature (saucers) and anyone or anything blocking us, attacking us, giving us a hard time, will be dealt with by Nature (saucers). *For the U.S. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 143 of 246 07/09/2025 16:14 Dear Doris + Harry, It was very good to hear from you. We are single today as Martha is away because of the national balance which but I think that the migration of the North or South Pacific part of war is an international of the world - and that the papers would write it up - after we left they things before here come to pass. See clipping enclosed. This, in fact, "nothing" as all Hudson has brought my prediction about in the past summer the person what P K 4 pm kids - my hair is standing up on end!! Love later RL === Page 144 of 246 COPY PRESIDENT JOHNSON July 9, 1965 Dear Mr. President: This letter should be the most interesting letter to yourself, as far as you are concerned, in your entire lifetime. Why? Because it proves conclusively that "P K Man" and all of the unusual things claimed by P K Man, are genuine and real. Simply check with the CIA. I sent "George Clark" of CIA a letter on March 9, 1965: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it." There you are, President Johnson. This morning, you can read in your newspaper, the following: "Flying Saucer Is Reported - Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "...It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires.........." Well...Nature has proved that it is using me as its representative, just as it said it would...by affecting the South Pole's magnetic condition. Has anyone else lately, in the CIA or the State Department, been able to make such a prediction? I tell you that I am the most valuable human being right now in the entire world, simply because Nature and I can communicate! And the U.S. Government has access to all of this vast power of Nature, which is linked to me...and refuses to use it! Rejects it! Incredible. Respectfully, but very sadly Because I know what is ahead...... P. K. Man c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Room 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 145 of 246 July 9, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA. Dear George: Well, what do you know...after successfully predicting dozens of major happenings (missing only a few times, on space shots) it seems I have missed again! In my letter to you of March 14, 1965, I predicted President Johnson would be gravely ill by June. Tch; tch! Now, how could I have missed that one? And I have been so very very accurate in the past. Also, in the same letter I predicted Pres. Johnson's family member, or close friend, would pass away or be lost, by August...and that he would cry and grieve. Well, it isn't August yet, is it. Notice lately how government officials are falling like bowling pins? Reedy out with "sore feet." General Maxwell Taylor out, with sore something. Dirkson out of action, in the hospital, with sore stomach. A Congressman got smashed with a truck, not long ago - and so on. The "PK pattern" is on now and working, after a time-lag, and you can tell. And the U.S. drought is getting worse now, isn't it....yet no one will take a wild chance, and let P K Man go to work with PK and Nature, to end the drought. Oh yes, I could go ahead and do it on my own....but I cannot, George, because Nature calls the shots, gives me instructions, brings about the results....and Nature insists that the U.S. Government do it Nature's way. Nature is, after all, most concerned because the U.S. Government has put itself above and beyond Nature....so that now Nature is going to prove, bit by painful bit, that such is not so...that Nature is much mightier than all of the money and hydrogen bombs and power of the U.S., or any other country. VERY GREAT Now, here is another thing of interest to CIA...see my letter to you of March 9, 1965, 4th paragraph: "Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect those two places....and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any Bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: This is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see." All right, this morning in the paper was the clipping: "Flying Saucer Is Reported" "Sighted At 2 S. Pole Bases" "..........It also caused interference in the electro-magnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island. The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires....." Well, well, George Clark! Now what do you make of that? My prediction of March 9, seems to have been remarkably accurate for July 9, yes? Incidentally, I saw a picture in Life mag of two of the midwest tornadoes (where about 80 tornadoes and near-tornadoes struck) and these two tornadoes in the Life 1 pic were lighted up by lightning. Well, they didn't look like tornadoes to me. I have the picture, and wish I could talk to you about it further. P K MAN (Owens) === Page 146 of 246 July 10, 1965 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: Enclosed is an exact copy of a letter written by myself and sent to Mr. "George Clark" of your CIA, at Washington 25, D. C. It was sent on March 9, 1965. Notice the paragraph marked in red. Now, four months later, comes the proof, referred to in the marked paragraph. See the newspaper clipping attached to this copy of the letter, taken from yesterday's newspaper. Put the two items together, and you have concrete, absolute proof...that all of my past correspondence to you, and the CIA, and NASA, and the State Department...is valid and true, no matter if it sounded fantastic. And, of course, it did sound fantastic. Only myself, and my family, knew that it was true, and now you also, can know it. Mr. Dunn, of the CIA, was interested in knowing the "causal factor" of my "PK" phenomena. At the time I spoke with him, all I could tell him was that the causal factor was the intelligence behind Nature, with which I had managed to arrange a communication, or method of communicating. However, now we know differently. The causal factor, for Mr. Dunn's information, and your own, as well, seems to be these "flying saucers" - whatever they are. But, whatever they are, they can: cause earthquakes to occur; cause fires to start; cause people to become ill, singly or en masse; cause floods and tornados and hurricanes; cause planes to explode in mid-air, or on the ground, and so on. These are some of their destructive abilities. Their main purpose is to stop the warfare on earth; the killing, the hate, the black negativism now so current, world-wide. When these saucers telepathically contacted me, and had me relay this information on March 9 to George Clark, of your CIA...then actually gave the needed proof on July 7, over the South Pole...by changing the electro-magnetic condition of the area, and then getting the action put into the newspapers...just as described in my letter of March 9...they not only gave the U.S. Government the proof that it needs, but the actual letter of March 9 must be read more closely...the rest of the material in it...for these saucers, you must remember, are using my mind, my eyes, my voice...for communication...and they will use my typing, also. I am sure that there is other information in that letter which the saucers want the U.S. to know about, and believe. Now, at the time I typed that information, and sent it to CL, I was perplexed. Because always before I was told that a storm would happen, or an earthquake, or that people would get sick and go to the hospital. But to be told that "Nature" would change the electro-magnetic condition at the N. and/or S. Pole, and then get it put into the newspapers, as proof that I was representing "Nature" - seemed ridiculous to me, and I hated to send that paragraph to Mr. Clark, because for one thing it seemed impossible that anything could change the magnetic condition at the Poles, and then for it to be publicized also seemed impossible. But of course, I didn't reckon on a "flying saucer" to make it possible. The fact that it was brought about...was done in this manner...by this tremendous intelligence which has been running hurricanes across Florida, etc. etc...is an indication of its tremendous knowledge. Any other === Page 147 of 246 3/9/65 p 2 phenomena, such as storms, planes falling, etc., that I have predicted to the CIA and NASA...could be pointed to as accidental, or a coincidence, or that it is just good guessing, or that perhaps I am precognitive, but that is all. Now you, the President, and the U.S. Government, stand notified that this is not so. It is not all indeed. I have all of the power of these "flying saucers" and their intelligent beings, in back of me. A study, or analysis of my previous voluminous correspondence, will readily show you how all this has come about, and how it has been brought about. My own children have seen me sketch on a paper the route I have wanted Hurricane Cleo in '64 to take...and a route contradictory to that given by the Weather Bureau...and the hurricane changed direction, not once but several times, to follow my routing - not only my routing, but to pause for a long interval in two places and just sit there and swirl around. Now you, and I, can understand more about this...how it was done. Somehow these saucers either create these hurricanes, or are the hurricanes. The intelligences running these saucers do not, of course, speak English, and must rely on methods of contacting some person on earth telepathically in order to converse with the peoples on earth. This they have been trying to do by landing, then speaking to one or two people in that isolated spot...but of course the humans they have approached have been too frightened or apprehensive to cooperate. My make-up is so peculiar, and perhaps resembles their own so much, in the mind...that they have somehow managed to break through and reach my mind. It is a two-way communication, in that I can signal them and talk to them also...not in words, but in mental pictures of what is wanted, or needed. Visual imagery. President Johnson, let me speak frankly. Your life is in great danger. Not from me, that would be ridiculous. I understand you, and like you. Do understand that this is no threat from myself against you. I know that you could have the Secret Service pick me up today and throw me into prison for writing the above, just on suspicion. But I am trusting in your good judgment not to have this done, for this is no personal threat of mine. I am interested right now only in providing a home and background for my family. But, what I mean in the above, when I say that your life is in great danger, is that these "saucer" intelligences will not hesitate to eliminate you, in their own way, if you persist in not listening to them, or in paying attention to them. They are trying desperately to avert a nuclear war on this earth...and temporarily you are standing in their way...because you will not recognize me as their representative, and be guided by them, through me. Not to mention the power they wish to place at our disposal, once we listen to them, and begin cooperating. Again I reiterate...I am warning you only as a friend warns a friend. I am not threatening you. Believe me, you could book me into the White House tomorrow to do my knife-throwing act, and you could stand in Louella's place, and I would throw my knives around you without touching you. That is how safe you are, and would be, with me. What I am talking about are these "saucers". 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 148 of 246 COPY Tuesday March 9, 1965 Dear George: Last night I got a real shock. Someone called home before I got home from the office, and my boy, Harvey, took the call. It was someone from St. Paul, Minn., interested "in my offer". My brilliant son did not get the name or identification...the party said they would call back...but they never did. So...I almost had an offer from somebody interested in PK, before I strike out this week at Belmon. Anyway, back to the same theme, George. I guarantee (and look at the astounding success I have had with practically all my projects) to reverse the current trend of the U.S. getting the shaft every day, in every way...and can change the climate in V to winning for us, and bringing about what the U.S. wants. This can be done with PK as easily as swinging about storms...knocking down planes...putting officials in the hospital, etc. I regret Mr. McConal's sister passing away...and PK had nothing to do with that, I am sure. I imagine if Mr. C. thought it had...he would send me to V and have me dropped in a parachute over VC headquarters. There are two interesting things now to tell you: (1) Nature has told me to tell you that to prove it is using me as its representative, it will do something without my using PK, or knowing any of its workings. Nature will, in the near future, change the North and South Poles. As the message came to me, I believe it will use extreme heat to affect these two places...and change the magnetic condition of the Poles. Nature added that you won't have to check with any bureau on it...that the result will be strong enough to make the newspapers, where you can read about it. Note: this is the first time anything like this has occurred. I don't know what Nature is talking about, or what it plans. Will be interesting to see. (2) Exercise Silver Lance was useless, for test purposes. An invalid experiment. My results from the exercise are not worth the paper they are printed on. Why? Because Silver Lance was conducted in a growing, native PK-field, with a wide variety of mechanisms at work in the field that would undoubtedly affect the Exercise to a large extent. The field is Electro; the California coast. If you doubt this statement, just look at Electro, in Florida, and what has happened there in my first PK field. Since July ('64) the entire area has been like an elephant with the nervous shakes staggering around drunk in a china shop. There have been hurricanes criss-crossing the place; planes have been falling down; President Johnson narrowly escaped bad injury on two occasions; the space program turned down; and over a dozen rockets and missiles either blew up, fell down, or shot up and went haywire. So don't tell me the PK doesn't work on an area. So, Silver Lance, to be a true experiment in the logical sense of the word, would have to be held somewhere else, without PK affecting it, to get a valid idea of its results, test-wise. Check? Hoping the U.S. Government will use this tool, sometime this week, I remain /s/ PK Man === Page 149 of 246 a d THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, F # ghted at 2 S. Pole Bases # 'Flying Saucer' Is Reported SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 ('). -- From the Antarctic Thursday came official reports of a mysterious lens-shaped flying object, maneuvering and moving at great speed, was sighted last Saturday. A Chilean base commander in the Antarctic reported the object was "yellowish red, changing to green, yellow and orange." In Buenos Aires, the Navy issued a communique saying personnel at Argentina's Antarctic base saw the flying object and photographed it. Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, told the Defense Ministry by radio that it would be too much to say that "all of us saw a flying saucer, one of these science-fiction things." "However," he continued, "it was something real, an object that moved at amazing speed, maneuvered quickly and gave off a blue-green sheen. It also caused interference in the electromagnetic apparatus of an Argentine base which is facing ours on a nearby small island." The interference was confirmed by the Navy communique issued in Buenos Aires. "The object was yellowish red," Jahn said, "changing to green, yellow and orange. It would zigzag quickly. Then it was stopped and we promptly reached for field glasses, telescopes, anything at hand to sight it. We watched as it remained quietly there for about 20 minutes." Jahn said a corporal took color pictures but there are no facilities for developing the film. The men must wait for eight months to be relieved to have the film developed on the mainland. === Page 150 of 246 FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1965 a d # SUN Since your contact on the 1st, I have been waiting for the highly held to say our own thoughts. (A) They want me to have a talk with Mr. Green. I will tell him things that should be told. He should know that as he would not like to be in a position where he is no good for the world is good for him. He should know right now. There is no...chance. I do not hear voices; no new hallucinations; "delusions of grandeur" or "ideas of reference" troubles. I will stand up to predictions and "hits" against those of our own world. Of course I do not expect any praise or credit for the fact, because during the long run, for that, don't have delivered this message, and they said... and it's done. Respectfully, J B Fox, c/o Foster Entrance Hall, No. 1 10th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 151 of 246 Page Two 7/12/65 since they contact me through telepathic pictures, they wouldn't want me to be rigidly held in any one place...but free to come and go, as necessary. (g) They want me to have quick communication with President Johnson, so that they can tell him things that the U.S. might not know at any given time, which could help us, or he could ask them to perform certain things...which would benefit in bringing about good for the world in general. And they state they are excellent judges of what that might be. There it is...George. I do not hear voices; am not hallucinating. Am not having "delusions of grandeur" or "change-of-life" troubles. I will stack up my predictions and 'hits' against those of any ESP worker. Of course I do not expect any action or answer for the U.S. Government...have been trying too long now, for that. But I have delivered this message, which is what They want. And it's done. Respectfully, P K Man, c/o Owens Congress Hotel, Rm. 600 12th and Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania === Page 152 of 246 July 12, 1965 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: "Nature" or the "saucers" or whatever the intelligence is...wants me to tell the U.S. Government what it wishes from the U.S. Government. So, below, is what it wishes. Incidentally, I was against writing this, for myself, in my own mind...yet this vast, powerful intelligence insisted that I send this to you, so will do it. (a) Wants the U.S. Govt. to provide me with $100,000, tax-free, so that I can fix my wife and child up with a home in Texas, plus all necessities; get tools which I will need; and take myself to Europe. The money is to last 1 year, at which time another $100,000 is to be provided, for the rest of my life (which might not be long, if the Russ get to me.) (b) They want me to be given a permit to carry a gun for protection, and want me to have a guard at all times. Say, a Special Forces judo and gun expert, to accompany me wherever I go. (c) They want the U.S. Government to furnish me with a mountain hideaway in Europe, preferably an isolated castle...yes, they stress this heavily...a castle in an isolated spot. Even if I would have to live in discomfort in the room of the darn thing...they want me to be placed in a castle, in an isolated location, in Europe. That is what comes through, loud and clear. I take it they will then attempt to approach me with their machines, and in person, as soon as they are certain that just myself and my bodyguard are in the area. (d) They want the complete story of "P K Man" sent all around the world, for TV and newspaper coverage. Not to advertise P K Man, who can do nothing of himself, but to advertise the fact that the saucers are here, are for real, are at work doing certain things...what some of those things are...and what the aims of the saucers are. And that they, the saucers, are communicating with me, P K Man, and are back of the United States Govt. in bringing peace to the world. (e) Now, don't laugh at this George...I am only repeating what I am told to tell you, just like the March 9 letter. They want a 2-hour TV appearance of P K Man with Pres. Johnson, to lay the entire matter out for the world to know about. Why? Because, they want to scare the Russians and Chinese into line. And, they state, they will back it all up with action, as needed. Just like they backed up the March 9 letter...and other things, earlier. Their suggestion is to open the TV 2-hour show with something that will get the interest of the world immediately...and hold it. Not the usual yakkity political openings...but President Johnson standing in front of a knife-board, and me knives hitting all around him, while he just stands, with a look of boredom on his face. This is to show the world his bravery, fearlessness, and spirit of daring. It would tremendously impress much of the people's of the world, and it is highly doubtful if any other President would attempt to equal his feat. Also, and just as important, it would serve to introduce P K Man...and rivet the attention of the peoples of the world onto the TV screen, as nothing else would. Then for the remainder of the 2 hours, President Johnson would go over the storm-making, hurricanes, etc etc., with P K Man...and it would be brought out that the saucers are on our side, and so forth. This also would make quite an impression on the peoples of the world. (f) I must have freedom at all times...to get where I want...and do what I want...because 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 153 of 246 Friday, May 28 '65 *Harvey is Rick Dear Lonnie - Thanks for the letter. The owner of the Beatty circus sent his chauffeur down to Washington for us - in an air-conditioned $10,000 Cadillac, just as promised. There wasn't room for most of our things, including your stuff - and we left a note for Jean to send it collect by Railway Express. We are advertised as the world's greatest knife-throwing act. Yesterday they took pictures of the acts, all together in a group. May send you one later. No word yet if our act will go on the road with the circus or not. They are full up - wanted to "beef up" their show for Philadelphia. So - ? Mr. Fuller, expecting our whole family as he saw it in Hyattsville, had a beautiful motel room ready for us - at 17.00 a day. Ha ha! TV & all. We've been here a week. To tell you all the action that has occurred, would entail writing a full length book. Leah, we need a permanent address so agents can contact us. I'm going to give you as my permanent address, & you forward my mail to me. Okay? For instance, the father of our great flying trapeze act - all his sons & daughters (he's a clown) - wants to get us booked with Mexico's biggest circus in Mexico City for a month there. But he'll need a permanent address === Page 154 of 246 Sunday 3/27/66 Dear Rick -- Am glad the pool cue pleases you. Make it your friend for a life-time. Take care of it, honey. It's an ace. Don't loan it to any person, ever. If you do, you'll be sorry. How did you like the way PK took care of Gemini 8 & Agena? NASA is still trying to figure out what hit them. Now the Govt. has angered the Si's -- which have appeared recently to prove their reality -- by calling the Si's "marshgas." So the Si's are going to teach the Air Force a lesson -- they are "hitting" the U.S. A.F. here on out, with all PK phenomena. If the Govt. continues to ignore me -- the Si's are going to PK all U.S. vehicles -- autos, trucks, busses, etc. It will not be safe for anyone to be in a vehicle. Don't worry about your package (Beau is in my lap now, licking my arm) -- the thought is there, honey. People can't prove love with presents, anyway. Bean is big now. Talks a little. Martha is fine -- but she waited downstairs at the mail box day after day for weeks, expecting your package. She's like a child, you know, and her feelings were hurt when it didn't come. I'm trying every way I know to get the Church of Sata started -- and to get an isolated house, so the UFO's can come to me in their craft -- but nothing has worked out so far. Remember my bet with your friend in Wash. -- that Pres. J. wouldn't live past May, '66? His only chance is to make friends with the Si's. Dad === Page 155 of 246 Rick LORNIE Wednesday May 25, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my Feb. 25 letter I pointed out that all important people in the U.S. Government must be on guard from 2/25 through May...it would be a danger period. But that prediction, given me by the Si's, has worked out sort of poorly, because not much has happened to validate it. The two astronauts were killed, of course, about ten days after I wrote that to you. Then also I believe some Senator died...Johnson went to his funeral...was it McNamara? Allessandroni was killed in a plane crash...and Milton Shapp's helicopter caught fire and crashed...but he was luckier than Allessandroni, and only got bashed up a little. President Johnson's helicopter caught fire at the White House, but luckily he wasn't in it; his baggage was. Bill Moyers fell down a flight of steps at the White House, hit his head, and went to the hospital with concussion. Senator Dirksen fell down, hit his head and was knocked out, smashing his glasses, and fracturing his hip. Had surgery in Bethesda Hospital. Senator Mike Mansfield went into Bethesda Hospital about a week ago and is still there. Reason not given. Congressman Hardy (Virginia) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital Congressman MacGregor (Minnesota) just underwent surgery at Bethesda Hospital Congressman Moss (California) is now in Bethesda Hospital. Eisenhower has been in the hospital for weeks. Yesterday Bollinger, a top missile scientist with NASA (he developed the hydrogen-oxygen propellant used in the Saturn rocket engine) was murdered in Ohio. And yesterday Congressman Fraser's daughter (Minn.) was killed by a car. But other than that, my prediction didn't pan out. Of course, there's still a wee bit of time left. Something might happen yet. P K Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 156 of 246 Rick 5.25.66 P2 Wednesday May 25, 1966 The Post Master U. S. Post Office 30th and Market Sts. Phila., Pa. Dear Sir; Yesterday our mailbox was robbed - an envelope ripped open and a ring, sent by our 16-year-old from California to my wife, as a Mother's Day gift, stolen. As well as a supply of stamps the boy enclosed. We live in an apartment house at 1114 Spruce St., and our mail has been opened many times...then we have found it in our box, already opened. We have complained about it to the postman delivering the mail...but of course all he can say is that the situation is being watched. We have heard other people in the building complain that their boxes are being pilfered, also. Someone broke the lock off our mailbox. Isn't there anything the Post Office can do to stop this? Are thugs free to loot mailboxes here and there, at their whim, without the law stepping in? We would certainly appreciate it, if the law did step in. Enclosed is the envelope the ring and stamps were stolen from, exactly as we found it. H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. === Page 157 of 246 Wednesday May 25, 1966 Dear Rick: I enjoyed hearing from you, honey. But you made a big mistake. Remember I wrote you quite a while back...and told you and Lornie never to send anything to us of value, unless it was by Special Delivery? (Costs 30¢) When I got home last night Martha was crying. She got your letter, but some crook had gotten into our mailbox and taken your ring and stamps out of the letter first. You see, that happens all the time here in Philadelphia, and in our building. All the time we find our letters and mail ripped open before we get down to get it. They have even discovered mailmen in this town looting their own mail. So...after Martha went through weeks of going down to meet the mailman to get your package, the package that never came...now she has had this new disappointment with the ring. Tell you what...pick out another ring, identical to the one you sent. Send me the price of it...I'll send you the money, and you send it to her Air Mail, Special Delivery. I'll include the stamp money, too. Okay? Get into action on this, chum. Our pal deserves a better break than what she's getting. Not getting that ring you sent, just broke her heart. You know how she is. We took Beau to the doctors here, for a cold...but now they are jumping up and down with excitement...because they have discovered something about his mind that is quite unusual. They won't tell me what. They did ask me if he had any unusual powers of the mind...if he managed to do things with his mind children usually couldn't do...and I told them about his reading my mind constantly. They are beginning a series of tests on him June 15. Am glad you get pleasure from playing pool with a fine cue. Like a good horse, it will give you good service, if you take care of it. It's heavy...but that's good...like practicing with extra-heavy drum sticks...then when you swing into hot jazz, the lighter sticks seem to fly. And the heavy stick makes your stroke smoother. So Jimmy could talk at 2...so what? Put Jimmy and Beau together, and you'd see the difference! Whew! Beau has the strongest mind of any human being I have ever encountered...bar none. And he's brilliant. Buy the July Fate magazine...and look in the back in the "Personal" ads...and you'll see your dad's ad. The Si's have given me a way to start the Sota's. Love, Dad === Page 158 of 246 Tuesday May 17. Rick: For old time's sake enclosed is my PK maps I made yesterday for the Agena - Gemini shoot. Send it back for my files. The Si's surprised me on Sunday by telling me to go ahead and PK maps (I was anyway.) My, and the Si's, record by now is incredible! Several weeks ago we blocked every shot at the Cape for ten days! Then we "shot down," or destroyed the two big birds they put up - one was O.S.O. - same as O.G.O., the one we got at Myrtle Beach. We miss you and Lonnie... especially Dean. We hope you are doing fine. Love & kisses - Dad. === Page 159 of 246 Rick Lorne March 24, 1966 THE EDITOR "ENTIRE U.S. FLEET DESTROYED BY OWN H-BOMB" This sounds fantastic, but it could appear at any time in our newspapers. How? Fact...an H-bomb has been dropped accidentally into the sea, and is in an unknown condition. It could possibly explode, no matter if the odds are high against it. Fact...an entire U.S. Fleet is parked just overhead, or just nearby. Therefore simple logic points out the possibility of the loss of an entire U.S. Fleet, at any time. I ask the question, therefore...is this procedure going on off the coast of Spain at the present time being carried out in a manner conducive to the safety of our men and ships? H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce Phila., Pa. === Page 160 of 246 Tuesday May 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well...as I warned the President...the roof is falling in on him. Dirksen fell down, and went into hospital. Out of action for a while. Moyers fell down the stairs of the White House. Condition not known, but it can't be good. The Gemini 9 double-header, publicized all over the world, blew up in his and NASA's face with the mysterious disappearance of the target, Agena. Ky is running amuck in Viet Nam, plus freak incidents occurring there like a loyal Vietnamese soldier firing at our top officials in a copter...and it all adds up to a catastrophe dead-ahead. Remember my "catastrophes dead-ahead" letter of a week or so ago? Add to all this that the stock market is failing. Then toss in the fact that various parties in and out of the government are calling for Johnson's blood...in the newspapers. The Si's ask me to tell the U.S. Govt. (through you) that they brought all this about...and things will get worse, not better. Until they are recognized by the U.S. Govt., and accepted, and a way made to approach the U.S. Govt. P K Man (Owens) === Page 161 of 246 Rich & Lorrie Sat. 3/26/66 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Well, the Air Force has done it. By Hyneck's ridiculous "solving" of the UFO's in Michigan in a day or two...he may have doomed the Air Force. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They were trying to establish their reality...for it must be done, if they are to help us. Now, they are angry at being called "marsh gas" and are going on record that they are going to harass the Air Force now as they have been doing NASA. Knowing what I know, George, if I were the Air Force I would be scared witless. But of course, who ever heard of marsh gas being dangerous? To make it clear....the Si's (saucer intelligences) are now going to teach the Air Force a lesson it will never forget. They are turning their attention to the harassment of the Air Force in a big way. P K Man (Owens) Dad === Page 162 of 246 Wednesday, June 29, 1966 Lorne Rick Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: NOW is the time to beware! Russia and/or Red China is, this very minute, preparing a terrible, ghastly strike against U.S. forces in Viet Nam. This follows, of course, last night's Hanoi and Haiphong attack by the U.S. After this terrible strike, the Russ will say (or Chinese): (1) All right...we struck, to defend North Vietnam, etc., now what do you want to do about it...go right into World War III? We will, if you want to. (2) Even your allies have left you now...the U.S. stands alone. No other country blames us for attacking you. P K Man P.S. I believe the RR (Russ/Chinese Reds) will strike from subs around Viet Nam, using small A-bombs against carriers, Saigon, etc. Also the RR will fill the air, unexpectedly, with planes and bombers against Saigon and U.S. forces. Watch our fleet, right now, for Pete's sake. I have been offered sanctuary on a beautiful estate, complete with dandy little house, food, etc., for the purpose of making a meeting with a UFO. It is really ideal...except it is a Communist group who work in this area. So I turned it down. A pity my own Govt. can't do that. === Page 163 of 246 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1966 # Johnson Meningitis Scare Blows Over By DOM BONAFEDE Special to The Inquirer And N. Y. Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--The White House experienced a few anxious hours last week when it was feared that President Johnson may have been exposed to spinal meningitis, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. As it turned out, the fears were groundless. **INCIDENT AT SHORE** The incident, nevertheless, was withheld from the press until Tuesday, when White House officials confirmed it in response to a reporter's inquiry. The story began last Wednesday while the President was visiting Atlantic City, N. J., to speak before the Association of School Administrators in Convention Hall. Among the Secret Service agents guarding the President was Michael Kelly, of the Philadelphia office. **FALLS TO PAVEMENT** Suddenly, Kelly fell to the pavement outside the hall. He was rushed to Atlantic City Hospital, where it was suspected he was suffering from spinal meningitis. Almost immediately, the President's personal physician, Vice Adm. George Burkley, who was in Washington, was informed. Recalling the incident Tuesday, White House sources said there was "concern" that the President might conceivably have been infected. **OUTBREAK REPORTED** Only recently a number of cases of meningitis has been reported in U. S. military camps in Texas and California, some resulting in death. Robert Fleming, deputy White House press secretary, said, "While the President was not close to Kelly, there was concern at any possible infection." At the hospital, Kelly was put in an isolation ward. Medical tests were given him. The following day the tests proved negative. Kelly did not have meningitis. Picking up the story, Fleming said, "Dr. Burkley was advised as soon as it was determined the agent did not have meningitis. "And because the Secret Service and Dr. Burkley kept so close to all the checks that were made on agent Kelly, it was not felt there was any danger to the President, and no treatment was given him." As a result of his mysterious fall, Kelly was reported by hospital authorities to be suffering from a concussion. His condition was listed as serious. But Dr. Lawrence Strenger said that tests showed no contagious illness. Kelly, who is assigned to the Philadelphia office of the Secret Service, was sent to Atlantic City to reinforce the President's bodyguard. # Peacenik Bares Undershirt to LBJ NEW YORK (UPI).--"Mr President," shouted a man in a tuxedo as President Johnson began to speak. "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam . . . peace in Vietnam." With that, the man stood on a chair and stripped off his tux jacket and stiff white shirt. Emblazoned on his undershirt was the same message he had shouted at the President: "Peace in Vietnam." The outburst briefly interrupted the President's address in the Waldorf Astoria's Grand Ballroom. The man who shouted at Mr. Johnson was identified as James Peck, 51, of New York. Secret Service agents, who had been watching Peck because of two previous arrests for demonstrating, seized him immediately. They carried him, his face bloodied, from the plush ballroom. PECK was charged with disrupting a lawful meeting and resisting arrest. He is an employee of the War Resistors League, which sponsored a peace demonstration outside the hotel while Mr. Johnson spoke. Peck had paid $25 for a ticket to the dinner. Nearly 4000 persons picketed the hotel. Six of them carried the orange, blue and yellow flag of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Vietcong. The President entered the hotel from a side street and never saw the demonstrators, nor they him. 2/24/66 === Page 164 of 246 Wed., June 29, 1966 Lornie Rick Please get copies of LA papers for yesterday and today...Tuesday and Wednesday...and send me all clippings pertaining to the California earthquake. THIS IS IMPORTANT. I predicted it, 11 days ago, in a letter to George (you have a copy, Nov. 17 ltr.) but way over here they just barely mentioned it as being the "worst earthquake California has had in 11 years." Nothing else ...that's all they said. And I need more on it for my file. Matter of fact...any time you see anything you know relates to my file, please send clippings on it. You can help Daddy that way. So...send me the clips, okay? Am very very busy on all sorts of PK projects right now. Especially hurricane work.. Love, Dad Owens === Page 165 of 246 Page Two 6.29.66 p2 and Magnolia." "In Brick Township, Ocean County, the storm caused flooding and power failures and one house fire." "The Ocean County police and fire radio system was knocked out by lightning. At least six homes were reported struck by lightning in nearby Point Pleasant." "A lightning bolt struck the main police antennae on top of the Seaside Park borough hall and blew out the police and fire department radios." (Note: As I pointed out on the July, 1965, Jack McKinney Show here in Phila., my favorite targets to which I assign lightning hits...are police station towers, fire station towers, radio and TV station towers.) "Lighting struck the home of Carl Belsatti of Willow Grove." "Firemen were called to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Abington where lightning had struck and started a fire in the steeple." "About 900 homes in the Highland Park and Twin Oak sections of Levittown were without electricity for an hour after lightning struck a transformer near Heartwood road." "In Gloucester township a lightning bolt struck near the house of John Kemml who was sitting on the patio with his wife. The bolt's shock temporarily paralyzed Kemmler's right arm, and stunned Mrs. Kemmler." "Another lightning bolt shattered a brick chimney at the home of D. D. Porterelli, Bellmawr." "Lightning started a fire in a wooded area near the Berlin, N.J. State Police Barracks." "Fire swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Olmstead, West Goshen Township, after a bolt of lightning struck a television set in the living room. The blaze completely destroyed the interior of the house and the furnishings." So, not only did I bring the lightning bolts onto Phila., as I said I would but the tremendous action also attacked the nearby parts of N.J. adjoining Phila. Remember, George, lightning is my trademark. What was my prediction again? "Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around." Well, I'd like to hear Mr. Dunne rebut the results. They don't call me The Rainmaker for nothing. So, you have further proof added on to a mountain of proof, of the kind of power the Si's back me up with. P K Man (Owens) (Signature) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 166 of 246 you have this prediction in your files. 29 Thursday, June 30, 1966 Rick Lorne I sent Jack McKinney a suit to wear 3 days before this lightning attack so he wouldn't get hit! Dad. Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Another bullseye. Remember my letter to you of June 17: "Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Philadelphia has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes." Here are quotations straight out of today's Philadelphia newspapers (13 days after my "prediction"): "Violent electrical storms raked suburban Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey yesterday afternoon and last night. Heavy rain, hail, lightning, and high winds caused floods, power blackouts, fires, and tree damage." "Chester County received a double punch yesterday with a series of storms in the afternoon, and another sequence last night. The first storms bounced around the county beginning about 3 PM, lasting until 5 PM. Torrential rains flooded some areas and hailstones as big as marbles were reported." "Lightning played havoc with the fire signal board at West Whiteland Fire Co. in Exton and firemen were kept busy checking alarms as the board flashed false signals." "At 2:30 PM the storm concentrated in the western portion of the county and lightning touched off a $100,000.00 fire at the Parkesburg Dress Co." "In the afternoon storm a transformer caught fire at the Milprint, Inc., packaging manufacturing company in Downingtown. The fire was confined to the transformer, which apparently had been struck by lightning." "In New Jersey an estimated 14,000 homes and businesses were without electric power for varying periods of time ranging from 30 minutes to five hours." "The Public Service Electric & Gas Co. called the storm "one of the most intensive electrical storms in recent years." "Hardest hit were Cherry Hill, Mt. Laurel, and Evesham townships, where Public Service said some 7,000 customers were without electrical service." "About 4,000 homes and businesses were affected in Burlington, Willingboro, and Beverly." "The five hour blackout was in Bellmawr. Other areas without power for almost as long were the Black Horse and White Horse communities of Somerdale 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 167 of 246 Lorne Rick July 14, 1966 George Clark, CIA Dear George: I am asking the Si's to please let Gemini 10 go unscathed, for a successful flight, on Monday. The reason: There is, at present, a glimmer of hope that perhaps the U.S. Government might recognize PK Man in the near future and provide what the Si's want. Therefore I will not make a PK map for Gemini 10 attack, and I will ask the Si's to abstain from attacking, as they did Gemini 8 and 9, ruining both of those missions. The only question mark is the area, which is alive and crawling with PK (other dimensional effects.) The "Electro" area which, like a trained Doberman, is long-trained to attack anything and everything connected with Cape Kennedy. Whether the Si's can turn the area off temporarily, I don't know. Certainly I can't. It has grown (the PK effect there) for two years, and is now extremely powerful. But at least I am sure the Si's will cooperate with me... so that will remove 2/3 of the threat from Gemini 10 flight. PK Man (Owens) * Temporarily, that is. I could permanently. Am working now to bring Hurricane Cecilia to Electro. One week ago I predicted Hurricane Cecilia!!! See your file copy my ltr to Dunne, July 7! 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 168 of 246 I'm having a meeting with NICAP tonight. Rick Lonnie Kids - I'll be on radio CBS - WCAU 3-4 PM an hour next Monday. Sure wish you could hear it. Dad. Wednesday, July 13, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: This is an extra-important letter. Next Monday I will be able to take the SI's case to the people on Ed Harvey's "Talk of Philadelphia" Radio show at WCAU/CBS here in Philadelphia, for an hour. As you know, the SI's appreciate this very much...and they repaid my taking their case to the people on the Jack McKinney Show in June by allowing Surveyor to get to the moon and function. Now, Monday, by coincidence, is the same day the Gemini 10 shot goes up (just as my appearance on the McKinney show in June was on the same day the Surveyor was due to get to the moon.) For the record, I am going to ask the SI's to allow this Gemini 10 shot to go all the way, without being attacked and racked up by the SI's...as they did with Gemini 8 and 9, which they ruined. This in exchange for this unexpected opportunity to present their case to the people (which will be few, at 3 in the afternoon...but at least, it's something.) That might be all right with the SI's...but what concerns me is the Cape K. area...which has been heavily PK'd (affected with other-dimensional effects). If the area itself attacks the astronauts and vehicles involved, there is little that can be done. But if there is some way the SI's can call off the area (Electro) for this shot, then perhaps it can be done. I don't know. This is a first for this sort of thing. Of course, the U.S. Government is not cooperating with the SI's...that is, acceding to the SI's wishes as pertains to myself, and their work. Even though I make this request to them, they might feel at this point that although they repaid a kindness once with a kindness, Surveyor....that my being able to present their case to a few housewives at 3 in the afternoon for an hour, is not what they had in mind when they wrote (through me) to the President, stating their wishes. The SI's are greatly appreciative of any step that can be made...to bring their forces together with the forces of the U.S. Government. But I am sure that they feel enough is not being done in this regard. Take the weather. In my letter to the President of March 10 I said that the SI's would end the drought on the East Coast, but I warned, and I quote: "But they warn...and mark this well...after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water..then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore PK Man and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the SI's...then the SI's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment, and they do not communicate idle words." Well, they gave lots of rain to the East Coast...still the U.S. Govt. ignored me, their Rep. Now, I fear, they are doing exactly as they said they would do above...with heat. If they appear publicly now - this will mean I am correct PK Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 169 of 246 July 15, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: (1) As per my letter to you last week, warning that the Reds in Viet Nam were going to up their airplane war on our planes...as of this Wednesday, two days ago...this did in fact occur...everyone was surprised when six Migs came out of left field. Fortunately our side were good shots, and disposed of the Migs. Then yesterday more brand new Migs came out...and the newspapers today exclaimed excitedly that there had been a sudden escalation in the air war...which is just what I predicted the week before it happened. (2) As per my letter to you of several days ago...warning that the SI's might be striking the U.S. with a heat storm, as punishment for the U.S. Govt. not acknowledging P K Man and cooperating with them...AND THE HAND-WRITTEN NOTATION ON THE BOTTOM OF THAT LETTER SAID: "IF THE SI'S MAKE A PUBLIC APPEARANCE NOW...IT WILL MEAN THAT I AM CORRECT." This morning in the paper is the following article: "AIR FORCE PROBES NEW UFO REPORT - Omaha, Neb., July 14 (UPI) - "The Air Force began Thursday an investigation of reported unidentified flying objects over east-central Nebraska and western Iowa. The sightings were reported Wednesday (July 13) at Burwell, Ord, Norfolk, Omaha, and North Loup-Scotia in Nebraska and at Council Bluffs, Iowa. A spokesman for Offutt Air Force Base confirmed it had received three such reports and an investigation was being conducted by the Air Force systems command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio." Therefore the SI's have spoken directly to the U.S. Govt. in this weird way of Ovens to SI's to appearance to U.S. Govt. (When I wrote you that letter with the hand-written notation, then I had to signal the SI's that their appearance publicly would be needed as confirmation that my thought in the letter was correct.) George, the U.S. Govt. is out of its blinking mind for not latching onto me instanter...and working and cooperating with me to the fullest extent! P K Man (Ovens) 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 170 of 246 L+R Friday, July 22, 1966 President Johnson Dear Sir: For some time I have been asking the U.S. Government to set me up for one year with everything I need, in order to make a contact with Si craft and intelligences. I have never had an answer, or been given any help by the U.S. Govt. Yet I have been offered exactly what I want and need, by a Communist organization. They windd and dined myself and family...took us out into the country and showed us their set-up...beautiful and wonderful and isolated...and told me I could have everything I want for as long as I want, in order to contact the Si's in the way I want. I informed the CIA, George Clark, of this, and offered to give this information (names and places of this local Phila. organization) but CIA has never sent anyone around to pick up the information. Perhaps some other branch of the Government would be interested in knowing about this group. I turned them down, it goes without saying. If my own Govt. will not aid me to link up with the Si's...I certainly will not go over to the Communists. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. Phila., Pa. Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 171 of 246 Friday July 22, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Dear George: After all the cussin' out I gave my various contacts - feel I must write this prediction follow-up (on the Gemini 10 shot.) As a matter of fact - as the predictions I have made in the past come to pass, feel I must point them out, to keep the file clear for any of those who have been keeping the file. But from now on I won't submit any new predictions. NASA just found out what it means now to have the Si's for them instead of against them. The Gemini 10 shot was THE BEST GEMINI shot to date, says the radio and newspapers. Why? Well, to start with - the Si's pulled Storm Celia away so as not to interfere with the lift-off. I had asked them to help make this a dandy space shot - and to call off Electro if they had any way to do so (and evidently they did) - and to show themselves to the Astronauts if possible so there'd be no doubt about all this. (I told you in a letter a couple of weeks ago that they'd appear to the astronauts on a space shoot.) Well, they did show themselves. I wanted the astronauts to stay away from that dam Gemini 8 Agena because it had been heavily FK'd and this flight was clean - and time hadn't made the Gem. 8 Agena any sweeter. It would still try to scuttle any astros it could get its hands on. At any rate, see my letter of July 13, 1966: "For the record, I am going to ask the Si's to allow this Gemini 10 shot to go all the way without being attacked and racked up by the Si's...as they did with Gemini 8 and 9, which they RUINED." I also made this same statement over Radio Station WCAU on a radio show. So what has occurred? The whole world is applauding one of the best space shots ever made. Records broken all over the place... because the Si's gave this space shot their help...even made an appearance to "sign" their intent, as I'd asked them to do. Not to take a thing away from NASA. Their work is terrific. But all the shots, Gems 5, 6, 8, 9...would have gone off like 10 if the Si's had allowed it to happen. I think their demonstration has been amply complete. They have consistently ruined shot after shot after shot. Suddenly they give NASA a green light on a shot..and it's near-perfect. You-all are right bright. I don't have to say more. P K Man (Owens) Love - Dad === Page 172 of 246 February 7, 1966 File THE EDITOR Dear Sir: ********** A lot of people I know feel real sorry for Hubert Humphrey, because of the way Hubert has to "yes" the President and do as he's told (like Him, or get his ears pulled.) But that's the way it is, when you're only in second place...you have to try harder. ********** McNamara refused to appear in public, on the matter of Viet Nam. Rumor has it that the real reason for this was because President Johnson called McNamara aside and said, Now, you-all see here, Mac...if those Senators try to get you to appear in public on the Viet Nam issue...jest remember whut ah used to teach mah little pupils in Texas, when ah'd ketch them carvin' their names on our schoolhouse seats. Kids, ah'd tell 'em, always remember what Lyndon tells you...'Fools names and fools faces, always appear in public places.' ********** People wondered why President Johnson took off so unexpectedly for a trip to Hawaii. Well, he just wanted to get away for a few days to talk to some Generals - and the only State left in the Union without blizzards, freezing cold, transit strikes, power blackouts, race riots, etc., happened to be Hawaii. If, that is, Hawaii's volcano doesn't erupt. ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 Philadelphia, Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 173 of 246 6-17-66 P2 The noise. A strange, weird, deep humming drone, seems about a foot or two away from us. Comes at odd times, lasts about 2-5 minutes, then goes away. Sometimes we do not hear it for weeks; then we'll hear it two or three times in a week. Never heard a noise like it. Things vanish. I put a pound of oleo in the ice-box one night. Got up in the morning and it was gone. My wife and I were baffled. My cigars have disappeared, without anyone touching them. I had a five and ten dollar bill disappear overnight (my wife didn't touch them.) And other odd things have vanished as well. My wife woke me one night and we both saw small UFO's in the room. Then, on several occasions, she saw a small light the size of a marble moving slowly around my head in the dark, after we'd gone to bed. My clothes are all falling apart. Shorts, shirts, pants...all are coming apart, holes forming. It has gotten funny. Practically every shirt, pants, and shorts I have is full of holes, suddenly. And these have nothing to do with moths. They aren't that type of hole, or tear. My clothes now rip and tear like soft paper. The baby keeps pointing at some "man" he sees, excitedly...but we don't see anybody...and the baby doesn't joke. "Man, man!" he cries, pointing. And of course there isn't any man there. I woke one morning about 3:30 and clouds of smoke or fog were filling the room...I could see them boiling up against faint light on the wall. I thought the place was on fire and called my wife, and we got up and frantically checked out in the hall, etc. But there wasn't any fire... and the "smoke" had vanished when we got back. Three different times the baby was waked up screaming in the middle of the night...and not more than 10 minutes afterward, each time...there is a tremendous explosion outside our windows. First the baby screams and wakes us up, then comes the explosion. One night I jammed the hall door open securely. When we got up, the jamming-object had been removed, and the door firmly closed and locked. We didn't do it. - Also a heavy art-object had moved from a table to the floor. Martha and I both saw a pigeon on the roof opposite with what looked like a small radar-antennae on its neck...it was a collar, but not flat, the edges cupping outwards. Never saw anything like it. Am expecting a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S., in the shape of a huge "T" - with the top of the T running up and down California, and the bottom of the T running toward Colorado. 2 R.C. QUAKES 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 174 of 246 Copy - Rick, Lorrie Keep this in your file, nuthead! This is priceless! Friday, June 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's are frustrated and thus irked, because I am not getting anywhere in an effort to meet them personally...they will not come into downtown Philadelphia, I know...and I cannot get isolated so they can come down without any interference from anyone. Therefore I predict all hell will break loose in the form of catastrophies in the near days and weeks ahead. The Lord only knows what they will think up...they are very ingenious. I wrote you last November about Him and Her, the President's dogs...and in the same letter told you how our dog got ran over and killed. You might be interested in looking at that letter, since the President's dog just got ran over...it's as if the Si's waited until the sense of that letter was accurate, then arranged for Him's accident, so the letter will be read at this time, again. "Him" Whatever happened to OGO, shot up from the Cape a while back? They were supposed to be communicating with it a week ago...but there's not been a word in the papers about it. Am setting up Philadelphia for some of the roughest, toughest storms Phila. has ever had. Am building up the electrical potential here for it. Should be an extraordinary amount of lightning striking all around, when it comes. THREE & FAIR Tornados tore up Topeka, Kansas, not long ago. Si's say...that could happen to the White House and Capitol Hill, just as easily. Si's say they are going to demonstrate with the oceans and seas now...make them reject and attack humans like a body rejects a strange live implant (liver, kidney, etc.) Si's say the seas and oceans have a form of intelligence, taken as a whole unit. They are turning them against humans, as a demonstration of one of their strange powers. Si's say the earliest peoples on earth used these "PK" systems...but as they invented hand tools and weapons, their PK power decreased...until finally the power was usually narrowed down to one person in a tribe, The Elder...until the power was lost entirely. (Up until now. I have it.) Thought you might be interested in all the phenomena that has occurred in our apartment on Spruce: Kids - Si's got your tongues? 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 175 of 246 March 20, 1967 Dear Lorrie I enjoyed your letter, received today. It is very good that you and Rick can double-date together. Sounds like fun. And am glad you are getting that kind of school fun...which you didn't get while with me. It's about time. So you are partial to Latin types, eh? Ugh! Pat can tell you something about Latins...ask her about Frank. Ugh. They are usually overbearing, aggressive, and hard to get along with. Bright in spots...but poison over the long run. Your sweetheart, Julio, might be different. I am speaking of the general Latin trait. I would rather see you going steady with a strong, blond, All-American boy type...but it ain't me is got to kiss them goodnight, it's you. So, shock aw saw goo. Martha sent you a letter last week. I mailed it myself. Beau is a doll. Handsome, tough as nails, gentle as a lamb, loving loving loving. He pours out affection. And reads my mind...last night I looked at him and mentaly told him to go across the room and get me a Kleenex. He was just standing in front of me. Immediately he turned, went across the room, got me a Kleenex, and brought it to me. It is frightening, but he does it constantly. I don't give him a cue or anything. Martha has gotten bigger and heavier. Still a cute doll...a big cute doll. She and Beau get along fine while I am gone through the day. We're a tight little group. There are ten top pool sharks, hustlers, at the Cue and Cushion downtown. I have been eight of them...some by as much as 50 points in a 100 point game. The other two I haven't played. Not much use yet. They both run 50 to 100 balls without stopping. One of them, Scotty, ran 172 the other night before he missed. Whew! So I have a lots of practice ahead of me. Since I can't throw knives...I'll become a very top pool expert. Your chemistry sounds like fun. Glad to hear you are doing fine in it. Just stay far far away from the kids with LSD, whisky, etc etc. You are so fine, so pretty, so nice...keep yourself that way, so we can all be proud of you through the years. Let the other kids ruin their lives; be too smart to follow that kind. Okay? And steer and guide your little smarty-pants brother through the shoals and reefs too, right? Since getting the Searchlight article, which I sent you, have received about twenty letters from interested people. I've offered all of them a partnership in the Soto Church for $5,000, so keep your fingers crossed. Might not be too long before we have our little house in the woods, somewhere, with a cozy fire and pool table...and my Church is there... and my Brain Wave Synchronizer, and I am working with people again. Love and kisses... Dad Sunday P.S. Last night I dreamed I opened a door and went into Pat's apartment. She was in bed and alone. We talked and I got sleepy and lay down on another bed dressed, & fell asleep. Later I woke and wondered where Jim was - & wondered what he'd think if he came and found me there. So I left Pat, asleep, and slipped out. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 176 of 246 2 Lornie Rick 1/11/66 Now, enclosed you find some clippings. Be sure and send them back for my files. As you will see, there was a great mysterious "fireball" that landed.... in Pennsylvania, naturally. But this was the second one to land in Pennsylvania within weeks. There was another great fireball before this one, on .......... Of course, it was the Si's that caused the Great Power Blackout in New York, and I am sure that it was one of their biggest, greatest craft...a "mother ship"...that landed in Pennsylvania (the "fireball") that caused the power failure on such a large scale. Perhaps you don't know it, but just after the great New York power blackout there was a huge power blackout in....Texas. Yep. President Johnson is trying to have both of them investigated, but how can you check on Si's? All you can do is check on the rubbish they leave behind, after the damage is done. Right? Incidentally, the Si's want you to know what they are doing, through me. They were training you, even though you didn't know it, while you were with me. And they were upset when you left me. Their training includes a great many things...including growing you a new brain, of a different sort than what you have. You have to have it, to receive the greater degree of power that you work with, through them. And they can only give you greater power in slow, graduated degrees. The Si's want me to tell you...if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you...keeps you from getting it...God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me..they might wipe out the Bentley's and the Shannons, just like that. You know what happened to Mangels, and others who irked the Si's. I am out of it. Your choice is good enough for me, and this is definitely, certainly not any ploy on my part to try to get you to come back...because what you kids want, I want, for your own happiness (even if I might not agree with it.) But I am being objective when I tell you the above ... I know the Si's, communicate with them, and know their tremendous, unbelievable power that literally creates miracles, good and bad. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 177 of 246 Wednesday January 12, 1966 Rick Lornie I wrote you a letter yesterday, and got stamps at the PO last night...but before I could mail the letter this morning, a UFO made news this morning. Now, as you know, for two weeks I have been communicating with the Si's, asking them to appear at Cape Kennedy, as a signal to the US Government. Instead, they waited, and appeared last night not too far from here in New Jersey, over a water reservoir...and they stayed there so they would be seen, positively and definitely..........instead of Cape Kennedy. Why? Appearing over the water reservoir was a message to the Government, for one thing. Also, appearing just as Johnson is going to give his big message today to the US, is another reason. They appeared over the water-reservoir in New Jersey, to show that they are here in this very area, active. They appeared over the reservoir to warn the US Government, once again, to let me end the drought, using their (Si) power to do it. They appeared just before President Johnson's speech...as a warning to the President of their reality, and in verification of what I have been saying for them. There should be an article in the paper today on it. I'll clip it, and send it enclosed, along with yesterday's letter...which oddly enough dealt with UFO's. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 178 of 246 Tuesday January 11, 1966 Dear Rick Lornie Some day somebody is going to make fun of you, if you mention what P K Man has done. Remember, when we waited by the spot where all the government officials would stand, before Johnson was made President...and I laid down a PK effect to put them all in the hospital...wrote the government that I would...and then they all went to various hospitals? Remember my driving dogs away with PK? Lifting the car off my trapped hand with PK? Remember how you stood there and watched me map out routes for the hurricanes to follow...and they followed; my routes? Remember my using Emmy-Emma technique to cause an earthquake on the California coast, and telling Mangels a day ahead of time, as a witness...and then it hit the next day? Remember the Needles Operation? Remember my throwing fire PK at California, and then those great fires of 1965 hit? And so on and so on. Then we found out that the UFO intelligences were supplying the power, and doing the hitting. I pointed out the targets. If anybody doesn't believe you...show them the attached copy of my March 9 letter to George Clark, CIA, whom you met....telling what the Si's were going to do at the North/South Pole. Then show them one of the numerous newspaper clippings telling what happened five months later...when the Si's carried out this assignment, to PROVE I was working with and for them. Any spot I hit with PK...the grass is never the same again. Anybody I hit with PK, is never the same again, if they survive. And so it goes. And anybody I save with PK, like Brenda Sue Pennington (you were there, Lornie) is never the same again. */reason I am sending this one document to you for proof, instead of any of the hundreds of others I have...is because somebody could say that perhaps it is pure precognition...that I am good at predicting ahead of time what is going to happen, and that's all. They'll say that rules out Si's. But...to say that I could predict a change in the electromagnetic setup of the South Pole, and that it would be reported in the newspapers...is ridiculous for plain precognition. And it happened months later, not days. And a flying saucer was there to prove my Si point...and was seen by scientists. The utterly ingenious way in which this was done...was proof by the Si's, that they tell me what will happen, then make it happen. And they give me power, too. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 179 of 246 May 19, 1967 Mr. James E. Webb N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Webb: I refer you to my letter of May 24, 1966, in which I carefully explained...that there would be only failures and catastrophes at Cape Kennedy without the friendship of the UFO Intelligences...whom I represent, as an agent. Following that, of course, there has been a horrendous string of lost rockets (Biosatellite, etc etc.) and the astronaut tragedy...and the even worse following catastrophe of both public and Administration wrath toward NASA. A pity that I am not taken seriously. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. (Signed) Owens === Page 180 of 246 Friday, May 19, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News 303 Fifth Avenue New York, New York Dear Jim: I guess this is the correct place to write, since it was on your stationery. Or should I send your correspondence to Ft. Lee? Anyway, thanks for your card. Will be good to see Saucer News about the middle of June. Will it go on news stands, too? Am asking the SI's to deal NY another power blackout, or show their craft there in a striking way...or do something big and mysterious...before June 22...in NY, to help boost interest in the Convention. Am sure you will get powerful results. Something exciting and unusual. Should affect power and electricity, when it happens. Just one thought, however. I hope there is no misunderstanding on their part. Recently there have been a couple...dozens of tornados instead of the hurricane I asked for, was one. I hope they don't misunderstand this, and demolish New York...instead of putting on a demonstration. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 181 of 246 May 24, 1967 Ida Lewis 108 School Street Morton, Pa. 19070 Dear Ida: If you will look at my 1967 Predictions, you will see that it is beginning to come to pass. I mention "the blackest year for America"...and even now, this is beginning to take place, and will. Either Russia and China, or both, have amply stockpiled Egypt and its cronies with tremendous weapons with which to obliterate Israel. True, Israel has the best military force...but it will be like fighting a tiger with a fly-swatter, when Israel takes on Egypt and its cronies...with their new weapons. Nothing whatever will stop Egypt and its cronies from crushing Israel now. They have been told by Russia and/or China that they will be backed up against the U.S., if it steps in. I predict, therefore, the complete wiping out and obliteration of Israel (much as I like and admire Israel, which has nothing to do with my prediction.) Just as I have predicted the wiping out, and obliteration, of all U.S. peoples in Viet Nam. Now the Si's have a special message: They have told me to pass on the word to the U.S. Gov. that they will demonstrate their control over peoples minds by seeing to the complete and utter humiliation of President Johnson and fellow Democrats at the polls in 1968...if the U.S. survives to get to that point, which is in grave doubt at this time. They will defeat the present Administration leaders with every weapon at their command, the 'i's will. F E Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 182 of 246 Monday, May 29, 1967 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency, Wash. D.C. Dear George: Was glancing over my files last night...and find that I gave the U.S. Govt. rather accurate warning of the barrel situation the U.S. now finds itself over on the Egypt-Israel problem. (1) In my letter to you of April 15, 1966: "They (the Si's) are getting set to focus their strange wrath now upon the U.S. Govt., or symbols thereof (Note: Israel is an ally). And the U.S. Govt. can consider itself warned in advance...I pick up a thread of something they might have in mind...foreign countries and peoples rising up against us in masses...actively...to the point of a catastrophe...as has never been done before in the history of the United States, and dangerously so...." That was a pretty good call, George, although it did take a year to develop. But not long ago...Nov. 2, 1966, in my letter to Roland Suank, Organization of Scientific Research, I said: "The Si's warn that dead ahead in the near future...the U.S. Govt. is going to be stricken with a dilemma, a quandary, to beat all quandaries. The U.S. will be faced with a unique problem suddenly thrust upon it...and the decision that is made by Johnson and Co. will decide the fate of the U.S., ultimately." "...this happening will be BIG. Something tremendously important." Now, of course, it is clear that the threat of Israel being attacked and wiped out, with all other ramifications...is what the above two references pertained to. I had thought it might have been a decision Pres. Johnson made to bomb the Hanoi area...but now I realize this sudden, unexpected twist in the Middle East, which could poleax the U.S. if it develops the way it is going...was what the Si's were warning about. H. Owens (P K Man) === Page 183 of 246 May 29, 1967 Mr. Tim Beckley I. N. Service, Searchlight Dear Tim: Just a note to point out that in my letter to you of January 18, 1967, I said: "Today called them (Roland Swank) and warned of a large earthquake to occur within days, or several weeks at the most, on the West Coast. Will be 6 or above on the Richter scale. A very damaging one. The Si's told me about it today...they will make it happen." The earthquake hit Denver, Colorado, on April 10...later than I had thought. There were widespread reports of damage up to points 120 miles away. The earthquake was so severe it knocked the needle off a seismograph at Regis College in Denver. This was the worst earthquake in history to hit Denver...since it was rated at 5.5 on the Richter scale of 10, and previously the worst quake to hit Denver had been 4.3 on Nov. 21, 1965...so nobody could say, well, this was just another quake. Ted Owens (P K Man) The Setas 1114 Spruce St., No. 33 Phila., Pa. === Page 184 of 246 Monday, May 22, 1967 Mr. Jim Moseley Saucer News Dear Jim: I quote the following from the New York Times yesterday, May 21, 1967: "ST. ALBANS BLACKED OUT." "St. Albans section of Queens was blacked out for nearly an hour and a half last night in the area bounded by Linden Boulevard, 118th Road and 198th and 202nd Streets." Since I had written you a few days before that, stating that I would ask the SI's to black out New York... it is most interesting that this seems to be a beginning. Remember that... the approach of thousands of their intelligences and/or craft will stop or block most power operations... such as electric, magnetic, electro-magnetic, etc. All the books say it is because of the power from the SI craft, that cars, etc., are stalled with dead batteries and dead radios. But the SI's have explained it to me differently... the SI's exert a force over the area near and around them, to silence all power sources... so that messages cannot be relayed to other points for help, or to attack them. I.e., if your car is on the road at night, and a SI is near... it will stop your car and stop your radio, holding you helpless to signal for help against them. Attack them. V. L. Dan (Owens) === Page 185 of 246 May 26, 1967 George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: This is confirming phone call of today, as follows; Si's state that Israel...and our accompanying problem with Israel...has only one hope. That of Si help. And they offer to give their help at once, to save Israel and bring about peace there. The U.S. Govt. must secure my family, and send me to Israel just as fast as can be done. I am betting, or willing to bet, my life, on the Si's...against Russian brains and weapons in the hands of Egypt, Syria, etc etc. What's the U.S. got to lose to try it? P E Man (Owens) === Page 186 of 246 Monday, May 29, 1967 President Johnson The i's told me not to write you any more letters...but I want to confirm a prediction I made...so I might as well add some vital information the i's gave me this afternoon to send to CIA. First, the prediction...see my letter to you of April 5, 1967: (I am talking about "kamikaze" techniques which are going to be adopted by the Viet Cong..." ... to overrun those points with mass suicidal attacks of commandos to silence all communications." The part of my prediction that is yet to come to pass...is the suicidal attacks with planes and ships. But let's get back to the confirmation. In tonight's paper, Phila. Bulletin, UPI, May 29, Saigon: "Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt...three star General, recently assigned to Washington, said the Communists had resorted to suicidal attack against the allies." Now, today the i's gave me the following information: Russia has just formulated a new philosophy. They have decided that the U.S. is now weaker than it has been in a long long time, due to confusion in the Administration...conflict between the peoples and the Administration...conflict between the U.S. and foreign countries, etc. They judge the rest of the world including the U.S. as villain. And they have discovered if we haven't the brains and the power to settle the hash of N. Vietnam by now, we never will. Plus the fact they have been preparing for nuclear war for years in a reality way (unlike us) by vast underground shelters...and by sneaking agents into our key cities with A-bombs and bacteriological weapons...Trojan horse technique. The a-bombs and bacteriological weapons all to be set into action on a signal from Russia. After all our key cities are stricken, they'll offer to what is left...to come pick up the poor people and put them to work in Russia as slaves. Mind you, not a missile has been fired. If we do lob missiles onto Russia, they will have struck first...their key people will be scattered out in satellite countries...and most of their people will be in underground shelters. Ours won't be, when their missiles come. And now, with some new weapons they have, which we do not have, plus the above, they are ready...after all these years. It is no longer a Mexican stand-off, because they are prepared and ready to strike. The i's thought our U.S. Govt. ought to know this. P R Men (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., No. 53 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 187 of 246 February 10, 1966 THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I read in the paper where President Johnson called for an end to the slaughter on our Nation's highways. He said, "If we continue at our present suicidal rate, half of all Americans will one day suffer death or serious injury on our highways." Now, he shouldn't say things like that. It might worry and depress our boys in Viet Nam. ********** There was an article in the paper last week about a famous movie star who allegedly stole some dime store merchandise. Good for her! Really, I mean it! Just think what a happy place Hollywood would be if all the famous actresses would stop stealing each other's husbands - and switched to stealing dime store trinkets! But they won't stop stealing husbands...they'd rather fight than switch. ********** To show you how very low the modern-day male of our so-called civilization has fallen, a Mr. Rothschild of Yale, said in the papers last week, "I have become very upset at the female assault on the male world, and want to do something about it..." So, what he did was challenge Miss McVeigh, of Harvard, to a rough and tough game of jacks. They sat down and battled it out. He won. She said, "Because he beat me doesn't prove me any less feminine, it just proves John (Rothchild) more feminine." These gentle words took care of Mr. Rothchild. But my son, 14, who for several years I have been trying to sell on the importance of a college education, said "Gee, Dad, is that what you learn at college? How to play jacks? I already know how to play jacks." Well, I was speechless and at a loss for a suitable answer, naturally. Finally all I could say was, "Son, in the cave man days when men were men they hit the girl on the head with a club, dragged her to his cave. No jacks were played. But now times have changed. They have laws. To keep out of trouble you need to study law...so that is why you need to go to college, because......." ********** H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St. #33 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 188 of 246 Thunderstorms Drench, Dim Areas in Northern Suburbs LORNIE - REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST THE BUSINESS? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER - Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. Yes I remember He actually did win! Just not in golf. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 189 of 246 # Thunderstorms Drench, Dim Areas in Northern Suburbs Northeast Philadelphia and portions of Montgomery and Bucks counties were drenched with heavy thunderstorms last night touching off widespread power shortages and flooding. Hardest hit by the downpour was Willow Grove where the Naval Air Station recorded 1.35 inches of rain from 6:30 to 8 P.M. The Upper Moreland township police reported scores of flooded basements, fires and trees and electrical wires knocked out by the storm. A roof of the Willow Grove Metal Stamping Co. plant on Wyandotte rd. collapsed during the heavy rains. SOME 6000 homes in Warminster township were without power for 40 minutes when lightning struck a 33,000-volt Philadelphia Electric Co. power line at Blair and Monument rds. shortly after 7:30. In the Norristown area, power was knocked out, darkening some 1000 homes. Scattered disruptions were reported throughout Montgomery and Bucks counties. === Page 190 of 246 7.15.66 02 # Tornado Topples S. C. Ferris Wheel CRESENT BEACH, S. C. (UPI). -- A sea-spawned tornado ripped through South Carolina's rich "Grand Strand" resort area and caused an estimated $1 million damage to the posh playground. No serious injuries were reported. The twister knifed out of a squall line of thunderstorms, toppling a huge ferris wheel and severely damaging a restaurant and two motels. Lesser damage was reported at other resort areas north of Myrtle Beach. Communications and power were cut off by the storm. Heavy rains drenched the area and flooded streets and lowland areas. THUNDERSTORMS raked the area from Myrtle Beach northward to Cherry Grove Beach. Police and rescue squads rushed into the stricken area and reported only minor injuries to the throng of summer visitors and residents. Most of the minor injuries were caused by flying glass. Remember the ferris wheel? It got it. === Page 191 of 246 2 15 66 p2 The rainbow-colored light (which humans could not see, but I am lucky in that the Si's let me see it) seemed alive...it moved. My daughter and I left, as soon as the Si's told me it was done and the girl would live (she had been given up by the medical profession, which was the only reason they let me in). As the days went by the Si's let me see the girl in her hospital room...and as the days went by, the tiny small rainbow-light over her head grew in size, until the entire room was filled with beautiful, colored 'things'...and the room pulsated, like a human breathing. That was constructive. The girl is now at home, improving, and alive. The Si's saved her. Electro and Electra, the Calif. coast, are destructive. But the Si's point out that they can only reach humans...prove to humans that they are real...by producing negative conditions, destructive conditions. Just as the only way Moses could convince the Pharaoh that what he was saying was true and real...was by producing negative, destructive conditions. The Si's want you to know they come from another dimension, not outer space. They can produce conditions in our dimension from their dimension, if they wish. Or, they can actually enter our dimension themselves, when they have reason to do so. Before closing, they want you to know they can "melt" the destructive conditions they have set into play in Electro and Electra, and replace with a reverse effect. P K Man === Page 192 of 246 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency 2/15/66 Dear George: The Si's communicated with me this morning...and urged me to pass this following information on to the U.S. Government. Now, I have known this, but I only tell this sort of thing...when they tell me to. Philadelphia recently had a very nice rain. The Si's gave it. XXXXXXXXXX The Si's, for some reason, want the U.S. to know...that they have a Black Box. Say they are irked with the U.S. Government (which they are..the Administration so they slide a card into the Black Box...this is sort of like a printed-circuit in a transistor radio...and what happens is this: The U.S. Government then develops "conditions" which lead to all sorts of unusual and unexpected set-backs, ranging from air-ship-sub collisions, etc., to people catastrophes...like two generals, in different parts of the world, smashing themselves to pieces the same week by parachuting out of planes (last year.) The weather will go against the Government...people will turn against the Government...conditions will go against the Government. This is what the Black Box does, when the card or wafer is inserted in it. If the Si's wish to reverse conditions, they remove that card, and insert another, and then all conditions are "go" (to put it into space language) for the U.S. Government Everything goes right. The weather turns favorable; the people change, and become happy and back the Govt.; ships, planes, and subs stop having accidents; space work, instead of being blocked and hampered by constant set-backs, is speeded forward. The Si's want the U.S. Government to know that they can do this, for it is a different medium of tool than anything we have on earth. They want you to know that they can influence minds, souls and matter on earth in a way humans cannot. They want you to know that they have let me "see" how "PK" works...that is, take the "Electro" area from Daytona Beach to Miami...over it, now (didn't used to be when I just started the PK work) is a growing garden of violently colored 'things'...not plants, but long long things that extend into the air from the ground. The area is covered with these really beautiful, colored plants (?) which humans cannot see...but which are there, nevertheless, and which affect the area. The 'things' are constantly growing. For instance, when I was given permission to go to try to save the life of Brenda Sue Pennington in Washington, D.C., because she was dying...and because the Si's told me to...I "hit" Brenda Sue with certain kinds of constructive "PK" (that is my term for the process of the Si's which I cannot explain, but can use) and a tiny rainbow of color formed over her head (she was in bed, with police standing by, nurses, etc.) I hit her with all the power I had, and used my daughter to supplement my power, by holding hands with my daughter. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 193 of 246 Bend wrist-band to fit your wrist. P.S. Bend this wrist-band to fit your wrist, honey. Feb. 7, 1966 Rick - The Si's instructed me to make you this wrist band. Made one for myself. We're to wear them as much and as often as possible. They have a reason for it. And the ring too. Try to wear this symbol all the time! Must make Lonnie & Martha & Lonnie a necklace. Beau too - something. It's important to the Si's - so let's cooperate. Did you get my Third Proof? Sent it today! "Emmy-Emmy" is name you gave to crude symbols we used to "PK earth-skin movement into disrhythm, causing floods, hurricanes, violent storms, volcano eruptions, etc. Found out our symbols were a code to Si's, who do it themselves with a form of power not known on earth. Love, Dad HAPPY === Page 194 of 246 January 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: I hope that you are getting along fine in school, and that all is well. Everything is quiet here...right now. But you know, with me...all hell can break loose, any time, any place. Our days are all pretty much the same...to work early, home at 6, where Martha has a hot supper waiting and Beau has a big kiss for me. Then TV, with Beau scrambling to get into my lap. He's so funny...if I bring home a beer, he runs like mad and gets a glass or cup before I even can get the beer out of the sack. And when he climbs into my lap every evening, after supper, to watch TV, first he brings a pillow to put his head on, then his pa-pa (blanket) to hold on to. I tell you he's cute. Once in a while, if Beau gets off my lap to do something, then Martha jumps out of her chair, which is alongside mine, and quickly takes Beau's place in my lap. Then of course Beau runs back and climbs up into her lap, which makes a sort of human pyramid...with me on the bottom trying to smoke a cigar. It is a comical sight. Soon am going to try to make some extra money, some way. Been relaxing long enough, just breaking even. Time to get ahead. This morning Martha said, "Say, if Jim Shannon is so young...like 25 or 27, then why isn't he in the draft, or in the Service?" No matter what PK I hit LA and Calif. with...you kids have no worry. You are protected. Was astonished to see an ad on TV where two kids are in a bubble, floating in the air, and the ad said: "How would you like to have your kids in a bubble of protection?" Be sure, you kids, to read my letters to each other...when I write one, it's for the other one to know about, too. So, take turns. Hope you and Rick liked the color pictures that were taken in Washington. The best one was of you and Beau, upstairs. What did you think of my big, fat letter last week with the photostats of the Si's being seen all night near here in New Jersey...and shooting a ray that burnt a big hole in the ice? The mayor of the town, the cops, and thousands of people saw the Si's that night. Write, Spellbound, when you can. love and kisses.......... Parker Owens P.S. Was there a power blackout in L.A.? If so, please send clipping on it. === Page 195 of 246 2/15/66 Dear Rick... was good to hear from you. Am returning copy of my letter for your files. Wrong one, but I thank you for going to the trouble of looking. Never mind looking further, I've got it covered. Tell Pat that that time she and her mother and I encountered a tremendous "feeling" in the front parlor of their home in Durham, N.C. - we were in a UFO "force-field" which was created by the extreme closeness of the UFO intelligences which were actually present at the time, although unseen. Rhine's work had drawn their interest...they were near Duke...and my own interests and mind drew them. They've told me. Now, about your pool cue. I went into Brunswick, a few doors from where I work, to get your cue. The expert there said to wait about three weeks, because they have a new cue coming from Japan which is superior to anything they've got in the U.S. It is made of rosewood, and is beautiful, and a terrific shooter. You know, Rick, the best radios are made in Japan...also some of the best cameras. Now they are coming out with these pool cues. They are the same price, about $20, as U.S. made, but this expert says they are 100% better in feel, balance, and looks. So, your birthday present will be three weeks late. You'll get a professional pool cue which unscrews and fits into a professional case (one just like you saw in "The Hustler" and a book by Willie Mosconi, one of the all time greats in pool. By the way, Sunday there was a tournament by four of the top pool shooters in the U.S. A Frank McGowan, of Brooklyn...beat the great old-timers he was up against. The old-timers were all about 50-60 years old. This McGowan was in his 30's. They had trick-shot contests, where each one took turns trying to do the same trick shot...and they had straight-pool contests to 100 (not 50). Sunday Electro got the huge Agena rocket they were testing...tore it up at the Cape...and now they are behind the 8-ball in their scheduled target-shot in March. They are "investigating what went wrong." A very very familiar phrase, indeed. Also Sunday Major Keyhoe appeared on a nationally televised program, to my utter surprise, and came out with these gems: (a) The U.S. Air Force has fired upon and attacked UFO's. But orders have now been given for our planes to "force them down to the ground". Ha ha. The AF has clocked the UFO's going 18,000 MPH. (b) Newsmen asked Keyhoe if it seemed "the UFO's were angry with our space efforts, and might be trying to block them." ---------- ! (c) Keyhoe said the A.F. and U.S. Government knew positively the UFO's are quite real...he'd seen a secret Govt. report on it...and that the A.F. had been under orders to shut up anybody or anything that had seen or heard a UFO, in order to keep it from the general public. He said some top AF men were angry about it...because they had to lie, and they weren't natural liars. But he said the U.S. Govt. was now contemplating telling the public about it...bringing it out into the open. ---------- ! Keyhoe said the A.F. and CIA had been working on keeping UFO activity secret, === Page 196 of 246 2 amd away from the general public. The CIA! Looks like I have been writing to the wrong people, Rick. Am having lots of fun with this new thing...sending funnies into the papers... and our kitchen wall is papered with different pages of newspapers that I have got funnies in. Sent you a UFO ring today. And a wrist-band also. Don't wear the wrist-band to school, only around home. These articles were made at the Si's direction, by me for you. Has something to do with a plan they have. Sent Lornie a "boyfriend" wring. I made Martha an out-of-this world beautiful bracelet and necklace for her Valentine. First time I have ever made anything...you know...but so far I have turned out all kinds of things like I'd been doing it for years. Without studying it, or anybody telling me anything...I just went to the right stores and bought the right things, then made the things up. Glad you approve of "hooleeo". That's favorable. You're pretty shrewd judge of character. Am puzzled. You say "The confirmed clipping of the UFO over Cape Canaveral are on their way." You didn't mean this letter of mine, attached, did you? I am 46 now. Always remember...I am 10 years older than Pat. Love always Dad === Page 197 of 246 Jan. 14, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: I am appalled by the apathy of the U.S. Government in checking leads, no matter how "far out" they may be. Now, just lately in my correspondence to you I told you that I would try to get the Si's to display a craft at Cape Kennedy for an extended period of time, to prove that I communicate with them and they understand. They chose, instead to do this in New Jersey, over the Wanaque reservoir. Sent you the info on that yesterday. The point is this...they want to make a personal meeting with me...and the Govt. should have rushed me to that exact spot and given me an opportunity to communicate and bring them down, right there. I have the means of doing this. No one else has. Same thing with their appearance in Michigan, and Florida, some time ago. I should have been sent there by the Govt....rushed...and been given an opportunity to meet them, by talking them down to the spot again. I am talking about the craft, now. We have had Si phenomena in our apartment, believe it or not, these past few weeks...but it is necessary to bring down a craft, and meet it. Two great "fireballs" have landed in Pa. since September, on two different occasions. These were the Si's, and they did not land in Pa. by accident. I am in Pa. They wish to meet me. This was brought out long ago in correspondence, when they stipulated conditions on how they wanted to meet me. But of course, US Govt. made no answer. I wrote you in advance of the events, that the Si's would create an earthquake and a disaster area (this in Dec. 28.) They did just that...a mild earthquake in New York and Pa., followed by a billion-dollar financial disaster in NYC. I told you that Pres. Johnson would be involved in the disaster area. Well, he tried not to be...but it was extended until he was forced into the matter. It is a great pity that I can get no cooperation from my Government to meet a Si craft, and make arrangements with them for future events. P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce St. #33 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 198 of 246 Copy - Rick & Leone Monday, April 4, 1966 George Clark, C.I.A., Washington, D.C. Dear George: Yesterday I was in communication with the Si's...and they told me that they were going to make a demonstration of their powers before the AF meets with Congress with its info on UFO's...in order to dramatize the meeting. They told me they would do something at Cape Kennedy, or at Washington (the White House)...and today the tornados struck Cape Kennedy! I could have again warned the U.S. Govt. last night of this, but have no one to report to, and no way to do it. Oh, yes...then they told me yesterday of their plan to hit the Cape, or the White House...I asked them to show one of their crew in the area, as a sort of signature. But they didn't do that. Not long ago I sent you a letter with regard to General Ky, of Viet Nam. At the time he was being painted as a mixture of Batman and George Washington, by the U.S. Govt. But I told you what he was really like. And if you will check my letter, you will see that I was correct. The Si's yesterday told me something else...they do not want me to try to meet them in Michigan, or anywhere in the U.S. They want the original plan...U.S. Govt. gives me the money, I go to England...they specify England...and want me to rent an isolated castle there, etc. You know what that plan is. Now, to business. You will remember that I warned weeks ago that U.S. catastrophes would increase (unless the Govt. enlisted the help of the Si's) It has not, and the catastrophes have. Let's just briefly scan the catastrophes that have struck the U.S. Govt. in just the past ten days (10): (1) Today's tornados, chopping up Florida for three hours and bullseyeing on Cape Kennedy. (2) The railroad strike - "biting into the Nation's economy" as the newspapers put it. This affected hundreds of thousands of workers and jobs, and cost approximately fifty to one hundred million dollars...and created chaos. (3) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday - six days, count them, six - arrangements were made at Cape Kennedy for NASA to get a rocket off the ground...any rocket. But they could not. And these birds were highly publicized, adding insult to injury when they failed to get up. A true catastrophe for NASA, prestige-wise. (4) The "lost" H-bomb off the coast of Spain was dropped accidentally not once but many times, and is now possibly gone for good, until it goes off some day, or Russia steals it. A catastrophe. (5) The people of South Viet Nam, our allies, turned against the U.S. Govt. this week - and now American personnel are not safe among the people they are fighting and dying for. This rebellion of our allies against us, at this time, is a terrible catastrophe. (6) The blowing up of the hotel in Saigon which housed our military men was most certainly a catastrophe. (7) Devastating forest fires have struck five states in the South...most certainly a catastrophe. (8) And Saturday a hurricane (typhoon Shirley) bullseyed in on the U.S. Nuclear Submarine base in Australia, hitting it with damaging winds. All this action...in the past ten days alone, George. Catastrophes, ever increasing in number and in scope. The Si's are unhappy because I must work at 2% of my capacity, instead of working with them and for them; and they are unhappy because the U.S. Government has not sent for me to add my material to the report of the AF when it meets Congress, this week - since I am in communication with the Si's, and the AF is not - what can the AF P07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 199 of 246 4-4-66 p2 relate, of any value, to Congress? I can give really valuable information, and should be allowed to be there to do so. And the Si's are furious about it. This will undoubtedly be reflected in worse catastrophes just ahead of us. member - the primary purpose of the Si's is to establish a meeting of "minds" between themselves, and top U.S. leaders - and from that point on, using the U.S. as a friendly cooperative base of operations, they plan to straighten out world problems, bring about peace everywhere, and show us, from their higher intelligence and experience, how to keep the peace in effect after they are gone. The fact that the U. Govt. refused to listen to them at this point, or help bring this about...of course makes them very angry...and brings disastrous catastrophes upon us. Of course, in order to bring about the above, the Si's first have to be met in a physical meeting...face to face...and myself, Mr Man, is the U.S. Govt.'s only key to that meeting. The Si's do not intend for a minute to let the U.S. or any other country capture one of their craft and gain access to their mechanics of propulsion and power...to misuse as we have misused nuclear power, and no doubt will misuse it again in the future. That is why they are almost impossible to contact, let alone meet. Also they do not trust humans, and especially do not trust American military men...or American politicians. For remember, their values and morals are different than ours...they are strict, hard, and they are against war and killing and destruction. Can the same be said for military men and politicians? Of course not. And the same goes for scientists. The Si's do not like them, either. Well, enough. Luckily, the Si's do trust me, and like me. Why, I don't know. But I have submitted more than enough proof by now to you that they do communicate with me, and me with them. So....take it from there. Mr Man Love, Dad P.S. Pardon this clankety-clank FMC typewriter. It is a mess. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 200 of 246 Lornie & Rick Monday May 16, 1966 Mr. Mitarnowski State Police Shade Gap, Pennsylvania Dear Sir: I am the gentleman who called you last Saturday, with regard to using ESP, or in this case...clairvoyance...as a tool to catch the criminal who kidnapped the girl at Shade Gap. However, please hear me out. Here is a complete plan, and I believe an excellent one...with which to catch this man. Spread the word over a wide area there that a famous clairvoyant (something like a witch, they'd better understand) is coming to Shade Gap this next Saturday and Sunday...to use his powers to describe the kidnapper in better detail, and tell the police a great deal more than is known. (I work like Peter Herkos, and you can get this around.) The enclosed sample newspaper story can be used...Wednesday, if possible. Now, the kidnapper, I feel, is very egotistical. He is certainly unbalanced. And he will watch the papers. I am sure that when he reads the newspaper story...and perhaps hears by word of mouth about the strange man coming...he will be sufficiently motivated to try and strike at me, probably Sunday, in the kidnapping area...even though he may be out of it now. My strange, unusual powers may indeed give you some cluesXXX..perhaps important. But also add this plan...and we might get results. I can be the bait to catch this criminal. The woods people and mountain people have much more faith in witchcraft and ESP than sophisticated city people, you'd better believe it. And I am sure this kidnapper would try to eliminate me. You would have to transport me there Friday evening or Saturday morning...and furnish me with a concealed walkie-talkie, plus a .357 Magnum pistol for protection. Withdraw any police from my area, and let me go through the woods from the point of the kidnapping. I am sure that if the man is still anywhere in the area, he will try for me...being of that sick ego, and unbalanced. When he does, I'll contact you, and you come in. As I explained to you on the phone, am not interested in any fee or charge. Just in getting the girl back. And I think I can. Sincerely, H. T. Owens 1114 Spruce St., #33 Phila., Pa. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 201 of 246 5.16.66 pg 2 (This article, or one like it, to be published in the Shade Gap newspaper and other small towns around...Wednesday of this week, or Thursday.) WITCHCRAFT TO FIND A KIDNAPPER? Well, almost. A famous clairvoyant, with powerful ESP ability, is coming to Shade Gap this Saturday and Sunday, from Philadelphia, on his own, to give clues to the police that he "senses" and "pictures". These impressions he will get from the area of the kidnapping spot. His name is Owens, and he has been very successful in the past. Like the famed psychic Peter Herkos, Owens gets mental pictures of the criminal, and other important facts as well. When questioned, Owens gave this statement: "Obviously this kidnapper is crazy, insane. And also a coward...to pick on a small girl. I intend to spend Saturday and Sunday in the kidnapping area where the girl was taken, and I am positive that I will be able to get a picture in my mind of the kidnapper, and be able to tell the police of his habits, his work, and other facts which can lead to his capture. Perhaps even his present location." When asked if this might not be dangerous...to be in that same areaXX ... Owens replied: "No, this crazy man only picks on helpless girls. I will be alone in the area. As a matter of fact, the police have agreed to stay away and let me work those two days in my own way, by myself there. That way I can concentrate better." Well, it might work. In Philadelphia Owens is regarded as a powerful ESP worker, or "witch". If that is what it takes to catch a criminal...why not? ---------- (Note: The above article would be a personal insult, and dare, to the kidnapper. If he is the "sniper" as the papers think, then he would for sure make a try for me. Then you would get him.) === Page 202 of 246 January 27, 1966 Mr. Jackie Gleason Miami, Florida Dear Mr. Gleason: I have one of the best knife-throwing acts in the world, and would consider it a great honor to appear on your show with my wife. We were on the Steve Allen Show a couple of years ago, and I threw knives around Steve Allen. Maybe you saw it. My wife makes a good appearance...she's part Czech and part Cherokee, 27 years old. I'm kind of paunchy an homely, and 45. But we do things with knives nobody else can do. We are saving our money to start our own church, and we need one big appearance like yours, and we have our start. Sincerely, Bogarde Bogarde (Owens) 1114 Spruce St., #33 Philadelphia, Pa. P.S. Saw you in "The Hustler." A masterpiece of acting on your part. Tell you what...I'll teach you how to throw knives, if you'll teach me trick shots on the pool table. Ha ha. === Page 203 of 246 Tuesday June 21, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The last time I wrote you a cryptic paragraph which I didn't understand, but which the Si's urged me to send you...and which came out as the South Pole UFO sighting (to prove their connection with me) - was long ago. Later I wrote you about the Si's sending ghosts from Viet Nam to affect President Johnson...but that is no mystery now. I understand that. Today they gave me another very cryptic message to send you. They say to tell you they are up to something most unusual...so much so they won't even tell me what it is. But they want the U.S. Govt. to know it in advance, before it happens...and after it happens there will be no doubt in the minds of the Govt. that it is the UFO's. That they are real...are here...are connected with me. They've urged me today so strongly to send this seemingly meaningless message, that I must. So I am sending it on. P K Man (Owens) P.S. They know what I am thinking...and it also works in reverse... I believe I know what they are thinking. And what they have in mind, I am sure, is to appear, so that many people can see them, and do something most unusual...something no UFO has done before during a "sighting." === Page 204 of 246 Rick Lornie LORNIE Monday, June 20, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: The Si's have been quiet, relatively quiet, for a bit. Soon they will strike through their "time window" as they call it...at the U.S. Govt. some more, to continue their never-ceasing efforts to spank some sense into it. Also they notified me yesterday...that what I have accomplished these past two years with "PK"...has been a training period for me, like a child in kindergarten...and just ahead they have something much more important for me, than what I have been doing...and now they say I have the facility mentally to receive the necessary power from them, to do it. I do not know what they have in mind...but can't possibly conceive of anything bigger than what I've been doing. Guiding hurricanes; causing lightning strikes, etc etc. But by now I know they know what they are talking about, even if I do not. P K Man (Owens) (symbol of a circle with a horizontal line and a lightning bolt) P.S. Today believe I succeeded in "talking" to Si's on my compass. Let you know when I'm sure. === Page 205 of 246 Sat. June 18, 1966 Mr. George Clarkc Central Intelligence Agency RICK LORNIE Dear George, The Si's say that between now and January, inclusive ... is a most volatile, dangerous time for a nuclear wer for the U.S. Watch out now. Also they warn: The words "Black Power" are the signal for the negros to attack at this time ... go all out on a war against whites in a way never before done. And this Stokely Carmichael, their leader ... can do the job for them, where no other nagro can. P & Nat (Ouens) P.S. Enclosed are come letters from my last 2 1/2 hour broadcast on CBS radio "night Talk" Please return them. note how far WCAZ reaches !!! 07/09/2025 16-14 === Page 206 of 246 Tuesday, June 28, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Rick Lerine Dear George: Two fine "hits". In my letter to President Johnson, March 10, 1966, copy to you, I said: "I have some very good news from the UFO intelligences to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government, In the days, weeks, or months to come there will be rain rain rain ... not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rain water ... to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record ... so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature. "" Okay, George. As of now, June 28, after the East Coast has been greatly improved by rain since I wrote the above in March, I would like to quote from an article in the Phila. Bulletin, by Adolph Katz, on June 26: "One cause cited for the prolonged drought (on the East coast) has been that the high altitude winds - the westerlie which normally bring in rain-laden air from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, had shifted out to sea about five years ago. Rain, which normally would have fallen in this area, fell uselessly into the Atlantic ocean. ABNORMAL PATTERN Now the southwesterlies have swung back over the Eastern United Stati (after going 5 years the wrong way .. . my insert here) and are bringing rain once more. However, the wind-pattern is abnormal ... ". (see my 'freakish' predic Finally, the article says : "In a report to President Johnson, Udall said that the northeastern drought has diminished in intensity." Thus, I told you specifically what the Si's would do ... and they did- ic. Shifted the winds into an abnormal pattern in order to help the U.S. with its drought problem. Second hit: In my letter to you of June 17, I said: "Expect a major earthquake in the near future in the U.S .... running up and down Cali That was just eleven days ago. Last night the earthquake arrived,-> just a couple of days off-schedule, by my reckoning ... but in time to make the prediction very accurate, don't you think? P R Man (Ouona) 07/09/2025 16:14 & CD-1 1 man x .0 === Page 207 of 246 Rick P.S. Kidz - Wednesday June 8, 1966 Mr. Dunne, Chief Hurricane Center Weather Bureau Miami, Florida P.S. At bottom of page is exact raplica of "Hurricane Map" I made three weeks ago ... when I "planted" twenty "PK Hurricane seeds" in back of Cuba aimed at Cape K in Florida as soon as they grow". cuotas AK hundcaro Reads. Dal Dear Mr. Dunne: As I told you a month ago ... watch out for the hurricanes coming up ... "en garde." Alma is the first. Am trying to guide her up past Miami onto Cape Kennedy, then on up the coast to New York, for their rainfall needed badly there and to help the East Coast drought. (When I say "up past Miami, am taking her to the left of Miami ... halfway between Naples and Miami. Am telling you this for an accuracy check later on.) See enclosed item, It is most regrettable that you didn't take me up on my proposition, couple of months ago. Am using that tall tall "moonship" thing that doesn't fly, that NASA hauled out laboriously several weeks agoł ... as the absolute bullseye center for my hurricane work this year, on the Cape K. ? K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. Kids - send me copy your the. where of mention planting BK "ca seats Will vetrin it. Important! L 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 208 of 246 6.8.66 pg 2 P.S. If you see an inevitable bullseye on Miami from Alma ... remember my proposition. I am the only human alive who can take Alma off and away, leaving Florida safe. However, don't wait too long to contract my services. .. for there is a great difference in diverting a tiger while it's springing in mid-air ... and diverting a tiger once it has its teeth in its victim. Then its too late. F K Man (Owens) === Page 209 of 246 Kils - - Jelay! valsts. this explains the Goat. put me an R Friday morning June 3, 1966 Mr. Jack Mckinney Dear Jack: The Si's came through with some very interesting intelligence as I was walking to work today. As you know, they had told me to tell the U.S. Govt. that they would ruin the Surveyor shot ... and harass the Gemini 9 shot, as they have been doing. Well, the Surveyor took off ... and lost an aerial ... and the Si's were getting ready to ruin the gadget when suddenly P K Man their Representative, was called up and invited to talk about them, the Si's, over the radio. This had not been anticipated by the Si's. When Kha P K Man went on the program, was given an opportunity to talk more about the Si's and their wishes, and P K Man was not badly treated ... that is, was treated as a guest, not a man on trial, this pleased the Si's very much. Now Jack ... recall last year when I was on your show ... and the Si's made it rain exactly at the time I went on, and closed down the rain as I went off. Then the following week, on "Talk of Philadelphia" show ... they made it rain because I'd been invited again to talk about them. And the rain stood for what they were willing to "pay" the United States in exchange for the U.S. Govt. fixing me up so that I could arrange to meet them. In other words, whenever I appeared on the radio, the Si's rewarded the town with rain ... and this was at the time of deep drought, remember? When there just was no rain at all. So ... the Si's told me this morning ... they decided to allow the Surveyor to go on and land and function, just as they allowed the rain to fall last year, as a reward to the people of the U.S. for allowing Their case to be further presented to the people. They wish that you would read this letter over the air, to the people, Jack. And it might be pointed out, as far as I am concerned, that one-half of my prediction was correct ... that Gemini 9 was blocked Wednesday From taking off ... harassed as usual. I am just sorry that I didn't know about the change of mind on the part of the Si's ... but the radio program came on took sudden. One other point ... the Si's salute NASA and its workers ... because, although the U.S. people are not aware of it ... NASA has far outdone Russia, in that NASA has had to make all these difficult shots, in the face of Si harassment and hostility. In other words, the Si's have cased practically all of NASa's troubles, but the people do not know it. Nor NASA. 07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 210 of 246 6.3.66 pg2 Rück LORNIE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: IN NASA'S LAST FIFTEEN EFFORTS TO GET BIRDS UP Monday June 6, 1966 AND WORKING TO COMPLETE MISSION, HOW MANY DID? ONE - SURVEYOR - AND BY COINCIDENCE P K MAN WAS STATING THE SI'S CASE OVER RADIO THAT VERY NIGHT Mr. Eastwood, Inventions,AT ITS MOST CRUCIAL POINT ... WHEN IT LANDED ON THE MOON! ONLY .. .. ONE ... OUT OF THE LAST 15. BAJA) Dear Mr. Eastwood: Chalk up another success for "PK" and the Si's. No matter what NASA tells the public. .. NASA can tell itself only one thing. Gemini 9 was a failure. The two reasons for Gemini 9 were: (1) A docking with the target. (2) Use of the back-pack. Neither of these all-important tests were carried out. Therefore ... Gemini 9 can be added to the long long list of "PK'd" rockets and missiles. P K Man (Owens) P. S. Am now in process of guiding 1 Hurricane Alma (dif out line, in anyathe Beach kids remember ? ) elle Fluida Contothan Mine dod Cf K. for rainfall ( Dad) 200 1 /07/09/2025 16:14 === Page 211 of 246 Friday June 3 Dear Rick and Lornie Wednesday afternoon durned if Jack Mckinney didn't call me up and ask me to appear on his "Night Talk" show that night, Wed. night. Remember I was on there for four hours, non-stop, last year? This, of course, gave me no chance to prepare material or anything. Last year I took a week to get ready for them. But to my great amazement ... although a scientist sat at the table with Jack and myself ... there was no attack on me. On the contrary, Jack even testified over the radio that all of the predictions I'd been sending in, had been true (I've been sending him copies, like yourselves.) The "P K Man" (how he addressed me throughout and advertised me late that afternoon) segment lasted until 12:30 ... 22 hours. They spent an hour letting people call up and talk to me over the "phone". Only one man called me a "good-natured phony" ... all the rest of the calls said they believed me, and how they enjoyed hearing the program. And the one man who attacked me ... was bawled out severely by another man who called up and said he "felt sorry" for the man who said "phony" because a person such as him couldn't understand what it is I am doing. The man who said I was a "phony" intemted I was sending in letters after things happened, not before. (Which is quite wrong, of course.) Anyway, it was lots of fun .... and as usual, their telephone switchboard went absolutely crazy with the amount of calls. When we went off the air at 12:30 (program lasts until 2, and they had two more people to interview) telephone calls were still flooding the switchboard with people wanting to talk to me about the Si's. Now, the Si's would like you to do this: Both of you sit down, and write a long letter to Mr. Jack Mckinney, "Night Talk", Radio Station WCAU, Philadelphia, Pa. Tell him in detail of our using PK in Phoenix, and on our long long trip (without telling him we were broke, ha ha). Tell him how we worked with the hurricanes in Myrtle Beach, etc. And ask him, if he tells the people about their report, to give me a callus so I can listen. (Send me a copy of your letter when you write him.){} If you have a friend who has one of these "World radios" you could even hear the program. (Dove?) Must run now. Love always Dad P.S. They did an odd thing- Station WCAll dil a complete re-play of the entire 21/2 hours I did with Jack - when got home was dialing radio for music (about 1:30) + da 07, 09/2025, 16:17 Di wan the boommal'd sich date! === Page 212 of 246 Friday June 3, 1966 Larnie Dear Jack Mckinney: If you get a chance, please read this short letter some evening. It is an afterthought ... two days after appearing on your program, and is a rebuttal to the gentleman who phoned in, asking if it was not "childish" of the Si's to kill two of our Astronauts (plane crash not too long ago) and harass NASA and the U.S. Govt., just for the sake of demonstrations of their powers. My rebuttal: Is it not true that we, the United States, have killed goodness knows how many innocent little babies, and their mothers ... in Viet Nam ... PURELY BY ACCIDENT, MIND YOU ... in order to teach North Viet Nam and China a lesson? The U.S. has been giving tremendous bombing demonstrations for one main purpose ... to show our muscles to N. Viet Nam and China. And this has resulted in our accidentally bombing and killing not only many innocent Vietnamese ... but even many of our own boys ... ACCIDENTALLY. Now, I put it to the gentleman who called; If the Si's are "childish" for killing two of our astronauts ... what does that make us people, who have done far worse ... and for the same reason, teaching a lesson. That would put our U.S. thinking somewhere BELOW childish, I believe. Tell the gentleman to think about it. I'm sure I'm right. Sincerely, P K Man (Owens) Leve - Dad. === Page 213 of 246 Wednesday, June 1, 1966 Nr. George Check Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Today's decision on the part of WASA to serub the Gemini 9 mission was probably the smartest thing they have done in years. Then I realized the Si's had let the target get up (but the shroud is yxxxx probably on to foul up a docking attempt) I realized the Si's were playing & bigger game today ... more than just the eat-and- mouse game of knocking down the target vehicle, thus leaving the astronauts stranded and junking the mission. Then I remembered ... one of the astronauts is an Air Force man. And I also remembered the recent Si warning that they would deal # smashing blow to the U.S. Government soon ... also their warning that thay would severely punish the Air Force for calling their attempts to be seen, and officially recognized, as "marsh gas." I put the pieces together ... and it all came out a complete destructio of the rocket and men today. It would all tie togather, and I am absolutely positive that is what would have occurred. I know for a fact that the Si's were there today ... poised and ready. Or, to be more exact, their remote-controlled weapons ware there. All this occurred to me 15 minutes before the rocket was to go up. When It was sorubbed, I brenthed a deep sigh of relle[. For I am not a killer, and would not see the astronauts destroyed. P K Man (Owens) === Page 214 of 246 Wednesday, June 1, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: In my letter to you of March 26, 1966 (less than three months ago) I told you that the UFO Intelligences would now harass the Air Force as they have been doing MASA, I said: "Knowing what I know, LE 1 were the Air Force I would be scared witless. But of course, who ever heard of warsh gas being dangerous? To make it clear ... the Si's (saucer intelligences) are now going to teach the Air Force z lesson it will never forget. They are turning their attention to the harassment of the Air Force in a big way. Bos, as I understand it, the Air Force is responsible for the Saturn woon rocket work ... and the entire second stage of the test blew up Sunday. A whopping catastrophe. Then ... Generel Childre of the Air Force, Commanding General of the Continental Air Command ... died last Saturday, at age 54. Then ... General Blanchard, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force ... only second from the top. .. dropped dend of a heart attack while at a meeting in the Pentagon yesterday, at age 50. Thus, the pattern, so well known to wa, is mor taxing shape. Might mantion before closing ... I expect a hurricane (an early one) in the near future, out of the Florida direction. P K Man (Owens) === Page 215 of 246 Jose 1, 1966 George Claz's Central Intelligence The Si's today gave 150 som Interestin, informaties to Chowy that when they Tles mour sono police cars, in # recent nighting ... the stupid police actually fireå guns at their craft. (This was not made public. . and may even be kept a secret by the officers who committed this colossal blunder.) However, the di's wera ... if they approach in friendly. fashion in the future ... nad nro fired pon or attacked in an waterlandly nummer .. . the police will be minus ens police car and officers. The si's will eliminate it, That war pretty damn stupid, George, of those police to do that. === Page 216 of 246 64.66 Rick Lome Saturday, June 4, 1966 Mr. Eastwood, Inventions N.A.S.A. Dear Mr. Eastwood: Been a lot of action since my daughter and I visited you, eh? At that time my "PK" work must have seemed amusing to you. However, by now, after sending you copies of predictions over a long period of time, you are now better able to evaluate properly the results of "PX". You must admit, the Si's have been busy. Below is a list of rockets, missiles, etc., fired up by NASA which were hit by "PK" and duly logged in my little black book, as the action took place on each, AND WHICH WERE THEN DESTROYED OR DISABLED WITH EK MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Saturn Rocket Ranger 6 Titan 2 Titan 3 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-A) Minuteman 1 Imp 2 Mariner 3 Minuteman 1 Tiros Weather Rocket Centaur Rocket Scout Rocket Titan 34 Space Glider on Thor Delta (Project Asset, above) Atlas-Centaur Rocket (Project Surveyor, above) "Snapshot" - Ion Engine Rocket Air Force Tracking Rocket, Star Gemini 5 - Hit by EMK storm, fire, lightning & mechanical failure ... but still managed to get up and down. O.S.O. Flying Laboratory, 8/25 X-19 Experimental Plane Thor-Agena Titan Rocket Agena Atlas Rocket Titan 3, w/4 Satellites aboard. Gemini 8 wrecked; Astronauts escaped, thank God. Gemini 8 Agena went wild; useless. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 217 of 246 6.4.66 Page Two (Continued - Rockets Destroyed or Disabled) O.A.O. - Orbiting Astronomical Laboratory. Atlas-Centaur Rocket New Polaris Rocket, Cape. Explorer Satellite Rocket Saturn Moon Rocket Test Stage, Miss. (Note: After "testing" PK on the first two of this list, I then began writing the Cape and the State Department of what would happen ... and also wrote them that lightning would hit the Cape, as well as hurricanes, as a result of PK work. Then Lightning hit a lightning-proof pad at the Cape. Later, last July, lightning hit another pad, actually striking some workers. And lightning hit very close to Gemini 5. As for my hurricane prediction ... you know well Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Dora, and Hurricane Isbell sideswiped Cape Kennedy. Hurricane Gladys missed, but just the same tore up the work at the Cape for a time, just from the threat of her. Hurricane Hilda bullseyed on the Michoud Space Complex. Hurricane Betsy bullseyed on Michoud Space Complex, and she bullseyed on NASA's Bahamas set-up. These five different hurricanes that hit NASA were guided by PK work. Then we have to add the destruction of The Space Eye, down near the Cape. One Russian spaceship was worked on by PK - the Voshkod Spaceship, and it was brought down exactly as I said it would be. Crashed in the woods. Add to this list further results of the PK - side-effects - which I do not like, but which happened: Drydon, Deputy Director of NASA, died. Lovelace, Chief of NASA, killed ia crash. One Astronaut killed when a bird flew into his plane, and it crashed. Tuo Astronauts killed in another plance crash. General Branch of NASA killed in crash. Now, the following list are the "ones that got away" from PK, and were successful shots: McNamara's Minuteman from silo, Cape. Gemini From Cape, 1/'65. Explorer Satellite, 12/'64 Minuteman 2 from Cape, 12/'64 O.s.o., 1/2/65 2/17 Cape Rocket === Page 218 of 246 6.4.66 Page Three (Continued - Successful Shots) 2/18 Cape Rocket Gemini 3 Ranger 9 Gemini 6-7 Hangar Polaris, new, Cape Surveyor Moon Rocket Now just compare the two lists. See the difference? Vandenberg shots were left clear by the Si's, so that the U.S. Govt. could be able to tell the difference between an area inundated with "PIC" ... and a free area. (Electra, the California coast, is PK'de, but it is a completely different type of oPK than the Electro, or Florida coast.) I think the Si's have proved their point terrifically, don't you? Point is, the PK grows, as I explained to you when I met you. It grows as time goes by ... gets stronger and more powerful. That is why the Si's cannot be ignored ad infinitum, as they have been in the past ... or called "marsh gas" and dismissed with a flip of the hand. And of course, the point of all that destruction PR was not that it was done for meaness or ornriness ... but TO PROVE THAT PK FORCES NOW EXIST AND CAN DEFEAT ANY OR ALL PARTS OF THE U.S. EFFORTS TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL. Also, TO PROVE THAT THE UFO'S ARE BEHIND IT, AND ARE DOING IT. Also, TO SHOW THE U.S. GOVT., BY THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THESE TREMENDOUS POWERS, WHAT COULD BE DONE TO HELP THE U.S. GOVT. FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PK COIN. What is a dirty shame ... a lowdown dirty shame ... is that the people of the United States ... the man on the street ... cannot be told by the U.S. Government about this ... that NASA has actually done a superb job, and the Cape workers, and the Astronauts, have done heroic work ... trying in the face of this horrendous PK to succeed in space work ... and in a few cases actually succeeding! It's much much later now, Mr. Eastwood ... but I repeat, the PK is still growing in size and power on the Cape Kennedy area (Electro). And it can only be taken down, erased, removed, by the Si's. And I do their human talking for them, for better or for worse. Some day somebody had better talk to me. P K MAN (Owens) Love Dal 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 219 of 246 Sunday, April 17, 1966 Mr. George Clark, CIA Tornie Doar Goorge: First, let me pass on to you the hottest message I have had in quite a while from my UFO friends .. . received about noon today. Unless the U.S. Govt. meets their wishes soon, and approaches me, they are going to do the following: The recent uprising against Ky and the American govt. in Viet Nam was merely a spark. The UFO's will ignite entire Agia against the U.S. Government and sweep out every white from Asia ... all ... and instead of a spark hhere will ৳ a roaring fire in Agia ... against America. I know how they will do this ... and unbelievably, to set these forces in motion to reach the above conclusion. .. will only take the Si's a matter of seconds in our time. Don't believe that, do you. But I assure you, it is so. As if to underline their communication with me today, one of their remote- controlled "craft" was watched for hours, this morning, by police and onlooker: while it travelled from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Understand this fact ... the Viet Cong, and the Chinese of Poking, want a massacure of Americans in Viet Nam ... a terrible blood bath ... and right now the Americans are there, in the jaws of the trap. The UFO's advise that nothing at all can save our hundreds of thousands there, unless the U.S. Govt. quickly contacts me and makes arrangements as por their previous instructions. Then, and only then, will the UFO intelligences help us out of Viet Nam, without suffering the worst catastrophe in the history of the U. S. You know, Georg -... some people do not take me seriously. Mrs. Mangels, in Washington, did not take me seriously. . and all sorts of catastrophies hit her including a physical beating from hoodlums on the street, the sudden death of her brother, and so on. January 11, 1966, I sent a letter to my kids ( you met them) c/o Shannon in Inglewood, California (Shannon does not take me seriously, either). In the letter to them I wrote: "The Si's want me to tell you ... if anyone at all blocks mail addressed to you ... keeps you from getting it ... God help them. It sort of worries me. If they were mad enough about your leaving me . . . they might wipe out the Bentleyes and the Shannons, just like that." Woll, George it has begun. Two weeks ago Mary Bentley, sister of my ex-wife, Pat Shannon, ' was found dead in N.w York. No matter how she died (I do not know how) the disturbing fact is ... she died shortly after the Si's communicated with me to write that letter. Probably the U.S. Govt. has not taken me seriously, re my ship-sub-plane PK, but the Michaelangelo and three other ships just ran into it and got chewed up by it. Also the waves will help undo the U.S. east coast drought. But there was more than waves involved ... there was PK power. And to top it off .. . as if the Cape Kennedy PK pounding were not bad enough recently ... now you have a strike down there that will paralyze the entire Space Center. P K Man (Owehs) Love, Dad P.S. Rick, Lonnie - I am really concerned about the Bentley 2 a Shannons, You are protected but they are not Well, I guess Pat is. Hanything else like many happens-notify me fast & I'll get in touch with the Si's a try to call them of. Take a bit of doing 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 220 of 246 Sb غيا به/ Kich - you have copy of last week's letter. Tuesday April 26, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: See attached clip, then read this following quote from the letter I just sent you last Tuesday, April 19: "Something momentous is in the wind ... with the Si's. ; So big that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that ... but not unti today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia ... into Center City ... to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city ... down around buildings, etc. But ... frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle ... then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times ... but reaching me with one of their large craft ... that's something else. So ... when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead ... you will know who it is linking up with." - That's what I wrote you, George ... exactly one week ago. Now read clipping P K Man (Owens) P.S. If you will check the picture of this UFO, in this clipping, taken by the 14 year old boy ... you will readily see that this UFO, and the UFO photographed in Australia and pictured in the Life Magazine article on UFO's several weeks ago ... are exactly the same. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 221 of 246 ist," he pelt at id the lift- ard Ve Meteor Flashes Over: East Thousands Sight 'Fireball' By ROBERT J. HAYES Of The Inquirer Staff moon. It was also very slow.|said, it was big. Its chances of You can usually count on seeing coming down in one piece, he meteors only for about 15 sec- onds." said, depended on its composi- tion. A bright ball of fire trailing a long fiery tail startled thousands The object, seen about 8:10 P. in the Delaware Valley and most M., caused a general swamping of the Mid-Atlantic Coast as it of area police switchboards. shot across the sky near sun- down Monday. The object; reported seen in Rochester, N. Y., Boston, in areas of Ohio and the Carolinas, Picture and Background Article on Page 3 was described soon after it was ters alone reported more than sighted by astronomers and Fed. 500 calls -- many from policemen. eral Aviation Agency authorities Municipal telephones buzzed to as a meteor. the tune of about 1000 calls. Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of Phone calls swamped police the Franklin Institute's Fels boards in Delaware, Montgom- Planetarium, said the fireball ery, Chester and Bucks counties, was seen by a member of his and in North and South New staff, Edward Bailey, of Bala Jersey. Cynwyd. "From his description," Dr. was seen here, Dr. Levitt said Levitt said, "it was most likely he received a report the object a meteor, but there are too had been sighted over Boston. many unknowns. He said observers in New Eng- "The object," he said, "was land had reported it was headed I very unusual for two reasons. for a crash-down in Canada. For one, it was as bright as a full| Whatever it was, Dr. Levitt Continued on Page 3, Column 5 "If it's iron, it could make it down in one piece," he said. ture-'friable'-it will probably break up." Philadelphia police headquar- "If it's a stone and iron mix- Apparently the object's desti- nation depended largely upon where you were sitting when you saw it. A private pilot landed at the Bridgeport, N. J., airport and reported seeing "a large, bril- liantly green spherical object about 5000 feet in the air going at about 600 miles an hour. About an hour after the meteor "It was headed due west, and extinguished itself in the vicin- ity of the General Electric plant! in Chester." In Washington, reports were that the object landed in the ifit. === Page 222 of 246 rs AP. Wirephoto This photo of long-tailed meteor that streaked across northeast U. S. was taken by 14-year-old Utica, N. Y., youth, Dana DeGeorge, as he stood in his back yard with a friend. Huge Fireball Sighted Flashing Over East By Startled Thousands Continued from First Page |spotted the thing when his col- Maryland countryside about 10 le, Jamie, began barking at miles north of the Capitol. the sky. A Ridley Park man said he The man, John W. Brown, of 237 Stoney Hill rd., said the thing, which he spotted from his backyard, "was well over 10,000 or 12,000 feet high. It was directly overhead and going on a bullet trajectory and died out about 15 degrees above the hori- zon." VAPOR TRAIL LEFT An official of Yale University Observatory in Connecticut said the object might have been a Bolide - a type of meteor which enters the atmophere at slower speeds and seems to travel at a level altitude. The object's long tail left a vapor trail similar to that left by jet planes at high altitudes. This brought fears it was a plane burning and about to crash. Flying saucer fears also were rampant, especially, in all prob- ability, since the recent mysteri- ous UFO sightings in Michigan and elsewhere. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 223 of 246 In Asbury Park, N.J., some- one with a wilder explanation told the city's newspaper, "I saw a head peering out a port- hole." Near Atlantic City, an engi- neer at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Corp., at Pomona, told State Police the object was a meteor that ex- ploded on entering the earth's atmosphere. Descriptions of the object. ranged from "huge Roman Candle" to "starburst," "fire- works," and "flying saucers." Its color varied in observers' eyes from dazzling white to blue green or red. All agreed on one thing the object was traveling on a descending course from south to north. 'LANDING' REPORTED Police from the Carolinas to Toronto checked reports of downed aircraft or that the ob- ject landed in their areas. "Ev- eryone thought it came down near them," a Coast Guard of- ficial said. In Bucks county, a woman called police to say the fireball crashed down on the Levittown parkway. In Scranton, a man was talk- ing on the phone with another man in Binghamton, N. Y. They saw the object at the same time. === Page 224 of 246 forme 201 Tuesday April 19, 1966 Mr. George Clark Central Intelligence Agency Dear George: Something momentous is in the wind ... with the Si's. So big, that they are actually going to attempt to bring one of their craft down into Philadelphia to contact me! One of the big ones, that is. For some time I have been trying to get them to do just that ... but not until today did they signal that they were going to come into Philadelphia ... into Center City ... to try a contact with me. That is how important it is to them to make a contact physically with their human contact. I understand from "thinking with them" that ordinarily they hate to go into a city ... down around buildings, etc. But ... frustrated over the U.S. Government's refusal to help me meet them in the Michigan woods, or in an isolated European castle ... then they will make an effort to find me, here. They know where I am at all times ... but reaching me with one of their large craft ... that's something else. So .... when you read about the UFO seen in Philadelphia, in the days or weeks ahead ... you will know who it is linking up with. Incidentally ... had you given any thought to the UFO that wer seen this Sunday, and the police chased it almost 100 miles ... and when it got ahead of the police, it waited for them to catch up? Same with the Waunaque, N.J., UFO ... it first was sigheed by police ... and was actually over a police station. This one Sunday came down over the police car. They are "talking" ... and "police" or "law and authority" are what they are talking about. Then you will notice they lead the police and everybody else to the town of ... Freedom. Then, and only then, it vanished, Think about it, George. P K Man (Owens) Love Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 225 of 246 Rick- why not write Dex Anderson in San Gabriel? July 1, 1966 P.S. From July, To July 18 d'un laid off. Company shuts down each time this year. Two weeks, and nothing to do with it ! Dear Lornie and Rick Got lucky today, got a little time, and access to a typewriter. Just in the long shot you might want to improve yourself, enclosed is the word-XXXXXX formula I worked up in Ft. Worth, and which worked like a miracle with my pupils there, combined with auto-hyp. You have to use auto-hyp first, close your eyes, tell yourself what you will read out loud will react on you with all the power of Nature ... then open your eyes and read it to yourself out loud. Do this once a day, and zowie ... watch your smoke! After you read it, don't forget to waken yourself and snap fingers. Just in case you've forgotten the routine. Be sure and send back what I ask you to send back, always. Here's my plan for the Sota Church. Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) Healing and New Life -The Science of the Soul- Start legal church in L.A., lawyers Neiman and Soroty. Find and develop Sota Masters ... Master Healers ... which I'11 teach to use PK, and they'11 become Church Heads. But there will be few. Each member of the Sota Church will be assigned to a Master ... for their individual needs to be taken care of, and to progress. (My Ft. Worth work, etc.) SOTA LIBRARY - Books pertaining to our teachings and training. Also complete library on psychic phenomena, hypnosis, etc. SOTA HOSPITAL - Medical Doctors, Psychologists, and Sota Masters. THE SOTA SLEEP - under medical framework. If Sota member wishes to withdraw from the world temporarily, let them ... to avoid a psychosis or suicide, and use Sota techs on them while they sleep. SOTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - research on UFO's, parapsych, the soul, healing, etc. SOTA HAVEN - will take care of any pregnant mother, no questions asked, delivery of child, and find job afterward for her, plus way to take care of her baby. Complete follow up, no charges for anything. SOTA LODGE - Headquarters and Retreat for the few Masters ... each having a small, individual, comfortable cottage. A woodsy place for creative work and thinking, and teaching. SOTA COLLEGE - Classes: Secrets of the Ages Super Memory Trachtenberg Math 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 226 of 246 7:1.66- Pq 2 Hyp and Auto-hyp techs. ESP techs and usages. Languages (Berlitz method.) Oil painting. Creative writing. Cooking Sewing Music Secretarial Skill: Typing, shorthand, spelling. (The Masters will each be taught individually. It will be a tedious job, and I'm the only one who can do it.) Each Master will be made a Dr. of Philosophy and Dr. of the Soul, and will be issued a special beautiful ring, Sota Ringm made out of copper and precious stones. Each Member of the Sotas will be issued a Sota talisman, PK'd, for wear around the neck. There will be a special Lake ... PK'd ... like Lourdes ... will work like Lourdes. There will be special rooms, PK'd for special effects. Remember the PK grows and grows and becomes more powerful ... so the PK in the room will take effect on any who go into the room (like the curses on the old Egyptian tombs which took effect long long after all the people vanished, on the British and Americans who plundered the tombs ... ) except our PK will be constructive and useful, not destructive, in these roomss And so on. Our motto will be: "And It Came To Pass." Because that's what PK work does ... it comes to pass ... earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning attacks, etc etc. Brenda Sue, Mrs. White in Ft. Worth ... it came to pass that they lived, when they should have died, according to all medical rules. PK made the difference. In case you have forgotten, here are the names of the PK Angels: Lornie ... Sahda Rick ... Veroque (Ver-o-ka) Ted ... Sonyn Martha ... Treya Beau ... Tranya Well, must bing off now. Be good little chilluns, and mind momma. You know, of all the people I have known, and know, there are only two, besides you two kids, who could qualify to become a Sota Master after PK teaching ... Don something in Seattle, and Pat. But neither of them would want to. .. having their own lives to lead. It is going to be a problem to find a dedicated person, wanting to learn all the PK secrets, and being RIGHT for it. Amar wouldn't do, Lornie, she's too set in her ways. Love, Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 227 of 246 Copy _ Rick Tanie March 10, 1966 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: I have some very good news ... from the UFO intelligences ... to P K Man ... to you. The Si's have decided to end the entire drought on the East Coast. They have told me to communicate this to the U.S. Government. In the days, weeks and months to come there will be rain rain rain. .. not just a little, not just "above average" - but phenomenal rain. The Si's will fill the rivers, streams, etc., on the East and Northeast Coast with rainwater ... to overflowing. There will be no doubt whatsoever that this freakish rainfall is unnatural. They also told me to tell you that they want this on record. .. so that when it occurs the people will not consider it just an "accident of Nature." Their plan was for me to obtain money enough to have independence, so that I would not have to do ordinary work for a living ... since now they can only communicate with me through "cracks and crevices in time, instead of through an "open door" in time, as would be the case if I were free to work with them constantly. This money mentioned above was to be made by me as "The Rainmaker" and by me breaking the drought on the East Coast for the money. However, my fellow humans would not listen ... would not accept. So the MSi's will make the stupid humans a present of the rain. But they warn ... and mark this well ... after the drought has been completely alleviated, and the humans on the East Coast are smug and happy with their supply of water ... then if the U.S. Govt. continues to ignore P K Han and refuses to help him, and cooperate with the Si's ... then the Si's will strike the U.S. with something far far worse than drought, as punishment. And they do not communicate idle words. So, I am very happy that the East Coast will soon be inundated with rain and water. Our friends, the Si's, will now demonstrate their gentle, good side ... and it is their predominant side, as a rule. You, and the U.S. Government, and the people of the U.S., can thank God the Si's are trying to help us, and one on our side. Would be sad if they gave up on us, and took their powers elsewhere to some other, more frindly and cooperative, country to fulfill their pattern of action they are determined upon. P K Man (Owens) 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 228 of 246 March 9, 1966 President Johnson Dear Mr. President: This is the next important letter of warning to the U.S. Govt. from the UFO intelligences (Si's) ... following their last letter of warning, dated August 11, 1965, written by me to you from their communication. They wish to bring things up to date first. Since their last warning there have been an unprecedented number of airplane and ship accidents ... not at all accidental ... caused by UFO methods. They call it "Ship-Sub-Plane PK", "Storm PK", etc. Although catastrophes have been caused by the UFO's all over the world, to fit their pattern of planning ... we are concerned here with only those catastrophes affecting the U.S., of which, as I said, there have been an unprecedented number and in an ever-increasing cyclical rythm ... if you have noticed. Unless action is taken by the U.S. Government to cooperate with the Si's ... and form a friendly alliance with them ... matters will get much worse in all departments ... Nature, political, financial, health, etc. As they stated before, in my previous letters, it is as in the days of Moses. Speaking, that is, of their catastrophe-effects. In their last letter of warning to you and the U.S. Govt. they warned that catastrophes would increase in number and scope. This has certainly happened, on a giant scale ... although no attention has been paid, that I know of, to their important warnings by the U.S. Govt. XX As you can see, from the list that follows, many of these catastrophes have been the worst experienced here in the U.S. in 100 years ... and some of them the worst ever experienced in the entire history of the U.S. - thus bearing out my message to you from the Si's in the last letter of warning that this would be so. Interesting is the fact that the Si's warned in my letter of February 12, 1965, that the Russ would form small teams to smuggle atom bombs into our U.S. cities for a Trojan Horse attack from within the U.S. This was confirmed by articles in the newspapers just yesterday, quoting J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI warning of the Russ planning to do just that, 1.e., bring in small atom bombs. Also in my past correspondence the Si's warned that they would attack our Stock Market and cause a "storm" therein, to show how they could affect our financial structure, if they wished to do so. These past two weeks you have seen it happen. And unless we make friends with the Si's they might just tear down the structure Please see my letter of January 31, 1966, and read entire letter. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 229 of 246 2 3.9.66 In this letter is a paragraph: "They (the Si's) are curious to know ... must they do something worse than put the entire U.S. in the deep freeze? Or will the U.S. make friends with them?" They had their answer ... the U.S. did not make friends ... P K Man was not contacted ... so they did many things worse! It would take too long to list all of the great catastrophes which have struck the U.S. since the Si's last warning to you ... so let us just samm up the past two months: Jan. 31: (Following are newspaper headlines which tell the story) "Worst Storm of Century Hits South .... breaking records that date back to 19th Century." "A severe combination of snow, wind, and icy cold hit most of the Nation, tying up highway, rail, and air traffic ... Washington was virtually paralyzed." ""Northeast Lashed As Another Storm Blows Up In Plains." Feb. 1: "The fury of one of the worst winter storms in years moved into the North Atlantic last night, leaving the Eastern Seaboard and the South battered." ... 34 Degrees Below Zero At Russellville, Alabama." Feb. 1: "New Storm Hits The South and MidWest" - "A new storm today rolled across the Midwest and South, and moved for the snow-packed Mid Atlantic States. In Florida ... nearly all the crops of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, and poll beans were destroyed." Feb. 1: "30 Foot Drifts Bury Cities In Upper New York" - "Whole counties of Upper New York State lay buried Tuesday, under drifts up to 30 feet deep ... after one of the worst snow storms on record. Winds sometimes approached hurricane velocity." Feb. 2: (Catastrophe in Viet Nam) The First Cavalary was riddled with .50 caliber machine gun fire ... from their own side. Captain Fox there said he had never seen anything to compare with this accident. Sgt. Standfield there said hehad seen no parallel to it in three wars. Feb. 3: "6 men were killed in a C-47 crash in the Navy Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." "It was the worst crash of the Navy's 11-year Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic." Feb. 10: "Tornado Hits Houston Area." - "The storm was the worst to hit Houston in years. Winds of 100 mph were reported in Houston." Feb. 11: "Tornados Wrack Texas" - "A massive storm system that spawned tornados ... dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico." (Almost skipped this one ... President Johnson declared American Samoa a 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 230 of 246 3 3.9 66 P93 a major disaster area, because of a hurricane which just recently struck it. Feb. 12: Lightning struck a plane near the airport at Rome. This happened once to a plane Mrs. Johnson was on, as I recall. And it was recently discovered that tremendous air turbulence blew the plane apart near Tokyo recently ... as the same thing happened to a plane over Florids last year. Of course, Florida is the "Electro" area ... a supercharged PK area. The lightning and the force appdied Kexkha for the air turbulence are of course Si phenomena. (This above is not a catastrophe; but wanted to bring it in as a point of interest.) Feb. 11: Meningitis struck at San Antonio, Texas; Ft. Gordon, Georgea; Lackland AFB, Texas - and other U.S. locations. Feb. XX 20:"Cold Sweeps 17 State Area" (Broke records everywhere in these areas.) Feb. 21: "Flu Epidemic Grips California - Schools Closed." "Flu Bug Spreads Throughout California" Feb. 23: "Tornados Splash Across South" "Tornados Cause Heavy Damage In North Carolina and Georgia" Feb. 28: "Two Astronauts Killed As Jet Hits Plant Housing Gemini 9" March 1: "Stocks Dive 13.70 Points" "Worst Dip In 8 Months Rocks Stock Market" March &: "Tornados Rill 60, Hurt 497, In Two Dixie States" March 5: "Snow Still Falling In Blizzard of Central U.S." - "This was the worst blizzard in recorded history ... since the Weather Bureau began keeping records." Now ... Mr. President .. the Si's want you and the Government to know absolutely that they created all this damage and harassment to further prove what I have been saying ... that I am their "reporter" (as a newspaper hires a reporter to carry the news to the readers) to the U.S. Govt., and that they can and will do what they say they can and will. To summarize the above 2-month list: THE ENTIRE U.S. WAS MADE A DISASTER AREA! Just look. EAST COAST - Worst blizzard in 100 years. WEST COAST - Struck with Flu and Meningitis epidemics. SOUTH - Worst cold freeze in 100 years. Killer tornados. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 231 of 246 3.9.66 pg 4 4 NORTHWEST - Worst blizzard in the entire history of the Weather Bureau. MIDWEST - Worst cold in 100 years. Plus blizzard. HOUSTON, TEXAS - Attacked by tornados. MISSISSIPPI - Attacked by tornados. ALABAMA - Attacked by tornados. NORTH CAROLINA - Attacked by tornados. GEORGIA - Attacked by tornados. CALIFORNIA - Killer meningitis. TEXAS - Killer meningitis. NEW JERSEY - Killer meningitis. ALABAMA - Killer meningitis. All this, in only two month's time! It does not include the Great New York Blackout ... or the terrible, paralyzing New York Transit Strike ... or the many crashes of huge airplanes ... or the loss, one way or another, of Köpk top key government personnel ... and so on. NOTE: The Si's are hereby notifying the U.S. Government that, just as they predicted in their last warning ... the catastrophes that have just occurred, record-breaking though they may be, are only a sample of what lies ahead for the U.S. Government ... unless the U.S. Government makes friends with them, and accepts them as an ally. Their conditions for this have been spelled out, previously, several times. The Si's warn ... brace yourself ... because there will be an unexpected twist in Viet Nam ... and our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from there with their lives ... regardless of all our military might. (But the Si's can extricate us from that mess, and only they can, if we allow them.) The Si's state that only they can stop U.S. catastrophes, and help the U.S. out of all the troubles that it is in. They also think my Government is erazy for not even giving the Si-power a try-out in the U.S.'s behalf. We can spend millions beautifying highways ... give millions to foreign countries ... but will not trouble to make friends with the Si's ... who are the only ones who can help us. President Johnson ... once more I respectfully ask that you invite me to your Texas ranch for a weekend and discuss this. It is the last time I will ... can .. ask. To sum up ... in my first "Letter To The American People" I predicted great catastrophes. They came. In my# second letter of warning to you, Mr. President, I predicted more and bigger catastrophes. They came. In this, my third letter of warning from the Si's ... I am predicting even bigger, even more terrible catastrophes ahead for the U.S. Government. THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. Send for P K Man, UFO representative, immediately, 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 232 of 246 5 3.9.66 195 and arrange to join forces with the Si's. The Si's predict that the day will come when the U.S. Government, when in trouble, will come to P K Man to send a message to the Si's to get them out of trouble ... just as you would go to the Western Union to send a wire. If the U.S. Government takes good care of me, that is. If anything happens to me, the U.S. Government will never again have this opportunity in this lifetime. In closing, the Si's want you to know that this message, this letter, comes straight from them ... through me ... and they are the same UFO intelligences (saucer intelligences) seen over the Wanaque Reservoir not long ago. Also they want to repeat ... the catastrophes suffered by the U.S. these past months have been produced by the Si's to impress the U.S. Govt. with their powers ... to reinforce the message read by Jack Mckinney over Jack's "Night Talk" Radio Show last summer here in Philadelphia. Owens P K Man (Owens) 1114 Spruce, #33 Philadelphia, Pa. === Page 233 of 246 August 2, 1966, Tuesday Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for writing the letter. I thought perhaps you'd entered a monastery somewhere and wouldn't be out again for ten years. You are right not to worry aboutkys your grades. Just do the best you can do, when going to school, learn all that you can ... especially the things you are interested in ... remember that lots of the teachers are stupid, neurotic wrecks, and they do play favorites ... and if your grades are low, then you have the best attitude about it. If you're not figuring on being a nuclear physist (that dam word I always spell wrong) or like that ... then why worry? Just be sure and get your diploma, then toddle off to the Beauty School with the $600 you've saved out of your weekly allowance, and all is well. Why, just think of those heads of hair you can run your fingers through and tie in knots, if they fuss at you. When I think of all the chaos and carnage you can commit on the heads of innocent citizens ... why, the scope is limitless! (ha ha - it's a joke.) Actually, in all seriousness, I should think you would be a Champion Hair Dresser, Beautician, or whatever they call it. You are creative ... you have quick little hands ... and you are very intelligent. So you will do fine. However, let'ss don't cross any bridges. By the time you get out of High School you just might decide to be a Fireman, or run for Governor, or something like that. Teenagers are notoriously fickle about deciding what they are really going to do. I just hope you don't get out of H.S. then decide what you really want to do is go to college! So, Rick got a surfboard. All he needs now is a loaded .45 automatic. Yes, you had ought to write Martha personal letters, addressed to her. I know she will answer them. Glad you saw "Mice and Men." You see my point, then. What on earth will you do without a phone? You'll get constipation of the conversation, kid. If you get too frustrated ... get one of these toy phones in the dime store and sit in your room and make up phone calls to your girl friends and talk away. That's what Beau does. Have you ever taken all my "George" copies and put them in date order in folders, and read them? If not, why not? Your dad has done something no other human being has done since the time of Moses! I have been literally doing miracles! And you two numbnoses do not even seem to realize it. Two other top govt. agencies besides NASA and CIA have recently spent hours with me, going over my material. I can tell you, one of them is not really govt., although made up of top govt. men. . . NICAP, described in the back of the flying saucer book I sent you to read. The other agency I won't name ... but if you put the initials together, you're hissing. One thing for sure ... they weren't impressed by our tiny apartment! If you can, get away from the coast. The U.S. coastal areas are go9/92506:17 be destroyed ... devastated ... one of these days. Love - Dad === Page 234 of 246 Tuesday, Teb. 14, 1967 Deer Iornie ... good to hear from you. Dr. Irene Kevula's address is 2 Cliff St., Wolcott, Connecticut. Am returning the picture Air Mail, az you request. Have two lorger, wellet size nies made for Marthe and me .. . plus a 5xll pic ... and let me know the cost. Will send it to you, and you send me the pics. Ckay? This is a fine picture, honey. You look great. And he does, as you say, look like a fine young man. I am very hoppy that you have such good taste in the opposite sex. So you flunked History, eh? But you did fine in your other subjects. Congratulations on a rood score. I had trouble with History, too ... hed e dull teacher, also. But maybe you can profit from a lesson I learned in high school. In my Senior year I decided to hell with whether I liked the teachers or not ... they were my grades that were going to show, and it was my time which would be wasted if I flunked ... so Lornie, believe it or not, all I did was study study study on Physics, the toughest course in Bedford I.S., with the toughest most unliked teacher ... and I got & B. The teacher told me himself, afterward, that any other teacher would have given me an A ... but being him, he didn't give out A's. Just B's to too students. Ugh. What a man. If I'd based my action and hours of time on whether I liked him or not ... I'd have flunked flat out. ButI used to be like you in my early H.S. years. Incidentally, your camera will use color film. Just get 35 milimeter film. It has a terrific lens. You know, I sent you some pics from it. Don't worry about presents, hon. Remember all the times when I was flat broke et Xmes or birthdays. Ne ha. Nothing new to us, eh? Beau is something else. Words cannot now describe him. He has to be observed to be believed. It is good that you have to earn your own money, honey. Builds character. T wes so proud of you end Rick on our adventuring, when you kids sold card fortunes, ironing board holders, etc. It was for the good of the gang ... and no one knows better than I thet you two can hold your own, anywhere, eny time. lust go no w Your three pals love you ... always know that. Sincerely, Dad 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 235 of 246 Thursday, August 25, 1966 Dear Lornie: Thank you very much for the two dandy cigars. They gave me several hours of pleasure. Honey, I don't know what you are talking about when you mention my being sued by a radio station. I haven't been. If anybody did sue me, what could they possibly get? Mebbe an empty bird cage. four days? How did you like my producing Hurricane Faith in just (See my letter to you of last week ... Friday.) Those men weren't "detectives", Lornie. They are Secret Service men. I had written President Johnson that I had a bright idea for him to use, re his popularity improvement with the people ... and these two S.S. men came up to ask what it is. The idea, briefly, is for Johnson to appear on TV with Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, etc., and get some laughs ... and some empathy with the U.S. people. He's too grim and bitter. I pointed out what made Will Rogers lovable, and others, too ... and it was a sense of humor, and being able to make the people laugh, even in tough times. No. Costs money for the docs to go ahead and study Beau. And we haven't any right now. These two women here who have ridden my back and abused me worse than anyone in my entire life. .. are really bad, clear through. I never did hit them with PK, though, much as I was tempted. However, the Si's did ... they told me they were putting the two in PK bubbles, enclosing the yellow gas, and attaching two poltergeists to each of their backs .. . and this condition will go on for the rest of their lives. God. Makes me shudder to think of it. They are walking around, enclosed in that bubble from another dimension, and that horrible stuff inside the bubble with them! For the rest of their lives! Anyway, I didn't do it. But I did resign, to get away from them. Got a fine reference from the Boss, who understands. Tomorrow is my last day. We haven't moved yet. No way to do so. We need a jaloppy, and no way to promote one yet. The papers you sent will help me very much, and I love you for it. It is very humorous that the Commies offered me all I need ... yet I can't get it from my own Govt. I was tempted to take it, though. But I cannot. This is my own country, and I am staying with it, stupid though it may be at times. Be a good girl, and Martha and Beau and I miss you. Love, Ted. 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 236 of 246 Monday, August 8, 1966 Dear Lornie and Rick: I hope you are both well and happy. Had a visit not long ago from some Secret Service men. Friendly visit, in answer to my letters to the President. They were very much interested in some ideas I had sent. Also, am now being evaluated and analyzed (my work with the Si's is, that is) by a group of General Electric scientists. They think so highly of my work that they just gave me a signed confirmation on a number of my predictions-before-the-events ... and they just made me a present of a glistening, brand new Czech portable typewriter of my own. I have had one 3-hour session with them, and one 42 hour session with them ... everything taken down on tape recorder. And these are for-real SCIENTISTS. They say they know I am getting results, but they don't understand how ... and they want to help me, scientifically. Am having an awful time at work. Some psychotic woman, the sister of the brothers who own the business. .. rides me, every day, sadistacally. Follows me around calling me jerk and dope, and asking me why I do not make it rain inside the office. She's nuttier than a fruit cake, but mean-nutty. I would quit in a minute to get away from her, if there was anything else to go to. But there isn't in this hell-town. And no way to get out of the town. I told you this Company fined me $55.00 for missing one day to be on the radio. It has put Martha and I behind about six weeks in paying bills, etc., and we hardly eat right, what with the two-week layoff they gave everybody without pay ... with no warning. Well, enough sunshine and light. Write once every Christmas and tell me what's going on. Love and Kisses, 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 237 of 246 Saturday, August 13, 1966 Lornie Owens 26005 Oak Street #18 Lomita, California 90717 Dear Lornie: Thankyou for writing. Notice this typewriter? It is a dandy, and was given to me as a present by some people interested in the Si's and their activities. Very nice people. Scientifically minded, just like Dave. He'd fit right in with them. I was very surprised that you remembered about my hitting the Beatles with PK ... an unusual thing to do, and you will remember I actually apologized to George for it. Remember why? I told you ... it was pitiful that the Beatles were getting more attention and devotion . from the kids of the U.S., than the kids were paying to the Bible, Jesus, and God? I told youthat was wrong ... and so I hit them with PK with the express purpose of ending this state of things. And ITHAPPENED JUST THAT WAY. Took a long time, since we were in either Myrtle Beach or Washington when I sicked PK onto them. And it is amazing that they became disgraced to the point where Senators are trying to bar them and their records, etc., for the VERY REASON I issued PK at them. Jesus and the Bible! You must not be getting my mail. I sent you a letter-form to sign some time ago, listing the prediction hits I had sent you, before the events came true. Will dig up another, if I can find one, and send it. I imagine you'll be glad to get back to school, with all those activities which you like so much. Am quitting my job August 26 (have already quit, am leaving it then.) Have no plans or anything. Just getting the hell out of there. My Si friends just made a public appearance in Erie, Pa., and walked in full sight to within five feet of people. Also left tracks in the sand. Also walked straight into the water out of sight. Very interesting. I had predicted not long ago (see your file of copies) that they were due to make a public appearance soon ... and so something they hadn't done before ... and so they did. You would be surprised at the number of people who have tried to brainwash me away from my working with the Si's. It's a laugh. Might as well try to brainwash a hurricane. Here's another laugh ... the small amount of financial support I need to get isolated and bring the Si's down for a meeting. .. has been offered to me by a Communist organization. Took me out into the country onto a beautiful estate and showed me the layout and said, "All this is yours ... whatever you need for as long as you want. All you have to do is join us." My own government just ignores me. How's them apples? Martha, Beau and I send our love and kisses to you, and to Rick.07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 238 of 246 Sept. 17, 196 Dear Lorme - Martha, Beau + I wish you the happiest of birthdays. You are a woman now, not a little girl any longer. It's been a long time since Pat look a picture of your parched on my shoulder with an old Cannon camera. I'll always have lots of happy memories of the sweet little child, Lornie -who took her lumps and bumps and laughs with Daddy, every where. Your birthday present is something money cannot buy. And there's no other like it. And it's beautiful! I made it. Took heris. It has to crack to be made the way I've invented, but don't worry about the thing cracks. It's firm, Just treat it like the delicate ceramic work that it is. (Take it off before you punch Rick in the noce.) Love x pièces Dod 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 239 of 246 'S. Oh second day with circus tornado warning came. They et everybody out of tests for 4 his ( very dangerous in a text luring windstorm.) Martha & baby & I crouched behind the Zephants, which were flattened up against a high kindly wall. wings we're flying thin the air - must have been 50-75 mph ind. Rained for several days. (naturally.) dridentally have taken of rain PK - put up sur iata inside PK cover. Harvey know what this means. Drought- everywhere. Heat. no water. You'll be reading about it Worst summer in istory of U.S. They asked for it & they deserve it. Love Dad (PK Man) Jogarele) 5. Thumbs down to no meant "the front is off " i e no more thif (crowd) As bring in, so they hung" closed on the outside - peut chains across the front a closed the text- plays. So if a til was still in the tent we did one more show for that tile, I were of for a half-hour to 2 Los, depending on the day. Man. The Wed we didn't with too hard. Each day the crowds grow progressively. Fri, Sat, Sum are hard days. One show after another in"grind" fashions of the "grind" is on the07 9225 16:17 === Page 240 of 246 8) next the Blade Box. A pretty girl gets in the box and 13 long words are many then it at every angle. They for a drive the crowd can walk back of the box & see how the girl has eluded the knives This is a real money maker. Worked fine until the magician, who performed it vanished for a day and a sub came in to do it- and cut the girl twice putting the prives in. (He didn't give her time enough to guide the blades part her.) The first Blade Box girl gone, was secretly smoching with Fuller the owner (as well as about 20 other assorted males around) until Fuller's wife arrived. Then the girl got fired x they used Julie (myptina) to run over after heract a do the Blade Box. There are dozens of exciting a wonderful things I could tell you about if I could just think of them. Oh last nite I almost gat ran over by a camel. These things are like trains! I was standing inside the tent when suddenly the side of the tent lifted and a camel plunged right of me- knocking the steel tent pole into my arm. I jumped out of the way & Bat the elephant tender rou the camel out the opposite side. The crowd was at the opposite end of the tenta they'd decided to run the camels thou our tent to load them in trucks ) Just as I was recovering from the shock of this another down camel came busting under the playx at me. It was out of control + just missed me. They got it x took it aut Lots of excitement. We got paid & after advances + 5000 deductions for taxes - we had 3.00 left after hotel rent. I sold my watch for 20.00. Sound familiar? Haha! We love you and Harvey. Be a good girl, and help Harvey be a good boy. It's your job as big sister.) tad Over for 07/09/2025 16:17 5 === Page 241 of 246 2 nearest bar and drink. He also drank some kind of dope. He had a rep as a bad very bad man. But he quickly made friends with me. What I didn't know was he wanted to take over our knife act) He took me to his car and took out , 0 knives he had made x need. Told me to use them - that his eyes were had. I said I'd buy Them. He said well I could use the prives during my stint and he'd consider selling them to me. Two days later before my show he asked for his prives - said he'd like to practice on my board I gave them them to him but he went out to his car. At showtimp he came in and hundred them to me in a stack. I put the stack in my bucket i went on to do the show. In the 3rd throw I felt terfi pain in my fingers. There I was, half way then prives around, about 300 people watching is. I glanced down & caw two fingers infred open, deek. Without pausing I governed at the crowd to cover my slight parce licked my fingers to get up the blood & proceeded to finish the act. After the crowd passed on I went to the board x examined that 3 rd prite, which had bounced out of the board. Peanuts had taken pliers and twisted the point around so that there were two rager- thank projections guaranteed to ruin any hand. I need PKinstantly and the cuts were completely healed within hours. naturally the chows couldn't stop so I adapted a grip utilizing other fingers. I called hen acct, mas. over I showed him the gaffed printe. They came the double cross He went to Peanuts, bought the hives for himself (discovered he wanted to start a knife act- he'd been showing his handcut escapes in exchange for psibe lessons. ) Then they fired Peanuts This made me furious, because I'd been double-crossed I feel sorry for anyone using those knives after this -x was sporting enough when I left to warn Ley that there knives hoveds better not be used around a live target. You understand? === Page 242 of 246 was on the roof tops trying to get these negros. One day they caught a regis who had just thing a can of Diano non auto some copa De Feo's partner was real mad about it I when their rengiant hollered up from the street "Get that man Piano-thrower down here fast " De Fes'é partner ched up the megro & threw him of the roof into the street low. They told me many fascinating stories while I taught Heptact, Ting The Fat Man. 6 ft 3, 762 lbs, Bad- mpered, hates people. He just sit there & sells pictures. of had to pile 15 coke cases together to make a chair for him. my is not jolly. One day he slowly laboriously got himself of platform and massively moved to the cookhouse for lunch. that were an hour late. So he bowled out the cook. Now he to a loaf of bread, 2 dozen eggs, 2 lbs. of bacon, and 3 posts of Tee just for breakfast.) Well the cook complained to the haager, + the manager told Tring to apologize to the cook. iny refused to do so, and from that time on refused to eat the colorhouse. He'd wait until the show was over they take ab downtown & eat comewhere We knew how this hust Ting cause he's the tightest man with a crime you've ever seen. Our I day he astonished all the acto by holding out his hand to the Bo who took it and Firmy shook his little hand with a mile. Since Thing is cold as ice, this puzzled everybody, including na. next, The Count one Some best friends. Colored, colorful tremendous personality. Been all over the world. He's a special atile with heavy iron legs. To fact jazz music he leaks outy tte able on roller skates and tap dances & roller chats like med. terrific entertainer. He held Bo for is the most now, Peanuts came next, until he got fired and that's giate story. Peanuts swallowed bay andts, clothes hanger swords etc. Indian with wild eyes, he'd dash of between shown to the 07/09/2025 16:17 === Page 243 of 246 5, grabbed one of the Duke's tom-tom sticks away from him & the Dehe had to chance him all over the text to get it back. Bo finally ( he's very shark) discovered by watching & kids trying to sneak under the text in that he could lift the tent a weak out. Boy! First time he vanished we found him on a kiddy- side outside, having a ball. He just went over a got in a car a rode & rade & rade. The operators nearly died laughing. They all got to know him cause Martha took him on all the pony rides car rides ito (they had 80 different rides.) Bo would wagger around the text lik a grown man, learning at people petting babies. One colored woman had a pretty 2 yr. old colored guil by the hand. Bo grimy dirty by this time in late afternoon walked over to the little girl. Her face lighted up in a big smile x she held out her timy hand. Bo took her hand and the I went hand in hand around the tent. Finally a colored teen ager con of the colored woman came into the tent i went up to his mother. He saw Bo, his face registered uther astonishment , he pointed a finger at Box yelled " Where did he come from?" Only once did Boelde un. I searched high + low. Finally went to the police van. There he was sitting in a chair, calmly jabbering in that Chinese way of his at the cope. I identified myself and one cop said to me " This is impossible, Bogarde, Your boy is talking Korean!" I said haber But he was serious "He absolutely in," he said. "Ispent years in Korea, I talk in Korean Shim & Leanswers me." You figure that one out During the day a half-dagen come clambered outs our platform at my invitation put down their billy duber, & learned hilfe throwing. They ate it up. And they told me things about their work In the race mots here weeks ago negros disimple dumped bushel backets of liches of the roof toks ant, the cops below. One copp is in the hospital from being struck by the bricks not effected to live. Then the negras poured Diano down auto the cake. De Feo who told me about it had a shotgun at 07/09/2025- 16:17 === Page 244 of 246 out the wind blew than the tent & blew the flames back to him - burning of all his hair, etc, a roasting his nel. Steel the magician come from the Ringling Circus. A 25 yr. old and he ware "inside father" on the mike- directing the crowds from act to act. Unfortunately this act come just before outs. Every thing he did his act the crowd would walk away from him, half way than his act to our Platform wanting to use the knives. This made him furious, and the List two days he'd cut our out short on purpose Jealous. we'd do inives around a net up for teeth balloon or blindfold -x he'd read the crowd on. But the manager got him straightened out her name brunette he liked in the crowd dated him one night. She was married. He "went to new York" the next day. The following day when he got back" the husband . the girl's father were at the wichs gunning shim. The girl had vanished. She hasn't been found yet. Evidently 's a good magician. Deptact- Bogarde , Lavella. My knives in that champagne what I bought- look good. Also Peanuts (I'll get to him) loaned + 10 knives he used to use. We'd open with knives around (20 hrive) wering board.) Then teeth balloon. Then blindfold. The did the shield few times. We only had time for 2-3 stunts. They use code words. Manager walk around in front of each platform & holds his fingers lose together means " short act"-"fast" because the crowd must e rushed to the Blade Box where they make extra money the tretches his fingers for apart means do a long act of they say over te mike "Is Johnny Robinson in the crowd" they all acts do short to to much the tip out to make room for a new tip Bo was a hall of a problem. Frist two days Martha would hold i'm back of the platform until and act began then we'd ach a early act to hold him until we finished. Finally we discovered I we put him down in the center of the tent he'd play & run & watch the acts - a we could watch him from the platform. Everybody was crazy about him, a they'd keepan eye on him too. If he tried to sneak out the front of the tent then Duke the Hawaiian creating the tom-tom would shooch him back inside. Once 0109/2025 16:17 === Page 245 of 246 Sun. May 30 - Jean hasn't cent and things yet! 1 Last nite while Bobo The Rubber Man was doing his act one the marks (crowd) jumped on his platform and heehled him, So I Bobo picked up his barrel and hit the mark on the head with it knocking him of the platform .? Let's Make Me crets. See page 2 - the chart. Bobo is very famous written up by Ripley's Believe It or not He's from the Ringting Circus where he was Enmet Kelly's partner. One thing he does is step inside a narrows barrel bend over put his head shoulders a arms down inside the barrel-x buch the hands up over him. He somehow gets both legs up back of him - back of his shoulders- and wings on his hands. He's without a doubt one of the world's best Contantionate. now pass on to mytina The Electronic Guil's platform. She's a pretty bland in gold tights who stands on a plate which charges her up with electricity. of your hand hera light bulb it lights p. H you touch a personene - cooked torch to her hand or tongue - it busta into flame. Lots of things like that Sealo in advertised be half man half-real. He was born with little tienzy flippers attached to his shoulders. He's very happy shows the crowd how he chaves and rate, ita ( he's a regular sleight-)- hand artrit ist/ those flippers) Alsoher the "circus philosopher" All the aute like to hang around Sealo's stand because he's always so happy & jolly. He's really 10.(Sealo keeps yelling at (Bo and flifung fim chewing guten.) Buck is the Giant. He's also crazy about Bo and fiches him up and plays with him constantly. He's 812 feet tall and at our eating table in the cookhave he its in the center and can reach any part or end of the table. Mas c Brisky is the finest Five cater in the world. Any of the most difficult fine - eating triche he can do. Last year he told us he was badly burned in Canada doing the black" this to a fine eater is like a triple- come salt to the trapage people. To to the blast he fills his mouth with a whichy glass of gasoline and somehow spews it out in a fan where he lights it with his torches. In Canada, just as he chnage (7109/2025 16:17 === Page 246 of 246 go rat. Food is excellent. All you want the king pitchers & hot coffee Bean has been hos excited to eat. From doing absolutely nothing in Wachington, to doing everything here, haz lit him up the a light bulb. We have a 12:30 to 1:00 shows call- we go to our giant test (this isn't what you can at Hyattsville_ Beath has three circuses) and go ants our stage, where our board is set up. Inside the text it looks like this: Entrance ( FRONT) Sealo- Halfman, Hall Serp MYSTINA Electric Girl BOBO Rubber man ESCAPE ARTIST Scotch man CROWD (TIP) BUCK - 8 1/2 Fr. TALL X Brisky-Fire Eater/ BO RUNNING AROUND Duke, The Harvainas Steel- magician Bogardé, Lavella Fat Man Trimy - 762 Lbs. Count trackaction chates aga thingtable PEANUTS SWORD SWALLOWER Blade Box felusion 07/09/2025 16:17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s and 1970s General Letters Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 General Letters to Children I do get a sense that there may be some duplicates as the years 65-66 overlap with other years documents sent separately. I have no idea how there could be a 65-66 bundle of documents and then an general letters folder (this one) that covers the same years sent separately from Lori. Perhaps the explanation is as simply as there were different containers of letters saved separately from each other over the years and Lori wanted to send Jeffery everything she had. However, there is also a lot of new documents in these general letters https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d8e0280baa8fa50f663440c44cbd9582.pdf a73874416c191d4e0cd2ef386dd2de22 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ad61cedb0625a0b1c22ca2580b4bd7f9.txt 58a43a28e36af27919d2b3d6f5737b8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 Congress Hotel THE Bellevue Stratford 12th Broad and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 CABLE ADDRESS BELLSTRAT TELETYPE 215 569-9703 PENNYPACKER 5-0700 AREA CODE 215 Dear Lorrie -- Hope you two are having fun by now. Open any mail I might get, forwarded, + send me anything important. Right now am trying to get 200 - 300 to buy a car + go up to New Jersey and sell my services as The Rainmaker to various towns + counties having a terrible drought. They are out of water and need... rainstorms. Ha! I figured I could get $5000 per town, or county, fee paid after their rain comes. However, since the area would probably become a disaster area, they might not pay me. The rain PK I worked so hard last November to sock the U.S. with -- is slow in going away to let heat + drought take its place. But I've set up heat + fire (red) PK, not only over the U.S., but the world, for this coming summer (July -- on.) So you should read about drought all over the place. Nature will use this to make the Govt. more reasonable. Remember I wrote Clark, CIA, + told him all phenomena of Moses' day would now occur to U.S. Govt.? Well, first case of cholera since 1911 just struck -- in Wash. D.C. And since I "hit" Viet Nam with PK -- planes are colliding, Marines are shooting each other by accident -- it's really something. Some day they'll learn. Write. Dad Congress Hotel Rm. 600 12th + Walnut Phila., Pa. AIR CONDITIONED GUEST ROOMS, RESTAURANTS AND FUNCTION ROOMS 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 2 of 31 Double-crossing, will he? !!! # Tornado Topples S. C. Ferris Wheel CRESENT BEACH, S. C. (UPI). -- A sea-spawned tornado ripped through South Carolina's rich "Grand Strand" resort area and caused an estimated $1 million damage to the posh playground. No serious injuries were reported. The twister knifed out of a squall line of thunderstorms, toppling a huge ferris wheel and severely damaging a restaurant and two motels. Lesser damage was reported at other resort areas north of Myrtle Beach. Communications and power were cut off by the storm. Heavy rains drenched the area and flooded streets and lowland areas. THUNDERSTORMS raked the area from Myrtle Beach northward to Cherry Grove Beach. Police and rescue squads rushed into the stricken area and reported only minor injuries to the throng of summer visitors and residents. Most of the minor injuries were caused by flying glass. Remember the ferris wheel? It got it. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 3 of 31 Friday Dear Lornie Thank you, honey, for the three cigars...but do not run yourself short of spending money, just for cigars for daddy, hear? Although I surely do appreciate the thought...and the smokes. Our letters are hanging up...I don't get yours for maybe a week after you send it...and I know for sure that you aren't getting mine correctly, on time. Something is funny, somewhere...and I don't mean with the Shannons. Mebbe the govt. t Beau is all right, just cut the corner of his eye. He is awfully sweet, and plays with me constantly. In fact, I can't hardly get him off my lap. He invents games...and teaches me how to play his games with him. The kid is a little wizard. And tough...good lord...if you think he was rugged when you knew him, you should know him now. Martha is afraid to try to put his pajamas on, or take him away from TV...cause he beats up on her. He charges her, and bites, hits, etc. Puts up a damn good scrap. Lots of spunk. Am writing this at work, without benefit of your letter at hand, so will try to remember the points you made. Your letter is at home, and ordinarily I answer it directly. Am doing any old odd job, looking for a way out of my present predicament...which is, stuck in old Philadelphia where few of my talents count for anything. Am sending my novels to N.Y. and trying to make a deal with a local businessman to start my own business, etc. Then...6 months, a year...of saving...and we'll buy a used car and go to some quiet, countryish place...and I will begin my System-teaching, and we will rent a house, or buy one. Rent one, I guess, on sober thought Am glad your school is beginning, and you do sound like you are having fun. If any earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, etc., occur, you'll know that Daddy is playing his little games. I am winding up now to swat the West Coast with a big jar of PK; also to make and steer more 'canes into Florida. Debbie was doing all right; she turned right, like I told her to - then stalled just off the Florida coast, and by the time she went into Florida she'd quieted down into a mere 60-70 mile an hour tropical storm, instead of a hurricane. Anyway, I hit Florida with her. Even if I didn't get a hit on Electro directly and in full force. incidentally...last year I wrote Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau at Miami...remember? And asked him to name Hurricanes after you and Martha this year. Well, he did...but as usual, your name got misspelled, and it is "Laurie" on the official Hurricane Charts. "Martha" is there, too. So - you have a hurricane named after you. I am working hard to make that many hurricanes for that area. I have gotten 28 typhoons so far in the Pacific. They ran clear through the alphabet, and are starting over with Typhoon Bess working now. Love and kisses, Dad 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 4 of 31 Rick...added note. When UFO was seen by thousands, nearby in New Jersey...it made the front pages of the New Jersey papers. I sent you photos of clippings. But...not a word appeared in the Philadelphia papers. And this was IMPORTANT news! So here is what the U.S. Govt. is doing. Whenever a UFO incident happens, they restrict the news of it just to that little area where it happens...because they know the people will talk around, and if no news appeared then questions would be asked. So maybe 100 UFO's could be seen in the U.S., but it would not appear anywhere except in a few towns around where it happens. The whole US wouldn't know this. Controlled news. This goes against our Constitution. But then, many things our present government is doing...goes against our Constitution. I had wondered at your mentioning UFO sightings in California...because no mention of it had appeared on the East Coast. Now we know for sure why. So...if you ever see any mention of all of UFO phenomena, be sure and send me the clipping, okay? Incidentally, might interest you to know that I use the thermos you gave me in Washington every day...take my lunch to work, and your thermos is with it, holding coffee. I wish you hadn't left me. Young or not, I would like to train you in all these various techniques the Si's have taught me to use...my old list, that you copied, is nothing compared to my new list. Although, of course, every thing on the list you have works. But they have given me much much more. And I have made colored crayon pictures of many things that are important, but have to be explained verbally. For instance, if you saw my "Rainbow Door" picture...it would mean nothing, unless how it works is explained. Keep punching with your school work. Did you read where that M.I.T. graduate with two degrees painted squares on his face with fingernail polish yesterday then shot three atomic energy scientists with a shotgun? Then shot himself. And he was a scientist, too. Happened in New York, not far from the UFO sighting, last week. Evidently the three squares were the men he was going to shoot...and the small square on his forehead above the three squares, stood for himself. He was brilliant...name of Maresco. Had three kiddies. Pitiful. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 5 of 31 Wolcott Resident Argues The Case For UFO's To the Editor of The American: Via various of the newspaper items, I see that more recently there have been undeniable reports from scientists at atmospheric research centers of universities, that the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not purely imagination, nor simply "swamp gases," or "meteors," etc. In some cases, yes, but not the majority. So-called "flying saucers" more aptly "space ships" DO EXIST! Why is it so difficult for governments and people in general, to believe the possibility of intelligent forms of life (perhaps far superior to our own planet earth) existing elsewhere in this vast infinite universe? Certainly if our own present civilization is so well-advanced (enough to photograph planets and send men into orbit around the earth) then is it so difficult to believe that there may be perhaps a higher, more intelligent species of beings, somewhere in this universe, capable of these fantastic travels? Unfortunately, mankind has not yet learned, due to his own greed and ignorance, that the very atomic forces which he has so well harnessed for destructive weapons can be used much more intelligently for the betterment of mankind, without "poisoning" the very atmosphere and waters, as now. The earth is abundant and beautiful . . . and there is enough water, food, land, gold and gems for all living things, once man learns that these things are not to be taken for "personal possessions" . . . but to be utilized and enjoyed by ALL of God's created beings. Does any human being have the "right" to claim any land, nation, or body of water as "his," exclusively? Or any part of the world and universe? Now they are wondering and speculating who will land on the moon first, and place a stake of "ownership!" "Brotherhood" as exemplified and taught by many religious sects, is not yet truly the brotherhood by which mankind can truly be happy. When man gives up his desire for war and destruction, his greed for personal power and possessions, then and then only will there be the beginning of Peace on Earth, such as taught by the great Avatars throughout the history of our war-torn, and sorrow-ridden world. Unfortunately mankind's spiritual progress has not kept pace with the material aspects of his accomplishments . . . and here lies the sad story which fills the history books to the brim, of tales of bloodshed, greed and power. There is only ONE True Power . . . the Power of God . . . the Energy or Force which we so well know as The Almighty, Creator of Heaven, Earth and Seas! . . . and the "many mansions" of His infinite universe. Until mankind learns to live in peace, and learns to revere and recognize fully, the Supreme Being, mankind will be forced to suffer, by its own hand, via poverty, strife and the countless "ills" which befall nation after nation, which eventually brings it to its knees or complete destruction. It seems that only when people are beset by woe and great trouble do they remember that there is a "God" . . . somewhere . . . to turn to. (Unfortunately though, at these times, too often they turn to Him, only to "blame" Him, and not to pray). And so, as we look heavenward, we see so much evidence not just of His grandeur, but the infinite intelligence which lies behind it . . . and too, we see what we call "UFOs" which contain perhaps, beings who have progressed far beyond our own worldly attainments . . . beings who have progressed because they have kept pace in both spiritual and material realms . . . and not denied their creator. For man without God is simply a piece of clay. (REV.) IRENE G. KAVULA Wolcott 2 Cliff St. === Page 6 of 31 Sat. 5/21 Dear Lornie: Hi, honey, it was good to hear from you. How do you like my (and Si's) score at Cape K? Haven't missed bringing down a rocket in months there. That's because the Si's added some new PK weaponry...most devastatingly effective. This last Agena I got was said to fall into the Atlantic..but a commercial airplane pilot appeared on a TV program and said he and co-pilot were up in the air near the Agena...and it seemed to vanish into a peculiar yellow cloud. Figure that one out. One turtle just died...and last night the goldfish died...and our canary bird, which is a singing fool...has stopped singing. ???? Yes, read about the 16 year old girl, tortured to death. We are having one to two rapes a day here in Philadelphia...some of them on the torture side. Things are getting rough all over...would advise you to watch your step, especially with the coloreds getting ready to blow up in that area against whites. How about that cop shooting the colored husband who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital? Don't worry about McNamara...the Si's are taking care of him in beautiful shape! He won't last much longer in his present position of power. Martha got her goodies...and you made me very happy by making her very happy. She and baby fought like tigers over the candy...I nearly died laughing. Baby would take one piece, then snatch another with the speed of lightning before Martha could stop him. And she couldn't get it away from him, either. You are definitely not getting my mail. You ask if I had seen the UFO show on NBC. Immediately after the show I wrote George, etc., that the U.S. Government would be severely punished by the Si's for that lousy show....and sent you your usual copy. Which obviously you haven't seen. By now the Si's have clobbered the U.S. Govt. in spades. The Si's, true to their word (see my ltrs.) have been inundating the East Coast with rain to break the drought. Steadily. Love and kisses, Dad === Page 7 of 31 Si's have: (as per their predictions through myself) 1964 through present May, 1967 Thrown off the magnetic equipment of the two scientific expeditions over the South Pole. Showed themselves over the two scientific expeditions, to get it into the paper, as they said they would do. Showed their craft, and their ray, at Waunaque, as they said they would. Made lightning hit things everywhere and get reported in the papers, as they said they would. Sent a huge "fireball" UFO over Philadelphia six days after they said they would, in my prediction. Saved Brenda Sue Pennington, who was given up for dead by her doctors (or they wouldn't have let me in). Produced an early hurricane (Alma) as they said they would. Destroyed, disabled, or ruined the mission of various forms of rockets and missiles going up at Cape Kennedy, as per their predictions. Produced disasters coast to coast, for a demonstration, per their predictions. Produced negative, destructive conditions around the White House, Johnson, and the U.S. Government. Made it rain in Phila., with me calling the shots. Made it rain all over the U.S., reversing the upper atmosphere conditions to do it, according to the N.Y. Times, to break the 6-year drought. Made it rain in India, to break the 3-year drought. Produced a blinding light to confuse the "eye" on Mariner 4. Produced a savage, hurricane-like storm in the Wash., D.C. Capitol. Warned CIA of North Vietnamese attack on carriers off Vietnam. Warned U.S. Govt. of Viet Cong attack with blowguns and poison darts, and poison. Caused a judge in Selma, Ala., to have a complete change of heart re negros and whites. Brought down the Russian spacecraft, Voshkod. Harassed the U.S. Air Force viciously, as it would an enemy...making the AF Blue Angels crash and collide; AF planes downed everywhere under all kinds of conditions; AF top brass dropped dead, etc. NASA...they did the exact same thing to Nasa as they did the AF. Made U.S. nuclear sub ram freighter, just days after they said they would. Demonstrated their control over our skies...by producing staggering airplane disasters. Demonstrated their control over our seas...by producing ship accidents, fires, attacks by freak waves, etc. Also our naval military...by producing one carrier accident after another after another after another. Same with subs. Produced earthquakes on predicted schedules. Produced lightning attacks at Cape Kennedy, as they said they would, even hitting lightning-proof pad. Put all top U.S. Govt. officials in the hospital with "executive flu" (which was not flu at all, according to the Washington D.C. medical examiners. They have never been able to discover what it was.) Harassed the Needles, Calif. military maneuvers; the NC/SC military maneuvers; and the U.S./Spain military maneuvers, to demonstrate what they can do to our military. Produced hurricanes as predicted, then guided them along predicted routes to target areas, already predicted. LORNIE AND RICK -08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 8 of 31 Page Two Demonstrated their control over the Stock Market, by allowing me to predict for them a drop...the Friday before the Market fell about 15-20 points the following Monday. Demonstrated their knowledge of secret activities in the world... by tipping off the U.S. Govt. of certain things which would occur, and which did. Demonstrated their complete control over weather, by ending years-long droughts, causing hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc., and predicted in advance (like everything else on these two sheets). Predicted Johnson't hospital stays, and surgery, in advance on three occasions (surgery on only two, "flu" on the other). Predicted an attack on or near the White House, and predicted it would be "symbolic". Warned the President by telegram of an oncoming disaster...the New York Blackout, which followed shortly. Demonstrated their control over "total peoples" by defeating the African rebels, who were killing children. Demonstrated their control over space shots and space activity... by predicting in advance what would happen, then making it happen. Demonstrated their communication ability with P K Man (Owens) by telling him when and/or where and/or why they would appear, before they actually did so, as predicted in advance. Demonstrated again their control over "total peoples" by helping Johnson win, then by defeating the Democrats at the polls in '66. Demonstrated their ability to read human minds...by warning in advance of an ex-flyer's plans to crash his plane into the White House. Demonstrated their power to heal (Mrs. Don White, Ft. Worth; Brenda Sue, Washington, D.C. - plus numerous others in Ft. Worth). And they have just produced an electrical and power blackout in New York, as per my request (from Jim Moseley's request). And just made lightning strike, per my request (as requested by Margulies, the parner-lawyer of this law firm) and the lightning struck the target area requested. === Page 9 of 31 Kids - read this book now! 444 Saddle Lane Grosse Pointe Woods Michigan 48236 April 20, 1967 Mr. Ted Owens 1114 Spruce No. 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Owens I find the study of space and UFO's very fascinating. Upon watching the John Bandy Program of Saturday April 1st, I became intensely interested in you and the intelligence with which you communicate. I write to you now to get more detailed information on the subject, and to offer any assistance possible to you. First of all, let me tell you a little about myself. I am a boy of 15 attending Grosse Pointe High School, and have a 3.4 average in all subjects. I recently started a campaign with a friend to map out all UFO sightings, and attempt to find any set patterns as to their appearances. We detected four patterns, all of which are circular, which seem to have their centers of curvature in Canada and off the coast of eastern South America. Two centers are in Canada and two in South America. Both of these countries seem to have circular, moving areas of UFO sightings. We do not claim that these patterns are valid, but we plan to get more members and continue the study until definite patterns are found. 08/08/2025 16:31 === Page 10 of 31 Page 2 I believe that some alien form has been closely studying this planet for thousands of years, and maybe more. (I also believe that Christ was one of these aliens,) who had a mission to establish a code of laws and to unite our race into one by Christianity. Therefore, your claim of communication supports my belief, and I want to believe you. However, I would like to know how you can differentiate from ESP and the communications of other beings. How do you know you don't merely have ESP? As I said before, I am intensely curious about your contact with intelligence from another dimension. The following are questions which I hope will be answered thoroughly and accurately. I give you my word that I will not inform anyone of your answers unless you will permit me to. (If you are telling the truth, I think you may hold the key to the survival of this world.) Here are my questions: 1. The intelligence is from another dimension. Does this mean that they are from a place beyond our universe, or could it be a zone in our universe? Both. 2. Do our dimensions of depth, width, length, and time apply to this dimension, NO or is it completely opposite ours? Please describe dimension further if possible. 3. Can this intelligence change energy into matter and take any form? YES How is this possible? HOW DO I KNOW? 4. How can energy live, think, and take any form? 5. How does it travel? If they are from another === Page 11 of 31 Page 3 dimension, my guess is that their travel takes no time and is instantaneous. Is this true? Explain. 6. Please tell me exactly what their mission is. Is to set up a permanent base in the U.S.? Will they try and are they capable of correcting human conflicts and other weaknesses? 7. Could they have any interests of their own? Could they be after something? 8. Describe the mission, the intelligence, and the dimension further if possible. I would like to help you to carry out your mission in any way I could. Please tell me if there is anything I can do for you. If you will permit me, I would like to write you to give you the results on our study of UFO's, when it is completed. Please send me more of your predictions in your letter. I am very anxious to prove that you tell the truth. There is one important question I think you ought to ask yourself: "should the people know of your mission and of the intelligence? Thank you very much for information and your time. I will be looking forward for your answer. Sincerely yours, Leonard S. Buccellato My god! 15!!?? === Page 12 of 31 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I recommend RICK OWENS to any prospective parent...because he is a fine boy. He is very creative...can draw excellent pictures; make paintings; make objects d'art with his hands that most people would never think of. He is a genius at making artistic objects. Rick also is very loyal. I travelled with him, and he not only did his part in making picnic lunches; removing tires from old wrecks to put on our car; feeding our dog and making her comfortable; scrounging up gas money by telling fortunes; pushing the car when it ran out of gas; but he always did more than his share of work...and we were very proud of him. He is a wonderful team-worker. We could always depend on him to come through with whatever the problem was that we were trying to solve...and he always did a brilliant job with his part of the problem. Rick is very kind, good-hearted, and generous. Many times he put covers over us when we were cold, sleeping out at nights. ; It was Rick who made Marthy Ann the happiest, by getting her food, and putting her to bed with him, when the rest of us were preoccupied with other things. Rick always put the happiness of the rest of our group ahead of his own...giving pieces of his candy or ice-cream to Lornie or Martha, if they wanted them, or to Marthy Ann. Rick is honest at heart, and truthful. Of course, he has childishly told lies...perhaps even swiped a few things...as all people do when they are growing up. But he is growing out of that stage, and of all the children I have seen in my life, Rick has been the most honest and truthful boy with his father. I would always trust him. Rick is very affectionate and lovable. He is warm, and outgoing. When a warm, loving hand is needed...his is the first to be extended. Of course, Rick has his faults...everyone has. He acts without thinking sometimes, too fast, and this tends to create errors. Perhaps there are some other little faults...but the big, most important things...make Rick a prince of a boy. He is to be strongly recommended. SIGNED: P K Man (Ted Owens) Father. === Page 13 of 31 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I strongly recommend LORNIE OWENS to any prospective parent. First, LORNIE is a beautiful human female, and this, of course, has the highest value placed upon it by members of the human race...as witness beauty contests, etc. Lornie could easily win any beauty contest. Then, Lornie has a bright, magnetic personality. She sparkles. She is a great social asset, wherever she may be..in the home, at a party, at the beach, etc. She is always in great demand, socially. Lornie also has a great artistic genius...in painting pictures, writing stories, etc. She is imaginative and creative. Lornie has a good heart, fortunately...in spite of her beauty (this is usually not the case because beautiful girls learn to be superficial and get everything they want just by being beautiful.) Lornie thinks deeply about others, is concerned about others, works for others to help them, etc. As a matter of fact, many times when her own family group was in trouble, Lornie worked very hard in many ways to get them out of their troubles. Children like that are rare. Lornie is highly intelligent, and provides brilliant ideas for those around her. A lot of these ideas are, at times, on a rationalization basis... but they are brilliant. Lornie is affectionate and lovable, like a teddy bear, and she is outgoing with her warm love. Lornie is more honest and truthful than most girls her age. She has her small faults, as everybody has...but they are far outnumbered by her very good traits. Lornie Owens is a wonderful girl, and it is a surety that she will be a wonderful woman, in the years to come, and will make a fine wife and mother. SIGNED: Ted P K Man (Ted Owens) Father. === Page 14 of 31 Pg 1 SECRET INCANTATION Today and every day my autonomic nervous system will function perfectly, in perfect balance. Today and every day I move in a bright new world, which is the reflection of my innermost thoughts and beliefs. Today and every day I consciously and deliberately align myself, focus myself, with all of the powers of God and Nature. Nature always moves in right action, therefore my affairs today and every day will partake of right action. I wish no harm or sorrow to anybody, and all persons wish me well. My business is surrounded by right action. Universal Knowledge gives me fresh, vital ideas. I will meet nice people, make good contacts, because people will like me and like to do business with me. I am surrounded by a circle of protection. God, plus Universal Knowledge, guides me in all of my decisions, and draws to me those persons, places, and things that tend toward my fullest benefit. I will become a blessing to all whom I meet. I absolutely reject any belief in, or fear of, wrong action. I will receive wisdom, knowledge and understanding from God and Nature whenever I am asleep, as well as when I am awake. My body is a temple in which God dwells. All of His methods and activities are those of right action. I welcome every one of these activities, and throw myself wide open to them. I freely give my mind and soul and body to God and His work. I will not waste my money, but will use it wisely, to bring happiness to me and mine. Nothing destructive can enter or operate within my mind or body, for I am deliberately choosing the most constructive molds of thought. My spirit sings with happiness today and every day, for I am filled with the consciousness of life and the STRONG WILL TO LIVE. I am tuned in to every happy, healthy, successful person. Their thoughts travel over invisible paths to me, and my thoughts to them. I am tuned in to them, and whatever I need from their minds, or whatever ones of them I need to meet, Universal Knowledge will furnish it and bring it about. Today and every day I will draw large amounts of money to me from the inexhaustible supply of the Infinite...enough to meet any of my needs. Today and every day I draw STRENGTH from God and Nature and Universal Knowledge. === Page 15 of 31 Secret Incantation Pg 2 Page Two I wish to recognize and respond only to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Nothing negative can find a foothold in me. No doubt or fear can attach itself to me. I will have a positive attitude in every way, and will transmit this attitude and state of mind to my family and loved ones. No accidents or mistakes can occur, at any time, because I walk in a path of right action...both when I am thinking of it, and when I am not. I release myself and all of my affairs to the perfect working of God and Nature and Universal Knowledge...which turns these thoughts into action and results. This message, that I speak to my subconscious mind, I do not speak merely from myself...it is God in me, speaking Himself into my experience. This message has all-power to fulfill itself in my life and affairs, and is done with the ease of the Infinite. I release this message to the creative Law of Mind, fully confident that it is even now being fulfilled. IT SHALL COME TO PASS .......... === Page 16 of 31 Dear Lonnie & Harvey It was very good to hear from you. Today is really exciting because the one single odd thing that Nature told me on March 9 - that it would affect the magnetism of the North or South Pole, to prove I was its representative to the world - and that the papers would write it up - This one single thing that puzzled me, has come to pass. See clipping enclosed. Thus, in fact, "something" I call Nature has brought my prediction about in the exact manner to prove what PK Man is. Kids - my hair is standing up on end!! More later. Dad === Page 17 of 31 Lornie & Rick ---------- WHAT MAKES UP DAD - GOOD AND BAD ---------- (<- = ORDINARY SKILLS FOR BREAD JOBS) PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERT SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF TED OWENS (BOGA) RAINMAKER (WEATHER CONTROL) + YAWARA EXPERT Writer <- + LOCKSMITH ASSISTANT Lecturer Rice Univ. stage. Master of Ceremonies Personnel Manager <- Jazz Combo Leader Jazz Drummer Dance Choreographer (Arthur Murray Instructor; Stripper Instructor) Magician Court Reporter Ventriloquist Hypnotist Parapsychologist Hand Writing Analyst Bodyguard (5 sen. Pool and Snooker Hustler Boxer; BOXING INSTRUCTOR Portrait Photographer Oil Painting Artist Private Investigator <- Idea Man (ADVERTISING, ETC.) <- Quality Control Inspector, Steel Mill (C.F.I.) <- Sales, Closing Specialist <- (SWIMMING POOLS, HYPNOSIS, ARTHUR MURRAY LESSONS, JEWELRY, BIBLES, ETC.) Office Manager <- Sales Manager <- Fortune Teller Party Entertainer Teacher of Autosuggestion (Autoconditioning, autohypnosis) Teacher of Memory Improvement Techniques Teacher of Knife Throwing Techniques Greatest knife thrower in the world. Design, manufacture and sale of precious jewelry. Spanish, speak Semi-pro basketball player; coach of team. Medical Secretary <- Legal Secretary <- + SHORT ORDER COOK Psychiatric Secretary <- { LIFE GUARD (Teacher,) Boys' Military School CAPTAIN { SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR Treasure Hunter Ships Entertainer 08/08/2025 16:38 === Page 18 of 31 Tuesday May 17. Rick: For old time's sake, enclosed is my PK maps I made yesterday for the Agena - Gemini shoot. Send it back for my files. The Si's surprised me on Sunday by telling me to go ahead and make PK maps. (I was, anyway.) My, and the Si's, record by now is incredible! Several weeks ago we blocked every shot at the Cape for ten days! Then we "shot down," or destroyed, the two big birds they put up - one was O.S.O. - same as O.G.O., the one we got at Myrtle Beach. We miss you and Lonnie... especially Dean. We hope you are doing fine. Love & kisses - Dad. 08/08/2025 16:38 === Page 19 of 31 Tues Lornie x Rick x Pat Will be on Ed Harvey "Talk of Phila." WCAU radio show this Thursday, at about 2 or 2:30 - in case you've got a long-range radio. Today someone stole my briefcase - which contained my complete Sata records - members, addresses, etc. Interesting. Grabbed it in a grocery store when I turned my back for the count of three. Only 2 persons nearby - one a store employee. I turned back x the bag had vanished into thin air. Interesting. I called the police, but... - Dad. === Page 20 of 31 PHILADELPHIA DAILY # NEWS Afternoon Newspaper Published Daily By TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 Telephone LOcust 3-5200 WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PRESIDENT J. RAY HUNT, MANAGING EDITOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 Rick LORNIE ## Senatorial Scholarships: Backbacks and Kick in Pants Harrisburg comes the word that Gov. William Scranton has relieved Charles G. Simpson of the chairmanship of the State Council on Higher Education. Simpson has "lost his value" as spokesman, according to an announcement from the Governor's office. A value to the council, maybe. For the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, NO. Charles G. Simpson has been the outspoken critic of the senatorial scholarship racket--and the higher education institutions that condone it. To maintain their credentials as first-rate institutions of higher learning, the State's four largest universities are claiming an essential element of academic freedom, according to Simpson. But they lack is backbone, Simpson charges. Simpson has chided Pennsylvania, Penn State, Temple and Pittsburgh universities for their failure to stand up to State legislators on the matter of Senatorial Scholarships. Each of the 50 State senators annually are given scholarships to the four universities to do with as they please. They can and frequently do award the scholarships for every reason under the sun other than academic ability or financial need. Some legislators, Simpson charges, have sold the scholarships for $100 and others dole them out a semester at a time to make certain that they retain the "loyalty" of the beneficiaries. This newspaper supported Simpson's original attack on the scholarship system. Once again we find ourselves in agreement with Simpson in his view that the four institutions involved # Jerry Doyle's Cartoon FRANCE & SOVIET BLOC VIETNAM CRISIS UN JERRY DOYLE The Return of the Dove # Letters to the Editor ### Freeloaders One of the slickest pieces of Madison ave. artwork has been the labeling of Section 14-B as a "Right to Work" law. On proper examination its title should be revised to read the "Right To Freeload" law. Organized labor is being watched constantly as a possible source of inflation. If this could be so--then organized labor must be responsible to a ### Talking Point "Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death." --ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ### Appreciation Members of the Philadelphia Fire Officers Association wish to thank your newspaper for ### How to Tell? Last week I read in the paper where the Vietcong massacred a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people. In another part of the paper was an article telling of an Allied airplane killing a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people by accident. Gosh, to a civilian way over here in the U. S. it's getting hard to tell an accident from a massacre. --H. T. OWENS # Once Upon Time Camp Meant-Group of Tents By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI).--Reams and reams have been written recently about the new intellectual movement known as "camp." Intellectual movements are, of course, only dimly understood. Particularly by intellectuals. Therefore, the explanations of what camp is have tended to be rather murky. SOME EXPERTS say camp means that something "is so bad it is good." That much I can follow. Thereafter it gets complicated. There are, for instance, degrees of camp--"high camp," "low camp," "middle camp," "pure camp," "classic camp" and so on. Tiffany lamps, feather boas and the movie "King Kong" are regarded as "classic camp." "Pure camp" occurs accidentally. That is, the original failure that caused it to become camp was purely unintentional. THE NEW television series "Batman" is said to be "instant camp." It is supposedly bad because the producers planned it that way. And this is where I become un-camped. I agree that the "Batman" producers have succeeded in turning out a pretty dismal show, but I am unable to recognize wherein the badness reaches the point of goodness. Frankly, it doesn't seem === Page 21 of 31 What Did They See Hovering Over Jersey? By JACK MAHON Journal-American Staff Writer N.Y. 1/12/66 PAPER What was the strange flying object that hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir in Northern New Jersey all through the night, baffling police and terrorizing thousands of residents in neighboring townships? The UFO--which is all anyone could call it -- was still unidentified at dawn today. The police of Wanaque, Wyckoff, Pompton Lakes, Riverdale, Ringwood and Paterson all witnessed the strange, bright light, which resembled a disc, as it dipped and rose over the 15-mile-long reservoir from 7:30 p.m. yesterday until early this morning. HEARD OF IT They didn't know what to call it. Officials at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, N. Y., and McGuire Air Base, Wrightstown, N. J., said they'd heard of the UFO--but acted as if they wished they hadn't. Both bases clamped a tight lid of silence on the subject and denied they had sent planes to investigate the phenomena. A spokesman at the Air Phenomena Branch, Wright Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, which processes all UFO sightings, said early today the Wanaque UFO had not been reported to his office. FIRST SIGHTING Ptl. George Dykman, of the Wanaque Reservoir police, first spotted the weird disc about 200 yards from the police station. "It was very bright," Ptl. Dykman said, "about two feet in diameter and, as it dipped over the dam, a round light about nine feet in diameter was reflected in the water..." GOES, RETURNS Ptl. Charles Theodora said the disc disappeared at 8:30 p.m., but returned about 2:20 a.m. It was motionless for about an hour then moved back and forth several times. "It raced about six miles up and down the dam at supersonic speed," said the officer. "At one point it flashed a ray of light on the ice. Ptl. Al Campana and I drove up to investigate. We found a hole in the ice about 40 to 50 feet in diameter--there is no explaining it. The rest of the dam is covered solid." Jack Burchill, an aerospace student at N.Y. Institute of Technology, Westbury, L.I., and Richard Scott, Paterson, a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, gave this analysis: "It doesn't twinkle so it is not a star. It's too bright to be a planet or a celestial body. It gives off its own light. It can't be a helicopter, for it is soundless and appears to move at better than 1000 miles per hour." 'DON'T KNOW' Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe, Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer, and Howard Ball, suburban editor of the Paterson Evening News, also spotted the UFO. Mr. Ball said: "I was driving up a hill. I thought it was the planet Venus. Then it looked like an airplane--but it was too low. I don't know what it is--or was." Neither does anyone else... === Page 22 of 31 UFO Sighted at Wanaque 1/12/66 NEWARK (N.J.) EVE. NEWS. 'Flying Saucer' Casts Spotlight on Ramapo Area By CECILIA KING Staff Correspondent. WANAQUE -- An unidentified flying object -- "very white, very bright and much bigger than a star" -- hovered silently over this astounded Ramapo countryside for hours last night. Hundreds of eye-witnesses in a 20-mile periphery testified to seeing a flying saucer, first in Oakland, later over the Wanaque Reservoir where it lingered longest, then above Lakeland Regional High School, and finally over the Houdaille sandpit in Haskell. From there it appeared to move southeast toward Pines Lake in Wayne and suddenly disappear. "The phenomenon was terribly strange," Mayor Harry T. Wolfe said. Having been alerted by local police that a UFO was circling over Raymond Dam at the Wanaque headworks, Wolfe drove there to see for himself. With him were Councilmen Arthur Barton and Warren Hagstrom, and the mayor's 14-year-old son, Billy. BILLY SPOTTED the unidentified object at once. Flying low it glided "oddly" above the state's largest water storage basin "like a huge star," he said. "But it didn't flicker. It was just a continuous light that changed from white to red to green and back to white." The older observers estimated "the oval" was between two and nine feet in diameter. First word of the terrestrial visitor reached the North Jersey police radio station in Pompton Lakes at 6:30 p.m. After some 30 telephone calls from excited residents and motorists, the radio monitor contacted Wanaque Patrolman Joseph Cisco. "People in Oakland, Ringwood, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler claim there's a flying saucer over the Wanaque," he was informed. Cisco radioed reservoir Patrolman George Dykman and even as Dykman was receiving the message two excited teen-agers came running. "Look, look," they pointed excitedly. DYKMAN GAPED along with Michael Sloat, 16, and Peter Melegrac, 15, and a few seconds later they were joined by Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer and CD member Richard Vrooman. "What the heck is it?" exclaimed Dykman. "Never saw anything like it in my life." Spencer proceeded to the top of 1,500-foot-long Raymond Dam with reservoir employe Fred Steines. From that vantage point he reported later that he saw "a bolt of light shoot down, as if attracted to the water." He said it looked "like a beam emitted from a porthole." In the meantime Reservoir Police Lt. George Destito stood guard at the Wanaque entrance gates turning away swarms of pedestrians and scores of cars converging to (Continued Page 9, Column 3) 'Saucer' (Continued From First Page) the scene from north and south in Ringwood Avenue. The "saucer" hovered for more than two hours over the Raymond Dam area before soaring out of sight. It reappeared over Lakeland Regional High School in the Midvale section of the borough. A bevy of photographers and reporters were on the spot, but before any pictures could be taken the mystery object vanished. THE REPORTEDLY "last good view" was had in Highland Avenue, Haskell where volunteer firemen were burning Christmas trees in the Houdaille sandpit. Police headquarters continued receiving telephone calls however, all in the same vein of petrified wonder: "I saw something weird -- what is it?" Shortly after midnight word came from officials at Stewart Airforce Base in Newburg, N.Y. saying an Air Force helicopter with a powerful beacon had been on a mission over Wanaque about the time the mysterious object was cited. But, at 6:15 this morning, Major Donald Sherman, Stewart Air Force Base spokesman, denied that a helicopter, or any aircraft had been on a mission over Wanaque. Even the helicopter theory, however, failed to dissuade those who claimed they "actually saw the flying saucer." In Butler, as the midnight shift was coming to work at the American Hard Rubber Co., Leonard Tintle of Brown Avenue summed up the general feeling. FRONT PAGE "I BELIEVE my eyes against anybody's word," he said. "Like 18 years ago," he recounted, "when Clayton Brown (now mayor of Butler) and I were pallbearers for Philip Marion. We were in Rockaway Valley Cemetery -- we saw something -- hoverin' a mile up in the air -- backwards and forwards -- then it just disappeared -- " Tintle declared, "the Air Force knows darn well there's something to it. They're not letting on, that's all, because they don't want people to get frantic." "Like the time Orson Wells scared heck out of us with his 'Invasion from Mars' on the radio." Oddly enough, two hours and 15 minutes after Tintle's comments, when the UFO incident was being discussed in the past tense, Wanaque Patrolmen Joseph Cisco and David Sisco hurried headquarters the "thing" had been seen again in the skies. This time it was over Wyckoff. Five minutes later, Cisco and Sisco were taking turns peering through binoculars at the UFO. "It's over the reservoir," they asserted. === Page 23 of 31 COPY XEROX COPY XEROX (FRONT PAGE) ATLANTIC CITY PRESS 1/12/65 # 100s See 'Saucer' At N.J. Reservoir WANAQUE, N. J. (AP) -- An unidentified flying object, described as a brilliant disc of light, hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir for more than one hour Tuesday night, and then disappeared from view, police said. "It was real. I saw it and so did the mayor and the civil defense director and hundreds of other people," said George Dykman, 38, a patrolman on the Wanaque Reservoir Police Department. The officer said the weird light was first spotted earlier in Oakland, then in Pompton Lakes and then over the Raymond Dam at the reservoir--about 200 yards from the police station. "It was very bright, like a star," said Dykman. "From where we stood; it looked like it was about two feet in diameter and it was in the shape of a disc. "It moved in over the dam in a circular motion and then stopped and hovered over the reservoir. "It was too low to be an airplane. "As it dipped down over the reservoir, we saw a round light reflected in the water about nine feet in diameter." Dykman said he spotted the strange object about 7:30 p.m. after receiving a telephone call from the Passaic County Police radio network. About one hour later, he said, it moved away from the dam and paused briefly over Lakeland High School. "Now it's gone," he said late Tuesday night. "We have men searching, but whatever it was, thank God it's gone." In addition to Dykman, several other police officers saw the strange object. So did Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe and Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer. Howard Ball, night suburban editor for the Evening News of Paterson, spotted the object in Wayne on Hamburg Turnpike while driving to work. He said he saw the light when he reached the crest of a hill and thought it was the planet Venus. "Then it took a lateral movement toward the West. I knew it wasn't Venus. I thought it might have been an airplane, but the light was too brilliant for that." Police departments throughout the Bergen-Passaic County area reported being flooded with telephone calls from alarmed residents. Officials at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown said they were as mystified as everyone else over the strange object. === Page 24 of 31 Y NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 31 ghan adlyn Has Hopes he's Found Home VIVACIOUS NEWCOMER to the legitimate theater is Madlyn Rhue, who will make her first Broadway try in the new Gwen Davis comedy "The Best Laid Plans," which premieres at the Walnut, Tuesday. "I've already gotten one fringe benefit from my stage career," she said. "I have a home in California, but I was having a terribly difficult time finding an apartment in New York. Our director Paul Bogart had been separated from his wife; but they reconciled. He moved back home turning over his vacated apartment to me. Now everybody's happy." Miss Rhue's costar in "Plans" will be British actor Edward Woodward. Incidentally, it's also a first Broadway attempt for Bogart. "I've been waiting a long time for a good Broadway part," Madlyn said during a rehearsal break. "I'm positive that this is it. At least, I was positive enough to turn down some well paying TV offers just to join with this very funny show." Her first Broadway try notwithstanding, Madlyn is no novice in the acting department. She has an impressive list of some 150 TV show credits "which run the gamut" and a dozen pictures including "Operation Petticoat," "Ladies Man," "A Majority of One," etc. But she is proudest of the critical notices she received as Gittel Mosca in "Two for the Seesaw," at the Civic Playhouse, in L.A. She is also proud of a collection of some 300 hats, most of which have been left in California. "I will only be able to bring 50 of them to Philadelphia with me," the actress lamented. MADLYN ... lucky start PEOPLE IN PLACES: Jack Jones, currently headlining at the Latin Casino, is slated to star on the Bell Telephone Hour's St. Valentine Day show. He gets an ABC-TV special of his own, April 5 . . . Police Inspector John Driscoll will be receiving congrats from all levels tomorrow at 24th & Wolf. The day marks his 39th year on the force . . . Al Fisher, United Artists Pictures publicity chief, and Cathy Tallo, a secretary in UA's home office, will be a Saturday merger in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y. . . . Don Young, the singing-bandleader, is making his debut appearance at Wagner's Ballroom . . . Record promotion man Joe Campellone, who switched from Verve to the Phillips division of Mercury, flew to the Chicago main office for a briefing . . . Sam Scott, program director at Camden's WCAM and a staff member since 1952, has resigned to become executive director of the Philadelphia Hearing Society. SHOPPER'S SPECIAL: Blonde Greta Thyssen brightened up a "fashion first" in the new fabric department at Klein's Boulevard store during the snowfall yesterday. A former "Miss Denmark" by virtue of her fulsome (39-20-35) endowments, Miss Thyssen was on hand with Loren C. Shockley and a flock of McCrory and Klein executives to cut the ribbon that officially opened the sewing and fabric section. "I made this dress I'm wearing," said Greta proudly, swiveling to demonstrate her "multi-colored printed organdy." It seemed to fit well. "I am not giving up acting to become a seamstress," she added. "Not going that far. But I like to === Page 25 of 31 is to call to the attention of femme shoppers how easy it is to follow fashion trends on a "do-it-yourself" basis. "I just finished a picture--'Double Barreled Detective Story'. It's a combination spy and western plot and spoofs both. We hope it will be another 'Cat Ballou'." REPORTER AT LARGE: The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's five performance series here (May 9) will be sponsored by the Golden Slipper Square Club in conjunction with Philadelphia Philanthropies. The Met will launch its return to the Academy with "Madame Butterfly." . . . Frank Teodori (Dori's) is back from Florida with not much tan but a four-foot bull dolphin to be mounted. Frank noticed one side effect of Vietnam in the cabana club at Miami Beach's Eden Roc. A Dow Jones ticker is at poolside so bathers can keep tabs on stock market fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . The Saxony East's Paul King went to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun and golf and wound up belting snow balls. It was the worst storm in 50 years for the South Carolina resort . . . Bill Mulhern, former eastern regional manager of Kapp Records and more recently g.m. for the Jamie-Guyden Corp., has joined A & M Records as director of eastern operations. One of his first chores will be opening a local office for the label. === Page 26 of 31 08/08/2025 16:48 3Z # Earl Wilson # Boyd Will Visit Dolores at Conven NEW YORK.--Handsome movie star Stephen Boyd' going from the Feb. 18 Boston opening of "The Oscar" to a Bethlehem, Conn., monastery for an appointment === Page 27 of 31 Dear Rick: When I was in Ft. Worth, as a hypnotist I sent Pat newspaper write-ups, brochures, etc., re my hypnotism business. Now I need them badly, because everything I had was lost in storage. Will you ask her to send anything she has? Incidentally, those "bumps" on my forehead have grown larger. === Page 28 of 31 Feb. 4, 1966 Dear Rick: Thank you for your letter. That was an interesting dream, re Johnson...and my fingers. The Si's could be talking to you. I know definitely they work on us while we sleep. Martha woke up one night and saw a tiny UFO hovering over my head, while I slept...it was about the size of a quarter, and moved slowly around. She watched it for quite a while. I know she wasn't dreaming, because I woke up about 4 one morning and watched a UFO the size of a dinner plate moving around near the ceiling, slowly...with the most beautiful, gorgeous colors imaginable whirling around inside it. I was wide awake while watching it. I told you the Si's were 3-dimension, Rick...but that was a slip on my part. After writing you, (without thinking)..you asked if they were...I started thinking what 3-dimensional was...I meant, when writing to you, they were real...no, they are not 3-dimension in our apartment. On some craft they are. You have to realize, Rick...there are different shapes and forms of UFO creatures. Solid, and non-solid; human, and non-human. They can take different shapes and forms. But what they ACTUALLY are...is pure intelligence of a high form not otherwise found on this earth. They do not come from another planet, high in the sky...but from another dimension. When I asked them how it is they can give me intelligence, and I know it is from them, and write George Clark...they explained that, if I talked through an electronic remote control through somebody else's radio in another apartment (you can buy these gadgets) - the radio in the other people's apartment does not know where the voice is coming from, or how it is being done. If you want to go out for track, go ahead. Much rather see you put your concentration and energy in on mastering basketball, at school. Way to do it is get a basketball and practice dribbling high and low, easy and hard, all the time in your spare time. Practically live with a basketball. Practice shooting until you are a dead-eye Dick. Practice lay-ups going under from the right; also going under from the left, putting the ball up left-handed. Practice one-handed shots until you are blue in the face, with both hands. AND WATCH THE PRO TEAMS ON TV!! In your spare time, once in a while, shoot pool...great for your reflexes and timing. Am sending you your own personal pool cue...the best...with a special case to keep it in. Plus a fine book by the World's Champion, Willie Mosconi. Stick to one game only...50 point straight. It has everything, and luck isn't in it...just skill. 8-ball is for gamblers, and is pure slop. So is rotation. Stick to 50-point, the champions' game. You will be a champion, if you do. Also see if you can talk the Bentley's into getting you a set of drums, for you'll be a great drummer...not to go into as a pro later...but to help you pay your way through high school and college. And it is great fun, as you know. Also, try to take piano lessons if you can. Tedious now, but loads of fun === Page 29 of 31 joy when you grow up, later. It is something that is worth more than money, going through life, to be able to sit down at a piano and play jazz and blues the way you want to. You can't mix classical...so would advise you to learn jazz and blues and modern piano. If you do what I advise...you'll never go wrong, Rick. At the same time, try to be a good student. Learn when you are in School, or at home studying on lessons...to concentrate on just that. Then when you put your books down to practice basketball...concentrate on just that. Then when you play pool...concentrate on just that. Learn to turn it on and off, like a light switch. You have genius in you, Rick...but all genius carries a price tag. It has to be developed, and used, correctly. And when the power is there...use it well, and wisely. This is why Nature very seldomly gives genius and power to a youngster, because the wisdom to use it is not there yet. Remember...only from age 15 to 25 will you have the time to learn all the hobbies and things that you want, like the above. After that you have to hustle to make a living. Learn typing, too. You write well, and you'll need it to express yourself. Am sending another clip I got into the paper...makes two clips in a week. Funny thing...this is the Editor that doesn't like me because of my UFO connection. I wonder why he prints my stuff? (I send each letter to 3 papers simultaneously.) Also enclosed is clip showing how Dick got racked up again at Myrtle Beach. Ha ha. We got him with a tornado, last year, that cleaned him out. Then hit him with Hurricane Betsy's backlash that ruined that business. And now this. I AM HARD ON DOUBLE-CROSSERS THAT CAUSE ME UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP- AND IF YOU WILL RECALL, DICK AND HIS PHONY PROMISES HURT US BAD, SO, HE'S BEEN RUINED FINANCIALLY EVER SINCE!! AND THE BUSINESS IS ALL WE KNOW ABOUT. NO TELLING WHAT ELSE HAS HIT HIM. Love Dad P.S. NO "TURN OTHER CHEEK" FOR ME. SO'S HAVE ORDERED ME TO ATTACK (WITH PK) ANYONE WHO IS MY ENEMY, OR THREATENS ME. AND THEY GAVE ME A BRAND NEW WEAPON TO DO IT WITH. TV and movies keep her... she calls New York "home." Her tour for the... 08/08/2025 16:48 === Page 30 of 31 Lightning Sets # Blaze in Store 7/19 A bolt of lightning started a fire in one of an arcade of shops on Germantown ave. during Sunday afternoon's showers. Some $50,000 worth of men's furnishings were destroyed. Smoke was seen at the Hamilton Men's Shop, 3630 Germantown ave. by Patrolman Robert Magilton and he turned in the alarm at 5:20 P.M. Battalion Chief Edward McGonigle said lightning had struck a wooden utility a half block away during the short, but intense rainstorm, and was probably responsible for the store fire. Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate. A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half. # Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls HAMMONTON, N. J. July 18 --Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park. Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phylis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released. # Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (AP).--Large areas of southeastern Australia were swept by snow, heavy rain and strong winds during the weekend. Hundreds were stranded at resorts on the New South Wales southern tablelands and Blue Mountains by stalled rail and road traffic. # Hit Area, Ease Crisis July 19 Continued From First Page from the Atlantic Ocean was pushing upriver. The commission set the desirable flow for the emergency at 1200 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Montague, N. J., gauge across the Delaware from Milford, Pa. Despite the release of the water from the reservoirs, the river had been decreasing almost daily for the last week. "The river had been falling off gradually for one reason--lack of rain in the basin area," Fish said. Here are the average flows measured at Montague beginning last Monday. Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980. Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt. A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August. The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .89 inches falling. RAINFALL IS SPOTY Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir. On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said. Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y. DAILY FLOW FIGURES Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from its two reservoirs. The flow from Wallenpaupak set at 200 million gallons daily, and 66 million gallons are to be released from the Mongaup system. Speaking of the thunderstorms, Fish said. "This is some slight improvement. We haven't had anything like this in weeks and weeks here." The "bad" weather which was such good news, canceled a helicopter trip that New Jersey's Gov. Richard J. Hughes had planned. Hughes, who is chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission, had planned to fly aloft with New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe to tour North Jersey reservoirs. === Page 31 of 31 The Evening Bulletin DR. CA ESTABLISHED 1847 William L. McLean, President and Publisher, 1895-1931 PUBLISHED EVENING AND SUNDAY BY BULLETIN COMPANY 30TH AND MARKET STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19101 ROBERT McLEAN, Chairman of the Board ROBERT L. TAYLOR, President and Publisher WILLIAM B. DICKINSON, Managing Editor - DONALD McLEAN, Editor, Editorial Page DONALD W. THORNBURGH, Vice President - ALBERT SPENDLOVE, Vice President-Business Manager RAYMOND D. McGEE, Secretary and Treasurer - WILLIAM L. McLEAN, III, Assistant Treasurer JOSEPH G. ELLIOTT, Assistant Business Manager - RICHARD W. CARPENTER, Advertising Director LOUIS TRUPIN, Circulation Director - JAMES P. GRANT, Production Manager BARRY URDANG, Promotion Manager - REGINALD E. BEAUCHAMP, Assistant to the President 26 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1966 G .......... we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction and, throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail.--President Johnson, upon his return from Honolulu. "HE THAT LIETH RISE UP WITH F ... de Gaulle ended his boycott and the Commission busy clearing up the debris that accumulated during seven months of uncertainty. The son of law, she was ineligible for marriage with anyone else as long as her husband lived. However, when her marriage terminated by act of God, she became an eligible widow, a further since the lady doesn't want to marry the paramour that legal principle doesn't affect her at all. She may marry indeed, and she has our best wishes. House. Doesn't that stupid, ignorant press room know that President Johnson has strictly forbidden White House leaks of any kind? H. T. Owens # How Vespasian Built HIS Stadium By B. A. BERGMAN I was in Rome recently. A waiter in a cafe near the Colosseum told me about the problems besetting the Emperor Vespasian when he decided to build the world's greatest stadium. He made everything crystal clear, as he explained how Vespasian disposed of all his critics and built his stadium as he wanted it and where he wanted it. You see, Vespasian didn't have an Open Mind. On the other hand, Mayor Tate some time ago confessed that he had an Open Mind about certain aspects of our Stadium design, that started all the foolishness. No mayor should have an Open Mind. That's worse than no mind at all. As a result of the Mayor's Open Mind the Stadium isn't much further along than it was in 1953. Except that we now are going to have still another architect to add to our stable of architects. ## Nero Gets the Nod Here's how Vespasian handled his Stadium, as explained to me by my Roman waiter: Romans, who didn't like Nero because of his lousy fiddling at inopportune times, creamed because Vespasian elected a site near the great statue of Nero for his stadium. "It goes next to Nero," said Vespasian. **The Colosseum in Rome** Merchants objected to the site because it was too far away from the fashionable shops. They wanted the stadium as a come-on for American tourists, so they could take pictures--out of focus--of the Stadium and then buy dresses and neckties at prices much higher than Italian imports would cost back home. Gladiators insisted that 40,000 seats were sufficient. Chariot racers and the soldiers who threw Christians to the lions demanded 60,000 seats plus 15,000 retractable chairs for special killings. No, said Vespasian. Fifty-thousand capacity and no retractable seats. They'd get in the way of the lions. The chariot racers and gladiators wanted a circular stadium. The lions need more room, the Christian killers pointed out, as they asked for a rectangular stadium. Postcard hawkers said nobody would buy pictures of a rectangular stadium. Rectangular buildings are a dime a dozen. Look at Penn Center, if you can. Vespasian shrugged and just said: "It'll be circular." As for a domed stadium for which there was an insistent demand, Vespasian said there'll be no dome. "I'll put up awnings for the VIPs. Fresh air, sunshine and rain are excellent for the people." So Vespasian, who had no Open Mind, ignored all the architects, all the special pleaders and all the pressure groups and built his stadium his way. Why, he even squelched a movement to name the Stadium for himself or for his son, Emperor Titus, who finished the job after good Vespasian died. And a campaign to name it after Paul D'Ortona died aborning. "My stadium is colossal, so we will just call it the Colosseum," the Emperor decreed. A man of few words. ## We Need Vespasian Now Mayor Tate with his Open Mind wouldn't make a very good Roman Emperor. On the other hand somebody like Vespasian might get our Stadium out of the discussion stage, if it isn't too late. I was talking to the chairman of still another Stadium committee which hasn't been appointed yet. He said he was going to propose that the easiest way to solve our Stadium foolishness would be to buy the Colosseum and move it to South Philadelphia. "Then," he said emphatically, "We'd have the greatest stadium in the world. After all it's been just that for nearly 2,000 years." And, at least, it's already built. 08/08/2025 16:54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 3 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1cb642d59b6081fd697ba9e83e96f581.pdf b0da17732e8efee7a5e44b7631766473 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e446bb9b3e1b3b0b5a82b6abbae65d5f.txt 562fdd2a36cb97020f287e6ea4a95adf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 at my July 21 letter, and note that I called the ) that my "little friends" would be seen over a u that I am for real? I told you that they would undertake attacks of ason...to prove that I am for real...their contact ings, in plenty. nk the best signal they gave you was the lightning think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape hat I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO'S) will do something nice now for Philadelphia, I know...I am asking them to...especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO'S here to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like the laser, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. So, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 2 of 9 For now, will you please get my July 21 letter, and note that I called the shot with the prediction (?) that my "little friends" would be seen over a U.S. city as a signal to you that I am for real? Also, next paragraph down, I told you that they would undertake attacks of lightning...for the same reason...to prove that I am for real...their contact man, so to speak. Well, you've had the sightings, in plenty. As for the lightning, I think the best signal they gave you was the lightning hit this week...August 4, I think it was...on the Moon Rocket pad at Cape Kennedy. So...you have your signal. Might interest you to know that I wrote Mr. Eastwood at NASA (Inventions Dept.) July 7, 1965 of course, and warned him in the letter that I was again, as of last year, aiming hurricanes and lightning and freak accidents at the Cape this year. Only took four weeks for lightning to chew up the Moon Rocket pad. Not bad, eh? As for up here...I wrote President Johnson August 3, 1965 (this week) and told him: "They (the UFO's) will do something nice now for Philadelphia. I know...I am asking them to..especially a two-day rain in an effort to get several inches of rain here for the City in appreciation..." The very next day, George, they got their 2½ inches of rain all in a bundle. Did them quite a bit of good. Now, for your amusement, and because you've been so good to listen to me for so long...I will let you in on something. Am calling fleets of UFO's here, to Philadelphia...from everywhere. Trouble is I do not know what they can do to prove to these people here that I'm for real...but I will think of something. Believe they are here already, because I sent for them this afternoon. With all that power, whatever kind it is that they have...and it seems to be miraculous, judging from what they've accomplished this past year, they should do something startling. Am trying to convey the idea to them of coming right down over the city and hovering. They give me the idea back that we might have some kind of rays like they have, or whatever it is they have...and hurt them or something...so that they are reticent to do this. So I am trying to tell them we haven't any such thing, and it's safe. I want to bring one down right over Market Street and have it hover there for 20 minutes. What else they'll do on their own is anybody's guess. Also, have asked them to send rain out to the U.S. for 2-3 weeks, before starting drought conditions again. Am sure that they will. Incidentally, last week I warned you that some terrible blow would be struck at the U.S. soon...and I believe that it was the 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 3 of 9 2 We will also add pestilence and sickness and what you call accidents; we will follow the structure of events which we used in the day of the human you know as Moses, as he strove against the ruler of the great country called Egypt. As we helped Moses in that day, so we shall help the human-friend we know now as Ted Owens, you call the Rain Maker. If it please him to think that...of course we make the rain for him, but what is the difference? So that you people of the earth will believe this message we send to you, and we do not expect you to believe it unless we show proof...listen carefully. From now on, in time ahead, we will lift the curtain of drought for a little, and let the thirsty earth have its moisture. We will give the precious rain where it is needed...for a time. Then, lest you think that it is a perchance, we will drop the curtain once more with our machines, and let the rays of the sun penetrate the bowels of the earth and dry up your rivers, your lakes, your plants...until you accept our human as our representative. After you accept him, we have much work for him to do, for we do not speak your language, nor do we know too much, as we should, about your inner workings. It is through this human that we can learn; and it is through us, that you can learn. Even now, we send the meaning of our thoughts to him, and his brain translates through pictures and feelings into your English. It is good. Beware lest you take too long to accept our human-friend, for then we must strike a hard blow at the country which spurns him...to punish your country as you would punish a child which persists in misbehaving. After your country has accepted our Link with humans, and we are able to proceed in keeping earth humans from the time-old habit of erasing === Page 4 of 9 Me: When are you coming to see me? They: Tonight we will try. Flash your light (flashlight) upward every hour as long as you can. Me: Can you locate me from signals from my brain? They: We can. Me: I'll also leave a light on so you can see. They: No. Turn it off so we will not be seen by others. This is important. Me: Where are you from? They: Some - Jupiter. Others, other places. Even from inside this earth. Goodbye, now. Me: Yes, goodbye. ---------- Note: I set up the scene; put the family upstairs, got the flashlight and blinked it for a long while, but no contact. However, during the previous three weeks many flying saucers had been sighted over Washington, D.C., and over nearby Virginia. The night of February 6, many were seen over Washington...and it was written up in the papers. Then...I thought no more about it, since proof was not forthcoming...until the UFO over the South Pole, while I was in Philadelphia, made my prediction come true in detail. There could no longer be any doubt at all, about my having communicated with them, as far as I am concerned. Lornie & Ruth can be reached for confirmation: Lornie & Ruth Owens c/o Shannon 505 S. Osage St. #3 Inglewood, Calif. 08/08/2025 16:0 === Page 5 of 9 2 Me: perhaps you could fly over me and drop me a supply of diamonds. They: We will think on it. If we do we will include the tool you need to prove to your people there must be no people-war on earth with atomic weapons. Me: I am tired. Not used to this. They: Yes. We did not think. Goodbye now, friend. (Next time they "came in" like sounds was the evening of March 6, 1965.) They: Do not go away, far, Viet Nam. Your people will try to kill you. We need you alive. Listen carefully..there are others like us, against us, who could cause you harm. Be careful of your life, of your shell. It has taken us ages, in your time, to find a shell like you who can communicate with us. We do not want to lose you. But remember that you are, every moment, in great danger from "them" who use shells (people) bodies. They look like and seem like real people, but they are not. (I got the impression they mean that there are UFO entities which have somehow entered human bodies, and therefore, since they are enemies of these UFO entities, will try to do away with me.) Me: Can you end the war in Viet Nam and help my country, the United States, to become healthy and great again? They: We can and we will. But you must not go there! Instead go to Hong Kong or Japan as a tourist. Go by freighter ship. We can contact you on the ship. We will defeat your enemies for you in Viet Nam and bring peace. We will help your country. But your country must help you for you are our instrument. Does not your people approach certain fish, to communicate with fish? We do likewise. We go now to try to approach you. Be ready for us. Me: I will. (That same evening, later on, they "came in" again) They: Are you ready? 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 6 of 9 Me: Yes. They: We have a plan. Please turn that machine off. (My transistor radio.) Me: I did. They: Can't get through tonight very good - very well. Do you have a car-machine? Me: Yes, but it will not work. It's broken. That is why I need money. They: We are going to take care of that...money. Do not worry about it. You will be richer than anyone in your country before long. We want to see you, talk to you. Can we come down? Me: Yes, to my back door. I'll let you in. They: Will you be alone? Me: Yes. I'll have my family stay upstairs. They: No harm will come to us? Me: No. Absolutely not. Lower your flying machine near my back door and step onto my back porch. Knock loudly on the door. I'll let you in and we can communicate. I am very pleased, and anxious to meet you. They: Yes. We have what you need to convince your crazy people...your government...that we exist, and can control your world. You can use it. It will be yours to keep. Me: Thank you. They: You need a car, so that you can go far away. We will try to get you one. Me: My child is sick. Also a girl, our friend, in a hospital (Brenda Sue Pennington.) Will you heal them? They: We will, indeed, heal them. Worry not. Listen carefully...no time is to be lost. Your people must pay attention to you and listen to you, else we must destroy most of the earth's peoples, to begin all over again. Me: You mean, what is happening now has happened before? They: Many times. 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 7 of 9 Message to the earth people... from the Saucer Intelligences (SI's) through the Rain Maker, Van Owens... August 3, 1964 We are very happy that we are able to reach the ears of human beings, after trying for long, long spaces of time. This human who is talking for us, we have been teaching for a year in your time, and now he knows much... soon he will know much more. He can do much. You must listen to him carefully, and protect him, for if you lose him you lose your link with us, and it is not known how long it may be until we find another human who can receive our thoughts, and send intelligence back to us, in just his way. You do not appreciate the difficulties involved. It would be as if you were trying to teach your earth animals how to talk, and suddenly you found one who could actually converse with you... and through this one animal you had an opportunity to discover the secrets of the animal kingdom. Through us you have the opportunity to discover the secrets of space, of far away places, of advanced technology, but best of all... you have the opportunity of surviving, for as a race you are utterly doomed now, as you are living (this in their words.) Many civilizations before you have so doomed themselves and destroyed themselves, and we were helpless to give them assistance and advice and powerful aid. Now for the first time in long space ages we are able, though a human's senses, to come to the aid of a doomed civilization and help it survive. But we can only do so if you listen, and pay attention. We are causing severe drought, with our machines in your skies, so that we can teach you a basic lesson... which is that our intelligence is far superior to that of earth intelligence. We can control earth people because we can control what you call weather. Then, and not before, our earth human has been accepted by your government, and put to good use, then and only then will we release the drought conditions, and let rainfall come in abundance down onto your thirsty earth. 08/08/2025 16:08 === Page 8 of 9 terrible bomber crash in Vietnam (?) today, because this made us look very bad all over the world, which is bad enough anyway about the Viet Nam war. All those 250 lb. bombs being unloaded there, where the new U.S. Military Headquarters is being set up...and on top of our allies...that is very very bad. A real blow. And the way it was done, is certainly in the pattern of all the rest of this phenomena. Why, when the other bomber made eight passes at it, with all its guns blazing, why didn't it shoot it down, or set off the bombs in it? Then there was the wind...oh yes, the wind...like the rain that put out the fire in that attempt. The wind turned the plane around and took it right into target. I tell you, George, there is much more to this than meets the eye. Don't you agree? Remember the other two times I warned you that the U.S. would be struck blows, in a similar way...and then in quick order after each prediction, the U.S. Embassy was blown up...and then something airfield was set off when the bomber exploded there and blew up other planes and everything, incidentally. But there is something nice...because conditions have just recently been good to me here, and I have had a bit of a chance to get my UFO status at least a tiny bit out into the open...the stock market is already improving, as I told you it would a while back (last month, wasn't it?) Sure do wish this was a two-way communication. Wish CIA...oh, well, keep observing, George, and you will see some very strange things happen yet. PK Man (The Rain Maker) Ted Owens === Page 9 of 9 2 relate, of any value, to Congress? I can give really valuable information, and should be allowed to be there to do so. And the SI's are furious about it. This will undoubtedly be reflected in worse catastrophes just ahead of us. Remember - the primary purpose of the SI's is to establish a meeting of "minds" between themselves, and top U.S. leaders - and from that point on, using the U.S. as a friendly cooperative base of operations, they plan to straighten out world problems, bring about peace everywhere, and show us, from their higher intelligence and experience, how to keep the peace in effect after they are gone. The fact that the U.S. Govt. refuses to listen to them at this point, or help bring this about...of course makes them very angry...and brings disastrous catastrophes upon us. Of course, in order to bring about the above, the SI's first have to be met in a physical meeting...face to face...and myself, PK Man, is the U.S. Govt.'s only key to that meeting. The SI's do not intend for a minute to let the U.S. or any other country capture one of their craft and gain access to their mechanics of propulsion and power...to misuse as we have misused nuclear power, and no doubt will misuse it again in the future. That is why they are almost impossible to contact, let alone meet. Also they do not trust humans, and especially do not trust American military men...or American politicians. For remember, their values and morals are different than ours...they are strict, hard, and they are against war and killing and destruction. Can the same be said for military men and politicians? Of course not. And the same goes for scientists. The SI's do not like them, either. Well, enough. Luckily, the SI's do trust me, and like me. Why, I don't know. But I have submitted more than enough proof by now to you that they do communicate with me, and we with them. So....take it from there. PK Man Love, Dad P.S. Pardon this blankety-blank YMCA typewriter. It is a mess. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/43285ea089a46da4fe0e859e03039e74.pdf b38b87d4eeb5c9678f629d57c2c902a2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/41175cbb1c41c18bcbda5415cf5dab66.txt 1478a088e14b565d99eb57d5ae310ec2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 38 MORNING, JULY 19, 1965 Triangle Publications, Inc. Vol. 273 No. 19 Torrential Showers Soak Parts of Area Water Crisis Eased By ALFRED P. KLIMCKE and WILLIAM B. COLLINS Of The Inquirer Staff 7/19 Thundershowers that hit parts of the Upper Delaware River Basin over the weekend swept into Greater Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, drenching some sections with brief but torrential downpours. The showers have eased the water supply crisis for the time-being at least, according to Robert E. Fish, deputy river master. In Philadelphia sporadic street flooding and minor storm damage were reported in sections struck by the quick-skipping storm. Pea-size hailstones that accompanied the rain rattled against windows of Center City office buildings and West Philadelphia homes, stinging hapless pedestrians as they raced for cover. 30 ARE EVACUATED Weather observers at International Airport reported that .11 inches of rain fell there during one brief, heavy rainstorm and periods of light rain that followed it. A spokesman said heavier rain, up to nearly an inch, fell in some suburban areas west and northwest of the city. More than 30 persons were evacuated from three three-story apartment buildings on Mount Vernon st. after the brick facing on a 10 by 12 foot section of exterior wall at the rear of the center building collapsed minutes after the storm passed through the area. 12 FLEE BUILDING Residents of 2029 Mount Vernon st. told police of hearing "a rumble," and feeling their floors sag as the brick facing collapsed. Twelve residents of that building, nine of them young children, fled. Residents were also temporarily evacuated from the two adjacent structures. Lightning knocked two-feet off the top of a double chimney at 5028-30 Rorer ave., Feltonville. The brick crashed to a concrete patio in front of the row-house. Winds felled a number of trees and large branches throughout the city, blocking some traffic lanes temporarily 08/08/2025 15:09 === Page 2 of 38 CUTBACK ORDERED Fish said on Sunday that he was issuing orders for a cutback of the amount of water released from New York City and utility company reservoirs into the Delaware. "In the next two days, we will cut back about one third each day," Fish said. "This isn't a whole lot," he added, "but it is some saving, and we'll save what we can." Fish, who is with the U. S. Geological Survey, emphasized that the drought was not over and that the cutback may be a temporary thing. EMERGENCY STILL ON The water emergency declared on July 7 by the Delaware River Basin Commission still is in effect. Invoking its emergency powers, the commission ordered the release of a total of 466 million gallons a day from reservoirs in the upper basin. The action was taken to guarantee the fresh water supply of Philadelphia and New Jersey communities. With the normal flow of the Delaware River drastically reduced by four years of drought, salt water Continued on Page 20, Column 2 === Page 3 of 38 LORNIE -- REMEMBER OUR PUPIL WHO COULDN'T RESIST WILD BLONDES? The Sunday Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Sunday, May 29, 1966 AP Wirephoto MASTER'S WINNER -- Frank Stranahan receives master of finance cowl from wife, Ann, at University of Pennsylvania commencement. He quit PGA tour in October, 1964, to study at Wharton School. === Page 4 of 38 Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1965 Dear Rick: Thank you, son, for giving your dad a wonderful Xmas. Mebbe I can do the same for you, next year. I hope so. You have greatly inspired me, Rick, with your picture of Trea, excellently drawn, and your notation on the back of the frame you made. That's what I like about you, Rick, you make things, creatively...and beautifully. That frame is a dandy. Your picture will be the very first item to be placed in our House of Sota (Church) as soon as it is formed, some day. I transferred all things from my old, beat-up wallet to the Moroccan wallet you gave me...it is a fine wallet. But equally I treasure the wallet you made, from alligator...and am carrying that and using it to save anything I can toward Sota. I.e., operating money in the new wallet; savings in your special hand-made wallet. I shall always keep it. 2 - pulled back on the slingshot to test it, and a rubber broke...so have hung it up on the wall and will always keep it on the wall, wherever I live...to remind me of you, your skill in making things with your hands, and of the fun we had with the old slingshot, across country, until it went for gas. Am using the shaving lotion every day, and I wrote on it in gold-leaf: "Ted Owens - P K Man." It's fine stuff. Little Beau had (and is having) a mighty fine time with all that you sent him; and the same for Martha. Would have done your heart good to see the joy with which Martha opened all the packages (I let her open them all, you know) and the delight with which each item was received. After all, Rick, Beau, Martha and I are sort of like 3 children. I'm man enough, but I'm still a kid at heart. I bet no other daddy got a slingshot and a tie with a naked mermaid on it from his teenager children. Ha ha!! Love & kisses Dad 08/08/2025 15:15 === Page 5 of 38 Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpreter D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards 08/08/2025 15:16 XTH INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE - 3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. We did a show at the Shoreham at 8, then went by bus to Sheraton-Park & did another === Page 6 of 38 # Menu Tomato Juice Cocktail Lemon Wedge + + + Hearts of Celery Ripe and Green Olives + + + Braised Pot Roast of Beef Mushroom Sauce + + + Au Gratin Potatoes New Peas + + + Mixed Green Salad + + + Shoreham Parfait + + + Coffee # Sayonara! With this banquet we gather for the last time under the auspices of the CISS and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf to mark the end of the festivities that began a week ago today. During this past week we have seen the finest of the deaf athletes from all over the world compete in the sports arena for the honor of themselves and their nations. We have seen friendships formed and ripened, we have gained new insights on each other and new understanding of ourselves and other people of the world. And such treasures are rare, not to be lightly cast aside, not to be soon forgotten or allowed to fall into disuse. It is the hope of this committee that what we have gained here will be of lasting nature, and the friends we have made will continue to be friends for the rest of time. Farewell, Farewell is a lonesome sound, That always brings a sigh So give to me when loved ones part That Sweet Old Word -- Good Bye SAYONARA! # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 7 of 38 GHTNING-THUNDER -Run Storm Rakes Southland 08/08/2025 15:18 === Page 8 of 38 08/08/2025 15:18 # Crumbling ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- White domination of politics in many areas of the Deep South began crumbling today with the unlimited registration of Negro voters. Federal registrars signed up hundreds of Negroes yesterday in nine counties the Justice Department said had a record of habitually denying Negroes the right to vote. The Justice Department intensified its attack on voter discrimination. It filed suits in Virginia, Alabama and Texas seeking to halt the use of a poll tax as a requirement for voting. The day ended parts of a century in for irrevocable political change. National Association States with Georgia, Tennessee and Texas the exceptions. In Americus, Ga., it took 100 years to put 1000 Negroes on the voting books. The impetus of the new federal voting law has more than matched that total in three days. The grand dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, Robert Creel of Bessemer, saw the new law as an aid to segregationists. He said the Klan will try to get "every white illiterate registered to vote." # Red Ship Tips Off Viet Raids HONOLULU, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Russian trawler which has been a fixture three miles off the entrance of Guam's Apra harbor since December apparently is providing Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam with early warnings of B52 raids launched from Guam. # Greek King Mulls Coalition Cabinet ATHENS, Aug. 11 (UPI)--King Constantine may seek the formation of a coalition government to break the political deadlock which has kept Greece in turmoil for a month, informed sources said today. The 25-year-old monarch was expected to confer with politicians later today, but the Royal Palace refused comment on the report. Stephen Stephanopoulos, a member of the majority Center Union, appeared to be enough support in parliament. A coalition appeared to be Constantine's last chance for a solution during the current parliament. The only two legal alternatives left to the king are to call for new elections or to appoint a caretaker government. # Held for Kidnap of 2 Women Long Beach police booked a 21-year-old man early today on charges of kidnapping two women and holding them captive for several hours. He was identified as Bonito Estarpa, of 11417 E. 212th St., Lakewood. Officers said he released both his victims later. A committee of the state's tomato growers has approved a plan to keep the state's tomato harvest in the hands of domestic workers. The panel, meeting behind closed doors at the Fairmont, suggested that the 10,000 braceros be imported during the week of September 12. An additional 4000 will follow a week later, according to the recommendation. This was the largest proposed importation of foreign field hands since the bracero program expired last December. It was believed growers had asked for 13,850 foreign workers. LESS THAN '64 The 8000 Mexican nationals === Page 9 of 38 WHERE TO GO..........WHAT TO SEE..........WHERE TO STAY! COMPLIMENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT # This Week # ON THE GULF COAST No. 28, Vol. 11, July 11, 1964 # Take One FREE Published By KOVACE'S GULF COAST PROMOTION AGENCY GLendale 2-2634 or 2-9036, Pass Christian, Miss. LITA MARIE... Beautiful Songstress Appearing Now Nitely # Gus Stevens SHOW PLACE OF THE GULF COAST FOOD ★ FUN ★ FROLIC ALL AT ONE STOP WEST BEACH BLVD. ● HWY. 90 ● BILOXI NOW PLAYING THE MAVERICKS Featuring FREDA JULY 6 - JULY 15 ★ HOMER and JETHRO JULY 16 - JULY 25 ★ FOUR MINTS AUGUST Last Chance... LAST WEEK! Playing Thru July 12 Only PLENTY OF SEATING NITELY Jerry Van Dyke MOVIE & TV STAR THROUGH JULY 12 # Gus Stevens ★ See Inside For Other Attractions ★ 08/08/2025 15:21 === Page 10 of 38 SEVEN DAYS A WEEK! OPEN DAILY 10 A. M. to 9 P. M. Hiway. 90--5 miles east OCEAN SPRINGS Watch for the 8 Flags ALG. KELLY AND MILLER Bros. OVER 150 ANIMALS On exhibit including Elephants, Lions, Leopards, Emu, Anteater, Panthers, Rhinoceros, Boas, Hippopotamus, Llamas CIRCUS ZOO-FUN PARK LION ACTS...TRAINED BEARS PERFORM DAILY * * * See Animals Trained Plus...Trained Elephants, Llamas, Ponies and MISS REBECCA--on the Spanish Web. NEW ARRIVAL--DON'T MISS IT... PASHA BABY LEOPARD FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY AT THE PARK ADULTS 50c CHILDREN 25c Bring Your Camera Free Picnic Ground-- Playground Special guided tours by BIPPO, the Clown === Page 11 of 38 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST # OUTSTANDING ATTRACTIONS ## See All Five! ATTRACTIONS ON HIGHWAY 90 BILOXI TO GULFPORT ### SIGHTSEEING TOURS ON LAND AND WATER **SHRIMP TOUR TRAIN** LEAVES BILOXI LIGHTHOUSE 6 TIMES DAILY Including Sundays Leaves at 9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12 Noon 1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Sightsee historic old Biloxi and modern Keesler AFB aboard this 64-passenger Choo-Choo 50-minute narrated 10-mile tour. **HARBOR QUEEN** COME ABOARD, MATES! SEE THREE HARBORS IN JUST ONE HOUR! Seagoing sightseers board the Harbor Queen at Marine Life Pier in Gulfport. See huge foreign ships, yachts, shrimp and pleasure boats. Charter Moonlite cruises. Leaves at 9 a.m., 10:30, 12 Noon, 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m. ### "WONDERS OF THE SEA!" OPEN DAILY 9-6 WORLD'S LARGEST MARINE TANK New Porpoise Stadium. See the educated porpoises and seals perform a thrilling act every hour. See sharks, long nose sawfish, eels, sting rays, giant sea turtles and other exotic sea life just inches from your eyes! Watch the porpoises frolic! Stay as long as you like. **MARINE LIFE** On the beach... GULFPORT, MISS. MIDWAY BETWEEN GULFPORT AND BILOXI HIGHWAY 90 # Deer Ranch Excitement and fun on the free sleigh ride to the Deer Ranch to and from the Friendship House. You'll be amazed and thrilled to hand feed, pet and photograph tame deer and stroll among the herds of many species of beautiful deer. No fence between you and the tame deer. BOTH INCLUDED IN ONE ADMISSION # SIX GUN JUNCTION # GHOST TOWN ACTION Shoot Outs every hour! GLAMORous Can-Can Girls in the Red Dog Saloon! EXCITEMENT at this authentic Western Town. OPEN DAILY 9 a.m. til dark. Catch the Deer Ranch Sleigh or Western Wagon at the Friendship House or drive back to the free parking lot. === Page 12 of 38 SELECT from wooded, waterfront sites or choice, exclusive lots along the beautiful, 18-holes, rolling PASS CHRISTIAN COURSE, with year-round golfing. PHONE GLENDALE 2-9036 or 2-2634 # Pass Christian Isles This beautifully planned Community is the de luxe living area of the entire Gulf Coast. Each year more beautiful homes are built ... each spring the gardens are more gorgeous ... and each year more land is made available to folks who want to live where all utilities and roads are available at the homesite. Artesian water, gas, electricity, telephone and mail delivery have been in use for years at Pass Christian Isles--there's no "pioneering" or waiting. DRIVE OVER THIS WEEK END Homesites ONLY $59.50 down and 12.58 MONTHLY === Page 13 of 38 BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH Daily: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. FROM 90¢ TO $1.50 Regular Dinners Every Evening: 5 to 9 p.m. Specializing in Choice Seafood FRESH LA. OYSTERS AT THE BAR Beautiful New Private DINING ROOM For Club Meetings and Private Social Functions Buena Vista Motel Restaurant NITELY feature at Broadwater Beach's Trophy Room season-star is Bob Walters at the Hammond organ. KELLY-Miller Circus at permanent quarters just east of Ocean Springs has a five-ton trained hippo on daily show. FINAL Seaway water link with Bays of Biloxi and St. Louis is being contracted by Jahncke Service of New Orleans. FABULIERS dance combo returns by popular toast, to the Sugar Shack, W. Beach, Biloxi. VISIT SHIP ISLAND and Historic Civil War Fort Massachussets PAN AMERICAN CLIPPER and the ALL New PAN AMERICAN Enjoy a Glorious Half Day or All Day of FUN SURF BATHING • FISHING | LEAVE | DAILY | RETURN | |---|---|---| | 8:30 A.M. | | 12:30 P.M. | | 2:00 P.M. | | 6:30 P.M. | GULFPORT • Pan American Clipper SMALL CRAFT HARBOR BY MARINE LIFE TURN AT MARINE LIFE SIGN • HWY. 90 • GULFPORT ADULTS CHILDREN Call Now PHONE ID 2-2197 • NITE ID 6-6010 BILOXI • Pan American 2 DOORS EAST OF BUENA VISTA BEACH MOTEL CENTRAL BEACH • HIGHWAY 90 • BILOXI THE ONLY EXCURSION BOATS TO SHIP ISLAND Monkey FARM DARLING PET MONKEY $18.50 SEE . . MONKEY FARM . . EXHIBITS Hiway 90 - Mississippi City - Teagarden JUST WEST OF FAIRCHILD'S MOTEL * SEE - - Half Monkey, Half Bird * SEE - - Giant Chinese Dragon * SEE - - Baby Alligators * SEE & PLAY with Our Baby Monkeys Fun for Children and Adults! Phone 863-9178 Baby Monkeys: $18.50 Each ---------- === Page 14 of 38 PISTACHE Welcomes You .......... Thru Midnite BENNY FRENCH'S VISIT WITH US . . . # Bennie French's Tavern ---The King of Mixed Drinks Now Back at the Old Location . . . OLD HIWAY 90 HENDERSON POINT, Miss. Completely Remodeled Seafood & Chicken Specials Daily ## Welcome Suh! # CONFEDERATE INN Restaurant • Motel "Center of Southern Hospitality" where the Five Flags Fly on the Beach Midway between Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi ! SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER CONFEDERATE INN CONFEDERATE INN Mail: 2300 Beach Drive, Mississippi City, Mississippi Telephone: Gulfport UN 3-6565 # The Mermaid Club P R E S E N T I N G . . . NEWEST SHOW ON THE COAST! JOHNNY KING . . . M-C Songs and Comedy! GINA KING . . . Musical Variety Act Songs, Dances, Antics TERRY NEWTON . . . Exotic Rhythms JANET LAMARR . . . Dance Artiste JOHNNY KING NOW PLAYING . . . Formerly The Gold Key Lounge . . . On the Beach - - WEST BEACH, Biloxi Strip === Page 15 of 38 You will enjoy fishing at the # FISHING ARENA OPEN 6 AM TO 10 PM THE FISHING ARENA OFFERS you good fishing in "Living Room" Comfort * AIR CONDITIONED * COMPLETE BAIT AND TACKLE SHOP * SNACK BAR Leroy Hay, Prop. LOCATED JUST OVER POPPS FERRY BRIDGE PLENTY OF FREE PARKING DAILY Biloxi-Gulfport Amusement Park 25 ATTRACTIONS Free Ground Admissions Free Parking On The Beach At Pat Harrison Avenue Between Biloxi And Gulfport In The Heart Of Activity * Open 9 a.m. to Midnight Every Day * Special Rates To Birthday Parties, Schools and Church Groups Dial ID 2-8946 DU - SAY'S FOR PETS WE Invite You to Visit One of the Country's Finest Pet Shops...Where You Will Find a Large Assortment of the Most Moderately Priced Canine and Feline Accessories to the Very Latest Luxury Accoutrements. TAKE BACK with You the Items You Cannot Find at Home--Or We We Will Gladly Mail "FAMOUS FOR PETS SINCE 1928" - DU - SAY'S Edgewater Plaza Shopping City, US90 ********** THE NEW # SA-WHEN CLUB WEST BEACH, BILOXI.. Between the Broadwater Beach & Belaire Motel PRESENTS DICK CALDWELL AND THE CELEBRITIES Continuous Entertainment DANCING... ON OUR LARGE FLOOR FLOOR SHOWS Late, Late, Latest Show on the Coast! NOW PLAYING West Beach Continuous Entertainment THE CELEBRITIES Versatile & Exciting VORHABEN TWINS Coast Favorites Open to the Wee Small Hours BILOXI ********** === Page 16 of 38 W. Beach Biloxi # SHOW CLUB W. Beach Biloxi ## Greatest Show On The Gulf 9 P.M. Continental Style THE FANTASTIC **BOGARDE'** And LOVELLA "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" . . . FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! . . . FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN T.V. SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! ### SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! * Others In The Show Include Camile, The Pocket Size Edition Of Jane Russell. Bunny Holiday Dancing The Way Her Mother Never Taught Her. Carla and Honey Bare You Can't Afford To Miss . . . BUNNY HOLIDAY Daring Doer ********** CARLA KNIGHT . . DARLING Dancer CAMILLE . . . Tiny Tripper HONEY BARE . . . Petite Posture === Page 17 of 38 ★ FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 2 FINE RESTAURANTS TO SERVE YOU ★ COFFEE SHOP 24 HOURS A DAY FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT GUS STEVENS RESTAURANT SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & BUCCANEER SUPPER CLUB U. S. HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN BILOXI AND GULFPORT Continuous Entertainment and Dancing GUS STEVENS • HENDERSON POINT Restaurant and Lounge One Block East of Bay St. Louis Bridge at Caution Light To and From New Orleans It's the Best Place to Eat Farm Fresh Food direct from Our Farm to You LUNCH 70¢ & 80¢ • DINNER $1.25-1.50 and up COMPLETE BREAKFAST 75¢ Telephone ID 2-2574 8 oz. FILET MIGNON $2.50 With Baked Potato & Salad Telephone 452-7563 THE MAVERICKS . . . Featuring Freda Here Thru July 15 FAMOUS GUS STEVENS SHISHKABOB DINNER: $2.95 BILOXI SUPPER CLUB SHOWS NITELY! HERE JULY 17-25 ★ HOMER AND JETHRO TV Shows: Perry Como, Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Ern. Ford, Tonight, Chevy, Breakfast Club, Jimmy Dean. HOMER AND JETHRO Kellogg Corn Flake Song Butchers; Stone Age Beatles on RCA DANCING AT BILOXI: BENNY CLEMENT & His Band Song Stylist BETTY FARMER MONIQUE DUVAL . . . Nitely at Henderson Point Piano - Lounge JOE LAGANO . . . Gus' Discovery--Makes you cry when he sings NOW PLAYING gus stevens === Page 18 of 38 YOUR DRUG HEADQUARTERS... Welcome to... Clark's Drug Store DRUGS & ACCESSORIES For Beach, Home, Car Just One Block South Of the Hwy. 90 Light PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY PHONE TR 5-4311 OCEAN SPRINGS MARINE ROOM WAYNE HEFNER TV Personality: Piano & Song Stylist, Nitely IN BILOXI'S SMARTEST The Buena Vista Hotel and Motel TIDES: (Geod. Surv.) BILOXI BAY Add 3 1/2 Hrs. for Bay St. Louis: | HIGH | LOW | Ft. Diff. | |---|---|---| | Fri. 10 10:31am | 10:17pm | 2.8 | | Sat. 11 11:27am | 11:01pm | 2.4 | | Sun. 12 12:19pm | 11:35pm | 2.1 | | Mon. 13 1:09pm | 11:42pm | 1.5 | | Tue. 14 1:56pm | 11:15pm | 1.1 | | Wed. 15 2:18pm | 10:04pm | 0.7 | | Thu. 16 5:40am | 7:46pm | 0.8 | * * * SOME people treat an affection with alcohol. * * * SAILORS spend their hitch in trying to turn over a new leave. * * * CHURCHES try to change the flower of night-hood into a Sunday Morning Glory. * * * A full-groan divorce can start with a pain in the necking. * * * THE best treatment here for deepsea fish bites is a yank -- with money. * * * THE doom of many an official starts with a tight squeeze around the waste. * * * DRINKING your way out of a tight situation looses the way -- as you get tighter. * * * A political party's greatest fear is to come up with dead vote batteries. * * * DON'T put pressure on soft soap. * * * ********** FOR RENT: Furn. Beach Cottage, Henderson Pt. Sleeps 8; $50 week; GL2-2634. ********** ''FRENCHIE'' BOURGEOIS, OWNER VISITORS WELCOME! Open 3 p.m. "Till" Good Food Fine Drink FRENCHIE'S FINE FOODS SPECIALIZING IN LOUISIANA STYLE DISHES ''PREPARED BY ORDERS'' WEST PORTER AVE. FOUR BLOCKS FROM BRIDGE DIAL 875-9255 OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS === Page 19 of 38 JOHN BELL'S CUSTOM-TAILORED CLOTHES FROM HONG KONG! # LUCILLE'S ORIENTAL GIFT SHOP LUCILLE HORNSBY Owner Phone 432-2268 SUN N' SAND MOTEL Biloxi, Miss. P.O. Box No. 837 TOYS GIFTS JEWELRY BAGS - HATS BEACHWEAR **Hugo's Italian Restaurant** PORTER AND DIVISION ID 6-9463 Biloxi, Miss. Where Eating's a Treat Instead of a Necessity SPECIALIZING IN ITALIAN FOODS AND PIZZAS ALSO CHINESE & MEXICAN FOODS **YOUNG'S OASIS** **Pure Oil Stop** US90 LONG BEACH, PH. 863-9537 OPEN 8 am to 10:30 pm 7 Days/Week SUPPLIER OF SNACKS AND SUNDRIES: Ice Cream, Beer, Package Goods, Drugs, Gifts, Souvenirs, Groc., Books & Beach Accessories U NAME IT...WE HAVE IT! **SURF BOWL-A-RAMA** MAKE A DATE TO BOWL TONIGHT FOR INFORMATION CALL 432-0366 **Shearwater Pottery** East Beach Road Ocean Springs, Miss. A Visit to Shearwater is a Delightful Experience! TURN SOUTH AT THE U.S. 90 LITE ...Follow the Suggested Route HOLIDAY on Ice of 1964 runs thru July 14 at Mobile's new municipal auditorium. * * * MONKEY Farm in Miss. City is displaying a half-monkey and half-bird creature. * * * Open 11 to 11 ONLY GENUINE MEXICAN FOODS **EL TORO** W. Beach, Biloxi **PASS RD. GOLF RANGE** 16 Driving Stalls - No Wait Open Daily: Lites to 9 p.m. PASS & JIMMONEY RDS., BILOXI **Tony's Spaghetti House and Pizzeria** OCEAN SPRINGS "The House of Taste Thrills" SERVING FROM 11 A.M. 'TIL 11 P.M. HIWAY 90 AT 2ND TRAFFIC SIGNAL Open To Midnite Fri. & Sat. FAMOUS ITALIAN RECIPES AGED KANSAS CITY STEAKS • SEAFOOD For Carry-Out Food Call TR5-9257 Diners From Far And Near Know # TRILBY'S There's no food quite like they serve it at this unique, small restaurant. That's why Gulf Coast visitors for 25 years have gone miles out of their way to enjoy a luncheon or dinner at TRILBY'S. Try it today... you'll see why! TRILBY'S is small and intimate, so it's best to reserve. Call TR 5-4426 ON HIGHWAY 90 AT OCEAN SPRINGS Serving 12 to 2 and 5 to 10 CLOSED MONDAYS === Page 20 of 38 This Week MISS. ON THE GULF COAST LA. PICAYUNE U.S. HIGHWAY 11 DARWOOD HOLLY BLUFF GARDENS ON-THE-JORDAN SLIDELL PEARL RIVER MISS. 43 JORDAN RIVER KILN ROAD Ocean Springs THEODORE MISS. Long Beach Miss. City U.S. HIGHWAY 90 NEW ORLEANS U.S. 90 BAY ST. LOUIS WAVELAND PASS CHRISTIAN GULFPORT BILOXI PASCAGOULA BELLIN GAR GULF OF MEXICO IIIIIIIIII SHIP AHOY LOUNGE SEAFOOD IN ROUGH Featuring Daily... BOILED SHRIMP All You Can Eat $1.25 Mgr. And Owner Arthur Quave 400 Central Beach-Biloxi Welcome to... Kathy's BAMBOO LOUNGE & The Blacklite Alcove! ... Just West of the Arch WEST BEACH, BILOXI GREAT Bogarde and hypnotic with a knife-throwing clin headline the Show Club vai billing, W. Beach, Biloxi. ... ... ... JOHNNY and Gina King top a all-girlie show at Mermai converted to the newest st on the Coast from Gold Ke W. Beach, Biloxi. ... ... ... CREOLE Room, Hotel Biloxi, features the Nocturns, nit ... ... ... SERVICEMEN WELCOME! Enjoy a Friendly Evening at BERNIE'S Tropics Lounge W. BEACH, BIL TRADE WINDS Hotel Court East Beach Biloxi Restaurant And Dining Room Tuesday Night $1.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT $1.00 FRIED CHICKEN French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick or SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE Hot Rolls, Corn Stick STEAK SPECIAL Special 12 Oz. Bone-In Strip Sirloin French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick $1.49 Foods under supervision of Chef Burt Marsland. The Plantation Room is now available for Private Dinner Parties, large or small. Contact Miss Linda Johnson, Catering Manager, ID 5-2331. TRADE WINDS Hotel Court East Beach, Biloxi Restaurant And Dining Room FRIDAY NIGHT AS ADVERTISED $1.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT $1.00 SHRIMP ALA CREOLE Steamed Rice, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick OR FRIED SNAPPER STEAK French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick STEAK SPECIAL $1.49 Special 12-oz. Bone In Strip Sirloin French Fried Potatoes, Hot Rolls, Corn Stick === Page 21 of 38 # PEPPERMINT LOUNGE HARRISON AVE., BILOXI NOW PLAYING. . . For Listening or Dancing: ROYAL DUKES. . . Band Nitely Except Monday # PEPPERMINT LOUNGE PAT HARRISON AVE., BILOXI Added Attraction: vocalist. . . "THE JACKIE WILSON OF THE COAST" # SUGAR SHACK WEST BEACH, BILOXI . . . Just E. of Belaire Motel Appearing Nitely THE FABULIERS Greatest Sound of Music Come Early. . .Stay Late Open Daily. . . 2 p.m. - 6 a.m. MIKE BILL ROD RALPH Your Hostesses: BETTY & JACKIE === Page 22 of 38 Enjoy Yourself at... ---------- PATIO ROOMS BY HEATED POOL # Emerald Beach Motel BEACHFRONT ROOMS RESTAURANT OPEN NITELY "TILL" LOUNGE SERVING 6AM TO 11PM ...On the Strip...W.Beach, Biloxi * Business Men's Lunch Daily * Regular Dinners Every Eve., 5 - 9pm * Private Dining Rooms Overlooking Patio For Club Meetings & Social Functions. Relax and Listen to Musical Selections From the Repertoire of... HERBY HOLEMAN And His Baldwin Orchestra of One... In the Intimacy of Our Lounge. ---------- OPEN 8am-2am "The Spaghetti and Pizza King of the Gulf Coast" **TONY'S SPAGHETTI HOUSE & PIZZERIA** Steaks, Seafood, Chicken We Box Everything To Go 101 Central Beach, Biloxi CALL ID 6-9885 ---------- SEA GULL MOTEL, W. Beach, Biloxi; AAA Recommended - Pool - Phones, TV Rooms with or without Kitchenettes. TONY'S Spaghetti House on the new US90 in Ocean Springs has been joined by a new neighbor -- the newest Winn Dixie here. * * * MARIE Murial, popular entertainer, returns to the Coast for a limited engagement at Magnolia Room of Paradise Point Restaurant in Miss. City. Marie was a protege of Xavier Cugat. * * * NICK & LELL Restaurant and Lounge HICKORY-SMOKED HAM STEAKS - CHOPS - APPLE PIE U.S. 90 - 12 MILES WEST OF BAY ST. LOUIS COMIC Danny Rogers and singer-josher Jules Savoy head up an unusually big show at the Gay Paree, W. Beach, Biloxi. * * * RONALD E. HALE TREE SERVICE Complete Tree Service - Landscaping GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI Telephone 864-6457 T-V personality Jerry Van Dyke winds up his current stay and zany show at Gus Stevens here on Sunday--don't miss him. * * * # Plantation Restaurant 115 East Beach (Scenic Drive) Pass Christian Phone GL 2-7466 OPEN DAILY 6 A.M.-12 P.M. "JACKIE Wilson" of the Coast is an added attraction with the Royal Dukes at Peppermint's big dance palace, Harrison, Biloxi. * * * Int'l. Sterling Table Silver 25% Off BRIDAL WREATH PATTERN; Cutlery; Phone GLendale 2-2889 Evenings .......... # Pass Christian Isles On the Beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast EASY TERMS - NEW WATERFRONT SITES JUST OPENED easy living === Page 23 of 38 W. Beach Biloxi # GAY PAREE W. Beach Biloxi Coast's Largest & Finest Floor Shows DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM # ★ DANNY ROGERS ★ Star of Broadway, Stage, Screen & T.V. Walter Winchell's "Favorite Comic" | NIGHT LIFE | SHOW TIME | |---|---| | **BEN BLUE'S**-- | **ED SULLIVAN SHOW** | | Hollywood | | | **THE DUNES**-- | **STEVE ALLEN SHOW** | | Las Vegas | | | **STORK CLUB**-- | **MILTON BERLE SHOW** | | London | | | **EDENROC**-- | **JOHNNY CARSON SHOW** | | Miami Beach | | | **ELEGANTE**-- | **TALENT SCOUTS** | | New York City | | # ★ JULES SAVOY ★ Song and Comedy Stylist | PLUS | | PLUS | |---|---|---| | **Beverly Bartell** | | **Carmen Jean Roland** | | **Maya Nejema** | | **Bob Wiley** | | NO DOOR CHARGE | NO COVER CHARGE | |---|---| HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND # ★ CARLOS AND LINDA ★ TED CAMPBELL'S ORCHESTRA Don't Miss This Show -- Nations Top Comic--Plus Beautiful Girls MAKES A GALA REVIEW === Page 24 of 38 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 B31 Jerry Gaghan # Madlyn Has Hopes She's Found Home VIVACIOUS NEWCOMER to the legitimate theater is Madlyn Rhue, who will make her first Broadway try in the new Gwen Davis comedy "The Best Laid Plans," which premieres at the Walnut, Tuesday. "I've already gotten one fringe benefit from my stage career," she said. "I have a home in California, but I was having a terribly difficult time finding an apartment in New York. Our director Paul Bogart had been separated from his wife; but they reconciled. He moved back home turning over his vacated apartment to me. Now everybody's happy." Miss Rhue's costar in "Plans" will be British actor Edward Woodward. Incidentally, it's also a first Broadway attempt for Bogart. "I've been waiting a long time for a good Broadway part," Madlyn said during a rehearsal break. "I'm positive that this is it. At least, I was positive enough to turn down some well paying TV offers just to join with this very funny show." Her first Broadway try notwithstanding, Madlyn is no novice in the acting department. She has an impressive list of some 150 TV show credits "which run the gamut" and a dozen pictures including "Operation Petticoat," "Ladies Man," "A Majority of One," etc. But she is proudest of the critical notices she received as Gittel Mosca in "Two for the Seesaw," at the Civic Playhouse, in L.A. She is also proud of a collection of some 300 hats, most of which have been left in California. "I will only be able to bring 50 of them to Philadelphia with me," the actress lamented. ![MADLYN ... lucky start] MADLYN ... lucky start PEOPLE IN PLACES: Jack Jones, currently headlining at the Latin Casino, is slated to star on the Bell Telephone Hour's St. Valentine Day show. He gets an ABC-TV special of his own, April 5 . . . Police Inspector John Driscoll will be receiving congrats from all levels tomorrow at 24th & Wolf. The day marks his 39th year on the force . . . Al Fisher, United Artists Pictures publicity chief, and Cathy Tallo, a secretary in UA's home office, will be a Saturday merger in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y. . . . Don Young, the singing-bandleader, is making his debut appearance at Wagner's Ballroom . . . Record promotion man Joe Campellone, who switched from Verve to the Phillips division of Mercury, flew to the Chicago main office for a briefing . . . Sam Scott, program director at Camden's WCAM and a staff member since 1952, has resigned to become executive director of the Philadelphia Hearing Society. === Page 25 of 38 SHOPPER'S SPECIAL: Blonde Greta Thyssen brightened up a "fashion first" in the new fabric department at Klein's Boulevard store during the snowfall yesterday. A former "Miss Denmark" by virtue of her fulsome (39-20-35) endowments, Miss Thyssen was on hand with Loren C. Shockley and a flock of McCrory and Klein executives to cut the ribbon that officially opened the sewing and fabric section. "I made this dress I'm wearing," said Greta proudly, swiveling to demonstrate her "multi-colored printed organdy." It seemed to fit right well. "I am not giving up acting to become a seamstress," she added. "Not going that far. But I like to sew--it's part of the schooling of every girl in Denmark." TV and movies keep her commuting to Hollywood, but she calls New York "home." Her tour for the store chain is to call to the attention of femme shoppers how easy it is to follow fashion trends on a "do-it-yourself" basis. "I just finished a picture--'Double Barreled Detective Story'. It's a combination spy and western plot and spoofs both. We hope it will be another 'Cat Ballou'." REPORTER AT LARGE: The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's five performance series here (May 9) will be sponsored by the Golden Slipper Square Club in conjunction with Philadelphia Philanthropies. The Met will launch its return to the Academy with "Madame Butterfly." . . . Frank Teodori (Dori's) is back from Florida with not much tan but a four-foot bull dolphin to be mounted. Frank noticed one side effect of Vietnam in the cabana club at Miami Beach's Eden Roc. A Dow Jones ticker is at poolside so bathers can keep tabs on stock market fluctuations . . . The Saxony East's Paul King went to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun and golf and wound up belting snow balls. It was the worst storm in 50 years for the South Carolina resort . . . Bill Mulhern, former eastern regional manager of Kapp Records and more recently g.m. for the Jamie-Guyden Corp., has joined A & M Records as director of eastern operations. One of his first chores will be opening a local office for the label. === Page 26 of 38 1/9/66 # Well, It Would Have Snowed, Except . . . Continued From First Page 32, and all we got was .77 inches of rain. Weather men calculate that the amount of precipitation to produce an inch of rain will produce about ten inches of snow. Last week we escaped two major snowfalls, on Sunday and Thursday, each of which would have ranged from five to six inches. On Sunday, however, the average temperature was 45 degrees, 13 above the normal of 32, and on Thursday it was 42, 10 above normal. The fourth big snow we didn't get was on Dec. 13. It would have been nearly ten inches except that the average temperature was 47, 13 degrees above normal. Another factor, in the snowless season, Stallard said, is that the major storms have been passing to the north through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Valley, rather than the Middle Atlantic States. We have had three light snow flurries scattered about Greater Philadelphia, Stallard said. The first was on Oct. 28 and the others Dec. 15 and 21. # Warm Weather Helped Cit Miss 4 Snows in a Month Philadelphia has had a snowless winter so far and you can blame it on the heat, not the humidity. In fact, we could have had four "significant" snow storms by now if it hadn't been unseasonably warm. That is the word from Glenn Stallard, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau here. "Fortunate," he calls it, but that isn't the way kids with new sleds look at it. **Nonwhite Christmas** On Christmas Day, for example, the city could very well have been blanketed with an eight-inch snow. But the average temperature was 54 degrees, 22 degrees above the normal average of Continued on Page 12, Col. 7 HECK! IT'S JUST SOME CONFETTI! I've clobbered Phila!!! === Page 27 of 38 Read this - They criticize me for using THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, # Vietnam Villagers Suffer Dea By JOHN T. WHEELER BA GIA, Vietnam, July 18 (AP). -- The wailing of women and the stench of burned bodies greeted the column of troops as they marched wearily into Ba Gia. They were searching for a Vietcong force which earlier had overrun a nearby Government strong point. It turned out the search was fruitless. Four men carrying a pallet with a wounded man stared hatefully at American advisers accompanying the Vietnamese marines, seeming to accuse the Americans of the death and destruction. Sitting in the middle of a dirt road was a woman cradling a baby and flanked by two other small children. Her cries of anguish caused some of the Vietnamese troops to turn aside. Surveying the shattered stucco and bamboo homes and the machine-gunned Catholic Church, one U. S. adviser said: "That's why we are going to lose this stupid damn war. Senseless, it's just senseless." Ba Gia, with a high percentage of Catholics, was considered a progovernment village. It was hit three days running with AP Wirephoto Weeping woman cradles baby as South Vietnamese troops enter village of Ba Gia in search of Vietcong who had overrun Government strongpoint. 08/08/2025 15:36 === Page 28 of 38 Against U.S. Govt. in Viet Nam!! MONDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1965 adh* 3 # th and Terror Meant for Reds bombs, rockets and cannon fire from American and Vietnamese fighter bombers. The first time was after the nearby outpost, headquarters of the 51st Regiment, was overrun by the Vietcong and two 105 mm howitzers taken. The second time was following an attack the next night. The third, as an American Air Force officer expressed it, was an insurance measure to clear the way for Government troops moving back into the area in a sweep to try to catch the Vietcong. The sweep was launched some 24 hours after the Vietcong regiment had pulled out of the area, one American adviser said later. Because the 51st Regiment was under strength due to previous maulings at the hands of the Vietcong and because Vietnamese troops normally fail to patrol aggressively and set out night ambushes, the Vietcong had been able to come into the village in strength. The villagers risked torture and death for themselves and their families if they tried to warn the outpost. So Ba Gia, like countless other villages in Vietnam, was caught in the middle and paid a terrible price, not for its politics but its physical location. A marine corpsman patched up wounded villagers and as the troops bedded down for the night villagers carried one body on a candlelit bamboo bed to the cemetery. Asked how many had been killed and wounded, villagers shrugged and replied "many." The next morning, a Vietnamese captain walked into the still smoldering ruins of one house. Hanging from a doorway that had survived were scorched flags and decorations. The captain fingered them pensively and said they were wedding decorations. A U. S. Air Force spokesman at Saigon, in commenting on air strikes in general, pointed out that targets are selected by Vietnamese commanders and that American strikes are only fulfilling requests from an ally. authors on his measure. Involved in the maneuvering is the issue of city vs. rural political strength. The National Conference of Mayors opposes the amendment because it would open a detour around the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision, which would increase the strength of the cities in many legislatures. If the liberals can stall off action this year, they believe that so many legislatures will have been reapportioned on a population basis by court orders in 1966 that there would be diminished pressure on Senators to support the proposed amendment. # it Birchers hower Slur P). - Denison Kitchel, who di- olican Presidential campaign, the John Birch Society. ed Miller from the very start." Kitchel said his membership LIT BROTH === Page 29 of 38 To my loved children, Lorrie and Harvey, who were with me when it happened The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3, 1965 Rainmaker Offers City a Real Storm For Only $10,000 By HENRY R. DARLING Of The Bulletin Staff A rainmaker has come to Philadelphia. He says he'll break the drought for $10,000--a bargain rate. "I'd want $50,000 to do it in New York," he said. He's been here since the first of July. He said he whomped up the big storm that hit the city the weekend of July 11--remember? -- the first and only soaking rain we've had since December. "It wasn't easy," he noted. "I had to work on it for more than a week." Working on it, he said, requires a combination of parapsychology and "some things my grandfather told me about the way the Apache Indians used to make rain." The rainmaker is a slightly balding, well-fed man in his middle 40s with a pleasant smile and an engaging personality. Ted Owens **Knife-Thrower in Circus** His name is Ted Owens and he was once a professional knife-thrower with the circus. "I'm probably the best knife-thrower in the country," he said, modestly. He wrote a letter to The Bulletin as soon as he arrived in the city and said he was working on a big rainstorm. He wrote another letter after the storm hit, pointed out that he had made everybody happy, and explained why: "I live here now and I do not like hot, dry weather. Therefore Philadelphia will be wetter and cooler than the rest of the U. S. this summer. The people here are lucky . . ." He also said he was working on another storm for Philadelphia for the next weekend. The rain came, a bit north of producing storms to the government. **Turned Down by Government** He took all three briefcases along to prove his point. But, he said, he couldn't make the right contacts. Since the government didn't want his information for free, he decided to try at least to make a living out of it. He said he came to Philadelphia because it is in the center of the present drought area and he wanted to interest some big cities in buying his services. He was reluctant to explain just how he went about producing a storm--not that there was any big secret to it, he said, but because it is a complicated business. Visual Imagery === Page 30 of 38 the city, but enough to produce a good downpour here and .8 of an inch in Montgomery County. Letter Arrives The letter came the next day--Monday, July 19. "Well, I told you," wrote the rainmaker. "You just enjoyed my storm which I referred to in my letter. I was right there in Rittenhouse Square yesterday, calling down the storm and especially the lightning, which is my trademark." He signed his name THE RAINMAKER, c-o Owens. He was finally located in a Spruce st. hotel. He said he was born in Indiana, has had 20 different "professions" besides knife throwing and studied extrasensory perception at Duke University. Says Combination Works He was living in Phoenix, Ariz. in 1963, he said, when he decided to try combining ESP with the Apache Indian rainmaking act. "The Indians had a good thing going but they didn't really know what they were doing," he said. "They thought they had to dance and take drugs and that sort of thing." To his surprise, the combination worked and he got "eight violent storms in five days," he said. He opened one of three well-stuffed briefcases and pulled out a folder containing newspaper clippings of each of the eight storms. The clippings were neatly pasted up, numbered and dated. "This proves it," he said. "The storms nearly wrecked that part of Arizona." Out House Hit One bolt of lightning hit his own house. He said he wasn't scared, "just amused." He moved to Los Angeles and said he produced some rainstorms which culminated in the big landslides of November, 1964. The rainmaker said he doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Pictures of storm damage--houses with the roofs blown off, automobiles wrecked by falling trees--bothered him at first. But he said he got used to them. He went to Washington, D. C. to try to explain his talent for "It's partly a matter of contacting the intelligence behind nature," he said. "It also involves imagery." To explain visual imagery, he took a piece of paper and wrote numbers from one to 20 down the left side. He handed the paper to an observer and told him to write down an object after each number, calling out the number and the object as he did so. 1. Umbrella. 2. Puddle. 3. Camera. 4. House. etc. Without looking at the paper, he read off the numbers and the objects, first going from one to 20; then from 20 back to one. He had the observer pick out numbers at random, and he called off the corresponding object. Then he had the observer call the objects and he gave their numbers. Maybe the rainmaker has just been lucky with storms. But there's certainly nothing wrong with his visual imagery. === Page 31 of 38 YOU SMARTY PANTS PROFESSORS LIKE OURS YEAH!! "I COULD JUST CURL UP AND SPIT!!" The Evening Bulletin PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 15, 1965 CHECK FOR $50,000 from the Kresge Foundation is presented to Dr. I. S. Ravdin (right), University of Pennsylvania vice president for medical affairs, by Glenn W. McClelland, manager of the S. S. Kresge & Co. store at Broad st. and Snyder av., at a ceremony in College Hall on the Penn campus. # Kresge Foundation Donates $50,000 to Medical School The Kresge Foundation today presented a check for $50,000 to the University of Pennsylvania toward a $7.7 million medical teaching and research to begin this fall at 36th st. and Hamilton walk, at the east end of the School of Medicine. Past gifts toward the building include $200,000 for the medical ... and two years ago 08/08/2025 15:41 === Page 32 of 38 # 'Flaming Ball' Crashes South of Pittsburgh, Sets Fires in 3 States Special to The Inquirer PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9.--A brilliant ball of fire which was seen streaking across seven States and Canada on Thursday night crashed into woods 20 miles south of here. Flaming objects falling from it touched off fires in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. The Army and State Police sealed off an area near Midland, Pa., on the Pennsylvania-Ohio border and another area in Lorain county, Ohio, where falling debris was reported. The areas were sealed with the explanation: "There is an unidentified flying object in the woods." The fireball was seen by airplane pilots and residents of Canada, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. **NOT MILITARY CRAFT** The Defense Department in Washington said first reports indicated the fireball was a natural phenomenon. A department spokesman said all military hardware--aircraft, missiles and the like--were accounted for. **FIRES NEAR CLEVELAND** The object apparently landed in woods near Kecksburg. Other early reports indicated it touched off a series of small grass fires in woods 20 miles south of Cleveland and deposited two "small stacks of shredded foil" in a swamp near Lapeer, Mich. Pentagon sources indicated they believed it was a meteorite. Dr. Paul Annear at Baldwin Wallace College said the object could have been a "bolide," a meteor which disintegrates while falling to earth. **DETROIT 'EXPLOSION'** Annear added that the large number of sightings by airplane pilots indicates considerable validity in the reports. Coast Guard officials reported from Windsor, Ont., that a flying object "exploded" over the Windsor-Detroit area. Pilots in the area saw a flash and felt shock waves on the fuselage of their planes. The Coast Guard reported that four vessels were dispatched onto Lake St. Clair but were unable to find any trace of the object. Pilots coming into Windsor said they saw the flash and felt the shock waves. A U. S. weather observer in Columbus, O., said he saw an object to the east which looked like a meteor. In Pennsylvania, State Police were swamped with calls about the "strange fiery object." The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., said it had recorded sighting of a "falling fir === Page 33 of 38 # 'Fireball' Lands Near Pittsburgh Continued from First Page or flashes of light in the sky. At Lapeer, searchers said they found two small stacks of foil within 10 feet of each other. Other foil was scattered over the swamp. Samples of the foil were sent to the Air Force for laboratory tests. Lapeer deputy sheriff Lenny Tolly said he found "about a peck" of foil in two piles. The foil appeared to be made of lead and was shredded in strips a sixteenth of an inch wide. Meanwhile, a boy reported seeing a flaming object fall from the sky into woods near his home on the outskirts of Cleveland. "I was in the back yard," the boy said, "when I glanced up and saw a fireball. It landed in the woods across the road and it had a funny smell." === Page 34 of 38 # Victim of the Storm ![A photograph showing the damaged exterior of a house with two women looking up at the roof.] -Herald-Examiner Photo A bolt of lightning ripped holes in this home, 653 Hagar St., San Fernando, causing fire which destroyed the roof and roof of the garage. Tenant Carrie McDowell (left) and owner Ella Cleland, survey damage. # Southland Jolted By Thunderbolts (Continued from Page 1) thunderstorm" seen in the area for years. Despite the showers, the city was in for its fourth straight day of 90 degree plus weather. And as a result of the rain, higher humidity readings made today even more uncomfortable though the high was predicted at 90, five degrees cooler than yesterday. Low temperature reading last night was 72 degrees with a much cooler and less humid 65 predicted for tonight. Humidity extremes ranged from a low of 36 per cent yesterday at 3 p.m. to a high of 76 per cent this morning at 4 a.m. === Page 35 of 38 # Bolt Causes Valley Fire, Power Failure (U.S. Weather, Tides D-3) Lightning, thunder and intermittent showers co-starred in an early morning spectacular over Southland skies early today disrupting power service and causing fires in many locations. Lightning bolts etched out crazy-quilt patterns and accompanying thunderbolts woke slumbering residents from the San Fernando Valley to Pomona and from Pasadena to Long Beach. From throughout the city came reports of interrupted power service and activated burglar alarm systems, all attributed to the storm. A bolt of lightning hit a palm tree near White Oak Avenue and Sherman Way in Van Nuys setting fire to the tree while another hit a power pole in the rear of the Van Nuys police station knocking out power there for a few minutes. ## HOUSE SET AFIRE A lightning-caused fire was blamed for damage to a house and garage at 653 Hagar St., San Fernando. Accompanying intermittent showers were held responsible for a chain of minor freeway accidents on the inbound San Bernardino Freeway on Pomona's Kellogg Hill, which were triggered when a garbage truck dumped part of its load and motorists swerved to avoid hitting the debris. West Valley officers on patrol in radio cars summed up the feelings of many persons when they reported to their watch commanders that is was "the best lightning and (Cont. on Page 10, Cols. 2-3) # Mystery Fireball Over L.A. An immense "fireball" which streaked across Southland skies and attracted professional attention from as far away as New Mexico today was tentatively believed to have been a meteorite. Federal Aviation Agency observers also said the object could have been a satellite collapsing in orbit and burning up in the earth's atmosphere. Official switchboards here and in Orange County reported sighting by hundreds of witnesses about 9:45 p.m. Delta, TWA and Bonanza Airline pilots landing here also reported they saw the ball of fire over the Los Angeles area when they were in the Grand Canyon area. The sight was logged in air control towers in China Lake, Edwards Air Force Base, Palmdale and Albuquerque. The gleaming object, trailing fire, "circled" the skies for about 15 minutes, one witness reported. === Page 36 of 38 -Herald-Examiner Photo by BUD GRAY NATURE'S ELECTRICAL FIREWORKS LOOKS DOWN ON CAPTIVE ELECTRICITY Edison plant on Tustin Blvd. in Orange is silhouetted against mammoth lightning flash 08/08/2025 15:44 === Page 37 of 38 # BOLTS 'n' JOLTS # Lightning, Thunder, Rain, Hit Southland FIREBALL in the sky adds to the display: Page 6. (U.S. Weather, Tides D-3) A weather smorgasbord of rolling thunder, blinding lightning and brief but drenching showers enlivened Southland skies early today but failed to keep the mercury out of the 90s. The thunderstorm system moved in from the Pacific about 2 a.m. but headed off for Oregon, leaving the temperature climbing toward a predicted high of 90 degrees. It was the fourth straight day in the 90s for suntanned Southern California. The pre-dawn thunderstorms which fanned all across the Los Angeles basin disrupted power service and started fires in many locations. Precipitation was measured at .01 inch at Civic Center. From throughout the city came reports of interrupted power service and activated burglar alarm systems, all attributed to the storm. A bolt of lightning hit a palm tree near White Oak Avenue and Sherman Way in Van Nuys setting fire to the tree while another hit a power pole in the rear of the Van Nuys police station knocking out power there for a few minutes. -Herald-Examiner Photo by BU **NATURE'S ELECTRICAL FIREWORKS LOOKS DOWN ON CAPTIVE ELECTRICITY** Edison plant on Tustin Blvd. in Orange is silhouetted against mammoth 08/08/2025 15:48 === Page 38 of 38 HOUSE SET AFIRE A lightning-caused fire was blamed for damage to a house and garage at 653 Hagar St., San Fernando. Accompanying intermittent showers were held responsible for a chain of minor accidents on the inbound San Bernardino Freeway on Pomona's Kellogg Hill, which were triggered when a garbage truck dumped part of its load and motorists swerved to avoid hitting the debris. West Valley officers on patrol in radio cars summed up the feelings of many persons when they reported to their watch commanders that is Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1960s Misc letters and clippings part 1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c7e25a505be12770dfedf7cd627b2e15.pdf f1405bc501834ca4bd86a5b389e1ff94 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5995043ac2ad8b357e064259c67e7a77.txt 943b27323a4fc810e59e184e21a15abf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Ted Owens packages received from Lori Rodriguez Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens packages received from Lori Rodriguez Description An account of the resource Ted Owens packages received from Lori Rodriguez https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b1c8386b4408f617817fed5509624fa3.pdf 82e870fba888121f438ea3edbe6728df https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a97c281f95c1ef2613552f6c91b22c53.txt a2d7c96377bba147dd7c9768ec857b3a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted Owens Letters to Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ae936ccfb1e4199e8d27eea26b02be6e.pdf 698b1a6b8837bbc6ed0e1807e08dd646 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f8a8f7322ea47c1b5f45bbaca1429270.txt 76c3cba600c791ee4bc9847da03da3ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters to Owens Children Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 # TED OWENS LETTERS TO CHILDREN # GENERAL LETTERS Jeff received week of July 14, 2025 11120 Bermuda Dunes, ABQ. Sent from Lori Rodriguez in Beaverton, Oregon. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 19, 2025 Majority written in 1965 and 1966 but were a couple of letters from 1970 and 1976. We received several different packages from Lori that contained Ted Owens letters to his children. As this was more of a general package of letters and covered several different dates, for organization purposes we will just call it general letters. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 5 BUNDLES OF PACKAGES **4 of 5** **1966** Jeffrey received 5 bundles of files in one package on Aug 15, 2025 in Albuquerque as part of Lori Rodriguez' Ted Owens letters to children files 1964 FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK === Page 2 of 2 NO CONTENT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Five Bundles of packages Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 2 5 BUNDLES OF PACKAGES **4 of 5** **1966** Jeffrey received 5 bundles of files in one package on Aug 15, 2025 in Albuquerque as part of Lori Rodriguez' Ted Owens letters to children files 1964 FLYING SAUCER INTELLIGENCE SPEAK === Page 2 of 2 NO CONTENT https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e9991112def9aa3eedcb966e29075568.pdf 1e0066971c7d5d748a4b7ae1b59ae165 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7addb3ff367413827193e76ab03f5e31.txt c8790a3a2a3e3508ad8883a0b0ecd8a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida, 33462 May 26, 1987 To Whom It May Concern: Ted Owens, both called and wrote to me well in advance of the Challenger disaster of January 1986. He told me that his SI's were going to destroy a shuttle and astronauts planning to go would do so at their own risk. The written message was before a previous shuttle launch, the phone message before the Challenger disaster. My wife was witness to the phone and written messages. He said he did not want to see loss of life but the SI's were determined that he, (Owens) should be paid heed to by the government of the United States, therefore, loss of life would not be ruled out. He also told me that U.S. Space Program was in for a tough time because his requests for an landing/communication base had never been taken seriously by anyone. It is a fact that the American space program went into its worst slump in history and has yet to pull out or even be competitive again. Mr. Owens has been keeping me informed of some of his activities. I have kept a substantial record of his letters and clipping since 1979. I neither confirm nor deny that he has the ability to control events through psychokinetic powers. Wayne H. Grover Journalist === Page 2 of 31 May 27, 1987 Dear Ted: Enclosed is the confirmation of your calls and letters to us concerning the Shuttle disaster. I know you tire of the constant derision and strain of trying to accomplish something you believe in. We must each take the path that calls us, yours seems more rocky than most. I know you believe in what you are trying to accomplish and to that end, I wish you success. You may be a man before your time and until time catches up, your cries may go unheeded. This planet must make some vital, permanent changes if we are to leave future generations a chance to survive into the coming centuries. Many thinking people see the problem, but cannot force change to move in a new and better direction. That you still try is a mark of how great your belief. When the pendulum swings far enough to one side, it must of natural law swing back to balance. That is our hope now for a better future. Good luck my friend.......... Ague === Page 3 of 31 Jeffrey (SEE NOTE) mountains red rays (very White Brite UFO) Blue rays two SILOS Field trees woods woods Field woods FIELD woods Note: UFOs telepathed weeks ago that they would appear on the night of the crescent moon. They did. swimming pool Our House (POWER WENT OUT) 10:40 PM 10/15/87 Teddy Owens === Page 4 of 31 At 10:40 PM on 10/15/87 I saw a very very bright, intense white light on the ground in back of our house. At the same time the lights in the house were flickering. I then yelled to my 2 brothers to come out and see it. Then this beam of white & blue light shot out into the air. While this was going on for 20 seconds the power went out. After the colored beams shot out, the U.F.O. just disappeared on the ground Beau Owens === Page 5 of 31 Ted Owens RT 149, RR 2 Box 2169 Fort Ann, N.Y. 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 reports...my UFOs brought in and, through tremendous They told me that they hat meshed with me. ason for bringing me and contacts and communication. that there are three UFOs us reasons of theirs). of what they have told me. s at all, from anyone. opeared over our barn rn containing 50 cows). hot only Beau. As you ey were seen by a scientist ens (PK Man) === Page 6 of 31 Thursday, July 30, 1987 SCIENTISTS As I have told you before in my reports...my UFOs brought me and my family here to Fort Ann and, through tremendous synchronicity, stopped us here. They told me that they had certain time windows here that meshed with me. They told me that their sole reason for bringing me and mine here was to make powerful contacts and communication. I have also told you in the past that there are three UFOs over me at all times (for various reasons of theirs). Herein is the documented proof of what they have told me. There can be no rebuttal on this at all, from anyone. Tuesday night two giant UFOs appeared over our barn (which is the Tom Fish dairy barn containing 50 cows). Beau saw them at 3 AM. But...not only Beau. As you will see from the newsclip, they were seen by a scientist and his friends. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 7 of 31 N.Y. On numerous occasions upon returning home late in the evenings (approx. 10:00), I have spotted a strange object maybe 3/4 of a mile up in the sky. This object was in the shape of a sphere with a bright red light in the lower left section of it. I have seen this in front of my house* and behind my house on separate nights. Once when taking some relation to their home in Granville, N.Y., approximate 8 miles from my home which is on Route 149 in I spotted this object and pointed it out to this couple. They described the same thing that I had seen. When we reached their home I could still see it off in the distance. When I returned home this object was always parallel with my truck as though I were being followed. When I pulled in the driveway it was directly over my house. One occasion when I spotted it behind my house, (Round object with red appearing in the lower left section) two beams or rays of light appeared to the right of it. While watching this object I have noticed that it has the ability of disappearing and reappearing in a different spot with the snap of a finger. Bright white Red section RAYS RAYS Gordon R. Van Lint RR2 BX 2170 FORT ANN, N.Y. 12829 * which is directly across from Ted Owens and his family's house. === Page 8 of 31 morning my son, Beau (24) reported to me, greatly excited, that last night, about 3 AM, something woke him up. He went to his bedroom window and looked out. Over the barn was a giant tube; vertical. There were two lights inside it. Then suddenly a second giant vertical tube appeared beside it. This second tube then changed form, into a square. (Ted) and together they formed a "10", and inside the square it was very dark black. now the vertical tube was about a mile long and 50 yds. wide and the square was about 2 miles wide and 2 miles long. this all lasted for 1 min. Then they both disappeared simultaneously. Then the dogs started barking up a storm for a few minutes. (Beau) Added note: This morning, around 7 AM, when I walked from our house the long road out past the barn with 50 cows in it (to get my morning newspaper) the cows were wild inside the barn - squalling and raising hell. Normally they are quiet. I wondered if a coyote was inside the barn. Lots of coyotes around us. (this happened before Beau woke up, came out of his bedroom and notified me re UFOs over the barn. Ted === Page 9 of 31 STaGe 1 BRIGHT LIGTS Luminisante TuBe Barn WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 10 of 31 Table 2. It changed into a small square and then it grew bigger First small white outline Dark INSIDE then turning very large WED. 7/29/87 (Bottom) === Page 11 of 31 STaGe 3 This Tube appeared on the left and after 1 minute it all disappeared. WED 7/29/87 === Page 12 of 31 Briefly THURSDAY Post-Star 7/30/87 # Lights filled sky above Fort Ann On a lonely Washington County road Tuesday night, a van full of people pulled over to stare at bright columns of light in the sky. "There were five or six columns or clusters of light," said Larry Smotroff, Dean of Community Service and Continuing Education at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, Conn. "They were a bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity." Smotroff said he and six of his friends were returning from a movie at Aviation Mall in Queensbury when they spotted the lights sometime between 11:30 p.m. and midnight. He said the movie, "Superman IV," stunk -- but the lights were more impressive. "We were taken back by what we considered quite some phenomenon," he said. Smotroff, who holds degrees in Psychology and Communications, does not have a background in the hard sciences, such as physics. But he said he has a background in scientific research. Members of the group watched the lights from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road in Fort Ann. "We watched them for a good 12 or 15 minutes before we continued on our way," Smotroff said. Smotroff, who said no one in the group had been drinking, said he had never seen any type of UFOs before. But he said he had recently seen a documentary film on the subject. An operator at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base and a dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff's Department said they had not received any reports of the lights. === Page 13 of 31 October 21, 1987 Scientists (Do not have my typewriters patched up yet, hence this) Some years ago I told you in your written files from me that my UFOs would attack the U.S. economy until their base is provided them. ("UFOs vs Economy," remember?) They warned that they could cause a worse Stock Market crash than the one in 1929. And that collapse-crash just occurred. I sent their message to you. And not long ago I told you that regardless of the fact that the Stock Market was making gains - ahead would be catastrophe (words to that effect.) Owens (PK Man) Oct. 26, 1987 10:27 PM UFO in plain sight on our front lawn. White, circular, luminescent, about 10 feet in circumference. Was a crescent moon === Page 14 of 31 UFOs vs Space Work Economy may sink 'Star Wars' LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The need to reduce the federal deficit and the weakened condition of the stock market after last month's plunge could ground the "Star Wars" space-based defense, an aerospace industry analyst says. These factors could also delay defense spending on key aerospace projects and shift national political priorities toward domestic spending instead of military projects, says John N. Simon, a vice president of Seidler AMDEC Securities Inc. Post-Star 11/2/87 November 3, 1987 Scientists After I called long distance and warned Wayne Grover that my UFOs were going to destroy a space shuttle... I was amazed when the next shuttle went up and returned safely. What I did not know was that my UFOs were waiting for "Challenger" to destroy -- because a school teacher would be aboard -- millions of children therefore would be witnessing the event -- and the TV set in front of them would teach them to let space-work alone! Some years ago my UFOs told me to warn you that the above would occur (stock market crash). I kept wondering why it did not. Well, my UFOs were simply waiting for the correct timing. As you can read above -- the crash will cripple or wipe out Star Wars (space military work); delay or wipe out key aerospace work, and deflect huge sums of military expenditures toward where it should be going -- domestic spending where it will help the U.S. people plus the interior of the U.S. Owens === Page 15 of 31 NOVEMBER 2, 1987 $2.00 # TIME # THE CRASH After a wild week on Wall Street, the world is different === Page 16 of 31 # After The Fall Decades have a way of crashing to a close during the blink of an hour. The '60s ended at Altamont, when a knife-and-death climax to a Rolling Stones concert showed that the decade of love, peace and music had trouble, even with the music. The '70s limped along with an inner-directed malaise until Jan. 20, 1981, when the U.S. hostages lifted off from Tehran just as Ronald Reagan was taking office. The '80s, as befits their high-flying adrenaline, may have dissipated a few years early, sputtering to an end during the stock market's terrifying final hour of free fall on Monday. Although Wall Street may eventually stabilize, the tenor of the times will never be the same. What crashed was more than just the market. It was the Reagan Illusion: the idea that there could be a defense buildup and tax cuts without a price, that the country could live beyond its means indefinitely. The initial Reagan years, with their aura of tinseled optimism, had restored the nation's tattered pride and the lost sense that leadership was possible in the presidency. But he stayed a term too long. As he shouted befuddled Hooverisms over the roar of his helicopter last week or doddered precariously through his press conference, Reagan appeared embarrassingly irrelevant to a reality that he could scarcely TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 === Page 17 of 31 comprehend. Stripped of his ability to create economic illusions, stripped of his chance to play host to Mikhail Gorbachev, he elicited the unnerving suspicion that he was the emperor with no clothes. Now it's the morning after, and the dream of painless prosperity has been punctured. But what a wild binge it was! Speculative fortunes built on junk bonds and stock manipulations helped paper over the cracks in an economy beset by sluggish investment and productivity. Some of the best minds of a generation marched off to make millions as market mavens, embracing the greed-and-glory smugness that suffused both Wall Street and Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh-faced traders who created nothing more than paper--gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders. So when the fall came, so did a few smirks, along with jokes about yuppie brokers losing their BMWs. But mainly the reaction was personal: What did the crash mean for me, my pension, my mortgage, my business, my job, my tuition bills? Most of the momentous events that splash their headlines for history can be viewed dispassionately from afar. Not a Wall Street panic, however, not even for those who don't play the market. For many of Wall Street's whiz kids, Monday was their first taste of financial fear, their first hard lesson that what goes up can come tumbling down. For others, it produced a gnawing unease about not only their investments but also the health of their nation. Just as the crash of the space shuttle *Challenger* was a blow to America's sense of technological grace, so the crash of the market shattered its sense of financial security. There was an odd disjuncture: the market's implosion seemed to be a frightful rendezvous with reality and, at the same time, an unhinged flight of fantasy. On the one hand, fundamental economic problems appeared to be crashing home to roost. On the other, the panic within the looking-glass world of Wall Street produced wild price fluctuations that bore little resemblance to the fundamental value of the venerable industries involved. But the stock exchange has never pretended to measure the underlying value of American companies. Instead, it produces a collective judgment about the future profits these firms will generate. By suddenly and wildly re-evaluating its expectations about the years ahead, the market may have helped fulfill its own gloomy prophecy. --By Walter Isaacson TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 21 === Page 18 of 31 The Crash TIME/NOVEMBER 2, 1987 COVER STORIES # Panic Grips The Globe ## A crisis spotlights Washington's failures First came a vague foreboding, a kind of free-floating anxiety. The U.S., said worriers, could not go on forever spending more than it would tax itself to pay for, buying more overseas than it could earn from foreign sales, and borrowing more abroad than it could easily repay. There had to be a day of reckoning, and it could unhinge the whole world economy. But when might it come? What form would it take? How bad might it be? No one could say, and so the forebodings could be pushed to the back of the mind. But then, slowly at first, the anxiety began to take on a shape that could be sensed if not exactly foreseen. On all the world's stock exchanges, prices had leaped up too far, too fast, to be sustained. The mood in the markets shifted from fantasy about instant wealth to nervousness about an inevitable "correction" (a wonderful euphemism). By Monday morning the concern was no longer vague but had taken on physical form--piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks in all the early-opening markets: Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich ... Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened: a collapse on a scale never seen before--no, not even in 1929. Prices went down, down, down, swiftly wiping out an entire year's spectacular gains. "I just can't believe that this is happening," moaned one trader, as he took nonstop sell orders at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. At lunchtime, brokers across the U.S. went hungry or ate sandwiches at their desks while trying to keep phone receivers pressed to both ears. "This is going to make '29 look like a kiddie party," shouted a trader on the Los Angeles floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange. Almost an entire nation become paralyzed with curiosity and concern. Crowds gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going on." By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy rose as it spread once again around the globe. On Tuesday stock prices fell by 12.2% in London, 15% in Tokyo, 6% in Paris and 6.7% in Toronto, on top of huge losses Monday. Then, since blind panic is no more sustainable than unthinking euphoria, came a crazy whipsawing that continued virtually all week and in markets all around the world. Up, down, up, down, with trends reversing in hours, and then reversing again. And always the questions: Would the stock crisis cause a recession? Or even a global depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a Black Monday on the New York Stock Exchange JOURNAL The Crash of '87 Stocks Plunge 508.32 Amid Panicky Selling LE QUOTIDIEN Les Bourses mondiales dans la tourmente LE CRASH The New York Times STOCKS PLUNGE 508 POINTS, A DROP OF 22.6%; 604 MILLION VOLUME NEARLY DOUBLES RECORD NY、最大の508ドル 東証、大半は値つかず Una ca Crol === Page 19 of 31 4:00.05 p.m., with just under 20 minutes of trading left and share prices plunging too rapidly for anyone to keep track of BILL FOLEY LA STAMPA Street e trascina le Borse The Sun CRASH Bild Schwarzer Montag an der Börse The Times Stocks crash; D President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership? At first the President gave no sign that he did. He spoke only in comments shouted to reporters over the roar of helicopter rotors on the White House lawn and in brief formal remarks issued through his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater. On Black Monday, he blithely attributed the crash to "some people grabbing profits" accumulated during the market's long rise. In a statement after the close of trading, he said that "the underlying economy remains sound"--unwittingly drawing another parallel to 1929, when Herbert Hoover said almost exactly the same thing. On Wednesday, Reagan remarked that the midweek rally indicated the Monday collapse had been "some kind of a correction"--a statement that would have been reassuring only if he had intended it ironically, as he obviously had not. Some critics began speaking of the President in tones of contempt. Said a Wall Street money manager during the midst of the crash: "You sell and get what you can and never again listen to Ronald Reagan." M.I.T. Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance to tax increases thought necessary by many to trim the budget deficit and thus restore confidence. The President, said Solow, "is holding the Congress back from slow access of intelligence." By Thursday night, however, Reagan at last showed that he recognized the seriousness of the situation--and the need for action. "We shouldn't assume that the stock market's excess volatility is over," he asserted at a White House press conference, and he acknowledged that public fear spread by those gyrations "could possibly bring about a recession." More important, he announced that he was summoning the leaders of Congress to a bipartisan deficit-cutting conference at which, through his top aides, he was "putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security, with no other TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 23 === Page 20 of 31 ### The Crash preconditions." Including a tax increase? Though he could not quite bring himself to pronounce those words, Reagan clearly indicated that, well, yes, he would at least discuss the subject. Reminded again and again by reporters of his many previous pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he refused to repeat any such pledge; he merely said both spending and taxes should be kept "as low as possible." It was, however, anything but an inspiring performance. The President repeatedly stumbled and seemed unsure of just what he wanted to say. Several times he slipped into well-worn denunciations of congressional Democrats before remembering that this time he was supposed to sound conciliatory. In his Saturday radio speech, Reagan once again called on Democrats to "remember that lower taxes mean higher growth," even while acknowledging that "all sides must contribute" to a budget-cutting package. The net impression was that in countenancing discussion of a tax increase he was doing something he felt he must, without any conviction. The impact of the President's words was hard to gauge. Exchanges in Asia and Europe suffered additional heavy losses Friday, but that might have been more a response to a bad Thursday on Wall Street. Despite a lukewarm reaction in the New York financial community to the President's statements, prices on the Big Board steadied, perhaps from exhaustion. The Dow average eked out a .33 gain to close the week at 1950.76. Two bits of news helped: the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of only 2.1% in September, less than half the 5.8% pace in August; the GNP grew at an annual rate of 3.8%, after adjustment for inflation, in the third quarter, up from 2.5% in the second quarter. Those figures seemed to indicate that the American economy, if not exactly sound in its fundamentals, was at least not deteriorating as drastically as the Black Monday stock-price collapse might have led an unsophisticated observer to believe. Nonetheless, the week as a whole will go down as the worst in financial history. The Dow's Black Monday plunge of 12.8% was almost double the record 12.8% fall on Oct. 28, 1929. Despite a spirited rally on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Dow was still down an unprecedented 295.98 points, or 13.2%, for the week. That immediately eclipsed the record 235.48-point decline the market had suffered the previous week. From its peak of 2722 in August to its Friday close, the average has fallen 28.3%, burning up an estimated $870 billion in equity values. Volume for the week was inconceivably greater than ever before, totaling 2.3 billion shares on the Big Board; the four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history all occurred last week. The turnover strained the exchange's computer network to the limit, and the Big Board decided to knock off trading two hours early on Friday and this Monday and Tuesday to allow exhausted brokers time to catch up on their paperwork. At best, the President may have bought some time for the White House and Congress to come up with a program to convince investors that something worthwhile will be done to bring budget and trade deficits under control. Probably not much time, either. Wildly gyrating markets are better than those that plunge straight down, but they are hard on the nerves of stockholders who have already proved they are ready to jump at the first sign of trouble. The continued drop on the foreign exchanges Friday cannot be brushed off. If the wild week proved anything, it was that in an era when the U.S. is dependent on foreign goods and capital, no exchange is an island. Price breaks overseas can touch off panic in the U.S., which can then hammer prices down further abroad; that, in fact, is roughly what happened Monday and Tuesday. Moreover, even if prices stabilize--a gargantuan if, given the extreme jumpiness of the markets--the bust that has already occurred darkens prospects for business. Even in an economy the size of the U.S.'s, the nearly $385 billion in asset values that vanished last week alone is a sum large enough to have a strong impact. Not all those losses are theoretical; for many people who sold on Monday, the damage is painfully real. And investors who sat tight and saw the value of their stocks recover a bit at midweek have had an unforgettable demonstration that they cannot count on ---------- ### Baker: "Wait and See" *A seven-year veteran of the Reagan Administration, Treasury Secretary James Baker is no stranger to crisis. Rarely, however, has he been placed so squarely in the vortex. On Friday, Baker met over breakfast in the Treasury Secretary's ornate dining room with TIME's international economics correspondent, Christopher Redman. For 90 minutes they discussed the week's tumultuous events. Excerpts from the interview:* **Q. There have been accusations that your remarks about interest rates were ill-timed and helped trigger the Monday crash. Is that so?** **A.** What triggered it was not my remarks but a front-page story in one of our major newspapers. It quoted an unnamed Government official, not me, and drew inaccurate conclusions from my remarks in a way that could not but contribute to market nervousness. **Q. What needs to be done to prevent this crash from leading to a depression?** **A.** We need to continue to work hard to coordinate our economic policies in the manner envisaged by the Plaza and Louvre [international monetary] accords. And each country needs to do its utmost to take actions that are sometimes very difficult politically. We must recognize that more and more we are an interdependent world. **Q. Can we avoid a recession?** **A.** I think we can with the right policies. And we're pursuing the right policies in the United States by moving to negotiate a budget-deficit-reduction package with the Congress and by adopting an easier monetary policy stance. But it's important that monetary authorities around the world recognize that there's been a large loss of wealth and that consideration should be given to an easing of monetary policy. **Q. You didn't mention protectionism.** **A.** Trade is very important, and fear of protectionism was one thing that had equity markets unsettled. The Administration is totally committed to free trade, and the President has said he will veto protectionist trade bills now on the Hill. **Q. There's clearly going to be some negative impact from the crash. What's the damage, and how can it be limited?** (Photo caption: The Secretary: squarely in the vortex of events) 24 TIME, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 === Page 21 of 31 eventually being as rich in reality as they once looked on paper. To be sure, hardly anyone expects a rerun of the Great Depression that followed the 1929 Crash. Main reasons: the economy has developed many safeguards, and the Government, if it cannot yet be trusted to resolve the nation's fundamental financial problems, at least knows enough to avoid making the situation drastically worse. The banking system collapsed in the wake of the 1929 debacle, but it is much sounder today, shored up by federal deposit insurance, among other things. Says James Wilcox, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley: "In the 1930s when things looked bad, people ran from the banks out of fear. In 1987 people run to the banks to put their money in, because this time the banks are among the safest things around." The Federal Reserve Board, in hindsight, is widely considered to have played a role in converting the 1929 Crash into the 1930s Depression by allowing the U.S. supply of money and credit to shrink substantially at the worst possible time. Last week the Fed took exactly the opposite tack. Chairman Alan Greenspan on Monday was denounced by some critics for having inadvertently helped trigger the stock-market break by pushing up interest rates in early September. But on Tuesday morning he became something of an instant hero by reversing policy: just before the markets opened, he announced that the Federal Reserve, "consistent with its responsibilities as a central bank," would make as much money available as might be needed--for example, to banks that might be hurt by suddenly uncollectible loans to stockbrokers. Greenspan seemed to be as good as his word; by week's end the Fed was apparently pumping enough money into banks to bring interest rates down again slightly. Led by Citicorp, the major U.S. banks dropped the benchmark prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 9.25% to 9%. The move came only two weeks after the banks had boosted the prime from 8.75% to 9.25%. But if no depression is in the cards, the market crack could cause a recession all by itself. Economists last week were quoting odds like so many Las Vegas bookies. Some guessed the chances of a recession had gone from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2, others from 15% to 35%, but few doubted that the odds had increased. If a recession does not come, most agreed, the economy probably is in for at least a slowdown that might knock a percentage point or two off its growth rate. Frank Korth, senior vice president of Shearson Lehman, explains the mechanism by which market cracks get translated into slowdowns or recessions: "If you lose $4,000 in the stock market, you don't go out and spend $1,200 on a new color TV or $4,000 on a new motorboat. As a result, the man on the street whose job is in the boat plant is out of a job because there is no market for his company's product. Boatbuilders don't want to build inventory, so they close down their plants. Everybody loses: the plant workers, the suppliers, the corner grocer, the shoe store." This is, of course, a highly simplified scheme, and there is nothing inevitable **Reagan pointing out the market's (momentary) direction Thursday night, said an aide, "he almost blew it."** **A.** We don't know yet, and we won't know until we get a better readout on some of the credit problems that might spew out of this. Although we don't know of any, there may be problems in terms of ripple effects. So we have to wait and see. But we're doing what we can. I think the policy moves we've made are the right ones. We're in close contact with the exchanges. And we've just had some good numbers: growth in the third quarter came in at 3.8%, much stronger than we anticipated. That's good because we're going to have some adverse effects from this market decline and we'd rather have that coming off a high GNP number. **Q. Do you expect America's economic partners to make further efforts to ensure that the recovery continues?** **A.** We've all got to do what we can to bring our economies into better balance. **Q. Does that mean you still want to see faster growth in West Germany?** **A.** We want to see deficit countries--to wit, the United States--move on fiscal deficits and fight protectionism. And we'd like to see surplus countries generating as much growth as possible, consistent with maintaining the gains the world has made against inflation. **Q. As part of the U.S. contribution, the President said he will consider tax revenues in a deficit-reduction package.** **A.** Right. **Q. He also said they should not harm the economy. What form could they take?** **A.** As the President said, we're not going to negotiate in public by saying what is or is not that kind of tax. **Q. What was the President's objective at his news conference?** **A.** It was important for the President to be seen to be in charge, to be leading and taking action. He also needed not to be seen as another Herbert Hoover. He couldn't say, "Don't worry, everything's O.K." But at the same time he needed to be reassuring, and that's not an easy line to walk. **Q. Why the need for budget compromise?** **A.** The major plus to a negotiated deal is that the markets would see the two branches of Government cooperating to solve the problems. **Q. What's the time frame for reaching a deficit package?** **A.** We have to do this not in the months ahead but in the days ahead. **Q. Can any good come from this turmoil?** **A.** We probably wouldn't be doing this [negotiating with Congress] but for the events of the past week. It is clear that they were the catalyst that was needed to bring about face-to-face discussions on debt reductions. === Page 22 of 31 2247 # BED OF TRAVAILS Dow Jones industrials, daily closings **2028** **1950** **1951** **1841** **1739** MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY TIME Chart by Cynthia Davis | PRIME RATE | U.S. DOLLAR | TRADE DEFICIT | BUDGET DEFICIT | |---|---|---|---| | Yearly averages | Indexed against 10 currencies March 1973=100 | In billions | In billions | | '80 '87 | '80 '87 | '80 (proj.) '87 | '80 (proj.) '87 | about it; it could be averted by Government action that would restore confidence. But what kind of action? An answer must begin with an analysis of what triggered the market crash. Superficially, the bust might seem, to put it bluntly, insane. By no rational calculation could the asset value and earning power of American corporations be 22.6% less on Monday night than they had been the previous Friday. But that statement assumes that their values on Friday were realistic, and in hindsight there is widespread agreement that they were not. In other words, the crash to some extent really was--oh, all right--a correction, though on a scale to make that word seem ludicrously inadequate. Says Korth of Shearson Lehman: "The market should not have reached 2700 [on the Dow Jones average] in the first place. We probably should have been trading around 1900 or 2100; maybe 2000 would have been the right number based on interest rates, corporate earnings and other fundamentals. We were 700 points ahead on sheer greed." As early as August, when the American bull market celebrated its fifth birthday, some investing pros were noting apprehensively that stock prices were getting out of line with expected corporate earnings, and dividend yields had fallen well below the interest return on bonds, making the fixed-income securities potentially a better investment. But the general feeling then was that the Dow might go as high as 3000, on pure momentum if nothing else, so why not stick around for the end of the ride? A similar psychology ruled overseas, according to Nils Lundgren, chief economist of Sweden's PKbanken. Says he: "The market was really overspeculated, with people saying to themselves, 'I won't get out now, but as soon as stocks start to fall, I will sell.' When you have that mentality operating, you are ready for a big fall." When markets get into such a state, almost anything can start a smashup. In the event, last week's explosion did not lack for triggers. Interest rates were pushing higher; the yield on U.S. Treasury bonds rocketed briefly above 10%. That seemed likely to pull money out of stocks into the bond market. In fact, something of the sort seems to have happened. While the stock market suffered through its collapse Monday, the bond market began a brisk rally, presumably propelled by money fleeing the stock exchanges and looking for a safe haven. The biggest immediate blow of all was a report two weeks ago showing that the monthly U.S. trade deficit in August had declined only slightly, to $15.7 billion. Investors who had been hoping for a large reduction took that as a sign that U.S. finances were out of control and that the Reagan Administration did not know how to fix them. They began dumping stocks. Moneymen in the U.S. and Europe found a personal villain: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury James Baker. Some came close to implying that he turned a serious stock-price decline into an all-out crash single-handedly. That would be a wild exaggeration, but he surely did not help. What Baker did was get into a complicated but unnerving spat with West German financial authorities, who two weeks ago permitted the fourth rise in German interest rates in three months. What was so bad about that? Washington would like West Germany, Japan and other major countries to reduce interest rates for two reasons: 1) to avoid competing against the U.S. for international capital needed to cover the federal budget deficit; 2) to stimulate their domestic economies so they will import more U.S. products and not be so dependent on export sales that swell the American trade deficit. Baker might have been justified in criticizing the German interest-rate boost; === Page 23 of 31 # The Crash he was not the only moneyman to consider it unnecessary as well as unwise. The boost was supposed to combat inflation, but West Germany is a country with almost no inflation. Baker, however, went much further than merely criticizing the Germans. In a series of statements beginning Thursday, Oct. 15, and continuing through a TV interview on Sunday, he repeatedly asserted that the U.S. would not accept the German interest-rate boost quietly. Moneymen immediately read his comments to mean that Washington would no longer abide by the February Louvre accord under which the U.S., West Germany, Japan and four other nations try to keep the values of their currencies within a narrow trading range. Indeed, the New York Times quoted an unnamed "senior Administration official" as announcing an "abrupt shift in policy," implying the U.S. would seek to retaliate against the Germans not just by letting the dollar fall but by actively driving it down. For investors around the world, many of whom assumed the unnamed official must have been Baker, that raised horrifying specters: chaos in the currency markets and a breakdown of the slender degree of international financial cooperation achieved under the Louvre agreement (named after the Paris museum, which also houses the French Finance Ministry offices in which the accord was negotiated). U.S. Economist Pierre Rinfret accuses Baker of "initiating economic warfare against the Germans and then threatening to bomb his own currency." Treasury sources vehemently deny that Baker intended any such thing. All he wanted to say, they insist, was that Washington would not let the West Germans push the U.S. into raising its own interest rates; they point out that his statements never even mentioned the dollar specifically. And the unnamed senior official? It was not Baker, Treasury people insist; in fact, Baker would like to get his hands on whoever it was. Perhaps, but such statements cannot inspire confidence in the degree of policy coordination within the Reagan Administration. Ironically, Baker in a sense won his campaign. Flying to Europe for a scheduled visit Monday, he persuaded the West Germans to roll back the interest-rate increase he had assailed, and they together specifically reaffirmed the Louvre agreement. But it was much too late to calm the unrest Baker's previous statements had intensified. Well before he patched things up with the Germans, selling on the world's stock exchanges had accelerated into an all-out crash. One factor behind the speed of the market's descent was the almost complete computerization of the New York exchange and other markets. There is immense dispute, even days after the fact, as to what part computers that make trades semiautomatically played in touching off the gigantic volume of sell orders. Taking ## Greenspan's Big Test If any one man can decide how last week's market turmoil will affect the U.S. economy, and indeed that of the entire world, he is Alan Greenspan, 61. As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the soft-spoken economic forecaster is the ultimate arbiter of the nation's credit supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Greenspan is in a very difficult period in which he is truly being tested." Following Black Monday, Greenspan moved quickly to avert further disaster. The day after the market's plunge, the new Fed chairman cut short a speaking trip to Dallas and hurried back to his ornate second-floor office in Washington's Eccles Building. He had already issued a terse announcement that the nation's central bank would "serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system." That was a signal that banks would have no difficulty obtaining additional credit as needed to provide for the huge losses sustained by shell-shocked brokerages. Greenspan's announcement produced an immediate decline in interest rates, as the banking system moved in effect to replace some of the $500 billion in stock values that vanished on Black Monday. Greenspan also began moving behind the scenes to bolster the Reagan Administration's political response to the crash. Within an hour of Treasury Secretary James Baker's return from West Germany to Washington on Tuesday, Greenspan was huddling with him to plan the Administration's response to the market crash. Later that day the Fed chairman helped persuade Reagan to offer Congress a summit meeting to negotiate a federal-deficit reduction program. People like Lyle Gramley, a former Federal Reserve governor who is now chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, praised the Fed chairman for his decisive actions. But critics like Paul Craig Roberts of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies charge that Greenspan also helped cause last week's market disaster. They note that back on Sept. 4, Greenspan's first important move as Fed chief was to push successfully for a hike in the bellwether discount rate, the interest that the Fed charges on funds lent to financial institutions, from 5½% to 6%. It was the first such increase in nearly 3½ years. Greenspan justified the rate hike as a move against potential inflationary pressures, which indeed it was. But for investors, any increase in interest rates makes stocks less attractive, since higher returns become available for bonds, Treasury bills and other fixed-income securities. During the two trading days after the Fed announced its decision, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 54 points. Admits Gramley: "A common problem is the markets do not understand Alan Greenspan's statements. He needed to express [the Fed's decision] more clearly." Greenspan's task is especially difficult because he follows Paul Volcker, who left the Fed last August after eight years as chairman. Volcker was legendary for his ability to inspire confidence, at home and abroad. Greenspan's experience is also grounds for reassurance. In 2½ years as Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, he had some success in combatting inflation, then the nation's main economic woe. But, unfortunately, the progress was temporary, and inflation was not decisively licked until a severe credit squeeze was imposed in the early 1980s by Volcker and the Fed. ![The chairman after a huddle at Treasury] The chairman after a huddle at Treasury CYNTHIA JOHNSON === Page 24 of 31 # The Crash ![Frenzy on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as prices dropped on Tuesday] **Frenzy on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as prices dropped on Tuesday** no chances, however, the Big Board after the Monday debacle instituted restrictions on so-called program trades of large portfolios of stock carried out by computer, in order to damp down price swings. In a broader sense, computers unquestionably had an all-important role. They enable the exchanges to execute trades swiftly, in volume that would have been inconceivable a few years ago. So at times of market excitement, the volume that would once have been stretched over a week or so gets squeezed into a day. When the orders are predominantly on one side, prices run up or down violently. But never so violently as on Black Monday. Tickers and news reports flashed the story of huge price declines on heavy volume. With each sale, more investors became convinced that a collapse had begun and they had better get out while they still could. Mutual-fund managers tried to hold on but could not; they had to dump stock to get cash to pay off investors who clamored to redeem their fund shares. Margin calls to investors who had bought stock on credit aggravated the frenzy. Some could not put up additional collateral and were sold out. Why, then, did the rout give way to a rally? Traditionally, that happens after every so-called selling climax (even in 1929), because most investors who were thinking of selling have been cleaned out in one grand sweep and buyers start looking for newly cheap shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several deals fell through because the bids made for the target companies suddenly looked unrealistically high after the general decline in stock prices. But it is anyone's guess whether the small degree of stability so painfully achieved on Friday--volume dwindled as the Dow average stood almost still--will hold even for days or hours. Alan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, thinks the "markets will remain volatile because there are still too many unanswered questions." The most fundamental questions, economists agree with the closest approach to unanimity they ever achieve, are: How long will the U.S. try to live it up on borrowed money? And can it summon the will to start the painful readjustment necessary to kick the habit--a readjustment that grows more painful the longer it is put off? The problem is hideously complicated in detail but simple enough in outline. Ever since the giant tax cuts of 1981, the U.S. has been running deficits on a scale never seen before. True, Reagan announced at his press conference that the deficit in fiscal 1987, which ended on Sept. 30, dropped to $148 billion, from $221 billion the prior fiscal year. But the new figure is still far too high, and it is likely to rise again soon; much of the 1987 reduction was due to one-shot effects of the tax-reform law. Concurrently, the U.S. has swung from a surplus of exports over imports of $3 billion as recently as 1975 to a trade deficit of $156 billion last year. One result is that America has run up a foreign debt of about $250 billion. Economists across a broad spectrum of ideological positions warn almost with one voice that this situation is precarious in the extreme. Foreigners will not continue forever to finance American profligacy, and the stock-market crash was a relatively mild foretaste of what could happen if they pull their money out. The nation would then face a grim choice of financing the deficit by ruinous printing-press inflation or a sudden, brutal cutback in spending that might trigger a real economic bust. No wonder, then, that stock investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse--and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world--its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change. In truth, even with the most brilliant policy, the passage to a sounder prosperity is likely to be tricky, dangerous and painful. Lowering the trade deficit will take years, and will probably require a cut in American consumption--meaning, in ![Newsstand headlines the same day tell what happened in "the City," London's Wall Street. Pretty much the same thing in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid...] **Newsstand headlines the same day tell what happened in "the City," London's Wall Street. Pretty much the same thing in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid...** === Page 25 of 31 # The Crash other words, at least a temporary reduction in the standard of living. Many economists think the dollar will have to fall further too, reluctant as both U.S. and foreign moneymen are to see that happen. The reluctance is understandable. Unless a decline is carefully managed, it will raise two dangers: a renewal of inflation and a panic flight of foreign capital from the U.S. (since foreigners would not be eager to hold dollar-denominated investments that shrank in value against their own currencies). But there is an impressive consensus, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to begin to correct the imbalances in the American economy. The President and the Democratic-controlled Congress must agree, right away, on a package of measures that hold some real promise of reducing the budget deficit steadily and substantially. Certainly these must include painful spending cuts. But they must also include tax increases, much as Reagan hates the thought. Not because they are any panacea; indeed they carry a serious risk. Higher taxes might reduce consumer spending just when a recession is beginning, and deepen the slump. But no significant budget cut is possible without at least some sort of modest tax increase, and no progress toward solving the nation's fundamental economic problems is possible without a real deficit reduction. That was the theme, implicit or explicit, of comments around the world last week. Foreign government and financial leaders have an all-important stake in U.S. economic policy. The worldwide market crack is already hurting their economies; for example, it has delayed European programs to privatize industry by selling chunks of government-owned companies to individual investors. An American recession, should that be the result of a continued stock slump, could quickly travel abroad. French President François Mitterrand, speaking at a financial forum Thursday, complained about a "world that constantly moves the carpet under your feet, pulling it out and threatening to trip you up." The market bust, he said, "is the disorder of a non-system. There is no system. It has been broken." Others left no doubt about who must bear responsibility for fixing it. Says a senior Canadian government economist: "Everyone, all around the world, has been keeping an eye on the U.S. economy and wondering how long it could continue to survive without dealing with things like its trade imbalance and its huge federal deficit. When people became convinced that the U.S. lacked the will (we know it has the ability) to deal with these problems, they lost confidence in the U.S. market." Guido Carli, former head of the Bank of Italy, is specific about what needs to be done: "The only way out is to reduce the U.S. deficit. Otherwise there is a risk of recession." Does Reagan now understand the necessity? Just before Black Monday, Treasury Secretary Baker in a TV interview restated the President's opposition to any sort of tax boost. But he and other insiders were already monitoring the stock market apprehensively. The previous Friday, White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker had pulled together an informal group consisting of himself, the Treasury Secretary, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Beryl Sprinkel, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan and White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein. They Watching the tape through the window of a brokerage in Washington For the week, a crazy whipsaw: up, down, up, down--in hours. *** ## Are Computers to Blame? If big investors are determined to panic, computers can sure help. A few keystrokes into a broker's desktop computer can trigger the sale of thousands of shares of, say, 500 different companies. Such "program trades" may have played a role in making Black Monday the worst day in Wall Street history. As one Chicago broker joked, the difference between 1929 and 1987 is that last week, it was the computers that jumped out the windows. But how much are the computers to blame? That issue stirs a great deal of confusion. The term program trading is misleading: it derives not from the fact that trades are executed by computer programs but that they involve the systematic sale of portfolios of stocks as if they were one stock. The first program trades, executed in the early 1970s, did not involve computers. Program trading came into its own in 1982, with the advent of stock-index futures. These enable investors to make a bet on which way the entire market is going. Index futures, used with program trades in the stocks on the index, open up a variety of opportunities. One of the most popular takes advantage of momentary differences between the price of a futures contract and of the stocks themselves. When this spread is sufficiently wide, a trader can lock in a profit at no risk by, say, buying the futures and selling the underlying stocks. This practice, called index arbitrage, has been blamed for the sharply increased volatility of the market, though the point has never been conclusively proved. Indeed, some experts believe index arbitrage actually reduces volatility by helping the market reverse course when it goes too far in one direction. But most arbitragers were on the sidelines last Monday because the computers that track prices had fallen hopelessly behind. The real culprit was a variation of program trading called portfolio insurance. This is a defensive strategy designed to protect stock portfolios against market downturns. Rather than sell stocks as their prices are falling, portfolio insurers sell stock-index futures. If the decline persists, the futures can be repurchased at a lower level, yielding a substantial profit that will offset some of the loss sustained on the stocks. But traders who buy the futures hedge their positions by making computer-aided sales of the underlying stocks, driving the market down further. If computers did help accelerate the Black Monday slide, they were not responsible for it. As an IBM executive once said, "Computers don't kill stock markets. People do." === Page 26 of 31 Wall Street crowd on Tuesday: wild gyrations are better than relentless declines, but still very hard on the nerves met with the President after the market had closed with a then record loss of 108.36 points (shortly to be vastly eclipsed). Their message: basic economic indicators were good, but the markets were very nervous. On Monday, Howard Baker was on the telephone almost all day long, keeping in touch with old colleagues on Capitol Hill, where he had once been Republican Senate leader, and phoning people on Wall Street, including New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Phelan, to get market reports. At 3:40 p.m., 20 minutes before the close of trading, the chief of staff and Duberstein called at the Oval Office to give Reagan a market status report. But prices were tumbling too rapidly for anyone to keep track of them. Reagan, as his later statements indicated, simply did not know what to make of the crash. The decisive meeting occurred Tuesday after the market close. James Baker, by then back in his Treasury office after having cut short his trip to Europe, first called in Howard Baker, Greenspan and Sprinkel to coordinate what they would tell the President. Then, joined by Duberstein, they went upstairs in the White House to the brightly colored West Sitting Room, which the Reagans use as a living room. James Baker opened by telling Reagan that the world seemed to be looking for some movement on the President's part, and the quickest way he could display leadership was by reaching a compromise with Congress on reducing the budget deficit. Everyone knew that would have to include a tax increase. Greenspan, who had been an informal economic adviser to Reagan before the President chose him to head the Federal Reserve, voiced a somewhat perverse but effective argument: in effect, the only way to keep taxes low was to agree to raise them a bit. If there was no budget compromise with Congress, he said, the financial markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming one through over the President's veto or by winning the 1988 election and enacting a stiff boost after Reagan left office. The President showed great reluctance to accept the advice that he should compromise on a modest boost now. But, says one participant, eventually the "President bought the [Greenspan] argument that if the economy goes down the tubes you lose the whole thing, the whole legacy." Even so, the two Bakers had to argue further on Thursday to cement Reagan's agreement to state in his press conference that night that he would put everything on the table in budget discussions with congressional leaders. But as the President began speaking, advisers who had coached him were concerned that he would take back that pledge almost immediately after making it. Their fear was that once Reagan got past his prepared statement and started answering reporters' questions, he would go on automatic pilot and repeat all his standard denunciations of taxes. In fact, Reagan once or twice started to do exactly that but caught himself before going too far. Said an adviser the next day: "He almost blew it. He came very close." But he did not blow it, and the budget negotiations were set to begin early this week. It should not take long to find out whether some agreement can be reached. Even if a renewed market decline does not force a quick resolution--and one very well might--the talks will be racing a deadline of sorts. If a budget compromise is not worked out and enacted by Nov. 20, some $23 billion of automatic spending cuts go into effect under a modified version of the Gramm-Rudman Act. They would slash away with idiot impartiality at defense and social spending, at good programs and bad. And that would just about end any chance that Washington would give the stock markets the signal they yearn for. What if the negotiations break down and the market gets the opposite signal: that the U.S. is unable or unwilling even to start working out some long-range solution to its gargantuan budget and trade deficits? As last week's wild price whipsawing demonstrated, no one can predict stock prices and volume for even a few hours. But if the U.S. continues to float on a sea of red ink and foreign debt--well then, many financial experts suggest, sooner or later the markets can expect the real crash. How it could be much worse than Black Monday is as difficult to imagine as was Black Monday itself just days before. But the world had better hope it never finds out what that ultimate bust would be like. --By George J. Church. Reported by Rosemary Byrnes and Barrett Seaman/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York, with other bureaus === Page 27 of 31 # A Shock Felt Round the World ## Stock markets plummet and climb between "hell and heaven" Investors all over the globe were nervous even before markets opened on the historic day that came to be Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. On the previous Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average had suffered a record one-day decline of 108.36 points, to 2246.73. The sense of imminent foreboding was evident as far away as Australia, where the Monday-morning sun rises over the Pacific while it is still Sunday afternoon in New York City. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 MELBOURNE, 10 A.M. One of the first markets to open after Friday's Wall Street scare quickly signals the shocks to come. On a catwalk above the gathering gloom on the trading floor, neatly uniformed "chalkies" sketch stock prices on a green board. All are falling. TOKYO, 9 A.M. Uncertainty prevails among the 2,000 dealers in the brand-new Kabutocho exchange building as they try to make sense of Friday's record loss in New York. What will happen on Wall Street later today? The Nikkei Dow Jones index of 225 traded stocks falls from 26,366 to 25,746. HONG KONG, 10 A.M. Traders in red waistcoats on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange floor trade in a rush as the Hang Seng index of 30 stocks opens at 3783. In 40 minutes, it drops 133 points. The index ends the day down 421, the worst point loss ever. Officials close the exchange for four days. LONDON, 8 A.M. A backlog of sell orders has accumulated from Friday, when damage from one of Britain's worst windstorms kept many dealers home. That day's selling gusts from New York make things even worse. Says Christopher Dark, a manager of Salomon Brothers' London branch: "I keep thinking about the little man with the sign saying THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH." NEW YORK, 9 A.M. On the 34th-floor trading room of the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) brokerage firm on Wall Street, arriving traders are startled by the presence of uniformed security guards. Corporate officials, deluged by cabled sell orders, know a rough day is ahead: the guards are there to protect traders from any violent clients. The New York Stock Exchange is not yet open, but already some of the firm's brokers are perspiring at their telephone consoles, staring at banked arrays of 200 blinking buttons. Tension mounts as Dudley Eppel, a managing director, delivers a grim pep talk: "Well, here we go. Let's keep our cool and maybe we'll all get through this thing alive. Let's go get 'em!" NEW YORK, 9:30 A.M. The Big Board opens. At the bell, the Dow is already off 67 points. In the next 30 minutes, 50 million shares are sold. At DLJ two blocks away, glowing green figures on computer consoles trace the market's fall. "We're going underwater!" shouts Trader John Sesko as he pops Tic Tac candies into his dry mouth. "55,000 Pepsis to sell!" barks one trader. "60,000 GM to sell!" yells another. The cries do not stop. "Boston wants to sell 30,000 J.P. Morgan!" Long before lunchtime, a trader shouts, "Hamburger to go! Hamburger to go in six figures!" He wants to peddle 100,000 shares of McDonald's. NEW YORK, 10:30 A.M. Already 140 million shares have been traded--normally a calm day's average volume. The Dow has sunk another 34 points, down a total of 101, to 2145. LOS ANGELES, 7:30 A.M. Physician Richard Weiss listens to radio reports of the developing fiasco as he drives to work. Weiss pulls off the freeway and phones his broker with an order to sell his entire portfolio. The broker ticks off plummeting quotes. "There's Disney going 78, 70, 68. We're making history here." Says Weiss: "We're doing it with my money." He loses $100,000. NEW YORK, 11 A.M. The mood turns surly at DLJ. "Get off my butt!" yells a sweating trader to another. As one man breaks into a stream of curses, Managing Director Eppel jumps to his feet. "Now stop it! Just calm down!" The Dow is down 201 points in 1½ hours. FRANKFURT, 4 P.M. Treasury Secretary James Baker meets secretly with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and Bundesbank President Karl Otto Pöhl. Out of the session comes a statement pledging cooperation in stabilizing currencies. Earlier in the day, Bonn's central bank takes steps to ease interest rates. NEW YORK, 11:45 A.M. There is a glimmer of hope. After dropping 201 points, the Dow has gained 95 in the past 30 minutes. It now stands at 2130. Is a turnabout in the works? NEW YORK, NOON The Dow, now falling, is at 2103. Long lines of people form to take turns in the N.Y.S.E.'s spectator gallery. Heather Walker, 27, wants to "tell my grandchildren I was there." But she wonders if the crash means she will never be a mother. "Even in good times, men are scared of getting married," says Walker. "In the coming depression, forget it." WASHINGTON, 12:30 P.M. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker is on the phone to N.Y.S.E. Chairman John Phelan, among others. Baker also calls Treasury Secretary Baker in Europe, and he agrees to return as soon as possible to Washington. NEW YORK, 12:30 P.M. The Dow is falling again, now down 173. SAN FRANCISCO, 10 A.M. At Associated Foreign Exchange, a precious-metals and foreign-currency brokerage, a run begins on Krugerrands, Canadian Maple Leafs and American Eagle gold coins. The frenzy ends only when the company's entire stock is sold: 2,500 coin worth nearly $1 million. === Page 28 of 31 508-point drop rivals crash of '29 By Gregg Fields Post-Star 10/20/87 Knight-Ridder Panic swept the world financial markets Monday, producing a collapse of stock prices and a 508-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average that easily eclipsed the infamous collapse of 1929. Analysts said fears were fueled by everything from the Reagan administration's fiscal policy to military activity in the Persian Gulf. As a result, the dollar fell along with stock prices, and gold prices soared around the globe. The dollar fell against all major currencies except the Canadian dollar, although some U.S. Treasury bonds actually scored slight gains as people sold stocks and sought the security of government issues. "Fear has overtaken greed (on Wall Street)," said Steven L. Eber, a Coral Gables, Fla., investment adviser. "In terms of confidence, the market is acting as if Moammar Gadhafi is going to be our next president." The Hong Kong stock market today suspended trading for the rest of the week in response to the spectacular worldwide slide. The stock exchange issued a statement saying its general committee held an emergency meeting this morning and unanimously decided to suspend trading through Friday. All outstanding transactions must be settled during that period, it said. The move was taken "to protect the investors and to allow the brokers to have time to settle the backlogs ... We need the time," Ronald Li, Panic rules market; Traders in a tizzy By Mariann Caprino Post-Star 10/20/87 AP Business Writer NEW YORK -- As traders join in the stampede to unload stocks, experts say that a profound loss of confidence in the market is generating even more selling. And while Wall Street professionals are said to have tough skins, psychologists warn that record drops in the Dow Jones industrial average are giving dealers real live "shock" symptoms. "There's just panic at this point. There's blood in the street," said one market observer who asked not to be identified. The stampede phenomenon began taking shape when the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks plummeted a record 108 points on Friday. On Monday, the bloodbath continued, eroding billions of dollars from the value of stocks. "There's a certain attitude which feeds on itself, and selling tends to create additional selling," said Lawrence Kudlow, chief financial economist at Bear Stearns & Co. Even if fundamental factors are not as terrible as trading activity would seem, one economist said it just doesn't make any sense to go against the market. "An emotional frenzy has pushed reason to the background," he said. But on a deeper level, as dealing continues amid intense turbulence, psychologists warn that traders are likely to be suffering from serious symptoms of shock and stress, impeding their ability to make quick, strategic decisions. "Either (traders) are having anxiety problems -- like heart palpitations and headaches -- or they're preoccupied with pessimistic thoughts of overwhelming doom," said Harold Berson, a Brooklyn-based psychiatrist. Whatever their ailments, "this is not the time to be making decisions," he said. Berson noted that traders are likely to lose their objectivity. "They will overlook some companies that are strong and let their emotions override reason." Trading and making money in a bear market is always difficult, and experts admit that even the pros who know the ropes have a difficult time dealing with wave after wave of selling. Briefly Post-Star 10/20/87 Exchange has no plans to close NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of the New York Stock Exchange said Monday that there are no plans to close the exchange at the moment in response to a securities selloff he described as "the worst market I have ever seen in my lifetime or would hope to see again." John Phelan, the exchange's chairman and chief executive, said there was no reason for the markets to open late today. Speaking at a crowded news conference at the exchange, Phelan called Monday's activity that saw the Dow Jones industrial average plummet an unofficial 508 points a "significant fall, a significant decline of assets." He said the drop to 1,738 in the widely watched indicator represented a "culmination of things that have been building up for the last nine months," including a rise in interest rates, rekindled inflation fears, a decline in the dollar and "five years of a bull market without a correction." Asked if Monday's severe performance constituted a financial "meltdown," Phelan replied, "I'd call it the nearest thing to a meltdown I'd ever want to see," and one that will have ripple effects in other markets. === Page 29 of 31 Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Wednesday, October 21, 1987 # Chaos on Wall Street # Converging events cause economic collapse By Gregg Fields Knight-Ridder On April 3, 1974, a huge cold front slammed headlong into a massive warm front in the Midwest. The result spawned a record-setting day of destructive tornadoes. Whole communities watched their pasts destroyed. Forests that took hundreds of years to grow were leveled. It was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence -- an incredible confluence of seemingly unimportant events. This week, the same thing happened on Wall Street. In Tokyo. In London, Hong Kong, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Singapore. Relatively small news events slammed into economic realities and, once converged, produced a whirlwind of economic collapse around the world. "What caused it is a convergence of a lot of factors coming together at one point," said Jim King, president of Ivy Financial Services, a Boston-based mutual fund organization. Among the factors: * Trade deficit: The U.S. trade deficit figure released last week was an improvement over recent months, but was disappointing to investors who had hoped that the trade crisis was easing. With a huge deficit, the U.S. economy must fight harder to attract foreign investors who see falling value for their glut of dollars. * The dollar: The U.S. government must support its currency if it has any hope of stabilizing its trade deficit. Falling currencies mean that Americans must pay more to buy imports, which can produce inflation. In addition, foreign investors become reluctant to use their strong currencies to buy dollar-denominated U.S. Treasury bonds, which the United States uses to fund its almost $2 trillion national debt. On Sunday, Treasury Secretary James Baker said one solution might be for the dollar to decline further against major currencies such as the West German mark and the Japanese yen. But that was a red flag for foreign investors, who sought to dump their holding of dollar-based investments. * Interest rates. Other than allowing the dollar to fall, the only way to support a currency is to raise interest rates, which make the U.S. currency a better investment compared to foreign investments. But high interest rates stifle economic growth, sending fears into investors who imagine a recession around the corner. Rates hurt because consumers must pay more to borrow for their purchases and new homes, and corporations pay more to borrow to expand. Stocks become less attractive because other investments have a higher yield. Abroad, rising interest rates hurt foreign economies, making them less likely to expand and buy U.S. exports. "Interest rates tend to dominate the market," said Bob Bear, chairman of the finance department at Florida International University. * Technology: Once investors saw the possibility of a decline in their stock values, the new world of computer trading became apparent. There's one stock market now. It runs virtually all-day, circling the globe, along with the sun, from Tokyo to New York. As panic gripped New York, it hit Tokyo, Hong Kong and the other world exchanges. The world's Western economies are so intricately tied that everybody knows that if one country falls -- particularly the United States -- they all will. Complicating matters more, the new world of technology means that humans don't decide when to trade stocks. Computers do. It's called programmed trading. As stocks fall, computer programs run by huge institutions place gigantic sell orders. Meanwhile, much of the trading isn't due to economic fundamentals at all. It's the result of trading in new financial instruments -- things like index options and futures contracts. These products are only a few years old, and have mushroomed in popularity. But never before has the world witnessed all these computer-driven programs kicking in at once. What occurred is much like a feeding frenzy in the cafeteria of a sinking ship. === Page 30 of 31 Black Monday II # Wall Street troubles hit home ## Investors, brokers, pension funds, companies all take hits By Rick Gladstone The Associated Press NEW YORK -- The stock market's stupefying drop has injected frightening uncertainty into the economy and could have a profound impact on millions of Americans who don't ordinarily think about the wild gyrations of Wall Street. The results of a violently depressed stock market may be felt over the next several months in the form of lower consumer spending, higher unemployment, reductions in business plans and even a recession, economists said Monday. "The stock market always has been a leading indicator of the economy," said John Markese, vice president of the American Association of Individual Investors in Chicago. "If the market is right and it's a precursor of a declining economy, then we all have to be worried." The impact of a bear market already has started to affect fortunes on Wall Street, where many young professional brokers accustomed to six-figure salaries and high-priced Manhattan condos are confronting the prospect they may take pay cuts or possibly lose their jobs. More than 1,000 people have been laid off in the past month, and several major brokerages reportedly are contemplating big restructurings on the theory that the market's 5-year-old upward direction has reversed and interest rates are starting to rise significantly. Many economists said the sudden loss of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stock value would ripple through the economy in waves, simply by making investors much more cautious about where they put their money or convincing them to keep it in safe, interest-bearing savings accounts. "A lot of people could be affected by a prolonged and severe decline in the market," said James Lorie, a professor at the University of Chicago's graduate business school. "A major market decline represents a major decline in wealth, and people's willingness to spend money depends on wealth. The indirect effect could be significant to people who don't invest." For example, investors who had wanted to buy new cars, houses or appliances with earnings from their stock mutual funds might scrap those plans now. That in turn could hurt auto dealers, retailers and building contractors, who already are suffering from economic sluggishness and rising interest rates. Many companies could be particularly hard hit by the market debacle because their pension funds were among the most significant institutional investors. Although the pensions of an estimated 40 million Americans aren't jeopardized, companies may have to compensate for stock losses suffered by those funds. "People should be concerned about the market because many own stocks, whether they know it or not, through a pension fund," said Steven Malin, an economist at the Conference Board, a business research group in New York. "Obviously, what has happened in many companies is that the rise in the stock market had been so propitious that pensions were overfunded and the companies didn't have to contribute," he said. "We may get into a situation where a company might have to make a contribution. For companies with tight budgets, that could mean jobs." Sharply lower stock prices also can severely hurt a corporation's ability to raise money for expansion. Companies historically have gone to the stock market to raise capital by selling shares to the public, but stock could now become much harder to sell. A2--Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. We # National Sce # Briefly ## Shuttle springs leak in engine CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An engine with a tiny leak has robbed workers of most of the cushion time they had to prepare Discovery for the first post-Challenger shuttle flight June 2 and may force a delay, NASA's administrator said Tuesday. Engineers suspected that one of Discovery's three main engines had sprung a leak following a 520-second test firing of the powerplant on Oct. 10 at the National Space Technology Laboratories near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Administrator James C. Fletcher confirmed at a news conference Tuesday that there indeed was a leak. "They found a very, very tiny leak in the oxidizer heat exchanger, but nevertheless it was beyond specs," he said. "We've moved up another engine and that's what's causing the tightness of the schedule because that will be delivered to the Kennedy Space Center somewhat later than the original one." === Page 31 of 31 # Panic could trigger recession ## Experts say stock collapse might create ripple effect By Rosalind Resnick Knight-Ridder Post Star UFOs or Economy 10/20/87 MIAMI -- This month's stock market collapse could signal a recession as early as 1989, but investor panic could trigger one even sooner, economists said Monday. Consumer belt-tightening -- sparked by the stock plunge -- could send the economy into a tailspin by next year, some observers fretted. If consumers spend less, businesses that sell goods and services will suffer, creating a ripple effect that could devastate the economy. "People are not going to be spending money on Christmas this year," said Steve Eber of Eber & Co. in Coral Gables, Fla. "They're going to say, 'My stock's been so hit I'll be damned if I buy that Tandy computer for Junior.'" Economists say there's long-term trouble, too. Though national economic indicators, such as unemployment, inflation and sales, remain healthy, rising interest rates that might reach 12 percent next year could strangle corporate growth and consumer spending by the end of the decade. Observers say they do not see a direct connection between Monday's stock market free fall and a souring economy, but they point to a common cause -- soaring interest rates. "We're not predicting a recession in 1989, but there is a strong possibility of one by 1990," said Cynthia Latta, a senior financial economist with Data Resources Inc. of Lexington, Mass. Paul Getman, a senior economist with WEFA Group in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., said he hopes the market will rebound in the next six months, but he believes a recession is likely in 1989, triggered largely by rising interest rates, the budget and trade deficit and a plunging dollar. "(The decline) is signaling that there are serious problems out there -- the many deficits we have and the problems with the currency," Getman said. "For a long time, the stock market has been playing catch-up. At some point, the party will be over." Monday's record plunge surpassed historical declines, dropping 22.62 percent to 1738.41. Even after the latest drop, the value of its 30 industrial stocks has more than doubled ### What happened: * Market falls 508 points, worst single drop in history. * Volume of 604.4 million shares nearly doubles old record. * Losing stocks swamp gainers, 1,976 to 41. * Gold prices hit five-year high. * Bonds benefit, get money from stock market. * Dollar stays relatively stable. Nov 1987 Bonney Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8711b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/489f9d953596f468fd302ae27b30ae16.pdf 133f12a23c1168db38d243b647f17e35 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/207babfb0fb58de7dfcf32f15275758e.txt 11f587d1d1dc0936af056bfe66e82904 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 90 Ted Owens RT 149, RR2 Box 2169 Fort Ann, New York 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 JUL 3 1987 12827 USA 39 Jeffrey y reports... my UFOs brought Ann and, through tremendous. They told me that they that meshed with me. reason for bringing me and contacts and communication. lous reasons of theirs). ast that there are three UFOs of what they have told me. his at all, from anyone. appeared over our barn barn containing 50 cows). .not only Beau. As you hey were seen by a scientist many other people. Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 90 Jeffrey Thursday, July 30, 1987 SCIENTISTS As I have told you before in my reports...my UFOs brought me and my family here to Fort Ann and, through tremendous synchronicity, stopped us here. They told me that they had certain time windows here that meshed with me. They told me that their sole reason for bringing me and mine here was to make powerful contacts and communication. I have also told you in the past that there are three UFOs over me at all times (for various reasons of theirs). Herein is the documented proof of what they have told me. There can be no rebuttal on this at all, from anyone. Tuesday night two giant UFOs appeared over our barn (which is the Tom Fish dairy barn containing 50 cows). Beau saw them at 3 AM. But...not only Beau. As you will see from the newsclip, they were seen by a scientist and his friends.. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 3 of 90 Briefly Post-Star THURSDAY 7/30/87 # Lights filled sky above Fort Ann (here) On a lonely Washington County road Tuesday night, a van full of people pulled over to stare at bright columns of light in the sky. "There were five or six columns or clusters of light," said Larry Smotroff, Dean of Community Service and Continuing Education at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, Conn. "They were a bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity." Smotroff said he and six of his friends were returning from a movie at Aviation Mall in Queensbury when they spotted the lights sometime between 11:30 p.m. and midnight. He said the movie, "Superman IV," stunk - but the lights were more impressive. "We were taken back by what we considered quite some phenomenon," he said. Smotroff, who holds degrees in Psychology and Communications, does not have a background in the hard sciences, such as physics. But he said he has a background in scientific research. Members of the group watched the lights from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road in Fort Ann. "We watched them for a good 12 or 15 minutes before we continued on our way," Smotroff said. Smotroff, who said no one in the group had been drinking, said he had never seen any type of UFOs before. But he said he had recently seen a documentary film on the subject. An operator at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base and a dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff's Department said they had not received any reports of the lights. === Page 4 of 90 7/29/87 This morning my son, Beau (24) reported to me, greatly excited, that last night about 3 AM, something woke him up. He went to his bedroom window and looked out. Over the barn was a giant tube; vertical. There were two lights inside it. Then suddenly a second giant vertical tube appeared beside it. This second tube then changed form, into a square. (Ted) and together they formed a "10", and inside the square it was very dark black. Now the vertical tube was about a mile long and 50 yds. wide and the square was about 2 miles wide and 2 miles long this all lasted for 1 min. Then they both disappeared simultaneously. Then the dogs started barking up a storm for a few minutes. (Beau) ---------- Added note: This morning, around 7 AM, when I walked from our house the long road out past the barn with 50 cows in it (to get my morning newspaper) the cows were wild inside the barn -- squalling and raising hell. Normally they are quiet. I wondered if a coyote was inside the barn. Lots of coyotes around us. (This happened before Beau woke up, came out of his bedroom and notified me re UFOs over the barn. Ted === Page 5 of 90 STaGe 1 BRIGHT LIGHTS Luminisante Tube Barn WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 6 of 90 STAGE 2 It changed into a small square and then it grew bigger First small WHITE OUTLINE Dark INSIDE then turning very large WED. 7/29/87 (BOTTOM) === Page 7 of 90 STage 3 This Tube appeared on the left and after 1 minute it all disappeared. WED 7/29/87 (Bottom) === Page 8 of 90 September 28, 1987 Scientists Jeffrey ① My son, Beau, and I agree, at this point, that in the past year we have been "taken" at night by my UFOs, then "put back" again, at various times. Jerome (9), Teddy (16), Beau (24) and I have had the same dream (at different times). Dream: UFO lands in back of our home in this isolated location. Each one of us tried to fight off the aliens (about ten of them.) Each of us had an alien seize our arms from behind to hold us. Now, we have seen UFOs over our house and over our barn. (See file) And we were not the only ones to see them - our neighbors across the road saw them and so did town's people. Remember the Barney Miller case? He + his wife had like-dreams, were hypnotized, and the case was validated. ② My UFOs have given me a new code word and symbol - so that if anyone comes to me with the code then they are either aliens or humans sent by my UFOs. ③ Get a movie-tape called "Life Force," and play it on your VCR. It is from a book written by Colin Wilson - who wrote about my work in his non-fiction book, "Mysteries." ④ Years ago Dr. Rhine + Loue invited me to visit them in North Carolina. Rhine took me into a big barn. Suddenly, what sounded like 30-50 dogs went crazy. He had them in a separate part of the barn. Here, mysteriously, the owner of this dairy farm who'd gone broke - got new funds - and there are 50 cows nearby which have gone noisily crazy on various occasions, at night. Owens === Page 9 of 90 August 14, 1987 SCIENTISTS I could have gotten this to you months ago...but no money for xeroxing and mailing. Even this will have to go out to you 2 or 3 at a time. Will take weeks and weeks to complete sending. Frankly, I need help. I am not Jim and Tammy Bakker. I am real. Working with the UFOs to help the human race and the earth itself. While they make and spend crooked millions, my family and I undergo hardship. There has to be something wrong with that formula. We need a thousand a month more than what we have, to make it, and for me to do my job. My sponsor covers the heavy bills like rent, electric, etc., but food, gasoline, etc., takes more. (God bless my sponsor for keeping me and mine in the ballgame to do what I have to do.) Last winter we almost froze, trying to keep the electric bill down...so if you can't send money, think about blankets, stuff like that. I asked for help once before (the first time I ever have...and there was no response.) Now, look at page 1 of 3/31/87 file. UFO activity around our house and area lately has greatly increased. See enclosed separate file re us, plus other witnesses. P. 2: See page 2 of 1/29/87 file...and notice how many rotten persons in top key positions of government have been eliminated since. P. 3: The Soviets report a "green" mystery. In the late 60's when Chuck Jay was interviewing me for my book, he told me how his home, and everything in it, had inexplicably turned green one day. Also on 6/19 my sons and I observed 3 UFOs maneuvering over our house...one for 1/2 hour. On 7/23 I was working in my office/bedroom when a white-colored humanoid floated past the door while I watched in amazement. No head...just trunk and legs. That same morning Beau (24) came upstairs and showed me a strange triangle of three red dots on his lower abdomen, concentrically perfect, which had appeared overnight...and said that his head hurt. Also note the "Missile Missing?" newsclip...which says that if the national aviation agency did not "acknowledge the existence of UFOs" then there could be no UFO. Ha ha. Pretty much sums up the attitude of scientists and U.S. Government. P. 42: (This page out of sequence, for a reason.) Note the "boa constrictor" clip. The night before, I dreamed that I was in a bathroom, looked up and there, curled around a waterpipe, was a 15-foot boa constrictor. I ran into the other room and brought my wife Martha to see the huge snake. There was more to the dream...but next morn this clip appeared in the newspaper. So I had a marvelous precognitive dream, in my opinion. "7 charged"...after we moved way out into this almost-isolated location we discovered that three different men, connected with town thugs, were a threat to our family through house-burglary; Dan Fish, totally rotten son of our landlord...Dan Dio, thrown out of high school last year for doing dastardly things...and Seward Habshi, son of the Syrians in the house across the road (since have moved away). For the past several months Seward, a close buddy of Dan Fish, hung around our barn nearby, talking to Dan and gesturing toward our house. Next, I came home from town and found Seward (an ex-con) in our kitchen using our phone, with Dan Fish standing outside. I told Tom Fish, our landlord and a lieutenant in the Great Meadow State Prison in Fort Ann, about it...he warned us never to let Seward into our house. As you can see...at least he will be out of circulation for awhile. Now === Page 10 of 90 2 Let me add that some time ago I threw Dan Fish out of our house for doing some very rotten things. He had conned his way into "friendship" with Beau and Teddy, so that he could slip around after we had gone to bed, in the small hours of the morning (he asked to be allowed to sleep in the recreation room), and do rotten things. But I caught him at it. (For instance, stealing most of the food in our refrigerator and hiding it outside in his car.) My family desperately needs to get out of New York State...we are in great jeopardy here...for reasons that I cannot divulge. But it would cost four or five thousand to relocate...which we do not have...so we are pinned down here. P. 4: On June 1 I phoned Wayne Grover in Lantana, Florida, and warned that something "big" was about to happen...and that the U.S. had "better go on the alert." On June 12 16 States were affected by a powerful earthquake. Note in the newsclip that my actual word "alert" is used...also applying to various nuclear plants. Then note the clipping re the "meteor" creating seismic waves setting off vibrations in the Earth. Go back a number of years in your files and you will see that I told you that my huge UFOs could dive toward Earth then zoom upward again, creating the same effect. P. 6: I was wakened during the night by "cat" sounds underneath my bedroom window. I got up and went to the window. Clearly and unmistakably the sound of a feline said, in perfect English: "Open...open...open...open door...open...open...open...open...oooh!" And that was it. No more. We have been inundated here at this location and this house with UFO activity and phenomena for months. We have observed UFOs overhead time and time again, both day and night. P. 7 -- Beau, Teddy and I have all had basically the same dream...we were captured by UFO aliens out in back of the house, in the dark of night. Based upon the Barney Hill experience...wherein he and his wife had no memory of having been captured by UFO aliens...yet the memory broke into their dreams...I sincerely believe that we were indeed captured whilst doing some of my research, out in the dark night in back of our house. We have been out there doing a lot of UFO research these past months. We have also been in the dark woods nearby, in the dark of night. (Am moving right along, because much of this file is self-explanatory, if you will observe my markings and notes, combined with the newsclips.) P. 20: While watching "23 Paces To Baker Street" on TV...in between some experiments that I was conducting...an English Bobby (policeman) raised his whistle to blow it. I told my son Beau "Oh no! I hate hearing those shrill English whistles!" Before the Bobby could blow the whistle...which he'd raised to his mouth...all the sound went off on the TV set. As soon as the whistle had been blown the sound came on the TV again, and continued. I told you some time ago that my UFOs and I are working daily to improve the human race by eliminating...in one way or another...bad, evil top key people...so that hopefully good, better people could be inserted in their place. See the cartoon on this page. Deaver, Meese, North, Nofziger, Poindexter, Casey...and some others yet to be weeded out. [Signature/Symbol] === Page 11 of 90 Briefly Puzzling pillars were the lights Post-Star 7/31/89 The spectacle of the Northern Lights accounted for several people's siting of "columns" of lights at night this week in the Glens Falls area, according to an authority at the Schenectady Planetarium. "It was quite a nice display and it lasted about an hour," Jane Mann, the planetarium's lecturer, said Thursday. Ms. Mann also said Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights have offered opportunities to view the lights in the northern sector of the sky, just under the Big Dipper. Seven people reported seeing five or six columns or clusters of light in Fort Ann Tuesday night. Larry Smotroff of Waterbury, Conn., one of the sky gazers, said the lights appeared bluish-aquamarine and they varied in intensity. Smotroff's group watched the dazzling display for about 15 minutes from the intersection of Route 149 and Buttermilk Falls Road. Usually the lights appear white with a tinge of green and sometimes beautiful red, Ms. Mann said. However, people have difficulty distinguishing colors at night, so the lights might have looked blue to those people, she said. Predicting when the Northern Lights can be seen is very difficult, Ms. Mann said. The lights appear when sun spots -- relatively cooler regions of the sun -- throw off gaseous flares. The lights can be seen if the earth is in the path of those flares and the sun's gases mix with those of the earth's atmosphere, Ms. Mann said. "You're talking about a lot of chances. It's always a big if, a big maybe." Siting of the Northern Lights is not limited to the summer season, she said. === Page 12 of 90 Scientists 1/29/87 2 P. 6: As I have told you, the U.S. is under attack by the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. Here you have the poisonous Red Tide attacking Texas and Gulf waters...then on p. 7 a deadly Brown Tide is attacking from the Atlantic side. Am certain that you will find this article, particularly, fascinating. Then on p. 8 bodies of water and The Sun Attack wiping out the oyster crop on a massive scale. P. 9: The crooked Jackie Presser gets a tumor on his lung...and various bigtime mob bosses get put away. This is what my UFOs are currently working at...to eliminate the bad members of the human race in key positions of power and replace them with good humans. It is interesting, in a synchronistic way, that Judge Owen gave top Mafia bosses 100 years each. Remember some years ago when I produced a UFO over the heads of two policemen in a certain area of Virginia..(a demonstration for a scientist.) One of the policemen was named Owen. And if you have the green book that I wrote you can read about another of my experiments whereby Big Foot stopped a car, reached in and grabbed the woman driver by the hair. Her name? Owen. P. 10: This clip is interesting because I gave a secret, unpublicized demonstration of my UFO powers in Ocala...attacking the Ocala newspaper building with various psi-force techniques to obtain various results. To my astonishment this clip appeared, relating to a UFO kidnapping an Ocala resident. P. 11: Fort Ann is where we live, outside of town in a semi-isolated area just like this man. Burglars are attacking homes in this area. There only a handful of police here. Last week a man broke into a house near here and raped and robbed a young woman. After he walked out of her house she grabbed a pistol that she had handy and blasted him with it from a window. The police are tying the man into a number of rapes in this area. The rest of the enclosed file deals with results from The Sun Attack. Ted Owens (PK Man) New address: Rt. 149, RR 2, Box 2169, Fort Ann, New York, 12827. Phone: (512) 632-5192 Owens PS: Nature now is thinning out the over-populated human race with cancer, AIDS, etc. When Nature has over-population under control, then it will supply the human race with answers to cancer, AIDS, etc., and these deadly illnesses will be stopped and controlled by humans. (If you have a ranch with enough grass to feed 1,000 cows - you do not allow the herd to grow to 3,000 cows.) 2 === Page 13 of 90 Scientists 3/31/87 2 and Vermont. It is described herein on p. 6. P. 7: Two more Russian space failures have occurred. My UFOs are indeed busy. P. 9: Note that my UFOs are weeding out many "bad" people in key positions in order to get better people in. Also note all of the troubles the Navy and Marine Corps are having with military aircraft. P. 10: In "The New Collective" note the changes for the better that have taken place at the top of our government...by weeding out undesirable, corrupt, crooked humans...and replacing them with better humans. This is not by accident or coincidence. The next few sheets deal with the UFOs "sun attack." Finally...(1) This Spring, Summer and Fall I will be telepathing my UFOs to produce UFOs and alien living forms in this geographical area of upper New York State for police, scientists, and other "responsible" people to see...as well as my own family (who are presumably "not responsible" people...bit of sarcasm there.) (2) A thought on my part. I believe that the reason that there are "gay" men and women is...because as the fetus is growing in pre-birth the hormone level in their body is too low for their developing brain to be able to differentiate the proper sex for that body...although the hormone level is adequate for the brain to assign proper genitalia to that body...and in post-birth this "uncertainty" as to the sex of that body is carried forward in that human's life and develops ultimately into a "gay" format. (3) About 7 AM on 2/24/87 Teddy and I witnessed a "mother ship" and four smaller UFOs in the air over the huge field in back of our house...from the sliding glass doors of our dining room, which overlooks our back-field area and woods and further along, the mountains. Then, at 9 AM, same day, on the Donohue Show, TV, the show was about a giant UFO seen by many in upper New York state (our approx. area). The man on the show had been captured by the giant UFO and he described the experience. He stated that it had occurred two days earlier than the Donohue Show. (4) My son Beau and I witnessed a stationary UFO near our house. It kept changing colors. (This was 3/14/87 at approx. 8:30 PM). At 8:45 PM Beau and Teddy found enormous 3-toed "Bigfoot" tracks in the snow in the field in back of our house...using flashlights. (5) 3/22/87. Last night, for hours, our power was out. Earlier in the morning Beau had told me that during the night he had heard a UFO over our house...like a giant swarm of buzzing bees, sound. When it woke him he found that he was levitating up in the air of his bedroom and could not speak or move. He said that the bedroom walls glowed, like white light, in a diamond-shaped pattern. (6) 3/22/87. In the afternoon Beau, Teddy, Jerome and I were driving to town. We had just left our house (out in the country in a semi-isolated location, ten miles from town.) From our van we all witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the air ahead of us. It had small, stubby fins. It floated along, making no sound, then stopped dead for a brief period, then just vanished completely...like a magician's trick. First it was there, then it was not there. (7) 3/23/87 About 12:30 noon Beau and I drove to Price Choppers supermarket in Glens Falls to get supplies for the family. Suddenly all the lights overhead in my area went out, while all the other lights in the store stayed on. A girl employee smiled at me and said that she guessed the supermarket hadn't paid its electric bill. Beau and I drove back home and the light in the hall outside my bedroom flickered off and on as Beau and I watched. === Page 14 of 90 Alien in area **Alien stranger had a message for all of us** Editor: Post-Star 10/7/87 "Expose the Charlatan" goes up the familiar cry. Long and steady was the gaze of the stranger as he stood by my bed. His gnarled body with large protruding eyes told of a wisdom and age far beyond that of normal human beings. There had just been reports of a UFO sighted over Alaska by a Japanese pilot, and also on radar. Here he stood by my bedside and, though not saying a word, seemed to telepathically convey a message. Somber indeed came the words that the world had better do a turn around soon or thermonuclear warfare and destruction beyond repair was the future. ET had struck again. The starbird took to the skies and who would believe. The Charlatan? Of over 1/2 million close encounters when asked about the Saviour, the little green men say he is one. The battle of science-super science Atheism vs. Religion goes on. James L. Williams Warrensburg Why the UFO Base? selective catalytic converter My UFOs will target it with OD powers from key pyramids, Stonehenge, etc., to block nuclear war, etc. BASE Tues approx. 7 AM Loud noise like a thousand trains. Roaring noise. Our house shook and the walls made popping noises and cracking noises. (Not thunder or lightning cause weather was clear). Approximately 15 min. later this same thing repeated. Owens SCIENTISTS As you can see from the above newsclip...a UFO alien appeared by the bedside of this man in nearby Warrensburg. The happening was exactly the same thing that happened to me in Philadelphia, years ago. And the alien told him what I have been telling you. Time is short...and the Base must be forthcoming very soon, if a nuclear war is to be avoided. For years I have been telling you that I must have a UFO Base...but I did not know why my UFOs needed a Base. I just did what they told me. This morning, 10/7/87, they finally fill (typewriter broke down) filled me in on it. My UFOs will target their Base with other-dimensional Powers, drawn from key pyramids, Stonehenge, etc. These powers will flow through the Base and I will be used as a selective catalytic converter to reconstruct the powers, which will then flow from the Base around the world to create special effects and conditions (block nuke war between Russia and America; improve the human race; heal Earth, which humans have so badly damaged - and so on. Owens 8 +2 === Page 15 of 90 # DIARY OF A MAD PLANET: ## The 1985-86 visit of Halley's Comet. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes," wrote a man calling himself Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar). Not quite right: this latest visit of Halley's Comet (HC) saw the death or fall of a few "princes" and a great many ordinary people, and includes the death of the 'officially' oldest man (see Paul Sieveking's INTO THREE FIGURES on p54). But visually, HC could hardly be said to have blazed forth. Even from the best viewing locations HC was an unexcitingly faint smudge: one woman travelled 4000 miles to Peru only to complain bitterly about the "crummy fuzzball". [10,14 April 1986] Fort's comment on the much-feared and equally disappointing 1910 visit seems most apt. He wrote: "It was about as terrifying as the scratch of a match on the seat of some britches half a mile away." [Books, p141] Nevertheless, in view of the widespread belief, which we ourselves accept until a more refined expression comes along, that astronomical and terrestrial events can be related in some ill-understood way, we thought we'd better monitor events during HC's visit. ### TIMETABLE The crucial astronomical dates were: **27 Nov 1985** - incoming HC closest to Earth. **10 Feb 1986** - HC parhelion, closest to sun. **11 Apr 1986** - departing HC closest to Earth. The strain of forces in the HC-Earth relationship obviously does not suddenly switch on or off at these dates, but builds up gradually as proximity increases followed by the equally gradual release of tensions. Because this Earth is a dynamic system and we were looking for effects which themselves might be the result of long, slow or complicated cause-and-effect chains we expected to find more notable events in the withdrawal period (after HC had passed its 9-11th Feb parhelion). For this reason we widened our study period from September 1985 to May 1986. Before we get to the listing proper, we have a few interesting notes... ### KEYNOTES ▶ 'Disaster', is an ancient word, derived from Latin roots (dis + astrum) meaning "an unfavourable aspect of a star or planet" according to the OED, and all that that implies is certainly applicable to HC's visit. ▶ During the proximity of HC we noted the deaths of Krishnamurti and L.Ron Hubbard; the assassinations of Sweden's premier Olof Palme and Zafer al Masri, a Palestinian mayor in Israel; the flight of 'Baby' Doc Duvalier from Haiti and Ferdinand Marcos from the Philipines; the erosion of Maggie Thatcher's invincible image, and ditto for the West's space technology. ▶ Of any event in this miserable catalogue, undoubtedly the greatest anxiety to the greatest number was caused by the explosion and meltdown of reactor No.4 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, on 26th April 1986, releasing a radioactive cloud which drifted south and west over Scandinavia, continental Europe, and changed direction to reach Britain at the begining of May. 23-freaks might like to know the blast happened at 1.23pm (or 23.23 Paris time), and the first bulletin issues by Soviet authorities the next day had just 23 words. The Chernobyl accident had been preceded in Britain by a serious leak at Sizewell in January 1986 which forced its closure until May. After Chernobyl other stories of leaks at at least one other British reactor in the preceding weeks came to light. At the close of April there was a fire at a heavy water plant in eastern India, and a non-nuclear accident at a reactor in Taiwan. In May a fire disabled the Heysham reactor in Cleveland; a leak was found at a new West German reactor; 5 men were accidentally irradiated at the French reactor at La Hague; a fire destroyed a cooling tower at the Browns Ferry reactor in Alabama; and another fire caused a leak at the Dounreay reactor. See HOT GOSSIP (below) for a few ephemeral comments on Chernobyl... ▶ In all the debates about Chernobyl, the long-term effects on the ecology of the region is hardly given a thought. The Ukraine straddles the main migratory routes of birds and insects who can travel as far south as Africa and all the way up to the Arctic circle. According to a Dutch environmental organization the nuclear cloud coincided with the annual northerly migration of many songbirds, especially nightingales, to their breeding grounds in Finland, where a great many of them have since died, their bodies containing high rates of radioactivity. [19,30 May 1986] The same source reports that 150 of 270 racing pigeons released in Marseilles failed to return to their hometown of Piacenza, in northern Italy. The Italian conservationist magazine Airone attributes this loss to aerial radioactivity (though we have to wonder why 120 of the birds could make the trek safely?). ▶ Concurrent with the nuclear circus was a series of disasters involving space programmes 26 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 16 of 90 # DIARY OF A MAD PLANET: ## The 1985-86 visit of Halley's Comet. UFOs Sun Attack UFOs Sun Attack/Fortean Times #47 Autumn 1986 "When beggars die, there are no comets seen: the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes," wrote a man calling himself Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar). Not quite right: this latest visit of Halley's Comet (HC) saw the death or fall of a few "princes" and a great many ordinary people, and includes the death of the 'officially' oldest man (see Paul Sieveking's INTO THREE FIGURES on p54). But visually, HC could hardly be said to have blazed forth. Even from the best viewing locations HC was an unexcitingly faint smudge: one woman travelled 4000 miles to Peru only to complain bitterly about the "crummy fuzzball". [10,14 April 1986] Fort's comment on the much-feared and equally disappointing 1910 visit seems most apt. He wrote: "It was about as terrifying as the scratch of a match on the seat of some britches half a mile away." [Books, p141] Nevertheless, in view of the widespread belief, which we ourselves accept until a more refined expression comes along, that astronomical and terrestrial events can be related in some ill-understood way, we thought we'd better monitor events during HC's visit. ### TIMETABLE The crucial astronomical dates were: **27 Nov 1985** - incoming HC closest to Earth. **10 Feb 1986** - HC parhelion, closest to sun. **11 Apr 1986** - departing HC closest to Earth. The strain of forces in the HC-Earth relationship obviously does not suddenly switch on or off at these dates, but builds up gradually as proximity increases followed by the equally gradual release of tensions. Because this Earth is a dynamic system and we were looking for effects which themselves might be the result of long, slow or complicated cause-and-effect chains we expected to find more notable events in the withdrawal period (after HC had passed its 9-11th Feb parhelion). For this reason we widened our study period from September 1985 to May 1986. Before we get to the listing proper, we have a few interesting notes... ### KEYNOTES * 'Disaster', is an ancient word, derived from Latin roots (dis + astrum) meaning "an unfavourable aspect of a star or planet" according to the OED, and all that that implies is certainly applicable to HC's visit. * During the proximity of HC we noted the deaths of Krishnamurti and L.Ron Hubbard; the assassinations of Sweden's premier Olof Palme and Zafer al Masri, a Palestinian mayor in Israel; the flight of 'Baby' Doc Duvalier from Haiti and Ferdinand Marcos from the Philipines; the erosion of Maggie Thatcher's invincible image, and ditto for the West's space technology. * Of any event in this miserable catalogue, undoubtedly the greatest anxiety to the greatest number was caused by the explosion and meltdown of reactor No.4 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, on 26th April 1986, releasing a radioactive cloud which drifted south and west over Scandinavia, continental Europe, and changed direction to reach Britain at the begining of May. 23-freaks might like to know the blast happened at 1.23pm (or 23.23 Paris time), and the first bulletin issues by Soviet authorities the next day had just 23 words. The Chernobyl accident had been preceded in Britain by a serious leak at Sizewell in January 1986 which forced its closure until May. After Chernobyl other stories of leaks at at least one other British reactor in the preceding weeks came to light. At the close of April there was a fire at a heavy water plant in eastern India, and a non-nuclear accident at a reactor in Taiwan. In May a fire disabled the Heysham reactor in Cleveland; a leak was found at a new West German reactor; 5 men were accidentally irradiated at the French reactor at La Hague; a fire destroyed a cooling tower at the Browns Ferry reactor in Alabama; and another fire caused a leak at the Dounreay reactor. See HOT GOSSIP (below) for a few ephemeral comments on Chernobyl... * In all the debates about Chernobyl, the long-term effects on the ecology of the region is hardly given a thought. The Ukraine straddles the main migratory routes of birds and insects who can travel as far south as Africa and all the way up to the Arctic circle. According to a Dutch environmental organization the nuclear cloud coincided with the annual northerly migration of many songbirds, especially nightingales, to their breeding grounds in Finland, where a great many of them have since died, their bodies containing high rates of radioactivity. [19,30 May 1986] The same source reports that 150 of 270 racing pigeons released in Marseilles failed to return to their hometown of Piacenza, in northern Italy. The Italian conservationist magazine Airone attributes this loss to aerial radioactivity (though we have to wonder why 120 of the birds could make the trek safely?). * Concurrent with the nuclear circus was a series of disasters involving space programmes 26 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 17 of 90 of a number of countries, the most serious of which was the death of the seven American 'Challenger' shuttle astronauts early in October 1985. This was followed by the 'in-flight' destruction of a Delta satellite launcher, and revelations about careless manufacture and assembly of space vehicles and components, forcing a moratorium on all US space activities. NASA officials were said to be shocked and bewildered by "this...very uncanny, strange series of events." Then a French satellite launcher blasted off and blew up. Only the Russians had any success, performing the first link-up between two space stations (Soyuz T-15 and Salyut-7). ▶ In 1910 a second comet eclipsed HC in brightness. This visit of HC also coincided with a second comet, spotted by Chinese astronomers as passing quite close to HC, which they say happens "once in every 1000 years." [38,29 Sept 1985] ▶ In the week HC was closest to Earth (10th April 1986) a woman died in Yugoslavia after spending 24 years in a coma. It might be mere coincidence (whatever that is) that 'coma' is a the name of a comet's tail, and that the tail-end of this woman's life was spent in "the longest recorded coma in medical history". [2,16 April 1986] ▶ HC itself went through a strange transformation during 1986, depending upon which 'expert' observer you believed. On 10th January West Germany's Maxpap Institute of Astronomy said that Halley's tail had developed a dark spot which they believed to be a hole created by "solar, whirlwind-like forces". [33,1 Feb 1986] On 18th February HC became brighter because it had developed seven tails following an "outburst" at the nucleus 3-4 days previously, said the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile. [35,22 Feb; 2,24 Feb 1986] By mid-April there is no mention of multiple tails. Worse, we are told by Sky and Telescope magazine that HC "lost most of its tail about March 21". [12,18 Apr 1986] Some astronomers implied this was expected: as the side of HC facing the sun warmed up HC spouted jets of gas and dust. This was just before the appearance of the seven tails. Far from being the bright star in a party dress, HC turned out to be "one of the darkest objects ever detected in the solar system", due, it is said, to the amounts of dust. [10,15 Mar 1986] ▶ The last solar flares in a long time - and in a period of sunspot 'peace' too (ie. not in the usual 11-point-something year cycle) - on 4th February. The flares caused severe electromagnetic interference, disrupting satellite communications, most forms of broadcasting, phone lines and even power distribution. They even interfered with data from the Pioneer 12 Venus orbiter, delaying by two weeks pictures of HC at its closest approach to the sun. Dramatic auroras followed in the Earth's magnetosphere on the 8th February and were seen throughout the northern hemisphere from points unusually far south. ▶ A record prolonged and extreme winter in China through to April/May, culminating in what must be the largest hailstones yet. In his new book, *The violent earth* (reviewed this issue), Frank Lane attributes the largest recorded hailstone to China, weighing "about 9 pounds" and falling in 1909. This is exceeded many times over by the 33lb stones that fell in Sichuan around the 19/20th May, and 11lb stones fell there on the 8th of May. But the most astonishing hailstone must be that which fell in Guangdong on 19/20 April; it weighed a record 60 kilogrammes (132 pounds). Heavy! April and May also saw many storms of giant hailstones in Bangladesh. Quite appropriate for an icey comet. ▶ Human behaviour did not escape this visit. For example: Michael Hoffman collected a depressing cluster of deaths via accidents and murders on Hallowe'en (30th October) 1985. Although the subject is too vast and varied for inclusion here, we do note several suicide waves (see 9 Sept; 1 + 4 Oct; 10 Feb; 26 Mar; 8 Apr.). For connections between HC and suicides see Loren Coleman's article on p68. ▶ We were surprised, ourselves, at the extent of what we call 'superlatives' (hottest, wettest, coldest, worst, etc) between our cut-off dates. April 86 piles catastrophe upon disaster as many thousands were made homeless almost daily. There were also some drastic reversals - regions suffering a bad drought which are then drowned in torrential rain. See NOT THEIR DAY on p16 for such an over-reaction to the rain dance of Dee-O-Det, medicine man to the Smoke Red tribe in Arizona. ### HOT GOSSIP There was bound to be wild rumour-mongering in the wake of the Ukranian nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl. What little we got in the way of clippings showed that most of continental Europe got pretty excited as the radioactive clouds drifted back and forth overhead. For example an Italian hen laid a large egg - weighing 208g, with a 7cm diameter - and then stopped laying altogether, which was blamed on the radioactivity. *Le Courrier de l'Ouest* 9 May 1986. The same paper for 26 May 1986 refers vaguely to "a great number" of rumours flying around Poland. A man claimed the milk in his fridge went "lumious"; another said the radiation made him suddenly lose his hair. Doctors in Rumania were swamped by anxious requests about methods of protection from radiation, while some hospitals there had to cope with numbers of children inadvertently poisoned by their parents, who had heard a rumour that a drink of iodine would do the trick. Among the inevitable Chernobyl post-mortems is an obscure note of a divine piece of lexilinking. Writing in the *D. Telegraph* (28 July 1986, and citing the *New York Times*) Ian Ball STRANGE DAYS / 27 === Page 18 of 90 refers to a discovery that "with the uncanny speed common to rumour in the Soviet Union...had spread across the Soviet land, contributing to the swelling body of lore..." about the disaster. Ball reveals that the name 'Chernobyl' is the Ukranian word for the bitter herb wormwood which once grew in such abundance on the banks of the Dnieper that the region was named after it. What has fascinated, even shocked, "atheists and believers" alike is the discovery that 'wormwood' is specifically associated in the Bible with a catastrophically poisonous conflagration. Indeed, Revelations chapter 8, verses 10 and 11 reads: "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. / And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many died of the waters, because they were made bitter." Perhaps one day a folklorist will collect that "swelling body of lore". Meanwhile, says Ball, Bibles and Ukranian dictionaries are being pored over "thoughout Russia" by citizens wanting to verify this curious coincidence. In West Sussex, P.J.Edmonds, was likewise compelled and wrote to the Telegraph (1 Aug 1986) a confirmatory letter. He adds that "Chernobyl may also be translated as 'a black event'." This last observation was made doubly interesting when Val Stevenson pointed out to us two entries in Barbara Walker's truly impressive Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (Harper & Row, 1984 - reviewed in FT44). 'Wormwood' notes the herb was sacred to the Great Mother, and in Russia to pagan nymphs (Vilas). Continuing the female associations, wormwood was the chief ingredient of absinthe, first made by French witches. Via the German for wormwood, Wermut, we get the French word vermouth. 'Chernobog' sheds more light on Edmonds' "black event". Chernobog was a chthonian Lord of Death, a "black sun beneath the earth" in opposition to the heavenly White Sun. All of which seems very apt when we consider the narrowly averted prospect of the Chernobyl reactor burning its way into the earth below and thereby contaminating the water table and the nearby Dnieper River. The Ukranians, says Walker, still curse their enemies with "May the Black God exterminate you!" And he almost did... # THE LISTING The following listing is far from complete - for example we have not correlated it with Albert Thomas' regular listing of 'Worldwide Weather Disasters' in the Journal of Meteorology. It simply represents a random selection of the superlative phenomena and disasterous events that made their way onto our 'Halley heap'. "Hide the cows and cover ponds and wells," advises this illustration in a 1983 Soviet civil defense manual. The melt-down at Chernobyl, on 26 April 1986, gave little chance to put it to its practical use. ### SEPTEMBER 1985 9 - Philippines, 68 Ata tribespeople are killed by shamaness who gave them poisoned food, see FT46 p18. 10 - London, a curious object falls from sky to smash on (but not through!) the glass conservatory roof of a house in Twickenham, not a meteorite as reported but "about 4ozs, duck-egg size, grey matter" which an 'expert' thought more like congealed soot. [31,13+20 Sept] 19 - Mexico City, hit by first of two quakes, 8000 dead. 21 - England, several lumps of ice fell from the sky into a factory yard at Isleworth, Surrey. [31,27 Sept] 30 - USA, "largest Sept. snowfall ever" in northeastern Minnesota, record low temps. elsewhere in state, also "wettest Sept. since 1926". [12,1 Oct] ### OCTOBER 1985 ? - Britain, "warmest" & "driest" October since 1978. [10,1 Nov; 8,20 Nov] ? - China, "earlier than usual" blizzards begin to white-out Qinghai province lasting through to March 86, during which time 34,500 herdsmen had to be rescued, million livestock animals die + unknown number of wild animals, 15,000 people treated for frostbite, snow-blindness etc. [21,6 Mar 1986] 1 - USA, Arapahoe Indians at Wind River, Wyoming, perform a sacred pipe ceremony after nine young men kill themselves in the two months since 3rd August. [12,11 Oct + 3 Nov] On 18 March 1986 there was another suicide. [12,20 Mar] 4 - Brazil, freak hailstorm devastates Itabirinha town, sheets of ice in streets 1ft 28 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 19 of 90 deep, 20 killed, 4000 homeless. [18,5 Oct] 4 - England, in the next two weeks 5 teenage girls, all pupils at a Slough, Berks, school, attempt suicide. [36,18 Oct] 5 - Puerto Rico, hundreds die in mudslide after rainstorm. 8 - USA, heavy snow on Wyoming, Minnesota, Utah, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, N&S.Dakota, Nevada & Montana, record low temps in Montana. [12,9 Oct] 8 - Puerto Rico, hurricane Isabel causes floods & mudslides, 60+ dead. [12,9 Oct] 13 - Soviet Tadzhikistan, quake, 10 dead. [10,16 Oct] 16 - Argentina, 13 dead & 22,000 evacuated in two days of flood around Buenos Aires. [10,18 Nov] 18 - Philippines, typhoon Dot batters Luzon at 127mph. [10,19 Oct] 19 - USA, 4.0 R quake at White Plains, NY. [27,22 Apr 86] 20-21 - USA, White Plains, NY, 3.3 R quake. [27,22 Apr 86] 28 - USA, hurricane Juan sends 12 tornadoes into Florida, one sounded "like a train" filled with "spinning fire". [1,29 Oct] NOVEMBER 1985 ? - Britain, "coldest November since 1965", "driest autumn since 1978 (7th driest on record)" [10,2 Dec]. NASA says satellite measurements show more of northern hemisphere covered in ice and snow than at any time since monitoring began 20 yrs ago. [27,10 Dec; 8,13 Dec] ? - South Africa, drought in eastern Cape, Border & East London relieved by torrential rain & replaced by widespread flooding. [37,8 Nov] 12 - Venice floods, tide 4ft higher than usual. [10,13 Nov] 13 - Colombia, 23,000 die as Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts burying town of Armero, "world's biggest mass grave". [Most papers through to end of Nov]. Last survivor rescued on 9th Dec (24 days later). [34,10 Dec] 15 - Russia, the Klyuchevskaya volcano in Kamchatka erupts. [10,14 Nov] 16 - Spain, Alicante, flash floods claim lives. [24,17 Nov] 17 - Italy, heavy cloudburst floods Naples. [15,18 Nov] 18 - West New Britain, a volcano on this Papua-New Guinea island erupts, lava heading for village. [20,19 Nov] 19 - Southern England, "lowest Nov. day temperature since 1968". [10,20 Nov] 27 - England, "large, luminous steel-blue object" seen and heard "roaring" through sky over Weston-super-Mare in night. [4,28 Nov] 30 - Siberia, report that eastern provinces are enjoying a heatwave. [38,1 Dec] DECEMBER 1985 ? - Britain, "mildest December since 1974". [10,31 Dec] ? - Brazil, commodity traders say the current crop of coffee has been hit by a "severe drought" in the country. [23,13 Dec] 2 - England, London's "warmest Dec. day for 25 years" [10,4 Dec], Bristol's warmest Dec. day "for 50 years" [4,3 Dec], mildest start to Dec for "30 years" [8,4 Dec] 3 - Venezuela, floods throughout country. [23,4 Dec] 4 - Colombia, 40,000 evacuated after eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano. [24,5 Jan] 8 - Devon, "freak" snowstorm at Plympton. [10,9 Dec] 12 - Israel, water level in Sea of Galilee "lowest in 37 years". [23,13 Dec] 17 - Leeds, drought, blamed on 2.4 R quake "three weeks" earlier. [7,18 Dec] 17 - Brazil, southern states in severe drought. [41,18 Dec] 19 - Nicaragua, volcano erupts, 100+ houses damaged. [23,20 Dec] 26 - England, many regions of West Country flood, then freeze in "colder than expected" for Dec. weather. [4,28 Dec] 30 - USA, Buffalo, NY, has heaviest monthly snowfall, so far 5ft 8ins, just 1/2 ins short of all-time monthly record in 1977. [8,31 Dec] JANUARY 86 ? - USA, Minnesota has 4-5 weeks of uncharacteristic warm weather following Christmas. [8,27 Jan] 4 - USA, 2.0 R quake at White Plains, NY. [27,22 Apr 1986] 5 - Colombia, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts again, "acrid smell of sulphur" in air, "daily electrical storms", Guali River rises apx 1ft as glacial headwaters melt, "similar phenomena to 13 Nov 1985 eruption", precautionary evacuation of 7000. [15,10,6 Jan] 6 - Bangladesh & northern India, two weeks of cold weather, icy winds and severe night frosts claim 200 lives. India's Dal Lake freezes over, "first time in 20+ years". [23,7+8 Jan] 10 - Quebec, "small" quake of 3.0 R. [43,12 Jan] 11 - Quebec, "moderate" quake of 4.2 R. [43,12 Jan] 11 - Britain, "freak" storms cause floods and lightning damage. [24,12 Jan] 11 - Bermuda, three tornadoes that "came out of nowhere" STRANGE DAYS / 29 === Page 20 of 90 The temporary island off Iwo Jima. See 20 January 1986. [© Arab News 22 Jan 1986.] cause considerable damage. [3,12 Jan] 19 - Newfoundland, during evening, a green fireball which "lit up the sky like broad daylight", thought to fall "somewhere" in the state, light seen in Labrador and Nova Scotia. Some told police they heard an explosion about 7:30pm. [2,21 Jan] 20 - Japan, near Iwo Jima a new crescent-shaped island rises 15m above waves during next three days of activity from Fukutokuokanoba undersea volcano. [46,20 Jan; 2,21+22+26 Jan; 10,11,21 Jan] 25 - Peru, Lake Titicaca overflows, six towns affected, crops & cattle lost. [33,27 Jan] 26 - Southern England, "sunniest [Jan.] weekend this century". [10,27 Jan] 26 - Niigata, Japan, "worst avalanche in 30+ years". [2,28 Jan] 30 - Venice floods, "third highest this century", 100+ homeless. [2,2 Feb] 30 - USA, 5.0 R quake felt from Illinois & Ontario to Washington DC. [33,1 Feb; 2,27,2 Feb] 30 - Canada, foul-smelling slime fell from the sky onto the Elementary School at South Burnaby, BC, "three days in a row". [44,3 Feb] 31 - Southern France & northern Italy "paralysed" by huge snowfalls & high winds, 5 dead in France, powercuts. State of emergency declared in Turin, "worst blizzard since 1956". [2,33,1 Feb] FEBRUARY 1986 ? - Britain, "coldest Feb. since 1947", "second coldest Feb this century". Prolonged cold in France & Switzerland. Canals freeze over in Belgium. [10,1 Mar; 17,4+6 Mar] 2 - Australia, north Queensland swamped by hurricane Winifred, "the worst storm in more than a decade", 200+kph winds, floods. [33,10,3 Feb; 2,4 Feb] One-third of Australia's banana crop wrecked. [10,7 Feb] 4 - "Major" solar flares detected, "first in more than a year". [35,5 Feb] 4 - Berkshire, "huge fireball" lights sky over Windsor, no trace of a meteor or crashed plane. [7,5 Feb] 7 - India, western state of Maharashtra begins a week of hailstorms, "most severe in recent years", 11 killed, $3 million damage. [33,13 Feb] 8 - "Strongest geomagnetic storm since 1976" disrupts radio, TV and other communication media in northern hemisphere; follows a "series of powerful solar flares" earlier in the week. [12,9 Feb; 12,10 Feb] 9 - Northern hemisphere, Northern Lights visible from most countries; England, "best seen for 20 years". [7,10 Feb; 13,13 Feb] 10 - East Anglia, record low daytime temperatures for next few days. [5,10 Feb] 10 - USA, a high school teenager at Spencer, Massachusetts, shoots himself, the next day there are two foiled suicides and rumours of five other attempts among fellow pupils. [30,13 Feb] 11 - Italy, "heaviest snowfall for 21 years"; Austria, "heaviest snowfall since 1929"; pretty bad in Hungary & Yugoslavia too. At same time temperatures from Canada to Texas plunge to -25°C. [33,13 Feb] 12 - Alaska, quake. [33,14 Feb] 13 - USA, nine days of storms lash Pacific coast, "heaviest rain in 30 years", 35,000 flood refugees. [33,19+21 Feb] "A little over a week ago we were in the throes of a drought." [40,3 Mar] 15 - Fort Langley, Canada's "fifth rail accident in a week". [2,17 Feb] 15 - USA, "unexplained" blue flash lights up pre-dawn sky over southeastern Pennsylvania and south Jersey. Thought to be meteor. [28,16 Feb] An AP report of same date says flash was "multi-coloured". 16 - Switzerland, 3.5 R quake in Valais area of Alps in morning. [2,17 Feb] 18 - California, after "heaviest rain in 31 years", floods, avalanches, mudslides, etc, 12000 flee homes, 17 killed. [2,19 Feb; 25,19+21 Feb] 18 - USA, fireball in night sky (9pm) explodes leaving a red train with "all kinds of sparkles", blue, orange and green, seen all over Pacific 30 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 21 of 90 northwest coast. Astronomers say it was a "bolide". [25, 20 Feb] 18 - Japan, Tokyo & Yokohama brought to standstill by two days of heavy snow. [2,20 Feb] 21 - Bulgaria, 12pt Mercali quake near northeastern town of Strajitsa. [33,23 Feb] 22 - Pakistan, northern regions jolted by two quakes. [2,23 Feb] 23 - Sudan, death toll of measles outbreak in Kordofan province reaches 82, 400 still ill. [2,25 Feb] 23 - Britain, coloured "flares" in sky, seen as far apart as Mull and Southampton. "Meteorites," says Met. Office. [34,24 Feb] 27 - Belgium, sea freezing at Ostend. "Coldest Feb in local records". [2,28 Feb] 28 - London, "worst winter for more than 20 years" (in Feb. !), parts of Thames froze for five miles above Oxford sending dangerous icebergs downstream; British crops freeze in ground; deaths from hypothermia. [36,1 Mar] MARCH 1986 ? - Yugoslavia, "scores" of birds killed themselves by crashing onto houses in Zabljak, the country's highest town, 22 died together as they fell through an open window into a bathtub. [?,8 Mar] 1 - South Africa, locusts swarming over "a quarter of the land area", "one of the worst plagues in 20 years". [21,2 Mar] 1 - Britain, "coldest night for 50 years"; while USA has a heatwave. [39,2 Mar] 2 - Japan, "strong" quake shakes central and northern areas at 4:09pm local time. [33,17,3 Mar] 2 - England, block of ice crashes onto Potters Green Infants School in Coventry. [6,3 Mar 1986] 4 - China, Qinghai region, "worst blizzard in region's history". [21,17,6 Mar 1986] ![The surf freezes at Weston-super-Mare. See early February 1986. [© Nigel Tailby / Bristol Eve. Post.]] The surf freezes at Weston-super-Mare. See early February 1986. [© Nigel Tailby / Bristol Eve. Post.] 5 - Brazil, a week of continuous rainstorms begin leaving 32,000 homeless in the northeastern state of Ceara. [17,13 Mar] 6 - South Africa, great many bolts of lightning raze grass-hut village at Waterburg during "freak" thunderstorm 5 killed, 6 injured. [17,7 Mar] 6 - Caspian Sea, a 6.7 R quake at 0006 GMT. [17,7 Mar] 8 - Peru, after 6 months of rain ("double the average") a water-logged mountainside slides over four villages, 6000 evacuated. [14,12 Mar] Lake Titicaca rises to the "highest level this century", 90,000 people in environs flee their homes. Presidential commission investigating rumours "that peasants sacrificed a human to end the rains." [21,21,9 Mar] 8 - Japan, a tiny island off Iwo Jima, created in late January by undersea volcano, has nearly vanished beneath waves. [21,9 Mar] 10 - Malaysia, thousands evacuated in Johore state after heavy rains cause floods and landslips. [21,11 Mar] 10 - USA, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana hit by total of 29 twisters in one day, thousands without power, at least 6 killed. [14,12 Mar] 11 - Brazil, northern region of Fortaleza, 40,000 homeless from floods following days of "torrential" rain. [14,12 Mar] 12 - Southwest Indonesia, a week of heavy rain causes Citarum River to burst, 50,000 homeless, countless farms, fishponds etc ruined. [21,13+14 Mar] 12 - Indonesia, "critical" outbreak of rabies, pogrom against stray dogs, 24,000 pets vaccinated. [21,13 Mar] 13 - New Zealand, "one of the worst floods this century" leaves hundreds homeless following torrential rain. "The region was just recovering from a massive drought last year." [17,15 Mar] 13 - India, epidemic of meningitis, mounting deaths and 600 hospital admissions over two months in New Delhi. [21,14 Mar] 14 - Madagascar, a two-day cyclone wrecks the country's "rice-bowl" [21,16 Mar] 19 - Saint-Denis de la Réunion, French Indian Ocean, the Piton de la Fournaise volcano begins a prolonged period of activity, 300 evacuated from southeastern tip of island. [21,22+26 Mar; 17,25 Mar; 2,28 Mar] 20 - Nigeria, outbreak of meningitis in northern state of Bauchi, 70 dead. [21,21 Mar] 21 - Central British Columbia STRANGE DAYS / 31 === Page 22 of 90 rocked by 5.7 R quake. [17,23 Mar] 21 - New York, temperature plunges to 8°. [*15,22 Mar] 22 - Southern Taiwan, two quakes 6.0 R at 12:45pm (0445 GMT, and 5.0 R at 1:25pm (0525 GMT). [17,14,23 Mar] 23 - Indonesia, Mt Lokon volcano in north Sulawesi spews ash and debris, river serving five villages diverted. [21,25 Mar] 23 - Japan, Tokyo region "lashed" by "worst spring snowstorm ever recorded" + strong winds, roofs collapse under 8ins of mushy snow. 13 killed, 215 injured in train collision. [14,27,24 Mar; 17,25 Mar] 24 - British Isles, "record-breaking gusts" of "freak" hurricane-force wind up to 145kph cause hundreds of accidents and 9 deaths. [4,24 Mar; 21,8,25 Mar] 25 - Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 6.6 R quake at 3:38am (1938 GMT). [17,26 Mar] 25 - Greece, area north of Athens, 5.7 R quake at 0141 GMT. [14,26 Mar] 25 - Tanzania, outbreak of cholera in northern province of Mara, 11 dead in 2 weeks. [14,26 Mar] 25 - Egypt, first of two sightings of Virgin Mary at Coptic church in Cairo. [32,14 Apr] See next issue of FT. 26 - USA, 3.1 R quake hits southwest Virginia at 11:36am. [12,27 Mar] 26 - USA, the 6th teenager to commit suicide in 2 years in Leominster, Massachusetts, suicide prevention worker says at least 50 youths attempted suicide in the city in 6 months. [1,30,3,28 Mar] 28 - Alaska, following weeks of monitored tremors and rising heat the Augustine volcano erupts for "first time in 10 years", clouds of corrosive ash. Swarms of small 1.5 R quakes rattle the area. Fears for quakes along San Andreas Fault. Rumbles and eruptions continue throughout following month. [12,27+28 Mar; 2,33,3,29 Mar; 27,30,31 Mar; 1,28 Mar+21 April] 28 - Constantine, Algiers, rocked by "mild" quake, 0257 GMT. [33,29 Mar] 29 - Aegean Islands, 6.1 R quake, felt on mainland. [2,31 Mar] 29 - San Francisco, 4.0 R quake. [12,30 Mar; 33,31 Mar] 29 - Alaska, more rumbles and ash clouds from Augustine Volcano. [3,30 Mar] 30 - San Francisco, "third quake in three days", 5.3+ R, at 3:56am (1156 GMT). "There was a rumbling and a roll, then an abrupt bump and a couple more rolls." [1,31 Mar; 33,7,12,27,3,1 Apr] 30 - Britain freezes over with gales, snow and hail for Easter. [8,31 Mar] 31 - Bangladesh, storm kills 16, injures 200. [33,6 Apr] 31 - Tanzania, Ifakara district, floods during the week, "heaviest since 1979", seven villages affected, 3000 homeless. [33,4,31 Mar] 31 - Alaska, the Augustine volcano has "biggest eruption in 10 years". [12,1+2 Apr; 2,27,30,2 Apr] # APRIL 1986 1 - Peru, following "unusually heavy" rains Lake Titicaca rises more than 6ft, "more than at any time in the past century", floods destroy crops and villages, 240,000 homeless in Peru and Bolivia. [12,2 Apr] 2 - Oshima Island, Japan, 623 "minor" tremors in 26hrs, near Mt Mihara volcano. [33,3 Apr] 3 - Bangladesh, northeast coast, severe hailstorm kills 11, injures 42, much damage. [33,46,4 Apr; 10,5 Apr] 3 - India, Tripura state, on border with Bangladesh, cyclone razes five villages, 5 killed, 200+ injured. [33,4+6 Apr] 4 - Ethiopia, Wollo region, the appropriately named Awash River floods following torrential rains, 400 homeless. [2,6 Apr] 4 - Huntington Beach, California shaken by 3.8 R quake, 10:50pm. [33,6 Apr] 4 - Northeastern Aegean Islands, hit by 2 quakes, 5.3 and 4.7 R. [16,5 Apr] 5 - Bangladesh northeast coast, severe hailstorm kills 12, injures 100, and 50 missing as hundreds of fishing boats capsize. Giant hail "up to 1kg". [16,5 Apr; 33,6+7 Apr; 46,7 Apr] 5 - Cuzco, Peru, "Most devastating earthquake in 36 years", 5.5 R at 3:30pm followed by four more quakes in next three hours, 3000 homeless, many dead. [33,36,7 Apr; 2,8 Apr] 8 - Japan, teenage singing star Yukiko Okada jumps to her death from a 7-storey Tokyo building after a failed love affair, in next 3 weeks 33 teenagers, most of them girls, suicide mostly in the same way. [Numerous clippings on file.] 14/15 - Northern Bangladesh, giant hail "up to 2.2lbs" flattens houses and crops in Gopalganj & other districts, storm-winds reach 125kph, 100+ feared killed, 3000+ injured. [46,15 Apr; 9,22,33,42,16 Apr; 15,17,17 Apr] 16 - Alaska, a second volcano - the Pavlov Volcano - spews ash and steam three miles into the air. [12,18 Apr] 17 - Mount St Helens, Washington, belches clouds for first time in 10 months, with seismic activity. [12,18 Apr; 1,21 Apr] 18 - Alaska, volcano Pavlov explodes with "one of the most violent eruptions in its history", debris hurled 16km into air, Cathedral River blocked by debris and floods. [33,20 Apr] 19 - USA, twin tornadoes hit Sweetwater, TX, 1 dead, 90+ injured, 800 homes damaged. [12,20 Apr; 30,21 Apr] 19/20 - Wales, a huge block of ice falls in a field at Wiston, near Haverfordwest. 5lbs' 32 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 23 of 90 worth of ice was preserved by lady who heard the "whistling sound" of its descent (see photo), but most of the ice was left in the field. Brief reference to "coincident" icefall in Sussex. [45,24 Apr] Sometime in the following week another slab of ice fell at Mumbles, near Swansea, 12lbs of fragments recovered. [45,26 Apr] 19/20 - Southern China, the same weekend saw a spectacular hailstorm in Guangdong province, 6 killed, 510 injured, the hail was generally "giant" but the largest weighed 60kg (132lbs). [2,25 Apr] 20 - Bangladesh, a camp for 20,000 refugees of recent disasters destroyed by fire, 23 killed, 300 injured, remainder homeless again. [23,20 Apr] 20 - Eastern Sri Lanka, dam bursts, 100 dead, 30,000 homeless. [23,20 Apr] 22 - USA, 2.7 R quake hits White Plains, NY, at 2:28am, "fourth in six months". [1,27,22 Apr] 25 - Alaska, even as seismologists publish warnings of imminent eruption of Augustine Volcano, it blows its top for the second time, hurling car-sized rocks, ash and steam into the air, eruption lasts several days. [26,25 Apr; 25,26 Apr; 33,27 Apr; 12,28 Apr; 30,29 Apr] 25 - Greece, eastern region jolted by 5.2 R quake at 8:01am (0501 GMT), epicenter in Aegean Sea. [33,26 Apr] 26 - Northern India, state of Himachal Pradesh hit by two 6.0 R quakes at 9:05am (0335 GMT), 3 killed in Dharamshala. Same region was swept by a coincident storm, uprooted trees, flash floods, many homes destroyed. [33,28 Apr] 26 - Spain, a 4.3 R quake hits Granada. [33,27 Apr] 30 - Mexico City, just one month before the World Cup, hit by 7.0 R quake at 1:07am (0707 GMT) in areas still recovering from last September's 8.1 R quake. [1,26,4,30 Apr; 33,36, 19,1 May] ![Mrs Beryl Voyle of Wiston, south Wales, with some of the fallen ice she saved. See 19/20 April 1986. (© Western Mail.)] Mrs Beryl Voyle of Wiston, south Wales, with some of the fallen ice she saved. See 19/20 April 1986. [© Western Mail.] MAY 86 ? - Elands Bay, South Africa, thousands of live lobsters driven ashore in early May. 70,000 were salvaged for processing. [37,9 May] 3 - Iran, severe floods in central Lorestan prov. [33,6 May] 5 - Turkey, village in souteast destroyed by quake, 15 dead. [36,19,6 May] 7 - Southwestern China, giant hail "up to 11lbs" storm kills 16, injures 125. [36,8 May] 7 - Aleutian Islands, "strongest tremor in area since 1957". Fearing tidal waves families evacuated along San Francisco coast, but wave is only 2ft high when arrives. Japan and Hawaii also get tidal wave alerts. [22,8 May; 15,9 May] 10 - Bangkok, 12ins of rain in 24hrs, "the heaviest in more than 500 years", paralyzes 90% of city. Thousands abandon cars in waist-deep water, 9 people electrocuted. [33,11 May; 1,26,12 May] 10 - Taiwan, 6.5 R quake. [46,12 May] 19 - Taiwan, two "strong" quakes hit north in quick succession. [46,20 May] 15 - Soviet Georgia, quake destroys 1500 houses, 2 dead. [46,16 May] 19/20 - Sichuan province, China, a "series of 143 violent hailstorms and hurricanes" throughout following week severely damage this agricultural region, 143 dead, nearly 10,000 injured, 80,000+ homeless. One hailstorm lasted 50 mins with hail up to 1.5kgs (3lbs). [29,23 May; 19,24 May] On this day a massive storm hits 13 districts of Sichuan, killing 102, three cities damaged, with record-sized hail up to "33lbs" [27,23 May] 20 - Solomon Islands, wrecked by cyclone Namu, "worst in several years", 90,000 homeless, unknown nos. dead. [17,21+23 May; 27,21 May] 25 - USA, south-east states hit by "worst dry spell in a century". [19,26 May] 26 - Bangladesh, cyclonic storm overturns riverboat between Dacca and Bhola, 1000 feared dead. [12,27 May] And now... back to normal (whatever that is)! RJMR CREDITS & SOURCES STRANGE DAYS / 33 === Page 24 of 90 DIARY OF A MAD PLANET / continued. SPECIAL THANKS to Ion Will who prodigiously provided most of the the clippings herein listed, and whose letters from 'somewhere east of Suez' kept us entertained with their perceptive commentaries on this world's chaos. **KEY TO SOURCES** ■ 1 - Attleboro (MA) Sun-Chronicle. ■ 2 - Arab News. ■ 3 - Boston (MA) Herald. ■ 4 - Bristol Eve. Post. ■ 5 - Cambridge Eve. News. ■ 6 - Coventry Eve. Telegraph. ■ 7 - D. Express. ■ 8 - D. Mail. ■ 9 - D. Star. ■ 10 - D. Telegraph. ■ 11 - Detroit (MI) News. ■ 12 - Duluth (MN) News-Tribune + Herald. ■ 13 - East Hampshire Post. ■ 14 - Emirates News (Abu Dhabi). ■ 15 - Guardian. ■ 16 - Gulf Daily News (Bahrain). ■ 17 - Gulf News (Dubai). ■ 18 - Huston (TX) Chronicle. ■ 19 - Int. Herald Tribune. ■ 20 - Jersey Eve. Post. ■ 21 - Khaleej Times (Dubai). ■ 22 - London Standard. ■ 23 - Middlesbrough Eve. Gazette. ■ 24 - Observer. ■ 25 - The Oregonian. ■ 26 - Pawtuxet Valley (RI) D. Times. ■ 27 - Pawtuxet Valley (RI) Eve. Times. ■ 28 - Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer. ■ 29 - Plattsburg (NY) Press-Republican. ■ 30 - Providence (RI) Journal. ■ 31 - Richmond & Twickenham Times. ■ 32 - San Francisco Chronicle. ■ 33 - Saudi Gazette. ■ 34 - The Scotsman. ■ 35 - St Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch. ■ 36 - The Sun. ■ 37 - South African Digest ■ 38 S. Express. ■ 39 - S. Telegraph. ■ 40 - Time. ■ 41 - The Times. ■ 42 - Today. ■ 43 - Toronto Star. ■ 44 - Vancouver (BC) Province. ■ 45 - Western Mail (Bristol.) ■ 46 - Wolverhampton Express & Star. # CORN CIRCLES AGAIN More mystery circles of flattened corn have appeared, this time in a wheatfield at the Devil's Punchbowl, near Winchester in Hampshire. While the devil-associated-placename fanclub file this away, we note the arrival fits in with the end of June/early July appearance of similar circles during the last four years - see FTs 40p27 & 43p31. According to local researcher Pat Delgado, of Alresford: "similar rings have been recorded in this area, even in this same field, since the Second World War." The largest of the recent circles at the Devil's Punchbowl, measuring 68ft across, appeared during the night of 5th July - the smaller, 48ft, circle appeared between 7-8pm the next day. As you can see from the photo on the facing page, both circles have a distinctive outer ring, a feature never recorded for previous occurrences. "What you have is a disc of wheat all swirling in a clockwise direction, except for the [outer] four feet which swirls in an anti-clockwise direction. Then around that is a band of untouched standing wheat, for about five feet, followed by [the outer] flat ring four feet wide." described Pat Delgado. He added that the rings were too uniform and "perfect" to be part of a hoax. *D. Telegraph, Southern Eve. Echo 7 July; D. Telegraph 9 July 1986.* The currently favoured theory - that travelling whirlwinds can touch down in fields near geological features (like Cheesefoot Head, in this case) creating the characteristic flattened swirl - owes a lot to the work of Dr Terence Meaden, editor of the *Journal of Meteorology*, and BUFORA investigator Paul Fuller, who has written a review of the phenomenon - see booklet reviews, this issue. Supportive evidence for this came in a letter to the *Telegraph* (11 July 1986) from John Lewis, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire: "I live on a ridge, quite steep on one side, and a couple of years ago we witnessed a small whirlwind starting at a nearby motorway, travelling along the line of the ridge, across a farmyard, causing havoc with some baling and then lifted on to a wheat field where it sort of bounced two or three times before dispersing in some trees. Where it touched the wheat field it produced the flattened circles." Less than two weeks after the Hampshire pair, this ringed circle appeared at Bratton, Wiltshire. [Photo © FPL / Bob Skinner.] POSTSCRIPT -- We later heard that another ringed circle appeared mid-July in a field below Bratton Fort, in Wiltshire - see photo above - and a fourth, again in Wiltshire. All of them sport an outer ring, and it makes us wonder if the appearances of these circles is subject to annual changes infashions. In 1984, for example, we saw at least two instances of a design of four smaller circles around a larger central one (see FT43 p31), a design which has not reappeared since. 34 / STRANGE DAYS === Page 25 of 90 Grim warning from beyond the star # 'Halt all space probes or we'll destroy your planet!' Weekly World News 9/22/87 A leading scientist says space aliens have warned the governments of the world to end all exploration beyond our own solar system -- or they will cause the Earth to stop spinning on its axis! "If they make good on the threat, if they stop the Earth spinning, in a split second we would simply blow up," Dr. Andre Jubert, the famed astrophysicist, told reporters in Paris. "I know the Soviet Union has taken the warning seriously. I hope and pray other countries, especially the United States, will too." The expert -- who has close ties to space officials in the Soviet Union and America -- said the radio warning was received at various listening posts around the world in early July. The aliens who beamed the signal obviously possess a super technology, he added, because the message was transmitted in a complex mathematical code. "The message itself was short and to the point," said Dr. Jubert. "The extraterrestrials have claimed territorial rights to all space beyond our solar system and forbidden us from exploring it with space vehicles such as America's Voyager probes. "It's too late to call those ships back, of course. But the aliens made it clear that additional probes will be considered warships. "And they will retaliate by destroying us." Just how space aliens could stop our planet's rotation isn't clear, said the astrophysicist. "But it would be negligent to think that they are bluffing," he continued. "We must go on the assumption that they have the awesome power to make good on the mind-boggling threat." Soviet and American space officials confirmed that Dr. Jubert has worked closely with the space programs in both countries since the 1960s but they refused to comment on the authenticity of his report. === Page 26 of 90 like to help but I simply don't have the authorization to discuss it," said one U.S. source. "I will say that Dr. Jubert is a respected scientist. When he says something, his colleagues usually listen." The famous astrophysicist himself plans to petition the governments of the world to work on a global space strategy "before it's too late." "There simply isn't any time to waste," he stated. "Concerned people everywhere will have to put pressure on their governments. We have to work together to make the powers that be ban these probes. If not, we are just asking to be killed." -- LESLIE KNOLL # They'll cause the Earth to stop spinning ![Artist's conception of the Earth's fate if the aliens make good on their doomsday threat.] ARTIST'S CONCEPTION of the Earth's fate if the aliens make good on their doomsday threat. Sept. 19, 1987 Scientists In this article is confirmation of what my UFOs and I, as their representative, have been telling you all along. Perhaps you can believe the noted astrophysicist Dr. Jubert. My UFOs will not allow our human space work. I told before space shuttle Challenger blew up that such would happen, remember? It is documented. And I have told you that there is no time. I should be working from the UFO Base now, instead of struggling grimly where I am. What we have -- is a government of fools. Owens === Page 27 of 90 # Researchers to use sonar in Loch Ness Post-Star 6/18/87 LONDON (AP) -- A fleet of sonar-equipped boats will probe Scotland's murky Loch Ness next month in the most thorough -- and skeptical -- search for the elusive Loch Ness Monster. "It will be the largest scientific expedition ever undertaken on the mysterious lake," said Operation Deepscan leader Adrian Shine, a 38-year-old salesman from London. More than 20 motorboats equipped with state-of-the-art sonar equipment made by Lowrance Electronics Inc., of Tulsa, Okla., will sweep the 24-mile-long lake in an attempt to resolve the 1,500-year-old debate on whether the fabled "Nessie" exists. The boats, lined up "rather like a chorus line" across the lake's one-mile width, will sail from one end to the other trailing "an unbroken sonar line through which very little should escape," said publicist Guy Pearse. Shine, who has been researching fish and unidentified objects in Loch Ness in his spare time for 14 years, said he's not convinced there is a Loch Ness monster. "We're a fairly skeptical outfit as far as monsters are concerned," he said. "It (the expedition) is not just another hunt for 'Nessie'." The 10-day expedition will also have more mundane goals, like counting how many species of fish live in the 750-foot-deep lake and what causes its underwater waves, before the systematic inch-by-inch sweeps Oct. 9-11. Each boat will have its own echo-sounder, emitting sonar pulses that will bounce off the lake bed or anything else in the water. Pearse said, "The Lowrance equipment, which is used by anglers worldwide, is capable of separating fish as little as four inches apart, so whatever is below the surface of Loch Ness at whatever depth will not be able to avoid such a close-knit sonar sweep." Two other power boats will follow the fleet with underwater TV cameras and still cameras to try to film any interesting sonar contacts and track any moving targets, Shine said. Each one-way trip along the lake, the largest body of fresh water in Britain, will take about six hours, he said. He would not estimate the cost of the operation, but he said the use of the boats had been donated. The 100 people who will crew them are volunteers. The Loch Ness monster legend dates back to 565 A.D. when St. Columba, who brought Christianity to Britain, is supposed to have rescued a farmer from a monster's grip. There have been more than 4,000 reported sightings in modern times and Nessie has been explained away as everything from an otter to ducks, tricks of light on the dark loch waters or a prehistoric dinosaur. Shine's theory is that it's a large fish: "That is by far the most likely explanation." A new theory, offered by Jon-Erik Beckjord, director of the Cryptozoology Museum in Malibu, Calif., is that Nessie is not a thing of substance at all. "It's an energy form, a form of energy that interacts with human beings," he said after leading a week-long expedition this summer, which photographed from shore what he believes is the Loch Ness monster. Beckjord said the creature has a cat-like face and a 15-foot body that "looks like a cross between Haley's Comet and the Concorde jet." cat speaks English? 6/17/87 See last part of newsclip. ① As you know, from my past files to you, I told you that my UFO aliens had no substance - were pure energy. ② I have told you in previous files that the Loch Ness creature is produced by my UFO aliens. ③ The "cat-like" remark is interesting. In this file, written earlier, I discuss a cat-like voice outside my window, instructing me to "open the door," in the early hours. Owens 9/18/87 last night woke - then heard two cat sounds as if from amplifier. Then - felt two hands holding the sides of my head. 2 1/2 === Page 28 of 90 A2-Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Saturday, June 27, 1987 # National Scene ## Briefly ### Jet encounters a swift object CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The National Weather Service doubts it was theirs and the Defense Department insists it wasn't theirs. About the only thing the Federal Aviation Administration can say about the object that encountered a Delta Air Lines jet at 29,500 feet is that no one is likely to find it. The pilot of Delta Flight 1083, en route from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, told investigators an object that appeared to be a missile seemed headed straight for his Boeing 737 on Thursday morning before passing to the side and slightly below. "The pilot described it as a rocket or a missile about 4 feet long, with fins that were each about a foot or a foot and a half in height," said Delta spokesman Bill Berry. "It went so fast that's all he saw. He didn't see it long enough to recognize any markings. "He saw it. It was there. It was gone." # Missile Missing? Call Delta NY Times 6/27/87 CHARLESTON, W.Va., June 26 (AP) -- The National Weather Service doubts it was theirs and the Defense Department insists it wasn't theirs. About the only thing the Federal Aviation Administration can say about the object that encountered a Delta Air Lines jet at 29,500 feet Thursday is that no one is likely to find it. The pilot of Delta Flight 1083, flying 60 people from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, told investigators that an object, which appeared to be a missile, seemed headed straight for his Boeing 737 before passing to the side and slightly below. "The pilot described it as a rocket or a missile about 4 feet long, with fins," a Delta spokesman, Bill Berry, said. "It went so fast that's all he saw." The aviation agency said it would probably never know what had the encounter with the jet 31 miles northeast of Charleston. Kathleen Bergen, an agency spokesman, said it was left with two explanations: The official one is that it was a promotional balloon that escaped. "Balloons can travel pretty far," she said. "We don't acknowledge the existence of U.F.O.'s." # British jetliner diverts course to avoid UFO 6/28/87 Post-Star LONDON (AP) -- A British Airways jetliner made a diversion over the Soviet Union to avoid what the crew reported as an unidentified flying object, an airline spokesman said Saturday. The incident occurred in April, but first came to light in a front-page article Saturday in The Times of London. Spokesman Alan Solloway confirmed that the crew of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet reported seeing a UFO over the Soviet Union on April 22 while flying from London to Bangkok, Thailand. He said it was the first such case in the airline's history. "We have had crews report seeing space debris burning, but we can't recall a UFO being sighted and being logged as a UFO," Solloway said. "Usually, there is a scientific explanation for whatever was seen, but there doesn't seem to be a scientific explanation for this." The Times said all five crew members reported seeing an object with twinkling lights fly directly toward them and then vanish quickly over the Kazakhstan horizon. "It was definitely not an aircraft," the paper quoted First Officer Anthony Colin, 42, as saying. "Of that I am positive. None of us had ever seen anything like it before." :05 PM 7/23/87 White humanoid figure passed in front of my office door, silently. I called Beau + we searched but could find nothing. Beau woke up with a strange triangle of red dots on lower abdomen + his hand hurt. I have odd multi-colored bruise on inside of top left arm. Entire house + I had "haunt" last night. 6/19/87 Around 11 PM last night my sons + I observed 3 UFOs maneuvering overhead. One, especially, for 1/2 hr. Post-Star # Soviets unravel green mystery 5/18/87 MOSCOW (AP) -- Spring came to the Moscow area with such force this year that it turned the sky and the rain green. Radio Moscow reported Sunday that Soviet scientists had unraveled the mystery of a green sky and green rain noticed in the Moscow region on May 5. It said an analysis indicated 80 percent of the sediment from the rain was pollen. "This is explained by the unusually late spring this year," the radio said. "A great number of trees and bushes have bloomed ... within a very short period." "The gusty wind raised masses of green pollen in the air which caused the extraordinary phenomenon," it said. === Page 29 of 90 6/1/87 Something BIG is about to happen! U.S. had better go on alert. (Phone message long distance to Wayne Grover in Florida.) # Meteor created seismic waves Post-Star 8/14/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- A meteor streaking across the Canadian sky created an atmospheric shock wave that set off vibrations in the Earth, a new study says. Seismic signals were detected from a meteor spotted above Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories on Sept. 19, scientists report in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature. "The signals cannot be explained by any earthquake, explosion or impact-generating mechanism," wrote F.M. Anglin and R.A.W. Haddon of the Geological Survey of Canada. But they are consistent with seismic waves triggered by atmospheric shock wave, the researchers wrote. # Alerts follow earthquake Post-Star 6/12/87 (Call to Wayne preceding) CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) -- An earthquake that rocked 16 states caused low-level alerts at several nuclear plants without interrupting service, but seismologists warned Thursday that a much more severe jolt is inevitable. "It will be ugly," said E. Erie Jones, executive director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium. "There's going to be an earthquake before the turn of the century. But we're not prepared." Only scattered property damage was reported Wednesday and no serious injuries, although it was scary for a time. "I thought I was on my way to heaven," said Essie Anderson, a custodian at the 35-story Indiana National Bank tower in downtown Indianapolis. "When you are on the ninth floor and the building gets to rocking and reeling, you get to thinking." Three nuclear plants in Illinois, two in Michigan and one in Minnesota declared "unusual events" -- the lowest form of alert -- because of the earthquake, said spokesman Jan Strasma of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Glen Ellyn. There were no reports of damage or disruption of service to any plant, and the declarations have been lifted, Strasma said. "Unusual events largely are notification to governmental authorities that there has been some sort of incident or event with the potential to effect the nuclear plant, but which has not created a public hazard," Strasma said. Four nuclear plans in Illinois did not report "unusual events," he said. According to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., Wednesday's quake, at 6:49 p.m. CDT, was centered near Lawrenceville, Ill., 55 miles north of Evansville, Ind. It measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. It was the Midwest's strongest earthquake since Nov. 9, 1968, when one measuring 5.5 struck just north of Harrisburg. Wednesday's tremor broke windows and rattled walls from Kansas to South Carolina and parts of Canada. # Mystery swirls around sightings Post-Star 8/22/87 CHICAGO (AP) -- It's a mystery at 6,000 feet over the Windy City: In separate reports, one commercial airline pilot said he nearly clipped a flock of parachutists and another reported helium balloons near his plane. But no one else saw the objects, on radar or on the ground. "We don't have any substantiation of skydivers or helium balloons over Chicago, but we're still working on it because two pilots said they saw them," spokeswoman Marjorie Kriz of the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The pilot of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 en route from Chicago to Tokyo told the tower at O'Hare International Airport shortly after noon Thursday that he passed "four or five parachutists and that he almost hit one," Ms. Kriz said. The jet was flying at about 6,000 feet at the time, officials said. About five minutes later, Ms. Kriz said, the pilot of a United Airlines jet reported "that he thought he saw helium balloons." 4 === Page 30 of 90 Damage Minor but Widespread After Quake Is Felt in 16 States NY Times 6/12/87 By The Associated Press A strong earthquake centered in Illinois shook sections of 16 states and parts of Canada on Wednesday, breaking windows, tumbling chimneys and causing buildings to sway up to 700 miles from its center, officials said yesterday. The quake also brought alerts at three Illinois nuclear plants and set off an alarm at a Minnesota nuclear plant, but it caused only minor damage and one minor injury. The tremor registered 5.0 on the Richter scale measuring the severity of earthquakes. "It felt like somebody with big shoes was walking overhead, but nobody lives overhead," said Richard Horwitz of Chicago. "Our parakeet was chattering away and it just stopped." The quake was centered near Lawrenceville, Ill., 55 miles north of Evansville, Ind., according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. Trembling was reported felt from 10 seconds to nearly a minute. Apartment Is Evacuated Hundreds of students ran screaming from a building at a vocational college in Indianapolis and about 70 people were evacuated from a swaying 12-story apartment house in Columbia, S.C., 700 miles from the earthquake's center. "I thought I was going to die and I thought, well, I'm in church and I can't think of a better place to die," said Betty Meyer, a Bible school instructor at First Christian Church in Bridgeport, Ill., where the quake cracked the bell tower. The only injury reported was to an 18-month-old girl who was struck on the head by a bunk bed that was toppled by the quake. He injury required stitches. A police dispatcher, David Hoffee in Olney, Ill., said there were reports of broken windows, fallen chimneys and a collapsed roof. Nuclear Plant Alerts After the earthquake, three nuclear power plants in Illinois declared "usual events," the lowest form of alert for a nuclear plant, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Glen Ellyn said yesterday. They were the Dresden plant, near Morris; Quad Cities, at Cordova, and Clinton. There were no reports of damage or disruption of service from the plants the spokesman said. At the Prairie Island nuclear plant near Red Wing, Minn., the quake triggered a seismic alarm, but no damage was detected, said a spokesman for the Northern States Power Company. The earthquake was felt in Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and several cities in Ontario. It was the strongest in the area since one near Norris City, Ill., on Nov. 9, 1968, that registered 5.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, according to the United States Geological Survey in Washington. "A 5 in the East is substantial," said Charles J. Ritter, a geology professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio. A4-Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Thursday, June 11, 1987 National Scene Briefly (Call to Wayne Grover preceding) Quake rattles Midwest Weekly World News 6/16/87 A strong earthquake rattled parts of 11 Midwestern states from Missouri to West Virginia on Wednesday evening, shaking buildings in downtown Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. "We've had a pretty strong earthquake," reported Bruce Presgrave of the National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. "We're still working it. We don't have a magnitude yet but apparently it was felt over a pretty wide area in the Midwest." The quake was felt in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. "We haven't gotten any official information, but we felt it here," said Dennis Dixon, a National Weather Service forecaster in Ann Arbor, about 40 miles west of Detroit. Top celebs know UFOs exist! You don't have to be a star to spot a UFO, but a growing number of celebs have had close encounters of all kinds. A president and a senator have seen 'em. A heavyweight champ's eye-balled aliens over 20 times. A Beatle tried to photograph a spaceship from his apartment window. Star Trek doc DeForest Kelley says a long time ago he saw "a long cigar-shaped object with green and blue flames coming out of its side." "As it rapidly went by, I saw a red light flashing on its tail. "It laid down a kind of jet stream -- then it was gone." When Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia he had a vision that so moved him he filed a report on the experience. Senator and pilot Barry Goldwater's had a number of sightings. For years he has been trying to get into legendary Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where the ruins of an alien spacecraft and the preserved bodies of its tiny crew are supposedly under ultra-tight security. Goldwater's never been allowed inside. Muhammad Ali's seen them so many times he's stopped counting. The Greatest spotted one once while jogging in New York's Central Park. John Lennon also saw something in the park, but the pix he shot from his posh pad never came out, sez The New York Post. Miami Vice star Philip Michael Thomas says he saw one when he was a kid. A saucer hovered over his head for a few startling minutes, then disappeared. One TV actor, Dennis Weaver, was so impressed with extraterrestrial visits he set up a hot line that gives daily reports on UFO sightings around the world. "I know UFOs exist and I believe they are manned," says Weaver. "We are being observed in much the same way that we might observe bees or ants." The stars are coming out of the space closet with UFOs under their skin. And for a two buck toll call you can hear a three-minute tape of up-to-date UFO bulletins. === Page 31 of 90 5/29/87 (5:30 AM) Alien Comun. in sound. Clear words. "O-pen O-pen O-pen-O-pen Do-or-o-pen O-pen-O-pen Oooch!" 4/2/87 Last night, Bean & I heard a noise like a train up close. The walls shook. We looked out windows - but nothing visible Ted Koppel's "Nightline" special re UFOs. Said people in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world are getting more & more interested in UFOs at this time. Fri 5/29/87 5:30 AM sounded like cat under my window. Loud & clear. "O-pen, O-pen, O-pen do-or. O-pen do-or. Oh!" then it stopped. I was wide awake. Thurs 6/11/87 11 PM - 2 AM (2) change from brilliant moonlight to inky blackness. Eerie quiet. 7:30 PM - 11 PM (1) All power out in this area. Candles. (3) About 4 AM pulsating, whirring noise of UFO over house. Lasted about half hour. (4) strange tapping noises on my glass sliding doors. 6/22/87 (1) 4 nights last week colorful UFOs over house (9) (2) Last night had exact same dream, step by step, as 6 mos. ago. (3) Bean & I have "twin dreams." 6/18/87 Bean & Tolly have seen UFOs appear night after night over our house. Last night the STs told me, they were going to teach me a long list of things. (6 === Page 32 of 90 Ted # Ship's crew menaced WEEKLY WORLD NEWS May 19, 1987 # by giant flying saucer # UFO from the depths of the sea! Beau + Teddy's matching UFO landing dream, 8/11/87. Me and Jerome picked up by a UFO + 4 aliens, 8/12/87; dream. A saucer-shaped UFO blasted out of the ocean and circled a Japanese freighter for 15 terrifying minutes last month before it returned to the water and vanished without a trace, Japanese newspapers report. No one was injured in the April 17 incident, which reportedly took place in broad daylight 175 miles east of Kanazawa in the Sea of Japan. The 165-foot-long freighter Taki Kyoto did suffer some structural damage, however, while riding out the towering swells that the UFO kicked up when it rose out of and later returned to the water, the press said. "It was at least five times the length of our vessel and glowed like blue neon," Taki Usuda, the 54-year-old captain of the Taki Kyoto, told reporters at a belated press conference in Kanazawa. "When it first came out of the water we couldn't believe what was happening to us. The swells in its wake almost sank us. "And the needles on our instruments almost spun out of their casings. It was everything I could do to keep the crew from leaving their posts. "Some of my best men were huddled below deck crying just like women and babies." The enormous starship hovered about 50 yards off the freighter's starboard side for several minutes after it emerged from the ocean, said Usuda. "It was terrifying," he continued. "The thing just sat there, motionless, in midair. "We tried to radio for help but something was jamming our signals. "Suddenly the UFO took off. It flew right over us and circled for at least 15 minutes. "It really was like a nightmare. It was moving so fast all we could see was a blur." When the UFO finally dived back into the water, Usuda radioed authorities, who scanned the area with ships and aircraft without finding so much as a trace of the alleged starship, the press reports said. "Based on interviews with the Taki Kyoto's captain and crew, as well as the unusual structural damage the ship sustained, we do suspect that they encountered something very unusual out there," said coastal authority spokesman Hoshi Ishido. "Officially we're calling it an unidentified object, a simple UFO." # Bizarre spacecraft leaps from ocean touching off tidal wave === Page 33 of 90 People May 11, 1987 # Making Communion With Another World America's fascination with UFOs booms again as three new books suggest that humanoids are here Whitley Strieber's is a story that not every man would be bold enough to tell: On the evening of Dec. 26, 1985, says the novelist, he awakened in his Upstate New York cabin to find a strange being standing in the bedroom doorway. Sometime after blacking out, he found himself in a small, gray room full of quick little humanoids. When one of them brandished a hair-thin needle and informed him that it would be inserted into his brain, "I became quite simply crazed with terror," he reports. With a "bang and a flash," the instrument was then fired into his brain. "I felt like weeping," Whitley remembers. "I recall sinking down into a cradle of tiny arms..." Taken into an operating theater of sorts, the distraught subject was probed and poked, and--finally--transported back into his bedroom where his wife, Anne, was sleeping peacefully. Paralyzed with horror, he buried the memory, which he later reconstructed under hypnosis. When "the confused swirl resolved into a specific series of recollections, I just about exploded with terror and utter disbelief," he says. The introspective author of pop- CONTINUED **Coming to terms** with the "visitor experience," says Strieber, has given him a heightened sense of his own spirituality. **Sketches of humanoids** (left) and alien craft (top) were collected by UFO investigator Budd Hopkins from alleged victims of the aliens. 35 === Page 34 of 90 An Indiana woman who drew her captors and their craft for Hopkins is still tormented by "visitors." "I feel like a freak," she says. Author Gary Kinder (near his home in Sun Valley, Idaho) says he saw a spectacular UFO in 1972. ular horror novels like The Wolfen and The Hunger, Strieber is hardly the sort to risk his reputation in the service of mere sensationalism; there are easier ways for him to make money than chronicling his bizarre encounters with what he suggests are intelligent non-human beings. But COMMUNION (Beech Tree Books/Morrow, $17.95) is a book that he says he had to write. "I want to dispel the stigma and the fear," he says. "I thought I was going crazy in an extremely embarrassing way. I became rather suicidal. I suffered with this, and it was a great relief to find that others had had the same experience. It's a very scary thing, but I want to let people know that they can cope if it happens." Published early in February and currently second on the New York Times best-seller list, Communion seems to signal a dramatic new era in UFOlogy. This time around an increasing number of everyday folk are claiming not merely to have spotted saucer-shaped spacecraft, but to have had disagreeable encounters with creepy travelers Hopkins' subjects typically depict their humanoid kidnappers as bald creatures with domed heads and insect-like eyes. These sketches are based on "encounters" in New Jersey (left) and Kentucky. 36 === Page 35 of 90 On the pop-culture front, the theme has emerged in one noteworthy context of late: The cliffhanger episode of *The Colbys* saw Fallon (portrayed by Emma Samms) disappearing into the sunset--not in a regulation plane crash, but in the bowels of a spacecraft that ambushes her car on a lonely desert road. "Richard Shapiro [the show's co-creator] has been aware of the recent interest in UFOs, and it was an effort to end the season on as provocative a note as possible," says supervising producer Bob Pollock. There is no more controversial UFO tale than the one Gary Kinder, a 40-year-old writer based in Idaho, spent three years investigating. In the 1970s Eduard Meier--a Swiss caretaker offered films, tape recordings and shards of metal to support his claims of contact with emissaries from a distant star. Within the UFO community Meier is rejected as a fraud. Kinder still counts himself among the skeptics: In *Light Years* (Atlantic Monthly Press, $18.95) he presents Meier's story without making hard-and-fast conclusions about the evidence. "There were times when I'd be sitting there watching Meier, and I'd think, 'This guy is just a very clever con man,'" says Kinder. "... If the contacts are true, of course it's the biggest story ever. If [not], it's a fascinating story about how this one-armed, sixth-grade-educated caretaker in Switzerland has been able to fabricate highly sophisticated evidence." The scientific establishment has yet to embrace the notion that aliens are walking among us. "I think those books reach the height of malarkey," says Paul Kurtz, chairman and founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. "It's possible there is life in outer space, but I know of no really hard evidence that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings." Still a growing number of reputable scientists are refusing to dismiss people like Strieber. Research psychologist Dr. John Gliedman is a "sympathetic skeptic" and a friend who witnessed Whitley's struggle: "We should keep an open mind about what's happening to him and to others," Gliedman says. "I see no evidence that you're dealing with mental illness here. But it's not a pleasant experience; people who believe they've been abducted talk about it the way others might talk about a rape. They need to be given help." **An artist** whose work has appeared in the Guggenheim Museum, Hopkins has had little time for painting or sculpture since writing *Intruders*. from another Time, Space, or Universe. Often signalled by the appearance of a dazzling white light, these so-called "alien abductions" allegedly leave the victims with periods of lost time for which they cannot account and hazy memories of frightening medical procedures at the hands of their captors. Descriptions of the offending aliens are fairly standard: The childlike figures are said to have grayish-white skin and round, black eyes set in grotesquely oversize, bulbous skulls. Aside from *Communion*, two other nonfiction books recently issued by major publishing firms claim to chronicle meetings with extraterrestrials. The more plausible, *Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods*, (Random House, $17.95) written by UFO investigator Budd Hopkins, offers up accounts of intimate, disturbing experiences that begin in childhood and engender psychic disturbances like the ones that Strieber suffered. Strieber's account of "kidnappings" which may have begun when he was 12 has drawn serious reviews. And Middle America has risen up to declare that it, too, has witnessed weird things. On talk shows, callers check in not to poke fun, Strieber says, but to report their own close encounters. By this month readers had sent him more than 1,000 letters detailing everything from sightings of alien craft to crossbreeding experiments conducted by humanoids. The Illinois-based Center for UFO Studies reports that requests for information have "increased greatly" in the last few months; membership in the 1,500-strong Mutual UFO Network, a Texas-based investigatory group, has increased by roughly 10 percent in the same period. And the public response to the November UFO sighting by a Japan Air Lines pilot has been such that the federal government now offers information kits on the incident; for $194.30, one receives a packet that includes Kenju Terauchi's drawings of the craft that he encountered. CONTINUED 37 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOK INTRUDERS BY BUDD HOPKINS ©1987 BUDD HOPKINS, USED BY PERMISSION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. === Page 36 of 90 Orson Welles's *The War of the Worlds* sparked an alien scare in 1938. In *Steven Spielberg's* 1977 *Close Encounters of the Third Kind*, abducted In *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (above) aliens arrived via pod. Robin (Mork) Williams (below) was egged on by Mindy to have a child. Elliot (Henry Thomas) formed a warm bond with his visitor--here, in the 38 === Page 37 of 90 Budd Hopkins was the man whom Whitley consulted when the memories of his abduction began to haunt him. A successful painter and sculptor, Hopkins began to examine the UFO phenomenon after spotting an elliptical-shaped object hovering over Cape Cod in 1964. In 12 years he has recorded thousands of hours of interviews with more than 135 subjects. In *Intruders*, more than a dozen subjects describe kidnappings in which aliens perform skin grafts, probe orifices with needlelike instruments, appropriate sperm and ova and even present small hybrid beings that female abductees somehow know to be their own. An abductee support group meets occasionally in the Manhattan townhouse Hopkins shares with wife April Kingsley, an art critic, and their daughter Grace, 13. When he saw Whitley last February, Hopkins says, "He was one distraught and disoriented man." Indeed--Strieber was undergoing a personality change so pronounced that his 17-year marriage was showing the strain. Hypersensitive, snappish, easily confused, he slept fitfully and felt as though he were being watched. Working was impossible--unable to concentrate for more than 10 minutes, he was wracked with chills and bouts of fatigue. Whitley wanted to ignore the disjointed bits of evidence--his odd pains and inexplicable scabs, the UFO sightings near his country house, the confounding visions of "visitors"--but he presented them to Hopkins, instead. "As I sat there in that man's living room, listening to him tell me I wasn't alone, tears rolled down my cheeks," he wrote later, "and I went from wanting to hide it all to wanting to understand...." Toward that end, Strieber subjected himself to a battery of physical and psychological tests. A neurologist found no evidence of organic abnormalities, and a polygraph operator found that Strieber fully believed his own stories. Dr. Donald F. Klein, Director of Research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, took Whitley through a series of shattering hypnotic sessions in which he recalled his "abductions" in lavish detail. In an appendix to *Communion*, Dr. Klein pronounces the patient of sane mind, saying, "He appears... to have adapted very well to life at a high level of uncertainty." Whitley, his wife Anne, 40 (who is also a writer) and their son Andrew, 8, have come to terms with the fact that something surpassingly strange has touched their lives. (Andrew, he says, had dreams about being kidnapped by "little doctors" before he heard his father's story; Anne has witnessed unearthly lights and the like, but has no clear memories of being abducted.) Whitley continues to receive the occasional "visit" from the now-familiar humanoids, but the fear has abated: "I am beginning to have an awful lot of fun with this from an intellectual standpoint," he says. He is not at all sure that his captors are corporeal, or that they come from other corners of this universe: "I'm 80 percent sure that it is visitors, not necessarily from another planet, but from another aspect of reality, whatever that may mean," he says. Even those in the business, as it were, occasionally find the quest overwhelming. Hopkins is unnerved by his discoveries: "These are not welcome inroads," he says. "The one thing I share with the people that this has happened to and with the skeptics is that none of us like this material, none of us want it, and all of us find it almost impossible to believe." Hopkins is resolute in defending the credibility of his witnesses: "They're not people who have regular psychotic episodes," he says. "In court, testimony from any one of these people might put somebody in an electric chair." Strieber is determined to go boldly where no man has gone before. A *Communion* sequel is in the works, and he plans to publish many of the letters sent to him by fellow travelers who are willing to go public. He knows that there are those who cannot accept his story, but he stands by it. "Behind these perceptions," he says, "is some kind of great wonder. Anything that prevents us from having the joyous experience of discovering what that is is simply a waste of time." --Written by Michelle Green, reported by Meg Grant and Kristina Johnson humans landed in a luminous craft. clutches of dastardly adults--in 1982's *E.T.* After a Mexican abduction case, the "victim" drew this sketch of a hooded humanoid. 39 === Page 38 of 90 WEEKLY WORLD # NEWS 55¢ October 6, 1987 30587 VOL. 8, Issue 52 'They WERE in a spaceship,' says child psychiatrist # CHILDREN TAKEN FOR RIDE IN UFO Gentle aliens studied kids for three days! Top-secret photos inside === Page 39 of 90 # Children abducted by UFO Four lucky children were taken aboard a UFO and shown the wonders of the universe on a three-day journey into outer space, civilian and military authorities report. "Adults lie. Teenagers lie. But children this age are incapable of lying, at least like this," said Roderigo Ortiz, special investigator with the police department in Concordia, Argentina. "From all appearances they did spend time on a genuine starship. They actually traveled into space and saw the sights like ordinary tourists. "At one point they thought God was taking them to heaven as He -- whatever 'He' was -- stood behind the controls of the craft." Newspaper reports of the amazing drama identified the children as 8-year-old Maria Molero, her sister Emma, 6, and brothers Jorge, 5, and Carlos, 3. According to the children and a half dozen eyewitnesses, a 75-foot, saucer-shaped craft swooped over the field they were playing in on August 9 and sucked them into the craft after hitting them with a burst of bright blue light. "A great golden ship took us up in the sky and it was driven by God -- I know it was God. "He wore golden robes and had long silver hair and was shiny all over," said Maria Molero, the oldest of the kidnapped kids. "He was a nice man and told us to call him Lalar. He showed us the moon and other places in the sky and said they were the stars." The other children confirmed her account and said they were scared "for just a little while. He scraped our faces with a little stick and stuck us with a needle but he didn't hurt us at all," said Jorge Molero. "I liked the bedrooms because the beds were soft and way up high," added Emma Molero. Little Carlos Molero, the youngest, said: "There were a million buttons and lights. The man looked funny because he had a real big head and two big yellow eyes. "He is our friend." Because of the difficulties of interviewing children, authorities have yet to determine everything that happened during their three days aboard the spaceship. It does appear that they underwent some sort of medical testing, however, because needle marks and scrapes were still visible on their cheeks after they got home, officials said. A military spokesman would neither confirm nor deny reports that a UFO was picked up on radar the day the children were abducted and the night they were brought home. "We are investigating and the facts will be made public when they are known," he said. "The children are being interviewed now. "We hope to have some solid information soon," the spokesman said. The children's parents, Emilio and Carmen Molero, declined to comment on the incident, newspapers said. UFO researcher Armando Azparen has not spoken to the children personally because the military has refused to answer his requests for an interview. "But from what I have read in the newspapers," he said, "I believe that these children are telling the truth." -- JULIO ENRIQUEZ === Page 40 of 90 Astonishing proof: Their faces are marked by alien probes CIRCLES indicate needle marks left by aliens. Maria Molero, left, and her sister Emma flank brothers Carlos, left, and Jorge. Authorities say the children underwent physical examinations. Authorities confirm: Starship whisks four youngsters on 3-day tour of our galaxy GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATOR Roderigo Ortiz interviews the children about their encounter with alien beings. === Page 41 of 90 B2 THE COLUMBIAN Tues., April 14, 1987 Vancouver, Wash. # IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM LOCAL, WIRE NEWS SOURCES ## THE NATION ### Four airliner near-collisions in one day worry controllers WASHINGTON -- Four incidents during a 10-hour period in which commercial jetliners came within 500 feet of small, private planes are under investigation, Federal Aviation Administration officials say. There were no injuries in any of the near-collisions, all of which occurred last Friday, but in two cases the pilots of the jetliners reported they had to take evasive action. The four incidents involved a United Airlines Boeing 737 near Burbank, Calif., a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1011 near Newark, N.J., a Northwest Airlines DC-9 near Saginaw, Mich., and an American Airlines Boeing 727 over Chicago, the FAA confirmed Monday. ### Big drop in lead leads pollution improvement WASHINGTON -- Emissions of the nation's principal air pollutants and their concentrations in the air declined modestly in most categories in 1985 except for lead, which showed a historic improvement in emission levels, the government says. The Environmental Protection Agency's annual air pollution report shows a 48 percent reduction in lead emissions and a 32 percent drop in airborne concentrations. The drop-off followed the agency's 91 percent cut in the allowable lead concentration of leaded gasoline from 1.1 gram per gallon to 0.1 gram per gallon during 1985. ### Cargo jet crashes and burns in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A cargo jet crashed and exploded in a huge ball of flame, killing all four people aboard, while trying to land at Kansas City International Airport in mist and fog, officials said. The four-engine Boeing 707, en route from Oklahoma City to Fort Wayne, Ind., smashed into a pasture about 1½ miles southwest of the airport Monday night. The Buffalo Airways Inc. plane appeared to have been improperly approaching the runway, spokesmen said. ### Tornadoes, wind rip Arkansas mobile home park GREEN FOREST, Ark. -- Tornadoes and high winds ripped apart a mobile home park, injuring four people, and peeled the roof off an elementary school filled with children in rural northwest Arkansas. The storm Monday afternoon appeared to have cut a 300- to 400-yard wide swath through the mobile home park, destroying five trailer homes and damaging eight. ### Strange light streaks across Southwest skies LOS ANGELES -- A bright light streaked across skies in the Southwest, prompting scores of calls to government agencies, but officials were at a loss to explain the phenomenon. The object, which authorities said could be a meteor, was seen from Arizona to California and south of the Mexican border. # Shark, cusk replacing scrod By Lawrence Neumeister The Associated Press ORIENT -- People who grew up with scrod and flounder and took to shark and mussels are beginning to sample cusk, wolffish and even ocean pout, to the delight of fishermen who need the new sales to survive. "People in this country have tended to like to eat a white, bland, boneless piece of fish. That's changing," said Ken Coons, executive director of the New England Fisheries Development Foundation in Boston. "I see shark on menus these days and I never used to see it," said Jim Watenmaker, marketing director for North Atlantic Seafood Association in Cleveland, a trade association that conducts marketing studies and promotes fish. The change in diet could come just in time for fishermen on Long Island, where a mysterious brown tide has virtually wiped out the once-famed scallop crop for three years and pollution has prompted a law that makes it illegal to catch more than one striped bass per day. Hundreds of fishermen have had to find other jobs. "It's something these guys need to survive," said Chris Smith, cooperative extension agent for Cornell University assigned to Riverhead, of an effort to grow mussels. Smith is developing ways for fishermen to plant baby mussels in waters around small islands off Long Island to create a share of a growing market that has already === Page 42 of 90 # Alien baby hatches from giant space egg September 22, 1987 -- SUN -- 17 A BIZARRE BABY from outer space has hatched from a strange egg deposited on earth by UFO aliens, according to the stunned shepherd who claims to have watched the creature crack out of its shell and draw its first breath of life. "The being was not of this world," states 52-year-old sheep tender Juan Silvo. "It nearly scared me to death when it hatched from its egg." Juan says he was relaxing with a bottle of wine shortly after dusk one evening in a region of Brazil's Guiana Highlands when the night sky was suddenly illuminated by scores of bright flashing lights. ### Craft lands "Many of our native legends tell of the flying disks with their multicolored lights," Juan explains. "They have been coming to this area for centuries, though I do not know why. "On this particular night, I watched the craft descend from the heavens and land in a nearby clearing. "Two odd creatures emerged from the spaceship and began hauling what appeared to be large rocks on board. "The beings were no more than three feet tall with skinny limbs and antennae protruding from their foreheads. Despite their tiny size, they were able to lift and carry the rocks with ease. "They must have loaded 10 or 12 rocks when they closed the door of their spacecraft, which then took off silently into the air and disappeared. "I thought maybe the wine was making me hallucinate, but then I ventured to the clearing and found the space people had left two of the 'rocks' behind. "Only they weren't rocks at all. They were large eggs with extremely solid shells. "Then, suddenly, one of them burst open and a miniature version of the space people I had seen crawled out. "I was so terrified I just turned and ran away as fast as I could." The next morning, however, Juan returned to the scene and discovered the other egg still intact. ### Unknown origin "The creature from the other egg was nowhere to be seen," he notes. "I wanted to tell someone of my experience, but I was afraid no one would believe me without evidence." ## Scientist tries to crack mystery of creature's origin So Juan hauled the unhatched egg back to civilization and gave it to Dr. Julio de Jesus, a professor of genetics at a leading Brazilian university, for examination. ### 24-hour watch "The egg is of unknown origin," Dr. de Jesus says, "but we are fairly certain it will eventually hatch because our tests indicate the presence of a living embryo inside. "We are keeping a 24-hour watch on the object so we can be assured of witnessing the event when it occurs." * DR. JULIO de JESUS is studying the strange space egg given to him by a shepherd from a remote outpost === Page 43 of 90 Space aliens helping savages build giant pyramid Primitive savages are building a towering pyramid in the deepest reaches of the Amazon jungle -- with the help of superintelligent beings from another planet! Incredibly, the towering monument is identical in every respect to the Great Pyramid of Cheops built in Egypt's Nile Valley more than 4,600 years ago! The tribesmen, who live in crudely made thatched huts, have already completed three massive temples that are exact replicas of those found in the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Work on the pyramid was actually witnessed firsthand by South American bush pilot Alonzo Rohas, who said he lived among the savages for nearly a month after his plane crashed in the jungle north of Tarauaca, Brazil. "I know there are people who think I've gone mad," the 39-year-old pilot said. "I couldn't believe it when I was seeing it with my own eyes for days on end. "The pyramid is made of huge square blocks of sandstone and the temples are of stone. You just don't find sandstone or any other kind of stone in the heart of the Amazon jungle. "The blocks must weigh four or five tons each and there are thousands of them stacked in the clearing where the pyramid is being built. "The Indians told me the block supply is replenished from time to time by what they called 'the people from the Sun.' They even carved pictures of their spaceship into the blocks of the pyramid. "The Indians move the blocks to the base of the pyramid on logs. The blocks are then raised into place by the alien spaceship." Rohas said he stumbled across the bizarre building site after his single-engine seaplane developed a fuel problem and crashed. One archaeologist said Rohas' story proves beyond a doubt that space travelers have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. Rohas said he wanted to stay with the Indians long enough to see the space travelers when they returned to the village, but they made it clear they wanted him to leave. "They escorted me to a river, put me in a canoe, pointed the way I should go. I was on my way home ... and I knew I had better keep going." Rohas is trying to draw a map archaeologists can follow back to the jungle building site. -- ROSE GRADY ARCHAEOLOGISTS say this Mayan carving of a space alien is proof that flying saucers have been visiting the Earth for many centuries. (this old pyramid at Uxmal is where my UFO bonded me with Xtolee and the Mayan powers and told me, what was with me, was severely burned and put into intensive care by the actors) Witness confirms: primitive indians stacking five-ton blocks to the sky! === Page 44 of 90 NASA POSTPONES FLIGHT OF SHUTTLE Delay to Mean Reduction in Launchings and Further Blow to Space Effort NY TIMES MAY 21, 1987 By PHILIP M. BOFFEY Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 20 -- The target date for launching the next space shuttle has been delayed until June 1988, four months later than previously planned, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today. The delay was attributed to the need to perform two major tests on the liquid-fuel main engines, as previously announced, and to obtain new tooling to improve the insulation seals for the solid-fuel booster rockets. The postponement will contribute to a sharp decrease in the number of flights planned for 1988 and 1989. The space agency said that only three shuttles were now scheduled to be flown in 1988, down from the five flights announced last October. Seven flights are now scheduled for 1989, down from the ten planned last October. Setback for Space Effort The schedule reductions will further slow the nation's efforts to regain primacy in the international competition to explore and utilize space. The announcement of a new target date had been expected ever since space officials acknowledged last month that the original target date of Feb. 18, 1988, could not be met. But some space analysts said today that even the new target date might be overly optimistic because it assumed that all scheduled tests of a newly designed solid-fuel rocket would be successful. A solid-fuel rocket was blamed for causing the loss of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Investigators concluded that a poorly-designed joint in the rocket failed and allowed hot gases to escape, igniting the conflagration that destroyed the Challenger, killing its crew of seven. "Safely returning the space shuttle to flight is NASA's highest priority," said Dr. James C. Fletcher, the NASA administrator. "Our revised plan for space shuttle recovery is ambitious and assumes that we will successfully complete our test and processing objectives." 'Prudent Thing to Do' Rick Hauck, the astronaut who will command the first shuttle flight in 1988, concurred with the decision to delay the launching. "We would like to get back into space sooner," he said, "but I believe that this is the prudent thing to do." The two new tests planned for the liquid-fuel main engines, first announced by NASA last month, will include filling the shuttle's fuel tank with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for a simulated launching countdown and a firing in which the three main engines for about 20 seconds. Both tests will be conducted about six weeks before the first launching. In another announcement, the space agency said that Morton Thiokol Inc., the manufacturer of the solid-fuel rockets, would conduct a test Friday of some of the components of the faulty booster rocket joint, supplemented by new sealing materials. Subsequent tests in the series will evaluate a wholly new design for the joint. Four workers hurt in rocket mishap CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Four workers were slightly injured and a jinxed space rocket suffered severe damage when a work platform struck the booster on the launch pad and ruptured a fuel tank. The accident occurred as technicians were preparing to remove the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas Centaur rocket to fix a fuel leak, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. The leak is one of many problems that have plagued the rocket in the last four months. "A workstand contacted the surface of the stage and caused a rupture of the hydrogen tank of the Centaur," a NASA statement said. "There were minor injuries to four General Dynamics Space Division technicians as they made a quick departure of the area." Shuttle launch delayed COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The space agency said Tuesday it is delaying for several weeks the first post-Challenger space shuttle launch because it is adding two major confidence-building tests to the schedule. Officials had set Feb. 18, 1988, as a target for resuming flights, but NASA said it is reassessing the date as a result of the extra tests. The agency said it would set a new date in a few weeks. The added tests are a "wet" countdown test, in which shuttle Discovery's huge fuel tank will be filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and a flight readiness firing, in which the three main engines will be ignited for 20 seconds while Discovery is locked on the launch pad. The shuttle fleet has been grounded since the January 1986 Challenger explosion that killed the seven crew members. "The tests will definitely affect our launch date by a number of weeks," Arnold Aldrich, director of the shuttle program, told the opening session of the 24th Space Congress here. Aldrich told a news conference later that the two tests would delay the launch until at least April 1. But he acknowledged the flight could be much later. Soviets test rocket booster 5/17/87 Post-Star MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union announced Saturday it successfully tested a powerful new rocket booster that could be used to put a space shuttle into orbit, but a mock-up satellite carried by the launcher failed to reach orbit. Vremya, the evening news program, said the vehicle's engines are the most powerful in the world, with a capacity of 170 million horsepower. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the launch vehicle Energia blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center on Friday evening and that its two stages landed at predetermined points after their engines shut down. A Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Energia probably is the booster for the Soviet space shuttle program, which Western experts believe will be launched next year. Space Effort Mired in Frustration 13 === Page 45 of 90 Space Experts Detail Launching Failure UFOs vs Space Work BY DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Space agency officials today provided new details about a string of malfunctions, bad data and misjudgments -- some remarkably similar to those preceding the loss of the space shuttle Challenger -- that led to the destruction of an Atlas-Centaur rocket and its satellite payload two months ago. Over the last three days, copies of a NASA investigative report on the March 26 accident have filtered through the halls of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Pentagon, prompting what one official called a "subterranean debate" over whether permanent lessons were really learned from the Challenger disaster. Last week, apparently anticipating the results of the investigation, NASA formed a six-member study group to "insure consistent approaches and risk evaluations for all NASA launches" before another liftoff is scheduled. The broad conclusions of the investigation, that NASA and the Air Force "missed the call" in deciding to launch the rocket, were described at a news conference here Monday. But participants in the decision gave their first detailed accounts in interviews over the past two days. The actual report has yet to be made public, pending a review by NASA headquarters officials. $161 Million Loss The rocket -- worth $161 million together with the Air Force communications satellite it carried -- was destroyed by safety officers after it was struck by four lightning bolts that crippled its guidance-control computer. At first it appeared to be a freak, unpredictable accident. But in an interview today, the head of the NASA board that conducted the investigation, Jon Busse, outlined several "clear warning flags" that should have stopped the launching. Among them were these: Officials did not have accurate reports about cloud conditions and the potential for lightning to strike because the Air Force plane usually employed for weather reconnaissance was grounded by bad weather in Tampa. Several of the weather balloons sent up in the plane's absence did not reach their destination, and investigators now believe that some exploded because of unusually cold conditions in the clouds. Investigators concluded that, contrary to meteorological estimates from the surviving balloons, the depth and temperature of the clouds exceeded NASA's launching guidelines. Despite extensive discussions through the day about nearby thunderstorms, according to the report, NASA's mission director at Cape Canaveral did not look at measurements taken from 21 sites around the launching pad indicating the electrical potential of the atmosphere. Air Force weather personnel did monitor the data, but apparently did not notice that it exceeded, by four to eight times, the maximum allowable electrical potential for launching a space shuttle. No similar regulation currently governs unmanned rocket launches. Staff 'Believed We Were Safe' In a telephone interview today from Florida, James Womack, the launching director for the flight and the senior NASA official in the blockhouse on March 26, said that "absolutely it was a mistake" to proceed with the liftoff. But Mr. Womack, a 30-year NASA veteran, quickly added that he and his staff "believed we were within the criteria, that it was safe to launch." "When you have so many green lights," Mr. Womack said, "it is hard to get to another conclusion." Critics of the agency's action -- including many senior officers in the Air Force, which lost a key communications satellite -- have contended in recent days that there are parallels to the faulty decisions that led to the Challenger's launching on Jan. 28, 1986. Just as foot-long icicles on the Challenger's launching pad or evidence of safety-seal failure in cold weather should have warned against launching the shuttle, they contend, destroyed weather balloons and high readings from the devices that measure the potential for lightning should have been warnings against the 67th launching of an Atlas-Centaur. However, while engineers specifically warned against the launching of the Challenger, there was apparently no such warning in the hours before the Atlas-Centaur left the pad. "The questions that this leaves you with," said John Logsdon, a space expert at George Washington University here, "is whether the NASA organization has yet communicated its priorities about safety and caution back down into the bureaucracy. My guess is that so much attention has been concentrated on the shuttle in the past year, that they haven't looked at much else." Report Still Being Studied At NASA headquarters today, officials said they were still studying the investigation report. Adm. Richard Truly, who heads all space flight for the agency, could not be reached for comment, according to a spokeswoman. Other NASA officials suggested, however, that the formation of the task force to assess launching procedures was the first response to the Atlas-Centaur investigation, which found disparities between rules for launching different rockets. The space shuttle, for example, cannot be launched when the atmosphere's electrical potential, an indication of the likelihood of lightning, exceeds 1,000 volts per meter. Just prior to the Atlas-Centaur launching, three sensors closest to the pad measured levels of minus 4,640 volts per meter; another sensor, farther away, was closer to 8,000. But none of the NASA officials were examining that data, apparently because there is no such launching limitation for the Atlas-Centaur. "I'm not even sure we had access to that data," said Mr. Womack, the launching manager. However, Mr. Busse, who headed the investigation, said the data was fed to launching officials at another site. "We would not have launched the shuttle under these conditions," said Joseph B. Mahon, NASA's deputy associate administrator of flight systems. "But I don't know why we don't have a similar requirement for unmanned launches. We're looking into that now." Some wonder if NASA has learned any shuttle lessons. NY Times 7/24/87 Russian on Space Trip UFOs vs Space Work Has a Heart Problem MOSCOW, July 25 (AP) -- A Soviet astronaut who has spent nearly six months in space has developed a potentially serious heart problem and will be brought home next week, Soviet officials said Friday. The announcement came shortly after the docking of a three-man Soyuz TM-3 orbiter with the Mir space station, where Aleksandr Laveikin and Yuri Romanenko have been living since early February. Viktor D. Blagov, the deputy flight director, said at a news conference here that Mr. Laveikin, who is 35 years old, had developed an abnormal electrocardiogram at some point in the flight. "It may be serious -- it may not be serious," Mr. Blagov said. Tass, the Soviet Government press agency, reported earlier Friday that Mr. Laveikin, who is on his first space mission, would be replaced at the end of the six-day docking mission with one of the other, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 44. The capsule carried two Soviet astronauts and Syria's first man in space, Mohammed Faris, 36. The orbiter was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday. At the end of its six-day mission, it will bring back Mr. Laveikin, Mr. Faris and the Soviet astronaut Aleksandr Viktorov, 40. === Page 46 of 90 # 9 lighting strikes might have hit doomed rocket Post-Star 4/7/87 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An unmanned satellite rocket launched last month may have sustained as many as nine lightning strikes before it broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, a NASA spokesman said Thursday. Officials reported earlier there was evidence of at least one lightning hit on the rocket's nose cone and that lightning was the leading suspect as the cause of the accident. "Since then as many as eight additional locations on the nose fairing have been found which are consistent with damage normally caused by lightning," spokesman Hugh Harris said Thursday as he showed reporters recovered chunks of the shattered Atlas-Centaur rocket spread out on the floor of a hangar. The $78 million rocket, carrying an $83 million military communications satellite, was launched in a heavy rainstorm on March 26 and began breaking apart 52 seconds after liftoff. Harris also said weather gauges near the launch pad showed conditions were right for dangerous lightning at the time of liftoff. But he said data from these devices is used only for manned space shuttle launches. He said in the future these readings might be used for unmanned rockets. He said a shuttle would not be launched if electrical charges measured by the devices registered as low as minus 1,000 volts per meter. Readings at the time of the Atlas-Centaur launch were as low as minus 7,360 volts per meter. # SOVIET LAUNCHES MIGHTIEST ROCKET ON A TEST MISSION ## 'Energia' Will be Capable of Putting a Shuttle in Orbit, Russian Report Says By FELICITY BARRINGER Special to The New York Times 5/17/87 MOSCOW, May 16 -- The Soviet Union today announced the successful test launch of the world's most powerful rocket, capable of putting a 100-ton space shuttle into orbit. The "Energia," launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 7:30 P.M. Moscow time (11:30 A.M. New York time) Friday, was propelled by "the most powerful engines in the world," a Soviet television reporter said on the evening news program tonight. The Energia can lift five times more weight than the next-largest Soviet launch vehicle, according to United States experts on the Soviet space program. ### 'Strap-on' Engines Eight liquid hydrogen engines, four of which hugged the rocket body in a configuration called "strap-on" by United States space experts, sent the 197-foot, two-stage rocket hurtling into the night sky atop a huge red column of flame. The total weight of the rocket and its stubby dummy payload was more than 2,000 tons, the Soviet press agency Tass reported. "This is a major breakthrough for them," said James Oberg, an author and expert on the Soviet space program. Mr. Oberg said that three previous Soviet attempts to send up a heavyweight launch vehicle ended in failure in the late 1960's and early 1970's. ### A Gorbachev Visit Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who made a three-day visit to Baikonur early last week, was reported to have told the Soviet technicians there not to "hurry" the launch of the "Energia." "Check and weigh everything," Mr. Gorbachev said, according to Soviet television. Tass said that the engines of the rocket's first stage shut off according to plan, and that the first stage vehicle landed "in a pre-set area in the Soviet Union's territory." The second stage landed as planned in the Pacific Ocean, Tass said, but the dummy satellite, which was to have gone into orbit, splashed into the Pacific as well because of "faulty operation of the onboard systems." Despite that shortcoming, Tass said, Continued on Page 29, Column 1. # NASA funding in question Post-Star 4/21/87 ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- NASA may lack the money to make the first post-Challenger space shuttle flight in early 1988 because of the high cost of permanent improvements required, the head of the agency said Tuesday. James C. Fletcher said the space agency has money problems in trying to recover from last year's explosion that killed seven crew members and brought the shuttle program to an abrupt halt. "We just don't want to start the first flight and then have a big gap in the program," because of insufficient funds, Fletcher said. "We want to have a first flight and then continuation of several flights after that." NASA had set Feb. 18, 1988 as a target date for the first flight, but said last week that a number of factors -- including a decision to fire the engines while locking the ship on the pad -- will cause a delay. === Page 47 of 90 Ariane rocket on the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center before operations were suspended. Camera Press/Jean-Louis # European Failures Leave Space Effort Mired in Frustration NY Times BY EDWIN MCDOWELL 5/5/87 UFOS vs Space Work KOUROU, French Guiana LESS rain than usual has fallen during the current rainy season, but clouds far more ominous have settled over this tropical backwater on the shoulder of South America. At the nearby Guiana Space Center, a narrow strip carved out of the edge of the jungle that is the home of the West European space program, engineers and technicians have been marking time for almost a year. That is how long the program has been on hold, ever since a third-stage ignition failure last May 30 forced ground controllers to destroy an Ariane 2 rocket and its Intelsat communications satellite less than five minutes into the flight. The failure was the fourth in 18 launchings of the Arianespace program and the third involving a third-stage failure. So the whole program has been delayed until the problem can be found and corrected. "There are still some problems with the third stage," said Gilbert Rotrou, director of operations for Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency that manages and markets Ariane's commercial launchings. "The best current estimates are that the next launching will not come before July and might be even later than that." As a result, Arianespace is losing money, failing to take full advantage of the damage done to America's space effort by last year's shuttle disaster and in danger of losing ground to other competitors. And the lost momentum has made the space center, which once hummed with activity and excitement, a symbol of frustration and lost opportunity. The launching timetable has been formally postponed once and informally postponed several times, and the waiting has started to tell on residents of this coastal company town, a former prison camp whose population of 8,500 has increased tenfold in 15 years. "When Ariane has problems, the whole town is affected," said a fashionable young woman in the air-conditioned arcade of Kourou, the home for most of the 1,000 space center employees. The arcade's boutiques, restaurants and sidewalk cafes, like those in the capital city of Cayenne 40 miles south of here, are well stocked with food and clothing imported from France. A penal colony for almost 100 years until the end of World War II, this French overseas department -- about the size of Maine and populated largely by Creoles, Europeans, Indians and descendants of escaped slaves -- is now the last remaining European possession on the South American mainland. The general lassitude seems to have affected even the French Foreign Legion, whose volunteers help guard the space center. The lethargy that has set in here is probably understandable, considering that the Ariane launchings were suspended at the worst possible time. After almost a decade of delays, failures and frustration, the European Space Agency -- founded by 11 nations in 1975 to free Western Europe from dependence on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- had finally managed to wrest half of the $1 billion-a-year commercial satellite launching business away from its American rival. Launching only European satellites at first, in 1984 Ariane sent into orbit a communications satellite for the GTE Spacenet Corporation, then added the Arab telecommunications satellite network, and launched weather and navigation satellites for other nations -- including neighboring Brazil, which will launch four satellites on its own beginning in 1989. The explosion of the American space shuttle Challenger, in January 1986, followed by President Reagan's announcement that NASA would no longer launch commercial payloads, left Ariane in a position to profit handsomely. That it has not was not from lack of trying. Arianespace increased the price of each satellite launching by 40 percent, to about $50 million -- a rise it attributed largely to the exchange rate between the dollar and the European currencies -- but even then it could not accommodate all the private and government requests for space on Ariane. It scheduled more than a dozen launchings through 1986, and had completed four of them when disaster struck last May. After that, the hobbled space agency could only watch from the sidelines as the Soviet Union and China began to gear up for commercial launchings. Meanwhile, such private American companies as General Dynamics and Martin Marietta have come that much closer to the day they will put payloads into orbit. After last May's failure, several of the European Propulsion Society, the company that manufactures the rocket motors for Ariane, are reported to have been fired. But lately, at a plant outside Paris, the motors, owned by the French Government, has had more than ignition problems to worry about. French authorities arrested five people in March on charges of spying on Ariane rocket technology, and Frédéric d'Allest, the Arianespace chairman, promptly implicated the Soviet Union in the espionage ring. Although Moscow just as promptly denied it, the incident recalled the news conference last year at which Mr. d'Allest refused to rule out sabotage as the cause of the failure last May involving Ariane 2 and the Intelsat satellite. Postponements since that failure have cost Arianespace more than $80 million, officials say, and the program to overhaul the engine is expected to cost $163.6 million, according to Mr. d'Allest. The postponements have also delayed the launching of the Ariane 4, a much more powerful rocket whose first flight had been scheduled for mid-1986, and have taken a large toll in morale. "You can't imagine the frustration and disappointment," said a dispirited veteran space center employee. "We took pride in operating on a shoestring, compared with NASA, but when that shoestring broke..." He finished the sentence with a shrug. # Telescope dome kills astronomer UFOS vs Space Work TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- An award-winning astronomer known for his research on the age and size of the universe was crushed to death between a door and a 150-ton revolving telescope dome, authorities said Friday. Marc Arnold Aaronson, 37, was crushed Thursday night in an accident at the Kitt Peak Observatory, said Lt. Edward Baumler, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman. Aaronson was leaving the 18-story building that houses the 4-meter Mayall telescope to check the weather when he was killed, Baumler said. When the door leading outside is opened, the telescope's dome automatically stops turning, but the dome coasts five to 10 feet before coming to a full stop, authorities said. # Briefly Post-Star 5/2/87 UFOS vs Space Work Post-Star 7/13/87 ## Air Force aborts Minuteman test VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- An unarmed Minuteman 3 missile was destroyed Sunday over the Pacific Ocean because a problem occurred during the test, the Air Force said. The intercontinental ballistic missile was well downrange from its launching point at Vandenberg when the problem was detected and range safety officers sent a destruct command to the rocket, said Lt. Col. Richard Hill, a base public affairs officer. The missile was en route to a target at the Kwajalein Atoll, 4,200 miles southwest of Vandenberg. It was the 129th operational test of the Minuteman weapons system, Hill said. (16 === Page 48 of 90 Weinberger Letter on Allies' Role in Space Station Stirs Furor By DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 8 -- A letter written by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger earlier this week about the Pentagon's plans for possible military uses of the proposed space station prompted a string of protests today, along with warnings that American allies might be forced to drop their participation in the project. In the letter, sent to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Mr. Weinberger said that the United States "must be prepared to go forward alone" if its allies are not willing to give the Defense Department broad latitude to "conduct national security activities on U.S. elements of the space station." Mr. Weinberger warned that the United States should not sign any agreement that allows its allies "approval or review" of military activity on the space station, or gives them an equal voice in the station's "management, utilization or operation." The letter, which apparently took the Pentagon by surprise, began circulating just as the Reagan Administration was trying to quell fears from Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency that the space station was evolving from a civilian project into a military one. Space agency officials have said in recent days that the National Security Council was also drawing up a directive, to be presented to President Reagan, that would define the Department's role in the program progressed. As a result, he said Mr. Shultz should beware of "paying too high a price for international cooperation" if he allows the allies to review or reject an American military presence on the station. Such a presence has met strong objections abroad, especially in Europe and Japan, among groups opposed to militarizing outer space. Foreign participants in the space station program said it was too early to tell if Mr. Weinberger's position would threaten their participation. "The whole issue is under negotiation," said Ian Pryke, head of the European Space Agency's Washington office. But Senator William Proxmire, a Wisconsin Democrat who has been highly critical of Pentagon efforts to put weapons in space, said today that it was crucial that the space station "remain an international effort." "It seems to me that if they are going to contribute heavily to a multibillion-dollar effort," Mr. Proxmire said of the allies, "they have every reason to review it." Today members of committees that oversee the National Aeronautics and Space Administration warned that if Mr. Weinberger's views were adopted, the nation's allies would probably pull out of the international project. "Secretary Weinberger's letter sets conditions which will make it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve meaningful cooperation" among the space station's partners, said Norman Y. Mineta, a California Democrat who sits on the Space Science and Applications Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology. Another member of the committee, Representative David R. Nagle, Democrat of Iowa, said he thought that if Mr. Weinberger's conditions survived "there would be a race to get the hell out" of the project. Under the current plan, the European Space Agency is planning to contribute $2 billion in add-on modules to the station to conduct experiments in the fields of life sciences, materials processing and fluid physics. Japan is contributing $1 billion, and Canada is building a $1 billion "space garage" and servicing facility. Until late last year the space station appeared to be an entirely civilian project. But then Mr. Weinberger said the Defense Department wanted to retain an option to use the facility, and outside experts say they expect it could become a key element in deploying a space-based system to shoot down attacking missiles. Pentagon Goals Cited In his letter, Mr. Weinberger said again that the Defense Department was exploring "potential roles for military man-in-space" on the space station. But he also went further, adding that the Pentagon's goals included "the development of space-based systems" and "the conduct of operational missions." The letter became public as NASA was facing increasing questions over the cost of the space station. After estimates of its cost rose sharply in recent months, President Reagan approved last week a plan for a scaled-back station costing $14.5 billion in 1984 dollars. But in testimony, NASA officials disclosed that the figure did not include the cost of more than 30 space shuttle flights needed to get the station into orbit. When those costs are included, NASA officials said, the figure was closer to $20 billion. The disclosure of the higher figure has prompted some charges that NASA was masking the true cost of the space station in an effort to save the project, which is already behind the schedule first set by Mr. Reagan. But Dale D. Myers, NASA's Deputy Administrator, said today, "We have always estimated all programs not including launch costs." He insisted that "there is nothing deceptive" in assessing the station's cost without estimating the price of placing the hardware in space. Problems With Soviet Spacecraft MOSCOW, April 9 (Reuters) -- The Soviet Union's new Kvant space module failed today to link up completely in the second docking attempt with the manned space station Mir, and Soviet scientists were deciding whether the mission could be saved. Tass, the official Soviet press agency, said the Kvant, described as a new type of space module, had functioned normally through every stage of rendezvous and docking before it tried to hook up with the Mir. But analysis of information from the craft showed that the linkup was incomplete, and scientists were studying the data received to decide whether it would be possible to continue operations with the module, Tass said. A first attempt to dock the module with the space station, which has been manned since Feb. 7 by Comdr. Yuri V. Romanenko of the Soviet Air Force, a 42-year-old veteran of three previous flights, and Aleksandr Laveikin, 35, a civilian, was aborted Sunday when the module's directional systems failed. Docking Maneuvers Monitored Tass said the two astronauts had cooperated with ground control in monitoring docking maneuvers controlled by automatic systems on the space module. The module was launched March 31, carrying 1.5 tons of scientific instruments and equipment for use in experiments to be carried out in space. A Soviet space expert said Wednesday that the new module, which weighs more than 20 tons, had enough fuel to try two more dockings after the first failed attempt. The Kvant would be the first experimental module to link with the Mir, which Soviet space officials hope will become the world's first permanently manned space station. Magazine says Khomeini sick PARIS (AP) -- Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 87, is suffering from a brain tumor and will undergo surgery in Austria in November, the French weekly news magazine L'Express reported. The magazine, which appeared on French newsstands Friday, said authorities in Tehran, Iran, had contacted 80-year-old Austrian physician Karl Fellinger to help find a doctor to perform the surgery. It quoted what it called informed Iranian sources, but did not identify them. === Page 49 of 90 New chief of NASA under fire Post-Star 6/29/87 Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON - Administrator James C. Fletcher, appointed last year to rebuild NASA after the Challenger disaster, instead has hampered the agency's recovery through awkward political maneuvers and unpopular decisions, according to a wide range of space authorities. Fletcher's relationships with several key members of Congress have deteriorated to the point that he has sought meetings as recently as last week to mend fences, conceding errors and weaknesses, and promising improvement. The NASA chief admitted in an unusually candid interview with The Orlando Sentinel that the agency has suffered because of his inability to get along with a Congress that has scrutinized NASA more aggressively since the Challenger accident. "I am not the great communicator one might expect," Fletcher, 68, said last week. He acknowledged that stubbornness and a lack of political acumen have affected his ability to run NASA since his first term as administrator in 1970-77. He also said that, while heading an agency that has built its reputation on vision and bold conquests, he does not consider himself an inspirational leader. "I am not going to be the charismatic leader people are looking for," he said. Rather, his intent is to build a team of strong managers beneath him who can strengthen NASA's core, Fletcher said. The consensus among more than 35 legislators, scientists, space policy officials interviewed for this report is that Fletcher's weaknesses have been a private concern for months, and that confidence and support for him have eroded significantly. As a result, they believe, NASA could face delays in financing and decisions about the space station and other projects critical to its progress out of the most devastating period in the agency's 28-year history. NASA may be stalled, they say, until after the 1988 election when Fletcher plans to leave. Key aerospace authorities say Fletcher's problems have been compounded by failure of the Reagan administration to establish clear and strong policies to guide NASA's future and to set aside enough money to see them through. NASA "has simply been lost during the Reagan years," said Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., a member of NASA's budget authorization subcommittee, making a point with which Fletcher strongly disagrees. Fletcher's stewardship has become such a congressional issue that Torricelli suggested in May that his colleagues formally complain to President Reagan. Summer gives us a preview By David Wasson Staff Writer Post-Star 4/21/87 LAKE GEORGE - The weather was so nice here Monday afternoon, sunbather Frankie Waite said she was tempted to go for a swim. But after wading no more than a few feet from the Shepard Park beach, Ms. Waite said she decided the water still was a little too cold for her. Only two weeks ago, there still was ice on the lake. "At least I got a couple hours of sun today," she said, "and it was worth it." Ms. Waite wasn't alone. Dozens of people, many of them in swimsuits, gathered in Shepard Park to enjoy Monday's unseasonably high temperatures. The National Weather Service in Albany reported temperatures climbing into the 80s in Northeastern New York on Monday, with similar temperatures expected again today across the Glens Falls area. The official high in Glens Falls was 78 degrees Monday at Warren County Airport. "It's just here," said meteorologist Kurt Hemmerich of the unseasonably warm weather. "I can't really explain it. The sun is getting pretty strong and the cool Canadian air is staying up there." Tonight, however, forecasters predict clouds might begin accumulating with the chance of rain reaching 50 percent. High temperatures Wednesday are expected to be back at a more seasonable 60 degrees, Hemmerich said. The recent 80-degree days are more common to weather usually experienced in mid-June, the forecaster said. The average mid-April high temperature for the Glens Falls area is 62 degrees, he said. The warm weather and sunshine convinced bicycling enthusiast Henry Kohl to put away his corduroys and don his riding shorts. "I got a little warm yesterday when I went riding," he explained while taking a break at the park. The mid-April heat wave, he said, is a little surprising. But Kohl, a retired merchant marine officer, said it didn't bother him. Monday's weather, he said, reminded him of sailing into the South Pacific. Sullivan's Rexall owners Bruce and Sharon Kilburn said Monday they noticed more people beginning to roam Canada Street. It seems to get a little busier each week, Mrs. Kilburn said. But most of the people seem to be from the Glens Falls area, she said, and very few are tourists. === Page 50 of 90 Northeast Region Post-Star 6/29/87 # Vermont facing ozone trouble BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Next to a country golf course here and alongside a tiny airport in Bennington, Vermont researchers are finding trouble in the air. It's ozone, a noxious substance formed in sunlight from man-made pollutants such as automobile exhausts, industrial emissions and unburned gasoline vapors. The pollutant, like acid rain, is believed to be mostly created from outside the state and swept by wind into Vermont. In heavy concentrations, ozone impairs vision and breathing and has harmful effects on vegetation and wildlife. The state has checked ozone levels at five sites since 1981. It now is testing at two sites, the Burlington golf course and Bennington airport. Vermont does not have a severe ozone problem. It is the only state in New England that has never recorded a federal violation of ozone. But this summer, some officials predict the state will reach and pass a sad milestone: the Bennington site may record Vermont's first federal violation for ozone levels. No violations are expected at the Burlington site, although relatively high levels have been recorded. "The good news is we are not now above the federal standards," said Harold Garabedian, acting director of the state Division of Air Pollution Control. "The bad news is we are being affected by upwind states. If we just had our own emissions to deal with, we'd have even better air quality." The ozone readings at the Bennington site, which the state first set up last summer, are believed by environmental officials to be affected by vehicle and industrial emissions in the Albany, N.Y., area, and possibly as far away as New York City. Ozone readings at the Bennington site for June are the highest for that month ever recorded in Vermont. The federal standard for ozone violation is anything above 120 parts per billion; the Bennington site this month recorded readings in the 90s and low 100s, Garabedian said. Burlington has recorded readings in the 60s and 70s. During the past six years, a normal reading has been in the 60s and 70s. Asked if an ozone reading in the 60s was a threat to human health, Garabedian hesitated. "We don't know. That question is still an area that people are researching," he said. "We are not immune from the problems of ozone, particularly as it is a regional transport problem," Garabedian said. "The proximity to ... urban areas gives us a chance at going over the (federal) standard." Other environmental officials think there's a strong chance for a violation. "So far we haven't recorded one," said Rich Perrault, a state air quality planner. "But we're taking bets around here whether we'll have a violation or not. I think there's a good chance." If the state records a violation this summer, it must notify health and local officials; it also may broadcast a warning to people with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Garabedian said industrial areas in the Northeast such as New York, Connecticut and New Jersey clearly have an ozone problem. He said if the new federal Clean Air Act does not clamp down on emission levels, ozone problems only will worsen in urban and rural areas. Surface ozone is much different than ozone in the upper atmosphere, 12 to 30 miles above the ground. In the stratosphere, ozone protects the earth from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun. The protective layer of ozone has become thinner during the past decade, while the amount of surface ozone has become more concentrated. There is very little exchange between the two kinds of ozone. Vermont and other states are monitoring the ozone close to the earth, under a requirement of the federal Clean Air Act. NY Times 3/26/87 # Wedtech Scandal Brings Civil Suit The widening net of the Wedtech scandal has so far brought criminal indictments to 19 people associated with Government favors for the South Bronx military contractor. Last week, it encompassed another kind of action, a civil suit for $3.3 million, against E. Robert Wallach, a San Francisco lawyer and friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. The suit, brought by the new management of the Wedtech Corporation, charges that Mr. Wallach tried to defraud the company by conspiring with five former executives to be paid for services he did not perform and then trying to cover up the scheme. Martin R. Pollner, Wedtech's court-appointed lawyer, said Mr. Wallach received at least $1.25 million in stock and fees, 25 percent more than previously believed. Mr. Wallach issued a statement calling the charges unfounded. Former executives of Wedtech have said they sought out Mr. Wallach because of his close ties to Mr. Meese. In 1982, Mr. Meese, then counselor to President Reagan, intervened with Army contractors on behalf of the then-obscure company after Mr. Wallach lobbied him to. James C. McKay, the special prosecutor in the Wedtech case, is also looking into whether Mr. Meese illegally profited from his links to the company. Wedtech declared bankruptcy late last year. Mr. Pollner said last week "tens of millions of dollars" were to the Government for unfulfilled contracts, which it cannot pay. NY Times 6/1/86 # Struck by Lightning In Brooklyn, just 15 minutes later, lightning created a different sort of havoc in Prospect Park, striking Evella Owen, 35, and her husband, Keith, 40. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital, where Mrs. Owen was reported in critical but stable condition. Mr. Owen was listed in good condition. At 4 P.M., a parks enforcement patrol officer, Robert Turner, was riding a horse on the East Drive, near the Prospect Park Zoo when a sudden thunderstorm sent hundreds of people on the huge Long Meadow scurrying for cover. Officer Turner said he heard the crack of thunder and watched a lightning bolt hammer the crescent-shaped field as his horse, Benbow, started bucking. While Officer Turner calmed the jittery horse, he was approached by two frantic boys shouting that the lightning bolt had struck their mother. The officer followed them to the edge of the meadow, where a crowd of 50 people had gathered around a couple lying on the ground. The man was dazed but conscious, his pants burned. The woman was unconscious, and Officer Turner began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation, while someone in the crowd held Benbow's reins. (SUN ATTACK) NY Sun Attack # Hot Turk Bites Howling Dog ANKARA, Turkey, July 25 (Reuter) -- A heat wave gripping Turkey disturbed Kemal Pala, a gunsmith, so much that he bit his neighbor's howling dog, named Lassie, three times. The semi-official Anatolian News Agency said the dog's owner, Mehmet Ahoglu, reported the matter to the police in the western town of Biga. NY Times 7/26/87 Point out how the "bad guys" are being eliminated from top govt. (linked + spokes) === Page 51 of 90 Post-Star 8/2/87 RIGBY COPLEY NEWS SERVICE NY DAILY NEWS DEAVER MEESE NORTH ALAS POOR WHATSISNAME! NOFZIGER POINDEXTER TOP OF THE HEAP NASA struggling to recover from disaster Quake rocks Adirondacks Note: This area. The Associated Press Post-Star 9/27/87 An earthquake Saturday shook upstate New York's Adirondack region, but there were no reports of injury or damage. "It's definitely an earthquake," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the National Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. "It's not large enough to cause any damage." The earthquake measured 3.5 on the Richter scale, making it a minor earthquake, he said. The 1:44 p.m. earthquake's center was about 15 miles west of Saranac Lake, Person said. The quake was probably felt for a 50-mile radius, said Frank Baldwin, a physical science technician for the National Geological Survey. By Howard Benedict The Associated Press Post-Star 8/2/87 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Eighteen months after the Challenger explosion, a troubled NASA is at a crossroads. Struggling still toward recovery from that disaster, the agency is also striving to reassert its leadership of the American space program. Once the proud embodiment of the nation's civilian space effort, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration today lacks a bold vision of what it wants to achieve and is without a comprehensive national policy to guide it. Critics and historians say the agency has been weakened by a reduced political commitment, indifference in the White House, underfunding, debates over manned vs. unmanned flight, the priority of military space projects and Pentagon assertion of space leadership, the intrusion of other government agencies into space policy decisions, and lack of vigorous leadership. The result, says the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is that the United States could become a second-class power in space, with the Soviet Union assuming unchallenged leadership and the Europeans, Japanese and Chinese moving up fast. That could have economic, political and strategic implications well into the 21st century, according to a recent policy statement by the AIAA, a respected organization of space scientists, engineers and business people. Others, too, are concerned. "The fact is, that currently NASA has lost the will to fly men in space," wrote Reginald Turnill, editor of the British publication Jane's Spaceflight Directory, in the 1987 edition. The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986, which killed its seven crew members, ripped away NASA's aura of invincibility. The subsequent investigation spotlighted mismanagement, sloppiness and other flaws within the agency. "23 Paces To Baker Street" Bobby's whistle. Sound off till put whistle down. 8/7/87 about 10:45 AM (20 === Page 52 of 90 # Commerce secretary dies ## Baldrige was in Luzerne rodeo July 17 Wire and staff reports Post Star 7/26/87 WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, a onetime ranch hand who attended Yale and became a successful businessman before joining the Reagan Cabinet, died Saturday hours after the horse he was riding while cattle roping fell on him. Baldrige, 64, died during surgery at John Muir Hospital here at about 3:50 p.m., said Dr. Naran Patel, a trauma surgeon at the hospital. He participated in a rodeo held at the Painted Pony Ranch in Lake Luzerne July 17, finishing second in the team roping event. Donald Baxter, a long-time area rodeo rider and judge at the Painted Pony, described Baldrige, who ropes the hind legs, or heels, of the steer in the team roping event, as an experienced rider. Baxter said he had known the secretary for 20 years. And, although there usually aren't many accidents in the team roping event, "one is as liable to get it as another," Baxter said before Baldrige's death. "There's not much you can do," he said. "It don't matter what you are if a horse falls on you." The commerce secretary, a member of President Reagan's Cabinet since 1981, arrived at the hospital via helicopter after the accident at the Jack Roddy Ranch in rural Brentwood, 45 miles east of San Francisco. Baldrige, who had a lifelong passion for rodeo competition and was elected to the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1984, suffered massive internal injuries including tears to the pancreas and heart when the horse fell on him about 1:15 p.m., doctors said. His heart stopped for several minutes after the accident. During exploratory surgery, doctors discovered severe internal bleeding that they were unable to stem, Patel said, adding that the aorta and the large vein leading to the heart were both torn. About 1 1/2 hours into the operation, Baldrige's heart stopped and efforts to restart it through heart massage failed. "He bled to death from the massive injuries and from the lack of coagulation (of his blood)," said chief surgeon Dr. Ronald LaPorta, one of four surgeons who operated on the secretary. "He was always in shock; he never got out of shock." "The nation has suffered a great loss with the tragic and untimely death of Secretary Malcolm Baldrige," President Reagan said in a statement read by Leslye Arsht, White House deputy press secretary. "Under his stewardship, the Department of Commerce played a key role in the rebirth of our country's prosperity and all of us owe a great debt to 'Mac' Baldrige," the president said. Baldrige was attempting to rope a calf when his horse reared and both fell backward, with the horse falling on the commerce secretary "full force," said sheriff's Sgt. Larry Aulich. Dr. Bert D. Johnson, a Stanford # Dog days of summer continue The Associated Press Post Star 7/23/87 U.S. Sun Attack Sales of ice cream, ice and air conditioners sizzled and utilities reported record demand for electricity as a heat wave blamed for at least one death had people sweating again Wednesday from the Plains to the East Coast. "This is one of the worst summers I can remember," said Harry Ochs IV, a butcher in Philadelphia's unairconditioned Reading Market Terminal. He said the only thing that keeps him going is "knowing that we'll be getting air conditioning in August." "It's been a long, hot summer, and we still have August to go," said meteorologist Tony Sands in Cincinnati. Highs in the 90s and above 100 and humidity well over 50 percent began late last week. And that is expected to continue into the weekend as a high pressure area over the Southeast pumps hot, wet air up from the Gulf of Mexico, National Weather Service meteorologists said. "The humidity's awfully high," said Iowa state climatologist Paul Waite in Des Moines. "It drives the effective temperature up above 100 degrees, due to the combination of heat and humidity." Some places have had temperatures above 100 even without taking the humidity into account. Baltimore hit 103 Tuesday, 1 degree short of the record, and Chadron, Neb., hit 104. Baltimore was up to 97 at 4 p.m. Wednesday but the humidity was down. Chicago hit 90 at 3 p.m. Wednesday, making it the 13th day at or over 90 degrees there this month, and the 21st so far this year, leaving hundreds of overheated cars along expressway shoulders. The weather service said the average is only 16 days of 90-plus weather in a whole year. New York City had a high of 92 Wednesday, giving it seven days of 90-plus weather this month, and the city was rushing to install a shipment of 473 new fans in shelters for the homeless, many of which had no fans. (2) === Page 53 of 90 Meese Post-Star 5/12/87 From Page A1 conclusion on this case." The special prosecutor's investigation will focus on Meese's intercession, when he was White House counselor, in the Army's awarding of a $32 million, no-bid contract to the Wedtech Corp. Meese said last month that he interceded only to ensure that the firm got "a fair hearing" in its effort to win the contract. Another Reagan confidant, former White House political director Lyn Nofziger, also is under investigation by McKay. The special prosecutor is probing whether Nofziger violated federal conflict-of-interest rules by lobbying on Wedtech's behalf shortly after leaving the administration. In 1985, Meese invested $60,000 in a "limited blind partnership" with W. Franklyn Chinn, a San Francisco businessman who later became a director of Wedtech. Meese has said he doesn't know if Chinn invested any of the $60,000 in Wedtech. Eastland disclosed that Meese notified Chinn on May 5 that he wants to end his participation in the partnership. Eastland said the partnership will be terminated on June 30. "Whatever his money is, he will be reimbursed," Eastland said, adding that Meese has received quarterly statements from Chinn describing "what the bottom line is" but has never been informed whether any of the money was invested in Wedtech. Four of Wedtech's former officials have pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe federal, state and local New York officials in building the company's business and obtaining millions of dollars worth of military contracts. The company, a minority contractor, is reorganizing under federal bankruptcy laws. The investigation marks the second time Meese's conduct has been examined by a special prosecutor at his request. Meese was cleared of wrongdoing after a 1984 investigation of his personal finances, including allegations that he may have arranged federal jobs for two savings and loan officials who allowed him to fall 15 months behind in mortgage payments on his Alameda County, Calif. home. Another long-time Reagan adviser, former White House deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver, also requested the appointment of a special prosecutor to review his lobbying activities after he left the administration. That investigation led to Deaver's indictment this year on perjury charges. The new investigation of Meese is the latest in a series of probes of current or former Reagan administration officials. Those cases are being handled by seven separate special prosecutors, also known as independent counsels. Fitzwater denied that the investigations show a pattern of impropriety. "We see a pattern of very law enforcement that pursues investigations wherever they occur," Fitzwater said. He said he did not know whether Meese have discussed the attorney general's involvement in the Wedtech case. # Most rivers pulling back in Northeast UFO Sun Attack Associated Press Post-Star 4/8/87 Most rivers receded Tuesday in the flood-ravaged Northeast, where 3,000 people had been forced from their homes at one time or another, but rising water elsewhere threatened more evacuations. Officials in Augusta, Maine, the state's capital, and nearby Gardiner and Hallowell estimated damage in that area alone at more than $30 million. Estimates for other parts of the hard-hit state were incomplete. "The damage in Androscoggin County is in the millions, I just can't say how many millions," said Peter Gagnon, civil defense director in that county southwest of Augusta. Maine Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. said damage estimates would still be ing prepared but were eventually total "tens of millions" of dollars. New Hampshire officials said they couldn't make estimates until the water subsided and Massachusetts officials said they were too busy to be able to assess the damage. David Dilley, meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Logan International Airport, said some sections along the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Vermont had received up to 13 inches of rain in the past week. Average rainfall for the region for all of April is 3.8 inches. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo on Tuesday declared a disaster in emergencies because of flooding in Schoharie, Montgomery and Ulster counties in the eastern part of the state. In addition to the victims of a bridge collapse over the Schoharie River near Amsterdam Sunday, at least nine deaths have been blamed on the weather in the past week: four in Kentucky, two in Ohio and one each in West Virginia and Alabama, and one man drowned in Vermont and two men were missing in Massachusetts and feared drowned. In Massachusetts, the Merrimack River apparently crested Tuesday, but was expected to stay well above flood stage at least until this morning, the New England River Forecast Center said. About 1,750 were evacuated from their homes along the river's banks in the state. Eight Massachusetts towns declared states of emergency on Tuesday, bringing the total for the state to 34. New Hampshire Civil Defense officials said 1,000 to 1,500 people had been flooded out since Saturday, and about 200 remained in public shelters Tuesday. An additional 30 people were evacuated Tuesday near the rising Merrimack River in Nashua, and some fled the rising Exeter River at Exeter. An emergency release of water Monday from a dam at Keene, N.H., forced the evacuation of some communities along the Ashuelot River, and Cheshire County spokesman John Gifford estimated that more than 100 people spent the night in shelters. At the peak of the Maine flooding late last week, 541 people stayed at Red Cross shelters, with an unknown number of others going to friends or relatives. And state officials said about 4,700 workers had their jobs interrupted because of those floods. 22 === Page 54 of 90 7/29/87 # Contra abuses detailed By Rita Beamish Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Contra rebel forces have executed prisoners, forcibly recruited soldiers and killed civilians, according to the first report of a human rights association that Congress mandated as a condition of U.S. aid. The report goes into a dozen incidents, including the deaths of eight Sandinista prisoners and eight civilians, the forced recruitment of four Mennonites, and the recruitment of 53 people by a since-arrested commander who the association said conscripted Nicaraguan Indians through "psychological pressure." The report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, also mentions ongoing investigations into other cases involving allegations of kidnappings and attacks on civilians including the deaths of children and unarmed individuals. In all, investigators have concluded or are looking at 22 "major cases of alleged human rights abuse," the report said. Among the cases investigated was the April death of U.S. citizen Benjamin Linder, who ![President and Mrs. Reagan, along with Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, attend a memorial service Wednesday for Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. (AP Laserphoto)] President and Mrs. Reagan, along with Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, attend a memorial service Wednesday for Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. (AP Laserphoto) The 64-year-old Commerce secretary would not have received those last winnings of $204.91 before he died in a freak horse accident last Saturday in California while practicing for a rodeo roping contest that evening. Speaking at the memorial Wednesday morning, Reagan told members of Congress, past and current Cabinet members, presidential contenders and diplomats who attended, "The day I called Mac Baldrige to ask him to join the Cabinet, I was told by (his wife) Midge I would have to call back later. He was out on his horse roping and couldn't come to the phone. Right then I knew he was the kind of man I wanted." In fact, he was roping at Paul Crotta's ranch in Connecticut when the president called. Asked if Baldrige was a good cowboy, Crotta, a man of very few words, said, "He was pretty good," considering his age and the fact that he didn't get all that much practice. California cowboys Ron Poindexter and Bob "Rags" Ragsdale got to know Baldrige when the three of them rode the winter rodeo circuit back in 1969. They met up at Odessa, Texas, and toured together on a rush schedule where one would take turns cooking in the back of the camper while the others rode up front. "I just idolized the guy as far as what he is ... a super person," said Poindexter, a cowboy in a gray suit who looked less like a cowboy than like the hundreds of Washington bureaucrats, lobbyists, journalists and high-ranking officials who filled the limestone National Cathedral to hear Reagan say of Baldrige, "The thing he liked about cowboys was that they didn't talk unless they had something to say and when they said something, they meant it." "I'm told that Mac's staff had orders to interrupt him at whatever time of the day with calls from only two people. I was one, and any cowboy who rang up was the other," Reagan told the assembly that included one bureaucrat-mourner who read The Wall Street Journal while waiting for the ceremony to begin. 23 === Page 55 of 90 Darkness struck NYC 10 years ago MY POWER BLACKOUT Post-Star 7/13/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Half an hour after the lights went out, David Blake's phone rang. "Mr. Blake, you better get over here right away," the excited caller told him. "They're breaking into your drugstore." That was 10 years ago, on July 13, 1977, the night New York City and its northern suburbs lost all electrical power for the second time in 12 years. When the lights went out across the Northeast in 1965, New Yorkers' poised response -- volunteers directing traffic, people throwing blackout parties and crime actually dropping -- became part of their folklore. But the 1977 blackout would show the nation's largest city to be just a flash of lightning away from anarchy. This quickly became apparent to Blake, who had left his home in Queens and was driving up Third Avenue in East Harlem toward his pharmacy. "All you could hear was breaking glass and screaming and yelling," he recalls. "It was all darkness and confusion." When he pulled up in front of his store at 103rd Street, he found that someone had chained the store's iron gate to a car bumper and yanked it up. The store's windows were smashed, its floor was covered with debris and most of the merchandise was gone. The cash register was sitting in the gutter. Two police officers walked by. "You better get out of here," one told him. "This is a war zone." The war began after lightning knocked out Consolidated Edison power lines in Westchester County. Alternate power sources were not tapped soon enough to stop the vast shutdown, and by 9:36 p.m. about 8 million people were without electricity. Within an hour, civil disturbances were raging simultaneously in all five boroughs for the first time in the city's history. Serious looting erupted in 31 neighborhoods. Hardest hit was the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, where a third of the 143 stores on a 30-block stretch suffered fire damage. In one four-block area, every major store was stripped clean. Fire damaged a Woolworth's so badly it had to be leveled the next week. The crowds "were like bluefish in a feeding frenzy," Capt. Timothy Driscoll of the 77th Precinct would recall. "I've seen looting before, but this was total devastation. Smashing, burning ... as if they'd gone crazy." In the Bronx, a crowd crashed through the plate-glass window of an auto dealership and drove off with 50 new cars, each of which had $2 worth of gas in the tank and keys in the ignition. In Brooklyn's Crown Heights section, "it was like an ant colony," says Rabbi Yisrolel Rosenfeld. "When the lights went out, everyone just came down out of their buildings and into the streets." Although most of the looters were black or Hispanic, and most of the property was owned by whites, race did not seem a motivation. Maurice Phillips, the black president of a Bushwick merchants' group, says he had two choices: he could spend the night with his shotgun and dog in his dry cleaning business or in his clothing store. He chose the former, and lost the latter to arson and looting. The looting, a study by Robert Curvin and Bruce Porter of Brooklyn College subsequently found, had three stages: hardened criminals moved in first, followed by groups of wayward youths and, finally, by some normally more law-abiding members of the community. Police could make few arrests in the first three hours. The Bronx, with a population of 1.3 million, was patrolled by only 86 cruisers and six beat officers. By the time power was restored the following night, more than 1,700 stores had been looted or damaged and more than 3,000 people arrested, about six times more than usual. On the first night alone, 1,500 fire alarms were sounded, two-thirds of them false -- twice as many as usual. Property damage estimates ranged as high as $150 million. The city, said Mayor Abraham Beame, had endured "a night of terror." (24) Explain post-psi-effect to Scientists. de America Recognized Pres. Chun. Met at Cairo Hilton. Sat down w/ me. Told him N. Koreans were tough & disciplined S. Kor's soft & corrupt. Suggestion To research on the possibilities of discover & trans. safely the handling of cherry and icing? === Page 56 of 90 # Time urged to assess damage to climate WASHINGTON (AP) -- Humans are altering the climate faster than they can predict the consequences, and ways must be found to buy time to assess the damage, climate experts warned Wednesday. "We appear to be entering a period of progressively rapid warming of the earth as a whole with no end in sight. The implications are profound. They will bring rapid and drastic changes in civilization," George M. Woodwell of the Woods Hole Research Center told a congressional panel. "It seems to me that the minimum level of responsibility for our generation is to at least put some effort into understanding what we are doing," to the climate, added Stephen H. Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Part of this is a need "to find ways to slow down the rate of our changes to buy time to assess the consequences and adapt," Schneider told the House Science subcommittee on natural resources, agricultural research and environment. The danger of raising the Earth's temperature through the so-called Greenhouse Effect was a particular topic of the session, which was called to consider funding the the National Climate Program, a research effort on the future of the planet's climate. The hearing took place as Washington sweltered through a heat wave with temperatures in the upper 90s. The Greenhouse Effect, widely discussed in recent years, is a result of the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. Though less than 1 percent of the air, carbon dioxide has increased rapidly in recent years. Scientists link this with an increase in the air temperature, pointing out that carbon dioxide allows incoming radiation from the sun to continue warming the Earth, but blocks outgoing radiation from dissipating into space. The result, like a greenhouse protected by glass, is a rising temperature at the surface. J.D. Mahlman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the subcommittee that doubling the current carbon dioxide would raise the planet's average temperature by 1.5 degrees to 4.5 degrees Celsius -- 2.4 degrees to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit. # Break in heat wave may be on the way Wire and staff reports Take heart. Relief from the heat may be in sight. The National Weather Service said Saturday the temperature would climb only -- only -- into the 80s in the Glens Falls area today, and that by early in the week, temperatures as low -- low -- as 70 are possible. But on Saturday, the weeklong heat wave continued, steaming the starch out of local people and anybody living in the East. Hundreds of people took refuge at beaches, in pools, in air-conditioned shopping malls and bars and on couches in front of fans. At the Warren County Airport, a high of 86 degrees was recorded. The low was 68. And was it ever humid. Even by noon Saturday, some cities had passed their record highs. The water of big Lake Erie hit 79 degrees at midmorning. That's the highest it has been in 61 years of record keeping. In New York City's Central Park, the temperature hit 95 degrees. But the humidity was running at 49 percent -- lower than it has been in the past few days. Chicago hit 90 for the ninth straight day. Washington had 96 degrees, Newark, 97. Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., passed a record of 95 at 12:30 p.m. and rose to 99. Providence, R.I., tied its record of 92, then rose a degree. Philadelphia tied its record of 95 and Charlotte, N.C., tied its record of 100. America's official hot spot was 108 at the desert city of Needles, Calif. Across the nation, seven deaths in five states have been blamed on the heat since July 17. But the toll in Greece is much higher. Athens authorities said 260 people have died from the heat. A medical spokesman said no foreign tourists were among the dead. "Almost all of those who have died were elderly people who suffered from heart and respiratory problems," the spokesman said. For the Greeks, no relief was in sight. Temperatures outside Athens soared to 104 degrees on Saturday. A record high of 109 degrees was established last week. In the United States, the National Weather Service said parts of the Southeast would suffer a heat index -- a combination of heat and humidity -- of 105. A heat index of 79 is considered uncomfortable for everyone. But cool air was moving into the East and Midwest from Canada. The clash between warm and cool air brought a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. If you looked hard enough Saturday, you could find cooler spots. The peak of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the Northeast's highest at 6,288 feet and known for some of the world's worst weather, reached only 61 on Friday, and the low Saturday was 54. "It is on the warm side of average," weather observer Chris Norcross said. # Heat sizzles past 16th day The Associated Press The 16-day-old heat wave across the central part of the nation that has been blamed for at least 72 deaths continued Sunday, and Alabama health officials warned people to take it easy. The temperature at the Kansas City, Mo., downtown airport hit a record 105 degrees at 2:35 p.m., while the city's international airport touched a record 102. St. Louis hit 100 by early afternoon and Little Rock, Ark., sizzled to 102. Concordia, Kan., tied its record of 105 at 2:15 p.m. and Toledo, Ohio, tied its record of 98 at 3:40 p.m. Even the cool of the night didn't help as overnight lows stayed near 80 as far north as Chicago, southeastern Iowa and parts of Kansas. === Page 57 of 90 THE SUN ATTACK # Pollution might make hurricanes stronger UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 4/3/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Some future hurricanes may pack up to 60 percent more punch if humankind keeps pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a new study says. If the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content doubles, as forecast for the next century, the maximum possible intensity for hurricanes could rise 40 percent to 50 percent generally and 60 percent in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the study in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature. While only a few percent of hurricanes reach maximum possible intensity, "we would tend to think if the maximum intensity increases, the average would increase as well," said Kerry Emanuel, associate meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Projections for when the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content will double range from about the year 2035 to 2080, with the equivalent of doubling by 2050 if the effects of other trace gases are taken into account, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The carbon dioxide buildup, caused largely by burning of fossil fuels, has long concerned scientists because it could cause a significant warming of worldwide climate. The warming could mean higher chances for extended heat waves and coastal flooding from higher seas, as well as impacts on crop yields, scientists say. Emanuel said his analysis assumes that the doubling of carbon dioxide will raise the temperature of ocean surfaces in tropical regions generally by about 2 degrees to 3 degrees centigrade, or about 4 degrees to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. In an interview, Emanuel called that assumption "a big if." Estimates vary widely on how much ocean temperatures would really rise, he said. **A warming in ocean surfaces increases the amount of heat energy that can be fed into a hurricane through evaporation, he said.** Evaporation can occur only until the air becomes saturated, and warmer ocean surfaces allow more heat to be transferred before saturation takes place, he said. The projections came from a computer simulation of average August conditions. The 40 percent to 50 percent increase in maximum intensity of hurricanes applies to most current hurricane areas, such as the Caribbean Ocean, western Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean, Emanuel said. The 60 percent increase is forecast for the Gulf of Mexico because of higher projected increases in sea surface temperatures, a result of its being partly sheltered and less susceptible to changes in ocean circulation, he said. Richard Anthes, director of the atmospheric research center, said the projections generally are "a very likely result if the tropical oceans and the tropical atmosphere warms" as much as the calculations assume. Those assumptions are plausible, Anthes said in an interview. He also said **the link between sea surface temperature and greater intensity of hurricanes "is well known and supported by many previous studies." Hurricanes also could become more frequent in response to ocean and atmospheric warming**, he said. While increases in hurricane intensity and frequency would occur gradually, "long-range planning should take into account these things," he said. "I think it's probably a real effect." But Stephen Schneider, head of the natural systems group at the research center, said Emanuel's calculations should not be taken as forecasts. "Whether it would apply to Florida or whether it applies to Japan, these kinds of issues are what we can't know at this stage," Schneider said. "It's an indication of quite a plausible outcome that is almost certain to happen at some places in some times." Ask for money blankets etc. For help to survive. # Edmonton recovery continues UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 8/2/87 **Mobile-home parks take hardest hit** EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Rescuers searched for survivors in shattered homes and factories Saturday after the deadliest tornado to hit Canada in 75 years devastated parts of Edmonton and killed at least 25 people. About 200 others were injured in Friday afternoon's twister. "It seemed like the end of the world," said Ted Gartner, who was working in a mechanic's shop when the vortex struck. Alberta provincial medical examiner Dr. John Butt said 25 people were killed. There had been some confusion over casualties because of double-counting in the wake of the devastation. Earlier, the city's emergency planning officer, Bruce Wilson, said 27 people were confirmed dead and 200 hurt, and police spokeswoman Joy-Lynn Dorash put the fatality count at 35. Hardest hit was the Evergreen trailer park on the city's northeastern edge, where 200 mobile homes were demolished, 150 were damaged and at least 13 people were killed, Wilson said. Witnesses said the pillar of whirling black air was two blocks wide as it smashed its way northeast across the city and parts of adjacent Strathcona County. A state of emergency was declared as rescuers searched collapsed houses, warehouses and overturned cars for survivors. Police used dog teams to comb the wreckage for signs of life. Police Chief Leroy Chahley said extra patrols were sent to devastated areas after looting was reported. Alberta Premier Donald Getty told reporters at a command post in a devastated industrial area: "There's no doubt about it, we've been badly hurt. One thing is the rescue operations are functioning extremely well." Reporters said the twisters slammed cattle to their deaths on farms outside the city. Broken gas mains caused several fires, power lines were cut and some streets flooded by torrential rain and grapefruit-size hail. Weather officials had forecast thunderstorms in this normally dry (26 === Page 58 of 90 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL NEWS SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1987 NY Times 4/25/86 # Cattle Rustling Making Comeback as Tough By ROBERT REINHOLD Special to The New York Times KINGSVILLE, Tex., April 17 -- The ancient trade of cattle rustling, once relegated mostly to Hollywood westerns, is staging a comeback across Texas. And just as they have been for a century, the rustlers are being tracked down by a tough breed of private cattle rangers in white cowboy hats, men like Hap Roberts, Chick Saenz, Butch Davis, Slim Hulen and 28 others employed by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. They are colorful vestiges of a bygone era, although they rely today more on a computer in Fort Worth than on their six-shooters to hunt down the outlaws. Tough times in Texas are causing a new wave of thefts of cattle and horses, according to Steve Munday, spokesman for the association. There are no overall figures on livestock thefts, but Mr. Munday cites a sharp rise in stolen stock that has been recovered as evidence for the comeback of rustling. In 1986 the range detectives, who are deputized by the Texas Rangers, recovered 4,310 stolen or stray head of cattle, 62 horses, 25 trailers and 121 saddles worth a total of $2.8 million. This was double the value recovered in 1985. # Times Hit Texas # Thatcher: Support Gorbachev moves By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Thursday her Soviet visit could help mark a turning point in history and urged Western nations to encourage Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's new policy of openness. Mrs. Thatcher told the House of Commons she didn't underestimate the differences between the Soviets and the West, especially on arms control, but declared the world was a "safer place" after her five-day trip and 12 hours of talks with Gorbachev. "I believe it was a very significant visit at what could be a turning point in history," the prime minister said, shouting to be heard above the jeers from opposition socialist lawmakers. "My visit took place at a most interesting and crucial moment in the development of the Soviet Union," she said, citing Gorbachev's points the way to the new openness and confidence which will be needed if we are to reach agreement on arms control and in other areas," she reiterated that short-range 4/14/87 Bean + I had identical dreams (again) last night. We both were in van. He had Tracy, girl. Orientals stopped him + attacked him. He threw a knife clear thru the leader + they ran. -> Same night, in my dream, a car w/two men blocked my van on a country road. I got out. One man aimed a pistol at me. I got him with my Walther. Then a girl's voice rang out (I had no girl w/me). "Watch out behind you!" I turned. A man had a shotgun pointed at me. I got him, too. The dream woke me up and I saw an apparition hovering over my bed. Was a glowing cloud, sort of spider-webby. Slowly it faded away and I went back to sleep. Tell of Enquirer tricks. Post-Star 5/30/87 # Texas tops again in bank failures HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas has set the national record for bank failures for the third year in a row with the collapse of the 27th bank in 1987, but officials say the state appears to be nearing the bottom of its economic pit. Federal regulators closed Westheimer National Bank on Thursday, citing poor management and bad loans. With more than six months still to go, the closure smashed Texas' 1986 tally of 26 bank failures in one year, a national record for one state. Texas also set the national pace in 1985 with 12 failures, compared to just three in 1984. === Page 59 of 90 # Long Spell of Warm, Dry Weather Worries Corn Belt Interests UFO Sun Attack By WILLIAM ROBBINS Special to The New York Times 5/15/87 KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 14 -- A long spell of warm, dry weather is spreading anxiety across the most productive parts of the Corn Belt, as well as in markets where their crops are traded. Though experts say it is too early for serious alarm, with some even citing reasons for optimism, a new forecast has further aggravated widespread concerns. The prediction Wednesday by a long-range forecasting team of the National Weather Service in Washington indicates that the long period of unusual dryness and warmth could last as long as another month. The prediction includes most of the Corn Belt as well as several agricultural states farther west, where an unusually light snowpack has led to warnings of water shortages and a troublesome season of forest fires. The temperature forecast was issued with probability factors ranging from 55 to 65 percent, "and that is an unusually high degree of confidence for us for this time of year," said Donald Gilman, the meteorologist who heads the long-range team. Across most of Illinois and Iowa, the biggest corn producers, and to a lesser extent in neighboring states, the worries have been spawned by the same conditions that had permitted farmers to plant their crops early and proceed at a record pace, raising hopes for another bountiful harvest. The continued warmth being forecast could speed evaporation of ground moisture and hamper seed germination in fields where young corn plants have not yet emerged. Germination is about one-third complete in the key states, statisticians say, adding that the coming week should determine how serious a problem farmers may face in the remaining areas. The corn crop is watched closely by economists because it is the principal feed for animals raised for meat, and its price can affect not only producers' costs but also supplies and prices of meat for consumers. "This has been one of our most prolonged periods of warm and dry weather, dating from last winter," said Michael Palmerino, a meteorologist with the Weather Services Corporation in Bedford, Mass. This winter and spring, he and others said, have not seen their match in the Corn Belt since 1931. Mr. Palmerino cited precipitation data for this year that were far below normal in scattered test sites across several states, and average temperature readings that were several degrees above normal. At Mason City, in north-central Iowa, for example, precipitation since Jan. 1 has totaled 3.8 inches, about 47 percent of the normal rate. Temperature readings have ranged from 14 degrees above normal in February to 4 degrees above in April. 'Dryness Spreading Eastward' At other test sites precipitation ranged from 35 percent of normal in Minneapolis to 31 percent in Decatur, Ill., to 58 percent in Indianapolis. The temperature ranges moderated at the easternmost test sites. "We've got widespread concern among farmers over germination," said Paul Waite, the Iowa state climatologist. "Dryness in the west is spreading eastward," Mr. Waite said. "There is a lot of concern that this is going to be a hot, dry year -- more concern, perhaps, than statistics would support." With only a hint of a laugh, Mr. Waite cited a totally unscientific sign that he said had caused concern in some circles. "By February," he said, "the natives observed the beavers were building dams at an unusual rate in eastern Iowa." He added, "I don't know how they are programmed, but the Indians and early settlers believed they were pretty good indicators." The weather concerns come at a time when the Soviet Union has begun buying American wheat and speculation is rife over the size of Russian grain crops. That speculation has been generated by one of the coldest Soviet winters on record, which caused widespread crop damage, and a cold wet spring that has delayed planting. The long-range forecast said abnormal heat was most probable for a strip of Western states where crops are smaller but where several are already facing warnings of water shortages, water-use restrictions and forest fires. Those warnings have been issued for an area that includes Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, and farmers in one, Idaho, have already been given restricted allotments of irrigation water. "If you could paint the worst scenario we could envision, that is what is happening to us," Gov. Cecil D. Andrus remarked recently. ## Lawmakers urge Meese to resign Reagan's buddy Post Star 8/15/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six Democratic House members on Friday called for Attorney General Edwin Meese III to resign, contending he tried to cover up the Iran-Contra affair. The effort was organized by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who told a news conference that Meese intentionally misled Iran-Contra investigators and the American public and that he also has ignored ethics laws by filing a flawed financial disclosure form. Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten called the resignation request "just plain silly" and said it cannot be taken seriously. "There's no reason for him to resign," Korten said. "He has not done anything wrong. These are partisan political shots. He has every reason to remain until the end of his term." ## Dolphin tests rule out some chemicals Post-Star 8/15/87 Knight-Ridder UFO Sun Attack Laboratory tests apparently have ruled out one set of suspected chemical pollutants as the cause of the continuing dolphin deaths along the mid-Atlantic Coast, according to New Jersey environmental officials. But as an answer to the deaths continues to elude researchers, the marine mammals continue to wash ashore. Thursday, five decomposing dolphins were found in Delaware, and four, including two fresh carcasses, were discovered on Virginia beaches. The number of dead dolphins now stands at more than 150, according to National Marine Fisheries estimates. The test performed by the New Jersey Medical Examiner's laboratory found no traces of xylene, hexane, carbon tetrachloride, methylene chloride or chloroform in the tissues of one of the dead marine mammals. 25 === Page 60 of 90 # Record heat blasts Midwest Post-Star 6/15/87 UFO Sun Attack The Associated Press Temperatures broke records as far north as the Great Lakes, climbing to 100 degrees in several cities, while heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes pounded the Gulf Coast from flood-weary Texas to Alabama. Milwaukee boiled over the record barrier at 11:02 a.m. with a reading of 92 and continued on to 101, the first time the city has hit the century mark in 32 years. Minneapolis hit a record 98; Alpena, Mich., on the shore of cool Lake Huron, tied its record of 94, while Marquette, Mich., on the shore of decidedly chilly Lake Superior reached a record 88. That kind of heat is not unusual in Minnesota, but it's a month early, said Lyle Schaller of the National Weather Service in Minneapolis. Temperatures also were in triple digits in Iowa on Sunday, with readings of 102 in Ames, 101 in Burlington and 100 in Des Moines and Mason City. The weather service said it was the first reading of 100 or higher in Des Moines since June 8, 1985. The Iowa State Patrol reported several highways buckled because of the heat. Peoria, Ill., hit 99, erasing a record that had stood since 1897. Cities including Champaign and Moline reported readings of 101. In Springfield the mercury hit 100 degrees, breaking the 93-year-old record of 96, and Chicago's sweltering 99 degrees broke a 33-year-old record of 95 and drove sun and water worshippers to Lake Michigan's shores. Elsewhere, Lincoln, Neb., broke its record of 100 by one degree. St. Louis, Mo., had a record 97, and Paducah, Ky., reached a record 100. Not to be outdone, Tucson, Ariz., sizzled to a record 107 before lunchtime, and Phoenix hit 115, only tying a record. Four elephants at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas were kept in the shade and hosed down frequently with water as the high hit 98 degrees, said assistant director Mike LaRue. "Animals do pretty well adapting to the heat," he said. Temperatures hit 100 or more in at least six Kansas cities, with Baileyville in the extreme northeast the hot spot at 103. About 50 people among the roughly 45,000 attending the Tri-City Air Show in Augusta near Wichita, were treated for heat exhaustion, officials said. At Lake Phalen, east of St. Paul, Minn., there were thousands of sunbathers, which is welcome. "The sand is real hot," 12-year-old Sheila Quinlan said Sunday when the temperature hit 98. # Nancy in Sweden on drug crusade Post-Star 6/9/87 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Nancy Reagan said Monday the Iran-Contra issue won't tarnish the accomplishments of the Reagan presidency, as she flew to Sweden and ran into two protests denouncing U.S. policies in Central America. The American first lady left the president at the seven-nation economic summit in Venice to take her global crusade against drugs to Stockholm. She visited a Stockholm suburb trying to promote a drug-free environment and danced onstage at an anti-drugs concert. On the flight, she faced a barrage of questions on the Iran-Contra affair. She has rarely discussed it in public, except to say that like the president she wanted the truth to come out. Nor could she escape the Contra issue during her first hours in Stockholm. About 150 protesters demonstrated outside the Grand Hotel where she is staying. They chanted "Nancy go home!" and threw eggs, blue paint and smoke bombs. One sign said "Nicaragua bleeds." Mrs. Reagan was inside during the demonstration. <- where I stayed. O # Rain keeps falling; More may evacuate Post-Star 4/7/87 The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack More rain fell Monday on the soaking Northeast, where high water had forced more than 1,000 people out of their homes, and residents of some low-lying areas were warned they might have to join the evacuees. The water had washed out or flooded scores of roads. Snow that the same storm had piled into drifts up to 15 feet high in the central Appalachians was melting. And after a week of record cold across the South, the only record lows Monday were in the 40s in Florida. Deaths blamed on the weather included four in Kentucky and one each in Ohio and West Virginia in traffic accidents; an Ohio man died while shoveling snow and an Alabama woman died of hypothermia, police said. More than 1,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey. But many of the estimated 500 who fled their homes in western Massachusetts' Berkshires were returning home Monday, Civil Defense officials said. In Massachusetts, Gov. Michael Dukakis declared a state of emergency Monday, and officials said 800 to 1,000 National Guardsmen were on alert and could be mobilized within 15 minutes. The continuing but easing rain on already saturated ground prompted authorities to close schools throughout central and southern New Hampshire and warn residents along some streams they might have to leave. By midday Monday, however, streams, rivers and reservoirs in New Hampshire had stabilized or begun to recede, David Cass, a Civil Defense spokesman, said. In Maine, the threat of renewed flooding was greatest along the Saco River, where 400 people who were evacuated from their homes late last week were still unable to return. The Saco was rising again Monday after being swollen with 4 inches of rain that fell in New Hampshire since Sunday, said Peter Lamontagne, civil defense director for York County. === Page 61 of 90 ar crashes into Grand Union - where we shop. Same thing happened in Pa. where we were. # 5 treated; 2 remain in hospital Post-Star By Michael Kilian and Eric Dexheimer Staff Writers May 24, 1987 SOUTH GLENS FALLS -- Five persons were taken to Glens Falls Hospital Saturday afternoon after being injured at the South Glens Falls Grand Union supermarket when a car took a path one would have to see to believe and crashed through a doorway. The store was crowded with holiday weekend shoppers. The automobile narrowly missed a pregnant woman and her 22-month-old daughter, hit a store employee and a customer, and then came to rest in the center of the store after slamming into a support pole, South Glens Falls Policeman Wayne Bruce said. All the injured were taken by ambulance to Glens Falls Hospital, where two of them remained Saturday night. The driver of the car, 73-year-old Hugh Sheeran of 31 Wilson Ave., South Glens Falls, told an ambulance attendant that he had passed out before crashing through the seven-foot wide set of doors on the left side of the store, Bruce said. Just 15 days earlier, Sheeran drove an automobile through the door of a Stewart's Bread N Butter Shop, according to South Glens Falls Police records. The Stewart's store is four-fifths of a mile north of the Grand Union. Sheeran was not ticketed in the May 8 accident, Bruce said. Mrs. Theresa Davis, 25, of R.D. 2 Michael Road in Moreau, suffered a long cut on her left buttocks that required stitches, according to Phil Davis, her husband. Mrs. Davis was treated and released at Glens Falls Hospital, a hospital official said. Davis said his wife's 7-month-old fetus appeared to be unharmed. Katlyn Davis, who is nearly 2 years old, received a minor scratch during the incident, her father said. Patrolman Bruce said it was a "miracle" that Mrs. Davis and her 22-month-old daughter were not seriously injured. Mrs. Davis and Katlyn were between the two sets of automatic doors at the Grand Union on Saratoga Avenue when Sheeran's 1978 light brown Pontiac Phoenix crashed through, Bruce said. When she saw the car approaching, Mrs. Davis pressed Katlyn against the front window of the store in an effort to protect her daughter from injury, her husband said. Mrs. Davis apparently cut herself on glass or metal as she tried to extricate herself from the heavily damaged doorway after the car had passed, Davis said. Mrs. Davis works for the Grand Union supermarket in Queensbury as a bookkeeper. home in Canton by National Guard trucks, said David Brown, director of civil emergency preparedness. A 75-foot section of earth washed away at the edge of a retaining wall near International Paper Co.'s hydro-electric dam in Livermore Falls, Maine, said IP Energy Superintendent Dick Brophy. He said there was no danger downstream. A hydro-electric dam in the early stages of construction on the Androscoggin River at Lisbon "is gone" said a police officer who did not give his name. He said no evacuations had resulted. A historic covered bridge over the Piscataquis River was washed away at Guilford, Maine. Central Maine Power Co. cut off power to the area, for fear that live electric lines running over other bridges would be snapped if the spans washed out. # Floods hit New England Post-Star 4/2/87 The Associated Press UFO Sun Attacks Flooding in New England forced people from their homes, washed away a historic covered bridge and damaged two dams Wednesday, and farmers in the South endured a third day of record cold that already had devastated some peach orchards. Maine Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. declared a state of emergency, allowing application for federal aid and mobilization of the National Guard, as flooding described as the worst in a half century increased around the state. "The water in a convenience store is right up to the ceiling, which I'd say is eight to nine feet off the ground, and it's still rising," regional police and fire dispatcher William Murray said of a store outside Plymouth, N.H. The flooding was caused by melting snow and a storm bearing 50 mph wind and as much as 5 inches of rain that cut power to thousands Tuesday after dumping more than a foot of snow in the Ohio Valley. On the Plains, Kansas National Guard helicopters hauled more hay to cattle snowbound by last week's back-to-back blizzards, and some roads were still blocked by drifts up to 15 feet high. Schools reopened Wednesday in adjacent areas of eastern Nebraska that were hard hit by the snow. At least 27 deaths have been blamed on the weather since the first of the storms hit the Plains last week. At least 250 people were evacuated in Maine, including more than 100 moved from a nursing home. 30 === Page 62 of 90 # Tornado, luckily, was slow New York CHEEKTOWAGA (AP) 8/1/87 a tornado that ripped through a populous Buffalo suburb late Thursday moved more quickly, many people who escaped injury would not have, officials said Friday. As clean-up crews worked on some of the estimated $15 million damage from the 113-157 mph winds, state officials were considering whether to declare the area a disaster zone. "We are estimating that in some areas, we had what is actually considered an F2 tornado," on a F0 to F5 scale, meteorologist Tom Niziol said Friday after touring the area. "That's quite significant." He said the path is 1.5 miles long and 150 to 175 feet wide. Roofs are gone, trees snapped and uprooted and heavy damage was sustained in one 500-foot-long area of a residential neighborhood. An estimated 130 homes were damaged. Niziol said one woman in the hardest hit neighborhood reported she watched the tornado lift her car 6 feet off the ground and move it down the driveway. "We're estimating a 10 to 15 mph movement of the funnel itself and that is slow," Niziol said. "It certainly would give people enough time, actually a fraction of time, to take action if they saw the funnel." At the Holiday Showcase Restaurant, shaped like a giant flying saucer, general manager Bob Monaco said he will have to lay off his 75 employees for up to three months while the devastated facility is repaired. "It's an all-wooden structure, wood and glass, and all the wood beams are probably cracked," said Monaco. But, he said, it could have been worse. When the tornado touched down at 4:30 p.m., about 40 patrons and staff were in the restaurant, whose large glass windows faced the storm's approach. Three managers, Al Cavagnarou, Mark Hilbrecht and Mike Schmitt began herding customers to the basement. Schmitt kicked out the back kitchen door, which the others credited for saving the windows and preventing shards of glass from flying around. "You could see it come over the trees. You could see it swirling, but it just looked like swirling leaves," said Cavagnarou. "It tore into Putt-Putt (across the street) and took their sign like it was a piece of paper. It just tore it up." "As that crashed, I did like two circles," Cavagnarou said. "I didn't know where to go. I hit the floor. It was so loud. It was like putting your ear next to a jet engine. It was that loud." "We had a party of four deaf people and we literally had to go over and pull them away from the windows. We had to point at what was coming," Cavagnarou said. Miraculously, no serious injuries were reported. "Had that thing been moving any faster, we would have been in bad trouble," he said. ![A huge tornado rips a half-mile swath through Edmonton, Alberta Friday afternoon. (AP Laserphoto)] A huge tornado rips a half-mile swath through Edmonton, Alberta Friday afternoon. (AP Laserphoto) Canada # Tornado From Page A1 8/1/87 motorists. Mayor Laurence Decore said 27 people died in the city, and Jocelyn Tennison, spokesman for the County of Strathcona, just south and east of the city, said three were confirmed dead there. Decore said 24 of the victims died in the Evergreen trailer park in the city's northeast. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporters said an estimated 200 trailers in the park had been flattened. Witnesses said broken gas mains started several fires, trees were uprooted, power lines downed and streets flooded with a deluge of rain and hail. Edmonton resident Tom Harding told Canadian radio station CISN the tornado was "just a massive roar, a deafening roar." "The debris from around the funnel itself was half a mile in each direction," he said. "There's cars crushed like pop cans, there's buildings totally destroyed, people trapped in the buildings, its worse than a war." He said major power lines were just "crumbled like matchsticks." "There are a large number of accidents and five people presently trapped in buildings," said ambulance service chairman Joan Rossall. Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Bob Moffat said the twister touched down twice just south of Edmonton, a city of 530,000, Canadian radio reported. Canadian Press quoted one resident in the suburb of Beaumont as saying her neighbors lost several cars, a mobile home and a motorcycle. "Gone with the wind," she said. The city and Strathcona were declared disaster areas. (31) === Page 63 of 90 # Protesters mark Chernobyl date Hong Kong liaison The Associated Press Post-Star 4/27/87 From Japan to Sweden, where scientists first alerted the world to Chernobyl, demonstrators rallied Sunday on the first anniversary of the Soviet nuclear disaster that sent radiation drifting around the world. The biggest protests were in Europe, where soaring radiation levels followed the April 26, 1986, accident, stirring feelings of panic and prompting authorities to discard vast amounts of suspect food and milk. In the United States, protesters gathered outside nuclear power plants for demonstrations to mark the anniversary. "Chernobyl made crystal clear the threat to our lives coming from every nuclear power plant," said Wes Crocheron of the Clamshell Alliance, an umbrella organization for anti-nuclear groups in New England. Washington declared Sunday to be Radiation Awareness Day and urged people "to remember the tragedy in the Soviet Union is our tragedy as human beings and a warning to all nuclear power and weapons producers." "America is overburdened with nuclear power plants and the odds are now higher for a meltdown in our country," Washington said in a statement. The Illinois Safe Energy Alliance and several environmental groups planned to release hundreds of balloons at five nuclear power plants in the Chicago area to symbolize the widespread radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. About 200 people demonstrated at the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland, Wash., calling for permanent shutdown of the reservation's N Reactor, a plutonium-producing reactor that shares Family, a pro-nuclear activist group composed mostly of Hanford employees, which held a counter-rally a few hundred feet away. The N Reactor was placed in "stand down" on Jan. 7 so that more than $50 million in safety improvements could be made. Although most will be completed by a planned July 7 restart, several key modifications will be unfinished. About 75 people gathered on the common in Brattleboro, Vt., on Sunday, to listen to music and speeches about Chernobyl, and about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant several miles away. "It's very unsafe for us to keep Vermont Yankee open one more day," state Rep. Micque Glitman told the gathering. "It's a gamble we can't win." Vermont recorded the highest amount of radioactive rain of any state in the nation after Chernobyl. WEDTECH IRAN INQUIRY ETHICS COMMITTEE PROSECUTORS MEESE OF MEESE AND MEN Post-Star 8/3/87 Another rotten Reagan "buddy." (Deaver, North, etc.) Owens 32 === Page 64 of 90 Rains Put Wheat Farmers in a Bind By WILLIAM ROBBINS Special to The New York Times HENNESSEY, Okla., April 1 - Heavy rains since last fall have left fields submerged or waterlogged in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, threatening the economic fortunes of thousands of farmers. For many farmers the flooding ruined much of the winter wheat crop, which is sown in the fall for spring harvest, and it prevented many others from planting the crop. And the farmers fear the wet conditions may prevent them from planting other crops this summer. "This is more like a land of lakes than farm country," Rodney Wanger, a local executive of the Federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, remarked the other day, summing up the effect on farmers as "devastating." The farmers say they are waiting to see whether the United States Senate passes a bill, already approved by the House, to provide relief. Here in northern Kingfisher County, about 40,000 acres is still submerged under ponds left by floods that struck last October, and much of the remaining land is too waterlogged to support planting or harvesting machinery. Parts of neighboring Logan, Noble and Kay Counties are similarly affected. Fraction of Crop Planted Almost as severely affected are sections of southeastern and east-central Kansas, while a broad swath of Missouri from the southwestern to the northeastern sections has been so water-soaked that only a small fraction of the normal wheat acreage has been planted. Missouri's wheat crop will cover about 900,000 acres, as against an average of about 2.5 million acres over the last five years. Plantings in Kansas and Oklahoma have been cut by about 7 percent. The weather and resulting planting problems are one small part of the reason this year's national wheat crop will be sharply reduced, experts say. Across the country, according to a recent Agriculture Department report, wheat plantings will total 64.8 million acres, down 10 percent from last year. The main factor is that farmers have decided to plant less wheat so they can benefit from Federal programs designed to reduce surpluses. But the overall reduction is not enough, the experts say, to reduce surpluses and lift depressed prices. As a result, they say, farmers in the waterlogged sections of the three states face the worst possible situation: skimpy harvests at best and low prices. The resulting stress on farmers can be seen in the faces of Pat Cline and Vernon Breckenridge, who can look out over broad stretches of water where rich stands of wheat ought to be rippling in the breeze. Mr. Cline looked up with a grim smile as a windmill spun busily overhead, futilely pumping to supply a submerged watering tank. "I haven't been able to get to that corral since last October," he said. "And I don't know when I'll be able to use it for cattle again." Mr. Breckenridge said: "I'm real concerned. I've got debts like everybody else, and I can't pay them if I can't raise a crop." The farmers here remember only too well when the troubles started. The rains came on Sept. 29 and continued intermittently through October. They were deluged with 20 inches that month. "And every time it started to look like it was going to get better, here would come some more rain," Mr. Breckenridge said. Tractors Sink In The Mud When the rains started, he had already spent more than $40,000 to plant about 1,200 acres of winter wheat for the spring harvest. Now much of that is either under water or covered with silt, and the rest, Mr. Breckenridge estimated, "runs all the way from a stand of nothing to about two-thirds." As a result of the persistent rains, the water table here has risen to levels just below the surface in many areas, leaving the land so soft that heavy equipment sinks, as three tractors did on a nearby farm. The drivers were trying to retrieve a tractor already submerged. It is too late to replant ruined winter wheat crops, and now the farmers fear they may be prevented this summer from planting crops other than wheat. Mr. Breckenridge and Mr. Cline are more fortunate than many of their neighbors. They were able to qualify for a special Government program that will give them subsidies to help make up for part of their crop losses. Under the regular Federal wheat program, participating farmers receive subsidies that are expected to amount to about $2 a bushel this year. The total they receive is based on the average yield of their land. To qualify, they must agree to take a certain percentage of their land out of production. Many cannot plant to qualify for a subsidy. In California, nearly 9,000 firefighters battled major blazes in the forest neighborhood of Pocatello. The catch is that to receive those benefits, a farmer must first have been unable to plant his crop. The special program for disaster farmers was created by Congress and the count of the disaster. It was designed to provide help when the Government's regular programs for farmers failed to provide enough help. In the past, the disaster program has been used to help farmers when they were unable to plant a crop or when their crops were destroyed by natural disasters. That program is one of those that were under attack in the House. Some percent of the members argued that farmers should be encouraged to stop planting crops that are in surplus. The measure now before the Senate would make the program accessible and more flexible. Meanwhile, the weather in this area is pressing the farmers. "We need a plemented period of dry weather and good." Firefighters from across U.S. begin taking on stubborn Western blazes SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters called in from across the nation deployed in the forests of Northern California on Tuesday, battling hundreds of lightning-spawned fires that blackened 32,000 acres and forced evacuations in some mountain communities. Three rural communities in western Oregon were threatened by fires surging through tinder-dry timber, while firefighters in Idaho slowly gained ground against a range blaze that menaced an affluent neighborhood of Pocatello. In California, nearly 9,000 firefighters battled major blazes in the Stanislaus, Klamath, and Shasta-Trinity national forests and nearly 300 smaller fires, said Mike Milosch of the U.S. Forest Service in Sacramento. Milosch said firefighters have controlled about 700 other blazes ignited by nearly 5,000 lightning strikes since Saturday. "But we're probably going to get some more fires, with lightning activity expected to continue for a day or two," Milosch said. It is the worst onslaught of its kind in California since the lightning-plagued summer of 1977, when a fire in the Los Padres National Forest blackened nearly 200,000 acres, according to fire officials. The federal and state firefighters employed at least 48 air tankers, 296 fire engines, 31 helicopters, and scores of bulldozers in the latest battle, officials said. A U.S. Forest Service firefighter, Bruce F. Visser, 34, of Mountain Center, was killed Tuesday when he was hit by a motorcycle near a fire line, said Harley Greiman, a forest service spokesman in the Klamath National Forest. The unidentified driver was under investigation for felony hit and run, Greiman said. === Page 65 of 90 SOFT DRINKS MIXERS NY Times 4/5/87 Associated Press Snowstorm Chills South as Heavy Rains Dampen East Snow being cleared in Dormont, Pa., where up to eight inches fell. Storm left snow from North Carolina to New York State and temperatures reached record lows from Texas to Florida. Heavy rains in New York metropolitan region flooded roads and brought some rivers to flood stage. Page 36. Rivers in Flood-Ravaged Northeast Start to Recede NY Times 4/7/87 By The Associated Press Most rivers receded yesterday in the flood-ravaged Northeast, where about 3,000 people have been forced from their homes since the flooding began last week. Officials in Augusta, Me., and nearby Gardiner and Hallowell estimated damage in that area at more than $30 million. Estimates for other parts of the state were incomplete. "The damage in Androscoggin County is in the millions, I just can't say how many millions," said Peter Gagnon, the county civil defense director. Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. said damage estimates were still being prepared but would eventually total "tens of millions" of dollars. New Hampshire officials said they could not make estimates until the water subsided, and Massachusetts officials said they were too busy to assess the damage. Four Deaths in Kentucky David Dilley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Logan International Airport in Boston, said some sections along the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire had received up to 13 inches of rain in the past week. The average rainfall for the region for all of April is 3.8 inches. Four deaths in Kentucky, two in Ohio and one each in West Virginia, Alabama and Vermont were attributed to the past week's weather. Two men were reported missing and feared drowned in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Civil Defense officials said the worst of the flooding there might not be over. The New England River Forecast Center predicted that the rising Merrimack River would not crest until today. New Hampshire Civil Defense officials said 1,000 to 1,500 people had been flooded out since Saturday and about 200 were in public shelters yesterday. Thirty additional people were evacuated yesterday near the rising Merrimack River in Nashua and some fled the rising Exeter River at Exeter. 541 People Stayed in Shelters An emergency release of water Monday from a dam at Keene, N.H., forced the evacuations of communities along the Ashuelot River, a Civil Defense spokesman, John Gifford, said. At the peak of the Maine flooding late last week, 541 people stayed at Red Cross shelters, with others staying with friends or relatives. State officials said about 4,700 workers had their jobs interrupted, with 2,100 of those expected to be unemployed indefinitely. In Ashfield, Mass., Police Chief Warren Kirkpatrick said yesterday that at least a half-dozen small bridges and more than half the town's roads were washed out. Of more than 100 roads in Maine that were inundated or closed to traffic at flood peak, only eight remained closed yesterday, a state civil defense spokeswoman, Darla Chafin, said. Three bridges there were swept away. About 25 roads remained blocked in New Hampshire and secondary roads were closed in Connecticut along the Housatonic and Connecticut rivers. (34 === Page 66 of 90 # Heavy rains grow deadly in Northeast The Associated Press Rushing waters from heavy rains chased hundreds from their homes in the Northeast on Sunday and swept away vehicles that fell into a swollen creek when a bridge collapsed in New York state, while 8-foot snow drifts in North Carolina kept would-be church-goers home. The heavy, wet snow, wind and rain brought down power lines and left thousands of people without electricity. At least six deaths were blamed on the weather. Apalachicola, Fla., had its sixth consecutive day of record lows at 38 degrees as chilly air toppled records from the Gulf Coast to Arkansas. About 120 visitors to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, anchored four miles off Miami Beach, Fla., had to spent the night on board after high seas and wind kept them from returning to shore. And a group of 448 Girl Scouts and leaders were snowbound Saturday night at the Center of Science and Industry museum in Columbus, Ohio. "We've been doing camp-ins for 17 years and this is the first time we've had anybody snowed in," said center spokeswoman Barbara Wolfe. Four people died in weather-related traffic accidents in Kentucky, one each in Ohio and West Virginia crashes, and an Ohio man died while shoveling snow, police said. A two-lane bridge collapsed with a car into the Nashua River at Fitchburg, Mass., Sunday when its supports were washed out, said Air Force Reserve Maj. Karen Bragaw at state Civil Defense headquarters in Framingham. Three people in the car escaped without injuries but the bridge collapse broke natural gas electrical lines, cutting power to about 200 homes, Bragaw said. Several other bridges in the state also gave way, she said. Flooding also washed out or blocked roads elsewhere in New York and in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont, authorities said. Snow depths Sunday included 18 inches at Boone, N.C.; 26.5 at Welch, W.Va.; 20 to 33 inches in southwestern Virginia's Buchanan County; and up to 36 inches in Letcher County, Ky. "When I got up this morning and saw 3 feet of snow outside the door I wasn't about to go (to church)," said Jeni Gray of Boone, N.C. Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee border, closed since Friday, was reopened Sunday. About 1,000 travelers had been stranded between Asheville, N.C., and the Tennessee line, police said Saturday. Snow drifts on U.S. 221 leading to the privately owned Grandfather Mountain park and zoo in western North Carolina were 8 feet high and wind gusted to 100 mph, said manager Tom Huskins. "We can't even get to the animals to feed them," Huskins said. "We didn't get up there yesterday and we may not get up there today. We are getting concerned about them starving." A drug store in Charleston, W.Va., collapsed early Sunday under the weight of more than 17 inches of snow, said Police Chief Kent Carper. No one was injured but only one wall was left standing and two cars parked alongside were crushed. In eastern West Virginia, the Canaan Valley and Snowshoe ski resorts reopened Saturday and were crowded Sunday with people from as far away as Washington, D.C., and Tennessee, resort officials said. Ohio highway crews had cleared most highways Sunday, but utility crews attempting to restore power to rural homes were blocked by drifts several feet high. By Sunday, 10,000 of the 154,000 people affected had electricity again. Paramedics and rescue workers had to use snowmobiles, tractors and four-wheel-drive trucks Saturday to plow through drifts up to 10 feet high to reach a woman who had gone into labor in rural Licking County. "It was a very difficult and very long run, and it was a very scary run for the people on the snowmobiles," said Harold Keller of the Johnstown Fire Department. Mary Cooper gave birth Sunday in Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, about 25 miles from her home. In Schoharie County, N.Y., west of Albany, at least 100 families were evacuated because of flooding, said Ron Connors, director of county emergency management. "One couple was trapped in a trailer until this morning. There was no way we could get to them last night with the high wind and swiftly moving water," Connors said. Several hundred people had to seek high ground Sunday in western Massachusetts, where more than 6 inches of rain fell, authorities said. New rain in southern Maine kept people on alert Sunday following the worst flooding in state history. The Red Cross estimated that 2,300 homes were damaged and more than 800 National Guardsmen were on duty. About 300 people were evacuated Sunday in Wayne, in northern New Jersey, as four rain-bloated rivers in the area spilled over their banks and sent water up to 4 feet deep onto streets and lawns after 3 inches of rain fell Saturday. Residents used canoes and rowboats to check their homes for damage. About 80 families were evacuated along the lower Housatonic River in Connecticut, said civil preparedness director Frank Mancuso, and 15 people left the town of Plymouth as a precaution. The Housatonic was more than 10 feet above flood stage. About 11,000 people in West Virginia were without power Sunday, down from up to 20,000, said Appalachian Power Co. spokesman Jack Shaver. Twelve counties told the Kentucky Disaster and Emergency Services office that nearly 12,600 homes were without power Sunday. National Guardsmen helped utility crews there cut down snow-laden trees and clear limbs hampering electrical service. More than 5,000 customers remained without power Sunday in Michigan, where high wind downed trees and power lines, utility spokesmen said. 35 === Page 67 of 90 Texas PR NY Times 5/30/87 # Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in Texas A father and son being rescued after they tried to drive through a flooded street in San Antonio, where more than two inches of rain fell. Thunderstorms across the state knocked out power lines and flooded streets. More than six inches of rain fell in Austin. Rainfall eased in Oklahoma, where 10 days of rain caused flooding that left two people dead and kept up to 1,000 people from their homes. # Travel Advisory NY Times 4/12/87 # U.S. Steps Up Its Warning on Travel to Peru The State Department has strengthened its warning against travel to certain areas of Peru because of violence by terrorists and cocaine traffickers. The cities of Lima and Callao are under a 1 to 5 A.M. curfew because of bombings, many attributed to a Maoist organization called Shining Path. Twenty-four hour safe-conduct passes are issued to travelers who arrive at Jorge Chavez Airport during the curfew, but the State Department said that even with a pass, travel during the curfew is dangerous. Under the decree, anyone is subject to military or police inspection; Americans are advised to carry their passports at all times. Most bombings have been directed at Peruvian Government and military installations and the power network, causing blackouts in Lima. The American Embassy and Ambassador's residence have also been attacked. In southern Peru, the Government has declared several areas emergency zones because of violence, and the State Department advises visitors to avoid the regions altogether. They are the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Western Apurimac, Western Huánuco and Western Pasco. Narcotics-related violence has made the Upper Huallaga Valley unsafe as well. Tourist sites have also seen violence. Last summer a bombing on a Machu Picchu-Cuzco train killed seven tourists and wounded 40 others, and Trujillo and the Cordillera Huayuash, a hiking route in the southern Ancash-Northern Lima departments, have also been attacked. The department said visitors to Macchu Picchu, Cuzco, the Inca Trail, Lake Titicaca, Huarás, the Cordillera Blanca and Arequipa should use caution. Hikers on the Inca Trail should avoid traveling alone, campers should stay in groups of four or more, and visitors should not display valuables. They should carry identification and money in shoulder holsters or money belts. For more information, visitors to Peru can call the consular officer at the American Embassy in Lima, 44-36-21. UFO Sun Attack Post-Star 7/3/87 lowing about five hours of work on the roof. Stanley said his son and five or six neighbors pulled up loose roofing or tacked it down and covered the roof with polyurethane sheets while the roped-off storefront warned pedestrians to stay clear. All the work was completed by late Sunday afternoon, he said, and he expected to remove the barrier before doors opened Monday morning. Dick Trowbridge, spokesperson for Niagara Mohawk, said Sunday afternoon that all power had been restored to the 25 Fort Edward customers who lost electricity during the storm. But he said about 50 customers were still without power in the Fort Ann area as a result of the same storm, and a storm late Sunday morning knocked out power to 25 to 30 homes in Greenfield in Saratoga County. "It's not unusual with the kind of weather we're having," Trowbridge said. "We may have outages the next two days with this extreme heat." # Heavy snowfall stalls travelers The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack Travelers were stranded Saturday as unseasonably heavy snow continued to fall from North Carolina into parts of upstate New York, with 2 feet in places and drifts up to 10 feet atop one mountain, and temperatures again plummeted to record lows from Texas to Florida. "It's like a white out," said Dee Allen, a police dispatcher in the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, where it was the second major snow storm in less than a week. "There's a lot of blowing and drifting snow. I guess I'm going to have to ski home." Post-Star 4/5/87 CORDILLERA BLANCA Huarás PERU BRAZIL Lima Callao Machu Picchu Cuzco Lake Titicaca BOLIVIA Arequipa Pacific Ocean Where I was 0 Miles 200 36 === Page 68 of 90 ## 5 dead identified as U.S. executives Post-Star 8/4/87 ALEXIS CREEK, British Columbia (AP) -- The only business executive left in an inflatable raft after 11 others were pitched into a river during a whitewater trip said Monday there was little he could do as five companions died in the pounding rapids. "I think you can kind of play it out in your mind what I was going through," said Jack Collins, president and chief executive officer of Clorox Co. In a telephone interview from his Oakland, Calif., office, Collins described the Saturday accident that ended a Canadian wilderness outing by a group of friends that included several top officials of U.S. corporations. The five who died all were prominent executives in advertising. Most had taken river trips before and about half had made a run down the same stretch of the Chilko River on Thursday, Collins said. "We thought we were all pretty smart guys; none of us would have been there if we thought there was any danger of injury or dying," Collins said. "We looked at whitewater as sort of an ersatz roller coaster." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police identified the dead as Robert V. Goldstein, 50, of Cincinnati, vice president of advertising for Procter and Gamble Co.; James Fasules, 63, Glen Ellyn, Ill., a former senior vice president of the advertising firm DDB Needham Worldwide; Richard T. O'Reilly, 65, director of the New York-based Media Advertising Partnership for a Drug-Free America Inc.; and Stuart Jon Sharpe, 37, and Gene Yovetich, 41, both Chicago residents and senior vice presidents of account management at DDB Needham. O'Reilly also was president of a Greenwich, Conn.-based advertising firm that bears his name. The firm handled advertising for President Reagan's 1980 campaign. RCMP officials declined to identify survivors, but Needham officials identified two as Michael Miles, president and chief operating officer of Kraft Inc. in Glenview, Ill., and Al Wolfe, 55, of Lake Forest, Ill., president of the U.S. division of Needham. Collins said the other survivors were Earl Madsen, 49, a Golden, Colo., lawyer; Joe Morrison, an advertising and marketing execu- NY Times 7/12/87 (Cartoon showing two men in a library setting, one reading a newspaper and the other sitting in a chair.) "It's awful that so many people around the President did these things -- who in the world hired those people?" # Tamil rebels begin surrendering arms Peace From UFOs Post-Star 8/1/87 PALALI AIR BASE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The main Tamil rebel group surrendered truckloads of weapons Wednesday under an agreement intended to stop a civil war that has taken 6,000 lives on this once-tranquil island of tea and spices. Anti-aircraft guns and rockets were among the arms turned in by the rebels, who began fighting four years ago to gain an independent homeland in northern and eastern Sri Lanka for the Tamil ethnic minority. Government-run Sri Lankan Radio said Vellupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, announced that he was disbanding his 10-year-old guerrilla operation and enlarging the group's "political wing." Eelam is the name Tamils would give their nation. India, whose Tamil community of 50 million is more than three times Sri Lanka's entire population, worked out the peace agreement with the Sri Lankan government. It provides for a single governing council in the two provinces where most Tamils live, but not for independence or a merger of the provinces. Wednesday's turnover of arms began with the ceremonial surrender of Dilip Yogi, a Tiger leader dressed in a bush shirt and rubber thong sandals. He placed his pistol on a table covered with a white cloth at a government military base in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna Peninsula, heart of the Tamil insurgency. Defense Minister Sepala Attygale, a former army commander, touched it in a symbolic gesture. Prabhakaran was not present -- for security reasons, his aides said. Attygale said: "Today is historic for the future of Sri Lanka. This surrendering of all arms signifies an end to the bloodshed that has affected our democratic society. We sincerely hope that from now on all Sri Lankans will live in peace in harmony in our own native land." Yogi announced Tuesday in Jaffna City, 12 miles to the southwest: "We will surrender for the good of the Tamil people." # Cowboys hurting already Post-Star 8/3/87 Cowboys & Texas PK THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) -- If the NFL regular season started this weekend, the Dallas Cowboys would have to field a team without six starters. "The ways things are going, we might not have enough players to start the season," said defensive tackle John Dutton. "It's been brutal." The roughest training camp in the Cowboys' 27-year history is taking its toll as Coach Tom Landry tries to find some answers after a 7-9 collapse in 1986. The Cowboys are on a regimen of two-a-day practices -- three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon -- followed by a two-hour team meeting at night. When the Cowboys held their annual Blue-White intrasquad game Saturday night, trainers held out 21 players with injuries. Wide receiver Karl Powe suffered a sprained shoulder on the last play of the game and will be lost three weeks. The wide-receiver spot has been particularly hard hit, with Mike Sherrard and Ray Alexander lost for the season. Sherrard broke a leg and Alexander suffered a broken wrist. Four other wide receivers have been sidelined on different days with injuries. Mike Renfro, the starting flanker, has a pulled hamstring. Rod Barksdale, obtained in a trade from the Los Angeles Raiders, is a candidate for Sherrard's split end job but also has hamstring problems. Running back Herschel Walker will miss Saturday's exhibition game in San Diego because of strained ligaments in his right knee. He could be out three weeks. (37) === Page 69 of 90 # States continue to fry; Relief finally in sight Post-Star 8/4/87 By Roger Petterson Associated Press Writer The heat wave blamed for 80 deaths chased people from golf courses and kept power plants straining Monday for a 17th day in the eastern two-thirds of the nation, but a cold front over the northern Plains promised some relief later in the week. "It's like living in the tropics, it's getting to be a way of life," said police dispatcher Nancy Bolyard in Moline, Ill., where the high Sunday was 101. "Sometimes you feel like you're suffocating," complained John Morgan of Topeka, Kan. Heat and high humidity also pushed back into parts of the Northeast after about a week's respite, with New York City hitting 90. Norfolk, Va., had a high of 97 degrees. A heat alert urging people to take it easy and check on the elderly was extended to Tuesday in Alabama. And the Tennessee Valley Authority ordered its offices in seven states to turn off lights and turn down air conditioners to help ease an expected record demand for electricity. Special School District officials in St. Louis County, Mo., closed the district's extended school year program Monday because its buses are not air conditioned. Record highs Monday included at Paducah, Ky., 84 at Alpena, Mich., an Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on nadian border between la' rior and Huron. Kansas City, Mo., hit and Little Rock, Ark. Arkansas its fifth day above 100. Nearly every Missouri and Kansas hit 100 or better on Sunday and Kansas reached a record 105. Little Rock's overnight low was a steamy 81, a record. Some horses taken to Indiana for the Pan American Games were being shaved to cope with the heat because they had grown their winter coats in South America, Marie Donnelly, a volunteer at the Hoosier Horse Park near Edinburgh, said Monday. Temperatures were in the 90s Monday and Evansville hit 97. Business was down at the Pasfield Park Golf Course at Springfield, Ill. as the heat kept golfers at hor said employee Kirk Anderson. just burning up out there," he estimating that business was at least 50 percent. The Southwest Missour Aging had heat shelter ties in the Ozarks, Winston Bledsoe. " were open over t' many of them we said. In St. Louis was 103, alm baseball g' nals and were tr nesses To tre a' # Nader study says Bork rulings are predictably anti-consumer Knight-Ridder Post-Star 8/7/87 WASHINGTON -- Judge Robert H. Bork, the controversial nominee to the Supreme Court, voted consistently and in close cases against consumers and workers and in support of government agencies and businesses, according to a study released Thursday by a consumer organization headed by Ralph Nader. And when the cases pitted businesses against government regulators, Bork sided with the businesses every time, the study said. The Nader study also concluded that Bork invariably ruled against demonstrators claiming rights of free expression, repeatedly favored property rights over individual rights, wrote antitrust opinions detrimental to consumers and small businesses, and, in criminal cases, voted for the prosecution 96 percent of the time. "The White House has been selling Judge Bork as a moderate, middle-of-the-road justice. Our review shows that if you're looking for a moderate, you are not going to find one in Judge Bork," said Alan B. Morrison, one of 10 lawyers who worked on the 149-page study for Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group. The Nader study was similar to one recently completed by law review editors at Columbia University Law School. It found that Bork cast "liberal" votes in only 10 percent of 42 non-unanimous decisions compared to 31 percent for the typical appeals judge appointed by President Reagan. The Nader review of Bork's judicial record concentrated on 56 decisions that divided Bork and other appeals judges during his five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. "In 48 of 50 cases (involving federal agencies)," Judge Bork voted against the underdog," declared William B. Schultz, the Public Citizen lawyer who directed the study. The study strongly suggested that Bork used a double standard in applying his philosophy of "judicial restraint," a guiding principle that, in most cases, would prevent a judge from interfering with government decisions. The study found that Bork voted for the government in 26 of 28 divided rulings in cases filed by individuals and liberal public interest groups against the government. In contrast, he backed businesses in all eight split decisions in which businesses challenged government decisions. (38 === Page 70 of 90 # Bakker condemned by own denomination Post-Star 8/8/87 (UFO "warning") OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Members and leaders of Jim Bakker's denomination condemned the fallen evangelist Friday for his lavish lifestyle and for bringing "an emphasis on pleasure, prosperity and personal gain" into the religious community. "We are deeply saddened, ashamed and repentant before God for these problems in our church family," said the Rev. G. Raymond Carlson, reading a statement from the executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God to a hushed national convention an estimated 15,000 people. "Sadly, the convictions of holiness and personal piety have been eclipsed with self-interests and prosperity," the statement from the 13-member executive body said. TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who had pushed the charges against Bakker with officials, was to speak later to a foreign missions gathering. Carlson, the 2.1 million-member denomination's general superintendent, said Bakker and his ex-PTL network colleague, Richard Dortch, spurned the church inquiry and their rights to appeal. Both men, ousted afterward from the ministry, were to take part in the proceedings, either on a district level or on the national level. "That door was left open to them throughout these proceedings," the account said. "Neither of them chose to avail themselves of these opportunities." The massed church representatives, who only moments before had been singing and praying exuberantly, sat in silence as the brief statement was read. Afterward, there was no comment from the floor. Bakker quit his television ministry in March after admitting a sexual encounter with a female church secretary, and the church in May revoked his ministerial credentials for adultery and alleged homosexual acts. Dortch was deposed as a clergyman for arranging payments to the woman. Urging church members to "seek the Lord in humility and repentance for his blessings and guidance," leaders of the denomination said in their statement: "Creature comforts have become the idols of too many today. Even the religious community has been caught up in investigating finances of the PTL ministry as Bakker ran it, and a federal grand jury is scheduled to take up the case beginning Aug. 17. Asked why none of the church delegates responded to their leaders' report, the denominational information secretary Juleen Turnage said: "Our people are so sick of this thing, they feel it's been talked about too much and run into the ground." The executive group, in their report, cautioned church members "to guard carefully against stating our personal opinions" on the Bakker case or similar matters. But that did not prevent individual delegates from talking to reporters. # Soviet satellite to crash Wichita Post-Star 8/10/87 UFOs - Space Work COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A Soviet satellite that never reached orbit after being launched Aug. 1 will crash into the south Pacific early Monday, military officials said. Lt. Col. Ivan Pinnell, community relations officer at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said Sunday that the satellite was expected to come to Earth about 1,500 miles east of New Zealand at 3:13 a.m. EDT. The satellite was designed to pick up noises from outer space and had much scientific equipment on board, Pinnell said. NASA SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM UFOs or Space Work Post-Star 8/10/87 39 === Page 71 of 90 Reagan's Ability to Lead Nation At a Low, Critics and Friends Say NY Times 6/28/87 By BERNARD WEINRAUB with GERALD M. BOYD Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 27 -- As Ronald Reagan nears his final year in the Oval Office, his ability to lead the nation has declined to the lowest point of his Presidency, according to Republican and Democratic legislators, Administration aides and friends of the President. The growing consensus from a wide cross section of officials is that the prospects are dim for a resurgence of his Presidency without an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union or some other major achievement. Their assessment is that Mr. Reagan is unable to cope both personally and politically with a Congress controlled by Democrats as well as with the impact of the Iran-contra affair. 'Something's Gone Wrong' "Something's gone wrong in the last six months or so," said one recent visitor to the Oval Office, who sees Mr. Reagan frequently. The comment reflected what some others, from legislators to confidants of Mr. Reagan and from White House officials to foreign diplomats, are also saying about him. Although White House spokesmen and some Republican Congressional leaders sharply disagree, the mood of pessimism, most evident in recent months, goes beyond that which has traditionally encumbered a "lame duck" president. It is a combination of changes both in the man himself and in the way he is being perceived, and it is attributed to several factors. The Iran-contra affair, looming largest among these, is said to have seriously depressed Mr. Reagan in a deeply personal sense. The President's slippage in popularity, as reflected in public opinion polls, since the sale of arms to Iran and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels were disclosed last November has been troubling to Mr. Reagan because his favorable image among the American public had been something that energized him throughout his political life and provided a source of inner strength. Particularly troublesome is that polls show that more than half the public be- Continued on Page 24, Column 1 Post-Star 11/1/87 AND I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE DIVERSION OF FUNDS TO THE CONTRAS... WE DID NOT TRADE ARMS FOR HOSTAGES! AND I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE INVOLVED IN MY OWN ADMINISTRATION... WELL, AT LEAST I WAS PROTECTED FROM POLITICAL EMBARRASSMENT! OK, MAYBE WE DID A TEENY BIT... Parapsychologists say something's out there Post-Star 8/9/87 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Scientists who investigate such mysteries as psychic spoon-bending, mind-reading and things that go bump in the night wound up an international conference Saturday saying there's something out there, but they aren't sure what. "There is now enough information from research to suggest that some odd things do happen, but there's no cohesive theory as to why and how they happen," said American Professor Robert L. Morris of Edinburgh University. Morris, 45, Britain's first professor of parapsychology, said that his science deals with "curious things that aren't explained." "We don't know what the outcome of the many investigations will be and if it turns out that psychic phenomena are merely the application of known physics and biology, and can be explained in ordinary terms, well, that's fine," he said. Morris, formerly of Syracuse University, joined 140 other scientists in the field to discuss their work at the 30th annual conference of the Parapsychological Association. A note of caution about believing fantastic stories was sounded by Dr. John Beloff, a retired Edinburgh University psychologist who organized the meeting with Morris. "I consider that excessive credulity does far more harm than excessive incredulity," said Beloff. In one cited case, a Himalayan shaman or faith-healer persuaded one group of wheat seeds to germinate more abundantly than another group, seemingly by concentrating her thoughts on them, and under test conditions. 40 === Page 72 of 90 # 'What's killing the dolphins?' ## Scientists investigate rash of Atlantic deaths By Mark Jaffe Knight-Ridder Post-Star 8/10/87 It began as a sad phenomenon - dead dolphin after dead dolphin washing up on beaches and in bays from New Jersey to Virginia. But it has now become a scientific mystery. "What's killing the dolphins? Nobody knows. The whole thing has turned into one big detective story," Brian Gorman, a public affairs officer for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said last week. Nearly 90 bottlenose dolphins have been found dead in the past month - 49 of them in South Jersey. Almost all the animals have had skin lesions, respiratory distress and fluid in their lungs, but there is no explanation as to what caused their deaths. In an effort to answer the question, federal laboratories from Plum Island, to Madison, Wis., have been enlisted in the hunt. Late last week, the mystery got its Sherlock Holmes in the person of John Geraci, a professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Geraci is a noted marine mammal pathologist. He flew to Norfolk, Va., to direct the National Marine Fisheries Service inquiry. "In the field of marine mammal pathology, Geraci is one of the foremost, if not the foremost, expert in the world ... That's why we got him," Gorman said. This weekend, the fisheries service, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Mammals Center, began setting up a lab for Geraci and his crew. "What they will be doing," Gorman explained, "is autopsies on these critters, some gross examinations, and sending tissue samples to other locations for analysis. One problem is that the weather is so warm and the water is so warm, if the animals are dead more than a few hours, they aren't very good for autopsies." The only thorough autopsy to date has been performed by Douglas Roscoe, a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection pathologist. Roscoe isolated a bacterium called Pasteurella multocida in the dead animal. However, DEP spokesman James Staples said at the end of the week, "Roscoe still does not believe that the bacteria are causing the deaths. He is more inclined to think it's a virus. But he doesn't have an electron microscope, so other labs are going to have to do that work." While answers are few, theories abound. The dolphin deaths have been linked to sewage pollution, industrial waste dumping in the ocean and radio microwaves from submarines. Gorman said no cause had been ruled out. "It could be the result of a number of factors," he said, "including stress from the hot weather, a disease, a chemical in the water." The continuing deaths have caused a lot of anxiety along the coast, said Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J. "We've been getting all sorts of calls," Schoelkopf said. "Somebody came in with something they thought was 'plastic pollution' that might be causing the dolphins' deaths. It was eel grass. "A woman in Ventnor (N.J.) called and said there was this mass of sewage pollution and that must be killing the dolphins. It was algae." "The problem with almost every theory that can be drawn," said James Mead, director of the Smithsonian's Marine Mammal Center, "is that something doesn't fit. It is a frustrating puzzle." In most years, about 13 dead dolphins are reported in the area between North Carolina and New Jersey. In the past month, however, there have been nearly 90 dead dolphins. On Friday, the 49th dead dolphin in New Jersey was found at Stone Harbor. "It had been dead awhile," said the DEP's Staples, "so it was too rotten to do anything with." Those animals found in better condition, including one in Delaware that died in the arms of a rescue worker, have been used to prepare tissue samples for a host of laboratories. So far, most of these samples have been prepared by Schoelkopf and Roscoe. "It's good that Geraci is setting up a lab in Norfolk," Schoelkopf said, "because this way we'll get samples from a wider area." The various labs will each be looking at a small piece of the puzzle. For example, the National Marine Fisheries lab in Charleston, S.C., will be testing for chemical pollutants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Plum Island, N.Y., will perform a virology analysis. (41 === Page 73 of 90 A stranded motorist stands on the trunk of his car after stalling in high water near Chicago Friday. Record rainfall in the Chicago area forced the closing of many roads. (AP Laserphoto) # Chicago now wet windy city UFD-2 Sun Attack Post-Star 8/15/87 CHICAGO (AP) -- A record 9.2 inches of rain soaked the Chicago area Friday, flooding homes and expressways, isolating O'Hare International Airport and knocking out power and telephone service to thousands of people. At least one person died during the storm, which hit hardest in northern Cook County, which encompasses Chicago, and Du Page County to the northwest. Some 300 people fled their homes, and at least one hospital, in suburban Des Plaines, had to evacuate patients. Gov. James R. Thompson declared the two counties disaster areas, authorizing state aid for residents. The governor also activated 200 National Guard troops to provide security and aid in evacuation efforts. Flooding closed the Kennedy Expressway leading out of Chicago to O'Hare, making it "virtually impossible" to reach the airport from the nation's third-largest city, said Marilyn Katz of the city's Department of Aviation. American Airlines spokesman Steve McGregor said the airport was "an island just surrounded by water." He said as many as 75 percent of American Airlines' flights would be canceled; United Airlines also suspended most operations until 8 p.m. "A Herculean effort is being maintained by hundreds of people at O'Hare to keep it open, and it is open," said Federal Aviation Association spokesman Mort Edelstein. One runway was open for landings, and two partial runways were open for takeoffs, he said, adding, "City crews and FAA personnel are working doggedly to get those runways cleared of water and water away from navigational aids." Even the weather service couldn't escape the storm. "We're stranded," said meterologist Bob Collins, noting 3 feet of water surrounded the National Weather Service building near the airport and 6 inches of water had crept inside. More rain was forecast for the weekend. Collins blamed the storm on an unstable air mass that socked in the Chicago area, caused by cool air to the north and warm, very moist air to the south. The same system dumped heavy rains on parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan, where another traffic death was reported. (42) === Page 74 of 90 Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Friday, August 14, 1987 # Canadian woman finds neighbor's boa constrictor in toilet my dream last night! HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) -- When Laurie Lamothe looked into her toilet bowl and two eyes looked back, she knew she had a problem. It turns out that a neighbor's pet boa has taken refuge in the drainpipes under the Lamothes' bathroom. The snake popped up one day in their toilet bowl. "I looked down and saw this pair of eyes looking at me and a tongue going in and out," said Mrs. Lamothe. "I shouted to my husband, 'There's a snake in the bathroom!'" Since then, the Hamilton Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has removed the toilet in the Lamothes' 12th-story apartment and tried to lure the 6-foot-6-inch snake into the open by placing dead rats on the floor. The snake ate one of the rats when no one was watching but disappeared back down the drain. "It's still in the same place but we're pretty confident we'll get it out in the next day or so," SPCA official Robert Morrison said Wednesday. The snake's owner will face a fine of about $40 for keeping an illegal pet in the 15-story building, unless he removes it from the city as soon as it is recovered, Morrison said. Meanwhile, neighbors say they are nervous about using their toilets. Mrs. Lamothe told reporters she has always had a fear of snakes. She said she was told that boa constrictors don't bite. "They just strangle." # 7 charged in connection with rash of area thefts By Scot Montrey Staff Intern Post-Star 8/14/87 GREENWICH -- Four area teens and two men in their 20s were charged Wednesday and another man was charged Thursday in connection with "numerous burglaries and larcenies in the Greenwich-Middle Falls area," Washington County Sheriff's Department officials said Thursday. The department, working with the Washington County District Attorney's office, arrested the seven, five of whom were issued tickets ordering them to appear in Greenwich Town Court this coming Tuesday, officials said. The burglaries, according to Cpl. George Bell of the Sheriff's Department, are believed to reach back to November of 1986. Michael Scott Sanders, 18, of Main Street in Middle Falls, was charged with third-degree burglary. He was arraigned before Greenwich Town Justice John Pemrick and released on his own recognizance to appear Aug. 18, Bell said. Seward D. Habschi, 20, of Farley Road in Hudson Falls, was charged Thursday night with third-degree burglary, Bell said. He was arraigned in Jackson Town Court before Judge Francis Ackley -- no Greenwich justice was available at the time, Bell said -- and remanded to the Washington County Jail in lieu of a $500 cash or $1,000 bond bail. Habschi was scheduled to appear in the Greenwich Town Court on Aug. 18, Bell also said. Peter Michael Perkins, 24, also of Main Street, Middle Falls, was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. He was issued a ticket to appear Aug. 18 in the Greenwich Town Court, police said. Also charged was Harry James Sanders, 19, of Main Street, Middle Falls, on a charge of fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He was issued an appearance ticket, police said. Robert Lee Sanders, 21, of Main Street, Middle Falls, was charged with petit larceny. He was issued an appearance ticket, police said. Dino Gabriel Facin, 27, of 37 Gray Ave., Greenwich, was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He was also issued an appearance ticket, police said. Also charged with third-degree burglary was a 14-year-old boy from Middle Falls. His case will be handled by the Washington County Family Court, officials said. # President's helicopter in near-collision The Associated Press 8/14/87 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- An unidentified airplane was involved in a near-collision with President Reagan's helicopter as it approached his ranch north of here Thursday, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Fitzwater said the pilot of the small airplane was taken into custody as he landed at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, about 50 to 60 miles south of here, after being chased by another government helicopter. He said the pilot of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, reported that the plane flew within 250 feet of the chopper and about 150 feet below it. The agency has begun an investigation, said Russ Tornquist, an FAA spokesman in Los Angeles. 8/14/87 (Washington State) # Elusive python still at large in Fruit Valley There is still no sign of Sugar, a 10-foot Burmese python that slithered out of her Fruit Valley home Saturday night. The snake belongs to Todd Lawer and Carol Stuber, 2105 W. 28th St. Stuber said the snake is not dangerous, but said people should not pick her up if they find her. Mike Jones, a Clark County Animal Control officer, cautioned that the snake could hiss and bite if scared. Lawer and Stuber have distributed fliers about the lost snake through their neighborhood, asking people to call them at 693-9970 if Sugar is seen. They are offering a reward of at least $50 to anyone who finds her. (42 === Page 75 of 90 # More storms hit north Illinois Post-Star 8/17/87 CHICAGO (AP) - New thunderstorms hit flood-soaked northeastern Illinois on Sunday, two days after a record downpour caused the Chicago area's second major flood in a year, and hundreds of people remained stranded in shelters. Water receded in some areas to the north and northwest of Chicago, enabling homeowners to start cleaning up mud and repairing damage, officials said. But the western suburbs had to keep bailing out as runoff gorged streams. "It's just backing up in the streets because it has nowhere to go," said Tom Mefford, deputy coordinator of the Du Page County Emergency Services Disaster Agency. "We're closing down some roads because of rain right now." He said some volunteers used rowboats and motorboats to travel flooded streets in some western Chicago suburbs to rescue any residents still stranded in their homes. Hundreds of people remained in temporary shelters in DuPage and Cook counties Sunday morning when thunderstorms began again, two days after a storm swamped the area with 9.3 inches of rain, the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 100 years of record-keeping. Sunday's storms, accompanied by high wind and some hail, were expected to dump an additional half-inch to 1 inch of rain on the area, said National Weather Service spokesman Len Whitcomb. But Whitcomb said forecasters believed that Salt Creek and the Des Plaines River would continue to recede in the western suburbs. By Sunday afternoon, Salt Creek had fallen 2.1 feet below its flood stage of 7.5 feet at Rolling Meadows, northwest of downtown Chicago, officials said. The Des Plaines River also was receding, but remained 3½ feet above its flood stage of 6 feet in the western suburb of Riverside. American Red Cross assessment teams estimated that 3,025 homes were damaged by water, and 1,025 of them sustained major damage with at least 4 feet of water in the basement or 4 inches on the first floor, spokesman Fred Sabine said in Chicago. Many of those homes were damaged by flooding last October. Sabine said the agency had asked for 20 food vans to tour the flooded areas, in addition to a couple already in service, and 3,000 clean-up kits to distribute to residents. The kits contain a plastic pail, mop, sponges and a bottle of disinfectant detergent for scrubbing sludge-filled homes, he said. Gov. James R. Thompson, decked out in Des Plaines Fire Department hip waders, toured the flood-ravaged areas Saturday after declaring both Cook and DuPage counties state disaster areas a day earlier. The declaration allows property owners to seek reduced tax assessments because of flood damage. John Plunk, chief of operations for the state disaster agency, said damage assessment teams made up of state officials and members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would tour the area Monday and inspect damage. If federal aid is granted, it probably would take the form of low-interest loans for repairing property damage, he said. In Riverside, Cheryl Callahan arrived home from vacation Sunday morning to find her home surrounded and swamped by water. "Washers and dryers can be replaced," she moaned. "It's all the photo albums and hand-made Christmas ornaments." Another Riverside resident grumbled about the spectators driving around snapping photographs. "They've been sightseeing all weekend," said the man, who refused to give his name. "Twenty-five cents a head, and you could pay for the clean-up." At the waterlogged Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, officials postponed Monday's round of the Chick Evans 25th Annual Memorial Pro-America tournament. Most of the club's 160 acres were under water, they said. TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER!... GET SERIOUS! WE WATCHED THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS!... MIKE Luckovich COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Times-Picayune Post-Star 8/17/87 43 === Page 76 of 90 More storms hit north Illinois Rock-Star 8/17/87 CHICAGO (AP) - New thunderstorms hit flood-soaked northeastern Illinois on Sunday, two days after a record downpour caused the Chicago area's second major flood in a year, and hundreds of people remained stranded in shelters. Water receded in some areas to the north and northwest of Chicago, enabling homeowners to start cleaning up mud and repairing damage, officials said. But the western suburbs had to keep bailing out as runoff gorged streams. "It's just backing up in the streets because it has nowhere to go," said Tom Mefford, deputy coordinator of the Du Page County Emergency Services Disaster Agency. "We're closing down some roads because of rain right now." He said some volunteers used rowboats and motorboats to travel flooded streets in some western Chicago suburbs to rescue any residents still stranded in their homes. Hundreds of people remained in temporary shelters in DuPage and Cook counties Sunday morning when thunderstorms began again, two days after a storm swamped the area with 9.3 inches of rain, the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 100 years of record-keeping. Sunday's storms, accompanied by high wind and some hail, were expected to dump an additional half-inch to 1 inch of rain on the area, said National Weather Service spokesman Len Whitcomb. But Whitcomb said forecasters believed that Salt Creek and the Des Plaines River would continue to recede in the western suburbs. By Sunday afternoon, Salt Creek had fallen 2.1 feet below its flood stage of 7.5 feet at Rolling Meadows, northwest of downtown Chicago, officials said. The Des Plaines River also was receding, but remained 3½ feet above its flood stage of 6 feet in the western suburb of Riverside. American Red Cross assessment teams estimated that 3,025 homes were damaged by water, and 1,025 of them sustained major damage with at least 4 feet of water in the basement or 4 inches on the first floor, spokesman Fred Sabine said in Chicago. Many of those homes were damaged by flooding last October. Sabine said the agency had asked for 20 food vans to tour the flooded areas, in addition to a couple already in service, and 3,000 clean-up kits to distribute to residents. The kits contain a plastic pail, mop, sponges and a bottle of disinfectant detergent for scrubbing sludge-filled homes, he said. Gov. James R. Thompson, decked out in Des Plaines Fire Department hip waders, toured the flood-ravaged areas Saturday after declaring both Cook and DuPage counties state disaster areas a day earlier. The declaration allows property owners to seek reduced tax assessments because of flood damage. John Plunk, chief of operations for the state disaster agency, said damage assessment teams made up of state officials and members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would tour the area Monday and inspect damage. If federal aid is granted, it probably would take the form of low-interest loans for repairing property damage, he said. In Riverside, Cheryl Callahan arrived home from vacation Sunday morning to find her home surrounded and swamped by water. "Washers and dryers can be replaced," she moaned. "It's all the photo albums and hand-made Christmas ornaments." Another Riverside resident grumbled about the spectators driving around snapping photographs. "They've been sightseeing all weekend," said the man, who refused to give his name. "Twenty-five cents a head, and you could pay for the clean-up." At the waterlogged Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, officials postponed Monday's round of the Chick Evans 25th Annual Memorial Pro-America tournament. Half of the club's 160 acres were under water, they said. TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER!... GET SERIOUS! WE WATCHED THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS!... MIKE Luckovich COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Times-Picayune Rock-Star 8/17/87 43 === Page 77 of 90 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1987 TED Columbian # Reagan copter buzzed ## Airplane in near collision is from Vancouver SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration today revoked the license of a former Vancouver pilot who flew a small airplane dangerously close to President Reagan's helicopter, the White House said. The license of Ralph W. Myers of Lake Oswego, Ore., was revoked for "careless and reckless operation of an aircraft" and for violating the restricted air space over Reagan's ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said today. The airplane was rented at Vancouver's Pearson Air Park. Earlier, the Secret Service said no criminal charges would be filed against Myers, who flew his plane within several hundred feet of the president's helicopter Thursday afternoon, forcing the chopper pilot to take evasive action. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker said he spoke with Reagan today and the president "did not seem particularly upset" about the incident. Asked to describe to what extent Reagan had been endangered, Baker said: "I suppose there's a fair amount of danger when a plane comes that close to a helicopter." Secret Service interviews "showed there was no criminal intent on the part of the pilot or the passenger and subsequently no arrests were made," said Rich Adams, an agency spokesman in Washington. He refused to disclose the pilot's explanation for how the incident occurred, but said, "The pilot was disoriented, according to him, and entered into a restricted airspace." Reagan and aides with him did not notice the Piper Archer air- Please see Plane, Page A2 (44) === Page 78 of 90 # Storm pelts Fort Edward (town by us) By Eric Dexheimer and Michael Kilian Staff Writers 7/12/87 FORT EDWARD - Violent winds and rains swept through downtown Fort Edward Saturday afternoon - cutting a narrow swath of destruction that tore the roofs off of buildings, uprooted trees and sent torrents of water streaming down roads. Branches, leaves and tar roofing tiles littered Broadway Avenue in the village in the wake of the storm, which one resident described as "15 minutes of hell." At least a dozen trees, ripped out of the ground by the high winds, lay on the ground, across streets and on top of crushed cars. "It was dark, brown, like a twister. We ran," said a woman who had been caught in the 5:30 p.m. storm with several of her children. "We couldn't see two feet in front of the car, I'll tell you that," Fort Edward Patrolman Mike Smith said Saturday evening. A caller to The Post-Star said a tornado had passed through Fort Edward. But National Weather Service forecaster Joseph Palko said this could not be confirmed. Television Channel 6 in Albany also received a call reporting a tornado in Fort Edward, Palko said. The weather station closest to Fort Edward is at the Warren County Airport. That station recorded wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour, Palko said. The temperature dropped from 89 degrees to 75 degrees just before the thunderstorm, he said. Tornadoes are not common occurrences in the Capital District region, Palko said. Patrolman Smith said no storm-related injuries were reported. "Just a lot of trees were down," Smith said. "We had two roofs blown off." Ernest Stanley Sr., owner of E & A Imports in Fort Edward, was inside his auto parts store when the storm hit and lifted close to one-half of his roof tiles off the building and scattered them to all sides. "It was just like a big suction," Stanley said, making a whistling sound with his mouth to approximate the noise made as his roof flew off. "I'll tell you, we could hear it." "My dog was sleeping on the floor and flew straight up," he said. A spot damage estimate by local construction worker Alexander Anderson put damages to Stanley's roof at $1,000. Second and Hill Broadway curve, inside the lapsed duration of wood roof draped the street. Patrolmen were down but that a by 8 p.m. tered power trees throughout Saratoga and Washington counties. A woman on Dean Road in Kingsbury said her power had not been restored as of 9 p.m. Saturday. A Niagara Mohawk spokesman could not be reached for comment where we live Saturday evening. "It was raining so hard you couldn't see anything," Werner Fuchs, a New Jersey boater returning from Lake Champlain through Fort Edward, said. "All of a sudden the boat started bouncing back and forth and the (mooring) lines loosened." Minutes later, Fuchs said, he heard cracking as two huge trees lurched to the ground just yards from where his boat was tied at the Yacht Basin. Fuchs explained how "a waterfall of water" gushed off the embankment after running down the hill from Broadway and Main Street. "I call myself extremely lucky," Fuchs said. "It was not funny." Patrolman Smith said attempts to contact state waterways officials about removing the two trees from the canal had been unsuccessful. "It's (the canal) passable, but it's (the trees) something they're going to have to take out of there," Smith said. Further up the street, the stump of a brick chimney on the top of another building stood in the midst of a pile of rubble, another structural victim of the storm. # Full shuttle-rocket test to be postponed again 8/29/87 BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - A critical first full-scale test of the redesigned space shuttle rocket will be postponed still further while engineers sort out problems that caused the firing to be aborted three times, officials said Friday. In a joint announcement, NASA and rocket manufacturer Morton Thiokol Inc. said engineers will conduct several countdown dry runs to test systems that malfunctioned on Thursday. This work is expected to take most of today. A decision will be made tonight on a day for the test firing, the announcement said. The statement said officials are working "at a measured pace and won't reschedule the test until they are satisfied that all problems identified yesterday are fully understood and have been resolved." On Thursday, officials had said the test would be conducted today. Thiokol engineers conducted three countdowns toward ignition of the test rocket on Thursday and were forced to stop short of the firing each time. Twice the countdown was carried to within seconds before it was halted. The announcement said the final test attempt failure Thursday was traced to a miscommunication between two computers which are part of the test stand equipment. Two other countdowns were stopped by a broken water main and by an electronic malfunction. (45) === Page 79 of 90 # Asia stricken with floods, droughts Post-Star 9/3/87 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Asia's rice paddies and wheat fields -- vital in feeding half the world's population -- are being hit by drought and floods that have taken more than 1,000 lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. The failure of Asia's monsoon, which normally waters fields during the second third of each year, has left parched a wide arc of the continent from Sri Lanka to the Philippines and northern China this year. At least nine countries have been severely affected, and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said India was facing "the biggest calamity of the century." In Bangladesh, the government says 20 million of the nation's 103 million people have been affected by what it calls the worst flooding in 40 years. Reports of casualties compiled by The Associated Press bureaus over the past two months include the deaths of more than 200 people in floods, mudslides and typhoons in China. Typhoon Thelma and heavy rains that struck South Korea in mid-July left at least 350 people dead, and about 80 died as two typhoons struck the Philippines. # 11,000 people fight fires Post-Star 9/3/87 National Guardsmen were called out Wednesday and firefighters flew in from around the nation to help weary crews battling fires in four Western states that blackened 137,000 acres and forced some people to flee their homes. More than 300 California National Guardsmen were summoned to help in hard-hit Tuolumne County along with aircraft and 90 trucks, said Guard spokeswoman Sgt. Carolyn Hamilton. Lightning-spawned fires since Sunday had charred 89,115 acres of brush and timber in northern California, swelling by 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours. "There are now 910 fires going," said John Carter at the joint state-federal fire information center in Sacramento, Calif. "We have 11,000 people fighting the fires." Oregon had more than 600 fires, charring at least 31,000 acres. The biggest single fire, in the central Idaho mountains, was a 32-day-old, 15,000-acre blaze being allowed to burn in extremely rugged terrain inside a wilderness area: Firefighters at Pocatello, Idaho, were close to containing a fire that destroyed one house and threatened others on the outskirts of the city. Firefighters from several states were on their way to join the battle against the Oregon fires, including crews from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and the Northeast. At least eight houses had been destroyed. "We would definitely have to characterize the fire situation in southwest Oregon as in a blowup state today," said Ron DeHart of the Salem-based Oregon Unified Coordination Group, which coordinates state and federal efforts. "It does not look good. We were really hoping for a mistake in the forecast that calls for some winds ... Otherwise, we may be doing an eyeball-to-flames standoff." # It gets pretty hot at the forest fire center BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The frenzy has eased somewhat at the nation's forest fire command post during America's greatest firefighting mobilization ever, a battle against fires that have burned more than 1,100 square miles of Western range and timber. "It's settled down to a steady slog. We've contained 1,000 fires," said Arnold Hartigan, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center. But scores still burn out of control, and Hartigan added, "Some areas will have flames until the snow flies." Since moving to full alert late last month, 35 logistics specialists at the federal center have worked around the clock in 12-hour shifts at the heart of a 55-acre complex that serves as the nation's clearinghouse for fire information, supplies and firefighters. The center has the authority to tap all available resources of the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments. "We gather intelligence from all agencies to prevent any one agency from tying up resources," Hartigan said. "We're like a giant hardware store. You call, we have it." Lightning-sparked blazes went wild across the West beginning Aug. 28, and within a week Fire Center specialists dispatched over 22,000 firefighters and hundreds of tons of equipment and supplies, including over 1,000 bulldozers and trucks and dozens of air tankers and helicopters. "It's unprecedented as far as the number of supplies, manpower and equipment dispatched," Hartigan said. "We were just bombarded." An estimated $5 million a day was being spent in the battle against the fires, mainly in northern California and southern Oregon. The frantic operations at the center have eased somewhat as firefighters slowly gain control, but there are still half-eaten pizzas and other remnants of meals eaten on the run. === Page 80 of 90 National Scene Post-Star 9/10/87 # Justice Marshall: Reagan's civil rights record deplorable Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's stinging assessment of President Reagan's civil rights performance drew a sharp response Wednesday from the White House, where chief spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the administration "would not back away from our civil rights record one inch." Marshall, in a rare off-the-bench criticism of the president, said in a televised interview that Reagan ranked at "the bottom" among presidents in protecting and advancing civil rights. "Honestly," Marshall said, "I think he's down with Hoover and that group -- Wilson. When we (blacks) really didn't have a chance." the country" -- and cited the 1986 tax reform law that he said removed the federal tax burden from millions of low-income persons. He also said that Reagan's proposals to help low-income families buy public housing facilities and to receive cash vouchers to pay for their children's tuition at better schools would help minorities. The first and only black person to serve on the Supreme Court, Marshall said Reagan, as the "gatekeeper" of fairness and justice in America, had neglected his job. "I don't care whether he's the president, the governor, the mayor, the sheriff," Marshall said. "Whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency ... That starts exactly with the president." Fitzwater insisted that Reagan plained for years that the president has attempted to undercut minority hiring programs, school busing to achieve integration, the voting rights act and other efforts to help minorities. They also claim Reagan has appointed too few blacks and other minorities to high-ranking posts in the government and judiciary. The Justice Department, for example, has joined several cases in federal courts to argue against affirmative-action employment standards, contending that employers should exercise total "colorblindness" in hiring and promoting employees. Justice also sided with the Norfolk, Va., school board in its legal challenging the use of busing to achieve racial integration in its schools. And it has attempted to Reagan's buddy # Nofziger implicated in insider trading Post-Star 9/10/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former managers of Wedtech Corp. and ex-White House political director Lyn Nofziger unloaded $10 million of stock in a possible insider trading scheme, Wedtech's recently hired outside legal counsel testified Wednesday. The scandal-plagued South Bronx defense contractor's top officers, including founder John Mariotta, also "looted" the corporate treasury and set up a slush fund to exploit a Small Business Administration program aimed at helping minority contractors, Martin Pollner told the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee on oversight of government management. Relying on records supplied by Pollner, the panel said Nofziger, his lobbying partner Mark Bragg, and five Wedtech executives sold 1 million shares of Wedtech stock for $10 years; most of its prior government contracts were not profitable; and it was subsisting on money improperly obtained from public offerings of Wedtech securities and progress payments received from the Department of Defense," Pollner said. The privately held company went public in 1983 in securities offerings marked "from the very beginning by material distortions of the financial conditions of the company," said Pollner. "More than one-half of the $162 million raised from the general public was raised in 1986, long after the time the company became insolvent." Pollner said the company has paid more than $10 million in cash since 1982 to politically well-connected consultants, accountants and law firms to help it obtain government contracts and to maintain its # Firefighters losing control of last Western blazes Post-Star 9/10/87 The Associated Press Thick smoke and changing weather hindered efforts Wednesday to contain the last big forest fires still burning in the West, where more than 1,000 square miles are charred and some fires were spreading again. "It's sad to see Mother Nature doing this," lamented California National Guardsman Dennis Berry. A layer of cool, humid air that had been holding dense smoke close to the ground and not fanning the flames in northern California and southern Oregon appeared to be lifting, with temperatures climbing, said California fire information officer Steve Smith. There was a chance of thunderstorms in Oregon, which would kick up wind, said Kathy Aplin of the Oregon Unified Coordinating Group. In Washington, steep terrain allowed burning logs to roll past firebreaks on the Olympic Peninsula. In California, 76 firefighters have been injured, dozens suffering from smoke inhalation, said Art Wirtz at the Sacramento fire command center. An additional 30 firefighters had been injured in Oregon. Three have died in vehicle accidents, two blamed on the dense smoke. Smoke continued to prevent the use of aircraft to drop water and fire retardant in Oregon, fire spokesman Ron DeHart said. Fog grounded water-dumping aircraft Wednesday in Washington. The smoke was so bad in some parts of northern California that doctors equated breathing to smoking more than three packs of cigarettes a day. (47) === Page 81 of 90 # Leaves begin to paint New England's palette early this year By John Donnelly Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The annual show of brilliant fall foliage has opened early in northern New England, and foresters suspect dry conditions are responsible for the splashes of color. But tourism officials said Wednesday the colors that draw an estimated 3 million "leaf peepers" to the region will last as long as usual -- mid-October in southern parts -- even with the early start. Vermont and New Hampshire have had an unusually dry summer, which foresters say puts additional stress on trees and could be a factor in bringing out the color a week or two ahead of schedule. Maine, which has had fewer reports of early foliage, has had an average amount of rain this year. "Because we've had an unusually dry summer, the roots of trees trying to draw nutrients have had a very difficult job," said Conrad Motkya, Vermont's director of forests. "To me, common sense says there is probably a relationship there with color, too, causing the leaves to turn a little early." The early oranges, yellows and reds on hardwood leaves in the north woods are startling natives. "There are colors all over, from the valley floor to the tops of the mountains," said Arlo Sterner, a county forester in Wolcott, 30 miles north of Vermont's capital. Sterner, 61, who is one of Vermont's 30 volunteer spotters who give foliage reports twice a week to the state during the season, said he has never seen foliage come so early. "This year, it happened all of a sudden," he said. "It seemed odd to us because it shouldn't happen for a couple of weeks and here it is, bingo. I think it's the dry weather and the trees are a little bit stressed. When they get stressed, they show color early." In Vermont's northeast corner, another spotter, forester George Buzzell of Orleans, said Wednesday foliage was at 40 percent in high elevations. In the valleys, he put foliage at 10 percent to 25 percent. Buzzell predicted that because Vermont's soil conditions were so varied, the foliage season would not be shorter. "I feel if the weather is kind and not much heavy wind, we should be in for an extra long treat of good color this fall," Buzzell said. Tourism officials hope the early foliage is big business for New England. # Shuttle rocket cracks after test HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A NASA official said Saturday that a five-foot-long section of the redesigned shuttle booster rocket cracked after a test firing, but the trial run was still "totally successful." Gerald Smith, manager of the booster program at the Marshall Space Flight Center, said the crack was caused by a defective cooling system that is used only in ground tests. "It occurs after the test," he said. "It has nothing to do with the actual design or the performance of the motor." Marshall spokesman Ed Medal said the problem would in no way change NASA's plans to launch another shuttle flight in June 1988, although the damaged rocket segment could not be used in future tests. The crack was caused by molten propellant residue described as "aluminum slag," which the cooling system failure allowed to "just sit there and cook" after it collected in the booster during the test, Smith said. "The problem occurs only in horizontal ground firings," said Medal. A rocket in flight expels the residue through a motor nozzle, he said. "These segments, after we test, can be recycled and used again. In this case it will not be," said Smith, who called the test "totally successful." # Reagan proud of pact ## Soviet calls it success for all By Terence Hunt AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON -- President Reagan, trumpeting a long-awaited breakthrough in arms talks, announced an "agreement in principle" Friday to ban all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles, setting the stage for the first superpower summit in America in 14 years. It would be the first nuclear arms pact in Reagan's presidency and the first ever to ban an entire class of nuclear weapons. The tentative pact was thrashed out in three days of intensive talks between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze called it "a common success for all mankind, for all civilization." Shultz said it was "an important beginning" in arms control. === Page 82 of 90 # Agencies fear another Ethiopian famine WASHINGTON (AP) -- Relief agencies are gearing up to ship emergency food supplies to Ethiopia, where officials said Thursday they fear a summer drought could create a famine similar to the one in which nearly one million people died in 1984-1985. "What we are facing is a resurgence of a very severe situation," said Charles La Muniere, director of emergency operations in Africa for the United Nations in New York. "We have to begin to fill the pipeline now." Officials knew that a drought in June and July coupled with locust infestations would probably cause problems. The concern has turned to alarm recent weeks after a U.S. Agency for International Development team toured the country, reporting massive crop losses in some areas. "If the worst scenario came to, we could experience crop losses as much as 1984," La Muniere said. The goal of the United Nations, he said, is to help the Ethiopian government ensure that people will not be forced to relocate into food camps similar to the ones that attracted worldwide attention three years ago. An AID official, speaking on condition he not be identified, predicted the impending famine will be "smaller but still of the same order of gravity." Roughly 7.5 million Ethiopians, nearly one-fourth the population, were at risk of starvation in 1984-1985 famine, he said. The death toll from that event "could be as high as a million," he said. But officials do not know the number of people who might be in trouble later this year because the Marxist government of Ethiopia has not turned over figures from its survey. "We weren't able to pin that down," the AID official said. Spokesmen from private voluntary organizations also complained about the difficulty of getting accurate information from Ethiopia. A spokesman at the Ethiopian Embassy did not return a telephone call to answer questions. Food shortages should be quantifiable once people begin to harvest crops between mid-September and mid-November, officials said. Although rains have started in Ethiopia, they have come too late to save crops in some places, particularly Eritrea and Tigre, two northern provinces where separatists have waged an insurgency against the central government for years. Eritrea's crops apparently are a "write-off," according to the AID official, who said that "Tigre is almost as bad." Other areas where food shortages are expected to become a problem are: Wollo, Hararaghe, Sidamo, Shoa and Gama Gofu, officials said. Even without a drought or locust plague, Ethiopia would experience a grain deficit of 190,000 metric tons. But George Wirt, a spokesman for CARE, a relief organization also has long-term development projects in Ethiopia, said shortages are expected to exceed that. Center, called the situation extremely critical, primarily in California and southwest Oregon. "In the national park situation, we're very fearful that they might get into the giant sequoias, which are an irreplaceable resource," he said. California, Oregon and Idaho bore the brunt of the fires. By mid-day Thursday: * 12,975 firefighters were battling 1,116 fires which had burned more than 204,000 acres in California. * 3,500 people fought fires totaling 52,000 acres in Oregon. * 600 firefighters contended with 23,000 acres of range and forest fires in Idaho. Wyoming. The fires were started by thousands of lightning strikes spawned by late-summer thunderstorms. "It continues to be a critical situation," said LaVon Perez of the U.S. Forest Service in California. "The forecasters say we're not going to get as many lightning strikes today -- but they said that yesterday, too, and we had more than 1,400 additional strikes -- and we are expecting winds of 20 to 35 mph, and they tell us it will not begin to cool until the weekend." An estimated 8,000 persons were evacuated from nearly a dozen rural communities in California, more than half of them in Tuolumne County near the north-central part of the state. Plans were being made for possible evacuation of five small Siskiyou County communities as a series of timber fires which have been burning uninhabited areas since the weekend approached homes along State Route 96 near the Oregon border. Clayton said the biggest single fire consumed 22,000 acres in Lassen National Forest in Modoc County. However, a complex of 17 fires had roared over 30,000 acres in Mendocino and Lake counties and another series burned 38,000 acres in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. Five large fires were contained in the last 24 hours, Clayton said, including a 3,750-acre blaze in Modoc County. (497) === Page 83 of 90 To be free, you must care Post-Star 9/2/87 The opposite of love is not hate but apathy, and thus the best evidence of people's lack of patriotism is not active opposition to a particular policy but indifference to all public policy issues. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, put it well, as she often does. "In Paradise Lost," she said, "Dante reserved the lowest rung of Hell for those who do not care -- for those who, confronted by great questions, are uninterested; who, faced with great deeds, are unmoved; who, offered great opportunities, feel no challenge; who, endowed with freedom and power, make no use of it; the kind of men who, observing a battle between tyrants and those who would be free, remain indifferent." Great questions, great deeds, battles between tyrants and those who would be free, and freedom and power are all on the plates of Americans today. If you cannot feel the excitement and challenge of these times, then you are a dead soul indeed. I don't think many Americans have dead souls but many of their leaders do, as do much of the intelligentsia. Thus, there are two Americas -- one made up of ordinary people who still have ideals and aspirations and convictions and the other made up of people who are, for all intents and purposes, nihilists. The nihilist believes in nothing, aspires to nothing. His psyche is rooted in death, not in life. He cannot distinguish any longer between the heroic and the bizarre, between inspiration and stimulation. He is unmoved by everything and seeks only to distract and amuse himself until death, which he sees as the end of all human activity, relieves him of boredom. To such people it really is a matter of indifference whether people are free or ruled by tyrants so long as they themselves are not personally inconvenienced. They have lost the capacity to laugh or to cry. "What can I do?" is their standard response to any problem, not as a real question, but as a statement of intention to do nothing. These people, when they see the Mona Lisa, speculate that her mouth is closed because her teeth were probably rotten or that the model was a whore or a peasant. Without a price tag, they have no idea what the value of anything is. They have become a slough of stagnant water off the mainstream of humanity's struggle toward a better existence. It ought to matter to every American whether a child who comes into this world is free to seek his or her highest dreams or is born into slavery. It ought to matter to every American whether a family which works hard can gain from that labor or be robbed of it. It ought to matter to every American whether people are free to follow their conscience in a search for God or whether they will be commanded at gunpoint to believe only what the holders of the guns decree. It ought to matter to every American whether people can sit down at their evening meal or chat with their neighbors without fear, or if they must hourly dread the official visit. That is what the American Constitution is all about. It is not about words or legalisms or court cases or precedents or lawyer's arguments. It is about human freedom and that is what is worth fighting to gain and to keep and to share. Freedom, not corporate interests or the soiled machinery of government, is worth dying for because freedom is the breath of life. And freedom, not competing economic systems, is the core conflict in the world today and slavery, not war, is the great menace threatening free people everywhere. Let the nihilists worship death, let the special interests fight like dogs over scraps of money, let the cowards cringe before slavemaster's weapons, but let us, the American people, celebrate and defend freedom. Let us fear its loss more than death and cherish its existence more than wealth. Charley Reese is a syndicated columnist Charley Reese This is one thing my UFOs and I are working to bring about. Soviet Tells U.S. It Plans to Ease Laws Curbing Jewish Emigration Hong Kong Pratt 9/20/87 DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Soviet officials told the United States this week that several important regulations used to prevent Soviet Jews from emigrating were being eased, and that an amnesty was possible for some political and religious prisoners, according to Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. In addition, he said in an interview, "I was left with the impression that the abuse of psychiatry was being ended." No Increase Is Promised He noted that the Soviet authorities announced several weeks ago that psychiatric hospitals now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is in charge of the police, were being transferred to the Ministry of Health, where they may be less useful for incarcerating dissidents. But Mr. Schifter added that the Russians had made no commitment to increase the rate of emigration by Jews. Since April, about 800 Jews have been permitted to leave each month, more than during recent years but considerably fewer than the 51,000 who left at the peak of emigration in 1979. The issue has enormous political weight in Soviet-American relations. It was raised this week by both President Reagan and Secretary State George P. Shultz during their talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in Washington. Detailed discussions were held by Mr. Schifter and Yuri Reshetov, a deputy director of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's department of humanitarian and cultural affairs. Rights organizations have already begun planning large demonstrations for the expected visit here by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, later this year for a summit meeting with Mr. Reagan. Signals and hints of improvement in the rights field, such as those provided this week, and some gestures expected in the cases of a few prominent individuals are seen by American officials as part of a Soviet effort to defuse some of this protest. Mr. Schifter and others in the State Continued on Page 23, Column 1 (5¢) === Page 84 of 90 # Young hackers spend summer in NASA computers By Girard C. Steichen Associated Press Writer 9/16/87 FRANKFURT, West Germany -- Computer hackers broke into NASA's worldwide data network throughout the summer and gathered secret information on space shuttle projects and rocket failures, West German media said Tuesday. News reports said young West Germans gained regular access to at least 20 computers of the U.S. space agency and had the ability to paralyze the entire network. The ARD television network said a flaw in the network's security system allowed the hackers to enter the network from May to September. Hackers are computer enthusiasts who often try to break into private computer systems for the challenge or for criminal gain. The NASA system connects more than 1,600 computers worldwide that share information on space research, nuclear physics and molecular biology, ARD said in a report broadcast Tuesday night. The network includes U.S. atomic research facilities in Los Alamos, N.M. In Washington, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement that the tapped network provides unclassified information to university and industry researchers. "We know of no classified information which can be accessed through the network," the statement said. The statement said NASA uses a number of computer networks with varying degrees of security to provide "appropriate individuals" with access to data. The Hamburg-based magazine Stern reported information similar to the ARD report in an advance telexed to news media Tuesday. "When I saw 'Welcome to the NASA headquarters ... installation' on my screen, I was a little shocked, to say the least," the magazine quoted one youth as saying. The Hamburg-based "Chaos Computer Club" said in a statement to news media Tuesday that the youths turned to the club for help when they realized the enormity of their discovery. The statement said the hackers penetrated the network to show the "unbelievable weaknesses" of the security system and had no interest in the secret data. The reports did not say how many hackers were involved or where they lived. Stern said the youths obtained NASA memos to employees on daily space shuttle program updates and on how to deal with the media. The magazine, quoting one youth's records of computer transactions, said the hackers were able to read users' electronic mail and had the ability to paralyze the entire network. See HACKERS: Page A6 From Page A1 In one of the most serious security breaches, the hackers obtained NASA information on space shuttle projects, computer security studies and rocket boosters, the television network said. Scientists in at least eight other countries besides the United States are linked to the computer network. Stern said the system is called the "Space Physics Analysis Network," or SPAN. Michael Butz, a spokesman for the West German Interior Ministry, said his office had no information about the incidents. The Interior Ministry supervises many police functions in West Germany. In addition to the NASA computers, the hackers gained access to computers at some of Europe's most sophisticated research institutions, including the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, West Germany; the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva, an the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, West Germany. Lennart Philipson, director of the molecular biology laboratory, said the institute is re-evaluating its use of the computer network. "We are considering whether we should restrict our exchange of data with other institutes, even if that might hinder our research," Philipson told ARD. The hackers said they gained access to the NASA computers by asking for files stored under such keywords as "shuttle," "challenger," and "secret," ARD said. Under those categories, the hackers said they saw data reports on "Shuttle C Study Contracts," a "System Security Study" on computer security, and a study on "Booster Rocket Incidents," the television network said. # Reagan adviser resigns to write WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beryl W. Sprinkel, a conservative economist who muted his criticism of the Federal Reserve Board to serve as President Reagan's top economic adviser, on Friday became the second high-ranking administration official to resign within a week. Sprinkel, 63, cited "personal reasons" and a desire to return to the private sector. His resignation takes effect in late November. In an interview, Sprinkel said he would return to Flossmoor, Ill., a Chicago suburb. He said he had no specific plans as yet, but hopes to be a corporate consultant, do some "public speaking," writing and possibly some teaching. Economists said they did not think Sprinkel's departure as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers will signal any change in administration economy policy. He has held the post since April 1985. (51) === Page 85 of 90 Dole leaving post to join campaign Post-Star 9/15/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elizabeth Dole announced Monday she is resigning as transportation secretary and plans to "do everything I can" to help her husband, Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., win the presidency next year. After meeting with President Reagan for nearly 15 minutes, Mrs. Dole told reporters she will leave the Cabinet Oct. 1 and begin full-time campaigning for her husband with a 12-state swing through the South. "I want to be a major part in the campaign and do everything I can to be helpful," she said. Some Dole strategists have been pushing for weeks to get Mrs. Dole, an energetic and popular campaigner, more actively involved. She has been one of the most sought-after speakers in the Reagan Cabinet and in recent months has spent much of her time on the road. Dole is expected to declare his candidacy later this year. At times, Mrs. Dole has been considered possible vice-presidential timber, and during the 1984 Republican convention, there was some talk -- sometimes only half in jest -- of a "Dole-Dole" ticket. "I've been for a Dole-Dole ticket just for economy purposes," the senator sometimes joked in speeches. "We could have one house, one limousine and one airplane." In Wisconsin, Vice President George Bush said he wasn't worried about Mrs. Dole's campaigning skills. "Listen, have you met my wife? She's good, she's tough, she's able. I have a secret weapon myself," Bush told reporters. In a letter to Reagan, Mrs. Dole said the decision to leave the Cabinet came "after considerable soul-searching" but added that "the need to elect a successor who can build on your administration's remarkable record of achievement has persuaded me to leave office at this time." Reagan called Mrs. Dole "invaluable" but said he understood why she was leaving. Her departure creates a major Cabinet vacancy with only 16 months left in Reagan's term. The Transportation Department has been in the spotlight amid rising complaints from airline travelers and concerns about air safety. Her resignation comes only a few months after a change in leadership at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of her department. An early name to surface as a possible successor to her was Patricia Goldman, a moderate Republican who is vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. James Burnley, the department's deputy secretary, is expected to take over as acting secretary, but sources said he is unlikely to remain on permanently and reportedly already has discussed taking a job outside government. Mrs. Dole, a Harvard-educated lawyer from North Carolina, became transportation secretary in February 1983, succeeding Drew Lewis, who quit to return to private business. She had been special assistant for public liaison at the White House. Mrs. Dole has had a long history in government, beginning in the 1960s as a staff assistant in the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Later she worked as legislative assistant to President Johnson's consumer affairs adviser and then executive director of the President's Commission on Consumer Interest. In 1973, she was appointed to the Federal Trade Commission. Two years later she married the senator from Kansas. In 1979, Mrs. Dole resigned from the FTC to campaign in her husband's unsuccessful bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. After Dole withdrew from the race, she worked for the Reagan campaign and after the election was appointed to the White House job where her duties included dealing with issues of importance to women. As transportation secretary, Mrs. Dole headed a department with 107,000 employees and a $27 billion budget. She reminded people she is the first woman to head a military service: The U.S. Coast Guard is part of her department. 52 === Page 86 of 90 Quake rocks S. California; At least 6 die By Sue Manning Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES -- A severe earthquake and 16 strong aftershocks rumbled across Southern California on Thursday, destroying buildings, damaging hundreds of houses, closing freeways and setting off dozens of fires. At least six people were killed and more than 100 injured. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest to hit the Los Angeles area since the 6.4 Sylmar quake of 1971 that killed 64 people. The tremor sent thousands into the streets as buildings were temporarily evacuated amid widespread power outages. Landmark buildings dating to Spanish colonial times were damaged, shattered glass and other debris rained into the street and a tall plume of smoke from a shopping center fire rose south of the downtown area. Damage was worst in Whittier, the closest suburban area to the epicenter. The quake destroyed 30 downtown buildings, mostly businesses, said J. Sonny Morkus, Whittier's emergency services coordinator. Marsha Andersen, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, said 50 to 60 people were treated for injuries. The quake hit at 7:42 a.m. PDT and lasted 15-to-30 seconds depending on nearness to the epicenter, which was about 10 miles south-southeast of Pasadena at the north end of the San Gabriel Valley. Related stories, more photos -- A8 See QUAKE: Page 2 Ulcer keeps Sessions from being sworn in WASHINGTON (AP) -- The hospitalization of FBI Director-designate William S. Sessions was called off Thursday after the former federal judge, suffering from a previously undiagnosed bleeding ulcer, became ill and fainted in the aisle of a Washington-bound jetliner. Sessions, whose scheduled installation at FBI headquarters was put off indefinitely, was stricken Wednesday night on a flight from Dallas to Washington National Airport. FBI officials accompanying the 57-year-old Sessions drove him from the airport to George Washington University Medical Center, where doctors found a small bleeding ulcer in his small intestine. Sessions took aspirin on an empty stomach, triggering the on-board attack, Dr. Allen Ginsberg of the hospital staff told a news conference. Ginsberg said Sessions will be hospitalized two to three days and "should be ready to go to work next week." Sessions, however, may take a rest for a week or more before taking the oath of office, federal law enforcement officials said. "From a medical standpoint he could be sworn in as early as tomorrow (today) or Saturday" and will take medication that will allow him to resume a normal workload by reducing acid secretion in the stomach and allowing the ulcer to heal, said Ginsberg. Asked whether the ailment would affect his performance as FBI director, Ginsberg replied: "Absolutely not." Confirmed by the Senate only last Friday, Sessions was told Tuesday by Attorney General Edwin Meese III that he would be sworn in Thursday, his wife Alice told syndicated columnist and television commentator John McLaughlin, who happened to be aboard the same plane as Sessions. Sessions had been trying to get things organized and had had only one meal Wednesday, McLaughlin quoted Mrs. Sessions as saying. Friday, Oct. 2, 1987 Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. === Page 87 of 90 # Antarctic ozone investigation UFOs Sun Attack P-Star 9/26/87 PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) - A six-week investigation of a worrisome hole in the Earth's ozone layer was a success, say U.S. scientists who probed the Antarctic stratosphere in a jetliner and a converted spyplane. Their findings were awaited anxiously by industries fearing more restrictions in the production of commonly used chemicals and by environmental groups predicting catastrophe if the protective layer continues to thin. An initial "end of mission statement" revealing partial results is scheduled for release Wednesday at news conferences in Washington and the Chilean capital of Santiago. Detailed findings won't be published until 1988. Scientists said Thursday the statement was being drafted in long meetings in Punta Arenas, a windblown city on the icy Straits of Magellan where the operation is based. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is directing the project, has imposed a news blackout, and the scientists refused to discuss their findings. Still, they called the operation a success. "I think we have certainly accomplished every mission objective that we had," said the project manager, chemist Estelle Condon of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. "We have assembled a massive data base." Ozone, a form of oxygen, forms an invisible layer in the atmosphere that filters potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The ozone layer has been thinning worldwide for years. Since the early 1980s, an especially dramatic reduction of up to 40 percent or more has been noted over Antarctica in September and October. About 180 scientists, engineers and other support personnel were involved in the biggest investigation to date of the atmosphere, Mrs. Condon said. Operating out of a Chilean air force hangar at the city's airport, the group conducted 12 flights in NASA's ER-2, a version of the U-2 spyplane specially equipped for research. It made another 11 flights in a DC-8 loaded with additional scientific gear and capable of carrying up to 30 scientists. Scientists hoped to get at least one more flight in before Sunday, when they must pack up for the return home. The researchers carried out thousands of experiments, samplings and measurements of chemical and atmospheric conditions. Mrs. Condon said the information will require months of intense evaluation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under court order to come up quickly with a plan for protecting the ozone layer. Publication of detailed findings is planned for early next year, "which # 16 Bermudans hurt in Hurricane Emily UFOs Sun Attack P-Star 9/26/87 HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) - Hurricane Emily blew boats out of the water, flipped cars and tore off roofs Friday, injuring at least 16 people with its gusts of up to 112 mph as it raced across Bermuda and into the Atlantic. Forecasters were stunned that Emily gained strength even as it picked up forward speed. No deaths or serious injuries were reported, said Bryan Darby, Bermuda government spokesman. "We've been very lucky," Darby said. "It was a swift, sharp punch." Power was cut off over about 90 percent of the island but by early afternoon workers had restored electricity to Hamilton. Darby said he expected the entire island to be back on full power today. Of Bermuda's 57,145 people, about 25,000 live in Hamilton, the capital. At midday, the center of Emily was near latitude 34.5 north, longitude 61.5 west, or 235 miles northeast of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla. reported. Emily had sustained winds of near 95 mph and was expected to keep moving northeast at 40 to 45 mph through Saturday, said the center's acting director, Bob Sheets. He predicted Emily would weaken by late Saturday as it moved over the colder waters of the North Atlantic. The center was also monitoring a tropical disturbance east of the Windward Islands and an area of disturbed weather off the West African coast. "Neither one is showing any signs of development," Sheets said. Bermuda was hit with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and gusts of up to 112 mph, said Commander Frank Bub of the U.S. Naval Oceanography Command Facility in Bermuda. The storm moved through the island with a forward speed of 40 mph to 45 mph. "What has taken place in the last 12 hours defies our knowledge and the concept of meteorology," center forecaster Bob Case said early Friday. A storm moving forward at that speed should have weakened in force, not strengthened, he said. Emily's eye passed over Kindley Field in Bermuda at 7:45 a.m. EDT, according to the center. The roof of the airport terminal was blown off and the airport was closed until 10 a.m. Saturday, Darby said. === Page 88 of 90 # Drought and fear of famine darkens future for Ethiopia Post-Star 9/25/87 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Unexpectedly, the rains have failed Ethiopians this growing season, and barely three years after enduring one of the worst droughts and famines in history, they could be heading for another calamity. Their fields of grain are parched again, in a break with the cycle of drought that came with near unfailing certainty every 10 years. "We didn't expect this," said David Morton, director of operations for the United Nations World Food Program office in Addis Ababa, the capital. "The cycle did seem like a 10-year one. Now it's much more unpredictable. We just didn't expect this." Famine looms again. The government says that because of the drought afflicting the northern, central and southern parts of the country, it needs nearly a million metric tons of emergency food aid for 1988 and that a fifth of it must be here by January to avoid a famine that some experts estimate could affect 5 million of the country's 46 million people. The situation so far does not appear as severe as the 1984-85 drought and famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. The United States gave sent 900,000 tons of food worth more than $400 million in 1984-85 and is arranging for more aid to meet any new crisis, although its relations with the Marxist government are poor. The government and foreign donors now are better equipped to deal with drought because of an early warning system. And many of the dozens of non-governmental relief agencies that rushed here in 1984-85 stayed. "It's not just institutions and structures in place, it's people," said James Cheek, the U.S. charge d'affaires in Ethiopia. "We don't have to invent the wheel again." Just as important, Cheek added, is the government's frankness about the problem. "The government is not trying to cover it up," he said. "It was certainly perceived to be doing that during 1984-85." Despite the head start, it won't be easy to overcome the current drought. In the brief time since the previous famine, Ethiopia's Red Sea port of Assab, which is the beginning of the food pipeline, has slipped into disrepair. And the mean terrain of Africa's most mountainous country, which is twice the size of Texas, has sidelined most of the hundreds of vehicles brought in to haul food during the 1984-85 famine. Ethiopia in early September asked donors for 950,000 metric tons in emergency food assistance for 1988. Though the government did not say how many people were in danger, donors and workers at relief agencies estimated they could number at least 5 million. The drought in 1984 was followed the next year by a famine in which the number of fatalities range from 250,000 to 1 million. The lack of reliable data on Ethiopia's population and normal mortality rates prevent a more precise count. TO QUOTE DONNA RICE, "i MAKE NO EXCUSES, i JUST WEAR THEM." PLAGIARISM CHEATING ROBT. KENNEDY SPEECHES BIDEN ANOTHER ONE CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN.. J.D. CROWE ©87 THE TRIBUNE-SAN DIEGO COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Post-Star 9/25/87 UFC Elimination === Page 89 of 90 # Aftershock jolts S. California with more damage, one death By Richard De Atley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- A sharp aftershock from last week's severe earthquake jolted Southern California before dawn Sunday, causing at least one death and dozens of injuries, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending jittery residents into the streets. The quake, centered in suburban Rosemead about eight miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, registered at 5.3 on the Richter scale of ground motion, said Don Kelly of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. At the California Institute of Technology the quake was measured at 5.5, according to a spokesman, Robert Finn. "It was pretty wild," said Mark Rosenker, who was on the 18th floor of the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. "Let me tell you, it does get you up." The 3:59 a.m. quake was the 22nd aftershock registering more than 3.0 since Thursday's quake, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale and caused six deaths and more than $75 million in damage. Sunday's shock, centered about two miles west of Thursday's, was felt 40 miles west of Los Angeles in Ventura County and 100 miles south in San Diego. It was followed by three tremors measuring 3.0 or more within four hours. Power outages occurred in numerous areas, and many residents, some in bathrobes, gathered outside apartments and houses, waiting for more shocks. Others, camped out in a downtown parking lot, said they had been there since Thursday. "We are glad we stayed out here," said a man who identified himself only as Hector. "At least here we feel safe." Mildred Robbins, 66, of Arcadia, was pronounced dead at 5:14 a.m. at Arcadia Methodist Hospital after going into full cardiac arrest, said administrative supervisor Terry Pisenti. Efforts to revive her failed. Pisenti said the heart attack was attributed to the quake. More than 60 other quake-related injuries, mostly cuts from broken glass, bruises from being hit by falling objects and anxiety-related chest pains and breathing problems, were reported at area hospitals. "All the lights went out. It felt like the sky was falling. I thought the whole house was coming down," said Marta Jimenez of suburban Montebello. The Jimenezes moved a mattress and cushions onto their lawn and set up camp, listening to a portable radio. Many neighbors did the same. "You never know when there will be another one," said Dora Nunes. In suburban Whittier, where hundreds of homes were damaged and 30 buildings collapsed Thursday, residents who had been in overnight shelters were evacuated to a lighted baseball field. "Psychologically, these people are in pieces. They were already upset and this has really done them in," said Frank Sapien, Red Cross shelter director. "I think a lot of the people are in some state of shock." Among the injured was a 91-year-old Pasadena woman who suffered a possible ruptured disc in her back when the quake knocked her into the bathtub. A man was brought to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena for a six-inch bite on his arm that occurred when he tried to comfort his distraught German shepherd, said nurse Lisa Ryken. California Medical Center, about a mile south of downtown Los Angeles, sustained some structural damage and power to the complex was lost. The center was operating on emergency power, said nursing supervisor Elizabeth Adams. The quake required that an "unusual event" be declared at the coastal San Onofre nuclear power plant, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, but the two operating reactors were not damaged, said Southern California Edison spokesman Dave Barron. Several communities that suffered damage Thursday reported numerous new problems ranging from shattered windows to collapsed buildings. Much of the damage was in commercial areas. In industrial Vernon, the second floor of an old brick industrial plant that had been damaged Thursday collapsed when Sunday's tremor hit. In suburban San Gabriel, the bell tower at the old San Gabriel Civic Auditorium collapsed through the roof and part of the structure's facade crumbled. The building had been extensively damaged Thursday. Two bridges over the San Bernardino Freeway in Alhambra were closed, although one was reopened after a few hours when it was determined the structural damage was less severe than thought. Alhambra police reported 15 buildings suffered substantial new structural damage, including the city courthouse and a building that was knocked off its foundation. Two apartment buildings were evacuated because of leaking gas, and residents were ordered out of the Rex Hotel, an old brick building. Bill Adkisson, 48, of Whittier, said the aftershock finished off his chimney, which was already damaged, put new cracks throughout the house and pulled away a porch railing. "I knew it was coming because my cat woke me up just like he did on Thursday before that one hit," Adkisson said. "I went for my mother first because she gets excited, and then we went outside." Employees were busy sweeping up broken dishes in a Bob's Big Boy kitchen in Whittier. "This is the second time. It's just getting to be too much," said Manager David Santaviez. Chunks of concrete fell from a bridge over the southbound lanes of the Pasadena Freeway, closing two lanes. Small rockslides occurred elsewhere along the freeway which runs northeast from Los Angeles. The eastbound 91 Freeway was closed due to buckling of the roadway, the California Highway Patrol reported. Hundreds of reports of broken water lines and leaking natural gas flooded into police and fire departments in several communities. The Richter scale is an open-ended gauge of energy released by an earthquake as measured by ground motion recorded on a seismograph. Every increase of one whole number means that the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake with a magnitude of 5 can cause considerable damage in a populated area; a magnitude-6 quake can cause severe damage. === Page 90 of 90 State of emergency is declared The Associated Press Post Star 10/5/87 A freak snowstorm shocked eastern New York with up to 20 inches of snow Sunday, knocking out power to an estimated 735,000 people and closing many roads and at least one airport. Gov. Mario Cuomo declared a state of emergency in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Green, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties. The state of emergency also applies to contiguous counties. Peter Slocum, spokesman for the state Disaster Preparedness Committee, said the declaration will allow the state better mobilize its resources. Two people in Columbia County apparently died beneath fallen trees -- one in the town of Chatham and the other in Copake. The victims' names were not immediately available. Columbia County Deputy Jan Lear said he believed one was in a car at the time. Motorists in Columbia and neighboring Dutchess County were warned that virtually all roads were closed. Both counties declared states of emergency. Authorities in the Albany area and Columbia and Greene counties set up temporary shelters in firehouses, nursing homes and other facilities. "We've got old salts here saying they have never seen it this bad," said Ray Hull, a spokesman for Niagra Mohawk utility. The storm began early Saturday evening in the Catskill mountains and then spread through most of eastern New York. It left sticky, wet snow clinging to leaves and caused limbs and trees to fall, blocking many roads. It was the most severe snow storm this early in the season in recent history, according to National Weather Service forecasters. "In all my years here, I have never seen anything like it," said Columbia County Director of Emergency Management Martin Tuczinski, who has lived in the area 50 years. Tuczinski said impassable roads, outages at local radio stations and assisting with the disaster relief, Wescott said. Deputies, fire officials and highway crews set up roadblocks preventing vehicles from traveling on roads determined to be too dangerous, he said. Many roads were blocked by fallen, snow-laden trees and limbs, Wescott said, and officials were trying Sunday to clear the roads. The trees and limbs also tangled in and tore down utility lines, officials said, cutting off power to thousands of people across southern Washington County. The Sunday snowstorm is the earliest that Wescott said he can remember during his nearly 30 years in Washington County. Today, however, temperatures across the Glens Falls area should reach the mid-60s, according to the National Weather Service in Syracuse. (The Syracuse office was contacted when repeated calls to the service's Albany office went unanswered.) Clouds probably will begin to accumulate again on Tuesday, said meteorologist Steve Francis, and a chance of showers is reported for Wednesday and Thursday. In Cambridge and Greenwich, meanwhile, nearly 1,000 people there were expected to spend Sun- where we live [Hand-drawn symbol of a circle with a lightning bolt through it] [Map Graphic] SAN GABRIEL MTS. Other faults 10/5/87 Major aftershock San Andreas fault 20-mi. radius area with most damage from first quake Los Angeles Pasadena CALIFORNIA Los Angeles International Airport Downey Elsinore fault Epicenter of first quake Whittier fault 20 miles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 18 * I have misplaced my "Challenger" file, thus can't check it... but didn't the Challenger also (as well as the two below) blow up within about a minute? Owens March 31, 1987 SCIENTISTS Perhaps you recall that, some years ago, while sitting inside an office with a group of court-reporters watching the launching of a space shuttle, I asked them: "How would you like to see me hit that shuttle with a bolt of lightning?" The shuttle began to lift off the ground then one of the astronauts shouted to ground control: "I think that we've been hit by lightning!" The court reporters gave me a signed affidavit to this happening. It happened in 1969 (see p. 1 this file.) My UFOs and I are working on research and projects that noone knows about... not even my own family. and blows up in 51 seconds. P. 1: Lightning hits NASA rocket and pad. Their weather experts had assured NASA that there was no lightning within five miles. So NASA lost $161 million or more. But my UFOs mean business re humans keeping their experiments and themselves out of space. P. 4: In India their space program has been set back, badly, when the "first generation of big rockets failed within a minute after takeoff (note that it is the same time it took for lightning to strike and destroy the NASA rocket on Thursday. India's was destroyed on Tuesday) and crashed into the Bay of Bengal with its payload" (note that NASA's rocket crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.) P. 5: Note that "there is a fresh wind blowing in Moscow" and "Gorbachev has shown a clear willingness to negotiate." Let me point out that these conditions did not exist before I got to Hong Kong to set up my UFOs to work Russia over. Note that Fort Ann, where we live...plus other towns in this area...had the power knocked out for hours. Certainly. At this house in this almost-isolated location we have been inundated with UFO phenomena. At the end of this Report some of them will be described. This occurred on March 23, 1987. Note on this page that on 2/27/87 a UFO was seen, an orange light with a green tail, that flashed over eastern New York and was witnessed by many people. This UFO has come down to me on a hill in England outside Warminster...even got the sound of it on my tape recorder. I had gone up onto the dark hill after midnight for nights to call it down. It came right to where I was. What it did with me I do not know...but my favorite ring vanished...next day I placed a local ad in the paper in Warminster stating a reward if anyone found it...but several days later something told me to go up to my "spot" in the daytime. I did, and the ring mysteriously reappeared in my pants pocket. (I had searched the "spot" and my clothing thoroughly, previously...no sign of it. Also Beau, Teddy and I had this same UFO appear close to our truck for a full two minutes...floating just above a line of trees... orange flames in its body and a red tail. Sparks from it dripped or fell downward onto the trees below. Note the giant UFO that was witnessed by the pilot of a 747 jumbo jet over Alaska (they had movies someone on the plane had taken, on television. "The size of two aircraft carriers." You can purchase the movies, or photos, plus tapes of interviews with the crew of the plane that saw it, plus other information pertinent to it, from FAA, for $194.30. First time anything like this has ever been done. You will recall that, while in Scotland on Loch Ness, the Loch Ness creature's neck and head raised above the water of the Loch and stared at me. Had a head shaped like a football. I later saw it from the ramparts of old Urquehardt Castle there as it appeared in the Loch below. Well, there is such a creature very near here in Lake Champlain. Now I see that one has been witnessed in Lake Memphremagog in Quebec === Page 2 of 18 2 and Vermont. It is described herein on p. 6. P. 7: Two more Russian space failures have occurred. My UFOs are indeed busy. P. 9: Note that my UFOs are weeding out many "bad" people in key positions in order to get better people in. Also note all of the troubles the Navy and Marine Corps are having with military aircraft. P. 10: In "The New Collective" note the changes for the better that have taken place at the top of our government...by weeding out undesirable, corrupt, crooked humans...and replacing them with better humans. This is not by accident or coincidence. The next few sheets deal with the UFOs "sun attack." Finally...(1) This Spring, Summer and Fall I will be telepathing my UFOs to produce UFOs and alien living forms in this geographical area of upper New York State for police, scientists, and other "responsible" people to see...as well as my own family (who are presumably "not responsible" people...bit of sarcasm there.) (2) A thought on my part. I believe that the reason that there are "gay" men and women is...because as the fetus is growing in pre-birth the hormone level in their body is too low for their developing brain to be able to differentiate the proper sex for that body...although the hormone level is adequate for the brain to assign proper genitalia to that body... and in post-birth this "uncertainty" as to the sex of that body is carried forward in that human's life and develops ultimately into a "gay" format. (3) About 7 AM on 2/24/87 Teddy and I witnessed a "mother ship" and four smaller UFOs in the air over the huge field in back of our house...from the sliding glass doors of our dining room, which overlooks our back-field area and woods and further along, the mountains. Then, at 9 AM, same day, on the Donohue Show, TV, the show was about a giant UFO seen by many in upper New York state (our approx. area). The man on the show had been captured by the giant UFO and he described the experience. He stated that it had occurred two days earlier than the Donohue Show. (4) My son Beau and I witnessed a stationary UFO near our house. It kept changing colors. (This was 3/14/87 at approx. 8:30 PM). At 8:45 PM Beau and Teddy found enormous 3-toed "Bigfoot" tracks in the snow in the field in back of our house...using flashlights. (5) 3/22/87. Last night, for hours, our power was out. Earlier in the morning Beau had told me that during the night he had heard a UFO over our house...like a giant swarm of buzzing bees, sound. When it woke him he found that he was levitating up in the air of his bedroom and could not speak or move. He said that the bedroom walls glowed, like white light, in a diamond-shaped pattern. (6) 3/22/87. In the afternoon Beau, Teddy, Jerome and I were driving to town. We had just left our house (out in the country in a semi-isolated location, ten miles from town.) From our van we all witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the air ahead of us. It had small, stubby fins. It floated along, making no sound, then stopped dead for a brief period, then just vanished completely...like a magician's trick. First it was there, then it was not there. (7) 3/23/87 About 12:30 noon Beau and I drove to Price Choppers supermarket in Glens Falls to get supplies for the family. Suddenly all the lights overhead in my area went out, while all the other lights in the store stayed on. A girl employee smiled at me and said that she guessed the supermarket hadn't paid its electric bill. Beau and I drove back home and the light in the hall outside my bedroom flickered off and on as Beau and I watched. === Page 3 of 18 3 (8) 3/30/87. 9:05 PM. Beau and Teddy came running to the house from the huge cow barn, about 200 metres away. (Our landlord has...I think it is about 50...cows for milking. Noone guards the barn at night, although there are wolves and coyotes near the barn, quite often, at night...something that bothers my sons and I for our meetings with my UFOs when it gets warm at night...in pitch black darkness (we never show a light) in the woods surrounding our house.) They had gone to the barn to see if any more baby cows had been born (Teddy and Beau recently saved a cow and its baby...it was calving but couldn't get the baby out. This was late in the evening, about 10 PM, and the landlord was at work in the nearby giant prison where he is a Lt. over the guards. So Beau and Teddy discovered the cow's situation so they tied a rope to each leg of the baby and pulled it slowly out of its mother's tummy. Both would have died overnight, otherwise.) Anyway, as is usual, the lights were on inside the barn. No humans there other then Beau and Teddy. Suddenly the lights in the barn went off. Beau and Teddy switched on their flashlight and found that the light switches had been turned to the off position! Then, as they watched, a door opened and closed...with noone there! They raced back to the house, scared witless, to tell me about it. (9) My UFOs are utilizing what humans label "sympathetic magic." As my "state of being" goes...so goes the condition of the United States. I.e., my UFOs hold the U.S accountable for my "state of being" (which at this point in time is in a rough state)...because I am valuable and precious to them, as their sole human representative. Ted Owens (PK Man) PS: With the UFO powers that I have to work with... I can accomplish more than the Congress, the Senate and those over them all put together. Yet the money that I have to work with is a fraction of what just one of the above has to work with. The help that I have gotten, and am getting, is wonderful (from a single source) But... my help needs help. For those of you who have had my personal training - bear in mind that in Ft. Worth, Texas, I was arrested, went to court before a judge and jury and was found "guilty" of "practicing medicine without a license." I was teaching exactly what I taught you. (Same thing happened to Cayce.) No deviation. === Page 4 of 18 A2--Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. Friday, March 27, 1987 National Scene Rocket destroyed; Lightning blamed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An unmanned rocket that appeared to have been hit by lightning careened out of control Thursday and was destroyed by radio signal 51 seconds after it lifted off with an $83 million military communications satellite. A NASA videotape clearly showed a lightning bolt descending from the vicinity of the Atlas-Centaur rocket, hidden in clouds, and striking the launch pad about the time the vehicle exploded. Launch officials, however, said they did not want to speculate on what went wrong until they analyzed data. Flaming debris from the shattered rocket and payload plunged into the Atlantic Ocean about three miles offshore. Coast Guard boats hurried to the scene to pick up any floating debris. The 137-foot rocket lifted off in a rain storm at 4:22 p.m. EST and quickly darted into a cloud bank. As it disappeared, observers saw what they thought was a lightning flash near the vehicle. NASA launch commentator George Diller said the rocket appeared to be flying normally, but then he suddenly announced, "We have lost all telemetry data. ... We appeared to have lost the vehicle." Later, he reported that the rocket had shot out of control and was blown apart, at an altitude of 14,250 feet, by a radio signal that denoted explosive charges in the vehicle. That was necessary to prevent the rocket from veering toward populated areas. The explosion of the vehicle was not visible from the ground because of the cloud cover. But observers did hear a muffled blast. Although launch officials were reluctant to blame the failure on a lightning strike or any other factor until they had a chance to study all data received, launch director James L. Womack conceded: "Certainly, there was a possibility there was a lightning strike in the area. We've asked the range to check all their intensity meters to determine if there was one." John W. Gibb, manager of NASA's Atlas-Centaur project office, said range weather officials had assured the launch team there was no lightning within five miles of the launch pad or the rocket's flight path just before the go-ahead was given to launch. Launch rules prohibit a liftoff if there is electrical activity within five miles. Lightning was reported, Gibb said, on the edge of the five-mile zone about 15 minutes before launch and that the countdown was held up for 14 minutes until that storm activity moved on. "At the time of the launch, we were in a solid go as far as the weather was concerned," Gibb told a news conference. Rain wouldn't have prevented a launch, he said. Only one rocket in the more than 2,000 that have been launched here in 36 years is known to have been hit by lightning after liftoff. That was the Saturn 5 rocket that was hoisting the three-man Apollo 12 crew toward the moon in 1969. The strike briefly knocked out electrical power in the spacecraft, but the astronauts were able to overcome the problem by punching circuit breakers and they made it safely to the moon. The failure ended a streak of seven U.S. space launch successes. That string followed three failures early last year, including the explosion of space shuttle Challenger that killed the crew of seven. In Washington, Colin Powell, a National Security Council official who accompanied President Reagan on a speaking trip to Columbia, Mo., said the president was told about the accident during his return flight aboard Air Force One and, "He was disturbed about it." === Page 5 of 18 # $161 Million Space Mission Ruined as Rocket Goes Out of Control NY Times 3/27/87 UFOs vs Space Work BY JOHN NOBLE WILFORD An Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying a military communications satellite went out of control and was destroyed shortly after liftoff yesterday at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The failure ended a streak of seven launching successes for the United States space program that followed a string a staggering accidents early last year, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Officials at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida said they had no immediate clues as to what caused the loss of the unmanned rocket. A review board of space agency engineers will be named to investigate the accident. ### 'Massive Electrical Failure' A NASA videotape showed a lightning bolt descending from the vicinity of the rocket and striking the launching pad about the time the craft exploded. But launching officials said they did not want to speculate on what went wrong until they had analyzed the data. At a news conference, John Gibbs, the Atlas-Centaur project manager, said launching engineers suspected that a "massive electrical failure" developed about 51 seconds after the liftoff at 4:22 P.M. Eastern standard time. Although news reporters said they saw lightning flashes in the area immediately after the liftoff, the engineers said they had no initial evidence that the rocket was struck by lightning. "At this point, we don't know what the cause was," Mr. Gibbs said. The 137-foot booster blasted away from its launching pad into a light rain. But Mr. Gibbs said launching officials had been assured that there was no lightning potential within a five-mile radius. According to mission rules, no launching is supposed to occur if the craft would follow a course taking it within five miles of storm clouds. "There were no waivers of mission rules," Mr. Gibbs said, adding that all data from the rocket had indicated that it was performing normally until 51 seconds after the liftoff. ### 'Lost All Telemetry Data' At that moment, George Diller, the mission commentator, announced, "We have lost all telemetry data," meaning the communications of engineering information from the rocket. "We appeared to have lost the vehicle," he added. Mr. Diller reported that the moment appeared to pitch over at the moment of the communications loss. The rocket had reached an altitude of 14,250 feet and was half a mile off the Atlantic coast. Range safety officers immediately sent a radio signal to detonate explosive charges on the rocket, causing it to blow up. This action was taken to prevent the out-of-control rocket from veering toward populated areas. The wreckage fell into the Atlantic several miles off shore. ### Five Others in Orbit The failure ruined a $161 million mission, with the Atlas-Centaur costing $78 million and the satellite $83 million. The satellite, called a Fleet Communications Satellite, was to be operated by the Navy for the Defense Department, providing a link in a global communications network form the United States armed forces. The satellite was to have joined five other similar craft in an orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth's equator. The first four of these craft have operated beyond their five-year designed life span. The fifth, launched last December by another Atlas-Centaur, was the first of a group intended to replace the older satellites. After the Challenger disaster, which killed seven astronauts, the nation's space program suffered two successive failures of unmanned rockets: an Air Force Titan 34D and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Delta rocket. Although there was no reason to suspect their reliability, NASA last year ordered a halt of all launchings of the Atlas-Centaurs until they could be thoroughly inspected. But the Atlas-Centaur launching last December was flawless, and NASA proceeded with plans for yesterday's launching. # Weather Service to Drop NASA for Satellites NY Times 3/27/87 UFOs vs Space Work SUITLAND, Md., March 26 (AP) -- The National Weather Service is going to use private companies to launch its satellites, ending more than 25 years of dependence on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "We have made the decision to change the way we do business," Thomas N. Pyke Jr., head of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, said Wednesday. His agency operates the satellites that provide the weather pictures for television and other media. He said he would seek bids soon. The policy change followed the formal handing over of the latest satellite by NASA officials. That maneuverable satellite, GOES-7, for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, provides two weather-observing positions in space, restoring a capacity lost in 1984 when an earlier weather satellite failed. The satellite has been moved back and forth over the nation in different seasons, but its overall weather reporting has been limited. Getting a second weather satellite up was delayed by NASA problems including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986, with the loss of its seven crew members, and a later failure of an attempt to launch a weather satellite by rocket. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the parent of the National Weather Service and Mr. Pyke's satellite service, has negotiated a contract for construction of three more weather satellites for use as the current satellites wear out. Mr. Pyke said concerns that might have the potential to provide rockets for satellite launchings included Martin Marietta and General Dynamics and that launching facilities would be leased from the Air Force. The Commerce Department has sanctioned the program, he said. After shuttle flights were halted following the Challenger disaster, commercial customers scrambled for other vehicles to get cargoes into the sky. That provided an opportunity for such satellite launching programs as the European Ariane rockets. Mr. Pyke said his agency hoped to be ready to launch a satellite by 1989. (2) === Page 6 of 18 National Scene # Critics question launch of rocket in rainstorm CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Engineers on Friday examined wreckage from a $161 million rocket that was destroyed after a possible lightning strike as critics asked: Why was it launched in a rainstorm? Security patrols found several pieces of the Atlas-Centaur rocket that had washed ashore near a space shuttle launch pad. Handling the debris was tricky because some of it contained explosive charges and other ordnance devices. The chunks were being studied for clues to what caused the unmanned booster to tumble out of control 51 seconds after launch Thursday. Former officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration questioned the decision to launch at a time when the agency says it is taking a conservative approach to safety as a result of the space shuttle Challenger explosion that killed seven crew members on Jan. 28, 1986. "We didn't consider we were taking a risk," said John W. Gibb, chief of NASA's Atlas-Centaur office. "At the time of launch we were in a solid go as far as the weather was concerned." Fiery chunks of wreckage plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean when the vehicle and the military communications satellite it carried were blown apart by a radio signal to prevent it from careening into populated areas. Launch officials did not immediately place blame for the failure, and NASA on Friday named a nine-man review board to investigate the accident, which ended a streak of seven space launch successes. Jon R. Busse, director of the office of flight assurance at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, heads the board. A videotape released by NASA shows a lightning bolt streaking from the area where the 137-foot Atlas-Centaur rocket vanished in the clouds. The bolt hit the launch pad one second before the explosion. Launch director James L. Womack and other officials defended the decision to blast off, saying all weather constraints were met, including a report that there was no lightning within five miles of the launch pad or the rocket's projected path. However, lightning on the edge of that zone shortly before launch delayed the liftoff 14 minutes until the electrical activity passed. "What are they doing?" asked Milton Silveira, who retired recently as NASA's chief engineer. "If you get in a situation like that, you get charged particles in the air. You're making yourself a great big target for a lightning strike ... Why take chances?" "It was poor judgment to launch under such conditions," said Walter Kapryn, who was launch director during the Apollo man-to-the-moon program. "There are rules for launching, but sometimes you have to use common sense in following those rules." Gibb said if it turns out that lightning caused the accident, the weather rules might have to be rewritten. The Atlas-Centaur rocket was valued at $78 million and the satellite at $83 million. The satellite was to have joined a network of five existing communications payloads to link U.S. military forces worldwide. Air Force Col. John W. Allsbrook of the Air Force Space Division said the loss of the satellite will have "minimum impact" on communications capabilities because the five earlier satellites are working well. However, four of them have outlived their projected five-year lifespan, and the lost satellite was to have served essentially as a spare until one gave out. Another satellite is scheduled for launch by an Atlas-Centaur in June, but the schedule now will depend on the findings of the investigation. NY Times 3/29/87 # Static and Discord In the World Of TV Evangelism In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples of the prophecies that must be fulfilled before he returns to save the planet. Among the events that are to precede a Second Coming are earthquakes, famines, nation rising against nation, and the preaching of the gospel to each of the world's inhabitants. In recent times, television has been embraced as a means toward this universal salvation, and some Protestant ministers see such technologies as satellite-dish antennas as instruments of the Lord. But they have discovered that the electronic pulpit can also magnify the failings of its inhabitants. The Rev. Jim Bakker stunned his followers earlier this month by announcing that he had been blackmailed after being "wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends" into a sexual encounter with a young admirer in 1980. Mr. Bakker's church, the Assemblies of God, said last week that it had no evidence of blackmail but concluded that money had changed hands. The young woman, Jessica Hahn, responding to Mr. Bakker's charges that she seduced him, said through an adviser that she succumbed only after drinking drugged wine. Mr. Bakker had resigned as head of the PTL ministry of Fort Mill, S.C., whose assets include a cable TV network and a religious theme park. He turned control of PTL (which stands for Praise the Lord and People That Love) to the Rev. Jerry Falwell, host of the "Old Time Gospel Hour" and founder of the conservative group Moral Majority. Last week, Mr. Bakker declared that he had been forced to avert a "diabolical plot" to take over PTL. His lawyer identified the raider as the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, host of the weekly "Jimmy Swaggart Hour," whose audience (1,046,000 households) exceeds that of Mr. Bakker and Mr. Falwell combined. Mr. Swaggart, who was not accused of participating in blackmail but of taking advantage of Mr. Bakker's troubles, opened a crusade last week with a plea to "deliver us from these pompadour boys" and declared that "the most hellish sin is covered with 'Praise the Lord.'" Meanwhile, the Rev. Oral Roberts, the host of a popular Sunday morning show, accused Mr. Swaggart of "sowing discord." (Mr. Roberts reached his own $8 million fund-raising goal last week, having accepted on television -- a check for $1.3 million. He had been fasting, saying God would "call him home" if he fell short.) Mr. Falwell and the Rev. Robert Schuller -- whose "Hour of Power" reaches 1,277,000 households -- also backed Mr. Bakker but said nothing against Mr. Swaggart. The Rev. Pat Robertson, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of the popular "700 Club," was campaigning for the Republican Presidential nomination. He diplomatically declined to take sides, though earlier he had said that God seemed to be "housecleaning." === Page 7 of 18 28 THE NEW YORK TIMES, S # Lighting Bolt May Have Caused Rocket's Failure By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD A lightning bolt that struck shortly after the launching is considered a "possible cause" of the mishap that led to the destruction of the Atlas-Centaur rocket Thursday, space agency engineers said yesterday. But officials of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida cautioned that this was only one of the theories that would be examined by a nine-member board of inquiry named yesterday to investigate the failure of the unmanned $161-million mission, the fourth failure in the United States space program in little more than a year. "That's only one aspect that people will be looking at," a space agency spokesman, Hugh W. Harris, said of the lightning that was seen descending from the area of the rocket to the launching pad at the moment of the failure. "We're keeping an open mind." **First Formal Meeting** Jon R. Busse, director of flight assurance at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was appointed to head the investigation. The board of inquiry is scheduled to hold its first formal meeting Tuesday. Mr. Harris said that the next launching, scheduled to be another Atlas-Centaur in June, was "on hold until the board clears it or recommends what changes need to be made." There have been 67 launchings of Atlas-Centaur rockets since 1962; seven have failed. On Thursday the Atlas-Centaur carrying a military communications satellite tumbled out of control 51 seconds after liftoff. Range safety officers immediately sent a radio signal to destroy the entire craft to prevent it from veering off and endangering populated areas along the Florida coast. The fiery wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean about three miles off Cape Canaveral. Beach patrols found two large pieces of the rocket, and salvage ships are searching the waters for debris that - one in Norfolk - 4 strike in outer space ATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1987 might contain clues to the cause of the failure. Beachcombers were cautioned to stay away from wreckage that washed ashore because some of it could contain toxic fuel. **Bolt Struck the Pad** A videotape released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration clearly shows a large lightning bolt flashing out of the rain clouds into which the 137-foot rocket had vanished. The bolt struck the launching pad about the time the vehicle exploded. John W. Gibb, the Atlas-Centaur project manager, said lightning was a possible cause but defended NASA's decision to launch the craft into the cloudy skies. He said launching officials had been assured there were no dangerous storm clouds within five miles of the rocket's projected course. "We didn't consider we were taking a risk," Mr. Gibb said. "At the time of launch we were in a solid 'go' as far as the weather was concerned." The rocket had reached an altitude of 14,250 feet, and was out of sight in a rain cloud, when it went out of control and all communications with it were disrupted. Peak electrical activity in thunderclouds is usually from 12,000 to 25,000 feet. **Apollo 12 Was Struck** On another rainy day, in November 1969, the Apollo 12 was struck by lightning less than a minute after liftoff. The craft was kept operating on battery power until the astronauts could reset their circuit-breakers. Then the mission proceeded to a landing on the Moon. Robert D. Hill, an expert on lightning and a physicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said that a rocket penetrating a storm cloud tended to attract electrical charges much the same way as does a tree or the Empire State Building. Dr. Hill said the Kennedy Space Center had "an excellent system for predicting these potential lightning flashes." If NASA said that the weather was acceptable, he said, "I'm very surprised that something like this developed, if it indeed was lightning that caused the failure." # Rocket Failure Sets Back India's Space Program UFOs vs Space work Special to The New York Times 3/26 NEW DELHI, March 25 -- India's ambitious space program suffered a setback Tuesday when the first of a new generation of big rockets failed within a minute after takeoff and crashed into the Bay of Bengal with its payload. "The launch has failed," U. R. Rao, director of the Government's space project, told reporters at Sriharikota, the space launching center on the southeastern coast. Mr. Rao said that scientists were analyzing data and that it could take several days to determine a precise reason for the failure. The launching after a 30-hour countdown appeared normal at the start, officials said. But they said the 80-foot rocket failed within seconds. They said a fire on a motor could have been the cause of the failure. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi watched the launching of India's largest locally designed and constructed solid-fuel rocket, which was to have hurled a 330-pound satellite into orbit. The satellite was about four times the size of earlier ones successfully placed in orbit in 1980 and 1983 from the same launching center. It was not immediately clear how far the Indian space program had been set back. Mr. Gandhi left the satellite center soon after blastoff and he described the failure to reporters as "only a small stumble." He added that the Government would continue to strongly support the space program. **India Used Other Facilities** India's first effort to put a satellite into space in 1979 failed in a fashion similar to that of Tuesday, with the rocket and space vehicle landing in the Bay of Bengal. However, the space program appeared to have overcome many of the early difficulties after the successful launching of the two satellites. (4) === Page 8 of 18 Can Reagan rebound? UFO a - Hong Kong / Post-Star 3/16/87 There are two sides to the "lame duck" coin. True, President Reagan is not in a position to exert the kind of discipline he wielded over Congress in his first term - certainly not with Democrats now in control of both houses. On the other hand, precisely because he cannot succeed himself, Mr. Reagan is freed from the narrow stringencies of partisan confrontation. He can embrace consensus where he wishes - and perhaps do the statesman like thing in his final bow to history. In the same vein, the Democratic leadership in both houses clearly understands the political price it will pay if it tries to bulldoze a weakened presidency during these last two years. History accelerates. Trends that used to take decades to develop - if not centuries - happen routinely, in this world of instant communication, in a matter of weeks. The United States simply can't afford two years of partisan wrangling while the clock ticks away against the danger countdown - and everybody knows it. Into this hopeful domestic political scene, note the advent of Chairman Gorbachev and his "glasnot," by any reckoning a very different leader of the Soviet Union. It almost looks as though history has conspired to present an unprecedented opportunity to deal with the enormous problems that confront us. And will judge most severely any failure to accept the challenge. Obviously, I thoroughly disagree with much of what the Reagan administration has stood for thus far. But I've been encouraged to hope that Washington has deliberately pulled back from some extreme positions taken. What looked earlier like a policy decision to wipe out the United Nations by draconian American budget cuts has been somewhat modified. Reykjavik looked - for two hopeful days, before Star Wars intervened - like a step back from the brink. The Untied States seems, for whatever reason, to be moving in the direction of a nuclear-free Europe. Even in Central America, the apparent collapse of Contra leadership, the imminent revelations of the North conspiracy, the overwhelming Latin American support for a Contadoran solution and the clear message of the polls in this country should provide an attractive opportunity for pragmatic reassessment. So I'm just going to assume that, even if there is not too much nobility of purpose from my point of view, there is ground for hope that a pragmatic Reagan willingness to accommodate to political realities will prevail over sectarian extremes. Within that framework, therefore - one that seeks to bequeath a legacy of accomplishment rather than an excuse for failure - here's my memo to President Reagan for a fitting valedictory: Survival of the planet - for whatever reason, Chairman Gorbachev has shown a clear willingness to negotiate. The ill-fated unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing, monitored in Russia by American scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the explicit acceptance of on-site inspections therein indicated, the Soviet performance in Reykjavik and now the Gorbachev initiative for a nuclear-free Europe prove there is a fresh wind blowing in Moscow. You have an obligation not only to America and to the world but to your own place in history to test it out in real good faith. Streak of light puzzles area skywatchers Knick. News 2/27/87 The Associated Press A red and green streak flashed across the night sky, raising eyebrows in parts of eastern New York and making phones light up at police and television stations. "It looked like a shooting star. I guess it turned red and green," said officer Tom DiMezza at the Amsterdam Police Department, about 25 miles west of Albany. "We don't really know what it was, or what the person (who saw it) was taking." Meteorologist Ken LaPenta of the National Weather Service at the Albany County Airport in Colonie said his office was contacted by forecasters at local television stations who had received more than 150 calls. LaPenta said the reports described an orange light with a green tail that zipped southward in the eastern sky around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, lasting three or four seconds. LaPenta said he had no definite explanation of what people had seen. The Post-Star 3/23/87 Briefly 5,500 residents lost electricity About 5,500 local residents were left without power for almost six hours Saturday night, said a spokesman for the Niagara Mohawk Power Company. Customers in Hudson Falls, and parts of Argyle, Glens Falls and Fort Ann were without power for a total of about six hours Saturday between 7 p.m. and 4:45 a.m., said Frank Kelly, Niagara Mohawk regional customer services manager. Kelly said the power outage was caused by a malfunctioning transformer at the Burgoyne Avenue power station in Hudson Falls. Power first went out at about 7:16 p.m., and was first restored at 10:16 p.m., Kelly said. But, the transformer malfunctioned a second time, knocking out power at 1:19 a.m., Kelly said. Power was restored to about 2000 customers at 4:17 a.m., and, by 4:45 a.m., power was restored to the balance of customers, Kelly said. Kelly said the transformer was functioning properly Sunday evening. He said there were various problems that could cause the transformer to malfunction. Kelly said he had not yet learned the cause of Saturday night's troubles. 5 === Page 9 of 18 Monster a myth or fact? Post-Star 3/25/87 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Champ, move over. It's time for Memphre, the purported monster of Lake Memphremagog, to shine in the legislative spotlight. The House recently passed a resolution on Memphre that says the animal should be protected from harm and encourages scientific inquiry into the existence of unusual animals in Lake Memphremagog. Last year, the Senate passed a similar resolution protecting Champ, a serpent-like creature that might exist in Lake Champlain. While Memphre supporters cheered the House action, many legislators loudly said no to the resolution. One of them was Rep. Frank DaPrato, D-Swanton. DaPrato said later he was tired of the lake monster resolutions. "If we keep this up, we'll have monsters in every pond in Vermont," DaPrato said. "I think it's ridiculous that we get involved in something like this. I think we should be doing something more constructive with our time." But Barbara Malloy of the International Dracontology Society of Lake Memphremagog and several Newport-area legislators strongly supported the resolution. Dracontology is the study of serpent-like animals. Malloy, sporting a Memphre button, is a firm believer the lake has a long-necked, snakelike animal. She said since she started the society three years ago, she has documented more than 60 sightings. "I've seen Memphre, so I know he's there," she said. "This resolution gives us more credibility." She said a similar resolution will be submitted to the Quebec Parliament. Lake Memphremagog is in Quebec and Vermont. FAA offers package on UFO claim Post-Star 2/25/87 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- If you want an inside look at a Japan Air Lines pilot's recent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation Administration will send you everything you ever wanted to know about the incident for $194.30. The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew members, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller statements, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order offer is an effort to cope with enormous public interest in the November sighting, said spokesman Paul Steucke. Since the pilot's claim was publicly disclosed, the FAA's Anchorage office has received information requests from more than 200 members of the news media, as well as 46 requests from individuals. For those on tight budgets, the FAA's UFO package can be broken down. The agency is offering 20 individual items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of communications between the controllers and the flight crew, to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the sighting. Orders of less than $5 are free. JAL Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi reported on Nov. 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was shadowed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted about 50 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third aircraft, a huge spaceship which he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers, who saw what they thought was an object on their radar screens. Light puzzles watchers ALBANY (AP) -- A colorful streak of light that zipped across the sky from eastern New York to Massachusetts leaving skywatchers puzzled and telephone lines busy was probably a meteor, a large meteor, an astronomer said Friday. Forecasters at local TV stations reported receiving more than 150 telephone calls from curious people, said LaPenta, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albany, said Thursday. He said the reports described an orange light with a green tail that flashed southward about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, lasting three or four seconds. "It looked like a shooting star. I guess it turned red and green," police Officer Tom DiMezza in Amsterdam, about 25 miles west of Albany. "We don't really know what it was." Witnesses in Connecticut described it as a bright orange flash that zoomed eastward about 8:35 p.m., turning to green and blue and lasting about 20 seconds. 6 === Page 10 of 18 NY Times 2/7/87 # 2 SOVIET FAILURES IN SPACE REPORTED ## U.S. Experts Cite Setbacks to a Proton Booster Rocket and Military Satellite By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD The successful launching of astronauts to the Soviet Union's Mir space station yesterday was preceded by two serious rocket and satellite failures in the previous week that went unacknowledged by Soviet officials, American space experts reported yesterday. One setback was particularly embarrassing to Soviet space officials. The reliable Proton booster rocket failed in launching Jan. 30, just as the Soviet Union was initiating an aggressive campaign to sell the services of these large rockets to international customers for delivering commercial payloads into orbit. James E. Oberg, a Houston engineer who is an authority on the Soviet space program, said tracking data showed that the Proton's fourth and uppermost stage had failed to ignite, stranding its communications-satellite payload in a low and useless orbit. The debris from the fourth stage and the satellite fell out of orbit a day later. Mr. Oberg noted that Soviet officials, in trying to attract commercial customers, recently boasted that the Protons, 770-ton liquid-fueled rockets, had had no failures in the last 35 launchings. **Military Satellite Destroyed** The Protons, introduced in 1965, are comparable in size and lifting capacity to the Titan 34-D rockets used by the United States Air Force. The SL-12 model Proton can place a two-ton satellite into a 22,300-mile-high orbit, the preferred operational altitude for communications satellites. In the other failure, on Jan. 29, Soviet flight controllers were forced to destroy one of their military reconnaissance satellites to prevent the malfunctioning vehicle from descending uncontrolled to the surface and possibly falling into American hands. Reporting the mishaps in its Feb. 9 issue, Aviation Week & Space Technology, an authoritative trade publication, quoted American intelligence sources as saying that the reconnaissance satellite, designated Cosmos 1,813, was launched Jan. 15 on a planned 14-day photographic mission. But when its large re-entry ball, containing both the camera and reconnaissance film, failed to begin its descent for recovery by Soviet ground forces, Soviet flight controllers activated the vehicle's self-destruction system and blew the satellite into more than 100 pieces. **Fast Pace for Russians** Soviet officials were concerned that the malfunctioning vehicle might strike a populated area or be recovered for analysis by Western intelligence, the magazine said. Despite the two failures, Aviation Week said that this year the Russians have maintained a launching pace that by the end of February will total 10 to 15 missions, as many as the United States will launch through all of 1987. # POLITICS MAY PUSH SPACE LAUNCHING BEYOND ELECTIONS ## Fear of Shuttle Failure in '88 Could Bring More Delays, Some Experts Assert By WILLIAM J. BROAD Political pressures could delay the next space shuttle flight until after the 1988 Presidential election, a former astronaut, aerospace experts and some space agency officials warn. They say the remote risk of technical failure might prompt the White House to postpone the flight, perhaps until 1989. At the same time, some experts warn that such a delay could be a devastating blow to a program bedeviled by controversy and criticism since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, which killed its crew of seven. **The Pressure to 'Go'** Harrison H. Schmitt, the former Apollo astronaut and a former Republican Senator who was a member of President Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, said pressure for a delay was unavoidable. "It's going to be very, very difficult to convince the political animals that they should 'go' in this political season," he said, adding that "there's no question that political considerations are a factor" in space launchings. Other experts said, however, that the allure of bold success in the midst of a lackluster Presidential campaign might create unusual pressure for a launching, even if technical impediments arose. **NASA Denies Political Tie** In Washington, a public affairs official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Barbara E. Selby, dismissed the idea that politics might intrude. "Obviously, around here, the only reason we would delay or speed up a mission is for technical reasons," she said. "We're going to fly when we're ready to fly. As far as we're concerned, politics is not a factor." Fueling the debate over politics are new delays in completing the extensive repairs undertaken after a leaky booster rocket touched off the Challenger explosion. Although the official goal of NASA is to loft the next shuttle on Feb. 18, 1988, experts say hitches in fixing the spaceships and their booster rockets have caused the schedule to slip toward July, around the time of the Presidential conventions. Rather than permitting the launch- Continued on Page 30, Column 1 NY Times 3/15/87 WASHINGTON, March 14 (AP) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has postponed an unmanned spacecraft's mission to Mars by at least two years. Scientists who had lobbied intensively for the Mars Observer mission in 1990 expressed their disappointment and dismay. "I think it's a great mistake and an example of the consistent lack of vision that NASA has had since the middle 1970's," said the astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University. He and other members of the Planetary Society were here on Feb. 19 trying to persuade Congress of the mission's importance. The announcement by the space agency said it was confirming reports that it would not ask for money for the mission in its 1988 budget. The agency said the mission was planned for 1992. The Mars Observer is to be a new kind of spacecraft to be launched from the space shuttle. It is to go into an orbit around Mars that will permit it to map the chemistry of the entire planet. The spacecraft is also to act as a weather satellite and orbital photographer, concentrating its search on water, which is the key for future human use of the planet. The cost of the project was to be $250 million, including launching and tracking, said Mary Beth Murrill, a spokeswoman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "This makes it much more difficult for the United States to get going on a serious program for the exploration of Mars at a time when the Soviets have pushed up their time scale," Mr. Sagan said in a telephone interview. The Soviet Union plans an ambitious exploration of Mars, including sending balloon-carried probes to the surface. That mission, originally scheduled for 1994, has been moved up to 1992. In a report Thursday, the space agency's advisory committee said science and exploration programs deserved special attention in the agency's planning. "They are at the heart of NASA's mission," the panel said. "They are spelled out in NASA's charter. Space science and exploration provides a large measure of popular support for the space program as a whole." # NASA Postpones a Mars Mission for 2 Years 7 === Page 11 of 18 # Coping With the Next Calamity Companies did D.K. in January's snow and strike. But was too much left to chance? By THOMAS J. LUECK ### Coping With a Decade of Crises | Date | Event | |---|---| | Feb.-March 1975 | Fire at a New York Telephone building leaves a 300-block area of lower Manhattan without phones for up to a month | | July 1977 | Blackout caused by lightning striking power lines cripples Manhattan for 25 hours | | Jan. 1978 | Major snow storm -- 13 inches accumulate in New York City, 18 inches in the suburbs -- disrupts services and cripples Connecticut | | Dec. 1979 | Strike by seven Long Island Railroad unions halts service for a week | | April 1980 | Strike by New York City transit workers lasts 11 days; L.I.R.R. is struck for two days | | March-April 1983 | Strike stops Metro-North for six weeks; New Jersey Transit on strike for a month | | Sept. 1985 | Hurricane Gloria brings heavy rain and winds causing some power disruptions on Long Island | === Page 12 of 18 Our View # White House aides deserting the ship 2/25/87 Back in Washington the ship of state is losing its officers and some of its crew. This always happens toward the end of an administration, but the desertions began earlier than usual this term. Richard Perle says he will quit soon. These are among the better-known names. When President Reagan began his second four-year stint, several of his best advisors left for less-pressured or higher-paying jobs. That was to be expected. Recently, however, press secretary Larry Speakes and presidential aide Mitchell Daniels left. The latter had been feuding with chief of staff Donald Regan. White House image promoter Pat Buchanan also left, and arms control negotiator This means that Reagan will have to rely more on inexperienced aides during the last two years in offices. It comes at a time when he needs experienced personnel to deal with serious domestic and foreign problems. It is natural for White House staff members to look for good jobs at the end of a term. But their service with a president ensures that their services will be in demand. In return for this they owe their president loyalty to the end. Deserting the administration at this time amounts to disservice to the nation and the presidency. Post-Star 2/17/87 # Navy halts use of drone aircraft WASHINGTON - The Navy, after losing four of five "eye-in-the-sky" drone aircraft worth from $250,000 to $400,000 apiece, has suspended a program to equip warships with the pilotless planes, military sources say. The embarrassing losses, involving drones dispatched recently with the battleship Iowa, occurred over the past month and most recently on Feb. 6, said the sources who asked not to be named. Four of the five drones dispatched were lost, they said. One source said the four drones "are in little bitty pieces." The cost of the drones depends upon what surveillance and camera equipment they carry. The Navy already had opened an investigation into the string of accidents, the sources said. The service suspects a number of causes, but believes one problem might involve the remote control system for the pilotless planes. # Military Cargo Helicopters Grounded for Gear Problems NY Times 2/16/87 EL TORO, Calif., Feb. 14 (AP) - All Navy and Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters were grounded Saturday for inspection of a gear box problem that was found after a forced landing Oct. 21, a marine spokesman said. Lieut. Col. Jerry Shelton, a spokesman for the marine air stations at El Toro and Tustin, was unable to say how long the inspections would take. The CH-53E, built by Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford, Conn., has been in five fatal crashes since June 1984. The latest crash, in the Southern California desert Jan. 8, killed all five men aboard and brought the death toll in the crashes to 20. Colonel Shelton said the gear problem was not a factor in the crashes. UFO Sun Attack # Authorities tally quake damage Post-Star 3/4/87 AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Authorities estimated damage at more than $8.4 million Tuesday after an earthquake rocked the farming and forest areas of the North Island, leaving 25 people injured and two missing. Peter Tapsell, minister for civil defense, said the estimate should cover the cost of rebuilding roads, bridges and buildings damaged Monday by New Zealand's worst quake in 20 years. But reports of deep fissures that swallowed swimming pools, driveways and power lines suggested the figure could go much higher. (9) === Page 13 of 18 WASHINGTON | James Reston The New Collective NY Times 3/18/87 WASHINGTON With the best of intentions, the President's friends are urging him to demonstrate that he's back in charge of the Administration, directing events, pushing his agenda with Congress, ready for televised news conferences and preparing for another summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. One wonders whether this is a good idea. In the first place it's not true, and merely encourages the illusions that got him into trouble in the first place. Considering what he has been through in the last few months -- the scandals, the investigations, the indictments of his stewardship, another operation and the loss of Congress after a punishing campaign -- it's remarkable that a man of his age has held up as well as he has. He has demonstrated good judgment in rebuilding his White House staff and choosing experienced men to run the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. He has met with the leaders of Congress in private, and delivered his television speech with his accustomed grace. Accordingly, there is reason to hope that he can preside over the new regency headed by his chief of staff, Howard Baker, and make the decisions worked out by his Cabinet. But he doesn't need the added stress of pretending that he is now what he never was, a "take-charge" executive. The Presidential press conference is a good example under the circumstances of unnecessary stress. He has been goaded into it by reporters and it has been accepted reluctantly by the President and his staff. But it takes a couple of days at least to prepare for these televised events, and while he learns something in the process, they prove nothing except that he's a good performer on stage, which everybody knew in the first place. But an attempt is being made to indicate that the personal and political crisis is over and that things will now go on as before, which is a troubling thought. Howard Baker is partly to blame for this. On his first day in the White House, he asked reporters: "Is the President fully in control of his Presidency? Is he alert? Is he fully engaged? Is he in contact with the problems? ... You know, it has been a year now since I dealt regularly with Ronald Reagan, but I've never seen him better than he has been today." Nobody does Ronald Reagan a favor by encouraging him and Congress and the people to believe that he's on top of all these intricate problems. May be there isn't a man alive who could do it, but he can read and listen, watch and judge the issues brought before him for decision. What is being put in place here for the last two years of the Reagan Administration is a form of collective executive leadership, and it is much better than what we had before. It is not trying to balance the budget with constitutional amendments or tame the Russians with nuclear shields in the sky. It is going one common-sense step at a time, trying to build nonpartisan compromises that will ease the tensions at home and abroad concentrating on the possible instead of dreaming of the impossible. In short, this less dramatic procedure is more in keeping with the problems of the last two years and it is within the President's physical and mental capacity. It is more moderate, more accountable, more reliable, more in touch with Congress, less stressful and less ideological. It is odd that some of the noisiest ideological Reaganites like Pat Buchanan and Richard Perle decided to leave the President just when he was in deepest trouble, but the Republic will probably survive their departures. Nothing has caused more confusion here in the last six years than the notion that there is an ideological answer to all our problems. Don't push Reagan into posturing. If there is to be another summit meeting on nuclear weapons between President Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev, for example, it will not be approached this time in the careless and mindless way that preceded the last one at Reykjavik, when Congress and the allies were left in the dark, the Cabinet was divided and the Secretary of Defense was left at home. Summit meetings are not for negotiation but for ceremonial ratification of verifiable agreements reached in advance with the knowledge that they will be confirmed by the Senate. What we need now is not a hands-on President, but more helping hands: in the White House, in the Cabinet, in Congress and in the press. We have gone through a difficult period, living a life of pretense, but we have got through it in fairly good order, and if the President gets the help he needs in the next two years, he may even get that happy ending he has always wanted. SECOND BIG STORM IN 5 DAYS STRIKES EASTERN SEABOARD UP TO 16 INCHES OF SNOW U.S. Closes Capital Offices -- Winds at 50 Miles an Hour 1/27/87 Buffet South Jersey UFO Sun Attack NY Times By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The second major storm in five days struck the East Coast and the New York metropolitan region yesterday. High winds and heavy snows reglazed the city, buried some suburbs in mountainous drifts and brought a reprise of winter doldrums to the region. The storm hit hardest in southern New Jersey, where 10 to 16 inches of new snow fell. Eastern Long Island had 8 to 9 inches, New York City got 3 to 5 inches and Connecticut and suburbs north and west of the city had 3 to 4 inches. Much of the East had barely dug out of last Thursday's whiteout -- the Northeast's worst snowstorm in four years -- when yesterday's storm charged up the Eastern Seaboard as if in a rut, sparing the South but dumping heavy snows from the Carolinas to New England. 'Drowning in Snow' Over the Middle Atlantic and New England states, the heavy snows shut down airports, stranded motorists, delayed intercity and local trains and buses, closed schools and forced the Federal Government to give most of its 300,000 Washington-based employees the day off. The nation's capital had 10 inches of snow atop last week's 10 inches. [Page B2.] "We're drowning in snow. I just hope people stay home," John Friedrich, deputy emergency management coordinator for Cape May County in southern New Jersey, said as winds that howled up to 50 miles an hour sculpted drifts over automobiles and up the sides of houses. While it did not compare with last week's, yesterday's blast, which began in the metropolitan region Sunday night and ended in the early afternoon, disrupted ground and air travel, kept many commuters home, closed suburban schools and prompted early closings for many courts, businesses and government offices. Though it created hardships, the storm also brought a peaceful solitude to town and country settings. Seagulls 10 === Page 14 of 18 # Snowstorm hits Plains, shuts down highways Post-Star 3/25/87 UFO & Sun Attack The Associated Press An unusually strong spring snowstorm shut down part of the Plains on Tuesday with blinding wind-driven snow and drifts up to 8 feet high closing highways and schools, stranding travelers and pulling down power lines serving thousands of people. Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden declared a disaster for the western third of his state, where National Guardsmen already had been rescuing people and hauling supplies and had opened armories for stranded travelers. Nearly all roads in western Kansas were closed, with drifts 5 to 7 feet high, and little attempt was made to clear them because of the unrelenting wind and blizzard conditions, the state Highway Patrol said. As many as 10,000 homes in northwest Kansas were without electrical power, with the road conditions hampering efforts of utility crews to restore service, utility officials said. Early spring snowstorms are not rare in western Kansas, said Jim Johnson of the National Weather Service in Dodge City, Kan. The last storm of such intensity was 30 years ago, he said. The Oklahoma Panhandle was virtually closed off, highways in central Nebraska were closed and others were nearly impassable. In Colorado, 10 miles of Interstate 70 from the Kansas border to Burlington were closed. About 165 miles of I-70 was closed in Kansas. The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings for part of western Kansas. Snow also fell in a belt across Kansas and Nebraska into South Dakota and Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle had blowing snow. Kansas' blizzard followed a series of thunderstorms, one of which produced a tornado Sunday that destroyed several buildings in Rooks County. On Monday, the storm collapsed roofs and stranded 500 cars on one 17-mile stretch of highway in Texas. It also was blamed for two traffic deaths Monday in Oklahoma. Motorists stranded in the Texas Panhandle slept under donated blankets at schools, courthouses and churches. On the eastern side of the snow belt, heavy rain bloated streams in parts of Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. In eastern Nebraska, where at least 5 inches of rain had fallen since Sunday, a threat of flooding forced school closings from Memphis to Deshler to Cedar Rapids. U.S. Highway 136 west of Beatrice was closed because of high water. The Big Blue River was expected to crest 10 feet above flood stage Wednesday in Beatrice. Thousands of people in western Kansas were without electricity Tuesday because of downed power lines and poles. At least 300 poles were knocked down by wind gusts to nearly 80 mph Monday in the Dodge City area, said Bill Ohlemeier, spokesman for an association of three dozen rural electric cooperatives. Wind and heavy, wet snow were blamed for downed power lines in Oklahoma. "At least two-thirds of the county is without electricity," said Beaver County Sheriff Bill Cassingham. In Texas, Dallas Power & Co. reported numerous, short service interruptions and Utilities Electric reported temporary outages affecting 30,000 Tarrant County customers. # Residents begin cleaning up following devastating tornado UFO & Sun Attack LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- Residents and cleanup crews worked under a sunny sky Sunday to recover belongings and clear up wreckage from a tornado that left seven people dead, nearly 500 families homeless and millions of dollars in damage. "Everybody is tired, but things are looking up," said Carl Carlos, Jones County Civil Defense director. "It's just a matter of cleanup and get back on our feet now." The tornado left at least 145 people injured as it cut a 20-mile-long, 2-mile-wide path of destruction across mostly rural Jones County in southeastern Mississippi on Saturday morning. Some residents camped out overnight at bonfires beside the piles of splintered lumber and brick that had been their homes, and the National Guard blocked off 15 roads and highways. "It probably caused more damage in one county than I've ever seen," said Gov. Bill Allain. "It looked more like a hurricane than it did a tornado because everything was so flattened out." Carlos said it was fortunate that the tornado, part of a series of thunderstorms across the South, hit on a weekend and that residents had 15 minutes warning. "Three schools were hard hit -- one in Glade destroyed," said Carlos. "Even if the kids had had a warning and gotten into sheltered areas there would have been a heavy loss of life because the school is just rubble." Carlos said damage to the schools could run to $7.5 million. A damage assessment team sent in by the state should have a full estimate ready by today, he said. ## Snow Storm Batters the Northern Plains A herd of cattle moving across a snow-covered field near Beaver, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which was covered by as much as six inches of snow. A severe storm that swept across the Northern Plains left sections of Kansas and Nebraska snowbound and piled snow into drifts up to 12 feet high, closing some roads and cutting power lines to thousands of residents. A 400-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in Kansas and Colorado, and 200 miles of Interstate 90 were closed overnight in western South Dakota. Three deaths were attributed to the weather, and 46 Kansas counties remained under an emergency declaration. NY TIMES 3/26/87 UFO & Sun Attack (11) === Page 15 of 18 Parched Summer Is Feared in West NY Times, 3/21/87 By THOMAS J. KNUDSON Special to The New York Times JACKSON, Wyo., March 20 -- As it tumbles out of the red mountains in Yellowstone National Park, the Snake River becomes a watery lifeline for thousands of farmers and scores of cities in Wyoming and Idaho. But this year so little snow has fallen here and in other parts of the West that serious water shortages could develop in some areas, causing financial problems for farmers, hurting fishing and boating conditions and possibly causing water rationing in some cities, government officials said. "Snow pack and precipitation are well below normal throughout much of the West," said Wilson Scaling, chief of the Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. In 8 of 12 states, the agency reported that snow levels and precipitation were 75 percent or less below normal this winter. In particularly dry areas, towns, farmers and industries should begin conserving water now to avoid shortages this summer, Mr. Scaling said. The agency's predictions could be thrown off the mark by late snow or heavy spring rains, but if weather patterns remain normal, and forecasters believe they will, some farmers could face serious water shortages by June, especially those who rely on stream water for irrigation. It's 'Almost Alarming' "It is serious," said Tony Willardson, associate director of the Western States Water Council in Salt Lake City. "The figures I've seen seem almost alarming and I imagine there could be some serious effects on agriculture." The dry weather, though, has been spotty. California, Oregon and Washington and the Central Rockies have been most affected while the Southwest has experienced normal or better-than-normal precipitation, officials said. Most of the West's large reservoirs are still full, thanks to several previous years of unusually wet weather. "However, surface water supplies will not be enough to fill some impoundments in Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington," a recent report by the Agriculture Department and the Commerce Department said. "The people who are going to get hurt would be those in the smaller drainages which don't have much in the way of reservoir capacity," said John Folk-Williams, president of Western Network, a research group specializing in natural resource issues. Here in the Snake River Valley, Government meteorologists are predicting the river will carry 70 percent or less of its normal flow this year, a reduction that could cause serious problems for the region. In Idaho, where water from the Snake River is critical to agriculture, a dry year could force some farmers out of business. "Many farmers are already in financial trouble and haven't been able to set aside cash reserves for a poor year," said Richard Rush, director of Idaho's Department of Agriculture. "This will probably mean more farmers aren't going to be able to pay their debts." Concerned about a possible shortage of irrigation water in Idaho, the Bureau of Reclamation has begun to impound additional water in Jackson Lake north of here for use this summer. "But when you do that, you reduce the amount of habitat and food for the trout downstream," said John Kremer, who records snowfall data for the Federal Soil Conservation Service in Jackson. "It could have a real impact on the fish." It could also mean fewer tourist dollars for the town of Jackson, a popular point of departure for Snake River float trips. "It could make it difficult for the float trip operators," said Mr. Kremer, who explained that rafts could have trouble getting through if the water dropped low enough. In California, the nation's top producing farm state, some irrigation districts are telling farmers not to expect normal water supplies this summer. "These crops are going to be growing in 100-degree weather and in need of irrigation," said Bob Krauter, a spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation. "At this point, I expect we'll be able to get by if we use our water as smartly as we can," said Mr. Krauter. "But the real crunch could come next year if we're sitting in the same situation. Some people fear we may be in for another drought like we had in 1976 and 1977." Another hard-hit region is Montana, where snowfall levels in several areas set record lows this winter. "Farmers who depend on irrigation are facing a bleak situation," said Glen Loomis, the state conservationist for the Federal Soil Conservation Service in Montana. "If conditions continue, they could run out of water by late June." The lack of snow has caused another problem on Montana's high plains: wind erosion. "We're having one of the worst erosion years we've had for some time," said Mr. Loomis. "There's not enough snow cover to protect the soil. So far, 1.3 million acres of cropland have been damaged." Across much of the West, people are starting to turn their heads to the sky, hoping for late winter snows or heavy spring rains. "But we would have to have a tremendously wet spring to make up for the lack of snow," said Mr. Willardson. "And I think forecasters are just predicting normal precipitation over the next few months." Mr. Loomis said: "I think it's in the Good Lord's hands. If it doesn't rain, it's going to become pretty critical." [Map of Snake River area showing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah] The New York Times/March 21, 1987 For Jackson, Wyo., the Snake River is a watery lifeline. [Photograph of the Snake River] The New York Times/William E. Sauro A view of the Snake River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. The snowfall in the West this winter was well below normal. As a result, serious drought conditions could develop in many areas. (12) === Page 16 of 18 VANUATU SEEKS AID AFTER HURRICANE 'Millions Have Come In, but We Need More,' Aide Says - 49 Dead or Missing NY Times 3-1-87 SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 28 (AP) - Vanuatu appealed for more overseas aid Friday to rebuild its economy and to help feed and house 10,000 people left homeless after a hurricane hit the small South Pacific nation on Feb. 7. "We're slowly getting back on our feet, but there's a lot more work to be done," said Godwin Ligo, chairman of the National Disaster Committee. "Millions of dollars have come in, but we need more." Mr. Ligo said the toll from the hurricane and its 100-mile-an-hour winds stood at 28 known dead and 21 others missing and presumed dead after three ferries sank. He said search efforts had been abandoned. Mr. Ligo and other officials interviewed by telephone said the storm was the worst on record there, causing destruction across the chain of 70 islands in excess of $150 million. The storm lasted for eight hours. Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, is an offshore banking center 1,100 miles northeast of Australia. Jointly ruled by France and Britain until independence in 1980, it has a mainly Melanesian population of 160,000. Damage In Capital Is Severe The hurricane damaged 95 percent of all buildings in Port-Vila, the capital, and virtually wiped out the country's main cash crop, copra, worth $20 million a year in exports, officials there said. Mr. Ligo said emergency fruit and vegetable shipments were still being ferried to outlying areas and that the homeless were put up under tents and tarpaulins donated by Australia, France and New Zealand. The United States, Japan and Britain and the rest of the European Community also gave aid, along with the Red Cross and agencies financed by the United Nations, he reported. A breakdown of donor aid was not available. Port-Vila, with a population of 16,000, and the southern islands of Erromanga, Tanna and Aniwa - inhabited by 3,000 people - were hardest hit. Acting Prime Minister Sethy J. Re-envanu said it could take five years for Vanuatu's economy to recover. Concern Over Tourism "Things are returning to normal, but a major worry now is the effect this cyclone will have on tourism, which along with finance and copra is one of the three pillars of our economy," Mr. Ligo said. In 1978, the last year for which complete figures were available, Vanuatu welcomed 27,579 air travelers and 29,105 people arriving on cruise ships. The Australian Deputy High Commissioner, or ambassador, in Vanuatu, James Batley, said the two main resort hotels suffered major damage. "Half their huts were blown away," he said. He said a team of 26 British engineers was flown in to repair damaged buildings, roads and bridges. "It's such a big job and there isn't enough manpower in the country to do it all at once," Mr. Batley said. "But most essential services have been restored as well as communications." Despite initial fears of an epidemic, he said there had been no outbreaks of disease. Winds, cold blast across Great Lakes 2/9/87 The Associated Press A storm packing wind gusts up to 86 mph spread snow and icy temperatures across the Great Lakes region Sunday, knocking down power lines, closing roads and destroying a seawall on Chicago's Lake Michigan waterfront. "It's real bad. We've got so many (accidents) we can't keep up with it," said sheriff's Deputy Brian Billingsley at South Bend, Ind. Many roads in the South Bend area were closed because of zero visibility in blowing snow. On Michigan's Upper Peninsula, state police said a highway between Marquette and Munising was closed for several hours by drifting snow and three miles of U.S. 41 between Ishpeming and Negaunee was closed by drifts. Alpena had 7 inches of new snow and blizzard conditions were reported across parts of the state. The storm was expected to move rapidly eastward, and blizzard warnings for today were posted for the mountains of northern West Virginia, western Maryland and much of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Winter storm warnings were issued for northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, all of Vermont, New Hampshire except in the extreme north, southwest Maine and much of western and northern New York. The storm dumped 2 to 6 inches in Ohio on Sunday. Just before 6 p.m. Cleveland police advised motorists to stay off highways as slippery conditions and low visibility caused multiple accidents. At Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, airlines began halting flights at about 4 p.m., said operations agent Eric Williams. Around sunrise, a wind gust to 86 mph knocked down trees at Janesville, Wis., and gusts to 69 mph downed billboards at Grand Rapids, Mich. Gusts of more than 50 mph raked parts of Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Downed power lines in Michigan interrupted electric service to about 39,000 Consumers Power Co. customers across the state, said utility spokesman Dan Bishop. About 1,100 Detroit Edison Co. customers were without power, said utility spokesman Marty Bufalini. A fallen Detroit Edison power line was blamed for a natural gas leak that forced evacuation of a nursing home in the suburb of Southfield, said fire department Cmdr. Marcel Charette said. "The arcing wires sent a jolt down and triggered a hole in the gas line," Charette said. A small fire was put out by sprinklers, he said. (13) === Page 17 of 18 Associated Press **Blustery Storm Moves Into the Plains** *W.D. Sun Attack* *NY Times 1/30/87* Justin Doten, 8 years old, brushing snow from a car in Minneapolis. A storm that rattled the Eastern Rockies with high winds brought snow and freezing rain to the Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. It left up to a foot of snow in Utah, and the gusting wind caused sporadic power failures in Utah and Colorado. # Second storm blankets South *Post-Star 2/8/87* The Associated Press *W.D. Sun Attack* A new storm slung sleet and snow south of the Mason-Dixon Line on Tuesday, closing schools in 10 states, while an earlier storm blamed for at least 16 deaths whipped up gale-force winds as it headed out to sea over Virginia. Wintry weather pushed temperatures to 18 degrees below zero in the Adirondack communities of Newcomb and Elizabethtown, and minus 13 in Watertown and Glens Falls. Snow still fell Tuesday on southern Virginia even as the first storm reached the Atlantic Ocean after dumping up to 13 inches on Farmville, 11 inches on Lynchburg, 9 on Roanoke, 6 on Newport News and 5 inches on Richmond. Downed power lines and trees caused widespread outages in the Southeast. In Kentucky, National Guardsmen brought generators to more than 17 dairy farms without electricity in Hart and Grayson counties so farmers could milk their cows, said Don Armstrong, a spokesman for the state Disaster and Emergency Services. An autopsy was scheduled in Philadelphia for an unidentified man whose frozen, snow-covered body was found in a residential neighborhood Monday. As much as 8 inches of sleet and snow fell Monday in North Carolina's Granville and Person counties, while in West Virginia, Beckley and Bluefield got 6 inches of snow. Northeast Tennessee had 3 inches. Even as Monday's storm eased out to sea, the new storm followed in its wake, pumping a mix of freezing drizzle, rain and snow from eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, where temperatures were in the 70s last week, across Kentucky and Tennessee, where a scattered snowfall was expected to taper off Wednesday. A travelers advisory for 1 to 2 inches of snow was posted for extreme northwest Alabama. The weather closed schools in parts of the Virginias, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas. (14) === Page 18 of 18 Postmarked April 9, 1987 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8704b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/889647a8eeb78cf706f91f7f1eed28ed.pdf 1f507406229d0bcb0ccb7b2342234fc8 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2b3f47d5ff4396949416bc31f1973869.txt 6ce9671e32afc6ff71d6363d6d8258c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1987 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 January 29, 1987 Jeffrey SCIENTISTS Some of the enclosed newsclips are from Ocala...had to leave there before could do file. But...makes no difference... the Sun Attack and psi-ripples have caused all, right up to the present time...along with other mechanisms that have been activated (displaced Bermuda Triangle Effect; attack from the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf waters, etc.) Just in case you might snicker at bodies of water attacking...remember that American Indians believed that rivers, lakes and oceans had a "spirit" in them. P. 1: Weinberger's plane struck by lightning. Coincidence? Weinberger is pushing "star wars" technology and military-in-space work. Exactly what my UFOs will not allow. Weinberger has had his "lightning warning." P. 2: I made a long distance call to Chicago...at which time all the power in Chicago went out. Coincidence? At Duke I phoned my girl friend at her sorority house and all the power there went out. In Durham there are tall lampposts lining both sides of the street. At night, when I would walk down the sidewalk all the lights on my side of the street would go out. And of course I knocked out the power in 5 States while living in Philadelphia...first notifying scientists and lawyers in writing that I would do so, before it actually occurred. There are clips on p. 2 and p. 13 which apply the term "whammy" to recent unusual weather. And the writers are, of course, quite correct. The weather has been caused by my UFOs "sun attack", which could be termed a "whammy" in slang parlance. P. 3: Scientists are still trying to call my UFOs Sun Attack "El Nino". Ha ha. P. 4: Note that in one clip it states that scientists do not believe that solar activity has anything to do with the holes in the ozone layers at the North and South poles. Then, five days later, in the N.Y. Times article the scientists state that the holes might be caused by bursts of solar energy. P. 5: For personal reasons I have been attacking the State of Texas for years, in various ways, with psi-force techniques. It is interesting that Texas is going broke. Good. Couldn't happen to a nicer State. Other clip. My UFOs destroyed Challenger for various reasons... one of which was to teach the young people of our country to stay out of space and space work. (I phoned a scientist long distance before Challenger blew up and told him that my UFOs were going to explode a space shuttle. Thus, it is on record.) Then, the reason I went to Hong Kong was to teamwork with my UFOs in certain ways so that my UFOs could control Russia and/or China. Following my trip my UFOs destroyed Chernobyl... in order to teach stupid mankind that nuclear war could not be survived by the human race. Before Chernobyl, humans did not really have a "measuring stick" with which to evaluate properly the effect of a nuclear war or disaster. Now they know. My UFOs are great teachers...albeit a bit rough with their teachings. === Page 2 of 29 2 P. 6: As I have told you, the U.S. is under attack by the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. Here you have the poisonous Red Tide attacking Texas and Gulf waters...then on p. 7 a deadly Brown Tide is attacking from the Atlantic side. Am certain that you will find this article, particularly, fascinating. Then on p. 8 bodies of water and The Sun Attack wiping out the oyster crop on a massive scale. P. 9: The crooked Jackie Presser gets a tumor on his lung...and various bigtime mob bosses get put away. This is what my UFOs are currently working at...to eliminate the bad members of the human race in key positions of power and replace them with good humans. It is interesting, in a synchronistic way, that Judge Owen gave top Mafia bosses 100 years each. Remember some years ago when I produced a UFO over the heads of two policemen in a certain area of Virginia.. (a demonstration for a scientist.) One of the policemen was named Owen. And if you have the green book that I wrote you can read about another of my experiments whereby Big Foot stopped a car, reached in and grabbed the woman driver by the hair. Her name? Owen. P. 10: This clip is interesting because I gave a secret, unpublicized demonstration of my UFO powers in Ocala...attacking the Ocala newspaper building with various psi-force techniques to obtain various results. To my astonishment this clip appeared, relating to a UFO kidnapping an Ocala resident. P. 11: Fort Ann is where we live, outside of town in a semi-isolated area just like this man. Burglars are attacking homes in this area. There only a handful of police here. Last week a man broke into a house near here and raped and robbed a young woman. After he walked out of her house she grabbed a pistol that she had handy and blasted him with it from a window. The police are tying the man into a number of rapes in this area. The rest of the enclosed file deals with results from The Sun Attack. Ted Owens (PK Man) New address: Rt. 149, RR 2, Box 2169, Fort Ann, New York, 12827. Phone: (512) 632-5192 Owens PS. Nature now is thinning out the over-populated human race with cancer, AIDS, etc. When Nature has over-population under control, then it will supply the human race with answers to cancer, AIDS, etc., and these deadly illnesses will be stopped and controlled by humans. (If you have a ranch with enough grass to feed 1,000 cows - you do not allow the herd to grow to 3,000 cows.) === Page 3 of 29 Weinberger Warns of Gains In Soviet Space Technology By DAVID E. SANGER Special to The New York Times NY Times 1/23/87 COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 22 -- Making his most specific and spirited arguments yet for an early deployment of a space-based defense against nuclear missiles, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger said today that "we must seize this opportunity" because the chance to stay ahead of Soviet technology "will not remain with us forever." Mr. Weinberger, speaking at a symposium of space officials and military contractors, also said he now expected the Soviet Union to test a ground-based laser defense against missiles "in the next three years." Officials in the Reagan Administration have said in recent weeks that even if the United States decided to deploy the first phase of its missile defense plan in the early 1990's, research on similar laser systems would not be sufficiently advanced to allow their incorporation into the "Star Wars" system being developed by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. Mr. Weinberger's comments came as the Administration appeared to be sharply divided over the question of whether to move quickly to deploy an initial, if primitive, missile defense system. At arms negotiations in Geneva, the United States has told Soviet negotiators that it was willing to adhere to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which bans the deployment of space-based defense systems, for up to 10 more years as part of a larger compromise. 'Deploy as Soon as We Can' But the Secretary said at a news conference after his speech at the United States Space Foundation meeting here, "We would like to deploy as soon as we can," and he suggested that a decision to proceed with early deployment could be made in the near future. At the same time, Mr. Weinberger cautioned against believing any contention, made repeatedly at some symposium sessions here, that an early version of the antimissile system could be assembled with technologies already available. "I am sorry to say there are no technologies on the shelf that can do the job we want and need," he said. Nonetheless, he added, "Phase 1 would have great benefit," a statement that was warmly received here by executives whose companies already hold several billion dollars in missile defense research projects. "This phase could include both ground- and space-based components operating to detect, track and destroy ballistic missiles in the boost and late midcourse phases of flight," the Secretary said. The boost phase occurs just after a missile has been launched, and the late midcourse phase refers to the time period just before the missile re-enters the atmosphere. Gain in Deterrence Seen But Mr. Weinberger acknowledged that a first phase of deployment would not be able to stop all Soviet missiles. Instead, he said its chief value was that it would enhance deterrence by increasing Soviet doubts that a surprise attack could succeed. Critics of the early deployment plan say it would cost more than $100 billion and would be easily and cheaply overwhelmed. And experts here have said repeatedly in private that the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger a year ago has left the United States without the capability of putting a missile defense in orbit for at least 10 years. Mr. Weinberger, annoyed at such arguments, said, "I don't think anyone is in a position to give estimates of percentages of effectiveness, or specific dates or deployment or costs." Those who make cost estimates, he added, "have the advantage of not knowing anything about it." Radically Different Approaches The most interesting new questions raised by Mr. Weinberger's speech center on the radically differing approaches the United States and the Soviet Union appear to be taking in developing strategic defense systems. Mr. Weinberger described the Soviet program as one that focused heavily on lasers and particle beam weapons. He said the Soviet Union "could begin testing components for large scale deployment of a laser ABM system in the early 1990's." But no such claim has been made for the United States, even by the most ardent enthusiasts of the nation's antimissile research. The chief components of an early deployment system would probably be weapons such as ground-based rockets that would fire heat-seeking interceptors to collide with warheads. Lightning Strikes Jet Carrying Weinberger WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP) -- A small jet with Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and his wife, Jane, aboard was struck by lightning last Sunday, the Air Force reported Wednesday. The Air Force said the incident occurred as the Weinbergers were heading for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after spending the weekend at their home in Bar Harbor, Me. The Weinbergers and three aides were flying in an executive twin-engine jet that can carry up to 15 passengers. "Weinberger is joking about it now, saying he wasn't hit by lightning but by a Soviet missile," said the aide, "but there was a brilliant flash and a big jolt, and for a moment nobody knew what had happened. Everybody on the plane saw it and felt it. The pilot recovered promptly, though, and managed a normal landing." Another official said, "I understand it turned out to be a hairy ride." The Air Force said the pilot, Lieut. Col. Charlie Arms, was making his final approach to the base when the lightning bolt sheared off the the housing on the plane's nose that covers the radar and other electronic instruments, damaged the right wing, and burned the craft's right side. Associated Press Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger speaking yesterday in Colorado Springs. === Page 4 of 29 # Power City turned wimp UFC Sun Attack Post-Star 1/25/87 WASHINGTON -- The bank where I stash my money in this town advertises itself as "The Most Important Bank for the Most Important People in the Most Important City in the World." That slogan tells you all you need to know about Washington. It's not a city loaded down with an excess of humility. That's why the Great Snows of '87 -- what TV weathermen are calling the Double Whammy -- were more than just a meteorological twist of fate. (all "whammy") That paralyzing blanket of white stuff -- two feet in five days -- left the Imperial City with a badly frozen ego. Yeah, I know, it snowed like crazy in Philadelphia and New York and Boston, too. But those are places where people own snow tires and boots and snow plows. Places where a blizzard is part of life, not a calamity that shrivels the soul. But Washington -- hey, remember, this is a city with a finger on the button of 7,000 nukes, a city that can bomb Libya on a whim, a city that snaps its fingers at trillion-dollar budgets, a city jammed with lawyers, lobbyists, shrinks, think tanks and stretch limos. We're talking about an epicenter of smugness. Then along comes a foot or two of snow and Power City USA goes into a severe funk. The shiny, almost-new Metro subway system freezes and won't run. Snow-crazed bureaucrats skid their BMWs into each other and abandon them, turning the Beltway into a parking lot. Snow plows are as rare and invisible as Stealth aircraft. Couple of days of that carnage and Power City USA looked like Admiral Byrd's base camp at the South Pole. Or Bangor, Maine, with monuments. Sandy Grady "I think all the Russians have to do to wipe out Star Wars," said one diplomat from Jamaica Monday, "is drop 10 inches of snow on Washington." The chaos in Power City began last Thursday. In the middle of a morning snowstorm, the Reagan administration brought 300,000 bureaucrats to work, then two hours later sent all 300,000 home again. It made Napoleon's retreat from Moscow look orderly. The fancy $9 billion Metro rail system wouldn't work because -- unlike Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston subways -- it had no heating equipment for outdoor rails. Buses stalled in snow banks. Traffic jams lasted six hours. Oh, I did see two D.C. snow plows. Both had flat tires, abandoned like a couple of Rommel's shot-up tanks. The mess made you understand John F. Kennedy's famous line: "Washington is a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency." For a humbling picture, there was President Reagan -- a leader with fleets in Boeing 747s and Marine helicopters at his command -- being driven from Camp David in a four-wheel-drive van. National and Dulles airports, of course, were glaciers. So the big hotels like Marriott and Sheraton-Washington sold out their $100-a-day rooms. Bars were jammed. One snowbound couple got hitched, possibly out of boredom. So everybody hunkered down to watch the Super Bowl. Then came the Second Whammy, Sunday night's snowstorm that turned Power City USA into a minor-league village. Reagan's chief bureaucrat, Constance Horner, announced, "Only essential workers are to report for work." Confusion -- who was essential? Well, we found out quickly. It wasn't the $70,000 congressmen, the $300,000 lawyers, the $500,000 lobbyists. No, the essential people were, in order: anybody with a four-wheel drive, bartenders, supermarket checkout clerks, tow truck drivers, and any kid who'd shovel a walk for $2. Congress? A few hardy souls straggled into the Capitol, met for five minutes and adjourned. Supreme Court? Closed. Pentagon? Its parking lot was deserted. The inside White House joke: "Where is Don Regan's shovel brigade when we need it?" Only Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., grumped that all 300,000 bureaucrats stayed home. "I hate to see a little snow cost the government $8 million," said Bumpers. Meanwhile, the mayor of the frozen Imperial City, Marion Barry, was in Pasadena Calif., where he presumably had a good view of frozen Washington on his poolside TV set. Asked when he would return, an aide to Mr. Mayor chuckled, "When it stops snowing." Oh, well, the old arrogance will come back. But there was a week when the limos were frozen, the Capitol was an empty igloo, and Power City USA was as humble as Great Falls, Minn. Rare Set of Events Led To Chicago Blackout Special to The New York Times CHICAGO, Dec. 24 -- A rare combination of foggy weather, dirt and the residue of air pollution caused the power failure that left 200,000 residents without electricity for up to 12 hours Tuesday, officials explained today. The power failure, which began about 4:30 A.M., darkened about nine square miles of the city's North Side, including major downtown hotels. The loss of electricity was caused by a shutdown at a power substation on the North Side, according to a spokesman for the Commonwealth Edison Company, Carter Brydon. The cool, damp weather caused condensation to build up on 40 outdoor insulators, which were dirty from air pollutants, said John Maxson, superintendent of the Edison division. The dirty water on the insulators then acted as an electrical conductor, causing a series of short circuits. When crews cleaned the insulators and the built-up moisture, the power was turned back on, causing a "power arc" between two transformers. The blackout occurred when the transformers automatically shut down because of internal safety systems. 2 === Page 5 of 29 El Niño Returns, but Disaster Is Not Foreseen UFO Sun Attack By ERIK ECKHOLM El Niño, the momentous shift in the winds and waters of the tropical Pacific, has returned, but it appears unlikely to bring the widespread climatic disaster it did four years ago, the National Weather Service said yesterday. Data for December indicate that a "moderate" Niño has developed, the Federal scientists said. So far at least, the changes in ocean temperature are small compared with those of the last Niño in 1982-83, which played havoc with the weather on several continents, causing floods and droughts that took more than a thousand lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. Link to Southeast Rains "It's highly unlikely that we will see a series of disastrous consequences like last time," said Vernon Kousky of the Weather Service's Climate Analysis Center. "But it's difficult to say how it will evolve in the next few months." The major effect observed this year has been a decline in the normally heavy rainfall in the Philippines, Indonesia and northern Australia as rains are pushed out into the central Pacific. Wet weather in the Southeastern United States and mild conditions in the Northwest, western Canada and Alaska are also probably linked to the shifts in the tropical Pacific climate, Dr. Kousky said, as are abnormally heavy rains in southern Brazil and eastern Africa and dry conditions in southern Africa. El Niño occurs at irregular intervals of two to seven years and normally lasts one to two years. For reasons that scientists are only beginning to figure out, warm Pacific surface waters, which usually build up near Asia, begin flowing toward South America. Surface winds that normally blow toward Asia weaken or reverse themselves. When the changes are especially strong, as they were four years ago, South American countries along the Pacific are lashed by heavy rains while a sudden warming of coastal waters destroys valuable fisheries. In 1983, atmospheric disturbances brought on by El Niño also caused searing droughts in Australia, Indonesia and southern Africa. This time the warming of surface water in the central Pacific is less marked than in 1983, and most scientists expect the unusual conditions to dissipate rather than to intensify. Although current evidence suggests it will not be a strong one, this year's Niño may be remembered by experts as the first to be successfully predicted by scientific models. Last year at least three scientific teams, using different methods, predicted that a moderate Niño would occur in the fall or winter. Through the summer and fall these scientists watched with interest, and sometimes chagrin, as data gathered by ships, airplanes, buoys and island stations failed to indicate an emerging Niño. In particular, the warming of cold, rich fishing waters off the coast of Peru that often heralds the phenomenon did not occur. But major changes in ocean temperature were occurring farther out in the Pacific, said Stephen E. Zebiak of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, who last winter, with Mark A. Cane, predicted the phenomenon for late 1986. Now, Dr. Zebiak said, scientists can only wait to see whether the changes persist long enough to alter waters near the South American coast, something he does not expect. According to the predictive model developed by Dr. Cane and Dr. Zebiak, this winter's Niño should have begun somewhat earlier than it did and shown certain other traits that have not appeared. But over all, Dr. Zebiak said yesterday, "we feel encouraged about our theory, and with new data from this year we can improve the model." Accurate predictions of Niño-related changes in weather and fishing conditions would be invaluable to farmers, fishermen and governments in many countries, including the United States, said Dr. Kousky of the Federal weather service. On the basis of this year's experience, "we can't say with confidence that we know how to predict" El Niño, he said, "but we're getting closer." El Niño, Spanish for "the child," was named by Peruvian fishermen who often noticed the shifts in ocean temperature around Christmas. Post-Star 11/29/86 Forecasters see wet, stormy winter UFO Sun Attack WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coastal areas from Maine to Texas can expect stormy, wet weather this winter while the south central regions of the country are likely to have lower-than-normal temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Friday. In a long-range forecast, NOAA said that warm Pacific Ocean waters, which could be the harbinger of another El Niño weather phenomenon, would likely make this winter a wet one with increased amounts of either snow or rain in much of the country. The forecast for stormy weather over the next 90 days covered states along the Great Lakes and the coastal states from Maine down to Florida and across the southern part of Texas and into Arizona. NOAA's 90-day forecast said that the chances for below-normal temperatures were centered in Arkansas and portions of the surrounding states of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. NOAA said there was a 60 percent chance that the weather in this area would be colder-than-normal this winter. The forecast for stormy weather was based on a widespread warming in the Pacific Ocean from the Solomon Islands west of Hawaii to near the South American coast. Surface waters in this area have been running between 1 and 3 degrees above normal this fall, according to NOAA long-range forecaster Donald L. Gillman. While such a warming has in the past been a forerunner to an El Niño, Gillman said it was too early to say whether such a weather pattern would develop this time. The last El Niño, in 1982 through 1983, disrupted weather worldwide. 3 === Page 6 of 29 Experts believe chemical process may cause ozone hole WASHINGTON (AP) - The annual disappearance of much of the protective ozone layer over the South Pole appears to be a chemical process that isn't caused by changing weather or solar activity, scientists reported from Antarctica on yesterday. However, they said they could not confirm the leading theory of the cause of the October ozone disappearance - that man-made chlorofluorocarbon chemicals used as refrigeration fluids are responsible. Some of their findings, however, are consistent with that theory. The leader of the expedition, Susan Solomon, a chemist from the Boulder, Colo., lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told a news conference at the National Science Foundation she was "more concerned" than she had been before the expedition, because science has been "unable to come up with an explanation." Solomon and 17 other scientists from government and university laboratories were hurriedly dispatched to Antarctica in August after examination of old satellite data confirmed the unexpected finding of a British team that starting in the 1970s, ozone concentrations had fallen sharply each October. Ozone makes life on earth possible by filtering the ultraviolet rays of the sun. The discovery of the Antarctic hole has accelerated efforts to confirm or refute theories that chlorofluorocarbon emissions will destroy ozone, let more ultraviolet through and thus increase skin cancer, damage crops and livestock and degrade plastics. In December, major producing nations are meeting in Geneva to consider control measures. Other nations refused to go along with a U.S. regulation that banned the chemicals as aerosol propellants in 1978. Solomon, speaking by telephone from the U.S. base at McMurdo Sound, said it was the consensus of her group that its findings are inconsistent with two theories of why much of the ozone disappears: The theory that the depletion is caused by the 11-year cycle of solar activity and that it is caused by a slight change in wind patterns. If the regular variation in solar output were causing the ozone drop, large amounts of nitrogen dioxide should be found at altitudes where the ozone is disappearing - but "the nitrogen dioxide abundances inside the ozone hole are the lowest we have observed anywhere in the world," Solomon said. If changed wind patterns were the cause, nitrous oxide should be found in abundance but that also is "extremely low inside the ozone hole." In addition, tracking of fine particles in the atmosphere by a University of Wyoming team on the expedition shows no evidence of the upward movement of air that would support the wind theory. Though winds may play a role, "we believe that a chemical mechanism is fundamentally responsible for the formation of the hole." The team is also testing hypotheses that the Antarctic phenomenon is caused by wind pressures or sudden bursts of solar energy. But in a message relayed by satellite, the scientists said they had "strong evidence" against those theories, adding: "We suspect a chemical process." The main agent in that process, however, remains uncertain. The scientists did not find active chlorine in the amounts believed necessary to destroy ozone molecules, and the team's leader, Dr. Susan Solomon, said it appeared that chlorofluorocarbons by themselves were not the culprit. The more likely cause, the team found, involves complex interactions of atmospheric gases. Ozone, which is considered a pollutant when breathed, is formed by the action of ultraviolet light on oxygen. The thinning of the ozone layer has been measured in other parts of the globe and increases with distance from the equator. The McMurdo team measured a 40 percent decrease in the ozone there over 20 to 30 days. Milt Freudenheim James Glanz and Laura Mansner Mike Peters Dayton Daily News United Media Group 10/26/86 Chemicals Linked To an Ozone 'Hole' N.Y. Times 10/26/86 Scientists investigating a "hole" in the earth's ozone layer above Antarctica said last week that they were still puzzled about its cause but suspected a "chemical process." The team of American researchers went to McMurdo station to monitor the thin spot in the ozone, which appears each September. Scientists have strongly suspected for a decade that chlorine, and particularly the chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigeration, aerosols and other commercial applications, destroys ozone molecules and thus depletes the stratospheric blanket that filters out most ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Get this Ralph . . . now they think there's a hole in the ozone layer. === Page 7 of 29 Foreclosures Soaring in Texas Geo. Morn. News 10/13/86 The Associated Press Texas PK HIGHLAND PARK, Texas - Mansions valued at six figures are joining thousands of modest tract houses on the auction block as economic hard times stir up a blizzard of foreclosure notices in virtually every neighborhood in Texas. In the Dallas suburbs of Highland Park and University Park, speculators who once struck gold by redeveloping lots are left holding half-million-dollar palaces that nobody wants to buy. Seventy-seven foreclosures have been posted in the "Park Cities" this year, compared to 14 for all of 1985, according to Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. In River Oaks and Hedwick Village, Houston neighborhoods where Mercedes are more common than crab grass, mansions are being marketed at fire sale rates by hard-pressed owners who seek to get out with credit and reputation intact. Residential foreclosures in Houston increased from 9,075 in 1984 to 17,393 in 1985, said Nicki Brandt of Baca Publications, a Houston firm that reports on real estate activity. She said through eight months of 1986, there were 16,703 foreclosures in the area. More than 40,000 properties have gone on the foreclosure auction block in the last two years in Texas as the energy, agriculture and real estate industries slump, and several times that number have been "posted," or notified of intent to foreclose. "They are all over the place," says Ken Edelman of Bacca. "They're in just about every neighborhood you can think of." In the Park Cities, for example, many of those in trouble are energy company executives, said William Brueggeman, professor of real estate at Southern Methodist University's Edwin L. Cox School of Business. "But the more significant problem is that it was an extremely hot market for six solid years and an incredible price appreciation was going on in the Park Cities," he said. "Twenty percent a year for six years is not out of line." Brueggeman said skyrocketing valuations left many small, older homes sitting on lots worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Developers scrambled to buy the sites and raze the old houses to build modern, spacious homes, usually on borrowed money. The houses then sold for $500,000 to $700,000. "For a two- to three-year period, there was a brisk market but they basically overdid it," he said. The market softened, and banks started foreclosing. Texas PK Texas has gone broke. Rich are losing + selling homes. Oil bus. stopped + industries sailing + losing up shop. Hou K. PK OSB 9/30/86 Chernobyl Area Lifeless, American Doctor Reports LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Dr. Robert Gale, who treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, said Monday he was most affected by an aerial view of the eerily silent plant encircled by miles of lifelessness. Gale, a bone marrow transplant specialist from Los Angeles, told a news conference that the April 26 disaster undermines theories about the survivability of nuclear war. "The radiation from Chernobyl was one-tenth that of the smallest nuclear weapon," Gale said. "And we were working under optimum conditions, with plenty of doctors available, hospitals intact. "So if it discourages that feeling (of being able to survive nuclear war), Chernobyl would mean something." Gale said he was not "for or against nuclear energy," but said of nuclear testing and nuclear power plants, "neither one is good for your health." He said a helicopter tour of the Chernobyl plant revealed a typical-looking, though heavily damaged building. "But in an 18- to 20-mile circumference around the plant, there was no sign of life," Gale recalled. He said he was struck by "the disparity of destruction and the accident's huge impact on mankind." 5 === Page 8 of 29 The Daily Press, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1986 # Toxic 'red tide' plagues Texas Gulf Coast CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- A toxic "red tide" that has killed millions of fish along Texas' Gulf Coast has moved into Mexican waters and could linger until the end of the year if temperatures do not drop, officials said yesterday. Since the explosion of microscopic organisms appeared in late August near Galveston, officials in this city of 250,000 have closed beaches to swimmers, and the oyster harvest, which was scheduled to open Nov. 1, has been suspended from south of Galveston to the Mexican border. Merchants complain that publicity about the red tide has hurt business and scared off tourists. For now, authorities and businessmen are hoping for a cold front that will drop water temperatures to 60 degrees or lower, a level that hinders red tide. The water temperature has been in the upper 70s to the 80s, and a dip to 60 may not occur until mid-December or later, said Pat Patterson, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi. Hal Osburn, harvest program leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's marine laboratory in Rockport, said yesterday the red tide was about 1 to 4 miles wide from Port O'Connor to the Mexican border, a distance of about 170 miles. "It could be up to 3,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico that has some red tide in it," Osburn said. It has killed pinheads, hardheads, catfish, mullets and some large redfish, said Frank Judd, director of the Pan American University Coastal Studies Laboratory at South Padre Island. The red tide has stabilized off the coast, he said, but officials are concerned that it will enter the Laguna Madre, a nursery for shrimp, oysters and other fish located between Port Isabel and South Padre Island. "There's really nothing to prevent it from moving in there," Judd said. "It can change overnight." Judd said the worst day for the red tide was last Thursday, when people were coughing and experiencing irritated eyes and noses because of the toxins. ## Red Tide Forces Closing Of Texas Coast Beaches CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Oct. 15 -- A red tide of toxic organisms that has killed hundreds of thousands of fish on the Texas coast forced the closing of Corpus Christi beaches yesterday and spread south almost to the Mexican border. Corpus Christi marine specialist Charlie Fulton said the 1.5 miles of public beach in the city limits were closed at 3:15 p.m. as the red tide crept toward the shore. "The red tide is just barely off shore," Fulton said. He said signs reading, "Beaches Closed by Order of the Health Department" will be posted, and "there won't be any fishing, swimming, wind surfing or crabbing allowed on the beaches, probably for the next several days." A state biologist said yesterday that a cold front was expected to stall the red tide that has plagued the Texas coast for seven weeks, instead spread it nearly all the way to the Mexican border. # Migration to Sun Belt at turning point WASHINGTON (AP) -- The flow of Americans to the Sun Belt has reached a turning point, with population experts puzzling over what the future will bring as patterns of movement to Florida, Texas and California undergo major changes. The three big Sun Belt states continue to grow as they attract movers from the chilly Northeast and Midwest, but the longstanding patterns of movement among states in the South and West have disintegrated, report population experts Alvin J. Sanders and Larry Long. "We are at a turning point in U.S. migration. But the migration patterns of the past have not yet been replaced by any clear new pattern," they report in the January issue of American Demographics magazine. "We cannot tell whether a long period of equilibrium between the states in the South and West has just begun, or whether historic migration patterns are about to reverse," say Long and Sanders. Long is a population researcher at the Census Bureau, while Sanders is an economist at the Tennessee Valley Authority. American Demographics, published by Dow Jones & Co., specializes in population issues. The researchers note that Texas, which gained heavily in population as the oil-based economy boomed in recent years, has begun losing people to other states. Often when a state experiences a sharp gain there is a subsequent flow to nearby states, they note, a phenomenon now occurring in Texas. The Northeast, Midwest and Southeast all contributed to Texas' growth. The widely publicized Michigan-to-Texas migration flow of recent years had diminished as economic problems befall the Lone Star State, they say, and "it's likely the number of people leaving Texas for Michigan now surpasses the number going the other way." 6 === Page 9 of 29 # Off L.I., a Lethal 'Brown Tide' Puzzles Aquatic Scientists ## Algae Bloom Devastates Lush Marine Ecosystem By THOMAS J. KNUDSON Special to The New York Times 11/7/86 RIVERHEAD, L.I., Nov. 6 -- Eighteen months after it began, an algae bloom known here as the "brown tide" continues to baffle the experts. They still have not learned what is causing it. They have not learned why it is lethal to marine life. They are still uncertain what it eats, how it breeds or how it survives the winter. And they do not know how to control it. It has become one of the most puzzling biological phenomena to sweep through Long Island's waters in decades -- an algae bloom so destructive that it has transformed the region's lush marine ecosystem into an underwater desert. It has destroyed vast beds of bay scallops and mussels, wiped out large stands of aquatic plants and stolen a special beauty from the region's waters. "This is something that had not been documented before," said a marine scientist with the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dr. Scott Siddall. "So no one recognized it." ### Reappearance Is Expected Many scientists now believe the brown tide will be back again next spring. "The fact that it has occurred two years in succession is ominous," said Elizabeth M. Cosper, an assistant research professor with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "If we had to put our money down, we say you better bet it's coming back." "This is something we'll have to live with in the long term and learn to deal with," Dr. Siddall said. "My opinion is that it we will be powerless to prevent it and nearly powerless to control it." The scientists investigating the brown tide work much like detectives, searching every possible avenue for clues to the cause of the bloom. They have combed through old weather data, examined tidal charts, checked pollution sources, consulted algae experts overseas and even interviewed old-time scallop fishermen. "From a basic biological viewpoint, the bloom presents a fascinating problem," Dr. Cosper said. "Why is it that this particular species seems to be blooming over this broad area at this time?" Although no one has yet answered that question, the scientists at Stony Brook, where much of the research on the brown tide is being conducted, are looking into various possibilities, including a shortage of rainfall in the New York region, environmental contamination and global climatic changes. If the bloom does return next year, it would be disastrous to Long Island's already endangered scallop industry, which in a normal year is worth $800,000 to $1.3 million to fishermen. It could also destroy the millions of hatchery-grown scallops that have been reseeded into the bays this fall at a cost of over $160,000 to local, county and state agencies. The brown tide has so far been detected on Long Island in Peconic Bay, Gardiners Bay, Shinnecock Bay, Moriches Bay and Great South Bay. It has also been found New Jersey's Barnegat Bay and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In October, more than 80 officials from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the Federal Government met in Hauppauge for a conference on the brown tide sponsored by the New York Secretary of State, Gail S. Shaffer. The meeting was barred to the press, but scientists who attended said they discussed everything from possible causes for the bloom to its impact on the coastal economy and the marine environment. ### 'We Know So Little' "We are still trying to figure out what's going on with the brown tide," said William Dennison, an assistant research professor with the State University's Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook. "We know so little about the ocean." Until last winter, researchers did not even know what kind of organism was causing the bloom. It turned out to be a type of phytoplankton previously unknown to science. The organism, which was named Aureococcus anorexefferens by a Rhode Island scientist, is about 10 to 20 times smaller in diameter than normal phytoplankton, the microscopic plants that form the foundation of the ocean's food chain. Scientists are looking into the effects of the climate on the algae. On Long Island, 1985 was the second-driest year on record, and this year was also unusually dry, Dr. Siddall said. "These sorts of drought conditions may not directly initiate the bloom, but they may set the stage for other factors, both physical and biological, that do," he said. For example, Dr. Siddall said, the dry weather contributes to a temporary lowering of the sea level in the region. "That would alter the tidal flushing patterns and affect the quality of sea water," Dr. Siddall said. ### Possible Factors "Biologically, there are certain types of zooplankton -- microscopic animals -- that graze on algae blooms. And they may be affected by the changes in sunlight, temperature, salinity and so forth. They may not be present to prevent these blooms from over-running the system," Dr. Siddall said. Scientists are not ruling out pollution. "The fact that some members of the class of phytoplankton causing the bloom have unique phosphorus requirements is interesting," said a professor of biological sciences at Stony Brook, Dr. Edward J. Carpenter. "It's only been a few years since Suffolk County passed a law allowing phosphorus-based detergents. "This is very controversial, but it could be that phosphorus from detergents is entering our ground water and surface runoff and then our bays. This could possibly be a factor in stimulating these blooms," Dr. Carpenter said. Another possibility is that the bloom is influenced by broad global factors. "Algae blooms are becoming more common globally," Dr. Siddall said. "But is this because there has been a change in man's activity, is it climatological or is it just because our methods of detection are better? The answers are unclear." ### Scallops Devastated There is one thing clear about the bloom: It has devastated Long Island's scallop industry. "A bayman should be able to go out and spend an hour and a half and get his limit of 10 bushels," said Dr. Siddall. "The other day, some baymen went out and they got 15 scallops." Scientists have had difficulty finding money for brown tide research. "As far as I'm concerned, things have almost ground to a halt," Dr. Carpenter said. "We're maintaining the organism in the lab and doing a limited amount of electron microscopy, but we can't tackle all the questions we need to." So far, the Marine Sciences Research Center has received $121,000 -- primarily from Suffolk County -- to work on the brown tide, far short of what is actually needed, Dr. Siddall said. "Environmental research is extremely expensive," he said. One immediate goal is to develop better methods of predicting when and where the bloom will occur and detecting its presence at very low levels. "If we can figure out that certain conditions are conducive to the bloom, then we can warn the scallop industry," Dr. Cosper said. "You have to think of it in terms of the weather. You can't do much about the weather, but you sure want to know if it's going to rain today." === Page 10 of 29 # Decline of Oyster Crop Stirs Concern By FRANCES FRANK MARCUS Special to The New York Times 11/28/86 EMPIRE, La. -- It has been said here that south Louisiana's wetlands are so rich you can find oysters growing in the marsh grass, stuck to an old tin can or a chunk of wood. There is talk of oysters as big as dinner plates. But this fall the talk is not about abundance or size but scarcity. Louisiana's oyster crop, almost one-third of the oysters sold in the nation, is in deep decline, by as much as 75 percent according to some estimates. And there are fears for the future, not only for oysters but for the Louisiana marshes, which feed the oysters and the state economy. The national crop is in decline as well. According to biologists, fishermen and dealers, production is down significantly in all the major oyster-producing states, from the Chesapeake Bay area to Florida to West Texas, although there are no national statistics showing exactly how much. People in the oyster industry say the causes are varied: drought, disease, three hurricanes in 1985, pollution, overharvesting and, in the area west of Galveston, Tex., red tide, a mass of microscopic organisms that kill fish by releasing a toxin. But the common thread is drought, which has spurred the growth of tiny protozoan parasites and other sea creatures that kill oysters but are not harmful to humans. **A Worrisome National Trend** Oysters have declined in the past and then become bountiful, biologists say, but the current decline has many experts worried. "It's a national problem," said Fred Kern, a biologist with the National Marine Fishery Service in Maryland. "I guess the impact of disease is greatest at present because we don't have massive stocks like we had at the turn of the century. "With stocks being reduced for almost 25 years, every time you have a major reduction because of disease, the resource never really gets back to the productivity you had before you lost it." The oyster crop in Long Island's Peconic Bay was devastated in 1985 by brown tide, a mysterious algae bloom that has destroyed much marine life around Long Island. It has not recovered. There is a commercial oyster hatchery in Oyster Bay, according to William Wise, director of the Living Marine Resources Institute at the State University at Stony Brook, but the wild oyster harvest is defunct. In the Chesapeake Bay area since the late 1950's, the protozoan parasites to blame are the Haplosporidium nelsoni, or MSX, and the Perkinsus marinus, or Dermo, a problem along the South Atlantic and the Gulf coasts. They attack oysters when waterways become saltier, as happened in the drought this summer. Culprits in Louisiana include the Dermo and the oyster drill, a saltwater snail. Biologists say the Dermo can wipe out an oyster bed in one season. "Yes, the oyster situation is somewhat critical," said Roy Martin, executive director of the Shellfish Institute of North America. The Chesapeake Bay area, which once supplied 80 percent of the oysters in the nation, has been "in bad shape for a long time," he said. "Gulf oysters were trucked up to plants in Virginia and Maryland," he said. "Now, with problems in the Gulf, that puts a strain on the whole system." Oystermen in Louisiana, now the nation's top producer, with a 1985 crop worth almost $24 million at dockside, describe the season as "a catastrophe," the worst in at least 40 years. "It's an emergency situation," said Michael Voisin, president of the Louisiana Oyster Dealers and Growers Association. He said the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation was concerned about the situation and was looking into ways to restore the industry through aquaculture, reseeding oyster beds and rebuilding depleted reefs, which oysters use as an anchor and to obtain nourishment. The poor season has led to higher prices, a particularly unwelcome development for oyster lovers in Louisiana, which is trying to cope with the collapse of oil prices and with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, 12.9 percent at latest count. A bushel-and-a-half sack of oysters, which sold last year for $12, now sells for $14 to $16, and Mr. Voisin said the price might rise to $24 a sack. **A Worry for the Future** In Maryland, fishermen have reported oyster mortalities "in many areas of 40 to 50 percent," said Randall Schneider, a state biologist. "The primary problem is MSX," he said. The more worrisome questions here concern the future. Though the immediate cause of higher salinity is drought, which deprives the coastal estuaries of fresh water, the state's waters in general are becoming saltier because of coastal erosion. Studies show that Louisiana, which has 41 percent of the nation's wetlands, is losing coastal land at an unusually fast rate. The loss of this land, which is being accelerated by thousands of miles of canals dug by the oil and gas industry, is allowing the salty Gulf to surge in with winds and tides. Here in Plaquemines Parish, a prime oyster nursery, scientists say wetlands are being lost to open water at a rate of 6,500 acres a year. **Oyster Zone Moves Inland** Mark Chatry, a state biologist, said the increasing salinity had moved the oyster zone farther inland, "away from the best" habitat and toward pollution from development to the north. John Tesvich, a third-generation oysterman, said his harvest was down 30 to 40 percent. Aboard his 58-foot oyster boat, The Gusto, was grim proof of the extra salt in Bay Adams, historically one of Louisiana's most productive oyster habitats. Among the oysters caught one recent morning were snails, full from an oyster feast. Mr. Tesvich, who works out of the Empire Marina, also pointed out that activity was unusually quiet for this time of year. In past Novembers, he said, 40 to 50 oyster boats were based at the marina. But recently, he said, "there are one or two." D. D. Sercovich, another oysterman, said the biggest problem in the oyster industry was the fishermen themselves. "There are too many fishermen and the equipment itself is so efficient, we're killing ourselves," he said. He accused the state bureaucracy of contributing to the problem by being lax in enforcing fishery regulations, including restrictions on harvesting oysters less than three inches long. Despite the gloom in the marshes this fall, there is room for optimism. Biologists here and elsewhere emphasize that the oyster crop is cyclical, with valleys and peaks. They also say that plentiful rainfall this winter and spring would drive out disease and predators, allowing oysters to thrive. For the long haul, Plaquemines officials plan to adopt a $20 million plan to stabilize the marshes, partly with the use of siphons bearing fresh water from the Mississippi. But the parish needs money from the Federal Government and the state to carry out the plan. And because oil prices are low, state money is scarcer than oysters. The New York Times/David P. Fornell Sorting oysters after dredging them out of the Gulf of Mexico, top; the oyster boat Gusto near Empire, La., above. === Page 11 of 29 3 mob bosses get 100 years Post-Star 1/14/87 NEW YORK (AP) -- Three of the Mafia's top bosses were sentenced Tuesday to 100 years each in jail by a federal judge who said he wanted to give their would-be successors something to think about. The bosses of the Colombo, Genovese and Lucchese organized crime families were given the century-long terms for membership on a commission that had settled disputes, divided loot and occasionally ordered rubouts for the Mafia since Prohibition. U.S. District Judge Richard Owen said he had to send a message "to those out there who are undoubtedly thinking about taking over the reins of power." And authorities cautioned that the convictions and sentences did not mean the end of the mob in America. "The worst mistake we can make is to declare a final victory" Thomas L. Sheer, head of the FBI's New York office said following the sentencing of the bosses and five mob underlings at federal court in Manhattan. "I can't say it's the end of the commission," U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said at a news conference in his office after the sentencings. "But it makes it much more difficult to operate that kind of an operation." Giuliani said the commission sentencings and other mob prosecutions were sending the message to potential organized crime leaders that "this is not a profitable way to lead your life. It's really a dumb way." Owen sentenced the defendants, who were all in the courtroom, one at a time and said his comments to the first, Genovese boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, 76, of Rhinebeck, applied to all. "You sir, in my opinion, essentially spent all your lifetime terrorizing this community to your financial gain," he told Salerno. The other top bosses sentenced to a century were Carmine "Junior" Persico, 53, of Brooklyn, head of the Colombos, and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, 73, of Oyster Bay Cove, the boss of the Lucchese mob. Owen characterized Salerno and Persico as "feeding on this community through murders and violence and threats of murders and violence." Most of the defendants declined to speak in court but Persico, who took the unusual step of serving as his own attorney during the trial, told Owen: "This case was prejudiced from the very first day." "The attitude of the prosecutors and the court itself was in keeping" with the "Mafia mania" that pervaded the case," he said. Owen sentenced four of the five mob underlings convicted with the others last November to 100 years apiece. Bonanno crime family soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, 38, of Manhattan, was only charged with two racketeering counts and received the maximum 40 years for those crimes. Teamsters head has surgery Post-Star 1/14/87 CLEVELAND (AP) -- Teamsters President Jackie Presser underwent what was described as successful surgery Tuesday to remove a tumor on his lung, a spokesman for Presser said. Presser, 60, underwent the surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to remove the isolated tumor, which was discovered in a routine checkup, said John Climaco, Presser's attorney and spokesman. "There were no complications and complete recovery is expected," he said in a statement. Climaco could not be reached for further comment on whether the tumor was malignant. "We have no report on that at all," said hospital spokeswoman Rosemary Haiun. Judge Sentences Mafia's Leaders To Prison Terms 8 Draw 40 to 100 Years in 'Commission' Case NY Times 1/14/87 By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH Prison sentences of 40 to 100 years were imposed yesterday on eight men convicted as top leaders and key associates of the "commission" that ruled the Mafia in the United States. In imposing the stringent sentences in a crowded courtroom of Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Richard Owen castigated the defendants as ruthless racketeers who operated the Mafia's "board of directors." Judge Owen gave 100-year sentences to seven defendants convicted of numerous charges and a 40-year sentence to the other defendant, who was convicted of two charges that carried a maximum of 20 years each. 9 === Page 12 of 29 AFTER 7 MONTHS, STILL NO TRACE Ocala SB 1/6/85 # Holiday Gift Remains For Missing Dad By TOM SAUL Staff Writer The Christmas present left for Frank Roszkowski under the tree remains unopened as his daughter, Joanne Nasworth, her two children and her mother marked the seventh month since he walked out of their lives. "We put it there hoping he would be here to open it but he never did," said Mrs. Nasworth of her father, who simply walked away from his Ocala home May 27 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Roszkowski, 67, a former meter man with the City of Ocala, had been treated for depression and anxiety following his retirement a year earlier because "he just couldn't seem to find anything to do with himself," Mrs. Nasworth said. "Before he retired he thought when he finally did it everything would be wonderful, but when he did do it everything wasn't so wonderful anymore," Mrs. Nasworth said. The woman said her father had never really had any hobbies and that his mind just snapped," Mrs. Nasworth said. "He must have left here in the middle of the night with nothing but the clothes on his back. Since then, we have heard nothing, nothing. It's like he went outside and a UFO picked him up and he just vanished off the face of the earth." Mrs. Nasworth said she called Ocala police and filed a missing person report, but has received no news. "I called my ex-father-in-law who is a CBer (citizens band radio operator) and he's gotten on a national network with a description, I made up flyers and sent them out to police departments, bus and train stations in major cities across the country and I even went down to skidrow in Orlando one weekend to look," Mrs. Nasworth said. But her efforts have been unsuccessful and she has not been able to find one shred of information on where her father might be. It's been frustrating, she said, because there is really no where to turn for help in locating missing adults. "It's not like with missing children. After Adam Walsh (a Florida boy whose disappearance and subsequent slaying prompted a flood of child protection laws) disappeared, all kinds of agencies were set up where you could get help," Mrs. Nasworth said. She still holds out hope that her father is alive, Mrs. Nasworth said, "because if he were dead he probably would have turned up somewhere and I would have heard about it. "If he were dead, at least we could mourn him, but it's the fact that we don't know that's really tearing us up," Mrs. Nasworth said. She is hoping that one of her flyers will catch the eye of someone who has seen her father and will call her with information on where he can be found. "He was always saying he wanted to go back to Pennsylvania (where he was originally from)." Mrs. Nasworth described Roszkowski as having medium height and weight with grey crewcut and green eyes. He was last seen wearing brown slacks and a white sports shirt. ![Frank Roszkowski] Frank Roszkowski when the novelty of not going into work every day had worn off he found he had nothing to do. "He was the type that had always worked but never really developed any hobbies. I'm sure that he was just sitting up that night thinking about it and === Page 13 of 29 # Fort Ann man greets intruders with gun blast By Sarah Hamilton Staff Writer 1/6/81 Post Star FORT ANN - After being burglarized two years ago, Arthur Stiles said Monday, he decided he would be prepared next time. The 69-year-old apparently received his chance early Monday morning - when he confronted two alleged intruders in his home with a shotgun blast. Robert Gorton, 21, of Glens Falls was listed in stable condition at Glens Falls Hospital Monday night after the incident. Stiles found Gorton in his kitchen and shot him in the shoulder with a small-gauge shotgun, Washington County District Attorney Gordon Hemmett said. "As I understand it, the man in the hospital has not been charged," Hemmett said. The state police did charge Louis Anthony Beames Jr., 20, of Glens Falls, on a count of second-degree burglary in connection with the incident, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department dispatcher. Beames was being held in the Washington County Jail on a $20,000 cash bond, Hemmett said Monday. "I would have killed them if they hadn't left," Stiles said of the shooting in an interview Monday. "I had a gun that could kill them," he said. The gun Stiles used was full of bird shot, he said. Stiles said he fired once. "I didn't shoot anymore but I was all ready to if they didn't leave," he said. Stiles lives alone on a farm in Fort Ann. "I wasn't scared; I've been expecting it," Stiles said. In 1984 "two men caught me asleep, beat me up, robbed me and almost killed me," he said. "I've been ready for it (a burglary) ever since. I wasn't scared the other time but I thought my time had come." Stiles said he woke up and answered the phone when it rang about 4 a.m. Monday. The person on the other end of the line asked if John was there, he said. After he told them no, Stiles said the person hung up. "Quite awhile afterwards the phone rang again," he continued. This time he said he let it ring many times without answering it. Then, at about 5:40 a.m., Stiles said he heard someone smash a kitchen window. He said he left his bedroom and went downstairs, grabbing a shotgun. "I saw a man standing in the kitchen," Stiles said. "I pulled the shotgun up and shot. It was pitch dark. A lot of fire came out of the barrel." Stiles said all he could see was the silhouette of a man and that he aimed at that shape. "The shot spread out both sides of them and made dents in the refrigerator but they weren't too bad," Stiles said. "A man let out a yell and fell down flat on the floor," Stiles said. Although he said he did not know whether the man who yelled was helped from the floor or if he got up on his own, Stiles said the pair left through the smashed window. "They left real fast. I guess the man wasn't wounded awful bad. It was bird shot," Stiles said. Stiles said that after the two men left, he called the state police. The police found the two men at the hospital, Stiles said. "One man turned himself into the hospital," Hemmett said. "I understand he was shot in the shoulder." Hemmett said Beames spoke with the state police and was charged. Hemmett said he did not know if Beames surrendered to the police or if they approached him first. Stiles has not been charged with any crime. "They (the state police) didn't talk as if I could" be charged, Stiles said. "They told me I did just as I should have done." Hemmett said it is the job of the grand jury to review the case and determine if Stiles should be charged. "The law does not encourage people to shoot at other people. But there are circumstances that permit it," he said. State police said they were continuing their investigation into the case. === Page 14 of 29 Burglars was just a case of Beames falling in with bad company," Hemmett out-explained. "That's not going to fly this time." The attack on Stiles' home last week was not completely without warning. Naturally more wary because of the earlier break-in and assault, Stiles said two phone calls during the night had alerted him that something could possibly happen. He was neither scared nor totally surprised when it did occur. Stiles said a phone call from someone who asked for "John" first woke him at 4 a.m. Monday. When it rang again later on, he did not answer and it rang "for a long time." At approximately 5:40 a.m. he heard glass shattering in the kitchen and went to the front hallway with his .410 shotgun, the smallest gauge made, loaded with bird-shot. When he saw one of the men standing in front of the kitchen door, he fired the gun across the dining room into the kitchen, wounding the invader. "He let out a terrible yell and laid out flat on the floor," Stiles recalled. "I heard another man yell 'sorry, man, I'll pull him out.'" Both fled the scene, leaving the kitchen covered with broken glass and apparently leaving an open jack-knife on Stiles' front porch. The birdshot left several dents in his refrigerator. State Police from the South Glens Falls station, investigating the crime, interviewed Gorton after he appeared at Glens Falls hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds. Beames was also interviewed and both men were charged. Hemmett, who took over the investigation from the police, said Beames was arraigned Monday evening and to the best of his knowledge, Gorton was arraigned also, later in the week. Stiles said his shotgun was taken away as evidence and is scheduled to give his account of the incident to the Grand Jury in February. But until then, he said he'll protect his home if necessary. "If they come back I'll be ready for them," he said. "Next time it will be a higher-powered gun because they took away my little one." He added that the neighborhood is much more cautious now than in the past. "People around here never Continued on page 5 Burglars used to lock their doors, but they do now." Hemmett said that whether or not Mr. Stiles acted prudently in the incident could not be determined based on other, similar cases. "You have to take each case based on its own facts." Hemmett also criticized certain television and newspaper reports which he said distorted the focus of his investigation, leading people to think he was prosecuting Mr. Stiles. "People don't understand -- I'm not looking to prosecute Mr. Stiles," Hemmett said. "But it's my job to present all the facts to the Grand Jury." 1/12/87 Free Press 'If they come back I'll be ready!' Fort Ann man defends home and property; DA says he is not likely to be charged By James F. Brophy Fort Ann resident Arthur Stiles, after foiling an attempted burglary on his home last Monday by wounding one of the intruders with his shotgun, is not likely to be charged with any crime when the case is brought before the Grand Jury in February. Washington County District Attorney Gordon M. Hemmett, Jr. said that although it is certainly within the power of the Grand Jury to bring charges against Mr. Stiles, it is not likely to happen in his opinion. "Mr. Stiles will only be at the hearing to tell the facts of the shooting," Hemmett said in an interview Thursday. "The main thing the Grand Jury will be concerned with is the charges (against the suspects)." The burglary was the second time in 2-1/2 years that Stiles' South Bay Rd. home has suffered a break-in. One of the suspects in Monday's attempt, 20-year-old Louis A. Beames of Glens Falls, was involved in a robbery of the home in 1984 along with felon Kenneth Leary. Stiles was badly beaten by one or both of the men on that occasion, Hemmett said. This time Beames has been charged with burglary, second degree along with the other suspect, Robert Gorton, 21, also of Glens Falls. Because Beames had become a state's witness in the previous case against Leary, he received only a year in prison after pleading a felony, Hemmett said. Leary received a "long sentence," according to the DA, the maximum sentence for robbery. "At that time we thought it Continued on page 2 === Page 15 of 29 NY Times Emergency Food Aid Grants Backed for Drought Victims UFO Sun Attack 1/28/87 ROME, Jan. 27 (Reuters) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today that it had approved more than $6.7 million worth of emergency food aid grants for drought victims in Guatemala and refugees in Pakistan, Honduras and Zaire. A grant of just under $2.9 million has been approved to provide corn, rice, dried milk and other foods to Guatemala in support of the Government's relief efforts for 100,000 victims. # More rain keeping Midwesterners away from their flooded homes Associated Press Sun/Post Ripple 10/3/86 Another onslaught of winds and rain kept more than 13,000 people away from their homes in the Midwest on Thursday and ripped off roofs in Oklahoma City, while Illinois called out the National Guard to help patrol flooded areas. Floodwaters up to 6 feet deep flowed through some Illinois neighborhoods, the legacy of weather systems that stalled about 10 days ago. Ten deaths in the Midwest have been blamed on weather-related incidents, from heart attacks to traffic accidents, since Sept. 20. Meanwhile, forecasters fretted over Paine, a Pacific hurricane that moved ashore in Mexico with a fresh load of moisture. While the storm's progress was uncertain, meteorologists said it could combine with the stubborn Midwestern front to produce a whammy. In Michigan, rain had fallen for 23 straight days by Thursday and was expected to continue through Saturday. Gov. James Blanchard announced the release of $1 million to aid flood-stricken farmers. In Illinois, where damage was estimated at more than $30 million, nearly 16 inches of rain had fallen since Sept. 1 in the northeast, most of that since Sept. 22. "What we need is four or five sunny days to get out of the woods," Gregg Durham, a spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency, said Thursday. Winds surrounding a tornado damaged at least 88 homes in The Village, an Oklahoma City suburb, but there were no reports of injuries, authorities said. Rains continued for the fourth day, with 2½ inches dumped on Oklahoma City in half an hour as the tornado moved through. see "double whammy" p. 2 # Winter storms wreak havoc across nation UFO Sun Attack 1/20/87 The Associated Press Post-Star A snowstorm blamed for at least 12 deaths plowed across the Midwest on Monday with more snow and ice, shutting down several Indiana counties and stranding hundreds of travelers and closing schools across the Plains states. Winter storm warnings were up for parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York state and southern New England. Heavy rain along the storm's southern edge caused flooding that forced evacuations of nearly 300 people and washed out tracks that derailed 35 cars of a freight train in Alabama. In the storm's wake, Oklahoma dug out from one of its worst snowstorms in decades, and New Mexico's National Guard continued hauling supplies to rural residents snowbound by up to 50 inches of snow and 7-foot drifts. Slippery and blowing and drifting snow in Indiana led officials in six counties to close roads to all but emergency vehicles Monday. Chalmers had 10 inches of snow by midday. Many north-central Indiana counties declared snow emergencies, and parts of Interstate 65 north of Lafayette were closed in the afternoon by blowing, drifting snow. Up to 11½ inches of snow fell in southern Michigan, accumulating at 2 inches per hour in places, and minor traffic accidents were reported as wind-blown snow reduced visibility to near zero. State police briefly closed Interstate 96 near Howell. Travelers had to wait out the storm at truck stops, churches and restaurants in Oklahoma and northwestern Texas. "But these Yankees aren't too pleased with Oklahoma's snow removal," said Linda Kelly, owner of a restaurant and motel at El Reno. "I keep telling them this is the worst we've had since the 1970s and it doesn't justify the expense of buying those snowplows when we don't get snow like this." The Highway Patrol said Interstate 40 west of Oklahoma City remained very hazardous Monday, and Ms. Kelly said only one lane was open in each direction. Sumner County, Kan., along the Oklahoma border, got 14 inches of snow, its average for an entire winter. About 200 schools and colleges were closed in Oklahoma. Some schools also were closed in parts of Texas, Missouri and Indiana. Indiana State University at Terre Haute shut down. In New Mexico, where four counties were declared disaster areas after up to 50 inches of snow. A session of Missouri's state Senate was canceled, and in Oklahoma a parade and Capitol ceremony in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were postponed. Cars and trucks were forced to stop along Interstate 70 in Missouri during the night because of reduced visibility in blowing snow, the National Weather Service said. Columbia got 10 inches of snow. 13 === Page 16 of 29 Sun-Times 10/15/86 # Flooding leaves towns cut off ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- A freak North Pacific typhoon that produced disastrous flooding left several towns cut off yesterday, as the National Guard stepped up its relief to hundreds of people forced to leave their homes. Military helicopters flew food to stranded people and eight planeloads of food were flown in for stranded sled dogs. Lt. Mike Haller said 135 men and nine helicopters ferried thousands of pounds of food and supplies to people trapped by floodwaters that sliced through roads and railroads. # Floods, winds and tornadoes wreak damage across Midwest * Bay area to stay warm -- 1B Sun Attack 9/30/86 Associated Press Storms in the Midwest caused millions of dollars of flood damage in Illinois and prompted evacuations in Oklahoma, while in the West, a small Montana town protected by 50-year-old dikes was surrounded by rising water. Storms wreaked wind and tornado damage from Kansas to Michigan, where lightning ignited a house fire Monday that killed one person. Lt. Gov. George Ryan, who toured the streets of Gurnee, Ill., in a boat, pronounced the scene "probably the worst flooding I've seen in Illinois." "The entire village of Gurnee is gone," said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Townsend. "The police are patrolling in boats. The situation is very, very bad." Main Street in Gurnee, just west of Waukegan and north of Chicago, was under 2 feet of water Monday, and officials at the Gurnee Elementary School reported 5 feet of water in some classrooms. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared Lake County a state disaster area. The state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency estimated damage in Lake County at more than $10 million, following about 10 inches of rain in a week. But Frank Winans, coordinator of emergency services for the county sheriff, said county officials estimated the damage at as high as $20 million. Much of the Lake County flooding came from the Des Plaines River. Police in Kingfisher, in north central Oklahoma, evacuated approximately 300 homes as creeks rose toward flood stage Monday after more than 7 inches of rain fell in the afternoon. The National Weather Service predicted overflows of 2 to 3 feet. Saco, Mont., was surrounded by water from a swollen tributary of the Milk River, which itself has flooded other areas of northern Montana. Mayor Gregg Menge said he would call for additional volunteers to reinforce the town's aging levees and sandbag dikes. Michigan's Lower Peninsula braced Monday for up to 2 more inches of rain that threatened to renew the flooding which caused millions in damage earlier in the month. # Flooding keeps 2,650 families away from their homes in Illinois Sun-Times 10/1/86 Tribune Wires Floods kept approximately 2,650 families away from their homes Tuesday in Illinois after a spate of heavy storms that caused millions of dollars in damage from the Plains to the Great Lakes and burst a dam in Wisconsin. A tornado struck northwestern Pennsylvania community of Cambridge Springs on Tuesday, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. The East sweltered in summer-like heat as temperatures on the last day of September soared into the 80s and 90s from Maine to Virginia, breaking records right and left. In Montana, the waters of the Milk River continued to recede, although the river remained out of its banks for the fifth day along a stretch of nearly 100 miles, and water from a creek engorged to a mile wide surrounded the small town of Saco. Water from the burst dam on Lawrence Lake in Marquette County, Wis., was flowing into low-lying areas where up to 1,500 people live, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, said Dave Cihlar of the sheriff's department. Residents of low-lying areas were being evacuated Tuesday evening. High water, wind, tornadoes and lightning also contributed to damage in areas from Kansas to Michigan, and forecasters said more rain was on the way. "We've got a lot of flood water. We've got a little looting, and we've got some traffic problems But otherwise, we're doing pretty good," said Howard Watson, director of the Kingfisher City-County Civil Defense in Oklahoma, which oversaw the evacuation of 300 residents. The flooding in Illinois left about 2,650 families homeless, said Gregg Durham, a spokesman for the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. The Mississippi River was above flood stage along the Wisconsin border. A series of storms that started Sept. 10 have deluged Michigan almost daily for three weeks, causing more than $323 million damage in 22 central Lower Peninsula counties, and the rain continued Tuesday. # Huron and Michigan Rise To Peak for the Century NY Times 10/31/86 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 30 (AP) -- Lakes Michigan and Huron continued their unseasonal climb this month, reaching their highest level on record and increasing fears that autumn winds could cause grave damage. The two lakes, considered a single body of water by hydrologists, were up to a foot higher this month than the previous October, when a record for the month was set, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Michigan-Huron is running a mean level of 581.64 feet for October and is past the previous high for this century, 581.34 feet, set in August, Dave Schweiger of the Corps of Engineers said. 14 === Page 17 of 29 Midwest rain washes away farmers' hope Flooding has turned fields into pools, rotted crops and idled farmers at one of their busiest times of the year. Tribune Wires Some Midwestern farmers are back in the fields, but the storms that swept across the nation's heartland have left many facing only a bitter harvest - ruined crops and losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. From the wheat fields of Kansas to the dairy pastures of Wisconsin, heavy rain and floods in recent weeks that forced evacuations in many communities also submerged hundreds of thousands of acres of corn, wheat and soybeans. Officials across the Midwest and Great Plains say it's too early to assess total losses in the region. But in Michigan alone, storm and flood-related agricultural damage has been estimated at $240 million after more than three weeks of rain, affecting at least 1.5 million of the state's 18 million acres of farmland. President Reagan declared parts of northern Illinois federal disaster areas Tuesday. The governors of Michigan, Kansas and Missouri are also seeking federal aid for their water-ravaged states. Meanwhile, thousands of Midwestern flood victims remained homeless Tuesday as rivers drained toward the swollen Mississippi River, which forced 1,200 people to evacuated in East St. Louis, Ill. For thousands of others, the cleanup was under way. "There are about a jillion dead worms in my basement," Diane Holst, 52, of Gurnee, Ill., said as she scrubbed down her house. The floods forced up to 55,000 people from their homes at one time or another: 30,000 in Oklahoma, 16,000 in Illinois, 7,000 in Missouri and 1,500 to 2,000 in Kansas. Five feet of water swamped the streets of East St. Louis, Ill., where a broken floodgate allowed the rising Mississippi to flow into the city. American Red Cross officials said up to 1,200 people were forced from their homes. Storms * From Page 1A 10/8/86 Damage there was estimated at $18 million. The Mississippi River was expected to crest today at St. Louis at 40 or 41 feet, about 10 feet above flood stage. Cities elsewhere along the Missouri and Mississippi worked to pile sandbags and reinforce levees. Dry weather across much of the Midwest and Plains states early this week allowed some farmers to resume harvesting, and agricultural experts say several days without rain should help salvage many crops. There also is no danger of shortages because of bountiful harvests. But the rain was been devastating in some areas, turning fields into giant pools of water, rotting crops and idling farmers at one of their busiest times of the year. Missouri officials say farmers in 54 counties, nearly half the state, suffered substantial crop damage. "I'm sure some farmers are going to be 100 percent out," said Mike Kraemer, Missouri Department of Agriculture spokesman. In southeast Kansas, 340,000 acres of farmland flooded, causing $50 million to $60 million damage, said Gary Kilgore, extension service crops specialist in the region. And in Oklahoma, where floods forced thousands from their homes, agricultural experts say 48 counties sustained "unusual damage." "The largest, most prevalent damage is soil loss," said Bart Brorsen, executive director of the state's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office. "That's irreparable and irreplaceable." Warm, moist conditions also have caused crops to deteriorate in the field - corn germinating on the cob and soybeans spouting in the pods. And because of harvesting delays, stalks weakened by age and insects fall easily and grain is lost. For some struggling farmers, already beset by low crop prices and debts, this could be the final blow. "Some haven't had a good crop in the last few years," said Ed LeValley, extension agricultural agent in Sumner County, Kan. This, he said, "is just another nail in the coffin." Floods Keep Thousands From Returning Home By The Associated Press More than 3,500 people in four states were kept from their homes today by flooding that washed away part of a dam in Wisconsin and surrounded a tiny town in Montana. Tornadoes touched down in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. Flooding continued in northeastern Illinois and across Oklahoma. The earthen portion of the dam on Lawrence Lake near Westfield, Wis., was washed away by rushing water Tuesday, along with part of a highway built on it. Two hundred people were evacuated from the town out of fear the cement retaining wall supporting the rest of the dam would not hold. "There's a horizontal crack in it and there's water coming every which way through the dam," said Phil Malsack, Marquette County chief deputy sheriff. "It's a question of when," he said. "It could hold for days; it could hold for minutes." Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared parts of two more counties near Chicago disaster areas because of flooding that contributed to at least two deaths and left 2,650 families homeless. Damage was likely to top $20 million and could reach $30 million, said Gregg Durham, a spokesman for Illinois Emergency and Disaster Services. At a shelter in Mount Prospect, Ill., volunteer Kittye Hermes said at least 20 people would be spending the night, including 10 who stayed in an interim shelter at a motel in Des Plaines until the motel, too, was flooded out. 15 === Page 18 of 29 # Storms Hammer U.S. Heartland By The Associated Press Sun Attack 9/30/86 Severe thunderstorms pummeled the nation's midsection, causing millions of dollars in damage and spawning floods that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and left one man feared drowned. "The entire village of Gurnee is gone," said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Townsend said of the Illinois community. "The police are patrolling in boats. The situation is very, very bad." Up to 8 inches of rain fell on Oklahoma on Monday as thunderstorms and at least one tornado caused extensive damages, officials said. Hundreds of residents north of Oklahoma City were evacuated because of flooding. "We've got a lot of flood water. We've got a little looting, and we've got some traffic problems. But otherwise, we're doing pretty good," said Howard Watson, director of the Kingfisher City-County Civil Defense, which oversaw the evacuation of 300 residents. Thunderstorms dumped rain on Michigan's waterlogged Lower Peninsula on Monday, as a tornado in Genesee County destroyed three homes and damaged five others, knocked down power lines, and blew trees on cars and houses, authorities said. Residents of flood-drenched northeastern Illinois hoped for sun today after Monday's storms ripped roofs from buildings west of Chicago, resulted in flight delays and cancellations at O'Hare International Airport, and continued flooding that has caused an estimated $30 million in damage. A tiny Montana town was surrounded by water ear- See Heavy Storms on page 10A # 20,000 May Face Evacuation By The Associated Press Sun/Pri Ripple 10/5/86 Surging floodwaters that have driven up to 30,000 people from their homes across the Midwest isolated towns Saturday in Oklahoma, where rivers swelled toward record highs and threatened to force an additional 20,000 evacuations. Water was receding in hard-hit northeastern Illinois, where damage was estimated at up to $40 million, and in parts of Kansas. But runoff from more than a week of heavy rain pushed the Mississippi River out of its banks along parts of Missouri and Illinois, and Lake Michigan was record 3.5 feet above normal. Flooding has caused damage estimated at millions of dollars in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. At least eight deaths were linked to the flooding and three people were missing. The flooding has cut off towns in Oklahoma and Kansas and prompted a disaster declaration by the governor of Missouri, where Amtrak suspended passenger rail service because of a washed-out bridge. See Flooding on page 8A # Chicago Suburbs Flood As Rain Swells Rivers The Associated Press Sun/Pri Ripple 10/4/86 Chicago suburbanites stacked sandbags around their homes Friday, and floodwaters isolated towns in Oklahoma and Kansas as yet more rain prolonged the weeks-long deluge of the Midwest, keeping more than 15,000 people from their homes. Torrential overnight rains sent streams over their banks from Oklahoma and eastern Kansas to northern Illinois and Michigan, closing roads and highways and forcing further evacuations, authorities said. Western Pennsylvania was under a flash-flood warning after streams began overflowing, flooding residential streets in Curwensville. In northeastern Illinois, where floods already have forced 3,200 families -- or about 13,000 people -- to evacuate, 1 to 3 inches of rain fell overnight, said National Weather Service flood specialist Tom Dietrich. "It's looking more and more like we've seen the worst of this," he said, but flash-flood watches were in effect for the Chicago area, Rockford, Moline, Galesburg, Peoria and Bloomington. On Thursday, Gov. James R. Thompson called out 226 Illinois National Guard members for patrol and supply delivery in the suburbs north and west of the city where more than 16 inches of rain has fallen since Sept. 1. The state estimates damage from the floods at between $30 million and $40 million and Thompson has declared Lake and McHenry counties and portions of Cook County a state disaster area. "The demand for (sand)bags is incredible, but the people who really need them are getting them," said Gregg Durham, spokesman for the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. "We're imploring people to use just what they need and not stockpile bags," Durham said. "We have 750,000 in the pipeline and are making arrangements for more." The deluge is blamed on an unusual weather pattern that stalled a pair of saturated tropical storms over the nation's midsection. Since Sept. 20, at least 10 deaths in five states have been blamed on the weather. Durham said more evacuations were likely Friday. See Rain on page 8A 16 === Page 19 of 29 # in the mood for some fall weather? Move up North The calendar may say it's autumn, but it will take some time for it to reach the Tampa Bay area. By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer Despite the official leap into autumn, it still seems like summer. At daybreak, the air hangs heavy and the sea breeze subsides. At noon, the sun burns with the fervor of July. At twilight, when joggers normally choke Bayshore Boulevard, nary a soul braves the heat. When will summer relinquish its grip on Tampa Bay? "When we get the transition from summer to fall, it will be obvious to everyone," assures Fred Crosby, the dean of the National Weather Service's Ruskin office. "At sundown, instead of being 84, it will be 70." And when will that happen? "It's not on the horizon yet," says meteorologist Crosby. The average high for September is 88.9 degrees, but this month saw temperatures climbing regularly into the 90s. Weather forecasters blame this on a high-pressure system blanketing the eastern United States, including Florida. High pressure, which sent the Southeast into its worst drought in history last July, thwarts cloud formation and keeps winds light and variable. It also fends off the cold fronts responsible for bringing fall to the Tampa Bay area. That Canadian air usually gets to Florida's West Coast as it moves eastward from the Great Plains. For the moment, high pressure is stalling the de facto arrival of autumn. "It looks like it's going to stay with us, at least through the week," says Crosby. Rain chances remain slim for most of the week, although a few showers could develop. Forecasters expect highs in the low 90s and mostly sunny skies. Although an overheated public regards the coming of autumn as an event, Florida forecasters see the season as a footnote amidst the great chapters of summer and winter. "We usually go from summer to winter without much in the way of fall," says Crosby. # Rain Swells Rivers In Midwest Continued from page 1A with "some real serious problems" in the suburbs of North Riverside, River Forest and Schiller Park. The rain has raised the level of Lake Michigan to an all-time high, more than 3.5 feet above normal and higher than at any point since water levels were first recorded in 1861, said Frank Quinn, chief hydrologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In western Illinois, the National Weather Service said the Mississippi River topped its previous fall flood record and would likely continue to rise. Flood walls were built in St. Louis against weekend flooding on the Mississippi, and city street director James Suelmann said the walls would remain up until late next week. Michigan, battered by rainfall and floods for 24 consecutive days, braced for an inch of rain Friday and today. Damage has been estimated at more than $300 million and federal disaster declarations have been issued for two dozen counties. A new round of thunderstorms deluged Oklahoma on Friday, dumping up to 9 inches in some places. In Ponca City, where 5 inches of rain fell in 6 hours Friday morning, more than 20 families were evacuated, said police dispatcher Julie Johnson. Evacuations were also forced in Guthrie, after the town was split by the Cottonwood Creek, expected to crest 4 feet abover its 23.5-foot flood stage, police said. "West Guthrie is cut off from East Guthrie -- it's totally isolated," said Jim Dixon, civil defense director. "We just closed the last street connecting the two." Overnight downpours swamped both Hulah and Copan lakes, forcing engineers to open flood gates to release the water Friday, said Col. Frank Patete, district engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa. That forced residents of Bartlesville, downstream, to brace for flooding potentially worse than the record flood of 1974, which swamped 400 houses. Kansas Gov. John Carlin declared a state of emergency for 13 southeastern counties. The rising Marmaton River, which rose 18 inches in 45 minutes Friday, neared its 1915 record crest and isolated the community of Fort Scott, near the Missouri line. Some townspeople evacuated, authorities said. === Page 20 of 29 Rains Soak Fields in South, But Drought Effects Persist UFO & Sun Attack By WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT Special to The New York Times 12/25/86 ATLANTA, Dec. 24 -- Heavy rains in the late fall have helped ease the effects of the South's worst drought in a century. But from Alabama to South Carolina, moisture levels in farm fields and pastures remain well below normal, with the start of spring planting only three months off. That means farmers in the region are now hoping for a rainier than usual winter to restore the deep soil moisture that agricultural experts say is needed to nourish next season's corn, wheat and other crops and to restore pastures burned out by last summer's hot, dry weather. All across the South, heavy rains throughout October and November, and again this week, helped soak fields, although the moisture came too late to save most crops, already damaged beyond salvation by drought. Large Deficits of Rainfall Despite the rain, total rainfall since Jan. 1 in Alabama is still 10 to 15 inches below normal and in Georgia 9 to 17 inches, according to Doug Ihle, a forecaster with the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center in Auburn, Ala. While Mr. Ihle conceded that the situation was markedly better now than last summer, he said, "We are still heading toward spring planting with large deficits." In an ordinary year, about 50 inches of rain will fall in the Southeast. In South Carolina, rainfall deficits to date range from 6 inches in Beaufort, along the coast, to more than 17 inches in Wallahalla, in the northwest corner. "The top layers of the soil are wet, but we need normal or above normal rainfall for the next four months," said John C. Purvis, the state climatologist. "If we receive it, the deep-seated drought will not affect spring agricultural plantings." Henry W. Smith, a spokesman for the South Carolina Agriculture Department, expressed optimism that the cycle of drought, which some believe began in the fall of 1985, has been broken. "The rain we got this fall went a long way to replenish what we lost last summer, so I'm going to be optimistic," he said. "It's just too bad the rain didn't come earlier, when the crops were still in the field. Those would have been multimillion-dollar rains." Muddy Harvesting of Soybeans The heavy rains came at exactly the wrong time for many soybean farmers, who after suffering through a summer of drought had difficulty harvesting their crops because fields were too muddy. Estimates of crop losses from the drought have ranged from $1 billion to $2 billion. According to Bob Milton, an analyst with the Federal Agriculture Department, the drought reduced soybean production in the Southeast by 15 percent; corn, 33 percent; peanuts, 33 percent; hay, 40 percent, and tobacco, 10 percent. The Southeast produces less than 3 percent of the nation's corn and 5 percent of its soybeans but accounts for 80 percent of the nation's peanuts and 84 percent of the tobacco, he said. Because the drought cut yields, the average price paid to the farmer for a pound of peanuts is about a nickel higher, or about 35 cents, than it was a year ago, but that increase is expected to have little effect on the market price, according to Emery Murphy of the Georgia Peanut Commission, the state marketing board. On the other hand, because of factors unrelated to the drought, tobacco prices are slightly lower than last year, said Mr. Milton of the Federal Agriculture Department. Farming experts said the drought also cut into the production of broiler chickens and eggs, as a result of searing mid-summer heat that killed thousands of birds. But no precise figures for losses are available, Mr. Milton said. A Benefit: Marijuana Dries Up Law-enforcement officials in South Carolina said this week that the drought had at least one benefit there: they said it dried up at least half the marijuana growing in the state. Officials said they seized only 4,951 marijuana plants in the first six months of 1986, as against nearly 21,000 over the same period the year before. Like farmers, the managers of water systems and others who monitor surface and underground water levels to meet municipal and industrial demands in the region are still keeping a wary eye on water supplies. At Lake Lanier, the 61-square-mile reservoir north of Atlanta that supplies most of the area's water needs, the lake level is within three feet of its all-time low, according to the Army Corps of Engineers, which controls releases of water from the lake through Buford Dam. Although fall rains brought the lake level up in November, it dropped again this month and is now 14 feet below what it should be at this time of year. Releases of water from Lake Lanier and some other reservoirs connected to rivers in Alabama, Georgia and northern Florida are to be held to a minimum through the spring. New Wells and Reservoirs If there is sustained rain through the winter, officials believe there is a 70 to 80 percent chance that levels in Lake Lanier will return to normal by next spring. "Lake Lanier is responding slowly to recent rainfall, because the ground around the lake is so dry it's acting like a sponge and the rain is not running off into the lake," said Gene Brown, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers here. In some parts of northern Georgia, where a few scattered communities are still reporting rainfall deficits of more than 20 inches since Jan. 1, state and local officials have been working since summer to augment water supplies by either drilling new wells or building more reservoir space. In the north Georgia community of Clayton, where the city water system went dry in the fall, forcing officials to close down schools and public buildings, the state has provided funds to build a new reservoir. David Word, a water management specialist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, said underground water supplies throughout much of the state appear to be stabilizing. The Big Question: Is It Over? "The positive effect of the drought is that it has brought into focus the critical water problems, and caused many local communities to expand their reservoirs," said Mr. Word. For some water experts, the key issue is whether the drought of 1986 will be a single event or part of a longer drought cycle. "The big question is whether these recent rains are just an anomaly, and we could yet go into another drought pattern this spring," said Mr. Brown of the Corps of Engineers. "Historically, these droughts often run in two-to-three-year patterns." UFO Sun Attack Cold was fierce across Europe Post Star 1/13/87 LONDON (AP) -- Fierce cold sweeping across Europe from the Soviet Union has caused the deaths of at least 17 people in three days and brought record low temperatures to much of Europe. Traffic accidents took most of the lives, but several deaths by freezing were reported. One victim in France was a fisherman who fell into the frigid Atlantic west of Bordeaux. A 14-year-old Danish boy was crushed to death on a makeshift ski-lift in Jutland. In Hungary, two engineers were killed when their trains collided head-on in Budapest. The crash was blamed on harsh winter weather. Avalanches swept away houses in Soviet Georgia, killing 29 people, Tass reported. It said the heaviest snowfalls in 50 years cut off many villages and some children were being taken to school in aircraft. Temperature reached -31 degrees in the northern city of Leningrad, the lowest since officials began keeping records in 1743, the official news agency said. 18 === Page 21 of 29 100 DIE IN EUROPE, HIT BY ICY BLASTS Cold Weather Stops Planes, Ships, Trains and Cars -- Snow Falls in Nice By STEVE LOHR Special to The New York Times LONDON, Jan. 13 -- Europe is experiencing one of its worst cold spells on record, with icy blasts sweeping across the region in recent days causing more than 100 deaths, avalanches, transport chaos, food hoarding and power-failure warnings. In Britain, at least 12 deaths from exposure to the cold have been reported in the last three days. The Age Concern, a charity for the elderly, warned today that as many as 100 people a day could die of exposure or sickness. Most of the deaths -- 77 -- have been reported in the Soviet Union, where temperatures have been more than 30 degrees below zero in major cities. The Soviet press agency Tass reported Monday that avalanches had destroyed houses in Soviet Georgia, killing 29 people. Also killed by avalanches were 13 people in two villages in the Tunceli province of Turkey. In Paris, where the temperature dropped to 11 degrees overnight, two Metro stations were kept open to shelter some of the city's estimated 10,000 to 15,000 homeless people. Normally, the Metro stations close at 1:30 A.M. The cold wave even extended to the usually balmy French Riviera, where a dusting of snow fell on palm trees. In Bavaria, temperatures dipped to 20 degrees below zero, with intercity trains from Munich delayed by up to four hours. Shipping at north German Baltic sea ports was interrupted by floating icebergs. In Italy, high winds and inclement weather closed airports at Naples, Venice, Bologna and on Sardinia. Trains linking Switzerland with Yugoslavia and Austria were delayed. Meteorologists are predicting that the severe cold spell, begun four days ago, will probably last through the weekend. They attribute the cold to a large area of high pressure holding steady over Scandinavia that is channeling a steady stream of freezing air westward. Monday night, about 600 passengers were trapped in unheated trains for up to 10 hours in southern England, where temperatures were 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest for 25 years. In parts of Scotland, the temperature dipped below zero. Drifts of 20 feet were reported on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames. On Monday even Big Ben succumbed to the cold, when its hammers and bells produced only a stifled version of its distinctive chiming, after one of its rubber fittings froze. # Storm blamed for 17 deaths The Associated Press Snow drifting up to 3 feet deep closed churches and airports and stalled travel Sunday in Oklahoma as a storm blamed for 17 deaths rolled across the Plains, and National Guardsmen hauled supplies to people snowbound in New Mexico. As the storm moved northeast, freezing rain closed highways in Pennsylvania and New York. Illinois got up to 6 inches of snow, with an airliner sliding off a runway during the night at Chicago. Parts of western Texas also had snow and ice, and dozens of stranded travelers spent the night in churches. Behind the storm, cold air clung to the Southwest, with record lows in Arizona of 29 at Yuma, a desert city near the Mexican border, and 20 at Tucson. It was the first time in nine years that Yuma had freezing temperatures and Tucson's second consecutive day of record cold. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol warned people to stay home if possible, but streets in Oklahoma City, which had 9 inches of snow and drifts of 1 to 2 feet by midday, were dotted by abandoned cars. "Even some of our squad cars are getting stuck and we're having to call wreckers to pull them out," said police dispatcher Jan Hall. A majority of churches in the Oklahoma City area canceled Sunday services. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported some secondary roads closed by drifts "up to 3 feet deep and 50 feet wide." Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport was closed, said air traffic controller Roy Womack. In the Texas Panhandle, 8 inches of snow also closed Amarillo's airport Sunday, said manager Bill Wilson. Abilene, Texas, had disabled and stranded cars littering icy streets, police said. Vehicles were lined up for miles on Interstate 20 as hills forced truckers to slow to a crawl. Some tractor-trailer rigs overturned while others sat jackknifed on the shoulder. # Record cold eases its grip on Europe LONDON (AP) -- Europe's record-breaking cold wave loosened its grip in several regions Sunday, but the punishing temperatures took more lives and many communities remained cut off. Known deaths reached 284, 14 of them reported Sunday. In Soviet Georgia, an avalanche killed three people and forced evacuation of about 2,000 people, a Soviet newspaper said. Sovietski Sport said the avalanche occurred Tuesday in Khakmati village in the Dushati region. It also reported a 12-hour helicopter airlift evacuated 500 vacationers from Gudauri after the Georgian ski resort was cut off by an earlier avalanche. Eastern Europe has suffered some of the worst of the arctic conditions, but Moscow was warming up toward the freezing point and last week's snow was turning to slush. France, particularly hard-hit among Western European nations, reported nine more deaths Sunday. Many villages in the southern Herault region around Montpellier remained isolated, as were areas on the left bank of the Rhone River in the Rhone-Alps region where high winds were icing over roads. On many roads where snow was cleared off, the surfaces re-iced and became treacherous. Soldiers and city workers continued clean-up operations in Paris, where parts of the city have experienced sporadic electric outages. In Britain, the county of Kent in southeast England, which took the brunt of the weather sweeping in from the northeast, was still crippled by snow. Police reported 23 villages there virtually cut off by snowdrifts. Army helicopters flew in emergency food supplies. Some villages hadn't had milk or bread deliveries for a week. At Lenham, near Maidstone, a police constable struggled six hours through snow drifts to deliver insulin to a diabetic woman. Increasingly milder weather was reported in Belgium, where temperatures rose toward freezing, in the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain. 19 === Page 22 of 29 # At least 216 die in Europe's cold 1/12/87 Europe's worst winter in decades claimed at least 216 lives by Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of people isolated by snow-clogged roads and troops in France and Germany blasting through ice to head off flooding and keep two nuclear plants operating. Freezing temperatures continue to envelop the continent, prompting the Common Market to grant $2.75 million to charities providing fuel, food and shelter to the elderly and homeless. Western European temperatures Thursday ranged from the low 30s in London to zero degrees Fahrenheit in Helsinki. The forecast was for continued cold at least through Friday. Travel by land, air and sea was affected. Southbound roads near Lyon, France, were among the many highways closed, forcing 1,500 trucks to park and wait for better conditions. In Britain, a snow-clearing team rescued a motorist who had been trapped in his car under a snowdrift for 39 hours near the Scottish border. Once his car was freed he resumed his journey, apparently none the worse for the ordeal. Airports were closed in France and Spain, and boats in Denmark were warned not to leave port without aid from an icebreaker. By evening, Associated Press bureaus around Europe reported at least 216 weather-related deaths since Jan. 1, including 77 in the Soviet Union, 36 in Poland and 30 in Great Britain. The elderly were prominent among the victims. A 79-year-old woman was found frozen to death near the Berlin Wall after leaving a home for the elderly on Wednesday to visit a daughter living nearby. Police said she had been lost before on trips outside the home. An 88-year-old woman in Nancy, France, froze to death on her way to a bakery. Churches and subway stations in France and Spain stayed open to shelter the homeless. Britain's Princess Diana visited a center in north London where the elderly go for warmth and a hot meal, and she learned about conditions some Britons suffer in drafty houses dating back to Queen Victoria's reign. "She asked what heating I had in my flat," said 78-year-old Alfred Freeman. "I told her I've only got one radiator in one room, and my pipes are frozen. She was surprised." French troops blasted channels through ice on the Loire River to let cooling water reach nuclear power stations at Chinon and St. Laurent des Eaux, 170 miles southwest of Paris. Hamburg city spokesman Werner Hackmann said West German army units detonated dynamite to loosen packed-up ice floes blocking the Elbe east of the port city. Officials said the floes threatened floods in nearby towns. Along Britain's east coast, many parts of Kent, Norfolk and Lancashire were cut off by deep snow. Whipped by strong winds, the snow piled up in drifts as much as 20 feet deep that defeated snowplows trying to break through to villages that hadn't had food deliveries since last weekend. Four-wheel drive army vehicles and motorized sleds were trying to reach a village on the Isle of Grain off the Kent coast to deliver emergency supplies. In northern Spain, heavy snow and frozen roads made travel impossible in a large section, isolating hundreds of thousands of people, officials said. The Dutch weather bureau took the unprecedented step of advising people not to leave their homes unnecessarily. Amsterdam had an average temperature Wednesday of 5 degrees below zero, among the five coldest days this century. In France, heavy ice floated down the Seine River in Paris for only the second time in 20 years. A search was in progress for six cross-country skiers missing since Monday in the central Vercors mountains. Here is a country by country breakdown of deaths reported since Jan. 1: Soviet Union 77; Poland, 36; Britain, 30; France, 20; Hungary 14; Ireland, 2; West Germany, 6; Spain, 11; Czechoslovakia 4; Netherlands, 3; Greece, 3; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, 2; Austria, 1; Belgium, 1; Italy, 2; Portugal, 1; Yugoslavia 1. ## Warm North/ Frigid South A cold weather snap hits Europe as spring-like weather warms the Arctic Circle. **Arctic Circle** temperatures soar from -44° to 32° **Iceland** 50° weather **U.K.** 30 inches of snow in Maidstone, Chatham, and Isle of Sheppy **Southern Sweden** temperatures plunge to 5° **French Riviera** light snow fall AP/Nancy Carpenter 20 === Page 23 of 29 # Europe remains in deep freeze UFO Sun Attack Post-Star STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Temperatures warmed slightly in some areas Sunday --from 29 below zero in Helsinki to 26 below, for instance -- but Europe's big freeze kept people indoors and power plants running full blast. In Munich, West Germany, police said a 34-year old homeless man "probably froze to death" while sleeping under a bridge on the coldest night so far this winter, as the weekend toll of cold-caused deaths rose to at least six. Night temperatures dipped to 8 below zero in Magdeburg, East Germany, where 45,000 people had no electricity after snowstorms knocked down power lines. The Meteorological Institute of Finland, where Saturday's reading in Helsinki was the capital's lowest since record-keeping began in 1881, reported the three-degree improvement to 26 below on Sunday. Power companies asked Finns to skip their traditional Epiphany holiday sauna over the weekend. Electric saunas have phased out many of the old wood-burners. Soviet newspapers kept urging people to cut back on using electricity as temperatures hovered around 22 below zero in Moscow. In Siberia temperatures in the minus 70s were recorded. There was a reading of 49 below in northern Sweden. Swedish State Power Co. spokesman Teddy Palm said it was not clear if the power grid could handle the extra load today when industries open after the weekend. "If worst comes to worst we will have to close off electricity in some places for a few hours, but the best thing is, of course, if people voluntarily can save power," Palm said. A second Swede died from a Saturday train collision blamed on the cold. The engineer was also killed, and 10 people were hurt. Cold-related deaths were also reported in Poland, Spain and Norway. Not included in the cold weather deaths were those of a West German skier killed in an avalanche in Austria and a mountain climber who fell to her death in Britain. Eastern England and Scotland were hit by snow, and an overnight low of 14 degrees was reported at Holme Moss, in northwest England. Dozens of older persons were reported suffering from hypothermia. Outdoor sports were canceled or postponed across most of Europe. In England alone, 23 soccer matches and two horse race meets were called off. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1986 ********** # Around the World UFO Sun Attack caped harm. The two parties are preparing for general elections, due by next May. ## Flooding in Leningrad Is Worst in 16 Years MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (AP) -- Storms in the northern Atlantic and the Gulf of Finland swept a tidal surge into the Neva River delta, causing the worst flooding in Leningrad in 16 years, the press agency Tass reported today. Water remained at flood level late Saturday, and unstable weather threatened "new attacks of the sea on Leningrad," the official agency said. Weather forecasters gave the five million residents of the Soviet Union's second largest city ample warning about the approaching surge, Tass said, adding that there were no casualties. "This inundation is the largest in the last 16 years and especially rare for December," it said. A 16-mile barrier under construction across the mouth of the Neva helped NY Times 11/29/86 UFO Sun Attack ## Israelis and Arabs Meet Without publicity, representatives of Israel met recently in Washington with representatives of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. The subject was the scarcity of water in the Middle East, a problem confronting all the countries, said Dr. Joyce Starr, a scholar who brought them together. Dr. Starr, who termed the conference "historic," would not identify the participants. "I am keeping their names off the record," she said, "but I can say that they were very senior representatives." If the Arab participants were identified, she said, they might be criticized in other Middle Eastern countries opposed to relations with Israel. Dr. Starr did identify some Americans who are engaged in the project, among them M. Peter McPherson, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator James A. McClure, Republican of Idaho. The response of the Middle Eastern countries, Dr. Starr said, gave her great hope that something could be done about the region's water problems and that talks could some day advance the peace process. The meeting, which lasted two days, was held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Dr. Starr is director of the Near East Studies Program. Asked if there was evident hostility between the Israeli and Arab sides, Dr. Starr said: "It was just the opposite. It was very civilized and friendly. There was a serious discussion of the issues." An Israeli Embassy spokesman, Yossi Gal, referred to the meeting as "a seminar" and, while underscoring the importance of water as an issue in the Middle East, remained cautious, saying, "What will come out of it we don't know." 21 === Page 24 of 29 Victims go to work on debris left by flooding By Mary Shanklin USA TODAY Residents in the USA's heartland will spend the weekend shoveling away debris from the worst fall flooding since Huck Finn's days. "A lot of the topsoil has washed off into peoples' living rooms and that's really going to be a mess," said Bob Martin of the Oklahoma Civil Defense. The Mississippi River and its tributaries will crest above flood stage from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill. today through Sunday. It will be above flood stage for two more weeks. Crests are receding slowly - as little as two or three inches a day. While only light rains are predicted for Midwestern states this weekend, water from swollen reservoirs is seeping back into the river. Also, water that broke through levees in Missouri is flowing back into the mainstream. "It's like draining a swamp," said Dean Braatz of the North Central River Forecast Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Midwest floods, called the worst this century, are blamed for 12 deaths, the evacuation of 43,000 people and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Flood spots: * In Tulsa County, Okla., families are returning to 1,136 damaged or destroyed homes; 3,171 residences were flooded statewide. * In Fort Smith, Ark., crews sandbagged the Arkansas River and few homes were flooded. The river lashed out into Arkansas' farm land. * About 500 people fled their homes Thursday in Grafton, Ill., at the junction of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Snowstorms cause trouble across country Associated Press A new storm spread fresh snow Tuesday in New Mexico, where National Guardsmen continued aiding ranchers isolated by up to 50 inches of snow from a storm blamed for 42 deaths. Snow plows were at work and traffic was slowed Tuesday from the Midwest into New England after the storm passed through and out to sea during the night. Schools were closed in many Massachusetts cities, including Boston. Driving conditions were still treacherous in Oklahoma, where heavy snow Sunday stranded travelers and collapsed roofs and several thousand remained without electricity Tuesday. Authorities searched the banks of Lake Texoma for two fishermen whose capsized boat was discovered Monday. The new storm in the Southwest produced less snow than the one that boiled out of that region and onto the Plains late last week, but a winter storm watch was in effect into Wednesday for the hill country of south-central Texas. Travelers' advisories warning of slick roads were posted over much of New Mexico, parts of Arizona, southeastern Colorado, western Texas and the Panhandle and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Ten inches fell Monday at Rye, Colo., which got 52 inches Thursday. Los Alamos, N.M., which got 50 inches last week, had just a few inches of new snow during the night. North of the new storm, cold air pushed the temperature at Laramie, Wyo., to 27 degrees below zero, and the National Weather Service said that combined with wind for a wind chill effect of 38 below. New Mexico state police discouraged travel in the northern half of the state, and U.S. 64 was closed between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla. East of Albuquerque, N.M., the Moriarty area, which got 40 inches of snow last week, got 3 more inches during the night and police said wind created drifts 2 and 3 feet high. National Guard efforts to take food, water, fuel and medicine to snowbound rural residents around Moriarty were not hindered by the new snow, police said. Guard trucks were used Tuesday to clear roads and driveways and deliver supplies to Torrance, Mora, San Miguel and Hidalgo counties. Two helicopters also carried supplies. "We're trying to clear paths so they can help themselves," Lt. Col. Alex Garcia said of people snowbound in the Moriarty and Mountainair areas. "So far we've been able to get to the people we had to get to. We haven't had to turn anyone down." West of the area of snow, Southern California had damaging wind Tuesday. Gusts to 60 mph toppled trucks on Interstate 15 north of Fontana, about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, said California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Haney. "We've got about four of them out there on their sides," he said. Wind gusting to 40 mph triggered widespread power outages throughout Southern California. Most of the blackouts, in such locations as Anaheim, El Toro, Sylmar and Granada Hills, were of short duration. In Indiana, which got up to 10 inches of snow Monday, only five counties remained under snow emergencies Tuesday while crews worked to clear secondary roads. Scores of schools were closed again Tuesday in Oklahoma, where residents were digging out from some of their worst weather in decades and 3,700 customers were still without power. For some rural areas of Okmulgee County, it was the fourth straight day without electricity while temperatures remained at freezing or below, said Okmulgee assistant police chief Paul Witt. "These old folks were around before there was electricity and they're making it all right," Witt said. "It's the young folks that have problems when the lights go out and there's no 'boob tube' to look at." He said most people had either propane or natural gas heating or fireplaces with which to keep warm. For part of the area, the culprit was not snow but freezing rain that encrusted everything with ice. "Some of it was three inches in diameter on the (power) line," Witt said. "We had some poles that just wouldn't take the weight." 22 === Page 25 of 29 Severe Disruptions Amid a Frosty Beauty By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The first major snowstorm of the winter roared up the Eastern Seaboard and across the New York metropolitan area yesterday, virtually halting transportation, commerce, education and government services and disrupting the lives of millions of people. Born in the Gulf of Mexico and fortified by Atlantic moisture as it drove north, the storm - a vastness of blowing snow, howling winds and thunderous lightning - left more than a foot of snow in many areas and transformed the landscape into a frolic of snow-sculpture. In the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region, where 6 to 12 inches fell, the storm snarled traffic, complicated life for commuters of the strikebound Long Island Rail Road and brought other activities to a standstill as airports, schools, courts, businesses and government offices closed early. Lincoln Tunnel Paralyzed The worst local tie-ups were at the Lincoln Tunnel, where westbound traffic was paralyzed for nearly four hours in the afternoon because of choked New Jersey highways. Delays at the Holland Tunnel ran up to 45 minutes and many Long Island commuters, already suffering from a rail strike, took hours to get home. From a satellite eye's view at mid-afternoon, the storm looked like a gigantic gray-white comma that cloaked the East Coast from Maine to Florida and had a vast bulge at the top extending to the Great Lakes. Warm moist air from the Atlantic collided with cold Canadian air and produced a dazzling accompaniment of thunder and lightning. It was impressive on the ground, too. The storm crippled traffic in much of the East and South, socked in airports, forced schools and businesses to close, threatened citrus crops in Florida, shut down the government in Washington and some state capitals and sent tens of thousands of public and private employees home early. It also forced Southerners to cope with unfamiliar snow and ice. "It's just like a war zone out there," said Art Strong of the National Weather Service in Charleston, W. Va. The Long Island Rail Road settled with another union, but hopes for an overall settlement faded. Page B3. While the snow gave almost everyone a hard time, it also recast familiar images into exotic things. It put whimsical epaulettes and caps on heroic statues in the parks. It gave soft Art Deco lines to ordinary awnings and hedges. It obliterated city skyscrapers and country church steeples. And it drained the world of sound and color, muffling the scrape of shovels and plows and casting woodlands into a stark relief of black and white. The Weather Service reported accumulations of up to 15 inches in North Carolina, 13 inches in West Virginia, 8 inches in Delaware, 6 inches in South Carolina, Maryland and Alabama and 5 Continued on Page B2, Column 3 Much of the West suffers record cold The Associated Press Bitingly cold air spilled southward Monday from Canada, with Butte, Mont., hitting 31 degrees below zero and other cities posting record lows, on the heels of a snow storm that killed seven and left a 13-year-old boy missing. "We are heading into the time of year we all hate - cold weather," said National Weather Service forecaster Chuck McCain in Colorado. Only scattered light snow fell Monday from the central Rockies across the Plains to the upper Great Lakes, light compared to the storm that last week dumped more than 2 feet of snow before moving into Canada. But the snow accompanied an Arctic air mass that dropped temperatures below zero over much of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and western South Dakota. Record lows for the date included Billings, Mont., 12 below zero; Casper, Wyo., 14 below; Chicago, 18; Flint, Mich., 20; Helena, Mont., 24 below; Kalispell, Mont., 8 below; Lewiston, Idaho, 14; Miles City, Mont., 13 below; Missoula, Mont., 2 below; Rapid City, S.D., 7 below; Sheridan, Wyo., 20 below; Spokane, Wash., 11; Valentine, Neb., 1; Wheatridge, Colo., 9; and Yakima, Wash., 13. Several of the records erased marks that had been on the books since 1911. For Billings, Casper, Kalispell and Missoula, it was the earliest date on record for such cold. Gusty wind along the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Montana dropped the wind chill effect to around 45 below at Billings and Casper during the night. The temperature at Goodland, Kan., dropped from 29 to 14 in one hour as the edge of the cold air moved through, and freeze warnings were issued as far south as parts of northern Texas. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., went from 60 degrees Saturday to 29 on Sunday. "We're going from early fall weather to mid-winter weather in almost nothing flat," said meteorologist Bill Deadler. By contrast, cooler weather that moved into the Southeast merely ended what was the warmest November weekend on record for parts of Georgia. Savannah, Augusta and Columbus had three days of record highs in the 80s, peaking at 86 in Savannah. Up to 2 inches of snow fell Monday across parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota, icing roads and causing numerous minor traffic accidents. Light snow also reached central New York state Monday, and the weather service said western Pennsylvania would get its first storm of the season during the night. === Page 26 of 29 # Planetary alignment, storms wallop coasts Post-Star 11/21/86 UFOs Sun Attrack GARDEN CITY, S.C. (AP) -- A storm of "mini-hurricane" force washed away decks and sidewalks at resort hotels on the South Carolina coast and flooded North Carolina beaches Thursday, while the highest West Coast tides in nearly 20 years forced the partial closing of a highway. The tides on both coasts have been unusually high because of a rare alignment of the sun, moon and the Earth known as syzygy. It was the fourth consecutive day that officials closed one lane of the Pacific Coast Highway at Sunset Beach, Calif. No damage was reported. A 50-year-old barn on the Washington state coast, at a spot called Washaway Beach, slipped into the ocean Wednesday after high tides eroded its foundation. South Carolina beaches were littered with planking from boardwalks and uprooted trees, but damage to buildings appeared to be less than that caused by a storm last month that left $3 million in damages, according to Patrick Dowling, public information officer for the city of Myrtle Beach. "There has been substantial flooding, but no damage to condominiums or motels or hotels," Dowling said. Civil Defense workers in South Carolina's coastal counties said it could take days to compile damage estimates. South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers stopped all but emergency travel on Pawley's Island after 40 mph winds and tides 3 feet higher than normal pounded the beachfront. Power lines feel in the storm, and police ordered electrical service cut off to the community of 700 to prevent fires and electrocutions. North Carolina officials reported extensive damage to waterfront homes at Long Beach, an island community near the state's southernmost tip, while tides washed through the man-made dunes to flood Topsail Beach. No dollar estimates of the damages were available. "We've got considerable beach erosion and considerable damage to the majority of the oceanfront houses," said Long Beach police dispatcher Earl Gilbert. "Houses have some sort of damage like porches and decks gone and dunes have been eroded completely away in many locations." Gilbert said the situation was "considerably worse than the December storm because of the exceptionally high tide ... and winds gusting to 50 mph and heavy rain." # Destructive winds, rain stun Southside, Tidewater Richmond Times-Disp. Sun/Par-Force Ripple 10/15/86 From staff, wire dispatches A major storm sped destructive winds and heavy rain across parts of Southside Virginia and Tidewater early yesterday, toppling trees, snapping utility lines and damaging homes and barns, officials said. An estimated $1 million worth of damage was reported in Brunswick Other photos, page B-1 County alone, said Sheriff T.G. Brockwell Jr. "I've never seen anything like it before," Brockwell said. "No one was hurt, thank goodness." The storm, traveling about 40 mph, struck Brunswick about 6:50 a.m. and moved eastward across Prince George, Dinwiddie and Sussex. It started pelting rain and hail on Surry about 8 a.m. and then swept eastward down the James River into Charles City, James City and Gloucester counties. Damage was reported in the counties of Gloucester, James City, Charles City, Prince George, Surry, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex and in the city of Hopewell. At least four people suffered minor injuries in Gloucester and Sussex in houses or mobile homes that were destroyed, authorities said. The National Weather Service at Volens verified last night that there were at least two tornadoes in the storm system. One tornado was sighted at 7:15 a.m. as it moved northeast along the Sussex-Prince George County line before turning east into Prince George County. The second touched down at 8:30 a.m.; the funnel cloud was seen over the Hopewell News building and Continued on page 2, col. 1 === Page 27 of 29 NY Times 11/30/85 # Winter Prelude: Snowstorm Sweeps Across Region BY RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times HARTFORD, Nov. 19 - A storm swept across New York and New England today, dropping a blanket of heavy, wet snow and much of Connecticut was without power as trees and power lines, pushed down by the wet, sticky mess, snapped, knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 homes and businesses. By this evening, about 92,000 customers were still without power, and officials of Northeast Utilities, the state's largest supplier of electricity, said power would not be restored to some areas until Thursday or Friday. The snow skirted New York City, mixing with nearly an inch of rain over the 12 hours ending at 5 A.M., but the National Weather Service reported 3 to 10 inches of snow fell in upper Westchester County and upstate. In Westchester, 4,400 Con Edison customers lost power, but nearly all service was restored by this afternoon. More than a foot of snow was reported in parts of Pennsylvania, Vermont and Massachusetts. At Boston's Logan International Airport and at Bradley International Airport just north of Hartford, were forced to close. ### Shelters to Open The hardest hit areas of Connecticut were in a band extending from Norwalk, through Long Island Sound, north through Danbury and New Milford, and east through Waterbury to the suburbs north of Hartford. Northeast Utilities and Massachusetts sent crews to help. "Clearly there are going to be outages overnight," said a spokesman for Northeast Utilities. Emmanuel S. Forde. "The overwhelming majority of customers will be back tomorrow." With the temperature expected to fall into the low 20's tonight, many towns in the state, including Avon, Waterbury, Windsor, Simsbury, Bloomfield and Danbury, announced that schools would be closed tomorrow and that some public buildings would be opened as shelters. The overnight storm, which ended by about 8 A.M., dropped 2 to 3 inches along the coast and 8 to 10 inches in much of Litchfield County and the Massachusetts border. ### 'A Phenomenal Sight' At its peak before dawn in western Connecticut, the heavy snow was accompanied by winds as high as 40 miles an hour and lightning and thunder. "Trees and limbs fell across power lines, sending them snapping to the ground in showers of sparks." "It was a phenomenal sight," said Dr. Melvin Goldstein of the Western Connecticut State University's Weather Center in Danbury. He said the snowfall was not unusual for this time of year, but that a foot of snow in parts of Connecticut got a lot of attention. Although the sun began shining brightly by 9 A.M., many schools and businesses closed for the day. A series of traffic accidents closed sections of Interstate 84, a major east-west artery between Danbury and Waterbury. ### 'Ugly and Wet' The power failures were the largest since Hurricane Gloria in September 1985, when about 475,000 Northeast Utilities' 1 million Connecticut customers were without electricity. The United Illuminating Company, which served Bridgeport and New Haven areas near Long Island Sound, reported only scattered outages. The Southern New England Telephone Company said there were no major problems with telephone service. On Long Island, about 16,000 customers lost power as high winds, rain and sleet swept the island. Light and power crews worked through the night to restore service to residents of Suffolk County who were awakened by a series of loud bangs caused by a malfunctioning transformer at a LILCO power plant. "It was a nuclear reaction," William Sherrard, a 50-year-old resident, said. Sherrard said he received about 50 calls from worried neighbors before the system - one of 89 in Shoreham's emergency siren - was turned off about 3 A.M. === Page 28 of 29 # Storm Hits Northeast # 'Classic nor'easter' forces evacuations 1/3/87 The Associated Press Authorities in four states urged people to move inland Friday, as a classic northeaster swept up the East Coast with heavy snow, high wind and beach-grinding tides after causing six deaths and millions of dollars damage in the Southeast. "I just tied up my boats and put the cat in the attic. There's not much more you can do," said Dick LaCross who lives near the beach in Scituate, Mass., where many seaside residents voluntarily evacuated their homes Friday morning. In New Hampshire and Maine, the National Weather Service urged coastal residents to "complete all safety precautions and evacuate to higher ground inland as soon as possible." Authorities said they had no immediate estimates of how many people evacuated in those states, Massachusetts and New Jersey. "This is a classic nor'easter, a real East Coast bomb," said Mel Goldstein, director of the Weather Center at Western Connecticut State University. The weather service called the northeaster "the most vicious storm" since a February 1978 blizzard paralyzed Boston with 27 inches of snow, caused 29 deaths, destroyed 339 houses and inflicted $300 million property damage. The storm was blamed for four traffic deaths Thursday in North Carolina and two in Virginia, which was also hit by coastal flooding, rain and up to 5 inches of snow in some western areas. Friday's high tide was expected to be 2 to 3 feet above normal because of a syzygy, a rare alignment of the sun, moon and Earth that has occurred only three times since 1912, the weather service said. In southern Maine, where as much as 9 inches of snow piled up Friday, officials closed the Maine Turnpike to commercial traffic, and Augusta was whipped by winds gusting to almost 50 mph. Minor flooding was reported on dockside streets of Portland, but officials said sightseers' cars were becoming the biggest problem for snowplows and ambulances. In New York City, high tides delayed commuters on the Staten Island Ferry for about an hour, until the boat was ballasted down so a ramp that ordinarily is lowered to the deck of the ferry could reach it. "The tide was so high, Lady Liberty had to raise her skirts," said Transportation Commissioner Ross Sandler. His reference was to the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. **NEW ENGLAND COASTAL AREAS** -Gale winds -Tides 2-3 feet above normal. -Evacuations along coast. -Emergency shelters opened. **Tides 6-8 feet above normal along N.J.'s coast.** **Storm blamed for traffic deaths in N.C. & VA.** **MAP LABELS:** CANADA VT. N.H. ME. N.Y. MASS. R.I. CONN. PA. OHIO MD. DEL. N.J. New York Atlantic City W. VA. VA. KY. N.C. === Page 29 of 29 White House aide Buchanan resigns Post-Star 24/4/87 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patrick J. Buchanan, President Reagan's combative chief of communications, added his name Tuesday to a growing list of administration resignations, saying he could work for conservative causes more effectively outside the White House. Buchanan, who announced last month that he would not run for president, has seemed frustrated in his two-year campaign to get the administration to follow a hardline conservative script. Announcing the resignation, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Buchanan "feels he can better influence the issues and politics of 1988 and the direction of the conservative movement and Republican Party by speaking and writing from a vantage point outside the White House." He will leave the $77,400-a-year job March 1, joining an exodus of top administration officials departing with two years left in the administration. Fitzwater said the turnover was healthy. "You get a lot of new blood in. ... It's good to get new energies in for the last drive." Some people delayed their departure, Fitzwater said, "because of the Iranian situation and didn't want to leave while there was difficulty." He was referring to the controversy over the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels. Pat Buchanan That affair produced a shakeup in Reagan's National Security Council staff and cost the president his national security adviser, John Poindexter -- replaced by Frank Carlucci -- and a top aide on the NSC, Oliver North. In addition, Reagan has lost his longtime spokesman, Larry Speakes and his deputy, Peter Roussel; CIA Director William Casey; political adviser Mitchell Daniels; Cabinet secretary Alfred Kingon; drug-abuse adviser Carlton Turner; and even the president's doctor, T. Burton Smith. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8702b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8d478eee66065054aa28bff6f8a6a681.pdf ddbf32cec6e9525ca808a18474d64705 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bb00f02ba89a36cbcc0e519a800afe08.txt 2fa959da02f112c0ee9fcd7c48dd4bbe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 November 5, 1986 Dear George: Well, partner, we've finally found the place the SIs wanted us to have, and are settling in. Will take weeks. For the record, am confirming receipt of your $700 help in my work and research, obtained from WMO several days ago. Thank you very much, George. For weeks and weeks have been jumping around like a flea in a skillet, undergoing hardship you would not believe (not connected with financial hardship, thanks to you). At any rate, have been waiting for an appropriate time to fill you in on everything... and this report to you personally is it. Before leaving Ocala I spread out a map of the U.S. and asked my UFOs where they wanted me. They telepathd upper New York State. I told my son, Beau, that we would seek out a place in the country, isolated, because my UFOs want to rendezvous with the boys and myself...not one time, but steadily. (My boys call these meetings with UFOs "haunts"...and we have had them on many occasions. But not in Florida...no time windows there for it.) Now, I had had an accident and broken two of my ribs...so was no help to the boys in packing up household effects to leave. However, it was required that I drive the van you secured for us behind the U-Haul that Beau would drive (Teddy is 15 and cannot drive...my wife has never driven, cannot drive, and I would not let her for her sake.) Get the picture, George...my right chest and upper side hurt so bad that I could not sleep...could not reach out with my right arm. Could not pick up anything with my right arm. And...when I took a breath it felt like someone sticking a knife into me. So we took our caravan out of Ocala. You well know how we got messed up in Savannah, Georgia...and after spending days looking for Beau and Teddy, not only in Savannah but clear up into the Carolinas (we didn't know if they were ahead of us or behind us) I telepathd to my UFOs to somehow bring us together...and about a half an hour later their U-Haul passed us on an adjoining cloverleaf highway going in the opposite direction from us...and we maneuvered into a linkup. Since I carried the travelling funds, Beau and Teddy had spent days without money. Some "mysterious stranger" had befriended them and taken them to restaurants to eat and given them a hotel room...with two policemen guarding their door outside. Methinks that you-know-who gave us a helping hand. They had me and Beau both under surveillance at all times...but how to bring us together without blowing their cover? At any rate, we had reassembled and moved smoothly up into Pennsylvania. We pulled into a town and checked into a motel. You sent the WMO and it was accepted by the woman who ran the Western Union out of her card and gift shop. She wrote me a check. I asked her what good that was...that W.U. was supposed to give me cash. Then she got fighting mad...not at me but at Western Union. Yes, she said, that is true. Not only that but there is no place in town...not even the bank...that will cash a Western Union check! Well, I said, phone it back into the hopper and I will pick it up at another town someplace up the line. No, she said, I can't do that because I've already accepted it. Well, then, I said, send === Page 2 of 9 2 it back to Mr. Delavan. She said that will cost you $40 to do that. Dam, she said, this has happened a half-dozen times and I'm sick of it. She grabbed the phone, called the headquarters of Western Union, reminded management that she had complained about this situation before, cussed them out and said that from that moment on Western Union would not function from her shop...someone else in town could have the problem. And she told me that she knew a trick where she could return the loan to you, George, without paying an arm and a leg to do it. Beau, Teddy and I then drove to a nearby Mall where there was a giant Supermarket to buy some food supplies. Beau was driving and made a quick turn to the right...smack into a steel post. The impact smashed my body into the steel van frame then I ricocheted headfirst across the drivers seat. The pain was agonizing. (Turned out that the impact broke a third rib in my right side.) We waited there about ten minutes until I could recover from the terrible pain enough to make it into the Supermarket. We went in, bought our groceries, then walked out past the front of the Supermarket. We had just cleared the front when there was a crash like a bomb going off. We rushed back. A car which had been parked in front of the Supermarket had taken off at 60 mph straight for the huge glass windows we had just passed. It smashed through into the grocery, hit a concrete ridge, bounced way up into the air, smashed a huge hole in th ceiling, then fell down onto a poor man, crushing him like a fly swatter crushes a fly. It also had sideswiped an attractive woman who lay prone, bleeding profusely, and unconscious. I jumped through the smashed windows and ran over to the car beside the cashier line which we had just passed through. I picked up a man's glasses and a man's shoe, then found him underneath the front of the car, hand protruding and bleeding. I pressed his hand and told him to hold on, that an ambulance was on the way. Then I went to the woman. By now store personnel were gathering around. I told them to cover her with jackets, anything, to alleviate shock. So they peeled off jackets and spread them over her. Blood was everywhere. My side was ruining me. The boys and I stood around until two ambulances arrived, then we left. Later we heard that the man had died and the woman was in intensive care. I told Beau, good God, it was just seconds or that runaway car would have hit us directly! We went back to the motel and the manager called our room. Sorry, she said, we would have to leave immediately, because Bobo, our German Shepherd was chained to our U-Haul and they did not allow animals. So we had to move all of our things back into the van. By this time it was dark...and as we went into town out toward the highway our U-Haul dropped dead. It was a failed alternator. Took us several hours and about $150 to get another alternator and get it placed in. We proceeded north up into New York and breathed a sigh of relief to get out of Pennsylvania. We had swung high up into the State. Originally we'd planned to go to Watertown and scout around...but my UFOs said no, cut to the East. We went to a town called Old Forge, and got a motel for the night. Next morning we left a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our room...and I went out and found the maid and told her not to go into our room...that we had everything we needed...and we left Bobo (who is bigger than you or me) in the room to guard our things while we were gone. We spent some time investigating, but there were no houses to rent in the area. Sell, yes, but not to rent. So we went back to the motel, where we found the police confronting Bobo, who by now stood outside our motel door, guarding it. The motel manager and police told us that the dratted maid had ignored my instructions, and the sign on the door, and gone in...and Bobo had "chewed her up" as they put it. I gave the police my ID, === Page 3 of 9 3 explained that I had left precise instructions before we left. While the police and motel manager were thinking about it we rushed to our room and set a record for packing our van...and fled the scene. We then tried a string of small towns but with the same results. My UFOs told me that we were too high up in the State, to drop south. We wound up in a Best Western in Lake George, NY. Downtown we found a Delevan's Restaurant and a George's Restaurant. We found that we were in Washington County. For days I went with real estate agents to look at the handful of houses for rental in the area (My UFO had told me that this was it...where they wanted me). But the houses were not what my UFOs wanted and all $500 a month or over. Then, like magic, Beau got a lead on a house and the woman called me and we went there. Oddly, 1/2 miles from it is a road called "T. Owens Road." I swear. Am sending you photos of these things, George. Now, let me state this. In the rental houses that I sounded out and looked at it was "no animals or pets" and/or "no children"...also they wanted a thousand dollars security deposit (nobody ever gets that back). Well, I went out to this house, after I finally found it, and it was exactly, precisely, what my UFOs had brought me up here for. It is far in the country...a half-miles from the dirt road. It has the quarters that we need. No security deposit was required, just the first and last month's rent...and animals or pets? "You can have a horse if you want it" the wife of the landlord told me. It was a dairy farm, with huge barns, and we live in the main house that the owners built some years ago. They went broke and moved to town. The boys and I have 283 acres around us to meet with the UFOs in the spring (way too cold now). The owner is a lieutenant in the NY State prison nearby. So this place is a regular, perfect minibase that my UFOs have led us to. There is only one hitch. About a half-mile away, across the dirt road, is a green house, housing a Syrian family. Their son, Rick, is a psycho. Our landlord had him arrested not long ago for smashing car windows here at this house. He also stole 25 bicycles at school before he got caught. He has sworn revenge. (Do you know anything about the Syrian character? Yuk.) He has an older brother in a nearby town recently released from prison for a series of offenses. We haven't even a phone yet. Have spent ten days trying to get a phone in here...but one has to go through all sorts of channels...you wouldn't believe it unless you experienced it. You see, we are midway between Hudson Falls, Ft. Ann, Lake George and Glen Falls, out in the country. In a town or city it is easy. But not way out here. Tomorrow am going to give it my fifth shot and try to get a phone in. When I do will immediately get the number off to you. The owner has tried desperately to sell me this place for $125,000...that's the large house and five acres (he's going to parcel off the rest). When I got through laughing (with $58 in my pocket after paying the $1300 rent) I told him well, not right now, but thanks. Before closing, want to point out that my UFOs through synchronicity made it quite plain that this is the area, and this is the spot to begin our new work..."T. Owens Road" "Delevan's Restaurant" "George's Restaurant" "Washington County." More later, my friend. Ted Owens (PK Man) Rt. 149, R.R. 2 Box 2196 Ft. Ann, New York 12827 === Page 4 of 9 Leisure Inn October 27, 1986 Ted Owens has paid Mr. and Mrs. Fish $1,300.00 for the first and last month's rent for the house at Rt. 149, Box 2169, Ft. Ann, New York; this is the beginning of a one year's lease at the house for the Owens family. The rent is to be paid Mr. and Mrs. Fish each month, $650.00, starting with the date of this lease, October 27, 1986. Next rental payment will be November 27, 1986. Mr. and Mrs. Fish make no restrictions on the Owens family and Mr. and Mrs. Fish allow the Owens family to have pets, (dog, cat, etc.) Although Mr. & Mrs. Fish have the house up for sale, they have agreed to hold off for a year in order to honor this lease. At the end of that time, if both parties, Owens & Fish, are agreeable, this lease can be renewed for the rental price of $650.00 a month. Should a party be waiting to purchase the Fish house at the end of the year, then the Owens family will vacate the house to honor the purchase, as soon as possible. (Two weeks maximum time.) Mr. Fish __________ Thomas Fish Mrs. Fish __________ Dorothy Fish Ted Owens __________ Harry T. Owens === Page 5 of 9 M 114--Lease: plain English form: 6-78 Note: added sections should be appropriately divided and captioned. © 1978 BY JULIUS BLUMBERG, INC., PUBLISHER, NYC 10013 # LEASE AGREEMENT The parties agree as follows: **Date of this Lease:** Nov 19 86 **Parties to this Lease and addresses:** Landlord: Dennis and Dorothy Fish 747-2130 Address for notices: 13 Spruce St Hudson Falls, NY You, the Tenant: Harry T. Owens. Address: RD #2 Fort Ann, NY 12827 If there are more than one Landlord or Tenant the words "Landlord" and "Tenant" used in this Lease includes them. **Term:** 1. / years: months: beginning: Oct. 27 1986 ending: Oct. 27, 1987 **Premises rented:** 2. House located on Farm on Route 149 in The Township of Hartford **Rent:** 3. The monthly rent is $ 650.00. You, the Tenant, will pay this Rent to the Landlord, as follows: per month 1st and Last month Due at beginning of Lease and Then the first week of each month There-After. **Agreement to lease and pay rent:** 4. Landlord leases the Premises to you, the Tenant, for the Term. You, the Tenant, agree to pay the Rent and other charges as required in the Lease. You, the Tenant, agree to do everything required of you in the Lease. **Default:** 5. If you, the Tenant, 5.1 fail to pay Rent, or any part of the Rent, 5.2 fail to comply with any other term of this Lease, 5.3 vacate the premises at any time during the Term, then Landlord may re-enter and take possession of the Premises by any lawful means, and remove you, the Tenant and any other person on the Premises and their property, by dispossess proceedings, or by other lawful means, without being liable in any way. Landlord may re-rent the Premises and any rent received by Landlord shall be used first to pay Landlord's expenses in getting possession and re-renting the Premises, including, without being limited to, reasonable legal fees and costs, fees of brokers, advertising costs and the cost of cleaning, repairing and decorating the Premises, and second to pay any amounts Tenant owes under this Lease. Landlord has no duty to re-rent the Premises. You, the Tenant shall pay to Landlord any amount you owe under this Lease, less, if Landlord re-rents the Premises, any amounts received from the new tenant and not used by Landlord to pay the expenses referred to above. **End of the Term:** 6. You, the Tenant, agree that at the end of the Term you will surrender the Premises in as good condition as now, except for ordinary wear and damage by the elements. X ---------- === Page 6 of 9 Successors: 7. Unless otherwise stated, the Lease is binding on all parties who lawfully succeed to the rights or take the place of the Landlord or you, the Tenant. Changes: 8. This Lease can be changed only by an agreement in writing signed by the parties to the Lease. 9. All utilities (electric, phone, gas) paid by Tenant. Garbage and snow removal will be the responsibility of the Tenant. === Page 7 of 9 Quiet Enjoyment: Landlord agrees that if you, the Tenant pay the rent and are not in default under this Lease, you, the Tenant may peaceably and quietly have, hold and enjoy the Premises for the Term of this Lease. Signatures: The parties have signed this lease as of the date at the top of the first page. LANDLORD: Thomas Fish Dorothy Fish WITNESS: You, the TENANT: Harry T Owens === Page 8 of 9 George, We do our grocery shopping + WMO in Hudson Falls, 7 miles from us. Ted # Moose bullish on HF ## includes village as part of its territory By Joan Martinelli Staff Writer Post-Star 1/16/86 A yearling bull moose did some window-shopping for a mate in the village of Hudson Falls early Wednesday morning before being captured by state conservation officers. A Hudson Falls police patrol first saw the moose at 7:12 a.m. around the Margaret M. Murphy school yard on Clark Street. The police notified Lt. Robert Henke of the Environmental Conservation Department and the gears were set in motion to safely capture and relocate the animal. "When (animals) are indigenous to an area they tend to stay there," Henke said. "He undoubtedly came from Maine or Vermont. It isn't that (the moose) are being squeezed out of an area, they're just expanding their grounds. As their population grows the old males are chasing the young ones out during mating season." The lifespan of the average moose is 15 years, though they have been known to live as long as 35 years. Conservation officers kept close watch on the moose as it wandered down Pearl Street, through the village and stood its ground for approximately four hours in a yard at 236 Main St. "Only two people in New York state are licensed to use a tranquilizer gun," Henke said, one from Syracuse and another from Delmar. The officials hoped to wait for the researcher from Syracuse to administer a "brand new" tranquilizer tested to be "100 percent safe" to the largest member of the deer family. Hudson Falls police contained traffic and repeatedly cautioned the more than 100 onlookers to keep their distance. The fidgety yearling made a brief run for it when a driver tooted the horn of his tractor-trailer in the slow-moving traffic. After the moose made a few attempts to charge and free itself of the roped-off area, conservation officials decided to let the Delmar team from the Endangered Species Division administer the tranquilizer. "The young bulls are a little more dangerous," a state conservation officer noted. "They're a little faster, a little more aggressive. When they have a 7-foot rack I guess they don't need to be so aggressive." "It doesn't act as quickly as the new serum," said Jack Harvey. See MOOSE: Back Page ![A stray moose roams near a home in the Main Street area of Hudson Falls Wednesday morning. The animal eventually was caught by state Department of Conservation officers. (Photo by D.J. Hewitt)] === Page 9 of 9 Ted Owen Rt. 149, R.R. 2 Box 2169 Ft. Ann, New York 12827 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 48 Saint Frances Lane San Rafael, California 94901 GLENS FALLS, NY NOV 12 PM 1985 USA 22 GREETINGS USA 22 GREETINGS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8611b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e4d313059302b4dc09bec48a71844a08.pdf 72ac025afadfcaa0f3cf58c49e3b3eae https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1bad1bbfd9b14596bb6d2e51e0bf58f5.txt ec5e6e8888b4cd82af608e221668f871 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 99 September 3, 1986 Jeffrey SCIENTISTS B-1: my letter to you of June 9, 1986. I told you "anything can happen" with psi-force "ripples" across the U.S. This entire file reveals what has occurred as a result of these psi ripples. B-2: my going to Hong Kong and releasing my UFOs to do whatever they wish with Russia, China, etc., they caused the Chernobyl accident...which on the surface would seem cruel...yet put into proper perspective Chernobyl taught the entire world a lesson, factually, that it had not experienced...with the result of moving the "nuclear clock hands" back considerably. This newsclip explains why. B-3: An interesting observation by the Science Writer for UPI that NASA has been "snake-bit"...i.e., affected by perhaps some supernatural power or curse...which, of course, is quite true, with my UFOs attacking NASA with other-dimensional powers in order to block space-work. 1: Writer Andy Rooney is most receptive. He senses that something unusual ("some force") is affecting Earth. And of course, it is. The UFO Sun Attack. 80: "Tutu declares God will free S. Africa." I trust that you will remember what I said in "Seers Predict..." some years ago...that I would CAUSE the whites to be run out of Africa...so that it could go back to the blacks and to stop the slaughter of wildlife in that country. Also bear in mind...I work for and with my UFOs and they have told me that they work for what we humans call "God". 4: Notice the turnaround on Russia's part toward the U.S. and key issues...since my Hong Kong trip...which was just for that purpose...to enable my UFO's to have access to Russia and China, to take whatever action they deem necessary to stop a world-Nuclear-wipeout. Z: The same. B-2: Same. 5-C: Another indication that my UFOs are trying to bring about world peace, using their powers, with my human permission, which is required for them. The rest of this file is self-explanatory. You might note my written comments, around the newsclips. The chaos revealed in these newsclips could have been avoided by someone granting my UFOs their Base. Things will, of course, get increasingly worse. Ted Owens (PK Man) P.S. Family is leaving Florida next week. === Page 2 of 99 Monday, June 9, 1986 Scientists: My UFOs have severely crippled NASA and taught Russia (and the world) a valuable lesson at Chernobyl -- now they will turn their full attention to obtaining their UFO Base, which means that they intend to intensify and amplify pressure on the U.S. government to provide same... by sweeping "waves" of other-dimensional psi-force across the U.S. Now anything can happen! Ted Owens (PK Man) B-1 === Page 3 of 99 # Is Freakish Weather Trying To Drive Us Off This Planet? UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 6/7/86 ANDY # Rooney Sometimes I get the feeling the Earth doesn't really want us. It sure makes it difficult to live here. Last night when I got home just before dinner, I stopped and looked at the thermometer outside the kitchen door. The sun hits it in late afternoon so it isn't really an accurate indicator but it read 94 degrees. On the radio they were calling it 90. I went upstairs to change into my old, sitting-around clothes but I didn't stay up there long because it must have been 100 in the bedroom. We have an air conditioner but it hadn't been turned on because no one was going to be in the room. I hate to spend money cooling an empty room. This morning I left the house at 6:10 and the same thermometer that had read 94 degrees last evening was at an even 40 degrees. Do you think some force is trying to drive us crazy or make us move somewhere else, off Earth? Driving to work, I got to thinking about how near the earth is to being uninhabitable. I've never read what temperatures the human body can take for high and low extremes but it seems likely that parts of this planet are close to being outside the range of human tolerance at times. The temperature gets into the high 120s in Death Valley, Calif., and it has been as high as 134 degrees. That's in the shade and there isn't any shade out there. Earth's temperature has peaked at 136 in Libya. Moammar Gadhafi aside, this is reason enough for me not to book a two-week vacation there. In Vostok, Antarctica, temperatures have been recorded as low as 126 degrees below zero. Can the same body that would stay alive in 136-degree heat also keep going 262 degrees below that? I remember reading about a place in Montana where the temperature fell from 44 degrees above zero around noon to 56 degrees below zero late that night. That's putting heating systems and the human body to the test. Somehow we seem to live through extreme temperature changes. Air conditioning and central heating make it easier but the human race survived before it had either. I don't see how. Nature is always making things tough for us. If it isn't temperature, it's another kind of terrible weather or natural phenomenon that makes life difficult. Sunday there was a picture in my newspaper of a row of expensive beach houses that are in imminent danger of being washed away because the ocean has eroded the sand out from under them, leaving the houses precariously perched on top of their telephone-pole-like stilt pilings. At another time of year, that same page of the same paper might have a picture of snow drifts burying a row of cars on a highway near Buffalo or of a house being washed downstream by the overflowing Mississippi in the delta. Just when you think you're lucky to be in the one safe part of the country, something strikes you. I look with some sense of sad superiority at the stories of raging fires coming down the canyons in California or of twisters sweeping the Kansas plains. While I was worrying about all the bad luck the rest of the country was having last fall, a hurricane struck the East Coast while we were in Maine. We drove home to Connecticut the following day, following detours where the road had been blocked off by fallen telephone poles, and found the lawn in front of our house with enough major branches down so that I had to call a tree surgeon to clear them away. I am always worried that the Earth will become too warm, too cold, too wet or too dry for humans. We are, after all, fragile creatures. It wouldn't take much of a change to make life on Earth impossible. Fortunately for me, I have something more important to worry about today. I think my checking account is overdrawn. === Page 4 of 99 # Tutu declares God will free S. Africa Trib 9/1/86 SOWETO, South Africa (AP) -- Bishop Desmond Tutu, his voice so choked with emotion he could only whisper, on Sunday mourned 21 blacks slain in Soweto last week, then triumphantly told a congregation: "The God of love is going to make us free!" "The souls of those killed cry out, 'How long, Lord, is this going to continue?' The answer is -- the time is not right until some more of you, sisters and brothers, are killed," Tutu told 500 worshipers in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. "The price we have paid already is a heavy price," Tutu said. "We are being called on to pay yet more in lives. But despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free." About 50 whites, some wearing black bands across their chests and carrying daffodils as a symbol of sympathy, attended the service. Among them were Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who advocates economic sanctions as a means to bring down apartheid; the Rev. Donald Shriver Jr., president of Union Theological Seminary in New York; and his wife Peggy, an assistant general secretary of the U.S. National Council of Churches. "There is more triumph here than I would have believed possible," said Shriver. The victims died Tuesday and Wednesday in South Africa's worst township clash in 26 years. Security forces killed 20 people, and a gang of youths hacked to death a township councilor, seen as siding with white authorities. About 100 people, including five policemen, were injured. The Rev. David Nkwe, rector at St. Paul's, said Sowetans would hold a mass funeral Thursday and would not seek permission from the government. "We can't go cap in hand," Nkwe said after the service. "If they're going to stop us, let the world know they're going to stop us." The government has banned mass funerals, saying they serve as forums for radical anti-apartheid protests. City Press, a weekly newspaper serving black readers in Johannesburg area, said Sunday that 27 of Soweto's 32 councilors have fled the township in fear of further attacks. The newspaper said the councilors took refuge in apartments in a Johannesburg neighborhood officially off limits to black residents. The paper said armed police were left to guard the vacated homes. During the clashes, two councilors' homes were set afire. The violence has been attributed to Sowetan anger at council approval of a campaign to evict families taking part in a widespread rent boycott. In his sermon, Tutu told the congregation: "It would not be surprising that black people asked, 'God, just tell us, what have we done? What is it that makes us attract so much suffering to ourselves?'" "We suffer in a land that claims to be Christian, and we suffer at the hands of those who call themselves Christians," he said. More than 2,100 people, most of them blacks, have been killed in political violence since the anti-apartheid struggle intensified in the black townships two years ago. UFL M. Space Front 0.SB 8/30/86 # Astronaut's Family To Sue Rocket Firm SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- The family of Challenger astronaut Ron McNair will file suit against the maker of the solid rocket boosters blamed for the explosion that killed its seven crew members, an attorney said Friday. Ronald D. Krist said he will file the suit next week in U.S. District Court in Houston contending Morton Thiokol Inc. "is probably the sole culprit" in the space shuttle accident and will request unspecified damages. McNair, 35, was killed in the Jan. 28 accident. The suit will be the first filed against Morton Thiokol, although the family of the Challenger pilot has filed a claim against the government. The Houston Chronicle quoted McNair's widow, Cheryl, as saying she felt compelled to file the suit. "To do nothing would be a tacit acquiescence or stamp of approval of the type of conduct that took my husband's life, and this I am unwilling to do and not required to do in America," Mrs. McNair told the newspaper. Krist said the family decided to file the suit after months of fruitless negotiation with Morton Thiokol. "Our only recourse is to seek relief in the courts," he said. Thomas Russell, a Morton Thiokol vice president at the company's corporate headquarters in Chicago, said there would be no comment until the company has seen the lawsuit petition. Asked if the company expected lawsuits in the wake of the disaster, Russell said: "It doesn't surprise me. It's been a terrible tragedy." The plaintiffs in the suit will be Mrs. McNair, her two children, and the parents of the dead astronaut. Krist said his filing will not make a specific damage request but said the family is seeking compensation for the loss of McNair's income. Krist said the family also is asking for compensation for mental anguish, loss of companionship, the loss to the two children of a father, and for the pain and suffering endured by McNair before his death. A recent NASA study showed that the Challenger crew survived for several seconds after the spacecraft came apart, Krist said. (80) === Page 5 of 99 # Reagan: Soviet offer 'serious' * House backs SALT II - 5A By ELEANOR CLIFT Los Angeles Times GLASSBORO, N.J. - President Reagan, addressing a high school graduating class here, said Thursday that the Soviets had "begun to make a serious effort" at arms control, and that their recent proposals to reduce nuclear weapons "could represent a turning point" in the tense superpower relationship. In a speech notable for its conciliatory tone toward the Soviet Union, the president appealed to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to allow a preparatory meeting for the next summit to take place. "The location is unimportant," Reagan said. "What matters is that such a meeting take place in mutual earnestness so that we can make progress at the next summit." Reagan's speech was delivered in a town that talks on a variety of issues "a moment of opportunity" to improve relations between the two superpowers. "We believe that possibly an atmosphere does exist that will allow for serious discussion," he said. Of the latest Soviet proposal on strategic nuclear weapons, he said, "We cannot accept these particular proposals without some change, but it appears that the Soviets have begun to make a serious effort." The tone of the president's remarks was a striking departure from the harsh criticism leveled at the Soviets in recent weeks by senior administration officials for their alleged violations of the SALT II treaty. Administration officials have said that the latest Soviet arms offer has merit, but this was the first time that Reagan has been publicly optimistic since the offer was presented in Geneva earlier and outlined Monday in a speech by Gorbachev. However, high on the list of the parts of the new Gorbachev offer that some U.S. officials find unacceptable is the increased ceiling on warheads, particularly on warheads atop land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles that pose the greatest threat of surprise attack to U.S. forces. The Soviet proposal offers a new ceiling of 8,000 warheads of all kinds, compared with 6,000 in the previous Soviet and the standing U.S. proposal. Of the 8,000, no more than 60 percent, or 4,800 warheads, could be on land-based ICBMs. Under that proposal, the Soviets could target each U.S. ICBM with three warheads, more than enough to insure destruction of all the U.S. weapons in a first strike. # Reagan * From Page 1A The United States would not possess a comparable edge, leaving it more vulnerable than the Soviets. Reagan's remark about a preparatory meeting for a U.S.-Soviet summit, which he and Gorbachev agreed to at their summit in Geneva last November, appeared to indicate that he is prepared to send U.S. representatives to Europe or even to Moscow if that is what it takes to get the summit under way this year. A preparatory meeting between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had been scheduled until the Soviets canceled it in reprisal for the U.S. bombing of Libya on April 15. A White House official traveling with the president confirmed that Reagan would like Shultz and Shevardnadze to meet as soon as possible, even if it means that Shultz has to travel to Moscow. "We're not picky about where they meet," the official said, speaking on the condition that he not be identified. The site chosen for Reagan's conciliatory speech Thursday, which he termed "an essay on peace," is laden with historic meaning in the tortuous road of U.S.-Soviet relations. Nineteen years ago, in June 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin at Glassboro State College, located just across the street from Glassboro High School where Reagan spoke. Reagan acknowledged that the Glassboro summit was not significant since there were no major breakthroughs made or agreements reached there. In fact, the location was chosen then because it was exactly halfway between New York, where Kosygin was attending the United Nations, and Washington, and neither leader wanted to go an extra mile. "Nevertheless, the two men met. They were frank," Reagan recalled Thursday. "They worked to understand each other and to make themselves understood. In this alone, I would submit, they taught us a great deal." Standing in the crowded high school gymnasium in Glassboro Reagan issued a call for action. "I have come here today to say the Glassboro summit was not enough, that indeed the Geneva summit was not enough - that talk alone, in short, is not enough," he said. "I have come here to invite Mr. Gorbachev to join me in taking action." That was markedly different from Reagan's usual tone; he once derided the idea of a summit that did not hold out the prospect of concrete agreements. In addition, it came just three weeks after he roused international alarm with an announcement May 27 that the United States no longer intends to observe the terms of the SALT II agreement and will be in violation of those terms later this year when the 131st refurbished B-52 bomber equipped with cruise missile is deployed. Glassboro High's graduating class of 130 appeared oblivious to the messages to Moscow that the president was delivering. For the graduates, sweltering in their gold and maroon robes, it was enough that Reagan was there. === Page 6 of 99 8A OCALA * STAR-BA # Betty Hill Recalls Incident Continued from page 1A through hypnosis, their account of being kidnapped by beings from another solar system made the Hills immediate celebrities. The book "The Interrupted Journey" tells their story. "Right here is where they were standing," Hill, 67, said on a recent return to the spot where she says she was captured. "And this is where they took us," she said, heading into the woods. Until their 1964 hypnosis, the Hills remembered only being followed by a bright object in the night sky as they drove south through New Hampshire from Montreal to Portsmouth, turning off the main road onto a dirt road and stalling out after being confronted by strange men in the road. They tried to forget about it, but Betty had nightmares about being captured and Barney's health began to fail. When he didn't respond to medication a doctor suspected emotional problems and suggested hypnosis. During one session Barney mentioned being captured by strange beings. His wife, under separate hypnosis, recounted the same events and the story began to unfold. The beings, they recalled, approached as Barney tried to restart the car, took them from the car and through the woods to a glowing object in the forest. "I was fighting," Hill said. "I'm probably the first person in the world who took a sock at them." As evidence, she still has the torn and stained dress she wore that night. Standing in a clearing that she said was the landing spot, she described a thorough, medical-type examination that, when recalled under hypnosis, evoked terror in her and in Barney, who died in 1969. She said she and Barney tried repeatedly to retrace their 1961 route but did not find it until about a year after their hypnosis, when they rode through the mountains with relatives searching for a place to camp. "All of a sudden we got up here and said, 'Oh my God!' We recognized the place immediately. We came down here, stopped the car, jumped out and ran up here, up the path," she said. She said that for a while after the hypnosis, she tried to pass off the incident as a bad dream. "For a while I tried to tell myself it never happened, because there was a lot of pressure," she said. "So I'd go to bed and say, 'I'll forget it. It never happened.' But then, after a while, I couldn't do that anymore." Hill is not fazed by people who don't believe her story. "I say, 'You're entitled to your opinion, but if it happens to you, you know who to contact.'" Hill gives lectures on UFOs and her experience and says people who have never seen a UFO probably don't know what to look for. "I say anytime you see a light in the sky, check it out," she said. A rainbow appeared over her head as she stood at the capture spot. "Hi boys," she shouted, laughing. Asked how she will mark the anniversary, Hill said she hopes to "very quietly go out to my area and say, 'Happy anniversary, boys. You are the so-and-sos that did this to me.'" # East, West to reduce accidental war risk Hong Kong PK Post 9/22/86 The deal involves monitoring troop movements and exchanging military information. By ROLF SODERLIND United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Delegates from 35 NATO and Warsaw Pact nations approved a document Sunday night outlining ways to reduce the risk of accidental war in Europe in the first East-West agreement since 1979. "The measures just adopted establish a good, solid confidence-building regime which should make the European security situation more stable and secure," said chief U.S. negotiator Robert Barry. The agreement among NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Europe's neutral nations approved at a late-night session sets guidelines for monitoring troop movements and exchanging military information. It is the first agreement on conventional arms in Western Europe since World War II and the first East-West agreement since the 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was struck between the United States and the Soviet Union. SALT II was signed by the negotiators but never formally ratified by Congress, although the United States abided by it until this year. "This is a very good agreement, perhaps unique in East-west relations," said chief Soviet negotiator Oleg Grinevsky. "For the first time we have inspections, a very deep exchange of information. It forms the basis for a real security system in Europe." "It goes without saying that the agreement can help boost Soviet-U.S. relations, which are badly in need of solid improvement," Grinevsky said. === Page 7 of 99 # The Chernobyl Legacy Trib 9/3/86 Hong Kong PK International nuclear energy officials are divided on the number of cancer deaths that ultimately will result from the Soviet Union's Chernobyl reactor accident. But they agree on one thing: It will be high. Based on Soviet radiation measurements, 24,000 fatal cancers may develop over the next 70 years among the 75 million people living in the European districts of the Soviet Union, say spokesmen for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Earlier, a U.S. physicist offered a much higher figure. Thomas Cochran, of the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York, forecast that Chernobyl-related deaths would eventually reach 45,000. Included in his estimate was a calculation of human exposure to cesium-137 in contaminated food. The Soviet representatives have questioned the reliability of these figures while offering no estimates of their own. They agree, however, that about 9.5 million Soviet Europeans would be expected to die from all types of cancer over the next 70 years. The increased mortality rate from cesium-137 might be 0.4 percent, according to their calculations. That would mean about 38,000 additional deaths. Shortly after the Chernobyl accident, 31 people who were in the immediate vicinity of the damaged reactor died from burns, massive exposure to radiation and related causes. This was the direct casualty toll. It is the indirect numbers that are so troublesome. It is almost impossible to guess the degree of cesium-137 that has entered the food chain and will be the cause of malignant neoplasms for years to come among people who consume food that was grown or grazed in the path of the radioactive plume that emerged from the Chernobyl reactor. Estimates offered to date may be too high -- or, far too low. The Chernobyl disaster was an insignificant event compared to the explosion of a nuclear bomb. Yet, if a radioactive leak from a relatively small nuclear reactor can claim in excess of 25,000 victims, the results of a nuclear attack stagger the imagination. Chernobyl has taught the world many things about the construction and operation of nuclear reactors. These lessons are already being drafted into guidelines designed to prevent similar accidents in the future. But there also is a larger lesson: Earth cannot survive a nuclear war with life continuing as it is known today. It is indeed time to turn the world's stockpile of nuclear swords into plowshares and unify the nations of this planet in occupations more productive than war -- such as the continuing exploration of outer space. Is that but a childish dream? No, it's the most grown-up reality. And the mountains of Mars are calling. === Page 8 of 99 In one of the most super-secret projects in history, a joint Soviet-American scientific team is studying a mysterious radio signal from outer space -- a distress call sent from a planet or starship 50,000 years ago. "This is a stunning breakthrough. Our computers have actually translated a major portion of the radio signal," said one U.S. astronomer, who discussed the research with a French freelance news service on the condition he not be identified. Portions of the amazing message were put together in a reasonably accurate form by the team in April, but have not been published. "GUIDE US TO FOURTH UNIVERSE. EXPLOSION. WE ARE IN PERIL. WE ARE IN TIME 117.098 IN 12th GALAXY," was the frantic message. "Very simply, from a mathematical translation, we can assume this was an ancient spacecraft, or even a planet. "It was looking for some kind of beacon, a signal, to guide them out of danger. This whole thing is mind-boggling," said the astronomer. "My Soviet counterparts have done the majority of computer translation and we have been working night and day to pinpoint the source of the signal. "Our initial calculations have shown, and we may be proven very wrong later, that the signal was sent at least 50,000 years ago, maybe longer. "My colleagues feel we must have more conclusive analysis of the message before we publish a report. "I disagree. "Both our governments are briefed on our progress constantly. I feel the whole story should be made public now. "It is conclusive proof, to me, that mankind is not alone. I only wish that I could go into further detail. "There is much more to this story and more of the signal to be translated. "But I will say this, when this goes public, it will have one of the greatest effects on the human race in history. "It could even bring about world peace." Both U.S. and Soviet government spokesmen refused to confirm or deny that scientific research into an alien message was taking place. The Soviet spokesman, however, said that "Our government is constantly seeking new information from space, and that includes scanning for radio signals of any kind." It is not inconceivable that our advanced equipment could pick up a message of this sort. I am just not at liberty to discuss it any further at this point. -- ALEX JACKSON # Soviets and Americans join forces to decode desperate call for help === Page 9 of 99 Weekly World News 6/24/86 # Bahamian researchers are investigating reports that a UFO saved a family from drowning after their pleasure boat sank in the Devil's Triangle. Dr. Leopold Stinson told a symposium in Caracas, Venezuela, that the May 5 incident appeared to have all the indications of a verifiable alien encounter. Stinson quoted the family as having said the UFO rose out of the sea just seconds before their 32-foot boat went under. Incredibly, they claim the starship rescued them by air-dropping a life raft that bore the insignia of the U.S. Air Force. And it is that raft, said Stinson, that might prove once and for all that an alien intelligence is operating in the Devil's Triangle. "The raft is a type that was commonly used in the 1950s," he said. "If we can match the numbers on its side to any plane known to have disappeared in the Triangle in that era, it would suggest that it had been hijacked and stored, perhaps by beings that are not of this world." Stinson said that the quest to match the numbers could take weeks, months or years owing to the large number of planes that have vanished in the Triangle. Meanwhile, the investigation will focus on accounts from the rescued family, he said. "These are very articulate people and they have been quite cooperative," he continued. "The husband and wife are medical doctors from Brazil. They have two children, both in college." According to Stinson, the family had been island-hopping in the Caribbean for several months. They were reportedly on their way to the Bahamas when their boat started taking on water. "Their own life raft was in an interior compartment and the boat was sinking so fast they couldn't get to it," said Stinson. "They told me they sent out an SOS over the radio but were certain they were going to die." The UFO -- golden-colored and shaped like a star -- rose out of the water about 75 yards away, the family said. "By this time, they were almost out of their minds with fear," said Stinson. "But they did recall that the UFO crackled and hummed as it cleared the surface and moved toward them. They said the craft came to within 20 or 30 feet of where their boat was sinking and dropped the Air Force raft from its belly. "They told me the craft hovered overhead for a few seconds, then it vanished in the sky. "The stunned but grateful family swam to the raft and climbed aboard. Shaken by their terrifying ordeal, they huddled together in the darkness of the vast nighttime sea," added Stinson. "Their capsized boat slipped noiselessly beneath the ocean's swells and a bizarre silence settled in around the frightened family. They joined hands and prayed. And waited." About 20 minutes later, the crew of a Bahamian-based sport-fishing boat found the family afloat in the raft and took them ashore, said Stinson. They reported the incident to authorities, who alerted Stinson's UFO/Devil's Triangle research group. Carlos Garcia, a science reporter in Caracas, said the reaction of Stinson's colleagues at the symposium was mixed. "They are anxious to see his report in the journals so they can weigh all the evidence for themselves," he said. -- RIKI MOSS === Page 10 of 99 UFO lowered a life raft to drowning family in bizarre Devil's Triangle incident. # Alien spacecraft rises from sea to save a drowning family === Page 11 of 99 A real-life encounter with a . . . # SEA MONSTER! Weekly World News 7/15/86 In a chilling real-life drama rivaling a Hollywood creature feature, dentist Jack Bishop and his friend Ken Bordrie came face to face with a living legend of the deep -- the Chesapeake Bay monster! The sea creature, affectionately known as Chessie in a parody of Scotland's Nessie of Loch Ness, surfaced in the Tred Avon River off Easton, Md., only 100 yards from a dock where the two men were standing. "I was showing Jack my new boat when something caught my eye," Bordrie told The NEWS. "At first, I thought it was a big school of fish churning the water. I said something like, 'Hey Jack. Take a look at that.' That's when he saw it." "It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen," Dr. Bishop said. "It was moving down the river, undulating up and down, not side to side like a snake. I could always see two or three of its sections out of the water and it was moving rather quickly. "I'd estimate the thing to be at least 20 feet long." Bishop, who apparently had a better view of Chessie than did Bordrie, said the creature is brownish in color and has a pointed, serpentine head. "I could see it very clearly," Bishop added. "But I couldn't tell if it was shiny or had any scales. But there isn't any doubt at all what I saw -- it was Chessie. "It was exciting to see it, not at all terrifying. If I had been alone in a small boat and it came to the surface alongside me, I think then I'd probably get a bit concerned." In recent years, there have been dozens of sightings of the mysterious sea creature cruising Chesapeake Bay. There were three reported last year alone. A building contractor and his wife said they spotted "a great big eel" longer than their 24-foot boat. Two watermen said a 35-foot snake or eel circled their boat for about an hour. And a family of six reported seeing a serpentine creature raise one hump after another above the water while swimming near shore. Those 1984 reports followed a claim in 1982 that a 30-foot sea beast had actually been videotaped. The tape has been examined by experts and the blurry image is in dispute. "I'm not certain that what I saw isn't a large snake," Bordrie said. "But, whatever it is, I've never seen anything like it before . . . and I don't think I'll ever see anything like it again." SEA serpent described by the two men was very similar to this artist's rendition. # Doctor and friend have a face-to-face meeting with the legendary 'Chessie' Recall that some years ago I wrote Dr. Max Fogel of Mensa and told him that I would produce a Loch Ness monster in Chesapeake Bay! (I produced a UFO for Dr. Fogel in a [unintelligible] of [unintelligible]. Have his affidavit. === Page 12 of 99 'They Dragged Me, Kicking And Screaming' # Hill Recalls UFO Incident 2.50 9/14/86 THORNTON, N.H. (AP) -- Betty Hill shows no fear as she walks from a back road onto a wide path that leads into the woods, but the first time she remembers being here was different. "They dragged me, kicking and screaming," she said of kidnappers who she contends blocked the road, took her and her husband, Barney, out of their car and yanked them into the woods to be examined -- in a flying saucer. The Hills arrived home in Portsmouth 25 years ago today after a drive through the White Mountains, puzzled by stains and tears on Betty's dress, scuffs on Barney's shoes, shiny spots on their car, watches that had stopped and no memory of two hours of the trip. After the void was filled for them See Betty Hill on page 8A Betty Hill stands near the spot where she says she was abducted by aliens. UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 9/17/86 # Arctic Ozone Thins, Researchers Baffled WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unexplained drop-off in ozone concentrations over Antarctica appears to be occurring over the Arctic too, according to a government scientist working on the problem. The results of work conducted by Don Heath, an atmospheric physicist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have not yet been published, and he discussed them in an interview Tuesday with reluctance. He cautioned that there is no conclusive proof linking man-made chlorofluorocarbons to the ozone decline, as several computer models predict, and another scientist working for an environmental group warned that the polar ozone deficits still could turn out to be natural fluctuations. Heath's findings, if they hold up, would be the first observations in the Northern Hemisphere to match the discovery of British scientists last year that in the deep night of the polar winter, starting in the 1970s, ozone concentrations over the South Pole have been falling further each year before recovering a month or two later. However, the phenomenon is much smaller in the Arctic. Last October, the Antarctica deficit was about 40 percent. A special team of scientists has gone to Antarctica for first-hand observations this year. Ozone, a form of oxygen, is a pollutant at low levels. But between 15 miles and 25 miles above the surface of the earth, it filters out ultraviolet radiation from the sun and makes life on earth possible. Each 1 percent drop in average ozone concentration over the United States will mean 20,000 skin cancers, some scientists have estimated. It also acts as a "greenhouse" gas, tending to warm the surface of the earth. Heath said that in the Arctic, ozone concentrations are declining at 1.5 percent to 2 percent per year -- but in February and October the decline accelerates to a rate that would make a year's reduction 2.5 percent if it could be kept up. These results come from an examination of observations made from 1978 through 1984 by the Nimbus 7 satellite. Similar observations from the same satellite confirmed the British Antarctica discovery. He said his data was consistent with the latest models "with respect to latitude and seasonal variation, except larger." # Record sell-off sends Dow into 86.61-point nosedive It was the biggest one-day point drop in history and it came on record volume. UFOs in Economy Trib 9/12/86 By BILL SHELTON Tribune Business Writer Tidal waves of selling lashed Wall Street Thursday, sinking stock prices a record 86.61 points on the busiest day in trading history. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks plunged to 1,792.89, shattering the previous biggest one-day loss of 61.87 points set July 7. The drop was the fifth daily decline in as many trading days, all of which have been pinned on the expectation of rising interest rates. Just two weeks ago, investors had been forecasting continued downward pressure on interest rates because of sluggishness in the economy. But in the last week, some upbeat statistics -- namely, a drop in unemployment in August -- have precipitated renewed concern about rising inflation and interest rates. The concern seemed to snowball among investors, culminating in the wild sell-off Thursday. The decline was accelerated by computerized trading programs that are increasingly being used by large institutional investors to buy and sell huge portfolios of securities quickly. See MARKET, Page 5A === Page 13 of 99 # Worries Over Air Controllers Rise WASHINGTON (AP) -- Commercial airline pilots, whose assurances about safe skies five years ago helped the government blunt an illegal strike by air traffic controllers, now say they're increasingly worried about controller performance. "The air traffic control system is safe," John O'Brien of the Air Line Pilots Association told a congressional hearing Thursday. "But we're concerned about what appears to be a general reduction in the inherent margin of safety." His remarks on behalf of the union which represents 39,900 pilots at 46 airlines came after representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration insisted that controllers are keeping order in the skies. "It's the best system in the world. It's safe today," said Walter Luffsey, who as the FAA's associate administrator for air traffic oversees the agency's 14,168 controllers, controller assistants and trainees. While pilots still stop short of declaring the airways unsafe, they also are not eager to embrace the FAA's rosy assessment. The air traffic system "is not as healthy as the FAA would like us to believe," O'Brien told the House human resources subcommittee. He said pilots frequently complain to ALPA headquarters that too often they sense the inexperience and pressure on controllers, particularly at busy airports and en route control centers. Edward Landers, a 26-year veteran pilot, complained of "a lack of professionalism, a lack of experience" among some controllers. Landers said he was the co-pilot on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that came within 500 feet of colliding with a Boeing 727 flown by Continental Airlines over the Boston area last May 8. The Northwest Airlines jumbo jet, on a flight from London with 182 people aboard, had been told by a controller at the Boston traffic control center to hold at 12,000 feet, but the Continental aircraft was cleared to descend from 15,000 to 11,000, according to FAA and industry officials. There have been other incidents that have caught pilots' attention and concern: - [ ] A USAir pilot averted a collision with an American Airlines Boeing 727 on the runway at O'Hare International Airport last month only by lifting the nose of his aircraft early during takeoff. The controller had given both planes virtually simultaneous takeoff clearance, although they were on intersecting runways. - [ ] A Northwest Airlines DC-10 last year missed another Northwest DC-10 on the runway at Minneapolis last year by 50 feet because of controller confusion. A controller also was blamed for a near collision of a helicopter. # Teams to study ozone 'hole' over South Pole By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON -- Teams of scientists will soon make an unusual trip into the perpetual darkness of Antarctic winter to study a mysterious and alarming "hole" in part of the atmosphere that protects the Earth from harmful solar radiation. Four groups of researchers will use high-altitude balloons and sophisticated instruments in an effort to find out what causes the annual appearance of a hole the size of the continental United States in a layer of the stratosphere above the South Pole. Six ski-equipped transport planes will make the 2,100-mile trip from New Zealand in August, a hazardous flight journey normally restricted to personnel essential for the seasonal opening of the main U.S. base on McMurdo Sound and a few scientists conducting crucial experiments. Because of the importance of the atmospheric studies, the 13 scientists will be on one of the first flights to the winter-locked McMurdo base, the National Science Foundation announced Sunday. The foundation, which supervises all U.S. activities in Antarctica, said the researchers will examine the recently discovered phenomenon of a drastic drop in the total amount of ozone each spring over the frozen continent. A form of oxygen that exists in small amounts throughout the atmosphere, ozone also is concentrated 15 miles above the Earth in the stratosphere. Ozone is critical because it screens out almost all of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. Scientists say a drop in ozone would increase the incidence of skin cancer, possibly harm plant life and cause a number of other adverse effects. Concern about the ozone layer surfaced a decade ago when scientists suggested it was being depleted by use of certain fertilizers and chlorofluorocarbon chemicals used as refrigerants in cooling systems and propellants in aerosol sprays. The concerns led to restrictions on use of some of these chemicals. Scientists say the Antarctic episodes do not appear to be an immediate threat to worldwide ozone levels because no completely empty hole has appeared, only a relatively small proportion of the ozone layer is affected, and each incident lasts only a month. However, there is concern because the phenomenon may be a prelude to more widespread events and because scientists have no atmospheric model to explain or predict what is happening. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey, reviewing past data, last year announced discovery of the ozone low occurring each October, with the drop starting at the end of September and ending at the beginning of November, when levels returned to normal. The British researchers said October ozone values remained steady for the most part from 1957 until about 1975, when they started to drop drastically. The new research is primarily sponsored by a coalition of government agencies. University of Wyoming researchers will launch 33 large balloons carrying instruments to measure ozone and aerosols, while a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will look at the scattering of solar visible light by atmospheric constituents. A group from the State University of New York at Stony Brook will use microwave measuring equipment to determine molecular gases in the air, and a team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is to examine how atmospheric gases absorb solar infrared radiation. === Page 14 of 99 # There's A Hole In The Ozone BY JAMES GLEICK The New York Times UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 9/14/86 NEW YORK Atmospheric scientists are struggling to explain one of the strangest mysteries ever to confront them: a widening and potentially dangerous hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole. Putting forward a series of theories, and unsatisfied by all of them, the scientists are now making final preparations for a rare research expedition that will fly into the dead of the Antarctic winter in three weeks. At the same time, biologists are reporting heightened concern over the possible dangers to humans and ocean life from even small increases in ultraviolet radiation, which ozone blocks. Concern has intensified steadily since last fall, when scientists were stunned by satellite data showing the magnitude of the hole, which appears each September and October. The depletion is many times worse than has been predicted over the last 15 years amid concern over the global effects on ozone of manmade gases, such as fluorocarbons. By flying four teams with advanced instrumentation into the American base on McMurdo Sound -- ordinarily closed to traffic in winter except for maintenance flights -- the scientists hope to distinguish between two extreme possibilities. The hole could be a transient climate phenomenon that will go away by itself. Or it could be caused by manmade pollution, in which case it could continue to widen, reaching populated areas of South America, Australia and southern Africa, and appear at the North Pole as well. "It's like rolling dice," said Michael B. McElroy of Harvard University's Center for Earth and Planetary Physics. "The big money question is if what's happening in Antartica is likely to be a foretaste of what might happen in the northern region." The mystery has renewed worldwide interest in the overall ozone problem, which began in 1971 with fears over gases released by supersonic jets and spray cans. The United States banned fluorocarbons in spray cans in 1978, and a few European countries followed suit, but global production for uses ranging from air-conditioners to foam has continued to grow. All the predictions assumed that such gases in the stratosphere would result in a steady, gradual, global depletion of ozone. Now scientists find themselves forced to confront a sudden, highly localized hemorrhaging of ozone that none of their calculations or computer models predicted. Instead of declining a few percent over decades, the Antarctic ozone has plunged 40 percent since 1979. "On the one hand, it's very exhilarating and challenging, and on the other, it's frustrating and scary -- scary because it's hard to place your bets with any confidence," said Ralph J. Cicerone of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Ozone is an unstable form of oxygen with molecules of three atoms instead of the usual two. In the upper atmosphere, it forms and breaks down continuously in chemical processes that have proved sensitive to the presence of other rare gases. These gases often serve as catalysts to hasten the breakdown. The Antarctic hole appears 8 to 16 miles up, at the end of winter as the spring sun rises briefly over the horizon. By the end of November, the ozone levels recover. Each year, though, the hole has expanded, in 1985 reaching a size equivalent to the area of the United States. When the ozone is thin, the ultraviolet radiation reaching the ground in Antartica would produce a tan even in the low, pale October sun, a level that over populated areas would sharply increase the incidence of skin cancer. And some scientists believe that it would wipe out some vulnerable plankton and fish larvae floating near the ocean surface. The latest studies confirm that light in the short ultraviolet wavelengths acts as a "stress," killing aquatic life, diminishing crop yields and producing cancers. === Page 15 of 99 The initial report of the hole by British scientists in March 1985 caused little excitement, partly because the British team in Antarctica was not well known among atmospheric scientists. Also, since their data came from ground instruments measuring the ozone in a direct line upward, they did not show the extent of the hole. But later last year, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration produced satellite data confirming the British findings and showing how big the hole was. NASA scientists found that the depletion of ozone was so severe that the computer analyzing the data had been suppressing it, having been programmed to assume that deviations so extreme must be errors. The scientists had to go back and reprocess the data going back to 1979. "Just as an earthquake precedes volcanic eruptions, this could be a signal of something worse," said Mark Schoeberl, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "It could be the leading edge of something more detrimental. It could expand outward to more populated areas. We just don't know right now." As the Antarctic expedition prepares for departure, new theories are emerging, all speculative and none completely convincing. Some use chains of chemical reactions to link the hole to the gradual depletion already observed. Others explain the hole in terms of cyclical atmospheric processes that have no relation to manmade gases. The atmosphere high over the Antarctic is the coldest place on earth, 15 or 20 degrees colder than over the North Pole. The difference comes from asymmetries in the flow of the atmosphere's weather systems. Some climate experts believe a change in the ordinary dynamical motions of waves and cyclones in the upper atmosphere might cause the hole. For example, an upwelling of air over the pole could push aside the layer of the stratosphere with the most ozone, replacing it with low-ozone air from lower altitudes. Current climate models do not produce this effect, but they do not rule it out, either. A dynamical explanation implies that the hole may have come and gone in the past, before it could be measured. Even so, to be convincing, such an explanation needs to answer the question: Why now? One theory ties the hole to volcanic particles that have built up in the polar atmosphere. The particles could be heated by the sun, causing the upwelling. Another theory suggests that the dynamics could be affected by a change in solar activity. Jerry Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., is one of those who favor a dynamical explanation, although he believes all the existing theories suffer from a level of evidence "somewhere between minuscule and nonexistent." The hole points to shortcomings in the existing computer models used to make predictions about the earth's climate, he said, but it does not necessarily confirm the worst ozone warnings of the last decade. "You could say, 'Aha, we've found the great smoking gun,'" Mahlman said. "But the chemistry does not really match up. So far there's a lot of wishful handwaving." He has bet a Chinese lunch that ozone levels will rise again this year. On the other hand, McElroy of Harvard favors a chemical explanation, and he put one forward last month in the journal Nature. The manmade gases that break down ozone include, most prominently, chlorine, formerly released by spray cans and now by a host of industrial processes. McElroy's theory relies on another element as well: bromine, a much rarer gas used in specialized fire extinguishing equipment. In the sequence of chemical reactions he proposes, very small amounts of bromine produce very large ozone depletion. If this theory is correct, policy-makers might find that strictly controlling bromine would be more effective than controlling chlorine. Because the UFO Sun Attack is escalating exponentially with passage of time - causing record heat, cold, and other freak weather effects, including the ozone holes over the Arctic and South pole. === Page 16 of 99 All the theories make specific predictions about the polar atmosphere that should be testable -- hence the Antarctic expedition, announced by the National Science Foundation. "You know how much excitement this is causing in scientific circles and industry and government," said Cicerone of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "But so far the only people who are sure of themselves are not convincing their colleagues. Most of these theories will bite the dust." Thirteen researchers will join the 130 people already wintering at the McMurdo base. They will launch a series of 33 balloons with high-atmosphere measuring instruments. And they will use an assortment of advanced ground instruments including various spectrometers, capable of detecting the minute quantities of various chemical byproducts whose existence is predicted by the various theories. The spectrometers measure the scattered wavelengths of sunlight and moonlight, in effect, letting the sun and moon interrogate the atmosphere. The scientists come from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Wyoming, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. "This is one of the most challenging things that we've ever come across in atmospheric chemistry," said Susan Solomon of the Aeronomy Laboratory, who is the team leader of the expedition. "Whatever the source is, we need to understand it because this is a change in the ozone that's of absolutely unprecedented proportions." "We've just never seen anything like what we're experiencing in the Antarctic." Her own theory, also put forward in Nature, is chemical, relying on some complicated interactions of chlorine and sunlight. Meanwhile, biologists have been stepping up research since the 1970s on how ultraviolet light affects living organisms. The most recent results, reported at a conference last month in Washington, carry implications for plankton, crops and people. That ultraviolet light causes skin cancer in humans is well known. The wavelengths screened by ozone happen to be precisely the wavelengths absorbed by DNA. When the radiation is absorbed, it turns to heat, which can damage or destroy cells. Less well understood, but long suspected, is that organisms living near the ocean surface may be killed in minutes by increased ultraviolet light, and farm crops, too, can be harmed. Scientists have been testing these effects in experiments with lamps intensified in the short wavelengths, like the sunlamps used in tanning salons, and also with lasers. **DISAPPEARING OZONE** Over South Pole, a hole in stratospheric ozone has expanded to cover an area as large as the United States. It is ozone that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Africa Australia Antarctica South America Right. And the destruction of phytoplankton with resultant loss of oxygen for humans will affect the entire human race. My advice? Give the UFOs their base, which is what this is all about. === Page 17 of 99 Heat still searing the Southeast; Plains cities reach record highs United Press International Temperatures climbed toward the 100-degree mark across the South and southern Plains Wednesday, forcing record power use and water rationing in many cities and stalling cars on roads buckled by the scorching heat. The heat rose to 110 in some places in the South and southern Plains, where record highs were set in 16 cities Tuesday. At midday Wednesday, the heat toppled records in at least five cities, including Wichita, Kan., where it was 108 degrees, and Springfield, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark., where the temperature soared to 107. At least 66 deaths in the South and Midwest have been blamed on the heat since July 7. Record temperatures above 100 returned to the Southeast where the heat has aggravated the worst drought in a century. Farm losses have been put at more than $1 billion in the South. The weather service's 90-day outlook released Tuesday called for above-normal temperatures in the Southeast through the end of October. So many people were using air-conditioning that electric consumption broke records in Kansas and Texas, officials said. In Little Rock and Memphis, Tenn., officials opened air-conditioned "cooling shelters" for the elderly. San Antonio, Texas, officials issued a "heat emergency" advisory, extending operating hours of recreation centers and nutrition centers for the elderly. The city also asked employers to "be sensitive to the needs of employees working outdoors." In Oklahoma City, officials banned outdoor water use. In Ward, Ark., city officials threatened to cut water service to people who continue to use water in non-essential ways like watering lawns and washing cars. In Springfield, Mo., police said they received an increase in domestic calls and blamed them on the heat. "Tempers tend to escalate as the temperatures rise, especially since it's been hot so many days in a row," said Judy Boesch, communication clerk for the department. Soviets postpone shuttle launch WASHINGTON -- The Soviet Union has postponed its first manned space-shuttle flight a year -- until early 1988 -- setting up a close race with the United States for the next such mission, according to a Swedish media organization. The report by the Space Media Network accompanied new satellite photographs released by the group showing construction of the Soviet shuttle site. Rain Comes Too Late To Help Dixie Continued from page 1A In addition to the drought, the heat is killing poultry. About 610,000 broilers have died in Georgia in the last 13 days, said Abit Massey, executive director of the Georgia Poultry Federation. Georgia's $6 billion-a-year poultry industry is losing about $5 million a week, he said. "It's horrible," Val Johnson, an Ohio woman traveling in South Carolina, said about the heat. "You see these skinny cattle standing in pastures that are all brown instead of green. The creeks are all dry and even weeds are brown." The effects of the drought and heat already are being felt outside the region, according to Massachusetts Agriculture Department spokesman Christopher Phillips. New England produce prices have jumped 15 percent to 25 percent since mid-June, he said, while beef and pork prices have fallen 5 percent since last year, partly because farmers are selling starving animals as hay supplies drop. A 100-car train was to be loaded today in Indianapolis with 1,800 tons of hay donated by more than 120 Indiana farms. CSX Transportation Inc. donated use of the train, and it should be ready for the trip to South Carolina on Monday. Indiana Bell and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. are donating services to coordinators of the program, said AT&T spokesman Greg Allen. Lee Webster of Webster Trucking Co. in Donovan, Ill., said he would offer the services of some of his drivers to deliver donated hay. "We never go as far as Georgia except once in a blue moon," said Webster. "We've been farmers most of our lives and the situation down there is really desperate. Somebody has to do something." A 43-truck Ohio National Guard convoy loaded with donated hay will set out Aug. 2 for Fort Bragg, N.C., Gov. Richard Celeste said. Ohio farmers have donated more than 4,000 tons; Wisconsin farmers about 45,000 bales, or about 1,125 tons; New York farmers have donated some 13,000 bales, and Kentucky organized a shipment of 50,000 bales, officials said. In Georgia, about 40 cattlemen waiting at the Atlanta Farmers Market got 50 bales each from Illinois on Wednesday. Twenty-five others were turned away when the hay, flown in by Air Force cargo planes, ran out after four hours. First in line was Dale Banford of Winder, who waited 18 hours because he has had to feed his 60 beef cattle apples and stale bread. "There ain't no words to describe what this hay means to me," he said. Georgia farmers will need 2 million tons of hay to feed their cattle through spring, state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said. Damage in Georgia is estimated at $182.5 million; in North Carolina $400 million; South Carolina $100 million; Virginia $61.5 million; Maryland $89 million; and West Virginia $15 million. UFO watcher: We are not alone FORT WALTON BEACH (UPI) -- Donald Ware, a 50-year-old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel with a master's degree in nuclear engineering, believes we are not alone. "I believe our planet is being watched right now and has been for thousands of years," said the state president of Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network, a 17-year-old nationwide organization keeping tabs on UFOs and alien encounters. Ware said he first became interested in extraterrestrials when, at the age of 17, he spotted a UFO in the skies above Washington, D.C. He went on to fly 100 combat missions in the Vietnam War and retired after 26 years with the Air Force in 1983. Since then, Ware spends much of his time on UFOs, lecturing to civic and community organizations and giving a broad view of the phenomenon. "Some of these things are absolutely weird," Ware said. "There's no explanation, and you can't hit somebody with too many thoughts. It involves too many thoughts that generally aren't accepted." Ware said his personal appearances and a United Press International article about him last year have brought forward people who have seen UFOs but did not know how or where to report them. "MUFON looks at the phenomenon as a study of advanced science," Ware said, adding the organization's consultants have doctorate degrees in 40 different fields. Members have their own specialties, and Ware is investigating the strange writings associated with suspected aliens. He is gathering samples for analysis in what he expects to be a 10-year project. === Page 18 of 99 NASA Source Says No Shuttle Flights Until '88 UFOs vs Space Trek 0.5B 6/28/86 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- The space shuttles probably will not be ready to fly again until early 1988 because of the testing required to qualify a new solid fuel booster rocket design, an authoritative NASA source said Friday. The source, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said a requalification of the booster system may require three full-scale tests "that will extend the program out some number of months." The Rogers presidential commission which investigated the January explosion of the shuttle Challenger blamed it on a failed joint between segments of one of the two boosters and ordered that the whole booster system be analyzed and redesigned. The source said engineers from the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and from Morton Thiokol, the Utah manufacturer of the rocket engines, have settled on two prime candidates for the redesign. John Taylor, a spokesman at Marshall, said he could not confirm that engineers had selected prime candidate designs for correcting problems with the booster. He said John Thomas, head of the NASA redesign team, would hold a news conference Wednesday to give a status report on the redesign work. James Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced earlier this year that the agency was aiming at a July 1987 target date for the first launch of a shuttle since the shuttle Challenger exploded in January. But the NASA source said a redesign engineering team has determined that the work will take longer than first anticipated. "The July 1987 launch date is just not doable," he said. "We could have delivery of the new boosters in the fall of 1987, which would probably put the launch into early 1988." Both the Marshall and Thiokol redesign proposals call for incorporation into the rocket joint of a feature that would use the rocket's internal pressure to force the joint closed. The Rogers commission concluded that the booster could have failed because internal pressure from the burning solid fuel forced the joint open, causing failure of two O-ring gaskets intended to seal the joint. Superheated exhaust gases jetting through the joint then sprayed against the shuttle's huge external fuel tank. # Uranus activity stuns scientists By LEE SIEGEL AP Science Writer Trib 6/27/86 PASADENA, Calif. -- The Voyager 2 spacecraft's study of Uranus suggests that the planet's magnetic field might be reversing, an astonishing flip-flop in magnetic north and south poles never before witnessed, NASA says. "What we may be seeing is a magnetic field in the process of flipping," said Ellis Miner, deputy Voyager project scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While sea-floor rocks show that Earth's magnetic field has reversed at least nine times during the past 3½ million years, most recently 730,000 years ago, humans have never witnessed a field reversal on any planet, said Mario Acuna, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Miner and Acuna emphasized that a flip-flop in Uranus' magnetic field is only one possible explanation for bizarre observations made by Voyager when the spacecraft flew past the seventh planet from the sun in January. ## Evidence suggests a reversal of the planet's magnetic field. Is it a giant UFO that "flip-flops"? Owens Another, previously debated theory is that the planet's strange magnetic field was created as an indirect result of an Earth-sized object smashing into it and tipping it on its side early in the solar system's history. The possibility that the Uranian magnetic field is reversing is outlined in the July 4 issue of the journal Science, to be released today. The issue contains the first published studies from Voyager's Uranus flyby. Understanding Uranus' magnetic field is important because it helps scientists learn about Earth's magnetic field, which allows compass navigation, keeps out harmful radiation and possibly affects climate, said David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at California Institute of Technology. A planet spins around its rotational poles. Uranus' rotational poles point toward and away from the sun, parallel to the plane of its orbit around the sun. The rotational poles of all the other planets are like Earth's, perpendicular to the orbital plane. The magnetic poles are different from the rotational poles on all planets except Saturn. On Earth, the magnetic north pole is tilted about 11 degrees away from the rotational north pole, so compasses point to magnetic north, not true north. On Uranus, the magnetic poles are tilted 60 degrees away from the rotational poles. That tilt, along with signs that Uranus' magnetic field isn't centered in the middle of the planet, provides evidence that the planet's magnetic field is reversing, Acuna and others wrote in Science. Because Voyager studied Uranus only once, another mission to the planet would be required to determine if the strange tilt and offset of its magnetic field means it truly is reversing, Miner said. Do you sense a connection between this anomaly and the North and South poles ozone holes? 5 === Page 19 of 99 # Layoffs expected at space center UFOs - Space work ## Shuttle launch delays may cost 1,000 Kennedy Space Center workers their jobs this week. Trib 9/3/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -- The space agency this week is expected to announce 800 to 1,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center will be laid off because of the Challenger disaster and the delay in shuttle launches, sources said Wednesday. In addition, another 700 to 800 workers at a Louisiana plant where shuttle fuel tanks are built will receive pink slips by Oct. 3, according to Martin Marietta, the firm in charge of fuel tank construction. A company statement said the layoffs were necessary because of "reduced demand for space shuttle external fuel tanks and resulting decreased production. The reduced production was directed by NASA after reviewing ... program needs related to the temporary suspension of shuttle flights." The space agency tentatively planned to hold a news conference today to discuss employment at the Kennedy Space Center. Widespread layoffs among contractor personnel at the Florida shuttleport have been expected for months and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine reported two weeks ago some 1,100 workers at the Florida shuttleport would lose their jobs in October. Some 1,150 workers were laid off in February because of the Challenger accident and previously announced completion of several spaceport projects, including modifications to launch pad 39A, where Challenger began its last voyage. But those cuts were based on a 12-month delay for resumption of shuttle flights. In July, Rear Adm. Richard Truly, chief of the shuttle program, told Congress he did not expect shuttle flights to resume before the first quarter of 1988 and more layoffs were inevitable. # 'Snake-bit' NASA to try launch Recall the pro football teams I used to harass with psi-force effects and sports writers used to write that the teams seemed to be "snakebit." The secret cargo atop the Delta rocket is believed to be components of Star Wars. * NASA lays off 1,000 -- 1E By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer UFOs in Space Work Trib 9/5/86 CAPE CANAVERAL -- A Delta rocket was secretly readied for blastoff today to carry a Star Wars satellite payload into orbit in the first major American launch attempt since an identical Delta failed in May, sources said Thursday. The 116-foot rocket was scheduled to take off at an unannounced hour today, according to space industry sources who spoke on condition they not be identified. NASA will not discuss any aspects of the classified mission. The launch comes in a climate of crisis for the American space program, which has suffered three major failures this year beginning with the destruction of the shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28. An unmanned Air Force Titan 34D rocket blew up seconds after blastoff April 18 and a Delta was destroyed May 3. In addition, two research rockets have been destroyed and a Minuteman missile was blown up after a launch malfunction for a total of six rocket failures in the nation's most disastrous year in space in two decades. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in January, told a group of lawyers in Miami that NASA desperately needs a success. "We need a successful Delta launch," he said. "It is carrying a high-security payload for the Defense Department. NASA has been snake bit, but I'm hoping within the next 24 hours we will have a triumphant success." The $42 million Delta's hush-hush payload is thought to be a dual satellite experiment to test new space tracking systems, a key element in the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars missile defense program. Tracking systems are a crucial element in the Star Wars missile defense proposal because any battle stations ultimately deployed in orbit would have to detect, track and fire on thousands of targets in the event of a full-scale nuclear attack. Delta No. 178 was blown up by Air Force safety officers 91 seconds after blastoff May 3 after its first-stage main engine shut down prematurely and sent the rocket into a destructive supersonic tumble. Lost in the disaster was a $57.5 million GOES weather satellite. The failure later was blamed on an apparent short circuit in the electrical system that controlled the first-stage engine's fuel valves, but no solid evidence on why the short circuit occurred has been found. (13-3) === Page 20 of 99 Fuel leak delays satellite launch UFO vs Space Work 8/26/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A liquid oxygen leak that could make a booster rocket explode in flight has forced the 14th delay in the launch of a $37.3 million weather satellite, officials said Monday. The launch of the NOAA-G satellite aboard an Atlas E rocket, which had been planned for Saturday, was rescheduled to Sept. 7, although the date could slip further if a test today finds the leak hasn't been repaired, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Elliott. He said the launch originally was scheduled for August or September 1985 from Vandenberg. UFO vs Space Work 8/28/86 NASA rocket blown up WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - A small rocket carrying a scientific payload for NASA was destroyed 50 seconds after launch because its guidance system failed, officials said Wednesday. The destruction of the 40-foot Aries rocket was the latest in a series of American space rocket failures that began with the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew on Jan. 28. The rocket carried an X-ray telescope intended to study distant stellar objects. UFO vs Space Work 8/29/86 Faulty ICBM blown up in test flight VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force blew up an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday when problems developed during a test flight over the Pacific Ocean, officials said. It was the second failure of an American rocket in six days and the sixth since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28. The Minuteman 3 missile, designed to carry warheads to three targets, lifted off from an underground silo at 7:04 a.m. for its 4,200-mile flight to the Kwajalein Atoll, said Fred Bolinger, a spokesman for the Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg. "An anomaly occurred during the flight which caused the early termination," Bolinger said. "The destruct signal was sent well into the missile's 30-minute test flight." It was not disclosed how close the missile got to its target, its altitude when it was destroyed or if the debris would be retrieved from the ocean. The 60-foot-tall, 78,000-pound missile flies at up to 15,000 mph. Technicians triggered a charge on its side "to rapidly burn a hole through the missile's exterior, allowing propellants to explode," he said. A team of Air Force and Department of Defense contractor engineers was investigating, and a cause had not been determined. UFO vs Space Work 8/29/86 Unarmed Minuteman Missile Has Problems, Is Blown Up In Flight VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force said it destroyed an unarmed Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile when undisclosed problems occurred on a test flight to the western Pacific. "An anomaly occurred during the flight which caused the early termination," Tech Sgt. Fred Bolinger, a spokesman for the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg, said Thursday. "The destruct signal was sent well into the missile's 30-minute test flight." It was not disclosed how close the 60-foot-tall, 78,000-pound missile got to its target, its altitude when it was destroyed or if the debris would be retrieved from the ocean. Shuttle Cuts May Cost Sacrifices In Science UFO vs Space Work 9/1/86 WASHINGTON (AP) - A top NASA official said Friday that the nation's space program is a mess in the wake of the Challenger accident and that 63 or fewer shuttle flights will be made through 1992 instead of the 145 that had been planned. Burt Edelson, who has charge of space science for the agency, said 50 of the flights in the seven years beginning with 1986 were to have carried scientific experiments "but it looks like we'll get at most 19." "Those are big numbers," he told an American Astronautical Society luncheon. "We are going to get about 40 percent of what we thought we were going to get." All shuttle flights were suspended after the Jan. 28 explosion that killed all seven of Challenger's astronauts and destroyed the ship. The most optimistic estimate of flight resumption is February 1988. Some of the payloads that had been scheduled for 1991 and 1992 will be delayed, Edelson said, and others will be carried on expendable launch vehicles instead of the shuttle. "But many we will have to terminate - cancel," he said. "Those are tough words to use." Edelson said decisions are still being made and that the space agency is not sure how much money it will get from Congress in the next two years. "We are going to have to bite into our program significantly," he said. "Eleven major Spacelab missions we will either cancel or provide no funding." Most spacelab missions consist of a pallet of scientific experiments mounted in the shuttle's cargo bay and sharing space with satellites that are launched. A few Spacelab missions take up the entire cargo bay with a pressurized module in which astronauts work, and most of those are not thought to be among the ones to be canceled. Experiments called "free flyers" because they are cast loose from the shuttle and, in most cases, retrieved, will be delayed 30 months, Edelson said. Attached payloads in life sciences and astrophysics will be delayed 40 months. D-4 === Page 21 of 99 Trwin Derhans is remembered Challenger fallout When the shuttle exploded, plans for America's space station started unraveling. It's back to the drawing board. UFOz un Stance Wate Til 9/9/86 By PAUL RECER Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston - America's space station exists only in volumes of draw- ings, miles of computer tape and the minds of engineers who still disagree over it. But by 1994, NASA plans to have a struc- ture as long as one-and-two-thirds football fields orbiting 280 miles above the Earth, and housing eight crew members for up to 90 days. The goal is to have astronauts in a space out- post for science every day of the year. The cost: about $10 billion, 80 percent from the United States, the rest from Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency. As with nearly every plan in the American space program, the space station has been sent back to the drawing board by the Chal- lenger explosion. The loss of one of the na- tion's four shuttles has crippled plans to launch, supply and maintain the space station. And the accident gave new clout to inter- nal critics of the safety of the station's design just when the space agency was ready to draft final plans. In 1984, President Reagan set a national goal of opening a permanent space station by 1994. Since then, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration defined uses for the sta- tion and spent a year refining its design. Final design and construction remain to be done. The current design calls for two 361-foot vertical booms connected by two 146-foot booms to form a rectangle. A transverse boom through the middle of the rectangle and ex- tending out on either side would measure 503 feet. Attached to the center of the transverse boom would be two 44-foot-long modules, each 13 feet in diameter. These modules, connected by tunnels, would house crew quarters and a laboratory. A 24-foot supply craft would be docked to the station and exchanged every 90 days. Japan is to build a laboratory module; the European Space Agency, a laboratory and two orbiting platforms. The shuttle could dock at either of two ports. Other spacecraft and platforms would link up at five locations on the booms. Robot arms would manuever payloads. NASA's plans call for space-walking astro- nauts working as orbiting steeplejacks to build the latticework of booms from components de- livered by the shuttle, It was thought 15 shuttle flights would be needed to lift the parts into orbit. When Challenger exploded on Jan. 28. these plans started unraveling. In June, astro- naut Gordon Fullerton completed a report out- lining serious safety flaws. He pointed out the station had no "life boat" - a crew would be stranded there if the shuttles were grounded again. Fullerton said it would take 672 hours of space-walking to assemble the station, and 391 space-walking hours each year to maintain it. No other project has required so much of this very risky activity. And Fullerton noted that design changes resulting from the Challenger accident will re- duce the weight the shuttle can lift. This will force NASA to use five more flights to assem- ble the station. It was time to return to the drawing board, so there are 55 NASA experts huddled at the Langley center reviewing the project. Andrew J. Stofan, recently appointed space station chief, said the review is concen- trating on reducing the space-walking and on launching the parts with the reduced shuttle payload. Cold Canadian air blast sends mercury plummeting in Plains Associated Press! UFO Sun AMlack 9/9/56 Temperatures sank to record lows Monday from the central Plains into the Northeast as a strong high pressure system pulled Octo- ber-like chilly air out of Canada. At least 30 cities broke or tied their records with temperatures in the low 40s and 30s in South Dakota, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Michi- gan, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Kan- sas. And in the South, Huntsville, Ala., posted a record low of 58. Records that had been on the books since 1883 fell at Chicago, 43; Madison, Wis., 37; and Moline, Ill., 38; and Dubuque, Iowa, tied its record set that year at 37. The low of 43 at Kansas City (Mo.) Interna- tional Airport took a full 10 degrees off the former record. Pittsburgh's low of 37 degrees was the coldest for any Sept. 8 since 1870, when record-keeping started, The weather service said. 7 "The significant thing is that it's never been this cold this early in the fall before," said forecaster Lou Giordano. It was also the coolest for so early in the season at Indianapolis, which chilled to 38. In Pennsylvania's northern mountains, the town of Kane had an overnight low of 28 degrees, one of the coldest spots in the nation, ex- cluding Alaska, according to the Na- tional Weather Service. "With that high pressure system we also have dry air and because there are few clouds at night there's a cooling factor," Giordano said. "The dew point, which is a measure of the humidity at ground level, also is exceptionally low for this time of year. The dew point was 36 this morning and it's usually around 50." 13-5 === Page 22 of 99 Irwin perhaps is remembered # Shuttle disaster: Dreams died, too By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston -- The elite crew that flies America's space machines has not been spared the shock and the self-examination that jolted NASA after the Challenger disaster. The accident grounded the shuttle fleet and sent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agony of scrutiny, both from within and without. In one moment, 5 percent of the nation's trained space explorers were gone. For the astronauts left behind, there was grief and anger, followed by a growing realization that many of their own dreams also died when Challenger exploded 74 seconds into its Jan. 28 flight. Six astronauts have since left the corps, and at least two others are preparing to go. One died in an airplane accident, and another has been removed from flight status. From an exclusive club that once numbered 102, the astronaut ranks have been reduced to 88, and the number is slipping. Some, like Owen Garriott, 56, who resigned June 12 after 20 years, are leaving because they no longer want to wait for another space flight. "There's no question that the long delay in the flight schedule is the primary reason that I've decided I'd rather be in space activities on the outside than wait for the possibility of another flight," Garriott said. Garriott made two flights. He had been scheduled to make a science flight this year, but that was scrubbed after the disaster. "It will be at least a year and a half before the first flight," Garriott said, "and another year or two beyond that before we're flying a science mission." James van Hoften, 42, a two-flight veteran who is leaving next month, said the waiting also shaped his thinking. "If I were to wait two or three more years, I would have one more flight," he said, "but people (in industry) aren't interested in how many times you have flown. "At my age, I feel I'm at a perfect time to transition into a whole new line of work," said van Hoften, who is going to work for Bechtel Inc. in San Francisco. Robert Overmyer, 49, resigned June 1, saying, "Opportunities on the outside were more appealing to me than they were in the government." Overmyer, who retired as an Air Force colonel, was caught in an economic reality that affects all senior military astronauts. Astronauts are not promoted beyond the rank of colonel in the Air Force, Army or Marine Corps, or beyond captain in the Navy. The military astronaut must return to regular military service to advance in rank, or face mandatory retirement. Some have chosen to leave the military and take civilian astronaut jobs, which carry a big pay cut. A Navy captain in the astronaut corps receives about $58,700 annually, counting flight pay and housing allowances. A civilian astronaut without a medical degree starts at $42,653. A medical degree adds about $8,000 to the civilian rate. To private industry, particularly aerospace industries, astronauts are prized employees. One recently retired astronaut said he was routinely receiving $4,000 for five days of consulting work. Private industry, of course, cannot offer the thrill of a space flight. But with the current uncertainties, said van Hoften, "that carrot has been taken away." Some astronauts left because they felt there was little hope for promotion to management jobs in NASA. The presidential commission that investigated the Challenger accident said NASA should overcome its reluctance to advance astronauts into management. It also recommended that the Flight Crew Operations directorate, which includes the astronaut office, be elevated in the NASA structure. Astronaut Robert Crippen has been put in charge of reorganizing key management structures in NASA, and Johnson Space Center Director Jesse Moore is backing the cause of the astronauts. "I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that the astronauts' voices are heard, not only in technical decisions, but also in management decisions," Moore said. # Shuttle, rocket setbacks imperil Star Wars program, analysts say New York Times NEW YORK -- The Challenger disaster and a series of other major setbacks in the American space program have damaged President Reagan's Star Wars plan in ways that are far more serious and extensive than has generally been realized, according to scientists and aerospace analysts. Officials of the anti-missile program, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, deny there is serious damage. But many aerospace experts inside and outside the government say the grounding of the nation's space shuttles and expendable rockets has thrown a schedule of complex space-based experiments into confusion and disarray, sending shock waves through space research programs across the country and demoralizing some scientists in the anti-missile program. Another repercussion of the aerospace crisis, they say, is its effect on a controversy over whether the government should start now to develop a giant new unmanned rocket -- far larger than the shuttle -- that would be needed in the 1990s to lift thousands of anti-missile weapons, sensors and various aiming and tracking devices into space. The crippling of the nation's rocket power, the analysts add, underscores the need for the enormous battery of space vehicles that will lift the proposed defensive system into place. Even before the shuttle disaster, Star Wars officials estimated that the deployment undertaking was big enough to require up to 5,000 launchings of shuttles or shuttle-sized rockets. In general, some analysts say, setbacks in research, transport and morale could result in crucial losses for the anti-missile plan. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., a critic of Star Wars, suggested that the aerospace crisis has already contributed to "a loss of political momentum" in the program. Proxmire said the perception of crisis in the Star Wars program was one reason that 48 senators recently signed a letter calling for sharp cuts in the administration's proposed $5.4 billion anti-missile budget for next year. Other experts outside the Star Wars program say delays in the schedule resulting from the launching failures will almost certainly be great. "It could be as much as two years," said John E. Pike, director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, a private, non-profit group in Washington that is skeptical about the anti-missile plan. Although conceding that minor damage has been done to the program, Star Wars officials say most of the problems associated with space setbacks will vanish with the renewal of shuttle and rocket flights, allowing space-based experiments to resume. "The advance of technology is inexorable," said Dr. Gerold Yonas, chief scientist of the anti-missile program. Yonas stressed that any delays in space-based experiments had to be seen in relation to the overall research program, which he said is forging ahead. "We're making steady progress in many important areas," he said. However, some scientists who are part of the program said they have been demoralized by the delays. "Part of the strategy was to do significant experiments before Reagan left office," said Dr. George Chapline, a key researcher in the anti-missile program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. But he said that hope was "fading." 2 === Page 23 of 99 Trib 5/31/86 # Ex-astronaut: Return God to space program Americans must put God back into the space program, Apollo 15 astronaut Col. James B. Irwin told about 350 people attending the Salvation Army's annual citizens dinner at a downtown Tampa hotel Wednesday night. "We thought we were doing it on our own ... and not giving God the credit," he said. "I think we have taken certain things for granted." Then he told the story of how Apollo 8's Frank Borman read the creation story from Genesis while in space on Christmas Eve in 1968. "We have not heard much about our dependence on God since that Apollo program," Irwin said. "Perhaps the Lord is judging us." He said that he hoped that the doors to space will open but that he felt that "there must be a change of the heart, a change of the spirit," a turning back to God. Irwin, who referred to himself as "a private in the Lord's army," said he has been a devout Christian since he returned from space in 1971 and has traveled around the world ever since sharing the message that Jesus Christ "is alive ... and that he uses people in his service." He said that he felt God's presence on the moon and he felt that God gave him immediate answers to problems that arose. For instance, he said, he felt that God led him and his fellow astronauts to a white rock that they had been asked by scientists to look for. The rock, later dubbed "the Genesis Rock," has helped researchers learn more about the origins of the universe and the moon. Irwin perhaps is remembered best for driving the lunar buggy and for being the only man to recite Scripture on the moon. He quoted Psalm 121:1 -- "I will lift up my eyes to the hills -- from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made the heaven and Earth." He said he "felt small" looking at Earth from the moon, describing Earth as "a beautiful blue jewel in the blackness of space." "Then, I felt special," he said, "because all of us are special because of God's love. Then, I was reminded of John 3:16 ... For God loved the blue planet that he gave his only begotten son, that who believes in him should not perish have everlasting life." 7:00a viz Space Truth 0.53 6/20/86 Is that the UFO Base we'll bring about. # Another Missile Failure Workmen dismantle the remainder of an Atlas missile that collapsed while on display at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The pressurized missile sprung a leak and collapsed when the compressor supplying air could not maintain sufficient pressure. The missile had been on display since the early 1970s. 3 === Page 24 of 99 UFOs or Space Work # NASA To Replace Satellite # $250 Million Link Lost With Shuttle 0.SB 5/30/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has ordered a replacement for the $250 million government communications satellite that was in the space shuttle Challenger cargo bay when the ship exploded last January. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and parts for a backup spacecraft being bought from TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif., are scheduled for delivery in five years. The value of the contract is yet to be negotiated with TRW. The TDRS is the largest and most advanced communications satellite in the world, weighing 5,000 pounds and measuring 57 feet across its solar panels. The satellite functions as a switchboard in orbit, able to track the space shuttle and relay television and telemetry signals. Its electronic relay system can handle as many as 300 million bits of information each second from up to 25 orbiting spacecraft simultaneously. The space agency had planned to have three of the satellites on station, 22,300 miles above the Earth, three years ago, but bad luck intervened. ha ha ha The first satellite was ejected properly from the shuttle's cargo bay on April 5, 1983, and was propelled higher by an attached rocket stage. But the steering mechanism locked up during the second of two firings and the satellite began tumbling in a useless orbit. Using a few thruster jets no bigger than thimbles, engineers slowly nudged the satellite into place over a two-month period. Since then it has provided coverage of half the Earth. The second TDRS had been scheduled for launch in August 1983, but that was postponed because of the first failure. The satellite was put aboard the Challenger for a March 7, 1985, flight, but the flight was canceled when the TDRS in orbit experienced problems in its timing circuits. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, June 20, 1986 Coastal Development UFOs Sun Attack # Hurricane Disaster Threat Growing 0.SB 5/30/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- No one knows how many hurricanes will strike the United States this year, but federal officials warn that the potential for disaster is growing as more people move to coastal areas. Last year's hurricane death toll of 30 was well below the long-term average, despite the largest number of storms to come ashore since 1916. That success was due to improved warnings and evacuation efforts, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Julius W. Becton said Thursday. But development means there are some areas where there may not be time to evacuate before a storm, so residents need to keep alert and be ready to head inland or to shelters, adds Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center. "I think last year's performance was, from the life-saving standpoint, outstanding," Becton told a news conference. "We cut the (long-term) average of 84 deaths to 30. But 30 is still too many, and our goal is to reduce that further." The six-month hurricane season officially begins Sunday. Public cooperation was important in reducing the 1985 toll, ex-See Hurricane on page 8A # National Briefs UFOs or Space Work ## Centaur rocket canceled CAPE CANAVERAL -- In a stunning setback for American space science, NASA Administrator James Fletcher canceled Thursday the $1 billion shuttle Centaur program, ending development of crucial hydrogen-powered satellite boosters because of unresolved safety issues. The decision apparently was prompted in part by pressure from congressional leaders about the Centaur project in the wake of the Challenger disaster Jan. 28. The decision will mean unavoidably long -- and costly -- launch delays for showcase probes to explore Jupiter and the sun. Tribune Wires NASA chief James Fletcher canceled the use of the shuttle in Centaur rocket launchings. 7 === Page 25 of 99 # Space Program Problems Hit In West Too; Launches Halted PARIS (AP) -- The West's space programs are in deep trouble. Just over four months ago, spirits and spaceships were flying high. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space shuttle was in a head-to-head battle with the European Ariane program in the lucrative satellite-launching business. Then, the space shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28, killing seven American astronauts. On April 18, a U.S. Titan rocket blew up in flight. An American Delta launcher failed May 4. And then, on Friday, the Ariane rocket suffered its fourth failure in 18 launches, putting that program on hold for the immediate future. The string of disasters may cause long delays in getting satellites into space. Both the American and European programs have been suspended, leaving the less-powerful Chinese rockets as the main alternate launcher. In addition, insurance rates are reaching prohibitive levels. The U.S. space agency has said no shuttles will be launched before July 1987, and the European program is suspended at least until the end of the year. Four minutes and 36 seconds into its flight on Friday, ground technicians destroyed the Ariane rocket, and with it a $50 million communications satellite. That aborted flight could spell the end of the European program's brief reign as the West's only remaining major launcher. The Ariane setback was caused by the failure to ignite of the last stage of the three-stage rocket. Third-stage problems have caused three of the four Ariane failures -- the last two because of ignition problems in the third stage. Frederic d'Allest, president of Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said the independent commission scheduled to begin investigating the failure on Monday would probably submit its initial report by the end of June. But no strict time limit was set, he said. Officials stressed it was too early to say when a final report would be ready or how long the European program would be held up. Launches will be resumed, d'Allest said, only after the problem has been identified and resolved. The shuttle's failure in January represented a windfall for the European program as Western satellite companies looking for a launcher turned to Ariane. As of May, Arianespace had contracts for 32 launches worth about $1.4 billion. Nine more satellites were set for launching in 1986, 10 for 1987 and nine for 1988. The company opened a second launching pad at its space center in Kourou, French Guiana, and increased the number of planned launches to make up for the lack of shuttle missions. Not only have launch schedules been thrown into disarray, but insurance may become too expensive to buy. Following recent accidents, premiums have skyrocketed, some reaching as high as 25 to 30 percent of the cost of a launch. "Obviously, the special insurance market has already been perturbed and this failure is not going to help," said Jacques Gangaloff, president of Reunion Spatiale, a consortium that insures satellites. # Scattered rain cleans up after storm; area Tribune Wires and Staff Utility crews Tuesday worked to restore electricity to thousands of homes in central New York State left without power by storms that swept across the Northeast. High winds and tornadoes Monday damaged homes in New Hampshire and broke scores of windows at the medium-security Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York's Catskill Mountains. Schools and businesses in Cortland County, N.Y., about 40 miles south of Syracuse, were closed Tuesday. Officials lifted a state of emergency at noon. No serious injuries were reported. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. officials said 85 percent of the city of Cortland, or about 10,000 people, remained without power at midday. Efforts to restore service were hampered by downed tree limbs. Crews were hampered by downed trees. The storm struck Monday night with 85 mph winds and heavy rain that caused $3 million in damage, said Roberta Gamel of the county's emergency services office. "It's a disaster. That's the best way to put it in print anyway," said Officer J.L. Tinker of the county sheriff's department. The brunt of the storm fell on the Cortland County Airport, 4 miles north of the town, causing nearly $1 million in damage. High winds ripped off the roof of the main hangar and tossed about 25 private airplanes about the runways and an inch of rain fell in 20 minutes at the airport. In the Tampa Bay area, meanwhile, scattered thunderstorms and showers should continue today and Thursday, with gusty winds accompanying the rain, especially in the afternoon, according to weather forecasters. Highs will remain near 90, with lows in the low 70s. The chance of rain both days is 60 percent. Elsewhere, thunderstorms rumbled over Texas Tuesday, dousing some areas with heavy rain. Hondo, Texas, received 1.7 inches of rain in one hour. College Station, Texas, received 2 inches. Showers and thunderstorms were strung along the Gulf Coast and a few thunderstorms were over eastern South Dakota. Light drizzle fell on the north Pacific Coast. === Page 26 of 99 # Two Sad Sagas of a Tide That Led on to Misfortune Hunt & Texas PK Trib 9/9/86 The idea that government regulation and high taxation gravely inhibit free enterprise is being severely tested by the ordeals of two of the nation's largest entrepreneurs. The plights of H.L. Hunt's heirs and of Beneficial Corp. involve two of the businesses conservative politicians and economists most often charge are over-regulated -- banking and insurance. After earlier blowing billions of dollars in a futile effort to corner the world silver market (owning 59 million ounces wasn't quite enough to permit them to control the price), the Hunts are locked in what may be a death struggle with no fewer than 23 banks for control of their oil empire. The banks are seeking to foreclose on the family's keystone Placid Oil Co. and other property put up as collateral for $773 million in loans. The Hunts, who are in default of those loans, have sought the shelter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings to avoid foreclosure. Earlier they sued the banks for $15 billion for refusing to renegotiate loans placed in jeopardy by falling oil prices. In the latest chapter in this epic struggle, each side is demanding that the other be held in contempt of court: the Hunts for seeking Chapter 11 protection in Louisiana rather than in Texas, which is the venue for the other actions, the banks for daring to lobby against the Louisiana jurisdiction. It is enough to incite wonder how banks that are said to be smothered by regulation could have made such bad loans, and how a nation that the Hunts and others say engages in confiscatory taxation could have left oil tycoon H.L. Hunt's three sons $9 billion to squander in wild speculation. Beneficial's troubles are not of that magnitude. Still, what the Wall Street Journal calls its "brief and bungled venture into the reinsurance business" has led directors of the firm, which built its fortune on consumer loans, to announce the company is up for sale. Beneficial, which owns Tampa's Harbour Island, is pumping $460 million into its reserves to cover its reinsurance losses. It expects a $50 million net loss for 1986. Back in 1977, high interest rates lured many companies with surplus capital into the insurance business. Beneficial, whose officials now concede had no expertise in that field, took the plunge and hired 10 managing general agents (all now fired) to run the operation. When interest rates plummeted, Beneficial found itself holding the bag, partly, it charges in an $80 million suit, because of fraud, and partly because of gross under-estimation of losses. The final cost is indeterminable; in reinsurance, as one expert says, "the body can be dead for 10 years before it begins to smell." All this in a business that is regulated at least as much, and in some aspects more, than banking. It's unlikely that either the Hunts or Beneficial's boss, Finn Caspersen, would use their ordeals to argue for more regulation of banking and insurance. The Hunts stretched their speculative capital too thin, and Beneficial got into a highly volatile business it knew almost nothing about. The obverse side of this story is, of course, that the free enterprise system is not only alive but healthy. That the Hunts and Beneficial were able to lose such huge sums means also that that kind of money can still be made. === Page 27 of 99 # Drought won't relent across South ATLANTA (UPI) -- The summer already has been a long hot one for the South where the worst drought in more than a century is drying up water supplies and pushing farmers to the brink. The situation is critical from Alabama to Virginia. In many locations, the rainfall deficit this year is greater than the actual rainfall. In Atlanta, the first six months of 1986 were the driest since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1878. The same goes for many other communities. Creekbeds are turning to mud, falling lake levels are revealing shoreline never seen before and spigots are dripping dry. In many parts of the South, the drought got started as long ago as 1984 when rainfall started falling behind. But the trouble was intensified over the winter and spring when unusual high pressure systems dominated the weather picture in the South and traditional heavy spring showers never fell. Seasonal thundershowers began falling in May and June, giving the region a brief reprieve, but the spotty storms did little more than settle the dust. "In the past month, we've seen fairly typical rainfall for this time of year," said Max Blood, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Atlanta. "But we're so far behind, normal rainfall will not catch us up." The long-range forecast through September -- traditionally the South's dry season -- is for average rainfall. No widespread soaking rains are in sight at least until October. Hardest hit are the farmers. The wheat crop is virtually gone. The corn and soybean crops are severely damaged and the peanut and cotton crops are smaller than normal and late. Many cattle farmers are selling their herds early at reduced prices because pastureland is barren and they cannot afford expensive feed. The losses are staggering. In South Carolina, Clemson University Extension officials figure the drought will end up costing farmers about $100 million. "If prices don't recover and we don't receive normal rainfall for the remainder of 1986, this could be the last nail in the farmer's coffin," said John Trotman, director of Alabama's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Forest fires in the South already have scorched more than a million acres of timberland this year, higher than the total for most years. Water is becoming a precious commodity everywhere. Wells have gone dry in a few rural areas and deeper systems have been drilled. In big-city water systems, the pressure has been very low at times and some residents have been left high and dry. Lake Lanier, a 39,000-acre reservoir north of Atlanta that supplies most of the metropolitan area's drinking water, is more than 8 feet below normal for this time of year. Cobb County, Ga., instituted mandatory water use restrictions and threatened residents with fines of $100 if caught sprinkling their lawns. === Page 28 of 99 1-B # Southern California Quake Rattles Wide Area Of State ## No Injuries Are Reported Psi-Fact Reporter 7/3/56 SB PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- The strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in 15 years, shook a wide region early today, triggering rockslides, shattering windows and knocking out power to 100,000 customers, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or heavy damage. The 2:21 a.m. PDT earthquake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale and was centered 12 miles northwest of Palm Springs, said Dennis Meredith of the California Institute of Technology. Palm Springs is 110 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. "It's a big one," Meredith said. In Washington, D.C., U.S. Geological Survey spokesman Don Finley said the epicenter of the quake was about 40 miles east of San Bernardino in mountains near the edge of the Mojave Desert. "Early reports said there was some damage in the epicentral area," he said. The quake was the strongest to hit Southern California since Feb. 9, 1971, when a quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale collapsed a Sylmar hospital, killing three people. The quake caused $550 million damage in the Los Angeles area. A quake measuring 6 on the open-ended scale is capable of causing severe damage. Today's quake was felt from San Diego, 100 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, to the San Fernando Valley, 120 miles north. Radio stations in Lake Havasu, Ariz., and Las Vegas, Nev., reported the quake felt there as well. "A lot of people were just pouring out of my apartment complex into the parking lot and the street to get away from the building," said Jack Kowalec, assistant city editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. "There was a little bit of panic, a little bit of hysteria." Gene Aker, night copy editor at the newspaper, said the quake shattered a window in the building. The quake initially knocked out power to 10,000 to 15,000 households. Prelude to Disaster (8-10 on Richter, San Francisco, later.) === Page 29 of 99 B-3 # Soviets extend nuclear test ban Hong Kong PR - Trib Gorbachev called on 8/19/86 Reagan to sign a freeze treaty at a coming summit By WILLIAM J. EATON Los Angeles Times MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday that he will extend the Soviet Union's moratorium on nuclear testing until Jan. 1, and he called on President Reagan to agree at a coming summit conference to a total test ban. Gorbachev said in an address carried by Soviet radio and television that the Politburo had approved an extension of the unilateral moratorium on testing that the Soviet Union declared Aug. 6, 1985. He said his government was confident that Moscow and Washington could agree to a permanent ban "this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting." But in Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, White House spokesman Larry Speakes rejected Gorbachev's proposal. "Testing is needed to insure the continued reliability, survivability and efficiency of our nuclear deterrent," Speakes told reporters. Gorbachev, by referring to "this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting," seemed to be acknowledging that there will be such a meeting, although details have yet to be worked out. He said the decision to continue the Soviet moratorium was "guided by responsibility for the destiny of the world." The United States has consistently refused to join the Soviets in a moratorium, which had been extended on two previous occasions. The Reagan administration argues that the Soviets have an advantage in missiles and that the United States must continue to test in order to catch up. "The Soviets in essence are not giving away much," Speakes said Monday. Another administration official, asking not to be identified by name, dismissed Gorbachev's remarks as propaganda aimed at influencing world opinion in advance of a Reagan-Gorbachev meeting. Speakes said nuclear weapons would continue to be the basis of deterrence "for the foreseeable future," and therefore, a moderate level of nuclear testing is essential. The administration is suspicious of any agreement with the Soviets that does not include concrete assurances on verification. Speakes said verification is "our major sticking point," and agreement with the Soviets on verification procedures "is the key to all arms control." "The bottom line," Speakes said, "would be that both sides knew what was going on and there would be no cheating." Despite the adamant position Washington has taken, Gorbachev said in his address Monday, "The Soviet Union is confident that agreements on ending nuclear tests can be reached speedily and signed this year at the Soviet-American summit meeting." See SOVIETS, Page 9A # U.S.: Soviet space weapons effort set back Reuters New Service WASHINGTON -- The Soviet Union's space weapons program apparently suffered a major setback three months ago when fire destroyed its only airborne laser weapons laboratory, administration officials said Thursday. The officials confirmed reports from Geneva in the private International Defense Review magazine that the Ilyushin aircraft that housed the laboratory was destroyed by an unexplained fire on the ground in late May or early June. The officials, who spoke with Reuters on grounds that they not be identified, refused to confirm or deny a CBS-TV report Wednesday night that a U.S. spy satellite took pictures of the plane's charred wreckage at Shchelkovo air base near Moscow. Satellite reconnaissance ability is one of the most closely guarded secrets at the Pentagon, and the Defense Department Thursday declined to comment on the matter. The specially-modified Soviet aircraft apparently served as a platform for a prototype laser weapon intended for use against satellites or attacking cruise missiles, according to the IDR magazine. "I think it was catastrophic for them (the Soviet Union)," one administration official told Reuters. "They have a lot of years and work sunk into their laser program and it could take several years more to modify another test plane." Lasers are concentrated beams of light, utilizing energy which one day might be refined to destroy attacking nuclear rockets or warheads at great distances in space. The United States also has a single aircraft modified to test lasers as part of its Star Wars anti-missile defense initiative. The NKC-135 jet is based at Courtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. === Page 30 of 99 Weekly World News 7/15/86 # Starship's # SOS # stuns # scientists **It's coming from across our galaxy -- and it can't be ignored** 5-B === Page 31 of 99 ### Soviets: Ready To Accept World Standards BONN, West Germany (AP) -- The Soviet Union is willing to accept international safety standards for nuclear reactors, the chief of a Soviet government news agency said Friday. Valentin Falin, the director of Novosti, said at a news conference in the Soviet Embassy that nuclear power safety standards should be "the same for all countries." His comments came more than a month after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. He said he hoped an international conference on nuclear safety urged by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl would take place. Falin said he would expect such a meeting to pass strict regulations for reactor security and the reporting of nuclear accidents. Kohl wrote 31 nations and two international organizations suggesting an international conference on nuclear safety. Such a meeting would be organized through the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency's board of governors, in a meeting May 21, agreed to start drafting proposals for mandatory notification of nuclear accidents and provisions for international assistance to countries where accidents occur. Falin told reporters the Soviet Union needs "all medical means available to help" victims of the April 26 disaster. "The firemen who fought the fire at the scene were unfortunately condemned from the start to die," Falin said. A U.S. doctor treating victims says 23 people have died in the disaster, including two killed in the power plant fire and explosion. Soviet officials have said about 300 people were hospitalized. Falin acknowledged that the Soviets made mistakes in the handling of the disaster and indicated human error was probably the main reason for the accident. "Above all, a wrong estimate (of the extent of the accident) led to the fact that the (Soviet) government was only fully informed two days after the fire," he said. Falin was in West Germany to attend a meeting of the International Physicians against Nuclear War. ### Quickly said ... MIAS: U.S. and Vietnamese officials met in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday to discuss the 1,782 Americans still listed as missing in action. ... BREWERY EXPLOSION: A brewery in the west African country of Benin exploded, killing at least nine people and leveling the plant, a Benin diplomat said Tuesday. ... ANIMAL INVASION: Wild boars, elk and other forest creatures have invaded Moscow and its suburbs, eating park shrubs, scattering commuters at subway stations and injuring six people, two of them seriously, the Izvestia newspaper said Tuesday. BOSTON (AP) -- While America focuses on the $265 million effort to lift the face of the Statue of Liberty and rehabilitate Ellis Island in New York, officials here say they are struggling to find $8 million to save two other historical gems. "An embarrassment," John Birchell, local superintendent for the National Park Service, says about 244-year-old Faneuil Hall, where John Hancock and Samuel # Hurricane Dangers Persist Continued from page 1A plained Becton, who said better warnings and more extensive evacuations were key reasons for the low number of fatalities. Hurricane Elena last year caused the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history, affecting 1.7 million people in four states, Becton said. And another 1.4 million evacuated low-lying areas in the face of Hurricane Gloria, he said. But Frank warned that sometimes there just isn't enough time for people to get away. He cited Florida and Texas as particular problems where coastal development has been great in recent years. He urged residents to stay aware of storm warnings, know the location of nearby shelters and evacuation routes, and to evacuate or go to the shelter when a storm approaches. This will mark the second hurricane season that forecasters have operated with only a single weather satellite to search for storms. The normal two-satellite system was lost in 1984 when one of the eyes in the sky failed unexpectedly, and an attempt to replace it ended when a Delta rocket carrying a new satellite went out of control on takeoff May 3 and had to be destroyed. The National Weather Service hopes to launch a second weather satellite later this year, but the schedule is in question. Meanwhile, the lone working satellite is shifted slightly to the east to watch for hurricanes developing in the Atlantic, an adjustment that seemed to work last year, although meteorologists worry about some loss of coverage in the Pacific. While the 1985 toll of 30 deaths was light, property damage hit a record $4 billion, Frank said in a statement. "If we have been successful in life-saving measures, our property damage problems have not matched that effort. Property damage is increasing dramatically because of the great increases in development along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts," Becton said. === Page 32 of 99 # Reagan: Star Wars compromise possible By JACK NELSON and ELEANOR CLIFT Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- President Reagan indicated a new willingness Monday to compromise on deployment of his space-based Strategic Defense Initiative. He also held out the possibility that he and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev could reach an agreement in principle on arms reductions at their next summit. In an Oval Office interview with the Los Angeles Times, the president talked optimistically about eventually reaching an arms-reduction agreement. "Whatever way is necessary to get an agreement, we'll do," he declared. Asked if he could agree in principle with the recent Soviet proposal calling for deep reductions in offensive weapons coupled with restraint on deploying his controversial SDI, or Star Wars, proposal, Reagan said: "Yes, but don't pin me down on this because .. we're still studying this." Later, pointing out that Star Wars research does not violate any treaties, he emphasized he would proceed with research and development of the system as a way to protect the world from a "madman" who decided to use nuclear weapons. But, asked specifically whether deployment, as opposed to research and development, was a negotiating item, he said: "That's right. Yes." The Soviets' latest proposal at the Geneva arms talks would combine reductions of about one-third in each side's long-range offensive weapons with a 15-year extension of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which would forbid the deployment of the Star Wars system. In the past, the president has refused to call Star Wars a bargaining chip. On other subjects during the 35-minute interview, Reagan: * Reiterated his opposition to stiffer sanctions against the South African regime and said he still believes in South African President Pieter W. Botha's "sincerity that he wants to find an answer to his problem." * Said he did not ask Judge Antonin Scalia his stand on abortion before deciding to appoint him to the Supreme Court. * Insisted his administration is doing "all that we can" to contain the AIDS epidemic. * Repeated his pledge to remain neutral in the fight for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination even if his longtime friend, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., should join the field of candidates, which will almost surely include Vice President George Bush. Reagan, who has recently spoken warmly of Gorbachev and the Soviet's latest arms proposals, said U.S.-Soviet relations "are on a more solid footing than they've been for a long time." And although the Soviets have yet to propose a date for a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit that the two leaders agreed would be held this year in the United States, the president expressed confidence the summit would be held, probably after the Nov. 4 congressional elections. Whether the Soviets will suggest a date or "whether they're waiting for us," he said, "we'll work that out. We'll have a summit." At the "forthcoming summit," the president suggested, he and Gorbachev might arrive at a framework for arms control "and then hand it over to one of the negotiators to put it down on paper and work out the details of what we agreed to say in principle." ## Doctors plea: End nuclear arms tests WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 200 banner-waving doctors from more than a dozen states held a "Code Blue" rally Saturday on the Capitol steps, urging Congress to save lives by cutting off money for nuclear weapons testing. "Code Blue means human life is at risk and immediate intervention is necessary," said Dr. Jack Geiger, president of the 50,000-member Physicians for Social Responsibility. Geiger said he and several colleagues recently returned from Moscow where they visited "young men with dreadful radiation burns peering out from life bubbles" -- among the 200 people hospitalized after the April 26 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor. "To look at these frightened, suffering patients was to learn once again what the nuclear arms race really is about," he said. A nuclear war would be "Chernobyl magnified not a million times but a hundred million times," he said. "We have a responsibility ... to see to it that that doesn't happen." The Soviet Union last tested nuclear warheads in August 1985 and has said it will continue its unilateral moratorium past an Aug. 6 deadline if the United States agrees to stop its weapons tests. The Reagan administration has dismissed the offer as grandstanding. # National Briefs ## Greenhouse effect real WASHINGTON -- A dramatic loss of ozone over Antarctica proves the greenhouse effect is real and presages a gradual warming of the Earth that threatens floods, drought, human misery in a few years and -- if not checked -- eventual extinction of the human species, scientists warned the Senate Environment subcommittee on environmental pollution Tuesday. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said global temperatures should be nearly 2 degrees higher in 20 years, "which is about the warmest the earth has been in the last 100,000 years." The warnings came as the subcommittee opened two days of hearings on the greenhouse effect -- a long-forecast consequence of man's pumping into the atmosphere such chemicals as chlorofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Scientists say that the substances trap heat in the atmosphere, and could produce drought and possibly swell the oceans, inundating coastal regions. ## Labor Day fire danger feared BOISE, Idaho -- Victory was declared over one of the worst eruptions of wildfires to ever hit the West, but U.S. forestry officials Thursday expressed a new worry -- the hordes of Labor Day weekend campers headed to the tinder-dry back country. Forest managers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington -- three of the states hardest hit by the destructive blazes -- imposed stiff fire restrictions on their public lands. The last major blaze among the thousands that rampaged over nine Western states was finally declared contained Wednesday night. === Page 33 of 99 # Program To Launch Rockets From Space Shuttle Scrapped UFO vs Space Work 6/20/86 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- NASA, responding to congressional pressure, scrapped a $674 million program to launch liquid-fueled Centaur rockets from the space shuttle, temporarily grounding two scientific probes and some military payloads. Citing safety concerns, NASA administrator James Fletcher removed the Centaur from the shuttle in a decision he called "very difficult to make." "It is the proper thing to do and this is the time to do it," he said Thursday in an announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters. A congressional aide said the decision could affect plans to build a replacement orbiter for the destroyed Challenger. Centaurs were to have been used on the shuttle for the first time to send the Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft toward Jupiter. Galileo was to orbit Jupiter and Ulysses was to use the gravity boost of that giant planet to go into a polar orbit of the sun. The Shuttle-Centaur system also was to be used to send military payloads into high orbit. The presidential commission that investigated the Challenger accident criticized plans to launch the Centaur from the shuttle because the panel said several safety waivers had been granted for the rocket system. STEIN ROCKY MTN. NEWS NEA U.S. SPACE PROGRAM UFO vs Space Work USA 6/7/86 UFO vs Space Work 6/15/86 0.53 NASA CREADIBILITY 10 === Page 34 of 99 786 # Nation Archives Slated To Get Shuttle Records UFOs vs Space Work 6/6/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The thousands of pages of records produced by the Challenger investigation commission, including testimony delivered in closed-door sessions, will soon be available to the public. All 15,000 pages of public and secret testimony, along with more than 100,000 documents, will be bestowed on the National Archives days after the commission report is released Monday, a commission staff member who asked not to be identified said Thursday. The aide said the investigation by the 13-member commission, headed by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, cost "in the $2 million to $4 million range, half of it for computerization." The staff member added, "The only commission that exceeds ours in magnitude was the Warren commission." That commission, headed by the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, investigated the assassination of President Kennedy. President Reagan, who ordered the Challenger study shortly after the Jan. 28 disaster, will receive the report Monday. The report will be 250 pages along with four appendices, and it will be followed in a few weeks by four other volumes. They will include the transcripts of all closed sessions held by the commission. Since the Challenger exploded, claiming the lives of its crew of seven, more than 6,000 people have taken part in the investigation of what went wrong. More than 1,500 of those work for NASA, 3,000 are contractor employees. Reagan gave the commission 120 days to complete its job, and the time pressure, said the staff member, was the most difficult thing. He said he had only one day off since the investigation began and that was Easter Sunday. An ill-kept secret by the commission was the fact that one member, Brig. Gen. Charles Yeager, attended only one closed session and did not contribute to writing the report. Yeager's name, however, is attached to the report. Meanwhile, members of Congress expressed fresh determination to tighten their control over NASA -- once an agency that could do little wrong in the eyes of many lawmakers. Several bills are being introduced. UFOs Sun Attack 6/19/86 Trib ### 35,000 homeless in Chilean floods SANTIAGO, Chile -- Ten people have died and almost 35,000 left homeless because of widespread flooding in central Chile that has played havoc with transportation, the government's National Emergency Office (ONEMI) said Wednesday. The flood waters began to recede Wednesday, but water supplies to half of Santiago's four million residents, cut off since Monday evening, returned only slowly and tankers were sent out to take fresh water to poor neighborhoods. UFOs Sun Attack O.SB 5/30/86 ### Heavy Storms Lash Nicaragua, Cause $5 Million In Damage MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Heavy storms have been lashing Nicaragua's western coast for the past three days, causing an estimated $5 million in damage, authorities said Thursday. One freighter ran aground and nine smaller vessels sank, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The Transportation Ministry said in a press bulletin a 13,000-ton freighter loaded with laminated steel products ran aground because of heavy seas near the port of San Juan del Sur, 94 miles southwest of Managua. A fishing vessel and eight barges also there and in other southern ports; and a navy coast-guard and three other trawlers were damaged, the ministry said. Some 100 families were also evacuated from the small town of Somotillo, 91 miles northwest of the capital, because of floods which also blocked the main north-south highway in several places, the Red Cross said. UFOs vs Space Work # Mrs. Smith Raps NASA Judgment O.SB 6/17/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The widow of the shuttle Challenger's pilot says the presidential commission report on the accident indicates "incredibly terrible judgments" and "shockingly sparse concern for human life," by NASA officials, according to published reports. Jane Jarrell Smith is the widow of Michael J. Smith, who was killed along with six another astronauts when the Challenger exploded on Jan. 28. Her comments were the first extensive public response to the commission's report by a close relative of a shuttle crew member. "The report reflects incredibly terrible judgments, shockingly sparse concern for human life, instances of officials lacking the courage to exercise the responsibilities of their high office and some very bewildering thought processes," Mrs. Smith said in a telephone interview published in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Post. In Tuesday's editions of The New York Times, Mrs. Smith was quoted as saying she had avoided reaching any conclusions until the commission completed its investigation. (14) === Page 35 of 99 UFOs vs Space Work 0.SB 6/20/86 BROOKINS Times Dispatch 1986 NASA OUT OF ORDER CLICK CONGRESS Dist. News America Syndicate, 1986 "LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE TO RUN THINGS SINCE YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.... SO--WHAT'S THIS SWITCH FOR?" # High winds, tornadoes cause damage in Northeast, Texas Tribune Staff and Wires UFOs Sun 6/15/86 At least two tornadoes touched down Monday in New Hampshire and strong winds battered a prison in New York state. Gusts briefly blacked out Lubbock, Texas, and heavy rains prompted flash-flood watches from Oklahoma to Ohio. High winds struck the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, N.Y., around midday. The National Weather Service said the winds were a possible tornado but officials said they had no readings of the winds' strength. Dorothy Reed, acting superintendent of the medium-security prison, said two guards were slightly injured. Officer Chester Stungis, who was outside the main building, was blown against the wall. Officer Matthew Kunze was hit in the eye by glass, Reed said. The same storm system brought 50-mph winds to parts of New Hampshire and Maine. Trib 6/17/86 In New Hampshire, tornadoes damaged several homes in Marlborough and Harrisville. Hail and 59-mph winds caused minor damage to the airport at Concord, N.H. Firefighters battled a blaze at a factory in Somersworth, N.H., that was struck by lightning. Authorities said the Lotus Products building was destroyed by flames, and firefighters were hosing down a silo filled with potentially hazardous materials to keep it from igniting. Strong thunderstorms rolled across Oklahoma and southwest Kansas, dumping 1.10 inches of rain near Offerle, Kan., southeast of Dodge City. Winds of 78 mph briefly knocked out electricity in Lubbock, Texas, prompting the city's water pumping station to limit water use for half an hour. Strong thunderstorms rumbled across southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, producing heavy rains, gusty winds and small hail. In the Tampa Bay area, the National Weather Service forecasts scattered late afternoon and early evening showers. Wet, summerlike conditions will prevail. The chance of rain today is 50 percent, said weather service meteorologist Fred Crosby. Sci Remember some years ago when I demo'd Fla? In those files to you - would cause plagues & epidemics. Now canker, rabies, AIDS, Vnet gonorrhea, epidemics, etc. UFOs vs Space Work Trib 6/20/86 ## Ariane may fly by year's end BONN, West Germany - The European Ariane satellite program should be back on course by the end of this year after two aborted launches, the most recent on May 30 agency president Frederic d'Allest said Thursday. D'Allest told a news conference in Bonn that a commission of inquiry into the failed missions would report at the end of this month. "It will depend on the findings of the inquiry but we should start sending up rockets again by the end of this year," he said. UFOs vs Space Work trib 6/20/86 ## Scientists gripe about Star Wars WASHINGTON - President Reagan's effort to nearly double Star Wars spending is wasteful and risks a significant escalation of the arms race, more 15 === Page 36 of 99 3 die as storms lash Carolinas; flooding lingers in Nebraska, Iowa United Press International Trib PK Ripple 7/4/86 A wave of severe storms that battered the Carolinas with high winds, killing three people in a mobile home park, swept out to sea Thursday as residents cleaned up the debris left in the storms' path. In Nebraska and Iowa, rivers swollen by heavy rain early in the week flooded a few homes, and officials said they were ready to evacuate more families if the rivers continued to rise. In Jacksonville, N.C., a 20-year-old woman and her month-old and 4-year-old girls were killed and several others injured Wednesday night when high winds ripped through a trailer park, authorities said. Funnel clouds and waterspouts were sighted at the Outer Banks near Nags Head, N.C., but no damage was reported. Trees also were toppled near Athens, Ga., and in South Carolina. Most of the thunderstorms had moved out into the Atlantic Thursday. In Nebraska, the Big Blue River flooded a few homes and threatened to damage four bridges in Crete, officials said. Four families had left their homes because of flooding. The river is at 30 feet, 12 feet over flood stage and more than a foot above the previous record of 28.74 feet set in 1950. "There could be another 6 inches on top of that, it's hoped that's all there is," said John Gleason, Saline County civil defense spokesman. Twenty miles downstream, high waters receded from DeWitt, where Tuesday they ran several feet deep from flooding on Turkey and Swan creeks. Officials were prepared to evacuate people again if necessary. In Des Moines and West Des Moines, Iowa, flood waters from the Raccoon River slowly receded, but one major street still was under water, officials said. Showers and thunderstorms stretched from Louisiana across the northern Gulf of Mexico. More than 6 inches of rain fell near Guthrie, Texas, Thursday morning, closing a highway and prompting forecasters to issue a flash-flood warning. At Marquette, Mich., the temperature dropped to 36 degrees, two degrees below the 1968 record. 6/14/86 Sat. Beau & I had the exact same dream last nite! (He + a raccoon.) This has happened before on numerous occasions. 6/14/86 A thought-form powered by Psi-force... is as real as the concrete sidewalk we walk on... and very powerful. A thought-form powered by other-dimensional Psi-force... is infinitely powerful! Trib 6/20/86 © 1986 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYND. OLIPHANT NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY! 'YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST!' (16) === Page 37 of 99 MISS. ALA. GA. LA. New Orleans FLA. Tampa TEXAS Hurricane Bonnie BELIZE Tribune map # Hurricane Bonnie aims fury at Texas The storm that forced workers from offshore rigs may roar ashore today. Trib 6/26/86 GALVESTON, Texas (UPI) -- Hurricane Bonnie continued to strengthen Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico as it rumbled toward the Texas coast, where forecasters said it could come ashore today with winds up to 85 mph. Oil companies pulled 1,500 workers from offshore rigs in the path of the season's first hurricane, and officials in flood-prone areas of the Texas and Louisiana coasts urged residents to evacuate. U.S. Space Work If President Reagan, who yesterday received the commission's report from its chairman, former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, does the expected and orders the recommendations put into effect, it will materially alter the immediate future of the space program. The next flight is surely delayed beyond July 1987, and there surely will be fewer flights than the two per month NASA once hoped to attain. When flights resume, the backlog of military and intelligence tasks will mean few if any strictly civilian scientific operations will be conducted in the near future. And it will be a long, long time before any civilian -- teacher, member of Congress, journalist or whatever -- takes a shuttle ride for essentially NASA public relations purposes. That will be the price of NASA's past gambles with safety. It is high, but much less high than continuing to play Russian roulette with lives of astronauts. Trib 6/10/86 # Soviets urge 'Star Peace' Space group Reuters News Service Moscow 6/13/86 MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union proposed Thursday the creation of an international space organization to promote projects that would eventually include manned flights to other planets. The proposal, made in a letter from Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, laid out a three-stage program beginning with a world conference on space no later than 1990. In the first stage, a world space organization would be established concentrating on such matters as communications, navigation, weather forecasting and studying the Earth for agricultural purposes. In the second phase, in the first half of the 1990s, the organization would design and build space systems that could study how to preserve the Earth's biosphere, the part of the world where life can exist. During the third stage, the organization would build orbiting space stations and spaceships for manned flights to other planets. Ryzhkov said these flights could be used as a base for the moon and as expeditions could take place "in the first decades of the 21st century." The letter, published by the official Soviet news agency Tass, contrasted the Soviet initiative, called "Star Peace," with President Reagan's Star Wars proposals for a space-based anti-missile shield. 17 === Page 38 of 99 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, July 3, 1986 5-A # 2 launching systems may soar this year CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Problems with the Western world's four grounded space-launching systems are being corrected and two could be back in the air this year and the others in 1987, officials reported Wednesday. By coincidence, the troubles with the space shuttle, the U.S. Titan 34D and Delta rockets and the European Ariane rocket were discussed on the same day at four locations. The grounding of the four vehicles and America's Atlas-Centaur rocket has crippled the West's ability to launch heavy payloads into space. The Atlas-Centaur is not flying because its electrical system is similar to that of the Delta's. An official of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said five elements of the shuttle's booster rockets, not just the bad joint that caused the destruction of Challenger, will be redesigned. Asked when he thought shuttles could fly again, the NASA official replied, "We're still trying to adhere to the administrator's stated goal of July 1987." At the Pentagon, the Air Force reported that the April 18 explosion of a Titan 34D carrying a spy satellite most likely was caused by the peeling of insulation inside a solid-fuel booster. Air Force Brig. Gen. Nathan J. Lindsay, who headed the Titan investigation board, said the loss of rubberized insulation touched off an explosion nine seconds after the Titan lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. He predicted Titans would be in the air again by early next year. A NASA official reported in Washington that mechanical damage to wiring was the probable cause of the failure of a Delta rocket launched with a weather satellite from Cape Canaveral on May 3. Lawrence J. Ross, who headed the Delta investigation board, told reporters in Houston the probe had affirmed that the basic design of the Delta is reliable. Ross said he saw no reason the next Atlas-Centaur launch should be delayed beyond its current Aug. 28 date. In Paris, Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said a board of inquiry had found no manufacturing fault in the third stage engine or the propulsion system of the Ariane rocket which failed May 30 while carrying a communications satellite toward orbit. # Report blisters NASA The commission reportedly will urge major changes in shuttle launch and safety procedures. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidential commission on the Challenger disaster will recommend that astronauts and contractors take part in space shuttle launch decisions so NASA's bureaucracy never again smothers safety objections like those voiced in January, sources said Monday. After nine days of hearings over four months and weeks of on-scene investigation around the nation, the commission on Monday sent to the printers a 225-page report that blisters the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its management practices and instructs the agency to put safety requirements into every phase of flight operations. # More Changes Seen For NASA Officials CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- The retirement of William R. Lucas as director of the NASA facility that supervises shuttle rockets continues the shakeup of top NASA officials, and agency leaders predict more changes after the Challenger commission reports on Monday. Lucas, 64, announced Wednesday he will retire July 3 as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He has headed Marshall since 1974 and had served three years as deputy director. Since the Challenger explosion Jan. 28 that killed seven astronauts, NASA has gained a new administrator, director of the shuttle program, director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and has summoned the former manager of the Apollo moon program to conduct an internal review of its management structure. See NASA on page 8A # Terror Rains In Texas SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Firefighters within inches of reaching a man trapped at a flooded intersection watched helplessly as floodwaters engulfed his car, flipped it and left him crushed to death underneath. The man's death Monday night came after rains continued to drench much of Texas, flooding streets and rivers across the state and causing several auto accidents on San Antonio authorities said. Rescue workers, hampered by rising waters, later found the man's body about 100 yards downstream in Olmos Creek. "There was nothing he could do and we were maybe 30 seconds too late," said Capt. Donny O'Neill, one of the See Texas Rains on page 8A With the release of the report, the nation's space agency Monday entered a new period of scrutiny and doubts as government officials weighed the future of the now-tarnished program. 18 === Page 39 of 99 6A OCALA * STAR-BANNER, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1986 # Storm Rips North Carolina Mobile Home Park; 3 Killed JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A storm flattened four homes in a mobile home park housing Marine families, killing two children and an adult and injuring eight other people as it tossed furniture in the wind, authorities said. National Weather Service officials were at the Triangle Trailer Park Thursday trying to confirm whether Wednesday's storm was a tornado. "It was a twister I can tell you. I saw it," said Tim Benson, a park resident. "I grabbed my little one, I yelled to the next-door neighbor, 'Tornado.' And I see everything going up over here, and I heard it. I got in the car as fast as I can and got on the road." The storm also brought winds up to 70 mph in other parts of the Carolinas and in Georgia. A man in Nebraska died after walking through a flooded area, and the search continued today for a 9-year-old boy feared drowned in a rain-swollen creek in West Virginia. The storm hit the trailer park near Camp Lejeune about 9:30 p.m., authorities said. Rescuers lifted one demolished trailer so a woman and infant could be removed. "There was a big gush of wind that picked up my trailer and crushed it like it was a matchbox," said Fred Senay, who suffered three broken ribs, a broken leg and back injuries. "All I could see was furniture flying through the air," said George Vetterly. Several hundred rescue workers and volunteers rushed to the park after the storm went through, Halbert said, and found that a woman and a baby were trapped under one demolished trailer. "The trailer must have weighed a ton, and all those people lifted it up," he said. "I was afraid they wouldn't hold on. I guess they had one chance and they did it right." It could not be determined whether the woman and baby he mentioned were the ones who died. Elsewhere in the Carolinas and in northern Georgia, winds up to 70 mph tore down trees and power lines, causing scattered power outages. A storm tore the roof of a house near Comfort, and tornadoes touched down at Nags Head and near Center Hill, but no damage was reported, the weather service said. In Nebraska, Saline County Civil Defense spokesman John Gleason said the man who died had gone into DeWitt in the afternoon to examine flood damage. He identified the man as 68-year-old Paul Zimmerman of Martell. "He was sitting in his pickup talking to some people and he collapsed," Gleason said. "Efforts to revive him were not successful." DeWitt residents who were chased from the town by flooding were allowed to return Wednesday, but flood warnings remained in effect along a 70-mile stretch of the Big Blue River. Highways 136 and 77 through Beatrice, Neb., were closed morning due to flooding. "A lawn chair flew in front of me and then that bathtub over there. I carried my wife out of the trailer with one arm, that's how scared I was." Jacksonville Police Capt. Delma Collins identified the victims as Lisa Pierce, 20; her daughter, one-month-old Amanda Pierce; and 4-year-old Debbie Addison, a girl Ms. Pierce was babysitting. Ms. Pierce's brother, 14-year-old John Cummings, was listed in critical condition with spinal injuries at Craven County Memorial Hospital in New Bern. Seven other people were treated at hospitals, including Ms. Pierce's mother and another brother, who were in the trailer, Collins said. ## Twenty Injured After Wind Collapses Festival Tent WHEELING, Ill. (AP) -- A sudden blast of wind collapsed an entertainment tent filled with about 2,000 people Sunday night, injuring about 20 people, police said. "It was very sudden, not expected at all," said Sgt. Jack Kimsey of the Wheeling Police Department. "The wind went underneath it and grabbed the tent and tore it up like it was toothpicks." Eight people were treated at hospitals, but none was expected to be admitted, hospital officials said. About a dozen other people were treated on the grounds of the Wheeling Family Festival in this suburb northwest of Chicago, Kimsey said. # Texas drenched by new storms; 2,000 people are forced to flee SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- A new barrage of thunderstorms dumped more than 7 inches of rain on parts of waterlogged south Texas early Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 people, stranding motorists in flooded streets and closing businesses and schools. But by afternoon, the sun was shining in most areas. "In my 60 years in the city, I've never seen water this high," said San Antonio Fire Chief I.O. Martinez. The drowning death of a soldier and the discovery of the body of a 5-year-old boy raised the number of storm-related fatalities in Texas to least 10 since the current cycle of heavy rain began across the state on May 24. Wednesday's rain subsided in most areas by noon, after more than 7 inches had fallen since midnight, but more rain was likely later, National Weather Service meteorologist Stan Hall said. San Antonio, which gets about 29 inches of rain each year, has received more than 11 inches since May 25. Dozens of motorists were stranded in low water crossings and many freeways were flooded and had to be closed. Bexar County Fire Marshal Carl Mixon said four volunteer firefighters had to be rescued from a tree by helicopter. The city manager's office ordered the precautionary evacuation of about 200 houses and surrounding businesses, affecting an estimated 2,000 people, in a flood plain below Olmos Dam. Flood gates had to be opened in the 30-foot-high dam to release excess water into Olmos Creek, said police spokesman Paul Buske. Those evacuated were sent to Civil Defense centers, but most had been allowed to return home by midafternoon. === Page 40 of 99 # Florida, Texas, Wyoming Homes Are Damaged By Tornadoes By The Associated Press Tornadoes damaged homes in Texas, Florida and Wyoming, tearing off roofs and blowing out windows, while storms in Maryland knocked out the radar at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. A wide-ranging spate of bad weather Wednesday and Thursday also brought floods to Wyoming and much of the Midwest and Northeast, and wind damage in Utah. A Wisconsin boy, 10-year-old Paul Davis, died Thursday at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, hours after he was swept into a culvert after a storm brought 3 inches of rain to the area Wednesday. His mother, Marcia L. Davis, 30, who had tried to rescue him, remained in very critical condition early today, said Virginia Blattner, nursing supervisor at the hospital. She said Mrs. Davis was in a coma and on life support equipment, as she has been since being brought to the hospital. A twister near St. Petersburg, Fla., ripped off roof tiles, blew out windows and snatched up patio furniture Thursday, while a tornado in the southern Texas town of Skidmore damaged a house, a lumber yard and trees. Twisters also damaged a trailer near Casper, Wyo., and a home in Bar Nunn, Wyo., the National Weather Service said. No injuries were reported. In Utah, winds of more than 50 mph Thursday night damaged roofs and blew down power lines in northern Davis County, the weather service said. No injuries were reported, but the highway patrol said the roof was torn off one house and the roofs of a dozen others were damaged. In Medicine, Wyo., authorities advised residents of an eight-block area Thursday to evacuate because of rising waters from the Medicine Bow River. The river, swollen from unusually high runoff and the collapse of a dam upstream, was several feet above flood stage. In Ashtabula County in eastern Ohio, where Gov. Richard Celeste declared a state of emergency Wednesday night, residents began cleaning up after a tornado and about 6 inches of rain struck the region. A flood warning was issued for Ohio's Mahoning River, which was expected to reach flood stage today at Youngstown. Flood warnings were also posted in Michigan, where Wednesday's thunderstorms dumped up to 3 inches of rain on the Detroit area. In Lansing, storms dumped nearly 6 inches of rain, flooding hundreds of basements and knocking out power to an estimated 19,000 people. At Linthicum, Md., engineers from the Federal Aviation Administration worked today to repair lightning damage to the Baltimore-Washington International Airport's radar system, said Pete Nelson, an FAA spokesman in New York. Some flights were delayed while others were diverted, said airport spokeswoman Linda Greene. Air traffic controllers turned to alternative, non-radar procedures, and used limited radar service provided by Washington's National Airport, Nelson said. A quota was imposed on the volume of flights handled by the Baltimore-Washington airport, airport operations manager Paul Foley said today, adding officials anticipated delays until the radar system could be restored. Ohio disaster officials surveyed flood and tornado damage in the northern part of the state, where up to 6 1/2 inches of rain fell in twin storms that hit Wednesday morning and evening. The weather service said a tornado damaged six houses and injured one man in Ashtabula, and said another twister touched down in Ottawa County near Port Clinton. The Ohio Highway Patrol said part of Interstate 90 was closed for a time in Ashtabula County. As much as 3 inches of rain fell Wednesday on western Pennsylvania's Mercer County, where many roads were blocked by standing water, and officials in the town of Greenville reported undermined streets and flooded basements. # Plane Nearly Collides With Landing Jet PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An AirCal jet landing at Portland International Airport nearly collided with a small private plane, authorities said today. The close call occurred about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, said Dan Boyle, assistant air traffic manager for the Federal Aviation Administration at the airport. "The two aircraft in question came within 100 feet, and I don't believe until just prior to the occurrence they had seen each other," he said. "AirCal took evasive action." He did not know how many people were aboard, but said no injuries were reported. Boyle said the AirCal Boeing 737 was positioned for landing when an air traffic controller alerted its pilot to the presence of the private plane. The pilot then "reported sighting an aircraft and he believed it to be the one the controller was referring to, but it may not have been. It may have been another aircraft," Boyle said. He declined to elaborate, saying the incident was under investigation by the FAA. "He turned his aircraft or whatever he felt was appropriate," Boyle said of the AirCal pilot. The pilot of the single-engine plane had been in contact with a different air traffic controller, who had advised him of the approaching AirCal flight, Boyle said. The near collision was the second reported this week. An American Airlines jetliner approaching O'Hare International Airport in Chicago was forced to climb suddenly to avoid hitting a twin-engine plane. Eighty-eight people were aboard the Boeing 727. (21) === Page 41 of 99 Trib 6/11/86 Ex-astronaut Irwin stable COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin, 56, whose heart stopped while jogging last week, was upgraded Tuesday to fair and stable condition, though he remains in coronary intensive care. Irwin walked on the moon in 1971 and has climbed Mount Ararat in Turkey in search of Noah's ark several times since 1982. # Challenger Report Raps Rocket, Chiefs ## Study Assesses Disaster Blame WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential investigators, rendering a verdict on the Challenger explosion, are delivering a report to President Reagan that will lay blame for the nation's worst space disaster on a combination of faulty space age hardware and poor management at the nation's space agency. More On The Shuttle Report, 5A The commission, which labored 120 days, will say that Challenger's seven astronauts died because hot gases escaped from the seam of the shuttle's right booster rocket, triggering a chain reaction that ended in a gigantic fireball 73 seconds into the flight. Beyond that, sources close to the commission, speaking on condition they not be named, have disclosed that the panel's report will severely criticize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and demand that the space agency not only redesign the rocket, but give greater consideration to safety issues before allowing the three remaining shuttles to fly again. "They're going to recommend that contractors and astronauts be a party to the decision to launch," one commission source said. The commission, headed by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, arranged to present its report to Reagan at an early afternoon session at the White House, shortly before public release. Reagan appointed the group a few days after the Jan. 28 accident which killed all seven astronauts aboard. The victims were Dick Scobee, spacecraft commander; Michael J. Smith, pilot; Judith Resnik, mission specialist; Ronald McNair, mission specialist; Ellison Onizuka, mission specialist; Gregory Jarvis, a Hughes Aircraft engineer; and Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to fly aboard the shuttle. NASA, an agency bruised by the accident and battered by the subsequent revelations of management practices, has begun to redesign the booster rocket and is planning to resume manned spaceflight with them in July 1987. Trib 6/24/86 # Channel 44 remains off the air Television station WTOG, Channel 44, off the air since lightning struck late Saturday, will not resume operations until this afternoon, a day after its target date. "The lightning strike is more significant than we anticipated," said Richard Dailey, advertising and promotions editor of the station. "We're still finding problems and the signal can't reach the antenna." A Georgia TV station is sending a stand-in antenna for temporary use, he said. An 11-person crew is checking the 1,500-foot-high transmission line on the station's antenna tower apparently hit by lightning. # Channel 44 knocked off air by lightning By JANE SEEGAL Tribune Staff Writer Television station WTOG, Channel 44, knocked off the air late Saturday by lightning, will be back on the air in time for the 1 p.m. movie today, if all goes as planned, spokesman Richard Dailey said Sunday. A transmission line on the station's antenna tower apparently was struck by lightning sometime between 10 and 11 p.m. Saturday night, Dailey said. The bolt hit at a spot about 1,200 feet high, 300 feet below the top of the antenna, he said. Crews worked Saturday night and all day Sunday but found the damage extended further up and down the line than originally believed, Dailey said. Sunday evening the repair workers were stuck waiting for additional 20-foot sections of line to be flown in from Atlanta and elsewhere. The 8-inch-thick line that transmits 110,000 watts has a hollow center, Dailey said. "The lightning broke a vacuum in the center," he added, and "apparently some debris has fallen down in the line." The main problems seemed to be in the connectors between the sections, according to the advertising and promotions manager. Referring to the splicing work, Dailey said, "It's a complicated job, not like repairing a plug in your home." The outage was the longest experienced "in the 18 years we've been on the air," the advertising and promotions manager said. This weekend's continuing programming will be played next weekend, Dailey said, adding that movies will be rescheduled later in the summer. Asked to estimate the loss in advertising revenues, Dailey said, "It's hard to say (yet). I'm sure it's in the thousands." === Page 42 of 99 # Mid-America Hit By Severe Storms ## Lightning Kills Michigan Golfer By The Associated Press 6/23/86 Lightning struck three golfers in Michigan, killing one, and high winds knocked down trees and power lines as violent thunderstorms raked parts of the Midwest. Chance For Rain Declines Across The Big Sun. 2B Winds gusting up to 85 mph also damaged buildings in the storms that pushed across a wide area from South Dakota to Ohio on Saturday and Sunday. Up to 4 inches of rain soaked the region, the National Weather Service said, and scattered tornadoes also were reported. The storms were spawned ahead of a slow-moving cold front. Three men were injured Sunday as they golfed during a heavy thunderstorm at Silver Lake Golf Club in Michigan's Oakland County, authorities said. Paul Durocher, 24, whose hometown was not available, died at 7:15 p.m. Sunday at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, said nursing supervisor K.C. Johnson. His twin brother, John, was in serious condition this morning, Johnson said, while a third man was listed in critical condition at Pontiac General Hospital. In Ohio, strong winds ripped part of a building materials plant in Newark and blew down power lines and trees, officials said early today. There were no reports of injuries. Winds blew off part of the front and a section of the roof at the Tectum Inc. plant in Newark shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, said night watchman Oscar Laisure. He did not have a damage estimate. A Licking County sheriff's department spokesman said there were several reports of tornadoes but none of them was confirmed. The storm also did minor damage as it crossed Indiana early Sunday evening. "We've got trees and hot wires down everyplace," said Kathy Stockman, an police dispatcher in Indianapolis. In Minnesota on Sunday, crews worked in the area around Lake Superior to restore electricity following the severe thunderstorms and tornadoes the day before. The winds capsized at least two boats on Lake Superior, four iron ore boats were torn from their moorings, trailer homes were rolled, and roofs were blown from garages in Duluth. # NASA official Lucas retiring CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- William R. Lucas, director of the NASA center that supervises shuttle rockets, announced his retirement Wednesday, expanding the shake-up of key space officials. Agency leaders predict more changes after the Challenger commission reports on Monday. Lucas, 64, will retire July 3 as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He has headed Marshall since 1974, having served three years as deputy director. Under Lucas' leadership, Marshall engineers supervised Morton Thiokol's development of the solid-fuel booster rockets, which the presidential commission will blame in its report Monday for the explosion Jan. 28. Early in its inquiry, the commission turned a spotlight on several Marshall engineers, who testified they disagreed with Morton Thiokol engineers who opposed the Challenger launch because cold weather might impair O-rings designed to keep hot gas from escaping through booster rocket joints. Several of those Marshall engineers have been reassigned and one has retired. There also have been personnel changes at Morton Thiokol among officials who overruled their own engineers. The changes at Marshall were endorsed Wednesday by Sen. Don Riegle of Michigan, ranking Democrat on a space oversight subcommittee. "I think the shake-up at Marshall is needed, and I'm glad to see it occurring," he said. "The people who were involved in overriding the engineers and the other warnings should not be involved in the decision-making." Since the disaster, NASA has gained a new administrator, a new director of the shuttle program, a new director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and has summoned the former manager of the Apollo moon program to conduct an internal review of the agency's management structure. More changes will follow release of the commission's report, said NASA general manager Philip Culbertson. "There will be people who will change jobs as a result of what has happened; we've got to get our management strengthened right at the top," Culbertson told a recent conference on the future of the === Page 43 of 99 How El Nino affects the weather Trade winds, which normally blow toward the west, reverse directions, but meteorologists don't know what brings on the wind shift. The warm water from the western Pacific supplants the normally cool water in the eastern Pacific. NORMAL DIRECTION DURING EL NINO TRADEWINDS 4A OCALA * STAR-BANNER, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1986 # Fires Burn Across Canada Province; Indians Threatened ONTARIO (AP) -- Several forest fires roared out of control Friday on hundreds of thousands of acres in remote sections of Ontario, and a small group of Indians was told to prepare to evacuate its isolated community. The fires, which began last week, were burning in areas that stretch nearly across the province's entire width. A record hot spell with temperatures as high as 95 degrees and shifting winds have thwarted firefighters' efforts. Some parts of the region had been without rainfall for nearly two weeks. More than 1,500 firemen either were fighting the blazes or were on alert, said Ron Running, a spokesman with the Ontario Natural Resoures Ministry. One fire had burned more than 60,000 acres of forest and was threatening the North Spirit Indian village of 284 people about 105 miles northeast of Red Lake, a mining and tourist base which is about 40 miles from the Manitoba border. Officials were meeting to discuss contingency plans for evacuating the reserve while ministry pilots monitored the fire from the air, Running said. Crews were constructing a fire wall to protect the village, he said. Running said a fire near Red Lake had burned more than 43,000 acres, much of it prime timber on federal land, and rapidly spread to the east on Thursday. The ministry has issued an emergency area order in the Red Lake vicinity, which means people must evacuate if the ministry decides it is necessary. A fire near Sandy Lake, in the far northern part of the province, has blackened about 80,000 acres. Running said three fires were burning out of control farther east toward the Quebec border. UFOs Sun Attack O.SB 5/31/86 UFOs Sun Attack ## Heat fuels more than 200 fires throughout forests in Canada Tribune Staff and Wires 5/31/86 More than 200 fires raged through Canada's forests Friday, and three conservation workers reportedly drowned while trying to escape a blaze in a northern Quebec province. The fires, ranging in size from a few acres to tens of thousands and fueled by a heat wave and lack of rain, were destroying vast stretches of timber from British Columbia through northern Quebec and forced the evacuation of at least two Indian communities. The bodies of three forest conservation workers who had been fighting fires in northern Quebec were found Friday after they were reported missing the day before, said the Canadian Press news agency. Police said the three drowned after throwing themselves into Lake Frotet, about 400 miles north of Quebec City, when fire encircled a camp of about 20 firefighters. The others also jumped into the water but grabbed the floats of an airplane and a helicopter and were carried to safety, police said. Meanwhile in the United States, a summerlike swelter, with temperatures in the 80s and 90s, spread from the upper Mississippi Valley to the mid-Atlantic states Friday, breaking records from Atlantic City, N.J., to International Falls, Minn. Atlantic City's 93-degree reading broke the 1951 record by two degrees, while International Falls, "the nation's icebox" famed for its cold weather, reached 90 degrees, surpassing a 42-year-old record by two degrees. The national forecast for today called for showers and thunderstorms extending from Arizona to the southern Plains and the lower Mississippi Valley, and scattered from the Ohio Valley to the eastern Gulf Coast. Tampa area residents can expect partly cloudy skies today and Sunday with high temperatures in the low to mid 90s and lows around 70, according to the National Weather Servcie in Ruskin. There is a 20 percent likelihood of rain throughout the weekend, with isolated afternoon thunderstorms offering the only chance of precipitation, forecasters said. === Page 44 of 99 # Flash flooding kills 7 in Pennsylvania UFOs Sun Attack By BRUCE COOK United Press International Trib 6/1/86 PITTSBURGH -- The death toll rose to seven Saturday, and a massive cleanup began in Pittsburgh suburbs where nearly a month's worth of rain fell in an hour, triggering flash floods and mudslides that damaged more than 750 homes. More than two dozen people were injured in Friday night's thunderstorms. Allegheny County commissioners declared disasters in eight Pittsburgh suburbs -- Hampton, Harmar, Shaler, O'Hara and Indiana townships and the boroughs of Etna, Pleasant Hills and Millvale. The commissioners ordered county employees with heavy equipment to help in the cleanup, and workers trucked drinking water into Pittsburgh area residents spent Saturday cleaning up. Etna and Harmar Township. Deputy Allegheny County Coroner Jerry Wienand said a sixth body was discovered Saturday morning in Shaler Township. Rescue crews searching Pine Creek later Saturday found the seventh victim, the secretary of a priest who also drowned when their car was swept into the raging water. Wienand said all the dead drowned when creeks and streams stormed from their banks. Four victims were identified as Tim Kamenzind, 28, of Millvale; his brother, Keith, 24, of Butler; Father John Price, 50, of St. Joseph's Rectory in O'Hara Township; and his secretary, Marilyn Taylor, 47, of Pittsburgh. A Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency official called the damage "staggering," but said it was too early to put a dollar amount on it. Red Cross spokeswoman Nancy Brem said a preliminary estimate indicated more than 750 homes were damaged by the high waters or slides. Authorities at the National Weather Service said more than 3 inches of rain, almost equaling the average rainfall for the entire month of May, fell in one hour Friday over Pittsburgh's northern suburbs, causing landslides, gas and See FLOODS, Page 2A # Flash floods inundate Texans; storm puts out Northeast lights Tribune Staff and Wires 6/2/86 UFOs Sun Attack Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Texas early Sunday and power was out in some areas of the Northeast because of overnight thunderstorms. In Texas, the third consecutive weekend of heavy rains caused flash flooding in Dallas, which police said may have contributed to four traffic deaths Saturday night. The flooding snarled traffic for hours near Texas Stadium, and cars were backed up for 3 miles from a flooded underpass. Some motorists waited on car roofs and hoods for rescue crews, police said. A moist air mass over the south-central part of the country resulted in heavy rain from New Mexico across Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley. Pandale, Texas was drenched with 3 1/2 inches of rain overnight. Thunderstorms rumbled across New York state Saturday night, disrupting power and dropping hail on the lower Hudson Valley and triggering flash flood warnings in the Finger Lakes Region. The storm cut power to several thousand households as trees toppled over on top of wires in several communities, police said. In Poughkeepsie, the roof blew off an International Business Machines Corp. building on Route 55, police said. The storm brought three-fourths-inch hail to Fort Lee, N.J., and high winds and downed power lines in northern sections of the state. Elsewhere, patchy dense fog formed early Sunday along coastal areas of southern North Carolina and over northern and central sections of Alabama. Skies were mostly clear around the rest of the nation. Locally, today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skies becoming partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms, highs in the lower 90s and southeast winds at 10 mph with an afternoon sea breeze. The chance of rain is 50 percent. Lows tonight should be near 70. The National Weather Service said Tuesday's weather should be the same, but with a 30 percent rain chance. Through Thursday, expect partly cloudy skies, hot afternoons and mild nights. than 1,600 scientists at top government and industrial laboratories said in a petition to Congress on Thursday. Most of the laboratories conduct weapons research, and some of the 1,600 scientists are engaged in Star Wars research. One of the petition organizers, J. Carson Mark, who directed nuclear weapons design at the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico until his retirement in 1973, said Reagan's original plan for a defense to stop enemy missiles in space is beyond technological capability for the foreseeable future. 25 === Page 45 of 99 a. officials ear more lood deaths PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- National Guard troops used bulldozers to scrape away debris Sunday while rescue workers searched muddy river banks for more possible victims from flooding that has killed at least eight people in eight communities. Jerry Wienand, an Allegheny County deputy coroner, said his office had identified the eight known victims, all of whom died of drowning in the Friday night deluge north of Pittsburgh, but he said he feared more bodies would be found. "We have reports of vehicles being discovered that are registered to people who can't be located," he said. He declined to say how many were still missing. But Jeff Trzygocki, assistant manager of Shaler Township, said four people were unaccounted for. He said the number was determined by comparing and reconciling missing person reports. State emergency management officials said at least 800 homes and businesses were damaged and water and electric service were knocked out in some regions, prompting Gov. Dick Thornburgh to declare the communities disaster areas. "The apparent extent of the damage is severe and widespread," said state Emergency Management Agency spokesman John Comey, who sent teams from various state agencies to inspect the affected areas. Comey said it would take at least two days for officials to fully determine the extent of the damage. The 3 inches of rain that fell in one hour Friday triggered mudslides and transformed small streams into raging torrents. Authorities touring the site of the worst flooding site described the area as "a mess." "One of our deputies came back from the scene and he was just shell-shocked. He said it was unreal," Wienand said. Many of the drowning victims became trapped in their cars when a wall of water estimated at 7 feet high came crashing along the banks of the Big Pine River. "It was like a giant wave," said Bill Skertich, borough manager of Etna, one of the communities hardest hit by flooding. "One of our residents was able to save himself by climbing up a tree and strapping himself down with his belt," Skertich said. "The guy that was driving in the car behind him didn't make it." The eight communities declared disaster areas are Etna, Pleasant Hills, Millvale, Hampton, Harmar, Shaler, O'Hara and Indiana, all located in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania town remembers tornado ALBION, Pa. (AP) -- This storm-battered community remembered 12 dead Saturday and thanked those who helped clean up after a vicious tornado struck one year ago, when more than two dozen tornadoes killed 89 people in three states and Canada. "We're looking to the future rather than dwelling on the past," said the Rev. R.J. Reilly, pastor of St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church, where a memorial Mass was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Dedication of a monument to honor the dead from Albion and nearby Craneville also was planned. The tornado that ravaged a three-block wide section of Albion at 5:15 p.m. last May 31 was one of 28 that roared through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Canada. In all, 89 people died, 1,000 more were injured and damage exceeded $450 million. Albion's monument was erected on a lot adjacent to the church, where the roof was ripped off in places and all of its 100-year-old stained glass windows were shattered. The building has since been repaired. Pennsylvania was hardest hit with 65 dead, nearly matching in one day the total of 69 people killed by tornadoes in the state since 1916. # Shuttle won't fly until '88 NASA's boss said corrective action to make the flights "really safe" will take longer than planned. By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI Science Editor WASHINGTON -- NASA head James Fletcher told President Reagan on Monday the first shuttle flight with redesigned booster rockets will be delayed until early 1988 because corrective action is taking longer than expected. "When we start flying again, we want to make sure it really is safe," Fletcher said at a news conference four hours after his brief Oval Office meeting with the president. "It is that high priority of safety that has caused that date to slip." A launch in early 1988 would represent a six-month setback from the most recent schedule and mean American astronauts will be grounded two years by the Challenger accident -- at least three months longer than the setback resulting from the fatal Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had been shooting for a July 1987 launch for the first post-Challenger shuttle flight. Space agency sources said internal planning documents list the tentative launch date target for February 1988. The sources said, however, that Marshall Space Flight Center booster-rocket officials in Huntsville, Ala., have asked for an additional two-month schedule cushion, which could set the flight back to April 1988. A definite schedule will not be established until the booster-rocket design process is further along. A flaw in the booster was pinpointed as the cause of January's Challenger See SHUTTLE, Page 4A === Page 46 of 99 12,000 flee Bonnie's fleeting fury By PAUL RECER Associated Press UFOs Sun Attack Trib 6/27/86 PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- Hurricane Bonnie struck the Gulf Coast before dawn Thursday with fleeting fury, killing two people with its 85-mph winds and heavy rain that spun off tornadoes, destroyed homes and knocked out power to thousands. The first hurricane of the season weakened and died not long after it came ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border. Port Arthur, which bore the brunt of the storm, was bustling again by midafternoon. Bonnie, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, was not a major hurricane, but it still managed to terrify residents when it hit land at 4:45 a.m. (5:45 EDT). "I sure enough thought we weren't going to live through it," said Nancy Morrell, who huddled in her Port Arthur home with her 83-year-old sister because they couldn't walk to a shelter. "It held us in fear. We were two scared old ladies." Nearly 12,000 people in the two states boarded up their homes and fled inland Wednesday, and another 1,000 oil rig workers had been ferried ashore. One man was killed when his pickup truck was caught in a squall and went out of control on a roadway in Vidor, northwest of Port Arthur, and a partially paralyzed woman died after being trapped inside her burning Port Arthur home by flames fueled by gusts from the hurricane, officials said. At least a dozen people were injured. The city of Port Arthur was without power until about noon Thursday, said Police Sgt. Robert Williamson. Although the city showed evidence of the storm -- broken store windows, scattered tree limbs and debris-strewn streets -- no major structural damage was reported, he said. See BONNIE, Page 2A Hurricane UFOs Sun Attack Trib 6/1/86 * From Page 1A potential danger, forecasters say they still are thwarted by constantly changing airflow patterns in the upper atmosphere that determine where tropical storms and hurricanes will travel. "You've got to be able to find some way to evaluate all the depths of the vertical atmosphere," says National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank, who contends that hurricane prediction has not improved significantly since the 1960s. An accurate measure of those lofty currents would be considered a major advance in hurricane forecasting because meteorology is relying increasingly on computers. "When you start talking about forecasting with a computer model, you have to realize that those models are no better than the data you put in them," says Frank. With no recognizable pattern of hurricane formation during the 100 years in which records have been kept, forecasters cannot back up a seasonal prognosis with examples from history. Vivid reminders of Florida's subtropical milieu, major hurricanes came in bunches during the first half of the 20th century and then slacked off mysteriously about 1950. In any decade, they seemed to single out a particular region of the country. During World War II and its aftermath, most of the severe hurricanes -- rated three or above on a scale of one to five -- either skirted the Florida coast or touched ground here. In the 1950s, they struck the Atlantic Seaboard, coming close enough to Washington, D.C., to prompt Congress to pass laws aimed at bailing out hurricane-ravaged states. From 1960 through the 1980s, Gulf states such as Louisiana and Texas bore the brunt of the big storms. "Hurricanes are rare events for any given location," explains Robert Sheets, the deputy director of the hurricane center in Coral Gables. "One particular year or even one decade may sound unusual, but if you had thousands of years of records it might not." Without the perspective that millennia of record-keeping might provide, the 1985 season seemed unusual because forecasters had to go back to 1916 to find a year in which six hurricanes pounded the U.S. coast. From the scope of the evacuations to the toll of property damage, last year's hurricanes left an indelible mark on Floridians and their Gulf-state neighbors. Hurricane Kate, the first November storm to score a direct hit in 50 years, cut a destructive swath through the Florida Panhandle. A month earlier, Juan hovered near the state's west coast, spawning tornadoes in Tampa before turning away toward Louisiana. The unforgettable Elena moved into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and stood ground, turning Labor Day weekend into a tense vigil for Tampa Bay area residents. Overall, the hurricane center tracked 11 tropical storms, seven of which intensified into hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when winds reach 74 mph. The '85 season stood out because hurricanes affected so many people, Sheets contends. But "we didn't have any of the killer hurricanes," he said. "We didn't have a Carla, a Camille or the 1935 one that devastated the Florida Keys." Hurricane Elena, however, prompted the largest evacuation ever as 1 million northeastern Gulf residents were ordered out of its way from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. A study of Elena's impact on Florida counties concluded it took its greatest toll on Pinellas County, where miles of sea walls were damaged. Elena "was a preparedness awakening for a lot of people," says David Rittenberry, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Ruskin. "I think the overall feeling in the Bay area was, 'Yea, we were lucky this time.'" Will a major hurricane test the mettle of the local populace again this year? The answer may lie a continent away, where the El Nino phenomenon is causing the temperature of the South Pacific to rise and the trade winds to shift course. When the waters off Peru and Ecuador warm up -- as is reportedly happening this year -- meteorological mayhem ensues around the world, and the number of Atlantic-based hurricanes traditionally drops off. Hurricanes have been few and far between during previous El Nino years, but the ones that form tend to be rather potent. "There is a serious statistical correlation between the number of storms and the existence of an El Nino," says Sheets, the hurricane center's second-in-command. "You can make a physical argument as to why it puts a damper on hurricanes." Still, it will be the end of autumn before Floridians can breathe easier. 27 === Page 47 of 99 # Storms Flood Texas 6/5/86 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Water-logged south Texas braced for more rainfall today as residents cleaned up from floodwaters that forced more than 2,000 people to evacuate and closed roads, businesses and schools. The heavy rains were blamed for the drowning deaths of a 5-year-old boy and a soldier at Fort Hood in central Texas, bringing to 10 the fatalities blamed on the latest cycle of bad weather since it hit May 24. National Weather Service spokesman Gary Grice said there was a better than average chance of more rain today in San Antonio, where 11 inches has fallen since May 25. The city normally gets 29 inches a year. Because of the forecast, emergency workers remained on standby late Wednesday, hours after the heavy rains stopped. Nearly 7 inches of rain fell on the city in the 12 hours ending at noon Wednesday, flooding highways, and forcing at least 2,000 residents from their homes. Street flooding was reported in Houston and extended as far north as Sherman, near the Oklahoma border. Four funnels were spotted in nearby Bonham but no damage was reported. Most of the evacuees in San Antonio were in the Olmos Basin area, a flood plain of the Olmos Dam. Police spokesman Paul Buske said the dam, built to hold 30-foot waters, was overflowing at 36 feet. The flood gates had to be opened, posing the threat of flooding to the approximately 2,000 residents. But officials allowed most residents to return to their homes Wednesday afternoon as skies cleared. But weather service meteorologist Stan Hall warned that residents would "be back in a crisis" if more heavy rains fell quickly. Wednesday's rains caused nearly 120 accidents and the police department to order 150 vehicles towed. Most of those vehicles, Buske said, were submerged in water. "In my 60 years in the city, I've never seen water this high," said San Antonio Fire Chief I.O. Martinez. Dozens of motorists were stranded in low water crossings and many freeways, deluged with rainwaters, had to be closed temporarily during Wednesday's morning rush hour. Trinity University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, other local colleges, offices and businesses shut down for the day. Four volunteer firemen had to be rescued by helicopter from a tree after they tried to help a stranded motorist. Water gushes through street in downtown San Antonio. # Killer typhoon heads for China 7/11/86 MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Peggy spun out to sea toward China Thursday after a devastating sweep across the northern Philippines that killed at least 53 people and forced more than 240,000 people from their homes. Another 19 people were reported missing in the first major typhoon -- the Pacific version of a hurricane -- to hit the Philippines this year after it flooded the capital and left thousands homeless. Peggy slammed ashore from the Pacific on Wednesday, raking rice and corn farmlands on the main Luzon island with peak winds of 109 mph and carrying a bank of rain clouds 373 miles in diameter. By late Thursday, the Weather Bureau said Peggy was 225 miles away from the archipelago in the South China Sea, heading toward China at 9 mph with peak winds of 94 mph. President Corazon Aquino arrived at work in Manila Thursday aboard a four-wheel-drive jeep as knee-deep floodwater lapped at the steps of the presidential palace guest house. (28) === Page 48 of 99 Southeast continues to swelter under a blob of hot, humid air Tribune Staff and Wires The southeast sweated for a fourth day Wednesday under a blob of hot, humid air that has killed chickens, heightened demand for air conditioning and fans and worsened a water shortage in the drought-stricken region. Temperatures again rose above 100 degrees in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. The National Weather Service said the combination of heat and humidity pushed its heat index, a measure of how warm the air feels, to between 105 and 115 degrees across much of the Southeast and as far west as southern Missouri. The high pressure system pinning the muggy air over the Southeast "will remain the dominant weather feature through the week," said the weather service office in Atlanta. Cooler air pressed down from the North, but its collision with the persistent hot air was marked by thunderstorms paralleling the Mason-Dixon line. South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia utilities reported record demand for electricity Tuesday, a day after similar reports in Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and New York. The dry summer has prompted many Georgia cities and counties, particularly around Atlanta, to restrict or prohibit outdoor water use, with fines up to $50. The drought has also reduced hydroelectric production at Tennessee Valley Authority dams. In North Carolina, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority asked the cities of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to impose water use restrictions. The heat is affecting Georgia's $1.25 billion poultry industry, with thousands of chickens dying this week. Jesse Atkins of Mar-Jac Farms in Hall County said he had 10,000 deaths Monday alone. In the Tampa Bay area, scattered showers and thunderstorms occurring throughout the day are forecast for today and Friday, the National Weather Service said. "It's one of those situations where they can be around any time of the day," said meteorologist David Rittenberry of the weather service's Ruskin office. In the Tampa Bay area, it will be a mostly sunny weekend with a few rainy interruptions, the National Weather Service said. The next four days have "below-normal shower prospects," said meteorologist David Rittenberry of the weather service's Ruskin office. "They won't be widespread. Not every one in the Bay area will get hit every day." Highs in the Bay area will be in the low 90s; lows in the mid-70s. Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms extended from the upper Mississippi Valley across the lower Ohio Valley and the southern Appalachians. A flash flood watch was posted over much of Iowa, where a batch of thunderstorms dumped up to 2 inches of rain in some areas and pushed several rivers up to 5 feet above flood stage. The storm system also spun tornadoes in Illinois and Missouri late Wednesday. Temperatures in the 100s sizzled parts of Georgia and South Carolina for the fifth straight day Thursday, forcing farmers to sell off cattle because of dry watering ponds and bare pastures. City officials in Camden, S.C., about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, prepared rationing plans when the city's water supply reached a "crisis" level of 30 days. At Fort Jackson, S.C., recruits had their training schedules eased and were hosed down at times. Spraying down hens has not helped Carolina producers, who are losing 500 to 1,000 chickens per day, said Harley South, Randolph County, N.C., agriculture agent. Georgia officials estimate more than 400,000 chickens have perished in their state since last week due to the heat. Temperatures above 90 are hot enough to fry eggs and bacon, said retired Purdue University professor William Goetz. "When temperatures are higher than 90 degrees, that's enough to heat a blacktop surface to 175 degrees," Goetz said. National Briefs Space center head retires CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Richard G. Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center and one of the officials who approved the ill-fated Challenger launch, announced his retirement Thursday, expanding the shakeup of NASA leaders in the wake of the tragedy. Smith, 57, who has headed the center since 1979, said he will step down July 31 to become president and chief executive officer of General Space Corp., a Pittsburgh firm that is seeking government approval to provide private funding for a replacement for Challenger. Smith's retirement follows by a month that of William R. Lucas, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Marshall supervises the booster rockets that help power shuttles into space. The presidential commission was critical of management procedures and officials at both Kennedy and Marshall for allowing the launch to proceed after warnings from two major contractors. Southeast continues to sizzle; Bay area rain prospects dwindle Tribune Staff and Wires Storms brewed over the Midwest Thursday but there was no relief from withering Southeastern heat that sapped water supplies, killed chickens by the truckloads and made asphalt hot enough to fry an egg. 29 === Page 49 of 99 # Stealth Fighter Crashes In Desert ## Pilot Dies; Air Force Still Mum The New York Times 7/12/86 WASHINGTON -- A fatal Air Force crash in California early Friday involved one of the military's most secret weapons, a Stealth fighter aircraft that eludes radar and other sensors, according to experts in military technology familiar with the program. The Air Force said a plane crashed in nighttime operations in Sequoia National Forest about 12 miles from Bakersfield, Calif., killing the pilot. The Air Force sealed off the crash site and the airspace near it as firefighters worked to contain an ensuing brush fire, and the Air Force refused to make public any further information about the crash. The Air Force usually provides prompt details about crashes involving its aircraft. The weapon experts, who asked not to be identified, said the crash involved a plane that has been variously called the F-19, the Covert Survivable In-Weather Reconnaissance Strike aircraft, or simply the Stealth fighter. Its development by the Lockheed Corp., reported many times in newspapers and technical publications, has never been confirmed by the military. But Joseph Campbell, a securities analyst for Paine Webber Inc. in New York, said, "I believe that it is in production." He said Lockheed's financial reports, combined with an analysis of its known military projects, leads to the conclusion that the company is building enough planes to generate several hundred million dollars in annual revenue, perhaps even $1 billion. The crash does not necessarily indicate serious technical problems with the fighter. Many high-performance military planes crash every year on maneuver. But a weapon expert said the plane that crashed Friday might have been equipped with newly developed equipment meant to make it more maneuverable. This also could have the effect of making it less stable and harder to fly. The Lockheed airplane is not the only highly classified one to incorporate Stealth technology. Other companies are thought to have produced prototypes, and the Air Force is well on its way to deploying a Stealth bomber, formally known as the Advanced Technology Bomber, in the early 1990s. The Air Force said Friday that the crash in California did not involve a bomber. News reports and other sources have said the Air Force has based dozens of the planes at a secret, remote air base in the Nevada desert. It is not known why the Stealth fighter would be flown in California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where many experimental aircraft are tested. Most tests of the Stealth fighter are thought to take place at the Groom Lake and Tonopah test ranges, near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. In 1984, the Air Force closed off thousands of acres of land in the Groom See Air Force on page 8A ## Air Force Silent On Stealth Crash Continued from page 1A Mountains of Nevada, citing national security reasons. The plane was probably being tested, not merely moved from one location to another, when it crashed, sources said. The tests are done at night so that the plane is not seen. In daytime it is parked under protective bunkers. When it is moved from one location to another it is carried in a C-5 military transport plane. The first prototypes of the Stealth fighter were reportedly built in the mid-1970s, and the plane first flew in 1977, according to a book about Stealth aircraft by Bill Sweetman, a San Francisco writer, published earlier this year. The plane's shape is believed to resemble the space shuttle, with the fuselage gradually blending into wings. Avoiding sharp angles is one way to reduce the radar image of a plane. It also is reportedly built largely of carbon and epoxy composite materials that absorb radar, rather than metals that reflect radar signals. The plane produces no more than a hum at a distance of 100 feet. Estimates of the plane's length vary from 35 feet to 60 feet, and some industry experts have said several versions of the Stealth fighter may exist. Sweetman's book suggests that an early version of the Stealth fighter broke apart in 1979, injuring the pilot. 30 === Page 50 of 99 Ohio officials warn residents new evacuation orders possible Pyrote Attack 7/12/86 Trib MIAMISBURG, Ohio (UPI) - Authorities on Friday warned residents, already evacuated twice from the scene of a toxic chemical fire, to keep alert for another possible order to flee because of shifting winds. The fire at a ruptured railroad tanker car was still burning, nearly 72 hours after seven cars of a Baltimore & Ohio freight train derailed. One of the cars carried 12,000 gallons of phosphorous, which exploded into flames upon contact with the air Tuesday afternoon and spewed out a white cloud of acid vapor. The longer the fire burns, the more difficult it will be to determine the cause of the disaster, William Loftus, executive director of the Federal Railway Administration, said Friday. "There's always the possibility you won't be able to put your finger on it (the cause)," he said. "The burnoff is a problem in determining the source. We had hoped to be out there today. There's certainly going to be heat distortion." The cloud of phosphoric acid vapor forced authorities to evacuate 17,500 people from Miamisburg and nearby towns Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon, after all but a few hundred had returned, the fire flared up again and more than 30,000 people spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning away from their homes. Because of the number of evacuees, the Federal Railway Administration has called the derailment the worst in the nation's history. The fire's intense heat and the fact that the phosphorous burns even under water has forced authorities to wait for the blaze to burn itself out. The white vapor continues to rise from the scene. But the wind was shifting Friday afternoon and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Allan Franks said authorities were warning residents to stay alert. # Typhoon Peggy winds down over China UFO Sun Attack 7/12/86 HONG KONG (AP) - Typhoon Peggy, which killed at least 73 people in the Philippines, passed about 80 miles east of Hong Kong on Friday and began losing strength over southern China. Winds of up to 80 mph uprooted several trees in the British crown colony. Heavy rains caused flooding, a landslide and the partial collapse of a road. Schools and offices were closed, and bus and ferry services were suspended. Twelve flights were canceled at Kai Tak International Airport, nine were delayed and one was diverted. The Hong Kong Observatory said the storm weakened after it crossed the Chinese coast and began to move inland. President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines proclaimed a state of emergency in the northern part of Luzon, the main island, where Peggy caused several deadly landslides Wednesday and Thursday. Aquino ordered the equivalent of $500,000 allocated for relief in about 25 northern provinces on Luzon and another $50,000 for Manila. Reports from the Red Cross, the Office of Civil Defense and the government's Philippine News Agency said the hardest-hit areas were Baguio City and adjoining Benguet province 125 miles north of Manila, where 29 people were buried by landslides. Floods killed 25 people in Manila and most of the other victims perished in floods north of the capital. # Southeast Broils; Heat Kills 2 People UFO Sun Attack By The Associated Press OSB 7/14/86 The Southeast continued to swelter, with temperatures soaring above 100 in parts of the Carolinas and Georgia, and thunderstorms spawned in the heat killed at least two people. A drought emergency was expected to be declared today in South Carolina. It was 104 degrees in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, breaking a 1980 record of 103. It marked the seventh consecutive day above 100 degrees in the city, breaking the old record of six days of triple-digit temperatures. It was much the same story Sunday in Charleston, S.C., where the 101 was a record high and extended the streak of 100-plus days to six. The previous record had been three consecutive days in the 100s, set in 1934 and 1942. Records were also set in three North Carolina cities: Charlotte, where the temperature reached 100; Wilmington, where it was 99; and Cape Hatteras, where the temperature was 92. The forecast for the region was for similar temperatures today, and the only rain predicted in most of the area was widely scattered thunderstorms. In Maryland, where temperatures over the See Heat Kills on page 8A UFO Sun Attack Fires scorch vast tracts in Alaska Trib 7/14/86 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled 85 wildfires raging over more than 330,000 acres of brush and forest in Alaska, and officials said blazes have scorched more than 440,000 acres so far this year. Most of the fires were started by lightning, and many are allowed to burn themselves out because it would be too costly to fight them, according to officials of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the state Division of Forestry. More than 770 firefighters were fighting the blazes on Sunday. UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/16/86 Chinese typhoon kills 172 PEKING - Typhoon Peggy killed 172 people and destroyed 264,000 homes when it struck south China last Friday, the official New China News Agency reported today. The agency said 1,250 people were injured by Peggy. 31 === Page 51 of 99 Mild temblor felt across 5 states The quake, which measured 4.2 on the Richter scale, caused minor power outages but no injuries and little structural damage. Tribune Wires Psi "Riffle" 7/13/88 ST. MARYS, Ohio -- A mild earthquake Saturday shook residents of Ohio and parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. No injuries and little damage were reported. The preliminary magnitude of the 4:20 a.m. quake, the second in Ohio this year, measured 4.2 on the Richter scale, said Bruce Presgrave of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. "We would classify (that) as a light earthquake," he said. Early readings placed the epicenter near St. Marys, Ohio, about 80 miles northwest of Columbus, where tall buildings swayed. But the temblor was felt throughout Ohio and into Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, said Don Finley of the U.S. Geological Survey. A Parkersburg, W.Va., disc jockey received a phone call from a woman who said her pet bird "went crazy." State police also said they received some calls from concerned residents who felt the quake. "We've had a couple of reports of small power outages and one house that flooded (because of pipe damage)," said dispatcher Rose Meyer of the St. Marys Police Department. "A lot of people had broken dishes that fell out of cupboards, but nothing big at all." Officials at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in St. Marys said a few bricks fell from the top of a chimney. Auglaize County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Dunnigan said damage seemed to be limited to St. Marys. Soon after the 10-second quake occurred, residents of Anna -- the site of one of the area's worst quakes nearly 50 years ago -- gathered on the street to discuss the tremor. "Everybody you talked to thought they had a car run into their house," said Police Chief Tom Bergman. He said there were no reports of damage aside from a bank alarm being set off and pictures being jolted from walls. The National Weather Service in Cleveland received several calls from northeast Ohio residents who wanted to know what happened, and a Columbus police dispatcher "was flooded" with inquiries. A quake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit near Cleveland on Jan. 31 and was felt in parts of 12 states and in Ontario, Canada. Seventeen people were treated for minor injuries. Meanwhile, last week's earthquake near Palm Springs, Calif., has revived widespread predictions that a monster quake will strike the state within 50 years. "California is not going to fall into the ocean," said Thomas Heaton, the scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey department at Caltech. But, "There certainly will be a strong quake in metropolitan Los Angeles," an area inhabited by 12 million people. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES Earthquake shakes the Midwest [Map showing the epicenter near St. Marys, Ohio, and surrounding states: MICHIGAN (Detroit), INDIANA (Fort Wayne), OHIO (Cleveland, Lima, St. Marys, Akron, Cincinnati), KENTUCKY (Covington)] Tribune map USGS scientists believe chances are as high as 75 percent that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale will occur along the San Andreas fault's Parkfield zone between Los Angeles and San Francisco within 20 years. Caltech geologist Kerry Sieh said the chances of a 6.5 to 8.3 quake within 20 years are probably 90 percent. Sieh said the chances are 2 percent to 5 percent of a "great quake of San Francisco magnitude occurring this year." That earthquake, in 1906, is estimated to have had a magnitude of 8.2. Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi suggested in a study that there is a 50 percent chance that Southern California will be ravaged by an 8.3 jolt -- considered the ultimate quake -- within 30 years. An earthquake of such a magnitude on a weekday afternoon would kill as many as 14,000 people in Southern California, according to a 1981 Federal Emergency Management Agency study. (32) === Page 52 of 99 Tremor Shakes Parts Of Midwest States By The Associated Press 7/13/86 A mild earthquake centered in northern Ohio also rattled parts of Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky today, briefly knocking out power to about 30 Ohio families but causing no significant damage, authorities said. A preliminary reading put the quake's magnitude at 4.2 on the Richter scale, said Don Finley, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C. The earthquake occurred at 4:20 a.m. EDT. The quake was centered near St. Marys, a city of 8,400 people about 20 miles southwest of Lima in northwestern Ohio, where it knocked out power to 30 families for about a half-hour, authorities said. "We had a few outages from the vibrations. They shook the pole tops. And we had transformers in each area go down for a while," said Bill Metzger, superintendent of the city power plant. The tremor cracked plaster, popped floor tiles and ran long cracks in a wall at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, said hospital spokesman Dave LaPoint. He said about 140 people, including 75 patients, were in the hospital when the earthquake struck but no one was hurt. In Palm Springs, Calif., meanwhile, authorities said few people Friday night reported feeling a 10:45 p.m. a quake aftershock centered about 12 miles north of the city and registering 4.0 on the Richter scale. An earthquake Tuesday in the same area registered 5.9 on the Richter scale, said. Authorities in several Ohio cities, including Cincinnati, Akron and Cleveland, received reports of the quake, as did authorities in Detroit; Covington, Ky.; and Fort Wayne, Ind. A Parkersburg, W.Va., radio station said it received a half-dozen calls from listeners who felt the earth tremble. A Lima police department dispatcher said some minor damage was reported. "I think we had one window crack and some bricks fell off an old building," said dispatcher Ramona Modica. "It just scared a lot of people." The Allen County, Ohio, sheriff's department said the department was deluged with about 100 telephone calls, but received no reports of damage. Dispatcher Ron Foster at Michigan state police headquarters in East Lansing said the tremor was felt in metropolitan Detroit and Jackson County. "It was mild. We've had no reports of damage," Foster said. But the quake did waken some Michigan residents. "I thought I was having a bad dream, but I woke up and it didn't stop," said Fran Maisano, 22, of the Detroit suburb of Southfield. "It really surprised me. I woke up and here I am bouncing around." The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the scale. On Friday morning, an earthquake registering 3.7 on the Richter scale was felt in parts of Tennessee and Georgia, causing minor damage but no injuries; and California has had several aftershocks since an earthquake with a Richter reading of 5.9 struck Tuesday. This was the second earthquake centered in Ohio this year. The first quake was a magnitude 5.0 on Jan. 31 near Cleveland that was felt in parts of 12 states and Ontario. people in (33) === Page 53 of 99 # 2nd earthquake rattles West Some windows broke but there was no major damage in the second big quake in a week. By ALAN ADLER Associated Press Psi Ripple Fri 7/11/86 OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- The second moderate earthquake in six days shook Southern California from the Pacific Ocean to the Arizona border Sunday, breaking windows, triggering rock slides and scaring not only humans but also animals at the San Diego Zoo. One person died of a heart attack, but no other injuries were reported. "I was really scared. Our bed started shaking violently, drawers started swinging open," said Miriam Shuster, a guest who ran out of the Hotel Laguna as the temblor and aftershocks shook Laguna Beach. "I heard this big boom, like a sonic boom," said Gloria Butler, who was getting ready for work. "This was a definite rolling." The temblor struck at 6:46 a.m., shaking people awake along a 150-mile stretch of coastline from San Diego to Oxnard, northwest of Los Angeles. Impalas, giraffes, gazelles, antelopes and other hoof stock at the San Diego Zoo were brought to their feet by the shaking, said Mike Ahlering, zoo operations manager. "The elephants were marching around with their ears out trying to figure out what's going on," he said. "The zebras were running back and forth in front of their exhibit." The quake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale at the California Institute of Technology and was centered offshore 28 miles southwest of Oceanside, a northern San Diego County community 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles, said Caltech spokesman Dennis Meredith. Six large aftershocks were recorded within two hours, Meredith said, the highest registering 4.5 on the Richter scale preceded by one at 4.0. The others ranged from 3.4 to 3.8, Meredith said. The Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla called it the largest recorded quake in modern history in the immediate area offshore of the San Diego metropolitan area, said spokeswoman Jackie Parker. The previous record was 4.3, recorded July 7, 1984. "It was frightening. The bed was shaking. ... Books flew off the shelves," said Perrin Lim of Del Mar. At least one power line fell in Oceanside, caused a small power failure, said police Sgt. Dave Jones. "We've had a lot of phone calls from around the city. A lot of burglar alarms going off." The San Onofre nuclear power plant, midway between San Diego and Los Angeles, was put on "unusual event" status -- the lowest of four levels of emergency response -- for about an hour while it was checked for ![Map showing the epicenters of the earthquakes in Southern California. The map indicates the San Andreas Fault and labels locations such as Los Angeles, Oceanside, San Diego, and Mexico. It shows the epicenter of last Tuesday's quake (6.0 on the Richter scale) near Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs, and the epicenter of Sunday's quake (5.3 on the Richter scale) offshore from Oceanside.] Tribune map 34 === Page 54 of 99 Southeast sizzle Florida spared record heat that has killed 6 people By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer As record heat parched the Southeast for the ninth day in a row Monday while skipping over Florida, weather forecasters chalked up the Sunshine State's good fortunes to two factors: the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. "If you consider that we have more direct sunlight than South Carolina, you can appreciate the power of the moderating influence of the water," said Bill Seiler, a National Weather Service meteorologist who has been forecasting Tampa Bay area weather for 18 years. Indeed, the high-pressure system that sent temperatures skyrocketing in drought-plagued Georgia and South Carolina at the beginning of this month is having little or no impact on Florida. But for those two states and others, the heat wave has been calamitous. There have been six deaths, scores of forest fires, restrictions on the use of water and potential danger to thousands of acres of crops and cattle. Highs are expected to approach 100 degrees at least through today, with humidity in the 50 percent range. In Tampa, however, temperatures stayed on course. "Our high temperatures are not anywhere close to records," said Seiler, reeling off July highs between 87 and 92. "Our record highs are 97 and 98." In contrast, the mercury touched 104 in Augusta, Ga., on July 9 and again Monday. That mark tied a record that had stood since 1878. In Columbia, S.C., where temperatures have reached 104 three times since July 8, average highs for those days are about 81. Also, rainfall is 15 to 20 inches lower than normal this year in Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee. In Florida, the figure is much closer to historical levels, with Tampa being only four inches below its normal rainfall tally. Meteorologists are blaming the sizzling weather on a stagnant high-pressure system that is sitting over the region. High-pressure systems, which are areas of the atmosphere that weigh more than surrounding air masses, inhibit cloud formation and stave off cool fronts coming in from the Midwest or Canada. "The norm is to have weather systems on the move," said Terry Murphy of the Weather Service's Atlanta office. "But sometimes it will sit up there and persist." Murphy said Atlanta recorded 105 degrees in 1980 -- the last time high pressure stayed put for so long over the Southeast. "This generally happens every summer, but only for two days or so," said meteorologist Tay Robinson of the U.S. Weather Service post in Columbia. In that city, where temperatures have reached 100 degrees or more in the past seven days, the South Carolina Water Resources Commission met and declared northwestern and north-central parts of the state to be in severe drought emergency. That means that officials can restrict non-essential water use. "In drier areas, (the drought) is probably the worst in 100 years, at least for this time of year." See HEAT, Page 2A (35) === Page 55 of 99 # Dixieland Burning In Long Heat Wave ## Record Highs Sweep Southeast By The Associated Press Residents of three North Carolina communities face jail for five-minute showers, and limits on water use are spreading as the Southeast battles a farm-threatening drought and a 2-week-old heat wave blamed for nine deaths. Despite scattered thunderstorms Monday night in Tennessee and South Carolina, forecasters held out no hope of relief today from what in some areas is the worst drought in a century and from record high temperatures. "It's not widespread enough, it's just too spotty to make a difference," said Mike Looney, of the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tenn. The National Weather Service predicted 100-degree temperatures today in parts of South Carolina, where it was 101 degrees in Columbia on Monday for the eighth straight day of triple-digit readings, a state record. Officials in De Kalb County near Atlanta planned to open a shelter today for senior citizens to cool off. Augusta, Ga., hit 104 degrees Monday, tying a 98-year-old record. "After you're on the street an hour or so you're soaked all the way through and you stay wet all day," said mailman Ken McDowell in Charleston, S.C., where the temperature hit 101 on Monday, when humidity made it feel like 111. It was a record seventh straight day of 100-plus temperatures. "That's about the most miserable thing," McDowell said, "that you're soaked all the time." The weekend deaths of two elderly men of heat stroke raised the number of heat-related fatalities in Georgia to four. Two heat-related deaths have been reported in North Carolina and one each in South Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Georgia poultry producers and processors said the heat had killed more than 400,000 chickens within three days last week. In addition to the heat, rainfall this year is 15 to 20 inches below normal in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee. Parts of Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware also are below normal. "Unless abnormally high precipitation occurs within the next few months, streamflows and groundwater levels in much of the (Southeast) could be at their most critical levels in recent times," said Harold Golden, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist in Atlanta. Faced with declining reservoirs, at least seven Tennessee utility districts have asked customers to limit water consumption. Residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and southern Orange County, N.C., faced $50 fines or 30 days in jail if they showered longer than four minutes. They also are not allowed to fill swimming pools or wash cars, must limit lawn watering, and restaurants may only serve water upon request. The South Carolina Water Resources Commission declared a severe drought alert for 13 counties, allowing regional committees to restrict non-essential water use. (36) === Page 56 of 99 # WE'RE BACK U Fox Sun Attack Trib 6/27/86 # 44 **WTOG-TV** Edward G. Aiken, General Manager To our viewers: It's never happened before, and we hope it never happens again. WTOG-TV's tower was hit by lightning last Saturday night and we've been off the air. But we're back today, serving Tampa Bay like no other television station. All your favorite programs are back on today . . . great movies, Dynasty, Dallas, all your kids' favorites like Thundercats, People's Court, plus Eyewitness News--the 10 p.m. report, and more. We sincerely appreciate your patience and concern. Once again, we're Together--Tampa Bay, Channel 44 and you! Sincerely, Ed Aiken General Manager A SUBSIDIARY OF HUBBARD HB (37) === Page 57 of 99 # Thousands Flee Charley's Wrath ## 4 Deaths Blamed On Hurricane UFO Sun Attack 0-SB 8/18/86 OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- Hurricane Charley buffeted the mid-Atlantic states today, churning the ocean with 75 mph winds and forcing the evacuation of thousands of coastal residents after dumping torrential rains on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The storm was blamed for at least four deaths, authorities said. By mid-morning, as Charley headed northward over cooler waters, its punch was diminishing, said hurricane forecaster Bob Case. "We expect it to gradually decrease in the next 12 to 24 hours," he said. The death toll included three people aboard a small plane that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore during a hurricane-spawned storm Sunday. Authorities said two bodies were recovered from the bay and the third victim was believed dead. And a Manteo, N.C., woman died when her car apparently slipped into a canal on an Outer Banks causeway Sunday, state police said. The causeway was flooded and reported impassable Sunday evening. Elsewhere on the Outer Banks, a foot of water surged into the Dare County house in Manteo, flooding was reported in the Stumpy Point community and water was 2 to 3 feet deep on the north end of the Oregon Inlet bridge, authorities said. Charley caused power outages and flooding of up to 3 feet but little damage on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Sunday. As many as 10,000 tourists and residents fleeing the fragile islands jammed roads to the mainland for a short-lived evacuation. The hurricane knocked down trees and signs on Virginia's mainland Sunday evening and left about 110,000 people without power, but caused no major damage, authorities said. The storm also washed out a 250-foot section of Harrison's Pier, a Norfolk landmark. Hurricane warnings were in effect today from Cape Charles, Va., to Sandy Hook, N.J. Less-severe hurricane watches and gale warnings were in effect from Sandy Hook to Chatham, Mass. At 8 a.m., Charley's center was near latitude 38.2 north and longitude 74.5 west, about 50 miles south-southwest of Cape May. The storm was moving north-northeast at 10 mph, and was expected to continue moving parallel to the coast. Charley is relatively small, with gale-force winds extending about 125 miles from the eye on the storm's edge. Trib 7/24/86 UFO Sun Attack # SOUTHEAST DROUGHT Tribune photo by FRED FOX South Carolina farmer Terry Blakely holds a wilted piece of corn, dried out by the lack of rain in the Southeast. Blakely, a third generation farmer, worries the drought may put him out of business. (38) === Page 58 of 99 Cuts In Space Shuttle Spending Expected WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is moving toward slashing the money that finances the military's use of the space shuttle, congressional sources say. The House Armed Services Committee is expected to vote next week on a staff recommendation to slice $550 million from Air Force funds used for the program, the sources said Tuesday. The bill containing that cut and other Pentagon spending targets should move to the House floor early next month, the sources said. The Senate Armed Services Committee, meeting in closed session, approved a similar cut before the July 4 recess, said the sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. The Senate is expected to take up the measure within the next several weeks. The $550 million reduction would slash the space shuttle program's operating budget by about 25 percent. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced this week that the next shuttle launch has been delayed an additional six months to the first quarter of 1988. NASA said engineers are working on a totally new design for the booster rocket that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode shortly after liftoff on Jan. 28, killing its seven-member crew. The reasoning behind the cutting of Air Force funds for the shuttle is that since it is unlikely to fly until 1988, the money is not needed, the sources said. ranged for huge Air Force C-141 transport planes to be loaded with hay in Moline, Ill. and flown to Greenville, S.C. Officials at South Carolina's Cooperative Extension Service at Clemson University worked around the clock to organize the haylift and to apportion the arriving supplies to the neediest farmers. By 1:30 p.m. Monday, farmers from as far as 60 miles had arrived with their trucks at Donaldson Airfield outside Greenville. Temperatures rose to well over 100 degrees on the airport's tarmac, and the Red Cross set up a tent as shelter from the sun and provided water. An ambulance and medical crew stood ready to take care of heatstroke victims. As the farmers waited, their trucks lined up orderly across the tarmac, they talked about their plight. "It's pitiful; everything's drying up," said Jack Norwood, a retired teacher from Oconee County. "The cows are living in a swamp area. They're eating the bullrushes and swampgrass. I've already sold off my poorer quality cattle. Now I'm getting close to where I'm going to have to sell off the good stuff. I feel sorry for the older farmers. If they have to sell off their breeding stock, they won't come back." "I'm hurting," said 75-year-old J.S. Maddox. "I've got 80-some cattle and eight bales of hay in the barn. The pasture looks like someone set fire to it. The spring crops didn't produce, and the summer ones don't look much better. Many of us don't realize how serious this is." The sight of the plane heartened the farmers. "We're all neighbors whether we're 850 miles away or right here," said Larry Ross, who had moved from Illinois to Donalds, S.C., six years ago. "I can picture my old neighbors in Elgin, Ill., who are saying, 'Larry, do you need some help?'" As the low-slung, camouflaged-painted aircraft taxied to a halt, its hydraulic rear doors opened to reveal not the usual array of battle-ready troops and tanks, but 30,200 pounds of hay -- a flying silo. But the optimism turned sour when the farmers found out this was the only plane arriving that day, and it was not carrying as much hay as expected. They were told not enough trucks were available in Illinois to carry all the donated hay to the Moline airfield, and their rations were cut in half. "I don't know about all the money President Reagan is spending to fly this hay down here," said Jerry Glenn, an Anderson County farmer. "It might be more help to us if he used that money to send more hay down here on some tractor trailers." More C-141 flights were scheduled into South Carolina and Georgia. Reagan will join Campbell to greet one of the planes when it arrives in Columbia today. A trainload of hay is expected to arrive soon in South Carolina -- the cost of the trip paid by CSX Transportation. In Georgia, cattlemen drove 100 miles to Atlanta and waited in line Wednesday for their share of 40 tons of hay donated by Illinois farmers -- but the farmers know the donations are a temporary remedy. Farmers seek disaster aid While hay helps cattle and horses, it does nothing for farmers growing row crops or raising poultry. Around Gainesville, Ga., chickens are king, and chickens don't last long if the temperature gets too high. "It's high-intensity production here," said Bob Lowe, Hall County agricultural agent. "Each bird has about six-tenths of a square foot of space, and 20,000 to 70,000 birds are in a single poultry house. Those birds can't stand a lot of heat. One producer lost a total house when he lost power and the fans and hydro-coolers stopped. About 70,000 birds died in 20 to 30 minutes." Between 180,000 and 220,000 chickens have died in Hall County alone, he said, out of the 8 million being produced there. And producers are worried that their wells will run dry as the ground water level drops. Throughout central Georgia, where no groundwater is available for irrigating, corn, pasture crops, soybean and hay farms are all suffering, with 71 percent of the hay crops killed and 54 percent of the corn. In North Carolina, tobacco is resistant to dry weather, but some growers have lost more than half of their Christmas tree seedlings put out this year. Cattle, corn and hay producers are suffering as badly as their South Carolina counterparts. Governors of eight states -- Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, Virginia and Florida -- have either applied for disaster relief or are planning to apply for all or parts of their states. The heat wave has touched northwest Florida, where dry conditions have plagued farmers and turned lawns and cemetery plots a crispy brown. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner estimated 50 percent of the peanut, corn, soybeans and tobacco crop that are the farming staples of several Panhandle counties would be lost if the drought and accompanying heat wave persists. === Page 59 of 99 # U.S. Declares 19 Florida Counties Farm Disaster Areas WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared 19 Florida counties disaster areas Friday to help farmers and ranchers recover from weeks of drought and heat. "This disaster declaration means that farmers in North Florida will have the same assistance as farmers in the rest of the Southeast as they struggle to recover from the drought," said U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., who announced the declarations before state officials had been notified. Twelve counties were identified earlier this week as eligible for aid because they border on counties in Alabama and Georgia that had been declared agricultural disaster areas. Each of those 12 is included in the 19 newly declared counties. The 19 counties are: Baker, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Nassau, Okaloosa, Suwannee, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton and Washington. Farmers in counties adjacent to all of those are now eligible to apply for aid, bringing to 30 the number of counties eligible for help. Gov. Bob Graham had requested declarations in 21 counties two weeks ago. Escambia and Santa Rosa counties were included in his request but were not declared disaster areas. But because Okaloosa was one of the 19 counties and Santa Rosa is just west of Okaloosa, Santa Rosa farmers will be covered. Graham's office initially was disturbed that Mrs. Hawkins was notified first of the declarations because it was Graham who requested the declarations. Also state officials had compiled statistics backing up the requests. But after Graham confirmed the declarations with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he said he was just pleased that help was on its way to farmers. "He is pleased ... and how anyone was notified is really unimportant," said Anne Nelson, deputy press secretary for the governor. "The important thing is that the farmers are getting the assistance that they desperately need." Weeks of drought and heat across the Panhandle have damaged crops and stunted their growth, leaving cattle without feed and farmers without much hope for productive yields this year. The disaster declarations mean farmers, ranchers and foresters can apply for low-interest federal loans, discount cattle feed programs, reseeding programs and other forms of help. # Challenger Crew Kin Files Damage Claim WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first damage claim filed by a family of one of the seven Challenger astronauts alleges NASA ignored advice of engineers "that the space shuttle would likely blow up with the loss of all persons aboard." And at least one other astronaut family is negotiating through a lawyer with Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the shuttle's booster rockets, for compensation as a result of the Jan. 28 explosion. ![Jane Smith] Jane Smith The damage claim, filed by the widow of pilot Michael J. Smith, asks $15 million for wrongful death and $100,000 for personal injury. It also raises an issue the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has never publicly addressed, alleging that Smith "was thrown about in the spacecraft and in the few seconds preceding his death, knew of his impending death." "It alleges, as it must under the federal tort claims act, that we were negligent and as a result an accident occurred during which Smith died," Edward Frankle, deputy general counsel for the space agency, said Tuesday. NASA has six months to act on the claim. After that -- or if the claim is rejected -- Smith's widow can sue in federal court, Frankle said. Federal law bars government employees or their estates from bringing immediate suit against the United States. That would apply to five of the Challenger crew but not schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe or industry engineer Gregory Jarvis. Jane Smith claims her husband was killed through the negligence of NASA through its employees, including former shuttle boss Jesse Moore, and Lawrence Mulloy, who has since been transferred from his post as manager of the booster rocket program. She claims they "directed, allowed and participated in the launch of Challenger when they knew or should have known that the segments of the righthand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur as a result thereof." She says also they should have known cold weather made it impossible or unlikely for the rocket joint seals to work properly, that the seals were inadequate and totally failed to meet acceptable standards. She also claims NASA "disregarded and ignored the advice of competent and knowledgeable engineers to the effect that the space shuttle would likely blow up with the loss of all persons on board should the shuttle be launched under all the conditions which obtained at the time." Mrs. Smith is represented by William F. Maready, an attorney in Winston-Salem, N.C. === Page 60 of 99 AP photo Firefighters pour foam on a burning American Trans Air DC-10 parked at O'Hare International Airport Sunday in Chicago. No passengers were aboard when the mysterious fire broke out. UFO Sim Attack - Procke Trib 8/11/86 # Storm-spawned flooding stuns the drought-parched Carolinas UFO Sim Attack Trib 8/11/86 United Press International More rain ahead - 1B Heavy rain in the Carolinas forced pajama-clad residents to flee their homes in boats Wednesday, and temperatures climbed into the 100s for the fourth day in the Southwest and along the West Coast. A cold front pushing across the upper Plains after a day of record highs in Wyoming and South Dakota dropped temperatures to 20 to 30 degrees Wednesday. Record highs were set or tied in 16 cities in seven states from Texas to South Dakota on Tuesday, but Chester, Mont., reported a low of 33 degrees Wednesday morning. Floodwaters rushed through South Carolina homes and streets for the second time in three days. About 75 people fled their Lockhart homes in boats early Wednesday after 6 inches of rain fell in two hours, officials said. "Some of the people had to be moved in boats while they were still in their nightclothes," said Lucille Meadows, Union County disaster preparedness spokeswoman. "There was water everywhere, in homes and in cars. One car was almost swept away, and a man almost didn't make it out, but he did." High water closed several streets in Columbia and Lexington, slowing rush-hour traffic and causing numerous accidents, authorities said. "It's getting worse," said Henry Hight, a police dispatcher in Durham, N.C., where between 10 and 15 people were forced from their homes by midday. "We've got serious flooding through the city and county at this time and some homes are being partially evacuated. It's going to get a whole lot worse." Fourteen inches of rain have fallen on Swanquarter, N.C., over two days, the weather service said. The rainfall has eased but not ended the region's worst drought in more than a century, officials said. Two people drowned Monday when Scott Creek rose out of its banks during a 10-inch rain in Newberry, S.C. In Gila Bend, Ariz., an overnight thunderstorm left about 2,000 people without power for their air conditioners. Temperatures were expected to come close to Tuesday's high of 111 degrees and power had not been restored by Wednesday afternoon, officials said. === Page 61 of 99 # Storms flood western New York; softball-size hail hits Nebraska Associated Press Heavy thunderstorms unleashed floods as deep as 10 feet and inundated roads and bridges in western New York on Friday, forcing more than 200 families to flee their homes. "We've got side streets that looked like rapids," said Police Chief Richard A. Stitzel in Gowanda, N.Y. "We saw cars actually float down the street." Violent weather also struck the Plains for a second day, with a tornado whirling through the Nebraska Panhandle around daybreak. A severe thunderstorm watch was posted for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. No injuries were reported in Gowanda, Fredonia and Silver Creek, the New York towns about 30 miles southwest of Buffalo that were hit by the flooding as deep as 3 feet. Canadaway Creek, which winds through Fredonia, flooded streets with 6 to 10 feet of water, said police Sgt. Stephen Babcock. More than 100 families were evacuated, he said. All roads leading into Fredonia were closed and all bridges had overflowed, according to police and the Chautauqua County sheriff's department. In Gowanda, Stitzel said so much water poured into town that it led to a false report that an earthen dam had broken. "It just didn't seem possible that any amount of rain could cause this amount of water," he said. "I've lived in this community nearly 50 years, and I never saw the (Cattaraugus) creek get to this level." In Nebraska, strong thunderstorms struck 25 miles northwest of Chadron around 5:20 a.m. MDT, and radar indicated a tornado not long after that. The Dawes County Sheriff's Office reported no reports of damage or injuries. Northern and central Nebraska was hit by a severe thunderstorm Thursday, with hail damaging an estimated 25,000 acres of cropland in Dawson County. Winds were estimated at up to 80 mph and hailstones as large as softballs were reported. Highways were covered with up to 8 inches of hail at # South continues to sizzle under unrelenting, deadly heat wave Tribune Staff and Wires There was no respite Sunday from the lethal 2-week-old heat wave in the Southeast as temperatures rebounded toward 100, and sporadic thunderstorms have done little to ease the region's drought that has caused crop damage estimated at up to $700 million. Temperatures sizzled above 100 across much of Georgia, including a record 104 at Augusta and 103 at Macon, Waycross and Alma, and some adjoining sections Sunday, with humidity in Georgia easing from well above 50 percent to between 30 percent and 40 percent. The National Weather Service said parts of the Southeast could expect some relief this week but that temperatures would return to 100 by Thursday. Temperatures in the Bay are expected to continue today and Tuesday in the low 90s, with thunderstorms occurring anytime, weather service forecasters say. The chance of rain is 20 percent. Lows in the mid to upper 70s are predicted. Heat has been blamed for the deaths this month of at least seven people in Georgia, four in North Carolina, four in Indiana, two in Missouri and one each in South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Illinois and Michigan. One brief respite from the heat came in Montgomery, Ala., which got 1.51 inches of rain during a storm that left 31 fires, more than 50 traffic accidents and more than 2,000 households without electricity, city officials said. The weather service said that while sporadic storms had replenished water supplies in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, that did little to help farmers ravaged by the worst spring drought on record. Crop losses in Virginia are estimated at nearly $61.5 million, and the Georgia Department of Agriculture estimated damage at $140 million. Crop losses in South Carolina are estimated at $100 million, and the governor said he would seek a federal disaster declaration for at least two-thirds of the state. Some North Carolina experts say $400 million of the state's $4 billion annual farm income may already be lost. # Torrential Rains Sweep S. Carolina LOCKHART, S.C. (AP) -- Torrential rains swept across drought-plagued South Carolina for the second day Wednesday, causing flooding and forcing about 100 people in two small communities to evacuate. "First we dry up and now we're going to drown," said Jean Davis, 43, who was rescued by boat early Wednesday after her home here flooded. Seventy other residents in the community of about 100 near the North Carolina border also evacuated, authorities said. The thunderstorms spawned by a tropical air mass come on the heels of the state's worst recorded drought, and were expected to continue Thursday. Despite the rain, Charlotte Camp of the weather service said the state was still in "the drought stages." A flash flood watch continued through Wednesday night for all but the coastal areas of the state. No injuries or deaths were reported. Betty Smith, 60, said she carried her handicapped grandson through raging floodwater to high ground after her Lockhart house was inundated by waist-high water. "It looked like a river flowing by. I was afraid we was going to drown and lose my house completely," she said as neighbors and friends carried waterlogged furniture out of her living room. Annette Sutherland, 43, said she carried two of her bulldogs to safety but lost 10 puppies in the flooding. "I was up to my waist in water when I decided to get out. I swam out holding on to one bulldog and a chain link fence." She said a johnboat rescued them. "We've gone straight from the most severe drought we've ever had to a pretty much common springtime flood situation," said Sam Baker, a weather service hydrologist. A gully-washer fed by 6 inches of rain in slightly more than three hours flooded a hollow in Lockhart. Sixteen homes suffered major damage and 14 others had minor damage, according to Stanley Williamson of the American Red Cross. The high school, the post office, churches, several businesses and trailers also were damaged. (42) === Page 62 of 99 Unusual July rain knocks out electricity in Los Angeles area UFO Sun Attack 7/24/86 Rain pelts Tampa - 5A Tribune Wires 7/24/86 Thunderstorms swept across the Los Angeles basin overnight, sprinkling the area with a rare July rain and knocking out power to at least 50,000 homes, officials said. In the Pacific, Hurricane Estelle smashed homes with 20-foot waves, forcing evacuation of about 200 residents of Hawaii, then moved back to sea, leaving a drenching rain storm in its wake. And in the West, fire crews contained a day-old 6,000-acre range fire in eastern Idaho as California fire teams moved to enclose a brush fire 30 miles northeast of Los Angeles that scorched 3,900 acres of national forest. The western thunderstorms, which moved into Orange and Los Angeles counties from the south, dropped 0.13 inch of rain in downtown Los Angeles, a record for the day. The previous record was just a trace of rain. South of Reno, Nev., a few homes in New Washoe City were flooded Tuesday night when a section of the Derby Grade dam gave way during a rain storm. No one was injured. The Nevada storms also briefly cut power to several thousand homes were without electricity in the Reno area last night. High winds and raging surf on the southeast corner of the island of Hawaii severely battered 10 buildings, knocking five of them off their foundations as the hurricane's outer edge battered the area. By late morning, westward-moving Estelle had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the National Weather Service. Civil Defense officials said they anticipated losses would mount as residents returned to the area and began assessing the full impact of the storm's wrath. Police Lt. Newton Lyman said an initial survey indicated "considerable damage." Bruce Butts of the Hawaii County Civil Defense office said there was no early damage figure in the wake of the storm. Light rain in the San Gabriel Wilderness Area of California's Angeles National Forest helped fire crews contain 90 percent of the brush fire by midday, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said. SOUTHEAST DROUGHT Maryland Delaware Virginia N. Carolina S. Carolina Columbia Atlanta Alabama Georgia Florida Tampa The present dry spell has been caused by a high pressure system that is hanging over the South, forcing moisture to the north and keeping coastal storms from moving inland. As the land dries out, the temperatures go higher, and readings higher than 100 degrees have been reported throughout the region - 15 days in a row in Columbia. Source: AP Tribune graphic by WARREN HUSKEY Seared Southeast gets little relief as drought leaves deadly legacy Tribune Staff and Wires 9/1/86 Lower temperatures brought slight relief to the sun-baked Southeast and Plains on Thursday, but the drought is leaving a legacy of blighted produce and ruined farms. The lethal heat and dry weather stretched from Pennsylvania to Florida and from the East Coast as far west as Texas and Wisconsin. Farmers have suffered more than an estimated $2.3 billion in crop and livestock damage, and more than 66 people have died in the monthlong, hot spell. "It could rain every day from now until it starts snowing and it won't mean a hill of beans," said Bill Anderson, an agricultural agent in Florence County, Wis. "It's like open heart surgery on a dead man." Anderson said the 40 farmers in Florence County might need 120,000 to 240,000 bales of hay to make up for their loss. Hay "bailouts" continued Thursday, with shipments heading from as far as Maine to Southern states. Temperatures will stay above normal in most of the drought area, though the mercury may decline somewhat from the record-breaking levels of the last week, said Pete Reynolds of the National Weather Service Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Mo. In parts of Tennessee, today's highs were forecast to be "only" in the 90s, some of the coolest high temperatures there in a month. On Thursday, Macon, Ga., posted 100 degrees, beating a 99-degree mark set in 1961. But Asheville, N.C., had a record low temperature: 53 degrees, three degrees cooler than the record set in 1966. Storms sweeping over the South and Plains won't alleviate the dry conditions, forecasters said, adding that most showers will be widely scattered, "nothing real substantial to break the drought situation down there." In the Tampa Bay area, the breakthrough from cloudy weather appears to be lasting. Forecasters say today and Saturday would be mostly sunny except for widely scattered thunderstorms. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight (day of the week). They may not match the list (on Page 2A or at right), which reports recent overnight lows and daytime highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. 43 === Page 63 of 99 # Sprinklings fail to ease drought Associated Press President Reagan posed for pictures with farmers in drought-ravaged South Carolina on Thursday, praising their mettle and promising federal aid, while parts of Dixie got sprinklings of rain but no real relief from the weeks-old deadly dry spell. There were more Air Force "bale-outs" -- hay donated from the Midwest and North -- for famished Southern livestock. Georgia's governor planned a prayer service, an Alabama radio station had a "How Hot Is It?" contest and a shipment of ice was flown from South Bend, Ind., to Piedmont, S.C. State officials estimated the drought's price tag at more than $1.6 billion. Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware have asked for federal disaster aid, and Tennessee was preparing a request. The triple-digit heat of early July has abated in the South this week, said Bill Barlow of the National Weather Service Severe Storms Forecast Center. And scattered rain hit Georgia and the Carolinas, with 3 inches falling on Augusta, Ga., on Thursday. More storms were developing from Virginia through the Southeast to Mississippi and eastern Tennessee. Authorities in the South say 43 people have died of the heat this month. The heat has also killed more than a half-million chickens and the drought has left fruits and vegetables drying on the vine, spawning higher wholesale prices for poultry in California and produce in New England, officials say. Oklahoma farmer Bern Alberda had 1,000 bales of prairie hay he wanted to send to Dixie. "You know, this shows how crazy farmers are, how we aren't good businessmen," Alberda said. "A businessman might see someone in need and he's got something and he might jack up the price. ... We take care of each other and I guess that's the way we're supposed to be." Other donations have come from Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and Wisconsin, with deliveries planned from as far as Oregon. The heat wave in the South and Midwest has pushed electric output to all-time highs for the last fortnight, the Edison Electric Institute announced Thursday in Boston. Last week, electricity output increased in the Southeast by 14 percent over last year's figures for the period. Damage in Alabama is estimated at $750 million; North Carolina $400 million; Georgia $182.5 million; South Carolina $100 million; Maryland $89 million; Virginia $61.5 million; Delaware $40 million, and West Virginia $15 million. UPI photo A pair of hungry beef cows go down on their front legs to reach what little grass they can find under the fence of a Conyers, Ga., farm. === Page 64 of 99 Three Killed By Storms In Ireland UFO Sun Attack 8:58 8/26/88 DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- High winds and torrential rains lashed Britain and Ireland, killing three people and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 others as the tail end of Hurricane Charley swept over northern Europe. According to the London weather bureau, the only part of Britain to escape Monday's stormy weather was the north of Scotland. Rescue workers in Ireland recovered the bodies of a woman and a 7-year-old girl from Dublin's River Liffey and police said they believed the two were blown into the water by 60-mph winds. In Northern Ireland, a workman installing sewage pipes at Newry in the southeast of the British-ruled province was killed when a rain-soaked trench caved in, police said. Up to 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Irish seaside town of Bray 12 miles south of Dublin Monday night when the rain-swollen River Dargle burst its banks, creating floods up to 5 feet deep. "The water is flowing right through houses and shops. ... It is already up to the roofs of cars, and the town is now cut off, said a police spokesman who spoke on condition he not be further identified. Flooding also occurred near Dublin, with areas around the River Dodder, which runs into the Liffey, particularly hard hit. The storm also badly disrupted car and passenger ferry links across the Irish Sea between Ireland and Britain. High winds knocked over six passenger cars on the Fairbourne Light Railway at Dolgellau in Gwynedd, North Wales, according to Press Association, the domestic news agency. It said the 12 passengers escaped unhurt. Downpours in Britain washed out the August bank holiday, the last long weekend of the summer, causing hazardous driving conditions and many accidents among returning vacationers. A British Royal Navy patrol vessel, the 998-ton HMS Jersey, meanwhile, rescued five people including three children from a French yacht Monday in the storm-lashed English Channel. Falmouth Coast Guards in the county of Cornwall, the southwest tip of England, said the rescue took place north of the Scilly Isles. In another rescue, Falmouth Coast Guards said a lifeboat from Penlee in Cornwall on Monday night took two people off a Swedish yacht that was in trouble in the English Channel. # 100-Degree Heat Wave Widens Grip The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 8:58 7/8/88 Southeastern farmers are flooding slaughterhouses with cattle they can't feed because of a drought that's shriveled more than $300 million in crops, and Dixie's heat has spread to the Midwest, felling football players and soldiers. The temperature in Ocala soared to a sizzling 96 Thursday with a early morning low of 73. The temperature this morning at the water plant was 71. No rainfall was reported at the Ocala plant Thursday, although there were reports of scattered showers in the surrounding area. No relief is in sight through the weekend from the heat that has contributed to 15 deaths and prompted farmers and officials to seek help from the federal government and from states in cooler parts of the country. Today's highs were expected to be around 100 degrees in Georgia and the Carolinas and in the 90s from the Southern Plains through the Great Lakes, the mid-Atlantic states and the Southeast. Highs Thursdays were in the mid to upper 90s from Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio to North Carolina and northern Florida. The 96 degrees in Traverse City, Mich., broke a 22-year-old record. It was 94 in Chicago. The temperature in downtown Columbia, S.C., hit 100 for the 12th straight day, and the same reading in Charlotte, N.C., tied a 99-year-old record. Only scattered thunderstorms were expected today after hitting parts of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Thursday, with Charleston getting a drenching 1.72 inches. "That's quite a bit," said Scott Tansey of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "The only problem about the rainfall in the Southeast is that it's spotty and it's not enough." Corn, hay and soybeans in the Southeast have been most affected by the drought. Offers of hay and free transportation to get it to the state are coming from as far away as Minnesota, he said. There's a firm commitment of 30 tons of hay from Indiana and promises from Illinois and Iowa, but the state's cattle consume 200 to 300 tons daily, he said. The heat has been blamed on the deaths of a 16-year-old girl in Indiana, a 19-year-old man in Illinois, and for seven people in Georgia, three in North Carolina and one each in South Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Sixty-five National Guardsmen training at Camp Atterbury, 20 miles south of Indianapolis, have been treated for heat-related ailments since Wednesday as temperatures in the 90s combined with high humidity made it seem like 100 degrees, said First Lt. Cathi Kiger. None of the cases was considered serious. Heat exhaustion also sidelined National Football League players at the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, prompting coach Gene Stallings to cut short afternoon practices. Three Atlanta Falcons players were treated for heat cramps after practice practice in the 90-plus degree heat at Suwanee, Ga. (45) === Page 65 of 99 Officials in parched Southeast seek help during record drought UFO Sun Attack 7/18/86 Tribune Staff and Wires Officials of parched Southeastern states turned to the federal government, Midwestern farmers and neighbors Thursday for help in feeding livestock during a record drought that has turned pastureland to dust. Atlanta residents faced the prospect of water restrictions for the first time in their history, and no relief was forecast for the heat wave blamed for 14 deaths as it spread to the Midwest. Highs in the mid to upper 90s were reported Thursday from Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio to North Carolina and North Florida. The temperature in downtown Columbia, S.C., reached 100 for the 12th straight day. The drought has withered crops across much of Dixie, and the dryness combined with heat has been a fatal double blow to livestock. Nearly a million chickens have been reported killed in Georgia, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina. The office of Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris asked the U.S. Agriculture Department on Wednesday to make livestock feed available to farmers. In North Carolina, officials said 50 counties had applied for federal disaster aid. Offers of hay and free transportation to get it to South Carolina are coming in from as far away as Minnesota. There's a firm commitment of 30 tons of hay from Indiana. Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., announced Thursday that the USDA was putting together a task force to tour Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas next week and develop recommendations for government assistance. Mattingly said he hopes a decision on aid can be made by the end of next week. In the meantime, the City Council of Hickory, N.C., agreed to donate water from Lake Hickory to needy farmers designated by the state. In the Tampa Bay area, today and Saturday will start out sunny, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, the National Weather Service says. The rain chances are 30 percent today and 30 percent Saturday, ac- Surge of thunderstorms slams Ohio, leaving cool air in wake UFO Sun Attack 8/27/86 United Press International A line of thunderstorms that downed trees and power lines across the upper Midwest on Tuesday moved into Ohio with gale-force winds, shattering windows and ripping the roof off a school. The storms stretched from northern Ohio across Iowa and Minnesota into western Kansas and eastern Colorado, the National Weather Service said. The storms were followed by cool air in the 60s and 70s and gusty winds across the upper Great Lakes, Iowa and Nebraska. At midday, it was 69 in Waterloo, Iowa, and 66 Grand Rapids, Mich. Winds of 70 mph shattered windows and ripped the roof off Homewood Elementary School in Lorain in northern Ohio. There were no injuries. The storms also produced up to 1 inch of rain in less than 30 minutes in many locations, including the Cleveland suburb of Westlake, the weather service said. Ahead of the stormy weather sunshine pushed temperatures well into the 80s over most of Ohio. Earlier in the day, the storms downed trees and power lines in Austin, Minn., and more than an inch of rain fell in a few hours at Westby, Wis. In Illinois, a 16-year-old grounds worker was struck and killed by lightning at the Ellwood Golf Course in Genoa. Thunderstorms turned skies over Chicago's Loop a murky green as commuters braved the sudden downpour to get to work. The storms knocked out power to nearly 12,000 residents on the west side of Chicago and in western and northern suburbs, officials said. UFO Sun Attack 0.90 8/26/86 Typhoon Knocks Out Power On Okinawa; One Man Killed TOKYO (AP) -- Typhoon Vera struck the island of Okinawa with 95-mph winds early Tuesday, leaving one person dead and more than 28,000 homes without electricity, police reported. The Central Meteorological Agency described the typhoon as "very large and powerful" when it hit the southern Japanese island, and said it was heading west toward China. A police spokesman said a 30-year-old man was killed when he was struck by a heavy mooring rope while preparing his boat for the storm. He said he had no reports of other injuries, but five houses were flooded and two block-long retaining walls beside a road collapsed. Tsuneo Gima, a government official, said that at 9 a.m., three hours after the typhoon first hit Okinawa, the capital city of Naha was "in the typhoon's eye and rather quiet." He said power outages affected 28,400 houses, and many department stores and other shops in Naha did not open Tuesday morning. Western fire nearly contained UFO Sun Attack Tue 8/26/86 CROUCH, Idaho -- Firefighters, subdued by the deaths of four fellow crew members, attempted to dig the last mile of fire line by hand Monday in their struggle to encircle the last major Western forest blaze still out of control. The Anderson fire was one of 6,895 infernos -- mostly lightning-caused -- that charred an estimated 742,600 acres in the West this month and led to a war-like deployment of 18,000 firefighters. World Briefs 5 dead in French fires UFO Sun Attack Tue 8/26/86 NICE, France -- Thousands of firefighters Monday battled wind-whipped fires that have killed five people, injured 190 and ravaged 25,000 acres of forest and scrubland in a three-day sweep across southern France. Officials said one of the fiercest fire fronts, near the town of Chateauneuf-Le-Rouge, was brought under control Monday. Scores of cars and homes have been destroyed by the fires. (47) === Page 66 of 99 # Coast Guard seizes oft-distressed boat MIAMI (UPI) -- A sailing vessel rescued nine times since last November and three times this month alone, at a cost of thousands of dollars to the government, was seized and its pilot was arrested and physically restrained, the Coast Guard said Monday. James M. Carolyon of Jacksonville, skipper of the 54-foot sailing vessel C-Lyon, was arrested Sunday night 30 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral when he "raised a big ruckus" because a Coast Guard boarding crew told him his boat was being impounded, Petty Officer Brand Ian said. Ian said officers had to physically restrain and handcuff Carolyon Sunday night. Carolyon was taken to Port Canaveral Monday aboard a 41-foot Coast Guard vessel. He was then turned over to U.S. marshals and was taken to Orlando to face charges of impeding boarding officers. His vessel was towed into Port Canaveral Monday afternoon, the Coast Guard said. Ian said Carolyon issued a distress call at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, saying the C-Lyon was disoriented, had drifted for two days and was taking on water. He said four people were aboard the craft. The Coast Guard sent a cutter, a smaller boat and an airplane to the scene. But while they were en route, officers checked Coast Guard records and determined it was the ninth distress call issued by Carolyon third this month. "The captain of the C-Lyon was informed that his vessel was being terminated" when the Coast Guard arrived at the scene, Ian said. "That means he is unable to move it once it is docked until everything is investigated -- the vessel, the captain's license, everything." Petty Officer Luis R. Diaz said Carolyon had reported on July 5 that he was adrift, his engine was out of commission and he was taking on water 20 miles southeast of Mayaguana Island in the extreme southeast Bahamas. He was towed by the Coast Guard to Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas. "On July 18, he said he was aground just outside Nassau Harbor," Diaz said. "He said he had a 35- to 40-degree list and was afraid he would break up any minute, which obviously didn't happen." On that occasion, Diaz said, Carolyon was refloated and towed into Nassau Harbor. "We can't really put a dollar figure on these rescue operations," Diaz said, "but in terms of equipment and manpower alone it's enormous." Diaz said Sunday night's rescue alone involved a Coast Guard cutter, a 41-foot utility boat and a Falcon jet from Air Station Miami. He said two cutters and a plane were used in the July 5 rescue operation. None of the C-Lyon's passengers were hurt. # Streams retreat as South sizzles ATLANTA (AP) -- The drought of 1986 has gone beyond an agricultural crisis and is seriously threatening rivers, streams and groundwater sources across the South, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist said Friday. "The rainfall deficits don't tell the whole story," said Harold Golden, a USGS hydrologist in Atlanta. "During the growing seasons, the agriculture people will tell you if you go two weeks without rain, that's a drought," Golden said. "But it's obviously more serious than that this year. We're now also in a hydrologic drought." Water sources such as rivers, large streams and groundwater have fallen to critically low levels, not only because of lack of rainfall, but because that lack has forced farmers and others to deplete water sources that remain. "The hydrologic impacts are the last ones to be seen," Golden said. "Some of the deeper aquifers that are sources of groundwater have lost huge quantities for irrigation," he said. The months-old drought in the Southeast has been blamed for $2.3 billion in agriculture and forestry losses. A concurrent heat wave has been blamed for at least 117 deaths in the Southeast and Midwest. Across the Southeast, water flow in streams and rivers is at record low levels. In July, the healthiest stream monitored by the USGS was Contentnea Creek on the North Carolina coast, flowing at 49 percent of normal. At the other end of the scale was south Georgia's Alapaha River, which was flowing at just 11 percent of normal volume. Rainfall for much of the South remains more than a foot below normal this year. Parts of north Georgia received a hard rain at midday Friday, but the entire South needs months of wet weather for lakes and streams to be at normal levels by this time next year, Golden said. "We're entirely dependent on rainfall occurring over the winter and spring months," he said. "And we can't even predict that three days ahead." # Fields Bone-Dry In Seared South By The Associated Press Farmers coast to coast are donating tons of hay to the seared South, where a drought has caused more than $1.5 billion in damage, and cattlemen in Georgia waited more than 16 hours for feed for their starving livestock. Scattered thunderstorms that dropped more than 4½ inches of rain on Cornelia, Ga., within 70 minutes Thursday afternoon and kept temperatures below 100 degrees for the third straight day provided some relief from the drought and heat wave, which has been blamed for 43 deaths. South Carolina's governor has asked that 39 of the state's 46 counties be declared disaster areas, making them eligible for low-interest federal loans. Georgia's governor has proclaimed Sunday a day of prayer for rain, and the mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn., proclaimed "Cool It Week" and urged residents to dress casually to keep cool. President Reagan provided moral support during a barnstorming visit to Columbia, S.C., praising farmers for their mettle and promising "everything that our farm program can do." See Nation's on page 10A === Page 67 of 99 # Officials See Long-Term Drought Impact In Panhandle UFO Sun Attack c.SB 7/30/86 TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Agriculture officials estimated Tuesday that 1,600 tons of hay have been donated to farmers in the parched Panhandle, almost all of it from fellow Florida farmers who benefited from steady rains farther south. Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner said another 20,000 tons or so of hay are available at cost or discount prices. "For the short term, the farmers are beginning to see the light," said Jeff Miller, state Department of Agriculture senior programs specialist and coordinator of the relief effort. He said three truckloads of hay for livestock arrived Tuesday at Chipley in Washington County. Another three truckloads of hay will go to Jackson County on Thursday, officials confirmed. Last week, a convoy of eight trucks hauled more than 100 tons of hay to the Florida State Farmers' Market in Bonifay. Officials say Bonifay has been distribution point for most hay because it is the center of the drought stricken area. Conner said 50 percent of North Florida pasture land was critically damaged by this summer's intense heat and drought. "We will feel for a long time the impact of this drought," Conner said. Some of the impact may be felt this winter. "We're looking at a long-term problem with the winter months ahead of us," Miller said. "The barns usually are stocked with hay and now they're standing empty in the fields. "We're looking ahead to see what can be done," Miller added. Officials still are reviewing damage reports to determine whether to seek additional federal aid for the Panhandle counties. ## Parched Southeast restricts water use UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/3/86 Associated Press Relentless heat and 26 months of below normal rainfall have led to restrictions on outside water use in parts of the Southeast, and officials are urging customers to help conserve supplies inside their homes. "It's going to get worse. It's certainly not going to get better," said Jim Haynes, director of the Tennessee Division of Water Supply. # Heat Wave Victims UFO Sun Attack 8/3/86 The New York Times COLUMBUS, Ga. -- The sun burns so fiercely in central Georgia that the area is known as the heat belt. In a normal year the heat is insufferable. In this year of drought it has become deadly. Thirty-one people have died in Georgia this year of heat-related illnesses, more than in any other state, and 28 of them died in the heat belt, a broad swath of sun-scorched earth stretching eastward from Columbus to Augusta. But according to statistics kept by the Georgia Department of Human Resources, those who died had more in common than geography: Most were elderly, most were poor and most were black. They were people like James Epps, a 57-year-old black paraplegic from Hamilton, just north of Columbus. Two weeks ago, as a heat wave simmered across the South, Epps began to complain to his wife, Beretha, that he was hot. "He was just boiling up with fever," said Mrs. Epps. "He said to me, 'It's hot, too hot.' And he was just sweating and sweating and sweating." On July 24 Epps died of heat stroke, another casualty in a heat wave that has killed more than 75 people across the South. In July the pace of death accelerated as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and stayed there for days, setting new heat records in scores of Southern cities. Most of the 31 people who have died of heat in Georgia this year died in the last three weeks of July. State and private officials in Georgia have responded to the crisis by distributing fans, repairing air conditioners and broadcasting warnings about heat. But the heat continues to kill, especially in poor and rural areas where some people live on less than $200 a month and, after paying for medicine, utilities and rent, cannot afford an $18 fan. Just as Middle Western farmers See Heat on page 12A In Pensacola, Fla., where Escambia County officials already had limited lawn watering, seams buckled on a tank Saturday and dumped about 1 million gallons of water. Water consumption had been hitting 33 million gallons a day, and customers had been using about half of the lost tank's supply in a three-hour period each morning, said Steve Burgess, assistant to the executive director of the Escambia County Utilities Authority. "This just aggravates things," he said. Clayton County, Ga., officials have barred residents from watering lawns and cars, and asked restaurants not to serve water with meals. In North Carolina, mandatory water conservation in Orange County, Durham and Charlotte includes no lawn sprinkling, car washing or filling swimming pools. Violators may be fined $100 or spend 30 days in jail. Beach-goers in Atlantic Beach, N.C., can't use outside showers to wash off sand, and boat owners cannot hose down their crafts. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources' environmental protection division has restricted outdoor water use in 103 municipalities, all but one of them in northern Georgia where lakes are down to very low levels. (49) === Page 68 of 99 40 pilot whales head for beaches of Marco Island At least eight whales died after they beached on an island about 20 miles south of Naples. By KIM KLEMAN Tribune Staff Writer MARCO ISLAND -- Rescue efforts Thursday may have saved many of the 40 black pilot whales that swam into shallow waters here, officials say, but at least eight that beached ashore are dead. Rescue crews late Wednesday and early Thursday dragged many of the slick black creatures back into deeper water and patrolled the area so those and others wouldn't slip back to shore. But at least eight whales died, their fins bobbing in the shallows off Sea Oat Island, less than 20 miles south of Naples, as experts prepared to perform necropsies. It will take weeks before results are known fully, said officials from Sea World in Orlando, who drove to the scene for the rescue. "There could be a hundred reasons," the animals were found inland, said Mike Walsh of Sea World. Happenstance isn't one of them, he said. "Most of the marine mammals that come up and beach have some reason," Walsh said. "Something is usually wrong." Preliminary results showed parasites in the stomachs and intestines of some of the whales, which probably contributed to their death, officials said. The whales were first spotted Wednesday evening between Capri Pass and Hurricane Pass, north of Marco Island, said Collier County sheriff's Sgt. Grady Johnson. Then they swam into Marco Bay, he said. "They just seemed confused, totally confused," said Johnson, a sheriff's marine patrol official who monitored the whales all night and Thursday morning. "I've been with the department See WHALES, Page 6B SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1986 Town Shuts Off Water For Hours To Conserve Continued from page 1A In Georgia, the city of Flovilla planned to turn off its water system from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and today to conserve the precious resource, said City Clerk Virginia Williams. Barnesville reopened two wells closed for 40 years. Eight U.S. senators, meanwhile, urged Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to act quickly on applications for federal disaster aid from the region. Their request came as Martin asked Washington to declare North Carolina a disaster area to make the state eligible for emergency loans and grants. Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley urged churches and synagogues to pray for rain this weekend. "Our farmers are watching their farms, and in many instances their way of life, wither away with the lack of rain and searing heat," Riley said. "Many of us have learned just how precious our state's water supply really is." Some rain fell Friday on parched North Carolina, and the National Weather Service predicted more today across the Tennessee Valley and the Carolinas to the central Gulf Coast and Florida. "Anything we get is certainly not going to hurt anything. It's going to be helpful. This is the kind of typical summer weather that we needed to see all summer long -- afternoon and evening showers," said forecaster Mike Sabones in Raleigh, N.C. "But still, we're chipping away at the problem." The heat has been blamed for at least 44 deaths this month -- 19 in Georgia; four each in North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois; two each in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina and one each in Virginia, Louisiana and Michigan. Columbia stifles under siege By LARRY HAUETER COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Masada. Leningrad. The Alamo. To those great sieges of history, add another: Columbia. Mother Nature is taking no prisoners. We've barricaded ourselves inside our air-conditioned fortresses, peeking fearfully through dust-caked windows to watch as the allied forces of heat and drought cut down what could not be brought inside: lawns, dogwoods, azaleas. It's not a sight for the faint of heart. In other besieged cities, they already are rationing water. It's only a matter of time before it happens in Columbia. The city has been under siege before. William Tecumseh Sherman lined up his cannons across the Congaree River and lobbed shot at the statehouse during the Civil War. The damage never was repaired; every scar is commemorated with a marker, enduring as a sign that the Capitol survived the assault. Of course, Sherman burned down the rest of Columbia. The analogy is uncomfortably appropriate. For 15 straight days, temperatures climbed above 100 degrees. Last week, a "cold" front brought some relief, and the highs were only in the mid-90s. And this week things got somewhat better. But understand one thing about Columbia: Occa- === Page 69 of 99 40 pilot whales head for beaches of Marco Island SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1986 Town Shuts Off Water For Hours To Conserve At least eight whales died after they beached on an island about 20 miles south of Naples. By KIM KLEMAN Tribune Staff Writer MARCO ISLAND -- Rescue efforts Thursday may have saved many of the 40 black pilot whales that swam into shallow waters here, officials say, but at least eight that beached ashore are dead. Rescue crews late Wednesday and early Thursday dragged many of the slick black creatures back into deeper water and patrolled the area so those and others wouldn't slip back to shore. But at least eight whales died, their fins bobbing in the shallows off Sea Oat Island, less than 20 miles south of Naples, as experts prepared to drag them ashore Thursday afternoon to perform necropsies. It will take weeks before results are known fully, said officials from Sea World in Orlando, who drove to the scene for the rescue. "There could be a hundred reasons," the animals were found inland, said Mike Walsh of Sea World. Happenstance isn't one of them, he said. "Most of the marine mammals that come up and beach have some reason," Walsh said. "Something is usually wrong." Preliminary results showed parasites in the stomachs and intestines of some of the whales, which probably contributed to their death, officials said. The whales were first spotted Wednesday evening between Capri Pass and Hurricane Pass, north of Marco Island, said Collier County sheriff's Sgt. Grady Johnson. Then they swam into Marco Bay, he said. "They just seemed confused, totally confused," said Johnson, a sheriff's marine patrol official who monitored the whales all night and Thursday morning. "I've been with the department See WHALES, Page 6B Continued from page 1A In Georgia, the city of Flovilla planned to turn off its water system from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and today to conserve the precious resource, said City Clerk Virginia Williams. Barnesville reopened two wells closed for 40 years. Eight U.S. senators, meanwhile, urged Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to act quickly on applications for federal disaster aid from the region. Their request came as Martin asked Washington to declare North Carolina a disaster area to make the state eligible for emergency loans and grants. Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley urged churches and synagogues to pray for rain this weekend. "Our farmers are watching their farms, and in many instances their way of life, wither away with the lack of rain and searing heat," Riley said. "Many of us have learned just how precious our state's water supply really is." Some rain fell Friday on parched North Carolina, and the National Weather Service predicted more today across the Tennessee Valley and the Carolinas to the central Gulf Coast and Florida. "Anything we get is certainly not going to hurt anything. It's going to be helpful. This is the kind of typical summer weather that we needed to see all summer long -- afternoon and evening showers," said forecaster Mike Sabones in Raleigh, N.C. "But still, we're chipping away at the problem." The heat has been blamed for at least 44 deaths this month -- 19 in Georgia; four each in North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois; two each in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina and one each in Virginia, Louisiana and Michigan. Columbia stifles under siege By LARRY HAUETER COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Masada. Leningrad. The Alamo. To those great sieges of history, add another: Columbia. Mother Nature is taking no prisoners. We've barricaded ourselves inside our air-conditioned fortresses, peeking fearfully through dust-caked windows to watch as the allied forces of heat and drought cut down what could not be brought inside: lawns, dogwoods, azaleas. It's not a sight for the faint of heart. In other besieged cities, they already are rationing water. It's only a matter of time before it happens in Columbia. The city has been under siege before. William Tecumseh Sherman lined up his cannons across the Congaree River and lobbed shot at the statehouse during the Civil War. The damage never was repaired; every scar is commemorated with a marker, enduring as a sign that the Capitol survived the assault. Of course, Sherman burned down the rest of Columbia. The analogy is uncomfortably appropriate. For 15 straight days, temperatures climbed above 100 degrees. Last week, a "cold" front brought some relief, and the highs were only in the mid-90s. And this week things got somewhat better. But understand one thing about Columbia: Occa === Page 70 of 99 THINK POSITIVELY, YOU GUYS - THIS ISN'T REALLY A DROUGHT, ONLY A TEMPORARY SLOW-DOWN. C'MON - THINK HOW TALL YOU'LL ALL BE BY DECEMBER! THE ECONOMY A HYBRID STRAIN THINK OF THE DEFICIT - HE GOT THAT TO GROW, DIDN'T HE? ARRGH! PLANTS, SOME SAY, RESPOND TO BEING TALKED TO... THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Tuesday, August 12, 1986 11-B Winds bring short-term relief from heat The weekend winds that spawned violent tornadoes in the southern portions of Florida did little more locally than provide a welcome relief from oppressive heat - relief that should come to an end today. "It's windy because there's a little tropical wave coming across the south end of the state," said meteorologist Jim Noffsinger of the National Weather Service at Ruskin. "It appears there is going to be one more day of this. It may be a little windy (today), but that's about it." Meanwhile, relief agencies in North Fort Myers continued collecting donations after a Saturday twister that destroyed seven homes and damaged 200 more. The savage wind tore down power lines, overturned cars and uprooted 30-foot palm trees. In south St. Petersburg, winds brought on by a thunderstorm swept through Gulfport Sunday night and uprooted trees, knocked out electrical power and yanked the roof off of at least one mobile home. No injuries were reported. A tornado that ripped through a Miami trailer park early Monday morning also contributed to the millions of dollars in property damage that plagued South Florida over the weekend. Ron White, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Miami, said the tornado was the result of a severe thunderstorm over western Dade County. The same type of activity is expected to continue through the week. Convoy of trucks bringing hay to aid Florida's hungry livestock Tribune Wires TALLAHASSEE - A convoy of trucks lumbered more than 200 miles across the Panhandle Friday, carrying tons of hay to hungry livestock in areas scorched by heat and drought. It took an emergency declaration from Gov. Bob Graham to waive width restrictions on the eight trucks and permit them on the interstate from near Lake City to Bonifay. Graham still was considering whether to seek disaster aid for the areas hit hardest by the drought. He was not expected to make a decision until next week. The hay was to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the State Farmers' Market in Bonifay, seat of Holmes County. "The phone was ringing when I got here this morning at 7:30," said Wendell Moore, market manager. "Some farmers say they'll be here to line up after lunch." Across the Southeast, a federal Agriculture Department hot line for drought-plagued farmers was flooded with calls on its first day of operation Friday. And while Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Thomas Irvin praised the hay "baleouts," he said existing U.S. Department of Agriculture programs will not reverse effects of the drought. "What (the federal government) has done now, really, is probably a little bit less than a band aid," Irvin said. Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng promised that his department will consider making cash grants and surplus feed available to Southern farmers. But, he warned, "For me to suggest that the government could solve the problem of all farmers would be misleading you." Parts of South Carolina, Virginia and Florida have been declared disaster areas because of the weeks-long drought, and a dozen Tennessee counties have asked for federal aid. More than a million chickens have died in the Southern heat. Some market officials linked the drought to a rise in poultry prices. Damage estimates from the sizzling weather exceed $1.6 billion, and heat has been blamed for 44 deaths since July 1. === Page 71 of 99 "Hong Kong PR" # Gorbachev supports 2nd summit He also announced that 6,000 Soviet troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by year's end. Tribune Wires 7/29/86 MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday he favored a second summit with President Reagan. He also pledged the Soviet Union would withdraw about 6,000 of its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year. And he extended an olive branch to China, saying Moscow is studying the possibility of withdrawing a "substantial part" of its forces from Mongolia. Their presence has been an aggravating factor in Soviet-Chinese relations. The Soviet leader proposed Soviet training of Chinese cosmonauts as a possible cooperative program. Western military experts said the promised withdrawal of fewer than 10,000 of the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would not have any military importance. But the move represents the first time since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that Moscow has announced any reduction of its armed forces there. In Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb noted that similar withdrawals announced in the past "were part of regular rotations of troops without any decrease in the total number." While no figures have been made public on Soviet losses in Afghanistan, accounts in the official press have indicated heavier involvement in combat in recent years. Western sources estimate at least 10,000 Soviet soldiers have died in combat against Afghan rebels -- called mujahedeen, or "holy warriors." See GORBACHEV, Page 4A # Drought * From Page 1A Need for rain desperate 7/24/86 Much of the South has been dry since January of 1985. "The only significant rain we've had in 18 months was two hurricanes last fall, and an unusually wet July and August last year," said Dale Linvill, South Carolina agricultural meteorologist. With a normal annual rainfall of about 45 inches, Columbia, S.C. is already 22 inches below normal, he said, and the state as a whole has received only 40 to 45 percent of the usual rainfall. The present dry spell has been caused by a high pressure system that has been hanging over the South, forcing moisture to the north and keeping coastal storms from moving inland. As the land dries out, temperatures go higher, and readings higher than 100 degrees have been reported throughout the region -- 15 days in a row in Columbia. The intense heat also has been blamed for 42 deaths in the South. The drought is bad now for Southern farmers, but unless substantial rainfall arrives in the next few weeks, their plight could become much worse. July and August are normally wet months. September and October are normally dry. If the pastures are dead now, farmers have no reason to replant them until next spring. Pasture grasses take six months to grow enough for grazing, so farmers could be without pastures for their cattle until well into next year. Levels of groundwater and streams, from which farmers draw most of their water, are at record lows. Heavy rains are required to bring them up again, and if they fall lower, wells will run dry. Charity offers relief Farmers already are selling off their cattle, and auction houses are bustling with more than twice normal business. Finding locally grown hay is nearly impossible. But the spirit of charity and the spirit of politics have combined to provide at least a little relief. Farmers in the Midwest saw a South Carolina farmer bemoaning his fate on ABC's Nightline. The Midwest has plenty of hay, and within hours farmers in Illinois and Indiana were organizing a relief shipment. Rep. Carroll Campbell, R-S.C., who is running for governor, said he called the White House and ar- Quake insurance writers shaky 3/1/86 LOS ANGELES -- Some insurance companies have imposed moratoriums on the sale of earthquake insurance because of the recent rash of tremors, officials say. The moratoriums are legal because a state law that went into effect last year only requires insurance companies to offer earthquake insurance with property owner's insurance within 60 days of the sale date. This provision makes it possible for insurance companies to place moratoriums of up to 60 days on the sale of earthquake insurance, said Richard H. Roth Jr., assistant # Pray For Rain, South Carolina Residents Told By The Associated Press South Carolinians were urged to pray for rain and one Georgia town plans to shut off its water system part-time this weekend as officials seek relief from the deadly drought blamed for more than $1.6 billion in farm losses. North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin on Friday asked that his whole state be declared a drought disaster area, joining parts of three others already on the list, and eight Southeastern senators urged the government to speed up aid. Showers and thunderstorms fell in sections of drought-plagued Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas Saturday. In six hours overnight, more than an inch of rain fell on Athens, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., and Wilmington, N.C., got 2.25 inches of rain Saturday, causing local flooding. Rain also fell in several Southern states Friday and more was predicted for today, but forecasters said it was too little and too late to be of any benefit to farmers, who continue receiving tons of donated hay. And hundreds of calls seeking and offering help for farmers flooded a U.S. Department of Agriculture hotline on its first day of operation. See Town on page 10A (52) === Page 72 of 99 Heat's Still On 100° And Rising Around South By The Associated Press Temperatures topped 100 again Saturday after two weeks of a triple-digit heat wave blamed for at least 22 deaths, and farmers in South Carolina lined up for free hay from the Midwest in the midst of a drought that has cost growers in the Southeast millions of dollars. Columbia, S.C., hit a record 106 degrees by late afternoon Saturday, the 14th consecutive day the city has hit 100 or higher. The heat index, a measure of how hot it felt with high humidity and little wind, was expected to reach 120 in South Carolina, the National Weather Service said. Augusta, Ga., also hit a record 103 degrees, the 31st straight day of 90-plus temperatures in that east Georgia city. Other records included 102 at Charlotte, N.C.; 100 at Jacksonville; 100 at Columbus, Ga.; 101 at Atlanta; 96 at Mobile, Ala. Charlotte's high tied a record of 99 set in 1970. Whew! 98 In Ocala By The Associated Press The heat wave which has socked much of the South and Midwest hit Ocala and North Florida with a glancing blow Saturday in the form of three high temperature records. The temperature hit 100 degrees at Jacksonville International Airport Saturday afternoon, breaking the record for the date of 99 set in 1970. Tallahassee recorded a 98 to top the record of 97 set in 1965 and Daytona Beach surpassed a 38-year-old record with a 97 degree reading. In Apalachicola, the high of 94 tied the record. St. Augustine and Crestview had the second highest readings in the state with 99s, while Ocala had a 98. According to the National Weather Service, the hot temperatures in North Florida were caused by a weak low pressure trough over the area. No change is expected Sunday. The southern part of the state had slightly lower temperatures because a weak high pressure ridge is controlling its weather. The high in Miami was 92, and Key West was a relatively cool 88. Commissioner with the state Department of Insurance. Another powerful earthquake - 6.1 on the Richter scale - rocked the Sierra Nevada early Thursday, breaking windows but causing no major damage or injuries. Mulloy To Leave NASA Post HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Lawrence B. Mulloy, who directed the space shuttle's solid rocket booster program at the time of the Challenger disaster, announced Wednesday that he will retire from NASA at the end of the week. Mulloy drew criticism in recent months for his actions prior to the liftoff of Challenger, which exploded in flight Jan. 28, killing its crew of seven, when flame licked out of a flawed solid rocket booster. He has said "system failure" and not individuals were to blame for the Challenger tragedy. Mulloy, who is 52, gave no reason for his retirement and said it would be effective Friday. On the night before the Challenger launch, Mulloy argued with engineers from the booster rocket's manufacturer, Morton Thiokol, who contended that cold weather might cause the booster joints to fail. Their concern did not reach those with power to halt the liftoff. "Given the information I had at the time... I can't say that anything different would have been done. I do regret that it wasn't," Mulloy said in June. A statement issued by the Marshall Space Flight Center said Mulloy, transferred to the post of assistant to the director of science and engineering at Marshall after the shuttle explosion, had recently been assigned to become deputy director of the propulsion, power and energy division office of Aeronautics and Space Technology at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington. "In lieu of accepting this position, considered an important post with responsibilities for the development of aeronautics and space technology, Mr. Mulloy decided to exercise his option to retire," the statement said. The statement said Mulloy had been in government service for more than 30 years. A lawsuit filed by the widow of Challenger pilot Michael Smith named Mulloy and others in the wrongful death of the astronaut. Mulloy planned to make no comment on his retirement, said Marshall spokesman Ed Medal. The report issued by the presidential commission investigating the shuttle disaster included comments critical of Mulloy and Marshall, who oversaw the shuttle's propulsion systems. Lightning Fires Keep Crews Busy By The Associated Press Hundreds of fires burned early today over more than 375,000 acres of tinder-dry forest and range land after a thunderstorm scattered lightning strikes from eastern Oregon to Montana. The storm packing winds of up to 50 mph swept across a 500-mile corridor Sunday from eastern Oregon through the northcentral Idaho forests and into western Montana. About 6,800 lightning strikes were recorded. The blazes' combined acreage was estimated at up to 375,000 acres by Monday night and was still growing, said Arnold Hartigen, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates fire suppression nationwide. "It's a major fire action the likes of which we haven't seen in Oregon for some time," said Jim Fisher, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry. About 50 new lightning-sparked fires have started on state-protected lands in eastern Oregon while tired crews who battled blazes in the region last week were sent to face more than 165 new fires on federal lands. Fires ranging in size from 50 to 50,000 acres have burned 89,000 acres in the Vale, Ore., federal Bureau of Land Management district, said Barry Rose, fire information officer. The largest single range blaze was the Bogus Creek fire, at more than 50,000 acres in southeastern Oregon, said Rose. In Idaho, more than 700 firefighters were already on the lines around just a handful of the more than 400 blazes spawned by the Sunday storm, and up to another 1,000 reinforcements joined them Monday. About 95,000 acres of southwestern Idaho range was already blackened by fire, and flames were running wild on a 50,000-acre four-fire complex northwest of Emmett, where the Squaw Butte Lookout was evacuated, and on remote terrain just southeast of Boise. That fire grew from 5,000 to 30,000 acres in a matter of hours. On the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, 100 firefighters were battling a 400-acre blaze while fire teams assessed the potential from more than two dozen other blazes sparked by the storm. === Page 73 of 99 UFO Sun Attack # Baptists Pray, Then It Rains 8/11/86 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Scattered afternoon showers shattered drought-parched pastures in parts of Tennessee on Sunday, the day Baptists were asked to pray for rain. The Rev. James McCluskey, president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and a Knoxville pastor, had asked members of the state's 2,800 Southern Baptist churches to begin a season of prayer for rainfall Sunday. Rainfall has been well below normal for 18 months. "We really need more than a shower. We need a rainy season to come. We're praying for that," he said. McCluskey said he had no way of knowing how many Tennessee churches joined in the prayers. The scattered showers dropped less than an inch of rain in wide areas of the state, including in eastern Tennessee, the area hardest hit by the drought. McCluskey said he mentions the need for rain daily in prayer and has asked his congregation to do the same. "Those of us in the city have only noticed the drought mainly by the brown grass in our yard. But the farmers really have been hard hit economically. They need our prayers," he said. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 7/24/86 # Rainfall Too Late For Crops By The Associated Press Storms poured more precious rain on the parched South, but too late to quench dusty cornfields or help farmers ease more than $1.5 billion in losses from a drought that has sparked emergency donations of hay and even ice. Shipments of hay for starving livestock continued pouring in today from across the North and Midwest, where farmers already have donated tons. Services have been offered free by train, trucking, telephone and ice companies. "My cows are eating Illinois hay for breakfast, Iowa hay for lunch, and they'll be having Indiana hay for Sunday dinner," Tom Trantham, a South Carolina dairy farmer, told officials in Indianapolis on Wednesday. The drought has been compounded by a 2½-week heat wave, which eased this week after killing 42 people. Storms dumped 3 inches of rain on Richmond, Va., within two hours Wednesday, about 2½ inches on Mobile, Ala., and Berea, S.C., and 1.3 inches on Atlanta in less than an hour. The rain generally dissipated by early this morning, the National Weather Service said. Scattered thunderstorms stretched from Maryland to Florida on Tuesday, keeping temperatures below 100 degrees. "The few bands of thunderstorms, of course -- where they hit certainly didn't hurt. But basically it's still a bad situation," said Homer Rowley, assistant statistician in Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. "A lot of fields are beyond help." See Rain Comes on page 8A # South Prays For End To Drought UFO Sun Attack 8/11/86 By The Associated Press Southern Baptist churches in Tennessee were urged to make Sunday a day of prayer for relief from the Southeast's drought, which has forced some workers to go on reduced hours and is drawing donations of tons of hay. "I call on Tennessee Baptists to join in prayer for rain to soak the parched earth and to replenish supplies of water," said Dr. James McCluskey, a Knoxville pastor and president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. "Farmers are already severely affected economically, and all of us will soon feel the effect," he said. Agricultural losses from the drought are estimated at more than $2.3 billion and agriculture commissioners from seven parched states went to Washington Friday to lobby for more aid. The commissioners proposed a redistribution of federal funds to assist the Southeast in reviving and reseeding parched pastures and forests, as well as advance commodity payments and government-guaranteed loan program. "I'm terribly disappointed," South Carolina commissioner Les Tindal said after his meeting with Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng. Lyng "bluntly told us" that he is not going to help soybean farmers and feels the current crop insurance program is adequate, Tindal said. Scattered rain showers last week did little to curb the months-long drought, said Macon Jackson, hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Raleigh, N.C. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 7/25/86 # Consumers Feel Pinch Of Drought By The Associated Press Economic shock waves from Dixie's devastating drought already are being felt outside the South, as grocers and farm officials around the nation report that consumers will be paying more for produce and poultry. "All (produce) prices have been abnormally high this season, and I attribute that to the drought," said sales manager Scott Donner of the Pioneer Valley Growers Association, which represents about 50 Massachusetts farmers. "It's the worst undersupply since 1978." The South's hot, dry weather has cost farmers more than $1.5 billion, forcing them to slaughter starving livestock early and killing more than a million chickens in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states. Poultry supplies have tightened up, said Celia Nix of Market News Service in Los Angeles. The average nationwide price for fryers was 69.5 cents a pound Monday, up 21 to 22 cents from July 1985, Ms. Nix said Thursday. "The drought losses have affected not only California poultry but prices California consumers pay at the wholesale level and prices paid by fast-food restaurants," she added. The Southeast produced 39 percent of the nation's poultry in 1985. See Drought on page 10A (54) === Page 74 of 99 Twisters smash R.I. as storms sweep area Psi Ripples Trib 8/9/86 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) - Rhode Island was belted by a second twister Friday and high winds smashed a hospital's windows in Massachusetts. Most of New England was under a tornado watch. Another round of severe thunderstorms roared through the region, blowing out two ground-floor laboratory windows at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, a spokeswoman said. No one was injured. Still reeling from a tornado that inflicted heavy damage in its capital city Thursday night, Rhode Island was hit with a new twister in North Smithfield, just south of the Massachusetts border. National Guardsmen rushed to the Slatersville section of the town to help clear away dozens of uprooted trees and downed power lines that sparked several electrical fires. One person was treated for minor injuries and at least 250 residents were left without power, officials said. "We've got telephone poles down all over the place and trees blocking roads. It's a real mess out here," said police dispatcher Jerri Erickson. The National Weather Service posted a tornado and severe thunderstorm watch for most of the region through 9 p.m. In Boston, departures from Logan International Airport were halted from 12:12 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. One-hour delays were still reported after flights resumed, said Charles S. Shuler, assistant air traffic manager at the airport. "We had a level 6 thunderstorm. That's by far the worst you could have. It went right over the top of the airport," he said. The first of a series of severe storms gave Boston a drenching at noon, racing into the city from the southwest. Connecticut and Rhode Island were hit first. Hail the size of golf balls pummeled the town of Medway, southwest of Boston, and the ground was briefly covered with a thin layer of ice. Branches were blown down and torrential rains nearly blinded drivers and caused numerous fender-benders but no serious accidents were reported. In New Hampshire, the National Weather Service posted a tornado watch after residents reported funnel-shaped clouds Thursday evening that flattened corn fields and knocked down tree limbs. Tornadoes danced through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, causing at least one death. Construction worker Paul Albani, 22, was struck by a bolt of lightning while working on a house in Foxboro Thursday. Cleanup crews went to work removing debris. "Our damage will be in the millions," said Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino after surveying stricken areas of his city. Several cars were destroyed, a roof was torn off a house and a car was blown through a storefront. Most of the top floor of a jewelry factory was ripped off, raining bricks onto at least 30 cars parked below. Twenty people suffered minor injuries. City and utility workers in Bedford, Mass., toiled through the night cleaning up debris left by another tornado that packed 150 mph winds. The twister ripped through town, uprooting trees and knocking out power to an estimated 900 customers. A Cessna and two Pipers were overturned at nearby Hanscom Field and pieces of the aircraft were sent flying when the twister tore its way eastward into suburban areas, airport officials said. Damage to the planes was estimated at $50,000. FDLE says crack fueling crime wave 0.58 7/18/86 TALLAHASSEE (UPI) - Crack cocaine is "the most serious drug problem we have seen in years" and is causing a sharp upswing in Florida's crime rate, Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Robert Dempsey said Thursday. Preliminary results of an ongoing FDLE survey, Dempsey said, suggest that crack is causing a "dramatic" increase in crime. He noted that last year's unexpected 14 percent jump in the crime rate paralleled the introduction of crack to the state. "The addict who is caught in this terrible mire is out there constantly trying to replenish his funds, because he lives for only one thing - to get that crack," Dempsey said. "I feel there is a direct correlation between the availability and the increased use of crack and the crime situation in the state of Florida." The survey will be completed in about a week, and will probably show even more increases in the state crime rate, Dempsey said. He plans to pass the study results on to Gov. Bob Graham, who has been asked by Sen. Lawton Chiles to call a special legislative session to act on crack. Dempsey said he thought such a session would be "premature" until after the survey and a meeting of drug experts that Graham has organized. The survey is part of a three-part initiative to combat the highly addictive drug, Dempsey announced at a morning press conference. FDLE also has produced a crack guidebook - describing the drug, how it's used and what the laws are - that has been sent to all Florida sheriffs and police chiefs. The agency also plans to prepare films and public announcements to educate the public about the drug. Crack, also known as rock, is a highly concentrated form of cocaine that can be as much as five times more pure than the standard powder form. Crack has spread at a wildfire rate, Dempsey said, because it is relatively cheap, easy to produce and readily available. "It is not just the old cocaine user who has gone to crack," Dempsey said. "This has dramatically increased the number of users all across society, because of its simplicity, its easy accessibility and its low cost. We've got kids using it. We have dramatically expanded the drug user market." Dempsey hopes to counter that by informing the public about how addictive and dangerous crack is. Unlike powder cocaine, a crack user can become addicted after only one or two uses, Dempsey said. Because the drug is so pure, and because when smoked the reaction time is only about eight seconds, crack can cause heart attacks, brain hemorrhage and death. Dempsey said the publicity campaign was not a "scare tactic" by law enforcement and other public officials. He cited 268 fatal drug overdoses in Florida last year, many of them from cocaine. (55) === Page 75 of 99 4A OCALA STAR-BANNER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1986 # Air Traffic Backs Up Around 5-State Blaze By The Associated Press Helicopters, air tankers and planes ferrying crews converged on the Northwest as 90 percent of the nation's federal firefighters headed for the battle against lightning-sparked blazes on 345,000 acres in five states. In Idaho, Gov. John Evans declared a state of extreme emergency Wednesday as crews worked to save 70 homes threatened by a fire 40 miles north of Boise. Firefighters in Utah turned to newer blazes after declaring the 7,000-acre Hose Lay Fire in west-central Utah under control Wednesday night. The blaze got its name because rugged terrain made it impossible to bring water tankers close, so hoses were dragged to the fire lines. "It's looking very good. We've pulled everyone off there except the engines," said Bert Hart, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Land Management. "During the day the humidity was up and the winds were down and that helped immensely. They have no fear of it getting away now." About 13,500 firefighters, all but 10 percent of the nation's federal force, have been joined by thousands of support personnel in fighting hundreds of blazes ignited by lightning in the past week in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah and Nevada, according to the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the nation's fire command post. The Federal Aviation Administration set up temporary air control towers in Grangeville and McCall, Idaho, and in La Grande and Pendleton, Ore., to handle all the traffic. The Grangeville airport was overwhelmed by the increase, said FAA spokesman Dick Meyer in Seattle. "Its normal operations include about 50 takeoffs and landings in a day. Today they're landing and taking off once every three minutes." In Idaho, where 100 lightning-sparked blazes scorched 165,000 acres since Sunday, the governor sent National Guard troops and trucks to help 2,600 firefighters. # Hot Gets Even Hotter In Dixie Continued from page 1A be answered. The National Weather Service predicted scattered thundershowers in North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama today or Tuesday, but no rain for South Carolina. Sporadic storms have replenished water supplies in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, but that did little to help farmers ravaged by the worst spring drought on record, the service said. "Most of it just runs off," said forecaster Joe Cefaratti. Temperatures from the low 90s to the low 100s were expected for the next two days in a sweep from the Gulf coast to the Central Atlantic coast. On Sunday, temperature records were tied or broken in at least 17 cities, the National Weather Service said. In 15 of those cities the mercury climbed to 100 or above. The temperature crawled past 100 across much of Georgia on Sunday, hitting a record 104 at Augusta, 106 at Macon, and 102 in Columbus, which saw its 45th consecutive day of highs at 90 or above and 15th consecutive day where the mercury hit at least 100. In Savannah, Ga., it was 105 degrees Sunday, the coastal city's hottest day this century, tying its all-time heat record set July 12, 1879. Other records included 100 at Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.; 100 at Tallahassee; 98 at Daytona Beach; and 104 at Memphis, Tenn. # Soviets From Page 1A "That event, undoubtedly, would come the main real outcome of meeting," he said, "a considerable step on the way toward ending arms race." Departing from previous statements on the prospects for a summit meeting, Gorbachev did not lay down any conditions for progress or agreement on arms control before such a meeting could be arranged. He said the United States conducted 18 nuclear explosions, three of them unannounced, in the year after the Soviet moratorium was announced, and added: "The Soviet Union has sufficient reasons for resuming its nuclear testing, yet we are convinced even now that the ending of nuclear testing, not only by the Soviet Union but also by the United States, would be a real breakthrough to arresting the nuclear arms race. "The logic in this is simple: If there are no tests, the nuclear weapons, which both sides have stockpiled in abundance, will not be upgraded." Still, Gorbachev said, the Soviet Union will answer any military challenge from the United States, including Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, the Star Wars program. Without going into detail, he said: "It would be wrong to hope to intimidate us or prompt us to needless expenditures. If need be, we shall promptly come up with the answer, and it will not be what the United States expects. But it will be the answer that will devalue the Star Wars program." He said the "main harm" of the Strategic Defense Initiative is that it undermines the prospect of arms control talks and decreases trust between the negotiators. Unless steps are taken to head them off, he said, such sophisticated weapons systems will emerge on both sides that it will be impossible to reach agreement on how to control them. "The situation is becoming ever more intolerable," he said. Gorbachev cited the accidents that destroyed the U.S. space shuttle Challenger, last January, and severely damaged the nuclear plant at Chernobyl, in April, as "brutal reminders" of what could happen if nuclear weapons were used. === Page 76 of 99 # Farm Loss May Top $2 Billion From Drought, Officials Warn The New York Times WASHINGTON -- Livestock and crop losses from the drought that has parched eight Middle-Atlantic and Southern states could total more than $2 billion, twice as much as was estimated earlier this week, state agricultural officials said Friday. The loss would represent nearly 15 percent of the $15 billion of gross earnings last year by farmers in the arc of drought, which stretches from Alabama to southern Pennsylvania. No agricultural region has sustained such high losses since drought spread across the Middle West and Rocky Mountain states in the 1930s, according to the Department of Agriculture. Meteorologists said Friday that parts of Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia received some rain Thursday night, but predicted that the arid conditions would persist through August and possibly longer. In Washington, employees of the Department of Agriculture manned a special telephone line, handling hundreds of calls from farmers seeking information on the department's program of emergency assistance. Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng has appointed special teams to study the affected areas, urged his deputies to accelerate the processing of applications for emergency assistance, and assured farmers in the stricken states that he is doing everything possible to lessen the economic effects of the drought. Friday, Lyng toured poultry houses and peanut fields in Georgia, where the loss in the state's $520 million peanut industry is estimated at $100 million. The South produces nearly 40 percent of the nation's poultry, and food market managers in the Northeast, Middle West, and the Rocky Mountain states said Friday that prices of chicken had increased in recent days, in some areas by as much as 10 cents a pound. The prices of other commodities, though, have remained largely unaffected. The drought also has given rise to a political dispute in South Carolina, where Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, a Democrat, accused the Reagan administration Thursday of delaying shipments of hay donated by farmers from Massachusetts, New York and Oklahoma as part of an effort by better-off See Losses on page 6A # Tornado's damage toll $1.6 million Tribune Wires FORT MYERS -- At least 12 people were injured -- none seriously -- by a weekend tornado that touched down and caused more than $1.6 million worth of damage in a residential section of North Fort Myers, officials said Sunday. Workers still were assessing damage in the area Sunday afternoon. The tornado damaged almost 120 houses in an eight-block area, Lee County sheriff's Capt. Bill Kiphart said. Sixteen cars and trucks and four boats also were damaged by the twister, Kiphart said. "The power company says there are seven dwellings they aren't even going to put power back in because they figure they're devastated beyond repair," he said. "What we picked up here locally is approximately 12 injuries and no deaths." The tornado touched down about 5:40 p.m. Saturday in an eight- to 10-square-block area of North Fort Myers and Cape Coral. Preliminary damage was estimated at $1,626,580, said Larry Pfeiffer of the National Weather Service in Ruskin. # Californians Clean Up, Brace For More Quakes BISHOP, Calif. (AP) -- Californians were warned to brace for more earthquakes as residents recovered from the state's fourth big temblor in two weeks, which damaged every home in one mountain town and shook buildings as far away as Utah. Despite the warnings, some of the 300 residents of Chalfant Valley, a High Sierra town where all 145 houses were damaged, said they wouldn't leave. "I like it here," said Nona Roripaugh, 29, a police dispatcher in Bishop, five miles away. "It could happen anywhere, and if it happened in the city, it would be that much worse. Buildings fall on you in the city. Here you go outside and you're OK." Monday's quake at 7:42 a.m. left 50 people homeless, swayed buildings hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, Nev., and Salt Lake City, buckled a road, caused rock slides and briefly stranded hundreds of campers. Two minor injuries were reported. The quake, estimated at 6.1 on the Richter scale, was centered in the High Sierra, 240 miles north of Los Angeles and five miles from Chalfant Valley, which sustained the heaviest damage. It came one day after a 5.5 magni- See Californians on page 8A "We won't put a force factor on it until all the damage is assessed," he said. "It was obviously a strong tornado, not your everyday garden type of tornado or mini-tornado that we get in the state of Florida." The tornado damaged 117 houses, and of those, 25 suffered major structural major damage, Pfeiffer said. "It was pretty bad. It's been a few years since we had something that bad," said Sgt. Dale Williams of the Lee County Sheriff's Office. "We had boats that were parked in yards and that were found several blocks down the street." "It sounded like a train coming and then it took the roof off," said Dea Baker, whose duplex was destroyed by the funnel cloud. A neighbor's pickup truck landed against the front wall of her home. Ron Fortier was returning to his home when the tornado hit. It ripped part of the roof off the back of his apartment and pulled the nails out of the sheetrock in the walls. "It took one of the cars out in the parking lot and threw it into another one. The dumpster's in the swimming pool," Fortier said. === Page 77 of 99 # Quake Trib 7/22/86 ## From Page 1A under tables or broke for the doors when the 6.1 quake hit, assistant manager Dave Campbell said. "They were grabbing hold of each other and just trying to hang on," he said. "Anything that was laying down flat was just going across the counter." Part of the ceiling caved in at a Burger King restaurant in Bishop, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Brian Miller said. At Pleasant Valley campground near Bishop, 50 campers were stranded when a crevasse obliterated a road and swallowed a parked pickup truck, Inyo County sheriff's Sgt. Dick Wood said. All those in the camp's 200 campsites were safely evacuated later Monday. Wood said the opening was 150 yards wide and 200 yards long but didn't know how deep, although it was "enough to put a pickup truck down into." The pickup truck sank about 30 feet deep and caught fire, said Parrish. At least one occupant was removed and the truck was later pulled out as well. A group of about 20 Sierra Club trail builders near Pine Lake also were stranded by rock slides but were unharmed, she said. Wood said bulldozers worked to open another access road covered by boulders to evacuate the campground. The Hot Creek bathing area 40 miles north of Bishop was closed. "An inspection was made and there was found to be more fissures and more hot water coming through. We don't know the temperature of the water but we felt it was safer to close it," said Miller. He didn't know if anyone was in the popular swimming hole at the time of the quake. "We have no indication of any injuries; however, power is out in the Bishop area and we have a building off its foundation and there's a broken sewer line," said Nancy Hardaker at the state Office of Emergency Services in Sacramento. "We have some glass breakage on storefronts," added Bishop police officer Ted Gardner. "At this time, we're experiencing power difficulties with signal lights and so forth." Dogs howled and horses ran wild after the 5.5 temblor Sunday, police dispatcher Nora Roripaugh said. That quake shook the Sierra and a 200-mile stretch of the San Joaquin Valley at 7:30 a.m., leaving 75 percent of Bishop's 5,000 residents without electricity for less than an hour. Seismologist Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey said Sunday's temblor was a foreshock to Monday's quake. She said about a dozen "feelable" earthquakes followed in the two hours after the initial quake plus many smaller ones "coming so close together we haven't been able to count them." She said Monday's full moon had no effect on the quake, although scientists have speculated on lunar influences. Meredith said Caltech's Richter reading Monday had been 6.2, but he said Berkeley's 6.1 reading would be more accurate. The U.S. Geological Survey meanwhile estimated the quake at 6.0. Such variances are not unusual. Both quakes were on the Sierra Nevada fault system, said Hardaker of the state emergency office. Monday's quake and aftershock came exactly 34 years after a 7.7 quake rocked Tehachapi on July 21, 1952. On July 13, a quake centered in the ocean off Oceanside measured 5.3 on the Richter scale. On July 8, a 5.9 quake struck in the desert north of Palm Springs, causing $6 million damage to homes, roads and utilities, but Caltech seismologist Kate Hutton said those were unrelated to Sunday's and Monday's. Tribune map # Lightning-Sparked Fires Rip Forests By The Associated Press Psi-Ripple 0.5B 8/11/86 Idaho firefighters Friday fortified lines against a 1,000-acre blaze that had threatened 70 homes north of Boise, while fires continued to rage out of control in two Oregon national forests. Crews in several other Northwestern states were able to take a breather after bringing fires under control. Scores of lightning-sparked blazes have scorched more than 560,000 acres in the Northwest since Aug. 1, said Dave Damron of the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the national fire command post. In Idaho, the 1,000-acre Garden Valley fire was contained late Thursday, but officials said the weather would determine how long it would take to bring it under control. At least 800 firefighters were battling a complex of 20 fires, including the Garden Valley blaze, that have burned more than 7,200 acres. Helicopters were dropping water on the Garden Valley fire, which was spewing dense smoke all the way to the desert, 40 miles away. The heavy smoke had grounded planes carrying tanks of flame retardant. "We have not been able to drop retardant because it's in a big basin, a big bowl, so all the smoke is settling in there, so we're having to concentrate in some of the more outlying areas where we've got visibility, which allows us to drop," said Mike Campbell of the Boise National Forest. The weekend weather forecast for the state did not look promising. "We're supposed to get some gusty winds, and there's a chance for more lightning activity this weekend." (58) === Page 78 of 99 Cloudiness brings brief respite to drought-parched Southeast Tribune Staff and Wires Cloudy skies and scattered rain brought temporary relief Tuesday from the Southeast's heat wave but did little for its drought. "We've been severely hit. It's the worst I've ever seen," 75-year-old Harold Arant told a federal task force on his son's farm near Bowman, S.C. "This is a terrible situation. It's almost unbelievable to see the crops in this destroyed position," said Assistant U.S. Agriculture Secretary George Dunlop, head of the task force which earlier visited Georgia and Alabama. Increased cloud cover kept temperatures in the upper 80s and mid-90s instead of 100 Tuesday across much of the Carolinas and Georgia, although Macon, Ga., reached 99. However, the cooler weather won't last, said Jerry Harrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Columbia, S.C. "It's a temporary thing. We just got a little relief. The cloudiness will be gone by tomorrow or the day after." Months of below-normal rain have withered crops and nearly dried up water supplies in parts of the Southeast despite scattered storms, like those that hit parts of the region Monday and Tuesday. "It's been so dry for so long, the rain is barely keeping pace with daily needs," meteorologist Bob Dietlein said in Alabama. Crop losses have been estimated at up to $700 million for farmers ready hard-hit by rising costs and failing prices in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. Dunlop said in North Carolina that he would ask Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng to see that federal assistance programs go into effect quickly but said, "I can't make any promises. I have nothing to announce." Florida Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner said he would ask Gov. Bob Graham to declare a disaster in eight to 10 counties of northern Florida, where some areas haven't had rain in 50 days. In the Bay area, today and Thursday are expected to be cloudy with a chance of showers. The chance of rain is 50 percent for both days, and highs should be around 90, forecasters said. Jim Berry © 1986 by NEA, Inc. 7-E "FORGET finding a cactus plant for water. We're in the SouthEAST." Southwest Blazes Burn Out Of Control By The Associated Press Weary firefighters reported progress Friday in their week-long battle against lightning-kindled fires that have charred more than 90,000 acres in Oregon, while 100 firefighters fought two blazes that blackened 17,000 acres in southwestern Idaho. "The big thing that's helping us today is the wind has died," said Phil Stanbro, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon. "We're hoping that continues and we can get a line around the hot spots." Most of the Oregon fires that began earlier this week were either contained or under control by Friday. The largest blaze that remained out of control was the Tub Mountain fire between Vale and Ontario, just west of the Idaho-Oregon border. It had consumed 25,000 acres of sage and brush, but no structures were threatened, Stanbro said. A firefighter injured Wednesday, Gary Paxson of Whiteriver, Ariz., was in fair condition at a Portland hospital after amputation of his right arm, which was crushed by a falling tree as he fought to contain a 1,000-acre fire in Oregon's Umatilla National Forest. Idaho fire bosses reported crews gaining the upper hand on major forest fires in north-central Idaho and range fires west of Boise, but had no estimate on when two new blazes that scorched 17,000 acres in the southwest would be contained. Flames raged along 80 percent of the line of the 10,000-acre Danskin Fire which earlier forced the evacuation of a ranger station and three aerial retardant drops to save the structure. Seven miles to the south, the so-called Long Tom fire covered 7,000 acres. The fires throughout southwestern Idaho were started by a summer storm that blasted the area Thursday with about 600 lightning strikes. To the north, fire bosses in the Nezperce National Forest released four 20-member crews from the 1,000-acre Gus Creek Fire. === Page 79 of 99 UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/29/86 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE FIRST BANK OF GEORGIA DROUGHT NI DEP NEWS ITEM: FBI SAYS CRIME UP; HIGHEST IN THE SOUTH. Radon threat in shower 8/5/86 WASHINGTON -- Millions of Americans are exposed to carcinogenic radon gas when showering or using washing machines, it was reported Monday. One-fourth of American homes use water containing radon, a radioactive gas given off by decaying uranium particles found in much of North American rock, U.S. News & World Report magazine reported in this week's issue. When the water is heated, up to 80 percent of the carcinogenic gas is released and can be inhaled. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Business Brief Bank sues Hunts DALLAS -- Bank of America filed a counterclaim in federal court in Dallas Monday demanding more than $76 million of outstanding debt from the Hunt family and their trusts owning Penrod Drilling Co. The demand was in response to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought against the bank and 22 other financial institutions on June 24 by the Hunt family whose fabulous fortunes have suffered huge losses in recent years. A Bank of America announcement said it and other banks were seeking to recover more than $1.2 billion in loans "on which the Hunt-controlled companies and trusts have defaulted." Hunt's 7/29/86 Deadly storm dumps 6 inches of rain UFO Sun Attack T 7/31/86 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Scores of farmhouses remained isolated Wednesday by washed-out roads after thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands and dumped more than 6 inches of rain. One man drowned in a flash flood in western Massachusetts and another was electrocuted by a fallen power line in Rhode Island. (60) === Page 80 of 99 Drought Adding To Farming Woes Hardships Just Keep Mounting BONIFAY (AP) -- Drought and hot weather are just the latest hardships faced by Florida farmers and ranchers who need more than rain to stop their slide toward financial failure. The 1986 drought, drier-than-normal weather last year and three years of harsh winters are compounding the problems of low prices, foreign competition, and uncertainty over federal farm programs. Plus, farms are reeling still from the effects of high interest rates in the early 1980s. "A lot of farmers here are bitter about what's happened to them," said Wilson Brogdon, director of federal farm programs in Jackson County near Bonifay, which is considered the center of Florida's drought belt. Brogdon estimated that at least one-third of the 1,400 to 1,500 farm families in Jackson live below the federal poverty line of $11,000 a year for a family of four. About 500 Jackson farms have failed over the past decade, but at least that many more could fail in the next two years, he said. "Farmers have a way of hanging in there, somehow finding a way," he said. "They stay at it because there's not that much else to do here, and farming is basically what they want to do. Their parents did it before them. . . . They just hate to be a failure." Jackson County is one of 21 counties Gov. Bob Graham has asked the federal government to declare a disaster area to make way for federal assistance. Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner said he talked to officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday. They told him there would be an answer soon to Graham's request, but they did not give him an estimate of when a decision would be made. The drought has cut a 300-mile swath of hardship across the Panhandle. About 120 miles east of Jackson, for example, farmers in Suwannee County have been harvesting a meager corn crop and tobacco that ripened too early. At least half of three normal hay cuttings have been lost, and soybeans and peanut vines are only half the size they should be. Strong rains might salvage some crops, but corn, tobacco and small grains are past recovery, said Jim Rich, a farmer and agriculture specialist with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in Live Oak. Suwannee farmer Verneil Johnson said the dry spring and summer come on the heels of drier-than-normal weather last year and three winters of record cold. Half the county's 126,800 acres of cultivated farmland, the fourth largest acreage in the state, is fallow, or growing weeds. "Between the drought and the freezes, it has been a disaster for cattle," said Johnson who is harvesting crops on area farms with his $80,000 combine to help make ends meet. "We don't always get cash for it," he said. "There's a lot of horse-trading, anything to survive." Earl Boswell, Brogdon's counterpart in Suwannee County, said the economic crunch could drive farmers out of the business. "I see one way to make money out of farmland; selling it off in 5-acre lots," he said. For now, the immediate needs must be met. Ranchers must have hay for their herds and farmers must have water for their row crops. In Bonifay, ranchers were pleading for hay. Tons of the feed have been trucked in over recent weeks from greener Florida acres and other states, but the hay goes quickly. AROUND THE World Chinese Say Typhoon Peggy Killed 172 In Guangdong PEKING (AP) -- Typhoon Peggy killed 172 people when it struck Guangdong province last week, officials said Wednesday, calling it the worst disaster to hit the southern coastal province in nearly four decades. Officials at the provincial Disaster Prevention Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in telephone interviews that Typhoon Peggy also left 1,250 people injured, destroyed 214,000 homes and damaged or washed away 2,200 bridges and 2,542 miles of electric power lines. They estimated damages at $470 million, and said about 1.35 million acres of farmland were flooded when the typhoon hit last Friday. The officials said 3.67 million people were affected by the storm, which also killed at least 93 in the northern Philippines before hitting China. Heat Claims 17 Victims In South By The Associated Press Southern states that have baked for weeks had no hope of cooling temperatures any time soon, but some farmers facing empty pens and shriveled crops got good news Friday -- help is on the way from the Farm Belt. Meanwhile, the human toll continued to rise, with 17 deaths in the South and the Midwest blamed on the relentless heat. Afternoon temperatures ranged from the low 90s in Michigan to 100 in Augusta, Ga., and 103 in Fayetteville, N.C. It hit 99 in Atlanta, breaking a record set in 1944, and 98 at North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham Airport, breaking a 1948 record. It was 105 in Columbia, S.C., marking the 13th day in a row that city had seen the mercury in triple digits. While some parts of the upper Midwest were expected to cool by early next week, temperatures of over 100 were forecast for the weekend in South Carolina and Georgia. "It looks like more of the same," Wes Tyler, assistant climatologist for South Carolina, said Friday. "Barring any tropical influence, it's getting more serious by the day. We ain't asking to be hit by a hurricane, but See Live'stock' Aid on page 8A === Page 81 of 99 8/5/86 Bandits PK 7/18/86 Many whites leave South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- White South Africans are increasingly moving abroad to escape political violence and economic depression, latest official statistics show. In the first four months of this year, 4,760 people emigrated and 2,603 immigrated, a net outflow of 2,067, compared with a gain of 5,011 in the same period last year, the Central Statistical Services said. Most of the people involved are white, government officials said. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday, August 18, 1986 Lightning starts more fires across charred Northwest Associated Press 8/18/86 Lightning ignited more range and forest fires Sunday in the tinder-dry Northwest, where nearly 400,000 acres have been charred in the past week, despite the efforts of an estimated 17,000 firefighters. "It's probably the worst fire season we've had since 1910," said Ray Naddy, spokesman for the federal-state firefighting command center in Salem, Ore., which recorded 1,522 lightning strikes across Oregon late Saturday. Officials issued a "red flag" alert, a top-level fire warning that likely will result in a ban on open burning in high-risk areas of Idaho, Montana, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, said Anne Jeffery, spokeswoman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, the national forest fire command center. She said that as of late Saturday, lightning-sparked fires in those four states and Utah had charred 382,762 acres since last weekend's storms, nearly 180,000 acres in Idaho alone. Weather officials said lightning storms, without rain, are expected through Tuesday. Tribune photo by AUGUST STAEBLER Thrown for a loss Sheriff's deputies seized Bandits equipment and retail sportswear Monday. A former Bandit, claiming the team owes him $150,000, was granted a court order to place a lien on the gear. Taking inventory at the team's HCC facility is Dave Barile of All Points Distributing Bonded Warehouse. Story, 1C (62) === Page 82 of 99 Columbia * From Page 1A 7/26/86 sional summer temperatures of 100 degrees or more aren't unusual. Folks here take the heat in stride. That's why it was especially frustrating for me, a relative newcomer from subtropical Tampa, Fla., when the heat wave first struck. "What's wrong with these people?" I asked my wife one night after riding my bicycle home from my job at the morning newspaper. It was past 11 p.m. and still in the 90s outside. "Don't these people know its hot?" If they didn't know at first, it didn't take them long to figure it out. The farmers knew right away, of course. Before July arrived, their corn was withering in the fields, unfit to be chopped up and fed to livestock. The produce stands gradually starting selling more fruits and vegetables from Texas and Mexico. Then the mercury soared into triple digits and stayed there. There's no relief in sight, and the farmers are helpless to save their crops. The helplessness is the worst of it. When we watch the evening news, we're accustomed to seeing grain airlifted to Ethiopia, not hay being flown into Greenville. This is America, where no problem is too big for the likes of United Technologies and Phil Donohue. We're supposed to control our environment. We put men on the moon, right? Yeah, but we also blew up the Challenger. We're 20 inches shy of our normal rainfall for the year, and nobody can do anything about it. Some Lutherans in the next county prayed for rain on the courthouse steps. One of the student DJs for the university radio station has been playing nothing but songs with the word "rain" in the title or lyrics. Everybody does what he or she can. In our long, narrow apartment, window units at each end struggle to air-condition our refuge from the heat. When the high dipped to 97 the other day, I turned off our ceiling fan for the first time in three weeks. Houses never cool off when the overnight low is 78 degrees. How hot is 105 day-in and day-out? In Tampa, routine summer highs hover around 90. That's 15 degrees less than 105. If the 15 degrees between 75 and 90 is the difference between comfort and discomfort, then the 15 degrees between 90 and 105 is the difference between endurable and unendurable. Yet we endure. The heat creates different problems for different people. For one of my co-workers, it's the daily challenge of coming up with a new headline for the front-page weather story--How many ways are there to say "it's hot"? For me, it's bicycling six miles to work in mid-afternoon. For the first time, I started carrying a water bottle, and it's nearly empty when I get to the office. I could drive, but that would be giving in. We're not ready to give in yet. My 8-year-old son attended soccer camp at the University of South Carolina's downtown campus last week. It was a least 104 every day. He didn't give in, but by the end of the week, he gave out and slept for most of the day. Thankfully, none of the kids became sick from the heat. Actually, South Carolina has been lucky. There have been only two official heat-related deaths this summer. But you have to be careful. A little girl near Greenville was walking down the road barefooted and wound up with a coating of melted asphalt on the soles of her feet. They soaked her feet in mayonnaise to remove the asphalt. It isn't just the humans who are suffering. Our family's three cats spend their days sprawled pathetically on the wooden floors, trying to get as close to the ground as possible. My son and his friend have been finding lots of turtles wandering aimlessly in a nearby woods. Seeking moisture, they're always grateful for a handout of cantaloupe. But we've put the woods off-limits now. The last time the kids went there, they brought home ticks, which are the only living things that seem to be thriving around here this summer. Even the traditional summer retreats offer no refuge. We delivered our daughter to camp near Asheville, N.C., one afternoon, and it was 96 degrees. When we picked her up a week later at 10 a.m., it was 89, and we felt lucky to be where it was cool. I read a story that quoted an expert who had studied tree rings, and he said this is the worst drought in the Carolinas since 1711. One of my neighbors, an old Southern gentleman who always wears a white shirt and bow tie when he works in the yard, has lived here all his life. He has seen a lot of hot, dry weather, but he says he's worried. He's worried that when he isn't allowed to water the yard anymore, the oak trees may die. Forget the grass. He's watering his trees. Like some other folks around here, I'm hoping for a big hurricane. I've been through a hurricane in Florida, and I know hurricanes aren't any fun either, but that's what it's going to take to break this drought. Until that big storm blows up, I'll be spending a lot of time inside, watching the news and hoping I don't see the Air Force airlifting jugs of water to South Carolina. Already, it's getting hard to find Popsicles at the store. All we can do is hole up and wait for the seige to end, one way or another. In Leningrad, there were survivors. Everybody knows what happened at Masada and the Alamo. Larry Haueter is a former copy chief in the Tribune's Features Department. He now is a wire editor at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. UFO Sun Attack # Even Fish Dying As South Bakes By DUDLEY CLENDINEN The New York Times 7/17/86 ATLANTA -- For a week and a half, it has been so hot across the South that chickens in their sheds, fish in their ponds, cattle in their fields, ancient oaks in their woods and people in their homes have died of heat. The drought, now the worst in the region's history, has left the earth so dry and hard that cemetery crews have had to soak the ground with increasingly precious water to dig a grave. It has been a complex phenomenon: 10 days of record heat on top of four months of drought, on top of a farm crisis that is now almost a decade old in the South, dating from the drought of 1977. In terms of major crops, it has most hurt cotton, peanuts, soybeans, corn and pecans. If steady rains do not come, the consumer may notice smaller peaches and nuts in the markets and smaller chickens in the grocery cooler. But with the harvest season for most crops still months away, rainfall in the See Major on page 8A (63) === Page 83 of 99 # Moderate, Light Quakes Hit California By The Associated Press Seven light to moderate earthquakes struck a wide area of California on Tuesday, and a scientist said they could be part of an increase in seismic activity leading to a superquake on the San Andreas Fault. The quakes ranged from 3.0 to 4.4 on the Richter scale, causing no reported damage or injuries, and five were aftershocks of three larger temblors this month in the Sierra Nevada, near Palm Springs in Riverside County and off Oceanside in San Diego County. One was 20 miles southeast of San Jose and another rumbled through southwestern Los Angeles County in the evening. "Most likely it's just chance... particularly in the case of earthquakes that are well separated geographically," said David Hill, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. But Hill also said: "The activity we're seeing is symptomatic of a regional increase in moderate earthquake activity that seems to build up in the decades prior to a large earthquake on the San Andreas." He said such large quakes, which he defined as magnitude 8 or greater on the Richter scale, occur on the San Andreas only every 100 to 200 years, and the last one occurred in San Francisco in 1906. Another occurred on the San Andreas near Fort Tejon in Southern California in 1857, he said. "As we enter the few decades before those earthquakes, these activities tend to pick up, so certainly we're in that interval in Southern California," Hill said. "Certainly we can see the evidence for that in '06," although he said data was hazier in the 1857 quake because of poor reporting quality. Thomas Mullins of the state Office of Emergency Services said no problems were reported in any of Tuesday's quakes, and few people bothered to call the police. The temblors included: - [ ] A 3.9 quake at 12:12 a.m. 15 miles east of Crowley Lake in the Sierra, an aftershock of the July 21 quake that registered 6.1, shook 53 mobile homes off their foundations and caused an estimated $2.7 million in damage, mostly in Chalfant Valley. - [ ] The 3.6 quake 20 miles southeast of San Jose at 1:04 a.m. - [ ] The 4.4 quake, which occurred in the ocean 28 miles southwest of Oceanside at 1:18 a.m., an aftershock of the 5.3 temblor that caused an estimated $500,000 damage in San Diego County on July 13. - [ ] A 4.2 quake at 2:58 a.m. 20 mile northeast of Crowley Lake, another Sierra aftershock. # Aftershocks still shaking Californians CHALFANT VALLEY, Calif. (UPI) -- Hundreds of aftershocks shuddered through the central Sierra on Tuesday, keeping residents jittery while emergency agencies prepared for the possibility of more damaging quakes. Ray Schaaf, spokesman at the inter-agency command center in nearby Bishop, Calif., said he was told by the U.S. Geological Survey that 1,003 tremors of magnitude 3 or stronger were recorded in the 24 hours following the 6.2 Monday morning temblor that destroyed 20 mobile homes and damaged more than 100 others. The aftershocks continued through Tuesday, with at least two greater than 4 magnitude. The state Office of Emergency Services dispatched two large National Guard helicopters, a medical evacuation copter, a communications van and a fuel tanker to Bishop to stand by in case of need. "The U.S. Geological Survey has advised that it would not be unusual to have more quakes of 6 magnitude in the next few days," said Tom Mullins of the state agency in Sacramento. "We have advised local governments to check all their resources, communications equipment and hospitals to make sure they have what would be needed and have it secured," he said. Don Finley of the Geological Survey said Tuesday the scientists were not predicting an imminent great quake. But he said that this region of the White Mountain fault system has not had an earth movement of 7 magnitude in the past 100 years, while there have been great quakes on the same range to the north and south. # Soviets To Allow U.S. Anglers To Fish For Giant Siberian Trout The New York Times MOSCOW -- The chance to fish for the giant Siberian taimen, long just a gleam in the eye of American anglers, should soon be possible under an agreement signed recently by Soviet and American fishing groups. The taimen, the largest member of the trout family, commonly weighs 40 pounds or more when fully grown and has been known to reach more than 130 pounds. It is unknown outside the cold, remote rivers of Siberia. The fishing agreement, one of the more unusual to emerge from the improvement in relations between Moscow and Washington, was negotiated and signed in Moscow in July. American diplomats said it was an example of how an American group, operating without the help of the government, could develop ties with the Soviet Union. The signatories were representatives of Trout Unlimited, an American fishing and conservation group based in Vienna, Va., and the Union for Hunting and Fishing in the Russian republic, the largest of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics. Under the agreement, American anglers should be able to fish for taimen in Siberian rivers next summer, with an exploratory expedition possible early this fall before it turns too cold. Stephen Lundy, the Rocky Mountain regional vice president of Trout Unlimited and one of the Americans who negotiated the accord, said in a telephone interview from Denver Saturday, "To be able to fly fish in the Soviet Union, in strange waters for an unfamiliar fish, would be an unbelievable experience." Lundy ranked the taimen with the Atlantic salmon and brown trout, two of the fish most prized by fly fishermen for their elusiveness and fighting instincts. Eventually, Americans may also have a chance to fish for Atlantic salmon and char, a small trout, in Soviet rivers near the coast of the White and Barents Seas, Lundy said. In addition to fishing trips, the agreement called for exchanges of information on wildlife management and conservation. It also encouraged exchanges of fishing equipment and techniques that may introduce to the Soviet Union fly fishing, fiberglass rods and some unfamiliar practices, including the release of caught fish. The practice, known as catch-and-release, has gained popularity in the United States in recent years to help manage fish stocks, Lundy said. "That was the one thing that fascinated the Russians the most," he said. Freshwater fishing is one of the most popular sports in the Soviet Union, but fly fishing is almost unknown, according to Russians. === Page 84 of 99 Soviet Policy Changing Hong Kong PK The New York Times 8.1.86 MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union's foreign-policy apparatus has been undergoing a major overhaul, including the most thorough reorganization of the Foreign Ministry in memory, according to Soviet officials and Western diplomats. The structural and personnel changes have resulted in a shift of authority away from the Foreign Ministry to the party's Central Committee. The key person in policy making is now Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the former ambassador to the United States, who, as a national party secretary, became a member of the top Soviet leadership. The changes have contributed to the development under Mikhail S. Gorbachev of a more flexible, less dogmatic foreign policy that presents new challenges, problems and opportunities for the West, the diplomats said. Western diplomats cited Soviet overtures to China and Israel as well as improved relations with the United States as evidence of a less ideological approach among Russians. "There is a degree of suppleness they have not shown before," a Western diplomat said this week. The recent movement in arms-control talks stems in part from Soviet proposals in June that bore Dobrynin's pragmatic stamp, diplomats said. Moscow proposed a compromise on medium-range missiles and offered cuts in strategic forces in exchange for an extension of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that would have the effect of delaying American development of a space-based missile defense. Train spills chemicals in Iowa river UFO Sun Attack Trib 7/30/86 BOONE, Iowa (UPI) -- More than 200 teen-agers were evacuated Tuesday from a summer camp because of toxic chemicals spilled into the Des Moines River when a train was blown off a 190-foot-high trestle by 60 mph winds, officials said. "All indications are the train was hit by extremely high winds or a tornado," Chicago and North Western Vice President Jim Foote said. None of the train's four crew members was injured. Star Wars spending criticized The Pentagon misused research money, the audit said. with space work Trib 7/29/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization used money earmarked for Star Wars research for unauthorized projects such as air-conditioning office buildings and repairing roofs, according to a congressional audit released Monday. "We conclude that SDIO improperly charged its (research) accounts for expenditures that should have been charged against military construction funds," the General Accounting Office said in a 45-page audit. "We also found that SDI research funds were used for operational support such as to repair a roof and to maintain facilities. We found no evidence that the Congress was aware that SDIO funds were used for such items," it said. The Star Wars program, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative, is a research program to develop lasers and other exotic weaponry that could be used to auto- See AUDIT, Page 5A California quake felt in 3 states The High Sierra temblor was the fifth sizable quake to hit California in two weeks. By JACK SCHREIBMAN Associated Press Pac Ripple Trib 7/22/86 BISHOP, Calif. -- A severe earthquake and a powerful aftershock rumbled across California and parts of Nevada and Utah on Monday, wrecking up to 20 homes, cutting off a town's water and triggering rockslides in the High Sierra. One giant fissure -- 200 yards long and 150 yards wide -- swallowed a parked pickup truck and stranded 50 campers near Bishop, but no injuries were reported. Later Monday, violent thunderstorms prompted a flash flood warning. The temblors measured 6.1 and 5.2 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California at Berkeley, the second strong earthquake in as many days. It was the fifth sizable quake to hit California in two weeks. The quake struck at 7:42 a.m. in the White Mountains 240 miles north of Los Angeles and was felt from San Francisco to Las Vegas, Nev., and in Salt Lake City, more than 500 miles away. The aftershock came nine minutes later. Both were centered 15 miles north of Bishop in the same area where a 5.5-magnitude quake hit Sunday, said Dennis Meredith, spokesman for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "A number of mobile homes were rocked off their foundations" in Chalfant Valley, 17 miles north of Bishop, Mono County sheriff's Sgt. Terry Padilla said. "Currently there are about 145 homes in the immediate Chalfant area with about 300 residents," Forest Service spokeswoman Lorraine Parrish said. "Of those, about 50 to 60 are mobile homes. ... Probably about 50 mobile homes were shaken off their foundations." Chalfant firefighter Rick Mitchell said 20 homes, mostly mobile homes, were damaged beyond repair. But, he said, several non-mobile homes also were damaged, and one frame house nearly collapsed. Customers of the Denny's restaurant in Bishop dove 65 === Page 85 of 99 Atlantic * From Page 1A the National Marine Fisheries Service in Gloucester said about 120 tons of tuna have been landed so far this summer, less than one-third of last year's catch at this time. And spiny dogfish are eluding the few Gloucester fishermen who make their livelihood off the sharks, said Steven Murawski, an NMFS biologist in Woods Hole. Meanwhile, giant fish called basking sharks recently were spotted as close as 50 yards from Massachusetts' southern shores. Police closed beaches in several towns over the weekend despite the assurances of scientists that the sharks were harmless. What's causing odd creatures to show up off the coast and familiar ones to disappear are as-yet unexplained changes in the northeast Atlantic, biologists say. One such inexplicable change is a sudden uniformity of water surface temperatures that before this summer had fluctuated radically, said Paul Sieswerda, curator of fisheries and mammals at the New England Aquarium. But the most obvious change has been a sudden scarcity of pencil-thin animals called sand eels, the staple diet of many of the whales and fish that have vanished from familiar places. "I've been in the sand eel business 55 years and I've always seen plenty off Stellwagen," said Malcolm Hudson, owner of Hudson's Outboarding Inc. of Newburyport. "They're very scarce this year." Sand eels became the meal of choice for humpbacks and spiny dogfish a decade ago when the predators ran out of herring, made scarce from being overfished and overeaten. Humpbacks eat more than a ton of the sand eels daily. To find the sand eels, however, the predators had to move from George's Bank far off the coast to the much closer Stellwagen. Fishermen and whale watchers followed soon after. "Many people built their lives around the kind of system we've had for the last decade," said Charles Mayo, director of whale research at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. Now the predators have moved back out toward George's Bank and off New York and New Jersey, out of the reach of most Massachusetts whale-watch boats and small fishing vessels, in their search for a new food supply. A resurgence in mackerel catches off the Gulf of Maine is leading scientists to suspect that herring -- a mackerel favorite -- may be on the rise there too, said Douglas Beach, a whale expert with the NMFS. # Sea shifts The northeast Atlantic changes baffle scientists and worry some industries. UFO Sun Attack By CAROLYN LUMSDEN Associated Press Fri 8/14/86 BOSTON -- Unforeseen shifts in the sea are making profitable creatures scarce off the Massachusetts coast and sending sharks close to shore, and those who make their living on the water say they fear the phenomenon may be their ruination. "It's damaged me many thousands of dollars," said Al Avelar, who runs a $500,000-a-year whale-watch business out of Provincetown. For weeks, whale-watch boats laden with camera-toting tourists have searched in vain for the 1,000 huge humpback whales that used to lounge on Stellwagen Bank just 20 miles off the coast. What the boats have found instead is an abundance of right whales, a nearly extinct breed that usually summers off New Jersey. The humpback scarcity has hurt the business despite the good fortune in finding the rare whales, Avelar said. Tuna also are missing from their usual spots. Biologist Bill Jerome of # Water restrictions tightened; more hay heads to dry South UFO Sun Attack Associated Press Fri 8/7/86 Some communities in the drought-scarred Southeast have tightened the screws on water use, and more donated hay was crammed into boxcars Wednesday to help keep the region's cattle farmers in business. And in Washington, the House, pressing for more aid to the Southeast's farmers than the Reagan administration has so far offered, voted 418-0 on a bill to require the Agriculture Department to provide free government grain to areas suffering a critical shortage of livestock feed. "The additional assistance in our bill clearly cannot solve the entire drought problem. But it can help," said Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, chairman of the Agriculture Committee. Donations of hay have mounted into the thousands of tons, but officials in the heart of the drought say they may need millions by spring. The months-old drought, the worst in the Southeast in a century, has caused an estimated $2.3 billion in farm losses from southern Pennsylvania to northern Florida. A concurrent heat wave has killed 117 people from the Southeast to the Plains since July 1. The government of Villa Rica, Ga., voted to restrict some commercial water uses, extending its previous ban on outside watering to car washes, car lots and service stations. "We had hoped to avoid hitting anyone in the pocketbook," City Manager Robert Barr said. "But I'm afraid that's what we're going to have to do." One hundred Georgia cities have imposed water restrictions of various degrees. At least 47 North Carolina cities, counties and towns have voluntary conservation measures and the state's latest Drought Advisory Bulletin says water supplies will likely fall more over the next two months. A train named "Haymaker" rolled through Maine on Wednesday picking up boxcars loaded with donated hay. It was expected to total 57 cars hauling 38,170 bales and 304 huge rolls of hay destined for North Carolina and Delaware. (70) === Page 86 of 99 Soviet satellite falls into the Indian Ocean NORAD had predicted the huge satellite would fall into the Pacific off Alaska. By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer 8/17/86 CAPE CANAVERAL - A massive Soviet satellite fell from its decaying orbit Saturday and plunged back into the atmosphere, presumably breaking up in fiery chunks as it streaked toward Earth over the south Indian Ocean. Del Kindshi, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, near Colorado Springs, Colo., said Cosmos 1767 fell to Earth sometime between 5:26 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. EDT, according to tracking radars that have been following the errant satellite for the past two weeks. "It came in over the south Indian Ocean," he said. "From the trajectory, it appeared to be heading northwest to southeast." Precise information on where any debris may have fallen must await analysis of radar data, Kindshi said. The initial "terminal impact prediction," which called for re-entry earlier in the afternoon over the North Pacific Ocean off Alaska, turned out to be incorrect. There were no immediate reports of any sightings and while some chunks of debris may have made it to the surface, there was little chance of personal injury. "We missed our prediction," another NORAD spokesman said in a telephone interview. "Sometimes they strike the atmosphere and skip out," Kindshi said. "We've had some go around the Earth again before coming in." Experts believe the satellite was launched July 30 atop a Soviet SL-X-16 medium-class booster but it apparently failed to achieve the proper orbit, either because of a booster failure or a malfunction with on-board maneuvering jets. Because of the SL-X-16 booster's payload capability, the satellite may have weighed up to 15 tons. If so, it See SATELLITE, Page 12A Air Control Tower Hit By Lightning 8/8/86 ATLANTA (AP) - Air traffic across the Southeast was disrupted when lightning struck a major control center, knocking out computer, radar and radio signals for about an hour. After the lightning strike Thursday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all outbound flights in the Southeast while it concentrated on directing planes already airborne. FAA spokesman Jack Barker said several bolts of lightning hit the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hampton, south of Atlanta, at 3:25 p.m. The center controls air traffic for the northern three-quarters of Georgia once the planes leave the areas controlled by airports. After the outage, all planes in the air were ordered to fly holding patterns, and no other aircraft were allowed into the Southeast region for an hour. "It was a monster," said Jerry Crosley, a senior vice president with Miami-based Eastern Airlines. "The impact of this has got to be felt clear across the whole country." "We concentrated on getting the aircraft that were already in the air either down safely or on through our area," Barker said. He said he did not know how many planes were in the center's control area when the lightning struck. He said a backup computer began functioning immediately, and that various affected systems started working again almost from the time they stopped. He said all equipment was working properly within about an hour. He said the controllers never completely lost contact with the planes under their control. "They were able to maintain contact using tower radars along the way, using adjacent (FAA) centers, and all the radar in Hampton didn't go down," Barker said. "The controllers did a very good job of keeping things orderly. "There were no operational errors reported at all," he said. 5/31/86 Barfield said: "It's depressing. The drought has changed the morale here. People feel helpless." Last month was the hottest July on record in Columbus, so hot that grass crackled underfoot and air conditioners were stolen from homes and offices. The daily high temperatures in this city of 170,000 people averaged 97.6 degrees and exceeded 100 on eight days. The last day in July was the hottest, 104 degrees. Californians Brace For More Quakes 7/21/86 Continued from page 1A tude quake and was followed by two strong aftershocks measuring 5.2 and 5.1 on the Richter scale and dozens of smaller aftershocks. Quakes earlier this month shook the Southern California coastline near Oceanside and the desert around Palm Springs. Dr. Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, wrote Monday to William Medigovich, director of the state Office of Emergency Services, warning that the Sierra area faces more quakes. "It is our assessment that the region of Chalfant Valley from Bishop north to the Nevada border may experience additional earthquakes similar to the July 21 event during the next several days," Peck said. A series of smaller quakes that began July 3 and led up to Monday's temblor are part of a marked increase in seismic activity over the last decade that could generate an earthquake of 7 on the Richter scale, he said. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects ground movement 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3. Officials said all 145 homes in Chalfant Valley, 10 miles north of Bishop, sustained some damage. Fifty-three mobile homes were knocked from their stands and some were badly damaged. Uninhabitable mobile homes forced about 50 people to seek other lodging, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Dick Serino. === Page 87 of 99 Ground gained on forest fires in Northwest Psi-Ripples 8/19/86 Associated Press An estimated 18,000 firefighters gained ground against lightning-sparked blazes that have burned nearly 400,000 acres of forest and grazing land in a week. Most of the fires remaining in northeastern Oregon were contained or nearly contained and only two blazes of more than 10,000 acres remained out of control in that state, fire officials said. "If the wind dies down, by golly, we're going to put a hammerlock on this thing in a few days, we think," said Ron DeHart, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service in Enterprise, Ore. The 2,191-acre Garden Valley complex of fires in Idaho, where temperatures soared to near 100 degrees, also was nearly contained. So far this month, 387,000 acres have been burned in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon and Washington, with fires on 92,150 acres still out of control, said Lee Poague, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the forest fire command post for the West. The center said an estimated 18,000 firefighters were committed. Poague said the center called in 32 more crews Sunday night, and some 20-member teams from Missouri and Michigan arrived in Boise during the night. The center dropped a "red flag" alert issued over the weekend when more lightning storms were predicted. Lightning detectors registered 1,522 strikes Saturday night in central Oregon. But on Sunday, a smaller storm left only 18 strikes in the region. UFO 202 SpaceWork 0.SB 8/16/86 # Veteran Space Pilot Requests New Post SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Gordon Fullerton, a veteran space pilot who recently criticized NASA's space station plans, has asked to be transferred from the astronaut corps to an aeronautical research group, according to a source. Fullerton has asked to join a group of NASA test pilots who conduct research flights in advanced aircraft at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, according to a space agency official who spoke only on condition he not be identified. No final action has been taken on the request, the source said. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Steve Nesbitt said Fullerton, a 49-year-old Air Force Colonel who has twice flown on the shuttle, declines to be interviewed and would neither confirm or deny the report. If Fullerton is transferred, it will reduce the astronaut corps to 87. In the last 13 months, eight astronauts have resigned or been reassigned. One was killed in a plane crash, and five were among the seven people killed in the Jan. 28 explosion of Challenger. In a report, he urged that the station include a life boat system that would enable astronaut crews to quickly return to Earth if a rescue space shuttle was not available. Fullerton also urged that most of the critical parts in the station be housed inside the module, thus reducing the number of space walks required for routine maintenance. Fullerton is one of seven military astronauts who transferred to NASA in 1969 after an Air Force manned space program was canceled. He earlier served as a test pilot on Air Force bombers. Tampa Bay Bandits FK By JOEY JOHNSTON and NICK PUGLIESE 8/9/86 Tribune Sports Writers Bandits owner Lee Scarfone said Coach Steve Spurrier, the entire coaching staff and most of the front-office personnel will be released from the organization by next Friday. The Bandits are awaiting a Sept. 3 hearing on the damages portion of the United States Football League's antitrust suit against the National Football League. The USFL plans to play again in the fall of 1987. Scarfone said Spurrier will be paid the guaranteed portion of his contract ($100,000). Spurrier could not be reached for comment. Although he is free to pursue other coaching jobs, Spurrier has said there are really none available until November or December. Director of business operations Abbey Sierra and some secretarial help will be retained throughout the off-season, Scarfone said. Meantime, the 61 players under contract to the Bandits were released from their obligations at 5 p.m. on Friday. Most will explore opportunities in the NFL or Canadian Football League, but some are giving up football. After sifting through all the player moves, the Bandits will submit a protected roster of at least 10 players to the USFL on Sept. 15. The Bandits will be responsible for those players' off-season compensation, the details of which have not been finalized. UFO 102 SpaceWork # Thieves Get Moon Dust When Stealing Van MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Thieves who stole a NASA van carried off moon dust samples, a small computer and a laser-activated video recorder and destroyed a space suit when they torched the van, police said. There was no way to put a cash value on the moon dust, said police spokesman Ness Smith. "They're not replaceable," he said. The 1982 Ford van was stolen near the residence of Louis Marshall, who conducts educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was found burned on the outskirts of town, police said Friday. O.SB 8/10/86 (72) === Page 88 of 99 UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/16/86 Drought hits animals' food GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- Many bear cubs may die over the winter because drought shrank the acorn crop in the Smoky Mountains, wildlife expert Mike Pelton of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville said. State officials are just beginning the annual acorn survey, but there have been some signs that the prolonged drought has caused oak trees to drop the nuts prematurely. "We are experiencing a fantastic cub crop this year because we had a good acorn crop last year," he said. "The worry is that we'll lose a lot of the cubs as they begin to leave their mothers and have to compete with other bears." # 12 North Florida counties declared disaster areas UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/14/86 TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng named 12 drought-stricken counties in North Florida disaster areas Wednesday. The designation will make farmers eligible for low-interest loans and other aid in Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Walton, Baker, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Madison and Nassau counties. Gov. Bob Graham had asked for government relief for 21 counties, although Nassau wasn't one of them. Weeks of hot, dry weather have scorched North Florida crops and left cattle herds without feed. Graham said the designation for the 12 counties was based on the fact they are contiguous to counties in Georgia and Alabama that have previously been designated disaster areas. "We appreciate the prompt response of the Department of Agriculture, enabling eligible farmers in these counties to obtain Farmers Home Administration low interest loans, emergency feed assistance and other aid as they face production losses and other hardships caused by the drought," Graham said. Graham said he would continue to push for disaster assistance for the other counties -- Union, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Washington, Calhoun, Liberty, Wakulla, Taylor, Suwannee and Lafayette. Hong Kong PK Trib 8/7/86 Arms experts slate consultations MOSCOW -- U.S. and Soviet arms experts will meet in Moscow next week for talks on space and nuclear weapons, the official news agency Tass said Wednesday. The consultations on August 11 and 12 form part of preparations for a meeting between Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington on September 19 and 20, the agency said. Shevardnadze and Shultz will devote their talks to preparing a second summit between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan. , 1986 # 11,000 Firefighters Still On The Attack By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 8/17/86 Thick smoke obscured parts of the Northwest again Saturday as an estimated 11,000 firefighters battled range and forest fires that have threatened homes and charred at least 300,000 acres in a week. About 90,000 acres still burned out of control Saturday in Idaho and eastern Oregon, and fire crews likely will spend another week stopping them, said Arnold Hartigan, spokesman for the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the national forest fire control center. About 170 new fires were reported to the center Friday, and "our weather forecast isn't particularly conducive to making much headway," said Boise National Forest spokesman Gary Cornell. Another onslaught of lightning, similar to the storm that sparked hundreds of blazes across the state a week ago, was predicted for this weekend along with high temperatures and low humidity. Firefighters in Idaho concentrated Saturday on a fast-moving 1,000-acre range fire south of Salmon that had threatened 40 homes, and on blazes near Garden Valley that had charred nearly 10,000 acres. Heavy smoke, which grounded earlier fire retardant air drops, built up again Saturday in west-central Idaho valleys, said Barb Forderhase of the Boise National Forest. On Friday, the smoke lifted long enough to let firefighters drop flame retardant from airplanes on the three Anderson Creek fires in the Garden Valley area, but that was abandoned because it had no effect on the intense, wind-fanned fires. Those fires had burned some 7,700 acres. Also in the Garden Valley complex, three smaller fires burned into one larger one of about 1,700 acres centered about 20 miles north of Crouch. === Page 89 of 99 5, 1986 # Tornado Rips Through Lee, Few Injuries CAPE CORAL (AP) -- A tornado touched down on the edge of this Southwestern Florida town Saturday afternoon, peeling roofs off houses and turning boats into planes, but causing no serious injuries, officials said. At least 10 houses suffered heavy damage, and more than 100 others were slightly damaged, sheriff's deputies and emergency officials estimated. The Lee County Emergency Medical Service transported only five people to Cape Coral Hospital, all suffering from minor injuries, said EMS coordinator John Wilson. "We're going house-by-house now to see if there are any left in houses with injuries we don't know about," Wilson said. Capt. Tom Halvorsen of the Lee County Sheriff's Department, who lives in the area hit by the twister, said damage was limited to an area of about 8 to 10 square blocks. The area covers several blocks in Cape Coral and the rest in an area known as Lochmoor Pines in unincorporated Lee County. "It looked like a war zone," Halvorsen said. "In the 14 years I've been an officer, I've never seen that kind of damage in such a small area. That's what was so amazing about it, it was such a small area." Halvorsen said he had not seen the twister, but several residents reported viewing the funnel cloud at about 5:30 p.m. He said 10 to 15 houses had extensive damage and another 50 to 60 had less severe damage, such as shingles and screens missing. The Cape Coral Police dispatcher said she didn't have any damage estimates from officers on the scene, but Wilson said Cape Coral officials had told him about 70 houses suffered minor damage and one duplex was destroyed in the city. Halvorsen said he didn't see any houses which were leveled. "None were completely destroyed because most of the houses around here are that concrete block construction and their pretty tough," he said. "The roofs just blow off." The sheriff's officer said he first got word of the twister from his wife, who called him at the office to report their 16-foot boat had blown away. # President optimistic on arms control ## Reagan denied he offered to delay deployment of Star Wars, and said he looks forward to a summit. * Reagan offers new farm aid -- 5A * Botha: South Africa will survive -- 8A CHICAGO (UPI) -- President Reagan said Tuesday he is optimistic that he will hold a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev this year and that "we're going to make more progress than we've made in a number of years." Reagan refused to detail the reason for his optimism beyond indicating it was the results of recent exchanges with Gorbachev and the possibility of a summit with him later this year. Reagan, holding his first formal news conference since June, denied he offered to delay deployment of his Star Wars missile-defense system as a point of leverage in arms negotiations in a letter to Gorbachev. "I'm not going to discuss what was in my letter," Reagan said. "No one guessing has guessed right yet." "I'm optimistic that we're going to make more progress than we've made in a number of years," was all Reagan would say when asked about prospects for a summit. He said his optimism was linked to "problems" Gorbachev was having currently, but he did not elaborate on what they were. **Reagan** **Quake shakes California** OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale shook parts of San Diego and Orange counties early Tuesday, but authorities received few calls and no reports of damage. The temblor struck at 1:18 a.m. and was centered 28 miles southwest of Oceanside in the Pacific Ocean, said Dennis Meredith, a spokesman for the Caltech Seismology Laboratory in Pasadena. === Page 90 of 99 SOUTHEAST DROUGHT THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, July 24, 1986 # Temperatures in Bay area normal, rains break pattern By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer While a hot spell of historic magnitude continues to blister the Southeast, the Tampa Bay area registers temperatures in keeping with summers past. The highs generally have climbed into the low 90s, deviating very little from past averages. But if the heat is conforming to longstanding trends, the rains are defying them. "We just don't have an identifiable pattern this year," explained Lois Ball, director of Tropical Weather International, a private forecasting firm based in Tampa. "We're picking up more sporadic showers at different times of the day." An example of the atypical weather occurred Wednesday when a major thundershower drenched downtown Tampa shortly after noon. Usually, downpours like that one form much later in the day. Overall this summer, the rainfall patterns have been topsy-turvy because the winds that usually carry showers across the peninsula from the East Coast have been dormant. Instead, winds off the Gulf of Mexico have prevailed, bringing morning and early afternoon showers to the Bay area as they sweep eastward across the state. Meteorologists blame this on a large high pressure area that determines the prevailing winds by its location in the atmosphere. For most of the summer, the "Bermuda high," as it is known, has been out of kilter. "Sometimes it breaks southward for a week or two," said Jim Noffsinger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ruskin. "But I can't remember when it's lasted this long. It's somewhat unprecedented." High pressure systems trap moisture near the Earth's surface, creating sticky conditions in the Bay area. They inhibit cloud formation, one reason temperatures remain so high in Georgia and other states. Bay area rainfall slacked off this spring and thus far this summer because high pressure systems militate against the formation of thunderstorms. But officials say West-Central Florida is not as dry as last year, when they imposed water-use restrictions. Some weather specialists see a connection in the life-threatening drought in the region and the ways in which local weather is taking unexpected turns. "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone came along and associated these high pressure systems with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation," said Jay Martsolf, a University of Florida meteorologist. El Nino refers to a Pacific Ocean phenomenon that affects the world's weather. Meteorologist Noffsinger said whatever cools off the Southeast probably would cause the trade winds to change directions, and bring back the more conventional rain patterns to Tampa. # Georgia considers water curbs ATLANTA (AP) -- If Georgia's water supplies continue to dry up under a broiling heat wave and lengthy drought, state officials may cut off the tap to businesses and some cities may be forced to take farmers to court to ensure adequate drinking water supplies. The state may require "curtailment or closing" of certain commercial operations later this year, state Natural Resources Commissioner Leonard Ledbetter said Wednesday. Under water conservation guidelines already on the books, the first to go would be such businesses as car washes and coin-operated laundries. Georgia's water priority laws have been invoked in recent weeks to order 103 municipalities to issue outdoor water use restrictions or bans. If an emergency develops, Ledbetter said hospitals and nursing homes would be given top priority for water. Residential water supplies for drinking, cooking and basic sanitation are second on the list, followed by farmers who grow perishable goods such as poultry, fruits and vegetables. "Everything else can be cut off," Ledbetter said. That system may be too rigid, said Paul DeLoach, a spokesman for the Miller Brewing Co.'s brewery in Albany. "I certainly think business has to be included," he said. "No one would say hospitals shouldn't have priority, but when you start talking about agriculture and other businesses, you have to be... flexible." Cutting back production or closing the brewery, which employs 950 people and an additional 200 at a can-making facility 20 miles away, would have severe economic repercussions, DeLoach said. Tribune photo by FRED FOX Hay donated by Midwestern farmers is unloaded from a military cargo plane in Greenville, S.C. 75 === Page 91 of 99 USFL 8/5/86 Bandits PK Trib From Page 1A Bandits owner Lee Scarfone, who attended the meeting with Abbey Sierra, the team's director of business operations, said he was intent on playing the 1986 season. But, "We could not effectively put enough people together to go forward and lose $3 million to $5 million apiece," he said. "Tony Cunningham (co-owner) and I have spent over $3 million in cash (since purchasing the Bandits in August 1985), and now we're not going to see a football team. It's very disappointing." "We just don't think we could have gotten the amount of fans one would need. I think the best thing to do is suspend play until we get some kind of judicial relief." Scarfone said Bandits' season ticket holders, of which there are "less than 5,000," will receive a full refund plus 10 percent interest "very shortly." Of immediate concern is the status of USFL coaches and players. Bandits coach Steve Spurrier, whose contract expires Jan. 31, 1987, will remain, Scarfone said. But the players, who have already been inactive for one year and may be asked to sit out another, have a cloudy future. Scarfone also has to deal with how he is going to retrieve thousands of dollars of equipment, sportswear and souvenirs confiscated by sheriff's deputies on a lien filed by former free safety Bret Clark, who said the team owes him $150,000. Usher has appointed a three-man committee, chaired by Jacksonville Bulls owner Fred Bullard, to study the status of USFL players and their offseason compensation. The committee will meet with the USFL Players Association later this week, probably Thursday, at an unknown location. USFLPA Executive Director Doug Allen said he wants a solution "as soon as possible, if not sooner." There is no time to delay, he added, considering that NFL training camps and the job opportunities they bring are under way. If the committee and USFLPA agree to release players from their contracts, stars such as Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, Doug Flutie and Kelvin Bryant could jump to the NFL as early as Friday. The Buccaneers hold the NFL rights to Arizona quarterback Doug Williams and New Jersey linebacker Andy Hawkins. Some owners said they expect to lose some players, but they will be replaced. "A new league came in and got three Heisman Trophy winners (Walker, Mike Rozier and Flutie) in three years," said Argovitz. "And a new league can do the same thing again, but with a solid business plan." "There's a new pool of players every year," added the Stars' Ross. The USFL's plan will mean continuing to pay salaries without any income. The USFL, which lost approximately $150 million in three spring seasons, was to have begun its first fall season Sept. 13. But that season was contingent on a heavy damage award in its suit against the NFL. The suit claimed that the older league had used pressure tactics to prevent the USFL from obtaining a network television contract. Last Tuesday in U.S. District Court, a six-member jury found the NFL guilty of monopoly power, willfully acquiring or maintaining monopoly power, and causing injury to the USFL. However, the jury awarded just $1 in damages (tripled to $3 under antitrust regulations). The USFL plans to ask for a retrial on the damage issue during a Sept. 3 hearing with Judge Peter Leisure. USFL attorney Harvey Myerson said the league's legal options are: pursuit of a retrial on damages, an appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of New York, an application for injunctive relief, or enlistment of help from the Department of Justice. "We are sitting here with a verdict that you have one of the most powerful monopolies in the history of American sports," Myerson said. "It had the intent to injure my clients with actual injury to my clients. And not only my clients, it hurts the American public and competition in this country." "We are not dead. Those of you who came to bury the United States Football League will be sadly disappointed." Chilling preview of fall shocks Midwesterners with record lows * Holiday forecast -- 2B United Press International Crisp, autumn-like temperatures, under sparkling blue skies chilled the Midwest on Thursday, shattering record lows in at least 30 cities across nine states, including a century-old reading in Louisville, Ky. Along the edge of the cold Canadian air, rain stretched from the middle Atlantic Coast across the southern Appalachians into the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service said. Unseasonably cool temperatures in the 50s and 60s chilled the Midwest. Early morning record lows were set in 30 cities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. In Louisville, a 101-year-old record of 52 degrees was broken by a reading of 51 degrees, the weather service said. Deep in the Appalachian mountains along the Kentucky-Virginia border, morning fog combined with dropping temperatures kept down the number of hikers at Kentucky's Kingdom Come State Park, but trout fishermen were delighted and showed up in greater numbers. In Milwaukee, Martin Williams, an assistant manager at a concession stand at Bradford Beach on Lake Michigan, said the cold weather had driven away beach-goers. "It's ruining our business," Williams said. "The beach is empty." Readings of 42 in Columbia, Mo., and 41 in Des Moines, Iowa, toppled records set in 1891. It was a record 39 in Kokomo, Ind., and 36 in Lansing, Mich. The lowest reading nationwide was 29 degrees at Hibbing, Mont., the weather service said. "It's still August, but (the temperatures) are probably more typical of late September or early October," said weather service forecaster Paul Fike. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered over Texas. Three to 4 inches of rain fell from the Water Valley area to Grape Creek. In Fairfax County, Va., at least 18 people were injured, three seriously, when a van traveling on a rain-slick road hit a car head-on and careened into a tree early Thursday, police said. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight. They may not match the list at right, which reports lows and highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. === Page 92 of 99 At least $25 million spent to fight fires United Press International UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/21/86 The cost of fighting this summer's rash of forest and brush fires around the nation has been at least $25 million, most of it in the West where stubborn hot spots raged Wednesday over 88,850 acres in nine states, officials said. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Burford was in Idaho to present an award to the Boise Interagency Fire Center, firefighter headquarters, for its performance for the 1985 season. But he noted the huge effort being expended in the battle against 6,161 fires, most of them started by barrages of dry lightning storms, spread over 710,685 acres of dry wilderness across the West since Aug. 2. "You've already surpassed last year's records in the number of people dispatched and the number of calls responded to during this season, which isn't over yet," Burford said. This week, 17,800 firefighters and support personnel from nearly every state were dispatched to the fire lines. In 1985, the Interagency Fire Center called up more than 14,000 firefighters during a four-day period. This fire season has been one of the West's worst. Still uncontained were blazes on 64,000 acres in Oregon, 18,500 in Idaho, 2,500 in Utah, 2,200 in Colorado, 400 each in Montana and Wyoming, 200 each in Washington and California and 150 in Nevada. Burford said conservatively it has cost at least $25 million nationally to fight forest and brush fires this summer. More than 90 percent of the activity has been in the Northwest, he said. He said more than 1 million pounds of grass seed has been ordered to rehabilitate the ranges. He noted the BLM spent $9 million on seed in 1984, but this year the cost will be higher. Among the newest blazes, seven brushfires broke out in the Los Angeles foothills Tuesday but were contained. Firefighters suffered through 100-degree temperatures Wednesday to keep hot spots from flaring up. A 250-acre suspected arson blaze in the hills between Glendale and Pasadena damaged four homes before being contained. There was hope that the infernos in eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho were nearing an end. Roland Emetaz of the Unified Fire Command in Salem, Ore., said the fires in northeast Oregon were 80 percent contained. "No major lightning storms are projected, and it looks like it'll be a little bit cooler and more humid later in the week," he said. In southern Oregon, 100 firefighters were back on the lines fighting the 4,000-acre fire near the Deschutes National Forest. It was 50 percent contained by midday Wednesday. On the other hand, a fire in east-central Oregon thought to be contained, jumped from 8,000 to 19,000 acres during a three-hour span Wednesday morning. In Colorado, rain helped firefighters contain a 2,268-acre timber and brush fire in the northwest corner of the state. At least two forest fires were burning out of control in the Bitterroot National Forest of southwestern Montana but they totaled only 410 acres. More miserable weather expected in Tampa; tornadoes hit Detroit UFO Sun Attack Ripple Tribune Staff and Wires 8/3/86 More hot, muggy weather is in store for the Tampa Bay area today with an expected heat index of 105 based on the temperature and the humidity, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin. The index that reached 116 on Friday decreased to 107 Saturday when a high of 93 degrees was reported. The 93 degrees failed to break a 96-degree record set in 1908, according to Weather Service meteorologist Chuck Eggleton. He attributed the lower heat index to clouds blocking the sun and a sea breeze. Widely scattered thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon and evening today and Monday with a 50 percent chance of rain each day, 20 percent tonight. Highs during the day are expected to reach the low to mid-90s, with lows in the middle to upper 70s. "We won't be quite as miserable (as on Friday), just miserable," Eggleton said. Meanwhile in the Detroit area, three tornadoes touched down Saturday, overturning cars on a freeway and injuring three passengers. And gusty thunderstorms brought cool air and widespread damage to the heat-weary South. In Detroit, three people were injured by a tornado that lifted four cars off the eight-lane Interstate 96, police said. The victims were admitted in good condition with cuts and bruises to Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital in Detroit. The twisters tore down several light poles and street signs, but caused no severe damage, police said. Two other tornadoes touched down in Macomb County, northwest of Detroit, causing minor damage while thunderstorms in southeast lower Michigan knocked out power to 7,000 home, police said. In the South, storms knocked down power lines and thousands of trees, but brought some relief from the record 100-degree-plus temperatures that have plagued the region for the last week. Several minor injuries were reported. "The most recent record-breaking heat wave is over," said meteorologist Bill Alexander in Atlanta. Cold records tumble in 55 cities as Canadian air mass chills East UFO Sun Attack Trib 8/30/86 United Press International Cold Canadian air chilled the eastern half of the nation Friday, shattering record lows in 55 cities from Louisiana to New Hampshire and toppling a 112-year-old record in the nation's capital. Light drizzle fell over western Texas and the Southwest where heavy thunderstorms overnight knocked out power to two Phoenix hospitals, forcing surgeons to operate by flashlight and the evacuation of patients. Easterners pulled on sweaters and long underwear to weather the unseasonable cold. Record lows were set or tied in 55 cities in 23 states and record lows for August set in a dozen cities, the National Weather Service said. The temperature dipped to 25 degrees in Bradford, Pa., overnight. In the nation's capital, the mercury dropped to 49, breaking 112-year-old record of 50 degrees. It was the second consecutive day of record low temperatures. Morning lows were in the 30s and 40s in upper Midwest and Northeast. The chilliest readings were near the Appalachian Mountains and frost was reported as far south as Newland, N.C. A staff member at the Mount Washington Weather Observatory said nearly an inch of snow fell on the highest peak in the Northeast, prompting him to put on his long underwear. Readings of 54 in Monroe, La., 51 in Kansas City, Mo., and 32 in Concord, N.H., also set records, the weather service said. Showers and thunderstorms also dampened northern Florida, southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina. 77 === Page 93 of 99 Cold air chills upper Midwest; snow falls in parts of Michigan& UFO Sm Attack United Press International Trib. 9/28/86 Cold air over the upper Midwest Wednesday chased away the dog days of August with record low tem- peratures in the 30s and 40s and light snow that whitened the skies of | In a special statement. northern Michigan for the first time in August. The cold front, which churned up severe thunderstorms and torna- does Tuesday as it raced across the Midwest, pushed storms into the East and dropped temperatures in the 30s and 40s overnight from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes. In Atlantic City, N.J., a private plane crashed in high winds, killing two of three people aboard, officials said. The cool temperatures and brisk north winds gusting across the Great Lakes and northern Ohio Valley made the closing days of August seem like opening days of winter. Early morning readings of 32 in Duluth, Minn., 44 in Minneapolis and 38 in St. Cloud, Minn., set or tied new records for the date. Midday tem- peratures were in the 60s and 70s across most of the region, the Na- tional Weather Service said. A shower of light snow pellets fell at midday Wednesday around the Marquette County Airport and nearby K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in the Upper Peninsula. By 2 p.m. Marquette was the coldest spot in the nation at 51 degrees. "The National Weather Service has no records of previous snowfall during August in Michigan," it said/ Frost is possible in low-lying areas of the Upper Michigan Penin- sula this morning. The cold front triggered thunder- storms over the Appalachians and rain was widespread across New England. The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight (day of the week). They may not match the list at right, which is recorded with- out regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service. Steamy And Sticky MEUSmAttack Continued from page 1A 53 13 e will be from the southwest at five to Some weather watchers reported a short, but heavy downpour while others got only a drizzle in early morning showers. Sam and Helen Noyce at Cotton Plant reported "four or five drops of rain and thunder," this morning. The high there Sunday reached 99 with a 100-degree read- ing on Saturday and humidities in the 80s and 90s. In Anthony, Frances and Marga- ret Sturgis reported a drizzling rain after a high of 91 on Sunday. Donald Garton at Lake Joe in the Ocala Na- tional Forest had no rain this morn- ing and a high of 94 on Sunday. The Ocala Water Treatment Plant recorded a high of 98 on Sun- day after a low of 75 and no rain. Rain fell at a drizzling pace this morning and the low was 71 - though early morning tempera- tures as high as 84 were registered throughout the Big Sun. Very hot days and warm nights are forecast in Marion and Levy counties with the heat index to reach 105 to 110 during the day and drop only to about 80 at night through Tuesday. As skies clear in the morning skies will be sunny, hazy and very hot with temperatures expected to be near 100 degrees. A 40 percent chance of scattered afternoon thun- derstorms is forecast and winds ~10 mph. In Citrus and Sumter counties, the chance of rain is 30 percent as temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s. Skies will be sunny today and Tuesday and fair tonight as winds at 10 mph are expected from the southwest. The heat index is fore- cast near 105. Florida Record-breaking temperatures continued statewide through the weekend as a heat wave sent tem- peratures soaring Sunday. The mercury climbed to a statewide high of 102 degrees in Jacksonville, tying a record for the date set in 1942. A 100-degree after- noon in Tallahassee broke a record of 99 degrees set in the same year, while 95 degrees recorded at Miami International Airport tied a 1981 record. In Apalachicola, the high was 95 degrees and the heat index, a mea- surement that combines tempera- ture with humidity to indicate how hot it feels, was 112. Other high readings throughout the state included 99 degrees in Mil- ton and 98 degrees in Crestview and Pensacola. It was 97 degrees in Gainesville and Daytona Beach and 96 in Mel- bourne, Orlando and Vero Beach. 78 === Page 94 of 99 # Billionaire Hunt Clan Files For Chapter 11 Protection Texas/Hunt PK 8/30/86 DALLAS (AP) -- The embattled billionaire Hunt brothers, struggling to hang onto their empire in the worldwide depression of oil prices, filed for protection in federal bankruptcy court Friday to shield their oil company from bankers. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for Dallas-based Placid Oil Co. and its real estate subsidiary was the latest move in years of wheeling and dealing designed to save one of the nation's legendary fortunes, beginning with the 1980 silver debacle. Without the court protection, Hunt assets, including the brothers' downtown Dallas office tower, would have been auctioned off. Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt are behind on $1.5 billion in loans, but have charged that 23 banks conspired to wreck Placid and its sister firm, Penrod Drilling Co. The banks deny any wrongdoing, and say they only want repayment of the loans. Hunt spokesman Keith Burton said the family had not decided what action to take regarding Penrod but that a bankruptcy petition still was being considered. Placid President Dan Brown said the filing "was necessary to ensure the viability and profitability of Placid until such times as the litigation can be concluded." In its court filing, Placid listed assets of $2 billion, and liabilities of $979 million. Brown said the company would proceed with "business as usual." The two companies employ 20,000 people and are among the largest energy firms in the world. Placid's papers were filed in federal bankruptcy court in New Orleans because most of the privately held company's domestic assets are in Louisiana or offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, Brown said. The brothers, heirs to flamboyant wildcatter H.L. Hunt, allege the 23 banks are trying to corner the offshore drilling market by putting the two companies out of business, and have filed suits seeking $14 billion from the banks. H.L. was a Texas gambler who parlayed a $5,000 inheritance into one of the world's great oil fortunes, and his sons have carried on his sometimes eccentric, sometimes wild ways. But the brothers have fallen on hard times since the worldwide plunge in oil prices. Assets such as drilling rigs and leases once valued at $2 billion or more now are said to be basically worthless. The Hunts acknowledge that if forced to liquidate to repay the $1.5 billion in loans, Placid and Penrod would be destroyed. The Hunts' financial woes began surfacing years ago when Bunker and Herbert lost some $1.3 billion in what some called an attempt to corner the silver market. Analysts said the Hunts' suit against the banks was most likely a stalling tactic, and on Wednesday a federal judge denied a Hunt request to postpone the foreclosures. Still, Burton said, the family will fight to save its embattled companies. Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt rarely have offered public glimpses of their vast empire, which once was valued at some $6 billion and included farms, ranches and agriculture equipment throughout the Midwest, real estate in several states, sugar refiners and numerous other commodities in addition to the oil and gas operations. ![Lamar Hunt] Lamar Hunt ![Nelson Hunt] Nelson Hunt ![William Hunt] William Hunt 79 === Page 95 of 99 2 chemical fires leave 14 injured Hundreds of people in Indiana and North Carolina had to evacuate their homes. Associated Press Explosions at chemical plants in Indiana and North Carolina shot balls of flames into the early morning sky Thursday, injuring 14 people and forcing 1,600 people to flee their homes as thick fumes drifted over populated areas. Three tractor-trailer rigs filled with industrial chemicals exploded early Thursday at the Southchem plant in Durham, N.C., releasing a cloud that drifted over downtown. Seven firefighters and a police officer were treated for breathing difficulties and released. About 600 residents forced to leave in the middle of the night were allowed to return home about 6 a.m. EDT Thursday. "It was very frightening because a chemical fire, that could be anything," said one of the evacuees, Rudolph Moore. "It could blow up, it could turn into anything. So we left." A fire reported about 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Superior Chemical Co. in Elkhart, Ind., was extinguished Thursday after exploding 55-gallon chemical drums in a spectacular display that forced evacuation of about 1,000 people. "When I got there just a little bit of smoke was coming out of the eaves. In 10 to 15 minutes the whole building was involved," said Patrolman Milt Montandon. "We didn't know what we had at first. We had to wait for someone from the company to get here." Those residents were allowed back into their homes about 8 a.m. EDT. Six firefighters suffered chest pains and shortness of breath battling the blaze, said Baugo Township Fire Chief James Ferro. Scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who tested the air concluded there was no danger. The warehouse contained resin, acetone, dichloromethane and organic peroxide for use in the recreational vehicle industry. Firefighters allowed the blaze to burn through the night on the advice of hazardous chemical specialists, who said dousing the flames with water might contaminate groundwater supplies. The fire later was extinguished with chemical foam. Joseph Collie, president of the North Carolina chemical company, said the materials involved there were phosphates, chlorides and sulfides -- "basic industrial products" that are not poisonous. AP photo An explosion and resulting fire rip through a chemical warehouse in Indiana late Wednesday in a blaze that forced the evacuation of 1,000 people. === Page 96 of 99 # China To Soviets: Get Out Of Cambodia Hongkong PK O.SB 9/7/86 PEKING (AP) -- Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said he was ready to "go any place in the Soviet Union to meet with (Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev" if Moscow withdraws its support for Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia. The 82-year-old Deng also said that U.S. backing for Taiwan remains a serious obstacle to Chinese-U.S. relations. Deng spoke in an interview last Tuesday With Mike Wallace, a reporter for CBS. The interview will be broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes." Excerpts from the interview were carried by the official Xinhua News Agency. Deng said China and the Soviet Union "are actually in a state of confrontation" in Cambodia, where Soviet-backed Vietnamese troops have been fighting the past seven years against Cambodian resistance forces armed and financed by China. "If the Soviet Union can contribute to the withdrawal of Vietnamese troopsfrom Kampuchea (Cambodia), this will remove the main obstacle in Chinese-Soviet relations." China and the Soviet Union have been at odds since Mao Tse-tung and Nikita Khrushchev split over ideological differences in 1960. The last visit by a senior power holder was by Khrushchev to China in 1959. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Peking in 1969. Economic and cultural relations have gradually improved in recent years, and Gorbachev in a major address in Vladivostok on July 28 called for an end to decades of hostility. China says the Soviet Union must first remove the "three obstacles" -- Cambodia, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, and Soviet troop deployment along the Soviet-Chinese border. Deng emphasized that Cambodia is the most important of the three. "Once this problem is resolved, I will be ready to meet Gorbachev. Now I am over 82, already advanced in years. I have long accomplished my historical task of making overseas visits. If this obstacle in Chinese-Soviet relations is removed, I will be ready to break the rule and go to any place in the Soviet Union to meet with Gorbachev." # Snow, Heavy Rains Thrash West By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack Eleven inches of new snow fell on Colorado's San Juan Mountains, while thunderstorms and winds up to 50 mph swept into Wisconsin on Friday, knocking down power lines and destroying a home. A tornado touched down Friday afternoon in Elkhart, Ind., near Elkhart Central High School and overturned at least one school bus, but injured none of the four children inside, officials said. Travelers' advisories for snow and slippery roads O.SD 9/27/86 were posted for the Cascades of Oregon, parts of the northern Sierra Nevada and in the Colorado mountains. Heavy thunderstorms led to flash-flood watches in lower Michigan and a flood warning was in effect for the Milk River and its tributaries in northern Montana. A state of emergency was declared in Van Buren County, Mich., where more than $200,000 damage was sustained by 50 to 70 homes and more than 7 inches of rain fell in two days. The new round of storms that began early Thursday have killed one person and injured five in South Haven Township, police said. Eight people have died in floods that began Sept. 10, and one missing person is presumed drowned. In South Haven, Mich., two miles of Interstate 196 was closed for two hours Friday because of water 4 feet deep under an overpass, said state police Sgt. Charles Keebler. # Floods Sock Montana; National Guard Called UFO Sun Attack O.SB 9/27/86 MALTA, Mont. (AP) -- National Guardsmen and residents sandbagged the rising Milk River and more than 120 people fled their homes Friday after torrential rains in north-central Montana left one person drowned, many animals dead and major highways closed. For the second day, hundreds of Amtrak passengers had to be bused 90 miles around washed out sections of railroad track. Gov. Ted Schwinden mobilized the Guard to help reinforce dikes at Malta when heavy rains Thursday caused what the National Weather Service called the worst flooding in 30 years along the Canadian border. As much as 8 inches of rain fell in 18 hours. About 45 miles to the west, in Harlem, one woman died Thursday when she and her husband were trapped by water and tried to swim to safety, authorities said. Officials said there were reports of large numbers of livestock drowned. The major highway across northern Montana, U.S. 2, was was closed Thursday but reopened Friday morning. The high water moved east Friday See National on page 6A === Page 97 of 99 # Southeast Drought Eases; $1 Billion in Losses Expected COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Increased rainfall since early August has boosted crop yields and lessened agricultural damage in the Southeast, but losses from the region's worst drought on record are still expected to exceed $1 billion, officials say. "The reality of the loss hits home when you actually harvest," said Charlie Curtis, an agriculture economist at Clemson University in South Carolina. At the peak of the dry spell, crops wilted from southern Pennsylvania all the way into northern Florida. Now, even after the rain, many farmers in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia are on the brink of ruin. The Federal Land Bank will foreclose on Elbert Coleman's 500-acre farm in central South Carolina if he doesn't make a $5,500 payment by Oct. 1 and a $6,000 payment in January. But his corn, wheat and tobacco gave him virtually nothing back, and his soybeans may represent his last chance. "I'm so afraid they're going to start shedding if they don't get some more rain soon," Coleman, 56, said. "I've been farming all my life," said Coleman, who has leukemia. "With the help of the good Lord and the good people, maybe I'll survive." Donations of hay continue to flow into the Southeast, but are expected to slow to a trickle when cold weather ends the growing season. "Things look pretty good now, but a lot of people aren't going to have enough feed for the winter," said Dan Ezell, assistant director of the Clemson University Extension Service. Rain came too late and at the wrong time for many crops, and was inadequate for others, said officials throughout the region. In many areas of the Southeast, rainfall is still more than 20 inches below normal and has not restored subsoil moisture, meteorologists said. "The rain has not eliminated the disaster by any means," said Bryan Patrick, director of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service in South Carolina. The total damage won't be known until after harvest, but officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have projected that losses may surpass $1 billion. Some state projections have been lowered dramatically by the increased rain. South Carolina and Georgia were hit hardest, said Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the USDA. Damages to crops, livestock and forestry in South Carolina are predicted at $260 million, Hal Harris, a Clemson agriculture economist, said Friday. That's more than $100 million less than earlier estimates. "It's quite a significant blow, but not as big as anticipated," Harris said. In Georgia, the estimate of crop losses tabulated Friday is $247.4 million, said Steve Rich, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. The department has not finished adding losses in tobacco and grain sorghum, he said. About $1 million may be lost in tree seedlings and growth, said Lynn Hooven of the Georgia Forestry Commission. In July, the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation estimated that losses could run as high as $533 million. The rain in late August and early September has led to slight improvements for some crops in North Carolina, but state officials have not revised their August estimate of $330 million in losses. # Storms sweep Missouri, cutting power, flooding roads, homes United Press International Heavy thunderstorms followed Interstate 70 across the breadth of Missouri Thursday, drenching the state with up to 7 inches of rain that flooded roads and apartments, cut electricity to thousands of homes and stranded motorists. Storms stretched from southern Illinois to southwest Indiana and into western Kentucky, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, President Reagan declared 22 Michigan counties a major disaster Thursday because of severe storms that produced torrential rains and flooding last week that was blamed for six deaths and $323 million in damage. In the Kansas City area, almost 7 inches of rain that fell during four hours flooded streets and creeks. About 12,000 customers lost electrical power, utilities reported. Residents along the Blue River in Kansas City were advised to evacuate because flooding was expected. Police and firefighters rescued stranded motorists in the Plaza and Westport areas of Kansas City, Mo., and in Mission, Kan. Westwood had 6.6 inches of rain, the weather service said. The heavy rains flooded parts of Interstate 70, which stretches across Missouri from Kansas City to St. Louis. Floodwaters 3 feet deep made Highway 50 between Sedalia and Jefferson City, Mo., impassable, the weather service said. The Little Blue River at Lake City, Mo., was 6 feet above flood stage at midday, officials said. More than 7 inches of rain fell in eastern Missouri and southwest Illinois, prompting officials to issue a flash-flood warning. Ste. Genevieve, Mo., had 7 inches of rain and Evansville, Ind., had 4 inches. In Jackson County, Ill., many roads were under water. # Weather satellite launch set LOS ANGELES -- A government weather satellite scheduled for launch next week atop an Atlas rocket will close some gaps in America's weather forecasting capabilities, project officials said Friday. The launch of the NOAA-G weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday has been delayed for a year by a series of administrative changes and technical troubles. The NOAA-G weather satellite will replace a malfunctioning meteorological satellite that no longer beams clear information back to Earth, a problem that has hampered weather forecasting capabilities, said project director Larry Heacock of the U.S. Weather Service. # Red tide sweeps Texas Coast CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Wildlife officials monitored winds and currents on the Gulf of Mexico on Monday to track a two-week-old red tide outbreak that has killed thousands of fish. The outbreak has been moving down the coast, remaining from Matagorda Bay at Port O'Connor to Cedar Bayou. === Page 98 of 99 # Floodwaters Swamp Michigan Killing 4, Forcing Evacuations PENTWATER, Mich. (AP) -- Floodwaters surged through lower Michigan today after days of torrential rains that killed four people, injured at least 20 and destroyed three dams, forcing hundreds of residents to flee. The three days of thunderstorms dumped up to 13 inches of rain, causing millions of dollars in damage, authorities said. The concrete Childsdale Dam south of Rockford in Kent County collapsed at 2:15 a.m. today, sending floodwaters down the Rogue River toward the village of Belmont, said Kent County Sgt. Clifford Atwood. "The whole thing's gone," he said of the hydroelectric dam at a defunct paper mill. An unknown number of Belmont residents fled, he said. An earthen dam at Rainbow Lake in Gratiot County crumbled shortly before 2 a.m. today, flooding Maple River and forcing at least 20 residents at Maple Valley from their homes, the Clinton County Sheriff's Department said. The floods also forced evacuations downstream in Matherton, Lyons and Muir in Ionia County, said sheriff's dispatcher Judy Batchelder. Temporary shelters were set up in Muir and Hubbardston. The earthen Hart Dam, seven miles upstream from Pentwater, gave way Thursday night and washed out the southbound bridge carrying U.S. Route 31 over the Pentwater River. But the flooding in Pentwater, where at least 250 residents evacuated, wasn't as bad as expected. "There were a lot of people here waiting for the tidal wave to come," Village Superintendent Dan Tarnowski said. "But the damage doesn't look too bad now." The showers ended early today, but flooding was likely to worsen in the Saginaw, Muskegon and White river basins, the National Weather Service said. In White Cloud, authorities intentionally breached an earthen embankment on the White River to relieve pressure on a concrete dam downstream, said Newago County sheriff's officer Brian Kolk. # Floods hit Michigan, Wisconsin; thousands flee as dams break United Press International Torrential rains across Michigan and Wisconsin Friday triggered a third day of flooding that broke dams, forced thousands to flee their soggy homes, cut power to 65,000 customers and killed at least five people. Storms that drenched lower Michigan with 13 inches of rain moved into the Northeast, but the runoff broke several dams, closed highways and schools and sent water cascading into basements in Michigan and southeast Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources warned that flood water in several areas of the central lower Penninsula may be contaminated with untreated sewage and toxic materials from an inundated Dow Chemical Co. plant. Michigan Gov. James J. Blanchard declared disasters in 18 western state counties and called out the National Guard to help with the cleanup. At least five people have died in flood-related accidents in Michigan, and 65,000 homes were left without electricity, authorities said. Belding Dam northeast of Grand Rapids was on the verge of breaking Friday night, and about 100 families were evacuated from low-lying areas beneath the concrete barrier, authorities said. # Dow takes record fall The 86.61 point single-day slide for the Dow Jones industrial average sets an all-time record, surpassing the previous drop of 61 points set on July 7. | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1950 | | | | | | | | 1900 | | | | | | | | 1850 | | | | | | | | 1800 | | | | | Down 86.61 | | | 1750 | | | | | | | | 1700 | | | | | | | | | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | | September | | | | | | === Page 99 of 99 Flooded Illinois county declared disaster; Atlantic Coast sizzles United Press International Illinois Gov. James Thompson declared rain-soaked Lake County north of Chicago a disaster area Sunday because of flooding that caused at least $20 million in damage, and a heat wave over the southern Atlantic Coast broke records set at the turn of the century. Thompson issued the declaration before leaving to tour the area Sunday afternoon in a boat. He said field reports from emergency officials indicated flood waters damaged at least 500 homes and 50 businesses and left more than 100 residents homeless. In Malta, Mont., the Milk River began to recede after water had spilled over sandbag-reinforced dikes because of jams caused by hay bales and logs. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered over the southern Plains and from the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys across the upper and middle Mississippi Valley to the northern Plains. Residents of the southern Atlantic Coast states baked in 90-degree weather. Records were broken or tied in several states. Savannah, Ga., reached 98 degrees Sunday, toppling a record set in 1900 and making it the fifth day in a row a high for the date has been recorded. Both Columbia, S.C., and Augusta, Ga., hit 96, breaking records set in 1900 and 1904, respectively. To the west, record lows were set in Klamath Falls, Ore., with a reading of 26, while in California, Sacramento had a record 46 and in Stockton, Calif., the mercury dipped to 45. (The record temperatures listed in this story are based on the period from midnight to midnight. They may not match the list at right, which reports recent overnight lows and daytime highs without regard to the 24-hour calendar day. Both lists are prepared by the National Weather Service.) Wed 7/16/86 Wakened by mechanical sound - loud speaker - out of nearby woods. Had to be UFO. Explain Beau heard it too. (must be important.) David thought ahead of Martha + let her walk into it. She did + turned + said "Oh, I haven't given you an alcohol rub yet!" (this tech could be developed) many, many plane crashes from disorientation 8/5/86 cleaner tried to steal my Chinese shirt. Hassle. Shop burned down. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8609b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1b863aae7aa8333812e4ff13e779f50d.pdf e9c995c38b00172ebac92a47004ed2d1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/37ad794b4f342881ade8e5f02dad4748.txt 13636a886c9dcdc3e5c9874f5e505f10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 18 Postmark 6-10-86 Monday, June 9, 1986 Jeffrey Scientists: My UFOs have severely crippled NASA and taught Russia (and the world) a valuable lesson at Chernobyl -- now they will turn their full attention to obtaining their UFO Base, which means that they intend to intensify and amplify pressure on the U.S. government to provide same... by sweeping "waves" of other-dimensional psi-force across the U.S. Now anything can happen! Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 18 May 23, 1986 Dear Rosy Rhine: I enjoyed very much hearing from you. I can still see vividly your cute little face, smiling impishly at me...a face sitting atop a chubby little girl's bod. My age then was 26 (now 66) and I had brought you a little gift on my way down to Duke from Bedford, Indiana. It was a wooden doll that danced when you pressed the bottom block of wood. I believe that you wore pigtails then. What ever happened to Robby? Read an article about the Rhine family in Fate mag...all members of the family were described, but no mention whatever of Robby. ??? No, was not aware that Louie had passed away. She was something else. Seems like yesterday that Louie and I were walking through the woods and she told me, "Ted, you have to learn to channel your psychic powers...control them." She and JB (the Bull of the Woods) were my "displaced parents" at Duke. They would have me go over to your house in the evening to eat supper with you, around that big table. A man gave me a set of drums...and Louie told me to come over to her house and set them up in front of the fireplace in the living room to test them out. When a millionaire's daughter invited me to a Duke dance...I had no tux so JB took out his tux which he used to wear to lectures and put it on me so that I could go to the dance. The pants were too short, too tight...old and frayed...but at least it was a tux. My date wore a dress covered, believe it or not, with diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds. Ha ha. (She was in law school; was from Miami). Your dad dictated "The Reach of the Mind" to me and I typed it out for him to send to the publisher...believe it was William Sloane and Associates. The publisher wanted JB to let Phillip Wylie write the foreword for the book but JB had a fit. He wanted a dignified scientist to do it...not some "young upstart" like Wylie. Ha ha ha. JB and Louie would have me over some nights to the house for seances. I was the medium. Betty Mac and Betty Humphreys would be there, too. One funny thing that happened...JB, Betty Mac, Betty Humphreys, myself and a few others were playing touch football one afternoon...I was on one side and JB was on the other side. After a play was over (JB had the ball) JB and his team gathered in a huddle to plan the next play. They didn't know I had sneaked across the line of play and gotten into the huddle with them. "Now here is what we're going to do..." said JB, and he outlined a play. "No, Dr. Rhine, that won't work" I said, cackling with laughter...and JB and the others chased me all over the field in mock rage. One day JB took me down into the basement and told me there was a secret door and a hidden room there. I could not figure out where the door was...until he showed me how that entire concrete wall could be pushed away from the bottom so that one could slide into the hidden room (which also had an exit into the kitchen through the floor, covered by a rug.) I used to show you card and coin tricks...but doubt if you can remember that. Once JB and Louie took you kids and me out to a swimming hole (had a bathhouse where JB and I got undressed and put on our suits) and we all swam...later we had a picnic supper and JB played that concertina and sang Burl Ives songs...with you-all singing along with him. He was especially fond of "Jimmy Cracked Corn." === Page 3 of 18 2 Later your dad got awfully mad at me. My fault, of course. Before coming to Duke I had spent two years on an island in the Pacific... as a sailor...and hadn't known any intimacies with females. At Duke I was allowed to have breakfast in the girl's dining hall on East Campus because that was where the Parapsych Lab office was. And those mischievous Duke girls had a lot of fun making me sweat copiously by going to breakfast in their bathrobes, or much less, and parading their goodies in front of me. It was sort of like a starving man being turned loose in a huge room full of delicious culinary delights. Ha ha. I had so many dates my dates had dates. JB finally got me aside and sort of suggested that I find some pretty, lonely widow in town to consort with...since I was much older than the little Duke kiddies. Then, to top it off, I found out that my best friend in the world, Granpa, was dying from cancer back in Bedford and had only a couple of months to live. Instantly I dropped my books and studies and left Duke without a word to anyone there...and hitchhiked to Bedford, where I took care of Granpa, along with granma, until he passed away. Now, JB had gone to one heck of a lot of trouble to get me to Duke, originally, to work for him as a secretary...then to get me admitted as a student. (The Dean there told me personally that he hated ex-GIs because they were on the GI Bill (had no money) and were usually goofing up (which was true...a fellow ex-GI, friend of mine at Duke, accidentally broke his Duke girlfriend's arm showing her a judo hold he'd used in fighting Japs in the Pacific.) Anyway, my leaving Duke the way I did...really sent your Dad up the wall. Not Louie... she's always been real cool about everything; understanding, you know? It was completely in character...Louie's bod folding up but her iron will and determination holding Nature off until she finished her book. I salute her...a great woman...and I also salute your Dad... both of them absolutely smashing human beings and ones-of-a-kind, most certainly. My own bod is in the process of folding up, too. Happens to everyone. * Rosy...I made a tremendous discovery myself in parapsych. You know that time and space are irrelevant and immaterial in psi phenomena. Well, doing my own research I discovered that MASS also fits into that formula. I.e., using the same psychic ability to influence the numbers on dice to come up past chance (PK) it is just as easy to make a storm occur over a geographical area...or lightning strike a target. Humans are brainwashed from birth into believing that the larger an effect the more power must be used. T'ain't so. In 1976 I was invited to go to London and appear and lecture before famous parapsychologists and physicists, etc., on my work in parapsych. It was quite an experience. There are bunches of books in your library, written by experts on psi-force and parapsych, re my work. Will enclose some newsclip xeroxes and book xeroxes. I wish the best, always, for you and yours, Rosy. Affectionately, Ted Owens (PK Man) 1713 NE 20th St. Ocala, Florida 32670 * My kids have orders to put on my tombstone: "What? No more TV pro-football games? Dam!" === Page 4 of 18 limits" so that she could finish that book - so important for her to finish - for Dad's sake. I'm sending you a copy, because I know you admire her as we all do, and will enjoy her book. I'm out in Portland, Oregon, and have been meaning to write earlier to let you know about Mom. Although I've had time to get over the initial grief, I still miss her very much. Somehow, she's still here. I'm sure you understand. In case you don't remember me, I'm the youngest daughter. I was happy that you are still in contact with "the Rhines." Your family sounds delightful. Love, Rosie Rhine June 4, 1985 Dear Ted, I was in Durham in April when your kind letter arrived at Mom's house. My sister Betsy usually answers the mail, but I remembered you and told her I'd answer. Mom died three years ago (actually less than that - March 17, 1983). The year before, she had a coronary, but recovered in her indomitable style, so that she could finish her book about Dad's journey, Something Hidden. Six weeks after she finished the book, she suffered from a massive coronary. My sister and I think she "pushed her === Page 5 of 18 R. Rhine 1937 NW Johnson #5 Portland, OR 97209 PORTLAND OR 972 PM 5 JUN 1985 Mallard Decoy Folk Art USA 22 Ted Owens 1713 NE 29th ST Ocala, Florida 32670 BANNER UFOs Described As Size Ping-Pong Balls === Page 6 of 18 # OCALA STAR 25 CENTS DAILY 50 CENTS SUNDAY VOLUME 42, NO. 264, 121ST YEAR Ocala, Florida, Thursday, May 22, 1986 # BANNER Home # Jets Pursue Tiny UFOs ## Described As Size Of Ping-Pong Balls RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Multicolored UFOs the size of ping-pong balls were seen in the skies over Brazil on Monday and the government sent fighter jets to chase them, the air force minister said on television. "Because they saturated our radar system in Sao Paulo and because they were interfering with air traffic, it was decided to send up planes to pursue them," Brigadier Gen. Otavio Moreira Lima said Wednesday. The air force immediately dispatched four fighter jets -- two Mirages and two F-5s -- to find the unidentified flying objects, which the Air Space Defense Center had located over the cities of Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos and Rio de Janeiro. One of the F-5 pilots reported seeing objects that he said were multicolored, Moreira Lima said, adding, "He reported that 13 of these objects accompanied his aircraft, seven on one side of his jet and six on the other side." Another pilot described the objects as "the shape and size of a ping-pong ball flying at a speed of (840 miles)," TV Globo, the country's leading news network, reported. The air force jets, which also picked up the UFOs on their radar screens, tracked them for almost three hours, but had to turn back when the planes started to run out of fuel, reported TV Manchete, another leading news network. "I can't give an explanation for this because we don't have any," said Moreira Lima. May 23, 1986 SCIENTISTS The above was on TV today (CNN). They also announced ANOTHER tremendous UFO sighting in California...dozens of people and police saw it. You will recall my experience in northern California years ago... when three Bigfoot creatures appeared near my two sons and myself... also ping-pong-size red lights appeared overhead and all around the area, in the sky...and when I signaled to them with my flashlight the flash exposed otherwise-invisible giant UFOs. The tiny red lights were attached to the various craft. It's in your files. Ted Owens (PK Man) * My UFOs have put their "signature" to Chernobyl and the NASA disasters. === Page 7 of 18 The U.S. Govt. is lying. Same UFO seen over California last week. See clip. Owens 038 6/2/86 # Russian Rocket Lights Up Night MIAMI (AP) -- Floridians who witnessed a long-tailed fireball that whizzed down the length of the state thought they'd seen a meteor shower or a UFO, but a U.S. air command official said it was a Soviet rocket falling to earth. "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail... less than two miles into the air. It was bright orange-red," said Theresa Rines, a disc jockey at radio station WAMR-WRAV in Venice, on Florida's southwest coast. Ms. Rines said the object was visible for about 30 seconds as it flew overhead. Residents from Jacksonville to Key West, a distance of over 500 miles, reported seeing the spent rocket. "I thought it was a meteor or comet," Ms. Rines said of the Sunday night sky show. But a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, located near Colorado Springs, Colo., said people who called to report citing such natural phenomena were wrong. "It was the rocket body used in the launch of a Soviet satellite designated Cosmos 1746," said Del Kindschi, a NORAD spokesman. ## "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail" He said that experts at the underground surveillance center in Cheyenne Mountain had expected the spent rocket to begin falling to earth north of Cuba at around 10 p.m. He confirmed that the satellite traveled down the coast of Florida. He said the rocket body hit the atmosphere near Jacksonville and was last seen near Cuba. However, he said he didn't know where it touched down. The U.S.S.R. has disclosed no information about when the satellite was launched or what its mission was, the spokesman said. Although the rocket entered the atmosphere along the Atlantic Coast, it was visible on both coasts at the southern end of the state. "It was real close. It went north to south, from north of Venice south to Port Charlotte," Ms. Rines said. About 20 listeners called the radio station to report the object that looked like a falling satellite or meteor shower, Ms. Rines said. "It was very pretty, it was flying real low. It was going in a straight line," she said. "It was going at a slow rate of speed. I saw it for 30 seconds," she said. === Page 8 of 18 Rocket failure forces halt of Ariane space program UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 KOUROU, French Guiana (UPI) -- Europe's commercial Ariane rocket program was halted Saturday pending an investigation into the failure of an unmanned rocket that tumbled out of control and was destroyed along with a $55 million satellite. The action left Western nations without satellite launch capability. The action left the Western world with no immediate capability for launching satellites following the Jan. 28 Challenger space shuttle tragedy and failure of American's Atlas-Centaur and Delta unmanned rockets. It also threw into disarray European plans to take over some of the business left open by the shuttle disaster and forced delays into sending needed communications and weather satellites to replace aging orbiters. Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that builds, markets and launches the rockets for the European Space agency, said it was uncertain how long the Ariane would be grounded -- although he said flights may resume by the end of the year. Arianespace had planned four more launches this year, the next Aug. 12. The four launches were to send more satellites into orbit. The agency had orders for more than 30 satellites for launch by the end of 1988, including eight that had been scheduled for the shuttle. The Ariane 2 rocket lifted off perfectly Friday night from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast of South America, and its first two stages separated correctly and fell toward the Atlantic. But the third and final stage ignited briefly and went out after a few seconds, and the rocket tumbled wildly out of control. Moments later, flight safety officers at mission control detonated the rocket, which was destroyed along with the satellite. D'Allest said a preliminary investigation traced the problem to the ignition of the third stage. Onboard computers received the orders to fire the engine, but for unknown reasons, the fuel did not ignite properly. "After the separation," he said, "we see that the third stage engine had started to run but then stopped. The preliminary data shows that all the electrical systems and the onboard computer had worked properly. "It appears clearly, unless further investigation shows something else, that we are faced with a problem related to the building up of the thrust during the starting sequence," he said. A problem in the same stage of Ariane's 15th flight last fall forced the detonation of the rocket with the loss of two satellites worth $100 million. Four of the 18 Ariane flights have ended in failure. The accident will also force a slip in flight testing for the next generation of launchers, the Ariane 4, because it used the same engine in the third stage. D'Allest said an independent investigating board will begin work this week on identifying the problem based on computer data showing fuel pressure and temperature. Allan McCaskill, manager of Intelsat launch vehicle office -- owners of the demolished satellite, said the loss of the satellite would delay the organization's plans to improve transmission of television and telephone traffic for the 110 member countries of the Washington-based international telecommunications satellite organizations. UFO vs Space Work Ariane rocket blows up Trib 5/31/86 By STEVE HOLLAND United Press International KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane rocket blasted off with a $55 million satellite aboard Friday, but its third stage failed to fire and mission control blew up the rocket, sending it tumbling into the ocean. After a perfect launch from the Guiana Space Center, the first stage of the unmanned rocket separated correctly, but the third stage failed to ignite on schedule. "The whole mission has been lost," said Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that markets, builds and launches the Ariane, which has been the top competitor to the U.S. space shuttle. D'Allest said the first two stages of the 148-foot rocket separated correctly and on time, but the engine in the third stage failed to ignite. The third stage and the 4,400-pound satellite fell together into the Atlantic. Two Ariane rockets have been launched successfully this year, sending four satellites into orbit. Last fall, however, an Ariane rocket had to be detonated when it flew out of control. An eerie silence fell over mission control when news of the rocket failure was revealed. A space agency spokesman said the decision to detonate the rocket was made not because it threatened populated areas, but because it was disappearing over the horizon, meaning officials would have had the risk shifting to another tracking station. UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 Europe's Ariane 2 rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite lifts off from its pad Friday shortly before it was blown up. Reuters photo === Page 9 of 18 TOM Wicker 0.5B 5/25/86 # Soviet Disaster Forces Openness Aside from the death and misery suffered by so many Soviet citizens and perhaps other Europeans, President Reagan and the Western allies have plenty of reason to take quiet satisfaction in the plight of the Soviet government following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. For one thing, world public reaction has clearly forced Moscow to an unprecedented degree of openness with other nations and even its own people -- notably including Mikhail Gorbachev's remarkable (for a Soviet leader) televised report on the accident. For another, in his call for "an international regime" to supervise reactor safety and provide the world community with early warning of such accidents as that at Chernobyl, Gorbachev departed sharply from the Soviet Union's usual insistence on excluding the world from its internal affairs. Finally, in an effort to recover from what has been a body blow to Soviet prestige and credibility, Gorbachev has been pushed to take a new risk for arms control -- renewing his previously canceled moratorium on nuclear testing, despite the fact that Moscow has conducted no tests at all since last Aug. 6, while Reagan has ordered 11 U.S. tests in the same period. All three of these developments, in effect, are substantial "victories" for the West and ought to be regarded as such, though without gloating or polemics. Unfortunately, Washington's reaction has mostly been to ignore them. Now Chernobyl and its aftermath have demonstrated further severe deficiencies on the part of the Soviet government. It was unable to protect its people from a nuclear accident and as a consequence has seen fit to call for international assistance in preventing such accidents in the future. The high tribute that Gorbachev paid to American physicians -- though one of them, Dr. Robert Gale, has suggested that no nation is sufficiently prepared to meet such a disaster -- was a concession that Moscow also needed outside help in caring for victims of the accident. To only one of these striking Soviet developments has Reagan so far responded favorably. A White House statement welcomed Gorbachev's proposal for "an international regime," based on a strengthened International Atomic Energy Agency, to promote nuclear reactor safety and to provide "prompt warning and supply of information" in the event of a nuclear accident. A judiciously worded and non-polemical statement by Reagan taking note of and implicitly encouraging further Soviet openness with the world and its own citizens also seems in order. If adversity forced Gorbachev more toward Western ways of responding to crisis, why not credit him for it? Predictably, however, the president's discouraging reaction to the renewal of the Soviet test moratorium was as negative and illogical as ever. # LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 0.5B 5/23/86 ## Nuclear Accident A Blessing In Disguise? To The Editor: The nuclear accident in Russia may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, in that Russia may belatedly pay more attention to the needs of her people instead of exporting her military might around the entire world! They are military bullies who attack every country whom they think are weak enough to plow under, and use their tool of starvation to subdue! # Aid Rushed To Typhoon Victims PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- Emergency supplies were rushed today to the Solomon Islands after Typhoon Namu devastated the 900-mile-long Pacific chain with gales and a torrential rain that reportedly killed at least five people and pushed entire villages into the sea. An Australian pilot who flew over the area but was unable to land because of three-foot-deep water at Honiara airport on Guadalcanal said he saw only "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." But in Canberra, the Australian Foreign Ministry said two Royal Australian Air Force C-130 transports managed to land in Honiara today and delivered two small helicopters, medicine, tents and food. Details from the remote island chain located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia were sparse. But the Australian Associated Press quoted relief workers as saying an estimated 90,000 of the islands' total population of about 240,000 were left homeless, and that at least 50 people were missing. It said five children were swept out to sea when the storm struck Monday with its 115 mph winds, and are presumed to have drowned. John Given, an administrative officer at the Australian Consulate in Port Moresby, said the toll was expected to rise following the typhoon, which apparently struck the island chain without warning. Perry Head, third secretary at the Australian embassy in Port Moresby, said aerial photographs of Guadalcanal showed widespread devastation. "Whole villages have been bowled over by floodwaters and mud, then pushed into the sea," he said. Given told The Associated Press by telephone that Namu also caused wholesale destruction to outlying islands and provincial authorities were sending teams out in canoes to search for survivors and assess the damage. "There's no doubt a major disaster has occurred," Given said. "There is a terrific amount of devastation over a very wide area. This is a long-term disaster." "There is wholesale destruction of villages, extensive damage to many major buildings, including schools, hospitals and wharves," he said. "The coconut palms are gone. So has the coffee and cocoa crops. The rice is flattened. Food is going to be a major problem for the next 6 to 12 months," Given said. Officials said the storm downed power lines, uprooted trees, tore roofs off homes and caused rivers to burst their banks. "But we're still not sure of the extent of damage," said Dykes Angiki, news editor of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp., contacted by The Associated Press by telephone. "Some places are very remote," he said. "It will take a couple of days before we know the toll." In addition to the relief supplies from Australia, New Zealand announced it would contribute $37,000 worth of emergency assistance and begin an airlift to the area. The invasion and capture of Guadalcanal was the first U.S. victory against Japanese land forces in World War II. Angiki said the storm battered Honiara for 17 hours Monday before subsiding Tuesday as it moved south. === Page 10 of 18 No warning, a few years ago, to scientists - uR de in milk! - $\phi$ - P. 53 5/25/86 # Jokes, Rumors, Fears Follow Accident VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster has generated fears, rumors and some bitter jokes in Eastern Europe, like the renamed U.S.S.R., for "Union of Soviet Radioactive Republics." Authorities throughout the Soviet bloc assured residents they faced no health hazards from the April 26 nuclear plant accident in the Soviet Ukraine, even though precautions were taken against possible radioactive contamination. Some people, accustomed to distrusting the official version of matters, did not believe the assurances. Romanian hospitals had an increase in poisoning cases as parents gave children iodine solutions before the chemical was distributed through dispensaries, said knowledgeable contacts who asked not to be identified. The privately administered doses of the solution, which can prevent some harmful effects of radiation, were apparently too high. The Polish weekly Przeglad Tygodniowy on May 11 reported that immediately after the Chernobyl accident a lot of "science fiction" rumors circulated. In the town of Suwalki, said the paper, someone reported seeing "luminous milk" in his refrigerator. And in Bialystok a man claimed radioactivity was causing his hair to fall out. A doctor in Bucharest, Romania, said she had been flooded with calls from worried people asking for advice. One woman asked if increased radiation levels could have caused her to lose a tooth. Residents of Iasi and other cities in Romania's Moldova province, which borders the Soviet Union, protected their hair from Chernobyl's pass-over by wearing hats, contacts said. Along with reports of radiation scares, sarcastic jokes also emerged from the Soviet bloc. According to one gag, a Czech newspaper advertises for sale: "Villa in Chernobyl... solitude ensured." In Romania, according to another joke, an elderly lady sees her doctor to get an iodine pill, but she doesn't know what it's called. In the end, she says, "Well, how should I put it, just give me a tablet which is good against the Russians." Another joke runs: "What is small, yellow and shines?" The answer: "Kiev." Another joke from Kiev: Kiev is a Soviet city 80 miles from the accident site. A joke from Warsaw says the new slogan of the Polish Communist Party is "Be radiant." No illnesses from the disaster were reported outside the Chernobyl area, but precautions were taken in Eastern Europe, and fears persisted. Some countries, such as Poland and Romania, warned against drinking milk, set up health consultation centers and monitored radiation closely. In Yugoslavia, which is not a member of the Soviet bloc, authorities instituted a special telephone number so people could get official word on radiation levels. Vegetables have been approved for sale again in Yugoslavia after an earlier prohibition, but few people seem to be buying them, and Hungarian housewives also stopped buying fresh vegetables. === Page 11 of 18 Soviet Newspapers Assures OCALA * STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Food, Vacations Are Safe 0.5B 5/25/86 MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy recommended Saturday that pregnant American women and infants in the Soviet capital not drink Moscow milk after a sample showed increased radiation levels. A Soviet newspaper meanwhile assured worried readers their food was not contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The government newspaper Izvestia said it received many letters expressing concern about whether food and popular vacation resorts were safe from radiation spewed in the accident, which occurred 80 miles north of Kiev. Izvestia quoted medical experts as saying "there is no risk to the health of holidaymakers" on the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, as well as other popular resorts. The newspaper quoted a sanitation official as saying checks on food were conducted in the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Modavia and European parts of the Russian Republic. It also assured readers that produce and dairy products were tested before going on sale in much of the western Soviet Union, and quoted one official as saying that processing of milk into butter and cheese "makes these products absolutely free from radioactivity." But U.S. Embassy spokesman Phil Duchateau said tests on a milk sample taken earlier this month showed double the maximum level of radiation recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for infants and pregnant women. Dr. John Baker, the embassy doctor, said the levels found were "by no means dangerous." Still, the embassy called pregnant American women and families with infants after receiving the samples: The maximum level of radiation recommended by the FDA is 1,500 picocuries per liter of milk. A single picocurie is about two radioactive disintegrations per minute. A liter is slightly more than one quart. Samples of lettuce, milk and yogurt were to be shipped to the United States for testing, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. In the Izvestia report, an official who distributes the 24-day passes Soviets obtain from their work places to vacation in hostels said some people had the passes taken away, causing concern. Yuri Stupin, head of the central council for trade union visits to resorts, explained that the holiday areas were safe. He said some passes were taken away so they could be used by workers from the Chernobyl power station and children who are among the 92,000 people evacuated from an 18-mile zone around the plant after the April 26 explosion and fire. He said 3,500 places were available at Black Sea resorts for evacuated children, while two vacation spots, one near Odessa and another in the northern Caucasus, were open for Chernobyl plant workers. One Moscow woman who wrote Izvestia said she was told cattle from evacuated areas of the Ukraine and Byelorussia were slaughtered. But Alexander Tretyakov, chief veterinarian with the State Agri-Industrial Committee, assured readers that "the livestock population from the accident zone was completely preserved." Farmers now caring for evacuated livestock received money for feed and animals owned privately were purchased by the state, he said. Tretyakov appeared to contradict Moscow's Communist Party chief, Boris N. Yeltsin, who told The Associated Press earlier this month that livestock from the evacuated zone was slaughtered. Soviet news media reports also said volunteers were running a relief coordinating agency in Moscow to handle offers of help for victims of the Chernobyl accident and to track down family members separated by the disaster. === Page 12 of 18 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE REACTOR #2 REACTOR #1 DANGER I THINK IT MEANS IF WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT DON'T SAY ANYTHING FOR THREE DAYS! REMEMBER CHERNOBYL FLORIDA'S TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR PLANT AMONG 11 WORST IN U.S. - SAFETY SYSTEM FAILURES, ERRORS IN OPERATION CITED. 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis === Page 13 of 18 UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/25/86 # Australia, U.S. Sends Relief To Islands HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- It will take years for the Solomon Islands to recover from devastation wreaked by Typhoon Namu, a government official was quoted as saying Saturday. The storm left a third of the population homeless and wiped out most of the archipelago's crops. Namu killed at least 97 people, with 39 others missing and presumed dead. Officials expect casualty figures to rise once reports come in from outlying areas cut off by the storm. "It (the death toll) may be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. Namu, packing 115 mph winds, hit the 200-mile-long island chain Monday morning and lashed it for 17 hours, snapping off trees, demolishing homes and virtually wiping out coconut, rice and copra plantations in the Guadalcanal plains, the country's rice bowl. "It will take us well over five years to recover," Finance Minister George Kejoa told the Australian Associated Press. The country previously produced enough rice to feed its 240,000 people. Council member John Selwyn said it would be at least half a year before rice production could resume. Selwyn said international relief efforts were adequate for now, but "there are still a lot of people to be visited and found." He said airlifts from the United States and Australia were expected to arrive Sunday. He said Australia was sending 350 tons of rice and the United States had promised four C-130 transport planes filled with tents, medicine and food. Angiki said medical experts were concerned lest diarrhea break out because of contaminated drinking water. "Teams are going out to remote villages with purification tables in an effort to counter the water pollution problem," Angiki, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia, told The Associated Press. A missionary involved in the international relief effort said the storm had virtually stripped the archipelago of its woods. "What used to be thick jungles, extending over vast areas, have virtually become deserts overnight," Errol Wright, of the Seventh Day Adventist Western Pacific Mission headquarters in Honiara, said. "Mountain tops have been stripped and what I saw was a huge desert for miles," Wright said. The missionary, who had returned from the island of Malaita, 90 miles east of Honiara, was quoted as saying the Guadalcanal plains outside Honiara were "a great sea of mud." Angiki said flooding and mudslides devastated two dozen villages in the plains where 22 bodies were unearthed Friday. Four deaths were confirmed on Malaita, bringing the toll to 97. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the relief operation and that teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction. The Solomons, a former British protectorate, lie about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. Guadalcanal, the main island, is the site of a famous World War II battle in which U.S. Marines scored a major victory against Japanese land-based forces. UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/27/81 # 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Two powerful earthquakes rocked some isolated islands of Fiji in the South Pacific on Tuesday morning, but they were not felt on the most populous main islands, the Fiji Meteorological Office said. Only isolated islands were in the area of the quakes and the official spokesman did not know if they are inhabited. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The spokesman, quoting seismologists in Hawaii, said the quakes were centered in the underwater Lau Ridge of the Fiji Basin at a depth of about 310 miles. The first quake, at 7:41 a.m. (2:41 p.m. Monday EDT) registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, the spokesman said. The second measured 6.2 and had an epicenter about 500 miles south of the capital of Suva, the spokesman said. === Page 14 of 18 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 Deadly hailstorm strikes China PEKING (UPI) -- A violent hailstorm -- the worst strike central China in a century -- killed more than 0 people and injured at least 9,000 others this week in Sichuan province, officials said Thursday. Huge hailstones began pelting southeastern Sichuan near China's World War II capital of Chongqing early Tuesday, striking 13 districts and counties in the province, reported the official China Central Television. More than 100 people were killed and at least 9,000 others were injured by the shower of ice, which pounded the cities of Yongchuan, Tongchang and Dazu, Chinese officials in Chongqing said in a telephone interview. They said more than 1,000 rescue workers, including high-ranking Communist Party and government officials, medical teams and Peoples Liberation Army troops, were engaged in a large-scale disaster relief effort in the storm-ravaged region. The nationwide television broadcast, monitored in Peking, showed the body of a victim on a stretcher near a village of collapsed earthen houses, a woman whose head was bandaged with blood-stained gauze and a gutted schoolhouse. Rescue workers were carrying those seriously injured to local hospitals and erecting clay and straw shelters for thousands of survivors left homeless by the storm, which demolished more than 35,000 houses and destroyed 7,700 acres of crops, the officials said. The region's electricity, transport and communications links were partially restored after having been severed by the storm, which blew down 2,000 telephone poles, the officials said. All schools and shops were closed and all farm work came to a halt after the tempest struck China's most heavily populated province. Typhoon Toll Feared Higher In Solomons HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- With 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. "Reports from remote areas haven't come in. We don't know what happened there yet." Relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the operation. He said relief teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction from Monday's typhoon, but it would take days before had a complete picture of the extent of the disaster. He said flooding and mudslides had devastated two dozen villages in the Guadalcanal plain immediately outside Honiara. Rescue workers unearthed 22 more bodies in the area Friday, he said, and four people died on the island of Malaita. A woman was killed when her house collapsed and three children died in a mudslide, he said. Thousands of the estimated 90,000 homeless -- more than one third the population of the Solomon Islands nation -- were seeking shelter and emergency supplies at ports, missions and airfields. Namu roared over this Pacific Island chain with 115 mph winds Monday, snapping trees and demolishing traditional thatched homes. Accounts of the devastation indicated much of the country's agricultural output, including the coconut, rice and copra crops, was destroyed. Namu cut a wide swath of destruction before heading southeast toward New Caledonia. Meteorologists in Australia said it no longer poses a threat. During the 17-hour onslaught, entire villages were destroyed by high seas, inland villages were washed down hills by mudslides, and people were believed to have been swept away by fast-flowing rivers that burst their banks. Rescue workers said offers of help were pouring in from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. Prime Minister Sir Peter Kenilorea on Wednesday declared the island chain a national disaster area. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal, described the area as a 'sea of mud with roofs sticking out of it.' The Solomons, a chain of 200 islands 1,000 miles northeast of Australia, have a population of 240,000. The Guadalcanal plains were the site of the first major U.S. victory against Japanese land-based forces in World War II. Chinese storm toll put at 104 PEKING -- Wind, rain and hailstorms that pounded the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan in mid-May left 104 dead and 4,000 injured, a disaster relief officer in the Sichuan capital of Chongqing said Monday. The official, who identified himself only as Xu, said in a telephone interview that 3,780 homes were destroyed and more than 80,000 damaged in the storms and floods that hit the Chongqing area on May 12, 17 and 20. Xu said 254 were badly hurt. === Page 15 of 18 PK Sun Attack 0.5B 5/26/86 # Storms Rip Texas Killing 5 People FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The body of a baby swept from his mother's arms by floodwaters was found Sunday, while Fort Worth residents tallied up damage from a storm that killed at least four others and collapsed a bowling alley roof. At least 17 people were injured Saturday when tornadoes and thunderstorms pounded parts of western and north-central Texas, overturning four mobile homes in Midland, ripping the roof off an airplane hangar west of Greenwood, and bringing hail and high winds which caused power failures and road closings. On Sunday, searchers near Big Spring, about 250 miles west of Fort Worth, found the body of Joshua Phillips, who was swept away from his mother Saturday night after the family's pickup became stranded in a low-water crossing about 10 miles northeast of the city, authorities said. The body of the boy, whose first birthday was Saturday, was found about 8:40 a.m., said Howard County sheriff's deputy John Wolf. Interstate 20 east of Big Spring was closed for a time late Saturday as more than a foot of water washed away barricades police had erected along portions of the roadway, a dispatcher said. Howard County authorities said several tornadoes were sighted north of Big Spring, but there were no reports of substantial damage. In Fort Worth, Celia Adams, 30, and her 8-year-old son Michael drowned Saturday when they were swept from their car in a flooded underpass, John Peter Smith Hospital spokeswoman Drenda Witt said. Two other people, whose identities were not released, died at their homes from cardiac arrest that Fire Chief Larry McMillan attributed to "stress and trauma from the storm." Authorities suspect two other people died from heart attacks related to the storm, Police Cpl. C.M. Wallace said Sunday. Their bodies were sent to the Tarrant County medical examiners' office for autopsies, she said, but results weren't expected until after the holiday weekend. Seven people were hospitalized and seven others treated at the scene when the roof at Don Carter's All-Star Bowling Lanes collapsed on a crowd of more than 300 watching a state bowling tournament about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, city spokesman Pat Svacina said. "It all happened so fast. I just hit the deck," said bowling alley employee Wes Allen. "I just heard metal twisting around. I just laid on the ground for about five minutes and finally the water started coming in and I heard people screaming." At the Ramada Inn Central across the street, high winds blew out several windows and tore out sections of the roof, causing three minor injuries, said Kit Carson, director of Fort Worth emergency management division. Hail up to two feet deep pelted the city during the storm that temporarily cut power to more than 9,000 homes, officials said. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/22/86 # Workers Find 43 Bodies Buried In Debris, Mud From Typhoon HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Rescue workers today found the bodies of 43 people buried in mud and debris on the Guadalcanal plains, a news agency reported. The discovery boosted the death toll from Typhoon Namu to at least 49. Officials say many more people are missing and feared dead, particularly on the outlying islands where casualties and damage have been impossible to ascertain because of downed communications. "The final toll could well be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, national disaster committee chairman. Namu, the most severe late season typhoon in years, roared into the Solomon Islands on Monday packing 115 mph winds and cutting a swath of destruction through the archipelago located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/20/86 # 2 Earthquakes Shake Taiwan, Breaking Windows; No Casualties TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Two earthquakes jolted eastern Taiwan within 12 minutes of each other today, shattering windows in some buildings, officials said. Theren were no immediate reports of casualties. The first quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, was recored at 1:25 p.m. (1:25 a.m. EDT). Its epicenter was located six miles north of Hualien, an eastern seaport 72 miles south of Taipei, the weather bureau reported. The epicenter of the second quake, which registered 5.69 on the Richter scale, was 5.4 miles north of Hualien, the weather bureau said. Both quakes were felt in Taipei. Police in Hualien, contacted by telephone, said the only known damage was shattered windows. Many of Hualien's 100,000 residents fled into the streets and hesitated to return to their buildings, police said. # Mt. Hood memorial UFO Sun Attack Tue 5/23/86 Richard Haeder, father of Richard Jr. who died last week after he and 10 other climbers were caught in a freak storm on Mt. Hood, stops Thursday to talk with Master Sgt. Richard Harder. Harder, a member of the U.S. Air === Page 16 of 18 hina begins relief efforts for survivors hailstorms Tribune Wires 5/24/86 China mounted relief efforts for hundreds of thousands of survivors Friday after hailstorms and typhoon-force winds killed at least 143 people, injured 9,500 others and destroyed 110,000 homes in central and south China. Meanwhile in the Solomon Islands, with 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. The hailstorms in China hit hardest in the country's heavily populated Sichuan province, officials in Chongqing told United Press International in telephone interviews. "It was one of the worst storms in our history," said one disaster relief official, speaking by telephone from his headquarters in Chongqing, 950 miles southwest of Peking. "I couldn't believe it until I saw it. There isn't a house, a tree or a telephone pole left standing in the area." Military and civilian rescue teams began erecting tents for hundreds of thousands left homeless in Sichuan, where hailstorms, heavy rain and up to 85-mph winds demolished 80,700 dwellings this month, officials said. Huge stones of ice weighing up to 33 pounds Tuesday battered 13 Sichuan counties, including Yongchuan, Rongchang and Dazu, in a hailstorm lasting 15 to 20 minutes, the officials said. The storm dumped more than 5.7 inches of rain on Rongchang County in four hours, flooding parts of the town and forcing rescuers to use boats to reach stranded residents, the official China Daily newspaper said. The powerful winds, rain and hailstorms destroyed 91,840 acres of crops and 90,000 fruit trees in Sichuan, officials said. Transportation, communications and electricity links severed by the storm have been partially restored, while many schools, factories and shops remained closed, they said. In the Solomon Islands, relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. UFOs Bermuda Effect OCALA STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Pilot Said To 'Forget' About Near-Collision DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) -- An air traffic controller on duty when two jets nearly collided at O'Hare International Airport did not report the incident for an hour, a published report said Saturday. The controller first mentioned the May 17 incident to his supervisor when the two men were on a coffee break an hour after the USAir and American Airlines planes narrowly missed colliding as they raced down intersecting runways for takeoff, Carl Dinwiddie, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's office here told the Chicago Sun-Times. An accident was averted when the USAir pilot lifted his plane over the American jet. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a transcript of a conversation between the unidentified USAir pilot and the controller. USAir pilot: "Did you see what happened there on (runway) 373?" Controller: "No, sir." USAir pilot: "American was awfully close on the takeoff." Controller: "You're right sir, would you like to file something?" USAir pilot (after a pause): "Ah, we'll forget it." Despite the pilot's comment, however, the crew reported the near accident to USAir officials almost immediately, said company spokeswoman Nancy Vaughan, and the pilot also filed a report. The tape indicates the controller was unaware the jets would meet at the runways' intersection 5,000 feet away, said the statement by the FAA's regional office in this Chicago suburb near O'Hare. Dinwiddie said the controller told him he forgot he had sent the USAir plan on its takeoff run when he cleared the American Airlines plane for takeoff. The two planes were carrying more than 200 people. FAA spokesman Mort Edelstein said it is not uncommon for pilots to decide not to report an incident if they decide the planes "weren't as close as it first seemed." Ms. Vaughan said earlier in the week that the planes came within 10 or 20 feet of each other, adding that the airline had "never had a life-threatening, near-collision like that -- nothing anywhere near that close." Edelstein has said investigators have not determined how close the planes came to each other. Edelstein also said the controller, who carried the agency's highest rating, had been reassigned. The two planes were USAir Flight 373, en route to Pittsburgh with 110 passengers and five crew members, and American Flight 695, en route to Oklahoma City with 102 passengers and a crew of seven. Dinwiddie was quoted in the Sun-Times as saying the USAir pilot told him, "If I hadn't lifted up early, I would have struck the American plane." UFOs vs Space Work Report: Deadline worries Thiokol Trib 5/26/86 LOS ANGELES -- Engineers with rocket-maker Morton Thiokol Inc. say a NASA deadline to redesign the shuttle's boosters in time for a proposed July 1987 launch has created the same pressure that some observers believe led to the Challenger disaster, it was reported Sunday. Thiokol engineers in Brigham City, Utah, who spoke with the Los Angeles Times on the condition they not be identified, said the projected NASA deadline means "concern for safety is again being tempered by schedule demands." "The schedule seems to be driving us into early commitments to make decisions," said one engineer. "They are trying to turn around quickly just so they'll be able to show everyone that they could turn around quickly." Similar concerns were raised earlier this month by the presidential commission investigating the Jan. 28 Challenger disaster. === Page 17 of 18 phoon batters Solomon Islands e worst storm to ever hit ne islands left about 90,000 people homeless. Trib. 5/23/86 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Typhoon Namu, the worst storm in history to hit the Solomon Islands, killed at least 71 people and left about 90,000 homeless, and rescue workers said Thursday the toll was expected to go much higher. "We think hundreds died," said John Selwyn, a National Disaster Committee spokesman, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia. "The death toll will rise. Reports of more deaths are coming in. It will hit 100 soon." Sir Peter Kenilorea, prime minister of the Solomon Islands, declared the island chain a disaster area Thursday. The Solomon Islands, formerly a British protectorate, gained independence in 1978. Typhoon Namu, packing winds of up to 115 mph, battered the 900-mile-long island chain for 17 hours Monday. Entire villages were under mudslides, said Australian Consulate officials in Honiara, the capital. On Guadalcanal, the main island, fast-flowing rivers burst through their banks, sweeping people away. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal said he saw "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." On Thursday, rescue workers found the bodies of 65 people buried in mud and debris in the Guadalcanal plains, bringing the confirmed death toll to 71. Most victims appeared to have been from the same village, Velebaikiki, which officials said vanished in a wall of mud. The outlying islands of Malaita, Makira, Rennell and Iona were also battered, but relief workers were unable to reach those areas by canoe because the sea has been impossible to navigate. No damages and casualties were known because of poor communications. Australian Consulate officials said crops on Guadalcanal, the country's rice bowl, were virtually destroyed during the storm. "There won't be a harvest for at least six months," said John Selwyn, senior administrative officer for the Australian High Commission. "Food is going to be a major problem." "It's dreadful. Trees have been smashed down and there's mud everywhere," said Frank Preacher, one of 45 Australian tourists who were evacuated from Guadalcanal by a Royal Australian Air Force transport plane. "They'll need massive international aid to help in the task of rebuilding homes and restoring their fields," he told the Australian Associated Press after arriving in Brisbane, Australia. "Their main crops, palm oil, sweet potatoes and rice, have just been wiped out." Another tourist, Max Grainger, said he and his family were outside Honiara when Namu struck. "There were three deaths near where we were and the worst for us was when we had to cross a flooded river to get back to Honiara," said Grainger. The navigator of the transport plane, Dean Tetley, said Honiara seemed to have withstood the storm well, but homes were flattened and trees uprooted in outlying areas. Rescue workers said they are being inundated with offers of help from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 # NASA chief: Don't delay on new shuttle WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's new space chief said Thursday he expects President Reagan will find enough money to replace the space shuttle Challenger. He said if Reagan fails to do so, America's science and its economy will suffer dire consequences. "We need a fourth orbiter right away, as soon as we can build it," said James C. Fletcher in his first interview as the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "A three-shuttle fleet is just a very marginal kind of fleet. If anything should happen to that third orbiter, we would really be in deep yogurt." A decision on whether to spend billions of dollars of needed to build a replacement shuttle has been stalled in the White House since the Jan. 28 launch explosion killed the shuttle's seven crew members. The remaining three shuttles have been grounded since the tragedy. Fletcher replied simply "Yes," when asked if Reagan had tipped his hand in support of the fourth orbiter. And, he said, flights will resume in July 1987, "provided we get adequate funding, which we fully expect." The problem, he said, is not presidential support but how to figure out a way to do this and still not violate the Gramm-Rudman principles," referring to the stringent deficit-reduction law that has forced cuts throughout the government. With NASA facing its meanest budget fight ever, Fletcher said he will stand tough against efforts to make the agency pay for the replacement shuttle or lose some of the ambitious programs NASA has scheduled. "One possibility that has been discussed is to take it out of NASA's hide," Fletcher said. "We are strongly resisting that possibility. I haven't heard anybody in the White House raise the question of whether or not there's going to be a fourth orbiter." In a direct challenge to an interagency group of senior administration officials who recommended to the president that money for the shuttle come from existing programs, Fletcher said he must have at least enough new money from Congress to correct the problems that grounded the fleet. The cost of those corrections has been placed at $626 million. A new shuttle would cost at least $1.9 billion, and the associated equipment would put the total near $3 billion. NASA's current yearly budget is $7.3 billion. === Page 18 of 18 Note: We are in the radon bullseye here! Stanley Watras's house near Boyertown, Pa., turned into a nightmare--so permeated with cancer-causing radon gas that his family had to flee. A freak of nature? Hardly. Five million American homes may face the same problem # Warning! This House Contains Radon Condensed from RODALE'S NEW SHELTER MICHAEL LAFAVORE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE working at the Limerick nuclear-power plant in eastern Pennsylvania, Stanley Watras had to pass through radiation monitors before leaving the building. Most of his co-workers breezed through without a problem, but Watras, an engineer, continually set off alarms. Some days he was found to be carrying six times more radiation than normal. Neither Watras nor his employers could understand where he was picking it up. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 49 5-21-86 postmark Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove February 12, 1986 SCIENTISTS (1) Years ago, while living in Philadelphia with Martha, my wife, and Beau, our baby...one night a roaring fire sprang up on the floor below and the firemen came and extinguished it. The Fire Chief came to me and told me that the fire had been deliberately set...in the room directly underneath our room...and if it had not been discovered when it was then we'd have been burned up. (This happened at the time when Saga magazine was doing articles about me and Dr. Zakow, of the U.S. Government, came to our apartment and investigated my work and warned me that the U.S. Govt. would have me killed considering my work with UFOs and attacking NASA with psi-force). Several days later Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were burned up on the pad at NASA. My UFOs telepathed and explained that they had caused it because of my great value to them, the UFOs, and because of the U.S. Govt.'s effort to assassinate us. (There were two other blatant attempts to murder me at that time on the streets...but I am pointing out the fire connection.) I passed along this information to the scientists that I was dealing with at that time. (2) In 1969 I was in a court-reporting office in Norfolk, Virginia, and Apollo 12 was just getting ready to lift off at NASA. The court reporters were all listening to the proceedings on the radio. I called out to them: "How would you like to see me hit that spacecraft with lightning?" They all stopped talking and stared at me incredulously. Minutes later the spacecraft lifted from the ground then all was pandemonium at NASA. One of the astronauts aboard the spacecraft, still ascending, said to ground control "We don't know what happened but it seems that we were struck by lightning!" (3) This last November, 1985, my UFOs telepathd to me unexpectedly one night and told me that (1) they intended to cause an earthquake on the West Coast 8-10 on the Richter Scale, and (2) they were going to explode a space shuttle of NASA while it was in action. They were going to do it because their request for a ten million dollar UFO Base from the U.S. had not been taken seriously...also that for a long while they had deliberately harassed shuttle flights, ruining experiments etc., but not harming the astronauts. They had finally decided that they would have to destroy astronauts to get the U.S. Govt.'s serious attention. I explained all this to my son, Beau...then picked up the phone and called Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco and gave him the message. The result, of course, is in this file. You probably saw it yourself on TV. Re (2) above...I have an affidavit signed by all the court reporters who were present attesting to the validity of the matter. Re (3) above...I would not be presumptuous enough to ask Dr. Mishlove for an affidavit to that effect, for my files...but if anyone is interested in checking it out they can contact Dr. Mishlove. I do not believe that he would double-cross me and lie about the matter as Dr. Hynek did some years ago. I think that Dr. Mishlove is a finer scientist in every sense of the word, than is Hynek. And I could know - have worked with scientists. After the shuttle exploded my UFOs telepathd to me (I was as saddened and shocked as anyone who witnessed the event) and explained why they had deliberately chosen this particular flight and shuttle. Follow this now. p. 4 -- "It's a setback. The tragedy is that so many kids were watching === Page 2 of 49 O.SB 4/30/86 Re Hynek the Hyena # J. Allen Hynek Dies, Leading UFO Expert PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) -- J. Allen Hynek, a leading authority on unidentified flying objects and former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book that investigated UFOs, has died at age 75. Hynek, a professor of astronomy who died Sunday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, directed Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969. He eventually became disenchanted with the Air Force's approach to the study, contending the service was not conducting a scientific experiment. The Air Force concluded there was no evidence of extraterrestrial craft. Hynek coined the phrase, "close encounters of the third kind," in his 1972 book, "The UFO Experience." THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, May 1, 1986 11-B # Astronomer Hynek, UFO expert, dies Although he criticized Blue Book's approach to UFOs, Hynek felt they warranted serious study. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) -- J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who headed an Air Force study into unidentified flying objects but rejected its findings, has died at age 75. Hynek died Sunday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. He directed the Air Force's Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969, but he criticized the project for not taking a scientific approach. He said he stayed with the program so he would have access to the Air Force data and would not be considered a "UFO nut." The Air Force concluded there was no evidence to support the existence of UFOs. But Hynek said in 1985 he was more convinced than ever that UFOs deserved serious study. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., in 1973 and moved it to Scottsdale a year ago. In a 1972 book, "The UFO Experience," Hynek coined the phrase "close encounters of the third kind," saying those would be humans encountering alien beings. The phrase became the title of a 1977 Steven Spielberg movie in which Hynek made a cameo appearance. Tina Choate, administrative director of the Center for UFO Research, said, "UFO research has centered around him (Hynek) as long as they have been looking at UFOs in this day and age. He's left a legacy for everyone who's interested in the subject and we're very grateful." George Rieke, deputy director of Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, said Hynek "was distinguished by having a very open mind and a sense of fairness." HA Hynek, a native of Chicago, re- HR! ceived a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago. He was head of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University for 18 years until his retirement in 1978. Since then, he had been a professor emeritus at Northwestern. === Page 3 of 49 May 9, 1986 SCIENTISTS -> "NASA IS SNAKEBIT!" (CNN TV NEWS) -> "A SPACE JINX?" (MARCIA SMITH, PRES., A.A.S.) p. 2 -> "IS SOMEBODY TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING?" (DONALD REGAN) A scientist who double-crossed me, and my UFOs...and did his best to damage my reputation and work for my UFOs...now no longer is in a position to do so. I am, of course, alluding to Hynek the Hyena (my own name for him). On p. 1 you will note "a sense of fairness" and my inserted "ha ha." Why? Years ago, in Cape Charles, I departed from my usual modus operandi of notifying scientists in advance that I was going to teamwork with my UFOs to keep lava flowing down the sides of Mt. Etna in Sicily from striking any of the three towns on the side of the mountain. (At the time lava was streaming right toward them). I had the bright idea of calling Dr. Hynek, one of my regular contacts, long distance, and telling him in detail of what I was going to do. It never occurred to me that he, being a scientist, would deny it and lie about it later on. My UFOs and I stopped or diverted the lava and saved the three villages. It was called a miracle in the newspapers (you have it all in your files). Later I was on a TV show or radio show...I disremember which...and when I described the miracle they contacted Dr. Hynek to confirm it and he said that he "had no memory of my call to him." Several years ago I told my contacts in writing that I would make hurricanes and run them into Florida, as a demonstration. A weekly news mag from West Palm Beach, Florida, dug up a weather expert who laughed at what I said I would do. They also interviewed Hynek about it. "Owens can't make hurricanes," he said. "He's just a dealer in coincidences." Well, I made, and ran, two hurricanes and ran one up the west coast of Florida and ran one up the East Coast of Florida. Then I made another one, a regular horror of a hurricane, and guided it right to the tip of Florida, aimed right up the throat of Miami. While it was stalled, building up power prior to charging directly north into Miami...a good friend of mine called me in Vancouver from Lantana, Florida, and said that he had a house full of people scared to death. "Do you realize, Ted," he said, "that if that hurricane charges ahead it will kill 15,000 to 25,000 people in Miami?" After the call I thought about that. My UFOs and I give demonstrations. We have no wish to kill or hurt humans. I contacted my UFO "control" (telepathically) and the hurricane then mysteriously vanished, to the amazement of weather experts and scientists. Well, so Hynek had been wrong in his statement in that magazine...so had the weather expert. But then, some years later, I made another shocking discovery about Hynek. A prominent scientist, within the scientific community, tipped me off about Hynek. "Ted," he told me, "for years Hynek has been acting friendly toward you...but whenever anyone else checks with him about you...he talks about you like you were a dog." First I found out that he was a liar. Then found out he was a two-faced hypocrite. Naturally, I discontinued sending Hynek further information re my work with my UFOs. So now you have seen what my UFOs can do (p. 2, etc.) (also p. 4 1/2) They have knocked down the space shuttle plus three space rockets...in a row. All...different kinds...so that it cannot be blamed on malfunction of one kind of space equipment. One TV newsman on Ch. 12 (CNN) said: "There is only one thing to say...NASA is snakebit!" (This after the Delta loss. Wonder what he would say now, after the further loss of the Titan and Nike-Orion shots?) p. 2: "People within NASA and without are puzzled by the recent problems with space launches. The odds of having three different launch vehicles (four, really) made by three see p. 4 1/2" === Page 4 of 49 2 different prime contractors and three different launch crews fail, and all of this happening at the same time -- it's incredible that could happen," said Rep. Don Fuqua, D-Fla., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. "There's clearly something in the air that's causing these failures," says Marcia Smith, president of the American Astronautical Society. "It's not just NASA; the Air Force is not so lucky either." Then the article states: "A space jinx?" She continues: "This whole sequence of events... (and she mentions Chernobyl, which was UFO-caused and which I will explain shortly) gives new meaning to the word unbelievable." (p. 2) Ch. 12 TV (CNN): "The main engine shut down almost as if it were a command shutdown." Then a few minutes later: "It's just as if it were commanded." p. 3 mentions two "mysterious" electrical surges. Then: "...in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference... and other subtle possibilities..." p. 4: "This has been a very uncanny, strange series of events." So did Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, attempt to summarize the three consecutive failures that have befallen the U.S. space program. To put that another way, is somebody trying to tell us something? Well, "they" certainly are... PK Man has been trying to tell the U.S. govt. and scientists for years that my (and UFOs) demonstrations are quite real. But I, and my UFOs, have wearied of it... thus this dramatic multi-demonstration. p. 4 sums up what my UFOs are bringing about: (1) "If we can't count on perfect Delta and Titan launches every time, the technological premise behind Star Wars is plainly preposterous." (2) "As offensive weapons become more powerful, more accurate and more numerous, the respective heads of state come under increasing pressure to shoot first in a crisis. The Star Wars scheme increases that danger." (3) "The smoke clouds over Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral suggest the folly of relying on technology at the expense of arms control. By delaying the further testing of much of the Star Wars technology, they also give the Congress and the American people some more time to think... about the brink where Mr. Reagan's unbounded faith in technology could be leading them." (p. 4) There it is. Not only have my UFOs demonstrated what they can do, whenever they wish... but more importantly, they have relaxed the pressure on Russia's trigger finger by paralyzing NASA and holding off the Star Wars progress for quite a long while. Maybe until Reagan resigns or drops out from illness and a new President comes in who will abandon putting such pressure on the Russians... thus possibly averting a nuclear war, all out. p. 4. Very interesting. After the first three incredible failures... there is a fourth. But NASA and the govt. covers up, so that the American people will not know. To make matters worse for NASA's space work... the Centaur rocket, key shuttle satellite rocket, is now on freeze. p. 5: illustrates how completely NASA has been wrecked and paralyzed by my UFOs! p. 6: "Two "abnormal" surges of power occurred in the electrical system of a Delta rocket's main engine just before the spacecraft lost power..." Then: "We feel this is quite a significant find, said William Russell, NASA's Delta project manager." Then: "The Delta, which was considered one of the more dependable rockets === Page 5 of 49 3 in NASA's inventory, now has been sidelined indefinitely. A similar suspension of Atlas-Centaur flights, if it is ordered, would bring a total halt to the launching of military and civilian satellites. (Then came the Centaur failure, covered up...and this has now come about...) Remember...the only difference between my knocking out the power in five States (while I was in Philadelphia...it's in your files) and paralyzing NASA...is in mass. Little effect or big effect...it makes no difference to me and my UFOs. The same amount of power is employed, and techniques. p. 9: It is brought out that the U.S. wishes to place nuclear rockets in space. This is one reason...my UFOs have determined to stop humans from space work. p. 10: to add to NASA's woes, it has now been discovered that NASA has wasted billions and billions of dollars. This is a good time to bring up Chernobyl. You probably have not connected that nuclear accident with the woes of NASA. On p. 10: "The accident developed in an unusual way, not as scientific knowledge would have predicted." Then, further: "Circumstances are changing because of Chernobyl." Yes, absolutely. By paralyzing NASA, the UFOs probably have moved the "nuclear clock" back from 2-minutes-until-12 to 11:30, PERHAPS EVEN 11. Simply because Russia now does not feel as threatened or pressured and thus is much much less likely to pull the nuclear trigger against us. And if that accident at Chernobyl did not develop as scientific knowledge would have predicted; in an unusual way...that is the same thing that has just stricken NASA, is it not? Of course, and I will tell you why. As I have previously pointed out, it was necessary for me to go to Hong Kong...to enable my UFOs to operate in Russia and China to try to prevent a nuclear way. That is just what they have done, with the Chernobyl action. The nuclear accident brought the Russians, and many many other countries, back to their senses...because it scared the dickens out of them. Before Chernobyl, these countries had no PERSPECTIVE AGAINST which to measure a nuclear war. After Chernobyl, now, they have that perspective. Thus an all-out nuclear war now is much, much less probable than before Chernobyl. My UFOs have done well. Chernobyl gave the entire world, on a relatively tiny scale, an idea of what a real nuclear war would be like...and now the entire world, HAS BEEN SHOCKED BY what they have seen on TV; and IT HAS learned. I say, thank God for Chernobyl. Even more than all of that...Chernobyl brought Russia out of its shell. See p. 13. Russia appealed to European nations for food. Actually asked for help from its neighbors. That...is a new Russia. Add to all of that...the Chernobyl accident has cost Russia billions and billions of dollars...which will bring Russia to a screeching halt in its military buildup and help for foreign terrorist forces. p. 15 points out that astronauts...with priceless training for space work...are leaving NASA. You can be sure that there will be more. And it takes a lot of time to train new astronauts. My UFOs are buying time, against war in space and war on Earth. p. 18: Recently there have been two 7 on the Richter earthquakes. One in Mexico City and one around Alaska. My UFOs have warned that they will cause an 8 to 10 on the Richter in California unless their Base is forthcoming soon. So, you can expect it, since nothing is happening at this end, from the govt. ALSO, MY UFOs ARE GREATLY "ANGERED" (IN THEIR OWN WAY) BECAUSE THE BOOK ABOUT THEIR WORK AND MINE (BY DR. MISHLOWE AND D. SCOTT ROGO) HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED. THIS WILL ADD TO THEIR EARTHQUAKE MOTIVATION. === Page 6 of 49 4 Now we are getting into the area of the Sun Attack from the UFOs. p. 20. The "bad squirrel" report emphasizes the effect upon animals that the Sun Attack is having. Therefore we can also assume that it is having a like effect upon humans. As we proceed through these pages you can see the record of tornado attacks; freak storms; record cold; record heat...and so on. (PLUS VOLCANIC UPHEAVALS). In closing...I would personally strongly recommend that the UFO base be provided...soon. Ted Owens (PK Man) (Drawing of a circle with a horizontal line through it) 4 PS... haven't the funds now to xerox this for all contacts then mail out ($100) so will have to wait a week until I can get some money to do it -- then THE $100 WILL have to come out of the family's sparse food money. PPS See p. 3 re "mysterious electrical surges" re Delta socket. Then today, later, Gorbachev said from Russia that the nuclear plant at Chernobyl blew up because of "an abnormal surge of power." Any Questions? The shuttle Challenger also was struck by wind shear or some kind of power that caused its destruction. The unknown force speeded it up tremendously then it slowed down tremendously -- and the damage was done. === Page 7 of 49 6C OCALA ★ STAR-BANNER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1986 # Fletcher Confirmed To Take Over Ailing Space Agency UFOs vs Space Works 5/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- James C. Fletcher is taking over NASA at a time when the space agency is grounded, in low esteem, and uncertain about how to soar again. He returns to the job he held from 1971 to 1977 with an 89-9 vote of confidence from the Senate, but also with carping from one senator that "he is a NASA retread who ... is not the man for this job." Fletcher, who was confirmed Tuesday but has no swearing-in date yet, takes over from William Graham, acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, while the United States finds itself with little capability to launch anything other than weapons of war. Space shuttles Columbia, Discovery and Atlantis are locked in hangars awaiting fixes made necessary by Challenger's Jan. 28 destruction. Their next flight, by all estimates, is more than a year off. A Delta rocket, the workhorse of America's expendable rocket stable, exploded last Saturday shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., while attempting to carry a vital $57.5 million weather satellite into orbit. Three remaining Deltas in the inventory won't be used until the cause of Saturday's failure is found. The Delta was the third straight space launch failure. The Air Force lost a Titan 34D, carrying a $500 million Big Bird spy satellite, on April 18 after it exploded on liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Future Titan rocket launches also are on hold for an investigation. The only other NASA vehicle capable of lifting payloads into orbit, the Atlas-Centaur, was scheduled for launch from Florida on May 22, carrying a Navy communications satellite. But because its engines are manufactured by the same company as Delta's, the Atlas-Centaur may be put on hold. NASA's remaining launch vehicle, the Scout, is a slender rocket used for very light payloads. In the debate that preceded Fletcher's confirmation, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., said the 66-year-old space executive had shown an unwillingness in his previous stint as administrator to face up to the shuttle's serious difficulties. "Dr. Fletcher, for all his sterling qualities, is, quite simply, a NASA retread," Proxmire said. "He is not the man for this job." Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., praised Fletcher as just what the doctor ordered, prompting Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., to say: "If we want to continue the malpractices of the past, then Dr. Fletcher is our man. His nostrums and his pills will mean more of the same -- and more trouble in the future for NASA." Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., who also opposed Fletcher, said "NASA needs a chief with a critical eye, not a chief who was part of any of the decisions of the past." People within NASA and without are puzzled by the recent problems with space launches. "The odds of having three different launch vehicles made by three different prime contractors and three different launch crews fail, and all of this happening at the same time -- it's incredible that could happen," said Rep. Don Fuqua, D-Fla., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. "There's clearly something in the air that's causing these failures," says Marcia Smith, president of the American Astronautical Society. "It's not just NASA, the Air Force is not so lucky either." A space jinx? "This whole sequence of events -- the launch failures, Chernobyl, Willie Shoemaker winning the Kentucky Derby -- gives new meaning to the word unbelievable," she said. === Page 8 of 49 # Electrical surges are blamed for Delta rocket loss ## NASA: All launchers off line By PHIL LONG Herald Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two flickering electrical shorts may have shut down critical fuel valves, killing the main engines and triggering the fiery destruction of a Delta rocket that exploded miles above Cape Canaveral last weekend, NASA investigators said Monday. The announcement of what is beginning to look more and more like an equipment failure forced NASA to ground all its Delta and Atlas Centaur rockets pending an investigation, effectively crippling the nation's ability to lift commercial, military and scientific satellites into orbit at least for the near future. The Titan, the only other launcher, was grounded after one blew up on liftoff in California last month. And, in a further blow to NASA's prestige and morale, Monday's press conference to discuss a spectacular failure came on the very day the space agency had set aside to celebrate the 25th anniversary of America's first manned space flight. The day began with 250 past and present NASA engineers, some wiping tears from their eyes, gathering for a quiet but emotional ceremony at the base of a model of the 83-foot-tall black-and-white Redstone missile that Alan Shepard rode into orbit at 9:34 a.m., May 5, 1961, in his windowless Freedom 7 capsule. "We like to think that we are infallible. But we are not. We proved that Jan. 28 and underscored it last Saturday," shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen said as the gusty wind off the nearby Atlantic sent his dark red tie flapping across the right shoulder of his Navy blue blazer. The destruction of the Delta rocket, workhorse of NASA's dwindling fleet, left the agency hustling to explain three disasters in a row. It began with the latest one. Two mysterious electrical surges, each lasting less than a quarter of a second, were followed by two significant voltage drops that occurred between 70 and 71 seconds after liftoff, Delta project manager William Russell explained at a press conference. "If you don't have voltage ... there is nothing to hold the two main fuel valves open. When they close, there is no more fuel," said Russell. Now the probe is focusing on what could have caused the electrical failure. Faulty wiring, improper grounding and damage during liftoff are possibilities, investigators say. Sabotage has still not been ruled out, but in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference" and other subtle possibilities are being downplayed, NASA officials said. But as a result of Monday's revelation, this month's Atlas Centaur launch of an Air Force satellite has been postponed, as have all future Delta rocket launches. Both the Atlas and the other Deltas have nearly identical Rocketdyne engines. The next Delta launch was scheduled for this fall and was to have carried a weather satellite nearly identical to the $57.5-million GOES-G satellite that was destroyed during Saturday's aborted launch. The GOES satellite would have given South Florida weather forecasters a much better look at the eastern Atlantic where hurricanes are born. When the Delta's main engines shut down, the missile spiraled out of control, Russell said. It catapulted through the air, tumbling wildly nine miles above the Atlantic for about 20 seconds before it was destroyed by a built-in self-destruct system. "Of course what we want to know is what caused the shorts," said Lawrence J. Ross, chairman of an eight-member investigation board probing the cause of the Saturday night failure of Delta 178. Monday's announcement put a damper on festivities planned to celebrate Shepard's first ride into space. The spectators, including John and Emily Snipes of Sebastian, were all involved in Shepard's historic 15-minute suborbital sojourn. Snipes, now retired, once helped install the igniter that sets off the rocket, the explosive bolts that separated the three stages of the rocket and the explosive charges that would have propelled Shepard to safety in the event of an accident on the launch pad. "People have become complacent about the space program," Snipes said. Twenty-five years ago, the mood was one of concern because of the unknown," said Marion Edwards, a telemetry expert on the Shepard flight and now a space station planner for NASA. As failures diminished and success became the norm, Edwards said, the mood became "confidence." "Now what has happened makes you realize that it will always be dangerous," Edwards said. === Page 9 of 49 UFO on Space Work 5/6/86 St. Pete Times # No perfection in space "This has been a very uncanny, strange series of events." So did Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, attempt to summarize the three consecutive failures that have befallen the U.S. space program. To put that another way, is somebody trying to tell us something? The space shuttle disaster could be attributed to negligence and overconfidence in the use of new technology. But not the loss of a Titan or a Delta, which were among the oldest and most reliable of U.S. launch vehicles. Barring sabotage, NASA seems finally to have been caught by the law of averages. Everything fails sooner or later, whether it's a $30-million rocket or the family car. The tangible loss this time is limited to the rocket and its payload, a $57.5-million weather satellite, which is affordable. But what if the loss consisted of New York, Washington or St. Petersburg? Such is the inherent risk in President Reagan's Star Wars defense scheme, and it is not affordable. Star Wars presupposes an exotic array of defensive weapons and computer technology that could never be tested under combat conditions and which would have to work perfectly the first time. If we can't count on perfect Delta and Titan launches every time, the technological premise behind Star Wars is plainly preposterous. The political justification is equally flawed. For four decades, global nuclear war has been deterred by the knowledge that the United States and the Soviet Union have the power to destroy each other in retaliation. This works so long as neither side fears the other has acquired enough strength to strike first and survive the consequences. As offensive weapons become more powerful, more accurate and more numerous, the respective heads of state come under increasing pressure to shoot first in a crisis. The Star Wars scheme increases that danger. In Soviet eyes, the existence of a U.S. space defense system would tempt some future American president to run the risk of starting -- or at least threatening -- a nuclear war. Mr. Reagan says that's not the purpose at all, but even he concedes that the Soviets would have to do something in response. He assumes that they would simply build their own space defense system. Few if any U.S. defense officials share his optimism. The Soviets have no incentive to invest in new technology that is costly, exorbitantly expensive, untested and in many major respects uninvented. They could defeat Star Wars simply by building more offensive missiles, which is something they already know how to do very well, and by surrounding this country with submarines carrying cruise missiles, which Star Wars is not designed to intercept. Which is easier and cheaper? A globe-girdling network of space satellites bearing reflecting mirrors, directed-energy weapons and nuclear reactors? Or a few hundred more ICBMs with multiple warheads? The smoke clouds over Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral suggest the folly of relying on technology at the expense of arms control. By delaying the further testing of much of the Star Wars technology, they also give the Congress and the American people some more time to think about the brink where Mr. Reagan's unbounded faith in technology could be leading them. NASA BUDGET WASTE SHUTTLE TITAN "HEY, LOOK--WE GOT SOMETHING INTO ORBIT!" === Page 10 of 49 UFOs vs Space Work # U.S. Rocket Failed In April, Reports Say WASHINGTON (AP) - A NASA research rocket that had flown successfully 120 consecutive times misfired over the New Mexico desert two weeks ago - the fourth U.S. space launch vehicle to fail this year. The government, whose space program is under pressure because of the explosions of recent explosions of the much larger Titan and Delta rockets and the space shuttle, did not announce the April 25 failure of a Nike Orion rocket carrying a pollution-sampling device. In response to questions from The Associated Press on Friday, the malfunction was described by Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M., and by Dr. Edward C. Zipf, a geophysicist of the University of Pittsburgh, who was conducting the experiment for NASA. "This was very rare. I think this particular series of rockets, the so-called Orion family, had flown 120 times and this was the first failure," Zipf said in a telephone interview. "This system of rockets has been flying for about six or seven years." The Nike rocket dates back to the early 1950s when it was developed as a ground-based missile against aircraft. It was used in different military versions until the last one was retired last year from Nike Hercules batteries in Europe. NASA has been using the surplus, solid-fuel Nike booster in combination with another solid-fuel, military surplus rocket, the Orion. In the configuration that failed last month, the rocket and payload combination was 30 feet long. # Fourth NASA rocket fails in launch try last month This time it was a Nike Orion that exploded. UFOs vs Space Work 5/10/86 Tribune Wires WASHINGTON - A NASA research rocket that had flown successfully 120 consecutive times misfired over the New Mexico desert two weeks ago - the fourth U.S. space launch vehicle to fail this year. The government, whose space program is under pressure because of the recent explosions of the much larger Titan and Delta rockets and the space shuttle, did not announce the April 25 failure of a Nike Orion rocket carrying a pollution-sampling device. At Cape Canaveral, meanwhile, engineers are investigating whether a design decision approved by NASA 12 years ago may have doomed the Delta rocket that became the nation's third 1985 space accident last Saturday, agency officials said Friday. The Nike-Orion malfunction was described by Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M., and by Dr. Edward C. Zipf, a geophysicist. 1986!! See ROCKET, Page 6A UFOs vs Space Work # Safety, cost problems threaten Centaur rocket CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) - Serious safety concerns and ballooning cost overruns threaten the future of a key shuttle satellite rocket, which could further hamper America's ability to launch heavy payloads, an aerospace magazine reported Friday. Citing internal NASA documents, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine reported portions of the Centaur rocket program have been put on hold by NASA pending extensive reviews and a decision on "whether to proceed with or cancel the $1 billion effort." The rocket, built by General Dynamics Convair division, is crucial to NASA's plans to launch three interplanetary probes, one of them built by the European Space Agency, and at least six military spacecraft through the end of the decade. Unlike previous shuttle satellite rockets, Centaur is the first such booster designed to be carried in the shuttle's payload bay that burns explosive liquid hydrogen fuel. That greatly complicates engineering for flight safety and NASA estimates that $160 million to $180 million would be required to correct Centaur safety issues. Before the Challenger disaster Jan. 28, the first Centaur had been scheduled for launch May 20 to carry the Galileo probe to Jupiter. The flight now is on hold indefinitely. 4 1/2 === Page 11 of 49 # America's crippled space fleet The U.S. uses four types of missiles to put payloads in orbit. Three have failed this year and have been grounded. Here is a breakdown of the missile types and the missions that had been planned for them this year. 170 ft. 160 140 120 125.8 ft. 100 113 ft. 115 ft. 80 60 40 20 0 | Titan 34-D | Shuttle | Atlas-Centaur | Delta | |---|---|---|---| | Flight status: Grounded | Flight status: Grounded | Flight status: Uncertain | Flight status: Grounded | | Vehicles left: 7 | Vehicles left: 3* | Vehicles left: 3 | Vehicles left: 3 | | Launches planned for rest of '86: Secret | Launches planned for rest of '86: 13 | Launches planned for rest of '86: 2 | Launches planned for rest of '86: 2 | | Payloads delayed: Secret | Payloads delayed: 3 communication satellites, 7 science experiments, 4 military missions | Payloads delayed: 2 communications satellites | Payloads delayed: 1 weather satellite, 1 military mission | | | * reuseable | | | St. Petersburg Times -- FRANK PETERS ### Launch switched from NASA LOS ANGELES -- A Japanese communications satellite due to be launched next year by a U.S. space shuttle will instead be carried into space aboard a European Ariane rocket in 1988, said the Japanese Communications Satellite Company. The switch was made because of the grounding of the shuttle fleet following the Challenger disaster, the owners said Thursday. Trib 5/9/86 === Page 12 of 49 # NASA postpones rocket launch CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- NASA on Wednesday postponed the May 22 liftoff of an Atlas-Centaur rocket for about four weeks, leaving the United States with no heavy satellite launch capability for that period. The nation's other three vehicles capable of carrying large satellites have suffered failures in the last three months and are grounded for periods up to a year or more. They are the space shuttle, halted by the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion; the Air Force Titan 34D, which exploded April 18 seconds after lifting off from a California base with a military spy satellite, and NASA's Delta, which was destroyed Saturday night while hoisting a weather satellite from Cape Canaveral. The Atlas-Centaur is to lift a military communications satellite into orbit. The Atlas first stage has an engine similar to the Delta main engine that failed Saturday, and the space agency said it wants to learn more about what happened to the Delta before it commits the Atlas-Centaur to flight. "The delay will provide time to review the manufacture, handling, transportation and assembly history of the Atlas-Centaur vehicle and its spacecraft to ensure that all items critical to a successful launch have been thoroughly analyzed," a NASA statement said. The Atlas-Centaur, like the Delta, is a workhorse of the NASA fleet, and has logged 59 successes in 65 launches. The Delta has recorded 167 successes in 178 flights, and had run off a string of 43 straight successes before Saturday's failure. Lawrence J. Ross, head of an eight-member panel investigating the Delta accident, reported Monday that the failure appeared to have been an electrical short circuit that shut off the engine. All Deltas have been grounded for at least six months while the failure is analyzed. The shuttle disaster that killed seven astronauts was triggered by a faulty joint that spewed flame from the right solid-fuel booster rocket. The exact cause of the failure has not been pinpointed, but a presidential commission investigating the accident is expected to recommend a complete redesign of the joint when it submits its report early next month. The Titan 34D explosion also was caused by a problem with a solid fuel booster rocket, possibly a burn-through of the rocket casing. The shuttle is not expected to fly again for at least a year, and the Air Force does not expect to launch another Titan 34D for at least six months. The groundings could be especially crippling if critical military surveillance satellites now in orbit should fail. They are large and can be lifted by only the shuttle or the Titan 34D. The only non-grounded American rockets now capable of lifting satellites are the Scout and Atlas-H, and they hoist only small payloads. # Short circuit possible cause of Delta failure By JON NORDHEIMER © New York Times CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two abnormal surges of power occurred in the electrical system of a Delta rocket's main engine just before the spacecraft lost power after launching Saturday, officials said Monday. The evidence of a short circuit in the system could explain the premature shutdown of the rocket's main engine, which sent the vehicle spinning out of control until it was destroyed by a command signal from the ground, the officials said. The electrical system used in the rocket has not been modified since 1960, but the officials said there had been no previous reported cases of power surges. "We feel this is quite a significant find," said William Russell, NASA's Delta project manager. He said an official board of investigation named Sunday to find the cause of the loss of the rocket and its $57.5-million weather satellite payload still had not analyzed all the data and had not ruled out any possible cause for the accident, including sabotage. Lawrence J. Ross, head of the investigation board, said the Delta loss created "a high probability" that NASA would postpone the scheduled May 22 launching of an Atlas-Centaur rocket that was to place a military satellite in orbit. The American space program has sustained three consecutive failed launchings this year, and four since August. On Jan. 28 the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing the crew and forcing a suspension of flights until at least 1987. Last month an Air Force Titan rocket carrying a classified payload, believed to be a spy satellite, exploded after liftoff in California. Another Titan rocket also believed to be carrying a spy satellite exploded in August. Technicians reported all systems in the Delta rocket were operating normally until 71 seconds after liftoff, Russell said. "Everything was markedly normal -- just like clockwork," he said. Within the next second, however, a sequence was recorded that showed two abnormal surges of amplitude on the rocket's battery currents, he said. Russell compared the malfunction to "an electrical wire, with the insulation off, drawing a spark." This was followed by the immediate shutdown of the craft's main engine. He said the two electrical "spikes" could have reduced voltage from batteries aboard the rocket to a point where an automatic system would shut down the rocket's first-stage engine. Russell said that the problem could have been caused by a number of defects, such as faulty wiring or a loose piece of material coming in contact with the electrical system during the ascent of the rocket. In a related matter, the Senate debated the nomination of James Fletcher to a second stint as head of NASA on Monday, but delayed a vote until today. -- Information from AP was used in this report. === Page 13 of 49 NASA Panel Probing UFOs vs Space Work 5/5/86 Rocket Failure CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A NASA panel is looking into the failure 71 seconds after blastoff of a Delta rocket's main engine, while officials assess how the unmanned launcher's destruction will affect the space program. Acting NASA Administrator William Graham spent Sunday at Kennedy Space Center conferring with center Director Richard G. Smith and managers of the Delta project to "discuss the options for the immediate future," according to a space agency source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Neither Graham nor Smith would discuss what steps may result from the third major launch failure this year. Distinctly different spacecraft were involved in the three disasters, which included the space shuttle Challenger, in which seven astronauts died on Jan. 28, and an unmanned Air Force Titan 34D on April 18 in California. Richard G. Truly, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's associate administrator for space flight, announced the appointment of an eight-member investigative panel, headed by Lawrence J. Ross of the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. The panel's mission is to find the cause of the failure of Saturday's Delta-178 mission and recommend corrective action by July 2. The NASA group helping the presidential commission with its study of the Challenger accident will assist the new panel, Truly said. A NASA statement said the Delta flight, carrying the $57.5 million Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-7), ended just over a minute after a normal liftoff at 6:18 p.m. "At about 71 seconds into the flight, the mission was See NASA Looks on page 8A UFOs vs Space Work Short circuit probed in Delta rocket failure Trib 5/6/86 The incident clouds the future of U.S. satellite launches. Tribune Wires CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two flickering electrical shorts may have shut down critical fuel valves, killing the main engines and triggering the fiery destruction of a Delta rocket that exploded miles above Cape Canaveral last weekend, NASA investigators said Monday. The announcement of what is beginning to look like an equipment failure forced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to ground all of its Delta and Atlas Centaur rockets pending an investigation. The move effectively cripples the nation's ability to lift commercial, military and scientific satellites into orbit at least for the near future. The Titan, the only other launcher, was grounded after one blew up on liftoff in California last month. The destruction of the Delta rocket, workhorse of NASA's dwindling fleet, left the agency hustling to explain three consecutive disasters. It began with the latest one. Two mysterious electrical surges, each lasting less than a quarter of a second, were followed by two significant voltage drops that occurred between 70 and 71 seconds after liftoff, Delta project manager William Russell said at a press conference. "If you don't have voltage ... there is nothing to hold the two main fuel valves open. When they close, there is no more fuel," said Russell. Now the probe is focusing on what could have caused the electrical failure. Faulty wiring, improper grounding and damage during liftoff are possibilities, investigators say. See ROCKET, Page 4A Rocket From Page 1A 5/6/86 Sabotage has not been ruled out, but in light of the discovery of the short, "outside interference" ... and other subtle possibilities" are being downplayed, NASA officials said. As a result of Monday's revelation, this month's Atlas Centaur launch of an Air Force satellite has been postponed, as have all future Delta rocket launches. Both the Atlas and the other Deltas have nearly identical Rocketdyne engines. The next Delta launch had been scheduled for this fall and was to have carried a weather satellite nearly identical to the $57.5-million GOES-7 satellite that was destroyed during Saturday's aborted launch. The GOES satellite would have given weather forecasters a much better look at the eastern Atlantic where hurricanes are born. When the Delta's main engines shut down, the missile spiraled out of control, Russell said. It catapulted through the air, tumbling wildly nine miles above the Atlantic for about 20 seconds before it was destroyed by a built-in self-destruct system. "Of course, what we want to know is what caused the shorts," said Lawrence J. Ross, chairman of an investigation board probing the cause of the Saturday night failure of Delta 178. The loss of the Delta and its weather satellite was the third setback for the nation's space program this year. The first was the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which killed its crew of seven. In February, the Air Force successfully launched an Atlas missile with a secret payload from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. But three weeks ago, the Air Force lost a secret spy satellite when a Titan rocket blew up just after blastoff. === Page 14 of 49 # NASA panel to probe failure of Delta rocket Safety officers blew up the rocket when the main engine shut down shortly after launch. The rocket was carrying a weather satellite. CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -- An eight-member panel was named Sunday to investigate the flaming destruction of a Delta rocket as engineers groped for clues to what caused America's third crushing space failure this year. Rear Adm. Richard Truly, NASA's associate administrator for space flight, said the board was instructed to present its findings on the cause of the disaster "not later than July 2." Delta No. 178 was blown up by Air Force safety officers 91 seconds after blastoff Saturday, 20 seconds after its first-stage main engine suddenly shut down prematurely for unknown reasons, throwing the rocket into a destructive high-speed tumble. Space agency officials said no clear failure point has emerged from early analysis of the telemetry beamed down from the rocket before it careened out of control and even sabotage has not been ruled out. "At this point, nothing has jumped out of the data to say ah ha, here is exactly what happened and here is the cause," said NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. As for the possibility of sabotage, Harris said, "You cannot rule out anything. However, nobody has indicated any reason to think that was likely." The failure, coupled with the Challenger disaster Jan. 28 and the explosion of an Air Force Titan 34D on April 18, has crippled America's ability to launch military and civilian payloads into space. A military Atlas rocket launched Feb. 9 marks the nation's only space success since Challenger exploded. Acting NASA Administrator William Graham flew to the Kennedy Space Center at 3 a.m. EDT Sunday for briefings on the progress of the investigation and Truly set up the investigation board. Lawrence Ross, director of space flight systems at NASA's Lewis Research Center, flew to Florida Sunday to chair the panel. Seven of its members are space agency engineers and one is director of the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. None of the board members had any connection with the Delta launch. "The board will investigate and recommend corrective action for the Delta 178 flight failure and will report its findings and recommendations not later than July 2, 1986," a NASA statement said. A swift investigation is important to NASA because the next Delta is scheduled for blastoff Aug. 14 to carry a classified Star Wars payload into orbit. The shuttle, Delta and Titan programs are all grounded for investigations. Only the unmanned Atlas Centaur remains in NASA's inventory and just three of those venerable rockets are left, the result of decisions years ago to make the shuttle America's primary satellite launcher. The next Atlas Centaur is scheduled for launch May 22 and countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center were dutifully ticking toward zero Sunday but the blastoff could be delayed as a result of the Delta failure. Delta No. 178 took off at 6:18 p.m. EDT Saturday in what appeared to be a routine launching. The previous 43 Deltas in a row were successful and the program overall had suffered only 11 failures in 177 flights for a 94 percent success record. But the rocket's first stage engine, built by Rocketdyne, suddenly shut down 71 seconds after launch. The engine's nozzle is used to steer the spacecraft and with the shutdown, the speeding rocket was unable to stay on course. Tracking cameras showed the 116-foot-tall rocket's nose drift off course and aerodynamic pressure shattered the protective fairing around the GOES-7 weather satellite at the tip of the spacecraft as it began swapping ends, tumbling violently out of control. Twenty seconds after the shutdown, Air Force safety officers sent radio self-destruct commands to destroy the rocket, a standard procedure to ensure out-of-control rockets do not make it back to populated areas. Lost along with the $42 million rocket was the $57.5 million GOES-7 weather satellite that was to provide television monitoring of hurricanes and storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Launch director Charles Gay said he had no idea what caused the failure and all data beamed down from the rocket before it broke apart indicated the first stage engine and its solid-fuel boosters were operating properly. The failure has heightened the quandary faced by the nation's military and civilian space programs. Only three Delta rockets remain on the books. Two more are scheduled for launch in 1986 to carry another GOES weather satellite into orbit and to ferry a Star Wars payload into space. The final NASA Delta launch is set for August 1987 to launch another Strategic Defense Initiative payload. The McDonnell Douglas production line is closed and there are currently no orders for additional rockets. Even if new orders come in, the company estimates it would take 17 months to build the first one. Likewise, the agency's Atlas Centaur program is scheduled to come to an end in early 1987 after three more flights, each to launch Navy... # Pioneer Expects NASA Rebound By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- The U.S. space program is in disarray, grounded for at least a year because of the Challenger disaster, with NASA struggling to put the pieces back together. But 25 years ago today, the nation's spirits soared as the first American rocketed across the threshold of space. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., a 37-year-old native of New Hampshire, rode a Redstone rocket and his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule on a 15-minute, 302-mile lob down the Atlantic Missile Range. By current standards, it wasn't much of a show. Back then, it was spectacular. That brief suborbital mission thrust the United States into a space race, a competition until then dominated by the Soviet Union. It opened the gateway to out there and the many remarkable Shepard poses in his office with model of Mercury capsule. === Page 15 of 49 UFOs in Space Work Official: U.S. exploded reactor Trib 5/8/86 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A small U.S. nuclear reactor was allowed to explode in 1965 as part of a test of what would happen during a runaway chain reaction, according to a scientist involved in the experiment. Fallout was measured at non-dangerous levels in three Southern California communities 200 to 250 miles from the blast, but very little was found nearby, radiation biologist Stewart Black told The Los Angeles Times in an interview published today. Black, chief of the dose assessment branch of the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nev., was with the U.S. Public Health Service at the time. The experiment showed that in an accident like the one in the Soviet Union, radioactive fallout can be carried far from the site while nearby areas are spared, Stewart said. Discovery of small amounts of radiation in milk from cows fed hay left near the test explosion showed such an accident can release radiation that travels up the food chain, he said. The test in January 1965 at Jackass Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, was part of a program by the old Atomic Energy Commission to develop nuclear rockets for use in space, an idea abandoned in the 1970s. (Sure it was!) # Shepard Predicts NASA Will Rebound 5/5/86 Continued from page 1A things that have happened since: Moon landings, space walks, orbiting stations and reuseable spaceships. Last Jan. 28, another 37-year-old native of New Hampshire, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had her eyes fixed on the stars as the first ordinary citizen selected for space flight. Her dream was shattered when the space shuttle Challenger blew apart 73 seconds after launching, killing her and her six crewmates. And on Saturday, an unmanned Delta rocket, carrying a weather satellite, went out of control and was destroyed from the ground shortly after launch. The rocket was destroyed after its main engine shut down, leaving it without guidance and careening out of control. The cause was under investigation. Shepard, who has maintained close contacts with old friends in NASA and the astronaut corps, called the shuttle explosion a severe setback to the U.S. effort. "It was a terrible thing," he said. "It's going to be a long, tough process for NASA to recover. Even if the engineers find an obvious fault rather quickly, everyone will have to go through all the systems all over again to make certain everything is right before flying again." The former astronaut, now a millionaire Houston businessman, reflected in an interview with The Associated Press on his pathfinding flight, his battle back from medical oblivion to earn a trip to the moon and his hopes for the shuttle and the future of space flight. He might have been the first human in space if a chimpanzee named Ham had not overshot his Atlantic Ocean target by 112 miles because of a faulty electrical relay. Ham's journey, in January 1961, was a dress rehearsal for Shepard's flight, which had been set for March. NASA decided to launch another Mercury capsule, unmanned, to check its systems and put Shepard's flight off until May. Russia's Yuri Gagarin beat him into space on April 12. UFOs in Space Work Rocket ordered recovered Trib 5/7/86 CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA on Tuesday ordered shuttle salvage crews at work off shore to attempt recovery of the first stage engine of a Delta rocket that exploded Saturday to help investigators pin down what went wrong. Lawrence Ross, chairman of the Delta accident investigation, said Monday engineers believe a short circuit in the electronic system that controlled the first stage engine may have caused the premature cut off. 5/5/86 # NASA Looks Into Failure Of Rocket Continued from page 1A proceeding normally when ... the first-stage engine shut down abruptly. With loss of thrust and attitude control, the vehicle entered a tumble and approximately 20 seconds later, the range safety office sent a destruct signal to destroy the system," the statement said. NASA officials refused to answer all queries as to whether preliminary studies of launch control data indicated what might have caused the main engine to quit suddenly. The shutdown sent the $30 million rocket shuddering out of control so violently that the nose containing the GOES satellite broke off before the destruct signal "finished the job," in the words of Delta project manager Bill Russell. A team from the Los Angeles-based Rocketdyne, a division of North American Rockwell, is also in Florida investigating the incident. The company builds engines for the Delta. Russell and Air Force Col. Albert Thomas, deputy commander of the Eastern Space and Missile Command, said shortly after the accident that they could not speculate about questions of possible sabotage raised by reporters. Asked about the possibility of a spurious shutdown command, possibly from a ship, Russell would say only that "it did not appear to have come from the command procedure" at launch control. But he added that investigators would "look at our internal electrical systems" to see if a shutdown command could have gone up to the rocket accidentally. "We don't think so," he said. NASA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Delta investigation would postpone a May 22 Atlas-Centaur mission to put a Navy communications satellite into orbit. Also jeopardized, depending on the findings, was an Aug. 14 Delta flight for the Defense Department and a Delta flight Oct. 9 to take up another weather satellite. Gerald Longanecker, manager of NASA's meteorological satellite program, said the GOES satellites are vital to the nation's ability to monitor the weather. Only one is in orbit, and it is approaching the end of its five-year life cycle. (9) === Page 16 of 49 Another Newspaper's View # Foolishly Bringing Back NASA's Spendthrift for an Encore An editorial from The Los Angeles Times: 5/3/86 Nothing succeeds like success, it has been said, which is an accurate description of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the Challenger accident three months ago. While it was running up an unparalleled string of breathtaking space spectaculars, few noticed that it was also running up a bill that was padded with waste, fraud and abuse. As detailed in two articles last week in the New York Times, federal auditors throughout the 1970s and '80s told the agency repeatedly that millions of dollars were being wasted, that management controls were inadequate and that NASA contractors made defense contractors look like pikers. Millions of dollars of equipment disappeared. Work was done by contractors before a price was agreed on, and the government then paid what the contractors asked for. Spare parts were bought from subcontractors who bought them from other vendors and then jacked up the price. The Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International, which makes the shuttle engines, was paid $120 each for bolt assemblies worth $3.28, $315 each for metal loops that cost 3 cents, $80 for $1 washers, $1,621 for a $78 bolt, and on and on. The auditors documented waste of at least $3.5 billion, which the attorney for the space agency's inspector general calls "the tip of the iceberg," adding, "There is probably much more out there." But the agency sloughed it all off. After all, every time it lit up one of the shuttles, the thing took off, didn't it? So what's a little vigorish here and there to assure good contractor relations? One effect of the waste of money was that the space agency tried to economize by cutting back its testing program. It saved $68 million, the auditors found, by not testing the shuttle's solid-fuel booster rockets, the failure of which caused the Challenger disaster. The absence of financial controls at NASA greatly increased the cost of the shuttle program. Congress originally approved it on the strength of the argument that a reusable vehicle would be cheap and that these remarkable spaceplanes would pay for themselves and make money for the government to boot. But the shuttle wound up costing more and flying less than the rosy predictions made to Congress promised. Everyone, including NASA, has known for years that the shuttle will never make a profit. The man who ran NASA from 1971 to 1977, while the shuttle was being developed and the taxpayers were being robbed, was James C. Fletcher. He is the James C. Fletcher who is now being brought back with great fanfare to pick up the space agency's tattered reins. There must be somebody better for the rudderless agency to turn to. Fletcher's nomination is now before the Senate. His previous stewardship should fill all of the senators with misgivings about his ability to straighten things out. International nuclear safety experts said Thursday they expect a renewed drive for worldwide cooperation, including mandatory notification of nuclear emergencies, in light of the Chernobyl disaster and its far-reaching radioactive cloud. "Circumstances are changing because of Chernobyl," said Allan Mendelowitz, author of a General Accounting Office study on international nuclear safety. "It's a propitious time to raise the issue of a convention again." There is no international agreement governing the reporting of nuclear accidents now. Lyashko's statements seemed to contradict those of Deputy Soviet Premier Boris Y. Shcherbina, who said Tuesday that the government inquiry he heads arrived at the scene within hours of the initial explosion. Shcherbina said workers at the plant initially underestimated the scope of the accident. Asked about delays in evacuation, Lyashko said: "The accident developed in an unusual way, not as scientific knowledge would have predicted. First, there was a small explosion and a small radioactive emission." "The measurements at first showed there was nothing to fear," he added, saying the later decision to clear an 18-mile zone was "insurance." === Page 17 of 49 UFOs vs Space Work THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, May 7, 1986 5-, # Study faults NASA maintenance Trib 5/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force concluded last fall that the U.S. space agency's ground-support operations for the shuttle fleet were flawed by poor record-keeping, disorganized maintenance work and other shortcomings. The internal study, first disclosed Tuesday by The Washington Post and later released by the Air Force, concluded that the problems would hinder the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ability to prepare space shuttles for launch. The report also concluded, however, that a "highly ambitious, but sound and workable" plan to correct the problems had been formulated and could be implemented over the next 12 to 18 months. The study was completed last October by the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Team. The Air Force agreed late Tuesday to release a copy of the study but declined additional comment on its conclusions. The study was performed at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and circulated primarily to Air Force officials involved in preparing a new military spaceport at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The NASA team that prepares the shuttles for launch from Cape Canaveral will perform similar work at Vandenberg before military space missions. The Air Force study focused on the way NASA was maintaining and repairing the ground equipment that moves, loads, fuels and services the shuttle, not repair work on the shuttles themselves. The study concluded that data systems used to monitor maintenance and repair work on ground-support equipment were "so ineffective and inconsistent" that their use for long-range planning for "equipment update, manpower, spares and funding is not possible." The report also found that workers were taking more time to fix certain problems than they had during the previous year. Release of the Air Force study comes at a time the United States has suffered three catastrophic rocket failures, including the Jan. 28 explosion of the shuttle Challenger and the loss of its seven-member crew. Investigations following that accident have focused in part on time pressures placed on Kennedy Space Center personnel as NASA began to increase the pace of shuttle launches. The Air Force study reinforces those concerns, concluding the ground-support operations initially functioned as well as they did because flights were at least 50 days apart. STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE UNITED STATES LET'S TRY IT AGAIN! 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... CRITICS BLAME A BREAKDOWN IN QUALITY CONTROL. "NONSENSE!," SAYS NASA. Trib 5/7/86 === Page 18 of 49 Delta Rocket Destroyed After Takeoff UFOs or Space junk 0.SB 5/4/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- An unmanned rocket carrying a weather satellite went out of control and was blown up by command from the ground shortly after launch Saturday, the second failure of a U.S. spacecraft since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Just over a minute after liftoff, the Delta rocket's main engine shut down, leaving it without guidance and careening out of control at 1,400 mph, said Bill Russell, NASA's Delta manager. Safety officers then sent a destruct command "and finished the job," Russell said at a news conference about an hour after the launch. A fuel leak in the rocket's main engine, which had caused a two-day delay in the liftoff, apparently was not the cause of the trouble, he said. Saturday's launching of the space agency's most used and most dependable rocket took on added significance because of the Jan. 28 space shuttle explosion that killed its seven crew members and the explosion of an Air Force Titan 34D rocket in California on April 18. "We have had a loss of the vehicle. There is a breakup of the vehicle," launch commenter Lisa Malone said as the 116-foot rocket broke apart. The flight appeared normal through the first minute, with the first set of solid rockets being jettisoned at 64 and 65 seconds, Russell said. "We were flying along, and at about 71 seconds the main engine . . . shut down," he said. "It's a very sharp shutdown, almost as though it were a commanded shutdown. Once you lose that, of course, the rocket has no stability control." After the shutdown, the rocket began drifting, creating an angle of attack great enough that the faring, or shield, that covers its nose tore off. See Delta on page 12A AP A Delta 178 rocket is exploded shortly after launch from Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. === Page 19 of 49 Soviets appeal to European nations for food Reuters News Service LONDON -- The Soviet Union wants to buy substantial amounts of grain and other foods from the European Community, or EC, to make up for food contaminated by the nuclear reactor accident in the Ukraine, a member of the European Parliament said Thursday. In Brussels, the EC banned imports of East European meat and animals, effectively barring the bulk of products likely to carry radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The ban was imposed by the EC Executive Commission while awaiting a decision by the 12 EC governments on a proposed halt to all fresh-food imports from the seven nations believed affected by the Soviet accident -- the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. A commission spokesman said the meat and animal ban would last through the end of the month. As for the Soviet purchases of EC products and meats, "Information reaching me suggests that the Soviet Union, using diplomatic channels, has approached Brussels with a view to purchasing substantial quantities of surplus community food, including grain, butter, beef and skimmed milk powder," said Richard Cotterill, a British member of the European Parliament. "All these commodities would be purchased far in excess of the relatively modest amounts we have sold to the Soviet Union in recent years," he told the British Broadcasting Corp. The Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Soviet Union. "There's no doubt at all that crops and the cattle have been extensively contaminated by radioactive fallout. This now poses the Russians with a problem which will arise with considerable severity this winter," Cotterill said. He said sales of EC food to Moscow are traditionally handled through food brokers, mainly based in Paris. "I think one of the reasons the Russians have made this unusual approach to the (EC) Commission is to talk about not only payment but also a question of scale, because if substantial quantities of food are going to be shipped eastward across the Iron Curtain there is a transport problem," he added. In Brussels, the commission said it had not been approached directly about urgent supplies from Moscow or from traders who normally handle such approaches. Delta Rocket Destroyed Continued from page 1A There was no indication that a command had been sent to shut down the engines, he said. Preliminary data, such as turbine speed and temperatures in and around the engines, "all appeared to be very normal," Russell said. "The three solid (boosters) were burning very well" after the main engine shut down, he said. The three-stage Delta is assisted into space by nine solid-propellant boosters strapped to its bottom stage. The boosters are similar to those that help power the space shuttle and Titan 34D, but are much smaller and made in one section, rather than segmented like the others. Investigators believe that the Challenger and Titan rocket explosions were caused by failures of joints between segments. Morton Thiokol makes both the solid-fuel boosters used for the shuttle and the Delta. The debris from the rocket landed in the Atlantic about 30 miles off Cape Canaveral, said Air Force Col. Elbert M. Thomas. There were no immediate plans to try to recover the debris, he said. NASA could not immediately say how high the rocket was when it blew up. The last 43 Delta launches, dating to September 1977, had been successful. Earlier Saturday, engineers reported no sign of any further fuel leakage in the rocket's main engine, a condition that resulted in the scrub of the mission three hours before Thursday's scheduled liftoff. The space agency said Thursday's launch would have been postponed even without the Challenger and Titan failures, but extra precautions at the Delta's launch pad and the two-day delay over the main-engine leak indicated the concern that everything go well. Top-level NASA officials had participated in extensive flight-readiness review sessions here and in Washington. === Page 20 of 49 A cloud from exploded missile is seen over Lompoc Valley, Calif. UFO? or Space Trash 0.5B 4/19/86 # Titan Space Rocket Explodes; May Have Carried Spy Satellite VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- A Titan rocket believed carrying a top-secret spy satellite exploded in a huge orange cloud seconds after launch Friday, the second such incident in eight months. No injuries were reported and the National Weather Service said there was no danger to civilians because the cloud was floating to sea. Air Force officials would not say exactly what the cloud was. But schoolchildren were told to stay inside, and about 120 oil workers were evacuated from two drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. The National Park Service ordered the evacuation of rangers, campers and tourists from the offshore Channel Islands National Park. The feared loss of the spy satellite would hamper America's ability to monitor Soviet activities, with only one other such satellite in orbit, experts said. "This will create major problems in the photographic reconnaissance program, in our confidence in monitoring Soviet military activities at a critical time," said Paul Stares, a military space expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The rocket, a Titan 34D, exploded after launch from the Western Space and Missile Center, said Maj. Ken St. John. "Damage was confined to the immediate launch area," he said. "A great red-orange puff of smoke came up," said Victor A. Sanchez, who was working nearby. "It shook the whole ground." St. John would not speculate about the booster's payload. An Air Force statement released in Washington said the payload was classified. But it was almost certain the rocket was carrying a refurbished model of the KH-11 photographic reconnaissance satellite or a previously unknown satellite, said Stares and Jeffrey Richelson, a military reconnaissance expert at American University in Washington. The KH-11 believed aboard was intended to be a test model but was refurbished after another Titan blew up after launch at Vandenberg on Aug. 28, destroying a KH-11 and leaving only one of the satellites in orbit, said Richelson and Stares. The loss Friday of another KH-11 would put America's ability to monitor Soviet troop movements, other military activities and compliance with nuclear treaties "in a very precarious position," Richelson said. A newer, more sophisticated spy satellite, the KH-12, is too big to be launched on expendable rockets and can be put into orbit only by a space shuttle, Richelson said. The shuttle program was halted in January after the Challenger exploded, killing seven astronauts. "It would appear that we have at present no means of putting any more photographic reconnaissance satellites into orbit until the shuttle is operating again," Richelson said, adding that the KH-11 in orbit has 1½ years left in its useful lifespan. === Page 21 of 49 # NASA Critical Of Reports UFOs vs Space Work O.SB 4/26/86 The New York Times WASHINGTON -- The space agency asserted Friday that two New York Times articles depicting waste and mismanagement in the space program were "inaccurate" in some respects and gave "a misleading impression" of the agency's performance. The agency did not address the great majority of the specific allegations reported in the articles, which were based on more than 500 government audits and other government documents. But it said the audits were management tools being effectively used to uncover and correct deficiencies. It said the audits had enabled NASA to save almost $750 million over an eight-year period. However, Harry R. Finley, a top official of the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress that conducted many of the critical audits, said Friday that his agency's findings were portrayed accurately in the articles. He also asserted that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had not been responsive to auditors' suggestions for managerial improvements. The space agency's first detailed response to the articles came as sentiment rose in Congress to watch the agency more closely to prevent the kind of management defects depicted in the official government audits. The audits identified instances of waste and gave dollar figures that totaled at least $3.5 billion. The audits attributed the waste to bad management. At the same time, the agency cut or delayed $500 million in safety tests and programs, according to the audits. Rep. Manuel J. Luhan of New Mexico, the senior Republican on the House Science and Technology Committee, said Friday that the articles "brought up problems that need investigating by the committee." Aides to Luhan, who is recovering from heart surgery, said he was "very concerned" by allegations of waste and mismanagement raised by the audits. He See NASA on page 8A ## Emergency shuttle launch may be tried Experts say the U.S. is concerned about having only one spy satellite in orbit. UFOs vs Space Work New York Times Trib 4/22/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The crisis in the nation's ability to launch key reconnaissance satellites has spurred speculation among aerospace experts that the government might attempt an emergency mission of the space shuttle from a new launching facility here. Air Force officials say the $2.8 billion complex is ready to launch a shuttle, even though minor construction remains to be finished. The spaceport's huge concrete and steel structures dominate a brushy, windswept mountainside high above the Pacific Ocean. Quietly under construction since 1979, this Western shuttle site might be called into service because of the explosion here last Friday of a Titan rocket carrying a secret military payload, which was widely believed to be a KH-11 photo reconnaissance satellite. Experts say the spy satellite was to join an aging KH-11 currently in orbit, the nation's last in space. "As long as that's operating, there's no compelling UFOs vs Space Work Trib 4/26/86 ### Report: Titan carried spy satellite WASHINGTON -- The Titan rocket that exploded seconds after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on April 18 was carrying an Air Force "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellite, which returns its information by dropping off film pods that are then retrieved by airplanes, Aviation Week and Space Technology said in its April 28 issue. The report also said investigators are trying to determine why one of the rocket boosters exploded. UFOs vs Space Work Trib 4/24/86 ### 24 hurt in chemical explosion WOBURN, Mass. -- Two chemical tanks at CVD Inc., a high-tech space research laboratory, exploded Wednesday, blowing a hole in the roof and releasing noxious but non-toxic hydrogen chloride fumes that sickened at least 24 people. No one was seriously hurt. The blast in the block-long factory building apparently was sparked when a high-pressure hydrogen line ruptured during experiments on mirrors for NASA satellites, setting off the chemical tanks, fire officials said. UFOs vs Space Work ### Astronaut Overmyer Is 2nd To Retire Since Explosion O.SB 4/22/86 Robert F. Overmyer, who flew on two space shuttle missions, including a Spacelab flight, has become the second astronaut to announce retirement plans since the Challenger explosion, NASA officials said. The 49-year-old Marine Corps colonel will retire June 1, John Lawrence, spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut office, said Monday. Don L. Lind announced in mid-March that he was retiring as of June. UFOs vs Space Work 4/22/86 Trib ### Veteran astronaut retires SPACE CENTER, Houston -- Col. Robert Overmyer, a veteran astronaut who piloted two space shuttle missions, will retire June 1 from NASA and the Marine Corps, the space agency said Monday. Overmyer, 49, did not give a reason for his decision to retire and did not specify his post-retirement plans, said John Lawrence of Johnson Space Center. Sources have said the astronaut plans to work as a network television consultant. === Page 22 of 49 Charges shock ex-NASA chief UFOs or Space Junk Trib 4/21/86 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Former NASA chief James Fletcher, nominated to return to the agency's head at the time of its greatest crisis, said Wednesday he was shocked by charges that NASA had wasted billions of dollars over the years. Fletcher also said if his nomination is confirmed by the Senate he will try to put NASA back on course following the Challenger disaster and promised to find the agency's weak spots and make changes to fix them. "We have to get on with the job," he told the Senate Commerce Committee. "We have to get flying again safely. There's no excuse for another accident." Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., opened the late afternoon hearing, saying he was disturbed by a report in Wednesday's New York Times, based on NASA audits, that the space agency had wasted at least $3.5 billion despite repeated warnings by government inspectors. "This article described in frightening detail a litany of practices over a period of many years that gives the appearance of waste, fraud and mismanagement within NASA," Gorton said. "Needless to say, I was a little bit shocked," Fletcher said. "I wasn't sure that (the report) was talking about the same agency that I used to be the administrator of." Fletcher said there "is something" to the auditors' reports, and that the statements were not inaccurate. "I think, however, that a summary of my quick review of it, and checking with the inspector general that wrote some of those reports, I'm under the impression that NASA is still one of the best managed agencies of the federal government." Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., later asked Fletcher if he challenged the figures cited by the newspaper. Fletcher replied he had not had a chance to see "if those numbers are even in the right ball park." "The cumulative impression is not a good one and I'm quite concerned about it," Gore told Fletcher. Fletcher, who served as NASA administrator for six years ending in 1977, was nominated by President Reagan on March 6 to replace James Beggs, who resigned to fight federal fraud charges not related to NASA. As a result of the Challenger explosion, Fletcher said, "We have all suffered a loss of confidence, a disordering of the sense of certainty and purpose and progress which we have all associated with this country's efforts in space." In addition to outlining charges of waste in NASA, The Times said auditors charged Fletcher misled Congress and the public about the shuttle program's costs. Fletcher told the panel he did his best to estimate the program's costs and said the one area where estimates were off significantly concerned the number of flights shuttles. "We may have overestimated the number of flights for the five orbiter fleet which was required at that time," he said. "That had a lot to do with increasing the cost of the flights." UFOs or Space Junk General: NASA Has Lost Control Of Program Trib 4/21/86 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- NASA has lost control of its space shuttle program because of poor internal communication and shortcomings in quality control, says the former commander of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. "The way they have structured their work, nobody is really able to have the clean lines of communication that we had and thereby pick up immediately anything that may be wrong," said retired Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris. He said National Aeronautics and Space Administration managers at the Marshall Space Flight Center and other installations failed to share critical information with employees and the resulting communication problems contributed to the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Medaris also told The Birmingham News in a weekend interview during the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's 30th reunion that NASA has no real inspection system of its own to monitor the quality control of materials it purchases from contractors. "What they call quality assurance is shuffling a bunch of papers, reports from contractors, but that isn't quality control, that's nonsense," he said. === Page 23 of 49 # Titan probe to include O-rings, fuel, sabotage Trib 4/21/86 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- O-rings in the solid fuel boosters of a Titan rocket that exploded just after liftoff last week will be scrutinized by military officials investigating the blast. "We will be looking at everything ... (the solid fuel) boosters, rings, propellants and electronics," said Maj. Gen. Jack L. Watkins, commander of the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg. Sabotage is also "one of those things we must always take into consideration," he said, adding, "Things like terrorist activities and sabotage would probably not be discussed in public." Watkins would not speculate about the cause of the explosion, but said one concern was the "ring connectors on the solid rocket booster." It was the second failed Titan 34D launch in a row. A rocket carrying a KH-11 spy satellite exploded just after liftoff Aug. 28. Titan launches from the missile test center will be halted until the cause of the explosion is known, said Air Force Capt. Rick Sanford, a base spokesman. The accident will lower confidence in the government's ability to monitor Soviet military activities, said Paul Stares, a military expert at the Brookings Institution. Public awareness of the critical role of O-rings, which seal the segments of the solid rockets, has been heightened since the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger in January. Rings in one of Challenger's solid boosters are believed to have failed, allowing searing rocket gases to burn through the side. The $65 million Titan 34D blew up five seconds into launch Friday morning with its classified payload, believed to be a spy satellite. The failure, coupled with the shuttle disaster, interrupts the launch programs of the United States's two principal satellite launch vehicles. "Coming hard on the heels of the Challenger loss, there was more apprehension. ... It's a setback," Watkins said Saturday. The solid rockets used for Titan launches are manufactured by United Technologies, Chemical Systems Division of Sunnyvale, Calif. Those used by the space shuttle are made by Morton Thiokol Inc. of Brigham City, Utah. Calls to United Technologies' offices were not answered Sunday. On Friday, spokesman Jim Mackin said there would be no comment and referred inquiries to the Air Force. Solid rockets provide tremendous thrust to assist the liquid-fueled main engines in putting heavy payloads into space. The Titan's two solid booster nite first, providing about 2.5 million pounds of thrust. The main fuel engine of the first stage ignites about 97 seconds after liftoff and seconds later the boosters are jettisoned. The Titan 34D also has a second-stage liquid fuel engine. Col. Nathaniel Lindsey will head the missile mishap board investigating the Titan blast. Lindsey is commander of the Eastern Space and Missile Center at Patrick Air Force Base in Coco Beach, Fla. The Titan explosion created a huge cloud of toxic smoke and fuel, and 74 people at or near the launch site were taken to the base hospital for examination and treatment of skin and eye irritations. AP photo A Titan missile explodes seconds after launch Friday. # Launch * From Page 1A 4/21/86 reason for a Vandenberg shuttle launch," said Jeffrey Richelson, a military expert at American University in Washington, D.C. "If it went out, however, that would certainly be an emergency situation." Richelson said the payload destroyed last Friday was apparently the nation's last KH-11, another KH-11 having been lost in a fiery launching accident in August. The only other advanced spy satellite ready to be launched, he added, is the KH-12, which is believed to be too big for a rocket and must be boosted by the space shuttle. The launching pads along the California coastline here are meant to boost shuttles and satellites into polar orbits, from which they can view the majority of the Earth's surface. In contrast, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida puts objects into more limited equatorial orbits. American spy satellites in polar orbits are crucial for keeping an eye on global "hot spots," for monitoring the Soviet military, for counting missiles, and in general for verifying compliance with arms control treaties. The KH-11s are movable in orbit and have powerful cameras that can zoom in on almost any area of the Earth. The KH-11 now in orbit was launched in late 1984, and is believed to be halfway through its life expectancy. It is also believed to be the only American spy satellite in orbit. Dr. William R. Graham, the acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has said the shuttle might be launched on an emergency basis if it was deemed necessary for purposes of national security. Since the Challenger exploded and its crew of seven astronauts was killed last Jan. 28, the nation's shuttle fleet has been grounded, pending the outcome of an inquiry into the cause of the disaster. Aerospace experts outside the government caution, however, that the untried Vandenberg site poses so many uncertainties that an emergency launching would truly be a last-ditch effort. Air Force officials here refuse to discuss the nature of the Titan payload or whether they are anticipating an emergency launching of the shuttle. They will say, however, that work on the shuttle launching site is forging ahead despite the Titan explosion and the Challenger disaster. "There's been no impact on shuttle preparations, none at all," Maj. Gen. Jack L. Watkins, commander of Vandenberg, said. === Page 24 of 49 # U.S. must launch plan to restore space image Experts say a manned Mars flight would recapture American imaginations. By GIL KLEIN Tribune-Media General Bureau WASHINGTON -- America's space program is a shambles. After four accidents -- including January's shuttle disaster -- the United States would have a hard time launching a Sputnik. But space experts say after all the investigations and retooling are completed, to get America back into the launch business, Americans are going to have to decide what kind of space program they want. The Europeans, Japanese, Chinese and Indians either already have or soon will have their own launch capability, they say, and if the United States wants to remain the leader in space, it must get back onto the edge of exploration. That would require serious work toward a manned Mars flight, they say, and a budget about twice as large for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "What these accidents have done for us is make us rethink what we are doing in space," said Dr. John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's graduate program of science, technology and public policy. "If other countries are going to be operating with humans in space, then it is inconceivable that the U.S. will not be the leader." All the talk in the past two years that the United States is in space because of the commercial benefits of initiating a space industry miss the point of what space is all about, he said. See SPACE, Page 4A # Space * **From Page 1A** "I don't find the economic rationale plausible," he said. "Space will remain a government activity for science and politics. The image of space exploration and world leadership is not a perishable commodity. What Europe, Japan and China are doing has little to do with economics and more to do with national image. We are in competition at that level." The first order of business is to clean up the mess left by the shuttle accident and the loss of the last two Titan missiles by the Air Force and a Delta rocket by NASA. The succession of accidents has left space officials stunned. Not only are each of those rockets grounded for a year and a half or more while investigations go on, but few of the remaining types of rockets are suitable for launching key military and communications satellites, and the supply of such rockets is low. The United States had decided to depend on the space shuttle for most of its launches, so the supply of rockets has dwindled. Now it will take more than three years to produce new ones. "The worst fears of the space community have been realized," said Charles W. Cook, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for space plans and policy. "We're down and we can't get up." For the Defense Department alone, he said, one year without the shuttle means 10 payloads will not be launched. Two years will put it 21 payloads behind. NASA is facing three problems, said Philip Culbertson, NASA's general manager. It first must determine the causes of the failures and figure out why they had been allowed. Then it must find $2.5 billion to pay for an orbiter to replace the Challenger. That money cannot come from NASA's budget alone without crippling the space agency's research and development and scientific exploration plans, space experts say. The cost will have to be shared with other government agencies, especially the Defense Department. But the third problem may be the most important, Culbertson said. In assessing what should be done following the accidents, "We found it was the young people (in NASA) who were extremely conservative," he said. "They are saying that even if the shuttle is down for years, they want it that way. They see their careers on the line." Such a conservative philosophy, he said, will not get a man to Mars. The National Space Commission, appointed by President Reagan to look into space priorities, is expected to recommend a return to the moon and trips to Mars and the asteroids with the establishment of permanent bases on Mars in the 2020s. That would cost about $700 billion during the next 35 years, which amounts to $20 billion a year, compared to $7.5 billion NASA is now spending. Committing the nation to a manned journey to Mars would get NASA out of the doldrums into which it has declined, said Dr. Fred Singer, a professor at George Mason University who has become an authority on a Martian expedition. Simply launching satellites and building a space station for commercial use will not fire the imagination. === Page 25 of 49 Trib - 5/14/86 UFOs vs Space Junk THIS MODEL SHOWS THE BEAUTY OF OUR STAR WARS PLAN WE SIMPLY LAUNCH A SAFE NUCLEAR ... REACTOR ... ... ON ONE OF OUR ... RELIABLE ROCKETS WASSERMAN THE BOSTON GLOBE © 86 LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE (17 1/2) === Page 26 of 49 EXCUSE ME... COULD YOU TELL ME HOW I CAN GET UP TO THE SPACE STATION? SURE... TAKE A RIGHT TO LAUNCH PAD 3... NO, WAIT... GO THIS WAY TO... NO... AH, TAKE A LEFT AT PAD 5 AND... NO... COME TO THINK OF IT, YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE! SPACE STATION PLANS NASA STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE 5/19/86 # Plane crashes across nation kill at least 17, including man in car The accidents killed people in California, New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon and Indiana. Associated Press At least 17 people died in plane crashes nationwide over the weekend, including an off-duty policeman killed by a plane that plowed across a six-lane New Jersey highway and into his car. Two other people were killed in a balloon crash in Southern California. Seven people were injured in the accidents, in California, New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon and Indiana. The highest single death toll came in Van Nuys, Calif., where six people died in a twin-engine Cessna that plowed into a field near the airport. In Atlantic City, N.J., the pilot of another twin-engine Cessna told police he tried unsuccessfully to take off Saturday on a charter flight to Farmingdale, N.Y., and crashed through a fence at the end of the runway, said police Detective Sgt. Steven Mangam. The plane skidded across a field and a wide boulevard, becoming entangled with three or four cars before hitting a car waiting at a stop sign and setting it afire, he said. The plane came to rest against a building. The dead were identified as Thomas Burns, 25, a rookie police officer who was in the burned car, and plane passenger Michael Saal, 42, of Dix Hills, N.Y. Saal's wife, Linda, was critically injured, and the pilot and co-pilot suffered minor injuries. Mangam said Burns had dropped his fiance at her house and had driven only a few blocks when he was killed. Several other cars and buildings caught fire but the flames were quickly extinguished. In Angola, Ind., a twin-engine Seneca piloted by a Michigan doctor clipped a house Saturday and crashed into a ditch. Dr. Winston B. Cenac, 61, of Battle Creek, Mich., had radioed tower personnel in Fort Wayne that he was having mechanical problems with the aircraft and would try to land at an airport three miles west of Angola. John Disbro, a Steuben County sheriff's dispatcher, said Cenac pulled himself from the wreckage. He later died at a hospital, officials said. In Van Nuys, the Cessna carrying five men and a woman began wavering about 150 feet above the ground, said witness Bill Schneiders. "The wings were going back and forth and it went down," he said. Two hours earlier, one person was killed when a single-engine, French-built Trinidad TB20 went down while making a final approach at the airport, officials said. Two people were killed and two seriously injured when a small private plane crashed Saturday in a field near Chino Airport, 35 miles east of Los Angeles. A Cessna 172 crashed Saturday into the carport of a home in Douglasville, Ga., killing one person aboard the plane and seriously injuring its other occupant, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. In Oregon, a small plane crashed in a mining area in the rugged Cascade Mountains east of Eugene, killing four people, authorities said. The hot air balloon struck a powerline in Temecula, 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles, severing the gondola, which fell about 60 feet to the ground. Two occupants were killed and the third was critically injured, authorities said. === Page 27 of 49 Trib 5/15/86 # Expert says survey state for radon GAINESVILLE (AP) -- All of Florida, not just the areas with phosphate that can be mined, needs to be surveyed for potentially dangerous deposits of radium deposits, says an environmental engineer. "We need a complete map of where underground radium deposits are in Florida, because when developers recontour the land, they could inadvertently bring radium to the surface," said Charles Roessler of the University of Florida. Roessler said he knows of at least one instance, in Sarasota County, in which a developer planned to move earth on a site which was judged free from phosphate deposits. But later studies revealed there were high enough levels of radium in the soil to require careful regrading of the land. "We need more information on areas that could have higher levels of radium and hence produce radon gas," Roessler said in a Wednesday news release. Radium produces radon as it decays. It is found around the nation in various types of rocks and soils, including Florida's rich phosphate deposits. Radon is a radioactive gas, and high levels of its decay products can cause lung cancer. Recent media reports have quoted Environmental Protection Agency officials and medical researchers who say that radon is one of the most serious environmental problems in the nation. Radon, sometimes in excess of acceptable levels, can seep into a house through seams in the foundation and through spaces around pipes. Radon is measured in units called working levels, and the average indoor level in Florida is 0.004, Roessler said. When indoor levels of radon gas reach 0.02 working levels or above, this is considered a health risk, according to Harlan Keaton, manager of the environmental radiation program for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Orlando. The EPA estimates that radon decay products cause between 5,000 to 20,000 deaths due to lung cancer in the nation each year. State officials plan to survey 100 homes in each of Florida's 67 counties for indoor radon levels but Roessler feels, in addition to that, the state needs a survey of land to develop a more accurate map of potential radon trouble spots. "We need studies that will give us a better tool to estimate what radon levels will be in a future home, based on radon measurements from the site where the home is to be built. "If we find there are areas with no radon measurements, that will give people peace of mind. But if there are areas with problems, people will need to know so they can decide what steps to take," he said. When building houses with foundations flat on the ground, contractors can prevent radon from seeping into homes by pouring seamless foundations and by putting gaskets around pipes that pass through foundations. To reduce the risk from radon decay products in existing homes, Keaton said people can install electrostatic precipitators, which draw these particles from the air much the same way magnets attract iron. UFOr Sun Attack # Earthquake triggers 2nd tsunami watch GSB Trib 5/18/86 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A strong earthquake in the Aleutian Island chain triggered a tsunami watch Saturday for the second time in 10 days along coastal Alaska and the Pacific Coast south to California, but no large waves developed. The quake, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck about 12:20 p.m. EDT about 85 miles northeast of the Aleutian island of Adak, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Center issued a UFOr Sun Attack # Storms Bang Southwest; Girl Killed By The Associated Press GSB 5/18/86 Waves of violent thunderstorms hammered western Arkansas and central Texas Saturday, spinning off tornadoes and killing a 14-year-old girl who died when a tree toppled by high winds slammed into her home while she slept. In southeast Missouri, meanwhile, the National Guard patrolled streets in Sikeston and Vanduser on Saturday as crews cleaned up after tornadoes and flash floods earlier in the week that left four people dead, one woman critically injured and caused millions of dollars in damage. Tornadoes were spotted Saturday across central Texas and near Sparta, Ohio. In Killeen, Texas, high winds hit the central business district, lifting the roof off a cement mixing company and damaging fire department vehicles across the street, officials said. No injuries were reported. A funnel cloud dropped down in front of the fire station shortly before 10:45 a.m., uprooting several trees and pulling down power lines, said fire Capt. Bill Cave. Workers at the cement mixing company said they were using one of their mixers when they saw the twister and ran. Four tornadoes were sighted elsewhere in central Texas, but no damage was reported. In Fort Smith, Ark., rescuers spent more than three hours trying to lift the tree from the house where the girl was trapped inside, said police Sgt. Danny Honeycutt. The winds knocked out power in Fort Smith, a city of 71,000 on the Oklahoma border, but Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. crews had restored lights by mid-morning, Honeycutt said. In Hempstead County, in southwest Arkansas, an 87-year-old man was cut by flying glass when a possible tornado lifted his house from its foundation Friday night. === Page 28 of 49 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE NASA "WE'VE GOT TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC ON SPACE TRAVEL, HANSON ... GET OUT THERE AND DIG UP SOME GOOD UFO SIGHTINGS!" SHUTTLE TITAN NASA LAUNCH SYSTEMS, INC. DELTA "...THREE...TWO...ONE...ZERO." 5/18/86 === Page 29 of 49 China-Rus-UFCA # U.S. Experts Advance Accident Theories 0.5B 5/4/86 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. experts believe interruption of a vital flow of cooling water to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor triggered last week's meltdown, and they have several theories on how the flow could have been cut off. A leading theory is loss of electrical power to run pumps, instruments and other equipment, but scientists also say water flow could have been cut off if a portion of the 1,661 three-inch pipes running through the reactor became clogged or by a chemical explosion. The Soviets have implied the accident was triggered by human error. In an interview Friday night with West Germany's ARD national television network, Moscow Communist Party chief Boris Yeltsin, said the cause of the disaster "lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error." Thomas Cochran, scientist on the staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the electrical theory is the most likely. "To get a whole-core accident, it seems the most probable way is to lose coolant flow before the manifold, which means pump failure, which means loss of power to the pumps," he said. Ed Zebroski, chief nuclear scientist for the Electric Power Research Institute, agreed, saying that with about 1,000 workers at the four-reactor Chernobyl site, "the chance that someone knocked down part of the (electrical) switchyard ... is at least one of the plausible scenarios." John Auxier, nuclear engineer and director of the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Radiological Sciences Laboratory of IT Corp., said "A piece of something that got loose," perhaps part of a pump blade, could clog cooling tubes. "Unlikely -- but it's possible." James N. Landis, senior vice president of Stone & Webster, the Boston-based construction company that has built several nuclear plants, theorized "maybe they didn't have instrumentation to detect" small blockages. "The radiochemical and nuclear people I talk to are looking toward a chemical explosion that disabled the cooling system and perhaps the control system, too," Auxier said. Such an explosion could come from improperly vented hydrogen from batteries, or from a solvent spilled in the wrong place. The post-accident photo of the reactor building released by the Soviets shows the high bay section with about 30 feet of the top missing, Zebroski said. "A steam rupture could do it" and simultaneously cut the water flow, he said. If a simple power loss caused the accident, "the shocking thing is ... you still have an hour or two before things go to hell, and you ought to be able to run a line in" to run pumps, valves and instruments, Zebroski said. 0.5B 5/4/86 "The Soviet accident has provided the United States and the rest of the world a stark reminder that nuclear power is a dangerous technology and that the consequences of an accident are enormous," said Joshua Gordon, author of the Critical Mass report. He said the United States should re-evaluate its nuclear policy and begin planning for the orderly phase-out of nuclear power. of a nuclear bomb, and insisted that radiation levels were not dangerous in Kiev, the Soviet Union's third-largest city with 2.4 million residents. Trib 5/18/86 Feoktistov said the accident and its aftermath surprised top Soviet scientists. Asked by commentator Alexander Bovin what he would have thought before the accident if someone had described such a series of events, Feoktistov replied, "I would have thought it was completely incredible." He said it may take a long time to determine the exact cause. === Page 30 of 49 # Gorbachev: 9 died at Chernobyl He chided the West for a "mountain" of lies about the nuclear disaster. * Nuclear officials say accident may benefit industry -- 5A * Soviets expel U.S. envoy -- 8A Tribune Wires 5/15/86 MOSCOW -- Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Wednesday night that casualties from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had risen to nine dead and 299 hospitalized, but declared, "The worst is behind us." He accused the West of telling "a veritable mountain" of lies about the accident. Reaction to the speech included White House denials that the West tried to exploit the tragedy and blamed any incorrect reports on Soviet secrecy. But, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, the United States is "comforted by Mr. Gorbachev's assurances that the 'worst is behind us.'" Gorbachev's 25-minute speech on state television was his first public comment on the explosion and fire April 26 that spewed radioactivity over Europe and forced the evacuation of 92,000 people from the vicinity of the Ukrainian power plant. He said radiation still was dangerous around the plant, 80 miles north of Kiev. Gorbachev said the probable cause of the accident, which he repeatedly referred to as "our misfortune," was a power surge and hydrogen explosion. **Gorbachev invited Reagan to meet on a nuclear test ban.** He also announced the Soviet Union would extend its moratorium on nuclear testing to Aug. 6 and invited President Reagan to meet him in Europe or Hiroshima, Japan, to discuss halting all nuclear tests. "The accident at Chernobyl showed again what an abyss will open if nuclear war befalls mankind, for inherent in the nuclear arsenals stockpiled are thousands upon thousands of disasters far more horrible than the Chernobyl one," he said. But the White House only reiterated U.S. opposition to the proposed nuclear test ban and contended Gorbachev's speech misstated the Western position toward arms control. Previous official statements said about 200 people were hospitalized. Gorbachev's total of nine See GORBACHEV, Page 5A === Page 31 of 49 # Major earthquake jolts Mexico City; no injuries or damage reported Sun Attack Feb 5, 1986 MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- A major earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted Mexico City and nearby areas early Wednesday, panicking thousands of residents who survived last September's killer quakes. Two smaller shocks followed, but no injuries or major damages were reported. Buildings swayed and groaned as the first tremor struck at 1:07 a.m., but none suffered major damage. Electricity and telephone lines serving thousands of people were cut but utility officials said service would be quickly restored. The first quake, which registered 7.0 on the open-ended Richter scale, lasted for more than one minute, the National University Geophysical Institute said. A smaller jolt, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, followed at 2:10 a.m., and a third came four minutes later, measuring 4.8, the institute reported. As the ground shook, thousands of Mexicans, many clad only in nightgowns or underwear, fled into the streets. Police Wednesday reported no injuries or serious damage in Mexico City, and there were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in outlying areas. Later Wednesday, an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted a mountainous region in southern Peru, and earth tremors were reported in the northern Chilean town of Arica. No injuries or major damage was reported. Mexico City was devastated in September by two killer quakes that killed at least 8,000 people, damaged or destroyed 3,000 buildings and leaving 300,000 people homeless. The city of 18 million people was brought to a standstill for several weeks in the wake of the quake. The city is still in the midst of a demolition program to tear down buildings damaged in September. In the capital Wednesday, radio stations urged residents throughout the night to "go back to bed -- everything is calm." But many people remained in the streets for hours, afraid to return to their homes. Jimmy Osmond of Los Angeles, the youngest of the Osmond family entertainers, was staying at the downtown Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza when the quake struck. "I ran 18 flights of stairs all the way down to the lobby. Everything was moving and shaking," the still-trembling Osmond said as he stood outside. Donald Law, of Melbourne, Fla., was on the seventh floor of the Crowne Plaza when the ground shook. "We left very frightened. We ran through the lobby into the street, thinking all the time of the September earthquakes," Law said. # Disaster to cost Soviets billions Experts said it will shake their nuclear power confidence. Feb 5, 1986 By GIL KLEIN and STEVE GOLDBERG Tribune-Media General Bureau WASHINGTON -- The nuclear power accident near Kiev probably will destroy Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev's five-year economic plan and cripple the Soviet Union's economy for years to come, experts said Wednesday. Even without knowing the extent of damage, these experts agreed that it will cost the Soviets billions of dollars. It also will shake Soviet confidence in similar nuclear reactors near other cities, they say, and it will drain the nation's supply of "hard currency" used to buy foreign goods while hobbling efforts to modernize industry. "This takes care of Gorbachev's five-year plan; that's for sure," said Dr. Joseph Pelzman, a Soviet economics expert at George Washington University and a native of the Ukraine where the accident occurred. "The Ukraine is crucial to agricultural reform, and if you kill off that part of the country, there goes your agricultural reform." The Soviets plan their economy in five-year increments, and each five-year plan focuses on a certain segment of the economy to be improved. The current plan took effect in February. "This five-year plan called for a large investment in machinery, but instead all of the investment money will be going to cleaning up after this accident," said Caron Cooper, a research associate at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. "And that means that five or 10 years later, the accident will have a secondary impact because the investment in machinery had not been made." Cleaning up will cost "at least 100 times" what it cost to clean up See BILLIONS, Page 13A === Page 32 of 49 UFOs in Space Work # Satellite Spy Set-Up In Danger? VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. military spy satellite program has been jeopardized by an explosion that destroyed a $65 million unmanned Titan rocket and its classified payload, experts said as an investigation began Saturday into the cause of the blast. The big rocket was about 1,000 feet up when it exploded in a fireball that showered the seaside launch pad with flaming debris and spread a huge toxic cloud of rocket propellants over the Santa Barbara County coast. It was the second failed Titan 34D launch in a row. A rocket carrying a KH-11 spy satellite exploded just after liftoff Aug. 28. "This will create major problems in the photographic reconnaissance program, in our confidence in monitoring Soviet military activities at a critical time," said Paul Stares, a military expert at the Brookings Institution. The Titan booster cost $65 million. # Twisters Thrash Texas City SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) -- Two tornadoes spawned by fast-moving thunderstorms hit this west Texas city without warning Saturday, killing at least one person, injuring 80 people and causing millions of dollars in damage, authorities said. Two twisters dipped from the clouds in succession at about 7:30 a.m., came together and cut a swath of destruction a half-mile wide and two miles long, cutting power and some phone lines, said Mayor Rick Rhodes. It caused extensive damage to businesses and homes and "some of the apartment complexes that were built on the east side of town have been completely destroyed," said Nolan County Sheriff Jim Blackley. Authorities started "a house-to-house search for possible trapped victims," said Wendell Rehm of the state Department of Public Safety, adding he did not know how many houses were hit. Public Safety spokesman David Wells said an 87-year-old man was killed in a retirement community, and 80 people had been injured. Rehm said the injured were taken to Rolling Plains Hospital here and to a hospital in Abilene, 47 miles to the east. "There's debris everywhere. The windows are out, buildings are torn down, houses have some of the roofs off them," said Blackley. Emergency efforts were hampered by power outages, said sheriff's Deputy Marvin Cole. "We are working but we are in the dark. All our phone lines are tied up." The sheriff added that people were warned not to drink the water because the town filtration plant was without power. The tornado was "a total surprise," Blackley told Associated Press Radio. "I believe as it was going down we received a call from the national weather bureau in Abilene, telling us that there was a tornado over Sweetwater. "But it was already in progress and tearing things up at that time." An undetermined number of homes were without power in a 12-block area of the city and water service was cut, officials said. David Shumaker looks at what's left of his home. === Page 33 of 49 # Texas governor promises aid for 1,500 twister victims By MEDE NIX United Press International SWEETWATER, Texas -- Standing amid debris that once was a housing project for the elderly, Gov. Mark White on Sunday promised state loans and a plea for federal disaster aid for the estimated 1,500 residents of this West Texas town left homeless by a killer tornado. "I don't see how anybody could have lived through this," White said. "It's as bad as I've seen." Two twisters converged just before touching down at about 7 a.m. Saturday, cutting a path two miles long and a half-mile wide through the southeastern section of the west Texas town of 12,000. No warning was issued of the twister, which the National Weather Service said did not show up on radar. An 87-year-old man was killed and 92 people were injured, three critically. The five people who were reported missing Saturday had all been accounted for Sunday. Twisters that struck Hill, McLennan and Limestone counties Saturday night, about 100 miles east of Sweetwater, injured at least nine people. Two remained hospitalized in fair condition Sunday in Waco. White sent 115 Texas National Guard troops to keep order in Sweetwater, about 215 miles west of Dallas, Saturday night and flew in Sunday morning to assess the damage. The governor toured the wreckage for an hour and a half, talking to survivors who were picking through the rubble. The governor promised to seek federal disaster aid for the area and said the county already had been approved for state housing loans, the processing of which would be accelerated. He made a stop at Sun Village, the housing project for the elderly, where Henry Earl Tatom was killed and 124 residents, ranging in age from 65 to 96, had lived. "We easily could have seen 100 to 150 lives lost," White said. Kathleen Lewis, director of the housing project, said few of the elderly had returned to their apartments Sunday. "Most are with their families today," she said. "They aren't out here because the shock has been pretty hard on them." About 600 homes were damaged by the twister, more than half of those demolished, said Mayor Rick Rhodes. None of the units in the housing project was livable. While most of the streets had been cleared by Sunday and scattered debris picked up, there were still cars protruding from homes and a trash dumpster in the middle of one house that had lost its roof. On one roofless home someone had painted in large red letters, "House for Sale Cheap!" Rhodes gave a rough damage estimate of $15 million to $20 million and said the tornado had damaged about one-sixth of the city, hitting hardest lower to lower-middle class residential areas. "Today, reality has finally hit, and we see what a devastating blow it really was," Rhodes said. "This is an economically depressed area anyway, with oil and farming. We had a lot of people unemployed anyway. This is the worst disaster ever in our town." At Broadway Baptist Church, one of two churches used as shelters Saturday, few people attended services, opting instead to help with a barbecue for the homeless, National Guardsmen, DPS troopers and other workers. ## 'One bad squirrel' terrorizes community LA PUENTE, Calif. (UPI) -- A possibly rabid squirrel terrorized a quiet neighborhood for three days, biting four women, charging a firefighter and holding a pit bull at bay before it was captured and died. The rodent was subdued Friday after a wild 10-minute chase by several firefighters, a sheriff's deputy and an animal control officer, Deputy Roxanna Schuchman said. "He was one bad squirrel." The attacks began Wednesday, when the rodent jumped on a 65-year-old woman and bit her on both arms as she hung out washing in her back yard, Schuchman said. Thursday, the squirrel reappeared, biting an 18-year-old woman on the finger and then biting the woman's mother. Friday morning, the chase ended after the squirrel bit a 54-year-old woman. Officials captured the beast, which later died. A necropsy was slated for evidence of rabies. === Page 34 of 49 UFO Sun Attack p. 5B 4/21/86 # National Guard Patrols Streets Of Texas Town Hit By Twister SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) -- National Guard troops patrolled today against looters after tornadoes carved a two-mile-long, half-mile-wide swath through this west Texas town, killing one person, injuring about 100 others and leaving 1,500 people homeless. Despite the destruction, estimated at up to $20 million, officials said the human toll could have been much worse. "After I saw the extent of the damage, I thought we'd have many more injuries and certainly more deaths," City Manager David Maddox said. "It was luck. It was a miracle." As National Guardmen patrolled the streets early today to watch for looting, volunteers and Salvation Army workers served more than 2,000 meals to people left homeless by the disaster, said Dewey Alderson, public relations director for the Salvation Army's Texas division. "Sweetwater is still in a mess. People are cleaning up but it will be a long time," he said. "People are sifting through the debris by hand. That's all that is left from some of these trailer homes." The National Weather Service said two tornadoes smashed into the southern part of the city of 12,000 early Saturday after merging in the air. Mayor Rick Rhodes estimated property damage at between $15 million and $20 million and said about 100 people were injured. Trib 4/20/86 Power and telephone lines were knocked out, but most of the power had been restored by noon. All available emergency personnel from surrounding counties and cities were sent to Sweetwater and hospitals in Abilene were put on alert. A spokeswoman for Hendrick Hospital said 13 people were transferred there, including a 10-month-old girl in serious condition, a 6-year-old boy in critical condition, and two young women who suffered critical head injuries. Three others were in the critical care unit for head or internal injuries. A second tornado touched down just before 1 p.m. EST in Roscoe, about eight miles west of Sweetwater, destroying three barns and four farmhouses, a Roscoe fire department dispatcher said. The homes were occupied but no one was injured, he said. A short time later, a third twister struck in Palo Pinto County, more than 100 miles northeast of Sweetwater. Authorities confirmed the tornado touched down but no damage or injuries were reported. # Storms in Mississippi Valley swell South Dakota, Iowa rivers Tribune Staff and Wires UFO Sun Attack 4/21/86 Thunderstorms that spawned killer tornadoes in the Plains rumbled into the Mississippi Valley Sunday with relentless downpours that swelled South Dakota and Iowa rivers and prompted flash flood warnings. Flood warnings were posted for the James River, north of Huron, S.D. The river rose to nearly 14 feet in Columbia, 3 feet above flood stage, and Columbia, Stratford and Ashton braced for possible flooding. A cluster of thunderstorms producing heavy rain in northwest Missouri pushed over southwest Iowa Sunday, prompting officials in five counties to go on alert for possible flooding. The Great Lakes region basked in sunshine and balmy temperatures. In Marquette, Mich., which set a record low of 11 degrees last Tuesday, the temperature soared to 77, breaking the previous record of 74 set in 1970. Great weather also continues in the Tampa Bay area. Today the National Weather Service is predicting mostly sunny and warm, with a high in the mid to upper 80s and an overnight low in the low 60s. Expect west winds at 10 mph. "It looks like it's going to continue mostly sunny and dry" the rest of the week, said meteorologist Chuck Eggleton. He said the upper 80s are a bit higher than normal and the low 60s are slightly lower than usual temperatures for this time. Meanwhile, severe thunderstorm watches were posted for parts of Texas and Oklahoma, and forecasters warned of the possibility of tornadoes like those that struck Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota Saturday. The tornadoes flattened homes and barns, downed power lines and killed a 4-year-old girl. # Spring snowstorm is creating 'three-ring circus' in Wyoming Tribune Staff and Wires A dangerous spring snowstorm plunged temperatures into the teens, drifted snow up to 6 feet and created blizzard conditions in Wyoming and Montana Sunday as the Dakotas braced for the oncoming storm. The snowstorm dumped a foot of new snow at the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts in Utah, and winds gusting to 75 mph knocked down trees and some power lines. The gusting winds and cold temperatures made for dangerous conditions in Montana and Wyoming, said meteorologist Bill Barlow. "It is unusual to be this cold and have this large a snow in mid-April," Barlow said, adding that travelers' advisories were posted throughout both states and in the Dakotas. The storm closed the northbound lane of Interstate 25 between Buffalo and Kaycee, Wyo., officials said, creating a "three-ring circus" of confusion because of stranded motorists and truckers at the Parkway Plaza Truck Stop in Buffalo, said Jan Carlsen. No serious accidents were reported, State Highway Patrol officials said. Drifts up to 6 feet were reported in Wyoming and Montana, Barlow said. In Tampa, today's weather should be mostly sunny and warm with high temperatures in the low to mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service. East winds are expected at up to 10 mph. Tonight, the forecast calls for continued fair weather with lows in the low to mid-60s. Expect Tuesday's high temperature to reach the mid-80s. There is a chance of showers Wednesday. The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy and slightly cooler weather Thursday and fair weather Friday, meteorologist Jim Lebda said. === Page 35 of 49 Experts predict stormy return of El Nino in '86 4/24/86 Record shivers 4/14/86 If history repeats itself, the Southeast will have spells of cool and soggy weather. Gulf states will get rainstorms in the winter. By ALAN SVERDLIK Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI -- El Nino is coming. The Pacific Ocean phenomenon that disrupts the world's weather for a year or longer is almost certain to strike in 1986, cooling off the southeastern United States and keeping hurricanes to a minimum, meteorologists predict. "Everybody remembers the El Nino of 1982-83 because it was so powerful and dominant," notes Eugene Rasmusson, the National Weather Service's resident expert on the phenomenon. "Most of them tend to be more benign than that, but the timing, intensity and global impact are very hard to predict." About every four years or so, ocean temperatures off the South American coast climb to abnormal levels. Believed to be the curtain raiser for the mischievous El Nino, these warm currents appear to be forming today in the waters off Peru, scientists report. And for reasons unknown to forecasters, the hot spots in the South Pacific can affect the weather continents away. El Nino's last appearance touched off a series of climactic events that left 1,000 dead. Parts of Africa and Asia suffered devastating droughts while heavy storms struck California. The tropical storm season produced few big blows in the Atlantic in either 1982 or 1983, but a band of typhoons assaulted Tahiti both years. "It was probably the most severe El Nino we've seen in the last 100 years," says Rasmusson, an official with the weather service's Climate Analysis Center. Meteorologists anticipate milder and less sustained effects from the upcoming episode. * If historic patterns persist, the Southeast will experience spells of cool and soggy weather. Rainstorms will plague the Gulf states in the winter months. The West Coast will get hit hard either by storms or drought. * The hurricane season -- June 1 to Nov. 30 -- spawns much fewer storms in the Atlantic during the periodic warming of the seas off Peru and Ecuador. The number of hurricanes drops 40 percent below the seasonal average. "There have been 16 strong and moderate El Ninos in this century," says William Gray, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University. "In a statistical sense, they all have reduced hurricane activity." Some experts believe the lull in tropical storms induced by El Nino usually precedes an active -- if not devastating -- hurricane season. They point to Hurricanes Donna and Audrey, which caused staggering losses after the climate in the tropical Pacific returned to normal. The potent El Nino of 1982 is believed to have suppressed storm formation for two seasons, after which hurricanes came in bunches. The forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables credit El Nino with inhibiting storm development but won't say what may happen when the phenomenon subsides. "That relationship between El Nino and hurricanes has not been tied down yet," insists forecaster Miles Lawrence. Such debates over the scope of El Nino have persisted since scientists first linked unusual weather around the world to shifts in Pacific See EL NINO, Page 6B Record shivers Bay area residents felt a record nip in the air, but up North, cold wreaked havoc. Tribune Staff and Wires Late-season coolness brought a chilly overnight low of 51 Wednesday at Tampa International Airport, breaking the previous record of 53. It was 1950 the last time Tampa Bay area temperatures fell low enough to set a record on April 23, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters had thought temperatures -- cooled off further by winds -- might dip below historic lows. The rest of the eastern United States also shivered Wednesday as arctic air shattered century-old temperature records from the Great Lakes to the southern tip of the Sunshine State, forecasters said. Don McGlynn, a weather service specialist who works out of the agency's Ruskin office, said the Bay area's sunny but nippy weather would continue today, marked by mid-70s temperatures in the afternoon and a cool but not unusually chilly evening. A warming trend should be evident by Friday, with highs near 80 and lows about 60. Saturday and Sunday should be about the same, with no prediction of rain for the entire weekend. Up North, the cold wreaked havoc, causing up to $25 million damage to tender young fruit crops in Ohio and dumping up to 2 feet of snow in places. Schools were closed in parts of New York state, and snow and slush sent many vehicles skidding off highways there and in parts of northeastern Pennsylvania where snowplows had been put away for the season. "Drive as if it was midwinter," the National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., warned as the snowfall in parts of the state mounted well past the forecast of just a few inches to as much as 2 feet. Orchard owners hired helicopters, fired up blowers and smudge pots and sprayed water to protect their crops. But Richard Funt of Ohio's Coop- === Page 36 of 49 13 states chilled by record lows; ice, slush blamed for 2 deaths Associated Press Trib 4/23/86 * Cool in Bay area -- 1B Temperatures dropped to record lows in 13 states Tuesday from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, leaving Montana warmer than Alabama, and two traffic deaths were blamed on ice- or slush-covered roads. Snow fell over parts of Michigan, the upper Ohio Valley and the central Appalachians. An inch of snow fell overnight at Flint, Mich., Alpena, Mich., Pittsburgh, and parts of north-central Ohio, the National Weather Service said. Two people were killed in separate traffic accidents on icy or slush-covered roads in Michigan. By afternoon, unseasonably cold air covered most of the eastern half of the nation, except for the southern Atlantic Coast states and the coast of New England. Morning lows were only in the teens over parts of Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota and Upper Michigan and in the 30s and 40s across the Tennessee Valley and the central Gulf Coast. Behind the high pressure system pulling the cold air down from Canada, mild southerly wind gave parts of central and eastern Montana lows in the 50s. Billings, Mont., had a low of 55 while Mobile, Ala., dipped to a record 43 degrees. A record that had stood since 1873 fell at Chicago with a low of 24, five degrees below the former mark. Duluth, Minn., hit a record low of 18, Eau Claire, Wis., had a record low 19, and Marquette, Mich., bottomed out at a record 14. In the Gulf states, records for Tuesday's date were set at Birmingham, Ala., at 36 degrees; Lake Charles, La., at 49; Meridian, Miss., at 37 and Montgomery, Ala., at 40. Other states with record lows set or tied were Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska and Kansas. Trib 4/16/86 (I told Beau two days ago.) Breeding More Vengeance An editorial from The Los Angeles Times Was the attack on Libya a victory over terrorism? Or did American bombs spilling from F-111 fighter-bombers over Tripoli blow open a Pandora's box of terrorism that will make Europe, and perhaps America, yearn for quieter times? The answers may come slowly, but they will come. The West would shed no tears over the fall of Moammar Khadafy, nor would Arab governments that live even closer to the psychotic tyrant. But will the shadowy hit-men of Middle Eastern terrorism, not always given to following the rules even of their own governments, shed blood over an attack on him? That is the chance that President Reagan took Monday. He said that he had no illusions that the attack would put an end to terrorism, only a hope that it would be a step toward a safer world. He and Secretary of State George P. Shultz made their case as simply as it could be made. Doing nothing was no deterrent to Khadafy, and doing nothing seemed worse than doing something. If the president was right, Europe can go back to the "painstaking police work" that the U.S. Department's anti-terrorist chief, Robert B. Oakley, said recently had proved could "pay off, even if it provides no instant answers." Recent history provides no assurance that it will be that easy. It says instead that vengeance breeds vengeance. Terrorism stems from the kinds of dark roots that lead to random shootings on European streets to force governments to release other terrorists from jail. Meantime, the decision has been made, the act is done. There is nothing for us, or any Americans, to do but hope that the cycle of terror can be broken with a single, complicated sortie of high-tech aircraft. History, unfortunately, provides no assurance that those hopes will be fulfilled. Wintry storm chills East, dumps surprise snow on Appalachians United Press International 4/4/86 Trib A wintry storm, chilled spring fever in the East on Thursday, blanketing the Appalachians with up to a foot of record-breaking snow and pushing temperatures into the 30s as far south as Florida. Snow and cold temperatures stretched from the Great Lakes across the central Appalachians into northern New England, the National Weather Service said. The snowstorm dumped 12 inches of snow on Terra Alta in the northern mountains of West Virginia. Beth Colville, sales director at Alpine Lake Resort, said the snow shocked residents, who were enjoying an unseasonably warm spring. "It really changed all of our moods. Everyone here had a serious case of spring fever," she said. Elkins, W.Va., which received nearly 8 inches, shattered its seasonal snowfall with a total of 114.1 inches, breaking the previous record of 107.7 set during the 1970-71 season. Dailey measured 11 inches of snow, and up to 8 inches fell at Snowshoe. Two to 3 inches of snow fell during the night in western Pennsylvania. Travelers' advisories were posted for most of the area. Temperatures were unseasonably cold overnight across the eastern third of the nation. It was warmer in parts of the northern Plains than it was in the Southeast. The low temperature of 41 degrees at Boise, Idaho, topped a low of 35 at Tallahassee, Fla. Temperatures dropped to freezing or below throughout the Great Lakes. It was 25 degrees in Hibbing, Minn., and 27 at Escanaba, Mich. "Most of the nation will have calm, cooler weather," said Harry Gordon, weather service meteorologist. "It's just a general cooling trend from the unseasonably warm weather we saw last week. "It's just nature's way of trying to return to normal." 4/23/86 Brazilian Mudslides, Floods Leave 11 Killed, Two Missing RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- At least 11 people have been killed and two children are missing in mudslides and flooding caused by 36 hours of torrential rains in northeast Brazil, police say. Sgt. Joao Evangelista Gomes said Tuesday that floods and mudslides hit the towns of Mombaca, Procoto and Cavalos in a remote section of Pernambuco state. Forecasters said more rain was expected. "Eleven bodies have been buried so far, and rescue workers are looking for two children who are missing," Gomes said in a telephone interview from Civil Defense headquarters in Recife, 1500 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. === Page 37 of 49 Texas Storms Kill 2, Snow Threatens West UFO & Sun Attack + Texas PK By The Associated Press Fast-moving thunderstorms that killed two people whipped parts of Texas and Louisiana with high wind, hail as big as softballs, tornadoes and heavy rain during the night, and a snow storm developed Saturday over Montana. Thunderstorms also blew across parts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Travelers' advisories were issued for the mountains of the Northwest, and snow also fell over parts of North Dakota and Maine. High wind from the thunderstorms downed trees and power lines in Dallas and in northeastern Texas late Friday and early Saturday, and rain flooded freeway underpasses, causing numerous accidents, authorities said. A 14-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on her mobile home east of Kilgore, Texas, said Rusk County sheriff's dispatcher Elaine Mitchell. Another person was killed when his single-engine plane went out of control during a hailstorm and crashed on a residential driveway early Saturday in the Dallas suburb of Addison, said police Lt. John Sullivan. Air traffic controllers in Fort Worth reported that the last radio message from the pilot was that hail had broken out his windshield, said Justice of the Peace Kenneth Bangs. Residents didn't know a plane had crashed because "there was so much thunder and lightning," Bangs said. Hail as big as softballs bombed Oak Cliff, near Dallas, and baseball-sized hailstones fell at Denton. Wind tore the roof off a store in downtown Kilgore, overturned mobile homes and caused a fire in one mobile home. Parts of Dallas County got 1.94 inches of rain in 45 minutes during the morning, the National Weather Service said. The thunderstorms spawned a few tornadoes early Saturday in northern Louisiana, including one that destroyed a couple mobile homes and injured three people in Franklin Parish. And wind gusting to 60 mph blew out windows at St. Joseph. "We had some turbulent weather come through our parish," said J.W. Dean, Franklin Parish assistant coordinator for Emergency Preparedness. "At one time the ground around the courthouse here (Winnsboro) was completely covered by the hail," he said. Dean said downed trees knocked out power for a time in parts of the parish, but most service was restored before dawn. UFO & Sun Attack O.SB 4/23/86 Storm Hits Southwestern Idaho, Levels Some 1,500 Acres Of Trees BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A storm ripped through two southwestern Idaho counties Tuesday evening, with wind gusts to 58 mph and possible tornadoes that leveled up to 1,500 acres of trees, threw a mobile home 60 feet and left 10,000 people without electricity, authorities said. Two minor injuries were reported in connection with the storm that hit Boise and Ada counties before blowing itself out in the Boise National Forest, authorities said. An apparent tornado was spotted on radar at Mountain Home Air Force Base southeast of Boise, said National Weather Service spokesman Gerry Burdwell, and Boise County Sheriff's Deputy Chuck Richards said another may have hit the Lowman area northeast of Boise in the national forest. U.S. Forest Service Ranger Charlie Vaughn estimated Tuesday night that up to 1,500 acres of trees were snapped in the forest, but that an aerial survey would be made Wednesday, Richards said. 1986 UFO & Sun Attack Cold Snap Damage Is Surveyed O.SB 4/25/86 By The Associated Press From the potato fields of Alabama to the apple orchards of Michigan, farmers and agriculture officials who went out to see the results of the week's record cold snap say prospective harvests have been cut by up to 90 percent. "The heart's killed. It's dead," said Bob MacQueen as he toured his 200-acre apple orchard in Holland, Ohio, on Thursday. "This was a real record. In '56 was the last time it was that severe." He estimated the freeze, which broke records in 14 states early Wednesday from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and continued to chill much of the region Thursday, killed half the buds on his trees. He put his losses at $250,000 to $300,000. Richard Funt of the Ohio Extension Service said Wednesday that the damage statewide could reach $20 million to $25 million, while officials in Michigan estimated that a quarter of the state's apple crop was damaged. Officials in Indiana, Kentucky and other states were still counting their losses. In northern Alabama, farm experts said the cold would result in smaller potatoes, making each pound that farmers grow worth only a fraction of the value of full-sized spuds. Red Delicious apples in five southwestern Michigan counties, which make up about 25 percent of the state's crop, were "pretty well cleaned out," said Mike Thomas, of the Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service. Later-blooming varieties of apples "still have good potential," he said. Thomas also estimated that only about 60 percent of the region's tart cherry crop would come in. 24 === Page 38 of 49 Cold Trib 4/24/86 * From Page 1A erative Extension Service estimated the monetary loss to the state's apple and grape crops at $20 million to $25 million. He said Ohio's apple crop usually ranks seventh or eighth largest in the nation. In Ohio's Licking County, Mitch Lynd said he hired four helicopters at $350 an hour each to push warm air down on his 50,000 apple trees on 530 acres, but said it would be worth it if he could raise the temperature just three or four degrees. In Athens County in southeastern Ohio, Extension Agent Bill Twarogowski said fruit growers may have lost as much as 90 percent of their crops. In Indiana, "We would expect extensive damage," said Richard Hayden, a fruit expert at Purdue University. Some farmers may have used smudge pots to save their crop but the rising cost of oil has all but eliminated that as a viable option to most growers, Hayden said. Grower George Adrian of Indianapolis had relatives, employees and friends work through the night filling about 500 five-gallon burners with oil. But, he noted, the oil was left over from 1976 and said if they hadn't had it, "We would have sat back and just taken the loss." The two days of record cold may have killed any chance of bumper crops this summer in the heart of Michigan's fruit belt, said Mike Thomas, a state district horticultural agent. "I anticipate upwards of 90 percent grape damage," said grower Dwight Brown of Lawton, Mich. "We had some tart cherries in blossom and I assume it destroyed them. Sweet cherries also were in bloom and it appears they are gone, too." For the second day in a row, low temperature records for the date were tied or broken at more than 50 cities in 14 states from Michigan to Florida, the Weather Service said. Many cities had their coldest readings on record for so late in the season, including the latest freezing temperature on record at Birmingham, Ala., which hit 30 degrees. Tallahassee dropped to a record 35 degrees, and Miami chilled to a record 57. Chicago's low of 25 tied a record on the books since 1873. The lows of 23 at Cincinnati and Detroit broke records which had stood since 1875. The low of 34 at Macon, Ga., cut a full 7 degrees off the former record, set in 1903. To the west of the cold air mass, mild temperatures were common across the Plains, and the low at Minot, N.D., was 56 degrees. Heavy snow fell overnight in the mountains of southern New York state and northeastern Pennsylvania. Eldred, N.Y., in the Catskills near the Pennsylvania border, got two feet and 18 inches fell at Promised Land State Park near Greentown, Pa., in the Poconos, with 19 inches at Slide Mountain. The New York State Thruway east of Utica was closed for an hour by jackknifed tractor-trailer rigs. Light snow and snow mixed with rain fell as far south as the Virginias and Washington, D.C. New York City had persistent heavy flurries into the afternoon, but the flakes melted as they fell in the city. # 30s In Midwest Spawn Twisters By The Associated Press UFDe Sun Attack 4/28/86 A cold front across the nation's midsection dropped temperatures into the 30s and 40s early today after sending sometimes-violent storms through an area from Texas to Wisconsin. Damage was reported in Texas, Minnesota and Nebraska, but no injuries were reported from the Sunday storms, which came a day after a 4-year-old girl was killed and seven people were injured, one critically, from tornadoes in Iowa and Minnesota. Authorities in Cass County, Texas, near the Arkansas border, reported high winds blew the roof off one house and damaged two or three others Sunday evening. In Nebraska, thunderstorms spread through the eastern part of the state Sunday night, downing power lines, breaking windows and damaging trees in Omaha. Heavy rain and wind gusts up to 45 mph were reported from Omaha to Nebraska City, while gusts of up to 61 mph were reported at Topeka, Kan. The National Weather Service said tornadoes was seen Sunday near Cleveland, Texas, and Clear Lake, Minn., but no damage was reported in Texas and only minor damage in Minnesota. In Madison County, in south central Texas, flooding was reported late Sunday on a state highway. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., more than an inch of rain fell in a half hour Sunday, flooding a part of Interstate 94 and bringing traffic to a standstill. During the heaviest rain, planes were diverted into holding patterns away from Minneapolis-St. Paul ## New rain clouds menace Bangkok UFDe Sun Attack Trib 5/1/86 BANGKOK, Thailand -- New rain clouds menaced Bangkok Saturday after the worst 24-hour downpour in 1,000 years flooded the city, killing nine people, leaving dozens of fishermen missing and causing widespread property damage. A steady rain caused by a freak tropical depression began Thursday and continued until Saturday afternoon. A total of 15.2 inches of rain fell between Thursday and Friday. Meteorologists warned that more rain could fall today and Monday throughout Thailand. 25 === Page 39 of 49 # Bassett firm is focus of bankruptcy hearing By JEFF SMITH 4/29/86 Tribune Business Writer A hearing is scheduled in U.S. Bankruptcy Court today to determine whether John Bassett Enterprises Inc. will be forced into involuntary bankruptcy. The corporation is owned by former Tampa Bay Bandits owner John Bassett, who is undergoing treatment for two brain tumors and has been unable to run his day-to-day business ventures. Bankruptcy Judge Alexander Paskay said late Monday that he froze payment of an $800,000 check until creditors of Bassett Enterprises and the corporation itself can present their evidence on the matter. Paskay said the check from Bassett's former real estate partners was made payable to Bassett Enterprises, but was endorsed over to a Canadian bank. Three Florida banks -- First Florida Banks Inc., Florida National Banks of Florida Inc. and Regency Bank of Florida -- sought to force the involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Paskay said. In an involuntary bankruptcy, creditors attempt to force the company into liquidation in order to receive money from the sale of its assets. A partner in Moore-Taggart Properties Inc. said the check represented a payment to Bassett to buy out his interest in Hidden River Properties Inc., whose major asset is a high-technology park planned in north Hillsborough County. The check was sent to Bassett late last week, said Moore-Taggart partner Joseph Taggart on Monday. Paskay said he disallowed payment of the check during an emergency hearing Monday, but also said he would not permit the involuntary bankruptcy until a formal hearing could be held. "They (Bassett Enterprises) have the right to fight it," he said. Saying the issue is unresolved, Paskay said the company had not been properly served on the involuntary bankruptcy. "We bought him out," said Taggart when asked about the check that was sent to Bassett. Taggart said Bassett had been ill and wanted to sell his ownership in the park. The check represented payment for that interest, Taggart said. In addition to his former ownership in the Bandits, Bassett has been involved in a number of real estate transactions, including a major project in the Bradenton-Sarasota area. He has been selling off several of his interests in recent months. Company official Ralph Campbell, who handles much of Bassett's holdings, declined to comment late Monday. Bassett has suffered from two brain tumors and has been involved in treatment for them. He has divorced himself from the daily business operations, with Campbell handling most of them. Bassett sold his interest in the Bandits to a group, including architect Lee Scarfone. # Bassett dies John Bassett, the man behind the Bandits in their most admired days, died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. 5/15/86 By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor Visionary John Bassett, vibrant John Bassett, a founder of the United States Football League and master-planner of the Tampa Bay Bandits as they were in their most admired days, died Wednesday. The end of his life of 47 years and four months came shortly after noon in a Toronto hospital. It came a year-and-a-half after two brain tumors were detected and the fight for life began -- again. Previously he had overcome, for a time anyway, melanoma, the black mole cancer which appeared on his back. Traditional, then radical treatment, including heated chemotherapy, followed. One tumor disappeared, he said months ago, then the other, the deeper one, was reduced to a speck. Bassett, an optimist and a competitor all of his years, felt he was recovering and came to his Sarasota Players' condo in March to escape the Canadian cold and convalesce. A kidney infection surfaced. It worsened, so he was flown in an emergency condition back to Toronto. He was in a serious condition that grew critical. Pneumonia last Monday joined the other infections in a body weakened by the medications used to fight the tumors. When David Gershensen, the agent of Bassett's friend and former Bandits partner Burt Reynolds, called the hospital Tuesday on behalf of the actor-partner, Bassett was leaving intensive care. === Page 40 of 49 # Wave Of Twisters Tear Up Midwest ## Thousands Left Powerless By The Associated Press Paramedics, police and firefighters scoured through wrecked communities in Missouri today, one of five states hit by tornadoes and high winds that killed one man, destroyed an apartment building and hammered barns and homes, leaving dozens homeless, authorities said. The twisters Thursday night downed power and phone lines in towns in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. In Missouri, the twisters brought widespread damage to six counties. Scott County Sheriff Bill Ferrell said the most extensive damage appeared to be in a mobile home park and business area in the southern and eastern sections of Sikeston, and in Vanduser, a town of 320 people about 10 miles to the northwest. The east side of Vanduser was "just about wiped out," Ferrell said, and an elderly man there was killed. The victim's name was being withheld pending notification of relatives. Ferrell said more than 100 homes and many businesses appeared to have been damaged and about 30 people in Vanduser suffered cuts and bruises. At least two required hospitalization, he said. The tornado caused extensive damage and numerous injuries in Sikeston, a city of 17,000, authorities said. Hospital officials in Sikeston were asking hospitals in Cape Girardeau to send blood, said Martha Vandivort, an emergency preparedness official. Authorities in Cape Girardeau reported that many roads in the town were under water because of flooding caused by the storms. Twisters also caused damage in Miner, a small town just east of Sikeston, and in Coldwater, about 35 miles to the northwest in Wayne County. In Evansville, Ind., 26 residents of the Shamrock Apartments were taken to an emergency shelter after a twister smashed into their building. "I was trying to look for the funnel cloud coming, and then it just hit the building and that was the end," said resident Dora Simpson. Michael Roe, 22, who saw the tornado as it struck, said, "It started moving in a circle, with all the dust and debris in the center, just like in 'The Wizard of Oz.'" As violent thunderstorms hammered southwest In- See Twisters on page 10A **Continued from page 1A** diana, amateur radio operators and state police reported several tornadoes in and around Evansville, and a couple of twisters in Washington in Daviess County nearly 40 miles to the north, said Craig Carpenter of the National Weather Service. Three adults and a 22-month child suffered minor injuries when a tornado ripped through Point Township in Posey County, destroying several mobile homes, said county jailor Gene Pate. The injured were taken to an Evansville hospital. Another tornado touched down in the Posey County community of St. Phillips, causing an estimated $3.5 million in property damage, Pate said. The storm also tore the roof off one home and blew down several trees in Blairsville, Pate said. In Illinois, tornadoes hit in several counties, causing damage but no serious injuries, authorities said. Maurice Johnson, chief of police in Charleston, said perhaps a dozen homes were damaged by a tornado that touched down Thursday night. In northern Illinois, a tornado touched down twice near Dixon, slightly injuring a farmer and destroying two barns and roof, officials said. "It came right down out of nowhere," said Lee County Civil Defense Director Chuck Randall. "We didn't even have any severe thunderstorm warnings at the time, let alone a tornado watch. It was raining, but that was all." Farmer James Carrington, 57, suffered facial cuts from flying debris, said a nursing supervisor at Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital. He was treated and released. Twisters also destroyed a mobile home and houses in Edgar and Coles counties. Two homes were leveled and a car dealership and several homes were heavily damaged when a tornado touched down in Coldwater, Mich., said Sheriff Norman Heinemann. "No one was injured as far as we know," Heinemann said shortly after touring the area. "People are starting to clean up their yards and get over the shock." Authorities cordoned off the damaged area and called in reserve officers to prevent looting. === Page 41 of 49 UFOs Sun Attack # Hurricanes' costs fueled by growth ORLANDO (UPI) -- There is no way to forecast how severe the coming hurricane season will be, but unwise coastal development made the 1985 season the costliest in U.S. history, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Saturday. "1985 is going to go down in history as the year that hurricanes returned to the United States," Neil Frank said. "It was an awesome year: eight named storms crossed our coastline, and of these four were significant as far as dollar damage is concerned." "The four significant storms caused $4 billion worth of damage," Frank said. "The last time we had eight named storms cross the coastline was 1916. Then there was $33 million worth of damage," Frank said. He discounted inflation as a major factor in the damage figure, saying, "I don't think this represents inflation. I think this represents exposure. The difference between having $33 million worth of damage and having $4 billion is the whole question of exposure." Speaking at a joint convention of UPI Broadcasters and the Radio-Television News Directors Association one month from the start of the 1986 hurricane season, Frank imagined what nature might have said at the beginning of last summer. "Human beings and citizens of the United States, I have allowed you to develop my coastline. But enough is enough. You've abused the privilege. How much? I'm going to show you. "I'm going to bring a few hurricanes by your coast this year. Now none of them are particularly threatening for life, but each one in its own right is capable of causing some damage. "And it's going to illustrate for you just how inadequate you are to post the kind of lead times you need in your warnings if indeed you are going to get everyone back to the safety of the inland areas." Frank said he is excited about the hurricane evacuation programs that have been developed in recent years, but he said there remain many uncertainties in predicting a storm's movement. "When we have that meteorological surprise, we are not going to have that lead time we need," he said. UFOs Sun Attack # South parched ## Many farmers, already struggling, may be ruined by the devastating drought. By DAVID SIMPSON Associated Press ATLANTA -- Farmers who have weathered low prices and tight credit may not be able to sweat out this planting season, the driest ever recorded in parts of the South. "Everybody is hurting. But for some of our farmers, the hope of hanging on for another year is about gone," said John Dorrill, executive director of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation. Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said even federal aid could not stave off disaster for some drought-ridden farmers. "More disaster loans are not really going to solve our problems because low-interest loans do not help a man when he's already deeply in debt," Irvin said. "What we really need is four or five days of rain." The National Weather Service is offering little hope of that, with long-range outlooks for the area predicting no better than average rainfall. "Late this winter and during the spring, we have not had the (weather) systems develop in the Southeast that circulate the Gulf moisture and the Atlantic moisture that we usually get," forecaster Claude Hall said Wednesday. Instead, the South has been getting dry air from the Plains or has been under high-pressure systems that have kept out all other weather, he said. The first four months of the year See DROUGHT, Page 11A # 2nd Quake In 5 Days Rattles Mexico Area GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) -- An earthquake capable of causing considerable damage shook an area about 250 miles southwest of Mexico City late Sunday, the second temblor to hit the area in five days, U.S. officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake, which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale of ground movement, struck the south coast of Mexico at 1:47 a.m. Ocala time, said John Minsch, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Red Cross in Mexico City said it immediately mobilized its security network but found no damage or injury. Some people in the Condesa district of the capital ran into the streets after the quake struck, but many people apparently didn't feel it elsewhere. A quake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the area on April 30, causing minor damage in the Mexico City area. In September 1985 a quake measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale killed 8,000 people and caused extensive damage in the Mexico City area. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale. === Page 42 of 49 Wildfires spread across 6 states UFOs Sun Attack United Press International Trib 5/8/86 Wildfires fed by tinder-dry forests and spread by 60 mph winds destroyed more than 30,000 acres in six states, authorities said Wednesday. Hundreds of firefighters battled blazes that destroyed 10 homes in Michigan. Fires ravaged forests and grasslands in Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Jersey, and the biggest blaze struck North Carolina. Fire raged over 16,000 acres in eastern North Carolina swamps and woods. "Every time we try to get this thing contained the wind shifts," Holly Ridge Police Chief Bob Rielly said of the North Carolina fire. "I believe if we don't get rain it probably will not be contained. Organic peat is burning and will continue to burn for weeks unless it rains." "We had crews out here all night and they were able to contain some areas," state Forestry Division spokesman Joe Hogue said. One firefighter died of a heart attack while trying to free a mired tractor in North Carolina. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, fires destroyed 8,000 acres of timberland and several resort homes before firefighters got the blazes under control. Authorities said the fires may have been ignited by wind-snapped power lines. Nearly 200 homes had to be evacuated in the areas around Sawyer Air Force Base and the town of Ishpeming. Michigan state police said the fires gutted 10 homes, mostly summer cottages. In Virginia, firefighters who have been battling the state's worst wildfire of the season were reported to be bringing it under gradual control. The blaze has destroyed nearly 5,000 acres of Shenandoah National Park and closed a 38-mile stretch of the scenic Skyline Drive highway. It started with a campfire accident Friday and it took more than 300 firefighters, three planes and three helicopters to control it. "The situation is still stable, still contained, but still burning despite the rain we had last night," said park spokesman Chuch Anibal. Wisconsin authorities banned outdoor burning after an estimated 30 fires broke out in grass, brush and timber. Six hundred firefighters and volunteers managed to bring them under control. In Pennsylvania, Environmental Resources spokesman John Bitzer said the fires that razed nearly 2,000 acres of woodland this week were under control, but unseasonable heat and lack of rain still posed a grave threat. "Under control and out are worlds apart," Assistant Forester Sydney Kurtz said. "The men are still working on it. There have been little breakouts and flare-ups but nothing major." UFOs Sun Attack Major quake hits Aleutians Trib 5/8/86 PALMER, Alaska -- A major earthquake rocked the Aleutian Islands in Alaska Wednesday, causing minor damage at the Naval Air Station at Adak, triggering a tidal wave alert over a large part of the North Pacific, including as far south as California, and prompting the evacuation of 5,000 people to high ground. The earthquake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and struck at 6:47 p.m. EDT, the Tsunami Warning Center and the U.S. Geological Survey reported. UFOs Sun Attack Washington volcano rumbles Trib 5/8/86 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Higher levels of earthquake activity beneath Mount St. Helens could signal an eruption, but it is too early to make predictions, geologists say. U.S. Geological Survey geologist Steve Brantley said the earthquakes beneath the volcano increased from slightly elevated levels Friday night to moderate levels by Sunday. "This type of increase in earthquake activity usually precedes a dome-building type eruption," Brantley said. "But it is too early to make a prediction based on the information we have so far." UFOs Sun Attack Colombia volcano spews ash Trib 5/8/86 BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's killer Nevado del Ruiz volcano spewed ash Monday after sharply increased seismic activity and authorities declared a precautionary state of emergency. Scientists monitoring the volcano around the clock since the November eruption and mudslides that killed an estimated 23,000 people reported "a high level of excitation" over the past 12 hours in the bowels of the 17,800 foot volcano. "This could lead to an eruption and it could not," Eduardo Parra, a member of the monitoring committee, told Reuters by telephone from the central city of Manizales. ERUPTION EXPECTED: Mount St. Helens, located near Vancouver, Washington, sharply increased its rumbling noises Thursday and scientists said an explosive eruption can be expected within the next few days, ... EDWARDS TRIAL: Final arguments are almost complete in New Orleans in the second racketeering and fraud trial of Gov. Edwin Edwards and four others, and the jury began deliberations... KILAUEA ERUPTS: Kilauea volcano, the world's most active, shot glowing fountains of molten rock 800 feet high Thursday and oozed two harmless lava flows in the 45th major phase of its three-year-long eruption. Trib 5/9/86 Expect sun, wind around Bay but showers may return Sunday Tribune Staff and Wires 5/10/86 Today will be sunny and quite breezy in the Tampa Bay area, with temperatures in the low to mid-80s and little chance of rain, forecasters say. But that may change Sunday, as forecasters with the National Weather Service are predicting the possibility of afternoon and evening thundershowers. The highs will climb to the upper 80s on Sunday, said weather service specialist Larry Horde. Elsewhere, a slow-moving spring storm rolled thunderstorms and snowshowers across the Plains on Friday as residents in six states cleared away debris from nearly a dozen tornadoes and drought continued to plague parts of the South. Heavy rain from the weakening storm, centered over South Dakota, pushed streams and rivers over their banks, flooding fields, streets and basements. At least 11 tornadoes struck Thursday night in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, battering houses and barns and knocking down power lines. No serious injuries were reported. The Southeast endured another day of bone-dry weather that has sparked forest fires, forced water rationing and threatened to ruin farmers whose fields are too parched for planting. Alabama Gov. George Wallace asked the federal government to declare the state a disaster area. Several towns in Georgia, Alabama and Virginia have restricted water use because of the drought. The rainfall in Southern states has ranged from 10 to 20 inches below normal since Jan. 1. Heavy rain overnight pushed streams in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Utah out of their banks. Up to 10 inches of rain fell in Bassett, Neb. UFOs Sun Attack 0.523 5/5/86 Southeastern Turkey Shaken By Earthquake; 4 People Killed ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- An earthquake shook the southeastern provinces of Turkey today, killing at least four people and destroying some houses, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said. The news agency said the four people were killed when their houses collapsed on them in the provinces of Malatya and Adiyaman. The quake, which measured 5.8 on the Richter scale, also hit five other provinces, Anatolia said. OCALA * STAR-BANNER, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1986 5A 129 === Page 43 of 49 U.F.D.C. Sun Attack # Rockies lashed with wind, rain; wildfire rages in North Carolina Tribune Wires 5/7/86 A Western storm lashed the Rockies with rain, snow and gusty winds Tuesday and heavy thunderstorms rolled through the Great Lakes region, churning up funnel clouds. Meanwhile, a wind-whipped wildfire raged out of control across more than 10,000 acres in North Carolina's Onslow and Pender counties Tuesday, causing one death and forcing at least 12 families to evacuate. The Division of Forestry Resources is fighting the blaze that started Monday in a swampy part of Pender County and spread northeast into Onslow County. On Tuesday, a line of severe thunderstorms moved rapidly through the Detroit area causing scattered power outages. A tornado was spotted in Plymouth, Mich., and several funnel clouds were sighted around Detroit, the National Weather Service said. No injuries or serious damage were reported. Thunderstorms and showers were scattered from New England across the lower Great Lakes into the lower Mississippi Valley. A storm off the northern Pacific Coast spread snow and rain across the higher elevations of northern California and western Nevada. A light spring snow of 1 to 2 inches fell in the mountains west of Reno, Nev., and 2 to 5 inches of snow in the mountains around Lake Tahoe, the weather service said. The unseasonably cold, wet and windy weather could endanger young livestock in Wyoming and Colorado, the weather service said. High winds raked much of the West and northern Plains. Winds were clocked at 51 mph in Las Vegas and 35 mph at Kingman, Ariz. Winterlike weather engulfed the northern Plains with temperatures in the 30s. In Tampa, the temperature reached 91 degrees Tuesday -- 3 degrees short of the record -- and a series of muggy days are ahead, meteorologists said. Widely scattered afternoon or evening showers are on the Bay area forecast at least through the weekend, with high temperatures in the upper 80s. # Chilly Canadian blast shatters temperature records across East U.F.D.C. Sun Attack Tribune Staff and Wires 5/5/86 A blast of Canadian cold air swept along the East Coast Sunday, shattering low temperature records from Maine to the Carolinas. The winter-like air mass, which hit the upper Great Lakes last Wednesday and then moved slowly eastward, dropped temperatures below freezing and created even lower wind chills with strong gusts. Four boy scouts camping in a suburban Rochester, N.Y., park overnight were treated for mild cases of hypothermia as the mercury there dipped to 31 degrees. Record low temperatures overnight were set in 18 cities across 10 states from Maine to South Carolina. However, a warming trend was only a day away, as the cold air mass was expected to move out to sea, leaving in its wake normal temperatures by today. The Bay area's weather is likely to remain "hot and dusty" for the next few days, said Bill Seller of the National Weather Service. The hot weather, normal for this time of year, is caused by a high pressure system overhead, the meteorologist said. Layers of air are heated as they move down, Seller explained. Today and Tuesday, expect fair weather with high temperatures near 80 degrees and lows from near 60 to the mid-60s. Today's forecast calls for east and southeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Elsewhere, a storm system in the Plateau dumped 8 inches of snow at Austin in central Nevada. Forecasters called for up to 5 more inches, and a travelers advisory was posted across east central and northeast sections of the state for elevations above 6,000 feet. A winter storm watch also was issued across the mountains and foothills of northwest and central Montana. # Dry Weather Taking Toll On Parched Big Sun Area U.F.D.C. Sun Attack By Ocala Star-Banner Staff 5/7/86 And the Associated Press Despite spotted showers Tuesday, dry conditions in Marion County are considered critical with a burn index measured at 110, reported the Florida Forest Service. The burn index is nearing the record of 113 a year ago this month when more than 10,000 acres in the Ocala National Forest were ravaged by fire. "The burn index is a measure of fire danger in which vegetation would ignite from dry conditions," reported Dean Snyder of the Florida Forest Service. He said the average burn index is about 50. "The grass is dead and underbrush is a tinderbox," Snyder said. He described the vegetation as in "the cured stage." Burning restrictions are in effect, with permits issued under conditions that require firefighting equipment to stand by, Snyder said. With rainfall below average for April, water regulators may ask 16 southwest Florida counties today to impose a voluntary ban, according to a spokesman with the Southwest Florida Water Management District, which governs water usage in Marion County west of Interstate 75. Rainfall in the district last month ranged from .5 to 1.8 inches, compared with the norm of 2.2 to 3 inches for April. A trace of rainfall was recorded in Ocala and portions of Marion County on Tuesday, with one Star-Banner weather watcher in Rainbow Lakes Estates reporting two-tenths of an inch of precipitation. Thunderstorms reportedly drenched large areas of Citrus, Levy and Alachua counties. One area east of Ocala measured just over one inch. From March to April, lake levels, stream flows and ground water levels all declined. Pumpage, which is See Drought Plagues on page 8A === Page 44 of 49 # Drought Plagues Big Sun; Voluntary Water Ban Eyed Continued from page 1A 5/7/86 ground water withdrawal from major wellfields, increased almost 25 percent in April over March. Last year's severe drought left deficits of up to 14 inches in certain areas such as the Alafia River and the northern Peace River Basin, said Jim Hunter, a spokesman for the water district, referred to as Swiftmud. The conservation proposal, prepared by Swiftmud staff, was to be presented to the agency board today. "The situation is not yet critical, but a matter of concern," said Gary Kuhl, the board's executive director. A drought laying siege to the whole Southeast is withering hard-pressed farmers' crops, drying up reservoirs, turning forests tinder-dry, cutting hydroelectric power and forcing mandatory curbs on lawn watering, officials say. "It's a bad situation that's getting worse fast," Carl Harker of the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center at Auburn University in Alabama, said Tuesday. The dry spell is the worst in Tennessee since records were first kept in the 1890s and the worst in South Carolina since the 1900s, officials said. It is affecting Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee in varying severity. # Pre-summer drought parches Southeast U Fla Sun Attack New York Times Trib 5/5/86 ATLANTA - The level of Lake Sidney Lanier, the 39,000-acre reservoir that supplies most of Atlanta's drinking water, is six feet below what it should be and still falling. "If we don't get some rain soon, things are going to get a lot worse this summer," said Ron Blue, the manager of the Holiday Marina, where boaters are already being warned to look sharply for low spots in the lake. "The problem in the spring ought to be too much water, not too little." In wide areas of the Southeast, including parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the western Carolinas, rainfall levels since the first of the year are the lowest since forecasters began keeping records a century ago. And there is little relief in sight. Forecasters predict no substantial rainfall through the middle of this week, and the 30- and 90-day extended forecasts from the National Weather Service call for near or below normal precipitation around much of the Southeast. In most areas, where flooding, not drought, is more commonly the problem in spring, less than a quarter-inch of rain has fallen in the last 40 days. In Atlanta, for example, less than eight inches of rain has fallen since Jan. 1. That is nearly 12 inches less than the average for the same period. Since officials ordinarily count on heavy spring rains to top off water reservoirs for the drier summer months, some counties and cities in northern Georgia and Alabama have already imposed mandatory restrictions on the watering of lawns. And in suburban Roswell, residents were asked last week to use water only for drinking and flushing toilets. Outside the city, livestock pastures are already brown and some streams have turned to mud. Farm fields are dry and crumbly, forcing many farmers to delay their planting of soybeans, cotton and peanuts. "Farmers are really falling behind," said Rodger Getz, a meteorologist with the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center in Auburn, Ala. "Unlike the West, the South doesn't have many irrigated crops." The lack of moisture also poses the danger of grass and forest fires. Fires this year have claimed 867,092 acres of public and private timberland in the South, according to Bruce Jewell, a spokesman for the National Forest Service. Gary Beeley, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, says that upper atmosphere air patterns have been carrying storm tracks well to the north of Georgia. That has allowed high pressure to dominate the weather picture in the Southeast, keeping skies clear and the air dry. The drought has already had some dramatic effects. In Etowah County in northeast Alabama, where only 3.5 inches of rain has fallen since Jan. 1, the wells that service the rural community of Burton Loop have gone bone dry. As a result, state officials have had to dispatch a 400 gallon water tanker to provide drinking water to the 18 families who live there. In Birmingham, water volume in Lake Purdy, the reservoir that provides a major part of the city's water supply, is 25 percent less than it should be. And at Lake Alatoona, 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, the water surface has dropped 12 feet below normal. === Page 45 of 49 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, May 8, 1986 • 11-A # Drought • From Page 1A brought 6.47 inches of rain to Birmingham, Ala., 15.7 inches less than normal and the driest such period ever recorded by the National Weather Service. Other record low amounts for January through April were set in Jackson, Miss., with 7.37 inches, and Atlanta, with 7.96 inches. Southeastern Louisiana has had 3.38 inches of rain since March 1, giving that region a chance of breaking its March-through-May record low of 3.91 inches. Nashville has measured 6.66 inches of rain so far this year, 12.81 inches below normal. Rainfall is just 34 percent of its normal pace in Greensboro, N.C. In southern Georgia and Florida, early year rainfall has 1986 levels near or above average, but April still parched the soil that farmers had hoped to seed. About 41 percent of the U.S. peanut crop comes from Georgia, mostly from the southern part of the state. The Georgia Crop Reporting Service says just 27 percent of the crop has been planted, compared with 60 percent at the same time last year and a five-year average of 35 percent. Some farmers have had to use their irrigation systems to get the ground wet enough to accept seed, said John Beasley, a peanut specialist in the Tifton office of the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. "That's an expense they just don't normally count on," Beasley said. He said the irrigation cost will at least partially offset the advantages of higher production quotas and rates paid by the government in the peanut program. "Peanuts was the only crop in the South that we could really make a profit on," Beasley said. Some Florida cattle farmers are irrigating pastures just to provide grass for their stock, and it is "costing them out the ears," said Alachua County Agent Bill Brown. Planting of Mississippi's cotton crop, one of the nation's largest, is being slowed by lack of rain, and plants in the ground are suffering from cool nights, said state Agriculture Commissioner Jim Buck Ross. "Cotton needs to be up and growing with hot nights -- something that has not happened," Ross said. "The situation is rapidly becoming very, very serious for farmers in Mississippi." Tobacco planting is behind schedule in Tennessee and North Carolina. "The wind does about as much damage as the dry weather," said Bladen County, N.C., Extension Chairman Keith Dennis. "When you put tender plants out and the wind blows, it's just like sandblasting them." The drought also may cut the harvest of South Carolina's 300,000-acre wheat crop in half, said Clemson University Extension Service Director B.K. Webb. The drought also has reduced levels in rivers and lakes. Alabama Power Co., which normally gets 7 percent of its electricity from its 14 dams, has shut down all hydroelectric generation because of lack of water. Trib 5/9/86 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE NASA MUST HAVE JUST TOLD HIM HE'S STILL A FINALIST FOR THE FIRST JOURNALIST IN SPACE! NO... THEY JUST TOLD HIM HE'S NOT! === Page 46 of 49 33 # 12 Hurt, 35 Homes Leveled As Twister Hits Oklahoma UFo2 Sun Attack 0.58 5/9/86 ## 'Looked Like Big Ball Of Fire' EDMOND, Okla. (AP) -- A suppertime tornado bounced through a neighborhood, injuring 12 people, destroying dozens of homes, and leaving residents amazed that no one was seriously hurt. "I don't know how we kept from being killed, but we did," said 74-year-old Frances Forehand, who suffered cuts and bruises when the tornado tore through the home of her granddaughter Vicki Taylor on Thursday night. "It looked like a big ball of fire went through the house." Police spokesman Lt. Mike Wooldridge, whose home was one of those damaged in southwestern Edmond, said 12 people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Fire Marshal Ron Williamson said at least 35 homes were destroyed and at least 30 others damaged. Although there were no reports of fatalities, Williamson said he could not be certain that everyone was accounted for. "Of course that's always a concern," he said. Authorities would make house-to-house checks to see that everyone got out of their homes, Williamson said. Lt. Gov. Spencer Bernard arrived at the community of 35,000, just north of Oklahoma City, late Thursday and said he had asked Gov. George Nigh to put the National Guard on alert. But Bernard said the guardsmen would not be needed, if at all, until today. He said all state agencies, including the Civil Defense and state Department of Human Services, will be available to help. Mrs. Forehand, sitting in a hospital robe at a Red Cross shelter at Edmond High School, said she was watching television with her granddaughter and two great-grandsons when the tornado shattered a pair of sliding glass windows. "I started to say we better turn the TV off and it just blew in on us," she said. "There were sticks, pieces of metal, glass flying around ... but it didn't even break my glasses." Mrs. Taylor said as the twister tore through her home, she grabbed her 8-month-old son and placed him in a bedroom closet. "I tried to get back to get my grandmother and 4-year-old son, but the bedroom was already completely demolished," she said. "The storm had already gone through." Mrs. Forehand said she and her grandson, who received stitches on his forehead, were buried by debris. "We had to dig ourselves out," she said. Rescue workers later helped the four from the home. "They didn't let us take anything with us, not our purses or anything," said Mrs. Taylor. "I don't even know if I could find them anyway." The tornado touched down about 7:30 p.m. and hopscotched through the 7-year-old subdivision. The twister flattened four or five of the medium-sized brick homes in a row before lifting off the ground. It then touched down again, damaging or destroying the others homes. The storm, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, left streets cluttered with wood and shingles from homes. Telephone poles were bent in half and power lines were strewn across lawns and streets. The National Weather Service said the tornado in Edmond was part of a strong line of thunderstorms that moved through the metropolitan area. # 2 tornadoes touch down in Polk County The first twister swept through a small subdivision in a rural area between Dundee and Winter Haven while the second struck a business east of Mulberry. UFo2 Sun Attack 5/10/86 By MIKE WOLNY Tribune Staff Writer MULBERRY -- Tornadoes touched down in two places in Polk County Friday evening, causing minor damage to buildings but injuring no one, Polk sheriff's Communications Sgt. Gail Speer said. The weather also kept firefighters around the county busy responding to reports of lightning strikes that caused minor fires but no injuries, county civil defense officials said. The first twister swept through a small subdivision in a rural area between Dundee and Winter Haven off County Road 542 in the eastern part of the county about 3:45 p.m., Speer said. "It did no structural damage," Speer said. "It messed up the roof on a storage shed on High Street. There were some downed telephone poles and power outages reported." A second tornado struck shortly after 7 p.m., causing minor structural damage to Compressed Air Products, a business east of Mulberry on State Road 60, Speer said. Mitch Carmack, assistant chief of the Mulberry Fire Department, said the tornado occurred just minutes after a power line fell across U.S. 60, forcing a semi to jackknife. A three-car accident resulted. And shortly after 5:30 p.m. firefighters were called to a fire at the garage of Resource Recovery on U.S. 60 near the city's eastern boundary. Carmack said the blaze was contained to a tanker truck used by the firm in its waste recovery business. He said lightning was suspected as the cause of both the fire and the collapse of the power line. The series of calls had Mulberry's seven firefighters on duty busy throughout the afternoon and evening. === Page 47 of 49 # North Carolina inferno AP photo UFOs Sun Attack 5/14/86 Trib. ## Firefighters gain upper hand A 10,000-acre backfire broke the back of a raging blaze in North Carolina, but gusting winds and dry conditions continued Tuesday to plague the region that has lost more than 73,000 acres to flames. The wildfire has covered 110 square miles and has resulted in evacuations of residents, one death and 50 injuries. Unless rains occur, experts said, some of the ground fires could last for months. 117 PENDER COUNTY Burgaw Rocky Point Wilmington 17 Maple Hill **BURNED AREA** Hampstead Jacksonville Holly Ridge ATLANTIC OCEAN 0 15 Miles NORTH CAROLINA Area of Detail Tribune map by WARREN HUSKEY === Page 48 of 49 # Firefighters struggle to contain 75,000-acre N.C. blaze Tribune Wires - 5/13/86 HAMPSTEAD, N.C. -- Firefighters using aircraft, tractors and shovels inched closer Monday toward containing a 14-mile-long blaze that has consumed 75,000 acres in its weeklong, erratic path through swampy southeastern North Carolina. As 75 fresh firefighters were rotated in, officials hoped steady winds would keep the flames away from populated areas to the north. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated but only two buildings have been destroyed. "The fire didn't spread today," said Bob Grady of the state Forest Service. "There is not total containment on the perimeter, but we did hold the existing perimeter, which we feel is very much in our favor. It's the first day that we've been able to do that." "I would expect they should be able to contain it tomorrow," Grady said. "Tomorrow, I expect them to be putting in plow lines and getting all the roads completely burned out of any existing fuel so we'll have a fairly cool perimeter." By afternoon, the fire had closed ranks with a smaller blaze. Feldman Corn of the state Division of Forest Resources at one point said the blaze had been contained inside lines, but officials later said it continued to burn out of control on two fronts. Tom Hegele, spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, said it was unlikely the fire could be extinguished until rain hit the scorched eastern North Carolina soil. National Weather Service hydrologist Alan Gustafson said the chances were "very, very remote" that rain predicted for western parts of the state would reach the area of the fire. Hail-bearing thunderstorms dampened the weekend across some of the South, but forecasters said Monday the rain was too scattered and too short to provide any general relief to drought-stricken Dixie. The storms were heaviest in Louisiana, where they caused minor flooding and power outages, and in Mississippi, where they brought high winds, hail and up to 4 inches of rain. But the storm system weakened as it moved eastward, and forecasters held little hope that North Carolina would get significant rainfall. "The top soil is so dry it's difficult for plants to grow in many places," said National Weather Service hydrologist Alan Gustafson, who classified eastern sections of North Carolina as being in a "moderate drought." "It's affecting farmers quite heavily," he said. "There's nothing but dust there." Much of the Southeast is still more than a foot below normal rainfall for the year, and a drought alert was issued Friday for parts of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. In Atlanta, the first four months of 1986 were the driest on record. A thick layer of gray smoke clung to smoldering remains of pine forests in Pender County, N.C., obscuring the flames from spotter airplanes and prompting health warnings in surrounding areas of southeastern North Carolina. At a forest service command post, a map showed the fire covered a rough, diamond-shaped area pointing north at Maple Hill and measuring about 14 miles from north to south. Officials said the area burned comprised about 110 square miles, or 10 percent of the county. On Sunday, anticipating the direction of afternoon sea breezes, firefighters burned 5,000 to 10,000 acres to rob the fire of fuel. "If we had not, we'd probably have a 100,000-acre fire out of control," said Tommy Thompson, incident commander for the state Division of Forest Resources. # 26 missing in storms' aftermath At least one drowned when the storm hit Texas during fishing tournaments. 5/19/86 HOUSTON (AP) -- Rescue teams using a helicopter and boats searched a lake Sunday for more than 26 people reported missing after a storm and high winds struck during fishing tournaments, and at least one person drowned, authorities said. Meanwhile, off Galveston, Coast Guard crews searched for at least three boats reported overdue since Saturday's storms. The winds that whipped Lake Livingston forced people to abandon their boats and swim to shore. Hundreds of people were at the lake, about 80 miles north of Houston, participating in two fishing tournaments and a sailing race. "We have 26 unaccounted for -- that doesn't mean they're all drowned though," said Polk County Sheriff's Sgt. J.C. Robbins. The search ended about 2 p.m. Some people may have left their boats during the storm, Robbins said, so police were calling homes. About 12 boats were recovered Sunday, and three people were rescued from an island. The storms were part of a wave of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes that struck western Arkansas and central Texas. In another incident, a 50-year-old man disappeared after his boat cap- === Page 49 of 49 # Twisters turn sky pink, cause power outage in Alabama town Tribune Staff and Wires 5/19/86 Two tornados buzzed Jackson, Ala., Sunday, turning the sky pink and then disappearing without touching down. The twisters were part of slow-moving storm system that pushed high winds into southeast Texas Saturday. The tornados rumbled through the southwest Alabama town shortly before and after noon, said police officer Bill Johnson. "They never did touch down, but we did have a report of power outage on the east side of town," Johnson said. The storm that struck Texas Saturday lost little of its intensity as it moved toward Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Louisiana on Sunday, prompting a severe thunderstorm watch and a tornado watch in those states, said meteorologist Harry Gordon in Kansas City. "They're getting some rain, and it's making them (state meteorologists) nervous," Gordon said. "They're looking for heavy thundershowers and most indicate by radar that the storm is intense." Chilly temperatures across Colorado, Kansas and western Texas tied or broke cold records in at least four cities. A reading of 35 shattered the record of 39 set in 1888 in Dodge City, Kansas. El Paso, Texas, dipped to 41, breaking the 1983 record of 45. Midland, Texas, tied the record of 45 set in 1967. In Pueblo, Colo., the temperature dipped to 30, breaking the 1915 record of 34. No injuries or serious damage was reported near Allegan and Hillsdale, Mich., from tornadoes that touched down Saturday. Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and destroyed a mobile home and several barns at Algansee. In the Tampa Bay area, the National Weather Service is predicting mostly cloudy skies with a 50 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms today. Highs in the mid-80s and south winds at 10 to 15 mph are expected. Tonight and Tuesday, expect showers and thunderstorms, lows in the mid to upper 60s and highs in the mid-80s. Rain chances are pegged at 60 percent tonight and Tuesday. The rest of this week, temperatures won't change much, said meteorologist Bill Seiler. But there will be a fairly good chance of thunderstorms, especially in the afternoons. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8605 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/90beed46d81f22767e6be66d80ffeabd.pdf 1d1988b3045a93678e87930cceabdb06 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d719ab3e549cb4b15034842d48e9d50d.txt a98c2e1bbdf1ff130eb5cc5618ec3e99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1986 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 38-1 Owens Jeffrey 4-11-86 postmark April 4, 1986 SCIENTISTS My geopsi (new word that I have coined, meaning psi-control over geographical areas) job is now finished for my UFOs. I had just returned home from pawning some things to pay some bills when M. called from Vancouver and said that she was sending me to Hong Kong in order to complete the last part of the UFO jigsaw puzzle. You will recall that it was necessary for me to get to Peru so that my UFOs could control that Continent. All that was left in my work with the UFOs then, after I went to Peru, was to get to Hong Kong so that my UFOs could control Russia and China. A biggie. It nearly ruined me, but I got there and back. So that was done. The only thing left now...bigger than anything...is the ten-million dollar UFO base, from which I can, working with other-dimensional powers and my UFOs, telepath psi-force through the "psi-pipelines" that I have set up on other continents...to bring about constructive, helpful results everywhere for the human race and Earth itself. Now let us proceed to my current report to you. First, let me refer you to my file to you of February 12, 1986, in which I pointed out to you that I informed Dr. Mishlove before the space shuttle exploded that the UFOs were going to cause such. Also I told him that my UFOs were going to cause an earthquake on the West Coast, 8-10 on the Richter. (See enclosed.) Now the earthquakes on the west coast are slowly building up to major intensity. Not only must the tektonic plates slip beneath the west coast, but elsewhere...like the mechanics of a swiss watch. Note the Georgia quakes on p. 4.) My UFOs explained to me, in simple (At this point my back up typewriter broke down, so am here now with two typewriters rendered hors de combat by some odd force; it seems. Owens.) Anyway, my UFOs explained to me, in simple terms, how an earthquake is triggered. When I was a child my grandparents gave me a Chinese Box, which was composed of many small wooden panels. To open the box, one had to slide one certain panel forward...then a second certain panel elsewhere...then a third panel, at which time a small wooden "trigger" was exposed behind the panel. One pushed downward on this trigger and the Chinese Box sprang open...i.e., the drawer inside sprang out. In like manner, the plates slip underneath Georgia...then plates slip underneath California...finally the plates slip one more time and the "trigger" is exposed and sprung...big earthquake. This is my own theory...some of you might think it comical. Or my UFOs gave me the info. Whichever. Now, to the work at hand. In my file to you of Feb. 12, '86, paragraph (3) I informed you that I had warned Dr. Mishlove that a shuttle would be exploded by my UFOs. They did, in fact, explode it. See p. 10 re "unusual wind" then more important p. 9 re "wind shear". Put simply, the shuttle was struck by terrific force as it took off, then as it cleared the force into slow speed the disparity destroyed the shuttle. === Page 2 of 31 2 In the same paragraph I warned Dr. Mishlove that my UFOs would cause an 8-10 on the Richter earthquake in California. (This was before any earthquakes happened.) On Pages 2, 3 and 4 you can read what has happened since then. My UFOs have tried to give people and the govt. time to give them their Base...used these relatively small quakes as warnings...but the Base has not been forthcoming. Therefore...I can only assume they will strike with the Big Quake. Just up ahead, in time. On p. 5, translate "El Nino" into my UFOs Sun Attack, which it is, indeed, factually. They (scientists) guess that whatever El Nino is, it will not be as tough in 1986. My UFOs have stated that their effect increases exponentially, with time. That means that 1986 will be far worse than 1985. What a pity that my UFOs cannot have their base, on their terms, and turn all this chaos around. That, put simply, is the name of the game. On p. 6 is more on the Sun Attack...plus an article on another earthquake near Lima, Peru, where I was not long ago. Ps. 7 & 8 bear on the terrible damage my UFOs did to NASA. Ps. 9, 10 and 10½ point out that "wind shear" (force) sprung or broke the joint that wrecked the space shuttle. Ps. 11-17 point out further the great damage done to NASA by my UFOs. P. 18 has an article describing the great pickpocket activity (remember they got my moneybelt off me, somehow, when I flew to Lima, Peru. Ps. 18-28 point out the results of the UFOs Sun Attack. P. 26 has a clip re the penetration of killer rebels into Lima, Peru, that robbed a bank and shot down a bunch of people just blocks from the hotel I stayed in while there. In closing...why not have a voice-stress-analyzer and operator seated just past the metal-detector and have each passenger read a card out loud: "I am not carrying any weapons onto the plane...guns, knives or explosives...and do not plan to cause any trouble on the plane while I am on it." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 31 ① February 12, 1986 SCIENTISTS (1) Years ago, while living in Philadelphia with Martha, my wife, and Beau, our baby...one night a roaring fire sprang up on the floor below and the firemen came and extinguished it. The Fire Chief came to me and told me that the fire had been deliberately set...in the room directly underneath our room...and if it had not been discovered when it was then we'd have been burned up. (This happened at the time when Saga magazine was doing articles about me and Dr. Zakow, of the U.S. Government, came to our apartment and investigated my work and warned me that the U.S. Govt. would have me killed considering my work with UFOs and attacking NASA with psi-force). Several days later Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were burned up on the pad at NASA. My UFOs telepathd and explained that they had caused it because of my great value to them, the UFOs, and because of the U.S. Govt's effort to assassinate us. (There were two other blatant attempts to murder me at that time on the streets...but I am pointing out the fire connection.) I passed along this information to the scientists that I was dealing with at that time. (2) In 1969 I was in a court-reporting office in Norfolk, Virginia, and Apollo 12 was just getting ready to lift off at NASA. The court reporters were all listening to the proceedings on the radio. I called out to them: "How would you like to see me hit that spacecraft with lightning?" They all stopped talking and stared at me incredulously. Minutes later the spacecraft lifted from the ground then all was pandemonium at NASA. One of the astronauts aboard the spacecraft, still ascending, said to ground control "We don't know what happened but it seems that we were struck by lightning!" (3) This last November, 1985, my UFOs telepathd to me unexpectedly one night and told me that (1) they intended to cause an earthquake on the West Coast 8-10 on the Richter Scale, and (2) they were going to explode a space shuttle of NASA while it was in action. They were going to do it because their request for a ten million dollar UFO Base from the U.S. had not been taken seriously...also that for a long while they had deliberately harassed shuttle flights, ruining experiments etc., but not harming the astronauts. They had finally decided that they would have to destroy astronauts to get the U.S. Govt's serious attention. I explained all this to my son, Beau...then picked up the phone and called Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco and gave him the message. The result, of course, is in this file. You probably saw it yourself on TV. Re (2) above...I have an affidavit signed by all the court reporters who were present attesting to the validity of the matter. Re (3) above...I would not be presumptuous enough to ask Dr. Mishlove for an affidavit to that effect, for my files...but if anyone is interested in checking it out they can contact Dr. Mishlove. I do not believe that he would double-cross me and lie about the matter as Dr. Hynek did some years ago. I think that Dr. Mishlove is a finer scientist, in every sense of the word, than is Hynek. And I could know - have worked with scientists. After the shuttle exploded my UFOs telepathd to me (I was as saddened and shocked as anyone who witnessed the event) and explained why they had deliberately chosen this particular flight and shuttle. Follow this now. p. 4 -- "It's a setback. The tragedy is that so many kids were watching === Page 4 of 31 27 # Extra crews enter battles against raging wildfires in a dozen states United Press International Job Corps volunteers, convicts, Air National Guard water bombers and "Hot Shot" crews from Arizona and New Mexico were thrown into the fight Monday against wildfires flaring in dry woodlands across a quarter of the nation. Firefighters battled the blazes in a dozen states from Ohio to Georgia, many of them working with little rest since last week. Three firefighters died in the fight, all apparently collapsing from overexertion. Authorities said arsonists, active over the Easter weekend, were playing a big part in the fires. One blaze set by an arsonist burned across the Big Sandy River from Prestonsburg, Ky., sending clouds of smoke over the town. Federal investigators began a search for arsonists, particularly in east Tennessee, where convicts helped fight 27 arson fires in mountain areas. "We're going to start dogging these arsonists," said Tennessee district forester Ted Dailey. "We hope to get some convictions." With little or no recent rainfall and none in the immediate forecast, authorities expected conditions to get worse. "We feel we can handle the situation at this point, but if it continues to worsen we may not be able to. There are only so many people you can shift around," said Cynthia Page of the Alabama Forestry Commission. She said more than 900 fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres in Alabama since last Tuesday with timber damage alone estimated at more than $2.8 million. Joe Ferguson of the Kentucky Forestry Commission said 166 fires damaged 6,000 acres over the weekend, destroying two homes and a barn and inflicting more than a $12 million loss to timber. Ferguson issued a call for volunteers, saying his men had been working 16 days with little break. Three firefighters died fighting the blazes over the weekend. Ray Scott, 57, and Vincent Eckrote, 48, died of apparent heart attacks near Londonderry, Ohio, and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., respectively, and Robert K. Bell died at the wheel of his tractor plow fighting a fire in Tennessee Friday. Officials said Bell's death "was possibly related to exhaustion." Firefighters from two Job Corp Centers and specially trained "Hot Shot" teams, including an all-Apache crew, flown in from Arizona and New Mexico helped fight four fires in Kentucky on Sunday. North Carolina, which, along with Tennessee, has issued a ban on outdoor burning, reported 81 fires over 406 acres over the weekend. # Fires Hit 13 Southeastern States By The Associated Press Thousands of fires, many of them crackled through bone-dry forest and brush in 13 states totaling 600,000 acres, and officials in Virginia considered closing state land. Teams of firefighters looked to the skies for help but ceding a drenching rain is not expected before the weekend in most areas. In Tennessee, officials said wind pre-ceding a slow-moving cold front could whip smoldering ashes into new blazes. In Virginia, where emergency teams are fighting the worst forest fire in the western part of the state in 15 years, officials said they would ask the governor to close state forests if the number of fires increased when the trout fishing season brings an expected 100,000 people into the woods Saturday. Since Jan. 1, there have been more than 42,000 fires in the U.S. Forest Service region encompassing 13 Southeastern states, burning about 600,000 acres, said Sunny David, spokeswoman for the service in Atlanta. The total is about twice as much as burned in the same period last year, she said. Officials in Ohio have died fighting fires. Southeast region - an area that includes Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma - have already imposed bans on open burning. "The forest is so dry right now that even careless smoking could set off a forest fire," said Lou Southard, a spokesman for the Virginia Forestry Division in Charlottesville. Chris Bridge, a spokesman for Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, said the governor would consider imposing the Forest Closure Act if asked to do so by the Forestry Division. Southard said the measure has not been used since 1971 and not for any significant length of time since 1963. === Page 5 of 31 26 # Crews Battle Forest Fires In Southeast # Crews Battle Forest Fires In Southeast By The Associated Press 4/1/86 Crews battled hundreds of wildfires today in the drought-parched hills of Dixie, and forecasters held out little hope that rain would end the siege that has charred more than 90,000 acres in the past week. Forest fires, which contributed to two deaths since last week, were raging today in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri. Many of the blazes were set, officials say. Large fires were extinguished Monday night in New Jersey and Massachusetts. More than a half million acres across the Southeast have been consumed this year in nearly 38,000 fires, said Bruce Jewell, regional information officer for See Crews Battle on page 8A 4/1/86 Continued from page 1A the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta. At least 300 fires blazed across 2,000 acres in North Carolina during the weekend, while Alabama officials reported 158 blazes Sunday alone. "Fire danger remains at critical levels across North Carolina and no letup from the dry weather is expected through this coming week," the National Weather Service said Monday. Dry weather also was expected for the next few days in other states where crews were battling major forest fires. "It's so dry, we're losing our control lines," said Ralph Glover, deputy state forester in West Virginia, where 56 new fires were reported Monday and 12 continued to burn. "Without rain there isn't a whole lot we can do." Officials expanded a fire alert Monday to 40 of Alabama's 67 counties. Since last Tuesday, 905 fires have burned 15,000 acres, said Cynthia Page, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Forestry Commission. The cost in "timber, jobs, products and taxes" exceeds $26 million, she said. This year, 7,394 fires have burned nearly 80,000 acres in North Carolina, compared with 4,952 fires on 114,800 acres in the first three months of 1985. Four trained "hot-shot" firefighting teams from New Mexico and Arizona battled a 344-acre blaze Monday in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. Of the state's four largest blazes, one at Hinkle in Knox County was contained Monday after scorching more than 1,000 acres, but crews were battling an Owsley County fire nearly the same size, said Townley Bergmann, the state Forestry Division's special projects director. # Guerrillas Bomb U.S. Targets 4/5/86 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Leftist guerrillas bombed the Colombian Embassy, branch offices of several American companies and a U.S.-funded cultural institute, press reports and diplomatic officials said Friday. Two rebels were captured and another shot to death Thursday night while trying to escape after the embassy bombing, the reports said. A night watchman was reported wounded at the cultural institute. Police officials have provided details of such attacks in the past, but announced a new policy Friday under which only the joint military command can give information on guerrilla actions in areas under military jurisdiction. Lt. Col. Oscar Checa Castillo, press spokesman for the command, said he did not consider it "necessary to issue a communique confirming or denying" the reports. President Alan Garcia claimed earlier this week that foreign journalists had exaggerated the guerrilla violence in Lima. Guerrillas also struck outside the capital, police said, shooting a policeman dead Friday as he left his home in Huangcayo. === Page 6 of 31 25 # Tornadoes Rip Marion, Snap Pines Like 'Sticks' ## Downs Power, Phone Lines UFO & Sun Attack 3-5-86 By Ocala Star-Banner Staff 3/12/86 Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes whipped through rural sections of Marion County early today, snapping giant pines "like matchsticks" and leaving trash and debris strewn in its destructive path. There were four reported sightings of tornadoes in the county: south of Orange Lake off U.S. 441; off County Road 484 about one mile east of Interstate 75; at Breezewood Estates, south of Belleview; and in the Lake Weir area. While there was scattered minor property damage, no injuries or major tornado-related damage were reported. Marion County Sheriff's Department officials received reports of a funnel cloud touching down on U.S. 441, near Ocala's northern boundary, knocking down power lines and closing both southbound lanes of traffic about 6:30 a.m. The twister ripped through giant pines in the area, tossing limbs and debris across all four lanes of traffic. Increasing the danger to early morning motorists were torrents of rain, accompanied by heavy lightning displays and thunder. Residents in the north part of the county said the tornado sounded like freight trains that used to travel the railroad tracks in the area. But those trains don't travel in that area anymore. Crews from Florida Power Corp., the Marion County Road Department and telephone repairmen worked rapidly to restore service and clear the highway as rush-hour traffic neared. Power was restored locally within an hour, although scattered outages were still reported in isolated sections later in the morning. See Tornadoes on page 12A # Air Force Warns Of Satellite Backlog UFOs & Space Weapons 3/7/86 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force wants additional rockets to launch satellites and a replacement for space shuttle Challenger to meet a backlog that in one to two years could total 10 to 21 satellites the service says are essential to national security. "The near-term impact on the Department of Defense is severe if the orbiter fleet is down for a year," Edward C. Aldridge, the Air Force's top space official, said Wednesday. "There is no recovery option that will mitigate this impact within the next two years." Aldridge, testifying before two Senate subcommittees, said decisions must be made immediately "to minimize the negative long-term impacts of the orbiter loss." The Air Force has had 10 expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) on order since last year when it convinced Congress that the nation could not afford to rely on only one launch system -- the shuttle. "Even with additional ELVs, it is not clear that the current three-orbiter fleet can meet the demands of both NASA and DOD," said Aldridge, the undersecretary of the Air Force. "Our view of this is that it's a national emergency," he said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which once fought to prevent the Air Force from getting throwaway rockets that might divert military payloads from the shuttle, endorsed them Wednesday. "The right thing for us to do is to have a balance between shuttle capabilities and ELV capabilities," said Richard Truly, a Navy rear admiral and former shuttle astronaut who was appointed as NASA's shuttle chief after the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion. Truly said, as he has before, that NASA expects at least a year's down time before any shuttle flies again. When the flights resume, Aldridge said, the Pentagon will exercise its "bumping rights" to reduce a backlog of 10 military payloads that will have accumulated by then. If the down time is two years, there will be 21 backed up military payloads, Aldridge said. === Page 7 of 31 24 # U.S. influence in Pakistan raises ire See Back Opposition leaders predicted Zia's fall and said U.S. influence must go if they are to have democracy. By BARRY RENFREW Associated Press 3/24/86 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- People by the tens of thousands shouted anti-government and anti-U.S. slogans Sunday and opposition leaders said that President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's pro-American government was in its last days. The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, an alliance of 11 opposition parties, held one of its biggest rallies since martial law was lifted Dec. 30. About 60,000 people marched through this city of about 1 million people and listened to anti-government speeches. The opposition staged dozens of smaller demonstrations across the nation to commemorate Pakistan Day, celebrated as independence day here. "Did we create Pakistan so the army could rule? Did we create Pakistan so the people could be whipped? Did we create Pakistan so the people could be oppressed?" one speaker asked the huge crowd that waved the red, black and green opposition flags. Speaker after speaker asserted that Zia's military government would fall soon for lack of support, and said this entire nation of 88 million people hungers for the return of democracy. The United States was repeatedly criticized for supporting Zia, the army chief of staff who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977. "If we want democracy in the country we must rid Pakistan of American influence, we must struggle against the Americans," said Afzal Zahda, a leader of the Peasants and Workers Party. "American imperialism should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan," he said. The crowd chanted "Zia is a dog!" and "Down with the Americans!" as speakers called for abolishing the government, the end of military influence in politics, and immediate free elections. Hundreds of riot police armed with rifles, bamboo clubs and shields were stationed around the city. Zahda charged that Zia's government wanted Pakistanis to fight the Communist regime in neighboring Afghanistan to serve U.S. interests. He held up political and social changes in Afghanistan as an example to be emulated. "In Afghanistan they have destroyed capitalism and oppression, so the generals want us to fight against Afghanistan. But we do not accept this," he said. The Pakistani and American governments support and aid Islamic anti-Marxist guerrillas fighting the Af- See PAKISTAN, Page 4A # Florida temperature records fall but warming trend follows chill Tribune Staff and Wires 3/24/86 Sunday morning's temperature in Tampa of 37 degrees broke the record for this date of 41, set in 1915. But the weather should get warmer by 2 or 3 degrees each day for the rest of this week, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologist David Rittenberry said it should be breezy and mild, near normal for late March. Today's forecast calls for a high in the mid-70s, sunny then partly cloudy, with northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, the weather should be partly cloudy and not as cool, with a low near 50 degrees. Tuesday, expect partly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 70s. The blast of cold Canadian air responsible for the record also brought record low temperatures to every corner of the state Sunday. Key west had a record low 53 degrees, the island city's lowest temperature in 109 years. The old record of 54 degrees was set in 1877. Miami Beach had 48 degrees, breaking the record of 50 set in 1960. Orlando had a low of 42, one degree lower than the record set in 1983. Tallahassee was the coldest of all, breaking two records with a 25 degree reading. That was five degrees below the record low set back in 1915. It was also the coldest spring temperature ever recorded. Elsewhere, dry and mild weather prevailed over most of the country Sunday, and temperatures rose in the Southeast after a third straight morning of record low temperatures. Colder air pushed southward out of Canada across the upper Mississippi Valley and freezing temperatures extended from eastern North Dakota to upper Michigan. Rain extended from northwestern California through western sections of Oregon and Washington. # Thunderstorms soak Texas; Colorado digs out from snow United Press International 4/5/86 Violent thunderstorms blitzed Texas Friday, sinking a flotilla of boats, flooding streets and killing an elderly invalid in waist-high water while a spring storm that dumped 4 feet of snow on the Rockies roared into the high Plains. The massive storm spread snow blown by 30-mph wind gusts from northern Colorado to South Dakota. Lead, S.D., had 12 inches and Deadwood had 9 inches. Up to a foot of snow in Nebraska closed Route 71 near Kimball, the National Weather Service said. The storm's southern arm unleashed strong winds, hail and thunderstorms across Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana overnight, closing roads, downing power lines and damaging buildings, officials said. (In the Tampa Bay area, forecasters are calling for a "rather pleasant" weekend with fair skies, a slight breeze, temperatures in the 80s and a few afternoon clouds.) Near Sherman in North Texas, high winds slammed into the Paw-Paw Creek resort area on Lake Texoma, sinking or casting adrift many of the 40 boats moored at a dock. Nearby, an elderly invalid slipped from the porch of his home into floodwaters. Authorities said it was unclear whether White, an invalid, drowned or suffered a heart attack. In Wyoming and Colorado residents Friday cleared away up to 4 feet of snow that stranded thousands of travelers, snapped power lines and closed roads, schools and businesses. Many Coloradans were still without heat and electricity. More than a thousand weary travelers, who spent the night Thursday at Stapleton International Airport because of snow-covered runways, were forced to wait in line behind Friday's ticketed passengers. === Page 8 of 31 23 # Polk mare, foal die after attack by bee swarm By BILL HEERY Tribune Staff Writer 3/22/82 BARTOW -- A swarm of bees attacked a quarter-horse mare and her week-old foal Thursday afternoon in Alturas, leading to the death of both animals. Jim Fiveash, owner of the horses, said Friday the foal, a stud colt, died from suffocation several hours after being stung numerous times. He said the foal's nostrils were swollen from the stings and it could not breathe. Fiveash said he then shot the 1,200-pound mare, which was lying on the ground, struggling to breathe. An inspector said there was no indication the insects were African "killer" bees. "My wife and kids had watched that foal strangle to death, and when she (mare) got to that point, I just went ahead and put her out of her misery," he said. Fiveash said the scene in his pasture, off of Estes Road, was like a science fiction movie about killer bees. "I've never seen bees act like that before," Fiveash said. "I'm just thankful it was not one of my kids or one of my neighbor's kids." Richard Dunaway, a honey bee inspector with the state Department of Agriculture, said Friday that his agency is sampling the bee hives in the area. He said some dead bees found on Fiveash's property also were turned over to him by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. "We won't know anything until about the end of next week," Dunaway said. He said there was no indication that the bees were Africanized bees, commonly referred to as "killer" bees. Fiveash, who works as a ranch hand at a Dundee ranch, said that when he arrived at his home Thursday afternoon, Lake Wales veterinarian A.S. Ryland already was there. He said a neighbor, Chuck McReynolds, had used a water hose to get the bees off of the horses. McReynolds said that he came to the horses' aid after he saw two teen-age boys running from the bees. McReynolds said there were hundreds of See BEES, Page 4A # Bees * **From Page 1A** 3/22/86 bees on the animals. "They were dazed and crazed," he said. "They were really tormented. It was a real unpleasant thing to see." Ryland and Fiveash, who was stung six times while treating the mare, saturated their heads with flea spray to keep the bees off. Fiveash said, "You couldn't put a finger on those horses' bodies without touching a place where they had been stung." Fiveash and Ryland, who gave the horses medication and painkillers, said they had never heard of a horse dying from bee stings. Fiveash contended the bees came from commercial hives located on a neighbor's property. He said the owner of the hives, Stoney Sadler of Lakeland, removed them Thursday night. Sadler said Friday there is no proof that the bees that stung the horses were his. "There are so many commercial beekeepers in that area now that you can't even count them," he said. "There are several yards of bees in that general vicinity." Grove owners often let bee hives on their property to help pollinate citrus blooms. There are several hundred bee hives in the Alturas area. Fiveash, who raises registered quarterhorses, said bees often hang around his barn to get water from the horses' trough. "This morning there are bees all out at the barn but they're not messing with anything," he said. Dr. Frank Robinson, a retired University of Florida agriculture professor and secretary of the American Beekeeping Federation, said Friday the only report of Africanized bees in this country was an incident in California about a year ago. Robinson, who taught beekeeping and conducted bee research for the University of Florida, said he had never heard of a horse dying from honey bee stings, "but it wouldn't surprise me under certain conditions." "If a cow was stung, it would leave the area and run off," he said. "A horse, on the other hand, tends to stay right around there, running around and around, and ends up attracting more bees and getting more bee stings." Fiveash said the mare's eyes were swollen and she apparently couldn't see. He said she ran through a fence and ran into the side of the barn. Fiveash said he buried the 6-year-old mare, which was registered as both a quarter horse and a palomino, and the colt Friday morning. === Page 9 of 31 Destructive tornado injures 15 in Georgia Associated Press A tornado packing winds up to 160 mph tossed cars on a Georgia highway and trapped a family in the rubble of their house, while 2 feet of snow and blizzard conditions forced schools to close in parts of Michigan on Wednesday, the last full day of winter. Thunderstorms, spawned when cold air from Canada collided with warm Gulf of Mexico air, extended from the Mississippi delta to the southern Appalachians. Fifteen people were injured and 100 homes damaged when the twister hit the suburbs northwest of Atlanta, and the National Weather Service estimated damage at $10 million to $20 million. The twister tore the roofs off buildings in an industrial area Wednesday morning before skipping to a subdivision. In Michigan's upper peninsula, a late winter storm covered Marquette with 26 inches of snow in just over a day. The snow on the ground reached 47 inches deep. Blizzard conditions were reported, and gale warnings were posted for all the Great Lakes. Power lines and trees were toppled. Winds to 60 mph reduced visibility to near zero in some places, the weather service said. The most snow fell in Herman, where 24.2 inches was recorded in the 24 hours since 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the weather service said. In Georgia, Tamara and Brett Jordan, both 27, and their 4-year-old daughter, Jessica, were on their way to the basement of their house when the twister lifted it off its foundation, said Cobb County Fire Chief David Hilton. Mother and daughter were in stable condition at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta after being rescued from the rubble, said hospital spokeswoman Leslie Kelly. Jordan was in the intensive care unit, but his condition was not immediately available. Also treated at the hospital were 12 people who were injured in cars on Interstate 75, said Kelly. Nine were released. Martha Lamanac of Canton said her car was lifted off the ground and rolled five or six times before being hit by a truck. "The sky was black as night," she said. "Next thing I knew, my windshield broke and the truck fell on top of my car. Somebody started screaming a tornado had hit. Everyone was screaming and crying... it looked like a flock of birds flying over us, but it was pieces of metal." The twister's path was 4 to 5 miles in length, and its maximum winds were estimated at 140 to 160 mph, the weather service said. Japanese snowstorm kills six The spring storm swept into the Tokyo area leaving crews missing from three ships and at least 294 people injured. TOKYO (AP) -- A spring snowstorm in the Tokyo area left six people dead, seven crew members from three ships missing at sea and at least 294 people injured, most in a train collision, police said Monday. The bodies of four crewmen were found Monday by Japan Maritime Safety Agency rescue boats after the crew of eight from the Japanese freighter Shoei-maru abandoned their sinking vessel Sunday night south of Tokyo. The agency said one crew member was rescued but the three others were missing. All three crewmen from another Japanese freighter were missing in the same coastal waters after the boat sent distress signals late Sunday, the agency said. It also reported that one Chinese seaman was missing but 19 were saved from a capsized Chinese freighter, the Shi Zui Shan, by rescue boats Sunday night off Irozaki, south of Tokyo. Winds of up to 49 mph whipped the capital area from early Sunday till late in the night as the storm dumped up to 20 inches of wet snow in the area, according to forecasters. A 36-year-old man was killed Sunday when he was struck by an awning that collapsed under the weight of snow in Saitama Prefecture (state), north of Tokyo, police reported. They said a 21-year-old firefighter clearing snow from fire hydrants was electrocuted Sunday when he accidentally touched a fallen 6,600-volt electric wire. At Tanashi, in Tokyo's northwestern suburbs, 204 people were injured when a commuter train, apparently slipping on snowy tracks, ran down a slope and crashed at 15 mph into the rear of train that had stopped for repairs to an electrical line damaged by snow, police said. They said 18 of the injured were hospitalized and there were some 1,400 people aboard the two trains. A total of 81 people were injured in falls on slippery streets, and nine were hurt in car accidents in the Tokyo area Sunday and early Monday, police and fire department officials said. They reported 29 were hospitalized. In Hachioji, two people were trapped briefly and one was hurt when the zinc roof of a movie house caved in under the weight of snow, police said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Chiyuki Okazawa said six of its electric power pylons in Kanazawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, collapsed, leaving 318,000 homes without electricity Sunday night. Numerous surface rail lines in the metropolitan area, home to about 12 million people, suspended or curtailed service at midday Sunday, but most resumed limited service Sunday evening. Officials at the new Tokyo International Airport at Narita, 45 miles northeast of the capital, said the airport resumed operations Monday after 18 international flights were diverted Sunday due to the snow. === Page 10 of 31 21 # Twister Destroys Gainesville Store GAINESVILLE (AP) -- At least one tornado ripped through northern Gainesville early today, destroying a drug store and downing power lines and trees, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Damage was also reported from other tornadoes and possible tornadoes across central and northern Florida late Thursday and early today. "The Gresham drug building is believed to be totally destroyed. Trees and power lines are down," said Officer Andrew Chamblin of the Gainesville Police Department. "There has definitely been one and maybe as many as three (tornadoes) that hit in the Gainesville area," Chamblin said. The drugstore was in the Northgate Shopping Plaza. Nearby stores also received some damage, as did a state Health and Rehabilitative Services office. Eyewitnesses said a truck was overturned in the parking lot of the shopping center and a service station pump was pulled from its base. "It looks like a war zone out here," said one witness. Severe thunderstorms had earlier forced the National Weather Service to issue tornado watches and warnings for much of the region. Unspecified damage was reported this morning in the Lake County communities of Yalaha, Bassville Park, Astor Park, Fruitland Park and between See Gainesville on page 12A  **Blowin' in the wind** Londoner Keith Plummer and his daughters, Clare and Olivia, struggle against a fierce wind Monday as they cross the River Thames. Hurricane force winds were expected at Britain's capital, accompanied by a severe temperature drop. # Tornado Touches Down In Duval JACKSONVILLE (AP) -- Officials are still assessing the damage to cars and businesses left by a tornado that touched down several times in southern Jacksonville, injuring at least one person. John Langdon, 29, was listed in good condition Thursday night at Baptist Medical Center, undergoing treatment for back and internal injuries, said a hospital spokeswoman. Langdon had been operating a forklift at Great Dane Trailers Inc. about noon Thursday when a tornado "tore him from his seat and threw him about 15 feet away," said Sgt. Charlie Hill, a police spokesman. A co-worker, Jimmie Lee Williams, escaped injury. "All I saw was a big ball of wind and dust and everything started flying, including me, because I started running," he said. Officer Steve Schwader was southbound on the Phillips Highway about 11:45 a.m. when he spotted the funnel cloud. Police reported that it jumped the highway and then swept northeastward, touching down several times on a mobile home sales lot, a shopping mall, a car dealer and a busy street intersection. Clyde Montgomery, a spokesman for Jacksonville Electric Authority, said 13,000 customers were without power for portions of the afternoon because of the tornado. At St. Johns Bluff Road and Beach Boulevard two utility poles snapped at midpoint, dangling high-voltage lines across the busy intersection. But motorists crossed the intersection despite live wires that swayed 10 to 15 feet overhead until police arrived, Hill said. "That's one of the most dangerous things this life that people can do," he said. National Weather Service forecaster Jim Keegan said most of the damage was caused by heavy winds. Forecasters had predicted heavy thunderstorms in the area Thursday, but tornados were unexpected and weather officials couldn't find damage patterns to confirm that a tornado had breezed through the area, Keegan said. But he said a small, short-lived "mini-tornado," the kind common to Northeast Florida, may have touched down. Officer David Gray, who saw the twister hit in a shopping center parking lot, described it as a "small tornado." He said it was about 50 feet tall. Beth Jones said she was cleaning a motel room at Plaza Motor Lodge on Phillips Highway when she looked up and saw her 4-year-old niece standing outside. The child was frozen with fear of an immense black cloud. "I saw the twister coming and it looked like it was headed for us so I went running for her," said Ms. Jones. Ms. Jones fell and cut her leg, but was able to scoop up the child and run to a nearby office. The twister then hit a nearby sales lot. "The roof and signs and stuff were just swirling around in the air," she said. At Prestige Pontiac, the twister "pushed open our doors and everything started flying around. The wind just whipped through here. All four doors to the showroom just swung open and the fence outside was going crazy," said Joan Sims, who works in the parts department. === Page 11 of 31 UFD Sun Attack 3/22/86 # Unseasonable cold embraces eastern U.S.; record lows set Associated Press A large high pressure system centered over Missouri brought unseasonable cold to most of the eastern half of the nation Friday, with record lows in more than a dozen cities and freezing temperatures as far south as the Gulf states. Afternoon readings were only in the 20s and 30s from southern New England and the mid-Atlantic states to the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. At 1 p.m. CST, Great Falls, Mont., reported 65 degrees while Atlanta was only at 40 degrees. Freeze warnings were issued for northeastern Texas, Arkansas, southern portions of Mississippi and Alabama, most of northern Florida, central and southern Georgia and much of South Carolina. Georgia agricultural official Steve Rich said experts were concerned that an extended cold snap could damage vegetable crops. But he said the cold may have helped growers of peaches, which are in full bloom -- "There are very heavy blooms this year and the growers would have had to thin the blooms anyway." Record lows for the date included 5 at Binghamton, N.Y.; 8 at Canton and Akron, Ohio; 8 below zero at Caribou, Maine; 21 at Evansville, Ind.; 10 at Hartford, Conn.; and 15 at Lexington, Ky. The former record at Lexington had stood since 1876. The weather service's official low for the day was 9 below zero at Saranac Lake, N.Y., but normally frigid Mount Washington in New Hampshire had a record 23 below zero. For today, scattered rainshowers were predicted over the northern Pacific Coast, with strong, gusty winds prevailing across the northern Plains and Minnesota. UFD Sun Attack 3/24/86 # Severe Tokyo Spring Snowstorm Kills 13, Causes Train Collision TOKYO (AP) -- The worst spring snowstorm in Tokyo history killed at least 13 people, caused a train collision in which more than 200 passengers were hurt, and brought the city of 12 million people to a soggy halt. Maritime Safety Agency officials said they had recovered the bodies of 10 sailors who had been aboard two ships that sank Sunday after being buffeted by winds of more than 54 mph. Air and sea rescue missions were being conducted in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo today for one other sailor who still was missing. The Meteorological Agency said 3.5 inches of snow fell on central Tokyo on Sunday, the most ever recorded for the city after the spring equinox. More than double that amount fell in outlying districts. Bright sunshine returned to the Tokyo area today. Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Yoshimitsu Tsurubushi said 1.32 million households in the Tokyo area lost electric power because of overturned transmission towers. Areas of northern and western Japan customarily are buried under feet of snow every winter. But snow is rare along the heavily populated eastern seaboard and even small amounts can hopelessly snarl traffic in Tokyo. 20 UFD Sun Attack 3/13/86 # Tornadoes Thrash Deep South By The Associated Press A wave of violent thunderstorms swept through the Deep South today, and cleanup continued after three days of deadly storms that spawned more than 55 tornadoes from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. Tornadoes and gale-force winds raked the South on Wednesday, killing two people in Alabama, injuring dozens and flipping mobile homes, trucks and cars. Five twisters were sighted in Alabama and eight in Mississippi, Bill Barlow of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said today. Other storm-related injuries and damage Wednesday were reported in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. At least eight people have died in tornadoes and high winds since the first wave of storms rolled across the Plains on Monday, injuring more than 100 people in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and doing nearly $30 million damage. Barlow estimated there had been 57 tornadoes through Wednesday night. "It looks like the area today will be parts of the Southeast," he said in a telephone interview. Heavy and severe storms spun out today across parts of the Southeast from a storm system centered over Missouri, the National Weather Service said. # Pro-Cuban group claims bombings LIMA, Peru -- A pro-Cuban rebel group issued a statement in Lima Saturday claiming responsibility for a series of explosions primarily against U.S.-owned or linked buildings late Thursday and early Friday. Rescuers, meanwhile, scoured a mountainous area in a rebel stronghold of central Peru for an army helicopter that lost contact with air controllers after the pilot radioed he had to make an emergency landing, authorities said. The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement said the bombings were in support of Central American countries and Libya, "brother nations that today are attacked by imperialism." In Ayacucho, 230 miles southeast of Lima, soldiers left Saturday to hunt for a helicopter believed to have crashed in a rugged area of ravines and gorges. The pilot of the six-passenger helicopter, Carlos Sotil Mayta, radioed to an air base in Ayacucho Friday that he had to make an emergency landing, police said. Trib 4/6/86 === Page 12 of 31 19 2 die in Ala. as twisters hit South By Jean Becker USA TODAY 3/14/86 At least 17 tornadoes pounded the South Wednesday, killing two people in Alabama and ripping Kentucky again. The storms cut a 200-mile swath through Kentucky, which is still recovering from Monday's storms. The toll Wednesday: 19 hurt, and 260 homes, 245 barns and 20 businesses destroyed or damaged. Mississippi and Louisiana also were hit. Elsewhere: - [x] Near Carrollton, Ala., a twister toppled the chimney of a farmhouse, crushing to death Guy Rollin, 82, and his daughter, Annie Laura Hale, 59. At least 30 homes were damaged. "You could hear a roar from it," said resident Travis Walker. "I never saw one so close." - [x] Chicken barns were destroyed near Farmerville, La. Cars and storefronts in Franklinton were damaged. - [x] A steeple was ripped from a church in Lauderdale County, Ala. - [x] High winds lifted a pickup truck off a highway in Lauderdale County, Miss. The driver suffered a separated shoulder. Planes in near-collision in Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal investigators are reviewing radar printouts and tower tapes to determine what caused a near-collision between a TWA Boeing 727 and four military jets. TWA Flight 489, carrying 141 passengers en route to St. Louis, had taken off Saturday from Port Columbus International Airport, was climbing and had reached 23,000 feet when four A-7 jets passed 200 feet overhead and about 500 feet off the wing, said Mort A. Edelstein, public affairs officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago. # Twisters usher in new season ## Ind., Ky. hardest hit states By Mike Pulfer and Jean Becker USA TODAY 3/12/86 COVINGTON, Ky. -- A dozen small towns and cities Tuesday began cleaning up the rubble left by a pack of storms -- the first of the 1986 tornado season. Hardest hit: Indiana and Kentucky, where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed, one school was destroyed and damaged by the roaring winds. At least 15 tornadoes touched down Monday in Indiana, including one that wiped out a trailer park in Indianapolis. Among the two fatalities: a Hancock County man who died when his barn -- where he sought refuge -- collapsed. The National Guard was patrolling downtown Covington and nearby Newport to keep sightseers out. Temporary shelters were opened for the homeless. The twisters hit during late afternoon. "It sounded like hell," said Tom Gors of Lynn, Ind., where 85 percent of the buildings were damaged, including the elementary school. Said Jerry Cragen of Martinsville, Ind., who watched his barn collapse around him, "The wind started blowing and I felt the barn start to breathe. It was pumping like a lung and I just got underneath the tractor and stayed there." In Covington, Debra Meece, 26, and her brother, Lonnie, 29, were trapped inside their car when a portion of First United Methodist Church fell on it. "I never thought about a church falling on us. ... I guess I have a guardian angel." Alaskan volcano erupts ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The 4,000-foot Augustine Volcano erupted Thursday with flames, smoke, ash and a bright orange glow that interrupted airline traffic and spewed an ash cloud over Anchorage. No injuries or damage resulted from the eruption on the barren island at the mouth of Cook Inlet in the North Pacific. The nearest town is Homer. The first eruption occurred at 2 a.m. (6 a.m. EST) on an island 180 miles southwest of Anchorage, volcanologist Tom Miller of the U.S. Geological Survey said. Scientists were most worried about the volcano generating a giant wave like the 30-foot wall of water triggered by an 1883 eruption. Augustine also erupted in 1935, 1964 and 1976. === Page 13 of 31 18 Trib. 4/1/86 # Airport Bandits Security officials at some of the nation's largest airports are warning travelers to keep a tight hold on their luggage and a lookout for pickpockets. Bands of well-trained Colombians have been working the major air terminals on a regular basis. They can snatch valuable bags in a split second and create diversions to distract victims while their pockets are picked. Police at airports in New York, Miami, San Francisco and other large cities are pooling information in an attempt to intercept these specialized thieves before they set up operations. They haven't become a problem at Tampa International yet. This can be attributed to the lack of direct flights to Latin American destinations and tight security measures that include the presence of plainclothes officers in critical areas of the passenger terminal. Police have found that the criminals tend to pick on foreign travelers and those waiting for connecting flights to distant states. If an arrest is made in one of these cases the victims are less likely to be returned to testify. The crooks are experts at their trade. Apparently, there are several crime schools in South America run by modern Fagins who teach the fine art of picking a pocket by having their students practice lifting items from a coat covered with bells -- without ringing a bell. They are also trained to snatch carry-on luggage while passengers are distracted at a ticket counter or otherwise occupied. Travelers are advised to watch their luggage at all times or to keep a leg or foot against it if they have to put it down for a moment. Prevention is the best defense because these wandering thieves have little fear of prosecution. If one is jailed, a confederate will appear almost at once to post bond. They continue to work the area until the trial date arrives, then they move on to another city. Law enforcement officials have considered exhibiting a seven-minute inflight film made by the San Mateo Sheriff's Department showing the airport bandits at work. The idea was vetoed by airlines on grounds it would generate fear and discourage travelers. It may, however, be wise to instill sufficient fear to encourage vigilance rather than pretend the problem doesn't exist. Forewarned is still forearmed. # Wind puts controllers on runway By Jean Becker USA TODAY Cincinnati air traffic controllers Monday moved onto the runway -- in radio-equipped cars -- to direct planes after high winds blew out control tower windows. The windstorm ripped through the south side of Cincinnati Greater International Airport about 4:30 p.m. EST, (21:30 GMT) destroying three hangars and as many as 50 planes. Six controllers were hurt. "They're just calling it high winds but I don't know," said airport spokesman Ted Bushelman. "I'm looking at three hangar buildings that now look like pretzels." The wind was part of a storm that spawned at least 21 tornadoes in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, killing five and injuring 70. ComAir commuter owned many of the destroyed planes; damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. The airport -- in Boone County, Ky. -- was closed for 90 minutes and planes were rerouted. When it reopened, controllers used two-way radios to communicate with pilots. The radar room -- separate from the control tower -- was not damaged. # Two killed in US storms NEW YORK: Thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the southern part of the United States on Wednesday, killing two people, tossing trucks about and derailing a railroad train. Two people died when a tornado struck near Carrollton, Alabama, Pickens County officials said. "It hit several homes. We have houses blown down on people. We have a row of houses that was blown down," said Virginia Kennedy of the sheriff's office. She did not know how many people were injured. A tornado that struck the small East Texas community of Pineland destroyed three small businesses, unroofed two mobile homes and knocked out electricity. No injuries were reported. -- AP # Floods cause havoc in New Zealand CHRISTCHURCH: One person was missing, presumed dead, and hundreds were left homeless following one of the worst floods in New Zealand this century, Civil Defence and police officials said yesterday. Civil Defence officials declared a state of emergency for the east coast area of the Canterbury Plains as cleanup operations got under way. The region was just recovering from a massive drought last year. The deluge began on Wednesday, dumping 150 mm of rain in 18 hours. A 73-year-old farmer was the only reported casualty. -- AP # Three die in whirlwinds Washington: Tornadoes whirled across Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio on Monday leaving at least three people dead and 20 injured and cutting off power supplies to thousands of homes. The winds of up to 140 kph blew down trees and pylons, sent cars and caravans bowling and ripped the roof off scores of houses. In Indiana, a man sheltering in a barn was killed when the building collapsed and another man was fatally injured by a falling tree. In Ohio one occupant of a caravan blown over by the wind was killed and three others badly injured. At Cincinnati international airport, 30 to 50 aircraft were damaged. -- AFP # Flooding leaves two dead Jakarta: Floods in West Java have killed two people, left nearly 39,000 homeless and inundated more than 18,000 homes, the West Java Representative Office said yesterday. Rivers have burst their banks after incessant rains in the past few days resulting in flood waters of up to 2.5 m high. Thirty-three villages in seven districts were flooded, two people drowned in torrents and 38,577 people left their homes for safe areas. The districts are south of the West Java capital of Bandung. The local government has sent food and medical supplies to the stricken areas, an official said. === Page 14 of 31 17 prime contractor for satellite processing, laid off 90 of its 1,000 employees. Planning Research Corp., which performs engineering tasks, furloughed 150 of its 500 workers. Lockheed Space Operations, which services the shuttle before and after flights, let go 660 of its 6,200 workers. Ironically, there was almost a sense of relief when the layoffs were announced, said Lockheed's Williams. "There were rampant rumors of layoffs within six days of the crash," he said. "The layoffs served to clear the air a little bit." He said the Lockheed layoffs include workers from Lockheed's subcontractors, including Pan Am, Grumann and Morton Thiokol. Lockheed is trying to find work for the furloughed workers, but it won't be easy, Williams acknowledged. Other high-tech companies in the area are "not in an expansion mode," he said. Many of the idled employees may well have to leave the Brevard area to find similar work. Others who want to stick around may have to settle for lesser paying jobs. The slowdown will take its toll outside the aerospace industry as well. Thousands of small businesses - hotels, restaurants and the like - depend upon the space program for their livelihood. At Mr. Ni's Chinese restaurant on Merritt Island, "our business is probably 95 percent from the Cape," said owner William Ni. "Since the shuttle exploded, our business has dropped 15 percent." Perhaps the biggest worry around here is over the estimated $75 million a year in tourism spending brought here by the space program. Business has actually picked up at the Spaceport USA visitor center, due in no small part to curiosity inspired by the accident. Florida's fourth most popular tourist attraction, the Spaceport received 200,000 visitors during February, the busiest February in history. But Catrambone of the Titusville chamber said increased tourism at the visitor center will be more than offset by the fact that there won't be any launches for a year or longer. "A launch brings in 30,000 people," he said. Titusville's 1,300 hotel rooms "are booked solid during a launch," he said. Although Brevard has a winter beach crowd, "we don't have a tourist attraction per se, other than the space program," Catrambone said. Many companies haven't cut back yet, but they are taking their time filling vacancies, said Roger Manley, an industrial psychologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. Even companies that aren't tied to the shuttle program "are being cautious as all get-out," Manley said. "Things seem to have turned soft just in the last three or four weeks." "Economics is as much psychology as it is dollars and cents," Manley added. "It's the dismal science." A few aerospace companies have reversed their plans to move into Brevard, Catrambone said. He wouldn't identify the firms. "People are saying, 'Wait until the next one goes up,'" Catrambone said. Yet, existing companies, both residential and commercial, are ward, and some are expanding. A dozen buildings are under way at Saturday, including the Tyler Independent School District office, which had 2 inches of water in the basement. Severe thunderstorms have battered Texas, Arkansas and Missouri with heavy rain, hail and tornadoes. # Texas lashed by vicious storms; one person killed, roads flooded Tribune Staff and Wires Vicious thunderstorms Saturday unleashed relentless downpours, hail and tornadoes across Texas and Arkansas, derailing a freight train and covering roads with up to 6 feet of water that killed at least one motorist. Stalled cars littered flooded Texas roads after up to 6 inches of rain blown by 60-mph wind gusts fell for the second day. "It's bad," said Caroline Beverly, Smith County Sheriff's dispatcher. "I'm getting reports of bridges under water in all areas of the county." Flood waters invaded at least a dozen buildings in Tyler, Texas, including the Tyler Independent School District office, which had 2 inches of water in the basement. Severe thunderstorms have battered Texas, Arkansas and Missouri with heavy rain, hail and tornadoes for two straight days. Malikoff, Texas, had 6 inches of rain and Murfreesboro, Ark., had 5½. # Fatal home fires Home fires in six states Thursday killed 10 people, four of them children, authorities said. Twelve people were injured in the blazes. BERLIN, N.H.: Joseph Saseen, in his 60s, his wife Margaret, in her 50s, and her elderly mother, Beatrice McKay, in her 80s, died when a fire of undetermined origin sent flames "gushing" from the windows of their two-story house, officials said. A police officer and a firefighter were slightly injured. NANTICOKE, Pa.: Melissa Getz, 6, her brother, Wayne Jr., 12, and their grandmother, Alice Getz, 69, were killed and three other family members injured when a fire apparently caused by a short-circuit in an electric heater engulfed the top floor of a two-story wood-frame house. CLEVELAND, Ohio: Two-year-old Tamara Dill died in a blaze of unknown origin in a two-story brick house. Three firefighters were treated for injuries. HERRIN, Ill.: Dusty Feezor, 8, was killed the day after his birthday and four other family members were injured in a fire of unknown origin that heavily damaged a one-story home without a smoke detector. YONKERS, N.Y.: Edward Hogan, 37, died of smoke inhalation in a fire that consumed a three-story apartment building under renovation. PARKVILLE, Mo.: A 37-year-old man whose identity hasn't been released was apparently overcome by smoke when he tried to flee a ranch house ravaged by fire of undetermined cause. === Page 15 of 31 Space - From Page 1E 3/30/86 (pop. 330,000), and the spinoff effect means hundreds of millions more. In the Titusville area closest to Cape Canaveral, it is estimated that 75 percent of the economy depends on NASA business. The layoffs at the space center have already hurt some local restaurants and put some development projects on hold. And the drought in space shots will undoubtedly damage the tourist trade. "Yet the coast that NASA built will survive. "This used to be a little bit rinky-dink town," said Davis, parking his horse in front of an empty lot that will soon be a high-tech industrial park called Spaceport Center. "Now there's so much development around here, I don't have any room to ride my horse." That's unlikely to change. Economic experts said the county's boom may subside for a while, but most development plans should continue on schedule. Brevard has a fairly diversified economy -- at least when compared with 15 years ago, when the space program was everything. Besides, NASA says the worst of the layoffs is over. "The other shoe, so to speak, is not going to drop," said Joseph Malaga, the space center's comptroller. NASA can't afford to cut back too far. It would cost that much more to rehire people and get the program flying again once the shuttle launches resume. On the other hand, even if the shuttle program starts up again on schedule, it's likely the shuttle program will proceed cautiously at first. There were to have been 14 more flights this year; under NASA's new projections there might be only half as many flights next year. "Fewer launches mean less work," said John Williams, a spokesman for Lockheed Space Operations Co. Lockheed, which laid off more than 600 people, handles maintenance and other ground-servicing needs between shuttle flights. The people who work on the shuttle fret about the future. "No one knows the full impact," said a laid-off shuttle worker sipping beer at the Challenger Lounge, a Merritt Island tavern decorated with space photos and an inflatable replica of the shuttle dangling over the bar. "If the birds stay down ... then your high-tech people are going to have to go," said the man, a quality control inspector for Lockheed Space Operations Co. "The layoffs could mushroom." It wouldn't be the first time. Many around here can well remember when the Brevard economy collapsed in the mid-1970s. When the glamour of moon landings wore thin, Congress pulled the plug on the Apollo program. A few short years after moon walker Neil Armstrong took his historic "one giant leap for mankind," the Space Coast took one giant step backward. Space center employment fell from more than 20,000 to less than 10,000; and the county's unemployment rate skyrocketed from 2 percent to 13 percent. Engineers and scientists fled the area in droves, leaving behind America's first high-technology ghost town. "All you had to do was just look at the gas stations that were shut down," Malaga said. "It was really traumatic." "You could pick up a house for zero downpayment and just what was left on the mortgage," recalled Harold Zweigbaum, a former NASA engineer. The exodus of scientists changed the fabric of the community. "When I came here in '62, they said the average age in Cocoa Beach was 26 or 27," said Zweigbaum, now an executive with Astrotech Space Operations, a supplier idled by the shuttle hiatus. "Now, I think it's 60. A lot of retirees moved in here." So did a lot of companies not directly related to the space program. Today, two-thirds of Brevard's 138,000 workers draw paychecks from companies not tied to the space center. In the late 1960s, only half of Brevard's wage earners could make such a claim. "We have a lot of resiliency to fall back on this time that we didn't have when half our population was employed" by the space program, said John McCauley, executive director of the Brevard Economic Development Council. "We have this real enviable manufacturing base." Even if the space program fell into a prolonged, severe slump, McCauley argued, Brevard will be in far better shape than it was 10 years ago. McCauley listed a coterie of manufacturers that have come to Brevard in the last few years, companies for which NASA "is not their bread and butter." They include Dictaphone, Collins Avionics, ITT and Melbourne's own computer giant, Harris Corp. "They do not depend on the space program," he said. Yet, for all its economic diversification, Brevard will always be the Space Coast. "That's where our future is," said Joe Catrambone of the Titusville Chamber of Commerce. In Brevard, merchants and restaurateurs take a proprietary interest in the space center. "Around here, everyone's 100 percent behind the space shuttle program," said Bill Woods, manager of Space Shuttle Liquors, which is adjacent to the Challenger Lounge. "They want the problem worked out, but they want to see it fly," Woods said. The identifications with NASA are everywhere. Walk into the chambers of commerce and county government offices, and you'll see models of the shuttle on executives' desks and photos of launches on the walls. Drive down U.S. 1, the main drag here, and you'll see tourist traps hawking space shuttle T-shirts. A few restaurants still sport signs out front saluting the seven astronauts killed aboard the Challenger. Jim Niehoff, owner of the Golden Corral restaurant in Titusville, started a campaign called "Reach for a Star" to raise money to build a new shuttle orbiter. "We needed to do something to be helpful," said his wife, Dottie. So far, $2,000 has been collected. At Gateway Center, a 10,000-acre industrial park just outside the space center, the streets are named after Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire in 1967. Many of the park's more than 30 occupants have ties to the shuttle program. Astrotech, located on Chaffee Drive, services and warehouses commercial satellites scheduled to be launched into space on shuttle flights. Because of the explosion, "we have to go into hibernation, a caretaker status," said vice president Zweigbaum. Astrotech, which set up shop here in January 1985, is laying off four of its 10 employees, with the others getting reduced work weeks, Zweigbaum said. It has been reported that military payloads will get top priority once the program resumes; that would put a commercial operation like Astrotech even further behind. Zweigbaum said he doesn't expect any business before 1988. Compounding his difficulties is an acceleration in the European space program, which is sending up commercial satellites on unmanned rockets. Nonetheless, Zweigbaum said Astrotech isn't pulling up stakes. The large shuttle contractors suffered the brunt of the layoffs. Boeing Aerospace, which manufactures fuel rockets, laid off 200 of its 500 workers here. (16) === Page 16 of 31 15 # SPACE COAST GROUNDED UFDC vs Space Works Trib 3/30/86 JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER TITUSVILLE ORANGE Cocoa Merritt Island Cocoa Beach OSCEOLA Melbourne BREVARD ### The economic reverberations from the shuttle explosion are being felt along the Space Coast. By DALE KASLER Tribune Business Writer TITUSVILLE -- It was a pastoral scene reminiscent of the days before rockets and astronauts ruled the so-called Space Coast: Just off U.S. 1, not far from the launchpads at Cape Canaveral, a man named Jeff Davis was riding his horse. "All up and down here, it used to be woods," he said, a little sadly. "Not any more." It isn't easy being a cowboy on the twin frontiers of high technology and big business. But these days, it's the scientists and developers who are circling the wagons. While Davis mourns the passing of a bygone era, others here worry that they're headed back to hard times. Since the space shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff Jan. 28, Brevard County's space-age economy has been under siege. As salvage crews scour the ocean floor for clues to the disaster, the business community is bucking a wave of layoffs and other cutbacks, the likes of which haven't been seen around these parts since the Apollo moon program was mothballed. Barely a month after the shuttle accident, NASA announced the layoff of 1,100 of the 16,000 workers at Kennedy Space Center. About 450 of the layoffs were attributed directly to the 12- to 18-month hiatus in shuttle launches prompted by the tragedy. The space center employs more than 10 percent of the county's work force. Altogether, about one third of the county's working population is employed directly or indirectly by NASA. The space center pumps $450 million in payroll alone into Brevard See SPACE, Page 3E ### INSIDE - [x] Hundreds of workers laid off -- 2E - [x] Contractors can survive until liftoff -- 2E - [x] Honeywell preparing for future flights -- 2E === Page 17 of 31 14 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST 3/5/86 # Shuttle analyst 'ordered to lie' Washington: A former US space agency budget analyst says his superiors pressured him to lie about the follow-up to safety issues he raised about the space shuttle, according to a published report. "I felt I was under official orders to deny publicly the validity of my earlier July 23 memorandum, a denial which of course I could not and did not make," Mr Richard Cook wrote in an opinion-page article in Sunday's editions of the Washington Post. Six months before the January 28 explosion that killed the seven-member crew of shuttle Challenger, Mr Cook wrote a memo "summarising my concerns about the safety of the solid rocket booster used in the space shuttle." As the post-accident probe was getting under way and news media inquiries mounted, "I was told to say that after I filed my report, the problem was discussed in the comptroller's office, inquiries were made to the programme office, and work was under way that satisfied us that the safety issue was being dealt with," he wrote in the newspaper. Mr Jim McCulla, a spokesman at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington, said on Saturday he found Mr Cook's comments about being told what to say incredible. "I've never heard any of that. I can't imagine that," Mr McCulla said. "NASA has always had since its inception a rule that says that any member of the press can go to anybody (in NASA) and talk to them." Mr Cook, who now works for the Treasury Department, wrote his memo after investigating the possible budgetary impact of the o-ring seal problem. The investigation of the Challenger explosion has highlighted possible failure of the o-rings, which are designed to prevent leaks in the shuttle's rocket boosters. In his article, Mr Cook wrote that NASA "understood completely the implications of a possible o-ring failure. It's just that it was viewed as no problem." After the accident, "There were many hushed conversations as more information came in to support the solid rocket booster failure hypothesis. There was concern about who might be blamed," Mr Cook wrote. He said if NASA had listened to "a small number of individuals . . . who feared that the booster seals were unreliable in cold weather . . . the Challenger and its astronauts might still be with us today." --AP. # NASA's wasted millions Miami: The US space agency has wasted millions of dollars on space shuttle contracts because of excessive mark-ups on parts, freeloading contractors and loafing work crews, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Audit records show the space agency routinely paid US$30 (about HK$234) for pins that should cost three cents, paid US$159,000 (about HK$1.2 million) for a US$5,000 (about HK$39,000) cooling fan and paid US$256 (about HK$1,996) to fly a contractor's dogs coast-to-coast, the Miami Herald reported. Up to one-third of NASA's budget, which was more than US$8.3 billion (about HK$64 billion) last year, is wasted, estimated Mr George Spanton, a former Defence Contract Audit Agency supervisor of contractor filings at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. The charges, backed by dozens of NASA and DCAA audit reports obtained by the Herald from the Government, follow recent disclosures by NASA that it had cut back on its safety staff, slashed shuttle reliability programmes and abandoned back-up safety features because of lack of funds. Officials for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, stung by recent criticism from the presidential commission investigating the January 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, denied NASA was wasting taxpayers' dollars. "Over the years, we've proved that we've done a very efficient job," said Mr Richard Bankowski, NASA's director of procurement policy. Mr Bankowski told the Herald he "wouldn't even attempt" to estimate the extent of waste at NASA, saying, "I don't have any feel for what the problem is." NASA spokesman Mr Dave Garrett in Washington declined to comment on the Herald article without first seeing the audit reports obtained by the newspaper. --AP. Twin-Engine Jet Crashes In Texas; All 7 Passengers Are Dead REDWATER, Texas (AP) -- A twin-engine turboprop jet crashed in a severe thunderstorm, killing all seven people aboard, most of them aerospace engineers with the Singer Co., authorities said. The Westwind 24 Aero Commander crashed and exploded in a fireball about 7:20 p.m. Friday in a field near a trailer park, gouging a 12-foot-deep hole in the red clay and scattering debris for more than 100 yards, said Bowie County Sheriff Thomas Hodge. The plane took off from Redbird Airport in Dallas at 6:55 p.m. for Teterboro, N.J. === Page 18 of 31 United States The Astronauts Bail Out A stern memo depicts NASA's long-standing safety problems As concern mounted over NASA's handling of the doomed space shuttle Challenger, the space agency's astronaut corps had stayed stoically tight-lipped. When beleaguered NASA officials trotted out four shuttle veterans for a press conference last week, the astronauts expressed concern about the agency's conduct, but not condemnation. In particular, they reserved judgment on reports that NASA had failed to heed warnings that the weather on Jan. 28 was too cold to launch, leading to Challenger's destruction and the deaths of its seven crew members. "I'm not sitting here angry," said Astronaut Vance Brand. "If there was a mistake, that doesn't bring down the whole system." But by week's end that solid front was cracking, and the astronauts were firing off criticism as damning to NASA's reputation as any yet heard. Astronaut Sally Ride, a member of the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, was the first to speak out publicly. Until the agency solves its safety problems, "I'm not ready to fly again," said Ride. "I think that there are very few astronauts who are ready." A more pointed reproach was made public Saturday, when the Houston Post printed a memo sent to space-program officials by Chief Astronaut John Young on March 4, citing safety compromises on shuttle flights dating back to October 1984. The list, said Young, "proves to me that there are some very lucky people around here." Safety had to become a top priority, Young wrote, or NASA "will not survive and neither will our three space shuttles or their flight crews." In a separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source. NASA, meanwhile, continued to defend itself in the commission's public hearings at Cape Canaveral. NASA technicians speculated on a variety of reasons--other than the cold weather--why a joint in Challenger's right solid-fuel booster began leaking, spewing superhot gases and probably triggering the catastrophe. The commission seemed unimpressed. Chairman William Rogers urged NASA to include independent experts in making its evaluations. Otherwise, he protested, "The people running the tests, if successful, can prove that they were right all along." To rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt." --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral tice has been that investigators first "understand technically why a failure occurred and then subsequently follow up with the rationale and management actions and other factors leading up to it." He added that his "biggest problem ... is not the findings and comments of the commission itself, but the partial reporting of those throughout the media." Engineers and astronauts express irritation and concern about poor communication between NASA centers. Marshall engineers have been under scrutiny since the commission zeroed in on a solid rocket engine failure as a key factor in the Challenger explosion. The rocket engines were managed by the Marshall center. Some Johnson officials, who asked not to be named, said it has become very difficult to work with the Marshall Center. At one point, Johnson engineers had to do thermal calculations on the solid rocket boosters because, as one engineer said, "We couldn't get the data from Marshall." NASA's leaders say they are trying to heal the rifts. Physicist James Fletcher: a reluctant savior for a beleaguered space agency Returning with an unblemished record--and a gripe against the investigators. TIME, MARCH 17, 1986 === Page 19 of 31 12 ORBITAL EXPLOITS AT A STANDSTILL Indefinite delay of shuttle launches has halted a variety of major projects and is forcing space customers to seek alternatives. Science missions--including probes of Jupiter and the sun's atmosphere--are in doubt for two years. Military intelligence satellites and Star Wars research are being diverted to expendable rockets. Also stymied: A host of commercial ventures, including orbital communications links and space factories. Grounded: Rescue-and-repair missions Postponed: Satellite launches individuals willing to apply enormous pressures on subordinates. "Where was common sense during all these deliberations?" asked commission member Joseph Sutter, a Boeing executive. "Why didn't someone react to these obvious warnings that the launch was in jeopardy?" The intense scrutiny of NASA's management came at a time when the agency was at its most vulnerable point in years. Administrator James Beggs, who resigned February 26, was under criminal indictment for actions unrelated to his work at NASA. Beggs had been a strong proponent of the shuttle program and had long experience in aerospace ventures. Acting Administrator William Graham, who has been on the job less than two months, probably will be replaced soon by a new permanent agency chief. Problems at the top already are filtering down through NASA's demoralized employee roster. Says a contract engineer at Johnson Space Center: "A lot of old-timers say Challenger was the inevitable result of taking too many shortcuts and getting too many mixed signals about priorities. A lot of us aren't going to wait around for the next disaster." A study of NASA management by the National Academy of Public Administration released last October also predicts a "mass exodus of senior executives in the next several years and a gap in high-potential midlevel replacements." Pressures on NASA are expected to build as Congress monitors the probe ROUGH SKETCHES UFOs vs Space Work Trib 3/21/86 NASA HELL NO, I WON'T GO! UFOs vs Space Work Steelworker Killed In Canaveral Fall CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A steelworker who plunged 90 feet to his death while working here was identified as Joseph L. Tyre of Apopka, NASA announced. Tyre died Monday when he fell while helping install an overhead crane near the roof of a building under construction in the industrial area of the Kennedy Space Center, officials said Tuesday. O.S.B 3/26/86 === Page 20 of 31 -A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES, Sunday, March 23, 1986 11 # NASA family ## Investigation leaves wounds that must be healed By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston -- The investigation into the explosion of Challenger has caused splintering and mistrust within NASA, and top officials say these wounds must be healed before the space agency can return to the close teamwork that was key to its past success. Rifts have developed within what some call "the NASA family" as investigators publicly track the cause of the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed space shuttle Challenger and killed its seven crew members. The estrangement centered on recent memos in which chief astronaut John Young accused NASA management of letting launch schedule pressures compromise crew safety. The documents were taken from departmental files and published in newspapers nationwide. Engineering managers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston said they are hurt and puzzled by the memos and feel estranged from astronauts who have been colleagues for decades. Some astronauts are dismayed because they believe the memos are being misinterpreted, leaving the impression that "the astronauts have the wagons circled" against NASA "bad guys," one said. Some in NASA management feel a presidential commission investigating the Challenger accident has needlessly damaged reputations while on what NASA administrator designate James Fletcher has called "a witch hunt." Communications between the NASA elements has broken down, some officials say. Managers at Johnson report problems in getting data for the investigation from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Astronauts at Johnson claim they never were informed of problems in rocket engines developed at Marshall. And, invariably, the NASA managers at Johnson, Marshall and Kennedy Space Center in Florida blame the media for many communication problems. Some have flatly refused to talk to reporters since the Challenger accident. In his statement to reporters at KSC, Smith said he did not intend to "make a frontal attack on the integrity or capability" of the panel but that he did not agree with "its initial approach and the first series of hearings" on the accident. Smith said the commission should have first learned "technically why a failure occurred" before making statements about NASA officials. Young has declined interviews, but his deputy, astronaut Paul Weitz, said Young is distressed that his memos have been published and is worried they will damage astronaut office communications with NASA management. "The underlying theme of many of the articles in the press about John's memos is that the astronauts have the wagons circled and they're fighting off the rest of the bad guys in NASA," said Weitz. "The last thing we need or want is a polarization." Weitz said Young wrote the memos to emphasize astronaut concerns over engineering problems that had been thoroughly discussed in committees, only to have management rule against the astronaut position. "I'm sure in any organization there are policy decisions made with which you don't agree and some of them you are willing to accept and some of them you think you can live with but I still think you are wrong and I'm going to continue to make my case," said Weitz. "I know that is the spirit in which John wrote those things." He cited concerns that NASA management could be alienated by opening the newspaper "at breakfast and here's an article that infers that the astronauts don't trust a damn thing that NASA does. "The normal human reaction is 'Who do they think these guys are talking to? Who do they think got them to where they are?'" Kennedy Space Center Director Richard Smith found himself recently trying to explain what he meant when he aired some frustrated opinions in an interview published in the Washington Post. He had accused the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster of running "a great risk of needlessly damaging the reputation of people, companies and the agency." Eugene F. Kranz, director of mission operations, said managers are puzzled about the Young memos. He said all of the issues Young raised had been discussed in open forums and that "an effective use of the system" could have resulted in changes without such strong views being expressed in public. "I can't speculate on the purpose of the memos," said Kranz. Jesse Moore, the new director of Johnson Space Center, said in an interview he was unaware of the Young memos until they were published in the paper. "I thought that they (astronauts) had a role in the decision-making process ... but apparently there is some feeling that they have not," Moore said. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., announced recently that he intends to hold congressional hearings on the issues raised by Young. In the Washington Post interview, Smith had blamed the press for pressure NASA felt to maintain a launch schedule. "Every time there was a delay," Smith said, "the press would say, 'Look there's another delay ... here's a bunch of idiots who can't even handle a launch schedule.' "You think that doesn't have an impact? If you think it doesn't, you're stupid," he added. Citing "long-term damage that cannot be repaired," he said many NASA officials are considering resigning because they are "fed up" with the battering the agency is taking. Later, said the Post, Smith asked that comments not be published, noting, "I may get fired for this interview." In his recent statement, Smith did not deny making the remarks. But he toned down his criticism of the commission. He said past prac- === Page 21 of 31 10 1/2 UFOs vs Space work # Investigator: Rocket joint caused shuttle explosion tie 4/9/86 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- A top NASA investigator said Tuesday that a faulty rocket joint definitely caused the explosion of Challenger, and that engineers failed to take notice when design flaws "winked at us" on earlier flights. "We missed it in this joint," said J.R. Thompson, vice chairman of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigation task force. "We missed it in the design, and I think some of the prior flight anomalies were not taken seriously." Thompson told a news conference that he was positive the explosion was caused by a failure in the joint between two segments of the right solid fuel booster rocket. "Clearly the failure was in that joint," Thompson said. "Clearly that joint has to be redesigned. "NASA has taken a lot of bows for its flights in the past, but this time it fumbled it," he said. The presidential commission investigating the disaster has said for weeks that the joint was the leading suspect, and other possible causes have been systematically eliminated. However, Thompson's statements appeared to be the most emphatic yet on the subject. Thompson is deputy director for technical operations at the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University. Before that he worked 21 years with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., where he managed development of the space shuttle's main engines. Thompson said the task force investigation is focusing on possibly defective O-rings designed to stop hot gases from escaping through the joint; on the effect of the rotation of the joint when subjected to ignition pressures; on characteristics of the putty intended to put pressure on the rings; a possible joint alignment problem; and the effect the freezing temperatures on launch day might have had on the rings or the putty. "It may be a combination of some of these factors," he said. Launch day photographs show a puff of black smoke spurting from the joint just after ignition and a plume of flame shooting from the area 58 seconds later. Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, killing the crew of five men and two women. Thompson said the smoke indicated the joint had degraded on ignition and "opened up when it got a bumpy ride 50 to 60 seconds later." The bumpy ride referred to the period when the shuttle passed through an area where it was buffeted by maximum outside pressures such as a combination of speed and wind. === Page 22 of 31 10 # Film of doomed shuttle THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, March 22, 1986 # pinpoints leak as cause Tribune Wires WASHINGTON -- NASA experts ran a riveting movie Friday for the Challenger investigating commission showing, in dramatic frames a few thousandths of a second apart, the flame from a booster rocket leak triggering the explosion that cost seven lives. One NASA official said "busy winds" buffeting the shuttle high over Florida may have helped cause the flame leak, by reopening a booster rocket seal that apparently was damaged on launch but had since closed. The experts said the flame forged a 45-square-inch hole in the booster rocket. "We've looked at the heating that would result from that type of flame coming out," said Wayne Littles, after the 14.5-minute, computer-enhanced film showed flame from the booster shooting for about seven seconds toward a tank containing volatile liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel. "There's more than sufficient heat during that time to burn a hole through the tank," said Littles, associate director for engineering at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "You could burn a hole in that tank in a couple of seconds." Challenger exploded during the 73rd second of its flight after launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28. The films and still pictures shown to the presidential commission came from 14 cameras routinely trained at the shuttle from liftoff until it nears orbit. Littles and other experts from Huntsville provided the commission a new, more detailed timeline of events from ignition to explosion. Like all of the witnesses Friday, Littles testified that tests and analysis during the last two weeks had ruled out all potential causes other than a failed seam in the aft portion of the right solid booster rocket. "I believe we have eliminated all the other possibilities," he said, adding that the remaining theories "all deal with the joint." A commission source said the panel intends to recommend the joint be redesigned, even if the exact way in which it failed cannot be pinpointed. NASA officials have said the shuttle will not fly again until joint problems are remedied. After a review of the three-year history of problems with the joint, commission chairman William P. Rogers noted, "Some of the people who made the decision to launch (Challenger) said they were not familiar with the problem." Littles responded: "I do know those problems have been reviewed in flight-readiness reviews" attended by launch decision-makers. "I can't imagine it was not known." Dan Germany, head of NASA's accident photo analysis team, said in answer to a question by commission member Albert Wheelon that cold weather on launch morning caused the failure of 11 other cameras. Among the failed cameras were two that Germany conceded "would have provided an excellent view of the area in question." The temperature overnight on launch day was 24 degrees, and cold is suspected of having somehow caused the booster rocket seam to fail. Marshall engineer Harold Scofield testified the shuttle encountered "a busy wind" that shook it unusually hard. "We don't think this would open a gap in a healthy solid rocket motor seal," Scofield said. With the cause narrowed to the right booster rocket's lower seam, Littles said the remaining theories for that failure include: * Damage to the joint when the rocket was assembled; * A manufacturing defect in a secondary O-ring used to seal the joint; * Ice in the joint that may have forced the O-ring seals open; * Cold weather that might have robbed the O-rings of the resiliency needed to seal; === Page 23 of 31 UFOs vs Space Work 9 # Wind shear cited in shuttle disaster Trib 3/28/86 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The space shuttle Challenger rocketed through a 70-mph drop in wind speed shortly after liftoff, which may have contributed to its explosion, a wind radar expert said Thursday. William P. Birkemeier, who teaches engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he deduced the wind speeds by studying atmospheric data for Jan. 28, the day of the ill-fated flight. The craft's entry and exit from a wind-shear zone 60 seconds into the flight resulted in a 70 mph change in wind velocity, which may have put too much pressure on the shuttle booster and caused the explosion, he said. Wind shear is a sudden change in wind speed or direction. Birkemeier said the leak in Challenger's right solid-fuel rocket booster corresponded with its entry into the wind shear, in which 84-mph winds put 400,000 pounds of pressure on the shuttle. Four-tenths of a second later, the shuttle broke through the shear into calm air and 14-mph winds. "It would appear that the booster leak was caused by the sudden deceleration of the rocket as it flew through the shear zone," Birkemeier said. In a letter to Richard Feynman, a member of a presidential commission investigating the explosion that killed seven astronauts, Birkemeier noted: "Sixty seconds, of course, is close to the point of maximum aerodynamic stress and coincides closely with the instant the right booster failed." Birkemeier said he began forwarding his suspicions about the accident to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration soon after the accident. On Friday, a NASA official told the presidential commission that "busy winds" buffeting the shuttle high over Florida may have helped cause the flame leak by opening a booster-rocket seal. Birkemeier said he was told by an official at Rockwell International, which helped design the shuttle, that Challenger had veered 8 degrees north of its programmed flight path at the precise time it would have entered the shear zone. "This was to compensate for the 84 mph wind," he said. He also said he learned that the shuttle shifted back 3 degrees to regain its path as it broke out of the shear. This steering action would have placed an additional 200,000 pounds of outward force on the bottom section of the booster where it attaches to the main fuel tank. "This would have tended to buckle the booster at the attach point," Birkemeier said. In his letter to Feynman, Birkemeier said he wondered "whether it would have come loose when it did if this 200,000 pounds of steering force hadn't been applied at that point. In which case, the shear is responsible for the accident," not the booster design. Birkemeir mailed the letter to Feynman this week and hadn't received a response as of Thursday. Strange that "wind shear" had never before struck a space shuttle before my Nov. warning to Jeffrey!! === Page 24 of 31 8 U.S.NEWS An agency that brought America the wonder of a moon landing and the thrill of exploring the heavens now faces intense scrutiny from critics. No one expects an end to U.S. ventures in outer space, but serious delays lie ahead On hold: $1.3 billion space telescope In question: Star Wars defense shield # NASA falls from grace UFOs vs. Space Work America's space program, stunned by revelations that its chain of command was fatally flawed, now faces a rebuilding effort that will postpone military, commercial and scientific projects, perhaps for years. Seldom has a U.S. agency fallen so quickly from shining star to scapegoat. Despite its admirable safety record and a quarter-century of towering achievement, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is suddenly defending itself against allegations from Congress, from a presidential investigating commission and even from its own contractors. Above all, critics are asking if NASA's vaunted "can do" spirit may have unwittingly triggered the January 28 Challenger catastrophe that killed seven astronauts and brought manned U.S. space ventures to a halt. "NASA was the outfit that could do no wrong," said a source close to the shuttle-investigation commission. "Now, it looks as if somebody got overconfident and twisted arms to get that launch off even though the red warning flags were flying." Although official findings won't be announced by the White House commission until May, this much appears certain: * Shuttle flights, which NASA had hoped to resume by mid-1986, will be grounded for as long as two years. The reason: Extensive overhauls and retooling of rockets and fuel systems. * Congress will insist on improvements in NASA management and internal communications. But lawmakers are still expected to approve the nearly $3 billion it will take to build a replacement orbiter for Challenger. * Sending mission specialists into space will remain a priority, although plans will be scaled back to exclude cargo that can be placed in orbit by unoccupied, expendable rockets. If for no other reason, astronaut-piloted U.S. flights will continue because the Soviet Union is intent on pursuing its goal of a human presence in space. * Business interest in space development remains high, though fledgling entrepreneurial start-ups in space are on hold. Revenues from commercial space ventures were projected as high as $50 billion by the year 2000. Moreover, few projects will shift immediately to the European space effort, in part because Europe's Ariane rocket is booked nearly solid for the next two years. * Military payloads scheduled to go aloft on the shuttle will be transferred to Titan rockets without crews when possible. But once the shuttle missions resume, crucial military cargo may bump commercial items lower on the flight manifest. Until the shuttle is again ready to fly, Air Force Under Secretary Edward Aldridge says, inability to carry military equipment to orbit constitutes "a national emergency." Launch went ahead despite ice on the launching pad Although a February 20-25 Los Angeles Times poll shows that 3 out of 4 people support the shuttle program, the agency has come under increasing fire that will surely spur a major revamping of its management procedures. In public hearings, the presidential commission on the shuttle disaster grilled officials involved in launch preparations with questions that seemed prosecutorial in tone. William Rogers, the former Secretary of State who chairs the commission, warned in his opening statement that the accident "may involve human error, as distinguished from equipment failure." After days of testimony, in which shuttle engineers told how they had argued that Challenger should not be launched in extremely cold weather, Rogers remained unsatisfied. "You will remember that I did say at one point that we thought the decision-making process may be flawed," he told four senior NASA officials. "I think I'm speaking for the whole commission when I say we think it is flawed." Despite strong denials, there is continuing suspicion that high-level NASA officials were informed of the potential danger before the launch. "The issue was so controversial I thought people were aware" of it, said Allan McDonald, engineering chief at Kennedy Space Center for Morton Thiokol, manufacturer of the solid-rocket-booster motors. "I have a hard time believing they didn't." Another vigorously denied report: That the White House pressured NASA to get the Challenger up on time so the President could place a call to the crew during his state-of-the-union message. Presidential press spokesman Larry Speakes called the story "the most vicious and distorted rumor I have ever heard." Whatever the conclusions eventually reached by the commission, the hearings reveal a decision-making process at NASA's highest levels that showed 20 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 10, 1986 === Page 25 of 31 7 # NASA astronauts threaten to quit Hong Kong Post 3/16/86 ## Confidence lost over Challenger UFOs vs space work Houston: Several NASA astronauts are considering resigning because of the halt in the shuttle programme while the January 28 Challenger explosion where seven crew died is investigated, sources close to the US space agency said. Some astronauts are disappointed, have lost confidence, and are angered by the death of the seven crew. Some even blame National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers for the disaster which they feel should have been avoided, said Paul Weitz, a senior astronaut official. "A lot of people say: 'I don't trust those bastards any more'," he said. Veteran astronaut Don Lind resigned this week to work at Utah State University, but NASA said that his decision was made before Challenger exploded. Some are thought to be considering leaving because they think the suspension could last two years, reducing their chances of flying. One of the biggest losses among the 95 astronauts could be military pilots who have the greatest experience of flying. Many have been with NASA longer than their five-year contracts, but the Defence Department is considering changing its policy so that military pilots keep strictly to their contracts. "I think it potentially is a problem," said Mr Weitz, who is a pilot himself. "There will be a loss of continuity in the corporate knowledge among our pilots." A top US space agency official said on Friday NASA plans to resume shuttle flights after a 12-month pause. Other NASA officials have said it may take as long as 18 months to two years before the shuttle flies again. Dr Raymond Colladay, chairman of a shuttle replanning task force, said his group was working with other US Government agencies on a recommendation to President Ronald Reagan on what needs to be done "to restore launch capability." However, a member of the Presidential Commission investigating the January 28 explosion that destroyed the Challenger said NASA will have to redesign a space shuttle booster joint, suspected as the cause of the accident, before it launches another shuttle. "There's no doubt whatsoever the design of that joint is hopeless," commission member Richard Feynman told the Huntsville Times on Thursday. Mr Feynman, a Nobel physicist from the California Institute of Technology, visited the Marshall Space Flight Centre with three other commission members. Stormy seas on Friday interrupted the search for vital Challenger wreckage, including more human remains, but sources reported the recovery of the space shuttle's flight recorders and some of its computers. The instruments may tell investigators about the moments before and after the explosion that destroyed the spaceship and killed its seven crew members. Dr Colladay, associate administrator of space technology at NASA's Washington headquarters, said the replanning task force was working with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defence and other agencies. Once the shuttle starts to fly again, Dr Colladay said: "We adopted a build-up rate of nine flights in the first year, 14 in the second, to a level of 18 flights per year with a three-orbiter fleet." He emphasised the 12-month moratorium was for "purposes of budget planning" with a view towards setting shuttle manifest priorities for military, planetary, science and commercial payloads. In a televised talk to NASA employees, Dr Colladay said agency officials intend to conduct a series of similar communications so that employees would not have to rely on the media for news about the agency. "Yes, the accident did stun us, that's to be expected, but it wasn't a mortal wound," Dr Colladay said. At the Kennedy Space Centre, sources requesting anonymity said some of the crew compartment wreckage recovered over the past few days included pieces of the astronauts' seats, a treadmill used by the crew for exercising in space and two space suits carried along for possible use in space walks. The items were brought in late Wednesday along with some human remains by the Navy salvage ship Preserver, the sources said. Weather conditions in the Atlantic Ocean recovery area were so poor on Friday that they "pretty much obliterated any chance" for diving or photography of underwater debris of the crew cabin and rocket boosters, said NASA spokeswoman Andrea Shea. In Washington, presidential investigators received consideration from new film studies shown privately on Friday that safety seals on the Challenger's right booster rocket caused the shuttle to explode in flight, a source said. The source, who is close to the probe but asked not to be identified by name, said the enhanced film the commission saw first time this week "for the first time provided a considerable confirmation of our view on the dent and timeline of the fire" that caused the explosion. The source added the panel is still trying to determine what caused the failure of the seam designed to contain hot gases inside the solid fuel booster rocket. Leading theories are that cold weather reduced the effectiveness of rubber-like O-ring seals, or that the seals were harmed by the normal motion of the rocket, or were defective on manufacture, the source said. The commission met as the chairman of the Senate sub-committee that oversees NASA said that Congress probably will approve a replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger unless the space agency is forced to accept across-the-board budget cuts in accordance with a new US law. In that case, "there certainly wouldn't be a replacement orbiter," and NASA will have to make do with the three shuttles left in the fleet, said Senator Slade Gorton, who chairs the Senate Space Sub-committee. The panel also announced it would hold its next public hearing on Friday after two weeks of information-gathering around the country. -AFP and AP. === Page 26 of 31 6 (Could there be a connection between my UFOs sending me to Peru recently + oncoming "El Nino" phenomena? Owens) # El Nino * **From Page 1AA** During El Nino, the plankton-rich cold water is displaced by relatively sterile warm water in the fishing grounds off the South American coast. Anchovy, which feed on plankton and are a mainstay of the Peruvian economy, then migrate to other feeding grounds, leaving the sea birds that produce guano deposits (used for fertilizer) to starve. The name El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, was coined by Peruvian fishermen because the phenomenon usually occurs around Christmas. The key new idea, according to Cane, is that "at the peak of an El Nino, water moves not only from west to east, but also poleward, emptying the reservoir of warm water at the equator." When there is no longer enough warm water to sustain the above-normal surface temperatures, the El Nino begins to break down. By the time the El Nino is over, the eastern Pacific is colder than normal. A new El Nino cannot begin until warm water flows back from the higher latitudes. A similar hypothesis about the poleward flow has been developed independently by Klaus Wyrtki, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, Cane and Zebiak said. They said they tested the theory with a computer model that simulated the physical processes that occur in the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. The model makes predictions by solving a complex series of mathematical equations that describe the motion of the ocean and the atmosphere over a given period. The scientists made retrospective, one-year forecasts for 12 of the past 15 years. Nine forecasts were correct, they said, and the others were inconclusive. They said that forecasts prepared in six successive months from August through January all predicted an El Nino effect this year. The forecast model predicted that surface temperatures in the forecast region, an area of the Pacific along the equator that reaches from the South American coast to a north-south line that passes just east of Hawaii, would peak at about 1.9 degrees C. above normal. "This is the most typical-looking thing we've ever forecast," Cane said. "It would be unprecedented for it to turn around and abort." The forecasts were made using surface-level wind reports from ships, he said. Cane and Zebiak said their model is the first computer model designed to forecast El Nino that relies on physical interactions. Other prediction methods rely on statistical models that correlate current observations with previous El Nino events. Barry Raleigh, director of the Peru already have been notified of the prediction. Eugene Rasmusson, chief of the diagnostic branch of the Climate Analysis Center in Camp Springs, Md., a branch of the National Weather Service, called the computer model "extremely interesting," but said it would have to withstand scrutiny from other scientists attempting to develop techniques to predict El Nino events. Rasmusson also said that rising Pacific Ocean temperatures about 100 miles off the South American coast and changes in air pressure over the Pacific may, indeed, be signaling development of an El Nino. "It's still pretty early to see how this thing shapes up," he said. "We haven't seen the classical El Nino warming on the coast yet." He said meteorologists would watch the area for another "two to four months." Michael Hall, director of the U.S. office of the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere project (TOGA), which provided a grant for the forecast project, called the computer model "remarkable for what it's done so far," but he noted that it cannot predict the worldwide effects of an El Nino. Hall said that more information about the possible El Nino is expected to be gathered in coming months by scientists from about a dozen nations involved in TOGA, a 10-year project begun in 1985 to ![Photograph of people sifting through debris] Reuters photo ### After the quake **W. Da Sun Attack** **Trib 4/7/86** Residents of Cuzco, Peru, sift through debris for belongings Sunday, following an earthquake that killed at least seven people, left 600 families homeless and damaged Inca ruins and five churches in the Andean region. === Page 27 of 31 5 # Computer predicts El Nino The cause of El Nino, a reverse trade-winds phenomenon, is unknown, but it soon be pinned down. By PHIL MINTZ Newsday In June 1982, weather observers watching the western Pacific Ocean noticed an ominous sign. The easterly blowing trade winds had reversed and were blowing from the west. There were drought conditions in Australia, and an area of heavy rainfall usually located near Indonesia had drifted to the east. It was the first sure indication that the reverse trade-winds phenomenon called El Nino that wreaks havoc on worldwide weather had begun. By November, its characteristic warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean off South America would begin. Over the next several months, areas of Peru and Ecuador would be lashed by heavy rains, a gargantuan forest fire would rage through a drought-stricken rain forest in Borneo, and massive storms would slam into the coast of California. By the time it was all over, El Nino would be blamed for as many as 2,000 deaths and about $8 billion in damages. Although El Ninos have been observed for centuries, and occur at intervals of two to 10 years, scientists are still trying to understand what causes them. Now, two Columbia University scientists say they have found a reliable way of predicting El Nino up to a year in advance, and they are forecasting its return later this year. The scientists, Mark A. Cane and Stephen E. Zebiak, made their prediction recently, using a new computer model developed at the university's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. The computer model incorporates a new hypothesis of how one El Nino ends and another one begins, the scientists said. "We're confident that El Nino is coming," said Cane, a senior research scientist at the observatory, who predicted the event would peak late this year, in October and November, and disappear in early 1987. The severity and duration of the predicted El Nino is less certain, but Cane said it would be "moderate." He said it would be less severe than the 1982-83 El Nino, which was considered the worst in a century. According to Cane and Zebiak, El Nino develops when the normal interaction between the ocean and atmosphere near the equator is disrupted. Normally, the Pacific Ocean is warmest in the west and coldest in the east, with a large area receiving tropical rainfall in the far western Pacific. This temperature differential is maintained by strong easterly trade winds that drive warm surface waters to the west, at the same time drawing up colder subsurface waters at the east. In the complex web of events that marks El Nino, however, the eastern Pacific Ocean begins to warm and the surface winds begin to slacken, part of an atmospheric event known as the Southern Oscillation. Warm water from the west begins to migrate east, and less cold water is drawn up. The tropical rainfall spreads eastward, along with the warm water. See EL NINO, Page 8AA AROUND THE # Nation ## Southern California Shakes Again, Rocked By 3rd Quake In 17 Hours BOMBAY BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A mild earthquake shook Southern California on Saturday, the region's third temblor in 17 hours, but a geologist said the timing was coincidental and no damage was reported. The third quake, at 9:21 a.m., was the strongest, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, said Robert Finn, spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Its epicenter was Bombay Beach on Salton Sea, a brackish lake 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. "It sure shook this building," said Bobbie Todhunter, assistant manager of the Bombay Marina. "It was a boom, and then everything shook." The Salton Sea quake followed a 3.8 shaker in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, late Friday, which was preceded by 3.1 temblor in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. === Page 28 of 31 School System Praised To The Editor: This is a true story. My family arrived here and took a home about two years ago. School Supt. Archibald and his assistants went to great pains to help my two children get into the Ocala schools. One son, Jerome, who is now seven, had a severe speech handicap and had only a vocabulary of perhaps a dozen words. My son, Teddy, now 14, was hopelessly behind his class level because of my former travels. First, Jerome attended Oakcrest School where he was tremendously helped by three dedicated women who extended his vocabulary. This year, through the kindness of Supt. Archibald, he was transferred to Wyomina School and assigned to Mrs. Stewart who could give him more time and personal attention and who has done wonders with him. Now he can actually put sentences together and I would estimate his vocabulary at roughly 100 words. My other son, Teddy, in Fort King Middle School, was taken over by Mrs. Sorrells who, through some magic of spirit, has managed for him to "hang in there" and improve himself tremendously. She utilized a strange mixture of affection for Teddy, belief in Teddy and other techniques. The nice lady principal, Elaine Laine, and her regular teachers have cooperated in a team effort. The reason for my writing to the Ocala Star-Banner is, I wonder if the local citizens know what a gem of an educational system you have here for the children and how extraordinarily it is carried out and "ramrodded" by people like Skip Archibald and Mrs. Sorrells. Ted Owens OCALA STAR BANNER 3/14/86(?) AROUND THE # Nation UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B 3/13/86 ## String Of Minor Earthquakes Rattle Windows In Georgia ATLANTA (AP) -- A string of earthquakes that rattled windows and toppled dishes from shelves in central Georgia may be the main event of a month-long string of minor tremors or a preliminary to something bigger, seismologists say. "This could be a buildup. We've had 50 events in the last two weeks. With the kind of event we had today, we can expect hundreds of earthquakes or maybe one or two more big ones," Karl Zelt, research assistant in the geophysics department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said Wednesday. "As far as we're concerned, those people down there are going to have a lot of shaking going on." The biggest of Wednesday night's string of quakes measured 2.5 on the Richter scale, big enough to rattle windows and topple dishes, but not enough to cause structural damage. UFOs Sun Attack 0.5B (signed Dr. Michlowe) 3/31/86 ## Earthquake Shakes San Francisco Bay SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Saturday, but there were no reports of any damage or injury. In Sacramento, the state Office of Emergency Services reported the quake struck at 8:25 a.m. PST with an intensity of 4.0 on the Richter scale of ground motion. The temblor was centered in Oakland, the office said. The quake was felt in a wide area around the epicenter, according to phone calls to The Associated Press. "It felt like an incredible crash, like a 500-pound bomb had landed," said William Brand. In a high-rise near downtown San Francisco, the quake felt like a brief rumble through the floor, lasting about a half-second. 4 "geopei projects" UFOs Sun Attack (signed Jeffrey) 0.5B 3/30/86 ## Quake shakes San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO -- A moderate earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay area at 8:24 a.m. Saturday with a jolt that felt like "an incredible crash," but there were no reports of significant damage or injury. The quake, centered four miles east of Berkeley, measured at 4.0 on the Richter scale of ground motion. Earthquakes with the magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage, and quakes measuring 4 can result in moderate damage. Each increase in one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. (This one just a warning Owens) UFOs Sun Attack OCALA * STAR-BANNE 8A # Quake Hits Bay Area For 3rd Day FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area early today, rocking skyscrapers in the region's third temblor in as many days. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale and was centered 10 miles east of Fremont, which is 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, said Willis Jacobs of the U.S. Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. It struck at 3:56 a.m., he said. It was followed by moderate aftershocks measuring 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 on the Richter scale, according to the state Office of Emergency Services. 0.5B 3/31/86 === Page 29 of 31 3 Mt. Des Sun Attack # California Shaken By Big Quake 0.5x5 4/1/86 FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake that shook skyscrapers, rattled shelves and roused thousands of people could have been deadly and is a reminder that the earth's crust in northern California is unsettled, an expert said. "It may be several decades before we have a quake like the one in 1906, but quakes like (Monday's) can do a lot of damage if they hit populated areas," said Robert E. Wallace, chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Earthquake Studies. Five people suffered minor injuries and no major damage was reported from Monday's quake, which had an epicenter about 15 miles southeast of Fremont and 65 miles southeast of San Francisco. The great San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906, killed at least 2,000 people and destroyed 28,000 buildings, leaving more than 225,000 people homeless. Monday's quake, which hit at 3:56 a.m., was estimated to measure 5.3 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California Seismographic Station at Berkeley. The state Office of Emergency Services estimated the reading at 5.6, a magnitude that is capable of causing extensive damage. The 1906 quake was before the Richter scale was developed, but has been calculated to have had a force of 8.3. The Richter scale measures the energy released by quakes as measured by ground motion. Each increase by one number indicates a tenfold increase in ground motion. Thus, a quake of 5.0 has 10 times the ground motion of a temblor with a magnitude of 4.0. Drug store manager Craig Troxclair looks over bottles shaken from shelves of Fremont, Calif., store. AP The latest earthquake followed a moderate one Saturday morning that measured 4.0 on the Richter scale and a slight temblor of 2.2 on Sunday night, University of California officials said. San Francisco police dispatcher Irene Voorhees described Monday's quake as "a long, rolling motion" and said the switchboard was jammed with callers. It was felt as far north as Santa Rosa and as far south as San Luis Obispo. === Page 30 of 31 3rd earthquake jolts California Only a few minor injuries were reported from the quake 50 miles southeast of San Francisco. By STEVE WILSTEIN Associated Press FREMONT, Calif. -- Skyscrapers swayed, bottles crashed from store shelves and people and parakeets were shaken from their slumber Monday as a strong earthquake, the third temblor in as many days, hit northern California. Damage was not serious and only a few minor injuries were reported from the quake, which hit at 3:56 a.m. and was estimated to measure 5.3 or 5 on the Richter scale. Scientists put the epicenter about 15 miles southeast of Fremont, some 50 miles southeast of San Francisco. "My birds started screaming just before it happened," said Valerie Wirth, 21, of Hayward. "My little parakeet started it and the parrots joined in. They can sense it happening, just before earthquakes and storms. But my husband slept through it." CALIFORNIA Earthquake epicenter Santa Rosa San Francisco Berkeley Fremont San Jose San Luis Obispo Pacific Ocean NEVADA CALIFORNIA Tribune map by VAUGHN HUGHES John Skeets, manager of the Lucky Food Center in south Fremont, said more than 300 jars and bottles were smashed, 14 ceiling tiles fell and a crack appeared in a concrete wall of the 3-month-old store. "Two guys on the night crew were stocking in the pickle section when all the pickle jars started falling," he said. "They cleared out of there real fast." "This quake is a reminder that the earth's crust around here is very active," said Robert E. Wallace, chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Earthquake Studies. "It may be several decades before we have a quake like the one in 1906, but quakes like today's can do a lot of damage if they hit populated areas," said Wallace. The University of California Seismographic Station at Berkeley estimated Monday's quake at 5.3 on the open-ended Richter scale. The state Office of Emergency Services estimated the Richter reading at 5. By noon, 230 aftershocks had been recorded, the strongest a 3.4 at 5:05 a.m., said Edna King at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park. "We don't find any particular significance to it, no," said Rick McKenzie, staff research associate at Berkeley, when asked if the series of three quakes and swarms of aftershocks were important in forecasting future temblors. After Monday's initial shock, thousands of people were without power for short periods as electric lines snapped. "My wife felt it first," said Greg Madrid, 34, who lives in an apartment in Fremont near where the wires broke. "We have a waterbed and it started rolling. She screamed and I woke up. Then we saw two bright blue flashes and everything went dark." Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said the outages affected about 7,500 people in San Jose and about 1,800 in Fremont. See QUAKE, Page 4A Quake From Page 1A The temblor reportedly was felt as far north as Santa Rosa, as far south as San Luis Obispo, a range of about 350 miles, and as far east as Stockton. It was the strongest quake to hit northern California since Jan. 26, when a temblor of 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted the Hollister area about 120 miles south of San Francisco. Alexian Brothers Hospital in San Jose reported three minor injuries. The victims, who suffered cuts or were hit by objects falling in their homes, were treated and released. Two other people were treated at Washington Hospital in Fremont, including a woman who broke her toe leaping out of bed. The quake smashed hundreds of bottles at newly opened Abe's Liquors in Fremont, and owner Abe Sousa has no earthquake insurance. "I came down at 4:15 a.m. and saw all the bottles broken," Sousa said. "But we didn't have any power, so I went back home." At Syquest Technology, half a dozen wooden structural beams suffered cracks, some as long as 15 feet. But inspectors said the factory, which makes computer disk drives, is in no danger of collapse and could open for business. The building also suffered cracked walls and a minor gas leak. The quake was felt at least as far east as Stockton, about 75 miles east of San Francisco. "It woke me up and sloshed the water in my swimming pool," said Jim Hushaw, managing editor of the Stockton Record. Monday's earthquake followed a moderate one Saturday morning that measured 4.0 on the Richter scale, according to the University of California, and a slight temblor of 2.2 on Sunday night. === Page 31 of 31 New fires burning in Southeast forests Associated Press New fires flared Tuesday across the Southeast, where thousands of acres have been charred in the past week under rainless skies and unseasonable warmth. "Every day it gets a little drier, with the fires burning with a little more intensity. It hasn't taken any spectacular leap, just a slow gradual buildup in a situation that's already pretty bad," said Bruce Jewell, spokesman for the regional office of the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta. Hundreds of fires have broken out in the past week in parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio. Outbreaks of grass and brush fires were reported over the weekend and Monday in parts of Michigan, western Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mississippi. Jewell said, "Everything in the South except Florida has very high fire danger." Since Jan. 1 in the 13 Southern states covered by his office, Jewell said 42,204 fires have burned 563,056 acres of private, state and federal land. The region covers Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Outside the region, West Virginia and Ohio also have been hard-hit. In West Virginia, where more than 25,000 acres have burned this year, the worst since 1976, crews battled 12 new forest fires Tuesday. But while they were under control, two large fires burning for several days in rugged terrain in the south remained out of control, said Jerry Atkins, assistant state forester. Last year, just 7,450 acres had burned by this time, he said. "I don't know how we're going to carry through," District V Forester Gerald Wimer said. "We're reaching the point where we can't take care of the fires that we do get. My people are getting so tired." West Virginia officials estimate at least one-third of the fires are caused by careless trash burning, arson set by another third are caused by Gov. Kentucky Martha Layne Collins visited fire crews in the area Tuesday. Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste ordered state officials to beef up enforcement of open-burning laws. At least three fires raged out of control Tuesday in Tennessee. The state had 283 fires Sunday which blackened 2,745 acres, said Roy Ashley, director of the state Forestry Division. So far this year, 3,730 fires have claimed 42,658 acres, he said, while the state usually loses 40,000 to 42,000 acres of land to fires in an entire year. "I would say this is the worst year for arson in Tennessee," Ashley said. Nine Kentucky fires totaling about 2,200 acres burned out of control Tuesday, after state crews extinguished 97 fires Monday which charred about 5,100 acres. U.S. Forest Service crews battled a 200- to 300-acre fire in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where 65 fires raged Monday. Ohio has had an estimated 10,000 acres of state forest land burned in the past week by 600 fires. UPI photo In Malden, W.Va., the once peaceful woods have turned into raging infernos with brush fires sweeping across dry forests. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 31 October 3, 1985 SCIENTISTS Perhaps you have been reading in the papers about the tremendous numbers of plane crashes recently. In the world...it is due to the Sun Attack of the UFOs. In the U.S. add the effect of the displacement of the Bermuda Triangle Effect overlaid upon the U.S., causing disorientation of humans in cars, trains and planes. In the UFO Sun Attack mechanism are incorporated a number of effects...a "shotgun effect", if you will. Rays of the Sun and powers of the Sun, unknown to humans, are beamed down upon Earth by four giant UFOs positioned around Earth. The Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf waters are attacking the U.S. from three directions, with their intelligence...which they have. The UFOs are working to create a giant earthquake in California. A mechanism is set up in southern Florida to make, and call in, hurricanes toward Florida and U.S. coasts. In the enclosed newsclips you will read about the results of this constantly ongoing UFO activity, the sole motivation for which is to bring forth from the U.S. government or some other country the UFO Base which they so urgently desire. In a recent communication I pointed out how I had caused Hurricane Elena to reverse its path and turn away from Ocala, where I live with my family, because of a request that came over the phone from a "Jim Michaels with the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper in Ocala". After sending it to you, and turning away the hurricane, I persisted in trying to reach this Jim Michaels with the Ocala newspaper. Enclosed you will find a letter from the editor saying that there is no such man with them. So...I was tricked. However, I learned something from it. Remember when the principal of the Oakcrest school requested on the phone, unexpectedly, that I stop the horrendous rainstorm on that one day that would ruin their school carnival...and I did so...and it was documented. Then the local newspaper writer, Mary Ann Murdoch, requested unexpectedly, that I give a demonstration of my powers...and I did so, and it is documented. Following these two incidents was a mysterious phone call from an intelligent sounding man who gave me three names of men to see at the local Vancouver School just before Elena was to strike...said he was from the local newspaper. More than that, my number was unlisted. But he had it. More than that, he had the exact names of the men who were there when I got there: Marcos, Viannello and Smiley. I took my boys there with me and we met them. So...I put it to you...these three unusual requests for demonstrations of my powers, coming unexpectedly over my phone...had to be from government intelligence agencies. This Florida area is a highly sensitive area from a government intelligence standpoint (NASA, Air Force bases, etc.) and they are well aware of my work and capabilities. And...they are testing me. Herein are newsclips showing just how well my UFOs are doing in their attack upon space work activity. Remember, my UFOs will not allow humans to spread their military and political disease into outer space as the humans do upon Earth. Note the clips about the world water shortage...and Italy suffering from lack of rain. My UFOs Sun Attack is having a devastating effect. Note that when Elena and Gloria chewed up parts of the U.S. there were few, if any, fatalities and injuries. I am mystified how my UFOs did it...but they know that I want only powerful demonstrations in order to obtain the UFO Base...not fatalities. They somehow erred in the Mexico City quake...but they were perfect in the Japan quake. Also they did beautifully in demonstrating to the U.S. government how well they can affect space shuttles and satellites... without causing fatalities. Now for a real shocker. Some years ago, in the book "What The Seers Predict For 1972" there appeared a chapter on my work. Am including the chapter en toto herein for you. Note on page 140: "...The SIs and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply and Africa can once again become the wonderful 'cradle of the Earth' that it once was." No doubt you have been reading about all the present trouble between whites and blacks in South Africa at present. It has taken longer for my psi-force attack to develop and begin producing results than I had anticipated, but with regard to the 'mass' of the matter, I understand. I.e., am not bending spoons or working with small 'mass'. See the interesting clips on the Africa project herein. Interestingly, I had dinner in a Washington, D.C., restaurant long years ago when he was === Page 2 of 31 2 visiting there (Prime Minister Ian Smith). We had a delightful chat during dinner. I met him in the restaurant by accident...read him as a most interesting person; went over to his table and made inquiry; he invited me to sit down and eat with him and he told me about Africa. Herein is a clip about Joe McGinnis, who has written another best seller. Years ago Joe did a big article about me and my work in a Philadelphia newspaper, where he was just a reporter. I told him then that in appreciation of his article about me my UFOs would see that he became famous. Not long afterward he was on a train to New York, engaged in idle conversation with some fellow who gave Joe the idea for his first book, which was a best seller. Note the clips herein showing "freak" storms around the world, such as the freak hailstorm in Brazil; the freak hailstorm in Mexico City, etc. These things, of course, are being caused by my UFOs Sun Attack. The clip re the UFO seen over Italy...is one of my UFOs. On 9/4/85 I went to the Sun Bank and they told me that their computers had gone crazy all over town. Not only that, the other banks were having the same troubles. Hence they could not give me my bank balance. It would seem that the powerful psi-force effect that I projected onto the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper is spreading over town... growing, as it were. Note also the clip that mentions the Ocala Star-Banner presses breaking down. Again. Evidently the fact that I discontinued the project after obtaining the desired results (and sending the documentation to you) has not disconnected the psi-force in activity. Have you wondered about the unbelievable number of plane crashes lately, as well as train and car accidents? It is because of one portion of the Sun Attack...the displaced Bermuda Triangle effect...which is working over the U.S. and actually spreading to other parts of the world. Joe McGinnis was amply rewarded for helping me, at one time. The same sort of thing will amply reward Dr. Mishlove and Scott Rogo if they get the book published that they wrote about me, my UFOs, and my work. There are two things now left...that my UFOs want, and so do I. The book published and the UFO Base. When those things are forthcoming, you will stop receiving files like these. I will be too bush working in the Base laboratory, creating wonderfully positive human and weather changes, for the better, all around the world. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 3 of 31 UFOs vs. Space Work # 3rd Stage Engine Fired Too Late 0.83 9/14/85 KOUROU, French Guiana (AP) -- The third stage engine of Europe's Ariane-3 rocket ignited a fraction of a second late, caused the engine to stop and forced ground control to blow up Ariane and its $150 million payload of satellites, officials said in a statement Friday. The rocket was destroyed Thursday when it veered off course less than 10 minutes after liftoff and began to fall. The statement released by Arianespace, commercial arm of the European Space Agency, said the reason for the engine failure had not been determined. It said the combustion chamber of Ariane's third stage failed to ignite "eight minutes and four seconds after the extinction of the second stage." An "abnormal, late" ignition took place in the combustion chamber 0.4 seconds late, causing the engine to stop, the statement said. It was the 15th launch in the European Space Agency's Ariane series, the main commercial challenger of the U.S. Space Shuttle. The rocket carried two telecommunications satellites, one U.S. and one European. It blasted off on schedule at 8:26 p.m. (7:26 p.m. local time) Thursday from the agency's base in Kourou on the northeast shoulder of South America. But, as visiting President Francois Mitterrand of France followed the launcher's progress on a video display terminal in the control room at Kourou, the trajectory began to sag. Nine minutes and 52 seconds after liftoff, and about 10 minutes before it would have put the satellites into orbit, technicians had to send a self-destruct signal when it became clear Ariane would fall to Earth in an inhabited area of Brazil. The American Spacenet-3 satellite, built by RCA for GTE-Spacenet, was insured for $85 million and the European Communications Satellite, ECS-3, for $65 million. The rocket's third stage was to put the satellites into fixed orbits over Earth. Besides being a direct rival of America's Space Shuttle, the Ariane program is big business and a matter of European pride. France is Ariane's main backer and sees itself as the leader in Europe's technology of the future. Thursday's failure, the third in 15 Ariane shots, followed nine straight successes. It will not immediately affect business because Arianespace, the commercial arm of the European Space Agency, is booked solid for the next four years. But in the longer term, negative consequences could result. The Europeans always claimed Ariane is more reliable than the Space Shuttle because it puts satellites directly into orbit. The shuttle takes satellites out over the Earth, and then boosts them into orbit -- two operations and double the risk, the Europeans contended. # Weather Satellite Falters 0.5B 8/29/85 UFOs vs. NASA (Space) WASHINGTON (AP) -- America spent about four hours without a good look at its weather last weekend, when the main meteorological satellite decided to turn its back and stare at the sky instead of the Earth. Experts at the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service say they don't know why the orbiter, called GOES-6, reversed itself Sunday evening -- but they finally got it turned around again. The incident could have had a major impact if severe weather had been developing, officials indicated, although as it turned out no serious problems occurred. The popular weather map photos widely used by television stations and newspapers, and other readings supplied by the satellite, were not available during the period GOES-6 was out of service. The loss totaled more than 200 images of Earth, said Doug McCallum of the satellite service, the division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which operates satellites. Some readings were available from other satellites which orbit over the poles, rather than remaining in a fixed position, but those pass over particular areas only twice daily, McCallum explained. Thus, they offer less protection in the event of rapidly developing storms. If a failure such as occurred Sunday extended over a longer time, it could have a serious impact on the ability to monitor severe storms, McCallum explained. An unexplained timing upset caused the GOES-6 satellite to turn its eye toward space from about 4:35 p.m. until about 9 p.m. EDT Sunday. Located at a fixed point about 22,000 miles above the Earth, since August 1984, GOES-6 has been the lone fixed-point satellite doing this work. A companion, GOES-5, lost its ability to transmit photos when a light in the satellite failed at that time. A replacement for GOES-5 is scheduled to be launched next spring, so that the United States will again have two such satellites in service. Normally two fixed weather satellites are located over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, looking at the nation from the East and West. However, since last summer, GOES-6 has been repositioned south of Texas to cover the whole country from a central location. Fri. 9/1/85 # Indonesia satellite malfunctions UFOs vs NASA (Space) JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An equipment malfunction caused Indonesia's Palapa B-1 satellite to tilt out of its operating position, a government official said Saturday. The Palapa B-1, designed to last nine years, was put into orbit by the American space shuttle Challenger in June 1983. One of two units that monitor the temperature of satellite and rotate it to prevent overheating in the sunlight, malfunctioned Friday for unknown reasons, said Achmad Tahir, the minister of tourism, postal and telecommunications. # Satellite launch delayed UFOs vs NASA 9/27/85 CAPE CANAVERAL -- The launch of an Atlas Centaur rocket carrying a $30 million communications satellite was postponed Thursday until at least Saturday because of a malfunctioning data processing unit, NASA officials said. The unit, which processes information from several spacecraft systems, will be replaced and studied to determine why it failed. The two-ton Intelsat 5-A will be part of a communications system owned and operated by the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, made up of 109 countries. === Page 4 of 31 # Shuttle Astronauts To Try And Salvage Satellite (1) CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Five astronauts who will try to salvage a disabled satellite later this month boarded space shuttle Discovery on Friday and completed a successful countdown rehearsal. "We had a very good test," commander Joe Engle said after the simulated liftoff. "We're definitely ready to go." The launch is set for Aug. 24 but that is contingent on the investigation into why one of sister ship Challenger's engines quit early during liftoff July 29. Challenger achieved orbit on the power of its two remaining engines and flew an eight-day mission on a lower-than-planned path. NASA engineers believe faulty heat sensors falsely sensed a fuel pump overheating and sent a message to a computer to shut down the powerplant. Preliminary inspection of the engine at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where Challenger landed, tends to support that theory. Using a fiber-optics boroscope, technicians probed inside the engine and found no damage or indication of overheating, the National Aeronautics and Space and Administration said. The sensors were removed and shipped to their manufacturer, Rosemount Inc. in Minneapolis, for examination. Results are expected next week. New sensors will be installed in Discovery's engines. Joining Engle for the flight will be pilot Dick Covey, Mike Lounge, Bill Fisher and Jim van Hoften. They are to deploy three commercial communications satellites and then track down and try to repair the $85 million Syncom satellite that failed to activate when deployed by another shuttle crew in April. During a spacewalk, Fisher and van Hoften will attempt to "jump start" Syncom by rewiring its timing mechanism, believed to be the cause of the failure. Before making the repair, they will have to disarm two payload fuel systems, re-arming them later. (2) Satellite written off An $85 million Hughes Communications Inc. communications satellite launched from the shuttle Discovery last month was written off as a failure Monday, pushing satellite insurance losses to some $234 million in a single week. The satellite, launched Aug. 29 by the space shuttle, worked well for two days but abruptly lost its UHF transmission capabilities. The failure pushes satellite insurance claims to some $600 million for the past year and a half. 8-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, August 28, 1985 # Shuttle's problems send costs soaring Los Angeles Times Despite its much-heralded successes, the space shuttle program remains far more costly and its flight schedule far less reliable than Congress and the nation had been led to expect when the project was approved in the early 1970s. About $25 billion has been spent developing, building and launching the fleet of four reusable space planes. But something has gone wrong on almost every flight, including a dramatic engine shutdown during last month's launch. (The space shuttle Discovery finally lifted off Tuesday after back-to-back weekend "scrubs" -- one because of the weather and the other because of a computer failure.) === Page 5 of 31 UFOs vs. NASA (Space) # Satellite Salvage Planned O.S.S 8/27/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Shuttle Discovery found a hole in the clouds today and finally rocketed away from Earth on a daring salvage mission in which space-walking astronauts will try to "hot-wire" a derelict satellite. The twice-delayed shuttle mission began spectacularly as the 100-ton space plane thundered off its launch pad at 6:58 a.m. EDT and dashed high over the Atlantic Ocean, spewing a 700-foot-long tail of flame and lighting up the dawn sky. Discovery got off just in time. Minutes after liftoff, the hole in the clouds closed and heavy rain deluged the launch pad. Weather had once again threatened to block the launching as clouds from a tropical disturbance dumped rain on the space center throughout the early morning. The five astronauts wore rain slickers as they left their crew quarters for the 8-mile ride to the launch pad. But forecasters spotted a large hole in the center of the system and predicted it would pass over the Cape shortly after 7 a.m. With that information, launch director Bob Sieck pushed the liftoff back from 6:55 a.m. to 7:05, then ahead when the hole moved over. The clock was counted down to nine minutes and was held there while meteorologists watched the weather. The hole materialized early, the count resumed, and Discovery blasted into space, a pillar of fire against the dark sky. Nine minutes later, Mission Control Center in Houston reported Discovery was in a secure orbit more than 200 miles high, racing at more than 17,000 mph. A thunderstorm wiped out the first launch attempt Saturday and a failed spacecraft computer forced a second postponement on Sunday. The launch team had only a 34-minute period in which to put Discovery on a proper course to deploy three communications satellites and to track down a fourth for repair. If Discovery had not been launched by Thursday, the rescue would have been abandoned because the derelict satellite no longer would be in a proper position for a rendezvous. In that case, the astronauts would have flown a shortened mission to deploy three communications satellites. Although the rescue of the $85 million Syncom communications satellite is the glamour part of the flight, the release of the trio of satellites for paying See Shuttle on page 8A # Unexplained timing problem puts weather satellite out of service Trib. 8/29/85 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's main weather satellite began staring out into space Sunday, but government officials got it to turn back towards Earth within a few hours, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. An unexplained timing upset caused the GOES-6 satellite to turn its eye toward space for about 4½ hours Sunday, officials said. It was out of service from 4:35 p.m. until about 9 p.m. EDT. Located at a fixed point about 22,000 miles above the Earth, GOES-6 transmits the weather photos widely used by television stations and newspapers across the nation. Since August 1984, it has been the lone fixed-point satellite doing this work. A companion, GOES-5, lost its ability to transmit photos when a light in the satellite failed. A replacement for GOES-5 is scheduled to be launched next spring. Normally, two fixed weather satellites are located over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, looking at the nation from the east and west. However, since it became the lone fixed satellite last summer, GOES-6 has been repositioned south of Texas to cover the whole country. The popular weather-map photos and other readings supplied by the satellite were not available during the period GOES-6 was out of service. The loss totaled more than 200 images of Earth, said Doug McCallum of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Some readings were available from other satellites that orbit over the poles rather than remain in a fixed position, but those pass over particular areas only twice daily. === Page 6 of 31 Shuttle To Lift Off After Errant Satellite Ocalan Survives Lightning Strike By STACY PARKER Staff Writer 8/13/85 Robert Olesky Jr. of Ocala hopes that lightning never strikes twice - he might not live the second time around. Last Saturday Olesky was struck in the head by a bolt of lightning that traveled through his body, singeing his hair and welding shut the zipper on his pants. Doctors are calling it a miracle that the 20-year-old man is alive. Olesky, of 2514 Northeast 12th Ct., and a friend, Rudy Newman, said they had just left Olesky's father at a convenience store in Zuber Saturday afternoon and were walking across a nearby field, on their way to visit friends, when the lightning struck. The last thing Olesky remembers about the accident is his friend telling him to watch out for the lightning. "I remember it was pouring outside, and I saw a streak of lightning," Olesky said. "But it looked far away so we kept walking. Then I remember Rudy telling me to watch out." See Ocalan on page 6A UFOS vs NASA Shuttle glitch identified 8/13/85 CAPE CANAVERAL - The engine shutdown that almost aborted space shuttle Challenger's launch last month was caused, as suspected, by sensors that broke and falsely reported a fuel pump was overheating, officials reported Monday. All three thermal sensors removed after the shuttle landed were defective. Meanwhile, NASA reported the launch pad where Discovery is being groomed for its Aug. 24 launch was struck by lightning Saturday night. The bolt hit a large lightning rod and there was no damage to the shuttle or to the pad, officials said. Note: Ocala a "rare happening" tied in with Cape Canaveral shuttle lightning hit. Owens 4 Ocalan Ranks As Rare Survivor Of Lightning Strike Continued from page 1A 8/13/85 "The first thing I remember was waking up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital," he said. "But I passed out again and then woke up in the emergency room. I couldn't remember my name or my birthday. It was scary." Newman, who was only a few feet away from Olesky when the lightning hit, said he felt only a tingling sensation and was unhurt. He said he looked at the unconscious Olesky and then ran for help. Witnesses in a nearby house said Olesky fell to a push-up position on the ground when the lightning struck him, and that he appeared to be trying to get up when his arms gave way and he fell on his face. Olesky's father, Robert Sr., was the first person to reach his son. "My main concern was that he was breathing," he said. "I have had all types of first aid training, and I could've helped someone else; but looking at my own son I just trembled. I froze. It was a hair-raising experience." Olesky Sr. said a paramedic team from Munroe Regional Medical Center arrived within minutes and quickly treated his son. Olesky said one of the medics came to visit him in the hospital twice to check on him. The victim was released from the hospital Monday but says he is still in pain and has trouble hearing. Doctors said they are unsure what, if any, permanent effects Olesky will face and are concerned that he may not fully regain his hearing. "The doctors said the lightning struck me in the head then came out my neck," Olesky said. "Then it went down to my zipper, traveled through my leg and blew a hole in my shoe. It welded my zipper shut. If it would have hit me full force, it would have fried me." A sheriff's deputy investigating the accident was shocked to find Olesky alive. "He told me has has been on the force 15 years and all lightning victims he has seen were either dead on the scene or died at the hospital," Olesky said. === Page 7 of 31 # Shuttle To Lift Off After Errant Satellite UFOC v2. NASA (Space) 0.5B 8/24/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- Fitted with improved engine gauges to avoid another cliffhanger launch, Discovery was primed Friday to begin one of the most daring space shuttle missions, the capture and rewiring of an $85 million wandering satellite. Launch was set for 8:38 a.m. today and an Air Force weatherman said "the worst we expect are scattered clouds." If all goes well, the shuttle will edge alongside the 7½-ton slowly spinning derelict on Thursday, and one of the five astronauts will grab the satellite with his gloved hands and stop its rotation. Each of Discovery's three main engines is fitted with two new sensors to measure the temperature on fuel pumps. On Challenger's last launch, July 29, two thermometers indicated one engine pump was overheating and it was shut down by a computer. It was the first time in the manned space program that an engine was shut down in flight, causing concern for the safety of the astronauts. Engineers determined later that the instruments, not the pump, were at fault and an improved version was installed. "We've got a lot of confidence in the new sensors, that they are going to solve our problems," said Jesse Moore, director of the shuttle program. "We think the activities are safe," he said. "I don't think we're taking any additional risk in terms of the rescue." Discovery will start its sixth flight in less than a year with a cargo of three satellites which will be deployed at a one-a-day rate before the rescue attempt. One of the satellites is a Syncom scheduled to join two others already in proper orbit. It has been modified to prevent the same problems that befell No. 3. Hughes Communications and the other two customers, American Satellite Co. and the Australian government, are paying NASA nearly $40 million for the delivery service. In addition, Hughes is paying about $8.5 million for the rescue, which Moore said represents NASA's costs. The rescue attempt will be the second for the Syncom satellite, which failed to activate after it was released from another shuttle last April. After the satellite proved to be a dud in April, the shuttle crew fashioned a "flyswatter" from plastic book covers to snag a master switch thought to be at fault. The snare attempt was successful but it failed to bring the satellite to life. Marvin Mixon, vice president of Hughes Communications, was not overly optimistic Friday night. "It's 50-50, the entire success of the mission," he said. "That is, that we get it into orbit, that it is a viable satellite and that we can turn it over to the Navy." The satellite, the third of four, is to be leased by Hughes for the Navy's communications network. Hughes Communications worked out the plan with NASA in which astronauts James "Ox" Van Hoften and William Fisher will "hot-wire" the Syncom to bypass the electrical circuits of the entire timing mechanism. # Thunderstorm Delayed Planned Launch Continued from page 1A O SB 8/25/85 Officials worried not only about the shuttle climbing through rain and lightning, but also the visibility from the air of the Kennedy Space Center runway in case the shuttle had to make an emergency landing in the early minutes of flight. Rain could damage the shuttle's fragile tiles and lightning could zap its computers and guidance systems. In early afternoon, lightning struck a main transformer that feeds the northern half of the space center, including the launch control room and its many computers and the launch pad 3½ miles away. Lights were out in many areas of the Cape for up to 20 minutes, but NASA spokesman Dick Young said there was only a momentary outage in the launch control room and on the pad. Both have emergency power, but it was not needed. Young said the shuttle, which was being drained of fuel at the time, lost internal power but that was picked up immediately by fuel cells that provide electricity while the ship is in orbit. For a brief period, it appeared the liftoff might be delayed slightly because a freighter had to be chased from the restricted area near the launch pad. The problem was mooted by the storm clouds. Meteorologists had predicted good weather for Saturday. For Sunday, they forecast thunderclouds and rainshowers in the vicinity and offshore. === Page 8 of 31 Note: Got it! Duane THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, August 24, 1985 3-A # Space walkers cleared for launch of shuttle By WILLIAM HARWOOD UPI Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- Discovery's space-age hardhats Friday were cleared for launch this morning on a weeklong shuttle flight to hot-wire a satellite loaded with fuel but marooned in the wrong orbit. "We've given a green light to go for launch in the morning," said Jesse Moore, associate NASA administrator in charge of the shuttle program. "It's going to be an extremely challenging mission." In a display of "right stuff" bravura, space walkers James "Ox" van Hoften and William Fisher plan to perform electronic bypass surgery on the Syncom communications satellite to salvage its mission and to demonstrate a space repair capability no other nation can match. Discovery was scheduled to take off at 8:38 a.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center and Air Force weather officers predicted acceptable weather for the 20th shuttle launching in four years. "The crew is ready to fly and we're ready to have a good launch in the morning," Moore said at a launch eve news conference. The final segment of the countdown got under way on schedule at 7:18 p.m. EDT Friday after an eight-hour, 18-minute rest period. The technicians' first job was to move a service tower away from Discovery for fueling operations. New fuel pump heat sensors have been installed in Discovery's three main engines to prevent a repeat of last month's premature engine shutdown during shuttle Challenger's climb to space. Discovery will land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Aug. 31 or Sept. 1, depending on the progress of the mission. Commander Joe Engle, co-pilot Richard Covey and crewmates van Hoften, Fisher and John "Mike" Lounge plan to launch a communications satellite owned by the American Satellite Co. about 6:12 p.m. today. After launching a relay station owned by Australia and deploying a modified Syncom, the crew will turn its attention to the satellite repair job. In recent interviews, neither Fisher nor van Hoften expressed any fear of working around a satellite with obvious electrical problems and a "live" solid rocket motor packed with 7,382 pounds of propellant. "We don't want to do anything that's unsafe," Fisher said. "We can't afford to lose a vehicle, we can't afford to lose a crewman. None of us are interested in an unsafe or risky task just to be heroes." In what promises to be one of the most dramatic moments yet in the shuttle program, van Hoften, anchored to the end of Discovery's spindly robot arm, plans to install a handlebar on the side of the slowly spinning 15,200-pound Syncom to wrestle it to a standstill so Fisher can attempt repairs. The $85 million Syncom, owned by Hughes Communications Inc. and leased by the Navy, was launched from Discovery in April, but an automatic timer never engaged to fire its ICBM-type rocket motor. The satellite was left dead in space in an orbit thousands of miles too low, despite a valiant effort by the shuttle crew to flip the relay station's start switch using homemade "flyswatter" tools on the end of the ship's robot arm. Once van Hoften has stopped the satellite's 1 rpm spin, the craft will be held by the arm while Fisher installs gear to make sure the satellite's rocket motor cannot fire. === Page 9 of 31 12-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES, Sunday, August 25, 1985 # Thunderstorm causes scrubbing of launch By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL -- The launch of space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed Saturday by a thunderstorm that lingered just long enough to cause a one-day postponement. A new attempt to launch the ship and its crew of five on a satellite delivery-and-rescue mission was set for today at 7:57 a.m. EDT. Storm clouds began building as Saturday's countdown reached the final scheduled "hold" at the 9-minutes-to-liftoff mark. "We are taking a close look at thunderstorms in the vicinity of the landing facility," said Launch Control's Hugh Harris. Moments later, clouds closed in, thunder rolled over Cape Canaveral, and the clock ticked toward the end of the 34-minute "window" in which the shuttle could leave. Launch director Bob Sieck allowed the count to continue to the 5-minute mark, hoping for a last-minute change, then ordered the scrub. Within minutes, the sky again was a brilliant blue. "The weather was simply unpredictable this morning and nobody wanted to take a chance," Harris said. "There were little rainshowers springing up out of nothing." Officials worried not only about the shuttle climbing through rain and lightning, but also the visibility from the air of the Kennedy Space Center runway in case the shuttle had to make an emergency landing in the early minutes of flight. Rain could damage the shuttle's fragile tiles and lightning could zap its computers and guidance systems. In early afternoon, lightning struck a main transformer that feeds the northern half of the space center, including the launch control room and its many computers and the launch pad 3½ miles away. Lights were out in many areas of the Cape for up to 20 minutes, but NASA spokesman Dick Young said there was only a momentary outage in the launch control room and on the pad. Both have emergency power, but it was not needed. Young said the shuttle, which was being drained of fuel at the time, lost internal power but that was picked up immediately by fuel cells that provide electricity while the ship is in orbit. For a brief period, it appeared the liftoff might be delayed slightly because a freighter had to be chased from the restricted area near the launch pad. The problem was mooted by the storm clouds. Meteorologists had predicted good weather for Saturday. For today they forecast thunderclouds and rainshowers in the vicinity and offshore. Only six of the 19 previous shuttle missions have been launched when they were supposed to; weather caused four of the delays. Officials waited out rain in April and launched with 55 seconds to spare. The launch window is determined by several factors, including the time that three communications satellites are to be deployed by the astronauts and by the position of the disabled satellite they will try to rescue. The five astronauts had been in the shuttle cabin for more than two hours when the countdown was halted. They were given a free afternoon and time was set aside in the evening so that commander Joe Engle and pilot Richard Covey could practice emergency landings. The other crew members are mission specialists James van Hoften, William Fisher and John M. Lounge. On the first day of eight-day flight, the astronauts will launch a satellite for American Satellite Co. # Death Toll Hovering At 230 More About The Earthquake, 1D MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Fires flared across this devastated city today and desperate rescue teams clambered over the ruins as the hemisphere's greatest metropolis dug out of one of its greatest tragedies, a giant earthquake that tore at the midsection of the Americas. Officials and witnesses confirmed at least 230 dead in the Thursday morning quake, but the toll was expected to go much higher. Mexico's Channel 2 television, in a report that was not attributed, said 770 people were killed. "I would not dare give a number," said a grim-faced Mayor Ramon Aguirre. He said an estimated 1,000 people were entombed in collapsed buildings in this huge, teeming city. Five thousand people had been treated for injuries, he said. Mexico City and four coastal states, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan, were hardest hit by the 7:18 a.m. (9:18 a.m. EDT) quake, which leveled cathedrals, schools, hospitals, hotels and scores of other buildings -- at least 250 buildings in Mexico City alone, according to Aguirre. The tremor measured 7.8 on the Richter scale of ground motion, making it the strongest to rock Mexico since 1973. "It's like a big monster," said a disbelieving volunteer rescue worker, Juan-Carlos Christy, outside a destroyed hotel. "It's like being bombed or in a war." "We know there are people in there, we know," a soldier said sadly as he stood outside a badly damaged apartment building. "But it's just too weak ... and smoky and we just can't go in there." Associated Press reporter Mike See Earthquake on page 8A === Page 10 of 31 UPI photo Unable to fly the space shuttle, a grinning shuttle commander Joe Engle settles for a joy ride in a T-38 jet. # Malfunction in computer scrubs launch of shuttle The flight was further postponed so NASA could check for possible damage from fueling and refueling. By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI Science Editor Trib. 8/26/85 CAPE CANAVERAL -- Computer failure Sunday forced the second launch postponement in two days for the shuttle Discovery and the ship was grounded until Tuesday so technicians could check for possible engine plumbing damage. The faulty $1.2 million flight control computer was replaced by a spare 11 hours after the "scrub" and engineers expected to complete the engine inspections by this morning. An increasing chance of bad weather appeared to be the only obstacle for a blastoff Tuesday. There was a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms and forecasters were watching an area of cloudiness extending northward in the Atlantic from Hispaniola. The back-to-back weekend delays imposed extra pressure on the Kennedy Space Center ground crew to get Discovery airborne because Thursday is the deadline for sending the shuttle up to capture and rewire the disabled Syncom 3 communications satellite. The main mission for the ship's five astronauts, however, is to deploy three communications satellites and earn NASA $35 million in orbital delivery fees. The satellite launchings could be accomplished with a later blastoff, but the disabled Syncom 3 will be out of rendezvous range after Thursday. "The team is pretty disappointed having been denied two days in a row in getting this very ambitious mission going," said launch director Robert Sieck. "We'd been hit by weather the day before and today we had a hardware problem. The team was pretty discouraged." Discovery commander Joe Engle, seemingly undaunted by the setbacks, echoed his statement of Saturday, when the launch was delayed by bad weather, and said Sunday: "We'll get it tomorrow." Officials later, how- See SHUTTLE, Page 6A # Shuttle * From Page 1A Trib. 8/26/85 ever, decided to delay for 48 hours. Engle, Richard Covey, William Fisher, James van Hoften and John Lounge spent a little more than two hours in Discovery's cabin Sunday before returning to their crew quarters. They had the afternoon off and Engle went for a joy ride in a T-38 jet. Sieck said the two-day delay was necessary to allow technicians to inspect large liquid hydrogen pipes between the two fuel pumps on each of the three main engines. They wanted to see if two cycles of alternate cold temperatures from the minus-423 degree F. hydrogen and subsequent warming after the fuel was drained damaged the pipe's insulation. The concern was that nitrogen might penetrate the insulation and expand as it was frozen and dent the fuel pipes. A significant dent could slow the flow of fuel to the engine and lead to a possible explosive engine shutdown. The ship was fueled twice with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Even though the propellants were drained from Discovery after each delay, a considerable amount of hydrogen evaporates and NASA ordered 10 tank trucks of hydrogen rushed in from a plant in New Orleans. Sieck said every day Discovery's takeoff is set back would have a corresponding delay on the maiden launch of the fourth shuttle, Atlantis, on a secret military flight. Its launch had been targeted for Sept. 30. Discovery's countdown Sunday rolled along smoothly until 45 minutes before the planned 7:55 a.m. EDT launch time. A computer that serves as a backup to four identical computers aboard Discovery indicated it had an error in its 106,000-word memory. A quick evaluation revealed that the trouble was not in the computer's programming, but in the computer itself. Engineers ordered the unit removed from Discovery and sent to Houston for testing. "It's disappointing to get all the flight systems up to where they are and then you have a hardware problem," shuttle chief Jesse Moore said in an interview. "But anybody who works in this business who deals with hardware knows that sometimes you're going to have hardware problems. "My philosophy is that I'd much rather find them on the ground than find them in flight," he said. It was the second time in the four-year shuttle program that a shuttle blastoff had been delayed twice in successive days. Discovery's first flight attempt June 25, 1984 was halted by a failure in the backup computer and a launch try the next day was aborted when its main engines shut down on the launch pad because of a valve problem. === Page 11 of 31 UFOs vs NASA (Space) # Astronauts Check Gear For Salvage CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) -- After a frantic first day in space that included an unplanned double-header satellite launch, Discovery's astronauts took it easy today, checking out electronic gear they will use in a spacecraft salvage effort Saturday. That rescue-and-repair effort might be complicated, however, because the "elbow" on the shuttle robot arm does not respond to computer directions and must be operated by tedious manual switches. Officials said the ailment should not block the salvage but could turn it into a longer task. The 50-foot arm will grasp and hold the Syncom 3 satellite steady after space-walkers James van Hoften and Bill Fisher have secured it by hand and have attached a grapple to it. "Tomorrow will be a very light day for the crew, which is a fairly well deserved light day," said flight director Bill Reeves Tuesday night. "We rewrote the mission today, at least the first day of it, with real-time planning." The astronauts ran into trouble Tuesday, two hours after Discovery was launched spectacularly through a break in a large storm system that dumped heavy rain on the spaceport before and after liftoff. # Discovery goes up despite weather UFOs vs NASA (Space) By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL -- Discovery's astronauts were launched Tuesday through the worst weather of the space shuttle program, then had to rush the release of an Australian satellite to keep it from broiling in the sun. The astronauts also deployed a second satellite, the first such doubleheader in the shuttle program, and Mission Control praised them for setting "a new world's record." "Fantastic. We all breathed a sigh of relief down here," Mission Control said after the Aussat satellite was deployed over the equator a day ahead of schedule. The job had to be done quickly because a sunshield would not close properly. Later, a rocket motor fired to send the $60 million satellite toward a duty station 22,300 miles high. From there it will handle television and telephone service for the Australian continent and ease what an Aussat official called "the tyranny of distance." Tracking data showed the rocket firing went perfectly. "Aussat is halfway to geosynch (its proper orbit) and so far the system is in excellent health," Mission Control announced. "That's outstanding. That's good news," said astronaut John "Mike" Lounge. Whether the satellite's antenna was damaged by the sunshield won't be known for about 10 days when the first electronic tests begin. Less than five hours after the Aussat deployment, and one orbit later than originally scheduled, the astronauts released a satellite owned by American Satellite Co. The firm, which provides communications for 450 of the nation's largest business and government agencies, said it has nearly $100 million invested in the satellite project. The ASC satellite also had a successful "burn" en route to its outpost. In the sunshield operation, Lounge had trouble with the shuttle arm, which will become vital Sunday when astronauts James van Hoften and Bill Fisher try to retrieve a dead satellite from orbit to rewire it. The 50-foot device, which has joint motions similar to those of the human shoulder, arm and hand, would not respond to computer commands in its "elbow." As a result, Lounge had to control each of its six motions separately by throwing switches. Flight director Bill Reeves said that will make Lounge's task on Sunday much more time consuming and might force a second day's spacewalk to complete the satellite rescue. The Australian payload, one of three satellites carried aloft in Discovery's cargo bay, had been scheduled for launch Wednesday but the damaged sunshield changed the flight plan. The frame-and-fabric device was supposed to close like a clamshell over the satellite in the cargo bay until deployment time, but it hung up in the halfway position as it was opened for a satellite health check. Lounge then guided the ship's 50-foot robot arm to push it out of the way, leaving the satellite exposed. "Mike's got it open," commander Joe Engle informed Mission Control. "The Aussat satellite would have considerable difficulty in the cargo bay unprotected by a sunshield from the cold of deep space or from direct solar radiation," said Mission Control's Brian Welch. "The satellite has a very limited lifetime in the bay, perhaps only a few more orbits and at that point it would have serious problems." Once in orbit, satellites rotate constantly like meat on a barbecue spit, preventing any portion from overheating or getting too cold. After back-to-back scrubs Saturday and Sunday, tense launch officials gambled on a break in the clouds and sent Discovery on its eight-day mission with a spectacular liftoff that colored the clouds red, white and orange. Soon after the liftoff, the pad was obscured by a torrential downpour. The sunshield frame may have been bent out of shape by being hit with a television camera on the shuttle arm elbow. Flight director Gary Coen said the cause had not been determined and he did not know if a crew member had been at fault. The Aussat satellite is the first of three intended to provide communications to Australia, its offshore islands and Papua New Guinea. Heavy rain pelted the launch pad before and just after liftoff of a flight in which space-walking astronauts will try Sunday to "hot-wire" a derelict $85 million Syncom satellite stuck in a uselessly low orbit. === Page 12 of 31 # Mexico leader reassures kin of missing U.S. Sun Attack Frid. 9/20/85 MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- The official death toll in Mexico's two killer earthquakes climbed past 5,200 Sunday. President Miguel de la Madrid promised relatives of missing victims that searches will continue until "there are no signs of life." Meanwhile, U.S. Embassy officials said they believe that 24 missing Americans died in hotels that collapsed in the quakes Sept. 19-20. "Frankly, we may never find their bodies," an embassy spokesman told UPI. De la Madrid said earlier he soon would announce a reconstruction program expected to include a plan for moving factories and offices out of the heavily congested Mexico City area, where more than 17 million people live. He met Saturday night with his Cabinet to discuss the program, but no details were available. Julio A. Millan, a leader of the Industrial Chamber of Commerce, said that earthquake damages had been estimated at $5 billion and that foreign financing would be needed to supplement domestic spending to rebuild the city. He told the Excelsior newspaper that Mexico would have to work out new terms on its $98 billion foreign debt, the second-highest in the developing world. Many relatives and volunteer workers expressed anger and concern Friday when the army began using heavy equipment to remove large blocks of rubble from the ruins of the 12-story Juarez Hospital, where 1,200 patients and employees were trapped by the first quake. When de la Madrid, dressed in casual clothes, appeared at the site Sunday, thousands of people crowded around him. "Give us effective help. We have been victims of deceit. We want the truth about our families," one person shouted to the president, who has been visiting disaster spots. "I promise you we are not going to dynamite until we are sure there are no signs of life," de la Madrid told the crowd. "We cannot advance further just using our hands. We must use heavy equipment, but prudently." # Officials won't even try to guess Gloria's harm U.S. Sun Attack Frid 9/30/85 Associated Press The East Coast continued to clean up Sunday from Hurricane Gloria's fury and most government and utility officials said they still had no estimate of the storm's damage, although some early loss figures exceeded $47 million. Seven more deaths were attributed to Gloria, bringing to 16 the number of people believed killed as a result of Friday's storm. About 1 million utility customers remained without power Sunday in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina. In Connecticut, Gov. William O'Neill notified the White House he would seek federal emergency money, but declined to give an estimate of the damage before state and federal officials tour the state today. About 318,000 customers in Connecticut were without electricity Sunday afternoon, and officials said they were concerned about water shortages and food spoilages. "Nobody is counting the cost at this stage," said Emmanuel Forde, spokesman for Connecticut's Northeast Utilities, which had 60 percent of its 21,000 miles of lines downed or damaged. The company earlier said its damage could exceed $20 million. In New York, where thousands of utility linemen worked to turn power back on for 400,000 customers on Long Island, a damage estimate was not expected until mid-week. In Maryland, the Army Corps of Engineers estimated about $6 million damage to Ocean City, a vulnerable barrier island and the state's resort capital. In New Jersey, officials in three coastal counties estimated hurricane damage would amount to at least $8.5 million. Civil defense officials in Massachusetts and New Hampshire said they would have no damage figures until today at the earliest. Massachusetts agriculture officials estimated that $5 million to $7 million of the state's $25 million annual apple crop was damaged, as well as half the state's $800,000 corn crop and 30 percent of its $3 million silage corn crop. There was no official damage figure in Rhode Island, where early estimates predicted a toll between $2.6 million and $4 million. === Page 13 of 31 UFOs Sun Attack Trib 9/4/85 # Mexico hailstorm leaves foot of ice MEXICO CITY -- A heavy hailstorm battered the center of the Mexican capital Monday evening and police said the weight of the ice knocked down 25 old buildings, killing one person and injuring some 185. A National Weather Service report, describing the storm as one of the worst in half a century, said it pelted the downtown area and adjacent districts for more than an hour. The freak storm left the streets covered with more than a foot of ice, damaged parked automobiles, knocked out power and causing citywide traffic snarls. # World water shortage looms WASHINGTON -- The loss of irrigation water before it reaches crops and water waste by manufacturers and households threatens shortages that could limit food production and economic growth, the Worldwatch Institute said Saturday. "Collectively, these factors -- pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage -- call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed," said the study by the environmental research group. UFO signal to me - of Quake Shakes Owens Valley In California Calif. disaster quake? 8/16/85 # Quake Shakes Owens Valley In California OLANCHA, Calif. (AP) -- A moderate earthquake shook the Owens Valley on Thursday night, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake's epicenter was about 15 miles east of Olancha, a community of about 100 people about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, said Russ Needham, a spokesman for the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. UFO Sun Attack Trib 9/30/85 # Italy suffering from lack of rain ROME -- Cities that haven't had rain in months are turning off fountains, Florence could run dry in days and the grape harvest could suffer from a drought that has driven some places to water rationing. However, the drought has gripped Italy unevenly, with some cities such as Rome largely escaping its effects because of adequate reservoir levels. Three months without much more than a drop has forced government officials to draw up an emergency plan to bring water from other areas to Florence, which they say has enough water in its reservoir for only a few more days. UFOs Sun Attack # Where Hurricane Elena did the most damage APALACHICOLA: Elena chewed up roads and docks and buried oyster beds, alarming local fishermen. Along with Cedar Key, this area was the most damaged in the state. CEDAR KEY: The town had some of the state's worst damage. Homes, restaurants and hotels were severely hurt and three-fourths of the town's pier was destroyed. ESCAMBIA: Road damage is estimated at $1.6 million. Losses to private property not yet known. PASCO: Tornadoes caused destruction to inland areas while wind and water damaged homes along the coast. The Withlacoochee is expected to flood Saturday from runoff. PINELLAS: Elena destroyed at least eight homes and caused major damage to 130 others along the beaches. Some 740 homes suffered minor damage. A 2-mile swath south of Clearwater on Indian Rocks Beach was hit hardest. HILLSBOROUGH: Parts of Davis Islands, Bayshore Boulevard and other low-lying areas took the brunt of the storm. Damage to city-owned facilities is estimated at up to $5 million. Source: Tribune staff and wires 9/4/85 Tribune graphic by WARREN HUSKEY === Page 14 of 31 UFDe Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 # Water Woes Ahead "Water could supplant oil as the problem commodity of the late 1980s and 1990s. ..." So wrote Rhonda L. Rundle in a recent Wall Street Journal "Heard on the Street" column. The point is well taken. New York City was in the grip of a severe water shortage all summer. Numerous restrictions have been ordered to conserve what precious supplies are available, but the problem extends beyond depleted reservoirs. New York, together with other Northeastern cities, has an antiquated distribution system that is badly in need of overhaul. Many cities in both the Northeast and Midwest face serious water-pollution problems. Parts of Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, spent most of the summer under restricted water use, until Hurricane Elena ended what remained of a long drought. Florida's water woes, alleviated for the moment, have not been eliminated by any means. There will be other dry winters, followed by dry springs and summer shortages. It will be necessary to deal with these by tapping water now lost to the Gulf of Mexico in Northern Florida, processing brackish or salt water to produce fresh water, or recycling effluent from sewage-treatment plants. Whatever the solutions to water shortages, they will be expensive in New York City and Central Florida. Financial analysts are forecasting that billions of dollars will be spent by municipalities and state governments to assure adequate supplies of irrigation and drinking water. This is causing a minor boom in stocks of companies that deal in the technology of curtailing water demand, improving its quality or distributing it more efficiently. Unlike oil, there is no substitute for water. Those investors betting that governments and consumers are going to be paying more for water in the future may be right on target. Yes indeed. Water could very well supplant oil as the problem commodity of the future. === Page 15 of 31 Mississippi declared disaster by president UFO= Sun Attack FFil a/5/85 found for the occupants. GULFPORT, Miss. (UPI) President Reagan declared the Mis- sissippi coast ravaged by Hurricane Elena a disaster area Wednesday, making the thousands of people who lost homes and businesses in the 125- mph storm eligible for federal aid. The relief effort will be coordi- nated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which re- ported the Labor Day storm dam- aged or destroyed 3,790 dwellings and 1,400 businesses in the three counties along Mississippi's 80-mile Gulf Coast. FEMA said 3,000 homes were damaged so severely they are unliv- able and temporary housing must be Paul E. Hall of FEMA's Atlanta office, who will head the relief ef- fort, said homeowners may borrow up to $100,000 for structural repairs and up to $20,000 for personal prop- erty. The Small Business Administra- tion will authorize loans up to $500,000 for businesses damaged or destroyed in the storm. The interest rates on loans will be 4 percent or 8 percent, depending on the borrow- er's credit rating. FEMA said "millions of dollars" in federal assistance would be avail- able to the hurricane-ravaged coast, but said official estimates of Elena's damage were not yet available. Richard Glazier, public informa- tion officer for the Harrison County Civil Defense, indicated the overall damage in Mississippi, Florida, Ala- bama and Louisiana could exceed the $2 billion total of Hurricane Frederic in 1979. "The damage itself (from Elena) is less than in Frederic, but the dol- lar amount is greater because of inflation," Glazier said. Federal officials said an overall damage total should be known soon, but Glazier said preliminary esti- mates place Mississippi's damage at more than a half-billion dollars. Jerry Melvin, executive vice president of the Greater Fort Walton Beach (Fla.) Chamber of Com- merce, said the hurricane cost $16.4 million in lost tourist dollars for the Panhandle counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay. 1/FOR Sim Attack Alabama Delared Disaster Area By Preisident 0.53 9/5/85 WASHINGTON (AP) L President Reagan declared -- Alabama a major disaster area Saturday, permitting the use of federal funds for relief and recovery efforts stemming from the damage caused by Hurricane Elena. The president's action, announced by the White House, means that federal assistance from the president's disaster relief fund will be available for inidividual or family grants, as well as temporary housing for disaster victims. Disaster loans from the Small Business Administration and emergency loans from the Farmers Home Administration will also be available, the White House statement said. Local governments will receive assistance for damaged public facilities under the president's action, the announcement said. Dragomán June1, 1979 Muzorewa takes helm of Zimbabwe Rhodesia By SERGE SCHMEMANN SALISBURY, Zimbabwe Rhodesia (AP) - Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa ushered in the new state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia at the stroke of midnight Thursday, declaring it "the victorious minute we have struggled for and wait- ed for over 88 years of colonial domina- tion and subjugation." The brief radio and television ad- dress by the country's first black prime minister, along with a government ga- zette proclamation, were the only offi- cial acts marking the inception of the new state - which was saddled from birth with international isolation, es- calating civil war and factional rival- ries. "This is Friday, June 1, 1979, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be grateful and be extremely glad, began Muzorewa, a 54-year-old bishop of the United Methodist Church. He promised "sober and decent lead- ership" and fervently appealed for na- tional unity: "I ask you to devote all your physi- cal, mental and spiritual energies to achieve . . . in this wonderful land of ours a oneness which will be the envy of the whole world." The gazette proclamation ended the 15-year white-minority administration of Prime Minister Ian Smith and offi- cially transferred government powers to Muzorewa and his Cabinet of 11 blacks and five whites. The new minis- ters will be sworn in Friday, with Smith becoming a minister without portfolio. But in the last hours before the transfer, informed sources said nation- alist guerrillas had been warning blacks in rural villages and towns to stay in- doors. 'In Salisbury, the rift between Mu- zorewa and his former partner in the 14-month transitional government, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, widened with police detentions of at least 11 officials of Sithole's Zimbabwe African National Union. Sithole has charged that April's par- liamentary elections were rigged and he is boycotting the new government. He made the allegations after his party was overwhelmed by Muzorewa's United African National Council. === Page 16 of 31 Kenneth Englade # Biggest Rhodesian Battle Shaping Up ① Send to Jeffrey - ② (Dear in next life, confronts mountain lion...) Feb. 26, 1978 SALISBURY, Rhodesia -- The biggest battle of the 12-year-old Rhodesian war is shaping up, and it promises to be as vicious and uncompromising as any that has been fought in this southern African country. In the bush, it's Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-led forces against black guerrillas sweeping in from neighboring Zambia and Mozambique. But the forthcoming battle will be between the country's 90,000 or so white voters. And it's going to be deadly. Consider the mood in this outwardly peaceful, flower-decked capital. * The war. The usual rainy season increase notwithstanding, the fighting is steadily intensifying and January was one of the bloodiest months on record. Guerrillas attacked in the Salisbury suburbs, ambushing one white family in the driveway of their home. In one week-long span the guerrillas killed eight whites within an hour's drive of downtown Salisbury. * The government. Possibly as a result of the increased fighting, or fearful of its effects on white morale, the government passed two new censorship laws tightening restrictions on the press to such an extent that almost everything now has to be cleared through military censors. * The tension. After the attacks on the Salisbury outskirts, weapons sales climbed dramatically. People living on the city's edges talked about moving closer into town. Farmers in a previously "safe" area began erecting eight-foot-high chainlink fences around their homes. Bomb scares have forced scattered evacuations of large sections of the downtown area. * The politicians. Prime Minister Ian Smith, undoubtedly under tremendous pressure, lost his temper with newsmen at a televised news conference. A newspaper called it "his worst radio and television broadcast." Bishop Abel Muzorewa, one of the black nationalists negotiating with Smith, walked out of a meeting after claiming Smith's deputy called him a liar. * The pressure. The British, after saying for many months they would not recognize a settlement worked out without the leaders of the guerrilla armies -- Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe -- reluctantly admitted they might take a look at a new majority rule constitution drawn up by Smith and nationalists living within Rhodesia. But one has to be drawn up first. And it has to be approved by the country's white voters in what is building up as the conclusive battle of Rhodesia. The closer Smith gets to a settlement, the more restive the rightwing whites become. Represented almost exclusively by the Rhodesian Action Party (RAP) -- a breakaway force from Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front (RF) Party -- the conservatives have found some able spokesmen, and perhaps some willing listeners. In the last few days more than 900 persons have turned out for RAP gatherings in opposite ends of the California-sized country. That's a pretty good showing considering the small number of whites in Rhodesia. It is especially good when one considers the RAP was not able to win a single seat in last August's parliamentary elections. The concern now -- as opposed to last summer -- is an impending internal settlement designed to end the five-year-old guerrilla war. The country's conservative whites, however, apparently fear a settlement worked out by Smith is going to sell them down the river. Since Smith has already promised whites he would submit any proposed constitution to a popular vote before it becomes effective, a strong enough drive by RAP could wreck months of work by the negotiators. Experts figure Smith will need to get 80 percent approval by the voters before he can count it a victory. And RAP is already making tentative jabs to see that Smith's effort fails. Ted Sutton-Pryce, one of the most accomplished RAP spokesmen, told an eager audience: "There is still the will to survive in Rhodesia... no one has us on the ground and is going to kick us around... the survival of the white community is at stake... it is a question of survival against Marxist pressure to kick us out." PK Power Sutton-Pryce also debunked Smith's much vaunted attempt to ensure "safeguards" for whites after a black takeover. "There are no recognized safeguards for minority groups. This is... a fact of life. The RF has committed us to majority rule. This is a disaster looking for a place to happen." True!! *The writer is a former United Press International bureau chief in Albuquerque and is now a free lance writer in Rhodesia.* === Page 17 of 31 March 9, 1978 # South Africa Has Largest White Exodus Since '60 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UPI) -- South Africa last year suffered its biggest white exodus since 1960 and only its second since World War II and the figures would have been greater had not thousands of whites entered the country from neighboring Rhodesia. Figures released by the Department of Statistics showed that 26,000 whites left South Africa last year and 24,822 came to settle. The net loss of 1,178 white emigrants during 1977 was kept relatively low by 8,077 whites fleeing political and economic uncertainty and the guerrilla war in neighboring white-ruled Rhodesia. The 1977 statistics show a dramatic reversal over the previous two years and according to political analysts is symptomatic of South Africa's political situation. The analysts noted the continuing unrest in the black townships, increasing pressure from western nations for meaningful changes for the black majority and the government's failure to respond. They said another factor contributing to the exodus were the persistent warnings from opposition politicians and black leaders of future disaster if the government did not change its policies towards the blacks. Statistics show that in 1975 South Africa had a net gain of 40,209 white immigrants and in 1976 there was a net gain of 30,598. Last year's net loss was the second negative migration figure since 1945: in 1960, 9,805 whites came to settle but 12,705 left the country -- a net loss of 2,906. It was the greatest white exodus since 1960 -- the year when bloody antigovernment demonstrations in black townships such as Sharpville and political developments at the time sent thousands of whites out of the country. Alf Widman, opposition progressive Federal Party parliamentary spokesman on immigration, described the 1977 figures as "staggering." "South Africa cannot afford a population loss of this magnitude," he said. # Cold Canadian air causes record temperatures in 33 U.S. cities Tribune Staff and Wires 10 / 2 / 85 Cold Canadian air chilled the Plains and Rockies Tuesday with temperatures in the 20s and 30s, setting records in 33 cities from North Dakota to Texas while 8 inches of snow blanketed Poplar Lake, Minn. High pressure systems over southwest Montana and southeast Kansas brought the unseasonably cold, early morning temperatures to the Plains, breaking records in 11 states. Readings were in the 40s as far south as southeast Texas. "It's cold Canadian air pouring down into the central part of the nation," said Paul Fike, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo. "It will start to make a little push to the east" tonight. Frost or freeze warnings were posted for Tuesday night in parts of Wisconsin and eastern Missouri and frost warnings were posted for all of Illinois and Indiana, Fike said. The temperatures dropped to 19 degrees in Bismark, N.D., breaking the 1936 record of 20. It was 42 in Abilene, Texas, 1 degree below the 1906 record. Readings of 23 in Cheyenne, Wyo., and 22 in North Platte, Neb., tied record lows that had stood for more than a century. In the Tampa Bay area, residents can expect partly cloudy skies today and Thursday with high temperatures near 80 and lows in the lower 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin. There is a 30 percent chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers both days, forecasters say. Heavy snow fell overnight in extreme northeast Minnesota. Up to 8 inches of snow covered Poplar Lake, Minn., making roads slippery. An inch of snow was reported at International Falls. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered Tuesday over the Southeast where very little precipitation fell in September. A half-inch of rain fell Tuesday in Beckley, W.V., which recorded its driest September in this century. Rain was moving toward Raleigh, N.C., and Lynchburg, Va., which had their second driest Septembers ever. Greensboro, N.C., reported only a trace of precipitation last month, making it the driest month on record, the weather service said. # Hailstorm kills 20 in Brazil 10 / 3 / 85 ITABIRINHA, Brazil -- Rescuers hacked through ice slabs Wednesday searching for victims of a freak hailstorm that killed at least 20 people and left the streets covered in foot-deep sheets of ice. The storm Monday afternoon lasted only 15 minutes but damaged over 2,000 houses. Almost 4,000 people in the town of 10,000 were left homeless. Communication with the town of Itabirinha, 300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, were severed, and news of the deaths emerged slowly. "So far we have 20 confirmed dead -- two from direct hail blows on the head," Dr. Nilson de Oliveira said. Other victims were frozen, drowned or crushed under ice, falling masonry or collapsing earth banks. === Page 18 of 31 THE ONLY STRESS showing in this statement is Burt's anger, says voice expert Charles McQuiston. Truth Detector Reveals: Nat'l Enquirer 9/10/85 # Burt Reynolds Telling the Truth When He Denies Having AIDS Burt Reynolds told the truth when he declared "I'm not suffering from AIDS" in a TV interview. That's the conclusion of Charles R. McQuiston, who used the truth-detecting Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) to analyze Burt's answers to probing questions from Rona Barrett on "Entertainment Tonight" August 16. The PSE is so remarkably accurate that it's been used by more than 300 law enforcement agencies and has been accepted by courts in many states. Rumors that Burt is suffering from AIDS or possibly cancer have been spreading like wildfire ever since the actor's much-publicized health problems forced him to drop out of a big movie project recently. Here are Burt's answers, followed by the professional analysis of McQuiston, a former U.S. intelligence officer and coinventor of the PSE, which detects deception by charting stress patterns in a person's voice. Burt: "No, I'm not suffering from AIDS ... No, I'm not suffering from cancer." McQuiston: "He is telling the truth. And the patterns on the charts distinctly show that he's also feeling anger." Barrett asked Burt what his real physical problem was. Burt: "It's what's called ... temporomandibular joint problem ... I got hit (by) a chair doin' a fight scene, and ... it just moved my bite around ... I couldn't eat." McQuiston: "He is making a statement that is irrefutable." During the interview, Burt explained why he thinks the AIDS rumor has persisted. Burt: "Somebody, someone, someplace is bound and determined to nail me." McQuiston: "He says this with much emphasis. It's clear on the analysis charts that he really believes this to be true." -- MARIAN MILLER BURT REYNOLDS "Someone, someone, someplace is determined to nail me." Trib 8/18/85 Italian residents report UFO Florence, Italy -- Residents in central and northern Italy reported seeing a bright-colored unidentified flying object early Saturday. In the area of Pavia, 18 miles south of Milan, residents in scattered districts reported seeing a circular object emanating an intense green and orange light shortly after midnight. Trib, 10/8/85 Killer asks for new trial RICHMOND, Va. -- Lawyers for Jeffrey MacDonald pressed a federal appeals court Monday to order a new trial for the former Green Beret doctor serving life for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. A ruling is not expected for several months. Defense lawyer Bryan O'Neill told the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that new evidence -- including statements by 35 witnesses -- supported MacDonald's claim of innocence. The fatal stabbings of Colette MacDonald, 26, and her two daughters inspired Joe McGinniss' best-selling book, "Fatal Vision." === Page 19 of 31 12-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, August 14, 1985 Newsmakers T. Bay Bandits PK Reynolds' agent challenges rumors LOS ANGELES -- Burt Reynolds' agent, angry over rumors that the star has been hospitalized in San Francisco with AIDS, says he will pay $100,000 to anyone who can prove Reynolds has been in the city by the bay within the past two years. "The man is here working day after day," David Gershenson said Monday. "He's in public all the time. This is ridiculous. He's here looking and feeling fine." He said Reynolds is preparing to direct an episode of Steven Spielberg's television series, "Amazing Stories." San Francisco General Hospital has received a number of calls asking about Reynolds, "but he's not here," said a hospital spokeswoman. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an affliction in which the body's immune system becomes unable to resist disease. It is most likely to strike homosexuals, abusers of injectable drugs and hemophiliacs. Movie and TV star Rock Hudson has AIDS and is hospitalized in Los Angeles. Reynolds does not have AIDS, his agent says. Tampa Bay Bandits 3 owners: Arky, Reynolds, Bassett. Arky blew his brains out. Bassett suddenly developed inoperable brain tumors. Reynolds is very ill with a "mysterious" ailment. Owens === Page 20 of 31 9/4/85 Sun Bank cashier said computers had gone they were today all other Ocala (other banks, etc.) Could have been caused by my anger over life hacks of Star Banner re Elena / Have never removed the fee - force attack on the solar - could be expanding. Star Banner PK Broken Presses Change Star-Banner's Format O.SB 8/19/85 The configuration of sections in the Ocala Star-Banner have not been normal for the past two days because of a broken gear in the press folder. The paper has been printed in two sections rather than the usual four or more sections because of the mishap. The Star-Banner has been assured the gear will be repaired Monday. Readers are urged to be patient until normal operations can resume. Storms Flip Planes In Detroit; Winds Thrash Kansas By The Associated Press UFO Sun Attack 08/19/85 Heavy thunderstorms whipped up 70 mph winds in Kansas after others smashed trailer parks, killing one man and tossing another 100 feet, flipped planes and turned out lights for 50,000 homes in Michigan as the remains of Danny drenched the mid-Atlantic Coast. The last remnants of Danny, which did minor damage as a hurricane in Louisiana before spawning tornadoes in Alabama and South Carolina and flooding parts of Virginia and North Carolina, was expected to move offshore today. As Danny moved toward the coast Sunday, it continued to soak parts of North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. More than 5 1/2 inches of rain fell on Richmond, Va., on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Earlier Sunday, thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph buffeted Lakin, Kan., knocking down power lines and road signs and blowing the roof off a trailer. The towns of Ford, Greensburg, Kinsey and Pratt also were hit. Thunderstorms whirling 51 mph gusts "flipped over a couple of airplanes that weren't tied down right" on Sunday at Detroit City Airport, a spokesman said. An estimated 50,000 homes were without electricity in southeastern lower Michigan. Utility officials said the last 6,000 would be in service today. Meanwhile, emergency officials in Alabama walked along the multimillion-dollar trail of destruction left by 24 tornadoes spawned by Danny, and tornado victims returned to their shattered homes in Spartanburg, S.C. On Saturday, a 55-year-old man was killed when winds that destroyed 13 mobile homes and damaged 30 others smashed his trailer near Emporia, Kan., said Lyon County sheriff's Deputy Ron Petersen. Estimates Rise To $210 Million; Some Homes Still Without Power By The Associated Press O.SB 10/3/85 Damage estimates climbed to more than $210 million in states struck last week by Hurricane Gloria as a quarter of a million homes and businesses remained without power today for a sixth day. State officials in New York were preparing Wednesday to ship 500,000 pounds of dry ice to between 150,000 and 165,000 customers estimated to be without power on Long Island, Gov. Mario Cuomo said. Emergency agencies already had provided 5,000 batteries to Suffolk County for flashlights and radios, Cuomo said. The governor estimated that damage on Long Island, where Gloria made landfall Friday, would exceed $100,000. New York City dispatched about 50 city workers to aid in the cleanup effort in Suffolk County. The state planned to send 15 six-person crews. Elected officials criticized Long Island Lighting Co. board chairman William J. Catacosinos, who was vacationing in Europe during the hurricane and was not expected back at work until today. Catacosinos was scheduled to tour LILCO facilities during the afternoon to thank some of the more than 4,000 workers who have been struggling to repair utility lines and to thank customers for cooperation during the emergency. About 45,000 Long Island customers had no phone service Wednesday, said New York Telephone Co. spokesman John Quinn. In Massachusetts, utility officials were coming under fire from local officials. Brockton City Councilor Louis F. Angelo and two other city councilors planned to lead a march today at the local office of Eastern Edison Co., the utility with the most Massachusetts customers still without lights. Work crews cut the total still in the dark to 13,500 late Wednesday, down from the 450,000 without power after Gloria struck. "We are hoping to have by tomorrow evening practically all our customers back," utility president Alan K. Hamer said Wednesday night. He said the utility had imported from other states 80 of the 109 crews working. === Page 21 of 31 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, October 2, 1985 3-A # Most Northeast utilities uninsured for damage inflicted by hurricane UFOs Sun Attack By FRED BAYLES Associated Press NEW YORK -- When Hurricane Gloria came roaring up on the Northeast last week, knocking down power and phone lines, most of the region's utilities were not insured for damage that may run as high as $70 million. The decision by many insurance companies to stop selling storm insurance, or to charge hefty rate increases, left utilities and their customers holding the bills for damage from once-in-a-decade hurricanes to seasonal ice storms. Long Island Lighting Co. and Northeast Utilities, New England's largest electric company, recently lost their "transmission and distribution facility disaster insurance," which covers labor, materials, transporation and other expenses necessary to restore power systems lost to storm damage. Both utilities were hit hard by Gloria, which cut off service to hundreds of thousands of customers. Emmanuel Forde, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities, said a consortium of insurers, headed by Lloyd's of London, canceled the coverage on July 1. The utility subsequently tried to buy coverage from 17 other insurance companies. All the firms turned down Northeast's bid. The Hartford, Conn.-based company, which had been insured up to $10 million for storm repairs, is stuck for a repair bill that may exceed $20 million. Customers may share that cost, through higher rates. "The state regulators will look into it to determine who will pay," said Forde. Carol Clawson, a spokeswoman for Long Island Lighting, said the utility's entire system would have to be rebuilt in the wake of Gloria. "We have suffered more damage than any storm in our history," she said. State officials and analysts have put the cost at $25 million to $30 million. Clawson said the utility recently lost its storm damage insurance after years of relying on insurance to cover the cost of winter ice storms and occasional hurricanes. "When all power is restored we will assess the cost and make a determination on how the bills will be paid," she said. Other utilities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island also reported they had no insurance. Mary Wallan, a spokeswoman for Boston Edison Co., said the company's 600,000 customers in the Boston area will eventually pick up the $6 million plus tab for Hurricane Gloria. Wallan said the utility dropped its insurance coverage because of its high cost. Southern New England Telephone, still trying to restore service to 7,900 customers in Connecticut on Tuesday, had insurance coverage on its transmission equipment. Spokesman Mike McCann said it was unlikely the utility would collect on the policy that carries a $5 million deductible. McCann said customers would not be billed for the damages. The decision by insurance companies to drop storm coverage or raise premiums and deductable limits follows a trend that has seen the industry become more selective, and expensive, about who it is willing to insure. Over the past year, insurance companies have raised rates or dropped coverage to customers ranging from nursing homes to municipalities to chemical companies, all in an attempt to cut losses. Warren Levy, a spokesman with the Insurance Information Institute, a trade association based in New York, said the industry suffered a $3.8 billion loss last year in casualty insurance, partially due to large claims. "Some utilities, if not all utilities, will have millions of dollars of losses in a given year," he said. "For the insurance companies it's not a question of whether you will pay out on a claim, but how much you will pay. "This turns out to be not much of a bargain for the insurance industry," Levy said. Susan Roth, a spokeswoman with the Edison Electric Institute, said many utilities have dropped the increasingly expensive storm coverage. "It's just a matter of analyzing how much it's going to cost you and what the risk is going to be," she said. Some companies have responded to the high costs and high deductables by providing their own insurance. Commonwealth Electricity, which serves southeastern Massachusetts, now puts aside money for storm repairs -- in effect, insuring itself. === Page 22 of 31 Delta pilots not warned of weather Delta Flight 191 crashed while trying to land in Dallas, killing 136 people. By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press WASHINGTON -- In the minutes before Delta Flight 191 crashed while trying to land at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a thunderstorm was clearly apparent and a pilot who had just landed noticed what he thought was a tornado along the approach. But National Transportation Safety Board documents indicated Monday the pilot of Flight 191 never was warned of the storm's severity. Less than 10 minutes before the crash he was told by air traffic controllers that there was "only a little rain" north of the airport. Investigators have speculated that the Aug. 2 crash, which killed 136 people, was caused by wind shear, a severe change of wind direction that literally forced the Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet into the ground as it was about to land. A transcript of exchanges in the cockpit just before the crash supported the wind-shear theory because the crew could be heard struggling to increase power amid the backdrop of engines revving to maximum power. This was followed by a sound similar to a landing and someone saying, "Oh ..." and what the NTSB called a non-printable word. Almost immediately there was the sound of a second impact and silence. The flight, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was bound for Los Angeles with an interim stop at Dallas when it encountered heavy rain, lightning and treacherous winds short of the runway. The plane first touched down in a field, bounced across a highway where it struck a car and crashed into water tanks before bursting into flames. According to the transcript from the cockpit voice recorder, the crew was concerned during the approach Crash From Page 1A about severe weather in the area. Several times they criticized air traffic controllers for directing them too close to a severe weather cell. "We're going to get our airplane washed," Price, a 15-year veteran with Delta, remarked. A short time later, about 90 seconds before the crash, he observed lightning, "right ahead of us" as the plane continued its descent. "You get good legs, don't ya," quipped the flight engineer, referring to the co-pilot and pilot switching off flying duties on different legs of the trip. The co-pilot was at the controls. As they spoke, another Delta crew, its plane taxiing away from the runway after having landed, already had noticed the severe weather along the approach path. "Is that a waterspout out there on the end (of the runway)?" the pilot of the Boeing 737 remarked. "I don't know. Sure looks like it. doesn't it? Looks like a tornado or something," the co-pilot replied. "Like it," the co-pilot replied. About 2 1/2 minutes later, the two Delta crew members, neither of whom was identified, saw the fireball beyond the runway where Flight 191 had crashed. According to sources close to the investigation, there is no indication that the sighting of a possible tornado on the approach was ever relayed to the control tower or on Flight 191. While lightning was seen from the airport tower and at least 20 pilots saw the severe weather developing to the north end of the airport runway before Flight 191's arrival, "this observation was not disseminated to any flights on tower frequency," the NTSB documents said. A recorded weather advisory for "incoming aircraft did not refer to thunderstorm and heavy rain showers" until 25 minutes after the plane crashed, according to an NTSB summary. See CRASH, Page 4A === Page 23 of 31 OCALA STAR-BANNER P.O. Box 490, Ocala, Florida 32670 Affiliated with Gainesville (Fla.) Sun Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger Leesburg (Fla.) Daily Commercial Palatka (Fla.) Daily News Lake City (Fla.) Reporter Sebring (Fla.) News Fernandina Beach (Fla.) News-Leader Avon Park (Fla.) Sun Marco Island (Fla.) Eagle Lexington (N.C.) Dispatch Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News Sept. 5, 1985 Dear Mr. Owens: This is to advise you that we do not have a Jim Michaels working on our staff. No one with that name has ever worked for us, nor do I know anyone with that name. Sincerely, Bernard Watts Bernard Watts Editor Asst Sup Marcos Ken Viannello Frederick Smiley 1:15 PM call 9/11/85 Jim Michaels O.S.B. NYT A New York Times Company === Page 24 of 31 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, October 5, 1985 # Quake shakes Tokyo buildings UFOs Sun Attack TOKYO (UPI) -- The strongest earthquake to strike Tokyo in more than half a century Friday swayed skyscrapers and stranded thousands of commuters in subways and trains. At least 16 people were injured, authorities said. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, shook central and northern Japan at 9:26 p.m. for between 20 and 30 seconds. There were no reports of damage. The agency said there was no danger of a tidal wave from the temblor, the strongest earthquake to hit Tokyo since July 27, 1929. The Tokyo Fire Department said at least 14 people suffered minor injuries in the capital, including a 79-year-old woman who fell out of her bed and broke her wrist and a 7-year-old girl who was slightly hurt when a camera fell on her. In Tokyo's neighboring Chiba prefecture, police said two people were slightly injured. A police spokesman said one woman was trapped in an elevator for more than an hour before fire department officials rescued her. She was unharmed. The epicenter of the quake was located about 50 miles underground, on the border of Chiba and Ibaragi prefectures surrounding Tokyo, the meteorological agency said. The earthquake caused buildings and electricity poles to sway, household articles to fall and dishes and glassware to rattle. It disrupted road traffic and ground to a halt train and subway services around Tokyo. Tokyo residents, accustomed to frequent tremors, were alarmed by the quake because of the extensive media coverage of Mexico City's devastating earthquake last month that left at least 7,000 people dead. The Tokyo Fire Department said it received about 240 phone calls in two hours from panicked city residents. One businessman described the swaying of his high-rise office building as like "riding on a merry-go-round." Japan's high-speed bullet trains were briefly stopped, disrupting travel for 660,000 people. Other railway and subway lines were ordered temporarily halted. Traffic on several major highways came to a standstill. "The bullet train stopped and the lights went out. I looked out the window and saw the guard rail shaking and I knew it was an earthquake," said one passenger at Tokyo station. **Tokyo earthquake** At 6.2 on the Richter scale, it's Tokyo's strongest quake in 56 years. CHINA / U.S.S.R Sea of Japan S. KOREA JAPAN Tokyo Epicenter Pacific Ocean Tribune graphic UPI photo # Deadly pileup UFOs Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 Vehicles on Interstate 5 near Sacramento, Calif., are piled on top of each other Sunday following a massive chain-reaction accident, which claimed the lives of eight persons and left at least 40 injured. The accident was caused when thick smoke from a nearby grass fire blinded northbound motorists on the busy freeway. UFOs Sun Attack Trib. 10/8/85 # 91 cars, 4 trucks in highway pileup VIENNA, Austria -- At least 91 cars and four trucks piled up in a chain-reaction crash caused by fog on a north Austrian autobahn Monday, police said. Twelve people were reported injured. The expressway north of Linz was closed for four hours by the accident. The Austria Press Agency said two cars had been involved in a minor accident in the fog, and that the other vehicles, unable to stop, started piling up behind them. === Page 25 of 31 Reagan Proposed Another $411 Million in Aid Last Week Little to Look Forward to in Ethiopia Seeks Funding For Trip To Ethiopia To The Editor: Your excellent reporter, Mary Ann Murdoch, did an article re my work in parapsychology and psi not long ago. Fine writing on her part. She can vouch that I have many credentials. It is my wish to be able to travel to Ethiopia to bring the long-overdue rains down in that country. It would save thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. In the hard-cover book, "Mysteries," by Colin Wilson, you can read how he and his wife were present in London, England, in 1976, at the time I was giving a lecture on parapsychology and psi-phenomena before top scientists of the world. And I ended the killer-drought then prevalent in England. Mr. Wilson describes the episode in his book. There are a dozen books in the library, written by experts, which describe my work. Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., states in an article that he did about my work in Fate Magazine, that I seem to have the powers of the ancient shamans of old, who could control weather. At any rate, some wealthy local person would have to bankroll the trip, since I haven't the funds for it. Someone who might feel compassion for those pitifully sick Ethiopian children and adults who are dying from drought and starvation. Ted Owens Ocala Star-Banner 1/11/85 === Page 26 of 31 Reagan Proposed Another $411 Million in Aid Last Week # Little to Look Forward to in Ethiopia Famine refugees in Makale, Ethiopia. Contact/David Burnett By CLIFFORD D. MAY ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- On the dusty slope by St. Michael's Church in Makale, in the cold, early morning wind, the dead and the living lie side by side waiting for the stretcher bearers to sort them out. About 13,000 people have descended on this patch of hard ground called, without apparent irony, "the reception area" for Makale's refugee camps. "A month ago, things were getting better here," said Brother Bullo, a relief worker and member of the Salesian order. "Now, I'm afraid they're worse again." In Bati, a couple of hundred miles farther south, a woman stands inside a plastic tent washing the body of her mother for burial. She performs the Moslem ritual with silent intensity, tears coursing down her cheeks. When she is finished, she wraps the body in a shroud made of bags that days before had contained donated grain. The body is then carried to a hill nearby where some of Bati's 32 full-time grave diggers have prepared a place. "The first graves we dug at the bottom of the hill," said Ahmed Behoney, pointing to a spot several hundred yards down a slope. "And soon, I think, we will reach the top. But we do not work so much now as before." Several months after the world learned of the severity of Ethiopia's famine, the crisis appears to be moving from the first stage of sudden and frantic response to a second, longer stage of chronic suffering and relentless coping. Setting up camps and feeding centers and finding donors willing to supply them has become less of a problem than managing and administering the more than 200 installations that now exist. (In Washington last week, President Reagan said 14 million Africans were threatened by hunger and proposed an additional allocation of $411 million for famine relief, bringing the total aid in this fiscal year to $1 billion. How much of the increase was new money was in dispute. The Administration also announced a Food for Progress program to encourage countries to abandon socialist farm policies in favor of capitalist ones.) Conditions in the camps ease or worsen depending on a variety of changing factors. At Makale, for example, which until recently was known as a model camp, the situation has clearly deteriorated. More than 65,000 people have crowded into tents and shelters and the 13,000 still awaiting admission are no longer being quickly processed and cared for. "Too many new ones arrive every day," Brother Bullo said. "They just keep coming and coming from farther and farther away." In this highland region the weather has also turned hostile. The temperature at night is just above freezing and unseasonable rains occasionally drench the refugees, many of whom are clothed only in rags or goatskins. Poor sanitary practices have been spreading disease as well. Few of the peasants now crowded together in the camps have used latrines before or washed regularly and many are reluctant to do so now. For these and other reasons, Makale's death rate, which not long ago had been reduced to about five a day, has now risen again more than tenfold. ## A Cloudy Future In contrast, the death rate at Bati, which currently holds about 22,000 refugees, has fallen by two-thirds from the high of 150 a day just a few weeks ago. "We are really seeing an improvement here now," said Sigridur Gudmundsdottir, an Icelandic nurse working for the Red Cross. "The basic reason is simply that no one is without shelter and there's more food coming in. As long as that continues we can probably manage." Trappings of normal life have even begun to emerge. Families sit in front of their tents tending fires of twigs, boiling water for tea and toasting a bit of grain shipped in from Saskatchewan or Nebraska. Some of the refugees have begun to complain of monotony in their diet, "a sure sign they're getting healthier," a relief worker noted. All this represents an accomplishment, but there are disturbing questions about what will happen next. How long these people will remain in the camps? How many of them will ever again be able to grow their own food or earn their own living? The refugees themselves say they want to go back to the land when the rains return. But many Western experts fear that reduced rainfall in this part of the world is a longterm trend. The experts also note that much of Ethiopia has supported too many people and too much livestock for far too long on soil severely eroded in many areas and depleted of minerals in others. Only 3 percent of the soil is still protected by trees. For all these reasons, it is likely that what the future holds for many of the refugees already exists in Jijiga, in the Harerghe region, where a feeding center run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity serves both famine victims and returnees from the Ethiopian-Somalia war of 1977. "These people were severely malnourished when they arrived," said Sister Bertilla. "But they are healthy now. After four years they no longer look like famine victims." But after that time, they are also still dependent upon handouts. And as the drought and famine continue to spread, the sisters are feeding a growing number of people, who arrive dejected and helpless. Exclm 53 1/7/85 === Page 27 of 31 I could give Africa all the rain it needs. Gwene # U.S., Canada Nurses Help Starving ## 4 Treating Sick In Ethiopia Camp JEHOWA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Three American nurses and a Canadian colleague who are here to care for Ethiopian famine victims sleep in tents, subsist on a diet of baked beans and vegetable soup and make their home is a rustic camp near the majestic highlands of northern Shoa Region. The four, working about 150 miles from Addis Ababa, face serious health hazards themselves in working to save thousands suffering from starvation. Team leader Edith Wald, 51, of New York City, was evacuated home after contracting an illness which was not immediately diagnosed. The nurses say they often get discouraged and depressed. But little victories keep them going. "We had a woman in last week," recalled Geraldine Scott, 42, of New York City. "Her daughter and son were close to death, but we managed to save the boy. We lost one, but the mother didn't lose both her children. "It's little things like that -- like the first smile from a child too weak to eat when it arrived -- that make it worthwhile, that make us love our work," Miss Scott said. Eileen Mullaney, 29, of Cohasset, Mass., walked through the camp supervising workmen and carrying Ali Omar, a boy orphaned by famine and blinded in one eye by trachoma, a disease brought on by vitamin deficiency which afflicts many children here. "If we only had some vitamin A we would help prevent some of this," she said. "But we just don't have it, so we have to watch these kids go blind." The four are volunteers. They traded their white uniforms for blue jeans and T-shirts, and sterile hospital wards for dusty earthen floors. "We're not hurting," said Miss Mullaney. "I don't mind sleeping on the floor and I'm warm at night in my sleeping bag. I don't even mind the mosquitoes and flies. It's only the sand fleas that really bug me." Aside from Miss Scott and Miss Mullaney, the other nurses roughing it at the Jehowa emergency feeding station are Betty Normandin, 35, of Watertown, Mass.; and Canadian Gwen Sali, 29, of Estevan, Saskatchewan. One recent day Geraldine Scott was found washing an emaciated 7-year-old boy named Omar, a member of Ethiopia's Oromo tribe, under the corrugated-roofed intensive feeding center. "Omar's mother has died and his father is sick -- both because of a lack of food. So his old grandmother, who's also weak, brought him in today. She has to carry him on her back because he's still to weak to walk," Miss Scott said. The aged grandmother embarrassed the American nurse by taking her hand and gently kissing it to express her gratitude. She then asked for some food to carry back home with her, but Miss Scott said she had to refuse the request. "We've already given her a week's supply of supplementary food for Omar," the nurse explained. "The problem is we never ever have enough food. "Last week there was no skim milk. We have some this week, but we haven't seen sugar for two weeks," Miss Scott added, her voice trembling. A general shortage of cereals is undermining the nurses' work, which is aimed primarily at children and infants. The government estimates that 9 million of Ethiopia's 42 million people are affected by the prolonged drought and famine. "We distribute food here to families from 14 districts -- anything from 5,000 to 15,000 people in all. The problem is when we don't have grain, we can only hand out the supplementary foods for children in the families." Miss Scott went on: "We know, of course, that when we give them no grain, the family has no other food, so the children's food will be shared among them all." The nurses say they would like to keep the seriously ill in their camp around the clock, instead of feeding them during the day and sending them away at night. But they don't have the facilities. The camp is in need of an electric generator, a water tank and a tractor to transport the water. "At the moment, we've hired a woman whose only job is to walk miles every day to the river and back carrying gourds of water that we boil up at the camp," said Miss Mullaney. === Page 28 of 31 # FAMINE IN AFRICA: WHAT HOPE FOR THE STARVING? Battered by the worst drought in a century, millions of Africans are suffering from starvation and severe malnutrition. How did it happen? What can be done? by Kathy Wilmore How many times have you seen them -- the haunting faces of the hungry? You know them well: the huge, dark eyes gazing out at the world from heads that seem too large, too heavy for the bony necks that support them. You can see that they are suffering, but why? Look beyond the faces, at the land. Years of drought (lack of rain) have drained all life from the soil. Africa, the world's second-largest continent, is on the edge of disaster: It cannot feed its people. **A Killing Drought** The Sahara Desert stretches across much of the northern third of the African continent. Its area: 3.5 million square miles, almost as large as the 50 United States combined. The Sahara, the largest desert in the world, is growing at an alarming rate. In the last decade its dusty dryness has moved steadily southward by six to 12 miles each year (see map on p. 18). Lack of rain in much of sub-Saharan Africa (lands south of the desert) has helped the desert spread. People living in parts of Ethiopia, the Sudan, Chad, Kenya, and many other nations have seen no rain at all in two, three, or more years. Many of the farmers in these lands have always been poor. In the best of times, they had to struggle to grow enough to feed their families. The lucky ones managed to grow a little more, enough to sell. But now the dry soil yields nothing -- and the people go hungry. Those who are strong enough to travel leave their homes and start walking. Mothers and fathers carry small children; other children carry baby brothers and sisters. They become refugees -- desperate people fleeing for their lives. Half of the world's refugees are in Africa -- between two and five million people. Their numbers grow daily as the famine (severe food shortage) grows worse. But where are they to go? So much of the continent is suffering (see News Map, p. 7). "You can't buy food that isn't there," said one relief worker, based in southeastern Africa. "So you see people scrabbling through litter for food, and you see people literally dropping dead in the street." **More Mouths, Less Food** Much of the blame for Africa's  This child, weak from hunger, must be helped to eat. 4 JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC Feb. 15, '85 === Page 29 of 31 Pascal Maitre/Gamma-Liaison OXFAM ENERGY BISCUITS This shipment of high-protein biscuits will save many lives. But it may be too late to help the baby in the relief worker's arms. from people who wanted to know how they could help. The U.S. and other nations immediately sent food and medical supplies to Ethiopia and other stricken nations. But some people said we should have acted sooner. "We have been asking for help since early 1983," charged a representative of UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "It seems you have to have thousands of corpses before people will sit up and take notice." Despite this complaint, relief workers say the flood of aid is doing some good. **What About Tomorrow?** Shipments of food grains and medical supplies are helping to save thousands of lives a day. But these are only short-term, emergency measures. Some people fear that this kind of aid may do more harm than good in the long run. If the people and their governments come to rely on imported food aid, will they make the long-term plans necessary for a better future? Most African leaders are trying to overcome the enormous problems their people face. They know that Africa will never be able to feed its own people unless domestic (at-home) food production is increased. Governments are working with farmers and scientists to develop new farming techniques, improve irrigation, and recover land lost to the spreading desert. Leaders also hope to convince people of the dangers of overpopulation, so that the climbing birthrate can be slowed to a manageable rate. The U.S. is urging African nations to give farmers more incentives to increase food production. Many nations have kept food prices artificially low to keep city dwellers happy. But that has discouraged farmers from growing more food. For now, food aid from Europe, Asia, and the Americas is more than welcome. It is the only thing keeping millions of Africans alive. **YOUR TURN** **Word Match** 1. drought a. food shortage 2. refugee b. lack of rain 3. famine c. output 4. relief d. one who flees 5. production e. aid # HOW CAN YOU HELP? News of Africa's disastrous famine may make you feel powerless to help. But there is much that you can do. The best thing to do is send money. There are many ways you can raise funds. Start a collection in your school or neighborhood, or run a bake sale. Even a little money will go a long way: $15 can feed four African children for a month. Sending packages of food is less helpful. Many African refugees have gone hungry for so long that they are unable to digest most kinds of food. Relief agencies will use the money you send to buy the types of food and medical supplies most suitable for each area. If you contribute money, send it to a reputable organization. The following are providing famine relief to Africa. American Red Cross 17th and D Streets, NW Washington, DC 20006 (or contact your local chapter) CARE: Campaign for Africa 660 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 Catholic Relief Services African Relief Fund P.O. Box 2045 Church Street Station New York, NY 10008 Oxfam America: Africa Fund 115 Broadway Boston, MA 02119 Save the Children Africa Emergency Fund P.O. Box 925 Westport, CT 06881 U.S. Committee for UNICEF P.O. Box 3040 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 6 JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC === Page 30 of 31 WORLD SIPA/Special Features The drought kills animals as well as crops -- depriving people of milk and meat as well as of grains and vegetables. food shortage has been placed on the drought. But the famine has other causes, too. Africa has the highest birthrate of all the world's continents, and is the only one whose birthrate is still on the rise. In Kenya, for example, the population is doubling every 17 years. With so many more mouths to feed, food production must be steadily increased. Just the opposite has happened. Twenty years ago, African nations were able to produce 98 percent of the food they needed. Since then, food production has dropped steadily, by 1-to-2 percent a year. Says U.S. Congressman Bill Gray (D, PA): "Drought, animal diseases, insect infestation, destruction of crops by fire and war make Africa the only continent in the world where per capita [per person] food production has declined over the past decade." **Politics and Plows** Most of the countries south of the Sahara Desert (often referred to as Black Africa), have been independent only 25 years or less. After winning independence, many of these nations raced to catch up with the "modern world" of the West. Cities sprang up, and people flocked to them in search of jobs. But who would feed these people? Farmers were often left to fend for themselves. While modern factories were going up in the cities, most farmers worked the land with the same hand tools their ancestors had used. In many of these young nations, food production has also been hampered by political strife: civil wars and other struggles have destroyed crops. **A World of Want** Much of the news about Africa's famine focuses on Ethiopia, a country on the northeastern horn of Africa. The starvation there is so widespread that it shocks even the most experience-hardened relief workers. "Never have I experienced anything like the scale of the need here," said Claire Bertschinger, a Red Cross nurse. "How do you choose who comes into the shelter?... There are so many -- so many." "Last Friday I drove from Bati to Addis [Ababa]," said Getachew Araya, the Red Cross general secretary in Ethiopia. "Starving children were lying on the road to stop food trucks. It took me five hours to travel 28 miles." Relief workers estimate that six million of Ethiopia's 32 million people are starving. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has placed Ethiopia at the top of its list of African nations worst-hit by the famine. Eleven other nations -- including Somalia, Mozambique, Zambia, and Kenya -- are also listed. Last fall, film of the terrible conditions in the relief camps of Ethiopia was aired on TV news programs in the U.S. Relief agencies were deluged with calls SIPA/Special Features Thousands of refugees flock to relief centers like this one, hoping to get even a small bit of food or medicine for their children. FEBRUARY 15, 1985 5 === Page 31 of 31 abc NEWS MAP FRANCE ITALY BLACK SEA CASPIAN SEA SPAIN TURKEY SYRIA IRAQ IRAN Mediterranean Sea Tunisia Morocco Algeria Libya Egypt Western Sahara Persian Gulf SAUDI ARABIA Mauritania Mali Niger Chad Sudan RED SEA Senegambia Bourkina Fasso Nigeria Ethiopia Djibouti Gulf of Aden Somalia Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast Ghana Benin Togo Cameroon Central African Republic Equatorial Guinea Gabon Congo Zaire Uganda Kenya Rwanda Burundi Tanzania INDIAN OCEAN Seychelles Comoros São Tomé and Principe Angola Zambia Malawi Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia (Southwest Africa) Botswana ATLANTIC OCEAN South Africa Swaziland Lesotho INDIAN OCEAN Scale: 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 Miles 0 400 800 1,200 Kilometers LEGEND: DANGER OF FAMINE Famine Severe food shortage Serious food shortage # Famine in Africa Stories about Ethiopia may grab most of the news headlines, but Ethiopia is not the only place in Africa where people are suffering from starvation and severe malnutrition. This map shows the nations hardest hit by food shortages. Study the map, then answer the following questions. 1. How many African nations are now suffering famine (severe food shortage)? __________ 2. What three famine countries lie at 20°N latitude? __________ 3. What is the only famine country that lies south of the Equator? __________ 4. Which famine countries have no seacoast, making it more difficult to import food aid? __________ 5. The only large country on Africa's east coast not experiencing famine or a serious food shortage is __________ 6. What country is completely surrounded by South Africa and is experiencing a serious food shortage? __________ 7. What nation (which shelters many Mozambican refugees) can be found at 20°S latitude, 30°E longitude? __________ 8. What nation on Africa's west coast is suffering from famine? __________ 9. What country on the north coast of Africa has a serious food problem? __________ 10. How many of Ethiopia's neighbors have problems feeding their people? __________ FEBRUARY 15, 1985 7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8511 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d0796740bdb3a8abd880152d74dc3c98.pdf fb750ab405c5459f4ec7971fa10d4722 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ed09c2975647b3458c9728a221326327.txt ecf86505bbbcfcba5684a63ffe2c23cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1985 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Ted Owens 1713 NE 29th St. Ocala, Fla. 32670 GAINESVILLE, FL 326 PM 4 SEP 1985 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 Ocala is indeed a fortunate Florida city, because icane-proof." By that I mean should this city be by more canes, I can guide them away. All that is s that I be respectfully asked to do so. y, Sunday, at 1:15 PM, saved Ocala. rked just off Cedar Key, not far from t in Elena's path after Cedar Key. had noted from the material which Mary rticle some time ago re my work that and could I utilize this ability in rom striking Ocala, naturally.) then gave me the names of a number of ol: primarily Asst. Supervisor Marcos. d research with hurricanes it has taken ication with the intelligence of a cane et. (A cane is a living thing with ort-lived...it has a child-like mind powerful telepathy. As you perhaps perts as being one of the greatest parapsychological techniques, including or psychokinesis. Well, as soon as I alized that I did not have the usual it off in another direction...so instantly ully established communication, and er direction. rd High School to see the key men that ere. We were led into a large office ng Marcos. They wanted to know who I I was stunned. The Ocala Star-Banner nese men had not seen my documented proof about a dozen different books in the I them that I could control a hurricane 11 you. One man called the Star-Banner Then Marcos adopted an insulting manner although I can understand...and I turned of there. elp, and did so. It could not be called d away. Shortly before your call two ram and one said that perhaps the cane her corrected him. "It can't," he said, Owens PK Man === Page 2 of 7 P.S. Ocala is indeed a fortunate Florida city, because it is "hurricane-proof." By that I mean should this city be threatened by more canes, I can guide them away. All that is necessary is that I be respectfully asked to do so. September 2, 1985 Mr. Jim Michaels Ocala Star-Banner Your telephone call to me, yesterday, Sunday, at 1:15 PM, saved Ocala. At that time Hurricane Elena was parked just off Cedar Key, not far from Ocala...and of course Ocala was next in Elena's path after Cedar Key. You stated, on the phone, that you had noted from the material which Mary Ann Murdock used to structure her article some time ago re my work that I had engaged in "weather control", and could I utilize this ability in connection with Elena (keep Elena from striking Ocala, naturally.) I told you yes, I would do so. You then gave me the names of a number of key men to see at Vanguard High School; primarily Asst. Supervisor Marcos. Now, in long years of doing work and research with hurricanes it has taken a day or longer to establish communication with the intelligence of a cane and then guide it to a desired target. (A cane is a living thing with intelligence, even if relatively short-lived...it has a child-like mind which can be reached by issuance of powerful telepathy. As you perhaps are aware I am rated by many top experts as being one of the greatest psychics in the world...a master of parapsychological techniques, including telepathy, and specializing in "PK" or psychokinesis. Well, as soon as I hung up the phone on your call I realized that I did not have the usual time to telepath to Elena and take it off in another direction...so instantly I began telepathing to it, successfully established communication, and instructed it to loop away in another direction. Then I took my three sons to Vanguard High School to see the key men that you listed at their huge shelter there. We were led into a large office containing a number of men, including Marcos. They wanted to know who I was. A photographer? An artist? I was stunned. The Ocala Star-Banner had not prepared the way for me. These men had not seen my documented proof over the years or read about me in about a dozen different books in the library. And I was supposed to tell them that I could control a hurricane with my mind? So I told them to call you. One man called the Star-Banner but the man there didn't know you. Then Marcos adopted an insulting manner with me that I will never forget...although I can understand...and I turned on my heel and led the children out of there. But at any rate...I was asked to help, and did so. It could not be called a "coincidence" that the cane looped away. Shortly before your call two hurricane experts were on a TV program and one said that perhaps the cane could change direction...but the other corrected him. "It can't," he said, "because it is now landlocked." Ted Owens ("PK Man") === Page 3 of 7 Ted Owens 1713 N.E. 29th St. Ocala, Fla. 32670 GAINESVILLE, FL 326 PM 24 JUL 1985 Abigail Adams USA 22 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 Jeffrey my UFOs communicated with me ver, ex-NASA weather expert, ion to him. It is this: es at NASA... Challenger, Atlantis, of July 22 my UFOs were directing Shuttles and the NASA program. ed to be compassionate... simply a board spacecraft. But now time UFO Base in order to hold back war ce... and help the face of the Earth to pierce the armor of bureaucracy ntend to ATTACK one or more of They warn that any astronauts o so at their own peril, having been s of the matter... on July 18, 1985, er... the UFOs destroyed NASA's sed). Next day, my UFOs damaged July 19, 1985, tiles on the Shuttle Columbia inimical way. (See enclosed.) ed Owens (PK Man) ![Symbol of a circle with a horizontal line through it and a vertical line above it, next to a lightning bolt symbol] === Page 4 of 7 July 22, 1985 SCIENTISTS July 16, 1985, just passed, my UFOs communicated with me and I then phoned Wayne Grover, ex-NASA weather expert, passing on the UFO information to him. It is this: there are four space shuttles at NASA...Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery and Columbia. As of July 22 my UFOs were directing destructive powers at these Shuttles and the NASA program. Heretofore my UFOs have tried to be compassionate...simply destroying major experiments aboard spacecraft. But now time is short...they need their UFO Base in order to hold back war on Earth...help the human race...and help the face of the Earth itself. So, in order to try to pierce the armor of bureaucracy blocking the UFO Base they intend to ATTACK one or more of the above-mentioned Shuttles. They warn that any astronauts going up in these Shuttles do so at their own peril, having been fairly warned in advance. To underscore the seriousness of the matter...on July 18, 1985, two days after I phoned Grover...the UFOs destroyed NASA's Flying Laboratory (see enclosed). Next day, JULY 19, 1985, my UFOs damaged several thousand heat-shield tiles on the Shuttle Columbia in their own inimitable and inimical way. (See enclosed.) Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 5 of 7 July 16, '85 Called Wayne Grover - (Lantana, Fla.) (Former NASA weather scientist.) UFOs will attack all 4 shuttle flights coming up. # NASA's Flying Laboratory Destroyed ## All Aboard Escape Injury UFOs vs. NASA Project O.S.B 7/18/85 MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A four-engine plane, a NASA flying laboratory that served as a model for the space shuttle, caught fire while taking off as part of a worldwide effort to observe a man-made comet and was destroyed. None of the 15 scientists and four National Aeronautics and Space Administration crew members aboard Galileo II was hurt Wednesday. The fire was allowed to burn itself out. The scientists had planned to use their skyborne laboratory to watch the effects of hot solar winds on barium released from a West German satellite 70,000 miles above earth. But the four-engine Convair 990 apparently blew a tire as it was rolled down the main runway at the base, 65 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. "The fire started near the right wheel and spread throughout the aircraft," Air Force Capt. Kevin Cregier said. "There's nothing left to it. It's just rubbish, you could say." NASA plane burns at March Air Force Base in California after brakes locked The scientists were from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, 40 miles south of San Francisco. "My understanding was they they were going to view and photograph and study the release of barium from the satellite," said Larry King, a NASA spokesman at Ames. The experiment was designed to study solar winds by watching the track of the barium, which when released lights up and resembles a comet. When barium was released from the satellite Dec. 27, bad weather largely obscured its effects. UFOs vs. NASA Trib. 7/19/85 ### 1,000 shuttle tiles damaged by rain CAPE CANAVERAL - More than 1,000 fragile heat-shield tiles on the flagship space shuttle Columbia were damaged by a rainstorm during a ferry flight from California to the Kennedy Space Center, NASA said Thursday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said between 200 and 300 of the tiles probably will have to be replaced but engineers did not know if repairing the damage would delay Columbia's Dec. 20 flight. UFOs vs. NASA O.S.B 7/19/85 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Rain damage to heat-resistant tiles on the space shuttle Columbia is proof that a previous decision was correct to scuttle a launch because it was raining, NASA officials said Thursday. The damage was caused when the Columbia was caught in a 30-second shower as it rode atop a Boeing 747 returning it to the Kennedy Space Center, said Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He said the tiles, which protect the shuttle during re-entry, were made to withstand heat, not rain. Just how much damage was caused will not be known until early next week, after officials at the space center have put the Columbia in a hangar and conducted a detailed study, Harris said. The craft is covered with 33,000 of the heat-resistant tiles. Officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston estimated that 2,500 tiles had been at least slightly damaged. NASA officials were housing the Columbia in the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from further rain storms, pending its move to the hangar. The shuttle was damaged Sunday as it was being flown here after an 18-month overhaul at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, Calif.. The Columbia's new sister shuttle, the Atlantis, will have to be moved to make room for the damaged craft, since all four shuttles are now at the center. The Columbia is next scheduled for launch Dec. 20. === Page 6 of 7 # storm races away from Bay area Elena's winds increased to 125 mph after it changed course and turned toward the northwest. By BILL GRUESKIN Tribune Staff Writer A faster and fiercer Hurricane Elena suddenly backtracked to the northwest Sunday, pounding fishing villages in Florida's Panhandle and forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes for the second time in four days. The storm, which had stalled near Florida's west coast most of Saturday, began gaining new strength Sunday morning, chugging at 10 to 15 mph. By Sunday evening, winds from Elena's bands were reported around 95 mph in Apalachicola, near the southernmost tip of the Panhandle. Elena's winds increased from 100 mph to 125 mph, and the 350-mile-wide storm was reclassified as Category 3 hurricane, up one step on a 1-to-5 scale of ferocity. Forecaster Mark Zimmer of the National Hurricane Center said that if Elena kept on its northwest course, it would make landfall before daybreak today somewhere between Pensacola and Mobile, Ala. Residents and vacationers who had returned Saturday to Gulf coastlines in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi were suddenly faced with urgent new orders to escape Elena's pounding winds and torrential rains. The National Weather Service broadcast a hurricane warning from the Citrus-Levy county line in Florida to Grand Isle, La. Florida Gov. Bob Graham ordered about 250,000 people evacuated from coastal and low-lying areas in Bay, Walton, Okaloosa, Gulf, Franklin, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Santa Rosa, Escambia, Jefferson and Wakulla counties. Graham said Elena "will mean destruction to anything and anyone in its path." Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain also ordered thousands of residents evacuated. Disaster officials in the Panhandle scurried Sunday afternoon to empty the coastal towns. === Page 7 of 7 # Elena Stays Off Coast -- For Now 0.58 8/31/85 By Ocala Star-Banner Staff And the Associated Press The Big Sun area continues under a hurricane watch as Elena hovers threateningly off the Gulf Coast early this morning. Dangerous winds and fierce rain are forecast throughout the area today, as the hurricane heads toward land, possibly making landfall in Levy County. Winds, rain squalls and thunderstorms are forecast to continue throughout today in Levy County. Elena is expected to bring local flooding to Levy with tides of up to 6 feet above normal. The National Weather Service said winds may reach hurricane force by late afternoon. In Marion County, to the south of Elena's expected landfall, rain squalls and thunderstorms are forecast for today. Winds are expected to be from the southeast at 15 to 20 mph, with gales and high gusts in some areas. The high temperature in both counties is expected to reach about 80 degrees. Winds near hurricane force are expected to thrash Citrus County by the afternoon. High temperatures are expected to reach about 80 degrees with winds and rain showers in the morning. Winds are forecast to decrease gradually by the evening. Squalls and thundershowers are forecast for Sumter County, the southernmost region in the threatened Big Sun area. Marion County got its first taste of the big storm with a violent storm that blew across the county Friday afternoon. The gusty winds and rain brought flooding to low areas of several streets and scattered power outages were reported throughout the county. Sgt. Ken Ergle, of the Marion County Sheriff's office, said the department was urging all residents to pay close attention the news about Hurricane Elena. As of 6 p.m. Friday, the storm had See Elena on page 12A Elena's position at 10:30 p.m. Friday. 9/2/85 SUNDAY: Elena -- by now upgraded to a major hurricane -- starts moving west-northwest at 5 to 10 mph. SATURDAY: Elena stalls and wobbles from 50 to 80 miles west-southwest of the tiny fishing village of Cedar Key. FRIDAY: After slowing its forward motion, Elena alters its northwest course and heads east. THURSDAY: With winds topping 74 mph, Elena becomes season's fourth hurricane. WEDNESDAY: A fast-moving tropical depression gets tangled up over Cuba and later becomes Elena, the fifth tropical storm of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 July 5, 1985 SCIENTISTS The enclosed file...documents one of my finest psi-force demonstrations, ever. To recap: at the very beginning of this 1985 USFL pro football season my UFOs instructed me to attack the Tampa Bay Bandits pro football team and stop them from winning the USFL superbowl this year. This was a formidable undertaking, because the Bandits were the best and winningest team in the USFL. In a few games they ranked at the top of the USFL teams. So my work was cut out for me to stop them and take them apart. Game by game, as I watched them on TV, I soaked the team and the coach in attack psi-force. In the games that were not on TV here I had to depend on the psi-force put onto them from the games that I controlled. The object was not to make them lose this or that game...but to cause the entire team to fall apart as the season wore on so that at superbowl time they could not win it. Also I was after three key players. Reaves, the quarterback; Truvillion, the brilliant receiver, and Anderson, their brilliant runner. Slowly, as happened in years past when I used the same techniques, the psi-force attack took form and shape. In the course of the games psi-force was used to cause fumbles, dropped passes, missed passes, missed kicks and freak turnovers against the Bandits. The psi-force has the property of building up, game to game, among the players...cumulative effect. Nearing the end of the regular season...Truvillion had become injured and been fired from the team. Anderson was injured and playing under capacity. The owner, Bassett, had developed two brain tumors and was in hospital. The coach, Rauch, a top coach, was fired or resigned. The last four games I had on TV here, using my techniques, I had little difficulty in beating the Bandits...even using two of the worst teams in the USFL to do it...Portland and Orlando. Then came the playoff game prior to the Superbowl. My UFOs gave me several new techniques to use against the Bandits on TV...and you can read the results in the enclosed file. The Bandits were beaten...one expert claimed that the team was 'jinxed'. The game was called 'bizarre' and freakish. A key happening in the game was the Bandits kicker, trying for a point after a touchdown. He made the kick in spite of the special tool given me to use by my UFOs...but it was called back. He made the second kick...but it was called back. He missed his last, and final try...and the Bandits were sunk. My UFOs wanted to find out if I still had my psi-force 'combat' punch. They found out. I have. And it is more powerful by far than in years past. Finally, the Bandits, alone of all the USFL teams, have been wiped out as a team, completely. See the file. That...is what psi-force does...either on a small scale, such as pro football...or on a large scale. Remember, psi-force merely has to be applied to an IDEA...and 'mass' is irrelevant and immaterial. Ted Owens (PK Man) 904-622-1440 Ph: (904) 622-1440 P.S. I sent Scarfone (herein) a file early on and warned him what was coming. === Page 2 of 29 March 25, 1985 SCIENTISTS It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have made an extraordinary discovery! A discovery that adds an entirely new dimension to the working of the human mind...heretofore completely unknown to science in particular and mankind in general. Am working with it, and experimenting further with it, daily. You have been reading for some time, in the newspapers, of "mysterious" fires and explosions occurring everywhere. These are not accidental fires and explosions, or man-caused fires and explosions...but are a direct result of my UFOs 'Sun Attack' and the issuance of destructive powers from the ancient Egyptian entity, still very much alive. In order to make my point, see the enclosed newsclip re the many fires now taking place in the Galapagos Islands...a 16-island group 680 miles off the coast of Ecuador. And not on just one island, but on the islands of Isabel, Santa Cruz and San Cristobal. Now, understand...recently there were fires all over the State of Florida. Tourists were blamed for starting them. The same thing has occurred in other parts of the U.S., always with people being blamed for starting them, either by accident or with malicious intent. Then, explain to me how tourists or humans could set fires 680 miles off the coast of Ecuador...not only on one island but on various islands. (And why.) See the newsclip, appended..."Mysterious cloud covers hemisphere." "A huge cloud covering half of the world has mysteriously appeared all of a sudden..." Not so mysterious at all. I informed you some time ago that I work daily telepathing to four huge UFOs stationed around our world...each one larger than our own Earth. One of them, for whatever reason, has been spotted. They are other-dimensional and without substance. I am brushing up on my "psi-combat" techniques...doing further research and experimentation by utilizing psi-force on live pro football games. Tampa Bay is my target this football season. The objective is to make them lose games...keep them from winning the USFL Superbowl...and eliminate key players in order to further bolster the desired result. Recently, when Tampa Bay played Houston and with my using psi-combat techniques over TV...the coach of Tampa Bay, Spurrier, became so exasperated and frustrated that he got down on his knees and actually pounded his head on the ground...all live on national TV. You will recall that in the past I dismantled the Philadelphia Eagles team and the owner went bankrupt. I dismantled the Baltimore Colts and Rosenbloom traded his team for the Los Angeles Rams, then Rosenbloom mysteriously drowned. I dismantled the pro basketball team in Norfolk, Virginia (Virginia Squires) and the owner went bankrupt. I put it to you that it is logical that I must have enormous knowledge of the application of psi-force in order to obtain result. Appended is an interesting newsclip pertinent to my UFOs Sun Attack...stating that "a major new report issued Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences says that the approaching warming of the Earth known as the greenhouse effect is "cause for concern". * As it was last year. === Page 3 of 29 PSI-M The Newsletter Journal of The Psychic Science Special Interest Group VOLUME VIII Number 1 January/February 1985 "There Is More to Your Future Than either Time or Space Can End.. ." My listing in the Mensa scientists, 1985 Annual Member Register This issue is provided only to Members and is not to be given to others to use for any purpose, such for use as a mailing list. It may only be used for research or educational purposes with the express permission of The Psychic Science Special Interest Group, Inc. === Page 4 of 29 Page 1.2.7C Handbook/Mindbook Psi-M Jan/Feb 1985 Page 90 NIEHOFF, Dr. Marilee ( 817 ) 467 - 54 96 85 Aug: 2R768 2416 Heathercrest Arlington TX 76018 A: Doctorats O: Academic & business H: sports, reading, travel, music R: Experimentation, learning PSSP- Quad 2/3 T4-*7;*17;*19;*21 OWENS, Ted # 627H Box 1171 Libby MT 59923 A: Duke Univ. O: 50 professions H: Pool, drums, sleight-of-hand R: What I can put into it PALMER, William "Bill" ( 601 ) 859 - 31 61 85 Aug: #2R755 769 Grand St. Canton MS 39046 A: 2 yrs college O: Newspaper & Accounting H: Bridge(tourn.), stamp collect. R: Contact with others PASHLEY, Mary 86 Aug: #2R814 2521 Kingston Park Apt. 1811 Knoxville TN 37919 A: BA MS ABD Now in corporate O: Finance lecturer H: Mideast dancing, autowriting R: Spiritual & psychic progress PSSP- Quad 2-3-4 T5-*10;*17;*20;*21;*22 PERKINS, Cliff 85 Aug: #3R374 2425 Bremont Ave Cincinnati OH 45237 A: BSc. Accounting. O: Inspector, machine shop H: Studying psi, etc. R: More knowledge POLLARD, Frank (313) 537 - 94 76 86 Aug: #2R887S 17175 Radford Ave Apt. 220 Detroit MI 48219 A: B.S. Chem Engrg O: Consultant H: Tennis; 4-part singing, bridge, backgammon R: Curiosity and spiritual awareness. Wish to help PSSP- Quad 1/4 T3- *1; *21 PREUSS, A. J. "Jim" ( 916 ) 541 - 60 45 87 Aug: #8R133 POB 8281 So. Lake Tahoe CA 95731 A: B.A. Ind.arts, mil.tech.schls O: Retired- Former USAF Comm/Elect. Maintenance H: Stamps, ancient coins, reading R: Personal improvement info Interested in all aspects of the paranormal, anomalies, unusual, etc. Always willing to share knowledge. PSSP- Quad 1/4 ROCKWELL, Theodore "Ted" ( 202 ) 659 - 23 20 (office) 87 Aug: #3R327A 3403 Woolsey Dr Chevy Chase MD 20815 A: BSChemE & MSChemE, ScD (Hon.) O: Engineer H: Computer, writing, skiing, travel, Psi research R: Want to bridge between the intuitive & the scientific PSSP- Quad 2/1 T3- *14; *15; *16 ROGERS, Ellen 86 Aug: #7R049 300 73rd Ave Apt. 201 St. Petersburg FL 33702 A: B.S. Psychology PSSP- Quad 3/2-4 === Page 5 of 29 Trib 7/2/85 RIP Born: May 11, 1982 Died: June 30, 1985 The Bandits So long, Banditball === Page 6 of 29 Novo Bojovic's 23-yard field goal as time expired gave Oakland a 30-27 victory over Tampa Bay in a bizarre USFL playoff game that may be the Bandits' last -- ever. T. Bay Bandits PK T.B. Trib - 6/30/85 By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer OAKLAND -- The Bandits had come to expect the unusual during a season none of them is likely to forget. So it may have been fitting that their final game of 1985 -- and quite possibly the last game the team will ever play -- followed the pattern of the bizarre. The Bandits were beaten 30-27 on Sunday when Novo Bojovic kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired. The first-round USFL playoff game viewed by 18,346 fans at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum was marked by strange occurrences and, as had become customary, the Bandits seemed the jinxed team. The reason the score was tied 27-27 was that Bandits place-kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn missed an extra point following a touchdown at 9:41 of the final quarter. Not your normal PAT, mind you. Andrusyshyn was true on his first try. There would be three because two penalties were called. Andrusyshyn hit his second attempt from 25 yards. The third try, from 35 yards, failed. Bandits vs. Invaders Inside: - [ ] Zenon too upset to write diary - 10C. - [ ] Players heading into different directions - 11C. - [ ] Game statistics - 10C. "The guard and tackle were called for interlocking legs on the first one," said Coach Steve Spurrier. "Reggie Smith (one of the players involved) said he'd been doing that for 20 games and it'd never been called. "After that, Greg Boone was called for sticking his leg out. He said he'd been doing that for 20 games, too." The Bandits would not approach the Invaders' goal-line again. Instead, it was Bojovic who had the chance to win the game, and do that he did, despite the fact the Invaders almost saw the clock run out on them. Oakland let the time creep below double digits and apparently thought the referee had heeded a request to stop it near the 5-second mark. But quarterback Bobby Hebert had to rush back on the field to get time to stand still and fortunately for the Invaders, the clock froze at ":02." To the contrary, time marches on for the Bandits, who are unsure what the future holds for them. "We knew this game meant sudden death for us -- terminally," said linebacker Keith Clark. "This is such a funny feeling. No one on this team has ever experienced a situation like this." The Bandits outplayed the 14-4-1 Invaders in some categories. Tampa outgained Oakland 418 yards to 344 and had an opportunity to win in the fourth quarter despite five turnovers. "We didn't appreciate the fact they thought they were going to dominate us," said linebacker James Harrell. "We did everything we could possibly do to win the game. But we lost." The third season in Bandits' history ended with the team hardly better than .500. Tampa was 9-3 at one point, but lost six of its last seven games. "They go on," said Clark of the Invaders, who will play at Memphis Saturday. "For us, it's like the end of the whole league; it's like there is nothing more." At least, said quarterback John Reaves, who passed for three touchdowns and 315 yards, "We went out with our heads held high." It did not seem that would be the case early on. As they did a week before in the regular-season finale at 6/30/85 Tom McEwen The Morning After T. Bay Bandits PK Bandits' failings led to merciful end T.B. Trib 6/30/85 Even Yogi Berra would acknowledge it's over for the Bandits. Perhaps, it is merciful. Clearly the Bandits of these times are not capable of brinkmanship offensive play. That failing has been demonstrated steadily down this fateful stretch that ended 3,000 miles from home on Sunday. It was demonstrated once more at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum when Oakland won 30-27 on a 23-yard field goal by Novo Bojovic, who had earlier missed one of 31 to give the Bandits a chance to win it by perhaps the manner in which the Invaders would, eventually. But, quarterback John Reaves was twice sacked, meaning Oakland would have the ball in good field position to advance for the marginal field goal. The Invaders did just that, causing Bojovic to declare Oakland won "because the Lord was on our side." Well, maybe, but it had appeared moments before that someone up there liked the Bandits quite well, too, when Novo had missed his short field goal to give Tampa Bay an opportunity at a stirring win. But what would be proven quickly thereafter was the Bandits Sunday were once again the Bandits of these final games of this bizarre season. Perhaps a series in this Sunday game earlier was more appropriate to the Bandit modus operandi of late. With the score tied 27-27, part-time sports writer Zenon Andrusyshyn kicked the extra point for a precious 28-27 lead with about six minutes left in the game. But wait, there was a yellow flag. Illegal formation was the call. Officials said the guard and tackle "locked legs," which is illegal. What happened was their legs overlapped when they took positions. Doubtless, it was simply a misjudgment. A five-yard penalty was assessed and Andrusyshyn kicked again. Good. But, wait, another yellow flag was thrown. Blocking back Greg Boone was charged with tripping, another very rare call. But, this one was for 15 yards. It meant the go-ahead point kick now would be for 35 yards. Already Zenon had missed a 28-yard field goal that would have made it 17-10 in the second quarter, right after Steve Carter dropped a touchdown pass that would have made it 21-10. Zenon kicked a knuckleball for the 35-yard extra point. It was low and right and the Bandits did not have a 28-27 lead, but a 27-27 tie, before losing 30-27. === Page 7 of 29 Tom McEwen The Morning After Tribune art by VAUGHN HUGHES # Banditball will live in memory 6/30/85 When what surely appears to have been the last flight of the Tampa Bay Bandits was finally over -- 6½ hours of it -- coaches assembled at the Bandit Hideaway an hour after black Sunday and commiserated over their fate well into Monday morning. "We thought of a hundred ways we could have beaten Oakland," said Charlie Lyle, secondary coach now headed for an administrative assistant's job with Head Coach Joe Morrison of the University of South Carolina. "We played hard, but we blew some big plays." "So here we sat," said Lyle Monday noonish, he and defensive coordinator Barry Wilson sharing thoughts with each other, with other coaches stopping by, with telephone callers, with their boss, Steve Spurrier. "Now here we are again, still unable to change the outcome," that was 30-27 Oakland and The End. On the blackboard unerased was the Saturday message Wilson had written: "Nobody else believes we can beat Oakland, but I do." "Should have, too," he added. Spurrier was still puzzled over successive calls of interlocking legs and tripping that wiped away good extra-point tries that would have given the Bandits a 28-27 lead instead of a 27-27 tie with some four minutes left. "Never, ever heard of interlocking legs being called. I wonder if, in a playoff game with the score tied, it would have been called in the big leagues?" he asked. Then he was back in his office wondering about the future, too. Wife Jeri came in and said how "strange this all is. I mean you can take a team to a bowl game in college, play and know you are losing your seniors. But how about losing your whole team? Strange." Bandit management is seeking to sell or merge the club with another, and there has been one slight indication of interest by one limited partner in trying to keep the Bandits intact, in Tampa and in the United States Football League even if the USFL does indeed go to the fall in 1986. Nothing definite there, not by a long shot. "It has been a tremendous learning experience for me personally," said Spurrier. "I have had three years as head coach, thanks to Mr. (John) Bassett and the Bandits, and believe me I have learned. I guess I am even learning now, with this experience still going on." He said he'll wait a bit before looking for another job. He is still under contract. Told a strong Georgia booster called the Tribune and said if Vince Dooley does indeed resign as Bulldog head coach, he's for Spurrier. "Well, I don't know if I'd be too popular a candidate for that job," said Spurrier, the Heisman Trophy winner for Florida and former Georgia Tech assistant. "We'll wait. Things are still up in the air." It was clear the coaches and other staffers about were working hard at keeping the stiff upper lip. "It's a facade," said one. "We're dying inside." "Nice of Gary Anderson, eh?" said Spurrier, holding a handmade flyer inviting players, coaches, staffers and their families to the home of the premier Bandit running back Monday afternoon for food and games. "Gary's got this place out on Erlich Road, with a full basketball court in the back. He's good at that, too. Might have been able to play in the NBA." The flyer said there would be hotdogs, chicken and hamburgers, "horseshoes, badminton and bingo." It was all on Gary. Over at the Bandit offices on Himes Avenue, across from Tampa Stadium, a skeleton staff was at work. The force has been reduced drastically, though all have been invited to use the facilities to seek employment. See MORNING AFTER, Page 7C "We become normal humanoids again.... We go home, get jobs, cut grass, just like normal people." -- Defensive end James Ramey # Players prepare for return to real world By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer 6/30/85 Some have a future in football, some do not. Twenty-four hours earlier, they were a select group: Pro football players, a prime cut above the weekend warrior, men who earned a living by commanding their bodies to do what most people only dream of accomplishing. Monday morning, the Bandits began re-entering the real world. "We become normal humanoids again," said James Ramey, who played defensive end for three years and often philosophized as if from another world. "We go home, get jobs, cut grass, just like normal people." Sunday's 30-27 playoff loss at Oakland was almost certainly the Bandits' final game. The franchise created by owner John Bassett may survive in some form, but it is unlikely the majority of players who made the round trip to California will be listed on the same lineup card again. "It's been fun," said Ramey. "It may sound corny, but 'all the fun the law allows' says it all." Despite recent problems, which included late delivery of paychecks, Ramey and his teammates remained patient with the crumbling Bandits organization. Privately, some players grumbled about not receiving their salary. Publicly, they refused to criticize. "They always shot straight from the See BANDITS, Page 7C === Page 8 of 29 7/2/85 Tribune photo by DAN McDUFFIE Center Chris Foote knows he will never see many of his Bandit teammates again. === Page 9 of 29 T. Bay Bandits PK 6/30/85 T. Bay Trib. # Colon Surgery Set Friday For Reagan 0.SB 7/10/85 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan will have a benign growth removed from his colon on Friday, and doctors will perform a thorough examination of the president's large intestine to search for and remove any other polyps that may exist, a White House spokesman announced today. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would undergo the procedures at Bethesda Naval Hospital just outside Washington and plans to remain there overnight. The polyp, a fleshy growth that generally causes no discomfort but sometimes may become cancerous if not removed, was discovered during a physical examination in March. A similar polyp was found a year earlier, and part of it was removed for microscopic examination, which showed the growth was benign, Speakes said at the time. Speakes said the polypectomy, or removal of the polyp, and a colonoscopy, which involves the use of a special instrument to examine the full length of the colon, are to be performed in the hospital's outpatient unit, although the 74-year-old Reagan will remain at the hospital overnight. He will travel to Camp David the following day to spend a restful weekend at the presidential retreat. The spokesman said if more polyps are discovered during the examination, they probably will be removed at that time. The colonoscope, a long, flexible instrument that enables physicians to visually examine the inside of the intestinal wall, is equipped with a tiny wire snare that can excise polyps as they are discovered. AP photo Bandits' Coach Steve Spurrier, right, and backup quarterback Jimmy Jordan don't like the looks of what happened on the field during Sunday's playoff game against Oakland. === Page 10 of 29 6/30/85 Tribune photo Steve Spurrier was amazed at some of the calls that contributed to his team's playoff loss. === Page 11 of 29 T.B. Bandits PK # Suit against Bandits on docket today 7/11/85 Limited partners are seeking an injunction on the calling in of promissory notes. * State USFL coaches won't pick winner -- 11C By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Two more plaintiffs may enjoin the civil suit filed by 15 of the Bandits' limited partners against the troubled United States Football League team when the case comes before Circuit Court Judge Morton Hanlon this afternoon. The suit, which will be heard today at 4 p.m., seeks a temporary injunction against the $200,000 promissory notes called in by NCNB National Bank of Florida three weeks ago. The upset limited partners also have requested a full accounting of the team's finances, and they are seeking damages in excess of $5,000 each for "fraudulent conspiracy" on the part of the Bandits. Tampa architect Lee Scarfone, one of the limited partners involved in the suit who also happens to be trying to put together a group to keep the Bandits in town, said the outcome of today's case depends on the See BANDITS, Page 11C Lee Scarfone # Bandits 7/11 * From Page 1C judge and the presentation of attorney George Phillips. "I know we sound like a bunch of poor losers," Scarfone said. "It's not a loss of money, but the manner in which it was called and the way it was handled. It's a little embarrassing being involved with an organization where people haven't been getting paid. We had a winner here and we became a loser." More and more unpaid Bandit bills are surfacing daily. "Ralph Campbell (the team's director of business operations) may be a nice guy, but he must have done something wrong to get this kind of response (from the limited partners)," Scarfone noted. "Something must be amiss." "A bunch of vendors haven't been paid and the players haven't been paid. The manner in which management has handled this situation has been less than desirable." Regarding the USFL Players Association's grievance against the Bandits for failing to pay the players the final week of the regular season, Scarfone sympathized with the players. "The problem is that management says 'We had some costs we didn't anticipate and some revenues we didn't collect,' " he said. "Any intelligent businessman knows you're supposed to anticipate all these things. You just don't throw up your hands and say you don't know what happened." Besides Scarfone, other limited partners involved in the suit are Donald Dizney (who also owns the Orlando Renegades), Dr. John Petrakis, Jack Bertoglio, Joseph Capitano, Joseph DiGerlando, Andrea Castellano, Dr. Felix LoCicero, Dr. Lawrence Kahana, James English, Concessions Inc. (two partners), John Provenzano, Cheryl Levenstein and Randolph McKean. Only seven of them -- Scarfone, Dizney, Petrakis, Capitano, DiGerlando, English and Concessions Inc. -- own full limited shares. The rest own part shares. The Bandits, whose weekly player payroll was approximately $300,000, aren't the only team in the league that has the USFLPA up in arms. The players union also has filed grievances against the Portland Breakers and the Houston Gamblers. The Breakers failed to meet their payroll the final week of the season while the Gamblers are two games in arrears. Also, an arbitrator should rule today on a previous grievance against the San Antonio Gunslingers, who have missed four payments. When Coach Steve Spurrier talked about a "cash-flow problem" at his final press conference, he apparently was speaking for a lot of teams in the league. === Page 12 of 29 # Bandits' investors sue team, bank over $200,000 note By NICK PUGLIESE and TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Writers 7/4/85 T.B. Bandits PR Fifteen of the Bandits' limited partners have filed suit against the Tampa Bay franchise and NCNB National Bank of Florida seeking a temporary injunction against the $200,000 promissory notes the bank called in two weeks ago. The plaintiffs also are seeking damages in excess of $5,000 each for "fraudulent conspiracy" on the part of the Bandits, and have requested a full accounting of the team's finances. The suit, filed Wednesday in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, will be heard by Circuit Court Judge Morton Hanlon on July 11 at 4 p.m. It names Football Partners Limited, Tampa Sports Incorporated and Sunshine State Football Incorporated (three companies that own the Bandits), NCNB, general partner Steve Arky, director of business operations Ralph Campbell and managing general partner John Bassett as the defendants. The plaintiffs are Donald Dizney, Lee Scarfone, Dr. John Petrakis, Jack Bertoglio, Joseph Capitano, Joseph DiGerlando, Andrea Castellano, Dr. Felix LoCicero, Dr. Lawrence Kahana, James English, Concessions Inc. (two partners), John Provenzano, Cheryl Levenstein and Randolph McKean. Ironically, one of the items mentioned in the suit concerns the lack of territorial rights payments from the Jacksonville Bulls and Orlando Renegades, the latter which is owned by Dizney. In fact, at the United States Football League owners' meeting in New York Tuesday, Commissioner Harry Usher said he favored a Bandits-Renegades merger. Also, another plaintiff, Scarfone, is involved with a group of limited partners who would like to keep the Bandits in Tampa for the fall 1986 season. Scarfone, a Tampa architect, accompanied Campbell to New York on Tuesday. "We're simply making an inquiry as to how some of the funds were used," said Scarfone. "We want an accounting. Everybody loves John Bassett, but you can't get access to him for any information. Ralph Campbell is just an employee of the company. He doesn't have any power to act in his own behalf and, besides, he has enough problems." Campbell, who has been running the team while Bassett undergoes radiation treatment in Toronto for two brain tumors, had no comment on the suit. "At this point, I haven't seen anything," Campbell said. "We're trying our best to hold this thing together. I'm not sure what this does to us. We're trying to do what we can to come out with as much value in this franchise as possible." Bassett, who is totally divorced from John Bassett Enterprises, will undergo another CATscan on July 11 to determine the progress of the radiation treatments. He told the Tribune he was feeling fine. However, he did not watch the team's playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders on doctor's orders. Bassett probably feels as bad as anyone about what happened to the limited partners. Each investor has lost $300,000, their original $100,000 investment and the $200,000 promissory notes that were called in by NCNB two weeks ago. Many are upset, which led to Wednesday's suit. The first count of the suit seeks "action for injunction, accounting, damages and other relief accrued in Hillsborough County." The second count asks for the $5,000 in damages. Among the items listed under the first count was the charge that the defendants mismanaged and wasted the assets of the partnership by: * Issuing no financial statements since Sept. 30, 1984 despite frequent and constant requests. * Borrowing $4.75 million from the bank since May 24, 1983 on the strength of the credit standing of the plaintiffs -- without any accounting of the funds. * Not obtaining franchise fees from the other Florida teams (Jacksonville and Orlando). * Making "improper loans" to players and potential players, including wide receiver Cris Collinsworth, who received a loan in excess of $500,000 that was payable in the year 2010 with no interest. * Entering into "unrealistic contracts" with players inconsistent with the proposed budget of the Bandits. * Making public statements that the USFL "would not survive as a league entity with the effect that the morale of the Bandits was ruined, affecting the performance of the team on the field and affecting the revenues received by the partnership." * Failing to pay rental fees for Tampa Stadium to the Tampa Sports Authority, as well as player compensation when due per contract. Scarfone made it clear the suit had nothing to do with his efforts to keep the Bandits in Tampa. "I have an interest in keeping the Bandits alive and in the Tampa community," he said. "If there is any way possible, I'd love to do it. "After attending the meeting in New York, I'm very impressed with the strength of the league, although I realize there are some serious decisions to be made. The demise of the Bandits has been disheartening not only to the investors but to a lot of other people, such as the fans." Scarfone said the franchise faces four options: remaining in Tampa with a new group of owners, relocating to another city, merging with Jacksonville or Orlando, or folding. He said he preferred the first option. "I'm personally convinced the league is going to survive and I want to try to keep the Bandits as an entity," he said. The Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday that the Bandits, Renegades and Bulls all would merge and play in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville in 1986. Campbell wouldn't confirm the report, but said the Bandits were pursuing all options. "Folks all have an opinion as to how they think this thing should be done," he said. "Obviously that would take a lot of thought and negotiating. But it would make for a pretty strong team, I guess." By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer It all began on May 11, 1982, and, for all intents and purposes, came to an end Sunday afternoon when the Oakland Invaders defeated the Tampa Bay Bandits 30-27 to eliminate them from the United States Football League playoffs. In between those dates, there have been plenty of highs and, unfortunately for the franchise, quite a few lows. The highs included turning into the model team of the USFL, both on the field and off it. Of course, the lowest points have come this season as owner John Bassett was stricken with two inoperable brain tumors, the Bandits fell out of favor with the rest of the league, the team ended up on the market, the fans started staying away and there were losses in six of the last seven games. Spring football may have been a joke in many parts of the country, but there's no doubt it worked in Tampa -- for a while. === Page 13 of 29 # Rauch tosses barbs at Bandits, Bassett T.B. Bandits PK 7/4/85 Tribune Wires The United States Football League faces certain extinction if it proceeds with a planned shift to the fall, the former director of football operations for the Bandits told UPI Wednesday. John Rauch, a former NFL head coach with the Buffalo Bills and Raiders, resigned from his Bandits' post May 9 after a dispute with principal owner John Bassett concerning who owns the club's player contracts. Bassett claimed the contracts belonged to the Bandits while Rauch indicated the USFL had control. "I don't see how the league can survive under the fall format," said Rauch Wednesday. "Knowing how much in debt certain clubs are, I don't see anyone pouring money into them to help the franchises continue. It doesn't appear to me anyone wants the league to play in the fall. ... I can't see anybody in his right mind pouring money down the drain to carry an insecure franchise." Rauch is waiting at home for a call from an NFL team inviting him to return to his first love -- coaching. He needs one more season in the NFL to reach the 15-year plateau, a level that will increase his pension significantly. "My first two years with the Bandits I was extremely happy to the point of being ecstatic," said Rauch, who served as an assistant coach and director of scouting in his first two seasons with Tampa Bay. "My mistake was letting myself get into this position of director of football operations, which is just doing what other people tell you to do. It just wasn't my bag. I'm a football man. I should have been smart enough to avoid being a secretary for Mr. Bassett and Steve (General Partner Steve Arky)." Bassett, confined to Toronto the past two months for treatment of two brain tumors, has turned over control of the Bandits to director of business operations Ralph Campbell and his plans for a multi-sport league beginning in the spring of 1986 have been shelved. Rauch said those plans were bogus, anyway. "That thing of his about a world sports league comes from Mars," Rauch said. "You don't have to be too smart to realize it's a con job." # USFL Players Association files claim against Bandits T.B. Bandits PK 7/10/85 Most of the team's players have not been payed for the final week of the season. By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer The United States Football League Players Association has filed a grievance against the Bandits, who haven't paid their players for the final week of the regular season. Approximately 45 of the team's 50 players, who received their 17th paycheck a few days late, have been waiting for their 18th and final regular-season paycheck since June 25. On Tuesday, The Orlando Sentinel reported the Orlando Renegades have sent a written request to the league office about a possible merger with the Bandits. However, Ralph Campbell, Bandits director of business operations, said he has not seen any such proposal and he knew nothing about it. === Page 14 of 29 7/2/85 By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer OAKLAND -- The end had never been accompanied by such an air of finality. For the 43 Bandits who made the long and fruitless trip here, Sunday's 30-27 playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders was not just the final episode of a soap opera season; it signalled the end of an era. The Tampa Bay franchise, once the standard-bearer of the United States Football League, will not exist in its current form much longer. Owner John Bassett, who lost more than $1 million in personal funds, could not devote time to saving his team. Afflicted with two brain tumors, Bassett's biggest concern is to fight for his life. The Bandits may move to a city with a USFL vacancy or merge with a team in need of an infusion, a team like the Orlando Renegades. It is a longshot that the Bandits will remain in Tampa under new ownership. "Like I told the guys," Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier said after the last-second defeat, "I enjoyed coaching them. I don't know if I'll ever coach them again, but I enjoyed the time we had together." The fate of the men who played the game is unknown. All that is certain is this: If a buyer is not found by Aug. 1, the team must release at least 15 players. The USFL plans to play in the fall of 1986 and the collective bargaining agreement between the players' union and league management calls for a reduction in roster size from 50 to 35 during the waiting period. The 35 players who are retained by each team will be paid 30 percent of their salaries until training camps open a year from now. Teams may keep fewer than 35, however, and one Bandits player said last week a management official told him only 10 may be frozen. The minimum 15 players released by each team will become free agents and, with most National Football League camps opening in mid-July, will have ample opportunity to find jobs in the NFL. Whatever happens, it is obvious the team football fans in Tampa supported in record numbers for three years -- the Bandits were overall attendance leaders in the league's brief springtime history -- will have an almost entirely different look in whatever form it survives. For that reason, the manner of Sunday's loss was something the Bandits were proud of. "You have to respect every guy on this team," said defensive end Mike Clark. "Nobody knows where we're going or what the future holds. "Nobody in their right mind would say they weren't concerned." Apparently, all but six Bandits are currently under contract to the USFL for at least one more year. Offensive tackle Dan Fike, linebacker James Harrell, offensive guard Chuck Pitcock, safety Doug Beaudoin, defensive end James Ramey and wide receiver Spencer Jackson are free agents. Fike has signed a three-year contract with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL and will report for preseason drills on July 15. Harrell may return to Detroit and play for the Lions, while Pitcock said three NFL teams have indicated they could use him. "Detroit holds my rights and has expressed a strong interest," said Harrell, who spent five seasons with the Lions. Pitcock played three seasons in the USFL after unsuccessful attempts to earn a spot with two NFL teams, and is ready to try again in the established league. Beaudoin will retire, unless something unexpected develops. Ramey and Jackson probably will wind up somewhere in the USFL. "I still think I can play," said Beaudoin, 31, and a veteran of nine pro seasons. "I'll probably go into brokerage. If somebody called from either league, though, I'd listen." There may soon be one more free agent to add to the list. Quarterback John Reaves, 35, has a year remaining on his contract. But there is a stipulation that the Bandits must pay Reaves a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days if they want to retain him. Reaves says he has been told they will not exercise that option. Reaves, who indicated "five or six" NFL teams are interested in him, put the tentativeness of the situation in perspective when he remarked, "Like Coach Spurrier said, we'll all be free agents, the way it's looking now." The player with the most star potential, running back Gary Anderson, has one season remaining on his original four-year deal. There were reports recently that Anderson might escape his contract because he was obligated to play only "spring" football. However, Doug Allen, executive director of the USFL Players Association, has said the union had voted approval of an owners' request that contracts encompass the fall season. Allen added that he anticipated some legal action in which players would nonetheless attempt to prove their contracts invalid. Defensive end Mike Butler, who is committed to the USFL through 1987, may try to return to the Green Bay Packers. Possibly, Butler could buy out his contract, a transaction free safety Marcus Quinn has hinted may also free him. Quinn said after Sunday's game that the Bandits have owed him a $50,000 bonus since May 15. "I'm going to have to look and see what's available to me," said Quinn. It does not appear the majority of the Bandits will be in as enviable a situation. Twenty-eight of Sunday's 50 rostered Bandits (seven were deactivated for the game) came to the USFL from the NFL or Canadian Football League. Only Harrell and Butler had a choice in the matter. They played out their options and signed with the Bandits for more money. The other 26 had been branded inferior, either physically or intellectually, and for most of them, the USFL was the last opportunity to make a living playing football. In many instances, the detractors have been proven wrong. Tight end Marvin Harvey, a former member of the Kansas City Chiefs, showed he could play in any league. Larry Brodsky, a wide receiver considered too slow, blossomed into one of the most dependable pass catchers in the game. He, too, had been overlooked by the NFL. Brodsky's play pleased the Bandits so much that they gave him a contract extension earlier this season through 1989. Shortly thereafter, the Bucs, unaware of Brodsky's commitment, inquired about his availability. "When I signed, the whole idea was to play for Mr. Bassett, here in the state, near my family (in the Miami area). Money was secondary," said Brodsky. But for most of the players who shared the camaraderie of a locker room for the final time as a group Sunday, home always will be in Tampa. And Tampa will always mean the Bandits. === Page 15 of 29 # College ranks lie ahead for most of the team's coaching staff THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Tuesday, July 2, 1985 By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Trib. 7/2/85 Bandits PK On the day after a football game, Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier usually dissects films with the rest of his coaches. However, Spurrier played golf with his son Monday morning before facing the media at his weekly press conference. Such is the life of the football coach in limbo -- or until the Bandits' future becomes clearer than it is right now. "I'll guess I'll get out the fishing poles and golf clubs or whatever guys do in the off-season," Spurrier said when asked what his immediate plans were following Tampa Bay's quick exit from the playoffs via the Oakland Invaders' 30-27 victory. "I'll wait around and see what happens," he said. "Realistically, all our coaches are looking for a job down the road. There are no jobs right now. December and January, that's when the coaching jobs open up." One member of Spurrier's staff, secondary coach Charlie Lyle, already has found employment elsewhere. Lyle, one of the first coaches Spurrier hired, will become an administrative assistant for South Carolina head football coach Joe Morrison. Lyle said when Morrison first offered him the job, he told Lyle to take his time getting to Gamecock Country. But Morrison was on the telephone Monday looking for his new coach. Lyle spent the better part of the day saying farewell to his former players. "What makes it all worthwhile is when all your players come in to say goodbye," Lyle said. Most of the other Tampa Bay coaches probably will end up in the college ranks also, although offensive line coach Rich McGeorge may return to the Birmingham Stallions, or even follow Coach Rollie Dotsch to the National Football League. Spurrier said all the assistant coaches have been paid through the season, although the last two paychecks have been late and should be coming in soon. "As everyone knows, the cash flow's been a little short," Spurrier said. "We're all sort of in a holding pattern." That's not the case with most of the front-office employees, who have received their severance pay. Many of them already have found other jobs, too. One who is still with the franchise is Marketing Director Jim McVay, who has taken a wait-and-see attitude. **Marketing Director Jim McVay will wait before making any decisions.** "I'm waiting to see what takes place with the franchise," said McVay, alluding to a possible merger or relocation of the Bandits. "Many options are being explored. There are too many unanswered questions to come up with concrete plans." Thanks to Tampa Bay's successful promotions and marketing, McVay has been very much in demand. "We are very visible around the country," he said. "There are a million opportunities out there for all our marketing people. We are proud of what we've done here." Dave Jovanovic, the Bandits' director of media and public relations the last two seasons, said he would look for a job in the same field. In the meantime, he said he'll help his wife, Shirley, with her "Sunshine Classroom," a state-wide teachers exchange newspaper. "I'm just going to fade into the sunset like an old Western hero," Jovanovic said. "We've produced a good product here. Everybody worked well together. It's kind of like a family breaking up." Trainer Jim Russ probably could beat out a lot of his peers, but he said he may just chunk being the trainer of a pro football team for something new. Two other members of the Bandits' family, who happen to be husband-wife, also think they'll land on their feet. For three years, Tim Sain has been the team's equipment manager while his wife, Nancy, has been the secretary/receptionist for the coaching staff. "We're going to concentrate on Tim's career," said Nancy. "Every day, you knew it was getting closer and closer to the end," she said. "We've been delighted to be a part of it. It's the first time I ever did something like this. It was a real good experience even if it had to end this way." === Page 16 of 29 Trib # Morning After * From Page 1C 7/2/85 In the ticket office, clerks were preparing to send back to season ticket-holders deposits sent for the playoffs that would not be held in Tampa Stadium. Ralph Campbell, general manager, was at his desk sorting out bills, messages, suggestions, plans. It simply is a down time for the Tampa Bay Bandits as we have known them. The great pity is that the Bandits in their three-year life contributed so much to so many people in so many ways. The single, great, regrettable downside is that the partners lost their investments, and for the limited partners who put up $300,000, surely it is hard to see much good in it all. That is the single, great, regrettable downside presuming all other Bandit debts will be paid. "We will do all in our power to see that happen," said Campbell. It has been the John Bassett reputation throughout his sports adventures to pay all debts, even at great personal loss. Bassett is, however, not now attending his businesses. His trustees are, as he fights the brain tumors that slowed him so. I mean the Bandits produced $3.6 million in gross profit to the Tampa Sports Authority over three seasons, generated more than $30,000 for the United Way. They produced jobs, new business, provided an entertaining spring and summer recreation, a new sports tie for the unattached (and some attached). They brought Burt Reynolds and entourage to town repeatedly, developed Smokey and The Bandit, a Jerry Reed song, "Banditball." They provided new souvenirs, gave away some cars and paid some mortgages, got tackle Dan Fike a job with the Cleveland Browns (by his performance), gave Spurrier a chance as a head coach, presented quarterback John Reaves a new beginning, turned up E.T. Truvillion and Greg Boone, or "Eeeeee....Ttttttttt," and "Boooooooone." They developed the biggest Christian Chapel in the USFL, gave Jimmy Jordan another chance, and Larry Brodsky, and Fred Nordgren and Martin Harvey and so many more. They gave us the only mascot to strike, and thereafter be replaced, a hurry-up offense, many more wins than losses, the impressive Bandit logo and cheerleaders, fireworks, a locker room in which there has been little to no profanity. They gave us Bassett himself and his vast financial investments in the area, none of which has been withdrawn, contrary to some reports, though in time there may be position and purpose chances depending on his health. The club was Spurrier's Banditball, not as productive in winning as all involved would have hoped, but always daredevilish and fan-appealing, and its overall attitude was fan-oriented. The cold hard fact is that the Bandits needed more defense from the start, but the concentration was on offense from that start and hardly varied. Now, not even that would have mattered had the USFL not decided to go to the fall. They gave us untold national (and international) publicity, focusing attention on Tampa Bay once more, and in a good light because of their attitude and style, because of managing general partner Bassett (and tennis playing daughter Carling), because of the USFL title game being played here, because the media look with great favor on the Bandits and Tampa Bay. They gave us a tremendously rending story, this one that continues to develop, the one that began when Red Lowry brought Bassett and Campbell to the Tribune sports department on Feb. 9, 1982, to advise that the plans were in the works for what would become the Tampa Bay-based Bandits, the United States Football League. They were born on May 11, 1982, with an announcement in the 21 Club in New York City. And unless there is to be breath breathed into them from a resurrecting source not now known, the Bandits died with that woeful loss in faraway Oakland Sunday afternoon. "I think we gave the people a show," said Spurrier. "I hope so. I hope they'll remember us as a good time." "I don't think," said Lyle, a coach for the defense, "anyone will ever forget Banditball." # Campbell * From Page 1C was one existing the league allowed to be moved to Miami, then to Orlando. "That is one source of income we consider when we talk of receivables," said Campbell. Another is television money from ABC, which ABC is contesting and about which the USFL has filed a lawsuit in a Tampa circuit court. No hearing date has been set. ABC is contesting the amount because of major franchises that failed or moved from Chicago, Detroit, Washington and other big cities. "About the only thing that has happened different is that the season is over for us," said Campbell. "Our kids played hard but lost. Now we can devote full time to settling the team's future." Campbell reaffirmed that Bassett Enterprises is out of the football business. Called in previously were payments of $200,000 from limited partners. That money goes to the bank in repayment of a loan. The loan money has been spent. The Bandits have reduced their office staff considerably and "we have sought to place all of our people," said Campbell. "It is all very amicable. They understand, I think." The Bandits and Bandit coaches are behind one payday only. The league was responsible for payment for the playoff game lost in Oakland 30-27 Sunday. All Bandit coaches' contracts, including that of Head Coach Steve Spurrier, end with the end of this current season. "These are sad times for us," said Campbell. "No one wanted it to end like this." In Toronto, Bassett reportedly continues in his fight against brain tumors. === Page 17 of 29 # Point-after calls irritate Spurrier Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier termed the back-to-back penalties that cost his team a crucial point after touchdown "minor league." By NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer Trib 6/30/85 Ever since the Bandits took on the United States Football League earlier this season, Coach Steve Spurrier has worried about a crucial call going against his team. Sunday, Spurrier's worst fears may have been realized in Tampa Bay's 30-27 playoff loss to the Oakland Invaders, which ended the season and perhaps the existence of the Bandits. One flag in particular bothered Spurrier so much that he called the USFL a minor league Monday at his final press conference of the season. The disputed call came on the extra-point attempt following John Reaves' 15-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gillespie that tied the score at 27-27 with 9:41 left. The Bandits were penalized for having two offensive linemen lock legs as the first kick sailed through the uprights. On the second try for one point, Greg Boone was nailed for tripping. Facing what amounted to a 35-yard field goal instead of a simple PAT, Zenon Andrusyshyn hit a knuckleball that missed the mark and left the contest tied. Monday afternoon, it was Spurrier who was fit to be tied. "The only thing about yesterday's game that irritated me was the call on the extra-point," Spurrier said. "I really wonder if it was an NFL playoff game with the score tied at 27-all and two teams going after each other, if they could flip a little flag in there for two guys locking legs. That's a call that's sometimes made in an exhibition game when a team is two or three touchdowns ahead. "In a crucial playoff game like that, I can't understand how the guy could pitch it in there. I'm not saying it cost us the game, but it was a big factor at the time." When asked about a possible conspiracy by the league against the Bandits, who threatened to pull out of the USFL but are now looking at a possible merger or relocation within the league, Spurrier shrugged it off. "We had a lot of chances," he said. "I just wonder if that would have happened in the big leagues. To me, calls like that hurt the league on a whole. That was a minor-league call. "When things are going bad for you, you get a tough time getting the judgment calls," he added. "But we had some good calls yesterday. It wasn't like they all went against us." However, enough things went against the Bandits so that instead of preparing for the next round of the playoffs, coaches and players spent Monday saying goodbyes and packing. For instance, there was the blocked punt on the team's first series. While the Invaders turned the ball right back on James Harrell's interception, the turnover set the tone for the Bandits. "Somebody came up the middle," Spurrier said. "I haven't seen the film yet. I don't know where our fullback went." There also was Gary Anderson's apparent 54-yard TD run in the second quarter, which was shortened to 40 yards when the officials ruled he stepped out of bounds at the Oakland 14-yard line. Spurrier challenged the call, but there was no instant replay available as ABC had broken away to cover the hostages' release. "I don't think he stepped out of bounds and Gary said he didn't step out," he said. "There was just no replay available." Spurrier said the flight home from the West Coast was subdued at first. Then, the loss set in and the players and coaches came to life. "It was kind of quiet for a while," he said. "But when it's over, it's over. You can't get it back. The guys get along well with each other. A few guys were shaking hands and saying they enjoyed playing with each other and playing for their coach." # Reaves 6/28/85 * From Page 1C The Bandits are for sale. They could merge with the Orlando Renegades, be moved to another city, remain in Tampa under new ownership, or the players might be placed in a dispersal draft. The only certainty is that John Bassett Enterprises will not own the team after this season. If the Bandits are not sold by Aug. 1, the team must release at least 15 of the players on the current roster, which stands at 50. The collective bargaining agreement between management and the USFL players' association maintains that 35 players may be protected and that those players will receive 30 percent of their salary until camp opens for the 1986 fall season. It seems doubtful Reaves will be one of the players protected, despite the fact he has helped lead the team to consecutive playoff berths. The uncertainty surrounding the franchise and the worth of Reaves' contract (reported at $450,000 with incentives and bonuses over this season and next) make it seem likely he will be moving on. Reaves, 35, missed the first three days of training camp this season over a contract dispute. His agent at the time, Don Daibosco, insisted the second year of the agreement be guaranteed. It was not, but Reaves decided to sign anyway. If Reaves does not stay with the Bandits, the only veteran will be Jimmy Jordan, who came to the team with Reaves in 1983. === Page 18 of 29 # 'Z' checks out before writing final chapter T. Bey Bandits PK By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer 6/30/85 OAKLAND -- "I'm sorry ... I can't do it." Zenon Andrusyshyn's journalistic career came to a sudden end on Sunday. Andrusyshyn, who for six days wrote a playoff diary for the Tribune, spoke those words as he walked to the locker room at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. The Bandits were beaten 30-27 by the Oakland Invaders on a 23-yard Novo Bojovic field goal as time expired. It had been the opposite kind of day for Andrusyshyn, who had a punt blocked, missed a 28-yard field goal attempt in the first half and failed on an extra-point try late in the fourth period that would have given the Bandits a 28-27 lead. That point-after kick, however, was anything but automatic. Two consecutive penalties resulted in a 35-yard attempt by Andrusyshyn. "In all the years I have been playing football," said Andrusyshyn, who concluded his 15th professional season, "I have never seen so many calls on PATs." Earlier, a penalty forced Bojovic to convert a point-after from 25 yards. He made it. "I had to try what amounted to a 35-yard extra point," said Andrusyshyn. "I hit the ball with the side of my foot. I just didn't get a good hit on it." And that was all. There would be none of the descriptive elaboration that had marked Andrusyshyn's short-lived journalistic career. "He's really down," said Bandits quarterback John Reaves. "He has no reason to be. 'Z' is a great man. He has done a great job for us for three years. "I know how he felt. I've felt that way before. He has nothing to be ashamed of." ## Morning After * **From Page 1C** 6/30/85 minutes left in the game. Victory was a field goal away, victory and an advance in the United States Football League playoffs, and, another payday for the players. Greg Boone got three yards to the left. Reaves was sacked back to the 14. Reaves was sacked back to the 4. He had been sacked one other time all day. Andrusyshyn punted to the 40. Oakland carefully worked the ball to field goal range and victory belonged to the Invaders, 30-27. "We had the ball with the game tied," said Spurrier, "and we went backwards." It was a course on which the Bandits have been for some time. In New Jersey, perhaps Yogi turned the channel and said to his wife, "It's over." Somewhere else the fat lady sang. The Bandits are no more this year. Probably forever. Sigh. Coach Steve Spurrier. An Andrusyshyn punt was blocked in the first series of downs, after a first down effort was nixed by a Spencer Jackson illegal motion. Running back Gary Anderson, who had a brilliant day, fumbled on the second possession and Oakland turned that into a 3-0 lead. Reaves was intercepted at the Oakland two on the next possession. But, the Bandits rallied for a 14-10 lead, then one of 17-14, also led 21-20, then shared the lead at 27-27 before losing. "We had a lot of chances to score a lot of points," said Spurrier. The Bandits should have led 21-10 at one point, but didn't. "It was too many bad plays that stopped us," Spurrier emphasized. And then came the final opportunity, the game tied at 27-27, Tampa in possession at its own 20 after Oakland's missed chipshot field goal, a little more than four **See MORNING AFTER, Page 10C** 6/30/85 And there were other Bandit failings. That, coupled with the good passing of Invader quarterback Bobby Hebert and the great receiving of his pass-catchers, was simply too much for a team on the downside. It probably can be said that the Bandits played about as well as they could, with what they now have to play, with their future so uncertain, and the haunting inability to come from behind with the marginal points. That circumstance detracts from the several good individual efforts for Tampa Sunday and causes this sad season to end particularly sadly. Appropriate, sure, but sad, perhaps even cruel. Moreover, there seems to be something wrong with a system in which the team that won the game won before only 19,000 fans and that was pridefully announced as "the fourth largest of the season." Bandits quarterback John Reaves said of his team, "Our guys are very disappointed but they played as hard as they could." But, hard was not good enough, and has seldom been lately. "We came out stumbling and turning it over," said **Temporarily out of service.** When Anderson took off on a 40-yard run in the second quarter, Coach Steve Spurrier asked for a replay because he felt Anderson did not step out of bounds at the Invaders' 14-yard line. There was one problem. Because ABC had broken away for coverage of the hostages' release, no replay capabilities were available. "Twice this year I've called for a replay and they said they accidentally didn't have one," said Spurrier. Anderson got credit for the 40-yard gallop, second-longest in USFL playoff history to a 54-yard run by Kelvin Bryant of the then-Philadelphia Stars. The Bandits failed to score on the possession. Wide receiver Steve Carter, free in the right corner of the end zone, dropped Reaves' pass attempt from the 14. Then Zenon Andrusyshyn missed wide right on a 28-yard field goal try with 57 seconds remaining. It was a tough day for the Z-man. When his first-quarter punt was blocked, it marked only the second time in 1,551 attempts that had happened. It had never happened during his three years with the Bandits. === Page 19 of 29 Bandits 6/30/85 * From Page 1C Baltimore, the Bandits turned the ball over three times in the first quarter. But the previous opponent took advantage of their graciousness and scored 14 points. The Invaders got only three. "This time there couldn't be a letdown by the defense," said end Mike Clark. "We knew we had to put out the effort because there wouldn't be a next time." The Bandits had to punt the first time they had the ball because a motion penalty on wide receiver Spencer Jackson nullified a two-yard gain by Anderson on fourth-and-one from the Tampa 44. Andrusyshyn's punt was blocked by John Sullivan. The Bandits' Alonzo Johnson recovered at the 24, where he was downed. The Bandits got the ball right back when Harrell, running at an angle to the goal posts, intercepted Hebert's pass at the 2. Although Harrell's momentum carried him into the end zone, the ball was inexplicably marked at the 2 instead of the 20, as it would have been had officials ruled a touchback. "The referee told me when you intercept the ball inside the 5-yard line and go into the end zone like I did, the ball comes out to the 5," said Harrell. But the ball was marked at the 2, which prompted safety Marcus Quinn to say of the officials, "They just blew it, man, plain and simple." The poor field position was to the Invaders' advantage, because on third-and-one at the 11, a low handoff exchange resulted in a fumble by Gary Anderson and recovery at the 14 by cornerback Vito McKeever. The Invaders were set back to the 29 due to a roughness call on safety David Greenwood. Seven plays and a mere nine yards later, Bojovic put Oakland ahead 3-0 with a 37-yard field goal. Seemingly ready to take the lead after moving from their 32 to the Oakland 21 following the kickoff, the Bandits, suffered turnover No. 3 of the quarter when Reaves' pass intended for Willie Gillespie was intercepted by cornerback Oliver Davis at the 6. Gillespie slipped making a move for the ball, Davis picked it off and returned 12 yards to the Oakland 18. "We gave them some opportunities to get way ahead," said Spurrier, who would watch his defense hold the Invaders again, "but they didn't take advantage of them." The Bandits went the distance on their next possession, travelling 69 yards in seven plays. Anderson's 28-yard run and a 23-yard reception by Gillespie keyed a drive that ended when Reaves passed five yards to Jackson. The Bandits led 7-3 with 10:58 left in the half. Jackson would have one of his best games of the season, catching five passes for 87 yards, and said the knowledge that this might be the last game ever for the Bandits brought out the best in most players. "It was either do or die," he said, "so we had no choice but to keep coming back." A third-down blitz and sack of Hebert for a 12-yard loss by tackle Ken Times forced a punt and gave the Bandits the ball at their 27 with 8:31 left in the half. Times was playing more than usually because Mike Butler left the game for good in the first quarter due to a broken middle finger on his left hand. "We figured if we got a good pass rush, Hebert might throw the ball just about anywhere, because he tends to do that," said Mike Clark. "With Butler out of there it was clear we'd have to pull together and have great effort." The sack put the ball back in the Bandits' hands and gave Anderson a chance to show off. On the first play, he outran linebacker Ray Bentley down the left sideline, caught Reaves' perfectly thrown pass near the Oakland 40 and ran away from his pursuers to complete a 73-yard scoring play, longest in league playoff history. Hebert's 25-yard touchdown pass to Derek Holloway ended an eight-play, 80-yard drive that cut the Invaders' deficit to 14-10 with 3:30 remaining in the half. A 40-yard run by Anderson moved the Bandits into position for another score before the half, but Steve Carter dropped Reaves' pass in the end zone and Andrusyshyn's 28-yard field goal attempt was wide right. Still, the Bandits led by four at the half and, "that had us all fired up in the locker room," said Mike Clark. Oakland went ahead 17-14 at 12:30 of the third quarter when Hebert hit back-to-back completions for 39 yards to Gordon Banks and 40 to Anthony Carter, the latter for the touchdown. Interceptions on three consecutive series followed: McKeever stole one from Reaves, cornerback Mike Thurman made an over-the-head catch of an Hebert throw into the endzone, and Oliver Davis made his second off Reaves at the Oakland 39. Bojovic's 52-yard field goal put Oakland ahead 20-14 with 5:22 left in the third quarter, but the Bandits regained the lead 21-20 on Reaves' 6-yard run -- his first running TD in 10 years. A 35-yard reception by Larry Brodsky aided the drive that ended at the 2:28 mark. The Invaders came back, bolstered by a 41-yard catch by Holloway that put the ball on the 1-yard line. Fullback Tom Newton scored on the next play, making it 26-21, and Oakland went for two. Hebert hit Mike Shumann, but the conversion was nullified by a hold. Bojovic kicked a 30-yard extra point for the 27-21 lead. Carter's team-record 54-yard kickoff return got the Bandits headed toward the tying touchdown, which occurred when Reaves passed 15 yards to Gillespie with 9:41 left. The episode involving the extra-point followed and it ended with the game still tied. Bojovic would miss a 30-yard field goal attempt with 5:14 left, but consecutive sacks of Reaves forced a punt and the Invaders used the final 2:54 to move from the Bandits 40 to the 5, which is where the ball rested when Bojovic came in to win the game. His kick was a perfect ending for the Invaders. It may have been the end, period, for the Bandits. === Page 20 of 29 General manager trying to strike deal for team By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor 7/2/85 Ralph Campbell is in New York, where he will try to salvage something for the franchise. The season ended for his team, General Manager Ralph Campbell headed for New York City Monday night in search of a buyer, a merger, anything but the nothing that could mean death of the Tampa Bay Bandits as a team. United States Football League owners meet in New York the next couple of days. Campbell has an appointment with USFL President Harry Usher, who recognizes the Bandits still as a member of the league and therefore saleable or merger bait. Campbell left with one Bandit payday missed -- that prior to the last regular-season game -- and his office staff being disassembled. He left with money still to be collected, he said, and money still to be paid to debtors. He left with a glimmer of hope that a Tampa coalition might seek to keep the team as Bandits, in Tampa. "I can't comment on that," he said. "But, it is a slight alternative." More likely, he feels, is a sale and move of the Bandits intact to Chicago, where Eddie Einhorn hopes to put a team for the 1986 fall season the USFL hopes to play. And a possibility still is a merger of the Bandits with an existing team. Orlando has been mentioned as a possibility, but owner Don Dizney cancelled appointments with Campbell to discuss the idea and has had no further formal contact. Jacksonville was mentioned as a merger possibility but owner Fred Bullard is not rolling in money accumulated from his ownership of the Bull team. Both Bullard and Dizney owe the Bandits money for franchise rights, in the minds of Campbell. Managing General Partner John Bassett, ill in Toronto and no longer involved in negotiations, had the USFL rights to Florida. Ostensibly, Jacksonville and Orlando had to pay him to play in the USFL. Bullard has not contested the fee but has not paid all the Bandits say they have coming. Dizney is contesting the fee, saying his team See CAMPBELL, Page 7 T. Bay Bandits PK 0.5B 6/29/85 Reaves May Be A Free Agent TAMPA (AP) -- Tampa Bay Bandits quarterback John Reaves says he expects to become a free agent after the United States Football League playoffs. Reaves said Thursday his contract stipulates that if the Bandits want to keep him they have to pay him a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days of the team's final game. The Bandits play at Oakland Sunday in a first-round USFL playoff game. The league championship game is scheduled for July 14. Reaves said he's been told that Bandits' owner John Bassett will not exercise an option to keep him. "My agent talked with Mr. Bassett the other day and he said they weren't going to exercise their option," Reaves said. "That would make me a free agent." T. Bay Bandits PK Teammates and coaches with the Bandits often kid place-kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn about being the "official team spokesman." All joking aside, few people know as much about what makes the Bandits tick as the man called "Z." He is a charter member of the team and in the days leading to this weekend's playoff game -- and in the wake of Sunday's 38-10 loss to the Baltimore Stars -- Andrusyshyn will share his impressions with Tribune readers. T. Trib. 6/25/85 Leaving Baltimore Sunday, personally my feelings -- and I'm sure a lot of players would echo them -- was one of extreme disappointment. But that was the atmosphere on the plane ride back for only a while. Pretty soon, people began communicating. I was sitting next to John Reaves and I said, "John, if you had a statement to describe this year, what would you say?" He said, "Very, very sad." I asked him why and he talked about our owner John Bassett and his illness, the demise of the team, the demise of the league, and the way the team has played as far as being so inconsistent. I said, "Why don't we look at some positive things?" I meant the last three years, how well the Bandits have done, being in the playoffs, and the fact that a guy like myself and a guy like John didn't have much chance of playing football three years ago. T. Bay Bandits PK Dizney 'Very Interested' In Merging Bandits, 'Gades 0.5B 6/19/85 TAMPA (AP) -- Orlando Renegades managing partner Don Dizney says while he's not made an offer to buy the Tampa Bay Bandits, he's "very interested" in merging the two USFL clubs and moving the Bandits to Orlando. Dizney confirmed Monday that he has had financial discussions with Ralph Campbell, the Bandits' business operations director who is running the team in the absence of ailing managing partner John Bassett. Campbell has said that the Bandits will be sold or merged with another United States Football League team because Bassett's health has forced his plans for a new spring league to be placed on hold. Bassett wanted to form a new league because he opposes the USFL's move to the fall. He's in Toronto being treated for brain tumors. Tampa is 10-7 and headed for the playoffs as a wild card team. Orlando is 4-13. The Renegades play their final game of the season Friday, hosting the Los Angeles Express. Game time is 8 p.m. Campbell has said that three groups, including Dizney's, have reached the point of specific negotiations with the Bandits. === Page 21 of 29 John Reaves expects to become a free agent following the Bandits' season. # Bandits won't exercise option to keep Reaves T. Bay Bandits PK T. Bay Trib 6/25/85 The quarterback says several NFL teams have expressed an interest in his services. By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer Quarterback John Reaves expects to become a free agent two weeks after the Bandits' season ends because he said he has been told the team will not exercise its option to keep him. Reaves said Thursday his contract stipulates that if the Bandits want to retain his services they must pay him a $25,000 roster bonus within 14 days of the team's final game. The Bandits have a first-round USFL playoff game at Oakland on Sunday. The league championship will be decided on July 14. "My agent talked with (Bandits' owner) Mr. (John) Bassett the other day and he (Bassett) said they weren't going to exercise their option," said Reaves, who is represented by Jim Neader. "That would make me a free agent and several NFL teams have expressed an interest in me." (Coach) Steve Spurrier and the Tampa Bay Bandits, but when Mr. Bassett informed us they were not going to exercise their option on me we had no choice but to talk to other teams." Bassett is being treated for two brain tumors in Toronto. Bandits General Manager Ralph Campbell, who is heading operations in his absence, said he had not talked to Bassett or Reaves about the roster bonus clause. "Obviously, it is important and needs to be taken care of," said Campbell, "but I have not gotten to it yet." See REAVES, Page 7C T. Bay Bandits PK T. Bay Trib. 6/17/85 The Bandits' "mission" is on again. Of course, it was never canceled, according to free safety Marcus Quinn. Despite Tampa Bay's four straight losses and growing off-the-field problems, many of the players never lost faith that the team would turn things around and make the playoffs. Not only did those things happen Saturday night at muggy Tampa Stadium, but they came at the expense of a team that has owned the Bandits in the recent past. Final score: Tampa Bay 17, Birmingham Stallions 14. "No one in here is a loser," said Quinn, who picked off a pair of passes to help the Bandits qualify for post-season play for the second-straight season. "During the four-game drought, we were playing hard, but a play here or there was beating us. Tonight, we didn't beat ourselves. "We still have a mission. It's never been off." Quinn would have to admit the mission was put on hold while Tampa Bay turned "Banditball" into "Blunderball" the last four weeks. Saturday night, it was the Eastern Conference-leading Stallions who turned the ball over time after time as they fell to 12-5. "Turnovers were the big thing," Coach # Nick Pugliese Steve Spurrier said of the Bandits' five interceptions. The head coach, smiling in the post-game locker room for the first time in a month, added that his team played with a lot of emotion. The Bandits also went out and kicked the Stallions' butts. Written on a blackboard in the winning locker room was the following pre-game message: "Break and Kick A--." "We beat a team-that really intimidated us the last time we played them," said inside linebacker Kelly Kirchbaum, referring to Birmingham's 30-3 victory two months ago at Legion Field. Kirchbaum hadn't played in recent weeks due to a nagging calf injury, but he said nothing was going to keep him out of the rematch with the Stallions. See BANDITS, Page 6C T. Bay Bandits PK T. Trib 6/24/85 COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Inadvertently, offensive guard Nathaniel Newton has made the Bandits a candidate to appear on the TV version of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Climbing the grass terrace leading to the Bandits' locker room at Byrd Stadium Sunday, Newton said to no one in particular, "We've got a playoff game ... believe it or not." It is hard to believe, considering how the Bandits played Sunday, considering how they have played for most of the last six weeks, a period during which they have lost five of six games. There may be no team in the United States Football League that wants to claim a championship more than the Bandits. There also may be no playoff team with more problems to overcome. John Bassett Jr., son of the Bandits owner who is undergoing treatment in Canada for two brain tumors, said after Sunday's loss that, "I have a feeling he (his father) will be at the championship game if they're there," referring to the Bandits. "But that's up to them," he said, pointing toward the visitors' locker room. The Bandits had just been humiliated by a team they had handled easily on April 28. === Page 22 of 29 Tampa Bay Bandits PK # Breakers hand Bandits fourth consecutive loss Orl. Sent. 6/10/85 ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. -- Matt Robinson threw for two touchdowns, and running back Buford Jordan rushed for two more to lead the Portland Breakers (5-11) to a 27-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Bandits late Saturday night. Robinson threw touchdown passes of 24 and 39 yards to wide receiver Nolan Franz in the first quarter. Jordan added two touchdown runs, each of 5 yards, in the third quarter. Tampa could have earned a playoff berth with a victory but instead fell to 9-7, losing for the fourth game in a row. Bandits quarterback John Reaves, forced to pass frequently, connected for three touchdowns passes -- a 21-yard pass to wide receiver Larry Brodsky in the third quarter, a 26-yarder to wide receiver Willie Gillespie and a 32-yarder to Brodsky in the fourth quarter. Tampa Bay kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn missed a 37-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter but connected on a 25-yarder 18 seconds before halftime. Tampa Bay Coach Steve Spurrier was upset by the turnovers. "We just didn't play very sharp. We had a lot of chances, but we even gave them one touchdown," Spurrier said. "I don't know what happened, we just got beat." "Toward the end of the game when we began to score, we really didn't change anything, we just got lucky. They have been running against us for three years but we acted like we'd never seen them before. We'll come back and play hard." - [ ] Late statistics ... page C-6 T. Bay Bandits PK # Bandits Deactivate Receiver TAMPA (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Bandits deactivated wide receiver Eric Truvillion because he had become a disruptive force on the United States Football League team, Coach Steve Spurrier said. "I felt like he had lost his respect for me and the other coaches," Spurrier said Thursday after benching Truvillion for Saturday night's game against Birmingham, and possibly the regular season finale at Baltimore. "Obviously, he was not happy here," the coach added, "He had run-ins with teammates and coaches and we felt like it would be better for him to go to another team." O. SB 6/14/85 Tampa Bay Bandits PK # Bandits Told To Go Job Hunting TAMPA (AP) -- Administrative personnel with the United States Football League's Tampa Bay Bandits have been advised to explore the job market because of uncertainty surrounding the franchise's future, the Tampa Tribune reported Friday. The newspaper said Ralph Campbell, director of business operations, met with employees on Wednesday and informed them he "could not absolutely guarantee where they will be next year." Bandits owner John Bassett announced on April 22 that Tampa Bay would withdraw from the USFL later this year because of the league's plans to switch to a fall playing schedule in 1986. O. SB 6/8/85 T. Bay Bandits PK # Tampa Bay Holds Off Birmingham For 17-14 Victory TAMPA (AP) -- The scoreboard read 7-7, but Tampa Bay Coach Steve Spurrier had positive feelings about the Bandits' chances of upsetting the Birmingham Stallions midway through their United States Football League game. What defensive coordinator Barry Wilson told him at halftime didn't hurt. "Coach, you don't have to score every time on offense because we're gonna stop 'em," Wilson assured Spurrier Saturday night. "I've got a feeling about it. The guys are really ready to play." Birmingham had dominated statistically to that point, and continued to do so after intermission. The Tampa Bay defense, however, intercepted five passes and stopped a pair of threats that resulted in missed field goals as the Bandits held on for a 17-14 victory. "I think this is the first time in three years we beat a good team and we didn't play well on offense," Spurrier said. "I think this will give us some momentum." The triumph clinched a playoff berth for the 11-7 Bandits, who would have qualified anyway as a result of Jacksonville's 31-0 loss to the Memphis Showboats. Birmingham saw a five-game winning streak end, dropped to 12-5, and missed out on an opportunity to clinch the Eastern Conference championship. A victory over Tampa Bay, combined with New Jersey's 34-29 loss to Oakland, would have given Coach Rollie Dotsch the title. "It was very simple. Their offense played better than our offense. Their defense played better than our defense. Their kicker kicked better than our kicker," Dotsch said. "As a result, we lost." Stallions quarterback Cliff Stoudt tossed a first-quarter touchdown pass to Jim Smith, but went on to throw four interceptions before being benched late in the third quarter. Backup Bob Lane was intercepted once, and also threw a scoring strike to Smith -- a 7-yarder with just 13 seconds left in the game. Smith caught 11 passes for 139 yards and has 20 TDs this season. Place-kicker Danny Miller, however, missed field goal attempts of 38 and 40 yards, and Birmingham failed to take advantage of outgaining the Bandits 416 yards to 253. O. SB 6/17/85 === Page 23 of 29 JUNE 11, 1985 PRO FOOTBALL # Bandits Still Have Shot At Playoff Berth TAMPA (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Bandits have lost four games in a row but still have an excellent shot at making the United States Football League playoffs. "We ain't dead yet," Coach Steve Spurrier said Monday. "We still have two games left." Actually, the Bandits -- who owned the league's best record just four weeks ago -- can still squeeze into post-season action, and possibly host a playoff contest, even if they lose their last two regular season games. But Spurrier is counting on turning things around against Eastern Conference-leading Birmingham, which will lug a 12-4 record into Tampa Stadium Saturday night. "They've clinched about everything," Spurrier said during his weekly news conference. "I'm sure they're going to play hard ... but maybe this is a good time to catch them." While a loss to the first-place Stallions would strike a blow to the 9-7 Bandits' playoff hopes, it would not eliminate them from contention. A triumph at Baltimore on June 23 would assure Tampa Bay a berth, as would two Jacksonville losses in the Bulls' last three games. "Like I was saying ... we're not dead yet," Spurrier repeated. The Bandits' four-game slide has included losses to Orlando and Portland, a pair of teams that have a combined record of 9-23. Spurrier called last Saturday night's 27-24 loss to the Breakers "disappointing," and said "two or three" of Tampa Bay's players were guilty of giving less than 100 percent during the upset. "I don't blame them," the coach said, though. "I blame myself because they're the same guys who have been doing it around here for a long time and we've put up with it." Spurrier declined to name names, and tried to downplay the importance of their not playing "full-speed enough for us." "They're not why we lost," he said, while nevertheless suggesting that their playing time would be affected Saturday. "It's been going on a long time," he added. "But when you're winning, you tend to overlook things like that." The Bandits' problems the past month have centered around an inability to get maximum point production out of drives that reach the opposition's 20-yard line, Spurrier said. "We're still going up and down the field on offense, but we're not coming away with touchdowns," he said. "Defensively, we were stopping them after long drives," Spurrier added. "Now they (opponents) are getting down there and scoring." Tampa Bay outgained 419 yards to 286, but fell behind 13-0 in the first quarter and were able to recover. A 14-point fourth-quarter made things close. "We're going to have to play better than we've been playing," Spurrier said. "We just can't overcome bad plays and beat people." # Collier Passes For Three TD's By BUD CRUSSELL Sports Editor ORLANDO -- A funny thing happened on the way to the game Saturday night -- somebody forgot to tell the Orlando Renegades they were supposed to lose to the Tampa Bay Bandits in what was supposed to be a mismatch of a United States Football League game. Or, someone failed to tell the Bandits they were supposed to win and by at least 20 points. It turned out to be a mismatch all right, but not in the way the prognosticators said it would be. The Renegades did the impossible and that was to upset the highly-favored Bandits by a 37-7 score in Orlando Stadium. The victory was only Orlando's fourth against 11 losses and it dropped Tampa Bay to a 10-5 mark on the season. No one in the crowd of 26,147 would have given the Renegades much of a chance of even staying close to the Bandits much less see the team completely dominate the contest from start to finish. In the end, the Renegades showed mercy by running out the clock with 2:52 remaining after gaining possession of the ball after intercepting a Bandit pass at the visitor's 33-yard line. The question remains: Were the Renegades that good on this particular night, or were the Bandits just that lousy? A lot of takers would probably say the latter although you have to give the Renegades credit for an explosive offense and a heads-up defense. "We got beat, beat soundly. They outcoached, outplayed, and whipped us in about every phase of the game. We played stupid again. We can't hold on to the football," said Tampa Bay coach Steve Spurrier. "We're going to keep playing, practice hard, try to get better and go out and play Portland next week," he added. In the other lockerroom, Renegade defensive back Lupe Sanchez was a happy man. Sanchez intercepted a pass late in the game and ran it back 88 yards for the final Orlando score. "We've had so many games when we let up in the third quarter -- we told ourselves, 'no way.' The defensive line did a great job. I've got to give credit to the whole team, especially, the offense. They kept marching the ball downfield. Our best defense is our offense," Sanchez said. Orlando jumped out to a 20-0 lead before Tampa Bay could get anything going. The game was only a little over seven minutes old when the Renegades drew first blood. It came on a 16-yard pass play from Collier to Jerry Parrish, who raced behind the defender in the end zone. Jeff Brockhaus kicked the extra point to put the Renegades up 7-0 with 8:42 left in the first period. The touchdown came at the end of an eight-play, 51-yard drive. Collier passed six times for 47 yards in the march. Orlando went up 14-0 with 12:47 left in the second quarter when Collier raced into the end zone from five yards out. The drive covered 73 yards on 12 plays, with Orlando mainly keeping the ball on the ground. With Orlando on top 14-0, Bandits' coach Steve Spurrier sent in former Florida State quarterback Jimmy Jordan to replace John Reaves. But Jordan's tenure came to an abrupt end when Victor Jackson intercepted the former Seminoles' pass at the Orlando 30-yard line and returned it 27 yards. Three plays later, Orlando scored again when Collier hit Joey Walters with a 21-yard TD pass. Walters made a leaping catch over the defender for the score. Brockhaus missed the extra point attempt to leave the score at 20-0. Following the kickoff, Tampa Bay, behind the brilliant passing of Reaves, marched 75 yards on five plays for the touchdown. === Page 24 of 29 Turnovers help inspired Stars smack Bandits Coach Steve Spurrier said his playoff-bound team acted like it wanted to get the season over with in the 38-10 defeat. By TOM FORD Tribune Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Two-minute-warning labels may have to be applied to the Bandits' helmets in view of their self-destructive performance Sunday against the Baltimore Stars. Warning: This team is prone to turnovers every two minutes. Warning: Three lost fumbles and three interceptions can be hazardous to a team's health. Turnovers were the difference Sunday at Byrd Stadium, as the Bandits made a half-hearted effort of preparing for the United States Football League playoffs by being humiliated 38-10 by the Stars, who will enter post-season play with their heads held higher. "You guys up here are probably wondering how we got in the playoffs," Coach Steve Spurrier said to East Coast writers following the Bandits' fifth loss in six games. "We acted like we wanted to get the season over with." Actually, they had no choice in the matter. Sunday's game before a crowd of 12,647 was the Bandits' last of 18 during the regular season. They will open the playoffs next weekend either at Oakland or Birmingham. The pairings revolve around tonight's Houston-Oakland game. If Houston wins, the Bandits, 10-8, will play Eastern Conference champion Birmingham, 13-5, on Saturday afternoon. An Oakland victory would set up a Sunday afternoon meeting between the Bandits and Invaders, 12-4-1 entering their season finale. Defending champion Baltimore, 10-7-1, will play at New Jersey or Oakland, depending on the outcome of tonight's game. If the Stars get as much help in the playoffs as they did from the Bandits, they could go a long way. Playoff picture If Oakland beats Houston tonight: Tampa Bay at Oakland, Sunday, 2:45 p.m. Houston at Birmingham, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Denver at Memphis, Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Baltimore at New Jersey, Monday, 9 p.m. If Houston beats Oakland tonight: Tampa Bay at Birmingham, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Baltimore at Oakland, Sunday, 2:45 p.m. Houston at Memphis, Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Denver at New Jersey, Monday, 9 p.m. "I've never seen a team that can get behind so fast," said Spurrier. "I've never seen a team that can make three turnovers in three straight plays." That happened to the Bandits in the first half. Actually, they committed four turnovers in a span of 8:06 -- nearly one every two minutes -- and those miscues caused them to fall behind 17-0. "It's something we can't seem to totally get rid of," said tailback Gary Anderson, referring to the Bandits' turnovers problems that often come in bunches. "This week it hit us again. Hopefully, next week we'll get rid of it, whatever it is." The strange series of events in the first half buckled the Bandits, like a punch to the stomach: * On third-and-one at the Stars' See BANDITS, Page 6C Nick Pugliese T.B. Bandits PK Bandits simply ran out of time T.B. Trib 6/10/85 PORTLAND, Ore. -- For three quarters Saturday night, the Bandits played like a team that couldn't wait for this long season to end. It was as if the Tampa Bay players put up a "Gone Fishing" sign over their lockers and merely were playing out the string before the club is disbanded, moved to Chicago, or ends up in a spring league with the Mexico City Matadors and the Juneau Junkmen. Then, the fourth quarter started at Civic Stadium, and the Bandits woke up from a two-game slumber. Let the record show they still lost to the Portland Breakers 27-24 for a team-record fourth straight defeat. But also let the record show the team did not quit. "In the first half, we moved the ball effectively and we got down there near the goal line a couple of times, but only got three points out of that," quarterback John Reaves said. "The guys played hard. We didn't give up. We just ran out of time." Reaves, who was 29 of 47 for 330 yards and three touchdowns, was right. The Bandits moved the ball all night, but didn't find the end zone until it was too late. They outgained the Breakers, 419 to 286 yards, even with a bunch of starters missing due to injuries and suspension. There's no doubt if the game had gone a few more minutes, the Bandits just about would have clinched a playoff berth. Instead, they have to be wondering if they are going to let the gold ring flush down the toilet. But, just like the horse player who says his entry would have won the race had it been 100 yards longer, Tampa Bay will never get the Portland game back. For a while Saturday night, it looked like the Bandits were going to give it away to another team that came in more emotionally prepared. See BANDITS, Page 6C T. Bay Bandits P.R O.S.B 6/4/85 Dark Day For Tampa Bay Bandits For the Bandits, this must surely rank as their darkest hour. The Bandits played as though they had other things on their mind -- and may well have. The dark cloud of tackle Dan Fike's defection to the NFL's Cleveland Browns, the move of the USFL to a fall schedule, leaving the Bandits without a home, and owner John Bassett's threat to form a new league, could well have been contributing factors to Saturday night's blowout. Tampa Bay must regroup quickly for this week's meeting with the Portland Breakers. "We're going to keep playing," said Spurrier. "We'll practice hard and try to get better and go out and play Portland next week." === Page 25 of 29 Bandits 6/10/85 * From Page 1C Portland scored on two of its first three possessions to break to a 13-0 lead. The Breakers could have had a third score after linebacker Ben Needham recovered an errant center snap on the Bandits' first play from scrimmage at the Tampa 30-yard line. But they returned the favor when tailback Buford Jordan fumbled on first down and nose guard Mike Morgan recovered. Still, the Breakers drove 65 and 70 yards to score on its next two possessions and made the Bandits do something they have never done well -- come from behind to win. Apparently, when "Banditball" was formed, someone forgot to put a rally program in the system. Both of Portland's early touchdowns -- a 24-yard pass from Matt Robinson to Nolan Franz and a 39-yard hookup between the same duo off a flea-flicker -- came as the result of breakdowns in the Tampa Bay secondary. Marcus Quinn, playing strong safety at the time instead of his normal free safety, took the blame for both mistakes. "On the first one, we were in man-to-man coverage and I was beaten on a post-corner route," said Quinn, who suffered a thigh bruise late in the third quarter and did not return. "On No. 2, it was a trick play that we had seen all week. I came up to help out on the run and left my zone and got beat again." After Zenon Andrusyshyn kicked a 25-yard field goal right before the half to cut the score to 13-3, the Breakers eventually upped their lead to 27-10 with 13:51 left in the game. Jordan amended for his early fumble and scored on a pair of 5-yard runs sandwiched around Reaves' 21-yard TD pass to Larry Brodsky. With Tampa Bay down by 17 early in the final quarter, ex-Bandit center Bob Van Duyne, who lives in Seattle and watched the game from the sidelines, said he noticed a sudden fire in his old teammates' eyes. It also was about the same time Coury might have gotten a little conservative. Whatever the reason, Tampa Bay stormed back to score twice in an eight-minute span as Reaves hooked up with Willie Gillespie (25 yards) and Brodsky (32). In between those two scores, Portland even blew a chance to ice the game. The Breakers' opportunity came when Reaves' pass from the Portland 7 was batted in the air and caught by defensive end Frankie Wilson, who had been signed only hours before the game. Wilson chugged down the sideline until Brodsky overhauled him at the Tampa Bay 23. The Bandits' defense tightened, and Tim Mazzetti was called upon for a 34-yard field goal. Nose guard Ron Simmons, who had blocked Mazzetti's second extra-point attempt, came up with another stuff, which Dwayne Anderson picked up and advanced to midfield. However, just as the Breakers blew a sure score, the Bandits blew another game to fall to 9-7 when Portland was able to run out the clock, thanks to some fine running by backup tailback Louis Jackson. Depending on what happens tonight when the Jacksonville Bulls meet the New Jersey Generals, the Bandits probably will have to win at least one of their final two games to make the postseason shindig. Only four weeks ago, they had the best record in the United States Football League. That final win won't come easy. The Bandits' next opponent, the Birmingham Stallions Saturday night at Tampa Stadium, owns the best record in the league (12-4) and destroyed Tampa Bay earlier this year. The season finale is against the Baltimore Stars in College Park, Md. The Stars traditionally have given the Bandits trouble. Players in the losing locker room insisted the Bandits aren't choking their playoff chances away. "I'd like to think since we fought back so well in this game only to come up short that we are ready to put it all together," said tailback Gary Anderson, who played about three-fourths of the first half and sat out the second with assorted injuries. "We might have lost on the scoreboard, but I think we really won." "We have lost four in a row, but it's not a panic situation," Reaves said. "This is a good team and we'll all rally together." Funny, that's what they have been saying for four weeks. === Page 26 of 29 # Flutie works magic on Bandits by NICK PUGLIESE Tribune Sports Writer T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Although place-kick holder Rick Partridge scored the winning TD, it was Generals quarterback Doug Flutie that keyed a 30-24 overtime win over the Bandits. If anyone still doubts the magic of Doug Flutie, they don't have to look any farther than the Bandits' locker room late Sunday afternoon. Inside that unusually quiet chamber under the sunbaked Tampa Stadium stands, the Tampa Bay players were reflecting on the New Jersey Generals' 30-24 overtime victory. They kept talking about Flutie, despite the fact that holder Rick Partridge was the one who bobbled the snap on a field-goal attempt, then picked up the ball and scored the winning touchdown on a 9-yard run 3:53 into the fifth quarter. They kept praising Flutie, despite a great tailback duel between New Jersey's Herschel Walker (3 TDs, 166 rushing yards) and Tampa Bay's Gary Anderson (2 TDs, 189 total yards). They kept marveling at Flutie, despite his 11-for-16, 161-yard, 0-TDs statistics. Nonetheless, the 5-foot-9 rookie quarterback from Boston College was instrumental in leading the Generals over the Bandits for the second time this season. The Bandits' second-straight loss dropped them to 9-5, a half-game behind the Birmingham Stallions, who play host to the Orlando Renegades tonight, and into a second-place tie with the Generals in the Eastern Conference. In the first meeting this season between New Jersey and Tampa Bay, Flutie rallied his team to a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns and a 28-24 win. Sunday, he took the Generals 51 yards in 1:32 with no timeouts left to Roger Ruzek's game-tying 40-yard field goal with four seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. Flutie then hit Clarence Collins with a 49-yard bomb in the extra period to set up the winning score, which came as Ruzek lined up for a 27-yard field goal and Partridge, the team's punter, ended up racing the Bandits to the end-zone flag as a stunned audience of 35,000 (estimated) looked on. "I'd rather just punt the ball," Partridge said. "I don't like getting touched by anybody. I saw the ball, picked it up, ran and just fell in the end zone." "It was a tough one. We had a lot of guys play their hearts out," Spurrier said. "The ball didn't bounce well enough for us. "The big play was the long pass they threw over our defensive backs and our turnovers (three interceptions, one fumble). Flutie must have done something right. He completed them in the fourth quarter again." Flutie's magic wand didn't only boost his teammates and blitz the Bandits Sunday, it apparently even blinded the officials. On the big play to Collins, which came after Tampa Bay had been forced to punt on its first possession of OT, the two officials on the scene -- field judge James An- See BANDITS, Page 8C ## Game Notes T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Rick Partridge's 9-yard touchdown run Sunday was the final thrill in a taut game between the Bandits and Generals, but there is only one problem: The game probably should have been over by then, with the Bandits winning. With 12:16 left in the regulation and the score tied 21-all, John Reaves tried a pass that was off the mark. New Jersey safety John Preston picked it up on one bounce and, in a performance that fooled only New Jersey Coach Walt Michaels, started running like he had an interception. The field officials promptly whistled back the attempt at chicanery, but Michaels utilized his option and called for a replay. He had successfully challenged a call in the first quarter, and probably figured he was on a roll. Referee Wesley Ward dutifully trotted to the sidelines to confer with review official Cal Lepore, the USFL head of officials. After a few moments, Ward returned to the field and announced that no replay was available, so Michaels couldn't be charged with a timeout. The extra timeout enabled New Jersey to stop the clock with 1:44 to go and the Bandits trying to run it out on third down before their field goal attempt that gave them a 24-21 lead. The call probably saved the Generals 45 seconds at least, which was critical in a close game -- as anyone witnessing the last Doug Flutie-led drive in regulation would attest. With 13 seconds left, a Flutie pass finally got the Generals in field-goal position, which Roger Ruzek capitalized on with a 40-yarder to send the game into overtime. ABC makes the replays available to the league at games it televises, and network officials were at a loss to explain why the league would make the call it did. Lepore told the Bandits that the replay hadn't run by the time a decision had to be made, and thus the non-call. But it had run before Ward could get back to mid-field and make his announcement. Against all odds. Brett Ladd of Dunwoody, Ga., was the contestant in the halftime promotion where a fan tries a 42-yard field goal for $97,000. The Crowder Insurance Company, which underwrites the gimmick, estimates the odds are 16-million-to-1 against a successful kick from that distance, so it isn't real worried about a payoff. Except that Ladd's kick had plenty of leg and only at the last moment drifted slightly to the left and outside the uprights. Ladd got a T-shirt. ET stay out. Bandits receiver Eric Truvillion was listed as probable before Sunday's game, but did not play. The official reason given was that Truvillion's right knee wasn't up to the test. === Page 27 of 29 * TV announcer, Sat. 5/25/85 during Bandit game: "This team (Bandits) has got to think it's jinxed..." both Anderson out * Lynn Swann By ED HARDIN Tribune Sports Writer T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 The New Jersey Generals are accused of being a one-dimensional team. Herschel left, Herschel right, Flutie dump pass to Herschel. Right? Wrong. Ask Rick Partridge, the Generals' punter, place-kick holder and newest offensive threat. "Herschel who?" Partridge asked Sunday. "Herschel Partridge now." Partridge, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound NFL castoff who once threw a touchdown pass against the Atlanta Falcons, scored on a 9-yard run with 11:07 left in overtime to give the Generals a come-from-behind 30-24 win over Tampa Bay. "And a star is born," said Partridge, a 3-year starter at New Jersey. "I guess you could say I'm an offensive threat now." The Bandits didn't think so. With 11:07 left in overtime and New Jersey place-kicker Roger Ruzek lining up the potential winning field goal, Tampa Bay defenders were not thinking of Partridge. Then Partridge fumbled the snap. "I ran for a step and I noticed that their end was looking up in the air," Partridge said. "I guess he thought we were kicking. I couldn't have jumped on the ball right there, and we would've just kicked again. But then I saw the end zone." Partridge picked up the ball, and with the grace of a Southern Cal tailback, ran a perfect sweep around left end, nine yards past an unsuspecting defense and some New Jersey Generals as well. Partridge, who played college ball at the University of Utah, loped around a fallen player or two and dove toward the corner of the end zone with the winning touchdown. Ruzek was on the field, aghast. He didn't see Partridge's score. In fact, Ruzek was hoping his 27-yard field-goal attempt would make him the hero. Walker, who gained more than 100 yards for the eighth straight game, was simply praying. "I saw that ball on the ground and said 'Oh my God,'" said Walker. "I wasn't worried when I saw the ball on the ground. All of a sudden, he (Partridge) got up and started running. Then I got worried." Partridge's play came on a second down, so if he had simply fallen on the ball, New Jersey would have had another shot at the field goal. In fact, just before the play, the Generals' coaching staff reminded Partridge to do just that. "I guess I should've fallen on it," he said, "but I looked up and saw an opening, so I tried to get the extra yards so the attempt would be shorter. Then it happened. I saw the end zone, decided I could make it and went for it." New Jersey Coach Walt Michaels just smiled and shook his head afterward. "If you hang together as a team some strange things will happen," he said. "If you had told me that the place-kick holder would score a touchdown to win the game, I would have said you were crazy." Added Walker: "Sometimes those plays happen. A lot of people say we're a conservative team, but we can be explosive, too." And maybe just a little lucky. # Defense's solid effort spoiled in the end By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 Bandit Coach Steve Spurrier's eyes moistened, then reddened and he very nearly became emotional. What he had just seen and felt Sunday at Tampa Stadium had affected his team identically, particularly the defense which held together very well except on the final two offensive series of the game by the New Jersey Generals. Through most of four quarters, the Bandits had permitted Generals' quarterback Doug Flutie to complete just five passes for 68 yards. They had jammed up the middle well enough with a four-man line to make it quite sticky for both Flutie and running back Herschel Walker. But then, with 1:31 to play and a 24-21 lead to protect, the Bandits went to a three-man rush with more people in coverage. Flutie, despite having no timeouts, hit five passes for 44 yards to set up Roger Ruzek's tying 40-yard field goal with four seconds left in regulation. Then came a galling 49-yard Flutie completion to Clarence Collins -- he caught only two balls in the game and had not been playing well lately -- in overtime. That led to a crazy, winning 9-yard touchdown run by kick-holder Rick Partridge on a busted play from field goal formation. In the final analysis, some Bandits defensive players said, "We didn't execute and they did." But, there also was the key time factor. On the Bandits' final series in regulation, Spurrier decided to pass on third down at the New Jersey 12-yard line rather than take more time off the clock with a running play. The pass was nearly intercepted and fell incomplete, stopping the clock. On the next play, Zenon Andrusyshyn booted a 29-yard field goal that could have won the game 24-21. Had Spurrier gone with a time-consuming run, the Generals might not have had enough time to kick a field goal. That's conjecture, of course. In essence, Collins' 49-yard catch won the game, but it was a puzzling play because Bandits free safety Marcus Quinn said neither of the two nearest officials knew whether the ball had been caught. Quinn didn't think it was and they asked him. "I saw the ball on the ground," he said later. At first, offensive pass interference was ruled, but the decision was changed to defense and the Generals declined the penalty. Cornerback Warren Hanna, the other Bandit involved, would not comment. Collins said it couldn't have been interference because "I was ahead of them." Flutie said, "I thought it was a legal catch. I couldn't believe it when the flag went down." The Bandits, who lost nose tackle Fred Nordgren two weeks ago, went to a four-man line to move Mike Butler inside to tackle from end. They've also had some success with that alignment in previous games against the Generals. Butler and other Bandits had difficulty explaining how the Generals drove 51 and 80 yards in their final === Page 28 of 29 Bandits T. Bay Trib. 5/27/85 * From Page 1C derson and back judge Bill Lange -- couldn't agree on what happened. One referee ruled offensive pass interference, then changed his mind to defensive pass interference against cornerback Warren Hanna. The second referee said it was a catch, but he didn't see any interference. In the meantime, Bandits free safety Marcus Quinn said Collins never caught the ball and pulled a Houdini to make the referees think he had. "I take my hat off to Doug Flutie, but at the same time, I thought the big play (to Collins) was an incomplete pass," Quinn said. "Neither referee saw the ball caught. I saw the ball hit the ground and the receiver roll over with the ball in his lap and his back to the referees like he caught it. "The first referee didn't know if it was offensive or defensive interference. He asked the other official, 'What was it?' The other guy said, 'You threw the flag.' It was a real mess." Flutie, who fell to his knees when it appeared Collins was going to be flagged for offensive pass interference, said he thought it was a legitimate catch. "I couldn't believe it when the flag went up," he said. "I've always looked for the tight end. This was the first time that I've been able to look up field. Normally, I would throw it short, but I looked deep and saw Collins and let it go." Head referee Wesley Ward, who refused to name the two officials in question, backed their final judgment, which put the ball at the Tampa Bay 18-yard line. "The play was ruled pass interference, there was a catch by the offense, the penalty was declined," Ward said. However, Bandits outside linebacker James Harrell said the home team got the shaft. "That was a controversial call," Harrell said. "I thought it was offensive pass interference." Harrell also shared part of the blame for the loss, which makes the Bandits 1-1 in overtime games. "When we needed to make the big play, we didn't come up with them," he said. "I didn't think the guy (Flutie) would have the poise to move them late in the game. But he has great composure and he pulled it out. I thought we could stop them." Actually, the Bandits had pretty much controlled Flutie in the physical game. It was Walker, the United States Football League's leading rusher, who did all the earlier damage to keep the Generals in the contest. The score was 14-all at halftime as Walker (12 and 4 yards) matched Anderson (8-yard pass from John Reaves, 1-yard leap) for scores. The Bandits went ahead 21-14 when Reaves, who passed for 323 yards, tossed a 21-yard TD to tight end Marvin Harvey midway through the third quarter. But Walker scored on a 2-yard run early in the fourth quarter to knot the score again. Tampa Bay staged an 11-play, 63-yard drive that ended when Zenon Andrusyshyn booted a 29-yard field goal for a 24-21 lead with 1:36 to play. Though New Jersey was out of timeouts, there was still plenty of magic left in Flutie. "They came through at the end. It's too bad we didn't stop them," said Reaves. "They hit a Hail Mary pass at the end to set up a Hail Mary field goal when the guy picked up the ball and carried it in. "We tried to eat up as much time as we could on our last drive, but we had to settle for the field goal. They just kept making those first downs to stop the clock and the guy made the kick to send it into overtime. We gave a great effort, but it just wasn't good enough. Too bad we didn't win it." # Merger possible for Bulls, Bandits T. Bay Bandits PK 7/7/85 Tribune Wires JACKSONVILLE -- A merger among the United States Football League franchises in Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa Bay appears unlikely, but a Jacksonville-Tampa Bay hook-up is still a possibility, Bulls Owner Fred Bullard said Saturday. Bullard confirmed that the three-way merger was discussed at the USFL owners' meeting Tuesday in Teaneck, N.J., but he indicated Orlando Renegades Owner Donald Dizney believed taking his team out of the Orlando would hurt his credibility with the city. "He liked the idea, but felt he had a commitment to his community," Bullard said. But Bullard said he had received "a favorable reaction from the Tampa group" concerning a possible merger of the two teams that showed the best attendance in the USFL during the past two years. The Bandits are looking to merge with another USFL team because of conflicts in Tampa with the Buccaneers of the National Football League, Bandit officials said earlier this year. "The obvious advantage for me would be that it would bring an additional group of investors," Bullard said. "Plus, we would be involved with a celebrity like Burt Reynolds." Reynolds is part owner of the Bandits, along with John Bassett and Stephen Arky. === Page 29 of 29 May 15, 1985 SCIENTISTS Have made yet another important discovery through my work and research. The reason why humans dream. And the answer has absolutely nothing to do with the explanations given in modern psychology and/or psychiatry. There is a slight analogy...wherein males "fall in love" with certain females after viewing their form (and vice versa, of course. Female to male). On Wednesday evening, April 10, 1985, my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to cooperate with them in using psi-force to attack the space shuttle Discovery. I phoned Wayne Grover, former NASA weather scientist for years who lives in Lantana, Florida, and warned him that my UFOs planned a "disaster or wipeout" for Discovery. You may read the results of the psi-force attack in the enclosed newsclips. (Note "Discovery's hard luck journey".) And of course, the Discovery's loss of the $85 million Syncom communications satellite was the disaster...among other things. Note in one clip that "the switch (on the satellite) had indeed deployed properly and that SOMETHING ELSE HAD CAUSED THE POWER FAILURE." Note the "mysteriously non-functioning satellite." Next my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to similarly use psi-force on the space shuttle Challenger. See enclosed newsclips re. the results. Animal feces as well as human urine spewed throughout the shuttle and many other things went wrong with the flight. I was greatly relieved when both shuttles landed safely. I do not wish to cause loss of life. My UFOs are much rougher in that regard, but they do respect my wishes. Now we get to my psi-force work in attacking the Tampa Bay Bandits pro football team along with its major owner, Bassett, and Burt Reynolds, part owner. Reynolds has had a health-collapse...has been in and out of the hospital...and has been rendered unable to work for several years. Bassett has suddenly discovered that he has "two apparent brain tumors". Bassett had a Catscan done, as I did in Spokane. Then, Rauch, Bassett's ace director of operations who took the NFL's Oakland Raiders to Superbowl II, quit Bassett. Next, Bassett announced that the Tampa Bay Bandits would no longer exist after this season. Thus, a total wipe-out for the psi-force. There is just one final step for my work...to stop the Bandits from winning the USFL Superbowl by neutralizing Reaves, the quarterback, and Gary Anderson, the ace runner. That should do it. We shall see. FROM Next, read about fish rotting on a gigantic scale in the southeast. Also the "mystery of Salmonella now ongoing on a tremendous scale. Now, I do not know whether I notified you some time ago that my UFOs were going to attack the milk that humans drink, because my wife got my records all scrambled up and I have trouble checking back...but I did notify my son Beau of their intention. You can check your files on it, if you so wish. Scientists are baffled as to how it has contaminated milk...even pasteurized milk. And of course...the Sun Attack is causing fires, storms, tornadoes and other weather aberrations at a high level of intensity. See enclosed clips. Also the Sun Attack is wiping out water supplies virtually everywhere, even here in Florida. See clip on the printing press of the Ocala Star-Banner breaking down and crippling their operations temporarily. (Remember my recent demonstration of psi-force on that building wherein I knocked out their telephones and computers time and again for days?) See clip on severe drought which has struck India. Now both Africa and India are Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1983 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Did volcano trigger flurry of storms? Spokane, Wash., Thurs., June 2, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW By DAVID LANGFORD Associated Press The jury is still out, but some of the nation's top weather watchers are suggesting that a volcano in Mexico was the culprit behind the recent destructive storms in the United States and around the world. Specifically, the March 1982 eruption may have triggered a sequence of climatological events that disrupted the flow of currents and trade winds in the Pacific Ocean, creating a phenomenon called "El Nino." It caused floods or droughts that killed 800 people and left $7 billion in damage on several continents. In the United States, government scientists say, El Nino was responsible for: * The winter storms that left $500 million in damage in California. -- The spring floods in Mississippi and Louisiana that forced 52,000 people from their homes with damage estimated at $626 million. * The more than 500 tornadoes that have killed 22 people in Texas alone. * The record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies that is producing destructive mudslides and flooding this week in the West. It has been the wettest spring on record in much of the nation from the Deep South to Chicago and across to New England, with many areas of the Northeast getting more than twice the normal amount of rain. Across much of the northern hemisphere it was the warmest winter in 25 years, on the average of 5 degrees warmer in the United States. El Nino, a vast oscillation of air and water in the Pacific, has occurred eight times in the past 40 years. Fishermen gave it the Spanish name for "child," after ### Mexican eruption may have set off wettest spring on record in U.S. the Christ Child, because it often appears around Christmas off the northwest coast of South America. But this time it started early, in May 1982. Scientists aren't sure why, just as they aren't sure what gives birth to El Nino in the first place. They do know what happens. Trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the winds and current -- to slosh back to the east. Alan E. Strong of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service in and other scientists have proposed that the present, extra-powerful El Nino was set off by the March 1982 eruption of the El Chichonal volcano 550 miles south of Mexico City. The eruption, which killed 187 people and destroyed villages and farms for miles around, also sent a cloud 3½ miles wide into the atmosphere. Murray Mitchell, senior research climatologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in Washington on Wednesday he tends to agree with the volcano theory, "but only for the lack of better information." "I think the jury is still out," he added. Mitchell said the cloud released into the atmosphere by the Chichonal volcano weakened the heat of the sun falling on the tropical Pacific by 1 percent to 2 percent, "and that could have slowed the trade winds that flow west." "That may not sound like much, but it's really quite significant," he said. While most scientists agree that the slowing or even reversal in the direction of the westward blowing trade winds allows El Nino to develop, most have no theories about what causes the shift in the winds every 10 years or so. "That's the big question," said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's climate analysis center, who doesn't buy the volcano theory. "I don't think you can rule it out, but the evidence is not very convincing," he said. While some meteorologists last fall predicted the United States would have its coldest winter on record, partly because of 22 volcanic eruptions around the world within a year, Donald L. Gilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range forecast branch, said his group used knowledge of El Nino to accurately forecast a warmer, wetter-than-normal winter in the South and East. The current El Nino has had a devastating effect on agriculture in developing nations, with damage estimated at nearly $5 billion, according to a study by economist Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Droughts in Australia, Mexico, southern Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia have claimed nearly 400 lives, with $4.6 billion in economic losses. Disastrous floods have occurred in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. On the plus side, El Ninos discourage hurricanes in the Atlantic because they add unusual strength to the upper atmospheric jet stream. As one forecaster put it, it "blows the tops off" storms before they can become hurricanes. El Ninos usually last from six months to two years. This one, which is more intense than usual, is expected to taper off by September. === Page 2 of 10 UFO Project # Near crash caused by failure to fuel DC-9 Spokane, Wash., Thurs., June 2, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press SpRev 6/2/83 WASHINGTON -- A Republic jetliner's emergency landing in Arizona with virtually empty fuel tanks demonstrates anew that human error still threatens life in an industry where equipment failure is becoming more rare. Federal investigators disclosed Wednesday that the Republic Airlines DC-9 with 86 people aboard was not refueled before it departed Fresno, Calif., last Saturday, forcing the emergency landing at an airbase near Phoenix, 20 miles short of its destination. When the plane landed it had less than 5 gallons of fuel, enough for just 30 seconds of flying time, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. It was the latest in a rash of aviation incidents in recent months, some narrowly avoiding catastrophe, that have been linked to human oversight. For example: -- March 23: The pilot and co-pilot of a Frontier jet forgot to lower the landing wheels on their Boeing 737 and the plane, carrying 95 people, made an unexpected belly landing at the Casper, Wyo., airport. -- April 2: The pilot of a Republic DC-9 failed to turn on a fuel pump, causing the two engines to stall over the mountains of southern Utah. After gliding for four minutes the engines were restarted 4,000 feet above the mountain crests. -- May 5: Mechanics did not put critical seals onto oil plugs of all three engines of an Eastern L-1011 jumbo jet. On a flight to the Bahamas, oil leaks caused the three engines to stall over the Atlantic. One engine was finally restarted 4,000 feet above the water and the aircraft limped back to Miami. The National Transportation Safety Board estimates about 60 percent of all air carrier accidents involve directly or as a contributing factor some human failure. The most recent episodes have involved no injuries, although in at least three of the cases, including the emergency landing near Phoenix on Saturday, a catastrophe may have been only narrowly avoided, investigators said. They note that the crash of an Air Florida jet in January, 1982 in Washington was caused by the crew's failure to properly check the aircraft for accumulations of ice and snow. "We're trying to determine the underlying problem as to why these things happen," said Bob Buckhorn, a spokesman for the federal safety board. He said while the industry's equipment has improved, the human failings continue to surface. Recently the NTSB began "to put new emphasis on human performance" in its accident investigations, Buckhorn said. And members of the airline pilots union say the problem is not lessening with the introduction of the new, highly automated jetliners. Capt Paul Stone, a 26-year veteran pilot for Delta Airlines who has been studying the role of human performance in aviation accidents for the Air Line Pilots Association, said some such failures are bound to occur. But the union nonetheless plans an annual symposium beginning later this year in an attempt to head off crew errors. "We're talking about a small number of occurances," Stone said in a telephone interview. "We don't know how to quite deal with it. We try to publicize the incidents. We talk about discipline and complacency and errors. But I don't think we can ever get it to zero." In the case of Republic Flight 366, investigators said the plane was loaded with 15,000 pounds of fuel -- 2,124 gallons -- in its three tanks before it departed Phoenix last Friday on a flight to Fresno. The next day, the aircraft began its return to Phoenix. But 65 miles from its destination, a low-fuel warning light came on and one engine was shut down, or failed, as the crew began searching for a place to make an emergency landing. After the engine was restarted, the plane landed at Luke Air Force Base, 18 miles west of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. === Page 3 of 10 These predictions phoned Monday afternoon, Oct. 25, 1982 to Cliff Linedecker, National Examiner, West Palm Beach, Florida. Owens. President Reagan will not finish his term. (Mental or physical malfunction.) But should he somehow finish his term...he will definitely not be re-elected. There will be no "upturn" for U.S. economy in this next year, as govt. experts predict. The economy will get progressively worse; jobs will become scarcer and scarcer; and unemployment is heading non-stop for 20%. Failure of businesses and banks will increase dramatically this coming year. Although the general public does not suspect it, the Stock Market is sick with a "terminal illness" and this coming year could be when it collapses entirely...therefore the man on the street should get rid of his stocks and bonds. Any U.S. citizen should try to avoid flying in any military or commercial craft airplane because this next year the skies are going to become extremely dangerous from an effect known only to myself. I.e., U.S. people should not fly in airplanes. During this next year there will be freakish weather; actually caused by abnormal heat from the interior of the earth itself and from the sun's rays...solar flares...that is, flares from the sun, also will create havoc upon earth, during this next year. During this next year the people of the United States will rebel against the United States government in an unprecedented manner against the wasting of money of the administration... especially the top echelons of the administration...and the folly of the U.S. administration, the people who are supposed to be running the country. The people of the U.S. will begin to rebel in full force against the top government. Food will become scarce in the United States this coming year, as it becomes more and more expensive and fewer and fewer people have jobs and can buy it...as farmers go out of business... as breakdowns in government occur and as farms fail and more and more strikes occur; the trucking industry and probably the railroad industry making it more difficult to deliver food and pick up food and so forth...so the food problem is going to be a very big one for the American people this coming year. ...robberies, rape, burglaries, and so forth...will escalate to unprecedented proportions this coming year. The ordinary people, and families, will have to arm themselves and defend their loved ones as never before in the history of the United States. Keep their guns!!! Interest rates on houses and other items will skyrocket...will be much much higher than at present this coming year. What would be an interest rate at 15% now, for example, will go to 20% or 25% this coming year. It is going to be terrible. There will be outstanding freak weather this coming year. It will be caused by the earth heating up from the earth's core radiating to the earth's surface...it will become hotter and hotter and as the heat exudes from the earth's core in an unprecedented manner it will change the exterior of the earth with living things upon it. Also there will be unusual heat from the sun this coming year which will have a devastating effect upon earth. There will be also numerous giant solar flares in unprecedented number of scope. There will be an unprecedented number of military air crashes and air mishaps in the United States this coming year. The skies will not be safe. The black people of the United States will rise up in an unprecedented manner against whites and white authority. There will be an explosion of violence of blacks against whites this coming year. And white authority. Especially at higher levels of government. Nature itself is against the whole human race at the present time...for ruining its animals, its fish, its birds, its air, its water...and hell hath no fury like Nature in a war against anything or anybody. Finally, in my opinion alone, God, the omniscient and omnipresent force for good in this world. === Page 4 of 10 SATURDAY # Super storm hammers Southeast; tornadoes rack Texas Associated Press Another "super" storm bore down on the Southeast on Saturday, pounding neighborhoods with hail and flooding highways while unleashing more tornadoes on Texans already reeling from a double punch that killed 10 people. From Oklahoma to the Carolinas, relentless rains gorged rivers, while in Louisiana bayous overflowed. Hundreds were forced to flee their homes. In Mississippi, where the rising Pearl River threatened to match a 1979 record flood, a National Weather Service official called conditions "very grave." ELEVEN TORNADOES drilled through the dark Texas clouds early Saturday, including two that passed near Houston Intercontinental Airport, and authorities were trying to confirm other reported sightings in the early afternoon. A twister also struck a vacant lot in the southwestern Louisiana town of Carlyss, but caused no damage or injuries. About 60,000 people in the Houston area were without electricity, down from 200,000. In central Louisiana, a 34-year-old man drowned Saturday morning when his horse lost footing while trying to cross a flooded road-way, bringing to 25 the number of people who have died in storms across the Southeast since Wednesday. In central Texas, one woman was injured when a tornado destroyed her mobile home Saturday in Lee County. "I WAS HERE FOR Hurricane Carla in 1961 and we have more damage already," said John Caswell of Houston-Harris County Civil Defense. There were no immediate estimates of damage. About 500 people were evacuated because of flooding north of Houston, and 50 homes were evacuated near Beaumont, authorities said. Hail hammered parts of the state for the second straight day. Hail the size of golfballs battered Kerr County in central Texas. "They're already in trouble. So, this isn't going to make it any easier for them," said meteorologist Carolyn Kloth at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., of the stricken areas. If she lived there, she said, she'd be "cleaning up and feeling very nervous." ON FRIDAY, 10 people were killed and dozens injured when twisters danced through trailer parks and towns in southeastern Texas. About 1,000 families were left homeless. Friday's twisters dropped from the Texas sky in early morning and returned 11 hours later. Among the places devastated was a trailer park at Crosby, about 30 miles northeast of Houston. Eight of the 10 victims lived in mobile homes. As the vicious winds blew through Louisiana, they damaged schools, homes and barns. Friday night twisters cut through Chicot State Park and at Pine Prairie, but the damage was apparently confined to woods. The weather service on Saturday issued a tornado watch for most of central and southeast Texas and 34 parishes in Louisiana, saying another "super" storm cell was in the area. Flash flood watches were posted for much of Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Kentucky and for all of Louisiana. "Vicious winds..." SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS May 21, 1983 Cards on the table. I am causing the freak blizzards; the California earthquakes; the tornado attack signaling my UFOs and activating the proper powers to cause the effects. If this is doubted...simply check my past record of hundreds of documented happenings. Remember, I have affidavits from scientists, experts, police, etc. So why should this be any different? Certainly...I can be stopped by any form of force by the government...and then what happens? My UFOs have laid out a program for that contingency...destruction for the United States. So...what is the answer? The Base that my UFOs want. Six million dollars, non-taxable...to me, so that I can do it THEIR way. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Western News, Libby, Montana 5/25/83 ## Sheriff's reports The following cases were reported to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office. May 10 Doug Williamson reported a possible UFO south of Libby. He said he observed a bright light with flames 400 feet off the ground, that was moving north. Williamson said it may be a USAF maneuver. May 12 Dorothy Chatiuk reported that she found her $600 vacuum missing from her hallway closet at her home on Mahony Road. She said she had not seen the cleaner in 10 days. Another "super" storm... hail and flooding highways while unleashing more tornadoes... ...relentless rains... I was here for Hurricane Carla in 1961 and we have more damage already... hail the size of golfballs..." === Page 5 of 10 W De Sun Attack # Stormy year eats up funds of Red Cross SP News 5/24/83 ## Money-raising effort starts; floods force 11,000 to flee ATLANTA (AP) -- "An incredible year" of disasters, including tornadoes and flooding in the South and a serious earthquake in California, has forced the American Red Cross into an emergency effort to raise money to continue its work, officials said Monday. Red Cross officials, meeting in Atlanta for their national convention, said the organization has spent all its disaster relief funds -- more than $33 million -- with more than a month to go in its budget year. Relief efforts to more than 1 million people have emptied the Red Cross' $18 million disaster budget, its $10 million reserve and another $5 million in private contributions. "THE RED CROSS does not intend to close its doors or shut down the services the American people have come to depend on us for," Red Cross President Richard Schubert said in announcing a drive to raise $12 million. "We have been there when the American people needed our help, and we know they won't let us down when we need theirs." Even without any more disasters, the Red Cross would wind up with a deficit of more than $3 million by the end of its fiscal year on June 30, officials said. However, experts have told the organization that the nation's recent spate of unusual weather could continue. "This has been caused by the weather patterns," Schubert said. "It's been just an incredible year." Meanwhile, floods continued to cause troubles in the South. Rivers gorged by up to 15 inches of rain ran amok near record levels through Texas and Mississippi, separating 11,000 people from their homes, but a siege of killer tornadoes subsided. THE DEATH TOLL reached 34 with a flurry of a dozen twisters and baseball-size hail in northern Texas late Sunday and early Monday, but the thunderstorms that had punished the Gulf Coast states for a week pushed northeastward into the central Atlantic Coast states and weakened. In southeastern Texas, where tornadoes beginning late last week left about 1,000 families homeless and killed 11 people, about 5,000 people had been evacuated along the San Jacinto River about 35 miles northeast of Houston. The river was flooding 4 feet deep over a dam on Lake Houston and just half a foot below a record level reached in 1979. Houston Lighting & Power Co. said 35,000 customers still did not have electricity Monday. "AN INCREDIBLE YEAR" OF DISASTERS..." "UNUSUAL WEATHER..." === Page 6 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Twisters kill 10 ## Texas and Louisiana towns take a beating FRIDAY S. Pierce 5/21/83 Two lethal volleys of tornadoes and hail the size of baseballs hit Houston and surrounding towns in Texas and Louisiana on Friday, killing 10 people, injuring dozens, and reducing hundreds of homes and buildings to splinters. The deaths from the pre-dawn and afternoon storms in southeast Texas raised to 24 the fatalities in flash floods and 59 twisters that have wracked Dixie since Wednesday. Six people have died in Tennessee, three in Missouri, two in Georgia, and one each in Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky. "It looks like a war out there and we lost," said Graham Painter, a spokesman for Houston Lighting & Power Co. in the oil country of southeast Texas where tornadoes wrecked an estimated 350 homes and knocked out the power to 100,000 people. The National Weather Service said 10 tornadoes were reported in Texas and the Texas Department of Public Safety said aerial surveys indicated as many as 17 may have touched down with 100 miles of Houston. Twelve hours after the first wave of storms ravaged the region, killing eight, another storm system blew through a mobile home park at Crosby, 30 miles northeast of Houston, killing one person and injuring several more, a Harris County deputy said. Details were not available. A second afternoon tornado did heavy damage at a mobile home park in Baytown, south of Crosby, injuring at least nine people and destroying eight to 10 mobile homes, a Department of Public Safety official said. In Houston, police reported five people arrested for looting. At least five of the Texas tornado victims lived in mobile homes, said police Lt. Larry Houston. At a trailer park in Prairie View, about 30 miles west of Houston, the tornado wrapped one trailer around a utility pole, toppled others, flattened a two-story home nearby and lifted the roof off a service station and a small frame house. "A 15-year-old boy was pulled from the grasp of members of his family from a mobile home," he said. "He was found outside the trailer house, a matter of feet from the residence." The youth died. In Nederland, 70 miles northeast of Houston, a tornado ripped through a terminal at the Jefferson County Airport area and killed an unidentified man, said public safety spokesman David Rose. In central and northern Louisiana, as many as four tornadoes bounced across Sabine, Natchitoches, LaSalle, Winn and Caldwell parishes, knocking out the power to entire communities and destroying scattered houses and trailers. Sheriff's deputies searched house-to-house in sparsely settled piney woods areas, looking for casualties where one tornado ripped a swath 8 miles long. National Guard troops with generators were sent to restore power. LaSalle Parish Sheriff Wayne McGuffee said as many as 65 percent of the homes and businesses were damaged in Urania and Olla, two towns of about 1,000 residents. In Winnfield, La., a town of about 7,300 residents, Police Chief Cranford Jordan said most of the town and parish were without electricity and most roads were closed by felled trees or flooding from about 5 inches of rain. A windstorm hit the central Mississippi cities of Jackson and Vicksburg, blocking roads with felled trees, and about 15,000 homes in three counties lost power. In Colorado, where up to 10 inches of fresh snow fell in the mountains Thursday and Friday, crews were still working to restore power to about 200 people who have been without electricity since a blizzard Tuesday dumped almost 2 feet of snow in some areas. In Texas, tornadoes or high winds howled over a 100-mile-wide area surrounding Houston for a four-hour period beginning shortly after midnight. 5/21/83 (NOTE: LONDON, ENGLAND, HAS HAD 34 STRAIGHT DAYS OF RAIN... THE WETTEST ON RECORD, ACCORDING TO CNN TV. ON THE SAME PROGRAM THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THE TEXAS TORNADO ATTACK WAS "COMPLETELY UNNATURAL" FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND "SURPRISED THE TEXAS WEATHER EXPERTS.") Note: And mind the chaos and damage in California with rains, flooding and earthquakes. OWENS. UFOs Sun Attack B... MY UFOs as Sunny day nets bettors money QUITE A POTENT POWER of your LONDON (AP) - Brilliant sun poured down Wednesday on soggy London, prompting a newspaper to urge readers to "put away the umbrellas" - and winning a total of about $780 for 10 bettors. After 37 days of drizzle and downpours, not a drop of rain fell in London on Tuesday. It was clear again Wednesday, and forecasters said more sunshine was on the way. The oddsmaking firm William Hill had been taking bets on when the capital would have 48 dry hours, and a spokesman said it paid out the equivalent of $780 to 10 people who had picked 10 a.m. Sunday to 10 a.m. Tuesday for the dry spell. The odds were 5-to-1. S. Pierce 5/26/83 "Two lethal volleys of tornadoes and hail the size of baseballs..." "It looks like a war out there and we lost..." "the first wave of storms ravaged the region..." "...tornadoes or high winds howled over a 100-mile-wide area..." === Page 7 of 10 UFO Sun Attack # Thousands flee rising rivers swollen by storms in South SUNDAY Associated Press S.P. Rev 5/23/83 Bloated rivers spilled across southern Mississippi on Sunday, forcing thousands more people to flee flooding caused by storms that ravaged the Gulf Coast with rain, hail and tornadoes. The death toll in Mississippi went from one to six Sunday, with four of the victims members of one family. Meanwhile, in Houston, the grinding chatter of chainsaws pierced the air around rubble-strewn neighborhoods after three waves of tornadoes that left 10 people dead, more than 100 injured and about 1,000 families homeless. In all, 32 people have perished in Southern storms since last Wednesday. Elsewhere Sunday, a tornado ripped through an apartment complex in the southwestern Pennsylvania town of Greensburg, ripping off roofs and hurling debris a quarter of a mile. No serious injuries were reported. The worst Mississippi flooding Sunday was around Jackson, the capital. The raging Pearl River had sent 1,200 families -- about 3,000 people -- from their homes by Sunday. The bodies of a young couple and their two children were recovered Sunday. Their car missed a curve and plunged into floodwater Saturday night in Mississippi's Leflore County. The body of a young woman was recovered from a creek Friday after her car flipped off U.S. 51. In San Antonio, Texas, searchers Sunday recovered the body of a 15-year-old boy who was swept away the day before from a partially submerged bridge over rain-swollen Salado Creek. Weather experts said the Pearl would crest between 38.5 and 39.5 feet on Monday, more than 10 feet above flood stage. City spokesman David Waite said that if the river exceeds 39 feet it would send water into about 250 more homes and businesses. "We've already got more than 100 homes and businesses flooded and an estimated 3,000 people have left their homes," said Carroll Fulgham, a spokesman for the Jackson-Hinds County Emergency Operations Center. It was the third time since December that Jackson residents have had to evacuate their homes. UFO Sun Attack # Lightning kills 8 hikers EISENSTADT, Austria (AP) -- Lightning struck a group of hikers Monday, killing eight people and injuring nine in Austria's eastern Burgenland province, a police spokesman reported. The hikers were resting under two oak trees during a heavy thunderstorm. Five men died instantly and three others died in a hospital, the spokesman said. Other lightning bolts ignited the tower of a chapel and caused fires elsewhere in the province. No one was injured in the blazes, which firefighters quickly controlled. S.P. Rev 5/24/83 "... Three waves of tornadoes..." "It was the third time since December that Jackson residents have had to evacuate their homes." UFO Sun Attack # Red Cross need Funds depleted S.P. Rev 5/28/83 In more than a century of service, the American Red Cross has provided untold aid to people in moments of need. But now, the organization itself is in need of a helping hand from the people. The Red Cross is in financial trouble. In the words of organization officials, "an incredible year" of disasters has created a fiscal emergency. The number and severity of natural calamities, including an earthquake, tornadoes and floods, have depleted all of the organization's disaster relief funds, and a drive is under way to raise an additional $12 million. A figure exceeding $33 million is a lot of money, but it is hard to imagine a more worthwhile cause. In an average year, the Red Cross assists more than one million Americans. The organization's functions, however, may not be well understood by the general public. The common perception may be that the Red Cross only helps people injured or left homeless by earthquakes and other major natural disasters. The fact is: Its deeds go much further than that. The Red Cross also provides shelter for people whose homes have been lost in fires. After Spokane was socked in by the === Page 8 of 10 UFOs Sun Attack # Good Morning. Today is THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1983. In the news: A Nile River steamer carrying 627 people caught fire and sank in a crocodile-infested stretch, killing 48 with several hundred reported missing (Page 25). The National Weather Service says it's been the warmest winter in years for much of the northern hemisphere (Page 25) . . . Another condor chick hatched, becoming the third born in captivity (Page 25) . . . Ex-King Idris of Libya died in Egypt (Page 25) . . . An expanded briefing appears on Page 2. Note: As you can read here, my UFO Sun Attack, heating up the core of the Earth by the Sun's rays beamed onto Earth by my four giant UFOs... is coming along rapidly and beautifully! Owens UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 26, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 23 # Winter warmest in years WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans basking in a mild winter this year weren't alone. Across much of the northern hemisphere it was the warmest winter in a quarter-century, the National Weather Service reported Wednesday. Preliminary figures show winter temperatures averaging about 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average, said research meteorologist James K. Angell. For the region of the globe between 30 degrees and 60 degrees north latitude, that winter average since 1958 has been 20 degrees, he said. That area includes most of the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia from central China north to the central portions of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was particularly warm this past winter, with surface temperatures there averaging 9 degrees above average, Angell said. By comparison, he noted that the warm winter of 1980-81 was 2.2 degrees above normal, and in 1957-58 it was 3.1 degrees warmer than usual. On the other side of the ledger, the winter of 1968-69 was 4.1 degrees colder than average. This year's warmth has meant a bonus for Americans, who saved about 4 percent on their heating bills, according to government estimates. The Environmental Data and Information Service estimates that the national heating bill was $44.58 billion from last summer through May 7, $1.98 billion below normal. This year's unusual warmth may be associated with the so-called El Nino phenomena, Angell said. El Nino is an unusual warming of the sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean which occurs occasionally. The most recent instance began last fall. Because it often begins around Christmas-time, the phenomenon carries the Spanish name for child, after the Christ child. Angell explained that this sea warming seems to have altered wind direction to westerly, rather than allowing the more usual north-south fluctuations. === Page 9 of 10 UFOr Sun Attack # Tornadoes hit Chicago suburbs SpRev 5/30/83 CHICAGO (AP) -- A pair of tornadoes touched down Sunday in two suburbs 10 miles apart, injuring at least one person and damaging at least two buildings, authorities said. In Cicero, on Chicago's western border, a twister ripped into an eight-unit apartment building about 1:30 p.m., injuring one person and damaging the building's roof, according to Cicero police Investigator Earl Hull. "People said it got blacker than hell and they heard crashing noises, then it got quiet," Hull said. "It looks like we probably had a baby tornado." He said the twister apparently skipped over a nearby street and damaged a store before leaving the ground. In Oak Brook, about 17 miles west of Chicago, a twister ripped through a golf course while spectators at a polo match nearby scattered in search of cover. Witnesses said about 150 people took cover in a tent while an "enormous whirlwind" picked up branches and debris on the golf course 100 yard away. No injuries were reported there. The Oak Brook twister struck just as rugby players were finishing a game on a nearby field, part of a sports complex that also includes the polo fields and golf course. Several players hid behind trees until the funnel cloud passed. Golf course manager Matthew Morgan said the twister uprooted eight to 10 trees, overturned a trailer and damaged an awning. UFOr Sun Attack May 31, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Rhine, Mosel recede after months of rain COLOGNE, West Germany (AP) -- The rain-swollen Rhine and Mosel rivers began receding Monday, leaving behind the scars of floods that caused 11 deaths and millions of dollars in damage. In eastern France, runoff kept rivers overflowing but relief was expected because of a three-day break in more than two months of daily rains. "We can breathe again," said a Cologne city spokesman after the water level began falling. The Rhine had crested in Cologne at 32 feet -- its highest level since 1945. Thousands of people living beside the Rhine and Mosel had fled their homes over the weekend because of the third major flood this spring. Officials said the Mosel was dropping two or three inches an hour. Six of the 11 people reported killed in flood-related incidents in West Germany perished when an express train struck a mudslide last week outside of Cologne. Barge traffic was expected to resume on the Rhine Wednesday after being closed down by officials last Thursday at a huge cost to hundreds of bargemen and shippers. Werner Schoen of Baden's wine growers' association estimated that the "erosion and collapse of terrace structures" for grape vines would cost more than $4 million to repair. In Lyon in southeastern France, military units helped firefighters evacuate residents from their flooded property. Civil defense officials said they expected the Soane River to begin receding Wednesday. UFOr Sun Attack # Salt Lake SpRev 5/31/83 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Thousands of volunteers joined sandbag brigades for the sixth straight day Monday as the city battled a rising flood compared with the worst in arid Utah's history. A second major street through the city was diked and converted into a spillway as an unseasonably warm sun bearing down on a heavy snowpack sent muddy water cascading down mountainsides, surging into homes and closing canyons. The flooding was said to be worse in some spots than the record flood of 1952. AUTHORITIES reported the first flood-related death Monday. Two-year-old Joseph Garzarelli of West Valley City was swept into a creek near where his family was camping Saturday. He was pulled from the river and taken to a Salt Lake City hospital, where he later died. A citizen's band radio operator in San Diego heard a Utah fisherman calling for help and alerted authorities in eastern Utah's Duchesne County, where sheriff's deputies worked Monday afternoon to evacuate about 75 campers and fishermen. BELEAGUERED flood control officials hoped for relief from 80 to 90-degree temperatures that arrived suddenly last week, melting a snowpack held in check until now by cooler than normal temperatures. Officials again Monday asked for volunteers and were "overwhelmed" by the response, as many homeowners in nearby subdivisions have little to do but to stay and start over amid the mud. # Residents rip reservoir's role in flood By FAY S. JOYCE New York Times SpRev 5/31/83 JACKSON, Miss. -- When Todd Pyles finally reached his house by boat Friday, he found four pet peacocks sitting on the roof and a foot and a half of muddy river water lapping the walls of the rooms inside. Pyles, who was one of 5,000 Jacksonians returning to their homes after the water crested Wednesday, handed his gun to his friend Bubba McClary to guard against snakes and then surveyed the sad, soggy sight. "Believe it or not, I still love this place," he said of his home set deep in the woods. "But I'll have to move." While Pyles, a lawyer, can abandon the house he rented, many homeowners in nearby subdivisions have little choice but to stay and start over amid the mud. Frustration is high here because little seems to have been done to protect residential areas since 1979, when an Easter Sunday flood swept through the city and did $235 million in damage. Through this year, the city's second worst in terms of property damage to the city's little sections of resentment against the smell of sewage. No one is likely to offer to buy their homes. The surging waters of the Pearl River caused about $21 million in damage in Jackson alone last week as it flooded nearly 1,000 businesses and homes in some of the wealthiest sections of this capital city. Gov. William Winter has asked President Reagan to declare parts of the state disaster areas. Tornadoes have also struck Mississippi, adding to the devastation, put at $41 million statewide so far. Ross B. Barnett Reservoir, a 30,000-acre man-made recreational lake where several thousand Mississippians have waterfront homes, boats and private docks. The reservoir was three feet under its 300-foot capacity when thunderstorms drenched the state, gorging rivers and streams. As the reservoir filled, officials let out more and more water into the Pearl River. "We sat back waiting, hoping they wouldn't do it to us again, but they did," said Deborah Thrash. She and her husband spent a year rebuilding their three-bedroom house after the 1979 flood. Downriver residents are upset that the reservoir was so near its capacity, noting that a lower level would have let it absorb more of the rain and perhaps protect their property. === Page 10 of 10 # Utah residents fight rain, mud, snarled traffic SP Rev 6/1/83 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah residents spent another day Tuesday fighting to hold back the record flooding and mudslides that have forced evacuation of 1,800 people, damaged dozens of homes and severed highways. In the Salt Lake City area, traffic was snarled for hours as commuters returning to work after the long Memorial Day weekend were forced to find alternate routes because of washed-out roads and bridges. Three main thoroughfares through the city have been sandbagged and converted into spillways to channel the runoff from the melting snow in the mountains. IN NEIGHBORING Nevada, officials said three people believed missing after a 15-foot wall of mud and water cascaded down Slide Mountain near Carson City on Monday had been found. ## Three people thought missing in a Nevada slide were found The Nevada slide killed one man, injured six other people, destroyed four homes, damaged four others and buried 12 to 15 cars and trucks. In Utah, the only fatality reported was a child who drowned when he was swept into a swollen creek near a campsite over the weekend. UTAH GOV. Scott Matheson declared four more counties disaster areas -- Salt Lake, Millard, Weber and Davis. Utah, Carbon and Emery counties were declared federal disaster areas in April because of a massive mudslide in Spanish Fork Canyon that cut a major highway and railroad line. In Farmington, 15 miles north of Salt Lake City, a mudslide a mile wide and two miles long poured through several blocks of the city Monday night, destroying six homes, damaging another 25 and forcing 300 people to evacuate. City officials also evacuated 66 prisoners in the city jail. The mud burst a large aqueduct in the mountains above the community Tuesday afternoon, setting the slide in motion again. Six more homes were demolished, five were damaged and 30 were evacuated, bringing to 500 the number of people evacuated. The slide appeared to have stabilized by late afternoon. OFFICIALS SOUNDED air raid klaxons to warn residents of the movement of the slide. Another slide forced the evacuation of the 1,100 residents of Fairview, about 80 miles south of Salt Lake, late Monday, but residents were allowed to return home Tuesday. About 200 people were evacuated from a mobile home park in the Salt Lake suburb of Murray because of a flooded creek. Record snow depths in the Wasatch Mountains, kept frozen by a cold spring, began melting rapidly last week as temperatures soared into the 80s and 90s. As runoff jumped the banks of dozens of northern Utah streams, thousands of volunteers turned out to fill sandbags and shore up emergency levees. Al Sorensen, forecaster for the Salt Lake County flood control agency, said cooler temperatures moving into the area Tuesday would slow the snowmelt, but he added, "if we get a lot of rain out of it, it will just complicate the flood fighting." COUNTY INFORMATION officer Mel Miles said the Farmington slide stabilized during the night, but began moving again at seven to 10 mph at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, breaking through a sandbag barrier and smashing into a home. "There's still snow up there and there will be increased moisture contributing to additional movement," said state geologist Bruce Kaliser, who flew over the Farmington area. He said less than half of the mud may have fallen, so "we've got to be alert to some dire consequences for the city of Farmington." Fairview residents were taken to Mt. Pleasant, six miles away, when a mudslide blocked a creek in Fairview Canyon and threatened the city. MARY NELSON of the Fairview city marshal's office said residents were being allowed to return to their homes, with a warning to be ready to move out again on a few minutes' notice. Utah Department of Transportation officials said they cut U.S. Highway 89 in two places near Fairview to help water drain from the canyon and most of the town also had been sandbagged. In Murray, about 200 people were evacuated from a mobile home park Tuesday morning. June 1, 1983 Note: Am in a terrible financial jam. We are losing our home; Your landlord is forcing us to move or pay $125 more per month than we have been paying, plus is trying to sell our rented house. This, of course, means nothing to you scientists... on the surface. BUT.. it means a very great much to the UFOs here with me in Libby (see newsclip on front of file, plus earlier "Scarlett" correspondence I.e., when my UFOs grow angry because I am undergoing hardship, then "trees fall down." In the humorous parlance, their attitude will be regardless of the chaos they are currently causing, "All right... no more Mr. Nice Guy." This is, of course, me talking, as I said, in the humorous parlance of our human times. Owen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8306 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/14218ac4ee7e1526e833691a4eb922a9.pdf 621ccdd4785e05c5e67944aed1ab9735 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/58cc1f1ce94d100689d9c1d6227fb881.txt 8240dbc8412a183d74ec60cf1a00d768 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1983 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 92 Please show to Scott May 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS A "severe earthquake" of 6.5 on the Richter shook up California yesterday, Monday. * The earthquake was a 'caused' event. My UFOs (SIs) and I caused it to happen. Read my letter to you of April 3, 1983: "I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon...nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8." I just missed the Richter 7 by .5, but will try to rectify the error. The day I wrote you, May 3, my SIs made telepathic contact and gave me a "PK Map" or "psi-force map" and instructed me on how to activate it. The earthquake yesterday was the result. San Francisco was to be the bullseye...but the epicenter, as I understand it, was just below San Francisco about 200 miles. This sad demonstration is being carried out in desperation by my UFOs to prove the utter reality of them, and of me. To get their Base, so that constructive measures can then be placed into motion. But until that occurs, earthquake psi-force will be continued; the Sun Attack will continue to cause devastating weather; the Bermuda Triangle overlay will continue to be in effect...and so on and so on. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * "The most destructive earthquake to strike California in a decade." (CNN News) Who reading this file would want to believe that half alien rain could cause all this chaos. But that is the fact. Owens May 4, 1983...to my astonishment my UFOs have given me permission to describe to you in detail how Monday's California earthquakes were caused by a psi-force attack. The SIs gave me a map, telepathically, of the State of California. They told me to use mental imagery and picture the ocean moving powerfully northward along the shoreline of California, and picture the land moving southward simultaneously and to keep repeating the action...as one would slide one's hands back and forth against each other, creating friction. This mental imagery, they assured me, coupled with my half-alien mind containing other-dimensional powers, would create the Richter 7 I desired. And since they knew that I was deeply concerned about possible deaths of innocent people, I was to embody the thought of safety for the people into the psi-force process. Well, I got the earthquake. It was very close to a 7. And no one was killed. Owens === Page 2 of 92 UFOs attack Economy # Double-digit joblessness SPRN 4/13/83 ## February figures show 30 states above 10 percent mark WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thirty states had double-digit joblessness in February and unemployment in West Virginia hit 21 percent, the highest for any state since the government began tracking these statistics in the late 1960s, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Oregon had the worst unemployment figures in the Pacific Northwest, reporting a 13.1 percent jobless rate this year compared with 12.9 percent in February 1982. Idaho was close behind with 13 percent unemployment, up from 11.5 one year earlier. Washington state's 12.8 percent figure compared with 12.5 percent in February 1982. And Montana had 10.6 percent unemployment this past February, up from 10.1 one year earlier. The state-by-state and metropolitan area employment statistics, which are not adjusted for such seasonal variations as weather and school closings, showed that nine states joined the list of those with jobless rates of 10 percent or more in February, compared with the same month a year earlier. Twenty-two of these states had unemployment rates that reached or exceeded the national seasonally unadjusted rate of 11.3 percent in February, and jobless rates were above the national average in 100 of 233 metropolitan areas surveyed by the government. In another report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the size of the student labor force continued to decline over the year ended Oct. 31, 1982 "as the tail-end of the post-World War II baby boom was completing high school." It said the number of job-seekers between the ages of 16 and 24 shrank by a half million, with 60 percent of the decline taking place among high school-age youths. The state-by-state employment analysis showed that West Virginia, where mining industry layoffs have had a ripple effect on the state's heavily industrialized economy, the jobless rate soared nearly 8 percentage points over the year -- from 13.1 percent in February 1982 to 21 percent this past February. Seven metropolitan areas, paced by a 25.9 percent rate in Johnstown, Pa., had joblessness at or above 20 percent of their respective labor forces. Other cities with the highest jobless rates were Modesto, Calif., 23.8 percent; Duluth-Superior, Minn., 22.2; Sharon, Pa., 21.9; Kankakee, Ill., 21.4; Stockton, Calif., 20.4; and Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, 20.1. Only the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area with an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent, came under the 5 percent level. Following West Virginia on the roster of states with the highest jobless rates in February were Michigan, 16.5 percent; Alabama, 16.1; Ohio, 14.5; Pennsylvania, 14.1; Illinois, 13.8; Tennessee, 13.6; Indiana, 13.2; Oregon, 13.1; Idaho, 13.0; Washington state, 12.8; and Wisconsin, 12.7. UFO Project # Cafe caters to the hungry poor 4/29/83 BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- The hungry can eat for free in William Land's restaurant, where a covered metal tin for donations substitutes for a cash register. The Cozy Kitchen Cafe opened Wednesday in Land's Belleville home, where a hand-painted sign reads: "No charge for food items. This restaurant is operated on donations only, that no one who comes leaves hungry because of a lack of money. Donate only you can..." The idea sprung up about three months ago when a woman whose food stamps did not arrive came to him in tears because all she had to feed her children the night before was cooked potato peelings. "The thing that bothered me was the tears in her eyes," Land said Wednesday. "I told my wife, 'Let's start being a doer.'" He said it's time people did more than sit in church on Sunday. Land said he gave the woman some food and began the three-month task of setting up the restaurant. He got a restaurant license and must keep records to show that sales tax on the food and any food sales is paid. Land, a retired boilermaker, said he and his wife, Dorothy, and their foster daughter, Cindy, were financing the restaurant out of their $1,700 monthly income. The cafe is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily, but Land said he would reopen any time day or night for hungry people. The cafe is simple in fixtures and furniture and can seat 15 people. A microwave oven and a commercial coffee maker sit on a shelf behind the counter. The pan marked "donation" hangs on a wall near the back door. But in its first three hours of operation, five people had stopped by for free food. "Write the story any way you want to," Land said. "Send me the hungry people." The menu includes sandwiches that can be heated in the oven, potato chips, soda, coffee, milk and tea. For breakfast there are donuts and cereal. Wednesday's menu at noon featured country ham and beans that Land said he had cooked Tuesday night. "This is not strictly for St. Clair County," Land said. "This is for hungry people. I don't care if they come from New York or New Orleans." Note: This is the sort of thing the ETs want me (working with them from our base) to cause to happen all over the world! this kind of action and thinking. Owen === Page 3 of 92 5-5-83 postmark UFOs attack scientists Sagan's recovered SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Astronomer CARL SAGAN has made a "full and complete" recovery from complications that followed an appendectomy and has been discharged from a hospital. Sagan, 48, developed internal bleeding after an emergency appendectomy March 19 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, New York. He was transferred to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse two days later, and discharged Friday. Hospital spokesman Robert Vaccarelli quoted Sagan's wife, ANN DRUYAN, as saying the Pulitzer Prize-winning author was "anxious to get back to work." Sagan, a Cornell University professor, was host of public television's popular "Cosmos" series. SAGAN SPRESS 4/3/83 April 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I told you not long ago, my UFOs are now attacking scientists, because scientists have actively contributed to the blocking of the UFOs acquiring their Base, and have attacked me. The AMA attacked me in Ft. Worth, Texas, years ago (falsely)...and have since paid heavily forit, losing heavy membership and having many major things go wrong for them. Anyway, see the above newsclip. Sagan is the first scientist to be attacked by my UFOs, as far as I can determine from my limited approach to newspapers. An appendectomy is a comparatively simple matter; just a minor thing...and certainly no complications should stem from it. (I can speak with some authority because I stood beside surgeons operating for about two years at the Gaston Hospital in Dallas, Texas, as medical secretary, and took shorthand notes as the surgeons operated. So I know what I am talking about.) Hynek and several hundred other scientists now can expect an attack from my UFOs. Before closing, let me say that I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon... nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8. Destruction will be devastating. Also let me tell you that all of the catastrophic explosions around the U.S. that are taking place are being caused by the UFO Sun Attack...the earth being heated from its core outward, plus rays being diverted downward by the four giant UFOs around Earth. Owens === Page 4 of 92 # California town afire after quake ## Downtown buildings collapse; All of the state feels temblor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A severe earthquake struck the small San Joaquin Valley community of Coalinga on Monday afternoon, collapsing buildings, sparking fires and injuring an estimated 50 people, authorities said. The quake, which struck about 4:45 p.m. and registered an estimated 6.5 on the Richter scale, was felt throughout California - from Sacramento to Valencia, and as far east as Reno, Nev. "There are buildings collapsed" in Coalinga, said a Fresno County Sheriff's Department spokesman who declined to identify himself, "and any time you have buildings collapsed, you have people inside and their injuries are pretty serious." "You can't believe the fires down there," said the unidentified pilot of a private plane monitored on Fresno County's emergency radio network. "The downtown section is finished... It looks like a real disaster." The University of California seismographic station at Berkeley measured the quake at 6.5 on the Richter scale and put the epicenter five miles northeast of Coalinga, said Wallace Ravven, public information officer for the university. That community, a town of about 7,000 people about 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, apparently took the brunt of the temblor. Lindsay Daniels, assistant administrative officer for Fresno County, said there was "major structural damage as far as buildings are concerned, fires in the city itself and possible injuries." A switchboard operator at Coalinga District Hospital said injuries were coming in to the facility, but was unable to provide numbers or the extent of the injuries. Chris Courtney, Fresno County Emergency Services coordinator, estimated there were up to 50 casualties, and said he was concerned (Continued on page 2) # Earthquake----------(Continued from page 1) he was concerned about students at West Hills College, located in the area. Ambulances from Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties and Lemoore Naval Air Station were dispatched to the area. In Golden, Colo., the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center estimated the earthquake at 6.1 on the Richter scale, said spokesman John Minsch. THE QUAKE WAS felt throughout the state, with reports coming from Fresno, San Jose, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Sacramento and Valencia, north of Los Angeles. The temblor also was felt as far east as Reno, Nev. The quake hit at about 4:45 p.m. and was felt in San Francisco as a gentle rolling motion which lasted for about 10 seconds. Other areas reported the duration at up to 20 seconds. In the Capitol in Sacramento, the shaking brought a Senate Finance Committee hearing to a halt at about 4:45 p.m., shaking chandeliers for several minutes. "In my living room, my hanging plants from the ceiling and a chandelier swung in an arc of about 10 or 12 inches, so it was a pretty good one," said Jerry Rankin of the Santa Barbara News-Press. RANKIN SAID THE quake was a rolling one which felt like the area's strongest since August 1978, when a tremor derailed a train and caused millions of dollars in damage. ## Bay Area feels a roll; Committee action halted as Capitol is shaken Seward Bartley, a reporter at the Hollister Free-Lance newspaper, said a woman who called the paper said it seemed to last forever. "It was very long. It started slowly, it rocked us and it just continued," Bartley said. The San Andreas and Calaveras faults cross in Hollister, 110 miles southeast of San Francisco, and earthquakes are common there. Bartley said long-distance telephone service was disrupted briefly after the quake, but quickly began working again. "I was sitting at my kitchen table and I looked up and my lamp and plants were rocking, so I grabbed my son and just sat down on the floor," said Debbie Purvis of Davis, near Sacramento. THE RICHTER SCALE is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale. === Page 5 of 92 my air-force demonstration # Coalinga quake 'disaster, miracle' COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of aftershocks chased residents from their damaged homes Tuesday as they tried to clean up more than $25 million in damage from a powerful earthquake that injured 47 people but caused no reported deaths -- a "disaster and a miracle." The Monday afternoon earthquake, registering 6.5 on the Richter scale, damaged virtually every home in this rural community and reduced the refurbished downtown area to rubble, ripping the brick facades from buildings, snapping gas lines and rupturing water mains. Many of the town's 7,000 residents spent the night in tents, on mattresses on their lawns or in cars, and on Tuesday people whose homes suffered less damage wandered in the sunshine examining the damage. No one was reported missing, said Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Merrill Wright, who spent the night at the scene. "It was a disaster and a miracle," said Fresno County Supervisor Deran Koligian. "The disaster was that everything was demolished. The miracle was there were no fatalities." Most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises and were treated and released from hospitals in several counties. Six people with more serious injuries were transferred to other hospitals. The quake, centered five miles north of this oil and farming community 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, struck at 4:45 p.m. and rippled along a 450-mile stretch from Sacramento to San Bernardino and into western Nevada. Houses were hurled from their foundations, roofs gave way, large buildings collapsed in clouds of dust and ruptured gas lines sent 40- to 50-foot flames raging into the sky before they were controlled. "There's no part of the city that's untouched," Mayor Keith Scrivner said Tuesday. "All of the residences are damaged, half of them extensively. It's terrible, everybody's going to lose a lot." Brick fronts were torn from many of the two-story, 60-year-old buildings downtown. The area, refurbished a dozen years ago, is "completely going to be demolished and hauled away -- the entire original buildings in the city of Coalinga," Scrivner said. But he was optimistic: "We can build it again, and we will." Coalinga city spokesman Bob Semple said preliminary estimates put damage at $25 million to the eight-block downtown commercial area alone. He said 300 of 2,600 homes suffered major damage. Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 my air-force demonstration # Earthquake occurs on unknown fault LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The strong earthquake in Coalinga occurred along a previously unknown fault that parallels but probably is separate from the huge San Andreas fault, seismologists say. Scientists determined the center of Monday's jolt, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale, was 20-30 miles east of the 600-mile San Andreas. The jolt was centered along a fault apparently unconnected to San Andreas, said Kate Hutton, a California Institute of Technology researcher. "We can't be absolutely certain of that, but we wouldn't think it would be," Hutton said. Geologist Darrell Herd of the survey's headquarters in Reston, Va., said seismic maps fail to show a fault at the location of the Coalinga quake. "It did not occur on any previously mapped or named fault zone of recent origin in the immediate Coalinga area," Herd said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. "There are some old faults there, but this earthquake does not appear to have happened on any of them." In recent years, he said, scientists have discovered a series of small faults in the area, which is a transition zone between valley floor and mountain slopes. "These faults are crudely parallel to the San Andreas, but don't seem to be connected to the San Andreas," Herd said. Hutton and Jerry Eaton of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., said it's unlikely that the temblor might foreshadow another huge quake along the San Andreas, which has produced huge shocks such as the one that devastated San Francisco in 1906. Nevertheless, scientists continued to warn that a major earthquake will happen again. "We know it's inevitable and likely in our lifetime," said Dr. Tom Heaton, a seismologist with the geological survey. The quake was bad news to scientists who hope to learn to predict earthquakes by monitoring foreshocks, he added. The Coalinga quake produced a series of aftershocks but apparently was not preceded by any lesser temblors. === Page 6 of 92 my air-force demonstration # Aftershocks continue to rattle quake-ravished California city COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of aftershocks chased California residents from their damaged homes Tuesday. Between shocks, Coalinga residents tried to clean up more than $25 million in damage from a powerful earthquake that injured 47 people but caused no reported deaths. The Monday afternoon earthquake, registering 6.5 on the Richter scale, damaged virtually every home in the rural community and reduced the refurbished downtown area to rubble. It ripped the brick facades from buildings, snapped gas lines and ruptured water mains. Many of the town's 7,000 residents spent Monday night in tents, on mattresses on their lawns or in cars. And on Tuesday people whose homes suffered less damage wandered in the sunshine examining the damage. No one was reported missing, said Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Merrill Wright, who spent the night at the scene. "It was a disaster and a miracle," said Fresno County Supervisor Deran Koligian. "The disaster was that everything was demolished. The miracle was there were no fatalities." Most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises and were treated and released from hospitals in several counties. Six people with more serious injuries were transferred to other hospitals. The quake, centered five miles north of this oil and farming community 200 miles southeast of San Francisco, struck at 4:45 p.m. and rippled along a 450-mile stretch from Sacramento to San Bernardino and into western Nevada. Houses were hurled from their foundations, roofs gave way, large buildings collapsed in clouds of dust and ruptured gas lines sent 40- to 50-foot flames raging into the sky before they were controlled. "There's no part of the city that's untouched," Mayor Keith Scrivner said Tuesday. "All of the residences are damaged, half of them extensively. It's terrible, everybody's going to lose a lot." Brick fronts were torn from many of the two-story, 60-year-old buildings downtown. The area, refurbished a dozen years ago, is "completely going to be demolished and hauled away -- the entire original buildings in the city of Coalinga," Scrivner said. But he was optimistic: "We can build it again, and we will." Coalinga city spokesman Bob Semple said preliminary estimates put damage at $25 million to the eight-block downtown commercial area alone. He said 300 of 2,600 homes suffered major damage. Hundreds of aftershocks were recorded. Some measuring as much as 4.0 on the Richter scale rocked the town every hour or so, sending residents scurrying into the streets. Gov. George Deukmejian declared a state of emergency for Fresno County, setting the stage for large-scale state and federal assistance. Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 # Earthquake damage Journalists survey downtown Coalinga, Calif., Tuesday morning after an earthquake that measured 6.5 on the Richter scale and caused an estimated $25 million in damage. To the surprise of authorities, no deaths have been reported. Forty-seven people, however, were known to be injured. The 7,000 residents of the city Tuesday grappled with damage and battled hundreds of aftershocks, some reaching 4.0 on the scale. Story, additional photos on 2-A. (AP Photo) === Page 7 of 92 Note: Am enclosing affidavit from a responsible weather scientist, if I could control Florida (and I did) all I had to do was to expand the "mass" of psi-force to blanket the entire United States instead of just Florida. Owens May 4, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Please read this file carefully. All events that have happened in the newsclips...have been caused. Now, if you have studied my previous work...you know that whenever an unusual event occurs that is a "record" happening...or once in a decade, or 50 years, or 100 years...it is inevitably one of the phenomena that I am working on. Look through this Sun Attack file and see the number of "record" happenings. You might say, it is my UFO trademark. For those of you who are not too good at reading...I have even written in the important things to notice, which deal with my work. I wince...whenever I have to include a newsclip of how the UFOs are clobbering a "higher up"...yet I have to do so. I am really a reporter telling what my UFOs are doing...the only one in the world who can do so...so I have to be objective, in the interest of Truth. I know that the "higher ups" and government bigwigs would be furious with me...but it just has to be laid out. Incidentally, the sign given me by my UFOs...circle with a bar through it...seems to be the Greek sign "PHI"...I have found out. My friend, George Delavan, has told me that he saw a TV show where some weather experts declared that all of the recent tornados, volcanos, etc., were no accident...that something unusual was happening...and another of the experts said that the Pacific ocean had turned 17 degrees warmer than normal. It is interesting that the east coast, west coast, midwest and south have been racked up with catastrophic weather...yet this corner of Montana has been untouched by it. Just a reminder...your life, and the lives of your own family...depend on me and what my UFOs and I do, believe it or not. If this Report is not enough to convince you of my UFOs reality, and the reality of my work...then I will be happy to increase the effects 100 times. You have to realize that time and distance are irrelevant in ESP...and my own discovery (which I have proven by now)... is MASS. I.e., what I can do I can escalate, or magnify 100 times, if I wish. PyreCre, the Egyptian Power, recently telepathd, and taught me how to pinpoint human beings with a destructive effect, if it is necessary. On April 20, while working on this file, all the power in Libby went off. After a while it came on again, then my son Teddy and I began to talk what we were going to do when we got our Base, and the power went off again. Please read the enclosed file very carefully...and THINK. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 8 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # El Nino responsible for unusual weather St. Res 5/4/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 800 deaths and $7 billion in damage worldwide have been caused by floods and drought linked to unusual Pacific Ocean air and water movements, a government researcher reported Tuesday. The effect on agriculture in many developing nations has been particularly devastating, totaling nearly $5 billion, according to a study by Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Her report came during a panel discussion of the cause and effects of changes in Pacific Ocean temperature and winds, known as the southern oscillation, or El Nino. Originally named by South American fishermen, the phenomena was given the Spanish name for "child" after the Christ Child, because it often happens around Christmas. Occurring every eight to 10 years, this seemingly small and simple change in the ocean can affect weather worldwide. It apparently caused a drought in Australia, last winter's mild temperatures in the United States, storms in California and floods on the Gulf Coast and Central America. Because of the changes, monsoons failed to occur in India and Sri Lanka. "We are just beginning to understand the mechanisms that cause it, the mechanisms that drive it," said John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The current change was first measured last fall and appears to be among the most severe occurrences of El Nino in a century or more, said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's Climate Analysis Center. The reasons for the change have not yet been discovered, Rasmusson said. But scientists say the change occurs when trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the wind and currents -- to slosh back to the East. There are indications that the oscillation is starting to swing back to normal, but it may be too soon to tell. UFO Sun Attack 2--Missoulian, Wednesday, May 4, 1983 # El Nino wreaks havoc with world weather patterns Compiled from AP and staff reports WASHINGTON -- More than 800 deaths and $7 billion in damage worldwide have been caused by floods and drought linked to unusual Pacific Ocean air and water movements, a government researcher reported Tuesday. The effect on agriculture in many developing nations has been particularly devastating, totaling almost $5 billion, according to a study by Joan Hock of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Her report came during a panel discussion of the cause and effects of changes in Pacific Ocean temperature and winds, known as the southern oscillation, or El Nino. Originally named by South American fishermen, the phenomena was given the Spanish name for "child" after the Christ Child, because it often happens around Christmas. Occurring every eight to 10 years, this seemingly small and simple change in the ocean can affect weather worldwide. It apparently caused a drought in Australia, last winter's mild temperatures in the United States, storms in California and floods on the Gulf Coast and Central America. Because of the changes, monsoons failed to occur in India and Sri Lanka. "We are just beginning to understand the mechanisms that cause it, the mechanisms that drive it," said John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The current change was first measured last fall and appears to be among the most-severe occurrences of El Nino in a century or more, said Eugene Rasmusson of NOAA's Climate Analysis Center. The reasons for the change have not yet been discovered, Rasmusson said. But scientists say the change occurs when trade winds blowing west across the Pacific die down and the currents that follow the winds also lose strength. That allows warm water from the western parts of the ocean -- usually piled up by the wind and currents -- to slosh back to the East. The changes in ocean temperature drive fish from their normal grounds and affect climate through relocating storm systems and by changing the amount of energy and moisture absorbed from the sea into the air. There are indications that the oscillation is starting to swing back to normal, but it may be too soon to tell. According to Hock's studies, the changes have generally produced wet weather in the United States. Storms in California and the Gulf Coast have damaged crops, costing farmers millions of dollars, she said. Overall, 80 people have been killed in storms and floods in the Pacific and Gulf states. A spokesman for the National Weather Service in Missoula said Tuesday night that "El Nino" might have had some influence on the unusually mild Montana winter. But the spokesman was reluctant to give sole credit to the weather phenomenon. He said that the flow of air in the jet stream this winter blew vicious storms into California -- storms that would usually find their way into Montana. In some cases, he said, Montanans benefited from a "split flow" in which storms whistled through British Columbia and California but still missed Montana. === Page 9 of 92 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 10 of 92 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 11 of 92 May 15, 1979 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN In early April, 1979, I was interested in doing a story on the work of Ted Owens (PK Man) and selling the story to National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. But both Enquirer and myself wanted Owens to give some kind of demonstration of his powers (alleged by Owens to be connected with UFOs). At that time Florida was in the midst of a terrible drought, so I asked Owens if he could bring rains to Florida in order to alleviate the drought. Owens agreed to do so. He sent a written confirmation of his agreement to me and to Enquirer on April 15, 1979. He promised, via my phone call to him, to deliver the rains "in a few weeks." Within ten days (April 25, 1979) enough rain fell to end the drought in Florida completely. As a matter of fact, the rainfall broke the weather record for Florida rainfall in the time period. Then there were further rainstorms, helping Florida even more. This statement is a simple statement of fact, made at the request of Owens, and is a true statement. Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Pl. Lantana, Florida 33462 Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 15th day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 12 of 92 Wayne H. Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida 33462 21 May, 1979 To Whom It May Concern I began working with Ted Owens via telephone in February of this year. I studied his past work in depth, I contacted many of the people who have been involved with him in past PK experiments and I was commissioned by the National Enquirer to write a story about the entire event. I asked Ted to set up a PK demonstration for further study. He agreed to do so even after having had to prove to so many other people that he was what he purported to be. This demonstration was to last for a year and would be a control of the weather over the state of Florida. It was to begin 1 March, 1979. Mr. Owens said he and the SIs, (space intelligences) would produce several kinds of weather phenomena characteristically out of chronological sequence for normal meteorological conditions. Whether what followed was pure coincidence or applied PK power is up to the individual to determine for himself. In Owens history of PK effects, this "coincidence" rate has been maintained with an odds ratio of thousands to one. Among the weather phenomena that Owens predicted for Florida for the period were: EM, (electromagnetic Effects), heat, water effect, hurricanes controlled to turn over Florida, particularly Lantana, and UFO sightings. Within a week after the demonstration started, the Florida panhandle had the heaviest rains in their history. It was not the normal rainy season for that area. The rest of Florida had an exceptionally dry winter, so much so in fact that it was on the verge of a serious drought. Water was rationed, people fined for using it on wrong days, etc. As a side light, Ted called me one night and mentioned the EM attacks to come. The next 48 hours saw power failures across the state followed by abnormal sun spot activity which interrupted the three major TV networks broadcast for several days. This was followed by more blackouts which are still happening at this writing. On Easter Sunday, I called Ted Owens and asked him to end the dry period that Florida was experiencing. He agreed both verbally and in writing. He also amended the PK map which he had sent me to show where the phenomena would occur. Within ten days, Florida has the heaviest rainfall in recorded weather history. Much more rain fell than during === Page 13 of 92 any hurricane. Owens had said he would pour down "tremendous" rains upon Florida. This is a matter of record that it rained like no time in previous recorded history. Miami received over 16 inches. All of central and south Florida were flooded. Weather men were puzzled because this rain came out of the Gulf of Mexico where it had formed suddenly, then moved over southern Florida where it stopped and produced the tremendous rains. This was fully six weeks before the end of the normal dry season. Ten days later, Tampa, on the Gulf coast of Florida was hit by the same freak storms, flooding the city and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was declared a disaster area. Again, the coincidence. Or was it? As of this writing, Ted Owens has told me that Florida will now experience a heat wave created by a special UFO parked in orbit and focusing the sun's rays down to our green state of Florida. Only time will tell if this too happens like the rest of Owens predictions. As a sidelight: I am a graduate of the USAF weather school and have over 25 years experience in the field. I am a professional writer, and in my opinion, Mr. Ted Owens is certainly not of normal abilities. Only scientific testing will determine if he has a part space alien brain. In the meantime, Ted Owens may be what he claims. Wouldn't it be a pity if mankind laughed at this "looney", only to find that he alone held the key to their salvation. A fellow named Noah once went about his business while others laughed to their content. I stand ready to help any project that will explore Mr. Owens abilities to give him the opportunity to do as directed by his SIs. Wayne H. Grover Free Lance Journalist Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 21st day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 14 of 92 Queen Elizabeth and President Reagan step from the Britannia Saturday morning before her trip to Yosemite National Park. Later, during the drive to the park, two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff escorting the royal motorcade were killed in an auto accident. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Three escorts killed in crash during queen's visit to park S.F. Res 3/6/83 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff died in a traffic accident Saturday as they escorted Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade up a winding Sierra Nevada highway to Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Officer Jim Fulton of the California Highway Patrol at Stockton said details of the accident were sketchy, but it was "a triple fatal -- two Secret Service agents and a Tuolumne County deputy sheriff." The victims' identities were not immediately available. The queen was unharmed. Fulton said the vehicles were among 15 escorting Elizabeth from Castle Air Force Base to Yosemite, where she and her consort, Prince Philip, are to spend a quiet weekend after a full week of pomp and ceremony. The 2½-hour drive from the base to the park follows a winding, scenic highway that cuts through the Sierra Nevada foothills. The queen, on her first visit to the West Coast, left San Francisco on Saturday morning after a dockside celebration attended by several thousand people. Caterers dressed in Elizabethan costumes dispensed Cheerios cereal and doughnuts to those who braved rain to say "cheerio" to the royal couple. The send-off incorporated red, white and blue fireworks and a hot air balloon originally scheduled to greet the queen Thursday. That festive welcome for the royal yacht Britannia was washed out when Pacific storms forced the royal couple to fly rather than sail to the Bay area. At Yosemite, the royal couple was to stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where their sixth-floor suite has a view of Glacier Point, Yosemite Falls and the Royal Arches. "This is the queen's, shall we say, down time for the entire visit," said Sandy Burke, spokeswoman for the British consulate in San Francisco. "It's her R&R, so to speak." For more than a week, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, weathered protests and receptions. They were cheered by thousands, booed by thousands more and serenaded by Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. They mingled with presidents, millionaires, athletes, movie stars and high-technology factory workers. They covered at least 1,000 miles in limousines, planes, four-wheel drive vehicles and a Navy bus. They ran the culinary gamut from Delta asparagus and goat cheese to enchiladas and refried beans. Elizabeth and Philip arrived Feb. 26 at San Diego's Broadway Pier for the queen's first visit to California. Two days later at Los Angeles' City Hall, Elizabeth thanked the United States for its support last year when the British successfully fought to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine invaders. She also noted she was retracing the route of Sir Francis Drake, who claimed what is now California 400 years ago. "But I want to assure you, Mr. Mayor, that I am not here today to press that claim," the queen told Tom Bradley. The carefully planned itinerary, scheduled to end Monday when Elizabeth and Philip depart for Seattle and then Canada, was foiled more than once by volatile weather. A fierce storm prevented the royal party from sailing in the HMY Britannia from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, where the queen and Duke of Edinburgh braved a four-wheel drive ride up the winding, fog-shrouded road leading to President Reagan's mountaintop ranch. The deluge, which sent a tornado hurtling down on Los Angeles, later forced the royal couple to abandon plans to sail by yacht from Long Beach to San Francisco, where thousands had paid to ride in five boats meeting the Britannia at the Golden Gate Bridge. The rain abated somewhat during the royal stay in the Bay area, but the storm of protest intensified, following the queen wherever she went. More than 5,000 uninvited guests waving Irish flags and signs opposing Britain's presence in Ireland showed up for the gala state dinner given by President Reagan for the queen at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum on Thursday night. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan escort wrecks motorcycle 4/30/83 HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston police officer crashed his motorcycle while escorting President Reagan's motorcade into town on Friday. The officer, Sgt. Ralph Gonzales, suffered sprains and bruises, and Reagan consoled him for a time before he was placed in an ambulance. The accident, on Airport Boulevard as Reagan's motorcade headed for the Gulf Freeway into the city, caused a 10-minute delay in the president's journey. Reagan, accompanied by aides and Secret Service agents, got out of his armored limousine, and walked about 100 yards to Gonzales, who lay in the street while ambulance workers tended his injury. On his way, he picked up a police service revolver from the street and handed the weapon to a bodyguard. Secret Service agents surrounded the president and shouted "Get Back, get back" to reporters and cameramen who ran to the scene. The president bent over the officer and talked to him for several minutes. Then Reagan got back into his car and resumed the ride into town, stopping at Cenikor Foundation, a drug rehabilitation center. Aides later said that Gonzales had collided with Officer Harold Prothero, who escaped injury. Gonzales, who is 32, was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital, where he was reported in satisfactory condition with a sprained neck and bruises. Gonzales said later that when Reagan appeared at his side, "I thought I was dreaming." "He was very kind, what I remember. I think he asked me was I OK and I told him I was sorry that I blocked the motorcade," the officer said in a telephone interview from his hospital room. "I don't think I was in my right mind," Gonzales said. "I do recall seeing Mr. Reagan, the president. I didn't realize I'd actually had a wreck until I was in the ambulance." "I was blocking two buses coming out of the airport," he said. "As the motorcade approached, the presidential car came by. As it was coming by, I accelerated, going up to check the next intersection. All I remember then is people standing around." Police spokesman Larry Troutt said apparently Prothero and Gonzales intended to seal off the same intersection. Reagan said of the officer "He was conscious and aware of what was going on." The officer apparently hit a street sign when he was thrown from his bike. Deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver told reporters that as the accident occurred Reagan said, "My God, I think he hit the sign." Deaver said Reagan insisted on getting out of the limousine when it stopped. === Page 15 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" (Note: symbolic) # Stone slabs fall off Capitol wall 1 S/R 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 100 square feet of stone veneer on the West Front of the Capitol crumbled minutes after President Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress in the building, prompting renewed calls on Thursday for renovation of the oldest part of the historic structure. About a dozen large sandstone slabs, each about eight inches thick, crashed into an inner courtyard terrace from the west wall of the House of Representatives wing between 6 and 6:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday night. That was only a few minutes after Reagan finished his speech on Central America to the joint session assembled in the House chamber. No one was injured in the crash; the inner courtyard, a level below the main Capitol terraces, is not usually visited by the public. But the incident immediately renewed the decades-old debate over the deteriorating West Front and whether it should be extended further to the West or simply restored in place. House advocates of extending the front an additional 22 feet toward the National Mall, providing an additional 147,000 square feet of office space within the building, said the incident should prompt Congress to approve their plan. "If the American people really knew the condition of their Capitol, they'd be screaming for us to take action," said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif. "Our Capitol is falling apart." Lewis serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee that earlier this week approved $70.5 million for the extension, which is also supported by Capitol Architect George White. White and others argue Note: The above and below are symbolic of how the UFOs are taking apart the U.S. government, until they get their Base. Owens. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Office walls crumbled on U.S. ambassador S/R 4/19/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- "All of a sudden my office collapsed," said U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon describing the car-bomb blast Monday at the U.S. Embassy. Dillon, clad in a jogging outfit, escaped from the rubble by climbing through a window onto a seventh-floor balcony, re-entering the building a few floors lower down and then descending to the street. "I was standing up with a telephone in one hand and a T-shirt in the other. I was preparing to go out and jog, when all of a sudden my office collapsed," the silver-haired ambassador, still in jogging clothes, told reporters several hours after the explosion. "I was unable to move. Someone picked the rubble off me. My secretary and deputy, Bob Pugh, pushed the rubble off me. I went out the window and down a few floors and then out." Dillon said he was unhurt except for "a few cuts." The ambassador was rushed in a bulletproof limousine escorted by police to his residence in suburban Yarze, but returned to the embassy in late afternoon to inspect the damage. Dillon, a Middle East specialist who served previously in Turkey and Egypt, said both President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan contacted him. "Both of them feel as I do that we can't let this stop our work. We've got to continue," Dillon said. "The negotiations will go ahead. It's a tragedy and you can imagine how sad and angered we all are, but it doesn't change anything. The U.S. mission will continue." The Reagan administration is sponsoring talks between Israel and Lebanon on the withdrawal of more than 70,000 foreign troops from Lebanon. Robert Dillon escaped unhurt except for a 'few cuts' 2 === Page 16 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hammer thrown at Hirohito TOKYO (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy hopped a fence and hurled a hammer 50 feet toward Emperor Hirohito Friday, but it landed at the base of a pillar supporting the palace veranda where the monarch was waving to thousands of subjects on his 82nd birthday. Witnesses heard the boy scream "death to the Emperor" as he was pinned by some of the 1,500 police on duty and taken into custody, Kyodo news service reported. It said he also was armed with a four-inch fruit knife and 24 small stones. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said the boy, who was not identified because he was a minor, told police he planned the attack to "give trouble" to his father. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Italian cabinet resigns ROME (AP) -- Premier Amintore Fanfani and his four-party coalition Cabinet resigned Friday, clearing the way for a general election in June. Fanfani, a Christian Democrat, submitted the resignation of his government -- Italy's 43rd since World War II -- to President Sandro Pertini. The presidential palace said Pertini asked the 75-year-old premier to continue as caretaker. The Socialists, a partners in Fanfani's five-month-old coalition, are pressing for an early election and political sources said there was virtually no chance of forming a new government. The palace statement did not mention a possible election. S.P. Rev 4/30/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # CIA leader died in embassy blast ## Death count is expected to reach 47 S.P. Rev 4/20/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Searchers recovered six more bodies from the bomb-shattered U.S. Embassy Tuesday and continued their grim task, with at least 47 people believed killed in the worst attack ever on a U.S. facility. There were 24 confirmed deaths and 23 other people were missing and presumed dead. Embassy spokesman John Reid said eight Americans were confirmed dead and eight others were missing from the massive explosion at lunchtime Monday. Among the confirmed dead was Robert Clayton Ames, the CIA's Near East and South Asian analyst, officials said in Washington. EVEN IN DEATH, it is unusual for any CIA employee abroad to be identified. State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said only that Ames was in Beirut "on consultations at the time of his death." He said the request any other CIA staff "traveling consultation He said dle East the State Department. Peterson refused to answer further questions about CIA activities in Lebanon. State Department records show that Ames was born March 6, 1934, and had served as an economic and commercial officer in South Yemen from 1969 to 1970; in Beirut, 1970 to 1971, and in Tehran in 1973, and as a political officer in Kuwait in 1973. ROMBERG SAID Johnston was assigned to Beirut in January. He had previously served in Singapore, Tehran and Bonn. The privately owned Central News Agency said the bombing was an attempt to kill U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib and his assistant Morris Draper. It quoted unnamed government officials as saying Habib and Draper had been scheduled to be at the embassy when the bomb exploded at 1:05 p.m., but were delayed by the presidential office that es- nd se UFOs attack "higher ups" # Chernenko missing again from major Soviet event New York Times S.P. Rev 4/23/83 MOSCOW -- Konstantin U. Chernenko, who has been regarded as the No. 2 official in the Soviet hierarchy since the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, did not appear Friday at one of the major events on the Kremlin's political calendar. It was the third absence of the 71-year-old member of the ruling Politburo from a major gathering since his last public appearance on March 30. As a result speculation increased that he was either ill or in political trouble. Chernenko was the only Moscow-based member of the Politburo not on the podium at the annual Lenin Day meeting in the Palace of Congresses. When Chernenko did not appear in East Berlin earlier this month to deliver a speech at a Marx memorial meeting, East German officials said they had been told he was ill. Earlier this week he was the only one of the 13 Politburo members who was absent from a Kremlin meeting on agriculture that was addressed by Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet Communist Party leader. If the accounts of illness are correct, they mark a sharp change for Chernenko, who has generally appeared to be one of the more robust members of the Politburo. === Page 17 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Spectator tries to arrest ex-CIA chief S.F. EX 4/28/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner's appearance before a congressional panel to speak against the MX missile took a bizarre turn Wednesday when a man tried to place him under a citizen's arrest for murder. Turner was just beginning his testimony to a House Armed Services subcommittee when the man stood up and announced he intended to take the retired admiral with him to a federal magistrate. Two staff aides placed themselves on either side of the man and Turner began the first sentence of his testimony, which the demonstrator promptly interrupted. The man then tried to take hold of Turner, but he pulled away and was escorted to a side room while the man was led out of the hearing room and turned over to Capitol police. The man has been seen at several congressional hearings this year trying to approach Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, but police have kept him away. Police did not issue an immediate report on the man Wednesday. When calm was restored, the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., invited Turner to begin again. "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to get on to some non-violent discussion of things like nuclear weapons," Turner quipped. In his testimony, Turner disputed the conclusion of a presidential advisory commission that the MX was needed to induce the Soviets to bargain seriously on strategic arms control. Instead, he said, the Soviets probably would match the missiles with new weapons on their own. The commission, whose recommendations were endorsed by President Reagan last week, also said that proceeding with the MX program was vital to show U.S. resolve both to the Soviets and America's allies. "There is a reasonable argument that the United States will look weak and confused if we do nothing in the next few months other than cancel the MX," Turner said. But there are alternatives, he added, including acting more rapidly to deploy nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on land, submarines and bombers. While saying the MX should be scrapped, Turner did endorse three other recommendations of the commission: developing small, mobile intercontinental missiles; using the number of warheads rather than missiles and other launchers as the basis for arms-control negotiations; and deploying some small missile-firing submarines to supplement the fleet of large Trident subs. The small, mobile missiles, which would take a decade to develop and deploy, have gained support from some critics who oppose the MX, but the program is expected to be an expensive one. TURNER UFOs attack "higher ups" Argentina jails critical admiral BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The chief of the critical Southern Naval Zone got a year in jail Wednesday for criticizing the way his superior handled last year's disastrous Falkland Islands war with Britain, the official news agency Telam reported. Telam said Adm. Horacio Zaratiegui, under arrest since he was replaced as commander of the southern zone Sept. 20, was found guilty of "insubordination, disrespect and usurpation of command." S.F. EX 4/28/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Two rockets streak over house where Shultz, aides slept S.F. EX 4/28/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Two Chinese-made Katyusha rockets streaked over the U.S. ambassador's home where Secretary of State George P. Shultz and aides were sleeping early Sunday, and officials said they were investigating whether the attack was an assassination attempt. First Lt. Alan Burghard, a 24-year-old Marine sentry from Parsippany, N.J., said the 122mm rockets barely missed the single-story villa of Ambassador Robert Dillon and "sounded like a freight train." He said there was no damage or injuries at the residence, but that the rockets could have inflicted "a lot of injuries and destroyed a good section of the ambassador's house" if they had hit the residence in the pine-wooded Beirut suburb of Yarze about five miles east of the capital. The attack came less that two weeks after terrorists blew up a truck packed with explosives outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 49 people including 17 Americans. (Continued on page 2) === Page 18 of 92 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Bomb mailed to PM defused; another injures SpRes 3/16/83 LONDON (AP) -- A letter bomb addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was safely defused Tuesday, but a similar device exploded at the U.S. Navy's European headquarters, slightly wounding a petty officer. Both were contained in white envelopes, addressed by hand, and no one claimed responsibility, U.S. and British spokesmen said. At Scotland Yard, a spokesman said both letters were incendiary devices, but "we don't know who sent them." The first one went off in the Mayfair office of U.S. Naval Intelligence on South Audley Street, some 200 yards from the U.S. Embassy where a letter bomb was detected and defused on Feb. 2. It was addressed to the Naval Communications Unit and exploded as Senior Chief Petty Officer John E. Williams III opened it. He suffered a slightly burned hand, was treated on the spot by a Navy doctor and continued working, said Cmdr. Irwin Sharp, the public affairs officer. A press aide to Mrs. Thatcher said the letter bomb sent to her office was detected as the mail was being routinely sorted at lunchtime with stepped-up security checks imposed after a letter exploded at her office last Nov. 30. That device caused facial burns to the prime minister's office manager. The Animal Rights Militia, an underground group that opposes experiments on animals and the fur trade, asserted responsibility for that bomb. No arrests have been made. Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said police might be linking Tuesday's mail-bombings to the recent dispatch of letter explosives to the U.S. And Soviet Embassies here. An obscure Ukrainian nationalist group, Makhno's Secret Army, claimed responsibility for those earlier devices. It is named after Nestor Makhno, an anarchist active in the Ukraine in 1917-18. Police refused comment on the Press Association report. The last letter bomb known to have been sent by the Animal Rights Militia was delivered to a fur company in London on Feb. 28 after others had been received by politicians, the Agriculture Ministry, the Canadian Embassy and fur traders. Three hours before the device exploded at the U.S. Navy office, Press Association's Glasgow bureau received a letter signed by the "Scottish National Liberation Army" -- SNLA. It threatened attacks Tuesday and Wednesday "in reprisal" for plant closures in Scotland's steel industry. That group asserted responsibility for a series of letter-bomb incidents in recent months. # 3 more ousted at EPA UFOs attack "higher ups" SpRes 3/26/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration, in a continuing effort to clean up the Environmental Protection Agency, asked for and received the resignations Thursday of the acting head of the agency and two other high officials under investigation by congressional committees, EPA sources said. Dr. John Hernandez, who took over as acting administrator just two weeks ago and immediately became the focus of congressional investigations, will turn in his resignation formally today, according to a source close to Hernandez. Another agency source, who also spoke on condition he not be identified, said Assistant Administrator John A. Todhunter and EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry were also resigning. The resignations were requested in meetings late Thursday afternoon with White House aide Joe Ryan. "The White House apparently feels that if those three are taken away, then the congressional investigations will taper off," said one source. They are just the latest in a series of firings and resignations as the Reagan administration has struggled to control an expanding congressional probe into allegations of conflict of interest, political manipulation and mismanagement at the agency. It started with the president's firing of Rita Lavelle, chief of the toxic waste dump cleanup program, on Feb. 7. Thursday's departures make it a total of eight top EPA officials who have been fired, asked to resign or quit, and that does not count several others on the staff of the eight. Anne M. Burford resigned as head of the agency on March 9, saying she did so because she had become the focus of many of the congressional investigations. Hernandez, who had been deputy administrator at EPA for two years, was picked as acting administrator after Mrs. Burford resigned. A former professor at New Mexico State University, Hernandez expressed an interest in taking the job permanently, but almost immediately he found himself the subject of congressional inquiry into his handling of a report on dioxin contamination in Michigan. EPA officials in Chicago testified that Hernandez ordered them to cooperate with Dow Chemical Co. in revising the report, which in its final version removed a section concluding that Dow's Midland plant was the major source of dioxin contamination in the area. Perry has been questioned by a congressional committee into apparently conflicting statements he made about whether he kept a "green book" listing derogatory comments about certain employees. Allegations being investigated against Todhunter include that he received a $1,664 payment from a former employer after starting work at the EPA. The firm subsequently received a $40,000 no-bid contract from Todhunter's office, although Todhunter denied any involvement in the award. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Specter squashed Senatorial squash claimed a victim as Sen. ARLEN SPECTER, hit by a GOP colleague's racquet, left the court with a bone fracture under his eye. Specter, R-Pa., received six stitches at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and was told to lay off squash for six to seven weeks. The accident occurred at the Capitol Hill Squash Club during a game with Sen. ROBERT PACKWOOD, R-Ore. SpRes 3/10/83 === Page 19 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press February 13, 1983 w 5A # Fired EPA official denies accusations WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rita Lavelle, the official whose firing by President Reagan set off a firestorm at the Environmental Protection Agency, said Saturday she is "willing and anxious" to defend her actions in office. In her first public comments since she was fired, Lavelle denied she had entered into "sweetheart" deals between the EPA and polluters or that the agency had manipulated the $1.6 billion hazardous waste cleanup fund for political purposes. She said she also knew nothing about automatic paper shredders being run after hours to get rid of sensitive documents. "My record is a good record and I am proud of it," she said. "I can defend every action I have taken. I am willing and anxious to do so." The furor at the agency started Feb. 4 when the EPA announced Lavelle's resignation as the assistant administrator of the Superfund hazardous waste program. Lavelle's aides said she planned to appeal the firing to her longtime friend, presidential counselor Edwin Meese. However, before she could do that the White House issued a curt one-sentence announcement of her dismissal and Meese was quoted as saying he knew Lavelle only slightly. Lavelle said she has since talked to Meese and she said, "I feel very close to him. I have felt he was watching me through my career." Lavelle, speaking to reporters at her lawyer's office, said her included a list of people she believed to be tainted by the scandal. something to hide. I most certainly do not." In the wake of Lavelle's firing, a number of allegations have swirled around the program she headed and six House and Senate committees have started their own investigations. She denied writing a controversial memo that EPA officials have given as a principal reason EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch decided to fire her. The memo attacked EPA general counsel Robert Perry for being too tough on industry, saying "He is systematically alienating the primary constituents of this administration, the business community." Lavelle said the comments were written by one of her aides, whom she would not identify. She said they did not reflect her thinking and she had never seen them until questioned about them by a reporter. Lavelle also defended settlement agreements the agency has made with chemical companies to clean up dump sites. Four House committees have given notice they are looking into those agreements because of a concern that the companies were let off too lightly. Investigators are looking especially at a dump in Seymour, Ind., where 24 companies agreed last October to pay $7.7 million to remove 50,000 barrels of chemical waste. In return, the EPA agreed to free the companies from any liability for the site after the contamination is removed, the House aides said. UFO attack "higher ups" # Resignation under pressure WASHINGTON (AP) -- Isidoro Rodriguez, director of minority affairs in the Agriculture Department, has resigned under pressure, a senior department official said Wednesday. Rodriguez was placed on administrative leave last week after President Reagan was asked at a news conference about a memo Rodriguez had written in which it was suggested that some controversial changes be made in federal civil rights guidelines. The memo was rejected before it reached Agriculture Secretary John R. Block, but Reagan nevertheless was asked about it at the news conference. Reagan said he was not aware of the memo but that he would have Block look into it. UFO attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Sat., March 26, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # 5 more EPA officials quit under fire WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan accepted the resignations Friday of five more Environmental Protection Agency officials who were under fire in Congress. That cleared the agency's management decks for the return of its pioneer chief, William D. Ruckelshaus. The president denied that the continuing turmoil and staff turnover at the agency reflected badly on his administration, declaring, "no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." But those who turned in their resignations had all been involved in the multiple congressional investigations into allegations of mismanagement at EPA. John W. Hernandez, named just two weeks ago to serve as acting EPA administrator, spent most of that time before congressional committees defending himself against allegations he had favored the chemical industry in decisions as deputy EPA administrator. Hernandez was replaced by Lee Verstandig, who will serve as acting administrator for the next month until the Senate confirmation of Ruckelshaus, who was persuaded by Reagan early this week to return to the job he held in the early 1970s. Leaving: Hernandez, left, Perry, and Daniel. In addition to Hernandez, resignations were also announced for EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry, Associate Administrator John A. Todhunter, Paul C. Cahill, director of EPA's Office of Federal Activities, and John Daniel, who had served as Mrs. Burford's chief of staff. Reagan on Friday again defended the record of Anne M. Burford, the EPA chief who resigned under fire on March 7. "I never would have asked for her resignation," he said, denying reports that her departure had been engineered by White House aides. He said in spite "of all the allegations and all the accusations... no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." Of those leaving Friday, Reagan said, "Some of those have let us know for quite some time that they wanted out. They wanted to leave." However, EPA sources, who spoke on condition they not be named, said the resignations were requested by Joe Ryan, assistant personnel director at the White House, who made the demands in a series of meetings late Thursday in Hernandez' office. The sources said the White House, in an effort to control the political damage from the long-running EPA crisis, wanted to remove all officials who have been implicated in the congressional investigations and to smooth the way for Ruckelshaus' return to the agency. === Page 20 of 92 2/24/83 # Two more EPA leaders fired WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan fired two more top officials of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, and a key congressman said he expected several other ousters to follow. One source said Reagan wants "to clean house at the agency." Sources both within and outside the White House confirmed that Reagan had obtained the resignations of Inspector General Matthew Novick and Assistant Administrator John P. Horton of the EPA. Reagan had fired another assistant administrator of the agency, Rita M. Lavelle, on Feb. 7. Rep. James H. Scheuer, D-N.Y., who heads one of several congressional investigations of the agency, said Novick was fired after he had released an audit critical of the EPA's handling of its financial records. "He was jettisoned," Scheuer said at a hastily called news conference. "He was asked very nicely to walk the plank." Sources who spoke only on condition they not be named said Novick was offered another job within the administration but was told by the president that he wants "to clean house at the agency." Earlier, Lavelle, denying suggestions she made "sweetheart deals" with industrial polluters before Reagan fired her as the agency's head of the "superfund" program, told Congress she was the victim of a suspicious boss - Anne M. Burford - who was herself guilty of mismanagement. Burford, who was Anne Gorsuch before her marriage Sunday, was traveling in the West on Wednesday, and would not discuss Lavelle's testimony when questioned by reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. She was asked about the dismissals in a news conference at Tempe, Ariz., where she gave a speech at the law school of Arizona State University, and said only, "There is no official announcement." Her speech was 10 minutes in getting started. The audience was told she was "on the phone to Washington." A White House official characterized Novick's and Horton's departures as "part of an effort to strengthen middle-level management at EPA, particularly in the superfund area." The superfund is the $1.6 billion account for cleaning up toxic waste dumps. The White House source said no other (Continued on page 2) # House panel says Reagan covering up for EPA WASHINGTON (AP) - A House subcommittee said Tuesday that testimony from EPA employees raises "more than a suspicion" that President Reagan's refusal to hand over EPA documents amounts to a cover-up of agency wrongdoing. The documents may support allegations of the EPA's political manipulation of the $1.6 billion superfund for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, said Rep. John Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who heads the subcommittee. In a letter sent to Reagan, Dingell said his panel has "received sworn, direct testimony that the documents which you have withheld for five months ... contain references to political manipulation in the administration of the $1.6 billion superfund." "Mr. President, the time has arrived for you to meet your assurances," Dingell said in his letter. "There exists more than a suspicion that documents are being withheld to cover wrongdoing." In Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had not received Dingell's letter. "The president indicated he will not use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing," Speakes said, referring to Reagan's statement in a nationally broadcast news conference last month. Speakes also said the president "has instructed the Justice Department to look into wrongdoing. The administrator of the EPA referred certain allegations of wrongdoing to the Justice Department. We are willing to make documents available to Justice." Another congressman released a "hit list" of political opponents among EPA employees, meanwhile, and EPA Administrator Anne McGill Burford said she would accept an independent investigation of the problem-plagued agency. Dingell also said the panel has received sworn testimony from three EPA employees indicating that former EPA Assistant Administrator Rita M. Lavelle may have committed perjury when she denied knowing that her former employer was partly responsible for one California dump. And he said other witnesses testified about a possible "hit list" of political opponents within EPA. Dingell did not elaborate on the "hit list." But the chairman of another subcommittee investigating EPA, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., released a copy of such a list, which was unsigned and undated, and an aide said it came from an EPA employee considered reliable. The list contains the names of scientists and researchers and includes such assessments as "an environmentalist, should go" and "reported to be liberal and an environmentalist." One notation read: "a follower, needs guidance, won't stand out in front, definitely keep." Scheuer called the list "very disturbing.... The sketches on these respected scientists are not only outrageous on their face, but also call into question the integrity of the entire agency's approach." EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency would have no comment on the list released by Scheuer. "Until we have some hard and fast evidence as to the authenticity and origin of this list, it would be inappropriate for us to comment at this time," he said. 3/2/83 === Page 21 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Nkomo flees from African homeland Sp Rev 3/10/83 GABORONE, Botswana (AP) -- Joshua Nkomo, the patriarch of Zimbabwe nationalism, has fled to Botswana after 13 months of political warfare with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and three days in hiding to escape Mugabe's troops. The Botswana government said Nkomo, the 65-year-old co-leader with Mugabe of the successful guerrilla war against white rule in the former British colony of Rhodesia, crossed the border Tuesday. A Western diplomat who asked not to be identified said he made the 385-mile trip from Bulawayo, his stronghold in southwest Zimbabwe 60 miles from the border, by Land Rover. An aide in Bulawayo said Nkomo decided to seek asylum in Botswana when the Zimbabwe government refused to guarantee his safety. President Quett Masire's government said Nkomo would remain temporarily in Botswana "while he explores all possible ways of assisting to resolve the situation in his country." The government, anxious to preserve its good relations with Mugabe, said Nkomo would not meet reporters, and government spokesmen refused to say where he was staying. "It is embarrassing enough having him here," said one official. A spokesman for Mugabe, who is in New Delhi at the non-aligned summit meeting, said Nkomo bolted "unconventionally" and illegally. He pointed out that Nkomo's passport was seized in February. Some observers suggested Nkomo might move on to Zambia, north of Botswana and Zimbabwe, where he and his guerrilla army were based during the Rhodesian civil war. Mugabe and his forces were based in Mozambique, and the two armies operated independently, in different parts of the country. After the war Mugabe, a member of the dominant Shona tribe, won a majority in the 1980 election that brought black rule to Zimbabwe. Despite his majority, he formed a coalition government with Nkomo, the leader of the minority Ndebele tribe in western Zimbabwe, and the Shona and Ndebele guerrillas from their two armies were merged with troops of the old Rhodesian army. Mugabe fired Nkomo in February 1982, accusing him of plotting a coup, and Ndebeles began deserting the army and taking to the bush as bandits. After they were accused of killing more than 100 people in robberies and ambushes in western Zimbabwe, Mugabe sent the elite North Korean-trained 5th Brigade of Shonas to the area. Nkomo accused the troops of killing scores of innocent Ndebeles and villagers estimated the fatalities in the hundreds. NKOMO UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Road safety chief quits New York Times Sp Rev 4/2/83 WASHINGTON -- Raymond A. Peck, Jr., the Reagan administration official who has stirred sharp disputes by rescinding numerous automobile safety standards, announced Friday that he had resigned his post as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, the suddenness of Peck's announcement and his intention to remain at the agency as a consultant has fueled speculation that his resignation was requested by the administration. Senior government officials familiar with the situation said that it was Peck's style, not his policies, that may have brought him into disfavor. One high official characterized him as unpredictable. His resignation becomes effective May 21, after which he intends to serve for an indefinite period as a paid consultant. Administration officials denied that Peck had become a liability and praised his work. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, secretary of the Department of Transportation, released a statement "expressing her gratitude for his dedicated public service and indicated her respect for Ray's desire to seek new challenges." Peck said, "There is not the slightest bit of accuracy to any inference that I am not leaving at my own will." UFOs attack "higher ups" # 7 Reagan aides fired; 'a new team' wanted WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven of President Reagan's nine special assistants for public liaison have been fired, administration sources said Wednesday. The new director of that White House operation said it was because she wanted "a fresh start, a new team." Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who took over for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as head of the Office of Public Liaison, called the advisers in one by one over the past two days to tell them they would be replaced. Wednesday evening she confirmed the staff shakeup, but would not say publicly who was being ousted. Officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified publicly said all but two of the special assistants who handle White House liaison with outside interest groups were being replaced. Whittlesey said she had not cleared the dismissals with the president. "But I'm a team player," she said in a telephone interview. White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III oversees the public liaison office. Whittlesey said "we will make every effort to place" the dismissed aides in new administration jobs. Among those ousted were Virginia Knauer, consumer affairs adviser, and Robert F. Bonitati, Reagan's labor adviser. Others let go were aides who handled liaison with minorities, the Jewish community, consumers, business, agriculture and religious groups, the source said. Whittlesey, who went to the White House after serving two years as Reagan's ambassador to Switzerland, confirmed the firings Wednesday evening. Sp Rev 3/31/83 UFOs Attack "higher ups" ### Aborigine 'moons' royals WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Prince Charles invited Maori opera star Kiri Te Kanawa to sing at his wedding, but that didn't stop another aborigine from flipping his grass skirt to expose his bare bottom before the royal couple Wednesday. The 34-year-old heir to the British throne and 21-year-old Princess Diana were being driven out of the Wellington airport when Maori activist Te Ringa Mihaka ran onto the road. "He was wearing a piu piu -- a Maori grass skirt," said a police spokesman. "He swung around and flung up the skirt to expose his naked posterior. We don't know whether they were looking at him." Sp Rev 4/21/83 === Page 22 of 92 U.S. Attack "higher ups" # Reed has Reagan's favor despite probe SPRW 3/15/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has "full confidence" in Thomas C. Reed, the president's spokesman said Monday, even though a federal grand jury and a congressional subcommittee are investigating the investments of the national security official. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said Reed's case is being reviewed by national security adviser William Clark who will meet later this week with Rep. John Dingell D-Mich., chairman of the subcommittee investigating Reed. Speakes said "the president has full confidence in Tom Reed." Asked if Reed should step aside, Speakes said, "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow -- the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. U.S. Attack "higher ups" # Burford, under fire, quits EPA job SPRW 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anne McGill Burford quit as chief of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, while the White House announced it would release all documents congressional investigators had demanded in their investigations of the EPA. Despite the resignation and President Reagan's agreement to surrender the documents, House investigators said their inquiries into EPA management of the $1.6 billion "superfund" would continue. Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., chairman of one subcommittee investigating charges of mismanagement and political manipulation of the fund, was asked if Burford's resignation meant an end to the EPA investigations. "It may in the media, but it won't in the Congress," he said. "Burford's departure is not the issue. The issue is the operation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the implementation of our environmental laws." ## Events that led to resignation -- Page 19 Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, also said his committee will continue its close scrutiny of EPA operations. The resignation of the EPA chief came as chairman of House investigating subcommittees exerted new pressure for release of the documents -- documents which Burford had continually refused to supply, leading to a contempt of Congress charge against her amid a widening investigation of the agency. "Without an end to these unfortunate difficulties, EPA is disabled from implementing its mandate and you are distracted from pursuing the critical domestic and international goals of your administration," Burford wrote in her letter of resignation. Reagan, noting he accepted her resignation "with great regret," said she had "faithfully and honestly carried out your mission of helping this nation cleanse its air and water and make wiser use of its lands..." "Your resignation today is an occasion of sorrow for us all," Reagan said. "But it is more than that: it is an act of unselfishness and personal courage that once again demonstrates your loyalty to the nation." Burford had been under considerable pressure to quit, but Reagan had continued to defend her. He said in Klamath Falls, Ore. last Saturday that she could "stay as long as she wants to." The 40-year-old Burford, whose conservative policies had angered many environmentalists, had also said repeatedly that she would not quit despite calls for her resignation from such prominent Republicans as House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. Larry Speakes, the chief deputy (Continued on page 3) U.S. Attack "higher ups" # 'Wolfman' misses LONDON (AP) -- A man wearing an outsize wolf's head lunged at Princess Michael of Kent, as if to bite her on the neck, while she was touring an exhibition Monday. He missed, and her bodyguard dragged him away. The princess did not press charges, and a police spokesman said later that the 18-year-old attacker was released early Tuesday in the custody of his parents. He was not identified. "He will return to Kensington police station at a later date when inquiries are completed. There are no charges and there will be no court appearance. We understand the man was working as some sort of promotional personality at the exhibition," said the spokesman, who in accordance with British practice declined to be named. The attack took place as the 38-year-old wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the queen, was touring a home improvement exhibition in West London. The man, who witnesses said was over 6 feet tall and was also wearing a long brown cloak, lunged at the princess as she was talking with others touring the exhibit. SPRW 3/8/83 === Page 23 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'sold' at auction as unemployed protest plight By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press SPRN 3/16/83 WASHINGTON -- The White House was sold at a mock sheriff's sale Tuesday between chants of "Fire Reagan" from some 2,000 unemployed workers who came from across the country for a rally and a day of lobbying Congress about their plight. "We want jobs, not cheese," said Greg Tekavec, a Westinghouse rail worker laid off five months ago from his job in Wilmerding, Pa., near Pittsburgh. "People are getting their utilities shut off. The banks are trying to foreclose their homes and repossess their cars. We are getting fed up with what they're doing to us," said Tekavec. THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYED Network, a loose alliance of emergency committees nationwide, said forty cities were represented at the rally. Among the crowd, identified by buttons and placards, were steel workers from Pennsylvania, out-of-work people from Detroit assembly lines, and glass, mine, railroad, textile and service workers. "Stay the course -- lose everything," said one placard. Other signs urged Congress to "Save Our Homes" and spend "Money for Jobs, Not for War." "You didn't get here a minute too soon," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., told the rally at the Capitol. "There are a number of people in the government that are trying desperately to ignore you." CONYERS SAID DEMOCRATS are as guilty as Republicans. "The Democrats are getting ready to sell out on a compromise jobs program that won't put a million people back to work -- and there are 13 million people out of work in America," he said. The activities, coordinated by unemployment groups in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, started with folk and rock songs adapted for the occasion. The rally also featured a skit in which John and Jane Q. Public, fed up with soup kitchens and living out of their car, decide to fire President Reagan. "Oh Ronnie, what will we do? Will I have to sell the china?" asked a woman playing the role of Nancy Reagan. "GOLLY GEE, MOMMY, I don't know. I've never been in this situation. There must be help for us somewhere," the stand-in president replied, as shouts of "Cheese" arose from the crowd. "There are no jobs in Pittsburgh," or Toledo, Rochester, Lorain, Cleveland, Baltimore or Butler, said worker after worker in the sea of signs on the Capitol steps. "I cashed my last unemployment check yesterday," complained Charles Paknik, an Ohio Valley machinist who said he'd been out of work since 1981. "It used to be, one phone call and I'd get a job. Now I can't even get a dish-washing job," said Paknik, who added he'd been forced to give up his house in Shadyside, Ohio, and move in with his wife's parents in Big Wheeling Creek, W.Va. Mike Ziemianski of Wheeling, W.Va., said he has a master's degree in industrial administration and has been trying unsuccessfully since last summer to find a job. "I've written to 530 companies," he said, displaying a ledger book in which he had charted his job search. "I haven't even had a job interview." Carl Denker of Rochester, N.Y., recruited for an engineering job in Dallas, was in the process of moving when the Dallas firm went bankrupt 15 months ago. Denker said he fell behind on his mortgage payments and, when the bank told him it was going to foreclose, sold the house immediately. "I basically gave it away instead of having the bank foreclose. I lost about $20,000," said Denker, 54. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Rights commissioner sued SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is being sued for more than $100,000 by the San Diego Urban League, which accuses him of removing funds from its bank accounts when he was its executive director. Dr. Walter Miles, the league's chairman, said Thursday the agency hopes to recover more than $10,000 that Clarence Pendleton allegedly paid himself for unused vacation time before he resigned last March 31 to accept the federal post. The suit also seeks $100,000 in punitive damages. Pendleton was sworn in as chairman of the Civil Rights Commission last April 5. The suit, filed in Superior Court, contends Pendleton used league funds for his own benefit and for purposes other than league business. SPRW 3/26/83 === Page 24 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan lawyer's wife slain SP Rev 3/26/83 PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) -- The son of President Reagan's tax lawyer was booked for investigation of murder Friday after his mother's nude, battered body was found in a bedroom of the family home, officials said. Michael David Miller, 20, was taken into custody after an emotional embrace with his father, Roy D. Miller, who has worked with Reagan for about 15 years. Marguerite Miller, 52, appeared to have died from a blow to the head, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Al Sett said. He said the murder weapon had not been determined, but several items were taken from the home as evidence. It was the second domestic tragedy in a family that friends described as extremely close. Michael's older brother, the Millers' only other child, committed suicide in 1981 while undergoing psychiatric treatment. Authorities said Michael, an unemployed health food enthusiast who played the violin, had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression in recent months. The son, Michael David Miller, voluntarily came to the police department here," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Beck. "An interview was conducted with him, at which time he made admissions concerning the death of his mother." Authorities refused to say what those admissions were. Miller, 53, first saw his wife's bloody eyeglasses as he entered the front door of their modest home in this small, exclusive city some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. "He called his wife's name, and when there was no response, he went to a neighbors' house and called the police," said police Sgt. Ed Jaakola. Police found her body in the bedroom, but said Miller never saw his wife's body. Sett said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday afternoon to determine the exact cause of death. Miller, a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, handled the sale of the Reagans' Pacific Palisades home. He is a tax specialist who deals with wills, trusts, probates and estate planning. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Russian diplomat expelled SP Rev 4/1/83 LONDON (AP) -- Britain ordered the expulsions of a Soviet diplomat and journalist Thursday and barred another Kremlin envoy from returning because of "unacceptable activities" -- a phrase the government uses to describe spying. The Foreign Office said assistant air attache Col. Guennadi A. Primakov and second secretary Vladimir V. Ivanov "have engaged in activities incompatible with their status." Primakov was given seven days to leave and the Foreign Office said Ivanov, currently abroad, would not be allowed back. 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Sen. Randolph quitting post after 50 years SP Rev 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jennings Randolph, a New Deal Democrat through a congressional career spanning 50 years and nine presidents, announced Wednesday he's retiring, declaring "there is a season and a time for every purpose." Randolph, the only remaining national legislator to have served during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days, announced he will not seek re-election when his term expires in 1984. # world UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Turin's deputy mayor arrested TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Police have arrested the Socialist deputy mayor of Turin and three other senior local officials on corruption charges in a bribery scandal that threatened to topple the left-wing government. Police said the four officials, all members of the Socialist Party, were suspected of taking bribes in exchange for the awarding of public contracts and the sale of city-owned real estate. The arrests late Saturday night brought to 16 the number of politicians and officials arrested in the scandal. SP Rev 3/14/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Soviet leader poses for photos MOSCOW (AP) -- Yuri V. Andropov met and posed for pictures Friday with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega in an appearance that seemed aimed at ending speculation about the Kremlin chief's health. Soviet sources said Andropov, 68, was hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Malawi rebel leader assassinated HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The leader of a rebel Malawi political party was assassinated and his bullet-riddled body dumped near the center of the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, authorities said Friday. Attati Mpakati, 50, president of the outlawed Socialist League of Malawi known as Lesoma, was last seen alive five days earlier when he arrived in Harare by air from Maputo, Mozambique, the Information Ministry said in a statement. "He did not arrive at the Harare address he had given on immigration papers at the airport," the statement said. It said his body was found Monday by the side of a principal street, Samora Machel Avenue, named after Mozambique's Marxist president. The ministry said he was "assassinated by unknown persons." SP Rev 4/2/83 SP Rev 1/26/83 # Canadian legislator arrested QUEBEC (AP) -- Parti Quebecois legislator Gilles Gregoire was arrested Friday and arraigned on seven charges of "sexual immorality with minors of the female sex." He pleaded innocent. The 56-year-old co-founder of Quebec's governing party was charged under the provincial Youth Protection Act. Sgt. Claude Beaurivage of the Quebec City police force, which arrested Gregoire Friday afternoon at his office, said the charges involve seven girls aged 12 to 17. The offenses allegedly took place between September 1982 and January 1983, in Quebec City and suburban Vanier. Beaurivage said police began investigating after they received a formal complaint from the parents of one of the girls. === Page 25 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet calls new Reagan anti-missile plan 'insane' SPRE-S 3/27/83 MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov attacked President Reagan's anti-missile plans Saturday as an "insane" and "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at rendering the Soviet Union helpless to U.S. nuclear attack. He declared, "The Soviet Union will never allow them to succeed. It will never be caught defenseless by any threat. Let there be no mistake about this in Washington." IF THE UNITED STATES could knock out attacking Soviet missiles, Washington could launch a nuclear first strike and Moscow would be unable to respond, Andropov said in an interview in today's edition of the Communist daily newspaper Pravda. Reagan's plans, announced in a speech Wednesday, represent "a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," the Soviet leader said. "It is time they (the Americans) stop devising one option after another in search of the best ways of unleashing nuclear war in the hope of winning it," he added. IN WASHINGTON, STATE Department press officer Anita Stockman declined to comment directly on Andropov's interpretation of the Reagan speech, saying, "We have clearly stated our position." Referring to earlier Soviet criticism, she noted that Reagan emphasized in his speech that he was outlining a long-term research effort to be carried out "consistent with our obligations under the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty." "The treaty does not prohibit research into ballistic missile defense concepts," Stockman said. "The president foresees this effort taking place on a very broad time scale," she said, noting that Reagan said the task "may not be completed before the end of this century." "At this stage we are only talking about accelerating research into the feasibility of new concepts for ballistic missile defenses," she said. ANDROPOV, NOTING REAGAN'S comments about growing Soviet military strength, said the United States has ample forces and accused the president of pursuing an "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at making the United States "the world's dominating military power." Andropov, who was reported hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems but then held meetings with visiting dignitaries Friday, spoke of Reagan's "impudent distortions of the Soviet Union's policy." He acknowledged the Kremlin's milit... UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'vibrations' lift ban on Beach Boys WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary James Watt hurriedly replaced the capital's welcome mat for the Beach Boys on Thursday after being set straight by one of their favorite "California Girls." And when Nancy Reagan got done, the president himself put a heavy foot to him. Reagan, it seems, is a fan of the surfin' sound as much as his wife. So after learning that Watt had banned the Beach Boys and other rock groups from the capital's July 4 celebration, he handed the Interior Secretary a stark reminder of what happens when your aim is bad: A plaster of paris foot with a hole in it. Watt, who earlier complained that "hard rock" music had attracted the "wrong element" to the traditional fireworks extravaganza on the Mall, proclaimed himself a likely fan of the Beach Boys, whose performances had drawn hundreds of thousands of people in years past. "The president is a friend of the Beach Boys and he likes them, and I'm sure when I get to meet them I'll like them." (Continued on page 2) SPRE-S 4/8/83 Q UFOs attack "higher ups" # Idaho's Rep. Hansen indicted by grand jury SPRE-S 4/18/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Rep. George V. Hansen, the flamboyant Idaho Republican, on charges of failing to disclose financial dealings including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The 52-year-old, seven-term congressman who once undertook a personal mission to Iran to try to free U.S. hostages became the first person ever charged with violating the Ethics in Government Act for making false statements on the financial disclosure forms that law requires. The four-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Washington charged Hansen with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms he filed with the House of Representatives for the years 1978 through 1981. It was not the first time Hansens' finances had landed him in hot water. In 1975 he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of filing late and false campaign finance reports. He received a two-month prison sentence, which was suspended, and paid a $2,000 fine. Specifically, the grand jury charged Thursday that Hansen failed to disclose: * A $50,000 personal loan made to him and his wife, Connie, in her name in 1978 by the First National (Continued on page 7) === Page 26 of 92 Beach boys 4/8/83 (Continued from page 1) Watt said, standing in a drizzling rain after emerging from his session at the White House. He said he still would go ahead with his decision to bring in Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton for this year's main event. As for the Beach Boys, "We'll look forward to having them here to entertain us again, as soon as we can get that worked out." Reagan's chief spokesman, Willie Nelson fan Larry Speakes, suggested a more specific timetable: inviting them back for this July 4. A spokesman for Watt, Tom DeRocco, said later the secretary's remarks were intended as an expression of hope that the Beach Boys could make a July 4 date, but he had not been in touch with the group to issue a formal invitation. The group's rhythm guitarist, Al Jardine, said in Moncton, New Brunswick said he did not believe it had a July 4 engagement, and, "I would sure like to make those plans right around Washington, D.C. if possible." As for the secretary's expression of hope, Jardine said: "That's certainly kind. We'd certainly like to come back and make peace with the administration." Jardine said members of the group opposed Watt's drive to ease acreage off the California coast for oil drilling. Asked if he would accept Watt's apology for the whole episode, Jardine laughed and said, "California's in a delicate position right now. We have to be careful about what we concede." Lead singer Mike Love referred to the foot trophy: "If the shoe fits, wear it." Watt, who has managed to stand off environmentalists, Indians, congressmen and other critics, raised the white flag just hours after it was apparent, in the wake of a flood of protest calls from around the nation, that the Beach Boys still enjoyed Good Vibrations elsewhere in the administration. Presidential aide Michael Deaver was the first to send Watt the White House message. "Anybody who thinks the Beach Boys are hard rock must think Mantovani plays jazz," he declared. He mentioned his wife and children had loved their capital performance. Next came word from Mrs. Reagan: "I like the Beach Boys." And Speakes said he wouldn't be a bit surprised if the president did, too. According to the interior secretary, he then got a call from the first lady. "She said that the Beach Boys were fans of hers, and her children had grown up with them, and they're fine outstanding people, and there should be no intention to indicate that the cause problems." "Which I agree with," Watt added. Radio stations across the country had been deluged with calls criticizing Watt's original decision, and members of Congress had a field day with it. Reagan, in a speech to several thousand Catholic educators, joked, "It's a pleasure to break away from crisis negotiations. You're the first to know this: I've just called in Ambassador Phil Habib to settle the Jim Watt-Beach Boys controversy." By that time, however, the secretary already had eaten crow on the White House lawn. Watt emerged from the Oval Office carrying Reagan's foot-shot trophy. Asked whether he would apologize to the Beach Boys, Watt said, "I don't know that I owe them an apology, but I apologize to anybody that thinks they need one." In the Senate, Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., invited the Beach Boys to perform at a July 4th charity concert in Kansas. UF De attack "higher ups" Speer 4/11/83 Leading Demo liberal is dead SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Phillip Burton, 56, an environmental champion and Democratic liberal in Congress since 1964, died Sunday after complaining of back pains. Burton was stricken in his local residence in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel just before midnight Saturday. Officials said the death was from natural causes. Burton, a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in California since the 1950s, was regarded as one of the shrewdest of the state's politicians. A friend of labor, Burton often was described as coming close to being a "political boss" in the conduct of his district. In his own San Francisco district, Burton's greatest accomplishment was regarded as the formation in 1972 of the 35,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area. === Page 27 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Protesters greet Reagan Sp Rev 4/7/83 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- President Reagan, taking his pitch for high technology job retraining amongst a sea of unemployed steelworkers, ran into one of the largest protest demonstrations of his presidency Wednesday. After a tour of the Control Data Institute, where 125 jobless steelworkers are being trained to repair computers, Reagan spoke to the National Conference on the Dislocated Worker while thousands stood outside in a cold rain waving signs and chanting. "Reagan, Reagan, he's no good. Send him back to Hollywood," they said. Among the banners: "Reagans Friends Get Tax Breaks. Steelworkers Get Pink Slips." And: "Buck Stopped Here When Ronald Reagan Took Office." The president, whisked into the hotel through an underground garage, could see only a smattering of the crowd, which police estimated at 3,500. But he acknowledged that he was in hostile territory when he departed from his text to say, "I come to you not only as a speaker but as a possible victim." He noted that many at the bipartisan gathering might like to see him dislocated from his job. "We as a nation owe an obligation as well as a helping hand to those who pay the price of economic readjustment," the president said in the prepared part of his speech. "Government -- federal, state and local -- should provide support for job training and re-employment assistance." As the president was speaking, several hundred protesters stormed one entrance to the hotel, hoping to confront him. They were kept back by city police, some with dogs. No arrests were reported, although two policemen carried a woman from the crowd and put her in a patrol van. (Continued on page 2) # Protesters- Reagan was taken inside the hotel through an underground parking area, beating the crowd who screamed, "Reagan is a coward!" Anger and skepticism were evident in the computer classroom as well as on the street outside the conference hotel. UFOs attack "higher ups" AP photo Rep. Stokes, right, is congratulated by his brother, former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, after making statement. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Sp Rev 4/7/83 ## Disease center boss resigns ATLANTA (AP) -- Dr. William H. Foege, brought in to head the National Centers for Disease Control amid controversy six years ago, announced his resignation Wednesday with a "sense of accomplishment" and an eagerness to tackle new tasks at the agency. In a letter to Dr. Edward N. Brandt, assistant U.S. secretary for health, Foege, a Chewelah, Wash., native, asked for "approval to shift responsibilities" and leave his post as director. Foege, 47, said no pressure or policy conflicts contributed to his decision. "I'm not quitting with a sense of frustration," he said in an interview. "I just decided it's time for a change." Sp Rev 4/12/83 # Ethics boss claims racism led to drunkenness charge CLEVELAND (AP) -- Rep. Louis B. Stokes, chairman of the House Ethics Committee, on Monday denied he was drunk when stopped by Maryland police for an alleged traffic violation, and blamed the allegation on racism. "I have been patently aware that I am a black man in a predominately white society," the Ohio Democrat said at a news conference at a Baptist church. "I always knew that someday racism and bigotry in the media would raise its ugly head against me." Stokes was stopped by police in the Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., early March 25. Stokes denied that he requested congressional immunity from arrest. "If the Montgomery County police have a case, they ought to charge me and take me to court. I waive immunity," Stokes said. === Page 28 of 92 Jury charges analyst with selling secrets 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury charged a retired Defense Department intelligence analyst Thursday with selling, for $32,000, secret U.S. reports about the Middle East to Libya and ex-CIA Agent Edwin P. Wilson. Waldo H. Dubberstein, 75, who retired as a Middle East specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency in March, 1982, was named in a seven-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in suburban Alexandria, Va. He was charged with bribery, conspiracy to defraud the government, disclosing secret and top-secret information and concealing his alleged Libyan contacts from Pentagon security officers. Dubberstein is the first person charged in the Wilson affair for actions taken while he was employed by the U.S. government. The grand jury said Dubberstein traveled secretly to Tripoli, Libya, under an assumed name in the spring of 1978 where he allegedly met four or five times with Libyan intelligence officers to discuss the deployment of military forces in the Middle East. At the time, Dubberstein was responsible for DIA reports on Libya and Egypt, among other countries, and was cleared to see top-secret material and Sensitive Compartmented Information, which is primarily ultra-secret material gathered by U.S. electronic spying. Justice Department spokesman John Russell said Dubberstein had worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 to 1971 before he resigned and moved to the Pentagon. The indictment, quoting Defense Department regulations, said his position was designated "critical sensitive," which means that he "could bring about... a material adverse effect on the national security." Former President Jimmy Carter has said in his memoirs that during this period Egypt, a U.S. ally, and Libya, its radical North African neighbor run by Moammar Khadafy, came close to armed conflict. === Page 29 of 92 WFOs attack Hansen calls charges 'trumped-up' Sp Res 4/16/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. George V. Hansen pleaded innocent Friday to charges of concealing financial information and accused the Justice Department of bringing a "phony and trumped-up" case to court. The Idaho Republican had little to say during a 15-minute arraignment, but turned defiant afterward as he stood in the rain outside the U.S. District Court building. He bitterly accused the Justice Department of persecuting him for his political stands and said he properly filed with the House the financial disclosure forms he's accused of falsifying. "If you want to know how phony and trumped-up these charges are, just ask yourself how a Justice Department bureaucrat can make an intelligent decision on congressional report filing when they've never seen the inside of the ethics committee files and can't for sure know what any congressman or senator really has done," Hansen told reporters. The four-count indictment against Hansen was returned by a federal grand jury April 7, the first indictment ever brought under the financial disclosure provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Hansen was charged with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms from 1978 through 1981, including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. During the 15-minute arraignment before U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green, Hansen's attorney, Frank A.S. Campbell, said the case presents "complex and novel issues of law and facts." Campbell said he would file a motion to dismiss the indictment, adding that in his view the Justice Department was violating the principle of separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. Mrs. Green gave Campbell until May 2 to file his pre-trial motions and tentatively set a June 20 trial date. In his brief news conference under a circle of umbrellas, Hansen noted that he has fought what he called Internal Revenue Service intrusion in citizen's lives -- and speculated his political stand was linked to the indictment. "Maybe this is a good day, April 15 (the tax-filing deadline), to note what can happen to anyone who aggressively tries to protect the rights of private citizens against abusive practices of the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department," he said. A written statement handed out to reporters said the department "proceeds against me under a defective theory of law which attempts to criminalize the financial reporting system governing Congress, a system which in fact is to be administered and enforced primarily and exclusively by Congress." "Many of my colleagues agree that in trying to apply the criminal law here beyond its legitimate bounds, the Justice Department is attempting to intimidate Congress itself. With the issuance of this indictment, it has fallen to my hands to defend the constitutionally based independence of Congress from this attack by the executive." WFOs attack "higher up" France ousts suspected Soviet spies Sp Res 4/6/83 PARIS (AP) -- In the biggest spy sweep in French history, France's left-wing government Tuesday expelled about 50 Soviet diplomats and officials for trying to steal military secrets. The Soviet Embassy called the expulsions an unjustified political act by the government of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, and said France would have to bear the negative consequences. The Interior Ministry would not state the exact number of Soviets who hastily left the country on a special plane sent from Moscow. French news reports said 47 Soviet officials were involved, including the third-ranking official at the Soviet Embassy. They said 40 deportees were diplomats, two were journalists and five were officials with Soviet commercial institutions in Paris. The Interior Ministry said the Soviets were deported because of "systematic" espionage activities "particularly in the military domain." The French purge put a serious strain on French-Soviet relations, which have been steadily deteriorating since the election victory two years ago of Mitterrand's Socialists. Mitterrand has four Communists in his Cabinet, making France the only major West European country with Communist ministers. (Continued on page 12) === Page 30 of 92 D Reds attack "higher ups" # Dellums named in drug case Sp Rev 4/16/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former House employee told authorities he obtained drugs for Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-Calif., and two lie-detector tests indicated he was telling the truth, a federal magistrate and a prosecutor revealed Friday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Bernstein told a court hearing the tests were administered to Robert Yesh by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the House ethics committee. The DEA and the House panel are investigating drug use on Capitol Hill by congressional employees and possibly by members of Congress. Bernstein mentioned the polygraph tests during the sentencing for Yesh, who earlier pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges. The 13-year former employee of the House doorkeeper's office received one year in prison and three years' probation for one cocaine possession count and a second count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. Bernstein filed court papers that include a cooperation agreement between Yesh and prosecutors that said, "Robert Yesh admits that at the request of a U.S. congressman and his aide, Robert Yesh has personally supplied them in the past with small quantities of cocaine and marijuana at the U.S. Capitol. Robert Yesh also admits to other personal knowledge of drug trafficking by another senior congressional aide and other employees at the U.S. Capitol." During the sentencing, U.S. Magistrate Arthur L. Burnett identified the congressman as Dellums and the aide as John Apperson, legislative assistant to Dellums. The magistrate said that Yesh's involvement with drug dealing on Capitol Hill "gives this court some concern as to how many members of Congress may be using cocaine or drugs." ② # Teamster boss will resign next week to avoid prison CHICAGO (AP) -- An ailing Roy L. Williams agreed Friday to resign his $225,000-a-year job as Teamsters union president next week to remain out of prison while appealing a conviction for conspiring to bribe a senator. U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall said he would stay a provisional 55-year sentence after the union leader's attorney assured the judge Williams would submit his resignation to the court Tuesday. It would become effective by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Williams, who suffers from severe emphysema, had been hospitalized at Park Lane Medical Center in Kansas City on Tuesday with severe breathing problems. But a few hours after the ruling, Williams was released and headed for his farm home southeast of Kansas City, according to James Berry, president of the hospital. The government had sought an immediate resignation, but defense attorney Raymond Larroca asked for the added time so Williams could step down at a Teamsters executive board meeting next Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz. "There is no real danger," Larroca said, adding that Williams wanted "to say goodbye to his friends and leave with a minimum of dignity" after being a union member for 45 years. Larroca said that even though Williams did not attend Friday's hearing he had approved the text of his resignation agreement over the telephone. The agreement was reached on what the government's chief prosecutor called, "a day of reckoning" for Williams, 68, who had been ordered to report to a federal prison hospital by the end of the day. Douglas Roller, chief of the Justice Department's Chicago Strike Force, said after the hearing that he was satisfied with Marshall's order. It bars Williams from any participation in the affairs of the Teamsters and affiliated agencies between now and when the resignation takes effect. WILLIAMS ③ # Finland expels Korean envoy HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- North Korea's ambassador has been ordered expelled from Finland, allegedly for trying to bribe the speaker of Parliament with $5,000 tucked into a bouquet of flowers. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alek Aalto said the government decided Thursday that Ambassador Yu Jae Han must go but set no deadline for his departure. Government sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said Yu had been trying to prevent the International Parliamentary Union from holding its next general meeting in Seoul, capital of South Korea. They said his activities were disclosed to authorities by Johannes Virolainen, who was president of the union and speaker of Parliament before losing his parliamentary seat in national elections last month. Reds attack "higher ups" # Austria shifts to right; chancellor plans to quit Sp Rev 4/25/83 VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A shift to the right in Austria's parliamentary elections Sunday cost the governing Socialists their absolute majority and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky announced he would resign after 13 years in office. The 72-year-old Kreisky, the longest-serving leader in Western Europe, said he would remain as leader of the Socialist Party, however, and stay on as caretaker chancellor to conduct negotiations with the other parties in the 183-seat National Council, or parliament. The People's Party led by Alois Mock took at least four seats from the Socialists. During the campaign, Kreisky said he would not form a coalition government if his party failed to hold its majority control. According to state television projections, the Socialists will have no more than 91 seats in Parliament, compared with their current 95, while the People's Party added at === Page 31 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Defense chief quits Salvadoran regime SpRes 4/19/83 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia resigned Monday as defense minister, ending a bitter power struggle with some commanders who accused him of bungling the war against left-wing guerrillas. Garcia, 49, summoned reporters as rumors circulated that he would step down and told them: "I always thought that one day I would hold a news conference for you with only one question asked and one answer given. This question has an answer: Yes. I believe you understand what I'm referring to." In the latest armed forces feud, the air force commander, Col. Juan Rafael Bustillo, threatened last week to refuse Defense Ministry orders unless Garcia resigned. Last January, Col. Sigifredo Ochoa Perez, considered one of the army's best combat leaders, staged a six-day mutiny with his 1,200 soldiers in northern Cabanas province. The rebellion ended when Ochoa agreed to go to the Salvadoran Embassy in Washington as military attache. Military sources said at the time that, as part of the compromise settlement, Garcia had pledged to resign in three months. President Alvaro Magana accepted Garcia's resignation and named Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, commander of the national guard, to head the Defense Ministry, a presidential aide said. The aide, Francisco Jose Guerrero, said the Constituent Assembly still had to ratify the president's choice. Military sources said the 44-year-old Vides Casanova has a reputation as a tough administrator. Garcia told the news conference he had tendered his resignation to Magana on March 18, but the president did not act on it until Monday. "I hope the president continues with a team that supports the democratic process, which is the country's salvation," Garcia said. "What worries me is that the people might be defrauded, because the people deserve more than has been given them." He called for armed forces unity and expressed hope that the government would follow through with its pledge to hold elections. Elections had been scheduled for March 1984, but Magana, at the urging of President Reagan, recently announced they would be held this December. **A message from Garcia.** UFO attack "higher ups" # U.S. diplomat expelled ## Kremlin says he was caught with radio used for espionage MOSCOW (AP) -- The Kremlin ordered the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat Thursday and charged he was caught "red handed" in Moscow with radio equipment used for spying. The U.S. Embassy confirmed that that Richard W. Osborne, a first secretary in the economic section, had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government and was making preparations to leave the country with his wife and two young daughters. His departure date was not known. Embassy spokesman Frank Tonini said he had "no comment" on the substance of the Soviet allegations against Osborne, and the diplomat was not available for comment. In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes declined comment, saying, "We don't have anything on that." Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, said that Osborne "was detained red-handed in Moscow on March 7, this year, while working with espionage radio apparatus." "Confiscated from him was a set of portable intelligence special-purpose apparatus for the transmission of espionage information via the U.S. Marisat communications satellites, and his own notes which were written in a pad made of paper quickly soluble in water, and which exposed Osborne's espionage activities," Izvestia said. The report also was distributed by the official Tass news agency and read on Soviet evening television news. Izvestia provided no details about Osborne's detention and the embassy refused all comment. SpRes 3/11/83 === Page 32 of 92 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., April 29, 1983, Spokane, Wash. Note: Below is symbolic! It shows that U.S. military is "grounded" and helpless if my UFOs stop them. Owens The USS Enterprise gets help from tugs in San Francisco Bay Thursday afternoon. AP photo UFO Project (Note: Symbolic) Grounded Navy carrier freed S-P Rev 4/29/83 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Just a mile from home after eight months at sea, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise ran aground Thursday on a sandbar in San Francisco Bay before high tide and tugboats pushed it free. After more than five hours in the grip of shifting sand, the ship was freed at 3:25 p.m. PDT and headed toward port to the cheers of hundreds of onlookers, according to Master Chief Delmar Messer. As high tide reached the listing, stranded warship, tugs rocked and pivoted the ship as if it were "a car stuck in mud," said Petty Officer Ron Ostarello. "You have to rock it back and forth to get it free." Some of the estimated 6,000 officers and crew gathered on the low side and water was added as ballast in an effort to help the dozen tugboats pulling and pushing the huge vessel. No planes were aboard when the ship struck the sandbar at the entrance to the Alameda harbor area. The Enterprise is commanded by Capt. Robert J. Kelly, but was under the control of harbor pilots at the time of the incident. "We don't know why it happened," said Senior Chief Petty Officer Fred Larsen, asked to explain the situation. "The skipper is ultimately responsible for what happens aboard his ship, but there'll be an investigation to determine who, if anyone, is responsible." It was the fourth Navy accident in eight months in northern California. Hundreds of reunions were spoiled by the snafu. Mascara ran and fancy clothes hung limply in a slow drizzle as about 1,000 people, many of them wives waiting for sailor husbands, stood on the dock. UFO Project (Carolyn) Jet crashes at Navy's secret weapons center DAHLGREN, Va. (AP) -- A Navy jet crashed Thursday at the Navy's high security Dahlgren Surface Weapons Center, a Navy spokesman said. Amos Clary, a civilian spokesman for the center, said he understood there were injuries but no deaths. He declined to give any details, saying all information was being handled through Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, where the plane was based. Dahlgren lies along the Virginia side of the Potomac River about 40 miles south of Washington. Note: Carolyn Valentine, mechanic on these planes at this secret weapons center, was my pupil! I trained her when she flew to me at Vancouver! Owens === Page 33 of 92 U For Sun Attack 4/21/83 # Seeking the sun? Look away, Dixie Associated Press Temperatures plunged to record lows Wednesday in at least two dozen cities from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast for the third straight day. It made ice cubes of millions of young peaches and apples hanging on the trees in the Deep South, where Atlanta and other cities were colder than Anchorage, Alaska, which had a low of 32. (In sharp contrast with much of the nation, Spokane enjoyed a pleasant 69 for a high.) The worst Dixie freeze ever so late in the (Continued on page 3) # Cold- 4/21/83 (Continued from page 1) season wiped out fruit and vegetable crops from the Carolinas to Arkansas while a lingering storm stalled spring in the Northeast Wednesday with up to 18 inches of snow. Snow fell for a second day from Maryland across eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and eastern New York, causing numerous traffic accidents, resulting in at least two deaths. In Georgia, where temperatures dipped as low as 12 degrees in the northern part of the state, Gov. Joe Frank Harris asked state and federal officials to survey the damage to peach and apple orchards as the first step in seeking federal crop disaster relief. It was 30 degrees in Atlanta, setting a low record for the date for the third straight day. In Augusta, Ga., the mercury hit 27, and in Athens, Ga., it was 28. In North Carolina, it was 27 in Asheville, 28 in Charlotte and Raleigh, and 30 in Wilmington. Other Deep South cities reporting records included Nashville, Tenn., 26; Chattanooga, Tenn., 28, Huntsville, Ala., 30; and Charleston, S.C., 31. Tim Mercier of Blue Ridge, chairman of the Georgia Apple Commodity Commission, said about 75 percent of the north Georgia apple crop appeared to be lost. "They will only have enough apples left for roadside sales this fall," said state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin. Butch Ferree, head of the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service's horticulture department, said peach growers in the northern third of the state were "devastated." "We probably won't pick a peck of peaches above Interstate 20," Ferree said. As for the consumer, Ferree said, "If summer ever comes, you'll find peaches, but at a slightly higher price." In North Carolina, peach grower Bobby Fryar of McLeansville tried to save the 2,000 trees in his orchard by spraying water to form a protective coating of ice, but he said it didn't work because it didn't warm enough during the day to melt the ice. record lows" low record for date for the third straight day" "Atlanta and other cities were colder than Anchorage, Alaska" "The worst Dixie freeze ever" "If summer ever comes" === Page 34 of 92 "record lows" "60 cities" "never had snow fallen so late" WAS Sun Attack SYRES 4/20/83 # Snow buries Northeast's spring flowers Associated Press A freak April snowstorm sacked spring again Tuesday, crushing blossoming flowers under a foot of snow in the Northeast, while the mercury tumbled to record lows in nearly 60 cities from Chicago to Savannah, Ga. Out West, officials were keeping an eye on a 1½-mile lake created when a mountain collapsed into Spanish Fork Canyon and blocked a river, routing all 22 families from the railroad community of Thistle, Utah, and threatening to unleash a 150-foot wall of water on another town should the mud dam give way. Snow fell on the 30th day of spring in scattered areas from Arkansas to Maine, with heavy accumulations in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and southern New England. Never had snow fallen so late in the season in parts of Arkansas and New Jersey. Snow coming down as fast as 2 inches an hour was blown into waist-high drifts in places, causing numerous accidents on the highways. A snowplow even skidded off the road at Bennington, Vt. The New England coast was pounded with a "typical nor'easter," gale winds up to 40 mph. About half a foot of snow was expected in the New York City area, where fat, wet flakes started pouring down shortly after dawn. In Pamona, N.J., near Atlantic City, Bud Dietzmann, a weather specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration, said, "This is the latest we've ever had accumulation, a measurable amount." "It's almost like Christmas out the window now," said state police Sgt. Kenneth Stone at the Shelburne Falls barracks in western Massachusetts where about a foot of snow had fallen in some areas. It startled some Southerners not accustomed to much of the white stuff anytime, much less in late April. === Page 35 of 92 UFO attack (Sun) # California coast gone with wind? SPRes 3/11/83 New York Times LOS ANGELES -- The tropical storms that swept scores of homes into the Pacific Ocean and closed parts of the scenic oceanside highway this winter have fundamentally eroded long stretches of the California coast. Some marine scientists say the state has entered a period of intense weather, confirmed and accelerated by this winter's storms, that will slice deeper and deeper into California's coastline of more than 1,000 miles until many beaches have been washed into the sea. "We are on an eroding coastline," says Dr. Douglas L. Inman, director of the Center for Coastal Studies of Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego and the leading proponent of the view that many California beaches are doomed. Not all specialists in the field share his view, but most agree that the state's shoreline has been receding since 1978. And they say that over the last 30 years, when most development along its coast occurred, California was experiencing an atypical period of very mild weather. They say it is foolhardy for the federal government to foster home-building on the coast through subsidized flood insurance and low-interest disaster loans after storms. For years, Easterners have joked that someday part of California would fall into the sea because of a giant earthquake. The long-predicted earthquake hasn't happened, but the sea is slowly chipping away at the state's golden energy, and many scientists say it is a relentless process. This year was caused by a storm in January and another last week that hammered the shore with waves up to 16 feet high. From San Diego to points north of San Francisco, beaches have disappeared, the sand carried into the ocean by powerful tides. Roads and beach parking lots have been washed away. Piers that had stood for decades are gone. On Thursday, residents of Big Sur, a coastal village about 125 miles south of San Francisco, were carefully watching a huge chunk of rain-soaked mountain that has shifted toward the sea. The section of earth -- a quarter-mile long, 300 feet wide and 100 feet high -- moved about six feet Wednesday, dropping onto California Route 1, the Coastal Highway. That scenic road, often closed by winter storms, is also blocked about 25 miles to the south. Geologists said it would be two or three days before they knew whether the piece of mountain had stabilized or posed a danger to nearby residents. Thirty miles north of Big Sur, in Carmel, which has long boasted of having one of the most scenic white sand beaches in America, the beach is gone, covered by the sea. In Del Mar, a town of 5,000 near San Diego, 68 oceanfront homes and five other buildings were damaged by waves last week, while the depth of sand on the beach has been eroded by as much as 20 feet. Here in Los Angeles, the surf now laps over vast areas of beaches where, a few weeks ago, lifeguard stations stood and bathers sunned themselves. Coastal erosion has been a fact of life for decades along the East Coast -- in New Jersey, in North Carolina and elsewhere. "the latest spring freeze on record" -- "record low temperatures" UFO Sun Attack SPRes 4/22/83 # More fruit, vegetable crops are ruined by cold in South Associated Press The latest spring freeze on record wiped out more fruit and vegetable crops across the Deep South on Thursday, and officials warned that peach prices were likely to double. For the fourth consecutive day, record low temperatures were set across the Southeast. It was at least 10 degrees colder in parts of Dixie than in Fairbanks, Alaska -- just 150 miles from the Arctic Circle -- as temperatures dropped into the 20s across the Carolinas, northern Georgia and Tennessee, with sub-freezing records also posted in northern Alabama. The freeze has killed millions of dollars worth of peaches, apples, strawberries, tomatoes, blueberries, tobacco and eggplants across the Southeast and in pockets of Illinois and Indiana. Some farmers tried to save their orchards by burning old tires, piping heated water around their plants, covering them with plastic or spraying them with water which froze, insulating them from frost. Throughout South Carolina, which produces three times as many fresh market peaches as Georgia and leads the nation, officials estimated that at least half the $60 million crop had been destroyed. In the Ridge and Piedmont areas of the state, loss approached 90 percent. In Georgia, agriculture officials said the peach crop in the entire northern half of the state was damaged and North Carolina officials said at least 98 percent of that state's $10 million crop was wiped out. UFO Sun Attack # Western Greece shaken ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A moderate earthquake shook western Greece on Friday but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the Athens Seismological Service reported. It said the quake was centered 171 miles west-northwest of Athens in the Ionian seabed off the island of Lefkas. The service said the tremor registered 4.6 on the Richter scale of ground motion, meaning it was capable of causing damage in the local area. SPRes 4/2/83 UFO Sun Attack SPRes 4/19/83 # Mudslides continue to grow, menacing towns THISTLE, Utah (AP) -- A mudslide that has created a 1½-mile-long reservoir which washed out this tiny railroad town continued to grow Monday, breaking a pipe being laid to siphon the rising water, officials said. Another mudslide began Monday in Payson Canyon, parallel to the one in Spanish Fork Canyon. "That (Payson Canyon slide) has every bit as much potential as this does," said Utah County Sheriff's Lt. Gary Clayton. Clayton said geologists were worried the new slide would back up Payson Creek, creating a danger if it broke and sent water cascading into the city of Payson, at the canyon's mouth about three miles away. UFO Sun Attack # Flooding continues in South Associated Press A stubborn storm postponed spring with up to 2 feet of snow Wednesday from the Mexican border to Minnesota and flooded the Deep South with as much as 10 inches of rain that drove some people to the rooftops. Hundreds of people in the Mississippi Valley from Illinois and Missouri to Louisiana and Mississippi were driven from their homes by rivers overflowing near record levels. Many highways were awash in floodwaters and many schools closed while tornadoes danced through Dixie and baseball-size hail bombarded Natchez, Miss. SPRes 4/7/83 === Page 36 of 92 # Good Morning. ## Today is SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1983. In the news: A 13-month-old boy's **second** transplanted liver in 10 days appears to be working better than the first (Page A3) . . . The Great Salt Lake, swollen by **record** rainfall, is **swallowing** beaches and growing larger (Page D16) . . . The aborted **Soviet** manned space flight appears to have been a **close call** (Page A14) . . . Former Olympic **swimming** champion and actor **Buster Crabbe** is dead at 75 (Page A4) . . . An expanded news briefing appears on Page A2. UFOs Sun Attack SPRes # Great Salt Lake is becoming greater SPRes 4/24/84 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Great Salt Lake, swollen by record rainfall and the spring runoff of melted snow, is swallowing beaches and lapping against dikes in a slow-motion disaster that may cost $60 million in damage. The 75-mile long, 50-mile wide lake is expected to reach 4,204 feet above sea level in June -- its highest level in 62 years. Earlier, authorities predicted a peak of 4,203 feet and $30 million in damage. The extra foot of water has doubled the damage estimate. The lake, a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville, which covered parts of Utah, Idaho and Nevada 12,000 years ago, has no natural outlet and depends on evaporation to rid itself of excess water. That makes a forecast of precipitation for this week even more unwelcome. "Beginning Sunday, we'll have three to four days of rain and snow," said Gerald Williams, National Weather Service hydrologist. "It will have a significant effect. Not only does it contribute precipitation, but it slows evaporation." J. Stanley Elmer, field operations planner with the state Lands and Forestry Division, warned the lake could go even higher than 4,204 feet. "We've got lots of water up there in the mountains and lots more to come down," Elmer said. State officials have estimated damage could reach $150 million if the shallow lake, which averaged 35 feet in depth, topped 4,205 feet above sea level. The Department of Natural Resources is studying several ideas to stem the flooding, including a scheme to pump water into the state's western desert. But none of the projects could be completed in time to stop this year's crisis. On the west shore of the lake, beaches at Great Salt Lake Marina and Saltair Resort are inundated. Dune buggy rental and snack shops are islands. Utah Lake State Park has been closed, and damage there could reach $3 million. Meanwhile, the lake creeps closer to Interstate 80, Utah's main east-west artery, and batters dikes protecting wildlife sites. "record rainfall" "it's highest level in 62 years" === Page 37 of 92 Peak erupts TOKYO (AP) -- Mount Asama erupted early Friday, spewing columns of fire and ash and setting off a minor tremor, officials of the Central Meteorological Agency said. There were no reports of casualties from the eruption. The volcano, 88 miles west of Tokyo, erupted April 26 and Dec. 2 last year. SPRES 4/10/83 UFOs Sun Attack AP photo moke rises from Mount Asama er Friday's eruption. The 8,330-foot vol- no, 88 miles west of Tokyo, spewed ash over the Kanto district. UFOs Sun Attack SPRES 4/10/83 world ① ② UFOs Sun Attack Town prays to halt lava NICOLOSI, Sicily (AP) -- Townspeople marched in a religious procession Saturday to ask their patron saint for protection against rivers of lava from Mount Etna's latest eruption. The town is six miles from the most advanced point of the lava, which began flowing three weeks ago. The marchers prayed to St. Agatha to halt the destructive flow and carried a veil believed to have belonged to her. The march ended in a chapel built to honor St. Agatha after another lava flow stopped in 1866 following a similar procession. The latest lava flow has destroyed or damaged several buildings and cut a highway. But it has caused no injuries, and experts say there is no immediate danger to Nicolosi or other population centers. ③ UFOs Sun Attack A river of lava flows from erupting Kilauea Volcano. Hawaii's Kilauea calms down VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Kilauea, the world's most active volcano, was quiet Sunday morning after an eruption that forced the third evacuation so far this year of this area's 150 residents. "It's too early to say the eruption is over, but it's certainly stopped for now," said Jon Erickson, spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Harmonic tremor, which indicates the underground movement of molten rock and is a key indicator of possible activity, was at a low level, said Ken Yamashita, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Observatory. Inflation at the volcano's summit had increased, indicating that magma, or molten rock, was not draining into a rift zone on the volcano's eastern side. That zone is is 3.6 miles from the affected Royal Gardens subdivision. === Page 38 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack SpRev 3/4/83 AP photo Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano moves down Queen Street in Kalapana, a heavily forested subdivision. The house at the bottom of the photo was later buried by the lava, one of two that have been destroyed during the eruption which began a week ago. Eight or nine other homes are in the lava's path. No injuries have been reported. nation UFOs Sun Attack Kilauea erupts again SpRev 3/29/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Lava fountains up to 90 feet high were pouring from a 200-foot-long fissure in Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano on Monday, scientists said. The fountaining, just inside the the boundary of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, was in the volcano's east rift zone, which has been erupting sporadically since Jan. 3, said Jon Erickson, a park ranger. The latest eruption has produced a 600-foot lava flow into a nearby forest area, Erickson said. No developed property was threatened by the new lava flow, he said. UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Sun., April 10, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Volcano calm; lava flow continues SpRev 4/10/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Kilauea volcano fell silent Saturday, but lava from its latest eruption continued flowing through a remote hillside subdivision where it destroyed several homes, authorities said. "We can't really say the eruption is over," said Jon Erickson, spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "When it stops it stops." About 150 residents of the Royal Gardens subdivision, routed Friday and Saturday for the third time since the volcano began its eruption Jan. 3, had been ordered evacuated Friday as an 18-foot high, 900-foot-wide wall of lava approached their homes on the volcano's slopes. But a vent in the volcano fell silent Saturday morning, and the level of activity dropped to its lowest point since Jan. 3, Erickson said. Roadblocks were lifted and residents were allowed back home. Five structures were destroyed overnight by lava, Erickson said, and a sixth -- a model home for the subdivision -- was "totally isolated, surrounded by lava, there is no way to get to it." No other homes appeared to be immediately threatened. Police and Civil Defense officials gave reporters a tour of the subdivision where burning boulders crashed from the top of the wall of lava and disintegrated as they slowly moved forward. The lava moved so fast Friday night that civil defense officials ordered all observers in the subdivision, even scientists, to stay one block from the front edge of the flow, said Officer Duane Rapoza of the emergency command at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "It's quite a spectacular show, we can see the river flowing down the road from where we are sitting," Rapoza said. UFOs Sun Attack Hawaii volcano erupts SpRev 2/15/83 VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Simmering Kilauea Volcano bubbled to life again Monday with lava fountains bursting 20 feet into the air. The activity along a 100-yard vent was the first eruption since a two-week series of eruptions ended Jan. 18, according to Reggie Okamura, acting scientist-in-charge of the U.S. Geological Survey at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Like last month's eruptions, which featured spectacular curtains of lava measuring more than 200 feet high, Monday's eruption on the island of Hawaii was located in a remote section of the volcano's east rift zone, Okamura said. UFOs Sun Attack Kilauea eruption continues VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano continued to pour a steady stream of lava into a remote forested area Friday, and fountains shooting more than 300 feet in the air could be seen nearly 10 miles away. SpRev 2/12/83 === Page 39 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # No talk about spring in much of the nation Associated Press SpRev 4/18/83 Heavy, wet snow snapped power lines and caused traffic accidents Sunday in New England, while temperatures in the Upper Midwest dipped to record lows and rain brought minor flooding to the Northeast. A city employee in Connecticut was still missing Sunday after apparently being swept into a storm sewer by runoff from a downpour Saturday, police said. UP TO 26 INCHES of snow fell on the mountain areas of central Vermont, and 17,000 residents were without power Sunday. Power lines also broke under heavy snow in southern Michigan, and as many as 15,000 customers lost power. In Slidell, La., the Pearl River crested above the flood stage for the second time in a week, but no new damage was expected. About 700 homes near Slidell were flooded last week, some to the roofs. "It's just going to keep water where it is a little longer. We're not expecting any new flooding," said St. Tammany Parish deputy Roxie Buras. The nearest gauge, in the upriver town of Pearl River, showed the river crested Saturday at 17.9 feet, 5.9 feet above the flood stage. On April 10, the river crested at 21.2 feet. A 13-YEAR-OLD Ft. Washington, Md. boy drowned after falling off a log into a rain-swollen creek. Christopher Cason was missing since Saturday, when he was swept into Henson's Creek in Oxon Hill, Md. A downpour Saturday dumped up to 3.7 inches of rain in Connecticut and Stamford police believe a public works employee was swept into a storm sewer culvert while he and another worker were clearing a storm drain. Police said Samuel L. Williams, 41, was still missing Sunday. "Record lows" FO "Unusual winter around the world" UFOs Sun Attack "mysteriously" # Adult birds on island vanish; chicks starve SpRev 3/15/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost the entire adult population of sea birds on Christmas Island in the Pacific has mysteriously disappeared, leaving thousands of chicks behind to starve to death, scientists disclosed Monday. Researchers said unusual weather changes may have caused the millions of birds to abandon the island, the first such massive disappearance of a total bird population ever recorded on a tropical atoll. Dr. Ralph W. Schreiber, curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, said about 17 million birds representing 18 species either abandoned the island or perished. The sudden departure, which occurred between Schreiber's visits to the island in June and November of last year, was particularly devastating to the thousands of nestlings who starved to death after being left behind. Some bird species will lose at least an entire generation because of the disruption, Schreiber said. "What has happened there was a real shock and a catastrophe when put in the context of the breeding biology of these species," he said. The disappearance occurred during an unusual weather phenomenon known as El Nino, which results in a change in Pacific wind patterns, ocean currents and water temperatures. "This weather, which has resulted in an unusual winter around the world, is responsible for shifts in fish populations and changes in the habits of animals depending upon these fish, he said. Schreiber said in a telephone interview that many of the birds may be living in the air above more distant waters, waiting for weather conditions to change before returning to Christmas Island. The birds, which feed exclusively on fish and squid, are well adapted to spend most of their lives living within air currents and swooping down occasionally to feed, he said. "There are other islands nearby, but they are 60 to 100 miles away," Schreiber said. "Under normal conditions, birds from one island do not go to other islands and there is no reason to go to another island even in an emergency." The majority of the birds involved, mostly sooty terns and wedge-tailed shearwaters, have long life spans and are not in danger of dying out because of the breeding disruption, Schreiber said. UFOs Sun Attack # Odd fish drawn to warm waters off California SpRev 2/21/83 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Unusually warm Pacific waters off the coast of Southern California are drawing varieties of marine life that don't normally winter here, scientists say. As evidence, scientists and fishermen report sights of seahorses off Huntington Beach this month, marlin near San Diego last month, jumbo squid and anchovies spawning along the coast, red crabs as far north as Santa Barbara, and yellowtail near Los Angeles. Scientists say these species are hundreds of miles north of their usual habitat, drawn by ocean temperatures 3 to 5 degrees above normal last month. "It seems that we're in the middle of a warm-water cycle," said Herb Frey, senior marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. "The last time we experienced this was between 1957 and 1959." Referring to sightings of marlin and red crab, Frey said Tuesday, "This is indicative of the type of critter we'll be seeing. There will be a lot of oddballs out there." UFOs Sun Attack "Unusual" # Jellyfish invaders in Puget Sound SEATTLE (AP) -- A growing eight-mile-long mass of tiny dark-brown jellyfish has invaded the waters of Puget Sound, prompting reports that an oil slick was about to wash up on beaches, authorities say. Scientists say the concentration of the thumb-sized, bell-shaped animals is unusual and probably indicates rapid proliferation in a water pocket with near-ideal conditions of temperature and plankton on which to feed. "It was reported as an oil spill" on Wednesday, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael Rodrigues in Seattle. "We went out to investigate and it turned out to be jellyfish." (Continued on page 2) SpRev 4/9/83 "list was recorded" === Page 40 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/25/83 # Cause of Gulf tremors is still a mystery BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- An atmospheric disturbance may have caused three tremors that "shook like crazy" along a 50-mile stretch of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a physicist said Sunday. The Rev. Louis J. Eisele, director of the Seismic Observatory of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., said his seismograph detected Saturday's tremors, but he didn't believe they were caused by earthquakes. "Normally an earthquake of sufficient magnitude to give me readings would have been recorded a longer time," he said. Eisele said he thought the shocks were caused by disturbances in the atmosphere that were reflected down to the earth's surface. "I don't have any idea what the origin was, but it could have been 100 or more miles away," he said. Military and civil defense officials said the shaking may have been caused by sonic booms from planes flying offshore over the Gulf of Mexico. A Harrison County Civil Defense official said he was told by Keesler Air Force base here that four F-4 fighters were spotted on radar. "reflected down to the earth's surface." (What my 4 UFOs are doing!) UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/27/83 # Bizarre tremors shake Mississippi Gulf Coast BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Mysterious tremors shook a 50-mile stretch of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Saturday, knocking goods from store shelves and startling residents. "The French doors, they just shook, shook, shook," said Sophie Batten of Lyman. "I thought they were going to come off, they shook so much." "We don't know if they are earthquakes," said Richard Faul at the civil defense post in Gulfport. "We're still trying to find out what they were and where they came from." There were unconfirmed reports that some windows shattered and that pictures fell off walls in this sort of town. Biloxi residents said they felt three distinct tremors starting around noon and preceded by a thunder-like rumbling. The tremors were felt along the coast from Bay St. Louis to Ocean Springs. Terry Thompson at the Edgewater Shopping Mall Merchants Association in Gulfport said some shoppers became upset when merchandise began falling off the shelves, but there was no damage. Faul said officials thought the tremors might be the result of a sonic boom from passing aircraft. But a spokesman at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi said he did not know of any jets being out at the time. Geophysicist Bruce Presgrave at the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake monitoring center in Colorado said the center had received many calls about tremors. "There's a possibility it's below our threshold, but I seriously doubt there are earthquake events in the area," he said. "Mysterious" "Bizarre" UFOs Sun Attack S/R 2/21/83 # U.S. helicopters join blizzard rescue effort BEIRUT, Lebanon -- U.S. helicopters Monday joined operations to rescue hundreds of people stranded by a blizzard along the Beirut-Damascus highway on the hills east of here. However, convoys of American Marines and Italian soldiers of the multinational peacekeeping force were denied permission to enter Syrian-controlled territory to aid in the rescue. The assistance of the multinational force was sought by the Lebanese government after Lebanese army and civil defense crews met with difficulties in reaching the snow-bound motorists because of deteriorating weather conditions. As many as 38 people have died since the blizzard struck Friday afternoon. It was described by the meteorological department here as the worst snowstorm ever to hit this country. Hundreds of cars were buried under 15 inches of snow, and many of the victims had frozen to death. So far, more than 270 people have been rescued. "worst snowstorm ever" "to hit this country" About 50 cars were found abandoned and their drivers and passengers believed to have sought refuge in available shelters. The frozen bodies of 10 men were found in an abandoned house. The winding mountain highway linking the Lebanese and Syrian capitals is controlled partly by Israeli troops and partly by Syrian forces. Both Israelis and Syrian cooperated in allowing Lebanese military and civil defense teams to pass through their lines to reach the affected areas. # world UFOs Sun Attack S/R 3/18/83 ## Heavy storm damage in Cuba MEXICO CITY (AP) -- High winds and heavy rains over 24 hours killed one person in Cuba, injured 79 and caused "serious material damage," Cuba's official news agency Prensa Latina reported Thursday. In a dispatch monitored here, the agency said more than 500 homes on the western flank of the island were damaged by the storm, which also knocked out electricity in an extensive area. Cuba's main electrical generating plant had to suspend operations because its primary electrical towers and power pylons were toppled, Prensa Latina said. It said at least a third of the country was blacked out. UFOs Sun Attack S/R 3/17/83 ## Strong winds lash Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Gale-force winds knocked out electric power and telephone service in a large section of Guatemala Wednesday and the government declared a nationwide state of emergency to deal with spreading damage. === Page 41 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # Battered Tahiti receiving help SP Rev 4/18/83 PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) -- Food, batteries and water-purifying chemicals arrived over the weekend to help Tahitians cope with the devastation of Hurricane Veena, which killed one person and left 25,000 homeless. City halls received canvas tarpaulins for distribution to residents so they could cover their roofless houses. Except in the most hard-hit areas, schools were scheduled to open Monday for the first time since the storm struck last Tuesday. All of the South Pacific island's hotels had some damage, but remained open and with the approach of winter, it is off-season for the tourist business. Glass-bottom boats, which tourists take to see nature's undersea treasures, were wrecked. The hurricane, which packed winds as strong as 95 mph, injured 26 people. Officials estimated that Veena did $47 million worth of damage. They were still assessing the storm's damage to the Tuamotu Archipelago, east of Tahiti. Tahiti's western peninsula was hardest hit. Stores ran out of batteries, candles, food and saws to clear away trees that blocked roads and tore power lines. One power line, brought down by a falling tree, electrocuted a 28-year-old woman Tuesday. France sent 124 men from its 17th Parachute Regiment to help the island's civil defense department. AP photo **A damaged church** is surrounded by debris after Hurricane Veena hit the islands of Tahiti. UFO Sun Attack ## New storm slaps California Associated Press SP Rev 3/19/83 A Pacific storm ranking with the worst of an unforgettable winter hit the crumbling coast of California on Wednesday and a snowstorm that crippled parts of Colorado with snow 2 feet deep iced roads from Texas to Wisconsin. An oil rig off the coast of Texas reported winds gusting to more than 100 mph as still another storm in the Gulf of Mexico flexed its muscles. That storm caused widespread damage in Guatemala, knocking out electricity and telephone service in much of the country and hospitalizing at least 23 people. The government declared a nationwide state of emergency. # world UFO Sun Attack ## Peru asks for help SP Rev 3/26/83 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Fernando Belaunde appealed for international aid Friday for thousands of Peruvians made homeless by floods and mudslides that have taken nearly 200 lives and caused $200 million damage. "We appeal to the good will of friendly countries for food, medicine and clothes and to credit institutions for immediate loans," a presidential spokesman said. National police reported late Friday that a bus carrying 49 people was carried away by flood waters as it crossed the La Debora River about 600 miles south of Lima and there were only seven known survivors. On Wednesday, a mudslide crushed two buses on a mountain pass 25 miles east of Lima. ## Heavy snow falls in Colorado Associated Press UFO Sun Attack A cantankerous winter running out of time buried parts of Colorado in knee-deep snow Tuesday and another Pacific storm headed for California where losses have topped half a billion dollars. With one week to go until spring, schools closed, highways were blocked and hundreds of travelers whiled away hours at crippled airports as snow fell from Denver to Minneapolis. SP Rev 3/16/83 === Page 42 of 92 # Big storms hit California, Gulf of Mexico Associated Press SP/Rev 2/28/83 A huge Gulf of Mexico storm with 60-mph winds whipping up 25-foot seas crippled a floating oil rig Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 30 workers, while California was hit by still another Pacific storm. The second storm in two days dumped up to 3 inches of rain in Southern California. Mudslides tumbled down mountains and high winds knocked out electric power to thousands of homes. The roofs of three commercial buildings collapsed in the Los Angeles area. A tornado that one witness said looked like "a big gray wall mass dropping from the sky" ripped the roof off one house and seriously damaged several others near Santa Rosa in Northern California, and weather officials said the Golden Gate would be hit by another storm today. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Dick Friend said the department received "about 200 calls" reporting downed wires, flooding and a couple of roof collapses. Avalanche warnings were posted for the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, where winds gusted to more than 70 mph. Florida was raked with gale winds and driving rains that caused flooding in coastal areas and washed out several major sporting events, including a PGA golf tournament and a car race in Miami. Rivers in parts of northern Florida were running at least 2 feet above flood stage and much more rain was expected. About 2 inches of rain fell in Fort Myers, Fla., in 11 hours ending at 6 p.m. EST, making it that city's wettest February on record with more than 10 inches of rain since the first of the month. During the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. EST, Hollywood in southern Broward County recorded 4.07 inches of rain and Fort Lauderdale recorded 3.65 inches. A coastal flood watch was posted for the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville south to Boca Raton, where tides were reported running 1½ to 3 feet higher than normal. The storm in north-central Gulf of Mexico sent gale warnings up across the Southeast from Louisiana to Georgia. Some rivers in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi were as high as 4 feet above flood stage. "New February on record" UFO Sun Attack # Waterlogged Californians await more stormy blasts Associated Press SP/Rev 3/3/83 A Pacific storm stalled off the coast kept California under siege Wednesday with giant waves and mudslides splintering lavish homes and famous piers. Thousands of people were routed by floods up to the rooftops in places. The death toll from the West Coast storms that began over the weekend rose to 13, with more than 50 people injured. Among the dead was a 3-year-old boy buried about dawn in Clear Lake, about 125 miles north of San Francisco, when a wall of mud 300 feet wide swept down a hillside and crushed his home. Rain, mud and rocks closed major highways and railroads and parts of Arizona and Colorado were warned to expect up to a foot of new snow. Snow was already higher than houses in parts of the Sierra Nevada. "You want to know how high the water was?" asked Don Finney in one San Diego neighborhood. "Well, someone brought a boat down and my wife easily stepped into the boat from our roof." The National Weather Service, noting that it was the eighth consecutive day of rain in California, said Mount Wilson, Calif., had received 8 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, bringing its total for the week to 16 inches. And no end was in sight soon. "We've got bands of showers spinning off a weather system stalled offshore, and that pattern likely will continue into Thursday," said weather service forecaster Ron Wagner. Thundering surf as high as 16 feet shattered beachfront houses and businesses in southern California, where 1,000 homes had been destroyed or damaged since the latest storm hit the coast on Tuesday and about 1,000 people had been evacuated. Six landmark piers suffered severe damage. Four homes in the exclusive Los Angeles suburb of Malibu slid into the ocean and a fifth, owned by tennis star Billie Jean King and her husband Larry, was so damaged by the surf that it was condemned and torn down. The Kings had retained the home in a celebrated "palimony" suit filed by Ms. King's former lover, Marilyn Barnett, who claimed she had been promised the house. About 50 homes in the Santa Barbara area just north of Los Angeles were destroyed or damaged by waves. The man-made oil island Esther, about three-quarters of a mile off Huntington Beach was destroyed by surf and 2,750 gallons of oil was floating on the surface, Coast Guard spokesman Tom Heflick said. Only one derrick remained of the 150-by-178-foot island and "all other structures and most of the (Continued on page 5) UFO Sun Attack # nation Storms raking Dakotas, Dixie The Associated Press SP/Rev 3/8/83 A blizzard blocking highways with chest-high drifts whistled through the Dakotas on Monday, yanking down power lines and closing schools, while Dixie got another dose of drowning rain. At least six transmission towers toppled in the cities of Bismarck and Minot, N.D., under the weight of ice forming several inches thick, with 40-mph winds producing wind chill factors of 25 degrees below zero. But spring came early to some Yankee country, with temperatures in the 70s in parts of New York and Ohio and in the upper 70s in West Virginia. Record high temperatures were recorded in places such as Milwaukee, Minneapolis set new high marks for most of the first week of March. Heavy thunderstorms again dumped drenching rains on the Southeast, with Charleston, S.C., getting about 4 inches since Sunday. "Record high temperatures" === Page 43 of 92 California braces for brutal storm Spokane, Wash., Tues., March 1, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Associated Press 3/1/83 A Pacific storm ranked among the most powerful of a brutal winter hit California on Monday, soaking southern foothills with up to 2 inches of rain after a soggy weekend of mudslides and floods that killed at least five people. Residents along the entire California coast prepared for winds gusting to 60 mph and waves up to 30 feet high, rivaling the ferocity of the four storms in the last week of January that left 11 people dead and damage estimated at $100 million, mainly to beachfront homes and businesses splintered by the giant surf. The full brunt of the latest storm wasn't expected to hit until early Tuesday. "The new storm will be as bad as anything we had this season," said Bill Hackel, a National Weather Service forecaster in Redwood City, Calif. By Monday afternoon, as the leading edge of the storm moved into Southern California from the north, 2.18 inches of rain had fallen in San Gabriel, with less in Pasadena, Santa Barbara and downtown Los Angeles. Another storm in the Gulf of Mexico pushed eastward with strong winds and heavy rains, causing some flooding in coastal areas from Louisiana to Florida and north to the Carolinas. That storm earlier crippled a floating oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, forcing the evacuation of 30 workers, and contributed to the crash of a twin-engine cargo plane north of Tampa, Fla., that killed the pilot. In California, up to a foot of rain was expected in the coastal mountains around Santa Cruz, about 80 miles south of San Francisco, where about two dozen people were killed in January 1982, when mudslides crushed hillside homes. About 3 inches was forecast in the San Francisco area. That comes in areas already drenched by two storms over the weekend. The rain was expected to turn to heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada, where 5 feet of snow had fallen in three days. Fifteen feet of snow was already on the ground at Norden, Calif., near Lake Tahoe, as compared with only 5 feet at this time last year. The latest California storm arrived just as the last two of the government disaster relief centers were closing down at Seal Beach and Malibu in Southern California. Other centers set up in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and San Diego shut down last week. Cammie Conlon of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said 2,104 victims of the late January storms had applied for aid. The weather service issued a statement saying, "This major storm system should not be underestimated. Conditions along the coastline today will be as bad as any experienced so far this winter." And more trouble was on the way, according to forecaster John Plankingon. "There are more storms behind this one," he said. "A week's worth." Virgin Islands drenched CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands (AP) -- Ten inches of rain drenched the Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. John on Monday, flooding streets, triggering mudslides and stranding tourists. Most roads, offices and schools were closed, and the heavy rain that began late Sunday closed Harry S. Truman Airport here. Authorities said rain cascaded off the rugged mountain terrain on St. Thomas, causing mudslides that blocked the two main roads leading down into central Charlotte Amalie. 4/19/83 Downpours ruin crops in Florida MIAMI (AP) -- Swamped by unexpected downpours, Dade County farmers have been forced to plow under acres of tomatoes, potatoes, snap beans and squash, officials say. Heavy rains in southern Dade have ruined as much as 60 percent of the country's largest midwinter vegetable crop, the Dade County Cooperative Extension Department said Tuesday. "unaffected" I nation Boat capsized, two drown HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Ten-foot waves churned up by recent storms capsized a pleasure boat Sunday, drowning a husband and wife and injuring their four sons, police said. The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. when the family's 27-foot cabin cruiser began foundering, then flipped over a half-mile offshore, police Lt. Jim Walker said. Eight boats have capsized along the California coast during the past week, killing three people. "We warn people and we warn them and we warn them," Walker said, "but it doesn't seem to do much good." The couple's four sons, ages 24, 21, 19 and 13, were reported in good condition at Huntington Intercommunity Hospital. 2/21/83 === Page 44 of 92 UFO & Sun Attack # Blizzard kills 38 in Lebanon, postpones withdrawal talks BHAMDOUN, Lebanon (AP) -- A blizzard struck Lebanon's central mountains Sunday, killing at least 38 people, stranding scores of motorists in snowdrifts and forcing postponement of talks on foreign troop withdrawal. The multinational peacekeeping force of U.S. Marines, French paratroopers and Italian soldiers stood by for emergency life-saving missions in the mountains east of Beirut. Rescue squads from the Lebanese army, civil defense corps and Red Cross found the frozen bodies of 30 motorists in snow-buried cars on the mountain section of the Beirut-Damascus highway, police said. Gale-force winds generated by the storm hurled giant waves against the ancient Mediterranean city of Byblos 19 miles north of Beirut, drowning four people and damaging several seaside buildings, police said. Police also said four Lebanese soldiers perished in the rescue operation on the highway between the ski resorts of Mdeirej and Dahr el-Baidar, where 180 motorists were rescued and efforts continued to reach others. SPREW 2/21/83 UFO & Sun Attack # Bolivian flood toll near 100 SPREW 3/24/83 LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- The death toll rose to about 100 Wednesday in the worst flooding in 50 years in Bolivia's second largest city, Santa Cruz. It has made 40,000 homeless and destroyed 50,000 acres of prime farmland, rescue officials said. Civil defense officials said several villages were still buried under several feet of mud after Friday's flooding and they feared the death toll would rise to several hundred as rescue workers reached outlying areas. There were reports that several buses and trucks carrying passengers were buried under the mud. In Peru, at least six people were dead and more than 40 missing after weekend flooding and mud slides along the coast 180 miles north of Lima, civil defense officials said. Police put the death toll higher, at 30, and said more than 100 were missing. One of the dead was Telmo Mori Puga, 127 years old and reputed to be Peru's oldest citizen. "worst flooding in 50 years" # Snowpack below normal BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The snowpack has below average water content across Montana, except for the southwestern and northwestern corners of the state, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service says. "Those two corners are only near average," said Phil Farnes, SCS snow survey supervisor. In central Montana the snow is only two-thirds of average," he said Wednesday. Measurements at nearly 250 points at the beginning of March showed that the January pattern of low snowfall and warm temperatures continued through February, Farnes said. Mountain snowfall from now until May will be critical to Montana's water supply, Farnes said. What falls in the next couple of months will determine whether shortages will be minor or severe," he said. About 75 percent of Montana's spring and summer streamflow comes from melting snow. The snowpack moisture readings by drainage include: Kootenai, 89 percent of normal; Flathead 85 percent; Upper Clark Fork 76 percent; Lower Clark Fork 86 percent; Bitterroot 81 percent. UFO & Sun Attack SPREW 3/10/83 "warm temperatures" UFO Project # Another shuttle engine ordered CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Still unable to predict a launch date, NASA put out the call Monday for yet another engine for the space shuttle Challenger, after a replacement for a cracked original also turned out to be defective. "It's dead," National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Ball said of the replacement engine. "The next step is to get another one." It may be the end of the week before the latest engine arrives, and the start of Challenger's maiden five-day mission appears unlikely before mid-March at the earliest. UFO & Sun Attack # Alaska Peninsula jolted PALMER, Alaska (AP) -- A pair of large earthquakes jolted sections of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, but the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said there were no reports of damage or injuries. SPREW 2/15/83 UFO & Sun Attack # No treading on thin ice TOWNSEND, Mont. (AP) -- There's nothing funny about what happened to the Broadwater Jaycees' ice fishing contest, whose prize was a $50,000 tagged trout. The sponsors said Friday that the contest is being canceled, because it was literally on thin ice. It has been so warm that ice is breaking up on Canyon Ferry Reservoir, where the contest was planned at the "Silos" recreation area between Winston and Townsend. This raised the possibility that anglers showing up for Saturday's contest might join the prize trout in the chilly waters of the big Missouri River impoundment. The Jaycees, who planned to charge $5 a head to benefit an out-of-state hospital, said Friday that they're angling now for cold weather -- so they can reschedule their fishathon in March. Meanwhile, carping ice fishermen will have to stow their maggots, cheese balls, tip-ups and ice augers. SPREW 2/19/83 It has been so warm -- "unseasonable" q UFO & Sun Attack # Storm kills 8 mountain climbers SPREW 4/4/83 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A sudden spring snowstorm with gale force winds killed eight mountain climbers and trapped 14 others Sunday on Mt. Insubong, a popular climbing course just north of Seoul, police said. Some 100 trained alpinists mounted an overnight rescue effort and by Monday morning eight bodies had been recovered and 12 people were rescued. Two were still missing. The victims, most of whom were college students, died from exposure to the freezing winds, police said. Four of those rescued were Japanese and the others Koreans. Insubong is known for a 450-foot cliff on top of the mountain where many Korean alpinists train before going on scaling expeditions abroad. The temperature in the mountains plunged to an unseasonable low of 23 degrees overnight. === Page 45 of 92 UFOn Sun Attack # Disneyland hit by high winds; riders stranded SpRes 4/6/83 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Tornado-like winds roared through Disneyland Tuesday, knocking out power and stranding scores of terrified visitors on three rides swaying high above the sprawling amusement park, authorities said. Elsewhere, high winds smashed windows and peeled back a roof. One person was critically injured when he was struck by lighting. Authorities used cherry-pickers and firetruck ladders to rescue about 100 trapped riders, many of them youngsters. "We were halfway up and the wind started up so hard," said Renete Huegel, 38, who was vacationing from Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Heinz. "I was so scared I thought I was going to fall off." Phil Winkelaar from Alberta, Canada, brought his wife and four children to Disneyland for the first time. "There was no wind when we got in," said his daughter Susan. "The scariest part was when we were swaying from side to side." "I was freaking out," said her teen-age brother Garrett. "I was screaming and my sister said, 'Shut up. If you panic, I panic.'" The terrified children were taken to other Disneyland facilities where they were soothed by costumed characters such as Mickey Mouse. Power was knocked out to the People Mover and Sky Tower rides, said Anaheim Fire Department Inspector Norm Morgan. A strong burst of wind slammed into a Skyway gondola, which traverses the sprawling amusement park on a cable 30 to 40 feet above the ground, jerking a cable out of the guide wheel. The ride was shut down immediately, said Disneyland spokesman Joe Aguirre. Passengers said that while they were waiting to be rescued, a cold rain drenched them. No injuries were reported at the park. "We had to close off some of the 'Tomorrowland' area to let fire engines through -- the submarine attraction, the monorail, America Sings and the Matterhorn," Aguirre said. The heavy thunderstorm materialized when black clouds suddenly descended out of a clear blue sky shortly after noon. "It was just a heavy, black, swirling layer above us that developed over the city," said Anaheim Police Sgt. John Beteag. "Within 30 minutes the blue sky had disappeared." Winds also struck an industrial complex on the northeast side of the Anaheim, tearing off the roof of at least one building, Beteag said. Note: My son and I spent days at Disneyland, above, some years ago. Owens UFOn Sun Attack # Floodwaters sweep through Deep South a week of "bizarre weather" "worst flooding in 25 years" Rivers bloated by more than a foot of rain swamped the Deep South with record flooding Thursday, driving 25,000 people from their homes and isolating the 1 million residents of New Orleans. Within New Orleans, many streets were passable by nightfall as the water drained away. Eight people drowned, including two children swept away by floodwaters, bringing the death toll to 15 in a week of bizarre weather. The worst flooding in 25 years poured up to 6 feet deep late Wednesday and early Thursday through the state capital of Baton Rouge, La., and other towns in southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Louisiana Gov. David C. Treen declared a state of emergency in 16 of the state's 64 parishes, all in the southeastern part of the state. Mississippi Gov. William Winter also proclaimed a state of emergency. National Guard troops helped evacuate residents by boat and helicopter, mostly in Louisiana where authorities estimated the number of refugees at 20,000 to 25,000. The hardest hit area of Louisiana was in the east above Lake (Continued on page 6) SpRes 4/8/83 UFOn Sun Attack # Blizzard strands travelers in Colorado, New Mexico Associated Press SpRes 2/21/83 A blizzard building snowdrifts taller than a trucker's rig Sunday shut down a corner of New Mexico and part of Colorado, stranding hundreds of travelers in schools, churches, and wayside homes. Snow also slickened highways across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma highways into western Kansas, where up to 8 inches was expected. "We had a total whiteout," said Lt. Danny McPherson of the volunteer fire department in the farming community of Bennett, about 30 miles east of Denver on Interstate 70, as winds gusted as high as 68 mph on the Colorado plains. Later Sunday, as skies cleared, most Colorado highways opened and people stranded overnight continued on their way. But avalanche warnings were in effect in parts of the state until today. Emergency shelters had been set up in churches and schools in Limon, Hugo, Bennett, Trinidad and Walsenburg. In northeastern New Mexico, 14 inches of snow was whipped into 12-foot drifts, closing many highways, including Interstate 25, a major link between Albuquerque and Denver. "We can't even see out the front door," said state police dispatcher Pat Yardley of Raton, N.M., where streets were blocked by 8-foot drifts. "The cars in town are buried. You can't even see the cars any more." In eastern Colorado, the blizzard closed Interstate 25 from Trinidad south to the New Mexico line for most of Sunday. === Page 46 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Rains continue to swell rivers Great Falls Tribune 5/4/83 By The Associated Press The fifth straight day of torrential rain swelled the mighty Mississippi and Ohio rivers, caused an earthen dam to partially collapse and threatened new flooding Tuesday in Missouri and Kentucky. The small dam off upper Indian Lake in western Kentucky began to disintegrate after a spillway clogged. Two families were evacuated from their homes and authorities closed a stretch of U.S. 60, a major highway that forms a levee between the upper and lower sections of the lake. One-third of the dam had collapsed by Tuesday afternoon, and officials said the entire levee could give way Tuesday night. But they believed that water escaping from the 10-acre upper lake probably could be contained in the lower, 30-acre lake. Meanwhile, thousands of people in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York took stock of their losses from the 60 tornadoes that took seven lives since Monday. Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond asked President Reagan Tuesday to declare tornado-ravaged Greene County a federal disaster area, while Illinois Gov. James Thompson declared six central and southern counties in that state disaster areas. In Michigan, Gov. James Blanchard said he may seek federal disaster aid for the resort community of Harsens Island. THE WIDE OHIO threatened to rise over its banks near Louisville and downstream at Paducah and some streets were closed, but no major flooding was expected. However, the Green and Rolling Fork rivers of western Kentucky were 7 to 8 feet above flood stage and the Licking River ran over its banks from Blue Springs in northern Kentucky to the Ohio. High water, a swift current and scattered debris on the Ohio at Louisville forced cancellation of Wednesday's "Great Steamboat Race" between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen of Cincinnati. Louisville officials Tuesday opened a disaster center to assist victims of Sunday's flooding, caused by backup in the storm sewer system. The city said 375 families were driven from their homes. "Minute amounts of precipitation can cause mammoth problems," said Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the Emergency Services and Disaster Agency in Illinois, which has been hit with flooding and tornadoes in recent days in a dozen towns in the southern two-thirds of the state. Most of the 65 families on Kaskaskia Island, Ill., have left their homes because the Mississippi spilled over and made roads impassable. In the southern Illinois town of Grafton, about 35 people were forced to delay their return to homes evacuated because of April flooding. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers join at Grafton, where river water was 9.5 feet above flood stage. "It's been three times within five or six months," Thelma Smith the mayor's secretary, said Tuesday. "Everyone is just worn out." Parts of Grafton were under water in December and again in April. In central Illinois, the 100,000 residents of Decatur and neighboring Mount Zion were told Tuesday to boil their water and limit its use because heavy rain had washed mud into Lake Decatur. In Lebanon, Ill., officials said high school classes likely will be canceled until Monday because of tornado damage. The Meramec River rose at a rapid clip before cresting Tuesday at about 37 feet in Times Beach, Mo., the dioxin-contaminated town. That was nearly 19 feet over flood stage and the water was 2 to 4 feet deep in town. However, all but five or six of the 65 remaining families had packed their belongings in rental vans and left town, officials said, and the water stopped 6 feet short of the "flood of the century" levels of December that virtually destroyed the town. POLICE PUT UP wooden barricades at entrances and exits to the town and began a curfew to protect abandoned property against looters. Upstream from Times Beach, 600 families were evacuated along the Meramec. The weather service said the Mississippi was expected to crest at 38 feet at St. Louis Thursday, 8 feet above flood stage. Further south, residents of Cape Girardeau, Mo., prepared to battle the Mississippi, which the weather service said would crest at 46 feet Saturday - half a foot higher than 1973's record of 45.5. In St. Francois County, authorities Tuesday searched the swollen St. Francis River for Barbara Wnuczek, 29, a Polish refugee who came to the United States in October. Her canoe capsized Saturday, and a companion told police he saw her disappear under the water. Kentucky authorities Tuesday said they had discovered four bodies in and near a car on a flooded road in Edmonson County. Ohio was hit with 11 tornadoes and flooding, and the death toll in the state due to the weather was put at four, with 27 injured. === Page 47 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Fri., March 4, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Floods continue, but storm fades Associated Press The California storm that caused $130 million in damage and killed 17 people moved on Thursday, but lingering floods chased more people from their homes and some who didn't want to leave were prodded out by police and National Guard troops. As the storm pushed eastward, heavy snow fell over parts of Arizona, southern Nevada and western Utah. Nine inches of snow covered Utah Highway 12 at Bryce Canyon and highways east of Monticello were closed. Flagstaff, Ariz., got half a foot of snow. The storm this week in California had routed more than 9,200 people and at least 5,000 remained cut off from their homes, mainly in the San Francisco Bay area. At least 1,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, including expensive beachfront homes in places such as Malibu. Pack mules carried supplies and fuel Thursday to about 20 people isolated by mudslides and flooding in Palo Colorado Canyon, about 125 miles south of San Francisco. About 7 residents have been plucked out of the canyon by Army helicopter. Elsewhere across the country, the third day of March produced stark contrasts. Kansas City, Mo., basked in record 79-degree weather as unseasonable warm warm settled across much of the country. Up to 9 feet of fresh snow in the past week in the Sierra Nevada left up to 30 feet on the ground near Squaw Valley, Calif. But temperatures were generally 20 to 25 degrees above normal from the central high plains to the Ohio Valley. California Gov. George Deukmejian asked President Reagan to declare a state of emergency in eight more counties, in addition to the 24 designated for disaster relief following the devastating storms in late January. Reagan got a glimpse of some of the storm damage during a helicopter flight from his mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara to a luncheon speech in Los Angeles and a spokesman said he is expected to act quickly on the request. About 5,000 people remained displaced in the San Jose area, about 50 miles south of San Francisco, including 1,700 in the Alviso neighborhood. About 60 people who ignored a mandatory evacuation order were removed Wednesday night by police officers and National Guard troops. But Police Joseph McNamara denied reports that his officers ordered the people out at gunpoint. "record" "unseasonable" "temps above normal" === Page 48 of 92 Associated Press The primary school in Cockatoo, Australia, is engulfed in flames. UFO: Sun Attack # Aussie flames kill 60 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Firefighters choking in billowing smoke struggled today to control raging brushfires that in 24 hours ravaged 500 miles of the drought-plagued southeast coast, leaving at least 60 people dead and 8,000 others homeless. Early government estimates put the damage at more than $97 million. Winds of 62 mph swept off the central Australian desert and pressed the reckless blaze through two states toward the Indian Please see Fires/4A AUSTRALIA South Australia Adelaide New South Wales Victoria Melbourne Fires Associated Press An unidentified husband and wife comfort === Page 49 of 92 Fires St Paul Dispatch 2/17/83 - [x] Continued from Page 1A Ocean. The flames left an ashen trail of even wasted towns, burned-out sheep farms and blackened skeletons of cars on the roads, authorities said. South Australian state fire officials said the charred vehicles contained the incinerated bodies of drivers and passengers, including a family of five, imprisoned by the inferno. "People are dying as they try to reach their homes," said a firefighter in Lorne, Victoria, where many of the townsfolk fled to the beach for safety. "We can't stop it ... It's just like a holocaust. We don't know where to start looking" for bodies. The firestorms engulfed Adelaide, a city of 1 million in South Australia, and burned out of control near Melbourne, the state capital of neighboring Victoria and Australia's second largest city after Sydney. Huge clouds of smoke and dust forced the closure of major airports in Melbourne and Adelaide. More than 4,000 firefighters in the two states battled the flames in 108 degree temperatures on Wednesday. Authorities said 12 volunteer firemen died near Cockatoo, a tiny hamlet 31 miles from Melbourne which was almost destroyed by the fire. While the men fought to stave off the blaze, Cockatoo mothers rushed 120 children ranging up to 12 years old to the local kindergarten school. "The children were wonderful, they never made a sound," said teacher Iola Tilley. "They placed wet towels over their heads and never complained despite the air being thick with smoke." "How they weren't killed by the flames or lack of air, is a miracle," said one of the fathers, David Adams, who sat on the school roof pouring water on the menacing fire. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser suspended his election campaign today and flew over the devastated areas aboard an air force jet, promising all possible federal assistance. He has declared a state of emergency in both South Australia and Victoria and ordered 1,000 members of the armed forces to help exhausted firemen. Victoria Premier John Cain said more than 2,000 homes had been destroyed in Victoria alone and police estimated at least 100 more were ruined in South Australia. UFOs Sun Attack Deep South stunned by snow, tornadoes Associated Press Sun 3/26/83 A record-breaking snowstorm swept across the South on Thursday, while tornadoes caused more than $5 million damage on Florida's Space Coast and marble-sized hail, mud and rain slicked roads in California. The Dixie storm killed four people in traffic accidents -- two in Georgia and two in South Carolina -- disrupted air travel and knocked out power to 37,000 homes and businesses. The Florida twisters hit Cocoa, Merritt Island and Melbourne early in the day, damaging three schools, hundreds of homes, two mobile home parks and many businesses and public buildings. Although heavy rains and high winds were reported, the tornadoes spared the nearby Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Challenger is being readied for an April 4 launch. In California, meanwhile, rain, hail and ice plagued travelers, closing eight miles of the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu in the south and causing a 10-vehicle pileup that injured three people in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the north. Some 10,000 people lost power for a time as a storm brought heavy rain, hail, thunder and lightning to the San Francisco area. The snowstorm in the Southeast surprised most forecasters, who had expected rain, said Vince DiCarlo of the National Weather Service in Atlanta. "We're breaking everything that was ever written for March," said DiCarlo as 7 inches of snow fell in Atlanta, where the record accumulation for all of March was only 4 inches in 1942. Snow depths of 4 inches or more were reported in the Carolinas and Alabama, and the Weather Service called the spring storm "statistically unusual." Only one of three runways at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport was open Thursday morning, and most flights were canceled, said airport spokesman John Braden. "All other flights are delayed," he said. "It'll be a while before they get back to normal." More than 35,000 customers lost power in Georgia, most in the Atlanta area. In Alabama, electricity was quickly restored to some 2,000 homes and businesses darkened by the storm. The buds on Atlanta's famed dogwood trees were shrouded with snow. Larry Snipes of the Georgia Crop Reporting Service said it was too soon to tell if the storm had seriously damaged the state's dogwood and peach trees. "record breaking" "breaking everything ever written for March" "statistically unusual" "surprised most forecasters" UFOs Sun Attack 3/83 Spring storms blast Midwest Associated Press Spring opened its act Monday with a heavyweight Midwestern snowstorm, freak floods that drove hundreds of people from their homes, and a chorus of howling rains and dancing tornadoes. At least four people were killed and several were injured in the violent weather, including a Purdue University student who died in an accident involving two snowmobiles and a sled in West Lafayette, Ind. A snowstorm worse than any of the winter in some areas botched up cities such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Fort Wayne, Ind., with half a foot or more of windblown snow. Drifts were waist high in parts of Indiana and southern Michigan, where up to a foot of snow fell. === Page 50 of 92 UFO Sun Attack Associated Press 3/2/83 A devastating Pacific storm hurled a tornado into downtown Los Angeles and another into Pasadena on Tuesday, while floods sent many Californians scrambling to rooftops and mudslides blocked highways and railroads. The death toll climbed to eight in the worst of a series of back-to-back West Coast storms since the weekend, with at least 25 injured Tuesday in the Southern California tornadoes. Hundreds of people were evacuated, including almost all of the riverfront community of Tehama, and expensive homes were swept down hillsides in a sea of mud. About 210,000 homes and businesses lost power. THE LOS ANGELES twister cut a three-mile scar of destruction, damaging about 100 homes and a hospital, ripping off the sides of buildings, tossing cars around like toys and taking off part of the roof of the Los Angeles Convention Center. A second tornado hit Pasadena, 10 miles north of Los Angeles, lifting one car at least 15 feet into the air and injuring the driver. Heavy winds also were reported in Santa Ana, 35 miles to the south, and the National Weather Service said it was checking reports that a tornado touched down there. The Los Angeles area also was jolted by the second earthquake in less than 14 hours, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Terry Wallace at the California Institute of Technology seismological laboratory in Pasadena said preliminary readings indicated the quake at 12:18 p.m. PST measured 3.5 on the Richter scale and was centered "essentially in the same place" as Monday night's tremor in Inglewood. MEANWHILE, STORMS in the Gulf of Mexico drenched the Southeastern coastal states with heavy rains, but March came in like a lamb over most of the central part of the country. Ten men on a drifting barge in the storm-driven surf off the San (Continued on page 2) Downtown Los Angeles Univ. of So. Cal. Coliseum Broadway 31 St 43rd St Tornado Area "Dictions floods... in Rise..." "historic high marks..." "This county is wiped out..." "There hasn't been a disaster of this magnitude..." Thousands flee floods At least 10 killed; county 'wiped out' by rivers Associated Press Disastrous floods from almost 2 feet of rain in Dixie forced thousands more people to join the exodus Friday as rivers swelled to historic high marks and forecasters warned more water is on the way. The number of people displaced by flooding in the Gulf Coast states climbed to more than 27,000, with damage estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At least 10 people have been killed, including six in Mississippi, three in Louisiana and one in Tennessee. "This county is wiped out," said an exhausted Civil Defense chief, Jim Thornhill, helping with the evacuations in Columbia, Miss. "Marion County looks like a huge tidal wave just swept over it. There hasn't been a disaster of this magnitude to occur in the history of the county." (Continued on page 2) 'devastating Pacific storm' 'tossing cars around like toys' 3/2/83 Twisters----------(Continued from page 1)---------- Francisco coast were rescued by pilots in three helicopters equipped with baskets. The barge, base for a $1 billion sewer project, continued to rock wildly in the sea. Torrential downpours forced the closing of the famed San Diego Zoo on Tuesday for only the second time in its history. "We can hardly see out there, it's coming down so hard," said zoo spokesman Jeff Jouett. In Chino, Calif., 15 students were rescued from the top of a school bus that ran off a road, and in the Mojave area about 80 miles north of Los Angeles, seven students were retrieved from another bus stranded in floodwaters. NATIONAL GUARD troops and rescuers in boats helped evacuate hundreds, from the Sacramento River Valley of Northern California, to the shores of Malibu Lake near Los Angeles, where water was up to the eaves of some houses. Mobile homes floated away in some areas. Winds gusted up to 84 mph, snapping power lines to thousands of homes, up to 5 inches of rain fell in places, and parts of the Sierra Nevada was smothered by 7 feet of new snow. Tehama County Sheriff Ron Koenig said 500 to 800 people were evacuated along the Sacramento River, including the entire town of Tehama, and at least 300 homes were flooded in Red Bluff. "We were rescuing people off roofs," said Red Bluff police dispatcher Susan Myers. ABOUT 500 RESIDENTS of Santa Ana in Southern California, including occupants of city hall, the YMCA, and a small retirement home were evacuated after after 3 inches of rain fell during the morning. A fire department unit was dispatched to the Ramirez Canyon in the Malibu area where a number of "really big" homes were threatened by mudslides," said Dick Friend of the county fire department. One of the homes, belonging to actress-singer Barbra Streisand, was not believed in immediate danger. In the Santa Clarita Valley about 35 miles north of Los Angeles several homes in the Lost Canyon area were slipping into the rampaging Santa Clara River, Friend said. Another 100 people were evacuated when water surged over a dam and poured 5 feet deep trough a mobile home park near Santa Ynez, 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said the area hit by the tornado, which touched down south of the University of Southern California and moved into the downtown area to the convention center, looked like a "real disaster, a war street." === Page 51 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Blizzard strands thousands in Colorado, Wyoming Associated Press SP Rev 3/7/83 A blizzard bombarding Colorado and Wyoming with more than 2 feet of snow in places blocked highways and closed airports Sunday, stranding thousands of travelers, while a Gulf of Mexico storm swamped the Southeast with up to 4 inches of rain. The Western storm brewed by the same system that left $203 million in damage in California last week, also whipped up a "freakish" tumbleweed blizzard near Rankin, Texas. Winds gusting at hurricane force Saturday piled the weeds 10 feet deep, blocking traffic on state Highway 349. At least one car was completely buried for a time. A utility worker in Colorado was electrocuted as the heavy, wet snow that began falling Saturday snapped power lines. Scores of traffic accidents were reported in Denver, where 18.7 inches of snow had accumulated by Sunday morning. Some suburbs got about 2 feet. About 1,200 people were forced to camp out for the night at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, where airlines provided sandwiches, blankets, pillows and even diapers and baby food. Hundreds of others were put up for the night in hotels. In southern Wyoming, the airport at Cheyenne also was shut down, and hundreds of motorists - many returning from ski resorts - were stranded in the Laramie area when a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was closed. A National Guard armory opened as an emergency shelter with all the local motels booked up. The Wyoming highway patrol reported at least 75 accidents during the night and worked double shifts helping pull stranded cars and trucks from the roadways. Also closed were a 70-mile stretch of Interstate 25 from Cheyenne to Wheatland and Highway 191 from Rock Springs to the Utah border. But scores of Wyoming residents ignored the snow and sub-freezing temperatures in Cheyenne and Casper to camp out through the weekend outside banks which on Monday will start offering Wyoming Community Development homeowner loans at 9 3/4 percent interest. The Florida Panhandle was hit Saturday night with strong winds, heavy rain, and small hail. A twister touched down at the Holiday Isle Surf and Racquet Club, just east of Destin, damaging several cars. Four crew members from the tugboat Sharon B were treated for hypothermia Saturday night after their 60-foot vessel sank about three miles west of Pensacola where winds were gusting to 60 mph. In Macon, Ga., where just over 4 inches of rain fell, the National Weather Service said the water was deep enough to completely submerge several cars. One car was swept 200 yards down a creek when the rain washed out a road, but the driver was rescued. Severe thunderstorms also dumped heavy rains across much of Alabama and the Carolinas. "A blizzard bombarding Colorado and Wyoming..." "a Gulf of Mexico storm swamped the Southeast..." "a freakish tumbleweed blizzard..." "winds gusting at hurricane force..." UFOs Sun Attack # Storm blasts northern Plains Associated Press SP Rev 4/15/83 A blustery spring snowstorm spread a sticky frosting up to 17 inches deep across the northern Plains Thursday, breaking April snowfall records and forcing snowplows and cars off wind-blown highways. Brutal rain in Mississippi, meanwhile, sloshed water into homes that had been spared by last week's river flooding. At least 500 people were evacuated in Jackson and firefighters swam to a burning house in Vicksburg but still couldn't save it. "...breaking April snowfall records..." UFOs Sun Attack # Two earthquakes jar San Fernando Valley SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) - Two minor earthquakes shook the San Fernando Valley briefly Saturday, shaking some residents awake, but causing no injuries or damage. The quakes measured 3.8 on the Richter scale, said Dennis Meredith of the California Institute of Technology Seismology Laboratory in Pasadena. The intensity was measured at 3.6 by the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado. SP Rev 4/17/83 UFOs Sun Attack # Northern India drenched NEW DELHI, India (AP) - A cloudburst paralyzed transportation Friday in northern India and New Delhi, and the capital had its wettest day on record with 1 5/8 inches of rain. No casualties were reported. Flooding forced Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cancel several stops on a plane tour of the northern state of Kashmir. SP Rev 4/16/83 "...wettest day on record..." UFOs Sun Attack # world SP Rev 4/16/83 # Heavy storm damage in Tahiti PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) - Hurricane Veena left an estimated 25,000 of the 115,000 residents of Tahiti and Moorea homeless and caused about $47 million damage, officials said Friday. The damage estimate equaled the total damage caused by four previous hurricanes in French Polynesia since November. Veena ravaged Tahiti and nearby Moorea on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 50. Officials said 3,043 homes were destroyed, 3,199 were damaged, most crops were washed out, roads were cut, and bridges were washed away. "...equaled the total damage caused by four previous hurricanes..." === Page 52 of 92 UFO San Attack # N. California drenched by a new Pacific storm Associated Press 3/14/83 A fresh Pacific storm doused soggy California with as much as 7 inches of rain, closing roads with dozens of mudslides and chasing some residents from their homes Sunday, while a departing New England snowstorm left snow a foot deep. A Jekyll-and-Hyde winter beginning its last week also sent floodwaters from torrential rain and melting snow gushing through the gambling mecca of Reno, Nev., blocking some bridges and forcing the evacuation of 40 prisoners from a jail, while police went door-to-door warning residents of the danger. Record cold in the 30s chased vacationing college students from the beaches across Florida, while weekend temperatures in some northern cities reached record highs. It was 55 on Saturday in International Falls, Minn., often the nation's coldest outpost, while Casper, Wyo., had a 59 and Marquette, Mich., posted a 47. Record Florida lows for the date were set Sunday at Daytona Beach, 35, and Orlando, 36. The 45 in West Palm Beach was a record for the third day in a row. Elsewhere in Dixie, temperatures dropped into the low 20s in northern Alabama with a March 13 record of 24 Huntsville, and an even 20 in Bridgeport. In Vermont, where a storm that was moving out to sea had dumped up to 15 inches of snow, icy roads were blamed for the death of a 29-year-old Bristol man whose car veered off the road and struck a utility pole Saturday. Snow was about a foot deep from the Hudson Valley in eastern New York to the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire. The new storm out of the Pacific dumped up to 7 inches of rain on some areas of California where storms in late February and early March caused more than $200 million damage. It also delayed the return home of 1,700 people in the Alviso section of San Jose who have been displaced about two weeks. "The flooding is greater on the principal river systems in the central portion of the state than it was in early March and somewhat less in the north portions of California," said Bob Burnash, director of the California-Nevada River Forecast Center. The California Highway Patrol said crews had been dispatched to clear at least a dozen mudslides that were obstructing roads around the affluent suburbs of Marin and San Mateo counties in the San Francisco area. About 4.26 inches of rain was reported in Marin County for the 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. Sunday. A Tehama County Sheriff's spokeswoman said some residents near the community of Tehama in northern California had left their homes voluntarily but that no formal evacuations were under way. The Sacramento River was expected to rise above flood stage at six points before receding to safer levels by Monday, the National Weather Service said. The Russian, Napa and Cosumnes rivers also were predicted to exceed flood stage at several points. "In Sacramento, this is now the wettest winter for this time of year that has been recorded in this century," said Burnash, who reported rainfall amounts of 7 inches overnight at Pioneer in Amador County. "A Jekyll-and-Hyde winter..." "Record cold..." "Record highs..." Record Florida lows..." "...the wettest winter recorded in this century." UFO San Attack # nation spray March 13, 1983 # Another snowstorm hits West Associated Press The West got another dose of winter Tuesday with snow falling from the western Dakotas to northern Arizona, and parts of Wyoming got up to 9 inches of new snow, closing schools, offices and highways. More snow and wind up to 40 mph were expected today. # Louisiana floodwater receding SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Floodwater from the Pearl River was receding Tuesday in outlying neighborhoods of this New Orleans suburb where damage was estimated at $100 million, but it washed out a major highway bridge on the way. In about a dozen low-lying neighborhoods on the outskirts of town, the Pearl washed roof deep around a few homes, windowsill deep through many more. Others were dry islands behind sandbag levees. Officials estimated 25,000 people spent at least one night out of their homes in St. Tammany Parish and that, all told, 40,000 people were chased from their homes at least temporarily in the 16 Louisiana parishes that got the worst of the flooding. Another 11,500 people were displaced in neighboring southern Mississippi. === Page 53 of 92 UFO or Sun Attack # Severe snowstorm slashes through West Associated Press SPRW 4/5/83 An April blizzard, flinging chest-deep snow with 100-mph winds that toppled a freight train, virtually shut down cities across the West on Monday and then settled in for a siege expected to last two more days. "Travel is best handled with a Sherman tank," said meterologist Rich Douglas in Salt Lake City, where many traffic accidents were reported, including one involving 30 to 40 cars. The snowstorm and freak winds - called a "witches' brew" by one forecaster in New Mexico - closed highways, knocked out power and stranded travelers with drifts up to 15 feet high (Continued on page 2) # Storm - (Continued from page 1) across Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, northeastern New Mexico, western Nebraska, Kansas and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. AT LEAST FIVE DEATHS have been blamed on the storm since it hit the West Coast on Sunday. The stalled storm had dropped up to 5 feet of snow in 36 hours at the Alta ski resort east of Salt Lake City, 3 feet at Buckhorn Mountain in Colorado, and 2 feet at Crystal Reservoir west of Cheyenne, Wyo. Lander, Wyo., had 18 inches, while Fort Collins, Colo., had 16 inches, and Cheyenne, Wyo., 13 inches. Western Nebraska got about a foot and southwestern Kansas about 10 inches. ROOF-RIPPING winds, tree-toppling winds estimated at 100 mph roared out of northern Utah's snow-laden canyons. Winds clocked at 86 mph caused blizzard conditions that closed Hill Air Force Base near Ogden to all but emergency personnel. Dugway Proving Ground in the western Utah desert also closed, due to a power outage. UNION PACIFIC Railroad officials in Utah said winds toppled 12 flatbed cars of a 36-car train hauling truck trailers near the mouth of Farmington Canyon in Davis County about 7 a.m. There were no injuries. Thousands of people were without power in Utah. "Everytime we get one area repaired, another goes out," said Grant Pendleton, a spokesman for Utah Power & Light Co. Wet, heavy snow in Kansas snapped power lines and pulled down 27 utility poles, leaving about 2,500 people without electricity in the towns of Hutchinson and Nickerson, said Kansas Power and Light Co. spokesman Hal Hudson. In central and southeastern Wyoming, drifts were 15 feet high in places. AT THE U.S. STEEL iron ore mine at Atlantic City, Wyo., the snow was deep enough to bury cars, and 45 miners from the shift that began at 8 a.m. Sunday were still stranded Monday. They used graders and front-end loaders to "break a trail" and then drove four-wheel drive vehicles out to cars stranded on U.S. Highway 28. John Applegate, 31, of Lander, who works at the mine, said they also found several people trapped in stalled cars. In one was a couple and two small children who had been stranded for seven hours. "They were pretty cold," he said. He said the Highway Department planned to send up snowplows to try to bring about 100 stranded travelers and miners out in a convoy. THE HEAVY SNOW, falling at the rate of 2 inches an hour, set off several avalanches Sunday in the back country near Aspen, Colo. The U.S. Forest Service posted an avalanche warning for the central mountains around Aspen and Crested Butte. SPRW 4/5/83 "100 mph winds that... virtually shut down cities across the West..." "Travel is best handled with a Sherman tank..." "...freak winds, called a 'witches brew'"... === Page 54 of 92 U of I Sun Attack # Midwest blizzard squelches spring Associated Press SP Rev 3/27/83 A late March blizzard squelched spring Saturday with up to 18 inches of snow blown into waist-high drifts across the Midwest, sending cars and trucks skidding into ditches and blocking highways. Violent thunderstorms unleashed hail and tornadoes in Texas and Kansas, causing scattered damage, while temperatures dropped to record sub-freezing lows from Michigan deep into Georgia. The snowstorm, which swept out of the Rockies earlier in the week, was blamed for at least three deaths, one in Nebraska on Friday and two in Utah on Thursday. Heavy snow fell Saturday from western Nebraska, across northwestern Iowa and parts of northern Illinois into South Dakota, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. In southern South Dakota and western Kansas, where up to 10 inches of snow had fallen, 40-mph winds reduced visibility to near zero. In eastern Kansas, nearly 2 inches of rain fell. Nolan Duke of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Blowing snow and heavy snowfall have made travel across the central plains nearly impossible." "If you don't have any good, pressing reason to go out, just stay where you're at," said Art Umland of the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, S.D. The weather service said the snowstorm also was a threat to newborn calves. In Nebraska, where some communities in the western part of the state got more than a foot and a half of snow with 4-foot drifts, officials also advised people to stay off the roads. "The situation is bad -- and it's deteriorating fast," said a spokesman for the Nebraska State Patrol in Lincoln as the storm continued into the night. Fonner Park race track in Grand Island, Neb., had to cancel its Saturday program. Two irrigation equipment factories at Lindsay and Valley called of Saturday shifts. School dances, dinners, bake sales and other weekend events across the state were canceled. Authorities in Omaha, where much of the snow was melting, said they had quit counting traffic accidents. And roads were closed "all over the state" Saturday, said Bob Munger of the state Roads Department in Lincoln. But Bob Elliott, president of the Box Butte County Wheat Growers in Nebraska, said the snow was "going to be really good" for winter wheat. "I think this is as good moisture conditions in the spring as we've had for a long time," Elliott said. South Dakota highways were all covered by "crust of frozen slush with some snowdrifts," a highway patrol trooper said. Snow depths ranged up to 8 inches by mid-morning, with forecasters expecting 15 inches in places. The heaviest snow fell in southeast South Dakota and along the northeastern slopes of the Black Hills. The snow raised havoc with road conditions. The first round of wet snowflakes Friday melted on the warm highways, then froze as temperatures dropped overnight. Then snow accumulated on top of the ice. The storm was blamed on an intense low pressure center over the Texas Panhandle that sucked moisture from the Gulf of Mexico across the middle of the country. A tornado touched down near Dayton, Texas, damaging at least two houses and uprooting trees, and in central Texas winds gusted to 58 mph. U of I Sun Attack ## Rough day in the channel FALMOUTH, England (AP) -- Gale-force winds lashed the English Channel Sunday, sweeping two yachtsmen overboard, capsizing a lifeboat and forcing the crews of two other vessels to abandon ship, the coast guard said. In the Atlantic, a ship caught fire and one seamen perished in the blaze. "It's one of the worst days we can remember," said a coast guard spokesman at this southwest English port. He said winds had reached 70 mph. Heavy rain swept central France, flooding the train station at Poitiers and halting railway traffic. === Page 55 of 92 UFO Sun Attack # Blizzard dies down after burying Iowa Associated Press Sp Res March, '83 A slow-moving spring blizzard spent itself over the Plains on Sunday after burying eastern Nebraska and shutting down most of Iowa, where police in one county had to use snowmobiles to get around. Three deaths were attributed to the storm. The heavy snow made, winter wheat farmers happy by dumping a moist, protective blanket over the crop, but the ice and blustery winds of up to 30 mph made the going difficult, if not impossible by car. Scores of churches canceled Palm Sunday services. The storm belted eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, southeastern South Dakota and southern Minnesota on Friday and Saturday. It had been expected to move to Wisconsin and Michigan on Sunday, but didn't. Things have died down quite nicely," Harry Gordon of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said Sunday evening. "This (storm) moved quite nicely." Winter storm warnings and watches in Wisconsin, Michigan and other Upper Midwest states were canceled Sunday, Gordon said. However, he added, travelers' advisories remained in effect in northeast Iowa, Wisconsin and all of Michigan. In southwest Wisconsin, snowfall Sunday amounted to 3 to 6 inches, the National Weather Service said. The Iowa State Patrol advised against travel on Interstates 29 and 80 in the central and western portion of the state, where scores of cars were left abandoned in median strips after skidding off the road. Many secondary roads were impassable. The neighboring Missouri River towns of Omaha, Neb., and Council Bluffs, Iowa, had about 13 inches of snow on the ground Sunday. That broke a 26-year-old record for a spring snow in Omaha. In Sioux City, Iowa, farther north, 10 inches of snow was on the ground. Two feet of snow fell on Lyons in northeastern Nebraska, but a dispatcher for the Burt County sheriff's office, Diane Hanneman, said weather-related problems appeared minor. "We've just had cars sliding off into ditches," she said. "There are cars that are blocking traffic, sitting in the middle of the roads -- several of them, in fact. But no serious accidents, thank goodness." But Jasper County, Iowa, sheriff's dispatcher Carol Marconi said at the height of the storm, "It's a zoo around here. We've pulled the wreckers off the streets. There's no visibility and there's no use killing somebody to pull a car out of the ditch." "shutting down most of Iowa." "burying eastern Nebraska..." "that broke a 26-year-old record..." UFO Sun Attack # Winter bows out with a vengeance Associated Press Sp Res 3/21/83 Winter stepped down Sunday with a stormy salvo, tossing snow from Salt Lake City to Chicago and causing bloody smashups on icy highways that last week were toasted by a warm sun. Thunderstorms unleashed heavy rains and tornadoes in the southeast, including one twister that destroyed eight homes and damaged a hospital and school in Leakesville, Miss., near Meridian. No injuries were reported. Another tornado ripped through a three-mile section near Thomas, La., near the Mississippi border, injuring three people and severely damaging three houses, three mobile homes and six cars and trucks. Sheriff B.B. "Benny" Rayburn said the 7 a.m. twister blew a house down around one woman, Aline Crain. "It was just flattened," he said. "It looked like something was just dropped on it." Mrs. Crain was hospitalized in stable condition with an injured leg, he said. Spring's debut was spoiled by up to 17 inches of new snow in Utah, 10 inches in Colorado and 8 inches in the Oklahoma Panhandle, with winter storm warnings or travelers advisories posted from the Texas Panhandle across Kansas and Missouri into northern Illinois. In upper Michigan, almost 2 feet of snow had fallen since Friday. While it was the seventh straight day of snow in Denver, the frigid blast came as a shock in Oklahoma and northern Texas, where the wind chill factor dipped below zero. "It was just like spring a couple of days ago," said Marvin Noyes of the state highway patrol in Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where 30-mph winds were building drifts. "We had 70 degrees and clear skies, then this thing hit. I don't know what happened." Icy roads were blamed for the death of Darla Marie Sykes, a 25-year-old Yukon woman who was killed Saturday when her car went out of control and hit a semi-trailer truck on U.S. 270 in the Panhandle, Noyes said. In Salt Lake City, "black ice" Saturday night on an overpass on Interstate 15 caused a chain-reaction collision involving 36 cars and trucks that sent 15 people to hospitals, four in serious condition. "It was just like spring a couple of days ago... I don't know what happened." "black ice" === Page 56 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Midwest residents brace for flooding Associated Press Sp Rev 5/1/83 Violent weather over the Midwest spawned heavy rains and swelled rivers past flood stage Saturday, and residents of Springfield, Mo., returned to a neighborhood torn up by a tornado that destroyed 100 homes and killed a 16-year-old girl. Flash flood watches were posted in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. Springfield authorities said many lives were saved because officials got a 10-minute warning about the approaching tornado Friday night from the National Weather Service, and activated sirens. Two other deaths were attributed to the weather by Missouri officials. The tornado first struck Republic, 20 miles southwest of Springfield, and damaged 14 homes there before disappearing into the clouds. It touched down again in Springfield. It was one of three twisters that hit southwestern Missouri Friday. In Springfield, at least 100 homes were destroyed and as many as 250 others had some kind of damage. Police Lt. John Black said 17 people were injured. "The National Weather Service had a report it was on the ground at Republic," said Lt. John Brooks. "They called us on a hotline we have set up, and told us to activate the sirens. We had 10 minutes before it hit. I feel that saved many, many lives." Two warehouses and a church were destroyed, and a shopping center was heavily damaged, police said. A 16-year-old girl was killed when the twister picked up the car she was riding in and turned it over. Another girl in the car was hospitalized with a concussion. "Power lines are still down throughout the area, and trees are uprooted everywhere," Brooks said Saturday. About 50 Missouri National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and relief shelters were set up by the Red Cross in several churches. Residents were permitted to return to the stricken southwest part of town Saturday, where the tornado churned up homes and property in a 1 1/2-mile-long, 1/2-mile-wide path. Police arrested two people suspected of looting Friday night, and returnees had to show proof of residency. In Utah, state officials received word Saturday that President Reagan had declared a major disaster a mudslide that blocked Spanish Fork Canyon. The slide plugged up the canyon and has backed up the river, creating a natural reservoir and endangering the town of Spanish Fork, 11 miles below. The declaration permits affected residents to apply for low-interest federal loans. In central and southern Missouri, 6 inches of rain fell late Friday and early Saturday. The National Weather Service warned that the Black River would crest at 20.5 feet Saturday, more than 12 feet above flood stage at Annapolis, Mo., and the Current River would crest near 20 feet at Eminence, or about 10 feet above flood stage. Officials in Kentucky ordered some evacuations in the western part of the state Saturday and opened the Disaster and Emergency Services Center after reports of minor flooding. Tributaries to the Ohio River began to overrun their banks early Saturday in low-lying areas of Breckenridge, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McClean, Webster and Union counties. In Vicksburg, Miss., the swollen Mississippi River crept a fraction past flood stage and forced some evacuations from homes not protected by levees in low-lying areas. The river stood at an estimated 43.1 feet Saturday morning, just over an inch above flood stage. Southern California was soaked by another rainstorm Friday which brought the season's total to 30.79 inches. Normal rainfall for this time of year is 14.57 inches. UFOs Sun Attack # world Sp Rev 4/30/83 ## Landslide victims hunted QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Rescuers struggled in mud, fog and rain Friday hunting an estimated 100 to 200 victims of a giant landslide on the Pan-American Highway in central Ecuador. Fifty survivors and 32 bodies were reported recovered. An officer with the 150-man army unit leading the rescue effort said the search could take weeks, and "perhaps we will never find all the victims." Heavy rains sent the sea of mud and rock crashing down Wednesday on nearly a third of a mile of the highway 9,000 feet up in the Andes 190 miles south of Quito and a mile from the town of Chunchi. A Guayaquil newspaper said 13 vehicles were buried, including four interstate buses believed to be carrying more than 150 people. === Page 57 of 92 U.P.I. Sun Attack "This is supposed to be the desert season for southern California, but the rain is just not letting up..." # Record California rains continuing Associated Press S.F. Rev. 4/30/83 Thunderstorms swamped communities in Missouri and Kentucky with more than 4 inches of rain Friday, sweeping a woman from her apartment and chasing out scores of people with waist-deep floods, while California set records for wetness. Downpours during the night wrecked barriers holding back 4,000 gallons of oil accidentally spilled into a creek in Culver City, Calif., and the slick poured into the harbor at Marina del Rey. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada reached the deepest ever recorded so late in the season, with more than 16 feet on the ground at Norden, Calif., near Donner Summit. Norden had reached a seasonal total of 767 inches - almost 64 feet - and just 21 inches short of the record set in the winter of 1951-52. California farmers, already hit by $300 million in losses from storms earlier in the year, were worried about serious flooding when the snowpack begins to melt. Rainfall totals for the season approached all-time records from San Francisco to Los Angeles and it was still coming down. "This is supposed to be the desert season for southern California, but the rain is just not letting up," said Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. In the middle of the country, thunderstorms stretching from Oklahoma into the Ohio Valley sent floodwaters up to 4 feet deep through southern Missouri and central and western Kentucky. A couple of tornadoes touched down, but no damage was reported. Rescue crews in Houston, Mo., were searching the area around Brushy Creek and the Big Piney River for Ruby Reese, 55, who witnesses said was washed away Friday after a wall of her apartment beside the creek collapsed. "We had a torrent down here for a good four to five hours," said Houston City Administrator Pat McDonald. The water damaged up to 20 businesses, washed out roads and bridges and broke two water mains. "Gobs of hail fell from Oklahoma to Missouri," Duke said. It was as big as golf balls in Bartlesville, Okla., and Warsaw, Mo. The storms dumped 4.5 inches of rain in south-central Missouri with 4 inches reported at Lebanon, Mo., and Calhoun, Ky. "California set records for wetness." "Rainfall totals for the season approached all-time records..." U.P.I. Sun Attack # Quake strikes Colombia city; 200 are killed S.F. Rev. 4/1/83 POPAYAN, Colombia (AP) - A major earthquake struck southern Colombia Thursday, devastating this mountain city where hundreds of tourists had gathered for Holy Week. Estimates of the casualties ranged up to 200 dead and 500 injured. A witness said the shuddering earth "sent the roofs of many houses flying into the air as a cloud of dust covered the city." Another said "whole walls were collapsing" and the noise was deafening. From the air Popayan looked as if it had been bombed. Dust rose 1,000 feet over the city of 200,000 people. The quake hit at 8:15 a.m., lasted 18 seconds and knocked down buildings around the historic provincial capital. The tremor brought the Roman Catholic Cathedral down on as many as 100 early morning worshippers, but about 100 others escaped. Police said 25 bodies had been recovered from the rubble of the Spanish colonial-style church. Four lines of rescuers - girls and boys, tourists, soldiers, policemen and old men - passed bricks and timbers hand to hand from inside the church to trucks outside as they worked to free the trapped worshippers. Some of the rescuers, their hands bleeding from handling the jagged rubble, wept openly as they worked. An aftershock at 6:10 p.m. panicked survivors, some of whom became hysterical. The tremor sent some heavily damaged buildings tumbling down. San Jose Hospital reported 500 injured people had been admitted. Doctors there said supplies of plasma, medicine and even surgical thread were exhausted by mid-afternoon. Small planes ferried the (Continued on page 7) Earthquake Strikes Caribbean Sea COLOMBIA Bogota Popayan Pacific Ocean AP === Page 58 of 92 WDe Sun Attack # Many Colombians weep for earthquake victims SP Rev 4/2/83 POPAYAN, Colombia (AP) - Five thousand mourners, some weeping uncontrollably and others quietly sobbing, buried loved ones Friday who died in the Holy Thursday earthquake that devastated this Andean provincial capital. Most of the dead were elderly people, babies and teen-agers caught unaware when the quake struck. Many were killed in Popayan's 17th century Roman Catholic cathedral, which collapsed during early Mass. President Belisario Betancur attended the burial ceremony at a local cemetery, at which Archbishop Silverio Buitrago presided. The archbishop told reporters he granted a special dispensation so that Mass could be said on Good Friday. An emergency committee headed by Provincial Gov. Amalia de Salazar said 194 bodies had been identified by Friday afternoon, 179 in Popayan and 15 in surrounding towns. Rescuers said there were at least 40 more bodies that had not been identified, and searched through tons of rubble for more victims. Army helicopters ferried in tents, food and other emergency supplies and evacuated seriously injured victims. Some relatives of the dead fainted as Archbishop Buitrago, helped by 15 priests, said Mass before a makeshift altar erected on a pile of broken bricks. The bodies were buried in a corner of the cemetery untouched by the destruction. Much of the cemetery was heavily damaged by the temblor, which exposed hundreds of coffins and broke most open. Sanitation teams began collecting the remains, disinfecting them with quicklime and reburying them in a common grave. But many families objected and took their relatives' coffins to neighboring communities for reburial. With 700 people reported injured, the city's hospital and two clinics were jammed. Six helicopters were flying more severe cases to Cali, 66 miles to the north. An additional 1,300 people were treated for minor injuries and sent home. ![Photo of the interior of a damaged cathedral with people walking through the rubble] **27 died when the roof of Popayan's cathedral collapsed.** The quake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, destroyed 3,000 buildings - approximately half of the city - and officials said 2,400 more were so badly damaged they would have to be leveled. Damage was also heavy in the nearby towns of Cajimio, Piendamo and Mondomo and dozens of villages in this part of Cauca province. Omar Henry Velasco, a former congressman from the area, said 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed in Cajimio, a town of 50,000 people 18 miles east of Popayan. Other officials said about 40 percent of the buildings in Piendamo, a town of 30,000, and in Mondomo, were destroyed or badly damaged. All 300 buildings in the village of Cajete reportedly were damaged beyond repair. A pall of fine dust hung over Popayan's ruins, and aftershocks added to the fears and misery of survivors. One strong one early Friday afternoon was felt in Buenaventura, Colombia's chief Pacific port 155 miles northwest of Popayan, but a fire brigade spokesman said no casualties or damage were reported. Most people in Popayan slept out in the open Thursday night or in makeshift shelters in the streets and parks, fearing the continuing shocks would bring down weakened walls on them. A particularly strong tremor at 10:10 p.m. touched off a wave of panic among survivors. The first, killer quake struck at 8:15 a.m. Thursday and lasted 18 seconds. It collapsed most of the roof and some of the walls of Popayan's 17th century cathedral as about 100 people were attending early Mass. Officials said 27 worshippers were killed and 60 were injured, some seriously. In one place, rubble stood 15 feet high. The 450-year-old city, in southwest Colombia nearly 6,000 feet high in the Andes, is famous for its churches, museums and other antique buildings of the Spanish colonial period and for its Easter processions. The city was crowded with tourists for Holy Week, but the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said it did not know if any U.S. citizens were among the victims. === Page 59 of 92 10 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., April 12, 1983, Spokane, Wash. AP photo **Rising floodwaters** forced this dog to climb on to the roof of its house in Strasbourg, France. Heavy rains have caused flooding throughout the area. UFOs Sun Attack # world **Hailstorm kills 13** S. Rev 4/12/83 DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A severe hailstorm pelted 13 people to death, injured more than 200 and caused heavy crop damage in Bangladesh, the government said Monday. The Sunday storm in the Jessore district 90 miles west of the capital felled rice, wheat, cotton and vegetable crops, official reports said. Farmers had expected to harvest the rice within the next two weeks. No official estimate of the damage was immediately available. Bangladesh already is suffering serious shortfalls in foodgrains and has been forced to import about 1.2 million tons annually. === Page 60 of 92 UFO Sun Attack A8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., April 10, 1983, Spokane, Wash. # Big storm moves east Associated Press Thunderous rains ended Saturday after claiming 10 lives and forcing 27,000 people to flee floodwaters in Louisiana and Mississippi, but the storm moved into Florida and spawned a tornado that killed three people. President Reagan pledged financial aid for areas awash after four days of rain. Many towns remained under threat of more flooding from up to 2 feet of rain. The 20,000 evacuees in Louisiana and 7,000 in Mississippi have begun returning home. Residents of Slidell, La., a New Orleans suburb and one of the fastest-growing areas of the state, were asked to leave Saturday because their turn had come to fight the waters of the raging Pearl River. Nevertheless, the sun broke out in the afternoon for the first time in days. And Jim Thornhill, the civil defense director of Columbia, Miss., where the wild Pearl consumed a levee, said, "We're definitely on the road to recovery." Alabama residents also saw the sun on Saturday, but rivers remained swollen and farmlands flooded. Rural flood warnings were posted for most of the rivers in central and western parts of the state. At Inverness, Fla., north of Tampa, a car "was picked up and slung to the ground about 200 to 300 feet from the roadway" by a tornado Saturday and three travelers were killed, Citrus County sheriff's Capt. Jim Hill. The National Weather Service said there were two confirmed twister touchdowns in Florida's Citrus County. In one, south of Lecanto, a tanker truck was overturned and a mobile home and four structures were damaged. In Washington, deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president would telephone Govs. Dave Treen of Louisiana and William Winter of Mississippi to tell them the Federal Emergency Management Agency would expedite any emergency aid it could provide to augment state and local relief efforts. He said the FEMA also began to process a formal presidential disaster declaration to enable the two hard-hit states to qualify for federal relief funds for flood victims and businesses. Nolan Duke of the National Severe Storms Forecasting Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the storm was "pretty much breaking up" after reaching the Atlantic. Duke said the storm was pushed ashore by a "big jet stream system" that barely budged for four days and relentlessly pounded the coastal flatlands day and night. The system was just like the one that brought devastating storms to California earlier this year, Duke said, only this one "had to wait to get to the Gulf before picking up moisture." The moisture fed the storm in an "unlimited supply, as long as the wind was blowing," Duke said, and "it just kept pumping and pumping with nothing to push it out of the way." Hard hit was Hattiesburg, Miss., where three people died after the Leaf River jumped its banks. About 1,000 homes and 250 businesses were damaged in Hattiesburg and 300 homes across the river in Petal, and 5,000 people were evacuated. UFO Sun Attack # 50 college rowers swept overboard; 1 student drowns SPRW 4/11/83 DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- Waves whipped by gusting winds swamped crew boats from the University of New Hampshire on Sunday, killing one student and tossing at least 50 into the chill waters of Great Bay, authorities said. Eleven people were treated at hospitals, including one man held for observation and treatment of hypothermia, or low body temperature, hospital officials said. The others were released. The exact numbers of boats swamped and students involved were not immediately available. John Hose, director of university relations, said as many as six of the eight boats, called shells, may have been swamped in the rough waters at 11 a.m. Officials identified the dead student as freshman Glenn David Hayes of Bartlett. His body, clad in a blue sweatsuit, was spotted from a Coast Guard helicopter about 100 yards offshore late in the afternoon. The tide had receded, and firefighters wearing hip boots waded through the knee-deep water to retrieve the body. "The other eight people in Hayes' swamped shell had been rescued by a Fish and Game boat, Sgt. Wayne Vetter of the Fish and Game Department said. Hayes apparently tried to swim to shore, Vetter said. The helicopter, two guard boats and about a half dozen civilian boats were involved in the search, which began late Sunday morning. "We've rowed in worse stuff than this," said a member of the university crew club who asked not to be identified. "It was just one of those things. It came up fast and was kind of crazy." Three coaches, in launches, and 68 students, men and women, were taking part in the fund-raising exercise, a 30-mile row between Exeter and Durham, said university spokeswoman Phyllis Bennett. Cecily Croft, 22, a crew coach, said seven of the shells held nine-member crews and one held a five-member crew. "The water got really rough in middle of bay. The waves just came over the side and the boat sank," Ms. Croft said. She said she pulled eight women into her launch. "The launch almost sank and we tied to ride the waves and go to shore. It was very scary, but they stayed really calm ... I had some flotation equipment I threw out." "It came up fast and was" === Page 61 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Tues., April 12, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # River pours over Dixie levees, starts dropping Associated Press The yellow waters of the Pearl River topped sandbag levees Monday and flowed 15 feet deep through a suburb of New Orleans, but the worst appeared over in the historic Dixie floods that have displaced more than 52,000 people and left $625 million in damage. Elsewhere, the mighty Mississippi River surged up to 10 feet above flood stage in Missouri, near St. Louis, forcing scores of families to evacuate and washing snakes and rats into some homes. THE PEARL REACHED a record level in outlying subdivisions east of Slidell, La., 30 miles northeast of New Orleans, the area most affected by the flooding that began last week with as much as 20 inches of rain in parts of the Deep South. However, water began receding in some of those St. Tammany Parish subdivisions Monday as the Pearl River crested. "In some areas where it peaked at 7 feet it is already down to 3 or 4," said Beverly Eddins, a spokeswoman at St. Tammany Parish Civil Defense headquarters. An estimated 40,000 people had fled their homes in Louisiana, 11,500 in Mississippi, and several hundred others in other Southern states. Officials estimated the damage at $425 million in Louisiana and $200 million in Mississippi. MOST OF THE FLOOD refugees in Louisiana and Mississippi had returned to their mud-caked home by Monday as the sun came out. But the storm pushed into the Northeast, dumping as much as 4 1/2 inches of rain in Rhode Island and setting rainfall records for the month of April in places such as Philadelphia. Flood warnings were posted over all of Connecticut, all of Massachusetts -- except from Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod -- and along the Passaic River in New Jersey. Elsewhere, a strong snowstorm rolled into Colorado and Wyoming on Monday, dumping heavy snow in the mountains, triggering rain and thunderstorms for much of the state, and claiming one life -- a man struck by lightning near Grand Junction, Colo. Storm warnings, watches and advisories were issued for much of the area. THE MISSISSIPPI crested Monday at 10 feet above flood stage in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., forcing about 50 families to evacuate and nearly cutting the riverfront town in half. About 300 people remained out of their homes in West Alton, where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers join just above St. Louis. An earthen farm levee broke Friday just north of West Alton, letting the Mississippi River into about 20 square miles of St. Charles County, including the farming community of about 500 people. On the Illinois River in Illinois, about 170 families remained displaced in Peoria and Grafton. Although water levels were dropping slightly, it could be two to three weeks before residents will be able to return, officials said. LOUISIANA GOV. Dave Treen has asked that 16 southeastern Louisiana parishes -- along a 100-mile line extending from Baton Rouge eastward to the Mississippi border -- be designated a federal disaster area. ... a record level..." === Page 62 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Homes evacuated because of floods in the Northeast Sy Res 4/17/83 Associated Press More rain soaked the Northeast on Saturday, edging rivers over their banks, causing flash floods and mudslides and forcing families from their homes. Rescue crews in Maryland were looking for a boy swept away in a rain-swollen creek. About 6 inches of rain fell in the Catskill Mountains near the New York-Pennsylvania border, followed by about 6 inches of wet snow that fell as temperatures plunged early Saturday morning. The heavy snow snapped power in the area, cutting power to about 4,700 customers, the New York State Electric & Gas Corp. said. The nearby Susquehanna River was expected to crest at 22 feet, 4 feet above flood stage, on Saturday night in the Binghamton, N.Y., area, the National Weather Service said, but no serious flooding was expected. The rain pushed the Caliccon Creek above its banks in nearby Jeffersonville, N.Y., forcing the evacuation of 15 families for a few hours on Saturday morning, Fire Chief Gary Mathern said. ELSEWHERE in New York State, the National Park Service used canoes to rescue seven campers stranded on an island in the Delaware River at the private Upper Delaware Campground just north of the New Jersey border, Chief Ranger Ron Wilson said. No injuries were reported. In nearby Sullivan County, mudslides briefly blocked Route 97 in Barryville, the sheriff's department said. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in parts of northern New Jersey. Flash flooding was reported on the Musconetcong and Pequest rivers and parts of the Raritan River. All rivers and streams in southeast Pennsylvania and adjacent counties in southern New Jersey were at or above flood stage, the weather service said. The Coast Guard in Cape May, N.J., said the rain and 12-foot seas may have contributed to the sinking of a charter fishing boat with 18 people aboard. Cmdr. Lance Egan said two Coast Guard helicopters rescued all 18 from the boat before it sank. The victims were treated for exposure. The cause of the sinking had not been determined. FLASH FLOODS hit northeastern Pennsylvania, and a record 3.78 inches of rain was recorded Saturday at Wilkes-Barre Scranton Airport, topping the previous 24-hour April rainfall record set in 1947. "... a record..." "April rainfall record..." The rain, which began falling Friday, eroded roadsides and caused mudslides in the Wilkes-Barre area along the northern border with New York state, closing off Route 11, the main link between Wilkes-Barre and Berwick. Crews worked to reopen the highway Saturday. Standing water made driving difficult on the roadway along the Schuylkill River near Reading, Pa., and many basements in the area were flooded, officials said. "It's not impossible (to drive in the Reading area), but it could be closed if it gets worse," state Trooper Kirk Traite said. Cpl. Charles McCreary added, "I had pumps running in my basement from midnight on, and they couldn't keep up with the water." THE SCHUYLKILL River was expected to crest at 16 feet -- 3 feet above flood stage -- near Reading late Saturday. The Lehigh River at Walnutport in eastern Pennsylvania was at 10 feet -- 2 feet above flood stage -- early Saturday and was likely to crest late in the day. Farther south, in Oxon Hill, Md., rescuers searched Saturday for 13-year-old Christopher Cason of Fort Washington, Md., missing since Friday. Authorities fear he may have drowned when he was swept down a creek swollen by heavy rain as he and a friend tried to cross it on a fallen tree. It was the seventh consecutive wet weekend for the New York metropolitan area, breaking the 1874 record of 8.77 inches for April rainfall. "... breaking the 1874 rec" === Page 63 of 92 HFD Sun Herald 4/11/83 AP photo **Fighting rising** waters with sandbags was a non-stop assignment in Slidell, La. # Floods chase thousands; worst still to come SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Residents of this New Orleans suburb packed sandbags and cleared out some of their belongings as the Pearl River, engorged by days of rain, crept past the record level set in a "100-year flood" of 1979. Civil Defense officials warned that the homes of 25,000 people were in danger, and all major highways between Louisiana and Mississippi in the Slidell area, were virtually closed by Sunday evening. An estimated 3,500 residents fled from low-lying subdivisions by noon Sunday following televised evacuation warnings. The water came up fast during the day, and many people who waited until afternoon had to get out in boats. Thousands more continued in their fourth day of non-stop sandbagging. Water stood up to 15 feet deep in some streets Sunday morning, an estimated 700 homes were flooded and officials said the worst was yet to come. St. Tammany Parish President Bruce Unangst said another 12 inches of water was expected to flood the area by this afternoon. The Pearl reached a record crest of 21.2 feet Sunday morning and began to fall. It was expected to fall to 20.4 feet by 7 a.m. this morning, the National Weather Service said. Civil Defense spokesman Sam Morton said a 22-foot crest, twice flood stage, had been predicted. "The previous record was 19.75 in 1979, which was supposed to have been 100-year waters," a level reached, on average, only once every 100 years. "We've already exceeded those levels," Morton said earlier Sunday. The worst flooding was expected to come in 10 subdivisions, where about 25,000 people live, near a scenic cypress swamp, Morton said. The city itself, seat of Louisiana's fastest growing parish with about 65,000 residents, was expected to remain dry. (Continued on page 2) "...crept past the record level..." "The Pearl reached a record crest..." === Page 64 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Mon., May 2, 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs Sun Attack # More tornadoes, downpours Associated Press Swarms of thunderstorms dumped torrential rain in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys Sunday and scattered tornadoes from Missouri to Michigan damaged homes and other buildings and caused numerous injuries. More than 120 families were forced from their homes in Louisville, Ky., when water backed up chest-deep from storm sewers, and residents of towns in western Kentucky were flooded out for a second day. Swollen streams also forced the evacuation of homes in southwestern Ohio and in Missouri. At least 15 tornadoes spun across parts of Missouri, including one that touched down in the heart of the business district of O'Fallon, injuring four people and damaging businesses. Other tornadoes in Missouri injured four more people, damaged homes and caused an estimated $2 million damage to a printing plant at Linn in Osage County. Downed power lines also caused scattered power outages. A total of 21 tornadoes were reported in Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, said Nolan Duke at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "This should be about the end of tornado weather in Missouri for a while," Duke said. "Conditions have been just right for the past few days for tornadoes...." Thirty to 50 homes at Greenfield, Ill., were damaged by a late afternoon tornado and 15 people were injured, said Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. A few other people were injured when tornadoes bounced across southern and central Illinois. High water hampered some rescue efforts and five homes had to be evacuated in Macon County because of flash flooding, Jones said. Two people were injured in Iowa when a tornado slapped the town of Hamburg, damaging some homes and farm buildings. Tornadoes also touched down Tecumseh and Peru, Neb., and a funnel cloud was sighted over northern Michigan. Missouri also suffered from the rain and scores of people had to be evacuated from their homes because of high water. "The flooding is all over the place in the east and much of the south," said Missouri emergency agency official Chester Schulze. "It's just the most unusual thing the way the rain seems to build when it gets to Missouri. It just keeps coming." Most roads were underwater in southern Indiana's Gibson County, where sheriff's deputy David Knowles said the county looks "like a big lake," and some highways were closed or washed out in Ohio and Kentucky. Snow mixed with rain fell in northwest Nebraska. Out West, a crackling thunderstorm packing pea-sized hail north of Los Angeles was accompanied by a report of a funnel cloud over North Hollywood. Thunderstorms also were reported around Portland, Ore., and a man was struck by lightning while working in his yard. Lightning also shattered a chimney and damaged trees at the home of Jean Brown. "I thought the world had come to an end," she said. Flooding in the southwestern part of Louisville was caused by the malfunction of gates at a pumping station for the storm sewer system, an aide to Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane said. Police and firefighters began ferrying people from their flooded homes Sunday morning, and people in one area swam or waded through 4-foot-deep water to help their neighbors get out. Two Louisville schools were opened as emergency shelters. People living between the western Kentucky towns of Owensboro and Henderson were forced from their homes for a second consecutive day as the rain flooded low-lying neighborhoods. "Swarms of thunderstorms..." "It's just the most unusual thing the way the rain seems to build... it just keeps coming." ".. I thought the world had come to an end." === Page 65 of 92 ### Earth's polar switcheroo Q. The polarity of the Earth's magnetic field has reversed itself several times in the past and is expected to do so again. How is this possible? A. Nobody knows. The alignment of magnetic polarity in ancient rocks, which is thought to reflect direction of the Earth's magnetic field when the rocks were formed, seems to leave no doubt that the field is reversed every million years or so. The field itself is believed to be caused by the motion of a liquid "dynamo" in the Earth's hot metallic core, possibly driven by heat derived from radioactive decay, or by latent heat released when liquid metal in the core solidifies, or by gravitational energy released as denser material in the core sinks toward the middle, or some combination of these factors. Geophysicists have pointed out that some kinds of dynamos are known to spontaneously reverse their polarity because of "coupling" -- a combination of resonances of different periods in the electrical circuit they are connected to. Something similar might take place in the Earth, they suggest. Note: This will now be worked on by my UFOs, in the demonstration of their power. Owens ### Shuttle flight delayed again WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first launch of the new space shuttle, Challenger, was postponed again Thursday -- to the first week in April, at least -- because the satellite it is to carry aloft may have been damaged by a storm last month. There is concern over contamination of the Tracking Data Relay Satellite in the payload bay of the space shuttle," said Kennedy Space Center spokesman Dick Young at Cape Canaveral, Fla. "There is also concern over contamination which might affect several critical spring mechanisms." Crews had been working toward launch on March 28 or perhaps March 30. Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, director of the shuttle program, declined to set a new date. S-P R-W 3/11/83 ### UFO Project ### Satellite's rockets damaged WASHINGTON (AP) -- Engineers trying to push a $100 million communications satellite into its proper orbit discovered Thursday that two of the craft's maneuvering rockets had been damaged and would not work. The satellite, which was supposed to revolutionize space communications, was launched from the Challenger space shuttle earlier this month but wound up in the wrong orbit when a booster rocket failed. S-P R-W 4/15/83 Note: My UFOs elected to foul up the communications satellite instead of destroying the space shuttle and its astronauts. Owens Texas PK Spokane, Wash., Mon., March 7, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW ### Blizzard of tumbleweeds blocks highway in Texas RANKIN, Texas (AP) -- Tumbleweed driven by winds gusting to hurricane force piled up 10 feet deep, blocking a highway for seven hours and burying at least one car and stranding others. Highway department workers used shovels and a front-end loader to clear State Highway 349 north of here Saturday while a dust storm reduced visibility in the area to near zero. "I have never seen anything like this," said Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Izatt. "I think I've swallowed enough dust to last me 30 years." Gusts of 40 mph were common in western Texas, the National Weather Service said. A burst of 98-mph wind was recorded at the Davis Mountain Observatory. A 10-foot wall of weeds covered most of the highway about 16 miles north of here. One car was buried under 12 feet of tumbleweed. Izatt said he found several cars stranded at noon, when he reached the clogged stretch. Officials put up roadblocks to reroute traffic. Marie Stamper said her car became snarled in the weeds as she drove from Midland to Rankin. "I'm a Texan, but I've never seen this before," Ms. Stamper said. Terry Teate, an oil field geologist, said he saw the trunk and rear window of Ms. Martin's car as he drove toward Midland. ### UFO Project ### Missile goes down in California POINT MUGU, Calif. (AP) -- An unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile, one of the first test-launched from a Navy surface ship, crashed Sunday in an uninhabited mountainous area about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The $1.5 million missile was supposed to have landed at a test range in Tonapah, Nev., about 300 miles from its launch aboard the destroyer U.S. Merrill, said Bob Holsapple, a Washington spokesman for the Joint Cruise Missiles Program. The destroyer was stationed off San Clemente Island, about 75 miles northwest of San Diego. There was no property damage and no injuries as a result of the 10:15 a.m. crash about 25 miles northwest of Ojai, said Point Mugu Navy Missile Test Center spokesman Ray Lucasey. Holsapple said the missile did not explode on impact and may be salvageable. That will be determined by its San Diego-based builder, General Dynamics' Convair Division, where the missile will be returned for analysis. The low-flying missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a range of between 500 and 700 miles, Holsapple said. S-P R-W 3/7/83 ### UFO Project ### Wing falls off B-52 bomber SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Most of one wing fell off a B-52 bomber Thursday after it cracked near the fuselage as the plane was being refueled on a runway at Mather Air Force Base. Some fuel spilled but there was no fire and no one was hurt, the Air Force said. "It's awfully incredible," said Mather chief information officer Capt. Louis Figueroa. He said 85 percent of the left wing fell off, breaking between the fuselage and the inboard engine pod. The eight-engined bomber has two pods containing two engines each on each wing. S-P R-W 3/11/83 === Page 66 of 92 Note: My SI is "talking" over my area. If you want to believe the "military officials" am sure they'll be glad to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Owens Spokane, Wash., Sun., May 1, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW D3 # Falling Soviet rocket spotted in Spokane Staff and wire reports SP Rev 5/1/83 A bright orange ball which flamed across the night sky Friday over the Pacific Northwest, prompting a swarm of UFO reports, was a falling rocket from a Soviet Cosmos satellite, military officials said Saturday. "I thought it was a jet airliner on fire when I first saw it," said John Killen, sports editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. "There were two large burning lights that looked like they could have been engines on fire." Steve Lent of KBRO radio in Bremerton, Wash., more than 300 miles to the west, said he first thought it might be a plane, but added, "I've seen planes flying through clouds before, and it wasn't a plane." Several sightings also were reported in the Spokane area. Spokane County Sheriff's Lt. Richard Lovejoy said the objects were observed by the county's helicopter patrol. The report was confirmed by tower personnel at Fairchild Air Force Base and by security officers at Spokane International Airport, who said they saw 50 to 100 of the objects, deputies said. The county's emergency 911 system was flooded with calls from citizens who observed the objects apparently moving from north to south about 11:30 p.m., deputies said. It is unknown whether the rocket body disintegrated before striking the ground, said Del Kindschi, a public affairs officer with the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The Coeur d'Alene office of the Idaho State Police reported Saturday that the rocket was believed to have struck the Earth in the Elk Mountain area of Benewah County in the Idaho Panhandle. But the Benewah County sheriff's office later reported that the object was not believed to have hit the ground. Unlike other Soviet space materials recently returned to Earth, the launcher rocket is not thought to be radioactive, Kindschi said. The rocket had carried the satellite Cosmos 1457, launched Tuesday, according to Kindschi. The rocket re-entered the atmosphere north of Vancouver Island and sightings were reported from throughout the Northwest, Kindschi said. Despite the attention drawn by the rocket's fall, re-entry of space debris is not unusual, he said. UFO Project # More engine woes for Challenger SP Rev 2/27/83 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA officials decided Saturday to replace a third defective engine intended for the space shuttle Challenger, which is already two months behind schedule for its maiden flight. The problem was another leak, this time in the No. 2 engine. The engine will have to be removed and inspected to see whether it can be repaired at Kennedy Space Center, officials aid. The latest difficulty could mean the launch will be postponed beyond the target date of March 20. But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it could not immediately determine how long the three-engine Challenger might be grounded. The leak, discovered Friday, was described as a crack in a hydrogen line leading to an engine component called an augmented spark igniter. The igniter triggers the burning of oxygen and hydrogen propellants during launch. The problem comes only three weeks after Challenger's No. 1 engine was removed because of a hairline crack that permitted gaseous hydrogen to escape into the tail section engine compartment. That difficulty was compounded by a faulty replacement engine. Another leak was discovered in its heat exchanger before the motor could be mounted on the space plane. UFO Project # nation SP Rev 3/4/83 ## Work on shuttle under way CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Technicians began repairing Challenger's engines Thursday, slicing out 10-inch sections of metal pipe that have been leaking hydrogen gas and delaying the new shuttle's maiden voyage. The five- to six-day task of replacing defective metal tubing will push the launch back to the end of March, space agency officials say. All three of Challenger's engines have sprung leaks, as has one replacement engine. Engine No. 1 and its replacement leaked from the manifold; Nos. 2 and 3 had the defective tubing. Aerospace officials blamed a design flaw and decided to replace the pipes on all Challenger engines. UFO Project ## Marine copter crash kills 6 SAN SIMON, Ariz. (AP) -- A Marine helicopter en route to maneuvers in California crashed in rugged country 12 miles east of this southeastern Arizona community, killing six people and critically injuring a seventh. The CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, based at the Marine Corps Air Station in New River, N.C., crashed about 6 p.m. Sunday. Public affairs officer Gary Mosley at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., said there were seven people on board "and they were getting ready to participate in a combined arms exercise." Ross said the cause of the crash was under investigation. SP Rev 3/29/83 === Page 67 of 92 UFO Project # Jet engine explodes on runway SEATTLE (AP) -- An engine on a United Airlines 727 exploded as the jetliner was about to take off Wednesday, scattering engine pieces and closing a runway for about 45 minutes. There were no injuries reported. The plane did not leave the ground, said Donna Wilson, spokeswoman for the Port of Seattle which operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. There were 141 people aboard Flight 1151 to San Francisco and San Diego, United spokesman Joe Hopkins said. It was the second time in a week that an engine has blown on a United aircraft. On Friday, a United DC-8 from San Francisco landed safely in Reno, Nev., after an engine disintegrated over the Sierra Nevadas at 36,000 feet and debris punctured a wing, United said. None of the 185 people on board was injured. Boeing 727s have three engines, all near the rear. Hopkins said the engine that blew up was on the left side and had the explosion occurred in the air the plane could have remained in flight. The pilot had control of the plane at all times and taxied back to the hangar on the plane's own power, Hopkins said. Boeing spokesman Tom Cole said the cause of the explosion was not known. He did say the engines were designed to channel broken pieces out the back and keep them from ripping into the fuselage. "The engines are designed to contain broken pieces like that." Pieces swept from the west runway will be turned over to United. SP Rev 3/18/83 UFO Project Spokane, Wash., Fri., April 15, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 11 # 'It was lonely' out there HONOLULU (AP) -- A Navy pilot who bailed out of his burning jet over the Pacific Ocean said Thursday he stayed in a one-man life raft for 18 hours because he feared he would drown if he swam for a bigger raft that was thrown to him. Lt. Cmdr. Gary J. Hagstrom said that as he sat in the raft he couldn't see his co-pilot -- only the circling search planes and the enormous waves. "It was a very lonely feeling," Hagstrom, 38, of Portland, Ore., said after returning to Honolulu. A Navy plane and two merchant vessels were searching Thursday for one of two Air Force rescue specialists who parachuted into the water Monday to help save Hagstrom and another downed Navy flier. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Y. Jones, 26, of Kailua, Hawaii, was seen unconscious in the water after the rescue attempt Monday afternoon, and has not been spotted since. The other Air Force rescuer survived. Hagstrom returned to Honolulu on Thursday and met with reporters on the Matson container ship Lurline, which picked him up at dawn Tuesday near the spot where he bailed out of the Navy jet 750 miles northeast of Oahu. He said he and co-pilot Lt. Walter Joe Richardson, 26, of Homer, La., parachuted into the 15-foot swells shortly after noon Monday, minutes after their A-4 Skyhawk jet caught fire. "Everything happens so fast, it was weird," Hagstrom said. "It couldn't have been more than three or four minutes before I was into the life raft that comes in a backpack I had," he said. A lifeboat from a Japanese fishing vessel, Pacific Maru, later picked up Richardson and Air Force Staff Sgt. Steven Rodman, 27, of Phoenix, Ariz., who parachuted into the water but was unable to rendezvous with the fliers. UFO Project # Navy plane smashup: 14 missing; 1 rescued SP Rev 5/1/83 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A Navy passenger plane, carrying 15 people, crashed into the St. Johns River on Saturday when one of its engines exploded and burst into flames five minutes after takeoff from Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Divers searched the wreckage and the murky river bottom, but only one survivor had been pulled out of the 10-foot waters seven hours after the plane went down. "There was one survivor. We can hope there are more," said Petty Officer 1st Class Don Savage, who was at the scene. Navy officials were contacting the families of the people aboard to tell them the plane had crashed and the passengers' fate was unknown, Ensign Erik Dahl said. All those aboard were Navy personnel based at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dahl said. UFO Project # Faulty missile self-destructs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The first stage of a Trident missile test-fired from a submerged submarine malfunctioned Tuesday and the missile blew itself up 55 seconds after launch, military officials said. Earlier reports had quoted spokesman Dick Castellucci of the Space and Missile Test Center at Patrick Air Force Base as saying the missile veered off course and was destroyed by a range safety officer on the Air Force Eastern Test Range. But Castellucci later said he was misunderstood by reporters and that the missile had destroyed itself. SP Rev 4/20/83 === Page 68 of 92 Experts attempt to save satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's biggest and costliest communications satellite, launched with fanfare from the space shuttle Challenger, traveled a misshapen orbit Tuesday as experts on the ground tried to improvise ways to salvage it. They voiced hope for eventual success. The new shuttle, meanwhile, was coasting like a seasoned traveler around the Earth. Its astronauts, quietly busy with metals processing and other scientific experiments, wondered if they had anything to do with the satellite's problems. "We don't really have a story for you," said Mission Control. "We'll probably be talking a lot about that post-flight." PLANS WERE to use the satellite's nozzles and the fuel it carries for small course corrections, to propel the satellite into its proper 22,300-mile-high orbit. The makers of the satellite and the rocket were meeting with NASA engineers to decide when and how to do that. The decision could take days. A lot was riding on overcoming the problems with the 2 1/2-ton, $100 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, which is needed urgently both for defense purposes and future missions of the shuttle. Without TDRS, a spacelab flight in September is practically an impossibility. Challenger commander Paul J. Weitz and his crewmen, pilot Karol J. Bobko and mission specialists Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson, who had ejected the satellite from their cargo bay late Monday, were asleep when the trouble began. They were in the second day of the ship's five-day inaugural flight. THE SPACE PLANE encountered a few first-mission annoyances, including a clogged filter in humidity ducts in a cabin fan. Peterson checked it and reported: "We found all kinds of junk of them, a whole bunch of screws, bolts and some washers and quite a bit of felt." He said the area was too tight to photograph the mess but "we wrapped it all in Scotch tape and saved it for you," and added "there is also a lot of blue lint in these filters." "The Challenger is operating near flawlessly," said flight director Randy Stone at a morning briefing. "The crew is feeling fine." There was no indication that the astronauts suffered from the space sickness that plagued others on the five flights of the first shuttle, Columbia. MUSGRAVE, 47, a practicing surgeon as well as astronaut, performed for the shuttle's television cameras in midafternoon: doing backflips and other feats of weightless legerdemain on the ship's mid-deck. Mission Control said he stayed up late Monday night, despite a very long day, to perform some checks on the space suits that will be used on a space walk during the mission. After the crew was awakened with martial music, Musgrave was eager to get on with the day's work. "We're going to come out of the chute running hard," he said. Weitz and Bobko fired Challenger's engines twice to begin a series of four course-changing maneuvers to meet a phantom target in space. The exercise was a rehearsal for later flights when astronauts will chase down satellites to service or repair them. THE ASTRONAUTS' next big day is Thursday when Musgrave (Continued on page 2) Satellite (Continued from page 1) and Peterson climb into the space suits and walk out into the airless void of the open cargo bay. The two Mission specialists will spend today checking out the suits which malfunctioned before a scheduled space walk on the last shuttle flight. What had been a perfect satellite deployment just before midnight turned sour 5 1/2 hours later when a firing of an attached booster rocket ended 20 or 30 seconds early. The satellite, instead of hovering over one spot along the equator, 22,300 miles high, tumbled into a 14,000-to-22,000-mile egg-shaped path. At that orbit, it could perform its intended functions some of the time. SPACE AGENCY officials hoped to use the satellite's small steering jets to guide the payload close to its intended orbit. Robert Aller, NASA's program manager for the satellite, said it carried 1,300 pounds of hydrazine, a propellant produced by the chemical reaction of chlorine, caustic soda and ammonia. "We feel that with several hundred pounds of the hydrazine system we can significantly correct the orbit to be near geosynchronous," he said. When a spacecraft is 22,300 miles high over the equator, its orbital speed matches the spin of Earth making it appear to be stationary over that spot. The term for that is geosynchronous. "Things are going better than we had hoped," Aller said. "We should be able to use the spacecraft (TDRS) in a normal fashion." THE HYDRAZINE normally is used to make minor corrections when a satellite begins to drift from its assigned place. Aller said the satellite had fuel to spare and that its lifetime would not be affected. At the end of its incomplete rocket burn, the satellite was tumbling. Mission control was able to stabilize and separate the TDRS from its heavy booster rocket before it failed altogether. Without elaborating on how they did it, he said: "They did a remarkable job in restoring the TDRS to a normal position." The satellite, once stabilized, responded perfectly to ground commands that extended its power-producing solar panels, booms and antennas. The satellite is critical to future shuttle flights and its deployment was the major goal of the mission, which is to establish the U.S. shuttle fleet as a dependable carrier of military, scientific and commercial cargo. IT IS THE FIRST of three TDRS satellites designed to serve as a space switchboard between Earth and as many as 26 satellites, including the planned shuttle fleet of four ships. A mission heavily dependent on having at least two TDRS satellites operating is the European Spacelab - a scientific laboratory scheduled for launch on the ninth shuttle flight next September. The second TDRS is scheduled for launch aboard the eighth shuttle in August. But because builders feel that at least two months checkout is needed to qualify the payload once in space, NASA and the European Space Agency have been working on a plan to support Spacelab with just one - the TDRS that apparently failed Tuesday. === Page 69 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Mon., March 7, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Anybody out there in space? CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The most intensive search ever attempted for intelligent life in outer space, the ultimate needle in the cosmic haystack, begins Monday when astronomers turn on a refurbished telescope in the Boston suburbs. The switchboard for a call from out there is a relatively puny radio telescope owned by Harvard University. But unlike other quests for messages from space, which have used observatories for a few hours at a time, this one will go on non-stop, around the clock, every day of the year. The effort, planned to last at least four years, is being directed by Harvard physicist Paul Horowitz and financed by the Planetary Society, a group co-founded by astronomer Carl Sagan. The scientists will search the northern skies with the Oak Ridge radio telescope, an 85-foot-diameter radio dish located in Harvard, a town about 25 miles west of Boston. "Most of the others have just looked at a few stars," said Horowitz. "You really need to look at a few million." His effort is different from his unsuccessful predecessors' in another way, too. "It uses rather sophisticated hardware," said Horowitz. "It's probably fancier than anything that's been used before." Will they find anything? "There are a few good, solid radio astronomers who think that within 10 to 15 years, a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization will be discovered," said Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society. "But most of us say the probability is that it will not be discovered in our lifetime." Note: Do you really think that the scientists and govt. are not desperate re my UFOs? Owens U.S. loses satellite and Russia fails UFO Project Spokane, Wash., Sat., April 23, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Trio returns after space failure MOSCOW (AP) -- Three Soviet cosmonauts returned safely to Earth Friday after failing to dock their spacecraft with an orbiting 20-ton laboratory and cutting short the mission. It was the Soviets' first unsuccessful space venture in four years and presumably marred celebrations of Lenin's 113th birthday for prestige-conscious Kremlin leaders. Reporting the trio's soft landing in a "planned region" just north of the central Asian city of Arkalyk, 1,500 miles east of Moscow, the official Tass news agency said the cosmonauts "feel well." It blamed "deviation from the norm of the planned regime of approaching" for the failure of the docking. The landing of the Soyuz T-8 craft was shown briefly on the main Soviet television evening news, together with pictures of the three cosmonauts who appeared smiling after the flight. Air force Lt. Col. Vladimir G. Titov, 36, was in command of the craft on his first space flight. Engineer Gennady M. Strekalov, 43, and researcher Alexander A. Serebrov, 39, had each made one space trip before. First signs that the docking was in trouble emerged late Thursday, when Western groups monitoring the mission said the Soyuz and the orbiting Salyut 7 craft had passed within yards of each other, but failed to hook up. Soviet media waited until Friday morning to say the docking had failed and that Soyuz T-8 was returning to earth just 48 hours after it was launched. The Soyuz launch Wednesday and preparations for its docking with Salyut 7 had been announced with some fanfare as an evident prelude to the cosmonauts sending greetings to their comrades on earth on the occasion of Lenin's birthday. But Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov and other leaders attending Kremlin celebrations of Lenin's birthday received news only of a safe landing. Just after the time announced by Tass for the landing -- 5:29 p.m. (5:29 a.m. PST) -- a note passed between assembled Politburo leaders. Observers concluded it reported Soyuz T-8's return. The Salyut 7 spaceship was the scene of history's longest space mission -- 211 days by cosmonauts Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev last year. This week's mission was the first manned Soviet space mission since. === Page 70 of 92 St. Paul Dispatch 2/7/83 # World recession takes on look of Great Depression UFOs attack Economy EDITOR'S NOTE: "The world is in an economic crisis. The perpetuation of stagnation raises the specter of a possible breakdown." The warning comes from 26 economists of 14 nations who gathered recently in Washington. This is the first of a five-part series examining the recession in both its global dimensions and its impact on individuals in several countries. **By Charles J. Hanley** Associated Press First of five articles The world is scraping bottom in the deepest economic slump in a half-century. A quarter-million beggars crowd Mexico City's streets. Hundreds of merchant ships ride useless at anchor in Singapore harbor, castoffs in a time of shrunken trade. Men and women without work loiter in London's Trafalgar Square and pack soup kitchens in Paris. In Japan, farmers fearing a flood of cheap American oranges and beef march on the U.S. Embassy. **World at the Bottom** The global recession, a period of slow or no economic growth stretching back to 1979, "has begun to resemble the Great Depression of the 1930s," the Independent Commission on International Development, led by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, pronounced after its latest meeting. And, it added darkly, "the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the magnitude of the practicable solutions." Economists in Washington feel a faint pulse of recovery in the United States -- housing and automobiles sales are up. But few expect more than a Please see Recession / 4A Continued from Page 1A half-hearted U.S. rebound this year, and most expect continued stagnation in many countries. Although the recession has reached every corner of the planet, the impact is uneven. Western Europe has been hit harder than the United States, and Japan less. Some relatively reliant poor countries, such as India, have been partly insulated. But others that survive from day to day by selling sugar, copper or whatever raw material to the great manufacturing nations are desperate. "Economic growth in the developing countries is less than the rate of growth of their populations. Their per-capita income is falling. That is a pretty bleak situation," Indian economist P.N. Dhar, an assistant U.N. secretary-general, said in an interview. "In southern Africa, this means an increase in absolute poverty, an increase in malnutrition." The concerns of world leaders are not purely economic. The recession has already helped topple governments or prime ministers in West Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Prolonged high unemployment will threaten the current leadership in other capitals as well, and it could ignite violent upheavals in some of the most hard-pressed lands. Mexican businessmen reportedly counseled U.S. diplomats that the financial crisis in Mexico -- where the standard of living may be whittled back down to the 1970 level -- will make the Mexican masses "easy prey for demagogues." Politicians and economists, businessmen and the unemployed all look ahead uneasily in a world they hope has reached the depths: * The global economy that boomed in the 1960s, growing at an average of 5.5 percent a year, and pushed ahead at a 4.3 percent-a-year rate in the mid-1970s, simply stopped growing in 1981-82. Industrial nations may inch ahead in the next two years, forecasters say, but not at a "healthy" pace. * At least 30 million workers are without jobs in 24 Western industrial nations, three times the number of unemployed in the early 1970s. That does not include the uncounted millions of Third World jobless and penniless. The 10.8 percent U.S. unemployment rate is expected to dip slightly by 1984. But Western Europe's 10 percent jobless rate is expected to hit 12 percent by mid-1984. * World trade, lifeblood of the post-World War II global boom, has begun contracting. In West Germany, for example, orders for the autos, steel and other goods that Germans ship to the world fell 10 percent in 1982's last three months. Economists expect international trade to shrink 5 percent in 1983. Another statistic is the most chilling for many of the experts: The nations of the Third World owe more than $600 billion to foreign banks and governments, debts that have almost doubled in four years -- debts that suddenly are not being repaid. Such big borrowers as Brazil and Mexico are caught in a classic economic squeeze. When world interest rates rose in recent years, the payments due on their loans ballooned. But those same high rates slowed economic activity in the Western industrial nations, which consequently no longer needed as much Mexican oil or Brazilian sugar, and then only at lower prices. Without more dollars, German marks, British pounds, the Third World countries cannot pay their debts, or even -- in extreme cases -- feed their people. This cycle was repeated around the world, from the Philippines to Bolivia. The world price of cotton dropped from 92 cents a pound in 1980 to 57 cents, sugar fell from 43 cents a pound to 6 cents, copper is selling for less than the cost of production. The Third World's problems backlash on the industrial countries, pushing world trade deeper into its downward spiral. Q Cont'd === Page 71 of 92 The Mexicans, for example, are no longer the hungry customers they once were for U.S. goods. U.S. exports to Mexico are estimated to have slid to $12 billion last year, from $18 billion in 1981. The world recession illustrates better than ever how intertwined the world's economies have become. But behind the financial flow charts, beyond the staggering statistics, the specialists still argue over what precisely caused it all. "Some people say the whole thing started with the 1973 'oil shock,' like the Book of Genesis," said Dhar. "But the inflation really started before that." Some world prices were rising sharply in the early 1970s -- traceable to U.S. overspending for the Vietnam War and overproduction of dollars. But the quadrupling of oil prices intensified the inflation and pushed the world into the 1974-75 recession. High inflation persisted into the late 1970s, when a new redoubling of oil prices kicked it over into double digits. Western leaders decided to fight high prices by restricting money supplies and encouraging high interest rates. The "dearer" money brought down inflation, from an average 14 percent in 1980 to 7 percent in the industrial West. But these tight-money policies also discouraged new business investment, big trade deals, new loans to consumers -- in short, they slowed world economies. A further complication: money created in the 1970s inflation was moving in vast, uncontrolled streams around the world. Much of it poured into U.S. dollar investments, because of lucrative interest rates and other considerations. This made the dollar more valuable relative to other currencies. And that meant a Japanese automobile that once cost an American consumer $10,000 now cost $8,000. The result: pressures from U.S. automakers and workers to keep out cheaper competition. Such protectionism, repeated around the world, drags down world trade still more. Who or what is to blame for the world recession? The United States? The oil sheiks? Japan? An uncontrolled world currency system? Third World borrowers? U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan's opinion: "For too many years, the world has been mesmerized by the modern-day money mentality... Too many nations -- including the United States -- have bought and bought and bought on a massive scale. And instead of paying, they say, 'Charge it.'" The opinion of Charles Schultze, who was chief economic adviser in the Carter White House: "Monetary restraint was overdone, especially in 1981 and the first half of 1982. Monetary policy attempted too much too quickly." The argument will go on. For years, governments and economists will theorize and tinker with policies and institutions. At the core of the debate is a quandary expressed plainly by The Times of London: "The main problem of the industrial world is that it has found no way of reducing inflation without raising unemployment." The British should know. Inflation has fallen to its lowest point there in 13 years. But at the same time almost one in seven British workers is without a job. TUESDAY: Jobless in Liverpool. 70s attack Economy # 10,000 show up seeking 46 jobs in Buffalo, N.Y. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- About 10,000 job seekers showed up at the Anaconda American Brass plant here to apply for openings for 26 skilled craftsmen and 20 production workers, the company says. Five hundred people camped outside the employment office to make sure they were at the front of the line Saturday. "When we heard from our security people that applicants were camping out overnight and using bonfires to keep warm, we realized we had to open up a lot earlier," said David Velmosky, the company's labor relations supervisor. Anaconda, the Arco Metals division of the Atlantic Richfield Co., had planned to start accepting applications at 9 a.m. Velmosky and others began handing out forms at 5:30 a.m. and by 10 a.m. had distributed more than 7,000. The company said an estimated 10,000 forms were distributed. "We had hoped to be able to chat briefly with each applicant," Velmosky said. "But the size of the crowd made that impossible. Instead, we gave each a form and told him or her to fill it out and mail it to us." "We promised everyone we wouldn't begin screening for the new jobs until Friday, which would give all of them a chance to get their applications back." The openings, part of an $80 million expansion, were announced by the company last week. Anaconda currently employs some 730 workers at the plant. === Page 72 of 92 UFOs attack Economy # Double-digit jobless rate is reported by 30 states By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press SP Rev 3/11/83 WASHINGTON -- Thirty states, paced by West Virginia with 20.4 percent of the labor force out of work, registered double-digit joblessness in January, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The state figures, which are not adjusted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to reflect seasonal variations in the economy, showed that roughly 158,000 people out of West Virginia's 770,000 workers had no job. Bureau spokesman Kathy Hoyle said it was believed to have been the first time since the recession began in the late summer of 1981 that any state's jobless rate has reached or exceeded 20 percent. The report showed that 30 states and the District of Columbia had unemployment rates of 10 percent or above in January. Twenty-one states and the nation's capital had double-digit joblessness in December and unemployment rates were at or above 10 percent in 17 states in January 1982. WEST VIRGINIA'S 20.4 percent jobless rate compared with a national seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 11.2 percent in January, the latest report said. Following closely behind West Virginia was Michigan, with 17 percent joblessness and Alabama with 16.6 percent. Hawaii, at 5.6 percent, had the lowest jobless rate, followed by Kansas, 7.6 percent; Oklahoma and South Dakota, 7.7 percent. ## West Virginia leads states with 20.4 percent of workers unemployed. The coal mining industry in West Virginia was hardest hit by the recession, but the slump subsequently had a deep impact on construction, steel and small businesses. Nearly a third of the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers union, many of them in West Virginia, have been laid off, and the union has cut its national staff in Washington. A COMPANION report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed that West Virginia led the nation in the proportion of its labor force drawing unemployment compensation. Through the week ending Feb. 19, according to the Employment and Training Administration, the state's insured unemployment rate was 11.3 percent, compared with a national insured jobless rate of 4.3 percent. HERE ARE JANUARY'S seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates for the 50 states and the District of Columbia: West Virginia, 20.4 percent; Michigan, 17.0; Alabama, 16.6; Ohio and Pennsylvania, 14.9; Indiana, 13.8; Tennessee, 13.7; Oregon, 13.6; Illinois, 13.5; Wisconsin, 13.4; Washington state, 13.3; Idaho, 12.9; Kentucky, 12.4; Alaska and Nevada, 12.3; Rhode Island and Mississippi, 12.2; Also, California, 11.7; South Carolina, 11.6; Louisiana, 11.3; Arizona and Arkansas, 11.1; Iowa, Missouri, Montana, 10.9; New Mexico, 10.6; Florida and Minnesota, 10.4; District of Columbia, 10.3; Maine and North Carolina, 10.0; Wyoming, 9.9; Utah, 9.7; New York, 9.6; Colorado, 9.5; North Dakota, 9.4; Maryland, 9.1; New Jersey and Virginia, 9.0, and Massachusetts, 8.7; Also, Texas and New Hampshire, 8.5; Delaware, 8.4; Connecticut, 8.3; Georgia, 8.2; Vermont, 8.0; Nebraska, 7.9; Oklahoma and South Dakota, 7.7; Kansas, 7.6, and Hawaii, 5.6. UFOs attack Economy # Cash 'found' for jobless to stall crisis New York Times SP Rev 3/15/83 WASHINGTON -- An attempt to repeal the withholding provisions on savings and interest income continued to ensnare Senate efforts Monday to pass an emergency recession relief bill. The urgency to adopt the bill diminished slightly, however, as the Labor Department announced that it had found an extra $196.6 million to finance unemployment benefits in 27 states through the end of the week. The relief bill includes $5 billion to underwrite benefits in states that are running low on cash, and originally it was estimated that this money would be needed by Tuesday. "IT'S A SERIOUS situation," said Jack Hashian, a spokesman for the Labor Department. "But I don't think we're going to have anybody going without checks this week." ## Troubled states WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here is the list of 27 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, with the amounts of money they seek to borrow to ensure nonstop payment of unemployment benefits, according to figures released by the Labor Department on Monday: Pennsylvania, $248 million; Ohio, $223 million; Michigan, $210 million; Illinois, $201 million; Texas, $132.1 million; Wisconsin, $100 million; New Jersey, $65 million; Louisiana, $55 million; Indiana, $46.3 million; Minnesota, $43 million; Kentucky, $41.7 million; West Virginia, $40 million; Connecticut, $38 million; Missouri, $37 million; Tennessee, $35.5 million; Iowa, $35 million; Alabama, $33 million; Colorado, $32.8 million; Virginia, $32.1 million; Utah, $15.9 million; Idaho, $15.3 million; Arkansas, $14.9 million; Montana, $10 million; South Carolina, $8.5 million; District of Columbia and North Dakota, $8 million; Vermont, $5.5 million; Maine, $5 million, and the Virgin Islands, $725,000. No figures were available for Puerto Rico. === Page 73 of 92 # Jobless stream from West Virginia By STRAT DOUTHAT, Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Benny Mannifield, unemployed for a year, watched his wife, Nida, give the neighbors one last, tearful hug. "There's just nothing around here any more," he said. "My unemployment compensation ran out the first of the month, so me and the wife and the dog are leaving." Like their counterparts in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Mannifields on Friday abandoned their home in search of jobs and a future. "We're just leaving the house for the bank to take over," Mannifield said before departing for Roanoke, Va. A day earlier the U.S. Labor Department had announced that for the fifth straight month, West Virginia had the nation's highest unemployment rate. Gov. Jay Rockefeller's administration says the state's jobless rate is about 14 percent; the federal figure places it at 21 percent. Mannifield, a tall, friendly man in his late 30s, isn't interested in that debate. All he knows is that there are no jobs, and no prospects of jobs, in West Virginia. "I tried everything," he said. "I was a steel worker, earning about $30,000 a year," he said. "I had a good-paying job and good benefits. Now I've got nothing." According to the U.S. Census Bureau, West Virginia, which recorded a population increase during the coal boom of the early '70s, has been losing residents for the past two years. That comes as no surprise to Allen Cremeans, who runs a truck and trailer rental business in Huntington. "We see people coming in here all the time who are leaving the state," he said. "A lot of them say that they're out of work. They say they're tired of fooling with it." Like the Mannifields, most of the migrants are headed South. "A year ago everybody was going to Texas," Cremeans said. "These days, they're going to the Southeast, to Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Hardly anybody ever goes up North." He said many of his customers are too broke to afford trucks and have to settle for small trailers or sometimes just trailer hitches. "This is probably the hardest-hit city in the state," Cremeans said. "For a while there, somebody was coming in every day, looking for a job, but not any more. I think everybody's just given up." Talk of economic recovery rings hollow to many of the jobless in West Virginia, which economists say is likely to lag behind the rest of the country due to its dependence on coal and heavy industry. Although the national unemployment rate has been dropping in the past few months, West Virginia's has continued to rise -- jumping more than four percentage points since November. Slumping auto sales began affecting the state's steel mills nearly two years ago. Coal mine layoffs soon followed, and now the effects have trickled down into all sectors of the state's economy. Figures released this month by the state Employment Security Department indicate that 52,500 jobs have simply disappeared in West Virginia in the last three years, with the biggest losses coming in manufacturing and construction. **Mannifield** takes a last look before heading out. # Laid-off workers fill up carts at food giveaway COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) -- Hundreds of laid-off workers showed up at an old supermarket Saturday to collect their share of $140,000 worth of food being distributed by Cummins Engine Co., this city's largest employer. "I had no idea this would be so huge," said one furloughed worker, Sharon Emily, who left the Cummins Food Fund Giveaway with two boxes of groceries, a large box of soap powder and bags of onions and apples. "I knew things were bad, but I didn't know how bad." Employees from the company's two unions, the Diesel Workers Union and the Office Committee Union, began raising money for the project in February. When their fund reached $70,000 by the end of March, the company agreed to match the contributions. Grocery carts filled with foods packed in Cummins' parts boxes were lined up in front of the old supermarket. Carol Donnell, who was at the site at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, said Cummins' 2,217 laid-off workers were sent letters explaining the program, and about 1,300 responded. === Page 74 of 92 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 75 of 92 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 76 of 92 May 15, 1979 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN In early April, 1979, I was interested in doing a story on the work of Ted Owens (PK Man) and selling the story to National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. But both Enquirer and myself wanted Owens to give some kind of demonstration of his powers (alleged by Owens to be connected with UFOs). At that time Florida was in the midst of a terrible drought, so I asked Owens if he could bring rains to Florida in order to alleviate the drought. Owens agreed to do so. He sent a written confirmation of his agreement to me and to Enquirer on April 15, 1979. He promised, via my phone call to him, to deliver the rains "in a few weeks." Within ten days (April 25, 1979) enough rain fell to end the drought in Florida completely. As a matter of fact, the rainfall broke the weather record for Florida rainfall in the time period. Then there were further rainstorms, helping Florida even more. This statement is a simple statement of fact, made at the request of Owens, and is a true statement. __________ Wayne Grover 3282 Parade Pl. Lantana, Florida 33462 Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 15th day of May, 1979. __________ Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 77 of 92 Wayne H. Grover 3282 Parade Place Lantana, Florida 33462 21 May, 1979 To Whom It May Concern I began working with Ted Owens via telephone in February of this year. I studied his past work in depth, I contacted many of the people who have been involved with him in past PK experiments and I was commissioned by the National Enquirer to write a story about the entire event. I asked Ted to set up a PK demonstration for further study. He agreed to do so even after having had to prove to so many other people that he was what he purported to be. This demonstration was to last for a year and would be a control of the weather over the state of Florida. It was to begin 1 March, 1979. Mr. Owens said he and the SIs, (space intelligences) would produce several kinds of weather phenomena characteristically out of chronological sequence for normal meteorological conditions. Whether what followed was pure coincidence or applied PK power is up to the individual to determine for himself. In Owens history of PK effects, this "coincidence" rate has been maintained with an odds ratio of thousands to one. Among the weather phenomena that Owens predicted for Florida for the period were: EM, (electromagnetic Effects), heat, water effect, hurricanes controlled to turn over Florida, particularly Lantana, and UFO sightings. Within a week after the demonstration started, the Florida panhandle had the heaviest rains in their history. It was not the normal rainy season for that area. The rest of Florida had an exceptionally dry winter, so much so in fact that it was on the verge of a serious drought. Water was rationed, people fined for using it on wrong days, etc. As a side light, Ted called me one night and mentioned the EM attacks to come. The next 48 hours saw power failures across the state followed by abnormal sun spot activity which interrupted the three major TV networks broadcast for several days. This was followed by more blackouts which are still happening at this writing. On Easter Sunday, I called Ted Owens and asked him to end the dry period that Florida was experiencing. He agreed both verbally and in writing. He also amended the PK map which he had sent me to show where the phenomena would occur. Within ten days, Florida has the heaviest rainfall in recorded weather history. Much more rain fell than during === Page 78 of 92 any hurricane. Owens had said he would pour down "tremendous" rains upon Florida. This is a matter of record that it rained like no time in previous recorded history. Miami received over 16 inches. All of central and south Florida were flooded. Weather men were puzzled because this rain came out of the Gulf of Mexico where it had formed suddenly, then moved over southern Florida where it stopped and produced the tremendous rains. This was fully six weeks before the end of the normal dry season. Ten days later, Tampa, on the gulf coast of Florida was hit by the same freak storms, flooding the city and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was declared a disaster area. Again, the coincidence. Or was it? As of this writing, Ted Owens has told me that Florida will now experience a heat wave created by a special UFO parked in orbit and focusing the sun's rays down to our green state of Florida. Only time will tell if this too happens like the rest of Owens predictions. As a sidelight: I am a graduate of the USAF weather school and have over 25 years experience in the field. I am a professional writer, and in my opinion, Mr. Ted Owens is certainly not of normal abilities. Only scientific testing will determine if he has a part space alien brain. In the meantime, Ted Owens may be what he claims. Wouldn't it be a pity if mankind laughed at this "looney", only to find that he alone held the key to their salvation. A fellow named Noah once went about his business while others laughed to their content. I stand ready to help any project that will explore Mr. Owens abilities to give him the opportunity to do as directed by his SIs. Wayne H. Grover Free Lance Journalist Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the undersigned authority this 21st day of May, 1979. Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. My Commission Expires: NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE MY COMMISSION EXPIRES DEC. 28, 1980 BONDED THROUGH MUROSKI-HUCKLEBERRY, INC. === Page 79 of 92 Queen Elizabeth and President Reagan step from the Britannia Saturday morning before her trip to Yosemite National Park. Later, during the drive to the park, two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff escorting the royal motorcade were killed in an auto accident. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Three escorts killed in crash during queen's visit to park SF News 3/6/83 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Two Secret Service agents and a deputy sheriff died in a traffic accident Saturday as they escorted Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade up a winding Sierra Nevada highway to Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Officer Jim Fulton of the California Highway Patrol at Stockton said details of the accident were sketchy, but it was "a triple fatal - two Secret Service agents and a Tuolumne County deputy sheriff." The victims' identities were not immediately available. The queen was unharmed. Fulton said the vehicles were among 15 escorting Elizabeth from Castle Air Force Base to Yosemite, where she and her consort, Prince Philip, are to spend a quiet weekend after a full week of pomp and ceremony. The 2½-hour drive from the base to the park follows a winding, scenic highway that cuts through the Sierra Nevada foothills. The queen, on her first visit to the West Coast, left San Francisco on Saturday morning after a dockside celebration attended by several thousand people. Caterers dressed in Elizabethan costumes dispensed Cheerios cereal and doughnuts to those who braved rain to say "cheerio" to the royal couple. The send-off incorporated red, white and blue fireworks and a hot air balloon originally scheduled to greet the queen Thursday. That festive welcome for the royal yacht Britannia was washed out when Pacific storms forced the royal couple to fly rather than sail to the Bay area. At Yosemite, the royal couple was to stay at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where their sixth-floor suite has a view of Glacier Point, Yosemite Falls and the Royal Arches. "This is the queen's, shall we say, down time for the entire visit," said Sandy Burke, spokeswoman for the British consulate in San Francisco. "It's her R&R, so to speak." For more than a week, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, weathered protests and receptions. They were cheered by thousands, booed by thousands more and serenaded by Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. They mingled with presidents, millionaires, athletes, movie stars and high-technology factory workers. They covered at least 1,000 miles in limousines, planes, four-wheel drive vehicles and a Navy bus. They ran the culinary gamut from Delta asparagus and goat cheese to enchiladas and refried beans. Elizabeth and Philip arrived Feb. 26 at San Diego's Broadway Pier for the queen's first visit to California. Two days later at Los Angeles' City Hall, Elizabeth thanked the United States for its support last year when the British successfully fought to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine invaders. She also noted she was retracing the route of Sir Francis Drake, who claimed what is now California 400 years ago. "But I want to assure you, Mr. Mayor, that I am not here today to press that claim," the queen told Tom Bradley. The carefully planned itinerary, scheduled to end Monday when Elizabeth and Philip depart for Seattle and then Canada, was foiled more than once by volatile weather. A fierce storm prevented the royal party from sailing in the HMY Britannia from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, where the queen and Duke of Edinburgh braved a four-wheel drive ride up the winding, fog-shrouded road leading to President Reagan's mountaintop ranch. The deluge, which sent a tornado hurtling down on Los Angeles, later forced the royal couple to abandon plans to sail by yacht from Long Beach to San Francisco, where thousands had paid to ride in five boats meeting the Britannia at the Golden Gate Bridge. The rain abated somewhat during the royal stay in the Bay area, but the storm of protest intensified, following the queen wherever she went. More than 5,000 uninvited guests waving Irish flags and signs opposing Britain's presence in Ireland showed up for the gala state dinner given by President Reagan for the queen at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum on Thursday night. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan escort wrecks motorcycle 4/30/83 HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston police officer crashed his motorcycle while escorting President Reagan's motorcade into town on Friday. The officer, Sgt. Ralph Gonzales, suffered sprains and bruises, and Reagan consoled him for a time before he was placed in an ambulance. The accident, on Airport Boulevard as Reagan's motorcade headed for the Gulf Freeway into the city, caused a 10-minute delay in the president's journey. Reagan, accompanied by aides and Secret Service agents, got out of his armored limousine, and walked about 100 yards to Gonzales, who lay in the street while ambulance workers tended his injury. On his way, he picked up a police service revolver from the street and handed the weapon to a bodyguard. Secret Service agents surrounded the president and shouted "Get Back, get back" to reporters and cameramen who ran to the scene. The president bent over the officer and talked to him for several minutes. Then Reagan got back into his car and resumed the ride into town, stopping at Cenikor Foundation, a drug rehabilitation center. Aides later said that Gonzales had collided with Officer Harold Prothero, who escaped injury. Gonzales, who is 32, was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital, where he was reported in satisfactory condition with a sprained neck and bruises. Gonzales said later that when Reagan appeared at his side, "I thought I was dreaming." "He was very kind, what I remember. I think he asked me was I OK and I told him I was sorry that I'd blocked the motorcade," the officer said in a telephone interview from his hospital room. "I don't think I was in my right mind," Gonzales said. "I do recall seeing Mr. Reagan, the president. I didn't realize I'd actually had a wreck until I was in the ambulance." "I was blocking two buses coming out of the airport," he said. "As the motorcade approached, the presidential car came by. As it was coming by, I accelerated, going up to check the next intersection. All I remember then is people standing around." Police spokesman Larry Troutt said apparently Prothero and Gonzales intended to seal off the same intersection. Reagan said of the officer "He was conscious and aware of what was going on." The officer apparently hit a street sign when he was thrown from his bike. Deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver told reporters that as the accident occurred Reagan said, "My God, I think he hit the sign." Deaver said Reagan insisted on getting out of the limousine when it stopped. === Page 80 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" (Base: symbolic) # Stone slabs fall off Capitol wall (1) S.F. EXAM 4/29/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 100 square feet of stone veneer on the West Front of the Capitol crumbled minutes after President Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress in the building, prompting renewed calls on Thursday for renovation of the oldest part of the historic structure. About a dozen large sandstone slabs, each about eight inches thick, crashed into an inner courtyard terrace from the west wall of the House of Representatives wing between 6 and 6:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday night. That was only a few minutes after Reagan finished his speech on Central America to the joint session assembled in the House chamber. No one was injured in the crash; the inner courtyard, a level below the main Capitol terraces, is not usually visited by the public. But the incident immediately renewed the decades-old debate over the deteriorating West Front and whether it should be extended further to the West or simply restored in place. House advocates of extending the front an additional 22 feet toward the National Mall, providing an additional 147,000 square feet of office space within the building, said the incident should prompt Congress to approve their plan. "If the American people really knew the condition of their Capitol, they'd be screaming for us to take action," said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif. "Our Capitol is falling apart." Lewis serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee that earlier this week approved $70.5 million for the extension, which is also supported by Capitol Architect George White. White and others argue Note: The above and below are symbolic of how the UFOs are taking apart the U.S. government, until they get their Base. Owens. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Office walls crumbled on U.S. ambassador (2) S.F. EXAM 4/19/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- "All of a sudden my office collapsed," said U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon describing the car-bomb blast Monday at the U.S. Embassy. Dillon, clad in a jogging outfit, escaped from the rubble by climbing through a window onto a seventh-floor balcony, re-entering the building a few floors lower down and then descending to the street. "I was standing up with a telephone in one hand and a T-shirt in the other. I was preparing to go out and jog, when all of a sudden my office collapsed," the silver-haired ambassador, still in jogging clothes, told reporters several hours after the explosion. "I was unable to move. Someone picked the rubble off me. My secretary and deputy, Bob Pugh, pushed the rubble off me. I went out the window and down a few floors and then out." Dillon said he was unhurt except for "a few cuts." The ambassador was rushed in a bulletproof limousine escorted by police to his residence in suburban Yarze, but returned to the embassy in late afternoon to inspect the damage. Robert Dillon escaped unhurt except for a 'few cuts' Dillon, a Middle East specialist who served previously in Turkey and Egypt, said both President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan contacted him. "Both of them feel as I do that we can't let this stop our work. We've got to continue," Dillon said. "The negotiations will go ahead. It's a tragedy and you can imagine how sad and angered we all are, but it doesn't change anything. The U.S. mission will continue." The Reagan administration is sponsoring talks between Israel and Lebanon on the withdrawal of more than 70,000 foreign troops from Lebanon. === Page 81 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hammer thrown at Hirohito TOKYO (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy hopped a fence and hurled a hammer 50 feet toward Emperor Hirohito Friday, but it landed at the base of a pillar supporting the palace veranda where the monarch was waving to thousands of subjects on his 82nd birthday. Witnesses heard the boy scream "death to the Emperor" as he was pinned by some of the 1,500 police on duty and taken into custody, Kyodo news service reported. It said he also was armed with a four-inch fruit knife and 24 small stones. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said the boy, who was not identified because he was a minor, told police he planned the attack to "give trouble" to his father. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Italian cabinet resigns ROME (AP) -- Premier Amintore Fanfani and his four-party coalition Cabinet resigned Friday, clearing the way for a general election in June. Fanfani, a Christian Democrat, submitted the resignation of his government -- Italy's 43rd since World War II -- to President Sandro Pertini. The presidential palace said Pertini asked the 75-year-old premier to continue as caretaker. The Socialists, a partners in Fanfani's five-month-old coalition, are pressing for an early election and political sources said there was virtually no chance of forming a new government. The palace statement did not mention a possible election. S.P. Rev 4/30/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # CIA leader died in embassy blast ## Death count is expected to reach 47 S.P. Rev 4/20/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Searchers recovered six more bodies from the bomb-shattered U.S. Embassy Tuesday and continued their grim task, with at least 47 people believed killed in the worst attack ever on a U.S. facility. There were 24 confirmed deaths and 23 other people were missing and presumed dead. Embassy spokesman John Reid said eight Americans were confirmed dead and eight others were missing from the massive explosion at lunchtime Monday. Among the confirmed dead was Robert Clayton Ames, the CIA's Near East and South Asian analyst, officials said in Washington. EVEN IN DEATH, it is unusual for any CIA employee abroad to be identified. State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said only that Ames was in Beirut "on consultations at the time of his death." He said the request any other CIA s "travel consult He s dle Ea the State Department. Peterson refused to answer further questions about CIA activities in Lebanon. State Department records show that Ames was born March 6, 1934, and had served as an economic and commercial officer in South Yemen from 1969 to 1970; in Beirut, 1970 to 1971, and in Tehran in 1973, and as a political officer in Kuwait in 1973. ROMBERG SAID Johnston was assigned to Beirut in January. He had previously served in Singapore, Tehran and Bonn. The privately owned Central News Agency said the bombing was an attempt to kill U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib and his assistant Morris Draper. It quoted unnamed government officials as saying Habib and Draper had been scheduled to be at the embassy when the bomb exploded at 1:05 p.m., but were delayed by the presidential offi- hat es- nd se UFOs attack "higher ups" # Chernenko missing again from major Soviet event New York Times S.P. Rev 4/23/83 MOSCOW -- Konstantin U. Chernenko, who has been regarded as the No. 2 official in the Soviet hierarchy since the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, did not appear Friday at one of the major events on the Kremlin's political calendar. It was the third absence of the 71-year-old member of the ruling Politburo from a major gathering since his last public appearance on March 30. As a result speculation increased that he was either ill or in political trouble. Chernenko was the only Moscow-based member of the Politburo not on the podium at the annual Lenin Day meeting in the Palace of Congresses. When Chernenko did not appear in East Berlin earlier this month to deliver a speech at a Marx memorial meeting, East German officials said they had been told he was ill. Earlier this week he was the only one of the 13 Politburo members who was absent from a Kremlin meeting on agriculture that was addressed by Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet Communist Party leader. If the accounts of illness are correct, they mark a sharp change for Chernenko, who has generally appeared to be one of the more robust members of the Politburo. === Page 82 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Spectator tries to arrest ex-CIA chief SPRN 4/28/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner's appearance before a congressional panel to speak against the MX missile took a bizarre turn Wednesday when a man tried to place him under a citizen's arrest for murder. Turner was just beginning his testimony to a House Armed Services subcommittee when the man stood up and announced he intended to take the retired admiral with him to a federal magistrate. Two staff aides placed themselves on either side of the man and Turner began the first sentence of his testimony, which the demonstrator promptly interrupted. The man then tried to take hold of Turner, but he pulled away and was escorted to a side room while the man was led out of the hearing room and turned over to Capitol police. The man has been seen at several congressional hearings this year trying to approach Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, but police have kept him away. Police did not issue an immediate report on the man Wednesday. When calm was restored, the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., invited Turner to begin again. "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to get on to some non-violent discussion of things like nuclear weapons," Turner quipped. In his testimony, Turner disputed the conclusion of a presidential advisory commission that the MX was needed to induce the Soviets to bargain seriously on strategic arms control. Instead, he said, the Soviets probably would match the missiles with new weapons on their own. The commission, whose recommendations were endorsed by President Reagan last week, also said that proceeding with the MX program was vital to show U.S. resolve both to the Soviets and America's allies. "There is a reasonable argument that the United States will look weak and confused if we do nothing in the next few months other than cancel the MX," Turner said. But there are alternatives, he added, including acting more rapidly to deploy nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on land, submarines and bombers. While saying the MX should be scrapped, Turner did endorse three other recommendations of the commission: developing small, mobile intercontinental missiles; using the number of warheads rather than missiles and other launchers as the basis for arms-control negotiations; and deploying some small missile-firing submarines to supplement the fleet of large Trident subs. The small, mobile missiles, which would take a decade to develop and deploy, have gained support from some in Congress who oppose the MX, but the program is expected to be an expensive one. TURNER UFOs attack "higher ups" # Argentina jails critical admiral BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The chief of the critical Southern Naval Zone got a year in jail Wednesday for criticizing the way his superior handled last year's disastrous Falklands war with Britain, the official news agency Telam reported. Telam said Adm. Horacio Zaratiegui, under arrest since he was replaced as commander of the southern zone Sept. 20, was found guilty of "insubordination, disrespect and usurpation of command." SPRN 5/4/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Two rockets streak over house where Shultz, aides slept SPRN 5/2/83 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Two Chinese-made Katyusha rockets streaked over the U.S. ambassador's home where Secretary of State George P. Shultz and aides were sleeping early Sunday, and officials said they were investigating whether the attack was an assassination attempt. First Lt. Alan Burghard, a 24-year-old Marine sentry from Parsippany, N.J., said the 122mm rockets barely missed the single-story villa of Ambassador Robert Dillon and "sounded like a freight train." He said there was no damage or injuries at the residence, but that the rockets could have inflicted "a lot of injuries and destroyed a good section of the ambassador's house" if they had hit the residence in the pine-wooded Beirut suburb of Yarze about five miles east of the capital. The attack came less than two weeks after terrorists blew up a truck packed with explosives outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 49 people including 17 Americans. (Continued on page 2) === Page 83 of 92 1983, Spokane, Wash. # 3 more ousted at EPA SpRev 3/26/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration, in a continuing effort to clean up the Environmental Protection Agency, asked for and received the resignations Thursday of the acting head of the agency and two other high officials under investigation by congressional committees, EPA sources said. Dr. John Hernandez, who took over as acting administrator just two weeks ago and immediately became the focus of congressional investigations, will turn in his resignation formally today, according to a source close to Hernandez. Another agency source, who also spoke on condition he not be identified, said Assistant Administrator John A. Todhunter and EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry were also resigning. The resignations were requested in meetings late Thursday afternoon with White House aide Joe Ryan. "The White House apparently feels that if those three are taken away, then the congressional investigations will taper off," said one source. They are just the latest in a series of firings and resignations as the Reagan administration has struggled to control an expanding congressional probe into allegations of conflict of interest, political manipulation and mismanagement at the agency. It started with the president's firing of Rita Lavelle, chief of the toxic waste dump cleanup program, on Feb. 7. Thursday's departures make it a total of eight top EPA officials who have been fired, asked to resign or quit, and that does not count several others on the staffs of the eight. Anne M. Burford resigned as head of the agency on March 9, saying she did so because she had become the focus of many of the congressional investigations. Hernandez, who had been deputy administrator at EPA for two years, was picked as acting administrator after Mrs. Burford resigned. A former professor at New Mexico State University, Hernandez expressed an interest in taking the job permanently, but almost immediately he found himself the subject on congressional inquiry into his handling of a report on dioxin contamination in Michigan. EPA officials in Chicago testified that Hernandez ordered them to cooperate with Dow Chemical Co. in revising the report, which in its final version removed a section concluding that Dow's Midland plant was the major source of dioxin contamination in the area. Perry has been questioned by a congressional committee into apparently conflicting statements he made about whether he kept a "green book" listing derogatory comments about certain employees. Allegations being investigated against Todhunter include that he received a $1,664 payment from a former employer after starting work at the EPA. The firm subsequently received a $40,000 no-bid contract from Todhunter's office although Todhunter denied any involvement in the award. # Specter squashed Senatorial squash claimed a victim as Sen. ARLEN SPECTER, hit by a GOP colleague's racquet, left the court with a bone fracture under his eye. Specter, R-Pa., received six stitches at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and was told to lay off squash for six to seven weeks. The accident occurred at the Capitol Hill Squash Club during a game with Sen. ROBERT PACKWOOD, R-Ore. SpRev 3/10/83 # Bomb mailed to PM defused; another injures SpRev 3/16/83 LONDON (AP) -- A letter bomb addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was safely defused Tuesday, but a similar device exploded at the U.S. Navy's European headquarters, slightly wounding a petty officer. Both were contained in white envelopes, addressed by hand, and no one claimed responsibility, U.S. and British spokesmen said. At Scotland Yard, a spokesman said both letters were incendiary devices, but "we don't know who sent them." The first one went off in the Mayfair office of U.S. Naval Intelligence on South Audley Street, some 200 yards from the U.S. Embassy where a letter bomb was detected and defused on Feb. 2. It was addressed to the Naval Communications unit and exploded as Senior Chief Petty Officer John E. Williams III opened it. He suffered a slightly burned hand, was treated on the spot by a Navy doctor and continued working, said Cmdr. Irwin Sharp, the public affairs officer. A press aide to Mrs. Thatcher said the letter bomb sent to her office was detected as the mail was being routinely sorted at lunchtime with stepped-up security checks imposed after a letter exploded at her office last Nov. 30. That device caused facial burns to the prime minister's office manager. The Animal Rights Militia, an underground group that opposes experiments on animals and the fur trade, asserted responsibility for that bomb. No arrests have been made. Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said police might be linking Tuesday's mail-bombings to the recent dispatch of letter explosives to the U.S. and Soviet Embassies here. An obscure Ukrainian nationalist group, Makhno's Secret Army, claimed responsibility for those earlier devices. It is named after Nestor Makhno, an anarchist active in the Ukraine in 1917-18. Police refused comment on the Press Association report. The last letter bomb known to have been sent by the Animal Rights Militia was delivered to a fur company in London on Feb. 28 after others had been received by politicians, the Agriculture Ministry, the Canadian Embassy and fur traders. Three hours before the device exploded at the U.S. Navy office, Press Association's Glasgow bureau received a letter signed by the "Scottish National Liberation Army" -- SNLA. It threatened attacks Tuesday and Wednesday "in reprisal" for plant closures in Scotland's steel industry. That group asserted responsibility for a series of letter-bomb incidents in recent months. === Page 84 of 92 UF Os attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Sat., March 26, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # 5 more EPA officials quit under fire WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan accepted the resignations Friday of five more Environmental Protection Agency officials who were under fire in Congress. That cleared the agency's management decks for the return of its pioneer chief, William D. Ruckelshaus. The president denied that the continuing turmoil and staff turnover at the agency reflected badly on his administration, declaring, "no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." But those who turned in their resignations had all been involved in the multiple congressional investigations into allegations of mismanagement at EPA. John W. Hernandez, named just two weeks ago to serve as acting EPA administrator, spent most of that time before congressional committees defending himself against allegations he had favored the chemical industry in decisions as deputy EPA administrator. Hernandez was replaced by Lee Verstandig, who will serve as acting administrator for the next month until the Senate confirmation of Ruckelshaus, who was persuaded by Reagan early this week to return to the job he held in the early 1970s. Leaving: Hernandez, left, Perry, and Daniel. In addition to Hernandez, resignations were also announced for EPA General Counsel Robert M. Perry; Associate Administrator John A. Todhunter; Paul C. Cahill, director of EPA's Office of Federal Activities, and John Daniel, who had served as Mrs. Burford's chief of staff. Reagan on Friday again defended the record of Anne M. Burford, the EPA chief who resigned under fire on March 7. "I never would have asked for her resignation," he said, denying reports that her departure had been engineered by White House aides. He said in spite "of all the allegations and of all the accusations ... no proof of wrongdoing has been presented in all of this fuss." Of those leaving Friday, Reagan said, "Some of those have let us know for quite some time that they wanted out. They wanted to leave." However, EPA sources, who spoke on condition they not be named, said the resignations were requested by Joe Ryan, assistant personnel director at the White House, who made the demands in a series of meetings late Thursday in Hernandez' office. The sources said the White House, in an effort to control the political damage from the long-running EPA crisis, wanted to remove all officials who have been implicated in the congressional investigations and smooth the way for Ruckelshaus' return to the agency. UF Os attack "higher ups" St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press February 13, 1983 w 5A # Fired EPA official denies accusations WASHINGTON (AP) - Rita Lavelle, the official whose firing by President Reagan set off a firestorm at the Environmental Protection Agency, said Saturday she is "willing and anxious" to defend her actions in office. In her first public comments since she was fired, Lavelle denied she had entered into "sweetheart" deals between the EPA and polluters or that the agency had manipulated the $1.6 billion hazardous waste cleanup fund for political purposes. She said she also knew nothing about automatic paper shredders being run after hours to get rid of sensitive documents. "My record is a good record and I am proud of it," she said. "I can defend every action I have taken. I am willing and anxious to do so." The furor at the agency started Feb. 4 when the EPA announced Lavelle's resignation as the assistant administrator of the Superfund hazardous waste program. Lavelle's aides said she planned to appeal the firing to her longtime friend, presidential counselor Edwin Meese. However, before she could do that the White House issued a curt one-sentence announcement of her dismissal and Meese was quoted as saying he knew Lavelle only slightly. Lavelle said she has since talked to Meese and she said, "I feel very close to him. I have felt he was watching me through my career." Lavelle, speaking to reporters at her lawyer's office, said she had "nothing to hide. I most certainly do not." In the wake of Lavelle's firing, a number of allegations have swirled around the program she headed and six House and Senate committees have started their own investigations. She denied writing a controversial memo that EPA officials have given as a principal reason EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch decided to fire her. The memo attacked EPA general counsel Robert Perry for being too tough on industry, saying "he is systematically alienating the primary constituents of this administration, the business community." Lavelle said the comments were written by one of her aides, whom she would not identify. She said they did not reflect her thinking and she had never seen them until questioned about them by a reporter. Lavelle also defended settlement agreements the agency has made with chemical companies to clean up dump sites. Four House committees have given notice they are looking into those agreements because of a concern that the companies were let off too lightly. Investigators are looking especially at a dump in Seymour, Ind., where 24 companies agreed last October to pay $7.7 million to remove 50,000 barrels of chemical waste. In return, the EPA agreed to free the companies from any liability for further cleanup at the site. Lavelle said the agreement was a good one and she was proud of the settlement. UF Os attack "higher ups" # Resignation under pressure WASHINGTON (AP) - Isidoro Rodriguez, director of minority affairs in the Agriculture Department, has resigned under pressure, a senior department official said Wednesday. Rodriguez was placed on administrative leave last week after President Reagan was asked at a news conference about a memo Rodriguez had written in which it was suggested that some controversial changes be made in federal civil rights guidelines. The memo was rejected before it reached Agriculture Secretary John R. Block, but Reagan nevertheless was asked about it at the news conference. Reagan said he was not aware of the memo but that he would have Block look into it. === Page 85 of 92 7th attack "higher ups" # Two more EPA leaders fired SP Rev 2/24/83 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan fired two more top officials of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, and a key congressman said he expected several other ousters to follow. One source said Reagan wants "to clean house at the agency." Sources both within and outside the White House confirmed that Reagan had obtained the resignations of Inspector General Matthew Novick and Assistant Administrator John P. Horton of the EPA. Reagan had fired another assistant administrator of the agency, Rita M. Lavelle, on Feb. 7. Rep. James H. Scheuer, D-N.Y., who heads one of several congressional investigations of the agency, said Novick was fired after he had released an audit critical of the EPA's handling of its financial records. "He was jettisoned," Scheuer said at a hastily called news conference. "He was asked very nicely to walk the plank." Sources who spoke only on condition they not be named said Novick was offered another job within the administration but was told by the president that he wants "to clean house at the agency." Earlier, Lavelle, denying suggestions she made "sweetheart deals" with industrial polluters before Reagan fired her as the agency's head of the "superfund" program, told Congress she was the victim of a suspicious boss - Anne M. Burford - who was herself guilty of mismanagement. Burford, who was Anne Gorsuch before her marriage Sunday, was traveling in the West on Wednesday, and would not discuss Lavelle's testimony when questioned by reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. She was asked about the dismissals in a news conference at Tempe, Ariz., where she gave a speech at the law school of Arizona State University, and said only, "There is no official announcement." Her speech was 10 minutes in getting started. The audience was told she was "on the phone to Washington." A White House official characterized Novick's and Horton's departures as "part of an effort to strengthen middle-level management at EPA, particularly in the superfund area." The superfund is the $1.6 billion account for cleaning up toxic waste dumps. The White House source said no other (Continued on page 2) UFOs attack "higher ups" # House panel says Reagan covering up for EPA WASHINGTON (AP) - A House subcommittee said Tuesday that testimony from EPA employees raises "more than a suspicion" that President Reagan's refusal to hand over EPA documents amounts to a cover-up of agency wrongdoing. The documents may support allegations of the EPA's political manipulation of the $1.6 billion superfund for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, said Rep. John Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who heads the subcommittee. In a letter sent to Reagan, Dingell said his panel has "received sworn, direct testimony that the documents which you have withheld for five months ... contain references to political manipulation in the administration of the $1.6 billion superfund." "Mr. President, the time has arrived for you to meet your assurances," Dingell said in his letter. "There exists more than a suspicion that documents are being withheld to cover wrongdoing." In Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had not received Dingell's letter. "The president indicated he will not use executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing," Speakes said, referring to Reagan's statement in a nationally broadcast news conference last month. Speakes also said the president "has instructed the Justice Department to look into wrongdoing. The administrator of the EPA referred certain allegations of wrongdoing to the Justice Department. We are willing to make documents available to Justice." Another congressman released a "hit list" of political opponents among EPA employees, meanwhile, and EPA Administrator Anne McGill Burford said she would accept an independent investigation of the problem-plagued agency. Dingell also said the panel has received sworn testimony from three EPA employees indicating that former EPA Assistant Administrator Rita M. Lavelle may have committed perjury when she denied knowing that her former employer was partly responsible for one California dump. And he said other witnesses testified about a possible "hit list" of political opponents within EPA. Dingell did not elaborate on the "hit list." But the chairman of another subcommittee investigating EPA, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., released a copy of such a list, which was unsigned and undated, and an aide said it came from an EPA employee considered reliable. The list contains the names of scientists and researchers and includes such assessments as "an environmentalist, should go" and "reported to be liberal and an environmentalist." One notation read: "a follower, needs guidance, won't stand out in front, definitely keep." Scheuer called the list "very disturbing.... The sketches on these respected scientists are not only outrageous on their face, but also call into question the integrity of the entire agency's approach." EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency would have no comment on the list released by Scheuer. "Until we have some hard and fast evidence as to the authenticity and origin of this list, it would be inappropriate for us to comment at this time," he said. SP Rev 3/2/83 === Page 86 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Nkomo flees from African homeland SP Rev 3/10/83 GABORONE, Botswana (AP) -- Joshua Nkomo, the patriarch of Zimbabwe nationalism, has fled to Botswana after 13 months of political warfare with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and three days in hiding to escape Mugabe's troops. The Botswana government said Nkomo, the 65-year-old leader with Mugabe of the successful guerrilla war against white rule in the former British colony of Rhodesia, crossed the border Tuesday. A Western diplomat who asked not to be identified said he made the 385-mile trip from Bulawayo, his stronghold in southwest Zimbabwe 60 miles from the border, by Land Rover. An aide in Bulawayo said Nkomo decided to seek asylum in Botswana when the Zimbabwe government refused to guarantee his safety. President Quett Masire's government said Nkomo would remain temporarily in Botswana "while he explores all possible ways of assisting to resolve the situation in his country." The government, anxious to preserve its good relations with Mugabe, said Nkomo would not meet reporters, and government spokesmen refused to say where he was staying. "It is embarrassing enough having him here," said one official. A spokesman for Mugabe, who is in New Delhi at the non-aligned summit meeting, said Nkomo bolted "unconventionally" and illegally. He pointed out that Nkomo's passport was seized in February. Some observers suggested Nkomo might move on to Zambia, north of Botswana and Zimbabwe, where he and his guerrilla army were based during the Rhodesian civil war. Mugabe and his forces were based in Mozambique, and the two armies operated independently, in different parts of the country. After the war Mugabe, a member of the dominant Shona tribe, won a majority in the 1980 election that brought black rule to Zimbabwe. Despite his majority, he formed a coalition government with Nkomo, the leader of the minority Ndebele tribe in western Zimbabwe, and the Shona and Ndebele guerrillas from their two armies were merged with troops of the old Rhodesian army. Mugabe fired Nkomo in February 1982, accusing him of plotting a coup, and Ndebeles began deserting the army and taking to the bush as bandits. After they were accused of killing more than 100 people in robberies and ambushes in western Zimbabwe, Mugabe send the elite North Korean-trained 5th Brigade of Shonas to the area. Nkomo accused the troops of killing scores of innocent civilians, and villagers estimated the fatalities in the hundreds. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Road safety chief quits New York Times SP Rev 4/2/83 WASHINGTON -- Raymond A. Peck, Jr., the Reagan administration official who has stirred sharp disputes by rescinding numerous automobile safety standards, announced Friday that he had resigned his post as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, the suddenness of Peck's announcement and his intention to remain at the agency as a consultant has fueled speculation that his resignation was requested by the administration. Senior government officials familiar with the situation said that it was Peck's style, not his policies, that may have brought him into disfavor. One high official characterized him as unpredictable. His resignation becomes effective May 21, after which he intends to serve for an indefinite period as a paid consultant. Administration officials denied that Peck had become a liability and praised his work. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, secretary of the Department of Transportation, released a statement "expressing her gratitude for his dedicated public service and indicated her respect for Ray's desire to seek new challenges." Peck said, "There is not the slightest bit of accuracy to any inference that I am not leaving at my own will." UFOs attack "higher ups" # 7 Reagan aides fired; 'a new team' wanted WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven of President Reagan's nine special assistants for public liaison have been fired, administration sources said Wednesday. The new director of that White House operation said it was because she wanted "a fresh start, a new team." Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who took over for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as head of the Office of Public Liaison, called the advisers in one by one over the past two days to tell them they would be replaced. Wednesday evening she confirmed the staff shakeup, but would not say publicly who was being ousted. Officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified publicly said all but two of the special assistants who handle White House liaison with outside interest groups were being replaced. Whittlesey said she had not cleared the dismissals with the president. "But I'm a team player," she said in a telephone interview. White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III oversees the public liaison office. Whittlesey said "we will make every effort to place" the dismissed aides in new administration jobs. Among those ousted were Virginia Knauer, consumer affairs adviser, and Robert F. Bonitati, Reagan's labor adviser. Others let go were aides who handled liaison with minorities, the Jewish community, consumers, business, agriculture and religious groups, the source said. Whittlesey, who went to the White House after serving two years as Reagan's ambassador to Switzerland, confirmed the firings Wednesday evening. SP Rev 3/10/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Aborigine 'moons' royals WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Prince Charles invited Maori opera star Kiri Te Kanawa to sing at his wedding, but that didn't stop another aborigine from flipping his grass skirt to expose his bare bottom before the royal couple Wednesday. The 34-year-old heir to the British throne and 21-year-old Princess Diana were being driven out of the Wellington airport when Maori activist Te Ringa Mihaka ran onto the road. "He was wearing a piu piu -- a Maori grass skirt," said a police spokesman. "He swung around and flung up the skirt to expose his naked posterior. We don't know whether they were looking at him." SP Rev 4/21/83 === Page 87 of 92 Reed has Reagan's favor despite probe WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has "full confidence" in Thomas C. Reed, the president's spokesman said Monday, even though a federal grand jury and a congressional subcommittee are investigating the investments of the national security official. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said Reed's case is being reviewed by national security adviser William Clark who will meet later this week with Rep. John Dingell D-Mich., chairman of the subcommittee investigating Reed. Speakes said "the president has full confidence in Tom Reed." Asked if Reed should step aside, Speakes said, "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow - the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. Burford, under fire, quits EPA job WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anne McGill Burford, chief of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, while the White House announced it would release all documents congressional investigators had demanded in their investigations of the EPA. Despite the resignation and President Reagan's agreement to surrender the documents, House investigators said their inquiries into Ford's departure is not the issue. "Burford's departure is not the issue. The issue is the operation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the implementation of our environmental laws." "It may in the media, but it won't." Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., chairman of the Senate Environment, and Public Works Committee, also said his committee will continue its close scrutiny of EPA operations. The resignation of the EPA chief came as chairman of House investigators subcommittees exerted new pressure for release of the documents -- documents which Burford had continually refused to supply, leading to a contempt of Congress charge against her amid a widening investigation of the agency. "Without an end to these unfortunate difficulties, EPA is disabled from implementing its mandate and you are distracted from pursuing the critical domestic and international goals of your administration," Burford wrote in her letter of resignation. Reagan, noting he accepted her decision "with great regret," said he had "faithfully and honestly carried out your mission and honestly made wise use of its lands and water and make wise use of its lands and water and make wise use of its lands and water." "Your resignation today is an occasion of sorrow for us all," Reagan said. "But it is more than that; it is an act of usefulness and personal courage that once again demonstrates your loyalty to the nation." Burford had been under considerable pressure to quit, but Reagan had continued to defend her. The 40-year-old Burford, who had repeatedly said she would quit despite calls for her resignation from such prominent Republicans as House Minority Leader Michael of Illinois. Larry Speakes, the chief deputy, said she could "stay as long as she wants to." "I don't think he's offered to step aside and I really have no judgment on whether it would be the proper thing to do or not." Speakes emphasized that Reed is not on the White House staff, even though he was commissioned as a special assistant to the president, and argued that the security council is a "separate entity" from the White House staff. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force, is a consultant to Clark and has an office at the National Security Council. In addition, he is vice-chairman of the presidential commission that is reviewing the nation's strategic nuclear forces and trying to find a basing mode for the MX missile. Reed says Democrats are to blame for the heat he is getting from Congress. He was not available for comment Monday, but while in Las Vegas Saturday for a speaking engagement, he said a 1981 investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of his stock dealings is being reviewed by Congress because of what he called "the political fun and games in Washington." He has denied any wrongdoing. The allegations center around Reed's March 4, 1981 purchase of $3,125 worth of options to buy stock in Amax, a company whose board of directors included Reed's father. A day after the purchase, a takeover bid was announced by Standard Oil of California and the stock shot up in price, giving Reed a $427,000 profit. The SEC filed a complaint against Reed, charging insider trading, an illegal practice involving buying or selling securities on the basis of information not publicly available. The case was settled when the SEC dropped the complaint in December 1981 and Reed, who did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a court order not to buy or sell securities based on inside information. He also agreed to put $427,000 into escrow - the amount he allegedly made on the deal. A federal grand jury in New York "is in the preliminary stages of an investigation" into Reed's stock dealings, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York. Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation is looking into how the SEC handled the case and why Reed was granted a top-secret "Q" clearance that would permit him access to some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets. Events that led to resignation -- Page 19 'Wolfman' misses LONDON (AP) -- A man wearing an outsize wolf's head lunged at Princess Michael of Kent, as if to bite her on the neck, while she and her bodyguard dragged him away. The princess did not press charges, and a police spokesman said later that the 18-year-old attacker was released early Tuesday in the custody of his parents. He was not identified. "He will return to Kensington police station at a later date when inquiries are completed. There are no charges and there will be no court appearance. We understand the man was working as some sort of promotional personality at the exhibition," said the spokesman, who in accordance with British practice declined to be named. The attack took place as the 38-year-old wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the Queen, was touring a home improvement exhibition in West London. The man, who witnesses said was over 6 feet tall and was also wearing a long brown cloak, lunged at the princess as she was talking with others touring the exhibit. (Continued on page 3) === Page 88 of 92 UFOr attack "higher ups" # White House 'sold' at auction as unemployed protest plight SPRJ 3/16/83 By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The White House was sold at a mock sheriff's sale Tuesday between chants of "Fire Reagan" from some 2,000 unemployed workers who came from across the country for a rally and a day of lobbying Congress about their plight. "We want jobs, not cheese," said Greg Tekavec, a Westinghouse rail worker laid off five months ago from his job in Wilmerding, Pa., near Pittsburgh. "People are getting their utilities shut off. The banks are trying to foreclose their homes and repossess their cars. We are getting fed up with what they're doing to us," said Tekavec. THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYED Network, a loose alliance of emergency committees nationwide, said forty cities were represented at the rally. Among the crowd, identified by buttons and placards, were steel workers from Pennsylvania, out-of-work people from Detroit assembly lines, and glass, mine, railroad, textile and service workers. "Stay the course -- lose everything," said one placard. Other signs urged Congress to "Save Our Homes" and spend "Money for Jobs, Not for War." "You didn't get here a minute too soon," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., told the rally at the Capitol. "There are a number of people in the government that are trying desperately to ignore you." CONYERS SAID DEMOCRATS are as guilty as Republicans. "The Democrats are getting ready to sell out on a compromise jobs program that won't put a million people back to work -- and there are 13 million people out of work in America," he said. The activities, coordinated by unemployment groups in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, started with folk and rock songs adapted for the occasion. The rally also featured a skit in which John and Jane Q. Public, fed up with soup kitchens and living out of their car, decide to fire President Reagan. "Oh Ronnie, what will we do? Will I have to sell the china?" asked a woman playing the role of Nancy Reagan. "GOLLY GEE, MOMMY, I don't know. I've never been in this situation. There must be help for us somewhere," the stand-in president replied, as shouts of "Cheese" arose from the crowd. "There are no jobs in Pittsburgh," or Toledo, Rochester, Lorain, Cleveland, Baltimore or Butler, said worker after worker in the sea of signs on the Capitol steps. "I cashed my last unemployment check yesterday," complained Charles Paknik, an Ohio Valley machinist who said he'd been out of work since 1981. "It used to be, one phone call and I'd get a job. Now I can't even get a dish-washing job," said Paknik, who added he'd been forced to give up his house in Shadyside, Ohio, and move in with his wife's parents in Big Wheeling Creek, W.Va. Mike Ziemianski of Wheeling, W.Va., said he has a master's degree in industrial administration and has been trying unsuccessfully since last summer to find a job. "I've written to 530 companies," he said, displaying a ledger book in which he had charted his job search. "I haven't even had a job interview." Carl Denker of Rochester, N.Y., recruited for an engineering job in Dallas, was in the process of moving when the Dallas firm went bankrupt 15 months ago. Denker said he fell behind on his mortgage payments and, when the bank told him it was going to foreclose, sold the house immediately. "I basically gave it away instead of having the bank foreclose. I lost about $20,000," said Denker, 54. UFOr attack "higher ups" ## Rights commissioner sued SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is being sued for more than $100,000 by the San Diego Urban League, which accuses him of removing funds from his bank accounts when he was its executive director. Dr. Walter Miles, the league's chairman, said Thursday the agency hopes to recover more than $10,000 that Clarence Pendleton allegedly paid himself for unused vacation time before he resigned last March 31 to accept the federal post. The suit also seeks $100,000 in punitive damages. Pendleton was sworn in as chairman of the Civil Rights Commission last April 5. The suit, filed in Superior Court, contends Pendleton used league funds for his own benefit and for purposes other than league business. SPRW 3/26/83 === Page 89 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan lawyer's wife slain SP Rev 3/26/83 PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) -- The son of President Reagan's tax lawyer was booked for investigation of murder Friday after his mother's nude, battered body was found in a bedroom of the family home, officials said. Michael David Miller, 20, was taken into custody after an emotional embrace with his father, Roy D. Miller, who has worked with Reagan for about 15 years. Marguerite Miller, 52, appeared to have died from a blow to the head, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Al Sett said. He said the murder weapon had not been determined, but several items were taken from the home as evidence. It was the second domestic tragedy in a family that friends described as extremely close. Michael's older brother, the Millers' only other child, committed suicide in 1981 while undergoing psychiatric treatment. Authorities said Michael, an unemployed health food enthusiast who played the violin, had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression in recent months. The son, Michael David Miller, voluntarily came to the police department here," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Beck. "An interview was conducted with him, at which time he made admissions concerning the death of his mother." Authorities refused to say what those admissions were. Miller, 53, first saw his wife's bloody eyeglasses as he entered the front door of their modest home in this small, exclusive city some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. "He called his wife's name, and when there was no response, he went to a neighbors' house and called the police," said police Sgt. Ed Jaakola. Police found her body in the bedroom, but said Miller never saw his wife's body. Sett said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday afternoon to determine the exact cause of death. Miller, a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, handled the sale of the Reagans' Pacific Palisades home. He is a tax specialist who deals with wills, trusts, probates and estate planning. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Russian diplomat expelled SP Rev 4/1/83 LONDON (AP) -- Britain ordered the expulsions of a Soviet diplomat and journalist Thursday and barred another Kremlin envoy from returning because of "unacceptable activities" -- a phrase the government uses to describe spying. The Foreign Office said assistant air attache Col. Guennadi A. Primakov and second secretary Vladimir V. Ivanov "have engaged in activities incompatible with their status." Primakov was given seven days to leave and the Foreign Office said Ivanov, currently abroad, would not be allowed back. 1983, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Sen. Randolph quitting post after 50 years SP Rev 3/10/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jennings Randolph, a New Deal Democrat through a congressional career spanning 50 years and nine presidents, announced Wednesday he's retiring, declaring "there is a season and a time for every purpose." Randolph, the only remaining national legislator to have served during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days, announced he will not seek re-election when his term expires in 1984. # world UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Turin's deputy mayor arrested TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Police have arrested the Socialist deputy mayor of Turin and three other senior local officials on corruption charges in a bribery scandal that threatened to topple the left-wing government. Police said the four officials, all members of the Socialist Party, were suspected of taking bribes in exchange for the awarding of public contracts and the sale of city-owned real estate. The arrests late Saturday night brought to 16 the number of politicians and officials arrested in the scandal. SP Rev 3/14/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Soviet leader poses for photos MOSCOW (AP) -- Yuri V. Andropov met and posed for pictures Friday with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega in an appearance that seemed aimed at ending speculation about the Kremlin chief's health. Soviet sources said Andropov, 68, was hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Malawi rebel leader assassinated HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The leader of a rebel Malawi political party was assassinated and his bullet-riddled body dumped near the center of the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, authorities said Friday. Attati Mpakati, 50, president of the outlawed Socialist League of Malawi known as Lesoma, was last seen alive five days earlier when he arrived in Harare by air from Maputo, Mozambique, the Information Ministry said in a statement. "He did not arrive at the Harare address he had given on immigration papers at the airport," the statement said. It said his body was found Monday by the side of a principal street, Samora Machel Avenue, named after Mozambique's Marxist president. The ministry said he was "assassinated by unknown persons." SP Rev 4/2/83 SP Rev 3/26/83 ## Canadian legislator arrested QUEBEC (AP) -- Parti Quebecois legislator Gilles Gregoire was arrested Friday and arraigned on seven charges of "sexual immorality with minors of the female sex." He pleaded innocent. The 56-year-old co-founder of Quebec's governing party was charged under the provincial Youth Protection Act. Sgt. Claude Beaurivage of the Quebec City police force, which arrested Gregoire Friday afternoon at his office, said the charges involve seven girls aged 12 to 17. The offenses allegedly took place between September 1982 and January 1983, in Quebec City and suburban Vanier. Beaurivage said police began investigating after they received a formal complaint from the parents of one of the girls. === Page 90 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet calls new Reagan anti-missile plan 'insane' SPrew 3/27/83 MOSCOW (AP) -- Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov attacked President Reagan's anti-missile plans Saturday as an "insane" and "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at rendering the Soviet Union helpless to U.S. nuclear attack. He declared, "The Soviet Union will never allow them to succeed. It will never be caught defenseless by any threat. Let there be no mistake about this in Washington." IF THE UNITED STATES could knock out attacking Soviet missiles, Washington could launch a nuclear first strike and Moscow would be unable to respond, Andropov said in an interview in today's edition of the Communist daily newspaper Pravda. Reagan's plans, announced in a speech Wednesday, represent "a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," the Soviet leader said. "It is time they (the Americans) stop devising one option after another in search of the best ways of unleashing nuclear war in the hope of winning it," he added. IN WASHINGTON, STATE Department press officer Anita Stockman declined to comment directly on Andropov's interpretation of the Reagan speech, saying, "We have clearly stated our position." Referring to earlier Soviet criticism, she noted that Reagan emphasized in his speech that he was outlining a long-term research effort to be carried out "consistent with our obligations under the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty." "The treaty does not prohibit research into ballistic missile defense concepts," Stockman said. "The president foresees this effort taking place on a very broad time scale," she said, noting that Reagan said the task "may not be completed before the end of this century." "At this stage we are only talking about accelerating research into the feasibility of new concepts for ballistic missile defenses," she said. ANDROPOV, NOTING REAGAN'S comments about growing Soviet military strength, said the United States has ample forces and accused the president of pursuing an "extremely perilous" strategy aimed at making the United States "the world's dominating military power." Andropov, who was reported hospitalized last week for treatment of kidney and heart problems but then held meetings with visiting dignitaries Friday, spoke of Reagan's "impudent distortions of the Soviet Union's policy." He acknowledged the Kremlin's military UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House 'vibrations' lift ban on Beach Boys WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary James Watt hurriedly replaced the capital's welcome mat for the Beach Boys on Thursday after being set straight by one of their favorite "California Girls." And when Nancy Reagan got done, the president himself put a heavy foot to him. Reagan, it seems, is a fan of the surfin' sound as much as his wife. So after learning that Watt had banned the Beach Boys and other rock groups from the capital's July 4 celebration, he handed the Interior Secretary a stark reminder of what happens when your aim is bad: A plaster of paris foot with a hole in it. Watt, who earlier complained that "hard rock" music had attracted the "wrong element" to the traditional fireworks extravaganza on the Mall, proclaimed himself a likely fan of the Beach Boys, whose performances had drawn hundreds of thousands of people in years past. "The president is a friend of the Beach Boys and he likes them, and I'm sure when I get to meet them I'll like them," (Continued on page 2) SPrew 4/8/83 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Idaho's Rep. Hansen indicted by grand jury SPrew 4/8/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Rep. George V. Hansen, the flamboyant Idaho Republican, on charges of failing to disclose financial dealings including loans from Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The 52-year-old, seven-term congressman who once undertook a personal mission to Iran to try to free U.S. hostages became the first person ever charged with violating the Ethics in Government Act for making false statements on the financial disclosure forms that law requires. The four-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Washington charged Hansen with leaving out major transactions on the financial disclosure forms he filed with the House of Representatives for the years 1978 through 1981. It was not the first time Hansens' finances had landed him in hot water. In 1975 he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of filing late and false campaign finance reports. He received a two-month prison sentence, which was suspended, and paid a $2,000 fine. Specifically, the grand jury charged Thursday that Hansen failed to disclose: * A $50,000 personal loan made to him and his wife, Connie, in her name in 1978 by the First National (Continued on page 7) === Page 91 of 92 Beach boys 4/8/83 (Continued from page 1) Watt said, standing in a drizzling rain after emerging from his session at the White House. He said he still would go ahead with his decision to bring in Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton for this year's main event. As for the Beach Boys, "We'll look forward to having them here to entertain us again, as soon as we can get that worked out." Reagan's chief spokesman, Willie Nelson fan Larry Speakes, suggested a more specific timetable: inviting them back for this July 4. A spokesman for Watt, Tom DeRocco, said later the secretary's remarks were intended as an expression of hope that the Beach Boys could make a July 4 date, but he had not been in touch with the group to issue a formal invitation. The group's rhythm guitarist, Al Jardine, said in Moncton, New Brunswick said he did not believe it had a July 4 engagement, and, "I would sure like to make those plans right around Washington, D.C. if possible." As for the secretary's expression of hope, Jardine said: "That's certainly kind. We'd certainly like to come back and make peace with the administration." Jardine said members of the group opposed Watt's drive to lease acreage off the California coast for oil drilling. Asked if he would accept Watt's apology for the whole episode, Jardine laughed and said, "California's in a delicate position right now. We have to be careful about what we concede." Lead singer Mike Love referred to the foot trophy: "If the shoe fits, wear it." Watt, who has managed to stand off environmentalists, Indians, congressmen and other critics, raised the white flag just hours after it was apparent, in the wake of a flood of protest calls from around the nation, that the Beach Boys still enjoyed Good Vibrations elsewhere in the administration. Presidential aide Michael Deaver was the first to send Watt the White House message. "Anybody who thinks the Beach Boys are hard rock must think Mantovani plays jazz," he declared. He mentioned his wife and children had loved their capital performance. Next came word from Mrs. Reagan: "I like the Beach Boys." And Speakes said he wouldn't be a bit surprised if the president did, too. According to the interior secretary, he then got a call from the first lady. "She said that the Beach Boys were fans of hers, and her children had grown up with them, and they're fine outstanding people, and there should be no intention to indicate that the cause problems." "Which I agree with," Watt added. Radio stations across the country had been deluged with calls criticizing Watt's original decision, and members of Congress had a field day with it. Reagan, in a speech to several thousand Catholic educators, joked, "It's a pleasure to break away from crisis negotiations. You're the first to know this: I've just called in Ambassador Phil Habib to settle the Jim Watt-Beach Boys controversy." By that time, however, the secretary already had eaten crow on the White House lawn. Watt emerged from the Oval Office carrying Reagan's foot-shot trophy. Asked whether he would apologize to the Beach Boys, Watt said, "I don't don't know that I owe them an apology, but I apologize to anybody that thinks they need one." In the Senate, Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., invited the Beach Boys to perform at a July 4th charity concert in Kansas. Watt attack "higher ups" Speakes 4/11/83 Leading Demo liberal is dead SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Phillip Burton, 56, an environmental champion and Democratic liberal in Congress since 1964, died Sunday after complaining of back pains. Burton was stricken in his local residence in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel just before midnight Saturday. Officials said the death was from natural causes. Burton, a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in California since the 1950s, was regarded as one of the toughest and shrewdest of the state's politicians. A friend of labor, Burton often was described as coming close to being a "political boss" in the conduct of his district. In his own San Francisco district, Burton's greatest accomplishment was regarded as the formation in 1972 of the 35,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area. === Page 92 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Protesters greet Reagan Sp Rev 4/7/83 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- President Reagan, taking his pitch for high technology job retraining amongst a sea of unemployed steelworkers, ran into one of the largest protest demonstrations of his presidency Wednesday. After a tour of the Control Data Institute, where 125 jobless steelworkers are being trained to repair computers, Reagan spoke to the National Conference on the Dislocated Worker while thousands stood outside in a cold rain waving signs and chanting. "Reagan, Reagan, he's no good. Send him back to Hollywood," they said. Among the banners: "Reagans Friends Get Tax Breaks. Steelworkers Get Pink Slips." And: "Buck Stopped Here When Ronald Reagan Took Office." The president, whisked into the hotel through an underground garage, could see only a smattering of the crowd, which police estimated at 3,500. But he acknowledged that he was in hostile territory when he departed from his text to say, "I come to you not only as a speaker but as a possible victim." He noted that many at the bipartisan gathering might like to see him dislocated from his job. "We as a nation owe an obligation as well as a helping hand to those who pay the price of economic readjustment," the president said in the prepared part of his speech. "Government -- federal, state and local -- should provide support for job training and re-employment assistance." As the president was speaking, several hundred protesters stormed one entrance to the hotel, hoping to confront him. They were kept back by city police, some with dogs. No arrests were reported, although two policemen carried a woman from the crowd and put her in a patrol van. (Continued on page 2) ## Protesters- Reagan was taken inside the hotel through an underground parking area, beating the crowd who screamed, "Reagan is a coward!" Anger and skepticism were evident in the computer classroom as well as on the street outside the conference hotel. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Sp Rev 4/7/83 ### Disease center boss resigns ATLANTA (AP) -- Dr. William H. Foege, brought in to head the national Centers for Disease Control amid controversy six years ago, announced his resignation Wednesday with a "sense of accomplishment" and an eagerness to tackle new tasks at the agency. In a letter to Dr. Edward N. Brandt, assistant U.S. secretary for health, Foege, a Chewelah, Wash., native, asked for "approval to shift responsibilities" and leave his post as director. Foege, 47, said no pressure or policy conflicts contributed to his decision. "I'm not quitting with a sense of frustration," he said in an interview. "I just decided it's time for a change." UFOs attack "higher ups"  AP photo Rep. Stokes, right, is congratulated by his brother, former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, after making statement. Sp Rev 4/12/83 # Ethics boss claims racism led to drunkenness charge CLEVELAND (AP) -- Rep. Louis B. Stokes, chairman of the House Ethics Committee, on Monday denied he was drunk when stopped by Maryland police for an alleged traffic violation, and blamed the allegation on racism. "I have been patently aware that I am a black man in a predominately white society," the Ohio Democrat said at a news conference at a Baptist church. "I always knew that someday racism and bigotry in the media would raise its ugly head against me." Stokes was stopped by police in the Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., early March 25. Stokes denied that he requested congressional immunity from arrest. "If the Montgomery County police have a case, they ought to charge me and take me to court. I waive immunity," Stokes said. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 Ted Owens Box 1171 Libby, Montana 59923 LIBBY, MT APR 5 PM 1983 59923 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Avenue San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 2 of 4 April 2, 1983 Jeffrey Am now trying to get the Australian government to bring me there to end the worst drought in their history, in exchange for my UFO Base. If I am successful, then I will pay you and Scott $50,000.00 each for your book, and will get it published myself. Ted Owens PK Man === Page 3 of 4 Spokane, Wash., Fri., April 1, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Pastors claim God using Helens to make his point LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- Two ministers in cities near Mount St. Helens say God is using the volcano and the economy to tell Longview and Kelso residents to be more religious, charitable and caring of their families. "We feel that God is using the Spirit Lake flood situation, the river, and the mountain and the bad economy to get people's attention and get the community back to its spiritual moorings," said The Rev. Dave Minor, pastor of Columbia Heights Assembly of God Church in Longview. He and The Rev. Sam Poe, pastor at the Bible Truth Christian Fellowship in Lexington, see a message of fire and brimstone in the volcano's eruptions. "We're not saying it's doomsday. We're standing on the brightest day in the history of these cities if we listen to what God has to say," Minor said. The cities along the Cowlitz River are within 45 miles of the volcano that erupted with the force of a hydrogen bomb on May 18, 1980. While living with the threat of more eruptions, about 45,000 people in the valley are threatened with a wall of water that would rush down the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers if a debris dam breaks at Spirit Lake. The Army Corps of Engineers installed an emergency pumping operation on the lake near the volcano to lower the lake level until a permanent solution is found. The timber-dependent area also has been blasted by the recession. Although geologists and economists believe there are other explanations for the recession and the volcano, Minor says, "I believe God is in control of those things." Poe says the communities have "singularly been blessed by God" in the past, but have strayed from the Christian ideals of their Christian founders. April 1, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS I believe that this newsclip is remarkable and extraordinary. Both church ministers say that they believe that "God" is using volcanic explosions and bad economy (two very dissimilar things) to bring a "message" to the people. That "God" is using the nature catastrophes AND the bad economy to "get the people's attention".......... Of course, this is EXACTLY what my work has been about...and what I have been telling you about: My UFOs are "using" both of these, and other, mechanisms, to get the people's attention, and the government agencies' attention! And the ministers are actually on the right track! They know nothing about my UFOs...but my UFOs have told me (and the fact is published) that they work for God...they and Nature, as a team. The further point that the ministers make is that the "demonstrations" from "God" are to get the people back to "spiritual moorings"...and teach the people to be "more religious, charitable, and caring of their families." They are accurate here, too. Remember...the point of my UFOs causing an attack on the Economy, higher ups, etc., etc., is to pressure someone, somewhere, to provide their Base...from which all of the negative, destructive mechanisms of the UFOs will be dismantled...and replaced by positive, helpful mechanisms...which will actually change human nature world-wide toward peace, brotherhood, love for each other, block wars, etc. It is true...and if you do not believe me, then perhaps you can believe the two ministers...whom I have never met and do not know..."God" (the force my UFOs work for...and whom Dr. Mishlove describes as "the Phenomenon" in his book about my work, which has not been published) is indeed using the Mt. St. Helens volcanic explosions, and many other catastrophes, to "make the point." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 4 UFOs attack scientists Sagan's recovered SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Astronomer CARL SAGAN has made a "full and complete" recovery from complications that followed an appendectomy and has been discharged from a hospital. Sagan, 48, developed internal bleeding after an emergency appendectomy March 19 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, New York. He was transferred to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse two days later, and discharged Friday. Hospital spokesman Robert Vaccarelli quoted Sagan's wife, ANN DRUYAN, as saying the Pulitzer Prize-winning author was "anxious to get back to work." Sagan, a Cornell University professor, was host of public television's popular "Cosmos" series. SPACS 4/3/83 April 3, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I told you not long ago, my UFOs are now attacking scientists, because scientists have actively contributed to the blocking of the UFOs acquiring their Base, and have attacked me. The AMA attacked me in Ft. Worth, Texas, years ago (falsely)...and have since paid heavily forit, losing heavy membership and having many major things go wrong for them. Anyway, see the above newsclip. Sagan is the first scientist to be attacked by my UFOs, as far as I can determine from my limited approach to newspapers. An appendectomy is a comparatively simple matter; just a minor thing...and certainly no complications should stem from it. (I can speak with some authority because I stood beside surgeons operating for about two years at the Gaston Hospital in Dallas, Texas, as medical secretary, and took shorthand notes as the surgeons operated. So I know what I am talking about.) Hynek and several hundred other scientists now can expect an attack from my UFOs. Before closing, let me say that I expect a major earthquake on the West Coast soon... nothing less than 7 on the Richter and perhaps an 8. Destruction will be devastating. Also let me tell you that all of the catastrophic explosions around the U.S. that are taking place are being caused by the UFO Sun Attack...the earth being heated from its core outward, plus rays being diverted downward by the four giant UFOs around Earth. Owens 7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource 1982-83 misc newspaper articles Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Blank folder with articles mostly around 1982-1983 Folder was in the middle of the files not near 1982-1983 Created a new folder and named it 1982-83 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 92 WU INFOMASTER PARKS BEAV 006933I066 1144EST 1 INTL TDWX BEAVERTON, OR INT ADMINISTRATOR- BIRKBECK COLLEGE-UN OF LONDON MALET STREET LONDON (ENGLAND VIA ITT) DR. JOHN HASTED OF YOUR PHYSICS DEPARTMENT HAS WRITTEN A DEFAMATORY LETTER ABOUT ME TO NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE. HIS ACCUSATIONS OR SUSPICIONS HAVE NO BASIS AT ALL. I VISITED HIM FEB. 25, HE WROTE THE LETTER FEB. 28. I GAVE THE COLLEGE A SMALL GRANT FOR HIS WORK WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED. HE SUSPECTS I AM IN LEAGUE WITH MAGICIANS TRYING TO TRAP HIM. THIS IS PURE PARANOIA. I HAVE HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS IN MEDICAL CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE UK. I AM VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT MY GOOD NAME, AND HAVE THE FUNDS TO DEFEND IT. I SUGGEST YOU INVESTIGATE THE MATTER AND GET THE LETTER RECALLED TO SAVE POSSIBLE LEGAL EXPENSES AND EMBARRASSMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY. LOREN PARKS PARKS MEDICAL ELECTRONICS, INC. ACCEPTED 00001 1-PC 3/7/83 3/7/83 === Page 2 of 92 MAR 7 1983 BIRKBECK COLLEGE University of London Department of Physics Professor J. B. Hasted, M.A., D.Phil. 01-580 6622 Malet Street London, WC1E 7HX JBH/VR 28th February 1983 Dear Mr. Parks, I strongly infer from inconsistencies and indiscretions observed in our interview on Friday that you and presumably Miss Ferguson are engaged in Projects Alpha/Beta, that is, in research into my own activities. I had my suspicions after our first meeting, and therefore the money remains more or less intact. Now my suspicions are sufficiently strong to warrant taking the necessary action. I am therefore informing the Society for Psychical Research that arrangements will be made by Birkbeck College to return to them the grant offered to me by your Foundation. A further point arises. Since you have had access to the Cox-Richards rings, any forgery found in them would not place the responsibility uniquely upon them, but jointly on them and on you. The security of my own laboratories, to which you have had access, will of course be tightened. Even your circuits are dangerously over-sensitive. Yours truly, J B Hasted J.B. Hasted Mr. Loren E. Parks Psychological Research Foundation, Inc. PO Box BB BEAVERTON Oregon 97005, USA cc Professor D.J. West, Society for Psychical Research Dr. J. Beloff, " " " " Professor A. Ellison, " " " " === Page 3 of 92 ITT GA 851915748+ PARKS BEAV 03 07 1700 915748 MAGDIV G GA ATTN: THE EDITOR- NEW SCIENTIST PUBLICATIONS RE: LETTER TO YOU FROM DR. JOHN HASTED ABOUT ME IS DEFAMATORY AND TOTALLY FALSE. IF YOU PRINT IT I WILL BRING SUIT AGAINST YOUR PUBLICATION AND DR. HASTED. MY REPUTATION IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND I HAVE THE NECESSARY FUNDS TO DEFEND IT. INVESTIGATE ALL YOU WANT. I AM NOT CONNECTED WITH ANY MAGICIANS OR ANY OTHER GROUPS SEEKING TO UNDERMINE INVESTIGATIVE WORK IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY. IN FACT I HAVE SUPPORTED RESEARCH AND PUBLICITY FOR THIS FIELD. DR. HASTED'S FEARS ARE THE PRODUCT OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION AND HAVE NO BASIS IN FACT. LOREN PARKS PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH FDN., INC. 915748 MAGDIV G PARKS BEAV for this press own imagination and have no basis in fact. Loren Parks Psychological Research Fdn, Inc Telex 85 915748 MAGDIV G === Page 4 of 92 Feb. 17, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Enclosed file demonstrates the UFOs ability to cause events to happen...now, just as they did when the very same UFOs worked with Moses to cause the "plagues" which struck Egypt back then, and the Egyptian people. If they had had newspapers back in the day of Moses...he could have done this very same thing...after announcing the different "plagues" which would strike the Egyptians...and then he could have assembled newspapers and clippings to put the complete picture together from all over the land to take to the Pharaoh to make his point. Otto Binder, well-known author now deceased, followed my work closely and used to ask me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" You have the cover letter for this file which you received approx. one week ago. Please append it to the front of this file. Thanks. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 5 of 92 U.S. Economy Agok. Rev. 7/5/82 # Jobs are vanishing all over the U.S. ## And not only in money-losing industries By THOMAS W. LIPPMAN and MARK POTTS Washington Post WASHINGTON -- At the Bumble Bee tuna cannery in San Diego, 900 people lost their jobs recently when the parent Castle & Cooke Co. surrendered to plummeting demand for the fish and closed the plant. In Louisville, 3,900 people have been laid off from General Electric Co.'s major-appliance plant since last summer. The reason: the slumping housing market has reduced demand for the refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers and dishwashers made at the factory. More than 1,300 meat packers who worked for the John Morrell division of United Brands Inc. have been laid off this year as the company closed four plants. Two more plants are to be closed by the end of August, idling another 750 workers. These may be blips on the nationwide unemployment charts, but they are symptomatic of a pattern that appears to be occurring in many parts of the country and in many different industries: workers in profitable, stable corporations are being laid off like their counterparts in troubled or money-losing industries. The massive layoffs in housing, steel and autos and related industries such as lumber, copper and glass have gained national attention. Yet smaller but rising numbers of workers also are losing jobs in electronics, food processing, textiles, machine tools, petroleum and other industries that still generally are profitable. IN THEIR EFFORT to stay healthy, many companies are cutting back obsolete or marginal operations, dropping unprofitable divisions and reducing production and inventory. Their workers are finding that profitability gives no guarantee of job security. The pattern of layoffs is erratic. Some corporate giants such as Burlington Industries in textiles and Sherwin-Williams paints have dropped workers in some plants while adding them in others. But overall, the jobs have been disappearing, a hundred here, a thousand there, even in companies that are on solid economic ground. Many of these jobs have disappeared permanently because they are in plants that are not going to reopen even if the economy recovers. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, unadjusted for seasonal variation, the number of people working in non-farm jobs in June was 301,000 higher than in May, but 1.3 million below the 92.05 million employed in June 1981. At the same time, state and local government, a traditional employment refuge in hard times, also are declining. Last year, for the first time since World War II, the total number of people holding state and local government jobs dropped -- by 276,000 -- according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. THE TREND of layoffs by profitable companies has not reached Washington, but federal, state and local government payrolls have been cut by 30,000 workers since 1980 and will fall even more as jobs are eliminated by budget cuts, reductions-in-force and deregulation of business. Corresponding reductions in jobs by government contractors and consultants have pushed the District of Columbia jobless rate to 10.6 percent -- well above the national unemployment rate of 9.5 percent -- and have produced a 6 percent jobless rate for the area. Many of the cutbacks by profitable companies are relatively small when compared with such disasters as the bankruptcy of Braniff International airlines, which threw about 8,000 people out of work overnight. But Braniff had been on the brink of insolvency for months. Similarly, International Harvester Co. has put 10,000 workers on indefinite layoff and last week said it would furlough 3,200 in Rock Island and East Moline, Ill., for two months this fall -- the third time this year many of those employees have found themselves out of work for an extended period. The company's financial situation has become so precarious that a key portion of its newly negotiated contract with the United Auto Workers requires it to give workers plenty of advance notice before closing plants temporarily or permanently. SUCH ARE THE risks for employees of money-losing companies. But now workers for healthy corporations are following them into unemployment -- or into early retirement, which many firms are offering with sweetened benefits to lure senior employees off the payroll. 3M Co., a supplier to the steel, auto and housing industries, has laid off 1,345 hourly production workers scattered among more than 100 plants. To avoid more layoffs, the company is offering 2,300 workers early retirement with six months' extra pay. Dravo Corp., a Pittsburgh-based engineering and heavy-construction firm, earned $17.3 million on revenues of $1.51 billion last year, but reported a loss in the first quarter, and its workers are feeling the consequences. Dravo has cut its work force to 7,050 from about 8,500, and "these are not people who are going to be called back," a company spokesman said. Dravo also has frozen salaries and cut capital spending, which in turn will cost somebody else work later in the year. At that perennial darling of Wall Street, Xerox Corp., whose profits last year topped $598 million, the sagging economy and intensified competition in the copier business have led to what Xerox calls a "work force resizing program." Since August, Xerox' employment has shrunk by 3,300 workers, including 500 salaried and 100 hourly employees let go in May. Voluntary retirement and the phasing out of some temporary and contracted positions accounted for much of the reduction, but many people were laid off outright. While some of the reductions are attributable to a corporate reorganization, a spokesman says "the people-cutting would be more (the result) of the economy." === Page 6 of 92 UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., Jan. 20, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # New GNP report worst since '46 New York Times WASHINGTON -- The gross national product, the broadest measure of the nation's economy, recorded a 2.5 percent decline in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. For the entire year, it fell 1.8 percent, the sharpest year-to-year decline since 1946. THE DEPARTMENT attributed much of the fourth-quarter decline to a drop in net exports and to manufacturers who in the face of discouraging sales slowed production and cut inventories. These declines offset rises in consumer spending and in housing. The preliminary GNP report, which is subject to revision, reflects the impact of a recession that has now run longer than any since World War II and has pushed the unemployment rate to a postwar record of 10.8 percent. In comparison to the other seven recessions since World War II, however, this one, which began in July of 1981, is so far average in the size of its overall decline, according to Commerce Department figures. Haha!! ON AN OPTIMISTIC note, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said the recession is now ending and stated flatly that the long-awaited economic recovery will begin this quarter. Most private economists also are predicting that the recovery is about to begin. "While not all of the main economic sectors are yet signaling go," he told a news conference, "enough are picking up to indicate that this quarter will be the first quarter of recovery." Baldrige said that the administration's forecast for 1983 may be too grim and his chief economist said the GNP could rise 3 to 5 percent this quarter, which is above the official forecast of 1 percent. HE CITED THE RISE in housing starts and Detroit's decision to step up auto production because of rising sales and the relatively low level of inventories. In addition, Baldrige said, the 5 percent growth of consumer spending in the fourth quarter, the largest rise of the year, also is a signal of the spending needed to get the economy moving again. UFOs attack Economy # Reagan turns pessimistic on economy Sp. Res. 1/27/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an uncommonly pessimistic outlook for 1983, the Reagan administration is predicting the slowest recovery from a recession since World War II, with unemployment sticking above 10 percent. The still-internal forecast, confirmed Thursday by administration sources, is more bearish than nearly all the major private forecasting firms and marks a complete reversal from the administration's decidedly optimistic -- but wrong -- economic predictions of the prior two years. UFOs attack Economy By LARRY YOUNG Staff writer Sp. Res. 1/27/83 ONE THING'S sure about this economy. It'll surprise you, just as it has the experts. Economists, the people paid to make predictions about the Northwest's economic health, have been fooled more than most. None of them predicted that the current slump would turn out to be the deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression. But it did. And many consumers and businessmen who trusted the experts made some wrong decisions based on their advice. And lost money. In 1981 and 1982, the Reagan administration had been ridiculed by private economists and the financial community for making rosy predictions beyond the range of reasonable expectation. This time, President Reagan's new chief economist, Martin S. Feldstein, has insisted that the administration issue an honest forecast to regain its economic credibility. The new forecast, prepared as part of the fiscal 1984 budget plan President Reagan will send Congress Jan. 31, predicts the economy -- after adjusting for inflation -- will grow at an anemic rate of only 1.4 percent on average for all of 1983, compared with 1982. By comparison, first-year recoveries from the previous seven post-war recessions typically have shown growth rates of 4 percent or more. Because economic growth is expected to be so slow, unemployment is predicted to decline only slightly from its current level, now at a 42-year high of 10.8 percent. In early 1981, the administration predicted the economy would grow 4.2 percent in 1982 and 5 percent in 1983, with unemployment averaging 7.2 percent in 1982 and 6.6 percent in 1983. As it turned out, the economy contracted by about 1.7 percent in 1982, the sharpest decline since 1947. Meanwhile, new claims for unemployment checks fell sharply during the week ending on Christmas Day, continuing a trend that private economists interpreted Thursday as signaling a peak in layoffs. But these analysts also cautioned that any genuine improvement in the nation's 10.8 percent national jobless rate will have to await a surge in rehiring. The analysts were responding to a Labor Department report showing approximately 517,000 people filed first-time claims for unemployment compensation insurance benefits in the week ending Dec. 25. The seasonally adjusted total was 27,000 fewer than the previous week. (Continued on page 5) === Page 7 of 92 Unemployment reaches 10.8%; many giving up search for jobs WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment edged up to 10.8 percent in December and the number of Americans who gave up searching for jobs hit an all-time high. The White House predicts better figures this year, but the Labor Department's top statistician said Friday the jobless peak may be yet to come. The overall, seasonally adjusted 10.8 percent was the same as initially reported by the Labor Department for November. But end-of-year recalculations of 1982 figures to reflect updated seasonal factors showed that November's rate actually was 10.7 percent. Without its end-of-the-year revisions in the data, the unemployment rate for December would have been 11 percent, the bureau said. The annual recalculation of monthly rates is based in part on a re-computation of the effect of seasonal variations, such as weather, the school year and buying and manufacturing trends. In raw figures, the jobless picture last month did not worsen as much as it had in three previous months. The ranks of the unemployed grew by only 130,000, compared to a 440,000 surge in the previous month. The report refers to the approximate number of employed people for both November and December as being essentially unchanged at 12 million. Before rounding, it actually was a fraction under 12 million in November and a fraction over in December. An improving employment picture in the manufacturing sector of the economy, hard hit by the recession, offset lower-than-normal hiring by retail business establishments during the Christmas holiday shopping season, the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted in its report. Nevertheless, the total number of Americans with jobs shrank slightly -- by 43,000. This was an indication that while businesses were laying off fewer people, little rehiring was taking place, analysts said. The roster of Americans officially categorized as "discouraged" (Continued on page 5) Unemployment 11.0- Percent of Work Force 10.5- *Seasonally Adjusted 10.0- 9.5- 9.0- 8.5- 8.0- J F M A M J J A S O N D 1982 Source: Dept. of Labor AP Developments Nearly one-third of the production lines at U.S. factories stood idle last month as the recession deepened, in what one economist called a "near depression." The 58.4 percent factory-use rate reported Wednesday was the worst on record. The October decline was the 13th in 15 months. And rather than getting smaller, the monthly drops have been getting larger: 0.2 percentage point in August, 0.6 point in September and now 0.8 point in October. There were new declines in two major industries: Factory use fell to 48.7 percent for automakers and to 42 percent for iron and steel producers. The latter figure was that industry's lowest since a big 1959 strike stifled output. The Commerce Department said housing starts by U.S. builders rose 1 percent in October. That was only a modest increase -- to an annual rate of 1.12 million units -- but the same report provided better news in the form of a second straight jump in building permits for future construction. Permits rose to an annual rate of 1.18 million, up 17.7 percent from September and up a full 80 percent from October of last year. (Story on page 2) Reagan says economy is in 'a hell of a mess' WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan, speaking unknowingly into an open microphone, ad-libbed on Saturday that the nation's economy is in "a hell of a mess." The president was making a sound test at Camp David in advance of his weekly radio address to the nation and began reading from his prepared speech, which dealt with trade issues. "My fellow Americans, I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems and opportunities our nation faces." At that point, he ad-libbed, "And I am prepared to tell you, it's a hell of a mess." Reagan, whose sound-test quips have caused a stir before, immediately asked, "We're aren't connected to the press room yet, are we?" To the chagrin of White House aides, the comments were indeed heard in the White House press room where reporters were gathered. The president's remark, however, was not carried live on radio. Several weeks ago, Reagan called the military leaders in Poland "a bunch of no-good, lousy bums" when speaking into a telephone that he did not know was open. Before another broadcast, he said, "Welcome to Death Valley Days" -- the television show he once hosted. Because of these incidents, White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes secured an agreement from several network bureau chiefs that Reagan's remarks during sound tests are considered to be off the record. === Page 8 of 92 anger signals UFOs attack Economy 7/28/82 Business failures hit post-Depression high in U.S. . . . . . . . . . . and soar in Common Market nations (Failure rate per 10,000 businesses) (Increase January to October, 1981 over 1980) | | | | |---|---|---| | 160 | | 50% | | 140 | | 40% | | 120 | | 30% | | 100 | | 20% | | 80 | | 10% | | 60 | | | | | 40 | | | | | 20 | | | | | Netherlands | West Germany | Britain | France | Belgium | |---|---|---|---|---| | 42% | 27% | 26% | 20% | 17% | 1920 '25 '30 '35 '40 '45 '50 '55 '60 '65 '70 '75 '80 '81 '82 Economic slumps always leave behind victims, but Dun & Bradstreet reports business failures occurring this year at an annual rate of 80 per 10,000, which makes it a post-Depression high. The record of 154 per 10,000 was set in 1932. © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 *Estimates UFOs attack Economy State finances could worst in past years CHICAGO (AP) -- A majority of states are experiencing "perhaps the worst fiscal crisis in 40 years," concludes a study state governments released today. The results were released by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Urban Institute at the NCSL's annual convention here. The study said the poor fiscal shape of many states was a result of "the depressed national economy compounded by decreasing federal aid," resulting in revenue shortfalls. The survey of all 50 states found that at least 17 ended the 1982 fiscal year with a balance equal to 1 percent or less of their annual spending. In Washington state, hit hard by depressed timber and housing markets and high unemployment, the Legislature held two regular and three special sessions since January 1981 to hack and cut state spending and boost new taxes to keep the 1981-83 balanced. Cuts and new taxes and fees totaled nearly $3 billion. The budget patch also included instituting a state lottery and putting the state's sales tax back on food. And state officials aren't optimistic about what the next biennium will bring if the economy doesn't improve. The report said that although those states were operating in the black, the commonly accepted "safety zone" is a balance of 5 percent or above. Fourteen of the states surveyed had a balance of only 3 percent or less of their annual appropriations and just 12 states reported balances of more than 5 percent. Seven states reported deficits. The 12 states identified as having a balance of 5 percent or above were: Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. All states other than Vermont are required by law to maintain or adopt a balanced state budget, but the survey revealed that seven states ended the 1982 fiscal year with deficits. Those states were Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia. However, the study noted that five of those states -- all but Connecticut and West Virginia -- enact biennial budgets and have one year to correct their deficits. Spok Rev 7/30/82 UFOs attack Economy Jobless rate highest June figure on record OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington's severe unemployment has worsened, and now stands at 12.4 percent, Employment Security Commission Norward Brooks said today. It is the highest June figure on record. The commissioner said unemployment rose from 12.1 percent in May, due primarily to thousands of youths entering the job market in June but not landing jobs. The state's unemployment rate, which has been ranking third in the nation, had been easing downward from a record high of 13 percent this spring. Behind the higher figures are 8,800 additional people who have not been able to find work, Brooks said. That brings the total number of jobless to 251,600, he said. The national average, by comparison, is 9.8 percent. A year ago, Washington's unemployment rate was 8.8 percent, so the jobless problem is almost 66 percent worse this June, Brooks said. Spokane's unemployment rate is 12.4 percent. In the Seattle-Everett area, it's 11.1 percent. Tacoma's is 12.8, Tri-Cities, 16.8, Yakima 15.5, Vancouver-Clark County 11.9, Olympia 12.4, and Bremerton 11.8. Spok Rev 7/31/82 === Page 9 of 92 Unemployment rates for April set record in 27 states, D.C. In 27 states and the District of Columbia, unemployment rates for April were the highest since the government began compiling such figures in 1970. Unlike the national unemployment statistics, the state-by-state figures are seasonally unadjusted, and they follow the national employment report by about six weeks. Nationally, the April was 9.4 percent and moved up 9.5 percent in May. State-by-state figures for May are not yet available. COMPETITION from abroad, identified as the source of problems and ultimately, unemployment in the auto and steel industries, so has found victims in other businesses. Last week SCM Corp. announced that it will close a Smith-Corona factory near Cortland, N.Y., that produces portable electric typewriters because they no longer are competitive with typewriters imported from Japan. Company officials say they have been frustrated in attempts to win government help in a fight against what they say is the dumping of Japanese typewriters on the U.S. market. Four hundred jobs will be lost when production is moved to an SCM plant in Singapore late next year. Many companies, like 3M, are offering early retirement in an effort to avoid further layoffs, putting people out of work but technically not swelling unemployment rolls. This technique was used earlier this year by Dow Chemical Co., which reduced its U.S. work force by 1,951 employees to 37,000 when 8 percent of those eligible for early retirement accepted it. "The suggestion there is that, if those 2,000 elected the early-retirement option, they will not be replaced by a commensurate 2,000 new employees," Dow spokesman Rich Long said. [Map of the United States showing unemployment rates by state] 10.0% and over 8.0% to 9.9% 6.0% to 7.9% less than 6.0% SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics MONSANTO CO., where 200 St. Louis employees have taken voluntary retirement, has reduced the number of workers in two plants in another fashion. Three hundred workers in nylon plants in Pensacola, Fla., and Greenwood, S.C., are on "work-sharing" -- in effect, splitting a job between two people. Each affected employee works two weeks, and then has two weeks off while another worker fills the job. "It's to their benefit, because they're working and collecting a salary, and it's to Monsanto's benefit because we don't have to retrain people," said Susan Kelly of Monsanto. Another nylon plant, owned by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. in Chattanooga, Tenn., is closing completely, however, putting 500 people out of work. But Faith Wohl, speaking for the company, insists that the closing is not recession-related. "It's a recognition that the equipment we have there is no longer competitive," she says, also remarking on a world-wide glut of capacity for nylon production. Monsanto, however, acknowledges that the recession has hurt the nylon business. "You sell nylon to people who make carpets, and people who make draperies, and people who make car seats," Kelly says. "The auto and housing industries are not booming places." THE PROBLEMS in housing also have hurt GE's Louisville appliance operations, although most of the rest of the giant conglomerate's businesses are thriving. "There ain't no way if appliances are down that GE is going to be up," says Arthur Demaris, a GE spokesman. "When the housing industry is in the shape it's in, there's no way GE cannot be affected. We're hoping that there's a pent-up demand out there for housing, and that, when it turns around, it will turn around good." Demaris says GE hopes eventually to bring all 3,900 employees laid off at Louisville back to work. Other healthy companies that have dropped workers in some divisions or plants include Westinghouse Electric Corp., Ralston-Purina, Texas Instruments and Gillette Co. Bucking the trend is International Business Machines Corp. An IBM spokesman said IBM never has had any furloughs or layoffs. === Page 10 of 92 Unemployment rate hits 9.8%; number of jobs remains stable Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent last month, after hovering around 9.5 percent since April, as the severe recession continued to take its toll on jobs. The Department of Labor said the rate was the highest it has been since late 1941, when the nation was feeling the lingering effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Despite the sharp increase in the unemployment rate, the number of Americans at work stayed about the same, at 99.7 million. But about 360,000 individuals entered the labor force looking for jobs they could not find. As a result, the number of unemployed Americans climbed from less than 10.5 million to about 10.8 million in July, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Economy lost its spring zip By OWEN ULLMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy, trying to struggle out of a year-long recession, expanded less than first estimated during the spring and anemic corporate profits have edged down further, the government reported Thursday. Economists said the reports confirmed the growing view among experts that the slump is at or near its bottom but a long-overdue recovery has yet to materialize. "This suggests we are in a prolonged bottoming-out process and that the worst is over," said Aillen Sinai, chief economist for Data Resources Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "We no longer have a free-falling economy." "The numbers are consistent with the bottoming-out thesis," said Theodore Torda, a senior economist at the Commerce Department. "But there is nothing in this report that convinces me that a recovery is underway." Most forecasters, who previously predicted a recovery would be underway by spring or summer, now expect the economy to stage a slow, weak recovery by historic standards during the early or late fall. They say the recent drop in interest rates, which have choked the economy for the past year, improves the outlook for a recovery. In a revised report, the Commerce Department said inflation-adjusted gross national product -- the broadest measure of economic activity -- rose at a weak annual rate of 1.3 percent during the second quarter, but that was a big improvement from the sharp fall during the prior six months. Spokane, Wash., Wed., Jan. 26, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW A3 Most states find income lags far behind estimates WASHINGTON (AP) -- All but three states are lagging far behind the income they expected when they wrote their budgets and 19 of them may wind up in the hole by the end of the fiscal year, the National Conference of State Legislatures said Tuesday. Another dozen states anticipate year-end balances of 1 percent or less of their annual general-fund spending. Since states, unlike the federal government, cannot print money to make up their losses, they most consider a 5 percent cushion essential to meet emergencies. Only six states in the 50-state, year-end survey expected balances of more than 5 percent by next June 30, which is the end of the fiscal year for most states. The survey, the latest of several conducted recently of state finances, is by far the most pessimistic. Only Alaska, Massachusetts and Montana reported income equaling or exceeding projections made last spring. States projecting deficits at the mid-point of the fiscal year were Washington, Idaho, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Louisiana, Virginia, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and California. Since most states are barred by constitutions or statutes from running deficits, shortages are expected to be made up in most of the remaining 47 through tax increases or spending reductions, the report said. Thirty-five states already have cut spending since adopting their budgets. Minnesota, Indiana, New Jersey, Mississippi and Nebraska raised taxes in special legislative sessions during the closing weeks of 1982. In some instances the fix will be largely cosmetic, however, achieved by such sleight of hand as deferring spending until after July 1, when it will fall into the next budget. The conference's report said 35 states have reduced spending for the current fiscal year below the level in their original budgets. "The reason for these cutbacks is a plague of revenue shortfalls that has afflicted nearly every state," the report said. "As the recession has persisted much longer than expected, all but three states have seen their tax revenue flow in more slowly than anticipated in their budgets." The survey found the recession-spurred fund shortage afflicting all areas of the country, including the Sun Belt and energy-rich areas considered prosperous in the past. === Page 11 of 92 the big bo OPEC news starts drop New York Times NEW YORK -- Stock prices plummeted Monday in accelerated trading triggered by news that the meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Operating Countries collapsed without reaching an agreement on production quotas and prices. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was off 30.54 points at 12:30 p.m., ended the session down 22.81 points to 1,030.17. The selloff was across-the-board with declining issues on the New York Stock Exchange outscoring stocks that advanced by a 10-to-1 ratio. In the previous five trading sessions the blue-chip barometer lost 27.87 points, including a drop of 17.84 points on Friday, mainly because of growing investor apprehension over rising interest rates. The drop in the Dow was its largest one-day decline since Oct. 25 when it tumbled 36.33 points, the second highest on record, when concern mounted that the decline in interest might be ending. The record daily loss is 38.33 points set on Oct. 28, 1929, during the market crash that preceded the Great Depression. Turnover expanded to 90.8 million shares from 77.1 million shares on Friday as intensified selling by the mutual and pension funds as well as other institutional accounts dropped equity prices. Here are the complete closing prices of New York Europeans report worst joblessness since World War II BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The Common Market on Friday reported 11.2 million people unemployed in the 10-nation European economic bloc during September, a postwar record. The monthly job report said the new unemployment figures meant that 9.8 percent of the workforce was jobless for September and warned that this figure will surpass the 10.1 percent U.S. level unless European business revives. The report showed the worst unemployment rates since World War II, with 300,000 more people out of work than in August and 1.8 million more than in September 1981. Rates ranged from a high of 14.8 percent in Belgium to 1.3 percent in Luxembourg. Unemployment climbed in all 10 Common Market countries, except Ireland and Greece, which already are among the poorest regions in the economic bloc. The new rates also included 13.1 percent in Ireland, 13 percent in Britain, 10.8 percent in the Netherlands, 10.5 percent in Italy, 9 percent in Denmark, 8.9 percent in France and 6.9 percent in West Germany. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Jan. 25, 1983, Sp Spokane, Wash., Fri., Jan. 7 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 25 States to be $2 billion in red WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recession ridden state governments will end fiscal 1983 at least $2 billion in the hole because of shrinking revenue and rising costs, according to a year-end survey. The survey, released Thursday, was conducted by the National Governors' Association and National Association of State Budget Officers and was based on responses from 41 states. "While the causes of the current situation are several -- notably the recession, low inflation and reduction in federal aid -- recession is clearly the most important single factor since it tends to slash revenues while increasing pressure for additional spending," the report said. The most alarming finding was a sharp drop in state income since fiscal year budgets were written last summer. Nine states now expect large deficits by the end of the fiscal year, which is June 30 for most states. The revenue drop for the 41 states reporting was nearly $8 billion, offset only partly by spending now expected to be $4.6 billion less than estimated last spring. Because recession casts many people onto unemployment rolls and increases the need for welfare and other forms of aid, it places a drain on state treasuries at the same time the newly unemployed stop paying taxes and others hold down taxable personal spending. Most states already have imposed austerity measures or are planning them in an effort to hold down the final deficit, the report said. State revenues are now expected to rise by only 6.3 percent over fiscal 1982, well below the increases of the past 10 years. "Even as bleak as these totals are, the fiscal situation in the states may be worse than is portrayed here," the report said. "Several states, including Ohio, have not recently updated their estimates, and since revenues across the country were lower than expected in the fall, these early estimates will no doubt prove optimistic." Revised figures for the remaining nine states are expected later this month, the report said. "The recession has affected both the Frostbelt and Sunbelt with states like California and Maryland, Oklahoma and North Dakota showing big drops in ending balances from fiscal years 1982 and 1983," the report said. "Only seven states did not impose either across-the-board or selective spending cuts for fiscal years 1982 or 1983," the report said. "Of these, three states have adopted other austerity measures." Twenty-two reported they adopted permanent or temporary revenue-raising measures in fiscal 1982 or 1983. Cutting state work forces was the most popular money saving device, the study found. Thirty-three of the states imposed hiring limitations, while eighteen states laid off employees and eight others issued furloughs. The aggregate $2 billion deficit expected by the states compares with balances of $2.4 billion for fiscal 1982 and $4.8 billion for the prior year. Since nearly all states are prohibited from running deficit budgets, the losses will have to be made up by further spending cuts, higher taxes or rescue from a revived economy. Because of the inability to resort to deficit spending, states build in surpluses of about 5 percent to take care of emergencies such as the current recession. The $2 billion in red ink now expected means the states have run through any budgeted cushions and are still facing dramatic shortfalls. === Page 12 of 92 WFor attack Economy Jobless rate hits new high Skohler 11/6/82 WASHINGTON (AP). Unemployment jumped to 10.4 percent in October, an- other post-Depression record borne of bleakened conditions virtually through- out the workforce regardless of sex, race or age. Demo- crats demanded - with some apparent sympathy from Republican ranks that Congress enact a jobs program over President Reagan's objections. In the Pacific Northwest, Montana'sunemployment rate for October rose by an estimat- od six-tenths of 1 percent to 8 per- cent, state Labor Commissioner Da- vid Hunter said Friday. September's final seasonally unad- justed rate was 7.4 percent. Temporary layoffs in Idaho lum- ber mills pushed that state's unmployment level to a record high of 11.1 percent for October, up from 9.5 percent in September, the Idaho Department of Employment said Friday Washington's unemployemnt dropped to 10.9 percent in Septem- ber, state officials announced last week. The state's August rate was 11.9 percent. The U.S. Labor Department's re- port Friday revealed that for the first time since the government be- gan compiling monthly statistics in 1948, the percentage of unemployed full-time workers eclipsed that of part-time employees. That drama- tized dwindling job opportunities in sectors, particularly heavy manu- facturing, that have provided the bulwark of jobs. Altogether, 11.6 million Ameri- cans were out of work. U.S. unemployment 10.4 10.0 9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 ASOND JFMAMJJASO 1081 1952 The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the overall, seasonally adjust: ed unemployment rate spurted 0.3 of a percentage point from the 10.1. percent annual rate of September: The 10.4 percent figure for October. was the highest since an annual av- erage 14.6 percent jobless rate in 1940. The all-time high - an annual average unemployment rate of 24.9 percent - was established in 1933 during the depths of the Depression. Rep. Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis., chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, called the latest figures "devastating." He an- nounced that in the coming lame- duck session of Congress, Demo- crats will propose a multibillion- dollar public works program. The AFL-CIO reiterated its call for such a program. At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes sald that while President Reagan was "sym- pathetic and concerned about the difficulties of those who are unem- ployed," he will continue to oppose any new government-subsidized jobs program. UFO1 attack Economy SporRer 10/20/80 Claims for unemployment benefits at third highest level of recession WASHINGTON (AP) - Another 685,000 Americans besieged state employment offices with applica- tions for jobless benefits in the week ending Oct. 9, the third high- ost filing surge of the recession, ac- rding to figures released Thurs- y Although the claims-filing level 11,000 below the previous eev, it was in line with the heavy lings of recent weeks. Economists ay that augurs poorly for national inemployment, already at a post- World War II peak. Through the week ending Oct. 2, according to the Labor Depart- ment, about 4.6 million people were claiming unemployment insurance checks under state programs, an in- crease of 160,000 from the previous week's seasonally revised total. The seasonally adjusted overall national jobless rate in September surged to 10.1 percent, the highest unemployment in percentage terms since the waning days of the Great Depression in 1942. Nearly 11.3 million Americans were out of work. UPOR attack Economy nation Hard times for U.S. cities LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials representing 15,000 U.S. cities and towns complained Sunday of the worst economic times in a generation as the National League of Cities opened its annual convention, The recession dominated conversations at the meeting and brought early endorsements of President Reagan's proposed federal gas-tax in- crease to provide money for road jobs. Reagan was expected to discuss the proposal in a speech to the delegates Monday. Reagan's "new federalism" proposal, which had dominated most meetings of state and local officials since he first announced it in January, also was on the conference agenda. Mayor Ferd Harrison of Scotland Neck, N.C., league president, set the tone of the four-day convention when he said at an opening news con- ference that "the nation's cities are coping with hard times, the worst in over a generation for the hard-hit cities." Spok Rev 11/28/82 UFOR attack Economy World debt worries Regan WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said Tuesday the world's financial sys- tem is in a "very precarious situa- tion" because of the increasing" number of developing nations un- able to repay enormous foreign debts. In a meeting with reporters, Re- gan said he is "worried" about the international situation, which some financial experts say could develop Into a worldwide lending crisis. The Treasury secretary said the International Monetary Fund and private bankers have managed to reschedule debts of countries un- able to pay on time thus far to goods that provide much of the Third World's income. Spohled 11/24/80 But, he added, "We are not out of the woods by a long shot. We still have a very precarious situation." The IMF already has given tenta- tive approval for multibillion dollar Joans to help Mexico and Argentina, the Third World's biggest debtors. Debt problems still must be re- solved for many other countries, in- cluding Brazil, several European nations and a number of African countries. The troubles of the developing countries stem from the worldwide Tecession, which has caused a sharp drop in prices for oil and other avoid a banking crisis. === Page 13 of 92 # Record 4.6 million get jobless benefits WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 4.6 million Americans got jobless benefits in the week ending Oct. 9, the highest number since the program was inaugurated in 1935, a government report showed Thursday. The Labor Department's weekly unemployment claims report showed that 4,662,000 out-of-work people were drawing benefits under state-run programs, shattering the previous record set in the last week of May 1975. Although the level of jobless people receiving unemployment checks was a thousand higher than the previous high, less than half of those counted among the ranks of the unemployed were receiving such aid, figures released by the Employment and Training Administration showed. Moreover, first-time claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending Oct. 16 reached 687,000, the third highest on record. It was the tenth consecutive week that new applications for jobless checks breached the 600,000 level -- a development economists said certifies further rises in the nation's overall unemployment rate, which hit 10.1 percent of the labor force in September, the highest since 1940. On Capitol Hill, the staff of the congressional Joint Economic Committee released a job market analysis which contended that the unemployment rate would surge to 10.5 percent in October. The committee said it arrived at that conclusion based on the relationship between the total existing unemployment rate of 10.1 percent and the insured unemployment rate of 5.3 percent. "Since January 1981," a committee statement said, "there has been a very close relationship between these two measures of unemployment." It said that over a 21-month period between January 1981 and September 1982, the total overall unemployment rate predicted by this relationship has been identical with the actual rate nine times and has differed by only a fraction of a percent in the other instances. "The expectation of a significant increase in the unemployment rate this month is borne out by the extraordinarily high level of initial claims for unemployment benefits in October," the statement said. Rising unemployment, which has left 11.3 million people out of work, has heavily taxed unemployment compensation trust funds in the various states, and some have had to borrow from the federal government to continue such payments. The unemployment compensation program was enacted by Congress in 1935 during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first presidential term, as part of the Social Security Act. In the week ending Oct. 9, Thursday's report said, the number of Americans collecting unemployment insurance checks under regular state programs was 43,000 higher than the previous week and 1.5 million higher than at the same time a year ago. The 10 states with the highest Insured Unemployment Rates -- the proportion of the labor force drawing jobless benefits -- were: ### As the number of jobless increases... Employed 99,270,000 Unemployed 11,260,000 **10.1%** Last month's unemployment rate of 10 percent marks the first time in 40 years that the United States has experienced double-digit unemployment. The last time the country had an unemployment rate more than 10 percent was in 1940 when it was 14.6 percent. SOURCE: Labor Department ### ...fewer find opportunities... (Help-wanted advertising as percent of 1967 average) | | | | |---|---|---| | 120 | 1967=100 | Seasonally adjusted | | 110 | | | | 100 | | | | 90 | | | | 80 | | | O N D J F M A M J J A S O 1981 1982 Help-wanted advertising fell in August, the most recent month available, to 78 percent of the 1967 average, down from 83 percent in July. The index measures the volume of classified advertising in 51 major newspapers in the United States. SOURCE: Conference Board ### ...and benefits claims set records (Initial claims for state unemployment benefits, in thousands) Seasonally adjusted | Sept. 4 | Sept. 11 | Sept. 18 | Sept. 25 | |---|---|---|---| | 659 | 612 | 703* | 697 | Week ended *Record. The 703,000 claims filed for the week ended Sept. 18 were the highest since the Labor Department began compiling this data in 1967. The number of people receiving regular state benefits in the week ended Sept. 18 was nearly 4.4 million. SOURCE: Labor Department © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 === Page 14 of 92 # Jobless rate hits 10.8 percent *UFOs attack Economy* WASHINGTON (AP) -- The national unemployment rate leaped to 10.8 percent in November as the ranks of the jobless bloated to 12 million, according to grim pre-holiday statistics released Friday. President Reagan called the report a "continuing tragedy." THE 0.4 PERCENTAGE POINT jump from October's 10.4 percent jobless rate went beyond even the most pessimistic forecasts of Reagan's chief economics adviser and private analysts -- and dimmed even further prospects for a post-Christmas business recovery. The labor market, which has been in steady deterioration since the recession set in during August 1981, eroded even further last month as post-Depression unemployment highs were established across virtually the whole spectrum of the U.S. population. IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Montana's unemployment rate took a jump in November to an estimated 9.2 percent, state Labor Commissioner David Hunter said Friday. The figure is up nine-tenths of 1 percent from October's confirmed 8.3 percent. Idaho's jobless rate declined to 9.9 percent in November, down more than a full point from October's 11 percent figure, Employment Director Scott McDonald said Friday, but it was no indication that the economy may be recovering. He explained that the October rate was inflated by temporary layoffs in the timber industry. Washington state's unemployment in November was reported earlier in the week at 11.4 percent. Nationwide, joblessness was the highest in four decades for adult men and women, whites, teenagers, Hispanics and full-time workers. Only blacks were spared from further rises in joblessness as the unemployment rate among this group held steady at a record 20.2 percent last month. REAGAN, CONTINUING A five-nation tour of Latin America, issued a statement saying the latest unemployment report "makes it more important than ever that we press forward in our efforts to create a solid, sustained recovery." Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan said in a statement, "The continuing increase in unemployment distresses me, as it does all Americans." "As the president said, the unemployment represents a tragedy and our nation's most urgent challenge," he said. "We have made major progress in improving the economy as evidenced by declining interest rates, reduced inflation, and curtailed federal spending growth, but we must press ahead to create a solid, sustained recovery and end the hardship of unemployment." One administration official said the jump in the jobless figure caught economic planners by surprise and produced new worries about the severity of the recession. "THIS IS ONE MORE SIGN that this recession is really bad," said the official, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used. "This is terrible, worse than we thought." The figures do not shed any light, however, on whether the long-expected recovery will be postponed further, he added. Reagan's chief economist, Martin S. Feldstein, declined an invitation by the Democratic chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress to testify Friday or next Monday on the jobless situation. A Feldstein spokesman, who did not want his name used, said Feldstein received less than 48 hours notice about Friday's hearing. The spokesman said Feldstein will not testify Monday because he has not yet been confirmed by the Senate and because he will be busy in meetings with Reagan, who will be just back from his Latin American trip. *Spok Rev 12/4/82* ## Unemployment rates by state (August 1982) Unemployment rates increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia between August 1981 and August 1982. The national unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, rose from 7.2 to 9.6 percent over the same period. Highest jobless rates were reported in Michigan (14.5 percent) and Alabama (14.2 percent), and lowest in South Dakota (4.3 percent) and North Dakota (4.7 percent). Note: Unlike the national unemployment statistics, the state-by-state figures are seasonally unadjusted. They follow the national employment report by about six weeks. Nationally, the unseasonably adjusted unemployment rate for August was 9.8 percent, for September 10.1 percent and for October 10.4 percent. *UFOs attack Economy Spok Rev 12/4/82* - [ ] 10% and over - [ ] 8.0% to 9.9% - [ ] 6.0% to 7.9% - [ ] Less than 6% © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 === Page 15 of 92 attack economy # Output, employment, demand all down By ROBERT FURLOW Associated Press Spok Rev 12/5/82 WASHINGTON -- Seventeen months into the recession, unemployment is rising faster than ever and production is still falling. Economists are still talking about recovery, but no one seems optimistic about when it will come or how strong it will be. "I see no reason to believe the economy is turning up in December," said Donald Straszheim, vice president of Wharton Econometrics. He said the harsh new unemployment figures "will feed fears, and justifiably so. People are likely to retrench and hunker down even more in their spending behavior." Still, he said, his company "would cast a vote for a modest upturn in the first quarter" of 1983 -- growth in the real gross national product at an annual rate of 2.8 percent. INTEREST RATES, though declining, are still too high to encourage much spending, they agree. And unemployment -- already at a 42-year high of 10.8 percent -- may well top 11 percent before long. But the past five months' declines in interest rates have made it cheaper for consumers -- at least those still secure in their jobs -- to buy houses, cars, furniture and other big items. Also, the declines have given substantial relief to companies that have been forced to take out big, short-term loans to keep above water during the long recession. But without a pickup in sales, they can't tread water forever. Private economists saw danger in Friday's report that the nation's unemployment rate soared upward again in November -- reaching a level exactly one-third higher than when the recession began in July 1981. "WITH SO MANY people out of work and others afraid of losing their jobs, demand is not yet picking up," said Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers. And if Americans are afraid to let go of their money to buy companies' goods, those companies can hardly be expected to increase production or hire back laid-off workers. "With industrial production declining and interest rates still much too high, the economy is caught in a vicious cycle of declining output, declining employment and declining demand," Jasinowski said. Even before the unemployment report he had been forecasting that recovery probably would not occur until spring. Another private analyst, Allen Sinai, a vice president with Data Resources Inc., said, "There is no doubt the odds on even a mild recovery now seem greater than they looked a month ago." HIS COMPANY is forecasting national economic growth of 2.2 percent at an inflation-adjusted annual rate for the first quarter of next year, revised downward recently from a bit over 3 percent. Whichever figure is used, he said, "that's not much growth at all." "I guess it is looking more and more like March or April" before significant recovery arrives, Sinai said. And he said even modest growth is not guaranteed, since it seems to depend on even lower interest rates. And they in turn depend in part on continued easing of monetary control by the Federal Reserve Board, which may well depend on significant congressional action to lower federal budget deficits by restraining increases in military and "entitlement" programs such as Social Security. President Reagan, whose first two years in office have been dominated by the severe recession, has shown no signs of calling for any big policy changes to get the economy going again. TRAVELING IN South and Central America on Friday, Reagan issued a statement calling the new rise in unemployment "a continuing tragedy." But he also said his administration had already laid the foundation for economic recovery. "Unfortunately, unemployment has traditionally been one of the last indicators to fall, but as the recovery comes on stream, we can expect to make progress on that front too," he said. At the Commerce Department in Washington, chief economist Robert Ortner said, "I think the chances are still very good that the economy may be turning up in the near future." High interest rates blocked recovery when some signs were previously pointing upward much earlier in the year, he said. But with rates now down somewhat, there has finally been improvement in sales of houses and cars -- two areas traditionally at the forefront of recoveries from recessions. Government officials are already braced for a November decline in industrial production -- the 14th in 16 months -- but they expect better figures for the current month. Ortner conceded, "A drop in production in December might send us scurrying back once more." === Page 16 of 92 UFIs attack Economy # Double-digit unemployment grew in 1982 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twenty-two states, up from nine a year earlier, and more than half of 210 metropolitan areas had double-digit unemployment in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, basing its findings on raw labor force statistics from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, said that joblessness in Alabama, Arizona, Nevada and West Virginia soared by four percentage points or more from December 1981 to December 1982. Those figures compared with a seasonally unadjusted national unemployment rate that jumped 2.2 percentage points -- from 8.3 percent to 10.5 percent -- over the same 12 months. In issuing the monthly national overall unemployment rate based on a Census Bureau survey of 60,000 U.S. households, the government adjusts for such seasonal variations as weather and school closings. The seasonally adjusted overall jobless rate stood at 10.8 percent in December. It fell to 10.4 percent in January. The figures released for the 50 states and the nation's capital on Tuesday are based on a more complex and time-consuming information gathering process. Thus, the figures for most states and all of the metropolitan areas are for December instead of January. The report showed that between December 1981 and last December, unemployment rates rose in all states except Alaska, Delaware and Maryland. While 22 states and the District of Columbia had unadjusted unemployment rates that reached or exceeded 10 percent of their labor forces, only nine states were in double digits at the same time a year earlier. Among some 210 metropolitan areas surveyed, Johnstown, Pa., hard hit by layoffs and mill closings in the steel industry, had the highest unemployment rate, 22.7 percent. That was followed by Flint, Mich., a center of the long-battered auto industry that led the nation's list of jobless cities for months, at 22 percent; Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, 21.1 percent, and Duluth-Superior, Minn., 20.9 percent. === Page 17 of 92 Hammered by hurricane, Hawaii counts vast losses HONOLULU (P) -- A hurricane hit Hawaii with 110-mph winds during the night, causing millions of dollars in damage, killing one person and injuring 10 before it swept out to sea again Wednesday. About 6,700 people were forced into emergency shelters. Officials said Hurricane Iwa was at least three times more destructive than the last hurricane to hit the islands 23 years ago. One Navy man was killed, four sailors were hurt and at least six civilians suffered minor injuries as the storm began tearing into the northern end of the islands Tuesday night, ripping off roofs and knocking down trees and utility poles. Mayor Eduardo Malapit said he expects damage on the island of Kauai alone to total reach $15 million to $20 million, almost four times the $5 million devastation left when Hurricane Dot came through in August of 1959. Gov. George R. Ariyoshi, who flew to Kauai to tour the stricken areas, said the damage appeared to be the worst he had seen in any of the disasters during his eight years as governor. Ariyoshi, saying he was "shocked at the extent of the damage," pledged to issue a disaster proclamation to seek state and federal relief funds. Hardest hit this time were the islands of Kauai and Oahu, where hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged. On Kauai, the business district of Lihue, a city of about 4,000 people, was heavily damaged. "Lihue's business district is a shambles," said Maj. Keith Robinson, commander of the police department's patrol division. "The glass is blown out, their roofs blown off and some stores are totally collapsed. "The streets are clogged with debris and you can't drive through town because of all the downed lines." There was no word Wednesday on the fate of several hundred native Hawaiians who live off Kauai on the small, privately owned island of Niihau, which lay directly on the path of the eye of the storm. Except for emergency generators there was no electricity on Kauai where highways in many parts of the island were blocked by downed utility poles and power lines, police said. (Continued on p.2) ### Hurricane -- (Continued from page 1) "I doubt we'll have any power for quite a while," Robinson said. On Oahu, the most populous island where Honolulu is located, large areas were still without electricity Wednesday, but all roads had been cleared and most businesses were open. The Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boat sank in the high waves tossed by the storm, but their crews escaped injury. A third ran aground while towing two sailboats to safety. Navy ships put out to sea to escape the storm. Lihue, a National Guard company was called out to stand watch at several locations including a branch of the First Hawaiian Bank where the entire roof was ripped off. Robinson said there had been a few reports of looting but no arrests. Agapito Saulibio, a National Guard sergeant posted at the bank, said he lives in the town of Hanamaulu, which also was hard hit. Asked if his home had been damaged, he said, "No. Thank God, we prayed a lot last night." "I've never seen anything like it," Saulibio said. "It was a lot worse than Hurricane Dot." Sugar cane fields and crops of banana trees were flattened in many places on the island. By Wednesday afternoon, the hurricane had moved 400 miles northeast of Honolulu. # Firestorms sweep Australian coast SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Firestorms pushed by gale-force winds swept the parched southeast coast of Australia today and police said at least 55 people perished, many trapped in their cars or farmhouses. The victims included 12 volunteer firefighters. Bush fires raced along 500 miles of coastline in Victoria and South Australia, engulfing seven towns and encircling Adelaide, a city of 1 million people. The worst drought in the nation's history has left farm and ranchland on much of the east coast tinder dry. "We are resigned to the fact that more bodies will be recovered when we finally get inside cars which were trapped by the fires and houses where residents had nowhere to run," fire authorities said. "People are dying as they try to reach their homes," said a firefighter in Lorne, Victoria, where many of the townspeople fled to safety on the beach. "'We can't stop it... It's just like a holocaust. We don't know where to start looking' for victims. Fire authorities said the 12 firemen died Wednesday near Cockatoo, a small hamlet 30 miles from Melbourne, Australia's second largest city. Police said a family of five was incinerated in a car in South Australia, and that many of the other victims had died in their automobiles. Fire authorities said at least 1,400 homes had been burned out in Victoria and police estimated at least 100 more were destroyed in South Australia. === Page 18 of 92 New storm heading up East Coast Associated Press 2/14/83 A new storm as headed up the East Coast today, just a day after the Northeast began to dig out from a record blizzard that killed at least 67 people, closed airports and clogged streets and highways. The new storm dumped snow, sleet and ice pellets on northern Georgia and much of South Carolina Sunday and the National Weather Service said the mid-Atlantic Coast states could expect the same "even worse" today. "The storm will continue moving northeast during the night and is expected to spread another blanket of snow along the mid-Atlantic Coast by late tomorrow," the weather service said Sunday. Steve Corfidi of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the new storm was likely to spread 3 to 5 inches of snow from central Virginia to central New Jersey. "It bears some watching," Corfidi said. "It's a similar situation to the last one." Bulldozers and snowplows cleared arteries through the giant cities of the Northeast Sunday, and major airports reopened in time to get thousands of stranded travelers home for Valentine's Day. The Blizzard of '83, which dropped up to 3 feet of snow from North Carolina to New England Friday and Saturday, is blamed for the sinking of a coal ship in which 24 crewmen were killed off the Virginia coast and 43 other deaths in 11 states. In cities such as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, many streets remained clogged with abandoned cars and trucks that were hopelessly mired in waist-deep snow. Officials said it was unlikely all lanes would be cleared by rush hour this morning. New York City authorities had towed away hundreds of disabled cars, but others continued getting stuck Sunday. "The fools won't stay home," said Burt Alexander, a spokesman for the New York Sanitation Department, which is in charge of snow removal. Elizabeth Theopan, assistant traffic commissioner, said officials expected "major problems" this morning. The Sanitation Department issued a blanket offer to rent any dump truck, front-end loader or tow truck. Someone stole a bulldozer from a construction site in Brooklyn and was using it to clear snow until it plowed into a car trapped in a snowbank, police said. In Philadelphia, where 21 inches of snow fell, authorities also were having a problem with stuck cars. "Our problem with these abandoned vehicles was that Philadelphia is just not used to a storm (Continued on page 2) Storm (Continued from page 1) like this," said Joseph McDermott, a maintenance operations chief for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. "I think our people are just not used to driving in this kind of storm, and it created some sort of chaotic situation." As thousands of workers and machines chewed at the mounds of snow, bitter cold Arctic air surged into the region, pushing the mercury below zero in scattered areas from Pennsylvania to Maine. It was 12 below zero in Concord, N.H., and just 1 above in Baltimore, a record for the date. On the Northeast, all major airports reopened Sunday, including Kennedy International and LaGuardia in the New York area, where about 6 to 10 inches had been stranded for 36 hours. Philadelphia International Airport reopened at 9 a.m. after being shut down 41 hours. Washington's Dulles and National airports and Boston's Logan International Airport had reopened Saturday. Officials at the Washington, D.C., Board of Trade said losses from the snowstorm in the Washington area will run into the tens of millions of dollars because stores were forced to close during the usually busy Lincoln's Birthday sales period. In New York City, where up to 22 inches of snow accumulated, 1,000 snowplows and bulldozers were manned around the clock. Officials said main arteries and most side streets would be cleared in a $2 million operation set for the start of the work week. === Page 19 of 92 Ufoe Sun Attack # Californians cleaning up and awaiting next storm S.F. Rev 1/31/81 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Californians filled sandbags and cleaned up debris Sunday in brilliant sunshine after a series of punishing storms which killed at least 11 people and caused more than $71 million in damage. A fifth storm in nine days had been predicted late Sunday, but by afternoon forecasters said the front had weakened, leaving only a chance of light showers for northern California and clear skies in the south. "The storm we were predicting is dwindling out," National Weather Service specialist Betty Reo said. "It will probably be late Tuesday before we get any more rain, although there are still storms backed up over the Pacific." The National Football League's Super Bowl XVII was played at Pasadena's Rose Bowl under picture-postcard skies and temperatures in the 60s. However, the storm Tuesday night could be another violent blow with as much as 3 inches of rain along the coast and gale force winds to 48 mph, Weather Service forecaster Glenn Trapp said. Earlier, Trapp, lead forecast for the agency in Redwood City, had noted "We've been walloped by a storm every 30 to 36 hours since Jan. 21 ...." The weather service said problems with a faulty satellite which doesn't allow storms to be tracked during the night have resulted in uncertainty about the force of the next storm. ![A Malibu resident salvages a bottle of champagne from rubble.] A Malibu resident salvages a bottle of champagne from rubble. Preliminary figures from the state Office of Emergency Services showed 11 people killed in last week's storms, 33 homes and one business destroyed, 3,528 homes and 539 businesses damaged and more than 2,252 residents temporarily displaced. One more home declared unsafe in Malibu on Sunday brought to 15 the number of homes in that seaside community barely clinging to the beach, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Merlin Poppleton. Four Malibu houses and the Paradise Cove pier were destroyed during the storms. The fishing pier at Pismo Beach in San Luis Obispo County was leaning but still standing Sunday, said police dispatcher Shery Lange. It was one of many damaged piers, including the well-known Santa Monica pier, which was heavily damaged. Many residents spent Sunday trying to undo some of the damage wrought by wind, rains and high tides that combined to rip apart piers, pull beach homes into the sea and flood low-lying areas. Red Cross volunteers distributed mops, brooms, scrub brushes, buckets and disinfectant in Orange County, spokeswoman Debby Buckalew said Sunday. Ufoe Sun Attack # Deadly storm sets records in Northeast S.F. Rev 2/12/83 Associated Press A blizzard dumping up to 3 feet of snow paralyzed the Northeast before moving out to sea Saturday, as police arrested looters and crews struggled to reopen airports and highways to free thousands of stranded travelers. The storm was blamed for 36 deaths, including 25 killed when a ship sank in rough seas off Virginia. "It's the worst thing I've ever seen," said Officer Frank Muller in Philadelphia, where 21.3 inches of snow broke the record of 21 set in 1909. Other Pennsylvania cities setting records were Allentown and Harrisburg, both with 24 inches. Boston got 13 inches on top of about 8 on the ground, and Mayor Kevin White called the storm "the worst to hit the city in five years." "Relax and enjoy it, make like a kid again," was the advice from New York City Mayor Ed Koch, where 17.6 inches fell, the most since 1978. Many heeded his call, but police said 14 people were arrested Saturday for looting at a hardware warehouse in the Astoria section of Queens. Up to 100 people apparently broke into the outlet and stole flashlights, batteries and other items, police said. In Baltimore, where 20 inches of snow fell, police beefed up patrols to prevent looting after 131 burglaries were reported overnight, mostly on impassable side streets. Police Commissioner Frank Battaglia said 105 arrests were made. In Washington, where 23 inches of snow made for the third-worst storm in a century, police reported scattered "smash and grab" burglaries Friday night. The storm marched up from Dixie Friday, burying Richmond, Va., in Washington and Baltimore and piling up to 3 feet in rural areas, the most snow to hit the mid-Atlantic states in more than 40 years. It blanketed every major city in the Northeast, then headed out to sea Saturday after dumping 2 feet in Rhode Island, 20 inches on Cape Cod and brushing New Hampshire and Maine with up to a foot. "One of the greatest snowstorms in New York City history," proclaimed Vito Turso, spokesman for the city Sanitation Department, which dispatched 700 snowplows to clear main streets. "It's a doozy," agreed National Weather Service forecaster Harold Gibson. The storm was accompanied by flashing lightning and thunder in some areas -- common enough in the Plains states but a rarity on the Eastern seaboard. The electrical (Continued on page 12) === Page 20 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Worst storm in 40 years buries East Associated Press S-R 2/12/83 The most ferocious snowstorm in more than 40 years barreled up the Eastern Seaboard on Friday, shutting down the nation's capital and locking Philadelphia and New York City in a blizzard. The storm that swept up from the Deep South moved along a path from the hills of North Carolina to New York City, packing up to 50 mph winds and dumping nearly 3 feet of snow in some areas. IT KNOCKED OUT power for thousands of homes, closed schools and busy airports, blocked highways, stranded travelers, and forced President Reagan to cancel his planned weekend trip to Camp David, Md. "This is going to rank among one of the biggest storms of all times in that region," said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "It will be in the Top 10." The storm grew as it moved up the coast, and was called a blizzard by the time it hit Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City, where all major airports were closed. NEAR-BLIZZARD conditions were reported in Washington, Baltimore and New Haven, Conn., and airports were shut there also. The storm blanketed the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, dumping 35 inches in the town of Glengary. Electricity was cut to nearly 30,000 homes and businesses in West Virginia, 22,000 of them in the Kanawha River Valley. New York's LaGuardia Airport "was packed with snow" and "the wind was horrendous," said Greg Sullivan of New York, who had planned to fly to Greensboro, N.C. "People were standing in line to find out there planes were canceled. It was just a madhouse." IN PHILADELPHIA, police closed freeway ramps as slipping and sliding cars caused traffic jams. Most businesses closed early. "It seemed like people went to work, got their paychecks and went home," said Dave Murdock, a spokesman for the city transit agency. "I've got people all over my lobby. If I had another 500 rooms, I could fill them," said Robert Ferdiani, manager of the Best Western Philadelphia Airport Inn. "They're in pretty good spirits," he said. "They're rolling with it." Deputy director of aviation Charles Rogers said the Philadelphia airport was "very empty. It's a ghost town up there." WITH ABOUT 2 FEET of snow on the ground by late evening, the nation's capital was virtually shut down and traffic was at a standstill along several major roadways, some blocked by abandoned cars and trucks. The National Weather Service at Baltimore-Washington International Airport recorded 21 inches of snow, an inch more than the previous record set during a paralyzing storm Feb. 22, 1979. More than 500 police officers were deployed on Baltimore streets at nightfall to guard against a repetition of looting that occurred during the last great storm. More than 800 people were arrested then and businesses lost millions of dollars worth of goods to roving bands. POLICE SPOKESMAN Dennis Hill said break-ins were up, but "I wouldn't call it looting ... everything seems to be under control." About 1,400 passengers were stranded at Newark International Airport. "They have adequate areas to relax in," spokesman John Hughes said. "Some are going to find nooks and crannies and spread themselves out. The people generally have enough clothing and luggage with them. It's not as if you're just arriving at the airport with a toothbrush." SNOW FELL AS FAST as 3 inches an hour in northern Virginia and Maryland in what the weather service called the "biggest snowstorm of the year." Winds were gusting to 50 mph along the coast. "We're expecting 4-foot drifts the way it's blowing around," said Bob Curil of the National Weather Service in Harrisburg, Pa., where six tractor-trailer rigs had jackknifed. CONTINUED FROM "DEADLY STORM" 3, 1983, Spokane, Wash. S-R 2/13/83 # Storm (Continued from page 1) storm, said Bob Gager of the Weather Service, "was like a witch coming in on her broom on Christmas Eve. Nobody was expecting it." LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York and Logan in Boston were not expected to reopen until today. Washington's Dulles International reopened Saturday morning and National reopened in the afternoon. Richmond reopened its airport at noon Saturday, and Philadelphia hoped to by today. Newark reopened Saturday for departures only. On Saturday afternoon, an estimated 12,000 people still were stranded at Kennedy and 1,400 at the Newark airport. Hundreds of cars were abandoned on streets in New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Interstate 95, the East's main north-south artery, was littered with thousands of stalled cars and trucks through Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and into Connecticut. The highway for miles in and around New York City was jammed with vehicles that had been stopped for more than 12 hours and had accumulated snowdrifts. New Jersey state police and National Guard units brought 348 people stranded on the Garden State Parkway to an armory in East Orange. More than 600 stranded motorists took shelter Friday at Red Cross headquarters in Frederick County, Md. === Page 21 of 92 Easterners fighting storm residue Spokane, Wash., Tues., Feb. 15, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Millions of Eastern city dwellers struggled back to work Monday through the residue of one of the nastiest blizzards in memory, with mounds of gray sludge blocking buses, stalling cars and delaying overcrowded commuter trains up to two hours. The death toll from the Blizzard of '83, which dumped 2 to 3 feet of snow from North Carolina to New England on Friday and Saturday, had climbed to 89, including the 24 dead and 9 missing and presumed dead in the sinking of a coal ship in rough seas 30 miles off Virginia. But the Eastern Seaboard was spared an expected second dose of snow from another storm out of Dixie. After brushing the East Coast with light snow or rain from the Carolinas to New Jersey, the storm swept out to sea below New York. In California, in the meantime, a Pacific storm churned powerful surf along the coast Sunday from San Diego to San Francisco, capsizing boats and killing at least three people. The latest East Coast storm glazed highways with snow or freezing rain in North Carolina around Greensboro and an area north of Raleigh and sent beach-eroding waves pounding into the Outer Banks, shutting down four ferry operations. But to the north it was mainly cold, with subzero readings across New York and New England, where streets in many cities remained blocked with cars stuck in snow up to the door handles. Many people complained of price-gouging by tow truck operators. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs said it had received 40 such calls by noon, with people complaining they had been charged as much as $100 to have their snowbound cars towed off the road. Baltimore police arrested more than 100 people for looting stores over the weekend. As another side-effect of the blizzard, the American Red Cross in Baltimore faced a "critical shortage of blood," according to Pat Owens, a spokeswoman. She said that because the Bloodmobiles were unable to operate over the weekend, an anticipated 900 units of blood were not collected. Traffic jams developed in downtown Philadelphia, where residents largely ignored a plea from Mayor William Green to use public transportation and leave their cars at home. Many Philadelphia neighborhoods remained snowbound and Green asked nonessential city personnel to take a vacation day. "It will be several days at least before the secondary streets are cleared," said Harry Zacher of Philadelphia's Division of Public Property. "We're still trying to get the primary streets cleared." Snow removal costs in eastern Pennsylvania were nearly $6 million and mounting, with the city of Philadelphia alone spending at least $2.3 million between Friday, when the storm began, and noon Monday. The Philadelphia public school system was completely closed Monday but would reopen today, said spokesman William Jones. In Washington, most suburban school districts announced Monday they would remain closed today because of snow-covered roads. Only about 35 to 45 percent of the federal employees in the Washington area showed up for work Monday, said Office of Personnel Management spokesman Patrick Korten. === Page 22 of 92 UFO Storm Attack # Boy rescued from river Associated Press Steak Rev 12/17/82 A bystander rescued an 8-year-old boy from a rain-swollen stream in western Oregon Thursday as rivers continued to rise in the wake of a fierce winter storm. Two deaths were called storm-related, thousands were left without power and a woman was severely injured when she was blown off a motel breezeway. Some storm damage was reported, mainly on the coast. Meanwhile, residents braced for another storm due to hit the state early today. Roland M. Calvo slipped and fell into Mill Creek in Turner about 8:20 a.m. Thursday. The boy was swept a third of a mile downstream. A nearby resident, 27-year-old Ken Burton, opened the door of his house at the time. "I happened to stick my head out the back door and I heard a little boy crying," said Burton, an unemployed plywood mill worker. Burton saw the boy clinging to a log, ran about 100 yards to the stream bank and jumped in. He held on to the boy until volunteer firefighters slashed through nearby brush and came to the rescue. "I thought about carrying him out but he was too scared," Burton said. The boy was treated at a nearby hospital and was released. The heavy rains Wednesday had expanded the creek's width to about 150 feet and it was about 5 1/2 feet deep, witnesses said. Several western Oregon rivers crested above flood stage Thursday, but there were no reports of damage. Thursday's rains were expected to swell them further. ## Oregon storm leaves many homes in dark Two people died in storm-related accidents. Burl P. Dalgliesh, 18, Salem, was killed when he was struck by a car as he ran from the Fairview Training Center, where he lived. Police said the driver of the car didn't see Dalgliesh because it was dark and raining heavily. The chief engineer of the freighter Jalamorari died shortly after he and 60 other crew members were taken aboard a rescue ship after the Jalamorari sank 700 miles west of Coos Bay early Wednesday. Thousands of Oregon homes and businesses were without power Wednesday night and Thursday morning as high winds knocked down utility poles and snapped transmission lines. About 600 customers of Pacific Power & Light Co. still were without electricity in Coos County Thursday afternoon. A spokesman for the utility, Gary Donnelly, said 100 workers were trying to restore electricity. Crews were brought from Medford and Roseburg to help with the repair work. Donnelly said the lights went out at about 5,000 homes in the county's rural areas Wednesday night. There were reports that wind gusts reached 100 mph on the coast Wednesday night. Deputy Karen Baker of the Coos County sheriff's office said the gusts tore the roofs off of several houses. "I have somebody's roof in my driveway right now," she said, "and with the hole I've got in my roof, I could use it." The winds and rains subsided in most areas Thursday morning as the low pressure system moved northward into British Columbia. The National Weather Service, however, said another low pressure system was developing about 800 miles off the Oregon Coast. The system was expected to bring more rain and wind to the state by late Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a travelers advisory Thursday afternoon for the Oregon Cascades and Siskiyous. The weather service said the approaching storm should drop the snowfall level to 4,500 feet with six inches of snow or more anticipated in the mountain passes. Lowry J. Collins, 56, of Seaside, was in critical condition Thursday at Portland's Emanuel Hospital after she was blown off a sixth-floor breezeway Wednesday night at the Sea and Sand Condominiums in Seaside. Gold Beach took the brunt of the Wednesday night storm in Curry County. Store windows were shattered throughout the downtown area. Strong gusts blew in three large freight doors and crumpled a section of a building supply store in Gold Beach. "We were here when it happened," said Alda Neil, mother of the store's owners. "There was just a big gust of wind and it ripped off some of the siding and three of the doors." === Page 23 of 92 Winter's first storm continues its assault By EDWARD MILLER Associated Press Winter's first big storm trudged eastward and smacked the Rockies with a blizzard Thursday, continuing an assault of wind and snow that claimed 13 lives in the West. Christmas shoppers from Montana to northern New Mexico were warned to finish their errands quickly or risk getting stranded. Avalanche warnings were posted for back-country areas. The storm battered the West Coast from California to Washington on Wednesday with hurricane-force wind and rain, and moved into the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range with snow. It pushed eastward Thursday into Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The National Weather Service said the storm would move into the Great Plains by Christmas Eve. The wind gusted to 92 mph at Mount Tamalpais north of San Francisco on Wednesday, hard enough to pitch the Golden Gate Bridge 5 feet, and the swaying landmark was closed temporarily. It was the first wind-caused closing of the bridge in 31 years. The wind tossed a 30,000-pound trailer truck on its side near Fresno and tipped over a truck full of mattresses on the Golden Gate Bridge. Two million homes and offices lost power when eight electrical transmission towers 50 miles southeast of San Francisco blew over and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant at Sacramento shut down to prevent an overload. Disneyland went dark, rides halted and 7,700 people had to be evacuated from the amusement park in Anaheim, guided by employees carrying flashlights. It was the first evacuation in Disney-land's history. The Las Vegas strip glittered because emergency generators kept casinos going when the rest of the city went dark. San Francisco police reported more than three dozen strong-armed robberies of commuters stranded by electrified buses during the blackout. Power was restored to most customers within about 2½ hours, but more than 30,000 customers from Santa Maria to Eureka were still without electricity at midday Thursday, along with 10,000 in the Nevada mountains. Lt. Jerry Norris of the Oregon state police said motorists in the southern Cascades and the Siskiyous "won't be allowed through" without chains on their tires. Chains were also required on Wolf Creek and Red Mountain passes in the Colorado Rockies. "We'll be getting upwards of 18 inches of snow in the mountains and at least four on the eastern plains," National Weather Service forecaster Dick Elder said. "It looks good for snow on Christmas." However, the snow was "making highway travel difficult to impossible" in Colorado, he said, and the falling temperatures in the Rocky Mountain states could bring a wind-chill factor as bitter as 15 below, Elder predicted. Elder said the low-pressure system that delivered the damaging winds to the Pacific Coast had crossed the Continental Divide and into Wyoming and Utah, and was on a collision course with another low-pressure system moving into Colorado from the east. The result, he said, would be heavy snow and more powerful winds. "It would be dangerous for a person stranded in this kind of situation," he said. Durango, Colo., reported 9 inches of snow Thursday. In Utah, power was knocked out for 70 minutes in the Sugarhouse area south of Salt Lake City and most employees of Hill Air Force Base near Ogden were sent home. "Widespread areas of unstable snow exist and avalanches are certain on steep slopes and gullies above 7,000 feet," the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center said. Elsewhere, a tornado struck the eastern side of Texarkana, Ark., on Thursday, injuring at least one person, authorities said. It was the third tornado this month to hit the city. A surprise storm hit the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts and was expected to bring up to 8 inches of snow before turning to freezing rain and coating most of the state. There was scattered light snow in parts of New England, rain and a few thunderstorms in the Ohio and and Tennessee Valleys and fog and drizzle over the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. In California, nine people died Wednesday in weather-related accidents. Two civilian workers from Oakland died when their crane overturned on Yerba Buena Island as they were working on a Navy house. A large eucalyptus tree struck and killed a San Francisco city gardener, a Pleasant Hills parks worker was electrocuted when a live wire fell on him and a Los Angeles teen-ager died when he was hit by a power line. A blast in an avalanche control device killed four workers at the Helms hydroelectric project near Fresno. In Oregon, two people died in an auto accident Wednesday on snow-covered U.S. 20 between the cities of Bend and Sisters. Giant storm flails Northeast Associated Press A major winter storm rolled over the Northeast on Monday, plastering some areas with up to 15 inches of snow on the anniversary of the Blizzard of '78. At least two highway deaths were blamed on the Atlantic storm, one in upstate New York on Monday and one in North Carolina on Sunday. Two school buses collided on a snow-covered road near Corning, N.Y., injuring both drivers and a 6-year-old girl. And in Worcester, Mass., a 9-year-old boy suffered severe head injuries when he tried to hitch a ride on a snowplow. The storm blew in after forming Sunday near Cape Hatteras, N.C., and dumping 12 inches of snow in the mountains of North Carolina. In the West, another in a series of powerful storms moved across Northern California on Sunday and Monday, bringing rain, snow and pounding surf. Radio interference expected BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Radio transmission interference is expected today and Saturday due to a minor magnetic storm triggered by a solar flare, according to solar forecasters at the NOAA-Air Force Space Environment Services Center. Solar forecaster James Gordon said the magnetic storm, caused by a solar flare that occurred Thursday, should begin at 4 a.m. PST today and continue through Saturday. The magnetic storm also might cause an aurora borealis to become visible from the very northern part of the United States, he said. === Page 24 of 92 M.D. Sun Attack # Boy rescued from river Associated Press Statesman Review 12/17/82 A bystander rescued an 8-year-old boy from a rain-swollen stream in western Oregon Thursday as rivers continued to rise in the wake of a fierce winter storm. Two deaths were called storm-related, thousands were left without power and a woman was severely injured when she was blown off a motel breezeway. Some storm damage was reported, mainly on the coast. Meanwhile, residents braced for another storm due to hit the state early today. Roland M. Calvo slipped and fell into Mill Creek in Turner about 8:20 a.m. Thursday. The boy was swept a third of a mile downstream. A nearby resident, 27-year-old Ken Burton, opened the door of his house at the time. "I happened to stick my head out the back door and I heard a little boy crying," said Burton, an unemployed plywood mill worker. Burton saw the boy clinging to a log, ran about 100 yards to the stream bank and jumped in. He held on to the boy until volunteer firefighters slashed through nearby brush and came to the rescue. "I thought about carrying him out but he was too scared," Burton said. The boy was treated at a nearby hospital and was released. The heavy rains Wednesday had expanded the creek's width to about 150 feet and it was about 5 1/2 feet deep, witnesses said. Several western Oregon rivers crested above flood stage Thursday, but there were no reports of damage. Thursday's rains were expected to swell them further. ## Oregon storm leaves many homes in dark Two people died in storm-related accidents. Burl P. Dalgliesh, 18, Salem, was killed when he was struck by a car as he ran from the Fairview Training Center, where he lived. Police said the driver of the car didn't see Dalgliesh because it was dark and raining heavily. The chief engineer of the freighter Jalamorrari died shortly after he and 60 other crew members were taken aboard a rescue ship after the Jalamorrari sank 700 miles west of Coos Bay early Wednesday. Thousands of Oregon homes and businesses were without power Wednesday night and Thursday morning as high winds knocked down utility poles and snapped transmission lines. About 600 customers of Pacific Power & Light Co. still were without electricity in Coos County Thursday afternoon. A spokesman for the utility, Gary Donnelly, said 100 workers were trying to restore electricity. Crews were brought from Medford and Roseburg to help with the repair work. Donnelly said the lights went out at about 5,000 homes in the county's rural areas Wednesday night. There were reports that wind gusts reached 100 mph on the coast Wednesday night. Deputy Karen Baker of the Coos County sheriff's office said the gusts tore the roofs off of several houses. "I have somebody's roof in my driveway right now," she said, "and with the hole I've got in my roof, I could use it." The winds and rains subsided in most areas Thursday morning as the low pressure system moved northward into British Columbia. The National Weather Service, however, said another low pressure system was developing about 800 miles off the Oregon Coast. The system was expected to bring more rain and wind to the state by late Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a travelers advisory Thursday afternoon for the Oregon Cascades and Siskiyous. The weather service said the approaching storm should drop the snowfall level to 4,500 feet with six inches of snow or more anticipated in the mountain passes. Lowry J. Collins, 56, of Seaside, was in critical condition Thursday at Portland's Emanuel Hospital after she was blown off a sixth-floor breezeway Wednesday night at the Sea and Sand Condominiums in Seaside. Gold Beach took the brunt of the Wednesday night storm in Curry County. Store windows were shattered throughout the downtown area. Strong gusts blew in three large freight doors and crumpled a section of a building supply store in Gold Beach. "We were here when it happened," said Alda Neil, mother of the store's owners. "There was just a big gust of wind and it ripped off some of the siding and three of the doors." === Page 25 of 92 northwest Old Faithful survives again YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park officials found some subtle changes in geothermal activities in the wake of a "moderate" earthquake Sunday, park officials said. But there were no major changes or damage in the earthquake, one of the most severe in the park in almost eight years, they said. "Old Faithful was not affected," park spokeswoman Joan Anselmo said. The earthquake measured 5 on the Richter scale and was centered in the Old Faithful area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey earthquake center in Golden, Colo. Yellowstone officials, however, said Monday they believed the quake only registered 4 on the Richter scale. Flooding, deep snow caused by big storm By EDWARD MILLER Associated Press Moist air from Mexico collided with the remnants of the Rocky Mountain blizzard Sunday, coating New Mexico and western Texas with more than a foot of snow and dousing Louisiana with flash floods. In northern Louisiana, makeshift snorkels were placed on the exhaust pipes of National Guard trucks and buses to keep their engines from stalling under floodwaters during evacuations. A snowstorm hit the southern half of New Mexico and western Texas and left a foot on the ground at El Paso, Texas, where many motorists "have never driven in this kind of weather. . . . This is a little heavier than usual," police dispatcher Gerald King said. Frost Belt shoppers, meanwhile, left their wool shirts and skis under the Christmas tree and started their gift returning in record warm weather. DENVER BEGAN DIGGING out from the Christmas blizzard, its worst one-day snowstorm in a century. Three deaths have been attributed to the storm. The Mississippi Valley rains came from "part of the same system" that belted Denver on Christmas Day, said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. The system, Tilley said, "kind of stalled and there's another starting to get organized in the Gulf." Tilley said the storm was "slow to move east" and would keep the rains coming for at least another day. The National Weather Service reported several sightings of tornadoes Sunday afternoon in southwest Louisiana. Some structures were damaged, but there were no reports of injuries. THE BIGGEST PART of the Christmas storm, which left up to 4 feet of snow in Colorado, moved rapidly northeast and was exported to Canada, the Weather Service said. In advance of the storm, flash flood watches were issued for parts of southern Illinois for today and Tuesday. The area was soaked by storms late last week. In New Mexico on Sunday, there was enough left of the storm to combine with warm, moist air coming in from Mexico to bring in packed snow and slush. Las Cruces near the Mexican border received 6 inches. A little further east, central Texas got sleet and eastern Texas was hit by rain on the Gulf Coast and Louisiana border. (Continued on page 2) Storm -- (Continued from page 1) "When I woke up it was past ankle deep in my apartment. By that time everything was all soaking wet," said Scott Rainey Jr. of Alexandria, La. The floods ruined his furniture and presents under the Christmas tree, mostly clothes for his teen-age children. Rainey said he and his family had to wade to the buses used to evacuate them to the Rapides Parish Coliseum. "I'm about 5-3 and it was up past my waist," he said. Rapides Parish and eight other counties in northeastern Louisiana were put under a flash flood warning, bringing to 47 the number under a watch or warning. Louisiana has 64 parishes. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as flash floods soaked Louisiana, and forecasters said 3 to 6 inches of rain was likely on Monday. "The river is up, the streams are full. There's just nowhere for the water to go," said West Monroe Mayor Dave Norris. The storm had dumped nearly 8 inches of rain on Monroe and Alexandria by Sunday. "We've already declared a local emergency," said Rapides Parish Civil Defense Director A.J. Gambordello. "We're evacuating people from subdivisions to the Coliseum. It looks like it's going to affect a few hundred people. Possibly hundreds of homes." "We're sending city buses into these stricken areas," Gambordello said. "These are diesel-type buses and snorkels are being put on their exhausts. They can get into pretty high water." More than 4 inches of rain fell in Beaumont in southeastern Texas and 5 more were expected. A flash flood and flood watch was posted for most of eastern Texas. The warm wave that brought new high temperatures across the Midwest and into the Great Lakes from Milwaukee to Buffalo on Christmas Day continued its record-breaking push into the East on Sunday. It was 66 Sunday in Rochester, N.Y., breaking the record for the date of 62 recorded in 1935, and 63 in Providence, R.I., breaking a record for the date set in 1973. Concord, N.H., normally a winter wonderland, reported a reading of 60, which broke the 1964 record of 58. Denver's overnight low from Saturday to Sunday also tied a record for cold. It was 8 below zero. === Page 26 of 92 UPDA 100X Attack More than 12 inches of rain resulted in this situation in Smithville, Mo. # Rains inundate Midwest Associated Press Spok-Rev 8/14/82 Thunderstorms swamped the Midwest with more than 15 inches of rain in places, routing hundreds of people Friday in floodwaters deep enough to cover house trailers. Three deaths were blamed on the storm. The deluge in northwest Missouri, southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas inundated mobile homes and stalled countless cars in cities such as Kansas City, Mo., where up to 15.5 inches of rain fell in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. One motorist drowned in deep waters in Kansas City and another drowning was reported in Missouri. A 60-year-old Missouri man died of a heart attack while working to clear a flooded basement. "It was like a bathtub overflowing," said Lynn Determann, who fled with her husband from their home in the fashionable Country Club Plaza area of Kansas City about 3 a.m. as water poured through the windows and air conditioners of their apartment. Rain fell at the rate of 3 inches an hour in many areas, sending streams pouring out of their banks in the lower Missouri Valley. In the West, heavy rains in the mountains west of Las Vegas on Thursday night sent floodwaters 3 feet deep through streets on the south side of the gambling mecca. The National Weather Service in Nebraska anticipated the worst flooding since 1973 on the Big Nemaha River at Falls City, a community of 5,200 about 100 miles south of Omaha where 7.3 inches of rain was recorded. "We're pretty well cut off," said Bill Shock, publisher of the Falls City Journal. "I don't know if anything can get in or out." Hundreds of people were evacuated and several homes were swept from their foundations in Kansas City and surrounding towns where water was 8 to 12 feet deep over some roads. ## Floods leave 7,000 homeless RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Weekend flash floods left about 7,000 people homeless in two areas of Brazil, officials said Wednesday. Sudden summer storms hit the eastern state capital of Belo Horizonte on Sunday causing the Arrudas River to overflow and homes, apartment buildings and a bridge to collapse. Press reports of fatalities varied from 42 to 86 and officials said about 3,000 people were left homeless there. UPDA Sun Attack 1/6/82 === Page 27 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Blizzard paralyzes cities in Midwest Associated Press 12/29/82 A blizzard fanning snow into 8-foot drifts Tuesday virtually shut down Minneapolis and other major cities across the Midwest and forced thousands of travelers stuck on highways to seek refuge in churches, armories and even libraries. Flooding forced more evacuations in northern Louisiana, where 1,900 homes were under water and at least 100 roads were closed, but the sun was peeking through in places that had been deluged with up to 17 inches of rain. Some people began returning to flood-ravaged areas in northern Mississippi, but rising water downstream threatened more evacuations later in the week. Storms have been blamed for at least 27 deaths since Christmas Eve, mostly west of the Mississippi, and mostly in traffic accidents. The new snowstorm -- worst of the season to hit many cities -- spared Denver, which was mired under a 2-foot Christmas snowfall. But the latest storm spread snow ranging from half a foot to almost 2 feet deep from eastern Colorado across western Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, southern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. The lights and heat went out in thousands of homes, with the wind chill factor plunging as low as 45 degrees below zero in places and snow falling as fast as 3 inches an hour. Motorists were put up for the night in emergency shelters in many communities and motels along interstate highways were filled, with people often sleeping in the lobbies and meeting rooms. By contrast, at least 16 cities in the Midwest -- including Chicago, Milwaukee and Ann Arbor, Mich. -- posted record warm temperatures for the day Tuesday, with readings in the high 50s and 60s. ## Deadly winds rip Alaska ANCHORAGE (AP) -- At least two people were killed when winds gusting to 90 mph slammed into the Anchorage area, driving temperatures to near-record highs, flipping airplanes and cars, and snapping powerlines. The two died Monday when a three-story office building under construction collapsed at about 5 p.m. in winds estimated at between 70 mph and 90 mph. They were identified as Bill Miller, 45, and Dale Craven, 26, workers for Interstate Company Inc., general contractors on the project. Both were working on the second floor of the structure when it collapsed. A third worker, identified as 40-year-old Ed McBirney, managed to scramble out from under the tons of falling steel girders and escaped injury. The tropical weather system caused temperatures in Anchorage to soar to 45, one degree less than the record set in 1925. Anchorage Fire Department officials said in other incidents, one person was injured by flying glass when an object hit a window and another was hurt by wind-driven debris. Aircraft were reported damaged at Anchorage International Airport and Merrill Field. A small plane tied down at O'Malley Airstrip was flipped over. # Blizzard -- 12/28/82 All travel was banned in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 15 inches of snow fell. The forecast had been for 4 to 6 inches. The University of Minnesota closed for the first time since 1966. Drifts up to 7 feet deep clogged the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, and officials in Sioux City, S.D., recommended that people not even venture out on foot until the snow was cleared. "Tell the people to take a vacation," said Rusty Kapela, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in South Dakota, where up to 17 inches of new snow fell atop a heavy weekend accumulation. The weather service recommended no travel in 28 counties. "Unless you have a snowmobile or a pretty good four-wheel drive, you'll have a tough time." The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was closed and state police said all major freeways and side streets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area were clogged with stalled cars. "We're begging people not to travel," said Bob Munger, a spokesman for the Department of Roads in Nebraska. James Meger, a Minneapolis artist, said a bus carrying his mother to Canby during the night stalled near Franklin in the west-central part of the state and residents of the town formed a convoy of pickup trucks to rescue the 30 passengers on the bus. Between 600 and 700 stranded travelers were sheltered at an armory, a community building, a church and a large tavern in Colby, Kan., as snow whipped by winds up to 40 mph closed a 250-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from Salina to the Colorado border. In Lexington, Neb., about 300 spent the night at an armory where a National Guardsmen baked rolls for them and local restaurants opened to provide other food. # world UFOs Sun Attack ## 40 killed in Brazil floods BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- At least 40 people were killed and an estimated 1,500 were left homeless in floods that struck this eastern state capital over the weekend, police said Monday. Thousands of residents began cleaning up and sifting through debris after flood waters receded Monday, officials said. The central train station linking Brazil's third-largest city to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia resembled a lake. Water rose to the second floor of a downtown building, officials said. A three-story and a six-story apartment building collapsed. The strong rains began Sunday night and took the city's 2 million residents by surprise because the day had been sunny. 1/4/83 ## Leningrad wet MOSCOW (AP) -- Gale-force winds gusting in from the Gulf of Finland forced the Neva River over its banks, flooding parts of Leningrad, Tass reported Friday. It said there were no casualties. It was the second time the river flooded the historic Russian city since Nov. 25. === Page 28 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Coastal emergency declared Associated Press Washington Gov. John Spellman declared an emergency along the state's tidal shorelines Friday, opening the way for more state and possibly federal aid because of wind, rain and high tides. A series of Pacific storms are causing flooding, threatening life and destroying and damaging property, Spellman said in his declaration. The severity of destruction is beyond local government's ability to handle, he said. His declaration authorized various agencies, including the National Guard, to help people living along battered shores and beaches. The Department of Emergency Services was directed to determine if federal disaster aid is needed and the Department of Emergency Services was ordered to coordinate state help. None too soon, as far as Whatcom County was concerned. County Executive John Louws had asked Spellman for a state of emergency declaration Friday, saying tides and winds battered coastal areas. ## None too soon for storm-battered Whatcom County Jan Leonardo, Whatcom County emergency services director, estimated there was up to $1 million in damage to roads alone and that about 150 homes were damaged. The storm struck hardest at small communities such as Birch Bay, Sandy Point, Point Roberts and Gooseberry Point. On Camano Island north of Everett, at least eight homes were evacuated. About 40 homes at Juniper beach were flooded when a dike broke. The storm was at its height Thursday and diminished Friday. But winds were expected to hit the coast at 25 to 40 knots today and gale warnings were posted. Seas were expected to run 16 to 22 feet. Adding to the threat were tides one to three feet above published levels. On inland waters, winds were expected to continue gusting to more than 25 mph. The storm left a 5-year-old Joyce boy dead, knocked down trees and swamped waterside homes. At one point, an estimated 100,000 electricity customers were without power. The child, Wyatt Thompson, slipped and fell into rain-swollen Joyce, just west of Port Angeles, and two companions were unable to pull him from the water. His body was found about two hours later near a bridge. Spellman's declaration was the second in two days. UFOs Sun Attack # Coast braces for new storm Associated Press Already buffeted by days of high winds and heavy rain, the Washington coast braced for 40-60 mph winds from a new storm Saturday as the National Weather Service forecast severe coastal flooding in many areas. The storm which rolled into Western Washington late Wednesday has claimed one life and caused millions of dollars worth of damage, officials reported. Along the ocean coast and inland waters, gale-force winds lifted high tides over breakwaters into backyards and basements. More than $3 million in property damage was reported near the Canadian border in Whatcom County and at least 444 homes and 30 condominiums were damaged on Camano and Whidbey islands in Island County near Everett, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Gov. John Spellman declared a state of emergency for Western Washington Friday in the wake of the "storm of the storm." The declaration makes state personnel and equipment available to local jurisdictions unable to cope with the storm. Spellman first declared an emergency only for areas of damaging high tides, which included Whatcom, Island and Kitsap counties, where homes and businesses near exposed shores were battered. Then he expanded the declaration. A 5-year-old boy drowned Thursday in an overflowing creek in Joyce on the northern Olympic Peninsula. No other deaths or serious injuries were reported. Volunteers and residents of Camano Island hefted sand bags Saturday to reinforce a dike that threatened to collapse. National Guard helicopters, which helped supply sand bags Friday, stayed on the ground Saturday because of high winds, said Voshall. Homes damaged on Camano Island ranged in value from $40,000 to more than $200,000, said George Simons, Island County director of emergency services. A break in the dike threatened to damage about 40 homes which already... UFOs Sun Attack # As Kansans shovel, tornadoes hit Texas Associated Press A winter storm piled up nearly a foot of snow in parts of Kansas on Monday, and thunderstorms brought rain, fog, hail and at least two tornadoes to southeast Texas. Several injuries were reported from the Texas tornadoes. And the death of a 23-year-old man in a two-car pileup in Halfmoon, N.Y., was blamed on a storm that began Sunday night and continued Monday, bringing up to 3 inches of snow and rain in some areas. Snow also fell in parts of New England, the Midwest -- up to 7 inches closed schools in St. Joseph, Mo. -- and Colorado, where a rash of minor traffic accidents was reported in the Denver suburbs. Four inches of snow was reported in Las Vegas, N.M., and 3 inches in Albuquerque and Clayton. The National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., issued a tornado watch Monday for parts of eastern Texas and coastal waters 70 miles east and west of a line from 40 miles northeast of Waco to 30 miles southeast of Palacios. At about 2 p.m. Monday, a twister ripped through a 100-unit apartment complex in Beaumont, to the east of the tornado watch area, causing extensive damage and an undetermined number of injuries. In Sealy, some 40 miles west of Houston, a tornado struck at about 10 a.m. Monday, demolishing one house and injuring an elderly woman. California got a continued respite from last week's bruising rain and wind. === Page 29 of 92 # 17 hurt in sudden Texas storm UFO Sun Attack PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) -- An unexpected, hurricane-force storm thrashed this Texas coastal community early Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people and leaving some people homeless. "We were totally unprepared because no one had issued a warning," said South Padre Island Mayor Minnie Solomonson. "It was just a freak." U.S. Coast Guard Chief Bill Barts, in charge of the Port Isabel station, said the storm, which struck about 11 p.m. (PST) Tuesday, also surprised the Coast Guard with its intensity. "That's when the bottom fell out," he said. Barts said the National Weather Service forecast the Coast Guard received Tuesday called for southeast winds at 17 to 23 mph shifting to northerly 23 to 34 mph as a weather front came through. "That's a piece of cake down here. But we didn't know it was going to be as bad as it was," he said. Winds clocked at 84 mph at Port Isabel and 81 mph on Padre Island uprooted palm and mesquite trees, downed power lines, ripped roofs from homes and caused some flooding. Five people were hospitalized and at least 12 others had less serious injuries. Some debris-filled streets in Port Isabel were impassable and about 14 mobile homes in one park were thrown into a canal. At least 18 airplanes at area airports were also damaged. About two dozen families from the two communities were homeless Wednesday night, and others from a severely damaged camper park nearby also were seeking shelter, according to Nita Flewelling of the Red Cross' Brownsville Chapter. Late Wednesday, 25 percent of Port Isabel's residents still were without electricity. A Cameron County sheriff's spokesman said authorities found no signs of campers reported missing after the storm and now believe the campers left the area safely. Sheila S. Kilgore, who was staying in a South Padre Island hotel on her first business trip to Texas, said she was awakened in the middle of the night by what "sounded like a woman's scream" as the wind wailed through her balcony door. Then the hotel began to shake and the lights went out, she said. "I thought the building was just going to come crashing down," she said. "Now that I look back on it, it seems kind of funny." Ms. Kilgore, of St. Louis, Mo., said she selected an island hotel while in the area on business because "everybody told me Padre Island was a nice place to stay." After the storm, she moved to a hotel in Harlingen about 40 miles inland. Three women and one man were admitted to Valley Community Hospital in Brownsville, according to supervisor Valerie Bateman. The woman, who suffered a shoulder injury, was listed in stable condition while the men, with back injuries, were in guarded condition, Mrs. Bateman said. One man was admitted to Valley Baptist Medical Center with broken ribs. He was listed in fair condition, said supervisor Paula Cruz. Twelve people were treated and released from the two hospitals. A Coast Guard helicopter crew flew over the area Wednesday to assess damage and look for injured people, Barts said. Damage to Port Isabel alone was estimated at more than $1 million, said Mayor Quirino Martinez. The National Weather Service in Brownsville said the storm was triggered by an unusually strong early season cold front that collided with warm, unstable tropical air over southern Texas. A series of strong downbursts -- capable of producing winds up to 150 mph and inflicting damage similar to a tornado -- rushed to the ground from the high storm clouds, said spokesman Don Ocker. Strong north winds at 20 to 30 mph were predicted in the area Wednesday night, but no more damaging wind was expected, he said. UFO Sun Attack S.P.R.N 12/29/82 Spokane, Wash., Wed # Hansville braces for another round of floods HANSVILLE, Wash. (AP) -- Whatever damage recent storms did in other parts of Western Washington, Hansville probably had it worse. "The Corps of Engineers told the fire chief here that we had it worse than Camano (Island)," said resident Don Anson. "Yet Camano got all the attention." The Dec. 16 storm that battered Hansville, flooding homes and sending armies of sandbaggers to bolster dikes -- also gave the Hansville area of Kitsap County its worst storm beating in recent memory. Ten-foot waves crashing against bulkheads routed some Skunk Bay residents from their homes, and most of Hansville was under two to three feet of water for several days last week. Now, Hansville residents are preparing for another bout with high tides within the next few days. Sandbag crews of local residents, public officials and Navy volunteers have been active throughout the area. "It was a weird sort of blow," Anderson said of the previous storm. Sand apparently washed over bulkheads in some areas, then pulled them down with undercurrent pressure, he said. At one waterfront cafe, which extended over the water on pilings, waves pounding on a seawall rammed huge rocks and chunks of wood up through the floor. "It looked like a boatload of hell-raising sea monsters had come in and torn everything apart," said Al Zachary, who was helping salvage equipment and materials from the cafe. A soda fountain was ripped apart and a bar was pushed around the main floor. A tide of 13½ feet, more than a foot higher than on Dec. 16, is expected New Year's Day. Maybe higher, if atmospheric pressure drops. "Everyone here is keeping an eye on their barometers," said Anderson. === Page 30 of 92 Die Sun Attack # Lightning knocks out power in California Associated Press SP Rev 11/10/82 A violent storm struck southern California on Tuesday, ripping up hundreds of trees, dumping up to two feet of hailstones and generating lightning that caused blackouts. Electrical power was briefly knocked out to the entire town of Santa Barbara when lines were struck by lightning and several homes in Malibu were flooded when two feet of small hailstones clogged storm drains. A giant FedCo department store in Van Nuys was flooded by rain when high wind blew away most of the roof, authorities said. A small tornado was reported in the Lennox area of Los Angeles County near Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach, and at least one buzzed suburban Long Beach. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches from Ontario in San Bernardino County 25 miles south to Campo, just along the Mexican border in inland San Diego County. Firefighters and volunteers built sandbag barriers around homes, and county flood control spokesman Bill Hardie mapped evacuation plans for the Malibu area. By nightfall, however, the danger had passed. In Garden Grove, roofs on three homes were completely ripped off the wind and windows in two elementary schools were shattered as children dived for cover beneath their desks. Two student nurses were slashed by flying glass as they shielded patients from a breaking window at Panorama Community Hospital in the wind-whipped San Fernando Valley. UFO Sun Attack # Storms leave 20 dead in Europe Spok Rev 11/10/82 TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The death toll after four days of storms in southern Europe rose to 20 Tuesday, and there were unconfirmed reports of many cars and passengers swept away by floods in the isolated little principality of Andorra, high in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain. The storm that began Saturday in southwestern France pounded northern and central Italy, killing three people in the Genoa area. Three deaths were confirmed in Andorra, and two men injured as a result of the storm died in Bordeaux, bringing the total dead in southwestern France to 14. Villages outside Andorra la Vella, the capital of Andorra, were reported cut off, and French officials said they were told the Andorra rescue headquarters had no news of some 200 people. The principality and its 37,000 people were cut off by floods and landslides the storm sent roaring down the Pyrenees. Helicopters shuttling in French and Spanish rescue workers and bringing out the wounded and stranded foreigners provided the only communication. Andorra is supplied from Spain and France. With the roads blocked, people flown out Tuesday said bread was rationed one loaf per person and supermarkets were shut to prevent pillaging. They reported at least one supermarket destroyed by the overflow of the river that runs the length of Andorra la Vella. A tide of mud from the river forced its way into the ground floors of houses and shops throughout the town, they said. The arrivals reported that a curfew was imposed from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., apparently to prevent looting of the town's hundreds of duty-free stores packed with alcoholic beverages, electronic goods and other luxuries. In Italy, the torrential rains swelled rivers and streams in Tuscany and Liguria. Snow fell above 3,000 feet for the second day in the Dolomite Mountains and closed the Stelvio, Rombo, Pennes and Stalle passes. But highway police said traffic moved normally through the Brenner Pass linking Austria and Italy. A railroad bridge collapsed near Parma, cutting the Bologna-Milan line. Traffic had been halted hours before as a precaution. UFOs Sun Attack # Warm spell trims those electric bills SP Rev 1/14/83 There's a bonus in Spokane's warm January weather -- a savings in both energy and money. Temperatures and the use of electricity parallel each other, Washington Water Power Co. spokesman Stan Witter said. With warm temperatures keeping the electrical consumption down, it saves both energy and consumer dollars. Thursday's high temperature of 45 broke the three-day run of record high temperatures, but above-normal temperatures are expected to continue, with a high today near 40. Record highs from 49 to 53 degrees were recorded Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Spokane, the first three straight record highs recorded during January since 1881, when weather service records began here, said Kenneth Holmes of the National Weather Service. Coeur d'Alene's temperatures were comparable. On Tuesday, the Lake City beat Spokane by one degree, posting a high temperature of 53. Temperatures have ranged 10-15 degrees above normal since Jan. 5. "I can't remember a January like this," Witter said. Loads last week were down 27 percent from the January estimate, he added, and with three record high temperatures this week, it will be much lower again. The 8-9 a.m. usage Thursday was 1,091 megawatts, far less than the normal 1,400 figure, he said. The estimated peak usage for a one-hour period this month was 1,597 megawatts and its unlikely we'll reach that usage, Witter added. The all-time, one-hour record for January was 1,614 megawatts Jan. 29, 1980, Witter said. There's been a substantial saving in natural gas also, but the weather can't take all the credit. The savings was produced by a three-way combination of economic conditions, conservation and the weather. UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/14/83 # Power failure strands skiers on lifts RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A power failure swept across much of northwestern Nevada on Thursday, leaving skiers dangling on ski lifts in the Sierra and snarling traffic in Reno and Carson City. Mike Reed of Sierra Pacific Power Co. said an electrical disturbance of an unknown nature caused two 345,000-volt lines between Reno and the Valmy power plant in northern Humboldt County to fail shortly before 10:30 a.m. That caused a domino effect that knocked out the Fort Churchill power plant near Fallon, he said. Sierra Pacific serves 175,000 customers in Nevada and eastern California. Reed said the outage affected about 40 to 50 percent of the utility's power supplies. Power was restored to most areas within three hours. The electrical failure knocked out traffic signals in Reno and Carson City. The outage also stranded skiers on lifts at Mount Rose and Slide Mountain ski areas between Reno and Carson City. About 50 skiers were left dangling on the lift at Mount Rose when the power failed === Page 31 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Fri., Dec. 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Storms batter U.S. again Associated Press Bloated rivers claimed new territory Thursday in Louisiana and Mississippi where thousands of families have been displaced since Christmas in what is called a 100-year flood in some areas. A series of storms that began Christmas Eve has claimed at least 29 lives across the nation. A new snowstorm swept into the southern Rockies and bitter cold settled into the upper Midwest. Snow squalls along the shore of Lake Erie slowed rush hour traffic around Cleveland with up to 4 inches of snow by morning. The Tombigbee River crested at Columbus, Miss., at almost 8 feet above flood stage Thursday, but other rivers were still on the rise in the state where about 1,000 square miles were under water and 1,000 homes had been flooded. John Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the flooding of more than 600,000 acres in the flat farmlands of the Mississippi Delta had already exceeded levels expected only once every 100 years. "That water is not going anywhere for a while because the Delta is so flat and the water is spread out everywhere," a spokesman for the weather service said. "The rivers and creeks are still extremely high and with the Mississippi River rising, there's no place for the water to go." In Louisiana, where 2,300 families had been affected by recent flooding and tornadoes, forecasters warned that "unprecedented" and "potentially dangerous" flooding was expected over the weekend in the southwest part of the state, along the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles. Weather officials predicted the Calcasieu would crest at Lake Charles on Saturday at about 10 feet -- 5 feet above flood stage. Out West, a winter storm warning was posted for the higher regions of southeastern Arizona, with 4 inches already on the ground at Prescott in the northwest part of the state, and a travelers advisory was issued for southern New Mexico where visibility was near zero. Temperatures dipped into the single digits or below zero from the upper Mississippi Valley through Wyoming and Colorado to Nevada and Oregon. Noontime readings were barely above zero in northern Minnesota and Jackson, Wyo., registered 7 below. In Minneapolis-St. Paul, where 16.5 inches fell Tuesday, most main roads had been cleared, but side streets remained clogged. # Warmer days saved millions on heating WASHINGTON (AP) -- That week of Indian summer at the beginning of December saved Americans $775 million in heating bills, the government reported Wednesday. That was a 44 percent savings from normal heating costs for the week of Nov. 29 through Dec. 5, according to the assessment and information services center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Calculations of the cost of storms and flooding that followed the warm weather are not available. Under normal conditions for the week in early December, natural gas, electricity and oil for heat would cost Americans an estimated $1.742 billion. Those costs this year amounted to $967 million. The center said record highs were set for daily and weekly temperatures across the country, with the highest readings recorded from the Midwest to the Atlantic. The southeastern corner of the nation was the lone exception to the trend, reporting about normal readings for this time of year. The largest savings were reported in the East-North Central states where costs were down $223 million, or 57 percent. That area includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Savings of $177 million were reported for the mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and $134 million was saved by residents of the South Atlantic states -- Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia. All parts of the nation recorded some savings during the week, with the smallest being $2 million in the Mountain states and $3 million in Pacific Coast states. # Big bang blamed on U.S. spy plane SEATTLE (AP) -- An Air Force spy plane on a training flight between California and Washington was the likely cause of an explosive boom heard early Thursday by southwestern Oregon residents, a federal aviation official said. Bob Mayo, area manager for the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control center in Seattle, said the thunderous noise probably was a sonic boom from an SR-71, a high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance plane from Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, Calif. "I don't know of anything else in the area that was capable of breaking the sound barrier," he said. Residents from Ashland to Roseburg reported hearing a deafening sound for several seconds shortly before 8:30 a.m. Fri., Jan. 7 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # California shaking MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- A series of strong earthquakes centered along the Eastern Sierra rocked a wide area of central California on Thursday, knocking groceries off store shelves and triggering minor panic in a restaurant. The quakes, beginning after 5 p.m. and centered in the seismically active Mammoth Lakes area, caused power outages in the Mammoth resort and were felt 100 miles to the west in the San Joaquin Valley cities of Fresno and Merced, authorities said. No injuries or major damage were immediately reported. "It came in first in our instruments near Mammoth Lake," said University of Nevada-Reno seismologist Wally Nicks. === Page 32 of 92 Quakes rumbling in Sierra Nevada MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) Hundreds of earthquakes rumbled for a second day Friday through this Sierra Nevada ski resort, which since May has been under official notice of "potential volcanic hazard." Geologists stressed they haven't determined whether the earthquakes were associated with underground volcanic activity. More than 1,000 earthquakes were recorded in the first 12 hours of the swarm that began Thursday afternoon, including two strong tremblers that caused minor damage, geologists said. Groceries fell from shelves, power outages were triggered and an aluminum airport hangar collapsed. No injuries were reported, but the largest of the quakes panicked restaurant patrons and prompted some hotel and ski resort guests to leave the area, which is 200 miles east of San Francisco and 250 miles north of Los Angeles. While several resorts said they received numerous calls Friday from potential tourists concerned about the quakes, they said they expected normal business during the weekend. "I don't think people are too worried," said Julia Fitzpatrick, manager of the Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce. "People who have lived here for any time are used to feeling small tremors." Scientists said they don't know just what the current quake activity means and emphasized that no one is predicting anything. Similar swarms have shaken the area in the past few years, contributing to the U.S. Geological Survey's decision May 27 to issue its potential hazard notice, the lowest of three levels of official alerts. "We are uncertain as to whether it is volcanic or tectonic" -- associated only with earthquake faults, said California State Geologist James Davis. "The prudent thing is to study the matter intensively and make other kinds of geologic observations that may help us." Michael Jencks, chairman of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, said, "We have in place a disaster plan. All the agencies were in touch, closely monitoring the quakes. That creates an atmosphere of confidence." Kathryn Lee, marketing coordinator for Whiskey Creek restaurant, where panicked customers ran outside as Thursday's quakes knocked out lights said, "A lot of them just yelled and screamed or laughed it off -- just tried to get out some emotion." The largest of Thursday's two moderate jolts measured up to 5.6 on the Richter scale, said Don Finley, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo. Atlantic storm floods coastal towns Associated Press A violent Atlantic storm lugged the Eastern Seaboard with hurricane-force winds and rain Monday, pushing floodwaters into coastal towns, disrupting electrical service and crippling seagoing vessels. Storm warnings went up from the Carolinas to Long Island as the northeaster, described by the National Weather Service as "unusually strong," roared up the mid-Atlantic coast, eroding beaches with booming surf and destroying some beachside homes. The Coast Guard sent ships and planes to the aid of several disabled yachts and fishing vessels off the Virginia and Carolina coasts, but gave up a search for three people missing in rough seas off New Jersey where the chartered 50-foot fishing boat Joan Le Rie III capsized Sunday with 22 people aboard, and 14 persons were rescued. Elsewhere in the East, many inland cities reported record cold for October 25, ranging from the sub-freezing 26 at Fayetteville, Ark., and 28 at Cleveland, to 48 at Orlando, Fla. Parts of western North Carolina got 5 inches of snow. On the storm-tossed Outer Banks of North Carolina, 10 beach cottages were destroyed, another half dozen were undermined, and the only two highways serving the area -- N.C. 12 and U.S. 158 -- were closed by flooding and drifting debris. Winds were clocked at 74 mph at the Norfolk International Airport in Virginia early Monday, following gusts of 80 mph south of Frying Pan Shoals in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon. Perry Officer Daniel W. Sanders of the Coast Guard station in Chincoteague, Va., said winds topped 70 mph Monday along the Virginia seacoast and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Robert J. Holden, spokesman for the Delmarva Power & Light Co. in Salisbury, Md., said high winds caused scattered power outages in the utility's entire service area, but mostly along the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. About 8,000 Virginia Electric & Power Co. customers, mostly in sort of Ocean City, Md. Winds were clocked at 74 mph at Norfolk and Virginia Beach, lost electric power Sunday afternoon. Flooding in the Willoughby Spit area of Norfolk forced the evacuation of a dozen people. The fire department brought in large-wheel vehicles to carry out the residents. Some evacuations were ordered in New Bern, N.C., where Highway 17 was under several feet of water near the Neuse River Bridge. Schools closed in the Virginia communities of Chesapeake and Poquoson because many streets were under water. "Northeasters are a fact of life for us, so we don't get too excited about it," said city manager Arthur Barrett in the popular beach resort of Ocean City, Md. === Page 33 of 92 'Classic' snowstorm hits Northeast Associated Press A "classic" snowstorm that in some areas ranked among the worst of the century, piled cubits of The Northeast in snow up to 2 feet deep Sunday, with stiff winds building road-blocking drifts, causing scattered blackouts. Many residents of New England, remembering the Blizzard of 1978, stocked up on food in advance of the storm and stayed home. Even so, police reported many accidents. A Massachusetts man drowned early Sunday at Nantasket beach in the South Shore area of Boston when storm-driven waves swept him from a seawall where he had been walking with a companion, said police officer Richard O'Connell. Snow depths of more than a foot were common from northeastern Pennsylvania to Maine, with some areas getting much more, up to 30 inches in southern Vermont. On the bright side, troubled ski resort operators in New England compared the snow to white gold, worth "a couple of million dollars an inch" to the industry, which until this weekend could offer only man-made snow for downhill skiing and no cross-country skiing at all. By midday Sunday, 23 inches of snow had fallen in Albany, N.Y., the most for any snowstorm there in January since the government started keeping records more than 100 years ago. Except for a monster blizzard in 1888 that dumped 46 1/2 inches of snow on the Empire State's capital, the accumulation was just a few inches short of that left by the half-dozen worst storms ever to hit Albany. Paul Greaves of the National Weather Service in Albany had predicted the storm would be "a classic nor'easter." Winds in Boston gusts up to 45 mph and several Massachusetts communities lost power for a short time as snow-laden branches pulled down power lines. Utility officials in Rhode Island said 4,200 households were without electricity. Homeless people trudged to the Pine Street Inn in Boston, where extra beds were set up for up to 600 people. The storm, which swept east of Boston into Maine during the day, curtailed some operations at Logan International Airport Saturday night. "The snow here is very wet and hard to clear," said Charity Brown, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs the airport. The heaviest snowfall came in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where 2 feet accumulated. Other measurements included 22 inches at Wilmington, Vt., and 17 inches at Montpelier, Vt. Snow was falling as fast as 2 inches an hour at Maine, with 14 inches already on the ground at Kittery. At least 16 inches had fallen at Bangor, Me., with about 15 inches in northern towns of Vermont, 14 inches in northeastern Pennsylvania and northwestern Rhode Island. Inland Connecticut also got more than a foot, with 15 inches reported at Barhamsville and Bakersville and 14 inches at Norwalk. About a foot of snow covered most of central Massachusetts, with Boston getting 3 to 7 inches while Lowell, about 45 miles northwest, received a foot and a half, as did southern Worcester County. As temperatures dropped into the 20s, wet snow turned into ice, making roads treacherous. Rhode Island Gov. J. Joseph Garrahy urged residents to stay off the highways. The largest accumulation in Connecticut occurred in Waterbury, where 16 inches fell. The state's ski resorts reported brisk business Sunday. In Vermont, police said blowing and drifting snow had sent many cars careening off the highway, especially along Route 91. But Massachusetts state police reported only a few fender-bender collisions on state roads. Albany, N.Y., recorded 23 inches of snow, the most for any January snowstorm there since the government started keeping records. Thousands flee floods on Midwest rivers Associated Press Rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked thousands of people to safety Monday as record floods up to the eaves of houses poured through the Mississippi Valley, inundating communities from Illinois to the Gulf Coast. Storms spinning off tornadoes killed about 20 people in the central states late last week and raised rivers that swelled rivers to their highest marks ever in places. In Missouri, communities just southwest of St. Louis, more than 18,000 people scrambled out of their homes as the Meramec and Mississippi rivers crested 13 feet above flood stage at Camden. In Arkansas, the Ouachita River was expected to crest 13 feet above flood stage at Camden. In southeastern Missouri, Wayne County officials said the flooding had knocked out about 90 percent of the county's 700 miles of roads and two-thirds of the bridges. About 1,900 families had fled in Illinois and officials said "the worst is yet to come." Gov. James R. Thompson was considering declaring the entire state a disaster area after the worst flooding of the century in some areas. "We've got a lot of water coming down the White," said Don Schwartz, a hydrologist for the National Weather Service. "We can't overstate the seriousness of it. Our main concern is getting the lives out of there." In many cities such as Peoria, Ill., where the river had not yet crested, thousands of residents were sandbagging their homes. The storms "seemed to miss almost no part of the state, so it's probably the most devastating damage we've ever had," Arkansas Gov. Frank White said Monday as he toured storm-damaged areas. Spokane, Wash., Tues., Dec. 7, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW C === Page 34 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., Dec. 12, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # New storm drops rain and snow from Texas to Maine Associated Press A new storm, capping a week of fierce floods, spread rain and snow from Texas to Maine, and the light freezing rainfall slowed the decline Saturday of bulging rivers in the waterlogged lower Mississippi Valley. Up to 5 inches of snow fell in Ohio, where five people died in traffic accidents on snow-slick roads. Illinois Gov. James Thompson, who already has designated 27 counties state disaster areas, on Saturday asked President Reagan to declare 22 of them federal disaster areas. "This is a request for help on behalf of thousands of Illinois citizens whose lives have been disrupted," he said. An estimated 4,500 people remained homeless in Illinois. The week-long flooding caused an estimated $600 million damage in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. At one point, up to 35,000 people were homeless. The storms killed 20 people and left three missing. About 80 miles of the Illinois River, from Grafton to Beardstown, will be closed to navigation indefinitely because of high water, Thompson said. He also said 30 levees had been destroyed. Late Friday, President Reagan declared 15 Missouri counties federal disaster areas, making merchants and homeowners eligible for low-interest loans. Twenty-two Missouri counties already had been declared state disaster areas. In Arkansas, a National Weather Service spokesman said Saturday's 1 to 2 inches of rainfall would only slow the receding of the Black and the White rivers, which had forced hundreds of people from their homes. In Clinton, Ark., population 1,284, merchants made the best of the situation by holding flood sales Friday. "Almost every store has a sale," said Thomas Love, Van Buren County sheriff's dispatcher in Clinton. Merchants were cutting prices on "everything that was in town that didn't get washed away," he said. Muddied stereos and shotguns were going for half price, and jeans that normally go for up to $18 were on sale at $10. "Clothes ... have been going pretty good," he said. "People can wash them." On the western edge of Saturday's storm, Texas reported widespread rain and snow, and travelers' advisories were posted in the Panhandle, the southern Plains and north-central part of the state. Snow fell across the upper Ohio Valley and northern Atlantic Coast states, with 5 inches in northern and central Ohio, and 3 inches in Canton and Youngstown, Ohio. Five inches fell in Pittsburgh, Pa. Winter storm watches were posted for Saturday night in southern Delaware, southern Maryland, southeastern Virginia and the northern mountains of North Carolina. # New storm strikes Midwest; thousands remain homeless Associated Press A new storm drove freezing rain into the Midwest Friday just as riverbank cities were drying out from a week of flooding that inflicted $600 million in damage to the recession-burdened economies of three states. Thousands of people were still homeless in Illinois and Gov. James R. Thompson declared 20 more counties disaster areas Friday, bringing the total to 27, as the Illinois River receded from soggy towns and cities all along its route. The Mississippi River flooded eight businesses and forced 60 families out of their houses in Cape Girardeau, Mo., before cresting Friday. Dozens of evacuees stayed at a church and City Hall overnight and were expected to be out of their homes until next week. In many places the water that forced evacuations of as many as 35,000 people during a week of destruction was still high enough to threaten homes and jobs. "We're all pitching in, because if the water comes in, we'll be out of a job," said Jim Bomhold, 22, a cook at the River Station restaurant near the Illinois River in Peoria, Ill. The restaurant was sandbagged and surrounded by water, and pumps were keeping it dry. "I don't want to be looking for a job in this unemployment situation," he said. The Southern California desert town of Ocotillo was flooded Thursday by mountain runoff after a heavy rain, but floodwaters had subsided by Friday. Most of the residents of the tiny community returned to their homes during the night. "We haven't had anymore rain all evening and the waters have gone down," said Imperial County Sheriff's dispatcher Linda Valenzuela. In Illinois, about 1,600 homes were affected by floods in a 70-mile stretch from Henry, north of Peoria, south to Liverpool. Eighty-six homes had major damage and 568 families were evacuated, officials said. The hamlet of Liverpool was submerged, leaving virtually all of its 243 inhabitants homeless. The new storm dumped a foot of snow in Flagstaff, Ariz., and covered the Arizona mountains with a heavy coating of snow before advancing eastward on the Midwest. Rain, freezing rain and snow fell on central Illinois and Ohio. Waters were still rising in a few areas. The Army Corps of Engineers in Peoria said the river reached 27.5 feet Thursday night and had dropped a half-foot by morning. The flood-swollen Mississippi River leveled off at Cape Girardeau several feet below predictions and 10 feet below the record crest during the floods of 1973. === Page 35 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/21/83 Spokane, Wash., Fri # Freezing rain, high winds batter South Associated Press A winter storm iced Dixie from Mississippi to the Carolinas on Thursday, closing schools, knocking out power and glazing highways, while hurricane-force winds buffeted the Gulf Coast. The fierce winds boiling 25-foot seas swamped boats, tore an oil rig loose from its mooring, and killed one man and injured three others when a boat capsized near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The winds contributed to coastal flooding from Louisiana to Florida. Schools closed in many Deep South cities, including Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., as roads were glazed with treacherous freezing rain, sleet and snow. The homes and businesses of about 250,000 people across Alabama lost power and Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington signed an emergency disaster order. Gov. George Wallace called off a special session of the Legislature. Many cities of the Northeast were numbed by record cold and the crowds grew at shelters for the homeless. In the Southwest, a foot and a half of snow fell in places as a new storm swept out of the Sierra Nevada. Record low temperatures for the date were posted in cities such as Elkins, W.Va., 14 below zero; Muskegon, Mich., 10 below; Syracuse, N.Y., 9 below, Traverse City, Mich., 8 below, and Buffalo, N.Y., 5 below. During the cold snap in New York City this week, officials reported more than 4,600 people had turned out at 11 shelters for the homeless, more than at any time since the Great Depression. A gymnasium was opened at Boston City Hospital to shelter the homeless there. Coast Guard Petty Officer Doug Bandos in New Orleans said some vessels were in trouble in the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida with winds of 80 mph producing 25-foot waves. "We have lots of things going on," he said. "Barges hither and thither, lots of boats ashore, lots aground, high water, rigs taking on water. You name it, we got it. Except for casualties. No casualties." The first casualty was reported later Thursday, after the vessel Jennifer Lindsay capsized about 5 miles from Northeast Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi River. An unidentified man died before dawn, said Coast Guard spokesman James Koch, while one man was rescued and three others were missing. The Coast Guard did not know what kind of vessel the Jennifer Lindsay was, Koch said. An offshore oil rig with 51 people on board tore loose from its anchors and went adrift 50 miles off Louisiana. Most of the crewmen were evacuated but a standby crew was left on board. On Florida's Gulf Coast, officials reported sunk, adrift or damaged vessels, including a 610-foot oil tanker and a 145-foot tugboat, said Coast Guard spokesman James Koch. No injuries were reported, but the eight-man crew of the tanker Phosphorus rocked in the waves in the Gulf. In Alabama, about 250,000 homes and businesses lost power, including 90,000 in Birmingham. Power lines and tree limbs snapped as freezing rain glazed the state. UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/27/83 # High wind, heavy rain lash California; 6 killed Associated Press The third big blow of the week flogged California with tree-topping wind, booming surf and driving rain Wednesday, washing away beaches, wrecking property and closing harbors with mudslides and shifting sand. The California storms that began over the weekend had killed at least six people and including a highway worker swept away leading a road crew by a mudslide Tuesday and another killed Wednesday when a mountain road collapsed. As Wednesday's downpour arrived, a foot of rain was forecast in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 90 miles south of San Francisco, where 18 people died when mudslides crushed several homes last January. Officials in Fresno, Calif., were making plans to convert three miles of freeway into a giant storm sewer. Beachfront residents in coastal cities stacked tons of sandbags to protect their homes against a high tide coupled with 15-foot waves, which tore boats loose from moorings. High wind warnings were posted along the coast of Oregon and the weather service said still more Pacific storms were headed toward the West Coast. In Point Arena, Calif., 150 miles north of San Francisco, the heavy surf, pounding rain and gusty wind smashed a wooden pier, toppling two restaurants and a fish packing company into the sea. One man was trapped briefly inside the wreckage of Charlie's Fish House, but the breakfast crowd at Arena Cove Cafe fled safely before the building collapsed. No one was inside the Wharf Restaurant when the pier gave way, said Anita Cranmer, a clerk at the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department. Tides rose to a record 9.93 feet at the Rio Vista Bridge on the Sacramento River, said state flood emergency coordinator Bill Helms. In southern California, piers were closed in San Diego and Los Angeles counties. === Page 36 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # wo women killed in West Side windstorm SEATTLE (AP) - Utility crews worked Wednesday to finish restoring power to more than 50,000 Western Washington homes cut off from electricity by a fierce windstorm that left two women dead. Tuesday night's winds, which gusted between 70 and 80 miles per hour at times, were sparked by a small but intense low-pressure area over southwestern Washington, the National Weather Service reported. It was expected to strike south of Washington, but took an unexpected turn north, then weakened as it moved into British Columbia, said Weather Service spokesman Paul Goree. The worst of the winds had calmed by early Wednesday. Power crews busily restored service throughout the length of Western Washington. Charlotte Simpson, 39, of Ocean Shores, died instantly Tuesday night of head and chest injuries she suffered when a 100-foot spruce crashed into her mobile home, said Grays Harbor County Coroner John Bebich. Authorities said the tree fell in 70 mph winds as Mrs. Simpson lay reading in bed with her husband Howard. He suffered an ankle injury. Authorities said Simpson was pinned in bed until neighbors heard his cries for help. In a separate accident, Charlette Farquharson, 48, Roy, a community near Tacoma, was killed Tuesday night near Tacoma when a tree fell on the car in which she was riding, the State Patrol reported. Allen L. Hansen, 52, Graham, the driver, suffered a broken hip and other injuries and was reported in stable condition in Tacoma General Hospital. One of two floating bridges linking Seattle with suburban communities east of Lake Washington was closed temporarily because of the high winds, as was the Hood Canal Floating Bridge linking the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas. At the height of the storm Tuesday night, about 25,000 Puget Power customers were out of service in King County, about 20,000 of them in north King County, Puget Power spokesman Chris Curtis said. (Continued on page 10) UFOs Sun Attack # Snow unloaded on East as West braces for gale Associated Press Autumn got in its last licks Monday and dumped snow across parts of the East and New England, leaving three people dead on slippery roads and as much as 8 inches of snow piled up in West Virginia's mountains. Meanwhile, gale warnings were posted on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and damage estimates ran as high as $10 million in Washington state from last week's high winds, pounding surf and overflow tides. In Connecticut, dozens of people were left stranded on snow- and ice-covered highways and many schools canceled or delayed classes. Up to 4 inches of snow fell in some parts of Massachusetts, including the Boston area, where several schools canceled classes. In many areas, the storm began Sunday as freezing rain that turned to snow. A Connecticut man was killed Sunday night in Ashford when his car slid on an ice-covered road and collided with another vehicle, state police said. Jeffrey Hartman, 30, died, and his passenger, his wife Denise, was injured and hospitalized in serious condition Monday. In Massachusetts, Deborah M. Dempsey, 22, of Watertown, died Sunday night when her vehicle slammed into the back of a snow plow as she exited a highway. Also Sunday, Alice Graves, 79, of Springfield, Mass., was killed when her car and a tractor-trailer truck collided in Sturbridge. "The roads were icy and they weren't sandy at the time," said state Trooper William Apgar. Two other people were injured. Eight inches of snow was reported in the mountains of West Virginia at the Snowshoe ski resort and the town of Pickens. Six inches accumulated in the town Sinks of Gandy, 5 inches in Flat Top and Glady, and 4 inches in Beckley, Thomas and Mount Storm. "The roads are snow-covered and slick," West Virginia state police dispatcher Linda Moates said Monday. "We're expecting 2 to 4 more inches today. We've had some fender-benders, but nothing serious." Schools in two West Virginia counties, Raleigh and Preston, were closed. In Vermont, snow fell statewide Monday but motorists and road crews seemed to be handling the situation well. # Storm----------(Continued from page 6)---------- In addition, between 400 and 500 Poulsbo and Port Townsend residents serviced by Puget Power lost electricity, she said. The storm caused the loss of power to 6,000 Seattle City Light customers, company spokesman John Graham reported. In Pierce County, Peninsula Light Co. and Puget Sound Power & Light Co. each reported power losses to about 5,000 customers, while Tacoma City Light lost power to 2,100 customers. Approximately 8,000-10,000 customers were without power in Grays Harbor County Tuesday night, said Grays Harbor Public Utility District spokesman Larry Hurlbert. Ocean Shores was the area hardest hit. In Snohomish County, more than 10,000 people lost their power, county PUD spokesman Kerry Edwards said. The PUD services 152,000 customers. Outages also were reported in Olympia and Chehalis. The State Patrol reported the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington was closed late Tuesday night after 80 mph winds were reported. The bridge reopened early Wednesday. The Hood Canal Floating Bridge was closed about 11:30 p.m. (PST) by high wind and waves, the state Department of Transportation said. It reopened about 2:50 a.m. Sun Attack # France hit by floods PARIS (AP) - The southwestern city of Poitiers was almost floodbound and water supplies to 30,000 people in the Cognac region were being cut Wednesday as floods swept many parts of the country. Only three roads remained open into Poitiers, 210 miles from Paris, as the Clain River overflowed its banks. Police asked that motorists not try to reach the town and that its 85,000 inhabitants not use their cars. === Page 37 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 12/26/82 # Christmas is a sad day in flooded French city of Macon MACON, France (AP) -- Flooding, merged the downtown area of this central French city with 20 inches of water Saturday, disrupting Christmas festivities for the second consecutive year. But in the rest of the country, rain-swollen rivers subsided. "Without trying to be dramatic, the situation is very sad," said a red-and-white clad Santa Claus in a Macon photo shop where few children had stopped to pose for a $4.40 photograph with Father Christmas. "People are being financially conservative," he said. "They don't want to buy anything unnecessary, in case the situation gets worse." The flooding of the Saone River forced many Macon families to find shelter with neighbors on Christmas. The city of 40,000 people is about 210 miles southeast of Paris. Other rain-swollen rivers throughout France continued to subside after a week of flooding that had forced thousands of families to evacuate their homes for several days or live amid several inches of water. In Paris, the Seine River rose above its banks last week, forcing the closure of riverside expressways. No homes were threatened in the capital, however, and only a handful of families living in houseboats along the Seine had to evacuate. The rising Seine River apparently did not dissuade Parisian Christmas shoppers even though the closure of the riverbank expressways caused traffic jams. Paris stores reported Christmas sales about 10 percent higher this year. # Denver digs out of snow -- slowly UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 12/27/82 By JENNIFER PARMELEE Associated Press DENVER -- City buses and taxis were left in their garages and the airport operated at a sluggish pace Sunday as Denver slowly dug out from a blizzard that killed three people and left one missing. Thousands of people here are sick, tired and frustrated, said Dr. Bruce Malone, a surgeon from Austin, Texas, who has been stranded at Stapleton International Airport for two days with his family of four. "We have some peanut butter with us, but that's about all the food we can get," said Malone, whose flight Sunday was canceled. "I want to get my family out of here." The storm that began Christmas Eve left up to 3 feet of snow in the city. Transportation for the area's 2 million residents was limited mostly to four-wheel drive vehicles, cross-country skis and foot. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dick said most state offices in the metropolitan area would be closed today, with the exception of "critical" employees dealing with some areas of health care, public safety and highway maintenance. ## Ice chunk grounds plane -- Page 2 There were only 12 takeoffs and landings an hour at Stapleton, one-fourth of normal. Food was in short supply at airport restaurants, diapers and baby formula were nowhere to be found and trash was piled high. Legions of weary travelers settled in for another night at the airport, using coats for blankets and gift packages as pillows. An unsuccessful search was conducted Sunday in Huerfano County for contract mailman Howard Hubbs who vanished during the peak of the blizzard. Undersheriff Leo said 30 people on foot, snowmobile and no traces whatsoever" of Hubbs, but the search today. t Service said Sunday that a man identi- ldon was cross-country skiing in the y near Montezuma when he set off an ied and killed him. roner Paul Stoddard said Anna Mais, went outside during Christmas Eve, got snow and died. of Adams County, was found dead by is from his car, which apparently de- al problems during a whiteout. Sher- ger said Orr froze to death. UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 2/3/83 # Tornadoes slap Florida; Midwest buried by snow Associated Press A half-dozen tornadoes howled across Florida on Wednesday, killing one person and blacking out thousands of homes, while a snowstorm billed as the worst of the winter in parts of the Midwest piled up more drifts in a three-day onslaught that has claimed 16 lives. In Pennsylvania, where Punxsutawney's groundhog failed to see his shadow and thus forecast an early spring, winds gusting to 74 mph toppled trees and flipped over two tractor-trailers in Erie. The National Weather Service urged residents of the area to stay indoors. Meanwhile, a new Pacific storm hit water-logged Southern California with moderate rain and gusty winds. Forecasters warned of rock and mudslides in coastal areas battered by devastating storms last week. However, the storm -- the fifth to hit California -- was not expected to generate the powerful waves that destroyed or damaged thousands of beach homes and piers last Thursday and Friday. A line of heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes moved into northeastern Florida before dawn, overturning cars and house trailers, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees. Eight people were injured when a twister slammed into an apartment complex in Orlando, where about 100 homes were reported damaged. A church and a country store 14 miles east of Gainesville were toppled by high winds. A 60-year-old man was killed in Hawthorne when his house collapsed during a tornado. In Dover, a tornado tore homes from their foundations, injuring two women, and a man was hospitalized in New Harmony for injuries suffered when a twister flipped over his trailer and left him pinned beneath a refrigerator. At least 10,000 homes in the Orlando area were left without power. The storm, which has been moving eastward across the South since Monday, flooded streets in Mobile, Ala., and western North Carolina. In the Midwest, winter storm warnings were posted in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin on Wednesday as a winter storm which left drifts of up to 10 feet in Amarillo, Texas, moved toward the northeast and Canada. The storm had been blamed for 16 deaths since Monday. Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Iowa each reported two deaths in traffic accidents, while five people died in accidents in Texas, two people died of heart attacks while shoveling snow in Kansas and an 82-year-old === Page 38 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Deadly ice storm sweeps across East Associated Press Sp. Rev. 1/24/83 An ice storm blamed for 23 deaths sent cars and trucks spinning into ditches across the Northeast on Sunday and another big blow produced warnings of fresh snow a yard deep in parts of the West. Freezing rain and sleet across northeastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York and much of New England caused many accidents, some fatal. Even the salt trucks had problems. "Just about all over the whole state there are cars off the road," said New Hampshire Highway Department dispatcher Joseph Hickey. "Everybody's out and doing their best, but it's just something terrible. You put salt on it and it melts and refreezes. It's one good mess." Hickey said salt trucks in many areas had to back up hills, driving over their own covering of salt for traction. "They can't even go up themselves," he said. State police in West Virginia said two teenagers were killed early Sunday when their car slid off icy U.S. 522 near their hometown of Berkeley Springs. Freezing rain forced President Reagan to use a car rather than a helicopter to return to the White House Sunday, after a weekend at the Camp David, Md., presidential retreat. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., police said icy roads caused an early morning two-car accident that killed a 15-year-old Millbrook girl and injured three other people, two of them teenagers. In Troy, N.Y., authorities said five firemen were injured in two accidents. A fire truck skidded and struck a telephone pole and another emergency vehicle on its way to the accident was hit by a truck. The storm had frosted the Deep South and parts of the Midwest late last week, contributing to 15 deaths in the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and five in Illinois, Wisconsin and Kansas. In the West, another powerful storm out of Alaska was expected to dump 1 to 3 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada. Winter storm warnings also were in effect in western Nevada and Southern Idaho. UFOs Sun Attack # Alaska and Italy shaken by moderate earthquakes Associated Press Sp. Rev. 8/16/82 Two moderate earthquakes struck in widely separated areas of the world 38 minutes apart Sunday. A quake registering 4.6 on the Richter scale was felt Sunday along much of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. No damage was reported according to the Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer. The quake was reported at 6:48 a.m., Alaska time (8:48 a.m., PDT) and was centered about 100 miles east of Nome, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory said. The tremor was felt from Nome to Elim, about 100 miles to the east, the observatory said. On the Richter scale, each increase of one number which killed 131, registered 8.4 on the Richter scale. Another earthquake Sunday caused more concern when it shook the mountain towns east of Naples, Italy, causing panic and damaging a few buildings slightly, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The earthquake, measuring about 4 on the Richter scale, struck at 5:10 p.m. (8:10 a.m. PDT) and its epicenter was in Monte Vulture, near the epicenter of the devastating earthquake of Nov. 23, 1980, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Hundreds of frightened people ran into the streets in several towns, including the tourist resorts of Salerno and Cava dei Tirreni on Naples. The UFOs Sun Attack # South braces for flooding Associated Press Sp. Rev. 1/1/83 With more rain on the way and "no place for any more water," volunteers stacked thousands of sandbags Friday to try to hold back floodwaters that have driven more than 10,000 people from their homes in Louisiana and Mississippi. In Texas, a snowstorm piled up foot-deep drifts in El Paso, prompting police to urge the 450,000 residents to stay home and closing the airport to inbound flights. The National Weather Service predicted ankle-deep snow would greet visitors to the Cotton Bowl football game in Dallas on Saturday. "The worst area now is out in El Paso," said Bob Neely, a spokesman for the Texas highway department. "We're reporting snow and ice accumulations up to 8 inches, with significant visibility problems from blowing snow." Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, taking a flying look at flooded areas from Monroe in the northeast to Lake Charles in the southwest, said a statewide survey showed the flooding from up to 17 inches of rain earlier in the week had forced 9,700 people out of their homes. "What seems ominous is that there's no place for any more water, and they think they're going to get rain," Treen said Friday during a stop in Monroe. "I don't want to be an alarmist, but we've got to be ready. There seems to be water everywhere." Storms and floods since Christmas have killed six people in Louisiana, one in Mississippi and four in Arkansas. Before leaving Baton Rouge, Treen said he sent a telegram to President Reagan advising him that when survey results are in, Louisiana will ask for federal disaster declarations for 19 counties so flood victims can get low-cost federal loans. In Mississippi, where an estimated 1,000 homes have been evacuated since the Christmas holiday rains, Gov. William Winter toured Greenwood, Greenville and Moorhead in the Delta area where water covered 600,000 acres. Officials in Grenada, Leflore and Washington counties have asked for disaster aid. Winter said the purpose of his visit was to give additional credibility to the counties' disaster declarations prepared for federal review. However, the Tombigbee River crested Thursday at Columbus about 2 feet below expected levels and several hundred families that had fled began returning home. Almost half a foot of snow blanketed much of Texas north of a line stretching from Corsicana to Tyler. Snow also fell over much of New Mexico and a mixture of snow and rain spread over Oklahoma. === Page 39 of 92 UFOs 100x Attacks # Fierce thunderstorm blasts through Boise 8/12/82 By JOHN HARRINGTON Associated Press BOISE, Idaho -- A fierce, sudden thunderstorm rampaged through the Boise area Wednesday, with 60 mph winds toppling trees and snapping power lines, authorities said. Boise firefighters pulled eight people on innertubes and rubber rafts from the Boise River, said Batallion Chief Burl Smith. He said the current sent them into a tree which had fallen into the river. "It was the worst wind I've ever seen since I've been in this valley and that's been 40 years," Smith said. "I consider us awful lucky. I don't know how we got off without having anyone killed or seriously injured," he said. He said damage would be in the millions of dollars. Garden City police said two people were injured in a collision after traffic signals were knocked out, and a 22-vehicle pileup was reported near Mountain Home. Two people were killed in another accident in the Garden City area that an Ada County dispatcher said was storm-caused, but Sheriff's Sgt. Lonnie Sanborn said investigators found the accident was not related to the storm. her husband told her by telephone that a neighbor's roof had landed on the front lawn of her house on the city's outskirts. Paul Rausch, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said winds were clocked at 60 mph at Boise Airport on the city's south side. He said winds were probably stronger on the north side, where the brunt of the storm hit. Wind-driven soot from a burned out field reduced visibility to zero, causing a pileup involving about 22 vehicles about five miles south of Mountain Home, police said. Detective Bob George, of the Mountain Home Police Department, said high winds carried the soot across Idaho 67 from an area burned by a range fire earlier this week. He said three people were seriously injured, with one being transported by ambulance to St. Alphonsus. "Just like a big dense fog was what it was -- but worse," George said. George said traffic was halted for two hours. Garden City Police Officer Daniel Hatch said a car and pickup truck collided when traffic lights at Chinden Boulevard and 44th Street were knocked out. The car driver and her 13-year-old daughter were taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. Their condition was not immediately known. Hatch said power had been lost in the area for about an hour. Traffic lights had been switched to flashing red, said a Boise police supervisor at St. Luke's. UFOs 100x Attack Spok Rev 10/26/82 # Strong quake jolts central California COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake that caused seismographs to go "bananas" rocked at least a 14-county area of central California on Monday, but there were no reports of injury or major damage, officials said. "It was a real good shaker," said Lt. Eugene McDaniel of the California Highway Patrol office in Coalinga. "I was just sitting in my office and felt trembling. You feel like vertigo ... We got out of the building ... Telephone poles and wires were swaying." Magnitude of the jolt was rated by seismographs from California to Colorado at between 5 and 6 on the Richter scale -- large enough to cause serious damage in a populated area. The quake at 3:26 p.m. was centered about 10 miles north of the tiny town of Coalinga, about 35 miles southwest of Fresno in the sparsely populated western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, said Dolores Page of the seismology lab at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The epicenter was placed near the Pinnacles National Monument. McDaniel said merchandise tumbled from shelves in several stores in the rural community and two establishments had to close because their aisles were clogged with broken goods. Roy Manning, director of emergency services for Fresno County, said there did not appear to be any major damage or injuries in the epicenter area. "Our equipment just went bananas," a woman at the University of California seismology center at Berkeley said of the initial quake. "It's a biggie." A major aftershock measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was recorded at 4:13 p.m., said Caltech spokesman Dennis Meredith. PD Sun Attack # Violent Pacific storm slams into California Associated Press Spok Rev 12/1/82 The worst Pacific storm of the season crashed into California with 78-mph winds and driving rain Tuesday, triggering mudslides, felling trees, sinking boats and cutting electricity to a half-million people. At least five people were killed and three others were reported missing as the storm pounded the coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The storm dumped up to 4 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada range in northern California, coming down at the rate of 2 inches an hour. About 29 inches was on the ground at Blue Canyon, Calif., 40 inches around the Lake Tahoe Basin, and about 12 inches in the Wasatch mountains of Utah. A number of roads were closed. A winter storm warning calling for heavy snow also was posted in the northern half of Arizona. A blizzard on 14,162-foot Mount Shasta trapped six skiers for 10 hours before they were rescued, officials said. In Hawaii, meanwhile, estimates of the damage from Hurricane Iwa had reached $181.5 million, with 480 dwellings destroyed and hundreds of others damaged. The Red Cross was still feeding about 5,000 people. Forecasters in Honolulu, who had worried earlier in the day about a new storm near Midway Island, said the threat of that disturbance had diminished. But the storm on the mainland hit full steam. A Los Angeles utility worker was killed when a 110-ton crane toppled in the high wind. === Page 40 of 92 Spok Rev 1/9/83 # Volcano's eruptions slow down VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Residents who were evacuated from the lower slopes of the volcano Kilauea were allowed to return home Saturday, and scientists said the eruptions may be ending after a week of activity. Sixty people were evacuated Friday from the Royal Gardens subdivision as a river of lava approached the area at a speed of one kilometer an hour, said scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Observatory on the island of Hawaii. People were allowed to return home and roadblocks to the area were removed at 9 a.m. Saturday, said Harry Kim, the head of Hawaii County Civil Defense. Authorities could mount another evacuation on an hour's notice if needed, Kim said. Spok Rev 1/25/83 # Pacific storms bring waves, slides, snow Associated Press A train of Pacific storms rumbling across California with 70 mph winds and heavy rains sent mudslides tumbling across highways Monday as thousands of people lost power and many fled their flooded homes. Fresh snow waist deep in the Sierra Nevada blocked mountain routes and 15-foot waves pounded the beaches of Southern California. On the other side of the country, a coat of ice and heavy fog hampered travel in much of New England and upstate New York. Down South, residents of Key West, Fla., were drying out from a weekend deluge of 12 inches of rain that one police dispatcher described as "like a hurricane." At least 28 deaths have been blamed on the violent weather that began last Thursday with an ice storm that turned out the lights in more than 170,000 homes in the South. Al Arey, a spokesman for the Vermont highway department, said Monday the state's heavy highway trucks were sliding off the road even with chains on the tires. "It's been a real merry-go-round," he said. "We get a route done and we have to start all over again." Elsewhere in the Northeast, warming weather forced the cancellation of the nation's richest sled dog race scheduled this weekend in Saranac Lake, N.Y. The Alpo International Sled Dog Championships would have paid prize money totaling $30,000 to racers from as far away as Alaska. The snow, however, was falling in other places. Winter storm warnings were posted in northeastern California and the Lake Tahoe basin of western Nevada. Snow also was scattered from northeast Montana across North Dakota, northern Minnesota and the upper Great Lakes region. Up to three feet of fresh snow was expected in the Sierra Nevada. About 16 inches of snow fell during the night on Interstate 80 at Donner Pass in California and three other major roads across the Sierra were closed, including California Highway 70 through Feather River Canyon, which was blocked by a mudslide. Forecasters in California said the storm was the second of four expected to hit the coast before the week is out. "There are two storms headed toward us," said John Quadros, a meteorologist with the weather service in Redwood City, Calif. "The first is due Tuesday afternoon and the next one Friday." Mud began sliding down the hillsides in Southern California on Monday morning. Highway crews worked to keep the Pacific Coast Highway open between Malibu and Santa Monica, just up the coast from Los Angeles, but the slides closed the Malibu Canyon-Los Virgenes Road which connects with the Ventura Freeway. "When we get a rain following a saturation ... the mountains start tumbling down," said Sgt. Charles Putnam of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. More than 80 people evacuated their homes in Northern California, including 50 from an apartment complex near San Jose. One vacant house tumbled down a hillside at Oakland, and 5,000 commuters were without a train ride because of washouts on the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Jose and San Francisco. Power failed briefly late Sunday in about 4,100 homes and businesses in San Jose, with other scattered blackouts in Oakland, San Francisco, Pacifica and Walnut Creek. A mudslide closed California's scenic Highway 1 about 20 miles south of Big Sur. In Southern California, heavy rain Saturday collapsed roofs on a shop in Manhattan Beach and a small factory in Gardena. The storm that iced the Northeast was moving out of the country but roads were still a mess in many areas. "Sanders and salters have been out all night but the roads are pretty slick," said Trooper Gred Haberstro in Plattsburgh, N.Y. "That's what people are calling." In Vermont on Sunday, the northbound lanes of Interstate 91 were closed for nearly four hours after about 50 vehicles, including five buses, skidded off the road in a two-mile stretch. Spok Rev 5/30/82 # Tornado kills 2 in Illinois MARION, Ill. (AP) -- Tornadoes ripped through three southern Illinois counties Saturday afternoon, killing two people, injuring as many as 100 and leaving a mile-and-a-half long path of destruction through Marion. A spokeswoman in the emergency room of Marion Memorial Hospital said as many as 100 people were being treated there. The director of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Marion said the hospital had treated several tornado victims and that three of those suffered "severe" injuries. He said more victims were expected. The tornado "went right through the center of town," said John Abrams of WDDD-AM. "It hovered in the clouds for about 15 minutes and hopped to the ground several times." State troopers said twisters also ripped through Carterville and Crainville in Williamson County and Perry and Conant in neighboring Perry County. === Page 41 of 92 Holiday travelers stranded Associated Press A Christmas Eve blizzard howled across Colorado and Wyoming, leaving behind up to 2 feet of snow and stranding thousands of holiday travelers, while flood-ravaged towns in the Midwest watched rivers rise and began evacuating low-lying areas. Two tornadoes skipped across eastern Oklahoma on Friday, injuring at least six people and causing extensive damage. Less than 24 hours earlier, more than a dozen tornadoes leveled homes and businesses and injured more than three dozen people in Arkansas and Missouri. Damage was estimated at $10.6 million. The first big storm of the winter, which contributed to 14 deaths when it blasted the West Coast earlier this week, was "a real doozy," said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. More than 40 inches of snow smothered parts of Yellowstone National Park. Two feet of snow covered Casper, Wyo., and Wondervu, Colo., southwest of Boulder, received a foot of snow in four hours overnight. The wind chill factor in Wyoming dipped to 40 below. Maintenance crews at Denver's Stapleton International Airport gave up trying to keep even one runway clear, and the airport, the seventh busiest in the world, was closed. "We can't even see to get out the plow," said airport spokesman Dave Scherer. Thousands of travelers milled around the complex, waiting for the swirling whiteness to clear. In Atlantic City, Wyo., 80 miners at a U.S. Steel plant were stranded at work because of blowing snow. But spirits were high and food freezers full, a security guard reported. Few traffic accidents were reported, apparently because the holiday kept many people at home, but snow plows were sent out to reach up to 10 vehicles trapped by snowdrifts on Interstate 15 in eastern Idaho. The storm, packing winds up to 50 mph, had stretched into Nebraska by afternoon and was drifting slowly toward the Great Lakes. "We're looking at a very dynamic winter storm system with a lot of moisture in the atmosphere for it to work with," said Tilley. "There's likely to be much more precipitation." "If people get stranded, it's a life-threatening storm," said Jim Schultz of the Weather Service office in Denver. In the lower Midwest, flash flood watches were posted for parts of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky. Rivers and creeks in southeastern Missouri, inundated three weeks ago by record floods, were engorged by up to 3 inches of rain and began creeping over their banks. People living in low-lying areas of Marble Hill, Mo., were evacuated. "We're not taking any chances this time," said Marble Hill Fire Chief Jim Bollinger. "The creeks (Continued on page 2) 12/25/82 Stranded-- (Continued from page 1) are bank-full now. It's just a repeat of three weeks ago." "Everyone's moving out or sandbagging again. It's a frantic, day-before-Christmas effort," said a volunteer answering the phones at the Bollinger County Sheriff's office. Water was reported three feet deep in some sections of Piedmont, where residents had been cleaning up from the last flooding. Tornadoes and high winds ripped through southern Tulsa, Ketchum and Wright City, Okla., on Friday. In southwestern Arkansas, battered Thursday by tornadoes that caused more than $5 million damage to Texarkana alone, the mayor of Malvern imposed a 9 p.m. curfew to keep looters and sightseers out of damaged neighborhoods. More than three dozen people were injured, 11 homes and businesses destroyed and 49 homes damaged in the string of twisters. === Page 42 of 92 UFOs 100X Attack # Montana hail damage in $millions HELENA, Mont. -- Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars Tuesday in the wake of a storm that dumped huge hail stones on Montana's capital, shattering hundreds of windows, denting cars and leaving Swiss cheese patterns in roofs. County Disaster Coordinator Paul Spengler said damage from Monday night's storm was in the millions of dollars. Hail the size of golf balls and larger pelted the city about 7 p.m., rolling in on inky black clouds from the Continental Divide to the west. Winds of 56 mph propelled the hailstones that pelted Helena for almost half an hour. "Instead of looking like Helena last night it looked more like Beirut," said Grayson Cordell of the National Weather Service. Cordell said he measured a 3-inch hailstone at his home and saw grapefruit-sized hailstones that shattered as they hit the ground. In Great Falls, 90 miles north of Helena, an inch and a half of rain collapsed a 40-foot section of roof at a shopping mall early Tuesday. No one was in the Westgate Mall when the roof caved in. The falling roof broke water pipes and the 21-store mall was closed because of water damage. Bumper wheat crops in the Helena and Great Falls areas were flattened. An estimated 6,000 acres of alfalfa and grain crops were reported to have been damaged and perhaps destroyed in the hardest-hit areas of the Helena Valley. Hay and grain crops around Helena were beaten to the ground, some by accumulations of four feet of hail. Gardens in Helena were pulverized, trees had branches ripped off and cars had dented bodies and cracked windshields. In Helena, State Farm Insurance Agent Stan Henderer and other agents said that extra adjusters were being flown into the city to help process a flood of claims. "There's a rare person in Helena without damage," Henderer said. "Windows are broken, paint is peeled off sides of houses. Cars are unbelievably bent up." An automobile dealer said windows on nearly every car in his lot were broken. Skylights in the state Capitol were shattered and rain poured into the state law library, damaging law books. Damage to state buildings was estimated at up to $500,000. All but two of the 66 plate-glass windows in the state Mitchell Building across the street from the Capitol were smashed. Thirty-seven Montana National Guard helicopters were damaged at the Helena airport, some beyond repair, as hail penetrated the light aluminum skins and wrecked rotor blades. The state plane assigned to Gov. Ted Schwinden escaped damage. The streets of Helena were paved with slippery tree limbs and leaves. Even the Weather Service didn't have time to ready its defenses. The observation tower at the Helena airport had two double-paned windows broken and holes in a plastic roof. Roofing and glass suppliers in Helena said their phones wouldn't stop ringing. SPOK REV 6/30/82 UFOs Sun Attack # West Side's wind damage may climb to $10 million SPOK REV 12/20/82 SEATTLE (AP) -- Stiff winds swept Western Washington's northern coast Sunday but the worst of a winter storm was over, authorities said as they tried to assess damage that could run as high as $10 million. The storm killed one person. Wind, high tides and flooding may have caused between $5 million and $10 million damage, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Firm assessments weren't expected before Monday. Whatcom County, near the Canadian border, reported $3 million in damage. THE STORM WHIRLED out of the Pacific Wednesday night and lashed Western Washington for three days, prompting Gov. John Spellman to issue an emergency declaration for the entire area. The declaration clears the way for state aid. Winds gusting as high as 80 miles per hour raked the coast Saturday. Winds as high as 50 mph were reported Sunday morning on the northwest Washington coast, but the National Weather Service reported the winds calmed by mid-day to 15-35 mph. Forecasts called for brief periods of clearing Monday. Hardest hit by the brunt of the storm were low-lying inland areas from Seattle north to the Canadian border, where winds carried high tides over breakwaters and dikes into backyards and basements. UFOs 100X Attack # Trailers destroyed by storm SPOK REV 8/15/82 MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- A storm packing winds up to 90 mph heavily damaged 19 mobile homes and camping trailers, injured eight people and left piles of hail along roads near Lake Sakakawea, authorities said. The storm Friday night lasted about 15 minutes, but the winds and marble-size hail destroyed crops and rolled 750-pound hay bales out of the fields. Clayton Folden, manager of the Frank Traynor Park at Van Hook, said area residents are unsure if the storm included a tornado. Folden said several of the mobile homes destroyed in the storm exploded from the force of the winds. At least four mobile homes, used as summer lakeside dwellings, were overturned and about 11 others were damaged, Folden said. Several boats and "a few vehicles" were also demolished in the storm, Folden said. === Page 43 of 92 WFD 100% Attack # 383 feared dead in floods TOKYO (AP) -- Weather cleared in the Nagasaki area of southwestern Japan Sunday, helping rescue workers in their grim search for bodies from the devastating floods and landslides that police fear killed up to 383 people. Fifty bodies were recovered Sunday from under tons of mud and debris, raising the number of bodies found to 176. Police said 207 people are still missing and presumed dead from the havoc created by torrential downpours Friday and Saturday. Rains dumped more from 16-22 inches of water on the mountainous terrain over a 24-hour period. About 1,200 landslides were reported in the Nagasaki area on the main island of Kyushu, burying hundreds of homes and blocking highways and railroads. Rescue workers drove bulldozers, soldiers wielded shovels and distraught relatives of the missing used their bare hands in the search for survivors, but a policeman said, "because of the tremendous amount of mud, rescue operations are not going as well as expected." More than 116 express and local trains were canceled in the region because railroads were swept away at three points, Japan National Railways officials said. They said more than 80,000 travelers were affected. For Nagasaki, called the San Francisco of Japan because of its scenic harbor and hilly neighborhoods, it was the worst flood in 25 years. Violent storms in 1957 claimed 992 lives in the area. Nagasaki, located on the East China Sea near the entrance to the Korean Strait, was the second -- and last -- Japanese city to be the target of an American atomic bomb in 1945. Spok. Rev. 7/82 More than 10 inches of rain fell on the Lake Michigan town of Holland, Mich., and lighting sparked several fires in the region, although no injuries were reported. "Some people tried to drive through the water, and they got flooded," Ottawa County Sheriff's Deputy John Overway said of the flooding near Holland. "Their cars are sitting there in the water. The problem is there's no place for the water to go at this point." Holland Police Chief Charles Lindstrom declared a state of emergency Saturday morning, and he said the rainwater caved in the roof of a Montgomery Ward store in downtown Holland, causing several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The mayor of Ottumwa, Jerry Parker, rounded up volunteers to fill 1,200 sandbags and shore up flood levees Friday when officials feared the river would crest that night at 18 feet. But Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Bill Koellner said later the river was expected to crest at 13½ feet. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that along Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Des Moines River near Bussey, Friday's flooding reached the highest level in more than 40 years of available records. Authorities said measuring the flooding was difficult because some gauge stations couldn't be reached. The 69 mph winds early Saturday at Hector Field in Fargo, N.D., set an empty, parked Northwest Airlines 727 on its tail. July, '82 # Bad weather plagues Midwest Associated Press Rain from a barrage of summer storms in the upper Midwest caved in a department store roof and flooded roads in Michigan on Saturday, while winds upended a parked jetliner and inflicted an estimated $1 million in damage to a grain elevator in North Dakota. The temperature plummeted as much as 47 degrees overnight, and winds gusted up to 69 mph when the storms struck North Dakota early in the day. Two people were hurt as high winds tore a camper from a truck on Interstate 94 in northern Minnesota, and trees were toppled in northwestern Wisconsin. And 600 people who evacuated their mobile homes Friday in Ottumwa, Iowa, because of record flooding waited Saturday for the Des Moines River to crest, officials said. 7-14-82 # John Day Valley hit by wind, hail storm JOHN DAY (UPI) -- A freak storm with winds of more than 100 miles per hour and hail a half-inch in diameter cut through the John Day Valley Tuesday afternoon, knocking out electricity and damaging small buildings, aircraft and at least one car. There were no reports of injuries in the windstorm that started at 4:50 p.m. and lasted about 15 minutes. The storm hit hardest in John Day and Mount Vernon, eight miles to the west, and brushed the northern part of Prairie City to the east. Utility crews from CP National were working Tuesday night to restore electricity lines that were reported down throughout John Day and Mount Vernon. Radio station KJDY also was cut off the air and telephone service was disrupted. A helicopter at the John Day Airport received some damage when it was blown over on its side, and there also was some damage to the wings of a couple of small planes. A car in Mount Vernon was smashed when two trees fell on it. A number of small storage sheds and barns in the area were either crushed by falling trees and branches or damaged when blown off their sites. Falling trees also cut a number of power lines in the area. Two trailer houses were tipped over and completely demolished. Occupants were not at home during the storm. Dave Maxwell, a newsman at KJDY, said no one remembered having such a "freaky" summer storm in the area. === Page 44 of 92 More storms hit Midwest Associated Press The violent spring of '82 flogged the Midwest on Tuesday with punishing 70 mph winds and stinging rain that sent floods 8 feet deep through cities and wrecked a passenger train highballing through Iowa. At least two people were killed and dozens were injured. Hundreds of people abandoned their homes as thunderstorms again crashed into Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and parts of Illinois, cutting down trees and power lines and smashing buildings. Communities were awash in floodwater over doorways in southwestern Iowa. Kansas got hit with 70 mph winds and four tornadoes that splintered homes, bent trees to the ground, and knocked out the lights for 30,000 residents of Wichita, plus many others elsewhere. Meanwhile, President Reagan on Tuesday declared Connecticut a disaster area and federal emergency officials were on their way to that state where floods on June 4-7 left at least $277 million in damage. The town of Sherman, Texas, was cleaning up from a Monday night tornado that wrecked at least four mobile homes and injured 10 people. Residents of Fort Morgan, Colo., were cleaning up from a 20-minute pounding by hail the size of baseballs that smashed hundreds of windows, battered automobiles and ruined corn crops Monday. "I have a lot of cars that look like their body work had been done with ball peen hammers," one insurance agent said Tuesday. In Emerson, Iowa, about 100 families of the town's 484 residents were evacuated by boat as Indian Creek, normally a placid stream 10 feet across, became a raging torrent 400 feet wide that left water marks 8 feet high in the business district. About 300 families were evacuated in neighboring Glenwood, population 4,421, and many others fled in Malvern, which has 1,150 residents. In the 12 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, almost 9 inches of rain fell at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wind tore the roof off the Douglas Elementary School in Des Moines. Iowa Gov. Robert Ray declared the Emerson region a disaster area and Gov. Charles Thorne in nearby Nebraska offered National Guard aid. Summer storms west with 100 mph winds, tornadoes and drenching rains built floods that washed deep into Oklahoma homes and closed roads and bridges in Illinois. Scores of people have been injured and dozens of homes and buildings have been wrecked since Tuesday in a line of thunderstorms stretching from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. Oklahoma drenched with 8 inches of rain Associated Press Storms deluged Oklahoma with up to 8 inches of rain Thursday while crews worked to restore power in the suburbs of Philadelphia where floodwaters up to 8 feet deep routed 300 people from their homes. At least two people were killed Wednesday afternoon as a thunderstorm in northeast Philadelphia and suburban Bucks County dropped 5 inches of rain and knocked out the power to 60,000 residents. Ron Harper, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Electric Co., said power had been restored to most customers Thursday. He said the utility was providing dry ice to those without power. A power company lineman and a boy he was trying to rescue were electrocuted by a downed power line that had fallen into a puddle of water. Harper said lineman Frederick Worthington, 55, was out repairing fallen power lines when he saw William Miller, 11, fall off his bicycle into the puddle. Dave Butcher, a Red Cross spokesman, said the storm flooded 38 first-floor apartments in an apartment complex with 8 feet of water and damaged another 12 units, forcing 220 people from their homes. "It was total flood destruction," he said. Police in Bensalem Township evacuated 60 families from an apartment complex near creeks that feed the Delaware River. John Brady, a spokesman for Bell Telephone, said 10,000 customers lost service because the storm caused the roof to leak in a central office, short-circuiting equipment. Pennsylvania Route 132, a major thoroughfare in Bensalem Township, was covered with 4 feet of water. Dozens of stalled cars and trucks were left along the road, which parallels the Delaware River. In Oklahoma, the Cimarron River inched toward flood stage Thursday as a storm swept across the state. Lightning started several fires in Oklahoma City, and minor flooding closed a highway near Hennessey, authorities said. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks, sending water into some southeast Oklahoma City homes. Three Oklahoma City firemen braved lightning and driving rain for about an hour to recover the body of an unidentified man who drowned in a sandpit where he had been fishing. Investigators were uncertain what caused the man to fall into the water. Boy, 11, swept out to sea AGANA, Guam (AP) -- Thirty-foot waves churned up by a passing typhoon battered the southern coast of Guam, carrying an 11-year-old boy out to sea and leaving at least 12 families homeless, officials said. "We've had typhoons and big waves before, but never like this," said Albert Topasna, commissioner of Umatac, a village on the island's south shore. The boy, identified as Michael Baker of Naval Station, Guam, was watching the 25-30 foot waves with a friend when one of the waves swept across the rocks Saturday and carried him out to sea. === Page 45 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Killer storm wrecks coastal homes, roads Spokane, Wash., Fri., J Associated Press SPRW 1/28/83 The third storm in a chain blamed for nine deaths this week pounded California with hurricane-force winds, driving rains and 30-foot waves again on Thursday, toppling houses into the sea, washing out roads and forcing hundreds to flee flooded homes. "I knew it was all over when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean," said Becky Ilagan, who fled from her Malibu home just before it broke up in the boiling high tide. At least 100,000 homes lost power as the storm, which first hit the coast Wednesday, pushed across the Golden Gate state to the Rockies. The pounding surf destroyed beachfront buildings, collapsed piers and wrecked boats from the Oregon border to Mexico. Water was waist deep in many homes. Mudslides tumbled off hills and rivers rose out of their banks. "It's a nasty one," said Harry Gordon of the government's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., and forecasters offered little respite. Another potent storm, part of the same system, will hit Friday "like the crack of a whip," said meteorologist Dick Vander, and there are two more behind that one. The latest of the three slow-moving storms whipped up 90-mph winds, dropped 3 or more inches of rain on some towns in a day and sent 20-foot breakers crashing over coastal roads. It plastered parts of the Sierra Nevada with 4 inches of snow an hour as it moved inland toward the Rockies. Some areas get several feet of fresh snow. About 200 families were evacuated from their flooded homes in Southern California coastal communities of Seal Beach and Surfside in Orange County. Police moved out residents of beachfront homes in Oceanside in San Diego County. About 150 people were evacuated by National Guardsmen and volunteers in Tehama City, a tiny community 140 miles north of Sacramento. A family of five in the Marin County town of Novato, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, escaped being buried alive when a mudslide crashed into a bedroom of their $300,000 home before dawn Thursday. Two homes slid down Fitch Mountain in the wine country of Sonoma County, north of San Francisco on Wednesday night. The landmark Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach fell apart and sagged, as did several others across California. geles, waves crashed through windows and flooded a dozen businesses and four restaurants. As many as 100 beachfront homes in Aptos, about 90 miles south of San Francisco, were under siege with the surf knocking out windows and eroding underpinnings. Richard Denny, a mining engineer whose home was smashed by the Novato mudslide, said the hillside "just got liquefied and came down." "There was a tremendous hissing sound and then... I jumped out of bed and there was mud coming in," said his wife, Jacqueline. No one was injured. The 200 miles of shoreline from Santa Barbara to San Diego in Southern California was hard hit by high tide and high UFOs Sun Attack # Icy highways claim more victims Associated Press SPRW 2/6/83 A winter storm forecast for the Midwest failed to develop Saturday, but snow continued to fall over the area with at least four deaths attributed to driving on highways covered with ice and snow. There was new snow in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma, but not in the amounts first forecast by the National Weather Service. Snow also was forecast for parts of the Northeast on Sunday, the fifth anniversary of the huge Blizzard of '78, a once-in-a-century storm that crippled the region for a week. And the unusually mild temperatures for the Northeast disappeared Saturday. The high temperature in New York City on Saturday afternoon was 32 degrees. It had reached 59 on Thursday. Residents of the Texas Panhandle had to contend with high winds that blew 14 inches of snow into drifts Saturday, and authorities said the few roads that remained passable again could be covered. The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that most roads were "snowpacked and hazardous" after the second in a series of winter storms dumped snow at rates of up to an inch an hour on the area Friday. In Kansas, winter storm warnings posted for the state were lifted after a storm that began Friday night moved quickly through the state and was not as serious as forecasters had expected. Knee-deep mud was the enemy in the Southwest, where Navajo families in New Mexico and Arizona remained marooned in isolated spots of their giant reservation. In New Mexico, trucks were delivering supplies to families that could be reached. === Page 46 of 92 Sun Attack # 4th storm pummels California coastline 1/29/83 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The week's fourth and potentially fiercest storm walloped the battered California coastline Friday as people tried to dig out of more than 1,000 smashed homes and braced for more of the worst flooding in years. The storm, packing wind gusts of up to 60 mph, hit first in central California and into areas still reeling from heavy rains that sliced through piers and levees, damaged more than 1,000 homes and threw tons of sand and debris onto the shore. Picture on page 3 THE NEW STORM came from the Gulf of Alaska and the brunt of it made a loop, missing the Pacific Northwest and Northern California but plunging full steam into the central and southern part of the Golden State. Electrical power outages were reported in the Grapevine area 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The National Weather Service issued gale warnings for the Southern California coastline and posted flash flood watches. At least 11 people have died statewide in the storms and high tides this week, according to updated figures released by the state Friday. The state said 1,964 people have been forced to leave their homes. The storms have damaged 2,660 homes -- destroying 24 of them -- and have damaged 496 businesses, the state said. Preliminary damage figures from several hard-hit areas Friday neared $60 million, and authorities said the total could rise much higher. AFTER THURSDAY'S onslaught from the Pacific Ocean, Gov. George Deukmejian declared the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Marin and San Mateo disaster areas. "The potential for additional flooding this Friday, Saturday and Sunday is great," said forecasters for the National Weather Service, who expected the new storm to be the most intense of the series. Sun Attack # Snow hits Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Associated Press 2/2/83 Blinding snow and gusting winds left drifts up to 10 feet deep in places across the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas on Tuesday, blocking roads, shutting schools and halting industry. The storm system also spread snow in Colorado and rain and tornadoes that damaged property and flooded streets in Mobile, Ala. and Florida. No deaths or injuries were reported from the weather Tuesday, but on Monday the storms claimed seven lives -- five on Texas highways and two in Louisiana tornadoes. "IT'S JUST REAL BAD," said Lynne Holt of the Dalhart Police Department in the Texas Panhandle. "People's cattle have been walking over fences and getting out, and several were killed by the train before snow shut it down." Typical of the snowbound communities was Liberal, Kan., a city of 14,000 people on the Oklahoma border where more than a foot of snow fell Tuesday and gusty winds up to 35 mph blew snowdrifts 6 feet deep across the roads. "We took a city plow into a residential area this morning with an ambulance behind it to get a woman out who was going to deliver," said Liberal Police Chief Rich Kistner. "We got her to the hospital in time." Kistner, who said visibility was "down to about zero" and that most businesses had closed at his request, did not know the woman's name. The hospital refused comment. Snow depths around Kansas included 12 inches in Concordia, 11 inches at Russell and Salina, and 9 inches in Topeka, where Kansas Gov. John Carlin sent state workers home before noon and the Legislature halted work. IN WICHITA, UP TO 8 INCHES of snow fell, and the transit authority in Wichita suspended bus service after 28 of its 48 buses got stuck. The three major aircraft plants told workers to stay home, and mail delivery was cancelled. Several colleges called off classes. Schools were closed in many communities across Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. Highway conditions were hazardous in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. "We have drifts 8 to 10 feet deep in some places, and 10 inches of snow on the level," said sheriff's dispatcher Merrill Buckles in Potter County, Texas, just north of Amarillo, where accumulations reached 10 inches Tuesday. "The roads and highways are open, but we're having a lot of accidents." Amarillo International Airport was closed because of the storm, and there was no mail delivery scheduled in the city of 150,000. Pantex, a huge nuclear weapons assembly plant near Amarillo, was shut down for the first time in nine years because of the weather. SNOWDRIFTS UP TO 10 FEET deep were reported in Amarillo, where volunteers used four-wheel-drive vehicles to take nurses and other workers to hospitals. Drifts 5 feet deep were reported in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and snow and rain spread across the rest of the state. Most panhandle roads were closed. Despite the hazardous driving conditions, no major problems were reported, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Frank Hoff said, "because no one is moving." "We saw what was coming... so we shut traffic down early enough to prevent too many motorists from being stranded," said Marvin Noyes, a highway patrol dispatcher in Guymon, Okla. He said several people were rescued from stalled cars after drifts closed roads overnight. In Missouri, forecasters said another 4 to 8 inches of snow would fall before the storm ended, bringing accumulations over a foot. Nebraska was hit by the edge of the storm system, with up to 8 inches of snow and drifts up to 3 feet deep in Pawnee City and Tecumseh. THE STORM SYSTEM STRETCHED as far as northwestern Florida, bringing two tornadoes, high winds and heavy rain. No injuries or serious damage was reported. "We heard the roar and then all of a sudden we saw roofs and sheds and buildings flying," said Douglas Long of Pensacola. "Somebody's boat came flying through the air from I don't know where and went through the side of my barn." In Mobile, Ala., officials said a tornado touched down several times along a 5-mile path early Tuesday, damaging several homes and businesses and briefly knocking out power to 3,500 customers. More than 4 inches of rain fell, causing minor street flooding. === Page 47 of 92 7-14-82 Oreg Journal # Communications hit by major solar flare BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- A major solar flare and the most intense proton shower in the past decade is disrupting long-range communications worldwide and lighting up skies from coast to coast with "vivid red" Northern Lights. Pat McIntosh, solar forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Tuesday said high-energy protons from the X-7 flare would disrupt long-range communications on Earth for the next several days. Meteorologists in Detroit said the brilliant spectacle was visible from there as far east as Cleveland. The lights prompted calls by alarmed observers to radio stations. "It's so bright, a vivid red, we thought it was a forest fire," one caller told a Chicago radio station late Tuesday. McIntosh said the flare occurred at 2:14 a.m. (PDT) Monday. The proton event started almost immediately and caused a geomagnetic storm that began at 9:18 a.m. (PDT) Tuesday. The proton event, the largest since 1972, was expected to last about three days. The official said more flares Wednesday or Thursday could make the storm's impact on Earth more intense. He said the storm was affecting high-frequency communications and low-frequency navigational systems operating in or through the polar cap, as well as amateur radio activities. UFO Sun Attack Spok Rev 8/6/82 ![Photograph of a polar bear playing with snow] **Snow,** flown in for the polar bear exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, helps Tiana Hong cool off in the torrid heat blanketing Southern California this week. 6-7-82 Oreg J # Solar flare to affect Earth BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- The largest solar flare since July 1978 may create an aurora borealis over northern Colorado Monday night, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Sunday. Patrick S. McIntosh, a solar astronomer with the NOAA Air Force Space and Environments Service, said the flare "went off the scale and was interpolated as an X-12." The flare occurred at 16:37 universal time, 10:37 a.m. MDT, in the southeast quadrant of the sun. Forecasters expected magnetic disturbances to reach the Earth by Monday afternoon. NOAA astronomers say there is a 60 percent chance of an aurora borealis in the Boulder area Monday evening. Solar flares are rated partly by their release of X-radiation, measured on a scale from 1 to 10. 6-7-82 6-17-82 # Northern lights may be seen The aurora borealis may be visible from Oregon beginning Thursday as the result of a huge flare on the sun Tuesday. When the protons from the flare reach Earth Thursday, they also may disrupt communications, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo. For best viewing of the northern lights, "go to some place where there's a dark northeastern sky," Dwight Gruber, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry planetarium program producer, advised Wednesday. "As soon as it's dark," he said, "simply start looking. There's no way to tag the time the show begins." The lights, he explained, "are visible all the time, if you go far enough north." # Flood toll climbs to 275 TOKYO (AP) -- The death toll from flooding and landslides in southwestern Japan reached 275 Tuesday and rescue workers searched through mud and rubble for 87 other people missing and presumed dead. Seven bodies washed up to the waterfront at Nagasaki harbor. They apparently had been carried out to sea by rivers swollen by rain that fell at a rate of 4.6 inches an hour Saturday. A total of 16-22 inches of rain fell on Kyushu from Friday night to early Saturday, ending a 40-day drought with lightning quick flash flooding and mud slides throughout the hilly area. # China UFO Sun Attack # Horse dies on street NEW YORK (AP) -- A carriage horse that collapsed and died on a Manhattan street near the entrance to Central Park apparently had not been mistreated. The horse, named Maggio, was the fourth to die in Manhattan this summer, including three on one particularly hot day in mid-July. Spok Rev 8/6/82 === Page 48 of 92 The Sun Attack Sp. Rev. 12/28/82 # Winter packs a double-barreled wallop Associated Press Floods from more than a foot of rain poured through Dixie bayou country Monday and hundreds fled in boats, while a blizzard virtually isolated some communities under 2 feet of snow in the Midwest. Snow and ice stalled travelers on glazed highways from New Mexico to Nebraska. At least seven people were killed in weather-related accidents as almost 15 inches of rain in two days sent rivers washing out of their banks in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. A Greyhound bus skidded off icy Interstate 80 near Kearney, Neb., injuring 25 people, and snow, freezing rain, sleet and drizzle caused hundreds of accidents from El Paso, Texas, to Omaha, Neb. "We've had just a tremendous number of accidents," said deputy police chief Gary Crinklaw in Omaha. "We're asking everybody to stay home unless they absolutely have to go out." The 3,900 residents of Broken Bow, Neb., were left virtually isolated when 8 inches of snow fell on top of 15 inches deposited over the weekend. The snow driven by 30-mph winds blocked all of the roads into town. "Normal Nebraska winter blizzard," said Ron Baker, a police dispatcher in Broken Bow. A blizzard warning was issued for southwest and north-central Nebraska and ramps along Interstate 80 were closed by snowdrifts. Residents of snowbound Denver were urged to stay home until the snow could be cleared from a record Christmas Eve blizzard that left 6-foot drifts. Massive traffic jams developed and delays continued at Stapleton International Airport where only two runways were open and hundreds of travelers were stranded. About 200 travelers spent the night in churches and the courthouse in Dalhart, Texas, as up to 7 inches of snow fell on West Texas and the Panhandle, with Lubbock getting 7 inches and El Paso 5 inches. Eastern New Mexico got up to 8 inches. At least 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Louisiana, mainly in the Monroe and Alexandria areas, and at least 50 roads were blocked by high water. In northern Louisiana, flood warnings were posted in 11 parishes along the Tensas River. Hundreds of others fled in northern Mississippi and southeastern Texas. Forecasters promised no sunshine soon. "There's no relief in sight for Louisiana for at least another day," said Nolan Duke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Kansas City. "They're flooding (Continued on page 6) 6 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Dec. 28, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Winter ----------(Continued from page 1)---------- like crazy. It's coming down faster than it can drain." Flash flood watches were posted for all of Arkansas and Illinois and the southern and eastern sections of Missouri, the states which suffered more than half a billion dollars in damage from high water earlier this month. Tornadoes were sighted Monday afternoon in central Mississippi near Hazlehurst and in Jackson, and the Weather Service warned of more possible tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Tornadoes also were reported in Louisiana, causing damage at Gilbert, about 10 miles south of Winnsboro, Cottonport and Mansura in Avoyelles Parish; and Pine Prairie in Evangeline Parish. A tornado watch was issued for 25 counties in central and western Tennessee, along with a flash flood watch. Some roads in central Tennessee and west of Nashville were closed by flooding but no injuries were reported. In the Beaumont and Port Arthur areas of Texas, the storm dropped 13 inches of rain and the Hildebrandt Acres residential area was evacuated. The southeastern Texas town of Bridge City near the Louisiana border was cut off by flooding on Texas 87. In northern Mississippi, rescuers used boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to evacuate flood victims. Civil Defense officials said about 70 families had left their homes in Grenada, about 15 homes were evacuated in Calhoun City and other evacuations were under way in Greenwood, Tupelo and other communities. "This has been the wettest December ever," said Bill Knight of the weather service in Jackson, Miss. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said high water had closed highways near Batesville, Tupelo, Coffeeville, Ripley and Corinth. Myrna Tilghman, who on Sunday fled her home in a Grenada subdivision near Bogue Creek - along with her husband, three children, and 49 neighbors - said, "By Sunday afternoon the water was in the attic." About 14½ inches of rain had fallen in Alexandria in central Louisiana since late Saturday and parts of southwest Louisiana had received about 10 inches, with forecasters predicting another 3 to 6 inches. Joe Colson, head of Louisiana's Office of Emergency Preparedness, said about 250 people had to leave their homes in Alexandria, some taken out in city buses equipped with makeshift snorkels for their exhaust pipes. "I saw well over 200 houses with their floors under water," Colson said. National Guardsmen went into lower Allen Parish late Monday to evacuate about 400 residents from small communities along the Calcasieu River. National Guardsmen and deputies patrolled neighborhoods to guard against looting and vandalism. About 800 people in Monroe, La., were evacuated Sunday, including 180 elderly residents of the West Monroe Guest House. === Page 49 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Sa. Sp Rev 1/8/83 UFOs Sun Attack # North Yemen quake kills 348 people Sp Rev 12/14/82 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- An earthquake struck North Yemen on Monday, and the Gulf News Agency reported at least 348 people killed and at least 79 towns and villages severely damaged. In a statement broadcast Monday night, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen said he personally was following relief efforts of emergency rescue teams drawn from the army and police, and appealed to citizens to "help the hundreds hurt and buried under the debris." Hospitals in San'a, the capital, and other major cities were reported crowded with casualties brought in from outlying areas. Most homes in North Yemen, a mountainous country of about 8 million people on the Arabian Peninsula, are built of sun-baked bricks. The Bahrain-based news service, quoting an unidentified source in a hastily formed rescue committee in North Yemen, said there were 335 people killed in the city of Jahran. It said 300 casualties were taken to one hospital at another unnamed locality, including at least 13 dead. The report said at least 79 villages suffered "gross damages" when the quake struck at around noon local time. Neighboring South Yemen announced a three-day period of official mourning for the quake victims and said it was sending an emergency medical relief team, headed by Health Minister Abdullah Bukeir, to help in rescue efforts. The tremor was said to have caused "a major rift" in one mountain, and further shocks could not be ruled out, the news agency said. The Saudi press agency quoted a North Yemen meteorological agency spokesman as saying the quake registered between 3 and 4 on the Richter scale, a quake with the capacity of causing slight to moderate damage. But the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo., recorded the quake at 6.0 on the scale, capable of causing severe damage. AP photo **Two geologists,** lower left, conduct studies at the edge of the eruption on Kilauea Volcano's east rift zone. Fountaining lava can be seen in the background. The lava, which shot as much as 200 feet into the air, flowed through a thick rain forest on Hawaii's Big Island leaving only a few trees. === Page 50 of 92 Low-level quakes continuing By ROBERT LOCKE Associated Press MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - A continuing string of small earthquakes may signal volcanic activity in the rugged mountains around this high-country ski resort, a geologist who studies volcanoes said Saturday. But C. Dan Miller and other scientists stressed at a news conference that no one is predicting an eruption in this community along the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, across the mountains from Yosemite National Park. "Our level of concern (about volcanoes) is above our level before this... earthquake swarm," Miller said. "That's a very general statement." Small quakes continued to jolt the region 200 miles east of San Francisco and 250 miles north of Los Angeles for the third straight day Saturday. "We're all wondering just what's going on at depth (several miles beneath the surface) and just what the mechanisms are" that produced the quakes that began Thursday afternoon, said geologist Roger Martin of the California Department of Mines and Geology. "The low-level seismic activity is persisting, with frequent small magnitude earthquakes," said geophysicist Mark Zoback at the U.S. Geological Survey offices in Menlo Park. "There have been several felt earthquakes, approximate magnitude 3 to 3.5 (on the Richter scale), in the last 24 hours, but there have no been larger events such as those which occurred Thursday night," he said, referring to quakes measured at 5.5 and 5.6. Zoback said scientists expect the low-level activity to continue, but don't see that as a danger sign. "These things persist for a few days," he said. "We imagine it will go on for a while. But we have no information that indicates the situation is becoming more hazardous." Scientists had been concerned that similar previous earthquake swarms and other geologic changes might reflect molten rock moving several miles beneath the ground. Most agree that an impending volcanic eruption is possible, but no one has predicted one. "Nothing has changed. We have no way of forecasting whether anything might happen," Miller said. The latest swarm of quakes began Thursday afternoon and continued well into Friday, hitting at a rate of more than one a minute. While most were too small to be felt, two moderate tremors late Thursday did minor damage at Mammoth Lakes and caused the collapse of a hangar on a private plane at the nearby airport. Miller, who was coordinating the scientific research on the snowy slopes from a communications center at the Mammoth Lakes Fire Department, said crews were trudging through the deep snow to remeasure survey lines, check for bulges in the earth, and look for new hot springs and steam vents. One crew, heading out in an enclosed vehicle with steel tracks like an Army tank, was from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Led by geologist Art Sylvester, the team went into the "epicentral area" about two miles east of Mammoth Lakes where much seismic activity has been located. The latest swarm was also near the area. Team member Ken Gester said the group, which also includes Michael Bunis and Elizabeth Nixon, will be "looking for relative elevational differences - tilts in the surface." He said UCSB students planted benchmarks, steel rods anchored in bedrock, last year. Wearing snowshoes, the crew will dig away the snow, and use surveyors' gear to seek minute changes in the elevation. Gester said the assumption has been that such tilts indicate molten rock is moving beneath the surface, "but no one really knows." Week's news in review Local/regional The first blizzard of the season dumped 16 1/2 inches of snow on the Twin Cities Tuesday and winds gusting to 40 mph created drifts 6 to 8 feet deep, halting car, bus, train, and air traffic. At least 16 people died in Minnesota as a result of the snow, 11 them heart attacks in the metropolitan area and others in traffic accidents. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport not only had to close because its aircraft taxi lanes were blocked but lightning knocked out electricity until auxiliary generators could take over hours later. Quake toll hits 1,448 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Search parties found the bodies of 108 more earthquake victims Thursday in North Yemen, raising the confirmed death toll to 1,448. They also rescued 57 injured survivors more than 72 hours after the killer quake wrecked more than 200 villages, the official Yemeni radio reported. Radio San'a, broadcasting from the Yemeni capital, reported Prime Minister Abdul-Karim el-Iriani informed President Ali Abdullah Saleh that 1,489 of the injured were hospitalized, many in serious condition. Health Minister Mohamed al-Kibab warned of a growing danger of epidemics "because an undetermined number of people are still under the rubble." Diplomats in San'a predicted the death toll would be more than 2,000. Radio San'a said rescue parties "at many points could not proceed with the search for survivors because of the moving the stench of death." With some areas still isolated because of quake damage to the desert country's primitive roads and communication facilities, Iriani said 66 more villages were found to have suffered extensive damage, bringing the total in that category to 253. Medical teams, medicine and other supplies poured in from abroad. Saudi Arabia has sent in 45 flights, most of them giant C-130 transport planes, loaded with supplies. King Fahd pledged $35 million in aid. A medical staff of 72 arrived from West Germany, and 40 came from Switzerland. They brought search dogs that found 12 bodies in their first day of operations, the health minister said. Two U.N. planes arrived with provisions Thursday, two each came from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, and one from Libya. The country was jolted early Thursday by four tremors of "medium intensity." === Page 51 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Hundreds flee as rains break dams, flooding some towns Associated Press Spok Rev 12/6/82 Days of rain sent rivers surging to record levels Sunday in the Mississippi Valley from Illinois to Louisiana, forcing hundreds to flee as dams broke and water poured chest-deep through some towns. A week of stormy weather punctuated by rare late fall tornadoes claimed about 40 lives in the nation, including 18 who died when hurricane-force winds and snowstorms hit the West. It was another day of shirt-sleeve weather in December in many northern cities, with record high temperatures in the mid-60s in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, N.Y. It was 73 in Atlantic City, N.J., and 75 at Richmond, Va. Bloated rivers climbed as much as 12 feet above flood stage in the central states, reaching the highest mark ever in Illinois cities such as La Salle in the northern part of the state and Green Valley south of Peoria. Residents of several communities were filling sandbags to try to hold back the water. Some hired rental trucks, getting ready to flee. In Calumet City, Ill., where about 60 people were evacuated, people blamed their chest-deep water on the residents of adjacent Ham- (Continued on page 2) UFO Sun Attack # Boy dies in West Side storm Associated Press Spok Rev 12/17/82 A 5-year-old boy was swept away and drowned Thursday in a creek swollen by a storm that raked Western Washington, toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands of people. Wyatt Thompson of Joyce, west of Port Angeles, Wash., drowned Thursday morning in Whiskey Creek, said Clallam County Sheriff Steven Kernes. The boy and two other youngsters were walking across a log over the creek when he slipped and fell "into what usually is just a very shallow stream," Kernes said. "He was washed away." About 25 volunteer firefighters and residents of the area west of Port Angeles joined several sheriff's deputies in the search. Within 45 minutes they found the boy wedged under-water about 200 yards downstream, Kernes said. A Coast Guard helicopter took the child to Olympic Memorial Hospital in Port Angeles, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Repair crews throughout Western Washington spent the day repairing downed lines. Chain saws cut toppled trees into fireplace logs. Another rain and wind storm stood just off the coast Thursday evening, ready to batter the area again, said the National Weather Service. Though it was not expected to be as fierce as the previous night's blow, the new storm packed heavy rain and winds up about 39 mph, said Freeman Stickney, a Weather Service spokesman in Seattle. The new storm ## Boy rescued from Oregon flood -- Page 17 also carried high tides, which caused much of Thursday's flooding, including waterfront homes on Puget Sound in West Seattle. At the Grays Harbor bar, waves 20 to 25 feet high were forecast Thursday night, decreasing to 12 to 17 feet by Friday night. Turbulent seas and low pressure were creating tides a foot to 1½ feet higher than tide books predicted, raising another threat to property along beaches and banks. At least 40 homes were flooded along coastal areas of Whatcom County, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Most damage was caused by high tides rather than flooding rivers, he said. The Chehalis River was expected to crest at 4 a.m. Friday at one foot above flood stage at Centralia, which will flood only pastures, Voshall said. About 1,350 customers remained without electricity at Thursday evening, from the Canadian border to Olympia, said Dave Adams of Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He said power was restored to about 400 customers in the suburbs east of Seattle about nightfall, but 1,200 others in north Kitsap County were unlikely to get their lights turned back on before midnight. At the height of the storm, as many as 100,000 customers were without electricity, he said. Puget Power serves about 560,000 customers in nine Western Washington Counties. Crews throughout Western Washington cleared logs and fallen trees from roads and untangled branches from power lines. Cars crept through floorboard-high water in some underpasses. The Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsula washed out Jefferson County Road 216 Thursday morning before receding. Pieces of "Pac Man" and other video games littered a large area in Birch Bay near the Canadian border, where overnight winds up to 80 mph tore up a video game arcade. === Page 52 of 92 UFOs "Sun" Attack Spokane, Wash., Sat., Dec. 4, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Storms leave 10 dead Associated Press Three more tornadoes slammed into Arkansas on Friday and a child drowned in swirling floodwaters on the second day of storms that have killed at least 10 people in the Mississippi River Valley. As many as four people were reported missing in Illinois. Temperature records toppled in Michigan and Florida as a heat wave reached from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border states that are more used to snow this time of year. The weather set wetness records, too - Michigan got more than 3 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, breaking a record for December. High winds knocked an 80-foot hole in the wall of a company in Lowell, Ind., that makes storm doors and windows and a tornado tore the roofs from several houses Friday morning in Eunice, La. "Get to the high ground," Arkansas Gov. Frank White exhorted state residents Friday as parts of 15 towns in the state were evacuated because of flooding. Torrential rains submerged the downtown section of Clinton, Ark., under 7 feet of water, the governor said. Damage was severe, but no monetary estimates had been made. "I don't know of any time we've seen so much devastation so fast," White said. One child drowned Friday as a family was flooded out near the Arkansas town of Deberry, Perry County sheriff's dispatcher Stan Wallace said four other members of the unidentified family had hung onto trees while rescuers in three boats tried to reach them. The family was rescued later in the day, officials said. Gov. James Thompson of Illinois declared a disaster area in a county where a tornado making a freak late-autumn appearance killed two people and injured scores more Thursday night. A 3-day-old heat wave broke new records Friday. The city of Buffalo, N.Y., often buried under snow in December, had a temperature of 72 degrees Friday, breaking a 61-degree record for the date set in 1951. The temperature reached 67 degrees Friday at Jackson, Mich., breaking the record for the date of 62 degrees, set in 1973. It was 87 degrees Friday in Orlando, Fla., breaking an 85-degree mark set for the date in 1968. More than 3 inches of rain fell on Muskegon in the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. Friday, breaking the old 24-hour record for December of 1.82 inches set Dec. 10, 1971. High winds in Oregon knocked out power to about 350 homes in Clatsop County, and felled trees blocked some roads. Tornadoes swept up the Mississippi Valley on Thursday night, killing five people, splintering more than 100 mobile homes and damaging other buildings in Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri. "I hit the floor and curled up," said Air Force Sgt. Steve Tordson of New Baden, Ill., who had just checked to see if rain was coming in the windows on his mobile home when the glass was shattered by a tornado Thursday night. "I didn't move until the pulling and tugging and everything else was over. "From what I could see by the lightning flashes, there were only two walls left standing," Tordson spoke as he huddled in a blanket at a school gym where a dozen homeless people spent the night. ## 15 towns are evacuated in Arkansas. UFOs Sun Attack # High winds hit state Associated Press A fast moving unseasonably warm storm front caused widespread minor damage to Western Washington Friday, knocking down power lines and pushing rivers over their banks. Brief power outages were reported in many areas and several rivers went over flood stage. In King County, homeowners complaining of flooding in yards and driveways were told to clear out their storm drains, many of which were clogged by leaves. The National Weather Service said a cold front entering the western side of the state in the evening would force the snow level down to 3,000 feet Saturday, and quench the storm's effects. Winds gusted to 60 mph in some locations west of the Cascades, and one to three inches of rain were reported in lowland areas by the weather service. In the mountains, the freezing level soared to 8,000 feet Friday, with up to five inches of rain. The storm swept into Eastern Washington Friday afternoon, although the immediate effects were limited to high winds. Wind warnings were in effect Friday evening for coastal counties, and for the counties of Benton, Franklin, Yakima, Kittitas, Grant and Douglas in Eastern Washington. Spok Rev 12-4-82 === Page 53 of 92 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., Dec. 3, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Casper snowed in; Chicago 'balmy' UFOs "Sun Attack" Associated Press A storm in the West that left 18 people dead or missing has mired Wyoming communities in 2 feet of snow Thursday, while tornadoes, which killed two people in Arkansas, splintered homes in the Midwest. But December turned to spring in many Northern cities. The 40,000 residents of Casper, Wyo., awoke to find 22.5 inches of snow on the ground, just 4 inches short of the record for the month of December in that city. Highways and schools were closed and schools shut down in many areas across the state. Tornadoes hit southern Missouri, destroying or damaging 25 to 30 homes in Mountain Grove and at least two homes in rural Crawford County. At least 10 people were injured. In Arkansas, twisters hit western Little Rock, Alexandria, North Little Rock, Arkadelphia, Hopewell and the town of Alma near Fort Smith. One person was killed in a mobile home park near Alexandria, and another person died on the western side of Little Rock when a piece of metal ripped through the windshield of the car he was driving. Winds damaged homes, businesses and schools. Tornadoes in Little Rock damaged Parkview High School and hit near the Williamsburg Nursing Home, knocking out most of the windows in the three-story building as nurses rolled patients into the hallways. Two cars near the nursing home caught fire. Another twister destroyed one home and damaged three others in Alma, Ark., as a storm roared through on Thursday, downing power lines and washing out at least three bridges. The storm that swept out of the Pacific across California on Tuesday, dumping snow neck deep in the mountains, also spread heavy snow Thursday across the northern high plains into eastern Montana and western South Dakota. But it was like squirting whipped cream on a warm and moist pie. Christmas shoppers in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis and Cleveland shed their coats and sweaters as the mercury climbed toward the 70-degree mark, setting records for this time of year. In Ohio, record temperatures were set in Toledo, where it was 68 degrees; Zanesville, 69; Cleveland, 70; Columbus, 71; and Marietta, 67. Before noon it was already 69 in the Windy City, seven degrees warmer than the record for Dec. 2. It also was wet. Heavy rains caused power outages affecting 3,000 homes and businesses in the northern suburbs. Golfers in Des Moines, Iowa, were out in their shirt sleeves on courses that are usually closed by this time of year. # Good Morning. UFO Sun Attack Today is SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1982. In the news: President Reagan was urged by Colombia's president to halt the diplomatic **boycott of Cuba** (Page 6) . . . Three more **tornadoes** slammed into Arkansas as a **heat wave** reached from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border states (Page 5) . . . Poland's **martial-law** ruler delivered a bitter **attack** on the U.S. (Page 5) . . . Washington's **Lottery** Commission launched three **more games** for winter and spring (Page 8) . . . An expanded news briefing appears on Page 2. === Page 54 of 92 UFO "Sun" Attack # Snow storm buries New Mexico Associated Press A wintry storm dumped up to a foot and a half of snow in New Mexico on Saturday, killing at least two people, stranding travelers and leaving at least six hunters missing, while three people were killed and six were injured on icy roads in Kansas. Up to 5 inches of rain pushed streams out of their banks in parts of eastern Texas, southern Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Snow, sleet and freezing rain made driving treacherous in much of eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, eastern Oklahoma and most of Kansas. The Sulphur River at Hagansport, Texas, about 80 miles northeast of Dallas, was about 4 feet above flood stage and still climbing and a tornado touched down in the central Louisiana. (Continued on page 17) 11/26/82 # Hawaii declared a disaster area HONOLULU (AP) -- President Reagan declared Hawaii a disaster area Saturday as a nuclear-powered submarine docked to help restore power to one island blacked out by the worst hurricane on record to hit the Pacific paradise. The attack submarine USS Indianapolis was pressed into service as a floating electric generator for the island of Kauai, where 39,000 residents had been without power since Tuesday night when Hawaii's first major hurricane in 23 years left almost $200 million in damage. But even with the sub plugged into one of the island's three generating plants, utility officials said it probably would be two to three weeks before full service was restored. "We'd like to try to get 90 percent of the system up in two weeks," said Kelvin Kai, transmission and distribution manager of Kauai Electric Co. Damages to private and public property on Kauai and on the more populous island of Oahu have been estimated by disaster officials at about $160 million, and military officials say Army facilities may have sustained an additional $30 million in damage. The Red Cross said Iwa's 110-mph winds destroyed 180 homes on Oahu and Kauai, and an additional 934 sustained major damage. Nearly 1,500 had minor damage. Dick Sasaki of the National Weather Service in Honolulu said damage was "much, much worse" than that left by Hurricane Dot in 1959. # Snow storm -- (Continued from page 1) town of Alexandria. There were no immediate reports of damage. In New Mexico, the bodies of two people who apparently died of exposure were found Saturday, officials said. Esther Redwine, 56 was found dead near her house in Lea County, near the New Mexico-Texas border, by her son-in-law, according to Capt. Paul Mallory of the Lea County sheriff's office. "It appears this lady was on her way to the house and apparently fell ... and froze to death," he said. State police said a man who was looking for aluminum cans found the body of an unidentified man along U.S. highway 666 about five miles north of Gallup. The body of another unidentified man was found during rough weather along the highway three days earlier, on Thanksgiving Day. The freezing rain that swept across central and southeast Kansas turned roads into icy ribbons, causing numerous accidents. Sleet accumulated a quarter of an inch deep at Coldwater, Kan. Three people were killed and three others were injured about 11 a.m. in an accident southeast of Emporia, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. The crash occurred on the icy Kansas 130 bridge over the Neosho River just north of Hartford, but no other details were immediately available. Three people injured in another accident on Interstate 135 in Salina, Kan., were listed in critical condition at St. John's Hospital. New Mexico state police were discouraged travel in most areas of the southern and in the northeastern parts of the state. UFO's in "Attack" # Hawaii sunny again, but hurricane damage put at $160 million 11/26/82 HONOLULU (AP) -- Tourists packed sunny beaches Thursday, but many Hawaii residents returned to homes and businesses ruined by the punishing winds of Hurricane Iwa. Damage was estimated at $160 million and a civil defense spokesman said it was "probably the worst disaster we've had short of war." Most of the hard-hit island of Kauai was still without electricity, water and telephone service, and authorities sought help from the Navy. Parts of Oahu, the most populous island, also were without water. Tanker trucks rolled in to help replenish the supply, and Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson urged residents to conserve water because of limited power to pumping stations. The brunt of the first hurricane to hit Hawaii in 23 years struck Kauai, Oahu and the tiny, privately owned island of Niihau on Tuesday night with winds up to 110 mph. High waves wiped out cottages and pounded luxury condominiums along the shore at Poipu, on Kauai. A 40-foot Coast Guard utility boat and 14 other vessels were sunk in the island's Nawiliwili Harbor. The Navy lost several vessels at Port Allen, part of the world's largest submarine tracking station. More than 100 people were treated for minor injuries, but the only reported death was a sailor washed off the 4,500-ton guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough by a 30-foot wave. Flattened trees, toppled utility poles and debris stripped from houses littered the streets as more than 7,000 people evacuated on Oahu and Kauai returned to begin cleaning up. Hotels struggled with flooded garages and sporadic power blackouts. === Page 55 of 92 UFO Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Wed., Dec. 8, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Floods continue; volunteers hustle to shore up levees Associated Press Devastating floods that have driven 26,000 people from their homes in the Mississippi Valley surged downstream Tuesday as National Guardsmen and volunteers hustled to shore up river levees. Damage estimates from the flooding touched off by storms in the region late last week approached the half-billion dollar mark. At least 20 people had been killed by tornadoes and floods and four were missing. About 20,000 residents remained in evacuation shelters Tuesday in Missouri as rivers crested at levels reached only about once every hundred years, officials said. National Guardsmen patrolled the St. Louis suburbs of Arnold, Times Beach and St. Charles to guard against looting. More evacuations were ordered in Arkansas. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared six counties -- mainly in the northern part of the state -- disaster areas Tuesday and warned that "the worst is not over." Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, estimating damage in his state at $150 million, said he would ask President Reagan for federal assistance to 22 counties declared disaster areas. Arkansas Gov. Frank White has asked for disaster aid for 37 counties since Friday. Jack Dubose of the state Office of Emergency Services said a preliminary estimate of damage in his state totaled about $268 million and added, "This is just a start. We expect that to continue to climb." In Missouri, the Meramec River crested Tuesday at about 20 feet above flood stage at Arnold, just south of St. Louis, driving families out of about 300 more homes. National Guard troops and equipment were sent to Herculaneum and Ste. Genevieve to reinforce levees along the Mississippi. About 140 Guardsmen were on duty with others held in reserve. Still others were on alert for possible duty in southern Missouri. The water was receding in some areas, but was rising downstream. In east-central Arkansas, officials were evacuating 300 to 400 people from the rural areas of Maddox Bay, Indian Bay, East Lake and Green Lake, all about 20 miles south of Clarendon. Emergency centers were set up in Holly Grove to house about 1,250 people. Charlie Koltz, who was evacuated from his farmhouse near Times Beach, Mo., about midnight Sunday said, "My most dramatic moment was hearing a man screaming for help as he was swept by at about 30 mph, clinging to a log in the river. We never did learn what happened to him." Chuck Jones of the state Emergency and Disaster Agency in Illinois said the Illinois River was expected to go over retaining walls when it crests Wednesday at Peoria. === Page 56 of 92 10 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Thurs., Dec. 9, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Mississippi Valley towns buried in mud Associated Press Floods that have chased more than 35,000 people from their homes in the Mississippi Valley gushed into new territory Wednesday while receding waters in some areas left entire towns a muddy mess with cars and debris piled against houses and trees. TORRENTIAL RAINS late last week caused flooding that has left at least 20 dead and four missing in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, with preliminary damage estimates topping half a billion dollars. Winds gusting to hurricane force Wednesday knocked out the power to 143,000 households in Southern California and blew cars off icy Interstate 80 in Utah, where up to 15 inches of snow fell in places. A blast of Arctic air plunged temperatures below zero across much of Montana, North Dakota and northern Minnesota, and below freezing across the most of the other northern states from New England to the Pacific Northwest. FREEZING DRIZZLE glazed broad areas from eastern New Mexico to northwest Illinois. Roads "like a sheet of ice" in the Oklahoma Panhandle caused many accidents. The Mississippi River on Wednesday lapped within inches of the top of a levee ringed with 3 feet of sandbags near St. Louis, and the Illinois River was expected to crest Thursday at 10.5 feet above flood stage in Peoria, Ill., just inches short of the level in record flooding in 1943. "If we get any more rain, we can just forget it," said Roger Pritchett, inspecting the Mississippi levee in a light drizzle just above the confluence of the Missouri River near St. Louis. THE NATION'S MIGHTIEST river is expected to crest about 14 feet over flood stage below St. Louis on Friday. Although many have since returned home while others are getting out, officials estimated that so far 25,000 people had been displaced in Missouri, 8,500 in Illinois and about 2,000 in Arkansas. Some of the 2,200 residents of Times Beach, Mo., near St. Louis started returning home Wednesday, but they left their children in emergency shelters. "We don't want people going in with little children and finding a living room full of snakes," said Susan Van Almsick, a spokeswoman for the county. Little was left to salvage in some of the homes. "This was all I was able to find," said Ron Wilson, holding up a jar of pennies." As he spoke, the jar slipped from his grasp and shattered on the pavement. ABOUT 150 STUDENTS from Southern Illinois University were helping fill 60,000 sandbags to try to protect Kaskia Island near Peoria, Ill. Officials said almost 300,000 sandbags had been placed along Illinois rivers. "This kind of storm, the worst in a century, just overwhelms what man can do," said Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson. The Arkansas flooding is "far and away beyond anything that has hit the state," said Jack DuBose, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. Arkansas officials estimate the flood has caused about $323 million in property damages so far. The National Weather Service said the White River in Monroe County in eastern Arkansas would crest at about 33 feet Saturday -- 6 feet above flood stage. Another 300 to 400 country residents were being evacuated, Deputy Sheriff Frank Newby said. MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS worked through the night to reinforce levees in Herculaneum and Ste. Genevieve. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed St. Louis harbor and a 43-mile stretch of the Mississippi to barge traffic because wakes from tows might damage flood levees. About 4,500 people in Illinois remained homeless, mostly in the Peoria area and southward, said E. Erie Jones, director of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. The flooding has affected southeastern Missouri and the eastern two-thirds of Arkansas. There has been only minor flooding so far in Mississippi and in Louisiana, where the river reaches the Gulf of Mexico. === Page 57 of 92 SPRING? - Not yet, but even the wildlife in Lincoln County enjoy the unseasonably warm weather that has descended on the Northwest. This is probably the easiest winter this whitetail doe has experienced. (Eagle photo) Kootenai Valley Eagle 2/2/83 UFOs Sun Attack === Page 58 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW saturday, jan. 15, 1983 page 4 # opinion Reagan in trouble # The body count mounts It keeps getting worse. Strains within the Reagan White House are growing prolifically. In the last several days, the president has lost two more members of his Cabinet. First it was Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who headed off for Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc., where he will be chairman of the board. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker has left for a six-figure salary in the insurance business. Their departures bring to five the number of Cabinet and Cabinet-level losses the president has suffered in the past year. Earlier, national security adviser Richard Allen left amidst a storm of controversy, followed by an equally embattled Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Neither loss was mourned. The other Cabinet official choosing to walk down the road was Energy Secretary James Edwards. Now he is president of the Medical University of South Carolina and a member of the board of directors of Phillips Petroleum Co. The shake-up probably is not over. We hope it is not because of the officials most deserving expulsion, all are till around. In the three most recent cases, it's the wrong people who have left. No one is more deserving of early retirement than Interior Secretary James Watt. Watt is more suited to employment aboard a seal boat off the coast of Newfoundland than to a job involving wilderness protection. If he hurries, he can make it in time for the spring harvest of furry seal pups. CIA Director William Casey is another character we could do without in government service. The only time we hear of Casey is when some government agency investigates his shady business dealings (of which there have been many). His tarnished reputation has so damaged his credibility that he should have been dismissed early in the Reagan presidency. Last, but by no means least, there is Labor Secretary Ray Donovan, a man even more discredited than Casey. Donovan was cleared of allegations that he had ties to organized crime, but the long, drawn-out controversy permanently impaired his political effectiveness. We concur with the sentiments of White House chief of staff James Baker III that Donovan, as a service to the president, should pack his bags and leave. It will be interesting to see what repercussions, if any, spring from Baker's bold pronouncement. Baker, it generally is accepted, is not the darling of the White House staff. As a refugee of the Gerald Ford and George Bush camps, Baker is not altogether trusted by the president's cronies from California. He still is considered an outsider. Baker's comments could intensify the antagonism between White House moderates and conservatives, the newcomers and the old Reagan loyalists. All that's certain is that the higher the body count goes, the more chaotic and divided the White House will become. The cracks showing in the White House political foundation may be a mere prelude to a cataclysmic explosion which could seal the fate of the Reagan presidency. # EPA chief facing charges of lying resigns her post WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rita M. Lavelle, a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency who was accused of lying under oath to Congress, abruptly resigned Friday. Lavelle, one of the agency's assistant administrators, was facing a possible investigation into her testimony concerning an EPA whistleblower, Hugh Kaufman. She had denied under oath to a House Science and Technology subcommittee that she had ordered an investigation of Kaufman or that she had said she would like to fire him. However, the committee produced an affidavit from Richard M. Campbell, EPA's former assistant inspector general, in which he said Lavelle had requested his office to investigate Kaufman. "Lavelle advised both myself and (Inspector General Matthew) Novick that she wished to fire Mr. Kaufman and she hoped that we could accommodate her request for an investigation," Campbell said in his affidavit. Subcommittee Chairman James Scheuer, D-N.Y., said later that he was "leaning heavily" toward asking the Justice Department to prosecute Lavelle on perjury charges. In a short statement announcing her resignation, Lavelle made no reference to the Kaufman case. "I have accomplished what I set out to do -- get the agency's hazardous waste and Superfund programs started and on good footing," she said. "Having met this goal, I am ready to get back to California." Scheuer said in a statement he believed his subcommittee had prepared a "strong case for perjury." (Continued on page 2) === Page 59 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan switcheroo worries GOP chiefs New York Times Spok Rev 7/30/82 WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional leaders Thursday told White House officials that they were "bewildered" by President Reagan's refusal to commit himself to spending cuts that he had agreed to make in fiscal 1984 and 1985, but were unable to reach Reagan by telephone to present their views firsthand. The leaders privately expressed the fear that the president's remarks could jeopardize a new round of spending cuts being debated in the Congress, as well as a series of fiscally austere domestic spending bills soon to reach the floor of the House and Senate. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., the majority leader, told reporters that he was "disturbed" by the president's statement, adding "It hardly seems the right time, with everything going on here." Baker expressed his misgivings in a telephone conversation with James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief-of-staff, but was unable to reach the president by telephone, according to an aide to the Senate leader. See 'Defense' -- Page 6 Rep. Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., the minority leader, told a closed meeting of the 192-member Republican caucus that "The fact remains that he isn't going to spend one dime more than is authorized and appropriated by the Congress." Michel also tried to reach the president by telephone, and finally expressed his misgivings in a letter to Reagan, according to an aide to the House leader. UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan, four others spend cozy 5 minutes in stuck elevator WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan was a bit late to a ceremony in the state dining room on Thursday -- because he got stuck in a White House elevator. "I don't know just how to approach this and tell you why we are late," the president said, a little sheepishly, to representatives of the National Health Fair programs. "In 18 months it never happened," he said. "What really scared me was when the gentleman who's been here for many many years, who was with us, said it never happened (before). We've been (between) here and the floor below in the elevator. We had plenty of time to get acquainted." The "we" were Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Education T.H. Bell, the president, elevator operator Freddy Mayfield and a Secret Service agent. Mayfield said the elevator actually had gotten stuck before between the ground floor and main first floor where the state dining room is. But never with a president aboard. The quintet spent a cozy five minutes in the elevator. "I asked the president what happened when the elevator stopped," said deputy press secretary Larry Speakes. "He said we looked at each other for a while and looked at the ceiling for while." The 200 or so people waiting for the president in the ornate dining room noticed only that the lights flickered for short periods. Later it was learned that a fire in a power station nearby had caused similar momentary problems in a wide area of Washington. Spok Rev 8/6/82 UFO attack "higher ups" ![President and Mrs. Reagan leave a Vienna, Va., church after attending services Monday for Scott Meese. The 19-year-old son of presidential adviser Edwin Meese III died in a car wreck last week.] President and Mrs. Reagan leave a Vienna, Va., church after attending services Monday for Scott Meese. The 19-year-old son of presidential adviser Edwin Meese III died in a car wreck last week. Spok Rev 7/27/82 ![NANCY REAGAN No further treatment] NANCY REAGAN No further treatment # Mrs. Reagan's skin cancer 'very curable' Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- A small growth removed from First Lady Nancy Reagan's face was diagnosed Tuesday as a form of skin cancer that is curable at least 95 percent of the time. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, Sheila Tate, said that the growth above the first lady's upper lip had been "adequately excised" and that no further treatment was required. The operation was performed Monday, about two months after Mrs. Reagan first discovered the problem and "kept thinking it would go away," according to Tate. (Continued on page 11) === Page 60 of 92 Nancy used helicopters, not autos, three times UFOs attack "higher ups" WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Reagan used helicopters from the presidential fleet on three occasions when she traveled alone to Camp David, Md., at a cost to taxpayers of $3,110, White House records show. As a matter of practice, first ladies rarely use helicopters when they are traveling solo, even on official trips. Instead of making the journey by car, which takes about 90 minutes, the first lady took a helicopter round trip to inspect the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains for the first time on Jan. 29, 1981. She was accompanied by her Los Angeles decorator, Ted Graber. A one-way helicopter trip to the isolated camp, about 60 miles from the nation's capital, takes 35 minutes and costs taxpayers $777.72. NANCY REAGAN That figure is based on an operating cost, provided by the White House, of $1,334 per hour for the VIP Marine helicopters that feature two airline-style upholstered chairs facing each other, sofa-like banks of seats on either side, and a bar. Mrs. Reagan made one-way helicopter trips last Sept. 10 and Oct. 29. Both times she was meeting her husband, who had flown a separate VIP helicopter to Camp David from Andrews Air Force Base following out-of-town trips. ON ALL THREE occasions, the president's wife boarded the helicopter at the Pentagon, rather than the White House South Lawn. Only the president -- or special guests on rare occasions -- depart from the White House. There is some question as to whether a first lady, who is not elected and has no constitutional duties, is entitled to taxpayer-subsidized helicopters for solo journeys, especially for purely personal, non-official trips. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, Sheila Tate, said the first lady did not conduct official business at Camp David on the three occasions she flew there alone. But Mrs. Tate sought to extend to the first lady the presumption that all of her activities, even spending a relaxing weekend at Camp David with her husband, were somehow official. THAT IS TRUE for the president. The Justice Department considers all of his activities to be either official or political since he is commander-in-chief and responsible for national affairs 24 hours a day and so never really is "off-duty." Richard Hauser, a lawyer in the White House counsel's office, told The Associated Press that Mr. Reagan would be expected to reimburse the government for the cost of her helicopter travel if her activities were deemed "clearly personal or political." 11/15/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 10/18/82 House panel looking at Watt's plane trips WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee is looking into Interior Secretary James Watt's alleged use of government airplanes for personal and political purposes, according to government sources. At the request of the House Government Operations Committee, the General Accounting Office is examining a number of trips taken by Watt on a King Air 200 plane assigned to an Interior Department firefighting unit in Idaho. On one trip to pick up Watt's son at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., over Memorial Day, 1981, one source said, the Interior Department was underbilled by $40,000. The Chicago Tribune reported over the weekend that Watt also used government planes to make political fund-raising trips to Western states, as well as to fly to a now-controversial "One Shot Antelope Hunt" in Wyoming. A GAO report now being drafted is expected to criticize the lack of specific regulations covering travel by Cabinet secretaries. Virtually no limits are now placed on their travel. In Watt's case, the secretary used a plane assigned to the Boise Interagency Fire Center for many trips, according to the forthcoming GAO report and testimony by GAO officials before the committee. UFOs attack "higher ups" How's that again, Senor Presidente? BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- President Reagan made a verbal slipup when he toasted the people of Bolivia -- instead of Brazil -- at a dinner hosted in his honor Wednesday by Brazilian President Joao Baptista Figueiredo. Realizing his mistake as soon as the word was out of his mouth, Reagan then compounded the error by saying, "That's where I'm going." Bolivia is not on the agenda for his Latin American tour. Finishing a lengthy toast, Reagan said: "To President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia -- that's where I'm going -- to the people of Brazil and to the dream of democracy and peace here in the western hemisphere." Spok Rev 12/2/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Auto carrying Gandhi stoned Spok Rev 12/19/82 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A motorcade carrying Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was stoned Saturday as it drove through the streets of a seaside city in southern Karnataka state where the Indian leader was on a local election swing, news reports said. Stones thrown by political opponents hit the car carrying Mrs. Gandhi and several behind it, but no one was injured, the United News of India reported from Mangalore, 180 miles west of the state capital of Bangalore. Police quickly dispersed the crowd. No arrests were reported. Mrs. Gandhi earlier faced shouts of support for a local political party during her speech on behalf of her ruling Congress Party candidates at the Mangalore city hall, UNI said. The prime minister also was shouted down during a speech Friday at Mahabubnagar, a district city in central Andhra Pradesh state, newspapers said. They said an angry Mrs. Gandhi shouted back: "Don't you know who I am and what the Congress is? We will show our might." === Page 61 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" Diplomat's son free after shooting WASHINGTON (AP) - The son of Brazil's ambassador to the United States was charged with shooting an employee of a topless bar, but the charge was dropped because the son has diplomatic immunity, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors, who asked that their names not be used, said the shooting incident occurred Monday night and the charge was dismissed Wednesday after a conference with the State Department. Law enforcement sources described police and prosecutors involved as outraged that the law permits the ambassador's son to go free. Antonio da Silveira Jr. was arrested on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum penalty of a 10-year prison term. According to a report filed by Washington police officer James P. Vines in city's Superior Court, da Silveira was in a bar called The Godfather, which features topless dancers, when he got into an argument Monday night with the manager. The ambassador's son pulled out two pistols and pulled the trigger on one, but it misfired, Vines continued. Bar employees chased da Silveira outside and he fired several shots, hitting an employee, Kenneth Skeen, in the hand, leg and abdomen, according to the police officer's report. The employees caught da Silveira. 1982, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" Spanish Communist boss quits Washington Post MADRID - Veteran Spanish Communist Santiago Carrillo, who was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in the Oct. 28 national elections, Saturday stepped down from the leadership of the party that he has run with iron discipline for 22 years. He resigned as party secretary general at a stormy executive committee meeting that was holding a post-mortem into the election rout. The Communist Party representation in the congress shrunk from the 23 seats it held after elections in 1979 to just four seats, and its percentage share of the national vote dropped from 10 to 3.8 percent. Carrillo proposed as his successor Gerardo Iglesias, 37, Communist leader of the coal mining Asturias region in northern Spain. Iglesias, who is largely unknown in national politics, served a five-year prison term under the late dictator Francisco Franco. He joined the party at the age of 15 when he was already a miner and has a long record as a party organizer in the pits. Carrillo, 67, had been under attack by hard-liners for veering too far from Moscow and by dovish dissidents who accused him of not practicing the internal democracy he preached. His total grip on the Spanish party has been sharply eroded and the party has become a drastically reduced power base. Last year, dozens of well known Communists, mostly lawyers, economists and members of other professions, left the party charging that Carrillo impeded the growth of a broad-based, moderate communist movement. UFOs attack "higher ups" Diplomat's body discovered SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The body of a man found on the grounds of the Presidio Army Base overlooking San Francisco Bay has been identified as that of a Belgian diplomat who disappeared two weeks ago. The San Francisco coroner's office said dental charts led to the identification of 66-year-old Rene Thimister, a career diplomat and honorary Belgian consul general, who was last seen leaving his home Oct. 23 to walk his dog. UFOs attack "higher ups" Kuwaiti diplomat slain NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Kuwait's second-ranking diplomat in India was shot dead Friday by a gunman who fired four bullets into him at close range and then fled in a waiting taxi, police said. Embassy First Secretary Mustafa M. Al-Marzook died at a hospital with two bullet wounds in his stomach and others in the chest and pelvis, police commissioner Bajrang Lal said. UFOs attack "higher ups" The story of O: N. Korean diplomat accused WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A North Korean diplomat to the United States was indicted Friday on charges of sexual abuse stemming from an attack last month on a Bronx woman. The man was holed up in the North Korean mission in Manhattan, with police outside waiting to arrest him. Nam Chol O, third secretary for the observer delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was charged by the Westchester County grand jury in a three-count indictment alleging first-degree sexual abuse, menacing, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a rock. District Attorney Carl Vergari said O is accused of sexually abusing a 43-year-old woman, who was not identified, on county-owned land at Twin Lakes Reservoir in Eastchester on Sept. 5. Vergari said O allegedly grabbed the woman from behind while she was walking on a bridle path, knocked her down, threatened her with a rock, and sexually abused her. The woman managed to fight off her attacker and fled. === Page 62 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Fate of Latin president's daughter unknown GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Kidnappers holding the Honduran president's daughter under threat of death remained silent Saturday after the Guatemalan government refused to negotiate but let the family appeal for her life on national television. Friends and relatives of 33-year-old Dr. Judith Xiomara Suazo Estrada refused to say what her family was doing to obtain her release or if any contact had been made with the kidnappers. Her father, Honduran President Dr. Roberto Suazo Cordova, through a spokesman, respectfully asked reporters "not to speculate" on the case, and verify their information first before publishing it. A few minutes before Friday's 8 p.m. PST deadline set by the kidnappers for saving Mrs. Suazo Estrada, the government announced it was holding to its policy of "not negotiating with subversives." The terrorists, who did not identify themselves "for tactical reasons," kidnapped her on Dec. 13 as she was leaving the Guatemalan capital's San Juan De Dios General Hospital where she worked in the radiology department. Guatemalan security officials said they believed the kidnappers belonged to one of four leftist guerrilla organizations fighting for power in this Central American country but refused to disclose details of the kidnapping. In clandestine communiques to news media, the kidnappers demanded publication of a political manifesto in Central American and Mexican newspapers in exchange for her release, warning her life "will be in danger" if this was not done. Both Suazo Cordova and Guatemalan President Gen. Efrain Rios Montt made it known they were standing by their governments' policies of not negotiating with terrorists. However, the Guatemalan government authorized the family to use national television to ask the kidnappers for proof she was alive and to request a copy of the manifesto. A statement from the family read during a television newscast shortly before the deadline appealed to the kidnappers to send over a copy of the manifesto so they could try to have "its publication authorized by the governments of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala." Under emergency regulations in force in Guatemala and El Salvador to deal with leftist rebellions, newspapers are forbidden from publishing guerrilla statements without government approval. The Guatemalan government did not say if the government would permit the manifesto's publication but promised that authorities will "support the efforts of the family to free the captive." The communique also called on international human rights organizations to urge "the terrorists not to assassinate but to free the captive." The government's decision was seen as an effort to avoid negotiating directly with leftist rebels while providing a way to save the daughter's life. In a similar communique from Tegucigalpa, the Honduran government said it too was not negotiating with the terrorists. The Honduran communique Friday night described Suazo Cordova's daughter as "an innocent victim of a terrorist act" who has no connections to the government. (1) ## Mental treatment for prince THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, was readmitted to a Swiss psychiatric clinic Monday for further treatment, the Dutch Government Information Service announced. Early last month, Claus, 56, was admitted to the University of Basel clinic for what the information service called "complaints of a depressive nature." He was released Oct. 28. A spokesman for the information service said he did not know how long the prince will stay in Basel, but that the treatment "could take a few weeks." (2) ## Ghana resignation accepted LONDON (AP) -- Ghana's head of state, Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, has accepted the resignation of his chief of defense one week after an attempted coup by military rebels, Accra Radio reported Monday. The broadcast by the official Ghanian station, which was monitored here, said Rawlings had taken over the post. It said Rawlings criticized his former defense chief, Brig. Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, for telling the foreign press that he planned to quit before he notified the government. The attempted coup came the day after Nunoo-Mensah offered his resignation, saying the country was in chaos. (3) ## Kidnapped official found dead BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Gloria Echeverri, former director of Colombia's Neighborhood Action Department, was found slain Monday, five months after she was kidnapped. The Neighborhood Action Department helps poor neighborhoods build schools and make other improvements when there is no help from other government sectors. Mrs. Echeverri's body was found on a street corner in the northwest part of Bogota. She had been shot once in the head and her body was covered with a banner bearing the letters ORP. The afternoon daily El Bogotano said it had been told by an anonymous caller that the letters stand for Organizacion Revolucionaria del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Organization, a previously unheard-of group in Colombia. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Cameroon chief to resign YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) -- President Ahmadou Ahidjo, president of Cameroon since it became independent in 1960, made a surprise announcement Thursday that he was resigning. He said his resignation would be effective Saturday, but gave no reason in a speech on nationwide radio. There was no immediate indication who would succeed Ahidjo, 58, one of the elder statesmen of African independence. Ahidjo urged the people to "remain a united people, patriotic, hard-working, dignified and respected." === Page 63 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., Oct. 29, 1982, Spokane, Wash. UFDe attack "higher ups" # Energy Dept. fires top conservation expert By MILTON R. BENJAMIN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Two years after she received a presidential merit award, the government's top expert on energy conservation says she is being forced out of her job as part of the Reagan administration's effort to "do away with all federal conservation programs." Dr. Maxine Savitz, who has been deputy assistant secretary of energy for conservation since January 1979, was fired Wednesday because she didn't report Monday to a new job in Golden, Colo. "This was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to force me off the rolls," Savitz said. "I have two children in high school, and my husband, Alan, has just signed a three-year contract to head psychiatry at Greater Southeast Community Hospital (in Washington). They knew perfectly well I could not accept this transfer." Savitz, who joined the federal government at the time of the 1973 Arab oil embargo after doing conservation research for the National Science Foundation, said she felt Assistant Energy Secretary Joseph J. Tribble was making her the scapegoat for his failure to "kill conservation programs." "I REALLY believe he came here to do away with all the conservation programs except for a small amount of long-term research and development, and he hasn't been successful," Savitz said. "And I think he blames me for that instead of recognizing that many people in the Congress and private sector think there is a proper role for the federal government in conservation." Tribble, who summoned Savitz to his office at 3 p.m. Wednesday and gave her the required 30 days' advance notice of dismissal, did not return a reporter's telephone calls. Savitz's dismissal is the latest turn in the battle between the administration and Congress over the government's role in promoting energy conservation. THE ADMINISTRATION'S position, according to the energy secretary's annual report to Congress in August 1982, is that "the very nature of conservation implies that it be undertaken voluntarily out of the self-interest of individuals and businesses," and that there is "little need for federal participation." In line with this, the administration cut the amount requested for energy conservation in its fiscal 1983 budget to $326 million -- less than half the $757 million spent under President Carter's fiscal 1981 budget the final full year of his administration -- and indicated it planned to get the conservation quest down to only $11 million in fiscal 1985. "If they had their way," ## Dr. Savitz claims she is scapegoat in effort to kill U.S. program UFDe attack "higher ups" # Sheik arrested by FBI WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI said Friday night that Sheik Aliai al-Fassi, 21, of Saudi Arabia was arrested earlier in the day as he attempted to sell a stolen ring, valued at $1.2 million, to undercover FBI agents. The ring, "containing a 22.7 carat emerald and 16 diamonds, was reported stolen by the Harry Winston Inc. jewelers of Hollywood, Fla., last April," according to an FBI statement. Government sources said al-Fassi is a brother-in-law of Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz, a member of the Saudi royal family. Published reports indicated he is a younger brother of Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi, whose rampant gift-giving and run-in with the Diplomat Hotel in Florida earned him much notoriety in the United States. An FBI spokesman said State Department officials had been notified of the arrest. Spok Rev 12/25/82 Spokane, Wash., Fri., Dec. 3, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFDe attack "higher ups" # Contempt citation voted against EPA's Gorsuch WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House subcommittee voted Thursday to cite Anne M. Gorsuch, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, for contempt of Congress for withholding documents on President Reagan's orders. The 9-2 vote by the House Public Works investigations subcommittee came after Mrs. Gorsuch invoked executive privilege in withholding the documents dealing with EPA's toxic waste cleanup program. Mrs. Gorsuch, appearing before the panel in response to the subpoena, said the "vast majority" of documents would be duplicated and shipped to the subcommittee, though it will cost EPA at least $145,000 and could take six months. But she said that "sensitive documents found in open law enforcement files" -- such as legal strategies and case analyses -- would be withheld on the president's orders. She submitted a letter signed by Reagan in which the president said: "Because dissemination of such documents outside the executive branch would impair my solemn responsibility to enforce the law, I instruct you and your agency not to furnish copies of this category of documents." UFDe attack "higher ups" # Shooting cause uncertain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Shooting erupted outside the house of Druse leader Walid Jumblatt Tuesday, but there were conflicting reports from Lebanese authorities on who was at fault. Police officers at the scene said gunmen in a passing car opened fire on Jumblatt's house and were shot at by the Moslem leader's private security guards. The officers said a blood-stained green Datsun sports car found a block from the house was the assailants' vehicle. Later, however, Prosecutor General Mounif Oweidat said an investigation failed to turn up any evidence that either Jumblatt or his supporters were the target of an attack, and the security guards might have initiated the incident. Sp. Rev. 12/29/82 === Page 64 of 92 attack "higher ups" # Letter-bomb explodes at 10 Downing Street New York Times LONDON -- A package containing an incendiary device, addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ignited Tuesday afternoon inside her official residence at 10 Downing Street, slightly injuring an official who checks all suspicious mail. Similar packages were sent to the House of Commons, the police said, bearing the names of Michael Foot, leader of the opposition Labor Party; David Steel, the Liberal leader; Roy Jenkins, the Social Democratic leader, and Timothy Raison, a junior minister at the Home Office whose responsibilities include legislation concerning animals. None of them ignited. According to Scotland Yard, the package received at Number 10 contained a note saying it had been sent by a group called the "Animal Rights Militia." Established animal rights organizations said they had never heard of the group, and a spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the incident represented a new peak of utter lunacy in the name of animal welfare. Several animal-protection organizations in Britain have taken more militant stands in recent months, encouraging non-violent civil disobedience. One of them, the Animal Liberation Front, has staged raids on research laboratories to free animals held captive there. Mrs. Thatcher was never in danger from the letter-bomb. It was opened in a mail room on the ground floor by Peter Taylor, a security official, while the prime minister was on an upper floor preparing for an appearance later at the House of Commons. Officials there said no incendiary or explosive device had ever before gone off inside the building. They had been confident that sophisticated mechanical and electronic screening devices guaranteed that none could get through. Taylor was said to be in good spirits and to have received only superficial facial burns. Because he wears glasses, his eyes were shielded from the flames that burst from the package as he opened it. In the Commons, Mrs. Thatcher said that more rigorous security measures were needed to deal with the threat posed by letter bombs, which have been mailed to dozens of senior officials by various groups over the last five years. For attack "higher ups" # More 'ranches' are erected by Reagan's foes Associated Press Activists opposed to President Reagan's social and economic policies set up tent settlements known as "Reagan Ranches" in four more cities Saturday. "Reagan ranches" had been set up already in more than a dozen cities, and organizers said they hoped to have about 30 of the encampments by Election Day. The demonstrations, designed to recall the "Hoovervilles" of the Depression, were part of a nationwide effort by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and other groups that want to bring attention to what ACORN calls the "new depression" caused by Reagan's budget cuts. In Sioux Falls, S.D., Jim Brown, a Dell Rapids farmer and National Farmers Organization member, said Reagan's policies are "killing farmers" economically. Members of the administration "have to listen to the people," said Wanda Wyant, one of the tent city organizers. "They can no longer listen to big business and to their advisers. They have to begin to listen to the people." About 50 demonstrators marched through downtown Austin, Texas, passing out "Reagan Dollars" -- slips of brightly colored paper depicting Reagan and Republican Gov. Bill Clements with the words: "Reagan Dollar, 10.1 percent unemployment, the united states of unemployment." The protesters stopped to sing and chant on the steps of the Capitol, then returned to the 30 tents set up on the baseball field of City Coliseum. For attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Tues., Nov. 16, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # day of mourning in Israel JERUSALEM -- The chilling wail of air raid sirens sounded throughout Israel at 10 o'clock Monday morning bringing the country's activities to a halt for a minute of silent remembrance for the victims of the explosion that destroyed the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, last Thursday. Eighty-nine persons -- 75 Israelis and 14 Arabs -- died in the blast. Two hours later, a grieving Prime Minister Menachem Begin, buried his wife of 43 years, Aliza, in a plot on the Mount of Olives overlooking the walled old city of Jerusalem in a simple, brief ceremony held in brilliant sunshine. Several hundred invited guests -- family friends, relatives, and Israeli officials -- attended the funeral for Mrs. Begin, who died early Sunday morning after a long illness. Other funerals for the victims of the Tyre explosion were taking place at the same time at cemeteries all over the country. Mrs. Begin was interred in a Jewish burial ground between a Russian Orthodox church and a Moslem mosque on the Mount of Olives. The kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, was read by the Begin's son, Benyamin Ze'ev. Other members of the family, including the couple's two daughters, Leah and Hasia, stood by. Local policemen, soldiers and border police kept onlookers at the cemetery at a distance. Clutches of Israelis were threaded about the hillside burial ground, which affords a spectacular view of both old and new Jerusalem and the glinting mosques, churches and synagogues. As the guests left the grave site, a tiny recording of a muezzin sounded prayers in Arabic from the mosque. As the Jewish mourners boarded chartered buses, they were watched by curious Arab onlookers, mostly children of school age. The Begins were known to have been very close and the prime minister had been distraught and distressed lately because of the severity of his wife's illness. The prime minister was in the United States when he received word of his wife's death. === Page 65 of 92 NFOs attack "higher ups" # Arens to head Israeli defense JERUSALEM (AP) -- Moshe Arens, Israel's hawkish ambassador to Washington, accepted the post of defense minister Monday in place of the ousted Ariel Sharon, who quit the ministry saying, "I am not leaving a beaten man." Prime Minister Menachem Begin won the approval of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, for Sharon's removal from the Defense Ministry. Begin will hold the defense portfolio until Arens is confirmed. Sharon, who ran the Defense Ministry for 18 months, remains in the Cabinet as a minister without portfolio. He resigned the defense post after the Cabinet approved findings of an Israeli judicial commission that Sharon bore responsibility for allowing the Beirut massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militiamen Sept. 16-18. The commission said Sharon should have stopped Christian militiamen from committing the atrocity inside the Israeli-ringed Sabra and Chatilla camps. It also said Begin and other top officials bore partial responsibility. In a debate on Begin's request, opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres denounced him for keeping Sharon in the Cabinet and said the prime minister should have resigned. He accused Begin's government of "deciding on a partial pardon for itself" by retaining Sharon in the Cabinet. ARENS In Washington, Arens told Israel Radio's correspondent: "The portfolio was offered by the prime minister... I accepted it immediately." He said he supported Begin's policies "without reservations." Asked if his year as ambassador in Washington had affected his outlook, Arens replied, "I wouldn't say that I didn't learn anything in the year here. But my basic ideas about Israeli security and political matters have not changed." In another interview with Israel Television, he said there is "a substantial basis for cooperation" between Israel and the United States, but he indicated he would not follow a softer line with the Americans than Sharon did. "I know them over the course of the year, and they know me," he said. "I believe it cannot be said that I am lenient. I did not make concessions while I was here." Begin's secretary, Yehiel Kadishai, said Arens would fly to Israel in a few days to go through confirmation proceedings. Arens, 57, is a softspoken, practical diplomat with hardline views on making peace with the Arabs. He grew up in the United States, began his career as an aeronautical engineer and moved to Israel in 1950. Despite his hawkish views, Arens' style contrasts sharply with that of the flamboyant Sharon. Arens also has said he does not share Sharon's desire to become prime minister. Though Arens opposed the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, he now accepts it as an accomplished fact. Sharon, in a defiant farewell speech to defense ministry workers, served notice that he would continue to press his tough line in the Cabinet, even without a portfolio. === Page 66 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # New version of palace break-in credits maid Spok Rev 7/14/82 LONDON (AP) -- The lawyer of the man who sneaked into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom said Tuesday the prowler spent "just over 10 minutes" talking with the monarch about the royal family before a chambermaid led him away. After visiting his client at Brixton Prison, attorney Maurice Nadeem said in a TV interview that 31-year-old Michael Fagan had been to Buckingham Palace "twice -- no more," despite press reports he broke into the royal residence as many as 12 times. Asked by Independent Television News if Fagan had explained why he did it, the lawyer said: "Yes, he wished to see Her Majesty the Queen." He said Fagan and the monarch talked about her family, and the queen mentioned her eldest son, Prince Charles. The conversation ended when a maid came into the room and Fagan was taken away, Nadeem said. The Standard newspaper, in its final afternoon edition, offered a new version of the palace security blunder, which has caused a furor in Parliament, the press and among the public. The paper said the 56-year-old monarch used her bedside telephone to raise the alarm when awakened by the intruder at about 7 a.m. Friday, but the palace police officer failed to realize the urgency of her message because she was so calm. "The first person to enter her room was a chambermaid 10 minutes after the intruder got in. Police arrived another eight minutes after that -- when the chambermaid had already led the man away. The chambermaid handed the man over to a footman..." the Standard said. The Standard explained the security lapse by saying an armed policeman had gone off duty outside the royal bedroom at 6 a.m., when members of the queen's personal staff arrive for work. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that the queen tried to push a "panic" button in her room but it failed to go off. Asked about the two reports, a Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are not prepared to discuss either of them." The original Daily Express account put the incident at 3 a.m. and said the queen chatted quietly with the man for 10 minutes before using his request for a cigarette as an excuse for summoning a footman who detained him. With Britain in an official flap over what one front page story termed a "national crisis," Fagan's mother was quoted as saying she would write to the queen to apologize. "I'm not saying my son would have hurt her. But if the queen had cried out and people burst in, what would have happened?" Ivy Fagan was quoted as telling the London Standard newspaper. "The way she handled it, to talk to him and keep calm, was absolutely marvelous. Now I plan to write to her to apologize. It's not very much, given what has happened, but what else can I do? I am deeply sorry," Mrs. Fagan was quoted as saying. Fagan's father, Michael Sr., said later Tuesday he was "shocked" when told his son had entered the queen's bedroom. Speaking from the family's state-subsidized apartment at Highbury, a London suburb five miles north of the palace, he told Independent Television News: "He's the kind of lad where, if someone came into his Mum's room and did the same thing, he'd go stark raving mad. Why he's done this, especially to the Queen... oh dear, oh dear. It's incredible." The elder Fagan said his son was not a "fanatical royalist," but admired the royal family. Mrs. Fagan said her son had not told the family he had been inside Buckingham Palace. "If he had, I would have laughed," she said. "We wouldn't have believed him." Her husband added: "Who would believe it if their boy came home and said 'I've popped in to see the Queen.'" Fagan's father said his son probably entered the palace for "bravado." "I don't think he minded getting caught. I bet he was telling the queen how bad the security is," he said. UFO attack "higher ups" # Sticks and stones . . . Environmental Protection Agency Director ANNE GORSUCH has troubles. Congress has been chasing her with a big stick of a contempt citation, and now she faces stones -- kidney stones, that is. EPA sources say that, fortunate-ly, hospital tests show no surgery will be needed. Now to take care of Congress. Sp Rev 1/7/83 # Dominican VP dies at 70 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Vice President Manuel Fernandez Marmol died Thursday at his home following a long illness, the government reported. He was 70. A government spokesman said Fernandez had undergone surgery several times. UFO attack "higher ups" Sp Rev 1/21/83 === Page 67 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 12/10/82 # Surinam regime executes political foes THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The military regime of Surinamese Desi Bouterse executed "a number" of opposition leaders arrested in army sweeps, and civilian members of his government have resigned, Dutch television reported Thursday. The Foreign Ministry summoned Surinamese ambassador Henk Herrenberg to express its "horror" at the reported executions on Wednesday. The opposition leaders were rounded up Tuesday night -- to avert "an imminent bloodbath," Bouterse said Wednesday on the state radio in the former Dutch colony on South America's north coast. "The message we got is that a number of people were executed. We have no numbers," said a Dutch Foreign Ministry source who declined to be identified. Identities of those reported executed were not available. During the Tuesday night roundup, the headquarters of Surinam's major union group, a newspaper and two radio stations were burned down. Telex and telephone contact with Paramaribo, the Surinamese capital of Tuesday, had still not been restored Thursday night, according to the Foreign Ministry source. UFO attack "higher ups" # world ### Britain to expel Russian? LONDON (AP) -- The government will expel the Soviet naval attaché in London for "inadmissible activities," the domestic news agency Press Association quoted Soviet diplomatic sources as saying Thursday night. The agency said "inadmissible activities" was normally a euphemism for spying. Press Association quoted the Soviet source, whom it did not name, as saying Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government has given Capt. Anatoli Pavlovich Zotov and his wife eight days to get out. The Foreign Office refused to comment on the reported expulsion order. Spok Rev 11/5/82 UFO attack "higher ups" # Irish government tossed out DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Prime Minister Charles Haughey's minority government fell Thursday after eight months in office, and President Patrick Hillery scheduled the third general election in 17 months for Nov. 24. Haughey lost a vote of confidence 82-80 in the Dail, the lower house of Parliament, after a heated two-day debate on a controversial austerity plan to rescue the economy. Most political commentators believe the results of elections in June 1981, last Feb. 18 were both inconclusive, with the major factions dependent on small left-wing independent parties to keep them in office. An opinion poll published last week in the authoritarian Irish Times put Haughey's party, Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny), even with Fine Gael (United Ireland), with 42 percent each. But former Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael was 22 percent more popular than Haughey. Fine Gael and the small Labor Party, which governed in coalition after the 1981 elections, are certain to form a new alliance in the coming poll. But together they had only 78 of the 166 seats in the outgoing Dail, compared to Fianna Fail's 81, and would have to pick up seven to win a majority. Haughey's administration has been bedeviled by political scandal, and the country's worst economic crisis since independence in 1922. The government fell only eight days after Parliament reconvened following a summer recess. Haughey was left vulnerable after one deputy from his party died two weeks ago, and another was hospitalized by heart attacks. The support of maverick right-winger Neil Blaney gave the government 80 votes, but three deputies of the Marxist Workers Party who had voted with the opposition since February voted with the opposition to protest proposed hefty cuts in the health services. 11/14/82 A4 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., Nov. 1 # Italian regime collapses after only 2 months Los Angeles Times UFO attack "higher ups" ROME -- Italy's 42nd government since World War II collapsed Saturday, after only two months in office, when President Sandro Pertini accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini. The acceptance ended a week-long crisis during which Pertini had once refused the government leader's request to quit and had asked Thursday that Parliament decide the government's future. But when parliamentary debate Friday night made it clear that Spadolini could not gain Socialist Party support for a vote of confidence in his five-party coalition he called a final Cabinet meeting Saturday and resubmitted his resignation to Pertini. === Page 68 of 92 UFO allack "higher w/es" Moscow draped in black as Soviets mourn leader Crop Pas 11/12/8h MOSCOW (AP) -/Soviet workers draped Mos ow with red and black flags of mourning for Leonid I. Brezhnev on Thursday and state radio iad television broadcast funeral dirges and ords of praise for the late Kremlin leader. Authorities appeared intent on projecting an image of orderly transition following the death of Brezhnev, who led the nation for 18 years. "It's hard for us, but we will survive," said one police captain a few moments after the death announcement Thursday morning. "Everything will remain in order." Television interrupted one of its concerts to show hundreds of workers at factories in Mos- cow, Kiev and Leningrad somberly holding pic- tures of Brezhney and listening to plant officials eulogize the dead president and Communist Par- ty chief. "In this bitter hour the working people of the Soviet Union gather even closer around the Communist Party," said an official at Kiev's Arsenal metal-working plant. Nearly continuous state radio and television broadcasts of funeral music created a mood matching Moscow's gray skies. Temperatures were unseasonably warm at 45 Fahrenheit. Extra police were posted in the city center, although the evening streets were virtually de- serted, as is typical of weeknights in Moscow. Restaurants and cafes were moderately be although music and dancing was banned thro Monday, the day of Brezhnev's funeral. Mo theaters continued to operate. Public buildings were draped with red f bordered in black, traditional mourning coli for a fallen Communist leader. Official portra of Brezhnev were hung outside the Tass ne agency and other state offices. Workmen were busy late at night draping and black bunting on the trade union Hall of c umns where Brezhnev's body will lie in sta Friday through Sunday. He will be laid to rest Red Square, beside the Kremlin wall. Many prominent Soviet leaders, including V dimir I. Lenin and Josef Stalin, lay in state Hall of Columns and were buried in Red Squar The renowned Bolshoi Theater, adjacent the Hall of Columns, was darkened a bedecked with four giant red and black flags. Laborers worked under blazing spotlights nearby Red Square to remove scaffolding erer ed for last Sunday's Revolution Day military p rade, which Brezhnev attended before addre ing a Kremlin reception, his last publ appearance. During the day Thursday, Moscow shoppe appeared little affected by the announcement the death. (Continued on page 2) A congressional source, asked not to be identified, said the trustees are expected to revise the fertility rate downward from 2.1 who of health and human services, al- ready has said the long-range defi- cit is expected to be higher than ex- pected to reflect "both the low birth rate and lack of real wage growth." But Richard S. Schweiker, who was one of the trustees until Thurs- day when he resigned as secretary Reagan's Cabinet. "For attack " higher ups" Rumors point to Brezhnev Russian report: A leader is dead MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet sources said Wednesday that an important figure in the Kremlin hierarchy had died, No one would Say who it was, but President Leonid I Brezhnev's name was missing from a state document he normally signs. In Washington, U.S. officials, who requested anonymity, said they were aware of "a lot of rumors in Moscow" that Brezhnev had died but had been unable to confirm them. The other names most frequently mentioned in rumors of a death in the aging leadership were those of Andrel P. Kirilenko, 76, and Arvid Y. Pelshe, 83. Brezhnev is 75. The rumors circulating around the capital did not focus on any one member of the governing 13-man Politburo. The state news media did not report any deaths among Soviet leaders, but there were unexplained changes in television programming. Spokes 11/11/82 Top officials of the Social Securi- ty Administration said that new es- timates for the long-term fertility rate and other assumptions are not yet in final form and have not been approved by Social Security's trus- tees, three members of President WASHINGTON (AP) - The trou- bled Social Security system may be in a deeper hole than thought, with a downward revision in birth rates likely to increase the system's long- term deficit by 16 percent, a con- gressional source said Friday. Social Security: A new worry UPOR attack "hinter "/" === Page 69 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Dominican president a suicide? New York Times Spok Rev 7/5/82 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - President Antonio Guzman, who was scheduled to leave office next month, died Sunday from a gunshot wound in the head. The government said Guzman's pistol had accidentally discharged, fatally wounding him. Privately, high government officials said the 71-year-old president had committed suicide in the bathroom of his office, but they offered no explanation of why he might have done so. Vice President Jacobo Majluta Azar was sworn in as president by the chief justice shortly after dawn. He immediately issued a statement reaffirming that his government will transfer power to president-elect Salvador Jorge Blanco, the winner of the May 16 elections, as scheduled Aug. 16. On hand to back Majluta's statement were all the country's generals, who had assembled at the National Palace shortly after the shooting. Guzman, who was elected president in 1978, received a single bullet in the head while he was in his office in the National Palace an hour before midnight. He was taken to a military hospital, where he died about 5:30 a.m. When news of his death reached the palace, one of the generals asked Majluta to join them, and less than an hour later he was sworn into office while a dozen generals and journalists watched the ceremony. UFO attack "higher ups" ## Economic adviser resigns WASHINGTON (AP) - Jerry L. Jordan, a member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, resigned his post on Thursday, citing personal reasons. Jordan, 40, one of the administration's leading "monetarists" - advocates of a tight-money policy to combat inflation - will leave the council July 31 to rejoin his family in New Mexico. Associates said Jordan's family did not accompany him to Washington when he joined the administration in early 1981, and his commuting arrangement proved unsatisfactory. Spok Rev 7/3/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan's pal is sued for 'palimony' Spok Rev 7/9/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Alfred Bloomingdale, a close friend and adviser to President Reagan, was sued Thursday by a woman seeking $5 million in "palimony," saying she was the millionaire's companion for 12 years. Vicki Morgan, 29, whose suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by celebrity lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, said she had been "traveling companion, confidante and business partner" to Bloomingdale since she was 17 years old. Bloomingdale, 66, founder of the Diners Club Corp. and heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune, is a member of Reagan's so-called "kitchen cabinet" of advisors. He and his wife, Betsy, prominent in Los Angeles society, have hosted many parties for Reagan and his wife, Nancy, on their trips to the West Coast. The Bloomingdales have three children. Bloomingdale could not immediately be located for comment. Ms. Morgan's suit said Bloomingdale paid her support, sometimes as much as $18,000 a month, and made her a partner in profitable businesses including a firm called Show Biz Pizza. Mitchelson, best known for the landmark palimony case of Michelle Triola Marvin against actor Lee Marvin, said Ms. Morgan was cut off financially by Bloomingdale last month. "Unlike in the Marvin case, Ms. Morgan has some signed agreements with Bloomingdale," Mitchelson said. The documents, he said, include an agreement to pay her support of as much as $10,000 a month. Mitchelson said Ms. Morgan was hesitant to file her suit because Bloomingdale has been hospitalized recently, although he did not say what Bloomingdale was suffering from. "She hates to do this because she loves him, but she has no choice," Mitchelson said. He said Ms. Morgan had given up chances for employment over the years because of her agreement with Bloomingdale. In the past, he said, she has worked as a model and actress with some roles in Hollywood movies. The suit said that although Bloomingdale and Ms. Morgan never had a live-in relationship, Bloomingdale had a "second home" with her in Beverly Hills and served as a "second father" to her son by another man. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Farm champ a cheater COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State Rep. Danny Bundrick, the 1981 Jaycee Outstanding Young Farmer in the Nation, agreed Monday to plead guilty to defrauding the government on farm loans and crop disaster relief, U.S. Attorney Henry Dargan McMaster said. The Orangeburg Democrat also agreed to pay back more than $700,000 he received fraudulently from government programs, plus interest. Bundrick, who lost a re-election bid in the June 8 primary, also agreed to place his farm, farm equipment and his personal vehicles under lien to the federal government. The government would take over the property, estimated to be worth more than $500,000, if he fails to pay back the money in five years. House Speaker Ramon Schwartz Jr. said he received a resignation letter from Bundrick early Monday. McMaster said papers he filed in federal court charged Bundrick with, among other things, lying on crop disaster relief applications and making false statements on an indemnity claim for a corn crop he had said was smaller than it actually was. Bundrick faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $25,000. He will be sentenced later, McMaster said in a three-page statement. Spok Rev 7/13/82 === Page 70 of 92 PO+ attack "higheruf" anama's Rovo resigns, Washington Post Spoke Rev 7/31/82 MEXICO CITY - Panamanian President Aristides Royo resigned unexpectedly Fri- day, citing health reasons. Vice President Ri- cardo de la Espriella was sworn in as chief executive by the speaker of the national leg- islature, to whom Royo submitted his resig- nation. Although there was no immediate indica- tion of political motivation for the 42-year- old Royo's "irrevocable resignation," his de- parture can be expected to affect internal tensions that have built up recently and it could influence regional efforts to negotiate an end to conflicts in Central America. In the letter to the legislature, Royo said: "I present my irrevocable resignation as president of the republic due to health prob- lemas that make a medical checkup necessary and prevent me from continuing in this posi- tion with all the responsibilities it entails." Friends ot itoyo said he had trouble with his throat and was expected to seek treatment in the United States. Royo's declaration came one day short of a year after the death in an air crash of the strongman who effectively put him in office, general Omar Torrijos. The then newly elected legislature had des- ignated Royo and de la Espriella president and vice president for six-year terms in 1978 following Torrijos' decision to retire as head of state. However, he kept his job as com- mander of the National Guard, which is the only military force in the nation of 2 million people. Command of the guard is still widely considered to be the most powerful post in Panama. Torrijos, who ran this country with a blend of social conscience, questionable practices and Machiavellian pragmatism for 13 years, had been widely expected to run in presiden- blames health tial elections scheduled for 1984. Royo, meanwhile, came to be considered the leader of leftist elements in Panama's government. He was a constant critic of U.S. implementation of the canal treaties, often accusing Washington of hundreds of techni- cal violations. Internationally, he was re. garded as a key link with Cuba in efforts to talk out the worsening regional confronta- tions. But Royo, a Panama City lawyer and for- mer education minister, was also seen by many of his countrymen as a frequently inef- fectual administrator who had no strong con- stituency of his own. De la Espriella, on the other hand, has extensive backing both among business interests and the National Guard. Frictions between Royo and the current commanders of the guard have been report- ed and rumored since Torrijos was killed. Royo was reported to have tendered his res- ignation the day after Torrijos's death but the commanders of the Guard declined to ac. cept it at the time. In the vacuum created by Torrijos's disap- pearance from the scene, two men have em- erged with their hands on the reins of power that the 10,000 troops of the guard represent: Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, commander-in- chief since March, and Col. Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the guard's intelligence aparatus. Paredes has been edging toward a bid for the presidency in recent months, and two weeks ago he openly undercut Royo's admin- istration by saying that the people should have a chance to vote before 1984. The somewhat mysterious and widely feared Noriega, meanwhile, is generally ex- pected to succeed Paredes as head of the Na- tional Guard. UFO attend Highland A very short cruise BALTIMORE (AP) - The Coast Guard cutter Gallatin was just starting a cruise for White House and congressional staff members when the vessel went aground in Curtis Bay, breaking both propellers. "It was really embarrassing," said Cmdr. Paul Potter, the Coast Guard's new liaison offi- cer with the Senate. The Gallatin traveled about 360 yards last week before becoming stuck and blocking traffic On a drawbridge above it. sub 7/82 UFO1 attack Higher 200 Bomb kills PLO official in France Spok Bev 7/82 PARIS (AP tine Liber- Dani's car and then fied in another vehi- ation Organization's No. 2 man in cle. France, who recently asked police to withdraw their protection, was killed Friday by a bomb that demolished his car as he left home to go to work. Police said the explosion occurred moments after Fadel el Dani, 37, got into the car alone. He was deputy direc- tor of the PLO office opened here seven years ago No group claimed responsibility. There were no other Injuries in the bombing, the latest in a series of at- tacks against Palestinian officials in France in the past 10 years. Details of the explosion were unclear. Police were trying to determine if a bomb was planted in Dani's car of if he was ambushed. There were conflicting claiming three men threw a boinb into reports from witnesses, with some Dani had not requested that police Ibrahim Souss, director of the PLO office, said Dani recently had told French police he no longer wanted them to guard him. Souss did not say when the protection stopped. "He thought that only the director of the PLO's office would be in danger," said Souss, who has police protection. Souss' predecessor, Ezzedine Kalak, was killed along with an aide Auges, 1978 in his office by two Jordanians of Palestinian origia. Residents in the quiet working class neighborhood here Dani lived and died said the PLO representative had 24- hour armes police guards at his home until this spring. A spokesman at the PLO office said guards return even after his Italian counterpart was killed last month in a car bomb assassination. Kamal Hussein, deputy director of the PLO office in Rome, was killed June 17 when a car he was driving blew up five minutes after he pulled it out of his garage on his way to his downtown office. The PLO has charged that Israell agents were behind both of the car bombings. The Israeli Embassy in Paris "cate- gorically rejected" Souss' claim that his aide's death "came at the criminal hands of Israelis." The attack came only three days af- ter 16 people were injured when a bomb went off outside a cafe near Notre Dame Cathedral. That explosion was claimed by Armenian guerrillas. === Page 71 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" Spoh Rev 11/5/82 # Gunmen on motorcycle murder Spanish general MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Two men on a motorcycle assassinated a top Spanish general in a hail of submachine-gun fire Thursday as he was being driven to work on a busy residential street near Madrid's Arch of Triumph. The attack took place an hour after Pope John Paul II left the capital. Gen. Victor Lago Roman, 63-year-old commander of the elite Brunete First Armored Division who spurned bodyguards, was killed outright, the Madrid civilian governor's office said. His soldier-driver suffered slight wounds. POLICE SAID THEY believed the assassins were Basque terrorists, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Investigators said they found 16 9mm parabellum shell casings lying near the general's black sedan. The ammunition is the type used in the past by ETA-M, the radical military wing of the Basque separatist organization. The gunmen sped away through traffic, witnesses told police. Socialist Premier-elect Felipe Gonzalez called the killing "a provocation." He said that if the attackers were trying to challenge "the new majority chosen by the Spanish people," his government would "use all means at the disposal of the democratic state to do away with the scourge of terrorism." Gonzalez and his Socialist Workers' Party won an overwhelming victory a week ago in general elections that guaranteed them a majority in Parliament for the first time in Spanish history. GONZALEZ SAID after the victory that "pacification" of the Basque region and banishing Spain's "coup mentality" would be Socialist priorities. The victory was officially certified Thursday. The Socialists are scheduled to take power after King Juan Carlos convenes the new Parliament at the end of November. The pope, on a 10-day visit to Spain, departed from a prepared text during a Mass in Toledo to pray for "the latest victim -- all the victims of terrorism in Spain." He said he prayed Spain would be freed from "the phenomenon of terrorism." The pontiff, who had left Madrid by plane for Guadalupe an hour before the 8:35 a.m. attack, was informed of the killing in Guadalupe during his first stop of the day. POLICE SAID LAGO Roman, a career officer who enlisted in the Spanish army at the outset of the 1936-39 civil war and fought with the famous Blue Division on the Russian Front, drove the same route to work every day, flying his commander's flag. They said he spurned armed escorts. His hat, folded gloves and swagger stick lay neatly in the back seat of his bullet-punctured car as it was towed away. Gen. Prudencio Pedrosa Sobrado, who succeeds Lago Roman as commander of the Brunete division, said the army hoped the government would "take the necessary measures to finish once and for all with this situation." "The role of the armed forces is to defend the integrity of the fatherland, and we shall respect the established constitutional order," he said. **Gen. Victor Lago Roman was shot to death on busy street in Madrid** # Palermo Mafia boss slain PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -- Domenico Bova, one of the last figures of the "Old Palermo Mafia" involved in bloody episodes 20 years ago, was shot to death Thursday night by an unidentified gunman, police said. Bova, 70, died instantly of four shots to the head while shopping at a grocery store, investigators said. The killer fled in a car that was found burning later in a nearby street, they added. Bova and his two brothers were sentenced to jail terms for a series of crimes during a bloody gang war that claimed more than 30 lives in southern Italy's Catanzaro province and Sicily between 1959 and 1963. Spoh Rev 12/3/82 # Irish socialist killed DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Jim Flynn, 27, a senior member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, was killed by two gunmen in downtown Dublin Friday in what police sources said was a feud between rival factions of the Marxist movement allied to the Irish Republican Army. No organization has claimed responsibility for the slaying. It is the latest in a string of recent attacks on prominent figures in the Irish Republican Socialist Party and its military wing, the outlawed Irish National Liberation Army. # A rest for Richard Following hospital rest, Rep. RICHARD BOLLING, who has undergone two operations this month to clear arteries to the brain, says he plans to return to Washington to complete his 17th and last session in Congress. "I get elected for a term and I serve out that term. If I were completely incapacitated, that would be different. I feel fine," the Missouri Democrat said. Bolling is chairman of the House Rules Committee. "I'm totally mystified by the whole of modern medicine... It gives you a second shot, a second round," he said of his operations. UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" Spoh Rev 11/9/82 # Federal official charged LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A State Department official was arraigned in federal court Monday on a charge of cocaine smuggling following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport. Stirling M. Johnson, a fisheries officer with the department's Bureau of Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Joseph Reichmann and released on $30,000 appearance bond, said Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Williams. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration statement released here Monday said Johnson, 32, carrying a diplomatic passport, was arrested Saturday based on information developed by DEA in Lima, Peru, from which he was arriving. The statement alleged Johnson had about 2.2 pounds of cocaine hidden in his shoes, around his ankles and in plastic talcum powder containers in his luggage. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ex-lawmaker goes to prison ALLENWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Frederick W. Richmond of Brooklyn began serving a one-year prison term Monday at the federal prison camp here, hurrying in a back door to avoid reporters and cameras. Richmond, 59, pleaded guilty in August to income tax evasion, marijuana possession and giving an illegal gratuity to a federal employee. Richmond agreed to resign from Congress and end his re-election effort under a plea agreement. Spoh Rev 12/7/82 === Page 72 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Top Israelis implicated in Palestinian massacre SP Star 2/9/83 JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli judicial commission on the Beirut massacre called Tuesday for the ouster of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of "blunders" that set the stage for the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians. The panel's explosive report, which also rebuked Prime Minister Menachem Begin, rocked Israel's political structure and touched off speculation about early elections at a time when U.S. pressure is mounting for new Israeli concessions toward a Middle East peace. Begin and his Cabinet met for two hours without a decision on Sharon's status, and scheduled another meeting for today. The three-man commission of inquiry said Israeli leaders should have foreseen that allowing Lebanese Christian militiamen into two Beirut refugee camps last September was an invitation to tragedy. Hundreds of Palestinians subsequently were slain by the militiamen. An official Lebanese investigation has yet to bring any of the killers to justice. "No prophetic powers were required to know that concrete danger of acts of slaughter existed," said the commission report. It also called for the resignation of the head of Israel's military intelligence, and condemned the military chief of staff. It accused Begin of showing "indifference" to the threat of a massacre in Beirut, but recommended no action against him. Political uncertainty threatened to linger for days here as the Cabinet grappled with the devastating report. Israel radio broadcast reports that Sharon was refusing to quit or accept an alternative Cabinet post. But a Cabinet source said almost all the 20 ministers, including Sharon, favored endorsing the findings. The chairman of Begin's ruling coalition, Avraham Shapira, said after meeting with Begin, however, that the prime minister would not demand Sharon's resignation. (Continued on page 5) ARIEL SHARON Urged to quit === Page 73 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Lockheed's ex-chairman slain VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) -- The retired board chairman of Lockheed Corp. was shot to death along with his wife and housekeeper by intruders who broke into their Main Line mansion, police said Friday. The victims were identified as Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, his wife, Alexandra, 72, and their live-in housekeeper, Catherine VanderVeur, 69. A roofing contractor who arrived at the four-acre estate Friday morning discovered one of the bodies, said Lt. John Sheenan, commanding officer of the Lower Merion Township detectives. "He noticed that there was a body on the floor near the back door of the house," Sheenan said. When police arrived, they found three bodies, including one near the back door. Salvatore Frustaci, deputy superintendent of the Lower Merion Township Police Department, said, "There was evidence of forced entry to the home. There's no question we are dealing with a triple homicide. As to motive, that's sketchy right now." The three "died as a result of gunshot wounds," Frustaci said, but he declined to say how many times they had been shot. Deputy Montgomery County Coroner Carl Hofheinz said the bodies were taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital for autopsies. The Gross estate, valued at $500,000, is on Philadelphia's suburban Main Line, an area west of the city known for secluded mansions. The two-story, French-style stucco home is located behind the home of Dr. Richard A. Davis, brother of first lady Nancy Reagan, according to Sonia Peltz, a neighbor. "That's what shook everybody up," Ms. Peltz said. "The road is under surveillance." However, Mary Ann Gordon, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, said the house is not under protection of her agency and would not be except during a visit by the president or his immediate family. Another neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said she thought she heard a shot in the middle of the night, but paid no attention because people frequently hunt in the area. During an afternoon news conference, Frustaci refused to discuss whether the house, which is set back from the main road by a 430-foot driveway, had been ransacked. Spok. Rev. July '82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Palimony suit names Nancy's friend Los Angeles Times -- Spok Rev 7/30/82 LOS ANGELES -- Betsy Bloomingdale, often described as First Lady Nancy Reagan's best friend, was sued Wednesday for $5 million punitive damages for her alleged "malice" and "jealousy" in cutting off financial support to her husband's 29-year-old lover. Bloomingdale was added as a defendant in a palimony suit filed July 8 by Vicki Morgan against Alfred Bloomingdale, Diner's Club founder and a long-time member of President Reagan's "kitchen Cabinet" of political advisers. One of her contractural duties in return for Bloomingdale's support checks, Morgan said in the amended suit, was "to act as therapist to help (Bloomingdale) overcome his Marquis de Sade complex." Sadism, defined as "the getting of sexual pleasure from dominating, mistreating or hurting one's partner" or "the getting of pleasure from inflicting physical or psychological pain on another or others," derives from the Marquis de Sade, who died in 1814. Marvin M. Mitchelson, attorney for Morgan, claimed that Betsy Bloomingdale interfered with oral and written contracts in which her husband had agreed to support Morgan. The interference by her, according to the suit, "was committed by her in jealousy of Alfred Bloomingdale's love and affection for and devotion toward (Morgan) and in resentment of the benefits received and the happiness enjoyed by defendant Alfred Bloomingdale." A spokesman at the Bloomingdales' Beverly Hills home said that Betsy Bloomingdale was unavailable Wednesday and that there will be no comment on the revised lawsuit. The 66-year-old Bloomingdale had faithfully sent Morgan a monthly check for up to $18,000 until June, according to Mitchelson. He said Morgan was then informed that no more checks would be delivered. Mitchelson claimed that Betsy Bloomingdale had halted Morgan's support checks when her husband became ill. After he met Morgan, then a teenager, in 1970, Bloomingdale agreed to support her for life and to provide a house for her, an agreement often repeated verbally and in letters, according to the suit. Early this year, the suit claims, he agreed in writing to split profits of a pizza business with her. The amended suit also claims that Bloomingdale promised in a written contract Feb. 12 to pay Morgan "$10,000 a month for two years beginning March 1982 ... from the proceeds of his profit from Marina Bay," one of Bloomingdale's real estate developments. In exchange, Morgan was to become Bloomingdale's "confidante, traveling companion, and business partner with respect to real estate investments," obligations that she claims to have fulfilled. The therapist duty, which Morgan also claims she fulfilled faithfully, was alleged for the first time Wednesday in the revised suit. The current suit seeks $180,000 for lost income from the Marina Bay contract, $1 million for Morgan's share of Showbiz Pizza and $5 million for her lifetime support. The additional $5 million punitive damages is sought solely from Betsy Bloomingdale. The case is based on California's sanction of "palimony," in which unmarried couples have community property contract rights, a principle originally won by Mitchelson. === Page 74 of 92 Gorsuch expecting the worst By JEFF SHER Spokesman-Review Anne Gorsuch, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said Friday in Spokane that she is ready to go to jail if need be to defend her refusal to release documents sought by a congressional committee. "All I can say is that I have a lot of reading I haven't done for the last couple of years and my toothbrush is packed," Gorsuch told a Northwest Mining Association meeting. Minutes before her speech at the Davenport Hotel, Gorsuch learned that the House Public Works Committee had voted 28-11 to cite her for contempt of Congress. (Related story above.) The citation comes as a result of Gorsuch's refusal to release documents subpoenaed by a subcommittee of the Public Works Committee investigating EPA's program to clean up hazardous waste dump sites. If the full House approves the contempt citation, Gorsuch could face criminal prosecution and jail. Gorsuch is expecting the worst. "It is fair to say the Democratic-controlled Congress of the United States will vote to find me in contempt," she said. However, she added, "The President has told me not to release those documents and I intend to stand firm." The documents in question involve cases EPA is investigating or litigating, Gorsuch said. At a press conference following her speech, Gorsuch said one of the documents, entitled "Litigation Strategy at Love Canal," contains information that if known to defendants in the case would "seriously impair our ability to win the case." Gorsuch said the issue is not whether congressmen would act responsibly with the information or whether they would release it to defendants. "The issue is control," or whether the executive branch must reveal all details of its activities to congressional overseers, she said. Gorsuch criticized Congress for being able to find the time to pursue the contempt citation while it hasn't been able to find the time to finish work on the federal budget. "I find it mind-boggling," she said. Only three of 13 major appropriations bills have been passed so far, she said. Gorsuch also ripped Congress for failing to pass amendments to the Clean Air Act that would extend deadlines requiring industries and counties to meet air quality standards. The act expires Dec. 31, 1982, but will remain in effect as is if not amended. Without changes, the act requires the EPA administrator to impose one of several sanctions on industries and counties not meeting the standards by the end of this month. Spokane County faces the sanctions because it will not meet standards for carbon monoxide or total suspended particulate pollution by the deadline, county air pollution control officials told The Spokesman-Review this week. Gorsuch said there are several sanctions she could impose: * A ban on construction of major industrial sources of pollution in the county, or changes at major sources. (Continued on page 2) Contempt vote goes against EPA chief WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House Public Works Committee voted 28 to 11 Friday to cite Anne M. Gorsuch, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has been withholding 1,000 documents from Congress on President Reagan's orders, for contempt of Congress. If Mrs. Gorsuch and the committee do not work out a compromise, as is usually the case in such tugs-of-war between the congressional and executive branches of the government, the entire House could be asked to vote the administrator in contempt for defying a subpoena for the documents. Conviction on such a charge carries a maximum penalty of $1,000 in fines and a year in jail. The documents are being sought for the panel's investigation into charges that the EPA is not holding major chemical companies liable for their full share of cleanup costs at some major hazardous waste dump sites. The vote came after the committee rejected a last-minute proposal by the administration that would have allowed a task force of administration officials to review the documents dealing with EPA's toxic waste cleanup program to determine if the papers should be turned over. The committee vote was almost entirely along party lines. Man convicted of assaulting Justice White SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Newton C. Estes, an anti-busing and pornography crusader, was convicted of assault Friday for punching Supreme Court Justice Byron White during a Bar Association meeting here last July. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for just over two hours before returning the verdict. The 57-year-old construction estimator from nearby Kaysville was released on recognizance after U.S. District Judge David K. Winder set sentencing for Jan. 14. Estes could be sentenced to up to three years in jail and fined up to $5,000 on the charge of assault on a justice. Before adjourning the trial, Winder paused a few moments and leveled his gaze at Estes. "You didn't use a weapon, but I think this kind of conduct has no place in our system. It's absolutely ridiculous," Winder said. Record jobless claims WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 6.27 million Americans were collecting jobless benefits in the week ending Jan. 1, the highest level since the program began in 1935, the government reported on Thursday. The record-level payment of claims by the government, largely to workers recently thrown out of work, however, is due partly to an emergency federal jobless benefit program enacted by Congress last August in response to the year-old recession. At that time, the === Page 75 of 92 world "hinteryes" Italian government tottering ROME (AP) - Premier Giovanni Spadolini's key Socialist Party coalition partners resigned Friday, endangering Italy's fist postwar gov. ernment. Spadolini met with President Sandro Pertini about his political future and called a Cabinet meeting for today to announce whether or not he'll.step down. The 57-year-old Republican be- came Italy's first non-Christian Democrat pre- mier since 1945 when he formed his five-party government 14 months ago. In a brief statement released after a party caucus, the Socialists said their seven ministers: quit the 28-member Cabinet because other coall- tion parties falled to support a Socialist tax bill in the lower house of Parliament. Stock Real 8/7/82 Um attack "higher where" Coalition collapses; Italy again in crisis By DON A. SCHANCHE Spek Aus 8/8/8- Los Angeles Times ROME - Italy's 41st post-World War II government collapsed Saturday following a surprise crisis in which the Socialist Party pulled out of the five-party ruling coalition. Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini, whose 405 days marked one of the longest periods in office since 1945 submitted his resignation to President Sandro Pertini after an emergency Cabinet meeting, boycotted by the. Socialists, Saturday afternoon. Expressing hope that a new government can be formed soon without calling for general elections, Per- tini said he would begin consultations Monday aimed at patching together another coalition. Political ob- servers expected him to ask Spadolini, who has been a popular and unusually successful prime minister, to head a caretaker government in the meantime. The 57-year-old Spadolini, a member of the small Republican Party, was a victim of a long-running feud between the dominant Christian Democratic Party and the Socialists, the two major partners in the coalition. A power struggle between the two parties brought the government close to collapse twice before this year. The other, smaller coalition parties are the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the Republicans. Pertini's chance of building another non-Communist consensus that will prevent the mainstream Christian Democrats from dominating the government as they have since World War II, will depend on his ability to talk the Socialists into rejoining the coalition, accord- ing to political analysts. If Socialist Party leader Bettino Craxi refuses, the government crisis will continue until the president calls for new elections. This is a step most Italian po- litical leaders have said they would like to avoid. Craxi's position concerning new elections, however, re- mains uncertain. The Socialist leader had indicated in the spring that he might favor early elections because he sensed a chance to increase the roughly 10 percent of the popu- lar vote his party won in the last elections, A strong showing would guarantee not only more than the pres- ent 62 Socialist seats in the 630-member Chamber of Deputies, but would increase Socialist representation in the Cabinet and possibly give Craxi the prime minis- ter's post as well. UFO, attack "higher why" Spokane, Wash., Sat., Aug. 21, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 Trudeau's rail car pelted with rocks, eggs SUDBURY, Ont. (AP) - Angry dem- onstrators pelted Prime Minister PI- erre Trudeau's railroad car with rocks, eggs and tomatoes when it stopped briefly in this failing company town late Thursday as he returned home from a Rocky Mountain vacation. Many in the crowd of an estimated 500 people ran toward the prime minis- ter's train car late Thursday night shouting, "Trudeau must go!" and "Go home!" Trudeau stayed inside his compart- ment during the brief stop in Sudbury, which has 40 percent unemployment the highest jobless rate in metropolitan Canada. They said none of the protesters were arrested and the prime minister was unharmed. Two windows in the train were broken. Trudeau's railroad car also was hit by eggs and tomatoes at several stops in western Canada earlier this week, but the Thursday night protest was the first in which rocks have been thrown. Among the more militant protesters was a man who provided demonstrators with eggs embellished with stamps of a rude hand gesture, similar to the one Trudeau flashed to an angry crowd at Salmon Arm, B.C., last week. Most of Sudbury's jobs come from the Inco Ltd., the world's second-largest nickel refinery. But the factory is in its second month of a three-month shut- down following a strike by the steel- workers union in June. === Page 76 of 92 UFDs attack "higher ups" # Rep. Dornan says 7 implicated ## Heckler urges the speaker of the House to appoint an investigator By JAY PERKINS Associated Press Spok. Rev. 7/9/82 WASHINGTON - Rep. Robert K. Dornan, who allowed his congressional office to be used by an undercover narcotics agent, is saying his sources tell him that six current members of the House and one senator have been implicated by others as users of cocaine. Some of those come from Massachusetts, New York and California. Dornan also contends that allegations of homosexual activities with congressional pages have been made against two of the supposed cocaine users. One congressional source, who declined to be identified, agreed Thursday that the separate investigations of sex and drugs "could mesh" at some point. The California Republican made the allegation in a confidential letter urging a House committee to conduct its own probe of cocaine use by members of Congress, according to syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. DORNAN COULD NOT be reached for comment but his office acknowledged that he had sent such a letter to Rep. Leo Zeferetti, chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. One House committee - the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly know as the ethics committee - already has started its own investigation of the allegations that some congressmen have been using cocaine and that others allegedly were involved in homosexual sex with the young pages who carry messages for Congress. The ethics committee already has named Donald A. Purdy Jr., a 31-year-old lawyer, to head those investigations. In addition, Rep. Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., on Thursday called on House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., to name an independent investigator. SHE SAID THE charges were "so utterly shocking and bizarre as to pose a serious challenge to public confidence" in Congress. A spokesman for O'Neill's office responded that the speaker felt that the ethics committee was the proper authority to decide on how the investigation should be conducted. Dornan said in his letter that he was urging a separate investigation by the narcotics committee, a panel on which he serves, because he feared federal law enforcement officials would concentrate on the pushers and ignore the users of cocaine in Congress. Dornan, citing what he called investigative sources, told Zeferetti that seven current members of Congress and two former members have been named by at least three separate sources as users of cocaine. Another half-dozen names also have been the subject of similar allegations, he said. HE SAID THREE of the nine members were from California, one was from New York, one from Massachusetts, and one from a state in the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Dornan did not list the state of the senator nor the states of the two former congressmen. "Additionally, I have been told that the names of two members of Congress mentioned above have been brought up in connection with an FBI investigation concerning alleged homosexual activities with congressional pages," Dornan said. UFDs attack "higher ups" Spok. Rev. 7/7/82 # Capitol probe turns to drugs New York Times WASHINGTON - Federal and congressional authorities investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use involving Capitol pages and members of Congress said Tuesday that the sexual charges had not yet been substantiated but that the drug charges appeared more serious. "Where there's smoke there's smoke, as far as the sex charges are concerned," said a congressional official familiar with the investigation. He added, however, that with regard to the drug charges, "there may be a small fire." Rep. Robert D. Dornan, R-Calif., said that his Capitol Hill office had been used earlier this year as a base by an undercover narcotics agent. Dornan said that investigators were probing the alleged use of cocaine by "half a dozen" congressmen. Three separate investigations are being conducted, apparently with little coordination. A federal grand jury here is investigating the drug charges; the Justice Department's public integrity section and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are focusing on the sex charges; and the House Ethics Committee is investigating the entire range of charges, including allegations that cocaine was used by members of Congress to seduce pages into homosexual relationships. Pages are high school students, 14-18 years old, who are appointed by senators and House members to serve as messengers and to perform a variety of chores. The Senate has 30 pages and the House 71. They earn salaries on the basis of $9,090 annually, but usually work only nine or 10 months a year. The allegations of sexual misconduct were made last month by two former pages, Leroy Williams of Little Rock, and Jeff Opp of Denver. The drug charges stem from an undercover investigation. A task force of federal drug agents and District of Columbia police officers arrested three men in April on charges of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it. One of the men was a former page, and another has reportedly implicated two members of Congress from California in his testimony before the Grand Jury. Spokesmen for the two representatives have denied the charges. === Page 77 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Argentina's Falkland commanders removed Washington Post Spok Rev 7/28/82 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Gen. Mario Benjamin Menendez and four other generals who commanded Argentine troops on the Falkland Islands have been removed from their posts in the army in a move the commander-in-chief described as the prelude to a major military shake-up. The commander, Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, who has struggled to control widespread unrest in the army this month, announced the action Monday night. He said the high command had decided to "rapidly restructure the army" in order to stabilize its ranks and "professionalize" its operations. The army command also announced the replacement of two colonels, eight lieutenant colonels and 10 majors. Most were stationed on the Falklands as field commanders after Argentina's April 2 invasion, officials said. The extensive reassignment of commanders comes at a time when Argentina's armed forces remain sharply divided over the invasion and the course of military rule. The continued feuding is regarded as a growing threat to the army government of Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, which has been unable to gain public confidence for its emergency economic program or its planned 18-month transition to civilian government. In the army, according to well-informed sources, field commanders generally have been matched against their staff colleagues and superiors in Buenos Aires in the determination of how Argentina failed. Some brigade generals and many junior officers also are reported to be deeply unhappy with the top rank of military commanders, including Nicolaides. Menendez, the three other brigade generals and two colonels temporarily were assigned to Nicolaides for "review of orders" -- a measure that Nicolaides said did not indicate a judgment of blame against them for Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 11-week conflict. The action was interpreted by military observers here Tuesday as an effort by Nicolaides to cool tensions in the army and consolidate his own command while a special commission continues an investigation of the conduct of Menendez and other officers in the failed campaign, which cost Argentina close to 2,000 casualties. UFOs attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 7/31/82 # Chinese attache kills nine in embassy JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- A Chinese attache, possibly enraged because he was denied a transfer home, killed nine other staff members in a shooting spree inside his nation's embassy in Maputo, reports from the Mozambique capital said Friday. Ambassador Wang Jichuan was not harmed in the attack Thursday, according to Mozambique Radio and the country's official news agency AIM. The gunman was not identified and details were sketchy. It was not clear whether the killer was arrested or how the incident ended. Police surrounded the embassy after being alerted by a staff member at the mission. AIM was quoted as saying by the Portuguese news agency ANOP. The ANOP dispatch, reaching Lisbon on Friday, was filed from Maputo. Quoting unidentified diplomatic sources in Maputo, the Portuguese agency said the attacker was an attache at the embassy. The report cited speculation in Maputo that the killer had either "gone crazy" or flown into a rage at having been refused a transfer back to China after spending seven years in Mozambique post. Seven of the victims died at the scene, and the other two died Friday morning, ANOP said. One of the victims was reported to be a diplomat. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Panamanian officials quit after shakeup Spok Rev 8/2/82 PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Senior government officials agreed to quit Saturday in line with a shakeup ordered by the powerful National Guard following the resignation of President Aristides Royo. Opposition leaders welcomed the power shuffle but denounced the National Guard commander, Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, for shutting down Panama's eight newspapers for a week. "The reality is that the National Guard has deposed the president and imposed a program on his successor," said a statement signed by six opposition parties. Royo, 42, resigned Friday, saying he was stepping down because of a throat ailment. The National Guard is Panama's only military force and a major power in domestic affairs. Paredes has asked for the resignations of all high-ranking officials of Royo's administration. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Spok Rev 7/29/82 ## Watt admits 'mistake' NEW YORK (AP) -- Interior Secretary James G. Watt admitted Wednesday he had "made a mistake" in writing a controversial letter to the Israeli ambassador to the United States, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said. Watt met with leaders of the league at its headquarters here. The organization issued a statement in which it quoted Watt as saying that American Jews had "every right to be upset" about the letter. The letter, which came to light last week, was written June 17 and was addressed to Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens. In it, Watt discussed the Reagan administration's efforts to promote energy development. "If the liberals of the Jewish community join with the other liberals of this nation to oppose these efforts, they will weaken our ability to be a good friend of Israel. Your supporters in America need to know these facts," said Watt in the letter. === Page 78 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Tues., July 27, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Another sex scandal in the capital? NEW YORK (AP) - Prostitution rings are providing young boys to customers in Washington and then selling information about their clients' sexual preferences to foreign intelligence services, a private investigator testified Monday. Dale Smith, working for the New York Senate's Select Committee on Crime, said he learned that British, Israeli and Soviet agents bought information from several call services in Washington. The witness appeared before the committee at the opening of a two-day hearing on prostitution among young males and on pornography. Smith said an accountant for five call services told him about the information sale to foreign agents. He refused to elaborate on the allegations when questioned by reporters, but committee counsel Jeremiah McKenna said the information concerned "government officials." He declined to be more specific. "They're making more money selling information than on the prostitution itself," McKenna said. Allegations of sex and drug use on Capitol Hill among congressmen, pages and other employees have circulated in Washington recently. Smith also said that "call service operation in Washington have some connection with organized crime in New York." He described how male prostitutes between the ages of 13 and 16 were shuttled between the cities and said the going rate for boys ranges from $50 to $250, with younger boys commanding the most. Spokane, Wash., Thurs., # Plea made for space program funding SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Retiring Johnson Space Center director Christopher C. Kraft Jr. said Wednesday the Reagan administration should spend more money for space research instead of bombers and missiles. Kraft, who played a key role in the U.S. manned space program and in development of the space shuttle, made the comment at a farewell news conference. "I don't understand how this country can spend $222 billion in the next 3½ to 4 years on the B-1 bomber and the MX missile and not be willing to spend another half-billion dollars per year on the space program," he said. Kraft, 58, announced Tuesday he would leave the space agency on Saturday. He announced earlier this year he intended to retire in November and the earlier departure came as a surprise. "It's time for a new leader," he explained. Kraft said the next major challenge is the establishment of a permanent orbiting base, a concept he has been proposing for years. Kraft said he plans to continue to be active in the space program and will become a consultant "very soon" for Rockwell International, the prime contractor for the space program. Asked if there was ever a time when he was concerned about astronauts dying in space, he noted, "Most of the gray hair I have attests to the fact that we came damn close on a couple of occasions." He said two astronauts almost died aboard the Gemini 8 flight in March 1966 when a small rocket engine went out of control and sent the craft into a rapid spin. The other near tragedy was on Apollo 13 in April 1970 when an oxygen tank exploded while three astronauts were halfway to the moon. "We were just damn lucky that it didn't ignite the stored propellants," Kraft said. "The Lord decided that day that those three men should live." Kraft said the Apollo moon exploration program left a legacy showing that America could meet major technical challenges. "We can do anything we set our minds to." Kraft played a key role in developing the techniques and hardware that put American astronauts on the moon in the '60s. # EPA's chief grilled by House members WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of five House subcommittees, engaged at Reagan administration policies, accused the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday of gutting enforcement programs and allowing industry to "call the shots." The five subcommittees, meeting in a rare joint session, grilled EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch for five hours over her 14-month stewardship at the agency. In a 54-page defense, Mrs. Gorsuch denied the accusations of mismanagement and said she was committed to "environmental results, not environmental rhetoric." She said times had changed from when the EPA was created almost 12 years ago and that the changing circumstances required different ways of operating. "We have proposed changes ... that we have done so in good faith," she said. "At every turn, these changes have been misconstrued, often misinterpreted and even misstated." Democratic members of the committees questioned the agency's enforcement record since Mrs. Gorsuch took office. Rep. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., cited statistics showing that referrals of cases from EPA to the Justice Department had dropped from 252 in 1980 to 78 in 1981. Mrs. Gorsuch said part of the decline resulted from a reorganization of the agency's enforcement branches which was now beginning to show results. She said since March the agency has processed 80 cases received from EPA's regional offices and sent 44 to the Justice Department. Mrs. Gorsuch was asked repeatedly about a meeting she held last December with representatives of Thriftway Co., a small New Mexico oil refiner. Participants at the meeting have given sworn statements that Mrs. Gorsuch promised that the refinery would not be found in violation of a regulation requiring less lead in gasoline because the agency was planning to change the rule. But Mrs. Gorsuch said, "I did not, nor have I ever recommended to anyone that they violate our environmental laws." Ms. Gorsuch said she had acted properly under a 1978 agency rule permitting the EPA to waive assessment of fines if such fines would force a company out of business. But members questioned whether this rule applied since no fine had been levied on the company. === Page 79 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House cites EPA's chief for contempt WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted 259-105 Thursday night to cite Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne M. Gorsuch for contempt of Congress because she refused, on presidential orders, to turn over documents. She was the highest official ever charged in such a battle between the executive and legislative branches of governments. The action of the House followed more than two hours of debate and a day of fruitless negotiations between congressional leaders and the White House in search of a compromise. THE RESOLUTION goes to a federal grand jury, which can indict Mrs. Gorsuch for contempt, a criminal misdemeanor. Conviction in U.S. District Court carries a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail term of up to 1 year. The appeals that undoubtedly would follow conviction would ultimately go to the Supreme Court, which could make a binding decision on the rights of the executive and legislative branches in questions of executive privilege. Democrats voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contempt resolution. They were joined by almost one-third of the Republicans voting. Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., saying he was acting "with deep regret," offered the motion to cite Mrs. Gorsuch after the negotiations with President Reagan's aides broke down. "This is not a partisan issue," insisted Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., chairman of the subcommittee that originally subpoenaed the EPA documents. "This issue deals with the Constitution of the United States and the prerogatives of Congress." "WE HAVE GONE every step of the way to avoid a confrontation," said Levitas. But he argued that the investigative powers of Congress "will be crippled and destroyed if the contemptuous acts (in withholding documents) are left unpunished. We must take this grave, regrettable step." House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., urged the House to reject the contempt resolution, although he said he agreed the issue raised "a very serious constitutional question." But Michel said the issue was being rushed and the subpoena contained technical flaws that threatened Congress' legal position. "This case is not ironclad," Michel said. "It should be put over" until Congress reconvenes. THE DEBATE WAS a rare floor battle over executive privilege - the power of Reagan, or any president, to keep Congress in the dark on certain issues. It followed a day of fruitless negotiations involving the White House, the Justice Department and congressional leaders in an attempt to avoid the unprecedent floor vote. ANNE M. GORSUCH She won't bow to Congress SPOK REV 12/17/82 24 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Dec. 21, 1982 # nation UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Attorney General assailed WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Judiciary Committee should take up the question of impeaching Attorney General William French Smith, the chairman of a subcommittee said Monday. Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., said in a speech on the House floor that Smith "has failed to faithfully execute the law and is engaging in what in my opinion is an obstruction of justice" in refusing to prosecute contempt of Congress charges against the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Levitas is chairman of the House Public Works subcommittee on investigations, which issued a subpoena for EPA documents on its enforcement of the $1.6 billion "superfund" program to clean up abandoned chemical waste dumps. EPA Administrator Anne M. Gorsuch, acting on President Reagan's orders, invoked executive privilege to withhold some of the documents. That position led the House last Thursday to vote 259-105 to cite Mrs. Gorsuch for contempt. However, the Justice Department has refused to prosecute the case, calling the contempt citation an unconstitutional intrusion on executive branch action. SPOK REV 12/21/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Official accused of embezzlement SPOK REV 12/25/82 WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A state representative who became the object of a nationwide search after he disappeared last month turned himself in to police Friday night and was arraigned on embezzlement charges. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, 31, a Republican lawyer who lost his House seat in a bid for a sixth term in November, was arraigned on four counts of embezzlement and released on $4,000 personal recognizance, authorities said. McCarthy, who disappeared after his car was involved in a minor hit-and-run traffic accident Nov. 7, did not enter any pleas at his arraignment, Cpt. William DeFeo said. He is accused of embezzling $49,000 from four surviving children of Warren Deniston, a former Warwick reserve police officer who died Aug. 5. Deniston's children filed a civil suit last week in Kent County Superior Court alleging McCarthy fraudulently converted all but $5 of $49,500 they had given him as administrator of their father's estate. The money was from a $66,000 life insurance policy. Paul Sprague, the children's lawyer, said McCarthy set up an account in his own name with the money from the estate. The last withdrawal was made Dec. 8, when McCarthy wired the Fleet National Bank for $2,000 to be sent to him at a New York City bank, Sprague said. Authorities filed arrest warrants and issued a === Page 80 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Navy secretary's business dealings are investigated New York Times 12/27/82 Sp. Adv. WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr., who pledged on joining the Reagan administration that he would sell his interests in a consulting company that does business with Pentagon contractors, did not sever all his connections with the company, according to public documents. After Lehman took office, a British peer paid him for the right to use the company's name, Abington Corp., in business overseas. But Lehman kept an option to reacquire the overseas business when he left the government, according to him and the peer, Lord Chalfont. Documents show that Lehman was not paid for the overseas operations until nine months after he joined the Reagan administration. The overseas business, using the Abington name, has continued to consult with American military contractors. Some of its client companies had been clients of Lehman, according to the companies. Some officials in Washington are questioning whether Lehman would eventually stand to gain from Abington's success overseas. Lehman retained the rights to operate Abington in the United States, but there is no indication that the company has done business in this country since he took office in January 1981. He said in an interview that he had received no salary or fees from military contractors since then. Since April 1981, Lehman has not disqualified himself from participating in Navy decisions affecting the Northrop Corp. and other former clients. At that time, he said, Abington became a holding company for his personal assets and he no longer had a financial interest in the clients or in Abington. Federal conflict-of-interest laws prohibit government employees from participating in decisions in which they have a personal financial interest. The Office of Government Ethics said it had approved Lehman's financial arrangements but had not reviewed the underlying documents. The office said it was now re-examining Lehman's transactions. Lehman's personal financial disclosure statement, filed this year with the Office of Government Ethics, indicates that he still owns Abington but lists it as a personal holding company. Records filed with the District of Columbia, however, still list Abington as a management consulting company. Asked why he did not sell Abington outright or at least change the name of his new holding company, Lehman, 40, replied that he had "wanted to keep the entity in being." "I had built up a highly respected name in Abington," he explained. "I retain the right to operate a consulting corporation called Abington. I wanted to keep the option of going back into the consulting business when I get out of government." UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan's old home damaged DIXON, Ill. (AP) -- A fire apparently started by faulty wiring caused $15,000 damage to President Reagan's boyhood home early Monday, investigators said. There were no injuries in the fire, which was reported just after midnight Sunday. Damage was confined to the rear of the two-story frame house, which is owned by a non-profit organization. The home is a tourist attraction but had been closed for renovations. Police Chief Rich Dusing, Fire Chief John Carlson and the state fire marshal said in a statement that the fire had not been deliberately set and that faulty wiring was the apparent cause. Reagan was born 72 years ago Sunday in Tampico, about 25 miles southwest of Dixon. His family moved to Dixon and lived in the house in the 1920s. S.F. Rev 2/8/83 UFO attack "higher ups" S.F. Rev 1/12/83 # NOW leader held in '65 slaying LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The California president of the National Organization for Women and a prominent Democratic Party activist was arrested Tuesday on a 1965 Louisiana murder warrant. Ginny Eleanor Foat, 42, was arrested at suburban Hollywood-Burbank Airport at 8:15 a.m., said Cmdr. William Booth. She was held without bail at Sybil Brand Institution for Women pending arraignment Wednesday, he said. Foat is accused in the robbery-slaying of Moises Chayo, 62, a Buenos Aires man who was visiting a sick son at a New Orleans hospital, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee said at Gretna, La. Chayo's body was found Dec. 11, 1965, in a weedy tract in Metairie. Lee said detectives believed he was killed two or three weeks earlier, after being robbed of about $1,400. Lee said investigators had no clue in Chayo's murder until John Sidote 44, walked up to a New York City policeman in 1977 and said he wanted to confess to some robbery-murders. The sheriff said Sidote said he and Foat -- then going by the name Virginia Galluzo -- had killed a man in New Orleans and the description of the killing matched that of Chayo. Lee said Sidote and Galluzo lived together for a time in New Orleans, later got married and subsequently divorced. He refused to say why they believe Foat is Virginia Galluzo. GINNY ELEANOR FOAT === Page 81 of 92 Schweiker resigns Cabinet position WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Schweiker, secretary of health and human services, has resigned, administration officials revealed Tuesday night. His unexpected departure is the second from President Reagan's Cabinet in the last two weeks. Margaret Heckler, a Republican member of Congress from Massachusetts who was defeated in her re-election bid last November, was expected to be nominated to replace Schweiker, said administration sources who declined to be identified. Schweiker told reporters who gathered outside his McLean, Va. home that I have nothing for you tonight, but there will be an announcement tomorrow. That's all I can say for now. There was no answer at Mrs. Heckler's home in Wellesley, Mass. Two administration sources who spoke on the promise of anonymity said Schweiker would head the American Council on Life Insurance and had told the president he would leave about 10 days ago. Offices of that organization in Washington were closed. James A. Baker III, the chief of the White House staff, told reporters on arriving at the White House from a meeting that Schweiker was leaving because he got a wonderful job offer. He declined to elaborate. White House officials said an official announcement was scheduled for today. Reagan has not yet received the official letter of resignation, they said. The White House has been actively seeking to place more women in high positions. Elizabeth Dole last week was nominated to replace Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation. Lewis's resignation was announced Dec. 28. The other Cabinet changes saw Alexander M. Haig Jr. replaced as secretary of state last summer by George P. Shultz and James Edwards succeeded as energy secretary by Donald Hodel in November. Schweiker, 56, served two terms as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and did not run again in 1980 to return to the business interests that had made him a millionaire. As senator, Schweiker was Reagan's choice for the Republican vice presidential nomination in his unsuccessful campaign in 1976. Then he left the Senate, Schweiker was considered an expert in health because of his position as ranking member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee and its subcommittee on health. Those panels set policy and budget levels for the Health and Human Services Department. As secretary, Schweiker was generally conceded to have held his own in the administration's drive to cut domestic spending, particularly in social programs. He paid particular attention to health research, and the National Institutes of Health was spared budget cuts. Schweiker did extraordinarily well in resisting cuts in the budget for the 1984 fiscal year to be sent to Congress later this month, particularly in funds for the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, said a de- (Continued on page 14) HECKLER Nomination expected SCHWEIKER Wonderful job offer Louisiana state senate president is found guilty NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- State Senate President Michael O'Keefe was convicted Saturday of mail fraud by a federal jury that one day earlier found him guilty on two counts of obstructing justice. O'Keefe, 52, said he would take an indefinite leave of absence as president of the Senate but continue to serve as a representative of New Orleans until his appeals have been exhausted. The U.S. District Court jury on Friday found him guilty of hiding $900,000 in the sale of an apartment complex by trying to influence a grand jury witness to change his testimony and by showing the panel a fake promissory note. He was convicted Saturday of causing false reports of the purchase price to be mailed to his partners in the $10.3 million sale. The mail fraud conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $1,000 fine. The other two charges carry a total maximum penalty of $10,000 and 10 years. It was his second trial on the charges. In the first one, last summer, O'Keefe was convicted but a judge overturned the verdict, saying the prosecutor overstepped legal bounds in his closing arguments. O'Keefe, one of the owners of the 179-unit Meairie Towers, was accused of cheating five limited partners by arranging a $900,000 payment in the sale of the complex. U.S. Attorney John Volz said the payment, not reflected in the official purchase price, enabled the senator to avoid having to share the money. Brown resigns MX position New York Times WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown resigned Friday as a member of the advisory commission that President Reagan appointed to suggest solutions to the deadlocked MX intercontinental missile issue, saying that he did so to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Brown, a nuclear physicist and former Pentagon official who headed the Defense Department under President Carter, said in a telephone interview that his resignation did not arise from a substantive disagreement over the issue of how to base the proposed MX missile or other problems the 11-member President's Commission on Strategic Forces had been asked to consider. Brown said the problem arose from a contract for part time consultant services between Brown and the TRW Inc., which does engineering and gives technical advice. In a letter to Reagan Friday, Brown said, While not questioning the objectivity of the commission, some officials have questioned about whether my contract with TRW, Inc. might affect the objectivity of the commission's recommendations. He also disclosed that instead of using statutory authority to waive the conflict of interest law provisions, Reagan had delegated waiver authority to Secretary of Defense W. Weinberger, who in turn delegated authority to Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Richard D. Perle, former executive vice president of TRW. === Page 82 of 92 The 'Boll Weevil' turns into elephant BRYAN, Texas (AP) -- Rep. Phil Gramm, a "Boll Weevil" Democrat whose party ousted him from the House Budget Committee, resigned his seat Wednesday and said he would try to win it back in a special election as a Republican. "I recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in November. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is an honest one." Republican Gov. Bill Clements, who accepted Gramm's resignation, set the special election for Feb. 12. Gramm was kicked off the budget committee by the Democratic leadership in Congress for championing President Reagan's economic programs. "I cannot in good conscience continue to work within a national party that seeks to limit my effectiveness on behalf of those I represent in its effort to perpetuate the spending spree which has crippled our nation, threatened our position of world leadership and robbed workers," said Gramm, a former economics professor. House Republican leaders would recommend Gramm continue on the Committee if he wins the election. Members of Congress to change parties at merely by declaring their allegiance. The last time a congressman switched parties was in 1965 when Rep. Albert W. Watson of South Carolina did. Democrats stripped him of his seniority for endorsing Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater over President Lyndon Johnson. Watson won back in a special election more than 2-1 margin. Gramm said he expects Democrats to "make an all-out defeat me." PHIL GRAMM Resigns House seat Bring in the guards after EPA brouhaha WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan fired Rita Lavelle as assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, and guards with billy clubs stood outside her offices to bar removal of documents at the heart of a constitutional dispute between Congress and the Executive Branch. The firing was announced by the White House as a battle raged at the agency over whether Lavelle had quit or her resignation had been demanded by EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch. Two of Lavelle's top aides also were fired. Some of the documents being guarded in her office were among those subpoenaed by a House subcommittee. It was the refusal of Gorsuch to turn over these documents which led to a contempt of Congress citation against the EPA chief. LAVELLE'S dismissal was disclosed in a one-sentence statement from the White House. "The appointment of Rita Lavelle as assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response of the Environmental Protection Agency was terminated today at the direction of the president," it said. Clay Jones, the chief EPA spokesman, said the agency's chief of staff, John Daniel, ordered the guards outside Lavelle's offices to "safeguard all the materials and government property." "There is a lot of sensitive information in the office, including some of the documents that were withheld by Gorsuch," Jones said. Two of Lavelle's aides -- Warren Wood, her chief of staff, and Susan Baldyga, a special assistant -- also were given dismissal notices Monday. AIDES TO Lavelle, who headed the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, said she had not resigned -- as had been announced -- and was appealing her dismissal to the White House, where presidential counsel Edwin Meese III is a longtime friend. EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency was standing by a press release issued Friday in which Lavelle was quoted as saying she was resigning because she was "ready to get back to California." Neither Lavelle nor Gorsuch returned phone calls asking for comment. (Continued on page 3) Rita Lavelle says she did not resign from EPA job as announced last week Target of revenge, Rep. Wilson says WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Charles Wilson said Friday he is confident of being cleared of allegations he used cocaine, and suggested he is the target of someone seeking revenge, perhaps out of jealousy of his free-wheeling life style. "I have a high profile, I'm single, I date a lot of women," he said. "If these allegations are coming from a staffer trying to get out of trouble himself, I would be a likely target. There might even be a little jealousy involved." A federal law enforcement source who responded to questions about the case only on the condition his name not be used said: "Yes, the grand jury has turned up allegations that Wilson used drugs and we are looking at them. But there is nothing yet substantive enough for an indictment." (Continued on page 2) === Page 83 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan dismisses arms talks chief New York Times WASHINGTON -- President Reagan forced Eugene V. Rostow to resign as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Wednesday and said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz would play the principal role in coordinating the administration's arms control policies. As part of an overall shift in the management of arms control matters, Kenneth L. Adelman, the No. 2 official in the United Nations Mission, was chosen to replace Rostow as the head of the disarmament agency. David F. Emery, who had been a Republican congressman from Maine until he lost in the Senate election last year, was picked to be Adelman's deputy. Morton I. Abramowitz, a career foreign service officer, was also chosen to be the new ambassador to the negotiations in Vienna on East-West conventional force reductions. He will replace Richard Staar, whose resignation was demanded by the administration. WHITE HOUSE, State Department and arms control agency officials all said that the dismissal of Rostow and the other changes were not based on ideological or policy reasons, but rather were intended to end the fragmentation and chaos that had existed for months in the arms control bureaucracy. There were also personality clashes that contributed to the dismissal of Rostow. In particular, Rostow, 69, with a long and distinguished career in government and as the Yale Law School dean was openly at odds with the White House for not pursuing vigorously the confirmation in the Senate of his choice as the arms control agency deputy, Robert T. Grey, who had been opposed by conservative Republicans. Several White House and State Department aides complained that Rostow was not a team player and had predicted last week that he would be asked to resign. IN A STATEMENT issued by the White House, Reagan sought to stress his continued commitment to arms control. He said that as president "I have no higher priority or higher purpose than to reduce the risk and the means of conflict and to help bring a true peace with justice to the world we live in." "This administration has undertaken a broad agenda for peace, including special efforts in the Middle East, and a program of arms control more comprehensive and far-reaching than any other in our nation's history," he said. When Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, was asked why Reagan forced Rostow's resignation, he replied: "I am not saying he did anything wrong. The president made the decision he wanted new people." REAGAN SAID THAT he was accepting Rostow's resignation "with regret," and said he had played "a key role" in launching the administration's arms control proposals. The shifts come at a time when the subject of arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union has moved to the center of East-West relations. Yuri V. Andropov, the new Soviet leader, has proposed several initiatives that American officials have said were aimed at splitting the United States from its Western allies. EUGENE V. ROSTOW Director is ousted Reaction to dismissal, Rostow profile -- Page 11 1/13/83 # Lewis to leave Cabinet post next February New York Times WASHINGTON -- Drew Lewis, considered one of the most able members of the Reagan Cabinet, resigned Tuesday from his post as secretary of transportation, effective Feb. 1, 1983. Lewis said he would assume the job of chairman and chief executive officer of troubled Warner-Amex Cable Communications, Inc. The company operates more than 140 cable television systems and is constructing additional systems in major cities. LEWIS, WHO FOR months had been rumored either to be in line for a higher assignment in the administration or to be planning a return to private business, said he was leaving for financial reasons. UFOs Attack "higher ups" # Former astronaut John Swigert dies New York Times NEW YORK -- John L. Swigert, a former astronaut from Colorado who had circled the moon and was elected to the House of Representatives in November while suffering from cancer, died Monday night at the Lombardi Cancer Research Center of the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 51. Swigert, a Republican who was described by one of his chief campaign supporters as "a potent advocate for Ronald Reagan, a certified hero with a brain," had been flown to the cancer center a week earlier from his home in Littleton, Colo. He was to represent the newly designated 6th District, a U-shaped portion of the Denver suburbs. Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado said he would call a special election to fill the vacancy. John L. Swigert was elected to House in November === Page 84 of 92 UFO Project + "Higher ups" # Government locked in fantasy ## By comparison, the Nixon White House beat this one S/Res 1/10/83 BOSTON -- Two years into the Reagan presidency, Americans are beginning to suspect the awful truth: They have a government incompetent to govern, a president frozen in ideological fantasyland, an administration spotted with fools and rogues. Anthony J. Lewis New York Times The unmistakable symptom of incompetence is the economic disarray in Washington. The United States government faces a deficit approaching $200 billion in the next fiscal year, more than double the previous record. How is the president going to deal with it? One month from his budget deadline, he has no serious idea. On this as on so many economic issues the Reagan administration sends out contradictory signals twice a week. It is going to speed up tax cuts -- no it isn't. It is going to raise taxes -- certainly not. It is going to make drastic cuts in domestic expenditure -- the president has changed his mind, or no he hasn't. Ronald Reagan came to office as the man who would take charge of the economy. Yet today there is a vacuum in executive leadership; the crucial economic policies are coming from Congress and the Federal Reserve. What has gone wrong? Rigidity is a large part of the explanation: an inability to adjust to facts. A president who drove a radical economic program through Congress refuses to see that the program is not working. And the denial of reality immobilizes him. Reagan told us, and believed, that he could create an economic boom, and balance the budget, by cutting taxes while spending more for arms and less for domestic needs. What we have instead is a severe recession, massive unemployment and record deficits. Confronted with the painful economic facts, the president waves them away. He will not face the real sources of fiscal trouble: the uncontrolled growth in military spending and the shrinking of the revenue base. To blame them, he says, is "dipsy-doodle" thinking. And so, reduced to tinkering, he strains to hold the deficit to a mere $175 billion. The pattern of evasion and ineptitude is disastrous to financial confidence. Even the president's natural backers are turning away. A Gallup poll of big business executives published in The Wall Street Journal shows that, in one year, those expressing "a great deal of confidence" in Reagan's economic leadership have fallen from 58 to 27 percent. His appointees share responsibility with the president for the economic mess. White House advisers and the administration's top economic officials have never broken through Reagan's fantasies. His Pentagon civilian appointees actually encourage illusion; the uniformed chiefs are now the realists on arms spending. What George Shultz has done for foreign policy in six months shows that is is possible to move this administration toward realism. But there is no equivalent on the domestic side, in economics or anything else: no voice of quiet reason in the president's councils. Instead we see ideology run riot and a gang of predators getting what they can out of the federal government. The perfect symbol of the administration in domestic affairs outside of economics is the Legal Services Corporation. For ideological reasons Reagan tried to abolish the program of legal help for the poor. When the country's establishment lawyers resisted and Congress said no, he appointed a Legal Services board that he hoped would subvert the program. When some members would not, he dropped them. Then it turned out that the new Legal Services president had negotiated himself a fat-cat contract including membership in a private club of his choice. He negotiated it with the chairman, an old friend of his. All that is supposed to be conservatism. Reading about some of the officials in this administration, you would think the Snopes family had all moved to Washington. A Reagan appointee to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Frederic Andre, said the ICC should do nothing about bribes in the trucking business because they are just "instances of the free market at work." The man Reagan chose to head the Veterans' Administration, Robert P. Nimmo, spent $54,183 redecorating his office and resigned just before an official report criticized him for misusing military aircraft and a government chauffeur. It is not just insensitivity. There is a deeper sense of departure from the standards that have made the federal government work reasonably well under presidents of both parties. The Justice Department which has for so long maintained a professional esprit, is a sad example under the California society lawyer who is now attorney general, William French Smith. A career lawyer at Justice remarks that he and others look back with nostalgia to the days of John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst. That is where we are, halfway through Reagan's term: nostalgic for the Nixon administration. # New Hampshire governor dies 12/30/82 BOSTON (AP) -- New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gallen died Wednesday of kidney and liver failure and complications from internal bleeding after being hospitalized for more than a month. Gallen, 58, was to have left office next week. Gallen died at 3:49 p.m. with his wife Irene and other family members at his bedside at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said Jennifer Murray, Gallen's news secretary in Concord. Gallen's fourth bout of internal bleeding Wednesday had been controlled temporarily, "but he succumbed despite intensive supportive therapy," Ms. Murray said. Records dating back to the late 1700s show Gallen was the first New Hampshire governor to die in office. Gallen, a Democrat, won office by defeating maverick Republican Meldrim Thomson in 1978, and defeated Thomson again in 1980. But he lost his bid for a third term in November to Republican John Sununu, whose inauguration is next Thursday. Senate President Vesta Roy, a Republican from Salem, has been acting governor. Gallen had been admitted to the hospital Nov. 20, and was listed in serious condition until Sunday morning. The two-term governor's chief of staff, Dayton Duncan, said Gallen bled twice internally Sunday, causing doctors to downgrade his condition to critical. Democratic Gov. Hugh Gallen, 58, was first N.H. governor to die in office That stomach bleeding was stopped, but the governor suffered bleeding in the back of his throat on Tuesday, then started bleeding in his stomach again Wednesday, aides said. As late as Tuesday evening, Gallen had been conscious and alert, Duncan said. Gallen was a self-made man who was a laborer and a truck driver before he became a car dealer, small-town banker and politician. In January 1979, he became the first Democratic governor of predominantly Republican New Hampshire in a decade. He held office during the state's worst fiscal crisis in years and insisted, during his final campaign, that the state badly needed tax reform. Gallen attributed his defeat in November largely to his refusal to pledge to veto a state sales or income tax if one was passed by the Legislature. In conceding to Sununu, who took "the pledge," Gallen said he had no regrets. === Page 85 of 92 attack "higher ups" THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., July 25, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Watt says he's proud of letter By PHILIP SHABECOFF New York Times WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary James G. Watt said Saturday that he is "proud" of the letter he sent to the Israeli ambassador to Washington warning that opposition by Jewish American liberals to his energy program would weaken this country's "ability to be a good friend to Israel." The letter was called "unfortunate" by the White House press office Friday night, which also stated that it did not reflect this administration's policy. But Watt said in a telephone interview Saturday afternoon: "I stand by the letter. Its intentions were right and it was properly worded." Watt said, "The letter does not threaten anyone." He asserted that it was intended to point out that unless the United States reduces its dependence on foreign sources of energy and other minerals, it would not be economically or militarily strong enough to support friends such as Israel. "I am reaching out to every identifiable group in America, whether unions, the black community, East, West, North, South, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, gentiles," he declared, saying, "We need everyone's support to make America strong." BUT ANGRY REACTION to the letter flowed in Saturday from members of Congress, Jewish organizations and other critics. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., said, "James Watt should resign immediately for this act of bare-knuckled bigotry," and added: "If he does not, President Reagan should dismiss him immediately." "If he goes, and his departure awakens the country to the fact that ideologues of the radical right have taken over whole areas of American government, there may be some gain from this latest episode of bigotry and bullying," Moynihan said. "For the moment, however, our national honor has been smirched and I feel the shame we all feel," he said. Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn., said: "Mr. Watt's remarks were highly inappropriate and inflammatory. They suggest that America's foreign policy is in some way linked to 'Jewish' and 'liberal' support of the administration's energy policy. Although Watt is not secretary of state, he seems in this regard to have enunciated a new American foreign policy requiring supporters of Israel to back Watt's offshore drilling plan in order to win further assurances of United States support for Israel." THE DISCLOSURE of Watt's letter to the Israeli ambassador, Moshe Arens - first published last week in the Washington Times - comes at a time of uneasiness among American supporters of Israel about Reagan administration intentions. This uneasiness stems in part from the replacement of Alexander M. Haig Jr. as secretary of state by George P. Shultz, who comes out the Bechtel Group, a business organization with strong ties to the Arab world. Watt is seeking to build support of his program to accelerate development of the nation's natural resources, particularly his plan, announced earlier this week, to offer 1 billion acres of Outer Continental Shelf for leasing to oil and gas companies over the next five years. The lease offering would encompass virtually the entire coastal area of the United States. WEDNESDAY, Watt sent a letter to 28 members of Congress criticizing them for attacking his offshore program at a time "Israel was embroiled in a war concerning her own survival and a liberated Lebanon." The letter also stated that the offshore plan was crafted to "improve our national security, enhance our quality of life and environment, create jobs, and help America meet her commitments made in the Camp David Accords as well as commitments made to other foreign countries." Bertram H. Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee, issued a statement Saturday declaring, "Secretary Watt should go back to school for a refresher course on the American political system, for he seems to question the right of Americans that hold opinions different from his." HE ALSO NOTED that the committee has had a task force working for the past 10 years on ways to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. However, Hyman Bookbinder, the committee's Washington representative, said of Watt's letter to the Israeli ambassador: "I do not think too much should be made of this. It doesn't go to the core of the problems facing the country and the Jewish community." But Bookbinder did say, "I am concerned that Mr. Watt did not realize that if he had a message for the American Jewish community, he could simply have picked up the phone and talked to any of us instead of doing what he did. If he had, we would have been glad to tell him that we share his basic concerns about American energy independence and that we have been working on it for over a decade. This does not mean, of course, that we endorse every part of the administration's program." BOOKBINDER added that Watt's reference to Jewish liberals would be resented by many American Jews because of the "pejorative context" suggesting that American liberals do not care about the strength and economic power of this country. In Saturday's interview, Watt said while he stood by his letter, he could understand why the White House would describe it as "unfortunate." "The White House understands better than I do that there are forces in the United States that would take the letter and distort it for their own purposes." He said, "There still is an attempt by the liberal community to undermine our efforts to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy and minerals and we need to show them what the truth is." === Page 86 of 92 Weidenbaum still confident WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan's departing chief economist, although conceding that the administration's latest economic forecast is too optimistic, said Friday he remains convinced that the end to the nation's deep recession "is in sight." Murray L. Weidenbaum, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, acknowledged that Reagan did not always heed his economic advice, but he disputed reports by associates that mounting unhappiness and frustration with his lack of influence lay behind his decision to leave. "When I gave my resignation to the president last week, it was because of my desire to return to Washington University" in St. Louis, where he taught before joining the administration, he told a group of reporters. nation Edwin Meese's son killed WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential counselor Edwin Meese III flew home from California on Friday to gather his family and make funeral arrangements for his 19-year-old son, Scott Robert Meese, who was killed late Thursday in an automobile accident. U.S. Park Police said Scott Meese, a sophomore at Princeton University, was fatally injured shortly before midnight when his car "failed to negotiate a turn" on a parkway that runs along the Virginia side of the Potomac River just outside Washington. Officer John Nawrot said the compact car in which young Meese was the only occupant skidded 330 feet and slammed into a tree. Scott Meese was one of three children of Edwin and Ursula Meese. In reply to other questions on the flight home, Reagan said the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Murray Weidenbaum, was not resigning because of policy differences but because, like other academics in the administration, "there was just a limit to how long they could leave their real careers." REAGAN SAID he was "very saddened" by the death of Scott Meese, the 19-year-old son of presidential counselor Edwin Meese III. "He was a fine young man," Reagan said. "This is just a terrible tragedy." The youth was killed Thursday night in an automobile accident on the outskirts of Washington. When the elder Meese returned to the White House from California shortly after Reagan arrived from St. Louis, the president and Mrs. Reagan went immediately to his office to express their condolences. The 'Whizzer' shrugs off critic's two-fisted attack SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A man screaming about "pornography and busing" ran onto a dais where U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White waited to give a speech Thursday and pummeled him with his fists before being subdued by onlookers. The 65-year-old justice, who suffered an abrasion on his cheek, had just been introduced as a speaker at a meeting of the Utah Bar Association at the Marriott Hotel about 11 a.m. Fred Graham, CBS News law correspondent, said White proceeded to give his speech on the relationship between federal and state courts. But before that, Graham said, "He said he got hit harder when he played against Utah in football." That was a reference to White's days as a college football star at the University of Colorado, where he got the nickname "Whizzer." Terry Knowles, FBI special agent in charge, said Newton C. Estes, 57, was charged with assault on a federal justice in a complaint authorized by the U.S. attorney's office. U.S. Magistrate Paul L. Badger set bail at $10,000 and Estes was being held in the Salt Lake City-County Jail. If convicted, he could serve a maximum sentence of three years in prison and be ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. Justice Byron White was pummeled from behind by a man who was unhappy with the Supreme Court's decisions on pornography and busing in recent years. === Page 87 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" SPREJ 1/22/83 # Baker sets sights on White House KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee announced Friday he will not seek re-election to a fourth term in 1984, freeing himself for a possible full-fledged run at the White House in 1988. Baker, 57, told an afternoon press conference at Knoxville's airport, that after serving in the Senate since 1966 he wants to return to private life for awhile. But he added, "I certainly do not plan to retire from politics." Baker said he has not decided whether he will run for president in 1988 and will not make his plans until after his Senate term ends. "I have made no secret that I would like to be president," he said. Baker urged President Reagan to seek re-election in 1984 and said he would work "actively and enthusiastically" for him. He said he would "maintain an active interest in GOP affairs." "There is no complicated reason for this but there is life after the Senate," he said. "And I intend to live that life. I certainly don't intend to retire from politics." "I have pledged my colleagues in the Senate and President Reagan that I will do my utmost to make sure that 1984 is a very prosperous year for Republicans," he said. Baker, responding to questions from a group of about 50 reporters, said he would not relinquish his majority leader's job or leave the Senate before his term expires. Earlier, in a written statement, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a close friend of Baker's, said he "deeply regretted" his decision not to seek re-election. Lugar is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and managed Baker's brief bid for the 1980 presidential nomination. Since that effort, Baker had maintained a political committee capable of financing his travels around the country. Baker's decision to retire was reported more than a week ago, and neither he nor his aides took any steps to dispute the printed accounts. Instead, they sought only to discourage speculation that he was laying the groundwork for a challenge to Reagan for the 1984 GOP nomination. UFOs attack "higher ups" # One dies, seven hurt in Texas Capitol fire SPREJ 2/7/83 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A fire that erupted in a "sea of flames" burned through an apartment in the century-old state Capitol before dawn Sunday, killing a guest of the lieutenant governor and injuring six firemen and a policeman. Kate Hobby, the lieutenant governor's 18-year-old daughter, escaped from the apartment without injury, as did a couple who take care of her show horses. Fire officials said the cause would not be known for days, but they said they suspected it started in an electrical appliance in a den of the apartment. Gov. Mark White, awakened by sirens in the neighborhood, rushed from the governor's mansion to the Capitol across the street and helped carry oxygen bottles to firemen battling the blaze. The dead man was identified as Matt Hansen, 23, a horse trainer from New Caney, Texas. He was one of four people who had been sleeping in the three-bedroom apartment that Lt. Gov Bill Hobby kept on the second floor of the historic domed building, behind the Senate chamber. Fireman dragged Hansen out of the middle bedroom and tried in vain to revive him. Capitol Police Lt. Dale Gentry said there were no visible burns on his body and he apparently died of smoke inhalation. Miss Hobby was asleep in another bedroom, and Hobby said she was saved by patrolman James Mitchell, who banged on her door. Another policeman, Joel Quintanilla, was overcome by smoke when a huge oak door to the apartment exploded because of intense heat and gas buildup. He was hospitalized in stable condition. "Quintanilla was apparently trying to get in because he heard hollering and yelling in the apartment," said Hobby press aide Bob Cargill. Miss Hobby described one room in the apartment as a "sea of flames." A Hobby aide described the den as "an inferno." The other two people in the apartment were James and Joan Waterman of New Caney, who take care of Miss Hobby's horses. They escaped through a back door. Officials did not estimate the dollar amount of damage, but several portraits were destroyed or damaged, and the back section of the apartment, which housed several antiques, was "complete destruction," said Hobby. A corner of the Senate chambers was blackened, but Hobby said the Senate would meet there today as scheduled. The fire, discovered by policemen who guard the building on a 24-hour basis, broke out about 5:30 a.m. === Page 88 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # EPA whistleblower ready to loft more bombshells at White House SP Rev 2/18/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a surprise turnabout, the administration reached a negotiated settlement Monday with a whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency, who said afterward he now has evidence that EPA misdeeds go all the way to the White House. Hugh Kaufman, whose allegations have triggered a half-dozen congressional investigations into EPA's $1.6 billion "superfund" program, called the settlement a victory both for him and for other agency employees who will be testifying before Congress in coming weeks. "This should send a signal to all EPA employees that they can get protection if they testify," Kaufman said. In the settlement, the EPA promised to obey all laws protecting employees' rights. The settlement, in a case in which Kaufman had charged the EPA with harassing him because of his accusations, comes amid a burgeoning scandal in which EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch has been accused of contempt of Congress and a top agency official has been fired. Kaufman had originally said he expected a full-blown hearing Monday -- with as many as 20 EPA officials testifying -- that would provide further evidence of agency mismanagement of the superfund program to clean up the country's worst hazardous waste dumps. Instead, the government and Kaufman reached a settlement, and afterward the EPA employee said he would be turning over to Congress and the Justice Department evidence of a possible "criminal conspiracy" to silence him. Kaufman said his evidence shows that efforts to harass him began after the White House received complaints on his activities from chemical companies. "The White House communicated complaints from polluters about me to the EPA, and the EPA took adverse action against me as a result of those communications," Kaufman said. Kaufman said he did not have a "smoking gun" to prove the White House directed the EPA to harass him illegally, but he said "it was clear to the agency that the White House was unhappy." Kaufman did not name the officials at the White House who transmitted the chemical company complaints, but he said presidential counselor "Ed Meese and his deputy were at Rita Lavelle's swearing-in and held Meese held the Bible." Rita M. Lavelle, the head of the superfund program and Kaufman's (Continued on page 2) boss was fired by President Reagan last week. At the time Meese said he knew Lavelle only slightly. One of the allegations against Lavelle was that she had lied to a House subcommittee when she denied ordering an investigation in an effort to build a case to fire Kaufman. Since Lavelle's own dismissal five House subcommittees and one Senate committee have announced investigations into EPA's hazardous waste program. Some trace to Kaufman's charges of "sweetheart" deals to absolve polluters of liability and political favoritism in handing out superfund cleanup money. Lavelle has denied all charges of wrongdoing. She also told reporters Saturday that she also knew nothing about paper shredders that were brought into the hazardous waste division following the contempt of Congress citation against Gorsuch. The charge resulted because the EPA administrator -- on orders from Reagan -- refused to turn over superfund documents requested by congressional investigators. The office of Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., chairman of a subcommittee that subpoenaed the documents, said Monday it would be two or three days before Levitas decided whether to accept a White House compromise on the issue. Levitas said after the compromise offer this weekend that he wanted to discuss it with congressional leaders before deciding. Meanwhile, Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., chairman of the House Public Works Committee, announced that EPA General Counsel Robert Perry and Chief of Staff John Daniel will testify before his committee Tuesday on allegations that papers involved in the dispute may have been shredded. EPA attorneys refused to comment on their surprise decision to settle with Kaufman. Asked about Kaufman's allegations of criminal conspiracy to deprive Kaufman of his rights, EPA spokesman Chris Rice said, "We have no knowledge of any criminal wrongdoing. However, if Mr. Kaufman has evidence of a criminal act, it is his responsibility to turn that evidence over to the Department of Justice." # Driver claims federal car misused SP Rev 2/11/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Harvey Steorts, chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, used an agency car to travel to the hairdresser, go shopping and for other personal errands, it was reported Thursday. Ms. Steorts' former driver, Michael A. Hager, told The Washington Post he had taken her to the hairdresser at least five times, made at least two trips to suburban Rockville, Md., from downtown Washington to deposit money in her bank, picked up dresses and drapery fabric for her and drove her daughter to the White House to visit friends. Hager, who left the agency in January after his temporary appointment expired, did not have a listed telephone number and could not be reached for comment. UFOs attack "higher ups" Anne Scherr, an agency spokeswoman, said she was trying to reach Ms. Steorts for comment. Under the appropriations law that finances the agency, no funds may be spent for transporting agency officials and staff members between home and office. "I would think that it certainly has to be looked at by someone," Donald Vitez, the General Service Administration's deputy assistant inspector general for investigations, said Thursday. "We'll at least follow up on this situation." Lowell Stockdale, acting director of the GSA's fleet management division, said that Ms. Steorts use of the car, as described by the driver, appeared to be improper, in his opinion. "They don't look like official business to me," he said. Vitez said allegations of wrongdoing are usually addressed by the agency involved. But he said he didn't know whether the CPSC had the capability to conduct that kind of investigation. "If it, in fact, involved a GSA car, it may be appropriate for us to" investigate, he said. In the fall of 1981, soon after she assumed the product safety chairmanship, Ms. Steorts ordered her driver to wear a coat and tie. When he said he couldn't afford to buy them, two agency officials bought him a suit. "That suit episode was too bad," agency spokesman Lou Brott said at the time. "It would have been easier if she (Ms. Steorts) had paid for it." === Page 89 of 92 FDR's son focus of investigation WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Social Security Administration said Friday it will ask postal authorities to investigate a fund-raising appeal by the eldest son of Franklin D. Roosevelt for a new "National Committee to Preserve Social Security." The appeal, sent by former Rep. James Roosevelt (left) of California in letters to 400,000 Americans in the past two weeks, dangles the prospect of offering low-cost group insurance against the collapse of the system that President Roosevelt founded in 1935. The letter also offers donors of $10 a free computer printout of their (Continued on page 5) FDR's son--(Continued from page 1)-- Social Security records, which is available at no cost anyway from the government. The four-page fund-raising letter, packaged with a petition to Congress to spare Social Security benefits and an application form for the "free personal confidential computer printout" of Social Security records, was prepared by Butcher Forde Consultants, a Newport Beach, Calif., direct-mail firm that has handled appeals for tax foe Howard Jarvis. Roosevelt, 75, said in a telephone interview from his Newport Beach office Thursday that the letter was not misleading "because I don't think a lot of people realize that they can themselves get it (the Social Security information)." "We're not charging them $10 to perform that service. ... We're charging them $10 if they want to join an organization to do something about Social Security," he said. The instructions for getting the Social Security printout state: "This free service is available only to those joining the National Committee." Paul B. Simmons, deputy commissioner of Social Security, said in a statement: "We intend to refer the letter to the postmaster general because there is a clear implication in the letter that the only way they can get the earning statement is sending $10 to this committee." Simmons said anyone can get the information free by filling out a post card available at local Social Security offices and sending in a name, signature and Social Security number. The agency encourages people to check their Social Security account records every three to four years. Simmons called the fund-raising letter "scurrilous and pathetic." Roosevelt's letter was mailed in an envelope emblazoned with a red headline: "URGENT! IMPORTANT SOCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION ENCLOSED." The letter lists a return address of a "National Administrative Office" at 325 Pennsylvania Avenue here. That is a mail drop in Video Plaza, a small movie rental shop that shares a storefront on Capitol Hill with a health food store. The letter makes no specific suggestions what to do about the system's financial problems. Roosevelt said in the interview that he has some ideas, "but I don't want to frankly talk about it at this stage of the game." Hawaii senator indicted HONOLULU (AP) -- A Hawaii state senator was indicted Friday along with members of his family and a former political aide in an alleged voter fraud case. Sen. Clifford Uwaine, 32, was indicted on two felony charges. An Oahu grand jury also returned indictments against Ross Segawa, a former Uwaine aide; Debbie Kawaoka, Uwaine's legislative secretary; Uwaine's wife, father, sister and brother-in-law; and an undetermined number of others. Segawa and Miss Kawaoka faced felony charges while others were cited for misdemeanor offenses. === Page 90 of 92 UFO Projects Jet fighter crashes AVON PARK, Fla. (AP) -- An F-16 jet fighter on a training mission crashed on a bombing range northeast of here Monday night, but it was not known if the pilot was injured, Air Force officials said. The single-seat Fighting Falcon crashed at Avon Park Air Force Range during a surface attack training mission, said Staff Sgt. James Weslowski of MacDill Air Force Base. ONE-DAY SPECIAL UFO Project Air Force maint. OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) -- Air Force B-52 bombers are safe aircraft, despite two recent crashes and do not carry nuclear weapons over American rooftops during routine training flights, the Strategic Air Command said Friday. Concern about whether the B-52 is safe enough to be armed with nuclear weapons has been revived since Thursday's crash of one of the aging, eight-engined bombers at Mather Air Force Base in California killed all nine crew members. There were no nuclear weapons aboard that plane, SAC said. faith in B-52 Nevertheless, the crash prompted Rep. Robert T. Matsui, D-Calif., whose district includes the base, to call for an inquiry into B-52 maintenance. Two weeks ago, a B-52 was destroyed by fire just after landing at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, 100 miles to the south. The crew escaped safely. "The flight safety rate of approximately one destroyed B-52 per 100,000 flying hours reflects very favorably on the aircraft's safety," said Col. Richard A. Patrick, SAC director of safety. He said an Air Force team has begun an inquiry into the cause of the crash that will take about two weeks. The right wing of the 450,000-pound bomber, the kind used in the Vietnam War, dipped shortly after takeoff at 8:45 a.m. PST from Mather, a base about 10 miles east of downtown Sacramento. James said the bomber and another just like it were on a "routine training mission," practicing what the Air Force calls "minimal interval takeoffs" or MITO. That means two bombers take off from the same runway seconds apart, as they would in a war alert. The bomber that crashed was the second of the pair, said Lt. Col. Mike Edwards of Mather. James said the plane and crew had made a similar flight the day before without incident. The five trainees aboard the plane were experienced pilots and navigators who were learning specific maneuvers with the B-52, said Clarence Fagan, a Mather spokesman. Names of the dead -- four instructors and five trainees -- were being withheld until relatives could be notified. "I saw the thing coming," said Mike Koewler, president of Sacramento Rendering Company, which is near the scene. "It was level. It looked to me like a normal takeoff, then it took a substantial drop in altitude to the point where you knew the guy was in deep trouble. "At the point of impact, it looked to me like the first thing to go was the tip of the right wing," he said. "Then the earth just shook like an earthquake, and then there was the explosion." Doomed B-52 pilot steers plane away from civilians SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- An Air Force B-52 bomber crashed in a muddy field and exploded just after taking off on a training flight Thursday, killing all nine crewmen. Witnesses said the pilot steered the plane away from buildings where more people might have died. No one was injured on the ground, although several farm animals were killed. The bomber carried no nuclear weapons nor ammunition, said Col. Gobel James, commander of Mather Air Force Base, where the plane took off, although other B-52s at the base are so armed. James said there was no communication between the pilot and the ground that he had any problem in the 45 seconds between the takeoff and the crash. FBI-chartered plane crashes, killing six MONTGOMERY, Ohio (AP) -- A plane chartered by the FBI crashed into a bookstore Thursday, killing all six men aboard, including a suspected embezzler who surfaced after being declared legally dead and was leading agents to the site of his buried loot. At least four people who were in the bookstore in this Cincinnati suburb were injured, including two in critical condition, authorities said. The FBI identified the dead as agents Terry B. Hereford, 34, Wheaton, Ill.; Robert W. Conners, 36, Naperville, Ill.; Michael J. Lynch, 35, Woodridge, Ill.; and Charles L. Ellington, 36, Naperville, Ill. Also killed were Patrick Daly, 68, a former Chicago policeman from Evergreen Park, Ill., and Carl H. Johnson, 48, a former bank executive accused of embezzling $615,000 from a Chicago bank in 1975. Alfred E. Smith, special agent in charge of the Cincinnati FBI office, said Conners and Hereford were qualified FBI pilots and were flying the twin-engine Cessna 411 when it crashed into the Sheppard Bookstore, a converted three-story frame home. Smith said Johnson, who had been declared legally dead just before surrendering to the FBI in Chicago earlier this month, had said he buried $50,000 of the stolen money in the Cincinnati area. He was leading agents to that site. "The object of our investigation today was for our agents to hook up with the agents coming in from Chicago and to be led to the site where this money was allegedly buried," Smith said. The crash occurred in a residential area about 10 miles from the Lunken Field airport. The plane was in the approach pattern to Lunken Field, officials said. It dropped so abruptly that it avoided hitting a house across the street from the bookstore, yet went under a 20-foot-high power line along the street slammed into the store near its foundation. Four charred cars remained in the bookstore parking lot, along with an aircraft engine, the only evidence of the craft that was visible as firemen battled the blaze for more than two hours. Witnesses said there was a whining sound before the plane crashed. "It was making a real funny noise and then a part fell off. He made a real hard bank, and we thought it was going to try to land here in the lot, or the Blue Ash airport, which is nearby," said Tom Jones, employee of a nearby auto dealer. "But he lost all power and went down, hitting some cars, and slid into the bookstore. The whole place immediately went up in flames," Jones said. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the scene Thursday afternoon. === Page 91 of 92 UFO Project (Rynke) # B-52 safety an issue after 3rd accident Staff and wire reports S.F. Rev. 1/29/83 The third accident involving a B-52G bomber in two months will not force any immediate changes at Fairchild Air Force Base or any other Strategic Air Command base, Air Force officials said Friday. A California congressman has called for an investigation into the safety of the 25-year-old bombers, but the Air Force said the plane has one of the best safety records of planes in service and that the three incidents were not similar. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, authorities said they recovered the bodies of five Air Force men from the wreckage of the bomber which exploded and burned Thursday morning. Lt. James Stratford, information officer at the base, said there were no classified documents on the plane and an earlier statement to that effect attributed to him was wrong. The report said the information was recovered from an ejection seat. The explosion was the third fiery accident involving a B-52G since early December. On Dec. 15, a bomber crashed on takeoff from Mather Air Force Base in California, killing all nine crew members. Two weeks earlier, a B-52 was destroyed by fire just after landing at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, Calif. The crew escaped safely. Rep. Robert Matsui, D-Calif., said he would call for an investigation into the safety of the B-52. Those bombers -- the G model, which was produced in the late 1950s, and the H model, produced in the early 1960s -- comprise the main body of the SAC fleet. There are 15 B-52Gs based at Fairchild. "We owe this to military personnel, whose safety and lives may be jeopardized by the aircraft, and we must assure ourselves that the B-52 fleet is still capable of its mission," Matsui said in Washington, D.C. A formal request for such an inquest has not been made, and Air Force officials at the Pentagon said they had no comment on Matsui's statements. But Capt. Virginia Pribyla, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the B-52's record since the mid-1970s was above average for Air Force planes. The bombers averaged 1.6 accidents per 100,000 hours of flying time. Overall, Air Force planes averaged 2.3 accidents per 100,000 hours. "One shouldn't jump to the conclusion that because we've lost three in dissimilar accidents that there's something wrong with the B-52," she said. The only similarity between the accidents -- one landing, one taking off and one parked on the ground -- is that all three planes have burned, Pribyla said. "When you have that much fuel, and an ignition point, it's going to burn." Until December, the Air Force lost an average of one B-52 a year to accidents, Pribyla said. The Air Force is investigating all three accidents, but has ordered no changes at SAC bases. If procedural flaws are discovered, changes will be ordered. Investigations usually take several months, Pribyla said. There were no thoughts of grounding all B-52s while the inquiries are conducted, Pribyla said "We're talking about the strategic fleet of the country," she said. Officers from Fairchild will be on inquiry boards for each accident, said Lt. Jim O'Brien, base information officer. Thursday's explosion occurred as maintenance workers checked valves and other parts of the fuel system. It was under control in 15 minutes, but only the tail of the bomber was left intact, civilian fire officials said. The plane had flown a training mission Wednesday night and was undergoing routine maintenance when its fuel exploded, Grand Forks Air Force Base officials said. The plane was not carrying nuclear weapons. Damage was estimated at $38 million, the plane's replacement cost. Flags were flown at half-staff in the nearby communities of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, Minn., in honor of the five fire victims. Eight people, including four firefighters, were injured in the blast. === Page 92 of 92 Sadat's wife rejected my offer # Relatives of Anwar Sadat jailed on corruption counts Sp News 2/13/83 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Esmat Sadat, the half-brother of assassinated President Anwar Sadat, was sentenced Saturday to a year in jail after he and three of his sons were convicted of building a fortune through corruption. The ethics court also ordered one-year prison terms for the sons and the indefinite confiscation of wealth that the prosecution alleged was amassed through peddling, black marketeering, bribery and other offenses. "Authority has trespassed on justice," Sadat shouted when the court upheld the prosecutor's indictment following a three-month trial. He tried to calm sobbing female relatives. Male members of the family screamed as court president Ahmed Rifaat Khafagy read the verdict. Some of the estimated 300 spectators who packed the courtroom applauded. Sadat and his attorney said the ruling would be appealed. Prosecutor General Abdel-Kader Ahmed Aly had charged that Sadat, 59, and members of his immediate family had built a vast fortune "by illegitimate means" and had "committed acts harmful to the economic interests of the country." Aly's 24-count indictment was issued Dec. 15. It was based on legislation that had been introduced by President Sadat, who was slain in October 1981. The court declared that Esmat Sadat and his sons Galal, 37, Talaat, 29, and Mohammed Anwar, 27, be imprisoned for one year subject to renewal for similar periods up to five years depending on their behavior. But it ruled that the sentences for Esmat, Galal and Talaat began Oct. 28, when Aly ordered them detained. For Mohammed Anwar, the start of the sentence was Saturday. The court set no time-limit for the confiscation of property, which includes the assets of Sadat and his three jailed sons, Esmat's wife and three other sons, one daughter and two in-laws. During the trial, the prosecution said the Sadat family had gained a fortune worth about $150 million. Esmat Sadat once drove a bus and then turned to business when his brother became president. He insisted during the trial that his total wealth was no more than than $180,000. "It's a shame," he told reporters after hearing the verdict. NOTE: SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WROTE MRS. SADAT IN CAIRO AND REQUESTED THE SI BASE BE GRANTED THERE. NOTHING. SO... SADAT AND FAMILY WIPED OUT. 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Thurs., Feb. 17, 1983, Spokane, Wash. # northwest ## Quakes shake Montana Small earthquakes have shaken two areas of Montana. The Earthquake Studies Office at Montana Tech said the strongest quake, measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, was felt at 11:22 p.m. Tuesday in the Shelby, Cut Bank and Conrad areas. The smaller quake, measuring 3.6 on the Richter, was felt at 12:14 a.m. in the Three Forks and Manhattan areas. No damage was reported from either tremor. Dave Snyder of Manhattan said he was watching television when he heard a rumbling in the ground beneath his wood frame farmhouse. "I was sitting in the chair and it felt like a big boulder had rolled under the house," Snyder said. "I felt the house being shook and I rattled the dishes." The largest earthquake was one of the biggest recorded so far this year in Montana, said Michael Stickney, director of the Earthquake Studies Office in Butte. "We've recorded something like 150 earthquakes in the western part of Montana in January and most of them are small, less than 2 1/2," Stickney said. WHERE WE LIVE which is a violation of the An installment loan of tors and 42 tellers will r half the amount for back "liquidated damages." The highest individu to a teller, while s receive around $4,000 ## Too many S SEATTLE (AP) tators in Seattle? Attorneys for S have threatened t "the other" news. Editors of The old, liberal stud name was stolen 2-month-old con dents at the Un ternative to The Seattle Univ ened to sue if Spectator don' Tuesday. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Ted Owens Rt 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 LIBBY, MT JUL 16 PM 1982 59923 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 cise starts eserve, Air National Guard and of various other forces, including the Navy and some Canadian ill participate. ie will "test the ability of SAC to llenges of keeping aircraft flying ic wartime conditions simulated rcise," O'Brien said. se's "wartime environment" will at could result from a "day-to-day of world conditions," he said. "It y kind of surprise attack." 'Brien stressed that the exercise, its kind, bears no relationship to events. t an exercise in which the whole olved," he said. Individual SAC uily engage in small-scale exercis- n constant readiness." Jeffrey Rogo long distance and asked him to ng message, in so many words: havoc and chaos with the "Global Shield" t 9 days (see newsclip above). and dangerous airspace." overlong, for some action on hasn't not been forthcoming. rmer, powerful, vicious attacks are quite real and that I am their wens (PK Man) Rt. 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 Owens === Page 2 of 7 UFO Global Shield (GS) attack # B-52 training exercise starts By MARIAN GREEN Spokesman-Review 7/14/82 Don't be surprised if a squadron of B-52 bombers zooms low overhead in the next few days as if it's carrying a serious mission. They'll just be part of the Air Force's largest practice exercise -- Global Shield '82, said 2nd Lt. Jim O'Brien, information officer for the Fairchild Air Force Base Strategic Arms Command (SAC). The exercise is designed "to enhance readiness and the ability of the Command to carry out orders which support United States national policy should deterrence fail," said O'Brien. SAC units in the United States -- including two bomber squadrons and one tanker squadron at Fairchild AFB -- Japan and Guam will be the major players in the Global Shield exercise, which starts today and ends July 23, he said. The Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and components of various other forces, including the Marines, the Navy and some Canadian forces, also will participate. The exercise will "test the ability of SAC to meet the challenges of keeping aircraft flying under realistic wartime conditions simulated during the exercise," O'Brien said. The exercise's "wartime environment" will mirror one that could result from a "day-to-day deterioration of world conditions," he said. "It wouldn't be any kind of surprise attack." However, O'Brien stressed that the exercise, the fourth of its kind, bears no relationship to current world events. "This is just an exercise in which the whole SAC gets involved," he said. Individual SAC units periodically engage in small-scale exercises "to maintain constant readiness." Jeffrey July 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Today, at approx. 5:52 PM, I phoned Scott Rogo long distance and asked him to relay to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove the following message, in so many words: "My UFOs and myself are going to create havoc and chaos with the "Global Shield" SAC exercises forthcoming within the next 9 days (see newsclip above). The skies will be considered to be deadly and dangerous airspace." My UFOs and myself have waited too long, overlong, for some action on Dr. Mishlove's book and the Base...which has not been forthcoming. My UFOs will therefore return to their former, powerful, vicious attacks in order to make their point...that they are quite real and that I am their "ambassador" to the human race. Ted Owens (PK Man) Rt. 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 Owens === Page 3 of 7 July 14, 1982 - UFOs attack "Global Shield" SAC Exercise. Deadly air space to 1,000 miles above earth until July 28, 1982. chaos and havoc EARTH === Page 4 of 7 Ted Owens Rt 3, Box 1133 Libby, MT 59923 LIBBY, MT JUL 21 PM 1982 59923 International Peace Garden 1932 1982 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave San Francisco, Calif 94121 shlove/Rogo). effects to maintain the family. rther demonstration (as differentiated s over Earth (called volcano ash by the suns rays into outer space, rrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. iant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE YS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with ITED STATES. powers, and my link with my UFOs, is day on for six months) there should the Earth...causing fires and many other ht. nvinced. n today, irrevocably. Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 5 of 7 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 6 of 7 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 7 of 7 UFOs - Sun - Earth PK # Beaches jammed as East sizzles Associated Press Spokane 7/19/82 Record temperatures in the Northeast sent millions to the beaches Sunday, overflowing parking lots and overheating cars along highways. Readings of 98 degrees, records for the date, were reported at Logan International Airport in Boston; Warwick, R.I.; Hartford, Conn., and Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. Portland, Maine, set a record with a reading of 95 degrees, passing the previous record of 94, set in 1952. Boston residents, seeking relief from the heat, opened up to 200 fire hydrants, cutting water pressure at one hospital to a trickle, officials said. Water at the 117-bed St. Margaret's Hospital for Women dribbled out of faucets at 3 p.m., said Frank Mazzaglia, a hospital spokesman. The pressure had increased sufficiently four hours later, he said. Four Haverhill, Mass., police officers were injured when a stone-throwing crowd of 10 to 15 people tried to free a man arrested for fighting at crowded Saltonstall Lake, said Deputy Police Chief Donald J. Shea. He said the officers were treated for minor injuries suffered when hit by stones or flying glass. "It's one of the worst days we've seen," Trooper Victor Lenda said from the Connecticut State Police barracks at Montville, which covers roads leading to Rhode Island beaches from eastern Connecticut. "There's very, very heavy traffic." Some traffic in eastern Connecticut was rerouted. "This is probably the first time we made an all-out effort to do that," Lenda said. "I think otherwise, the people would have been sitting for hours." In East Hartford, Conn., 1,350 Northeast Utilities customers were without electric power for 1½ hours Sunday morning when a "mechanical failure" caused power lines to fall, the Berlin-based utility said. In Maine, parking lots at two beaches, Reid State Park and Popham State Park, hit their capacities by noon. Cars were allowed in one-at-a-time as others left. In New York City, John Fisher, park supervisor for Coney Island, said Saturday's crowd of almost 850,000 people was topped by an estimated 1 million people who jammed the beach Sunday. Another 1 million were reported at Rockaway Beach. Jacob Riis Park in Queens was closed shortly after 2 p.m. when the parking lots began to overflow. Park spokesman John Belimonte said the crowd was estimated to be about 400,000 people. "There aren't any big problems, but there are a lot of cars overheated on the Belt Parkway," said Belimonte. About 300,000 people ventured out to Jones Beach on Long Island and several hundred thousand more headed for the New Jersey shore, authorities said. A spokesman for the Transit Authority said traffic was expected to be "very heavy" on the New Jersey Turnpike. In New York the high for the day, 98 degrees, was recorded shortly after 1 p.m. The record for the day, 101 degrees, was set in 1953. Boston's previous record temperature for July 18 was set at 97 on July 18, 1982. UFOs 100% and Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Tues., July 20, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Heat wave continues Associated Press A heat wave cooked the Northeast another day Monday while thunderstorms fanned the Midwest with hurricane-force winds and rain that sent waist-deep floods through towns and ruined millions of dollars worth of crops. There was little relief from the temperatures of a sizzling Sunday that dropped horses in their tracks in New York City, ignited violence around the fireplugs and beaches in Boston, and set records for the date from Newark, N.J., where it was 100 degrees, to Portland, Maine, where it was 95. The mercury climbed back up to a 98 in Boston on Monday, for the second straight day, tying a record for the date. It was 97 in Windsor Locks, Conn., and 96 in New York and Baltimore. Youngsters with razors slashed two city workers who tried to turn off one of the 200 fire hydrants that had been illegally tapped Sunday in Boston. The workers suffered minor cuts. A large hardware store in Washington sold out its 100 electric fans in an hour and a half after it opened, better than a fan a minute. A 21-year-old California woman was arrested at a country music jamboree near St. Clairsville, Ohio, when she took off her shirt and refused to put it back on. It was a different story Monday in the heartland, where storms with winds up to 75 mph accompanied by heavy rain and hail up to the size of hen's eggs in northeastern Nebraska destroyed an estimated $5 million in corn and soybeans, according to Dodge County Extension Agent Russ Lange. A flash flood built by 4 inches of rain between 9:30 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday washed 3 feet deep through Kirksville, Mo., forcing the evacuation of several families and knocking out the power of 12,000 residents. "It was washing cars off the street," said Kirksville Police Chief Wayne Martin. Up to 7 inches of rain in central Illinois caused widespread flooding and closed roads. July 20, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As you can see, my UFO Sun Attack has begun. Many records have been broken thus far with high heat. I told you in advance that this would be a CAUSED EFFECT (see attached xerox of my earlier letter to you). Meanwhile, the Earth's temperature is rising from the core outward. (The "sizzling heat" in these newsclips is actually just a minor effect of the UFO Sun Attack. The major thrust is heat from the sun to the core of the Earth...changing the temperature of the Earth slowly to sizzling heat from the core to the surface of the Earth.) 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 56 6-15-82 postmark June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 56 Set in motion June 14, 1982. $ heta$ wens SUN HEAT $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ EARTH $ ightarrow$ $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ UFO === Page 3 of 56 UFO Project # Gigantic solar flare too big to measure Spok Rev 6/8/82 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A solar flare so huge that scientific instruments were useless to measure it shot from the Sun's surface, releasing more energy than the Earth uses in a year, scientists said Monday. In the past five days, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recorded X-12 and X-8 flares on the sun's surface. The X-class is the rating for the largest of flares. Sunday's X-12 flare released more energy in less than 20 minutes than all the natural and manufactured energy -- from earthquakes to electricity -- than the Earth uses in a year, according to solar forecaster Phil Powell. Sunday's flare was the largest solar flare recorded since July 1978 -- so large that NOAA scientists had to guess its size, Powell said. The scale at the Space Environment Services Center here doesn't go that high. On Thursday, the center tracked a 37-minute X-8 flare that was the largest since November 1980. While the average person wouldn't be aware of such occurrences, solar flares are bad news for communications systems. A solar flare is a sudden eruption of ultra-hot gases sending high-energy particles rushing into space, some near the speed of light. The particles set off storms in the Earth's magnetic field, which in turn play havoc with earthly electronics. Temperatures in X-class flares jump from the sun's normal few thousand degrees to hundreds of millions of degrees. The resulting higher temperatures in the outer portion of the Earth's atmosphere slow the movement of satellites. Shortwave radio signals fade as the waves of energy wash across space. The geomagnetic disturbances can cause disruptions in electrical power and electronic communications networks such as cross-country computer operations. The energy released in a flare has been stored in a magnetic field on the Sun's surface. The flare appears as a tongue of light and heat bursting millions of miles into space at a speed of 1 million miles an hour. The flare results from a release of pressure that builds up within the magnetic field on the Sun's surface. === Page 4 of 56 Spik RUF WELL Scientists shoot laser at 'monster' volcanic cloud HONOLULU (AP) - Scientists atop a Hawaiian volcano shot a ruby laser Fri- day at a "monster" cloud of volcanic ash circling the globe to gather new informa- tion about its size, density, speed and di- rection. "We made an observation this morning and the back-scatter reading was much lower than it had been," said Tom deFoor, an engineer at the Mauna Loa Observato- ry, part of the National Oceanic and At- mospheric Administration. "That means the cloud has moved away from Hawall." He said it appeared the cloud had moved north over the Pacific Ocean. Latest calculations indicate the cloud may contain 10 million tons of ash and debris, almost certainly from an April 9 eruption of the Chinchonal volcano in Mexico, according to scientists at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. DeFoor and Kinsell Coulson, director of the observatory at the 11,200-foot level of the Mauna Loa volcano, used a "lidar"- which uses a ruby laser - before dawn Friday to measure the cloud's thickness and density. Coulson said the cloud may be the larg- est to spread across the planet since the 1912 eruption of Alaska's Mount Kitmai. The cloud has turned Hawall's normally sparkling blue skies to a milky shade dur- ing the past three weeks, producing sun- rises and sunsets with brilliant red and orange hues. Scientists had said there might be some drop in temperatures as less sunlight reaches the earth's surface. The cloud is estimated to be about 2.5 miles thick with a base 13.7 miles above sea level. But a NOAA scientist in Golden, Colo., on Friday downplayed such a possibility. "Until we get a better reading on the amount of dust and gases added to the stratosphere, we don't expect the weather to be very much different this summer than ... had there been no volcanic erup- tion," said Dr. Lester Machta, director of the Air Resources Laboratory. "And it will take weeks before we can determine the quantity of materials in the cloud." SCIENTISTS IN THIS FILE You ARE READING ABOUT MY GIANT 4FOR OVER EART WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO ACTIVATE FOR HEAT ON THE EARTH (SEE COVER PAGE). Ovens 6/15/ Solar flares detected project BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Three major solar flares were reported Friday by forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration. Joe Hirman, NOAA chief forecaster, said the flares probably would disrupt some short-wave communications and magnetic equipment, espe- cially in high latitudes, when their effects are felt late Sunday. He said the aurora from the flares may be visible in Canada. The flares took place in the southeast region of the sun, and Hirman said more flares could occur there through next week. pokker 6/5/82 my 250, at work Comen Unusual sunspot spotted WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists routinely surveying the sun have sighted a giant, pinwheel-shaped sunspot, the first time such a phenomenon has been seen in visible light, the National Science Foundation announced Sunday. The foundation said astronomers at its Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona first saw the unprecedented sunspot on Feb. 19 and that it held its unusual shape for several days. "I have been observing for over 30 years and I've never seen anything like this before," said Dr. William Livingston, a Kitt Peak astronomer. "It was a real curiosity, a rare thing." Sunspots are dark, relatively cool areas visi- ble on the surface of the sun. Temperatures of the spots can be as low as 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with about 11,000 degrees for the rest of the surface. Scientists watching spots in light wavelengths other than the ones humans can see have noticed spirals previously, Livingston said in a telephone interview, "but we're never seen one in visible light before.' DeOKRET 5/17/82 Ash cloud castin shadow in tropics Skok Rer 6/5/8- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - The huge cloud of ash and sulfur- ic acid that spread from a mam- moth explosion of a Mexican vol- cano is interfering with sunlight in Hawali, Japan and tropical regions, scientists said Friday. It's too soon to tell whether the 17-mile-high cloud from the April 4 explosion of Chinchonal volcano in southeast Mexico, which killed 22 people, will alter the Earth's cli- mate this year, said James Pollack of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Re- search Center. But it's possible that the eruption that belched 10 million tons of debris into the upper atmosphere - at least 10 times as much as pro- duced by Mount St. Helens -- could produce climatic changes similar to the 1815 eruption of Tambora in In- donesia, Pollack said, He said, however, it should not threaten the health of life on Earth. The Tambora explosion killed 1.2,000 people and produced what officials called the "year of no sum- mer! in New England and brought Ice to London's Thames River. "At the end of the 19th century there was a period when many large explosive volcanic eruptions occurred on (the island of) Kraka- tau," Pollack said. "During that and growing seasons were shor Chinchonal's first eruption a week before the main volcani plosion on April 4. The debris cluding heavier ash particles dissipate in a few months and sı gases converted by sunlight to furic acid, had reached Hawal April 9. The debris arrived over Japa April 18, covered the Red Sea April 21 and had circled the g by the end of the month. The ash and acid are combi to reflect or "scatter" sunlight reaches the outer atmosphere. effect, Pollack explained, could slightly higher temperatures in upper atmosphere and cooler t peratures on Earth. Ig tropical regions, tests h shown that 25 percent to 50 perc of sunlight reaching Earth has b scattered by the Chi)conal clo and the sun's rays reaching Eart! that region may be reduced by percent to 20 percent. Similar interference with s light is occurring in Hawaii and pan, where tests indicate the clo is 1,000 times greater in volut than the normal atmosphere at ti altitude. Hovering at 75,000 to 90,000 fe the bulk of the debris is too high be reached by NASA's IT-2 resear === Page 5 of 56 6-30-80 postmark June 28, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Last Thursday, as I was driving to Spokane, 165 miles away, to pawn some personal articles, my UFOs telepathd to me. What they sent was fascinating. Each day I have been faithfully telepathing to the four giant UFOs surrounding Earth, to the effect that they would absorb tremendous heat from the sun and focus it upon Earth...for the new, most powerful demonstration to date. But my UFOs explained something important to me. As a background for this...my UFOs had had me tear out a page of Newsweek several weeks ago and keep it, with no explanation for their order. (See it enclosed). Under "Choppers" see the paragraph "All the information was recorded in ten minutes on tape, then "burped" out by a radio that compressed it into a single second of sound, unintelligible to the Argentines." Now they referred me back to that page...and explained that what they had working, under my human permission and supervision...was an actual mechanism. That is, they showed me a mechanism...the Sun, bright red with tremendous heat with a rod connected to each of the four Giant UFOs with each, in turn, having a rod connected to Earth. The Sun, the rods, the UFOs, and the Earth-connected rods were bright red with the same tremendous heat. These things in turn were affecting Earth at the core, slowly heating the Earth from the inside out. They gave me an analogy: a water bed is plugged into an electric outlet. The heat forthcoming in the waterbed mattress is not immediate...it might well take a day or two to become hot or warm. And so it is with this UFO Sun Attack. I telepathd back to Control and asked if the "rods" from the UFOs to Earth would affect the outer Earth...and Control told me that that would indeed be the case...heat would radiate from the rods, causing abnormal heat on the surface of the Earth. But most importantly, my UFOs explained that I had only to mentally telepath this simple mechanism diagram to the Giant UFOs...just flash it once daily...to activate it. (They could do this themselves, since they have my blanket permission to bring about the Base in any way they deem necessary...but they are allowing me to do it.) They further explained that this mechanism is much like a transistor in a computer or TV set which contains a tremendous amount of intelligence confined in a tiny space. (Transistor or "chip"...am sure you know what I am talking about.) I.e., the PK Map is merely symbolic...my UFOs have set up an intricate, yet simple, mechanism, that can be activated in a flash of a second, daily. So now...the Earth will heat up slowly, from the inside out...from the core to the surface...with radiating heat also falling upon the surface simultaneously. Should I die or be killed...nothing will stop this process...I am the only one that can. And Earth as humans know it will be destroyed. If the Base is forthcoming, then this mechanism will be discontinued and other, positive powers will be activated to help mankind, the Earth, and the United States. Please remember, this UFO Sun Attack is not something that I want...but if it results in the Base, and saving hundreds of millions of human lives...then it is worth it, and must be done. Not long after my UFOs telepathd...other information came to me. Not connected with the other. From the alien half of my brain. Why would Nature create animals like deer, bear, wolves, etc., who live just day by day, to survive. Think about it. Just to survive. Then my mind went to trees and the oceans. Humans draw oxygen from the trees and the oceans to live. Without that oxygen, humans would not live. Then it came to me...the answer. There must be a collective will to live, to survive...on the part of animals, fish, birds...which humans can draw upon, unknowingly, for their human survival...just as humans draw upon trees and oceans for oxygen for their survival. Put another way...just as the baby in the womb absorbs different things to survive and live in the womb (oxygen, food, etc.) through the placenta (unknowingly and unaware of the complexity of the higher intelligence and source of supply surrounding it, in the being of the mother...so does the Human Race, mankind, draw upon Universal Will To Live and survive...i.e., there are Higher Powers unknown at present to mankind which can be drawn upon and used by mankind. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 6 of 56 # 'The Cockleshell Heroes' The camouflaged C-130 transport plane was only a few hundred feet above the heaving waters of the South Atlantic when the rear doors suddenly opened. Fourteen men in black wet suits and goggles dropped silently into the sea on black parachutes. Beneath the surface a nuclear-powered sub picked up the blips from their sonar transmitters, and let out a cable on a buoy. The commandos--loaded down with pistols, submachine guns, explosives, cameras and a radio--grabbed the cable and pulled themselves down to the sub's flooded escape hatch. Once they were inside, the compartment was pumped out. The frogmen clambered into the sub and stripped off their suits to reveal their battle dress: uniforms of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), a small secret unit of crack commandos picked from Her Majesty's Royal Marines. The SBS's first mission against the Argentines was to prepare the way for Britain's landing on South Georgia. It was a silent venture, true to the SBS motto: "Not by strength but by guile." The sub turned south, edging its way under the massive "sonar shadow" of an iceberg off South Georgia that blocked detection by enemy listening devices. Then the commandos exited the way they arrived--through the hatch. They swam to shore within 2 or 3 miles of the main target: the harbor at Grytviken, where most of the 44 Argentine troops defending the island were stationed. Splitting into four- and six-man teams, the commandos surveyed the area for underwater obstacles that might rip out the bottom of a landing boat. They also hunted for a sloping, shallow beach where craft could run onto dry land. As one expert said later: "A fully clothed and armed man can't jump chest deep into freezing water and fight afterward." Choppers: The advance guard hid by day and scouted by night. The teams mapped out the positions of the Argentine troops, their guns and mortars and their radio masts. They decided where the British helicopters should come in. Then the scouts completed their last tasks: they set out landing lights for the choppers and knocked out enemy radio aerials, cutting off contact between the defenders and their home base on the Falklands. The preparations complete, Britain's boatmen waited for comrades from M (for "Mangle") Company of the 42nd Marine Commando to storm the island and wrap up the job. The South Georgia operation was just the kind of mission the SBS has used time and again in practice and in combat. The unit was founded during World War II. Its most famous exploit before South Georgia was a raid launched from a submarine in the English Channel in which ten men paddled canoes 50 miles up the Gironde River in occupied France to blow up a group of German ships in Bordeaux. Two men drowned, six were captured and executed by the Nazis and only two came back. The mission was immortalized in a film called "The Cockleshell Heroes," named after the tiny boats the commandos paddled to their target. The SBS today recruits its men from the toughest and most skilled of the Royal Marines, taking one man from every 30 who volunteer. Its headquarters are at Poole, a harbor town in the south of England. The service has an insignia--a frog and crossed canoe paddles--that is worn only at private dinners and celebrations. The men are permitted to dress informally and to call their officers by their Christian names. For their dangerous work, the SBS marines get $26 a day, plus an extra $3.50 a day "tradesman's bonus" because they are considered "Specially Qualified." Almost everything else about them is shrouded in secrecy. Even as the whole of Britain's press focused on them last week, no one was able to ascertain their total strength. (Estimates range from 100 to 400 men.) Gordon Moore *The men from 'Mangle': Royal Marines train for an invasion* No SBS members grant interviews. And when they receive their medals for the South Georgia raid, no public announcements will be made. But one thing about the SBS is common knowledge: as seagoing sabotage experts, they are to the marines what the Special Air Service (SAS)--Britain's famous anti-terrorist squad--is to the army. "We can do anything the SAS can do," the SBS boasts, "and walk on water, too." Machine Guns: In combat skills, the men from Special Boats rival James Bond. They are trained to use an arsenal that runs from Uzi and Sterling machine guns to pistols of any make. Each man chooses his own weapons, which can include anything that can be found in Britain or captured from an enemy; "an ax if that's what's needed," as one man says. They are also specialists in such diverse arts as underwater demolition and HALO--high-altitude, low-opening parachuting. An SBS man can jump from 25,000 feet with a collapsible boat strapped to his body and plummet to 1,200 feet before his chute opens. When he hits the water, he has a special mask and a tank that recycles air and doesn't leave bubbles trailing on the surface. As one naval man puts it, "The SBS is the eyes and ears of an amphibious force." Because of their special training, the boatmen have been used to enforce security on Britain's North Sea oil rigs. They also check on the operation of SOSUS, the underwater submarine-detection system strung from Britain to Iceland. One of their more notable recent jobs was in 1972, when two SBS men were parachuted into the sea to search the liner Queen Elizabeth II, which had been threatened by a man claiming to have planted bombs on board. That turned out to be a false alarm. But if the rumors around the British Defense Ministry are to be believed, the SBS was probably out doing the real thing last week--clambering around the Falklands and mapping out the way for the next assault. KIM ROGAL with TONY CLIFTON in London NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 31 === Page 7 of 56 June 28, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS At present writing I suffer from colorectal cancer (see newsclip). I have no doctor or medication. No money for it. Cannot go to a hospital for surgery or treatment. No money for it. Dr. Mishlove once asked me if I thought "the world owed me a living" or something like that. No, not at all. However, I am in the unique position of knowing that I am a national treasure, and my "host country" is allowing my UFOs "ambassador to Earth" die, without help. In a way, to me it is irony, and I am glad, in a way. Had the Base been provided then my UFOs and I would have worked to get the United States out of trouble around the world and on its feet, healthy and in tip-top shape. Without me and the Base and the UFOs, the United States will be a dead duck in every which way one could imagine, in near time ahead. I only feel sorrow for the innocent people, the good people, of the United States, who have to go down with the ship because the Captain # 'Cancer can be prev By BRENDA TABOR Spokesman-Review Advances in medical treatment have made it possible to save half of all cancer patients. But a good share of those people needn't have developed cancer. The biggest gains to be made in cancer prevention are out of the hands of medical science. "We have it in our power to prevent cancer," Dr. Robert H. Gersh, of the American Cancer Society, told the Spokane Central Lions Club Thursday. A full 25 to 30 percent of the cancer cases could be prevented if people simply stopped smoking, he said. "The only cancer "epidemic" is lung cancer, Gersh said. More people are dying of cancer, but that's because they're living longer than in the past, he explained. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease. One out of four Americans will get cancer and two out of three will have personal contact with someone who has the disease. "It's one of the most curable diseases if detected and treated early," Gersh said. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, named because of the way it spreads, Gersh said. It occurs when normal cells grow and reproduce in an abnormal fashion. It may be caused by damage to the cells' hereditary material, called DNA. Four kinds of cancer account for 50 percent of all cases, Gersh said. * Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer among men and will soon be No. 1 among women as well. It's a "silent disease" that can't be detected early, even with chest X-rays, Gersh said. The warning signs, persistent cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, chest infections and coughed up blood, don't occur until the cancer is in advanced stages. "Prevention is the key," Gersh said. Eighty percent of it could be eliminated if people didn't smoke. Ten years after a smoker has quit, his chance of developing cancer is only slightly above that of a non-smoker, Gersh said. * Colorectal cancer (large intestine and colon) is the second most common cancer among both sexes. It can be detected early and has a 75 percent survival rate. Early symptoms may not be visible. Symptoms that appear as the cancer progresses include intestinal bleeding, blood in stool, abdominal pain and bowel pressure. It can be detected with a digital rectal exam, proctoscopic exam and a test for blood in the stool. People over 40 should have annual exams. * Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women. Less than 1 percent of the cases occur in men. One out of 11 women will get it in === Page 8 of 56 UFO Sun Attack # Dry weather shrivels wheat estimates By LARRY YOUNG Spokesman-Review Bone-dry weather has sliced estimates of this year's Washington wheat crop to 50 million bushels below last year's record-setting pace. As the dry weather continues, each new crop estimate is lower than the one before. On May 1, the Washington State Statistical Crop Reporting Service put the 1982 state wheat crop at 145.2 million bushels. But May turned out to be the fifth driest on record. On June 1, the estimate was cut to 137 million bushels. But June has turned out to be "exceptionally dry" and very hot, said Ken Holmes, meteorologist at the Spokane weather station. Now, Washington Association of Wheat Growers President Alex McLean says 115 to 120 million bushels would be nearer the mark. Last year, Washington farmers harvested a record 168.3 million bushels of spring and winter wheat. The year before the total was 160 million. Only .17 of an inch of rain has fallen in June so far, which would make the month the third or fourth driest on record, if no more rain falls, said Holmes. Normally May and June are wet -- average June rainfall is 1.36 inches. The Inland Empire's dry season normally starts in July and runs through August. Wheat has also been hurt by temperatures that are running 10 degrees above normal. Robert Deife, administrator of federal farm programs for Washington state, said the damage is showing up first in low rainfall areas. "Flying over the Palouse, the wheat still looks a rich, green color." However, on-the-ground observers in the Palouse say wheat leaves are starting to turn a bluish color, indicating stress to plants from lack of moisture. "Cheat grass (a weed) has been competing hard with wheat in many areas," said John Leenders, spokesman for the Wheat Growers. "This will cut the harvest. The heat has made it Spok Rev 6/27/82 === Page 9 of 56 UFO 100X Attack NEWSWEEK MAY '82 NATIONAL AFFAIRS The Endless Winter of '82 March may have gone out like a lamb, but the lion lingered on. The winter that wouldn't quit buried the nation in snow last week--both California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and New York City suffered their worst April blizzards ever--and brought record cold for the month from Augusta, Ga. (26 degrees), to International Falls, Minn. (minus 11). Springtime rituals withered under the assault: baseball's opening week was largely postponed, many of Washington's cherry blossoms succumbed to chilblains and Boston fretted over where to find snow-removal funds to ready the streets for next week's Boston Marathon. Despite its tenacity, the winter of '82 wasn't--on the whole--all that bad. For most of the season, temperatures across the nation averaged only a few degrees below normal, warmer than the winters of both 1978 and 1979. In Chicago, traditionally one of the nation's bellwethers in such matters, this winter was deemed only the seventh worst in the last 87 years. Still, it will be remembered for some particularly devastating stretches, most notably in January. During a one-week period early that month, satellite pictures revealed that 75 percent of the United States was covered by at least 1 inch of snow, the broadest snow cover since the weather satellites started photographing the earth's surface. During the first two weeks, January set 100 low-temperature records, including all-time lows of minus 26 degrees in Chicago and 1 above zero in Augusta. Record Rains: The record cold spread down to Florida, where the citrus crop was the principal casualty--and the loss to the citrus industry approached $1 billion. Record-setting rains in northern California--24 inches in eighteen hours in Marin County--caused mud slides that killed 29 people. Across the nation, according to the National Weather Service, there were 300 weather-related deaths in just the first month of 1982. Jeff Lowenthal--Newsweek The weather's costs--in damage and lost lives--are still mounting. Earlier this month 87 tornadoes in the Texas-Pennsylvania-Georgia triangle killed 29 people, more than the number of people who died in tornadoes in all of 1981. The heavy snows took their toll as well, particularly near Lake Tahoe, where seven died in an avalanche. But there were a few for whom the spring snows were a godsend. At Sugarloaf/USA, Maine's largest ski resort, operators expected the storm to boost Easter-weekend revenues by 50 percent. And Midwestern grain farmers welcomed the added snow coverage, which will replenish the depleted water table while providing insulation for winter wheat. Perhaps nowhere were the weather's mixed effects more obvious than in Chicago. There, on last week's opening day, the pennant-feverish Chicago White Sox were snowed out of Comiskey Park and their sold-out series with the Boston Red Sox. But long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans were cheering. The dreadful weather kept the Cubs--who just beat both the Cincinnati Reds and the unseasonable snows--in first place for three days. MARK STARR with bureau reports April-weather miseries (clockwise): No ball in Chicago, more than showers for spring flowers, tornado power in Texas, New York headline Bernard Gotfryd--NEWSWEEK PLAY BALL P. F. Bentley--Photoreporters Ben Weaver--Camera 5 WIN 500 THE BIG SNOW! Blizzard warning - 12 inches on the way 'Life-threatening danger' === Page 10 of 56 New England rains spread havoc por Ras 6/9/80 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A storm that dropped up to 11 inches of rain on southern New England washed out dams and bridges, tore houses off foundations and sent up to 12 feet of water through towns. Thirteen people died and five more were presumed drowned, officials said. An estimated 1,300 Connecticut residents were forced to flee their homes. The most severe problems were reported in Ivoryton, Conn., where two dams on the Fall River burst Sunday, releasing a wall of water that washed away four hous- es and several cars. "It looked like a tidal wave," said Christopher Dewey, who lives on Main Street. "It was like a white wave covering everything." The heavy rain, which began Fri- day, began to taper off today. Rocks shifted in the center of a dam near Leominster, Mass., as rain fell, but the dam held and wa- ters were receding. Eight people were killed and one was missing in Connecticut, two people were missing in Massachu- setts and five people died and two were missing in Rhode Island. Helicopters and six-wheeled mili- tary vehicles were used to rescue stranded residents as a high-pres- sure system to the north kept the storm bottled up over the Atlantic Coast all weekend. "The damage is tremendous in many towns," said Connecticut Gov. William A. O'Neill, who called out National Guard units to help with sandbagging. "It will run into the millions of dollars.". The governor declared a state of emergency and asked for federal disaster assistance. Coastal areas of Connecticut near Ivoryton were cut off by flooding streams and marshes, and streets and highways were lined with cars stalled by flooded engines. Inter- states 95 and 91 in New Haven ex- perienced severe traffic jams due to flooded exits. Rep. Lawren J. DeNardis, R- Conn., estimated damage to 16 Con- necticut shoreline communities at raft bobbing in the Ware River at $100 million. Flood waters were receding in Massachusetts Air National Guard most areas today, although the Con- helicopter Sunday. The youths were necticut River - the state's largest treated for exposure at Mercy Hos- - was expected to reach four feet pital in Springfield. to the National Weather Service a six-wheeled surplus military vehi- River Forecast Center in Bloom- cle to evacuate two couples, three field. Ivoryton native Ronald Kra- three goats from Riverdale Road jewski said the town bears no re- when the Manhan River overflowed semblance to the way it was before its banks. Houses that used to stand here have were killed in a car crash Friday To the west, several Naugatuck rillville and two women canoeists of emergency and evacuated homes night in Narragansett Bay after when rivers and streams began their canoe was found overturned. Connecticut police said an 8- spilling over their banks Saturday. Much of downtown Milford, west year-old boy drowned Sunday in the of New Haven, remained closed to- basement of his New London home, day after what local officials called a 62-year-old man drowned when a the worst flooding this century. Wa- Roaring Brook bridge collapsed un- ter was 4 to 6 feet deep on River der his truck and a 19-year-old Street during the worst of the flood- ing, they said. In New Haven's Westville sec- tion, mayoral aide Cathy Gollinger damaged bridge. said 10to 12 feet of water roared down streets from the West River, drowned in Wharton Brook after an overturning several cars. ment said 71 sections of roads re- mained closed because of high wa- ter or washouts, and at least 10 major bridges were swept away. Amtrak passengers were being swept from a bridge as he tried to bused between Bridgeport and New London, around flooded sections of A woman died of an apparent heart the coast near New Haven and Mil- attack as she tried to bail water from her Clinton basement and an 80-year-old New Haven man was struck by his own car while he tried to fix the engine, which was stalled by high water. Two people were presumed lons out of the Charles River be- drowned in the Atlantic Ocean tween Watertown and Charlestown to keep it from overflowing. south of Boston after one was washed into the water and the other Two boys were plucked from a made a rescue attempt. UFO 100 x Attack. Storm brushes Florida, winds ease west of Fort Myers, with top winds of 50 mph. FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)- Tropical cool Gulf waters about 175 miles south- Storm Alberto, which killed 15 people in Cuba and brushed southwest Florida as a surprise hurricane, stalled Friday in the Gulf of Mexico and began to calm down. During the night the storm pounded western Cuba, damaging thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people. It swept past the Florida Keys, prompting hundreds of residents to flee inland and emptying seaside re- sorts as the storm pointed toward Fort Myers. Then stalled. swerved westward and By 6 p.m., the storm had edged only 25 miles closer to Fort Myers in the previous 25 hours, and was 175 miles southwest of it. Alberto kept weakening through the afternoon, its winds decreasing to 40 mph, barely above the 39-mph mini- mum for tropical storm status, "The storm has stepped down in in- tensity quite a bit," said forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurri- cane Center in Miami. "He's dying," said Bob Case, a fore- caster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm, which in half a day had grown from a depression off the west- ern tip of Florida to a hurricane with 80 mph winds, lingered for hours Friday in above flood stage today, according the flood. "It's just a mudhole. just disappeared," he said. Valley cities declared local states children, two dogs, two cats and In Rhode Island five teen-agers night on a rain-slicked road in Bur- were presumed drowned Saturday woman drowned when she tried to cross rain-swollen Eight-Mile River after a truck became stalled on a The state Transportation Depart- died when a rubber raft overturned A 15-year-old was presumed inner tube burst and a 28-year-old in the Saugatuck River. The body of a 39-year-old man was recovered from a partially submerged car in Orange and a 68-year-old man was cross a river to his home in Clinton. ford. In Massachusetts, the weather service said about 2.35 inches of rain fell Sunday. The Boston-area Metropolitan District Commission reported pumping millions of gal- Palmer by a line lowered from a In Southampton, firefighters used === Page 11 of 56 201 100XFblack STORMS: Floods close more roads; Winds level more homes Associated Press Spotkes 5/22 80 A.deluxe from days of back-to-back thunderstorms claimed new territory across the Midwest on Friday, closing highways with water and mudslides as rain came down as hard as 4 inches an hour The storms that have pounded the Great Plains for two weeks stirred up at least 19 tornadoes Thursday, flatten- ing a number of homes and buildings and injuring several people. No one was killed by the twisters, but a truck driver was electrocuted near Jacksonville, III .. when winds blew a high-voltage power line onto his truck. A woman in Adrian, Mo., said a tor- nado picked her up and dropped her 50 feet away. Lavera Simpson, 54, was listed in satisfactory condition Friday with back, neck and head injuries. Rivers bloated by up to 8 inches of rain during the night poured from their banks in parts of Nebraska, South Dako- ta, Missouri and lowa. Many roads and highways were blocked by water, snarling traffic and stranding motorists in cities such as Omaha, Neb,, and Columbia, Mo. A mudslide closed a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 34 in Nebraska between Nehaw- ka and Union. Water was up to the bumpers of cars on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City, Mo. Police in Fremont, Neb., said many cars were stalled in water on the streets. In southeastern South Dakota, 81/2 inches of rain fell in two hours at Del- mont. In the western part of the state, the Belle Fourche River surged to 21/2 feet above flood stage at Fruitdale and Elm Springs. Some residents of the town of Belle Fourche fled Thursday when water from the Belle Fourche and Redwater rivers poured into about 50 homes. Mike Phury, a citizen who lives near Delmont, said the 81/2 inches of rain fell between 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thurs- day, washing out roads and damaging just-planted crops. The National Weather Service said 41/2 inches of rain fell in just 45 minutes south of Table Rock, Neb. Roy Osugi, a hydrologist for the weather service in Nebraska, said, "It definitely is unusual for it to rain as. many consecutive days as it has." In eastern Nebraska, officials were keeping an eye on the Nemaha and Mis- souri rivers which were running brim full. Joe McCartney, a spokesman for the Union Pacific Railroad, said it would take several days to reopen the line be- tween Columbus and Norfolk, Neb., where the track was washed out in sev- eral places. In Oklahoma, an estimated 4 inches of rain fell in southeastern Bartlesville in an hour Thursday afternoon, said Po- lice Chief Charles Spencer. Elsewhere, a storm swept through Connecticut on Thursday afternoon with heavy rain and lightning. Wind and severed tree limbs knocked out electric- ity in more than 40 communities, said Jackie Harris, a spokeswoman for Northeast Utilities. Power to 14,000 of at least 20,000 affected customers was restored by late evening, she said. The twister that hit near Adrian, Mo., a town of about 1,200 about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, damaged at least 10 buildings. 4502 100 x Attack Storms, floods flail Midwest, New England Associated Press A "hellish" storm likened to a hurricane crashed through the Mid- west with 90-mph winds Monday, while hundreds more people fled a New England flood which has left 15 dead and seven missing. Just before dawn,. a storm 150 miles wide tore through eastern Kansas into Missouri and Iowa, flattening homes, clipping down trees and power lines, wrecking parked airplanes and blacking out portions of cities such as Topeka, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. The weekend deluge of up to 11 inches of rain in southern New Eng- land, which forced the evacuation of up to 2,000 people in Connecticut, found new victims in Rhode Island on Monday as 250 people fled their homes along the rising Pawtuxet River. State of emergencies were de- clared in Connecticut and much of Rhode Island. All of southern New England except Cape Cod remained under a flood warning. The flood has been blamed for 10 deaths in Connecticut and five in Rhode Island. Spokher 6/8/82 WDe 100 % Attack 1,000 forced to evacuate by Connecticut flooding HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A record rainfall swamped Connecti- cut with up to 8 inches of rain, washing out bridges, cutting elec- tricity and forcing the evacuation of some 1,000 people. One person was killed and at least two more were believed drowned, officials said Sunday. Gov. William A. O'Neill called out the National Guard to help with sandbagging operations and urged residents to stay home. Heavy rains were expected to continue in the eastern part of the state until Monday, and shoreline towns braced for more flooding as tides rose. More than 3 inches of rain was reported in the western part of the state. The National Weather Service station at Bradley International Airport said it recorded 5.87 inches between 11 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. That was the most . ed substation left 16,000 people rain in any 24 hours - except for periods of bad weather associated with tropical storms or hurricanes - since the service began keeping Connecticut records in 1904. Local and secondary streets in low-lying areas were reported to be impassable throughout Connecticut, and portions of state highways were closed. The Red Cross set up emergency shelters in 13 communities near Long Island Sound and in the Nau- gatuck River Valley. The New Haven suburbs of Ham- den and Milford were among the hardest hit by the storm. Small boats were used to evacuate some of 400 people in Hamden living be- low the Bardee Brook dam. State officials said "very serious conditions" were reported in Essex, where some residents were without electricity, telephone service or wa- ter. A spokesman for Southern New England Telephone Co. said a flood- without phones. Job Rows- 6/7/80 === Page 12 of 56 UFOs 100x Attack # Flooding in Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Spok Rev 5/18/82 Floods chased hundreds of people from their homes Monday in Texas and Oklahoma, where a week of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes has left millions of dollars in damage. People scrambled onto rooftops and climbed trees to escape the water in some communities as National Guard helicopters and police boats plucked others to safety. At least 10 deaths have been blamed on the week of storms which spread Monday from the Mexican border in Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., with powerful winds, blinding rain and hail as big as baseballs. Three drowned in Texas on Monday and two others were missing in floodwaters surging around San Antonio. THE BARRAGE of twisters continued Sunday and Monday with six hitting rural areas of Oklahoma, five in Texas, two in North Dakota and one in Illinois. Some homes and farm buildings were destroyed. In Wichita Falls, Texas, where floods last week had chased about 5,000 people from their homes, 500 people remained homeless. About 60 who had returned home, went back to a Red Cross emergency shelter Monday morning as a flood warning was posted. About 600 were evacuated in Kingfisher, Okla., as that city of 4,000 residents, about 25 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, suffered its worst flooding in 25 years. Officials estimated the water at 6 to 8 feet deep in city streets. Among them was Mary Cordova, 40, trapped in her house with seven relatives who spent the night standing on chairs. They waded through thigh-deep water Monday morning to a National Guard helicopter waiting on higher ground. "MY TWO NEPHEWS -- aged 18 and 20 -- treaded in chest-high water early this morning to see if we were all right out here," Mrs. Cordova said. "It took them 3½ hours to go three miles. "My house is full of water now. I doubt there's anything left to salvage." Howard Watson, director of Civil Defense in Kingfisher, where the Uncle John and Kingfisher creeks empty into the Cimarron River, said, "There were lots of people who didn't get out last night when we warned them, and now they're stranded in the upstairs of their homes, dining room tables, or something like that. "This is by far the worst I've ever seen." Watson said that 150 evacuees were housed at a temporary shelter set up by the Red Cross in the town's Memorial Hall. The rest moved in with relatives and friends. "ALL THE HOUSES look like little islands," Watson said, "and there's 2-3 feet of water in the houses now." The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said that all roads leading in and out of Kingfisher were closed. "Nobody has any idea how many others are stranded," Watson said. "They just keep calling out to the police boat, or waving to them." In Texas, Dawn Hamilton, 13, was killed when her pickup truck was washed over a bridge in western Bexar County. Officers also recovered the body of Michael Murray, 27, who was helping the woman try to start her car when they were swept away. UFOs 100x Attack # Storms pound Midwest Associated Press Spok Rev 5/21/82 Thunderstorms that have raged for over a week sent more floods pouring across Nebraska and Oklahoma on Thursday, washing out railroads, ruining homes and drowning cattle. Silt washing down from the Nebraska hillsides buried some roads in mud 3 feet deep. Soaked sandbags, filled by hundreds of volunteers, ringed homes and businesses in Platte Center, Neb., a community of 370 people about 100 miles northwest of Omaha. Carcasses of dead cows were floating in creeks. Trees were stripped by hail and gardens were flattened in some areas. And the rains kept coming, up to 3 inches in places, with winds gusting to almost 80 mph. IN THE EAST, severe thunderstorms accompanied by gusting winds knocked out power in more than 40 Connecticut communities, affecting at least 11,000 customers, utility officials said. The storms, which swept through Connecticut on a cold front in the late afternoon, brought heavy rains and lightning. Wind and blowing tree limbs tore down power lines. Residents in most parts of the state lost their electricity, and some major industries in the Danbury area were affected. The National Weather Service said a volley of tornadoes, which has hit the Plains states with 95 twisters since last Friday, seemed to be slackening. Radar spotted one funnel south of Cordell, Okla., but no damage was reported. On Wednesday, a twister hit a farm near Sharon Springs in northwest Kansas, destroying a house and farm buildings containing four airplanes, four combines and other farm equipment. AS THURSDAY'S thunderstorms descended on central Oklahoma, flash flood warnings were posted in Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln, Canadian, Oklahoma and Cleveland counties, including areas where hundreds of people were evacuated earlier in the week. In Nebraska, flash flood warnings were up in Platte County, eastern Boone county and the southern half of Madison and Stanton counties. Trains were temporarily halted on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad in eastern Nebraska, with the track washed out in many places and bridges threatened. Officials later opened one track of the line. "I sat around, drank whiskey and cried," said R.D. Taylor of Norman, Okla., recalling how he watched the South Canadian River climb out of its banks, cover the mailbox in his yard, and pour into his home. Norman city manager James Crosby declared a state of emergency to allow the city to spend what it needs to repair roads and utilities. === Page 13 of 56 A tornado hovers over Herrin, Ill., Saturday. The bars at the top of the picture are power lines. UFO 100X Attack # More storms in Midwest Associated Press S of R Row 5/31/82 Relentless Memorial Day weekend thunderstorms pounded the nation's midsection, trapping a Boy Scout troop near rushing floodwaters, pouring 2¾ inches of rain on a Nebraska town within 20 minutes, smashing crops with hail and wind and causing at least 15 deaths. The storm produced at least 25 tornadoes in six states in the nation's midsection on Saturday. Twisters ripping through southern Illinois left at least 10 people dead and 15 missing in Marion, Ill. At least 1,000 people were left homeless as the tornadoes flattened parts of three southern Illinois counties. In West Virginia, a torrential downpour early Sunday sent small streams out of their banks, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Flooding also was reported in the eastern Colorado Plains, and thunderstorms in Denver sparked lightning that killed one man and injured two others on Saturday. Three people were found dead in Oklahoma on Saturday after lightning struck their house. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Sunday for western Missouri and eastern Kansas and the area from southeastern Iowa and west-central Illinois through central Missouri, the National Weather Service said. The twister that struck Marion, Ill., on Saturday first had ripped through 10 miles of nearby countryside. Shopping plazas, apartment complexes and as many as 90 homes were flattened. Tree limbs, utility poles and pieces of buildings littered the town's streets. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared the region a disaster area Saturday night. Before hitting Marion, the twister had touched down in Carterville and sliced through Crainville. Other twisters hit other rural areas, destroying houses and causing injuries. Winds up to 60 mph and golf-ball sized hail were reported Sunday morning in northern Kansas, and a tornado was reported near Topeka, the Weather Service said. No damage was reported. Flash flood watches continued in eastern and central Nebraska, where downpours dumped more water into already swollen rivers. Heavy rain drenched south-central Nebraska, with 2¾ inches reported in a 20-minute period in Roseland Sunday morning. High winds and driving rain racked Ohio, and one man was critically injured by lightning. Port Columbus International Airport reported wind gusts of 76 mph Saturday, and Prairie Township Fire Chief Robert Stormont estimated damage at $500,000. He said 50 to 75 trees were downed, and many buildings were damaged. The storm knocked a cement-block, two car garage "about 50 feet in the air and crumbled it when it set down in the backyard," he said. The storm caused widespread power outages in the Dayton and Columbus areas. Utility spokesmen said 7,000 power customers in Dayton and up to 28,000 in Columbus had no power at some time Saturday. Flood watches were issued for the Ohio Brush Creek and its tributaries in Adams County in southern Ohio on Sunday. === Page 14 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Tornadoes continue to tear across nation Associated Press Spok Rev 6/2/82 An onslaught of tornadoes that set a record for the peak month of May hit a half-dozen states Tuesday while a record chill ushered in June in much of the middle of the country. As America went back to work after the Memorial Day weekend that saw 19 people killed by violent weather, thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley with high winds and heavy rains. Tornadoes were sighted during the day in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, and one was sighted late Tuesday in Virginia. The national Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City said 351 tornadoes pounded the nation in May, normally the worst month for twisters, to surpass the record 274 that hit in 1965. It also was the wettest May on record in Tornado Alley cities such as Wichita Falls, Texas, and Oklahoma City. So far, 47 deaths have been blamed on tornadoes this year, including the 10 killed in a cyclone that devastated Marion, Ill., on Saturday, leaving $100 million in damage and 1,000 people homeless. That compares with 24 people killed by twisters in all of 1981 and 24 the year before. The worst day this year was on April 2, when 90 tornadoes touched down in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, leaving 28 people dead. "I had said back in March, looking at the pattern we had, that it would be a very active spring," said Fred Ostby, director of the Severe Storms Forecast Center. "Unless there is a drastic change, it looks like it's going to continue through June." June broke out Tuesday with low temperatures that broke or tied the record for the date in many cities, including Oklahoma City, where it was 48. Other cities logging lows for the books were Grand Island, Neb., 39; Kansas City, Mo., 47; North Plains, Neb., 36; Omaha, Neb., 42, Tulsa, Okla., 51, and Wichita, Kan., 46. Tuesday also official start of the six-month hurricane season in the Atlantic. The first storm of the season was named Albert. Many rivers were overflowing the Midwest. Along the rivers, were sandbagging in Missouri and Illinois. The Mississippi River spilled out of its banks and officials expected it to crest above flood stage at St. Louis on Saturday. UFOs 100X Attack June 1, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Wind, storms wreak havoc across nation Associated Press Tornadoes and hurricane-force winds crashed through the plains on Memorial Day as some cities in Texas and Oklahoma chalked up their wettest May on record from a month of thunderstorms. Homes were smashed, power lines were knocked down, trees were uprooted and water was 2 feet deep in the streets in some communities in the Southwest. Hail the size of baseballs pounded parts of Oklahoma, and some rivers reached flood stage in Missouri and Kansas. The storms of the holiday weekend claimed at least 18 lives, including 10 people who died Saturday when a twister hit Marion, Ill., destroying 75 homes and businesses and leaving 1,000 people homeless. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, who estimated the Marion tornado damage at $100 million, has asked President Reagan to declare Williamson County a major disaster area. Thunderstorms spread Monday from northern Texas, through Arkansas, into the Tennessee and lower Ohio Valleys. Elsewhere, some cities recorded their coldest May 31 on record. It was a sub-freezing 27 degrees at Sheridan, Wyo., easily beating the record 32 set in 1917. Other records for the date were the 32 at Billings, Mont., and 33 at Rapid City, S.D. The National Weather Service said that in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Monday, 10 tornadoes blasted Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma got four each, three touched down in Illinois and one hit Missouri. "It's as black as the ace of spades and a lot of funnels are popping around," said Bob Wylie, a dispatcher at Binger, Okla., as a storm hurtling through that state hammered Oklahoma City with 75-mph wind and brought the May rainfall to a record 12.07 inches. Spok Rev 6/1 UFOs 100X Attack # Storms slam nation again Associated Press Spok Rev 6/9/82 The storms of a violent spring pounded the heart of the battered Midwest on Tuesday with another volley of shattering winds, hail and rain coming down as hard as 4 inches an hour. But the sun peeped out occasionally in southern New England where up to 11 inches of rain over the weekend left millions of dollars in damage, mainly in southern Connecticut, and 22 people dead or missing. Thunderstorms Tuesday roared through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, dumping up to 8 inches of rain in the Rio Grande Valley of southwest Texas. A tornado hit Henderson, Ky., on the Indiana border, heavily damaging a shopping center, overturning mobile homes and injuring a dozen people. Most of the city was left without power. The storm also ruptured a gas line north of the city and several roads were blocked by fallen trees. Gordon Nichols, a spokesman for the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services, said authorities also believed the community of Reed suffered storm damage but rescue efforts were hindered by blocked highways. Twelve people were treated for cuts, fractures and bruises at Community Methodist Hospital in Henderson. In storm-weary Missouri, some residents of a trailer park in Union - about 30 miles southwest of St. Louis - fled when 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour and Flat Creek overflowed. Tree limbs and power lines littered the town's streets, which were under water. Streets were flooded in Columbia, Mo., and suburban Kansas City, where many people were still without power from a storm on Monday. Thousands of customers lost power Tuesday in Columbia, Warrensburg and Mexico, Mo., when lightning hit transformers and winds of 65 mph blew down utility poles. === Page 15 of 56 2 100x AMlack THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., June 11, 1982, Storms head F for the East Associated Press Thunderstorms that have spoiled spring in the Midwest turned eastward Thursday, soaking southeastern Kentucky and West Virginia with floods that chased families from their homes ind blocked highways. In Missouri, where rainstorms were blamed for four deaths earlier in the week, authorities searched for the body of a 15-month-old baby swept from his mother's arms when her car stalled in high water on a bridge. Powerful winds and a flurry of tornadoes tore he roofs off homes and buildings in Arkansas, The 4,847 residents of Carrollton, Mo., strug- gled to hold back the rising waters of Wakenda Creek, swollen by 8 inches of rain that fell in two jours Wednesday. Volunteers pitched in to fill sandbags as shopkeepers removed merchandise rom their stores. About 18 families were evacu- ited during the night. IN SOUTHWESTERN West Virginia, where almost 3 inches of rain fell, some of the worst .. lash flooding anyone could remember in Put- sam and Kanawha counties forced dozens of res- dents out of their homes and blocked most oads. "Just about everything had a problem of some ype, either water or slides or debris," said Gary "hernenko, a spokesman for the state highway lepartment. "They really got hit hard." William Brown, 63, a lifelong resident of the Hometown area in Putnam County, said, "It's veen 10 or 15 years since the creek came up, but ('s never gotten that high before." The National Weather Service said the roofs f several houses were blown off when a storm it White County in north-central Arkansas and igh winds in Logan County in the western part f the state took the roof off a church. "THERE WERE MANY reports of tornadoes nd funnel clouds sighted,"said Philip Doyle of he state Office of Emergency Services. Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr took a helicopter our of Evansville and other areas in Vander- urgh and Posey counties hit hard by storms Tuesday and Wednesday. Utility officials said it may be next week before electric power and elephone service is restored to all customers in he area. With power still out in much of the city, Ev- nsville police reported an unusually high num- er of break-ins. Many people crowded restu- ants and hunted for ice to keep food from poiling in their refrigerators. Residents of Rossville, Kan,, returned to their omes as Cross Creek receded after swamping he town of 1,045 residents Wednesday with wa- er up to 4 feet deep. AMONG THOSE EVACUATED were 63 resi- ents of the Rossville Valley Nursing home, most of them elderly people confined to wheel hairs. "They loved it," said Mrs. Barry Ward, the ome nursing director. In eastern Missouri, authorities were search- g the Loutre River near Martinsburg for the Kdy of 15-month-old Travis Wayne Campbell, ho was washed from his mother's arms ednesday. UFO 100x Allack Storms blast across Associated Pres Spoke pen- 6/2018 Midwest Storms blasted through the Midwest with 100-mph winds Wednesday, firing a broadside of tornadoes and torrents of rain that sent rivers gushing over their banks into towns and cities. Hundreds fled the floodwaters in Kansas and Missouri as thunderstorms which have pounded the plains off-and- on since early May renewed an assault with 8-inch rains and hail the size of baseballs. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Kansas City and other towns such as Moberly, Mo., where . winds clocked at 100 mph snapped trees and power lines. Police in Rossville, Kan., pleaded for volunteers with boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to help evacuate most of the town's 1,100 residents, including about 70 patients at a nursing home. The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings along numerous rivers and streams in Kansas and Mis- souri, with the Missouri River already 2 feet over flood stage at Boonville, Mo., and some tributaries expected to surge 8 feet over their banks. One man was killed in Princeton, Mo., when his pickup collided with a tractor-trailer rig during the storm, and two people were injured in Kansas City when they came in contact with downed power lines late Tuesday. === Page 16 of 56 April 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFOs 6 Projects Flooding hits Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Rivers glutted with rain and melting snow covered parts of northern Vermont with as much as 6 feet of water Monday, the worst flooding in some areas in 55 years. Before the rivers and streams began receding Monday morning, roads were closed and an undetermined number of families in Swanton, Sheldon and Enosburg were evacuated as a precaution or because floodwaters blocked access to their homes. The National Weather Service in Burlington reported up to 1.5 inches of rain fell on northern Vermont overnight. 4-29-82 Oreg Journal Rain, 70-mph wind hits Texas, Plains United Press International Freak thunderstorms packing 70 mph winds rumbled through the central Plains, tearing trees from their roots and hurling them into mobile homes in Texas. A topsy-turvy spring blasted the North with cold and snow and the West with 100-degree temperatures. Freeze warnings were posted Wednesday night over the northern and central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and through north central Maryland. Thunderstorms raked the southern and central Plains from Texas and Louisiana into Nebraska and Iowa. More than 4 inches of rain fell in some areas of Nebraska and up to 2 inches of snow dusted central and southern parts of the state. Most of the snow melted soon after it fell, but accumulations of up to an inch were reported. At the height of the Texas storms, dumping nearly 2 inches of rain and pea-sized hail, winds gusted to 60 mph in Dallas and Fort Worth. The winds tore trees from their roots and hurled them onto mobile homes in Hurst, near Fort Worth. UFOs 6 Projects Winter weather in Rockies Associated Press Winter weather struck the northern Rockies on Saturday and a low pressure system centered in Wyoming brought rain and snow to Montana. Heavy snow moved through the northern Rockies. A cold front spread showers across much of the Northeast. Sunny skies stretched from the lower Mississippi Valley through the Southwest and the great basin. For Sunday, the National Weather Service forecast rain spreading across the Pacific Northwest through the great basin into the northern Plains with light snow in the northern Rockies. Spok Rev 5/9/82 Heating degree days Wednesday 12. UFOs Projects Power failure hits Florida at rush hour April 1982 MIAMI (AP) -- A malfunctioning motor at a nuclear generator triggered a power failure that spread across much of Florida on Thursday, knocking out lights in at least 800,000 homes and businesses at the height of the evening rush hour, officials said. Mary Ann Linden, a spokeswoman for Florida Power & Light Co., said at least 500,000 of the utility's 2.3 million customers lost power when two nuclear generators at Turkey Point tripped off shortly before 5 p.m. EDT. Seconds later, another two oil-fired generators at Cape Canaveral went down, Linden said. Within minutes, much of the Florida East Coast was out, and some 303,000 customers of other electrical utilities also suffered blackouts in central Florida and on the Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay to the south. FP&L is the state's largest electric utility. Florida Power Corp. spokesman Dave Williams said his company lost 200,000 of its 800,000 customers in 31 counties of West Central Florida, and Greg Truax said Tampa Electric Co. lost 103,000 customers. About 28,000 electric customers in Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties lost power, but some of those outages might have been caused by a small tornado that touched down in western Orange County, causing no major damage, authorities said. Power was restored to most Floridians in 15 minutes to an hour, officials said. Linden said workers made a "preliminary" determination that the blackout was caused by failure of an electrical motor on a circulating pump in one of two nuclear units at Turkey Point, 30 miles south of Miami. There was no nuclear emergency, she said. UFOs 100x Attack Storms create havoc Associated Press Thundershowers hurled tornadoes and torrential rains at the Southwest for the third day Thursday, killing at least one person and chasing hundreds of people from their homes in Texas and Oklahoma by floodwaters up to their belt buckles. Elsewhere, a mid-May snowfall up to 14 inches deep closed schools in some Colorado communities and was blamed for a traffic accident that killed a teen-ager. One lane of Interstate 70 over Vail Pass was blocked by an overturned snowplow. The National Weather Service said 17 tornadoes hit Texas and two touched down in Oklahoma in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday, while more than a foot of rain fell in places. A barrage of dozens of tornadoes in the region earlier in the week left millions of dollars in damage, at least seven people dead and scores injured. On Thursday, a tornado that touched down outside Kirbyville in southeast Texas killed V. Margaret Finnerty, according to Linda Moore of the Texas Department of Public Safety. She said a second twister touched down nearby, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. A tornado also touched down Thursday in Holden, Mo., in the west-central part of the state but no injuries were reported and officials said the only major damage was confined to one farm. Spok Rev 5/14/82 === Page 17 of 56 D-14 The Forum Sunday, May 2, 1982 # Destructive tornado season is just around the corner By ELLEN CRAWFORD Staff Writer The tornado season is right around the corner. Generally, the tornado season in this part of the country runs from mid-May to mid-August, with most tornadoes occurring in June and July. However, tornadoes have been spotted in North Dakota as late as Oct. 11 and as early as mid-April. The tornado which demolished a barn on the Gladys Nelson farm near Lisbon, N.D., and ripped off a piece of the roof on her house April 15 became the state's earliest tornado on record. The previous record for the earliest tornado was April 19. "The weather's been so funny - hail, thunder, lightning, rain and snow all in one day," said Gordon Sletmoe, director of Cass County Disaster Emergency Services. "It gets to be something else." North Dakota has an average of 30 confirmed tornadoes per year. Tornadoes have caused 22 deaths, numerous injuries and millions of dollars in damage since 1950. Tornadoes start in an intense thunderstorm cloud, then develop downward toward the Earth's surface, experts believe. Tornadoes are short-lived local storms with high-speed winds usually rotating counterclockwise. They're formed as large amounts of air are drawn into the thunderstorm, creating a funnel-shaped cloud. The funnel starts as condensed water vapor, and as it reaches the ground, it picks up dust and debris. Not every thunderstorm spawns a tornado, scientists say. But when the weather conditions are right - unseasonably warm and humid air at the earth's surface, cold air at the middle atmospheric level and jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere - tornadoes are likely. A tornado's path usually is only about a quarter-mile wide and seldom more than 15 miles long. They move at about 30 mph from the southwest to the northeast. However, tornadoes have been known to be up to a mile across on the ground, to remain on the ground more than an hour, to move up to 70 mph and to travel in any direction. The wind in a tornado can blow from 100 mph to more than 300 mph. When the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch, that means weather conditions are ideal for the formation of tornadoes. A tornado warning means a tornado has been sighted or detected by radar and you should take shelter immediately. A steady blast on Fargo and West Fargo civil defense sirens acts as a tornado warning, and means take cover. Elsewhere in the county, communities can sound sirens which double as a summons for the rural fire department. The National Weather Service and North Dakota Disaster Emergency Services are conducting a statewide tornado drill Wednesday. The purpose, Sletmoe said, is to test the statewide weather-warning system and alert people that this is the time of year to be watching for severe weather. "We hope the schools will have a tornado drill at that time, and any other place that wishes - hospitals, nursing homes or private homes - will take part in the tornado drill," Sletmoe said. He doesn't think many communities other than Fargo and West Fargo will test their sirens because the sirens are used to summon firemen. "I'd rather pass up a siren for a test like this than get a false alert for the firemen," he said. However, he hopes West Fargo, and especially Fargo, sound theirs, even though the sirens are tested once a month. "I want to use them in Fargo to keep emphasizing the poor coverage we have," said Sletmoe, who has been urging city officials to buy more sirens to reach all parts of the city. "We are in desperate need of a warning for the citizens." Wednesday's drill also will give persons who have weather or ready-alert radios a chance to test their equipment. The National Weather Service erected a tower in the Galesburg, N.D., area in the last year. The tower should be able to beam a weather radio signal anywhere in Cass County, Sletmoe said. Galesburg is about 40 miles northwest of Fargo. In the past, only the eastern half of Cass County was covered by a tower about 20 miles to the east of Fargo near Hawley, Minn. Weather radio broadcasts come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on one of three high-band FM frequencies which are not found on the average home radio. Taped weather messages are repeated every four to six minutes and are revised every one to three hours. During severe weather, National Weather Service forecasters can interrupt routine broadcasts and substitute special warning messages. The forecasters also can activate warning receivers which either sound an alarm, alerting the listener to turn up the radio, or automatically turn on the radio so the warning message can be heard. The ready-alert radios are activated by a local radio station designated as an emergency broadcast station. The station picks up a warning from the weather bureau and activates the ready-alert radio. A system also has been developed in Fargo where the police department can interrupt the audio portion of any cable television program with a weather warning. Almost any electronic equipment store carries the special weather radio sets, but Sletmoe suggests people try the radio at the place they'll be keeping it before buying. Some models may not work as well as they should in some areas, he said. === Page 18 of 56 MFO attack "higher ups" # Al Haig leaving, but not quietly L.A. York Rev 6/26/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. quit on Friday, protesting that American foreign policy had strayed off course. President Reagan named former Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz to succeed him. A stern president and an unsmiling secretary of state played out the startling drama in terse, nationally televised statements from the White House and the State Department. Haig was blunt, if vague, in his farewell criticism of the foreign policy he was supposed to be guiding. He did not mention specific policy decisions, nor did he say whom he blames for what he described as shifts away from the "careful course" of consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose in foreign affairs. HAIG TOLD REAGAN ON THURSDAY that he was resigning, a White House official said, and his letter was delivered Friday. Reagan called Shultz in London on Friday morning to ask him to take over. White House officials, requesting anonymity, said Reagan doesn't intend any changes in his foreign policy, despite Haig's criticism. Haig had previously threatened to quit. White House officials pointedly and anonymously refused to say if Reagan tried to dissuade him this time. But one of them said, "I think the president had had enough of it." Shultz, who served in the Cabinet and the White House during the administration of Richard M. Nixon, had been on the speculation list for the job that went to Haig. Now an executive with an international engineering and construction firm, he was due in Washington from London today. Reagan announced the resignation, the first from his Cabinet, with ritual expressions of regret. Haig tendered it with customary expressions of thanks and good wishes. But he said in public what departing Cabinet members usually say only in private: that he was disenchanted with the policies of the administration he served. IN THE LETTER OF RESIGNATION he read at the State Department, Haig said that he and Reagan had agreed that "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose were essential to success" in foreign policy. A large gathering of department employees applauded when Haig appeared in the auditorium. He said he took the Cabinet post in that spirit. "In recent months," Haig continued, "it has become clear to me that the foreign policy on which we embarked together was shifting from that careful course which we laid out. "Under these circumstances, I feel it necessary to request that you accept my resignation," Haig said. He was greeted by applause from hundreds of State Department employees. Haig praised Shultz and said he would "stay on for as long as is necessary to insure an orderly transition." Haig gave no hint of his future plans. === Page 19 of 56 # Blame Haig for faux pas The Reagan administration -- under the guidance of Secretary of State Alexander Haig -- finds itself in a curious position regarding the Falkland Islands crisis. The administration has succeeded in making both sides furious. First, much to the consternation of Argentina, the White House publicly sided with Britain. Then last Friday the U.S. flip-flopped on a United Nations resolution that angered the British. U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, in accordance with Haig's wishes, joined the British in vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Falklands. Haig earlier had told British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym that he could count on U.S. support. Later, Haig had second thoughts. After thinking about it for a while and looking at the specific language, he changed his mind. He decided it would be better for the U.S. to abstain from the vote. He sent word to Kirkpatrick through the State Department, but the message arrived too late. Kirkpatrick already had spoken and her vote could not be changed. Naturally, this created quite an embarrassing situation for the White House, which had to explain that the whole thing was a mistake. Haig, et al, will be wiping the egg off their faces for a long time over this one. All things considered, the U.S. would have been better off sticking with Kirkpatrick's vote, even if officials were not altogether happy with it. As is, the flip-flop only damaged American credibility abroad, angered the British and portrayed the administration as an indecisive, ill-prepared group of bumblers. Friday's flip-flop is reminiscent of a similar incident two years ago in which President Carter publicly disavowed a U.N. vote by Ambassador Donald McHenry regarding Israeli settlements on the West Bank. The major difference between that incident and this one is that someone accepted the blame for the first one. At that time Secretary of State Cyrus Vance volunteered to accept responsibility, pointing to a communications slip-up. Haig, by contrast, only has made excuses for his gaffe. He could have called Kirkpatrick directly, but didn't. Someone asked why. His response was: "You don't talk to the company commander when you have a corps and a division in between." When is Haig going to acknowledge he isn't in military service anymore? We realize he's accustomed to the military's structured way of doing things, but he's got to adapt to civilian life one of these days. When civilians have an urgent message, they get on the telephone and call. It's a handy device that can bring quick results. Haig ought to try it (one of his aides could dial and he could talk). We realize this might counter proper etiquette in the eyes of a former general, but sometimes the urgency of the moment must take precedence. Better yet, we would hope Haig does his homework in advance next time. Then there would be no need for last-minute messages. It is highly disconcerting that the U.S. would cast an important U.N. vote without thorough preparation and understanding of what was at stake. Gaffes such as this should never happen. Summary: Secretary of State Haig must bear full responsibility for last week's faux pas at the United Nations. # Haig move catches most by surprise === Page 20 of 56 UFO attack "higher ups" Quake rocks El Salvador ATEOS, El Salvador (AP) -- An earthquake rocked El Salvador early Saturday, hurling huge boulders onto highways, causing landslides and toppling rural houses. Officials said four people were killed and more than 210 were injured. The quake, centered in the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles south of San Salvador, the capital, also was felt strongly in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. There were few reports of serious damage in San Salvador but the fortress-like U.S. Embassy in San Salvador was hit hard, officials said. Walls cracked, water pipes burst, elevators jammed and the ceiling of Ambassador Deane Hinton's office caved in. "The commissary looks like it had been hit by three hours of vandalism by reckless teenagers," said Don Hamilton, an embassy spokesman. "But we had a very serious earthquake and at least the building didn't fall down." The embassy was built in 1965 and designed to be earthquake-proof. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" Lucky to be late KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- An explosion that destroyed a car in a parking lot at Karachi airport was caused by a time bomb planted at a spot where Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta was to get into a car, the Karachi Daily News reported Thursday. Mintoff, who was on his way to China, arrived three hours late but the bomb exploded at his scheduled arrival time Wednesday night, the newspaper said. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" Mugabe's guards attacked SALISBURY, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Gunmen attacked guards outside Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's residence Thursday, and a man in camouflage fatigues was killed shortly afterward in a shooting incident with a policeman, officials said. A statement from the Ministry of Information said a policeman challenged a group of men near the home of National Supplies Minister Enos Nkala, about 5 miles away, and an unidentified black man was shot to death. An automatic weapon was found near the body of the victim, who was clad in camouflage fatigues, the ministry said. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" New cease-fire brings relief to Beirut Spok Rev 6/26/82 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib advised Lebanese leaders late Friday of a new cease-fire agreed upon by Israel, Syria and the PLO following a series of devastating Israeli blows against Palestinian positions in west Beirut. The guns fell silent as the cease-fire went into effect at 9 p.m. (3 p.m. EDT), and shell-shocked residents of west Beirut warily emerged for the first time in several days as the thunder of explosions ended. Shortly before the cease-fire was announced, Israel claimed a major victory over Syrian forces, saying its army now controls the western end of the critical Beirut-Damascus highway. Lebanon's state radio said Habib told Lebanon's elder statesman Saeb Salam he had succeeded in arranging a new cease-fire "in a final, firm and lasting fashion." Several earlier cease-fires quickly collapsed in furious battles, with each side blaming the other for firing the first shots. Israelis want peace / Page 10 Israeli military sources in Tel Aviv said Israel had agreed to a cease-fire on all fronts and the shooting had stopped. The Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that just before the cease-fire, a rocket hit the Israeli-held suburb of Hadath, killing four people and wounding 17. A Palestinian broadcast described Friday's Israeli bombardments as the heaviest so far. It claimed 250 people were killed and more than 500 were wounded. Habib has been in Beirut for nearly two weeks. The Israelis strengthened their siege of Beirut and launched the massive raids after the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Israel's demands for total disarmament of PLO guerrillas, removal of their leaders from Lebanon and Lebanese government control over Palestinian refugee camps, Lebanese officials said. Salam, a former prime minister, emerged as a leader in backstate peace negotiations following the resignation earlier in the day of Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan, who was enraged at the massive Israeli air raids and shelling. There were rumors Salam might succeed Wazzan. Israeli dive bombers had blasted the headquarters of PLO chief Yasser Arafat. UFO attack "higher ups" Troops fail to reach copter SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Troops in embattled Morazan province failed again Friday to reach a helicopter reported shot down by guerrillas with the undersecretary of defense aboard, a military spokesman said. The helicopter was flying over a battle zone near the village of San Fernando, which has been encircled by guerrilla forces. The guerrillas' Radio Venceremos said they shot it down. The government has been unable to inspect the crash site to determine whether Col. Adolfo Castillo, the undersecretary of defense, or Col. Salvador Beltran, the commander of the army's Sixth Brigade, were killed. The guerrillas said they identified Castillo's body but that Beltran and two other soldiers escaped. Spok Rev 6/19/82 === Page 21 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan hurt by Donovan The pressure is mounting on President Reagan to unload a political albatross named Ray Donovan. Donovan, of course, is the secretary of labor whom organized labor doesn't like. More significant at the moment, however, is the fact Donovan is under investigation for alleged ties to organized crime while he was an official of the New Jersey firm, Schiavone Construction Co. If it were up to organized labor or certain members of the Senate, Donovan probably would be gone already. But fortunately for the embattled labor chief, the person who counts most -- President Reagan -- still believes in him. But how long can this last? Reagan's principal advisers have concluded among themselves that Donovan should step aside until special prosecutor Leon Silverman completes his investigation. Their conclusion is correct. Reagan is risking his own prestige by remaining silent on the issue and allowing Donovan to continue on the job. At the very least, Donovan should step down until the prosecutor's work is finished. Or, if he wishes to perform the utmost service to the president, he should resign altogether. Considering the gravity of the allegations against him, Donovan's continued presence only diminishes the administration's image. He is becoming an intolerable burden. If Donovan refuses to quit or take a leave of absence, the president should relieve him of the choice and make the decision for him. At this point, the secretary's permanent ouster would seem the wisest course. Even if he is determined innocent of any and all wrongdoing, Donovan still will emerge from this controversy bloodied and badly beaten. He will be followed forever by a cloud of controversy and suspicion. The public's ensuing lack of confidence would prevent him from carrying out his official duties in an expeditious manner. Anyone in a high government position must be able to devote his or her full energies to the job at hand. Donovan couldn't. He would be constantly defending attacks on his reputation and ethics. On Monday, in his first response to the charges since last December, Donovan reiterated his desire to stay in office. While his determination is understandable, he should, out of deference to the president, put the administration's good ahead of his own. **Summary: The most useful service Sec. Donovan could perform would be to submit his resignation.** Spark RR 6/23/82 === Page 22 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House Speaker Polk to quit politics OLYMPIA (AP) -- The man considered the major voice of Republican conservatism in Washington state and an articulate spokesman for Reaganomics announced Friday he's leaving politics for job and family. House Speaker Bill Polk ended months of speculation over his political future when he announced he wouldn't seek re-election this fall to his Mercer Island House seat. The decision brings to an end a political career that saw Polk move in 10 years from the back bench of the Republican caucus to the speakership, considered by most to be the second most powerful and important position in state government. The announcement came during a news conference that was classic Polk. "Good morning, weirdos," he said to the gathered reporters. The boyishly handsome Polk has been sensitive to press reports about his speakership but was mostly good-natured with reporters. He could never understand the flap that resulted when it was learned the House had leased a candy apple red 280Z sports car for his use. Asked if he would have done it again, Polk replied, "Yes, but I would have gotten a brown one." The speaker, an advocate of more and more budget cuts, also came in for some criticism this week when it was learned the state had picked up a $10,782 bill for refurnishing his Legislative Building suite. Gov. John Spellman, also a Republican, has had his differences with the conservative Polk, but the governor said he was "sorry to see (Polk) go and I'm sure his experience will be missed." House Democratic Leader Wayne Ehlers said he was not surprised. "I hope that Bill will be able now to negotiate with us and depoliticize the session we are about to go into," said Ehlers. There was, however, surprise at the timing of the announcement. The Legislature will move into special session June 26. "I don't relish the idea of being a lame duck speaker going into the session," said Polk, 46. He said he realizes he may lose some effectiveness but he also suggested he might be even more effective as a lame duck. Asked if he might someday run for governor or other political office, Polk said, "I don't believe it's very wise to state unequivocally I will never run for political office ... I may run for water commissioner or school board or something." Polk's wife, Karla, who has never been comfortable with her husband's political profession, was in the room when the announcement was made. She looked relieved. Polk said his decision was prompted both by family considerations and professional considerations. He cited harsh comments made to his children in school by teachers angry over educational budget cuts he helped enact as speaker. That, said Polk, "is the thing I resent the most." Polk also cited fears for his family's safety and the fact that "the bomb squad has to come out and look" before packages are brought into his home. UFOs attack "higher ups" # General rejects long N-war strategy Washington Post Spok Rev 6/19/82 WASHINGTON -- The nation's top soldier left office Friday with the warning that it would be throwing money in a "bottomless pit" to try to prepare the United States for a long nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Gen. David C. Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the last four years, said he doubted that any nuclear exchange between the Soviets and the United States could be contained, but would escalate into an all-out war. Rather than spend the billions of dollars it would take to prepare the nation for a protracted nuclear war, Jones said, it would make more sense to build up American forces for more likely non-nuclear conflicts in distant trouble spots. "I don't see much of a chance of nuclear war being limited or protracted," said Jones, who has pondered various doomsday scenarios during much of his 40 years in uniform. "I see great difficulty" in keeping any kind of nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union from escalating. Defining "protracted nuclear war" as one lasting "weeks or months," the 60-year-old four-star general said: "If you really put a lot of emphasis on it, you've got a bottomless pit in terms of dollars." He said that even if one were to say "I'm going to do everything to try to fight a protracted nuclear war," the resources for that are too great". === Page 23 of 56 UFO2 attack "higher ups" Argentine chief forced to resign Associated Press Spok Rev 6/18/80 Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, architect of the disastrous Falkland Islands war, was forced to resign as Argen- tine army commander Thursday and was on his way out as presi- dent. "I'm going because the army didn't give me the political backing to continue as commander (of the army) and president of the nation," Galtieri told a reporter for the gov- ernment news agency Telam as he left Government House. "I'm not the kind of guy who abandons ship in the middle of the storm." GALTIERI SPENT his final hours in Government House saying goodbye to his Cabinet ministers. His fellow officers forced him to re- tire from the army Thursday and were meeting to decide who will re- place him as president. Telam said he will resign the presidency today when the new army commander takes over. In London, a British Broadcast- ing Corp. television commentator said, "The man who started the war in the Falkland Islands has become its latest casualty." At British Prime Minister Mar- garet Thatcher's 10 Downing St. office, a spokesman said, "We hope the new regime will be more hu- manitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." He referred to Galtieri's refusal to agree to a total cease-fire in the South Atlantic that would allow the British to return more than 10,000 cold and hungry prisoners seized when the Argentine defenses col- lapsed Monday. Reagan's horse dies SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - President pagan's personal riding horse, Little Man, has jed at Reagan's Rancho del Cielo after a severe Iness of several days, ranch foreman Lee learwater reported Tuesday. "He just sort of folded up," Clearwater said. The thoroughbred horse was 20 years old, he lid. A veterinarian put the horse to death humane- Thursday, he said. "The president had already said that if he (the orse) couldn't make it to put him down," the freman reported. Clearwater said he relayed word of the death the White House as Reagan flew back from le European summit last Friday Gen Galtieri is a casualty of war he started. FALKLANDS AT A GLANCE Associated Press Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as commander in chief of the army Thursday, three days after his invasion of the Falkland Islands ended in defeat. The army command said Galtieri had "voluntarily decided to leave" his position as commander of the army. Argentine reports indicated Interior Minister Gen. Alfredo Saint Jean will become interim president. The army command confirmed that Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, will assume command of the army. The fall of Argentine Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri raised British hopes that a more tractable government would be installed in Buenos Aires. A spokesman for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." Earlier Thursday, Mrs. Thatcher had complained that Galtieri's government was refusing to let British ships return Argentine prisoners. === Page 24 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" Argentine chief forced to resign Associated Press Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, architect of the disastrous Falkland Islands war, was forced to resign as Argentine army commander Thursday and was on his way out as president. "I'm going because the army didn't give me the political backing to continue as commander (of the army) and president of the nation," Galtieri told a reporter for the government news agency Telam as he left Government House. "I'm not the kind of guy who abandons ship in the middle of the storm." GALTIERI SPENT his final hours in Government House saying goodbye to his Cabinet ministers. His fellow officers forced him to retire from the army Thursday and were meeting to decide who will replace him as president. Telam said he will resign the presidency today when the new army commander takes over. In London, a British Broadcasting Corp. television commentator said, "The man who started the war in the Falkland Islands has become its latest casualty." At British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 10 Downing St. office, a spokesman said, "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." He referred to Galtieri's refusal to agree to a total cease-fire in the South Atlantic that would allow the British to return more than 10,000 cold and hungry prisoners seized when the Argentine defenses collapsed Monday. Gen Galtieri is a casualty of war he started. FALKLANDS AT A GLANCE Associated Press Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as commander in chief of the army Thursday, three days after his invasion of the Falkland Islands ended in defeat. The army command said Galtieri had "voluntarily decided to leave" his position as commander of the army. Argentine reports indicated Interior Minister Gen. Alfredo Saint Jean will become interim president. The army command confirmed that Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, will assume command of the army. The fall of Argentine Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri raised British hopes that a more tractable government would be installed in Buenos Aires. A spokesman for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." Earlier Thursday, Mrs. Thatcher had complained that Galtieri's government was refusing to let British ships return Argentine prisoners. Reagan's horse dies SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- President Reagan's personal riding horse, Little Man, has died at Reagan's Rancho del Cielo after a severe illness of several days, ranch foreman Lee Clearwater reported Tuesday. "He just sort of folded up," Clearwater said. The thoroughbred horse was 20 years old, he said. A veterinarian put the horse to death humane- Thursday, he said. The president had already said that if he (the horse) couldn't make it to put him down," the foreman reported. Clearwater said he relayed word of the death to the White House as Reagan flew back from the European summit last Friday. === Page 25 of 56 4+O2 allack " higher" A Quiet Departure at CIA Tobby Ray Inman was always a reluc- and those he viewed as reckless adven- tant deputy. As head of the National tures-and angered by the time and energy he spent quashing them. According to one friend, Inman explained that he was quit- ting now "because I don't want to go out of here stomping my feet." Security Agency when the Reagan Admin- istration took power, he made no secret of his lack of interest in the No. 2 job at the Central Intelligence Agency. He changed his mind and accepted only after a personal appeal from the President himself. Last week President Reagan accepted Inman's resignation as CIA deputy direc- tor "with deep regret." It was clear that the four-star admiral- the first major de- fector from the Reagan Administration's national-security ranks-had no regrets about leaving the CIA's bridge. He insist- ed that his resignation, which will take effect as soon as a successor is named, was for personal reasons, suggesting that, at 51, with one son in college and a second in prep school, it CE was time to seek six-figure comfort in the private sector. But sources close to Inman say he was increasingly disen- TRA chanted with Administration plans for the CIA and was feeling increasingly frustrated in a professional relationship with CIA director William J. Casey that was never warm and was fre- search reports that might prove useful to quently frigid. No Stomping: Much of Inman's displeas- ure centers on what he calls "petty bureau- cratic intrigue," including the occasional leaking of intelligence secrets for political effect. A prime example occurred when the White House confirmed the existence of U.S. covert operations against Nicaragua, a deliberate leak designed to show the Presi- dent taking a hard-line stand against the Sandinista government. "That blew In- mann's mind," says a source close to him. He was also appalled by the Administration's obsession with covert operations-includ- ing both those he believed should be overt He had also made no secret of his dismay at plans to remove many of the prohibitions imposed by the Carter Administration on domestic spying by the CIA, although he subsequently endorsed a Presidential order permitting some covert CIA activities in this country, He is on record as opposing a proposal to consolidate CIA and FBI coun- terintelligence operations in a single new agency. "The main problems of the intelli- gence community," he says, "were ones of resources and not of organization." But while Inman has occa- sionally bucked the Reagan ENCE AGENC Administration's hard-liners, he has more often abided by the party line. On the most fundamental issue of all-the size of the intelligence budget-he was wholly in tune with the Administration. He has supported government clearance of technological-re- the Soviet Union, and he has endorsed the exemption of the CIA from the Federal Freedom of Information Act. He has also supported the reclassification of once se- cret government documents and manda- tory lie-detector tests for staff throughout the national-security apparatus. "I have always considered myself a conservative," he says Reagan is likely to miss Inman most on Capitol Hill. At his confirmation, one sena- tor said that "if there ever was unanimous consent and enthusiasm, this is it"-and in his fourteen months in office, Inman has done nothing to diminish that affection. John Ficara -NOWSWEER. Inman: An unhappy No. 2 "Casey mumbles and shoots the bull, while Inman is a straight shooter," says a source in the intelligence community. "Now the Reagan Administration has lost its eredibil- ity. They can't rush Bobby Ray over to cool the waters." Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, a key member of the Senate Intelli- gence Committee, was miffed that the Presi- dent sat on Inman's resignation for a month without informing legislators, and demand- ed that Congress be consulted before a re- placement is named. "He's been our man . .. in a way," Lugar said. "Who are we going to call? Who has our trust?" Candor: Inman's credibility in Congress may have played a significant part in his decision to resign. According to some sources, his habitual candor on the Hill tended to freeze him out of White House deliberations. The word around the White House, says one, was, "Don't tell In- man until you want the Hill to know." But the reasons for the admiral's disaffec- tion probably run much deeper. Inman may have accepted the deputy's role at CIA with the hope that Casey's tenure would be short and that he would be his successor, but recently it seemed unlikely that Inman would be considered for the job. His relationship with Casey had stead- ily deteriorated-at one point, Inman threatened to resign rather than go along with the Reagan Administration's domes- tic-spying plans. Still, given the high marks that Inman has received for his performance, few in the intelligence community would be surprised if he returns to a top national-security job in some future Administration. "I'm not go- ing to make any Shermanesque statement," Inman said. But, he added, "this isn't a. posturing stepping aside to zoom back to a job here." MARK STARR with DAVID C. MARTIN and HENRY W. HUBBARD in Washington === Page 26 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS headedness in the guise of a tribute to his sincerity. His aides were jubilant that he had once again seized the high ground and were busily scheduling a press conference this week and a tour to "hit a few cities" with his tub-thumping anti-spending speech. But there were some signs this time around that the opposition might refuse to melt. For one thing the collapse of the negotiations left the President without a clear budget position, which naturally takes some of the fire out of the call to rally around it. And the nation might be listening to a different trumpet if the economy keeps refusing to perform the miracles Reagan had predicted for it. The coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that gave Reagan all he asked for in 1981 might be harder to assemble in an election year, when all signs point to substantial Democratic gains. "The President shouldn't feel as comfortable as he did last year," warned House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. "I don't think his troops are as disciplined as they were." On the other hand, Rostenkowski concedes, the opposition presents its usual fractured facade. The Democrats have no substitute budget to offer yet, as the White House plans to remind the nation at every opportunity--and their chances of coming up with one that can hold together Southern "boll weevils" and Northern liberals is slim. "There'll be a lot of blood on their floor when they come up with an alternative," smirks one administration aide. Surtax: As Washington wearily girds itself for the wrangling to come, about the only certainty is that a change in social security will not be included in the 1983 budget--by consensus of both parties' leaders. Almost any other outcome seems possible. The Democrats are sure to make an assault on Kemp-Roth, and the Administration is certain to resist. But some of its impact will probably be blunted by tax increases in other areas. Republicans, according to a draft position paper obtained by NEWSWEEK, had been agreeable to a three-year 4 percent surtax on high incomes, an energy tax of some kind and changes in IRS regulations affecting deductions for local sales taxes and medical-insurance payments--proposals that may surface again in the coming weeks. The first skirmish will probably come this week, when Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee intend to force a vote on Reagan's budget as it was originally submitted--likely to result in an embarrassing, although meaningless, defeat for the President. Beyond that, everyone's best hope for avoiding a bloody battle seemed to lie with divine intervention, which by now all sides might welcome--provided, of course, God has no plans to change social security. JERRY ADLER with GLORIA BORGER, HOWARD FINEMAN, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and ELEANOR CLIFT in Washington 42 # Mr. Clean Gets Soiled He dipped into the campaign till to pay baby-sitters for his 3-year-old daughter and to fly relatives to the state capital for Thanksgiving. He also used political funds to buy lavish gifts for aides, contributors and friends--including a $424 porcelain dog for the banker whose bank refinanced his mortgage and a $300 antique pig for Agriculture Secretary John Block. And according to a public log that he himself maintained, Illinois Republican Gov. James R. Thompson was also a gracious recipient of gifts, from valuable art objects to five gold Krugerrands pressed upon him by owners of a firm that processes inheritance forms filed with the state. As one Chicago art dealer told it, Thompson, an avid antique collector, even set aside favorite items in the shop, bridal-registry style, so that potential gift givers could choose from a ready selection. By Illinois standards, the charges against own well-known Presidential ambitions. Thompson has insisted that the political expenses were legitimate and vehemently denied that the gifts led to favors. "From my first day in office, I have kept complete and open records so that there would never be any doubt about what I received from friends and supporters," he said in a statement. Still, the governor announced last week that he would accept no more gifts worth over $100, and he has promised to reimburse his campaign funds for some items, including the Thanksgiving get-together. The IRS, which has ruled that politicians may spend campaign funds however they wish provided they pay taxes on funds used for personal matters, has begun an inquiry into Thompson's practices. Most Illinois political observers viewed the Thompson allegations as politics-as-usual, made worse only by the image the ![Photograph of Governor Thompson in his office] George Mars Cassidy Thompson in his office: Five Krugerrands and a bridal-registry shelf of antiques "Big Jim" Thompson, made public by Chicago newspapers in recent months, are small potatoes. But they are surprising in view of Thompson's reputation as Mr. Clean--a reputation built when he sent countless Chicago pols to the slammer as a corruption-cracking U.S. attorney. The disclosures have delighted Illinois Democrats: Thompson seeks an unprecedented third term this year against Adlai Stevenson III, the former Democratic senator from Illinois. And at a time when five Midwestern GOP governors have pulled out of re-election contests--the latest, Wisconsin's Lee Dreyfus a fortnight ago--Thompson's troubles have further dampened GOP hopes of maintaining a grip on the heartland (NEWSWEEK, April 19), and could frustrate Thompson's governor has cultivated. "More has been demanded of him," The Chicago Tribune editorialized, "because he has persuaded people that they could expect more." Still, a Tribune poll two weeks ago found Thompson trailing Stevenson, 35 to 37 percent, for the first time in the race. Stevenson has been generally restrained about Thompson's troubles, concentrating instead on the state's economic woes. Stevenson has subtly reminded voters, however, that he was chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, and at a recent fund-raiser for state attorney general candidate Neil Hartigan, he gibed that Hartigan's children "are all old enough not to need baby-sitting, so you can be confident your money is going to the campaign." MELINDA BECK with FRANK MAIER in Chicago NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 27 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Saudia Arabia's king dies ## U.S. expects no immediate changes in policies New York Times 6/14/82 LONDON -- King Khaled of Saudi Arabia, the oil-exporting country's quiet ruler for the last seven years, died of a heart attack Sunday morning at the age of about 69 and was succeeded by his younger half-brother, Crown Prince Fahd. Although he had been in ill health for years, the suddenness of Khaled's death came as a surprise. Just Saturday, he was shown on Saudi television arriving in the resort of Taif from Riyadh to spend the summer. UFOs attack "higher ups" # world ### Cabinet shakeup in Seoul SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Chun Doo-hwan on Friday accepted 11 of the resignations submitted by his 22 Cabinet ministers, who said they were taking "political and moral responsibility" for several incidents, including a financial scandal that touched the presidency. The resignations posed the gravest political crisis for Chun since he took office vowing to stamp out corruption. Those dropped included Defense Minister Choo Young-bock and Suh Suk-joon, minister of commerce and industry, a government announcement said. Prime Minister Yoo Chang-soon was retained in his post, along with key economic officials. UFOs attack "higher ups" # world ### Bullet hits diplomat NEW YORK (AP) -- A Swiss diplomat attending disarmament talks at the United Nations was wounded in the knee Thursday by a policeman firing at three fleeing muggers. Ivar Asp, 47, an observer for neutral Switzerland at the disarmament talks, was treated at Bellevue Hospital after a ricocheting bullet grazed his right knee. He was hit by the bullet about 1:15 p.m. while walking on Third Avenue in Manhattan, about 10 blocks from the U.S. building. Spok/Rev 6/11/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Top Romanian leaders ousted in shake-up BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Five senior Communist functionaries were also fired in a government shake-up that replaced the premier and seven deputies, the official news agency Agerpress said Saturday. The reshuffle of the Communist Party and government was decreed by the policymaking Central Committee on Friday, but the party changes were announced only after Parliament approved the new government appointments. President and Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu said the changes were meant to create "conditions for a better and more responsible management of economic and other affairs." Observers said the shake-up reflected the East European nation's growing economic troubles. The party dismissals came from within its ruling executive political committee, Agerpress said. They were members Aneta Spornic, Cornelia Filipas and Janos Fazekas, and alternates Marin Radoi and Ion Ionita. Spornic, Filipas and Radoi were fired for what Agerpress called "the serious deficiencies and anomalies in the sectors they ran." No details were revealed. Spornic was recently also sacked as education minister for her reported involvement in what the government called a major scandal which led to the ouster of many lesser officials. Agerpress said Fazekas and Ionita were relieved "for health reasons." They and Filipas were also removed as deputy prime ministers in what the government called a move to reduce deputies to the prime minister. On Friday, Agerpress announced that Constantin Dascalescu was named to replace Premier Ilie Verdet, who had held the post since 1978. Verdet was reportedly demoted to one of the vice presidents in the council of state. Dascalescu, apparently because of his appointment as premier, was released from his former job as central committee secretary. No successor was named. Spok/Rev 5/22/82 === Page 28 of 56 Spokane, Wash., Sat., April 24, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Senators want watchdog deputy for CIA boss By GEORGE LARDNER JR. Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee put the White House on notice Friday that the committee does not have enough confidence in CIA Director William J. Casey's expertise and wants every effort made to give him a qualified deputy. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., said he and his fellow committee members were stunned by the abrupt announcement this week of deputy CIA Director Bobby Ray Inman's resignation. Lugar called it "a rather traumatic situation" for those in Congress whose job it is to oversee the intelligence community and make sure it stays within proper bounds. The Indiana Republican made his remarks at a press conference that he frankly described as intended "to send some signals" to the White House about the gravity of the matter. He made clear that the committee wants to be consulted before a successor to Inman is named. "If this be meddling, so be it," Lugar declared. Again and again, Lugar emphasized that it was Inman, not Casey, upon whom the committee has relied since President Reagan took office for expert advice and sound judgment on U.S. intelligence activities. He added, however, that he regarded Casey as "a fine man, honest ... a real spy when he was with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), a real guy with a dagger." At that, Goldwater raised his hand, as though wielding a dagger, then added: "But we do it differently now and he is not a pro." At his press conference Lugar noted that Goldwater and others had hoped to see Inman appointed to the top job at CIA. He was named instead to the second spot. "Many of us voted for Casey and Inman as a package," meaning that they supported Casey because the President wanted him and felt comfortable with him and Inman, a intelligence professional of 30 years, "because he knows more than anyone else what's going on." Several times, Lugar suggested that the campaign, "a very able American who has the trust of the president." A former Navy intelligence briefing officer who served at the Pentagon with Inman years ago, Lugar added, however, that "there are simply complexities involved (in the intelligence business) that would take more years than Bill Casey has" left to understand. "system of checks and balances" that has built up around the intelligence community since the congressional investigations of 1975-76 was at stake. He said he had no quarrel with the CIA director's being "a political appointee" whom the president could trust, but suggested that it was vital, in turn, for the deputy director to be an intelligence expert whom Congress could trust. Inman, 51, submitted his resignation to the White House on March 22 because, he has since said, he wants to start "a second career" in private industry and "get back to running something" himself. He allowed Friday that bureaucratic operations of the moment -- a number of factors -- said they had been out of proportion. investigated ng special prosecutors re-inquiry be opened vered by the law is violation of a spe-ill have 90 re is any iminal === Page 29 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Michael Evans--The White House *The President and his chief of staff take a break: The long knives are out* # The Right Vs. Jim Baker Ronald Reagan, mad as hell, was not going to take it anymore. For months the White House had endured a steady drumbeat of criticism from the Republican right, much of it aimed at chief of staff James A. Baker III. Ignoring the "eleventh commandment" of the GOP ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican"), hardliners ranging from fund raiser Richard Viguerie to anonymous sources quoted in the syndicated political column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak hammered at Administration "moderates," who were said to be isolating the President and compromising his politics behind his back. Last week, after Reagan's own 1980 finance chairman in Texas joined the band with a call for Jim Baker's resignation, the President decided he'd had enough: there were indeed people trying to sabotage the Reagan program, he told real-estate developer Clymer L. Wright, and "you are helping them." On the face of it, Wright's call was a model of political loyalty. "Our beloved President today stands alone under siege," he said in a letter mailed May 14 to other early Reagan campaign contributors. "His economic program is being undermined by ... James Baker." Citing an attached New York Post editorial entitled "Political Treachery in the White House," he accused Baker of conspiring to subvert supply-side economics. As a result, Wright wrote, "Quietly, steadily, the picture is forming of [Reagan as] an amiable, uninformed, lazy, slightly confused politician ... a far cry from the genuine, courageous statesman we know Ronald Reagan to be." Wright also reminded his readers that Baker has a history of losing: he was Gerald Ford's campaign manager in 1976, he lost his own race for attorney general of Texas two years later and in 1980 he ran the futile Presidential effort of George Bush, whose agent the New Right suspects Baker of being. **'Distress':** When a copy of Wright's letter reached the White House, top aides were appalled. "The implication is that Ronald Reagan doesn't have a mind of his own," said one. This was apparently the message Reagan got, too, for he leapt to Baker's defense. In a spirited special-delivery rebuke, he told Wright that "I'm very distressed ... Yes, there is sabotage of all I'm trying to accomplish. But it's being done by the people who write these articles and columns ... Don't join that group, Clymer." Any compromises made were ones he himself had deemed necessary, he went on. Wright was sorry about the dust-up, but did not renege on his criticisms. "Why shouldn't the President know what his supporters are thinking?" he asked. While Reagan laid the blame for the attacks on Baker on "[s]ome in the media [who] delight in trying to portray me as being manipulated," the White House's real problem lies, as one staffer says, with "the right-wing ideologues. ... They have professional reasons for outflanking the President--to maintain their place on the political spectrum, to keep their identity." Baker is not their only target; White House spokesman David Gergen and paper-flow chief Richard Darman are also viewed as "tilting left." The critics find outlets not only in New Right publications like Viguerie's Conservative Digest and the weekly Human Events, but also in the Evans and Novak column, which some Reagan aides call "Errors and No-Facts." Not long ago the President himself, incensed by an Evans and Novak column accusing Baker # The Rejected Diplomat He had distinguished himself through 22 years in the State Department as a crackajack specialist on the Far East. He served as political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, as the Pentagon's senior specialist on Asian affairs and as U.S. ambassador to Thailand, handling the Cambodian refugee crisis, during the Carter Administration. But last week Morton I. Abramowitz, 49, was dropped as the Reagan Administration's ambassador-designate to Indonesia. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had earlier considered him for the even more prestigious post of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, issued a brief statement regretting that this "truly outstanding Foreign Service officer" had been rejected by Jakarta. What happened to Abramowitz was mostly mystery--but State Department officials acknowledged the existence of an unsigned memo that was harshly critical of his qualifications. Entitled "Point Paper on Morton Abramowitz," it described him as a liberal whose "political philosophy is akin to McGovern, Muskie and Mondale" and as "the architect" of Jimmy Carter's controversial decision to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. In fact, friends said, Abramowitz is a tough-minded conservative who privately and publicly opposed Carter's decision to bring home 33,500 of the 41,300 troops. Abramowitz: Vetoed AP Sources close to Haig confirmed that some State Department hands opposed Abramowitz's appointment because he is Jewish, a potential liability in a 90 percent Muslim country. But even Abramowitz's friends concede that the sometimes abrasive diplomat has made many enemies and that the point paper--leaked to columnist Jack Anderson and to top Indonesian officials--undoubtedly helped them hasten his rejection. NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 31 === Page 30 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS of sniping at Secretary of State Alexander Haig, dashed off a note--unsent--calling the columnists' sources "liars--repeat--liars." Some Reagan advisers suspect Evans and Novak of giving space to anti-Baker sentiment to help derail a possible 1984 Presidential bid by Bush in favor of Rep. Jack Kemp, if Reagan does not run again. Meanwhile, the war for Reagan's mind continues. Although Jim Baker and the "Christian conservative" Clymer Wright are acquaintances--Wright even gave Baker money when he ran for attorney general--Baker's ties to the old Eastern establishment and his instinctive pragmatism inevitably make him the object of New Right suspicion. "Baker's every action radiates weakness," says John Lofton, the outspoken editor of Conservative Digest. "He wants to say 'sorry' to [House Speaker] Tip O'Neill, 'sorry' to Brezhnev ... Baker is draining all the blood out of Ronald Reagan." In the effort to halt the flow, the entire July issue of Conservative Digest will be devoted to advice to the President from perhaps 100 hard-core Reaganites, to the themes that Clymer Wright sounded. Says Lofton: "We want to hold Ronald Reagan's feet to the fire Ronald Reagan lighted." PETER MCGRATH with ELEANOR CLIFT and JAMES DOYLE in Washington and STRYKER MCGUIRE in Houston No Parole Now For Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan told the California parole board that he was a changed man from the one who assassinated Robert Kennedy in 1968--"no longer a naive, impressionable person who feels that he could change the world." But last week the three-member board decided Sirhan hadn't changed enough and voted unanimously to rescind the 1984 parole granted him in 1975. The decision was based largely on threats against various people made by Sirhan as recently as two months ago. While the board, which heard 32 witnesses over two weeks, discounted allegations by fellow inmates at Soledad Prison that Sirhan had threatened to kill Sen. Edward Kennedy if he were released, it concluded that Sirhan, now 38, displays the same political obsessions and loner's personality as before "and has been unable to accept the fact that he alone is responsible for his incarceration and the problems which go along with it." Sirhan's attorney, Luke McKissack, said he hoped there might be a different outcome next time parole comes up--by law, within six months--"when tempers have cooled." The attorney said he informed his client of the decision in a brief phone call, and that Sirhan was "down" but had made no statement. Said McKissack: "He didn't even use a cussword, which surprised me." 32 GAMBLE CABINET ROOM LABOR SEC. DONOVAN FBI LINKS DONOVAN TO MOB? Gamble--© 1982 Florida Times-Union 'Golly ... that's strange ... I thought someone said there was a meeting today?!' # Was Donovan 'Mobbed Up'? After sixteen months on the defensive against allegations that he and his New Jersey construction firm had ties with mobsters, Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan seems to be fighting back. Last week the Schiavone Construction Co., still 45 percent owned through a blind trust by Donovan, confirmed that it had hired private detectives to investigate those from the Senate Labor Committee who are investigating the Labor Secretary. Attorney Theodore Geiser of Newark said the unusual step was taken to determine "who is at the wheel of leaking a series of false allegations." Donovan says he had nothing to do with hiring the private eyes, but he welcomes the support. "This raw, unsubstantiated crap is being ground into the consciousness of the American people," he told NEWSWEEK. "It's hurt me, it's hurt my family, it's hurt my former company." Committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch said he had been told by Donovan himself of the counterinvestigation plan two months ago, but had dismissed it as "a joke." Last week he wasn't laughing. He warned that any effort to reverse the heat was "very unwise and very improper" and could be construed as obstruction of justice. Hatch also had a far more blatant obstruction of justice to worry about. One committee staffer reported receiving a phone call threatening that he and his family would end up "in pine boxes" if he pressed on with the Donovan investigation, and Hatch confirmed that he himself has received similar calls. "I guess it comes with the territory," he said. Still, mindful of Administration loyalties, the Utah Republican cautioned: "I don't think there's any real hard evidence yet that Schiavone or Donovan are mobbed up." There is, however, a fresh batch of allegations that Donovan's mob ties were far more substantial than the fleeting business and social contacts described by the Labor Secretary in his 1981 Senate confirmation hearings. Among the new allegations, some "discovered" in FBI field offices since Donovan took office: that he conspired with the late New Jersey mobster Salvatore Briguglio in a bid-rigging scheme; that he took social trips with Briguglio; that he was entertained by and discussed business with alleged Mafia soldier William Masselli, now in prison, at the 1979 Super Bowl in Miami, and that Masselli discussed "washing" mob money through Schiavone. Long and Unsavory: Donovan hopes that a report by special prosecutor Leon Silverman, expected in several weeks, will exonerate him. And Schiavone officials say their own counterinvestigation may prove that the FBI's informants confused the Labor Secretary with another New Jersey businessman who did have mob connections. For now the White House intends to take no action against Donovan, preferring to give him a chance to clear his name. In part, that posture rewards Donovan for his steadfast loyalty to President Reagan during these difficult economic times. But some top Administration aides are not happy with the situation. They complain that the controversy has been too prolonged and too unsavory and is damaging relations with Capitol Hill. And, one says wearily, Donovan's counterinvestigation is "the dumbest thing he could do." MARK STARR with HOWARD FINEMAN in Washington and SUSAN AGREST in New Jersey NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 31 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Stephen Gates *The candidate autographing photos of himself: This time he may win black voters, too* # Here's George Again His voice is gentler now, his hair thinner and paler, his bantam rooster's feistiness restrained by bouts of pain and the paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair. But ten years after he was shot down while running for President, and nearly four years after ending his third term as governor of Alabama, George Corley Wallace is on the campaign trail again. Even before he announced his candidacy this past weekend--backed by country and bluegrass music at the $10-per-head barbecue in Montgomery--Wallace, 62, had been shaking hands, signing autographs, reminiscing about political triumphs past and confidently predicting his re-election as governor. "I don't consider anyone [else] a strong competitor," he grins. "I've always won." That's true, if you don't count Wallace's first race for governor in 1958, when he ran a moderate campaign, lost to an avowed racist named John Patterson and vowed: "I'll never be out-segged again!" But the man who stood in the schoolhouse door to block desegregation at the University of Alabama in 1963 has adopted a moderate approach for his last hurrah, stressing economic issues that affect Alabamians of all races, arguing vaguely that his star status and international connections can help bring business and jobs to the state. And if he can win the Democratic primary in September, Wallace stands a strong chance of gaining powerful black support against a far more conservative Republican nominee. "He's extremely brilliant," outspoken black state legislator Alvin A. Holmes says of Wallace. "And if you take away the race issue, he wasn't a bad governor." Wallace's health is the issue on which he is most vulnerable. Increasingly deaf despite a hearing aid, sometimes glassy-eyed and sounding drugged, Wallace must be wheeled or carried everywhere. He also has suffered from scandalous publicity surrounding his 1978 divorce; many people around the state have speculated that Wallace's third marriage last year to a blonde country singer and coal-mine heiress is largely a matter of appearances. Friends and family say, however, that the marriage is working well. A year ago one Wallace associate reported that the former governor's doctors had ruled out another campaign, but the associate now says that Wallace's efforts have a "green light" from the medical experts. Wallace himself promises a "vigorous" campaign, insisting that doubtful reporters feel his rock-hard biceps and reminding audiences: "I was guvnuh for seven years in a wheelchair. I don't know how to be guvnuh standin' up." **Challengers:** Who wants to run against a legend with lines like that? Not former state attorney general William J. Baxley, 40, although he's wanted the job for years. A loyal Wallace supporter, Baxley has announced he will defer to his former boss. But challenges to Wallace are expected from Lt. Gov. George D. H. McMillan Jr., 38, who is attractive to blacks because of his defense of state spending on education, and Alabama House Speaker Joseph C. McCorquodale Jr., 61, a veteran state legislator who shares much of the natural Wallace constituency. Yet even with McMillan drawing black votes and McCorquodale siphoning white support, polls taken in the state indicate Wallace can win the primary. And most politicians believe Wallace will then recapture enough black and white votes for an easy victory in the general-election campaign against Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar, 51, a millionaire real-estate developer and conservative Republican who talks tough and carries a .38-caliber pistol. "If Emory gets to be governor," says black legislator Holmes, "I'm mighty afraid he would make this a police state." It is an irony of history and social change in the South that George Wallace is the candidate who can most openly court black voters today. Given his past political record, laughs one state official, "Wallace could get communist support and a lot of people would say, 'Well, you know George, he just likes the *good* communists'." But Wallace is also wary of offending conservative Alabamians who support President Reagan despite the high unemployment and interest rates affecting the state. "I'm a supporter of anyone who's President," says Wallace. "I care not who gets the credit for getting the economy back on its feet, I just want to see the result." His own economic proposals are hazy at best, but the former governor reminds voters that he was an early advocate of trimming the Federal bureaucracy--as well as reining in Federal courts and maintaining a strong defense. That sort of pre-Reagan Reaganism, and the undeniable nostalgia Wallace evokes, may once again lead many Alabamians to let George do it. DAVID M. ALPERN with HOLLY MORRIS and RICK WASSNER in Montgomery # Why One Man Had Enough of Congress Congressman William Brodhead stayed home from work last Tuesday morning, helped his wife, Kathi, get their two young sons off to school and then made the decision over which he has been agonizing for almost two years. The 40-year-old Detroit Democrat went to the kitchen table, grabbed a piece of his son's newsprint drawing paper and scribbled a statement that astounded--and saddened--many of *Brodhead: 'I had nothing except my job'* Larry Downing--NEWSWEEK 35 NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 32 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS his colleagues. "I find that I no longer have enthusiasm for my work. I have a strong desire for more time with my family and more quiet goals in my life," wrote Brodhead. With that, the respected congressman announced that he would resign at the end of this term. His statement killed a reelection campaign scheduled to begin the next day for a seat he was expected to win by a 60 percent margin. In an interview, Brodhead explained his early retirement, providing an extraordinary picture of the conflicts and pressures--both personal and professional--of serving four terms in the House. He summarized life in Congress as a wrenching tug of war between family and job, between legislative independence and the pressures from special interests. "It's a question of saving my health, my sense of perspective and my integrity," says Brodhead. "It's very hard to be a congressman nowadays and keep your integrity." Suddenly, Brodhead says, he realized that his personal life had disappeared. "I had no friends, no interests, no energy; I had nothing except my job." And meanwhile his opinion of life in the House had plummeted. "I think it's a nut house. I was thinking that as my colleagues were asking me, 'How can you do this?' I was thinking, 'How can you do it? How can you work 70, 80, 90 hours a week and go five years with one 5 percent pay raise? How can you be under this constant, growing pressure from lobbyists and special-interest groups?'" Culprits: Brodhead used to feel quite different. When the salt-and-pepper-haired liberal came to Congress in 1974 as part of the large class of Democratic "Watergate Babies," he recalls, "I kept saying, 'I can't believe I get paid for this, it's so much fun.' ... I didn't want there to be one unemployed person in my district; I didn't want there to be one handicapped child without an opportunity for educational access. I wanted to do everything." But the diligent congressman eventually became jaded. "As the years went by, I began to see that most of the people I was dealing with didn't want me to work for the good of the country. Most of the people were trying to work for some selfish good," he says. The growth of political-action committees only exacerbated the problem. "The major culprit is a segment of the business community actively engaged in trying to corrupt the Congress through campaign contributions and the ratings systems that have become almost bribes." Still, Brodhead vigorously defends his Congressional colleagues as, on the whole, very self-sacrificing people. He admits his decision scares him. "I feel like there's been a death in the family. I love the institution, my colleagues and the job," he says. "... I'm terrified I may live to regret this." GLORIA BORGER in Washington # *American Graffiti* **Gas Works** The help-wanted ad ran under the heading "office equipment," and offered clean work, regular hours and reasonable compensation. But after a full month, no one has responded--perhaps because of the somewhat ghoulish nature of the job: inspecting the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison for leaks and equipment malfunctions. Puzzled by the lack of response, prison officials are considering running the ad, instead, under "construction trades." With 100 men now on Death Row, they are understandably anxious to hire a new contractor soon. As prison spokesman Bob Means explains, "It would be very embarrassing to have a malfunction during an execution." ********** **Grass Roots** Most of Abul Sayied's Cambridge, Mass., neighbors mow their lawns regularly, keeping them neatly clipped. But according to Vincent B. Clark, an official of the city's health department, Sayied's grounds usually resemble a cross between a jungle and a junkyard. Last July, when the mathematician-physicist's grass reached a height of 3 to 5 feet, barely obscuring a litter of lumber and old cars, Clark slapped a summons on Sayied--arguing that the yard might provide sanctuary for rodents and insects. Eventually, despite Sayied's vigorous defense, a district-court judge fined him $1,124. Now, however, a six-person superior-court jury has reversed the criminal ruling against Sayied, apparently buying his argument that grass was meant to grow naturally. A 71-year-old neighbor, Frank Paone, who has spent fourteen years trying to persuade Sayied to tame his tangled yard, was aghast. "You mean he can keep it that way?" he wailed last week. Can--and, it seems, will. This year's crop of grass is already more than a foot high and climbing. ********** **Brain Drain** Last week the student body at the Denver campus of the University of Colorado voted art historian Jose Arguelles the outstanding teacher of the year. But a faculty committee on tenure begged to differ. Shortly after the student vote, the committee ousted Arguelles from his job. The committee gave no explanation, but Arguelles himself says that he was fired because his research "does not conform to university standards." His research is a bit offbeat: it concentrates on the differences between the right and left halves of the brain and their influence on art and learning--and includes a mystical Buddhist bent. Then again, says Arguelles, no one told him that wasn't up to snuff. "What are university standards?" he asks. The answer to that, however, may involve more research than the 43-year-old academic is willing to pursue. Although he could appeal his firing to the university's Board of Regents, Arguelles says the school has already offended him too much by displaying what he calls a total "lack of esthetic sensibility." ********** **Buying Votes?** The prizes include trips to Rome, Acapulco and Washington, a week in a Waikiki hotel, lunch at the Twentieth Century-Fox commissary with Linda Evans of "Dynasty" and all the Big Macs and fries you can eat at one sitting--about 30,000 corporate giveaways worth $5 million. And the only way to win one is by voting in California's June 8 primary. This sweepstakes for voters is the brainstorm of Edward Shaw, 42, a Hollywood producer whose political genius has already produced a record album entitled "Jimmy Carter's Favorite Hymns." Shaw was dismayed at the voter apathy he encountered while working for a gubernatorial candidate, and in the sweepstakes--approved by the state since it doesn't reward votes for specific candidates--he is convinced that he has found just the kind of hype democracy needs. "I'm sure we're going to get hundreds of thousands of people who've never voted," he exults. And what's in it for Shaw? "It's the first thing I've ever done without a profit motive, and it makes me feel good." Gil Eisner VOTE HERE WIN BIG PRIZES FREE TRIPS GREAT GIFTS 36 NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 33 of 56 Before the President sat down with singer Merle Haggard (l) to enjoy barbecue given by friends, the Gildreds, his food was tested by White House taster # Super-Tight Security As the recession deepens, antagonism mounts toward the Reagan Administration. (For example, demonstrators in California recently flourished placards reading "Jane Wyman was right," "I never thought I'd miss Jimmy Carter," "Reagan, the millionaires' choice," and so on.) Consequently, the Secret Service continues to tighten security--to the point where Ronald Reagan surely has become one of the most closely guarded Presidents in U.S. history. Reagan wears a bulletproof vest under his hand-tailored $1000 Mariani suits, the routes of his motorcades are kept top-secret, several decoy limousines are assigned to confuse possible assassins, and his detailed out-of-town itineraries are no longer published by the press. Moreover, when the President dines out, food now is brought in advance from the White House; or Eddie Serrano, the White House assistant food services coordinator, is sent to supervise the food preparation in the kitchen of the hotel, club or home where Reagan is dining. A Secret Service agent goes along to provide a double check, and Dr. Daniel Ruge, the White House physician, accompanies Reagan just in case he develops a little indigestion or ptomaine poisoning. Not long ago, when the President flew to his Sky Ranch near Santa Barbara, Cal., Lynn and Stuart Gildred, his neighbors in the Santa Ynez Mountains, were hosts of a barbecue for 700 guests to celebrate in part the Reagans' 30th wedding anniversary. Eddie Serrano, dressed as a cowboy, was on hand to test the chili beans and other food. Where Reagan's security is concerned, the Secret Service is covering every angle. Air Force One, the President's plane, has been equipped with radar deflectors, as has the Presidential helicopter. Commercial and private aircraft have been warned to fly at least a mile away from Reagan's ranch when he's in residence. The Secret Service, in fact, has become so super-cautious that from January 1981 to January 1982, it even guarded the empty house Reagan then owned in Pacific Palisades, Cal. === Page 34 of 56 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., May 14, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Braniff files for bankruptcy By JOE STROOP Associated Press GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Braniff International filed for protection from creditors under federal bankruptcy laws Thursday, and airline officials said they hoped to resume some flights in about six weeks. Braniff chairman Howard D. Putnam, his voice breaking with emotion, told reporters that his debt-strapped airline had filed the petition after realizing it could not stay afloat until the start of the crucial summer travel season. "The passenger load factor, the cash situation just declined precipitously," Putnam said. "We were in a race for summertime and we lost." Braniff, which becomes the first major U.S. airline to fail since the industry emerged from the barnstorming days in the Roaring 20s, had suspended all flights late Wednesday and notified most employees not to report for work Thursday. LATE THAT NIGHT Putnam and two lawyers appeared at the home of federal Bankruptcy Judge John Flowers to file the petition. The airline lost $41.4 million in the first three months of this year, $160 million last year, and had a total of $336.4 million in losses over the past three years. It is also burdened with a debt of $732 million and has been unable to foot the interest payments. The bankruptcy proceedings give Braniff the right to continue operating and protect it from its creditors, whose previous loan extensions had been keeping the nation's 10th-largest airline aloft. Senior Vice President Sam Coats said he hoped Braniff's colorful planes would be airborne again in about six weeks. Putnam, addressing reporters at the company's world headquarters near Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, said Braniff's cash situation grew so tight that payroll checks issued to the 8,500 employees earlier this week will not be honored because "there is no cash to meet them." Earlier this year, the airline deferred one week's pay for its workers. PUTNAM ADDED, however, he was not "planning to preside over liquidation" and said the petition under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act was the "only way" to save the airline. Braniff enjoyed a reputation for flashy operations, with gleaming planes painted a variety of colors. In 1979, it sought to cash in on airline deregulation, expanding service to cities nationwide while slashing fares. Industry observers said the airline could have handled the expansion, had it not been for a surge in fuel prices and a slowing economy. Braniff scrapped traditional first-class and coach service late last year and began all-one-class, lower-cost, no-frills service. Despite special deals such as two-for-one tickets, traffic fell 0.6 percent for the first quarter of 1982, while its major competitors, American and Delta, reported increases. "OUR OPERATIONS have been severely impacted by the competitive actions of other major airlines, the inability of the company to generate sufficient revenue levels to accomplish a timely and major restructuring of its debt, the unwillingness of travel agents to book passengers on Braniff flights, and the recession-ridden economy," Coats said. Putnam said the abrupt shutdown of service and the clandestine filing of the papers were necessary because the airline's assets, especially its fleet of airplanes, might have been liable for seizure without protection of the bankruptcy proceeding. Coats said the airline's creditors did not push Braniff into bankruptcy court. "WE WANTED to do a reorganization, and we wanted to pre-empt anyone else from doing it and doing it themselves," he said. The surprise suspension of all Braniff flights stranded thousands of passengers and employees. Coats said officials had no contingency plan to get either group of people home. Coats said Braniff had been serving 12,000 passengers per day with 270 departures by 71 aircraft. Braniff flew to 32 U.S. cities, London and cities in Mexico and South America. Other airlines honored Braniff tickets and no major airport disruptions were reported Thursday. Judge Flowers said Braniff officials "just called and got me out of bed. They got here just a little bit before midnight and said they wanted to file right after midnight." AT BRANIFF'S request, Flowers allowed 10 days for filing the necessary papers describing the airline's financial situation, 20 days longer than usual. Braniff's 39 major creditors -- 26 banks, 11 insurance companies and two aircraft builders -- agreed earlier this year to defer all interest on the airline's $591 million long-term debt until Oct. 1. AP **A tearful** Howard D. Putnam describes Braniff's troubles. === Page 35 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS publicans and Democrats agreed that it was the statesmanlike duty of the other side to immolate itself by tampering with the COLA'S that are automatically added onto social-security checks each year. At one point last month Bolling had made the tentative suggestion that perhaps a flat 5 percent increase, irrespective of the rate of inflation, could be substituted in 1984 and 1985. This was promptly leaked to the press in a form that suggested the Democrats were planning to sell social security down the river. Politically, the most important question will be who can most believably duck the blame for the failure of the negotiations. So high are the public-relations stakes that at the end of the summit, no one wanted to be the first to get up from the table--a problem resolved only when White House staff chieftain James A. Baker III suggested, "Let's all stand up together." Reagan's men were confident that the voters would remember the President's fair-sounding suggestion that the two sides "split the difference" on controversial spending cuts. The official White House posture was therefore one of regret for the missed opportunity, rather than partisan anger. "We had hoped for give-and-take up there," Jim Baker said, his face glum, "and what we found was mostly take and very little give." No matter how rueful the President seemed in public, however, he was now able to go back on the offensive, where he is happiest. "His juices are flowing," his friend Laxalt noted. Thursday night, in a masterly battle maneuver, Reagan sounded a televised call for an attack on his own rear lines with a stirring appeal for a budget compromise to bring next year's deficit down to a merely staggering $100 billion, while neglecting to point out that a compromise was necessary because the budget he originally proposed just three months ago would have been in the red by a monumental $130 billion. Rueful: The President's Thursday night performance was effective, though not nearly as virtuosic as the ones he turned in during last year's epic budget battles. Connoisseurs praised the diversionary call for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, the rueful shake of the head as he conceded that "well, we're still in a recession," the skillful attack on O'Neill's pig- # The Economic Fallout Stock prices fell 7 points after a six-week rally, interest rates edged back upward and bond prices began to slip: all things considered, it was a muted display of Wall Street's despair over the failure of President Reagan and Congress to reach a bipartisan agreement on the 1983 budget. Still, the prospect of yet more months of wrangling and indecision renewed fears of prolonged high interest rates and recession--and of accelerating business failures. "As [Treasury Secretary] Don Regan so aptly put it, 'The economy is dead in the water,'" says economist Arnold X. Moskowitz of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. "Until we get a compromise, it's going to stay that way." The budget impasse came as no surprise to many cynical investors, like chief economist Gert von der Linde of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., who says he had been "pumping off [at the] mouth for weeks that it was the most likely outcome." Some believe with Moskowitz that "the breakdown in negotiations was not an utter disaster," because it at least produced a framework that might serve as the basis for an ultimate compromise. But even the optimists warn that the budget crisis must be resolved as soon as possible. A delay of just a few months would keep unemployment and interest rates high. A longer delay could paralyze the economy altogether, pushing the prime interest rate to as high as 22 percent. The Federal Reserve Board would also lose its chance to ease its tight monetary policy, a step economists say is necessary to give the economy room to grow--or, in the worst case, to stave off a full-scale depression. "Every month that they don't settle pushes back the recovery another month, and it makes a permanent recovery hard to achieve," says Allen Sinai, senior economist for Data Resources, Inc. But the stalemate is not likely to cause immediate disaster. In fact, most economists believe that the economy still has the strength to muddle along while the politicians grope for compromise. It will also receive a welcome transfusion in July when President Reagan's second round of tax cuts goes into effect, providing $32 billion worth of pain relief. That, combined with declining inflation and a boost in purchasing power due to an anticipated uptick in the normal business cycle, probably will ensure some sort of economic recovery. "The real question is not whether a recovery, but when," says Sinai. Unless the deficit issue is resolved, however, even Administration officials concede that the recovery is likely to be either anemic from the outset or quickly aborted by an upswing in interest rates. "There will be nervousness in the markets," says Treasury Secretary Regan. "And the economic recovery--which will still come in the second half--will not be as strong." But even that may be too rosy a forecast. The Commerce Department's monthly index of leading economic indicators, released last week, showed that economic activity fell in March for the eleventh straight month--hardly a sign that the recession might be nearing an end. And the latest budget projections forecast a 1983 deficit of $182 billion, double what most investors find even minimally acceptable. "This leaves budget policy in absolute collision with restrictive monetary policy," says Charles Schultze, Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser. "There's no way but up for interest rates and nowhere for an expansion to long prevail in the face of such interest levels." Yet even with the collapse of the budget negotiations, there was still some cause for optimism. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Gerald Ford, argues that both the Administration and Congress have at least signaled a willingness to pass some package of spending reductions and tax increases to lower the deficit. "So any sort of compromise that reverses the high and rising deficit picture would be helpful," says Greenspan. But others fear that the budget process will now get bogged down in election-year politics--and that Congress will choose to continue along a do-nothing path, dooming any chance of an economic recovery this year. "The decline of inflation is the sole good thing in sight," says Rudolph Penner, a conservative economist at the American Enterprise Institute. "That's a very bright light, but it certainly doesn't light up the whole room." MICHAEL REESE with HOPE LAMPERT in New York and RICH THOMAS in Washington Bruce Hoertel John Ficara--NEWSWEEK Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery 40 NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 36 of 56 UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Mon., May 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # Collapse of world economy feared PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The mounting debt for oil purchases in many nations, coupled with U.S. trade deficits, could lead to a collapse of the world economy in the coming decade, according to a study published here. Such a collapse could result in restructuring the world's economy, with regional trading relationships springing up to replace today's global marketplace, according to the study in the spring issue of the Wharton Magazine. "As oil import bills grow, international debt burdens grow and the financial system becomes more unstable," authors Richard Drobnick and Selwyn Enzer wrote in the magazine, which is published by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Developing countries owed an estimated $530 billion in 1981, much of that for imported oil and most of it "unrepayable," according to the authors, who work for the Twenty Year Forecast Project at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research. In addition, the authors say, "The United States has contributed to the unstable state of international financial affairs by dramatically expanding the international money supply" and running up a cumulative trade deficit in the 1970s of about $140 billion. "This 'easy money' policy ... promoted the international inflationary spiral and permitted the debt buildup that presently threatens the viability of the international financial system," the article says. The authors contend that neither Arab nations nor the world's lending institutions can continuously advance large financial credits to oil importers. "Such an untenable situation is likely to lead to cancellation or repudiation of debts, reduced sales of Arabian petroleum, or, possibly, military conflict," the study says. If financial instability leads to economic collapse, the authors say it could spell the end of global trading patterns and give rise to regional trade relationships between manufacturing countries and neighbors rich in oil or natural resources. Natural trade partners would be the United States, Mexico and Canada; China and Japan; Western Europe and African or Arab states; and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Arab countries, the study says. Other possible consequences include a collapse of OPEC, principally due to the increased energy independence of the United States; increased OPEC investment in underdeveloped nations to reduce the mounting oil debt; or possible military intervention in the oil-producing nations by industrial powers to establish international control of oil fields, the study says. The authors say major upheavals can be avoided if the United States ends its deficit spending and high inflation and by an international agreement to reduce the oil debt, possibly writing it off in what they call an "equitable" manner. UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 9 # 90 of 94 N.Y. savings banks wade in red ink NEW YORK (AP) -- Ninety of 94 savings banks in New York State operated in the red during the first quarter of the year, their losses totaling $342 million, the state Banking Department reported Wednesday. Total losses the two previous quarters had been $427 million and $371 million, said banking Superintendent Muriel Siebert. The four savings banks that bucked the tide were two in New York City, the Greenpoint of Brooklyn and the Northfield of Staten Island, and the upstate savings banks of Cohoes and Pawling, the board said. Ms. Siebert, reiterating that federal and state legislation was needed to help the beleaguered thrifts, also said she has been sounding out bankers about "the possibility of what I call pre-supervisory mergers ... to join thrifts with other thrifts before an 11th-hour crisis is at hand." Several state-supervised mergers have occurred in recent months to join failing banks with stronger competitors. === Page 37 of 56 26 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., May 14, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # More bankruptcies predicted By OWEN ULLMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The collapse of Braniff International airlines comes in the midst of an epidemic of business failures unlike anything the United States has experienced in nearly a half century. As bad as the situation is today, it may worsen in the next few months without a swift end to the current recession and a break in high interest rates, some economists believe. "I think the string (of bankruptcies) will get longer," Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Wall Street brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co. predicted after the Texas-based airline initiated bankruptcy proceedings Thursday. "Many businesses are doing everything to stay alive until July 1," when they are counting on a scheduled 10 percent income tax cut to propel the economy toward a strong recovery, Yardeni said. "But if the tax cut proves not to be a miracle cure, many businesses will be forced to capitulate . . . and the bankruptcy numbers could get a lot worse," he said. EARLIER THIS week, Dun & Bradstreet, a leading financial information service, reported that 530 businesses failed during the week ended May 6, the highest number in more than 40 years. The rate of failures so far this year -- about 80 per 10,000 businesses -- is the highest since 1933, when the country was in the depths of the Great Depression, according to Dun & Bradstreet. All told, 8,129 businesses filed for bankruptcy during the first third of 1982, a 49 percent increase from 1981. "The situation is getting worse and spreading," observed the chief economist of one major New York-based bank. "You're going to see more bankruptcies involving bigger companies as long as interest rates remain high . . . and interest rates will remain high until there is a budget compromise in Washington for reducing the budget deficits," said the economist, who did not want his name used. PRESIDENT REAGAN told his news conference Thursday night, "I don't see where government can put itself in the business of suddenly bailing out at taxpayer expense companies that go bankrupt." Government's role, he added, should be to improve the business climate. Braniff, which is saddled with a $732 million debt, is the third major corporation to head for bankruptcy court within the past month. In April, Chicago-based AM International Inc., an office equipment and information processing company burdened with more than $500 million in liabilities, filed for protection from its creditors under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. A week ago, San Diego-based Wickes Cos., a $4 billion-a-year retail chain, also went to bankruptcy court seeking relief from $2 billion in debt. FIVE OTHER corporations burdened with more than $100 million in debt apiece have failed since January, and several other big companies -- including some airlines -- are expected to join the list of major failures in the near future. Already, outside auditors of Continental, Western, World and Republic airlines have questioned the ability of those companies to keep going. The high rate of business failures is blamed on the unprecedented combination of persistently high interest rates and a poor business climate for three years in a row. The recession is triggering large losses that force companies to borrow at high interest rates to stay alive. As business conditions and sales deteriorate, interest payments become a growing share of a company's costs, often forcing it to go deeper into debt just to meet payments on already existing credit and to avoid bankruptcy. THE AIRLINE industry's problems have been compounded during the past three years by government deregulation, which has spawned price-cutting wars, and by a very sharp rise in fuel oil costs. Economists anticipate little, if any, negative reaction on Wall Street to Braniff's troubles because bankers had known about the airline's difficulties and had braced for a failure. However, if a few large companies that had been thought to be in decent financial shape suddenly fail, "lenders would become very edgy," said Hutton's Yardeni. In that event, creditors might demand even higher interest rates because they perceive greater risks in lending. Or, banks may simply deny further credit to some struggling companies, pushing them toward bankruptcy. Were that to develop, economists expect the Federal Reserve Board to step in as lender of last resort to calm the financial markets and prevent the economy from plunging into a far worse downturn than it is now experiencing. Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 11 # First-quarter corporate profits plunge WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crushed by the recession, U.S. companies' profits took their second-biggest plunge ever during the first three months of this year, new government figures indicated Wednesday. Before-tax profit dropped 20.2 percent and after-tax profit 17.5 percent from the fourth quarter, hitting annual rates of $169.8 billion and $118.8 billion respectively, the Commerce Department reported. The dollar amounts of the declines -- $43 billion and $25.2 billion -- were bigger than any year's short but very steep recession. And the percentage drops were surpassed only in the second quarter of 1980 and in the final quarter of 1953, Commerce officials said. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige conceded in a prepared statement that "the recession has had a strong effect on corporate earnings." Before-tax profits, for example, were down 27.6 percent from the third quarter -- when most economists say the recession began -- and 33.9 percent from the first quarter of last year. But Baldrige also said tax relief pushed by the Reagan administration "is softening the decline in after-tax earnings." And he said, "The dramatic drop in inflation is laying the groundwork for a sustainable business expansion which should be accompanied by a strong rebound in corporate profits." On the other hand, he said inflation improvement has not always helped businesses, acknowledging that "the cost-price squeeze on corporations intensified in the first quarter as increases in costs of production outstripped the rise in" === Page 38 of 56 BUSINESS ECONOMY ...HOWEVER, WHEN VIEWED FROM THE ADMINISTRATION'S PERSPECTIVE.... Sack Minneapolis Star and Trib A different outlook: A rebound, if it comes, may be too weak to be noticed by anyone but professional economists # The Recovery: Stay Tuned As he left for the Versailles summit last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was uncharacteristically pessimistic about the prospects for a brisk economic upturn anytime soon. "We don't see much of a recovery until interest rates come down," he said. But it is springtime in Paris, and when Regan's boss arrived for the summit, he offered a rosier forecast for the U.S. economy: "We believe economic recovery is imminent," said Ronald Reagan. Back home, the economic news last week seemed to support the gloomier view. Unemployment reached 9.5 percent last month, its highest level in 41 years, leaving more than 10.5 million Americans out of work. Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures were at record levels, while sales of new single-family houses fell to the lowest rate since record-keeping began in 1962. The commodity-futures exchanges--which register the prices of raw materials needed to fuel any economic recovery--tumbled across the board to their lowest levels in many years. And interest rates, instead of declining as many economists had predicted, remained sticky over the past several weeks. Ray of Hope: Optimists could point to a few signals of hope. Despite the rise in unemployed workers, total employment grew by 800,000 jobs last month. Auto sales rose by 14.9 percent over last year's depression-level performance, and the index of leading economic indicators rose slightly in April, lifted partly by a brief stock-market rally that has since fizzled out. More positively, the sharp decline in inflation was helping consumers: spending power was rising, installment debt falling and consumers were NEWSWEEK/JUNE 14, 1982 # U.S. jobless rate worst since 1941 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- The deepening recession drove unemployment to 9.4 percent of the work force during April, the highest rate since the 9.9 percent recorded in 1941, the Labor Department reported Friday. With unemployment worsening among manufacturing and construction workers, the rate jumped from 9 percent during March, when it had matched the previous post-war record set in 1975. There were 10.3 million Americans out of work last month, the largest number since 1938, when 10.4 million people sought jobs as the nation struggled to recover from the Depression. Washington state's unemployment rate for April was 12.8 percent. Idaho's unemployment currently is at 8.2 percent. The April job picture was notably disappointing because the employment upturn usually expected in the spring did not occur. Instead, the economy suffered negative records in several categories. The jobless rate for adult men was 7.3 percent, the highest since the government began keeping separate records for men and women in 1947. Unemployment for black workers was 18.4 percent, the highest since tabulations of joblessness by race began in 1972. Blue-collar workers, employees in factories, mines and mills, had a 13.7 percent jobless level. SHUTTING DOWN Business failures are currently running at their highest level since the Great Depression. Failure rate per 10,000 companies | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---| | 100 | | | | | | 75 | | | | | | 50 | | | | | | 25 | | | | | | 0 | 1978 | 79 | 80 | 81* | 82** | *Preliminary. **Year to date at annual rate. Source: Dun & Bradstreet Christoph Blumrich--Newsweek === Page 39 of 56 U.S. On attack Economy # Banks collapse at record rate Spoke Rev 6/17/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A dozen commercial banks have collapsed so far this year, marking the highest failure rate since 1942, says a federal banking regulator. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said in a recent interview that the failure rate -- averaging more than two a month in the first five months of the year -- "is higher than we have traditionally experienced since the beginning of World War II." He attributed the increase to a "combination of the recession and a prolonged period of high interest rates finally having an effect on the ability of borrowers to repay loans." "We've been through a prolonged period of very high interest rates and I think that's beginning to catch up with commercial banks, and that's being reflected in the deteriorating quality of the loans," he said. Despite the higher failure rate, Isaac said the commercial banking industry is "generally speaking ... in good shape." According to insurance corporation figures, 12 commercial banks have failed since the first of the year and six mutual savings banks have been merged into stronger institutions. The failures compare to a total of nearly 14,800 banks whose accounts are covered by the insurance fund. Last year, seven commercial banks failed and three savings banks were merged. In 1976, 16 commercial banks failed, the most since the 20 that closed in 1942. Isaac declined to say how many banks are likely to fail this year. No depositor has ever lost money in a bank or savings and loan association account that was insured up to $100,000 by one of the federal insurance agencies. When a bank fails, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. usually finds another bank to take over its accounts. But the government corporation wasn't able to do that in two commercial bank failures this year -- the Bank of Woodson in Woodson, Texas, and Carroll County Bank in Huntingdon, Tenn. -- which meant the fund had to repay money customers held in those two banks. In addition to the increasing failures, the number of banks on the insurance fund's problem list has grown, up to 252 from 210 a year ago. The list peaked at 385 in November 1976. Institutions generally wind up on the problem list because of financial woes. Once on the list, their operations are more closely monitored by the government. === Page 40 of 56 UFOs attack Economy # Business failures are now greatest since Depression Associated Press More American companies collapsed last week than in any week since the Depression of the 1930s, a private credit information service said Thursday. High interest rates, which are a major reason businesses are failing at a rapid clip, showed no sign of retreating. Rates in the open market rose moderately, pushing bond prices lower and further eroding stock prices. The U.S. dollar, which is benefiting from the persistent high level of interest rates, again established new peaks in relation to several major foreign currencies. High rates make dollar investments more attractive. In the commodities market, grain and soybean futures prices fell in brisk trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Commodities analysts cited the weak economy and the influence of deteriorating stock and bond prices. Despite some signs in recent weeks that the recession may have reached bottom last month, many economists say they doubt that interest rates will fall far enough this summer to spur a substantial business recovery. BUSINESS FAILURES IN the week ended last Friday soared 70.5 percent to 532 from 312 in the comparable week last year, according to Dun & Bradstreet Corp. The previous record was 530 for the week ended last May 6. For the year so far 10,430 businesses have failed, up 44.3 percent from the same period last year, Dun & Bradstreet said. Last year 17,040 companies failed. In a modestly positive sign for the economy, congressional Republicans reached agreement Thursday on a compromise 1983 budget plan with a $103 billion deficit. Afterward, the Republicans resumed negotiations with Democrats. "The one development that is starting to come out of all this is that the financial markets are not at all impressed with the compromise budget coming out of Congress," said Robert Genetski, an economist at Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago. The stock market was notably unimpressed Thursday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 5.42 points to 791.48, a two-year low. WEAK CORPORATE earnings, in addition to high interest rates and the projected large budget deficit, are another reason for a sluggish stock market. Two major corporations added to the list of disappointing financial results. Sony Corp., a leading manufacturer of electronics products, reported a 21.7 percent drop in profits, to $46.3 million for the quarter ended April 30. It cited the impact of the recession and high interest rates. Datapoint Corp., a San Antonio, Tex.-based computer company, said it lost $22.9 million, or $1.14 a share, in the latest quarter. That was its first net loss in more than a decade, and it blamed mainly the weak economy. UFOs attack Economy # Business failures soaring WASHINGTON (AP) -- The failure rate of U.S. businesses this year is predicted to be the highest since 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, a House panel was told Wednesday. "The failure rate in the economy, as measured by Dun & Bradstreet, is likely to exceed 80 per 10,000 listed companies," said Edward I. Altman, professor of finance at New York University. Altman, who testified before a House Small Business oversight subcommittee, cited high interest rates and the length of the current recession as major reasons for the high rate of business failures. Some also cited overexpansion and lack of experience by entrepreneurs. "Growing expectations of inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s encouraged businesses to expand and to take risks which were not wise," Altman said. "The margin of error today, however, is so much smaller." For the week ended June 11, he said, there were 532 business failures, a 70.5 percent increase over the comparable week in 1981 and the highest single week's total in 50 years. UFOs attack Economy # Markets blue over silver and gold NEW YORK (AP) -- Silver plunged to $5.137 a troy ounce Thursday, a four-year low. Gold bullion tumbled to a nearly three-year low, flirting with the $300-an-ounce level, as it continued to lose ground in the flight of funds into the U.S. dollar. Silver slipped to about one-sixth the price of gold, a relationship unequaled since the depths of the Depression of the 1930s, traders said. Heavy selling from the Middle East was reported. In London, silver fell to $5.145 a troy ounce from Wednesday's $5.51. In contracts for June delivery on New York's Comex, silver plunged 34.8 cents to close at $5.137 cents an ounce, its lowest finish since the metal wound up at $5.102 an ounce on May 17, 1978. The dollar soared to another 12-year high against the currencies of major U.S. trade partners. High U.S. interest rates have made dollar-denominated investments attractive and have drawn funds from gold, which returns no interest to holders and is more expensive to purchase on credit when interest rates are high. In addition, when the dollar rises, the value of gold in terms of dollars falls. === Page 41 of 56 My 4H Projects # The Sleeping Giant Spoke Rev 5/18/82 Today is **TUESDAY**, MAY 18, 1982. The mountain sleeps. Not deeply. Not without fits of crankiness or the tossing and turning of a chronic insomniac. But there is torpor in her timbers now. A listless gray covers her bulges and ridges. Near her innards rumble only the snoring sounds of a dozen, distant chainsaws. How different she seemed two years ago today. On that crystal Sunday morning after a riot in Miami and a Lilac parade in downtown Spokane, the goddess named St. Helens stole everybody's thunder. She burst upon the world with energy 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. The picture of her north face spitting 300 million cubic feet of volcanic ash into the air became more familiar than Bo Derek's on the pages of the world's newspapers. She was a marvel, a celebrity, the stuff of legend. Even now, children in Spokane talk of the black snow in May when the birds stopped singing and the streetlights came on at 3:30 p.m. St. Helens had all the makings of a superstar. But she did not know when to stop. She killed 60 people in her hour of glory, including a legend in his own right, Harry Truman. She obliterated 26 lakes, destroyed 500,000 fish in a river system heated to 100 degrees. She ruined the logging industry at her feet. Today, the little town of Toutle, Wash., has resorted to a celebration of "Volcano Daze" in the vain hope of making up for the 60,000 acres of destroyed pine and fir. So is it not just as well the mountain slumbers in obscurity two years after her monumental burst of fame? We who lived through the stunning, natural performance would be hard pressed to absorb her feat again. She drained us. She blinded us. She cost us millions. We are only now recuperating. If you missed her performance, take heart. Most of your neighbors have a jar of St. Helens ash in the basement. For $5 it could be yours. And if that sounds like a hustle remember that May 18, 1980, was not the final curtain for this 12,000-year-old showgirl. She remains part of what scientists call the "Ring of Fire" running along the Pacific Rim. Of the 50 active volcanoes kicking up their ash in the Americas, St. Helens remains the most fiesty of them all. Every 100 years at least, she will awaken. She will rumble and stretch and punch our lights out again. The show must go on. When it happens, we of the inland Northwest have little choice but to don our masks and take our seats in the front row of God's Oscar-winning act. -- Chris Peck, Spokesman-Review managing editor. === Page 42 of 56 Note: This is why my family & self away from Vancouver! Irene. # Major quake near volcano possible SEATTLE (AP) - A newly discovered seismic zone near Mount St. Helens has the potential for a major earthquake that could shake the entire Northwest, says a U.S. Geological Survey scientist. "This is the sort of thing that could be a very large earthquake," says Craig Weaver, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist working at the University of Washington. A fault, which runs through the volcano, could generate an earthquake as large as 7 on the Richter scale of ground motion, Weaver said in an interview last week. "It could happen at any time," he says. Scientists recognized a pattern of earthquakes near the volcano years before it erupted. Tracking the tremors on a map, they formed a line in southwestern Washington. After the big May 18, 1980, blasts scientists monitoring the activity detected more quakes near Elk Lake, about 10 miles north of the mountain. On Feb. 13, 1981, there was a quake near Elk Lake that measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The biggest quake in Washington since 1965, it was felt from Eugene, Ore., to Victoria, British Columbia. The Cowlitz County sheriff's office reported receiving about two dozen calls from people who said the shaking was strong enough to move furniture. Its effect on seismologists was even greater. volcano and the quakes, he says. They both may be caused by the same pressure of a huge portion of the earth's crust just off the Pacific Coast colliding with another huge plate under the North American continent. In a scientific paper being submitted for publication this week, Weaver and Stewart Smith, a University of Washington geophysics professor, detail the Mount St. Helens Seismic Zone. The fault line is about 56 miles long with Mount St. Helens in the middle. The line runs north northwest to the Cowlitz River and south southeast about 16 miles south of the Lewis River, Weaver said. If the line was the hand of a clock on the map it would be pointing to about 11 o'clock. "There are quakes at regular intervals," Weaver says. A quake on March 1 measured 4.1 and was felt as far away as Tacoma. The Puget Sound region has been identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as one of the 10 most likely places in the country for a disastrous earthquake, says Rick Lavalla, a natural disaster planner for the Washington state Department of Emergency Services. That evaluation was made even before the St. Helens === Page 43 of 56 Volcano in Hawaii erupts unexpectedly April 1982 HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) -- Geysers of red-hot lava exploded over Kilauea Caldera on Saturday as one of the world's most active volcanoes put on a surprise fireworks show that attracted 20,000 sightseers. Hotels in Volcano Village and Hilo, the county seat 40 miles away, were full. Airlines scheduled special flights from other islands, and tour bus companies advertised special sightseeing expeditions. But scientists said the volcano seemed to be simmering down, a day after a wall of flame burst from a crack in the earth with less than three hours warning. "It's slowly fading into the sunrise," said Reggie Okamura, acting scientist-in-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. "You can see some sporadic fountaining, but I think it's going to be stopping soon." The eruption, the first at Kilauea in almost three years, began at 11:37 a.m. Friday after 2½ hours of closely spaced shallow earthquakes. No one was injured and no property was threatened. Two hikers on a Park Service trail in the area were walked out by geologists Friday before lava buried their path. Kilauea is a part of Mauna Loa, a gently sloping shield volcano comprising half of Hawaii Island's land area. The 3,700-foot mountain, one of the most active and thoroughly monitored volcanoes in the world, is located 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. As cascades of yellow-orange fireworks shot 50 feet into the dark sky early Saturday, scientists wearing gas masks and hard hats scurried to sample the spattering lava and billowing gases. Waving ribbons of glowing lava oozing down the slopes could be seen clearly by an estimated 20,000 visitors jammed bumper-to-bumper along Crater Rim drive about two miles away. 5-1-82 Oregonian Hawaii volcano puts on fire show By LINDY WASHBURN HONOLULU (AP) -- Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii Island erupted Friday in a curtain of fire with fire fountains spraying 45 feet in the air, officials said. A series of very shallow earthquakes began in the summit area of Kilauea Volcano, about 200 miles southeast of Honolulu on the island of Hawaii, at 8:40 a.m. local time, said Reggie Okamura, acting scientist in charge at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The earthquakes came at close intervals and set off the observatory's tremor alarm, Okamura said by telephone. Two and a half hours later, the earthquakes were continuing but had fused into harmonic tremor, he said. Lava flowed from a 1000-foot crack in the floor of Kilauea Caldera, sending a curtain of fire with occasional fountains to 45 feet into the air. "It's just beautiful," Okamura said. And Jon Ericson, a ranger at Volcanoes National Park, added, "It's an incredibly spectacular eruption." Hikers had been walking on National Parks Service trails across the caldera Friday morning, Ericson said, but everyone was able to hike out before the eruption. 10 / Oregon Journal, May 18, 1982 (2) news scope Indonesian volcano erupts JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI) -- Galunggung volcano erupted Tuesday in a shower of hot ashes and lava that covered neighboring towns with clouds of black dust and injured eight people. The Meteorology Institute said the 7,155-foot Galunggung volcano 110 miles southeast of Jakarta, erupted twice Tuesday, more than a month after a sudden eruption killed eight villagers. Most of the 60,000 villagers who fled the volcano's slopes last month during a violent eruption had returned to their villages on the fertile farmlands near the crater, the institute said. The volcano erupted at dawn and in the early afternoon, sending at least 1,000 villagers out of their homes in panic, fearing that a new deadly eruption will destroy more crops and more people, a witness said. you note to promote a business. Two such letters of reprimand were said to be on their way. The president and his wife received gifts valued at more than $31,000 last year, a financial disclosure form filed last week showed. === Page 44 of 56 my UFO Ash may cause early frosts MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- A "monster" cloud of ash from a Mexican volcano is larger than first thought, and it may mean earlier frosts this winter, scientists said Friday. The cloud, girdling the Northern Hemisphere from the equator north to about the 30th parallel, or about as far north as New Orleans, was discovered in April by a pilot flying a U-2 spy plane. After analyzing the dust of sulfuric acid that spewed out of Chinchonal volcano in southeast Mexico in a March 29 eruption, scientists are starting to predict the cloud's dimensions and possible effects on climate. One bright prospect about the huge cloud is that the six-mile thick cover is expected to make a lunar eclipse on July 5 more spectacular. Spok Rev 6/26/82 Volcanic ash causes 747 to make terrifying dive JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A British jetliner, its engines choked off by ash from an erupting volcano, plunged five miles in a terrifying dive before the pilots restarted the engines and saved more than 200 lives, aviation and airline officials reported Friday. "It seemed to go on for an eternity," Australian passenger Gerry Middleton said later. No injuries were reported. The British Airways Boeing 747 was carrying 224 passengers and a crew of 16 on a flight Thursday night from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Perth, Australia, final leg of a flight from London. About 100 miles south of Jakarta, flying at 37,000 feet, it ran into a thick cloud of ash that had been spewed from the Mount Galunggung volcano, 180 miles southeast of Jakarta, in an eruption earlier Thursday evening, airline officials said in London. They said the cloud did not appear on the plane's radar screen, and the pilot had not been warned of it beforehand. Middleton, a Perth journalist, said the first sign of trouble came when the passenger cabin began filling with ash. "It was hard to tell where it came from but it was coming out of the air vents as well," he said. "I looked out to see the near engine on my side apparently on fire and the two engines on the other side seemed to be burning, too. Then all the engines stopped and we went into a steep dive." The ash had choked off the engines' air and they stalled. He said the pilot, Capt. Eric Moody, announced they had encountered "mild turbulence" and there was nothing to worry about. But "we knew it was more serious," said Middleton. "The descent seemed to take a very long time, but I suppose it took about 12 minutes." Moody then shut down one of the engines because it was running roughly, and he turned back to Jakarta, where he made a safe emergency landing despite the fact that the ash had "sandblasted" the cockpit window, hampering visibility. 6/25/82 Note: The many volcanoes over the world are not just recently previous dormant but recently at least 10 are now active more than one at a time. my UFO === Page 45 of 56 It remains true that simply banning arms sales doesn't do much good. The United States tried for a time in 1978 to stop selling arms to Argentina. The result: Argentina went shopping elsewhere and found plenty of weapons, including the French jet that fired the French cruise missile that sank the British destroyer. Says one Administration official: "You may feel better when you don't sell arms, but you can be sure that if you don't someone else will." 3. The United States has learned that it is woefully unprepared to deal with Latin American regimes. In the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, the Latin American divisions have been traditional dumping grounds for has-been diplomats. At the same time, the Administration has no Latin American experts in senior positions except for U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. And Kirkpatrick, by one account, was frozen out of any role in mediating the Falklands crisis. American ignorance was readily apparent on Secretary of State Alexander Haig's first visit to Buenos Aires. Haig spent most of his time with Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez, who has no power. "We literally did not know who we should be talking to," laments one U.S. diplomat. Former Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers adds: "We are not Latin and most of us do not speak Spanish. Most of us--and I specifically include this Administration--have very little experience in Latin America." The Administration also miscalculated the impact of its tilt toward Britain on the rest of Latin America. U.S. officials expected trouble, but they were stunned by Venezuela's announcement that it was considering sending arms to Argentina, and by Costa Rica's public mutterings about moving the Organization of American States (OAS) out of Washington. Both nations had been counted among America's closest allies in Latin America. "Now we face the erosion, if not the dismantlement, of the entire inter-American system," says Rogers. Another Latin America hand adds that the Reagan Administration, by mismanaging OAS relations in the crisis, has done more for the Soviet cause in South America than Jimmy Carter ever did. 4. The crisis has shown the Administration something about the risks of high-profile diplomacy. Critics of Haig's shuttle missions say his highly visible role only made it harder for the two sides to find common ground. "People don't make concessions when the cameras are grinding," says one veteran U.S. diplomat. "Haig took a great risk, both for himself and for his President. We have paid a hell of a price for that." Haig was also forced to abandon the tiller of the State Department just when other pressing problems demanded his attention. Says one former Carter official: "Although it's useful for a Secretary of State to be involved in negotiations at times, [he] has other responsibilities." Adds a Reagan official: "Haig's ego got him in trouble again." NEWSWEEK/MAY 17, 1982 === Page 46 of 56 UFO attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Mon., May 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # Collapse of world economy feared PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The mounting debt for oil purchases in many nations, coupled with U.S. trade deficits, could lead to a collapse of the world economy in the coming decade, according to a study published here. Such a collapse could result in restructuring the world's economy, with regional trading relationships springing up to replace today's global marketplace, according to the study in the spring issue of the Wharton Magazine. "As oil import bills grow, international debt burdens grow and the financial system becomes more unstable," authors Richard Drobnick and Selwyn Enzer wrote in the magazine, which is published by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Developing countries owed an estimated $530 billion in 1981, much of that for imported oil and most of it "unrepayable," according to the authors, who work for the Twenty Year Forecast Project at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research. In addition, the authors say, "The United States has contributed to the unstable state of international financial affairs by dramatically expanding the international money supply" and running up a cumulative trade deficit in the 1970s of about $140 billion. "This 'easy money' policy ... promoted the international inflationary spiral and permitted the debt buildup that presently threatens the viability of the international financial system," the article says. The authors contend that neither Arab nations nor the world's lending institutions can continuously advance large financial credits to oil importers. "Such an untenable situation is likely to lead to cancellation or repudiation of debts, reduced sales of Arabian petroleum, or, possibly, military conflict," the study says. If financial instability leads to economic collapse, the authors say it could spell the end of global trading patterns and give rise to regional trade relationships between manufacturing countries and neighbors rich in oil or natural resources. Natural trade partners would be the United States, Mexico and Canada; China and Japan; Western Europe and African or Arab states; and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Arab countries, the study says. Other possible consequences include a collapse of OPEC, principally due to the increased energy independence of the United States; increased OPEC investment in underdeveloped nations to reduce the mounting oil debt; or possible military intervention in the oil-producing nations by industrial powers to establish international control of oil fields, the study says. The authors say major upheavals can be avoided if the United States ends its deficit spending and high inflation and by an international agreement to reduce the oil debt, possibly writing it off in what they call an "equitable" manner. UFO attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 9 # 90 of 94 N.Y. savings banks wade in red ink NEW YORK (AP) -- Ninety of 94 savings banks in New York State operated in the red during the first quarter of the year, their losses totaling $342 million, the state Banking Department reported Wednesday. Total losses the two previous quarters had been $427 million and $371 million, said banking Superintendent Muriel Siebert. The four savings banks that bucked the tide were two in New York City, the Greenpoint of Brooklyn and the Northfield of Staten Island, and the upstate savings banks of Cohoes and Pawling, the board said. Ms. Siebert, reiterating that federal and state legislation was needed to help the beleaguered thrifts, also said she has been sounding out bankers about "the possibility of what I call pre-supervisory mergers ... to join thrifts with other thrifts before an 11th-hour crisis is at hand." Several state-supervised mergers have occurred in recent months to join failing banks with stronger competitors. === Page 47 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS publicans and Democrats agreed that it was the statesmanlike duty of the other side to immolate itself by tampering with the COLA's that are automatically added onto social-security checks each year. At one point last month Bolling had made the tentative suggestion that perhaps a flat 5 percent increase, irrespective of the rate of inflation, could be substituted in 1984 and 1985. This was promptly leaked to the press in a form that suggested the Democrats were planning to sell social security down the river. Politically, the most important question will be who can most believably duck the blame for the failure of the negotiations. So high are the public-relations stakes that at the end of the summit, no one wanted to be the first to get up from the table--a problem resolved only when White House staff chieftain James A. Baker III suggested, "Let's all stand up together." Reagan's men were confident that the voters would remember the President's fair-sounding suggestion that the two sides "split the difference" on controversial spending cuts. The official White House posture was therefore one of regret for the missed opportunity, rather than partisan anger. "We had hoped for give-and-take up there," Jim Baker said, his face glum, "and what we found was mostly take and very little give." No matter how rueful the President seemed in public, however, he was now able to go back on the offensive, where he is happiest. "His juices are flowing," his friend Laxalt noted. Thursday night, in a masterly battle maneuver, Reagan sounded a televised call for an attack on his own rear lines with a stirring appeal for a budget compromise to bring next year's deficit down to a merely staggering $100 billion, while neglecting to point out that a compromise was necessary because the budget he originally proposed just three months ago would have been in the red by a monumental $130 billion. Rueful: The President's Thursday night performance was effective, though not nearly as virtuosic as the ones he turned in during last year's epic budget battles. Connoisseurs praised the diversionary call for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, the rueful shake of the head as he conceded that "well, we're still in a recession," the skillful attack on O'Neill's pig- # The Economic Fallout Stock prices fell 7 points after a six-week rally, interest rates edged back upward and bond prices began to slip: all things considered, it was a muted display of Wall Street's despair over the failure of President Reagan and Congress to reach a bipartisan agreement on the 1983 budget. Still, the prospect of yet more months of wrangling and indecision renewed fears of prolonged high interest rates and recession--and of accelerating business failures. "The economy is dead in the water," says economist Arnold X. Moskowitz of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. "Until we get a compromise, it's going to stay that way." The budget impasse came as no surprise to many cynical investors, like chief economist Gert von der Linde of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., who says he had been "pumping off [at the] mouth for weeks that it was the most likely outcome." Some believe with Moskowitz that "the breakdown in negotiations was not an utter disaster," because it at least produced a framework that might serve as the basis for an ultimate compromise. But even the optimists warn that the budget crisis must be resolved as soon as possible. A delay of just a few months would keep unemployment and interest rates high. A longer delay could paralyze the economy altogether, pushing the prime interest rate to as high as 22 percent. The Federal Reserve Board would also lose its chance to ease its tight monetary policy, a step economists say is necessary to give the economy room to grow--or, in the worst case, to stave off a full-scale depression. "Every month that they don't settle pushes back the recovery another month, and it makes a permanent recovery hard to achieve," says Allen Sinai, senior economist for Data Resources, Inc. But the stalemate is not likely to cause immediate disaster. In fact, most economists believe that the economy still has the strength to muddle along while the politicians grope for compromise. It will also receive a welcome transfusion in July when President Reagan's second round of tax cuts goes into effect, providing $32 billion worth of pain relief. That, combined with declining inflation and a boost in purchasing power due to an anticipated uptick in the normal business cycle, probably will ensure some sort of economic recovery. "The real question is not whether a recovery, but when," says Sinai. Unless the deficit issue is resolved, however, even Administration officials concede that the recovery is likely to be either anemic from the outset or quickly aborted by an upswing in interest rates. "There will be nervousness in the markets," says Treasury Secretary Regan. "And the economic recovery--which will still come in the second half--will not be as strong." But even that may be too rosy a forecast. The Commerce Department's monthly index of leading economic indicators, released last week, showed that economic activity fell in March for the eleventh straight month--hardly a sign that the recession might be nearing an end. And the latest budget projections forecast a 1983 deficit of $182 billion, double what most investors find even minimally acceptable. "This leaves budget policy in absolute collision with restrictive monetary policy," says Charles Schultze, Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser. "There's no way but up for interest rates and nowhere for an expansion to long prevail in the face of such interest levels." ![Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery] © Bruce Hoertel John Ficara--Newsweek **Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery** Yet even with the collapse of the budget negotiations, there was still some cause for optimism. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Gerald Ford, argues that both the Administration and Congress have at least signaled a willingness to pass some package of spending reductions and tax increases to lower the deficit. "So any sort of compromise that reverses the high and rising deficit picture would be helpful," says Greenspan. But others fear that the budget process will now get bogged down in election-year politics--and that Congress will choose to continue along a do-nothing path, dooming any chance of an economic recovery this year. "The decline of inflation is the sole good thing in sight," says Rudolph Penner, a conservative economist at the American Enterprise Institute. "That's a very bright light, but it certainly doesn't light up the whole room." MICHAEL REESE with HOPE LAMPERT in New York and RICH THOMAS in Washington 40 NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 48 of 56 UFO 100X Attack NEWSWEEK MAY '82 NATIONAL AFFAIRS # The Endless Winter of '82 March may have gone out like a lamb, but the lion lingered on. The winter that wouldn't quit buried the nation in snow last week--both California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and New York City suffered their worst April blizzards ever--and brought record cold for the month from Augusta, Ga. (26 degrees), to International Falls, Minn. (minus 11). Springtime rituals withered under the assault: baseball's opening week was largely postponed, many of Washington's cherry blossoms succumbed to chilblains and Boston fretted over where to find snow-removal funds to ready the streets for next week's Boston Marathon. Despite its tenacity, the winter of '82 wasn't--on the whole--all that bad. For most of the season, temperatures across the nation averaged only a few degrees below normal, warmer than the winters of both 1978 and 1979. In Chicago, traditionally one of the nation's bellwethers in such matters, this winter was deemed only the seventh worst in the last 87 years. Still, it will be remembered for some particularly devastating stretches, most notably in January. During a one-week period early that month, satellite pictures revealed that 75 percent of the United States was covered by at least 1 inch of snow, the broadest snow cover since the weather satellites started photographing the earth's surface. During the first two weeks, January set 100 low-temperature records, including all-time lows of minus 26 degrees in Chicago and 1 above zero in Augusta. **Record Rains:** The record cold spread down to Florida, where the citrus crop was the principal casualty--and the loss to the citrus industry approached $1 billion. Record-setting rains in northern California--24 inches in eighteen hours in Marin County--caused mud slides that killed 29 people. Across the nation, according to the National Weather Service, there were 300 weather-related deaths in just the first month of 1982. Jeff Lowenthal--Newsweek The weather's costs--in damage and lost lives--are still mounting. Earlier this month 87 tornadoes in the Texas-Pennsylvania-Georgia triangle killed 29 people, more than the number of people who died in tornadoes in all of 1981. The heavy snows took their toll as well, particularly near Lake Tahoe, where seven died in an avalanche. But there were a few for whom the spring snows were a godsend. At Sugarloaf/USA, Maine's largest ski resort, operators expected the storm to boost Easter-weekend revenues by 50 percent. And Midwestern grain farmers welcomed the added snow coverage, which will replenish the depleted water table while providing insulation for winter wheat. Perhaps nowhere were the weather's mixed effects more obvious than in Chicago. There, on last week's opening day, the pennant-feverish Chicago White Sox were snowed out of Comiskey Park and their sold-out series with the Boston Red Sox. But long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans were cheering. The dreadful weather kept the Cubs--who just beat both the Cincinnati Reds and the unseasonable snows--in first place for three whole days. MARK STARR with bureau reports April-weather miseries (clockwise): No ball in Chicago, more than showers for spring flowers, tornado power in Texas, New York headline Bernard Gotfryd--Newsweek PLAY BALL Ben Weaver--Camera 5 P. F. Bentley--Photoreporters WIN SOG THE BIG SNOW! Blizzard warning - 12 inches on the way Life-threatening danger === Page 49 of 56 D-14 The Forum Sunday, May 2, 1982 # Destructive tornado season is just around the corner By ELLEN CRAWFORD Staff Writer The tornado season is right around the corner. Generally, the tornado season in this part of the country runs from mid-May to mid-August, with most tornadoes occurring in June and July. However, tornadoes have been spotted in North Dakota as late as Oct. 11 and as early as mid-April. The tornado which demolished a barn on the Gladys Nelson farm near Lisbon, N.D., and ripped off a piece of the roof on her house April 15 became the state's earliest tornado on record. The previous record for the earliest tornado was April 19. "The weather's been so funny -- hail, thunder, lightning, rain and snow all in one day," said Gordon Sletmoe, director of Cass County Disaster Emergency Services. "It gets to be something else." North Dakota has an average of 30 confirmed tornadoes per year. Tornadoes have caused 22 deaths, numerous injuries and millions of dollars in damage since 1950. Tornadoes start in an intense thunderstorm cloud, then develop downward toward the Earth's surface, experts believe. Tornadoes are short-lived local storms with high-speed winds usually rotating counterclockwise. They're formed as large amounts of air are drawn into the thunderstorm, creating a funnel-shaped cloud. The funnel starts as condensed water vapor, and as it reaches the ground, it picks up dust and debris. Not every thunderstorm spawns a tornado, scientists say. But when the weather conditions are right -- unseasonably warm and humid air at the earth's surface, cold air at the middle atmospheric level and jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere -- tornadoes are likely. A tornado's path usually is only about a quarter-mile wide and seldom more than 15 miles long. They move at about 30 mph from the southwest to the northeast. However, tornadoes have been known to be up to a mile across on the ground, to remain on the ground more than an hour, to move up to 70 mph and to travel in any direction. The wind in a tornado can blow from 100 mph to more than 300 mph. When the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch, that means weather conditions are ideal for the formation of tornadoes. A tornado warning means a tornado has been sighted or detected by radar and you should take shelter immediately. A steady blast on Fargo and West Fargo civil defense sirens acts as a tornado warning, and means take cover. Elsewhere in the county, communities can sound sirens which double as a summons for the rural fire department. The National Weather Service and North Dakota Disaster Emergency Services are conducting a statewide tornado drill Wednesday. The purpose, Sletmoe said, is to test the statewide weather-warning system and alert people that this is the time of year to be watching for severe weather. "We hope the schools will have a tornado drill at that time, and any other place that wishes -- hospitals, nursing homes or private homes -- will take part in the tornado drill," Sletmoe said. He doesn't think many communities other than Fargo and West Fargo will test their sirens because the sirens are used to summon firemen. "I'd rather pass up a siren for a test like this than get a false alert for the firemen," he said. However, he hopes West Fargo, and especially Fargo, sound theirs, even though the sirens are tested once a month. "I want to use them in Fargo to keep emphasizing the poor coverage we have," said Sletmoe, who has been urging city officials to buy more sirens to reach all parts of the city. "We are in desperate need of a warning for the citizens." Wednesday's drill also will give persons who have weather or ready-alert radios a chance to test their equipment. The National Weather Service erected a tower in the Galesburg, N.D., area in the last year. The tower should be able to beam a weather radio signal anywhere in Cass County, Sletmoe said. Galesburg is about 40 miles northwest of Fargo. In the past, only the eastern half of Cass County was covered by a tower about 20 miles to the east of Fargo near Hawley, Minn. Weather radio broadcasts come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on one of three high-band FM frequencies which are not found on the average home radio. Taped weather messages are repeated every four to six minutes and are revised every one to three hours. During severe weather, National Weather Service forecasters can interrupt routine broadcasts and substitute special warning messages. The forecasters also can activate warning receivers which either sound an alarm, alerting the listener to turn up the radio, or automatically turn on the radio so the warning message can be heard. The ready-alert radios are activated by a local radio station designated as an emergency broadcast station. The station picks up a warning from the weather bureau and activates the ready-alert radio. A system also has been developed in Fargo where the police department can interrupt the audio portion of any cable television program with a weather warning. Almost any electronic equipment store carries the special weather radio sets, but Sletmoe suggests people try the radio at the place they'll be keeping it before buying. Some models may not work as well as they should in some areas, he said. === Page 50 of 56 April 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFOs 6 Projects # Flooding hits Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Rivers glutted with rain and melting snow covered parts of northern Vermont with as much as 6 feet of water Monday, the worst flooding in some areas in 55 years. Before the rivers and streams began receding Monday morning, roads were closed and an undetermined number of families in Swanton, Sheldon and Enosburg were evacuated as a precaution or because floodwaters blocked access to their homes. The National Weather Service in Burlington reported up to 1.5 inches of rain fell on northern Vermont overnight. 4-29-82 Oreg. Journal # Rain, 70-mph wind hits Texas, Plains United Press International Freak thunderstorms packing 70 mph winds rumbled through the central Plains, tearing trees from their roots and hurling them into mobile homes in Texas. A topsy-turvy spring blasted the North with cold and snow and the West with 100-degree temperatures. Freeze warnings were posted Wednesday night over the northern and central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and through north central Maryland. Thunderstorms raked the southern and central Plains from Texas and Louisiana into Nebraska and Iowa. More than 4 inches of rain fell in some areas of Nebraska and up to 2 inches of snow dusted central and southern parts of the state. Most of the snow melted soon after it fell, but accumulations of up to an inch were reported. At the height of the Texas storms, dumping nearly 2 inches of rain and pea-sized hail, winds gusted to 60 mph in Dallas and Fort Worth. The winds tore trees from their roots and hurled them onto mobile homes in Hurst, near Fort Worth. UFOs 6 Projects # Winter weather in Rockies Associated Press Winter weather struck the northern Rockies on Saturday and a low pressure system centered in Wyoming brought rain and snow to Montana. Heavy snow moved through the northern Rockies. A cold front spread showers across much of the Northeast. Sunny skies stretched from the lower Mississippi Valley through the Southwest and the great basin. For Sunday, the National Weather Service forecast rain spreading across the Pacific Northwest through the great basin into the northern Plains with light snow in the northern Rockies. Spok Rev 5/9/82 Heating degree days Wednesday 13 UFOs Projects # Power failure hits Florida at rush hour April 1982 MIAMI (AP) -- A malfunctioning motor at a nuclear generator triggered a power failure that spread across much of Florida on Thursday, knocking out lights in at least 800,000 homes and businesses at the height of the evening rush hour, officials said. Mary Ann Linden, a spokeswoman for Florida Power & Light Co., said at least 500,000 of the utility's 2.3 million customers lost power when two nuclear generators at Turkey Point tripped off shortly before 5 p.m. EDT. Seconds later, another two oil-fired generators at Cape Canaveral went down, Linden said. Within minutes, much of the Florida East Coast was out, and some 303,000 customers of other electrical utilities also suffered blackouts in central Florida and on the Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay to the south. FP&L is the state's largest electric utility. Florida Power Corp. spokesman Dave Williams said his company lost 200,000 of its 800,000 customers in 31 counties of West Central Florida, and Greg Truax said Tampa Electric Co. lost 103,000 customers. About 28,000 electric customers in Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties lost power, but some of those outages might have been caused by a small tornado that touched down in western Orange County, causing no major damage, authorities said. Power was restored to most Floridians in 15 minutes to an hour, officials said. Linden said workers made a "preliminary" determination that the blackout was caused by failure of an electrical motor on a circulating pump in one of two nuclear units at Turkey Point, 30 miles south of Miami. There was no nuclear emergency, she said. UFOs 100x Attack # Storms create havoc Associated Press Thundershowers hurled tornadoes and torrential rains at the Southwest for the third day Thursday, killing at least one person and chasing hundreds of people from their homes in Texas and Oklahoma by floodwaters up to their belt buckles. Elsewhere, a mid-May snowfall up to 14 inches deep closed schools in some Colorado communities and was blamed for a traffic accident that killed a teen-ager. One lane of Interstate 70 over Vail Pass was blocked by an overturned snowplow. The National Weather Service said 17 tornadoes hit Texas and two touched down in Oklahoma in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday, while more than a foot of rain fell in places. A barrage of dozens of tornadoes in the region earlier in the week left millions of dollars in damage, at least seven people dead and scores injured. On Thursday, a tornado that touched down outside Kirbyville in southeast Texas killed V. Margaret Finnerty, according to Linda Moore of the Texas Department of Public Safety. She said a second twister touched down nearby, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. A tornado also touched down Thursday in Holden, Mo., in the west-central part of the state but no injuries were reported and officials said the only major damage was confined to one farm. Spok Rev 5/14/82 === Page 51 of 56 New England rains spread havoc Bok Ros 6/9/80 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A storm that dropped up to 11 inches of rain on southern New England washed out dams and bridges, tore houses off foundations and sent up to 12 feet of water through towns. Thirteen people died and five more were presumed drowned, officials said. An estimated 1,300 Connecticut residents were forced to flee their homes. The most severe problems were reported in Ivoryton, Conn., where two dams on the Fall River burst Sunday, releasing a wall of water that washed away four hous- es and several cars. "It looked like a tidal wave," said Christopher Dewey, who lives on Main Street. "It was like a white wave covering everything." The heavy rain, which began Fri- day, began to taper off today. Rocks shifted in the center of a dam near Leominster, Mass., as rain fell, but the dam held and wa- ters were receding. Eight people were killed and one was missing in Connecticut, two people were missing in Massachu- etts and five people died and two were missing in Rhode Island. Helicopters and six-wheeled mili- ary vehicles were used to rescue stranded residents as a high-pres- sure system to the north kept the storm bottled up over the Atlantic Coast all weekend, "The damage is tremendous in many towns," said Connecticut Gov. William A. O'Neill, who called out National Guard units to help with sandbagging. "It will run into the millions of dollars.". The governor declared a state of emergency and asked for federal disaster assistance. Coastal areas of Connecticut near Ivoryton were cut off by flooding streams and marshes, and streets and highways were lined with cars stalled by flooded engines. Inter- states 95 and 91 in New Haven ex- perienced severe traffic jams due to flooded exits. Rep. Lawren J. DeNardis, R- Conn., estimated damage to 16 Con- necticut shoreline communities at raft bobbing in the Ware River at $100 million. Palmer by a line lowered from a Flood waters were reteding in Massachusetts Air National Guard most areas today, although the Con- helicopter Sunday. The youths were necticut River - the state's largest treated for exposure at Mercy Hos- - was expected to reach four feet pital in Springfield. above flood stage today, according In Southampton, firefighters used to the National Weather Service a six-wheeled surplus military vehi- River Forecast Center in Bloom- cie to evacuate two couples, three field. Ivoryton native Ronald Kra- three goats from Riverdale Road jewski said the town bears no re- when the Manhan River overflowed semblance to the way it was before its banks. the flood. "It's just a mudhole. just disappeared," he said. Houses that used to stand here have were killed in a car crash Friday To the west, several Naugatuck rillville and two women canoeists Valley cities declared local states were presumed drowned Saturday of emergency and evacuated homes night in Narragansett Bay after when rivers and streams began their canoe was found overturned. spilling over their banks Saturday. Much of downtown Milford, west year-old boy drowned Sunday in the Connecticut police said an 8- of New Haven, remained closed to- basement of his New London home, day after what local officials called a 62-year-old man drowned when a the worst flooding this century. Wa- Roaring Brook bridge collapsed un- ter was 4 to 6 feet deep on River der his truck and a 19-year-old Street during the worst of the flood- woman drowned when she tried to ing, they said. The state Transportation Depart- mained closed because of high wa- ter or washouts, and at least 10 major bridges were swept away. Amtrak passengers were being London, around flooded sections of the coast near New Haven and Mil- ford. In Massachusetts, the weather service said about 2.35 inches of rain fell Sunday. The Boston-area Metropolitan District Commission by high water. reported pumping millions of gal- lons out of the Charles River be- drowned in the Atlantic Ocean Two people were presumed tween Watertown and Charlestown south of Boston after one was to keep it from overflowing. washed into the water and the other Two boys were plucked from a made a rescue attempt. UFO 100 X AMlack Storm brushes Florida, winds ease FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)- Tropical Storm Alberto, which killed 15 people in Cuha and brushed southwest Florida as La surprise hurricane, stalled Friday in the Gulf of Mexico and began to calm down. "He's dying," said Bob Case, a fore- caster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm, which in half a day had grown from a depression off the west- ern tip of Florida to a hurricane with 80 mph winds, lingered for hours Friday in cool Gulf waters about 175 miles south- west of Fort Myers, with top winds of 50 mph. During the night the storm pounded western Cuba, damaging thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people. It swept past the Florida Keys, prompting hundreds of residents to flee inland and emptying seaside re- sorts as the storm pointed toward Fort Myers. Then it swerved westward and stalled. By 6 p.m., the storm had edged only 25 miles closer to Fort Myers in the previous 25 hours, and was 175 miles southwest of it. Alberto kept weakening through the afternoon, its winds decreasing to 40 mph, barely above the 39-mph mini- mum for tropical storm status. "The storm has stepped down in in- tensity quite a bit," said forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurri- cane Center in Miami. Spor Raw VELE children, two dogs, two cats and In Rhode Island five teen-agers night on a rain-slicked road in Bur- cross rain-swollen Eight-Mile River In New Haven's Westville sec- after a truck became stalled on a tion, mayoral aide Cathy Gollinger damaged bridge. said 10to 12 feet of water roared A 15-year-old down streets from the West River, drowned in Wharton Brook after an overturning several cars. was presumed inner tube burst and a 28-year-old died when a rubber raft overturned ment said 71 sections of roads re- in the Saugatuck River. The body of a 39-year-old man was recovered from a partially submerged car in Orange and a 68-year-old man was swept from a bridge as he tried to bused between Bridgeport and New cross a river to his home in Clinton. A woman died of an apparent heart attack as she tried to bail water from her Clinton basement and an 80-year-old New Haven man was struck by his own car while he tried to fix the engine, which was stalled === Page 52 of 56 2501 100X Allack STORMS: Floods close more roads; Winds level more homes Associated Press Spot fes 5/22/80 A deluge from days of back-to-back thunderstorms claimed new territory across the Midwest on Friday, closing highways with water and mudslides as rain came down as hard as 4 inches an hour. The storms that have pounded the Great Plains for two weeks stirred up at least 19 tornadoes Thursday, flatten- ing a number of homes and buildings and injuring several people. No one was killed by the twisters, but a truck driver was electrocuted near Jacksonville, IlJ., when winds blew a high-voltage power line onto his truck. A woman in Adrian, Mo., said a tor- nado picked her up and dropped her 50 feet away. Lavera Simpson, 54, was listed in satisfactory condition Friday with back, neck and head injuries. Rivers bloated by up to 8 inches of rain during the night poured from their banks in parts of Nebraska, South Dako- ta, Missouri and Iowa. Many roads and highways were blocked by water, snarling traffic and stranding motorists in cities such as Omaha, Neb,, and Columbia, Mo. A mudslide closed a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 34 in Nebraska between Nehaw- ka and Union. Water was up to the bumpers of cars on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City, Mo. Police in Fremont, Neb., said many cars were stalled in water on the streets. In southeastern South Dakota, 81/2 inches of rain fell in two hours at Del- mont. In the western part of the state, the Belle Fourche River surged to 21/2 feet above flood stage at Fruitdale and Elm Springs. Some residents of the town of Belle Fourche fled Thursday when water from the Belle Fourche and Redwater rivers poured into about 50 homes. Mike Phury, a citizen who lives near Delmont, said the 81/2 inches of rain fell between 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thurs- day, washing out roads and damaging just-planted crops. The National Weather Service said 41/2 inches of rain fell in just 45 minutes south of Table Rock, Neb. Roy Osugi, a hydrologist for the weather service in Nebraska, said, "It definitely is unusual for it to rain as many consecutive days as it has." In eastern Nebraska, officials were keeping an eye on the Nemaha and Mis- souri rivers which were running brim full. Joe McCartney, a spokesman for the Union Pacific Railroad, said it would take several days to reopen the line be- tween Columbus and Norfolk, Neb., where the track was washed out in sev- eral places. In Oklahoma, an estimated 4 inches of rain fell in southeastern Bartlesville in an hour Thursday afternoon, said Po- lice Chief Charles Spencer. Elsewhere, a storm swept through Connecticut on Thursday afternoon with heavy rain and lightning. Wind and severed tree limbs knocked out electric- ity in more than 40 communities, said Jackie Harris, a spokeswoman for Northeast Utilities. Power to 14,000 of at least 20,000 affected customers was restored by late evening, she said. The twister that hit near Adrian, Mo., a town of about 1,200 about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, damaged at least 10 buildings. 4502 100X Attache Storms, floods flail Midwest, New England Associated Press A "hellish" storm likened to a hurricane crashed through the Mid- west with 90-mph winds Monday, while hundreds more people fled a New England flood which has left 15 dead and seven missing. Just before dawn, a storm 150 miles wide tore through eastern Kansas into Missouri and Iowa, flattening homes, clipping down trees and power lines, wrecking parked airplanes and blacking out portions of cities such as Topeka, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. The weekend deluge of up to 11 inches of rain in southern New Eng- land, which forced the evacuation of up to 2,000 people in Connecticut, found new victims in Rhode Island on Monday as 250 people fled their homes along the rising Pawtuxet River. State of emergencies were de- clared in Connecticut and much of Rhode Island. All of southern New England except Cape Cod remained under a flood warning. The flood has been blamed for 10 deaths in Connecticut and five in Rhode Island. Spakker 6/8/82 UDe 100% Attack 1,000 forced to evacuate by Connecticut flooding HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) record rainfall swamped Connecti- cut with up to 8 inches of rain, washing out bridges, cutting elec- tricity and forcing the evacuation of some 1,000 people. One person was killed and at least two more were believed drowned, officials said Sunday. Gov. William A. O'Neill called out the National Guard to help with sandbagging operations and urged residents to stay home. Heavy rains were expected to continue in the eastern part of the state until Monday, and shoreline towns braced for more flooding as tides rose. More than 8 inches of rain was reported in the western part of the state. A periods of bad weather associated with tropical storms or hurricanes - since the service began keeping Connecticut records in 1904. Local and secondary streets in low-lying areas were reported to be impassable throughout Connecticut, and portions of state highways were closed. The Red Cross set up emergency shelters in 13 communities near Long Island Sound and in the Nau- gatuck River Valley. The New Haven suburbs of Ham- den and Milford were among the hardest hit by the storm. Small boats were used to evacuate some of 400 people in Hamden living be- low the Bardee Brook dam. State officials said "very serious conditions" were reported in Essex, where some residents were without electricity, telephone service or wa- ter. A spokesman for Southern New England Telephone Co. said a flood- without phones. The National Weather Service station at Bradley International Airport said it recorded 5.87 inches between 11 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday, That was the most .. ed substation left 16,000 people rain in any 24 hours - except for yeah peut 6/7/8, === Page 53 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Flooding in Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Spok Rev 5/18/82 Floods chased hundreds of people from their homes Monday in Texas and Oklahoma, where a week of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes has left millions of dollars in damage. People scrambled onto rooftops and climbed trees to escape the water in some communities as National Guard helicopters and police boats plucked others to safety. At least 10 deaths have been blamed on the week of storms which spread Monday from the Mexican border in Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., with powerful winds, blinding rain and hail as big as baseballs. Three drowned in Texas on Monday and two others were missing in floodwaters surging around San Antonio. THE BARRAGE of twisters continued Sunday and Monday with six hitting rural areas of Oklahoma, five in Texas, two in North Dakota and one in Illinois. Some homes and farm buildings were destroyed. In Wichita Falls, Texas, where floods last week had chased about 5,000 people from their homes, 500 people remained homeless. About 60 who had returned home, went back to a Red Cross emergency shelter Monday morning as a flood warning was posted. About 600 were evacuated in Kingfisher, Okla., as that city of 4,000 residents, about 25 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, suffered its worst flooding in 25 years. Officials estimated the water at 6 to 8 feet deep in city streets. Among them was Mary Cordova, 40, trapped in her house with seven relatives who spent the night standing on chairs. They waded through thigh-deep water Monday morning to a National Guard helicopter waiting on higher ground. "MY TWO NEPHEWS -- aged 18 and 20 -- treaded in chest-high water early this morning to see if we were all right out here," Mrs. Cordova said. "It took them 3 1/2 hours to go three miles. "My house is full of water now. I doubt there's anything left to salvage." Howard Watson, director of Civil Defense in Kingfisher, where the Uncle John and Kingfisher creeks empty into the Cimarron River, said, "There were lots of people who didn't get out last night when we warned them, and now they're stranded in the upstairs of their homes, dining room tables, or something like that. "This is by far the worst I've ever seen." Watson said that 150 evacuees were housed at a temporary shelter set up by the Red Cross in the town's Memorial Hall. The rest moved in with relatives and friends. "ALL THE HOUSES look like little islands," Watson said, "and there's 2-3 feet of water in the houses now." The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said that all roads leading in and out of Kingfisher were closed. "Nobody has any idea how many others are stranded," Watson said. "They just keep calling out to the police boat, or waving to them." In Texas, Dawn Hamilton, 18, was killed when her pickup truck was washed over a bridge in western Bexar County. Officers also recovered the body of Michael Murray, 27, who was helping the woman try to start her car when they were swept away. UFOs 100X Attack # Storms pound Midwest Associated Press Spok Rev 5/21/82 Thunderstorms that have raged for over a week sent more floods pouring across Nebraska and Oklahoma on Thursday, washing out railroads, ruining homes and drowning cattle. Silt washing down from the Nebraska hillsides buried some roads in mud 3 feet deep. Soaked sandbags, filled by hundreds of volunteers, ringed homes and businesses in Platte Center, Neb., a community of 370 people about 100 miles northwest of Omaha. Carcasses of dead cows were floating in creeks. Trees were stripped by hail and gardens were flattened in some areas. And the rains kept coming, up to 3 inches in places, with winds gusting to almost 80 mph. IN THE EAST, severe thunderstorms accompanied by gusting winds knocked out power in more than 40 Connecticut communities, affecting at least 11,000 customers, utility officials said. The storms, which swept though Connecticut on a cold front in the late afternoon, brought heavy rains and lightning. Wind and blowing tree limbs tore down power lines. Residents in most parts of the state lost their electricity, and some major industries in the Danbury area were affected. The National Weather Service said a volley of tornadoes, which has hit the Plains states with 95 twisters since last Friday, seemed to be slackening. Radar spotted one funnel south of Cordell, Okla., but no damage was reported. On Wednesday, a twister hit a farm near Sharon Springs in northwest Kansas, destroying a house and farm buildings containing four airplanes, four combines and other farm equipment. AS THURSDAY'S thunderstorms descended on central Oklahoma, flash flood warnings were posted in Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln, Canadian, Oklahoma and Cleveland counties, including areas where hundreds of people were evacuated earlier in the week. In Nebraska, flash flood warnings were up in Platte County, eastern Boone county and the southern half of Madison and Stanton counties. Trains were temporarily halted on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad in eastern Nebraska, with the track washed out in many places and bridges threatened. Officials later opened one track of the line. "I sat around, drank whiskey and cried," said R.D. Taylor of Norman, Okla., recalling how he watched the South Canadian River climb out of its banks, cover the mailbox in his yard, and pour into his home. Norman city manager James Crosby declared a state of emergency to allow the city to spend what it needs to repair roads and utilities. === Page 54 of 56 AP A tornado hovers over Herrin, Ill., Saturday. The bars at the top of the picture are power lines. UFOs 100x Attack # More storms in Midwest Associated Press Spot Rev 5/31/82 Relentless Memorial Day weekend thunderstorms pounded the nation's midsection, trapping a Boy Scout troop near rushing floodwaters, pouring 2¾ inches of rain on a Nebraska town within 20 minutes, smashing crops with hail and wind and causing at least 15 deaths. The storm produced at least 25 tornadoes in six states in the nation's midsection on Saturday. Twisters ripping through southern Illinois left at least 10 people dead and 15 missing in Marion, Ill. At least 1,000 people were left homeless as the tornadoes flattened parts of three southern Illinois counties. In West Virginia, a torrential downpour early Sunday sent small streams out of their banks, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Flooding also was reported in the eastern Colorado Plains, and thunderstorms in Denver sparked lightning that killed one man and injured two others on Saturday. Three people were found dead in Oklahoma on Saturday after lightning struck their house. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Sunday for western Missouri and eastern Kansas and the area from southeastern Iowa and west-central Illinois through central Missouri, the National Weather Service said. The twister that struck Marion, Ill., on Saturday first had ripped through 10 miles of nearby countryside. Shopping plazas, apartment complexes and as many as 90 homes were flattened. Tree limbs, utility poles and pieces of buildings littered the town's streets. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared the region a disaster area Saturday night. Before hitting Marion, the twister had touched down in Carterville and sliced through Crainville. Other twisters hit other rural areas, destroying houses and causing injuries. Winds up to 60 mph and golf-ball sized hail were reported Sunday morning in northern Kansas, and a tornado was reported near Topeka, the Weather Service said. No damage was reported. Flash flood watches continued in eastern and central Nebraska, where downpours dumped more water into already swollen rivers. Heavy rain drenched south-central Nebraska, with 2¾ inches reported in a 20-minute period in Roseland Sunday morning. High winds and driving rain racked Ohio, and one man was critically injured by lightning. Port Columbus International Airport reported wind gusts of 76 mph Saturday, and Prairie Township Fire Chief Robert Stormont estimated damage at $500,000. He said 50 to 75 trees were downed, and many buildings were damaged. The storm knocked a cement-block, two car garage "about 50 feet in the air and crumbled it when it set down in the backyard," he said. The storm caused widespread power outages in the Dayton and Columbus areas. Utility spokesmen said 7,000 power customers in Dayton and up to 28,000 in Columbus had no power at some time Saturday. Flood watches were issued for the Ohio Brush Creek and its tributaries in Adams County in southern Ohio on Sunday. === Page 55 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Tornadoes continue to tear across nation Associated Press Spok Rev 6/2/82 An onslaught of tornadoes that set a record for the peak month of May hit a half-dozen states Tuesday while a record chill ushered in June in much of the middle of the country. As America went back to work after the Memorial Day weekend that saw 19 people killed by violent weather, thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley with high winds and heavy rains. Tornadoes were sighted during the day in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, and one was sighted late Tuesday in Virginia. The national Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City said 351 tornadoes pounded the nation in May, normally the worst month for twisters, to surpass the record 274 that hit in 1965. It also was the wettest May on record in Tornado Alley cities such as Wichita Falls, Texas, and Oklahoma City. So far, 47 deaths have been blamed on tornadoes this year, including the 10 killed in a cyclone that devastated Marion, Ill., on Saturday, leaving $100 million in damage and 1,000 people homeless. That compares with 24 people killed by twisters in all of 1981 and 24 the year before. The worst day this year was on April 2, when 90 tornadoes touched down in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, leaving 28 people dead. "I had said back in March, looking at the pattern we had, that it would be a very active spring," said Fred Ostby, director of the Severe Storms Forecast Center. "Unless there is a drastic change, it looks like it's going to continue through June." June broke out Tuesday with low temperatures that broke or tied the record for the date in many cities, including Oklahoma City, where it was 48. Other cities logging lows for the books were Grand Island, Neb., 39; Kansas City, Mo., 47; North Plains, Neb., 36; Omaha, Neb., 42; Tulsa, Okla., 51, and Wichita, Kan., 46. Tuesday also official start of the six-month hurricane season in the Atlantic. The first storm of the season was named Alberto. Many rivers were rising, including the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, were expected to crest later in Missouri and Illinois. The Mississippi was expected out of its banks at St. Louis on Saturday, and officials feared flood stages along the Missouri on Saturday. UFOs 100X Attack June 1, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Wind, storms wreak havoc across nation Associated Press Tornadoes and hurricane-force winds crashed through the plains on Memorial Day as some cities in Texas and Oklahoma chalked up their wettest May on record from a month of thunderstorms. Homes were smashed, power lines were knocked down, trees were uprooted and water was 2 feet deep in the streets in some communities in the Southwest. Hail the size of baseballs pounded parts of Oklahoma, and some rivers reached flood stage in Missouri and Kansas. The storms of the holiday weekend claimed at least 18 lives, including 10 people who died Saturday when a twister hit Marion, Ill., destroying 75 homes and businesses and leaving 1,000 people homeless. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, who estimated the Marion tornado damage at $100 million, has asked President Reagan to declare Williamson County a major disaster area. Thunderstorms spread Monday from northern Texas, through Arkansas, into the Tennessee and lower Ohio Valleys. Elsewhere, some cities recorded their coldest May 31 on record. It was a sub-freezing 27 degrees at Sheridan, Wyo., easily beating the record 32 set in 1917. Other records for the date were the 32 at Billings, Mont., and 33 at Rapid City, S.D. The National Weather Service said that in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Monday, 10 tornadoes blasted Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma got four each, three touched down in Illinois and one hit Missouri. "It's as black as the ace of spades and a lot of funnels are popping around," said Bob Wylie, a dispatcher at Binger, Okla., as a storm hurtling through that state hammered Oklahoma City with 75-mph wind and brought the May rainfall to a record 12.07 inches. Spok Rev 6/1/82 UFOs 100X Attack # Storms slam nation again Associated Press Spok Rev 6/9/82 The storms of a violent spring pounded the heart of the battered Midwest on Tuesday with another volley of shattering winds, hail and rain coming down as hard as 4 inches an hour. But the sun peeped out occasionally in southern New England where up to 11 inches of rain over the weekend left millions of dollars in damage, mainly in southern Connecticut, and 22 people dead or missing. Thunderstorms Tuesday roared through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, and dumped up to 8 inches of rain in the Rio Grande Valley of southwest Texas. A tornado hit Henderson, Ky., on the Indiana border, heavily damaging a shopping center, overturning mobile homes and injuring a dozen people. Most of the city was left without power. The storm also ruptured a gas line north of the city and several roads were blocked by fallen trees. Gordon Nichols, a spokesman for the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services, said authorities also believed the community of Reed suffered storm damage but rescue efforts were hindered by blocked highways. Twelve people were treated for cuts, fractures and bruises at Community Methodist Hospital in Henderson. In storm-weary Missouri, some residents of a trailer park in Union -- about 30 miles southwest of St. Louis -- fled when 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour and Flat Creek overflowed. Tree limbs and power lines littered the town's streets, which were under water. Streets were flooded in Columbia, Mo., and suburban Kansas City, where many people were still without power from a storm on Monday. Thousands of customers lost power Tuesday in Columbia, Warrensburg and Mexico, Mo., when lightning hit transformers and winds of 65 mph blew down utility poles. === Page 56 of 56 6 50 100x AMlack THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., June 11, 1982, Storms head for the East Associated Press Thunderstorms that have spoiled spring in the Midwest turned eastward Thursday, soaking southeastern Kentucky and West Virginia with foods that chased families from their homes and blocked highways. In Missouri, where rainstorms were blamed for four" deathis earlier in the week, authorities searched for the body of a 15-month-old baby swept from his mother's arms when her car stalled in high water on a bridge. Powerful winds and a flurry of tornadoes tore the roofs off homes and buildings in Arkansas, The 4,847 residents of Carrollton, Mo,, strug- gled to hold back the rising waters of Wakenda Creek, swollen by 8 inches of rain that fell in two hours Wednesday. Volunteers pitched in to fill sandbags as shopkeepers removed merchandise from their stores. About 18 families were evacu- ated during the night. IN SOUTHWESTERN West Virginia, where almost 3 inches of rain fell, some of the worst. flash flooding anyone could remember in Put- aam and Kanawha counties forced dozens of res- dents out of their homes and blocked most roads "Just about everything had a problem of some ype, either water or slides or debris, said Gary "hernenko, a spokesman for the state highway department. "They really got hit hard." William Brown, 63, a lifelong resident of the Hometown area in Putnam County, said, "It's jeen 10 or 15 years since the creek came up, but I's never gotten that high before." The National Weather Service said the roofs if several houses were blown off when a storm uit White County in north-central Arkansas and tigh winds in Logan County in the western part f the state took the roof off a church. "THERE WERE MANY reports of tornadoes ind Tunnel clouds sighted," said Philip Doyle of" he state Office of Emergency Services. Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr took a helicopter dur of Evansville and other areas in Vander- surgh and Posey counties hit hard by storms Tuesday and Wednesday. Utility officials said it nay be next week before electric power and elephone service is restored to all customers in he area. With power still out in much of the city, Ev- nsville police reported an unusually high num- er of break-ins. Many people crowded restu- ants and hunted for ice to keep food from poiling in their refrigerators. Residents of Rossville, Kan, returned to their omes as Cross Creek receded after swamping he town of 1,045 residents Wednesday with wa- er up to 4 feet deep. AMONG THOSE EVACUATED were 63 resi- ents of the Rossville Valley Nursing home, most of them elderly people confined to wheel hairs. "They loved it," said Mrs. Barry Ward, the ome nursing director. In eastern Missouri, authorities were search- ig the Loutre River near Martinsburg for the body of 15-month-old Travis Wayne Campbell, ho was washed from his mother's arms 'ednesday. UFO 100x Allack 6 Storms blast across Associated Press Skokcrew w/60/87 Midwest Storms blasted through the Midwest with 100-mph winds Wednesday, firing a broadside of tornadoes and torrents of rain that sent rivers gushing over their banks into towns and cities. Hundreds fled the floodwaters in Kansas and Missouri as thunderstorms which have pounded the plains off-and- on since early May renewed an assault .. with 8-inch rains and hail the size of baseballs. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Kansas City and other towns such as Moberly, Mo., where . winds clocked at 100 mph snapped trees and power lines. Police in Rossville, Kan., pleaded for volunteers with boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to help evacuate most of the town's 1,100 residents, including about 70 patients at a nursing home. The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings along numerous rivers and streams in Kansas and Mis- souri, with the Missouri River already 2 feet over flood stage at Boonville, Mo., and some tributaries expected to surge 8 feet over their banks. One man was killed in Princeton, Mo., when his pickup collided with a tractor-trailer rig during the storm, and two people were injured in Kansas City when they came in contact with downed power lines late Tuesday. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8206b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7a05bd55e01a956b5dc771ed56a2ec0a.pdf 2272db1b483cd48e2f98174d9a1beedd https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/fb4d924696e15c13120f71b7d5dd49da.txt 4d82d0e63974aa0cd3d69da12b527d94 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1982 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 278 Jeffrey Mishlove 190 Twenty-fifth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 January 22, 1982 Dear Ted, Just a note to let you know that I am still alive. I have been receiving your materials and continue to collect and organize as much data as I can. I also very much enjoyed the rainbow keyring which you sent to me. I'm very sorry that, over the years, I have not been able to be of more help to you. My frank opinion is that your apparent talents deserve more study and attention than I have been able, or others, willing to give. Your recent letters sound as if you are in serious financial trouble. I would like to help you, but am unable to at this time. I would like to leave you with a thought, I have been wanting to tell you in many ways for a long time. Under the best of circumstances, it would be quite difficult--but not totally impossible--for you to achieve more recognition for your talents. Perhaps the SI's have been using you as a barometer to see what society is ready for. However, I think that your own behavior has done much to make your circumstances far less than optimal. Perhaps, with extraordinary effort, you could correct this situation. Your "attacks on higher ups" and "warfare against the USA" is absolutely futile. It is like the proverbial gnat in the ear of the elephant. (The gnat makes his home in the elephant's ear for many years. But when he bids the elephant goodbye, the elephant doesn't even realize he has been there.) Your potential powers are so frightening, that they activate an equally powerful human defense mechanism in people to deny that they exist. I think this is why I have had absolutely no response to the report I wrote on you, or to the book Rogo and I prepared. There may be several viable ways to counter this defense mechanism: (a) consistent demonstrations of positive uses; (b) a more saintly appearance on your part; (c) formation of a more socially effective social support network; (d) a more artistic approach; (e) a more coherent, logical approach. In many ways, I think you have acted with great integrity. You have always consistently been yourself. But have you been willing to learn and grow spiritually? One pattern I observe in the data is continued behavior on your part of a type which simply aggravates this defense mechanism which causes people to want to deny your reality. You wish to be a diplomat, but you haven't honored the power within you by learning diplomacy. You are an extraordinarily bright man, but have you used your intelligence for self-scrutiny, to see what changes in your behavior might make your work more effective? Do you really think, for example, that you can simply sit there and take credit for every quirk and bizarre pattern that shows up in the newspapers? Surely you can step outside of yourself and see how this claim must appear, even to sympathetic observers. I'm sorry that this letter is all I have to offer you. I hope that it will help you to better honor the force within you. Best Wishes, === Page 2 of 278 Postmarked 1-29-82 January 29, 1982 Dear Jeffrey: It would be so much more fun for me, to answer your letter of the 22nd, if you were not my friend. Ever since my younger years...when I fought in the ring so much...I always said to myself, "Aw, darn"...when a friend would step into the ring to spar with me and I knew I'd have to pull my punches. Now perhaps I can "do you a favor" too. Let me show you the current accuracy of your thinking processes. You submit a "flea and an elephant" illustration. You completely overlook the fact that the flea can, albeit obliquely through allied powers, control the weather over cities and entire countries and control the happenings over thousands of selectively-chosen people. And that's just for starters. I do not believe your elephant would survive that flea, once the elephant became the enemy of the flea. i.e., if the flea could bring 3/4 of the United States into utter chaos through weather control, then that flea would have small difficulty in taking on one single pachyderm. Now, Jeffrey, you advise me to change my "image" with a more "saintly" appearance on my part. It appears to me that you are greatly concerned with image...with what others think. Rhine didn't try to change his image and he didn't really give a dam what his peers thought...and for 20 years he took a beating from them...until he proved what he was doing and became world-famous. And that is my message to you: if you ever want to amount to anything at all in your field (and of course you do) you will have to change your own approach to the entire thing and become more of a fighter and scrapper, doing what you perceive to be right and true at all times...and the devil take the hindmost. Jeffrey, the United States is crawling with thousands of doctors of science clutching their diplomas in their hands...all neatly dressed, all conforming, all peering around timidly at their peers lest they do something to make their peers angry at them. And they will all fade away, in time, into the vacuum of mediocre nothingness. I learned long ago something you have never learned...and I learned it fighting in the ring, fighting on the judo mat, fighting in the streets, if you will...a special "way of mind". You know that you are going to get hurt fighting this tough opponent, but then...that's to be expected. You know you may get knocked down, so you have to be prepared to get up and resume fighting when that happens. But above all, you know you have to win the fight. Well, you can't win them all...I lost a few, just a few, in my time...but after I'd gone past that stage of my life I knew one thing for dam sure...that I was tough, that I was a fighter...not only in the ring or in judo or on the street...but in every phase of my life. And it is this very element...that is missing in you and that you need the worst way, before The Establishment turns you into just another jelly-spined, anaemic scientist bowing to all his peers who are bowing to their peers and so on sickening on. The truth of it is simply that you are sitting on the very greatest parapsychological find in history...but you are afraid to do anything about it. You made a beginning, after realizing the material was valid...but you dropped it when confronted by peers tougher than you are. You state: "Your "attacks on higher ups" and "warfare against the USA" is futile. Now, there is some scientific statement. In the first place, it is not my attacks on higher ups. I am not doing it. It is the UFO, Mayan and Egyptian powers that are currently engaged in these activities. And...futile? As compared to what? When my UFOs tell me that they are going to escalate their attack against the U.S. 100 times and then bury 3/4 of the United States in snow, ice, rain, mud, flood, hurricane winds and so forth...frankly, Jeffrey, I'd like to know your definition of 'futile'. In closing...I must assume that your very same letter must have been sent to Moses, while he was attacking the Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Moses' people didn't like his attitude or behavior either. And may I ask...how "futile" was that little flea, Moses? === Page 3 of 278 January 5, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Last month, December, early-on, I notified my assistant, Annette Schladweiler, plus Millie Miller and George Delavan... that my UFOs (SIs) had telepathed to me to forward the information to you... that they were increasing their "6 Projects Attack" and "Higher-Ups Attack" a hundred times! (100 X. 100 Power.) I have been keeping a daily record of the UFO activity... and they have indeed done what they said that they would do... increased their attacks... getting to the "100 X" point first with weather, (as I CAN understand what they are doing.) And as I understand what they have telepathed to me... first will come the weather demonstration (see attached newsclips as sample)... then if no Base is forthcoming... they will switch from weather attack to people attack, higher-ups of course, at the 100 X level! On Monday, December 14, 1981... my remote-controlled TV set... began changing channels all by itself... running crazily from channel to channel like something alive. Before I even had time to puzzle over it, the UFOs telepathed... and explained that, in the process of increasing their power attacks on the 6 Projects and higher-ups 100 times... this action had also given my half-alien brain a sympathetic 100X boost in power! Since then there is no controlling the TV. As I watch it, channels change, colors change, pictures go off and come on, sound goes off and comes on, etc. One other marvelous anomaly you would be interested in, before closing. Not long ago I was catching an airplane to Minnesota. Before embarking I had to empty my pockets of all metal objects and put them on a tray (in my case, trays) in order to walk underneath a metal-detector. Well, I emptied my pockets all right, thinking that all was okay... because previously I had placed my pocket knives, etc., in my suitcase, which would not accompany me on the plane. The fingers of my right hand closed on one last metal object in my pants pocket... an object that I had thought I'd removed and put into the suitcase at home. I must have turned white, with the girl guard standing in front of me, watching me alertly. Because the object was the bullet clip to my automatic pistol, filled with bullets! I looked into the girl's face and she stared into my face. What to do? I couldn't possibly get through the electronic metal detector with the clip of bullets on my person. Yet if I pulled it out and gave it to her to keep until I returned... they'd search my luggage and find the gun that the clip went with! Dam! Suddenly the SIs (UFOs) telepathed to me... "go through the metal detector." Like a robot obeying its master's command I took my hand off the clip, out of my pocket, smiled feebly at the girl guard, and walked on forward through the doorway of the electronic detector. As I stood underneath it, in my forward stride, I winced and closed my eyes, fully expecting the bell to ring, alerting the policeman and girl guard there, who would then discover the clip of bullets. But nothing. No noise. No bell. No alarm. I managed to keep a poker face as best I could, collected the trays of metal objects at the other end and replaced them in my pockets, and walked on onto the airplane. Of course, it was an utter impossibility for me to have gone underneath that electronic arch with a gun clip full of bullets without its being detected. Why, I've had that alarm go off BEFORE JUST from the metal belt buckle on my belt. The SIs told me to do it, and I did, and a small miracle happened. Owens === Page 4 of 278 UFOs attack economy # Millions more join search for jobs WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Unemployment, fueled by a nagging recession, jumped sharply to 8.9 percent in December with nearly 9.5 million Americans out of work, the Labor Department reported Friday. It was the fifth straight monthly increase, making the rate only fractionally below the height of the 1974-75 recession when unemployment peaked at 9 percent. Joblessness among adult men rose to a record post-World War II rate of 8 percent, with blue-collar workers carrying the brunt of the layoffs. Their rate went to 12.9 percent. The 0.5 percentage point increase from November's 8.4 percent was higher than some economic observers anticipated and reflected a deepening of the current recession. Figures released recently for factory production and unemployment insurance benefits indicate the level may rise even further next month. A year ago, in December 1980, the unemployment rate was 7.4 percent. Since then, an additional 1.68 million Americans have lost their jobs. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Donahue, interviewed in the NBC "Today" show before the latest figures were released, said blame for rising unemployment has to be placed on the Reagan White House. "We're operating under what is the White House economic plan," he said. Donahue suggested the administration return to some of the programs of the Carter administration such as public service jobs and targeted job programs for the disadvantaged. UFOs 100x Attack Oreg 1/7/82 # CALIFORNIA'S WORST WINTER STORM IN DECADES ### San Francisco Bay Area | Mudslides and flooding - Many homes destroyed | | |---|---| | Flooding Bodega Bay | 101 | | Portions of Highways 1 and 101 closed | Highway 37 closed | | Golden Gate Bridge closed | MARIN San Rafael | | Homes destroyed by mudslides | San Francisco Pacifica | | Flooding causes evacuations | Pescadero | | Numerous bridges destroyed | SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz | | | Dam break threat | | | Vallejo | | | Passenger train derails | | | Oakland | | | San Jose | | | 101 | RAVAGED SITES -- Areas hardest hit by the storm that stunned millions of Northern California residents are pinpointed on map. SIs 100x attack # Severe cold ices Europe Oreg 1/8/82 LONDON (AP) -- A blast of arctic cold swept across Northern Europe Thursday, coating streets and harbors with ice, shutting down transportation and imperiling ships at sea. The Danish Navy said three seamen died when their boats sank under the weight of ice. One vessel went down in seconds as waves breaking over it froze on impact, a spokesman said. In northern England, where an unseasonal thaw pushed rivers over their banks, troops in assault craft were checking on farm families isolated by flooding. "Unseasonal thaw" + "Freak" storms in the U.S. + a U.S. weather system that reversed itself! === Page 5 of 278 # California slide toll may reach 42 UFOs 100X 1/7/82 oreg J By United Press International Rescuers in California used heavy equipment Thursday to battle waist-deep mud blocking the way to an area of Santa Cruz County where authorities say the bodies of at least 14 more mudslide victims may be uncovered. Snow from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Lakes turned the area into a deep-freeze. The temperature in Amarillo, Texas, dropped to 12 degrees. In Santa Cruz, Sheriff's Detective Steve Fitzgerald said, "I just talked to an officer who came back from the Love Creek area and he said there should be at least 14 bodies coming out of there." "He said he came to that number by counting the number of extremities sticking out of the mud." Twenty-eight people were known dead in the Northern California mudslides unleashed by a freak blitz of rain. The discovery of more bodies could send the death toll as high as 42. Authorities warned more that mudslides threatened some areas of California, with property damage already approaching $250 million. More than 400 homes were destroyed and thousands more damaged in a six-county disaster area. Heavy snow and snow squalls developed in the rest of the West - over Indiana, South Dakota, Michigan and Ohio - and moved into western New York state. Extremely heavy snow was reported over Colorado. Steamboat Springs was blasted by 23 inches of new snow. Crested Butte had 22 inches and 6 to 18 inches fell in other mountain locations. Utah was expecting temperatures as low as 40 below zero. Back-to-back storms since the first of the year contributed to at least 97 deaths nationwide. Mountain hamlets along the Santa Cruz County coast were still without power, low on food and water and virtually isolated Thursday by a 2-mile mudslide that rained of tons of boulders, redwood trees and debris onto dozens of homesites. Witnesses described the slide as looking like an "avalanche" and like "Niagara Falls." The threat of more slides diminished in the scenic hills of Marin County on the north shore of San Francisco Bay. The Highway Patrol late Wednesday reopened the Golden Gate Bridge, which was closed for only the third time in its history. Thousands of stranded commuters poured into previously blocked-off Marin County communities. Firemen and volunteers used chain saws and heavy equipment to push through knee-deep mud on Highway 9, the main road into the Santa Cruz valley where a 2-mile chunk of mountain 500 feet high fell, burying and damaging many homes. Electrical power was out and water was contaminated in several areas. Traveling was made impossible by collapsed bridges and blocked roads. "There are millions and millions of tons of earth and we can't do anything till we move it," said Fire Chief Mike Smith in Ben Lomond. Weather experts said the storm was a wrong-way disturbance from the lower Western Pacific Ocean rather than the usual type that comes down from the north at this time of year. "Freak blitz; wrong way disturbance;" two Hynek Coincidences. Owens === Page 6 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 6, 1982 (2) UFOs 100X attack # Mudslides, storms claim at least 94 United Press International Deadly mudslides from the worst rainstorm in decades buried residents Wednesday in homes along 150 miles of California's northern coast. At least 94 deaths were blamed on both the West Coast rains and a storm that dumped 1 1/2 feet of snow on the Midwest. Mudslides shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and the Waldo Tunnel, which threatened to collapse and sever San Francisco's main link with Marin County to the north. About 1,000 residents were evacuated from hillside homes in the plush resort of Sausalito. At least four houses already had given way early Wednesday and a woman was found dead in the twisted wreckage of one structure. Twenty-five deaths were confirmed in California and another dozen people were reported missing. Authorities late Tuesday discovered the bodies of two of three children trapped screaming in their beds by a mudslide that buried their suburban San Francisco home. Heavy snow fell over much of the southwestern U.S. into the Central Rockies and the Great Plains. Winter storm warnings were in effect through the night for Utah, where another in a series of blizzard-like storms dumped more than a foot of snow on the state. One man was killed in a weather-related truck accident. Emergency workers said the death toll in California could rise, particularly near the coastal town of Santa Cruz, 60 miles south of San Francisco on Monterey Bay, where authorities said at least four people and perhaps as many as 10 were buried in a mudslide at Love Creek. The hilly coastal towns north and west of San Francisco Bay, primarily in posh Marin County, also were plagued by huge mudslides. Trees were hurled into living rooms and communities were isolated by foot-deep floodwaters. The California Highway Patrol late Tuesday closed the Golden Gate Bridge for only the third time in its history after a series of new slides at the Waldo Tunnel, Highway 1's main link to the north. A highway patrolman said the tunnel was undermined by the new slides and there were fears it could collapse at any minute. Property damage was estimated in excess of $100 million with thousands of Californians washed out of their houses by up to 15 inches of rain and huge mudslides along the mountainous coast. Marin, Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Contra Costa and Humboldt counties were declared under a state of emergency, opening the way for use of National Guard troops for cleanup. One man in San Anselmo, Calif., tied his Cadillac to a telephone pole so it would not wash farther down hill. A breakdown of the nationwide deaths showed at least 29 people killed in weather-related traffic accidents. Eighteen people died in plane crashes, 12 died in fires, 20 in floods and mudslides, one froze to death, 10 collapsed while shoveling snow and another was killed by a tornado. The Midwest began moving again Tuesday after a deluge of 1 1/2 feet of snow from the worst storm in 35 years, but schools in Milwaukee remained closed for a second straight day and grocery stores reported shortages of staple foods. More snow was forecast for Wednesday. === Page 7 of 278 THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1982 # Blizzards, floods, winds ravage nation; Milwaukee paralyzed Associated Press Laserphoto KNEE-HIGH AND RISING -- Abandoned autos punctuate an urban seascape Monday on the Marin side of the San Rafael-Richmond Bridge in California. Mudslides and flooding were widespread in Northern California in the wake of torrential rains that dumped more than a foot of water within a 20-hour period. By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Blizzards, floods, tornadoes, freezing rain and howling winds battered the nation Monday, paralyzing cities and highways and stranding thousands of travelers. At least 34 deaths have been attributed to violent weather since New Year's Eve, including plane crashes, heart attacks and drownings. A Pacific storm poured a foot of water on suburban communities north of San Francisco, causing floods and mudslides that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and stranded others. The rain began at 4 p.m. Sunday and had not let up more than 24 hours later. Authorities restricted travel on the Golden Gate Bridge because of the number of roads blocked in Marin County, forcing thousands of commuters to spend the night in San Francisco. Only residents of southern Marin County In the Northwest and northern Rockies, a snowstorm with winds of up to 85 mph cut visibility to zero and pushed snow into drifts that closed highways in parts of Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming. A third storm, which whistled up from the Texas Panhandle, buried parts of the Great Lakes region under a foot or more of snow. Wind gusting up to 90 mph piled up drifts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Some crews gave up efforts to plow highways until the storm let up. Milwaukee was virtually shut down under more than a foot of snow in the worst snowstorm there in 35 years, and hundreds of miles of Interstate highways were closed in the Midwest. Yet another storm brought heavy rain and tornadoes to the South. Rivers and streams surged over their banks in Georgia, Kentucky and the Carolinas. Snow and freezing rain iced highways in the Northeast, shutting down schools. Some people in Maine were snowbound. The Pacific storm poured more than a foot of rain within 20 hours on Marin County, north of San Francisco, triggering mudslides and floods that destroyed homes and isolated thousands. "The city is under siege," said San Rafael Fire Chief Brian Waterbury. He said that firefighters reported mud and water racing through streets at more than 30 mph. The state sent in 25 National Guard trucks and 50 Guardsmen to help evacuate people stranded in cars or trapped in flooded homes. The Marin County communities of Woodacre, Point Reyes Station, Bodega Bay and Sebastopol were === Page 8 of 278 The storm also brought a blizzard to the Sierra Nevada, stranding thousands of skiers and forcing 500 people to seek refuge at an armory in Yreka. Parts of the mountain range averaged 9 feet of snow on the ground. About 20,000 homes in Redding, in far northern California, went dark as the power system failed under an 8-inch snowfall. In Milwaukee, schools, government offices and scores of factories were closed, the 500 municipal buses were parked, and power was out in much of the city. up to 15 inches of snow, and wind gusting to 60 mph blew the snow into drifts that closed roads as soon as they were plowed in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. School and businesses closed and an estimated 23,000 customers lost electricity in Michigan. Cleveland was hit with 90-mph winds, rain and hail, and lightning knocked out power to about 46,000 customers. The wind blew the roof off an elementary school in North Ridgeville, southwest of Cleveland, slightly injuring six students. Doug 1/5/82 UFOs - 100% Attack # 49 die in worst winter storms in 3 decades Doug J 1/5/82 By United Press International The worst winter storms in more than 30 years paralyzed the West and Midwest with a wall of snow, rain and up to 80-mph winds, causing millions of dollars in damage and turning northern California into a sea of mud. At least 49 deaths were blamed on the weather. Harsh rains from California's worst winter storm in decades sent a 350-passenger train - Amtrak's San Francisco-to-Chicago "Zephyr" - off the tracks Monday into floodwaters on the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay. Twelve passengers suffered "moderate to minor" injuries. Three sleeping children were buried alive early Tuesday as the hillside behind their Pacifica, Calif., home gave way to three days of rain, state emergency officials said. Police in the San Francisco suburb said rescue crews were trying to clear the rubble from the wreckage of that home and another that slid down the hillside. "We really don't know if they're alive or not," a police dispatcher said. "Evidently one house just collapsed on another one." Police said the parents of the children escaped before the house slid down the hill, but they were unable to get the two girls and a boy out. Hundreds of other homes worth millions of dollars in Northern California were damaged or destroyed in the wave of mudslides and flooding. The hardest hit area of California was affluent Marin County, north of San Francisco, which was completely closed off by mudslides. National Guard troops were ordered into the area and a steady stream of supplies and equipment was being rushed in early Tuesday. Local officials declared a state of emergency throughout the county and asked Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to confirm it Tuesday. The Golden Gate Bridge was closed Monday night for only the third time in its history. "In 32 years of working with emergency services this is the worst that I have ever seen," said William Ward, regional director for the California Emergency Services. Thousands of commuters were stranded and San Francisco was left virtually isolated. Hundreds of thousands of homes were without power due to storms - about 150,000 of them in Marin County. The others were in Wisconsin and suburban Cleveland. Blinding snow buried Northern Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin under drifts up to 5 feet. Milwaukee suffered from its worst snowstorm in 35 years, with more snow expected Tuesday. Heavy rains in the East froze on roads and highways, causing traffic headaches. At least five tractor-trailer accidents in Massachusetts, state police said. Winds up to 64 mph were reported accompanying a cold wave through western Pennsylvania. "The icing was the worst I've seen in seven or eight years," said Rocco DeLuca of the Rhode Island Transportation Department. "It was terrorizing." Howling winds and blowing snow blasted western New York Tuesday - one day after temperatures reached the 40s. High winds and squalls reduced visibility to zero - although no snow fell overnight. High winds also made it difficult for drivers to hold the road. The Coast Guard clocked a 68-mph wind at Buffalo and gusts to 71 mph were reported at the Buffalo airport. The winds downed power lines and tree limbs, leaving thousands of Erie County residents without power overnight and early Tuesday. Winter storm watches and travelers advisories were posted Tuesday over virtually all of the West and Midwest extending into New Mexico. In Utah, up to 80-mph winds were reported at Snowbird Ski Resort. At least 25 people were killed in weather-related traffic accidents during the weekend, and 10 people were killed in plane crashes. Four others died in fires, one drowned, one froze to death, two collapsed Monday while shoveling snow and another was killed by a tornado. In Ohio, winds up to 70 mph ripped the roofs off buildings, downed tree limbs and knocked out power lines. Near Cleveland, high winds ripped part of the roof off an elementary school, injuring six children who were hit with flying debris. A major winter storm dumped as much as a foot and a half of snow on the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, closing hundreds of schools. More snow was falling early Tuesday. Brutal winds up to 50 mph knocked trash cans off street corners and blew down remaining Christmas trees and holiday decorations in Detroit. Twelve-foot waves were reported on Lake Erie and warnings were posted for gale winds over the upper Great Lakes. The Milwaukee area was immobilized by up to 16 inches of snow, the most since the 1947 blizzard that dumped 18 inches on the city in three days. Four people were reported dead in the storm. === Page 9 of 278 UFO2 - 100X attack A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1982 # Holiday storms kill 28; tornadoes rip Southeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Holiday storms that killed at least 28 people spread a treacherous layer of snow and ice across the Northern states Sunday, tornadoes and thunderstorms lashed the Southeast and 20,000 people were left without electricity in 10-degree weather in Maine. Officials said one man was killed and 17 people injured in a tornado that touched down near Newton, in east-central Mississippi. The twister gouged a path 12 miles long and one mile wide, knocking over trees and leveling dozens of buildings, officials said. Meanwhile, officials reported four twisters fueled by warm air from the Gulf of Mexico lashed central and northern Alabama. Trooper spokesman Roy Smith said three to five mobile homes were destroyed, and one service station was heavily damaged near Verbena. Tornado watches were in effect in 25 Georgia counties Sunday night, as the state was pummeled by heavy storms. Rome, Ga., reported 4.5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. Several north Georgia towns had more than 3 inches, with some road and creek flooding reported. In Tennessee, a Memphis forecaster reported 60 mph winds as heavy thunderstorms and winds buffeted the state. State police in Virginia said 37 cars piled up on fog-shrouded Afton Mountain on Interstate 64 near Waynesboro, and 11 people were injured. Cars spun crazily in chain-reaction smashups in cities from Seattle to Baltimore, and up to 18 inches of snow fell in the Rockies. Residents of Roscoe, S.D., with only melted snow to drink, decided to drill an emergency well after the town's water supply froze when the mercury dropped to 20 below zero. More snow fell from the Pacific Northwest across the Midwest into the Great Lakes region, where Grand Marais, Minn., got 12 inches and parts of Michigan got 8 inches. Iowa was hit with its second major snowstorm in two days, adding 2-4 inches to the 8 inches that fell Saturday. Freezing rain glazed highways through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, and winds whipped up ground blizzards in the snow-smothered Colorado Rockies. Temperatures dropped to 24 degrees below zero in Grand Forks, N.D., and 4 inches of rain overnight in Greenwood, Miss., caused flooding, but police reported no major problems. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service said the "most dangerous storm" of the season was developing over the Texas Panhandle and was expected to move toward the Great Lakes. In Maine, where 2 feet of snow New Year's Day ripped down power lines and tree limbs in Hancock and Washington counties, about 20,000 people still were without power Sunday. Hundreds of elderly people were moved into hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities with emergency power. Roland Richardson, chief deputy sheriff for Washington County, said shelters were being set up Sunday in churches for another 200 people in case power wasn't restored soon. A police spokesman in Ellsworth in Hancock County said people in that area were being urged to seek shelter at a naval station in Winter Harbor. UFO2 100X # Blizzards, ice storms rampage across nation By United Press International Blizzards across the Midwest, ice storms in New England and a freak storm system in the South ground action to a virtual halt in many businesses and schools across the nation early Monday. At least 35 deaths were blamed on the weather. National Guard armories, churches and an American Legion hall were turned into makeshift shelters for nearly 850 stranded travelers as blizzards closed Interstate 5, northern California's main north-south link. Tornadoes, hard rain and strong wind rampaged through the South, triggered by a merging of exceptionally warm, moist air from the Gulf and a fast-moving cold front. Commuters headed for work in southern New England Monday had to negotiate roads that were like skating rinks because of a fine glaze of freezing rain and sleet that fell through the night. State police in all six New England states reported a rash of fender-benders, slow-moving traffic, and in Massachusetts, there were at least five tractor trailer accidents. An ice storm followed by drenching rain hit Eastern New York overnight, causing scores of accidents, closing major roads, delaying air flights, and extending the Christmas-New Year's holiday for thousands of children whose schools were closed by the storm. MJ 1/5/82 === Page 10 of 278 DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M A5 # Britain fights worst storm since 1950 LONDON (AP) -- Helicopters carrying electrical repair crews fanned out across southwest England and Wales Wednesday to restore power to 65,000 homes after blizzards and hurricane-force winds battered the region. The death toll from Britain's worst December storm since 1950 rose to at least 27 since the blizzards began eight days ago, officials reported. Although the weather was clear in most areas Wednesday, widespread flooding was reported in southwest England and Wales as snow-swollen rivers overran their banks. The flooding was worsened by gale-driven high tides that burst through sea-walls in coastal towns earlier this week and left a trail of devastation. The blackout started Sunday when overhead power lines were blown down by 75 mph gales. The state-run Electricity Board said scores more collapsed under the weight of freezing snow. Board spokesman Michael Harman said power may not be restored until the weekend. "This is the worst damage we've had to our system in 30 years," he said. Water supplies were restored Wednesday to 55,000 homes in Wiltshire in southwest England, the state-run Water Authority said. Supplies were cut off when Sunday's blackout left pumping stations without power. # 5,000 Filipinos routed by rampaging typhoon MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Lee slashed across the central Philippines Saturday, triggering floods, destroying hundreds of houses and forcing about 5,000 people to flee to high ground. Hospital authorities said one person died of electrocution in a village outside Naga City, 160 miles south of Manila. The storm smacked into the coconut-producing central Philippines with peak winds of 103 mph, but weakened considerably later. By the time it moved out into the South China Sea Saturday, Lee had been downgraded to a tropical storm with center winds of 59 mph. The typhoon, the 23rd of the season, knocked out communications and power lines, triggered landslides that isolated towns and touched off floods in some low-lying areas. Initial reports reaching the Ministry of Social Welfare said the storm destroyed 288 houses and forced the evacuation of 4,938 persons to schools and town halls. Heavy rains pelted Manila Saturday afternoon, flooding some low areas of the city of 8 million. ### news scope Authorities suspended railway services from Manila to affected southern cities. Philippine Air Lines called off flights to nine points in the country, but Manila International Airport remained open despite the storm. Last month, more than 300 people were killed by Typhoon Irma, the most powerful storm to hit the country in 11 years. # More snow blasts Northeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The second big storm in three days hit the cities of the Northeast, with foot-deep snow Wednesday, and another snowstorm threatened to move in from the Midwest. Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest got up to 14 inches of snow. The twin blast of snowstorms in the region from Maryland to Maine left at least five people dead, and three people were killed in snow-related accidents Wednesday in the Midwest, where up to 7 inches of snow fell. With hundreds of schools shut down, power out to thousands of homes and highways a mess, forecasters in the Northeast were keeping an eye on the Midwest storm, which was moving eastward after spreading snow across much of Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas. A truck stop operator near Albany, N.Y., where about 14 inches of fresh snow fell, reported, "We're snowed in, pal." "What else do you want to know?" said Charlie Sands at the truck stop on the New York State Thruway. "There's a whole bunch of trucks waiting to leave. I was the only guy to make it to work today." A state police trooper in Pittsfield, Mass., summed up the situation in his town. "It was waist-deep when I went out to my cruiser to go to work this morning," said Todd Bell of the Pittsfield barracks. "With the wind blowing, we got 4- to 5-foot drifts." The storms bombarding New England have already brought Concord, N.H., 21.5 inches of snow this month, more than twice as much as it got during all of last December. The snow was at least 12 inches deep in the northern suburbs of New York City, across parts of northern New Jersey, upstate New York and into New England. Western Maryland got 8 inches of new snow. Philadelphia got about 4 inches, while less than an inch fell in Manhattan. Washington, D.C., saw its first measurable snow of the year, and several public school systems in that area shut down. In western Massachusetts, where most schools were closed, the Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstate 91 were described as "virtually impassable" and littered with abandoned cars. The Pacific Northwest storm Tuesday and Wednesday dumped up to 14 inches in Washington's Yakima Valley, and Yakima schools and county offices were forced to shut down. # Heavy snow hits Italy MILAN, Italy (UPI) -- Heavy snow fell nonstop for more than 12 hours in northern Italy Tuesday, snarling traffic in the big cities of Milan and Turin, closing airports and provoking a series of highway accidents. In most of the region the snowstorms started late Monday and continued through the night. About 4 inches of snow fell in Milan and Turin, but in the high Alpine regions there was up to 10 inches of snow. Weathermen predicted more snow Wednesday after a brief period of higher temperatures and rain in some areas. By United Press International With more than 2 feet of snow blanketing parts of the Midwest, winter storms moved east to the Atlantic seaboard Tuesday. In snowbound Colorado, vacationers were cautioned to watch for deadly avalanches in the mountains. ### news scope Travelers' advisories were issued from the Ohio Valley to western New York state, with up to 4 inches of new snow falling through New England. A mixture of rain, sleet and snow pelted northwestern Maryland Monday and changed completely to snow as temperatures dropped Tuesday, covering the area with up to 2 inches. Between 2 to 10 inches of wet, slippery snow has blanketed the Northeast and the Midwest in the last two days. New Hampshire reported 7 to 10 inches of new snow, while Vermont had 9. Parts of the Midwest had up to 14 inches. === Page 11 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto TORN TRAINS -- Rescue workers crowd around two trains that collided Friday in snowstorm about 30 miles northwest of London. At least five passengers were killed and many more injured. # Blizzard claims 4 in Britain By ROBERT GLASS LONDON (AP) -- Britain's worst pre-Christmas blizzard in 31 years brought misery across the country Friday -- from a remote village where a train crash killed four people to London where thousands of travelers were stranded by snow borne by 35 mph winds. Even Big Ben shivered. In Seer Green, a village 30 miles north of London, a British Rail passenger train plowed into the rear of another train stopped to allow crews to clear a fallen tree from the tracks, police and rail officials said. Police said three people and the driver of the passenger train were killed and 10 people were injured. Seven people were trapped -- some for up to three hours -- as rescue workers clambered over a 15-yard embankment to reach the wreckage in blinding snow. "It was pretty grim," said Tom Redmond, a 21-year-old insurance salesman. He said he saw a leg and a hand visible in the twisted metal. "I never want to see anything like it again." From the south of England to Wales and Scotland, Britons were dealt a heavy blow by 9 inches of snow and freezing temperatures. Readings dipped to 9 degrees in Glasgow, the Scottish city's coldest December night since record-keeping began in 1888. In Yorkshire, northern England, a young mother and her 2-year-old daughter were found dead in their nightclothes in the living room of their home. Police said they might have been trying to keep warm by sleeping downstairs and were overcome by fumes from a coke fire. Driving was treacherous to impossible. London's Heathrow Airport and other big city airports were closed, and subway and rail service was chaotic. Even the clock on Big Ben -- which has rarely failed since it was put into regular operation on the bell tower atop the Parliament building in 1858 -- was slowed to near stop. The clock appeared stuck at 12:27 p.m., but it moved ahead at a "snail's pace" until it was fixed about an hour later, a government spokesman said. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave her countrymen some light relief from the miserable weather. Touring an agriculture college in Shropshire, where 8 inches of snow had accumulated, Mrs. Thatcher pelted a retinue of news photographers with snowballs. They refrained from firing back. # Snow, ice plague British LONDON (AP) -- Britain looked like one "huge skating rink" Wednesday, the Royal Automobile Club reported, as most of the country shivered for the second straight day in deep snow and ice. The snow, which blanketed most of the southeast Tuesday, headed north overnight, hitting Lancashire, Cheshire and parts of Wales, and southwest to Devon and Cornwall which had been spared Tuesday's snowfall, the first of the winter. The Meteorological Office predicted more snow to come and said temperatures would stay around freezing for several days. The coldest spot in Britain at dawn Wednesday was at Eskdalemuir in southern Scotland where the temperature fell to minus 10. # Third storm hits Britain LONDON (AP) -- Hurricane-force winds and mounting snowdrifts blocked roads, shut airports and blacked out parts of the British Isles Sunday as Britain and Ireland were blanketed by their third snowstorm in five days. Temperatures near the border with Wales plummeted to 13 degrees below zero, the lowest since England began keeping records in 1880. At least two people died and two others were missing in storm-related accidents. The blizzard conditions forced most airports to close -- as they had been doing intermittently since the area's first snowfall Wednesday -- and led to thousands of traffic accidents. Ground crews at London's Heathrow airport, however, kept one runway open. === Page 12 of 278 More storms hit Northeast By United Press International Wind surging to 50 mph teamed with snowstorms to create near-blizzard conditions in Nebraska and The Northeast, knocking out electrical power, forcing schools to close and bringing as much as 14 inches of snow to New York. The weather death count for the week increased to 14 with five more fatalities reported Wednesday. In Nebraska, snowfalls of up to 1 inch an hour were reported and strong northerly wind, gusting to 45 mph, plunged wind-chill factors down to minus-20. A widespread storm forced many schools to close and caused numerous traffic accidents. Up to 8 inches fell in the northern Appalachians. Five inches fell at Lincoln, 7 inches at Norfolk, and 12 inches at Chadron and the western Nebraska panhandle. Northerly winds gusting to 45 mph through Boston, Hartford, Conn., Portland, Maine, and Providence, R.I., as 1 to 4 inches of snow fell. Up to 14 inches of snow fell in parts of eastern New York. About 10,000 electric customers around Poughkeepsie remained without power. The second storm in 24 hours drenched New England's coastal areas with rain, but parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts received 10 inches of snow. As much as 10 additional inches had fallen Tuesday in some of the same areas. Residents of eastern Pennsylvania, just digging out from under a storm that dumped up to a foot of snow, were bracing for another. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for Thursday and into Friday for eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. More than 21,000 homes remained without heat and lights in eastern Pennsylvania and thousands of children stayed home as schools throughout the area closed. In Indiana, where Thursday's accumulations were expected to reach 4 inches, the state police reported hazardous driving conditions. Snow was scattered from the western Maryland panhandle to the central Appalachians. Temperatures dropped below the freezing point along the entire East Coast, while snow fell over much of the Northeast. Snow was scattered from the Great Lakes region to the central Appalachians. In Augusta, Ga., the mercury fell to 12 degrees to break the previous record for the date of 18 degrees set in 1968. That was just slightly warmer than the record 10-degree low recorded in 1944. Five high-temperature records were broken in Florida Tuesday, including a 90-degree reading at West Palm Beach, as the state's $31$-county citrus belt, but not long enough to seriously damage the crop. A state police dispatcher in Indiana described the driving conditions as "no blacktop, no berm, just white." They're all white. We've got very hazardous driving. We advise no driving either." Record snow in north Freezing 'dew' covers Dixie By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press A blast of frigid air "straight out of the Arctic" set sub-freezing records as far south as Florida while some Dixie cities got their heaviest snow in 13 years. In Dixie cities such as Savannah, Ga., and Daytona Beach, Fla., trees, shrubs and lawns were glazed with ice when residents left their sprinklers on. In the snowbelt, meanwhile, Rochester, N.Y., had totaled 25.1 inches of snow since Tuesday in the biggest snowfall since 1966, and schools in western Maryland were closed for a second day with 20 inches on the ground. "We made a mistake," said Park and Tree Director Marmon Thompson. Gary Beley of the National Weather Service in Atlanta said the northerly winds were "coming straight out of the Arctic." Ice-glazed trees and shrubbery also were seen as far south as Daytona Beach, Fla., which recorded a record-tying 28, while Jacksonville, Fla., posted a record 23. Temperatures dropped below freezing throughout Florida's $31$-county citrus belt, but not long enough to seriously hurt the multi-million dollar citrus crop, according to Ernie Neff, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual. Snow fell for the fourth straight day in Garrett County in western Maryland, where 20 inches had accumulated, and schools were out. Maryland State Police Sgt. Richard Edwards said there was "snow, snow, snow and more snow." But most roads were passable, if hazardous. One lane of Route 48, the major road through Garrett County, was open. Out in the mountains in western Maryland, people should be able to start digging out by tonight," said Don Harrison, a weather service forecaster at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The 25.1 inches of snow at Rochester, N.Y., was described as the third heaviest in that city since records have been kept, and the biggest since 29.2 inches fell in 1966. The record was 43.5 inches in 1900. Other snow accumulations Friday in New York state included Colden with 15 inches, Jamestown with 14, Syracuse with 11 and Buffalo with 9. 7 die in wind, rain LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds and torrential rain killed seven people Wednesday, closed Portugal's major ports, stranded thousands of workers in darkened homes and threatened to burst dikes in the Tagus River Valley. Torrential rain swept across the Iberian peninsula, ending the region's longest drought in 45 years. Much of south and central Spain was without electricity when winds felled power lines. === Page 13 of 278 # Snow SOCKS Midwest; death toll hits 21 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press 12/18/81 A snowstorm spread foot-deep snow and painful subzero cold across the middle of the country Thursday, and the number of weather-related deaths in this final week of autumn rose to 21. Cities of the Northeast, hit twice by storms that left snow knee-deep earlier in the week, braced for a third attack from the Midwest. Schools closed, and highways through the heartland were perilous as the new storm sweeping eastward out of Nebraska piled snow more than a foot deep in northeastern Missouri and central Illinois. It came down at the rate of an inch an hour in Indianapolis, and some suburbs got 8 inches in that city's worst snowstorm in two years. A car skidded out of control and careened into a group of children waiting for a school bus at a city intersection, injuring 10. Cincinnati got 7 inches in its first big storm of the season, and a police dispatcher said travel on Interstate 71 was "pretty bad." "People are just leaving their cars when they get stuck," he said. At Richmond, Ind., on the Ohio border, a school bus carrying 35 students slid into a ditch. Rescuers attached cables to the bus to keep it from rolling over, and the children were led to safety. In the storm's wake, the mercury dove to 9 below zero in Grand Island, Neb., where it was a balmy 71 last Dec. 17. With temperatures expected to drop as far as 10 below zero in Illinois during the night, the state Commerce Commission worked out a compromise to get power for 12,000 needy families that have been without heat because of delinquent payments. Northern Kentucky got 4 inches as the storm crossed that state and surprised southern West Virginia with snow falling at the rate of 2 inches an hour in places. "Right when it crossed the border it blew up," said Mike Callahan of the National Weather Service. "Everything happened so fast it's hard to get a handle on it." West Virginia's two biggest cities, Charleston and Huntington, were hit hardest, with about 5 inches snarling morning rush-hour traffic. Many motorists simply abandoned their cars on the steep hills in the suburbs. The storm developed so quickly that some students already had arrived for classes when officials decided to close schools in three counties. Associated Press Laserphoto COLD BUT HAPPY -- Jerry McNeal of Minneapolis was one of several joggers who found the YMCA's indoor track "too boring" and took to the city's downtown streets during 5 degree weather Wednesday. Snowstorms since Monday have been blamed for a total of 21 deaths, mostly traffic fatalities on icy roads in Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York. Searchers found the body of a 24-year-old Boulder, Colo., man who set out Sunday with a friend to climb the 14,225-foot Long's Peak in Estes Park, Colo. A helicopter that was to retrieve the body of James Joseph Duffey III, however, was grounded Thursday due to 40 mph winds. Duffey's companion, who went for help after a surprise snowstorm stranded the pair, had second-degree frostbite. In addition, fog and rain were blamed for an accident Thursday near Port Gibson, Miss., where a school van ran off a slippery wooden bridge and plunged 14 feet, killing four children and one adult. Rain-slicked streets were also blamed for the wreck of another school van, which struck a tree south of Hattiesburg, Miss., injuring 15 preschool children -- none of them seriously -- and a woman. In Mount Gretna, Pa., a 16-year-old boy was killed when his sled skidded into the path of a car driven by state Rep. George Jackson. Police in St. Louis said six men were overcome by fumes from an unventilated gas space heater Wednesday night in the basement of the St. Francis DeSales Church. Five were treated at hospitals, but Joseph Pruente, 82, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. === Page 14 of 278 UFOs & Projects 100X note: we were staying in a cabin here. # Three deaths blamed on storm as winds, rain pelt Northern California Greg 12/20/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A warm Pacific storm slammed Northern California with high winds and heavy rain Saturday, killing at least three people, driving dozens from their homes, closing major highways and swelling four rivers to flood stage. The National Weather Service said the slowly moving storm would continue to generate heavy rain at least through Sunday morning. Along the coast, the weather service forecast that the Russian River near Guerneville would rise to 13 feet above flood stage by Sunday morning, and the Eel, Van Duzen and Smith rivers also were flooding. "We've got three and four and five feet of water in the road" in the coastal town of Eureka, said Humboldt County sheriff's Deputy Jim Paris. He said rising water had entered about 20 houses, and about eight units on the bottom floor of an apartment complex were flooded. People also were abandoning Myers Flat, a small town along the Eel River near Eureka, Paris said. "The whole town is flooding." Damage appeared to be worst in the northern Sacramento Valley, where Shasta County sheriff's Lt. Rob Nelson estimated 30 to 40 homes had been damaged by rampaging creeks. Although the rain there paused Saturday night, another part of the storm was on the way. "It's been raining hard and steadily for the last 36 hours," Nelson said. "If the rain continues for another 24 hours like it's supposed to, we're going to have a lot of people affected." One-day rainfall totals as of 4 p.m. ranged from less than an inch at Sacramento to 4.5 inches in the Marin County community of Elk Valley and 6.19 inches at Blue Canyon in the northern Sierra. A 57-year-old man drowned while trying to cross a flooded road in the Sonoma County community of Monte Rio. A giant wave rolled into Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor and flipped over a 25-foot fishing boat with three men aboard, killing one. "The wave was at least 12 feet high," said witness Roland Griffin. "It just rolled them over like a toy boat." The death of a pedestrian struck by a car in Cotati was blamed by police on low visibility caused by the storm. Rain-stalled cars were a common sight on roadsides, and many accidents were blamed on the poor visibility and gusty winds that accompanied the sometimes-blinding rain. Wind warnings were posted for Interstates 5, 80 and 880, and the weather service advised drivers of campers and trailers to stay off those roads. Some parts of highways 1 and 101, the main north-south routes, were closed by mud, rocks and flooding. The State Department of Transportation said a section of Highway 101 near Leggett might remain closed two days because of a mud slide. In Sonoma County, part of Northern California's rich wine country, sheriff's Deputy Dennis Richards said, "Cars are stuck in ditches all over the place." About 50 people fled their homes in Sonoma County, most along the banks of the often unpredictable Russian River. Flood stage for the river is 19 feet, but the crest neared 23 feet at Healdsburg Saturday. In the Sierra, the warm front closed some ski areas, including Squaw Valley. Despite the storm, there were no major power or telephone outages, said officials of Pacific Telephone and Pacific Gas and Electric companies, though there were scattered outages affecting hundreds of people throughout Northern California. UFOs & Projects 100X # Icy cold blasts East, Midwest By BETSY BROWN of The Associated Press Greg 12/22/81 Snow and freezing rain spread across the Midwest as winter arrived Monday, closing some schools in four states and turning roads into "solid ice all over" that caused hundreds of traffic accidents. Near Grand Island, Neb., a Greyhound bus carrying 25 passengers slid off Interstate 80 and overturned Monday, slightly injuring one passenger. In Florida, meanwhile, record low temperatures during the weekend damaged fruit in four counties on the southern edge of the Citrus Belt. In DeSoto County, the mercury sat below 30 degrees for nine hours Sunday, killing some fruit on the trees. Most growers, however, were relieved the harm was limited because of cloud cover that acted as an insulator. And rain-weary Californians anxiously watched the sky as a second storm moved down from Oregon, just as floodwaters started to recede from a weekend storm that left three people dead, closed roads and forced evacuations. "Some of the roads are still a couple of feet under water," said Roger Rude, a sheriff's deputy in Sonoma County, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. "But if it rains some more, or if it clears up, it could change very quickly." In Colorado, a heavy storm moved into the Rockies Sunday night, dumping up to 12 inches of snow by Monday in high elevations. Forecasters advised against mountain travel, especially near Eagle and Vail, the Weather Service said. Near Evergreen, Colo., southwest of Denver, "They're really getting it bad," said officer Royce Grimes of the state patrol. He cited many minor traffic accidents, including jackknifed trucks, with one driver reported pinned in his truck. No serious injuries had occurred, he said. Northern Illinois was hit with its second blast of snow in four days, while the southern part of the state got freezing rain that closed schools and glazed roads. In Chicago, 1½ inches of snow Monday morning added to the 4 inches from last week and again snarled rush-hour traffic. Suburban Joliet received 3 inches and suburban Highland Park reported a five-car accident -- but no injuries. === Page 15 of 278 UFOs - 100X # New storms sweep into Northwest By United Press International A new series of storms swept into the Northwest, rain lashed parts of the mid-Atlantic and more than a half-foot of snow covered a wide band of the nation from the avalanche-plagued Rockies to the Great Lakes Friday. Heavy storms pounded South Carolina for almost 18 hours straight Thursday, dumping between 1 and 2 inches of rain. Weather forecasters issued flash flood warnings and a tornado watch. "I can't recall seeing anything this heavy in the last year," said Bernie Palmer, deputy meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office at Columbia Metropolitan Airport. "I just can't remember as much rainfall coming this fast and this widespread," Palmer said. Freezing rain glazed bridges and caused minor power interruptions in mountainous areas of the Piedmont, but by late afternoon a slight warming trend eased fears of a snow or ice storm. In Colorado, officials said a twin-engine commuter airliner, owned by Sunwest Airlines, crashed during a landing attempt at Durango Thursday night, killing the pilot and three passengers and injuring the two others aboard. Heavy snow was reported at the crash area. Snow, freezing rain and sleet triggered scores of accidents and at least two deaths on highways in western North Carolina. Two people were killed in Iowa and one died in a traffic accident in Wisconsin. On Wednesday three people died in a single traffic accident in Nebraska and three others were killed in two weather-related accidents in Minnesota. Heavy snow continued to assault the Colorado mountains. The National Weather Service reported 6 to 18 inches in some portions and another 6 to 16 inches were expected in the new wave of storms. 1/1/82 UFOs - 100X # U.S. storms ring cold, wet new year By RICHARD DE ATLEY Of The Associated Press 1/2/82 The third snowstorm in a week closed highways throughout the Rockies Friday, one day after Colorado reported 103 avalanches. A separate snowstorm hit the upper Great Lakes area, icy weather gripped the Midwest, and rain fell on the West Coast and Northeastern states. Rain and fog shrouded the Gulf Coast. Four of six people aboard a twin-engine plane were killed Thursday night when it crashed in a blinding Colorado snowstorm. The survivors were a young brother and sister whose mother died in the accident. Collisions on snowy roads in Iowa and Wisconsin claimed four more lives. Skiers were delighted by heavy snowfalls in California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, but snowdrifts, ice and avalanches closed highways and kept most of their favorite resorts isolated Friday. In Idaho, hit Friday by the third snowstorm in a week, state police in Pocatello said road crews trying to clear highways were being overwhelmed by winds gusting to 37 mph. "We've got all our snowplows out, but they just can't keep up with it," a dispatcher said. Pocatello had 13 inches of snow, Boise 11 inches and the town of Malad reported 14 inches. On U.S. 20, the main route between Boise and Sun Valley, a section from Mountain Home to Fairfield was closed Thursday night due to reduced visibility from blowing snow. Snow fell on the Colorado Rockies for the third day in a row, with forecasters predicting 18 inches more by Saturday along the Western Slope, where a winter-storm watch and travelers' advisories remained in effect. An avalanche warning also remained in effect for snow areas of the state. Thursday, 103 avalanches had been reported, the largest one-day total in six years. An avalanche closed Monarch Pass on U.S. 50, and roads were generally icy and snowpacked, the Colorado State Patrol said. Blizzard conditions in Utah closed several roads, and ski resorts were reporting 7 to 11 inches of new snow by Friday morning. An avalanche warning was issued for the Wasatch Mountains on the Utah-Idaho border. Northern California's Sierra Nevada ski resorts also reported excellent skiing conditions, and the Weather Service said a charge of cold air from the Gulf of Alaska should drop snow levels down to 1,000 feet by Saturday morning. Four feet of new snow fell on the Bear Valley ski resort since Sunday. Most mountain roads were passable to cars with chains, but officials said congestion made travel difficult. Elsewhere, snow showers moving in from Lake Superior were expected to bring 6 inches of new snow to Michigan's upper peninsula. Cold, arctic air flowed into Wisconsin after a Thursday storm dumped 5 inches of snow in some sections of the state. Early Friday temperature readings included 15 degrees below zero in Superior and 11 below in Eau Claire. A man and a woman died on snow-covered Interstate 80 Thursday when an eastbound car crossed the median and collided with a westbound truck. In western Wisconsin, two women were killed Thursday in a fiery collision when a semitrailer truck collided with a car on a snow-slickened Wisconsin 29 near Wausau. UFOs 100X # York evacuated YORK, England (AP) -- The historic center of York was evacuated Tuesday when floodwaters engulfed hundreds of homes, stores and offices, and police asked everyone to leave by 3 p.m. "The whole area is just a swamp," said Guy Rukin of the Yorkshire Water Authority as melting snow and continuing rain sent more than 200 million tons of floodwater streaming off the Pennine Hills and into the River Ouse, which overflowed its banks. Soldiers used boats to rescue the stranded. All main roads into the 2,000-year-old cathedral city were cut off. The river was measured at 16 feet 3 inches above normal, its highest level since 1947, although York also was badly flooded in 1978 before barriers were built. The barriers held in some areas but were not enough to contain this week's deluge. The thaw-induced floods, after the coldest and snowiest December in Britain this century, claimed three lives Monday. In York, all schools shut early Tuesday and were to remain closed Wednesday as forecasters predicted more snow. 1/6/82 === Page 16 of 278 # Alaskan storm piles snow across nation By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An Alaskan storm Saturday fired another broadside of blinding snow across the West into the Colorado Rockies where searchers on skis and snowshoes pushed almost two miles high to reach four people from a downed helicopter. Blizzards and storms in Colorado have brought down six planes and helicopters since Christmas, killing at least seven people and sending search parties through neck-deep snow in avalanche country. The U.S. Forest Service in Colorado counted 125 avalanches Saturday and 92 Friday night in the Loveland Pass, Aspen and Crested Butte areas. The service had reported 170 in the previous 36-hour period. A pileup involving 31 vehicles closed a portion of Interstate 17 as the swirling winter snow storm swept into Arizona. Ten people were reported injured. A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said zero visibility caused the accident south of Flagstaff. The Utah Highway Patrol estimated 100 vehicles had accidents during a three-hour period on I-15 near Salt Lake City. "It was mainly the frozen snow," said dispatcher Shelly Holt. "People just do not know how to drive in the snow." "In the 22 years since I've worked up here I've never seen anything like it," said Chuck Cicogni of the California Department of Transportation at Donner Springs in the Sierra of northern California, where 5 feet of snow had fallen since New Year's Eve. The Crested Butte ski resort in southern Colorado, which had a record one-week snowfall of 62 inches by New Year's Day, also got more snow Saturday. The latest in a series of holiday season snowstorms also left foot-deep, traffic-snarling snow across much of Washington and Idaho and coated highways through the upper Midwest. A Colorado search party, pushing through deep snow and strong winds, located a stranded KMGH-TV news team helicopter and reported all four people aboard were in good condition. The pilot had walked away from the helicopter in search of help about two hours before the search party arrived at the site 10,850 high in Wolf Creek Pass in southwestern Colorado. He was found a short time later by searchers who followed his tracks. A "freak accident" killed an accomplished skier at Jackson, Wyo. The county coroner, Robert Boetticher, said Donald Clare, 26, was skiing Friday when he struck a tree so hard that it knocked him out and dumped three feet of snow on him. Clare was found 30 minutes later, but he had suffocated under the snow, the coroner said. As temperatures dropped to the zero mark at Boise, Idaho, late Friday, a water pipe in the state capitol froze and ruptured, flooding parts of all four floors of the 75-year-old building. Subzero temperatures were posted Saturday from upper Michigan to Montana, with Williston, N.D., hitting 28 below. Four major highways and many rural roads across Idaho were closed by snow from the storm in a week, with depths ranging from 21 inches in some areas to 11 inches at Boise. In Iowa, roads were 75 percent to 100 percent covered with snow and ice, the State Patrol said. On Interstate 35, said a Patrol spokesman in Osceola, there was slush "that just takes ahold of you and pulls you into the ditch or median." Minnesotans received up to 4 inches of snow. The State Patrol estimated 120-140 fender-benders in the Twin Cities area alone. And officials reported dozens of vehicles spun into ditches on ice-slicked Interstate 57 near Kankakee, Ill. A pilot and his pet dog were killed in Chickasha, Okla., when a light airplane snagged a power line and crashed in fog. Chickasha resident Steve Phillips, 29, was flying to Lawton to visit a friend when he was killed, officials said. A hailstorm hit San Francisco during the night and lightning left a gaping hole in the wall of a home there, but no one was injured. "It was the most severe ice pellet and hailstorm I've seen in the city in 10 years," said San Francisco meteorologist Mike Pechner. === Page 17 of 278 Toll reaches 25 as storms continue to ravage nation By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A storm that loosed killer mud slides in the affluent suburbs of San Francisco charged eastward Tuesday, dropping up to 8 feet of snow that blocked mountain passes and stalled travel in several states. At least 25 people have been killed in violent storms around the nation since Monday. Rescuers digging through the muck of stricken communities in the San Francisco Bay area found nine bodies Tuesday, killed by mud slides and fallen trees. That brought the toll to at least 15 killed in northern California as hillsides gave way after 12 inches of rain in a day. Five other people were missing and presumed dead, including three children trapped when a mud slide buried their home in Pacifica. Seven people died of hearts attacks while shoveling snow in Wisconsin, including five in Milwaukee, which was digging out from under a 16-inch snowfall that was the city's worst since 1947. A man froze to death in Idaho, and weather-related traffic fatalities were reported in Utah and New York. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared states of emergency in San Mateo, Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz and Contra Costa counties, where hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged by the storms. Damage in Marin County alone was estimated at $30 million. Brown also declared an emergency in Humboldt County, which suffered damage from a rain flooding Dec. 19. "I've never seen a storm of this magnitude in 25 years," said Brian Waterbury, a San Rafael fire official. More than 100,000 homes and businesses were left without power because of the storm, according to Pacific Gas & Electric spokesman Paul Girard, who said about 340,000 people had been affected by outages at various times. Meanwhile, fresh snow up to a foot deep closed hundreds of schools and highways across Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Schools also remained closed Tuesday in Milwaukee, but authorities said about 65 percent of the streets had been cleared. The Milwaukee Blood Center issued an emergency appeal for donors, saying supplies had run low because routine donors could not get to the center because of the snow Monday. Snow packs up to 14 feet were reported in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada, where 8 feet fell in 36 hours. Ski resorts closed last January for a lack of snow were closed Tuesday because of too much. "We're not operating," Kirkwood resort President Fred Jones said. "We're digging out." South Lake Tahoe, Nev., was smothered with 5 feet of snow. Resident Linda Bowen said she had to walk to work in waist-deep snow. "I couldn't even find my car," she said. In Arizona, schools were closed in at least three cities, including Flagstaff, where there was 10 inches of new snow. Most highways and roads in the north were snowpacked and icy, including much of Interstate 40. At Squaw Valley U.S.A. in California, spokesman Eric Dixson said up to 2 feet of snow fell overnight, giving the resort as much as 13 feet of snow. Dixson said skiers and resort employees were unable to leave Squaw Valley Monday night. The U.S. Forest Service in Nevada intentionally triggered more than 100 snowslides to reduce the danger of accidental avalanches. The California storms also caused two train derailments Monday. A six-car Amtrak passenger train derailed in heavy rain, slightly injuring 13 passengers. Rescuers had to use rowboats and helicopters to reach the train, since as much as 5 feet of water covered roads in the area, police said. A seven-car Southern Pacific freight train left the track about 200 miles to the north at Alderpoint, but no one was injured. Searchers looked for a small airplane missing with four people aboard near Taos, N.M., and for two hikers snowbound in the Glenwood area of southwest New Mexico. Effect? Stuck motorist grabs gun, commits 'autocide' BELLEVUE, Wash. (UPI) -- A motorist became enraged Tuesday when his car got stuck the snow, smashed its windows with a tire iron then hauled out a pistol and shot out the tires, police said. "He killed it. It's a case of autocide," said police Maj. Jack Kellem. The car got stuck in 6 inches of snow. Police said the driver became so angry that he pulled a tire iron from the trunk and smashed every window in the car. Still not satisfied, he hauled out a pistol and shot all four tires full of holes, then reloaded and emptied half of a second clip of bullets into the car. When the gun jammed, he threw it into the snow and returned to the tire iron. When police arrived, he was beating on the hood. Kellem said the man was sober and rational, but very perturbed. He was jailed for discharging a firearm in the city. Greg J 1/6/82 === Page 18 of 278 A4 3M THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1981 # Blizzard strands hundreds By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Blinding snowstorms stranded hundreds of travelers in Idaho Wednesday and wiped out a search for a skier lost in Colorado as other rescuers pushed through neck-deep snow to a plane crash two miles high in the Rockies. A hillside gave way under heavy rains at Oakridge, Ore., during the night, undermining 400 feet of Southern Pacific railroad track and blocking train traffic on the route from Los Angeles to Seattle for at least three days. Rains in Southern California triggered "hundreds" of traffic accidents and, with more rain in the forecast, Rose Bowl officials were worried that the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade would be rained on for the first time in 27 years. The heaviest 24-hour snowfall in southern Idaho since February 1977 left 9 inches in Boise, the deepest in more than 30 years, and up to 2 feet in the mountains near Malad, where several hundred tractor-trailer rigs were stalled. "It looks like the Super Bowl parking lot," Idaho State Police Cpl. Jack Lancaster said of the area just north of Malad. In the Colorado Rockies near Buena Vista, rescuers struggled through deep snow to bring out the fourth survivor of a Christmas Eve plane crash. The fate of the pilot, who tried to walk out for help Christmas Day, was not known. "It's a complete white-out situation up there right now," said Benny Durham of Addison Airport as about three dozen rescuers set out on a three-mile trek to the crash site, 12,600 feet up in the mountains. "There are gusting winds from every direction." But, in another attempted rescue operation, the threat of avalanches and a new snowstorm moving in Wednesday with 40 mph winds forced the Colorado Civil Air Patrol to call off a search for Robert Shaw, 38, of Crested Bluff. Shaw left his home Thursday on what was to have been a two-day, cross-country ski trek to Aspen. "The risk factor is so high that we just can't put anyone in there on the ground," said JoAnne Stone of the CAP. Scores of avalanches have been reported across the Colorado Rockies since the weekend. plane because the rescue helicopter was not big enough. Smart was identified as a business associate of the pilot, Gary Meeks, 33, of Dallas, who walked away from the plane after the crash and has not been seen since, officials said. Taken to Salida Hospital were Alicia Meeks, 30, of Dallas, and her sons, 18, of Houston, and Daryl Meeks, 15, of Houston. All three were in stable condition suffering from exposure and frostbite. "We huddled together in a big pile," one of the boys said Tuesday night, explaining how they survived for five days. In Idaho, snowplows Wednesday managed to reopen one lane of Interstate 15 between Pocatello and Malad, which was closed about 9 p.m. Tuesday. A state police dispatcher in Boise said the agency has received an average of 300 calls for help during each eight-hour shift the last two days. "Most of those are for cars slipping off the road," she said. By the evening rush hour Tuesday, dozens of cars were stuck along Interstate 84 between Nampa-Caldwell and Boise. State police said Idaho 34 between Soda Springs and Freedom, Wyo., also was closed by drifts. The temperature plunged to 27 below zero Wednesday morning at Havre, Mont., the nation's cold spot, with other subzero readings reported from Montana to upper Michigan. And in Utah, a National Ski Patrol member escaped serious injury Tuesday after being carried 100 yards by an avalanche of snow. Alan Weight, 33, was uncovered nearly 20 minutes later under 2 feet of snow and revived by patrol members at the Sundance ski resort. Three of the five people in the plane crash -- a woman and her two teen-age stepsons -- were plucked from the snow-swept northern flank of Mount Columbia late Tuesday night by an Army helicopter. Steven Smart, 33, of Dallas, Texas, had stayed behind with rescuers in the cabin of the wrecked # Storm paralyzes Cascades; roads closed to travel Photos on Page D5 also By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff Another in a series of winter storms dumped up to 2 feet of snow in the Cascades Sunday night, closing Interstate 5 in Northern California, as well as U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass and U.S. 26 through Government Camp. Willamette Pass was closed most of the day, but it was reopened to limited traffic late Sunday. Up to 3 feet of snow paralyzed Central Oregon, and schools were scheduled to remain closed Monday in Bend, Sisters, Redmond, La Pine, Gilchrist, Crescent and in Crook County. Thousands of travelers were reported stranded east of the mountains as more than 12 feet of snow blocked major highways. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions overwhelmed snowplows and clogged scores of roads throughout the Cascades and Eastern Oregon. Late Sunday, I-5 remained closed between Yreka and Redding, Calif., and motorists were advised not to venture south of Medford except in emergencies as trucks, trailers and other vehicles spun out of control and blocked traffic. "We've got too many rigs with not enough iron (tire chains)" on I-5 about eight miles north of the California border, Oregon State Police Sgt. Bob Seymour said late Sunday. "The Highway Division crews are going out of their tree," he said. "As fast as they get one truck out, another gets stuck." Police in both states advised motorists not to drive the mountain highways or east of the Cascades even with chains because of blizzards and generally hazardous conditions. U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass was closed to all travel early Sunday === Page 19 of 278 RAPPED -- Second story of Pacifica, Calif., hillside house sits askew after sliding on top of single-story home late Monday. Three children are feared dead. # Rescuers dig in mud for 3 children By JACK SCHREIBMAN PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) -- Rescue teams dug frantically through the rubble of a hillside home Tuesday where three sleeping children were trapped by a mud slide, as one of the worst storms in the area's history left at least 15 people dead. The storm, which began Sunday afternoon, lashed the San Francisco Bay area with up to 12 inches of rain in one day and winds gusting to 50 mph. The rain did not let up until Tuesday morning. At least eight deaths were blamed on the mud slides, seven on other storm accidents, and five people were missing, including the three children. In Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, floods and mud slides left one presumed dead and caused an estimated $30 million in damage, destroying several $250,000 homes. In Pacifica, 25 miles south of San Francisco along the coast, Billy Velez, 7, and his sisters, Michelle, 14, and Melissa, 2, were trapped and presumed killed when mud pushed the second story of a hillside home down into their single-story home late Monday, smashing the Velez home to kindling. Rescue teams used shovels and power equipment, including a 30-ton crane, to rip the rubble apart in a frantic effort to save the youngsters. Their efforts were hindered by the uncertain ground, which continued to twist the wrecked homes as they worked. "At first we thought they were in the mud and there would have been no chance," Fire Chief Cal Hinton said. "Now we believe they are in the corner of the house, and there is a slight chance they are still alive." The mud slides were blamed for seven deaths in Santa Cruz County, and one man was missing and presumed dead after mud swept his home away in Marin County. Betsy Morgan, 40, was killed when mud slid into her home east of Santa Cruz, and Joyce Smith, 33, of Boulder Creek, was killed by a wall of mud. Two other Boulder Creek residents, who were not immediately identified, were crushed in their home by a mud slide. An unidentified man died in a mud slide Monday on a rural road in Soquel. The body of Thomas L. Williams was recovered Tuesday from a mud slide at Felton, and an unidentified body was recovered from a mud slide in Ben Lomond. Kaiyu Hsu, 59, was missing and presumed dead after his home in Tiburon in Marin County was swept from its foundation by a landslide. The Velez home was destroyed when tons of mud rolled 500 feet into a home occupied by Jamubhai Patel, 61 and his 36-year-old son, Dinish, shortly after 11 p.m. Monday. It swept the second story of the house into the Velez home, crushing it. Bill and Barbara Velez, the children's parents, escaped from the rear of the house after Velez opened the door to the children's bedrooms and found a mass of mud. He had to be restrained when rescuers arrived. The Patels were pulled from the ruins hours later. They were treated at a hospital and released. Scattered around the once-pleasant neighborhood were mangled bicycles, a twisted tricycle and the shell of a television set. Shreds of clothing lay in the mud while a river of filthy water ran down the street. === Page 20 of 278 Orig J 1/5/82 United Press International **MILWAUKEE BURIED** -- A small boy tries to clear snow off the windows after giving up trying to dig out a car in Milwaukee. A winter storm forced closing of schools, factories and most businesses after dumping 16 inches of snow. Four deaths were blamed on the storm, the worst in Milwaukee in 35 years. Buses stopped running, the mail was not delivered and airports were closed. === Page 21 of 278 HELPING HAND -- Vallejo, Calif., police officer leads three flood victims across waist-deep water. ROADBLOCK -- Huge mud slide covers U.S. 101 north of Golden Gate Bridge, cutting traffic between San Francisco and Marin County. === Page 22 of 278 Associated Press Laserphotos TREACHEROUS PATH -- Vallejo, Calif., policeman assists elderly man across fast-moving water during devastating flood. === Page 23 of 278 CF 2448 GR FAMILIES EVACUATED -- Rescue workers help Petaluma, Calif., residents flee in boats after high water inundated neighborhood. === Page 24 of 278 January 5, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS See attached newsclip on "UFO peace force poised to save the world." This article points out that UFO sightings have recently risen in number "to an alarming rate" all over the world. This is in conformity with my UFOs (SIs) and their current activity plus their "increase of their powers" as they told me to 100 times. The article is amusing in one way...UFOs do not need 'landing sites' since they can literally engulf your house and the aliens enter your house by floating through your walls and out again. But humans, it seems, just have to keep on thinking like humans...thus, landing sites. If our Base is not forthcoming then the human race will most certainly be destroyed in the relatively near future. If that happens this article is correct...in that some humans will be removed from the killing of the race, but they are wrong in the 'how' of it. The human shells, or bodies, will perish, along with the rest. But the SIs will remove, keep and use certain of the human souls on Earth...either here, later on, ages ahead, or somewhere else. The handful of humans that I, half-alien, have trained under alien (SI) supervision...will so survive, because, using the procedure that the SIs gave to me, my pupil's "frequency" has been raised to a high intensity necessary for that pupil to be "taken" at any time by the SIs and preserved or used, as they have need for...and again, I am not talking about 'shell' or 'body'. This article is most certainly correct in stating obliquely that the SIs (UFOs) "may be mankind's only chance to survive." Which is what I have been trying to tell you for some time now. Now see attached newsclip on "UFOs Murder Four Men." Dr. Sprinkle is quite correct. Up until this period of time the SIs have not had the intent to kill humans (with just a very few exceptions...such as Spaur, I believe his name was, the police officer, some years ago; perhaps a few others such as Hitler, Mussolini, etc. But in the main, no.) However, the SIs have, within the past year, changed their "format". Their "way of thinking" as it were. Using their precog to see ahead and see the certain destruction of this civilization in this "time of Earth" and not being able to get the Base that they need in order to use me as their one human link/tool to block off what is coming, they have accelerated their activity and changed their modus operandi...for instance, discontinuing their use of me in doing their miracles and doing the miracles themselves on a much wider and more intense manner and simply using me as a human reporter of what they are doing. A drastic turn-around, because I had been doing what they had taught me for over ten years...then suddenly they change that. What I am saying is...it is entirely probable that now they may be "killing" some humans much as in the same manner that for the past years they have been killing cattle in a mysterious manner. I have explained before why they killed the cattle in detail, in my files to you. Their reason for killing these men in Brazil would not be for anger or general meanness...because the SIs have infinite intelligence. It would be to expose these murdered men to intense radiation of the kind that will wipe out our civilization, then drain the blood from their bodies to take into their dimension to examine and find out perhaps what humans might be able to survive; how many humans might be able to survive; and what steps, if any, they, the SIs, might be able to change human blood to bring about blood-changes in many humans on Earth before the destruction begins to enable those humans better to survive. This is rough on a tiny percentage of human guinea pigs...but so is it rough on what the SIs are now doing in the United States as well as world-wide with their === Page 25 of 278 2 "6 Projects" and "Attack on higher-ups" demonstration to impress upon the human race to set up their Base with me, "their human link", in it to work with them and for them, to forestall the coming destruction. The SI Base..........is the one and only chance that the human race now has of surviving..........linked as it would be to the infinite powers of the SIs through my cooperation and work with the SIs from that Base. I shake my head in disbelief when I see 245 billion dollars slated for armaments for the U.S. when what good will that do with certain destruction coming, armaments or no..........and only 5 million for the one thing that will save the human race, the SI Base, not allowed or forthcoming. Either I am an idiot, and not a member of Mensa..........or all humans surrounding me (with the exception of a half dozen) are idiots. (Millie, George Delavan, Annette, Teddy, Beau, Scott Rogo, Mishlove and Dr. Monteith are the exceptions I am aware of.) Finally, see the attached newsclips on UFOs (not meteors) seen on the West Coast and the East Coast by many expert observers in a striking manner. The first point is..........it was the SI way of "signing their signature" to what I am doing in their name, reporting their activity in the 6 Projects and Higher Ups work. To "nail it down" they even showed themselves near Silverton, Oregon, where I lived previously and which was written up in Scott Rogos magazine article concerning Pixie Leslie (Jan Leslie). The SIs couldn't "talk" any plainer than that. They are very big on "signs" as the ancient Indians and savages were well aware. Not only that..........they showed themselves over the area where I am now living in Vancouver! (A secondary point of these dramatic "showings" of the SIs was to warn all humans on Earth that I am their "ambassador" as Mishlove and Rogo put it in their brilliant book which has been successfully blocked from publication..........and as such ambassador that as I go, so goes the U.S. and the rest of the Earth. I.e., if I suffer, so does the U.S. Government, the country, and the Earth. If I die, so does the U.S. Government, the country, and the rest of the Earth. To me, knowing the SIs, they speak clearly, and eloquently. Someone, somewhere, should listen, with intelligence. But where is that "someone" to be found, in the pack of stupid, greedy, corrupt jackals called "the higher ups" who control the little people of the Earth? Ted Owens PK Man === Page 26 of 278 Note: Sure. Which is why the S.I. want their Back!!! Gwen # Rash of sightings convinces investigators-- # UFO peace force poised to save the world A RASH of UFO sightings as the planets come into alignment for the first time in our lives means aliens are coming to save mankind from the cataclysmic end of the world, claim top scientists. On Dec. 25, the nine planets will form a line 3.6 billion miles long -- and that will spell disaster for Earth, warns Ralph Schneck, president of Survival Center Systems in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. But all the signs indicate that the UFO pilots who have watched over us for the past 3,000 years are about to begin a massive evacuation of our planet: * UFO sightings have soared to 50 a day in Sweden. * There has been a rash of other UFO sightings all the way from Moscow in Russia to Santiago, Chile, as well as in the U.S. * 3,000-year-old constructions in New Mexico and South America have been identified as landing sites built by aliens for future use. * Ancient astronomical calculators in Louisiana and Missouri indicate a means of counting down the world's last days. * Interpretations of the New Testament show there will be a method of salvation as Earth enters the final holocaust. "Nuclear war is a joke compared with what's going to happen to our planet," Schneck told GLOBE. "Be prepared for massive earthquakes, meteorites falling, tidal waves, a seven-day flare-up of the sun and a comet colliding with earth." # The giant time symbol that could help to guide them in LEFT: Ancient time clock in New Mexico with a giant "hand" that is formed by sunlight, could be a landing site that aliens will use soon. Metaphysicist and UFO expert, Dr. Wanda Lockwood, of Sedalia, Colorado, says her own father was warned by a member of the Aliens of Light -- the friendly beings who visit Earth -- that this was a year to fear. The alien -- looking like a handsome man in a business suit -- appeared out of nowhere at her remote mountain home, 15 years ago. "He stood in the garden where my father was weeding," she says, "and said only six words, 'Remember 1982 and keep your faith,' before walking down the road and vanishing into thin air." Since then, UFO sightings have risen at an alarming rate all over the world. In Sweden, where reports of UFOs have mysteriously increased since October, Christer Nordin, president of the Swedish Flying Saucer Society in Stockholm, said his group used to hear of one sighting a day, "but now it's way above 50." "The reports are coming in so fast there surely must be something happening out there," he says. "It looks as if we can expect a visit from outer space early this year." But he has warned Swedes not to be afraid. "Any alien beings out there are interested in us earthlings only for our own good -- they do not intend to harm us in any way." There's more evidence of a UFO invasion: * Twice in recent months, a UFO has been sighted over Moscow. Terrified witnesses described it as "big, blue and diamond shaped." * In Casey County, Kentucky, just miles from the astronomical calculator at the Cahokia Mounds in Missouri, dozens of people reported seeing fiery orange * A large cigar-shaped UFO was seen hovering over Roswell, New Mexico, near the "landing site." * In England, authorities say a man found dead with burns on his body caused by a substance unknown to medical science, was the victim of a UFO experiment. One of the police officers who found the body revealed under hypnosis that he was taken up into an alien craft and examined by tiny robots. * In Galveston, Texas -- midway between the New Mexico site and an ancient astronomical calculator at Poverty Point, Louisiana -- the whole city was awed by numerous UFO sightings over three nights. According to Coral Lorenzen, secretary-treasurer of the National Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization in Tucson, Arizona, 1982 will be a banner year for UFO sightings. "It will be the end of a five-year cycle," Lorenzen told GLOBE. "The last great wave of sightings came in 1977, so I feel there will be many new sightings all over the world in 1982 -- and it could be a prelude to something really dramatic." continued next page === Page 27 of 278 THE INVADERS: UFO sightings build up in Texas, Kentucky, New Mexico, England, Sweden and Russia. Rev. Charles Schmitz, pastor of the Peace Lutheran Church in Palm Bay, Florida, believes UFOs may well be linked to the imminent destruction. He told GLOBE: "The Bible says there will be signs in the heavens before Jesus Christ returns -- and I believe this may relate to unidentified flying objects." Further evidence of an imminent UFO evacuation might be found in strange 3,000-year-old structures located around the world. Many scientists believe alien beings visited Earth thousands of years ago to prepare for their return to save us from our planet's destruction. Experts point to the Anasazi ruins in northern New Mexico as possibly a gigantic "airport" constructed centuries ago by alien visitors. Dr. Brigham Mallon, a renowned archeologist, told GLOBE: "It's impossible to believe this geometric wonder could have been laid out from the ground without help from an airborne overseer." The New Mexico site also contains an incredibly accurate ancient sun calendar, which may foretell when the aliens will return to Earth. Many experts feel a massive UFO rescue by extraterrestrials may be mankind's only chance to survive. Schneck says: "If you're not saved by a UFO when the disaster occurs, your chances of survival will be virtually nil." === Page 28 of 278 natl. Enquirer Dec 29. 1981 # UFOs MURDER FOUR MEN By THOMAS L. MULDOON and GARY RICHMAN Murderous UFOs have slain four Brazilian hunters -- the first time in history that humans have been killed by the mysterious flying objects in the sky. Residents in a remote area of northern Brazil have been living in terror since October, when the four men were killed in separate incidents -- and in two horrifying cases, their bodies were totally drained of blood. "The climate here is one of total panic," declared police chief Geraldo dos Santos Magela of Parnarama, a town of 3,000. "As police chief it's my job to verify these reports, to determine if the deaths were caused by a UFO or if the reports were products of the imagination. Imagination ... no. It was a UFO. "The men died while the UFO was directly above them, and the other hunters with them were terrified. They came to me asking for help. "At first I didn't take the reports seriously. But by early November, when the entire region was in a panic, I had to take them seriously," Chief Magela told THE ENQUIRER. "I examined two of the bodies and the blood had been sucked from them. I have never in my life seen anything like this. The other two deaths were also directly caused by a UFO." Mayor Manoel Barros confirmed that residents of Parnarama are living in terror of UFO attacks. "Everybody's afraid," the mayor said. "As soon as it begins to get dark everybody shuts themselves up inside their homes. This used to be a happy place. Now there is no peace or tranquility." The first hunter was killed on October 17. The victim, Abel Boro, went hunting with a friend, Ribamar Ferreira. They saw what appeared to be a bright star -- but then it descended and hovered over the two terrified men, focusing its light on Boro. "When it descended it was so bright that night became day," Ferreira told THE ENQUIRER. "I got frightened and climbed down from the tree I was in -- my favorite hunting spot. "The UFO cruised around us and stopped right above the tree Abel was in. It was like a giant truck tire, all lit up and spinning around and doing something bad to Abel, because he was shaking with fear. "I decided to run for help, but then I heard the screams from Abel. I turned around and saw all that light from the UFO was surrounding him and his body was all glittering. CHIEF MAGELA "Total panic." MAYOR BARROS "Town in terror." DEADLY ENCOUNTER: Sketch shows how UFO attacked Abel Boro as Ribamar Ferreira watched. "I don't know how I managed to run, but I got home and passed out. The next morning I went to Abel's house and he hadn't come home. His family and I went to the spot (where he had last seen Abel) and there he was -- dead. His body was all white. He didn't have a drop of blood in him. The UFO -- it sucked Abel's life, like a space vampire." Two nights later, two more hunters, Raimundo Souza and Anastacio Barbosa, were in the woods when a huge, round UFO dropped down from the dark sky and beamed its deadly ray on Souza. "Raimundo screamed and we both started running, but he tripped and that was it," said his companion Barbosa. "That object came down and focused its light right over him. I couldn't do anything. "All I could do was kneel and pray to Christ. Then I ran away as fast as I could. The next morning I went back. Raimundo was dead. His body was totally white." Two other hunters, Jose Vitorio and Dionizio General, also died after hostile UFOs approached them and struck them with the devastating light beams. Vitorio was lying in a hammock in LIVING IN FEAR: Jose dos Santos tells how UFO chased him. Continued next page === Page 29 of 278 the woods, with his hunting companion nearby, when a UFO descended to a point above his hammock, shone brightly, then flew off, according to his companion. The friend ran to get help - but when he returned Vitorio was dead. Jose Virginio dos Santos, a TV station worker, said he fired five rifle shots at a UFO near his home - "and then the thing started chasing me. At first it looked like a big star, very bright. Then it shrank, from big to small. I went home and got my brother-in-law. "Everything was calm, until suddenly there was a flash in the sky," dos Santos continued. A burst of flames shot out of the UFO, lighting up the whole area, he said. "I tried to get a shot off. But then the fire went away and instead we saw flashing lights. I got scared and thought that it was going to kill me." Dos Santos, who is now so afraid to leave his house that he has quit going to work, revealed that a friend of his was the fourth victim of UFOs. His friend, Dionizio General, was working atop a hill when suddenly a UFO appeared, hovered over him and "shot a big ray of fire on top of him," according to dos Santos, who witnessed the attack. "He received a shock and came rolling down the hill. He went crazy for three days. He was terrorized. Then he died." Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D., of the University of Wyoming, a UFO expert, told The ENQUIRER: "Seldom is there any UFO incident reported by witnesses where there is any hostile intent - and never a killing, that I have heard of." Charles Tucker of Nappanee, Ind., a director of the International UFO Investigative Bureau, made up of UFO investigators around the world, told The ENQUIRER: "This is the first case of a UFO murdering humans. Every other case has either involved accidental injuries or entirely peaceful encounters. "But I don't think there is a general trend starting." # 'It Sucked His Life - Like a Space Vampire' ![Map of Brazil showing the Amazon River, Parnarama, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and the Atlantic Ocean. A box highlights Parnarama as the 'Scene of UFO Killings'.] MAPS show area of Brazil (inset) and town where UFOs attacked. # Eyewitness Passes Truth Test A witness to one of the horrifying murders of Brazilian hunters by killer UFOs is telling the absolute truth about the slaying, says Charles McQuiston, co-inventor of the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE). At the request of The ENQUIRER McQuiston used the PSE, an electronic truth detecting device, to analyze statements made by Ribamar Ferreira, who witnessed the slaying of his friend Abel Boro by the deadly rays of a UFO. "There is absolutely no doubt that Ferreira is telling the truth," McQuiston declared. "This event actually happened. "When the man describes the UFO coming down on his companion, there is no stress evident at all. "And when he tells what the UFO did to his companion - 'it sucked Abel's life' - he is again telling the absolute truth." === Page 30 of 278 oreg J 12/10/81 # Fireball mistaken for UFO SHREVEPORT, La. (UPI) -- A huge fireball streaked across the sky, sending residents of four states running to their telephones to report a meteor or unidentified flying object. News agencies were flooded with calls from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma residents reporting the object, which zipped across the sky from east to west. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., said the object probably was a fireball -- a meteor that flies low and is very bright. Note: my UFO (SIC) overhead when I list. Owens oreg 12/15/81 (This was a signal of warning to from the SI's I... who have been blocked lately in telepathic communication.) # Bright meteor streaks across Northwest sky By JACK HART of The Oregonian staff A flash of light, apparently caused by an unusually large meteor, briefly filled the night sky over western Oregon and Washington Thursday, prompting calls to several emergency service agencies. Some witnesses also reported a rumbling, cracking sound at the time of the flash, which was close to 10:30 p.m. Such noises would be consistent with the sonic boom produced as a meteor slashes through the atmosphere, according to Bruce Spainhower, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry planetarium director. Two Molalla Fire District 73 emergency vehicles were dispatched after the district received reports of what were described as "explosions and a bright light in the sky" near the intersection of Wilhoit Road and Wildcat Mountain Road, according to Clackamas County Communications Center records. The rescue vehicle and ambulance returned after a fruitless search for the cause of the reports, a fire district spokesman said. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and the Oregon State Police also received reports of the flash. Sightings seemed to be concentrated in the area around Molalla and Woodburn, northwest of Mount Angel. The Portland office of the Federal Aviation Administration received a report that an airline pilot also had seen a meteor flash over Western Oregon, according to an agency spokesman, but the Seattle regional FAA office was unable to confirm the report. Spainhower said the reports suggested a "very bright meteor," called a bolide. This type of meteor appears over the Pacific Northwest a few times a year. The timing of the flash Thursday and the clear skies that prevailed at the time accounted for the relatively large number of persons who saw the light, he said. The sightings indicated that the meteor followed a path running from the Seattle area to the northern Willamette Valley, Spainhower said. He said the typical bolide would be "bigger than a baseball but smaller than a breadbox," and that the flash usually is generated at an altitude of about 50 miles. Spainhower said he knows of no human fatalities caused by a meteor, although "a woman did actually get hit back in the '40s or '50s, and I think a cow was killed in a field once by a meteor strike." UFO 100% My SI's warning the U.S. govt to let Owens me!! # Flash in sky tied to daylight meteor SEATTLE (AP) -- A plummeting meteor weighing at least a ton was probably responsible for a bright flash of light Wednesday morning seen over a wide area of the Pacific Northwest, authorities said. The blue-green light was first reported by pilots for Northwest and Republic airlines in the Lakeview, Ore., area shortly after 11 a.m., said Bill Hawkes, supervisor at the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Auburn. Sightings also were reported in Enumclaw, Wash., and Seattle, where one man said he saw a flash that turned from orange to green as it descended. Hawkes, whose office received several calls about the flash, at first thought it might have been caused by a falling piece of space debris. The object did not show up on FAA radar. Later, Hawkes said officials at the North American Air Defense Command "didn't know of anything that would be re-entering in this area today." "A meteor is my best guess," Hawkes said, adding that no aircraft were reported missing. Maj. William Hubbard of McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma said NORAD received reports of a fiery object, but he said officials ruled out the possibility that it was a man-made satellite returning from orbit. University of Washington astronomy Professor Don Brownlee said the object had to be a meteor, a term that covers any object that glows when it enters Earth's atmosphere. With officials ruling out spacecraft, Brownlee said the flash must have been a meteor caused by an asteroid or a comet. Meteors large enough to be seen in daylight are quite rare, Brownlee said. He called the flash "quite an unusual event. ... I'm sorry I missed it." Because the flash was so bright, Brownlee guessed the object weighed at least a ton -- and perhaps much more -- and hundreds to thousands of fragments, known as meteorites, may have reached Earth's surface. But if fragments did reach the ground, someone should have heard a sonic boom, he added. 12/17/81 === Page 31 of 278 Note: Not meteors. My UFOs, am sure. - Gwene THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, DECEMBER 20, 1981 # Portland science teacher continues trek for starry meteorite By JACK HART of The Oregonian staff When the light began to glow on the snow-covered trees, Fred Hickerson dismissed it as the headlight beam of an approaching automobile. But the light quickly grew to daylight levels, saturating the night sky with an odd, bluish-white luminosity. "So I looked up, thinking it was aircraft landing lights," Fred Hickerson, a Southeast Portland resident who drove the mountainous road between Detroit Reservoir and Estacada on the night of Thursday, Dec. 3. "That's when I saw the fireball." A brilliant sphere flashed across the sky overhead, appearing as large as a full moon in the seconds before it disappeared beyond the horizon. "I've done a lot of driving on back roads," Hickerson said, "and that's the first time something wierd has happened." But hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of Oregonians experienced the same eerie phenomenon at about 10:15 that night, although few saw it as well as Hickerson. What all the witnesses had seen was a rare event indeed -- the spectacle of a large meteor plunging through the atmosphere, burning with white heat, roaring and booming as it ends a 4.5-billion-year odyssey by striking the Earth's surface. Most meteors are no bigger than a grain of sand, but the Dec. 3 fireball may have begun its fiery plunge at 100 pounds, and half that could have survived to strike the surface. While the sight of a large meteor is rare enough, actually finding the remains of a visible fall is even more unusual. Each year only about 10 meteorites -- as a fallen meteor is called -- are recovered from the entire face of the Earth. Only four have been found in Oregon, and none were recent falls. But Dick Pugh, a Cleveland High School science teacher and a leading Pacific Northwest meteorite expert, is determined to improve the local record. He wants a piece of the Dec. 3 meteor badly, and his voice surges with enthusiasm when he describes evidence indicating that this meteor is, in fact, now on the ground. "We've got one down, and it's got to be found," he said recently. An unlikely roll of the dice sent a second large meteor burning through Northwest skies at 11:06 a.m. Wednesday. It was bright enough to show clearly in daylight and witnesses from Seattle to Salem spotted it. But Pugh said the fireball's path carried it out over the Pacific. Some reports indicated that the meteor had broken up. "The chances of finding it are zero," Pugh said. The odds against finding the remains of the Dec. 3 meteor aren't much better. Pugh estimates them at "a thousand to one." He still is eager to try. But he needs hundreds of sighting reports to plot the fall's location. And he needs searchers capable of recognizing a meteorite. "We've got to educate the public," he said earnestly, "especially ranchers, farmers, loggers, rock hounds -- the kind of people who walk around on the ground. Those are the kind of people who are going to trip over one." But why even bother to look when the odds are so slim? For Dick Pugh, the answer is obvious. Meteorites are gifts from space, scientifically invaluable objects that contribute almost the only clues to conditions beyond the Earth. The Apollo project consumed billions of dollars and produced 843 pounds of material from the moon. But meteors totalling tons in weight fall with no human effort. "They come to us and they don't cost anything," Pugh points out. "And the way we're cutting back on NASA, that's all we're likely to get." Meteorites also are old, estimated at 4.5 billion years. They are, Pugh said, "the oldest rocks on Earth" and therefore provide some of the best evidence of how the sun and planets were formed. Yet mankind has managed to collect fewer than 2,000 meteorites with a total weight of less than 200 tons, most contained in five major finds. Pugh said the Dec. 3 fireball swept across the Western Oregon and Washington sky from north to south and began producing a sonic boom over Southeast Portland, a sign that it was by then reaching low altitudes. The boom rattled windows and dishes in Molalla and Estacada and appeared to reach maximum intensity further south. "It produced a real jar at Silverton," Pugh reported. "Boy did they get a bang." Note: We lived in Silverton - Gwene Witnesses near Silverton reported the fireball traveling in different directions, which indicates they were near the point of impact. "and one of them's got it going very low," said Pugh, "which means it was coming right at him." So Pugh places the meteor down within 20 miles of Silverton, possibly to the southwest. More sighting reports will help him refine his estimate. "I'd love some sightings from south of Silverton," he said. He urges anyone who saw the fireball to call him at his home, which is listed under "Richard N. Pugh" in the Portland phone book. The largest meteorite ever found in the United States turned up near present-day West Linn in 1902. The Willamette Meteorite, a 15.5-ton hunk of almost-pure iron and nickel with a strange, convoluted shape, is one of the world's best-known and now rests in the Hayden Planetarium in New York. A meteor the size of the Willamette could do a lot of damage. Pugh concedes that meteors do pose a possible, although unlikely, threat that merits study. In 1954 a meteorite badly bruised an Alabama woman when it crashed through her roof, bounced off a radio and hit her in the thigh. Nonetheless, Pugh said the odds indicate that only one person will be hit by a meteorite every thousand years. Of more concern is the possibility that a huge meteor could strike Earth, causing tremendous damage. NASA takes the threat seriously, and this year the space agency began watching the orbits of asteroids that possibly could threaten Earth. === Page 32 of 278 # Despite odds, search for meteorite continues Staff photo by TOM TREICK ROCKHOUND -- Dick Pugh examines meteorites in his home. He hopes to enlarge world's sparse collection by finding one that fell in December. SPACE ROCK -- Dime in foreground shows relative size of Washougal Meteorite, which produced a sonic boom that broke windows in Northeast Portland July 2, 1939. Farmer found it in his raspberry patch on north side of the Columbia River. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, DECEMBER 20, 1981 # Identification tips noted Collectors and museums will pay modest sums for meteorites, which belong to the owner of the land on which they fall. But the real value of the space rocks is scientific, and that's why Dick Pugh of Portland wants to find the meteorite that fell in the Willamette Valley -- he estimates within 20 miles of Silverton -- Dec. 3. Pugh said that meteor may have weighed 100 pounds when it hit the atmosphere, which would put about 50 pounds on the ground. The meteor may have broken up and pieces could be the size of a golf ball or a football. He advised searchers to look for holes in barn roofs and to check roof gutters. A meteor that strikes the ground makes an almost-vertical hole with raised sod or dirt around it. The following characteristics help identify meteorites: * They are irregular in shape and heavier than ordinary volcanic rocks. Iron meteorites will be rusty and quite heavy. * All will be attracted to a magnet, although stony meteorites are only slightly magnetic. * The Dec. 3 meteorite probably was stony and would be gray or brown and rounded with broken edges. * Most meteorites feature shallow pits similar to thumb prints, and newly fallen specimens have a thin, black crust caused by the burning descent. Pugh urges anyone who thinks he has a meteorite or who saw the fireball on Dec. 3 to call him in Portland at 287-6733. === Page 33 of 278 # Meteor startles Arkansas By The Associated Press A meteor that flashed across the Midwestern sky could be seen from Oklahoma to Indiana and prompted scores of telephone calls to police with reports ranging from crashing planes to UFOs, authorities said. Many of the people in northwest Arkansas who saw the meteor at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday described it to police as "a big ball of fire," officials said. Jim Powell, 43, of Texarkana, Ark., said he had never seen a meteor before but the flash of light "looked just like the pictures in National Geographic." Powell, an administrative assistant for the city, said he was leaving Texarkana for Little Rock when he saw the meteor. "It wasn't on a downward plane," he said. The meteor, which he described as a bright white light with an orange tail, took about 10 seconds to cross the sky from east to west, Powell said. Police and sheriff's deputies in Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas answered scores of calls from people reporting the flaming object. Benton County deputies said they didn't know at first what the object was that seemed to pass almost over Springdale and Fayetteville, Ark. For about an hour deputies and local police officers followed up on residents' reports that the object had crashed, said officer Larry Goheen of the Springdale Police Department. He said a fellow officer who saw the ball of fire said it was moving at a fantastic speed. Authorities in Washington County said they received reports from as far north as Goodwin, Mo., and one caller said the object seemed to be following U.S. Highway 62 southwest toward Rogers. Air traffic controllers at Springdale, Fort Smith and Tulsa, Okla., airport towers reported seeing the meteor almost simultaneously as it passed from the northeast to southwest, said Arkansas State Police radio operator James Cospelich of Fort Smith. Cospelich said the Fort Smith tower received a report from the pilot of a jet flying at high altitude over Indiana who said he'd seen the fireball at about the same time it was sighted in Arkansas. Residents of southern Arkansas also called an El Dorado television station to report the meteor, and air traffic controllers in Little Rock said they could see the flames far to the west. Anse Raney, a controller in Little Rock, said the meteor crossed the western sky but disappeared before it reached the horizon. Raney said he'd seen several meteors before and that it was unlikely that the object reached the ground, he said. Friction from the atmosphere usually destroys meteors before they hit the ground, he said. arg 12/11/8 === Page 34 of 278 January 25, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Although the effects of what my UFOs are doing, and escalating to the 100th power...will continue on, day by day... and I will continue to 'track' what they are doing, by the newsclip method... this will be the last file I will be able to get to you for quite some long time, most probably. (Lack of money plus having to move out of state.) At the end of this week my family and I, who have been forced out of our house in Vancouver by an ill-tempered, irascible landlord, Harold Collins...will have to load up several large trucks and move. This move will be injurious to me because, remember, I had a double-hernia operation some years ago and the doctors forbade me to lift over 10 pounds. Ha ha. Since my 19 year old son and I are the only ones to transfer all the heavy objects into the trucks, then I'll be lifting one heck of a lot more than 10 pounds...which can result in tearing loose the operations that I had. But what alternative is there? This fact is just something else that will make my UFOs unhappy. And when my UFOs get unhappy, trees fall down. My UFOs have telepathd to me that this new move after to Montana (when we were forcibly evicted...forcibly in a manner of speaking...the SIs told me exactly where they wanted us to go, for reasons of their own) will be an important "key" to whether or not, and how soon, they will switch from their "100 power attack" on the U.S. via weather TO A 100 POWER ATTACK ON HIGHER UPS: I.e., if my family and I undergo hardship and suffering as a result of this move and afterward, then the UFOs (whom I represent as their "human ambassador") will retaliate toward those governments and individuals who either should be helping them, and me...or who might place obstacles in their, and my, way... You have just witnessed their unprecedented, record-breaking demonstration utilizing weather. What you do not want to witness would be just such a demonstration causing "record breaking" chaos and misfortune against governments and top, key humans who could help them, and their "ambassador", but do not. And that is what will be their next demonstration. I strongly recommend that this government provide the UFOs with their Base...like tomorrow. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Note: The tremendous weather attack the past 2 weeks by the UFOs on the U.S. is replete with weird and unusual storms and happenings, as delineated in the news articles herein. This fact is, (remember, from past files over the years) === Page 35 of 278 The week's worst disaster: rescue helicopter hovering above wreckage of Boeing 737 that crashed into Potomac River DAN BEIGEL--SYGMA UFOs 100X Attack!! Owens Nation TIME/JANUARY 25, 1982 # The Numbing of America ## Snow and chilling frosts and death beneath the Potomac's icy waters Cold, so awfully cold. It seemed as if winter's hard core had descended from out of the Arctic all at once, freezing not just a town or a city here and there, but giving nearly the whole U.S. a case of chilblains. The week began with thermometers reading lower than they had in decades, a century ever Then the astonishing chill spread, breaking weather records all week long in 75 cities. There was at first a certain shivery merriment, a sense of shared rigor. "For a few hours," E.B. White once wrote of extreme cold's onset, "all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive." But as the cold settled in, White's "clear and congenial task" proved too much for some of the frail and the elderly, for luckless travelers exposed for too long a time to the bite of winter. By week's end more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington, D.C., of a Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane's wings and tail, and could have acted as a drag on the aircraft as it took off during a snowstorm (see following story). By sundown Monday, the weather had achieved folk-epic status, and the day was being widely touted as The Coldest of the 20th Century. Statisticians at the National Weather Service were unwilling to go that far. Yet it was they who confirmed that, indeed, alltime low-temperature records were broken in Chicago (-26°F) and Augusta, Ga. (1°), among other places, while Atlanta (-5°), Milwaukee (-25°) and Cincinnati (-14°) had not been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn. (-30°), and in nine Florida cities, including Miami (33°), Orlando (23°) and Tallahassee (14°). The cold in Florida froze perhaps 84% of the state's unharvested citrus, and the ripened 12 === Page 36 of 278 The frigid air gushed out of the Arctic, and Chicago was colder than ever before: steam swirls off icy Lake Michigan toward the city vegetable crop was wiped out entirely. Experts groped for images of suitable enormity to describe the far-reaching cold wave. Meteorologist Robert Case of the National Weather Service called it simply "a glob, a monster." In essence, a frigid, unusually slow-moving air mass formed over Alaska and the Yukon, cooled further, and then was plunged suddenly southward through a high-altitude channel of powerful winds. Another National Weather Service meteorologist, Amet Figueroa, traced the violent cold even farther afield. Said he: "It has its origins in Siberia, where it's been lying for the past couple of weeks." The consequences of the Arctic cold sweep were global. The same air mass refrigerating the U.S. helped set records and disrupt life all over Europe. All of the weathermen agreed that the continuing frigidity was extraordinary. Said Case: "It was the type of mass out-break, in size and severity, that we see once every 50 years." Strong winds made the cold even more bitter. In Chicago, the wind-chill factor was calculated at -81°. Even for weather-jaded NWS Meteorologist Roger Bygrave of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where the temperature bottomed out at -36° (one degree short of an alltime record), the conditions were startling. Said he: "It was a once-in-a-century setup to be so cold and so windy at the same time." And, almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia. Home-energy supplies across the country were overtaxed. Power lines in Alabama grew icy and brittle and then snapped, leaving nearly 1 million people without electricity for up to five days. As the weather broke records, so did efforts to cope. More natural gas was pumped to consumers in a single day than ever before in New York City, Baltimore, Washington, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. It was not enough to save some of the cold-struck. In New York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died. Not only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend. By then, each region had endured the storming in its own way. A survey of the hard, white landscape: THE WEST WORRIES For the most part, the Rocky Mountains and states west were spared weather extremes. Californians' concern focused mostly on forecasts of more rain for the state's northern counties. The hillsides around San Francisco Bay are still waterlogged from weeks of downpours. Residents feared that devastating floods and mudflows, which killed 37 people just a week earlier, might strike again. In Idaho, there was concern about the prospect of warm chinook TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 13 === Page 37 of 278 On a snowy Manhattan sidewalk, an elderly woman checks her belongings and a dauntless jogger chooses not to trudge winds, which could thaw the state's flood-high but now frozen rivers. Boise, Idaho, wedged in a valley, had half a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, but the most worrisome weather anomaly was a fetid "inversion layer" of smog that blanketed the city. Low temperatures and a dearth of forest forage, Utah wildlife officials say, accounted for the unusual number of deer that were seen roaming cold and hungry through the streets of Salt Lake City. **THE BONE-COLD MIDWEST** The Plains states were frigid, even by local standards (-22° in Omaha and Des Moines, -29° in Fargo, North Dakota), but the cold was no real surprise. "There are towns in North Dakota," explained one NWS meteorologist, "that haven't gotten above zero since the year began." Minnesotans enjoyed a short respite midweek, but raw weather returned on Thursday, when St. Cloud's -30° set a city record for the date, and a steady snowfall covered the state. Earlier, in rural southern Minnesota, Karlie Sazama, 17, spent a long night in a car with her boyfriend Robert Schaaf, 19. But this was no teen-age frolic; the couple was stuck for 16 hours in drifting roadside snow. Said Schaaf of their survival: "We tore seat covers off the front seat and wrapped them around our heads and snuggled together." On Michigan's thinly settled Upper Peninsula, the storms were ferocious. Schools, businesses and most roads were shut down, and mail delivery stopped, as snowdrifts up to 14 ft. high froze solid. Buffeted by 50-m.p.h. winds, giant Mackinac Bridge was closed for only the third time in its history. Actually, last week's new snow was hardly noticeable atop the 3 ft. that had fallen since Dec. 30. With temperatures as low as -17°, naturally, Hell (pop. 20) was frozen over. The historic cold and 30-m.p.h. winds left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose. "We lost it," he growled. "We're frozen." In metropolitan Chicago, 16 deaths were attributed to the weather. One of the hypothermia victims was Bertha Heart, 80, who had somehow survived two previous winters without heat in her shabby South Side apartment. Peoples Gas had shut off her gas service in 1979. Explained a company spokesman: "She did not keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess of his booming business: "Everybody wants to go to Jamaica or the Bahamas." **THE SOUTH IN SHOCK** Texas, at least, made it through the cold without widespread calamity. Schools closed for much of the week, and haute Houston seemed to welcome the rare chance to preen in fur coats and fancy down parkas. Some token flakes fell on that city, and one delivery 14 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 38 of 278 boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once before." There were some real problems: power outages were widespread, the Rio Grande Valley's tomato and pepper crops were nearly wiped out. In El Paso, where the streets iced over, 126 minor car accidents occurred during one 14-hour period. Said a policeman: "It was Demolition Derby." The South in general is ill equipped to handle severe winter weather. In New Orleans, which had its coldest day in 20 years, one problem is basements: most houses do not have them, and so plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria. Public life nearly ground to a standstill in Mississippi. The main reasons: treacherously icy roads and power outages. In Alabama, 46 National Guard armories served as shelters for the thousands whose heaters were useless in the widespread blackout, and Guardsmen carted generators to remote towns. Birmingham residents were shocked enough by the -2° cold, but then the weather became positively weird: multicolored lightning flashed in the night sky. Weathermen speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have to." Two young couples in the Birmingham suburbs were heedless. Charles Early and Diane Kelley, together with Douglas, Judy and one-year-old Benjamin Jackson, went on a joyride in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Careering over the snow-covered countryside, the truck plunged into an ice-covered pond. The adults drowned immediately. The baby crawled from the wreck a dozen yards across the ice, fell into the water and died. Monday was unquestionably Georgia's coldest day of the century. But then snow and freezing rain began on Tuesday. More snow fell on Wednesday. And the day after. In Atlanta, which does not have a single municipal snowplow, the first flurries appeared at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, and immediately prompted an even more chaotic commuter scramble. Peachtree Street, the city's main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 1/4 in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7 1/2 hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher. "We're sold out of just about everything." In fact, the clamor for survival equipment was not just hysteria: 1,000 Atlanta-area homes were without heat for twelve hours. In the long run, Georgia farmers stand to suffer more than city folk. According to Thomas Irvin, the state's commissioner of agriculture, cash-crop and grazing acreage both incurred "sizable damage." Said Irvin: "A third of our farmers are already on the borderline of bankruptcy. The storms just put another nail in the coffin." The threat to Florida's $3 billion agriculture was even more substantial. Only about 20% of the state's oranges and grapefruit had been picked, and as temperatures began edging toward a hard freeze, growers made frantic efforts to save crops. Irrigation pipes in groves covered the trees with a fine, warm mist. Crews worked day and night to harvest citrus crops, helicopters hovered over celery and eggplant fields to circulate warm air, and the tempering flames of oil-fueled smudge pots burned all night long in orange-growing areas. Still the damage was severe. Almost all of the state's orange and grapefruit crops may have frozen, and the Florida citrus commission ordered a ten-day embargo on exports of fresh citrus fruit from the state to prevent the sale of spoiled produce. By the end of the week, the wholesale price of orange juice concentrate had risen by 12%, and Florida's juicing plants were operating around the clock to process the unplanned harvest of frozen fruit. Florida produce has endured cooler snaps, but the duration of last week's freeze was unprecedented. "The temperatures were just too low for too long," said Tomato Farmer Luis Rodriquez, who estimated his own loss at $1.7 million. Joe Knight of the Florida farm bureau called it "a very democratic freeze," explaining that "it hit everywhere and just about everything." Yet only one human succumbed to the Florida chill. John Thomas Williams of northern Cantonment (pop. 3,241) had been toasting his 51st birthday with friends until he wandered off for some air. He passed out in a ditch three miles from home and died the next day. IN THE NORTHEAST, THE CITIES SUFFER In Philadelphia and New York City the snow was heavy (8 in. and 9 in., respectively) and the cold unreasonable. The downtrodden and the elderly suffered most of the real pain. In Philadelphia, municipal workers cruised the cold streets in vans searching for endangered vagrants. About 25 were picked up and given shelter and breakfast in firehouses. The roundup missed one man, a "street person" who was found frozen to death after daybreak in a vacant lot downtown. The city also distributed about 250,000 gal. of heating oil to 5,000 needy households. New York, lacking fuel to give away, offered 200 heated apartments instead, for $10 a month. More than 7,000 New Yorkers daily called a city hot line with complaints about heat and hot water, and 250 inspectors responded, monitoring room temperatures and citing landlords for illegally cold apartments. Denise Gossin, 27, who lives with her two children, ages six months and two years, said that the inspectors took a 35° reading inside her two-bedroom apartment in Spanish Harlem. "If I didn't have the oven on," she said, "the whole house would be freezing. We sleep in the kitchen with sweaters on and just pray for warm weather." The city dispatched survival bundles, each including a blanket, gloves, heating pad and cocoa, to any older person who asked for one. The cold permitted one extravagant demonstration of Christian faith. A Greek Orthodox ritual, performed the week after Epiphany, requires devotees to retrieve a cross that has been tossed into the sea: last week in the frigid Atlantic Ocean off New York's Long Island, the Smudge pots fight the freeze in a Florida orange grove The damage was democratic, hurting everyone. TIME JANUARY 25 1982 === Page 39 of 278 Nation successful retriever was a teen-age boy. New Englanders would feel cheated if a winter passed without deep snow and a stern, bitter chill. Accordingly, the region's residents largely professed indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°): "This is just beautiful New England weather." Less hearty was Linda Landry, 21, a student at Boston's Northeastern University. Said she of life in an unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants. Weather forecasters were not hopeful about a quick end to the numbing of America. A new blast of supercooled Arctic air was expected to rush deep into the country early this week, once again sending temperatures toward zero and below in the Midwest, the South and the East. That might not be the last. "When it stays very cold," said NWS Meteorologist Nolan Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still a dream, one week had seemed more than enough. --By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus Policeman waves spectators away from the destruction, including sheared-off car, caused by jetliner as it hit the 14th Street Bridge # "We're Not Going to Make It" ## The roar, an eerie silence, then panic--and heroism Flurries of thick, wet snow swirled through the streets of Washington last Wednesday, clogging traffic and slowing down pedestrians to a labored trudge. As the snow piled up, Government offices and private businesses closed early and sent their workers home. By mid-afternoon, traffic on the bridges over the Potomac River that link the capital with its Virginia suburbs had already slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, Washington National Airport had just reopened after having been shut down by the snowfall for two hours. At 3:59 p.m., Air Florida's Flight 90 to Tampa, a Boeing 737 with 74 passengers aboard, began rolling down the airport's main runway for takeoff. Lloyd Creger, an administrative assistant in the Justice Department, was inching along the northbound span of the 14th Street Bridge in his Chevrolet station wagon when he heard the roar of Flight 90's engines. He thought nothing of it; hundreds of planes every day take off from National and head out over the bridge. But this time was different. Creger watched in horror as the blue-and-green jetliner suddenly appeared out of the gray mist. The plane slammed into the crowded bridge, smashed five cars and a truck and then skidded into the frozen river. "It was falling from the sky, coming right at me," recalls Creger. "It hit the bridge and just kept on going like a rock into the water." He remembers that the plane's nose was tilted up when its tail crashed into the bridge, as if the pilot "was trying like hell to get that jet up." For a moment, there was silence, and then pandemonium. Commuters watched helplessly as the plane quickly sank beneath the ice floes; only its tail remained visible. A few passengers bobbed to the surface; some clung numbly to pieces of debris while others screamed desperately for help. Scattered across the ice were pieces of green upholstery, twisted chunks of metal, luggage, a tennis racquet, a child's shoe. On the bridge, a red flatbed truck with a 20-ft. crane was knocked on its side; the arm of the crane swung over the water. Two of the cars were flattened like tin cans; a brown Ford held the body of a man who had been decapitated when the roof was sheared off by the plane. Within minutes, sirens began to wail as fire trucks, ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene. A U.S. Park Police helicopter hovered overhead to pluck survivors out of the water. Six were clinging to the plane's tail. Dangling a life preserver ring to them, the chopper began ferrying them to shore. One woman had injured her right arm, so Pilot Don Usher lowered the copter until its skids touched the water; his 16 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 40 of 278 Priscilla Tirado is helped by Fellow Passenger Joseph Stiley, but falls away from chopper rescue attempt and then is saved by Lenny Skutnik As rescue workers set off in a rubber dinghy to search for survivors in the Potomac, a helicopter flies over the body of a victim (foreground) partner, Eugene Windsor, scooped her up in his arms. Then Priscilla Tirado, 23, grabbed the preserver, but as she was being helped out of the icy river by Fellow Passenger Joseph Stiley, she lost her grip. Lenny Skutnik, a clerk for the Congressional Budget Office who was watching from the shore, plunged into the water and dragged her to land. But the most notable act of heroism was performed by one of the passengers, a balding man in his early 50s. Each time the ring was lowered, he grabbed it and passed it along to a comrade; when the helicopter finally returned to pick him up, he had disappeared beneath the ice (See ESSAY). Meanwhile, rescue workers feverishly tossed out ropes and ladders over the frozen river and launched rubber dinghies, but their efforts were hampered by floating chunks of ice. As dusk fell, searchlights were switched on, but by 5:30, officials realized the quest was in vain. Divers sent down to inspect the fuselage had discovered that nearly all of the passengers were still strapped in their seats. The toll: 78 dead, including four motorists. Only five aboard Flight 90--four passengers and a stewardess--survived the first major U.S. airline crash in 26 months. Even as the search for survivors ended, a team of 70 experts from the National Transportation Safety Board began piecing together the reasons for the disaster. One possible cause: ice on the wings and tail, which acts as a drag on the plane. That afternoon, the 737 had been swabbed twice with glycol, an anti-icing chemical, but more than 20 minutes had elapsed between the second coat and takeoff. The plane's engines may also have sucked up slush from the runway, thereby diminishing their power during the critical climb. Survivor Stiley is a pilot, and he recalls that "the plane was just too heavy as it was going down the runway." He remembers turning to his secretary in the next seat--she also survived the crash--and saying, "We're not going to make it." Investigators are mystified as to why the plane's landing gear was still down when the jetliner hit the bridge; usually the wheels are brought up immediately after takeoff. Says one aviation expert: "Flight 90 appears to have been barely airborne, and may have been staggering along at maximum power trying to get altitude." Divers plunged into the icy Potomac to retrieve the "black boxes"--the flight data and cockpit voice recorders--that were in the tail of the plane. The divers were also examining the wreckage to see how the rest of the plane, and the bodies trapped inside, should be recovered. Meanwhile, National Airport, which was closed again immediately after the crash, opened the next day. Every few minutes, a departing plane roared over the icy waters that held the wreckage of Flight 90. --By James Kelly. Reported by Maureen Dowd and Jerry Hannifin/Washington 17 === Page 41 of 278 UFO 100X Attack (Assault) # Winter aims new assault at nation By United Press International The Winter of '82 strengthened its reputation as the century's worst as a third round of storms in as many weeks Monday, targeting the Northeast after frosting 5-foot drifts with new snow in the Midwest. The latest siege has killed at least 36 people. A new Midwest snowstorm developed early Monday, threatening the Dakotas south to the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes with up to 4 more inches of snow. Temperatures hit 19 below in International Falls, Minn., and 23 below in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Other sub-zero readings chilled the nation from North Dakota across the upper Great Lakes. At least 2 inches of light snow fell Monday morning in Des Moines, Iowa, Minneapolis, parts of North Dakota and Illinois. The fast-moving weather system was expected to travel east later Monday. Professional climbers planned to search for two amateur climbers missing since Saturday night on the face of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The two apparently had no overnight equipment. The early morning temperature on the mountain was 25 below and the wind was clocked at more than 80 mph. At least 36 people have died in the continuation of the latest of three consecutive weekends of winter storms that afflicted the nation after a short thaw last week. New Hampshire was digging out from a new covering of 6 to 14 inches of snow Monday. The National Weather Service said the state has received more snow this season than in all of last winter - 59 inches recorded at Concord Airport. The total last year was 54 inches. UFO 100X Attack # Midwesterners belted by new snowstorms By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Midwesterners digging out from snow up to their belt buckles got hit by a new storm Monday. And rains moving in from the Pacific threatened more flooding in the Northwest where some towns were virtually isolated. "It's kind of an endless battle," said Vicki Jacobs, a sheriff's dispatcher in Potter County in eastern South Dakota, where blowing snow was closing highways just behind the plows. In Oregon and Washington, many roads were awash and mud slides had blocked major passes through the Cascades. Garibaldi had been almost completely cut off since Sunday morning with U.S. 101 closed on both sides of the town. "There are still countless roads that are flooded by high water, too many to mention," said state police senior trooper Roy Wilms. The National Weather Service said a storm just off the coast would produce more heavy rains during the night. Elsewhere, snow spread Monday over the upper half of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region into the Ohio Valley and the Appalachians. Temperatures dipped well below zero from North Dakota through the upper Mississippi Valley. It was 21 below in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 16 below in Bismarck, N.D., 14 below at Duluth, Minn., and 10 below in Minneapolis. Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, already struggling with 38.2 inches of snow, got another coating Monday that slickened roads again. About 5,000 homes in four counties of western Pennsylvania remained without power as the result of a week-end ice storm that cut the electricity to 70,000. On Mount Washington in New Hampshire, rescuers faced temperatures of 28 degrees below zero and winds gusting to 100 mph in a search for two climbers who have been missing on the 6,288-foot mountain since Saturday. "This is going to be a January to remember. I'm ready to toss in the towel and see what February has to offer - it can't be any worse," said Amet Figueroa, National Weather Service meteorologist at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport at Linthicum, Md. At least 19 people have been killed in the latest onslaught of severe weather. Here is a state-by-state count: Delaware 1, Illinois 1, Indiana 3, Kansas 1, Maryland 2, Minnesota 5, New York 2, Nebraska 1, Pennsylvania 2 and Virginia 1. UFO 100X Attack # Storms renew assaults on nation By United Press International Subzero cold, razor-sharp wind and steady snow made living in the Midwest and New England a test of survival Tuesday, and the mid-Atlantic coast took another beating from the third wave of 1982's record-breaking storms. The latest onslaught is blamed for at least 48 deaths. Drifts piled to dangerous levels in mountainous areas of New England, setting off avalanches that killed a rescue worker on Mount Washington, New Hampshire's highest peak. He and other rescuers had battled 94 mph wind that dropped the wind chill factor to 110 below zero in an unsuccessful search for two amateur ice climbers missing since Saturday night. In Minnesota, where 13 deaths have been attributed to the storm, a low of 22 below zero was predicted for Tuesday and a high of 20 to 25 was considered a blessing. "You don't have to get very warm to consider it a thaw after what we've been through," a weather spokesman said. Up to 4 inches of snow fell on top of the 3 feet of snow in Minnesota, boosting the season snowfall to 73.6 inches, and up to 3 inches blanketed other parts of the Midwest and the Ohio Valley. "If all we get is normal snowfall in February and March, I'd say the chances are good we'll exceed the record" of 88.9 inches in 1950, said Twin Cities meteorologist John Graff. Rain was the problem in Northern Oregon, which remained coated with debris from weekend mudslides. More rain and gale force winds gusting to 50 mph were expected Tuesday. A 20-year-old man was fatally injured in a slide of mud, rocks and snow at Mount Baldy, Calif., officials said Monday. Western Washington had flood and gale wind warnings. Pennsylvania was expecting near-zero temperatures and as much as 2 inches of snow, while about 3,000 people suffered for the third day Monday without electricity. === Page 42 of 278 2 for 100 X Attack A22 3M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JANUARY 24, 1982 # Record snowfall, cold, wind keep good share of nation in deep freeze By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A record blizzard born during a historic winter buried parts of the Midwest in waist-deep snow and whipped up 9-foot drifts Saturday, while power lines and trees limbs snapped and a DC-10 jetliner skidded off a runway in an ice storm in the East. The World Airways jet was landing as snow turned into freezing rain at Boston's Logan Airport in 34-degree weather. The plane came to rest partially submerged in Boston Harbor; but authorities said all aboard were safe. Snowslides closed three main passes in the state of Washington, and warm chinook winds gusted to 97 mph on the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies. Snowplow crews had to free 2,000 people trapped since Friday morning by avalanches at Utah ski resorts. Two deaths were blamed on the weather, one in Virginia and one in Indiana. More than 300 people were killed in a 10-day cold wave that hit the Rockies late last week. It put the hammer down across much of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan with up to 20 inches of windblown snow on top of record amounts that fell earlier. The Midwest was practically shut down. Thousands of travelers were stranded, and some were missing. Snowmobiles went to the rescue of about 200 motorists trapped on a Michigan highway. "There are all kinds of cars on the roads, and there's just no way to get to them," said police Sgt. Duane Girard in Calumet, Mich., as winds gusting to 65 mph piled deep drifts across highways. In South Dakota, where up to 20 inches of snow fell, travel was forbidden in much of the state. Authorities in Vermillion said any drivers who ventured onto the roads would be arrested. Accumulations ranged from 20 inches to more than 40 inches across Minnesota, and many roads were blocked in the northern part of the state. "They're recording snow up there over the hoods of cars," said Sgt. Donald Woodson of the Minnesota State Patrol's communications office in St. Paul. The All-American Championship Dogsled Race at Ely in northern Minnesota was canceled due to drifting snow. The blizzard came on the heels of two previous weekends of record sub-zero cold in the Midwest, brought on by a different system of frigid and dry air swooping down from the polar regions. "Along with the cold, this has been an extreme winter," said Mike Streib, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. "We're talking about 100-year-old records being broken." Forecasters predicted another three days of snow in Minnesota, where record snowfalls during the past three days had brought the total for January to 44.1 inches in Minneapolis, less than 6 inches shy of the city's average for an entire year. The 17.4 inches of snow that had fallen at Fargo, N.D., in a 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m. Saturday was the second heaviest in history, just short of the 19.2 inches in December 1927. Authorities were looking for six travelers missing in North Dakota. In Sioux City, Iowa, 17.6 inches of snow fell during the night, bringing the total for January to 28.8 inches and eclipsing the all-time snowfall record for a single month -- 27.3 inches in March 1912. Supermarkets and liquor stores were jammed with people stocking up for a weekend of blizzard parties and the Super Bowl. The new storm system, which was controlling the weather over the eastern two-thirds of the nation, caused flooding of some roads in southern Illinois and southern Indiana, where a 16-year-old girl was swept to her death in a swollen stream. Sleet, snow and freezing rain spread from northern Illinois across Pennsylvania and New York into Massachusetts, where up to 12 inches of snow was expected. About 2,000 homes lost power in Waltham when a car slammed into a utility pole. An ice storm knocked out power to thousands of residents of Erie and Crawford counties in western Pennsylvania and glazed Pittsburgh streets. "We got hit pretty bad," said police officer Max Fontaine in Latrobe, Pa. "Trees are down. Power lines are down." In the 24 hours that ended at 2 a.m. Saturday, Minneapolis got 18.5 inches of snow to beat the all-time record of 17.1 inches for a daylong snowfall that had just been set Wednesday. Long lines developed at grocery stores. "I've never seen anything like it," said a manager at an Applebaum's store in Minneapolis. "I've got a store full of people -- more than I can service. People are buying large orders, like they plan on staying home all weekend, having a banquet and watching the Super Bowl." === Page 43 of 278 2 Oregon Journal, January 23, 1982 (2) # Record snow ices Midwest; freezing rain adds to woes "Perhaps the most intense storm" of the blockbuster winter of '82 sent a blizzard howling across the Midwest, burying Minneapolis with a record 35 inches of snow in two days. The Twin Cities braced for more snow Saturday. At least nine deaths nationwide were blamed on the weather since Wednesday. Wind as high as 60 mph whipped the Northern Plains, where temperatures lingered near zero. Freezing rain fell from Iowa to Ohio and winter storm warnings were posted for Saturday over the Great Lakes, the central Appalachians and the Mid-Atlantic states. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Southern Illinois and temperatures in portions of the state were forecast to fall to 10 below zero by Sunday. Revelers at this weekend's Super Bowl in the Detroit area face treacherous driving because of freezing rain and snow Saturday that snarled traffic, closed roads and left many fans unable to attend the pre-game events. Rescue crews worked Saturday to clear debris stranding about 3,000 skiers at a Utah resort where more than a dozen avalanches rumbled down the slopes Friday after a 4-foot snowfall. No injuries were reported. Nearly 200 schools were closed Friday, employers sent their workers home and traffic was stalled from South Dakota to Minnesota. Norfolk, Neb., was buried under 15 inches of snow. But Southern states tied and set high temperature records, with McAllen, Texas, reporting 91 degrees for the nation's hot spot. Heavy thunderstorms pounded the south-central states with high wind, hail and heavy rain. More than 2 inches of rain soaked some areas of Kentucky and Tennessee and large hail pelted Red Bay, Ala. A tornado watch was posted over much of the region. The National Weather Service described the blizzard in the Midwest as "perhaps the most intense storm" of the season. The Twin Cities were buried Friday under 18 inches of snow -- about 1½ inches an hour -- in a record-setting snowfall that broke the 17-inch mark set only the day before. The cities closed down early Friday because of the record snow. Schools closed by 1 p.m. and by midafternoon downtown Minneapolis streets were deserted, although hotels began filling up. Conceding defeat to the furious storm Friday, the Transportation Department in southern Minnesota pulled snowplows off highways. A snow-ice-thunderstorm dumped more than an inch of snow an hour on central and northeast Nebraska, knocking out powerlines and closing schools and businesses in Omaha. The same storm choked traffic across Iowa. Illinois residents fought another onslaught of ice, snow, freezing rain, sleet, fog, thunderstorms and slowly falling temperatures. # Snow on 75% of N. America WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Satellite observations show 75 percent of North America was covered by snow at some point last week, scientists say. "Never during the 15 years of monitoring snow cover by satellite has so much of North America been covered by snow so early in the season," reported Donald Wiesnet and Michael Matson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Earth Satellite Service. 1/23/82 === Page 44 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Fierce new storm knifes into Midwest By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 1/23/82 High winds and heavy snow from a fierce new storm knifed into the Midwest Friday, forcing schools to close and cutting visibility to near zero. Blizzard warnings were posted in Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, and forecasters urged residents to stock up on food. Minnesotans socked by a record one-day snowfall of 17.1 inches in the Twin Cities area Wednesday received even more snow Friday. Fourteen inches of new snow smothered Norfolk, Neb., 12 inches were reported in Elk Point, S.D., almost that much was recorded in Rochester, Minn., and more than 8 inches fell in Minneapolis. Forecasters said Friday's storm was the worst in 20 years to hit Sioux City, Iowa, where 11 inches of snow fell by early afternoon. The storm has the potential of being the worst of an already bitter winter, the National Weather Service said. Residents of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were warned that the dangerous storm was heading their way. "It's pretty hazardous driving, and we're telling people that travel is not recommended," said Sgt. Ed Pearson of the Nebraska State Patrol after the storm blew in on the heels of freak winter thunderstorms and blanketed highways with ice and snow. The weather service cautioned residents of North Dakota not to travel without survival gear: "Stalled motorists in open country could find themselves in extreme danger." Two thousand skiers were stranded by an avalanche in Utah. Snow drifts piled up over secondary highways. The snow was expected to bring overnight lows of well below zero to some Northern states. Temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling 27 below zero in Saranac Lake, N.Y., 15 below in Powell, Wyo., and 32 below in Great Falls, Mont. Overnight lows of 15 below were forecast in South Dakota, and winds in the western part of that state were gusting to 37 mph. Schools were closed in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Winter storm warnings were posted throughout the northern Plains into the Great Lakes and northern Ohio River Valley, including Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska, and into Virginia. Forecasters said Pontiac, Mich., this year's Super Bowl city, would be hit by the storm and up to 5 inches of snow late Friday. By kickoff time Sunday, wind, scattered snow and lows of zero to 5 were expected outside the Silverdome. A tornado watch was posted for parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A tornado dipped into a store parking lot in Hot Springs, Ark., Friday, damaging several cars and nearby homes but causing no serious injuries. Winter storm watches were issued for snow in New Hampshire, which was expecting to get the storm Saturday. A state Highway Department accountant, Paul Plante, said his snow removal budget "really has taken a beating in a winter marked by record cold and heavy snows." UFOs 100X Attack # Blizzards besiege much of Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press 1/25/82 A blizzard kept much of Michigan immobilized Sunday, and chinook winds gusting to 140 mph damaged homes in Colorado. The Michigan blizzard, which set more records in the Snow Belt, spared Pontiac, where 80,000 Super Bowl fans were oblivious to the storm. Elsewhere, a surprise snowstorm that darted out of Canada at 60 mph quickly built drifts and closed roads in central and western North Dakota. Temperatures dropped to 21 degrees below zero in Minneapolis, which was digging out from a record layer of 38.2 inches of snow. The blizzard that had swept out of the Rockies last week and spread up to 40 inches of snow across the Midwest had moved into Canada but still was punishing the Great Lakes region and northern New England with wind-blown snow. At least 14 people have been killed in the storm. With three-fourths of the United States covered with snow, subzero temperatures were posted across the upper Missouri River Valley to the upper Mississippi Valley and the western Great Lakes. Readings of 20 to 30 degrees below zero were seen across North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Many highways across the Midwest remained impassable although the snow had stopped. Sunday, warm chinook winds whipped through the foothills of northern Colorado, downing power lines, unroofing at least one house and damaging a mobile home north of Fort Collins. No injuries were reported. Jim Wishbourn, a private meteorologist in Fort Collins, where the temperature rose to 57, said several areas north and west of that city had wind gusts in excess of 100 mph. Wishbourn said power was knocked out in several areas, including Wellington north of Fort Collins. Wondervu, southwest of Boulder, Colo., reported a gust of 140 mph, Wishbourn said. === Page 45 of 278 40a 100X Attack # Winter's miseries spread coast-to-coast A platoon of coast-to-coast storms bombarded the North with up to 25 inches of snow, rain and ice, stopping only to gather a head of steam for another march across the nation's midsection Friday. Even areas without snow or rain were miserably cold. Hundreds of traffic accidents were reported from the mid-Atlantic coast to northern California, and school closings by now are routine. A double blow of storms -- one from the Rockies and one from the South -- was predicted for the Northern Plains and Midwest to the mid-Atlantic Friday. At least seven deaths were blamed on the latest salvo that began Wednesday, one each in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, Indiana and Missouri, and two in California. Heavy snow spread from the northern Rockies into the northern Plains Thursday, while temperatures remained in the sub-zero range in Montana and North Dakota. Light snow spread into Nebraska and Iowa, but Michigan had up to 8 inches. Northern Arizona was one of the hardest-hit areas, reporting 25 inches of snow in Williams and 20 in Flagstaff. A bus filled with elementary school children was stranded on snow-covered roads in Sedona, south of Flagstaff, and several children had to stay at schools because roads home were blocked. Crystal Carr, 10 months old, was killed Thursday when the car in which she was riding slid out of control and struck another car on an icy Indianapolis street. The latest in a series of winter storms dumped up to 7 inches of fresh snow on Maryland, causing a host of traffic accidents including one that killed a 58-year-old man. President Reagan had planned to fly into Baltimore's Druid Hill Park Thursday for an industrial park tour and meetings with 15 mayors and business leaders, but it was scratched because of weather. A freak storm dumped a foot of snow on Snohomish County in western Washington, leaving surrounding areas virtually untouched. Rare winter thunderstorms battered Nebraska with snow, sleet and freezing rain. A Lincoln Electric System official said the thunderstorms produced lightning bursts bright enough to trigger photoelectric cells in the city street light system, shutting off street lights in some parts of the city. Oreg J 1/22/82 40a 100X Attack # 7 die as result of California storm By The Associated Press Oreg J 1/22/82 A storm blew out of the West Thursday after dumping up to 3 feet of snow on the mountains of Southern California, while in the East, a lingering snowstorm closed schools and forced President Reagan to cancel a visit to Baltimore. At least seven people died in the California storm, which hit lower elevations with rain and hail before moving east. Ski resorts were struggling to reopen roads so they could welcome weekend crowds. In Northern California, up to 2 inches of rain fell on communities ravaged by mud slides earlier this month, but no new problems were reported. The snow spread into the north-central regions, closing roads and snarling traffic in parts of Utah and causing storm warnings to be posted through the Rockies and into the Dakotas. Dense fog and grainy snow in Oklahoma prevented flights from landing at Will Rogers World Airport and Tinker Air Force Base for much of the day. Minneapolis, digging out from a record 17.1-inch snowfall in a 14-hour period ended Wednesday, received light snow Thursday and was bracing for another heavy onslaught Friday. Despite temperatures below zero in Montana and other extreme Northern states, most of the nation got a break from days of bitter cold blamed for the deaths of more than 300 people from Jan. 9-20. Two to 7 inches of new snow smothered parts of Maryland and Delaware. Five inches fell in Baltimore, forcing Reagan to cancel a visit to an industrial park. All Maryland school systems canceled classes except those in Garrett County, which delayed opening. The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis opened late. Circuit courts were closed in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties, and district courts in Baltimore shut down. Less than an inch fell in New York City during the morning, covering dingy snow piles along sidewalks with a fresh white blanket. Two to 4 inches of snow were predicted. Many motorists, eager to leave the driving to someone else, tried to pack onto Conrail commuter trains in New York City's northern suburbs. Because of extreme cold earlier this week, some cars were out of service and the trains were already crowded, Conrail said. === Page 46 of 278 UFOs 100x Attack # Twin Cities buried in record snowfall By DAVID L. LANGFORD 1/21/82 A record snowfall of more than a foot in eight hours buried Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., as a new batch of storms went to work Wednesday across the country. California was pounded with violent winds, rains and golf ball-sized hail. Heavy snow fell in the Rockies and slippery slush was spread along the Eastern Seaboard. A tornado ripped up trees and tore the roof off a house in suburban Hacienda Heights, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, and a 13-year-old boy was cut by flying glass. "The heavens opened up and chunks of ice came slamming into us," said Barney Brantingham, a resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., where the big hail hit. "I came out this morning and there were just rips, holes, punched in my convertible top, a dozen of them. One guy is out on the plaza with his motorcycle helmet on picking up the hail." More than 12.6 inches of snow fell in the eight hours ending at 1 p.m. in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The dry, fluffy snow fell in a strip 10 to 15 miles wide across the middle of the state as temperatures hovered in the teens. Temperatures remained generally below zero across the Northern Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley into parts of New England as the death toll nationwide reached 304 in almost two weeks of severe cold since Jan. 9. The East Coast's third snowstorm in a week, which came with warming temperatures, made highways dangerously slick across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. "It seems the whole world was involved in an accident this morning," said Caroline Kelly, a spokeswoman at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, N.J. "We've had a lot of people in here with little accidents this morning, and all around 8 a.m." The snowstorm, which developed over the southern Rockies and produced heavy snow in the mountains of Nevada and Colorado, was expected to move northeastward and threaten the upper Midwest and the middle Atlantic Coast region. Another arctic air mass was expected to swoop down from Canada. Record high temperatures in the South Tuesday burned off the record cold week but left Atlanta's airport socked in by fog Tuesday night. Flights returned to normal Wednesday morning. Snow driven by winds forced officials to close a several hours during the 72-mile stretch across California and Oregon. A small plane crashed in the Carbon Canyon area. The storm dumped more than 10 inches of snow on San Francisco, and many residents were without power. UFOs 6 Projects # Sicily blacked out PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -- A strike by state electric company workers blacked out the island of Sicily Wednesday, idling industrial plants and disrupting traffic. Telex communications to Italy and some Middle Eastern nations were cut during the blackout, which lasted up to nine hours on some parts of the Mediterranean island. Personnel of all electric power plants on Sicily walked out to protest a hiring freeze by the Enel electric company pending government appropriations. More than 65,000 people recently applied for 205 new jobs with Enel. 1/21/82 UFOs 100x Attack # Furious snow hits Midwest, California By United Press International 1/21/82 Snowstorms came down with a fury Thursday from the Plains to the Pacific shore, burying southern Minnesota under its worst snowfall in history -- more than 17 inches -- and bringing California snowplows out of mothballs for the first time in years. All snowfall records were broken in Minnesota by a blinding storm that passed over the upper Mississippi Valley and upper Great Lakes Wednesday. The National Weather Service said more snow was on its way and warned of blizzard-like conditions. Snow and hail also pelted the San Francisco area and surprised residents Wednesday. Four inches of snow covered Napa County above 700 feet, briefly cutting off the town of Angwin from the outside world. The last time snowplows were used to clear roads in the area was four years ago. Heavy fog shrouded Arkansas, Tennessee, and the western and central Gulf Coast states on Thursday, and winter storm warnings and watches were posted for Utah, Montana, New Mexico, the southern California mountains and northern Arizona, where heavy snow and high wind may cause near-blizzard conditions. Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are used to snow, but Wednesday's record 17.1 inches nearly paralyzed the city. The snowfall battered the record from a single storm of 16.8 inches set on Nov. 11-12, 1940, in the great Armistice Day blizzard. Wednesday's storm also topped the 24-hour record of 16.2 inches set the same year and broke the record for the heaviest amount ever in January, bettering the old mark of 15.8 inches set Jan. 25, 1917. In California, steady rain fell throughout the day Wednesday on an 11-county disaster area south of San Francisco and was expected to continue through Thursday. A levee break was reported in farmland east of Antioch, Calif. Residents fled seven homes in Inverness, Calif., because of new flood danger. Another nine homes in Santa Cruz County were evacuated because of possible mudslides. === Page 47 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Major fresh mudslides add to California woes OHY J 1/20/82 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Mudslides, snow and day-long rain closed roads and snarled traffic throughout Northern California. Residents fear predicted rain will bring more slides. "Apparently the storm was light enough that rain hasn't caused any major problems so far," said Mike Campbell, spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. A major new mudslide Tuesday blocked Highway 299, the major east-west link in Humboldt County, and could take up to two weeks to clear, officials said. The slide, as big as a 10-story building and carrying rocks as big as pickup trucks, covered the road 27 miles east of Eureka. Snow and snarled traffic forced the California Highway Patrol late Tuesday to close a 70-mile strip of Interstate 5, the major link between California and Oregon, between Weed and Yreka. Subsurface slipouts along coastal Highway 1 closed lanes in Mendocino County, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near Westport. Minor mudslides closed Highway 1 at Stinson Beach in Marin County, and a small mudslide on the Waldo Grade shut down one lane of the Marin County approach to the Golden Gate Bridge early Wednesday. Two small landslides hit near Nicasio dam and Shasta Bridge at Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin, but no property damage was reported. Another cold storm was moving southeast Wednesday out of the Gulf of Alaska and headed along the West Coast, the National Weather Service said. It is expected to keep rain falling along the coast through Thursday. The prospect of continued rain came as bad news to weather-weary residents in the 11-county disaster area around San Francisco. "We're praying for it to stop, but we've heard we're going to get 4 inches," said Ben Lomond Fire Chief Mike Smith. The Santa Cruz County town was the hardest hit by the mud and flooding two weeks ago. An unusual dusting of snow also prompted spot highway closings in the higher elevations of San Mateo to the South of San Francisco. "There's not that much snow, it's just that people don't know how to drive in it," a sheriff's deputy said. Hail and snow in the San Francisco Bay Area hills briefly forced officials to close busy Highway 17 over the summit between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Bad weather also closed Highway 9 in Santa Cruz County. UFOs 100X Attack # Minus-148 ices Newfoundland OHY J 1/20/82 ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (UPI) -- Unbearable cold and gusts that lowered the wind chill factor to minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit Wednesday held residents captive for the second day under a state of emergency. Air travel was suspended and schools and offices were closed throughout most of Newfoundland and in many parts of Nova Scotia because of the severe winter weather. Forecasters said the wind would decrease Wednesday but that temperatures were not expected to return to normal before Thursday. By then, problems may be compounded by a storm expected to bring moderate to heavy snowfalls. Newfoundland's northern affairs minister, Joseph Goudie, declared the state of emergency Tuesday. At least 2,200 people in the iron mining town of Labrador City, 640 miles northeast of Quebec City, kept warm in schools and church halls after the power failure made iceboxes out of their electrically heated mobile homes. Goudie said it will be another day or two before electricity is fully restored to the community that registered a temperature of minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit and wind chill factor of minus 148 degrees. He said the 70-mph winds that broke hydro poles and snapped transmission lines in Labrador City Monday had "eased a bit" but frigid conditions still hampered efforts to restore power to the trailer park at the edge of town. At one point more than half of Labrador City's 6,000 homes were without electricity, but Goudie said power was restored to all areas except the trailer park by late Tuesday. === Page 48 of 278 THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1982 # Cold weather causes paralysis in Northeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The worst cold wave of the century shifted its grip to the Northeast Monday, stranding thousands of city commuters as trains quit running and cars refused to start in temperatures at record lows. Temperatures were on the rise in the Midwest and the Deep South, hard hit last week, but more extreme cold may be on the way. The National Weather Service forecast below-normal temperatures across the eastern two-thirds of the nation during the next 30 days. At least 283 deaths have been attributed to the polar air mass that first pushed into the country Jan. 9 and dealt cities such as Chicago, Milwaukee and Akron, Ohio, their coldest temperatures since the weather service started keeping track. The cold wave set record lows for the date Monday from Pennsylvania through New England, where Chester, Mass., posted a minus 34. Millions of Americans trying to get back to work after a largely snowbound weekend found the going rough. Thousands of commuters were stranded in temperatures hovering around zero at the morning rush hour in New York, Boston and Philadelphia as the bitter cold disabled subways and trains and caused switches to stick. Thousands of autos also refused to operate. An automobile club in Philadelphia said it got 4,700 trouble calls Sunday alone. In Boston, another auto association had received 1,780 calls by noon Monday to start dead cars. A spokesman said, "It's been a record day." New York City authorities had received more than 13,700 calls since Saturday from people complaining of no heat in their apartments. In Tennessee, the Memphis International Airport was closed for the first time in at least 19 years when freezing rain glazed the runways. Memphis police reported hundreds of accidents. Elsewhere across the South, many schools remained closed, but temperatures were slowly climbing. Workmen in Atlanta were busy rounding up hundreds of abandoned cars and fixing water pipes that burst when temperatures dipped as low as 5 degrees below zero. UFO 100x Attack # Worst cold spell of century continues to plague nation By United Press International A solid arctic freeze, the worst of the century, kept its lock on the beleaguered Northeast and Great Lakes Tuesday, literally bursting thermometers and glazing roads as far south as Arkansas. At least 308 deaths were blamed on the weather. The middle part of the nation began a welcome thaw. Just as it dug out from earlier onslaughts, the mid-Atlantic Coast braced for snow, sleet and freezing rain Tuesday, while unstable air brought showers and snow to the Pacific Coast. Sub-zero temperatures continued to plague the Northeast and readings below freezing stretched from the northern Rockies to the Atlantic Coast. Blowing snow plagued Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Michigan, but temperatures began to rise, with highs in the 40s predicted Tuesday in areas that had readings of minus 25 during the weekend. The history-making arctic blast that stayed into its second week was blamed for at least 33 deaths in Illinois alone--more than in any other state. In Maine's Baxter State Park near the town of Millinocket, searchers using helicopters and an ambulance sled rescued a group of nine cross-country skiers and another man caught outdoors in the 40-below-zero temperatures. Four were suffering from severe frostbite and one had a minor case of frostbite. Another group of eight skiers was stranded in a ranger's cabin overnight. With wind gusting to 90 mph, the wind chill factor was 100 degrees below zero. "It was so cold that the mercury was down four clapboards on the house," said Charles Maddison, the town supervisor in the Adirondack hamlet of Newcomb, N.Y. A low Monday of 30 degrees below zero made it the coldest spot in the state. New York City was the only spot in the state that did not have a minus reading, but it still broke a 107-year-old record for Dec. 18 with a low of zero in Central Park. An unofficial weather observer in Embarrass, Minn., reported his thermometer showed 44 below when he went to bed Saturday night. The thermometer was broken when he got up Sunday morning. The NWS reported temperatures of 52 below in the northeastern area of the Great Lakes state. Remnants of the arctic blast held on in Tennessee, Arkansas and parts of Missouri. Freezing drizzle glazed Shelby County roads and forced the Memphis International Airport to close for the first time in 19 years. Little Rock, Ark., was stunned by a drizzle that suddenly turned roads into ice traps. Traffic slid to a virtual halt, schools were called off at the last minute and police scrambled to keep up with accidents. "It's a total, absolute emergency," said Lt. Bert Jenkins of the Little Rock police department. "Cars are everywhere--sideways, backwards." Record lows also were set in Rhode Island with minus 9, Maine tied a 1971 record at minus 28 and Connecticut had a minus 5. === Page 49 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # 'Siberian Express' thrashes Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press otey 1/17/82 A surge of polar cold nicknamed the Siberian Express blew into the frozen Midwest with paralyzing blizzards Saturday, and the mercury sank to painful lows deep into the Sun Belt. The frigid winds sent the chill factor to 80 degrees below zero in places, and the death toll reached 251 in a wintry assault that began writing weather history last weekend. "It is one of the most severe outbreaks of cold weather mid-America has seen since the 1800s," said meteorologist Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. While temperatures Saturday stopped shy of last weekend's records, such as the all-time low of 26 below in Chicago, readings were close to 30 degrees below zero across parts of Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, with wind chills below zero as far south as San Antonio, Texas. More than 120,000 people remained without power in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Freezing rain closed many highways again in north Georgia, and snow fell in the Texas Panhandle. Snow was common from the Great Lakes across the Ohio Valley into the Northeast, where New York City got its third snowfall in four days. A blizzard with winds of 50 mph closed highways and caused many traffic accidents across central and northern Indiana, Ohio and southern Michigan, where 11 inches of snow fell at Frankfort. Blowing snow was causing headaches for the Ohio Department of Transportation, trying to keep open the state's 16,000 miles of highways. "We can plow a highway and 15 minutes later it'll be the same condition it was," said David V. Finley, a department spokesman. Freezing temperatures and snowstorms made Ohio highway maintenance nearly impossible, and authorities asked people to stay off the road. Seventeen motorists were treated for minor injuries after a 25-car pileup on Cleveland's Shoreway, which runs along Lake Erie. Blowing snow also shut off many highways in South Dakota, where the mercury dropped to 24 below at Rapid City, Murdo, Aberdeen and Milbank. In South Bend, Ind., snowplows that tried to open the streets were called back by midday, and officials said they would not try again until 24 hours after the snow had died down. Michigan officials declared a state of emergency in Charlevoix County and urged everyone to stay off the roads. "The back roads are completely closed," said Earl Muma, the county's emergency services director. "The main trunk lines are completely closed." "The snow is coming down in buckets," said Robert Sullivan, a dispatcher at the Benzie County sheriff's office. Wind gusts of 30 mph with the temperature at minus 18 made the wind chill factor 74 below zero in Rockford, Ill. Chicago reported a wind chill of 67 below. Icy roads caused a pileup of 20 to 30 cars on the Southfield Freeway in suburban Detroit. Police also reported about a dozen smashups on Interstate 94 on Detroit's east side. In Atlanta, where thousands of cars were abandoned in a storm of freezing rain and snow Tuesday, the slush partially melted Friday and froze over again during the night, touching off another round of accidents. "We had more accidents tonight than all day Tuesday," said DeKalb County police spokesman Chuck Johnson. UFOs 100 X Attack # N. England rattled otey 1/19/82 CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A moderate earthquake rattled dishes and shook objects from shelves Monday in northern New England, and some people said they at first thought their furnaces had exploded. Police and civil defense officials reported no injuries or serious damage. The worst physical effect of the 7:15 p.m. quake -- widespread disruptions in telephone service in New Hampshire -- resulted not from the quake but from a flood of calls after it, New England Telephone Co. officials said. "When the quake hit, everyone went to their phone to find out what happened," said utility spokesman Peter Kovach. "The machines (switching equipment) seized, and no one got through." The state civil defense office reported power outages in Campton and Claremont. Monday's tremor also was felt in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New York state and Vermont. The National Earthquake Information Service at Golden, Colo., said the quake registered 4.8 on the Richter scale and seemed to be centered near Franklin, N.H. === Page 50 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 18, 1982 # Frigid Midwestern icebox begins to warm U for 100 X Attack By United Press International Arctic cold that set 20th century temperature records for a second straight weekend began to crack in the Midwest Monday and was replaced by a below-freezing "warming trend" and blustery snow. Sub-zero chill moved into the Northeast, setting more record lows. Temperatures moderated over the north-central part of the nation, with readings ranging from 10 to 30 degrees warmer than Sunday. Authorities blamed the cold wave for 276 deaths. A 107-year-old record was broken in New York early Monday when the temperature dropped to zero for the second morning in a row, contributing to a snarl-up on the city's commuter rail system initially caused by an equipment shortage. The Midwest got a heavy dose of blowing snow Sunday and wind up to 136 mph roared down the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies. In Boulder, Colo., the worst windstorm in a decade gusted up to 136 mph and peeled back roofs, shattered windows and ripped down power lines feeding about 10,000 homes. Most of the 15 people injured were hurt by flying glass. Officials estimated 40 percent of the homes, businesses and public buildings in the city received at least some damage. Temperatures plunged to record lows for the 20th century in Ohio, Wisconsin and New York State. On Sunday, the zero temperatures in New York City made it the coldest day of the year and were believed responsible for the death of a fully clothed 2-month-old infant. The child was dead in his family's unheated apartment in the Bronx several hours after his mother put him to bed. Police said the victim, Michael Cruz, apparently froze to death. The coldest official reading in New York State Sunday was minus 19 at Slide Mountain in the Catskills. Zero and sub-zero temperatures hung on Monday from the Great Lakes to Pennsylvania and New England. Shortly before midnight Sunday, the mercury at Chicago climbed back above zero for the first time in nearly two days, while in southern South Dakota, sub-zero readings were replaced by 20s and low 30s. Light snow was scattered from Minnesota through the Great Lakes into western Pennsylvania, while rain-weary San Francisco Bay area residents hoped a new Pacific front would continue to speed by without dropping measurable precipitation. Officials fear even mild showers might loosen more killer mudslides. In Iowa, where three people died due to weekend cold, the latest cold wave let up early Monday, but along with southerly wind came snow. Minus 5 readings in the nation's capital Sunday -- the first below-zero temperature in Washington in 47 years -- forced rescuers to abandon efforts to recover any more victims of an Air Florida 737 jetliner crash in the Potomac last Wednesday that killed 78 people. Subzero temperatures were recorded in Birmingham, Ala., for only the fifth time since 1895 with a reading of 1 below. Tennessee records were set at Nashville, 11 below; Memphis, zero; and Chattanooga, minus 2. Temperatures in the upper teens and 20s hit the Gulf Coast states, leaving icicles in the Florida Panhandle. An all-time low of 26 below zero was recorded in Milwaukee Sunday. One week earlier the mercury fell to 25 below, tying the record low set Jan. 9, 1875. Tower, Minn., shivered at 52 below and International Falls, Minn., recorded 45 below. About 2 inches of snow fell from the upper Mississippi Valley into the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Travelers advisories were in effect for southeastern Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, western lower Michigan, northern Indiana and southeast of Lakes Erie and Ontario. "You can officially call it a warming trend," a National Weather Service spokesman said of increasing temperatures Monday in the East and Midwest. "But the temperatures won't be getting above freezing." In contrast, high temperature records were equaled in the Southwest, where just last week the first snow in years had cities scrambling to keep going. ore J 1/18/82 === Page 51 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # Fast-moving storm slams into Midwest By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 1/16/82 A fast-moving wave of snow and bitter cold sliced into the Midwest Friday, forcing snowplows off the streets in Minnesota and school buses to turn back in Nebraska. In the South, thousands of workers tried to dig their cities out from under a double blanket of snow. The National Weather Service said the Canadian cold wave was expected to be at least as bad as the one that plunged the nation into a deep freeze last weekend with the lowest temperatures of the century. That cold began a week of severe weather blamed for the deaths of 218 people. Cities from the Dakotas to Illinois were warned to expect record-breaking lows. Overnight lows were expected to range from 20 below to 45 below across the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. "People should have groceries, fuel and essential supplies on hand to last up to a week," said Ken Schriner of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, chairman of the county board of supervisors. Snow in the upper Midwestern states was driven by vicious winds gusting to 60 mph, cutting visibility. Blizzard conditions were reported in Montana and western Minnesota. Every school within 40 miles of New Ulm, Minn., was closed, and snowplows were ordered off the streets in Worthington, Minn., because of the weather. Both towns are in the southern third of the state. In Iowa, the weather service urged businesses to let workers go home early. The temperature hit 11 below zero at Cut Bank, Mont., and wind chill factors of 70 below were reported in some parts of the state. A storm hit in Nebraska so suddenly that buses taking children to school in Bartlett were ordered to turn around and take them home. "Get off the highways," said South Dakota Highway Patrol Lt. Jim Jorgenson. "We don't have enough people or facilities to get out there for people who get into trouble by not heeding the good advice about travel conditions." "We're going to see a rerun of last weekend," said Dean Nesley of the weather service in Minnesota, referring to days of subzero temperatures and winds that combined to make a wind chill factor of 50 below to 100 below. The cold was expected to move into the South by Sunday, bad news for states socked by two snowstorms in as many days. In Atlanta, the mercury hit 13 degrees just before midnight Thursday, breaking an 1893 record for the date. Power lines were snapped by snow- and ice-laden trees in the storms that left up to 7 inches of snow on the streets of cities accustomed to more moderate winter temperatures. More than 320,000 people in Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama remained without power Friday morning, and utility companies hauled in workers from across the Deep South in an effort to restore heat and light to homes. "Some lines in those areas were so badly damaged that we're practically having to rebuild the system," said Alabama Power spokesman Ed Crosby. Meanwhile, schools and businesses remained closed as 2,000 workers labored to clear Alabama roads. The storm left 5 inches of snow on New York City and Boston as it moved from the South up the East Coast. Syracuse, N.Y., got 2.6 more inches of snow to give it 79.6 inches so far this winter, more than the total 79 inches of last winter, with two winter months left. Seven inches of snow blanketed the streets of Richmond, Va., which was preparing to inaugurate Charles S. Robb, son-in-law of former President Lyndon Johnson, as governor. State crews cleared streets in Capitol Square, where the ceremonies are to be held Saturday despite predictions of more snow. Norfolk International Airport closed for four hours Thursday night to clean away snow and ice. Ken Scott, executive director of the port and industrial authority, said he believed airlines were "being extra cautious" because of the crash in Washington, D.C.. In Raleigh, N.C., businesses and government office were closed for much of the morning Friday as crews cleared 5-7 inches of snow from the streets. The University of North Carolina called off classes at many branches, and most public schools were dark. === Page 52 of 278 Wind in Colorado 137 mph UFOs 100X Attack oreg 1/18/82 Record cold hits 'icebox' Midwest Powerful chinook winds gusting to 137 mph Sunday wrecked homes and businesses in Colorado, while persistent Arctic cold dropped temperatures to all-time lows in some Midwestern cities. The death toll reached 263 in more than a week of harsh winter weather, called the coldest of the century. No serious injuries were reported from Colorado's chinook winds, which warmed Denver's temperature from 22 degrees to 56 degrees in 3 1/2 hours during the night. Milwaukee, at 26 degrees below zero, suffered its coldest day since the National Weather Service started keeping records 111 years ago, as temperatures fell below zero from Dixie to New England and across the Midwest. The mercury dipped to 22 below at Akron, Ohio, breaking the record of minus 21 set in 1963. Thousands of people were without power and many highways were impassable across the Midwest. Many people spent the night in emergency shelters. The mercury hit 5 below zero in Washington, D.C., for the coldest day in the nation's capital in 48 years, hampering efforts to salvage the wreckage of an Air Florida jetliner that crashed into the ice-bound Potomac River. Divers pulled 30 bodies from the river Saturday and one Sunday. It was so cold in Embarrass, Minn., that the thermometer broke at 44 degrees below zero, and the local weather watcher could only estimate the temperature at minus 52. International Falls, Minn., had an official reading of 45 below zero. In Chicago, where it was 23 below, Mayor Jane Byrne ordered the city park department to open all fieldhouses as emergency shelters. In New York City, where it was a relatively mild 1 below, city officials got 2,300 complaints Sunday morning from apartment dwellers with no heat. But in Colorado, it was like someone turned on a giant blow dryer as warm chinook winds howled out of the canyons on the eastern slopes of the Rockies with destructive hurricane force, causing widespread damage in the cities of Boulder and Loveland. Similar winds were gusting to 100 mph in neighboring Wyoming. Power was out in most of Boulder, a city of 75,000 residents about 20 miles northwest of Denver, where some buildings under construction were demolished. Roofs, walls and windows were torn from shopping centers, and streets were blocked by debris. In Loveland, 60 miles north of Denver, two small mobile homes were knocked several yards off their foundations, and three others, along with two traditional houses, were seriously damaged. About 25 people had to spend the night at friends' homes, according to Larimer County Sheriff Sgt. Pat McCosh. Officials closed a 30-mile section of U.S. 287 north of Longmont, Colo., because power lines were lying across the roadway. The high winds also flipped four single-engine planes at Boulder Airport and left one Boulder County sheriff's deputy with minor injuries when the windshield of his car blew out. "We've got power outages, buildings under construction that are completely blown away, roofs off, windows out," said Beverly Crosky of the Boulder police department. "A lot of streets are blocked by debris and wires down. Great big pieces of roofing and sides of houses are blown up against other buildings." Boulder County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Smith said, "Most of the malls and shopping centers here have been hit, with businesses losing roofs and most of their big plate-glass windows." In Southern California, thick fog that set in late Saturday gradually lifted Sunday, allowing airports to resume operation. In Northern California, residents cast a wary eye at advancing rains, fearing the possibility of more killer mud slides. However, late forecasts indicated the rains would not be too heavy. But numbing cold was the story in the East where many cities posted record temperatures for the date as far south as Nashville, Tenn., where it was 11 below, and Alabama, where it was 4 below in Huntsville and 1 below in Birmingham. It was 34 below at Eagle Rock, Md., the coldest ever noted by Rebecca Harvey in the 17 years she's been checking the weather for the Maryland Forest Service. Other cities reporting record readings included: Duluth, Minn., 37 below; Green Bay, Wis., 28 below; Toledo, Ohio, 17 below; Flint, Mich., 15 below; Detroit, 15 below; Lexington, Ky., 13 below; Charleston, W.Va., 11 below; and Wilmington, Del., 10 below. In Michigan, where up to 15 inches of snow fell over the weekend, and about 2,100 homes lost power overnight, several highways were closed. The weather service reported that since the first day of 1982, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has had only one day without a snowfall, and the 53.8 inches on the ground is the biggest accumulation of any January on record. Ohio officials opened a disaster center at a school in Kent when about 2,500 homes in Portage County lost power during the night. Drifting snow in Iowa halted snowplows during the night, and one highway in the eastern part of the state was closed. === Page 53 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 16, 1982 # New arctic blast whacks U.S. from Rockies to Dixie By United Press International Another blast of arctic air stung much of the nation Saturday, sending raging winds and bitter cold howling from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to the heart of Dixie. Wind chills of 100 below zero were forecast for the Upper Midwest and some regions braced for near-blizzard snowfalls. At least 235 people have died since the deep freeze first belted the country with the coldest weather of the 20th century last weekend. "It's one of these things that is almost unheard of," said Allan Morrison, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Chicago. "You don't look for a 125-year-old record to be broken or tied in a week." "When the flow of jet streams is out of the northwest... it opens the floodgates and comes roaring down." Shivering Southerners, reeling from the first round of storms that paralyzed cities and taxed utilities to the limit, braced for more bitter cold as the new arctic front barreled through the region. Bright Mississippi sunshine Friday turned the ice and snow into a dirty mush, clogging streets and highways. But frigid overnight temperatures were forecast to set the freeze again. Some Mississippians were still without power and water Friday night and utility crews in Alabama worked to restore power lines snapped under ice and snow. An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 passenger jet slid off an icy taxiway at Columbia, S.C., Metropolitan Airport Friday. Only the plane's six-man crew was aboard, and no one was injured -- but workers spent more than an hour pulling the jetliner from slippery muck onto the runway. Montana's first severe winter storm dumped 8 inches of snow on Helena, closing roads, stranding travelers and plunging temperatures to 35 below. Two people died in a 12-car pileup on a road whipped by blowing snow when a semi-truck skimmed the top of their car. Frigid northwest winds of 20 to 40 mph roared into Minnesota Friday night, blowing and drifting snow and fueling fierce wind chill of 50 to 80 below zero. Road crews could not clear battered cars from slick and snow-packed roads because they simply could not reach them. Near Mountain Lake, Minn., five cars skidded on slick roads, jamming traffic. "But the crews and snowplows can't get through it to clear the mess up," a state trooper said. Many Iowans closed up shop early Friday as the second wave of arctic air and cold gusty winds swept across the state, but a Des Moines travel agency kept workers late because it was being swamped with calls by weather-weary residents wanting to book vacations to warmer climates. By Friday night, bitterly cold temperatures coupled with strong and gusty northwest winds at 20 to 40 miles an hour produced a wind chill factor of 50 to 70 below zero across northwest Iowa. Storm-shy officials began closing schools almost as soon as students arrived. Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne reinstated the emergency measures she adopted last weekend, beefing up the staff of operators manning the city's emergency number and ordering the street and water departments to work closely with fire officials. The Chicago Park District opened its field houses to weather refugees and the city's Housing Authority set aside 100 apartments for people who might need temporary shelter. A National Guard helicopter joined the search for a teenager reported missing since he went hunting Monday in a heavily wooded, snow-covered area near Marked Tree, Ark. In Des Moines, Doris Johnson, manager of Travel and Transport, said she did not want to let her staff go early Friday because she was swamped with callers. "It seems when people go home early for storms they spend time planning vacations," Johnson said. "We're extremely busy and there is a lot of interest in Caribbean cruises and Hawaii -- spots where you can guarantee warmth." === Page 54 of 278 South, Northeast helpless in cold By United Press International The hardest freeze this century kept a stranglehold on the Northeast and paralyzed Dixie Wednesday as new storms threatened to dump more snow from Illinois to New York. At least 134 deaths were blamed on the weather. Seven-inch snows rendered ill-equipped Southern cities helpless, and a deep freeze caused $500 million damage to Florida's tender citrus crop. Power lines in Alabama snapped under the ice, and authorities advised people not to try to travel. Ice, sleet and snow battered the Gulf Coast states, closing schools and industries in Texas, where more than 1,000 Dallas residents were without water Tuesday due to the more than 33 major water mains that have burst since Monday. A new winter snowstorm Wednesday moved into Ohio and Pennsylvania, where at least 14 people have died. The snowfall elevated temperatures but made driving perilous. Heavy snows -- up to 10 inches -- were forecast for New York by late Wednesday and winter storm warnings were posted from Tennessee to the Carolinas. Snow blanketed the Northern Plains. As much as 4 inches was forecast for Chicago. The brutal cold that began Saturday and peaked Monday in what the National Meteorological Center described as the coldest day of the century maintained its strongest foothold in the Northeast, where the mercury at Worcester, Mass. fell to 8 below zero and brisk winds plunged the wind chill to minus 46 degrees. Florida officials said Tuesday's freeze was as damaging as the one in 1977, which caused $500 million in damages to Florida's agriculture. "It was a biggie. This one is a biggie, too," said Jack Sinks, Department of Agriculture information officer. As a result, orange juice, sugar and many vegetables will be more expensive, possibly within only a few days, agriculture spokesmen said. Most officials in the South threw up their hands in dismay and were left to watch cities close down for lack of snow removal equipment. Interstate highways became parking lots and bars and hotel lobbies became havens for thousands of stranded motorists in Georgia, where a bitter winter storm left up to 6 inches of snow and icy roads. Commuters abandoned cars and attempted to walk miles to get home in Atlanta. Flights were canceled because pilots, crews and passengers couldn't get to the airport and children huddled stranded in school buildings. "We have wall-to-wall people lined up to use the phones to call home and say they're stranded," said Doug Brader, night auditor at the downtown Atlanta Rodney Inn. The Red Cross said hundreds of people were at shelters, including about 150 school children. One Atlanta funeral home also began taking in the stranded. "It was the first place I came to that seemed to be inhabited," said Nancy Smith, 28, adding some people had journeyed across the street to a bar. "They may be bombed but they aren't embalmed," she said. Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen called out the National Guard in New Roads Tuesday to deliver water to nursing homes and other facilities left without electricity in the town of less than 4,000. The 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway between new Orleans and Covington was shut down most of Tuesday and hospitals across the state postponed elective surgery because of power problems. In tiny Youngsville, La., Mayor Ernest Gallet took it upon himself to personally phone each resident at 5 a.m. and advise them to fill their bathtubs with water -- in preparation for low water supplies. In flood-ravaged Northern California, seven more people were added to the list of victims who died in a mudslide near Santa Cruz. The discoveries raised the death toll from last week's giant storm to 36. Authorities feared that an even moderate rain could trigger a new avalanche of mudslides. New deep freeze socking nation Cold and snow lambasted much of the nation Friday, plunging temperatures to 10 below zero in Chicago, dumping 8 more inches of snow on New York and setting the stage for another weekend of record cold. An Atlantic Coast snowstorm and a huge chunk of arctic air collided to set off a snap to equal last weekend's history-making temperatures -- conditions blamed for at least 217 deaths. The South eyed temporary relief Friday from paralyzing ice and snow storms. The second round of a one-two attack stung Long Island with 8 inches of new snow -- on top of 7 inches. Bitter cold was forecast Friday night for Chicago, where temperatures plummeted last week to a 20th-century low of minus 26. Temperatures Friday night should drop to about 20 below zero and stay there through Saturday, forecasters said. Wind as high as 40 mph will whip light falling snow, reducing visibility and glazing roads. A winter storm watch was issued for the Chicago area. Traverse City, Mich., reported an early morning reading of minus 15. The temperature dropped 30 degrees in one hour at Cut Bank, Mont., where the wind chill factor was equivalent to 60 below zero. High wind has created blizzard conditions. Winter storm warnings or watches were posted for the Dakotas, Minnesota, Shivering Southerners, battered by two severe winter storms in which at least 60 people died this week, looked for temperatures above freezing Friday but braced for another round of freezing weekend weather. More than 500,000 people were without power Friday in Alabama, where the cold, ice and snow have taxed utilities to the limit. At the huge Fort Hood military range in central Texas, 12,000 soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division -- including many who just returned from the Mojave Desert -- slogged through the snow on annual war games. "The weather is perfect," said Maj. Gen. Richard Prillaman, whose division is committed early in any plan for war in Europe. === Page 55 of 278 2F02 100X # Storms stagger South, East By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press The South reeled under a third straight day of snow and ice Thursday, and the storm then surged up the East Coast, dumping up to 8 inches in North Carolina and coating New York City for a second day. Since Saturday, 200 deaths have been blamed on the weather. The Midwest, meanwhile, was hit by a "potentially dangerous" new storm that plunged temperatures back below zero and brought forecasts of new snow and high winds Friday. In Raleigh, N.C., visibility was reduced to only a few feet by the haze-like, granular snow. Traffic on downtown streets was reduced to only one or two cars every 15 minutes. By Thursday evening, the storm stretched from New England to North Carolina. Nine hundred workers were dispatched to salt and plow New York City streets, where 4 inches were expected on top of the 6 inches that fell Wednesday. Baltimore expected 2 to 4 more inches. Massachusetts and Connecticut received about 3 inches of a predicted 6 inches to a foot of new snow late Thursday. The storm appeared to lessen, but forecasters said snow would fall steadily until Friday morning. Hurricane-force winds whipped through the foothills of the Rockies. Winds gusting to 104 mph were reported in Boulder, Colo., pulling the roof off a small apartment house. Two trailer-trucks were knocked on their sides west of Denver, and officials closed parts of Interstate 70 and U.S. 36 to high-profile vehicles for about 2 1/2 hours. Traffic was hazardous from Texas to New England, and scattered power outages were reported across the Deep South as the snow moved north. Seven inches of snow fell Thursday in northern Georgia; Wednesday's storm was the worst in Georgia in 42 years. Two inches of snow fell in Tennessee, enticing people onto sleds. Officials said a 14-year-old sledder was struck by a car and killed, and a 19-year-old man apparently froze after a night of sledding. In Alabama, 750,000 people - nearly a fourth of the state's population - were without power after sleet and snow-burdened tree limbs snapped power lines. Residents left without power bundled up or moved in with relatives. Low-temperature records were set Thursday in Minnesota, Michigan and Texas, and forecasters said there was no end in sight. "We've had a real cold weather pattern since the New Year began across the Northern states, and when it stays very cold it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder," said Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service center in Kansas City, Mo. "There are towns in western North Dakota that haven't gotten above zero since the year began." Extreme cold in January can't be called unusual, Duke said, "but it's breaking records everywhere and to have 5 inches of snow in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, that is a rarity. In 1978-79, we had a lot of snow that winter and it did get cold, but nothing like this. And it's not over with." His colleague, Larry Wilson, said it was hard to say when the numbing cold and snow might end. "These situations can last for a month." Wilson blamed the weather on a jet stream pattern blowing from the Northwest to the Southeast. West of the Rockies, he said, the winter has been fairly mild. The new system moving across the Midwest was expected to bring a new bout of severe cold and high winds to the Northeast by the weekend. Temperatures plunged early Thursday to 30 below zero in St. Cloud, Minn., and 16 below in Traverse City, Mich., records for the date. In Houston, the reading of 20 broke a 2-year-old record. In New Hampshire, where another 6 inches was expected on top of the 9 inches of snow that fell Wednesday, the state House of Representatives postponed from Thursday to Tuesday a special session on the budget. ong 1/15/82 === Page 56 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1982 # Freezing rain, fog cause huge pileups By DAVID L. LANGFORD, oreg 1/20/82 of The Associated Press A departing cold wave left its calling card across the South Tuesday, spreading freezing rain and blinding fog that stranded thousands of travelers and caused countless chain-reaction smashups on the highways. Traffic fatalities brought the toll to almost 300 weather-related deaths since record-breaking polar air surged into the nation Jan. 9. But while the cold wave, called the Siberian Express, was moving out of the country, forecasters said another another arctic blast could be expected at mid-week and temperatures would be generally below normal over the eastern two-thirds of the nation for the next month. "The Siberian Express is just temporarily derailed," said Harold Gibson, the National Weather Service's chief meteorologist in Manhattan. Tuesday, trucks jackknifed and cars careened out of control in an icy strip across Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. "In upper East Tennessee, nothing is moving," Mike Caudill of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said after five fuel tankers overturned and eight tractor-trailer rigs crashed in one massive pileup. "Anything that's moving is going into a ditch." Motorists unable to drive on the dangerously slick highways were put up for the night in motels, churches and Salvation Army shelters. Interstate highways looked like parking lots in some areas. Schools closed and city buses came to a halt in some cities. Fog reduced visibility to zero during the morning at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, and dozens of flights had to be diverted. Meanwhile, another storm threatened to bring more mudslides to the hills near San Francisco where at least 31 people were killed during heavy rains Jan. 3-5. It was raining lightly in the area Tuesday, and more rain was in the forecast. Authorities had said half an inch of rain could touch off more slides. About 50 people moved out of their houses in Pacifica Sunday night, and eight families vacated their homes in Lagunitas when more rain was predicted. Earlier in the weekend, about 50 residents of Ben Lomond were evacuated not far from an area where mudslides in the remote Love Creek area inundated eight houses. During Tuesday's freezing rains, police in Richmond, Va., stopped making accident reports unless damage estimates exceeded $700. One pileup on the Interstate 95 bridge over the James River involved 17 cars. "It was just a good, old-fashioned pileup ... just a real mess if you know what I mean," a police radio dispatcher said. One trucker was killed in Virginia when his truck jackknifed and he was thrown from the cab. Another man was killed when his car skidded into a utility pole. City buses were taken off the streets in Roanoke, Va., and the airport was closed. In Kentucky, hundreds of motorists stranded on U.S. 25B where it crosses the Cumberland Gap were ferried to shelter by rescue workers. === Page 57 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto NO JOY RIDE -- Hot Springs, Ark., fireman checks out truck that overturned four times when tornado touched down in discount store parking lot. Tornado damaged store and nearby houses but caused no injuries. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JANUARY 24, 1982 2M A23 # Giant snowstorm paralyzes Idaho By QUANE KENYON of The Associated Press A heavy overnight snowstorm, whipped by winds up to nearly 40 mph, virtually stopped travel in most of Idaho Saturday, with snowdrifts up to four feet reported in some areas. "Roads in Canyon County are a total disaster this morning," said a deputy at the Canyon County sheriff's office at Caldwell. The deputy said about 18 inches of snow fell, but was quickly whipped into drifts of three to four feet by strong winds. The National Weather Service reported a blizzard in eastern Idaho, with winds of 38 mph reported in Pocatello and 30 mph winds in Idaho Falls. Visibility was almost zero and blowing and drifting snow made travel extremely hazardous. The state's major east-west route, Interstate 84, was still open at mid-morning, but the Idaho Transportation Department said that was on an hour-to-hour basis because of 3 1/2-foot snowdrifts. Several north-south highways were closed. U.S. 12 in northern Idaho was closed during the night and U.S. 95 was closed Saturday by snowdrifts at Lewiston Hill and Culdesac. Idaho 33 was closed between Newdale and Tetonia; Idaho 32 was shut down between Ashton and Tetonia and Idaho 31 from Swan Lake to Victor was closed. Idaho 33 from Rexburg to Mud Lake had zero visibility and one-lane traffic. The Transportation Department urged motorists to stay home if possible, or travel only in vehicles equipped with chains or four-wheel drive. The National Weather Service said the storm left four inches of new snow in Boise, along with 20-mph winds that whipped the six inches of snow already on the ground into snowdrifts. Strongest winds reported Saturday morning were at Pocatello, 38 mph. Winds of 30 mph were reported at Idaho Falls and 15 to 20 mph at Rexburg, 50 miles north. Most activities in the Boise area were postponed or canceled Saturday morning. The 11th annual Mighty Mites ski races at Bogus Basin Ski Resort, which were expected to draw 150 Pacific Northwest junior skiers, were canceled because of too much snow. The U.S. Postal Service said it canceled mail delivery in rural areas of Nampa and Caldwell, but said patrons could pick up mail at the main post offices, if they could get there. By 5 a.m., the weather service said there was 5 inches of snow at Burley, 11 inches at Idaho Falls, 12 inches at Pocatello, 18 inches at Malad, 8 inches at Grangeville and 22 inches at nearby Burns, Ore. === Page 58 of 278 NW rains unleash floods, slides More pictures on Page C7 By SCOTTA CALLISTER and TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff High water forced evacuation of some coastal residents Saturday as torrential rains swelled streams and triggered snow and mud slides in Oregon and Washington. The National Weather Service said rainfall of 2 to 4 inches was common along the Oregon coast. Tillamook received 5.22 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 4 p.m. Saturday. The deluge moved inland with a warm front that also turned snow to rain over much of Eastern Oregon and the Cascades, where heavy snow had fallen Friday night. The U.S. Forest Service issued a warning for extreme avalanche hazards outside developed ski areas in the Mount Hood area and the southern Washington Cascades due to the rapid warming trend. At the coast, residents in low-lying parts of Garibaldi and Rockaway, north of Tillamook, were evacuated as floodwaters reached depths of up to 4 feet. Water lapped against the windshields of parked cars, but the heavy rains abated somewhat Saturday morning. U.S. Coast Guard crews used boats to rescue some residents whose homes were surrounded by water, the Tillamook County sheriff's department reported. In Portland, the weather service predicted more occasionally heavy rain Sunday with temperatures ranging up to the low 50s. Clarence Robinson, officer in charge of the Garibaldi Coast Guard station, said the problems there were complicated by a power outage caused by a mud slide. Rescue efforts were hampered by another slide that temporarily blocked U.S. 101 north of Rockaway and by flooding of the Miami River that cut off the southern highway access to the area. Robinson said about 40 residents were evacuated after a logjam in a gully a half-mile north of Garibaldi washed out, sending a torrent of mud and debris through a low part of town toward the sea. Later in the day, water continued to build up behind a second logjam as residents were housed at the Coast Guard station, he said. Members of a Barview family narrowly escaped death when the hill behind their house on U.S. 101 washed away, knocking the building off its foundation. A log rammed through two walls and a stairway in the house as the slide left 4 feet of mud in the bedroom where David and Laureen Thompson had been asleep. "This is what saved my parents' life -- that's all I can say," said Ed Thompson, 26, pointing to the bed's sturdy oak headboard that kept the slide from burying his parents. North of Newport, Lincoln County officials evacuated nine families from Beverly Beach State Park, where water was rushing seaward from the mountains. Two houses in a steep area of Astoria began to slide in the heavy rainfall and moved off their foundations, Clatsop County sheriff's deputies said. Two mud slides at Garibaldi and Barview closed off a one-mile stretch of U.S. 101 Saturday, and it was not expected to be opened until Sunday. About two miles south of Wheeler, half the coastal highway "disappeared" after being undermined by a mud slide, according to Trooper Vernon Maulding. "It's raining like crazy," Mauldin said Saturday night. "And we're supposed to get 24 to 36 hours more of it." More mud slides temporarily blocked parts of U.S. 101 at Cape Foulweather, Florence and Newport, Oregon 34 west of Waldport at Tidewater and U.S. 26 at the tunnel in the Coast Range. But all these spots had been opened to at least one lane of traffic by nightfall. Deputies also reported flooding on roadways near Seaside and at the Cannon Beach junction of U.S. 26 and U.S. 101. Farther south, Coos County reported numerous slides on roads north and east of Coos Bay. Sheriff's Deputy Dana Tolar said several houses in relatively remote areas were in danger of sliding. Inland, flood warnings were issued for streams and rivers in the Eugene-Springfield and Portland areas. Johnson Creek at the Sycamore station in East Multnomah County was expected to crest at 12 feet, 4 feet above flood stage. The weather service warned residents along streams and rivers in those areas, as well as in Tillamook, Lincoln and Lane counties, to "take necessary precautions to protect life and property." Gale warnings were posted for the Oregon coast, where gusty winds were expected to reach 25 to 50 mph, accompanied by more heavy rain. Elsewhere in the Northwest, snow slides caused three highway closures in Washington -- U.S. 12 at White Pass, U.S. 2 at Stevens Pass and Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass. In Oregon, U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass remained closed for a second night because of deep snow. Trooper Gary Dodd said Santiam Pass would remain blocked by snow drifts up to 4 feet until Sunday despite a day of rain and warmer temperatures Saturday. === Page 59 of 278 # Dream of slide presages disaster for home near Garibaldi By TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff GARIBALDI -- The rain began beating harder as Ed Thompson sloshed through the mud and gingerly made his way back up the crooked, creaking stairs leading to his parents' home. Peering inside, he saw the floor was tilted, and a large log lay in the living room. Mud covered the door to his parents' bedroom. Thompson forced the door open, looked around the room and sighed. "This just started out as a typical everyday coastal storm -- then this," he said. Two of the walls had been ripped open, and rain was falling into the room. A 2-foot-deep layer of mud covered the floor. Tons of mud, trees and rocks cascaded down the hill and roared into the rear of the Barview-area home early Saturday, ripping open walls and knocking the home off its foundation. The debris, loosened by snow and rain, covered a portion of U.S. 101 in front of the Thompson home. Goods inside their antique store attached to the home were askew, and many items lay broken. Laureen Thompson, Ed's mother, said she woke with a start about midnight Friday after dreaming about a mud slide. "I woke up in a cold sweat," she said as she sat in a friend's home. "There was nothing, so I went back to sleep. "Then, I woke up again and heard it," she said, wrapping a blanket around her. "It started with a rumble and then became a roar. I knew it was a slide. I grabbed my husband (David) and dragged him across the bed. "A big rock came through the wall, and water began pouring through the roof," she said. "There was mud everywhere." The couple ran to the living room where they met their son, who had awakened when he, too, heard the roar. The trio ran out a side door after another door was blocked by mud. Mrs. Thompson said her husband suffered a minor injury when hit by a rock. She said he was treated at a hospital and released. The family did not have insurance to cover the damage, she said. Three miles south of the Thompson home, mud slides and flooding were a problem for Garibaldi residents. In the heart of the city, appropriately named Driftwood Avenue was covered with mud, rocks and huge tree Cars were carried hundreds of feet, finally coming to rest against telephone poles and homes that had been shaken by what one resident described as "a raging force." A 2-foot-wide creek normally flows down the hill above the area and meanders through town in culverts. Saturday, however, the "creek" grew to 10 feet wide in some spots, loosening trees, mud and rocks. "When I woke up about 4 a.m., everything seemed fine," said Fred Munhoven, a Garibaldi resident who lives near the hill. "Then at 5:03, the power went off and stayed off for two hours. "Right then ... the dam broke. The wind was blowing and the water was raging. It was a river." The water carried debris down the steep hill. It left behind mud and turned nearby low-lying streets into temporary lakes. A portion of Garibaldi Avenue in the heart of the city had a pool of water 4 feet deep, and some residents used a canoe to make their way down the street. Some businesses were flooded. A group of ducks enjoyed the water and swam down the street, passing a parked car surrounded by the water. The only way to head south out of town was in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Even then, however, there were problems. At Miami Junction, where U.S. 101 runs into Miami River Road, water collected, forcing travelers to wait. Those who tried to cross the 4- to 5-foot-deep puddle often had problems. One driver got stuck and had to be towed out. === Page 60 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # Cascade passes closed; flood threat widespread By The Associated Press 1/24/82 Avalanches closed three major passes across Washington, while flood warnings were issued Saturday for seven rivers as warm air and steady rain melted fresh snowfall in the Cascade Mountains. Gusty winds and freezing rain also knocked out power lines, while high water closed roads in some areas of Western Washington. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings late in the day for the Elwha, Nooksack, Skagit, Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Chehalis and Cowlitz rivers. More rain was forecast in the mountains for Sunday. Snoqualmie Valley farmers moved livestock to higher ground, and crews were standing by with sandbags, said Sue Robinson of the King County Department of Public Works. The valley "just becomes a great big, unfortunate lake," she said of anticipated flooding. The Stillaguamish, Skykomish, Satsop, Walla Walla, Klickitat and Cedar rivers also were rising. Snoqualmie, Stevens and White passes all remained closed late Saturday. Ken Balsley, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said it appeared Stevens and Snoqualmie would remain closed at least through Sunday because of slides, avalanche hazards and water on the roadway -- in some places a foot deep. White Pass also was expected to remain closed at least until Sunday. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. estimated that more than 5,000 customers were without power Saturday in Whatcom County, where freezing rain coated roads with ice and knocked out power lines and trees. High water closed several freeway ramps near Bellingham. In the Everett area north of Seattle, where up to 14 inches of snow fell in a freak storm Thursday and Friday, quick melting left water on roadways and flooded some homes, authorities said. About 2,000 Snohomish Public Utility District customers were without power Saturday afternoon. Crews were just starting to restore power knocked out by the snowstorm when steady winds of about 30 mph downed more power lines, said PUD spokesman Kerry Edwards. Jim Harris, a Lake Stevens resident, said his front yard had 22 inches of water Saturday. There were reports of mud slides blocking roads in the Lake Stevens, Marysville and Monroe areas. The Pilchuck River flooded about six areas between Snohomish and Lake Stevens, threatening to surround several homes with water, said John Galt of the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Services. Woods Creek northeast of Monroe was also flooding, he added. Skiers stranded at the Crystal Mountain ski resort had to be brought out on a logging road after a mud slide closed Washington 410 about 16 miles east of Enumclaw Saturday afternoon. Transportation officials said anyone needing to travel between Western and Eastern Washington should avoid mountain passes and take one of the two highways through the Columbia River Gorge. === Page 61 of 278 Rain, water, mud play havoc with California communities THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1982 JEEP RESCUE -- Clarissa Blount is evacuated in stretcher on hood of Jeep after mud slide washed away her house above Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz Mountains. DCR 816 === Page 62 of 278 FLOOD CLOSURE -- Street in San Rafael is flooded after violent storm doused Northern California Tuesday. Floodwaters crested at 5 feet in parts of city, north of San Francisco. FATAL MISHAP -- Mountain home near Santa Cruz is in shambles after tree fell on it, killing woman, at height of Northern California storm. RIVER OF MUD -- California 9, which connects several mountain communities, is awash in mud after torrential rains washed out way between Boulder Creek and Santa Cruz. === Page 63 of 278 HOMES MOBILE -- Aerial view shows mobile home park demolished by mud slide that flowed through park in Santa Cruz. At least 20 persons were reported killed in Northern California as result of storm. === Page 64 of 278 UFO2 100 x Attack Mud slows California cleanup ong 1/7/82 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - Criti- cal, water shortages and thick mud thwarted rescue workers Thursday as they struggled to unearth landslide vic- tims and repair destruction from a storm that killed 24 people and caused an estimated $200 million damage. President Reagan declared five Northern California counties - Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Sonoma - major disaster areas, making them eligible for help from fed- eral agencies. In Ben Lomond, 10 miles to the north, efforts continued to locate up to 20 people believed killed when their homes were buried in a massive mud slide. Leaky, storm-damaged pipes forced a three-hour shutdown of water service to 70,000 people in Santa Cruz and the surrounding hillsides Thursday night. Officials of the state Office of Emer- gency Services said the storm and mud slides that followed destroyed 100 homes in Santa Cruz County, 70 miles south of San Francisco, damaged 300 others and displaced 1,800 residents. County Administrator George Newell estimated property damage at $100 mil- lion. More than half the county's 190,000 résidents were asked to conserve water or were without it. Thirty-six roads were closed or Ihited to emergency use. California 17, the main route into the county, was closed to non-residents. The storm severed a 24-inch water main that supplied this city's reservoir. It could take a week to repair the dam- age, Newell said We don't want people coming here rubbernecking and sightseeing," said Newell, who noted sightseers were con- suming precious water. "People will be allowed in on Highway 17 if they can prove they live in the county." Newell said all industry and restau- rants in Santa Cruz were closed to help conserve water and that emergency supplies of water for firefighting were being hauled in from Campbell and San Jose. : Wednesday, after officials urged conservation, the city consumed about 4 million gallons of water. There were 5 million gallons in the reservoir Thurs- day morning, and that supply was being augmented at the rate of about 4 million gallons a day with supplies from wells in the northern part of the county. Resi- dents normally consume about 10 mil- lion gallons a day, officials said. -"The county health officer has de- clared a critical need for water," said Santa Cruz sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simp- son. "There are extreme conservation measures. People are asked to use water only for health needs." Simpson said the water shortage may force the closure of the city's two hospitals, complicating an already des- perate situation. "We can't take showers," he said. "We can't eat hot food, travel is re- stricted, many people have been sepa- rated from their families, many of us working down here in the emergency operations center don't know how our houses are doing." The National Guard was trucking water into the nearby San Lorenzo Val- ley, where supplies have run out, and planned to construct a temporary pipe- line. Debris choked the city sewage treat- ment plant, sharply reducing the plant's capacity. Waste was being chlorinated but was not completely treated before being dumped into Monterey Bay. Beaches were posted for possible pollu- tion. In Soquel, about 10 miles east of here, stunned residents wandered along frost-laden streets Thursday, wondering where to begin the cleanup effort. Water spilled over the banks of a half-mile stretch of Soquel Creek Mon- day, driving about 100 people from their homes UFO= 100X Attacks Santa Ana winds fan $1 million fire areg 00 1/7/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Biting cold Santa Ana winds slashed at 60 mph across Southern Canfornia Thursday, Tracking out powerin five counties and tanning a $1 million fire that destroyed five homes. Temperatures dropped from the mountains to the coast as the winds, blowing from Cajon Pass, knocked over nine big trucks, shattered windows and ripped the roof from a home in northern San Bernardino. The California Highway Patrol or- dered all trucks, trailers and campers to stay out of Cajon Pass beonase of the fierce gusts, The winds, forced through icy mountain passes from Nevada, knocked down power lines and trees in Ventura, "Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernar- dino counties. In Orange County, power lines blew together, sparking electrical arcs and causing brief outages. Much of downtown Oxnard 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles was blacked out, and 3,000 people in Los Angeles . were without electricity for up to two hours overnight, said the city Depart- The National Weather Service is- sued a travelers' advisory for high winds for the mountains and coastal and valley areas below mountain passes. The winds were expected to abate somewhat by Friday. "They are Santa Ana winds, but normally they occur in warmer and dry- er weather," said Roy Talbot, Los An- geles County fire Information officer. "If we hadn't had the rain we had last week, we'd probably be having some grass fires." The winds hampered firefighters' efforts to quell a blaze that broke out shortly before 4 a.m. in a Malibu beach- front home. County fire spokesman Dick Friend said the winds spread sparks to an apartment and garage at the rear of the lot, to two houses on an adjoining lot and to the palatial former home of the late comedian Joe E. Brown. All were destroyed, he said. A section of Pacific Coast Highway was closed for four hours . About 50 firefighters in 10 engine companies battled the flames but were hampered by the winds, proximity of the houses and lack of water, Friend said. The houses, built within 6 feet of each other, all had wood shingle roofs, making them more susceptible to wind- carried sparks, he said. Meanwhile, temperatures plummet- ed. "These are very cold Santa Ana winds," said Al Dascomb of the Nation- al Weather Service. "They are coming from Nevada where the temperatures are sub-zero, so even when they are compressed and heated as they cross the mountains, they're still darn cold when they get here." === Page 65 of 278 Death toll 28 as ice holds in Europe LONDON (UPI) -- Europe's unremitting spell of arctic weather claimed at least 28 lives, ranging from a British baby frozen in bed to a bizarre suicide in Berlin and a deadly red cloud killing the elderly in Turkey. As temperatures plunged to 11 degrees, an unidentified Berlin woman committed suicide Monday by stripping naked on the banks of the Havel River and freezing to death. In Odelhausen, southern Germany, an 11-year-old boy suffocated in an igloo he was building. One of the latest victims of Britain's worst winter in 18 years was a 10-month-old boy who froze to death in his bed in an unheated room. In Wales, a farmer died from exposure as he took fodder to his sheep on Sunday. The capital of Turkey was obscured by a deadly red cloud of sulfur pollution caused by a thermal inversion Monday and officials said at least two elderly people died and 16 were hospitalized. Half the cars were ordered off the street in Ankara and children under the age of 12 or those over 50 were told to stay indoors. In France, a 15-year-old girl died Monday when she was hit on the head by a tree felled by the weight of snow and ice. In northern regions of France, high tension lines coated with ice snapped, cutting off electricity to more than 200,000 residents. Flooding east of Paris forced evacuation of 200 houses and snow closed Strasbourg airport. But the south of France basked in such warmth that fruit growers worried about premature budding on trees. An elderly Swedish couple froze to death when the woman broke her leg while going to the aid of her husband who had suffered a heart attack shoveling snow. DIGGING OUT -- Residents of Bristol, England, shovel paths for vehicles after weekend blizzard in Britain's worst winter in 18 years. Arctic cold continued hold on Europe, with death toll at least 28. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised government money to help the country to dig out from snow blocking thousands of miles of roads. Wales was the worst hit area of Britain and hospitals canceled all but emergency operations because of a shortage of blood. Soldiers helped distribute food supplies. Police warned motorists off highways, still clogged with abandoned vehicles. "Some people are having trouble even finding their cars under the snow, let alone driving them," a road services spokesman said. In Ankara, authorities told people to stay home with their windows shut because of a gaseous cloud of sulfuric acid created by pollution and a thermal inversion -- trapped layers of cold and warm air. Similar inversions over London in 1952 and 1962 caused more than 4,400 deaths, officials said. === Page 66 of 278 UFOs 100% Attack # Deadly freeze grips South; toll hits 65 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An invasion of arctic weather that has killed at least 65 people pushed southward Monday, sending temperatures to record lows across Dixie. In the North, a new blizzard walloped Buffalo, N.Y., with 25 inches of snow. Some people, mostly elderly, froze to death in their homes. Schools and factories were closed in many cities from Chicago, where Sunday's temperature of minus 26 was an all-time record, to Atlanta, where Monday's minus 5 was the coldest since 1899. Travelers were stranded across parts of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania as the eastern two-thirds of the nation remained caught in one of the most severe cold waves of the century. Snow drifts as high as 6 feet rendered many Midwest highways impassable. Scattered power outages were reported in several states as generating stations became overloaded and brittle lines snapped in the cold and wind. Augusta, Ga., set an all-time record at minus 2, and readings of 5 below were posted in northeastern Mississippi. It was 2 below in Birmingham, Ala., with Pensacola, Fla., recording an 8. The 15 at Houston was the coldest there in 30 years. Florida citrus groves escaped serious damage, with temperatures in the upper 20s and 30s through the middle of the state, but a dangerous freeze was expected during the night. John L. Jackson Jr., an agricultural extension agent in Lake County in the heart of the citrus belt, said, "People are doing a lot of praying, basically. "If the forecast proves accurate, it could be grim. We're facing the very real possibility that a lot of trees may be killed." Among the latest victims of the cold weather was 92-year-old Janie L. Shephard, who froze to death Monday in her home in Selma, Ala. Coroner Kenneth Lawrence said a butane tank had run out of gas and that the house had only one small electric heater. In St. Louis, an 81-year-old man was found dead in his apartment, apparently the victim of hypothermia, or subnormal body temperature. Rescue workers said liquids found in the apartment were frozen solid. In Columbus, Miss., a 92-year-old woman was found frozen to death in her home Monday afternoon. The examining doctor said, "There was ice on the body," according to Lowndes County Coroner Don Harris. In Illinois, police said the crime rate dropped sharply as felons stayed home to keep warm. Eight Illinois deaths were blamed on hypothermia. Since Saturday, when the harsh cold moved in, weather-related deaths -- including traffic fatalities, heart attacks and exposure -- have been reported in 21 states. Eight deaths were reported in Illinois; seven in Iowa; six each in Michigan and North Carolina; five each in Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana; three each in West Virginia and Ohio; two each in Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland and South Carolina; and one each in Nebraska, Connecticut, Alabama, Missouri, Florida, Virginia and Mississippi. At least two other people were missing and presumed dead in Virginia. Meanwhile, a snowstorm with winds gusting to 60 mph and compared to the blizzard of 1977 dumped more than 2 feet of snow on western New York state and stranded thousands of travelers in the Buffalo area. The 25.3 inches was a record for a 24-hour period, which ended at 1 p.m. Monday. Snow was still falling Monday night. Police officers and firefighters tied lifelines around their waists to lead 18 people to safety from an elevated highway in downtown Buffalo. "It was like something out of a fairy tale," said Cathy Green, 21, of Albany, N.Y., whose car was forced off a highway at Fredonia, N.Y. "You couldn't see anything but white. It was like floating through white clouds. We couldn't even see the end of the car." About 200 hockey fans spent the night in Memorial Auditorium, 300 were stranded at the Buffalo airport when all flights were canceled Sunday night, 300 were isolated at a nearby ski resort, and about 80 slept in a movie theater. UFOs 100% attack United Press International ICED IN -- Marie Recek finds her in Jupiter, Fla. where rare frigid === Page 67 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Crippling ice, snow play havoc in Dixie By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 1/13/82 A major storm Tuesday spread ice and snow across the South from Texas to Georgia, turning highways into skating rinks on the heels of a cold wave that has killed at least 111 people and devastated Florida's billion-dollar citrus crop. Sleet or snow fell in a 1,200-mile swath from Del Rio, Texas, across Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, forcing schools and offices to close and causing hundreds of traffic accidents in Southern cities ill-prepared for arctic weather. Natural gas and electricity ran short, water pipes burst, and many highways had to be blocked off because of ice in such unlikely places as New Orleans. Rush hour in cities from Dallas to Atlanta found streets impassable as vehicles couldn't navigate on the ice. Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen called up one unit of the National Guard, put the rest on standby and ordered all state agencies to be prepared for a disaster. "We expect the worst winter weather that north Louisiana has seen since it began reporting weather information," said Don Bollinger, secretary of the Public Safety Department. "People are in a lot of danger there." In the heart of Dixie, Atlanta's downtown area was jammed as streets were blocked by motorists unable to cope with slippery pavement. Some cars ran out of gas as drivers waited for service station openings in the traffic jam. Four police cars were wrecked in Corpus Christi, Texas, as officers worked to block off icy streets and highways, and in Houston police instituted foot patrols for the first time since the 1950s. Houston firefighters had 243 calls in a 24-hour period -- 115 more than normal. Most were home fires involving space heaters, officials said. "We've got cars iced up and bridges iced over," said Steve Dickerson, a spokesman for the mayor's office in Gulfport, Miss., on the Gulf Coast. "I can't remember when it was quite this bad. People down here are just not used to this ice." Police in New Orleans, harried by multicar smashups all over the city, urged drivers not to even report minor accidents. The 24-mile bridge across Lake Pontchartrain was closed because of the ice, as were several stretches of Interstate 10. Many schools in Tennessee closed as roads became hazardous and some businesses and state offices closed as people went home early to beat the storm's The freeze in Florida pushed temperatures far below records set in a cold snap a year ago, causing "extensive and widespread" damage to the citrus and vegetable crops. Last year's mid-January freeze left $500 million in damage to the state's crops. Many Florida growers spent the night in the groves burning smudge pots and old tires in an effort to save their oranges and grapefruit. Temperatures dropped to 16 degrees near Ocala, 22 degrees in Daytona Beach and 23 degrees in Orlando in the heart of the citrus belt. Citrus damage was "very extensive and widespread," said Mark Belcher of the Florida Citrus Mutual. Most of Florida reported record low temperatures for the date, ranging from 14 in Tallahassee to 33 in Miami. West Palm Beach had its coldest morning in five years at 29 degrees. Elsewhere in the South: -- Two Louisiana utilities pleaded with customers to reduce their consumption of electricity or see it cut off. -- A shortage of pipeline capacity in Texas forced curtailments of natural gas to schools and factories, forcing school closures in wide areas of the state. -- Forecasters were warning of a "major and crippling ice storm" in central Alabama, with accumulation heavy enough to bring down tree limbs and power lines. -- As temperatures dipped into the teens in Jackson, Miss., water pipes burst in dozens of homes and businesses. The basement of City Hall was flooded, and leaking pipes damaged computers and soaked ceilings and carpets in the downtown federal building. -- Schools were closed across Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. In other parts of the nation, temperatures dipped below zero across the northern Plains, the upper Mississippi Valley and the northern Atlantic Coast States. Warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, riding up over the cold air in the South, was expected to bring freezing rain and snow up the Eastern Seaboard. Winter storm warnings were issued for Wednesday as far north as New York. Buffalo, N.Y., was digging out from a record 24-hour snowfall of 28 inches, and hundreds of miles of roads were closed in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Associated Press Laserphoto COLD SNAP -- A newspaper vendor in St. Petersburg, Fla., scrunches up against cold as an out-of-town headline says it's even worse up north. UFOs 100X Attack CHILLY ROMANCE: With Britain reeling from its worst weather in living memory, the announcement came from Oldbury, England, that Philip Snow, 21, will marry Julia Winter, 19, sometime next year. "To stop all the jokes," Miss Winter said frostily, "neither of us likes the cold." As the song title goes, maybe their love will keep them warm. oreg 1/13/82 UFOs 100X Attack # 6 states feel quake BOSTON (AP) -- The third moderate earthquake to hit southeastern Canada in three days rattled dishes and rocked buildings Monday across a six-state stretch of New England. "The entire building was shaking" said Dennis Scheyer, who works at an advertising agency on Boston's Lewis Wharf. "We went to the middle portion and watched different portions of the building shake, including lamps." oreg 1/12/82 === Page 68 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Eastern Canada wakes to quake By The Associated Press oreg 1/10/82 A sharp earthquake that "sounded like thunder" jolted residents of eastern Canada awake Saturday morning, rattling dishes and shaking furniture as far south as Connecticut. It was the first significant quake in the area in more than a century. The National Earthquake Center said the quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, which is strong enough to cause considerable damage, but no injuries or major damage were reported. It was followed about three hours later by an aftershock with a 4.9 magnitude. Don Finley, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the aftershock was felt at about the same location as the quake. He said earthquake center officials received some reports of minor structural damage at Presque Isle and Caribou, Maine. It was the first significant quake to hit the area since Feb. 8, 1855, Finley said. The 7:54 a.m. EST tremor lasted 30 seconds and was centered in a sparsely populated area near New Brunswick, about 180 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine. The quake was felt from Newfoundland in the north to Prince Edward Island in the east and south through New England. In Canada, it was felt in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. UFOs 100X attack # The world oreg 1/11/82 # Storm toll rises to 13 LONDON (AP) -- Wales virtually was cut off from the rest of Britain Sunday as wind-whipped snow blockaded rural towns and villages behind 12-foot snowdrifts. The lowest temperature of the century in Britain was recorded in a village in the Scottish Highlands. In England, searchers found the body of a 73-year-old man who set out through snowdrifts to feed a half-dozen sheep and cattle about a mile from his home. Police said he apparently died of a heart attack. Elsewhere, they found the body of a 71-year-old widow in a river near the Derbyshire town of New Mills. Their deaths raised to 13 the number killed in the British Isles by the winter storm during the past three days. Other casualties included six men lost at sea in two capsizings, two men who died trying to free their cars from snow, a couple killed in a storm-related car crash and an 87-year-old woman burned to death as she tried to get more warmth from an industrial heater. In the Scottish village of Braemar, about 60 miles west of Aberdeen, the thermometer fell Sunday to minus 16 degrees Fahrenheit, matching the record set in 1895 -- also in Braemar. # Wind chill stings Midwest, East Picture on Page A10 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 1/11/82 The coldest day of the 20th century for much of the Midwest found travelers stranded in blinding blizzards and thousands left without power Sunday in wind chills as low as 90 degrees below zero. "This is a real emergency," declared Mayor Jane Byrne in Chicago, where the mercury dropped to minus 26, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Windy City. The wind-chill factor was minus 81. At least 11 deaths were blamed on the weather over the weekend, and in western New York state, where 2 feet of snow fell, the Onondaga County sheriff's department resumed a search for a 22-year-old hiker. Commonwealth Edison said up to 50,000 Chicagoans were left without electricity as wires became brittle and snapped in the extreme cold. The Chicago Building Department said it was getting 100 calls an hour from apartment dwellers complaining of no heat. Blood banks reported shortages of some rare blood types, apparently because many donors were staying at home out of the weather. Chicago firefighters, their faces and coats covered by ice, fought four extra-alarm blazes, including one that killed two people and another that injured 22 firefighters from the smoke and exposure. Officials said water from hoses froze instantly when it hit the buildings. Chicago's public and parochial schools did not plan to open Monday. Mrs. Byrne said city buses would be kept idling overnight to ensure they would run in the morning. One Chicago man found dead Saturday apparently froze to death on a fire escape. Three people died when their snowmobiles went through ice on a western Michigan lake. Exposure or accident deaths among motorists mounted, with one each in Kentucky, North Carolina and Connecticut and two each in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Across the Midwest, the East and deep into Dixie, temperature records fell in dozens of cities. Utility lines were down across broad areas. Roads were blocked by wind-blown snow that halted snowplows and forced motorists to abandon their cars. An Iowa utility said demand for natural gas to heat homes threatened to exceed the supply. "People will just not believe that travel conditions are as bad as they are," said Mark Campbell, a spokesman for the state patrol in Iowa, where ground blizzards and temperatures of minus 21 were common and snowplows gave up trying to keep the roads open during the night. "They've taking their lives in their own hands if they drive." In Salt Lake City, officials blamed extreme cold and a lack of food in the mountains for an unusual number of deer wandering into the city. A blizzard in northern Indiana trapped 53 people on a bus, and they spent the night with 54 other motorists who took shelter in a state police barracks near South Bend. The Wisconsin State Patrol said most roads in the state were piled with drifting snow. Interstate 43 between Milwaukee and Green Bay was closed in the southbound lane. Roads also were strewn with abandoned cars in Ohio, where up to a foot of new snow fell Sunday. The National Weather Service said the surge of Arctic air would push deep into Florida during the night, with a hard freeze forecast for two-thirds of the state, including the citrus belt. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was the coldest place in the nation Sunday, with a minus 36 that was 9 degrees below that city's record for the date. The minus 25 at Milwaukee tied the all-time record set in 1875. UFOs Projects # Thousands marooned YORK, England (AP) -- Scores of British troops patrolled the 2,000-year-old cathedral city of York in boats Wednesday, struggling to reach thousands of people marooned by the city's worst flooding in three decades. Floodwaters as high as 8 feet blocked 40 streets in the walled city of 100,000 people in northern England. Schools, stores and offices were closed for a second day. Police, on 24-hour alert to guard against looting, described the situation as critical. === Page 69 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Rail snag adds to British woe By JEFF BRADLEY oreg 1/14/82 LONDON (AP) -- The British capital was choked with 500 miles of traffic jams Wednesday in a commuter nightmare caused by a nationwide rail strike and the coldest winter weather since 1947. But plucky Britons traveled by car, bus, and even roller skates to get to work, and some dedicated brokers spent the night on camp beds at the London Stock Exchange, where there was a full turnout. "We heard of one man hitching a lift on the back of a postman's bike and of another who roller-skated into the City of London all the way from his Surrey home," said a spokesman for Britain's Automobile Association. "People have been inventive -- and it's paid off." Police said three people died Wednesday in traffic accidents on fogbound British highways and one municipal worker was killed by a road-salting machine in Derbyshire, raising to at least 21 the number of weather-related deaths since last Friday, the start of a two-day winter snowstorm that swept across central Europe. Twenty trucks and cars piled up in freezing fog on a highway near Oxford, police said, but no one was killed. The AA reported "diabolical" driving conditions around snow-covered London, with individual traffic jams up to seven miles long and a total of 500 miles of congestion. British Rail's 7,000-mile network was halted by a 48-hour strike, which began at midnight Tuesday in a dispute over pay and productivity involving 25,000 engineers. It was the first national rail strike since 1955, although less extensive labor disruptions have been frequent. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen accused the state-owned railroad of reneging on an agreement to pay members an additional 3 percent this month. The drivers earn an average $266 a week. British Rail said the extra money was conditional on the engineers agreeing to flexible working hours. Two other rail unions accepted the productivity deal and are getting the extra pay, but the engineers did not accept the agreement's main feature -- flexible hours. ASLEF leader Ray Buckton apologized to British Rail's 2 million daily passengers but said the strike would be repeated Jan. 20-21 and could become an indefinite stoppage if his men did not get the raises. Referring to British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker, he said, "All Sir Peter has to do is keep his side of the bargain and pay the 3 percent." But Parker, facing losses of $11.3 million a day during the strike, said: "We would never have moved on pay unless we understood and believed we could go forward on productivity." London hotels reported a brisk trade. "Business is booming. We were booked out last night and expect it to be the same today," said manager Alan Bostock at the Bonnington Hotel in Southampton Row. Elsewhere across Europe, severe winter weather continued to take its toll. A 20-year-old man was killed in Bavaria when his car skidded on ice and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The temperature fell to minus 15 Fahrenheit at the U.S. Army's Grafenwoehr training camp in northern Bavaria. Two brothers died of asphyxiation and four others were hospitalized in Dublin after a series of gas leaks caused by the extreme cold, authorities said. In Sweden, railway officials reported collisions between trains and moose emerging onto the tracks from the deep forest snow. UFOs 100 X Attack # 6-day freeze in Europe claims 53 oreg J 1/14/82 LONDON (UPI) -- Europe emerged the loser Thursday from a six-day battle with nature that claimed at least 53 lives and left a multimillion-dollar trail of destruction across England and the continent. As a slow thaw settled in, reports of more deaths trickled in from isolated communities, and traffic accidents on fog-shrouded and ice-covered roads Wednesday claimed more victims. In Poland there was continued widespread flooding. In West Germany, where Frankfurt's snowplows were breaking down from overwork, the death toll reached 12 with the latest four victims Wednesday all killed in weather-related traffic accidents. In Dublin, Ireland, two brothers aged 20 and 8 died from gas leaks in their home. Dozens of other Dubliners were hospitalized for treatment of weather-related illnesses. An elderly couple was found dead in their Beith, England, home Wednesday and investigators said they apparently suffocated when they left a gas stove burning after sealing doors and windows. Car crashes on Britain's slick and foggy roads killed two more people and a man died in Derbyshire from injuries received when he became entangled in the machinery of a salt-spreading truck. Four died in earlier traffic accidents. Officials in Switzerland said at least 20 people died in avalanches and weather-related traffic accidents during the week. The forestry service in Baden-Wuerttemberg said snow and ice caused $20 million in damage to trees in the Black Forest. In London, the British Insurance Association said it was too early to estimate damage from the six-day onslaught of freezing winds and snow, but indicated it would surpass last month's tab of $75.2 million. === Page 70 of 278 # Midwest temperatures plunge By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press UFOs 100x Attack 1/10/82 A blast of "extremely dangerous" arctic air stunned the Midwest with wind chills reaching 80 degrees below zero Saturday, and foot-deep snows fell on some cities as the deep freeze spread eastward. "Prepare for the worst," warned Jack May of the National Weather Service in Cleveland, where up to 10 inches of new snow had fallen as the mercury plummeted. On the bright side, forecasters said there would be sunny skies in San Francisco for Sunday's National Football Conference title game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. But in Cincinnati, where the Bengals will meet the San Diego Chargers for the American Conference championship, the forecast called for temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees with a wind-chill factor of 30 below. In the West, road crews were trying to reach the remainder of about 3,000 people who had been stranded a week by a snowfall up to 10 feet deep in the Sierra Nevada south of Lake Tahoe. But authorities abandoned a search for a 23-year-old man believed buried by an avalanche in the area five days earlier. And in Northern California, where 26 people died in last week's storm that loosed devastating mudslides, another man was killed Friday night in Scotts Valley when a tractor he was using to clear logs from his property toppled over. On the other side of the continent, in western New York state, sheriff's deputies using snowmobiles, a helicopter and trained dogs searched for a hiker who disappeared just before a powerful squall dumped 34 inches of snow on Onondaga County. Across the Midwest, where temperatures Saturday dropped as low as 48 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn., with a wind-chill factor of 70 below, the intense cold was the main concern. The wind-chill factor is a calculation weather experts use to describe the combined effects of wind and cold temperatures. Gusts of 41 mph in Fargo, N.D., made the temperature of 19 below feel like 80 below, the weather service said. There were blizzard conditions in eastern North Dakota, western Minnesota and most of South Dakota. North Dakota motorists were warned to carry survival kits if they had to brave the open roads. In Wisconsin, temperatures Saturday ranged from 12 below at Milwaukee to 27 below at Superior. Authorities in Merton reported that an elderly man froze to death Friday when he lost the key to his home in the snow. Waukesha County Coroner Donald J. Eggum said Walter J. Hockmuth, 70, was found stuck in a window in an attempt to climb into the house. Minnesotans were told to expect readings of 20 below to 40 below Saturday night and highs of 2 below to 15 below Sunday. Late Saturday, roads around Marshall in southwestern Minnesota were closed because of blowing snow and visibility of less than 100 feet, officials said. Maintenance crews also were ordered off the roads. The Minnesota American Automobile Association said Saturday that it was handling 300 to 400 calls an hour from motorists whose cars quit running in the intense cold. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where it was 17 below, dozens of cars were stalled along freeways. About 1,500 residents of Munster and Highland in northern Indiana were without power for two hours Saturday morning as temperatures hovered about the zero mark. A spokesman for the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. blamed the outage on a combination of ice on transformers and an extra demand for heat. With strong northerly winds roaring in from Canada, temperatures were generally below zero from Montana to Upper Michigan and northern New England. The forecast called for the subzero cold to spread Saturday night, with Chicago destined for a minus 25. # Killer freeze still grips British Isles, Europe UFOs 100x Attack By ANDREW WARSHAW LONDON (AP) -- Bitter cold and a heavy snow gripped the British Isles for a second day Saturday, bringing mid-winter misery to motorists and isolating several towns and villages. At least 11 people were known to have died in the snowstorms. It was the same across much of Europe, where severe flooding was reported. In Britain, rescue workers fought throughout the day to free more than 1,000 drivers who took their chances on the icy roads and lost. In Somerset, police got so fed up with motorists ignoring their danger warnings that they erected giant snowballs at access roads to prevent cars getting through to the expressways. Engineers worked in the bitter cold to restore power to 13,000 homes in South Wales after cables were snapped by heavy snow and high winds. The roof of Cardiff's largest concert hall, the Sophia Gardens Pavilion, collapsed under the weight of the snow, but no one was hurt. On the railways, timetables were virtually abandoned. Snow drifts of up to 15 feet had to be cleared on some lines in the English midlands. Air travel was also severely affected, and travelers faced long delays at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Weathermen said the unseasonable cold would last until Monday or Tuesday. The snow was expected to give way to clearer skies and even lower temperatures. In Sweden, the temperature dropped to minus 43 degrees Fahrenheit. An elderly couple froze to death outside their villa west of Stockholm. Polar cold gripped much of the Soviet Union as temperatures in Moscow hovered at minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit. Cars and buses crawled along, trains ran hours behind schedule and Moscow's streetcar system was disrupted by snow on the tracks. In Poland, four northern provinces were hit by a winter storm, rendering a 25-mile stretch of highway impassable, according to a dispatch from the East German news agency. Ferry routes were disrupted among Denmark's 400 islands when the freeze. === Page 71 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Wind-powered generators wrecked by 80 mph gusts LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) -- The city's new "wind farm" experienced some crop failure after gusts estimated at more than 80 mph destroyed two wind-powered electrical generators. The high winds Thursday blew down one of the city's four generators, and an experimental machine owned by Montana Power Co. "The Montana Power one is pretty much all destroyed except the tower, and the city's is pretty much all destroyed," said Paul Laird of Multi-Tech in Butte, which is supervising the city's wind farm. The MPC generator was erected 20 months ago, and the four city generators went into operation Dec. 22. Laird said the MPC unit has withstood strong winds since it was installed in May 1980, and all four of the city's machines stood up fine under thorough testing. "The wind was very high the night before," Laird said. "It might have been something strange, a swirling wind like a tornado or something, except you don't have tornadoes in the winter time. Possibly there were some very strange wind currents." He said there were indications the wind was blowing at more than 80 mph just before the towers blew down. UFOs 100X Attack # Search suspended for victims of storm SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Geologists surveyed this storm-devastated area Sunday to determine whether rescue crews could resume the search for at least five people still missing and feared killed by last week's mud slides. Three more bodies were pulled from the brutalized area of Ben Lomond during the weekend, pushing the storm death toll to 29, with 15 of the deaths in Santa Cruz County alone. The search was suspended Saturday night because geologists declared the region unsafe, said sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simpson. "No crews are going out until we get the geologists' next report," Simpson said. A mud-slide area along Love Creek Road remained roped off, and occupants of at least eight houses along the edge of the slide were advised to leave. Nevertheless, the spirits of storm-weary residents were bolstered by sunny skies, moderate temperatures and forecasts of more of the same. "We're on the road to recovery here," Simpson said. "We're over the shock of it and now we realize the task we have before us." Federal Disaster Assistance Centers are to open Monday in Santa Cruz, Marin, San Mateo, Sonoma and Contra Costa counties, where at least 2,000 storm victims were expected to seek emergency aid. Federal officials declared Solano County a disaster area Saturday after Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. asked that Solano and three other counties -- San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Alameda -- be added to the federal list. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the other counties might be added later. More than 500 people were reported injured and property damage approached $300 million. At least 6,023 homes were damaged and 439 destroyed, according to Nels Rasmussen, chief administrative officer of the state Office of Emergency Services. All homes in the Santa Cruz area had water service Sunday, but the 70,000 residents in the Santa Cruz Water District were asked to cut use in half while the area's main pipeline was being repaired. Officials in Daly City just south of San Francisco were monitoring two oceanfront homes that were likely to collapse, Deputy City Manager Ray Lee Singer said Sunday. UFOs 100X Attack # Alcohol added hazard in frigid temperatures MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Alcohol can be a killer when it is mixed with extremely cold temperatures and high winds, according to Dr. Kent Schwitzer of Hennepin County Medical Center. "We advise going outside only if absolutely necessary in such weather, and not going outside at all if you have consumed any alcohol," he said. In addition to those who have been drinking, those most in peril in cold weather are the elderly, the very young, the disabled and the poorly dressed. "Alcohol is dangerous for two reasons: It impairs judgment and most people don't appreciate the fact that they ten. It also dilates the superficial blood vessels of the skin and allows you to lose heat more rapidly." His advice came Sunday when temperatures in some parts of Minnesota dropped to lower than 30 below zero. Wind-chill readings around 80 degrees below zero were common. Hypothermia -- when the core temperature of the human body drops below 94 degrees -- is the biggest danger, said Schwitzer, who is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Decreasing levels of consciousness, frozen extremities and death can occur. UFOs 100X Attack # Mild aftershocks continue WESTON, Mass. (AP) -- Scores of mild aftershocks rumbled through New England Tuesday after an earthquake that could be felt in Boston, an official said. Vladimir Vudler, the senior geophysical analyst at the Weston Observatory, said there have been more than 1,200 aftershocks since a moderate quake rattled dishes and rocked buildings across New England Monday afternoon. Vudler said most of the aftershocks measured between 1.5 and 2.5 on the Richter scale, with a few getting up to 3 or 4. An earthquake of Richter magnitude 5 is considered capable of causing considerable damage if it hits inhabited areas. "None of them could be felt in Boston," Vudler said, "but maybe six of them were felt in the extreme northeastern part of Maine." It would take a shock of at least 5 on the Richter scale for Bostonians to feel it, he said. Monday's quake was measured at 5.8 in Weston and 5.5 at the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake information center in Golden, Colo. There have been nearly 500 aftershocks since the first quake hit southeastern Canada Saturday, Vudler said. "We can expect by the end of the week to reach more than 1,000 aftershocks," he said. "They will last at least a few months." === Page 72 of 278 UFOs Attack # California storm death count reaches 26 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Rescuers used bulldozers and backhoes Friday to uncover buried homes where up to 20 people are feared dead and labored to reach dozens of people stranded along roads blocked by mudslides. The death toll from one of the worst storms in Northern California history stood at 26. The state Office of Emergency Services said 539 people had reported injuries and the damage estimate had reached $280 million. Water remained critically short throughout Santa Cruz County because of broken pipelines, but officials said voluntary conservation efforts appeared to be succeeding. "Life definitely is not back to normal," said sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simpson. "The city government is closed, all the schools are closed. The Health Department has closed all businesses that use water, which is just about everybody. The five largest employers in the county are all closed." He said there were "about 20 roads closed with people isolated at the end of them." The death toll from the storm that dumped about a foot of rain from Sunday to Tuesday rose to 26 Friday with the discovery of the bodies of Ronald and Lee Vaughn of Orinda in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Yosemite National Park during Sunday's snow storm. But the Vaughn's 11-year-old son Donny was found alive, said Dennis McGrath, spokesman for Lemoore Naval Air Station. The boy, suffering shock and severe frost bite, was taken to a Fresno hospital. In nearby Ben Lomond, where workers recovered an unidentified man's body from the mud Thursday, heavy equipment was deployed to uncover a half-dozen homes in the Love Creek area where estimates of the number missing range from six to 20. "We may never find them," said one worker who was cutting up collapsed houses with a chain saw. "It's like playing pickup sticks in there... but there's 40 or 50 feet of debris to pull out in some places." "We're all trying to clean up and restore our lives to some comfortable level," Simpson said. "The families of the deceased are grieving and those families of still missing people are setting up a vigil in Ben Lomond." The cleanup continued throughout the 200-mile section of Northern California where the storm displaced 5,500 people, destroyed 439 homes and 60 businesses, and damaged 6,000 homes and 1,300 businesses, said Jim Watkins, chief of planning for the state emergency services office. President Reagan has declared Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Contra Costa counties as disaster areas, making them eligible for aid from a dozen federal agencies. In Ben Lomond, about 150 volunteers staffed telephones at the volunteer fire station and cooked food donated by local markets. The cloudless blue sky and the perfume of bay laurel and eucalyptus trees provided a stark contrast to the generally grim mood. The overnight temperature dropped into the 20s, freezing layers of mud and making it possible for residents to walk on solid ground while searching for lost possessions. "There's our bed," said Ruth Bell as she picked through the remains of her family's summer cabin. "That's where we would have been sleeping if we had been here when it happened. We are all very grateful that we weren't. That's all that we've been thinking of all day." A ban on air traffic over the 15 miles from Santa Cruz to north of Boulder Creek will continue through the weekend, said deputy Byron Hoffman. He said rescue efforts had been hampered by television helicopters flying low to get pictures. "The helicopter props were knocking down tree limbs on rescue workers, and they couldn't move because they were stuck in the mud," he said. At the worst of the storm, about 320,000 people were without power. Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Jan Miller said 11,000 people were without power Friday, and she expected their service to be restored by nightfall. The county's 70,000 residents cut their water consumption from an average of 10 million gallons a day to 2 million gallons Thursday after officials limited water use to cooking and personal hygiene. "The people in Santa Cruz are tremendous," said Pat McDonald, customer service manager for Santa Cruz Municipal Utilities. "We have very, very little flak from them. They're being very cooperative. It's the spirit of cooperation that comes from a disaster, and then some." She said there were about 6 million gallons of water in Loch Lomond Reservoir, the city's main storage facility, Friday morning. "But we don't expect to run out.... We're hoping we won't." The water shortage began when the storm broke a 24-inch main that was the main feed to the reservoir, from which the city takes its water. County Administrator George Newell said it will take another six days to fix the pipe. UFOs & Projects # Break in line closes Trojan 1/10/82 RAINIER -- Operators shut down the Trojan nuclear power plant early Saturday after a steam line broke in an area not involved in nuclear activity, officials of Portland General Electric Co. reported. The break occurred in a low-pressure exhaust line shortly after 1 a.m., and the plant was shut down in "a routine manner," said Sheri Anderson, a spokeswoman for PGE, which operates the plant. Steam in the turbine building activated fire-detection equipment. The Rainier Fire Department responded, but there was no fire, she said. No one was injured. The plant will remain shut down for several days while crews repair the break and check other steam lines, Ms. Associated Press Laserphoto DISASTER -- Small town of Aptos, Calif., was one of many in Northern California coping with smashed bridges, destroyed houses and mud- and debris-choked streets and residences. === Page 73 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 9, 1982 # Midwest, East shivering in frigid subzero cold wave By United Press International Temperatures far below zero stung the nation's northern midsection and parts of the Northeast Saturday, and heavy snow fell along the southern Great Lakes. One woman was reported frozen to death. The mercury plunged to 46 degrees below zero in the northeast Minnesota town of Embarrass, and strong northerly wind drove the wind-chill factor down to 70 below. The National Weather Service said the icy cold was to reach the Northeast in what may prove to be the most severe outbreak of arctic air not only this season, but in years. Warroad, Minn., reported a high Friday of 17 degrees below zero, and in International Falls, Minn., on the U.S.-Canadian border, the high was 19 below zero, and the overnight low was 40 below. Temperatures in North Dakota and Minnesota never cracked the zero mark. A half-foot of snow shrouded parts of northeast Ohio and Indiana. Warnings were issued for an additional 8 inches in some areas and even greater amounts in the snow belt along Lake Erie. Wind gusting to 80 mph lashed Southern California, blasting out windows and part of a roof at a facility for cerebral palsy patients, sinking a fishing boat and overturning trucks. "Trucks go at their own risk and against our advice," a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. In Los Angeles, wind snapped tree limbs and downed power lines, causing temporary power outages. A high wind warning remained in effect Saturday for the upper Yellowstone Valley of Montana, where wind gusted to 70 mph. Thick early-morning fog enveloped the central California coast Friday, triggering a 33-car pileup on a highway near Delano. Several injuries were reported. A 61-year-old Little Falls, Minn., woman froze to death in 20 below temperatures Thursday outside her apartment. An attendant at an International Falls gasoline station said he received an "unbelievable" number of calls from drivers with car trouble. "We had to turn them away," he said. "Whenever it gets this cold, people aren't prepared." He also said the frigid weather forced people indoors. "You don't stay outside very long," he said. "They say it'll be 87 below by morning with the wind chill and I've got to work the morning shift. "You don't dare stay out there for more than 15 to 20 minutes," he said. United Press International FIERCE WIND -- Tow truck operator Dave Meissner leans into the wind as he tries to walk on I-15 near Fontana, Calif. The travel trailer in the background was blown over by wind gusting up to 80 mph on the second day of fierce wind that blasted through Southern California, sinking two fishing boats off the coast, shattering windows and tearing off roofs. MFOn 100X Attack 1/9/82 === Page 74 of 278 UFDa 100X Attack # newsbreak # Arctic chill grips Europe oreg T 1/9/82 An Arctic chill swept across Europe Saturday, stranding travelers, disrupting power supplies and closing schools and offices from Dublin to Moscow. In Britain -- suffering its worst winter in 18 years -- it was so cold the sea froze, in both western Scotland and off the eastern English coast. LONDON WHITEOUT -- Blizzard conditions hamper commuters during morning rush hour in London Friday. Associated Press Laserphoto UFDa 100X Attack # Freeze grips British Isles, Europe By ROBERT GLASS LONDON (AP) -- Wind-driven snow and numbing temperatures swept the British Isles from Ireland to the Scottish Highlands Friday, clogging most roads and cutting off seven English towns. At least eight people were feared dead. Across Northern Europe, frigid air, snow, and floods disrupted travel and shipping for a second day. Britons, who had been given a post-Christmas respite in the worst December weather in three decades, awoke Friday to 6 inches of snow, driven by gale force winds into drifts of 8 feet in some places. Daytime temperatures plunged to minus 11 degrees Fahrenheit in Scotland, and the sea froze off the Scottish east coast. In the 2,000-year-old city of York, a Royal Automobile Club patrolman reported ice chunks floating in the floodwaters dumped by the raging River Ouse. The city's most widely visited historic sites, including the medieval Yorkminster cathedral, are situated on higher ground and were not affected. Police said all main roads in mid-Wales were impassable. The Automobile Association said the nation's entire road network was affected by snow, ice or floodwater. Five duck hunters -- all members of the same family -- were presumed dead after their small boat got caught in a blizzard on a lake in the Irish Republic, police said. Another fisherman drowned in heavy seas off the eastern coast of England, and a man and his wife were killed in a head-on car crash blamed on the weather in Portsmouth. Western England bore the brunt of the storm, and officials said all roads in and out of seven towns were blocked. Power lines snapped under the weight of ice, cutting off electricity to 10,000 homes on the Cornwall Peninsula. In London, thousands of commuters were stranded by chaotic subway and rail service. Heathrow Airport operated only one of its two runways, and Gatwick Airport was closed. Across the English Channel, much of Northern Europe remained in the grip of icy winter weather. Subzero temperatures were reported throughout Scandinavia, and icebreakers worked around the clock to keep shipping lanes open through the Danish Straits. oreg 1/9/82 === Page 75 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Snowfall explodes mines MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- Heavy snowfall has triggered 1,500 East German booby-trap mines along the fortified border between the West German state of Bavaria and the communist east, border police said Thursday. Sometimes, a spokesman said, a series of mines goes off, sounding like an artillery barrage. He said mines started blowing up in December after the first large snowfall. Two pounds of snow is enough to trigger the mines, the spokesman said. Few escapes from East Germany were reported during the Christmas season, usually a time when more refugees try to get through the border. Police attributed this to increased efficiency of communist fortifications, severe cold and snow, which leaves easily traced footsteps. UFOs & Projects # Flooding routs thousands JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- About 12,000 people have been evacuated from flood areas in the eastern suburbs of Jakarta, the social affairs office said Thursday. A spokesman said the banks of the were inundated by water as high as 6 several days of rain. He said the evac accommodated at family houses, schoo health clinics. oreg 1/22/82 === Page 76 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects # Midwest chilled, Floridians bask By United Press International Temperatures plunge to near zero Thursday in the nation's midsection and snow was falling from Minnesota to New England, but the Southeast - slapped with bitter cold earlier this week - basked in record heat. At least 29 people have died in storms this week. Snowstorms that had dumped 8 inches over parts of the Midwest diminished Wednesday but early Thursday more snow fell across the upper Great Lakes and northwest Minnesota. Snow and sleet also fell on sections of New England. Eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota barely struggled above zero degrees Wednesday. But temperatures hit the 70s along the south Atlantic Coast and zoomed into the record-breaking 80s over Florida, where freezing temperatures Sunday and Monday threatened citrus crops and tourism. Freezing rain pelted sections of the Northeast. The Midwest cleaned up from a fast moving storm that made a two-day sweep, dumping 8 inches of snow in Missouri and southern Illinois and leaving a half-foot of snow in southern Michigan. Heavy rain in Indianapolis flooded streets, forcing workers to spend the night clearing drains of snow and debris so water could run off before it froze. Seven inches of new snow piled on South Bend, Ind., keeping towing services busy with cars that ended up in ditches. "We were going just about all evening," said Dean Kesler, owner of a towing service. "A lot of people still haven't dug out because the snow's so wet and heavy, they can't move. It was the first shot of the winter. People are just going to have to get used to it." "They were on their way home from work or office parties and just got caught in the stuff, and weren't prepared. People were caught unexpected. It was just a mess." Freezing rain and sleet riddled Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York and New Hampshire Wednesday morning. UFOs 6 Projects # Rockies storm spurs warning of avalanches By The Associated Press A Rocky Mountain blizzard with hurricane-force winds and zero visibility prompted avalanche warnings across Colorado Sunday. Another storm dumped 14 inches of snow in Michigan. A plane trying to land during the blizzard crashed one mile east of Yampa Valley Airport near Hayden, Colo., killing all three aboard. Some mountain spots in Colorado reported 20 inches of snow overnight and 48-hour accumulations of more than 2 feet. The storm came less than a week after a series of storms left as much as 4 feet of snow in the mountains over two weeks. The U.S. Forest Service Avalanche Warning Center at Fort Collins, Colo., said the heavy snowfall and winds up to 80 mph were causing a "high to extreme avalanche hazard." "This is a dangerous avalanche situation along with the possibility of avalanches hitting highways along mountain passes," the agency said. "Some roads may be blocked by slides." "It's miserable up here," said Colorado State Patrol dispatcher Mary Upton in Idaho Springs. "We have high winds and ground blizzards along with the falling snow. If you don't have to travel up here, it would be a good idea to stay home." She said U.S. 6 over Loveland Pass was closed and motorists were required to use tire chains on many other roads. Snow also spread Sunday from eastern Michigan across western New York into New England. A band of heavy snow fell from Lansing, Mich., to just west of Alpena, with 12 to 14 inches reported in Gratiot County in the central part of the state. At Hayden, Colo., two men and a woman were killed in the crash of the twin-engine Beechcraft, which was found in a wheat field Sunday morning after volunteers failed to spot the wreckage Saturday night, Routt County Sheriff Nick DeLuca said. Ski equipment, bags full of new clothing and an empty wedding photo album were among the scattered contents from the plane, which was believed to have come from Florida, DeLuca said. "It appeared as though it had gone straight in," DeLuca said. "Both engines had dug large holes in the ground and the aircraft did not appear to move six inches after it hit. I'm sure those on board were killed on impact." DeLuca said the pilot, in contact with air traffic controllers in Denver, said he believed he was over the airport. "He said he was going to turn and make another approach when his voice cut off in midsentence," DeLuca said. In a separate incident, the storm hampered efforts by the Colorado Civil Air Patrol to locate emergency transmitter signals coming from the mountains west of Buena Vista, said CAP spokesman Richard Oakes. The search began when commercial airplanes reported hearing the emergency transmitter signals from Kansas west to Buena Vista. Oakes said there were no reports of missing airplanes in the area. He said occasionally emergency locater devices are set off accidentally in homes or from aircraft in hangars. Winter Park, Colo., reported 20 inches of snow overnight and 28 1/2 inches in the previous 24 hours. Other two-day totals were Vail Mountain, 26 inches; Steamboat Springs, 21 inches; and Monarch Ski Area, 18 inches. === Page 77 of 278 Blustery storm swells rivers, cuts power, closes roads oreg 12/16/81 A gusty wet storm that raked Western Oregon Tuesday knocked out power, brought as much as a foot of new snow to the Cascade Mountains and closed several highways. The heavy rains brought coastal and some Willamette Valley streams back to flood level, but the National Weather Service said a clearing period would permit rivers to fall before the next in a series of storms hits the state Wednesday night or Thursday. Roads were closed for varying periods in Newport on the coast, east of Reedsport in the Coast Range, and between Salem and Independence in the Willamette Valley. In Portland, a tree fell against a 115,000-volt line along Southwest Canyon Road just west of the Vista Ridge Tunnel at about 9:05 a.m., cutting off power to part of the downtown area for nearly 90 minutes. About 8,000 residents were affected by the blackout, which spanned an area from West Burnside Street on the north to Johns Landing on the south and from Sylvan on the west to the Willamette River on the east. Also in the city, PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said, about 1,000 customers between Northeast 82nd and 122nd avenues and Northeast Stark and Division streets lost power at 7:30 a.m. when the wind blew tree limbs through a feeder line. Glenn Gillespie, spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said a feeder line on Northeast Columbia Boulevard was knocked out about 4:30 a.m., cutting off power to a few hundred residential and industrial customers for more than an hour. About 400 customers in Bandon were without power for about an hour during the night. Portland General Electric Co.'s office building was darkened briefly, as were the Marriott Hotel and Portland State University, where a couple of students were trapped in an elevator. However, no major problems were reported. The power blackout affected the operations building of U.S. National Bank in Portland, shutting down 70 automatic teller machines across the state for about 20 minutes. High winds also knocked down a 69,000-volt PP&L transmission line between Madras and Round Butte Tuesday afternoon, causing a four-hour power outage for about 4,000 customers in Madras and Warm Springs, Gillespie said. Gusts just under 40 mph were reported at Portland International Airport. Johnson Creek in Portland rose to 1 foot above flood stage Tuesday morning, but no major flooding was reported. Flood warnings were issued for the Wilson River near Tillamook, which crested at 11.3 feet Tuesday evening -- three tenths of a foot above flood stage -- and was dropping, and the Nehalem River at Foss, which was at its 13-foot flood stage and was expected to crest at 13.7 feet late Tuesday night, the weather service reported. The Coquille River at Coquille was forecast to crest at 22 feet Wednesday morning, 3½ feet above flood stage. A spokesman for the Coos County sheriff's office said lowlands were beginning to flood again but added that most residents evacuated during the major Rockies blanketed Ten lives lost in snowstorms By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 12/29/81 Snowstorms blamed for at least 10 deaths and powerful enough to shut down ski resorts left fresh snow 2 feet deep across the Rockies on Monday and sent cars and trucks spinning into ditches across the Midwest. In Colorado and Utah, blizzard conditions and the threat of avalanches stranded skiers in their lodges. "It's a nightmare," said a Trailways bus dispatcher in Oregon, where buses were running up to four hours late Sunday afternoon, partly because at least 400 cars were stalled on U.S. 26. "It's the worst conditions on Highway 26 in more than a year." Up to 5 inches of snow created treacherous driving conditions from southern Michigan across northern Illinois and Indiana into Ohio. "It's just a normal winter storm, with cars in ditches and minor accidents," said state police Sgt. Robert Southwick in Springfield, Ill. The waning days of December also brought bitter cold to some sections, with readings well below zero from Montana to Minnesota. Havre, Mont., saw the mercury plummet to 25 degrees below zero Monday morning. By contrast, Fort Myers, Fla., had its warmest Dec. 28 on record, topping 85 degrees at noon, and Lake Charles, La., chalked up a record 76. Elsewhere, patches of dense fog that extended from southern Florida into Delaware disrupted at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, the nation's busiest. Gerrie Cook of the Aviation Administration said only a few scheduled early morning flights -- were able to land. Three vacationers were killed Sunday when their car skidded on blinding snow and collided with a truck near Limon, Colo. In Utah, authorities said three people died in weather-related traffic accidents. In Montana, a 55-year-old man died of exposure after his car became stuck in a snowdrift near the town of Opheim. In Michigan, a 64-year-old man collapsed and died while blowing snow from his driveway. At least 200 skiers were stranded Monday at the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts because the threat of avalanches forced officials to close the only road into the area, about 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Authorities said it was uncertain when the road would be reopened. Packy Longfellow, manager of a $25,000 to $100,000-a-week ski package tours were "on hold." "It's frustrating because the conditions and people can't get to them," he said. "This week especially is the biggest week of the ski season in terms of revenue." Schools shut after outages CHICAGO (AP) -- School officials ordered 20 West Side schools closed Wednesday because of power failures that have darkened classrooms intermittently since Monday. Many parents said schools should be shut because fire alarm and sprinkler systems worked only part of the time as utility officials initiated a "rolling brownout" Monday whereby many users had electricity, then didn't, for two-hour periods. Pupils ate lunches cooked with gas by the light of flickering candles in some schools Tuesday and high school students found their way to class through blackened corridors where "anything" could happen, said Doris Payne, spokeswoman for schools Superintendent Ruth B. Love. Power to an eight-square-mile section of the West Side has been crippled since 10 a.m. Monday, when two of three transformers failed. Commonwealth Edison Co. officials had hoped to restore power by Monday night, but the burned-out transformers had not been replaced with a portable unit as of early Wednesday. Some industries closed and others reduced operations. oreg 12/3/81 === Page 78 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects Org 5 12/31/81 TYPHOON DAMAGE -- Government troops search wreckage of a barracks in Catarman, Philippines, Wednesday in wake of Typhoon Lee, which struck the town located about 280 miles southeast of Manila. The typhoon ripped through central Philippines, killing at least 185 people, according to reports. United Press International UFOs 6 Projects Org 1/6/82 RP DE SIG MARTIN CAMBRONNE TROCADERO CONCORDE X PRECARIOUS PARIS PERCH -- A Parisian finds walking his dog a little tricky on the flooded quais of the Seine River in view of the Eiffel Tower. The river reportedly was receding Tuesday. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 79 of 278 UFO 6 Projects # Six skiers rescued as ice grips state WASHINGTON Oreg 1/6/82 By SCOTTA CALLISTER of The Oregonian staff A search for two skiers in the Siskiyou Mountains was successful Tuesday as icy, snowy conditions continued to cause traffic problems, school closures and power outages in Oregon. The Jackson County sheriff's office organized a search near the Mount Ashland ski area for Aaron D. Cox, 22, and his wife Virginia, 20, of Ashland. The two were reported missing Tuesday after they failed to return from a one-day ski trip Sunday. Rescue crews elsewhere reported happy endings to two other searches in the state. Four cross-country skiers missing since Sunday night in the Three Fingered Jack area of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness were rescued by helicopter at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, said Sgt. Loran Davis of the Linn County sheriff's office. A crew from the 304th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron found the skiers near a shelter off the Skyline Trail and took them to Ski Bowl. Searchers said the four made camp Sunday after becoming lost in the area, where heavy snowfall over the weekend contributed to a total of about 13 feet of snow. A separate search ended Monday after a family from the remote Owyhee River Canyon in Eastern Oregon notified authorities that they were not lost, as had been reported earlier. The couple and two children were the subject of an air search during which a helicopter went down with engine trouble. The five crewmen on the Idaho Air National Guard helicopter were in good condition when they were rescued Monday, according to Malheur County sheriff's deputies. The family was reported missing after failing to arrive at Jordan Valley after leaving the remote ranch. They told police they had stayed with friends, however. Meanwhile, Oregon State Police continued to report icy conditions on highways across the state as temperatures plummeted Tuesday night. Trooper Tom Jeleniewski of the Portland said no reported an area, skidding is froze. stay at day, where highs were expected to be in the 30s and lows in the teens. The storm that brought snow to most of the state had moved on toward Colorado and Utah, according to forecaster Rob Nordberg. The storm prompted school closures in the Portland metropolitan area and created icy road conditions that led to several minor bus accidents Tuesday. Phill Colombo, Tri-Met spokesman, said no one was injured when a Tri-Met bus struck a utility pole at Northeast 102nd Avenue and Prescott Street early Tuesday. The mishap caused a power outage to about 1,200 homes for about two hours. Buses also skidded into ditches at two other locations Tuesday, but no injuries were reported. Colombo said all Tri-Met buses would be equipped with tire chains Wednesday because of the snow and ice in outlying areas. Meanwhile, utility crews worked late to restore power to areas where snow and fallen trees had interrupted service. Dave Eagon, Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, said power should be restored Wednesday morning to customers in the Hoodland and Estacada areas. Leonard Bacon, Pacific Power & Light Co. spokesman, said power was restored to Grants Pass customers who lost power over the weekend. Repair work was still "touch and tuck" in the Junction City said. UFO 6 Projects # East's bitter weather clogs roads, takes life By The Associated Press Oreg 12/11/81 More than a foot of snow choked roads in the mountains of Maryland and West Virginia Thursday as biting cold sent temperatures plunging to near zero in parts of the Northeast and Midwest. At least one death, that of an old woman who died of exposure in New Jersey, was blamed on the latest bout of bitter winter weather. Some schools in western Maryland were forced to close because of the snow. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, the Coast Guard was kept busy rescuing sailors unprepared for treacherous gales and high waves. Four inches of snow fell overnight on northeastern Ohio and Marquette, Mich., while snowdrifts grew higher in upstate New York. Fulton, N.Y., reported 17 inches of snow on the ground Thursday. Seven inches of snow fell on Rochester, N.Y., as the mercury dipped into the teens. Although no serious traffic accidents were reported in upstate New York, state trooper Paul Kelly said: "People are just trying to move too fast for conditions. It's like 'The Gong Show' out there. One car gets in trouble, and the rest of them pile into each other." Subzero temperatures froze parts of northern Minnesota. International Falls, nicknamed the "icebox of the nation," reported an early morning temperature of 3 below zero. In New Jersey, temperatures warmed only a few degrees after a day of highs in the 20s and 30s and winds gusting up to 40 mph. At midafternoon Thursday, Newark reported 37 and Atlantic City 34. Transportation and utility officials reported few problems from the gusty wind and cold, but police said the frigid temperatures contributed to a 93-year-old woman who apparently wandered from her home in a housecoat, scarf, sweater and slippers. Anna Hipolit, found early Wednesday by a neighbor in the community of South Bound Brook, died of exposure, said Detective Howard Bozinta. UFO 6 Projects # Snow cuts power to areas on coast DEPOE BAY - Several hundred households in the Depoe Bay, Siletz and Lincoln Beach areas were without power Friday and most of Saturday after a main power line transformer blew out and another high voltage line snapped under the weight of snow. Power was fully restored by about 5 p.m. Saturday, said Norm Berg, senior systems engineer for the Central Lincoln Public Utility District. The original transformer problem was corrected Friday night, but overloads put the main line out of commission again Saturday, said Linda McGuire, utility district assistant office manager. Early Saturday, more outages occurred when snow dragged down a main line, Ms. McGuire said. Oreg 1/3/82 === Page 80 of 278 UFOr 6 Projects Heavy floods threaten Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (UPI) - Torrential monsoon rains lashed Malaysia and Singapore for the fifth consecutive day, driving hundreds of people from their homes, relief officials said Wednesday. High winds swept the heaviest rains since 1975 across the northeastern Malay-" sian state of Trengganu and the southern state of Johore, each about 250 miles from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. Floodwaters inundated main trunk roads to the provincial capitals, stalling hundreds of vehicles. Police warned vil- lagers along the Johore River to prepare for evacuation immediately. oreg 5 12/6/81 UFO2 6 Projects Rains strike Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Three days of heavy rains in south-cen- tral Brazil have killed at least 15 people and left more than 3,800 homeless, civil derense and police authorities said Mon- day. The victims were mostly residents of hillside shantytown slums, who died in mudslides or were crushed beneath their shacks, according to state police. org ,15 82 Oregon Journal, December 10, 1981 Worst drought in 100 years hurting millions in Spain UFOR 6 Projects ALMENDRALEJO, Spain (UPI) - "This is not soil, it's dust. - Fausto Lopez, a small farmer in Spain's frought-stricken south, let his mule rest Ind picked up brown dry earth. He watched it rickle between his fingers. Lopez and. millions of peo- Te in the arid update: spain Spanish south are living through the worst drought in 100 years. Statistically, Very square yard needs 32 gallons of rain low or the area's vital vines and olive rees will die - leaving the regions of Extremadura, Andalusia and the center of Spain without most of its income. "Two rainless years have cut wine and Hive yields in half this season. Overall lamage to crops, cereals and livestock is stimated by the agricultural ministry at- $1.5 billion, In hundreds of villages throughout the red-and-yellow-earth south, wells have run dry. Drinking water is trucked in and portioned out in daily rations ... "If it doesn't rain before Christmas, the Vines and olive trees will produce no new blooms next spring. This means disaster," jaid Juan Pabon, mayor of Almendralejo, a town of 22,000 in the hills near the Portuguese border. "No rain means no crop. No crop means no work, the total ruin of this area," he said. For the 1.5 million people of Seville, capital of Andalusia, water has been cut to seven hours a day. Water reserves are down to 27 percent of capacity through- out the country compared with nearly 60 percent last year. The south, dry for centuries, has learned to live with water scarcity. But now even game wardens join the cry of farmers and town supply planners. "Migrating birds were the lucky ones this year," said Pedro Molina, director of a nature reserve in the south central Ciudad Real region. "Unlike other animals, they could leave when they saw there was no Antonio Jara, mayor of Granada, pre- dicts "a catastrophe will be on our hands by Christmas unless water is severely ra- tioned all over." Patience is a chief virtue for fa working the parched land in the But now tempers are running as earth baked hard under a merciless sky. Rain dances from pre-Christian are reportedly performed in remote of Extremadura, the southwest. named for its "very hard" soil. Along Andalusia's coast, house graffiti cries in illogical despair: Franco it rained." But Madrid authorities promise a million dollar relief plan to feed sheep and goats and to replenish supplies if rain doesn't fall before tl of the year. "We need wells and more irri canals," said Julio Hernandez, a worker in Almendralejo. He showed itor the "pitifully small olives of the son." In the Caceres region southwest drid, 67 townships and villages g new wells in a government drive, ing at least another 2 months of wales some 80,000 people. United Press International BONE DRY - The bottom of the "But the wine and the olives wi Oliana reservoir in northern Spain apr drought of the century continues to to more than 50 percent," said pears completely dry as the worst, linger over the country .- Barro, a farmers' spokesman. "Fo year runs from September to September, so we are really entering our third drought season " The situation was deemed so serious the primate of Spain, Cardinal Marcelo Gon- zalez Martin, recently led a procession of faithful through the medieval streets of Toledo in prayers for rain, dusting off age-old rites in the Catholic Church. === Page 81 of 278 UFOs & Projects Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Wednesday, December 9, 1981 # Another storm staggers New England The second snowstorm in three days hit New England yesterday, forcing the rescue of hikers from snowy mountains and boaters from stormy seas. Another storm expected to dump more than a half-foot of snow began its assault from New York to the Great Lakes. At least 20 people have been killed in bad weather on both coasts since the weekend. The New England blizzard was blamed for nine deaths. Another four deaths were blamed on Northwest rains and six deaths were blamed on Southern California fog. The 20th victim was James Ridgeway, 24, drowned yesterday near Meadville, Pa., when his car spun off icy U.S. 19 and plunged into a creek. More rain soaked the water-logged Pacific Northwest. Thick fog blanketed California for the fourth straight morning, temporarily closing Los Angeles International Airport. Between 2 and 6 inches of snow blanketed the Lake Erie snowbelt east of Cleveland. Five inches of snow blown by 25 mph winds blanketed parts of western Maryland. ### More to come "The wind keeps blowing, and that's the bad thing about it," said a Maryland state police spokesman. "The roads are real icy, and now it's getting colder." Warnings for more than a half-foot of snow were posted for parts of northern Pennsylvania and up to 5 inches of snow in western New York. Gale force winds and snow squalls were expected to bluster across the Great Lakes. Heavy to moderate snowfalls also were forecast for the Ohio Valley. By early evening, the upstate New York cities of Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Rochester received about an inch of snow. Binghamton reported 3 inches. Heavy snow spread into northern Indiana, reducing visibility to one-quarter mile along parts of the Indiana Toll Road, especially from Elkhart to LaPorte. Up to 4 inches of snow was forecast. It was predicted another 1 to 4 inches of snow would fall across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island by late yesterday. Up to 15 inches of snow fell in the weekend blizzard, which was the worst storm to hit New England since February 1978. Near Lincoln, N.H., a helicopter lifted two Connecticut men who had been stranded in the White Mountains since Friday. Robert Newman, 20, of Redding, Conn., and Pierre Garofallo, 17, of Easton, Conn., were transported to Littleton Hospital, New Hampshire Air National Guard Capt. Henry Mock said. One of the hikers required medical attention for frostbite, he said. "What must have happened is that they got caught in that snow storm and they holed up in that shelter and they stayed there," Mock said. "It was the smartest thing they could've done, just sat and waited." Seven people were plucked from sinking boats in the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean. There were no deaths or serious injuries. The Coast Guard said 40-foot waves and 75 mph winds produced by the recent storm that raked New England made the ocean treacherous, particularly for light vessels. UFOs & Projects # Weather blamed for deaths of 15 By DAVID I. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 12/8/81 New England schoolchildren got a holiday in knee-deep snow Monday, blinding fog shrouded Southern California, and floodwaters washed through Oregon as authorities counted at least 15 deaths blamed on the weather since the weekend. Boston spent its last dollar budgeted to plow snow for the entire winter as crews worked to open roads clogged by a blizzard that fooled weathermen late Saturday and dumped up to 2½ feet of snow across eastern New England. Eight persons died in the region. Two of the four runways at Boston's Logan International Airport were reopened by Monday afternoon, after snow and high winds forced the airport to shut down Sunday. On Nantucket Island, Mass., a whale beached during the storm was airlifted by helicopter Monday to Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn. The Atlantic long-finned pilot whale was the only survivor among 14 whales that swam onto Nantucket during the storm, according to Liz Kay, a spokeswoman for the New England Aquarium. A team from the aquarium joined other marine specialists on the island Monday morning, responding to reports of up to 50 beached whales. A veterinarian examined the surviving whale, and the decision was made to try to save it, Ms. Kay said. Thick fog that contributed to at least six traffic deaths descended on Southern California for a fourth night Sunday, causing a shutdown of Los Angeles International Airport until morning, disrupting flights in other cities, and slowing freeway travel. Floods and mudslides caused by record rains in southern Oregon that forced 250 to abandon their homes over the weekend still had a number of roads blocked, and the weather service said a fresh storm was on the way. A woman was killed in McMinnville, Ore., Saturday when 50-mph winds toppled a 176-foot fir tree onto her home. The New England snowstorm, the worst since the blizzard of February 1978, knocked out power to about 86,000 residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and left highways strewn with abandoned cars. Most of the service was restored Monday, and main highways were reopened. Schools and colleges, however, were closed in most of Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts and the interior of eastern Connecticut. The National Weather Service measured up to 20 inches of snow in Massachusetts, the heaviest 24-hour snowfall in December since 1926. Newport, R.I., got about 2½ feet. "We brought our children to Boston to see the snow, but this is ridiculous," said George Porter of Miramar, Fla., who was stranded at Logan airport Sunday with his wife, Beverly, and their two children, Glen, 13, and Tracy, 8. === Page 82 of 278 # Surprise storm paralyzes New England Woman motorist in Medford, Mass., digs out car in street filled with fallen branches # Boston declares emergency; 6 states buried 12/7/81 BOSTON (UPI) -- A surprise blizzard that paralyzed New England with 2 feet of wind-driven snow whipped up deep drifts on icy roadways Monday and left thousands of residents without power. At least three deaths were blamed on the storm. "Really, the hazard now is the high wind," said forecaster Gene Auciello. "Where the roads are not totally clear -- and that's about everywhere -- there will be treacherous driving conditions just about all though the area." School children celebrated a day off Monday as administrators shut down hundreds of schools because of the early winter storm that hit six states and the region's two major cities, Boston and Providence, R.I. Boston officials declared an emergency as state and local authorities asked the metropolitan area's 2 million people to use public transportation to get to work. The storm, the worst since 1978, caught New Englanders and meteorologists off guard. Forecasters predicted 2 to 4 inches Saturday night. Instead, Newport, R.I., was buried in 24 inches, Boston received 15 inches and some Boston suburbs got 18 inches. The storm concentrated its strength on eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but parts of eastern Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine also were blanketed. A National Weather Service spokesman said the snow tapered off in most places Sunday night as the storm headed northeast off the coast of Nova Scotia. Strong wind gusting up to 50 mph in some places whipped the snow into deep === Page 83 of 278 drifts and covered roads almost as fast as they were plowed. Temperatures were expected to range from the teens to the 30s Monday. Thousands of air travelers, including the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, were unable to get in or out of Boston when officials closed Logan International Airport all day Sunday. The Maple Leafs' game against the Boston Bruins was postponed. One runway was opened Monday, but Logan officials said long delays could be expected until the rest of the airport was cleared. Snowplows moved slower than usual in many Massachusetts communities hard hit by the Proposition 2½ tax-cutting law. Boston Public Works Commissioner Joseph Casazza said his department's 60 percent personnel and budget cuts delayed clearing of the streets. Highway crews cleared and sanded major arteries, but smaller roads were covered. Fender-benders and minor injuries were numerous. 12/7/81 United Press International man at left skis through Boston during snowstorm that paralyzed much of New England # Pacific storm floods roads, forces 200 to flee United Press International An intense Pacific storm, which dumped 7 inches of rain across Western Oregon, tapered off Sunday night after washing out highways, sending rivers over their banks and forcing at least 200 people to flee their homes. The only death attributed to the weekend storm was that of a 40-year-old McMinnville woman who died Saturday after a tree fell into her apartment, striking her as she lay in bed. Carolyn Nelson was fatally injured when a 176-foot fir tree, torn from rain-sodden soil by 50 mph winds, crushed through the roof of her residence, police said. Another occupant of the apartment, Gill Martin, 49, received a broken arm. Stream levels were falling Monday morning, but schools were closed at Myrtle Point, Coquille and Allegany in Coos County because many roads were closed by high water. Weyerhaeuser Co. said it would not open its forest operations in Coos County Monday because workers were unable to reach logging sites. Highway 101, blocked by a crevice that opened across the major coastal route 16 miles south of Florence, will be closed for at least a week, Oregon State Police reported. Highway 58, closed for a time by a slide 20 miles east of Eugene, was open to one-way traffic Monday. Flood warnings also were in effect for a second day along the Willamette, Umpqua and Siuslaw rivers because of heavy rains and mountain runoff caused by high freezing levels in the Cascades. All the streams were falling Monday morning, however. Although the rain turned to showers Sunday night, forecasters said another storm headed toward Oregon from the Pacific would bring more showers Monday and heavier rain Tuesday. Record amounts of rain fell in several areas, especially along the coast, where 6.8 inches was recorded at Gold Beach in the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. Eugene reported a record 24-hour total of 5.02 inches, breaking the mark of 4.88 inches set in January 1974. At Ellendale Vineyard, 3 miles west of Dallas, a massive oak tree fell and damaged the roof of a new winery building. Owner Robert Hudson said the main trunk of the tree missed the structure, but damage was caused by large limbs. The south fork of the Coquille River at 12/7/81 Myrtle Point in Southern Oregon had risen to 50 feet Sunday afternoon and crested at 54 feet -- 19 feet above flood stage. Al Holloway, Coquille police dispatcher, reported at 6:45 a.m. Monday that the water was dropping rapidly. He added that no serious problems were encountered there, although Shelley Road east of Coquille had washed out and residents beyond that point had to run their cars over an old cat road or cow path to get out. The south fork of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point crested at 51 feet at noon Sunday -- 15 feet above flood stage -- and had fallen to 47.5 feet by nightfall. Several other rivers in Western Oregon reached their peaks and were starting to recede Sunday night. In the Portland area, the Clackamas and Tualatin rivers and Johnson Creek were receding late Sunday after nearing or topping flood levels. === Page 84 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto PORTLAND UNDER SNOW -- Woman in Portland, Maine, braves wind, snow to fetch Sunday paper. # Near-blizzard hits New England area By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A surprise near-blizzard, called the worst New England snowstorm since 1978, plastered cities with up to 2 feet of snow that blocked highways, blacked out neighborhoods and closed airports. Authorities in Vermont and Connecticut reported three weather-related deaths, and more than 92,000 people were left without power in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The storm, described as a "meteorological bomb" by one forecaster Sunday, dumped up to 16 inches on Boston. It was that city's heaviest December snowfall in more than half a century. A snow emergency was declared, sharply reducing parking on city streets. The Boston area and Providence, R.I., bore the brunt of the storm, which caught forecasters off guard when it moved out over the Atlantic and unpredictably switched directions late Saturday to hit much of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. With winds gusting up to 50 mph in places, the storm built drifts that blocked roads and forced motorists to abandon their cars as airports closed and buses were halted. In Rhode Island, depths ranged from 15 inches in Providence, a city of 155,000, to just over 2 feet in the southeastern part of the state. Crews plowed emergency paths to hospitals. The heavy snow knocked down power lines and the Warwick, R.I., fire department lost 90 percent of its alarm system. The Rhode Island Transit Authority suspended all bus service. Commonwealth Electric Co. reported outages to 35,000 customers in the Duxbury area south of Boston and to another 5,000 in Marshfield. Boston Edison said it had reports of 6,000 customers without power, and 46,000 people were reportedly without power in Rhode Island, 26,000 of them in the area around Newport. National Weather Service meteorologist Thomas DiGregorio at Logan International Airport said the storm did not last quite long enough to be classified a blizzard. The storm had continuous winds of 35 mph or more, and visibility was one-quarter mile or less, but not for a long enough period of time. He said the significant snowfall from the storm was over by 9 p.m. Sunday, although flurries were expected. Joseph Cassava, director of public works in Boston, said snow was 16 inches deep in the western part of the city with communities to the south reporting 19 inches. 'We're grateful it's Sunday," said James Carlin, the Massachusetts secretary of transportation, as 2,500 snowplows worked to clear highways in time for Monday's rush hour. The Weather Service measured 10½ inches of snow at weather-locked Logan Airport. === Page 85 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - # Blizzard paralyzes Midwest, kills 4 By The Associated Press Arg 12/2/81 A corn belt blizzard driving blinding snow across the Midwest with 50-mph winds Tuesday crippled cities and closed highways, stranding hundreds of travelers and shutting down schools. At least four people were killed as a "very dangerous" winter storm surged through parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota at blizzard force, flinging snow up to 14 inches deep and building 4-foot drifts. Highways were strewn with jackknifed trucks. Many motorists abandoned their cars and sought refuge in motels, farm houses and emergency shelters. In some areas, even the snowplows were halted by the blowing snow. "Absolutely, unbelievably, horrible," was the way Robert McDermott of Piedmont, S.D., described conditions on Interstate 90, as he sat out the storm in a gymnasium at Murdo, S.D., with about a dozen other travelers. The snow measured up to 14 inches deep in southern Minnesota, 10 inches in Nebraska and South Dakota and 7 inches in Iowa. A 50-year-old man collapsed and died while running a snowblower Monday at his home in Brookings, S.D. The body of a 79-year-old trapper reported missing near Sioux Rapids, Iowa, during the height of the storm was found Tuesday. Authorities said he apparently drowned in the Little Sioux River. In Potter, Neb., a 23-year-old worker was killed Monday when 30-mph winds toppled the 100-foot tower of an oil rig. A 43-year-old woman was killed near Albert Lea, Minn., when the car she was riding in skidded on a snow-covered road and was struck broadside by another car, the State Patrol said. At Fort Pierre, S.D., three goose hunters and a man who went to their aid were rescued Tuesday morning after they spent the night stranded in a snowstorm with winds of 38 mph and temperatures at 26 degrees. More than 100 miles of Interstate 90, the main east-west artery across South Dakota, was barricaded for 12 hours overnight by state police on orders from Gov. Bill Janklow. "There are people in the ditches and more people trying to get on the road," said Janklow, who ordered the closing of I-90 as well as U.S. south from Pierre. "It's a real h people trying to drive on i going to kill somebody." I-90 was south of th Mitchell stretch leas day city people the weekend. By The Associated Press Arg 11/23/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Snow, cold span big area Record cold temperatures refrigerated some sections of Florida early Sunday as storms dumped up to a foot of snow on parts of New York and Ohio. At least one death was blamed on the latest snowfall. In Minnesota, meanwhile, a few years left 10 inches of slush on city streets Wednesday and Thursday, hundreds of people were still without electricity. The storm, blamed for the deaths of at least 18 people across the Midwest, moved into the East over the weekend. In the "snowbelt" area south of Buffalo, N.Y., residents woke up Sunday to a blanket of snow 4 to 12 inches deep. Chautauqua County was hardest hit, with 12 inches reported in Sinclairville. One traffic death in New York was blamed in the storm. Authorities said Jane Laney, 52, of the Buffalo suburb of Grand Island, died Saturday when her car skidded on a snow-covered road and struck a well and a building. One to 6 inches of snow fell in northeastern Ohio. No major problems were reported, said Dennis Dixon of the National Weather Service, adding the weather was "not unusual" in the area at this time of year. Skies were clear over the Southeast on Sunday as the mercury dipped into the teens in Tennessee and into the 20s as far south as Florida. Record cold temperatures were reported in the Florida cities of Orlando, Pensacola and Daytona Beach. The low of 33 in Daytona Beach tied a record set in 1937, while Orlando reported 35, 4 degrees below the record set in 1952. It was 29 in Pensacola, a reading that tied a 1952 mark. Citrus growers in the Orlando area welcomed the cold, saying it would trigger juice growth in their crops. Temperatures were expected to be slightly warmer Sunday night and to return to normal within a few days. In Georgia, only St. Simons Island reported a temperature above freezing early Sunday. Clayton, in the north Georgia mountains, reported the state's low of 20 degrees. In Minnesota, temperatures moderated after an early morning low Saturday of 6 degrees. More than 160,000 customers of Northern States Power Co. lost power last week when the heaviest snowfall since 1966 toppled tree branches into power lines. Some residents were forced to seek shelter elsewhere or curl up in sleeping bags as the outage stretched into the weekend. Crews were working around the clock to restore service, and only a few hundred people were still without lights and heat when a tree fell Sunday morning, knocking out power to 1,000 the number of customers known to be without power, utility officials said. motorists who were towed to safety Monday night. They were first taken to motels, and when motel owners hung out the "no vacancy" signs, to farm homes or whatever shelter was close. In Jackson County in southwestern Minnesota, a sheriff's dispatcher said late Monday, "At the motels, they're sleeping on couches, chairs, anything they can find." There also were many reports of trucks jackknifed along the interstate highways and U.S. 30 near North Platte, Neb. In Lexington, Neb., where about 50 motorists took shelter in a National Guard armory, the power was knocked out Monday night. Winds flipped light planes parked in the western village of Oshkosh, Neb. The acting police chief of Lexington, Bob Brummet, said: "It's still mighty slippery on the interstate. My dispatcher's been going up the walls with calls about jackknifed trucks and cars in the ditch." Elsewhere in Nebraska, Custer County Sheriff Neil Fink said, "The plows are out and about the only way you can get anywhere is to follow right behind the plow, because the roads drift back in so fast." Iowa, blowing snow forced the stop plowing Interstate 35 over-between the Minnesota border === Page 86 of 278 Holiday storms kill at least six By United Press International Minnesota and Wisconsin were hit by as much as 10 inches of snow and icy roads, and five persons were killed in accidents blamed on treacherous driving conditions in Colorado. Another man was killed by lightning while hunting. Nearly a foot of snow fell Thursday in communities along Lake Superior in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. By midday, 10 inches of snow fell in areas around Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., and the snow continued to accumulate at a rate of an inch an hour. Near Mazomanie, Wis., a lightning bolt struck a hunting party during a thunderstorm Thanksgiving day, killing Roy E. Pauley, 69, of Mazomanie. In Oregon, Interstate 5 over the Siskiyou Mountains, the main link with California, was closed for hour and a half early Thursday because of snow and icy conditions that caused cars to go out of control and trucks to jackknife. A strong cold front bustled into Illinois, Indiana and Iowa Thursday evening backed by strong northerly winds gusting up to 60 mph. Temperatures dropped in a number of places from 60 degrees at noon into the 30s by late evening. Slush and ice from a Thanksgiving Eve storm were cited as the cause for at least five holiday traffic fatalities in Colorado. A two-car collision on slushy U.S. 285 north of Bailey killed three people and sent a teenaged boy to the hospital in critical condition. Two cars collided on U.S. 666 near Dove Creek in the southwest corner of Colorado Wednesday night when one of the vehicles went out of control on an icy road and crossed the center line, killing one man. An accident in the Fort Collins, Colo., area killed a young man whose motorcycle went out of control on a slick road shortly after midnight Thursday and struck a tree in the median parkway. A winter storm warning was in effect over upper Michigan, where an additional half-foot of snow was forecast. Travelers' advisories were posted to cover northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Heavy thunderstorms rolled across the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley earlier Thursday drenching parts of Illinois and Michigan. Winds clocked at up to 70 mph blasted eastern Missouri and damaged several downtown storefronts in St. Louis. A winter storm warning was in effect over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and, in preparation for the snow, winter storm watches were issued for Nevada, the mountains of Southern California and the mountains of northern Arizona. Holiday revelers on the northern and central Pacific coast saw Thanksgiving Day ushered in with rain and snow. Heavy snowfall near Placerville, Calif., created a traffic jam on Highway 50. A winter storm sweeping across Colorado closed at least one mountain pass and created a "moderate" avalanche hazard in the northern mountains. THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1981 Storms ravage Texas, Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A blizzard churning snow into huge drifts stunned the Midwest Monday as thunderstorms socked Texas with 50 mph winds that flipped airplanes, tore roofs off buildings and ripped down power lines. Residents of some communities in Arizona were digging out from under 15 inches of snow that fell over the weekend. In the only reported weather-related deaths, dense fog that descended on much of Texas was blamed for the crash of a light plane in Dallas that killed two people late Sunday. Nebraska's first major snowstorm of the season, which packed winds of 50 mph and was compared by one official to the blizzard of 1888, closed dozens of schools and stymied traffic. Snow falling at the rate of an inch an hour had built to 8 inches by noon and was still coming down in the blizzard area about 300 miles west of Omaha. The National Weather Service said, "Blizzard conditions exist north of North Platte all the way to Valentine and from Arthur County east to Custer County." Temperatures in the area were in the 20s and falling, the weather service said. "Picture the blizzard of 1888," said Hooker County Sheriff Mike Okinn when asked to describe the weather. Roads and highways in the area were barely passable, he said. "If you creep along at about 5 miles an hour, you might be all right," he said. "It's pretty bad." Winter storm watches stretch from eastern Nebraska, across all Iowa and southeastern South Dakota into northwest Wisconsin. In Texas, winds gusting to 50 mph whipped through the Dallas-Fort Worth area, flipping over two airplanes, blowing out the wall of a Garland high school gymnasium and causing power outages. The early morning winds knocked over two planes at Fort Worth's Meacham Field and ripped a door from one of the airport's hangars. No one was injured. Power lines, trees and billboards were downed throughout Fort Worth and about 250 homes temporarily were without electricity. === Page 87 of 278 Wind buffets McCall, southwest Idaho, cutting power Boise, Idaho 11/16/81 Statesman News Services Sunday was a wonderful rainy day to sleep in - for some people. And some southwest Idaho residents probably did just that after they poked their heads out the door or window and saw dark skies and rain. But in McCall, some probably spent a pretty sleepless night shivering in their homes without power. A weekend windstorm, called by some old-timers in the area the worst ever to hit the McCall area, swept through the area, cutting off power and damaging dozens of summer homes along Payette Lake. Repair crews worked Sunday night, 36 hours after the storm, to re-store power to some customers. Idaho Power Co. spokesman Larry Taylor said about 700 customers in the McCall-Cascade area still weren't back in service by Sunday night, and there was no indication when repairs would be complete. The storm, with gusts unofficially estimated at 100 mph came on the heels of a windstorm which struck the Boise area Friday night, knocking television and radio stations off the air and disrupting electrical service to about 5,000 customers. Rain drizzled on and off Sunday in the Boise area making roads slick. However, there were no serious accidents reported by late Sunday in southwestern Idaho. An unusual storm system has swirled a pair of rainstorms and some unseasonal high winds through southwest Idaho during the last three days, weather forecasters said. The moisture falling on Boise came from as far away as Hawaii, National Weather Service Lead Forecaster Paul Rausch said. The rainfall left Boise ahead of normal daily, monthly and yearly rainfall totals, Rausch said. Normally at this time of year, Boise gets 0.04 inch of precipitation daily. Between midnight Saturday and 9 p.m. Sunday, .32 inch of rain fell, Rausch said. The normal rainfall for the first 15 days of November is about 0.6 inch. As of 9 p.m. Sunday, 0.91 inch had fallen, Rausch said. The normal rainfall from Jan. 1 through Nov. 15 is 9.42 inches, Rausch said. That compares with 11.1 inches that have fallen so far this year, he said. And southwest Idaho can expect more of the same, Rausch said. Another frontal system should pass through during the early morning hours today, Rausch said. Southwest Idaho should have periodic rainfall, possibly through Tuesday. Southwest Idaho also may be in for some more wind today, Rausch said. Wind gauges in Reno, Nev., had recorded 40-mph gusts earlier Sunday evening and that weather was headed for Boise, Rausch said. Hopeful skiers saw some snow glinting Sunday on Shafer Butte, but the snow had started to melt by midnight because the temperature was in the mid- to upper 30s, a Bogus Basin Recreation Area spokeswoman said. About two inches of wet snow fell Sunday on Shafer Butte, but forecasters thought temperatures would not stay cold enough to retain much of the snow. Idaho KELLOGG'S FATE: What is the worst that could happen - the doomsday scenario for Kellogg and the Silver Valley - after complete shutdown of the Bunker Hill Co.? Page 1B. POWERLESS: While Boiseans had to contend with daylong drizzle Sunday, some McCall residents were still without power 36 hours after a windstorm blew through their town, knocking down power lines. Page 1B. Boise Id. 11/16/81 Coast wind cuts power Wind up to 90 mph on the Northern Oregon Coast felled trees and caused power outages Saturday. Highway 18 northeast of Lincoln City was closed temporarily by downed trees, as was the Netarts Highway west of Tillamook. At Depoe Bay, the Coast Guard recovered a boat torn loose by the wind. Storm downs Treasure Valley's power Twin Falls (Times) Id. 11/15/81 By United Press International Areas of McCall and Cascade remained without power Saturday morning and a line supplying power to the Treasure Valley's television and radio stations was dead as the result of the Friday the 13th storm which passed through southern Idaho. However, Idaho Power Co. spokesman Bob Brown said an auxiliary line to radio and TV stations atop Shafer Butte and Deer Point north of Boise was energized about 8:30 a.m. to put the stations back on the air. The auxiliary line from Boise to the transmitters was down due to construction to supply additional power to a new independent television station in Nampa, Brown said. As soon as the problem on the Horseshoe Bend to the transmitters was found and fixed, the line from Boise would be shut down to continue construction. He said he expected construction on the line to be completed within two weeks. A felled tree was found on the line from Horseshoe Bend early Saturday and power was restored about 3:30 a.m., but power was cut off again about a half hour later, Brown said. Utility crews were working on repairing the problem as well as numerous breakages in lines supplying the McCall and Cascade area, Brown said. He said he expected the outages to be repaired some time Saturday. Brown said as many as 5,000 customers were without power Friday evening after the storm passed through the area. Outages were reported in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, McCall, Cascade, Parma, Donnelly and Halfway, Ore., he said. Power also was down at the Idaho State Penitentiary south of Boise, but prison officials said a backup system went on until power was restored at 12:10 a.m. Saturday. The strongest recorded gust at the Boise Municipal Airport Friday measured 43 mph, a National Weather Service employee said. But Brown said the utility's dispatcher received reports of 100-mph winds at Shafer Butte. Law enforcement officials in Ada and Canyon counties, meanwhile, said they were deluged with reports of fallen power lines and trees that were creating traffic hazards. The outages resulted in loss of some traffic signals in Ada County, dispatchers said, but no traffic accidents or injuries were reported. === Page 88 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - Oreg P 10/26/81 # 1st big snowfall covers wide area By United Press International The first widespread snowstorm of the season was blamed for traffic accidents that took five lives in Wyoming and Minnesota, and a tornado that plowed across the Florida panhandle wrecked 30 houses and demolished a football stadium. No one was seriously injured in the twister that struck Blountstown, Fla., Sunday afternoon, but the storm knocked out electricity to the town's 3,000 residents, hampering cleanup Monday along the 300-yard-wide path of destruction. "It could have been a lot worse," Mayor Laddie Williams said. "We're very fortunate that no one is really badly hurt, and that is, of course, what we're most concerned about." Officials said damage, expected to reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, includes the destruction of a high school football stadium, a flattened mobile home and severe damage to about 30 houses. From the Rockies to the Great Lakes during the weekend, a fierce snow squall was blamed for the deaths of at least five people in traffic. At least one highway death and numerous accidents were blamed on ice and snow in Wyoming, and a snow-slick road also was cited as the cause of an accident that killed four people Saturday at Badger, Minn. By early Sunday, up to 8 inches of snow was on the ground at Berthoud Pass in the Colorado Rockies 50 miles west of Denver. Eight inches also shrouded Centennial, Wyo. - UFOs & Projects - # Lightning, rain rake L.A. area LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A thunder and lightning storm brewing over the Pacific Ocean moved ashore and triggered brush fires, massive power outages and dozens of accidents during the evening rush hour. The storm drenched many areas of Los Angeles with pounding rain Wednesday and broke a 163-day dry spell dating back to April 20. The low pressure area was expected to hover over Southern California until Friday. "It's pumping a lot of moist, unstable air and it's going to sit around until today," a National Weather Service spokesman said. The storm dropped .20 of an inch of rain on the Los Angeles Civic Center. The Los Angeles area was hit by more than two hours of lightning and heavy rain. About 80,000 customers were without power for as long as four hours. Among the many vehicle accidents, two large trucks jackknifed on local highways and a car slid over the embankment. Firefighters for Los Angeles County and the U.S. Forest Service were kept busy with at least eight small lightning-caused brushfires in the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita Valleys and the Angeles National Forest. - UFOs & Projects - # 1st major snowstorm hits Rockies By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The season's first major snowstorm blocked Columbus Day travelers in the northern Rockies and contributed to at least one death, while waist-deep floodwaters surged through the streets of some towns in soggy Texas. Rains of up to 8 inches in North Texas forced scores of residents to evacuate their homes and floated a school bus off the road. No injuries were reported. A man was killed when his car skidded out of control on an icy mountain road near Great Falls, Mont. The Going-to-the-Sun Highway over Logan Pass in Montana's Glacier National Park was closed by 4-foot drifts. Snow also fell in parts of western Wyoming and Utah. - UFOs & Projects - # High wind, rain ravage mid-Mississippi Valley By United Press International Heavy thunderstorms tore across the middle Mississippi Valley, downing power lines, damaging roofs and uprooting trees with winds gusting up to 95 mph in some areas. Storms raced through central and southern Illinois and portions of Missouri Monday and Tuesday. # news scope Monday evening, hitting St. Louis with 95 mph wind. More than 2 inches of rain fell in Union, Mo., in 30 minutes. Wind downed trees and damaged parked aircraft at the St. Louis airport. The National Weather Service reported wind of up to 90 mph at Bloomington, Ill., and gusts of 80 mph at Petersburg, Ill. Power lines and roofs were downed in Collinsville, Ill. Wind up to 63 mph was reported by the National Weather Service in Champaign. A 50-foot tower was blown over in Rhineland, Mo., and a barn was destroyed near Jefferson City, killing some calves. - UFOs & Projects - # Texas rainstorms flood roads, force evacuation By United Press International Torrential rain pounded north central Texas early Monday, dumping more than 5 inches of rain at Mineral Wells, flooding highways and forcing the evacuation of residents. Much of the western half of the nation was under seige by a massive storm system that doused the Great Plains region with showers and thunderstorms and blanketed the Rocky Mountain and Plateau region with rain and snow. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for sections of the Hill Country, the adjacent Edwards Plateau, south and north central Texas. Oreg P 10/1/81 Oreg P 10/6/81 === Page 89 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Heavy snow covers much of U.S. By United Press International Wind up to 100 mph whipped heavy snow into blizzard conditions Monday in the Colorado mountains, forcing avalanche warnings. Some of the season's most treacherous road conditions caused scores of accidents in the snowy Midwest and East Coast. At estimated 21 inches of new snow fell at the Crested Butte and the Monarch ski areas since Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service reported, and Wolf Creek Pass received 18 inches of new snow. Light to heavy snow hampered returning holiday motorists in the Northeast, where travelers advisories are in effect for most of New England, New Hampshire, southern Maine and western New York State. New Hampshire reported 7 to 10 inches of new snow Monday, while Vermont had 9. Most of the rest of New England had smaller amounts of snow inland, ranging from a light dusting to 2 to 4 inches in Connecticut, 3 to 6 inches in northern areas and 1 to 3 inches in Massachusetts. Greg J 12/29/81 UFOs & Projects # More snow expected in New England area By DAVID I. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Greg J 12/9/81 Cold air from Canada accompanied by snow squalls swept Tuesday across the Northeast and into New England, where many cities were still digging out from under a 2-foot cover left by a weekend blizzard. along the beaches of Cape Cod and its offshore islands. Three beached whales survived, two of them after being towed out to sea and one at an aquarium in Connecticut. On the other side of the country, airliners were grounded for a fifth night in a row Monday in Los Angeles by dense fog that reduced visibility to zero. The Coast Guard had to call off a search for an elderly man who fell off a boat while sailing in the fog off Santa Catalina Island. Gale winds swept the Great Lakes Tuesday, and gale warnings were flying along the Atlantic coast of southern New England, with forecasters predicting another one to three inches of snow for parts of the hard-hit region. A windy storm that intensified over upstate New York spread a slippery mixture of ice and snow over many roads and brought heavy snowfall to some cities, including Syracuse. The new snow delighted New England ski lift operators but dismayed city officials in Boston, where the snow removal budget for the entire year was exhausted cleaning up the weekend mess. The new storm approached while rescuers were still fighting to save whales found beached Sunday. After new discoveries Tuesday, officials said it appeared 17 whales had perished UFOs & Projects # New storm sc By United Press International A new winter storm socked the Midwest with up to 7 more inches of snow, paralyzing Minneapolis and St. Paul with a layer of ice that forced schools and business to close and causing at least one fatal traffic accident in Illinois. # news scope Pedestrians who suffered broken bones from falls on icy walks crowded hospital emergency rooms Monday in the Twin Cities, which just recovered from their worst snowstorm in 40 years. Rush hour traffic was a nightmare with freezing rain glazing roads and forcing many schools and businesses to close. Mail deliveries were halted along with public transportation. Greg J 11/24/81 UFOs & Projects # newsbreak # New storms sock Midwest Another series of winter storms, packing howling winds and bone-chilling cold, socked a region from the Great Lakes through New England Wednesday, snarling traffic, closing schools and killing at least two people. Greg J 12/9/81 UFOs & Projects # Power returns in Boston BOSTON (AP) -- A 31-hour blackout that curtailed dinners in Chinatown and topless dancing in the X-rated "Combat Zone" ended Sunday morning as power was restored to the last of 6,500 customers. No crime problems or injuries were reported in the blackout, but thousands of people had to move in with relatives or bundle up for two cold nights. The outage was caused by an underground cable fire. It hit Chinatown, the garment district, the Downtown Crossing shopping center, sections of Beacon Hill and the "Combat Zone," a section of adult movie houses and striptease cabarets, Boston Edison spokesman Walter Salvi said. Parts of the Tufts New England Medical Center also lost power, but Salvi said the hospital continued normal operations by using emergency generators. Greg J 11/16/81 9-28-81 Seat Times # 2 Alaska volcanoes spew smoke, steam COLD BAY, Alaska -- Two Alaska Peninsula volcanoes spewed ash and steam thousands of feet skyward yesterday as they erupted for a second day, but airline pilots said heavy clouds obscured the peaks. No injuries or damage was reported in either eruption. Pilots reported steam and ash rising to 14,000 feet from the 8,905-foot Pavlof Volcano, located near the south tip of the Alaska Peninsula. A column rose 20,000 feet into the air when Pavlof erupted Saturday for the second time in less than a year. About 100 miles away, the 9,372-foot Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island also erupted Saturday, blackening its southern flank with ash above the 4,000-foot level. Pavlof Volcano is among the === Page 90 of 278 # 6 die as storm batters Northwest # Blackouts wide, damage severe By SCOTTA CALLISTER and JOHN GUERNSEY of The Oregonian staff 11/15/81 A Pacific storm packing hurricane-force winds raked the Western states early Saturday, blacking out massive sections of the Northwest and killing at least five persons in Oregon and one in Washington. The winds -- gusting over 90 mph at times -- caused extensive power outages, decapitated buildings, flooded roads and tossed aircraft, trailers, boats and ships about like toys. The rain-laden winds hit San Francisco Friday night and lashed up the Pacific Coast through Oregon and Washington, tearing down trees and power lines as it went, before finally beginning to subside off Vancouver Island late Saturday. Weather forecasters described the storm as one of the worst since the Columbus Day storm of 1962. In Seattle, driving winds dragged an anchored freighter, the Sea Champion, across several miles of Elliot Bay until tugs finally intercepted it within 20 feet of a pier in the downtown area Saturday morning. In Newport, the roof of the Pacific Tire and Brake building on U.S. 101 flew like a Frisbee into the neighboring Sims-Allen Ford Inc. dealership, landing on more than 25 cars. About 260,000 metropolitan-area utility customers were without power at dawn Saturday, but that figure was down to 59,000 by nightfall. For 12 hours beginning at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service was among those without power in Portland. Ron Surface, a weather service forecaster, said a new, smaller storm was expected to hit with winds gusting up to 50 mph on the Oregon coast and 30 mph in Portland Sunday morning. The storm brought death to widespread parts of Oregon. Grady E. Scarbrough, 53, of Albany was killed while he lay in bed when a tree crashed into the bedroom of his mobile home about 1:10 a.m. Floyd W. Russell, 64, Salem, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack while cutting a tree in Tillicum Beach State Park, four miles south of Waldport, according to the Lincoln County sheriff's office. Russell was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Washington County sheriff's Deputy Dennis Kisor said Chip Nolan Hinckley, 35, of Banks was killed about 7 a.m. in a two-car accident on rain-slick Oregon 6 near its junction with U.S. 26 west of Portland. Also in Washington County, a man was electrocuted in a storm-related accident. Melvin Dean Denny, 50, 12860 S.W. Faircrest Drive, died when he picked up a live wire that had fallen across his driveway. The initial jolt knocked him into a water-filled ditch. He was dead on arrival at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center. A U.S. Coast Guard pilot, Capt. Frank W. Olson, 44, died after his Sikorsky HH-52A went down off in the ocean after taking off from the North Bend Air Station to assist a foundering fishing vessel. Two other crewmen escaped. The beleaguered 45-foot Christina J, and its three-man crew that were being sought by the helicopter remained missing and out of radio contact Saturday after they reported it was taking on water at the entrance to Coos Bay harbor. A daylong search was unsuccessful. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. John McElwain, of Seattle said the helicopter pilot was found in the ocean surf and was pronounced dead on arrival at a Coos Bay hospital. Washington officials said Frederick Fisk, 69, was electrocuted Friday night when he tried to move a downed power line with a stick or pole at his Maury Island home. In California, two women whose boat broke apart Thursday in stormy seas off Stinson Beach, just north of San Francisco, remained missing Saturday night. The effects of the storm were felt far inland, with wind gusts unofficially reported as up to 100 mph in parts of Portland and as far east as Boise, Idaho. There were widespread power outages throughout the Pacific Northwest. The high winds were big news in Boise, but television stations there weren't able to report the story. The storm knocked out transmitting towers atop the city's Shaffer Butte, silencing all four commercial stations and Boise's only public station. In Northern California, winds toppled a dozen redwoods 5 feet thick across U.S. 101 and blocked traffic between the towns of Orick and Klamath, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department reported. Crews were working to reopen a 50-mile stretch of the highway. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokesman Dennis Pooler said up to 100,000 customers were without power in Northern California early Saturday -- some for just a few moments and others for hours. Washington emergency services officials reported the storm damage was heaviest in the southwestern part of that state, where flooding and power outages were extensive. Officials in Vancouver, Wash., said Clark County had 10 electrical substations out of service and 50-60 percent of the county's roads were blocked Saturday morning. An estimated 40,000 customers of the Clark County Public Utility District were without power Saturday morning. County commissioners there were considering whether the county should be declared a disaster area. A Clark County sheriff's dispatcher said, "It's a real mess here. We're warning people to stay in their homes." Coastal areas bore the brunt of the storm, which some Oregon officials said was the worst since October 1962. Residents in some Oregon coastal towns evacuated when wind damaged their homes and tides flooded low-lying areas. At Bandon, about 25 families were evacuated overnight when a large storage tank collapsed and spilled 10,000 gallons of gasoline, the Coast Guard reported. Families along the Oregon coast port were moved to high ground after an 8-foot-high wall of water and 90-mph winds swept through parts of the William P. Keady marina and flooded their homes. Coast Guard officials said seas of 15- to 20-foot swells were reported across the Northwest coast through the day. In Newport, Ore., a large section of dock was ripped from its moorings and a 60-foot fishing boat drifted into the Yaquina Bay bridge area. And in the Coos Bay area, crews were facing an uphill battle. A wind gauge atop Edward Heesacker's beachfront home in Oceanside registered 82 mph about 4 a.m. before a gust blew it off the roof. The pre-dawn sky above many Western Oregon cities was lit by the eerie blue flashes of lightning and power transformers burning out. About 200,000 customers of Portland General Electric Co. were affected by outages during the height of the storm, and spokesman Bruce Landrey said 100,000 were still without power Saturday afternoon. He estimated that repairing all the downed lines would take at least until Sunday night, and possibly would go into Monday. PGE serves much of the Portland area between Sheridan on the west and Mount Hood on the east. Pacific Power & Light Co. spokesman Leonard Bacon said about 100,000 of his company's customers from Crescent City, Calif., northward were affected by power outages during the night, including 20,000 in the Portland area. And Bacon said utility crews were facing an uphill battle. === Page 91 of 278 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Storm rakes Western Washington By United Press International Boats sank, basements flooded, traffic was snarled and widespread power outages occurred as an unusually fierce storm dropped record amounts of rain on western Washington Tuesday. Tacoma's newly renovated Stadium Bowl at Stadium High School was reduced to a quagmire of mud when an underground storm drain broke, burying the field at one end up to the cross bars on the football goal post. Part of the other end collapsed down a cliff onto the Schuster Parkway, which runs along Commencement Bay. Damage estimates ranged as high as $1 million as crews evacuated nearby residents to dig underground and divert the torrents of water away from the field. Heavy snow fell in the North Cascades ahead of the storm, forcing temporary closure of the North Cascades Highway. The National Weather Service said the steady, heavy rain would be replaced by intermittant showers Wednesday as a wet Pacific cold front moved inland. Minor flooding in local urban areas and along small streams in western Washington decreased overnight, although standing water was still a problem in locations of poor drainage. Record 24-hour rainfall readings were recorded at Olympia, where 3.25 inches fell between 4 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday, and Seattle-Tacoma Airport, where 3.55 inches fell between 5 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday. Note: Beau + I were there!! Owens # Storm floods North Seattle streets, zapping power 9-28-81 Seat Times - UFOs 6 Projects - A blustery, intense thunderstorm thumped the Seattle area yesterday afternoon, knocking down power lines, flooding some streets and at one point leaving 5,000 North End residences without electricity. Bill Hilliard, a Seattle City Light spokesman, said the power outages began at about 3 p.m. About 2,000 homes had been restored to power by 5 p.m., but crews did not expect to have all residences back on line for five more hours. Emergency crews reported lines hung up on lines and in some cases fell on automobiles. Most damage was in the North End, with Green Lake and Lake City apparently hardest hit. On the East Side, many residences also lost electricity and, in a few scattered areas, telephone service. Chris Curtis, a Puget Sound Power & Light Co. spokeswoman, said that about 8,000 homes in the Kirkland, Bothell and Woodinville areas were without power from 3 to 4:40 p.m. Power went out again temporarily later in the afternoon to some homes. Also, she said, about 800 customers in the Eastgate area were without power between 4 and 6 p.m. City Light crews reported winds of up to 50 miles an hour in the North End. Some East Side areas were pelted by a heavy hail. Seattle City Engineering crews were kept busy with "ponding" problems caused by backed-up drainages. Fire fighters pumped water off a tavern roof near the Seattle Center when its gutters backed up. The winds tipped sailboats in Shilshole Bay and Lake Union. The Coast Guard uprighted a 15-foot craft half a mile offshore near Shilshole and towed it to the marina after its owner, Jeff Stirewalt of Kent, and an unidentified companion were rescued from the overturned boat by a neighboring pleasure craft. Reports of three overturned vessels on Lake Union were received by the Coast Guard, but the Seattle Air and Water Patrol said it received no calls for help. The storm interrupted sports competitions and other activities at the Seattle Gay Athletic Association's Expo '81 at Volunteer Park. The event was billed as Puget Sound's biggest gay celebration. The Weather Service blamed the storm on warm winds from the southwest clashing with cold upper-level air. In an outage not related to the storm, 2,000 City Light customers on the west lower side of Beacon Hill were without power for about an hour starting at 9:20 a.m. yesterday after a car hit a utility pole. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Waterspout taps Depoe Bay area DEPOE BAY (UPI) -- A 600-foot-high waterspout knocked over trash cans and pulled a few shingles off roofs in the Depoe Bay area Wednesday afternoon, but resulted in no injuries. Depoe Bay Fire Chief Jay Williams said a man at Gleneden Beach telephoned the fire department about 1:30 p.m. and reported a tornado was approaching his house. Williams said it later was identified as a waterspout, which moved northeast across Highway 101 and crossed the south end of the Siletz Bay airport before dissipating. He said other waterspouts were reported earlier in the day off Spanish Head and the Dee River outlet. oregon 10/8/81 === Page 92 of 278 # Storm-wracked region seeks disaster relief - UFOs 6 Projects - # Third story approach Oregon Pendleton, Ore. !! By the East Oregonian & The Associated Press The Oregon Coast braced for a third storm in as many days today after weekend weather took at least six lives in the state and left three people missing. The new storm was expected to bear gusts of 65 miles an hour, but was not expected to be as damaging as the one on Friday. A storm swept through the state on Sunday, hard on the heels of a blockbuster that struck Friday night and lasted through Saturday morning, dropping trees, destroying signs and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The Saturday storm caused power outages and blew trees down in Northeast Oregon. Some schools were closed in Portland and Salem today because they still were without power. The Sunday storm took a hard swipe at the northern Oregon coast, but stayed mainly at sea. A fishing boat with three men aboard had not been found after disappearing in winds reported by the National Weather Service at 90 mph in the Coos Bay area. A Coast Guard helicopter pilot was killed while searching for the craft. # Can't hide from the wind (UFOs 6 projects) The storm that wasn't was followed by the storms that arrived with rain and flood and wind and destruction. Most of the predictions pointed toward a storm of some magnitude coinciding with the full moon's effect on tides last mid-week, and when the storm did not materialize in strength, there was some feeling of relief and perhaps a little disappointment. The watching and waiting of last Friday wore on strangely, as people prepared as best they could for what they hoped would not happen - again. Who, after all, can picture the stresses on gymnasiums and warehouses, highways and power lines and trees, other than in a general way at the time they are built or are growing? Everywhere, the wind seeks out weakness. Fir trees that have stood for 100 years go down as a particular gust comes from a particular direction. The single shingle that is caught in a stream of air hurled against other storms and ice is - for a cold, wet fingers levering it up from its fellows until it breaks away, taking more with it. Torrents of rain riding on the wind filled the coastal streams - and the streams poured down into the lowlands, only to be held back by the power of the tides filling the estuaries, so that there were floods. And in the cities, the catch basins choked on fallen leaves and strangled on the water from the storm, so that there were floods. Buildings grew quiet and chill as the power on which they feed was blown away. And houses were dark and silent - no purring from the refrigerator, no throbbing from the furnace - none of the automatic noises of home. Oreg J 11/17/81 Portland General Electric Co. had 14,500 customers without power in Portland, and northwestern Oregon. Pacific Power & Light Co. had 15,000 customers without electricity in the Portland, Albany, Lincoln City and Coos Bay areas. Among the storm-related deaths was that of Coast Guard Capt. Frank W. Olson, 44. His helicopter crashed while responding to a distress signal from a 45-foot fishing boat, the Christina J of Coos Bay. Wind and rain over the weekend caused power outages affecting more than 2,000 residences in Umatilla County. U.S. 101, closed for about 10 hours from Coos Bay to the California border because of downed trees and power lines, was reopened on Saturday. About 250 residents of the south coast communi- Service was restored about midnight Sunday to some 1,000 Pacific Power and Light customers east of Pendleton after a 69,000-volt transmitter line went down Sunday afternoon in a delayed reaction. 11/16/81 Oregon's two major utilities had more than 300,000 customers without electricity on Saturday but that number had been reduced to less than 30,000 by late Sunday. Astoria, but inland and thward, the National Weather Service said. High winds lasted only an hour or so, authorities said. A roof was blown off a house in the community of Oceanside and a tree fell on a house in Cannon Beach, state police said. There were no injuries. Meanwhile, Western Oregon residents worked to clean up debris left by a storm that pounded the state for about 12 hours Friday night and Saturday. Police said Marjorie A. Weisen-see, 19, Portland, died after apparently stepping on a downed power line early Sunday in Southeast Portland. Two women who were with her suffered burns. Kari L. Hartman, 19, Portland, was reported in critical condition in the Oregon Burn Center at Emanuel Hospital. Karin E. Elstad, 18, Eugene, was in serious condition. === Page 93 of 278 # 11 perish in worst Midwest winter blast in 40 years By United Press International The first widespread snowstorm in the Midwest dumped more than a foot of snow and at least 11 people died in weather-related accidents, including a 91-year-old Nebraska woman who accidentally locked herself out of her house. In Atlanta, high winds struck Hartsfield International Airport early Friday, damaging at least eight parked airliners and injuring one ground crewman. One jet was knocked 90 degrees by the wind. Residents of Minnesota's Twin Cities slogged through up to 14 inches of snow Thursday, marking the area's heaviest 24-hour accumulation in more than 40 years. The snow also pulled down power lines, leaving about 100,000 homes without electricity or heat in the area, where temperatures were expected to drop to the teens. A buildup of snow ripped a hole in Minneapolis' Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Thursday, causing the double-layer, parachute-like roof of the $50 million structure to collapse. The stadium, which will open next April, was vacant at the time. The Iowa State Patrol reported the Rev. Roderick Jackson, 49, a pastor in Sioux Center, was killed in a broadside collision on U.S. Highway 75 south of the Maurice Viaduct. Three people were killed in traffic accidents in Wyoming, where light snow and ice glazed highways in the storm. Two Minnesota teenagers died in an accident, and traffic mishaps killed people in South Dakota and Kansas. A 91-year-old Lincoln, Neb., woman died of exposure after apparently locking herself out of her house when she went to sweep snow off her sidewalk. Her name was withheld pending notification of relatives. # Freezing rain brings Twin Cities to halt By GALE TOLLIN MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Sleet paralyzed Minneapolis and St. Paul Monday, halting traffic, closing schools, libraries and courts and making even walking treacherous -- just as the Twin Cities started to recover from last week's 10-inch snowfall. The freezing rain that slicked streets and highways with sheets of ice halted bus service, made cab companies cancel runs and delayed the opening of many downtown department stores, authorities said. Many schools and libraries closed in the metropolitan area of 2 million people. Minneapolis and St. Paul schools held classes but offered no busing. Jamie Arndt, 13, decided to walk the seven blocks to Southwest High School in Minneapolis rather than stay home. But a major street two blocks from her house looked like a skating rink. "I threw my backpack across the street on the ice, then got down on my hands and knees and crawled across," the eighth-grader said. She made it to school -- but students were sent home an hour later. Weather forecasters said the sleet began in the early morning hours as rain in the upper atmosphere where temperatures were about 36 degrees, then froze as it neared the ground where temperatures were about 30 degrees. A few of the 30,000 state employees made it to work, only to be sent home by 10 a.m. by state Public Safety Commissioner John P. Sopsic. The Federal Executive Board advised federal employees -- many of them due to be laid off because of the budget impasse in Washington -- not to even try to get to work. Agency heads were told to grant administrative leave to missing workers. Mail service was canceled. Harold Kalina, chief judge of Hennepin District Court, told the other 18 district judges and 17 municipal judges to stay home. "Never in my life" had the courts closed because of snow, said Kalina, 53. Air travel was stopped temporarily, as Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport halted landings for about a half-hour to let workers sand the runways. Sidewalks were reported as perilous as the streets. The St. Paul Fire Department, for example, said paramedics responded to 15 weather-related calls in a 4½-hour period -- most involving fractures suffered in falls. Relief was not in sight: Snow began falling Monday afternoon and the National Weather Service forecast 1 to 3 inches by evening. In parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, the situation was the same. Freezing temperatures turned rain into ice and snow, glazing the highways. # Major outage in Boston BOSTON -- An estimated 6,500 Boston Edison Co. customers in Boston lost power for up to 31 hours in a weekend blackout. The major outage in Boston was caused by an underground cable fire early Saturday morning that blacked out the Chinatown and garment districts, the downtown shopping center, the adult entertainment strip and parts of Beacon Hill. Electricity was restored to about half of the affected Boston customers by 11 a.m. Saturday, but power remained out in Chinatown and the X-rated "Combat Zone" until Sunday. No crime problems or injuries were reported during the black- === Page 94 of 278 UFOs & Projects # 12 die as storm sweeps Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A wintry storm that left at least 12 people dead in a blitz across the Midwest laid siege to Michigan cities with foot-deep snows Friday. About 92,000 homes and businesses went dark in western Michigan as the heavy, wet snow -- up to 14 inches deep in places -- yanked down key power transmission lines. Many schools were forced to close. Driving on some highways was impossible. By late afternoon, power was restored to all but about 30,000 customers of Consumers Power Co. in rural areas north of Muskegon in western Michigan, utility spokesman Robert Wi meyer said, and it may be Sunday before power is restored to all custome Even snowplows were strande Muskegon Heights because doors at the city garage are electrically powered, and there was no power. In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, crippled by an 11-inch snowfall earlier in the week, 77,000 residents remained without electricity for a second day, and utility officials said it might be Sunday before full service is restored. The storm, which swept through the Twin Cities Wednesday night and Thursday, was ranked "somewhere in the top 10" among the worst storms in state history, radar specialist Ranier Dombrowsky of the National Weather Service said. Snowfall officially measured 10.4 inches, the most to fall on the Twin Cities within a 24-hour period since 1966, the weather service said. The snow contributed to the collapse of the inflated fabric dome of the new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, future home of the Minnesota Vikings. The storm was moving toward central and southwestern Ontario Friday evening and was expected to bring 2-4 inches of snow in some areas. A spokesman for Environment Canada said the brunt of the storm was to hit the Georgian Bay and Haliburton regions. Michigan communities hardest hit by the power outages were rural areas north of Muskegon, and Grand Rapids, Cadillac, Big Rapids and Clare. Muskegon got 6-10 inches of snow while the weather service at Ann Arbor measured 12.3 inches at Hesperia, northeast of Muskegon, and 14 inches in Roscommon County. The storm also brought the first measurable snow of the season to neighboring Indiana, but brutal winds were the big problem in the Hoosier state. In southern Indiana, authorities estimated damage at nearly $500,000 from tornadoes and severe thunder storms that preceded the cold front. Communities around Lake Michigan got a couple of inches of snow. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in parts of Wisconsin Thursday night as winds gusted to 41 mph. Temperatures were in the mid-20s in some areas, but the wind-chill factor made it feel more like 2 degrees, officials said. Iowa had up to 3 inches of snow. At least 10 people died in the snowstorm's march out of the West. Police in Lincoln, Neb., said Mabel B. Yaney, 91, died of exposure Thursday after accidentally locking herself out of her home. Slushy roads led to an accident that killed two teen-agers near Marshall (Note: Where I live. Gwen.) # Power nearly restored Journal Vancouver Bureau 10/28/81 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- All but about 50 Clark County Public Utility District customers had their power restored Tuesday following the weekend storm that knocked out power for more than 40,000 Clark County customers. All power was expected to be restored Wednesday, said PUD spokesman Mick Shutt, who estimated the damage at $325,000. "In terms of the number of customers without power, it was our largest o" said Shutt, noting that about 45 percent of power was out at the height of the shortage. "But in terms of damage, it was one of the smaller ones in the Columbia River Gorge." UFOs & Projects # Power cut to 9,400 users HOOD RIVER -- Electric service to several mid-Columbia communities in Oregon and Washington was interrupted for as much as an hour Tuesday morning after a fuse on a transformer bank blew up, cutting off power to the Bonneville Power Administration's 115-kilovolt line to the Hood River substation. BPA spokesman Gene Tollefson said the malfunction was caused by a power surge. Utility officials estimated that outage affected about 5,000 Pacific Power & Light customers in the Hood River Valley and at Mosier; about 1,300 Hood River Electric Cooperative customers in Odell and on the east side of the Hood River Valley; and about 3,100 Klickitat County Public Utility District customers in White Salmon, Bingen, Glenwood, Trout Lake and Lyle. Traffic was blocked off in a half-mile radius around the Hood River substation for about 45 minutes after the malfunction because the power line had dropped onto eight nitrogen bottles and utility officials feared an explosion. The power outage also raised pressure in the Hood River Water District and part of the Ice Fountain Water District above normal levels. A water main in the city of Hood River burst from the change in water pressure, several residences had flooded basements and water customers were told to check their water-pressure regulators to be sure they were functioning properly. Tollefson said BPA crews and utility crews transferred the electricity load to an alternate power source to restore service. He said the transformer bank was expected to be repaired by late Tuesday. UFOs & Projects # Lights still out in Washington Story on Page One also By The Associated Press Homeowners and utility crews labored Sunday to clean up debris and repair damage from a ferocious windstorm that caused two weekend deaths and severe coastal flooding in Washington state. A storm warning for more dangerously high winds was downgraded to gale warnings with gusts up to 55 mph Sunday in Southwest Washington. Officials said 50 to 60 people were evacuated because of flooding at high tide Saturday in Raymond, Wash., along the coast. Several dozen more people had to leave their homes for as long as three hours in Moclips, a motel was flooded in Pacific Beach, and at least one home was flooded in the Dungeness area near Sequim near the northern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. The Tacoma Narrows bridge across Puget Sound and the Evergreen Point floating bridge between Seattle and the suburbs east of Lake Washington were closed for several hours Saturday. U.S. 101 was reopened after being closed by high water near Cosmopolis and a mud slide near Lilliwaup. Service was halted for varying periods on three Amtrak routes, and debris on the tracks caused delays of several hours in Amtrak passenger trains. In Western Washington, power outages knocked out radio and KREM television stations in Spokane and for periods ranging from 10 to 45 minutes. Curtis of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., the largest private utility in Western Washington and the one most hard-hit by the storm, said 150 five-man crews worked to restore electricity to 30,000 customers Sunday. At one point Saturday, more than 250,000 people were without power. Curtis said 12,000 of those still without power Sunday were in the Seattle suburbs from Mercer Island Bellevue north to Woodinville, with another 7,000 to 8,000 on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound and the rest scattered in various areas. "It's kind of bad around Tenino and Tumwater" in Thurston County, she said. Except for Bainbridge Island, where six feeder lines for various neighborhoods were out, the last outages were "very scattered but ... very widespread," she said. Most long-lasting outages involved large amounts of debris to be cleared or hard-to-locate trees and branches across power lines serving small numbers of homes and businesses, she said. She added that she knew of no critical situations from power outages. 11/18/81 === Page 95 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects # Major storm lashes Oregon, California coasts Ore. 11/14/81 A major storm pounded the southern Oregon coast Friday night, leaving many homes without power, many downed trees, some roofs blown away and U.S. 101 closed between Gold Beach and Port Orford. Police from Coos Bay south to Brookings reported no serious injuries from the storm, which moved up the coast from California. Six-thousand residents of Brookings and Harbor, both in Curry County, were without power Friday night, and service was not expected to be restored until Sunday, said Cliff Denzine, district manager of Coos-Curry Electric Co-op. Dozens of trees were blown onto power lines during the storm, causing the outages, he said. Jerry Youngberg, a National Weather Service forecaster in Portland, said the storm "is a honey" but would not be as severe as the Columbus Day storm of Oct. 12, 1962. Curry County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Foster reported from Gold Beach that winds were in the 70 mph range, with gusts up to 80 and 85, and he said, There are power outages all over the place. Gusts as strong as 90 mph were reported at Brookings. Foster said the peak of the storm was expected to hit about midnight Friday, and there probably would be some flooding during the 2 a.m. high tide. He reported one mobile home blown over, and the roof of the Hillstrom Building at Brookings blown away. The building, owned by the Curry County port, houses North Coast Electronics Co. Coos County Sheriff's Deputy Sharon Kellogg reported lowland flooding in the Coos Bay area, winds between 50 and 75 mph and "phones ringing off the wall" because of power outages and downed trees. Curry County Sheriff's Deputy Gene Anderson reported heavy storm damage in the Port Orford and Langlois areas, with slight flooding, several automobile accidents caused by the storm and several persons stranded in their homes. The weather service expected the storm to continue its northern movement and to reach Warrenton on the northern Oregon coast by about 1 a.m. Saturday. The storm, which earlier hit the Northern California coast, had been headed eastward most of the afternoon but "curled northward pretty fast" about 4 p.m., Youngberg said. The center of the storm was about 100 miles west of Newport about 10 p.m. It was expected to move up past the mouth of the Columbia River about 1 a.m., he said. It had reached its maximum intensity Friday night and would continue toward Northwest Washington. Strong, southerly winds, possibly gusting to 55 mph, were forecast overnight in the Portland metropolitan area, with a 70 percent chance of rain Saturday. No major nautical mishaps were reported along the coast during the day, although communication was choppy between Coast Guard stations because of the wind. A major power outage blackened thousands of homes at Crescent City, Calif., and surrounding Del Norte County, just below the Oregon border. Leonard Bacon, a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said the storm had knocked out all three transmission lines into the coastal town from 5 to 7 p.m. An estimated 12,000 customers were without power. Bacon said the company was working to repair other large outages in Medford, Cottage Grove and Albany. "It's a rough one," said Crescent City fire chief Bob Wakefield, who sat in his darkened home listening to a battery-operated radio scanner. Del Norte County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Harrah said a double shift of deputies had been put on duty during the storm. UFOs 6 Projects # Upstate N.Y. coated # Snow blamed in 3 deaths By United Press International Ore J 12/11/81 A wide-ranging storm dumped more snow Friday on upstate New York, already buried by as much as 2 feet, and added to a 20-inch accumulation in the Maryland mountains. At least three deaths were blamed on the nightmare traffic conditions created by the snow. "We could very easily have another foot by morning before it starts to taper off," Pete Chaston, head of the National Weather Service at the Rochester-Monroe County Airport in upstate New York, said Thursday. He said the 24.8-inch snowfall brought by the storm, which reached into the upper Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic, was the worst since Feb. 5-6 in 1978, when 25 inches blanketed the area. Another 10 inches of snow was expected Friday in Maryland, where high winds compounded the weather misery. "We've got a near-blizzard here," Cpl. Dan Moore, of the state police detachment in McHenry. "Most of the roads are impassable, and people are barely able to make it over the mountains." "The main thing we're trying to do is keep people off the roads. The ones who are driving are really taking a chance." Sunshine broke through in Southern California Thursday for the first time in six days when a frigid storm system moved that area listlessly. But the storm schedules the first flights of the international Pacific Coast Highway. A heavy Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said as spray no damage was reported. the storm zero in at Austin ted. 11/28/81 The Rochester storm was "pure lake effect," Chaston said, worsened by a low pressure system that had stalled in the Atlantic. "The lake effect mechanism is now locked into place," he said. Interstate Route 490, the main east-west artery that carries winter vacationists into downtown Rochester, was called a "nightmare." "One fact saving us is that we're completely paralyzed," Chaston said. "It's been strong, but the wind hasn't been a department with the wind. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the mid-forge zero posted across southern Montana." Temperatures dropped into the teens and below from Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska, with readings below zero posted across southern Montana. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the middle of the afternoon Friday in Jackson, Wyo. Another Minnesota snowstorm, which left 10 inches north of Duluth on Thanksgiving Day, delighted John D. Grew, who said most people were caught unprepared. Grew repairs snowplows. "I love it," he said. "This is one of the best snowfalls in the last few years. I need it. I've been near starving up here." The Minneapolis and St. Paul area was crippled with an 11-inch snowstorm last week, followed by an ice storm that blacked out much of the region. Friday's storm swooping down from the Gulf of Alaska soaked Southern California overnight, causing minor mudslides along a 30-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway south of the Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said no damage was reported. # Storm brings snow, slides to California UFOs 6 Projects 2/2/81 By The Associated Press A Pacific storm hit the West Coast Friday, building snow a foot deep in the Sierra Nevada and touching off the season's first coastal mud slides in Southern California. Temperatures dropped into the teens and below from Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska, with readings below zero posted across southern Montana. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the middle of the afternoon Friday in Jackson, Wyo. Another Minnesota snowstorm, which left 10 inches north of Duluth on Thanksgiving Day, delighted John D. Grew, who said most people were caught unprepared. Grew repairs snowplows. "I love it," he said. "This is one of the best snowfalls in the last few years. I need it. I've been near starving up here." The Minneapolis and St. Paul area was crippled with an 11-inch snowstorm last week, followed by an ice storm that blacked out much of the region. Friday's storm swooping down from the Gulf of Alaska soaked Southern California overnight, causing minor mudslides along a 30-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway south of the Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said no damage was reported. At least three deaths were blamed on the nightmare traffic conditions created by the snow. One man was killed in a wreck by a truck on a snow-slicked lane by McHenry, Md., state trooper C. Hollingsworth said. The engine road and part of the car appeared to be of the car appeared to be because of the glare from the snow lights. A week heavy snows and ice were blamed for one traffic death in Ohio. Other weather-related deaths included one each in Pennsylvania and New York and two in California in heavy fog. === Page 96 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Nine die in assault of storms Boise, Id. 11/16/81 By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Seaborn storms assaulted the nation from two sides Sunday in a continuing siege that has claimed nine lives, left six people missing, disabled ships, ruined beaches and toppled trees. Gale winds, boiling waves and floodtides swept in from the Atlantic and the Pacific. Seawalls crumbled. Roads were awash. Ships the size of football fields were left adrift or aground. The white sands of resort beaches returned to the sea. "The city simply cannot fight the Atlantic Ocean," Mayor Dave Brown said in Cocoa Beach, Fla., where the weekend's onslaught claimed three miles of beach. "When it moves in, it moves in." National Weather Service personnel said the howler that swept in Friday night and Saturday morning was the worst windstorm to hit the West Coast since Columbus Day in 1962. The worst damage was reported in Oregon, where winds were clocked Saturday at 90 mph. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest had their power knocked out. Crews arrived from inland states to help fix the lines, but other homes went dark Sunday as a third storm moved in. Sunday's storm did not pack the fury of the earlier storms. No serious damage was reported, but it interrupted utility crews and others who were repairing the damage from the earlier storm. Rain and winds began diminishing Sunday afternoon, and clearing was expected to continue Monday, the National Weather Service said. In one dramatic episode, friends of a 50-year-old Vancouver, Wash., paralyzed polio victim took turns Saturday hand-pumping a respirator to keep the woman alive for two hours until an emergency generator was located. Off the Atlantic coast, where a "potentially dangerous" storm was working its way slowly northward toward New England on Sunday, large ships were in trouble. In New Jersey, high winds and tides broke up the pavement of a 300-foot stretch of roadway leading to the Gateway National Park at Sandy Hook. The Coast Guard said a tanker loaded with 25,000 barrels of liquefied asphalt was aground off Hampton, Va., while a 300-foot barge loaded with 400 tons of liquid fertilizer was adrift off Cape Hatteras, N.C., after it snapped loose from its tow ship. Another barge, hauling 70,000 barrels of asphalt, was taken in tow off Virginia after drifting for 12 hours. The storms also took a toll in lives. Two people were killed in Oregon over the weekend when trees fell on their homes and a third died of an apparent heart attack while trying to get out of a crushed mobile home, authorities said. Two people -- one in Oregon and one in Washington -- were killed when they picked up live power lines snapped by the storm. Another man was killed in a weather-related traffic accident outside Portland. A 48-year-old elk hunter was killed Saturday when a tree fell on his tent in the Goat Rocks Wilderness about seven miles southeast of Packwood, Wash. A Coast Guard pilot was killed Saturday when his helicopter crashed off the Oregon coast in 60-knot winds and 30-foot seas during a search for a missing fishing boat. In Vancouver, British Columbia, where thousands of homes remained without power Sunday and gale-force winds felled hundreds of trees, a 28-year-old woman was killed when a tree two feet in diameter crashed into her car. UFOs & Projects # High water responsible for damage By BETTY BUTLER Correspondent, The Oregonian Oreg 11/17/81 ABERDEEN, Wash. -- Flooding was the major cause of damage in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties from the wild weekend storm that battered the Washington and Oregon coasts. The highest tide on record had rescue workers wading chest high in water through the streets of Raymond, on Willapa Harbor, and the water level in parts of Aberdeen, on Grays Harbor, approached the Army Corps of Engineers' 100-year flood level. Despite flooding, uprooted trees and other wind damage -- and long power outages in both counties -- there was no loss of life and apparently no serious injuries. Flood water on Willapa Harbor crested at Raymond at 16.8 feet Saturday afternoon, the highest tide ever recorded, said Port of Willapa Harbor Manager Marshall S. Briggs. Many families in low-lying areas were evacuated Saturday night to emergency centers or to stay with friends, but most were back in their own houses as the flood waters receded Sunday afternoon. At the mouth of Willapa Bay, the high tide and breakers crashing over a sea wall put most of Tokeland under water. The century-old Tokeland Hotel sustained heavy damage to floors, rugs and furnishings and is closed until it can be cleaned up, owners Betty and Al Smith said. Some families on Aberdeen's south side were evacuated to a school Saturday afternoon, and traffic was closed in much of the city because streets were running curb to curb in water. The Chehalis River nearly reached stores of the Wishkah Mall, where City Engineer Rudy Balgaroo said the high water mark approached the level established by the Corps of Engineers as a flood that can be expected once in 100 years. Some areas still were without power Monday morning, as public utility district crews in both counties labored around the clock to restore lines taken out by falling trees. Telephone service and cable television slowly were being restored. Erosion damage was reported at Grays Harbor's north jetty, and the Coast Guard at Westport was investigating whether the heavy seas had caused damage to the south jetty. Flood damage, however, was minimal in the town of Westport. === Page 97 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - # Floods ravage N. Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD The Associated Press Floodwaters deep enough to drown an elephant poured through cowtowns and oil cities in Texas and Oklahoma on Tuesday, knocking houses off their foundations and chasing hundreds of people to higher ground. Relentless rains of up to 18 inches overflowed streams in water-logged northern Texas and southern Oklahoma, washing into homes and across highways as deep as 15 feet. People scrambled to their rooftops and into trees awaiting rescue boats and helicopters. Some towns were virtually cut off from the outside. There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but officials said they feared who might be found in flooded creeks, cars and homes. In Abilene, Texas, where some residents were evacuated, city workers were using a front-end loader to declare a path through the water for the National Guard. The storm hit Gainesville, Texas, last of all. Water from a creek rose so fast that it trapped a 15-year-old elephant, a camel and two black bears in their cages at the Frank Buck Zoo, drowning them. The water rose so fast owners of a nearby mobile home park had to flee, leaving their cars behind. In Lone Grove, Oklahoma, about 100 miles north of Gainesville, luck ran out for some people. "We've got people on top of houses, trees, everywhere," said Carter County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Ricketts. "You can't get to them." In Gainesville, more than 15 inches of rain fell, more than 100 homes were flooded, including a 50-unit apartment complex, and 200 persons were evacuated from a residential area northwest of the city. Ross Tamplin, director of public works in Gainesville, said dozens of animals were killed -- including an elephant, a camel and two black bears -- when more than 15 feet of water flowed over the Frank Buck Zoo. Abilene police in buses and rescue workers in boats sought out trapped residents as the water rose 10 feet deep in some areas of the city. Some 150 families were evacuated. In Lone Grove, Oklahoma, every creek in the county is overflowing at this time." Oklahoma National Guard troops were sent to Lone Grove and Ardmore to help rescue residents from the water. Two helicopters were sent from Fort Sill to Lone Grove to help save lives. Traffic was halted on several major highways in Texas and Oklahoma, and officials said it probably would be several days before the water receded. Most of the residents in that area left voluntarily, police and fire officials said, although firefighters moved through the area in a boat and helped one stranded resident leave. Ten streets were closed Monday night by the high water. It was the second time this year that homes in the area were threatened by high water in the wake of heavy rains, but officials said the week of Oct. 13 was more severe than that from Saturday's rains. "We had water five to 10 feet deep in homes along the shore (of Eagle Mountain Lake west of Fort Worth) after the Oct. 13 rains," said Tarrant County District Supervisor Ben Hickey. - UFOs & Projects - # Floodwaters rout Texas residents DALLAS (AP) -- More than a dozen homes and businesses were evacuated along the rising Trinity River after more than 9 inches of rainfall in some areas of north Texas, authorities said. The heavy rains were estimated to have caused more than $1 million in damage to highways, J.R. Stone, district engineer for the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, said Monday. Officials in Tarrant County, west of Fort Worth, estimated that 15 homes and 15 commercial buildings were evacuated in a flood plain of northwest Dallas and said the water probably would be waist-deep before the river crested. - UFOs & Projects - # Floods kill 2, threatens dam in Oklahoma By United Press International A state of emergency was declared for Oklahoma because of rushing floodwaters that swept two men to their deaths and left up to 5 feet of water in some homes. More than 7 inches of rain fell in north Texas, where 500 people were evacuated. Acting Oklahoma Gov. Spencer Bernard declared the state of emergency following a downpour Friday that threatened to wash away an earthen dam and for south of Coalgate, authorities said. A flash flood emergency was declared for parts of Utah and Colorado. Heavy snow fell in parts of Utah and Colorado. National Guard troops were ordered to help evacuate residents of Sherman, Tex., where flood waters reached the second story of some buildings. "We're having hell," said a Sherman police dispatcher. "We've evacuated about 150 people so far. They're being taken to the Municipal Building. West Sherman is under water." The National Weather Service reported from 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over north and northwest Texas. Floodwaters from earlier storms had begun to recede Thursday, but driving rains pounded the South Plains late in the day and authorities said five people were killed in highway accidents. - UFOs & Projects - # More storms hit soaked Texas By United Press International A new storm system besieged rain-soaked Texas early Thursday, pouring more than an inch of rain an hour onto some parts of the state. At least six people have died in torrential rains that have caused more than $25 million in crop damage over the last four days. Rain spread east and north across much of the nation. Showers and thunderstorms doused the nation's midsection from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, while light rain and drizzle were reported over the upper Great Lakes and the middle Mississippi Valley. A massive storm system pushed north of College Station, Texas, but officials worried about water runoff into two rivers in the area. "I'm sure we're going to get a lot of runoff into the Navasota and Brazos rivers," Brazos County Sheriff's Deputy Archie Clark aid. "I understand to the north of us, they were getting an inch of rain an hour at one time." County communications supervisor Mike Paulus said the sheriff's department had only one small boat to aid the county's 78,000 residents in the event of flooding. "To be honest, I'm scared as hell," he said late Wednesday. "We've never had this kind of potential for real damage. Brazos County is totally flat and surrounded by rivers." A 15-month-old boy was swept away by rising flood waters Wednesday in Bryan, Texas, when his 2-year-old sister opened the door to the family trailer and he fell out, Police Sgt. Mark Ricketson said. Five people drowned Tuesday in Tarrant County -- Dallas -- three motorists swept away in their cars and two young men drowned in separate incidents while floating in inner tubes. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown estimated the flooding across northern Texas has caused an estimated $25 million in damage to agriculture crops. Winter wheat and pecan crops were among the hardest hit. Forecasters were predicting scattered showers and thunderstorms over all of central and southern Texas through early Friday. Strong thunderstorms hit western Oklahoma late Wednesday evening, forcing the National Weather Service to issue severe thunderstorm warnings. Light to moderate snow moved into western Wyoming on Wednesday, leaving 3 inches of the white stuff on the ground by late afternoon. - UFOs & Projects - # New storms bring more Texas floods By United Press International A new wave of storms devastated parts of Texas and National Guard troops were activated to deal with a situation described as "hell." Heavy snow fell in parts of Utah and Colorado. National Guard troops were ordered to help evacuate residents of Sherman, Tex., where flood waters reached the second story of some buildings. "We're having hell," said a Sherman police dispatcher. "We've evacuated about 150 people so far. They're being taken to the Municipal Building. West Sherman is under water." The National Weather Service reported from 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over north and northwest Texas. Floodwaters from earlier storms had begun to recede Thursday, but driving rains pounded the South Plains late in the day and authorities said five people were killed in highway accidents. === Page 98 of 278 Quakes rattle High Sierra MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- Two sharp earthquakes knocked out power, silenced phones and sent rock slides thundering down the rugged High Sierra early Wednesday at the height of deer hunting season. No injuries were reported, but helicopters searched for five hunters in the Convict Canyon area, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Richard Paust, who added that the slides occurred in an area hunters do not usually frequent. The temblors, at 4:53 a.m. and 6:06 a.m., were measured at 5.8 and 5.5 on the Richter scale. They were the sharpest quakes to hit the area since May 1980, when a swarm of quakes ranging up to 6.5 on the Richter scale injured nine people. The Richter scale is a measurement of ground motion recorded by a seismograph. Each increase of one number reflects a tenfold increase in magnitude, so a reading of 7.5 shows a quake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake measuring 6 can cause severe damage, and a quake measuring 7 is considered "major." The first quake, centered four miles west of Mammoth, knocked out power for about an hour at the Mono County sheriff's substation in Crowley and briefly in Crowley Lake and at Mammoth Lakes airport. At the sheriff's station in Mammoth, Deputy Terry Gardner said phone service was out for about an hour. The quake was felt as far away as Fresno, about 150 miles northwest of Mammoth, and as far as Lancaster in Los Angeles County, department officials said. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power personnel were monitoring the Crowley Lake dam, though an initial check found no damage. "There's a big lake behind this dam. If the dam went it would send a lot of water down to Bishop," Paust said. He said major roads remained open but there were "some pretty big" rock slides in Convict Canyon that thrown up a cloud of heavy dust. "Right now there is just an incredible amount of dust coming out of canyon," he said. "A local resident says there's more dust than with the '80 quakes." "It sure rattled us, I'll tell you. In a way, it's kind of scary," said Mammoth Lakes resident Betty Swenson. "I'm waiting for the next one." # Earthquake Area ![Map showing San Francisco, Bishop, Los Angeles, and the California/Nevada border area labeled Earthquake Area] **HANGING ON** -- Tommy Clark, a Gainesville, Texas, firefighter, hangs on for dear life as floodwaters almost sweep him away. He was able to hang onto a firehose tied to a tree and got out safely. Dramatic photo was taken by Barron Ludlum of the Dallas Times Herald. # Massive floods, twisters ravage wide Texas area FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- Disaster workers and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets Wednesday in storm-ravaged north and central Texas towns where massive flooding forced thousands of people to flee their homes and was blamed for at least four deaths. Tornadoes that touched down in at least six counties Tuesday injured at least three people, including two Texas International employees at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. A twister that plowed through the roof of a Waco church ripped its beamed roof apart "like toothpicks." An elephant drowned in floodwaters that swirled through a Gainesville zoo. Across town, the surging tide swept a train from its tracks, but no one was injured. In Abilene, where more than 10 inches of rain fell Tuesday, Cedar Creek rose above its banks and houses in low-lying areas were swamped with up to 6 feet of water. Water reached to the rooftops of at least 30 homes in Lindsay, where 1,000 people were evacuated when officials feared the heavy rains would burst a dam at nearby Lake Sycamore -- one of three dams threatened by the flooding. In Breckenridge, where another 1,000 people were evacuated, Red Cross workers moved in to feed the homeless and distribute drinking water until the city's water supply could be restored Wednesday. Breckenridge residents organized watches to prevent looting and by nightfall, National Guard units were patrolling the streets. Salvation Army disaster units were sent from Wichita Falls, San Angelo, Dallas and Fort Worth to Henrietta, Abilene, Breckenridge and Gainesville to aid victims of the huge storm system -- a remnant of Hurricane Norma, which struck northern Mexico. By Tuesday afternoon, more than 50 percent of the roads in Richland Hills, a suburb of Fort Worth, were flooded. Two women from Springfield, Ill., were killed when their subcompact car was swept off a road by high water from Callow Branch Creek. === Page 99 of 278 Heavy rains, winds batter Northwest Heavy rains and gusty winds ushered in the weekend over much of the Northwest, causing spotty power outages and prompting flood warnings on several Oregon rivers Saturday night and Sunday morning. The Siuslaw River near Mapleton reached flood stage Saturday night and was expected to rise 4 feet above flood stage around early Sunday morning, while the south fork of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point was to rise over flood stage by 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Willamette River tributaries and streams, as well as the Chetco River in Curry County and smaller coastal rivers and streams, were expected to reach the full stage by early Sunday morning. The nasty weather resulted from a "small but intense" weather system that developed offshore Friday night and moved north along the Oregon and Washington coasts, the weather service said. The storm Saturday evening was centered near the Gulf of Alaska, with the front hanging over western Oregon. Mild temperatures, periods of heavy rain and gusty winds were expected to continue Sunday in Portland and most of Western Oregon, with light rain and partly cloudy skies east of the Cascade Mountains. Heavy rains were pelting the Eugene-Springfield area Saturday night, prompting widespread flood warnings as the area's creeks and streams rose. Forecaster Frank Nishimoto said the rivers were high before the storm, and that the heavy rain pushed water levels toward the flood stage Saturday. In the Portland area, Johnson Creek overflowed its banks at midday Saturday at the Sycamore gauge station near Southeast Foster Road. It was expected to remain at about 11 feet -- 3 feet above the flood stage -- overnight. Flood warnings were issued Saturday night for the Clackamas River at Clackamas and for the Nehalem and Wilson river basins in Tillamook County. Warnings also were issued for the Luckiamute River at Suver in Polk County, the Marys River at Philomath in Benton County, the Tualatin River at Dilley in Washington County and the South Yamhill River near Whiteson in Yamhill County. Most of those rivers had neared or reached flood stage by midevening Saturday. Gales Creek near Forest Grove spilled over onto Highway 47 Saturday night, the weather service said. Beaverton reported heavy rainfall -- up to 1.79 inches, the weather service said. continued along the Oregon coast, where winds of 35 to 45 knots were reported by many U.S. Coast Guard stations. The Columbia River bar was closed to marine traffic, with seas swelling to 18 feet Saturday night, the Coast Guard station in Astoria reported. The storm early Saturday brought 35- to 45-knot winds inland to the Willamette Valley and Portland. Spokesmen for both Portland General Electric Co. and Pacific Power & Light Co. reported "spotty" power outages in the Portland area. Leonard Bacon, a PP&L spokesman, said most of his company's outages resulted from tree limbs falling on power lines. He said power was restored to most of the 1,500 customers affected by early Saturday afternoon. Wave ruins boat, fishing crew safe VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Rescued after drifting 54 hours without provisions in a life raft, a fishing boat captain said he and his crew abandoned ship after a freak wave destroyed the wheelhouse. In a radio-telephone interview from a fishing boat that rescued him and his 10 crewmen, Allan Farrington, 24, said he and his 10 crewmen were in good shape. "The mate is suffering a bit of dehydration but that's all -- he'll be OK," Farrington said. The men were picked up Wednesday about 15 miles from their drifting vessel, the Jeanna Marie, by the fishing boat Sea Prince. The Sea Prince, towing the 100-foot Jeanna Marie, was heading for Port Hardy. Meanwhile, a U.S. Coast Guard official at Alert Bay said the crew did not cut off the Jeanna Marie's generator and pumps when they left here. Their catch -- 170,000 pounds of black cod valued at about $200,000 -- did not spoil, he said. Ships were alerted Monday to watch for the vessel. She was sighted off Cape St. James Wednesday by a Canadian Armed Forces plane and the nearby Sea Prince was sent to the rescue. Farrington estimated that winds were blowing at 100 mph when "the wave came and tore everything off the top of the wheelhouse and pushed everything back about 10 inches. "We lost our radio and then the engine stalled and she went broadside. She just about rolled over... so it was time to get off." Storms batters Puget Sound SEATTLE (AP) -- It ripped up trees, knocked down power lines, flooded streets and tipped over sailboats. Sunday afternoon's Puget Sound area thunderstorm -- accompanied by heavy rain and scattered lightning -- left no doubt that summer is over. The short, intense storm was "relatively rare" for the Northwest, said Kim Scattarella, a meteorologist in Seattle. The storm knocked out power temporarily for about 5,000 residents of Seattle's north end. Trees in the area fell on power lines and, in some cases, on automobiles, emergency crews reported. The north end apparently was Seattle's hardest-hit area, with Seattle City Light crews reporting winds up to 50 mph. In Kirkland, Bothell and Woodinville, about 8,000 homes lost power for an hour and 40 minutes, said a Puget Sound Power & Light Co. spokeswoman. Phones were also reported out in a few scattered areas east of Lake Washington. The winds also tipped some sailboats in Lake Union and Shilshole Bay. The Coast Guard uprighted one craft after it had turned a half mile offshore. Two occupants were rescued by a nearby pleasure boat. The storm disrupted the annual Seattle Yacht Club Keelboat Regatta as well as sports competitions and other activities at Seattle's Volunteer Park, where the Puget Sound area's biggest celebration by gay people was underway. Motorists skidded along Interstate 5, producing a few fender-bender accidents, but no injuries, the State Patrol reported. Rains sent a mudslide down Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, closing an underpass for four hours. === Page 100 of 278 AIRPORT BUFFETED - High wind battered Hartsfield International Airport early Friday, damaging up to 20 airplanes, including some passenger airliners. At least six ground crewmen were injured. The gusts, accompanied by rain and lightning, stemmed from a cold front sweeping through Georgia. SLIPPERY GOING - Heavy snow in Minneapolis Wednesday night and Thursday morning turns a bicyclist into a pedestrian. # Freak high waves slam into Coast GEARHART - Two high waves washed the beach here Tuesday, partially submerging cars, knocking about clam diggers and leaving one woman with a broken arm, Gearhart police reported. The first "sneaker swell" at 3:50 p.m. pushed 40 to 50 people around and caused about 30 cars to be towed off the beach 2 1/2 miles north of Gearhart, according to Diane Smith, police dispatcher for Seaside, Gearhart and Cannon Beach. A second wave at 4:15 p.m. at Gearhart resulted in the same problems involving 70 people and more cars, Smith said. The first wave was about 1 1/2 hours before low tide. High waves also swept the beach at Seaside, but they were not as hazardous, and the sea at Cannon Beach remained calm, Smith reported. Police advised people to stay off beaches at Gearhart and Seaside until the stormy sea subsides. The problem involved mainly rough water, Smith said, explaining that wind in the Gearhart area was blowing only about 15 to 20 mph during the first wave and were calmer during the second one. Weather otherwise was just misty, she noted. Rick Holtz of the National Weather Service at Astoria said Wednesday morning the waves might have been a result of the combination of earthquakes off California Tuesday afternoon and the storm which has been brewing in the eastern Pacific Ocean the past several days. # 2 killed as snowstorm rips through Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The season's first major snowstorm plastered the Midwest with up to a foot of wind-blown snow Thursday, snapping power lines, sending cars careening into ditches and causing at least two deaths. "This storm has the potential of being one of the most dangerous that Minnesota has experienced in several years," said a forecaster at the National Weather Service in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 11 inches of snow had accumulated. An "intense" major storm system centered over southeast Iowa spread snows over much of Iowa, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas. In the Twin Cities, the heavy, wet snow toppled trees onto power lines, knocking out power to 30,000 homes. It caused the roof of the new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, a stadium being built as the home of the Minnesota Vikings professional football team, to sag. Slippery roads caused numerous traffic accidents across the Midwest. Two teen-agers were killed when their car collided with another car on a slushy highway about 10 miles north of Marshall, Minn., on Wednesday evening. The victims were identified as Brian Martin, 18, and Keith Paradis, 17. The weather service in Minnesota reported 10 inches in parts of St. Paul, 9 inches in Young America, 8 inches in Minneapolis, 7 inches in Chaska and 6 inches in Rockford and Stillwater. In Nebraska, wind speeds were averaging 20 mph to 35 mph, with the Norfolk weather station clocking a blast at 50 mph. High winds in Crete, Neb., snapped power lines, leaving about one-fourth of the community without electricity for several hours. The Nebraska State Patrol said all of the state's roads Thursday were either packed with ice and snow or were wet and slippery. By noon Thursday, Omaha police had been called to more than 30 minor traffic accidents. Livestock warnings were posted for southwest Nebraska and northern Kansas because of chill factors brought on by the strong, northerly winds and cold air. In Des Moines, Iowa, an employee at the Marks Discount Tire Center said the business in snow tires was brisk. It was 29 degrees in Sioux City, Iowa, but winds gusting more than 30 mph caused a wind chill factor of 1 below zero. In Wisconsin, where temperatures were expected to drop as low as 12 degrees during the night, snow accumulations of 4 to 6 inches were forecast. === Page 101 of 278 Weaker, wetter storm en route to Oregon Staff photo by JOEL DAVIS CURLED STEEL -- A crew at Tanasbourne Mall, 2700 N.W. 185th Ave., put a temporary roof on the building Monday after about one-third of the corrugated steel sheeting was pulled back by wind early Saturday. About $150,000 in damage was done to the roof, to offices and a Safeway store which sustained water damage and a steel roof girder bent by a lightning bolt during the storm, according to Standard Insurance Co., mall owner. mall By VICTORIA MARTIN and LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff A third Pacific storm, bound for the Oregon coast and inland from the coast of Northern California, will be the "wettest and weakest" of the series that hit the state with a vengeance during the weekend, according to a forecaster with the National Weather Service. Don Northrop said at noon Monday that forecasters were "downplaying" earlier assessments that the new front could pack the punch of the storm that hit the region Friday and Saturday, causing 10 deaths and an undetermined amount of property damage. Gale warnings remained posted for the coast, but inland winds are expected to reach only 20 to 30 mph, Northrop said. Heavy rain is expected. Sen. Dell Isham, D-Lincoln City, has asked the governor to declare Lincoln and Tillamook counties disaster areas, thereby making residents eligible for some assistance from the Farmers Home Administration and the Small Business Administration, said Harvey L. Latham, administrator of the Oregon Emergency Management Division. Utility company spokesman Monday reported about 18,000 customers throughout Western Oregon were still without electricity. Service was expected to be restored to most homes by nightfall Monday, but some isolated areas may have to wait as long as Wednesday. Portland General Electric Co., which serves most of Portland, had restored service to all but 11,300 customers across the state by Monday morning, said spokesman Bruce Landrey. "Problems are scattered throughout the system, and it just takes time to get to individual customers," Landrey said. "Some customers will still be without power Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, depending on the severity of the storm that hits us Monday." Pacific Power & Light Co. had made service available to all but 7,000 customers, about 400 of those in Portland, by noon Monday, said Leonard Bacon, company spokesman. Most of the customers should have electricity again by Monday night, except about 500 customers in the Lincoln City area, he said. About 850 outages still were reported Monday in the Stayton and Sweet Home rural areas, though service was restored to Cottage Grove. A group of grateful dairy farmers on Dairy Creek Road northwest of Forest Grove had power restored Sunday night and were able to resume milking, said Ruth Shoepe, coordinator of emergency planning for Washington County. Those in the county still without power include some homeowners on Skyline Boulevard, in the Raleigh Hills area and in small areas of Aloha and Beaverton, she said. The Clark County (Wash.) Public Utility District still had about 1,700 customers without power, said spokesman Mick Shutt. The district Monday afternoon supplied dry ice to affected customers for their refrigerators and freezers at Amboy Thriftway and the PUD operations center, 8600 N.E. 117th Ave. Two young women injured early Sunday at 3905 S.W. 57th Ave. remained in the Oregon Burn Center at Emanuel Hospital Monday. Kari L. Hartman, 2613 S.W. Bound St., was in critical condition after surgeons amputated her leg following an accident that killed Marjorie A. Jessee, who apparently stepped on a downed power line. Karen E. Elstad of Eugene, involved in the same accident, was reported in serious condition Monday. Five Portland schools and an additional five in surrounding counties were closed Monday for lack of electricity. Craig Walker, spokesman for the Multnomah County Educational Service District. School officials don't know when classes will resume. "It depends..." === Page 102 of 278 Oregon and its sister coastal states braced Monday for the third major storm in a series that has left at least 18 persons dead and missing since Friday, caused millions of dollars in damage, interrupted power to thousands and resulted in several school closures. The National Weather Service in Portland said the new storm system was 500 miles off the central California coast early Monday, moving northeast about 40 mph. "We have no clear idea how much it will develop but it has the potential of being similar to Friday night's storm," said Frank Nishimoto of the weather service. "San Francisco has posted storm warnings for the north coast of California and we have posted them for Oregon. Washington has gale warnings in effect." A high-wind watch is in effect for the interior of Western Oregon for strong winds that could develop in the afternoon or evening Monday. Lake Oswego High School, five schools in Portland and other schools in Redland, Gervais and Salem were among those closed Monday as a result of back-to-back storms that raked the area with hurricane-force winds during the weekend. Power companies brought in crews from as far as Montana to help restore service to more than 300,000 customers. Most areas had power restored by Monday morning but an estimated 14,500 still were without service in outlying areas around Oregon City, Salem, Hillsboro, Silverton and Sheridan. Portland General Electric Co. was faced with replacing 32 poles on a three-mile stretch of the Silverton-Salem highway. State Sen. Del Isham, D-Lincoln City, said he would ask Gov. Vic Atiyeh to declare Lincoln and Tillamook counties disaster areas because of wind damage and power outages. The designation would make the Oregon National Guard available to preserve property and protect life and possibly could make some special funds available. Isham said many people began their third day without electricity Monday and he was "concerned that some of the elderly may be in extreme need of assistance." The Sunday storm was less severe than the killer storm which swept up the Coast and through the Willamette Valley Friday night and Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage in its wake. Even so, the Coast Guard station at Garibaldi reported wind of 95 to 100 miles per hour at mid-day Sunday, and gusts to 85 mph were reported at Astoria. The Astoria-Megler bridge across the Columbia River was closed Sunday afternoon because of the high wind. A slide closed Highway 101 near Arch Cape for a time Sunday afternoon and traffic on Highway 26 between the Coast and Portland was reduced to a single lane in two places. Roofs were torn from buildings, trees were blown across roads and streets and more than 300,000 electrical customers were left without power as wind up to 120 miles per hour ripped through Western Oregon. By Sunday that number had been reduced to less than 50,000 despite some additional outages. Six storm-related deaths occurred in Oregon and two were reported in Washington. Six people were missing off the Oregon and California coasts. The search for three women missing off the California coast was abandoned and the Coast Guard said it is unlikely they could survive. The search for the 45-foot fishing boat Christiana J, missing off the Oregon Coast with three men aboard, was suspended Sunday. The boat was about eight miles northwest of Coos Bay when it sent a call for help about 1 a.m. Saturday. Aboard the craft were Willis Easley, of Coos Bay, the operator, and crewmen Doug Johnson and T.J. Foley. That search claimed the life of the commander of the North Bend Coast Guard Air Station Saturday morning. Capt. Frank Olsen, 43, was the pilot of a search helicopter which crashed about one mile offshore. Olsen's body washed ashore and the other two helicopter crewmen were rescued. A Portland woman, Marjorie Anne Weisensee, 19, of 3905 SW 57th Ave., died Saturday night in an accident involving a storm-downed power line. Witnesses said the line struck a car carrying three women at SW 58th Ave. and Hamilton St. Weisensee and Keri Hartman, 19, of 2613 SW Broadway, leaped from the car. The witnesses said the power line wrapped itself around the car and around Hartman's right leg. The leg was amputated after she was taken to Emanuel Hospital by Life Flight helicopter. She was in critical condition Sunday. Karin Elizabeth Elstad, 18, who listed a Pacific Palisades, Calif., address, remained in the car. She also was taken to Emanuel by helicopter and was in serious condition Sunday. Melvin Denny, 50, was electrocuted as he attempted to remove a live electrical wire from his driveway at Hillsboro Saturday. Grady Scarbrough, 53, was crushed to death by a tree that smashed into his mobile home in Albany Saturday morning. Floyd Russell, 64, of Salem, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack after a tree fell on his trailer home near Waldport. Chip Nolan Hinckley, 35, of Banks, died in a two-car collision after he lost control of his vehicle on rain-slickened Highway 6 just west of its junction with Highway 26 in Washington County Saturday morning. In Washington, Frederick Fisk, 69, was electrocuted at his home on Maury Island in Puget Sound when he attempted to move a downed power line with a stick. Milo Gutschmidt, 48, of Bellvue, Wash., died when a tree fell on his tent in the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Lewis County, where he had gone hunting with his son, David, 24. David Gutschmidt suffered minor injuries but hiked four miles and drove 10 miles to Packwood to seek help from the U.S. Forest Service. Howard Moses, 54, of Auburn, Wash., died of massive head injuries Sunday morning when a large tree crashed through the roof of his home. Two Mukilteo, Wash., men, Steve Taylor, 31, and David Titus, 38, were missing and feared drowned after their boat capsized Sunday afternoon during a sailing race. Three women missing off the California coast were identified as Sherry Dozier, 25; Christine Tomlin and Susan Russell. The Coast Guard said the women were swept away in a lifeboat after abandoning the Richmond-based ketch Freedom II when the craft tore loose from its anchor 15 miles north of San Francisco Friday night. At the Coast Guard station at Garibaldi, Petty Officer Thomas Rhew said, "At one point between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday we had sustained winds of 100 miles per hour at our station." He said gusts to 110 mph were recorded. Near Brookings, winds reached 120 mph. At Portland and Salem, winds peaked at 71 mph. The winds, combined with high tides and heavy rain caused flooding, which forced evacuation of some residents in Waldport and Bandon in Oregon and Raymond and the city of Willapa Bay in Washington. Flooding also was reported at Pacific City, Nehalem and Astoria. Residents elsewhere left their homes because they were without heat and light as a result of the widespread power outages. In Salem, residents of the northeast section of the city also were without water because of electrical failure in the pumping system. The loss of electrical power also caused dumping of 1 million gallons of raw sewage into the Willamette River early Saturday. Keith Bafarrow, the city's water and waste water superintendent, said two pump stations still were operating on emergency power Saturday evening but no more sewage had been released into the river. A center for people forced from their homes was opened at Depoe Bay's fire station Sunday but fewer than a dozen people had checked in by late in the afternoon. Heaviest rainfall in Oregon was recorded at Astoria, where 1.06 inches fell in the 24 hours ending Sunday at 4 a.m. Hoquiam, Wash., got 1.17 inches in the same period. === Page 103 of 278 Winds smash Washington again By The Associated Press Blustery winds raked the Pacific Northwest for the fourth day in a row Monday as utility crews scrambled to restore electricity to thousands of customers and city streets echoed with sounds of power saws biting into trees downed by the killer storm. The storm that began Friday left up to five men dead in Washington state and cut telephone service and power to more than 250,000 people during the weekend. Rain and 35 mph winds and higher gusts were predicted for Western Washington through Tuesday. Seas up to 12 feet high and winds gusting to more than 40 knots were expected along the coast Monday night. Some 20,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. customers remained without electricity Monday, said Chris Curtis, a utility spokeswoman. Hardest hit were Seattle area suburbs, where 5,200 customers were without power, she said. In the Spokane area of Eastern Washington, electricity was finally restored to hundreds of homes Sunday night, said Washington Water Power Co. officials. Extra crews were called in to repair power lines that fell during the storm, which the National Weather Service said gusted to 55 mph. Spokane police said winds tripped several false burglar alarms. In Seattle, wind-related troubles included an hourlong stranding Sunday of eight people in the elevator of Seattle's landmark Space Needle. "We're beginning to see the end of the rainbow, so to speak," said Puget Power spokesman Dave Adams as winds abated late Sunday. The weather service downgraded storm warnings on the coast to gale warnings and gale warnings on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound to small craft advisories late Sunday. The U.S. Coast Guard Monday suspended the search for two Mukilteo men who fell from the 30-foot sailboat "Raider" during a Sunday afternoon race off Gedney Island -- also called Hat Island -- in Puget Sound near Everett. Steve Taylor, 31, and Dave Titus, 38, disappeared after their boat was "knocked down" by a gust of wind, said Coast Guard Lt. David Glenn. Two other crewmen were still on the boat when it righted, he added. Taylor and Titus were not wearing life jackets and, unless the two made it to land, it is doubtful they could have survived in the cold, wind-chopped waters, Glenn said. That would make them the fourth and fifth Washington residents to die in the weekend storms. Howard Moses, 54, of the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, died of massive head injuries Sunday morning when a tree fell on him as he slept in the bedroom of his home near Auburn, said the King County Medical Examiner's office. No one else was hurt in the accident. The house, a one-story, wood-frame structure, was demolished. A Maury Island man was electrocuted by a downed wire Friday night and a Bellevue hunter was crushed to death by a tree that fell across his tent early Saturday. The Sunday storm hit just as homeowners and utility crews labored to clean up debris and repair damage from a Friday night and Saturday morning windstorm that caused two other deaths and coastal flooding. Sunday's gusts reached 75 mph on the state's southern coast and an unofficial 70 to 75 mph on Lake Washington, said a National Weather Service official in Seattle. Winds averaged 40 to 50 mph throughout much of Western Washington, he added. No-name storm gives less warning Possibly the second worst storm to strike Oregon in this century again proved that trees and high winds don't mix well. Whether it is winter ice that is bringing down large trees or hurricane-force winds, a major part of the problem is that the Pacific Northwest has a nondescript early warning system for storms. Considerable damage and possibly some lives might have been saved if Oregonians had received a clearer mental image Friday night of the kind of blow coming their way. Moreover, thousands of residents might have escaped being left long in the dark if trees near power lines had been topped, an expensive job that often is prevented by homeowners even when utilities attempt it. Also, many trees would have survived the recent ice storms and winds if they had been properly pruned when young. Storms like the 1962 Columbus Day blow, which did most of its damage in the Willamette Valley and let the Oregon Coast off more lightly, and the storm early Saturday that smashed the coast harder than it did the valley are rarely seen on land in these latitudes. Judging by the damage revealed in ancient trees, the Columbus Day blow may well have been the worst storm in 1,000 years to come ashore into Oregon. It is probable that last week's storm that brought 71-mph winds to Portland and gusts of more than 100 mph to the coastal regions will qualify as the second worst of this century both in terms of intensity and the big blow was not a hurricane in the lexicon of meteorologists, but it had hurricane-force winds (topping 73 mph). These may occur independently of hurricanes, which are officially limited to tropical cyclones found in the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast of Mexico. It would be helpful to have a dramatic name to describe severe storms in the eastern North Pacific. We need a familiar name that will give the public an instant mental image of the severity of the winds that can be expected -- a name that would trigger preparatory reflexes, such as lashing down shutters, double-securing boats, buying food, fuel and emergency lighting for use during power outages, bracing fragile nursery stock and other prestorm precautions. A big storm is called a typhoon in the western parts of the North and South Pacific, a willy-willy in Australia, a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and a cordonazo and hurricane off Mexico. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs to develop an internationally accepted name for the severe storms that have pounded the Pacific Northwest. Why not simply call them hurricanes? The public could instantly visualize the potential severity of a hurricane being tracked and take appropriate measures. It might even be helpful to personify any trackable cyclonic storm capable of generating hurricane-force winds === Page 104 of 278 UFOs & Projects note: A different storm struck Nov. 13 !! # Leaves, limbs, downed wires left behind in wake of windstorm THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 15, 1981 Staff photo by TOM TREICK HELPING HAND -- Unidentified friend of Marvin and Yolanda Watt, 3138 S.W. Fairmount Blvd. in Portland, carries chair from their home. Storm gutted home when roof blew off Saturday. By TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff oregonian Nov. 15, 1981 Trees sounded like the creaking of a rusty joint as utility poles swayed, performing an almost gentle dance with a roaring windstorm that blew into Portland early Saturday. Carpets of limbs, leaves and wires covered many Portland area streets and yards in the wake of a storm that invites inevitable comparisons with the 1962 Columbus Day storm, during which winds were clocked at 116 mph. Powered by a wind described by some as sounding like "thunder," heavy rains doused streets that were lighted only by an early morning gray sky because of massive power outages. There has been no official estimate of the wind speed, but Marvin Watt, 3138 S.W. Fairmount Blvd., said his wind gauge registered 95 mph when he and his wife fled their home about 3:45 a.m. Saturday, amid chunks of falling sheet rock. When the couple returned about 6 a.m., they found the roof of their home had been ripped off and 20-foot chunks blocked one lane of the boulevard. "I can't believe it," Watt said, as he carried out of the home what furniture was salvageable. "The power went off about 2:30 a.m. and I looked at the wind gauge and it read 85 mph." he said. "I went and woke up my wife and told her we had to leave. I could here the nails creaking in the roof. "Just before we left, I looked at the gauge again and it read between 95 and 100 mph," he said. "I was afraid we were going to be trapped inside our home." As Watt, his wife, Yolanda, and friends began cleaning the home Saturday, the wind rocked nearby trees and whistled through the home. Several businesses in downtown Portland also were damaged. Walt Kotkins, manager of Portland Luggage Co., 1003 S.W. Washington St., said, "It looks like a hurricane hit the inside of our store." Bill Simon, owner of the store, said that "next to what this storm did here, the Columbus Day storm looks like a soft wind." Kotkins said he came to the store about 2 a.m. Saturday and found the awnings had broken the windows and the storm entered the store "with the force of a tornado." Mary Marsh, manager of the Jay Jacobs store in the Galleria at Southwest Morrison Street and 10th Avenue, said she was called at home about 4 a.m. because a the wind had shattered a large display window on Morrison Street. "I can't believe the wind," she said, as she and two other employees picked up pieces of glass that had blown into the store. "The wind was so powerful, it knocked over large potted plants at the other end of the store (about 50 feet away)." At the Tanasbourne Mall, 2700 N.W. 185th Ave., parts of the ridged metal and tile roof were ripped from the structure. Roof debris was scattered across U.S. 26, hundreds of feet away, while pieces as large as 50 feet across lay twisted in the parking lot. A knee-deep "lake" formed in the lot when a water pipe burst and the storm sewers became clogged with debris from the roof. Inside the Safeway store at the mall, employees scrambled to cover merchandise with plastic coverings as water poured in through holes in the roof. Pam Wiles, a store employee, was stocking shelves about 1 a.m. when she heard a sound she thought was thunder. "Then I heard metal ripping and then it sounded like it was raining inside the store," she said, as she watched fellow employees mopping the floors. One end of Southwest Patton Road, in Portland Heights, was blocked when a large tree fell near the intersection of Southwest Scholls Ferry Road. Driving on the twisting, dipping road was treacherous because of the limbs that had fallen. At one point, a large tree had toppled across the road, but there was enough clearance for a car to pass underneath. Throughout the area, the smell of freshly cut trees hung in the air because of the tons of green debris on the streets. === Page 105 of 278 UFOs & Projects # 13 slightly hurt as Amtrak derails on flooded tracks SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) -- Six cars of an Amtrak passenger train carrying about 300 people derailed Monday on flooded tracks shortly after leaving Oakland for Chicago, slightly injuring at least 13 people, officials said. Because of floodwaters 5 feet deep, the injured were removed from the wreckage by boat, Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Gary Ford said. Six cars of the eight-car San Francisco Zephyr jumped the tracks at 3 p.m. about 17 miles east of Oakland, Ford said, and by 5 p.m. all 120 people on the four derailed cars were evacuated "by boat and Coast Guard helicopter." Tom Buckley, spokesman for Southern Pacific railroad, which owns the tracks involved, said the flooding caused by heavy rains over the past two days apparently had washed out the rail bed and the tracks could not support the weight of the train. However, Buckley said the exact cause of the accident would not be determined until later. None of the injuries was serious, and no one needed to be hospitalized, according to spokesmen at Richmond General Hospital in Richmond and Brookside Hospital here, which treated the 13 injured. Ford said deputies and private citizens used rowboats to navigate the flood to reach the 120 passengers on the six derailed cars, Ford said. Amtrak officials said the Zephyr was to have left Oakland at 1:05 p.m. but did not leave until 2:35 p.m. because of water on the tracks. Heavy rains since Sunday afternoon have caused severe flooding in several areas of Northern California. oreg 1/5/82 UFOs & Projects THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1981 3M B1 # Tornado devastates Atlanta airport oreg ATLANTA (AP) -- A tornado packing winds of up to 100 mph Friday ripped across Hartsfield International Airport, battering at least two dozen aircraft and causing extensive damage to buildings, officials said. Damages so far totaled almost $2 million, airport spokesman John Braden said late Friday. Five people were injured, none seriously, when the twister touched down at about 12:07 a.m., slashing through the main terminal area and moving northeast across the airport into nearby Hapeville, an Atlanta suburb. At least 24 planes, including passenger jets, were damaged, power knocked out and signs blown down, Braden said. Service at the airport, one of the nation's busiest, was reported normal Friday afternoon. The National Weather Service, which initially thought the twister was just high winds, said the tornado was triggered by a thunderstorm. It cut a path 2½ miles long and 100 yards wide. Winds were estimated at 80 to 100 mph in the most heavily damaged area. A supervisor for Airborne, a package express freight company, said his men were out on the ramp when "the thing (storm) must have hopped over the fuel tanks out there." He said two privately owned Beechcraft twin-engine aircraft and two of his crew were blown under a Flying Tiger DC-8, and one of the Beechcraft tore the DC-8's right wing engines off. Damage to the plane was estimated in excess of $1 million, Braden said. "They're lucky to be alive," said the man, who declined to give his name. "It's just miraculous." A mechanic who declined to be identified said the Flying Tiger jet was taxiing when it was struck by the smaller planes, and its engine was torn off while it was operating, sending a spray of jet fuel onto the field. "The only reason this place didn't go up in a ball of fire was that it was raining so hard at the time," he said. Braden said 20 or 21 Delta Air Lines and Eastern Airlines planes were damaged when they were struck by debris. Neither airline had any damage estimate. Five other aircraft, including three twin-engine freight carriers, were demolished, and a DC-3 had extensive damage to its tail, Braden said. Damage to these craft, automobiles and other vehicles was put at $300,000. === Page 106 of 278 100 80 60 40 20 0 8:00 am SATURDAY, NOV. 14 4:00 pm FRIDAY, NOV. 13 For 6 Projects Oreg 11/19/81 # Wind indicator charts storm A wind speed indicator at an experimental weather station on the Oregon Coast recorded gusts of more than 100 miles per hour during last weekend's violent storm. Gusts were still hitting 100 mph as late as 3:15 a.m. The graph from the recording drum at the station, maintained by Pacific Power & Light Co. at its Whisky Run wind generator about 10 miles south of Coos Bay, paints a graphic picture of the storm. Wind speeds tapered off gradually, dropping to an average speed of about 40 mph after 6 a.m. The anemometer recorded winds of more than 100 mph for some four hours. The velocities actually exceeded 100 mph, which was the upper limit of the instrument. The wind did not damage the generator, which automatically feathered its three blades and quit operating at 45 mph, Bacon said. It did, however, knock out the line that fed 200 kilowatts of power from the wind generator into PP&L's transmission system. The line has been repaired and the experimental generator is back on the line, Bacon said. Computer data, when processed in the next few days, will show the actual peak velocities, said Leonard Bacon, a spokesman for PP&L. The graph reads from right to left, starting with winds of about 20 mph at 4 p.m. Friday. The wind velocity rose sharply thereafter, first reaching 100 mph around 8:30 p.m. and generally remaining between 70 and 80 mph until about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. === Page 107 of 278 # 10 die in North Sea storm United Press International DAMP RESCUE -- Rescue workers help an elderly couple from their home in Nykebing on the small island of Mors in the northern part of Denmark. Flood resulted from storm that battered Scandinavia, killing at least 10. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- The storm that battered Scandinavia, killing at least 10 people, swept across the eastern Baltic Thursday. Forecasters warned that more bad weather is on the way. As gales buffeted the Baltic republics of the Soviet Union, authorities in Denmark counted the cost of the high tides and wind-whipped waves that smashed dikes in western Jutland. Forestry officials said it will take 100 years to restore the "immense loss" of trees blown down in 90-mph gales. More than 1,200 people had to spend the night away from their homes and thousands more were without electricity after trees felled power lines and blocked country roads. Heavy snowfall blanketed northern Sweden. Forecasters said Scandinavia's first taste of winter is not over. "We can expect another low pressure area which will reach us at the weekend, giving rise to another storm," Danish forecasters said. Norwegian rescue authorities gave up the search for five men aboard the cargo vessel Hammerholm, missing in the North Sea since Monday. The five were among 10 people reported killed in accidents at sea since the storm hit the North Sea last weekend. # 3 killed, 28 injured in quake MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Repair crews in Mexico City and the western coastal state of Michoacan worked Sunday to restore electric power and telephone service knocked out by a powerful earthquake that killed three people and injured 28. Mexico City residents said the three-minute tremor Saturday night was one of the sharpest jolts in the past five years in this earthquake-prone country. It rocked buildings and caused panic but surprisingly little damage. Many streets in the south and west side of the city were strewn with broken glass, and cracks could be seen in some buildings. The quake also was felt in eight states surrounding the capital. The Tacubaya Seismological Center said the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale -- meaning it was capable of causing severe damage -- with the epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles west of Mexico City off the coast of Michoacan. However, the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the temblor measured 7.1, putting it in the range of a major quake capable of massive damage. "Considering the severity of the jolt, the reports we have had up to now show casualties are relatively small," a Red Cross worker in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. # China slides kill hundreds PEKING (AP) -- Landslides and cave-ins, spawned by the summer's disastrous floods, have left 240 people dead in southwestern China's Sichuan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday. It said 100,000 people had been left homeless, and many others were being evacuated from the endangered area, which has a population of 240,000. Floods in July and August killed about 1,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless in Sichuan, China's most populous province with 100 million residents. Flooding in neighboring Shaanxi province killed about 800 more people. The successive downpours saturated earth and loosened rocks, creating avalanche conditions, Xinhua said. Indiscriminate felling of trees, reclamation of wasteland and unsound planning for roadbuilding and mining also created conditions for the landslides and cave-ins, it added. The floods ruined 6,400 acres of farmland, Xinhua said, and silt flowing into reservoirs and ponds had affected the irrigation of 1.6 million acres. Oregon Journal, November 23, 1981 # 'Worst' typhoon threatens havoc in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Irma and its 150 mph winds bore down on the coconut-producing central Philippines Monday and was expected to be the worst storm to hit the islands in 11 years. Howling westward over the Pacific at an average speed of 16 mph, Irma was charted about 275 miles southeast of the coastal town of Borongan on Samar island, with its nearest projected landfall 250 miles southeast of Manila. Irma, the 27th storm to strike the country this year, is following the same course as a typhoon -- locally named Sending -- took in October 1970. That storm had peak winds of 150 mph and left 575 people dead and 1,593 injured. ## news scope === Page 108 of 278 UFO 26 Projects # Typhoon Irma leaves 30 dead, 78,000 homeless in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Irma left 30 people dead and nearly 78,000 homeless in a destructive sweep across the main Philippine island of Luzon, authorities said Wednesday. Reports from relief sources in Manila put the toll of lives at 18, but officials in the isolated southern town of Daet reported another 12 were killed in floods and falling debris in the area. Seventy-two were injured and 18 fishermen were reported missing at sea during the Tuesday storm, the worst to hit the Philippines in 11 years, authorities said. The Red Cross said 77,238 people left homeless by the storm took temporary shelter in town halls, schools and churches, but by dawn Wednesday many were returning to their damaged homes. Irma battered Luzon with peak winds of 150 mph Tuesday, then weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the island and headed toward southern China with center winds of 68 mph. ORGS 11/25/81 # news scope power" through joining dissident leader Jacek Kuron in a bid to form a new political party. At the same time, union-government talks were under way in Radom to avert strikes that would involve military industry and talks were scheduled later Wednesday in an effort to end farmer sit-ins in four towns. But union-government talks on the economy were postponed until Thursday. UFO 26 Projects # Storm toll hits 74 CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) -- Two storms that hit Mexico's Pacific coast five days and 120 miles apart caused at least 74 deaths and $84 million damage to crops and cattle, officials said Tuesday. Governor Antonio Toledo Corro declared the state of Sinaloa an emergency zone and asked for federal aid after Hurricane Norma flooded the coastal resort of Mazatlan and nine smaller towns Monday. Red Cross spokesman Joaquin Romero said at least 5,000 people heeded weekend broadcast warnings to evacuate low-lying areas in Norma's path, and only one death, that of a fisherman whose boat overturned in the ocean, was reported. ORGS 10/14/81 # Earthquake hits Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A moderate earthquake rocked Mexico City and central Mexico Sunday, but police and Red Cross officials said they had no reports of damage or casualties. The 40-second quake made tall buildings sway in the capital, and people rushed out of restaurants, bars and movie theaters. All utility services functioned normally. The Tacubaya seismological observatory said the quake measured 5.5 on the open-ended Richter scale and placed the epicenter about 270 miles southwest of Mexico City. -- UFO 26 Projects UFO 26 Projects # Quake cuts power MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- Emergency crews worked around the clock to restore electricity to parts of Mexico City shaken by aftershocks from a powerful earthquake that destroyed houses and left dozens injured, authorities said. Two aftershocks recorded Monday at the National Geological Station in Mexico City registered about 3 on the open-ended Richter scale, said station employee Reynaldo Mota. ORGS 10/27/81 # Turkey hit by storms ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- A 60-year-old woman and her horse froze to death, and scores of houses were flooded when storms lashed Turkey Tuesday, authorities reported. Sevgi Efe and the animal froze to death when they fell into a ditch on a snowbound road near Elazig, 760 miles east of Istanbul, police reported. Citrus fruit and vegetable crops -- important export earners for the cash-short country -- suffered frost damage. Wind storms prevented several boats from nearing the shore in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. Houses were flooded in low sections of the city. ORGS 11/18/81 # Storm lashes India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- At least 470 fishermen were missing Sunday in a hurricane that lashed the western Indian coast with tidal waves and 90 mph winds, the United News of India reported. It said at least 11 boats sank in the Arabian Sea and five trawlers were missing. Torrential rain washed away an entire fishing flotilla at Rajpara, 650 miles southwest of New Delhi, the agency reported. In Visavadar, 30 miles to the east, the Zanjeshree Dam overflowed, and residents were evacuated to higher ground. Broadcasts by the state-run All-India Radio urged residents of the affected areas to seek refuge in multi-storied buildings from tidal waves expected to rise as high as 10 feet. UFO 26 Projects # 10 killed in winter storm STAVANGER, Norway (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds and 40-foot seas that churned the North Sea diminished Wednesday, giving airborne searchers hope for finding a missing Norwegian ship and seamen washed overboard from a Scottish trawler. But the toll of dead and presumed dead in six nations from the winter storm reached at least 10, with 1,200 people evacuated from flood-threatened homes in Denmark where high water broke dikes and communication lines. The victims included three crewmen washed overboard from the Aberdeen-based trawler Clarkwood. ORGS 11/25/81 === Page 109 of 278 Sept. Times 9-28-81 Hurricane Irene turns away from Bermuda MIAMI (UPI) -- Hurricane Irene made a turn northward yesterday to a course that would take it far to the east of Bermuda, sparing the resort island from the storm's 110 mile-an-hour winds. Forecasters also began watching a newly formed tropical depression in the mid-Atlantic that may become Tropical Storm Jose. The new depression had high winds of 35 miles an hour, just short of tropical-storm strength. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Irene is unlikely to gain any further strength through today. - UFOs & Projects - Storm-spawned high tides spill over Venice VENICE, Italy (AP) -- Warning sirens wailed repeatedly over Venice Tuesday as high tides flooded most of the lagoon city for a second day. A storm that battered the Italian peninsula with high winds sent sea water spilling into majestic palaces, churches and ordinary houses. Municipal authorities described the situation as "grave." Experts monitoring the tides said the water will not begin to recede before late Wednesday. Firefighters joined Venetians in evacuating street-level stores and removing valuable antique furniture from churches, restaurants and ground-floor exhibition halls. Officials said the flooding caused damage initially estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. City residents and tourists used rowboats or wooden planks set up by the city to cross the flooded squares and alleys. Sirens warning of the high water sounded repeatedly, the first time Monday night when the water level reached 4 1/2 feet above sea level, about one foot below the disastrous deluge of 1966. The high tides swept the streets again Tuesday morning, although the level was down to four feet above sea level. Officials at the city office monitoring the tides said a new peak was expected Wednesday morning. "People put on their boots and went to work, life is somewhat normal. Venetians are used to this," said Philip Rylands, administrator of the Peggy Guggenheim modern art collection, which was spared by floodwaters. Following the 1966 record tide that struck in the middle of the night and caused major damage, authorities installed a siren system to warn residents of high tides. Elsewhere, heavy snow fell from the Italian Alps in central Italy, blocking mountainous roads and delaying railway traffic. Up to 27 inches of snow was reported in the Veneto and Friuli regions north and northeast of Venice. Hailstones lashed Rome as torrential rains pounded the capital for a third day. Heavy flooding was also reported in Naples where fire and police officials received hundreds of calls. oreg 10/28/81 - UFOs & Projects - United Press International QUAKE DAMAGE -- A highway leading out of San Cristobal, Argentina, was sheared off by a strong weekend earthquake and slithered down a hill, burying about 40 homes. Rescue workers found eight dead on Monday, but many more victims are believed buried under tons of earth. - UFOs & Projects - oreg 5 11/24/81 Oil rigs adrift in stormy sea STAVANGER, Norway (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds ripped two oil rigs from their moorings Tuesday, while a tugboat averted a collision between two platforms in the storm-tossed North Sea. Norwegian rescue headquarters at Sola, Norway, said helicopters rescued as many as 46 people from the drifting British rig Transworld 58. A tugboat managed to get a cable onto the Phillips SS rig with 112 men aboard and secure it at a point where it had been driven to within 90 feet of the Phillips Tor rig, with 82 men aboard. The rigs normally are stationed 600 yards apart in the Ekofisk oilfield, 180 miles northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was in the same area that the oil rig Alexander Kielland went down last year with the loss of 123 lives. SCOTLAND Aberdeen NORWAY NORTH SEA 0 miles 100 Ekofisk Oilfield DEN. ENGLAND NETH. GERM. === Page 110 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen forced out; Clark appointed By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, resigned under pressure Monday, and Reagan immediately named Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark to replace him. At the same time, Reagan upgraded the National Security Office. And he stipulated that Clark, a longtime friend and former California Supreme Court justice, would report directly to the president instead of to White House counselor Edwin Meese III, as Allen had done. Allen's forced resignation -- in a face-to-face meeting with Reagan in the Oval Office -- came only after Meese, his staunchest defender in the White House, finally agreed with other top officials that Allen had become a political liability because of allegations of wrongdoing. Talking to reporters outside his suburban Virginia home, Allen said he was prompted to resign by circumstances that included "a highly charged political atmosphere which I don't fully understand. But politics was involved." "The issue was never that of competence or day-to-day administration of the operation," he said. Allen also said it was unusual that someone who had been cleared by "a rigorous and meticulous examination" could "find himself in a position where his resignation would be submitted and accepted." The White House, attempting to put the best face on an embarrassing situation for Allen, issued a statement saying that although he had been cleared of any wrongdoing, both Allen and the president "agreed that in view of the controversy of recent weeks, it would be better for all concerned to seek a change in responsibilities." The "change in responsibilities" for Allen involves a part-time job as a presidential consultant "for an indefinite period to assist in the organization of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board." Allen had been under investigation most of the last two months, first by the Department of Justice and then by the White House counsel's office for his acceptance of gifts, his contacts in the White House with former business clients, and errors and omissions on his White House financial disclosure report. Under pressure, Allen took a leave of absence in late November pending the outcome of the investigations but insisted to the end that he would be cleared and would return to the White House staff. He was cleared, first by the Department of Justice, which found he had violated no laws, and then Monday by the White House Counsel's Office, which found he had violated no regulations or White House ethical standards. But Allen had few friends among top administration officials, and once Meese decided he should go, his fate was sealed. In announcing Clark's appointment to succeed Allen, the White House released a report of the White House Counsel's Office clearing Allen of any wrongdoing. It also released an exchange of letters between Reagan and Allen. The report noted that the Counsel's Office had examined a number of issues, including Allen's handling of a $1,000 honorarium from two Japanese journalists in connection with an interview with Mrs. Reagan; the receipt of three watches as gifts from Japanese friends; the sale of Allen's consulting firm to the Hannaford Co.; Allen's continuing contacts with former clients after joining the White House staff; and errors and omissions in Allen's financial-disclosure report. In none of those matters did the Counsel's Office find that Allen had acted improperly. UFOs & Projects + Attack on "higher ups" # Defoliants us By RICHARD SEVERO New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The draft of an unpublished Air Force history reports that the United States secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War and openly sprayed them on South Vietnam only after a debate at the highest levels of government over whether other nations would criticize it for conducting chemical warfare. The history, which contains details about how America started and conducted its herbicide spraying program, provides insights into how government policy was made during the war, in violation of the inspection provisions of the Geneva accords of 1954, which were designed to end hostilities in Indochina and discourage their resumption. The United States participated in the creation of the Geneva accords, and although it dissociated itself from the "Final Declaration," it pledged not to disturb the agreement by force. Later, the spraying in South Vietnam was conducted openly. The Air Force account, more than 500 double-spaced typewritten pages, was prepared by Maj. William A. Buckingham Jr. for the Office of Air Force History as part of a program to document military operations. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Evangelist hurt in crash LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 19-year-old woman was in fair condition Sunday after a three-car collision that slightly injured evangelist Oral Roberts and his wife. Roberts, 63, of Tulsa, Okla., was riding in a car driven by his wife, Evelyn, 63, at the time of the accident, said California Highway Patrolman Ken Gazaway. Roberts and his wife were examined and released at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said spokesman Larry Baum. === Page 111 of 278 U.S. attack "higher ups". # U.S. attache murdered in second Paris attack BPG 1/18/82 PARIS (UPI) -- A gunman who approached from the rear shot to death an American diplomatic official outside his home Monday and escaped into rush hour crowds. It was the second attack against a U.S. Embassy official in Paris in two months. Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray, 43, assistant U.S. military attache in France, was shot through the head at 9 a.m. (midnight PST) as he left his home in the fashionable 16th district of Paris, police spokesman Marcel Lecler said. President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Pierre Mauroy expressed revulsion over the killing, and U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith condemned the "cold-blooded murder." A witness told police he saw a man step forward and shoot Ray from behind on the sidewalk as he headed for his mud-spattered Pontiac parked a few hundred yards away. The gunman escaped into the early morning crowd of Parisians rushing to work, police said. Ray, dressed in a gray suit instead of a military uniform and apparently on his way to work, died instantly from the single 7.65mm bullet, police said. Police said the bullets fired Nov. 12 at U.S. charges d'affaires Christian Chapman, which missed the diplomat, were of the same caliber as those used to shoot Ray. In Washington, the State Department said it had no information on the assailant. "We do not know what the motive was, or the reason," said spokeswoman Sue Pittman. The attack on Ray, who had been working in Paris as assistant military attache for 18 months, appeared to have been drowned out by the noise from a nearby street construction project. === Page 112 of 278 64F02 6 Projects + "higher ups" Oreg J 12/2/81 FOR GOODNESS SAKE, RON! GO TO SLEEP! NIGHTMARE? WHAT ABOUT RICHARD ALLEN? I CAN'T SLEEP, NANCY! I KEEP HAVING THAT HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE! ...S-ABOUT JAPANESE WRISTWATCHES! ABOUT JAPANESE MONEY! ABOUT RICHARD ALLEN! I DREAMED HE EXPLODED ON DECEMBER 7TH. UFO attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M # Washington official resigns under fire By BILL MERTENA OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington Veterans Affairs Director Hector L. Torres, fined for public disclosure violations and accused of improperly using state funds to remodel his office, resigned Wednesday. He is the first major Spellman appointee to quit and certainly the first to resign under fire. Torres was hit by an attorney general's opinion which said he violated the law by remodeling his office and headquarters at a cost of nearly $200,000. Gov. John Spellman accepted "with regret" Torres' resignation only hours after Rep. Mike Kreidler, D-Olympia, made public an opinion from Attorney General Ken Eikenberry's office saying the office remodeling project was illegal and the money would have to be repaid to the state. Spellman immediately replaced Torres with Randy S. Fisher, a Navy veteran who was deputy director of the Planning and Community Affairs Agency. Torres blamed his troubles on the press and the Public Disclosure Commission, which fined him $500 Tuesday for using his office to campaign for a successful constitutional amendment proposal, which would allow agencies to issue tax-exempt industrial development bonds. Torres admitted he was "technically" guilty of violating disclosure law prohibitions against using public office to campaign for candidates or issues. "I feel that the department has never in its brief history been closer to the veteran population which it serves," said Torres, who has been in the state less than 2 years. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School. "Unfortunately, recent articles in newspapers did not portray the positive aspects of my administration and instead dwelled on sensationalized or inaccurate portrayals of the department and its work. "Of concern to me is the publicity that has been given with regard to the Public Disclosure Commission's review of the department's fund-raising activities were used to support the passage of this constitutional amendment." # Beleaguered PM resigns By GUY ELLIS CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) -- Prime Minister Winston Cenac, following a weeklong shutdown by this Caribbean nation's business community and labor unions, resigned Saturday. The business community, which had joined opposition parties in calling for new elections, responded to Cenac's resignation by opening stores and shops. Cenac appointed an interim government and called for national elections by July 31. He said he would ask Governor General Boswell Williams to dissolve the 17-member House of Assembly. In an early morning statement over state-owned Radio St. Lucia, Cenac said Michael Pilgrim, deputy general of the opposition Progressive Labor Party, would head the interim government. === Page 113 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet admirals fired over sub grounding oreg J 1/25/82 BONN, West Germany (UPI) -- The Soviet Union has replaced two admirals over the Soviet submarine that ran aground in a restricted area in Sweden in October, the West German news magazine Der Spiegel said Sunday. It said Vladimir Tschernavin, the navy's youngest admiral and a candidate member of the Communist Party Central Committee, was replaced in December as chief of the North Fleet by Adm. Arkadij Petrovitsch Michailovski. In November, Admiral of the Fleet Georgij Jegorov, the second highest ranking naval officer and chief of the naval staff, was transferred to a minor post. ## news scope UFOs attack "higher ups" # Slayton may get NASA 'pink slip' By HOWARD BENEDICT 1/26/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, last of the original seven Mercury astronauts still active with NASA, says he is being let go by the agency. His current position is head of the space shuttle flight test program. At National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters, however, a spokesman said officials had not decided whether to eliminate Slayton's position. Time is crucial, since the third of four shuttle test flights is just two months away. Slayton said in a telephone interview at the Houston Space Center that he understood his job was being terminated and that he was "looking for another challenging job, hopefully in the aerospace industry." Being let go wouldn't be Slayton's first NASA disappointment. He had to wait 13 years to get his first space flight after doctors discovered a minor heart irregularity in 1962. Slayton is one of about two dozen high-level specialists who retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1980, only to be rehired as "re-employed annuitants" because of their expertise with the shuttle program. DONALD K. "DEKE" SLAYTON === Page 114 of 278 "UFOs attack" higher ups # Anti-Reagan attitude prevalent at job office By STAN FEDERMAN of The Oregonian staff Oreg 1/27/82 Unemployed nurse Sandra Miller looked up angrily from the table where she was filling out a job placement form Tuesday at the Oregon Employment Division's downtown Portland office. "It's all the president's fault," she said. "His administration doesn't give a darn about the little people." John Archer, a factory worker who has been out of work since last fall, was even more blunt. "That man Reagan messed up California as governor and now he is messing up this country as president," he said. That kind of anti-administration attitude could be found Tuesday in all corners of the Employment Division office as the unemployed reacted to federal funding cuts that will cause a shutdown of state job-finding services by March 1. Many agreed with job-seeking cook Virgil Ramsey, who said the shutdown "will discourage all of us at a time when people need such services the most." As usual, Tuesday was a busy day for the job-finding crew at the division's downtown Portland office. The unemployed came to file job application forms, discuss qualifications with state job interviewers and scan the 50 or so job viewer machines that carry the listings of hundreds of jobs throughout the state and local area. But after March 1, the job-finding help will no longer be available at the office. The job viewer machines will be taken out after Feb. 12. And 14 of the office's 16-member job-finding staff will be laid off. Statewide, some 250 members of the Employment Division's job placement team will be laid off and the state will be without such services for the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And the cutbacks will come during Oregon's worst period of unemployment since the 1930s. The rate hit 11 percent last month and is expected higher in January and February. "It's a shame this is happening, not only for the unemployed but the state as well," said LaVon Caldwell, assistant manager of the division's downtown Portland office. She explained that the impending layoffs eventually would cause the division to lose "a great many bright and experienced people." She said staff who will be laid off in the downtown office already have said they probably would leave the division permanently. "And the poor unemployed," she said. "Where will they go when we're forced to shut down our job services?" Ms. Caldwell emphasized that the office helps many persons who don't know how to look for a job. "We even conduct classes on that, but now these will be killed, too," she said. She noted that job openings listed at the office were "way down," averaging fewer than 300 a day compared with three and four times that during normal times. "But we still get openings from a lot of employers who don't like to advertise in times like this," Ms. Caldwell said. "UFOs attack" higher ups A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 # Surgery on senator delays his sentencing NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., who had been scheduled for sentencing Tuesday in the Abscam bribery case, underwent emergency hernia surgery instead. The New Jersey Democrat, who faces a possible 15 years in prison for his conviction stemming from the FBI's undercover investigation, slipped on ice in his driveway Monday and aggravated an existing hernia condition, according to Richard Zucker, spokesman for Presbyterian Hospital. Walter Gold, Williams' press secretary, said the surgery was successful and Williams was in satisfactory condition. Gold said Williams' doctor, Philip Wiedel, estimated that the senator could leave the hospital within five days. U.S. District Judge George C. Pratt postponed the sentencing until Feb. 9. The postponement did not delay sentencing of Williams' co-defendant, Alexander Feinberg, 73, of Cherry Hill, N.J. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $40,000 for aiding and abetting bribery. But since Feinberg is appealing the conviction, his sentence and former Labor and Human Resources Committee chairman, was convicted May 1 of one count of conspiracy and two counts each of bribery, conflict of interest, receiving a criminal gratuity and interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. Bribery, the most serious of the charges, carries a maximum 15-year prison term. It was not immediately clear how his injury and hospitalization would affect the timing of the Senate's debate on whether to expel Williams. The debate is scheduled to begin Feb. 2. George Koelzer, the senator's attorney, said the judge had decided to postpone the sentencing after Williams' doctor said a court appearance would be "impossible medically." Koelzer said Williams wanted the sentencing to proceed as scheduled since he "would like to get it behind him because it delays the appeal." Gold said Williams suffered the "incarcerated hernia" in a fall at his home in Bedminster, N.J. He said Williams was taken to his family doctor and then to a surgeon who had him admitted to the hospital. Oreg 1/27/82 "UFOs attack" higher ups # General denies report, asks apology By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Army Gen. William Westmoreland denied Tuesday a CBS television report that enemy troop estimates in Vietnam were falsified and he called for an apology from reporter Mike Wallace. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam, made his comments in response to a CBS Reports broadcast, "The Uncounted Enemy," aired Saturday, which charged that Americans were misled about the nature and size of the enemy in Vietnam. "I remain shocked, deeply perturbed and maligned at what I consider to be a reprehensible and irresponsible effort to impugn my character and integrity and that of officers who loyally and dutifully served their country," Westmoreland said at a news conference. "In the interests of accuracy, I call upon Mike Wallace to apologize to the American people for the cruel hoax he and his associates tried to perpetrate," he added. He said he has made no decision about whether to take legal action. Responding to a CBS allegation that alterations of figures amounted to a conspiracy, Westmoreland said, "There was no conspiracy -- not even a hint of a conspiracy -- to deceive anybody." He charged that he had been "ambushed" by Wallace by being invited to talk about the broad topic of intelligence and then asked questions about specific instances in Vietnam without a chance to refresh his memory. === Page 115 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iraqi Embassy blown apart; up to 20 die BY TOM BALDWIN oreg 12/16/81 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A devastating explosion, possibly set off by the suicide driver of a bomb-filled automobile, brought down the five-story Iraqi Embassy in Beirut Tuesday. As many as 20 people were reported killed and dozens more wounded. Still unaccounted for were Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Razzak Mohammad Lafta, a military attache and a press attache. The three men were believed to be buried beneath the rubble of the building. The Iraqi government blamed Iran and Syria for the deadly blast. But an anonymous caller to a Beirut radio station claimed the bombing was carried out on behalf of rebel Kurds in Iraq. Lebanese authorities gave differing versions of the explosion, which left the year-old steel-and-concrete structure a pile of rubble. A police spokesman said a terrorist in an explosives-packed car sped through a hail of machine-gun fire and into the embassy compound, either driving up to the building's front entrance or into its basement garage and then detonating the explosives. Lebanese military sources said the Iraqis had stockpiled ammunition in the embassy basement. But a Lebanese army ordnance expert who inspected the demolished building said the explosions were caused by five 44-pound bombs placed in the building. The account of Iraq's official news agency, the No. 1 enemy of the Iranian regime, gave credence to the car bomb report. Casualty tolls also varied. Police said 20 were killed and more than 100 wounded. But the Lebanese and Iraqi state radios put the death toll at 10, and independent checks of hospitals tallied four dead and more than 50 wounded. Earlier, at the American University Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken, an Iraqi official who identified himself as the ambassador's bodyguard reported Lafta had survived and was under treatment for a leg wound. But Lebanese security officials and Lebanese television said the ambassador and two attaches were still believed to be buried under debris. All three men were reported to have been on the fourth floor of the embassy when the bombs exploded. The explosion, heard for miles, split the building up the middle, and it collapsed into itself. Vendors' carts 700 yards away were overturned and windows were shattered over a wide area surrounding the embassy, on the Mediterranean seafront in mostly Moslem West Beirut. "The window was blown out and pieces of glass came down on our heads," said 12-year-old Ahmad Omari, who was caught in his classroom at a nearby school and suffered head cuts. Bodies and survivors were pulled from the rubble through the afternoon. About 15 diplomats were assigned to the embassy. An undetermined number of staff members of the Iraqi News Agency also worked in the building, along with several Lebanese employees. Baghdad Radio, in a report monitored in Beirut, said that "organs of the Syrian regime and its Iranian allies" were responsible for the explosion. - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Caribbean leader replaced CASTRIES, St. Lucia (UPI) -- Prime Minister Winston Cenac formally resigned Sunday, ending a six-day general strike and governmental crisis stranding 1,600 tourists on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Cenac handed his formal resignation to the governor-general of the island nation of 120,000 after six hours of negotiation with business, union and opposition leaders called together by the Catholic Church. He was succeeded by moderate leftist Michael Pilgrim. Under an agreement through the church, Pilgrim will appoint a Cabinet composed of members from the three parties -- excluding the current Cabinet altogether -- dissolve Parliament and set a date for new elections. oreg 1/19/82 - UFOs attack "higher ups" Associated Press Laserphoto RESIGNS -- White House congressional liaison Max Friedersdorf has become first member of President Reagan's senior staff to resign for another job. Story on Page A24. oreg 12/4/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Assassination plot cracked MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) -- Security agents have cracked a broad-based plot to kill leaders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government and dynamite two important industrial plants, the Interior Ministry announced. A communique issued Friday said security agents arrested a group of 15 Latin American rightists, including the ringleader, who planned to kill Nicaragua's top leaders. oreg 1/19/82 === Page 116 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # New privileged class: the deserving rich mary mcgrory WASHINGTON -- We have a new class in this country, the deserving rich. They are the people who, having earned their money, believe they are entitled to more. They know about the poor -- many of them grew up poor themselves -- but they seem to believe that by living the good life they motivate those who shiver in cold tenements, stand in surplus-cheese lines and can't find jobs despite the plethora of want ads in the Sunday paper. The president is the leader of the deserving rich. He gave huge tax breaks to corporations. He made it possible for them to buy each others' tax liabilities and to buy each other. Congress was so moved by this pageant of greed that it recently voted itself an exemption on its congressional salary of $60,662.50 -- an amount that presidential assistant Michael K. Deaver recently declared inadequate. To paraphrase Vince Lombardi's favorite dictum: Money isn't everything with this crowd, it's the only thing. As a "Doonesbury" character -- who is leaving government to go back to the private sector to make more money -- said the other day, "Mr. President, you've made it fun to be rich again." The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them. They send money to the Reagans to redecorate the White House. Fashion designers send dresses to the first lady. They are not gifts, it seems. They are loans. When this unusual arrangement came to light, there was talk that when Mrs. Reagan finished wearing the donations, she would donate them to fashion museums, and the word was that Blass, Adolfo and Galanos could claim tax deductions for their "charitable contributions." The idea was quickly scotched -- as soon as someone realized how tacky it would look if women who patronize the design salons of the Salvation Army and the Goodwill Industries would be indirectly subsidizing the first lady's wardrobe. The arrangement has the marks of altruism, Reagan style, which is to help the helped. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary explained that due to the "inordinate interest taken in everything she wears, the first lady had been looking at how to take this interest and turn it to the benefit of one of the most important industries in the country." One of the most important, yes. But hardly, thanks to the opulent standard set by the White House, depressed. Designer Geoffrey Beene sniffed in The Los Angeles Times that he hadn't understood the fashion industry needed rescuing. The deserving rich like to throw the lifeline to someone standing on the shore. Our millionaire president has cut the government's allowance to the unfortunate, the old, the cold, the young, the slow. But he cheerily informs us that any big holes in the safety net will be mended by volunteers from the ranks, apparently, of the deserving rich. It is an appeal notion, recalling the frontier, the neighborhood, the covered-dish supper, the church raffle, the hat passed at the meeting. Recently he went to New York to make a pitch to the rich to help the poor. The host organization, the New York City Partnership, epitomized the "spirit of shared sacrifice." "You," the president told the partnership, "are that tough little tug that can pull the ship of state off the shoals and into open water." The president could have ended his speech with a pledge or a check: "And to keep the ball rolling, I am donating..." He didn't. When he was asked at his first-anniversary press conference if he intended, in the light of his exhortations, to increase his contributions to private charity, the president exhibited a chuckling unease. He realizes "the publicity that has attended upon the tax returns of someone in my position." What he meant was that in 1980, he gave $3,089 in charitable contributions out of a gross adjusted income of $227,968. He went on to say that he gives a tenth of his income to charity, but in ways that are tax-deductible." Everyone understands the president's feelings for individuals, his charity towards constituencies and organizations. Many find tax-deductible giving rewarding. Better to see the light in the eye of the recipient instead of feeding your gift into the computers of an agency that will spend half of it on as much red tape and overhead as the dear old federal government. And for some people, let's face it, making charitable contributions is a form of tax-dodging, futile as it may be. Some people who really don't want to give for foreign gas or missiles write checks to Amnesty International or St. Ann's Infant Home, not just because we want to supervise what they are doing, but to keep our money out of the clutches of the Pentagon, another well-heeled entity that has Reagan's entire sympathy. But if the deserving rich are going to save the country, the First Volunteers at the White House maybe should start showing them how. A4 2M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Stalinist Suslov dies after powerful career By PATRICK MENEY Agence France-Presse MOSCOW -- Mikhail Suslov, the last surviving Stalinist stalwart and hard-line Kremlin ideologist, died here Monday "after a short and serious illness," the Soviet news agency Tass announced Tuesday. He was 79. It was Suslov who staunchly criticized the theory of "socialism with a human face" as "rightist opportunism" and who provided the ideological underpinning for Soviet moves in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His death could complicate the choice of a successor to 74-year-old President Leonid Brezhnev. It was thought previously that in the event of Brezhnev's death, Suslov would be able to map out the steps to be taken to select his successor. Suslov's early career spanned the years of Stalin's fight against the Trotsky-Zinoviev leftist factions and the Bukharin rightists, as well as the purges of the 1930s. More recently, he took a dominant role in the Moscow-Peking break when he gave the first official Kremlin explanation for it in July 1960; then, in January 1962, he led the "destalinization" campaign engineered by Nikita Khrushchev. Suslov became a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party as long ago as 1941, then in 1944 the overlord of the small Baltic state of Lithuania, which was annexed by Moscow. In 1947, when Stalin appointed him secretary of the Central Committee, he became a fixture in the Kremlin for the next 35 years, despite changes of leadership. He was born in 1902, the son of a poor Russian peasant family, according to his official biography, but little is known about his private life except that his wife died in 1972. There is no doubt about his austere lifestyle, but visitors to his Moscow apartment have reported that it contains a superb collection of the modern paintings banned by the regime. Only last month he was publicly decrying the harmful effects of Western civilization on Soviet youth, and yet he reportedly possessed a private cinema where he showed the latest American films. His disappearance from the political scene could cause an ideological vacuum, as he had enunciated communist dogma for decades. But Soviet policy will remain unchanged, according to reliable sources speaking after a special meeting of Kremlin leaders early Tuesday. The Kremlin decided, among other things, that Suslov's body will be laid out Wednesday in the Hall of Trade Unions, an honor also given to Stalin. Observers in Moscow do not believe that his disappearance from the Soviet political scene will lead to any major changes. === Page 117 of 278 W.O. attack "higher ups" # Reagan appeal gets to wrong man **tom stimmel** President Reagan sent me a personal letter last week (at least the computer printout said it was personal) soliciting my help in promoting his economic recovery program. He can't carry out his mandate from the people in the face of assaults from liberal Democrats and their allies "who have attacked and distorted every part of our legislative program," he said. He wants money from me to help elect qualified candidates who will help, not distort. Sorry, Mr. President. Your computer picked the target. I'm inclined to think that distortion of your grand recovery program has come from you, not your enemies in Congress. I find distortion between the promises of Reganomics and the reality of its performance. I am not encouraged by your achievements -- a record federal deficit, unending unemployment, mill and factory closures -- which you choose to blame on others. I am not assured by your tendency to avoid news conferences and your "misstatements," to put it mildly, when you finally are cornered without a cue card. I'm not persuaded by an amateur supply-side economic theory whose millions and billions (even your man David Stockman conceded) nobody understood. Your letter repeated your platitude that "government programs for the truly needy will not be cut." You have cut, or tried to cut, school lunch programs, food stamps, day care, employment programs for youth, welfare for dependent children and student loans. You promised to get the federal government off our backs. I'm almost impressed by your technique -- hand off the problems to the states, meld categorical grants into block grants and cut off a quarter of the funds. You cut taxes to get that supply-side machine going, with ample assistance for the wealthy, tax relief for Big Oil, accelerated depreciation for business and a trickle for the rest of us. Whereupon, you asked for $22 billion in tax increases to keep your budget deficit from completely disappearing down a black hole. I am appalled that you should cut $35 billion from domestic programs and add $18 billion for defense -- and ask for $13 billion more. I do not understand why we need a $40 billion line of B-1 bombers that will be obsolete in eight years -- about the time the first are built. I do not understand why we need an MX missile when we already have the capability to kill every person in the world seven times. I do not see how your friends in the Pentagon can gorge down $1.3 trillion (an amount even you said was incomprehensible) in five years. Some of your other friends are mystifying, too. Your James Watt -- he is your James Watt -- who butchered park acquisition funds, wants to rush mineral leases in wilderness before the deadline occurs and persists in demanding environmentally hazardous oil leases off Northern California which would produce only a 12-day supply of oil, if they produce anything. No, Ronald Reagan, your letter was mis-sent (even though the Postal Service got it right). I'm not your man. Your letter did raise some questions, though. As you recall, it insists that the Republican National Committee (on whose behalf you wrote) must have $478,000 in 35 days to distribute results of a phony poll. Your letter was dated Jan. 8. It so happens that the lady two desks down got an identical personal letter from you -- identical even to the 35-day deadline -- dated Oct. 30, 1981. I resent your privilege to spew out this propaganda at 3.5 cents a copy when it costs me 20 cents to mail the light bill. I couldn't care less what happens politically to you and your right-wing friends in Orange County and the Moral Majority, but I am concerned about what you're doing to this country. It is my country, too! Tom Stimmel is a Journal staff writer. McReagan's OVER 5 BILLION SCHOOL LUNCHES CANCELED === Page 118 of 278 attack on "higher ups" U of L projects Nation # Pirouetting on Civil Rights ## Reagan goes round and round on tax breaks for schools It was quite a turnabout. First, Ronald Reagan reversed a policy established by Congress, the courts and three previous Administrations, by revoking an Internal Revenue Service rule barring tax-exempt status for racially segregated schools. When the inevitable uproar ensued, the President backpedaled by proposing a law to undo what he had just done. Reagan insisted that he was firmly opposed to racial bias; his only concern, he said, was with a procedural principle--the belief that Congress, not the IRS, should exercise control over such rulings. The awkward performance raised serious questions about Reagan's haphazard policymaking apparatus as well as his sensitivity to civil rights. Admitted one top adviser ruefully: "We blew it." partments. Meese did not submit it to any of the Cabinet councils, which are designed to let Cabinet members and top staffers consider the consequences of pending proposals, nor did he mention it to the only high-level black presidential aide, Melvin Bradley of the Office of Policy Development. The first that Chief of Staff James Baker heard of the plan to change the IRS rule was in a telephone call from Attorney General William French Smith two days before the announcement. When Baker asked about it at the next staff meeting, Meese assured him that he and Fielding had considered all the implications. Meese described the matter as a narrow legalistic change and seemed oblivious to the moral and political issues involved. It was presented to Reagan as a routine Administration action, and he was never even asked to give his formal approval. Said one: "The real question is whether it is the intention of this Administration to appear antiblack. If so, they should just let us know." Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who fumed that he would not allow the President to be perceived as a racist, argued that the Administration had to defuse the issue by proposing new legislation to forbid the practice that had been instituted the previous week. Reagan agreed. A spokesman said the proposed legislation would bar tax breaks for all racially biased schools, including Bob Jones University. Reagan issued a statement explaining that he had not intended to support segregationism. "I am unalterably opposed to racial discrimination in any form," he said. His only intention in changing the tax regulations, he stressed, was to remove from the IRS the power to determine public policy. Said he: "Such agencies, no matter how well intentioned, cannot be allowed to govern by legislative fiat." The President's explanation seemed a trifle disingenuous. Had he simply wanted Congress to reaffirm the policy of denying tax exemptions to discriminatory schools, he could have submitted such legislation before revoking the rule. Even that could have been interpreted as an unnecessary reopening of an old controversy. Congress clearly forbade any Government sanction of, or support for, racial bias in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1970 the IRS applied the policy by withholding tax breaks to discriminatory schools, and the Supreme Court later ruled that this was a correct reading of the law and the Constitution. Argues a civil rights advocate within the Administration: "To attempt again to get Congress to speak on every issue of discrimination is an attempt to destroy the progress made so far." ![Political cartoon showing Reagan on a horse labeled TAX EXEMPTION FOR SEGREGATED SCHOOLS, riding backwards while facing forward, with a sign saying Wrong-Way Reagan] Wrong-Way Reagan The issue arose out of the contention by some fundamentalist Christian institutions, including Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., that the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions because of racial discrimination violated their freedom of religion. Their segregationist policies, they claimed, were grounded in their interpretation of the Bible. But that constitutional argument, which had been rejected by a federal appeals court, was made moot by the Administration's decision to settle the case by revoking a twelve-year-old IRS rule against tax exemptions for schools that discriminate racially. If allowed to stand, the new policy would permit such schools to receive tax-deductible contributions and avoid paying income or Social Security levies. The decision illustrated a startling ineptitude on the part of the President's staff. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese and Presidential Lawyer Fred Fielding reviewed the proposal, which was recommended by the Treasury and Justice De- "It is nothing short of criminal," said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "It opens the door to every racist element in the nation to discriminate and to do it with a subsidy from the Government." For civil rights leaders, the decision was the culmination of an ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing companies to set up voluntary affirmative action quotas for minorities and that it will not pursue busing as a method of desegregating schools. Black members of the Administration (only 18 now holding positions that require Senate confirmation) were furious. Rather than wait for Congress to act, civil rights groups will ask the Supreme Court to prevent the IRS rule change from going into effect. The high court previously had agreed to hear an appeal by Bob Jones of a lower court decision denying it tax exemptions. The Justice Department had argued against the university, but is now asking the court to drop the case because of Reagan's directive. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law also said it would contest the new tax policy in federal district court in Washington. That court issued a permanent injunction in 1971 forbidding tax benefits to discriminatory schools in Mississippi, and noted that the principle was meant to apply to other states as well. Reagan's advisers say he was surprised by the vehement reaction to the change in IRS practice. This may be the worst indictment of the Administration. It shows an apparent insensitivity to a basic American belief: that government should do nothing to promote racial discrimination. --By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Jeanne Saddler/Washington 24 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 119 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan risks falling victim to self-deception By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER oreg 1/25/82 WASHINGTON -- It probably doesn't matter a great deal if President Reagan gets his facts wrong or gives a misleading impression of the facts in one of his press conferences. His advisers, as they have done on several occasions in the past year, can sweep up after him. The operative question is whether the president acts on the truth or on these fairy tales he sometimes tells reporters and audiences. The latter could be serious trouble. Reagan has always been one of those politicians with the ability to find some -- you should pardon the expression -- "supporting evidence" for a point he wants to make, even if close examination has often shown that evidence to be either inaccurate or meaningless. And he hasn't changed in the White House. GERMOND-WITCOVER His most recent press conference was replete with examples. He described the rise in unemployment as "a continuation" of a trend that began under President Jimmy Carter, although the fact is that the jobless rate declined in the final quarter of the Carter administration. Reagan said that "comparing this to the beginning of our term" there are now a million more people working. The fact is that, according to government figures, there are 508,000 fewer people employed than there were when the president took office. Quite aside from pure factual errors, the president has a penchant for providing the rosiest interpretation of a situation in an attempt to make a point. In both a speech and press conference recently, for example, he talked about a great saving in administrative costs that was realized by a program to feed the elderly when it switched from paid to volunteer workers. The implication was, of course, that these wonderful volunteers had shown the spirit that could reduce federal spending and still get the job done. But, as it turned out, those workers were "involuntary volunteers" -- that is, they had to work free because their federal funding ran out temporarily. At another point, asked about abortion in rape cases, he noted this had been allowed in a law he signed in California and it was "used as a gigantic loophole in the law (that) ... literally led to abortion on demand on the plea of rape." It is accurate to say that rape became an automatic ground for abortion in California. But the "gigantic loophole" in that law -- the one that allowed legal abortions to rise from about 500 to 170,000 a year in a decade -- was one that allowed physicians to certify that a woman's mental health might be threatened if she were not permitted an abortion. The president is also a great fan of the essentially meaningless statistic. When he first ran for office, for example, he used to rail about how there were 103 different taxes on a loaf of bread, the implication being that bread would be cheaper if the government would only sort itself out. In a press conference last October, he said the change to block grants rather than categorical grant programs would save 105 million man-hours of paperwork by local government officials -- a figure from somewhere in outer space that probably greatly underestimated the ingenuity of local bureaucrats in keeping themselves busy. Where he gets these statistics is often something of a mystery, although those who have worked for him say he is inclined to seize uncritically anything he sees in print. (Insiders used to urge Michael Deaver, only half in jest, to hide the latest issue of Human Events.) In one sense, of course, all this is harmless enough. If the president uses an incorrect figure, some nitpicker in the press will challenge it and the whole thing will get straightened out. But let us suppose that the president really does believe that there are more people working than there were when he took office. Does that affect his view of economic policy decisions? Or let us suppose he really does believe volunteers will staff meal programs for the elderly. Does that make it easier to abolish such programs? The president gets away with these things politically because, as everyone says, he'a nice guy. And during campaigns, the voters expect a little "flexibility" in the things candidates say. But there could be serious consequences if he really believes, for example, that we have made "an impression" on the Soviet Union with our sanctions -- and that turns out not to be quite accurate. The presidency is not a political campaign. Associated Press Laserphoto ARRIVAL -- President Reagan arrives for last week's press conference. === Page 120 of 278 UFO attack" higher was 'Suicide' in Albania sparks power struggle BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) - The "sui- nist "un-person," pulling down pictures of the cide" of Albania Premier Mehmet Shehu has leader whose death 19 days ago was officially described as "suicide at a moment of nervous breakdown." set off a fierce power struggle between She- Lu's supporters and the Soviet bloc's last Stali- nist leader. Reports Tuesday from Albania said authori- ties have begun turning Shehu into a Commu- - UFOR attack " higher up" DAY, DECEMBER 11, 1981 018 3M Labor chief probe target 1 By ROBERT B. CULLEN WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House con- firmed Thursday that the Justice Department is inves- tigating Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan in the wake of reports that before entering government, Donovan attended a meeting at which a member of his firm bribed a labor union official. Donovan, in a state- ment issued for him by the Labor Department, said he knew of "nothing that lends substance to these reports." White House spokes- man David Gergen said Attorney General William French Smith told Presi- dent Reagan a week ago that the inquiry was be- ginning under the Ethics in Government Act, but did not brief Reagan on the details of the allega- tion. Gergen said, "There is no information known to the president that would RAYMOND DONOVAN cause him to have any lack of confidence in Secretary Donovan." Under the same law, the Justice Department is also investigating Richard Allen, the president's national Security adviser, who is on administrative leave. The Investigation involves two watches Allen received from Japanese associates and incorrect statements he made on his financial disclosure forms. Donovan was at the White House Thursday after- noon to meet with President Reagan about the Labor Department's budget for fiscal 1983, He avoided re- porters. Gergen said he did not think Reagan and Donovan would be discussing the allegations. Roger Young, a spokesman for the FBI, said the investigation was "just beginning," and declined say when it might be concluded. Under the Ethics in Government Act, when t attorney general receives information indicating possible crime by a high federal official, he mu conduct a preliminary investigation within 90 days. After the investigation, the attorney general mu: decide if the allegation merits further investigation c prosecution. If it does, he must apply to the U.S. Coul New York Times News Service of Appeals to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case. Donovan, 50, was an executive with Schiavon Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J. and a fund-raise for Reagan before joining the government. His confirmation by the Senate was delayed for a FBI investigation of allegations that he had paid of labor leaders to prevent strikes on his company' projects. The FBI said in January that it could confirm none of the allegations. They included a public charge by Ralph Picardo, an FBI informant, about a series of this year. payoffs Donovan allegedly made. "a murdering slime." usos " higher ups" Greek official fired London Daily Telegraph org 1/6/82 ATHENS - Greek Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has dis- missed his undersecretary of foreign af- Tairs because he failed to block a Com-" mon Market communique condemning Soviet and East European involvement in Poland, government and diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The incident has been criticized as the first of its kind in Greece's postwar diplomatic history, and the strongest evidence yet of Papandreou's attempts to please the Eastern bloc. The premier had in a one-sentence statement said that Asimakis Fotilas, the undersecretary of foreign affairs since the government's election in Octo- ber, was dismissed "because he failed to follow the Instructions of Foreign Min- ister Ioannis Charalambopoulos" at Monday's summit meeting on Poland of the EEC foreign ministers. UFO2 - "higher ups" Korea fires six ministers oves 1/4/ 182 TOKYO - President Chun Doo- hwan of South Korea appointed a new prime minister Sunday and replaced five other ministers in the first major Cabinet reshuffle since Chun took over as the South Korean head of state in September 1980. A presidential spokesman said Chun had made the changes to achieve better progress under South Korea's new five- year development plan, which starts According to reports reaching To- Chang-soon as prime minister to suc- ceed Nam Duck-woo. The decision to Teplace Nam, a respected economist, with Yoo, former head of the Korean Traders Association, an organization of business leaders, came as a surprise here but appeared to reflect Chun's dis- satisfaction with Nam's handling of the economy. Chun made Kim Joon-sung, gover- nor of the Bank of Korea, the deputy prime minister and head of the Econom- ic Planning Board. The president also named new finance, construction and energy ministers, as well as appointing a new chief presidential secretary. UFD= "higher ups" Bombers hit scientist DUBLIN, Ireland (UPI) - An Wednes- day explosion believed caused by a bomb destroyed the car of Dr. James Donovan, Ireland's top forensic scientist, seriously injuring him as he drove to work at police headquarters, police said. The blast oc- curred at Newland's Cross, about 3 miles from the city center. Police declined to speculate on why Donovan was attacked, but officials said he has been involved in all prosecutions of IRA bombers in the republic. area5 1/6/8= Shehu's books have been removed from bookshops, said a diplomat with connections in Albania's capital of Tirana. There was also no national mourning for the premier of 27 years, and Shehu was not interred in the plot reserved for top officials. An Albanian embassy official in Belgrade dismissed as a "lie" allegations that party chief Enver Hoxha. 73, Albania's leader since World" War II, also was killed when Shehu died Dec. 18. greg J 1/6/82 Donovan denied the allegations and called Picardo kyo from Seoul, Chun named Yoo === Page 121 of 278 # Red Brigades kidnap American general in Italy VERONA, Italy (AP) -- Four men posing as plumbers kidnapped Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier of the U.S. Army from his apartment in this northern Italian city Thursday night, NATO officials reported. Police said they suspect the abductors were Red Brigades terrorists. Shortly after the kidnapping, an anonymous caller told the Italian news agency ANSA in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnapped Brig. Gen. James Dozier in Verona, Via Lungo Adige 5. A communique will follow." The kidnapping took place at about 6 p.m. after Dozier's escort left him at the end of his day at the nearby NATO base, where the general has been stationed since June 1980. "Four men armed and described as plumbers entered his home and after having struck the general, immobilized his wife with chains and adhesive tape and then fled with the hostage presumably locked in a trunk," said a statement released by the NATO base. Police sources, who did not want to be identified, said the general was hurt in the scuffle, stuffed inside a trunk and loaded on a van that sped away from the general's apartment. Later police found a blue Fiat van bearing Milan license plates that investigators said was used in the getaway. Police said the vehicle had been abandoned near the Verona city limit. In Washington, White House deputy press secretary Peter Roussel said President Reagan, told of the kidnapping, "expressed concern and asked that he be kept informed." Dozier, 50, is deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration for Allied Land Forces in Southern Europe. He is the senior U.S. Army officer at the NATO headquarters in Verona. He is from Arcadia, Fla. Pentagon spokesman Col. Ron Duchin said Dozier's wife, Judith, was not hurt and their two children were not with their parents at the time. The police sources said the assailants bound, gagged and chained Mrs. Dozier but she was able to tip over onto the floor and bang her head to alert neighbors, who freed her. Police sources said they believed the kidnappers also had taken away a pile of documents Dozier had in his possession. Premier Giovanni Spadolini met with Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni, Defense Minister Lelio Lagorio and top intelligence officials and called a meeting of the Cabinet council for national security for Friday morning. A spokesman for the premier's office said Spadolini was in contact with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb, who was on a tour of northern Italy. Rabb has been given special protection since reports circulated in September on alleged Libyan plots to kill him and other U.S. diplomats in several West European capitals. In Washington, the State Department convened a working group of experts to monitor developments, spokeswoman Saundra McCarty said: "The government of Italy has reacted swiftly to deal with this matter," she said. "We are working closely with the Italian government and have full confidence in it. We strongly condemn this act of violence." There have been about 40 abductions for ransom this year in Italy, but Dozier was the first American kidnap victim. Verona, a city of 300,000, is famous as the setting of the romance of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's play. It lies in the northeastern corner of Italy, about 60 miles from Venice. The most notorious kidnapping by the Red Brigades took place in March 1978 and involved Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrat Party and former premier, who was murdered in May 1978 after the terrorists submitted him to a "people's trial." The Red Brigades have in general shunned attacks on foreigners, although they have criticized U.S.-based multinational companies and accused them of supporting the parties in power in Italy. Dozier, a veteran of more than 25 years of Army service, fought in Vietnam with an armored cavalry regiment and later was attached to armored units in West Germany. He also commanded a brigade of the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and held a number of staff posts. A graduate of West Point, he also attended the Army War College and earned an engineering degree at the University of Arizona. BRIG. GEN. JAMES L. DOZIER He holds a number of decorations, including the Silver Star for valor, the Bronze Star for valor with two oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart -- all earned during his Vietnam service, an army spokesman said. === Page 122 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # SS expert quits with hot words Oreg 12/19/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert J. Myers, one of the Reagan administration's top Social Security officials, quit Friday with a blast at what he called "disastrous" meddling in the retirees' program by the Office of Management and Budget. Myers said in his resignation letter that he strongly supports President Reagan's efforts to restore the program's fiscal health and the "vast majority" of the specific reforms Reagan proposed earlier this year to curtail the growth of benefits. But Myers, who was Social Security's chief actuary from 1947 to 1970, sharply criticized the way policy is set by Social Security's parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and "higher organizations such as the Office of Management and Budget." He said that OMB and its civil service employees develop policy "without regard to the social and economic aspects of the Social Security program -- and even the political aspects." "This was well exemplified by the disastrous results that occurred from the proposal to eliminate the minimum benefit for all persons currently on the rolls and also from the proposal to sharply increase the early retirement reduction factor," Myers wrote in the resignation letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker. Myers said he will leave his post as deputy commissioner for programs effective Jan. 8. He joined the administration last March 15. Reagan was forced to withdraw the sweeping Social Security reforms he proposed last May because of the uproar over his attempt to slash early retirement benefits for 62-year-olds from 80 percent of benefits to 55 percent. Budget Director David Stockman and White House domestic adviser Martin Anderson reportedly played the decisive role in pressing for those cuts immediately and, in the case of the minimum benefit, retroactively. Myers, shortly before joining the administration, had testified before a congressional committee in favor of eliminating the minimum benefit for future retirees but not retroactively. That is how Congress has decided to do it. No new minimum benefits will be awarded after Jan. 1. Myers, 69, is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading experts on Social Security. It is the second time he has quit the agency with some sharp words. In 1970, he charged that liberals running the program were expanding it too much for its own fiscal health. Social Security Commissioner John A. Svahn issued a statement expressing his "deepest personal regret" at Myers' resignation. Svahn said Myers "has done a tremendous job in his second career with Social Security." The Social Security job for Myers was largely a labor of love. He was already drawing a federal pension of nearly $49,000 and because of a pension offset provision, his federal paycheck for the job was only 55 cents an hour, or $1,100 a year. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # CIA Director Casey 'not unfit to serve' WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Senate Intelligence Committee found Wednesday that CIA Director William Casey is "not unfit to serve," but was "inattentive" to details in reporting past business affairs. A committee source, who requested anonymity, said questions raised about the spy chief seemed more serious than those surrounding embattled national security adviser Richard Allen. "It is safe to say the whole situation is not flattering," said Sen. Harrison Schmitt, R-N.M. "There were omissions in the (financial) reports (to the committee). I'm convinced they were inadvertent but there were omissions." The committee Wednesday planned to release a brief and unanimous report ending its 4½-month investigation of Casey. The CIA director was given a copy of the report on Tuesday, but had no immediate comment. The "not unfit to serve" determination is the same assessment of Casey made by committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., shortly after the panel began its probe in mid-July. The committee source said questions about Casey's past business dealings were sharpened in recent days by publicity surrounding the Allen affair. "A lot of us feel the questions raised here (about Casey) are a heck of a lot more serious than the questions raised about Mr. Allen," the source said. The Justice Department Tuesday cleared Allen of wrongdoing in receiving $1,000 from a Japanese magazine for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. The department said it was continuing its inquiry into the gift of two watches from the Japanese to Allen and an error Allen made in reporting the sale of his Washington consulting firm on a financial disclosure form. The Senate Intelligence Committee probe of Casey initially focused on a May court judgment that he and several associates misled investors in a business venture a decade ago. Later it also was disclosed Casey had not given the committee a complete list of his legal clients for the past five years, had represented the government of Indonesia without registering as a foreign agent and had broken from tradition by not putting his hefty stock portfolio in a blind trust. Because Casey and his wife have stock in 27 companies that operate overseas, there were questions about his possible use of confidential intelligence data for his own benefit. The Caseys' net worth is believed to be between $1.8 million and $3.4 million. The committee didn't go into the blind trust question because "you can't condemn a fellow for not violating the law," said Sen. Walter Huddleston, D-Ky. "It was a question of taste and propriety," said another member, who asked not to be identified. Oreg J 12/2/81 === Page 123 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEM # Deaver blocked appointment By EDWARD T. POUND New York Times News Service oreg 12/21/81 WASHINGTON -- Michael K. Deaver, the deputy White House chief of staff, overruled other Reagan administration officials and blocked the nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission of a Senate staff member who was opposed by the head of a trucking organization that had employed Deaver as a consultant. The staff member, William K. Ris Jr., counsel to the Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee, had many influential supporters, including other senior White House aides, a Cabinet officer and Republican and Democratic senators, according to administration officials. Ris' opponents included Thomas C. Schumacher Jr., managing director of the California Trucking Association, an organization of trucking companies that has opposed trucking deregulation. Ris was a principal draftsman of the deregulation law, known as the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. The blocking of Ris' candidacy illustrates the inner workings of the Reagan White House and specifically the influence wielded by Deaver. Deaver, Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, and James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff, have been intimately involved in appointments. Deaver's role in the Ris matter demonstrates that, except for the very highest posts personally handled by President Reagan, it is virtually impossible for a key appointment to be made over the objection of one of the three top presidential aides, even if it is supported by Cabinet members and other White House officials. Before entering the White House, Deaver was part owner of a public relations firm, Deaver & Hannaford Inc., whose clients included Schumacher's trucking association. Deaver said his interest was purchased for $38,000 by his partner, Peter D. Hannaford, who paid off the debt in July. Now called the Hannaford Co. Inc., the concern continues to do public relations work for the association and is paid about $2,000 monthly. Under Reagan, there will be seven Interstate Commerce Commissioners, four Republicans and three non-Republicans. There are four unfilled seats. Ris, who declined to comment, was formally recommended to fill one of the non-Republican slots. Schumacher, who said he had been a close friend of Deaver for 20 years, said in an interview that he had opposed Ris' candidacy at a meeting with Deaver and others in the White House in June. He said, however, that he objected to Ris, a Democrat, on political grounds and not because Ris favored deregulation. Deaver said he had blocked Ris' appointment but not at Schumacher's request. He said that Ris was a "Kennedy Democrat" and added, "I blocked it because he was not the kind of person who would be consistent with Ronald Reagan's philosophy." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan aide to resign oreg 12/21/81 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Michael K. Deaver, one of President Reagan's three top assistants, says he will leave the White House staff at the end of next year because he and his family cannot afford to live in Washington on his $60,662 annual salary. The White House deputy chief of staff, who is considered closer to the Reagans than any other assistant, says he told the president at the outset that he intended to stay just two years and then return to private industry. "I made a commitment to stay through the 1982 elections," Deaver acknowledged in a telephone interview Sunday. "After that, I'm going. I have no money left. We are living on our savings." Deaver said he "probably will go back into the business world in some form of public affairs" but that he has no specific plans or commitments. UFOs bring terrorists... "higher ups" # Assassination fear to restrict Reagan WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan, bowing to security precautions, will light the nation's Christmas tree by throwing a switch inside the White House instead of personally attending an outdoor ceremony. White House spokesman David Gergen said the administration remains concerned about danger from a purported squad of terrorists sent to the United States by Libya to assassinate government leaders. "I know of no reason to believe the threat is diminished," Gergen said. oreg 12/7/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burger knocks TV camera askew oreg 12/17/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, followed into an elevator by a CBS crew in Lincoln, Neb., knocked a television camera out of the hands of a cameraman Wednesday, CBS News said. "Don't stick that thing in my nose," Burger said after the camera switched from a view of Burger in the elevator to a wildly shifting scene, according to a videotape broadcast Wednesday evening. CBS said its crew was attempting to question the chief justice about statements made in a forthcoming book by former White House aide John Ehrlichman that Burger discussed pending Supreme Court cases with then-President Nixon. Burger made no response to the questions as he and an unidentified man, trailed by the CBS crew, entered a building, walked down a hallway and got into an elevator. newsbreak UFOs attack "higher ups" # Khomeini ally killed One of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's top religious supporters was killed along with 11 other Moslem leaders when a bomb planted in their car exploded in the central Iranian city of Shiraz. Ayatollah Sayed Abdol Hossein Dastgheib and the 11 other mullahs were killed by the explosion as they drove by car to weekly prayers in in Shiraz. oreg 12/12/81 === Page 124 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Top Reagan aide plans to resign, blames salary WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Michael Deaver, one of President Reagan's three top aides, plans to resign within a year because he can't afford to live in Washington on his $60,000 salary, two newspapers report. "I made a commitment to stay through the 1982 elections," The Washington Post Monday quoted Deaver as saying. "After that, I'm going. I have no money left. We are living on our savings." "A year from now I'll be gone," Deaver, 43, told the Detroit News Washington bureau. He said he will go into private consulting or corporate public relations work. Deaver explained the break has nothing to do with any difference of opinion with the president -- it's strictly a financial move. "My wife and my accountant said I can't afford to stay in the job any longer," he said. "It's costing me more money to live here than I make and I'm never home." "It's been tough on Mike lately," said Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., a friend of both Deaver and the president. "He has been handling all of the personal, family things the Reagans want done as well as his other tasks." "Of all the people who could leave, losing Mike will leave the biggest hole," Laxalt said. Deaver has already told the president and the first lady he will be leaving, "but neither of them intend to think about it for a while," he said. "They think maybe I'll change my mind, but I won't." Deaver's departure will bring to three the number of presidential aides who have quit. Lyn Nofziger, the president's political adviser, and Max Friedersdorf, his legislative liaison, will leave the White House early next year. Among Deaver's responsibilities are the day-to-day scheduling of the president's time. He is also in charge of the first lady's office operations. In addition, the directors of White House security, the White House physician, the president's military aides and the president's diarist all report to Deaver. Deaver has been associated with the Reagans since 1967, when he joined the staff of then-California Gov. Reagan. # The world UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran officials assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Iran reported Wednesday that two senior figures in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime, were assassinated in a grenade attack in the northeastern city of Mashhad. The state-run Tehran Radio identified the victims as Mojtaba Ozbaki, Parliament deputy from Shahre-Kord in the central Iranian province of Bakhtiari; and Gholamali Jaafarzadeh, the city's governor. The report said the men were driving to a Shiite Moslem shrine in Mashhad when two assassins riding a motorcycle hurled grenades at their motorcade Tuesday afternoon, killing Ozbaki and Jaafarzadeh and wounding three others. Both assassins fled, according to the broadcast monitored in Beirut. # The world UFOs attack "higher ups" # New blizzards assault Britain LONDON (AP) -- Blizzards unleashed their icy fury on Britain for the seventh day Monday, cutting off heat and light, burying cars beneath heaps of snow and stranding thousands of travelers, including Queen Elizabeth II. Snowbound travelers at London's Heathrow Airport beat up several Nigerian Airways employees and then began brawling among themselves as their flight was delayed due to weather and technical problems for a third day, officials said. Five more people were found dead in England and Ireland, bringing the death toll to 16 from the howling snowstorms and hurricane-force winds that have lashed coastal areas since last Tuesday, authorities said. Queen Elizabeth II returned to Windsor Castle west of London Monday after being snowbound in a two-star country hotel for seven hours after her Land Rover got stuck in a 4-foot snowdrift Sunday night on the way home from a visit with her daughter, Princess Anne. high drifts to the nearby Cross Hands Hotel in the Cotswold Hills of southwest England and joined 100 other travelers stranded there for the night. The queen left the hotel when snowplows reopened the highway. She arrived at Windsor early Monday none the worse for her adventure. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Health rumors quashed PARIS (AP) -- President Francois Mitterrand, 66, is in "a completely satisfactory state of health" except for osteo-arthritis of the lower spine, according to a medical bulletin issued Tuesday. The bulletin, signed by Dr. Claude Gubler, Mitterrand's personal physician, was issued exactly six months after the Socialist leader took office. It said his only other area of concern, an inflammation of a nerve associated with the arthritis that impeded his walking, has disappeared after treatment. Rumors that Mitterrand was seriously ill abounded in the French press and medical circles after he entered a Paris hospital last month for an unannounced, comprehensive checkup. Mitterrand said in a television interview last week he never had any medical problems in his life until === Page 125 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran Parliament deputy slain in hail of gunfire By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A member of Iran's Parliament was assassinated and a Revolutionary Guard wounded Monday in a burst of gunfire from a passing car in Tehran, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Pars also said three people found guilty of complicity in a bombing that killed 70 members of the ruling Islamic Republican Party last spring were executed Sunday by firing squads. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a 30-minute speech carried by Tehran radio, said workers should guard against "undedicated or devious" persons trying to infiltrate Islamic societies at their workplaces, and monitor the behavior of government and military workers. The Parliament deputy assassinated, Mohammad Taki Behsharat, was a Khomeini loyalist who was often quoted on Tehran radio. He represented Semiron, in the central province of Isfahan. Pars did not indicate what happened to the assassins, who had opened fire when their car pulled alongside Behsharat's. Pars identified the three people executed at Tehran's Evin Prison as Mehdi Bokharai, Habib Moharamdust and Masumeh Shademanifard. It said they were involved in the explosion at the IRP headquarters June 28, six days after moderate President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted in an IRP-engineered impeachment. The three executions brought to 1,656 the number of officially announced executions since Bani-Sadr was ousted. Khomeini's message on infiltrators was given to visitors at his north Tehran home Monday. Workers should be on the watch for subversives trying to infiltrate Islamic councils he said. "They should be fully watching the behavior of those working in ministries, the army, offices and wherever they are," he added. The strict Islamic regime recently started purging institutions which have been among Khomeini's most loyal forces -- including the Revolutionary Guards and revolutionary police force called the Komniteh. Khomeini said recently that "un-Islamic and counterrevolutionary" elements had infiltrated the Revolutionary Guards, who act as his paramilitary force. Sources in Tehran have reported that the power of Islamic councils at workplaces was curtailed. In the past, the sources said, these councils set up work regulations, fired co-workers and confiscated property. The sources, who asked not to be named, said newly appointed Labor Minister Ahmad Tavakoli also canceled some workers' privileges such as the chance to purchase hard-to-obtain cars. His action prompted a short-lived strike at a car factory, the sources added. oreg 12/29/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Shot near queen nets term WELLINGTON, New Zealand (UPI) -- A teenage terrorist was given a three-year prison term Thursday for firing a rifle near Queen Elizabeth. Witnesses to the event testified that Christopher John Lewis, 17, told police he planned to shoot the queen during her visit to the south island city of Dunedin in October. Lewis, who claims to be the leader of the National Imperial Guerrilla Army, pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm in a residential area and gave no testimony. Lewis had admitted firing the shot into the ground not far from the queen. His lawyer said he was not close enough to hit her and did not aim at her. The lawyer, James Hanan, said Lewis suffered from deep-seated psychological disorders manifested by the desire to prove himself grander than others. oreg J 12/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House gate rammed WASHINGTON (AP) -- A young man rammed his car against a White House gate Sunday morning but failed to penetrate the barrier and was arrested, the Secret Service said. The man, identified as Walter H. Witwer, 21, of Grayslake, Ill., tried to ram his subcompact auto through the northeast gate onto the grounds of the executive mansion about 9 a.m., according to Secret Service spokesman Dick Hartwig. Witwer was arrested by U.S. park police and taken to George Washington University Hospital. oreg 12/21/81 UFOs "higher ups" # Reagan aide urged to quit WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee suggested Thursday that William A. Niskanen, an economic adviser to President Reagan, resign because of his contention that budget deficits have no connection with inflation or interest rates. While Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., did not demand Niskanen's resignation, he told reporters, "It's difficult for me to understand how after what he said... how he can serve the president very well." Domenici said, "I hope the president personally and with vigor rejects that and clearly relates to us that there is a relationship between deficits and interest rates and inflation." Niskanen could not be reached for comment. Niskanen drew an angry reaction from the Republican-controlled Senate earlier this week after he said, "In general, concern about the deficit has been misplaced. There is no direct or indirect connection between deficits and inflation." oreg 12/11/81 # Guatemalan mayor slain; kidnapped son still missing GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Unidentified gunmen entered the home of the mayor of Ciudad Vieja, forced his family to leave and then shot him dead, police said Monday. They said no group claimed responsibility for the Sunday murder of Gonzalo Quinonez Paredes. Quinonez Paredes, 46, was the local leader of the Christian Democrat Party which, like many other moderate and leftist parties, is not taking part in national elections next March, claiming they will be fraudulent. Family members said a week earlier that one of the mayor's sons, Herbert, 16, was kidnapped as he returned from a basketball game. Nothing has been heard from since. Residents of the town, 25 miles southwest of the capital, Guatemala City, were kidnapped and then killed by heavily armed men. Seven bullet-riddled bodies were later found near Mixco, on the outskirts of the capital, and police were trying to determine if they were the same people seized Thursday. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings or kidnapping, but leftist guerrillas frequently wear olive-green uniforms. oreg 12/29/81 === Page 126 of 278 "FOR attack "higher "s " 2nd top Polish diplomat oreg J 12/24/81 By United Press International defects to U.S. Poland's ambassador to japan, who de- fected because he "cannot tolerate the military rule" in his homeland, has been granted political asylum in the United States, a State Department spokesman in Washington said Thursday. The envoy, Zdislaw Rurarz has left for the United States, a spokesman for the State Department's working group on Po- land said. "We can confirm that he has asked for and been granted asylum," the spokesman said. Rurarz was expected to arrive Thurs- day afternoon in Seattle with his wife, Janina, and their 25-year-old daughter, Eva, and continue en route to New York. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshio Sa- kurauchi told newsmen Rurarz expressed his desire to seek political asylum, but refused to discuss details. The Polish Em- bassy in Tokyo also declined to comment. Japan Broadcasting Corp. quoted Ru- rarz as saying, "I cannot tolerate the mili- tary rule in Poland." Japanese police officials said he told them, "I can no longer represent the Po- lish government, which denied the funda- mental rights of the Polish people." Rurarz, 51, began his assignment in To- kyo in February this year. He gave a warm reception to Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity union, when Walesa visited Japan in May at the invitation of the General Council of Trade Unions, Ja- pan's largest labor group. Rurarz' request for asylum followed that of Poland's ambassador to Washing- ton, Romuald Spasowski, who announced Sunday his decision to defect to the Unit- ed States because of "the state of war" imposed on Poland. President Reagan re- ceived Spasowski in Washington on Tues- day and praised him for his action. Rurarz' defection also followed defec- tions by 16 seamen from a Polish freighter visiting Japan to load relief rice to help ease food shortages in Poland. SEN. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS JR. UFO. attache "higher upes" Court back's conviction of Williams By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK NEW YORK (AP) -A federal judge upheldSen. Harrison A. Williams To's Abscam conviction Tuesday, ruung that he was not entrapped but "knowingly and voluntarily" agreed to use his influ- ence in corrupt dealings with a phony sheik. undercover political corruption probe, faces an expulsion debate in the Senate next month. Williams had no comment on the ruling. But Walter Gold, a spokesman for the four-term senator, said in Mary- land: "It will go to the Court of Appeals, there's no question about that." "Fis attack"higher who" Donovan asks probe of charges areg 12/23/81 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, saying he was tired of being "besieged by false statements, leaks and innuendo," asked Tuesday that a special prosecutor be appointed to clear his name. Donovan told a hastily scheduled press conference that he had written Attorney General William French Smith to ask Smith to appoint the prosecutor to investigate the 2-week-old allega- tions that Donovan and the construction company he headed had made illegal payments to a union official. Donovan called his accuser, former únion official Mario Montuoro, a "dam- nable and contemptible liar." He denied that he or his company had ever done anything illegal. . The Justice Department was already conducting a preliminary investigation into whether to appoint a special prosê- cutor. Donovan said he was taking the unusual step of asking for the prosecu- tor himself because he wanted the mat- ter cleared up as quickly as possible. Smith notified President Reagan Tuesday afternoon of Donovan's re- quest, said White House spokesman Da- The New Jersey Democrat, the sev- enth member of Congress - and the vid Gergen. Gergen added that Reagan still held the view he expressed last only senator - convicted in the Abscam " week that Donovan should remain in his job if a special prosecutor were named to conduct an investigation. Gergen said the White House had not reviewed Donovan's letter and would not comment on it. "Of course it will be up to the Department of Justice to decide how to handle the situation," Gergen added. In Hin #1anos de -Tất- === Page 127 of 278 2 Oregon Journal, January 2, 1982 (2) UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan reported ready to ax Allen By HELEN THOMAS PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig planned to take time from their California vacations Saturday to talk about the likely removal of Richard Allen as national security affairs adviser, and other issues. A senior administration official said Reagan has all but decided to replace Allen with the announcement expected next week after the president returns to Washington. First choice for Allen's replacement is Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, a long-time Reagan friend who was his chief of staff when he was governor of California and whom Reagan named to the California Supreme Court. Clark won Senate confirmation to the No. 2 post at the State Department last winter despite his consistent replies of "I don't know" or "I'm not in position to say" to a wide range of foreign policy issues, some of them elementary, in his confirmation hearings. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Charles Percy, R-Ill., shepherded the nomination through Senate confirmation, but said: "Never again can we accept a man who professes to have no knowledge in the area for which he has been nominated." Both Reagan and Haig are vacationing in Palm Springs, and both attended a gala New Year's Eve party at the 200-acre estate of multi-millionaire publisher Walter Annenberg, where the Reagans are house guests. Other guests included three additional Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor and a number of the president's California friends. Allen, who has been on administrative leave, told reporters staking out his Arlington, Va., home Friday that he has had no indication he is being replaced. He also expressed doubt such a decision has been made, but White House aides indicated otherwise. The replacement of Allen will be coupled with a restructuring of the national security affairs office to upgrade the position of the adviser, who will be given direct access to Reagan. Such access was removed from Allen several months ago, and his role was downgraded to a point where he had little personal contact with Reagan on a day-to-day basis and reported to him by written memos on international developments. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said one main reason for altering the position was that there has been no central point of contact for coordinating foreign policy decisions. As a result, he said, "there has been some shopping around" among State Department and Pentagon officials to find out with whom to discuss foreign policy problems. Allen told reporters the upgrading of the national security adviser's job "strikes me as a reasonable idea." The change being contemplated would put the security adviser on a par with the current "big three" White House advisers -- counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## newsbreak ## Albanian premier kills self Mehmet Shehu, 67, premier of Communist Albania for the past 27 years and the close adviser of strongman Enver Hoxha, committed suicide, Radio Tirana reported Friday night. org J 12/19/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan blasts abductors of U.S. Army general org 12/19/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan Friday denounced the captors of a U.S. Army general in Italy as "cowardly bums" and said the United States is doing everything it can to gain his release. "They aren't heroes or they don't have a cause that justifies what they're doing," Reagan said of the captors of Brig. Gen. James Dozier, who was kidnapped Thursday. "They're cowards," Reagan said. "They wouldn't have the guts to stand up to anyone individually in any kind of a fair contest." Dozier, 50, is the second-highest ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe and the target of the first apparent political abduction of an American in Italy. The Red Brigades, the Marxist urban guerrilla group which kidnapped and killed former Italian Premier Aldo Moro in 1978, claimed responsibility for Dozier's abduction. Reagan, questioned about the incident during a meeting with automakers, said, "I think that everything is being done that can be done." "This is, I think, a terrible situation. It's a most frustrating situation because I would like to be able to stand sometime, I'm sure we all would, and say to the people that do these things they are cowardly bums..." "Yes, we're doing everything we can," the president said. === Page 128 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # $1,000 not rumor Richard Allen can talk all he wants to about the "miasma of rumor and innuendo" regarding the $1,000 he had tucked away in a safe. But it all has the smell of a smokescreen. The nation has been that route before when someone in high office has been caught in the act of wrongdoing. But all of the cries of "foul" and "picked on" do not right the wrong. Allen has taken administrative leave of his post as national security adviser while the investigation goes on. He claims that he will prove his innocence and then return to his office. But it is not just a matter of whether or not he violated the law. If he did, he obviously should face justice. But even if he didn't, he was wrong. There is no justification for the national security adviser to accept a $1,000 gift, or whatever it was, for arranging an interview with the first lady. The standard of conduct ought to be higher than whether the behavior constituted a criminal act. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Libyans 'burn' Reagan BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Thousands of Libyan demonstrators chanted anti-American slogans Wednesday and burned President Reagan in effigy in Libya's Mediterranean port city of Benghazi, Libya's state radio reported. The broadcast, monitored in Beirut, said the marchers carried posters that denounced Reagan for alleged "terroristic provocations" against Col. Moammar Khadafy, leader of the North African Arab nation. "Reagan, you cowboy! You will die before reaching Moammar!" chanted the crowds as they set Reagan's effigy on fire at Benghazi's main square. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Cody hospitalized CHICAGO (AP) -- Cardinal John P. Cody, archbishop of the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was admitted to a hospital Tuesday, and a spokeswoman said he was in fair condition. The spokeswoman at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Heather Watson, said she did know why he was admitted. She said, that at the cardinal's request, no further information would be given out by the hospital. A diocesan spokesman, Charles Roberts, said the 73-year-old prelate is expected to be released in time to celebrate Mass on Christmas Eve. The archdiocese said he traveled to the hospital on his own. Cody has a history of heart ailments and diabetes. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Critic says he was fired SEATTLE (UPI) -- A Federal Aviation Administration official, who claimed he was transferred to a do-nothing job because of his criticism of the agency, has been fired from his $50,000-a-year job. The regional office of the FAA confirmed Thursday that James Pope was no longer an employee of the agency, but declined to elaborate, citing Civil Service regulations protecting his privacy. Pope accused the FAA of moving him from the agency's headquarters in Washington D.C. to the Seattle office in retaliation for his criticism of FAA programs to avoid midair collisions. Testifying before a congressional committee earlier this year, Pope blamed the FAA for a 1978 midair collision over San Diego that killed 150 people. Pope said the agency for years had resisted adopting an electronic collision avoidance system that could have prevented the tragedy. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # White House intruder held WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A 22-year-old Maryland man was arrested by Secret Service agents on the White House lawn after he jumped a fence and entered the grounds. He was charged Thursday with unlawful entry, police said. District of Columbia police identified the intruder as William Persons, 22, of Cheverly, Md. Secret Service spokesman Laurie Davis said Persons jumped over the iron fence surrounding the White House from the sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue. He was arrested by the Secret Service about 4:30 p.m., she said. Persons was interviewed by Secret Service agents, charged and taken to the Central Cell Block before transfer to the D.C. Jail. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # News director resigns for Voice of America trend By BARBARA CROSSETTE New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The director of the Voice of America's news division, a strong advocate of journalistic independence for the agency, resigned Monday. The departure of Bernard H. Kamenske, 54, followed a period of internal turmoil in the organization growing out of what journalists in the network saw as an increasing tendency on the part of the Reagan administration to stress the propaganda or commentary function of the Voice. Kamenske is due to join Cable News Network Jan. 3 as senior news editor in Washington, the cable company announced Monday. Kamenske, a newsroom institution at the Voice, broke down in tears when telling the staff Monday about his resignation. He was widely credited with framing the 1976 charter that sought to guarantee newsroom independence from any management attempts to interfere with the work of journalists. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Diplomat expelled MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The government has expelled an Iranian diplomat from Bahrain on charges he tried to launch a coup in this Persian Gulf island state, a Bahreini newspaper reported Tuesday. The Arab-language Akhbar al Khaleej said Iranian charge d'affaires Hassan Shushtri left Manama for Tehran Monday night at the request of the In- === Page 129 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burger rejects book allegations, cameraman oreg 12/18/81 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger said Thursday that allegations made by John Ehrlichman about improper conversations between Burger and then-President Nixon are only attempts "to sell a book." The chief justice, in a copyright interview with the Lincoln Journal, also contended he gave a CBS cameraman "a shoulder" only after the camera poked Burger in the chin. Burger declined to further discuss claims in a coming book by Ehrlichman, a former Nixon aide, that Burger and Nixon privately discussed a pending Supreme Court school busing case for which the chief justice later wrote the majority opinion. Burger made the comment during a brief tour of the Journal's newsroom before he left Lincoln for Washington. A CBS television crew's efforts to get Burger to comment on Ehrlichman's claims touched off the incident Wednesday afternoon in which a camera was knocked out of a cameraman's hands. CBS news reporter Derrick Blakley has been quoted as saying the film crew had "staked out" the Stuart Building in hopes of questioning the chief justice before a luncheon. Blakley said Burger did not respond to the crew's queries, nor did he indicate he was angry or offended. But when the camera crew tried to enter an elevator with the chief justice, he turned and knocked the camera off the cameraman's shoulder, Blakley said. Burger said Thursday morning the incident happened after a member of the crew behind the cameraman apparently pushed him into the elevator and the front of the camera lens "hit me in the chin." Burger said there was a rubber ring around the lens and added, "I didn't get hurt." A CBS videotape of the incident, however, appeared to show Burger turning around in the elevator immediately after entering, saying, "Get out of here" and lunging at the cameraman just before the camera's images began to spin. The chief justice, a Minnesota native, said he used to play hockey in his younger days, "and I just turned and gave him (the cameraman) a shoulder. It probably wasn't his fault. I think someone was trying to push him in. But there were already four or five us in there." Burger said the cameraman yelled that the camera was broken, but the chief justice said he doubted that. A CBS spokeswoman, Marcia Stein, said, "Blakley was just doing his job, and the story speaks for itself." She said the film of the incident clearly showed there was no effort to shove the camera at Burger, and the chief justice was seen stepping forward to knock the camera away. Burger visited Lincoln to tour the Nebraska State Penitentiary and give a speech at the University of Nebraska. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Donovan tied to illicit payoff LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- An FBI inquiry involving Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan has widened to include charges that Donovan's former construction company paid illegal gratuities in addition to cash to officials of a New York City laborers' union, it was learned Monday. The investigation -- whose existence was confirmed by the White House last week -- has focused mainly on charges by a former union official, Mario Montuoro, that a $2,000 bribe was paid by officials of the construction firm in Donovan's presence in 1977. But Arthur Z. Schwartz, a New York lawyer representing Montuoro, said Monday that his client had also told authorities that Donovan's former company paid for trips by union officials, gave or lent them heavy equipment for their personal use and honored a union request to put "ghost employees" -- the names of nonexistent workers -- on the company payroll. Schwartz said the alleged gratuities were paid by Donovan's company, Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J., four years ago to officials of Blasters, Drillers and Miners Local 29. The union was helping build tunnels for Schiavone on a New York subway project, he said. Although Donovan handled day-to-day operations of the company as a principal partner, Montuoro, aside from saying that had Donovan witnessed the $2,000 payoff, has no direct knowledge that Donovan knew about the payment of other gratuities, Schwartz said. Such gratuities, if proven, would be in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act and could form the basis for a separate federal charge of racketeering against the Schiavone firm. A spokesman for Donovan said Monday that the secretary had no comment on the latest charges as long as the FBI inquiry was proceeding. Donovan said last week that he knew "nothing that lends substance" to the cash payoff allegation. During a Senate confirmation hearing last January, Donovan faced similar charges that his company had made payments to ensure "labor peace" with unions. He denied the allegations, and the FBI found them to be unsubstantiated. oreg 12/15/81 UFOs - "higher ups" # Roberts doing fine ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) -- Evangelist Oral Roberts was reported in good condition following eye surgery at Alhambra Community Hospital. "He's doing fine. The surgery went very well," said Dr. Dennis Chuck, chief resident with the Doheny Eye Clinic, following the surgery Saturday. Roberts, 63, of Tulsa, Okla., entered the hospital in this Los Angeles suburb Friday. Chuck was one of two doctors from the eye clinic who performed the surgery to repair a tear in the retina of one eye. oreg 12/14/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House blasted in Kabul ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghan guerrillas blew up a sentry box outside the U.N. staff house last Thursday in Kabul, the Afghan capital, according to a delayed Western diplomatic report reaching here Tuesday. It said there were no injuries in the explosion since the Afghan soldiers normally occupying the guard shelter were inside the U.N. compound at the time. The report, disclosed by a diplomat who declined to be identified, said a senior Afghan party official was assassinated the same day in a separate incident. === Page 130 of 278 # Polish premier declares 'emergency' - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Solidarity leaders to be 'interned' By THOMAS W. NETTER WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of emergency early Sunday and announced that leaders of the independent union Solidarity would be "interned" along with former party leaders blamed for leading Poland into its current crisis. Jaruzelski, who also is the Communist Party chief, addressed the nation in a radio broadcast six hours after helmeted riot police seized Solidarity headquarters in Warsaw and arrested local union activists in a sudden strike against the defiant labor federation. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - **Marcello convicted** LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Carlos "Little Man" Marcello, the reputed overlord of the Gulf Coast Mafia, was convicted late Friday on three conspiracy charges in the attempted bribing of a federal judge in a murder case. The 71-year-old Marcello faces up to 15 years in prison. **Solidarity debates points** GDANSK, Poland (UPI) - Solidarity leaders Saturday debated three tough draft resolutions, including one which could bring a national referendum on Poland's relations with the Soviet Union. Two of the resolutions before the 107-member union national commission were variations on a call for a general strike should Parliament grant emergency law-and-order powers to the government. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - **Argentine president ousted** BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) - Ailing Argentine President Roberto Viola, 57, has been ousted by the military junta that appointed him only eight months ago. He will be replaced by fellow army general Leopoldo Galtieri, 55, officials said. # The world - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Khomeini deputy slain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A personal representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Shiraz and seven or eight companions were killed Friday when a bomb exploded as they were heading to the city's main mosque, Tehran radio and a revolutionary police official said. The prayer leader, 80-year-old Ayatollah Abdol-Hossein Dastgheib, had taken "about 100 steps from the house when the bomb exploded," according to a Revolutionary Police spokesman in Shiraz who talked to The Associated Press in Beirut by telephone. The spokesman, who refused to be identified, said seven or eight people with Dastgheib also died. Tehran radio said an undetermined number of Dastgheib's companions were killed and others wounded. The broadcast, monitored here, said the blast in the southern Iranian city was set off by leftist Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas. The Tehran government ordered a nationwide day of mourning Saturday for Dastgheib, who represented Khomeini in the southern province of Fars and was the prayer leader of Shiraz, 420 miles south of Tehran, according to the broadcast. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # FTC choice called liar WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee abruptly ended a hearing on a controversial nomination to the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday after a senator charged the nominee had lied to the panel. Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., made the charge against F. Keith Adkinson during a meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore., halted the session. Adkinson, a Democrat who worked for President Reagan's election and was nominated by Reagan to the FTC, was not at the session and could not be reached for comment on Cannon's allegation. The nominee, once a staffer for a Senate subcommittee, had signed a contract to write a book about a criminal who testified to the subcommittee. Questions were raised about the propriety of this, but no action was taken. Adkinson, questioned about the book deal at an earlier hearing, said the contract had been in effect only a few weeks before the project was abandoned. Cannon said, "This nominee has not been forthright with this committee about the book contract. This committee learned about the book contract only from FBI files." Cannon said there is evidence the contract was in effect much longer. He also said Adkinson tried to "cash in" on his work for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations by proposing a television series. Speaking of the abandoned television venture, Cannon said, "Not only did he not reveal it, he lied about it" === Page 131 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Polish envoy asks asylum, hits Warsaw Text on Page A4 By R. GREGORY NOKES WASHINGTON (AP) -- Poland's ambassador to the United States, Romuald Spasowski, declared Sunday that he is defecting to the United States because a "state of war has been imposed upon Poland" and "I cannot be silent." "The cruel night of darkness and silence has spread over my country," the grim-faced 61-year-old diplomat said. "I cannot have any association ... with the authorities responsible for the brutality and inhumanity." With his wife at his side, Spasowski appeared dramatically before reporters at the State Department to denounce what he described as "an unprecedented reign of terror" being carried out by security police and special military units. "With unique precision, the police undertook all feasible steps to extinguish every ember of freedom, trying to eliminate independently minded people," he said. But he said Poland's communist government could not imprison all 36 million Poles and declared, "We will never give up" in the pursuit of freedom. Standing ramrod straight and speaking in good but heavily accented English, the goateed diplomat read from a statement written on a yellow legal pad. The State Department said he had asked to make the statement. Although he said the crackdown was not exclusively an "internal issue," he did not specifically charge Soviet involvement. He did not mention the Soviet Union once in his 10-minute statement. Saturday, Spasowski requested political asylum for himself, his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law. After his appearance, Spasowski and his wife, Wanda, were led away from the room under heavy security guard. But first, Mrs. Spasowski walked over to the group of reporters and kissed and embraced Virginia E. Kelly, a Washington correspondent for The Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. Mrs. Kelly said she had become a close friend of the Spasowskis during their stay here. Officials declined to say where the Spasowskis were being taken, but the normal procedure would be for them to be secluded under guard in a so-called "safe house" somewhere in the Washington area, as long as there was concern for their safety. The Polish government broadcast Sunday that Spasowski had been suffering for some time from "periodic states of depression." Warsaw Radio reported Spasowski had requested political asylum after he had been recalled and ordered to return home. Although he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations defected in 1979 following Soviet intervention in that country, State Department officials could not recall the last time an ambassador to the United States had defected. "Nobody can remember, in recent memory at least, an ambassador to Washington having asked for asylum," said Anita Stockman, a State Department spokeswoman. Spasowski described himself to reporters as the most senior member of the Polish diplomatic service. He said he had held ambassadorial rank five times, including twice here. He was ambassador from 1955 to 1961 and then from April 1978 until his defection. The United States was obviously seeking to draw as much attention as possible to the defection by giving him the use of a major conference room at the State Department. ABC-TV broadcast his statement live. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had disclosed on a television program earlier Sunday that Spasowski had asked for political asylum Saturday and President Reagan had granted the request and ordered protection. Spasowski described conditions in Poland since the crackdown ordered by the communist government last weekend: "The cruel night of darkness and silence has spread over my country. Now, thousands of the best sons and daughters of the Polish nation are with the order of the military council, in prisons, in concentration camps, and your young blood flows in the police force and special military units." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran president's brother wounded BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The brother of Iranian President Ali Khamenei was wounded Sunday by "American mercenaries," and two of his bodyguards were killed, Radio Tehran said. It said Mohammad Khamenei, a Parliament deputy from the northeastern city of Mashad, was attacked by four gunmen who jumped out of the bushes as he left his residence in the Iranian capital. Two of Khamenei's bodyguards were killed instantly, the radio said, but Khamenei himself "miraculously" escaped serious injury with only "minor" bullet wounds in his side. The term "American mercenaries" is often used by Iran's state-owned news media to describe Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas. "I saw the bullets coming through the car window, and I waited for death," Khamenei said in a taped interview from his hospital bed. "I fled, the bullets hitting my clothes, which are full of holes, and I heard them around my head like swarms of bees. The whole thing took less than half a minute." Representatives of the president and Prime Minister Mir Hossein Musavi visited Khamenei in the hospital, according to the broadcast monitored in Beirut. President Khamenei himself was the target of an assassination attempt last June 27 when a tape recorder rigged with explosives blew up near his face as he was speaking in a mosque. The attack, which the government blames on the guerrillas, damaged the president's windpipe and left him with a paralyzed right arm. === Page 132 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Danish premier resigns after election setback By OLE DUUS COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Premier Anker Joergensen announced his resignation Tuesday night after voters dealt his Social Democratic Party a severe blow in national elections. But with 98 percent of the vote counted, the contest between his minority socialist government and the main opposition -- a Liberal-Conservative alliance -- had not reached a clear-cut conclusion, and it is possible Joergensen will remain as premier. Political commentators predicted either a lengthy government crisis or the calling of new elections. Joergensen, 59, was to submit his resignation to Queen Margrethe II Wednesday morning, advising the monarch to call in the leaders of all political parties in a search of the one to be charged with directing negotiations on formation of a new government. He would remain as caretaker premier in the interim. Complete unofficial returns showed a loss of nine seats for the Social Democrats, leaving them with 59 in the 179-seat Folketing (parliament). Joergensen said that was too few for him to carry on immediately as the leader of a minority government. The Liberal-Conservative alliance gained three seats on its previous strength of 44. The big winners, with a nine-seat gain each, were two ideologically divergent parties with one thing in common -- they both denounced the economic plans put forward by the main competitors. The Social People's Party, a Marxist group, increased its strength from 11 to 20 seats, and the Center-Democrats jumped from six to 15. The two parties were likely to cancel each other out, so the deciding vote may be left with the Social-Liberals, as it has been in the past. That small party has nine seats -- a loss of one. An estimated 85 percent of Denmark's 3.8 million voters braved freezing cold, snowstorms and snarled public transportation to vote in their sixth national election in 10 years. The chief issue was how Denmark, beset by growing unemployment and mounting foreign debts, was to work its way back toward economic equilibrium. The ruling Social Democrats said this would be possible without tampering with the welfare state -- now being retained mainly through borrowing abroad -- with the "socially balanced" economic plan it offered. The alliance, by contrast, called for major cutbacks, biting into the welfare system and relying on tax reductions to get the economy going. Tuesday's vote did not result in a swing to the right, as in Sweden and Norway, where non-socialist governments have taken over. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Charles, Diana left to dine alone LONDON (AP) -- A banquet for Prince Charles and Princess Diana was disrupted Tuesday night when senior politicians were summoned unexpectedly to vote in the nearby House of Commons. The ringing of the "division" bell warning that a vote was about to take place in the lower house of Parliament created "general consternation" among the diners, The Times of London reported. "Food and drink was dropped instantly from eager hands as Members of Parliament went to answer the call to arms," The Times said. "In seconds the banquet was deserted as the honorable and gallant gentlemen raced for the division lobbies." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sitting next to the 33-year-old heir to the British throne and his 20-year-old wife, "was not amused," The Times said. UFOs attack "higher ups" PALACE BOREDOM: Two former Buckingham Palace footmen have been jailed for stealing $12,000 worth of explosives and other mining equipment, some of which they stashed in the palace hobby room. Andrew Gildersleeve, 23, was sentenced to 12 months and Stephen Beevis, 21, to nine months, for stealing gelignite, a Land Rover and other equipment which they said they intended to use for their hobby, cave exploring. They were arrested on the eve of the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana July 29, prompting fears that security at the palace had been violated. Their lawyer said the two men were bored with their work at Buckingham Palace. === Page 133 of 278 - newsbreak # Ghana hit by coup org 1/19/82 The military carried out the fifth coup d'etat in Ghana's 24-year history Thursday in a takeover apparently masterminded by Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, leading his second uprising in two years. No word was available on the fate of President Hilla Limann or his cabinet. org J 12/31/81 # Reagan blunted in try to plug news leaks org 1/19/82 By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan became so upset over leaks of information to the news media recently that he told aides he planned to bar all administration officials from talking to journalists on a background or off-the-record basis, according to White House sources. Reagan wanted to permit only on-the-record interviews and to allow those only upon prior approval by a senior White House official, the sources told the Los Angeles Times. Such an edict would have had the effect of drastically cutting back the flow of news and information made public about the activities of the federal government, because hardly a day goes by that officials by the score at all levels of the executive branch do not talk to reporters on condition that their names not be used. "The president came back from his New Year's holiday in California really steaming about the leaks and wanted to stop them across the board with a directive," said one White House official. "He wanted to order that there be no off-the-record or background interviews and no contacts with the media unless approved by the White House." No such presidential order was issued, however, because some White House officials felt strongly that it would be impracticable, unenforceable and politically unwise. Many of the most important stories developed in Washington on the inner workings of government are based on background interviews under ground rules that require that reporters identify their sources only in general terms, such as "White House officials." Moreover, top government officials often have found it to be the most effective way to get the administration's message to the public. Off-the-record interviews, which are held with the understanding that none of the information can be used in a story, are sought by reporters to help them gain a better understanding of an issue they are covering. Reagan's deep concern about leaks goes far beyond the issue of national security. He also has fretted over stories that dealt with behind-the-scene maneuvering in the administration on matters dealing with the budget, tax increases and internal problems of the administration. Out of his concern emerged a presidential directive restricting government employees' contacts with reporters on national security matters as well as a memorandum from White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III requiring that all interviews of any nature be cleared in advance with the White House. The Baker memo was drafted by David Gergen, Reagan's director of communications, who told The Times he had not intended it to apply to requests for interviews from individual print journalists. As Gergen spelled out the new policy in meetings Monday with government press officers, prior approval is not to be required for broadcast interviews on spot news or for requests by individual print journalists. But major broadcast interviews and sessions with groups of journalists must get advance clearance, Gergen told the press officers. # Algerian diplomat slain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An Algerian diplomat was found dead in his Beirut home Wednesday, and initial reports said his skull had been cracked by a heavy instrument, police said. The diplomat was identified as Rabeh Jerwa, minister plenipotentiary at the Algerian Embassy. Foreign Minister Fuad Butros said the incident was part of a campaign to force the evacuation of diplomats from Lebanon. There were 39 attacks on embassies and diplomats in Lebanon in 1981, according to a Lebanese security report released earlier this month. # Spain picks joint chiefs MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Premier Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo named new joint chiefs of staff Friday after relieving four top military men of command. The development preceded Spain's entry into NATO and the trial of rebellious officers who tried to overthrow the government. The national news agency EFE said the premier and Cabinet appointed Lt. Gen. Alvaro Lacalle, 63, commander of the Valladolid military region, as new monopoly, fraud and negligence with a mean spirit of utter shamelessness. They seem to have no potential for shame," Nader said. In response to Nader's letter, Mark Weinberg, a White House spokesman, said, "The president believes that much federal regulation is wasteful." # Nader hits policies Consumer advocate Ralph Nader criticized the Reagan administration Monday for policies he said would lead to more casualties from dangerous products, fewer consumer safeguards and more anti-competitive price rises. In a 13-page letter to the president, Nader said Reagan's administration showed "a brand of anti-consumer extremism that would make the people of the Nixon and Ford administrations blush with shame. "Your government's operatives on all fronts are destroying the application of law and order to corporate crime, # Judge rebuffs Watt A federal judge in Utah has rebuffed Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt in his efforts to take a second look at a strip mining plan near Bryce Canyon National Park, a re-evaluation that would have opened the possibility of mining within view of one of the park's most scenic vistas. U.S. District Judge David Winder decided against allowing Watt to reopen the mining compromise worked out in 1980 by former Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus. Instead, Andrus' proposal for the Alton Mine fields -- a plan that angered both environmentalists and the industry -- will be the subject of an extended judicial review in Salt Lake City. === Page 134 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, MON # Racial remark taped by bank Oreg 1/11/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS newsman Mike Wallace, interviewing a San Diego bank official for a "60 Minutes" segment, made a racially disparaging remark that was videotaped by the bank without his knowledge, it was reported Sunday. The Los Angeles Times said Wallace was taped saying that complex lien-sale contracts -- agreements to buy goods on time -- were "hard to read ... if you're reading them over the watermelon or over the tacos." The incident occurred last March 31 when Wallace was interviewing a vice president at San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association. The subject was low-income, poorly educated Southern Californians who faced losing their homes because they had unknowingly put them up as collateral in contracts to buy air conditioners, and then defaulted on some payments. San Diego Federal had carried thousands of the contracts for Trane Co., one of the nation's largest air conditioner firms. Trane recently agreed to pay $1 million to settle a California attorney general's complaint about company sales practices. Wallace, in Montgomery, Ala., could not be reached immediately for comment, CBS News spokeswoman Geraldine Sharpe-Newton said. Wallace was in Montgomery to interview Tom Krebs, head of the Alabama Securities Commission and Gov. Fob James' task force on crime. Wallace was quoted in the Times as saying of the incident that "anybody who knows me, I'm afraid, knows that I do ethnic jokes and I do obscenity from time to time." He added that he tells Jewish jokes, and "I'm Jewish." Miss Sharpe-Newton, in New York, read a statement issued Sunday by CBS News, which said, "CBS News regrets, as does Mike Wallace, his offhand remark during a break in an interview. The story as it was broadcast on '60 Minutes' was accurate and fair and in no way reflected that remark." CBS cameras were not running when Wallace made the disparaging remark, and Wallace told the newspaper he was under the impression that the bank's private crew was supposed to stop taping when the CBS crew did. The Times said upon learning that the remark had been taped, Wallace first tried to get it erased and then tried to get the tape back from the company. Michael Kinsman, San Diego Federal's assistant vice president for public affairs, confirmed that the bank had taped the interview but would not comment on the substance of Wallace's remark. "We do not wish to be involved in any struggle between Mike Wallace and other members of the media," Kinsman said. "It is clear that we have conducted ourselves ethically and with principle and have done nothing of which we should be ashamed. We are simply unwilling witnesses to this event." However, he said of the incident, "The Times story pretty well spells it out." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Marcos' wife blames enemies for kidnapping By DAVID BRISCOE Oreg 1/5/82 MANILA, Philippine (AP) -- Philippine first lady Imelda R. Marcos said Monday that she believed the apparent kidnapping of the man who married her daughter in the United States was plotted by anti-government forces. Court records in Arlington, Va., show that Imee Marcos, 26, married Tommy Manotoc, 32, in a civil ceremony Dec. 4. Manotoc's family has accused President Ferdinand Marcos of involvement in the disappearance last Tuesday. Authorities believe Manotoc was kidnapped. Marcos denied any involvement, and Mrs. Marcos accused political opponents and the Manotocs themselves of arranging the disappearance, calling it a "frame-up." Mrs. Marcos, in an interview before court records were disclosed, said she did not know whether there was a marriage because her daughter was "very secretive." She said she and the president opposed their daughter's relationship with Manotoc because he was a married man. Manotoc married a former Miss International beauty queen, Aurora Pijuan, in 1971. The Arlington court records say the two were divorced last October. Miss Pijuan said she did not know of the divorce, would agree to it and was helping Manotoc get an annulment of their marriage. The president Sunday denied that his family was involved in the disappearance and said Manila's nationwide search for the missing man was continuing. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Official resigns New York Times News Service TEL AVIV, Israel -- Arye Naor, the secretary of the Israeli Cabinet, who is standing trial for leaking a story calculated to hurt President Carter in the 1980 presidential election, submitted his resignation Thursday. Naor denied that his move was part of a deal to drop the case against him. However, the chief prosecution witness, Raanan Lurie, a London-based political cartoonist, said he was told by the prosecutor there was no need for him to come to Israel to testify. State Attorney Gabriel Bach declined to discuss the matter stating, "We never comment on something that is pending." The trial opened Dec. 15 and is scheduled to be resumed Monday. At the opening session, Naor pleaded not guilty to charges of conduct unbecoming a civil servant. However, the Cabinet secretary acknowledged through his attorney, that he gave Lurie the controversial information, but he asked the court to go behind closed doors to hear his explanation because state secrets were involved. Oreg 1/1/82 === Page 135 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan blunder does racial harm The Reagan administration made a profound blunder when it confused form with substance and ordered an 11-year-old policy reversed that prohibited U.S. tax exemptions for schools that practice racial discrimination. Stunned by the political reaction, the White House has stuck by its poorly considered decision. Instead of simply canceling the order to the Treasury Department, President Reagan has announced he will seek a remedy with congressional legislation, a move that will permit segregated institutions to be rewarded with federal tax exemptions until the change slowly works its way through the legislative process. The White House, in approving last Friday a recommendation that tax exemptions be given private institutions that discriminate, such as Bob Jones University, along with countless segregated schools that had not sought tax exemptions, said it did so because of its belief that government agencies "cannot be allowed to govern by administrative fiat." But Congress has not seen fit through its oversight powers to reverse the Treasury's ban against tax subsidies for segregated schools. The policy, first approved during the Nixon administration, was left standing during the subsequent Ford and Carter administrations. Now this administration seems to have declared it cannot act to discourage racial discrimination unless it gets an order from the Congress. While few would disagree that any administration should resist agencies that arrogantly exceed their legislative powers, the fact is that freedom -- indeed, responsibility -- to make administrative rules is recognized in the laws. The attitude in the White House that its effort to aid segregated schools with tax benefits had simply miscalculated the political outcry is disturbing, the inference being that nothing would have been done to change the decision if serious political damage had not belatedly been perceived. Blacks in this country have reason to be seriously concerned about an administration that has tried to water down the extension of the Voting Rights Act, sought court reversals of voluntary affirmative action programs and decided no longer to enforce busing orders for school desegregation. While those who are both black and non-racist may well agree with some of these administration views, the overall impression is being left by the rhetoric and manner of handling the issues that President Reagan is becoming the prisoner of the white supremacists and hard rightists who would turn America into a land as divided as South Africa. Worse, the impression is left in this latest episode that White House advisers simply are insensitive to racial and human issues, else they would not have let the president make such a blunder. oreg 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran president's kin wounded BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- Iranian guerrillas wounded the brother of Iran's president and killed both his bodyguards in a 30-second barrage of gunfire and a Tehran newspaper said Monday the government put 16 more opponents to death. The attack Sunday on Hojatoleslam Seyyed Mohammed Khamanei was the third on a member of the Iranian Parliament in three weeks. The Tehran newspaper Azadegan, in a report quoted by Turkish Radio and Television Monday, said 16 people were executed in Iran over the past five days. The report said eight of those executed were "smugglers" and the other eight "counterrevolutionaries" -- a reference to anti-government agitators. The opponents of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic regime, resuming their attacks after a lull of several months, riddled Khamanei's car with bullets as he was being driven to Parliament in Tehran. "Several people attacked the car and showered it with bullets," Khamanei, brother of President Seyyed Ali Khamenei, told the official Islamic Republic News Agency from his hospital bed. "They (the bullets) were like bees all over me." Tehran Radio said Khamenei suffered only minor wounds in the head and stomach. Two bodyguards were killed in the 30-second attack, which Iran's official media blamed on "American lackeys," a phrase usually used to describe leftist groups opposing the clergy-dominated fundamentalist regime. Political violence in Iran had subsided during recent months, but known attacks resumed Dec. 23 with the assassinations of Parliament member Mojtaba Estaki and Imamgholi Jaafarpour, the governor of the town of Shahr-e Kord. That ambush of their car was followed by the Dec. 28 slaying of parliamentarian Taghi Besharati, a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Official reports since the June ouster of ex-president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr have blamed more than 1,000 political assassinations on the outlawed Mojahideen Khalq and the apparently less active Peykar and Fedayeen Khalq groups. oreg J 1/11/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Leader said hurt -- The Libyan news agency JANA reported Saturday from Khartoum that Sudan President Jaafar Numeiry was wounded twice late Friday in an assassination attempt. However, in Khartoum the official news agency SUNA did not comment on the alleged assassination attempt but did say that Numeiry "is quite OK." oreg J 1/16/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Senator back home ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Eight days after being knocked out by a backdrop in a television studio during an interview, Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., is back home from the hospital. Mrs. Hawkins was wearing a neck brace and was wheeled out of the hospital Wednesday by her husband, Gene, a hospital aide. 1/15/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Governor nearly left speechless oreg 1/17/82 ATLANTA (AP) -- A funny thing happened to Gov. George Busbee as he stood before a joint session of the Legislature and a statewide television audience to give his budget address. He found he had a copy of the wrong speech. "I have a real problem here," the embarrassed governor confessed. "I've got the State of the State speech and I don't have the budget speech." === Page 136 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Gunman kills U.S. aide in Paris; Reagan decries terrorism By PAUL TREUTHARDT PARIS (AP) -- Assistant U.S. military attache Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray was assassinated Monday by a lurking gunman who police said fired a single shot into Ray's forehead and fled as the victim collapsed on a Paris sidewalk. The U.S. ambassador to France, Evan Griffith Galbraith, said the gunman was "probably a professional and undoubtedly an experienced killer." Police said Ray was shot about 9 a.m. as he walked alone to his parked car near his apartment in a fashionable district. He wore civilian clothes and carried a small attache case found by his body. The only witness police found was a woman who saw the shooting from a distance on her way to work. She said she caught a back view of the killer fleeing on foot and described him as short with long hair and casual clothes. In Washington, President Reagan decried the assassination as an act of international terrorism, saying Ray "gave his life in the line of duty as surely as if he had fallen in battle." "Our hearts go out to his family in their bereavement, and the wanton act of his murderers reinforces our determination to stamp out international terrorism and prevent similar tragedies in the future," Reagan said. President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Pierre Mauroy, expressing outrage, promised an intensive search to find the assassin and offered to bolster security for the U.S. Embassy staff. Galbraith said security for U.S. officials in France would be reassessed because of the killing, since Ray "did not seem to be a target and it was not thought he ran any risks." Security was increased for senior U.S. Embassy staff members in Paris after an unsuccessful attempt on U.S. Charge d'Affaires Christian Chapman last Nov. 18 by a gunmen who escaped. Police said the tactics and description of Ray's assassin were similar and that a 7.65-mm pistol was used in both attacks. Chapman's assailant fired at him as he walked from his front door to his car en route to work. Chapman escaped unhurt by diving behind his car. Ray, 43, is survived by his wife Sharon, daughter Julie, 17, and son Mark, 14. A native of Springfield, Va., Ray had been stationed in Paris with his family since August 1980. He was schooled in military intelligence, served in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation medal, U.S. Army records showed. He was a counterintelligence adviser to South Vietnamese forces in 1962 and 1963 and returned to Vietnam three years later to serve as a plans officer with a military intelligence group based in Saigon, his records show. Afterward, he taught at an Army intelligence school at Fort Holabird, Md.. Police said the gunman walked up to Ray as he was going to his car from his apartment on the Boulevard Emile Augier, in the capital's posh 16th district, and shot him once in the forehead at close range. Police Commissioner Marcel Leclerc said Ray died instantly on the sidewalk. The only claim of responsibility was a handwritten statement given to Western news reporters in Beirut, Lebanon, by an organization called the "Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction." Western diplomats in Beirut said they had not heard of the group. Hours after Ray was shot, French authorities provided tight security for U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, who flew to New York after attending a meeting of Western finance ministers. Security squads at Orly airport ordered 100 passengers off a Pan Am jetliner on which Regan was flying and searched the plane and baggage before allowing them to reboard. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Brazilian official convicted BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The Brazilian Supreme Court convicted a federal congressman of making false accusations against two military leaders and gave him a suspended six-month sentence, officials said Thursday. The court decision, which followed four hours of secret deliberations Wednesday, also stripped Genival Tourinho of his right to run for re-election in 1982 for the Chamber of Deputies. Tourinho, a member of the Peoples Party and a frequent critic of the government, was charged last year after accusing two hard-line generals in this military-controlled country with involvement in right-wing terrorist activity. ## Israeli officers accused TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Two Israeli officers will go on trial on charges of beating an Arab in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, the military said Thursday. A military investigation found that the altercation broke out after the Arab suddenly stopped his car on a road and the officers narrowly avoided ramming him with their jeep. A spokesman said the officers, a captain and a major, allegedly ordered the Arab out of his car and a heated argument led to the beating. UFOs attack "higher ups" By ROY GUTMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- After three years of being the most-quoted envoy here and three decades as an important figure in U.S.-Israeli relations, Israel's ambassador, Ephraim Evron, is still wary of publicity about himself. The soft-spoken diplomat retires this month at the age of 61. True to form, he plans neither memoirs nor speeches nor unsolicited advice to his government. A familiar figure to many Americans from his frequent television interviews and press statements on Israeli policy, Evron seemed proud that since he came here in December 1978, the U.S. media had not written about him personally. "I have always believed that a good diplomat should keep a low profile and not seek headlines," he said. === Page 137 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Δ 4 # Speakes' gaffe staff-inflicted By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL oreg 1/9/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a voice dripping with magnolia, White House spokesman Larry Speakes noted coyly Friday that the current recession began, not in Ronald Reagan's, but in Jimmy Carter's administration. Minutes later, face flushing red with embarrassment, he had to take it all back. Reporters were asking the deputy press secretary during the day's regular news conference, about new unemployment figures, which showed a rise to 8.9 percent, and what that might say about the Reagan economic program. "I noticed this morning," said Speakes, "that the National Bureau of Economic Research... declared it began in July of '80." "Are you calling it the Carter recession?" a reporter asked. A smile from Speakes. A sort of invisible licking of chops. "No, I wouldn't say that... but this outside group did." The bureau, he said, "is the official person that declares recession" and "a distinguished non-partisan panel." A few questions later, Speakes was handed a note by Jim Burnham, deputy to the chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. It said "Recession starts July 1981." The year was underlined. July 1981 falls smack-dab in the middle of Reagan's first year. Speakes turned red. Deep red. "I thought you told me July '80," he said to Burnham, not once but several times. As reporters laughed, Speakes said, "I have witnesses that that fellow told me." Then, one final pleading question to his aide, Pete Roussel, "He said that, didn't he?" UFOs attack "higher ups" # Washington oreg 1/1/82 # Solon to retire WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, top-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that he would retire after the current term, contending he had been "redistricted out of office" by a "blatantly political" court decision. McClory, 73, made his statement at a news conference two days after the Supreme Court upheld an Illinois congressional reapportionment plan that placed him in a primary race against Rep. John E. Porter, R-Ill., 46. After the high court ruled, McClory had said he was "campaigning harder than ever in the district they have handed me." But at his news conference Wednesday, he said he had "reached a firm resolve not to seek re-election." McClory said he had no specific plans for the future. He did not rule out the possibility of getting an appointment in the Reagan administration but said one had not be offered. There have been reports the administration has been asked by influential Illinois Republicans to find spots for McClory and Rep. George O'Brien, R-Ill., as a way of averting primary battles in the state. Because of redistricting, O'Brien is matched against Rep. Edward Derwinski, R-Ill. UFOs "higher ups" # Bomb leaves union leader in hospital oreg 12/31/81 NEW YORK (AP) -- A pipe bomb disguised as a Christmas package exploded Wednesday as the union leader of 118,000 store workers unwrapped it in his office in lower Manhattan, police said. The blast severely injured Alvin Heaps, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, slightly injured a woman with him and wrecked his office. About 10 minutes later and a mile away, a gun went off in a telephone company office building and was first reported by police and the company to have been a small bomb. Later, it was called a discharge from a small-caliber gun that slightly injured a woman, but neither police nor the company said immediately whether it went off accidentally or was aimed. The two incidents apparently were not connected. Heaps and the woman were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where Heaps was reported in serious but stable condition after a team of doctors treated him for multiple trauma, cuts and a broken leg, according to Ralphie Goicoechea of the hospital's administration office. The woman, Pat Evans, editor of a union publication, was slightly injured in the shoulder and was expected to be released, the hospital spokeswoman said. The 6- by 2-inch pipe bomb, equivalent to two sticks of dynamite, went off around 12:30 p.m. as Heaps opened it on his desk or in his lap, according to Alice McGillion, a police department spokeswoman. The device was in an 8- by 11-inch package, Christmas-wrapped, that was delivered by messenger Tuesday but not opened then, she said. === Page 138 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Oregon Journal, December 5, 1981 (2) # Federal officers comb U.S. for Libyan 'hit squad' WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A "concerned" President Reagan is taking seriously reports that a Libyan-trained hit squad may have infiltrated the United States on a mission to kill him and other senior officials. Reagan disclosed Friday that he ordered protection for his top aides because of the threat to them from the hit squad reportedly in the country. "There's a threat to them," Reagan told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's been made very obvious." The state-run Libyan news agency, commenting Saturday on Reagan's remarks, accused the U.S. administration of telling lies. "The American allegations and the series of lies adopted in American foreign policy spring from hatred and fanaticism and reflect clearly the American terrorist policy against Libya," the agency said. Thursday, the White House said Secret Service protection was ordered for presidential counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. Such protection normally is not provided for presidential aides. Law enforcement officials confirmed they received word from an informant that five Libyan-trained terrorists have traveled to the United States on a mission to kill Reagan and other senior officials. The officials, who declined to be identified, emphasized that they have not yet confirmed there is such a team. CBS News said the informant was given a lie detector test and authorities "finally decided to believe him," including his warning of a hand-held missile attack on Air Force One or Reagan's helicopter. ABC News reported, "American intelligence officials have partially identified with names and pictures several of the suspected" Libyan hit men. It quoted sources as saying a nationwide search is under way for "at least three and possibly as many as six terrorists." In Chicago, FBI Director William Webster declined to comment specifically on the reports. "Whenever we have information that suggests danger to the president we take it seriously," he said before a speech to the Illinois Association of Judges. "We're taking appropriate steps." The New York Times said FBI and Secret Service agents have been sent around the country in the last few days to question Americans who have links to Libya. In another development, some of Reagan's top aides met with representatives of major news organizations and telephoned others Friday "to request restraint in reporting and televising specific security measures utilized in the protection of the president and others," the White House announced. Reagan, who has left the White House only once since returning Monday from California, said he was "obviously ... concerned" about threats attributed to Libya's radical leader, Col. Moammar Khadafy. UFOs 100X After ## Pole seeks asylum COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Polish ferry passenger stepped ashore in Denmark late Sunday night and immediately asked for political asylum. He told police he sailed home to Poland after a three-month stay in Denmark. On arrival at the Polish port of Swinoujscie he learned that a state of martial law had been imposed that day and got right back on the ferry, he said. None of the ferry passengers interviewed, Polish or Danish, had witnessed any military activity or public disorder before their departure from Poland. UFOs - "higher ups" ## Premier asks vote MONTREAL (AP) -- Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, locked in a policy dispute with hard-liners in his separatist Parti Quebecois, said Sunday he would ask for a vote of confidence from party rank-and-file in referendums in January and February. Levesque threatened to resign as party president, and possibly as premier, Dec. 6 at the conclusion of a party policy-making convention at which militants pushed through resolutions changing the party's strategy for achieving independence for the French-speaking Canadian province. orey 12/14/81 ## Sakharovs improve MOSCOW (AP) -- Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and his wife appeared weak and shrunken after a 17-day hunger strike in their Gorky exile, but they have eagerly started on the road to recovery, their daughter-in-law said Sunday. "They looked very weak and very pale," said the daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, who returned to Moscow Sunday morning after visiting the Nobel laureate and his wife, Yelena Bonner, in their hospital suite in Gorky. Miss Alexeyeva, 26, provided foreign reporters with fresh details of the strike, which ended last Wednesday after Soviet authorities said she would be allowed to emigrate to the United States. UFOs - "higher ups" ## Resolutions OK'd Daily Telegraph, London PEKING -- The National People's Congress closed its annual session Sunday after ritually rubber-stamping every resolution placed before it by the Communist Party while also calling for greater effort to control inflation and budget deficits. The official New China News Agency said the congress passed a resolution calling for "further steps next year to strengthen the control of finance, credit and prices." ## Begin to go home TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin's doctors will send him home Monday to continue recovering from the fractured thigh he suffered Nov. 26, Begin's spokesman said Sunday. The 68-year-old premier slipped and fell in his bathroom, breaking the femur where it joins the hip. ## Security increased VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Police stepped up security around offices of political parties Sunday as the ballots from Saturday's parliamentary elections were being collected for counting. === Page 139 of 278 the attack "higher ups" # Ghana militarists ask ousted leaders to give up By SUSAN LINNEE oreg 1/4/82 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new military rulers called on leaders of the ousted civilian government Sunday to turn themselves in. Ghanaian radio said demonstrators marched through the capital shouting support for last week's coup. Radio Accra broadcast an announcement by the Provisional National Defense Council, which has been running Ghana since the coup Thursday, giving former Vice President William de Graft Johnson and members of former President Hilla Limann's Cabinet until Monday afternoon to appear at local police stations. The announcement ordered senior civil servants to report to the Defense Ministry by Monday morning. The National Union of Ghanaian Students has called an emergency meeting Monday evening, the radio said. There was no mention of Limann himself, who was believed to have remained in the presidential residence after the coup. A later broadcast said 27 officials, including four former ministers and eight former deputy ministers, had responded to the call by Sunday night and reported to police stations. The radio also broadcast an announcement saying editors of Ghanaian newspapers, the general manager of the Ghana News Agency, programming heads of UFOs attack "higher ups" + Disorientation # Rehnquist medical troubles tied to use of sleeping drug By JIM MANN LA Times-Washington Post Service oreg 1/5/82 WASHINGTON -- It was the repeated use of a sleeping pill called Placidyl that caused the medical problems of Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, according to physicians familiar with his case. Rehnquist was apparently taking Placidyl, classified as an oral hypnotic, so that he could sleep with the lower back pains that, it was disclosed last week, he has suffered for some time. However, the drug also causes side effects such as the slurred speech Rehnquist sometimes exhibited on the Supreme Court bench last fall. After the justice was hospitalized Dec. 27, doctors cut the dosage of Placidyl he was receiving. Rehnquist then suffered brief but severe withdrawal symptoms, including some perceptual distortions and hallucinations, according to medical sources. dean for clinical medicine, said Monday that Rehnquist had not been addicted to the drug. Rather, O'Leary said, the drug had "established an inter-relationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction." O'Leary and other hospital officials had declined to name the drug involved in Rehnquist's case. Last week, O'Leary described the medication Rehnquist was taking as of the sort that relaxes muscles or relieves pain. At no time did O'Leary or other hospital officials mention the use of sleeping pills. But knowledgeable physicians told the Los Angeles Times Monday that the drug in question was Placidyl, a prescription medicine used to treat insomnia. Although the drug induces sleep, it is not categorized as a barbiturate. Asked about Placidyl Monday night, O'Leary said, "In accordance with the patient's wishes, I can neither confirm nor deny what the drug is." However, he said Placidyl "would include sleeping pills" in the category of "drugs that relax muscles" that he has been describing. Note: 12/21/81 the today show MS Court was "powerless" "Powerless" this week major storms knocked out power on the East Coast, West Coast & mid-West ("Powerless") === Page 140 of 278 # Dos attack "higher ups" # Casey once lobbied without registering as a foreign agent By PATRICK E. TYLER LA Times-Washington Post Service arg 1/7/82 WASHINGTON -- William J. Casey, as a private lawyer working for the Indonesian government, lobbied top officials of the Treasury Department in 1976 for multimillion-dollar changes in the U.S. tax law without registering as a foreign agent. Casey, now Central Intelligence Agency director, has contended in past Senate inquiries that he performed limited legal services and attended "informational meetings" with Internal Revenue Service officials. But government documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate that Casey was advocating specific changes in tax policy outside established channels with top political appointees of the Ford administration, including Treasury Secretary William E. Simon. The issue of whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent is under Justice Department review following last fall's Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry, which concluded Casey was not unfit to serve as director of the CIA. Stanley Sporkin, CIA general counsel, has maintained that Casey was not required to register as a foreign agent. Casey's representation of Indonesia, as documented by memoranda from the IRS and Treasury, is similar to the case of lawyers Clark M. Clifford and Paul Warnke, both former high government officials. They were required to register as foreign agents for Algeria in 1975 after Justice officials learned that the two had met in 1971 with U.S. government officials in an attempt to expedite Export-Import Bank loans to Algeria. In many instances, the Justice Department requires registration after the fact. In 1980, President Carter's brother Billy also was forced to register for his Libyan representation, which embarrassed the administration. A lawyer representing a client, including a foreign government, in an "established proceeding," such as an IRS tax ruling case, is not required to register as a foreign agent but is supposed to register if engaged in "political activity." The law defines that as any action intended to "persuade or in any other way influence any agency or official of the United States ... with reference to formulating, adopting or changing the domestic or foreign policies of the United States." Documents and interviews with former officials show that Casey met first with the treasury secretary and the assistant secretary for tax policy, a State Department official, and later with IRS officials, urging the IRS to put aside its objections to Indonesian production contracts with major American oil companies and claims for tax credits for overseas taxation. In 1978 the IRS came around to the position favored by Indonesia. July 8, 1976, Casey met with Simon and his assistant secretary for tax policy, Charles M. Walker, to enlist their aid. Walker followed the meeting by writing a July 9, 1976, memorandum to then IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander urging him to expedite new tax rulings. In an interview this week, Alexander said that Simon and Walker became involved in the foreign tax credit question. "I just thought the IRS ought to have called them the way we saw them without regard to political considerations." Both Simon and Walker said recently that they do not recall the meeting, but they do not dispute what the government documents show. Attorney General William French Smith, in the most recent policy statement on foreign agent registration, said in a report last fall that his department would require "complete public disclosure by persons acting for or in the interests of foreign principals where such activities are political in nature or border on the political." Casey's argument that he was not required to register as a foreign agent centers on the exemption for attorneys performing legal services in what the law calls an "established agency proceeding." # Ufos attack "higher ups" # Rhodes will quit House arg 1/23/82 PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) -- Former House Minority Leader John J. Rhodes, who says he prayed for the wisdom to know when to quit the congressional seat he has held for 30 years, won't be seeking re-election this year. The Arizona Republican broke the news Thursday at a press conference. "I have prayed constantly for the wisdom to do my job well -- and to leave the stage while the audience is asking for more," said Rhodes, who spent seven of his 30 years in Congress as House minority leader, the highest-ranking Republican post in the Democratic-controlled House. He left the leadership last year. "As I'm sure all of you now realize -- the bottom line of all this is that I will not be a candidate for re-election to the U.S. Congress." he said. In an interview after the 1980 election, Rhodes said he had seriously considered not running for his 15th term, but decided to go one more time. Party leaders had urged him to stay on until Arizona's congressional districts were realigned after the latest census. === Page 141 of 278 # Khomeini regime brands 3 'grand ayatollahs' as sinful By FERESHTEH EMAMI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Although Iran remains in the grip of Islamic fundamentalist clergymen, some of its foremost spiritual leaders have fallen out of favor with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government, according to information recently gathered in Beirut. Fundamentalists in authority have told the people of Iran that it is "haram" -- a sin against religion -- to follow the teachings of three of Iran's six "grand ayatollahs," say reports from Iran and Iranian quarters elsewhere. One of those classified as "haram" was identified in the reports as Kazem Shariatmadari, a longtime opponent of the monarchy deposed by Khomeini-inspired militants nearly three years ago. Shariatmadari, after a falling out with Khomeini, is reported under virtual house arrest in Qom, the Shiite-Moslem theological center 70 miles south of Tehran, the Iranian capital. His supporters are quoted as saying he is under constant surveillance by Khomeini loyalists and was recently refused a passport when he wanted to make a pilgrimage to Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Four years ago Shariatmadari's house was the gathering place for young theologians who wanted to replace the monarchy with an Islamic state. Shariatmadari and two other grand ayatollahs, Hassan Qomi and Abolqassem Khoi, are being ignored by the state-run news media as read and monitored here. The media used to attack them when they disagreed with the Khomeini fundamentalists over the clergy's increasingly dominant role in politics and the actions of the Islamic revolutionary courts, which have condemned thousands of people by stoning and by firing squad. Qomi, after criticizing Khomeini's revolutionary guardsmen in the northeastern city of Mashad, was literally defrocked and stripped to his underwear in the city's grand mosque last summer, according to Tehran newspaper accounts. Qomi remains in Mashad under constant surveillance, according to the Ayatollah Mehdi Rohani, who has lived in Paris for many years to minister to expatriate Iranians but keeps in touch with colleagues in Iran. # Ex-Chilean president dies following surgery SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Former President Eduardo Frei, a Christian Democrat who headed Chile's last centrist government, died Friday of complications following a hernia operation two months earlier. He was 71. Frei won the presidency in 1964 by defeating Marxist Salvador Allende in an election hailed in the United States as a victory for Western democracy. At the end of his six-year term, Frei was ineligible to run again and the voters turned to Allende in hopes he could solve Chile's mounting problems with prices, taxes and strikes. Allende was overthrown in 1973 in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. Political activity has been banned in Chile since Pinochet took power, but Frei remained head of the Christian Democrats and maintained the party apparatus. Frei's death was announced at the Santa Maria Clinic in Santiago by Roman Catholic Monsignor Miguel Ortega, a family friend who administered last rites to the former president Thursday. Ortega said Frei's wife Maria Ruiz Tagle and their six children were with the former president when he died. Pinochet's protocol chief was at the hospital as representative of the government, which declared three days of national mourning. Frei entered the clinic Nov. 18 for the hernia operation. He was released after the operation but was readmitted Dec. 6 when complications developed, including an infection. Doctors operated three more times but Frei continued to worsen, sinking into a coma Thursday morning. Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez announced a Mass for Frei Friday night in the Metropolitan Cathedral, where the former president was to lie in state. # Job odds: 45 to 1 Given the unemployment picture visible in all directions, it was shocking for President Reagan to claim in his news conference that 1 million more people are working than when he took office. With population increases, it might be possible for the number of jobs to rise while the percentage of unemployment also climbs. But by the government's own figures, the president was as wrong as the economic conditions all around him would indicate. In fact, while national unemployment reaches 9 percent, the figures show total workers holding jobs down half a million since he took office. Even without the governmental statistics, there was ready evidence that Reagan once more was making assertions that simply were false. Consider the phenomenon in Portland of more than 18,000 persons applying for 400 jobs with the U.S. Postal Service. It is commonplace for a job vacancy to bring about a sea of applications under present economic conditions. But the postal case is particularly dramatic by the sheer numbers, and all the more so when compared with past experiences. The 18,000 figure is indeed a record. But contrast it with the previous record of postal applicants of just one year ago, 3,500. Anytime there are 45 times as many job seekers as there were jobs listed as available, presidential claims of improvement in employment cannot be easily dismissed as the president misspeaking himself, as the White House said. === Page 142 of 278 WOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan strategist Nofziger makes witty exit By TERENCE HUNT oreg 1/23/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lyn Nofziger, Ronald Reagan's longtime pal, political strategist and resident punster, checked out of the White House Friday -- irreverent, ornery and linguistically ludicrous to the end. How about Reagan's botch-ups? "You think we've got botulism here?" Well, what about news leaks? "If we can't have leeks we'll have onions." Why is he jumping ship? "Just athletically inclined," he said. What's he going to miss most? "The bathroom in my office." It was vintage Nofziger as he presided over his first -- and last -- White House news briefing as head of the White House political office. As a scowl and a smile competed for place on his face, Nofziger said: "My relations with the media have, I think, improved immensely over the last year as I've seen less and less of them. My relations with the White House, I hope, will improve on that same basis in the next year." Nofziger left the White House to become a political consultant, writer and public speaker. Although he won't have any official ties with the White House, he still will have Reagan's ear. "The president has said he would like to see him on a regular basis," said Michael K. Deaver, Reagan's deputy chief of staff. "He's not going to occupy an office but he'll still be a part of all this." Per usual, Nofziger was wearing a Mickey Mouse tie, open several inches on his neck, and clutching a stubby cigar as he paid his farewell to the press corps, including many reporters who flew with him in 1980 when he was Reagan's chief campaign spokesman. Larry Speakes, White House deputy press secretary, introduced Nofziger as "the only member of the administration with enough guts to dress punk. He's the oldest living hippie in existence but a man who knows more about Ronald Reagan than any of us can ever hope to know." One reporter asked if there were too many Bushies -- loyalists of Vice President George Bush -- in the White House. Replied Nofziger: "I thought that was like in Busch beer, which is a Bavarian good (bah-very-in good) beer." Many groaned. A a few serious moments: -- On whether Reagan and his wife lead too extravagant a lifestyle, Nofziger said, "I don't believe so ... I think most Americans expect the president to lead a lifestyle that is commensurate with the job that he's got and I don't think any American wants the president to lead the same kind of life as a blue-collar worker or somebody earning $25,000 or $30,000 a year. I think most Americans want to look up to the president and they want him to lead a lifestyle that says, 'Hey, here an important man, here's the leader of our country.'" -- Asked if he expects Reagan to seek re-election, Nofziger recalled that he frequently has predicted the president would run for a second term. He said Reagan has never told him he would run again, but neither has he not told him to stop making that prediction. -- Budget director David Stockman's critical comments of the Reagan economic program had no lasting effect among voters, Nofziger said, but "it still remains to be seen if there was any lasting damage on Capitol Hill." -- He said conservatives who are unhappy with the administration's first year will be back in Reagan's fold once they see who the Democrats offer in the next presidential race. He said Reagan has not become "ideologically mellow or soft." -- Nofziger criticized the ABSCAM prosecution of politicians as entrapment. "I'm not in favor of that sort of thing," he said. -- Recalling his personal crusade to oust Democrats from the bureaucracy and replace them with conservatives, Nofziger said, "There are more people in this administration -- some holdovers and a few who are not holdovers -- that don't really agree with the president's philosophy that I would like to see in government." As might be expected from a man who teamed up with Reagan in 1966 for his first gubernatorial race and says he views the president as a "savior," Nofziger wasn't able to find much wrong with Reagan's first-year performance. He finally came up with "I think the president is too nice ... not tough enough on those who work for him." He surprised reporters by saying he wasn't opposed to news leaks. "I just want to leak my leaks, not your leaks," he said. "We've done a good job of leaking. I don't think we've done a good job of floating trial balloons on things we might want to do." LYN NOFZIGER === Page 143 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Junta ousts ailing president BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The military junta Friday removed ailing President Roberto E. Viola and named Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, the army commander and a junta member, to succeed him. The decision by the three-man junta, which has held power since a 1976 military coup, came eight months into what was to have been a three-year term for Viola, himself a former general and Galtieri's predecessor as army commander. In a communique, the junta said Galtieri, 55, would take office Dec. 22. It gave no reason for Viola's removal. Viola, 57, has been recuperating for a month from a heart problem. But press reports, quoting unidentified high military sources, said he resisted removal, offering to resign only if it were made explicit that he was leaving because of politics, not his health. The junta apparently found that condition unacceptable. Galtieri will retain his post as army commander, giving new weight to the presidency. He is to serve as chief of state until March 29, 1984 -- when Viola's term was to have ended. The other two members of the junta are the navy and air force commanders. The junta chose Adm. Carlos Lacoste, who had been social action minister, to be interior minister and interim president. Lacoste takes over the interim presidency from Gen. Horacio Liendo, Viola's interior minister, who resigned after the president's removal. Foreign Minister Oscar Camilion and Public Works Secretary Gen. Diego Urricariet also resigned. A bulletin from the junta's public information secretary said the junta invoked article two of the National Reorganization statute, which says: "The military junta is empowered, when for reasons of state it considers convenient, to remove the citizen acting as president of the nation, and designate his replacement." Viola took office March 29 after being picked by the junta last year to succeed Jorge R. Videla, who led the 1976 coup against President Isabel Peron, the widow of populist leader Juan Peron. Viola, who retired from the military in 1979, was hospitalized for a day Nov. 9 for what was described as high blood pressure. He was later diagnosed as suffering from a "coronary insufficiency." He has been resting at his suburban residence for the past four and a half weeks. Associated Press Laserphoto OUSTED -- Argentine President Roberto Viola (left) shakes hands in recent ceremony with Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, who has been named Viola's successor. The ailing president was removed Friday by the military junta. oreg 12/12/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Guess who's back Seattle PI 12/9/81 Now there's a name from the past: Maurice Stans. You remember Stans. He was finance chairman of CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect the President. In 1974, he went down with the rest of Richard Nixon's Watergate crew. Stans pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the reporting sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act and two counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions. He paid a $5,000 fine. President Reagan apparently remembers Stans fondly. He has nominated the former Nixon aide to the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that helps U.S. businesses invest in developing countries. Stans has the distinction of being the first person with a criminal record from the Watergate scandal to be named to a federal post. The Senate still has to confirm the appointment. The senators, we imagine, also recall the Watergate incident and Stans's role in it. They may wonder if Stans's record makes him the best choice to represent the United States in its business dealings abroad. === Page 144 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 # GOP chairman warned to 'keep mouth shut' By DONALD M. ROTHBERG oreg 12/8/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Party Chairman Richard Richards has been taken to the woodshed by White House aides unhappy with his recent predictions that President Reagan might not seek re-election and that Richard Allen and David Stockman will soon lose their jobs. Sources at the White House and GOP headquarters denied that Richards is on his way out as Republican national chairman. "He's on his way to keeping his mouth shut," said a White House source who asked not to be identified. William Greener III, communications director for the Republican National Committee, acknowledged Monday that since his comments a week ago, Richards has had several discussions with White House aides. "They were full, and they were frank," he said. Greener refused to discuss the substance of the conversations or identify the people, but he said the aides were "less than pleased" by Richards' predictions to a closed meeting of Republican contributors in Cincinnati. "There is absolutely no foundation to the idea that the chairman will be moving," said Greener. Richards thought no one but the people who paid $5,000-a-couple last Monday were listening when he said, "I don't think Mr. Allen will be back" as national security adviser. Allen has taken a leave during an investigation of his receipt of $1,000 from representatives of a Japanese women's magazine for arranging an interview with the first lady. Richards was unaware that a reporter from the Cincinnati Enquirer was outside the room listening to the remarks. An account of the speech was on page one of the newspaper the next morning. In the same speech, Richards predicted that Budget Director Stockman would be forced by his credibility problem with Congress to submit a second resignation. "Next time, the president will accept it," Richards was quoted as saying. Stockman's private criticism of Reagan's economic plan was published in a recent magazine article. Stockman offered his resignation, but Reagan rejected it in a meeting Stockman later described as a visit to the woodshed. During a question and answer period, Richards was asked if he thought Reagan will seek re-election in 1984. He replied: "I think if his health is good and if there's no further threat on his life, he'll run again. If there is another attempt on his life, I think Nancy would put her foot down as say, 'That's it.'" Reagan was wounded March 30 in an assassination attempt. When asked last June about Reagan's plans, Richards said, "I'm operating on the assumption that he'll run again and that he'll win." In the aftermath of the Cincinnati speech, Richards' office issued a statement acknowledging the accuracy of the quotes, although claiming the chairman was quoted "out of context." As for his predictions about Allen and Stockman, the statement said Richards' comments should not be taken as a recommendation that the pair be ousted or "as a suggestion as to how the White House will decide" to handle their cases. "With regard to President Reagan seeking re-election, there is no doubt he will do so," the statement added. Greener said Richards intends to "continue to speak out on the issues," but he acknowledged that "the issues" will not be White House personnel matters or the president's political plans. UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 # Reagans may skip services WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Nancy Reagan said Monday that recently tightened security precautions may prevent her and President Reagan from attending church on Christmas. Mrs. Reagan, leading reporters on a tour of the White House state floor to show its holiday decorations, said she hopes for a "safe Christmas." She said she didn't know if she and the president will go to church on Christmas. She explained, "It's very difficult to go to church because you feel self-conscious about being X-rayed and so on," an apparent reference to metal detectors. "It's an imposition" on other church-goers, she said. The Reagans haven't gone to church for months. Govt (Jan. 22, 1982 blocks book ie no future me so SI a block future on all top govt + anyone who's contributed to anti - R < M oreg 12/8/81 === Page 145 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Ghana's junta clamps down By SUSAN LINNEE Org 1/3/81 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new rulers, who seized power by force, Saturday dismissed Parliament, suspended the constitution and banned political parties. "The time has come for us to restructure this society in a real and meaningful democratic manner," former air force Lt. Jerry G. Rawlings said in a five-minute speech on Accra Radio from the capital. "Let us not allow external or internal enemies to confuse us to fight over which labels we should wear." He said President Hilla Limann, his ministers and all Parliament deputies were dismissed. Rawlings lashed out at the "greed and corruption" of politicians and bureaucrats, saying they "have turned our hospitals into graveyards and clinics into death transit camps" because of lack of medicine and supplies. Black market dealings and a flourishing black market at Ghana's ports have created shortages of such basics as alcohol, iodine and gauze. Earlier radio broadcasts in the West African nation said three members of Limann's People's National Party were arrested for spreading false information. But the radio said their names were being withheld for unspecified "security reasons." There was no immediate indication of the fate of the president and his civilian government chiefs, who Rawlings on Thursday said were deposed by the "Provisional National Defense Council." Rawlings, a self-proclaimed apolitical moralist, said in his radio speech Saturday: "We are not aligned and have no intention of joining any power bloc." He promised the business community would not suffer if it cooperated with the new PNDC. Earlier broadcasts said a dozen Ghanian business and financial leaders and academicians were asked to report to the Defense Ministry for "a very important meeting to help save the suffering masses." It was seen by some observers as an indication Rawlings sought their help in forming a new government. Rawlings, who had handed over his coup-won power to Limann two years ago, has accused the president of failing to rout the government of corruption, being repressive and allowing the economy to crash. A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew is in effect nationwide. Radio Accra said medical workers and employees in essential services are exempted but must have identification papers ready. Drivers on the streets after 6 p.m. will have their car keys confiscated, the radio has warned. A broadcast Saturday said sirens on government building rooftops would wail and church bells would peal for 15 minutes each evening and morning to signal the start and close of the curfew. "The navy will also assist in the blowing of the sirens of the gunboats at Tema and Takoradi," other port cities on the Atlantic coast, the radio said. There was no further mention of looting by soldiers, reported in Friday's broadcasts. The radio said soldiers or police found looting or committing "barbarous acts" would be subject to "unprecedented revolutionary action." Communications with Ghana have been interrupted, borders sealed and the international airport shut down since the coup, the fifth since Ghana became the first African country to gain independence from a colonial ruler. It will mark its 25th anniversary of independence from Britain in March. Plans for an extravagant jubilee were criticized by Ghanians who said the financially strapped country could ill afford it. Rawlings, 34, became head of the ruling Armed Force Revolutionary Council that took power in June 1979 from Gen. Frederick Akuffo. Akuffo and a half dozen military men who shared power with him were executed for corruption. === Page 146 of 278 - UFO attack "Higher ups" - # Democrats' dispute panel's vote of confidence in Casey By JUDITH MILLER New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a final report Wednesday concluding that William J. Casey was not "unfit" to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but several Democrats expressed a lack of confidence in Casey's candor with the committee. Sens. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., and Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., dissented from the committee's conclusion that a review of the facts during the four-month examination had produced "no basis for concluding that Mr. Casey is unfit to hold office as director of central intelligence." The six-page, single-spaced report asserted that Casey had been "at minimum inattentive to detail" in complying with government financial disclosure requirements. The report noted, for example, that the 68-year-old intelligence chief had failed to report last January to the Senate panel: "nine investments valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars, personal debts and contingent liabilities of nearly five hundred thousand dollars, a number of corporations or foundations on whose board Mr. Casey served, four civil law suits, and more than seventy clients he had represented in private practice in the last five years." Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., acting chairman of the committee, said the issue of whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent while representing the government of Indonesia in 1976 was "unresolved," and that it would be referred to the Justice Department for possible further study. In addition to omitting Indonesia from his financial disclosure form, filed with the committee Jan. 2, 1981, Casey also failed to disclose among his former foreign clients Pertamina of Indonesia, an oil company controlled by the Indonesian government, and the Republic of Korea. "The committee is concerned that this pattern suggests an insufficient appreciation of the obligation to provide complete and accurate information to the oversight committees of the Congress," the report states. The document also disclosed that Casey has been audited by the Internal Revenue Service for the last five tax years, and that he is undergoing an audit on his 1977 personal tax returns. In addition, the committee learned that the IRS was conducting an audit of a limited partnership that Casey helped structure, the report states. Committee officials declined to identify the partnership, but an IRS field agent told the panel that the audit was "a routine examination" still in a "preliminary stage." Casey informed the panel that his 1976 tax return had also been audited; he had received a refund, the report noted. The committee also reviewed the transcript of a 1974 trial in the New York Southern District in which former Attorney General John Mitchell was a defendant. "Discrepancies were found," states the report, asserting that differences in testimony among witnesses in such cases were common. "No major discrepancies were found which would indicate that Mr. Casey committed perjury," the report adds. Casey has also been the subject of an inquiry into possible campaign law violations stemming from his chairmanship of the Reagan-Bush Campaign Committee. The report states that a Federal Election Commission report on the allegations would be made public "pending the outcome of litigation." The committee's investigation began last July after Max C. Hugel, who was appointed by Casey as head of the agency's clandestine operations, was forced to resign. org 12/3/81 === Page 147 of 278 Bermuda appointment set - "UFOs attack" higher ups - # Reagan legislative aide resigns By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- Max L. Friedersdorf resigned Thursday as assistant to the president for legislative affairs, becoming the first member of President Reagan's senior staff to leave the White House for another job. The White House announced simultaneously that Friedersdorf would be appointed consul general to Bermuda, a post that usually goes to career Foreign Service employees rather than to political appointees. Aides to Republican congressional leaders, who asked not to be named, said White House officials immediately began suggesting that Kenneth M. Duberstein, one of Friedersdorf's deputies, would be appointed to succeed him. David R. Gergen, the senior White House spokesman, said he was 99 percent certain Friedersdorf was not stepping aside for political reasons. "To the best of my knowledge, that is not the case," Gergen said. Noting that Friedersdorf has served a total of seven years as a congressional liaison in the Reagan, Ford and Nixon administrations, Gergen said Friedersdorf, 52, felt it was the right time in his life to start a second career. Members of Congress and White House officials have given Friedersdorf generally high marks for his work as the White House director of congressional relations at a time when Reagan won passage of key economic legislation and Senate approval of the sale of AWACS airplanes to Saudi Arabia. However, Friedersdorf operated much of the time in the shadow of James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff. Through the legislative strategy group operated by his deputy, Richard G. Darman, Baker has been the main architect of the White House's legislative plan. Friedersdorf was regarded by other White House aides as a good political technician who, with his deputies, Duberstein and Powell Moore, ran an effective liaison office. Friedersdorf's resignation is effective Jan. 2. In his letter to the president, he wrote, "Under your leadership, the nation has embarked on a course leading again to full economic health, and I consider the passage of your economic recovery program to be a milestone in the course you have charted for the United States." In an answering letter, Reagan said he accepted the resignation "with deep regret." "Your energy, ability and dedication have played a key role in translating our economic recovery program into legislative reality," the president wrote. Praising Friedersdorf for an "excellent job," Reagan added, "We have been through historic times together." A State Department spokesman, Alan D. Romberg, said that usually, but not in all cases, consuls general are career Foreign Service officers. Friedersdorf is to be given what is called a "limited appointment" in the senior Foreign Service. The usual term of such appointments, which come from the secretary of state rather than the president, is for three years. State Department officials, speaking on the condition that they not be identified, said career officers were generally upset when appointments below the level of ambassador were made for political reasons to non-career employees. oreg 12/4/81 === Page 148 of 278 - UFO , attacks"higher w/2"- Criticism upsets protocol chief By LYNN ROSELLINI org 12/11/8, New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - Leonore A. nenberg had planned to leave town quietly. She wanted to spend more time with her husband, she told her friend Nancy Reagan, and so she intended to resign as U.S. chief of protocol. 20 Although she had said just a few days earlier that she was too busy to schedule an interview, Mrs. An- nenberg suddenly summoned a reporter to her State Department office last week. She said she had been disturbed by reports in a variety of publications quot- ing White House sources criticizing her performance in the job she has held for the last 11 months. "I want to show you all the letters from ambassadors compli- menting me on my job," Mrs. Annenberg said, bending over a stack of papers in her office. "This is from the Dutch foreign minister," she said, straightening up with a letter in her hand. "Here's the prime minister of Thailand," she con- tinued. "Here's a great one! It's from Germany. God! I have so many!" Mrs. Annenberg maintained that she wanted to spend more time with her husband, Walter H. Annen- berg, the publisher and former ambassador to Britain. Clearly wounded by the reports, Mrs. Annenberg said she didn't understand why people at the White House were saying nasty things about her. "I think it's very unfair to have all these things. going on about me that are untrue," she said. "I thought we all got along very well." Mrs. Annenberg, a close friend of President and Mrs. Reagan, has moved comfortably among heads of state, captains of industry and legendary Hollywood figures for most of her life. It came as no surprise, then, when the president appointed her to the $50,000-a-year position of chief of protocol, the first job she ever held. Yet, from the beginning, Mrs. Annenberg was unorthodox. She received extensive news coverage last spring when she was photographed curtsying to e Charles on his visit to the United States ished Washington diplomats by invit ners, at her own expense, at the mansion, Blair House, "I did it all very quick higherwe have mentioned it, b and ability were fore In addition ti ing foreign dignit. range of responsib. for presidential trip for important foreign Solon's neck hurts ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Sen. Paula .. Hawkins complained of a stiff neck Wednesday, but initial tests showed no signs of neurological damage after she was struck on the head by a 40-pound backdrop at a television studio .. "The 6-foot-high partition toppled on Mrs. Hawkins Tuesday night, while the 53-year-old Republican was taping a show called "Real Estate Action Line" at a Winter Park TV station. Mrs. Hawkins, Florida's junior sena- tor, was listed in fair condition Wednes- day at the Orlando Regional Medical Center. "Her neurological signs remain clear," said her physician, Dr. Ed Far- - He said Mrs. Hawkins had a stiff Cocause of an irritation to the m. dag1/7/82 Arrangements for the trip to Egypt by the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of President Sadat would normally have been made by Mrs. Annenberg's office. But instead, they were abruptly taken over by the office of Joseph W. Canzeri, who handles White House scheduling and presidential travel. UFO attack "higher wps" Disorientation Rehnquist illness has been noticed WASHINGTON (UPI) - The health problems of Justice William Rehnquist, who has been hospitalized since Sunday, have been obvious to regular observers of the Supreme Court for three months. But me story went unreported unur umus week because it was not known precisely why Rehnquist was slurring his words and having great arnicuity speaking while questioning attorneys during oral arguments be- · fore the bench. Rehnquist, 57, suffering from back pain, entered George Washing- ton University Hospital Sunday, a fact Mot reported until Thursday. On Wednesday, he suffered an adverse reaction to a drug he was taking for a chronic back problem. Embarrassing pauses He was listed in good condition and is expected to be released to- morrow or Monday. Since the court began its 1981-82 term in October, Rehnquist, the court's most conservative member and perhaps its most active in ques- tioning lawyers during debates exper jenced increasing difficulty in getting out his comments. Besides frequent slurring. Rehn- Smithe PT quist's questions were broken up by lengthy, often embarrassing pauses as he struggled to form his words Rehnquist's speech was sometimes so distorted that attorneys arguing before the court occasionally were forced to ask him to repeat his ques- tions. This further increased the ten- sion that is always present in the huge, marble-columned courtroom whenever a major case is being ar- gued. The circumstances became so awkward that other justices some- times jumped in to complete ques- tions for Rehnquist. In addition, he frequently was seen leaving the bench during breaks between arguments, and often sat in awkward positions, apparently from back discomfort. The situation was all the more apparent because Rehnquist is considered to have one of the quick- est and sharpest minds of the nine. justices on the nation's highest tribu- nai. Dr. Dennis O'Leary, the hospital's dean of clinical affairs, acknowledged that the speech problem was related to the drug Rehnquist was taking to ease back pain. He declined to identi- fy the drug. 1/2/82. - IFOsattack "higher up"- Rehnquist improving LA Times-Washington Post Service Greg 1/2/82 WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Associate Jus- tice William H. Rehnquist remained in George Wash- ington University Hospital Friday following an ad- verse reaction to a drug prescribed for a chronic back condition. But hospital officials said he is listed in "good" condition and may go home as early as Sunday or Monday. Rehnquist, 57, was admitted to the hospital a week ago and Wednesday suffered a drug reaction that caused"disturbances in mental clarity" and distorted his perceptions of reality for a short time. according to === Page 149 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Seattle P.I. 1/2/82 # Donovan met with a labor racketeer NEW YORK (AP) -- Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan met with a labor racketeer later convicted of extortion, and that meeting was instrumental in settling a 1978 strike against a New York City newspaper in which Donovan had an interest, its former publisher confirmed yesterday. Leonard Saffir disclosed that Donovan and his Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J., had invested $370,000 in The Trib, which folded for lack of funds three months after its founding. The strike was called off after a meeting between Donovan and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union president Douglas LaChance at the bar of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, according to a story in yesterday's New York Daily News. Saffir confirmed there was such a meeting. ### Delivers struck "I don't know anything about what took place at the meeting between Donovan and LaChance," Saffir said, "but it was at the Algonquin bar "We published our first edition on Jan. 9 of 250,000 copies and were sold out. On Jan. 10 we printed 265,000 copies but were able to deliver only about 60,000 with our own equipment because the deliverers struck. "That night Donovan and LaChance met. The next day the drivers went back to work." Donovan could not be reached for comment by telephone at his home yesterday. The Daily News said, "Donovan's dealings in that dispute may become part of the investigation by special prosecutor Leon Silverman, appointed to probe labor peace involving another union in subway construction here." ### Extortion case Donovan requested the action by a special prosecutor after denying allegations involving the subway construction. LaChance is serving a 12-year prison term for extorting more than $300,000 in illegal labor payoffs. He was convicted of racketeering and extortion in 1980. Saffir, now publisher of the Bridgehampton Sun on Long Island, said he had no knowledge or belief of any wrongdoing on Donovan's part in the deliverers' strike. He said that as one of 16 stockholders, Donovan had a legitimate interest in getting The Trib into circulation. Saffir has never publicly listed all the stockholders in The Trib, which cost an estimated $4 million. Previously named were Raymond Learsy, a New York businessman, and Colorado brewery executive Joseph Coors. UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" # U.S. warns Libya to drop plot Seattle P.I. 12/9/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration has warned Libya through a third country to drop a purported plot to kill top U.S. officials, it was learned last night. An authoritative source said the administration's message spelled out at least some of the evidence which President Reagan said the United States has obtained about the alleged plot. It also contained a warning of what would happen if Libya followed through with such a plan, the source said. The source, who refused to be identified, did not spell out further details of the message or disclose which country the United States used as an intermediary. Word of the warn- See U.S. WARNS, Page A-11 ALLEN D.C. CAB DC-1981 "Sayonara" oreg 1/7/82 === Page 150 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan, Allen to meet after probe completed By JAMES GERSTENZANG WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House investigation of Richard V. Allen could be finished as early as Monday, leading to a meeting later this week between the president and the national security adviser who White House officials say will be replaced by William P. Clark. As President Reagan returns Monday to the White House after a week-long vacation in California, one of his top priorities will be clearing up the Allen issue and overhauling the White House foreign policy operation. Deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said aboard Air Force One as Reagan flew home that the meeting between the president and Allen likely would be held Tuesday or later. As of Sunday evening, there were no formal appointments on the president's Monday schedule. Speakes said Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, had received from Allen a request to meet with the president, but that Reagan had not spoken with his national security adviser. The spokesman said Meese told Allen no decisions on his future in the post would be made until the internal White House investigation is completed. Allen, Reagan's national security assistant since the administration took office, has been on administrative leave with pay since Nov. 29 while the Justice Department investigated the circumstances surrounding $1,000 found in a safe in an office once used by Allen. Allen has said the money was given by representatives of a Japanese magazine who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan last Jan. 21. The Justice Department announced Dec. 23 that it had cleared Allen of any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, there were strong signals that Reagan's top advisers would like Allen to resign, thus saving the president the trouble of firing him. Those signals followed comments by one top Reagan aide that if Allen is ousted or leaves voluntarily, the unanimous choice of Reagan's inner circle for a successor would be Clark, the deputy secretary of state and one of the most senior members of Reagan's inner circle of political friends from California. One top official, who declined to be named, said if Allen resigned and was cleared by the investigation being conducted by deputy White House counsel Richard Hauser, he knew of no reason why Allen wouldn't be given another job in the administration. But the official said there had been no formal discussion of the idea at the upper levels of the White House. Other officials said as of late Saturday, Reagan had not yet decided to replace Allen. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Bomb hurts scientist DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- A police scientist whose testimony helped convict an IRA guerrilla in the 1979 bombing murder of Britain's Lord Mountbatten was seriously injured in a car-bomb explosion Wednesday. A government spokesman said forensic scientist Dr. James Donovan was driving home from Dublin police headquarters when a bomb exploded under the hood of his car, causing severe injuries to his left foot. # Ghana VP gives up ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's former vice president turned himself in to police Wednesday, and the week-old military regime that toppled the civilian government announced more details of its plans to change Ghanaian society. Accra radio, monitored in Abidjan, said William de Graft Johnson reported to police. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1982 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Casey evidence withheld By PATRICK E. TYLER LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee has declined so far to provide the Justice Department with hundreds of pages of documents and testimony gathered in the committee's investigation of Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey last fall. Officials said Thursday that Senate rules prevented such disclosure without a vote of the committee or perhaps the full chamber. The documents include Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service memoranda that show Casey in 1976 lobbied top Treasury officials on behalf of Indonesia to win multimillion-dollar changes in IRS foreign tax credit rulings. The Intelligence Committee last month asked the Justice Department to determine whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent for Indonesia. Justice Department officials requested the documentary record of the three-month Senate investigation just before the Dec. 16 recess, but the request was not presented to the senators. A spokesman for the Justice Department, Thomas DeCair, said its review of the Casey matter was going forward without the committee's material. Earlier this week, another Justice Department official said none of the basic documents had been obtained or examined. WILLIAM J. CASEY principals. A spokesman for Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., the committee's acting chairman, said Thursday that "Sen. Moynihan would have no objection to providing the Justice Department with the evidence gathered by the Select Committee on Intelligence, but of course that is not a decision he can make unilaterally." An aide to Moynihan, Michael D. McCurry, said the documents were being withheld under a Senate rule that says, "No ... paper presented to the Senate ... shall be withdrawn from its files except by the order of the Senate." McCurry said the committee members probably would not take up the matter until after they return Jan. 25. Committee spokesman Spencer Davis said that "almost all" of the documents gathered during the committee's investigation were obtained from the files of the Treasury Department and the IRS. He said Justice Department officials have been advised to request their own copies of the records from those departments. "It's just part of the general caution of the Senate in turning anything over to the executive branch," Davis said. Senate staff members said that in addition to the Treasury and IRS documents, the Intelligence Committee took testimony from a number of witnesses. Also, a 100-page report on Casey's Indonesian activities and other business dealings was compiled by one of the committee's special counsels, but the senators declined to make it public. The Washington Post described Casey's lobbying activity Thursday in an article based on many of the documents, which showed that he was advocating specific changes in tax policy outside established channels with top political appointees of the Ford administration, including Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and Deputy Secretary George Dixon. === Page 151 of 278 UFO attack "higher up" # Terrorists say Dozier faces 'proletarian justice' By CLARA HEMPHILL 12/19/81 VERONA, Italy (AP) -- The Red Brigades, Italy's most-feared terrorists, said Friday that they were holding a kidnapped senior American NATO officer at a "people's prison" where he would face "proletarian justice." The Red Brigades -- who killed former Italian Premier Aldo Moro -- claimed they organized the kidnapping. Four people posing as plumbers entered the apartment of Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier Thursday night and abducted the top-ranking American Army officer of the Allied Land Forces in Southern Europe. No immediate demands were made. In Washington, President Reagan called Dozier's captors "cowardly bums" and said the United States was doing everything it could to secure his release. "They aren't heroes, or they don't have a cause that justifies what they're doing," the president said. A NATO spokesman said it was the first kidnapping of an American military officer in Europe since World War II. Police searched houses in Verona and Milan for the kidnappers' hideout and set up roadblocks. But they said the terrorists had a three-hour head start before the crime was reported and could have fled far from this medieval walled town in northern Italy before police began to search. Police found a blue Fiat van parked several hundred yards from Dozier's house and said they believed it was used by the kidnappers. A check showed that the van had been rented Dec. 9 in Milan, and police were looking for the young man who left a deposit for it. They said he used a forged driver's license as identification. Police sources said later that the four kidnappers used walkie-talkies to coordinate the operation with accomplices outside and that one of the people outside was a woman. The general's wife, Judith Dozier, who was left gagged and bound by the kidnappers until neighbors heard her muffled cries for help, was resting at NATO headquarters. She called for prayers for her husband and "all those in the world who are in the same situation." President Sandro Pertini sent a telegram to Reagan and consulted by telephone with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb. In Washington, the Defense Department said it sent a six-member team to Rome to serve as liaison with Italian authorities investigating the kidnapping. Sources close to the Italian president said Pertini thought the abduction tended to confirm his frequently expressed belief that Italian terrorism had its roots abroad -- possibly in the Eastern bloc. In the past, the Red Brigades' kidnappings and murders have appeared aimed at domestic politics more than foreign affairs. In 1978, the Brigades seized Moro, the five-time former premier and president of the ruling Christian Democrats. Fifty days later, his bullet-riddled body was found in downtown Rome. Pertini and others have accused the urban guerrillas of seeking to destabilize Italy and thus weaken the West. Early Friday afternoon, the Verona office of the Italian news agency ANSA received a telephone call from a man who said: "The Red Brigades here, Anna Maria Ludman Cecilia column. We claim responsibility for the kidnapping of the hangman of NATO, James Dozier, that took place last night. . . He is closed in a people's prison and will be tried by proletarian justice." That column is the group's Venice division and is named for a terrorist killed in a shoot-out with police in Genoa two years ago. Related story on Page A4. === Page 152 of 278 +(2) Oregon Journal, Monday, Jan. 4, 1982 10 UFOs attack "higher ups" ...ER...I WILL BE RETURNING... WON'T I?..... BON VOYAGE, DICK UFOs attack "higher ups" Scientist succumbs DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Dr. Philip Handler, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, died Tuesday in a Boston hospital at age 63. A spokesman for New England Deaconess Hospital said Handler died after a long illness. Handler, who lived in Durham, was on academic leave from Duke University at the time of his death. Handler retired last June after serving two six-year terms with the academy. In October, he received from President Reagan one of the highest distinctions the federal government offers for scientific excellence, the National Medal of Science. Handler also served as chairman of the department of biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center for 19 years. He joined the Duke faculty in 1939 after he received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. oreg 12/30/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 ...AN' I WANNA NEW NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, AN' I WANNA NEW BUDGET DIRECTOR, AN' I WANNA NEW BEGINNING, AN' I WANNA NEW TABLECLOTH FOR NANCY, AN' I WANNA... UFOs attack "higher ups" U.S. judge faces bribe charge MIAMI (UPI) -- Federal judge Alcee L. Hastings and a well-known Washington lawyer were indicted on charges of conspiring to take a bribe in exchange for reducing the sentences of two racketeers. Hastings and longtime friend William A. Borders Jr. were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the United States government and obstruction of justice. Borders also was charged with crossing state lines to commit bribery. Hastings, 45, a former candidate for the Senate, was appointed to the federal bench by President Jimmy Carter. Hastings was the first black to assume a federal judgeship in south Florida. oreg 12/30/81 === Page 153 of 278 10 UFO, attack "higher ups."- Oregon Journal, December 10, 1981 (2) Kidney ailment sidelines AuCoin By JAMES FLANIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Rep Les AuCoin is "confined to his home with a virus he con- tracted three weeks ago. The 39-year-old Oregon Democrat was told by his physician that he might suffer permanent kidney damage if he doesn't contine his activities and rest, press spokesman John Atkins said. Atkins said that the four-term con- gressman is undergoing daily urinalysis to determine if his kidney function is im- proved. "We're hoping in another few days that he will have this beat," Atkins said. "Les says he knows what he has is serious, but he is confident he is making progress and will lick it soon." Atkins reported that AuCoin's physi- cian says the legislator is suffering from acute gloneruolnephritis, which is a kid- ney dysfunction. AuCoin, who faces a re-election cam- paign next year as do all other members of the House, became ill just prior to Thanksgiving as legislators here were de- bating an extension of the continuing res- olution to fund government operations. During that weekend, the continuing resolution was drafted, then vetoed by President Reagan and redrafted so gov- ernment could continue to operate, Au- Coin spent one night "camping" in the House cloakroom. AuCoin slept on a cot in the cloakroom just off the House floor between votes on amendments to the stopgap funding measure. AuCoin, who represents Oregon's First Congressional District which includes a large suburban area of Portland and sec- tions of the Oregon Coast, first consulted · · House physician who determined he was suffering from influenza. Members of Congress are provided medical care and health insurance bene- fits. There is an attending physician in the Capitol. Federal legislators also can take advantage of a complete medical laborato- ry, pharmacy and other services. Care also is available at Walter Reed Army and Bethesda Navy hospitals. The week after the pre-Thanksgiving continuing resolution vote, while Con- gress was in holiday recess, AuCoin re- mained at home and tests showed im- provement in his body chemistry, Atkins said. Returning to work the following week, AuCoin put in several seven- or eight-hour days. Medical tests then indicated a re- lapse in his kidney function, Atkins said. Atkins said he and several other mem- bers of AuCoin's staff also suffered from the same virus strain, but their cases were less severe. After a weekend of rest, At- kins said he felt fine again. AuCoin's two children, his daughter, Stacy, 15, and his son, Kelly, 14, also missed several days of school because of the virus, but are recovered. The con- gressman's wife, Sue, managed to avoid it. Atkins said that Bob Crane, the con- gressman's administrative assistant, visits AuCoin daily at AuCoin's home in the Cleveland Park section of Washington. Crane "is taking him high priority materi- als and decisions" so he can remain in touch with legislative matters, the press aide said. AuCoin is signing off on legislative bills, tracking co-sponsored measures and following amendments from his home, At- . kins said. Because of his illness, AuCoin has missed all roll call votes since Congress returned from Thanksgiving recess. i ever, Atkins said his staff is using legislative technique of pairing him wit. representatives who are voting the other way on an issue to reflect how he would have stood if his vote were recorded. AuCoin, who is listed on official leave because of his illness, hoped to be "paired" Wednesday as voting "no" on the administration's proposed waiver of laws to expedite the initial construction and operation of the Alaska natural gas pipeline. Meantime, his staff is circulating a "dear colleague" letter offering an amend- ment to the foreign assistance appropria- tions bill to increase the lending authority for the Export-Import Bank to $4.4 billion to stimulate the country's competition in international markets. Because of his condition, AuCoin also has cancelled two district trips. UFO sattack " higher where"- Plot uncovered to kill Habib ong By United Press International 12/4/8, Libyan gunmen planned to assassinate U.S. presiden- tial envoy Philip Habib during his current Middle East tour, Lebanese security sources said Friday. Habib unexpectedly went to Israel Friday as part of his visit to Middle East countries. "Lebanese security forces have uncovered a plot to assassinate Philip Habib. The report was immediately revealed to concerned U.S. and Lebanese authorities to provide maximum security for Habib during his stops in Beirut," one source said. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut had no comment on the reported plot. During Habib's stay in Lebanon, American and Leba- nese officials withheld details of his schedule as an extra security precaution. U.S. Embassy officials refused even to say whether Habib was in the country. New barricades were set up at night around the al- ready fortresslike embassy the day before Habib's arriv- al. Habib spent most of Sunday and Monday in Beirut before continuing on to Damascus and Amman. In Jerusalem and Washington, a joint U.S .- Israeli state- ment was issued Thursday that paves the way for Brit- ain, France, Italy and Holland to participate in a Sinai peacekeeping force to be created before Israel hands back the final portion of the desert to Egypt in April. In the northern Sinai, Israeli settlers burned buildings and barricaded themselves into the beachside resort vil- lage of Yamit to protest what they called inadequate government offers of compensation for the evacuation of their homes next year as part of the Sinai pullout. Habib, whose itinerary is kept secret for security reasons, had been expected to go to Saudi Arabia from Amman where he met with King Hussein. Instead, he crossed over the Jordan River on the Allen- by Bridge to Israel where he went directly to Jerusalem for a meeting with Forcion Mi === Page 154 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # jack anderson oreg J 12/11/81 # False stories in files WASHINGTON -- Apparently no one in Washington is safe from the vicious accusations that keep seeping out of the FBI's raw files. The subterranean traffic in tittle-tattle, most of it as false as it is scurrilous, has besmirched some of Washington's biggest reputations. The victims include such dignitaries as Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Speaker Tip O'Neill, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., ex-Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., Sen. Pat Moynihan, D-N.Y., Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., and House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., to name a few. Most of the ugly, unfounded accusations can be traced to the infamous Abscam tapes, which were kept by undercover agents who tried to coax members of Congress into committing crimes. The tapes contain hundreds of hours of sordid dialogue, implicating prominent politicians in shabby conspiracies. But at the end of the Abscam investigation, after the exhilaration of the publicity and the trials was over, came the ruination of several lives, including those of innocent people. "Washington can be a cruel city," a subdued Alexander Haig told me after reading an FBI transcript about himself. The transcript, reviewed by my associate Indy Badhwar, contains salacious statements that have been investigated and have been found untrue, the FBI informed the State Department. Still the document has been passed around the backrooms of Washington like a forbidden copy of a pornographic manuscript. Haig's accuser was Alfred Carpentier, an East Meadow, N.Y., businessman, who has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with the Abscam operation. While the secret FBI tapes picked up every word, he told of an alleged argument with Haig over a Haig acquaintance -- a man with underworld connections who was also an alleged homosexual. Although the Abscam operatives agreed that Carpentier had a loose and vicious tongue, they not only leaked his foul-mouthings about Haig but offered for the public record his tape-recorded accusations against Sen. D'Amato. Carpentier told FBI undercover agents that he had been paying off politicians. "No big numbers," he said, "Five to ten grand ... D'Amato may look to shake you down for a little more. The guy is definitely taking contributions. He's on the judge hastened to emphasize that there was "absolutely no proof" of any wrongdoing by the maligned senator. In another Abscam transcript available in the backrooms, convicted ex-Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., is quoted as boasting that he could "get anything done for a price." He "guaranteed" he could deliver Speaker O'Neill for $120,000 and suggested "maybe" he could also get Sen. Kennedy to do his bidding. At one point, the Abscam sleuths proposed bribing Kennedy with $250,000. Still another transcript describes an elaborate plot to funnel money "to 10 or 12 congressmen" through a Republican campaign committee. This was proposed by William Rosenberg, a shady politico, who promised that "when a favor is needed, at that time a congressman would assist." Rosenberg suggested that the respected former Sen. Javits, a devout Jew, would be available to help the FBI's phony Arab sheik. Asked what Javits wanted for his cooperation, Rosenberg said: "He wants to buy a condominium down in Palm Beach." In the tapes, Rodino is portrayed as "controlled by the New Jersey mob" and "backed by them" financially. Several other distinguished members of Congress, including Sen. Pat Moynihan, Sen. Russell Long, D-La., and House Democratic leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, are characterized as candidates for corruption. All these unsubstantiated charges are being blown around the country by an ill wind called Abscam. Footnote: The FBI refused to comment on the scandal-mongering on the grounds that the Abscam cases are still under investigation. Carpentier's lawyer, James Pascarella, said his client had never been interviewed by the FBI about Haig. PRESS ROOM PRANKSTER?: A note typed on Assistant Press Secretary Mark Weinberg's personal memo paper has been circulating among the White House press corps. It reads like the gee-whiz boast of a preppie impressed with his own White House stationery. "Hi Sweetie," the note reads, "Isn't the above GREAT? I made the big time. Few people have the type of stationery I now have and even fewer have 'To the President' on theirs." Weinberg, noting that "I'm not quite that indiscreet," and pointing out that the note was typed on a manual typewriter, not on an electric one like his, says the memo is spurious. He blamed it on a member of the White House press corps, whose name he said he knew but would not divulge. He added that he's now keeping his memo pads locked up. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Illness tells AuCoin WASHINGTON -- Rep. Les AuCoin is suffering from an acute kidney ailment and will be sidelined at home until the affliction clears, staff aides said Wednesday. AuCoin contracted a viral infection about three weeks ago that settled in his kidneys. The 39-year-old congressman, unable to shake the problem, has been sent home until a urinalysis shows he is free of the potentially dangerous illness, called glomerulonephritis. AuCoin contracted "what was going around the Hill," according to press aide John Atkin. But AuCoin fell ill shortly before the House began debating the resolution to continue appropriations until mid-December. As that bill was debated, AuCoin bunked on the couch in the House Democratic cloakroom, rising only for votes. AuCoin canceled a trip to Oregon the following weekend, then returned to work, only to suffer a setback. The congressman's physician has ordered him to rest until the condition is resolved. oreg 12/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # The nation oreg 12/8/81 # Dismissal urged SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A state commission recommended Monday that a San Diego judge who was convicted of solicitation of prostitution be removed from office for "crimes involving moral turpitude." The Commission on Judicial Performance disclosed that it voted 6-3 Dec. 3 to recommend to the California Supreme Court that Municipal Court Judge Lewis A. Wenzell be suspended immediately and then removed from office if the conviction becomes final. Wenzell was convicted and sentenced Oct. 3 to 58 days in jail for misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution. The sentence is being appealed. Wenzell has ignored a call from 19 fellow judges to resign. But the presiding municipal judge in San Diego ordered that Wenzell be assigned no criminal cases. He did handle at least one civil case. The commission said it made its recommendations after hearings Nov. 20 and Dec. 3 in which it reviewed circumstances of the offenses. Wenzell had been charged with eight counts of soliciting prostitution involving five prostitutes. === Page 155 of 278 UFO attack "higher up" # Bush raps White House discipline WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Vice President George Bush, noting the Reagan White House has been "undisciplined" in its relations with the press, said Sunday news leaks by badly behaved and immature officials have hurt the president. Bush, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report, said he is convinced most unidentified sources cited in news accounts do exist. "I know the people writing these stories, and I have confidence in the integrity of many of them," he told the magazine. "So when certain reporters say they've got a high White House source or State Department source or Defense Department source, I'm convinced they've got a source. That means somebody has behaved very badly and in an immature way." Bush said, "I really feel we have been undisciplined in this White House. We've not served the president well by these leaks." The vice president said he freely offers Reagan his own views during private meetings, but there is "no point" in publicizing any divergent opinions he may hold. That, he said, would "play into the hands of the speculators around Washington." "I just won't do that," he said. OMJ 12/7/81 UFO attack "higher up" # Ex-CIA chief raps domestic spying Field News Service oreg 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Former CIA director Stansfield Turner Tuesday criticized as "risky" President Reagan's decision to let U.S. intelligence agencies conduct covert operations in this country, including spying on Americans. "The CIA is not trained to operate within the constraints of American law," Turner said. "That's the FBI's role, and they're well-trained for it." By broadening the Central Intelligence Agency's authority to use secret means to collect foreign intelligence from unsuspecting Americans here and abroad, the Reagan administration is risking mistakes by undertrained CIA officers and unwarranted intrusions into the lives of citizens, he said. Turner, a retired admiral who served as Jimmy Carter's top spymaster, said he fears that excesses on the part of the CIA might generate a debilitating storm of criticism as severe as that of the mid-1970s. "I don't think the agency could stand another go-around of that sort," he told reporters at a breakfast session. Turner said the tone of Reagan's executive order on intelligence gathering is an "improvement" on Carter's far more restrictive decree of Jan. 24, 1978. Its wording conveys the idea that "we want good intelligence and here's how we're going to get it," he said. Last Friday, Reagan eased many of the restrictions on intelligence activities after months of backstage negotiations between the White House and the congressional intelligence committees, which oversee the work of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Turner called these negotiations "extraordinary" and asserted that they actually undermined the process of congressional oversight. UFO attack "higher up" # Elections fell Denmark's government COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen resigned Wednesday following his Social Democratic government's crushing defeat in national elections. The voting produced marked gains by both the right and left but failed to provide a clear mandate on the Scandinavian nation's chronic economic problems and record unemployment. Jorgensen tendered his resignation to Queen Margrethe, who will begin consultations Thursday with all party leaders on forming a new government. Jorgensen, who remains caretaker prime minister, will take part in the consultations. After hearing the views of all parties, the queen will select one party leader to lead coalition negotiations. The elections left the minority government with less than a third of the 179 seats in parliament -- the Folketing. Voters also failed to deliver a clear mandate on the Scandinavian nation's chronic economic problems. Parliament's nine parties were to meet Wednesday in an effort to produce a workable coalition. United Press International LEADER RESIGNS -- Danish Social Democratic Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen, right, discusses some serious matters with party secretary Ejnar Hovgaard Christiansen after his party lost nine mandates in Parliament during Tuesday's general election. oreg J 12/9/81 === Page 156 of 278 jack anderson UFOs attack "higher ups" 'Sting' man perjured org 1/19/82 WASHINGTON -- A diminutive blonde housewife is telling a story that could blow the Abscam convictions out of the courts. She is Marie Weinberg, wife of the con man who masterminded the Abscam "sting" operation. She has sworn that FBI agents and Abscam prosecutors covered up perjured testimony. I have submitted her allegations to the Justice Department, which has launched a major investigation. The FBI was supposed to be supervising and directing her husband, Mel Weinberg, who lured members of Congress into committing crimes. But according to Marie's account, Weinberg was manipulating the FBI agents instead of the other way around. Within 48 hours after I provided the Justice Department with a transcript of Marie's accusations, Weinberg told friends that he knew his wife had blown the whistle on him. He recited details that could have come only from the transcript. One of the accused agents, John Good, also contacted Mrs. Weinberg and tried to coax her into talking to him. Instead, she telephoned my office. I sent my associate, Indy Badhwar, on the first available plane to her home in Florida. He brought along a tough private investigator, Richard Bast, and three photographers to take pictures of the evidence. I had warned the Justice Department not to permit the FBI to investigate itself. Yet Badhwar and Bast reached Marie Weinberg just a few hours before FBI agents descended upon her home. Four agents showed up at midnight, trying to see Mrs. Weinberg. Badhwar and Bast were interviewed at the hotel; they were not allowed to take part in the interview. let the G-men enter. Once more, Weinberg learned about my associates' visit almost immediately. The information certainly didn't come from his wife; he must have been tipped off by someone in the FBI or the Justice Department. It's not hard to understand why the Abscam team is worried about the evidence Marie Weinberg let us photograph. It proves that FBI agents and federal prosecutors covered up perjured testimony given to various Abscam juries by their ex-con setup man, Weinberg. Though he should no longer merit their protection, they now have their own skins to consider. Weinberg denied under oath -- before a grand jury and Abscam trial juries -- that he had ever received expensive gifts from potential targets of the sting operation. An FBI investigation of charges that he had extorted the gifts concluded there was no truth to the allegations. In court, chief prosecutor Thomas Puccio backed up the FBI's whitewash, and said that Weinberg had produced a receipt for one of the alleged gifts, showing that he had bought it. But photographic evidence -- which played such a crucial role in conviction of the Abscam defendants -- clearly shows that Weinberg possessed the appliances that he was accused of extorting. They're sitting in his home in Florida. The loot consists of three Sony 17-inch Trinitron television sets, a Betamax video recorder, a General Electric microwave oven, a Harman-Kardon stereo receiver and Genesis three speakers. The item Weinberg claimed to have an exonerating receipt for was a microwave oven. But it's not the one we photographed in the Weinberg home. According to Mrs. Weinberg's sworn statement, her husband removed the serial number plate from the oven with a screwdriver and hid the oven with a neighbor when the allegations about the "gifts" first surfaced in 1980. He then had his wife drive him to a department store in West Palm Beach, where he got the receipt he showed to the FBI. Subsequently, he brought the incriminating oven back to his home. It is still there. UFOs attack "higher ups" China officials quit PEKING (AP) -- Seven deputy ministers of China's aircraft industry ministry have resigned to make way for younger officials to move up, the newspaper Worker's Daily reported Saturday. The report follows the resignation of six deputy ministers of the coal industry ministry, now plagued by overstaffing and petty wrangling. China has nearly 1,000 government ministers and vice ministers. org 1/17/82 Here Plane crash injures four org 1/19/82 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Four persons were injured Monday when their single-engine plane apparently lost power on a flight from the Seattle area to Portland and crash-landed in a field northeast of Vancouver. Clark County sheriff's deputies said the crash occurred at 12:15 p.m. in a farm field at 12317 N.E. 87th Ave., five miles northeast of downtown Vancouver. They said the Beechcraft Sundowner apparently lost power and that its pilot, Kenneth Hammond, 36, of Issaquah, attempted to land it on the field. It went under some power lines and struck the ground just off Northeast 87th Avenue. Hammond was admitted to Vancouver Memorial Hospital and underwent surgery for a lacerated elbow. His condition was not known, but a hospital spokesman said it was not critical. Also admitted was passenger Larry R. Cornell, 37, of Centralia. He was listed in satisfactory condition. Two other passengers, David C. Schluter, 40, of Centralia, and David L. Cover, 26, of Seattle, were treated and released. The aircraft tore out a wire fence while crash-landing. (Note: I have 3 UFOs over this area at all times. Owens) UFOs attack "higher ups" Labor official dies org 1/18/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andrew C. McLellan, a veteran AFL-CIO official, died Sunday, six days after he won a court ruling permitting the disconnection of hospital life-support systems. McLellan, 70, had been in intensive care since early November at Alexandria Hospital, suffering from emphysema and complications resulting from abdominal surgery. In a ruling believed to be unprecedented in Virginia, Alexandria Circuit Judge Albert H. Grenadier ordered last Monday that McLellan be allowed to have life-support systems disconnected and to go home, even though to do so would almost surely result in his death. Friends and associates of McLellan said that he wished to spend his last days at home. === Page 157 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Thatcher's son found safe ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) -- Mark Thatcher, race driver son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was found "safe and sound" Thursday in the Sahara, the Algerian news agency and his father said. Thatcher had been missing for six days in an auto race across the Sahara. In an interview with British television at the search headquarters in Tamanrasset, Denis Thatcher, husband of the British prime minister, said a plane sighted a white car. He said the pilot of the plane "saw people waving a pullover or shirt or something like that. They appeared to be in fairly good condition." "And it is in the area approximately where we expected Mark to be. It is not completely confirmed, but I am reasonably happy it's 90 percent sure," the elder Thatcher said. Thatcher said the car was within 100 miles of the area where his son first was reported lost in the extreme southwest of Algeria. The Algerian news agency said a Land Rover car, part of the large air and land search, found the younger Thatcher 250 miles from Tamanrasset in the forbidding, arid stretches of the southern Sahara. "Thatcher is safe and sound," the news agency said. But it had no details about the other two members of the party, Anne-Charlotte Verney, Thatcher's French co-driver, and a mechanic. An official at the British Embassy would not confirm the news immediately. The Algerian news agency reported a helicopter was sent to the scene. Additional national security forces were sent by the government to hunt for Thatcher, who disappeared last Friday after a mechanical mishap to his car in the 6,000-mile rally which began in Paris Jan. 1. In London, the prime minister, distraught and red-eyed, wept in a hotel lobby during a public engagement Wednesday. "I am sorry, there is no news. I am very concerned," she said. UPI DISTRAUGHT -- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears upset at a public engagement in London before receiving news that her race driver son, Mark, had been found alive in the Sahara. org J 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Saudi Arabian's daughter missing STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- The 19-year-old daughter of Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires in Stockholm has been missing since Dec. 22, hours before she was to return to her homeland to become engaged to be married. Ablah Fahti left her parents' home outside Stockholm taking only her passport. She was scheduled to fly back to Saudi Arabia the same day to become engaged and the marriage was to take place later this year. Charge d'Affaires Abdul-Aziz Fahti alerted police to his daughter's disappearance. The family has been in Sweden for two years and the daughter is said to have made many friends among Swedes of her own age. She contacted the Embassy a week ago and informed officials she was well, but refused to return to the Embassy. Since she is of legal age in Sweden and has committed no crime, police are mainly interested in locating her and being assured she is well. The Swedish Foreign Ministry considers the disappearance a family matter. The family has engaged private detectives to locate their daughter, but should police locate her first, they are not obliged to disclose her whereabouts should she so wish. According to Koranic law, the breaking of a marriage contract is a serious offense and the punishment can be severe. org J 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Cleveland official's aide shoots apparent attacker CLEVELAND (AP) -- An aide to City Councilman Lonnie Burten shot and wounded an apparent attacker in the latest of a series of violent incidents involving him and his boss, police said. Sgt. George Sekerak said Preston Terry, 45, an administrative assistant to the councilman and his former campaign manager, told officers that two men knocked at the door of his home Wednesday afternoon, asking about tires that had been stolen from them. "He was trying to dig out his pistol from his waistband, and when I saw that, I knew it wasn't 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,'" Terry was quoted as saying by the Cleveland Press. "I got mine before he got his." Terry wounded one of the would-be assailants. One of the men escaped in a car and the other fled on foot, Sekerak said, adding that a gun was found in the yard of Terry's home after the shooting. Officers later arrested Melvin Stearns, 30, according to Sekerak. It was found later that Stearns was wanted on two felony warrants for probation violation and aggravated robbery. Stearns, slightly wounded in his forearm and forehead, was arrested at his home. He said he had been shot in an armed robbery attempt, Sekerak said. Sept. 15, Burten was shot three times in the leg by a stranger who had come to his door. On election night, in early November, Burten's home was destroyed by arsonists. A car belonging to Terry was firebombed Nov. 15. org 1/1/82 === Page 158 of 278 GAO, Mali (AP) -- Military and civilian air and ground search teams Wednesday scoured thousands of square miles of the Sahara for the 28-year-old son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Mark Thatcher disappeared five days ago during a grueling cross-country auto race through North Africa. The racer's father, Denis, flew to Algiers to press the search for his son, and in London his mother broke down in tears during a speaking engagement. Organizers of the Paris to Senegal motor rally said in Paris that a Swiss pilot reported seeing Thatcher's white Peugeot-Dangell Monday in a rocky desert area of southern Algeria. But ground search teams found only tire tracks and were unable to determine their direction. Organizers said soldiers and national police from Algeria and neighboring Mali joined the search Wednesday after race officials were unable to locate Thatcher, his co-driver Charlotte Verney of France and their mechanic Claude Garnier. They said a Senegal-based French military plane, three smaller private planes, two helicopters, three desert trucks and a Land-Rover also were involved in the search, which included race officials and civilian volunteers. Thatcher and the two others were stranded Friday about 43 miles from Timeaouine when their car's axel broke, organizers said. Apparently they were able to repair the car sufficiently to keep going, but their direction remains a mystery. Race officials say communications in the area are limited to radio contacts and it would be difficult for Thatcher to locate either telephone or telex facilities. Denis Thatcher arrived in Algiers Wednesday afternoon and was met by British Ambassador Ben Strachan. They were to fly to Tamanrasset, Algeria, where the search operation is being coordinated. In London, Barrie Gill, head of CSS promotions, the firm that has the younger Thatcher under a three-year contract, said the father flew to Algeria to "stir things up." "Mark has been missing for five days, and we understood there has been no proper search until today," Gill told reporters. "It is now a very serious situation." Mrs. Thatcher, looking strained and red-eyed, wept openly twice before a speech to a small business group. Later she told reporters: "I am sorry there is no news. I am very concerned. My husband will arrive there (Algeria) this afternoon." Mrs. Thatcher canceled an afternoon meeting with the Hungarian foreign minister because of her concern about her son. Young Thatcher, who is unmarried, has a twin sister, Carol, the prime minister's only children. Tears rolled down the British leader's face when she arrived at the hotel for the speaking engagement, but she quickly regained her composure. Then in the hotel foyer, outside a shop, she leaned briefly against one of her bodyguards and wept again. Larraine Goldstein, who runs the shop and was standing close to the prime minister, said: "She looked at me and said, 'I'll be all right in a minute.' She was clearly very, very upset and trying to put a brave face on it. I felt for her as a mother." In Gao, rally organizer Thierry Sabine said the search was being "conducted with intensity." # Thatcher son lost in race across Sahara # Allen blames leaks for ouster By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A feisty Richard Allen, replaced as national security adviser by Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, blames "politics" and "leaks" for his ouster from his White House post. Allen, who had waged a long, tenacious battle to retain his job, bowed to President Reagan's wishes during a 25-minute private meeting Monday in the Oval Office and agreed to resign. Sources said Allen went into the meeting expressing the hope he would be reinstated, but the president felt it best "for all concerned" that he leave the post. He was at the White House for several hours and showed "a lot of presence" according to observers. But when Allen returned to his home, he sounded somewhat bitter, telling reporters it was "never a question of competence... but there had grown up a very highly charged political atmosphere." "Politics was involved," he said, "but what kind and whose, I'm not exactly certain." In an interview late Monday, Allen said he at first asked Reagan to reinstate him in his job, but the president said it was "quite clear in his mind that was not possible." He also blamed "leaks" in the White House, but said no one ever owned up to being the source. Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have had an unremitting feud since the start of the administration. It led Haig to claim that a "guerrilla campaign" was being conducted against him in the White House. Allen's successor, Clark, 50, formally begins his new duties Tuesday, sitting in on the meeting between Reagan and visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clark will not totally relinquish his State Department duties until his successor is confirmed by the Senate. No one has been named to replace him yet as the No. 2 man in the department. In an exchange of letters, Reagan accepted Allen's resignation "with deep regret." Reagan praised Allen for his "personal integrity and exemplary service to the nation." Larry Speakes, deputy press secretary, said both the Justice Department and White House inquiries had turned up no "wrongdoing on Allen's part" but said Reagan decided there should be a change because of the swirl of "controversy" concerning Allen. He will be retained on the government payroll for $190-a-day as a part-time consultant to the newly established Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a recently recreated civilian panel which assesses the work of the CIA and other spy agencies. Allen said Reagan wants him to consider taking another full-time position in the administration. Allen's troubles began when it was disclosed in the Japanese press that he had received $1,000 from a Japanese magazine journalist for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. He put the money in a safe and forgot about it for eight months when it was discovered in an office in the White House complex. === Page 159 of 278 UFO, attack " higher wes" British prime minister's son lost in African desert ONY 1/13/88 ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) - France said Wednesday it is sending three Air Force planes to join the widening search for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatch- er's son. Mark, and his two auto race col- leagues who have been missing in the Sahara for five days. French Defense Minister Charles Hernu said in Paris he decided to send the air- craft with the full accord of the African countries concerned by the search along the borders of Algeria and Mali. The three men were missing in the Pa- ris-Dakar auto rally race. "We have a good hope the two will be found soon, and put in a position where they can resume the race," a British Em- bassy official said. Air force planes and trucks took part in the hunt through the uninhabited waste- land along the country's southern frontier. Missing along with Mark Thatcher, 28, was his co-driver, Charlotte Verney, and an unidentified mechanic. They were last seen Friday driving their Peugeot-Dangel on the Sahara leg of the 10,000-mile, 20-day rally that began in Paris New Year's Day. The Algerians organized the search as pon as the British Embassy expressed concern about Thatcher's failure to reach checkpoint in the Tamanrassert area of outhern Algeria, the Embassy said. Mrs. Thatcher "like any mother, is con- erned about her son, but he's a grown un d now and quite capable of looki- imself," said a spokesman bader. within five minutes." Officials said ++ UFOR attack "higherup" The prime minis anicking be otel 1/19/82 ROME (UPI)' - The kidnappers 'of Gen. James Dozier planned a spectacular massacre of as many as 100 politicians on live television later this week, police said Monday. A police spokesman confirmed stories in three of Italy's major newspapers saying the Red Brigades planned to attack the Christian Democratic Party headquarters during a na- tional conference on Friday. Police confirmed last week they found plans to attack the build- ing, but did not release details at the time. The reports said 15 to 20 gang members disguised as television technicians and carry- ing false documentation were to infiltrate the -arty building, carrying guns and grenades in Inment bags. several more days, an official said. An airplane hired by rally organizers searched unsuccessfully Tuesday in the desert region of Timeiaouine, north of the Algerian-Mali border, where Thatcher's car was last sighted. Rally officials said one of the difficul- ties in organizing a search was that there were few restrictions on the rally course that drivers could use to reach their des- tination in Senegal. Another missing racer, French motor- cyclist Serge Bacou, was found Tuesday by Air France pilot Patrick Fourticq, who is responsible for air communications with the rally entrants. Bacou had been missing since Friday. "He is definitely overdue at a check- point," the embassy official said. United Press International He said the prime minister was being MISSING - Mark Thatcher, lost in the cept up to date on efforts to locate her son by both the Embassy and Algerian au- horities. Sahara Desert while participating in a Paris-Dakar auto rally, is shown as he was interviewed by a newsman while the rally passed through Algiers. Red Brigades planned live TV massacre At 1:35 p.m., while the meeting was to be broadcast live to millions of Italians on the afternoon news, the Brigades were to hurl grenades at the dais and open fire on leading politicians. At the same time, terrorists outside the building were to launch missiles and bazooka shells from the back of parked vans and rush inside. The terrorists in the building were to commandeer television cameras, train them on the politicians being shot, and read a com- munique on the air before fleeing, the reports said. The attack was to take about 4 minutes and leave between 80 and 100 people dead. "The plan for this attack shows that the Christian Democrats are an obstacle for those who want to destabilize the country by throw- ing it into chaos," Giampaolo Cresci, a national councilman of the party said. An expert on Italian terrorism, meanwhile, predicted the Red Brigades will kill Dozier. He accused Israel of having aided the urban guer- rillas in an attempt to destabilize Italy. "On the basis of my experience I believe that, unfortunately, the Red Brigades will fol low their usual logic and kill their prisoner magistrate Ferdinado Imposimato said in interview published Sunday, one month a the NATO general was kidnapped. === Page 160 of 278 UFOs, attack "higher ups" + 6 projects # Press falls for administration coverup WASHINGTON -- Nobody ever said the folks in the White House at the moment weren't a clever bunch. They got caught with their red necks sticking out last week trying to subsidize racial discrimination. But already they have gotten out the story that the whole thing was a misunderstanding and, of course, Ronald Reagan didn't know anything about anything. ## richard reeves We fall for the same tricks over and over again. By "we" I mean the press, a simple lot. We are following one of the most revealing acts of the Reagan administration -- the reinstitution of federal tax exemptions for segregated schools -- by interviewing trees instead of seeing the forest of Reaganism. The nation, bless it, seemed stunned and outraged when people realized that the Treasury Department, with the approval of the White House, had ordered the Internal Revenue Service to stop discriminating against the discriminators. The president, good for him, was embarrassed. So, Reagan, in effect, denounced his own action. He said this was terrible and Congress ought to pass a law overrunning his new rule. But, for more than a week, he refused to rescind the rule, as he could have done. He was still, amiably, trying to have it both ways. Enter the press, the watchdogs of the democracy. The White House began hurling bits of meat to reporters, overwhelming them with details about who said what to whom and when. The official stories were all about communication problems and mistakes and misunderstandings by presidential aides. The president, that nice man, knew nothing about what was going on, according to those whispered "official" versions. The diversion version -- waving bright little facts at barking reporters -- seems to be working, as it has for other presidents in the past. On Sunday, The New York Times did its long follow-up story under this headline: "Reagan Aides' Split Blamed for Dispute on Tax Exemptions." "The Reagan administration's political embarrassment stemmed from a breakdown of communications on the president's staff." What the headline should have said was: "Reagan's Long-Standing Plans to Reverse Black Gains Threatened by Public Uproar." The White House and the president -- Mr. "Golly Gee, Did I Do That?" -- are quite successfully getting across the impression that the IRS rules were some new thing that slipped through the cracks of the Treasury Department. That's not true. The truth is that Reagan has been personally involved for years in trying to have those exemptions restored. He promised to do that more than once during his own presidential campaign. In fact, the promise was part of the 1980 Republican platform. "We will halt the unconstitutional regulatory vendetta launched by Mr. Carter's IRS commissioner against independent schools," read the document Reagan recited in Detroit before his nomination. That platform language, incidentally, was also a deception. The lifting of the exemption was originally ordered not by Carter, but personally by President Nixon in 1970 after black parents in Mississippi won a temporary injunction against those tax breaks. That is not the principal deception going on about all this and, if there is a vendetta, it is not against a few private schools in the South but against millions of Americans who happen to be black. The story of the Reagan administration is not about the "Big Three" on the staff or about memos and meetings inside the White House. The story is that on programs and policies from voting rights to taxation to the power of federal courts, these clever people in momentary power are in the process of doing everything they can to put blacks in their place -- and Ronald Reagan seems to believe that place is about 1950. Richard Reeves is a syndicated columnist whose columns are distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. oreg J 1/21/82 === Page 161 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # News queries on Rehnquist go unanswered By KEVIN COSTELLOE oreg 1/9/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist and his aides Friday pushed aside mounting questions about his health and the two drugs he has been taking for back pains. Rehnquist did not respond to requests from news reporters for clarification of his medical situation and the occasional slurring in his speech. But a spokesman for George Washington University Hospital, where Rehnquist was treated during a weeklong stay, said the justice was gradually being taken off the drug linked to his speech impediment. The spokesman, Dr. Dennis O'Leary, said that when Rehnquist left the hospital last Sunday he was taking two drugs -- the one linked to his speech problem and a substitute drug that is not expected to cause such side effects. The justice returned to work Tuesday after his hospitalization, during which he was treated for a withdrawal reaction to a reduction in the dosage of the problem drug. "This is a very solvable problem," O'Leary said in an interview Friday. He declined to identify either drug, but both The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, quoting doctors familiar with the case, identified the drug that caused Rehnquist's speech problems as Placidyl. The drug is a prescription sleeping pill recommended by its manufacturer for short-term use only. The latest news media queries aimed at Rehnquist included a joint written request from 10 major news organizations seeking a news conference or a written statement from him. A secretary in Rehnquist's office said Friday that the justice had received the written request, but she refused to say when or whether he would respond. The secretary, who declined to give her name, said Rehnquist had been putting in full days of work and expected to listen to oral arguments Monday, when the court reconvenes after a recess of nearly a month. Among the unanswered questions concerning Rehnquist: -- What drug has he been taking for his chronic back pains? -- What drug has he switched to following the withdrawal reaction during his recent hospitalization? -- What is the long-term outlook for Rehnquist's health? At 57, he is the youngest man on the Supreme Court and holds his position for life. -- Have the side effects of his medical treatment affected his work? Aside from the justice's obvious problems in expressing his thoughts and questioning lawyers during oral arguments, there is no outward sign that Rehnquist's work has been affected. But court watchers have no way of determining whether Rehnquist's reliance on law clerks and other employees has changed. Rehnquist, the court's most conservative member, marked his 10th anniversary on the bench Thursday. He was appointed by President Nixon in 1971 and joined the court Jan. 7, 1972. Court spokesman Barrett McGurn, asked about the possibility of comment from Rehnquist, said Friday, "I don't foresee anything." Rehnquist experienced brief "disturbances in mental clarity" during the withdrawal period but returned to a "clear mental state," according to O'Leary. Rehnquist's personal physician, Dr. Hugo Rizzoli, has dodged all questions about Rehnquist's health. The justice has experienced chronic back pain for about 10 years. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Philadelphia mob 'broken' by killing By LEE LINDER oreg 1/9/82 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The assassination of reputed gambling boss Frank "Chickie" Narducci, the 11th gangland murder here in two years, has "badly fragmented and weakened" Philadelphia's mob, an official said Friday. "There aren't many more (mobsters) left," city police Detective Michael Chitwood said after Thursday night's killing. Narducci was hit by 10 bullets as he got out of a car near his South Philadelphia home, about an hour after he ended a day in court in his federal trial on racketeering and conspiracy charges. The trial of seven co-defendants continued Friday despite objections from defense lawyers that it would be impossible to get a jury untainted by publicity. "The identification of Narducci as a mob chieftain, and that it was a mob hit, is extremely prejudicial," said attorney Robert Simone. But U.S. District Judge James Giles refused a postponement and said he would "see how it goes." Police were seeking the motive for Narducci's slaying. "It seems the idea is to clean out organized crime in Philadelphia," Chitwood said. "Soon organized crime will be a thing of the past in Philadelphia, unless their sons take over." "The mob is badly fragmented and weakened," said Wallace Hay, executive director of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. "With each death, it seems to get less and less clear who's in charge," Hays said. "We really don't know." Narducci ran crap games, numbers and high-stakes card games for the crime family, reportedly a multimillion-dollar operation, according to the crime commission. His son sought to buy a night club in Atlantic City but was turned down. Narducci, who had a record of 31 arrests, was convicted last April of bribing two Philadelphia policemen posing as corrupt cops to protect his gambling activities. The mob war, filled with bullets and bombs, began March 21, 1980, when Angelo Bruno, 69, then considered crime boss of Philadelphia and most of New Jersey, was killed by shotgun blasts as he sat in his parked car outside his South Philadelphia home. === Page 162 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ghanaians arrest ex-leader By SUSAN LINNEE ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new military rulers arrested former President Hilla Limann Monday and announced that 60 members of his ousted administration had surrendered to police "for their own safety." Radio Accra, in a broadcast from the Ghanaian capital, said former Foreign Minister Isaac Chinnebuah and former Finance Minister George Benneh were among those who turned themselves in Sunday and Monday. Both had served in the civilian government overthrown in a New Year's eve coup led by retired air force Lt. Jerry J. Rawlings. The 60 officials did not include senior civil servants, who were told to report to the Defense Ministry, or officials of the state-run Ghana Broadcasting Corp., who were to report to the military government's press office at the Gonda Barracks, Radio Accra said. The junta announced Monday it had frozen the bank accounts of "all members of Parliament, managing directors and chairmen and secretaries of the boards of directors of corporations, Dr. Hilla Limann and wife, (Vice President William) De Graft and wife," and officials of all registered political parties. The measures, broadcast over government radio, were part of the "holy war" on corruption Rawlings announced after taking power in his second successful military coup in 27 months. In the first firm report of Limann's whereabouts since the coup, Radio Accra said the ousted president and his bodyguards were captured early Monday morning in the town of Koforidua, about 50 miles north of Accra. FLAMING PROTEST -- Washington, D.C., fireman douses effigies of President Reagan and Mormon Judge Marion Callister in Lafayette Park across from White House Monday. Group was protesting Reagan's stand on the ERA and Callister's adverse opinion on the amendment. UFOs attack "higher ups" # ose out crime SAKHAROV ILL: Andrei Sakharov's wife says the Soviet physicist suffered two minor heart attacks last week at his home in Gorky, where he is living in exile inside the Soviet Union. His wife Yelena Bonner appealed to Soviet authorities for proper medical care for the ailing Nobel laureate. She said Sakharov, 60, just home after a 17-day hunger strike in behalf of his daughter-in-law, had a mild heart attack last Tuesday and a second one Saturday. She appealed to friends and supporters worldwide to pressure Soviet authorities to give the human rights champion the proper medicines for his heart condition. LONELY CONSORT: Capt. Mark Phillips, husband of Britain's Princess Anne, says life can get very lonely when the princess is tied up on official engagements and he is left behind. He told the magazine Woman's Own he would rather work on their farm than attend official functions, but he tries to accompany the princess on most evening engagements and royal tours. He also says he is nervous about visiting Buckingham Palace -- "I don't feel as relaxed as I do in my own home." rehearsals in New York Feb. 1 for their Broadway play, "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" ... John Williams has signed a second two-year contract as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra ... Cardinal John Cody, head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, is in fair condition in a Chicago hospital. The 74-year-old archbishop suffers from diabetes and congestive heart disease. STATESMAN SALESMAN: Ezer Weizman, Israel's former defense minister, is now in the car-import business. He will head a new firm importing Daihatsu vehicles, the only other Japanese car sold in Israel is Subaru. === Page 163 of 278 FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1982 # Reagan's handle on job still in question By LOU CANNON LA Times-Washington Post Service **Analysis** WASHINGTON -- President Reagan stands at a troublesome crossroads as he enters the second year of a high-risk presidency made more difficult by the successes of Year One. Unemployment is a decimal point away from its postwar high. The president's economic advisers are bitterly divided over tax and monetary issues. The National Security Council, its effectiveness as policy broker diminished by a year of conflict, is being rebuilt under a new national security affairs adviser. The vaunted unity of the top trio of presidential advisers has been hattered. And Reagan has shown himself to be embarrassingly unaware or misinformed as to the content of some his basic policy decisions. Unlike other recent chief executives, and Reagan during the early years of his California governorship, the president has no built-in alibi that will enable him to share policy failures with the legislative branch. After years of deadlock between Congress and the White House, Reagan's political leadership and communicative skills let him break through and win decisive acceptance of his budget cuts and tax program. In doing so he created the conditions under which his economic programs can be judged on results rather than the conflicting claims of election-year rhetoric. When Reagan took office a year ago Wednesday, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that the all-powerful presidency was a casualty of congressional reaction to the Vietnam War and Watergate. Reagan's well-conceived legislative victories made mincemeat of this view, demonstrating that a president capable of focusing on an issue and taking his case to the people still can prevail over Congress. The president also demonstrated a presence, style and charm which won him personal admirers even among those who do not share his political opinions. When he went on vacation, which he did as often as he could, he did not pretend that he was studying briefing papers. Reagan's cheerful courage in the aftermath of an attempt on his life last March 30 gave the nation a glimpse of a natural man who used wit as a weapon in the face of danger. As he faces a second year in which the easy answers of the first seem increasingly suspect, Reagan's personal qualities remain his prime political assets. Former President Nixon has offered the opinion that Reagan may be "too nice to be president," but the "niceness" has worn well with American voters. be suspended just as our own government aid is. I would have to check and Though Reagan's approval rating has dropped notably in every major public opinion survey, the president remains far more popular than his economic programs. A New York Times-CBS News poll this week found Reagan with a 49 percent approval rating, although only 37 percent of the poll respondents said they were "better off" than they had been a year ago -- a test that Reagan asked voters to use in measuring President Carter's four-year performance. Reagan's national security operation is likely to be far more smoothly run under William P. Clark in 1982 than it ever was in 1981 under Richard V. Allen. And Clark may help quiet the feuding between two Reagan Cabinet strongmen, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger. Haig has taken command at the State Department, and administration officials believe that 1982 will herald the coming of genuine arms reductions talks and perhaps an international summit meeting. More disquieting than Reagan's performance or prospects on any specific issue is a growing suspicion that the president himself has only a passing acquaintance with some of his most important decisions of his administration. It is a suspicion fueled by Reagan's performance at several of his recent news conferences and by casual remarks on other occasions. Last Oct. 2, when Reagan announced a plan to upgrade U.S. strategic weaponry that was supposedly the product of long presidential deliberation, he said he was abandoning the Carter administration's proposal to deploy MX missiles in "racetrack" loops in the deserts of Nevada and Utah. Yet that particular deployment method had been dropped by Carter in April 1980. Dec. 17, at a news conference, Reagan displayed total ignorance of his own Justice Department's efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's Weber decision allowing companies and unions to agree voluntarily on affirmative action plans. Dec. 18 the president was asked on NBC's "Today" show by Tom Brokaw whether he was prepared to restrict private or voluntary food shipments to Poland. "You know, this is a point that in all the haste of this thing coming that I don't think I've been present in any discussions of that," Reagan replied. "I would think, however, that that would make sure that that is true." Actually there was a proposal then being discussed in the administration, suspending government aid but allowing private food shipments to continue. Reagan eventually accepted this. But when the president was asked about this during an Oval Office photographic session four days after the Brokaw interview he was still not conversant with it and said it was "too early in the day" to comment because he hadn't attended any meetings yet. This week, Reagan botched several questions at his press conference, misquoting economics statistics on which he had been briefed and misremembering the nature of the "loophole" in the California abortion law he had signed as governor. Increasingly, Reagan appears uninformed on what is happening within his own administration. As he begins his second year he has raised anew one of the principal issues of his presidential candidacy. Simply put, the question is: Is Reagan up to the job? === Page 164 of 278 ...BUT RONNIE, IT STARTED OUT AS JUST A LITTLE JAPANESE BONSAI! THE ALLEN SCANDAL Bill Day--Philadelphia Bulletin Root of the problem: The President had failed to put his own house in order--and Allen wasn't ready to resign Newsweek Dec. 7, 1981 NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Slowly, Slowly in the Wind He is the least powerful, least visible and by all accounts least popular national-security adviser in years. And Richard V. Allen, successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, may have one of the shortest tenures as well. Under siege for weeks because he received a $1,000 honorarium from a Japanese women's magazine, Allen's accumulating difficulties seemed not so much a matter of illegal or improper behavior as simple bad judgment. But the lengthening list of those who wanted him to go numbered most key players in the White House, including two of the President's three top advisers. Most significantly, White House aides signaled, they had been joined by Mrs. Reagan herself, whose interview with the magazine prompted the $1,000 payment. Interviewed at his ranch for a Thanksgiving broadcast, Reagan was notably reticent about his national-security chief. He would, said the President, "wait for the investigation" to close. But the longer the President let Allen twist haplessly in the wind, the more damage he did not only to his tarnished national-security adviser but to his Presidency. Reagan's failure to put his own White House in order hardly accords with the carefully crafted profile of a tough President willing to veto the budget or fire thousands of air-traffic controllers. For weeks Washington has witnessed unseemly attempts by one faction of the President's own staff to force Allen's ouster with a steady drip-drip of leaks that have turned a largely unknown adviser into his best-known aide--the butt of talk-show humor and editorial-page cartoons. "The longer this goes on," one top aide conceded, "the more damaging it is to the President's image." The good news for Allen last week was > Reagan's staff keeps the Allen affair alive with leaks--damaging both the President and the NSC chief. that the journalists who interviewed Mrs. Reagan confirmed that they gave him only $1,000--not $10,000, as a New York Times story had suggested. But eighteen Democratic senators called for a special prosecutor in the case, Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas called for Allen's resignation and the death of a thousand leaks continued--their substance less important than the fact that they kept his case in the spotlight. Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, for example, reported that the interview had been arranged only after Allen got a separate "large gift" from Tamotsu Takase--a longtime Allen associate whose wife served as interpreter for the session. U.S. officials said they had no evidence of such a gift, and Allen couldn't "imagine what Professor Takase was talking about." Other stories focused on the sale of Allen's Washington consulting firm to former Reagan speechwriter Peter D. Hannaford. Their deal called for installment payments over a three-year period--perfectly legal, but posing possible conflicts of interest in Allen's contacts as a government official with Hannaford, Hannaford's clients and Takase, a conduit to top Japanese industrialists. At the weekend, Allen said that the remaining debt had been paid in full. The New York Times also indicated that FBI director William Webster, highly respected in Washington, might have made an "unauthorized" call to Allen in connection with the FBI's investigation. In fact, Webster was authorized by Attorney General William French Smith to tell Allen that Tokyo newspapers were about to break the story of the probe. Webster's only misstep--which he now regrets--was telling Allen that no evidence had yet been found that would cause him legal problems. === Page 165 of 278 Within the White House, Allen's sole remaining protector was Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese III, who argued that Allen must be allowed to stay unless some evidence of wrongdoing emerged. Said one staffer: "Ed Meese and the President have always been reluctant to make those hard decisions." But chief of staff James Baker, aide Michael Deaver and other key assistants were working actively for Allen's removal as a political necessity. "Anyone ... who becomes a political liability should go," said one aide. Others thought that Mrs. Reagan, who last year helped bring about the firing of former Reagan campaign manager John Sears, would ultimately play the pivotal role. "She'll get there," said a confidant, "even if Ed [Meese] has to go" as well. 'Public Eye': His critics hoped Allen would be out by mid-December, when the Justice Department is scheduled to complete its investigation. But the feisty Allen refused to walk away. "Why should I?" he asked NEWSWEEK's Henry Hubbard. "To substantiate the press stories? This is my family, my career, my reputation, my integrity." If Allen thought that a clean bill of health from the Justice Department would end his problems, that view was not shared by most of his colleagues at the White House. At the weekend, he suddenly agreed to appear on "Meet the Press" to make his case to the public--and to his boss still vacationing on a California hilltop. But barring the unexpected, Allen's TV performance promised only to keep a messy affair in the limelight--and could force the President's hand sooner rather than later. "Whether Allen did anything or not is irrelevant," said one White House staffer. "He's used up his effectiveness. In the public eye, he could never be a trusted official again." TOM MORGANTHAU with ELAINE SHANNON and ELEANOR CLIFT in Washington and KIM WILLENSON in Tokyo Allen: 'My family, my career, my integrity' Dennis Brack--Black Star Mary Anne Fackelman--The White House Reagan at his ranch with Maureen and the First Lady: Sliced turkey and a broken promise # Reagan's Local Fallout California cut services for 15,000 aged, blind and disabled persons. Ohio approved a record $1.3 billion package of tax increases. Santa Fe, N.M., scraped together an extra $77,000 in revenues by auctioning dilapidated city vehicles. And Las Vegas, Nev., hired two bounty hunters to bring in unpaid parking fines. Across the country, local officials were slashing programs and sending out pink slips to compensate for Ronald Reagan's cut in Federal aid to states and cities. In some places, fiscally-strapped local officials were raising taxes that promised to wipe out Reagan's Federal income-tax savings for individuals. "This is the toughest economic crunch cities have had in 25 years," says Alan Beals, executive director of the National League of Cities, which expected 3,000 municipal leaders to descend on its annual conference in Detroit this week. The theme: strategies for coping with the New Hard Times. As Reagan spent Thanksgiving week on his California ranch, a fresh crop of complaints about his policies sprang from the grass roots. To absorb the Reagan budget cuts, the U.S. Conference of Mayors reported, 61 percent of U.S. cities surveyed will lay off employees, 41 percent will raise taxes and 63 percent will defer capital-spending plans. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that a 2-to-1 majority of Americans fears that additional cuts Reagan wants will hurt needed programs--not eliminate waste. Even among Republican governors meeting in New Orleans there were undercurrents of concern that the burden of Reaganomics would hurt the GOP politically in next year's elections. But the President offered no quick relief. His campaign "dream" of shifting Federal funds to states and cities would remain just that, he told reporters, until the Federal budget crisis had eased. "It would be great if we could afford it," Reagan said, "... [but] there must be some pain for [state and local officials] too." Bracing: Without the promised transfer of revenues, Reagan's "New Federalism" has left states and cities with staggering new burdens--and sharply diminished funds. Already Congress has slashed Federal aid to states and cities by nearly $7 billion--7 percent--this year, and the cuts will go deeper once the 1982 budget is resolved (following story). Those new cuts will force some state legislatures into emergency sessions to trim programs further. Meanwhile, officials everywhere are bracing for far more draconian cuts in 1983 and 1984. "Our worst-case scenarios keep turning into best-case scenarios," moans Mayor Charles Royer of Seattle, where officials have raised business, telephone and utility taxes, eliminated the mounted-police patrol and ordered city-council members to take two-week vacations without pay. Despite lingering traces of the taxpayers' revolt, pressures to raise local taxes are mounting. Many areas have been doubly hit by Reaganomics: while getting less money from Washington, they are also losing local revenue--either because their own business-tax rates are keyed to the trimmed- NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 7, 1981 33 === Page 166 of 278 Hit attack higher ups Oreg 12/11/81 Associated Press Laserphoto SEARCH -- A U.S. customs agent gives instructions to the driver of a vehicle while he prepares to search the car at the San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing south of San Diego. Customs agents are intensifying searches after receiving a memo to be on the alert for a "hit team," which may be trying to enter the country with the aim of assassinating the president and other high government officials. Story on Page A17. UFOs 6 Projects, 100x Ory 11 N62AF Associated Press Laser TAIL RAISED -- Crane raises tall section of Air Florida Boeing 737 from waters of Potomac River in Washington, D.C., Monday. In background 14th Street Bridge, which plane struck before falling into river. UPP case Margiotta GOP leader jailed UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Joseph Margiotta, powerful leader of Nassau County's Republican Party, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison by a federal judge who said the county had "a sad history of official misconduct." Before U.S. District Judge Charles P. Sifton imposed the sentence, Margiotta had pleaded for leniency because a jail term would have a "devastating impact on myself and my family." The 54-year-old veteran Republican boss was sentenced to serve two years on each of the five extortion convictions and two years for mail fraud, with the sentences to run concurrently. === Page 167 of 278 NFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen's late resignation hurt Reagan's image By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - The word that White House National Security Adviser Richard Allen was "resigning" came with all the surprise of a midwinter snowstorm in Minneapolis. The only suspense lay in the length of time it took for him to jump before he was pushed. The whole business was a sorry example of what happens when an errant aide who is expendable but has long political ties to a president won't take a hint - and when that president declines to bite the bullet right off. GERMOND-WITCOVER From the outset it was clear that Allen had to go. Regardless of the findings of the Justice Department and the White House that he had done nothing illegal in accepting money and watches from his Japanese acquaintances, the appearance of impropriety was there. And that should have been enough - especially because Allen was no rose in the job to start with. Aside from all the allegations of impropriety, there was plenty of dissatisfaction within the White House upper echelon about Allen's performance and about his problems with Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The earliest leaks about the cash money from the Japanese stashed away in a White House safe and about the watches his friends gave him telegraphed the belief of important insiders that a little political hara-kiri was in order. Instead, Allen committed the politically unpardonable sin of going public with his defense, as if he were an elected official whose job was in the hands of the voters. His media blitz demonstrated that he failed to understand or accept that White House aides have a constituency of one - the president. By going public, he caused President Reagan further embarrassment and only worsened the situation for himself. Once before, back in 1973, another presidential subordinate - then Vice President Spiro Agnew - tried by going public to put heat on the Nixon administration to call off its Justice Department in the case against him. That action - an intemperate, threatening speech by Agnew - served mainly to convince Richard Nixon that his old sidekick had to go. Trying to put heat on the president is a no-no for a high government official to take a couple or three watches from a "friend" who stands to gain from the friendship, Reagan chose to wrap Allen's departure in the cloak of a staff reorganization. Good old Dick Allen just didn't fit the new job description, that's all. The second round of White House leaks at year's end, that Allen was about to be replaced by Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, was obviously a way to tell Allen that if he didn't walk the plank voluntarily, he would have to do so at swordpoint. And that's what happened in the end. In the process, Reagan passed up an opportunity to strike a blow for his administration's credibility. But instead of saying right out that it's a no-no for a high government official to take a couple or three watches from a "friend" who stands to gain from the friendship, Reagan chose to wrap Allen's departure in the cloak of a staff reorganization. Good old Dick Allen just didn't fit the new job description, that's all. Allen's success in landing a high White House job in the first place was something of a puzzlement. He was never considered a Henry Kissinger, or even a Zbigniew Brzezinski, in the foreign-policy field, and indeed the job of national security adviser was overtly scaled down when he got it. But he was one of those shadowy campaign figures who was always in the candidate's suite when instant history was being made. That often counts for a lot when the jobs are being handed out, and clearly it did in Allen's case. In fact, it probably was that connection that kept Allen afloat as long as he was. Loyalty is always high on any president's list of desirable qualities in a subordinate, as it should be. Indeed, Allen cannot be blamed if he is asking himself these mornings why a David Stockman, who confessed to a respected reporter that the Reagan economic underpinnings were hogwash and guesswork, is still on the job while he is out on the street. The bottom-line reason is that when all was said and done, Reagan couldn't be persuaded he could do without Stockman, but he obviously was convinced he could manage without Allen - as a matter of fact, would be better off without him. How much simpler, and politically effective, it would have been had Reagan handed Allen his walking papers months ago, on the legitimate grounds that White House aides must avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and that Allen had not met that standard. Instead, Reagan's reticence in the guise of fairness let Allen make a mountain out of a molehill. Talk about much ado about not much. © 1982, Chicago Tribune Co. Syndicate Inc === Page 168 of 278 A26 3M THE SUNDAY ORE # Reagan staff lapse blamed for turnaround By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Reagan administration's political embarrassment over the restoration of tax exemptions to segregated schools stemmed from a breakdown in communications on the president's staff, according to White House officials. They say this lapse caused new personal tensions within his triumvirate of senior advisers. Edwin Meese III, the White House counselor, said Saturday that he was the only adviser among the Big Three who knew more than one or two days ahead of time that the Justice and Treasury departments planned to end the government's 11-year ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practice racial discrimination. Other White House officials said Meese's two colleagues, James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff, and Michael K. Deaver, the deputy chief of staff, were angry that he did not warn them about the policy change that produced last week's controversy over the administration's racial attitudes. Meese said in an interview that Treasury officials told him Dec. 28 that they and officials of the Justice Department wanted to abandon the federal court-ordered ban on such exemptions. But Baker did not find out until the night of Jan. 6 that the Justice and Treasury officials planned to announce the new policy Jan. 8. Deaver, who has taken as a personal mission the dispelling of impressions that Reagan is racially prejudiced, was not informed until the morning of Jan. 7. In fact, Meese said Saturday that the president himself was not told until late Jan. 7 or early Jan. 8, the day of the announcement, about his administration's new policy. Despite initial White House statements that the policy change had Reagan's "concurrence," Meese said the president simply received the information, without stating approval or disapproval. By the time the president, Baker and Deaver found out about the new policy, it was too late to delay the announcement, one participant in White House meetings said, partly because no one on Reagan's senior staff appreciated and emphasized the seriousness of the matter. Last Tuesday, after the public outcry against the Jan. 8 announcement, Reagan called for legislation to outlaw the kind of exemptions that were announced as having been approved with his blessing. A senior White House official characterized this turnaround and Reagan's similarly abrupt abandonment of a plan to cut Social Security benefits as the two most politically damaging episodes of his first year in office. In both incidents, this aide confirmed, Baker was kept in the dark until the last minute and proved unable to stop the announcement despite his misgivings. But last week's development is being taken more seriously at the White House, in part because Saturday's revelation that Reagan was not brought into the discussions until the last minute undercuts the effort to dispel the image of him as a disengaged president who simply ratifies his advisers' decisions. Also, it represented a breakdown of the White House management system so complete that the two high-level aides in charge of Reagan's appointments and paper flow have no records of any discussions, meetings or documents relating to the administration's major policy initiative in the field of race relations law. And the episode, for the first time, brought into view the tensions that have been building within the "Big Three," who started off on the basis of presumed equality but have gone through several cycles of conflict, partly because of policy differences but also because of differing operating styles and personalities. Aides to Baker and Meese agree that the week's events disclosed a major gap in the White House management structure. "I'm really not angry at Ed Meese," Deaver said Saturday. "I'm angry at what happened because of the system. "I was and am unhappy with the way this situation was handled, particularly with the fact that on as important an issue as this, the full background of the issue wasn't brought forward and, more important, the blacks who are part of the administration were never consulted." In the aftermath of what Deaver described as the failure of the staff to arm the president with good information, two steps were taken. Friday night Meese and his aides undertook what David R. Gergen, the White House communications director, called "a factual reconstruction" of what happened. === Page 169 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen failed to list clients of consulting firm By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard V. Allen failed to disclose the identity of his consulting firm's clients despite a legal requirement that any of them "directly involved" with him be listed if they paid at least $5,000 during the two years before he joined the White House. White House spokesman David Gergen said Thursday that he wasn't sure whether the national security adviser should have listed his clients, and other White House officials refused to discuss the issue. Allen has argued that the White House counsel's office told him he did not have to list his clients because, technically, he was an employee of the company, Potomac International Corp., and the fees were paid to the firm. Ha ha!! Federal law requires an incoming government official to identify sources of "compensation in excess of $5,000" in the previous two years and to give "a brief description of the nature of the duties performed or services rendered." The main exception to the filing requirement is if the official was an employee of the firm that provided the services and was not "directly involved" in work for that client. Allen has said he did have "several clients" who paid more than $5,000 a year. Allen was Potomac International's founder, owner, president and chief consultant. His wife, Patricia, was the corporation's vice president and treasurer, and his son, Michael, was its secretary. A source familiar with Allen's business said he had only five to seven clients, all of whom were Japanese or affiliated with Japanese firms. J. Jackson Walter, director of the Government Ethics Office, declined to discuss specifics of Allen's case Thursday but said the issue of listing clients is a "gray area" in the federal disclosure requirements. There are differing opinions inside the ethics office over precisely when an official must submit a client list, he said. For instance, the requirement would be much clearer if the incoming public official had run his own law practice and been involved with all the clients than if he had been a member of a large law firm and worked on only some of the firm's accounts. Allen has said he does not recall who in the counsel's office gave him the advice not to file a client list. He refused to discuss the issue further Thursday. Gergen said White House counsel Fred Fielding also did not know who had given Allen advice about the client list. erg 12/4/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Equivocal performance marks Reagan's year By DAVID BRODER erg 1/20/82 WASHINGTON -- The first year of the Reagan presidency has been a mixture of gallantry and gaucherie, of talent and tardiness, of accomplishment and embarrassment the likes of which we have rarely seen. In his first 12 months in office, Ronald Reagan steered through Congress an economic program reversing 50 years of previous history and the handiwork of two historically giant predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. BRODER He did that without the full partisan control of Congress that they enjoyed and in the face of stubborn claims that he had no mandate from the voters for any such course. He did it by being a man of conviction, courage and steadfastness -- the very qualities he showed so clearly in the aftermath of the attempt on his life. He had the firmness to insist that curbing inflation was not only an economic necessity but a political and moral imperative. For he understood from his months of campaigning among the people that inflation was eroding something much more important than the value of the dollar. It was eroding a vital part of the American value system -- the belief that if you work hard, spend sensibly and put a little bit aside, you can achieve a better life for yourself and provide greater opportunities for your children. The economic prosperity and social stability of this society rest on this proposition. By his single-minded insistence, he forced Congress, the bureaucracy and the interest groups to abandon their habits of wasteful spending. And the reward, coincidentally or not, has been the significant abatement of inflation and the fears that it spawned. But if Reagan was the first president since Johnson to accomplish his most important first-year goals, he is also the first since Warren Harding to end his first year with substantial and growing doubts that he is the master of his own mind and his own job. Indeed, as the year drew on, and the phrases honed in months of campaigning became less and less useful in defining and deciding the policy choices facing government, the sense of uncertainty about the president's grasp of policy grew apace. Others are better qualified to judge the effects of this uncertainty on American foreign policy. But, in domestic affairs, it has been unhealthy. Too many people are beginning to see that Ronald Reagan's mind is not the source of instruction and direction for his government, but the prize over which the active contestants for power in the White House and Cabinet wage increasingly open warfare. To hear him speak extemporaneously on domestic policy is to hold your breath in nervous anticipation of the unknown. Too often, the thoughts he expresses have had to be corrected or reinterpreted by people who ought to be his subordinates, not his mentors. And, increasingly, as the year progressed, it has become clear that the president's concept of domestic policy leaves little room for the fundamental American value of fairness. It is not simply that the cost of curbing inflation has been much higher than Reagan advertised -- whether measured in unemployment, deficits or interest rates. He may be forgiven, for the forces in the economic world are powerful enough to defy anyone's effort. What is harder to accept is that at the same time he was deliberately tilting economic policy toward the rich and powerful, through the massively regressive tax cuts, he was systematically removing government assistance from some of the most needy and powerless. The moral meanness of the Reagan administration has been evidenced constantly: in its indifference to civil rights for blacks or equal rights for women; in its attack on legal services for the poor; and in the president's own cruel remark that those who cannot find good jobs or schools or services where they live should "vote with their feet" and move on. === Page 170 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Approval of Reagan plummets **otis pike** WASHINGTON -- It is hard to believe, only 14 months after Ronald Reagan's devastating wipeout of Jimmy Carter in a landslide election, that the latest Gallup Poll shows Reagan running well behind Carter in the approval rating each received at exactly the same time in his presidency. That, alas, is what the poll showed, and it looks like a rough year ahead for the president. In December 1977, as he completed his first year as president, Carter had 57 percent of the people approving his handling of the presidency, only 27 percent disapproving. In December 1981, at the end of Reagan's first year, 49 percent approved, 41 percent disapproved. There is no cheer in these numbers for the president. While the state of the economy is usually given as the principal reason for Reagan's steady decline, there is another reason which is more fundamental, and more difficult to conquer. When Reagan was elected, remember, the No. 1 problem with our economy was inflation. The prime rate of interest is down more than four points from where it was a year ago. The basic strength of the dollar is attested by the fact that it takes 200 fewer of them to buy an ounce of gold than it did a year ago. Reagan has a different problem haunting him -- credibility. He promised too much, and he can't deliver. He promised too easily, and his easy promises are haunting him. They not only damage his credibility, but time and again he is forced to make the awesome decision between keeping a promise and doing the right thing. Either choice will hurt him, and he is forced to choose. The first promise he broke was the balanced budget. First, he slipped it until 1984; then he tossed it out the window. This one did not hurt him too badly. There is a constituency out there screaming for more spending for defense, another one screaming for tax cuts. There is no constituency screaming for a balanced budget. Still, it was a promise and he broke it. Last week, it was draft registration. It was a bad promise and he should never have made it, but he did. It may have gotten him a few votes, a very few votes, from one-issue people, but most of the liberals who agreed with him on registration voted for Carter anyway. He did not look courageous as he broke his promise to get rid of draft registration, letting Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger make the announcement and take the flak. But it was Reagan's promise broken. There are other promises hanging in the wings, just waiting to be broken. When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, Carter imposed a lot of sanctions, but only one really hurt -- the grain embargo. It hurt U.S. farmers, too, and candidate Reagan promised to end it. He kept that promise, but when we decided that it was the Russians who had caused the imposition of martial law in Poland, that promise haunted him. He had to choose between keeping the promise and a meaningless response. He chose the meaningless response. If the Russians wind up doing in Poland what they did in Afghanistan, he will break the promise and impose a grain embargo, just as Carter did. This week, as he, his secretary of the treasury, his budget director and the Republican leaders of Congress search desperately for some way to close the dreadful gap between the nation's revenues and its expenditures, another Reagan promise gets in the way. This one was made, in writing, merely to nail down one Democratic vote in the House of Representatives for his economic package. While he and the other grown men with whom he is meeting diddle around with nickels and dimes on sins such as cigarettes and booze, one logically new tax which would raise more money than both the sin taxes is blocked by a Reagan promise. If we decontrolled the price of natural gas and imposed a tax on the windfall profits the producers received, a price would stabilize at the market level, the producers would make a lot of money and the government would get a lot of revenue. Unfortunately, Reagan promised Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla., in writing, that he would not support such a tax and that if Congress passed one, "I would happily veto it." Easy, irrational promises have grievously damaged his credibility and injured his ability to govern. Otis Pike, a former congressman, is a columnist for Newhouse News Service. === Page 171 of 278 # Strong man returns # Ghana military coup claimed BY SUSAN LINNEE ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Jerry J. Rawlings, a retired air force lieutenant, said Thursday he had seized control of Ghana for the second time and he reported "many" soldiers loyal to him were killed in battles with the civilian government's forces. There was no independent confirmation that Rawlings had succeeded in overthrowing President Hilla Limann's elected government, which Rawlings said over Accra radio had brought "nothing but repression" to the West African nation. Rawlings, in a speech, and the radio station in the Ghanaian capital of Accra broadcast reports that there were many deaths among the military but gave no figures. There was no mention of civilian casualties. In an early broadcast, monitored in this neighboring country, Rawlings referred to soldiers "who fought ... several of them died for you" and in the late afternoon spoke of "many" dying but gave no figures. Rawlings announced on the radio the establishment of a provisional military council and said Thursday's takeover was "not directed against officers of the armed forces," although its backing apparently came from junior military men. He said a "people's defense organization" -- apparently a militia -- would be set up alongside the existing military establishment. Late Thursday night, Accra radio announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew and broadcast an appeal from Rawlings for soldiers to "desist from looting and indiscriminate attacks." A State Department official in Washington, citing reports from the American Embassy in Accra, said, "The situation is fluid." He said there was no threat to foreigners. Before it was captured by Rawlings' forces, the radio station in Accra reported heavy fighting in the neighborhood and around Burma Barracks, the capital's central military camp. Rawlings, 34, said in his broadcast, "This is not a coup. I ask for nothing less than a revolution -- something that will transform the social and economic order of this country." He accused the civilian government of using "divide-and-rule tactics" against military personnel that had led to unfair dismissals and fighting among the troops. Rawlings ordered the borders closed and called on all soldiers, officers and policemen retired or dismissed since Sept. 24, 1979, the date of return to civilian rule, to report to their barracks. In the broadcast, Rawlings appealed to Ghanaians not to harm Limann, a 51-year-old doctor and former diplomat. Rawlings asked Limann to remain in his presidential quarters. "I am prepared at this moment to face a firing squad if what I've tried to do for the second time in my life does not meet with the approval of Ghanaians," he said. "I'm not here to impose myself -- far from it," Rawlings said. "We ask for nothing more than proper democracy ... after two years of nothing but repression." In interviews while head of the government and after he stepped down, Rawlings emphasized the disgust felt by junior officers toward the corruption and mismanagement they felt had come to characterize much of military and civilian rule in Ghana. Rawlings has rejected political labels and several times has referred to himself as "a moralist" above all else. There was no indication of what type of government he planned to establish. It was the fifth military coup in the country since Ghana became the first black African state to win independence 24 years ago. Rawlings, who led an unsuccessful coup in May 1979, deposed the military government of Lt. Gen. Frederick Akuffo the next month but handed power over to Limann after elections later in the year. He was subsequently required to retire from the military. Since Limann assumed power in September 1979, the economic situation has deteriorated badly. Once the world's leading cocoa producer, Ghana suffers from a serious balance-of-payments problem because of declining prices and smuggling of cocoa. Ghana, a nation of about 11 million, is located just north of the equator on the West African coast. It has a primarily agricultural economy. Made up of the former British colony of the Gold Coast and the former U.N. Trust Territory of British Togoland, Ghana was granted independence in 1957. It was led by Kwame N. Nkrumah until he was ousted in 1966 by a military coup. Nkrumah died in 1972. === Page 172 of 278 UFOs 100x Attack # Segregated schools face IRS restriction By STEVEN R. WEISMAN New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan, in another modification of his position on racially segregated private schools, said Monday that the Internal Revenue Service would withhold federal tax exemptions from such schools pending congressional action to bar exemptions for them by law. At the same time, the Reagan administration proceeded with the reinstatement of at least temporary tax-exempt status of two segregated schools: Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and Goldsboro Christian Schools in Goldsboro, N.C. Administration officials said the schools' tax-exempt status would be revoked if Congress approved a bill that Reagan submitted Monday with the request that it be given "the very highest priority." In a letter to the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate, Reagan expressed what he said was his "unalterable opposition to racial discrimination in any form." Such practices, he said, "are repugnant to all that our nation and its citizens hold dear, and I believe this repugnance should be plainly reflected in our laws." Reagan said his proposed legislation was "sensitive to the legitimate special needs of private religious schools" that use religion as a criterion for admission. The president's steps Monday were another in a series of actions he has taken after his advisers warned last week that he was being viewed as racist. The warnings were prompted Jan. 8, when the Treasury and Justice Departments, with Reagan's personal approval, announced that the IRS would no longer deny tax exemptions to segregated schools. Specifically, the Justice Department informed the Supreme Court that the administration was no longer challenging lawsuits brought by both Bob Jones University and Goldsboro Christian Schools asking that their tax-exempt status be restored. In taking this action, administration spokesmen had said Reagan was simply opposed to the IRS -- or any other government agency -- taking such action administratively. Barring tax exemptions was a matter to be dealt with by Congress, the spokesmen said, adding there were no administration plans to request any legislation on the matter. In the next few days, however, a torrent of criticism hit the administration. Democrats, civil rights activists and others accused Reagan and his aides of insensitivity, and civil rights organizations asked the courts to continue to bar the tax exemptions on the ground that they were prohibited under current law. In response, and in what advisers now say was a "salvage operation," the White House announced last Tuesday Reagan would propose legislation to outlaw tax exemptions for segregated schools. In effect, Reagan said he would seek legislation to end a practice his own aides had initiated with his approval. Monday's action was a reinforcement of what was being seen as a contradiction. The administration was saying that it would not grant tax exemptions to segregated schools, even if the Supreme Court rules it can do so legally, until the matter is disposed of by Congress. UFOs 100x Attack # Blacks feel forgotten, league president says By BRYCE NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- John E. Jacob, president of the National Urban League, charged Monday that the civil rights positions of the Reagan administration "created a feeling among many blacks that they were forgotten people." Issuing the league's annual report titled "The State of Black America," Jacob said the administration's policies had created "an unhealthy and dangerous situation" in the black community. Noting that the league began issuing its reports in 1976, he said that "never in that time have so many black people been so alienated from their government." Despite his attack on the Republican administration, Jacob said in response to a question, "I would not say President Reagan is running a racist administration." But he added that the effect of the Reagan administration has been negative on the black community. Jacob was especially critical of the administration's Jan. 8 announcement that the Internal Revenue Service would no longer deny tax exemptions to schools that engage in racial discrimination pending passage of legislation making clear that the IRS can deny such exemptions. Jacob said this announcement was a comfort to "racists." Late Monday, the administration announced it would consider no more applications for such tax exemptions until Congress acted. Jacob said Reagan's civil rights actions "can only be interpreted as attempts to dismantle the process of desegregating America." In Reagan's first year, Jacob said, "an administration from which blacks and minorities are virtually absent took a number of negative steps on civil rights. From its backtracking on desegregating schools to its de-emphasis of civil rights enforcement to its attacks on affirmative action, the administration created a feeling among many blacks that they were forgotten people." Jacob also said that "economic disasters" had befallen blacks in the past year. "Black unemployment is at record levels -- 16 percent by the understated official statistics that don't include discouraged workers or involuntary part-timers," he said. "Teen-age black unemployment went through the roof in 1981." Cuts in federal social programs "slashed deep into bone" and "were concentrated in programs in which blacks were a third to a half of all beneficiaries," Jacob said. Jacob was asked whether unhappy blacks would riot. He replied, "I make no predictions of rioting. I would only say that when people are hurting, you can't expect hurting people to act normal. I make no predictions." In the report, Jacob said that only about 7 percent of blacks had voted for Reagan in 1980. === Page 173 of 278 jack anderson NASA fraud reported WASHINGTON -- In an earlier column, I reported on the harassment of a dedicated investigator named Ralph Sharer by his superiors in the inspector general's office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Sharer was denied sick leave, his pay was withheld and he was to have been fired on Jan. 4. The independent Office of Special Counsel put a stop order on Sharer's dismissal and has begun an investigation of his case. What did Sharer do to merit persecution by his NASA bosses? Quite simply, he blew the whistle on scandalous fraud and other misconduct by employees of the space agency inspector general's office -- the so-called "junkyard dogs" who are supposed to keep NASA personnel honest. Instead of acting to clean up the mess that Sharer uncovered, the IG office tried to silence him. Some of the findings laid out in Sharer's written report of May 11, 1981, and a subsequent report giving even more details show why the NASA pooh-bahs were embarrassed: * According to one synopsis, the misconduct ranged "from serious criminal violations, abuse, blatant acts of impropriety and mismanagement to picayune bureaucratic actions." These included travel and salary fraud; purchase of unneeded executive furnishings and equipment, including refrigerators and cameras; compromise of grand jury evidence; job favoritism and lax security procedures at sensitive NASA offices that made them vulnerable to espionage. * In a report to Congress, the IG office gave the impression that it had completed 590 audit reports in one year. In fact, the number of audits was 31. * IG employees at a NASA facility in California used government cameras to photograph scantily-clad female models "at a ranch near Los Angeles" and used the pictures to titillate their friends. * A refrigerator, ostensibly purchased for film, was primarily used for beer. The IG staff claimed the expensive beer cooler was needed for Saturday duty and other irregular hours. But according to Sharer, the investigators were never in "the office spaces collectively more than three days per week, let alone a Saturday." * IG employees at the California base didn't like to work on Fridays. When he first reported to the office, on a Friday, Sharer found only one staff member there. Phoning in later that day, he was told by a co-worker: "We don't work on Fridays because of the damn traffic. . . That's why I'm sitting here looking at the ocean." Sharer later found out that the skeleton crew on Fridays would sign time cards for their absent colleagues to make sure they were paid. * NASA IG employees routinely ripped off the taxpayers on their travel allowances. More than one was charging the government mileage for commuting between home and office. A NASA inspector claimed he traveled some 17,000 miles one year in the Los Angeles area alone, and submitted local travel claims for $3,622. The tab for one month was $650 -- or 2,756 miles. Sharer figured out that the man would have had to spend more than one-fourth of his total work hours driving a car to rack up the kind of travel expense he claimed. Informants told Sharer the inspector didn't go to some of the destinations he listed on his travel claims. * One NASA inspector used a government airline ticket to visit a relative. * An auditor in the California office collected more than $18,000 in one year for "temporary" per diem compensation after he was reassigned to the California office. That was in addition to his regular salary. The explanation was that the employee was considered a valuable auditor; Sharer demonstrated that the man's performance did not contribute significantly to the office's productivity. Sources have told my associates Dale Van Atta and Indy Badhwar that Sharer has a solid reputation for reliability at the FBI and the CIA. His security clearance is so high that he is bound by oath not even to say exactly what clearances he has. Footnote: NASA Inspector General June Brown has Sharer's reports in hand, and said she is "disturbed" by the case. She has reason to be. Jack Anderson is a nationally syndicated columnist whose column is distributed by United Feature Syndicate. MADE IN JAPAN R.I.P. RICHARD ALLEN === Page 174 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Watt makes own Gettysburg Address oreg 7/19/82 When Interior Secretary James G. Watt spoke recently at Gettysburg, Pa., he made a remarkable observation. He stated that only the paid professional staffs of national environmental organizations are opposed to the Reagan administration's environmental policies. The membership of these same organizations, according to the Interior secretary, support the administration's approach to nature. **russell peterson** He went on to characterize criticism from environmental leaders as a "liberal attack." Watt may be deluding himself, but I don't think he is fooling many others. He certainly is not fooling members of the country's largest conservation group, the National Wildlife Federation. NWF recently polled a sampling of its 4.5 million members and found that James Watt "had lost the confidence of Americans who are concerned about our environment and the conservation of the natural resources which Watt was appointed to protect." NWF members supported Ronald Reagan by a 2-to-1 margin in 1980. Nevertheless, they rejected Watt's stand on 10 of 11 environmental issues, including the following: * Excessive and crippling budget cuts for environmental programs. * Emasculation of the Office of Surface Mining. * The moratorium on wildlife habitat acquisition. * Accelerated offshore oil and gas leasing (in environmentally sensitive areas). * Concessionaire management of national parks. * Less protection for endangered species. NWF concluded that Watt "places a much higher priority on exploitation and development than on conservation" and that "he pays lip service to environmental protection while working to undermine or circumvent many of our basic environmental protection laws." How about the second largest environmental organization, the National Audubon Society? The society has received enthusiastic support from the great majority of its 450,000 members in a "citizen mobilization campaign" to counter the administration's assault on our natural resources. Earlier this year, 32,000 Audubon members contributed to the campaign. These donations were above and beyond normal membership dues. Never before in its 76-year history have Audubon members given so generously and in such numbers to a special annual appeal. Many Audubon members are Republicans. Yet the opinion of 99 percent of those members with whom I have spoken throughout the country is that the Reagan administration is pursuing a dangerous course in attempting to reverse the environmental gains of the past two decades. How about the nation's third largest conservation group, the Sierra Club, which recently gathered over one million signatures on a petition calling for Watt's replacement? And what about the public opinion polls which repeatedly show that Americans support strong safeguards to protect air and water quality, wildlife and wilderness, parks and refuges? In testifying recently before a congressional committee, Louis Harris emphasized that never in his 25 years of public opinion polling has he found more overwhelming support for any issue than the support that Americans have expressed for protecting the environment. Through discriminatory budget cutting and by appointing single-minded exploiters to key environmental protection posts, the Reagan administration has radically transformed some federal agencies. The Department of Interior has become a Department of Development, the Department of Energy an arm of the nuclear power industry and the U.S. Forest Service an extension of the timber industry. The Environmental Protection Agency -- the lead agency charged with protecting the nation's environment -- has become an Environmental Polluters' Agency. The commercial interest in making the quickest possible profit has superseded the public interest in maintaining a clean, beautiful, biologically diverse environment. The fact that a healthy economy depends on and requires a healthy environment has been ignored by the Reagan administration. But I do not believe that Watt and his boss will succeed in their go-for-broke assault on our natural heritage. The people of this country simply will not allow their air, land, water and wildlife to be degraded for the short-term financial benefit of a favored few. As another Gettysburg speaker once noted, America is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The Interior secretary and his cohorts would do well to remember this. *Russell Peterson is president of the National Audubon Society and was chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford administrations.* === Page 175 of 278 attack "higher ups" # Jack Anderson oregonian 12/17/81 # Allen tied to 'massacre' WASHINGTON -- In July 1973, news reports appeared here and abroad of a brutal My Lai-style massacre of native villagers the previous December in Mozambique, then a Portuguese colony stirring with aspirations for independence. The dictatorial regime in Lisbon denied the reports. So did the $60,000-a-year U.S. agent for the Overseas Companies of Portugal, a government-linked consortium of firms with heavy investments in Mozambique and Angola, Portugal's other colony in Africa. The agent was Richard Allen, the national security adviser to President Reagan who is now under suspension. From Washington, Allen closely monitored the news and periodically filed reports to his worried employer in Lisbon. As part of his campaign to convince the public that the "alleged" massacre by Portuguese troops never occurred, Allen also arranged for Rep. Philip Crane, R-Ill., to visit the Portuguese colonies. Crane subsequently pronounced the Portuguese clean. As recently as August 1980, Allen told the Washington Post that the tale of a massacre appeared to have been "a Czech disinformation report." But my associate Lucette Lagnado has obtained secret State Department cables that make clear there was indeed such a massacre -- or that American Foreign Service officers at least found the evidence persuasive. The first reports of the butchery -- hundreds of men, women and children beaten or shot to death and set afire in a place called Wiriyamu -- came from Catholic missionaries in Mozambique. The Vatican was notified, and the U.S. Embassy in Rome learned of the story from Vatican sources. One secret cable from Rome to Foggy Bottom was sent in June 1973. "Vatican was horrified by reports of an extensive massacre of Africans which took place recently in Mozambique," the embassy reported. It added that the reports, "which have not yet hit the media, come from local priests and indicate that a number of villages have been annihilated." The following month, the Wiriyamu massacre story did "hit the media," and was met by categorical denials from the dictatorial regime in Lisbon. Secretary of State William Rogers signed an urgent cable to our posts in Portugal, Mozambique and Rome, asking for any information on Wiriyamu. The consulate in Lourenco Marques, the colonial capital of Mozambique, responded promptly: "Despite sparsity of evidence, there is reason to believe that some incidents occurred." It added that such a massacre was not typical of the Portuguese colonial troops. The Lourenco Marques consulate cabled that while it could not confirm the massacre reports directly, it had obtained indirect confirmation. "Attorney for Spanish priests (who are) presently in prison awaiting trial ... tells us Church does have evidence of 'massacre' which allegedly took place near Tete last December," the consulate reported. According to the accounts given to U.S. officials, "Bishop of Tete overflew alleged site and saw 'many' unburied bodies lying around; priests were subsequently allowed into the area to bury the bodies after bishop had threatened he would ... bury them personally." The secret cable added that survivors told missionaries that the Portuguese Air Force had first firebombed Wiriyamu, which was "subsequently entered by GEPS (All-African Volunteer Paratrooper Unit) who reportedly lined up villagers and shot them." Footnote: Allen did not return repeated calls from my office. attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M # Seismologist found after night in open By L. SIMON PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Dr. Charles Richter, creator of the Richter scale for earthquake magnitudes, was found in a canyon Wednesday by searchers who found him wandering near his car seven hours after his car became stuck on a road with a flat tire. The 81-year-old seismologist was in good condition at Huntington Memorial Hospital, suffering from exhaustion and the effects of overnight temperatures that dipped into the low 40s, said hospital spokeswoman Pauline Luckey. Richter told deputies his car became stuck in Arroyo Seco canyon near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. He had to abandon the vehicle, but was unable to find his way out of the canyon. The car later was spotted by Lt. Norman Smith of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who heard a faint cry for help and after a brief search located the seismologist. "He just couldn't go any further. He had quit wandering; he was through (trying to get out)," Smith said. Richter told Smith he was returning to his Pasadena home from a meeting. Smith said Richter's car had some tire damage after apparently running over a curb. "He thought he could go ahead and drive home. Apparently it became worse and he went off the road," Smith said. "His intention was to hike out and find the night watchman and call for a tow truck, but he got lost and every time he tried to get out he hit a (JPL) fence." Richter, wearing slacks, a sports shirt, apparently was trying to reach the Rose Bowl Motel, at the foot of the canyon in the Devils Gate Reservoir area a mile or so away. Richter went to work in 1927 at Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, site of the seismology laboratory that employs his Richter Scale to measure the ground motion resulting from earthquakes. Long retired, Richter continues to spend his time writing, acting as a consultant to other seismologists and studying and diagramming faults with the hope of being able to predict earthquakes. === Page 176 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Power lack humiliating to officials by J 12/16/81 WASHINGTON - It must have been an appalling weekend for the president of the United States, for the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and all those who sit in the seats of power in Washington. It is degrading to sit in such an exalted position and realize how little power there is in it. ### otis pike You work so hard to achieve the symbols of power - the brutal and demeaning drudgery of political campaigns, the years of working slowly up the ladder of political office, of taking orders in the military, of scratching and fighting your way from the bottom to the top in the business world. A tiny handful of survivors make it. They become the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth. They appear on magazine covers. They ride on Air Force One. They meet with other world leaders. Then, when they have achieved the appearance of power, something takes place which they want desperately to prevent, and they cannot prevent it. Something occurs which violates all they believe in, and they cannot change it. The tragedy which took place in Poland over the weekend was foretold as in classic Greek drama. FIRST, THERE was the rise of a mighty hero and the hope of a glorious future for the land. Justice, freedom and self-determination were held out as rights to which all the people were entitled. Then, against the hopes of the people were matched the ominous warnings of the fates. Do not go so fast, do not ask for so much, do not raise your hopes so high. You will suffer, for you are tempting the anger of the gods. On Saturday, the gods, or at least the godless, struck. The leaders of the free world were not only powerless to prevent it, they didn't even know what was happening. The Polish government, whoever and whatever it was, imposed martial law. The first thing any such coup grabs is the means of communication. Once the radio and television stations and newspapers are completely controlled, Solidarity's telephone and telex lines cut, the leaders of the free world could only guess at what was going on. Having guaranteed that only one side of the confrontation would be heard, a group modestly calling itself the Military Council of National Salvation announced that it was now the government. It proclaimed that it was composed of high-ranking officers of the Polish army and that Polish Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was its chairman. ITS PROCLAMATION was a document of fascinating contradictions, apologetic in its tone, total in its seizure of power. It claimed the Military Council of National Salvation to be merely "a temporary body that will operate until the situation becomes normalized." They would decide when that would be. It said it did not "violate the powers and does not lift responsibility from any organ of the people's authority." At the same time it "calls on all state administration bodies to understand that the extraordinary situation renders their normal functioning impossible." It referred to the "already overt preparations for a reactionary coup" and said its mission was "to bring to naught the coup against the state," without ever saying who had attempted or was about to attempt such a coup. It did say that anti-socialist forces, often inspired and supported materially from abroad, operated "under the hallmark of Solidarity." THE LONG-THREATENED military coup has taken place in Poland. Martial law has been imposed and the activities of trade unions suspended. The status and fate of Solidarity's leaders is unknown. The takeover proclamation merely said that "subversives, instigators and adventurers ... must be isolated until good sense returns." The Military Council of National Salvation will recognize good sense when it sees it. The leader of the most powerful nation on earth hurried back to Washington from Camp David. The secretary of state came back from Europe. The president said, "We're monitoring the situation." The secretary of state said, "Poland's political experiment ... should be allowed to proceed unimpeded." But the whole world knew it had been monstrously impeded. It is terrible being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and not having any power. Yes! === Page 177 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups"- # Holiday gifts for president who has everything else Seattle PI 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Ronald Reagan's rich friends may be wondering what to give him for Christmas. I have a suggestion. Why don't they help him with his defense budget? It's something like $222 billion and he hates to cut it. He took $2 billion out, but it hurt. And if he won't whack it any more, his whole economic scheme can be packed into David Stockman's Trojan horse and put out to sea. Reagan's friends are generous, we know that. The mere mention of his dream of the need to redecorate the White House sent them into a spasm of giving. That gives you a clue. They like to be able to see their tax-deductible dollars at work in a conspicuous place. Imagine the visibility of a gift of weapons -- especially if there is a war. Your tank, your shell, your plane would have an audience of thousands. Reagan is constantly reminding us that if we cut the taxes of the rich, they will repay us. They will invest their money in their businesses, hire more people, end unemployment and whip inflation. He has also told us that they will patronize the arts and make life richer and better for all of us. They don't turn on to day-care centers, senior citizens' housing projects or schools. Reagan's rich friends have had their chance to weave in a few strands into the safety net, and so far they have spurned it. ### Sinatra drum corps They do care about weapons, just as he does. Would they not give alms to armaments? How about if they could adopt a tank? The Abrams model costs $3 million. Or what about a pair of matching F-16 Fighters? They're expensive enough to be in the Neiman-Marcus catalog. Imagine the thrill of having your name on the fuselage as it streaks aloft. Maybe Frank Sinatra, the president's favorite minstrel, would like to assume the financial responsibility for the musical side of our defense readiness capability. Military bands come to the tune of $89.7 million. His name could be written on the drums. It is true that certain items might be a little rich for the blood of the moguls. You take the MX missile. It costs $34 billion, even without its own private subway system. A community effort might be required, but it should not be a problem. The Reagan folks love parties, and a series of MX balls could be held. Let's say it's white tie, glittering with gold braid and brass and $1 million a couple. Large organizations like the National Rifle Association could take tables. I'm just guessing now, but maybe they would want their slogan "Guns don't kill people; people do" painted large on the side of one of the new hardened silos being prepared to house the MX. ### An odious amendment **Mary McGrory** The big defense contractors might be given complimentary tickets on the donation of just one of their famous cost overruns to the kitty. But I should warn you, they may be a bit sulky now. They may say they gave at the office after what happened to them in the Senate this week. Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., got an amendment passed which prohibits them from charging their lobbying costs to us taxpayers. We forked over $11 million to spare them the expense of lobbying Congress for contracts that will enrich them. Rockwell, which got the B-1 ($22 million) business, sent us a bill from its Los Angeles division for $653,000, which is what it cost it to influence votes in its favor. Rockwell may feel put upon if it has to take a congressman to dinner at its own expense. The Pentagon, which agrees with Reagan that fraud and waste are unknown quantities within its walls, is probably embarrassed at this slight to the military-industrial complex. But let us return to the ballroom. Why not have the weapons systems on display to stir the Republicans' martial blood? Put the B-1 next to the orchestra. Maybe Mrs. Reagan's decorator, Ted Graber, could spruce up the interior a bit -- say flowered curtains at the windows, coordinated carpeting, a solid gold instrument panel. Republicans are bleeding hearts when it comes to decor. ### Closing the window A display of voluntarism on that order would make it a great Christmas for Ronald Reagan. He hates to see money being frittered away on Medicare, Social Security, on trains, training programs, housing and fripperies of that nature. To those who say the wolf is at the door, he sternly replies that the "window of vulnerability" is open. If his rich friends don't bail him out, he will have to go in for "revenue enhancement," which is the elegant Reagan term for more taxes, which will make them unhappy. Better they should write checks for the Pentagon for the weapons of their choice. UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE === Page 178 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # From the shores of Tripoli: Assassins? By HAYNES JOHNSON 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Even in these cynical times, when Americans have been conditioned to believe the worst, the sensational charges and countercharges surrounding the "Libyan hitmen squad" are setting a new standard of incredibility. Not that there are no assassins. There may well be. We in the press are hardly capable of proving or disproving the case, and a generation of exposure to the reality of assassination attempts, successful or not, removes much disbelief. But what makes these death-threat stories even more extraordinary -- and raises serious questions about them -- is the public nature of the accusations. Here is the president of the United States, chatting with reporters Monday and directly accusing the leader of a foreign state of plotting to kill him and other American leaders. "We have the evidence, and he knows it," the president said, referring to Libya's Moammar Khadafy. This comes after days in which the U.S. government has been building a concerted case, through statements and leaks to the press, of the gravest sort of charges against Khadafy and his regime. Our television screens and front pages have been filled with fearsome accounts of terrorists infiltrating our borders, of FBI agents fanning out to capture them, of SWAT teams guarding the roof of the White House, and film footage of Libyan soldiers shooting down helicopters, such as the one the president uses, with Soviet missile launchers. In other times, such statements would mean we were on the brink of war. Now, the war that is being waged is one of headlines and TV interviews. Khadafy denies that he plots to kill Reagan. It is we who are plotting to kill him, he says (just as, a generation ago, we tried to remove another thorn in our side, Fidel Castro). The president disagrees. He is out to kill me, Reagan says. And we watch it all, live and in color, courtesy of the equipment of the electronic-space-satellite age. In other times, too, this strange episode would have brought an instant surge of public anger and a rallying of support for the president. That does not seem to have occurred. For now, and absent more of the president's evidence, the public appears to have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. In the meantime, the government continues to give the highest official blessings to the widest circulation of the most sensational stories to reach the public in years. It's almost as if public opinion were being prepared for dramatic action -- say a strike against Libya or Khadafy himself. The record of recent months has made either prospect more than idle press speculation. Throughout this year, the U.S. rhetoric about the threats emanating from Khadafy's Libya has been increasing in volume and severity. It is reminiscent of the talk about Castro in the days when the United States was planning the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion and, in fact, commissioning assassination schemes against Castro. Even a cursory examination of newspaper files shows an ever-hardening official line against the leader of what only a few years ago was the poorest of Arab states. For instance: At the time of Ronald Reagan's inauguration, official U.S. estimates prepared for the new administration pointed to increasing problems with Libya. References were made to "Khadafy's longstanding sense of Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic revolutionary mission which has led him to intervene in about 45 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America." Reports were made of Khadafy training "suicide squads" for commando-type actions. By spring, the papers were reporting official concern about the growing threat of Khadafy to stability in the Mideast. A Washington Post article in March, for example, began this way: "While the new U.S. administration studies defense budgets and Caribbean military scenarios, the Soviet Union has been effectively building a potential military threat to southern Europe and to U.S. Mediterranean sea and air communication in Libya. More than 5,000 eastern bloc military and civilian personnel, including Cubans, and an immense $12 billion arsenal of mainly Soviet weapons are in Libya, according to senior U.S. and allied intelligence sources." Adding to these kinds of stories were reports last spring about former CIA and Green Beret personnel training assassination teams inside Libya. Summer brought the U.S. 6th Fleet maneuvers off Libyan shores, and with them renewed tension. After American jets shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra -- which Libya claims as within its territorial waters -- Khadafy publicly accused the United States of having a "premeditated plan to launch military aggression against Libya and to invade it." Libya was prepared to defend its territory even if it meant a Third World war, he said. Fall brought even harsher language. Sudan, Libya's neighbor to the south, was reporting stepped-up military action against it from Libyan-backed forces. The struggle inside Sudan was an old one, with big-power stakes. Sudan has been backed by the United States in its dispute with another neighbor, Chad. Libya, with Soviet support, has been assisting the Chad guerrilla forces fighting inside Sudan. That situation became more serious in the days just before Egypt's Anwar Sadat was assassinated. The weekend before he was murdered, Sadat dispatched his vice president, Hosnik Mubarak, to Washington bearing what U.S. reporters were told was a "very urgent message" for President Reagan. The mission was to alert Reagan to the growing likelihood of military action along the Sudanese border with Chad. Mubarak asked for the U.S. government to send additional arms, including anti-aircraft missiles, to Sudan. After Sadat was slain, the language about Khadafy became even more vitriolic. On the flight back from Cairo aboard the president's plane, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford made extraordinary comments about Khadafy. Carter characterized him as in some ways "subhuman." Ford called him "a cancer" on that part of the globe, and spoke openly of U.S. action against him. Now, in the latest and deadliest part of this true-life story of murder plots and terrorist teams, the American president speaks publicly about Libyan plans to topple the top U.S. leadership. At this writing, much about this episode remains unfathomable. There are more questions than answers. But a historical irony also exists. For generations, American romantic lore has been fueled by stories of heroic military action. "To the shores of Tripoli" remains a symbol of a daring American mission. Now, so much later, we are told to beware of a reverse deadly mission, from the shores of Tripoli. Haynes Johnson is a writer for The Washington Post. © 1981, The Washington Post === Page 179 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # GOP chief sees Reagan credibility woes By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service 12/4/81 WASHINGTON - In extraordinarily candid comments that sent shock waves through the White House, Republican Party Chairman Richard Richards said that the Reagan administration has credibility problems and predicted that both budget director David A. Stockman and national security adviser Richard V. Allen would be forced from office. Richards said that he believed Stockman would be forced out because of credibility problems in Congress. And, he said, "I don't think Mr. Allen will be back," adding that Washington speculation is that Allen will be replaced by Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to President Ford. The GOP chairman's comments were made in an off-the-record question-and-answer session with about 40 persons at a $5,000-a-couple fund-raising event Sunday night in Cincinnati. However, reporters waiting outside the meeting room overheard the remarks. "Can you believe this?" exclaimed a White House official who showed a Los Angeles Times reporter a copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer's Page One story with a banner headline on Richards' remarks. The article was widely circulated among White House aides, who expressed astonishment that Richards had made such comments. Stockman offered his resignation to President Reagan early last month after The Atlantic Monthly published an article containing extensive remarks by Stockman expressing doubt about Reagan's economic program and acknowledging that phony figures were used in budget calculations submitted to Congress. Reagan refused to accept the resignation but reprimanded Stockman. Allen took a leave of absence with pay last Sunday to fight allegations of impropriety. A Department of Justice report issued Tuesday found no law violation involved in Allen's receipt of $1,000 intended as an honorarium for Nancy Reagan for granting an interview to a Japanese magazine writer. The department and the White House are still investigating allegations that Allen accepted two wristwatches from the same Japanese writer and his failure to correctly fill out financial-disclosure forms for the White House. The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted Richards as saying at the fund-raising event that it is only a matter of time before Stockman submits his resignation again, and, "Next time, the president will accept it." The newspaper reported that Richards "said he thought Stockman would be driven to submit a second resignation by the frustration of trying to re-establish any personal credibility with Congress." Richards said that several issues have hurt the Reagan administration's credibility, including its proposals - later abandoned - to change the Social Security law, as well as its successful campaign to obtain congressional support for the sale of airborne warning and control system planes to Saudi Arabia. The AWACS campaign, he said, probably cost the administration support in the Jewish community. "I think we made a mistake very early in the year talking about Social Security when we did," Richards said. When asked whether Reagan would run for re-election in 1984, Richards said: "I think if his health is good and there is no further threat on his life, he'll run again. If there is another attempt on his life, I think Nancy would put her foot down and say, 'That's it.'" Richards also said that Reagan's economic program is a risk for the entire Republican Party, according to the Enquirer, which quoted him as saying, "An awful lot of the future of our party depends on how well the economic program works." William Greener, GOP communications director, said Richards' comments were "private speculations of the chairman." "It was a private meeting, entirely off the record with reporters excluded," Greener said. "A reporter, acting in a shoddy, if not unethical, manner, putting his ear to the wall, overheard the quotes. The quotes are accurate. We have nothing more to say on the subject." Bob Weston and Sue MacDonald, the reporters who wrote the story, said they could easily hear Richards from an adjoining room because he was speaking over a loudspeaker. "His voice was booming in loud and clear," Weston said, "and anybody could have walked in off the street and heard him. You could hear him in the hallway." === Page 180 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan's national security affairs Oreg J 12/3/81 # operation isn't working ### joseph kraft WASHINGTON -- The insatiable American appetite for personal scandal shows itself anew in the case of Richard Allen. For the Allen affair has been engulfed in a Niagara of allegations intimating sharp practice. But the true question centers on an impersonal issue -- the role of the special assistant to the president for national security affairs. The office of national security adviser developed with the emergence of the U.S. as a world power. Individuals holding the job have varied in visibility and influence -- usually in inverse proportion to the authority of the secretary of state. Still, over the past two decades, the post has evolved a certain tradition. Persons of genuine substance -- McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- have filled the office. All assumed responsibility for keeping the president fully informed on developments in the national security area. All tried to coordinate the views of the involved departments -- chiefly State, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency -- for decisions by the president. A different system was established with Ronald Reagan. Edwin Meese, a longtime political associate of the president, was vested with the chief policy authority in both the foreign and domestic fields. Allen was made subordinate to Meese, and he lacked both easy access to the president and a clear relation to the rest of government. From the beginning, the experiment worked badly. Allen was in no position to contain a personal feud between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, which developed in the first days of the administration and spread to every area of policy. As late as last month, Haig testified to the Congress about a NATO plan for meeting a Soviet attack in Europe with a warning shot of a nuclear weapon. Weinberger, in a gratuitous cut, asserted he had no knowledge of such a plan. The president was repeatedly caught in the crossfire, often without adequate preparation. At his news conference Nov. 13, for example, Reagan was asked about the conflict between Haig and Weinberger on a warning shot. He replied: "Oh. Well, there seems to be some confusion as to whether that is still NATO strategy or not, and so far we have no answer on that." With no central role assigned, Allen was unable to build a staff of quality. Several officials have left the National Security Council for jobs elsewhere. Others complain they have nothing to do. Allen himself has drifted off into a marginal role on intramural disputes and personnel matters. When Sen. Barry Goldwater moved to unseat William Casey as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen, from not very far behind the scenes, began promoting as a successor a hard-line military man -- Gen. Daniel Graham. Casual discussions about a successor to Allen have been a regular part of the White House dialogue since spring. The chatter became deafening early in November when the rumor surfaced publicly. And initially, the White House simply let Allen twist in the breeze. But then, like a string of firecrackers, the charges of impropriety began exploding. First there was the story of $1,000 left with Allen by some Japanese journalists as an expression of gratitude for an interview with the president's wife, Nancy. It next developed that the Japanese had also given Allen a couple of watches. There followed a murky tale about the sale of the company Allen had founded, which suggested he still stood to benefit from business the company was presently doing with foreign clients. Allen has vigorously denied the implications of corruption. In what amounts to a last stand, he has taken administrative leave from his job the better to fight the accusations. Since he has the beginnings of a clearance from the Justice Department, and makes a smooth appearance on television, he may be able to make a strong case for his innocence. In that event, rough justice would be served. For while Allen will probably have to resign, if only because he has offended Mrs. Reagan, he ought not to be forced out for trivial reasons. The larger reasons are what ought to command attention. The fact is that the present system does not work. If the Reagan administration wants to develop an effective foreign policy, Meese will have to make room for a serious national security adviser who will, as a matter of course, insist on having a direct line to the president. === Page 181 of 278 UFOs a... ack "higher ups" # Reagan should have anticipated furor By WILLIAM RASPBERRY 1/20/82 WASHINGTON -- It was not so much an interview as the president picking up the phone to register his dismay at being thought a racist. I had not called him a racist, for the simple reason that I don't think he is one. But I had said in a column that his recent move to grant tax-exempt status to schools that discriminate was "racist in effect." The day the column appeared, President Reagan astonished me by calling my office. "I want to say a word in my own behalf," he said. The word, in brief, was that he remains unalterably opposed to racial discrimination and that his record shows it. But he is also opposed to what he called "government by bureaucratic fiat," and that his record shows that, too. He repeated the essence of an earlier White House statement: That the decision to take away from the Internal Revenue Service the authority to refuse tax-exempt status to segregated private schools was based not on any presidential support of bigotry but on his notion that the Congress, not the administrative agencies, ought to make law. He indicated that he was dismayed, both by the vehemence of the outcry, "which I had not anticipated," and also by the subsequent impression that he was "trying to retreat." The decision to change the IRS practice, he said, came after he learned of "pressures put on by IRS agents, each individual (agent) enforcing it according to his own views." He cited numerous complaints of "harassment" and abuse of authority by IRS agents. I asked him if he could tell me which member of his staff would have the particulars on those cases of harassment and abuse. "I guess I'm the authority on that," he said. "I can't give you specifics. You know, an agent would say 'You're not aggressive enough' (in seeking minority students) or 'You'd better do some more recruiting.' That is what I was trying to cure." But if he agreed with the result -- disallowing tax exemptions for racist institutions -- and disagreed only with the particular method for achieving it, wouldn't it have been better to get the Congress to enact the appropriate legislation first before changing the IRS procedures? "I suppose that's true. It may have been badly handled there," the president said. "But you know I've been a sharp critic for a long time of the arrogance of the bureaucracy. A few years ago, the Amish people did not believe in Social Security; they wouldn't accept it and therefore some of them wouldn't pay the 'premiums.' It reached the point where a farmer in Pennsylvania was plowing his field when an agent came up, unhitched his horses and sold them at auction. I just don't like the government doing by fiat what properly belongs in the Congress." Granting that point, and granting his view that it may have been a mistake to curb the IRS before getting the appropriate legislation enacted, would the president now tell the IRS to continue its 12-year-old practice until such time as the Congress acted on his proposed legislation? He said he thought that perhaps a pending court case might make that issue moot. But there will be a gap between the old procedure and the anticipated new one -- a gap that a number of segregationist institutions might take advantage of to gain vital tax subsidies. What did he intend to do to close that gap? "I'll have to check on what that one case is and how it will affect matters. I didn't know at the time (of his recent order) that there was a legal case pending. But I don't think the damage is great in the interim. We're not reversing the situation with regard to bigotry and discrimination." It goes without saying that it is enormously flattering for a columnist to have the president of the United States respond personally. Still, I was astonished that he could have been surprised at the reaction to his recent announcement. Any politically sensitive member of his staff -- and any black member of his administration -- could have predicted the furor that would result from a presidential order that, in effect, legitimized the "seg academies" that sprang up across the South in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation ruling. But the White House staff no longer includes anyone with a special responsibility for racial matters, a change that might make sense in a perfect world but perhaps not in the world we've got. I think I understand the president's dismay over a "runaway bureaucracy," taking matters of administrative policy into its own hands. I hope that the president understands the dismay some of us feel over the necessity of gearing up once again to fight battles long since fought and won. © 1982, The Washington Post Company The Oregonian # FORUM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1982 RASPBERRY === Page 182 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" A6 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNE # Color bar rule by IRS shakes GOP nationally By LOYE MILLER JR. oreg 1/20/82 Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON -- The Reagan administration's blunder in restoring tax exemptions to segregated private schools has shaken the Republican establishment from the White House to the grass roots. In the capital, it has caused a most unusual phenomenon: public criticism of each other by the "Big Three" presidential aides, counselor Edwin Meese III, Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. # Analysis At state and local levels, even Republican Party leaders who personally dislike integration have expressed concern that the decision will motivate black voters to seek vengeance, to vote against Republican candidates in the November elections. In Tennessee, for instance, GOP leaders fear the administration move could dash their hopes of defeating Democratic Sen. James R. Sasser, by uniting the state's large black population behind Sasser and stimulating a high black turnout. The debacle began Jan. 8, when the administration revoked a 12-year-old policy that denies tax exemptions to private schools that discriminate on a racial basis. Despite denials by administration officials, the move seemed to be evidence of a softening in policy on discrimination and racism. A firestorm of criticism broke out and caught the top presidential aides by surprise. ### Aides scramble to recover Scrambling to recover, White House spokesman David Gergen announced last Tuesday that the administration would seek legislation to deny tax-exempt status to any private school that discriminates. He said President Reagan vigorously opposes discrimination, but believes it should be prohibited by law rather than by "administrative fiat." He referred to the fact that beginning in the Nixon administration the government enforced the anti-discrimination policy through the Internal Revenue Service regulations. Late Monday, the White House sent the proposed legislation to Congress, along with a letter from Reagan asking for speedy passage. But the outlook for passage is unclear. If the bill fails, the Reagan administration's policy shift will allow private schools to obtain exempt status even they practice blatant discrimination. That possibility, which could be a political nightmare anywhere blacks vote in significant numbers, has deeply upset top brass within the administration and at Republican national headquarters. There is agreement that when the policy was changed, neither the president, Baker nor Deaver realized the profound nature of the change and the enormous controversy it would cause. Whether Meese, whose staff is charged with developing policy in a recent interview, Deaver, who has worked with Meese in Reagan's service for a dozen years, criticized the White House handling of the decision. Deaver said that "the full background of the issue wasn't brought forward and, more important, the blacks who are a part of the administration were never consulted." Deaver denied that he was critical of Meese, but his comment seemed to amount to that, since Meese has direct responsibility for policy development. Meese, however, seemed to point the finger at Baker and White House counsel Fred Fielding, who reports to Baker. Meese told an interviewer in Nashville, Tenn., Monday that he had taken no position on the matter and that, although he was present when it was discussed with Reagan, Baker actually made the presentation in favor of it. These remarks suggest that severe tensions have developed among the president's three principal aides, a matter that could have a crippling effect on the Reagan presidency if it continues. Southern Republicans from 13 states who gathered for a leadership conference in Orlando, Fla., last weekend surprisingly seemed troubled by the administration switch even though most supported the principle of enforcing anti-discrimination by law rather than by administrative regulation. ### Mississippi 'pattern' feared Clarke Reed, Mississippi Republican national committeeman, noted that a thundering turnout of black voters smashed Republican chances of picking up a Mississippi congressional seat in a special election several months ago. That could be only a sample of ill tidings for the GOP there in the future if blacks perceive the administration move as a softening on the issue of discrimination, he said. Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Charles Overby said the decision managed to "alienate all sides. It made the blacks mad by coming out with the decision in the first place. Then when they waffled they made the die-hard conservatives mad, and then large segments in the middle who supposedly didn't care saw the White House not able to make up its mind. It was the worst of all worlds." The uproar originated some years back when two schools, Bob Jones University in South Carolina and Goldsboro Christian Schools in North Carolina, challenged IRS rulings denying them tax-exempt status. The Justice Department argued that the government was within its legal authority in doing so and the argument was upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But after examining the case anew, Reagan administration lawyers and Treasury officials took a much narrower position, saying existing law did not enable the government to move against discrimination as it had been doing. The short-term effect will be to grant tax-exempt status to Goldsboro and Bob Jones. But if passed as sent to Congress, the Reagan bill would be retroactive to 1970, and so would nullify any short-term financial advantage to these schools. Any future applications for tax-exempt status will be held up by the Treasury, in hopes the requested bill will pass quickly. === Page 183 of 278 UFOs attack economy # Unemployment hits 6-year high; 9 million jobless By OWEN ULLMANN oreg 12/5/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A surge in pre-Christmas layoffs propelled the national unemployment rate to a six-year high of 8.4 percent in November as a deepening recession left 9 million people out of work. The Labor Department reported Friday that jobless rolls had increased by 484,000 last month, driving the unemployment rate from 8 percent in October to the highest level since the recession period of October 1975. President Reagan, asked by a reporter if he was alarmed by the steep rise as the holiday season approaches, replied, "I'd be alarmed if it were only half that." "Maybe 'alarmed' isn't the proper word to be used here," Reagan added, explaining that his economic advisers had expected a weakening economy at this time. But the president said he remained confident his policies would restore the economy to health and put people back to work. "Having grown up and entered the work force in the depths of the Great Depression, I can assure you that I do not take unemployment lightly," he said. "It's a very great tragedy for the people involved." Reagan spoke with reporters in between meetings with his advisers on plans for further budget cuts, which critics say are contributing to the nation's unemployment. Opponents of Reagan's economic program also contend he intentionally led the nation into a worsening recession to wrestle down inflation through tight credit. "This is the price you have to pay for bringing down inflation," deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said. "We feel that the proper measures are in place to put the economy back on track and that unemployment will begin to abate sometime next year." A little more than a month ago, administration officials were predicting that unemployment was unlikely to exceed 8 percent this year. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said the president's program "is producing thousands of layoff slips just in time for Christmas" and threatens to aggravate already bad economic conditions. "What we do not need ... is an administration that plays Santa Claus for the wealthy and Scrooge for average families, the needy and the working men and women of America," Kennedy said. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland charged that Reagan's program "is not solving but aggravating the nation's economic and human crisis." "It is time to adopt a new anti-recession program that will ease human hardship now and build toward a healthy economy," the labor leader said. Most administration and private economic forecasters expect the jobless rate to keep climbing into spring, possibly to the post-World War II high of 9 percent, set in 1975. UFOs attack economy oreg 12/26/81 And thanks for the wisdom in Washington which has limited this year's economic debacle to a 'slight' one. Houston === Page 184 of 278 UFOs & Projects Note: I myself, using precog, could not have made a more accurate forecast!! Owens UFOs attack the Economy # Writer sees no bloom in '82; just more gloom By CARL ROWAN Oreg 1/2/82 WASHINGTON -- It may seem worse than the Grinch stealing Christmas for a columnist to tell Americans that the New Year isn't likely to be all that happy. But these are not times for Pollyanna journalism -- not times to say farewell to 1981, which has been cruel to millions of Americans, with a ritualistic pretense that 1982 is going to be a lot better. On the domestic scene, hard times will become more severe for millions of Americans, and millions more will taste personally the bitter pills of joblessness, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosures -- and simple hunger. On the international scene there will be more tension than Americans have known since the Cold War days when there were periodic crises over West Berlin. We are in for times of challenge regarding the Soviet Union. The most prominent economic forecasters in the land are saying that real economic growth this year could decline, or rise only a trifling amount, with the average unemployment rate hovering at a level where some 9 million people will still be unable to find jobs. Forecasters say the average prime rate of interest will drop some -- but will remain at levels so high that, when used in even recent times, the lenders went to jail for usury. Meanwhile, consumer prices will continue to rise at a rate of perhaps 8 percent a year. make that 20! This can only mean more farmers in desperation, more automobile dealerships folding, more home builders going into bankruptcy, more savings and loan institutions and small banks merging to survive, or just plain folding. These dreadful times will produce more suffering for the poor and lower-middle-class people of America, who will find the Reagan administration still sacrificing them to the proposition that "supply-side" economics will work miracles. There will be more cuts in food, education, welfare, housing and other programs that heretofore have made life bearable for America's least fortunate people. The fallout will be an increase in family breakups, with a concomitant jump in juvenile delinquency, muggings, store robberies, bank heists. And all this will be cited by right-wingers as justification for longer prison terms, for building $22 billion worth of new prisons, for more electrocutions and hangings, and for a host of other new Draconian wrinkles in our criminal justice system. And we shall find that the more we foul up our own economy and weaken unity among the peoples of America, the more our allies will doubt us. Thus, West Germany, France and other nations of Western Europe will be less willing to join us in "standing up to the Soviet Union." The Soviets will see and sense all this and conclude that they need not take seriously any demands for Russian restraint in Poland, Central America or elsewhere, and that the Kremlin need not tremble over the prospect of U.S. sanctions "of grim consequence" being imposed upon the Soviet Union. The danger is magnified by the possibility that the Soviets could overestimate America's vulnerability -- or willingness to "lose face." All these likely developments of 1982 are made more ominous by the fact that they will be intensified by U.S. politicking -- by the election of all the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. This could produce widening anti-NATO feelings, deeper strains with Japan and Israel, rhetoric that damages relations with Mexico. I know, this is a terrible forecast -- almost like saying that Florida and California will suffer three months of blizzards. But we had better brace ourselves for some bad developments, then work and pray for something better. # Economists warn of collapse WASHINGTON (UPI) -- As the government announced a sharp drop in economic growth during the last quarter of 1981, private economists Wednesday warned Congress that current policies could lead to a major economic collapse. It is clear the bottom of the recession has not been reached . . . and the situation appears quite bleak," Allen Sinai, senior vice president of the Lexington, Mass., forecasting firm of Data Resources Inc., said. "Without adjustment now in the current thrust of policies," he noted, "the U.S. economy runs the risk of a major collapse, unprecedented in the postwar period." Sinai and three other economists testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on administration and Federal Reserve Board policies as the Commerce Department reported a whopping drop of 5.2 percent in the gross national product from October through December. The figure represented the change in GNP computed on an annual basis and adjusted for inflation. For the year, the department said, GNP rose 1.9 percent. Committee Chairman Henry Reuss, D-Wis., called the latest report a "really shocking and tragic figure." Because of the Federal Reserve's tight money policy, which is largely responsible for high interest rates and recession in key industries, Sinai predicted unemployment will continue to rise. More than 10 million people will be out of work this spring, he said. Sinai and the other witnesses -- Richard Rahn of the Chamber of Commerce, Michael Evans of Evans Economics and Barry Bosworth, former director of the Council of Wage and Price Stability -- agreed the one positive aspect of the recession is that inflation will continue to decline. But the four disagreed on the prospects for interest rates, federal deficits and the wisdom of tax increases to narrow those deficits. Oreg 1/21/82 === Page 185 of 278 UFOs attack on Economy # Economy, GNP sinking fast, government says WASHINGTON (AP) -- Confirming a deep recession that has blighted U.S. production and tossed workers off jobs, the government said Wednesday that the economy fell at the end of 1981 faster than at any time since a record decline in the spring of 1980. Administration officials, conceding that things will get worse before they get better, renewed their blame of former President Carter for the recession that simmered through last summer before it hit hard as President Reagan finished his first year in office. With consumer sales still sluggish and factories cutting output, new layoffs will likely push unemployment above December's 8.9 percent rate before recovery begins in the spring, the officials said. If any doubts remained as to whether the nation had slid into recession, they were dispelled by Wednesday's Commerce Department report that inflation-adjusted gross national product -- the broadest measure of economic activity -- dropped at an annual rate of 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 1981. That was the sharpest drop since the record 9.9 percent annual rate in the spring quarter of the 1980 recession. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said the economy will likely drop at an annual rate of up to 2 percent in the current quarter, but he said the administration is not to blame. "We inherited this mess," Regan said in remarks prepared for a group of administration appointees Wednesday. "Those who blame Reaganomics for the current slump must believe in retroactive causation." He and others in the administration say their push for the tight money policy by the Federal Reserve Board -- which many private analysts say was a main cause of the recession -- was necessary to fight inflation. And Deputy Commerce Secretary Joseph Wright Jr. asserted that "this recession stemmed from policymakers' earlier failure to come to grips with deeply embedded inflation." Disagreeing, Democratic Rep. Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said, "The sorry state of the economy is the direct result of President Reagan's program of huge tax cuts for the affluent, sharp increases in defense spending leading to gaping deficits, and the tight monetary policies of the Federal Reserve, carried out at the administration's behest." The big decline in gross national product was expected by most economists, since earlier reports showed stagnant retail sales, falling factory production and rising unemployment in recent months. Real GNP declined 0.2 percent in 1980. Inflation, as measured by an accounting method tied to the gross national product, rose 9.1 percent last year compared with 9 percent in 1980, the report said. But Wright said the rate was lower at the end of the year -- 8.4 percent at an annual rate -- indicating progress in the administration's inflation fight. oreo 1/21/82 UFOs attack Economy + 6 Projects # Moody's drops rating for Washington bonds By JOHN WHITE OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington state, already reeling under one of its worst recessions since the 1930s, absorbed another blow Thursday when Moody's Investors Service dropped its bond credit rating a notch to A. Treasurer Robert O'Brien said the action could cost the state millions of dollars in additional interest on a $143 million bond sale next week. In Oregon, state Treasurer Clay Myers said Thursday that because Oregon is not allowed to operate in debt, a similar rating drop was not expected there. Oregon's constitution requires that the state have a balanced budget. The Oregon Legislature is meeting in special session to cope with a projected revenue shortfall for the biennium. Myers said that any new state bond proposals would be delayed until the state budget "is in the black." Fred Hansen, deputy state treasurer for Oregon, said that although rating agencies frown upon shortfalls, "they like to see positive realistic solutions" when shortfalls do occur. In Washington, Gov. John Spellman's press secretary, Paul O'Connor, said the governor "feels there is not a solid basis for this to happen. It's a bad calculation. If you were really to assess whether it was a good idea to invest in Washington state over the medium and long term, it is excellent. "It (lowering the rating) is not exactly a big surprise, but perhaps a little earlier than we had expected." But O'Connor said Spellman said the downgrading "just plays up that we have to solve the problem." "It is proof that not solving the problem is costing tens of millions of dollars for nothing." House Speaker Bill Polk blamed the downgrading on problems being faced by the Washington Public Power Supply System, the largest issuer of public debt in the United States. The system, with five nuclear plants in varying stages of construction, is expected to abandon two of the plants Friday because of financial problems. "The debacle at WPPSS will have a long-range effect on all bond sales in the Northwest," Polk said. But Moody's did not mention the WPPSS problems. O'Brien quoted George Leung, vice president of Moody's, as saying: "Despite remedial legislative action and downward revisions in estimated revenue continue and economic indicators remain weak. The extent of financial and economic problems prompts the rating revision." Washington's House Ways and Means chairman, Rod Chandler, R-Redmond, said he wasn't surprised by the action, but he would like Moody's to send a representative to Washington to explain its decision. It was was the second time in six months that Moody's has downgraded Washington bonds. Another rating service, Standard and Poor's, downgraded state bonds from AA-plus to AA before November's special session of the Legislature. O'Brien had no word on whether Standard and Poor's will downgrade the bond rating further. At 13 percent, next week's bond offering alone would cost taxpayers $265.6 million in interest over a 20-year period -- or almost double the bond proceeds they will get. Had those bonds been sold in 1980 when interest rates were lower and when the state enjoyed a top credit rating, interest would have been $127.7 million. === Page 186 of 278 UFOs attack economy Oregon Journal, January 4, 1982 # Crime leap expected as economy declines By PETE McCONNELL Journal Staff Writer If you expect to hear good news about today's crime situation, don't talk to Portland-area college professors. Experts in criminology agree that, given the slumping economy and high unemployment rate, things will get worse before they get better. "When people get desperate, they will do anything," said Julius Stokes, an American history and political science instructor at Portland Community College. "It's a very ugly picture." Stokes, who has been with the college for 12 years, said he sees the fear of crime on people's faces. "This is expressed by people buying more guns and buying all kinds of canisters," he continued. "People are afraid to go to the supermarket. In all urban areas, the streets are unsafe, and that's a reality." "A lot of it is tied to the economy, and a lot to drugs -- especially drugs," he said. Gary Perlstein, professor of the administration of justice at Portland State University, paints the same grim picture. "There is going to be more property crimes and a little more violent crimes cause by frustration -- things like petty theft and the battered child syndrome," he predicted. "The case of battered children has been increasing since many parents have been out of work." "As we grow older, we sort of burn out," he said. "The best rehabilitative tool is when you release a man at age 90. He probably wouldn't commit another crime." So what's the answer? How do people relieve their fears? Perlstein said that crime never will be completely eliminated. "I don't see a leveling off period," he said, "but community involvement can be effective if people will do it." The barking dog, locked doors and noise are some ways to deter crime, he said. Most burglaries, for example, are committed by youths who are given the opportunity of unlocked windows and doors. Port ticular said. "M findin are dr said. the co If anything can be made good out of a bleak picture, it's "we've been this way before and we will come out of it again. When the economy goes back to normal, crime will be decreasing again," he said. Stokes said the Reagan administration talks tough about controlling crime, "but it's simply rhetoric." "Punishment should be more severe," he said. "A person who uses a weapon must understand that he will do some time (in prison) and there will be no plea bargaining." And what about the death penalty? Is that a deterrent? "I would favor the death penalty under one condition," he said. "I would favor it if the execution were made public." UFOs attack Economy # Reagan to ask states to run aid programs By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Reagan addresses the nation and Congress Tuesday night on the State of the Union. Sources say he will propose no major tax hikes but recommend that most federal social programs be turned over to the states. The ailing economy is casting a shadow over Reagan's presidency, now entering its second year, and it was expected to be a major focus of Reagan's second State of the Union address. "I think there'll be some surprises", White House counselor Edwin Meese said of Reagan's speech that will be nationally === Page 187 of 278 Hatfield lambastes Reagan's neglect of poor DETROIT (UPI) - New York Mayor Edward Koch told the nation's municipal leaders that President Reagan's "New Federalism" policy is a "sham and a shame" and an all-out disaster for already decaying cities. Koch was interrupted by enthusiastic applause seven times Tuesday in his luncheon address to about 1,000 delegates at the National League of Cities convention, especially when he called for cut-backs in the Pentagon budget. At a news conference after giving a speech to delegates, the President of the National Governors Association, Gov. Richard Snelling, R-Va., called Reagan's budget policies "an economic Bay of Pigs." As Koch spoke to nearly half of the delegates, Sen. Mark Hatfield, D-Ore., blasted Reagan administration policies at a separate luncheon. "The administration's program imperils the cities and it's wrongly lacking in realism and responsibility," Koch said. In reality, the dark side of President Reagan's cities program will be the further decay of our cities, the poor growing poorer and a decline in the education of our population and a more lonely and poorly serviced elderly," he said. He supports a strong national defense but added that "a nation of only armaments can survive only an attack from abroad, it cannot survive a surrender from within." "If America's cities are allowed to approach fiscal collapse, their social fabric allowed to unravel, their infrastructure allowed to crumble, there will be no nation to defend from an external enemy," Big cities, Koch said, can barely keep up basic services, let alone improve them. Hatfield blasted the Reagan administration for cutting human services while increasing the military budget for destructive purposes. "Constituents around the country in small towns, cities and family farms are alert to the impossibility of cutting nuclear weapons can be too small to the truly needy and giving to the truly greedy," one can perceive this as cutting from the U.S. deficit continues sharp rise By JOHN M. BERRY A Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Without new pending cuts or tax increases, the federal budget deficit will hit $109 billion this year, $152 billion in 1983 and $162 billion in 1984, according to the Reagan administration's latest internal estimates. These figures, which are sure to intensify the forthcoming fights over budget cuts for fiscal 1983, are far higher than previous estimates by the administration but in line with predictions of several private economic forecasters. Deputy White House press secretary Jerry Speakes Monday called the new numbers merely "working assumptions" at a staff level" and "highly preliminary," saying they had not been presented to the president. But other sources said President Reagan was given the bad news from his economic and budget advisers last day. Reagan was said to have resisted any suggestion he try to reduce the projected deficits by not increasing defense spending as much as planned, or by proposing major tax increases. Instead, the president again indicated he wants further spending cuts in non-defense areas. A White House official said he does not expect Reagan to reverse himself on this. The military buildup remains the president's first priority and stimulating economic activity through tax cuts that increase private incentives is the second, the official said. Reducing the deficit takes a back seat to these goals, he indicated. Reagan himself has already acknowledged he will not redeem his campaign promise of a balanced budget by fiscal 1984. Less than three months ago Reagan urged Congress to approve $16 billion worth of additional spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the prospective 1982 deficit from an estimated $59 billion to $43 billion. In what may be a sign of the budget-cutting troubles to come, he has retreated and agreed to U.S. ECONOMIC FORECAST CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES FORECASTS STORE MANAGER === Page 188 of 278 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 25, 1981 # Stock mart sinks slowly into economic gloom Oreg 10/25/81 By CHET CURRIER NEW YORK (AP) -- Heading into the last 10 weeks of a bear market year, stock market investors are faced with what even the White House has recognized as a recession. President Reagan used the word last weekend, adding the description "light, and I hope short." But with evidence accumulating of slowing business activity and downward pressure on corporate earnings, many stock market analysts weren't so optimistic. "It would be an understatement to say that third-quarter corporate earnings are 'uneven,'" said Heinz H. Biel at Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. "Some are surprisingly good, but many others are far worse than analysts had predicted." One of the biggest shocks the markets have had to absorb in recent days was General Motors Corp.'s report of a $468 million loss for the July-September period. The news sent the stock of the auto giant tumbling to its lowest levels in more than six years. But there were numerous other signals of economic trouble. Government reports showed the second consecutive quarterly decline in the gross national product, adjusted for inflation, and sharp drops last month in production and orders for durable goods at the nation's factories. Noting the 2.9 percent slide in durable-goods orders, Allen Sinai at the economic forecasting firm of Data Resources Inc. said, "What we have is a very rapidly deteriorating economy." Stock prices, not surprisingly, responded by posting their second straight weekly decline. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 13.70 to 837.99 after recording a 21.31-point loss the week before. The New York Stock Exchange composite index slipped 0.30 to 68.83. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index managed a 0.16 gain to 307.35. Big Board volume averaged 44.85 million shares a day, against 38.40 million the week before. While there was strong evidence the recession taking hold, there was little sign that it was bringing with it any immediate relief from the pressures of inflation and high interest rates. Reagan pointed out that the bank prime lending rate, now at 18 percent, has come down 2½ percentage points from its peak earlier this year. But long-term rates in the bond market remained near record highs. And the latest reading on the consumer price index, issued Friday, offered no comfort at all. The index rose 1.2 percent in September, maintaining a two-digit annual pace. A "worst-of-two-worlds scenario -- high interest rates and a declining economy -- is troubling both the bond and equity markets," said James G. Joyce, director of research at Tucker, Anthony & R.L. Day Inc. One reason that interest rates remain stubbornly high, in the view of many analysts, is businesses' apparent need to borrow to carry swelling inventories. As production declines and excess inventories are worked off, that pressure should theoretically ease. Some observers think interest rates could the begin to come down significantly, even with the continuing voracious appetite of the federal government for borrowed money. As the recession deepens, most analysts also agree it should produce a slackening of inflation. "The September consumer price index figure should prove to be the worst for some time to come," said Mitchell J. Held at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. But market-watchers are generally wary, to say the least, about predicting any immediate shift in investors' minds from concern about the recession to hopes for an ensuing recovery. Concluded Alan D. Schwartz and Robert Sinche, analysts at Bear, Stearns & Co., in a recent report: "An analysis of past cycles suggests that it is generally not until production rates have been slashed below the level of final demand (the rate of consumer buying) that the stock market has bottomed." | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1000 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 950 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 900 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 850 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 800 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 750 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 700 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 650 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 600 | | | | | | DOW-JONES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INDUSTRIALS | | | | | | | | 550 | | | | | | | | | | | | Prepared by DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS Friday Closings 52 Weeks 1980-1981 | T | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG | SEPT | OCT | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| === Page 189 of 278 UFOs attack economy and US Govt.. # U.S. goes on without money bill otis pike WASHINGTON -- It was just a tiny little story, five paragraphs buried on the bottom half of page 29 in the only newspaper still being published in the nation's capital. The headline read, "U.S. Preparing To Close Over Funds Impasse." Ho hum. David A. Stockman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, is understandably keeping a very low profile these days, but you would think his memo of Wednesday telling the departments and agencies how to start closing down the U.S. government deserved more coverage than that. It's just that we have been there so many times. "Wolf" has been cried so often that the wolves yawn at the door. The government, as of last Thursday, was going to run out of money on Friday. Last Monday, the wolf-callers were in full throat on the floor of the House of Representatives. Of course, you can't just start your day with something as unpleasant as presiding over the termination of the government you have sworn to uphold and defend, so first they voted to name two post offices and one federal building after three former congressmen, two Republicans and one Democrat. Then they promised one present congressman, a Democrat, that they would name Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River after him when he retired. Bipartisanship exhausted, they got on with the wolf-calls. Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, D-Miss., chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "In the absence of this bill, at midnight, Nov. 20, under the ruling of the attorney general, at least four-fifths of the government will come to a halt." Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., said that except for the expenses necessarily incurred "to protect life and property and to terminate the other functions of government in an orderly manner . . . all other government activities . . . will stop." Whitten The bill is something called a "continuing resolution," which means what it says. The government may continue to spend money. It may continue to spend money even though the Congress has failed to do the things which all the textbooks say Congress must do in order to allow the government to operate. The textbooks say that all the committees of Congress must hold hearings and authorize money to be spent. They did. The books say that the Appropriations Committees hold hearings and write bills appropriating the money to be spent. They did. Then the bills appropriating the money go to the full House and Senate and get passed. Most of them did. Then the members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees get together to work out the differences between their bills in a conference. That's what the books say. That is where about half of the government has come to a halt. About half of the 13 necessary bills have not been settled. After the conferences are done, the House and Senate pass the compromise and send it to the president. That is where the other half of the government has come to a halt. The House and Senate have not passed the compromises. The president said in his recent press conference, "Fiscal year 1982 is already five weeks old, but I have not received a single appropriation bill." It is now seven weeks old, and still true. On Sept. 30, the eve of the new fiscal year, Congress passed a continuing resolution good until Nov. 30. The wolf-callers, of course, were howling that the government would stop if they didn't pass it. The one the Congress passed last week will run through the entire fiscal year so the government can continue to operate even if Congress never passes an appropriation for anything. There are those who think Congress is not covering itself with glory. Rep. William Frenzel, R-Minn.: "I think that is scandalous legislative behavior." Rep. Daniel Lundgren, R-Calif.: "In view of the continuing resolution it seems to me that we are very much guilty of legislative malpractice in this House." Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-Ill., tried to amend the continuing resolution to cut 5 percent from the rate of spending it allowed. He said the president would veto the continuing resolution if the cut were not made. He lost, and the cut was not made. If it was not just another wolf-call, your government has stopped as you read this. oreg J 11/21/81 === Page 190 of 278 - UFOs attack economy - # Congress misses funding deadline By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional leaders abandoned efforts Friday night to meet a midnight deadline for emergency legislation needed to keep the government from running out of money. But negotiators for the House and Senate, still struggling against a threatened veto, met late into the night trying to produce a compromise that both houses could ratify Saturday and minimize disruptions in government services. With talks dragging on, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill recessed the House at 8:05 p.m. until 10 a.m. Saturday. About 90 minutes later, Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker told senators to go home until noon. That meant that any compromise could not be passed until after the deadline passed. Technically, the government ran out of money at the stroke of midnight. Negotiations on the compromise, Baker said, "no doubt will continue for much of the night. I think they are making progress. I hope they are making progress, and I urge them to make progress." At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said failure to pass the bill left the administration "with no choice but to initiate government shutdown procedures." But pressed to name a specific government service or individual that would be directly affected at midnight, when the government officially runs out of money, Speakes could name none. Earlier, Baker said President Reagan would sign a compromise if the House went along with a Senate plan to cut $3.3 billion from domestic programs. Otherwise, he said, the president stood ready to cast his first veto. O'Neill, an opponent of the cuts, had said the House might go along with the Senate plan. At a bargaining session involving House and Senate negotiators, delayed once so necessary papers could be readied and then so a larger room could be located, House Democrats offered to make the overall cuts that Reagan wants. But their insistence on including defense in the new round of reductions drew a swift rejection from Senate Republicans. That left the negotiators at an impasse. Shortly after that, the House quit for the night. The measure was needed to replace an earlier stopgap bill that carried Friday's midnight expiration. Without the new authority, most of the government would be out of money. While that hardly would mean actually closing down shop, several agencies already were going through some technicalities toward that theoretical end Friday -- and the bureaucratic headaches could grow both cumbersome and costly. Speakes said, "It is the president's position that he will find it difficult to accept anything less than the Senate bill." But sidestepping the question of a veto, he declined to say how much further the administration was willing to compromise on its proposed spending reductions. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens in conference," he said. Leaders of both parties said Reagan had more than enough support to sustain a veto, a development that would keep Congress in virtually continuous session if it had to draft a second measure the president would sign. The biggest disagreement was over Reagan's demand for additional spending cuts -- several billion dollars but far less than the 12 percent he originally asked for Sept. 24. He got his way in an exhausted Senate in the pre-dawn hours, when Baker won approval for cuts of $3.3 billion on an annual basis from most domestic programs and foreign aid. The vote was 62-35. The proposal, similar to one rejected narrowly in the House earlier, would exempt the Pentagon, revenue sharing, the judiciary, law enforcement activities and benefit programs such as food stamps and Social Security. It would mean an average reduction of 4 percent in hundreds of domestic programs and foreign aid. The proposal would give Reagan the authority to make the cuts, but no individual program could be reduced by more than 5 percent. oreg 11/21/81 - newsbreak - - UFOs attack economy - # Government goes 'broke' President Reagan ordered government agencies to start shutting down non-essential operations Saturday since Congress failed to meet its midnight Friday deadline for approving an emergency spending bill. Page 2 oreg 11/21/81 === Page 191 of 278 # O'Neill blasts Reagan at AFL-CIO conference UFOs attack U.S. Govt. & economy By MERRILL HARTSON NEW YORK (AP) -- House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill exhorted President Reagan Tuesday to abandon "supply-side nonsense" and make good on his promise to revitalize the economy. O'Neill, D-Mass., taking up the cudgel for big labor, joined union leaders in condemnation of Budget Director David Stockman, whose private doubts about the chances of success for supply-side economics were revealed last week in Atlantic Monthly magazine. "With the revelations of the last week, the script of the Reagan administration is beginning to resume the plot of a very bad Class B movie," O'Neill told about 950 delegates at the AFL-CIO's biennial convention here. "It's time to change the script," declared O'Neill, whose assault on administration policies resembled the one delivered Monday by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale. O'Neill asserted that "while the president is friendly and congenial, believe me, his policies are not." The House speaker said: "Before his true thoughts were revealed, David Stockman said that the budget would not be balanced for a hundred little reasons, while the truth is it won't be balanced for one big reason -- the biggest and most unfair tax bill in the history of this nation. "The only thing that has gone up in America is the net worth of the rich and the after-tax profits of big oil," he claimed. O'Neill said Reagan is no friend of organized labor. "His refusal to rehire the air traffic controllers is proof of that," he said. Meanwhile, AFL-CIO delegates endorsed a resolution advancing a labor anti-recession strategy. Saying that "the tragedy of unemployment and the steadily worsening economic situation must be reversed," the resolution urged Congress to restore federally subsidized public service jobs and extended unemployment compensation benefits. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser said workers were given the New Deal and the Fair Deal, "and now we're living through the raw deal of Ronald Reagan." In another development, a movement was afoot by black union officers to win at least two seats on the executive council, the federation's 35-member policy-making body. A council subcommittee was to screen candidates Wednesday morning, then recommend a slate to the full convention. There are five vacancies on the council. More than 8.5 million Americans were out of work in October, as the national jobless rate surged to 8 percent of the labor force. AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland followed O'Neill to the microphone and asked him "to remind the colleagues in your party that your party has never, and will never, prosper if it abandons the interests of the working people of this nation." Despite the high profile of Democratic Party luminaries here this week, bitterness lingers within the AFL-CIO's leadership, which was stung by the defection of many congressional Democrats to Reagan's side in the initial budget and tax battles. Earlier, delegates were shown a film chronicling the Polish Solidarity trade union movement. The AFL-CIO also announced it was presenting to Solidarity the first George Meany Human Rights Award, named for the late leader of the American labor movement. Kirkland said the AFL-CIO will present the original design glass sculpture to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa "when he is able to be with us." The AFL-CIO had invited Walesa to this centennial convention, but he had to cancel the trip because of continuing unrest in Poland. 11/18/81 === Page 192 of 278 WFOs attack economy # Michigan deep in compost of deteriorating economy Aug 11/15/81 DETROIT -- Michigan is the basket case. Of the 50 states, this is the worst off. Every eighth worker is jobless. No state has cut back its spending more. The decline in the standard of living is creeping up the economic ladder from the bottom. If the rest of the Upper Midwest industrial states are sagging, Michigan is in free-fall. "It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan is fighting for its economic life," is the way the state's governor for the past 12 years, popular Republican William Milliken, put it recently to a television audience. The state has suffered through economic slumps before -- seven recessions since the end of World War II -- but this one is the worst. When you talk Michigan, you talk cars, and the outlook for the auto industry is worsening weekly. State tax revenues are plummeting, welfare costs rising, public schools closing and Washington offers less aid than before. Although the state is in the worst shape since the Depression, it will undoubtedly outlast this latest plunge as well. Some sectors of the economy are holding up better than others, and the Reagan administration insists its supply-side theories and tight money eventually will bring improvements. But there is every indication things will get worse before they get better. In mid-October, just three weeks into his state's new fiscal year, Milliken announced he would cut another $270 million out of the $5-billion state budget. "Never in all my years of public service have I seen our state in as critical a period as it is now. No state is more swept by the tides of national economic adversity than Michigan," he said. 'Staggering for Michigan' One week after President Ronald Reagan declared the United States is in only a slight recession, the governor said: "The recession may be slight for the nation. But it is absolutely staggering for Michigan." Reagan's approval rating in Michigan still is high -- at 59 percent almost as high as it is nationally, say Republican pollsters, but they worry that the president's popularity may plunge along with the state's economy. Even the weather has gone bad. In the Department of It Never Rains But It Pours, the southern part of the state last month suffered an estimated $208 million in damage when a freak rain dumped 9 inches of water. Heading the woes is unemployment, announced earlier this month as 12.7 percent. In a state of 9.25 million, more than half a million workers are jobless. Detroit, home to many of the state's 1.2 million blacks, has been clobbered by auto industry layoffs. Welfare cuts are massive and unprecedented. And welfare -- under the new block grant system -- will be funded at a figure at least 5 percent lower than last year. "The state faces the dilemma of distributing the pain of the economic disaster that has befallen Michigan," editorialized the Detroit Free Press. "There are no good choices any more ... the public sector can't even afford the programs it has maintained in the past, and the private sector can't generate jobs, certainly not fast enough. There will be no getting away from much of the hurt." HEY WAIT!! REMEMBER REAGANOMICS?! BUDGET CUTS?! TAX CUTS?! INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY?!... OOOOF! TELL ME MORE... WELL, SIR, WE PROPOSE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET BY WHAT WE PREFER TO CALL 'REVENUE ENHANCEMENTS'... UFO & Projects reg 5 BROOKINS 11/26/82 === Page 193 of 278 70s attack economy # Layoffs spread as slump deepens By STEVEN P. ROSENFELD of The Associated Press 11/15/81 The nation's economic slump, long centered in the housing and auto industries, has spread rapidly through the rest of the economy since August. In September and October alone, roughly 860,000 Americans lost their jobs when their companies either failed or cut production as unsold goods piled up. And an Associated Press survey indicates the situation is worsening as even more businesses plan to shorten work weeks, shut plants and lay off employees in the months ahead. The Labor Department reports more than 8.5 million Americans were without jobs in October, the highest number since the 9.5 million average of 1939, before monthly figures were compiled. But unemployment 42 years ago was much worse than now because the labor force was only half the current size. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 8 percent in October from 7.5 percent in September and 7.2 percent in August, reaching the highest level in nearly six years. The Reagan administration said it expects the rate to be somewhat higher in the months ahead, predicting recovery in 1982. But Albert Sindlinger, who heads Sindlinger & Co. Inc., a public opinion and economic forecasting firm, predicts the unemployment rate will soar to 10 percent next year. In the 1974-75 recession, unemployment peaked at 9 percent. ### Failed businesses rise The number of business failures through Nov. 5 has leaped to 14,499, up 42 percent from the same period a year ago, according to the Business Economics Division of Dun & Bradstreet Corp. Small businesses have been hit especially hard, and William Dunkelberg, chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business, says layoffs have accelerated in recent months. The 500,000-member organization mostly represents companies that do less than $300,000 in business a year. In its quarterly survey of members last month, 17 percent of the companies reported employment fell during the third quarter, up from 13 percent in the April-June period. Dunkelberg said less than 25 percent of the third-quarter layoffs were attributable to seasonal employment factors. And 15 percent of the small businesses said they planned layoffs in the current quarter, up sharply from the 10 percent who planned employee cuts three months ago, reaching its highest level since the federation began keeping such records in 1973. Plans to hire more workers, meantime, fell from 14 percent at the start of the third quarter to 10 percent at the beginning of the Another indication of the deterioration of the economy comes from Standard & Poor's Corp., a major credit rating agency, where "the trend is accelerating toward downgrades," said Richard Smith, vice president for corporate ratings. Among industrial bond issuers, 42 had been upgraded and 43 were downgraded through July of this year. But while the number of industrial issuers upgraded through early November rose to 52, the ranks of industries downgraded jumped to 61, Smith said. ### Many downgraded In all of 1980, S&P upgraded the credit ratings of 143 corporate bond issuers and downgraded 130 others. Through early November, however, S&P had upgraded 119 corporate bond issuers but downgraded 146. A dramatic rise in interest rates, beginning late in 1979, led to a slump in housing and auto sales. Despite recent declines, interest rates remain at the highest levels since the Civil War. Jerry J. Jasinowski, senior economist at the National Association of Manufacturers, said the housing and auto slump has spilled over to businesses that supply those industries, such as steel, wood products, machine tools and other capital products. The lagging impact of persistently high interest rates also has affected manufacturers with inventories of goods, who have scaled back production to avoid paying financing charges on unsold products, he said. Reduced production leads to shortened work weeks, layoffs and factory closings. But Jasinowski said he is optimistic that interest rates will fall further, and that the next round of tax cuts in July and the impact of earlier tax incentives for investment in new plant and equipment will turn the economy around. "There's a very substantial pent-up demand which will prevent the economy from falling off a cliff," he said. Meanwhile, interest-rate sensitive businesses continue to suffer. Unemployment is expected to hit at least 21 percent of the construction industry this winter, with 1.1 million unemployed workers, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Lumber mills, which supply the building industry, have not escaped. "We have the dubious honor of having the worst market in recorded history," said Bob Nix, manager of Diamond International Corp.'s Sandpoint mill in northern Idaho. Hugh Love, a spokesman for the American Plywood Association in Tacoma, said 44 of the nation's 176 plywood mills were closed in the week ended Oct. 31, and 61 other mills were operating at reduced rates. More than 10,000 An estimated 665,000 employees in the auto industry have lost their jobs since the peak employment year of 1979, about 400,000 of them at smaller companies that supply automakers with parts, components and material. The nation's five major automakers report about 171,000 hourly workers on indefinite layoff, up from 159,000 in early September. Those figures do not include layoffs of salaried workers or the disappearance of many blue-collar jobs because workers have exhausted their recall rights or have died. Automakers are campaigning for concessions from the union in upcoming talks. # Unemployment-- # On the Rise 10% May 8 Jan. Feb. May July Aug.-Oct. Oct. 6 Jan. Dec. 4 2 0 1975 76 77 78 79 80 81 Michigan reported its highest unemployment rate in October, up 400,000 Michigan workers, according to the Michigan Employment Security Commission. ### Ohio jobless climbs Ohio, with a concentration of steel, auto and rubber companies, had unemployment climb to a rate of 10.4 percent in October from 10.3 percent in September. The United Rubber Workers, which had about 180,000 members 10 years ago, now claims 140,000 members. About 10,000 rubber workers are unemployed nationwide, in the words of a spokesman Curt Brown. Timken Co. in Canton, Ohio, will build a $500 million steel plant in Canton, Ohio, but it has asked its 7,000 workers of United Steelworkers to contract concessions. Asked if layoffs would be made if the union rejected the no-strike/no-attrition plan, a spokesman for Timken said, "Well, in the past, we haven't had any." The American Iron and Steel Institute said 50,000 steelworkers have been laid off as of the end of October and an additional 15,000 were on shortened work weeks. Boeing Co., with 81,000 employees in the Seattle area at the start of the year, expects its rolls to be trimmed to 76,000 by year's end. Asked if layoffs have accelerated, Boeing spokesman Pete Bush replied, "Well, in the past, we haven't had any." Bush said about 2,000 workers would be laid off, with the rest of the decline in employment resulting from attrition. There have been 18,000 employees laid off by the nation's airlines since the air traffic controllers began a strike Aug. 3, the Air Transport Association of America reports. === Page 194 of 278 # Worst since 1975 # 554,000 more # Americans jobless The government reported Friday that unemployment jumped to 8 percent in October -- the highest level since the Ford administration and a sign of further trouble for an administration grappling to get the economy back on track. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said 8.520 million Americans were out of work, as the jobless rate continued a recession-driven climb that has taken it up a full percentage point since July. Unemployment in September stood at 7.5 percent. The monthly increase, throwing 554,000 more people out of work, came in nearly all major sectors. The raw numbers did not include another 1 million Americans who have become too discouraged to seek new jobs. Increases were posted in virtually all major categories, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Bureau Commissioner Janet Norwood told a congressional hearing just a third of the 172 industries in the unemployment index showed gains and the data show drops in the workweek as well as jobs. The figures indicating a deepening recession show "substantial deterioration in the labor market," she said. At the White House, deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes, reading from a statement, said the president considers the unemployment situation to be a "natural short-term consequence of unwinding the deeply rooted inflation that is imbedded in the American economy. "The administration will not adopt quick fix measures to deal with short run movements in the unemployment rate," he said. "Elements of the president's economic program already in place are sufficient to provide the basis for a strong and lasting economic recovery which we anticipate will be evident in 1982." Mrs. Norwood noted that the number of persons working at part-time jobs because their hours have been cut back or are unable to find full-time work reached a record 5 million last month. The last time the unemployment rate was this high was the 8.2 percent recorded in December 1975. During the 1980 recession, the rate topped off at 7.6 percent. Much of the increase in joblessness occurred among adult men, where the rate rose from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent, and involved blue-collar workers, the BLS, a part of the Labor Department, said. Teenage unemployment also increased markedly to 20.6 percent, up 1.3 percentage points from September and the highest in six years, and 46.3 percent of black teenagers, aged 16-19, were out of work. Total employment remained unchanged at 98.2 million in October as a decline among adult men and teenagers was offset by an increase among adult women. Congress' Joint Economic Committee had hoped for a briefing Friday on the latest statistics from Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan. But Donovan, perhaps anticipating bad news, declined. The rise in unemployment -- not unexpected -- is only the latest warning flag to be seen by the administration. President Reagan scheduled meetings at the White House Friday with congressional leaders to discuss his stalled economic program, but was said to be resisting pressure to use higher taxes to reduce deficits during the next few years and bring the budget into balance. Reports on Capitol Hill indicated the Office of Management and Budget had unofficially projected the deficit would swell to $98 billion in fiscal 1982, $125 billion in 1983 and $146 billion in 1984. The administration formally has been sticking to a projection of $43 billion for fiscal 1982, the current fiscal year. Even though his oft-stated goal of balancing the budget appears jeopardized by continuing deficits aggravated by high interest rates and a reluctance by Congress to cut as deeply into spending as he would like, Reagan remains opposed to mounting calls for a tax increase, aides said. Faced with the economic and political realities, some of those close to Reagan are backing away from the balanced budget rhetoric dating back to the early days of the 1980 campaign. # newsbreak # GNP slides 0.6 percent The nation's gross national product fell 0.6 percent from July to September, the second consecutive quarter of reversal for the economy while inflation was rising again, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Two consecutive quarters of declining GNP signal an economy in recession. === Page 195 of 278 # Economists revise forecasts sharply downward - UFOs attack economy - By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times Service New York, N.Y. 11/9/81 Many leading private economists say that the recession has taken hold of the economy so strongly in the last month that they have begun to doubt whether President Reagan's recovery program will ever get off the ground. Many have revised their economic forecasts for the next year sharply downward. The economists, who work on Wall Street, in universities and in private concerns, say the latest economic indicators appear to foreshadow a Christmas season that will provide little economic good cheer. Although some on Wall Street look to the recession to produce the long-awaited decline in interest rates, which has already begun, many economists argue that this phenomenon could be short-lived. "Just about every major economic indicator is now confirming that economic activity fell off a cliff in September," said Edward Yardeni, chief economist for E.F. Hutton & Co., the brokerage concern, "and the magnitude of the drop is much larger than anyone anticipated." The steep dropoff, economists argued, is largely a result of the fact that high interest rates, which had already depressed the housing and automobile industries, began to sap the strength of consumer and business spending in the rest of the economy. "People thought that the negative effect of high interest rates was confined to housing and cars, and that the rest of the economy was learning to live with it," said Walter Heller, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy administration. "But in the last month the contagion has spread to small business, farming, financial institutions and to all suppliers." The broad weakness of economic activity is quickly apparent from reports such as the following that have been issued from Washington in the last few weeks: - [x] Some 8.5 million Americans, representing 8 percent of the work force, were unemployed in October, the highest level since the 1974-75 recession. - [x] Domestic automobile sales in October were down 27.2 percent from the year-earlier levels, the lowest October selling rate since 1958, despite rebates and other incentive programs. - [x] Major retailers in October reported the weakest sales gains of the year. - [x] Sales of existing single-family homes fell in September to the lowest level in more than six years, while the median sales price of an existing home fell, on an inflation-adjusted basis, more than at any time since World War II. - [x] Machine tool orders in September dipped to their lowest level in five years. "The weakness is now all over the economy," said Donald Ratajczak, director of the economic-forecasting project at Georgia State University. "You could argue that a recession was necessary to make the transition from a consumptive economy, with its high interest rates and inflation, to the savings and investment economy that Reagan projected. By this logic the Reagan program is still on track, and we should take the pain and not mess with it." "But there is another school of thought that says the Reagan program is not now working and never will," Ratajczak added. "There are some disquieting signs to this effect, particularly the sharp drop in capital-equipment orders at a time when investment should be rising. Because of the decline in sales and high interest rates, producers are forgoing expansion. But without a growth in capital investment, you will not get the growth in productivity, employment and savings that the Reagan program hinges upon." Between the recession and the high interest rates, the stimulus of the Reagan program will be negated, delaying the recovery until 1983 at the earliest, predicted Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources Inc., a private consulting firm. This retrenchment comes at the worst possible time for American businesses: the Christmas season, in which many companies rack up 20 to 30 percent of their total annual sales. Yardeni said that retailers expected that the Oct. 1 tax cut would increase Christmas sales and they accumulated inventories accordingly. But in the last month, he said, many of them have been shocked to find that the high interest rates and unemployment were eroding personal income and hence retail sales, much more than the tax cuts were increasing the sales. Only two months ago many of the nation's leading economic forecasters were predicting that the nation's gross national product (GNP) would be flat in the fourth quarter and were quibbling over whether or not the country was in a recession. Today most of them are projecting a sharp decline in the fourth-quarter GNP, the basic measure of the nation's output of goods and services, that will last well into 1982. For example, Eckstein of Data Resources Inc. said his concern was projecting a 3.5 percent decline in the fourth quarter, a 1 percent decline in the first quarter of 1982 and was "re-examining" the rest of 1982. Townsend-Greenspan & Co., economic consultants, said they were projecting a 4.5 to 5 percent decline in the fourth quarter and another 3 percent drop at the start of 1982. === Page 196 of 278 -AFOR attack economy- Does nation, face 12-digit deficit? ong 11/6/81 Residents of the Pacific Northwest, sacrificial and 1984, and congressmen, eyeing next year's offerings in the government's anti-inflation pro- elections, appear less ready than last summer to embrace program cuts. gram, are learning how a butterfly must feel when its wings are torn off. How long, though, can the victims stand economic traumas that have no end in sight? The answer to that question has become mur- kier in the last week. Budget Director David Stockman last week raised the administration's budget deficit estimates to $59.1 billion in fiscal 1982, $62.9 billion in 1983 and $58.8 billion in There is no painless way out of this bind - debt, shrunken profits (after allowing for infla- tion) and mounting personal and business bank- ruptcies testify .. 1984. Less well known is that Stockman noted as high unemployment rates, swollen private that outside economists had estimated the defi- cits would total $300 billion in those three years and that he thought the shortfall would come close to that level "without decisive remedial action in the next six months." Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan and Sen. Robert Dole, R .- Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, this week poured cold water on the notion that major new tax revenues would be pursued to fill the gap - at least until the economy reverses its slump. So, an even greater burden than President Reagan recently expected will fall on spending cuts. Yet, the really tough reductions were post- poned for the second round in 1982 and for 1983 What this means, unless everything unravels unexpectedly smoothly, is that the nation could face its first 12-digit deficit - $100,000,000.000 or more - before long. Government would be competing for and getting the very funds needed to spark revivals of the construction and forest products industries. Nevertheless, the administration must press on with the anti-inflation fight, but it must shift its ground. If it does not reduce the timing and speed of some its defense spending - notably on the B-1 bomber and MX missile programs - deficits will soar, and interest rates will stay so high that a short recession will be extended unnecessarily and intolerably. If that happens, business cash flow problems will get worse, and companies in the Pacific Northwest will be bru- tally and excessively prominent among the cor- porate obituaries. UF Or attack economy- Money supply fumbles; lower prime predicted ong,J 1. 7/8, The prime is split at 17-171/2 percent money supply, known as MI-B, tumbled and Jones, who had looked for a pause in the reductions said that, in view of the size of this week's drop in money growth, "we could see banks begin to undercut each other on the prime with maybe some going to 161/2 percent next week." David M. Jones, economist for Aubrey In another sign of economic weakness that could forebode cuts in the prime rate G. Lanston & Co., said the drop substan- tially exceeded the zero-to-$1 billion drop for business loans, commercial and indus- expected by the market and "reflects sharp weakening in economic activity and , earlier severe overkill by the Fed. The Federal Reserve's tight restraint last spring was an attempt to break infla- tionary psychology that had fed on itself. Now apparently the psychology has re- versed to a degree that money growth has not responded to substantial easing moves by the Fed, including last week's one point cut in the discount rate. Jones said that in the face of the sharp- in the statistical quarter. ly deteriorating economy, brought home by the jump in unemployment reported Friday, "The Fed will have to act with greater urgency to speed up the growth of money and that means it will put further downward pressure on the cost of over- night money (the federal funds rate banks charge one another for overnight loans). "That should be followed by an addi- tional reduction in the discount rate and in other short-term rates, including the trial borrowing at the nation's major banks plummeted $849 million in the "Week ended Oct. 28 compared with a de .cline of $26 million the previous week. Business loans at major New York City banks feil $766 million. M1-B, which is comprised of cash, checking and NOW accounts, fell to $431.1 billion in the latest week from $434.4 billion. For the latest four weeks, MI-B averaged a 3.1 percent rate of gain Key interest rates were lower in the statement week ended Wednesday. The federal funds rate fell to 14.79 percent from 14.87 percent. The rate on three- month Treasury bills averaged 12.70 per- cent, down from 13.29 percent a week earlier. The rate on three-month certificates of deposit fell to 14.67 percent from 15.30 percent. Continuing NEW YORK (UPI) - The nation's an unexpected) $3.3 billion in the week ended Oct. 28, "increasing the urgency" for the Federal Reserve to speed up the growth of money in the face of a deteri- orating economy. === Page 197 of 278 # Inflation rate soars to 14.8% level UFOs attack economy WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Inflation tightened its grip on an ailing economy in September, with housing and school costs helping to push the Consumer Price Index up at a 14.8 percent annual rate, the government reported Friday. It was the third straight month of double-digit rises in the projected annual cost-of-living figure -- in grim contrast to smaller increases from March through June. But an administration spokesman, while calling the figure "somewhat disappointing," said, "The bad news is not really as bad as the surface suggests." Yes. My UFOs! Haha! Like hell! The Labor Department said September's rise was 1.2 percent, compared to 0.8 percent for August and 1.2 percent for July after seasonal adjustment. At an annual rate, August's figure was 10.6 percent and July's was 15.2 percent. The CPI for September stood at 279.3 -- meaning it cost $279.30 to buy the same "market basket" of goods and services that cost $100 in 1967. Commerce Department economic spokesman Robert Ortner said the "total increase is somewhat disappointing," but the figure is not as bad as it appears. "There were some special circumstances," he said, "which pushed it up beyond what the underlying rate of inflation really is." Ortner said a seasonal increase in food prices, a "more than normal" increase in college costs and "most important, a continuing effect of past increases in mortgage interest rates still feeding into the CPI," all contributed to a surge. "We're still confident that inflation is now on a moderate downtrend which will continue and be reinforced by the softness in the economy that is developing," he said. Bureau of Labor Statistics analyst Patrick Jackman said "slightly more than half" of the month's increase was due to higher mortgage interest rates and rents along with higher school housing costs. In addition, tuition and fees jumped by nearly 10 percent in September as school opened. Prices of food, medical care and services also showed strong increases, while energy costs continued to show almost no change. Budget cutbacks delayed release of Labor Department details on those figures and ones on real earnings until later in the day. "There were very substantial increases (in almost all categories) between the second and third quarters," Jackman said -- increases also reflected in another department's inflation measure this week. The Commerce Department's gross national product calculation Wednesday showed price hikes throughout the economy, not just for consumers, were up 9.4 percent in the third quarter, a considerable acceleration from the 6.4 percent in the second quarter. Food price increases and the growing cost of services were blamed. The new CPI report comes after a series of other worrisome figures that prompted President Reagan last weekend to say he thinks the economy is in a light recession. DEPRESSION! The Labor Department said its 14.8 percent annual figure for September's inflation rate was the result of the usual projection for 12 months, compounding and seasonal adjustment. 10/23/81 - UFOs attack on economy -- # Continuing GNP slide indicates recession By ROBERT FURLOW 10/23/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The faltering U.S. economy slipped again in the July-September quarter as the gross national product declined at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, the government reported Wednesday. The second consecutive loss was the surest evidence yet of a national recession. Such a recession, the eighth since World War II, would be the second in as many years. But the current downturn, by all accounts, is much shallower than last year's. The broadest measure of economic activity -- "real," or inflation-adjusted gross national product -- fell 0.15 percent in the just-ended third quarter, or at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, a new Commerce Department report said. "Real" GNP had fallen at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the April-June quarter. And the two consecutive declines meet the most common benchmark for deciding when a merely sluggish economy has slipped into recession, a period of production cutbacks, worker layoffs and slow or falling sales. After the new report was released, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige told reporters that "real GNP in the fourth quarter is likely to show another decline" before turning up in the first half of next year. But he, like other Reagan officials, described the current national economic downturn as almost inevitable -- the unpleasant "withdrawal symptom" from inflationary policies of past administrations. The high interest rates that have stifled the economy lingered most of the year because investors and others were slow to believe the new administration would really hold the line on spending and credit growth as other administrations had not, he said. Baldrige noted that inflation so far this year has been running behind last year's high rates. But the new GNP report had some unexpected bad news along that line. The implicit price deflator -- a broad inflation measure linked to national output -- rose at an annual rate of 9.4 percent in the third quarter, from 6.4 percent in the second. Baldrige called that result "a temporary glitch" that won't be repeated in the fourth quarter. He noted that numerous government economic indicators were weaker going into the fourth quarter than they had been earlier in the third. === Page 198 of 278 - UFOs attack economy - # High interest rates dealing harsh blows to economy 10/30/81 Many American consumers are in a financial frazzle, unable to buy a home or a car. The savings and loan industry is floundering, with hundreds of institutions struggling to stay afloat. Both are being clobbered by high interest rates -- a beating that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says he can't stop. High interest rates have made it difficult for many Americans, and impossible for others, to buy a home or a new car, hurting both industries. Savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks also feel the pinch from high interest rates. They are forced to pay high rates to depositors while being saddled with investment portfolios with long-term, low-rate mortgages. Volcker urged the Senate Banking Committee to quickly approve emergency legislation to let the government bail out ailing savings and loan associations and assist in mergers. The Senate Banking Committee is considering broader banking-reform legislation that includes emergency aid for financial institutions. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan added his voice to the gloom, saying there will be several more months of disappointing economic statistics but that the administration is determined not to hit "the panic button." Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday OPEC oil ministers dropped their average price for the first time ever, agreeing on a unified $34 a barrel through 1982. That sounds at first like good news, but the move will cost U.S. consumers 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon more for gasoline and heating oil, because the nation gets most of its oil from Saudi Arabia, which will hike its price from $32 to the base of $34 per barrel. The 13-nation cartel, which drove prices up from $3 in 1973 but was forced to retreat in the face of an worldwide oil glut, froze the new base price for the rest of 1981 and 1982 -- a decision insisted on by Saudi Arabia. The dollar fell sharply against most major foreign currencies Thursday as the 2.7 percent drop in the September index of leading U.S. economic indicators was steeper than European traders had expected. - UFOs & Projects - # Hundreds abruptly laid off 11/24/81 By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of government employees, from filing clerks to White House spokesmen, were abruptly laid off Monday, casualties in the daylong spending standoff between President Reagan and Congress. Their mass exodus left the business of government in tatters. The mass unemployment ended as quickly as it began and amounted to little more than an afternoon off. By voting in early evening to continue federal spending at the old level until Dec. 15 -- an option that Reagan termed acceptable -- Congress averted what might have been a costly pre-holiday furlough for many of the 2.9 million federal employees. Reagan had sent them packing in the morning with an order that "as quickly as possible people should be sent home," after he vetoed a spending bill worked out by the House and Senate over the weekend. By noon workers were streaming out of federal buildings, their work left unfinished, their pay discontinued. The exact number of federal employees furloughed, both in Washington and nationwide, was not obtainable Monday. There were too many variables in the layoff notices, said a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget. Some employees, keeping up with news reports, didn't come to work at all; others were released at various hours during the day and still others were told to finish the day and not report Tuesday. The first impact was a lot of confusion as department heads sought to determine who and what was "essential." Being declared "essential" separated the employed from the unemployed. === Page 199 of 278 Oregon Journal, October 5, 1981 STOCK PRICE INDEXES | | 400 INDUSTRIALS * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 170 | | | | | 165 | | | | | 160 | | | | | 155 | | | | | 150 | | | | | 145 | | | | | 140 | | | | | 135 | | | | | 130 | | | | | 125 | | | | | | 20 TRANSPORTATION * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 28 | | | | | 26 | | | | | 24 | | | | | 22 | | | | | 20 | | | | | 18 | | | | | | 40 FINANCIAL * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 16 | | | | | 14 | | | | | 12 | | | | | | 40 UTILITIES * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 55 | | | | | 50 | | | | | 45 | | | | 1980 1981 Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Standard & Poors Index: Week ending Oct. 2 - UFOs attack economy - Plunge in index hints recession will slide deeper By ROBERT FURLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -- An "especially steep plunge" in a key government index foretells a national economy already in a mild recession sinking even deeper in the next few months, a top Commerce Department official said Thursday. "The only real question is how far it is going to drop," said Assistant Secretary Robert Dederick. 10/30/81 - UFOs attack economy - Wall St. Journal 9-24-81 NYSE-Composite Transactions Wednesday, September 23, 1981 Quotations include trades on the American, Midwest, Pacific, Philadelphia, Boston and Cincinnati stock exchanges and reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers and Instinet. Composite Quotations Because of technical difficulties, final composite trading quotations weren't available at press time. The prices that appear on this page are 4 p.m. Eastern time quotes. WALL STREET WORST CASE OF HYPOCHONDRIA I'VE EVER SEEN...! PROGNOSIS - UFOs attack Wall Street and economy - 10/5/81 GARRELL art. when u UFOs have finished with Wall Street will be dead and , , Owen === Page 200 of 278 UFD - attack economy # Bulls-eye' view for '82: Another gloomy scenario By DAN DORFMAN Back in early 1981, Pierre Rinfret, a colorful, provocative and often flamboyant economist, predicted a recession for the year and a budget deficit of over $100 billion in fiscal 1982. Both were bulls-eyes. And in August of last year, with the prime rate (or a bank's best lending rate to its top customers) over 20 percent, Rinfret told his clients that the prime had peaked and would tumble to 15 percent by year-end. It was another near bulls-eye as the prime ended 1981 at 15¾ percent. ### inside business What now for the 1982 economy? A grim new year, especially on the unemployment front, Rinfret tells me. The 57-year-old economist, who heads up his own economic consulting firm (Rinfret Associates), flatly predicts another 3.3 million Americans will lose their jobs by October or November, swelling the ranks of the unemployed to about 12.3 million. Such a forecast, which assumes a hefty jobless rate of about 11 percent, vs. 8.4 percent currently, would be the highest since April 1941 (11.6 percent). This wicked projection runs way above a growing consensus view that unemployment could reach a peak of around 9 percent in the spring when the recession is at its worst. But Rinfret argues that a 9 percent projection fails to take into consideration the likely depth of the recession -- which he feels will be severe -- and the 1½ million to 2 million people (notably more women) that are entering the labor force each year. WHEREAS A LOT of economists are talking about a 1½ to 2 percent hike in real gross national product this year, Rinfret is projecting an actual decline of 0.6 percent. Here's his reasoning: (1) Consumer confidence is at the lowest level in years; (2) interest rates should remain high (a prime of at least 15 percent) because of the government's hefty borrowing needs in the face of a $100 billion-plus deficit; (3) a worldwide recession should hold down our product sales abroad, and (4) our taxes are going up (despite the July cut) because of a bigger Social Security tax bite and "bracket creep" (a reference to the payment of higher taxes as we move into higher tax brackets). Among the industries Rinfret figures will be hardest hit (and therefore stung by the heaviest rates of unemployment): chemicals, autos, construction, electrical machinery, machine tools, construction equipment and agricultural products. "In some industries, like construction and agricultural equipment and autos, you no longer have a recession, but a depression," bellows Rinfret. "These are areas with 15 to 18 percent unemployment already . . . and it's going to get worse." Our man's bleak 1982 economic scenario calls for (1) domestic U.S. auto production of around 575,000 units vs. roughly 6 million to 6,250,000 in 1981; (2) 950,000-975,000 housing starts, compared with 1.1 million last year; (3) total construction volume (including the building of homes, dams, highways and bridges) to fall around 7 percent, the same as last year, and (4) another poor year of real capital expenditures, with about a 1 to 2 percent drop, vs. a 2 percent decline in 1981. BUT WAIT: Is the President idly going to stand by and see the economy go to the dogs in the face of congressional elections? Reagan, I told Rinfret, is bound to do something. "Wrong; he's trapped economically," Rinfret shot back. "It takes enormous lead and lag times to turn this economy around and you don't do it on a dime." As Rinfret sees it, if the Democratic Party wasn't in such a state of chaos, the Republicans would be in deep trouble. As it is, he went on, the Republicans figure to lose seats in the house and possibly even lose control of the Senate. Any happy words? I asked as we ended our gloomy phone chat. Do you want Alice-in-Wonderland or the real world? Rinfret asked. If you want the real world for 1982, you can sum it up in one word: "misery." NO MORTGAGE RELIEF in 1982: If you're looking for a break in those agonizingly high mortgage rates -- currently a little over 16 percent nationally -- forget it. A consensus of 19 top economists from such blue-chip names as the Mellon Bank, Metropolitan Life and the National Association of Realtors concludes that a combination of high interest rates and lack of sufficient funds for housing investments will lead to another bum housing market in 1982. The economists' poll, conducted by the Crittenden Report, a weekly real estate letter catering primarily to developers, calls for mortgage rates to average 16.19 percent in the first quarter, 15.35 percent in the second, 15.14 percent in the third and 14.80 percent in the final three months. Publisher Alan Crittenden observes that many home builders regard 14 percent as the peak mortgage rate for a viable housing market. FOR RUMORMONGERS only: Here are some early 1982 Wall Street rumors which, needless to say, should be treated as such: Wheeler-dealer Kirk Kerkorian said to be quietly trying to unload heavily debt-ridden MGM Film Co. . . . Allied Corp. (formerly Allied Chemical) reportedly eyeing Supron Energy . . . Sedco said to have acquired a stock position in Tacoma Boatbuilding. STATE TAXES UP, up and up: New York's state tax bite has tripled in the past decade, rising to $1,237 a person, according to Tax Hotline, a lively monthly newsletter covering the tax beat. Ten years ago, the state's average state bill was $237. Highest taxes per capita: Alaska ($3,594), Hawaii ($1,035), Delaware ($867), Wyoming ($824) and California ($818). New Hampshire is the lowest ($290), followed by South Dakota ($392), Tennessee ($411), Missouri ($426) and Ohio ($441). © 1982, The Chicago Tribune === Page 201 of 278 HUSTLING FOR JOBS - Men wait outside Millionair Club in Seattle to intercept prospective employers offering a few hours' work. - UFOR attack economy - (note: This will blanket the U. S. Queus) Seattle job-seekers walt in cold -to no avail orez 1/3/82 SEATTLE (AP) Double-digit unemployment in Washington state is more than just an indication of econom- ic hard times for those who frequent the Millionair Club in Seattle. They are the individuals behind the numbers - 190,000 people statewide looking for work but unable to find it. At the Millionair Club, about 130 jobless people waited Thursday to hear their names called for assorted tasks lasting only a few hours and mostly paying the minimum wage. But as midday approached, only 20 had been sent out on a job. The unemployed slumped in hard chairs and leaned in silence against the walls, and then, one by one, they left. On the sidewalk, the more aggres- sive unemployed waited in the cold for a job opportunity to drive up. "There's a waiting line of 100 people in there," said Kelly, 28. "Out here you take your chances -- but at least you've got a shot." Arthur, 42, said he gets a job this way as often as three times a week. But after four hours of waiting in the cold Thursday, only one curbside worker had been picked up. It was no surprise at the Millionair Club when the state Department of Em- ployment Security reported this week that unemployment in Washington rose to a four-year high in November. "We're getting a lot of new poor - unemployed people who ve never been in this kind of trouble before," said Au- gie Gronberg, Millionair director. "We're seeing married people with chil- dren to feed like never before." Norward Brooks, state commission- er of employment security, said that only slightly more than half of the state's jobless are eligible to draw unemployment benefits. "The critical problem," Brooks said, "is the vast and growing number of persons with no income at all." Michael Matthew, 41, is a journey- man carpenter. His wife, Bridgette, 36, is a journeyman painter. Weariness and defeat are masked in the faces of both. The Matthews' unemployment benefits ran out three months ago. With the ex- ception of a day job or two, they have been living since early October on food stamps and $5 a day. The Matthews live in a four-apart- ment rental house in Seattle, and $5 is what the landlord pays Matthew to keep the place in repair. "The construction business is really slow," Mrs. Matthew said, "so we're trying to get into something else." A recession in the building industry also has put Bob D. Olson, 50, out of work. Before he was laid off Dec. 7, Olson was a salesman for a retail lum- ber company. On Wednesday, at the Bellevue Em- ployment Security office, the Kirkland man was trying to straighten out paper- work that has delayed his unemploy- ment benefits. And until the first check arrives, the only income at Olson's house is from his 14-year-old son's pa- per route. "I've got lots of experience," he said, "but it just happens to be in a depressed area." === Page 202 of 278 UFO, attack economy ( Here ) Unemployment figures soar throughout state org 1/5/82 OLYMPIA, Wash - With the re- gion's wood products industry continu-" ing to slump and a poor economy keep- ing other people out of work, the unem- ployment rate in Clark County rose dur- ing November, statistics released by the state Employment Security Department showed this week. In Clark County, which has had one of the lowest unemployment rates in Washington all year, the figure climbed 0.7 percent during the month, from 8.5 percent in October to 9.2 percent. The rate was based on 8,060 persons unem- ployed, up from 7,430 in October, and a labor force totaling 87,850, up from 87,650 the previous month. Total em- ployment dropped from 80,220 to 79,790. In Skamania County, whose unem- ployment statistics have been among the worst in Washington throughout 1981, things also were bleak during No- vember, as the unemployment rate jumped from 18.9 percent to 20.7 per- cent. The number of unemployed per- sons there rose from 630 to 700; the number of employed persons fell from 2,700 to 2,680, and the labor force in- creased from 3,330 to 3,380. Cowlitz County also reported a sharp rise in unemployment, from 13.5 percent in October to 15.6 percent. Unemployment jumped from 4,460 to 5,200; employment fell from 28,560 to 28,070, and the labor force climbed from 33,020 to 33,270. Klickitat County had a similar pat- tern, as the unemployment rate there soared from 14.7 percent to 20.1 per- cent. Total unemployment climbed from 960 in October to 1,370; employment was down from 5,580 to 5,430, and the labor force totaled 6,800, up from 6,540. Pend Oreille County, in the state's northeastern corner, had the highest unemployment rate - 22.5 percent - of Washington's 39 counties, replacing Skamania County. Whitman, as it did the previous month, had the state's low- est unemployment rate - 3.9 percent. The unemployment rate for the en- tire state also was up, from 9.1 percent in October to 10.1 percent for Novem- ber. UFos attack economy (Here) State fears jobless rate will climb to 11 percent ores 1/5/80 SEATTLE (AP) - By the end of the month, the number of jobless workers in Washington will equal the combined populations of Tacoma and Everett, pre- dicts Norward Brooks, state employ- ment security commissioner. More than 210,000 men and women - about 11 out of every 100 workers - will be unemployed in January and February, says Brooks. The jobless rate is 50 percent higher than a year ago. TY unemployment does not slacken by early spring, the state will be in the worst employment slump since the Great Depression, says Brooks. Already more people are looking for jobs than ever before, although unemployment rates have not matched record highs set in 1972. It will be harder to find a job this year in virtually every field except high technology, says Brooks. And, he says, employment will lag behind the predict- ed recovery of the overall state econo- my. Government jobs are among the hardest hit. Local, state and federal gov- ernments have 13,500 fewer employees than a year ago and more reductions are expected, says Brooks. The Employment Security Depart- ment is not immune and is in the proc- ess of cutting 1,500 positions from a force of 3,500. "At the time we have record unem- ployment, we have record cuts in the agency that handles unemployment," he says. Perhaps the hardest-hit area of the economy is lumber and wood products. The industry had 7,000 fewer jobs than a year ago and faces another tough year. The layoffs spread from the smallest mills to the white-collar employees of the giant Weyerhaeuser Co., which has announced it will trim its research and development staff by 100 workers. Boeing Co., one of the state's largest employers, has about 5,000 fewer em- ployees than a year ago and the compa- ny says another 2,000 to 3,000 will be eliminated in 1982. The mothballing of two nuclear power plants in Washington will make the job market tight for engineers, says Brooks. Teachers, health care workers and other professionals also will find the job market crowded. he says. - UFO, attack economy- Unemployed rate 8% in October; highest since '75 By MERRILL HARTSON Ong 11/ 7/8. WASHINGTON (AP) - A deepen- ing recession pushed the nation's unem- ployment rate to 8 percent in October, the highest level in nearly six years, but the Reagan administration said is it standing by its economic policies and will not go for a "quick-fix" solution. The Labor Department reported the spurt from a 7.5 percent jobless rate in September left more than 8.5 million Americans out of work. It was the high- est rate since the 8.2 percent of Decem- ber 1975, but well below the 9 percent peak of the 1974-75 recession. All-time highs were set last month for black unemployment and for the number of people forced to accept part- time work for the lack of anything bet- ter .. - 450, attack economy Minnesota in red ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - With a budget deficit at $768 million, Minneso- ta could be broke next month largely because the national economy is "just plain sick," Gov. Al Quie said Thursday. Asea .11218 === Page 203 of 278 UFO attack economy As businesses fold Economic noose squeezes SW Oregon By FOSTER CHURCH ray af The Oregonian staff 12/29/81 1 COOS BAY - Squeezed by inflation and high interest rates that they cannot control and by the growing impoverish- ment of the Coos County working class, small businesses ir the area are falling Victim to the recession. Blackened storefront windows along the now gloomy Coos Bay mall testify to the effects of the recession. And mer- chants in Pony Village, the North Bend shopping mall that contains the area's largest concentration of small business- es, are experiencing their worst year. Ralph Sexton, an English-born en- trepreneur, came to North Bend from Medford four years ago and opened Pants Parade Inc., a branch of a success- ful operation that already had branches in Medford and Grants Pass. "The wood industry was booming, and we had four very good years over here until the downturn," he said. By mid-November this year, Sex- ton's flashy, mirrored store, packed with racks of Levi jeans still drew cus- tomers - but to take advantage of a going-out-of-business sale. Sexton sank $50,000 into the mall store, In a working-class Community such as North Bend and if the area's largest mall, it appeared a/prudent in- vestment. But the fortunes of the store plummeted with the calamity that over- took the Southwestern Oregon econo- my .. "Business began to sag after last Christmas," he said. "Our back-to- school business was off 25 percent." He believes the 25 percent drop approxi- mately mirrors the area's unemploy- ment rate. Sexton's lease expired Oct. 31, and he said Pony Village management had announced a rent increase. "My ac- countant said, 'OK, do you really want to stick your head in a noose for five more years .? ' " Reluctant to abandon the store, Sex- ton nevertheless weighed the advan- tages and cut his losses. He chose to leave, and in December he opened a new store, Bonanza Jeans, in Eugene's 5th Street Public Market. "Small business in Coos Bay is going to get liquidated," he said in November. "I don't see how it can survive." Sexton, a brisk, matter-of-fact in- dividual who appears to look fiscal real- ity in the eye, walked the length of the mall. He pointed to stores that are bare- ly making it, and stores that are not making jt. Chain stores, he believes, sur- vive, bolstered by revenue from other stores. Most deeply hurt are locally owned businesses such as Tallman's Pianos and Organs, which closed recently, or a small gift and novelty shop called The Seaweedery, which is barely hanging on. "Not all are losing money," he said, "but there is a scramble for what is left in available dollars. I am discounting heavily. But there comes a time when you can only discount so far." A businessman who must borrow money at an interest rate of between 18 percent and 20 percent to purchase an Inventory must then discount the items. "You buy a pair of jeans for between $17 and $18 wholesale and then put them on the rack for $19.95," he said. In downtown Coos Bay, the covered mall that was built to attract customers appears instead to trap and hold an at- mosphere of desolation and gloom. The Hub, the largest downtown de- partment store, closed more than a year ago, and its darkened windows, strewn with debris, look out on the mall's choicest corner. The list of closed businesses is a rec- ord of the styles and trends of business over the decade: The Skyroom, formerly a nightclub, announced by a darkened, deteriorating sign; a Big Value Depart- ment Store; a delicatessen called The Inn Place; Zack's Stereo and Video. Even the post office has closed its com- modious downtown building and moved to another location. As businesses scramble for custom- ers, they also are ordering less than in prosperous times. The result is hardship for small trucking businesses like that operated by Frank and Sherry Snyder out of Coos Bay. The recession has forced the Snyders to scratch for every bit of business. "There's nothing mov- ing into Oregon," "Mrs. Snyder says flat- ly. Her husband agrees. "You can find loads to take out of state. But once you get there, nothing is coming back,"he "satd. Snyder pulled his trucks back to Coos Bay, where they are hauling wood chips amid fierce competition. "Rates are going lower and lower," he said. "It's survival of the fittest." Meanwhile, in another part of Coos Bay, Joan Kilby contemplates the near- wreckage of her once prosperous enter- prise, Kilby Real Estate. The week after Thanksgiving, she left the modern two-story wood and glass building that she built and occu- pied in June 1980 - "It was a lifetime dream," she said. She leased the building and moved to a small office in the Pony Village mall where she is attempting to hang on. "When the Federal Reserve said keep those interest rates high, they did us in," she said. "In 23 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs, but now I'm see- ing true disaster. "Chave suffered a financial loss al- most to the point of bankruptcy," she said. "I stand to lose everything I have worked for all my life. It is pretty hard to look that in the eye. Where do we go? What do we do?" === Page 204 of 278 IFDe attack economy Jobs department losing more staff og J 12/29/81 SEATTLE (UPI) - The state Employment Security Department finds it must further trim staff personnel throughout the state at a time when more and more jobless people are turning to the state for benefits or help in finding work." Norward J. Brooks, commissioner of the department, painted that bleak picture at a news conference Monday in Seattle. Brooks said the notice has gone out that another 417 department jobs must be trimmed because of budget cuts at the federal level, the source for nearly all funds that finance unemployment compensation or employment services in the states. Brooks noted the latest round of cutbacks is the third his department has endured since March. He said that means eliminating about 1,500 of a total of 3,500 depart- ment jobs statewide since spring. He said the impact is going to be felt by longer lines for people who must stand in line to apply for jobless benefits and to seek help in finding new jobs. Brooks said the cuts dictated by Congress represent a reduction of $10.6 million from last year's budget. "That would be bad enough," he said, "but they made. the new. lower funding level retroactive to Oct. 1, there- by placing us in a deficit situation and compounding the extent to which we have to make reductioons." The major cuts will be in employment service. Brooks said of the 31 Job Service Centers in the state - down from 39 last August because of earlier cuts - services to help people find jobs will be withdrawn from 14 of them, leaving only the unemployment insurance program. The affected offices are those in Auburn, Lynnwood, Lewis County, the Belltown location in Seattle, Mount Vernon, Lakewood, Longview, Raymond, Bingen, Ellen- surg, Okanogan, Colville, Walla Walla and Sunnyside. In all other offices offering employment service, the level of that service will be reduced, Brooks said. In addition, he said the Work Incentive Program (WIN), designed to help welfare recipients become em- ployed and self-supporting, has been cut about 33 percent from $10.9 million to $7.4 million. Brooks said this will mean closing five WIN offices - in Lynnwood, Capitol Hill in Seattle, Southwest Seattle, Aberdeen and Longview. Because of the heavy federal cuts, Brooks said the department will ask the 1982 Legislature for about $2 million to help programs trying to link people and jobs. The commissioner said he expects the unemployment rate in the state to peak at about 11.5 percent next February "and taper off after that."' As bad as that level is, Brooks said it still is not as severe as the state's jobless rate during the "Boeing Recession" in the early 1970s. IF De attack economy Spellman sees larger state deficit ONY J 12/29181 OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI) - Gov. John Spellman said Monday that a new eco- nomic forecast projects an additional defi- cit of $144 million for state government in the current biennium. He also cautioned that the new estimate does not reflect the impact of a possible decline in traditional levels of retail sales for the Christmas season. "These latest figures underscore the se: riousness of the nation's current economic problems," Spellman said in a prepared statement. The governor said the latest estimate represents the best judgment of his Coun- cil of Economic Advisers and national eco- nómic forecasters. The governor's budget office will pub- lish supporting details for the latest pro- jection next month. The latest revenue slide is in addition to a $97 million deficit that was projected in November during the Legislature's special session. Coupled with a $42.9 million loss caused by changes in the state's inheri- tance tax laws approved at the general election, it raises the total amount of the decline since the last official estimate in September to nearly $284 million .. Spellman noted that the Legislature act- ed to compensate for the earlier shortfall and the Inheritance tax loss. "But this new $144 million problem must be dealt with in the January session and I will propose a program for doing so," the governor said. State's jobless rate hits high of 10.1% OLYMPIA (UPI) -. A 10.1 percent rate of unemploya ment was recorded for Washington state in November, the state Department of Employment Security reported Monday. It was the highest November rate in 11 years and the first time since February 1977 that the rate exceeded 10 percent. The national rate for November stood at 7.9 percent by comparison. Commissioner Norward J. Brooks said most of the additional claims for unemployment compensation filed in November came from the construction, lumber, trade and service industries. He also said total employment fell by 26,600 jobs from October to November with the largest drop in agriculture because of completion of the apple harvest. Unemployment rates in the state's 39 counties varied widely with a high of 22.3 percent in Okanogan County and a low of 3.9 percent in Whitman County. In the Seattle area the rate stood at 8.4 percent com- pared with 9.9 percent in Tacoma, 10.1 percent in Spo- kane, 10.7 percent in the Tri-cities and 13.1 percent in Yakima. Jobless rates in other counties included Clallam, 18.1 percent; Grays Harbor, 16.3 percent; Lewis, 15.3 percent; Kitsap, 7.2 percent; and Kittitas, 12.4 percent. === Page 205 of 278 Ve attack economy Hard times tell on Oregon oreg By JOHN HAYES of The Oregonian staff 12/27/81 Chill winds of change are blowing hard against Oregon's economic land- scape, leaving a wake of lost jobs, va- cant shops, unpaid bills, broken dreams and deep fears about the future. The recession, which has separated 60 percent of the state's loggers from their jobs, is splitting families and send- ing breadwinners to the healthier job markets of the Southwest in search of a paycheck. What began in 1980 as belt-tighten- ing tough times has become a statewide calamity as Oregon's unemployment rate hit 11.1 percent in November, the highest level since the Depression of the 1930s. State employment officials say 150,000 Oregonians are looking for work. How many have given up, no one can say. Some corners of Oregon, dominated for generations by one or two lumber mills, have been devastated by their clo- sure. In those towns, main streets are wastelands of shuttered shop windows and blackened storefronts. Hundreds of timber-dependent houses are up for sale in towns like Coos Bay, but nobody is buying. Some families have simply run out on their mortgages, locking their homes and moving away in search of work. The recession has halted a decade- long population boom that added 500,000 to Oregon's population in the 1970s. The Population Research and Census Center at Portland State Univer- sity says the state's population growth has stopped as thousands of out-of- work families have pulled up stakes. Experts are worried that the exodus may further depress the housing indus- try and lock the state into a downward economic spiral. "In 23 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs, but now I'm seeing true disaster," said Joan Kilby, a Coos Bay real estate broker. "I stand to lose ev- erything I have worked for all my life." The recession is being felt in unex- pected ways: no waiting in the dentist's office, cancellation of a job-training pro- gram, an abundance of telephone dis- connect orders. Truckers who have no trouble finding consignments for out of state cannot get cargoes for their return trips to Oregon. To document the recession's effects, Oregon's economy: The new realities The Oregonian conducted a two-month study of the state's economic troubles, involving 10 reporters, five photogra- phers and three editors. The Oregonian found signs that the state is loosening its dependence on the timber industry as investors reach out to tourism and other service industries offering better returns. But the changes are not without enormous personal costs to affected workers. The Oregonian received anguished reports from out-of-work families who face loss of unemployment benefits at Christmas without any hope of finding a job. Reporters interviewed high school students ready to graduate into one of Oregon's highest unemployment periods in 50 years. State officials say 64,000 Oregoni- ans are receiving unemployment bene- fits, but for many families the payments will end soon. Already, 15,000 Oregon workers have exhausted the benefits and are still out of work. "Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better," according to Ray Thorne, administrator of the state Employment Division. He predicted that unemployment will hit 12 percent this winter and that it may be another 18 months before job prospects improve my here is out of their hands." significantly. Even the lucky job-seekers who can find a lower-paying job, perhaps bump- ing a 'ess-skilled worker in the process, have been changed by the experience. "You constantly wonder what's going to happen tomorrow," said Ed Farmer, a Coos Bay millwright forced to move to Canby when he lost his job. "Am I land- ing on my feet, or am I floating down with nothing to catch me?" The most traumatic changes have come in the coastal and Eastern Oregon communities most dependent on the wood products industries. There, some who have never lived away from the area and have never been separated from their families have been forced out of Oregon in the search for work. When Georgia-Pacific Corp. recently had openings for four millworkers in Co- quille, 300 jobless persons waited in line at the mill, many of them arriving be- fore dawn. Yet all is not bleak in the Oregon economy. The state is receiving a record number of out-of-state visitors, and the income from tourism in 1981 could equal a record set in 1978. Unemploy- ment is under 9 percent in the diversi- fied Portland job market. But these economic high spots may presage large changes that will take many years to play themselves out as investors turn away from housing and the timber industry toward joint foreign ventures in the electronics and service industries. Traditions are dying in the state's agricultural regions also. The Oregon Cattlemen's Association predicts 200 of its 3,000 members will abandon the in- dustry this year because of high interest rates. "There's nothing colder than a banker's heart," said one Baker rancher. And the The Oregonian found evi- dence of political change in the wind also, as families who in the past have worried about unchecked growth and urban sprawl now cite the sagging economy as the state's No. 1 problem. "The optimism is gone," said a Coos Bay community action agency director. "It used to be that people wanted to hang on, but that's all gone now. The people I talk to have pretty much ac- cepted that what happens to the econo- === Page 206 of 278 UFO2 attack economy. Reagan, Fed hit for poor economy greg 1/20/82 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Three Nobel Prize-winning economists said Tuesday that the policies of the Rea- · gan administration and the Federal Reserve Board were responsible for making the economy worse in 198T Harvard professor Wassily Leontief, Yale profes- sor James Tobin and professor Lawrence R. Klein of "During the past year there has been a significant worsening of the economic environment,"Klein said. "A combination of overreaction by monetary au- thorities in pursuing policies of tight credit and serious miscalculation of accompanying fiscal policies by the administration led to a complete breakdown of credi- bility vis-a-vis financial markets," Klein added. "The present administratuion is off to a shaky start, for the seemingly well laid plans of 1981 have now to be significantly reconsidered, only one year later," he said. Leontief said Reagan was following the lead of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose aus- terity policies have led to record unemployment and a wave of bankruptcies in Britain. The administration is trying to suppress inflation Wharton School of Business testified before the Joint by beating the entire economy into the ground," he Economic Committee of Congress. said. Tobin directed most of his criticism at the Federal Reserve Board. "The economy stalled in 1981 when the recovery collided with Federal Reserve restric- tions on monetary growth," he said. "Unfortunately the prospect is that the 1982 recovery also will collide with the monetary barrier .... The collision is likely to stall the economy even farther from maturity than in 1981." UFO2 6 Projects 'Crab meat' campaign org 12/5/81 White House error stirs action U.S. By FRANCIS X. CLINES and BERNARD WEINRAUB New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - In a recent communication er- ror, the White House mailed out a recipe for crab-meat casserole, two 8-by-10 glossy photos of the Reagans, and a form letter on voluntarism to an Illinois housewife who had written a personal plea to the president to spare special education for the hand- icapped from budget cuts. "I looked at the reply in disbelief at first - then I got angry," said Susan Benjamin, whose two sons have learning disabilities but who have been well served, she said, in programs threatened by budget cuts. Mrs. Benjamin had written to various state and local officials in behalf of the Northern Suburban Special Education District just outside Chicago. She thought a note to President Reagan might at least "be counted" even if a personal reply was not possible. Her letter was apparently miscounted, according to the explanation she eventually received, and put with nuiring "form-111" stock ronline rathanthe the district's Parents Alliance that Washington is lis- tening, but it has given the parents fresh, angry re- solve. "Even if it was an error, I was appalled at the insensitivity of the White House," said Mrs. Benjamin. "Here they're asking us to take budget cuts in all sorts of vital programs and still sending out such expensive replies. Why, the crab-meat casserole would cost 20 bucks to make, with artichoke hearts and crab meat at $15 a pound." The Coordinating Council for Handicapped Chil- dren, based in Chicago, has fashioned a "Let Them Eat Crab Meat" newsletter campaign from the incident and reports considerable interest among members of Congress and the public. The fact that this was one honest error among thousands of letters received daily at the White House has not dampened the complaints, according to Charlotte Des Jardins, the council's ex- ecutive director. "It betrays an attitude," she said. Mrs. Benjamin said her hope was with Congress, not the White House. "I could take the pumpkin pecan pie and the Baja California chicken," she said with Inhalarance of the other White House recipes en- -- 111. "But with the crab-meat cas- - UFOR 6 Projects- Cancun meet failure or success? President Reagan came away World nations were obviously frus- A major goal of the Cancun con- from the unique summit conference trated over what they saw as Rea- ference was agreement for global of rich and poor nations in Cancun, gan's simplistic preaching about de- "Mexico, with the impression that it veloping their nations the way the had been a "substantial success." United States did. Apparently he was the only one They saw his call for self- of the 22 heads of state who development along capitalistic lines thought so. In fact, the United States, as financial assistance. represented by its president, was singled out as the cause of failure of The criticism of the American president, however, was not limited a conference aimed at considering to the Third World. European ales the world's economic needs negotiations on the world economy. It did not come about, and the U.S. was singled out as the cause, In the end, the U.S. was isolated, little was achieved, and many world leaders as not understanding their needs for , went home bitter toward this nation and doubtful of the vame of the summit. Greg,5 10/27/81 were among those who openly com- Leaders of some of the Third plained of the American position. === Page 207 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects & attack on Deficits mount economy Reagan shifts budget stance WASHINGTON (AP) - Faced with record-smashing deficits that could top $100 billion a year, the Reagan adminis- tration now says it can live with a tor- rent of red ink without reversing its strategy against inflation and high in- terest rates. In a turnaround from President Rea- gen's longstanding assertion that defi- cits are a cause of inflation, senior White House economic advisers sought Tuesday to downplay that relationship. One member of the Council of Economic Advisers, William A. Niskanen, suggest- ed the connection is virtually non-ex!" .- ent. Sources said those numbers already had been revised slightly downward by the time Reagan met with his advisers Tuesday afternoon on his upcoming budget plan. Rudolph G. Penner, a budget official during Gerald R. Ford's administration, said there is "a certain irony" that the record deficit of $66.4 billion, which UFOR attack economy U.S. economists think recession worsening Drag 12/19/81 By ROBERT FURLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation- al economy is sinking rapidly, smashing President Reagan's October declaration that the 1981 recession would be "slight .. and I hope short," preliminary govern- ment estimates indicated Friday. The broadest measure of U.S. eco- nomic activity - inflation-adjusted gross national product - appears to be falling at an annual rate of 5.4 percent in the current October-December quar- ter, according to a Commerce Depart- ment "flash" estimate. A one-quarter decline that steep would be one of the worst in recent years, though not as bad as the record contraction at an annual rate of 9.9 per- cent in spring 1980 or the previous rec- ord 9.1 percent in early 1975. This fall's quick decline in overall GNP - the total of all U.S .- produced goods and services - would back up recent reports of worsening in house constructiga, industrial production and unemployment, which is near the post- war 1975 peak of 9 percent. The government does not announce its "flash" GNP estimate, which is made from preliminary and sometimes scanty information on the still-uncompleted quarter. But the figure was made avail- able by administration sources who asked not to be named. In the public numbers game of such estimates, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan ventured a guess last month that "real," or inflation-adjusted, GNP could fall at a rate as great as 4 percent in the current quarter, but private economists have issued forecasts as high as 8 per- cent. The Commerce Department's chief. economist, Robert Ortner, said earlier this week that GNP could fall at a rate of 6 percent in the quarter if output by. the nation's factories continues to de- cline as it has for the past four months. Whatever the figure, economists in- side and outside the government agree the recession is no longer slight or short. Their defense of deficits came in the occurred in 1976, "was set by a con- wake of reports from administration sources that a new, bleak forecast pre- servative president (Ford), and the rec- ord will be broken by another conserva- tive president." pared for the president last week showed the budget deficit surging to a record $109 billion in fiscal 1982, $152 billion in 1983 and $162 billion in 1984. Penner said the deficits projected by the Reagan team are "intolerable" and should be reduced through significant tax increases. However, the giant deficit figures do not reflect further spending cuts Rea- gan likely will propose when he submits his 1983 budget to Congress early next year, sources noted. Chief presidential spokesman David Gergen disputed earlier reports that Reagan had been handed the revised deficit figures last Friday. Gergen, who refused to discuss specific figures, said the president saw the new numbers for the first time Tuesday during a general presentation on the budget outlook by budget director Dawid A. Stockman. The administration's deficit outlook ) has worsened dramatically in the past few months because of the developing recession and a significant reduction in inflation, trends that reduce anticipated federal revenues, White House officials said. "He (Reagan) accepted the fact," Gergen said. The administration plans to whittle the projected deficits for 1983 and 1984 through a new round of deep spending cuts in domestic programs. But several aides and many private economists doubt the president can make much "headway so long as he continues to rule out deeper cuts in Social Security, a slowdown in his record buildup of the military budget or significant tax in- creases. Meanwhile, House Democrats vowed Tuesday to oppose an agreement between Reagan and congressional Re- publicans to cut an additional $4 billion in spending from the 1982 budget and prevent another presidential veto like the one that shut down much of the " government for a few hours last month. === Page 208 of 278 yFor 6-P 100x Precision jets crash; 4 By ROBERT MACY greg 1/19/827 INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (AP) - Four members of the Air Force Thun- derbirds precision flying team were killed Monday during practice, and a spokesman said it may have been a col- lision or "follow the leader into the ground." Disorientation The four red, white and blue jets -crashed into the desert at more than 400 mph after completing a maneuver known as a line-abreast loop. In the maneuver, the jets line up side by side, do a backward loop several thousand feet into the air and then plunge downward at more than 350 knots, leveling off about 100 feet above the ground. "We don't know whether it was a mid-air collision or a case of follow the leader into the ground," said Air Force Sgt. Jack Conner, spokesman at Nellis Air Force Base, the team's home base. He explained that the Thunderbirds pilots are trained to "fly off the com- mander-leader," watching only the plane next to them and not the ground or their instruments because of the tight formation in which they fly - often as close as three feet apart. "Normally, he's (the commander) the only one looking where he's going," Conner said. It was the worst accident in the his- tory of the precision-flying team, the Air Force said. "They hit the ground and flames just shot along like napalm," said George LaPointe, a construction worker who saw the crash. "They were at tree-top level, and the next thing I knew, there were all these flames and explosions." He said it appeared that all four planes went into the ground together. "I saw the planes come down," said a woman who lives in a nearby trailer park. "I just saw the four planes togeth- er. They were up there doing loops and stuff like that." The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said that as the planes neared the ground in formation, sudden- ly there was a "boom ... one great big crash. It shook all the trailers here." The victims were identified as Maj. Norman L. Lowry III, 37, of Radford, Va., team commander; Capt. Willie Mays, 32, of Ripley, Tenn .; Capt. Joseph Peterson, 32, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Capt. Mark E. Melancon, 31, of Dallas. Two of the pilots had talked of the perils they faced when companions were killed last year. "Accidents in flying are something you learn to live with," Peterson said then. He said pilots learn to accept "but for the grace of God, it could be anyone of us anytime, anywhere." Mays said then that after an acci- dent, morale drops, but added, "We re- alize that we have a mission." The team was in training for the 81-show exhibition season that was to begin in March, said Conner. The team had flown to Indian Springs, an auxilia- ry field 40 miles northwest of Nellis and Las Vegas, almost daily. Air Force officials declined to specu- late on the future of the 81-member Thunderbird squadron, which performs before millions of people annually. Two officers died in separate crashes last year. "It's too early to speculate as to what will happen," said Air Force spokesman Col. Mike Wallace. "Obvi- ously, the loss of four pilots and four aircraft is a severe blow. But we have snapped back before and could conceiv- ably snap back again." An Air Force fact sheet says the team was organized in 1953 "to boost morale and confidence in jet aircraft." Wallace said an Air Force accident investigation board had been formed to determine the cause of the crash. The crash, which spread debris over an area two miles long and a mile wide, occurred a half-mile northeast of a strip of businesses in this tiny co and sent debris plummeting to outside the Indian Springs Post In Washington, Air Force said their records showed th Monday's accident, 25 Thi planes had been destroyed and men killed since the program 1953. -Thunderbird Accident FLIGHT PATH -- Four jets of the Thunderbirds precision flying team took this line-abreast loop, before crashing and killing the four pilots Monday. It was not known whether the planes collided or smashed into the ground. Backside Of Loop ans 4 Thunderbirds Abreast === Page 209 of 278 UFO2 100X Mack Thunderbirds stunt crash Cause hunted Tape fails to explain jet crash WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lead Investigator Francis McAdams said Thursday an initial review of the partially unintelligible cockpit tape from a crashed Air Florida jetliner failed to pinpoint what might have caused last week's tragedy. "There are several things we're going to have to look at in quite greater depth, but there isn't any- thing I would say we're going to focus on to the ex- clusion of some other fac- tors," McAdams said. McAdams, a member of the National Transporta- tion Safety Board, said he listened twice to the tape, taken from the cockpit voice recorder retrieved Wednesday from the mud- dy bottom of the Potomac River, and its clarity was spotty. Asked whether he had heard any calls of distress. McAdams told CBS News. "Not to my hearing. I did not." "Some of the crew's conversation is rather clear and then others is overrid- den by noises and some of It is really unintelligible. he noted in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. He was confident, how- ever, that technicians would be able to enhance the tape's quality by filter- ing out background noise ADAT 11-182 INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (UPI) - Four jets from the Air Force's Thunderbirds stunt team failed to pull out of a steep, wing-to-wing dive Monday and smashed into the desert floor at 400 mph - still in formation in the worst crash in the group's 28-year history. Military experts led by Maj. Gen. Ger- ald D. Larson of New Hampshire Tuesday began the three-week task of studying the accident to determine its cause. The manufacturer of the Thunderbirds' planes, Northrop Corp., discounted me- chanical failure of the four supersonic T-38 Talon jets as the cause of the crash. "The airplane has been known to have a very, very good record," Northrop spokesman Monte Montgomery said in Hawthorne, Calif. "I don't think this par- ticular accident had anything to do with the operation of the airplane at all. You don't have four airplanes fail at the same time." The jets crashed almost simultaneously with what nearby Desert Springs resi- dents described as an earthquake-like ex- plosion that looked like a napalm bomb. Wreckage was strewn across a square- mile area of desert 60 miles north of Las Vegas. The crash brought to 18 the number of Thunderbird aviators killed since the for- mation of the group in 53. Witnesses said the prots failed to pull out of their steep dive and crashed into the earth side by side, still in formation. "The fatal maneuver, called the "line abreast loop," called for the four pilots to streak 100 feet above the ground, sharply climb several thousand feet, make a loop in the sky, dive earthward and pull out of the loop 100 feet above the ground - making a final side-by-side fly-by over the runway at 400 mph. "It was not the most difficult maneu- ver," said Maj. Gen. James Gregory, com- mander of the Tactical Weapons Fighter Center. "The wing positions are very crit- ical so they don't bobble and also the pull- out is very important." Tom Sullivan, a Boulder City, Nev., man driving to a construction job at the time of the crash, said one jet hit "and the other three followed within a tenth of a second flying in formation." "They didn't pull up fast enough," he said. "Right before the crash they were climbing and then were rolling on a dive down to the ground," said another motor- ist, Jim Kelso of Ojai, Calif. "Just as they pulled out of the dive, all four of them hit the ground. The instant they hit we knew they were dead; no one could have sur- vived." The Thunderbird pilots were practicing for the 1982 show season. The first of their 87 aerial shows was scheduled for March 13 in Davis Mothan, Ariz. Officials said it is too early to determine when or if the season will begin. Killed in the crash Monday were Maj. Norman L. Lowry III, 37, Radford, Va., a veteran of 264 combat flights in Vietnam and the new commander-leader of the Thunderbirds; Capt. Willie Mays, 31, Rip- ley, Tenn., left wingman; Capt. Joseph "Pete" Peterson, 32, Tuskegee, Ala., right wingman, and Capt. Mark E. Melancon, 31, Dallas, Texas, flying the slot position. The 1982 show season would have been the debut for Lowry and Melancon as Thunderbird pilots. Two solo members of the six-man team - Capt. Dale Cooke and Maj. "Hoss" Shumpert Jones - were practicing at nearby Nellls Air Force Base when their comrades were killed. Before Monday's crash, the Thunder- birds' most recent accident was on Sept. 9, 1981, when the jet of the team leader, Lt. Col. David Smith, crashed at Cleve- land's Burke Lakefront Airport. Smith died when his parachute failed to open. Of the 18 fatal Thunderbird crashes to date, 10 have occurred in Nevada. Since the Thunderbirds were formed at Luke Air Force-Base in 1953, an estimated 153 million spectators have watched their 2,455 performances. note: nevada PR: Owen === Page 210 of 278 Cargo plane skids to stop TACOMA (AP) - A giant C-5A Air Force cargo plane skidded on its nosé to a safe landing Friday at McChord Air Force Base after the front landing gear failed to extend, an Air Force spokes- man said. "It was a perfect landing consider- ing the nose gear wasn't down," said Pete Lochow, McChord's deputy public affairs officer. The 10 crew members and five mili- tary passengers escaped injury, he said. Emergency crews stood by at the 3:39 p.m. emergency landing, but didn't spray the runway with flame retardant foam because "it was raining so hard they didn't have to - typical Nort' west weather," Lochow said. The C-5A is about the size of a ) ing 747 jumbo jet. It was on a ro flight, carrying cargo and militar sengers from its home base w 60th Military Airlift Wing at Ty By STEVE WILSON BOSTON (AP) -A World Airways Force Base, located about 50 - DC-10 carrying 208 people slid off the of San Francisco, the spokesite'end of an icy runway and plunged parts way into Boston Harbor Saturday night as it landed at Logan International Air- port. No one was seriously hurt, al- though the plane's cockpit broke off and threw the crew into the water. TiFOR 6 Projects Navy fliers escape MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Four U.S. Navy fliers parachuted to safety from their disabled Grumman Prowler jet Friday moments before it crashed during a routine training exercise near a U.S. Air Force target range in the Phil- ippines, the Navy said. The fliers suffered only minor cuts and bruises and were in good condition at the Clark Air Base Hospital, Chief Petty Officer Dale Pitman of the infor- mation office at Subic Naval Base told The Associated Press by telephone. He identified the four as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Pinnell of Howard Beach, Fla .; Lt. Cmdr. James Powell of Spokane; Lt. Tom Wood of Panama City, Fla .; and Lt. Mannie Rickenbaker of Elloree, S.C. Area 1/23/82 UFO16 Projects: 1 UFO Projects: Plane in collision plunges into city VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Two small aircraft collided in flight Saturday, plunging one plane into this city's business district and sending the other to crash at a nearby airport, officials said. One pilot was killed and the other reported slightly hurt. It was the fourth accident involving light aircraft in Southern California in the past four days. Eight people have been killed. Saturday's collision occurred at noon over Apple Valley, 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, authorities said. One of the single-engine planes limped to Victor- ville, four miles away, and slammed into a six-lane boulevard in the business district, killing the pilot, San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Joe Castanon said. Castanon said appeared the pilot "tried to control the plane, but apparently couldn't." The pilot's name was not immediately available. No injuries or damage were reported on the ground, fire dispatcher Ron Jenkins said. "It (the street) was pretty empty for some reason," Jenkins said. "The plane just crashed into the street and then scattered into a zillion pieces," he said. "There's wreckage all over." He said there was no fire or explosion. The pilot of the second plane, a Cherokee Pathfind- er, crashed trying to land at the Apple Valley Airport, intanon said. 0109/24/82 Jetliner slides into Boston Harbor 1/24/82 org down chutes from the rear of the craft and waded ashore through knee-deep water. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched six boats to aid the rescue. Many passengers, shaken but un- hurt, were taken away from the acci- "When I got there, there were there getting passengers out ' The accident occurr landed in light rain glazed runway. Service said the Flight at said the " M- 100 surged through the cabin. rain about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. down emergency chutes and scrambled through icy, waist-deep water after Flight 30, from Oakland, Calif., and Newark, N.J., skidded off the end of a runway at Logan International Airport. It was landing in a light The 196 passengers and 12 crew members slid The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, to be sent to a laboratory for analysis Mon- day, may reveal at what point on the 10,081-foot runway the plane landed, what the crew said before landing and "sounds such as switches being thrown, changes in engine noises and warning horns," said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Rob- learn why the jumbo jet with 208 people aboard slid? crucial data and voice recorders Sunday from a par- tially submerged World Airways DC-10, hoping to off an icy funway Into Boston Harbor and broke open. BOSTON (AP) - Federal Investigators recovered " By FRED BAYLES Org /25/80 under scrutiny Jet's voices UFO16 Projects had no ble. and "God certainly has been good said one female passenger che At least 23 people hospitals, some on stret and nearby Winthrop. Bu spokeswoman for the Mas Port Authority, said none of th appeared to be serious. accident. World Airways Flight 30 had nated in Honolulu and stopped in Oa land, Calif., and Newark, N.J., before landing in Boston, its final destination. "The front end of the plane flew off," said passenger Jerry Podesta, 22, of Philadelphia. He was splashed with water while in his seat. Only the rear of the plane was vis- ible in the water at the end of the run- y, but most people on board slid landing conditions at the harborside airport. Buckhorn said the inquiry would include a lo to have all survivors." ""Weather conditions and the airport's decision to operate is a key area we'll be looking at," said Patricia Goldman, a member of the safety board. "It WF obviously a stunning scene, and we're very fortuna Transportation Safety Board inspected the scene of the The cockpit of the plane broke off, and water At least 38 persons were injured, none seriously. Sunday morning, 10 members of the National ter." dent scene on buses and vans. Some were still wearing inflatable life vests. "The plane slid off the end of the dent. Podesta said was dispatched to investigate the acci- warning that ** "We Ip. going " and- All on board were accounted for, said Edwin Chandler, the airline's sta- tion manager. "Everyone's out," he said. However, airport spokeswoman Ca- rolyn Walden said 11 people had not reported to authorities after the crash. "We don't know what the status is," she said. "We're still looking. Divers are in the water. We have 174 signed in, and we know 23 have gone to area hos- pitals." Police said all those on board were rescued from the plane, which came to rest partially submerged in the freezing sea water at about 7:30 p.m. baby -stern · safetly . spokesman runway," said one snowplow operat ert Buckhorn. === Page 211 of 278 40 . 6 Projects Soggy image etnie 00 15 Rain defeats tough Marines 2.21 BELLEVUE, Wash. (UPI) - It was raining, so a few ¿tico good men decided not to turn out for a community Veter- to s_ ans Day program. e'bj. A Marine Corps guard was scheduled to open the program last week at Bellevue's Crossroads Mall, but they turned back because of the weather, says Gary "dler Fujioka, marketing director for the mall. "Perhaps we, as Americans, nuture an overly machis- a'u'- mo image of our warriors," Fujioka said in a letter to a 150 Marine Corps commanding officer. "Perhaps it's particu- axo " larly true in the case of the Marines. But who would guess that a little rain would daunt the U.S. Marines 299 / Corps?" The program was scheduled for noon, Nov. 11, and when the color guard failed to appear by 11:55 a.m., Fujioka frantically called the Bellevue Marine recruiting 3il: office. He was told the color guard had decided not to sim? come because it was raining, Fujioka said. In ga A true cross-section of Americans turned out for the 120. Veterans Day ceremony," Fujikoa's letter said. Execu- Sits tives on their lunch hour, kids out of school for the day uitun "The resulting remarks from the crowd ranged from, #ShL'I hope it's sunny outside for our next war,' to 'Was it Indi : raining at Iwo Jima?' "An elderly woman from an area nursing home had tor walked some distance through the weather to see the program. Her husband, a Marine, had died in combat. She wanted only to see the uniforms, hear the sound and marching and rekindle a dying but precious memory." 20 Maj. Rick Poggemever, commanding officer of the Seattle-area detachment of the Marine Corps, said it wasn't the rain that stopped his marines. It was a "seri- ous error in judgment " "The Bellevue recruiters who were responsible for the color guard either forgot or ignored the promised appear- ance," he said. Onegro 11/19/8, UFO 6 Projects- Plane loses door SEATTLE (AP) - Art Sala had an unexpected drop-in visitor to his back yard Thursday morning - an airplane door. The 27-year-old University of Washington student said he heard "a thundering crash" as the door of a nine-passenger, turboprop airplane fell into his yard at 8:01 a.m. The door came from a Beech King Air 200 aircraft flying at 2,000 feet after taking off from Boeing Field. None of the passengers, who included three Rainier National Bank executives and a bank customer, was sitting near the door, said a bank spokesman. No one was hurt. Sala said he was standing where the door landed only two minutes before the incident. Bank officials said they did not know why the plane's door came off but said the Federal Aviation Administration was investigating. The plane returned to Boeing Field after the inci- dent, said Mike O'Connor, the FAA's regional duty officer. He called the mishap "definitely unusual to say the least." The aircraft was en route to Vancouver and Pasco: 1FOR 6 Projects Pilot ejects safely LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - The pilot of an F-16 fighter plane ejected safely Friday before his plane crashed in the desert about a mile and a half from Nellis Air Force Base. "He was coming in for a landing and apparently had some aircraft malfunction," said Sgt. Jack Conner, a base spokesman. Capt. Kevin D. Phillips 33, was apparently unin- jured, he said. Phillips is a member of the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron based at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah. the plane went down shortly before 4 p.m., near the base of Sunrise Mountain, a few miles east of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. oreg 1/16/82 UFOR 6 Projecte At least two killed in plane collision FALLON, Nev. (UPI) - A Navy plane on a training mission, collided in flight with a civilian aircraft Monday, killing at least two people over the bombing range at the Fallon Naval Air Station. The Navy said an A-7 Corsair II was making a practice run when a civilian Cessna 182 wandered into the airspace over the range about 70 miles east of ong 12/16/8/ 12/15 4FOR 6 Projects 50 hurt in accident TRIESTE, Italy (AP) - A gangway to the U.S. Navy ship the Puget Sound collapsed Tuesday, injuring 50 sailors and civilians, police said. Police said 21 people were hospital- ized and the rest were treated and re- leased. None of the injured was reported in serious condition UFO2 6 Projects Accidents kill 6 Navy men MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A U.S .. to Diego Garcia island. Navy officer and four enlisted men drowned Sunday when they were trapped without oxygen inside a cham- ber of the submarine U.S.S. Grayback : during diving training off the coast of Luzon, the Navy announced. A sixth diver engaged in the subma- rine training, survived and was in good condition under medical care at the Su- bic Bay Navy Base, 50 miles northeast of Manila, a Navy spokesman said. In another accident, a Navy seaman apprentice aboard the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Tripoli fell overboard and was lost at sea Saturday in the Indian Ocean. the Navy said. The incident Ofourmed 600 milgo nonthen chi - UFOR 6 Projecto Navy spy plane crashes MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - A 50- phisticated U.S. Navy spy plane crashed Friday in a rice field near the gunnery range of an American air base, but all four aviators aboard ejected and suffered only bruises, a Navy spokesman said. The Americans bailed out when they detected serious trouble with the aircraft. They were recovered almost immediately by a Identities of the dead were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The diving accident occurred just after midnight Saturday while the Grayback was submerged off the main Philippine island of Luzon near the Su- bic Bay base during what the Navy said was a routine training exercise for the divers. The Navy said the six were inside a large chamber, waiting for the water to be drained out so that they could enter the submarine's inner hull. During the draining process, they "apparently lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen and collapsed into the ter remaining in the chamber," the ry spokesman said: Greg 1/17/82 utter hallcenter === Page 212 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects- China submarine blast reported PEKING (AP) - A Chinese submarine exploded in the North China Sea during an attempt to launch a missile, killing 100 people aboard, Asian and European military experts reported Wednesday. They said that the 320-foot submarine exploded underwater in a coastal area during an attempt to fire a ballistic missile in late August or early September. : The sources said the submarine was unable to withstand the shock and vibration caused by the at- tempted firing. They said many of the crew died of asphyxiation. * The submarine, modeled after a Soviet craft, was designed to fire torpedoes and was fitted with tubes for ballistic missiles. :Details of the accident were not known. China is experimenting with launching ballistic missiles from a submarine base. It can fire missiles from the ground, which absorbs the tremendous shock and vibration of the launch. The several foreign sources asked that their names not be used and some said the Chinese confirmed a naval accident had taken place with high casualties in the Bohai Sea. The Chinese Ministry of National Defense and the Foreign Ministry had no comment. The sources emphasized it was an accident and one said the responsible person aboard the craft "forgot to do something." : Major accidents usually go unreported by the gov- ernment-controlled press. Nov. 25, 1979, an oil rig collapsed in the North China Sea and 72 people were killed. The incident was not reported until the foreign press wrote about it seven months later. The Chinese press then reported the accident eng 10/15/81 UFO2 6 Projects Drugs hintéd in air crash oreg 12/6/81 TUCSON, Arizona (AP) - An au- . Daily Wildcat said three sources at Dav- topsy performed on the Air Force pilot is-Monthan Air Force Base here, where killed in the Sept. 4 crash of an observa- Miller was stationed, said an illegal drug was detected by the autopsy. tion plane near Tombstone revealed the presence of an illegal drug in his body, the University of Arizona student news- paper said Thursday. One of the sources attributed the crash to the presence of the drug, the Wildcat said. The sources asked that they not be named, the Wildcat said. Air Force spokesman refused to con- firm or deny that Miller's autopsy re- is against Air Force policy to discuss and knocked out power to parts of Co- vealed traces of an illegal drug, saying/ chise County. In a copyright story, the Arizona cause of accidents. UFO- 6 Projects- 4 die in Nimitz plane crash JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) - An anti-submarine plane from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed in the Mediterranean Sea during routine flight exercises Tues- day, killing all four Navy crewmen aboard. The names of the dead men - the pilot, flight officer, tactical coor- dinator and sensor operator of the S-3A Viking aircraft - were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The plane was attached to Air Anti-Submarine Sonadron ?A - IFUA 6 Projecto. 3 military air crashes take 6,lives Orag J 9/30/81 By United Press International UFOr & Projecto Training camp accident kills Salem soldier ET. IRWIN, Calif. (UPI) - One soldier was shot to death and three others were injured in a live fire exercise at the vast Three military crashes killed six men Mojave base where the U.S. Army prac- tices desert warfare against mock Russian Tuesday, with a seventh man missing and presumed dead. In the worst accident, an units. Pvt. Robert G. Solonika, 20, of Salem, Air Force helicopter slammed into a "mountain during a combat training mis- Ore., was killed Sunday night "by small sion in New Mexico, killing four of the six arms fire" at the National Training Cen- crewmen. ter, the Army announced Monday. Small arms fire in infantry exercises Department airplane in Nevada, bringing usually refers to rifle bullets. Two men died in the crash of a Defense To nine the number of servicemen killed Pvt. William J. Renken, 18, Meriden, during war games there in the past nine Iowa; Pfc. Anthony I. Johnson, 20, Day- days. A Navy pilot, whose helicopter ton, Ohio; and Pvt. Larry Beck, 18, Kerns, went down in the Atlantic Tuesday, was Utah, were wounded by bullet fragments, presumed dead. said Robert Hughes, a civilian spokesman .The Navy also announced that an F-14 for the center. Tomcat jet fighter based on the carrier. All were reported in good condition at USS America went down Monday in the Weed Army Hospital at Ft. Irwin. Indian Ocean, 50 miles from the ship, but All were members of the 1st Battalion, the lwo crewmen ejected and were res- 18th Infantry Regiment of the Ist Infan- cued by a Navy helicopter. try Division, stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan. The HH-53 Air Force helicopter that Hughes said the accidental shooting crashed Tuesday near Grants, N.M., kill- took place during a tactical exercise using ing -four, is known as a "Super Jolly armored personnel carriers, tanks and live Green Giant" and is similar to those used ammunition on a huge target range, in the aborted hostage rescue mission in where up to 2,000 men at a time can fire Iran. It crashed at the 8,000-foot level of live rocket, artillery and rifle fire at an 11,3D1-foot Mount Taylor. "advancing army" of pop-up targets. gregs 1/26/82 NA 6 Projects- FAA orders warning light MIAMI (AP) - The Federal Avia- tion Administration has ordered airlines to put new warning instruments in the cockpits of Lockheed wide-body L-1011 TriStar jetliners after.a series of engine failures, according to a newspaper re- The Rolls Royce RB211 engines that power the wide-body jets have failed at least six times in the past four months, "The Miami Herald reported. Neither the FAA nor Lockheed have excessively shortly after takeoff. Eastern Airlines TriStar disintegrated A week earlier, an engine on an 203 people aboard was injured. shortly after taking off from Newark (N.J.) International Airport. None of the The FAA order was issued by the agency's Seattle office, spokeswoman vibration. Judy Nauman said. The Herald reported abrupt change in oil pressure or engi the warning lights will signal any Oreg 10/4/8. port plans to ground the aircraft, spokesmen sald. The most recent incident involving a TriStar failure occurred Wednesday when a Trans World Airlines jet was forced to return to San Francisco after one of its three engines began vibrating Lt. Ricky A. Miller, 25, of Dayville, Ore., was killed in the crash of a twin- engine O-2 aircraft. There was no other injury in the crash, which damaged sev- eral Azizoma Service Co. power lines The two surviving crewmen, burned over 80 percent of their bodies, were in critical condition Wednesday. Kirtland Air Force Base officials in Al- buquerque said the cause of the crash was not immediately clear. === Page 213 of 278 UFor 6 Projects THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1981 Clouds hamper search for airman CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Poor visibility over the Atlantic Ocean ham- pered the search Friday for an Air Force pilot whose crewman was rescued Christmas Eve after six days in a life raft. C Officials were considering whether to send more aircraft to join a C-130 weather plane and a 95-foot cutter in the search for Ist Lt. Michael A. Matt- son of Joppa, Md., Coast Guard Petty Officer Bob Segal said. Another C-130 was forced to return because of the weather, he said. "The visibility is just so bad, they don't want to lose anybody else" in the hunt, Segal said. The F-4E Phantom, based at Sey- mour Johnson Air Force Base in Golds- boro, N.C., vanished Dec. 18 on a rou- tine training exercise off the North Car- colma coast, and the wreckage has not Been found. The search had been called off Wednesday. Pat it resumed Thursday afternoon after a shrimp trawler came across 1st Lt. Thomas W. Tiller, 26, of Houston, floating in a one-man life raft about 45 miles southeast of Charleston. The renewed hunt for Mattson cen- tered on the area where Tiller was -found, officials said. Tiller, weapons systems officer on the downed jet, was listed in good con- dition Friday at the Naval Regional Tiller said. Medical Center in Charleston. He was being treated for exhaustion, exposure and a rash over much of his body, ac- cording to spokesmen. "He told officers the jet's engines had failed going into a turn. His father, Griff Tiller, had just about given his son up for dead. He called the rescue "a miracle as far as we are concerned" and said the family would wait until the airman returned home before opening family Christmas presents. "It is very traumatic experience - after practically giving up and then finding your son is back to life again - it kind of shakes you up," the elder UFOR 6 Projects org J 12/ 5/81 Coast Guard investigates sinking of 3 sister ships By DAVE BURNS Journal Correspondent ASTORIA - A Coast Guard officer says it may be just a coincidence that Three sister fishing boats have sunk off" The Pacific Northwest Coast in a fittre more than a year, but he would like to make sure Lt. Paul Thomas of the Coast Guard Astoria Marine Inspection and Vessel Do- cumention Office indicated a thorough in- restigtion of Sunday's fatal sinking of the Midnight Express near the mouth of the Columbia River and earlier losses of two similar boats is well under way. The Midnight Express shuddered, rolled o starboard and sank in about 10 seconds, ccordine ong 12/29/81 nar "The vessel's plans will be here next Fire on liner cancels cruisezas said. "I'd like to find a MIAMI (AP) - An engine-room fire aboard the nt something like this from luxury liner S.S. Norway has spoiled the New Year's e future." Eve cruise plans of 1,950 people and also may force cancellation of next week's cruise, company officials said Monday. "We just don't know what will happen yet," said Arthur Kane, vice president for corporate relations at Norwegian Caribbean Cruise Lines. "We won't know until we get some technical information about the cause of the fire and the extent of the damages." Kane said all passengers on this week's cruise, aborted hours before it was scheduled to leave Sun- day, will receive air fare home, a full refund of their tickets, which cost between $900 and $3,500, and a 50 percent discount on a future cruise. He said 1,800 passengers are booked for an seven- day Caribbean cruise scheduled to begin next Sunday. note: This ship was the Nov. 3, 1980, near the same place as Sun- day's accident. The crew of a nearby fish- ing vessel rescued all four crewmen. The four-man crew of the Corey P ... which sank last Jan. 17, died. Only the body of the captain, Paul Vines Jr. of Warrenton, was found. The three craft were sister ships built at Hudson Shipbuilding Co. of Pascagoula, Miss. All three were listed as 86-foot mid- water trawlers. "I'm not ruling coincidence out yet but we're going to be looking at the designs of the vessels and other information very carefully," Thomas said in reference to. the three similar sinkings. "We can't overlook a situation of this type," he add- ed. One of the injuries was serious, said UFO2 6 Projecto Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Thom- Snapped cable kills 2 men on carrier MiFOR 6 Projects Navy carrier accident fatal NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - An A-7E Corsair II jet fighter attempting to land on the USS John F. Kennedy snapped an arresting cable, which then struck and killed two crewmen and injured three others Thursday, the Navy said. The Norfolk-based aircraft carrier is operating in the Caribbean with 30 oth- er ships in exercise Readex 1-82 - The A-7E and three aircraft parked on deck were damaged in the accident at 7:45 a.m. EST, said Lt. Cmdr. Dave Thomas, a spokesman for the 2nd Fleet. The single-seat A-7E took off after the cable broke and landed later at Roo- sevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico, Thoms said. The pilot apparently. was not injured and the damage to his plane was minor. Names of the dead and injured were withheld pending notification of rela- tives. Carrier-based airplanes have tail- hooks that snag one of four cables stretched across the 130-foot wide deck to slow them down on landing. Each cable is as thick as a man's wrist. 02/ 12/4/81 The break occurred as the Cor touched down and its tailhook snared cable, which is designed to drag the p tờ a halt. The Corsair aborted its landing climbed back into the sky, landing late the Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, N and injuring three others. · NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - A cable de- signed to stop airplanes snapped and whipped across the deck of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in the Carib- bean, killing two sailors on the flight deck as The wrist-thick steel cable, one of four tightly stretched across the carrier's 130- "foot wide deck, snapped when an A-7E Corsair II light attack bomber attempted to land during maneuvers. Base. org 1 c/04/8, so we can take corrective. === Page 214 of 278 UFO2 6 Project- 8 crewmen die in B-52 crash By ANDREW ROSENTHAL LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) - A B-52 jet bomber on a low-altitude training flight flew into the top of a mesa and explod- red in a ball of flame over southeastern Colorado before dawn Friday, killing all eight crewmen aboard. -faff Sgt. Ada A. Martin of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs said the eight-engine plane carried no weap- ons but that "classified material was on board." She did not elaborate. Wreckage from the jet, based at March Air Force Base in California, was -scattered along a trench nearly a mile long atop the low mesa in the sage- brush-covered sand hills eight miles east of here. Rancher Bob Davidson, who lives seven miles south of the crash site, said he was awakened by the blast. He then flew his own airplane to the site and walked through the wreckage. "Metal was strewn everywhere," Davidson said. "There wasn't anything that wouldn't fit in the back of a pick- up. There were pieces of flesh around but only one body that could be recog- nized as a body. It didn't have a head." J.R. Thompson, a reporter-photogra- pher for the Rocky Ford, Colo., Daily Gazette, said he flew over the crash to take pictures and that the pilot of his plane had estimated that the jet was exactly on course for a simulated bomb- 4FOs 6 Projects Fire no danger to NATO BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A Belgian air force spare parts depot near NATO headquarters burned down Wednesday but the blaze posed no threat to the alliance's compound about 150 yards away, officials said. The fire in the one-story building sent flames 30 feet into the air but was brought under control in about two hours. org 11/26/81 UFO2 6 Projecto Greece moves to close bases ATHENS, Greece (UPI) - Greece's new socialist gov- ernment intends to set a timetable for the United States to close its military bases and will press ahead on plans to quit both NATO's military wing and the Common Market. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou made clear Sunday, on the first day of a three-day debate in parlia- ment seeking a vote of confidence, that he will pursue his three campaign promises. Papandreou won an impressive election victory Oct. 18, giving his Panhellenic Socialist Movement 170 seats in the 300-member parliament. aring Jo 11/25/8, ing run when it hit the mesa. "He plowed into the north end of the bluff," Thompson said. "Our pilot es- timated that the plane was flying al- most 250 knots (287.5 mph) at the time of the crash." He said the plane apparently crashed and skidded along the top of the mesa, creating "a black trench, gouged a mile long into the ground." The rubble along the trench flared out at one point, apparently where a fuel tank exploded, Thompson said. Sgt. Rich Whittaker of the Pueblo County sheriff's department, who saw the crash from a squad car, described it. as "a big, huge flash." Truckers on a nearby highway re- ported seeing the fireball and hearing a loud boom around 4:45 a.m., authorities said. Residents said jets have made the practice bomb runs over the desolate ranch country east of La Junta for 20 years. The altitude of the runs varies, witnesses said, but often is lower than hills that rise about 200 feet above ground level. The wreckage was scattered near a point where planes on the simulated bombing runs usually make a 90-degree turn. The Air Force has declined comment on the cause of the crash and appointed a panel of officers to investigate. Air Force officials said the plane was a B-52D model, which at 20 years old is the oldest model of the B-52 in use. The B-52D has been scheduled for retirement by the Reagan administra- tion. A B-52D jet is valued at about $7 million, said March AFB spokesman Da- vid J. Heffernan. It was last used in combat in Vietnam. Heffernan identified the crew as: Capt. James L. McGregor, 31, pilot, of Chowchilla, Calif; Capt. Gani Aydoner, 30, co-pilot, Kaysville, Utah; Capt. Clif- ford R. Duane, 36, San Bernardino, Cal- if .; 1st Lt. Kendall E. Wallace, 25, Lagu- na Beach, Calif; Capt. Stanley H. Eddel- ·man, 28, Sparta, Ill .; Senior Airman Ti- mothy E. McFarland, 23, Tucson, Ariz .; Airman 1st Class Bruce E. Schaefer, 22, Beloit, Wis .; and Airman 1st Class David W. Smith, 20, Pasadena, Texas. oreg 10/3/8, -2016 Projecto- Air crash fatal NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A submarine-hunting jet on a routine flight from the aircraft carrier USS Ni- mitz plunged into the Mediterranean Sea and sank, killing four crew members, the Navy said. The S-3A Viking, attached to Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 24. crashed Tuesday about a mile from the Nimitz and about 70 miles northwest of Sicily, said Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connor of Atlantic Fleet Headquarters in Norfolk. He said Wednesday that the cause of the crash was unknown. oreg 11/19/8) - VIFOR 6 Projects - Copter crash kills soldier DOVER, Tenn. (AP) -- A military helicopter clipped the top of a tower carrying 69,000-volt power lines and crashed into the Cumberland River, killing: one soldier and seriously injuring another, officials said Thursday. Army Maj. Bill Mulvey said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of Wednesday night's crash of the Hughes OH6 helicopter near this small northern middle Tennessee town. Both men aboard the helicopter were stationed at nearby Fort Campbell, Ky., and were on a routine training mission. Capt. Fred Olds of Fort Campbell's Public Information office identified the injured man as chief warrant officer Robert R. Fladry of Erie, Pa. The Army was withholding the identification of the dead. soldier ANA 10/0/01 === Page 215 of 278 UFO+ 6 Projecte- Navy denies EA-6B jet faulty aneg 10/31/81 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (AP) - The fatal crash of an EA-6B Prowler jet from Whidbey Island, Wash., was the fifth such accident involving that type of plane since May, the Navy said Friday. One of the three Washington state-based airmen who died in Thursday's crash had confided earlier that his plane had obsolete equipment and was inadequate- ly maintained, the victim's brother said in an inter- view in Washington state. However, the Navy said Friday its equipment was well-maintained and "the best available." Navy officials also said there were no plans to ground the Grumman-built electronic surveillance planes and that there was "no thread of similarity" between the Thursday crash here, in which three Whidbey-based crewmen died, and one in May aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz ... A Tour-man crew died May 26 aboard the Nimitz when their plane struck several others while trying to land. Ten crewmen on deck also were killed and 48 were injured. Navy records show the EA-6B and related aircraft - a bomber and tanker - were involved in nine crashes that took 14 lives between November 1979 and July 1980. Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connors, a spokesman for the At- lantic Fleet Naval Air Force, said an EA-6B assigned to the carrier America crashed July 23 and another, assigned to the carrier Forrestal, crashed July 25. The fifth recent crash occurred in August near the The planes are "extremely well maintained to Whidbey Island Naval Base in Washington, where all"make sure everything is working correctly," Chandler the EA-OB planes are based, he said. There were no said. fatalities in those three crashes. "I don't think there's any doubt that the equipment is the best available," said Lt. Richard Chandler, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station spokesman. Investigators remained on the scene of the latest ly to gather pieces of wreckage and the ectronic equipment that was aboard the 2826 Procente- Navy hunts missing copter SAN DIEGO (AP) - Military aircraft searched Sunday for a U.S. Navy helicopter, carrying four people, which never returned from a routine training flight, the Navy said. 12 Petty Officer Cori Dinkins, of the Commander Naval Air Force, said the helicopter took off Saturday from the landing deck of- the USS Wichita about 6 p.m. PST. The ship was stationed off the Southern Califor- nia coast. "The pilot hadn't said anything about any prob- lems." Ms. Dinkins said. She said the helicopter was not spotted going down Names of those missing were not released, and further details were available. Fatal crash 'skips' Marines" CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A private af ?? plane crashed Sunday in a field where 230 Marines were camping out on a training exercise killing the two people aboard the craft but injuring no one on the ground, a spokeswoman at Camp Pendleton said. "We are very, very fortunate," said Sgt. Tracy Heuman. "It's almost like a tent city out there . . . and the wing tips of the plane knocked over several tents." Names of the two aboard the twin-engine, two- seater Piper Seneca were not immediately available pending notification of their relatives, Ms. Heuman said. She said Federal Aviation Authorities were investi- gating the incident at the base in northern San Diego County enme 75 miles south of Los Angeles UFO1 6 Projects- 2 F-15 fighters collide EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (UPI) - Two Air Force F-15 fighter planes col- lided during a nighttime refueling opera-, tion over the Gulf of Mexico Monday and one plane crashed into the water. The fate of the downed pilot was unknown, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday, and the names of both pilots were not released immediately. areg;J cc/3/81 The unarmed jets are used by the Navy to block out hostile aircraft radar and guided weapons systems with high-powered jamming transmitters contained in pods mounted under the plane's wings. Witnesses told investigators it appeared the plane exploded in the air over a farm about three miles south of Oceana Naval Air Station. One naval officer said he tended to agree with that. claim, saying the wreckage would have been in larger pieces if the plane had merely flown into the ground. Instead, the largest piece is a 10-foot section of fusel- age. The rest is scattered nearly a mile across fields surrounding Princess Anne Stables off London Bridge Road. The Navy identified the dead crewmen as Lt. James H. Mallory Jr., 26, the plane's pilot, from Sa- vannah, Ga .; Lt. Cmdr. Jack A. Fisher, administration officer for the aircraft squadron, from Stockton, Cal- if .; and Lt. Alfred J. Dupont Jr. of Bellevue, Wash. All were assigned to Tactical Electronics Warfare Squad- ron 138 in Washington state. Dupont earlier confided that the plane had obsolete instruments and was inadequately maintained, his brother Steve Dupont said Thursday in Bellevue. "He was concerned over it, but he told me not to confide in my parents because they would worry. He just wasn't confident with the equipment," Steve Du- pont said. "Naval aviation duty is volunteer duty so if the men do not want to fly, they can just resign from active duty flying," Chandler added. The three fliers had been in Norfolk only two days, flying cross country from the West Coast on Tuesday with the crews of the other three planes in their squadron. They had taken off from the Norfolk Naval Air Station at 8:30 a.m. Thursday with three other EA-6Bs and were on their way to the carrier John F. Kennedy off the Virginia coast to begin a five-week exercise in the Caribbean. According to Connors, the plane apparently turned back toward Oceana Naval Air Station, instead of flying with the other three out to sea. It crashed at 8:50 a.m. about three miles from Oceana. Connors said no emergency was declared by the. pilot and no distress signal Was seen, The aviators apparently did not eject from the plane. The cause of the accident is not yet known, he said. 1-UFOR 6 Projects- 3 airmen killed in jet crash VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A Maxy, in a line about a mile long, witnesses said. Prowler iet crashed in a field south of Ocea- Burning metal littered a wide area. nà Naval Air Station Thursday, killing all three men aboard. The EA-6B jet was the same type as the Marine jet that crashed on the aircraft carri- er Nimitz in May. Wreckage of the Prowler was scattered The airborne electronics warfare aircraft was headed for the carrier John F. Kennedy at sea when it crashed at about 8:50 a.m. It went down in a rural area about 15 minutes after leaving Norfolk Naval Air Station with three other Navy plan Okg 10/30/8, === Page 216 of 278 3 NATO planes crast - WHO2 6 Projecto. 16 San Francisco Chronicle Ted- Wed., September 23, 1981 Jet Smashes Into NATO Troops 100 Feared Dead Ankara, Turkey A Turkish air force F-5 jet fighter crashed and exploded yesterday in a bivouac area prepared for a NATO exer- cise. Reporters at the scene said at least 100 Turkish sol- diers were believed to have been killed. Military sources said a fence surrounding the site, where the soldiers were doing calisthenics, prevented many of the victims from escaping the explosion and flames. They said 26 bodies were counted, but they expected the toll to rise. Military sources said the pilot was practicing a diving run over the bivouac area and was unable to pull the plane out of its descent. They said he was killed in the crash, which occurred about noon, and that there were reports the jet hit a gasoline or jet uuel dump. Hospital sources said more than 100 soldiers were flown to Istanbul by helicopter from the crash site near Babaeski, about 30 miles from the Greek border and 70 miles northwest of Istanbul. Some of the victims reportedly had to be transferred to Ankara, 225 miles to the east, because Istanbul's hospitals were too crowd- ed. The hospital sources said most of the injured suffered severe burns Turkey's military government gave few details of the accident or the number of dead and injured. Access to the crash site was refused to all but military personnel. The Turkish military imposed a news blackout after initial reports that the jet that crashed was an F- 104 and that at least 100 soldiers were killed. Turkey's military ruler, General Kenan Evren, announced over state radio later that an F-5 crashed, and that there were "sev- eral casualties." The Turkish sources said so far it appeared all the casualties were Turkish. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto said the Pentagon knew of no U.S. troops involved in the crash. Allied troops had not arrived at the scene of the exercise - code- named Display Determination 81. Troops from the United States, Britain, Greece, Italy, and Portugal were scheduled to come ashore for the exercise in an amphibious landing tomorrow. There was speculation Turkey's ruling generals might cancel the exercise. The Turkish fighter was one of three NATO planes that crashed yesterday in Europe A U.S. Air Force pilot, First Lieutenant David Babaeski GREECE Istanbul Jet Hits Bivouac TURKEY Where the F-5 went down 2 S. Richardson, 24, of Lancaster, Ohio, bailed out of his A-10 jet fighter just before it crashed into the hills south of Florence in northern Italy. Richardson para- chuted to safety. He also was taking part in NATO military maneuvers being held throughout Europe. A French-made Mirage jetfigh ter of the Belgian Air Force explod ed above a factory near Welken- raedt, about 80 miles east of Brus- sels near the German border, killing the pilot. Some of the wreckage landed on factory build- ings, but no injuries were reported on the ground. Officials said they did not believe the flight was connected to NATO exercises. === Page 217 of 278 2502 6 Projects THE SUNDAY OREGO NIAN, JANUARY 3, 1982 Pilot killed as Navy PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A Navy plane carried three cr C-1 2 cargo plane lost power, dropped five passengers. onb o à compactycar and slammed into a Powell said the some type of fuel r near Pensacola and tret : in a housing development Saturday, kill ing the pilot and injuring three of the sew en others on board, authorities said. No one on the ground was reported inju red and no homes in the develop- met it suffered any major damage, said Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connor, a spokesman for the Navy in Norfolk, Va. | The Navy identified the dead man as Lt. Cmdr. Vernon M. Johns of Virginia Beai ch. I Connor said the plane was on a lo- gisti cs flight from Norfolk to the Pen- saco la Naval Air Station when it went dow n about 1:25 p.m. He said the plane had been diverted from a landing at the navs il station to the Pensacola Municipal Airport because of weather conditions. I \ light rain was reported at the time of the crash, and fog limited visibility to a ha ilf-mile, Connor said. The plane crash ed several miles north of the mu- nicip al airport's runway. Sheriff's Lt. Don Powell said the / plane crashes ew members and plane developed nalfunction while sacola airport's control tower. TI plane was being guided to a runway the airport by instrument. But short of the runway, the plai radioed the Pen- began to lose altitude quickly. UTVR 6 Projects California aircraft crashes fatal to six Oray 11/23/8, SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A private plane, were withheld until relatives could be buzzed tents occupied by Marines at contacted. Camp Pendleton, Calif., during the week- end, flattening one tent before slamming into a bulldozer and killing the two people aboard the plane. Four Navy crewman. also were killed in a helicopter crash off nearby San Diego. The names of the male and female vic- tims aboard the twin-engine Piper Seneca Chat crashed Sunday at the Marine camp "It's really a miracle that no Marines were futured. There were about 200 Ma- rines in the tent camp out there," Lt. Col. Gale Stienon said. "The plane flew over some tents. One tent was flattened with a wing of the plane . Fortunately, it cleared the area and crashed into a bulldozer. - UFO1 6 Projects-(Readly air Dutch airliner crash kills 17 ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch do- mestic airliner crashed Tuesday in a thunderstorm outside Rotterdam and all 17 people aboard were believed killed, state police said. Two witnesses were quoted by police as saying the Hamburg-bound aircraft plunged out of cloud cover, - slammed into the ground and burst into flames. Another witness told Dutch television he saw the plane emerge from the clouds with only one wing and spiral to earth. "The thunderstorm was frightful," said office worker J. Van Luyk. "The wind was very heavy. We ran out of the office to try to save the people on board, but when we got there, there was nothing to save. The plane had disintegrated into millions of pieces." The plane, a twin-turboprop Fokker F-28 Friend- ship, crashed into an industrial estate on the outskirts of Moerdijk, about 20 miles south of Rotterdam. "It is almost certain that all occupants of the plane were killed outright," police spokesman John de Lizer said. The 17 aboard included four crew - a pilot, a co-pilot and two hostesses. oreg. 10/7/81 UFOc 6 Projects Probe continues in DC-10 incident oreg 11/29/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators are continuing to look into the breakup of a jet engine on an Air Florida DC-10 that caused dangerous damage to wing devices when the plane was taking off from Miami. "The investigation is continuing," Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said Saturday. "At this point we don't know what the (board's) recommendations will be." the Air Florida incident occurred Sept. 22 while the airliner was taking off. The crew managed to pull back on the throttles and stop the DC-10 safely before it reached the end of the runway. Furman said the safety board's inquiry included assessing damage jo high-lift slats on the leading edge of one wing. In a similar incident, 273 people were killed when a DC-10 crashed in Chicago in May 1979. Officials later determined that the plane's wing slats were damaged when an engine tore loose from its mounting pylon, causing x to go into an extreme roll and plunge to the ground Furman said the safety board also was investigat- inga Sept. 22 engine failure aboard an Eastern Air- lines wide-body L-1011 after it took off from Newark, N.J., on a flight bound for Puerto Rico. === Page 218 of 278 UPOR 6 Projecto Org 11/24/8, THE OREGONIAN, TI Associated Press Lasarphoto FATAL CRASH - Stolen twin-engine plane is Two men in plane died. Before the plane crashec wrapped around bulldozer after crashing Sunday it grazed several occupied tents. Bulldozer shield- at Camp Pendleton Marine base in California. ed seven Marines sleeping in tent behind it. === Page 219 of 278 9-22-81 S.F. Chronicle Oakland Stewardess - HO16 Projects - (decollinare space) Death on Plane New Details Karen Williams, the World Airways flight attend- ant who died in the elevator of a DC-10 as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean Sunday, was the victim of a heart attack and was not crushed to death as first reported, a spokesman 'for the airline said yesterday. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administra- tion were investigating the bizarre death of Williams, 24, a former Miss Oakland and YMCA volunteer who was an inspiration to the young women growing up in her East Oakland neighborhood. The FAA first reported that Williams was somehow trapped between the top of the crew elevator cart and the ceiling of the deck, and was crushed to death when the cart started to rise. The elevator connects the lower galley level with the main deck level where the passengers are. But yesterday, Michael Hender- son, spokesman for World Airways, said there was no malfunction in the elevator system, and a prelimi- nary autopsy report from the coro- ner's office in London indicated Williams' "death was by cardiac arrest with a miner degree of asphixiation, with no injuries to internal organs." Williams, who had been a flight attendant for two years, was found draped over a food cart on top of the elevator. She was trapped "in such a way that she couldn't breathe," said Don Armstrong, act- ing chief for the FAA's engineering corps office in Long Beach. "The evidence that we have up to this moment implies that one of the switches that senses whether. the door is open or closed malfunc- fioned so the system operated with the door open." Armstrong said. "What a person is doing draped over a cart when it (the elevator) began to move I don't know.' Armstrong said this type of elevator system has malfunctioned in the past, but he said he did not know whether the incidence of failure was "out of line because I don't have the numbers available." World Airways spokesman Henderson said that a preliminary probe by a National Transportation Safety Board investigator. A. D. Llo- rente, found the elevator system to be working properly, and that the aircraft is still in service. Llorente could not be reached for comment. Don Hanson, spokesman for the manufacturer, McDonnell- Douglas, said, "] know there have been some malfunctions on the safety switches there (on the eleva- tor)," and added that in the early 1970s another stewardess was in- jured in a galley lift incident. But Hanson said the system had been improved in 1979, and "1 don't believe there's any great rash of problems with it." The death of Williams, who planned to quit her flight attend- ant's job next month to return to school, has profoundly shaken her family, neighbors and co-workers. Her sister, Beatrice Pontoon, price said Williams, who was crowned Miss Oakland in 1979, worked as a volunteer and taught modeling at the YMCA in her East Oakland neighborhood. Pontoon said Williams "used to give little talks to the girls in the neighborhood on how to be a lady to motivate them, to inspire them - just because they're here doesn't mean they're going to have to stay here forever." When Williams, who was based in Baltimore, would return home with pictures of her travels, the girls would rush down the street to meet her, Pontoon said. "They know she's gone, but they don't know who's going to take her place." Their mother, Arbille Williams, described Karen as a cheerful. athletic, goal-oriented young wom- an who was concerned about oth- ers. === Page 220 of 278 - Deadly Air Space- - UFOR 6 Projecto - Air travelers paying high price for tough stand drag 10/28/81 By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - Air New Eng- .Moreover, in this case, Reagan had a land shut down the other day, in part clear shot. The members of PATCO had because of the impact of the air control- very obviously broken a law. And their demands seemed clearly excessive at a time when the rest of the government was being asked to tighten belts. It was, everyone said, time to draw the line. lers' strike. Traffic at the nation's busi- est airports is off 20 percent. The gov- emoment has ordered schedules cut back further next month. Delays of 30 min- utes or more are six times as common as they were before the strike. Statistics aside, everyone who travels fre- quently knows that airline ser- vice is no longer reliable. If you simply have to be somewhere at a specific time, it is prudent to build GERMOND -WITCOVER several hours into your schedule to sit around an airline terminal stewing and swearing. The airline system in this country is, not to put too fine a point on it, a mess and likely to get much worse before it gets any better. The holiday season and bad weather are just now approaching. It's easy to envision a snowy Sunday night in December when the whole thing comes to a standstill. Still there is no sign of any softening of the Reagan administration's hard-line attitude against rehiring any of the 11,500 striking controllers even now that the first step has been taken to- ward decertification of their union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. In the short term, President Rea- gan's decision to fire the controllers af- ter they struck illegally in August was obviously an extremely popular one. But it now seems apparent that the country as a whole may be paying a high price for this short-term political gain, both in terms of the effect on the economy and the impact on what has become an essential service for so much of American business. In that first flush of righteous indig- nation in the White House -- remember Reagan himself announcing the ul- timatum for the cameras in the Rose Garden, - apparently no one took the long view. If someone had, it is hard to believe they could not have found some formula that would have allowed the White House to make its point in em- phatic terms while leaving the door open for a reasonable solution sometime down the road. That door wasn't left open largely because the President's advisers be- lieved the demand that the controllers return to their jobs within 48 hours was going to break the strike, Indeed, 24 hours into that ultimatum period, White House officials were crowing among themselves that almost one-third of the controllers already had yielded and re- turned to their jobs in the control tow- ers. That figure proved, of course, to be grossly inaccurate. What was forgotten in the heat of the moment is that the air traffic con- trollers are not outlaws, even though they broke the law when they walked off their jobs. They are working people and union members who got caught up in a dispute - and now are paying an extraordinarily high price for having Labor unions aren't held in the high- est esteem these days, and those that represent public employees are particu- misjudged the resolve of the other side. larly vulnerable political targets. Even But the rest of the country is also their fellow union members often are paying a high price for another miscal- critical of public workers and their de- culation - the one the White House mands at a time of rising taxes and high made in believing the ultimatum would inflation. succeed. There would be some political risk, of course, in any decision by the Reagan administration to bend a little now. The most devoted union-haters could be ex- pected to accuse the President of "cav- ing in" to union muscle and sanctioning illegality. But there are others who would give Reagan credit for showing some flexi- bility and practicality if a new effort were made to find a formula for bring- ing the controllers back to work. The point has been made; reasonable people are not going to imagine Ronald Reagan is soft on illegal strikes. It would not be surprising, however, if reasonable people now should begin to ask if the government doesn't have some responsibility to maintain reliable airline service. === Page 221 of 278 A 10 :3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 Associated Press Laserphoto EMERGENCY OVER - Steam rises from nuclear plant near Rochester, N.Y., after radioactive leak shut facility down. Plant officials canceled emergency alert Tuesday, 26 hours after radioactive steam was released. "FOR attack "Power" (" Projecto) Nuclear plant shutdown completed By BOB DVORCHAK ONTARIO, N.Y. (AP) - The R.E. Ginna nuclear plant was brought to a cold shutdown Tuesday, 31 hours after "a steam tube rupture automatically shut down the unit and sent radioactivity Into the atmosphere, officials said. The Nuclear Regulatory Commis- sion's emergency response team left the area after cold shutdown was reached at 4:30 p.m., according to John Oberlies,. chief spokesman for the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., which serves 1 million customers in the Greater Rochester area. Cold shutdown is attained when the temperature in the primary cooling sys- tem is under 200 degrees Fahrenheit. "We optimistically hope to be able to inspect the steam generators by Sat- urday," Oberlies said. The cold shutdown was achieved 51/4 hours after plant officials had de- clared the remaining nuclear emergency classification was canceled. The utility then closed its emergency news center. The plant had been in various emer- gency stages for 26 hours since the acci- dent Monday morning. . "The emergency is over. The situa- tion is stable. Operators are making pre- parations for the cleanup of the spilled water," said Jan Strasma, an NRC spokesman. "It's the mop-up phase, if you will." A site emergency, the second most serious in a four-level classification sys- Tem - and by NRC definition a situa- tion that poses the potential of health effects for the public - had gone into effect 75 minutes after the 9:28 a.m. Monday burst. It was downgraded to an alert, the third most serious level, at 7:15 p.m. Monday, and the alert was canceled en- tirely at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. "There's still a lot of work, but the plant superintendent determined we are not in an emergency any more," said RG&E spokesman Richard Peck. "Oper- ations are going back to normal. Every- thing is going along excellently." Meanwhile, federal officials voiced concern about the recurrence of steam tube failures. The rupture at Ginna, a Westinghouse-designed, pressurized water reactor, was the fifth time in eight years that a steam tube had burst at a nuclear plant, according to the NRC. "The industry is very concerned about it because it's an operational problem," Strasma said. There also is an industrywide problem with premature tube degradation. There are 3,260 steam tubes in each of Ginna's two generators, and they tend to become corroded with caked up crud and mineral deposits. "The only way it can develop into a serious prob- lem is if a number of tubes fail," Stras- ma said. Other tube ruptures have occurred at Point Beach in northern Wisconsin Feb. 26, 1975; Surry Point in Gravel Neck, Va., in September 1976; Prairie Island in Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 2, 1979; and the Duke Power Co.'s Oconee Unit in South Carolina in September 1981. The biggest part of the Ginna clean- up involved purification of 11,000 gal- Tons of radioactive water flooding the containment building floor. Oleg 1/27/82 === Page 222 of 278 Employees to be called back 2501 6 Projecto N-plant emergency declared stabilized By MEL REISNER ONTARIO, N.Y. (AP) - A tube rup- tured in a cooling system at the Ginna nuclear power plant Monday, releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere and leaking thousands of gallons of wa- ter into a sump before the plant was stabilized, officials said. But by Monday night the situation had stabilized so much that utility offi- cials said all employees would be called back to work Tuesday. "We are convinced the plant is safe," said John Oberlies, a vice presi- dent and chief spokesman for the Ro- chester Gas & Electric Corp., which owns and operates the plant. "We know it is stable." "We are convinced there are no health problems," he said at a 9 p.m. news briefing. "However, we continue to check." A declaration of a "site emergency," the second most serious of four emer- gency classifications, had been down- graded to a- "alert," the third level, at about 7×15 p.m., 10 hours after the tube burst, according to Frank H. Orienter, another RG&E spokesman. Richard Sullivan, a spokesman for RG&E, the plant owner and operator, had said early in the day that there was "no danger to the public at this time." Following the rupture, the plant reactor was shut down automatically and doused with water to keep it from overheating, said Gary Sanborn, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He said the plant "appears to be fair- ly stable." The plant is located about 18 miles northeast of Rochester, New York's third-largest city. Oberlies said unmeasurable traces of radioactive gases continued to be re- leased into the atmosphere until about 5 p.m. He said the releases were part of the utility's efforts to cool the reactor. Nemen M. Terc, an NRC emergency preparedness analyst, said there was no damage to the reactor core. And the reactor's fuel elements were never un- covered by cooling water, said Ebe McCabe, NRC regional reactor projects section chief. Harold Denton, director of the NRC, said in Washington that "it might be expensive for the operator to clean up, but in terms of public health conse- quences it wasn't very serious." - Officials said the reactor was being cooled down well below operating tem- perature and the cooling down process was expected to be completed by Tues- day or Wednesday. Oberlies said about 11,000 gallons of water was standing in the containment sump. McCabe said the water probably was slightly radioactive, "but certainly not dangerous." If the reactor were in full operation, water in the sump would not interfere with it as long as the water did not touch the reactor wall. The sump is de- signed to catch excess water in case of leaks or other water problems. Pumps later remove the water from the sump. Richard de Young, director of the NRC's office of enforcement, said it would be "a number of weeks" before the plant is back to normal. Denton identified the gases released as radioactive xenon and krypton. The radiation release - described by one official as no higher than what could be expected in nature - was Lake Ontario Site Emergency Rochester Ontario Buffalo NEW YORK PA. Ap emitted into the atmosphere in 5-second puffs, totaling three minutes, while the wind was blowing from the northwest at 14 mph, officials said. Snow was fall- ing over Rochester. Oberlies said five workers had trace levels of exposure to radiation. He said two showered, and three wiped off with a cloth, then all went home. ojeg 1/26/82 Related stories um Pagoy, S. Radiation hits N-workers ONTARIO, N.Y. (UPI) - Seven employees report for work at the damaged Ginna nuclear power pla shut down by a radioactive steam leak, suffered radiat doses significant enough to measure, utility officials se The workers received a "minimal amount" of contami tion on the clothing Tuesday as they and 150 oti workers returned to the facility, said Richard Peck Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. spokesman. "In all ca we were able to remove the particles," Peck said. "Th were detected at routine check points in the plant. Th didn't even know they had any contamination," 09 /27/84 === Page 223 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects WPPSS plants receive oteg By SANDRA MCDONOUGH 1/23/82 of The Oregonian staff death sentence SEATTLE - The Washington Pub- lic Power Supply System finally put the seal of doom on its ailing nuclear power plants 4 and 5 Friday. Members of the WPPSS board of directors unanimously voted to termi- nate their construction - an action that will have repercussions throughout the Northwest for years to come. ambrus conrecent 19 nahli- UFO2 6 Projects Power plants deficit forecast RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - It will take the United States a long time to recover from the slump in electri- cal power plant construction, says Larry Chockie. Chockie, of San Jose, Calif., represents the United States on an International Atomic Energy Agency group working to develop codes for inspection of operating plants. He is also a member of several national committees responsible for writing nuclear power building codes. The United States is not building new power plants, he said, while other nations like Japan, Eng- Tand, France and even smaller countries like Taiwan and South Korea are moving ahead quickly. The United States is shunning more than nuclear plants - new orders for coal and oll-fired plants also are lacking, said Chockie, who was here to speak to The American Society for Quality Control and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. "We may well be short of power soon," he said. "And it takes so long to get them operating that it will take a long time to recover. The net effect is very disturbing." Japan can build nuclear plants in 40 months from start to finish, he said. "All of the regulations are the same (as in the United States), and in some cases they are a little tighter." He believes the difference in American and Japa- nese plants is worker productivity and management. Both, he said, are better in Japan. Construction criteria are also constant in Japan, he said. "They do it so quickly that the criteria don't change." Construction periods of 10 to 12 years allow agen- cies to change standards and requirements in the Unit- ed States, he said. Japan learned quality assurance from the United States and applied it as a principle, Chockie said. "Everyone in Japan is quality-conscious." Now, he said, Americans are studying Japanese techniques to learn their quality-assurance practices. UFO26 Projects Leaking gas on Navy ship I kills 3 sailors SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A freon gas line apparently ruptured aboard a nuclear- powered cruiser, killing three sailors and Injuring seven others who came to their rescue. The dead men were discovered Monday about 5:15 p.m. in the forward air condi- tioning plant of the guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge, docked at the 32nd Street Naval Station, a Navy spokesman said. - Names of the victims were withheld. The seven hospitalized were in stable condition at Balboa Naval Hospital. Master Chief Petty Officer Jim McDo- nough said two victims were on a routine inspection when they entered the air con- ditioning plant, which was filled with fre- on gas. McDonough said the third victim, a pet- ty officer working part time for a civilian contractor, was overcome when he en- tered the plant to help the two. Lt. John Carman of the Navy's information office in the Pentagon said the third man appar- ently called for help before succumbing to the freon. "The navy contractor notified other persons on the ship and then he was over- come," Carman said. The other seven were injured while try- ing to help the victims, McDonough said. otag J 1/26/82 === Page 224 of 278 NRC suspends Diablo UFO2 6 Projects Canyon license NUNZIO J. PALLADINO WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nu- clear Regulatory Commission on Thurs- day suspended the operating license of the Diablo Canyon atomic power plant, saying it would require verification of earthquake protection equipment at the troubled California facility. The NRC decision came at a closed meeting hours after a congressional subcommittee hearing at which new questions were raised about the safety o nuclear power. NRC Chairman Nunzio J. Palladino said the vote was 4-1 to suspend the. license to test the first nuclear reactor at the yet-to-be opened $2.3 billion plant __ Commission member Thomas Roberts was the dissenter and plans to file a separate opinion. "An order suspending the Diablo Canyon license has been approved by the commission," Palladino said after the two-hour meeting. "The commis- sioners are unanimous in their view that fuel loading should not take place until seismic verification can be completed." Palladino said Roberts also would file a separate opinion on the specifics of how the seismic verification would be accomplished. That is key point since the utility that owns the plant wants to use its own consultant, but California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. is insisting on a study independent of the plant's owner An order to the owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., said PG&E would have to provide for NRC approval 'informa- tion demonstrating the independence of the consultant the company plans to hire for the verification study and the specific verification program it pro- poses. The order says Brown and others who have intervened in the licensing gas will have to be given 15 days to comment on the choice of consultant and the program. NRC spokesman Joseph Fouchard was asked if suspension of a license meant an entire new set of public li- censing hearings would have to be held. "No, it would not," he said. Tony Ledwell, a PG&E spokesman, said the company was "disappointed" at the license suspension but would contin- ue to cooperate with the NRC and was confident "the plant can and will be operated safely in the public interest." Earlier, Palladino told a congression- al subcommittee that his confidence in the nuclear establishment's "quality as- surance" - how it guarantees atomic power plants are built safely - had been "clouded" by his experiences in 41/2 months on the commission. "After reviewing both industry and NRC past performances in quality as- surance," he said, "I readily acknowl- edge that neither have been as effective as they should have been in view of the relatively large number of construction- related deficiencies that have come to light." Palladino spoke at a hearing called to focus on problems pointed up by the Diablo Canyon power plant near San Luis Obispo, Calif. At the subcommittee, Palladino said "a significant number" of plants other than Diablo Canyon had problems with quality assurance, and William J. Dircks, NRC executive director of oper- ations, listed four other plants being built that had "quality assurance break- "Gowns with broad repercussions.". Dircks named the Marble Hill plant in Indiana, Midland in Michigan, Zim- mer in Ohio, and South Texas near Houston. Palladino insisted that overall, he has confidence in atomic power. Spokesmen for the nuclear industry, stressed errors have been caught - and lessons learned - from quality assur- ance programs. But both the NRC and the industry came in for harsh criticism from mem- bers of environment and energy sub- comittee. Perhaps the strongest was from Rep. George Miller, a Democrat when California district is about 175 miles north of the Diablo Canyon plant. Miller quoted statements stretching back to 1977 in which PG&E said the plant was safe and urged the NRC to speed its licensing. He said, too, that Diablo Canyon's troubles were only dis- _covered because a PG&E employee went beyond his duty. "Somehow, both the government · and the private sector have dramatically failed the people of this country," Miller . said. "I'm not sure how we exonerate the system." Other subcommittee members said the credibility of nuclear power is at an all-time low, and Byron Georgiou, legal affairs secretary to Brown, said only "a truly independent audit" of Diablo Can- yon's problems could restore public con- fidence in the NRC. Brown, who opposes opening Diablo Canyon, has all along urged a study that would be completely independent of PG&E. oreg 11/20/81 === Page 225 of 278 - NFO26 Projects- N-reactor malfunction reported late RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - Nearly 50 employees at Hanford's N-Reactor were checked for radioactive con- tamination after the plutonium-produc- ing reactor's ventilating system mal- functioned a week ago, a spokeswoman said Thursday. "No one was contaminated. No one inhaled any of the dust. None of the dust that we were concerned about left the reactor building at all," said Karen Scot- ti, spokeswoman for UNC Nuclear In- dustries. She said the radiation amounted to what one might receive from an X-ray. She said the accident occurred when the ventilation system suffered a mo- mentary loss of vacuum, leaving open the possibility that a radioactive sub- stance might spread outside the reac- tor's recovery area. She said all radiation was confined to the reactor's Zone 2, the recovery area. She said the incident was not report- ed earlier because "there was no effect on the employees or on the environ- ment, so it was not the kind of thing that normally gets written up as an oc- currence report and put on the public record." She said that when the incident oc- curred, work was about to resume on cleaning tiny radioactive boron-carbide balls, which were to be returned to the reactor's ball-hopper system. That system acts as a backup to the reactor's primary safety system, she said. "So it was simply a question of do- ing a survey and cleaning up any areas where there might be dust deposits," Ms. Scotti said. UFO 6 Projecto Navy confirms radiation report NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy has confirmed a report that sailors on ships carrying nuclear weapons soak up radiation, but main- "Tains the levers they get "can be compared with radiation expo- sures to workers in the thousands of hospitals handling radioactive materials." The Navy was commenting in response to a Sunday story in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot that reported on a radiation study present- ed at a closed committee session of the House of Respresentatives by Dr. Charles Gilbert, the acting deputy assistant Energy secre- tary for nuclear materials. The Associated Press Pendleton, Die. 1/16/8, Troi for 3rd time in 8 days. 450,6 Projecto- Control rod fixed in TVA N-plant CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Technicians on Sunday fixed a control rod used to shut down Sequoyah nuclear power plant's Unit 2 reactor and the Tennessee Valley Authority canceled a low-level emer- gency warning. An electrical problem in the drive mechanism that had caused the rod to fail to insert properly was repaired, TVA spokesman Carl Crawford said. The reactor, the second of two at the $2 billion TVA plant, had been operating only nine days when the incident oc- curred Saturday night. Prob- lems with the rod did not pre- vent operators from shutting down the reactor. The malfunction did not rep- resent a threat to the public and no radioactive material was released, Crawford said. Boise, d. /10/8, === Page 226 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects Operator error sets off Hanford reactor 'scram' RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - An emergency shutdown of the N reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation was caused by an operator who accidentally closed the wrong valve on a system vi- tal to safe operation of the plant, offi- cials said Friday. The reactor automatically shut. down after its sensors detected the problem, and at no time did the situa- tion get out of control, said Norman Miller, vice president of UNC Nuclear Inustries, which operates the reactor for the federal Department of Energy. "Things worked like they were sup- posed to," Miller said. "It was certainly an experience for the operators, but the situation was never out of control." The reactor has been closed since the incident Tuesday morning. An in- spection is under way to see if the reac- tor was damaged, and Miller was uncer- tain wh .. a it would be restarted. The primary purpose of the reactor is to produce plutonium for weapons and research, but steam produced as a byproduct is used to generate elctricity. Miller said the problem that set off the "scram" began in a compressed-air system. As the air passes through the system, it runs through a dryer to lose excess moisture. Grog ,2 2/5/8, UFOR 6 Projecto Ecologists fire on nuke site anages 1/ 19/8~ GRENOBLE, France (UPI) - Five rock- ets were fired into the construction site of a controversial fast-breeder nuclear reac- tor Monday night and police said Tuesday a Soviet army anti-tank missile launcher was used in the attack. One rocket hit the 250-foot tower of " the reactor Sper-Phoenix at Creys-Mal- ville, police said, peeling off concrete from the thick structure. None of the 20 night-shift construction workers at the site was hurt. In a series of phone calls to Paris news- papers, a little-known group calling itself "peace-loving ecologists," claimed respon- sibility for the unprecedented attack on the reactor. Investigators said the launcher, aban- doned on the right bank of the Rhone River, was a 60mm Soviet army anti-tank weapon of a type produced in the 1960s and using hollow-charge rockets. Mark- ings in Russian script were still visible on the launcher, police said, The reactor is on the left bank of the Rhone. "There was no threat of a nuclear ex- 4For 6 Projects Seabrook ordered to sell CONCORD. N.H. (AP) - The builder of the Sea- brook nuclear power plant faces severe financial prob- lems, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission says. It ordered the utility to sell some of the plant or face regulatory pressure to delay or cancel one or both Seabrook reactors In a rate decision, the commission said the pros- pects of bankruptcy for the company and cancellation for Seabrook II are "so tangible they cannot be ip- 2502 6 Projects Trojan on, Hanford off RAINIER - The Trojan nuclear power plant was "being gradually restored to full generating levels Mon- day after three shutdowns In a week. At Richland, Wash .. , the Hanford nuclear reactor went off during the week- end and Karen Scott, spokesman for UNC Nu- clear Industries, said the shutdown probably would last several days. Bill Babcock, spokesman Portland General Elec- Co., the Trojan opera- said PGE found the ems which caused the en closures 195/18/ UFU1 6 Projects. Spills controlled NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A 2-day-old water main break in Jersey City and a 2-day-old leak of stinking chemicals in Newark were brought under control Sunday, officials said. (h Jersey City, a 100-year-old water main that soptured Friday, flooding some basements and causing power out- ages in part of the Hudson County com- munity was shut off, said Tom Golodik, a spokesman for Mayor Gerald McCann. area 1/11/82 UFO1 6 Projects Trojan shut for 3rd time in 8 days Drag 1/17/80 For the third time in little more than a week, the 1,100-kilowatt Trojan nu- clear power plant near Rainier was shut down because of a malfunction at 9:21 a.m. Saturday, a Portland General Elec- tric Co. spokesman said. The first shutdown was caused by a break in a steam line about 1 a.m. Jan. 9. Operation resumed at 12:50 p.m. last Monday after the line was repaired, but an electrical malfunction about 5 a.m. Tues . aused another interruption. blem was repaired by Tues- plant personnel tried to ine signal triggered the ; reactor core cooling 4 further delays. It a.m. Thursday that tem. day was a repeat nilure, said e emergen- vated, and rtain" how Igh it could ing the ases a *ckly tor lems. "automatically switches the instruments to a backup electrical system in case of prob- jan, said the latest shutdown was caused Bill Backcock, a spokesman for Port- Aid, of the er from ums and the stration. how long it would take to complete re- pairs. 21995 1/13/8- PGE officials said it was not known Instrument system. He said the inverter by a malfunctioning inverter in the plant's land General Electric Co., operator of Tro- Malfunction shuts Trojan for second time in a week section of the plant came at 1 a.m. Satur- steam pipe leak in the non-radioactive after returning to service at 12:50 p.m. came as the plant was resuming power "The shutdown, at about 5 a.m. Tuesday, power plant near Rainier was shut down Tuesday for repairs in its electrical sys- Monday. An earlier shutdown involving a : RAINIER (UPI) - The Trojan nuclear UFOR 6 Projects === Page 227 of 278 Europeans march for disarmament oregio 10/26/8,-2/50, 6 Projects- PARIS (UPI) - Hundreds of thousands "All of us, demonstrators and everyone else, would seem to have the same objec- tive," he said Sunday. "I just happen to of ban-the-bomb marchers demonstrated across Europe to denounce both the Unit- ed States and the Soviet Union for arms " think that the right way to get peace is to policies they fear could turn their coun- be strong enough to deter an attack." tries into a nuclear battlefield. Presidents Reagan and Brezhnev were Characterized as villains while peace and neutrality were lauded in marches Sunday in Paris, Brussels, Bonn and Oslo, and Saturday in London and Rome. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger, returning from meetings in Eu- rope on nuclear strategy, said during a stop in Shannon, Ireland, that he respects the right to protest but thinks disarma- ment will not preserve peace. In France, the ruling Socialist Party refused to participate in the Paris march on grounds that "any anti-American Pershing missile campaign must also de- nounce Soviet SS-20 missiles." Some signs said "Neither U.S. Persh- ings nor Soviet SS-20's - disarmament for peace." An estimated 200 youths from the conservative Gaullist Party shouted "Brezhnev, Reagan, leave us in peace." But most signs carried by the estimated 4500 6 Projects Accident shuts N-plant ONTARIO, N.Y. (UPI) - Officials at the Ginna nuclear power plant, crippled by a radioactive steam leak that touched off the worst nuclear scare since the Three Mile Island accident, Tuesday brought the reactor toward "absolute cold shutdown." A pipe in the cooling system burst Monday, leading to the release of a small amount of radioactive gas from the plant less than 20 miles from populous Rochester, N.Y. The reactor switched off automatically and forced evacuation of 100 employees. The Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. said 11 hours later that the threat to the public had passed. 50,000 protesters were anti-American, in- cluding "Hate Reagan. At a meeting af- ter the march, some speakers denounced both superpowers but were booed when they condemned Soviet actions. Pierre Luc Seguillon, head of the "Movement for Peace," said arguments between Moscow and Washington as to "balance or imbalance" of armaments in Europe "have no sense when the United States and the Soviet Union have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet four times." In Oslo, a crowd police estimated at up to 8,000 people - the largest demonstra- tion in Oslo since the 1970s - carried signs saying "No nuclear weapons in Nor- way." Marchers also chanted against So- viet weapons. Organizers in Brussels claimed 200,000 participants, including members of Chris- tian Democratic and Socialist trade unions and parliament members from almost all parties. Marchers carried giant paper fig- ures of Reagan and Brezhnev holding hands. Some 250,000 people turned out for the London demonstration to denounce both superpowers. Another large march was staged in Rome and a smaller demonstra- tion took place in Bonn, scene of a march two weeks ago. === Page 228 of 278 Nuclear arms on sub outrage Swedes - UFOR 6 Projecto - Disementatas Associated Press Laserphoto WATER FOR SUB - A Swedish truck (left) delivers water to Soviet submarine stranded in Swedish waters. area in a show of strength. By HARALD MOLLERSTROM STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Nu- - clear-tipped torpedoes probably are use of nuclear energy, scoffed at Soviet the U-238 mentioned by Falldin. "Th aboard the Soviet submarine that went aground while prowling in a restricted zone near a major Swedish naval base 10 days ago, outraged Swedish officials said Thursday. They said the Soviets can have their submarine back but that storm-tossed seas likely will delay departure of the vessel until Friday. Foreign Minister Ola Ulisten told the Kremlin Sweden regarded the incident with the "utmost gravity" and would tolerate no repetition of it, especially since the Soviets ignored his demand for more information on the sub's arma- ments, refused an inspection of the tor- pedo hold and claimed the sub was armed only with "the necessary weap- ons and ammunition.". Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin told a news conference the incident "the most blatant violation in Sweden the postwar era," and that the would be escorted to a Soviet flot outside Sweden's territorial waters soon as the weather permits." But heavy weather with 45 n. wind gusts prevented the departure, Swedish officers said it would be layed at least until daytime Friday. armada of 11 Soviet ships including two destroyers, two frigates and two mis- sile-armed corvettes, hovered in the Sweden said Thursday it will release the sub, although officials believe it is armed with nuclear weapons. "He said there probably were ot" references to the Baltic as a "sea of would have to be Uranium 235 or plu peace," and said Swedish experts re- nium too, but it was probably hard corded radiation from the outside of the find out by the radiation measuremer sub's hull for three nights and conclud- he explained, adding there proba ed that the sub carried uranium-238. The Soviet Union as well as the Nordic countries have urged that the Baltic Sea be free of nuclear arms. Sweden's commander in chief, Gen. Lennart Ljung, told reporters there was as much as 22 pounds of U-238 aboard and that it could have been used as a protective shield around U-235, a main The Soviets were previously kno ingredient in nuclear arms. But he said to have at least six nuclear miss firm guarantees against a recurrence o the presence of U-235 could not be armed Golf class subs in the Bal the Soviet border violation." proved because the Soviets would not along with 60 torpedo-equipped subs allow an onboard inspection of the hold. the Whisky and other classes, but th also protested the Soviet intrusion Nils Gylden, a nuclear arms expert had been no evidence to date they a "Through discussion we have reached on the Swedish defense staff, said it might be carrying nuclear arms. appeared the Soviet sub was carrying nuclear-tipped torpedos, a secret super- The submarine, skippered by Cmdr. Pyotr Gushin and carrying crew of about 56, ran aground on ro "ruthlessness and lack of respect." in a restricted zone near the Karlsk Brag 11/6/81 naval base 300 miles south of Sto. power weapon about which little is known, but he could not understand why Incredible. I can't understand why holm Oct. 27 while the Swedish navy they would be so stupid as to enter was condueting anti-submarine exer- cises Gushin hlamed navigational error Swedish inner waters with nuclear charges aboard. The only reason I can see is their system does not function vet,"Gylden said. Swedish authorities rejected the ex- planation and speculated Gushin was on a spy mission, They refloated the vessel Monday, and Wednesday disclosed that an officer outranking Gushin was aboard. They identified him only as Avt- sukiewiech, and said he commanded Thursday, for the 10th time in as many days, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Yakovlev was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and handed the latest Swedish protest note. Opposition party leaders later joined the government in condemning the So- viet violation. Even Sweden's smal Communist Party joined in. "We demanded last July in a letter to the Soviet Communist Party that the Soviet Union should withdraw their nu clear-armed submarines from the Balt ic," party chief Tore Forsberg said. "We repeat this demand and urg Social Democratic leader Olof Palm unified judgment and a common line o action," said Palme who accused th Soviet Union of having acted wit Falldin, who opposes even peaceful types of uranium aboard the sub tl was no risk of accidental explos aboard the storm-rocked sub. The defense staff expert said i nuclear arms aboard the Whisky cl sub, built in the mid-50s but modifi most likely were to be used for fight large surface vessels like carriers. === Page 229 of 278 - UPOR 6 Projects - Europeans march 300,000 protest arms buildup 10/26/81 By GREG MacARTHUR of The Associated Press / More than 300,000 demonstrators rallied in four European countries Sun- day to protest a U.S. Soviet, arms build -. up they claim threatens world peace. In Brussels, at least 200,000 people staged what police sources said was the largest demonstration in Belgium since World War II, while more than 50,000 marchers paraded through Paris and a similar number rallied in the eastern sector of Berlin. In Oslo, an estimated 7,000 Norwegians held a torchlight pa- rade organized by a group called "No to Nuclear Weapons." Reflecting a growing tide of paci- fism across Europe, the protests fol- lowed similar demonstrations Saturday that drew more than 200,000 in Rome and 150,000 in London. Two weeks ago, 250,000 anti-nuclear protesters rallied in Bonn, West Germany. Government ministers and leaders of political parties led the three-hour march that jammed downtown Brussels. Officially, police said there were only 65,000 demonstrators, but police sources admitted the crowd was closer to the 200,000 estimated by reporters on the scene. Although Belgium's outgoing left- center coalition government was not officially supporting the demonstration, its parties all were represented by Par- liament members. At least three Social- ist members of the government marched in front of the peaceful cor- tege, together with chairmen of the So- cialist and Communist parties. In both France and Belgium, the de- monstrators demanded dismantling of Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at the conti- nent and protested U.S. plans to deploy new U.S. Pershing II and cruise nuclear missiles in Britain, West Germany, It- aly, Belgium and the Netherlands. The last two countries have postponed final approval of the missile plans. In Berlin, 50,000 East Germans ral- lied "for a secure peace and against NATO armaments," accusing the West' of trying "to turn Europe into an atomic battlefield," the official ADN news agency said. The agency said speakers called for an end to the arms race, a ban on neu- tron weapons and East-West talks on arms control. The United States and Soviet Union have scheduled talks to begin Nov. 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, on reducing nu- clear arms in Europe. Talks on control- ling intercontinental missiles are ex- pected to begin in early 1982, Reagan administration officials say. The Paris marchers carried a large hammer denouncing hath artist and SPO DI Ni Pershingni 'S 20 Desamme jent! TEMITU ALSA CIF. JEUNESSE Associated Press Laserphoto PARISIAN PROTEST - Some 50,000 anti-nuclear protesters carry signs as they march through Paris Sunday demanding an end to East-West arms buildup. Protests also were staged in three other European countries. The demonstrators trooped to a large tent in eastern Paris for a rally to be addressed by French peace activists and the wife of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Police estimated the crowd at be- tween 50,000 and 60,000 people. In Valance, France, where the ruling Socialist Party held its national con- gress, Premier Pierre Mauroy cautioned against the danger of "neutralism," and Defense Minister Charles Hernu told a national television audience that "paci- fism cannot be unilateral." Despite the pacifist traditions within toughest stand of any Western Europe- an nation against what it sees as the. Soviet military arms buildup. Although France is not part of the military arm of the 15-nation North At- lantic Treaty Organization, it supports the deployment of the new U.S. mis- siles. The French peace rally, following similar demonstrations Saturday in Rome and London, was organized by an umbrella group known as the Peace Movement. The French Communist Par- ty, the Young Communists' League, the === Page 230 of 278 - YFor 6 Projectos - Drago 10/28/81 Reagan's remarks about fighting scare Europeans Oregon Journal, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1981 President Reagan has managed the White Horse quickly removed to scare our European allies, leaving Schweitzer from his job, sending The impression that the United him to the Pentagon. Then the pres- States doesn't think nuclear war is ident, en route to Cancun, Mexico, so bad after all. issued a statement saying that the An off-handed statement by the U.S. opposes the use of nuclear president to some newspaper edi- weapons at any level. tors fueled worries in Northern Eu- rope: "I could see where you could have an exchange of tactical weap- ons against troops in the field with- out them bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the but- ton," said the president. Reagan couldn't help notice news stories about the hundreds of Thousands of marchers who demon- strated Saturday and Sunday in Pa- ris, Brussels, Bonn, Oslo, London and Rome The over-all problem is that the Reagan administration consistently Soon after Mai. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer, the top military officer has assumed the role of national of the U.S. National Security Coun- leaders preparing for war. Little has been done to begin talks with the Soviet Union about controlling nu- cil staff, fanned the flames hy say- ing that the Soviet Union now has nuclear superiority in the air. land . clear weapons. The White House and sea and by predicting that the Soviets "are going to strike " has proposed a huge military budget and refuses to consider defense cuts despite projections of a big deficit in the federal budget. It was too late to avoid damage to our relations with Europe, but It's time to reassure the world that the U.S. isn't looking for a-nu- clear fight. Europe fears it will be a battlefield for an upcoming war, and the anti-nuclear marchers there have taken to the streets in droves. The Soviet Union has shown notice- able edginess about all the Reagan administration's hawkish rhetoric. The United States has replaced the Soviet Union as the country that scares people because of the possi- bility that nuclear weapons might be unleashed. The nuclear club has been growing in size, and it's time that the U.S. took the lead in- mounting an international peace ini -: tiative that would cool some of the dangerous talk about how easy it is to use tactical nuclear weapons. === Page 231 of 278 A2 2M 6 Projecto Arms race protested by 350,000 only 10/25/8, By The Associated Press More than 350,000 anti-nuclear de. monstrators rallied in Italy and KeRain Saturday. The mass protests, were the second and third in Western Busope in two weeks and were clearly directed against the Reagan administration. In Rome, more than 200,000 leftists, trade unionists and members of anti- war groups marched for peace and nu- clear disarmament in the biggest dem- "onstration in the Italian capital in more" than a decade, Organizers of the march criticized the buildup of arms by both the United States and the Soviet Union, but the slogans the marchers chanted were an- LI-American rather than anti-Soviet. As the crowd marched by the Amer- ican Embassy on the fashionable Via Veneto, protesters shook their fists and shouted. "Yankee, go home!" and "Rea- gan is a hangman!". Italian police wearing bulletproof vests and carrying submachine guns guarded the U.S. Embassy. Wooden bar- Hiers were placed around the embassy. The crowd marched near the Soviet Em- bassy but not directly in front of it. In London, meanwhile, an estimated 150,000 demonstrators streamed into Hyde Park for an anti-nuclear demon- stration coinciding with a visit to the British capital by Defense Secretary Caspar Wemberger It was the biggest such protest in two decades. Michael Foot, leader of the opposi- tion Labor Party, which is pledged to scrap Britain's nuclear deterrent and ban American nuclear weapons from British soil, told the rally: "What we want President Reagan to do is to put (his administration's) whole support be- hind the possibility of real arms reduc- tions. We believe there should be no cruise missiles and no Pershings estab- lished in Britain and Western Europe." Foot said it was not an "anti-Ameri- can" rally. "It is anti-nuclear arms and anti-nuclear arms race." However, La- bor Party left-winger Tony Benn told the rally: "The Poles have had the cour- age to stand up to the Kremlin. The British people must now stand up to the Pentagon and close all their nuclear bases here. President Reagan cannot ig- nore us because Britain and Europe be- long to us and not to him.". About 250,000 West Germans rallied against nuclear weapons in Bonn Oct. 10. Within the last year, anti-nuclear sentiment has burgeoned in Western Europe, fueled by Reagan's decision to build the enhanced-radiation neutron weapon, and NATO insistence on de- ployment of 572 U.S. cruise and Persh- ing II nuclear missiles in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Neth- erlands starting in 1983. -3FOR 6 Projecto - Nuclear show-and-tell The administration has shot itself in the foot again. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., no sooner told Congress of NATO plans to fire for "demonstration purposes" a tactical nuclear weapon if the Soviets invaded Europe than a shocked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger rushed over to the Senate to declare there is no such plan, nor "anything remotely resembling it." This nuclear show-and-tell scheme, evidently dreamed up back in the 1960s, was to let the Soviets know, in case they invaded Europe, that NATO had tactical nuclear weapons and would consider using them against conventional forces. Yet, it seems the height of ingenuousness to believe the Soviets were unaware of NATO's nuclear weapons stockpiles. Aside from having fueled the European peace movement that has strong Soviet sponsorship, Haig's remarks are untimely at best and, if no such plan exists, at worst are certain to do great damage to U.S. relations with our nervous allies. They are still fuming over President Reagan's matter-of-fact statement that he could conceive of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Europe without an escalation into a full-blown ther- monuclear exchange. Since the Soviet Union is well aware of U.S. nuclear capabilities, firing a warning shot, prob- ably into the air where its fallout would contami- nate populated places, would be both pointless and dangerous. In providing more ammunition for the anti- American movement in Europe, Haig, has wors- ened what he has called "an extremely sensitive issue." That there is so little cooperation, or agreement, between the secretaries of state and defense is cause for concern that the Reagan administration is picking up where President Carter left off, and is hell-bent on confusing our European allies and comforting our enemies. oreg 11/6/81 === Page 232 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects Mix-up 1 sets off 'N' panic By JOHN HAYES oney of The Oregonian stall 1/6/82 An out-of-alignment satellite receiv- er antenna near Portland was blamed Tuesday for triggering a "China Syn- drome" nuclear power plant scare among Portlanders that sent an ava- lanche of worried telephone calls across the nation. Officials of the U.S. Nuclear Regula- tory Commission said the scare was reminiscent of the public reaction to the 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds." "It just shows you what can hear with electronic communigen the signals get crossed, official in Atlan+ ment died down. The story of together Tuesday mier Channel, a Po. of Home Box Offic By The Associated Press sion service of New Channel, said misaligni pany's satellite receiving mas, Wash., convince viewers in Portland that & er emergency was taking the nation. power plant by an upset tec played by Jack Lemmon. The movie was scheduled to si 8 a.m., but between 8 and 9:20 viewers were receiving faulty transmis- sions because of the misaligned antenna, Carter said. "When we alerted our Camas tech- nicians, they got their people up to the dish, got it aligned and cleared the snow off it," said Carter. After the antenna was correctly aligned, about a minute of "The Ch". Syndrome" was suddenly broadcas. Carter said. What viewers saw was a scene from the movie depicting a televi- sion news broadcast describing a plant takeover. "It said reporters were at the scene, and there would be more information at noon," said Carter. "Then they (the technicians) cut the video at that point and went to a 'Please Stand By.'" Several viewers were convinced an emergency was in progress and called Premier Channel. Others called KGW radio, where the first calls went out to One alarmed viewer called a televi- sion station in Atlanta - apparently where viewers thought the emergency was taking place - and the station called the NRC, said Kenneth Clark, NRC information officer in Atlanta. Clark called his counterpart in Walnut Creek, Calif. Many of those who called for infor- mation made calls of their own to check the story. Portland General Electric's Bruce Landrey, for example, checked the rumor with Atomic industrial Fo- rum, a national nuclear power industry organization. The flurry of phone calls died quick- ly, and by Tuesday the mystery had been been unraveled. Carter called it "an amazing coincidence" that the few seconds of the movie actually broadcast happened to contain the alarming news broadcast. EuFor lo Projects Europeans decry nuclear arms - 21FOR o Projecto- 100,000 march in Italy MILAN, Italy (AP) - More than 100,000 people marched for peace and nuclear disarmament Saturday, the second mass protest in the country against U.S. and Soviet polices in a week. Marchers from Milan and other nearby towns filed through the center of this northern industrial city carrying banners bearing slogans against the arms buildup by both the Soviet Union and the United States. Org 11/1/81 cow on making the Baltic region a nuclear weapons- In Switzerland, police estimated about 20,000 peo- National Demonstration for Peace and Immediate Dis- armament, sponsored by several peace groups and organizations promoting Third World countries. Orga- nizers said they counted more than 40,000 partici- Several marchers carried signs bearing anti-Ameri- can slogans, such as "NATO fans get out of Europe!" and "One-way ticket to the U.S.A!" A resolution prepared for the rally called for the creation of a nuclear weapons-free zone "from Portu- ended a government- aturday in Bucharest, Vest. Romania is the 'e consideration of ducing missiles in preparing atomic resident Nicolae about 14,000 the northern ationing of Ited States Field News Service By CHARLES W. CORDDRY But the timing of his off- hand comments, on a subject requiring precision, could hardly have been worse, it now seems widely agreed has been further fueled. forces - to deter war, not fight it. evidence of alarm. Tration's foreign and defense policy. who have close European contacts, Reagan displaye an Insensitivity to European political problems can only weaken confidence and trust in his adr In the judgment of some objective analysts here, John Nott and West Germany's Hans Apel to argue there was nothing new or alarming is, in itself, plain The rush of such defense ministers as Britain's tralists, church groups and other anti-nuclear forces At the same time, the opposition of pacifists, neu- in an uphill struggle to modernize continental nuclear president's speculations have dismayed leaders trying The word coming back from Europe is that the Analysis resulting escalation to thermonuclear war between the WASHINGTON - President Reagan spoke the simple truth when he said nuclear weapons conceiv. ably could be used on a European battlefield without a N-war remark fuels protest - UFO2 6 Projects - Denmark and other Nordic countries have pledged to consider possible separate negotiations with Mos- superpowers. Oreg 12/6/81 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took part free zone. The protests, which coincide with the U.S .- Soviet talks in Geneva aimed at reducing medium-range nu- clear missiles in Europe, were aimed at both the Soviet Union and the United States. "Keep your toys, boys," said one of the banners Take away! We don't die for the U.S.A!" A group of demonstrators chanted, "Pershing, hey! gal to Poland." pants. sponsored dices Roman: About 300,000 10/26/8 Italy, West Germany and Romania, demanding peace ple marched through Bern in what was billed as the ter, marketing dire in mass protests Saturday in Denmark, Switzerland The mix-up began Monda wied in a march in Copenhagen, Denmark. About company began broadcasting "000 demonstrators wound through the Danish capi- na Syndrome," the 1978 Hollys" Saturday, carrying torches and placards in snow that depicted the takeover of a ennalls at dusk. and disarmament in Europe. === Page 233 of 278 Space Shuttle PK- Flight cut; shuttle to - 31/14/81 land today 1:52 p.m. Ship enters 17-minute radio blackout during re-entry 1:10 p.m. Shuttle turns tail-first Columbia enters the atmosphere 1:50 p.m. 2:22 p.m. Touchdown White Sands, New Mexico Edwards Air Force Base, California Atlantic Ocean Cape Canaveral, Florida Caribbean Sea Pacific Ocean The troubled second mission of space shut- tle Columbia will return to Earth this after- noon, its objectives 90 percent complete but its flight time more than halved by an errant electrical generator. Aftera series of frustrating accidents. mal- functions and delays that began soon after Tanding from its trouble-free first flight in April, Columbia set off 11/2 months late from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a mission to last five days, four hours and 10 minutes. · Instead, the flight will end on an Edwards Air Force Base desert runway in California after 36 orbits -- 21/4 days Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly are to land at 2 22 p.m MST on a parched des- ert runway Although the sky above the Cali- fornia base was socked in by clouds Friday, officials said they hoped it would clear by touchdown time. If landing there still should be difficult, how- ever, the Columbia would be diverted to its al- ternate landing site at White Sands, N.M. President Reagan visited Mission Control in Houston and told the astronauts, "I'm sure you know how proud everyone down here is." He jokingly asked the astronauts, "When you go over Washington before landing at Ed- wards, could you pick me up and take me out - I haven't been in California since last Aug. ust." The astronauts pass near Reagan's moun- taintop retreat on their glide into Edwards Air Force base. Columbia's flight was smooth on its second day Friday, and experiments with a robot arm gave Columbia a solid accomplishment to dull the disappointment of the early return." We think it's the prudent thing to do in this phase of the test program," said Chris Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Center, which controls the mission from Houston. "We got 90 percent of what we flew for." said Glynn S. Lunney, manager of the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion's shuttle program. "We began to ask our- selves, is there enough to be gained by con- tinuing the flight?" The conclusion, he said, was that "we ought to plan to re-enter (today) and not take any subsequent risks." "We all signed up for the mission rules," Kraft said. The landing sequence begins at 1 10 p.m. MST when the crew turns the shuttle to a tail- first position Fifteen minutes later. in orbit over the Indian Ocean, they will fire their en- gines for two minutes, 29 seconds. The ship then begins its descent from 157 miles and enters the atmosphere north of Ha. === Page 234 of 278 - Space Shuttle PK- Few guessed fuel cells would falter "Proved' system fails; others perform HOUSTOM (UPI) - Ironically, the most experi- short: mental system aboard space shuttle Columbia, its bionic arm, worked almost perfectly and what was thought to be one of the most reliable, a fuel cell lic system pumps. The problem cured itself. generator, forced the ship home early. No other problems that occurred after launch Thursday would have ended the flight three days short of its planned five-day length. "IT we were to write a list of major subsystems and asked ourselves which ones we were most likely to have prob. - ms with, we probably would have put fuel cells at the bottom," said Glynn S. Lunney, shuttle program director. The fuel cell problem that brought the ship home will not be definitely explained until the ship is thoroughly examined. But fuel cell expert Jim Briley said it appeared to be a manufacturing or aging flaw that knocked out one of the ship's three fuel cells. Briley said it appeared part of the equipment through which hydrogen passes to react with oxy- gen to make electricity and water was flaking or otherwise misbehaving to make a "fluff" that clogged the cell. Ironically, the cells, manufactured by United Technologies Corp. of South Windsor, Conn., were a brand new type thought to be better than the ones used on the first shuttle orbital test last April. Otherwise, the list of problems that plagued Joe Engle and Richard Truly after launch was fairly . They had freeze-ups in the cooling systems for two of the auxiliary power units that drive hydrau- . They had freeze-ups in the flash evaporator. system, which is the backup cooling system to the payload bay door radiators. That was overcome. @ They had an inconsistency in a monitor in one of the other two fuel cells and finally decided it was no problem at all. · The two television cameras attached to the bi- onic arm failed toward the end of the 41/2 hours of testing Friday. They had other cameras. The fail- ure did not inhibit any major flight objectives. . A backup power unit in the arm's shoulder. joint failed toward the end of the testing. Astro- naut Dick Truly used another mode. That problem will be evaluated on the ground. The Columbia's troubles began well before the launch, The blastoff was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 30. Faulty wiring in part of the Cana- dian-built mechanical arm and a series of other Technical problems caused the launch to be re- scheduled for Oct. 9. A spill of nitrogen tetroxide rocket propellant delayed the flight to Nov. 4. The fuel weakened the' bond holding 379 of the ceramic heat shield tiles to The sun's aluminum skin and they had to be re- glued The countdown then was flawless until it reached T minus 31 seconds. An abnormal oxygen pressure reading in one of the Columbia's internal tanks stalled the count _Officials decided that was not a real problem and tried to get the launch con- trol computer to resume the countdown. It re- fused. High oil pressure readings in two of Columbia's ... three hydraulic steering system turbines forced a launch postponement. It turned out fuel seepage had contaminated the system's gearbox oil and clogged its filters. The oil and filters were replaced, and the launch was rescheduled for Thursday. But Columbia's problems weren't over. A new one appeared late Tuesday night - with one of Columbia's data translators. To fix the problem, - engineers finally borrowed another black box from Challenger, Columbia's nearly-completed sister ship in California. That delayed Thursday's launch 21/2 hours. The launch director added 10 minutes to the delay to make sure everything was set for blastoff. The flight to orbit was flawless, but then the fuel cell problem cropped up, and eventually forced Columbia back home early. Idaho Statesman Boise, Col. 11/15/8, === Page 235 of 278 Space Shuttle PK Recovery delayed COCOA, Fla. (AP) - Both of the Cape Canaveral Monday after a snapped · Fuel Cell Posed Potential Hazard By BOB JAIN Denver Post Staff Writer cells. Mission Control instructed Engle and mission pilot Richard Truly to could have posed a fire or explo- sion danger, he said. shut down the leaking unit and rely ? "The units are manufactured by . on the other two .. A tiny leak inside the belly of the space shuttle Columbia is caused by problems within a fuel cell that creates electricity and provides water for the two astronauts .. The leak may chop three days cess, create electricity. That pro- off the projected five-day orbital mission that started so beautifully Thursday morning. Shortly after the launch, mission .40 inches and weighs 201 pounds. commander Joe Engle told the Na- The defective unit was allowed tional Aeronautics and Space Ad_ to empty its tanks to bleed of Its ministration's Mission Control at supply of hydrogen and oxygen, Johnson Space Center in Houston David Alter, Mission Control WCCAS. - Space Shuttle PK- Bonne, da. 11/16/8, By BRUCE NICHOLS U.P. International "the hang of it." HOUSTON - Shuttle astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly told "Vice President George Bush on Sun- "day they were disappointed the Co- lumbia's mission ended early "be- cause we were just beginning to get Early shuttle return regretted Astronauts, "into space. Tailed. Feral space agency officials. Flight Director Chuck Lewis described the "meal as "just a casual breakfast." "The astronauts and their wives had "a private breakfast at Johnson Space Center with Bush, his wife and sev- "Bush sat between Engle and Truly Bush asked the astronauts how orbiter's three electrical generators "It sure did disappoint us, because "they tell about ending the mission after two days - three days earlier than scheduled - because one of the and chatted with them about the his- Doric second mission of the Columbia we were hang of if th The Electricity produced by the fuel cells powers the shuttle's instru- ments, lights, air purifying and air- conditioning systems, its experi- ments and an articulated arm in the cargo bay. That arm is to be used to place lowed to continue functioning, it experiments in orbit, to recover sa- tellites and for other external pur- poses. the power system division of Unit- ed Technologies of Hartford, Conn. The units act independently, not in series, so one bad unit doesn't create a drag on the other two, pa- vid Long, spokesman for the power division, said. With operations curtailed, the flight could continue, Alter said, but mission rules require that in case of such unit failure, the shut- tle is to land at the earliest logical time. Long said Engle and Truly de- tected a high PH level in water produced by the faulty unit, indi- cating high alkalinity as the result of a malfunction. There also was a slight reduction in power, about .5 of a volt, Long said. 11/13/81 of a leak in one of the three fuel spokesman, said. Had it been al- The three units are, in effect, chemical plants that combine hy- drogen and oxygen and, in the pro- cess also creates water for the as- tronants to drink. Each unit measures 17-by-14-by- rocket boosters jettisoned from the space shuttle Columbia were back at towline and rough seas delayed the re- covery. org 11/17/8. === Page 236 of 278 Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire " 15 Cents Within Colorado Power Problems A leak in one of the three power cells aboard the shut- tle may force the mission to be cut short. The three pow- er cells in the belly of Colum- bia are chemical plants that combine hydrogen and oxy- gen and in the process cre- ate electricity. That process also creates drinking water for the astronauts. Each unit measures 17-by-14-by-40 inches and weighs 201 pounds. Although only one cell is used at a time, NASA requires "triple redundancy" - a primary and two backup units - for the cells. The Denver Post / Fred O'Dorisio - Space Shuttle PK - (note: I told Annette, before it happened Power Snagy May Shorten Shuttle Flight By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times, Denver Post 1/13/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two American astronauts rode the space shuttle Columbia into an or- bit of Earth Thursday with hopes for a five-day mission only to have a malfunctioning_electric power unit threaten them with a prema ture return home. They were told that they might have to come back three days early, on Saturday af- ternoon. Officials of the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration emphasized that the flight would not necessarily end that soon if the two remaining electrical generat. ing units on the Columbia stay healthy. The mission could be ex- tended a day at a time, until Sun- day or Monday but probably not for the full duration. The flight had been planned to run 124 hours and 83 orbits of the Earth, ending next Tuesday. An evaluation will be made each afternoon by flight controllers and project officials as to whether to order the Columbia back the next day or to let it stay in orbit another full day. Whenever the flight is ter- minated, the landing will be on the desert at Edwards Air Force Base in California, as planned. Neil Hutchinson, the flight direc- tor who was on duty at Mission Control during the fuel-cell failure. said at a news conference Thurs- day night he "wouldn't even specu- late" on whether the flight might run three, four or the full five days. The world's first reusable winged spaceship, on its second test flight ran into trouble soon af- ter its successful launching at Cape Canaveral at 8:10 a.m. MST, seven months to the day after its first flight in April. Before they could climb all the way to their prescribed orbit, the astronauts, Col. Joe Engle of the Air Force and Capt. Richard Truly of the Navy, heard alarm signals in === Page 237 of 278 Cheyenne, Wyoming, FRIDAY, November 13, 1981 Problems May Shorten Space Shuttle's Flight Space Shuttle Ph- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 'UPI) - The shuttle Columbia blasted off like the veteran space traveler it is Thursday hut almost immediately developed bugs in a new part of its system that threatened to cut the mission short. A failed fuel cell that pro- vides the shuttle's electricity forced officials to turn to an abbreviated schedule that could bring the Columbia home by Saturday. Flight director Neil Hutchinson said decisions on a longer mission would be made on a day-to- day basis. Columbia thundered into the blue Florida sky Thursday morning in a picture perfect launch that proved a used spacecraft could be sent back into orbit. The launch, although often delayed, was almost an exact copy of the shuttle's first liftoff in April. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly, making their first orbital flight on Truly's 44th birthday, were thrilled by the race into space. But they quickly were caught up in fix- ing a series of nagging reminders that the voyage was still only the shuttle's se- cond. "We're both feeling real well," Engle said. "We're really having a lot of fun up here even though there has been a lot going around here." The major problem was a clogged section of the fuel cell, one of three aboard the Colum- bia. It was just a slight ab- normality when mission con- trol gave the shuttle approval on orbit three to continue until the end of its planned five-day, 83-orbit flight. But by the next time around Earth, it was getting worse and officials decided to shut it coming Eagle down completely, use up its fuel and make it "safe" for lan- ding. The shuttle can fly a nor- mal mission with two of the 202-pound, suitcase-sized fuel cells operating and return to Earth on only one. But space officials an- nounced initially they were going by an agency rule that said the mission must end after 54 hours if one cell was out of commission. Hutchinson late Thurs- .day night left open the' possibility the mission. might go longer and that a decision on whether to land Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California would be made Friday afternoon after seeing how everything was working on the shuttle. "At that time we're going to make an assessment on how we're coming with the flight plan and see if we want to go another day," he said. While many of the prelaunch problems had been caused in equipment used on the first shuttle flight, the fuel cells were new and described as "im- proved" for this mission. Another of the problems that cropped up after launch occurred in the cool- ing of one of three auxiliary power units that power the ship's hydraulic system. It Was contamination in these units, which are crucial in Taunich and landing, that caused the first delay of the Columbia launch last week. Hutchinson said two of the units were working fine in orbit and the health of the third had not been determined. He said an abbreviated schedule meant Engle and Truly would try to get as much done in the early part of the mission as possible in case they had to return sooner than expected. This changed the astronauts' Friday schedule so they could spend most of their time on one of the shuttle's major tests - working the 50-foot mechanical arm that on future flights will pick satellites out of the shut- tle's work bay and place them in space. The astronauts also plan- ned to complete as much of the ship's $11.6 million worth of Earth-scanning experiments as possible. Engle and Truly set up a thunderstorm observation operation Thursday night. The experiment was designed to observe, photograph and tape record the sound of lightn- ing bolts to gather data aimed at finding ways of improving storm and long range weather forecasting. The day began for the astronauts with a surprise breakfast birthday party that included a trick candle that went off like one of the booster rockets that would launch the Columbia a few hours later. The launch, originally scheduled for Sept. 30 but repeatedly delayed, finally got off at 8:10 a.m. MST, 10 minutes later than plann- ed. Launch director George Page held it up just to be sure everything was safe. The stark white Colum- bia, gleaming in the hot Florida sun, shot skyward for a full minute and a half before disappearing from sight, its thundering engines shaking trailers parked 3 1/2 miles away and sending a cloud of white smoke snaking out behind. "Go ... Go ... Go," shouted a crowd of about 2,200 VIPs watching from a visitors' section four miles from the launch pad. Engle kept reporting back to ground control in Houston that everything was going fine as the spaceship made its first trip around Earth. "Smooth as glass," he said two minutes into launch. "Everything's looking good," was the call over Madrid. "Stable as a rock," Engle reported over the Indian Ocean. One mandatory chore that went off as planned was the opening of the 60- foot-long payload doors that exposed the ex- periments. The opening of the doors on the April mis- sion first revealed the loss of some crucial tiles on the shuttle's tail, but this time all tiles needed for re-entry appeared intact. === Page 238 of 278 Shuttle Flight May Be Shortened 11/13/8, their cockpit and observed abnor. mal temperature and acid levels for one of the three electricity-pro- ducing fuel cells. Engineers at Mis- sion Control in Houston began im- mediately to investigate. The trouble persisted despite commands fed to the spaceship to change the fuel-cell operations, and so, late Thursday afternoon, Mission Control instructed the as- tronauts to turn off the balky unit_ for the rest of the flight. Each of the fuel cells weighs 201 pounds and produces between 2 and 12 ki- lowatts of electricity. Such fuel cells have been used to produce electricity for manned spacecraft since 1965, on the Gem- inis and Apollos as well as the shut- tle, without any failures. Mission safety rules dictate that, with only two of the three fuel cells operating, a flight must be cur- tailed to a minimum of 54 hours and 36 orbits. John McLeaish, the mission commentator at Houston, an- nounced: "The present plan is for a 54-hour minimum mission." However, McLeaish said that, if the two remaining fuel cells stay healthy and no other troubles. arise, it might be possible to "ex- tend the time frame." In any event, he said, the flight plan would be revised overnight to en- able the astronauts to accomplish most of the high-priority test objec- tives today. The Columbia is carrying in its cargo bay a 50-foot mechanical arm which is supposed to undergo two days of testing for future use in handling and deploying satel- lites. Also on board is a cluster of scientific instruments for Earth observations, including radar map- "ping of geologic features. This is the first working paylead for a space shuttle, which is/conceived of as an orbital freighter for haul- ing satellites and other cargoes into space. This is also the first used spaceship to go into orbit. When trouble cast the duration amd success of the mission in doubt, it seemed just an extension. of the many accidents and mal- functions that interrupted prepara- tions for the Columbia's second . mission. A spill of nitrogen tetrox- ide in late September damaged some 400 heat-shielding tiles and forced a postponement of the planned launching from Oct. 9 to Nov. 4. Contaminants in the oil for two power generators, derecred ar the last minute before the Nay 4 launching time. caused the eight. day delay until Thursday In an effort to keep Thursday's launching date, engineers worked through the night to overcome ran- dom(and as yet unexplained fail- ures in the Columbia's data-pro- cessing system. A unit, known as a multiplexer-demultiplexer, was re- placed twice before the malfunc- tion would go away. This necessi- tated resetting the liftoff schedule from 5:30 a.m. until 8 a.m. The faulty units were shipped back to the manufacturer for failure analy- sis .. Colonel Engle and Captain Truly were awakened shortly after 5 a.m. to prepare for their first trip into space. At breakfast in the crew quarters, Truly was present- ed with a birthday cake more or less in the shape of the shuttle and with a trick candle that he could not blow out. Thursday was his 44th birthday. The countdown proceeded smoothly as the astronauts took their places in the cockpit and the hatch was closed and sealed. The dark clouds and rain of days past had been driven out to sea by a cooling breeze. At T-minus-9 minutes, when the countdown was halted, as planned, 'for a 10-minute break, Norman "Carlson, the chief test conductor at "the firing room, wished the astro- nauts well, and Engle replied: "We know how you fought for us. We appreciate it." George Page, director of shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center, then decided not to resume 'the countdown according to the schedule. He said there were no particular problems, adding that he just wanted launching teams, who had been under hours of pres- sure, to catch their breaths and make "double sure" of their final check-outs of the shuttle's systems. This set the liftoff back 10 min- utes, to 8:10. At a few milliseconds before 8:10, the three main engines of the Columbia ignited and reached full power, followed in an instant by the eruption of fire from the base of its two solid-fuel boosters. Un- der the power of 6 million pounds of thrust, the 4.6 million-pound cluster of rockets, tank and space- ship rose from its launching base, cleared the tower in less than sev- en seconds and arced out over the Atlantic Ocean, rolling slowly so that the Columbia seemed to cling to the underside of its huge exter- nal fuel tank. The gleaming white craft climbed into the bright blue Flori- da sky, played peek-a-boo behind some high fluffy clouds and finally vanished in an envelope of its own exhaust vapors. === Page 239 of 278 Shuttle Countdown Delayed - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - Countdown for the space shuttle headed toward a late morning launch Thursday while experts tried to decide whether a last-minute rescue mission "had succeeded in preparing the Columbia to return to orbit. The countdown for a 10 a.m. EST launch - 2 12 hours behind schedule - resumed early Thursday before it was known whether a data processing problem had been fixed after daylong efforts. Work crews Wednesday night replaced a vital data processing link between the shuttle, its computers and ground control with a replacement flown in from a sister spaceship in California. Tests were being run to make sure the work would allow the Columbia to become the first manned spaceship to return to orbit. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly were kept up about an hour and a half past their scheduled 5 p.m. bed- time so they could be briefed on the problem that once again was stalling their first trip into orbit. Officials said the astronauts would be allowed to sleep about two hours later than scheduled. Two-electronic parts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center from the second_space shuttle Challenger, under construction at Palmdale, Calif. They were immediately taken to the * launch pad for one to be installed in the Columbia. Launch could be delayed as late as 12:10 p.m. EST, but an official said it was doubtful an attempt would go much past 10 a.m. An Air Force weather forecast said conditions would be good for launch with no rain and scattered clouds. Some ground fog was possible - a concern if the mission is canceled right after launch and the shuttle has to return immediately to Cape Canaveral. The electronic problem first cropped up Tuesday night and early efforts to fix it isolated the fault to a 36-pound "black box" data processor that translates signals for shipment to the command computers. That box, which was working only intermittently, contains a main unit and a backup. Officials first replaced it with another unit which had been at the Kennedy Space Center since March. Its backup system failed en- tirely. That was when the replacements were sent from the Challenger, built like the Columbia and planned for space flight in late 1982. Officials said the problems appeared to be "random failures" that coin- cidentally affected the same sections, and did not necessarily mean the whole system was in disrepair. The astornauts, who were being given extra time to sleep Thursday morning, had been optimistic all day long that they would fly this time. "Make sure you get film in those cameras tomorrow," Engle told photographers early in the day. "You're going to need it." The attempt to launch Columbia as the first manned spacecraft to return to orbit has been delayed three times. The most recent delay came just 31 seconds before blastoff last Wed- nesday - an eight-day postponement space officials said cost $1.5 million to $2 million. The cause of that trouble, con- tamination in the gearboxes of two of three hydraulic system turbines, was cleared up last weekend. Forecasters said storm front was expected to be through Florida by launch time and there was no chance of rain. Winds were expected to be about 10 miles an hour and Air Force Capt. Donald Greene, shuttle weather director, said forecast "looks real good." In addition to trying to prove repeat space flight is a reality, the shuttle carries a series of scientific ex- periments designed to find Earth minerals from space and a 50-foot mechanical arm that will put future satellites in orbit. One experiment - growing sun- flower seeds in orbit as a first step in possible space farming -had to be taken off the shuttle following last week's delay. The containers were sterilized and the seeds replanted for the five-day, 83-orbit mission. Richard Smith, Kennedy Space Center director, said the astronauts were relaxed at breakfast and joked about Truly turning 44 Thursday, the day he hopes to take his first trip to space. Laramie Boomerang 11/12/19 === Page 240 of 278 Don - Shante rx - Columbia's Fuel Leak Repaired; Countdown Is Back on Course Kearney D. H. 11/11/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Launch control technicians fixed a troublesome leak in the space shuttle's huge external fuel tank today and Columbia was on course for a Thursday dawn liftoff, officials said. "It's slowed down to where it belongs," NASA official Michael Weeks said of the leak. .NASA was also checking out. a. malfunctioning system needed for space to ground data analysis, but Weeks - acting deputy space administrator - said "there is no reason to believe" the trouble would force postponement of the launch. The astronauts, still a little worried about the weather, were "relaxed and ready to go," according to shuttle test manager Donald"Deke" Slayton. Either a fuel tank or data instrument problem could force a scrub - the second in as many weeks The fuel tank leak, particularily, had jeopardized the second effort to launch the shuttle on its delayed return to space. The drop in fuel tank pressure was more than three times the normal loss of .2 psi, but by manually opening- and-closing a vent valve, Weeks said, technicians were able to stabilize the pressure. Launch crews were working the data instrument problem during an 11-hour planned "hold" that began at 11 a.m. EST today. The problem with the data system was discovered late Tuesday night and a replacement unit was quickly flown to the Cape from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It also failed, but NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said, "there's a better than even chance we can fix it." The device - called a Pulse Code Modulator - acquires and analyzes data on board Columbia and transmits The gantry is rolled back by engineers at Kennedy Space Center revealing the reusable spacecraft Columbia on pad 39- A. (AP Laserphoto) the data to mission officials. The fuel tank holds most of the propellant necessary to drive Columbia into orbit after its initial boost from solid fuel rockets. A drop in helium pressure brought the tank leak to NASA's attention. The tank is loaded overnight before launch with supercold liquid hyrdogen and liquid oxygen propellant. The problems interrupted a trouble free countdown. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials had been a little concerned about the weather but pleased with the shuttle and its many complicated systems. A week ago today, Columbia was 31 seconds from liftoff when a problem with the ship's hyraulics system forced a postponement. . Last week's scrub has already cost NASA an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million. Acting comptroller Tom Newman says the extra costs are mainly for extra fuel, overtime and travel expenses and charges from contractors for repairing last week's hyraulics problem. Because of early-morning fog that shrouded Kennedy Space Center, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly waited an extra hour before rehearsing emergency landings. They .skipped a planned sunrise visit to launch pad 39A to attend a weather briefing. Air Force meteorologists predicted a storm front would be out of the area by tonight and that weather would be no constraint to launch. The astronauts had been confident there would be no more delays. "Columbia is ready, and Joe and I are ready, and we're really going to do it this time," Truly said on arrival here Tuesday. === Page 241 of 278 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Wednesday, November 11, 1981 Astronauts Don't Expect a Thursday Hitch Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) - With their second-chance countdown moving easily to a Thursday launch target, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly arrived Tuesday and said, firmly and hopefully, "this is the real thing." Countdown began at 8 a.m. Tues- day. On launch pad 39A, work was going so well that spokesman Hugh Harris said, "They're making it look easy." Crews powered up the fuel cells in Columbia's electrical system and prepared to roll back the main ser- wvicing structure. The undercurrent to the rosy pro- gress and optimistic forecast was the knowledge that everything was glass-smooth, too, until the final min- utes of last Wednesday's countdown. Engle said he was "thoroughly con- vinced that we were just about ready to lift off" when the countdown clock stopped at 31 seconds before ignition. No one was more surprised "than Richard and I when we heard we had to call a scrub," he said. Technicians found dirty oil and clogged filters in two of Columbia's hydraulic units. They made repairs last weekend for Thursday's try. Upon their arrival, the astronauts made brief remarks to the same re- porters and photographers who greeted them last week. They spared no optimism. "OK now, we want you to know this is the last time you're going to get to do this," said Engle, a Kansas native. "You've had your practice and this is the real thing. Truly added: "Columbia is ready, and Joe and I are ready and we're really going to do it this time." The weather forecast for a 6:30 a.m. CST liftoff was for a few clouds, a modest wind and no rain. If events had followed last week's script, the astronauts would have landed Columbia Monday and under- gone debriefing Tuesday. Instead, they flew T-38 jets to Patrick Air Force Base, an 800-mile trip that takes 90 minutes in the 575-mph trainers. Thursday, the shuttle will take them once around the world at 17,400 mph in the same amount of time. After 83 circuits of the globe, Engle and Truly are scheduled to land next Tuesday at 10:40 CST at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The astronauts have been training their body's rhythm for the unusual hours they'll keep in space by going to bed in the afternoon and rising long before dawn. Bedtime Tuesday was 6:15 p.m. Today, they will hit the sack at 5 p.m. Truly will celebrate his 44th birthday along with the launch. Asked about the launch date coin- ciding with his birthday, Truly said, "I'm going to have the biggest birthday candle I ever had." - Space Shuttle PK - R.M. News "/12/8, Columbia countdown a cliffhanger CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - Liftoff of the shuttle Columbia bedeviled by techno- logical growing pains, was delaved until at least midmorning Thursday as launch eve work crews struggled Wednesday night to re- pair an errant data relay system ... Sunrise liftoff was impossible; the new target was 10 a.m. EST. There remained a strong possibility of a second scrubbed launch in as many weeks. At nightfall, space center spokesman Hugh Har- ris said, "They're working on a fairly tight schedule - but they think it's do-able." Countdown to liftoff was likely to be cliff- hanger; Columbia underwent a series of Jaunch pad repairs Wednesday night and a replacement part being town to Kennedy Space Center had to be tested with blastoff just hours away. The part was cannibalized from Challeng- er, a second shuttle now being built in Califor- nia. NASA set up a dramatic relay - from the West Coast to the launch pad. After hours of conferences between the various space centers and industry experts, a team of NASA officials headed by acting asso- ciate administrator L. Michael Weeks "deter- mined a course of action which could result" in the 10 a.m. liftoff, Harris said. All this because of a bad "multiplexer- demultiplexer."". scheduled launch, technicians found and fixed' UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Astronauts Joe Engle, right, and Richard Truly met the press at the launch complex Wednesday. a leak in the shuttle's huge external tank. Then the data relay system, needed to funnel flight data to mission control, failed. Technicians at first thought the data prob- lem was with a unit called the Pulse Code Modulator, They flew in a replacement from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, installed it, and encountered a different problem. They then looked elsewhere and found a "multiplexer-demultiplexer" unit was not handling data properly. The devices translate one form of electronic signal into another and Less Than Z hours before Thursday's are part of an electronic link between Colum- bia and mission control. Columbia's crew was ready, but at dusk a NASA official said, "The problems are not resolved." The final countdown, due to begin at 10:10 p.m., was put back several hours. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly stayed up a little past their 5 p.m. bedtime to monitor the problem and went to bed not knowing whether they would fly Thursday. "They roll with the punch pretty good," said their trainer, Bill Jones. "They're waiting and ready - it's not their decision." Launch could come any time before noon - the final moment in Columbia's "launch window." Last week, when a hydraulic system prob- lem forced scrub with 31 seconds on the countdown clock, weather was a concern right up to the last minute. This time, launch weath- er seemed largely irrelevant. The forecast was for near-perfect conditions. Anticipation was building along the Flori- da space coast for Columbia's fiery sendoff into the history books. Never before has a spaceship attempted a second visit to space. The shuttle, which made a spectacular debut last April, is designed for 99 more round trips. The shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever built .. It has a thousand valves, 2.6 miles of tubing, 300 major electronic "black boxes" connected by more than 300 miles of electri- cal wire. There are more than 2,000 control switches. === Page 242 of 278 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 8, 1981 Murphy's Law again gives NASA a lesson By WILLIAM HINES Flold News Service WASHINGTON - The take-home lesson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Wednes- day's last-minute postponement of the space shuttle's second test flight is that Analysis there is more to the vaunted concept of "reusability" than just refil- ling the tank and kicking the tires. The shuttle exists because Congress was persuaded a decade ago that as- tronautics could be done on the cheap with vehicles needing only minimal re- furbishment between flights. NASA has been trying to deliver on this promise ever since. No one faults the space agency for a six-month hiatus between the first and second flights of Columbia; this is the start of a new program, and NASA is not yet very far along on the learning curve. But the latest problem strongly suggests that quick turnarounds - two weeks from landing to takeoff - are going to be difficult to achieve. Preparations for the second shuttle flight failed to take into account the most universal of an engineering truens, codified as Murphy's Law: If anything can possibly go wrong, it will. In servic- ing Columbia for this unprecedented mission, technicians did not change the oil in three auxiliary power units in the tail section of the plane. The technicians didn't change the oil, shuttle flight director Neil B. Hutch- inson said after the "scrub," because they weren't told to. An oil change just wasn't on the work order. One wonders, sometimes, whether NASA's experts think things all the way through when they prepare their elabo- rate mission plans. They take into ac- count the angle of the setting sun on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in the unlikely event that Colum -. bia has to make an emergency landing on the fifth orbit. But change the oil in the auxiliary power units? No one thought about it. The fact that lubricating oil gets "gunky" with use was no surprise. Hutchinson explained that there is no way to equip a mechanical system in- voiving a gear train operating at 70,000 rpm on one side and 3,500 rpm on the other side with absolutely impervious oil seals. Some external contaminant is bound to slip past the seals, and the rapid agi- tation of oil and contaminant can create some pretty bizarre byproducts. So NASA knew that (1) high-veloci -- ty turbine seals leak; (2) contaminants can gum up lubricants; and (3) rising oil pressures in fast-spinning machinery can cause trouble. Yet no one in NASA thought to be on the safe side by chang- ing the oil supply after every mission. This is not the first time NASA qual- ity control has broken down. An out- standing example of failed attention to detail was the Apollo fire of Jan. 27, 1967, in which three astronauts were incinerated when flames flashed through the oxygen-rich interior of a spacecraft on a launching pad at Cape Canaveral. The horrible irony of this accident - the worst in space history - is that a monograph funded by NASA, warning of the extreme hazard of flammables in pure-oxygen atmospheres, had been on the library shelves at NASA for fully 21/2 years at the time of the accident. Apparently nobody bothered to read it. An early, unmanned planetary shot went into the Atlantic instead of to Mars because a computer program can- tained a minus sign where there should have been a plus. A Mercury flight had to be canceled well into the countdown because techni- cians couldn't start a diesel engine need- ed to move back the gantry tower. A Gemini mission actually was scrubbed at the instant of ignition be- cause someone had left a dust cap in a fuel line of one of the engines. The explosion of a high-pressure gas tank in the service module of Apollo 13 on the way to the moon nearly cost the lives of three astronauts and did cheat two of them of the historic distinction of walking on the moon. The Skylab program got off to a bad start because equipment that was sup- posed to deploy in orbit didn't deploy. Astronauts working with jury-rigged tools solved the problem, but failure of a $2 billion program was closer than NASA likes to admit. None of these misadventures, having happened once, ever happened again ;. NASA doesn't often make the same mis- take twice. But in the unforgiving busi- ness of astronautics there are plenty of new ways for Murphy's Law to mani- fest itself. Sh Bla === Page 243 of 278 Shuttle cleared· Pregunion, 11/8/81 Blastoff slated Thursday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space officials Saturday rescheduled Launch II of the space shuttle Columbia for Thursday, setting up a special birthday celebration for one of its pilots, astronaut Richard Truly, who turns 44 that day. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials made the decision after certifying that twp contaminated power units that halted a launch at- tempt last Wednesday are now ready to fly. Analysis indicated that had the units flown Wednesday, they probably would have performed. "It's not absolutely certain, but the tests appear to indicate that," said NASA spokeswoman Theresa Fo- ley. Dirty oil has been flushed from the units, and their filters have been replaced. If it had been necessary to install new units, the launch could not have been attempted until the week of Nov. 15. Launch director George Page gave the order to start a renewed countdown at 8 a.m. PST Tuesday, aiming for liftoff of Columbia on her second mission at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Word of the new date was passed to Truly and astronaut Joe Engle at their training base at the John- son Space Center in Houston. This is the fourth launch date they've had; the others, Sept. 30, Oct. 9 and Nov. 4, were wiped out by technical problems. For Truly, born Nov. 12, 1937, in Fayette, Miss., the two solid-fuel rockets that help propel Columbia into orbit could be the biggest birthday candles ever. The astronauts came within 31 seconds of flying last Wednesday, only to have the countdown clock stopped dead when high pressure was detected in the lubricating systems of two of the ship's three auxiliary power units. The units, which weigh 88 pounds each, drive the hydraulic lines that swivel the main engines on liftoff and move the body and wing flaps and rudder that control the vehicle during re-entry and landing. Technicians worked non-stop in three shifts to resolve the problem. They drained lubricating oil from the two suspect units, flushed the plumbing, removed and inspected the filters, installed new filters, and refilled each unit with three quarts of oil - a special blend developed for military use that costs $5 a quart. NASA reported Saturday that the filters were found to be clogged with a material produced by a chemical reaction between the lubricating oil, water and the hydrazine fuel that powers the units. A small amount of hydrazine apparently leaked through a pressure seal into the lubricating system. "It was concluded," the agency said, "that the impurities did not degrade the lubricating properties of the oil and that the size of the impurities would not lead to a clogging of any passages in the lubricating system." "Getting to a Thursday launch is a very tight schedule but one which the mission management team feels can be made," said NASA's L. Michael Weeks. At the launch pad, crews were completing work and getting ready for another countdown start. Columbia had yet another problem Friday. Two of of the fragile heat-resistant tiles on the tail wing were slightly damaged when hit by a flashlight that fell about 100 feet from a workman's tether. === Page 244 of 278 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Thursday, September 24, 1981 -250 Space Shuttle PK- The daily gab-scam IN CASE you care, Mayor Charlie got bounced off his "Good Morning, America" slot yesterday morning - bumped by a report on the space shuttle's prob lems. This, it might be said peevishly, typifies our priorities. More attention is paid to matters of outer space than in our own cities. . . . PNB execs, museum trustees and assorted other large wigs will attend a reception tonight at SAM-Volunteer Park for the opening of an "American Images" photo show, spon- sored by Ms. Bell. The evening's guest of honor. AT&T president Bill EF linghaus, coming to town on business, is listed as a no-show, His plane arrives too late for the festivities, which makes it a bit ironic - one reason for the re ception is a donation by AT&T of some of the show's photos ... Well, the Westin Bldg. opened Emmett Watson its lunchroom at corporate headquarters - this being on the sixth floor at 2001 Sixth Ave. What is described as an "esteemed panel of celebrity judges" officially named the new lunchroom "Harry's on Sixth," but the opening menu did not feature Mullikin Stew. Signal from my 4 for that they have if my your sights, ready to destroy. o THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1981 owens 3M Shuttle countdown continues By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD low York Times News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The wind blew in usts, clouds came and went with brief downpours, but through it all, sometimes with a rainbow gracing the seaside launching pad, technicans ministered to the pace shuttle Columbia Sunday and kept ahead of chedule in preparations for the winged spaceship's eturn to orbit. The Columbia's second flight, a five-day mission orbiting Earth, is scheduled to begin here at 7:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday and end with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Nov. 9. Air Force Col. Joe H. Engle and Navy Capt. Rich- ard H. Truly are expected to arrive at the Kennedy Space Center Monday from Houston for final brief- Ings. It will be the first flight into space for both astronauts. Air Force meteorologists are predicting that the winds and showers will diminish Monday. They fore- cast scattered clouds and 10-knot winds for Wednes- day morning. If weather becomes a problem, the lift- off could occur at almost any time within four hours and 40 minutes of the scheduled launching time, after which it would have to be postponed for two days. The countdown preparations have been trouble- free since they began early Saturday, in contrast with the rash of minor malfunctions that slowed the pre- launching work for the first mission in April. "We've seen no real problems," remarked Larry C. Ellis, a project engineer, with a hint of amazement as well as satisfaction in his voice. Computer experts at the firing room here and at Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Hous- ton fed updated instructions into the Columbia's two mass memory units that serve the on-board comput- ers. About 60 workers at the launching pad began removing cables and pipes used in servicing the 184- foot spaceship. - Some Chuttle PK' Spaceship Columbia heading home topher Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Officials were considering asking the as- Center in Houston, after officials decided that with one of the ship's three fuel cell generators "of Engle. dead, loss of another might present a problem on return. The ship can fly with two fuel cells that provide its electricity, but flight director Neil Hutchinson said landing on one would be a "pretty tough" operation. Late Friday night, another problem de- veloped aboard the shuttle -power went out in one of three video display terminals that pro- Vide flight and landing information to the crew. tronauts to fix the terminal, which sits in front Reagan, talking with the astronauts from the Johnson Space Center, joked with Engle and Truly and asked them to pick him up on their way over Washington so he could take a Califor- nia vacation. "We'd be glad to, sir," Engle replied. "Let me just say I'm sure you know how proud everyone down here is," Reagan said in a space hookup over a simple black telephone. Tanding difficult. "It was the prudent thing to do," said Chris- Ofeen Standard Examiner 11/04/8/ The decision was made Friday to cut the voyage short by three days and land it at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 4:22 p.m. EST today rather than risk a second electrical generator failure that could make CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - With Pre- sident Reagan saying they're in "America's heart," astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Tru- ly wrapped up space shuttle Columbia's experi- ments Friday and prepared for an early return home today. === Page 245 of 278 -Space Shuttle PK- 10/81 Clogged filter causes scrubbing of shuttle launch By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - A clogged filter, never refurbished after Columbia's maiden mission last spring, shattered a nearly flawless countdown for Launch II Wednesday, grounding the shuttle for about a week. The decision to scrub came an hour after dawn, with liftoff 31 seconds away. The astronauts' coordinator said the delay may be long enough that Joe En- gle and Richard Truly would return to their home base in Houston. L. Michael Weeks, the shuttle official who revealed the postponement "of approximately one week," said it will be a few days before National Aeronautics and Space Administration experts can even exam- ine the problem adequately to set a new launch date. Primed and eager to make their first tour of space, Engle and Truly spent nearly five hours Wednesday in the shuttle's cockpit, strapped knees-up in their flight couches. Upon leaving the ship, they managed a wry smile. "Pooped" from the long wait, the astronauts went to bed early. The space agency said that if it ap- pears the repairs will take a week or more, Engle and Truly will fly to Hous- ton Thursday. Bill Jones, their training coordinator, said management will de- cide "whether we head home to get in a little additional training or stick it out till launch." Meanwhile, Engle and Truly will practice landings here Thursday, arising again at 2:40 a.m. to maintain the wake- sleep rhythm they've developed for quarts of oil costing $5 a quart. their space flight. At mission control in Houston, flight The scrub sequence was almost the director Neil Hutchinson said, "It's go- same as April's first shuttle launch at- tempt. There, the countdown clock stood at 9 minutes When a computer anomaly caused a scrub. The shuttle lifted off perfectly two days later and made the first flight of the world's only reusable spaceship a triumphant suc- cess. The technical problem that forced a scrub in Launch II involved two auxilia- ry power units - devices that are cru- cial to Columbia's guidance. Clogged auxiliary power unit filter's had been untouched since the shuttle landed after its debut flight in April. NASA's experts said they thought they didn't need maintenance. In essence, technicians now will do what every motorist has to have done to keep a car running. They will change the oil and filter and, if necessary, flush out the system. The auxiliary power units are tur- bine-driven power units that generate. the mechanical power to a pump that produces pressure for the orbiter's hy- draulic system. Wednesday, experts said the power unit problem arose this way: Hydrazine fuel leaked into the auxiliary power unit gear boxes, mixed with oil lubricant and created higher-than-normal pressure readings. Apprised of the readings, Taunch director George Page called off the day's second countdown-to-launch. The auxiliary power units hold 21/2 - Space Shuttle PK Space shuttle shot put off CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - The space shuttle Columbia's unprecedented attempt to return to orbit was postponed Wednesday until Friday, at the earliest, after astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly came within 31 seconds of launch. Still unresolved was the final problem that forced the "scrub." Launch control officials said the flight may have to be pushed back beyond Friday depending on trouble-shooting results. Engle and Truly spent more than five hours lying on their backs waiting for the launch that never came. Greg ST 11/4/81 a.m. EST Saturday. drop them off in space. Truly plans to spend part of three of the five-day flight testing the ne' greg J 10/28/ because it will serve as a crane to take satellites out of the ship's cargo hold and 100 million Canadian dollars and donated to the United States by Canada, is the key to the shuttle's future use as a cargo ship The robot arm, developed at a cost of The final countdown at the Kennedy Space Center is scheduled to begin at 1 the Nov. 4 launch date for astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly on the second flight test of America's reusable space The problem, however, will not affect the new arm-like satellite crane aboard ed mechanical problem in Canada prompted space agency officials to drop one of the many tests planned in orbit next week for CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - A of robot arm A ot test 1Space Shuttle PK- Space shuttle th CAPE ani e new freighter. the space shuttle Columbia. The scrub was all the more disap- pointing because few countdowns had gone as smoothly as the one for Flight 11. Work never fell behind, there were no emergencies and pad crews able to maintain an almost Je pace with no-work holds of p twice and one for 12 hours to ing to take time to get the filters out of the APUs and purge them and clean "them and bring them back on line." A NASA spokesman said the space agency was considering two routes - repair of the units on board and replace- ment of the faulty units with backups. Columbia isn't going anywhere without operating auxiliary power units. The units provide the muscle to swivel the main engines on liftoff and move the wing surfaces for landing. Yet, Hutchinson said he guessed all would have gone OK if technicians had not noticed the pressure problem and had launched anyway. Ironically, the major worry for Wednesday's launch had been the weather, which had been marginal all week. But at the scheduled 7:30 a.m. liftoff time there was no rain, there was little wind and - though heavy clouds blanketed the sky - there was suffi- cient visibility. .Forlorn on its pad, the shuttle was pelted by heavy rain in early afternoon. By then, of course, it didn't count. === Page 246 of 278 3M Fuel spill postpones second shuttle trip BY IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The second flight of the space shuttle Columbia will be delayed at least "one or two weeks" or even a month beyond its Oct. 9 launch date because a fuel spill unglued up to 250 of its heat-pro- tective tiles, officials said Tuesday, George Page, director of shuttle op- erations at Kennedy Space Center, said a problem with a valve on ground equipment apparently caused the spill of a highly toxic oxidizer around the nose of the spacecraft. During the spill, which occurred during a fueling opera- tion, two to three gallons of oxidizer soaked an area about 20 feet long and two to six feet wide, he said. Page said he hoped the heat-shield tiles suffered little or no damage and can be cleaned and reglued to the orbit- er's skin on the launch pad. "In my view, we're down a week and maybe two weeks at best" if the only problem is the tile adhesive, he said. However, if the oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, invaded the maneuvering sys- tem of the spacecraft itself, the shuttle will have to be rolled back to the huge Vehicle Assembly Building for disas- sembly, Page said. That could create a delay "in excess of a month," he said. A full assessment of the damage was expected to take another day or two. Sixty-seven of the silica tiles either fell off or were removed during a day- long damage assessment operation which began after the 1:15 a.m. EDT accident. Six workers wearing protective suits and helmets worked throughout the day inspecting the tiles and trying to determine how many were involved. Fumes from the spill kept unprotected workers from the pad. The accident occurred when the oxi- dizer was being loaded into the forward tank of the orbiter's Reaction Control System, below and to the front of the astronauts' cockpit. Since the shuttle assembly sits on its tail at the pad, the of the orbiter's external surface. Their spilled oxidizer splashed downward at least 18 to 20 feet, Page said. silica makeup is what kept the oxidizer from eating away at them, Page said." - Space Shuttle PK Fuel leaks on shuttle Toxic rocket propellant Jeaked from a malfunctioning valve and spilled down the side of the space shuttle Co- lumbia on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday morning, damaging a "limited number" of heat shield tiles. A space agency spokesman said that it is not known how many of the tiles will have to be re- placed or if the second orbital test flight, set for Oct. 9, will have to be delayed. oreg 5 9/22/8, Wooly winter? - All signs, including the thick shag on the wooly worms, point to a long hard winter. Page 16 Protesters persist - Arrests have passed the 1,300 mark as protesters persist at Cali- fornia's Diablo Canyon nuclear energy plant. Page 15 Not afraid? - The avowed racist who was convicted of killing two black joggers in Salt Lake City has declared Shuttle delay looks longer By IKE FLORES Oreg 9/24/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spilled propel- lant that unglued nearly 300 thermal tiles on the space shuttle Columbia also leaked into the craft itself, in- creasing the possibility that the ship will have to undergo lengthy repairs, officials said Wednesday. Moving the ship from its pad would delay the launch "in excess of a month" beyond the scheduled Oct. 9 date, shuttle operations director George Page said. Jt would also be a costly setback for the shuttle program: "Project officials are deciding whether or not to roll the shuttle vehicle back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, de-mate the orbiter and move it to the Orbit- er Processing Facility for repair," said a status report issued late Wednesday on the Tuesday accident. A decision on whether to move the shuttle system or do the necessary repairs at the pad is expected by Friday, Page said. Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center, said a visual inspection in the orbiter's nose disclosed the contamination of the reactor-control system, But the extent of damage was unknown until a technician climbed into the system's pod and inspect- ed it closely. That operation was to take place late Wednesday. The system contains a group of thrusters that control the pitch and roll of the space plane during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. "It's pretty sure that they are going to have to remove the pod," said Harris, following a one-hour telephone conference among officials and engineers of the various space centers around the country. "I don't think there's any doubt they're going to do it." He said it would be difficult to remove the 4.000- pound pod at the launch site because the orbiter is in a vertical position. But he said this decision would have to await a further conferences Thursday. If the dam- age is extensive, it also would be better to do the repair work with Columbia in its hangar in a horizon- tal position, he said. ~ UFO attack Shuttle - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981 There was no possibility of angex plosion because the system's hydrazine fuel had not been loaded. No one was injured. The Reaction Control System is used for Columbia's pitch, yaw and roll ma- neuvers during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. The tiles are among 31,000 that make up the orbiter's insulation shield against the high temperatures of atmos- pheric re-entry. They are made of a sill- ca fiber compound and individually sized, fitted and bonded onto 75 percent === Page 247 of 278 Shuttle PK - Space Shuttle SF Chronicle 9/10/8, much closer to actual operations than the first mission, whose main purpose was simply to get to space and back in one piece. Green said many of the changes that have been made since the first flight were the result of relatively minor failures and short- comings on the initial mission. As a result of the loss of several heat-resistant tiles on the front of the pod-like protuberances that carry small maneuvering rockets near the tail, higher-performance tiles have been put in their place to resist the buffeting during liftoff that knocked off and chipped the ones on the first flight. New upgraded tiles were in- stalled in areas near the back of the maneuvering rocket pods, where higher-than-expected temperatures during re-entry caused felt and adhesive underlying tiles to split or "delaminate"_ before. Engineers also redesigned the fuel cells that provide electricity. and two more hydrogen and oxy- gen fuel tanks for the fuel cells were installed because the mission will be longer. A motor assembly that points the orbiting maneuvering engine failed in the first flight (a backup took over), so a new one has been bolted in, and many of the smaller reaction control rockets used to fine-tune the shuttle's attitude in space have been fitted with higher- performance valves. In a week or so, an auxiliary power unit whose fuel-heater failed in the first mission will get a 10- minute "hot test" on the pad. The heater loss didn't stop the unit from producing power, but NASA engi- neers want to make sure it works as designed. Green said the breakdowns on the first flight were extremely minor "if you look at the complexi- ty of this vehicle. On the Apollo missions there were many, many more." / The exact cost of refurbishing the Columbia has not been calculat- ed by NASA, a spokesman said yesterday, but the workforce in June, during the peak of repair activities, was 1000 Rockwell work- ers and 2200 subcontractors, plus 1100 NASA and other government employees. The payroll for such a force is around $500,000 per day. Preparations for the flight con- tinued yesterday at thunderstorm- buffeted Kennedy Space Center as Engle and Truly climbed aboard the Columbia for a final checkout. Their scheduled activities in- cluded checks of the Columbia's communications, propulsion, and in-flight guidance systems, and a mock firing and cutoff of the shuttle's main engine. Thunder and lightning sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power supply problem. Richard Young, a spokesman ät Kennedy Space Center, said all three ground power supply systems quit Tuesday night and engineers were baffled by the blackout. "We are still not sure of the reason for it, we probably won't know for a while," Young said. Yesterday's weather, with rain and lightning within five miles of Launch Pad 39-A, was bad enough to have delaved a real launching. Young said, but didn't alter the dress rehearsal. The next crucial test for the spacecraft, which takes off like a rocket and lands like a plane, is September 14, when supercold liq- uid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuels will be loaded into the bullet- shaped external tank. Thursday, September 10, 1981 The Seattle Times A 21 NATION Compiled from news services - Shuttle PK Columbia passes test simulating mock firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Computers took the space shuttle Columbia through a mock ignition and launch-pad engine failure yes- terday - one of the final tests to prepare the orbiter for its second trip into space. With Joe Engle and Richard Truly, astronauts, at the controls, computers simulated the firing of the shuttle's engines then shut them down at "T-minus-3-sec- onds" - three seconds before liftoff in an actual launch. The failure of one of the Colum- bia's engines was programmed into the test, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, Dick Young, said. But testing shut-down proce- dures wasn't the purpose of the mock launch. It was just an easy way to end the test. The purpose, he said, was to look for last-minute bugs as the Columbia's scheduled October 9 launch date looms. What problems, if any, exist won't be known until engineers study the test, Young said. But it appeared to go smoothly. The mock launch, amid real thunderstorms and lightning, was delayed shortly by problems in the computer-simulation program that "fool" the shuttle into thinking its tanks are full and its engines firing, a space-center spokeswo- man said. The bad weather seny some workers scurrying for dover, but had no effect on the 23 hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power- supply problem. Next month's flight is the sec- ond of four test missions planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the shuttle is declared operational and is ready to begin flying scientific payloads into space on a routine === Page 248 of 278 - UFO, Shuttle PK- Shuttle tile replacement begins CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Round-the-clock pellant leaked into the steering pod, which contains re-installation of more than 350 heat protection tiles thrusters used to maneuver Columbia in orbit and re-entry. Other blankets were removed as a precau- tionary measure. No significant damage was found in the steering system. on the space shuttle Columbia began Tuesday, with space officials hoping to replace 20 to 30 tiles a day and keep the sh. tle from falling too far behind sched- ule. "They're hoping to get up to 30 a day," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Hugh Harris said about the tedious refitting of the tiles. "But some days, of course, they won't be able to get that many." The vulcanizing adhesive which binds the silica tiles to the aluminum "skin" of the space plane was destroyed by a corrosive propellant, nitrogen tetrox- ide, during a fueling mishap last Tuesday. The accident, caused by a faulty fueling valve, has delayed the shuttle's second mission, originally set for Oct. 9, by several weeks. Officials hope to announce within two weeks a new launch date, expected to be in late October or early November. The decontamination of a steering mechanism compartment in the nose of the orbiter has been com- pleted, but 16 of 26 thermal insulation blankets must still be replaced, Harris said. Workers were awaiting arrival of more of the insulation material from a com- pany in Downey, Calif. Some of the blankets were soaked when the pro- Harris said 352 tiles of the shuttle's Thermal Pro- tection System were removed and another eight were to be taken off to inspect their backing. Most can be reused. Engineers also have decided to drain the nitrogen tetroxide already loaded into the rear maneuvering engines of the orbiter and run the fluid through a filtering system to check for iron nitrate. An investigation revealed that the spill of two to three gallons of the propellant was caused by the formation of iron nitrate at the point where a "quick disconnect" valve attaches to a service panel on the" orbiter's nose. Technicians believe the iron nitrate was formed in the fuel lines leading from the storage tank and settled' at the metal fittings of the valve. But they don't know. what caused the formation. All fueling valves are to be disassembled and re- placed if necessary. The tile work was taking place with the shuttle poised for liftoff on its launch pad. oray 9/30/81 === Page 249 of 278 Europe's isolationism risks a U.S. withdrawal UFO. 6 Projecte- By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -JA wave of isola- tionism is sweeping across Europe. From the rejuvenation of the wet- ter-Red-than-dead set in massive po rades to the foolish demand by Europe an defense ministers in its stead that the United States should offer a "zero- option" proposal to remove all long- range theater nu- clear missiles be- fore disarmament talks begin, the notion is taking hold that Europe can go it alone. The recent flap about Presi- dent Reagan's quite accurate statement of our longtime defense strategy of flex- SAFIRE ible response - that the use of nuclear weapons in case the Russians invade Europe need not mean an all-out nuclear war - was the latest display of continental isolation- ism. If the Soviet army attacked Western Europe, the NATO forces would of course use nuclear artillery shells to slow the advance of the superior Soviet forces and to vividly demonstrate our resolve. The only alternative to tactical nukes, if Europe is to be defended in Europe, is token resistance and quick surrender. But many Europeans do not want Europe defended in Europe. They would change the World War I slogan, "They shall not pass," to "They shall pass im- mediately." They want destruction lim- ited to the superpowers' countries; they want Europe defended without any Eu- ropean's life at risk. Under the new isolationist strategy, a Soviet attack on Europe should be followed immediately by a nuclear at- tack on the Soviet Union by the United States. Common sense suggests that nothing of the sort is going to happen; any American president would try to defend Europe in Europe first with tac- tical nuclear weapons, hoping for time to let sanity manifest itself in the Krem- lin before launching an all-out strategie nuclear exchange. But Europe's isolationists, are not strong on common sense. They have convinced themselves that the danger is not from Soviet expansionism but from both superpowers wanting to play war on their soil. From that nonsensical premise, they reason it would be best to make it impossible to defend Europe, My 10/31/81 and so demand that we not deploy the tactical nuclear weapons that give us a fighting chance. At this point, America should stop assuring them that a Soviet move on Europe would surely incinerate Moscow and Washington, which is not necessari-, ly true, and start thinking the unthink- able: In a two-superpower era, how im- portant would the defense of a neutral -... ist Europe be to the national security of the United States? Every right-thinking establishmen-" tarian Atlanticist would say, knee jerk-i ing angrily, that two world wars proved that the defense of Europe is the defense of America. Better to fight there than here. But now a new element is entering the picture. A growing number of Euro- peans would rather fight here than there. Can we defend a Europe that does not want to be defended? Does it make strategic sense to try? According to the president, we have 375,000 U.S. servicemen in Europes (The correct figure is 332,000; Reagan included the Sixth Fleet and some 24,000 secretaries, schoolteachers and others armed with very sharp pencils.) About 294,000 American dependents are there with them. Together with the United States government they spend over $5 billion a year in Europe, and our. Defense Department annually genu-) flects for "host country support," which consists of not charging us rent for the barracks. If those American troops cannot be backed up with nuclear tactical weap- ons to offset overwhelming Warsaw Pact conventional superiority, and espe- cially if they are faced with a buildup of Soviet SS-20 nuclear missiles, the American forces become nothing more than hostages. They would only be. there to die or surrender, not to fight ... Their ill-equipped presence is not even a deterrent. As that thought sinks in, thanks to the European isolationist movement's demonstrations, we can expect the be- ginnings of American agitation to sup- port our troops or bring them home, The force was originally the tripwire to assure automatic American participa- tion in the defense of Europe - but if Europeans want no serious local de- fense, why do we need the tripwire? When Mike Mansfield was Senate majority leader, he introduced an amendment each year calling for the phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe. At least one U.S. president used that amendment to great effect with European leaders, warning them that if our NATO partners did not pull their weight in the common defense, the. dreaded Mansfield amendment would gain support. Today the American defense of Eu- rope is not only taken for granted but is being roundly abused - with too little- response from Europe's "responsibles."> Unless a counterreaction makes itself heard soon, more unthinkable thoughts will be thought on this side of the At- lantic. When a Senate leader was asked re- cently why no new Mansfield amend- ment had been put forward to be used as a threat, he replied: "It wouldn't work as a threat. The damn thing would probably pass." S === Page 250 of 278 at Tehr UF826 Projects A2 2M Aviation flap with Japan heating up TOKYO (AP) - Japan, which long has claimed "gross inequalities" in its aviation pact with the United States, announced sanctions against American airlines on Monday in response to U.S. restrictions on Its flag carrier. Japan's Transport Ministry said the sanctions include a freeze on applica- tions from U.S. carriers for rights to take Tokyo-bound flights on to other destinations. Vessels warned about lost bomb The announcement said the steps were a response to the Dec. 14 decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board to post- pone indefinitely action on a Japan Air Lines' application. The government-sup- ported JAL had asked permission to fly Brazil-bound passengers on the same flight as Los Angeles-bound passengers as far as the West Coast. In Los An- geles, the Brazil-bound passengers from kyo would continue their flight on a parate aircraft, but no new passen- 9 would be allowed to board, accord- TOKYQ (AP) - Japan's Maritime JAL. Safety Agency issued a warning to ships1e CAB said its action was In re- in the East China Sea to be on the look-e to the Japanese Transport Minis- put for a large wooden crate containing failure to act on an application by rocket bomb that was washed over-d Air Lines for service rights be- board from a U.S. Navy vessel in anty -! Tokyo and the West Coast. phoon last week. je Transport Ministry statement Officials said the 2.3-ton device isapan was prepared to apply fur- iable to ignite and explode if exposed to unctions if the United States acted air. Officials said the bomb was swept Japanese air operations to or off the deck of the 18,000-ton ammuni -! the United States. tion ship Mount Hood, last Thursday e see-sawing dispute has been de- bout 200 miles southwest of Sasebo onng for a long time. apan's southernmost island of Kyushu. pan has for years claimed the joint agreement on civil aviation tate because it al- Japan Air Lines - Itates, while it per- J.S. ship arrival protested TOKYO (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators, some on boats and others at a pier, chanted, "Go Home!" and "We Want The Bases Back!" when the USS Mon- icello arrived in Yokohama Tuesday. No injuries or arrests were reported. An estimated 250 demonstrators gathered at the dockside. Police Laid 100 others, who chartered"11 boats in an effort to surround the Monticello, were dispersed without inci- Sent. Meanwhile, 400 other demonstrators yelling, "Ston The Exercises" and "Protect Our Livelihoods" protest- mits four U.S. carriers to land here. "Our privileges amount to little more than an oil change," said a JAL spokesman who asked not to be named. U.S. and Japanese negotiators on a new civil aviation accord suspended talks in mid-November. The negotia- Tions are scheduled to resume Jan. 11. In a statement Monday, JAL Presi- dent Yasumoto Takagi called the Japa- nese response to the U.S. sanctions "quite justifiable." He said he hopes the government "will not give way to the unjustifiable attitude of the U.S. government and will stand firm throughout the coming nego- tiationa." The sanctions also included: - Freezing requests on so-called "beyond rights" applications. "Beyond rights" involve an airlines' right to use or serve a nation's airport facilities on flights that terminate elsewhere. - Requiring American carriers to submit data on number of passengers, traffic and other details concerning all "beyond rights." - Requiring that any U.S. carrier's application for extra flight sections be approved by the Japan Civil Aviation Board. Until now, extra sections had been allowed automatically through routine notification to the Japanese. oreg 12/29/81 WHO26 Projects Iranian mob flails at U.S. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hundreds of Iranian demonstrators shouted anti- American slogans and burned an Ameri- Can flag Thursday in front of the former -U.S. Embassy in Tehran to "show their allegiance" to clergy leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran Radio re- ported. The broadcast said the demonstra- tion was held to mark the second anni- versary of the founding of the "op- pressed mobilization squad," a loosely bound organization made up of Khomei- ni loyalists. The spiritual leader calls the group the Iranian "popular army." In another development, the Iranian government has invalidated the pass- ports of all Iranians abroad identified as golitical dissidents or members of the Bahai faith, according to a document received by The Associated Press. :It said the "counter-revolutionaries" would be denied further travel abroad but could receive the necessary paper! to come home to Iran. 7/81 oreg 11/2 UFO2 6 Projecto U.S. rapped on drug use oreg 12/13/81 LONDON (AP) - The president of the European Athletic Union Saturday said he believed there was more drug abuse among athletes in the United States than in any other nation. Arthur Gold also accused the United States of starting drug abuse in track and field and said Americans should not be allowed to participate in internation- al meers. "It is a myth that drug abuse started behind the Iron Curtain. It started in United States colleges in the 1950s," he said in a television interview. "My personal opinion is they should not be allowed to compete in interna- tional competition. "T believe drugs are very widely used in the United States, but you can't. have specific evidence because they have no testing there," he said. AFOR 6 Projects- WASHINGTON - Dangerous currents are now running against this country in The Middle East and Europe. But the Rea-" gan administration, as presently constitut- ed, cannot turn the tide. So this country is alive with ru- mors about coming shake- ups in the top Greg foreign policy joseph kraft === Page 251 of 278 UFOx 6 Projects Document loss at Tehran embassy oreg IT 12/21/81 'serious' NEW YORK (UPI) - American intelli- gence operations around the world remain Seriously compromised because of docu- ments taken by Iranian militants in the Tall of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, News- week magazine says. The Soviets are believed to have ob- tained copies of all of the documents, the magazine said, and some papers shredded during the embassy assault were pieced together and are now available in Iranian bookstores. In its latest edition released Sunday, Newsweek also said the loss is far more serious than previously beleved, "U.S. officials believe that Soviet intel- ligence has obtained copies of all the doc- uments taken by the student militants - with potentially damaging results for the United States," the magazine said in Its latest edition. Newsweek said the names of American sources and agents could cause lasting damage and maybe several deaths. U.S. officials have maintained there was little sensitive material kept in the embassy, which was seized by Iranian militants in November 1979, Newsweek said, But now, it said, officials admit the intelligence losses probably equal the damage resulting from the North Korea's capture of the spy ship Pueblo in 1968 or from the hasty evacuation of the U.S. Em- bassy in Saigon. Newsweek said it obtained from former hostage Joseph Subic, who worked in the defense attache's office, detailed informa- tion on the intelligence seized by the mili- tants. The list included: · Thousands of pages representing virtu- ally all intelligence reports filed by the defense attache's office in 1978 and 1979. . A computer printout listing the true identities of all Defense Intelligence Agen- cy sources and agents in Iran, including members of the Iranian military and mili- tary attaches from friendly countries. . Records of a plan by the DIA and CIA. to stenl - with the help of. Iranian offi- cers whose names were listed - a Rus- sian-made anti-aircraft gun and armored personnel carrier the Soviets had sold to the Iranian army. · More than a month of intelligence re- ports from the U.S. Pacific Command, de- tailing U.S. knowledge of Soviet ship movements, and from the European Com- mand, which monitors Warsaw Pact de- ployments - information that could help pinpoint U.S. anti-submarine capabilities. . DIA documents listing the priority of all intelligence targets around the world. The magazine noted that former Iranian Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Amir En- tezam was sentenced to life in prison fol- lowing a trial at which captured U.S. doc- uments were used as evidence to support charges that he cooperated with American officials. ina criticizes U.S. foreign 00) UFO2 6 Projecto Ensign charged in spy attempt SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A Navy ensign will face a court-martial for reportedly Trying to sell military secrets to the South African Embassy in an effort to raise money to put his Filipino girlfriend through college, authorities said. In addition to the charges of passing sensitive information to a foreign power, On his way to a civilian court hearing. Stephen Baba, 21, of Gaithersburg, Md., authorities say he assaulted a female was accused Wednesday of attempted ex- Shore Patrol officer during an escape at- tempt. tortion, attempted escape from custody, desertion, unauthorized absence, missing the movement of the ship to which he was The unsolicited secret data sent to the South African Embassy consisted of a previously assigned, assault on a senior May 1980 copy of a secret electronics- commissioned officer and four counts of warfare evaluation and educational quar- passing hed checks He also faces an attempted armed rob- bery charge Jan. 26 in San Diego Superior Court. Baba's mother, Dorothy, said in Mary- land that her son had sought to raise money for his fiancee in the Philippines so she could attend college. Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3 Baba al- legedly went on unauthorized leave twice, tried to extort money from a Navy credit union and from a Coronado jewelry store. terly and two secret microfilm indices of key code words. The material, which was returned to the Navy by the embassy, could have been used against the United States, according to Navy Capt. Jack Garrow. oreg 5 12 / 17/ 81 === Page 252 of 278 UFO 6 Projects China criticizes U.S. foreign policy By PHIL BROWN PEKING (AP) - China's official press has sharpened its criticism of the United States recently, claiming America is bun- gling ite foreign policy and harming efforts to contain Soviet expansion. range from U.S. puttry toward the Third, planes to Taiwan has not yet been made, and that the just announced sale requires con- gressional notification. There was no Im- mediate reaction from China. Targets of the Chinese press campaign world to American domestic problems China says might affect U.S. defense capability. There is a suggestion that if U.S .- China relations deteriorate - which China has said will occur if the United States sells fighter planes to Taiwan - it may be of no loss to Peking since the United States is too inept to be a valuable friend anyway. It was disclosed Monday in Washington that the Reagan administration is going ahead with a major sale of military spare -arts to Taiwan. State Department spokes- man Dean Fischer said China was not in- formed beforehand of the decision because, "We feel that our position with China has been consistent and we plan to continue de- fense arms sales to Taiwan." He would not divulge details, other than to say that a decision on selling FX fighter Congressional notification is required for amounts over $25 million. Some sources who asked not to be identified said the sale in- volves $97 million worth of parts. The U.S. friendship with China - started with President Nixon's trip to China in 1972 and enhanced by the Carter administration's 1979 diplomatic recognition of Peking - is strongly rooted in Chinese mistrust of the Soviets. Chinese and Soviet troops fought in a border skirmish in 1969. Soviet backing of India In its 1971 war with Pakistan and of Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia were opposed by China. The Soviet military inter- vention in Afghanistan, which borders Chi- na, has increased the Chinese concern. China has a strong interest in keeping the Soviets under pressure so it can concentrate on the economic modernization launched by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, its top leader. But the spate of recent critical commen- tarles by the official news agency Xinhua, the People's Daily Communist Party newspa- per and by Chinese officials indicate the Chi- nese are starting to look upon the United States as impotent to deal with the Soviets. 009 12/29/81 UFOR 6 Projects Begin axes U.S. pact; rift widens Text on Page A6 By ARTHUR MAX JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minis- ter Menachem Begin, in an unprecedent- ed attack Sunday on the United States, declared the new U.S .- Israeli strategic alliance canceled and told Washington not to threaten or preach to him. "The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America, and it will live another 3,700 years without it," Begin said in an angry statement to U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. The latest crisis, stemming from Is- rael's annexation of the Golan Heights of Syria last Monday, revealed a deep rift in U.S .- Israeli relations. Begin's remarks, later endorsed by the Israeli Cabinet and made public as an official communique, were delivered" First to Lewis. Begin summoned Ambassador Lewis to protest U.S. suspension of the strate- gic alliance - an action taken Friday in response to Israel's annexation of the Golan, Syrian territory occupied by Is- rael since the 1967 Middle East War. "In our view, this is the cancellation of the memorandum," Begin said. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., in an interview on the CBS News "Face The Nation" program, said the United States suspended the alliance to make clear to Israel that it does not have "a blank check from the United States for its conduct." But Haig played down the diplomat- ic flareup as "a difference among friends" and said "nothing is changed." Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda en-Meir said Israel did not rule out the ssibility the agreement could be re- talk is this, punishing Israel? Are we your vassal state? Are we a banana re- public? Are we 14-year-old boys who get their fingers slapped when they don't behave? "We will not be frightened by pun- ishments. Those who threaten us will find our ears deaf," Begin was quoted as saying in the communique. Begin hinted broadly that he be- lieved U.S. policy toward Israel was shadowed by anti-Semitism. He said the withholding of U.S. purchases from Is- raeli defense industries was an attempt to "hit us in our pocket," a familiar theme of anti-Semitic propaganda. Begin refused to nullify the legisla- tion, which he rushed through the Knes- set, Israel's parliament, Monday. "The Golan Heights law will remain in effect. There is no power on Earth that can bring its cancellation," he said. The United States joined the other 14 members of the United Nations Secu- rity Council Thursday declaring the an- nexation null and void. President Reagan said the annexa- tion violated Security Council Resolu- tion 242, which rules out the acquisition of territory by force and calls for nego- tiated borders. The 1967 resolution un- derpins all successive Middle East peace efforts. Begin replied that Syria had refused to recognize Israel or to negotiate, "and thus had removed the soul from 242." The unprecedented Israeli attack on the United States capped six months of slipping relations, and observers could, not remember a similar strain since U.S. pressure forced Israel to evacuate the Sinai Peninsula in 1957. 12/21/81 === Page 253 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects (anti-U.S. govt.) applied to this idea . ,wenn Oregonian finally talks about V oreg By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff 12/11/81 After deliberately seeking obscurity since his return from Vietnam 12 years ago, Thomas Kitrick "Kit" Bowen of Lake Oswego awoke this week to find himself in a global spotlight. Bowen, a dealer for The Oregonian, īs featured in a special Vietnam issue of Newsweek magazine now on the news- stands and will be heard in a one-hour report by Bill Moyers on CBS-TV at 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. The stark truth of Bowen's Vietnam experience came as a shock to his Port- land friends, who knew him as a bub- bly, fun-loving joker who founded VACO, the Vista Avenue Cast-Offs, ear- lier this year just for fun and to raise money for Quadriplegics United Against Dependency. "I never, ever talked to anyone about 'Nam," Bowen said, "not even to my closest friend - my father - until now." Bowen, now 32, was born and reared in the Portland area. He attended Raleigh Hills Elementary School and graduated from Beaverton High School. His parents are now divorced. His mother, Betty, still lives in Bea- verton. His father, who won three Dis- tinguished . Flying Crosses and other medals for heroism in World War II, is a Portland insurance man. father: The younger Bowen was drafted summed up his rage in a letter to his April 24, 1968. "Bam, bam, shake 'n' bake; and there I was in Lai Khe, 35 miles north- east of Saigon, one of two medics as- signed to Charlie Company," he said. I could kill very easily. But once in 'Nam I wouldn't have had it any other way. He is still full of anger, carefully was no CO (conscientious objector). I suppressed for 13 years but boiling over "Charlie Company was a hard-luck company," he recalled. "It was always getting hit. That's probably why News- week chose it for its 'Bittersweet Me- mories' edition. "My main job was to get to a man and patch him up - save lives," Bowen said. "Man, it was a choking scene. It-Bowen said. didn't help being as emotional as I am. . KIT BOWEN would see men wasted and I would come unglued. I was scared a couple of times, but I don't think I ever fired a shot with my rifle. My buddies took care of me. They put the fire doch for me." After his first bloodbath, Bowen "We are the unwilling, working for the unqualified to do the unnecessary for the ungrateful." again after he attended a Charlie Com- pany reunion that CBS sponsored in Florida. The company mustered 160 men at full strength. CBS invited 54 survivors, of whom 31 turned up. Bowen was the only man from Oregon. "I know of one other guy in Aurora who was invited, but he didn't show," tar fire on his own company, despite the screaming protests of the combat-hard- ened "grunts" who tried to tell him the mistake he was making. "Lieutenants have been blown away for less than that," Bowen said. "But we needed this lieutenant to help carry back the wounded. When he ordered us to go back for the guns and ammunition we dropped, I told him, "We're way ahead of you. Were going back to Lai Khe. ---- you!' They quickly 'disap- peared' that officer." Bowen said he would never forget the night one of his sergeant buddies "took one in the head" and died in his arms "with his brains in his mouth." But it was the "body counters" that aroused Bowen's special rage. He has never forgiven Capt. Richard Lee Ro- gers, Charlie Company's commanding officer, who led their platoon into a North Vietnamese ambush despite vehe- ment protests from Bowen and other men. 1 "Our 'Kit Carson scouts' - desert- ers from North Vietnam - knew the enemy tactics and warned us we were walking into a trap,", Bowen said. " 'These guys know the enemy,' I told Rogers. But he was too interested in body counts, which would get him pro- moted. "Sure enough, we were hit from all sides. We lost at least three men and Chalf the rest were hurt. Rogers was shaking, but he ordered us back into the fight. We didn't go. "I was furious - out of my mind - so Refers ordered me on R&R (rest and recreation) to Bangkok to get rid of me," he continued. "I found out later he had yanked R&R orders from a black guy named Cricket and given them to me. That night Cricket got drunk, bust- ed into the captain's quarters and sprayed his bed with his M-16. "Unfortunately," he said, "Rogers wasn't in it. Cricket got 27 years in Leavenworth." Kaother nightmare that haunted Bowen and Billy Johnson, the other company medic, was the night three "twinks" - raw recruits - were as- sigited to a listening post outside the Bowen's anger is directed not "We bled too much over there way too much," he said, shaking bis against the communist invaders of Viet- nam but mainly against the U.S. Army head. "I was full of rage. You might say and its officers. He can't forget the* base defense perimeter. When the ene- I raged my way through the war. I young lieutenant who called down mor- vmy overran their position, they ran for . note: Pai: force willbe "00 === Page 254 of 278 UF06 Projects Bombs darken San Juan SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UPI) - Pro- independence guerrillas set off two bombs at electric substations Friday night, plung- ing the heart of San Juan's tourist district Into darkness, hours after other insur- gents fired on a U.S. Army station in Puerto Rico, injuring a soldier. The explosions caused millions of dol- lars in damages and were "well planned and professionally executed," said Wil- fredo Marcial Gonzales, assistant director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Au- thority. He talked as he surveyed the melted power lines and blackened transformers That gushed cooling oil, threatening to pollute the picturesque lagoon in San Juan's Condado tourism center. "I eliminate totally the probability that an equipment malfunction could have caused the type of destruction that oc- curred here," the utility official added. Marcial said some of the subscribers affected in a more than 20-block area of Condado may remain without power up to 48 hours. By late Friday, power had re- turned to some of the affected areas, how- ever. The explosions came after a predawn attack at the Fort Buchanan Army base outside San Juan, in which terrorists fired nine rifle shots, wounding a military po- liceman in the left arm. An anonymous caller claiming to be- long to the Macheteros (Machete-Wield- ers) pro-independence terrorist group claimed responsibility for bombing the electric substations in a call to the San Juan Star newspaper. Another man called UPI's San Juan bu- reau and said a pro-independence group 1 called the "Liberation Movement" had shot at the Army base. The man who called the Star said the Macheteros acted in support of students on strike at the University of Puerto Rico, site of a clash between students and police Wednesday that injured more than a doz- en people. Marcial said padlocks to the entrances of both substations were missing, and that he suspected the saboteurs had keys to. ther Oregi5 11/28/81 Bombs 'black out El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) - Some 700 troops patrolled San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city, against left- ist guerrilla attacks amid fears of a major rebel uprising, military officers said. A new guerrilla bombing campaign blacked out 30 percent of the country> leaving San Miguel, Chalatenango, Usulu- tan and the major navy base at La Union with only sporadic power, telephone and water service for two days. org J1/25/82 security forces Sunday were "begin- ning an eight-day task" on full alert be- cause "they have received information in military intelligence that they (guerrillas) are going to attack San Miguel," one offi- cer said. About 700 soldiers in the city of 150,000, situated 85 miles east of San Sal- vador, were stationed "on every corner" to hunt for possible guerrilla. "safe- houses," check identification and search cars for weapons, he said. The government originally feared the rebel offensive would begin last week to mark Friday's 50th anniversary of a bloody peasant uprising quashed by right- ist Gen. Maximiliano Hernandez at the cost of 30,000 lives. About 125 guerrillas wounded a soldier and pinned down forces for three hours 20 === Page 255 of 278 UFO2 Bermuda Triangle Efect. Amtrak computer sells rooms twice, says org 12/16/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thou- sands of holiday season travelers were erroneously turned away from Amtrak trains when programming errors in a new $23 million computer system said The trains were full. According to a report in Tuesday's San Francisco Examiner, the problems began in November, about two w eks after the nation's passenger rail corpo- ration switched to a computer that was to triple the reservation system's capac- ity. First, Amtrak discovered 5,700 sleeping compartments on routes throughout the country had been sold twice, said Arthur Lloyd, an Amtrak regional spokesman in San Francisco. When clerks tried to find space for the extra passengers, the new computer said all sleepers were sold out, despite the fact there was plenty of room, Lloyd said. From Nov. 27 to Dec. 9, Amtrak was not taking reservations for sleeping compartments on any of its overnight trains, Lloyd said. Regular rail passengers knew some- thing was wrong, according to Byron Nordberg, president of Citizens for Rail California, an advocacy group for im- proved passenger train service. "Their computer was displaying trains as sold out, and we were wonder- ing why nobody was on them," said Nordberg. "The implications for lost revenue must be enormous, It couldn't have happened &. a worse time." Amtrak, whose clerks answers 200,000 calls a week, does not know how much business it lost, said Lloyd. The "sold out" problem has been solved, he said, but the rail system is still look- ing for room for passengers whose com- partments had already been sold. Nordberg suggested Amtrak might have been hurrying to get the new com- puter operating for the holiday season. "The original computer was collaps- ing around their ears," he said. "It was a choice of monkeying around with it or going to the new system." Amtrak still doesn't know exactly what caused the programming problem, although it says there's nothing wrong with the computer itself, which was manufactured by Honeywell Corp. Coach passengers were not affected empty trains full by the problem, he said. However, at least one official of Caltrans, the Cali- fornia Department of Transportation, disagreed. According to department spokesman Frank Lanza in Sacramento, passengers on Amtrak's overnight Sacramento- Oakland-Los Angeles train were refused coach seats. "It was a problem switching the programming from the old computer to "We know for a fact that people the new one. It was the old 'garbage in, were turned away from the overnight garbage out' problem," said Lloyd. train when there were coach seats "Maybe somebody pushed the wrong button. We really don't know." available," Lanza said. "We were very distressed when we heard about the computer problems." Precis UFOR 6 Project Explosions kill 1, injure 20 ore975 12/22/81 By United Press International Explosions ripped through city streets, fac- tories and homes in Illinois, California, Ala- bama and Tennessee Monday, killing one woman and injuring 20 people. Leaking gas was suspected in the two Southern blasts. Sixteen workers at a grain complex in Dan- ville, Ill., were injured, some seriously, by two deafening explosions followed by fires in a soybean processing section. The cause of the explosions, heard up to 15 miles away, was still unknown Tuesday and 11 workers remained hospitalized with burns, back and head injuries. In Los Angeles, a woman was burned to death in a fiery explosion while trying to put out a fire in her TV set. A friend trying to save her also was burned. A natural gas explosion in a Sylacauga, Ala., laundry leveled half a city block and injured three people. The town's mavor, who was driving within 50 yards of the laundry when the blast occurred, said his Cadillac was "com- pletely" lifted off the ground but he was unin- jured. In Knoxville, Tenn., utility officials said an underground explosion in the downtown area might have been sparked by a combination of faulty electrical wiring and sewer gas. No one was injured, however. In both the Alabama and Tennessee cases, police said dozens of people might have been killed if the blasts had happened an hour later when businesses were open for the day. Clean-up work was under way Tuesday in Sylacauga's downtown. Besides leveling three buildings, Monday's explosion heavily dam- aged and knocked out windows in about 40 other businesses within a four-block area of the central Alabama town. The former president of Sylacauga's City Council and a teenager, briefly trapped in col- lapsed rafters, suffered burns in the explosion but both were listed in good condition. An elderly woman was hospitalized with a back. injury. In Tennessee, utility workers climbed down under a downtown Knoxville street to deter- mine what caused a muffled explosion Mon- day that sent manhole covers flying and blew out the glass of nearby buildings. Jim Carmon of the Knoxville Utilities Board said combustible gas indicators could find no buildup of sewer gas and no leak, although officials said earlier Monday they believed gas was involved. Carmon said an inspection found the explo- sion occurred at an electrical vault and could have been sparked by a power cable that had burned through its insulation. An investigation was under way in Illinois to determine the cause of Monday's blasts at the Lauhoff Grain Co. in Danville. B B m Ed re co bla off fin TH be et ce a a === Page 256 of 278 UPOR 6 Projecto Manhole fire cuts power to downtown Boston area BOSTON (AP) - A manhole fire knocked out electricity Saturday to 6,500 customers in downtown Boston, and two-thirds of the area - including Chinatown and the red-light district - could remain without power until Sun- day, officials said. "We don't expect to have power re- stored until 9 or 10 a.m. Sunday morn- ing," said Mike Monahan, a spokesman for Boston Edison. "We're just advising people to hang tight and bundle up." Temperatures during the night were expected to be around 40, but most of the area expected to be without power through the night was commercial, with only scattered apartments. No injuries were reported. Monahan said the fire was discov- ered in a manhole shortly before 1 a.m. The heat of the fire was so intense it melted seven cable connections that provided power in a wide area. Officials didn't know the cause of the fire. "The manhole was a mess," Mona- han said. The fire initially interrupted electric service to some 6,500 Boston Edision customers in the heart of the city, in- cluding sections of the Tufts New Eng- land Medical Center, said Boston Edison spokesman Walter Salvi. The hospital continued normal functions with the help of emergency generators. Electricity was restored shortly be- fore 10 a.m. to half the affected area. ONegy 11/15/9 49 6 Projects- Boston fire knocks out city subways By PETER BREWER 2 10 2981 BOSTON (AP) - A "suspicious" two-alarm fire knocked out Greater Boston's subway system just before the morning rush hour Monday, and Gov. Edward J. King announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone responsible for the blaze. Surrounded at a news conference by public transportation and public safety officials, King said that "preliminary findings seem to indicate there was ar- son. Someone deliberately set the fire. This deliberate and destructive act must be met with the strongest response." It also was announced that state po- lice would be supplementing Massachu- setts Bay Transportation Authority po- ice at the transit agency's eight power stations while officials review security. King also said that, while he wasn't making a connection between the fire and a work slowdown resulting from labor disputes, "disruptions in service are in no one's interest, (and) I will not tolerate attempts to undercut manage- Damage from the early-morning blaze at the central control building was estimated at $1.5 million, and it was noted by MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary that there was a "suspi- cious" fire at an outlying power station on the Ashmont line five weeks ago. Earlier, O'Leary had told reporters that the fire at the control building was being classified "as a fire of very suspi- cious origin." He said he is hiring a private arson investigator to help find - The Egyptian Power California blasts awaken residents ong 11/7/8/ VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Two unrelated explo- sions 40 miles apart shook California residents from Their sleep early Friday morning, one blast blowing" apart an oil field compressor plant and the other shaking a rocket fuel firm. The explosion at a Getty Oil Co. plant in the Ven- tura oil fields touched off five natural gas fires and injured one worker, fire officials said. The force of the explosion spewed debris through- out the facility and twisted steel girders of the 100- foot-long compressor plant, authorities said. Intense heat melted portions of the compressors themselves and scorched nearby storage tanks. Residents reported an orange glow in the sky for miles around. "It was kind of a dull orange flash that lit up the whole canyon," said John Sparrow, 29, who was driving to work at the nearby Pepsi Cola plant at the time. Getty officials said they would not be able to determine the extent of the damage until the weekend. The cause of the fire was under investigation. In Saugus, 40 miles to the east, firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze at the Bermite Division of the Whittaker Corp., where waste 'rocket fuel exploded during a burnoff shortly after 5 a.m. No injuries were reported. "We had a flash and it showered some sparks into surrounding brush and we had a small fire which was quickly put out," said Bermite President Douglas Score, who added that the source of the explosion have been some material in a drum that ignited | of the burn." sunty firefighters extinguished three of thin 11/2 hours of the explosion. Fire at microwave station knocks out phone service scrambled Saturday to restore long-dis- tance telephone service between south- east Washington and northeastern Ore- damaged a microwave station near here Friday night, officials said. The fire occurred at the microwave relay station south of Pasco on Joe Butte, said Tom Boswell, a General Telephone Co. equipment. technician. The fire damaged power cables. ly known. Cause of the fire was not immediate- The microwave station is operated Saturday. The outage began at about 7 p.m. Friday. Some service was restored early In addition to long-distance tele- speed data circuits. phone service, the outage affected high- in Oregon. The outage affected the Tri-Cities area and Walla Walla in Washington and the Pendleton, Hermiston, Umatilla, Boardman, La Grande and Baker areas Co., which serves Pasco. General Tele- phone, which provides service to Ken- newick and Richland, is connected to PASCO, Wash. (AP) - Technicians by Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone gon. Service was knocked out when fire Bell's microwave system, Boswell said. === Page 257 of 278 Scientific papers claim aregu 10/9/8 Big W. Washington quake 'possible' By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A major earthquake of perhaps 6.5 or more mag- nitude on the Richter scale is a possibility in Western Washington, according to one of a series of scientific papers being presented this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Un- ion in San Francisco. Another paper concludes that in addition to 15 known volcanic locations in the Cascades, probably more than 60 other loca- tions in the 11 western states have a potential for future eruptions and new locations may form within the zone at any time. Still another treatise, based upon six years of ex- periments at Kilauea Iki Lava Lake, Hawaii, says the nation could solve its fuel problems by extract- ing thermal energy from vast areas of molten rock under the western United States. The Western Washing- ton earthquake, should it and followed by more than occur, likely would be along a corridor stretching from 20 miles south of Mount St. Helens in a north northwesterly direc- tion to 12 miles north of the Cowlitz River. The zone is a narrow band of perhaps parallel earth- quake fault sections and probably would not cause major damage to the Port- land metropolitan area or the Trojan nuclear power plant. The Trojan plant is al- most 40 miles west of the quake zone, according to Craig S. Weaver, U.S. Geo- logical Survey scientist at the University of Washing- ton Geophysical Center. He co-authored a report on the Mount St. Helens crustal fault- zone with S. W. Smith, another geologist at the university. Weaver also co-authored another paper for the Cali- fornia conference with Wendy C. Grant of the USGS and J.E. Zollweg of the University of Washing- ton that says a hazard reassessment may be nec- essary based on last Janu- ary's 5.5 magnitude quake at Elk Lake, north of the volcano, together with re- cent activity at Mount St. Helens. The quake, strongest in the Northwest in 16 years 1,000 aftershocks, plus the activity of the volcano may signal a loading of the earth's upper crust, the ·Weaver-Grant-Zollweg pa- per says. Weaver said the conclu- sions in the two papers he co-authored show not only. an increase in earthquake ington, but are consistent" Approximately 40 quakes with work done by anoth- er USGS scientist that sug- gests on-going subduction of the Juan de Fuca geolog- ic plate with the North American plate. The geologic evidence points to a building up of strain under the earth's surface, according to Weaver. That doesn't nec- essarily say that a great earthquake will strike the Northwest or that the quake hazard or risk has gone up substantially, he added. While Weaver and another geologist, Jim Sav- age of the USGS western region staff at Menlo Park, Calif., agree that there are signs of on-going subduc- tion of the geologic plates off the Oregon-Washing- ton coasts, there are prob- lems with the interpreta- tions. Weaver said that the way the West Coast has been tilting upwards the last 80 years is similar to what has been seen in Ja- pan and has been intepret- ed as a non strain-loading situation. That could be a sign that subduction is not on-going. In another paper pre- pared for the California conference, Alan Rite and H. M. Iyer of the USGS dis- activity in Western Wash- cuss siesmicity in Oregon. vulcanism. were recorded in Oregon between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 1981, with the largest concentration of activity in the northern part of the state in a band that runs in a north-northwesterly di- rection from southeast of Mount Hood to the Colum- bia River. Rite said in a telephone interview that all of the events were shallow and ranged in magnitude from 0.5 to 3.5 on the Richter scale. He also said they probably were tectonic and In the Oregon study, Rite added, historical data was examined and the largest event in the state apparently was near Cas- cade Locks in 1877, reach- ing an intensity of 8 (not on the Richter scale) and cracking chimneys in Port- land. Neither Rite nor Weaver would say that there is a fault like the San Andreas fault running through Washington and Oregon. Weaver is convinced there are sections of faults in a ot necessarily related to line along the Cascades. UFO2 6 Projecto Rebels darken Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) -The whole.of El Salvador was cast into darkness for two hours yester- day, after repeated rebel bombings on electrical installa- tions around the country, authorities said. Leftist guerrillas brew out electricity in coordinated attacks just after midnight, cutting electricity to San Salvador and most major cities. Then just after sundown the entire country was cast into darkness. Power was restored after the earlier attacks, but an evening outage at the 5 de Noviembre dam 30 miles north of the capital led in a total blackout around the Central American nation. Bt was the first time in two years of near-civil war that a major power failure had taken place at the nation's most important hydroelectric station. It supplies more than one third of El Salvador's electrical power. ora J 1/2/8, === Page 258 of 278 CIA says it nailed down hit squad's U.S. route L By John P. Wallach Hearst Feature Service + T. U.S. WASHINGTON - The CIA knew 24 hours after a Libyan hit team crossed into the United States from Canada the identities of the five sus- pected assassins and their exact route, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. A Libyan defector, who has been in CIA custody since he walked into a U.S. diplomatic misson in Europe last month, provided the information on the Libyan hit team's movements from "point A to point B" less than 24 hours after they moved. When the CIA and the FBI checked the report, the informer's prediction was confirmed - "the hour day and the people involved. It checked out completely," the intelli- gence official said. That in turn enabled the U.S. gov- ernment, the official said, to obtain positive identifications and photo- graphs of the suspected Libyan assas- sins less than 24 hours after they had crossed into the United States. The intelligence official also pro- vided details of the crisis that has led the administration to vastly beef up security around the president, Cabi- net members, White House aides, con- gressional leaders and selected ambas- sadors serving at certain foreign posts. · The CIA has reason to believe that the Libyan plot may involve the Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical terrorist offshoot of the Pal- estine Liberation Organization_as well as members of the Japanese Red Army and Italian Red Brigades. The sources said that "Carlos," an alias for the Venezuelan terrorist Vladimir Tlyitch Ramirez, also may be involved. Carlos is believed to have been living in Libya for the last several years. · A composite of the suspected American targets has been put togeth- er. "If you're Jewish, identified with the administration's Middle East poli- cy or a senior member of the govern- ment, you're on the hit list," the offi- cial said, "and you would be well advised to have maximum security. He explained that this extended not only to Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, defense chief Caspar Weinberger and White House inti- mates such as Edwin Meese and James Baker, but also to. Theodore Cummings, Maxwell Rabb and Arthur Hummel, the U.S. ambassadors, re- spectively, to Austria, Italy and China. All three envoys are Jewish. · The Reagan administration also says "documented plans" captured from a Libyan hit squad apprehended in Italy this fall conclusively prove that Rabb was the target of an earlier assassination plot. "We have equally solid information that there are other American targets of the Libyan assas- Sattle PI 12/9/81 === Page 259 of 278 USFostering terrorists oreg 12/11/081 closed Khadafy's diplomatic mission in Washington earlier this year. The U.S. mission in Tripoli was the target of a mob attack in December 1979, and the Libyan government has yet to fulfill its promise to pay for the damage. With no fanfare, border guards were told to be on the lookout for two assas- sination squads intent on killing Reagan and other top officials. According to a document issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, one squad is headed by the famed international ter- rorist known as "Carlos," or "The Jack- al." His full name is Carlos Ilich Ra- mirez Sanchez. "A reliable source indicates that a six-man assassintation team headed "by Carlos may attempt illegal entry into The United States via Mexico during car- "Ty December 1981," said a notice posted at the crossing on the U.S .- Mexican bor- der south of San Diego, Calif. The document named five other members of the "assassination team' headed by Carlos, and also named five alleged members of a second team. Most American oil companies oper- ating in Libya withheld announcing at once whether they would pull their workers out of Libya and give up a profitable arrangement that has flour- ished through months of tensions. UFOR- "terrorists" U.S. terrorism soaring WASHINGTON (UPI) - After a four-year decline, the number of terrorist acts in the United States has in- creased by almost 50 percent in the last year, says FBI Director William Webster. The reason for the sudden. Increase still is being analyzed, he said Tuesday. "Most of the terrorist activities, with the exception of those in Puerto Rico, have to do with people in the United States with causes that don't involve the United States," he told reporters. During 1981 there were 42 terrorist acts, 13 more than in 1980, Webster said ON J 12/30/81 -Vi- I Projects Terror increases FBI Director William H. Webster said Tuesday that terrorist incidents in- side the United States increased during 1981 for the first time in four years. At a year-end session with report- ers, Webster said there had been 43 identifiable terrorist incidents in the United States so far this year. That number still is below the figure for 1977, the year before Webster took i over as FBI chief. In 1977, there were 100 domestic terrorist incidents, and the figure dropped steadily to 55 in 1978, 42 in 1979 and 29 in 1980. Ored. 12/30/8, Infor 6 Projectos FRANKFURT, West Germany (UPI) - Terrorists have slashed tires,on American autombiles and threatened new attacks on U.S. military installations, authorities said Thursday. A spokesman for the U.S. Army V Corps news said tires were slashed and an- scope ti-American_slo- gans painted on 10 automobiles with U.S. military license plates parked outside houses occupied by Americans on three streets in Frankfurt. Automobiles with German license plates were not damaged. Supporters of the Baader-Meinhof ter- rorists claimed responsibility for the ac- tion in letters received by Frankfurt newspapers. The letters referred to the September attempt to assassinate Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, and the bombing in August at the European headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at Ramstein Air Base that injured a general and 14 other people. The letters called these attacks "an ex- ample" of what is planned for U.S. mili- tary installations in West Germany, the newspaper Frankfurter Neue Presse said in today's edition. "Kroesen and Ramstein" were painted on the American autombiles on which the tires were slashed, the American spokes- man said. oregis 11/19/80 Terrorists threaten U.S. bases === Page 260 of 278 Fortean Times BM-Fortean Times London WCIN 3XX. The Journal of Strange Phenomena. MYSTERY ATTACES The war between man and nature continues; and if the battles are not always red in tooth and claw, they can at least be downright inconvenient. Here are a few animal saboteurs ... for added humour, see also our selection of headlines' on this subject on the inside back cover. MASS ATTACKS · Mice: The San Ofre nuclear power station, California. closed down by mice which shorted the electrical system. Daily Mirror 12 November 1979. In Arlingsaas, Sweden, a van carrying hundreds of mice to a hospital for experiments never made it. The cunning little devils would keep breathing until the windscreen steamed up, and the van went off the road! D.Telegraph 27 Nov 79. · Rats: Hordes of rats, appar- ently breeding for nine years in an excavated lot at Park Row and Ann Street, Manhattan, suddenly swarmed out without apparent cause, to bite women and jump on cars, gnawing windscreen wipers and vinyl roofs. Health officials fenced off the site with wire mesh and put down poison. Niagara Falls Review 12 May 79. Between 300 & 600 tele- phones were disconnected in Cheltenham, Glos, when rats gnawed through an underground cable. Glos, Citizen + D. Mirror + D. Star + D. Telegraph 7 Jan 80. A lobster farm on the island of Houat, off the Brittany coast, France, attacked by what must have been an almighty horde of rats: 5,000 lobsters eaten in one night! Sunday Express 13 Jan 80, Surrey & Hants News 29 July 80 · Rabbits: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota: rabbits and squirrels causing chaos in the secured weapons area by setting off security alarms. The rabbits were also breeding like crazy and burrow- ing into missile mounds, cause cave-ins. The Air Force-were intending to go hunting . .. with bows and arrows! Toronto Sun 11 May 80. The ancient monument of Stonehenge, Wilts, in danger of falling down due to the burrow- ing of a vast army of rabbits. Officials digging wire fence into the ground to keep the invaders out. D.Express 4 July 80. · Squirrels: Air-raid sirens set off at Toronto, apparently due to squirrels gnawing through circuit wires (one of these days, a rodent's going to start World War III!) Toronto Sun 30 May 80. New York State: hundreds of paranoids convinced their phones are bugged ... the cause of the mystery crackling turns out to be squirrels shar- pening their teeth on the wires. Five miles of cable need replac- ing. D.Mail 8 Aug 79. · Pigs: New South Wales, Australia: thousands of pounds worth of damage caused by rampaging wild pigs, killing lambs and trampling crops. S. Express 11 May 80. · Rooks: A spate of power cuts on the Isle of Man blamed on flocks of sexy rooks homing in on power-lines to whoop it up in the mating season. D.Star 25 July 80. · Insects: A swarm of bees invaded the control tower at an airfield at Tabora, West Tanzania, driving out the air traffic team. A pilot found the controllers cowering under a tree after he landed. The Star (Sheffield) 19 Oct 79. Gaevle, Sweden: swarms of wasps systematically eating the yellow paint off outhouses in a district of semi-detached homes. D. Telegraph 25 July 80. · Worms: Half a mile of British Rail track threatened, where it runs across the Mawddach Estuary, near Barmough, Wales, as worms eat the track's wood- en supports. Damage costs £21/2 million to repair. Guardian 18 June 80. · Mackerel: A Norwegian supertanker, the Moscliff held up for 22 hours in the English Channel, some time in Decem- ber 1979, when it ran into a huge shoal of mackerel. The ship's engine stopped auto- matically when thousands of mackerel were squeezed through the strainers of the cooling system intake. About a ton of minced mackerel had to be removed before the ship could get underway again. London Eve. Standard 10 Jan 80. LONE RANGERS · Spiders: Cambridge (Canada?): Firemen responded to an alarm call from the fire- detector at the home of Mervyn Orr, but there were no flames. Instead, they opened the detector and found a spider which had spun its web between the ionization chambers and set off the alarm. Toronto Star 27 Nov 79. · Fish: Brierley Hill, West Midlands: All Herbert the Trigger-fish wanted to do was burrow into the sand at the" bottom of his 400-gallon tank, in Chris Parson's shop. Amaz- ing what an 8-inch fish can do: the coral reefing in his tank collapsed; heating elements fell against the half-inch thick glass; the six-foot tank shattered; the gushing seawater blew up a compressor; ruined carpets, destroyed stocks, killed 8 valuable fish. £5,000 of damage (Herbert survived). D.Mirror 30 Oct 79. · Mice: Manea, Cambs: a mouse chewed through electric wires and caused a £1,500 fire 36 note: Remember that any twined nature animals birds, et. against human roce! (Su previous Correspondence) Gwen 1981 === Page 261 of 278 NOTE: We are proud to present these reprints from the FORTEAN TIMES! They have excellent coverage, and were most gracious to allow us to share their hard work with you .. Fortean Cimes in a grain store. D. Telegraph 20 Sept 80. · Birds: Thousands of com- muters from Liverpool Street Station, London, delayed 20 minutes after a pigeon flew into overhead power lines between Gidea Park and Shenfield, causing a break in electricity. London E.Standard 19 Oct 79. A crow flew into powerlines in Japan, halting 20 high-speed trains. D.Mirror 9 April 80. Trains halted for 2 hours at Stoke on Trent when a crow's nest on an electricity cable cut power. Weekly News 8 May 80. An owl pecked through the cooling cable and blew a 132,000 volt cable near Black Carr Woods, Bradford, causing £13,000 damage. D.Star 5 Aug 80. A kestrel perched on an overhead railway power cable as a train passed underneath caused a short-circuit, blowing masonry from an overhead footbridge and halting main- line services at Crewe for more than an hour. D.Telegraph 27 Dec 79. Gifhorn, W Germany: Armin Grothe's new £60.000 house was built on the hunting ground of a stork, and the latter got rather annoyed. swooping in at night to attack. Three windows smashed at last count. D.Mirror 26 June 80. . Lizards: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: two lizards caused water shortages when they crawled into an electricity junction box andshort-circuited water pumps. A snake had pul- led the same trick the previous year. Reuter Report 22 Jan 80. · Cats: Cindy the cat managed to climb up an electricity pylon, causing workmen to black out the village of Streatley, Luton, , for 20 minutes while they rescued her. Weekly News 5 April 80. · Dogs: The Piccadilly Line of the London underground was brought to a halt during the morning rush hour when an alsatian dog went for a walk. for six miles along the tunnels between Wood Green and Holborn stations. D. Telegraph 29 Dec 79. · Sheep: At North Wooton. near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, a 200 lb pregnant ewe ran away from the flock, apparent- ly saw its own reflection in the window, and promptly leaped through the glass pane. Finding itself in the lounge of Mr Leslie Tincknell, a homely place with a fire just lit in the grate, it promptly proceeded to run umok, covered in blood and broken glass, causing £1.000 damage to curtains, carpets and a three-piece suite. Mr Tincknell and his wife, in the kitchen didn't hear a thing. D.Express + D.Mail + D. Telegraph 26 Nov 79. More trouble with a ewe at Beeches Farm. Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria. Miss Ella Todhunter was up a step-ladder painting the kitchen walls when she heard her brother Joe. and his son Arthur having trouble with a sheep outside. Leaving the paint-pot at the top of the ladder. she went out to help. The sheep promptly made a break for it, ran into the kitchen, tangled itself with the step-ladder and covered itself with white paint. Ella, Joe. and Arthur proceeded to chase the sheep round the kitchen, leaving a trail of foot- prints and a pool of paint in the middle of the carpet: and naturally, the furniture got painted every time the sheep touched it. They finally got it outside and started to load it on a truck when its painted fleece slipped through their fingers. Off went the ewe again. this time entering the kitchen through the ( closed ) window and landed right in the pool of paint. Round and round go the pursuers; round the kitchen, out into the hall, back into the kitchen ... white paint every- where. Yes, they did finally get it onto the truck. S. Express 4 May 80. · Deer: Cockeysville, Mary- land: obviously outraged by the hunting licences on display at Fred Forsyth's sports shop. a deer hurled itself through the front window, smashed a glass cabinet and several fishing rods, and was finally cornered and shut up in a storage room. When two policemen arrived, the deer leaped through another window and escaped back to the woods. Herald Tribune 23 Oct 80. · Moose: Saulte Sainte Marie, Ontario: a moose leaped through the window of a laun- derette, scattering customers and laundry as it rampaged around, before jumping back out the window and departing for the woods, leaving a trail of laundry. D.Telegraph 19 May 80. · Horses: Stray horses made a meal of Alex Curtis' Piper turbo plane when he left it at Doncaster racecourse, causing £2,000 damage as they chewed both wings, the rudder, and anti-static devices. D.Star 20 Aug 80. · Bulls: A bullock escaped from Cambridge cattle market and rampaged for 36 hours before recapture; during which time it dented two police cars, demolished a brick wall, tramp- led down 6 gardens and knocked down a cyclist who broke an ankle. D. Telegraph 29 Nov 79. Bull, Wrecks China Shop' reads the headline (honest!). The 18-month-old bull escaped from u cattle market in Otley, Yorkshire, and headed for Peter Jordan's shop, coming in through the door like a normal customer but then knocking over cabinets of china, crushing coffee tables and destroying lamps and ornaments. It was finally lured away with a young heifer. D. Telegraph + D. Star 25 Sept 80 · Elephants: And finally, biggest of all . .. voting had to be suspended at a polling station in central Tanzania when an elephant strolled in, scattering voters and officials. Maybe it mistook the place for a phone booth ... wanted to make a trunk call, y'see (Sorry). Credits: Paul Burd, Helen Coles, Chris Hall, GPL., Valerie Martin, Sam, Paul Screeton, Dwight Whalen · SM. 37 === Page 262 of 278 NEWSWEEK from George note: The Is turning nature against humans. - UFOR 6 Projects - The Invaders From the time the Lord smote the ancient Egyptians with plagues of frogs, lice, flies and locusts, humankind has had to live with peri- odic eruptions in the animal kingdom. Al- ready this year, Medflies have threatened California fruit and vegetable crops while gypsy moths denuded trees in the Northeast. Now come the latest inhuman villains: sting- ing swarms of fire ants in Texas and Thunder- ing herds of bunnies (jack rabbits, actually) in Idaho_ In five counties of eastern Idaho, the ground at night seethes with rabbits in the millions. It's a cyclical invasion, the rabbit population reaching a peak about every ten years, but no one can recall anything like this year's hordes. The animals overrun the grain fields and choke the roads. Patches of state highway 28 are virtually paved with fur, and motorists have had tires punctured by rabbit bones. Eventually, diseases will decimate the leporine legions, but farmers say they can't afford to wait; losses so far total $5 million Leonard Lee Rue III -- Animals Animais AP worth of hay, wheat, oats and barley. "We got an 80-acre hay field they ate right down to the damn dirt." says Louis Gowdy, a hired hand on one local farm. Some Idahoans have urged a rabbit round- up, in which the pests would be herded into pens, then clubbed to death. But similar drives a decade ago touched off a public furor. "If these were rats invading New York," complains Jefferson County commissioner Rex Furness, "nobody would complain if you killed them the best way you could." Texans, meanwhile, are waging a losing war against the fire ants. Brought into the United States from South America by acci- dent in 1918, they now infest 102 of the state's 254 counties, dotting the fields with huge, sunbaked mounds hard enough to damage farm machinery. They nest in cities, too- inflicting on children and household pets a bite venomous enough to send its victims into shock. One Austin family even found fire ants in the washing machine and electrical outlets of their new home. After cleaning out the ants, they cleared out themselves-moving all the way to New York City. tiators were still at odds on the details of the $400 billion-plus continuing resolution. O'Neill, waiting for the results in his office, picked up his phone on the spur of the moment and put in a call to Jimmy Carter. "We miss you, Jimmy," he told Carter. Elsewhere in the Capitol, the conferees were divided on the depth of the cuts to be made. The Republican-controlled Senate, follow- ing the Administration's lead, was holding out for deeper cuts in labor and social- welfare programs and pushing for more foreign aid; the House was resisting. But if they agreed-and if Reagan accepted the result-the emerging compromise seemed broadly compatible with the goals of the President's "fall offensive": at least some further trims in domestic spending, little or no reduction in the defense budget and no dilution at all in his much-prized program of income-tax cuts. Settling Up: Whatever the outcome, the struggle would take its toll. Reagan's troops Illinois's Battle Between Big Names With what may become the Democrats' stock line in 1982-"there are no Trojan horses in our arsenal, just plain truth and common sense" -- Adlai E. Stevenson III last week emerged from a brief retirement to win his party's nomination for governor of Illinois next year. Stevenson, 51, who decid- ed not to seek re-election last year, after a decade in the United States Senate, now faces the formidable task of defeating Re- publican incumbent James R. Thompson, 45, twice elected by landslide margins and determined to become the first Illinois gov- ernor ever to win a third successive term. Illinois Democrats were pleased to have a "big name" like Stevenson heading their ticket. But they worry about his low-key, professorial style and obvious discomfort at hand-to-hand campaigning. Stevenson " "Good race, young lady," Sheriff Jack Heard said in his post-election phone call to Kathy Whitmire. It was the same patroniz- ing tone the 63-year-old sheriff used throughout his campaign for mayor of Houston, portraying opponent Whitmire, 35, the city's 5-foot-tall, two-term control- ler, as little more than a schoolgirl unsuited for leadership of the nation's fifth largest city. Heard also outspent Whitmire by more than 2 to 1, but both his tone and his tactics failed miserably. Last week Whitmire be- came Houston's first woman mayor and its biggest vote getter ever, swamping Heard in a runoff election with more than 62 percent of the vote. Whitmire, who was widowed at age 30, will join a growing sorority of big- city mayors-Jane Byrne in Chicago, Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco and Margaret Hance in Phoenix. Last week she pledged that Houston will be "managed like a business," adding the city "doesn't have to be the captive of a few power brokers." === Page 263 of 278 B.C. farmer bitten by female bear PRINCE GEORGE R.C. - A rancher was hospitalized in stable condition after fighting off a bear with a fence post. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Vinko Mamic was tending fences Saturday on his property about 12 miles south of Prince George when he encountered a sow and her cub. Mamic says the bear attacked without warning, biting him badly on the arm and leg before he was able to hit it with a fence post and chase it away. After the attack, Mamic walked more than a mile for help. - UFOR 6 Projects- SiFOR 6 Projecto - JIGGETY JOG: Joggers pick up their pace when they pass the pond at Oklahoma City's Quail Creek Golf and Country Club because that's where the mean swan lives. "He attacks joggers and kids," says David Lisle, assistant golf pro at the club. "If you get within -about 30 yards of it, it will take out 'after you," one golfer reported. Another golfer reported that the swan -killed a dog by holding it under water. NOR 5 9/30/81 9-22-81 SF Chronicle Mass Death Dives By Indian Birds - UFon 6 Projects- New Delhi Hundreds of birds have committed "mass suicide" by smashing themselves against Tamps, the United News of India reported yesterday. Experts who are studying it are baffled by the phenomenon, observed in Haflong town in the northeastern state of Assam, about 1000 miles from New Delhi, and first noticed in 1905. The repeatedly dive at night into glass-covered electric and kerosene outdoor lamps, frequently killing themselves on impact. During the experts' three-week investigation at Haflong, they found that birds surviving the blow will starve to death. The birds flying to their doom include cattle egrets, white breasted water hens, Bengal florigams, green pigeons, red-breasted parakeets, woodpeckers, red-whiskered bulbul and four species of kingfishers. Unite - MFOR 6 Procenta - Elephants raze village JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A herd of elephants has gone on a rampage at a small village in west Sumatra, killing a 45-year-old woman and leaving more than 300 people homeless, the Antara news agency reported Tuesday. It said the 14 elephants have staged nightly attacks, on Sukabumi village since last week, during which they have destroyed hundreds of acres of crops, killed livestock and crushed 62 houses in the village of 1,500 people. The news agency said there was no explanation for the rampage and that the villagers have been unable to scare off the elephants. arag 9/30 81 === Page 264 of 278 UFO-0 6 Projects- mne beetles destroying Oregon lodgepole forests First of three parts By TOM STIMMEL Journal Staff Writer BEND - The view from the U.S. Forest Service road leading to the summit of Paulina Peak (elev. 7,887 feet) is different this fall from other years. On the far horizon, Central Oregon's trade marks - Bachelor Butte, Broken Top and the Three Sisters - march as before, now glistening with new snow; in the middle distance the Deschutes River, LaPine and other communities, and the distinct silhouette of Fort Rock are un- changed. But the sight immediately below - a forest on a plateau pocked with small clear-cuts - is dramatically different. Death is in the forest. Its greenery is splotched with streaks of rust and gray, evidence of an attack by a devastating insect - the mountain pine beetle - well into the epidemic stage. Tony Smith, a technician with the Des- chutes National Forest who is responsible for coordinating an inter-agency war against the beetle, stepped out of the car for a look. "Christ! This is worse than it was a month ago," he exclaimed. "I just can't believe it." Streaks of rust and red stretched south until the forest met the desert and north as far as the woods could be seen. continue indefinitely. Splotches of gray were less dominant and less extensive. Rust and red, autumn colors not wel- come in a lodgepole pine forest, represent the unseen menace trees that the beetle killed a year ago. Gray trees, without needles, were killed two or more years ago. Moreover, some of the trees still green are dead already, but won't turn color until next spring. "The beetle never kills an infested area all in one year," said Deschutes informa- tion officer Greg McClarren. "Sometimes it takes three years, but most likely five." The mountain pine beetle has been epi- demic in the Deschutes, Winema and Fre- mont national forests for at least three years, is the worst the Forest Service has ever encountered in the area. and will "Our entomologist; won't be any lodgepo years, and that ti., vc in Central Oregon cq times the volume lost ens," McClarren said By one estimate, has affected 300,000 million acres, as we acres of state and pr Eventually the ir from Madras to the Obviously, the F much interested in c ic. Unfortunately, method of effective A similar epiden tains of Northeast lapsed, after 10 yi million acres were board feet of timber BEND Century Dr. (97 CRANE PRAIRIE RESERVOIR WICKIUP RESERVOIR EAST.L. PAULINA L LA PINE ODELL L (58 CRESCENT 31 OREGON JOURNAL But it wasn't coMOVING MENACE - Mountain pine beetle, a killer because the beetle always present in the forest, has reached epidemic there was nothing vice entomologist proportions in Central Oregon and is moving south. Shaded areas indicate forests affected by the beetle. (Continue Ongo 10/13/81 Sent. P.A. Leopard attacks star of 'Dynasty' TV series By Vernon Scott - 4FOR 6 Projects - HOLLYWOOD (UPD) - Linda Evans, blonde star of the "Dynasty" television series, was knocked to the ground twice and bitten below the breast by a 200-pound" leopard during a rehearsal for a TV special, it was disclosed yesterday. Evans was treated for the wound after the accident Monday and was expected to report to work again today. Jay Bernstein, her manager, said the actress was knocked down by a leopardess named Sheha after the actress cracked a whip at the animal during rehearsal for the annual "Circus of the Stars" telecast. "Linda went into the cage with a trainer," Bernstein said. "The 200-pound cat knocked Linda down once, but she was game enough to try a second time. She didn't know she had been bitten until blood appeared on her clothes." Evans was treated at a hospital near the training site in the San Fernando Valley and was reported resting at her home yesterday. Bernstein said she would report for filming of the "Dynasty" series today, but added, "She will not do the circus show." Ironically, Evans went to Alabama earlier this year to investigate the leopard act and she determined it was safe. This year's "Circus of the Stars" will be taped early next month in Las Vegas. The accident was the second in the history of the annual telecast, Gary Collins was knocked down by a tiger during taping of the first show several years ago, but wasn't injured. Evans plays Krystle Carrington, the wife of a ruthless tycoon oilman, in "Dynasty." She made ber professional acting debut in the movie "Twilight of Honor" with Richard Chamberlain and then landed a role as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter in "The Big Valley" television series. She gave up her career temporarily during her marriage to director John Derek, but later resumed work. in such movies as "The Klansman," "Avalanche Express" and "Tom Horn," and "The Hunter" television series. === Page 265 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects Surfer's fate blamed on huge shark PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (UPI) - The disappearance of an experienced surfer in Monterey Bay is being blamed on a 19-foot great white shark, which would be the largest ever off the California coast. The 25-year-old surfer from Pacific Grove, Lewis Boren, has been missing since Saturday. The Coast Guard, which wasn't notified until 24 hours after the incident, said no one could survive in the frigid waters for more than five hours and did not launch a search. Sheriff's deputies, however, did search the shoreline, where pieces of Boren's bloodstained surfboard were found washed ashore. Marine researchers found teeth- marks 18 inches wide on the surf- board. Shark experts said the size of the teethmarks indicated a great white shark 19 feet, 7 inches long - more than twice the size of Boren's surf- board. UFO1 6 Projecto City will settle in monkey attack GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The family of a 3-year-old attacked by a monkey at the city zoo will receive a damage settlement of $50,000, city offi- cials said. Jason Brown required 250 stitches after a monkey bolted through an open cage door Aug. 20 and pounced on him, biting repeatedly "like he was a piece of meat." said his mother, Cathy. Jason requires more plastic surgery to remove residual scars, and he must keep two metal plates in his head. Also, he suffers nightmares and has been taunted by neighborhood children. Breg 12/25/81 - nFOR 6 Projecte 10 trampled to death DURBAN, South Africa (UPI) - A power failure caused by lightning led to panic in which 10 people were trampled to death and 38 were injured in a jammed railway station, police said Friday. A spokesman said that when two trains crammed with thousands of commuters arrived at the station in Kwamashu town- ship, 10 miles north of Durban, the pas- sengers flocked to a single bridge span- ning a road from two directions, causing a crush in the center. oreg-5 10/3018, If true, that would sur] ass the past California record of 18 feet. Friends said the curly-haired, 6- foot-2 Boren was known locally as an expert surfer. He wore a seagull tat- too "The surfers are all just standing on the beach looking out to sea," said Bery! Thomas, a friend of Boren's. "This is the time to surf and nobody feels like it." Thomas said Boren, who worked at people -UFor Projects - ATTACK PANDA: Heard about the guy who escaped from an enraged . . . panda? Scientist George Schaller of New York, reporting from a nature reserve in China's Sichuan Province, said he was taken by surprise when a panda mother. Zhen-Zhen, stormed out of a thicket and forced him up the nearest tree. Zhen-Zhen (Rare Treas- ure) then retreated to hes den. "Zhen- Zhen's uncharacteristically aggressive behavior - wild pandas usually shuf- fle away when approached by man - and bleating sounds coming from the den confirmed this was the reaction of a protective mother," Schaller told the World Wildlife Fund headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. Schaller is track- ing the dense bamboo forests of south- - west China to study panda behavior in the wild. greg J 10/31/81 35026 Projects- Dobermans savage boy KETTERING, Ohio (UPI) - A boy who would have been 5 years old Tuesday was mauled to death Sunday by two Do- berman pinschers kenneled in a yard where he went to retrieve a tennis ball. Both dogs were shot and killed after they tried to attack police officers who investigated the attack. Po- lice said no criminal charges are pending. Ong,J 10/06/8, Perra Engineering Co. in Pacific Grove, disappeared while surfing in 15-foot waves just north of Pebble Beach in an area known as Spanish Bay. "He was a personal friend and we're not saying he's dead," she said. "His body still hasn't been found. He was a very experienced surfer. This is a shock. He was tall, handsome and had dark curly hair. He was very nice and öreg J 12/23/81 - 2For 6 Projecto- Tiger injures 2-year-old OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 250-pound tiger, described by its owner as "tame," is undergoing stan- dard observation for rabies after jumping on a 2-year- old Oklahoma City child during a photo session in a downtown parkway, police say. The child, Shawnna Hill, was in stable condition at South Community Hospital, where she was being treated for deep cuts to her face, investigators said. "It's awful, but it's just carelessness," said John Aynes, Choctaw, who owns the tiger. Aynes said Shamar, the tiger, usually is a "tame, friendly cat" and probably considered the child "some- thing to play with." ereq 10/31/8. - HFOR b Projects - 2-year-old mauled by 250-pound tiger OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) - A 2-year-old girl mauled by a 250-pound tiger was recovering Friday after hours of delicate skin surgery to repair severe facial injuries that could leave lasting scars, officials said. The tiger, freed from a truck cage for promotional photographs downtown, wrapped its paws around Shaw- na Hill and apparently bit her when she screamed in fright, witnesses said. The girl was traveling with the publicity company. The child's mother apparently did not hear a warning to place the girl in a company truck before the tiger was released. Ms. Denney said the girl remained in stable condition but could be left with scars. Ereg J 10/30/8, === Page 266 of 278 Oregon Journal, December 25, 1981 25De 6 Projects Surfer's body found PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) - The body of a surfer mauled by what is presumed to be a great white shark was recovered Thursday at the south end of Monterey Bay, authorities said. A large chunk of 24-year-old Lewis Boren's body had been ripped away, said Monterey County Coroner Harvey Hillbun. "It's a classic example of a shark bite," he said. Boren vanished Saturday while surfing in the chilly waters off this small community south of San Francisco. His knee board - a shorter, less buoyant version of the surfboard - was found later. Boren, a welder and veteran surfer, was identified by a seagull tattoo on one arm, Hillbun said. Addition- al identification was planned through dental records .. Oreg 12/25/81 United Press International GRIM EVIDENCE - Wetsuit of surf- en, 25, was almost instantaneous er killed by shark is shown by Paul from a massive wound. Body was Crossman, Monterey County, Calif., found a half mile from where Boren deputy coroner, at Pacific Grove, disappeared Saturday while surfing Calif. Death of the surfer, Lewis Bor- alone. Surfer killed by huge shark while on board PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (UPI) - The surfer killed by one of the largest great white sharks ever recorded was apparently lying face down on his board waiting for a wave when the fish lunged and bit right through him, the Monterey County coroner said. "It appears that there was one huge lunge and then a bite," Coroner Harvey Hillbun said. "It is such a massive wound that it's unreal . . . He bit right through, the teeth went right through Lewis (Boren) and the shark shook his head like they do." The body of Lewis Boren, 25, a welder with 10 years of experience riding the waves, washed ashore Thursday in Monterey Bay, a half mile south from where he disappeared while surfing alone on Satur- day. His bloodstained surfboard was found Sunday, an 18-inch chunk torn out of it by the shark's huge jaws. Boren's wetsuit-clad body was found by a ranger, and a policeman said the bite marks on Boren resem- bled those on his surfboard. A Monterey County sheriff's spokesman expressed concern Friday about the few people who continue to surf in the bay. "While (Boren's) body was being recovered they were diving off the same beach," he said, adding that the sheriff's department has not yet decided whether to issue a formal warning to stay out of the water. The coroner said the wound extended from Boren's armpit to just above the hip and his wetsuit was serrated where the shark's teeth cut through the rubber. He said the surfer was identified by a gull tattoo on his right arm. Dental records would be checked as a formality to confirm the identification, Hillbun said. An analysis of the board's bite marks showed that they came from a two-ton great white shark which could be as long as 20 feet and possibly as long as 23 feet. The largest such shark ever recorded in California was 18 feet. The world record was a 21.7-footer netted by Cuban fishermen in 1932, but sharks up to 25 feet long have been spotted in Australia, according to reports. Bloodstains were found on Boren's surfboard, but they were determined not to have come from a hu- man being. Experts from the California Fish and Game Department were trying to identify the blood. Only a few surfers and divers ventured into the water on Christmas Eve in the wake of the attack, and a school of dolphins that wandered into the bay was mistaken for sharks by some beachgoers. === Page 267 of 278 Hatfield: 'outrageous' ientation ) Reagan veto shuts down services WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan Monday carried out his pledge to fight "budget busting" by Congress - vetoing a $427.9 billion emergency spend- ing bill and forcing a partial shutdown of government operations. House Democratic leaders, in a surprise move, decided against attempting an over- ride of the veto and said they would take no action until Reagan provided specific recommendations on how to get the goy- ernment moving again .. The decision created a standoff be- tween Congress and the White House that dimmed hopes of minimizing the effects of a government shutdown predicted to leave as many as 400,000 employees - 8 percent of the federal workforce - on unpaid furloughs by Tuesday. Northwest senators who had voted for the budget measure were Republicans Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood of Ore- gon, and Slade Gorton of Washington. Henry Jackson, D-Washington, also voted for the measure. Hatfield, Senate Appropriations Com- mittee chairman, said Reagan's plan was "outrageous." "We did not engage in chicanery and phony numbers," declared Hatfield, who said he was offended at the White House accusation that the measure far exceeded Reagan's target for domestic spending cutbacks. "We don't know what he wants." House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said in announcing Democrats would not attempt to override the veto and would wait for hospital A vurder escape \al staff men ads. Fa. (AP) - A mental patient Ucate Hospital for 90 days on a inday after uading a new to let him id Acuff, hosp al spokesm Jee as Michael eder ed Peder as "an anti- and said he has For and "any t der is white, Peder told the staff member u the hospital grounds and need cuff said. The staffer let Peder out ying him to look for the glasses when San Francisco Chronicle Thurs., September 24, 1981 Piranha Bite Leaves Victim A Bit Cranky Dunkirk, N.Y. The owner of a pet sto was charged with disorder conduct yesterday aft refusing medical treatme for a bite he received from man-eating piranha m T shop. Police said they saw Jo Akley, 26, early yesterday trying unlock the door to his store, whe he had been bitten by the f Tuesday night. As officers helped Akley of the door, his doberman pinsel guard dog bolted outside, jumi into the officers' patrol car a urinated on the seat and on officer's hat. After they removed the ( from the car, the officers ti Akley to Brooks Memorial Hospi where he refused treatment : started shouting obscenities. Akley was charged with dis derly conduct and released $1500 bail. He returned to hospital later to seek treatment his hand. UFor G Pongi SFChron 9/3018 === Page 268 of 278 2FOR 6 Projects Fishermen won't notice loss of fish TACOMA (AP) - Anglers are unlikely to notice "the loss of 1.2 million hatchery fish that had to be destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, says a "Wash: gton Game Department official. The department ordered the destruction at the "Skamania, Mossyrock and Cowlitz hatcheries in June after a kidney-destroying virus was discovered in juvenile steelhead, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Eggs "scrounged" back from those previously sent elsewhere will allow steelhead production to be nearly normal at the Skamania hatchery on the Washougal River, where about 500,000 summer-run fish were destroyed, said James Gearheard, Game Department hatchery field supervisor. The roughly 200,000 rainbows destroyed at the Cowlitz hatchery had been destined for planting last summer in the upper Cowlitz River watershed, so any loss there already has been felt, Gearheard said. All the rainbow and a few excess steelhead were destroyed at the Mossyrock hatchery. The result is that only about 150,000 trout - half the normal number - will be planted in Cowlitz tributaries above Mossyrock Dam. But Gearheard said that number "should be enough to make a good fishery up there" since many of the 300,000 trout planted earlier were not caught. Biologists speculate the viral outbreak may have been triggered by the straying of disease-carrying fish from their native streams after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens destroyed habitat in the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers. org 12/205/81 450- 6 Projects. Hepatitis probed FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Fairfield University officials are investigating the outbreak of 18 cases of Type A hepatitis at the small Jesuit-run school in south; western Connecticut. Another 19 suspected cases of the disease have been reported since the outbreak began two weeks ago, officials said. Among the ill students are several members of the school's football club. dieg 11/10/81 UFO2 6 PM rejects Florida scallops eyed for parasite _CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - State officials have begun confiscating boatloads of scallops off Flo- rida's eastern coastline after discovery of a tiny para- site in scallop harvesting beds. The BB-sized nematode parasite is not considered harmful to humans, but an investigation of the prob- lem is being carried out by Florida's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- tion. "The parasites are not considered a health hazard per se," John Rychener of the Agriculture Depart- ment's Bureau of Food Grades and Standards said Wednesday. "But they have appeared in such num- bers, the scallops are considered contaminated." Two scallop-laden boatloads found to have the parasite were dumped Monday by Agriculture Depart- ment officials. A third parasite-infested boatload came jnto Port Canaveral Tuesday, and it was also confis- cated and disposed of. The department warned boat captains late last week that any scallops brought into port here would be inspected and were subject to condemnation. Officials don't know the extent of the infected scallop beds, Rychener said. oreg 12/25/80 - UFOR 6 Projects Food Poisoning in Spain Madrid The government imposed a temporary ban on sale of mussels from Spain's northwestern Galicia province yesterday because more than 3000 Spaniards reported sick with food poisoning. United Press UFO2 6 Projects Kidney ills killing fish oreg 12/13/81 HAGERMAN, Idaho (AP) - An in- fectious kidney disease that killed 147.000 rainbow trout at the Hagerman state fish hatchery is an unknown killer. so unknown that it is difficult to predict whether it could spread to other hatch- eries, fishery expertsdrive said. The University of Idaho's Depart- ment of Fishery Research is one of the labs seeking information on prolifera- tive kidney disease, or PKD, which has been killing fish at the Hagerman hatch- ery for the last six weeks. George William Klontz, a professor of fisheries, said he didn't know the cause of PKD. He said research is con- tinuing on a day-to-day basis, and that theories on the cause of PKD would be speculation. "I saw it in Europe," said Klontz, who is a veterinarian specializing in fish diseases. The disease has been found at European fish farms, but the Hagerman outbreak is considered the first in the United States. In Europe, hatchery managers either remove the fish and sanitize facilities or "ride it out," Klontz said in a telephone interview. Removing fish at the Hagerman hatchery would mean the loss of 600,000 rainbow trout - half of the state's stocking program for 1982, ac- cording to Evan Parrish, state hatcher- ies supervisor. No decision has been made on what to do at the state hatchery. "We are in a holding pattern," Parrish said. === Page 269 of 278 10/6/81 T Las Vegas PK Arsonists set 16 blazes in Las Vegas oreg By TIM DAHLBERG 1 1882 LAS VEGAS. Nev. (AP) - Sixteen fires were set in two hotels and a near- "by apartment complex in this glittering resort city, forcing the evacuation of scores of visitors but causing no major damage or injury, police said Sunday. Police suspected one or two people of setting the fires in rapid succession Saturday night within a half-mile area. All the blazes were doused by automatic sprinklers or by firefighters. "All of the fires were set by open flame," Clark County Fire Department investigator Bill Kolar said. "They were very minor, although they could have become major." Kolar said witnesses at the Barbary Coast Hotel, the Flamingo Hilton and the apartment complex saw at least one and possibly two people around the areas where the fires began. "There were one or two guys seen," said Kolar. "We've got police looking for them now." The first fires, set in window cur- tains, occurred in elevator lobbies on the second and third floors of the Bar- bary Coast on the Las Vegas Strip short- ly after 7 p.m. They were extinguished by automatic sprinklers. Smoke, however, forced the evacua- tion of guests from the third and fourth floors of the hotel, and damage from the fires was estimated at $8,000. Less than an hour later, a nearby apartment complex was the scene of eight fires. Kolar said six were started in storage rooms and two in wash- rooms. All were quickly extinguished by firemen. About 15 minutes after the apart- ment fires were reported, fire broke out in six locations in a four-story guest- room section of the Flamingo Hilton, next door to the Barbary Coast. Kolar said room-service carts at the resort were set on fire on the second and third floors. A total of eight fire department units and 24 firefighters re- sponded to the alarm and put out the blazes. Damage was estimated at $500. "All of the fires were within a half- mile radius of each other," said Kolar. "None were accidental; they were all started by an open flame." The fires followed a series of blazes last week at the Barbary Coast, Caesars "Palace and the Showboat hotels. Fire "Investigators listed those blazes as sus- picious, but no arrests have been made. The fires did not cause any serious dam- nan - Hunter PK- ( Sie Book ) Teen-ager accidentally kills hunting partner, 14 A teen-age boy was accidentally killed by his 15-year-old hunting part- ner about 12 miles west of Redmond Monday, a Deschutes County sheriff's deputy said. Randy Prosser, 14, of Redmond, was shot in the head, Deputy Greg Brown said. "He was standing on the rim of the canyon, Dry Canyon," Brown said, "and told his partner he thought he observed a deer in the canyon. His partner turned around and, as he truned around, his gun discharged." Brown said the boys were about five or six feet apart when the shooting took place. He said the two boys had become separated from the rest of their five- member hunting party when the acci- dent occurred. The accident came on the third day of deer hunting season and followed a weekend in which two hunters were asphyxiated in their sleep and three oth- ers were wounded. Lake County sheriff John T. Gardner, 77, a Wollam, 65, both of 1 found dead of asphyxi Dog fires shotgun, wounding hunter MASON, Mich. (AP) - A man accidentally shot when his hunt- ing dog pressed the trigger of his shotgun was in critical but stable condition Wednesday af- ter surgery, officials said. James Caudill, 34, of Dans- ville, Mich., went hunting Tues- day with an uncle, Winford Rid- dle of Dansville. Riddle gave police this ac- count: Caudill had shot a rabbit and was holding it over his two young beagles to train them for hunting. His shotgun was propped barrel-up against his leg. One of the dogs jumped and caught the trigger with a paw, discharging the gun. Hospital officials said Caudill was hit by pellets in the lower stomach and lung. camp trailer at the Thompson Valley Reservoir, about 20 miles south of Sil- 'ver Lake. Authorities said a neighbor in the East Bay Campground discovered their bodies Sunday morning. Deputies said the two apparently died when the flame on a propane heater they were using went out, allowing the trailer to fill with gas. In Harney County, three hunters suffered gunshot wounds. Marc Kock, 18, of Gresham was shot in the leg Saturday when his hunting partner's rifle discharged, Harney Coun- ty Sheriff Keith Boggs reported. Kenneth Walker, 34, of Springfield was shot in the buttocks Sunday when he sat on a .22-caliber pistol lying on a car seat, Boggs said. Later in the day, Kimberly Mat- thews, 26, of Alameda, Calif., was shot in the chest when a rifle discharged as harmilled it by the barrel from a truck, 4FOR 6 Projects wated at re- is- Third rabbit drive planned in Idaho oseg 12/26/8: MUD LAKE, Idaho (AP) - The third in a series of controversial jack rabbit roundups was scheduled for" Saturday despite a late-week storm that dumped 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground. The snow "might even make it better, easier to get them," farmer spokesman Orvin Twitchell of Mud Lake said Friday in a telephone interview. Twitchell said he didn't want to talk further about the drive. Two previous roundups drew protests from animal protection groups and humane societies that chasing and then clubbing the rathhits to death was inhumane. The farmers in eastern Idaho say a jack rabbit population explosion has led to crop damages estimat- eu at about $5 million, In the first two drives, most of the rabbits were clubbed to death with baseball bats, tire irons and sticks. This time, a number of them will be captured and taken to an Indian reservation for release. The first roundup produced about 3,000 rabbits. Last weekend, an estimated 15,000 to 17,000 rabbits were slaughtered, making the two-week total 18,000 to 20,000. For this weekend's roundup, the Idaho National Guard planned to dig long trenches into which the rabbits could be driven. Then farmers planned to use plywood to create an area where rabbits can be gassed by carbon dioxide. Leaders of the Shoshone-Bannock Indians, at the Fort Hall Reservation about 100 miles south, got per- mission to truck about 5,000 live rabbits to the reser- vati note : Keepan === Page 270 of 278 Las Vegas/Nevada PK FBI links casino owners to Chicago Cosa Nostra deg J 1/5/82 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) - Nevada ho- tel-casino owners Al Sachs and Herb Tob- man are figureheads for the Chicago La Cosa Nostra and responsible for providing the mob with money skimmed from their casinos, according to a federal affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday. Sachs and Tobman, longtime Nevada gaming figures, head Trans Sterling Corp., which purchased the Las Vegas Stardust and Fremont Hotels in 1979 from San Diego financier Allen Glick for $68 million. The transaction called for a $2 million down payment and assumption of a $66 million loan from the Central States Southeast and Southwest Pension Funds. "Al Sachs and Herb Tobman continue to be the figureheads for the Chicago La Cosa Nostra and responsible for providing skim monies to the mob from their casi- nos," according to information provided to the FBI by an informant in 1981, the affidavit said. ". . . there appears to be some friction between Sachs and Tobman, but the skim from the Stardust, Fremont and Sundance Hotel-casinos continues as before," the document states. Tobman and Sachs also operate the downtown Las Vegas Sundance hotel- casino on property leased from Morris "Moe" Dalitz., a reputed crime figure who moved to Nevada in the 1950s from Cleve- land. Neither Tobman nor Sachs were im- mediately available for comment. Nevada Gaming Control Board member Richard Bunker, who was appointed by Gov. Robert List as chairman of the board, said Monday, "If there is anything that needs to be investigated, we will do it." List, shortly before his election four years ago, became the center of a contro- versy for staying free of charge at the Stardust Hotel while Nevada attorney general and, at the same time, claiming state per diem allowed for room and food. note: This game below was fascinating because my son, Beau, and I, boban"willing "f Falcons to win, at halftime. We decided Oregon Journal, November 24, 1981 because we both were Big plays rally Falcons -Even ATLANTA (UPI) - The Atlanta Falcons refused to give up Monday night even when it appeared they were about to be embarassed before a national television audience. Trailing the Minnesota Vikings 21-7 at half- time the Falcons caught up midway through the third period on the passing of Steve Bart- kowski and then sewed up a badly-needed 31-30 victory late in the final quarter with linebacker Buddy Curry's 35-yard pass inter- ception return for a touchdown. "I don't know how to explain it," said Fal- con defensive back Kenny Johnson. "But in the second half, everybody began to believe. Everyone was saying to himself, 'I know I'm going to make the big play and if I don't I know someone else will.'" Falcon Coach Leaman Bennett said he told his team at halftime, "It's still there. Let's go and take it. There's no reason why we still can't get it." Bennett said the Monday night victory over the Vikings "helps our confidence, for sure. We hadn't beaten a football team for a long 0 time." "I don't know why the second half was so different," said Minnesota Coach Bud Grant. "That's just football. Atlanta's defense came out in the third quarter and turned the game around. It was a physical game all the way due to the frustration of both teams. They gave us plenty of opportunities to win but we returned the favor." "It's about time," Curry said of his first interception of the year. "I hadn't made a big play all season. I wasn't contributing to the team in that field " Good ! wenn southwest disappearing the the dis. tance in seconds." "0 " Pk'd ! LEGISLATING SCIENCE T IME, Inc., has undertaken an at- tack on both UFOs and Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The August issue of the company's Discover its new science magazine. 11/5/81 1 Hynek wrote for Technology Review, "the respected journal edited and pub- lished in Cambridge at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology." Pre- dictably the attack does not bother to deal with the actual evidence Hynek cites. It confines itself instead to per- sonal criticisms. Hynek, who (in common with many other astronomers a troublesome fact Arsonist sought in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) - Extra guards walked the corridors of plush ho- tel-casinos Monday, alert for a mysterious arsonist suspected of setting 15 fires dur- ing the weekend, without doing serious harm. loose," said William Kolar, an investigator for the Clark County Fire Department. "He's been staying around the strip and we've got to catch him." Within a 66-minute period Saturday night, five room service carts left in hall- ways at the Flamingo Hotel caught fire, burning drapes forced evacuation of two floors of the neighboring Barbary Coast Hotel, and eight suspicious fires erupted at a nearby apartment building. There were no injuries and total dam- ages were estimated at $8,550. The rash of fires came just two weeks after an arsonist set fire to drapes at Cae- sars Palace, the Barbary Coast and the "We apparently have an arsonist on the Showboat Hotel. area 51/4/82 Private security guards were assigned to 24-hour patrols of hotel hallways Sun- day in the wake 15 suspicious fires Satur- day night at the height of the holiday weekend crush. It was the second outbreak of arson in two weeks at gambling spots in Las Ve- gas, where 92 people have died in the past 14 months in two major hotel fires, one accidental and one set by an arsonist. Las Vegas/nevada PK betting on the Falcone. === Page 271 of 278 West Texas plagued by shortage of water Texas PK oreg 12/14-18. By STEVE BREWER FABENS, Texas (AP) - Every other day or so, Ellen Wilson hitches a 1,000- gallon tank trailer to her truck and drives into the tiny community of Fab- ens. There she fills her tank with the most precious commodity in the area: water. For four years, Mrs. Wilson and her family have been living in an arid area of a Rio Grande valley near the Mexico border. All of their water for drinking, washing clothes and bathing comes from a 3,000-gallon cistern she keeps filled by trips into town, more than sev- en miles away. "Four wells have been dug out here in our area over the years and the water was just terrible," Mrs. Wilson said. "This whole valley is in trouble." Mrs. Wilson's water woes are a mi- crocosm of the problems plaguing the area around El Paso Most of the underground water is undrinkable, containing salt and other chemicals, at the same time available water resources are being used up fast- er that ever before by a rapidly growing population. El Paso currently is embroiled in a lawsuit with New Mexico to get water from an aquifer that is located in New Mexico just over the Texas border. City planners allocate carefully which areas of the valley can be provided water from the city system without causing shortages. The result is that people living out- side water districts must fend for them- selves in the struggle to get adequate, drinkable water supplies. "Nearly all of the people on the farms out here have to haul water," Mrs. Wilson said. "Some of them have wells, but the water eats all of the plumbing out and just ruins every- Thing." Fabens' water district evolved from a privately owned water system pur- chased about 20 years ago, said O.C. "Buddy" Brown, manager of the water district. "The people in this district obligated themselves when they formed this dis- trict through bonded indebtedness," Brown said. "We're only obligated to take care of the people in the district." The district, which has roughly the same boundaries as the city, has 1,062 customers. The three wells supplying the district produce about 1,900 gallons per minutes, Brown said. "That's more than adequate to take care of our present needs," Brown said. "But don't get the idea we have water to throw away." `In fact, the water district board has adopted a policy that they won't accept petitions for water service except for areas adjacent to the present boundar- ies. That policy has come under fire in recent years as surrounding farmland is subdivided for housing and more people clamor for water service. Board president George Wilson takes a hard line. "You can't run water lines here, there and yonder for a few people who made a mistake," Wilson says. "They should have moved to town if they wanted water." J.P. Smallwood, Fabens fire chief and water board vice president, said the board's stand has led to some "harsh feelings." "These people build a nice house four or five miles out of town and then get upset because they don't get water," he said. John Burley, another member of the water board, said the district is trapped by high prices and not enough custom- ers "The typical bill for us, with water- ing the lawn and the flowers, is $40 on $50 a month," he said. "The rates are high because we don't have enough ers. When you only have 900 to users, it costs a lot more per custo serve them." But to get more customers, th ter district would have to run li outlying areas, an expense the says can't be met. So, people inside the distric high water bills and people livir side the city get water any wa can. Texas PK Fans riled: TV screens go blank arg 5 1/ 2/82 DALLAS (UPP) - Alabama had one final chance to claim a victory over Texas ip the Cotton Bowl Friday and those who had been cheering he Crimson Tide all afternoon throughout the South were riveted to their televi- sion sets. Suddenly there was no game. In Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, South Caroli- na, Tennessee and, most of all, in Ala: bama, the Cotton Bowl disappeared from the TV screens and whatever the Tocal stations had to offer appeared. Irate callers immediately began yel- ling at those unfortunate enough to answer- telephones at television sta- tions throughout those seven states. "It was a telephone company oper- ating error," said Jay Rosenstein, di- rector of sports information for CBS- TV. "The telephone company misread an order and pulled the patch to the southern section of the CBS television network at 5:01:19 eastern time. "Viewers in those states thus did not see the final 20 or so seconds of play- ing time in the game." Rosenstein said the final moments of the game were made available to all the affected affiliates and were re-run on news broadcasts. 218026 Projecto Bluebonnet plug pulled Sentite P.I, 1/2/82 United Press Puget Sound residents tuning in to watch the Blue- bennet Bowl between UCLA and Michgan Thursday night were greeted with more disappointment than the Fact that the Pac-10 contender lost the game. First, much of the game's first three quarters were aired without a sound on Channel 13, KCPQ, A message on the screen informed viewers that the station was not Tedeiving an micoming audio signal. Then, shortly after the start of the fourth quarter, Those who were Interested enough to watch the game in silence (there was no live radio coverage in the region) saw the game taken off the air completely and replaced by a movie. Telephone calls to KCPQ ware answered by a busy === Page 272 of 278 U.S. holds tight to UFO tales By WARD SINCLAIR L'A Timos-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The U.S. government says it keeps no records on unidentified flying objects be- cause they don't exist. But 131 secret documents about UFOs in the files of the National Security Agency have become the subject of an intense legal battle. Would the docu ents disclose startling details about the flying saucers - or UFOs - that more than 10 million Americans claim to have seen? Would dis- closure compromise the NSA's sophisticated eaves- dropping techniques? Is it all buncombe? Or is it all too frightening to contemplate? Apparently only the National Security Agency can answer those questions, and the NSA isn't talking. The NSA, in fact, refuses to talk, and its reticence is being challenged in the federal courts. Eleven months ago, U.S. District Court Judge Ger- hard A. Gesell held that the documents were so sensi- tive that their public release might endanger national security. Gesell did not review the documents. His decision was based on a 21-page top-secret affidavit. given him in chambers by representatives of the NSA. The battle last week reached the U.S. Court of Appeals, where a small organization known as Citi- zens Against UFO Secrecy, arguing for release of the NSA documents, told a three-judge panel that the government cannot have its cake and eat it, too. . NSA's lip stays buttoned If UFOs do not exist, attorney Peter A. Gersten of New York told the court, then Uncle Sam has nothing to hide. If they do exist, then we may be in big trouble - and we ought to know about it, But the NSA's lip stays buttoned. The suit brought by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy under the Freedom of Information Act is another in a series of challenges to the powers of spy outfits such as the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, to withhold virtually anything they want under the guise of national securi- Ty: "The government position is that UFOs are not a threat and that the government does not study UFOs," Gersten told the appeals panel. If the panel does not order disclosure, he said, Gesell at least should be directed to review the 131 UFO documents and decide for himself how sensitive they really are. Arguing for NSA, attorney Cheryl M. Long said there is no way the documents, no matter what they show, could be released without exposing and com- promising the Intelligence-gathering techniques of the agency, which include global electronic snooping and code-breaking. The citizen group's appetite for government docu- ments was whetted by the 1978 release of Air Force and CIA reports on UFO sightings that were deemed to have no national security implications. Ground Sau- cer Watch, a Phoenix-based UFO monitoring organiza- tion, forced the release through Freedom of Informa- tion Act suits. Those documents revealed that in October, Novem- ber and December of 1975, reliable military personnel Saw unconventional and unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage sites, air- craft alert areas and missile control complexes at installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no indication that the fighters fired on the intruders. Members of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and the Fund for UFO Research, based in Mount Rainier, Md., noting that last week was the sixth anniversary of a celebrated series of sightings over Loring Air Force Base in Maine, brought a witness to Washington to tell his story at a news conference. Stephen B. Eichner, a now-retired sergeant who was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring ammunition dump, described in some detail what he saw in 1975 and said that officials at the base tended to discount his and other witnesses' reports. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a football-shaped reddish-orange object, three or four car-lengths long, hovering over the Loring dump. He said the object suddenly vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. The Air Force generally theorized that the object was an uni- dentified helicopter, but Eichner said last week it made no noise and could not have been taken for a helicopter. Gersten said the citizens group intends to file another freedom of information suit against the Air Force this month in an effort to force disclosure of more data on the series of still-unexplained 1975 sight- ings over Strategic Air Command bases. only 11/5/8, === Page 273 of 278 . . . and no more eavesdropping on space talk 9-27-81 - Columbian By T.R. REID The Washington Post WASHINGTON - If there are intelligent beings in outer space beaming radio signals to Earth, they'd better be sure the message gets here by Thursday. Among the dozens of federal programs scheduled to plunge into oblivion that day - the first under the new, austere fiscal 1982 budget - is one of the most exotic and ambitious endeavors the government has undertaken: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. It is the chief hope for discovering whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The search - known in government circles by its acronym, SETI - is a 6-year-old effort to develop antennae and computer programs that could discern "non-random sound events" from the flood of radio signals constantly flowing toward Earth from all corners of the cosmos. As NASA planned it, receivers at the Deep Space Network ifacility in Goldstone, Calif., would conduct an "all sky, all frequency" search of radio transmissions. The computer would search the signals for patterns, which could indicate that the signals are generated by intelligent sources. "What we are trying to do here is answer an important question - whether human beings are alone in the universe," said NASA spokesman Charles Redman. Cancellation now is particularly painful, Redman said, because NASA's engineers are within one year of completing the computer programs needed to sort out intelligent patterns, if any, in the "cosmic noise." Actually, the SETT program has been living on borrowed time for three years, ever since it won one of the bureaucracy's least favorite distinctions: the "Golden Fleece" award presented by Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. After Proxmire attacked the program ("It is hard enough to find intelligent life right here in Washington," he said), it was cut from NASA's annual appropriation bill. But the space agency, displaying some budgetary intelligence of its own, quietly transferred SETI to its "exobiology" program and continued to fund the search. In each of the past three years, NASA has spent about $1 million on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Proxmire struck again this summer. Choosing a moment when Sen. Harrison H. Schmitt, R-N.M., a former astronaut and strong NASA supporter, was off the Senate floor, Proxmire won voice- vote passage of an amendment deleting all funds for SETI. The administration, reluctant to fight congressional budget-cutting intitiatives, went along, and House-Senate conferees adopted Proxmire's amendment. The result - when Congress approves the conferees' bill - will be one more dead program and many hard feelings at the space agency. A NASA official noted that during the Senate debate, Proxmire made this observation: "There is not a scintilla of evidence that intelligent life exists beyond our solar system .... To which the NASA man ripostes: "As late as 1491, there was not a scintilla of evidence that America existed. either." note: The same "cover up"here" that I am getting! Iwere === Page 274 of 278 SCIENTISTS WHO Year after year, respectable citizens report unusual, unidentifiable sightings. Can we afford to close our eyes to mysterious events that just will not go away? Strange objects have flitted about the sky throughout history, but since 1947 sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, have become increasingly numer- ous in the United States and in other parts of the world. Sixty thousand reports of sightings (some new, some drawn from ancient records) from 140 countries are now recorded in the computerized cata- log at the Center for UFO Studies, in Ev- anston, Illinois, and the number grows larger every day. They include more than 2,000 cases in which UFOs reportedly left Patrick Huyghe has never seen a UFO but has written about them for the New York Times. BY PATRICK HUYGHE behind physical traces of their appear- ance; more than 1,500 cases in which peo- ple said they encountered humanoid enti- ties; 400 cases in which automobiles were said to have been brought to a halt or oth- erwise affected by nearby UFOs; and doz- ens of cases in which the visual sightings were confirmed by radar. In the majority of reports, two or more witnesses were in- volved in the sightings, and many of the observers were of high caliber-scientists, military personnel, pilots, air-traffic con- trollers, law-enforcement officers and other responsible people. The first quarter of 1981 brought more than 300 UFO reports, with high concen- trations of sightings in California, Or- egon, Texas and North Carolina. That number is about average, according to as- tronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of the Center for UFO Studies, which re- ceives over 1,000 new reports yearly. Of course, the majority of UFOs turn out to be IFOs-identified flying objects. After rigorous checking by technically trained investigators, about 90 percent of UFO sightings prove to be misidentifica- tions of natural phenomena or man-made objects-stars, planets, meteors, planes, 86 Spence Digest November 188] === Page 275 of 278 HAVE SEEN UFOS balloons or satellites. The rest of the re- ports elude explanation. They differ in many details, but there are also similari- ties: the shapes, colors, sounds and ma- neuverability of the objects. The strongest suggestion of the reality of the phenomena rests in the approxi- mately 10 percent of sightings that re- main unidentified. The late University of Colorado physics professor Edward U. Condon, a hard-nosed UFO skeptic, con- ceded that these sightings were findeed strange and mysterious, impossible by all current knowledge to explain." But to most who doubt that UFOs are real, the small percentage of unexplained sightings: is negligible. The average detective doesn't have as good a track record in solving murders, says UFO debunker Philip Klass, an editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology, Whether or not the unexplained cases imply a larger mystery hinges on the reli- ability of eyewitness testimony. In the in- vestigation of a UFO sighting, the observ- er is usually the only data-gathering instrument. But the reliability of eyewit- ness testimony is itself a subject of great controversy in both law and science. Skepties maintain that human observers are notoriously unreliable and that all UFO cases can be explained in mundane terms. "Details of specific reports are, by the very nature of the processes of human sensation, perception, cognition and re- porting, likely to be untrustworthy," con- cluded psychology professor Michael Wertheimer in the Condon Report, a 1969 study made for the Air Force. It dis- missed the phenomena as not worthy of scientific attention: "Any reports, even those of observers generally regarded as credible, must be viewed cautiously." But other scientists insist that humans possess quite reliable and useful observa- tional powers. Roger Shepard, a percep- tual psychologist at Stanford University, argued, during hearings before the House 87 === Page 276 of 278 SEEING UFOS 2' WIDE yourOs 9/7/* 196% - "LANDING" MARKS 13'2%* - BURNS - FOOTPRINTS - - - - 14'9%* (Left. top) A policeman said this craft came and went, leaving (right) indentations and burns. Mathematical analysis showed that the four landing marks, though asymmetric, would have received the spaceship's weight equally. About one ton of pressure made each depression. (Bottom) Dr. J. Allen Hynek found that this soil, over which a UFO allegedly hovered, did not absorb water. Committee on Science and Astronautics in 1968, that human powers of recogni- tion "surpass anything that we have yet been able to accomplish by physical in- strument or machine." He went on to say: "When an event occurs without warning, leaves little time for careful observation and, indeed, occasions extreme fear or anxiety, the average witness often retains an accurate, almost photographic record of the event-a record, moreover, that can be largely recovered from him even though he lacks the words to describe it himself." The skeptics claim that UFOs are merely carelessly observed objects or sometimes outright hoaxes. What, then, are we to make of the testimony of doz- ens-even hundreds of disinterested ob- servers who have reported UFOs over the years? Though many a science profession- al will shy away from reporting a UFO, fearing damage to reputation and career, a number of UFO reports by scientific ob- servers are on record. One such sighting was made by Clyde Tombaugh, the American astronomer who in 1930 discovered the planet Pluto. On August 20, 1949, Tombaugh, who was then working at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, observed "two rows of faint rectangular lights, par- allel to each other, that maintained their geometric relationship as they passed si- lently across the sky. The lights were yel- low-green in color." His wife, who was with him at the time, thought she saw a faint connecting glow between the two rows. "I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified BURNED BY A UFO? John Schuessler of McDonnell Douglas Corporation is project manager of space-shuttle flight operations for NASA and president of VISIT. On December 29, 1980, Mrs. Betty Cash encountered an enormous bright, diamond-shaped UFO that spewed flames from its underside. She was burned and suffered other injuries that still plague her. Mrs. Cash's case is one of many now under investiga- tion by an unusual organization called Project VISIT (Vehicle Internal Sys- tems Investigative Team), a group of 12 scientists who seek to learn more about UFOs by studying such medical mysteries. VISIT's impressive team of volunteers-about half of whom are associated with NASA-represents a variety of specialties. A case submitted to Project VISIT is first screened for validity; individ- uals involved are interviewed and their medical records examined. In Mrs. Cash's case, VISIT found that, by the morning after she had seen the UFO, she had developed large, knotlike boils on her neck, head and face. Soon after, she began to lose her hair. Four days later, unable to eat and suffering from vomiting, diarrhea and swollen eyes, she entered a hospital where she spent nearly a month undergoing tests. She had other signs of what could have been radiation exposure as well: burns, cramps and loss of energy In similar incidents, a Canadian prospector encountered a disk-shaped metallic object on the ground and suf- fered burns, nausea, vomiting, swell- ing and an extended illness, and a Mis- souri truck driver was blinded for days by an extremely bright UFO, After recommending medical ex- perts to the victims, VISIT members collect all medical and scientific data to piece together in an attempt to un- derstand how the UFO worked. In the hope of determining common factors, Project VISIT collects and catalogs data on UFO incidents in- volving alleged injury from or entry into a UFO. Members are available for consultation; write PO Box 877. Friendswood, TX 77546. -John F. Schuessler 88 Science Digest-November 1981 Diagram by Cathy Brown, information provided by the Center for UFO Studies. 11'10 :=== 14'5'/ === Page 277 of 278 SEEING UFOS THE CASE FOR STUDYING UFOS J. Allen Hynek, former astronomy department chairman at Northwestern University, was a director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory from 1956 to 1960 and consultant to Project Blue Book, the Air Force UFO study, for 17 years. He founded the Center for UFO Studies. Whether a person has complete dis- dain for UFO phenomena or com- pletely uncritical acceptance, or takes one of the many intermediate posi- tions, certain incontrovertible facts stand out. UFO reports not only exist but also persist: they flow from many parts of the world, from disparate cul- tures and environments. A significant percentage of such reports come from sane and responsible people, as judged by commonly accepted standards (in- deed, sometimes from well-trained technical and scientific personnel). UFO phenomena are one thing: their interpretation is quite another. Unfortunately, in the public mind one particular interpretation has com- pletely overshadowed and displaced the phenomena themselves: UFOs have been made synonymous with vis- iting extraterrestrial intelligences. Now this is a very appealing and ex- citing idea, but it is this very interpre- tation that has been an abomination to most scientists. Familiar as they are with awesome astronomical distances, they can see no logical way in which such visitors could get here. A simple illustration serves to emphasize this: if we let the thickness of an ordinary playing card represent the distance from the earth to the moon, then it would require a 19-mile line of playing cards, back to back, to reach the star closest to our solar system. If UFOs indeed be space visitors, then they must really know something we don't! Here is the great stumbling block; here is where the baby is cast out with the bathwater: since, according to our present scientific paradigm, it is clear- ly impossible for space travel to exist on such a scale, well then, UFOs must be nonsense. This is a most logical de- duction on the part of the well-mean- ing, objective members of the scientific fraternity. Somehow this is reminiscent of the nineteenth-century physicist who, while working with Crookes tubes (a prototypic cathode-ray tube), noted that protected photographic material became fogged when placed nearby. His far-reaching conclusion from this observation is said to have been "Do not place photographic materials near a Crookes tube," thus missing the dis- covery of X-rays. Even the great can sometimes be found wearing blinders when it comes to the unexpected. In his Book of the Damned, Charles Fort tells the follow- ing story of Antoine Lavoisier, one of the founding fathers of modern chem- istry. On September 13, 1768, "French peasants in the fields near Luce heard a violent crash like a thunderclap and saw a great stone object hurtle down from the sky. The French Academy of Sciences asked the great chemist La- voisier for a report on the occurrence; but Lavoisier was convinced that stones never fell out of the sky and re- ported that all the witnesses were mis- taken or lying. It was not until the nineteenth century that the Academy accepted the reality of meteorites." What might we be bypassing by overlooking UFO phenomena? Is our only possible conclusion that we should disregard them because their implications are so bizarre and are as unfathomable as X-rays would have been to the pedestrian, objective scien- tific worker of the nineteenth century? Perhaps it is a mistake to characterize observations of UFO phenomena as one nineteenth-century British physi- cist defined effects produced by the hypnotists of his day: "One-half im- posture and the rest bad observation." Today, these same hypnotie tech- niques are accepted and useful in many areas, from medical therapy to legal matters. The old scientist was not alone in his dismissal of hypnotism. So serious was the attack on it by science that, when hypnotism was employed in lieu of anesthesia, the hypnotized patients undergoing surgery were branded as "hardened imposters who let their legs be cut off and large tu- mors cut out without showing any sign even of discomfort." Just how deep into sand can one sink one's head? Now there is no doubt that many UFO reports are just as bizarre and unbelievable as the demonstrations of hypnotists or, to translate to the world of physics, as the seemingly unbeliev- able wave-particle duality of light. In- deed, the analogy is apt. UFO phe- nomena exhibit a similar duality. which, it seems, we must accept in a similar manner. On the one hand, UFO phenomena seem to be utterly physical. Reportecl objects have been photographed (al- though it must be admitted that so far no really good close-ups have been produced), and they have appeared on radar screens, They can break tree branches and leave holes in the ground, and it is said that bullets have ricocheted off them. They have been reliably reported to stop car engines and to interfere with electrical circuits. A recent study of over 400 "car stop- ping" cases leaves little doubt about this physical effect. Yet. on the other hand, UFO phe- nomena exhibit strangely nonphysical attributes. On occasion they appear, at least temporarily, to abrogate the iner- tial properties of matter: they exhibit extraordinary accelerations, hover ef- fortlessly a few feet above the ground and can disappear before one's very eyes. Furthermore, physical objects can be kept track of. We always know where a bus or an aircraft is; it has a continuous "world line." But an out- standing characteristic of a UFO is its "localization in space and time." A UFO is almost always reported in just one locality and is rarely seen sequen- tially in town after town, as a bus would be. And it does not remain for long in a specific locality. The distri- bution curve of UFO "duration times" peaks at about 10 minutes. I have dubbed this unique property of the UFO the "Cheshire cat effect" after Alice's cat in Wonderland, which also appeared out of nowhere, re- mained in one location for a short pe- riod and then vanished! John Stuart Mill, in his A System of Logic, noted. "The greatest of all causes of non-observation is precon- ceived opinion." To some, this ability of UFOs to appear and disappear is sufficient reason for dismissing the en- tire subject out of hand. But is this not more a case of refusing to look and ob- serve because preconditioning teaches us to not want to look? But the cat seems to be there, and from time to time it demands some at- tention. Maybe it's trying to tell us something. - J. Allen Hynek 90 Science Digest November 1981 === Page 278 of 278 UFO, " Bright Star "PK- Military planners say Bright Star' falls short Drag 11 / 7/8, By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) - The "Bright Star" operation the United States will stage in the Middle East this month and next falls far short of what would be needed to meet a real threat to the re- gion, according to Pentagon planners. The exercises have been in the plan- The Defense Department formally announced the exercise Friday, saying more than 6,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, ning process for many months. Of par- ticular importance, equipment to sup- port the two-battalion Egyptian desert airmen and Marines will participate in " maneuvers has been assembled and maneuvers, drills and demonstrations in four countries. moved overseas well in advance of the actual combat-type maneuvers. The main effort will center in Egypt, where some 4,000 Army and Air Force troops, as well as jet fighters and ground attack planes, will join Egyptian forces in desert maneuvers. Activities in the Sudan, Somalia and Oman will be mostly of token size. Although it represents the biggest such U.S. military exercise in the Mid- dle East so far, "Bright Star" will de- ploy only a fraction of the troops and equipment that officials say would be needed in a crisis. Former Lt. Gen. Volney Warner, then-commander of the Rapid Deploy- ment Force, said in an interview last year that the United States must be able to project at least 21/2 divisions - more than 40,000 troops - into the Middle East to counter a significant threat from the Soviet Union. "We can't do this now in a timely fashion," Warner said at the time, citing a shortage of airlift and sealift which he said will hobble U.S. capability at least until 1985, Warner since has retired. The buildup for "Bright Star" also bears no resemblance to the kind of quick reponse that could mean the dif- ference between victory and defeat in a real outbreak of hostilities. A shipload of tanks and armored personnel carriers left Savannah, Ga., Oct. 24 and is due to arrive in Alex- andria, Egypt, next Monday, about a week before U.S. Army troops engage in combined training with Egyptian troops in the desert. Other military equipment began ar- riving in Egypt by air several days ago, according to Pentagon sources. Underlying the magnitude of the ef- fort, the Pentagon said the Egyptian phase alone will take about 450 sorties by C-141 and C-5 transport planes. A sortie is a single flight by a single plane. The Military Airlift Command was unable to say how many airplanes will be used in shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic between the United States and Egypt. Perhaps the most spectacular event of the planned exercises will be a jump by paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division into the Egyptian desert on Nov. 14. The nation Spin- off of. Brought Star PK? Marine killed TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - A Marine was shot and killed and two others were wounded by Their own troops during weekend war games, military authorities said Monday. Killed during the exercise Saturday at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center was Sgt. R.A. Main 26, of Jacksonville, N.C. Reported in good condition Monday were Lance Cpl. Larry Hill of Springfield Mass. and Pfc. Derrick L. Allen of Chattanooga, Tenn., both 19. All three Marines were stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The men were attacking a bunker complex at 9:45 p.m. and receiving supporting rifle fire at the time they were hit, said Gunnery Sgt. George Hobbs. "The fire that they received was directed above and to the right of them and somehow something went wrong and they were fired on, he said. "They were not being shot at. They were shooting at an Objective. Evidently something went wrong. We don't know exactly what yet. We're investigating, but they were shot by a supporting platoon." Oreg. 11/17/8, 9-22-81 S.F. Chrax - nFOR 6 Projecto - Five Gls Hurt In War Games Asslar, West Germany A U.S. Army missile launcher veered off a superhighway during NATO war games in an accident that injured five American Gls, a military spokesman said yesterday. He said the U.S. soldiers were injured Sunday when a malfunc- tion in the steering mechanism sent their tracked Lance missile launch- er crashing through a guard rail on the autobahn at Asslar, 10 miles west of Giessen. International briefs - Bright starPK- U.S. opens excercises in Egypt CAIRO WEST AIRBASE, Egypt (UPI) - Flying non-stop from the United States and Europe, 24 military transport planes dropped more than 850 U.S. paratroopers into the Egyptian desert Saturday. :The paratroopers launched two weeks of war games demonstrat- ing America's ability to project force into the Middle East. Three casualties marred an otherwise smooth start to Operation Bright Star, codename for the joint exercises between the United StatesEgypt, Sudan, Oman and Somalia. A major- fractured his hip and was evacuated by helicopter. Briefing officer Capt. Bill Maddox said two other Americans suffered "minor injuries." He declined to identify them. 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Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 64 nation UFOs attack "higher ups" # G-men fear Libyan killers prowling U.S. for Reagan WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Federal officials said Friday they have received word from an informant that five Libyan-trained terrorists are in the United States on a mission to kill President Reagan and other senior U.S. officials. While law enforcement sources said they had not been able to confirm the informant's report, security measures around the president have been visibly tightened and Reagan ordered Secret Service protection extended to his three top aides. In a related development, security sources in Beirut said Friday that Lebanese forces uncovered a plot by a group of Libyans to kill Philip Habib, Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, during his current tour of the region. The sources said the attempt on Habib's life was to have been carried out during his stop in Lebanon. The New York Times reported the new security alert involving Reagan was sounded on the basis of an informant who said he helped train the terrorists in Libya. Federal law enforcement sources told United Press International Friday they had not been able to confirm that the terrorists actually had entered the country. "We have to check it out," said one source, who declined to identify the informant. The White House said Reagan ordered Secret Service protection extended Thursday to his "Big Three" advisers: presidential counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. Such protection normally is not provided for presidential aides. The action was taken after security was notably stepped up around Reagan and such other administration figures as Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who have been mentioned as possible targets of Libyan-trained assassins. The FBI and the Secret Service, following standard policy, refused to comment on the security measures undertaken for Reagan or other officials, or on the reported search for the terrorists. Reports of assassination squads trained and dispatched by Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy have circulated since the downing of two Libyan jets by U.S. fighters in August. In recent weeks, they have appeared to gain increased attention from U.S. officials -- including the president himself, who said in a newspaper interview earlier this week he could not dismiss reports of a Libyan plot against him. "We have absolute, hard proof that Libya has sent assassination teams into other countries," the Times quoted a senior intelligence official as saying. The official said the initial reports "seemed unbelievable." "Those doubts have now been overcome by the accounts of the informant. We consider this to be a very serious threat." The Times said FBI and Secret Service agents have been questioning Americans who might have past links to Libya, including former Green Berets who may have been associated with fugitive ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, who has been implicated in supplying Khadafy with military supplies and expertise. The informant told the government he worked on plans to attack Reagan and other senior officials -- including plots to shoot down Air Force One with a surface-to-air missile, blow up the president's limousine with a rocket or attack the president at close range, the newspaper said. The Times quoted a senior law enforcement official as saying the goal of the Libyan teams is to "make a sensation." "If they can't get the president," the official said, "they're apparently under instructions to kill anyone close to him." Other potential targets include members of the Reagan family, The Times said. In recent public appearances, Reagan has been shielded by a clearly beefed-up armed security force. Deception and evasion -- unmarked cars, "dummy" motorcades and unannounced trips -- have been added to his travel plans. The Times also reported Air Force One, the presidential jet, has been outfitted with electronic equipment that would help its pilots evade a possible missile attack. PS... no one seems to grasp... that when I speak (for UFOs) "trees fall down" !!! Irene Scientists and Contacts It is vastly amusing to me... that what I inform seems to fall on deaf ears. Well, see my May 4, 1981, letter (copy attached) in your file. The terrorism has now been activated full-scale (vs. U.S. leaders) into the U.S. $\theta$ === Page 2 of 64 May 4, 1981 Note: My UFOs communicated with me... to write this, below, at 12:15 P.M. today. - Owens # Scientists and Contacts You must remember... that I am able, with my half-alien mind... to apply psi-force to an idea, to make that idea come to pass. (Recall that it was published in a book some years ago that I would cause all whites to be driven out of Africa. Since then all hell has broken loose in Africa and whites have left that country in tremendous numbers.) Now, my UFOs want their Base. Do you realize that my UFOs and I are entirely capable of transferring terrorism from Ireland, Africa, etc etc here to the United States?!! The U.S. govt. got their Space Shuttle back safely. Now my UFOs want their Base. - Owens === Page 3 of 64 December 7, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS My wife, three children and I have just been ordered out of the house in 30 days by our ornery, mean landlord. Not for nonpayment of rent...we have always paid the rent on time, every time...but because the old cheap heater in the house kept going off. Not logical, right? Right. Our landlord is not only not logical, he's batty. But that's neither here nor there. We're still thrown out of the house just several weeks before Christmas...in the middle of cold winter. And broke, of course. I'll have to sell and pawn everything I own...plus the furnishings of our house...just to move. But here is the real reason of this letter to you. Whether you believe it or not...I am the only human link to the SIs (aliens)... and my friends the SIs (Plus the Egyptian and Mayan powers) will look upon my current hardships caused by other humans "with a jaundiced eye" as P.G. Wodehouse used to say in his wonderful books. Therefore...the RETALIATION of the "Triangle" (UFOs, Egyptian Power, Mayan Power) will be this: Their "6 Projects" and "Attack upon higher ups" will NOW be INCREASED, magnified, one hundred (100) times! I.e., if you think what has been happening to Reagan, Stockman, Allen, Haig and the U.S. government as a whole...has been bad...NOW, IN TIME AHEAD, IT WILL BE 100 TIMES WORSE! Unfortunately, of course, this will affect the entire nation...the U.S. But it cannot be helped. I warned scientists and government people long years ago that as Ted Owens, PK Man, goes...so goes the United States (which includes the government). That was a long time ago. Since then my mental powers and the UFOs powers have increased exponentially...so that what I said then (now applies) with much greater impact and force. So as I go now, broke, selling and pawning things just to move out...without money to rent a new place, or even a new place to rent, somewhere.... this will cause my UFO/Egyptian Power/Mayan Power to strike with all of their fury and with all of their powers...at the U.S. govt. Government.. for not giving me the protection and backing that the U.S. govt. would give to any of its foreign ambassadors anywhere (I am just such an ambassador, only not to a country, but to living entities from another dimension...far more important in scope than any of the usual "U.S. Ambassadors" to any country of this world!) And this is what this country and this government is going to find out in near time ahead! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 64 12/7/81 Greg. # Security tight, Reagan lauds 5 'greats' WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan paid tribute Sunday night to five performing artists who "have lived the dreams and lightened the hearts of millions of Americans" and joined them under a tight security shield for a black-tie gala in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "In their lives and art they have fashioned lofty standards of excellence. Through them we can all sing and dance and act and play," Reagan said at a glittering reception in the White House East Room for this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center honors -- band leader Count Basie, movie actor Cary Grant, actress Helen Hayes, choreographer Jerome Robbins and pianist Rudolf Serkin. With the honors recipients and their guests flanked by Secret Service agents, Reagan said Robbins, the son of Russian immigrants, is "widely considered the greatest American-born choreographer," and that Basie had "revolutionized jazz." Basie, who is suffering from arthritis, rode through the White House halls in a miniature golf cart. En route to the Kennedy Center after the reception, Reagan's motorcade traveled a circuitous route that was sealed off by police. A riot squad in an open-windowed van followed his limousine sweeping both sides of the streets with search lights and police helicopters circled above the route and the Kennedy Center with search lights on. The visit to the Kennedy Center was Reagan's first planned venture outside the White House since he expressed concern Friday about an intelligence report that he is the primary target of a Libyan terrorist team that recently entered the United States on a mission to kill the president. A8 THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981 # Report on 'hit squads' detailed but puzzling By MICHAEL GETLER LA Times-Washington Post Service Authoritative sources confirm that U.S. intelligence has received a very detailed -- although in some respects puzzling -- report about a 10-man squad allegedly formed to assassinate President Reagan or top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The report is understood to provide the name of each squad member and known aliases used by each in the past. It is said to include details on where the men were trained and reports that some of that training was in Eastern Europe. All but perhaps one or two members of the squad are said to be Libyans. The reports that Libya has sent such a team to the United States are being taken seriously but, nevertheless, are a source of puzzlement within the global U.S. intelligence and security network. The source or sources for information in the intelligence report is said to be described vaguely in the report. While it would be normal to provide only vague references to sourcing in order to protect the informant or informants, in this case the vagueness is part of the problem in evaluating the information and has caused doubts about the accuracy of the allegations. The doubts are summarized as follows: * Although Libyan ruler Col. Moammar Khadafy is viewed as a dangerous and unpredictable leader, some analysts doubt he would put his name to an assassination plan which, whether it were to succeed or be exposed in failure, could lead to an incendiary aftermath, including a U.S. military attack on Libya. * Similarly, if such an assassination plan were in effect, it likely would be a most closely guarded secret, and the ability of an informant to obtain the kind of detailed information on each squad member, as is circulating, is viewed as highly unlikely. * Furthermore, a 10-man team is viewed by some specialists as too large, offering too great a chance for slip-ups by one or two members. * There also is some doubt about reports that team members were trained in Eastern Europe. This refers to the volatility of the mission and the feeling that no nation in Eastern Europe would take a chance being associated with it. On the other hand, Khadafy's internal security service is trained and run by East Germans. Sources stressed that despite these questions, the report is being taken seriously. As to the source of the information, the possibilities are that the information is accurate, that it was so-called disinformation deliberately meant to be inflammatory for some unknown purpose, or that somebody wanted to make money out of a situation in which such information would seem plausible and valuable. It is believed that the closest watch on Libyans trying to enter the United States centers on the Canadian border, the longest and easiest to cross into the United States, and on Switzerland, by reputation a place where it is somewhat easier to obtain a visa to the United States. Although the administration expelled Libyan diplomats from Washington last summer, Libyans are still being allowed into the United States. === Page 5 of 64 Dec 7, 1981 UFO attack "higher ups" Oreg 12/7/81 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER JIM BORGMAN WELL, IF WE EVER WANT TO GET GOVERNMENT STRAIGHTENED OUT WE BETTER GET THIS CABINET MEETING STARTED... STOCKMAN... HERE. ALLEN... HERE. CASEY... HERE. HAIG... HERE. === Page 6 of 64 UFOs attack "HIGHER-UPS" ---------- CHAMBER OF HORRORS !! ---------- $ heta$ wens (AND THE SITUATION WILL CONTINUE TO ESCALATE UNTIL THE UFO BASE IS FULLY PROVIDED !! $ heta$ wens) === Page 7 of 64 Attack "higher ups" # NS stories hint Mitterrand illness PARIS (AP) - Two opposition publications Thursday printed rumors that have been circulating around Paris for years - that Francois Mitterrand, elected president six months ago, is seriously ill. The Elysee Palace confirmed that the 65-year-old French leader underwent a physical examination at a military hospital outside Paris earlier this month. However, presidential spokesmen insisted the checkup was routine and said the results would be made public in December. After Mitterrand's election May 10, the government issued a detailed medical bulletin that concluded that the president was in good health. During a news conference Sept. 24, Mitterrand joked about the rumors and again said he was in good health, although he had recently lost some weight slightly. The Associated Press contacted several officials at the presidential palace and the health ministry, and all daily said Thursday that the president was in good health. Rumors that Mitterrand was being treated by a cancer specialist surfaced in 1974. Despite official denials and charges that the stories were planted by political enemies, the rumors continued. Part of the reason for their longevity was the memory of the late President Georges Pompidou's illness. Pompidou, bloated by powerful drugs, fought a long battle against a form of blood cancer and was seriously ill. But his entourage continued to insist he was in good health up until the day he died in 1974. Thursday, both the mass-circulation daily newspaper France-Soir and the magazine Paris Match ran prominently played stories based on Mitterrand's recent visit to the Val de Grace military hospital. The newspaper said Mitterrand checked in under the name "Albert Blot or Biot" and underwent an extensive series of tests not part of a routine physical examination. It quoted unidentified hospital employees as saying Mitterrand's skin was "lemon yellow" and that he appeared to have trouble walking. Hospital officials refused to discuss the matter Thursday night. oreg 11/20/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Hussein admitted to Texas hospital HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP) - Jordan's King Hussein checked into Methodist Hospital for a "routine" physical examination by surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a hospital spokesman said today. heart Hussein was admitted to the hospital Monday night, several hours after he and his American-born wife arrived in Texas for a four-day visit, said hospital spokesman Toim Bowen. Queen Noor was expected to undergo a similar checkup today, Bowen said. Des Moines Trib 11/10/81 Heart # Reagan, wife enter hospital for checkups By TERENCE HUNT oreg 10/30/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, both suffering from colds, checked into a VIP suite at a military hospital Thursday for an overnight stay and their first full-scale medical examinations since moving into the White House. On his way to the hospital, Reagan told a reporter that whether he would have a checkup was "up to his doctors." He said he was not having any health problems. By ROBERT H. REID BONN, West Germany (AP) - Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev arrived here Sunday for his first visit to the West in two years. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was at the airport to welcome the Soviet leader and top-level Kremlin officials and joined the motorcade that bypassed the site of anti-Soviet and peace protests. Brezhnev and his party, which included Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, arrived just after 7 p.m. (10 a.m. PDT) at Cologne-Bonn airport, ringed by hundreds of armed guards. The ailing Soviet leader, who will turn 75 next month, moved carefully with short steps as he descended the Aeroflot jetliner's steps to meet Schmidt and West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. At one point he almost lost his balance and was grabbed by a Soviet military officer. After a brief ceremony the group departed for a government guest house where Brezhnev will stay during his visit. 11/23/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Schmidt has surgery BONN, West Germany (AP) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt underwent heart surgery Tuesday, and doctors implanted a pacemaker to prevent disruption of his heartbeat, a government spokesman said. The 62-year-old chancellor was flown from his native Hamburg to the Central Military Hospital in Koblenz early Monday for an examination. oreg 10/14/81 Heart "UFOs" "higher ups" # Senator Stennis 'fine'; in hospital for virus WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Senator John Stennis (Dem., Miss.) was reported "feeling fine" Tuesday after being hospitalized for a cold and intestinal virus. Rex Buffington, the senator's press secretary, said Stennis, 80, entered Walter Reed Army Hospital late Monday and is expected to be released today. DM Trib 11/10/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Senator 'satisfactory' PHOENIX, ARIZ. (AP) - Senator Barry Goldwater, 73, (Rep., Ariz.) was reported in satisfactory condition and resting comfortably Tuesday following surgery to replace his left hip. Des Moines Trib 11/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burma chief steps down RANGOON, Burma (UPI) - President Ne Win retired Monday as Burma's head of state, ending 19 years of unchallenged rule marked by neutrality, isolationism and his own brand of social economics. The People's National Congress elected Ne Win's longtime heir apparent, San Yu, to the presidency. Ne Win Monday and Ne Win through transfer of power. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hospitalized ambassador 'feeling fine' NEW YORK (UPI) - United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, hospitalized with severe chest pains, was "feeling fine" Friday and was expected to be released sometime over the weekend, officials said. A spokesman for New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center said Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 54, was in stable condition. Joan Dickie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the U.N., said: "She's feeling fine. She has one or two more tests to finish. We expect her to be released sometime over the weekend." 11/14/81 Oregon Standard Examiner Heart? UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ailing leader may step aside BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) - A medical report to be released today should determine whether President Roberto Viola, who is suffering from heart trouble, will temporarily relinquish power to an interim president. An official communique issued late Thursday said the 57-year-old Viola, who has been resting at the presidential mansion for 10 days, is suffering from a "coronary insufficiency." oreg 11/20/81 Heart === Page 8 of 64 MICHIGAN Typhoid outbreak on rise JACKSON, Mich. (UPI) - Three more cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in the Jackson area following a United Way luncheon Oct. 8, bringing to eight the number of confirmed cases. State health officials were monitoring two other people who have symptoms of the rare disease. Investigators Tuesday said two men and six women were receiving treatment in several Jackson hospitals, and two other people were being monitored as probable typhoid cases. All those stricken are listed in good condition. 11/11/81 "RARE" TEXAS More Texas Typhoid San Antonio Health officials yesterday confirmed the 18th case of typhoid fever in the area this year, as state and federal officials arrived to help trace the source of the outbreak. Associated Press SF Chron 9/25/81 "RARE" MISSOURI Meningitis source a mystery SMITHVILLE, Mo. (UPI) - The nursery at Spelman Memorial Hospital is closed indefinitely as authorities search for the cause of an epidemic of a rare meningitis found in 12 babies, including two who are seriously infected. State health officials Tuesday were pessimistic in their efforts to trace the source of the Citrobacter meningitis contracted by two infants born three weeks apart. The outbreak was termed an epidemic after traces of the meningitis bacteria were found in 10 other babies born in the same time period at the hospital. 11/11/81 "RARE" OREGON Rare bubonic plague claims Chiloquin man LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Tests have confirmed that an Oregon man died of a rare form of bubonic plague, health officials report. Masaru Yamase of Chiloquin, Ore., was visiting friends in Los Angeles when he was stricken with a high fever. He died Nov. 21 and test results confirming that the plague caused the death were received Wednesday. Dr. Shirley Fannin of the county Department of Health said Yamase died of septicemic plague, a variation of bubonic plague, and plague pneumonia. Cases of plague are rare and there has not been a major outbreak in the area since 1924. She said it is not known how Yamase contracted the disease, but she noted he lived in a cabin in a wooded area and may have picked it up from animals before coming to Los Angeles. 11/26/81 "RARE" FLORIDA Measles alert issued in Florida FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Facing the largest measles outbreak in the United States with 51 confirmed cases, health officials in Lee County said Wednesday they would vaccinate 4,000 students. The national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has an October 1982 target date for eliminating measles in the United States. 10/1/81 VANCOUVER, WASH. Vancouver death blamed on Legionnaire's disease By LINDA KEENE Journal Correspondent 11/25/81 VANCOUVER, Wash. - In the first documented Southwest Washington case, a Vancouver man apparently has died of Legionnaire's Disease. Tommy Lindsey, 47, died Monday at Vancouver Memorial Hospital following a sudden pneumonia attack in early November. Dr. Richard Bills said physicians could not stifle the bacteria that had moved to his kidneys and lungs. "Mr. Lindsey had Legionnaire's disease," said Bills, a specialist in infectious diseases. "It was, as far as we know, the first definite case in this area. But I don't know if it was the cause of death." County Coroner Arch Hamilton, however, said Legionnaire's Disease was listed as the cause of death. Bills said he could not determine where Lindsey had contracted the bacteria, but said that it was an isolated incident which should not cause alarm among area residents. note: Here. "As far as we know, the disease is not transmitted from one person to another," he said, noting that the bacteria can be found in natural water sources, like ponds, or in artificial water supplies like reservoirs. He said he did not think Lindsey contracted the bacteria in a Clark County water supply. Legionnaire's Disease was first identified in 1976 during the American Legion convention in Philadelphia where 182 people became ill and 29 eventually died. "The Philadelphia incident led to the identification of the disease," said Bills, "but in retrospect, there have been cases that have gone back to the '40s. It's definitely been around." But it is not very common, stressed Bills, noting that "the disease has only been seen sporadically across the country." Lindsey lived at 810 N.W. 104th St. He was employed by the Department of Labor in Portland. note: (Above) Florida $\rightarrow$ Missouri $\rightarrow$ Michigan $\rightarrow$ Texas $\rightarrow$ Oregon $\rightarrow$ Washington. An arrow pointing across the U.S. up to where I am!! (The key word in the message is "rare") (A message from my UFOs?!!) === Page 9 of 64 December 2, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The enclosed xerox file of newsclips..........should amaze you..........also frighten you. At the back of the file are the original documents wherein I warned..........of what lay ahead for "higher ups" of the government (and which turned out to affect many governments all over the world: Not just the U.S. government. But you will please notice that my SIs (UFOs) have been quite busy..........Haig, Stockman, Allen, etc etc..........all well-covered in this file.) The "6 Projects File" will follow later on..........probably in about three or four weeks. Can't afford to get it out now at this time. So am just sending half of the complete file. (The "UFOs attack "higher ups" file.") Please remember that all of the action in this file..........has been CAUSED action..........by my UFOs. Not just a bunch of "coincidences" strung together, as Dr. Hynek is so fond of accusing me of. Simply read the original documents..........then see the newsclips results..........and you have the solid caused pattern of SI action. My SIs will continue to escalate their attack upon "higher ups" and the U.S. government..........until THE SI'S are provided with their mountain Base, with their human representative, PK Man, working in its Operations Room on national and international situations..........and with the Base as THEIR base to work from, also. Once the Base has come into reality and is operational..........the SIs will turn all of their powers, (joined by the Egyptian Power and the Mayan Power,) to stopping the oncoming nuclear shootout between the U.S. and Russia, among many other things. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens 4 === Page 10 of 64 Please note in this newsclip that the writer, Mr. Knap, alludes to a "sinister force"!!! Of course, he is correct!! The UFO attack could not be described in any other way!! Owens 11/29/81 THURSDAY Topic Number One # Alexander Haig ## Serious doubt about his ability By Ted Knap R.M. News 11/12/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - ALEXANDER Haig's impetuous and bizarre behavior lately casts serious doubt on his ability to be an effective secretary of state. Twice in less than a week, the government's chief diplomat embarrassed President Reagan and created an international incident that plays into the hands of anti-American elements in Europe. He has made the administration look foolish. That view is shared by a number of White House officials who are not out to get Haig, but who believe that he has hurt Reagan politically at a time when the president does not need any more problems. Both incidents could have been avoided if Haig had thought before he spoke. On Saturday, Oct. 31, White House communications director David Gergen received a copy of a Jack Anderson column, to be published three days later, saying that Reagan was disappointed in Haig and might get rid of him. Gergen, unable to reach Haig's press secretary, called Haig. Some say it is a measure of Anderson's credibility that The Washington Post runs his column among the comics, and this was just the latest in a string of speculation that Reagan would shake up his foreign policy apparatus. The column would have aroused a yawn in Washington. But Haig is thin-skinned, overly sensitive, suspicious and combative. He telephoned Anderson, then Reagan, who in turn called Anderson, as did Haig again. It was like calling out the army, navy, air force and commander-in-chief to rescue a cat up a tree. Haig, not content with defending himself, told Anderson he was the victim of a nine-month "guerrilla campaign" by a "top White House aide." That was the first official confirmation of reports that Haig had been feuding with White House officials, primarily national security adviser Richard Allen but also chief of staff James Baker, counselor Edwin Meese and even Vice President George Bush. No longer did the press have to fall back on unnamed sources for stories about dissension in the Reagan camp. Aides say it was a "mistake" for the president to call the columnist on such a matter. They think Haig oversold him on the column's probable impact on their ability to conduct foreign affairs. There is little doubt that the original column, which Anderson discarded in favor of reporting the Haig and Reagan phone calls, would have attracted far less attention than the guerrilla allegation. The White House was trying to explain away that embarrassment when Haig created another. In public testimony before a Senate committee, Haig volunteered that "there are contingency plans in NATO doctrine, to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area." Haig, a former NATO commander, spoke approvingly of such a fire-a-nuke-across-their-bow plan. Alarms sounded in Washington and European capitals. Our allies are having enough problems with anti-nuclear demonstrations and Soviet propaganda without raising the possibility of a nuclear warning shot by NATO forces. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went before another Senate committee the next day and denied that any such plan existed. "Nor should it," Weinberger added. The White House endorsed that disavowal. To save Haig's face, Weinberger said Haig was talking only of "a possible option." What bothers White House officials is that Haig brought up the first-strike option without being asked about it. Even if he was right about the existence of such a plan, he should not have raised it in a public hearing at this sensitive time. Naturally, European television gave prominent coverage to his testimony. Haig still has not recovered from mistakenly asserting that he was "in control" at the White House the day Reagan was shot. Perhaps he can claim, as he did in offering a possible explanation for the 18-minute gap in the Nixon tapes, that these things are being done by a "sinister force." Scripps-Howard News Note: They sure are! SI Powers! L. Owens === Page 11 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # U.S. agents hunt Libyan hit teams oreg. 11/28/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. security agencies have bolstered their body-guard forces and tightened border controls after being warned that Libyan or other Arab "hit teams" are out to assassinate President Reagan and other top American officials. "We take those reports very, very seriously," one security specialist said. He and other security officials confirmed Friday that "reliable" sources in the Middle East had warned last week that one or more assassination teams might infiltrate the United States, possibly from Canada. The reports included the names of about six would-be killers, the U.S. officials said. As a result, the Secret Service, the FBI and other government security agencies were said to have intensified measures to prevent harm to the president, the vice president or Cabinet officers. Most officials asked not to be identified in discussing the matter and offered few details about what specific steps were being taken. But one, Ray Hager-ty, the Customs Service director for North Dakota and Minnesota, said agents along the Canadian border were more closely checking identification credentials. "We have stepped up our watch," he said. Reagan, for whom security is routinely tight, was at his secluded ranch in California. His protection has remained at a stepped-up level since he was shot March 30. Measures have included a marked curtailment of public appearances. Meanwhile, it was known that the protection of at least two Cabinet officers, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, has been tightened. In Weinberger's case, for example, agents have begun assigning unmarked cars to precede and follow his limousine. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, responsible for guarding the homes of many federal officials, was alerted. Weinberger and Haig are to travel overseas soon, and security officials said they are especially concerned that they may be exposed to danger from other possible assassination teams abroad. However, there did not appear to be any intelligence on specific threats to Weinberger and Haig overseas. ABC News reported Thursday that Libyan agents had been assigned to assassinate Reagan and other top officials and were believed to have already entered the United States through Canada. Quoting unidentified sources, ABC said monitoring of the Canadian border, especially in the Detroit area, had been increased as part of a special investigation under the direction of FBI Director William H. Webster. The FBI had no comment Friday. At the State Department, spokesman Joseph Reap declined to discuss security around Haig and other high officials, but it is known that security measures have been tightened in recent weeks. Nor would the department discuss the reported increased surveillance along the Canadian border. UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Prince has close call LONDON (AP) -- A plane carrying Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was involved in a near-miss with a Miami-bound Boeing 747, the Daily Express reported Monday. The newspaper said Philip, 60, was "only seconds from disaster" when his plane, a twin-engine Andover, narrowly missed colliding with a British Airways jumbo jet that had just taken off from London's Heathrow Airport. The incident, the Express said, occurred Friday in heavy clouds over the southern England county of Surrey. It said the pilot of the British Airways jet was ordered to change course as the royal plane crossed its flight path. Scientists and Contacts Always keep in mind that my UFOs will use any means to attack world leaders and top govt. people. The SI's have "PKd" (applied psi) to My idea of attacking "higher ups." This psi attack then utilizes any set of conditions to form an attack anywhere on any "higher up." I.e., Begin falls & breaks leg; assassins get Sadat; a world leader has a heart attack... and so on. The means may vary, but the outcome is as sure as one of my thrown knives flashing into the bullseye. Here, in this case, the SI's have created a political atmosphere to cause assassin attacks on "higher ups." With Stockman, Allen and others the SI's used different means, but always to the same end. Owens === Page 12 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - ECONOMIC POLICY LOSING CREDIBILITY FOREIGN POLICY IN DISARRAY BUDGET DIRECTOR TROUBLES INCOMPETENCE IN WHITE HOUSE? STAFF BICKERING CINCINNATI ENQUIRER © 1981 BORGMAN KING FEATURES ore g J 11/20/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - Begin 'well' after doctors fix fracture JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin underwent two hours of emergency surgery Thursday night for a broken bone in his left thigh, Hadassah Hospital announced. Begin broke his collis femuri -- the neck of the femur where it joins the hip -- when he slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Jerusalem home, the hospital's medical director, Dr. Shmuel Pinhas said. "The prime minister's condition, thank God, is excellent," Pinhas said. "The operation was successful and he is feeling well." Begin was given a local anesthetic and was conscious throughout the operation, Pinhas told reporters. He said the prime minister could work in bed but would have to stay in the hospital for about two weeks. ore g J 11/27/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - Begin plans Cabinet meet in hospital JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin fell in the bathroom and broke his thigh Thursday, but an aide said Friday he is recovering well enough from surgery to preside over a Cabinet meeting on Sunday in the hospital. Dr. Shmuel Pinhas, director of Hadassah Hospital, said Begin, 68, is expected to remain hospitalized for two weeks, the normal recuperation period after the insertion of a pin in the thigh to mend the broken bone. Dr. Mervin Gotsman, Begin's personal physician, denied that Begin suffered anything other than a fall in the bathroom of his home. ore g J 11/27/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - HELP! I'VE BEEN MINIATURIZED BY THE JAPANESE! UFOs R. ALLEN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ore g J 11/20/81 === Page 13 of 64 THIS IS THANKSGIVING??? -UFOs attack "higher ups" - orig. 11/19/81 STOCKMAN HAIG ALLEN BENSON THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP UFOs attack "higher ups" - orig. 11/19/81 ONE last cut... Stockman === Page 14 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan's happy group working to improve Keystone cops image WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan, speaking of his foreign policy family at his news conference this week, told reporters: "We're a very happy group." Friday night, at a dinner in Houston, Reagan spoke of his whole official family, saying he has "a great team, no matter how much they pick on us. "We do enjoy each other. We're working together - we're doing exactly what you sent us up there to do." The presidential comments inspired Washington Post political cartoonist Herblock to depict Reagan's happy group as a bunch of Keystone cops running around throwing pies into colleagues' faces. The hapless David Stockman was drawn stepping on a banana peel and hitting himself in the face with a pie. At the Tuesday news conference, Reagan was responding to questions about conflicting statements from his chief foreign policy and defense advisers, and to other controversies involving the "very happy group" Reagan has assembled to help him run the government. The week before Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger squabbled over NATO nuclear policy in public and Reagan had to bring Haig and national security adviser Richard Allen into the Oval Office to put to an end what Haig complained was "a guerrilla campaign" against him from within the White House. Hardly had the White House finished dealing with those two problems than the latest two controversies arose. Stockman's comments about the "Trojan horse" nature of the Republican-pushed tax cut and expressions of disillusionment with the progress of the administration's "supply-side" economic theory upset Reagan - enough so that an aide said, "I've never seen the president more angry." Budget director Stockman offered to walk the plank, but after a trip to the White House woodshed Reagan offered him a second chance. Although his job is secure for the immediate future, in part because of his considerable expertise on the budget, his long-term fate is debatable. After the embarrassment of the Stockman affair came news stories from Japan that a top White House aide was under investigation for bribery. As it turned out, said the White House, a Japanese journalist granted an interview with Nancy Reagan gave Allen a $1,000 honorarium, a practice the White House said is not uncommon in Japanese news operations. Allen said it would have embarrassed the reporter to refuse the money, so he "received" it - Allen took exception to the word "accepted" - put it in a safe to be given to the treasury later but forgot about it. The money, said the White House, was found when the safe was moved in mid-September. "Had it been worked out promptly," Allen told reporters, "it would have been promptly turned over and put in the treasury." The president said later that "on the basis of all that I know - on the basis of what I know - yes," he is satisfied with Allen. The FBI still has the matter under investigation. The Stockman affair - as embarrassing as it was for the administration - gave one White House aide an opening for a little self-inflicted humor. Presidential aide James Baker, with Reagan at the dinner Friday in Houston, told the crowd that before they left the White House earlier in the day, "We turned off the lights, we turned down the thermostat, and we bound and gagged David Stockman." He drew a hearty laugh. Times-News, Twin Falls, Id. 11/15/81 === Page 15 of 64 - WDA attack "higher ups" - # 'Happy group' members plague Reagan oreg J 11/27/81 WASHINGTON - If embarrassment is radioactive, President Reagan should have stayed on the "Doomsday" plane that brought him back from his turkey-shooting weekend in Texas. He got off the "Doomsday" - which in the event of enemy attack would carry him high above the battle - and stepped into the fallout of proliferating personnel problems. He has a budget director who doesn't believe in supply-side economics, a national security adviser who takes money from Japanese journalists for exclusive interviews with the first lady and a secretary of state who seems to want to start a war in Central America. The heretic, the arranger and the warmonger are all, for the moment, still at their posts, in what the president calls the "happy group" at the White House. Budget Director David Stockman got a presidential lecture for having committed the sin of intellectual pride. He could not resist communing with an intellectual peer, William Greider, a Washington Post editor. Stockman, from the compulsion of the ultra-bright, had to let Greider know that he knew what was really going on. The conditions for publication of their extraordinary, periodic exchanges were fuzzy, but Stockman was thinking of his place in history rather than in the Reagan administration, as he confided in him his wrong numbers, political miscalculations and "Trojan Horse" theory of the tax cut. ## mary megrory The Atlantic Monthly article sent the Democrats into ecstasy. At the dinner where they were gathered to hail the survival of Averell Harriman to his 90th year, they toasted David Stockman and the revival of their party. Young Stockman can go no more to Congress and argue against widows and orphans - and not just because of the exulting Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said morosely that Stockman has "caused serious political problems for Republicans." The case of Richard V. Allen broke two days later, with the astounding intelligence that he had "received" - he indignantly rejected the word "accepted" - $1,000 in cash from a party of Japanese who, as a result of his intervention, had an interview with Nancy Reagan the day after the Inauguration. Allen, whose previous business dealings with the Japanese as recounted in The Wall Street Journal had caused his brief suspension from the Reagan campaign, says it is "an old Japanese custom" to express "gratitude" to sources. From Tokyo have come denials of the tradition, and a dispute rages as to whether the thousand was solicited or volunteered. ALLEN AT FIRST categorically denied he had "arranged" the interview, then conceded he had "fielded the request," which came from an old friend in Japan, whose wife was the interpreter for a brief session that Mrs. Reagan cannot remember ever having taken place. The White House was full of chat in the first hours after the incident, which came to their attention from Tokyo, where Japanese police are "cooperating" with a U.S. investigation. The president, hardly audible over the whir of the helicopter waiting to take him to Texas, said on Friday night, "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrong-doing." But by Monday, having discovered that the Department of Justice investigation, which White House Counsel Fred Fielding had prematurely said was closed, was actually still on, the wagons had been circled. At the regular noon briefing, Assistant White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes said "no comment" to the many queries that assailed him. The only question he answered was as to whether Allen would be at the National Security Council briefing. Yes, he would. It got so sticky that Speakes visibly welcomed a question about the economy, which, of course, is getting worse by the hour. WHEN SECRETARY of State Alexander Haig was recently whining that someone in the White House was out to get him, the president said he doubted the existence of such a person - and would make no search. But in the Allen affair, it seems inescapable that someone was out to get Haig's nemesis. A "secretary," we are told, found the cash in Allen's old safe. A true helpmeet would have taken it to him and said, "You forgot this." Instead, that person called the cops. But Stockman's indiscretion and Allen's folly fade beside the insubordination of the secretary of state. Alexander Haig has his own foreign policy, as he arrogantly told a House Foreign Affairs Committee. Two days after the president had announced we had no plans for "putting Americans in combat any place in the world," Haig defiantly refused to rule out military action in Cuba and Nicaragua. The president's statement, he said condescendingly, "should stand," but he is waging a war of nerves against Cuba and Nicaragua and needs the threat weapon. The president's forbearance in the face of such provocations makes him a strong contender for the "Boss of the Year" award, but it doesn't do much else for him. oreg J 11/27/81 The Ford Foundation's board of trustees ... Rehearsals began in New York this week for a musical based on Antoine de St. Exupery's fable, The Little Prince, starring Michael York. Rose Kennedy got to spend Thanksgiving day with other members of the Kennedy clan after all. She was released from a West Palm Beach, Fla., hospital by her doctor, who diagnosed her ailment as an attack of angina (heart pains). Barbara Mandrell's daughter, Jamie Dudney, 5, makes her television debut this Saturday on her mother's NBC series. Jack Lemmon and Loni Anderson are among those who will appear in CBS's "All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds" to be aired on Dec. 13. - WDA "higher ups" - Mayor Helen Boos === Page 16 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Allen case should remind Republicans of need for candor oreg 12/2/81 By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - The decision of Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, to take "administrative leave" and then go on national television to present his side of the Japanese "honorarium" case was, at the very best, long overdue. Allen clearly hopes the two actions will in themselves make him look better in the arena of public opinion in which he has been taking his lumps. But whatever the Justice Department investigation ultimately discloses, Allen - and the Reagan administration - already have demonstrated a remarkable insensitivity to the recent history of their Republican Party in leveling with the American people. Putting aside all the moral questions of Watergate, the one practical lesson in that experience was that public officials who don't come clean on any transgression at the outset risk seeing it blown up to proportions that become much more difficult to deal with. Less than eight years after the culmination of the Watergate affair with Richard Nixon's resignation, it is troubling that bells did not go off in the heads of Allen and, subsequently, chief Reagan White House aides, the moment they were confronted with the $1,000 "donation" from a Japanese magazine in appreciation of an interview with Nancy Reagan. Had Allen, and later the White House, dealt straightforwardly with the matter, it might well have been accepted by the public as what Allen now says it was - strictly a gesture by the Japanese and a momentary lapse into "bad judgment" by Allen in sticking the $1,000 into a White House safe without reporting it. But by saying nothing, both Allen and the White House were asking for trouble. Edwin Meese, counselor to the President, says now that if the story hadn't broken in Japan "there was no plan to either disclose it or not to disclose it." That admission in itself suggests an insensitivity to the fallout of Watergate. Meese argues that the press strung together "a lot of unrelated things," and that no doubt is true. But the matter of Allen's sale of his business to former Reagan aide Peter Hannaford, for instance, probably never would have caused a ripple if its disclosure had not come in the context of a mystery surrounding the details of the Japanese "honorarium." The same is true of the revelation that Allen accepted two Japanese watches from one of his friends associated with arranging the interview with Nancy Reagan. One reason Allen and the Reagan White House may have been so insensitive to predictable suspicions of cover-up is that ever since Nixon's departure, many Republicans have taken solace in the argument that he and the other Watergate offenders did nothing the Democrats hadn't done and that their only crime was in getting caught. That contention serves to minimize, and even trivialize, the broadest and most insidious assault on the Constitution and on constitutional rights ever undertaken by an American president and his aides. Republicans who buy the argument are more likely to be insensitive to the lessons of Watergate. A recent example was the hiring by an agent of the Republican National Committee of armed off-duty cops to patrol predominantly black polling places in the New Jersey gubernatorial election to assure "ballot security." It was a case of the party having more money than it knew what to do with - as in the Watergate break-in - and dreaming up mischief, apparently without a thought to the party's reputation. All this is not to say that Richard Allen is, indeed, engaged in a Watergate-like cover-up. Now that he is talking freely, the whole affair may be as innocent as he says it was. But if he - and the Reagan administration - had been forthcoming at the very beginning, the matter may not have become the federal case it now unquestionably is. Allen, in his appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday, sidestepped the reports that there are people in high places in the White House who think he should have thrown himself off the field for the good of the team. Instead he complained of "innuendo and sly allegation" in the media, as well as invasion of privacy. He told of reporters climbing trees outside his home to spy on his family and of one attempt to interview his young daughter on her way to school. These, of course, are excesses nobody in the media can defend. But they too probably would not have occurred had Allen remembered the lesson of Watergate the moment he got that $1,000, and acted immediately to make absolutely certain he could not even be suspected of taking it. Nor would the White House likely still be facing "the Allen problem" if it had disclosed the $1,000 payment right off as an embarrassing but innocent incident. © 1981, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc. === Page 17 of 64 - uFLe attack "higher ups"- THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1981 3M A9 # Business sold by Deaver also bought Allen's firm By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) - Michael K. Deaver, one of President Reagan's top three aides, has received payments on the preinaugural sale of a firm that, at the same time, bought out a similar enterprise headed by national security adviser Richard V. Allen. Senate records show that since the Reagan administration took office, the firm, the Hannaford Co. Inc., has quadrupled the number of domestic and foreign groups for which it is a registered lobbyist. Deaver was a 40-percent owner of Hannaford, which in January bought out a similar firm, Potomac International Corp., headed by Allen. The national security adviser, who just took a leave of absence in the wake of an investigation over his receipt of $1,000 from Japanese journalists, also received deferred payments in his part of the deal. On Sunday, Allen announced he was taking a leave of absence from his White House post while the Justice Department completes a preliminary investigation of his receipt of $1,000 from two Japanese journalists who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. Allen, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said the Hannaford Co. had "satisfied" its debt to him in recent days. He did not provide any details, but NSC spokesman Peter Dailey said Hannaford had recently paid Allen $50,000 to terminate the debt. Speakes said any suggestion that Deaver still is receiving payments from Hannaford Inc. is "dead wrong." In his financial disclosure statement, filed last February, Deaver said he sold his 40 percent interest in the public relations firm to Hannaford for between $15,000 and $50,000 in January 1981, just prior to Reagan's swearing-in. Deaver added that "payments to be received in future months will not exceed $50,000. Such payments are essentially for buyout of interest and do not require the rendering of current service." It was not clear whether those payments have been completed. Hannaford has refused to comment on his relationship with either Allen or Deaver. According to Justice Department files, the Hannaford Co. is a registered foreign agent for the Taiwan government and for a conservative business group in Guatemala. And Senate records show that the firm has dramatically increased the number of groups for which it is registered to lobby. At the time Reagan took office, the Hannaford firm listed itself as lobbyist for only three groups, including the Guatemalan organization. Since the Reagan administration has been in power, the company has registered as a lobbyist for nine additional groups and firms, including the Tosco Oil Corp.; Trans World Airlines Inc.; Merrill Lynch, White, Weld Markets Group; Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Co.; and the China External Trade Development Council. Tosco hired the Hannaford Co. at a time when it was fighting for a $1.1 billion loan guarantee to support its share of an oil shale project in Colorado. Reagan, as a presidential candidate, had opposed the synfuel program and Reagan's budget director David Stockman fought to cut the money for the three projects from the budget. Inside the administration, Stockman was primarily opposed by Energy Secretary James Edwards, but government sources said Monday that Deaver also favored approval of the synfuel projects. However, Speakes said late Monday that Deaver had no knowledge of Hannaford's interest in Tosco. He added, jokingly, that Deaver thought Tosco "was an opera." The dispute was eventually referred to Reagan, who approved the synthetic fuel projects. # Probe figures in Allen status - uFLe attack "higher ups"- By MARTIN SCHRAM and GREGORY LA TIMES-Washington Post Service 12/1/81 WASHINGTON - White House counselor Edwin Meese III said Monday that Richard V. Allen's return as White House national security adviser would be influenced, but not necessarily determined, by the Justice Department report on his dealings with Japanese journalists. Meese also told a group of reporters that he does not think the law requires appointment of a special prosecutor in the Allen case under the responsibility of the attorney general, William French Smith. Meese said the FBI investigation of Allen "will obviously be a factor" in his fate. Allen requested "administrative leave" Sunday to defend himself against charges of impropriety in accepting $1,000 from a Japanese magazine team that interviewed Nancy Reagan after the inauguration last January. As Allen spent through a morning round of interviews explaining his actions Monday, Meese said he would "look at the whole business," including Allen's dealings with clients of his former consulting firm, in deciding whether to restore his White House status. "I see no reason why he shouldn't" come back if he is cleared of charges by the Justice Department, Meese said, adding that he would make his own judgment on reinstating Allen, "subject to concurrence by the president." Meese, Allen's immediate superior on the White House staff and reportedly his strongest defender, walked a narrow line under persistent questioning from reporters. === Page 18 of 64 # Allen to take voluntary leave from post - [ ] "US attack" "higher ups" BY MARTIN SCHRAM LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- White House national security adviser Richard V. Allen, announced Sunday that he will take an administrative leave of absence from his job until the Justice Department completes its investigation of his receiving $1,000 from Japanese journalists who had interviewed Nancy Reagan. Allen conceded in a nationally televised appearance that he had exercised "bad judgment," but he said he had done nothing illegal in the affair, which has made him a center of controversy during the past two weeks. However, he maintained later in a lengthy interview with The Washington Post that he eventually would be vindicated and would be back on the job because "it was only a one-time bad judgment." In his interview with The Post, Allen provided new details concerning the arrangements for the interview with the first lady and his other contacts with his longstanding friends from Japanese industry. Allen said his involvement in the interview began Dec. 2, 1980, when he was asked to arrange the interview during a telephone call from Tokyo from his longtime friend, Tamotsu Takase, a Japanese business consultant. Takase had called to ask Allen to make arrangements for himself, his wife, and others to receive invitations and tickets to the Reagan inauguration, Allen said. And during the conversation, Allen continued, Takase "asked if his wife could conduct an interview (with Mrs. Reagan) for a housewives' magazine." There was never any mention of money in that conversation or any subsequent conversation, Allen said. Allen also said, in Sunday's interview with The Post, that while he later met three or four times with Takase at the White House, he never discussed business matters in those conversations. He specifically repudiated quotes that Takase reportedly passed on to Japanese executives as business advice from Allen. Takase had made the remarks in a speech in Japan after returning from a White House meeting he and an official of the Toyota auto company had with Allen. Associated Press Laserphoto EMBATTLED ADVISER -- Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, arrives Sunday for appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" program with wife Patricia (right) and unidentified family members. "That's Takase talking and not me talking," said Allen. "I don't recall ever saying that to Takase." Allen has been criticized within the White House's inner circle not only for receiving the $1,000 and then failing to turn it over to authorities, but for his contacts while in the White House with his friends from his days as a consultant to several Japanese businesses. There had been published reports that presidential chief of staff James A. Baker III, deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver and Nancy Reagan believed Allen should be replaced as national security adviser for having exercised bad judgment. Only White House counselor Edwin Meese III, among President Reagan's top advisers, was reportedly urging that Allen remain in his post while the Justice Department continued its inquiry to see whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the case fully. According to a White House spokesman, Allen telephoned Meese Saturday to tell him he had decided to request administrative leave until the matter was fully investigated and that Meese then telephoned the president at his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., to relay the message. him of his decision. Asked if Allen will return to his job if he is vindicated by the Justice Department inquiry, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes responded that he has "no reason to think otherwise." For now, Allen's duties will be assumed by his deputy, James W. Nance, a retired admiral. Previously, Nance served as an aide to now-Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. when Haig was commander of the NATO forces. Allen announced his decision on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" after having agreed only the day before to appear. "The interest in this case has developed to an extent where great pressures have been brought to bear on the White House," Allen said on the show. "In recognition of this, I have spoken with the president yesterday, requested that he grant me administrative leave until such time as the Justice Department has completed its investigation. At the conclusion of that investigation, I expect the facts will be fully known and that I fully expect to resume my duties." Related stories on Page A7. Reg 11/30/81 === Page 19 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # 'Dramatic' leave Allen saga lingers on Story on Page One also By STEVEN R. WEISMAN New York Times Service 11/30/81 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- By permitting Richard V. Allen to take a leave of absence as national security adviser, President Reagan was acknowledging, in effect, that Allen has failed so far to clear up questions about his behavior in office. Thus, the action Sunday was described by White House aides as a necessary step in the process of "damage control," the term they use for the effort to prevent Allen's problems from inflicting additional political harm and embarrassment to Reagan himself. # Analysis White House officials concede the Justice Department's investigation of Allen has created the biggest personnel headache for the president since he took office 10 months ago. There have been plenty of problems with feuds, backbiting and telling tales out of school, such as the embarrassment accruing from the recent indiscretions of Budget Director David A. Stockman. But the suggestions of improper behavior in office against Allen are seen at the White House as different from any of the past problems. For example, the allegations of questionable business activities by William J. Casey, the director of Central Intelligence, had to do with events that occurred long before he took office. By all accounts, Allen made the decision on his own to seek a leave of absence. But one senior aide to Reagan acknowledged that "pressures have been building up on both him and the White House" to do something dramatic to ensure all questions about his actions are fully resolved. "It strikes me as a wise decision," said this official, who asked not to be identified. Allen's decision, he said, "begins to minimize the damage to the president and it maximizes his opportunity to clear the record." Other senior White House officials, who also asked not to be identified, emphasized they had no way of guaranteeing Allen would be able to return to his job. "It all depends on the facts of the case," said one, noting many of the disclosures about Allen were a surprise to them, and that more such disclosures could occur before the whole episode is over. Complicating the matter of Allen's fate is the disclosure more than a week ago that senior Reagan aides have been divided in their attitudes toward Allen. On one side, James A. Baker III and Michael K. Deaver, the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff at the White House, were reliably reported to be in favor of Allen resigning or taking a leave of absence, whereas Edwin Meese III, the White House counselor, was reported to have stood firm behind him. Meese said Sunday, however, that he and Reagan were "very sympathetic" to Allen's request to take a leave so he could devote more time to answering questions about his previous actions. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan was understood to have been personally embarrassed and angry over being drawn into the Allen episode. Allen said Sunday that he had apologized to her, but others have suggested her lingering feelings might well influence Reagan's ultimate decision on Allen's status. White House officials have been saying they are reasonably satisfied Allen did not receive more than $1,000 from a Japanese magazine that passed the cash on to him after conducting an interview with Mrs. Reagan Jan. 21. But they acknowledged it still was not clear why the number $10,000 was written on the envelope and a piece of paper with it, as was disclosed a week ago. In addition to the question of how much money was in the envelope, White House officials said it was also urgent for Allen to give full accounting of the extent of the contacts he has had with Japanese businessmen, including automobile company executives, since taking office. Baker, Deaver and other White House aides were known to have been taken aback two weeks ago when it was first disclosed Allen had continued to hold meetings with the Japanese businessmen. Allen has said the meetings were merely "courtesy calls" extended to old friends, and that business was not discussed. === Page 20 of 64 attack "higher ups" NOVEMBER 29 1981 # Allen, Fielding jointly bought condominium By BRIAN McTIGUE and ROBERT L. JACKSON A Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, whose office has reviewed the personal finances of Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, jointly owns income-producing property with Allen in Florida, it was learned Friday. Fielding and Allen each own a 50 percent interest in a Sanibel Island condominium apartment worth more than $100,000, according to public records examined by the Los Angeles Times. The apartment produces rental income of $5,000 to $10,000 a year, other records show. Fielding, a longtime friend and former attorney for Allen, drafted a statement on Nov. 13 saying that the FBI had cleared Allen of any wrongdoing in receiving $1,000 from a Japanese news group. Later that day, after Fielding's statement had been released by the White House, Justice Department officials contradicted him, saying their inquiry was still open. White House sources said Fielding stepped out of the Allen case several days ago because of his friendship with the national security adviser, leaving the matter to deputy counsel Richard A. Hauser. Meanwhile, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi reported in its Saturday edition that Allen had been given a "big present" in addition to the $1,000 and two watches he received for helping arrange a Japanese magazine's Jan. 21 interview with Nancy Reagan. ## Present unidentified The present was not identified, and the FBI in Washington had no comment on the Mainichi report. According to the newspaper, Japanese police obtained evidence suggesting that the "big present" was given to Allen on Jan. 18 by Professor Tamotsu Takase, the husband of one of the women who interviewed Mrs. Reagan three days later. Takase is an old friend of Allen. At Santa Barbara, Calif., where the Reagans spent the Thanksgiving weekend, Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said he knew nothing about the Mainichi report. As for the Fielding-Allen property, Florida records show that the two purchased condominium apartment No. 421 on Sanibel Island near Fort Myers on Jan. 1, 1976, for a total of $42,500. They made a down payment of $16,000 and financed the balance through the Barnett Bank of Fort Myers, according to the records. The seller was listed as Viscount Jose Butelho, a businessman from the Azores Islands. Allen reportedly met Butelho in 1972, shortly after stepping down as an aide to then-President Richard M. Nixon. At the time, Allen was unsuccessfully seeking to establish an "international business district" in the Azores on behalf of financier Robert Vesco. Repeated attempts to reach Fielding Friday at his White House office were unsuccessful. An aide said Fielding's assets had been fully disclosed in the public financial statement that he and other top government officials filed earlier this year. In that statement, Fielding listed his half interest in the Sanibel Island apartment but was not required to identify his partner. He valued his interest at $50,000 to $100,000. ## Apartments owned Allen's financial statement showed he had a half interest in two apartments there and is sole owner of a third. He is also president of the owners' association at the condominium, according to his statement. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that two of Reagan's three senior advisers, along with Nancy Reagan, have counseled that Allen be removed because of the embarrassment he has caused the administration. The paper said that White House chief of staff James A. Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver are pushing forcefully for Allen's removal to limit the political damage that the series of disclosures has caused the president. Baker and Deaver are said to believe Allen made serious judgment errors in receiving the money in the White House. They are also concerned about the appearance of Allen's continued relationship with former associates and clients of the private consulting firm that he sold to former Reagan aide and speechwriter Peter D. Hannaford. Edwin Meese III is alone among Reagan's top advisers in resisting the calls for Allen's resignation. Meese's defense of Allen focuses on the lack of evidence or proof that Allen broke any laws or administration rules when he accepted the cash and, by his account, forgot to turn it over to the proper authorities. Meese, Allen's direct superior, reportedly is concerned that Allen is being denied "due process" in a legal sense; Baker, Deaver and Mrs. Reagan are said to be dwelling on the political ramifications. Several officials are known to think Allen should step aside if a special prosecutor is named, but Allen has openly rejected such a suggestion. === Page 21 of 64 Allen becomes victim of political lynch squad By WILLIAM SAFIRE - UFOs WASHINGTON - When high White House aides conspire with Justice Department political appointees to subvert and discredit the findings of professional lawmen at Justice and the FBI, that's a scandal. In the case of the national security adviser, Richard Allen, however, the purpose of the interference from on high has not been to cover up but to besmear. Two sources - one close to the president's troika, the other in the office of the attorney general - have systematically sought to indict Allen by leak and to disparage the director of the FBI for daring to conclude an investigation without delivering the desired scalp. What did Allen do? He helped arrange an interview for a Japanese magazine with Mrs. Reagan. The reporter handed him a set of clippings of previous interviews with first ladies along with a closed envelope. In the elevator on the way back to one of his offices, he opened the envelope and saw cash. Surprised, he told his secretary to turn it over to the proper authorities, attack "higher ups" - whoever they were. She counted it and stuck it in the locked file cabinet. Allen then told three other people who came into his office about what happened. Those are hardly the actions of a man on the take. Evidently, the secretary forgot about it and the money lay in the drawer. Allen never had the combination to the locked file nor the key to the office. When the office changed hands, there was the money; the FBI was promptly called in. The lawmen played it straight, checking in Japan about the amount of money and its purpose. At the conclusion of the investigation, the FBI and the middle-level professionals at the Department of Justice found not merely no crime, but not even an allegation of wrongdoing. They recommended the case be closed. Having stirred the pot in Japan with his interviews, the FBI director, William Webster, learned that the Japanese press was preparing to publish the fact of his investigation. Properly, Director Webster went to the attorney general, William French Smith, for authorization to tell Allen that there would soon be publicity about him on the other side of the world. Obviously, the FBI director would never have sought such authorization if he thought Allen had done anything illegal or unethical. Sure, said the attorney general, you tell him. When Webster called Allen to say the fact of the investigation would soon be public, Allen asked the most natural question in that situation: Did my recollection of the episode check out? The FBI director, his investigation finished, told the truth. The Japanese had corroborated Allen's statements. When Allen subsequently spoke to the White House press aides, he told them what the FBI told him. Ah, but hell hath no fury like an attorney general who thinks his base has not been touched. To the dismay of the department's professionals, William French Smith darkly let it be known that the investigation was not yet finished, contradicting the White House and scattering the seeds of suspicion throughout Washington. After the fact of the investigation became known, the attorney general - abetted by a pal in the White House who wanted to oust Allen for power-playing reasons of his own - put out word that the FBI had done a slapdash job, and that Director Webster's call to the nonsuspect was "unauthorized." That was patently untrue. Later, a member of the lynch-Allen squad atop Justice explained that while the FBI director had cleared the call itself with the attorney general beforehand, authorization was limited to notification of the news story. Presumably the AG had intended the FBI chief to slam down the phone if the national security adviser said "Everything okay?" Then came a steady stream of leaks and innuendo from Justice, White House and Tokyo: that $10,000, not $1,000, was in the envelope given Allen (not true, as the FBI report stated); that he had been given a $135 watch for his wife by a lifelong friend (true, and were it not for the initial charge, not noteworthy or against rules); and currently, that his old business ties with Japanese clients were again a source of suspicion. Allen is being left to twist slowly, slowly in the wind without a single allegation against him. As a result, a Democratic senator, Thomas Eagleton, who did not become famous as a paragon of full disclosure, has 18 senators demanding a special prosecutor, a call that Attorney General Smith's campaign to discredit the FBI has made hard to resist. Ordinarily, I'm for special prosecutors; but when one is named over the objections of the professionals down the line, and on the lack of evidence presented so far, the institution is perverted. The next step would be to urge the national security adviser to step aside while the special prosecutor is at work, and the ambushers would win. Like a celebrity famous for being famous, Allen is now suspect for having been cleared of suspicion. The symbiotic set that is out to lynch him does not comprehend the scandal in using undue influence at Justice to accomplish its political end. 11/28/81 © 1981, N.Y. Times News Service === Page 22 of 64 UFDa attack "higher ups"-- # Whodunit? No one's sure in Allen case Oreg J 11/27/81 WASHINGTON -- The case of Richard V. Allen is a mystery with more false clues than "Murder on the Orient Express." Did the national security adviser "accept" $1,000 from a party of three Japanese journalists the day after the inauguration? mary mcgrory Or was it $10,000? Was the lacquer stationery box that was presented to Mrs. Reagan worth $75 or was it worth $273? And was she interviewed for five minutes -- or was it 15 or 20? And what about the watches? Allen "accepted" a gold Seiko from his visitors before the inauguration and a silver one after. He couldn't decide between them apparently, and it's not important except that before he was sworn in, it was OK and after, it became a federal case. All the information in the case is as perishable as the Japanese cherry blossoms we so briefly enjoy in the spring. The ordinary newspaper reader has learned little about this baffling matter from the administration. Press spokesmen take pious refuge in "no comment" because the "matter is under investigation." But others in the White House, beginning with the president, act like lawyers for the defense. It is improper, they say, to vouchsafe anything but exoneration. The president told us almost immediately that "there was no evidence of wrongdoing." He was going on the word of Fred Fielding, White House counsel, another old friend of Allen's, who closed down the FBI investigation even as we were being told about it. "No law had been broken," Fielding said just hours before the FBI informed us that the probe was still in process. Edwin Meese, the biggest of the White House Big Three, stepped forward to let us know that he had been assured by the FBI that everything was hunky-dory, even though previously we had been assured that he had not been in touch with the FBI. If you are baffled by the case, not to worry. So is the FBI. The bureau has been on the job since mid-September. Some unnamed White House official has given it a poor review. "The bureau did not do a very thorough job." Did the FBI have its heart in it? The most astounding fact to come out since we first heard the confusing story of the generous Japanese -- who told us one day their gift was solicited by Allen, and the next, that they offered it -- is not in dispute. It is that FBI Director William Webster called Allen during the course of the investigation. The call, we are told by Webster's bosses in the Justice Department, was "unauthorized." They tell us further that Webster told the target of the investigation that he was off the hook: The Japanese had backed him up on the story that it was only $1,000 they left off. It was most thoughtful of Webster. But it suggests that the bureau may be slipping back to the days of L. Patrick Gray, an FBI director who during the Watergate investigation faithfully reported to his superiors in the White House. To be sure, anyone who was being followed would appreciate a soothing call from the chief of the G-Men. And that leads us to the question of why the feds can't crack the case. Have they lost the knack for the real thing, since they ran their manufactured crime wave in the Abscam case? That curious exercise was supposed to clear the good name of the Watergate taint. They were bent on proving that the legislative branch of the government has as many crooks as the executive branch. They engaged a convicted con man, Melvin Weinberg, to set up a huge and expensive plot whereby members of Congress were lured to confabulations with a fake "sheik" who would bring vast riches to their home districts and cut them in on the take. They were videotaped as they grabbed for the money. Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., was one of their targets, but was singularly uncooperative. For a solid year, he flatly refused any money. Finally, in desperation, the undercover agents hounded him into expressing an interest in a titanium mine. Like the other six members of Congress implicated in Abscam, Williams was tried and convicted. Legal authorities have expressed concern about "entrapment," about the propriety of inventing crimes when so many exist. Williams is now facing expulsion from the Senate. At no time has he received a sympathy call from the director of the FBI. Why is Allen so different? Did the Meese query convey to Webster the feeling that the president would appreciate a lack of zeal? We have no way of knowing. The director is a former federal judge, and he knows the rules about communing with the subject of an investigation. Webster is on the spot now. He must explain to us why he felt obliged to give Allen a ring. But he can't be expected to enlighten us as to why the president's men have been so solicitous about Allen, so cavalier about the "hound's tooth" standard for White House ethics. Is he invaluable to the president in the White House? Or is it too dangerous to fire him? Someone else will have to answer those questions for us. UFDa attack "higher ups"-- # Allen only 'intercepted,' sources claim WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Richard Allen didn't know what was in the envelope he accepted on behalf of Nancy Reagan and didn't have the key to the room or the combination of the safe where the packet containing $1,000 was kept, White House sources say. The money was intended for the first lady for an interview she gave a Japanese magazine. White House sources said Friday Allen "didn't have a key to the room" in the Executive Office Building and "didn't have a combination to the safe" where the cash was found. They said Allen also had no knowledge of a receipt reportedly found in the safe. Allen, the sources said, only "intercepted" the envelope of cash that the Japanese journalists intended to hand to the first lady. He was "really in the line of fire" and did not know what was in the envelope. The Washington Post reported meantime, that two of President Reagan's three senior aides have counseled that Allen should be removed from his job. The Post quoted sources as saying White House chief of staff James Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver are pushing for Allen's removal due to the damage the series of disclosures has done the president. The newspaper also reported the first lady favors Allen's removal, but the third senior aide, Edwin Meese, is backing the national security adviser. Both presidential counselor Meese and deputy press secretary Larry Speakes Friday denied a report by the Wall Street Journal that the White House has begun looking for a replacement for Allen. "We're just waiting for the results of the Justice Department review," Meese told UPI. "I will also deny it," Speakes told reporters in California, where President Reagan is spending the holiday. oreg J 11/28/81 === Page 23 of 64 Allen amends date of business sale By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen formally amended his government financial disclosure statement Wednesday, saying he sold his consulting firm in 1981, instead of 1978 as he had reported earlier this year. Meanwhile, an administration source said Allen would take a leave of absence if Attorney General William French Smith appoints a special prosecutor to investigate Allen's receipt of $1,000 from two Japanese journalists who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. The source asked not to be named. Richard A. Hauser, deputy counsel to the president, said he reviewed details of Allen's sale of Potomac International Corp. to the Hannaford Corp. after questions were raised about the date. "There's no question that the business was sold in 1981," Hauser said. "Allen was the only owner (at the time). It was a straightforward sale." However, Hauser refused to release a copy of the sale agreement, saying only that Allen would list income from the sale in his next financial disclosure statement to be filed by May 15, 1982. In his initial disclosure report, filed in February, Allen listed no interest in Potomac International at the end of 1980 and no income from its sale. He also stated that he had stopped being president of the firm in January 1978, adding the notation "sold business." In the revised disclosure statement, Allen shows a $100,000 to $250,000 interest in Potomac International at the end of 1980. And he says he stepped down as president and sold the firm in January 1981. Hauser said income from the sale was not listed on the earlier statement because the first payment was not made until later. He said the balance of the sale price was "deferred and (is) payable over a period of years." Although the Hannaford Corp. currently is a registered foreign agent for the Taiwanese government and for a conservative business group in Guatemala, Hauser said its ongoing payments to Allen do not "create a conflict of interest" because the amounts of the deferred payments are fixed. In Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said he did not know if Allen would resign or step aside if a special prosecutor were named. However, he added, "I think we would certainly have under consideration what we would do in the case of a special prosecutor being named, but I don't think we're ready to make a statement on it." But there were indications last week that Justice Department attorneys were leaning against making a recommendation for a special prosecutor. Allen said he intercepted the money meant as a honorarium for Mrs. Reagan, put it in a safe with the intention of turning it over to the U.S. Treasury, and forgot about it for eight months until it was discovered by someone else. The FBI is conducting a preliminary investigation of the receipt of the money, and under the terms of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, Smith has until mid-December to decide whether the issue warrants additional review by an independent prosecutor. In another development, Allen's secretary, Irene Derus, told ABC News that she put the money in a safe for Allen and that it "was always absolutely clear that that money was to be turned over to the proper authorities for proper disposition." She said the money was forgotten in the "very hectic times" immediately after Reagan's inauguration. In Tokyo, one of the Japanese journalists who interviewed Mrs. Reagan said Allen promised her that the $1,000 honorarium would go to charity and that he would send a receipt, which was never provided. In the latest issue of the Japanese weekly Shukan Asahi, journalist Fuyuko Kamisaka also said the amount of the honorarium was $1,000, not $10,000 as has been suggested in some published reports. Meanwhile, administration sources said Attorney General Smith approved a call from FBI Director William H. Webster forewarning Allen of the news story that brought the case to public attention. Smith acted out of courtesy, the sources said, because the special prosecutor law provides that preliminary investigations not be made public until completed. But the sources said Smith, aware that the story would be printed, approved Webster's suggestion that Allen be alerted. The Allen inquiry began in mid-September but was not made public until a Tokyo newspaper reported Nov. 13 that a high-level White House official, later identified as Allen, was being investigated on bribery charges. Allen also made several other amendments to his disclosure statement Wednesday, including listing among his liabilities a 1978 mortgage loan of between $15,000 and $50,000 and fixing the date for his government appointment from 1980 to 1981. === Page 24 of 64 UFO, attack " higher where Allen 'to resign' if prosecutor appointed® By ROBERT L. JACKSON and RONALD J. OSTROW 1 25/8, LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Richard V. Allen. President Reagan's national security adviser, probably will resign if a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate This conduct, a high administration offi- cial said Tuesday. The official's statement came as Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-III., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 18 Democratic senators put pres- sure on the administration to name an outside prosecutor in the Allen case. Percy told reporters at a breakfast meeting that unless the administration names a special prosecutor. it will invite charges of a cover-up. Percy's state- ment had special significance because as chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee he has direct and frequent con- tact with Allen The high administration official, who declined use of his name, said that if an outside prosecutor is appointed "the chances are very, very good that Allen will step down." He said the White House "knows it has a very seri- ous problem in terms of political dam- age . Percy, when asked at the breakfast session if a special prosecutor would be appointed, replied: "It's moving in that direction." Already, as a result of an EBL investigation. Allen is facing a credibili- ty problem with Congress, Percy said. An independent prosecutor may be necessary to clear up unanswered ques- tions in the case, he said. The Department of Justice is con- ducting a preliminary inquiry into All . en's receipt of $1,000 and two Japanese- made watches in January from a Japa- nese news group that interviewed Nan- cy Reagan with Allen's help. Allen has denied any unethical conduct. The 18 Democratic senators wrote Attorney General William French Smith that he should have sought a special prosecutor "days ago" in the politically touchy case .. In a letter made public by Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., the Demo- crats charged that the department was conducting more than a preliminary in- vestigation as called for by the Ethics in Government Act. Noting that Allen is "a longtime as- sociate and close confidant' Cof Presi- dent Reagan, the Democrats said the Department of Justice "cannot credibly investigate high-ranking officials of the administration of which it is a part." In calling for immediate appoint- ment of a special prosecutor, the sena- tors said: "The public has witnessed a familiar, depressing pattern of events. Initial surfacing of a possibly serious allegation, hurried press conferences and unconvincing explanations from the White House and the Justice Depart- ment, contradictions between key prin- cipais, retractions and clarifications of The explanations, the surfacing of new and damaging allegations and new re- ports of possible improper contacts be tween the White House and the FBI and the Justice Department." In a related development, Depart; ment of Justice sources said Smith knew in advance that FBI director Wil- "Tiam H. Webster was going to telephone "Allen Nov. 13, the day the Allen gift "Case broke in the Japanese press. Subor- dinates in the department have ques- tioned the propriety of Webster's con- versation with the subject of an official Inquiry .. However, Smith and Webster met for two hours Tuesday, and sources lat- er said that Smith had not known Web- ster would pass on to Allen a key find- ing of the FBI's investigation when he called him. The finding was that Allen had been handed $1,000 in an envelope, and not $10,000 as a notation on the envelope and another paper in Allen's safe indicated. UFO, attacks "higherups By HENRY SCOTT STOKES New York Times News Service TOKYO - A Japanese journalist says Richard V. Allen was told that he was receiving money when he was handed an envelope at the White House after an interview with Nancy Reagan last Jan. 21. Fuyuko Kamisaka, one of those who interviewed Mrs. Reagan, said in an article in the Dec. 4 issue of the Shukan Asahi magazine that she asked Allen for a receipt for the money when it was given to him .. Her account is at variance with a statement Monday by John F. Lehman Jr., the secretary of the Navy, that Allen had expressed "chagrin and amaze- ment" to Lehman after he realized that the envelope contained cash. Lehman said Allen had told him that he intended to turn the money over to the govern- ment. Miss Kamisaka and the two other women, including Chizuko Takase, who acted as an interpreter, were escorted to the interview by Allen, President Rea- gan's national security adviser. "Just after the interview, Mrs. Ta- kase handed Allen the brown-colored envelope with 10 $100 bills," Miss Ka- misaka wrote. "Allen told us that be- cause he had become a presidential aide he could not receive a donation for the interview, so he would give it to char- Ity. "He said that he would send the re- cejpt later." Miss Kamisaka said. "We still have no receipt." Attempts to reach Miss Kamisaka by telephone for comment on the differ- ence between her recollection of the incident and Lehman's were unsuccess- ful. In another apparent contradiction to. Allen's account, Miss Kamisaka said in her article that Mrs. Takase, the wife of Tamotsu Takase, an old friend and asso- ciate of Allen, arranged the interview for the magazine Shufu-no-Tomo The magazine "organized the inter- view project through Mrs. Takase and Mr. Allen," according to Miss Kamisa- ka. Allen has said that he received a/ first request for the interview and passed it to others for "evaluation." Org 11/25/8, === Page 25 of 64 Allen says 2 watches were personal gifts for his wife. By MICHAEL PUTZEL WASHINGTON (AP) -- National security adviser Richard V. Allen acknowledged Saturday that he had received two watches from a Japanese journalist, but he called them "a personal gift for my wife from a friend of many years' standing." There were also reports that investigators are trying to determine if Allen received $10,000, not $1,000, for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. Journalist Fuyuko Kamisaka, who has said she gave Allen $1,000 intended for Mrs. Reagan to give to charity, told The Associated Press that one of the watches was given Jan. 16, before President Reagan's inauguration, and the other Jan. 22, two days afterward. Allen, in his latest written response to questions presented by the White House press office, said both watches "were received prior to Jan. 20, 1981," when Reagan was inaugurated and Allen became national security adviser. White House officials generally are prohibited from accepting gifts from anyone the staff member "knows or has reason to believe ... has any interest which may be substantially affected by the staff member's performance of his job." Meanwhile, it was learned that a Japanese newspaper has reported that the FBI has asked Tokyo police to try to determine if the amount of money given Allen was $10,000, not $1,000. The money was apparently left in Allen's safe until it was found and reported in September. Tokyo police refused comment on the report by Mainichi Shimbun. It was learned Saturday that Justice Department officials believe the possibility that the case involves $10,000, rather than $1,000, is likely to be a dead end. But they were not certain of that. The New York Times quoted an unidentified administration official as saying the investigation is trying to determine if Allen received $10,000 or $1,000. The official said the sum $10,000 was written on both the envelope the money was in and "some kind of receipt" found in the safe, the newspaper said in its Sunday editions. Allen called the watches a gift from a friend, which is permitted for White House officials "when the circumstances make it clear that the family or personal relationship involved is the motivating factor." Any such gift worth more than $35 "received from any source other than a relative" must be reported on a staff member's annual public disclosure report. The watches were valued at about $165 each. Allen cited the regulation on gifts for which personal relationship is the motivating factor, but stressed his contention that the watches were given before he took office. The contradictions in the accounts by the journalist, who was grateful to Allen for arranging a Jan. 21 interview with the first lady, and by Allen were the latest in a series of discrepancies that raise new questions about the credibility of one of Reagan's key aides. Here, briefly, are the others: -- Miss Kamisaka has been quoted by two major Tokyo newspapers as saying she reminded Allen several times that she needed a receipt for the $1,000 she gave him for helping arrange her interview with Nancy Reagan. Allen repeatedly promised to mail her a receipt but it never arrived, said Miss Kamisaka, who wrote the story about Mrs. Reagan for a Japanese magazine. Allen has said he took the honorarium to spare Mrs. Reagan embarrassment and put it in his office safe, where he forgot about it until the cash was discovered by someone else eight months later. -- Asked whether a Japanese journalist had ever given him an honorarium, as opposed to his intercepting one meant for someone else, Allen replied during a Nov. 13 question-and-answer session: "I don't believe I ever did accept an honorarium from a journalist for an interview, no." Asked whether he had received one, since he maintained he received, but did not accept, the $1,000, Allen replied, "I can't recall ever having done so, no." Saturday, however, Miss Kamisaka told The Associated Press and the Tokyo newspapers that she had given Allen a Seiko quartz watch and that she believed one of the women accompanying her gave him another one in gratitude for his getting them in to see Mrs. Reagan. In a written statement Nov. 14, Allen he had never asked for nor expected to receive an honorarium for helping with the interview, "nor was such a matter ever raised with me by anyone at any time." Based on his statement Saturday, it appears that Allen treated both watches as personal gifts for his wife from Chizuko Takase, the wife of a longtime business associate who helped arrange the interview, although he does not name her. "Two ladies' watches were given and accepted as a personal gift for my wife from a friend of many years' standing, as was the case with other gifts exchanged between our families over a period of some 15 years," Allen said. -- Allen has said he received the interview request from Mrs. Takase and simply passed it on to others "for evaluation, handling and decision." He said he did not arrange it. Miss Kamisaka has said that she and an editor of the magazine flew to Washington Jan. 15, accompanied by Mrs. Takase. Initial efforts to reach Allen, even by telephone, were unsuccessful, she said. Then Mrs. Takase took one of the watches to Allen's private office, and the trio began making progress, Miss Kamisaka said. The watch was intended for Mrs. Allen, she said. === Page 26 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - $1,000 explanation questionable The probable reason no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming about the $1,000 National Security Adviser Richard Allen stashed away in a safe is that there could not possibly be one. A cool thousand in cash is not the simple gratuity Allen tries to depict it as being, given him for helping to arrange an interview with Nancy Reagan for a Japanese magazine. The First Lady should either grant interviews or not as she wishes and as she interprets her role. No amount of money should be a consideration. But even more to the point, public officials should not be accepting - or receiving (a distinction Allen finds significant) - any amount of money for helping to line up an interview. Or persuading the First Lady to submit to an interview, if that is the case. If they didn't have the basic integrity in the first place, one would think that persons placed in high office would have learned from recent experience that it is as dangerous as it is wrong to use those offices for personal gain, be it power or money. The Nixon administration's downfall should still be sharp enough in everyone's memory as an example of what happens when abuses and cover-ups occur. The Carter administration saw the president's close personal friend forced out of the Office of Management and Budget because of financial questions. The late President Eisenhower, despite his personal pleas, could not keep the chief of staff he said he needed, Sherman Adams, because of the gift of a coat. It is a bit much to expect us to believe that a person in Allen's position would take a gift of $1,000, put it in a safe and forget it. Furthermore, his story about a standard gratuity in keeping with Japanese tradition is not standing up in Japanese journalism. The Justice Department is still investigating, and the president says he has known about the money for a couple of months. And that begs the question: If the president had known for a couple of months that a man he recruited for an office of high public trust had taken $1,000 to set up an interview with the president's wife, why is Richard Allen still national security adviser? UFOs attack "higher ups" Further gifts to aide told By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is asking more questions about White House national security adviser Richard V. Allen amidst new reports from Japan that he received additional gifts from Japanese journalists. Two major newspapers in Tokyo said Saturday that Allen accepted two watches from the writers who interviewed Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. The Mainichi Shimbun quoted Fuyuko Kamisaka, author of the article growing out of the interview, and Chizuko Takase, a longtime friend of Allen who served as interpreter, as saying they gave Allen a gold-colored and a silver-colored quartz watch. They said they bought the watches in an airport duty-free shop for about $130 each. Another newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, had a similar account. The White House said it would have no immediate comment on the latest reports from Tokyo. Federal officials are prohibited by law from accepting gifts valued at more than $100. Justice Department officials doubt the answers to the FBI's questions will alter their belief that Allen committed no crime in receiving $1,000 from writers who interviewed Nancy Reagan Jan. 21, it was learned Friday. Two congressional sources, who asked not to be identified, said meanwhile that Allen has been too preoccupied by the affair to finish on schedule this week a presidential executive order governing intelligence agencies. But a White House official, also requesting anonymity, declared, "That's simply not true," adding that there was no firm deadline for writing the new guidelines. Allen has been actively involved in that effort, he said. Justice officials have said they hope to end the probe quickly, but that is unlikely to happen before Attorney General William French Smith returns from California Monday. Smith will make the final decision on whether a special prosecutor is needed to pursue the investigation. Department sources have said that lawyers handling the case believe Allen committed no crime when he took the cash, put it in his safe and forgot about it for eight months. The sources said, however, that the attorneys, in an effort to cover every aspect, asked the FBI to pursue additional questions after the bureau submitted its initial report. It was learned that the FBI has not finished checking out all those questions. It could not be learned what the questions were. === Page 27 of 64 # Justice officials check into allegation security adviser accepted bribe WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating an allegation national security adviser Richard Allen accepted a $1,000 bribe from a Japanese journalist for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. Allen said he had done nothing wrong, and President Reagan told reporters he knew of no evidence of wrongdoing. The White House acted quickly to put an end to the controversy by immediately denying that the $1,000 cash payment, first disclosed in the Japanese press, was a bribe. "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing," Reagan told reporters as he departed the White House for a trip to Texas. Asked if he was satisfied with Allen, Reagan said, "On the basis of all that I know -- on the basis of what I know, yes." Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters an FBI investigation had determined no laws or regulations had been broken. He described the situation as an episode motivated by courtesy and prolonged by forgetfulness. But Justice Department spokesman Tom DeCair later said, "The allegation regarding Mr. Allen is still under investigation. We cannot and will not have any further comment at this time." THE WHITE HOUSE then issued a clarifying statement that Fred Fielding, counsel to the president, had indicated to Speakes the matter was closed without checking with the FBI or the Justice Department. "The FBI has submitted a report to the Justice Department," the statement said. RICHARD ALLEN A case of oversight "The Justice Department has the matter under review ... (and) has not completed its inquiry into this matter." An unidentified editor of the Japanese magazine Shufunotomo (Housewife's Friend) sent Allen $1,000 in cash on Jan. 21 -- the day after President Reagan's inauguration -- as an "honorarium" for setting up an interview with Mrs. Reagan, Speakes said. "Knowing this to be customary in Japan and not wishing to embarrass the Japanese journalist, Mr. Allen gave it to a secretary for safekeeping until he could ascertain the proper procedure for turning it over to the government," Speakes said. In Tokyo, however, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun quoted the journalist -- who insisted on anonymity -- as saying he paid a bribe to an American official he believed to be an aide to the first lady in return for an interview. The editor was quoted as saying the interview was arranged after the magazine agreed to make a "donation to charity." He said he gave an envelope containing cash to the American official and heard no more of the affair. JAPANESE journalists said the giving of "Shieh Lei," an honorarium, is indeed a longtime tradition in Japan but it is nearly always asked for -- not offered. Please see ALLEN, A12 Continued from A1 After accepting the money on Mrs. Reagan's behalf, Speakes said, Allen put it in an envelope, which Allen's secretary then placed in a safe in his office in the old Executive Office Building. When Allen moved into offices in the White House, "the envelope was forgotten by both and remained in the ... safe until it was discovered in mid-September when the safe was opened and moved to another office," Speakes said. Allen, who held his own briefing with reporters, concurred with Speakes' account. Asked why he didn't return the money in September, Allen said, "It would have caused embarrassment to the journalist." The money will be turned over now to the U.S. Treasury, Allen said. Speakes said Mrs. Reagan was unaware of the transaction until Friday. Allen told reporters it was an "innocent" incident and "the intent was always to comply" with regulations. However, he admitted "the prompt submission of the money ... would have been appropriate." He denied the money represented a bribe and quarreled with the terminology he "accepted" it. "I didn't accept it, I received it!" he sharply told reporters. "FRONT TO BACK, it is exactly as the facts were stated," Allen said. White House communications director David Gergen said of Allen: "He did not accept the money -- not in a formal, legal sense. There is a legal, technical difference. "The White House is not attempting to pass judgment. We all know Dick Allen feels he wishes he hadn't taken it," Gergen said. The first indications of the Allen disclosures came early Friday in reports by the Mainichi newspaper and the Kyodo news agency that Japanese police had concluded a secret probe requested by the U.S. government into charges an unnamed Reagan aide had accepted bribes in Japan. Kyodo said the findings of the investigation, which concluded Thursday, were passed on to U.S. officials. It quoted one high official in the national police as saying "it is unlikely the case will develop further in Japan." Kyodo described the official under investigation as a key member of the administration -- one who visited Japan before, met with its prime ministers and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Japan. But it did not name him. Allen last year left Reagan's campaign as a foreign policy adviser in the midst of conflict-of-interest allegations that he had business dealings with the Japanese while serving in a government trade post in the 1970s. A CHECK OF government records later showed he was a private citizen at the time of the dealings, and Allen rejoined the Reagan team after the election === Page 28 of 64 Allen admits taking money from reporters By ANN DEVROY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON - White House National Security Adviser Richard Allen confirmed Friday that he accepted $1,000 from Japanese journalists last January, but he said he acted in all innocence, putting the money in a safe and then forgetting about it. White House officials, already buffeted by a controversy this week over remarks by Budget Director David Stockman, first asserted that Allen had been absolved of any wrongdoing in the incident, but late Friday the Justice Department said the matter is still under investigation. Stockman criticized, Page 7A Two reporters for a Japanese magazine gave Allen the money, according to White House spokesman Larry Speakes, after they were granted a five-minute interview with Nancy Reagan the day after President Reagan was inaugurated. The White House and Allen said the $1,000 was a "customary" gratuity that journalists frequently pay subjects of interviews in Japan. Mrs. Reagan, not Allen, was the intended recipient, the White House indicated, but added that she was unaware of it until Friday. Allen said he accepted the envelope containing the money because he did not want to embarrass the journalists or Mrs. Reagan. President Reagan, leaving the White House for a trip to Texas Friday, told reporters, "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing." Asked if he is satisfied with Allen, he said, "On the basis of what I know, yes." The $1,000 will be turned over to the general treasury. Japanese journalists disagreed Friday over just how customary it is in Japan to give gratuities in exchange for interviews. "In Japan, we never do that," said Yichiro Hayashi, bureau chief for Kyodo, Japan's largest wire service. "But I've heard that sometimes you do it in foreign countries. I've been told that sometimes high officials or former officials would not meet foreign journalists without getting money." But Yasuo Suzuki, Washington correspondent for the Japanese national newspaper Yomiuri, disagreed. "It is a fairly common practice to give an honorarium or token to a person who gives an interview, but you would never give it directly to the government officials," he said. "You would talk to a repre- (See ALLEN, Page 5A) Idaho Statesman 11/14/81 === Page 29 of 64 Reagan's unraveling looks too familiar By MATT SEIDEN BALTIMORE -- In Washington, these days, the talk is of "unraveling." That's the word they're using to describe some of the troubles the president is having with his Cabinet. It is also applied to some of his policies, particularly his economic policy which has, so far, stubbornly refused to work, and his foreign policy, or lack thereof, which -- in either case -- seems to be a matter of some dispute within the administration. The secretary of state says someone in the Cabinet is conducting a "guerrilla war" against him; the president's national security adviser, who is the chief suspect in that campaign, is then caught with an embarrassing $1,000 "gift" in his safe; and, in the same week, the budget director is quoted in a national magazine expressing serious doubts about supply-side theory, which is the very foundation of the president's economic package. Watching the so-called unraveling from the other end of the Baltimore-Washington parkway, you can get a terrible sense of deja vu these days. It doesn't seem to matter much any more who is president, or what he tries or doesn't try to do. He arrives in Washington with a "mandate" based on the slimmest of margins after an election in which half the people don't bother to vote; he gets a few bills passed (in this respect Reagan did better than his recent predecessors), but pretty soon Congress rebels, his Cabinet is torn by scandal and dissension, he begins to fall in the popularity polls, and quickly grows testy, then bitter, then shows signs of (understandable) paranoia, as the whole world, and the press especially, seems to be ganging up on him. We create our idols, and then destroy them, it seems, with such stunning speed and predictability that no one in his right mind would run for president any more if it weren't for the extraordinary perks that go with the job of being former president. That's the cushiest job in the world. But first you have to survive the presidency without being assassinated, impeached, discredited or humiliated. Someone should make a board game of this. The press plays more than a minor role in the process, so it's not hard to understand why many politicians, and presidents in particular, grow to resent and even despise the media. If it weren't for the media's constant presence and scrutiny, who would know -- or, for that matter, care -- about a feud between the secretary of state and the president's national security adviser? So it is with some reluctance that I add to the general clamor out of Washington. I do so because I think it is worth noting, from time to time, that the world looks a little different out in the provinces, and sometimes, from this end of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, it's a little hard to figure out just what all the fuss is about down there. Down there, they were all in a flurry over the publication of the Atlantic magazine article that chronicles the young budget director's growing rift with the more devout supply-siders within the administration. The supply-siders, of course, are the ones who convinced the president you can cut taxes and increase (military) spending, without increasing the budget deficit or further fueling inflation. The evidence, so far, suggests that they were wrong, as any grade-school piggy-bank owner could have predicted, and that may prove to be the president's genuine unraveling. That concern is, more or less, what David Stockman expressed in the Atlantic article, which, by the way, was probably the most sympathetic profile yet written on the dreaded budget slasher. The country should probably have thanked the administration's whiz kid for his candor. After all, if supply-side magic is not working, someone has to tell the emperor the sad truth about his new clothes. But Washington, generally, seemed content to ignore the substance of Stockman's comments and concentrate instead on the article's political reverberations. Stockman's doubts were treated not as the serious warning they are, but as major indiscretions, evidence of poor judgment, acts of heresy and lack of faith in our new national economic religion. In Washington, apparently, you are either 100 percent for the new supply-side orthodoxy, or you are against it. Doubt is a sin which the president agreed to pardon only after the budget director publicly confessed and begged forgiveness. Humbled and repentant, Stockman said his unhappy visit to the Oval Office was like a child's trip "to the woodshed." Burning at the stake would have been a more appropriate metaphor; the reaction to skeptics seems almost medieval in its lack of tolerance. The press, generally, joined in the attack on Stockman, playing up the budget director's apparent lack of candor during budget hearings in which he publicly defended the president's program despite his private doubts. The press also emphasized quotes like the now-famous Trojan horse reference in which Stockman seemed to be saying that supply-side tax theory was a devious way of getting the broad masses to accept huge tax cuts for the rich. If you read only those quotes, Stockman came off sounding like a Shakespearean villain. If you read the whole article, you couldn't help sympathizing with the guy, and liking him, at least a little. Finally, if I can add my 2 cents to the furor over the $1,000 a Japanese magazine is said to have paid Richard Allen for an interview with Nancy Reagan: It has been said in the security adviser's defense that Japanese custom required such a "gift," and that it would therefore have been a breach of international etiquette to turn it down. During four years as an American correspondent in Tokyo, I interviewed the usual share of government officials, Cabinet ministers and members of the emperor's family without ever paying for an interview. I was only asked to pay for an interview once, and that was by a self-made millionaire who said he wanted $100 to tell the secret of his success. I refused to pay. (He had already demonstrated the secret of his success.) Richard Allen could just as easily have refused to accept. Does all this add up to an unraveling in the White House? Probably not. But from this perspective on the Baltimore-Washington corridor, you can get the creepy feeling that this is where you came in. Matt Seiden is a columnist for The Baltimore Sun. © 1981, Baltimore Sun === Page 30 of 64 - NFOs was against U.S. Govt - # Stockman's clout gone By HOBART ROWEN Org 11/19/81 WASHINGTON - President Reagan may have played the role of "Mr. Nice Guy" when he didn't fire David Stockman outright, after taking him "to the woodshed" last week. But the way some of Stockman's colleagues are playing hardball, a rational guess is that the budget director's days are numbered. One high official in a position to know tells this reporter that the criticisms of Reaganomics Stockman made in his now famous Atlantic Monthly interview "may not tally exactly with what he was saying inside (the administration)." ROWEN The hint that Stockman was telling writer William Greider one thing and saying something different in private White House councils would suggest an even greater degree of duplicity and cynicism on Stockman's part than anyone has suggested heretofore. Whether or not this slam at Stockman is correct is something I can't verify at the moment. But the fact that the comment was made to me, with the knowledge that it would find its way into this column, is evidence that the skids are being greased for Stockman. Another sign that the administration fears Stockman's credibility has all but vanished is a decision to downgrade his public role, despite the "second chance" Stockman said Reagan was giving him. His name is mud on Capitol Hill - especially among Republicans - not so much because he told Greider he was selling a program he didn't believe in, but because he admitted in print that he cut deals on appropriations bills that he never intended to keep. The real "second chance" goes to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, originally slated to be the president's chief economic spokesman. But Regan let the role slip from his hands when Stockman's brilliant handling of Reagan's budget cuts propelled the young Washington-wise former congressman into prominence. Now, Stockman not only loses the lead position, but any place on the legislative sales team. What once had been a highly visible and effective three-man show - Stockman, Regan, and Economic Council Chairman Murray Weidenbaum (and in about that order) - has been reduced to Regan and Weidenbaum by an unannounced presidential decision, leaving Stockman to deal only with technical questions strictly related to the budget, and not to policy. The bitterness among Reaganites is hardly surprising. Stockman's brutally frank statement in the interview - whatever he said privately in Cabinet and other meetings - that the administration was selling a budget and tax program it knew would not work, could not have hit the president at a worse time. It comes smack in the middle of a recession for which the administration itself is largely to blame. Ultimately, the administration will be forced to change its economic policy to avert - as Fed Chairman Paul Volcker puts it - big budget deficits in good business years. Publication of Stockman's indiscreet but accurate analysis underscores the cumulating feeling in Washington and in other world capitals that disarray has taken over the Reagan administration. In recent weeks it has suffered one embarrassment after another. The president's fumble-stumble responses at his infrequent press conferences erode confidence in his ability to deal with complicated domestic and foreign affairs. At last week's press conference, he was forced to admit that the nation is in the throes of a recession that "none of us" foresaw. And, over the weekend, Weidenbaum, after weeks of talking around the issue, finally told a television audience that the recession might result in an unemployment rate as high as 9 percent. But Weidenbaum blamed the economic malaise on the pent-up inflation inherited from earlier administrations. Who and what are really to blame for the present economic slide? Weidenbaum can try, but he can't lay it all on the past. More accurately, economist Walter W. Heller labels it a "Reagan-Volcker-Carter" recession. Heller told me that recession now is entirely due "to the monetarist suppression of the economy," for which Reagan and Volcker are at least "75 percent to blame." (Carter gets tagged for partial responsibility by Heller because the objectionable monetarist policy "was set on course by him.") But the harsh Federal Reserve monetarist policy of the past several months, one should remember, was necessitated by the loose Reagan supply-side fiscal policy. Had there been a better mix, something less than the "trickle-down" tax give-away cited by Stockman, there could have been a less onerous monetary policy. We would not now be in recession. What the supply-siders thought at the start, the Stockman article reminds us, was that by this time we would be in a boom. That's why Stockman's admissions in the magazine article are so damaging to President Reagan. Reagan fell into the trap of believing that merely by announcing the big tax cut, production and jobs would expand. That, Stockman said in the article, "I've never believed," although he willingly went to Capitol Hill and pretended that he did. The fact that a recession is here - and will get worse before things get better - combined with Stockman's willingness to let it all hang out, have shattered the supply-side myth. Doubt is replacing faith among Capitol Hill Republicans. Thus, Reagan faces a monumental task in regaining the credibility that served him so well earlier in the year. Hobart Rowen is economics correspondent for The Washington Post. © 1981, The Washington Post === Page 31 of 64 W.D. & Projects # Follies overshadow Reagan reappraisals By JAMES RESTON WASHINGTON - Judging by the noise around here, you would think the big question about the Reagan administration these days was not whether it had a nuclear policy, but whether it had a magazine policy. David Stockman, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, was condemned for his loose handling of words in the Atlantic Monthly, and Richard Allen was condemned for his loose handling of money, "given" or "received" by him from the Japanese magazine, Shufunotomo, as sort of a finder's fee, for an interview with the president's wife. This is what has recently dominated the news. In both cases, these incidents were damaging to the president, because Allen gave the impression that he wasn't quite telling the truth about Nancy Reagan's interview, while Stockman gave the impression that he was telling the truth about his criticism of Reagan's budget. And of the two, telling the truth about what's going on around here is usually more dangerous to the president than misplacing what happened to a mere thousand dollars. Nothing fascinates this town more than these personal slips and tangles. They are revealing in some ways, and provide arguments for the opposition in the coming election year, but they also divert attention from the major questions of public policy. For example, an important event took place here during the uproar over Stockman and Allen that was largely ignored. The president finally presided over a meeting of his National Security Council Thursday morning to discuss and sign the U.S. negotiating position with the Soviet Union on the control of nuclear weapons. This is obviously the central question of world politics, because the burden of the arms race, now costing the nations over $800 billion a year, is aggravating the economy of all nations. So the main news here is not really Stockman and Allen, but that this administration is finally and reluctantly going through a major reappraisal of both its economic and foreign policies. On domestic policy, Stockman has challenged the assumptions of the economic supply-siders, and on foreign policy, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig has very carefully begun to challenge the assumptions of Reagan's military hard-liners and cold warriors. Haig said some interesting things in his testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee the other day. He spoke after talking in New York to Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, for nine hours. And for the first time, he seemed to strike a balance between his emphasis on military arms and his desire for peace. "The United States wants a constructive relationship with the Soviet Union," he said. "Such a relationship must be based on a secure military balance, respect for the independence of others, restraint in the use of force, and reciprocity in the making and fulfilling of agreements." He added: "The Soviets have deployed over 750 warheads on their SS-20s threatening Europe, while NATO has not yet deployed one of its planned 572 missiles. Despite this revealing fact, well-meaning people want to know whether we are serious about negotiating limitations on theater nuclear forces. The answer is clear. Of course we are. We want a balanced agreement, one that would establish equal, global and verifiable limits, at the lowest possible level, ideally zero." This was the theme of the secretary of state's argument for Washington's negotiating position with the Soviets on the control of theater and strategic weapons, now to begin soon. He was very tough about "restraint and reciprocity," but at the same time, he came out strong for serious negotiation to reduce the present tensions, particularly since his previous hard line had proved to be totally unacceptable to the European allies. It is here that the president will clearly have to intervene between the conflicting views and personalities within his Cabinet, and not just say, as he did with Stockman and Allen, that they should "shut up" and try to stop fussing with one another in public. For as Douglas L. Hallett, a Los Angeles attorney and former Nixon White House aide, said the other day in The Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Reagan has yet to choose decisively between the supply-siders he sent to the Treasury and the budget-balancers he sent to the Office of Management and Budget; between the establishment internationalists whom Secretary of State Alexander Haig brought from the Nixon, Ford and the Carter foreign policy apparati and the hard-liners Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger took from the Henry Jackson wing of the Democratic Party..." What is forcing a reappraisal by the president is not only the doubts of Stockman on domestic policy or the doubts of his allies on nuclear strategic policy and Middle Eastern policy, but the demonstrations against his casual rhetoric and nuclear policy now developing in Europe and spreading through the campuses and churches of the United States. He is saying on social policy at home and nuclear policy abroad the most hard-hearted things in the most light-hearted way, and this paradox of his personal popularity and doubt about his policies, is beginning to catch up with him. The main news now is that the mood in Washington is switching. Stockman and Haig by their remarks, and the allies by their lack of confidence in Reagan's economic, nuclear and Middle East policies, are forcing Reagan's principal aides, if not Reagan himself, to recognize the rising revolt against his amiable drift. === Page 32 of 64 Stockman's future on Reagan's team looks dim, admits key GOP leader WASHINGTON (UPI) -- David Stockman remained on the job Friday, nose-deep in a budget review, but a key Republican leader acknowledged that despite the budget director's abject apology his days with on the Reagan team may be numbered. The future of the "damaged" 35-year-old economic whiz was a hot topic on Capitol Hill where Democrats said Stockman had lost his credibility for his remarks in a magazine interview that characterized President Reagan's tax cuts as a "Trojan Horse" designed to help the rich. "Oh sure," said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Edwin Dale when asked if Stockman came to work Friday. "He's been at work all day," spending part of the time on a "line-by-line "director's review of the entire budget" to be submitted to Congress in January. Asked about the mood of Stockman's staff, Dale said, "No comment." White House communications director David Gergen denied Stockman still had an ax hanging over his neck. "No one is on probation around here," Gergen told reporters Friday. "You either work full time or you're out. "The fact that the president is keeping him speaks for itself," Gergen added. "He does intend to keep him ... We hope any damage will not be long-lasting. STOCKMAN, described by acquaintances as a bright and sometimes arrogant economic planner, appeared humble, his voice quavering with emotion, at a packed news conference Thursday, revealing he had offered his resignation for his "poor judgment and loose talk" but that Reagan -- although angry -- decided to give him a "second chance." One White House aide said "I've never seen the president more angry" than after Reagan read the article written for The Atlantic by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. The aide said Stockman was "pretty shaky" after the meeting with Reagan, and the budget director described the Oval Office session as "more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed." Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee acknowledged Friday Stockman may prove too much of a liability to stay in Reagan's inner circle. Asked by a reporter whether Stockman eventually "will have to go," Baker said: "It may turn out that way ..." but "I hope it doesn't." "He damaged himself, and he damaged the president," Baker said. "I think he knows that." "I hope he can repair it, but it's going to be tough," said Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., "If he can't repair it, he should submit his resignation again." A SOURCE close to the Senate GOP leadership said:, "At this point, no one really knows whether he will ultimately have to go. His credibility has been hurt ... We'll have to see whether he can bounce back." Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., said Friday Reagan should not have accepted Stockman's resignation, "but I wish he would have accepted David Stockman's truth-telling. "There's nothing that could be worse in government than if you can't admit making a mistake, because we all make them," Moynihan said in interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." Democratic criticism included a statement by Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt who said, "It is painfully clear that 'Reaganomics' is as bad as David Stockman thought it was." And Sen. James J. Exon, D-Neb., said, "Although his candor is late blooming, there is nothing immoral about a con man repenting." Stockman admitted "those quotes are the words that I spoke" but most of the criticism was directed at his "Trojan horse" statement and a suggestion that the "supply-side" economics embraced by Reagan was nothing more than the old theory of giving the rich tax breaks so that something eventually would filter down to the people. The article, entitled "The Education of David Stockman" appears in the December issue and covers 19 pages. Backstairs at the White House ... WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Backstairs at the White House: White House newcomers should all be given a lesson in journalistic jargon before they embark on their public careers. Their glossary should include definitions of "off the record," meaning not for publication; "on background," meaning not for direct attribution, and "deep background," meaning a reporter writes it on his own without any reference to source. Few reporters are willing to conduct a whole interview "off the record," although they may be agreeable when some matters discussed are ultra-sensitive. But that doesn't stop government officials from insisting that their observations were off the record when they see them in the public print. On two recent occasions, members of the administration have found themselves in that kind of dilemma. Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council staff, gave an interview to a Reuter reporter in which he said the Soviets would have to "change their system" or there would be war. The remark caused consternation in White House circles and was immediately disavowed. Pipes said the interview was intended to be off the record. BUDGET DIRECTOR David Stockman gave interviews over a span of months to William Greider, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, for a profile on himself in The Atlantic Monthly. Stockman's comment that the Reagan tax cut is a "Trojan horse" that favors the rich and other devastating comments about the administration's supply side budget cutting and economic theories fell like a bombshell. Stockman has been the president's No. 1 point man for his economic revolution. He has been the lighting rod and the major defender of some of the more unpopular cuts in government spending. Helen Thomas Backstairs At The White House === Page 33 of 64 Stockman Reagan Keeps Him After Doling Out Verbal Spanking - WHO attack "higher ups" - Denver Post BY GEORGE SKELTON Los Angeles Times 11/13/81 WASHINGTON - An angry President Reagan took Budget Director David Stockman "to the woodshed" of the Oval Office Thursday and bawled him out for publicly criticizing the administration's economic program. But the president decided not to accept his resignation. Stockman apologized for "poor judgment and loose talk" and "careless rambling to a reporter," who wrote the critical article quoting Stockman in The Atlantic Monthly magazine. But while the White House moved quickly to control the short-term damage caused by Stockman's quotes, it was clear that there was an inestimable long-range impact on the president's relations with Congress that his advisers still will have to deal with in the months ahead. Stockman was not just an ordinary White House adviser criticizing Reagan's economic program and theories, but the president's chief spokesman in selling them to Congress. "It's destroyed Stockman's credibility," one White House aide told The Los Angeles Times. "Can you imagine him going up to the Hill (Congress) and talking about budget figures? They would laugh at him." An aide to Rep. Jack F. Kemp, R-N.Y., perhaps the leading advocate in Congress of the supply-side economic theory that Reagan adopted and Stockman criticized in the article, said: "It's obvious that Stockman put himself out of action. He may survive as a nice guy who knows the numbers well, but as a cutting edge for the administration, it's highly doubtful." One of Stockman's most damaging quotes in the lengthy article was that the Kemp-Roth tax plan, upon which the Reagan tax cut was based, was a "Trojan Horse" designed to lower the maximum in- Please See REAGAN on 11-A Hottest topic in town - WHO attack "higher ups" Demos: Stockman loses credibility 11/14/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - David Stockman remained on the job Friday, nose-deep in a budget review, but a key Republican leader acknowledged that despite the budget director's abject apology his days with on the Reagan team may be numbered. The future of the "damaged" 35-year-old economic whiz was a hot topic on Capitol Hill where Democrats said Stockman had lost his credibility for his remarks in a magazine interview that characterized President Reagan's tax cuts as a "Trojan Horse" designed to help the rich. "Oh sure," said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Edwin Dale when asked if Stockman came to work Friday. "He's been at work all day," spending part of the time on a line-by-line "director's review of the entire budget" to be submitted to Congress in January. Asked about the mood of Stockman's staff, Dale said, "No comment." White House communications director David Gergen denied Stockman still had an ax hanging over his neck. "No one is on probation around here," Gergen told reporters Friday. "You either work full time or you're out. "The fact that the president is keeping him speaks for itself," Gergen added. "He does intend to keep him ... We hope any damage will not be long-lasting. Stockman, described by acquaintances as a bright and sometimes arrogant economic planner, appeared humble, his voice quavering with emotion, at a packed news conference Thursday, revealing he had offered his resignation for his "poor judgment and loose talk" but that Reagan - although angry - decided to give him a "second chance." One White House aide said "I've never seen the president more angry" than after Reagan read the article written for The Atlantic by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. The aide said Stockman was "pretty shaky" after the meeting with Reagan, and the budget director described the Oval Office session as "more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed." Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee acknowledged Friday Stockman may prove too much of a liability to stay in Reagan's inner circle. Asked by a reporter whether Stockman eventually "will have to go," Baker said: "It may turn out that way ..." Ogden Standard Examiner 11/ === Page 34 of 64 ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK - for "higher ups" # David Stockman's self-destruction Denver Post 11/13/81 WASHINGTON - Even as word spread Tuesday that David Stockman man seemed to have destroyed himself with his own tongue, he failed in another bid to deflect President Reagan from his stubborn convictions. Reagan rejected language prepared for his news conference by Stockman's Office of Management and Budget that would have repeated the follies of the last generation by trying to balance the budget through tax increases. Stockman had lost the fight for the president's mind to his closest political friend, Rep. Jack Kemp. Their tattered alliance was further torn that same day with disclosure of Stockman's quotes in the December Atlantic Monthly. IT WAS STOCKMAN'S 35th birthday. The events unfolding that day belied the conventional wisdom that the Reagan Cabinet's best and brightest member is wise beyond his years. Rather, it suggested politically juvenile behavior in undervaluing and betraying both his compatriots and his leader. "The Education of David Stockman," William Greider's Atlantic article, illuminates the backstage developments preceding Tuesday's presidential press conference. Those quotes suggest that the president's budget director pushed so vigorously for drastic change in the Reagan economic program because he had not really believed in it for a long time. Kemp, who last year promoted Stockman for the budget post to get a genuine supply-sider in the Cabinet, couldn't fully believe his friend was abandoning the cause until he read those quotes. As recently as the evening of Nov. 1 in Kemp's suburban Bethesda, Md., home, they talked tax-politics for hours. Kemp decided they weren't really so far apart. On Nov. 4, however, the gap widened when Stockman conferred on Capitol Hill with House Republican leaders. Kemp asked Stockman how anything could be served by taking money out of the private sector through higher taxes; if those taxes diminish the pool of private savings, financing the debt becomes all the harder. Stockman responded with the sarcasm that has antagonized liberal Democrats in Congress all year. He told his friend: Jack, why don't you just repeal all taxes then, and finance the debt wholly through bonds? Kemp's face went ashen. Other Republicans at that meeting were taken aback when Stockman suggested he would in the long run win the fight for budget-balancing through taxes. Even if the president decided otherwise now, Stockman implied, higher taxes eventually would be essential. His implication was that the wunderkind surely knew a lot more than the ex-movie actor twice his age. Reagan himself was present two days later, on Nov. 6, when Stockman met with the House Republicans at the White House. Kemp argued heatedly that the Reagan-Kemp-Roth tax cuts ought to be accelerated, not delayed. In following Stockman's advice early this year and delaying the tax cut for budgetary reasons, said Kemp, the president had bought big deficits and recession. Further delays, he said, would mean more of the same. At that point, presidential chief of staff James Baker asked Stockman to respond. Stockman warned of ruinous budget deficits on the horizon. Later that day, however, the president told a friend that Kemp's linkage of Stockman's tax delay and the economic recovery's delay was compelling. Stockman had lost, but not surrendered. The OMB-prepared answer for Reagan's news conference called for tax increases in fiscal years 1983 and 1984 if accompanied by spending cuts. Instead, the president ashcanned Stockman's answer and replied by comparing tax increases and addictive drugs. Stockman's persistence was explained by the quotes he gave Greider, suggesting private disillusionment with supply-side tax cuts months before they were in place. When he was read some of those quotes while on a one-day speaking tour Tuesday, Kemp was stunned. Nevertheless, that night he telephoned Stockman, at a Washington restaurant celebrating his birthday, to reaffirm their friendship. But when Kemp read the full article Wednesday morning, he was shattered to find Stockman revealing to Greider that he had been maneuvering to keep Kemp "happy" so supply-siders could not mobilize against dilution of the tax bill. That is precisely what Kemp's aides and advisers have been telling him all year, and precisely what he has rejected as an unfair indictment of his friend. THE THEME HERE is one of betrayal, which some of Stockman's erstwhile allies have come to consider as recurrent through his career. Greider suggests that in moving from supply-side economics to orthodox budget-balancing, "perhaps Stockman was only starting into another intellectual transition. He had changed from farm boy to campus activist at Michigan State, from Christian moralist to neo-conservative at Harvard." Stockman himself Tuesday night worried that he was about to be labeled Judas Iscariot. His inconstancy tended to fulfill the prophecy by one of Washington's most astute lobbyists, who in February predicted the high-flying Stockman would last no more than a year at OMB - certainly not for want of ability, but for defects in character. That failing has undone many in Washington and it brought the Reagan Cabinet's brightest light close to that fate on his 35th birthday. Field Newspaper Syndicate DAVID STOCKMAN === Page 35 of 64 The Denver Post Friday, Nov. 13, 1981 # Reagan Bawls Out Stockman, Keeps Him STOCKMAN From 1-A come tax rate for wealthy Americans. "I can only say that it was a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," Stockman told a packed press conference Thursday afternoon at the White House. Earlier, he had tried to joke about it, saying that "a Trojan Horse is a wooden beast without a brain and had I recalled that I would have never used the metaphor." The magazine article was written by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and a friend of Stockman's, who interviewed the budget director over a period of eight months with the understanding that the information would not be reported until after the administration's budget battles had been waged. Stockman Thursday called his arrangement with Greider, as it turned out, "a misunderstanding, but not an act of bad faith on his side or mine." The article appears in the December issue of the magazine. The White House got its first copy Tuesday night. Copy machines immediately produced scores of additional copies, and the article became the major topic of conversation at the White House for two days. The president read the full article Wednesday night and became "pretty upset," one close aide said, making clear his description of the president's reaction was an understatement. Actually, nothing like this had occurred before in the Reagan White House. There had been bickering between the president's foreign policy advisers -- Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and national security adviser Richard Allen. That disagreement came as no particular surprise, given the personalities involved. But mild-mannered Stockman, a former congressman, was thought to be a team player who could be trusted, and who was astute enough to avoid public conflict. Republican congressional leaders, after meeting Thursday morning with Reagan and Stockman to discuss budget matters, variously described the budget director as having been "indiscreet" and making "an error in judgment," but they basically stood by him. The president invited Stockman to lunch in the Oval Office and read him the riot act. "I grew up on a farm," Stockman, 35, told reporters later, "and my visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the president was more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed after supper. He was not happy about the way this has developed, and properly so. He was very chagrined that these interpretations (of his economic program) have developed...." Reading later from a prepared statement, with his voice quavering, Stockman said he had tendered his resignation to the president "because my poor judgment and loose talk have done him and his program a serious disservice. Worse, they have spread an impression that is utterly false. President Reagan believes with every ounce of his strength in his program for economic recovery and the better opportunities it will bring to all Americans." He added: "Honest people will worry about how best to achieve our vision for getting the messed-up economy we inherited back on track and the overgrown budget under control. I have worried far too publicly, and deeply regret the harm that has been done. "I am staying on because I believe even more deeply that the president has charted a sound, constructive course. I am grateful to the president for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan here to do." # Reagan gets skunked on turkeys in Texas By MAUREEN SANTINI SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- President Reagan, clad in green camouflage battle fatigues, ended one of the most troubled weeks of his presidency Saturday hunting wild turkeys on an isolated ranch. He failed to bag one. "I have never gone turkey hunting, so I'm looking forward to this," Reagan had said as he and his aides set out on the hunting expedition in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. The expedition shot three turkeys, but Reagan got none. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president had a shot but withheld his fire because the gobbler was surrounded by hens. "As a true sportsman, the president did not wish to shoot," Speakes said. Texas law leaves the status of hens up to counties. In Frio County, where the president was hunting, it is legal to shoot some kinds of hens but not others. What kind the president saw was not known. Reagan, whose previous hunting experience has been limited to rattlesnakes, was the guest of his chief of staff, James A. Baker III, at J.O. Winston's 7,500-acre ranch. Winston is the former father-in-law of Baker's wife. The president jokingly accused a large horde of reporters of scaring the turkeys away. "After seeing this, we don't think there are many live turkeys around," he quipped. But after the upsetting week he had, Reagan made it very clear he did not want to talk about his difficulties. Asked whether he planned to keep his national security adviser, Richard V. Allen, on at the White House despite allegations that he had accepted $1,000 from a Japanese reporter, the president replied, "I can't comment on that while it's under review." The Justice Department is investigating the case. Allen has acknowledged receiving the cash, but White House officials said it was intended for Mrs. Reagan and Allen "intercepted" it only to spare the first lady any embarrassment and to avoid offending the Japanese journalists who had offered it as a token of their appreciation for an exclusive interview. The week Reagan appeared to be escaping from also was marred by a magazine article in which Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, publicly questioned the soundness of the president's economic program and likened it to the "trickle-down" programs of other administrations. The hunting party, which also included Baker's sons, Doug and John, and his stepson, James Winston, used 12-gauge shotguns provided by the ranch. Asked if he had a hunting license, Reagan said, "You bet." === Page 36 of 64 R.M. Nixon 11/12/81 - UFO attack on "higher ups" - Dem leader calls quotes 'devastating admissions' (Continued from page 1) "He's a very resilient person. He's just going about his business," said Edwin Dale, Stockman's spokesman. Congressional sources said a "very upset" Stockman telephoned Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., Tuesday to seek the senator's advice on how to handle the situation. Domenici told him to persist in his efforts to cut federal spending, sources said. Tuesday, Dale said the article "creates an impression that is wrong and grossly misleading. ... Although problems and challenges remain, Mr. Stockman is convinced that the program set forward by the president is sound and will work." White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Wednesday that Reagan had not read the article but probably would be provided excerpts. "We suggested that would be a good way for him to read a long article," Speakes said. A White House source said senior presidential aides were "surprised" by some of Stockman's comments, since he had never expressed them at the White House. But "it's no great stir," added the source, who did not want to be identified. "We're rallying around him." The official said Stockman has not offered to resign over the article, nor has he been asked to resign, but the White House is concerned that the Democrats will make a major political issue out of the incident. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., an original apostle of supply-side economics, said he feels deep sadness "that my close friend ... has put himself in this difficult position." The article was written by Washington Post assistant managing editor William Greider, who said Stockman agreed before taking office "to meet with me from time to time and relate, off the record, his private account of the great political struggle ahead. The particulars of these conversations were not to be reported until ... after the season's battles were over ..." Dale said Stockman believed the interviews would remain off the record and became "very, very upset" three weeks ago upon learning about the upcoming article. Dale said Stockman viewed it as a "violation of trust." In the article, Stockman admitted as early as last spring that the president's plan for slashing taxes, boosting defense spending and balancing the budget -- all within three years -- would not succeed without changes. The tip-off came in May, he said, from skeptics on Wall Street who were forecasting giant deficits in the years ahead while the president was promising a balanced budget by 1984. He also suggested that any budget plan is a subjective blueprint filled with gimmicks and accounting tricks, the article said. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," he said. Stockman said he couldn't get the plan back on track because he could not persuade Reagan to press for politically sensitive cuts in Social Security, he could not talk the president into scaling back much from his record defense budget and he could not prevent the tax cut from growing to huge proportions -- totaling $750 billion over five years. "The whole thing is premised on faith, on a belief about how the world works," Stockman said in the article, referring to the "supply-side" theory that personal tax cuts alone will bring economic prosperity and a balanced budget. "I've never believed that just cutting taxes alone will cause output and employment to expand," he said. The article said Stockman wanted Reagan to support a plan to narrow several tax breaks for businesses and the rich as a way of offsetting program cuts affecting the less affluent. - UFO attack US Govt - oreg. 11/18/81 B7 TROJAN HORSE REMARKS STOCKMAN C. Houston Houston Chronicle 1981 Register & Tribune Syndicate 'Rumbling? What rumbling?' === Page 37 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" # Budget chief ducks queries about doubts ## Stockman blasts Reaganomics - UFOs attack "higher ups" and US Govt # Honeymoon over WASHINGTON (AP) - David A. Stockman avoided reporters and closeted himself with his aides Wednesday as both he and President Reagan remained silent about a magazine article in which the budget director confided major doubts about the administration's economic program. In the December issue of Atlantic Monthly, Stockman also is quoted as criticizing "supply-side" economics, complaining about "greed" and waste at the Defense Department, confessing that Reagan could not balance the budget, and assailing the final tax-cut bill approved by Congress. Moreover, the article quotes Stockman as saying, "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers." House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass., called the Stockman quotes "devastating admissions." "The architect of the administration's economic program is admitting exactly what I and other critics have been saying for six months," O'Neill said. But where "we made our criticisms in public, David Stockman knew first hand the fundamental weaknesses in the Reagan program and chose to cover them up," he added. "Mr. Stockman misled the Congress and the American people as to the consequences of the Reagan economic program. . . . His credibility and the credibility of the program he supports are in serious doubt," the speaker said. ![David A. Stockman] David A. Stockman Was interview off the record In one of the most controversial sections of the lengthy article, Stockman describes the "supply-side" tax cut embraced by Reagan - and once espoused by Stockman himself - as a disguised version of traditional "trickle-down" economics favoring the wealthy. It was, he said, a "Trojan horse" with the real purpose of lowering income tax rates for the rich. Stockman, a key architect of Reagan's program, has refused to comment personally about the article. Advance copies began sweeping across Washington Tuesday - the budget director's 35th birthday. Stockman avoided reporters and television crews camped outside his Washington apartment and downtown office and spent the day in meetings about the 1983 budget plan that must be sent to Congress by January. (Continued on page 52) Rocky Mountain News 11/12/81 President Reagan's honeymoon is being declared over. The evidence is everywhere. He has arrived at that point of his administration where he no longer is above criticism, and the critics are emerging. Furthermore, the administration no longer is the harmonious team that it was depicted. Maybe it never was. A lot may be overlooked during a honeymoon period for a new administration that stands out later. The friction involving Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Adviser Richard Allen grows sharp at times. Then, too, there is the David Stockman interview that reinforced the worst fears of the skeptics about the Reagan economic program. Add to that the mysterious $1,000 found in Allen's possession that had to do with Nancy Reagan granting an interview to a Japanese publication. So far there has been no satisfactory explanation of it. The administration may not be unraveling, but it is frayed less than a year into its existence. The undoing of a great many social programs helping those in need in addition to the state of the economy that leaves a high unemployment rate and forces closure of many businesses creates a bloc of discontent among many people. There is a lot of nervousness around, about the conduct of foreign policy and the problems domestically. The president may still be popular personally. From all reports, he is a genuinely likable person who has an ability to inspire confidence. But his policies also must inspire confidence, which many do not seem to be doing at the moment. The latest Harris poll shows that he still has a majority giving him a good job rating, but it stands at only 51-47 percent, down from 54-44 six weeks ago and 67-29 at his peak last April. Perhaps the president can reverse the slippage. Maybe he can demonstrate that he has a handle on foreign affairs and that his economic policies are overcoming the ills of the economy. But he apparently must persuade a growing number of his countrymen that, under his leadership, the country is not drifting into war abroad and depression at home. The challenge to the Soviets for arms reductions in Europe should have helped on the first point. Interest rates inching downward may help on the second. 11/23/81 === Page 38 of 64 # Budget Director Stirs Controversy WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Budget director David Stockman was at the center of controversy Wednesday over his assertion in a magazine article that President Reagan's tax cut plan was a "Trojan horse" ploy to aid the rich. Democrats and Republicans alike said the young budget chief's credibility had been undermined by that and other controversial comments made in a series of interviews with The Atlantic Monthly for an article entitled "The Education of David Stockman" making the rounds Wednesday. Stockman was described as angry that his "off the record" remarks were printed, but that didn't stop a chorus of criticism from Capitol Hill. One Stockman protege, Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., suggested his friend "has been pushing himself too hard," and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill accused Stockman of lying to the Congress and the country about the effects of Reagan's program. Said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., "Members of the Congress are certainly going to be less likely to accept whatever figures he offers us from now on. "And the president, who has been relying on David Stockman, is going to find it harder to persuade members of the House and Senate of both parties to go along with him." Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said, however, that the article could help Stockman. "I think he may have gained some credibility, I think people like a bit of candor," he said. CBS News quoted a White House official as saying Stockman had been "mortally wounded as a salesman on Capitol Hill." But at day's end, a White House spokesman said, "As far as we are concerned the matter is at rest." Stockman's spokesman, Edwin Dale, was asked if Stockman's job was in jeopardy because of the article and replied, "There is no talk of resignation that I know of." The controversy centered on the article in the December issue of magazine, which portrays Stockman as increasingly discontented with the administration's "supply-side" economic theory, combining budget cuts with tax breaks to spur growth. It quotes Stockman as saying the massive budget reductions were poorly planned, hastily enacted and ignored "blatant inefficiency" in the Pentagon. And the budget chief said the Reagan approach was merely a new version of the old "trickle down" idea. A pre-publication copy of the article by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, caught the White House by surprise, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said. The White House was not aware, he said, that Stockman had been giving interviews to Greider since before he became head of the Office of Management and Budget. "No," Speakes said flatly when asked if the president's across-the-board tax cut was a "Trojan horse" aimed at lowering the taxes for the rich under the guise of giving a break to everyone. Kemp, co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax cut plan embraced by Reagan, said the ideas in the article were "contrary to everything Dave has ever expressed to members of the House, in public or in private." Kemp said he felt "a deep sadness" that Stockman "has put himself in this difficult position." "Dave has worked harder than anyone to make the president's economic program work," Kemp said. "Some of his friends think he has pushed himself too hard in an incredibly difficult position, which requires unusual balance and judgment to succeed." O'Neill said Stockman's "devastating admissions about the Reagan economic program" agreed with what he and other critics had been saying for six months. Accusing Stockman of misleading Congress and the people about the impact of "Reaganomics," O'Neill said, "His credibility and the credibility of the program he supports is in serious doubt." "At this point," the speaker said, "Congress must establish, as a result of Mr. Stockman's remarks, whether this administration has two economic agendas for the country; a public agenda to restore non-inflationary economic growth and a hidden agenda to reward special interests and the rich at the expense of working Americans." (Continued on Page 12) === Page 39 of 64 Stockman adds to public mistrust BY DAVID S. BRODER NORMAN, Okla. -- Much has been said on the effects of David A. Stockman's extraordinary interviews in the Atlantic Monthly on Stockman himself and on the Reagan administration. Something needs to be said about the consequences for people of Stockman's own generation who were caught up in last week's absorbing spectacle. "The Education of David Stockman," as William Greider called his article, was not part of the planned reading list for the Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program that drew 25 collegians and graduate students from seven campuses to Oklahoma University here last weekend for three days of intensive discussions. But since our topic was the leadership challenge facing the younger generation in American politics and since Stockman and other young conservative economists figured prominently in the books we were discussing, copies of the Atlantic article were quickly obtained and eagerly read. You should know that this was not a naive group. Most of them had worked in campaigns, several had interned in congressional offices and others were part-time employees of the Oklahoma legislature, where hardball politics is not unknown. Many have political ambitions of their own. Nor were they, as a group, unsympathetic to the mission that Stockman and his administration colleagues had set for themselves: to curb the runaway growth of the federal government and make room for expansive private enterprise. Equity issues and social justice were important to them, but they, too, shared Stockman's skepticism about many governmental programs. But they were really disturbed by Stockman's comments in the Atlantic interviews and in his televised press conference. Time and again, they asked their visitor from Washington what manner of man this was. Computer-trained themselves, they asked how Stockman could possibly have justified reprogramming the Office of Management and Budget computers to conceal the deficits he knew were there. Why conceal those facts from Congress and the country just to pass a program he knew was flawed? Having worked around legislators themselves, they could not see how Stockman had deluded himself into thinking his credibility could survive if he negotiated budget compromises with congressmen, while telling Greider privately those compromises would have to be repudiated in the next month's new budget cuts. Knowing something of the relationship between politicians and the press, they wondered how Stockman could have thought his comments would be anything but destructive of the administration, whenever they were published. They argued that Stockman must have been seeking to promote his own reputation at the expense of everyone else's. They said they could understand Stockman saying that deadline pressures forced him to make "snap judgments" and wild guesses instead of carefully checking his numbers. They had done midnight term-papers themselves. But, they said, they thought there were higher standards of professionalism and of principle that guided the actions of those whose decisions determined, not just a grade in class, but the lives of millions and the spending of billions. "I tell you what that article did for me," one woman said. "It destroyed my faith in anything these people try to persuade Congress to do. He as much as admits that the administration wanted to win so much they just let the business interest-groups come in and pick that tax bill apart." One of the men said: "When Reagan came in, I felt just like I was watching the end of Superman II, when he puts the flag back in place and says, 'The country's together again.' And now I'm really depressed. It just looks to me like he (Stockman) is saying the problems are too complex, the Congress just won't respond, you can't even trust them with the truth. . . It's the same thing all over again, president after president." As a visitor, I was unable to rationalize Stockman's actions for them. Still less did I persuade them that this kind of manipulation or equivocation is -- in Stockman's economic phrase -- "the way the world works." What I heard from them was the same hard judgment I had heard from other young people -- including Stockman himself -- in the '60s and '70s: That without trust, government becomes impossible. "The whole thing is premised on faith," Stockman told Greider. He was talking about the economic theory he was then defending. It is too bad that he didn't apply that same insight more broadly to government itself and to his own role as a public official. He would have left these students in Oklahoma -- and I expect, many others -- feeling a lot better about the first of their generation to "make it." === Page 40 of 64 - 2/for attack "higher ups" - # Casey 'not unfit to serve,' but senators still critical By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Washington (AP) -- The Senate Intelligence Committee agreed Tuesday that its four-month investigation had found that William J. Casey is not unfit to serve as CIA director, but it nevertheless criticized some of his private business practices, Sen. Harrison Schmitt said. The committee finished, but did not release, a cautiously worded five-to-10-page report after two days of difficult negotiations behind closed doors. One Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said, however, that he would dissent from the committee's basic conclusion about Casey's fitness to continue as CIA director. One Senate source, who asked not to be named, said another Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, had decided to sign the committee's investigative findings but not its conclusion about Casey's fitness to serve, arguing that that was for President Reagan to decide. Schmitt, a New Mexico Republican, said: "Our basic conclusion is that he was not unfit to serve, but it's safe to say the whole situation is not flattering. There were omissions in his reports." Schmitt said he was convinced that inadvertent errors caused Casey to have to file amendments to his disclosures to the committee last January about his past business clients. "We just wish he was more meticulous in his private (business) life," Schmitt said. But Sen. Walter D. Huddleston, D-Ky., said he believed the committee's report could be read two ways. Huddleston said Casey's errors could be viewed as ordinary mistakes or, "you can take an attitude that there is a definite pattern of not being candid with the committee. There is enough in the report for the president to consider... whether it is in the best interests (of the country for Casey) to continue as director." After the committee's second two-hour closed meeting in two days, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., the acting chairman, announced that the panel would issue a report Wednesday on its investigation. Moynihan declined to discuss the contents, but he did say it would not comment on Casey's decision not to put his stock portfolio in a blind trust while he heads the CIA. "That was not a subject assigned to this inquiry," Moynihan said. STAY 12/2/81 however, that he would issue a statement after the committee report was released, disagreeing with its basic conclusion. "I have a very different view from my colleagues on this matter," Biden said. "The issue is not whether Bill Casey committed crimes but whether he has my confidence and the confidence of the committee." Biden said he had no quarrel with the panel's investigative work or with its findings in specific cases it studied, but rather that he disagreed "with what conclusions you draw from that. It's not because I think there's a smoking gun or he committed any crime. It goes to confidence." Nevertheless, it was learned that the panel had debated whether to comment on that decision by Casey. Casey, who has broad access to the government's secret data on international economic developments, broke with the practice of his two predecessors at the CIA in keeping control of his stocks. Casey and his wife own stock worth at least $1.8 million and perhaps more than $3.4 million in 27 corporations with major foreign operations. It could not be learned if the final report adopted criticisms of Casey proposed by the panel's special Democratic counsel, Irvin Nathan. One senator, who asked not to be identified, had said that Nathan's report "questions Casey's credibility." Moynihan added that so far as he knew there would be no dissenting views or additional comments by individual senators in the report. In an interview, Biden said later, === Page 41 of 64 Finland president resigns HELSINKI, Finland (UPI) -- President Urho Kekkonen, whose "Finlandization" policy forged close ties with the Soviet Union but preserved Finland's formal neutrality, resigned Tuesday for health reasons after 25 years in office. Kekkonen, 81, resigned after a seven-week illness caused by a blood circulation problem in his brain that left him unable to resume official duties. The resignation, written with a trembling hand, was accepted by the Cabinet in a brief session early Tuesday. Elections will be held Jan. 17-18 to pick 300 presidential electors -- leading political and public figures -- who will choose Kekkonen's successor Jan. 26, the government said. Kekkonen will remain in office until his successor is sworn in Jan. 27, the government said. Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto, 57, the nation's acting president since Kekkonen fell ill Sept. 10, will continue to serve until the elections, the government said. "I have been struck with illness and because of it, I have been unable to take care of my task as the president," Kekkonen told the Cabinet in a signed statement written Monday. "And now the illness is found to be of such a nature as to be a permanent hindrance," he said. Kekkonen's health has been falling rapidly for a year and he was visibly weak during a trip to the Soviet Union in November 1980. After he was stricken last month, his speaking ability and memory were impaired and there were reports he was unable to recognize visitors. Recent polls showed Koivisto, the leader of the Social Democratic Party and a former governor of the Central Bank, favored by 70 percent of the voters. Political analysts said he is almost certain to win the upcoming presidential elections. But the change in leadership is not expected to affect Finland's special relationship with the Soviet Union, with which the nation of 4.7 million shares a 793-mile border and a military cooperation pact. Kekkonen's policy of close ties with Soviet Union gave rise in the West to the disparaging term "Finlandization," meaning the uncritical accommodation of a greater power. But Kekkonen made no apology for the accommodation, calling Finland's "policy of neutrality" his "life's work." "To maintain and strengthen it, I shall labor until my last breath," He once said. It is certain that any candidate will endorse the Kekkonen line in foreign policy. Finnish policy has been stable and continuity is likely. Under Kekkonen -- who was first elected in 1956, re-elected for three more terms and then given a fifth term through special legislation -- foreign policy was almost completely controlled by the president's office. Kekkonen's era brought unprecedented prosperity and security to the Finns, whose friendship is valued by Moscow as a buffer between Russian soil and Norway, a NATO member. Mrs. Marcos safe following threats SAN FRANCISCO -- A sniper shot was fired at a lounge that the wife of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos was scheduled to use and her flight was delayed by a bomb threat, airport police said Wednesday. Mrs. Marcos was not in the lounge Tuesday night where a bullet cracked a window, and she had not boarded the Philippine Airlines 747 jet when the threat was telephoned to a reservations phone. She arrived from New York on a Trans World Airlines flight and took off safely early Wednesday after a four-hour delay. Control of Chad in doubt as Libya backs coup try YAOUNDE, Cameroon (UPI) -- Insurgents supported by troops sent by Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy swept into the capital of Chad Wednesday but it was not clear Thursday whether the coup attempt against President Goukouni Weddeye had succeeded. Residents of Kousseri, Cameroon, across the Chari River from the Chad capital of N'djamena, said the capital's markets were open, conditions were calm and the Ndjame na Radio had not interrupted its normal broadcasts. Chadian rebels supported by Libyan tanks and troops entered N'djamena Wednesday in an attempt to overthrow the government and force a merger with Libya, French government sources said. The sources said they did not know whether the coup had succeeded, but there were indications Weddeye may have fled the capital. The sources said Weddeye had wanted Libya's 7,000-man force already based in Chad to be withdrawn. President Jaafar Numeiry of the Sudan expressed the belief the coup had failed, the Egyptian Middle East News Agency said in a report from Khartoum. Numeiry said Khadafy sent his second man, Abdul Salam Jalloud, to N'djamena "to plot a quick coup" and to prevent a cabinet meeting at which Weddeye planned to demand that Libya withdraw its forces from Chad. Top Mormons have surgery SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The two highest-ranking officers in the Mormon Church underwent surgery Monday, and doctors termed both operations a success. President Spencer W. Kimball, 86, leader of the 4.7 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, underwent minor urinary tract surgery Monday. He has been hospitalized since Sept. 5 when he had skull surgery for removal of a subdural hematoma, an accumulation of blood and scar tissue between his brain and skull. "The condition of President Kimball continued to improve Monday. He's stronger, more alert and walking regularly," Wilkinson said. Kimball's condition was "deemed sufficient to allow doctors to perform a minor urologic surgery," the doctor said. Ezra Taft Benson, president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and next in line to become president of the church, underwent hip surgery. Dr. Wallace E. Hess termed Benson's operation a success and said the 82-year-old church leader should be released from LDS Hospital in about eight days. Church spokesman Jerry Cahill said this is the first time that the church president and the man who would be his successor have been hospitalized at the same time. Kimball's operation was performed with a local anesthetic and was designed to correct what his physician, Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, termed a "longstanding urinary tract defect." Benson's operation, which concluded shortly before noon, involved implantation of a metal ball hip joint and a plastic hip socket. Benson suffered a fractured hip July 4, 1978, when a horse knocked him to the ground. Cahill said degenerative arthritis developed in the hip, causing Benson considerable pain and limiting his mobility. === Page 42 of 64 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Dispute topples Dane leaders COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Denmark's minority Social Democrat government fell Thursday when it lost support for a plan it claimed was vital to revive the country's stagnant economy. Prime Minister Anker Joergensen will continue as head of a caretaker government until special elections Dec. 8, two years ahead of schedule, a government statement said. The Danish Constitution says the Folketing, Denmark's parliament, must convene 12 working days after an election. The Dec. 8 date would give the newly elected body time to approve a 1982 national budget before the Christmas break. Denmark is the third member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in governmental crisis this month. A coalition finally was formed a week ago in the Netherlands after weeks of inter-party haggling, and Belgium still has a caretaker government after inconclusive elections last weekend. The defeat for Joergensen, prime minister since 1975 except for a year in the late 1970s, came on a motion to implement an economic compromise worked out in May with the three small parties whose votes have kept him in power. The six Center Democrats in the 179-seat Folketing abandoned the government on its plan to order public and private pension plans to reinvest about $425 million in high-interest but unproductive government bonds. Joergensen wanted the funds put in so-called "active investments" in the hard-hit agricultural and building sectors, boosting his plan to create 50,000 new jobs a year. oreg 11/13/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Ex-leader of Turkey gets 4-month sentence By MARVINE HOWE New York Times News Service ANKARA, Turkey -- Former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has been sentenced to four months in prison for defying a ban on political statements, it was announced Friday. Ecevit, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who has served as prime minister three times since 1974, does not have the right to appeal and is expected to be incarcerated in a civilian prison within the next few days. The imprisonment of Ecevit is expected to raise widespread international criticism of the military junta, which seized power Sept. 12, 1980, but has repeatedly pledged its commitment to democratic rule. Turkey's press, which is under strict self-censorship, announced Friday that the sentence against Ecevit had become final since the Ankara martial law commander failed to appeal the court's decision. Any comments on the court's action would be seen as a violation of the ban on political statements. West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher came to Ankara earlier this month with the explicit aim of expressing Western Europeans' wish to see some concrete steps towards democracy to back up the generals' claims. Western diplomats in Ankara had hoped that the military authorities would review the court decision against Ecevit, not only in view of his international prominence but also because of the nature of the charges against him. Ecevit was sentenced by the martial law court for violating a decree issued by the military junta last June, barring former politicians from making any public statements on "the past, present and future political structure of Turkey." It was after the military closed down all political parties last month that Ecevit, invoking "the constitutional right of rebuttal," defended the record of his Republican Peoples Party and mildly criticized the military regime. "It is a fact that, in view of my own conception of democracy, I cannot bring myself to approve the present mode of administration in Turkey or the regime that is being stipulated for Turkey by the current administration," Ecevit stated in the declaration that was used as evidence against him. oreg 11/21/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - Chilean justice wounded SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) -- The president of Chile's Supreme Court was wounded while riding in his chauffeured car by an assailant firing a submachine gun from a speeding taxi, police said. The would-be assassin, who escaped, ambushed Supreme Court President Israel Borquez Friday as he was riding to work. oreg 11/7/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Flemming fired from rights post By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan Monday dismissed Arthur S. Flemming as chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and appointed Clarence M. Pendleton, a conservative black Republican, to replace him. oreg 11/17/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - Knight to resign The director of the U.S. Secret Service, H. Stuart Knight, will leave his post Nov. 30 after eight years at the head of the agency, Treasury Department officials said Monday. Knight, 60, apparently is retiring simply because "he's ready and he wanted to," said Treasury spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. oreg 11/17/81 === Page 43 of 64 Columbia 10/20/81 # General fired after remarks about Soviets - UFOs "higher ups" - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top military officer on the National Security Council staff was fired this morning after saying in a speech that the "Soviets are on the move; they are going to strike." President Reagan said he disagreed with the officer, Army Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer, but Reagan praised him as "a fine soldier" whose services in another post will continue to "be of great benefit to the country." Reagan's brief comments came only minutes after a senior White House official told reporters Schweitzer was being relieved of his post as director of defense policy for the National Security Council and would return to the Department of the Army within the next few days. Gen. Schweitzer - UFOs "higher ups" - # Israeli minister goes on trial By DANIEL GREBLER Oreg 11/23/81 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Aharon Abu-Hatseira, a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's coalition government, went on trial Sunday on charges of embezzling money from a state-run charity. A conviction could threaten Begin's coalition. Abu-Hatseira, 42, pleaded innocent to charges that he converted for his personal use 4,297 shekels -- about $4,300 -- between 1975 and 1978 while serving as mayor of Ramleh, east of Tel Aviv. The charge sheet said the minister used the money from a charitable fund named after his father to pay personal expenses. Abu-Hatseira is minister of labor, social welfare and immigration and leads the three-man Tami faction in Begin's coalition, which has a one-vote majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the Knesset. His faction plays a key role in the coalition, as evidenced by Abu-Hatseira's three portfolios. Abu-Hatseira has taken a leave of absence for the trial -- his second this year. He was acquitted last May of bribery charges in the first criminal trial of an Israeli Cabinet minister. The embezzlement trial opened in September. But it was postponed while Abu-Hatseira's lawyers argued before the Supreme Court that their client enjoyed parliamentary immunity since his re-election to the Knesset in June. The court rejected the claim earlier this month on grounds that the Knesset already had stripped Abu-Hatseira of immunity before the bribery trial. After his acquittal in the bribery case, the Moroccan-born Abu-Hatseira rallied the support of Israel's Sephardic (North African) Jewish community. He became a hero for Israelis who viewed the case as an attempt by the Ashkenazi (European) establishment to oppress Sephardic Jews. Abu-Hatseira built on that support to break away from the National Religious Party before the election and form Tami as a Sephardic ethnic political group. # Hospital beat - UFOs "higher ups" - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros was released from a Boston, Mass., hospital Tuesday, a week after he was admitted for treatment of exhaustion and lung congestion. The 66-year-old archbishop of Boston said he would take it easy for the next few weeks. "Although I have regained much of my strength, my physicians insist that for the immediate future I must curtail my schedule of appointments and commitments," he said. "I therefore ask your continued prayers and patience." Des Moines Reg 11/11/81 # Vatican Denies Resignation - UFOs "higher ups" - Vatican City (UPI) -- Vatican officials dismissed as "nothing more than petty gossip" a West German press report that Pope John Paul II may resign because his recovery from an assassination attempt has been so slow. In its latest edition, the West German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said John Paul, 61, has been considering resigning since the assassination attempt May 13 because he does not feel healthy enough to continue. Der Spiegel said that since his release from the hospital Aug. 14, the pope has been unable to resume what he considers full activity. Omaha W.H. 11/11/81 # Wounded Arab leader dies JERUSALEM (AP) -- A moderate Arab leader on the occupied West Bank died Sunday of bullet wounds he suffered in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen last week, a spokesman at Hadassah hospital said. Yussuf al-Khatib, 60, was head of the Ramallah area village association, one of many cultivated by Israel as a moderate alternative to nationalist Palestinian demands for an independent state. He was shot in the head at close range Nov. 17 while riding in a car. Al-Khatib's son Khadem, 23, was killed in the attack. A statement by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Beirut claimed responsibility for the shootings and vowed to "execute all other collaborators with the Zionist enemy throughout our occupied territories." The head of another village association in Bethlehem, Bishara Qumsieh, has been given round-the-clock military protection since Nov. 18, when he announced his willingness to join an Israeli-sponsored autonomy council for the West Bank. Al-Khatib's death crowned a day of West Bank disturbances. # Chief of protocol mulls resignation - UFOs "higher ups" - LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Chief of Protocol Leonore Annenberg said Monday she is thinking about resigning from the $50,112-a-year post to which she was confirmed May 5 because she cannot spend enough time with her husband, the billionaire publisher of Triangle Publications and former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Annenberg. "I adore my job but my husband comes first," she said. "That's exactly correct," Walter Annenberg said when reached later at his Philadelphia office. "It's too difficult for me to be running back and forth to Washington. It's been a delightful experience for her, and I know she's been a wonderful chief of protocol. But do I want her back? In a word, yes." 11/18/81 === Page 44 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Artery bypass given Demo By JIM DRINKARD **Org 10/31/81** WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Richard Bolling, chairman of the House Rules Committee, successfully underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery Friday at Georgetown University Hospital. Bolling, a 65-year-old Missouri Democrat, was reported in stable condition in the hospital's intensive care unit following the four-hour operation, said Dr. Freeman Cary, physician for the House of Representatives. "He has done well," Cary said. Only three bypass grafts had been planned. But one additional one was made after surgeons "found another one that needed it" during the operation, Cary said. Cary said the operation on the 33-year House veteran was "a preventive surgical procedure" designed to lessen the risk of any recurrence of a heart attack Bolling suffered in 1975. Friday's operation was performed by a team of doctors and support personnel headed by Dr. Robert Wallace. "There's not any particular problem," Cary said, "but in the future he'll have better blood flow in the arteries leading from the heart, which are carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body." The operation involved taking a vein from Bolling's leg and using it to a point beyond the blockage in the "It's a very common procedure, different ways," Cary said. Such an operation is not without risk, Cary said, but some 100,000 are performed in the U.S. last year. "Fortunately, the mortality rate for people who do these has reached a level that is acceptable," he said. Cary said he expected Bolling to be hospitalized for eight to 10 days and to be able to resume light work in two weeks. It will be four to six weeks before the 33-year House veteran is back to normal, he said. Bolling, who entered an alcoholism treatment program in 1979 and underwent surgery for an abdominal hernia last year, has said he will not seek another House term. He denied that he is leaving for health or personal reasons, saying he plans to write and teach. Heart - UFOs "higher ups" - # Envoy to retire JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Ephraim Evron, will step down in January, the Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday. An official statement said no successor had been named, but the Israeli media reported that Moshe Arens, a U.S.-trained aeronautical engineer and senior member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud bloc, would replace Evron. The statement said Evron, 61, had asked to retire last summer but was persuaded to stay on until his three-year term ends Jan. 31. **Org 11/5/81** - UFOs "higher ups" - # Spanish premier loses support MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Fifteen leading members of Premier Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo's party quit Wednesday, plunging Spain into a new crisis. Former Justice Minister Francisco Fernando Ordonez gave no reason for leading eight other parliamentary deputies and six senators from the party, the Union of the Democratic Center. But one of the defectors who declined to be named said Fernandez Ordonez objected to the party's turn to the right under Calvo Sotelo. The party general secretary, Rafael Calvo Ortega, termed the situation worrying but not grave after noting the resigning party members promised to vote with the government on "fundamental" questions. But the loss of 15 members left the government's chances for majorities in the 350-seat lower house in doubt, and the eventual loss of votes in the future could force a new alliance. **Org 11/5/81** - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Fusion head Kintner quits WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Energy Department's program to develop nuclear fusion has resigned to protest what he says are shifts in the program's scientific research being forced by administration budget officials. Dr. Edwin E. Kintner said Wednesday he disagreed with budgetary changes being imposed by the Office of Management and Budget. He said these would change the "balance" of the program intended to develop fusion as a source of virtually unlimited electrical power. It is a case of "the professionals who manage the program versus the people in the OMB," Kintner said. He would not discuss specific figures or programs, saying the changes he objects to are in the fiscal 1983 budget, which is not yet public. Kintner said he and other Energy Department officials had argued against the changes but had been overridden by OMB. **11/25/81** - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Cabinet shuffled LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Fernando Belaunde Terry has shuffled his Cabinet, replacing his ministers of interior, war, navy and aeronautics, the government announced Wednesday. Interior Minister Jose Maria de la Jara, a human rights advocate accused by many in the government of being too soft on terrorism, presented his letter of resignation shortly before Belaunde announced the other Cabinet changes. De la Jara said his resignation was prompted by widespread terrorism and the death of a student during street demonstrations Friday in the mountain city of Cuzco. The resignation came at a time when police have taken control of five Andean provinces southeast of Lima in an attempt to stop the terrorism. The provinces, in the department of Ayacucho, are under a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties. **Org 10/29/81** === Page 45 of 64 Y, NOVEMBER 21, 1981 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Probes clear Reagan's son By JACKIE HYMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Reagan's son Michael has been cleared of wrongdoing in two separate investigations, including one involving stock-fraud allegations, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Friday. Reagan, 35, technically may have violated state Corporate Securities Act provisions, District Attorney John Van de Kamp said, but "there is no evidence he did so with knowledge of the fraudulent nature of the investment." Van de Kamp, in a written statement released by his office, also noted that Reagan lost $1,500 of his own money. "The president is pleased with the outcome as far as Michael is concerned," said deputy White House news secretary Larry Speakes. The president's son was under investigation for allegedly having steered investors to Richard F. Carey, who is being investigated in the stock-fraud case, according to documents filed with Los Angeles Municipal Court by the district attorney's office. Reagan, a businessman, met Carey through a mutual friend, according to the documents. Van de Kamp said Reagan may have violated a provision that would have required him to obtain a permit to deal as a securities agent but said such violations aren't normally prosecuted when there is no evidence of personal profit or fraudulent intent. Van de Kamp said Reagan has also been cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with his sale of a part interest in his own company, Agricultural Energy Resources. Reagan had been been under investigation by the state Department of Corporations and the district attorney for alleged personal use of $17,500 he received from four investors for a gasohol development project. "Of course he is quite pleased, as he is with the Carey matter, that the investigation is over and he has been cleared," said Reagan's attorney, Donald Wager. orep 11/21/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Fired Flemming lashes back WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Arthur Flemming, fired by President Reagan as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, accused the administration Tuesday of paying only "lip service" to the quest for equal opportunity. While the White House did not detail any specific reasons for his dismissal, Flemming, a former president of the University of Oregon, suggested Tuesday it was because Reagan disagrees with the commission's recent reports on affirmative action and busing to achieve school desegregation. Reagan nominated Clarence Pendleton, a conservative black and friend of presidential counselor Edwin Meese, to become chairman of the civil rights panel. A source close to the commission said Meese, angered by a report on police brutality, cited it as an example of the "mischief" played by the panel and pressed for removal of the 76-year-old Flemming. Only once before in the 24-year history of the civil rights panel has a president dismissed a member. That was in 1972 when Richard Nixon removed the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh and replaced him with Flemming. orep 11/17/81 # Bottle law battle looms BOSTON (UPI) -- The beverage industry plans to force a referendum in Massachusetts to repeal the state's new "bottle law," requiring deposits on all beer and soft drink containers. The state Senate voted 29-10 Monday, three votes more than the necessary two-thirds majority, to override Gov. Edward J. King's veto of the measure, making Massachusetts the # Study SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Two researchers who have completed a study on weapons say there are few facts available to back up arguments against gun control. Sociologists James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi of the University of Massachusetts Social and Demographic Research Institute said in a report based their conclusions on questionnaires and court records. "I will say that I continue to be surprised at how untested and unexamined assumptions that go into the pros and cons of the gun control debate," Wright said in a telephone interview Monday. UFOs "higher ups" - # Judge Marshall may retire WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the high court's first and only black member, is considering retiring from the bench, it was reported. Marc Gibson, Sheridan Broadcasting Network's White House correspondent, quoting informed sources, reported Monday that Marshall, 73, who has been ailing, called on President Reagan last Thursday and "reportedly discussed his intent to retire." Asked about the report, court spokesman Barret McGurn said, "I know absolutely nothing about it." orep 11/17/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Israeli official to stand trial orep 11/6/81 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Supreme Court rejected Cabinet minister Aharon Abu-Hatzeira's immunity appeal Thursday, clearing the way for an embezzlement trial that could bring down Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. Abu-Hatzeira's parliamentary immunity was lifted in January so that he could face trial on bribery charges. He was acquitted but is now accused with a top aide of embezzling funds from a state-aided charity. Abu-Hatzeira argued that since he had been re-elected to Parliament, his immunity was renewed. The court rejected the argument by a 4-1 decision and said it would issue an explanation later. Abu-Hatzeira, in charge of labor, welfare and immigration, leads a three-man faction on which Begin depends for his 61-seat majority in the 120-member Parliament. Political observers say if Abu-Hatzeira is convicted, the faction may not survive, and Begin's parliamentary majority could end. Begin's spokesman was not reachable for comment by telephone. The prime minister was out of town. Abu-Hatzeira, 42, is the first Cabinet minister to face criminal charges. He was not in court. Israel radio said his whereabouts were unknown. The affair, which has held national attention for more than a year, is tinged with ethnic overtones. The minister claims he is innocent but victimized by the European-dominated establishment because he is Moroccan-born. The minister goes on trial Nov. 22 in a Tel Aviv district court, accused of embezzling $4,300 from a state-subsidized charity dedicated to his father. === Page 46 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" CONSTANTINE GIANNARIS # Consul slain in Australia SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The government promised a full investigation Monday to find the killer of Greek Consul-General Constantine Giannaris, who was found bound and gagged in his ransacked home with a 9-inch dagger protruding from his back. A maid and two consular officials discovered the body on the ground floor of Giannaris' home at about noon Monday after he did not report to his office, police said. He lived alone. "Any death is a tragedy," said Foreign Minister Tony Street in a telegram to the Greek foreign minister, "the more so when it involves a violent crime against a diplomatic representative." Police said Giannaris, 46, was lying in a pool of blood, fully clothed with a gag stuffed in his mouth. His hands were tied behind him and a 9-inch knife was protruding from his back. He also had a head wound, police said. Earlier police reports had said Giannaris had been shot, but New South Wales state police spokesman Detective Sgt. Pat Daly said detectives had not determined whether the head wound had been caused by a bullet. erg. 11/17/81 UFOs "higher ups" # Flemming replaced Arthur S. Flemming was replaced as chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Monday minutes before he made public a report criticizing the Reagan administration's policies on school desegregation. Flemming, a 76-year-old Republican, had been chairman of the commission since 1974. He had been publicly critical of the president's civil rights policies prior to Monday's news conference, during which he said the administration's views on school desegregation "are in conflict with the Constitution." A spokesman for the civil rights office, Charles Rivera, said he "rather doubted" that there was a connection between Monday's dismissal and Flemming's remarks. He said there been rumors of possible changes for several weeks. But Rivera said it was unusual to replace commissioners, who are appointed by the president for open-ended terms. Robin Gray, a White House spokesman, said Flemming was telephoned Monday morning and told he was being replaced. Larry Speakes, the press secretary, said the president appointed an official to have the commission's work. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Rebels kill Afghan official NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Anti-government rebels in Kabul recently killed a senior Afghan Defense Ministry official and his wife and several party functionaries, according to a report from the Afghan capital Saturday. Brigadier Mohammad Azam and his wife were assassinated between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 at their home near the Qargha military barracks, said the report from a source monitoring the Afghan fighting. The insurgents killed three members of the National Fatherland Front and other party members Tuesday night, the source said. The rebels set fire to the home where the meeting was held before they withdrew. erg. 11/29/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Parliament member killed BELFAST (UPI) -- IRA terrorists wearing Halloween masks assassinated a militant Protestant member of the British parliament Saturday. Another man was also killed in the attack and by midnight five additional people had been shot in a spiral of reprisals. British Northern Ireland Secretary James Prior branded the killing of the Rev. Robert Bradford a "cynical trap" to create a civil war of terrorism and "counterterrorism" in the embattled province. Bradford, a militant Protestant MP from south Belfast, was the first member of parliament to be assassinated in Ulster in 12 years of violence. The four assassins also killed another man who tried to stop them. Four gunmen wearing Halloween masks and painters' overalls walked into a south Belfast community center where Bradford, 40, was meeting constituents. He was shot six times with a rifle at point-blank range, police and witnesses said. UFOs "higher ups" # Soviet official kidnapped in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- Gunmen kidnapped a Soviet military expert working with Palestinian guerrillas two days ago, a radio run by a right-wing Christian militia said Saturday. They said they could not confirm the report carried by the Voice of Lebanon, a station run by the Phalangist Party. The Russian, identified only as Tikonov, was kidnapped in the predominantly-Moslem neighborhood of West Beirut. Tikonov, a former Soviet army expert, was described by the radio as an adviser on weaponry. There is no at known kidnapping of a Russian in Lebanon, although diplomats from other countries have been victims of kidnappings and assassinations. 11/15/81 # British home blasted LONDON (UPI) -- A huge explosion rocked the home of Attorney General Sir Michael Havers late Friday but Scotland Yard said the government's chief law enforcement officer was not at home at the time and escaped injury. A police officer on guard duty outside suffered acute shock in the explosion, but there were no immediate reports of other injuries, a spokeswoman said. No one was in the house at the time, and the cause of the blast and extent of the damage were not immediately known. The blast could be heard at least six miles away in other parts of south London just after 11 p.m (4 p.m. MST) London time. Star Wyo. 11/14/81 Bomb squad and anti-terrorist officers were rushed to the scene to investigate, the spokeswoman said. Police sealed off a wide area to all but residents as fire engines and ambulances stood by. "It's an explosion inside or near the house, but it's too early to tell, and we still don't know the extent of the damage," the spokeswoman said. "No one was hurt except for the shocked police constable." There were suspicions the blast may be connected to an IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland which began Oct. 10. Three people have been killed in three blasts for which the Irish Republican Army has claimed responsibility. === Page 47 of 64 PLO ambushes pro-Israel THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981 Palestinian leader, kills his son By ARTHUR MAX BETUNIA, Occupied West Bank (AP) -- A gunman critically wounded a moderate Palestinian leader and killed his son Tuesday in a car ambush that struck at Israel's policies in this occupied territory. The Palestine Liberation Organization called the wounded man a "collaborator" with Israel and said it carried out the attack. The PLO took responsibility for wounding Yussuf Al-Khatib, 60, head of a local village association, and killing his 23-year-old son, Kadem, as they drove through Betunia, six miles northwest of Jerusalem. Israeli authorities said one killer was responsible, but in Beirut, the PLO issued a communique stating that a guerrilla squad carried out the shooting. The group vowed to "execute all other collaborators with the Zionist enemy throughout our occupied homeland." The PLO is an umbrella group of eight guerrilla factions fighting for a Palestinian state on Israeli-occupied land. Israel refuses to deal with the PLO, calling it a terrorist group. Israeli officials in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River have encouraged growth of village associations, hoping they will develop a moderate Palestinian leadership to counter pro-PLO sentiment in large towns. The Israelis hope the villages, where 70 percent of West Bank Palestinians live, will be receptive to a self-rule plan being negotiated under the Camp David peace accords. But so far no Palestinian moderate has supported the Israeli self-rule plan. Al-Khatib's association, in the Ramallah area north of Jerusalem, has about 24 member villages which benefit from development projects financed mostly by Israel. But some acquaintances of Al-Khatib said he was not popular because of his pro-Israeli views. "I am not with killing," said Betunia Mayor Ahmed Othman, who knew the victims. "But he (Al-Khatib) should know that when the PLO does not want something, he should stay away from it." The attack came amid a crackdown on Palestinian activists in the West Bank, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 war. On Monday, army demolition squads blew up the houses of three teen-agers accused of lobbing firebombs on Israeli cars and tourist buses. It was the first time the Israelis destroyed homes as a reprisal for anything less than a major guerrilla operation. In Nablus, an Israeli military court sentenced four Palestinian guerrillas to life imprisonment for ambushing and killing six Jewish settlers in Hebron last year. Two judges favored the death penalty but failed to win the necessary unanimous decision from the third judge in the tribunal. - UFOs "higher ups" China envoy hit by bike NYACK, N.Y. (UPI) -- An official in the Chinese delegation to the United Nations was accidently struck in a park by a bicyclist and critically injured, authorities said Monday. Wang Shikun, 55, was listed in critical but stable condition at Nyack Hospital, where he underwent surgery for a blood clot in the brain. The injury was sustained in the accident, authorities said. oreg D 10/12/81 - UFOs "higher ups" The world oreg 10/26/81 Diplomat wounded ROME (AP) -- An unidentified gunman fired three pistol shots at a Turkish diplomat in Rome Sunday, wounding him in both arms, police reported. First reports said the diplomat, Gokberk Ergenekon, 28, returned fire and probably wounded the fleeing attacker. The diplomat works in the consular section, the Turkish Embassy said. Police quoted Ergenekon as saying he was walking on Via dei Normanni near the Colosseum when a man in his early 30s approached him and opened fire. They said two shots hit Ergenekon in the right arm and another struck his left arm. The diplomat pulled out his .38-caliber pistol and fired at the attacker as he ran toward the Colosseum, police said. Ergenekon was taken to a nearby hospital where his condition was described as not serious. No other details were immediately available. - UFOs "higher ups" Mob attacks home MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A mob of 400 government sympathizers attacked the home of former junta member Alfonso Robelo, friends of his family said Monday. Police seized the passports of three other opposition leaders. The Costa Rican government announced Monday it would offer Robelo asylum. Sources in San Jose who said they had spoken with Robelo by telephone told The Associated Press he was in hiding with his wife and three daughters and feared for his life. The crowd went to Robelo's house at 4 a.m. Sunday, threw rocks through the windows and scrawled obscenities on the outer walls, the friends said. The attackers also splashed Robelo's Mercedes Benz automobile with red and black paint, the Sandanista colors. Robelo and his family were not at home. oreg 10/27/81 === Page 48 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Two incidents mar Wales tour Org 10/28/81 CAERNARVON, WALES (AP) -- Prince Charles and Princess Diana were given a rousing welcome Tuesday on their first tour of Wales, but nationalist demonstrators set off a stink bomb and scuffled with police at one appearance and a woman sprayed paint at the royal limousine at another. Thousands cheered the royal couple in the steel-making center of Shotton, the seaside resort of Rhyl, the coastal town of Llandudno and the ancient castle city of Caernarvon. So many well-wishers pressed bouquets on Diana that she said, "I feel like a walking greenhouse." But as the couple arrived at Caernarvon Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II installed Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969, a woman leaped from the crowd and sprayed white paint at the black limousine in which the prince and princess were riding. Police quickly grabbed the woman, who they said was 24 years old but did not otherwise identify. Later, as Prince Charles and Princess Diana went on a walking tour of nearby Bangor, demonstrators set off a stink bomb and attacked police, shouting, "Go Home English Prince" and "Charles Out." There was no word on injuries or arrests, but four protesters were seen being carried away by officers. The royal couple, a few yards away, was quickly surrounded by detectives. Prince Charles stepped quickly to his wife's side and directed her to another crowd across the street, but the royal couple refused to be hurried away and continued exchanging pleasantries with well-wishers. Security was already tight for the three-day royal visit, the first formal public appearance since the July 29 wedding of the 32-year-old prince and the former Lady Diana Spencer, 20. # Bang! WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- popping, crackling noise that sound like a pistol shot interrupted Supreme Court arguments today and sent security guards rushing to the justices' bench. After about a minute of hushed tension, it was determined that a light bulb had fallen from a ceiling fixture and had exploded when it hit the marble floor. Org. Post 11/1/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Royal couple cheered; Welsh discover bomb By MARK S. SMITH Org 10/29/81 CARMARTHEN, WALES (AP) -- Thousands braved driving rain Wednesday to cheer Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their first official visit to this Celtic principality. For the second time this week, Welsh nationalists planted a bomb in a city on the royal route. The device was far enough from areas the couple is expected to visit that it apparently was intended as a protest, not an attempt on their lives. As the drizzle turned into a downpour, Charles slipped his arm round Diana's waist and handed her an umbrella, saying, "Darling, don't walk out in the rain." Army experts defused a fire bomb in the British Steel Corp. offices in Cardiff, 55 miles west of here, after a telephone caller claiming to represent the "Welsh Army of the Workers' Republic," announced its presence to a local radio station. Police said they had never heard of the group before. Charles and Diana are due in Cardiff, the Welsh capital, Thursday at the end of their three-day tour. Police said the bomb was identical to one defused Monday at an army recruiting center in Pontypridd, a town 10 miles north of Cardiff that also is on Thursday's royal itinerary. Security was tight when the couple, whose titles are the Prince and Princess of Wales, toured five South Wales towns. Crowds waved the British flag, the Union Jack, and Wales' green and white flag emblazoned with the red dragon. Many shouted "Creoso" -- Welsh for "Welcome" -- and pressed forward with posies or handshakes for the 20-year-old princess, who is on her first official function since her July 29 wedding. There was no sign during the day of trouble from Welsh nationalists, but when the royal couple arrived Wednesday night for a gala in Swansea, the second-largest city of Wales, they were greeted by several dozen demonstrators chanting, "Charles and Diana Out, Out, Out!" and carrying signs urging establishment of a Welsh republic. "We feel it's a bit of cheek to the Welsh people to have an English person imposed upon us as our royalty," said one demonstrator who refused to give his name. Welsh nationalists had marred enthusiastic welcomes Tuesday in two northern centers, Bangor and Caernarvon, jeering Charles and Diana, lobbing a stinkbomb and spraying paint on their limousine. The anti-royalist demonstrators in Swansea were largely drowned out by some 2,000 well-wishers who cheered loudly as the royal couple entered Brangwym Hall in Swansea's city center. "I'm Welsh, but I simply cannot sympathize with anyone who could lower themselves to that kind of extremism," said Sian Rhys-Davis, 34, one of the thousands who stood for hours in the storm-lashed main street of this 900-year-old market town to cheer the royal couple's lunchtime arrival. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # New Haig flap annoys Reagan WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Reagan is annoyed and incredulous about the most recent reports that his foreign policy team, including Secretary of State Alexander Haig, is alive with backbiting and turf battles. The president, in remarks Tuesday, even suggested that some of the stories may have been fabricated. "I don't have much faith in an unnamed source," he told reporters. "Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as an unnamed source." His comments aside, the reason for the president's consternation in this case had little to do with an unnamed source. Rather, it was Haig's published -- on the record -- complaints in a Jack Anderson column about a White House official conducting a guerrilla campaign to do him in. Anderson was about to publish a column, relying on White House sources, that called Haig a disappointment as secretary of state and suggested that he is close to losing his job. Haig heard about the column, called Anderson, called Reagan and, according to the State Department, apparently told the president that, yes, someone on the White House staff was out to get him. A State Department official confirmed the accuracy of Haig's complaints as recounted by Anderson. Org J 11/4/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - SNIFFLES: Nancy Reagan did not accompany the president to a Republican fund-raising gathering in New York due to a lingering cold. Reagan apologized Friday for the absence of his wife, explaining that she had been "grounded" by a bug. Reagan also has had a cold and he sounded hoarse when he spoke to guests at a GOP reception. Org J 11/7/81 === Page 49 of 64 MIKE ROYKO Disorientation UFO attack "Higher ups" Denver Post 11/3/81 # Confusion as our national standard RICHARD NIXON used to preface statements by saying: "Let me make this perfectly clear." Then he'd try to confuse us. President Reagan and his top people have a different approach. They start right out by confusing us. Then they confuse one another. Later, they confuse themselves. Finally, they confuse us even more. An example of this approach is the question of whether we will or won't explode a nuclear bomb as a warning if Moscow makes some kind of conventional military attack in Europe. The question came up while Secretary of State Alexander ("I'm in charge!") Haig was being questioned by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the White House's nuclear weapons plans. HAIG, WITH A Strangelovian gleam in his eyes, told the senators that, yes, the option of a warning nuclear blast was included in NATO's contingency plans. Naturally, people all over Europe choked on their wine, lager, ale, wurst, fish and chips, pate, pasta, cabbage soup and dumplings. If there is anything that makes Europeans nervous, it is talk about the Soviets and the Americans lobbing nuclear weapons at each other on their continent and adjoining islands. Many Americans became jumpy, too, especially at the matter-of-fact way Haig tossed out the possibility of detonating a Big One. He even grinned slightly when he said it. A somber facial expression really might have been more appropriate. Within hours, though, Caspar Weinberger, secretary of defense (and I don't know why they refuse to call it secretary of war, which is what the job really is) had flatly contradicted Haig, his fellow Cabinet member. Weinberger said that many years ago somebody had come up with the idea of making a Big Boom to let the Russians know they can't mess around in Europe but that it had never become a NATO policy. So at that point, we had the secretary of state saying one thing, and the secretary of defense saying just the opposite. Now, it's not reasonable to expect two people -- even those working for the same administration -- to always agree on things. For example, it would be no big deal if you asked Haig and Weinberger if they had the correct time and one said, "It's 4:45," while the other one said, "No, it's 4:46." But you'd hope that they would both know whether it is our policy to explode a nuclear bomb to scare Moscow, since exploding one nuclear bomb could lead to all kinds of hell-raising with bombs, which in turn could quickly lead to the end of such popular institutions as civilization and life on this planet. Because there was such a sharp conflict between Haig and Weinberger, the Washington press corps turned its yearning eyes toward the White House for some kind of clarification. And the clarification came: The White House said Haig was correct when he said there was a NATO plan to fire a nuclear warning shot if war broke out in Europe. The White House also said Weinberger was correct when he said there was not a NATO plan to fire a nuclear warning shot if war broke out in Europe. The White House went on to explain that such a plan had been proposed, so Haig was right. But the plan had not been approved, so Weinberger was right. That's just about the nicest way to resolve a conflict that I can think of -- declaring that both sides are right, even if they expressed opposite views. If more divorce judges would take that approach, we might have a much happier society. Or more domestic murders. But some Washington reporters just became more confused, and you can't blame them. Past experience shows that when any two top White House officials say something, whether they agree or disagree, it is more likely that they'll both be wrong. So when President Reagan answered questions this week, somebody asked him about Haig's warning shot statement. Reagan said there is "some confusion as to whether that's still part of NATO policy, and I haven't had an answer on that." That seems to indicate that Reagan, like the rest of us, is confused as to whether we'll explode a warning nuclear bomb. It also seems to mean that whoever is supposed to tell him what our plans are hasn't given him an answer. Well, if the president and commander in chief can't find out if we're going to try to scare Moscow by exploding a nuclear bomb, that's carrying secrecy too far. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO tell him what our nuclear plans are. And no excuses, please -- the commander in chief isn't always taking a nap. So the way the situation stands, if I read it correctly, is that the secretary of state says one thing; the secretary of defense says another thing, and the White House information office says they are both right. And the president of the United States says he's confused and he can't find out who's right. That's intolerable. If the president himself can't get straight answers, then he ought to call the responsible parties in and beat the truth out of them. But that might not work either. He might not know who to beat. Chicago Sun-Times === Page 50 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" - 11/26/81 # Kennedy matriarch doing fine WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Rose Kennedy was reported in satisfactory condition and doing "just fine" Wednesday evening, after being hospitalized when she experienced chest pains. "Mrs. Kennedy is feeling much, much better," said Ruth Hardy, spokeswoman at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, where the 91-year-old woman was brought Tuesday after suffering chest pains at morning Mass. "She's been sitting up in bed and talking and is quite cheerful." The chest pains have disappeared, Ms. Hardy said. According to Ms. Hardy, Mrs. Kennedy's doctor, West Palm Beach cardiologist Robert Gerard, found nothing to indicate that she had a heart attack. Gerard said Mrs. Kennedy did have angina pectoris, chest pains often caused by a blockage of one or more coronary arteries. Mrs. Kennedy was visited Wednesday in her private room in the hospital's cardiology unit by two of her children, son Edward Kennedy, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and daughter Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the former wife of actor Peter Lawford. The senator had flown from Washington late Tuesday. Other Kennedy family members were reported to have telephoned, and Ms. Hardy said the hospital had received hundreds of get-well calls for Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was taken off intravenous feeding Wednesday morning and put on a diet of "bland, soft foods and liquids," Ms. Hardy said. Gerard said Mrs. Kennedy may be released from the hospital on Thanksgiving, but Ms. Hardy said the hospital staff had made preparations to serve Mrs. Kennedy and her guests a traditional holiday dinner. It was the first time Mrs. Kennedy has been hospitalized for heart problems. She underwent surgery for intestinal blockage in September 1979. ROSE KENNEDY - UFOs "higher ups" - 11/13/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ARUBLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, CAPTAIN? MOSCOW # Stockman's Blockbuster Salt Lake Tribune If Budget Director David Stockman had walked up and punched President Reagan in the nose, the damage could hardly have been greater than the injury inflicted on the administration by his confession (in the Atlantic Monthly) of serious doubt about the Reagan economic recovery program. Is Mr. Stockman a turncoat, a patriot, or a fool? Was his damaging disclosure of lost faith the product of an injured ego or immaturity? Or was the 35-year-old prodigy in over his head from the beginning? Whatever the reason, his admission of outright deception, slip-shod craftsmanship and plain ignorance on the part of administration economic theorists and planners is an indictment of rare candor and potentially deadly impact. It could blow Reaganomics off the front pages and into the comic sections and take a good part of the Republican Party along too. At this early stage in the developing debacle, when the White House is still in a state of shock, and the opposition Democrats can hardly believe it's true, there is no telling what will happen next. Mr. Stockman's head should be rolling soon. However, some reports indicate that his knowledge of the ins and out of the Reagan program he helped create is so great that he is indispensable, loose tongue and all. If David Stockman is correct in his assessment of the administration's version of "supply side" economics, the country could be in for more than the few months of "hard times" President Reagan predicted in his news conference earlier this week. And don't be surprised if the old Watergate term coined by Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., surfaces again: "How much did the president know and when did he know it?" - UFOs "higher ups" - # Goldwater has surgery PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - Sen. Barry Goldwater's left hip was replaced by a prosthetic device during surgery Monday, a hospital spokesman said. The 72-year-old Arizona Republican was in satisfactory condition after surgery, said Robert Lundin of St. Luke Hospital. He said the operation went well and that Goldwater, the GOP nominee for president in 1964, was expected to be hospitalized for 10 to 14 days. Lundin said Goldwater had similar surgery on his right hip several years earlier, adding: "His conditions are satisfactory; there were no apparent complications and normal recovery is expected." Goldwater plans to return to work in Washington after Jan. 1, Lundin said. 11/10/81 ... Sen. Barry Goldwater had his left hip joint replaced with one made of metal and plastic in a Phoenix hospital Monday ... Jordan's King Hussein is in a Houston, Texas, hospital for a check-up. While he's there, he will visit his nephew, Prince Talal, who is recovering from injuries suffered in a water skiing accident. - UFOs "higher ups" - === Page 51 of 64 AY, NOVEMBER 4, 1981 - 7/10 attack "higher ups" # Haig-Allen feud won't go on, Reagan aide says By JACK NELSON ORG 11/4/81 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The long-simmering feud between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and national security adviser Richard V. Allen boiled anew Tuesday, with one senior administration official predicting that Allen's days are numbered. The official, a close friend and longtime associate of the president who refused to be identified, told the Los Angeles Times that while a specific timetable for Allen's removal has not been set, "Everyone's agreed that it's going to happen. The president isn't going to allow this internecine stuff to keep going on." A White House spokesman denied Tuesday that Reagan plans to replace Allen. And Allen told The Times that Haig personally assured him he does not regard Allen as the source of the latest flap. The current flare-up began when Haig, after reading an advance copy of a newspaper column, called Reagan over the weekend to complain angrily that a senior White House aide was leading a "guerrilla campaign" to discredit him. Haig's complaint centered on a column written by Jack Anderson that cited incidents that allegedly had caused the president to lose confidence in his secretary of state. At Haig's urging, Reagan telephoned Anderson and denied the accuracy of the column, which Anderson withdrew from scheduled publication. In its place, Anderson circulated a substitute column for Tuesday that recounted his conversations with Reagan, who expressed confidence in his secretary of state, and with Haig, who spoke bitterly of a campaign to discredit him. The latest flap caused lengthy high-level meetings at the White House and the State Department, with spokesmen at both places confirming that Haig complained about such a campaign. Haig told Anderson, "This damages my ability to carry out the president's foreign policy." He called it "sabotage of the president" by some of his own people and added, "It is just mind-boggling." Anderson wrote that Haig said the original column that was withdrawn "was obviously the handiwork of a top White House aide who has been running a guerrilla campaign against him for nine months." Allen, denying Tuesday that he is the source of the anti-Haig leaks, said: "Today Al Haig called and said, 'I know it's not you,'" Allen said. "And I know it is not I. My senior colleagues know it's not Allen, and the president knows it's not Allen." Allen also denied he was on the way out. "I'm pleased to tell you that it's not so, and your source is inaccurate, completely inaccurate." Asked if he had discussed the matter with Reagan, Allen said, "No, but I intend to shortly." The president has given no public indication that he plans to relieve Allen of his post. Asked Tuesday about the feuding in his administration, Reagan told reporters, "The only thing I can figure about stopping it is that after convincing all of you that there is absolutely no foundation for all these rumors that keep coming up in circulation." 7/10 "higher ups" # Kissinger stirs Peru protest LIMA, Peru (UPI) -- Police turned on water hoses to disperse about 300 students protesting former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's appearance at an international convention in downtown Lima, the second demonstration against him in two days. The demonstration Thursday followed by less than 24 hours a protest in Brasilia where protesters burned an American flag, hurled eggs and shouted "murderer" while Kissinger spoke Wednesday to an invitation-only audience at Brasilia University. Police said the students gathered in downtown Lima as Kissinger addressed the 19th World Management Congress on American foreign policy under heavy police security. Kissinger arrived at the tightly guarded downtown convention center flanked by 10 agents who stayed near the stage during most of his speech. He left through a side door. ORG 11/20/81 ficials in the White House and the State Department have said privately that the Allen-Haig feud does exist and has caused serious problems for the administration's foreign policy. Three different White House officials, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that they not be identified, expressed serious concern about the situation. Two of them said that because of the way Reagan has structured the administration's foreign policy apparatus -- with a dominant secretary of state and a downgraded, weakened national security assistant -- it would take more than removing Allen to improve foreign policy operations. Both of those officials believe that any replacement for Allen should have a stronger voice in coordinating foreign policy for the president and not be so subordinated to the secretary of state. "Getting rid of Allen won't solve the basic problem," one official said. "The president created a bit of a monster when he said that the secretary of state would be the sole spokesman for foreign affairs and said that the national security assistant would no longer have a prominent voice." "Then he put a strong personality like Haig in as secretary of state who believed it all and lost the opportunity to have coordination of foreign policy at the White House level. I don't know about cutting up Haig, but I do know that every time Allen tries to do his job he crosses wires with Al Haig and that's very frustrating for Allen." Another official who agreed with that assessment said, "Getting rid of Allen won't be a magic answer to the problem. The problem goes beyond personalities and should have been dealt with a long time ago." Only last week, Reagan sought to squelch reports of an impending shakeup in his foreign policy team, saying that suggestions that he was about to fire Haig and Allen were "totally invented." Friction between Haig and Allen dates back almost to the earliest days of the Reagan administration. At the outset of his term, Reagan downgraded the post of national security adviser and publicly gave Haig the principal role on foreign policy in an effort to keep his administration free of such feuding. During President Carter's administration, national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski vied openly with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance for supremacy in foreign affairs. Similar tensions had existed in President Nixon's administration. === Page 52 of 64 Haig's style weakens Reagan foreign policy By JAMES RESTON WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. is regarded here as the most experienced member of the Reagan administration in the conduct of foreign affairs, which is no great compliment, but he is in deep trouble. He is not in trouble because of differences with the White House or the Pentagon over policy. He is closer to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the president's national security adviser, Richard Allen, on the substance of policy than Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski were in the Carter administration. He is in trouble for personal reasons. Under the political and personal pressures of his office, he has developed a pattern of losing his temper and has raised questions about his judgment. He is not really the cause, but in some ways the victim of the Reagan style of government. Nobody in this administration has ever pretended that the president had mastered the intricate details of foreign policy. He has delegated them to members of his Cabinet and White House staff, who compete with one another in filling the vacuum at the top by pronouncing the nation's foreign policy every Sunday morning on "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "Issues and Answers" and other television talk shows. This television diplomacy has alarmed Haig from the start. He is a creature of the Pentagon, where decisions are carried out by command, but is now presiding over the State Department, where decisions must be reached by consent and negotiated with the Congress and the allies. He has not proved to be very effective in this misty world of compromising with the White House, comforting the Congress, reassuring the allies, or persuading the Soviets, the Israelis or the Arabs. Maybe this assignment is beyond human patience and endurance. But in grappling with it, Haig has lost his cool. First he tried to insist on what seemed to many here excessive control of all foreign, economic and political questions in the Cabinet, to the dismay of his colleagues, who rejected his proposals. Then he elevated the El Salvador civil war into a major test of U.S.-Soviet relations, and discussed foreign policy in terms of military weapons, as if he were secretary of defense, which maybe he should have been, rather than as secretary of state, whose job is to make peace. This problem of his temperament and his judgment came to dramatic public notice here in the last few days when he had the State Department spokesman say publicly that there was a "guerrilla campaign" by unnamed persons within the administration to get him fired. Since President Reagan had said the day before that he supported Haig, this was very odd. Why elevate a rumor into a front page story all over the world? Why embarrass the president who was trying to calm things down by insisting that there was some kind of conspiracy within the administration against him? Making things worse, Haig then testified in Congress the next day, while the European allies were trying to deal with massive anti-nuclear demonstrations, that Washington had a "contingency plan" to explode a "demonstration" nuclear bomb in the event that the Soviets launched a conventional military attack against Western Europe. This was immediately denied in Congress by Secretary of Defense Weinberger, who said there was no such "contingency plan," and shouldn't be. Asked about this, the White House said there was really no contradiction. Both were right, the White House insisted, since such an idea had been "suggested" some years ago but was rejected. Reagan has dealt with all this as if it were no big deal. "Boys will be boys." Get them in the Oval Office and tell them to cut it out, and all will be well. But, frankly, all is not well. If Reagan could read the diplomatic cables going out of Washington here last weekend to the capitals of his allies and his adversaries, or even invite the honest opinions of his friends, he would realize that he's not at the end but merely at the beginning of a foreign policy crisis abroad - as well as an economic crisis at home. For, as the Wall Street Journal, no enemy of the Reagan administration, said this week, these questions of temperament and judgment, "underscore the secretary's feelings of insecurity," and "tend to foster a concern that he is unsteady." So the president may have told Haig and Allen to cut the sniping, and asked everybody to settle down and forget it. But the allies are not forgetting it - they are increasingly going off on their own, worrying about the judgment and disarray of the top officials in Washington. And this same feeling is beginning to pervade the capital. © 1981, N.Y. Times News Service 11/10/81 # The world Kissinger flees protest BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger left the University of Brasilia in a police paddy wagon Wednesday after 400 student protesters besieged an administration building where he was lecturing. Riot police rescued Kissinger and about 300 other people after the demonstrators screamed anti-U.S. slogans, burned an American flag, lobbed eggs, tomatoes and rocks at the building and barricaded the doors for two hours. One window was broken, but there was no other apparent damage. No injuries were reported. "He was remarkably calm the entire time," said one U.S. diplomat who was trapped with Kissinger during the siege. Many foreign diplomats assigned to the Brazilian capital attended the morning talk, including the deputy chief of the U.S. Embassy, George High. Kissinger jokingly told his audience the protests "make me feel at home, but I've never heard so much noise." === Page 53 of 64 " Deattack " higher wps"- wyom 09/05/8. Ambush Fails to Kill Top Envoy in France PARIS (UPI) - A gun- The chauffeur also escaped at a House Foreign Affairs man looking "like a killer injury. in a bad movie" fired six "It's a lamentable inci- dent," said Chapman, who was the senior diplomat in Laos when the Communists took over the Southeast Asian nation in 1975. shots from ambush at ac- ting U.S. Ambassador Christian Chapman Thurs- day in an assassination at- tempt linked to Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy. Chap- man was not hit. "This sort of thing changes nothing as to the policy of my country," .Chapman, 60, told an em- bassy news conference shortly after he foiled the assassin by ducking behind his armored limousine. Chapman, the embassy's charge d'affaires, was about to enter his chauffeur-driven limousine at his three-story townhouse on tree-lined Rue Emile Deschanel in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower at 8:50 a.m. when the waiting gunman opened fire with a 7.65 mm automatic pistol. The gunman hit the trunk of the limousine and some other cars and fled on foot. Chapman, acting am- bassador until newly nam- ed envoy Evan Galbraith takes up his post Nov. 23, was unguarded at the time of the attack and embar- rassed French police pro- mptly ordered 24-hour pro- tection. In Washington, President Reagan "deplored"! the at- tempted assassination, as futher evidence of interna- tional terrorism, and Secretary of State Alex- ander Haig hinted Khadafy was behind the failed hit - possibly to avenge the shooting down of two Li- byan Soviet-made MiGs by U.S. jets in August over the Gulf of Sidra. Asked about the shooting Committee meeting, Haig sald, "We do have repeated reports coming to us from reliable sources that Mr. Khadafy has been funding, sponsoring, training, har- boring terrorist groups who conduct activities against the lives and well-being of American diplomats and facilities." French officials said threats against the em- bassy had been received in August at the time of the Gulf of Sidra incident but not since. The embassy building is normally pro- tected by French riot police. Reports of a possible Li- byan terror campaign against U.S. envoys surfac- ed two weeks ago after U.S. Ambassador to Italy Max- well Rabb was called home and given around-the clock guard when he returned to Italy. The ambasaddor to Vienna has been giver similar protection. - YFor attack "higher ups"~ Klan wizard held in killing ONgo 10/2018, SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) -- The grand wizard of the Invincible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Order of the WO, "higher wie " Hartung to leave Senate Sen. Tom Hartung, R-Portland, said Monday he will leave the Legislature next year after having served in the House and the Senate for a total of 16 years. Har- tung, 54, said he would not seek re-elec- tion to his Northwest Portland seat be- cause "the system really does frustrate me now. We no longer have a citizen Legisla- ture." He said serving in the Senate took up more time than he could afford, time he said he would prefer to spend with his family and business. greg J 11/17/8. der security. Early next year, the depart- will retire. for eight years, will leave the job Nov. 30 to supervise a three-month study of bor- ment announced, the 60-year-old Knight Org / 11/17/8, White Rose in Rio Linda has been arrested on a charge of killing his wile with a 12-gauge shotgun. A spokesman for the Sacramento Coun- ty sheriff's office said Harvey Hopkins, 34, is being held without bail for allegedly shooting his wife, Pamela, 27, during a domestic dispute Wednesday at their resi- dence in Rio Linda. Mrs. Hopkins was dead on arrival at Mercy San Juan Hospital. She was shot once in the chest. Hopkins organized sever ings in Rio Linda, an uni- munity north of Sacrar On his booking sh kins listed his occr explosive persons - Ufos " higherups - Secret Service to expand WASHINGTON (UPI) - The director of the Secret Service, H. Stuart Knight, will be replaced soon to allow his succes- sor 10 oversee a near-doubling in the agency's size, the Treasury Department announced. Knight, director of the agency ble Libyan connection. to an assassination," but th source of the threat and wy refused to identify the comment on a possi- Increased markedly because of the possibility Libyan Col. Rabb STICKS & STONES; Eyebrows went up in Britain's Pallament Thurs day when Andrew Faulds of the op- position Labor Party asked Prime Min- İster Margaret Thatcher whether Eu- ropean governments would "be free to choose or veto the push on the final button by that incoherent cretin, Pres- Ident Reagan?" Responded Mrs. Thatcher: "I greatly deplore the dis- courtesy and total futility of your re- marks." Speaker George Thomas ac- cused Faulds, a former actor, of break- ing a centuries-old house rule against rude remarks. Labor member Christo- pher Price defended Faulds, saying the rule dated only from the 1930s to keep members from saying abusive things about Adolf Hitler. FREAKING OUT: A man who ap- parently blamed President Reagan for his Jouyomic troubles rushed Into a K .- een, Tex., radio station, stripped off his clothing and demanded a gun to kill the president. "The guy sort of " freaked out," said Steve Anderson, the station's music director. "He socked our business manager (a woman) but calmed down before police arrived." Earl Williams, 26, is awaiting trial on charges of indecent exposure and as- sault. Greg p 10/30 81 U.S. envoys given added security The sources also disclosed Sunday that the U.S. ambassador to Italy, Maxwell M. Rabb, was recalled to Washington two weeks ago partly because of a threat by terrorists to kidnap and assassinate him. Administration officials who asked not to be identified said security precautions at U.S. em- bassies, consulates and American military bases abroad have been WASHINGTON (UPI) - Several U.S. ambassadors were given bulletproof cars and bulletproof vests recent- Ty because of possible trouble from Libyan-supported terrorist groups, administration sources say. HAST 10/26/8, "Higher whe Moammar Khadafy may seek revenge for the downing last summer of two Libyan jets by U.S. fighters. (Many top official now ride in bulletproof cars and "a number" wear bulletproof vests, sources said. They would not identify the ambassadors given extra security. Rabb, 71, appointed ambassador by President Reagan. was recalled from Italy "at least two weeks ago," in part because of a threat of kidnapping, the sources said. The New York Times reported that authorities had uncovered a Libyan plot to assassinate Rabb and he was hastily recalled to Washington - "without even a change of clothes." Official sources told United Press International it was a kidnapping threat "with appropriate publicity leading === Page 54 of 64 44 3M + THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 18, 1981 # British general seriously hurt "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" BY LEONARD DOWNIE JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service LONDON -- A senior British general was seriously injured Saturday by an Irish nationalist bomb that tore his car apart as he drove away from his home in a quiet south London suburb. Lt. Gen. Steuart Pringle, 53, commanding general of the Royal Marines, was reported in stable condition Saturday night after his right leg was amputated below the knee in surgery on his badly mangled limbs. The Provisional Irish Republican Army, which recently stepped up its campaign of violence aimed at ending British rule of Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the second bombing by the Provisional IRA in London in a week. Last Saturday, two people were killed and 39 injured, 21 of them members of the British Army's Irish Guards, when a bomb exploded outside the Army's Chelsea barracks in central London, about four miles north of the scene of Saturday's bombing. Police sources said they were searching for a Provisional IRA terrorist group of four or five men who could be responsible for both attacks and may be planning more. They have circulated police sketches of the suspects based on descriptions of men seen near a laundry truck in which last Saturday's explosion was detonated as a bus filled with Irish Guards passed by. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned Saturday night that "it is absolutely vital that every member of the public should exercise extreme care and vigilance. Everyone should be careful, not just those who by virtue of their position may be attacked. Such vigilance will help to beat the danger and catch the perpetrators of these dreadful crimes." The head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad, Police Cmdr. Mike Richards, said "it is possible" that the bomb Oreg 10/18/81 - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" # Egypt arrests blind cultist By DON A. SCHANCHE LA Times-Washington Post Service Oreg 10/27/81 CAIRO, Egypt -- Police have arrested a blind mufti they say is the ideological leader of the fanatic Moslem group that has been blamed for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, an authoritative newspaper reported Monday. Fresh details of the leadership of the shadowy Society for Repentance and Flight from Sin emerged from arrests made during police raids on the extremist group's hideouts during the last two days, according to the Mayo newspaper, which speaks officially for President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party. Among 39 persons linked with the cult who have been arrested since Sadat's killing three weeks ago was Omar Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the blind, self-proclaimed mufti (chief theologian) of the underground terrorist organization. Mayo gave no details concerning Rahman's age or background, but a photograph accompanying the report showed an unkempt, bearded man of 40 or more years. He apparently was the ideological successor of Shukri Ahmed Mustafa, founder of the cult, who was hanged in 1978 for leading the kidnapping and assassination of a former religious affairs minister in the Sadat government. Rahman "gave the dispensation for exploding a revolution like that of (Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini. He is the one who gave the dispensation for the assassination of all of Egypt's political and executive leadership," according to the newspaper's report. Members of the sect reportedly believe that all Moslems who do not believe in the ideology of Repentance's founder, Mustafa, are heretics and thus fair game for assassination, Mayo reported. Rahman "issued a dispensation that the wives of officials were captives of organization members, and the members had the right to own them and use them as they please," Mayo reported. Rahman, who returned after that of Egypt, the le Sunni Islam h terrorist oper Mayo called R He was c last week, i ists died an The raids skirts of south of Americ Pol ernme ary Ayatolla by the late Chinese the Mayo report. Police also found what appeared to be a treasury as well, according to Mayo. The newspaper said Rahman had $20,000 in American money and the equivalent of another $7,300 in Egyptian pounds. # Bomb damages home of Thatcher appointee - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" - Oreg 11/14/81 LONDON (AP) -- The Irish Republican Army planted a bomb under the home of Attorney General Sir Michael Havers that police said caused a "tremendous explosion" Friday night, but no deaths occurred because the house was empty at the time. No warning was given of the blast, and the back of the house was badly damaged. The London ambulance service said it understood the bomb had been planted in the basement of the house. Havers has a round-the-clock police guard at his London home, with a small guard at his front door at the time. - "UFOs 'higher ups'" - # Iran guerrillas kill Khomeini aide Oreg 10/25/81 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas kidnapped and burned to death a provincial government official loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran Radio said Saturday. The broadcast also implicated followers of a dissident ayatollah in the killing. Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who said Friday that 90 percent of the Mujahedeen were destroyed, called for accelerating the struggle with Khomeini's dissidents, and said the "roaring sea of the people will swallow them up." Tehran Radio said the Mujahedeen Khalq kidnapped and killed Javad Husseinkhah Friday, a supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini in the struggle with Khomeini in 1979 for leadership of Iran's Islamic revolution. Husseinkhah was the political and administrative director in Turkish-populated East Azerbaijan, the ethnic and spiritual homeland of the dissident powers. Tehran Radio, monitored in Beirut, said Husseinkhah was seized by Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas just after 8:30 a.m. on his way to Tabriz, provincial capital of Azerbaijan near the Soviet border. His burned remains were discovered near the city of Mianeh, 220 miles northwest of the capital. - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" # Kirkpatrick Hospitalized NEW YORK -- Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was taken by ambulance from LaGuardia Airport to a hospital Thursday night after suffering chest pains during a flight from Washington. Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 54, entered New York Hospital emergency room in Manhattan about 8:30 p.m. A hospital security guard said that when the ambassador arrived, she was "talking and did not appear to be in any real discomfort." Compiled from Wire Dispatches Oreg 11/13/81 === Page 55 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan uncomfortable in press appearances By DAVID S. BRODER oreg 11/15/81 WASHINGTON -- President Reagan asked reporters at his news conference last week to remember that the words they write are read all around the world and to consider whether the message they send is helpful or destructive to the nation's interests. Whatever you think of that plea, the fact is that the most important message is the one the president himself conveys by his words and demeanor on public occasions. For the most part, those appearances have been helpful to Reagan in advancing his goals. His wit, his good nature and his rehearsed eloquence stand him in good stead, whether he is delivering a toast at a banquet, a brief political speech or a televised policy address. But at the last two news conferences, the impression he has created has been one of a man under great strain. The comments on Capitol Hill and in embassies suggest that the tension and anxiety the president displays when answering questions about his policies are beginning to cause concern among those here and abroad who look to the White House for leadership. That same anxiety is being expressed by members of the White House staff who have come to view each press conference as a hurdle that must be negotiated with care. They have adopted what my colleague Martin Schram accurately describes as a "damage-control" philosophy for dealing with the press conferences: Schedule them infrequently, slow down the pace of questioning by lengthy answers, and hope that Reagan gets out of them without hurting himself. That is a defensible, if obviously defensive, strategy. The practical problem is that the president is so strained in executing it -- hesitant in manner and nervous in speech -- that he undercuts the effort to build confidence in his leadership. The relaxed sense of command and self-control that he communicated so advantageously in his 1980 campaign debates and in almost every formal speech he has made as president turns into a very tentative and tense performance in the press conferences. Explanations abound. Some say the president's hearing impairment forces him to strain to hear the questions and puts him on edge even before he gives his answers. His aides have tried to reduce this problem by installing an amplifier in his podium. Others say it is the mental gymnastics of the news conference that the president finds intimidating. He works best when he knows the topic in advance and has his index cards at hand, with the points he wants to make. In the news conferences he held in his eight years as governor of California, the custom was to exhaust one topic before shifting to a new one. He seemed more comfortable with that more structured format. His critics put forward a much harsher theory. Reagan is under strain because he has such a shaky grasp of the policies for which he is formally responsible that he has a dickens of a time remembering what it is that he is supposed to say about such-and-such a subject. If that is right, then we are really in trouble -- not just this administration but this country and the world. But before accepting that gloomy conclusion, I would like to see how Reagan would do if he were holding a press conference of some kind every week. He did that when he was governor. But as president, he has held five news conferences in 10 months. On that schedule, every one becomes a very big deal -- a big mental hurdle. The Reagan we have seen at the last couple of news conferences reminds me of the uptight, unhappy Reagan of the Iowa caucus period early in 1980, when his then-manager, John P. Sears, was trying to shield him from the press and public. When Reagan campaigned infrequently, under Sears' constraints, he was a lousy campaigner -- always on the defensive. When he was unleashed in New Hampshire, he was terrific. So it is, I suspect, with the news conferences. People like my colleague Lou Cannon who covered him in California remember those gubernatorial news conferences, not as ordeals to which Reagan submitted, but as opportunities which he exploited easily to carry his message to the people. Maybe he's lost the knack, now that he is 10 years older. But my guess is that he's just not getting enough practice to feel comfortable in the news conference format. If he had a regular schedule where on alternating weeks he would have big televised news conferences and small Oval Office interviews with some of the White House regulars, my guess is that he would be better briefed by his staff on a wide range of issues, and much better prepared to discuss them. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Reputed mobster jailed NEW YORK (AP) -- Russell Bufalino, the reputed Pennsylvania crime overlord, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and fined $15,000 for plotting to kill a government witness whose testimony sent him to jail in another case. U.S. District Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy permitted the 78-year-old defendant to remain free on $50,000 bond pending appeal of the conviction. Ten years was the maximum penalty on a count of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the witness, Jack Napoli. Bufalino also was sentenced to five years for obstructing justice, with the sentences to run concurrently. "Mr. Bufalino, I well recognize that you are 78 years old," said Duffy as he pronounced sentence. "But a sentence not only deals with the person, it deals with society." oag 11/18/81 === Page 56 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Kissinger flees Brazilian students' siege BRASILIA, Brazil (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger fled a university in the back of a van to escape 400 students who hurled eggs, burned a U.S. flag and shouted "murderer" to protest his $15,000 speaking fee. Kissinger was giving a lecture Wednesday at Brasilia University when 400 students surrounded the auditorium building, trapping the former secretary of state and scores of high Brazilian government officials for about two hours. As the demonstrators beat on samba drums while shouting "murderer" and "Yankee go home," Kissinger reportedly cracked, "And now do you think anybody is going to pay a ransom for me?" Kissinger and the Brazilian government officials were forced to remain inside the building until riot police arrived to rescue them. Police backed a van into an entrance of the building and whisked Kissinger off the campus. But one Brazilian government minister and several ambassadors were hit by eggs and handfuls of sand and jostled when they walked out of the building. At least one American flag was burned. Police took no action against the demonstrators and no arrests were reported. Student organizations had announced the protest in advance, saying it was "absurd" to pay $15,000 to Kissinger when Brazilian universities need funds. University professors are in the second week of a nationwide strike for higher wages. "We want funds for education, not to bring in a murderer," said one banner. Kissinger, who later met with Brazilian President Gen. Joao Figueiredo before continuing on to Rio de Janeiro and a flight to Peru, emphasized he did not consider the protesters representative of Brazil. "This is not a way to treat anyone, and much less an illustrious visitor," said Brazilian presidential spokesman Carlos Atila. "I am sure that 99.9 percent (that) the Brazilian people would energetically reject what these people did." org J 11/19/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - ① # 26 perish in collapse of Philippine palace MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- A six-story palace ordered built in a rush by first lady Imelda Marcos for an international film festival collapsed Tuesday, killing 26 workers and injuring 41 others with 30 men still trapped under debris. About 120 shift workers were pouring cement six stories above the ground when the 98-by-65-foot roof of the main theater of the film palace collapsed in the middle of the night, witnesses said. "We never knew what happened," said carpenter Roque Andaya. "We just heard a roar that sounded like thunder and then the earth shook. It was all over after that." The reasons for the collapse of the building, being constructed on reclaimed land in Manila Bay, were not clear. About 1,000 men were working on the rush job around the clock. org J 11/17/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ② # Bomb call delays Marcos jet SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A jetliner carrying Imelda Marcos, wife of the Philippine president, was delayed for 3½ hours on an airport tarmac early Wednesday while bomb experts searched it for explosives after a telephone threat. The flight, which was returning the president's wife to Manila after a 10-day personal visit to the United States, finally took off at 2:30 a.m. PST. No bomb or evidence of one was found. org J 11/11/81 # Marcos declares emergency ③ MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- President Ferdinand Marcos Tuesday declared an emergency in 17 Philippines provinces hard-hit by Typhoon Irma's destructive sweep that killed more than 400 people last week. In a series of directives during a six-hour joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Economic Development Authority, Marcos also ordered the release of $278,750 to finance the sale of subsidized rice to farmers. An additional $250,000 was ordered released for relief operations. org J 12/1/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - United Press Intern FINAL LANDING -- Coastguardsmen survey the wreckage Saturday of a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Pacific near Coos Bay during storm that lashed Oregon over weekend. Capt. Frank Olsen, 44, commanding officer of the North Bend Coast Guard Station's air rescue unit died in the crash. Two crewmen were rescued. org J 11/16/81 === Page 57 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # 'Shifty' Reagan turns tables with ease By LOYE MILLER JR. Newhouse News Service Times-Falls, Twin Falls, Id. 6/15/81 WASHINGTON -- In muddling through his press conference this past week, President Reagan resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the book. Since the dawn of the republic, politicians have tried to squirm through difficulty by saying the press, rather than their own policies or actions, created the public furor of the moment. You might call it the "Nobody out there would know I have been acting like a fool if the press didn't go around telling them" school of public affairs. Or, as one exasperated aide to Barry Goldwater screamed at a reporter during the Arizona senator's disastrously indiscreet 1964 presidential campaign: "Don't write what he says. Write what he means." Early in his press conference, Reagan was asked about a remark he had made last Oct. 16 which had created severe strains among the NATO allies. He was reported to have said a nuclear war with the Soviet Union could conceivably be contained to the European continent, rather than escalating into a doomsday exchange of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Reagan replied, with a straight face, that the problem had arisen only because press reports were based upon "hearing it second hand." He said, "We could go back and get the transcript of what was actually said and I would stand on that." That answer was outrageously misleading. For the fact is that the press and television reports which so upset the European allies were accurately based on the transcript (released by the White House) of what the president actually said, not on "second hand" information. Later in the press conference, Reagan tried to gloss over the recent explosive public rupture between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and the White House by characterizing it as more than anything else a figment of news media gossip: "The only thing that seems to be going wrong is I think sometimes that the District of Columbia is one gigantic ear." That was even more preposterous, for the fact is that the uproar would never have occurred at all if Haig hadn't taken the extraordinary action of telephoning a widely syndicated columnist and leveling, on the record, the charge that he had been the victim of a "guerrilla campaign" by a top White House official. WELL, SOMEBODY HAS TO LOOK NICE AND CLEAN... The press simply faithfully reported that astonishing event, and the considerable fallout that followed. Being the practiced performer that he is, Reagan learned how to use this kind of ploy with particularly deceiving aplomb even before he was a candidate for major office. With many politicians, past and present, use of this tactic is quite impersonal. Senator Foghorn may get along fine personally with the reporters who cover him and may privately feel that they do their jobs well, and yet still denounce them with fervor for writing stories or making television reports -- perfectly accurate -- which reflect badly on him. That's often the way the game is played between professionals in public office and the press around here, much as professional football players on opposing teams may be close drinking buddies all week long and then try to tear each other apart in the big Sunday showdown. But Ronald Reagan always has been too thin-skinned to be such a thorough-going political professional, and there are often times when he feels considerable personal anger about news stories and those who report them. Any news story, for instance, which reflects adversely on first lady Nancy Reagan -- even if true -- is sure to get the president's goat. But the Reagan maneuvers of last week were more typical of the seasoned pol who knows he has a problem and tries to hide it by shifting the blame to the press. That performance by "The Pres" was simply too cute for words. === Page 58 of 64 10/25/81 # Afghans name kidnapped Soviet official By BARRY SHLACHTER ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Soviet official reportedly captured in Kabul by Afghan rebels was identified by them Saturday as a senior civilian adviser who headed a 50-member geological mission attached to Afghanistan's ministry of mines and industries. E.M. Okhrimyuk, a 67-year-old fossil-fuel expert who had lived in Kabul for five years, was kidnapped Sept. 12 by a faction of the Hezb-i Islami (Islamic Party), the Afghan insurgent group claimed in a statement issued from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. A Hezb-i official said Saturday that Okhrimyuk was being held at a guerrilla stronghold near the Pakistani border in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. He gave no further details. The Younus Khalis faction of Hezb-i Islami has declared its readiness to exchange the Soviet adviser for 50 Afghan insurgents jailed by the Kabul regime. It also released letters reportedly written by Okhrimyuk, calling on Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Tikhonov and the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan to agree to a prison-er exchange with Hezb-i. "Nikolai Alexandrovich (Tikhonov), my destiny is in your hands," said one letter, handwritten in Russian. "I am exhausted, worn out. You will have to agree to evacuate me by air because I cannot walk. Please save me. I live only with this thought." Hezb-i has released a photograph it says is Okhrimyuk. It shows a haggard white-haired, bespectacled man with several weeks' growth of beard. Hezb-i's original statement reported that Okhrimyuk was beaten unconscious during the kidnapping. The letters reportedly written by the Soviet adviser in captivity said that his lower dentures were broken, making it difficult for him to eat, and that he suffered from severe headaches. A Western diplomatic source said that rumors had circulated in Kabul during mid-September that a ranking Soviet adviser had been killed in the Afghan capital. He speculated that the rumors might have spread to explain Okhrimyuk's sudden disappearance. The Afghan resistance group also released copies of a letter reportedly written by Okhrimyuk and addressed to his wife, Tamara. (copier info) - UFOs attack 11/14/81 "higher ups" # Reagan to chat with space shuttle astronauts WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan flew to Houston Friday for a quick stop at the Johnson Space Center where he will chat from the mission control room with the American astronauts circling the globe in the space shuttle Columbia. Reagan left the White House at 3:55 p.m. EST - earlier than originally planned - so he could fit in the visit with astronauts Richard Truly and Joe Engle, who learned a few hours earlier that their trouble-plagued mission would be cut short by three days. The president's Texas agenda included a Friday night address a "Salute to A Stronger America" dinner in Houston sponsored by Texas Republicans. His speech, originally set for five minutes, was expanded to a scheduled 15 minutes. Aides said Reagan's remarks would center primarily on his determination to stick with his economic recovery program. The president spent most of Friday riding out another top-level White House controversy - this one involving his national security adviser Richard Allen. No sooner had Reagan laid to rest an embarrassing incident involving his budget director, David Stockman, on Thursday than another popped up around Allen and his acceptance of a $1,000 payment from a Japanese journalist. STOCKMAN MADE a public apology Thursday for his published comments that Reagan's economic plan was full of holes and designed to help the rich. Friday morning, the spotlight of unwanted publicity moved to Allen after reports surfaced in Japan that an unidentified Reagan administration official was being investigated for taking bribes. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, issued a statement saying Allen had received a $1,000 honorarium offered by a Japanese journalist after an interview with first lady Nancy Reagan. Speakes said Allen had intended to turn the money over to the proper authorities, but forgot. # How to un-ground a submarine . . . To The Denver Post: ONE OF THE most heartening events of recent years, or even the last 30 years, was the grounding of a Soviet submarine in Swedish waters. Having spent 10 years in submarines and been commanding officer of three of them, I know there is no way to run a submarine aground and have it stay aground, unless, as happened to some of our boats during WW II, you're going like a bat out of hell and hit an uncharted reef or coral head or some underwater obstacle of which you had no knowledge. What do you do in a submarine that goes aground is blow the forward main ballast tank, not to mention the bow buoyancy tank, and having lifted the bow above the beach or sand bar or whatsoever on which you went aground, you back away and proceed on your appointed rounds, and never, never tell your leaders that you have gone aground. Going aground is a "No-no." It happened to me twice, and only I was the wiser for it. The skipper of the Soviet submarine must have been a dolt. The Soviets put on their trousers one leg at a time, just as we do, and must have incompetents in their armed services, as we do, but to my knowledge we don't have submarine skippers who run their boats aground and expose themselves to a watching world. C.V. GORDON Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Colorado Springs Denver Post 11/13/81 === Page 59 of 64 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 25, 1981 # Chief's funeral Japanese hoodlums - UPD "higher ups" - 10/25/81 By DONALD KIRK New York Times News Service TOKYO -- Kazuo Taoka died last July 23 at age 68, the victim of a heart attack. Private services, attended by immediate family and friends, were held a week later to commemorate his passing. Three months later, 2,000 to 3,000 hoodlums gathered in Kobe to give Taoka an elaborate Buddhist sendoff Sunday in the best Japanese gangland tradition. Kazuo Taoka was Japan's primo capo, its No. 1 mobster. In anticipation of trouble, hundreds of Japanese police officers are patrolling the nightclub districts of Kobe and the nearby industrial metropolis of Osaka, fearing that the uneasy "funeral truce" being observed by Taoka's Yamaguchi gang, the world's largest criminal organization with 12,000 members, and its rivals may break down after the Sunday service. One of Taoka's lieutenants, Hideomi Oda, scoffs at the notion of impending mob warfare. "We are gentlemen," he says. "We are not like the Mafia." "Other gangsters sympathize with us in our period of sadness," said Oda, a portly, jovial-figure sequestered in a house under 24-hour police surveillance. "They do not want to fight us while we are mourning our leader." # Prince in near miss - UPD "higher ups" - LONDON (AP) -- Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was at the controls of a royal aircraft that narrowly missed colliding with a Miami-bound Boeing 747, Buckingham Palace said Monday. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the incident occurred Friday as the British Airways plane, with 200 passengers aboard, was climbing from London's Heathrow Airport at 300 mph. Philip was piloting a twin-engined turboprop Andover of the Queen's Flight. The spokesman would give no further details and declined to speculate on whether Philip, 60, an experienced pilot, was under the impression he would get the "purple corridor" usually accorded royal flights. Oreg 12/1/81 # U.S. Envoy in Paris Escapes Assassination Try Uninjured - UPD "higher ups" - Washington Post 11/13/81 PARIS -- A black-bearded youth wielding a pistol fired a half-dozen shots at the top-ranking U.S. diplomat in France Thursday in a botched assassination attempt outside the diplomat's apartment near the Eiffel Tower. Charge d'Affaires Christian Chapman, 60, said he escaped injury by ducking behind his chauffeur-driven embassy sedan after seeing a man reach into his black leather jacket, move swiftly toward him and fire away in full view of several passers-by. Chapman described the gunman as "a Middle Eastern type." The assailant -- apparently acting alone -- fled the scene on foot, and Paris police reported no arrests. The French Foreign Ministry said Chapman had informed the government recently of a threat against U.S. diplomats in Paris. The fears, diplomatic sources added, grew from U.S. intelligence reports that Libyan agents were planning attacks on American diplomats in several European capitals to avenge the shooting down of two Libyan warplanes last August by U.S. Navy pilots on maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra off Libya. Chapman is the highest-ranking diplomat at the U.S. Embassy pending arrival of newly appointed U.S. ambassador, Evan Griffith Galbraith. Chapman refused to speculate whether the attempt on his life was part of the reported Libyan plan. "I have no sweeping statements on that," he said, outwardly calm and answering questions in French and English with aplomb. "There is no basis for making speculation from the incident." The shooting was the first such attack on the life of an American diplomat stationed in Paris in the memory of police and embassy staffers. Paris frequently has been the scene of international terrorism, however, and a bomb exploded at the U.S. consulate in 1972 in the days of demonstrations against the American role in the Vietnam War. The embassy chauffeur, who was with the car, was not hit, police reported. In all, they said, the assailant fired six or seven 7.65-caliber bullets, apparently emptying his clip, before fleeing down the quiet residential streets. === Page 60 of 64 With Flemming firing - Reagan removes 'conscience' BY CARL T. ROWAN WASHINGTON - You can lie to the Congress and the American people about an economic "riverboat gamble" that you know could be a disaster, and you can survive in the Reagan administration. Budget Director David Stockman is proof of that. You can take a $1,000 "thank you" fee from a Japanese magazine for arranging a five-minute interview with Mrs. Reagan, tuck the money in a safe, claim an eight-month lapse of memory after the money is discovered, and still survive in the Reagan administration. National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen is proof of that. You can be a gutsy, classy American who refuses to bend with every wind of racial passion - a white man who struggles to contain the racial polarization that has been growing dangerously in America - but you cannot survive in the Reagan administration. Arthur Flemming, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is proof of that. The three cases cited are just pieces of a mountain of evidence that blind right-wing ideology, not any special devotion to honesty, ability or integrity, is what dominates this administration. Stockman undressed the president before a snickering nation when he confided to a newspaperman that Reaganomics is just a humbling "Trojan horse" of "trickle down" breeding through which Reagan rewards the rich and pretends to help the poor. But in that luncheon where Reagan took Stockman "to the woodshed," the budget director apparently convinced the president that, given another chance, he can con the Congress all over again. Allen escapes ouster because, "thank you" fees or not, he has never strayed from the rightist reservation. But Flemming? The 76-year-old former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (under Dwight Eisenhower) was a good enough chairman of the Civil Rights Commission for Richard Nixon (who first appointed him), Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. But Flemming is just too outspoken an advocate of racial justice for the troglodytes who now control the White House. "We have reasonably good laws and court decisions in the civil rights field," Flemming said to me just after his ouster. "The question is whether the executive branch has a commitment to implement those laws and decisions. You can't implement them without disturbing the status quo. And you can't disturb the status quo without making enemies." Flemming, thinking his commission was "independent and bipartisan," has irked the Reaganites by pressuring them publicly to disturb the racial status quo - and thus their country club pals and executive suite cronies. So this distinguished public servant is being ousted because he still supports affirmative action programs, because he insists that "busing" is a phony issue trumpeted by Americans who still want school segregation and because he shouts loudly for extension of the Voting Rights Act, which the president now wants to weaken drastically. So Flemming, a former president of the University of Oregon who for a couple of generations has been an effective conscience of white America, is being fired. And once again Reagan is resorting to the cynical tactic of using a black man to undermine the commission and what it and Flemming have done. Reagan plans to replace Flemming with Clarence Pendleton, a black conservative who has the blessing of White House counselor Edwin Meese III. Pendleton has, by judgments I respect, been a good director of the San Diego Urban League, so nominating him is not quite comparable to the administration's efforts to put a black incompetent, William Bell, in charge of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But Pendleton is an "ambitiously irreverent" figure in the Urban League movement, a black anachronism who inveighs against affirmative action. I was told by an associate who urged Pendleton not to take the post succeeding Flemming. Pendleton will find that, his "friendship" with Meese notwithstanding, neither he nor any other black will find real power in this administration - and that there is no glory in being a sycophant for the oppressors of America's deprived and downtrodden. © 1981, Field Enterprises, Inc. Byrd to relinquish seat in Senate BY GEORGE W. WILBUR RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., the only independent in the U.S. Senate, said Monday he would not seek reelection next year, opening what promises to be a tough fight for the seat he has held since 1965. "Eighteen years is long enough," Byrd, 66, said at a news conference. A fiscal conservative, he said the trend toward curbing excessive government "and moderating its cost" was a key factor in his decision to bow out. Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Byrd's impending retirement "ensures that Republicans will take the Virginia Senate seat" in 1982. But the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Committee, Wendell Ford of Kentucky, said the Virginia race was "wide open." In Washington, Virginia's other senator, Republican John Warner, said Byrd was ending his senatorial career with "complete dignity and grace." "His strong voice for individual freedom and fiscal responsibility will be dearly missed by me and I am certain by his colleagues," Warner told the Senate. In announcing his decision, Byrd said "the battle to control the cost of government and to balance the budget has been a lonely one." With President Reagan's election, however, "the atmosphere in Washington has improved." === Page 61 of 64 Oreg 11/16/81 # The nation ## Bullets hit house GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) -- A gunman pumped a dozen bullets into the home of the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, shattering windows but causing little damage and no injuries, police said. Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky and his wife were not home at the time of the attack that occurred sometime between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday, said Nassau County Detective Hank Grynewicz. Members of Troyanovsky's staff may have been at the house when the shooting occurred, he said. A man who would not identify himself telephoned The Associated Press Sunday and said the Jewish Defense League was responsible for the shooting. "The attack was done on behalf of the Soviet Jews, and we are going to do everything we can to get them free at any expense," he said. League officials could not be reached immediately. There was no answer to several calls to the Soviet mission at the United Nations. The incident is being investigated by Nassau County detectives and the FBI. - UFOs & Projects + "higher up's" - # Second Jet Crashes In Turkey -- 2 Die Ankara A Turkish jet fighter preparing for NATO exercises crashed yesterday, killing its two occupants. It was the second crash of a Turkish warplane in as many days. A U.S.-made F-5 that crashed into a fuel dump Tuesday during a mock dive-bombing attack killed 40 soldiers and the plane's pilot, authorities reported. They said a major and a captain were killed in yesterday's accident when their F-4 Phantom slammed into the ground, also during a simulated dive-bombing run. Turkey's military government said the two crashes would not interrupt Turkish participation in the war games of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that are being held in Europe. SF Chron 9/24/81 Associated Press === Page 62 of 64 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove D. Scott Rogo etc etc My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 63 of 64 Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Owens 2/17/81 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age! I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. === Page 64 of 64 2 Letter to Contacts November 17, 1980 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 64 - my UFOs will attack this exercise! Owens # 'Bright Star' exercises to show U.S. commitment LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The United States plans to land Marines from amphibious assault ships at Oman and Somalia and drop 82nd Airborne paratroopers over western Egypt next month in the most dramatic demonstration to date of America's ability to aid its friends in the region, officials said Monday. To underscore the emerging alliance, and as a reaction to pressures from Libya, the plan calls for Egyptian and, tentatively, Sudanese troops to join the maneuvers in Egypt's western desert abutting Libya. The exercise, called "Bright Star," would be much larger than last year's 10-day exercise around Cairo, which involved only U.S. and Egyptian troops. This one is tentatively expected to last from Nov. 9 to Dec. 6 and involve U.S. ground, air and naval forces in exercises over thousands of miles. "The idea is to assure countries over there that we could come to their aid in a hurry," said one official, acknowledging that fears about Libya's stepping up military activity in Chad and Sudan added a sense of urgency to this second "Bright Star" exercise. Owens 10/13/81 Jeffrey ## Contacts My UFOs have instructed me to notify you that they are going to attack these "Bright Star" Exercises (see clipping above) in order to wreck and/or damage the Exercises in order to show other countries that the U.S. cannot protect them! Since the Base has not yet been provided my UFOs assume that another large-scale demonstration is necessary. In "Bright Star" planes and helicopters should have accidents; U.S. personnel should make wrong decisions and errors leading to materiel and personnel accidents. The entire "Bright Star" Exercise will be one great rolling disaster for the U.S. and U.S. forces, according to my UFOs, who plan to make that happen. Owens === Page 2 of 64 - UFOs attack on "higher ups" - # Sadat assassinated - UFOs "higher ups" - Schmidt hospitalized BONN, West Germany (UPI) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a comfortable night after being fitted with a heart pacemaker and may be well enough to leave the hospital this weekend, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The one-hour operation at Koblenz military hospital Tuesday aroused concern about the 62-year-old Schmidt's ability to handle the restive left wing of his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt was admitted Monday with what was called a feverish infection and a government statement said doctors decided to operate after discovering the risk of a rhythmical disturbance in Schmidt's heart. org J 10/14/81 org J 10/6/81 CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Rebel soldiers assassinated President Anwar Sadat Tuesday in a grenade and machine gun attack as he reviewed a military parade in a Cairo suburb, hospital sources said. The 63-year-old Egyptian leader was rushed by helicopter from Nasr City, an eastern Cairo suburb where an attack against his life occurred, to the Maadi armed forces hospital, in southern Cairo, where he underwent emergency surgery. The president later died of his wounds, hospital sources said. The cabinet was summoned into emergency session and a special announcement was expected later today. Parliament will meet at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT Wednesday.) (Senate GOP leader Howard Baker said Sadat had died of wounds suffered in the assassination attempt. Baker said he had been informed of Sadat's death by Vice President George Bush.) Also wounded in the assassination attack were Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, some foreign diplomats and three American military observers at the parade. There were no reports of troop activity or any indications of a move against the government. - UFOs "higher ups" - Finn up, walking HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - There has been no change in the condition of Finland's 81-year-old President Urho Kekkonen, officials said Thursday. "The president has been up, and he has taken brief walks daily," a statement from the president's office said. Kekkonen, who has been president for more than 25 years, came down with the flu Sept. 11. The flu later caused slight cerebral hemorrhages and led to "difficulties in thinking and lapses of memory," officials said. Kekkonen's duties have been taken over temporarily by the prime minister, Mauno Koivisto, in accordance with the constitution. org 10/9/81 The U.S. State Department in Washington said three American military officers were slightly wounded. The firing occurred at about 3:40 a.m. PDT nearly two hours after the parade, which commemorates the October 1973 war, had started at Nasr City, an eastern suburb. 9-22-81 S.F. Chron Government Again Falls In Belgium - UFOs "higher ups" - BRUSSELS (Premier) Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin yesterday after the center-left coalition broke apart over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said the king had accepted the resignation and asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. There were reports that Sadat's personal secretary, Fawzi Abdel Hafez, was killed. The Cairo spokesman said some of the attackers were either killed or captured. - UFOs "higher ups" - Marcos laughs at rumors MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Ferdinand E. Marcos, laughing on government television Tuesday, denied what he described as rumors that he was gravely ill and had sunk into a coma. org 9/30/81 Associated Press Laserphoto HOSPITALIZED - Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo was reported in "good shape" Saturday after suffering a heart attack Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The 63-year-old retired general has pledged to restore democracy to the Latin nation after 17 years of military rule. org 9/20/81 === Page 3 of 64 10-22-81 postmark Jeffrey... a very important file. Ted Owens MY UFO ATTACK "HIGHER-UPS" HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE.... Owens Contacts Is there any doubt in your mind about my UFOs attacking "higher ups"? Consider this: Moshe Dayan, heart attack! (Israel) Schmidt, heart attack! (Germany) Figueiredo, heart attack! (Brazil) And... within the space of a few weeks! Of course, the SI's use any and all methods as the enclosed file demonstrates. Owens PS... You might well ask... what "higher up" is next? === Page 4 of 64 - UFOs attack on "higher ups" - # Sadat assassinated - UFOs "higher ups" - **Schmidt hospitalized** BONN, West Germany (UPI) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a comfortable night after being fitted with a heart pacemaker and may be well enough to leave the hospital this weekend, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The one-hour operation at Koblenz military hospital Tuesday aroused concern about the 62-year-old Schmidt's ability to handle the restive left wing of his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt was admitted Monday with what was called a feverish infection and a government statement said doctors decided to operate after discovering the "risk of a rhythmic cal disturbance" in Schmidt's heart. org J 10/14/81 org J 10/6/81 CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Rebel soldiers assassinated President Anwar Sadat Tuesday in a grenade and machine gun attack as he reviewed a military parade in a Cairo suburb, hospital sources said. The 63-year-old Egyptian leader was rushed by helicopter from Nasr City, an eastern Cairo suburb where an attack against his life occurred, to the Maadi armed forces hospital, in southern Cairo, where he underwent emergency surgery. The president later died of his wounds, hospital sources said. The cabinet was summoned into emergency session and a special announcement was expected later today. Parliament will meet at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT Wednesday.) (Senate GOP leader Howard Baker said Sadat had died of wounds suffered in the assassination attempt. Baker said he had been informed of Sadat's death by Vice President George Bush.) Also wounded in the assassination attack were Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, some foreign diplomats and three American military observers at the parade. There were no reports of troop activity or any indications of a move against the government. - UFOs "higher ups" - **Finn up, walking** HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - There has been no change in the condition of Finland's 81-year-old president Urho Kekkonen, officials said Thursday. "The president has been up, and he has taken brief walks daily," a statement from the president's office said. Kekkonen, who has been president for more than 25 years, came down with the flu Sept. 11. The flu later caused slight cerebral hemorrhages and led to difficulties in thinking and lapses of memory, officials said. Kekkonen's duties have been taken over temporarily by the prime minister, Mauno Koivisto, in accordance with the constitution. org 10/9/81 A military vehicle broke away from the march, stopped and soldiers ran toward the reviewing stand. The U.S. State Department in Washington said three American military officers were slightly wounded. The firing occurred at about 3:40 a.m. PDT nearly two hours after the parade, which commemorates the October 1973 war, had started at Nasr City, an eastern suburb of Cairo. 9-22-81 S.F. Chron # Government Again Falls In Belgium - UFOs "higher ups" - (Premier Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin yesterday after the center-left coalition broke apart over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said the king had accepted the resignation and asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. There were reports that Sadat's personal secretary, Fawzi Abdel Hafez was killed. The Cairo spokesman said some of the attackers were either killed or captured. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Marcos laughs at rumors MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Ferdinand E. Marcos, laughing on government television Tuesday, denied what he described as rumors that he was gravely ill and had sunk into a coma. org 9/30/81 Associated Press Laserphoto **HOSPITALIZED - Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo was reported in "good shape" Saturday after suffering a heart attack Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The 63-year-old retired general has pledged to restore democracy to the Latin nation after 17 years of military rule.** org 9/20/81 === Page 5 of 64 # Israeli statesman Dayan dies of heart attack at 66 - UFOs "higher ups" **MARCUS ELIASON** TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Moshe Dayan, Israel's most famous soldier-statesman, whose black eyepatch became a symbol of the Jewish state in war and peace, died of a heart attack Friday in a suburban Tel Aviv hospital. He was 66. Dayan as foreign minister was a key figure in molding the historic Egyptian-Israeli peace accords with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and died 10 days after Sadat was assassinated by Moslem extremists while watching a military parade in Cairo, Egypt. Dayan, treated for cancer two years ago, was admitted to Sheba Hospital in suburban Tel Hashomer Thursday complaining of chest pains. Government spokesman Uri Porat said Dayan had suffered a heart attack. Egypt's minister of state for foreign affairs, Butros Ghali, said in Cairo that Dayan "played a main role" in the peace negotiations, and added, "He was among the Israeli politicians who believed in the possibility of achieving a peaceful coexistence and peace between the Palestinians and Israel." Before becoming a peacemaker, Dayan was a soldier -- a bold battalion commander in the 1948 war for independence, chief of staff in the 1956 Sinai campaign and defense minister in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars. He once described himself as a man who reacts to changes and sometimes helps "create them." That occurred in 1979 when then-President Carter flew to Israel in a last-ditch attempt to win the Egyptian-Israeli agreement. Dayan suggested concessions that included an accelerated withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai, seized by his soldiers in the 1967 Six-Day War, and the peace talks surged forward. Carter's office in Plains, Ga., issued a statement saying Dayan's "dedication and tireless effort at Camp David helped to bring about a blueprint for peace between Egypt and Israel and all their neighbors. We will miss this great statesman and courageous leader." In Washington, President Reagan said Dayan "became to many the symbol of Israeli resolve -- the resolve of a great people to be free and independent -- and a resolve shared by the people of the United States." Dayan's stepdaughter, Nurit Hermon, said Dayan died at 8:30 p.m., shortly after Israelis began observing the Jewish sabbath. Israel television interrupted its regular program to announce the death, but there were no public displays of mourning, and Tel Aviv's streets were virtually deserted because most Jews were celebrating the sabbath in temples or their homes. The television broadcast gave the time of death as 8:15 p.m. It said Dayan's condition deteriorated sharply in the afternoon when his blood pressure dropped and breathing difficulties developed. The hospital's heart unit "improved his condition, but it remained unstable," according to a medical bulletin read over television. "In the early hours of the evening, a further deterioration occurred in his general condition. Various treatments were of no avail, and Knesset (Parliament) member Moshe Dayan died this evening at 8:15." Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered a state funeral to be held Sunday. Dayan's close associates said burial would be in Nahalal, a farm settlement 10 miles west of Nazareth where Dayan grew up. They said he would be buried in the family plot next to the graves of his parents, who were immigrants from Russia, and his brother Zorik, who was killed fighting in the 1948 war. Dayan's first ministerial posts were in the former Labor Party government, but he was foreign minister in Begin's conservative Cabinet from 1977 to 1979, when he resigned and became an independent. Shimon Peres, chairman of the Labor Party, said Dayan was "a great Jew, a brave fighter and an original statesman" who "astounded the whole world with his extraordinary capabilities." Dayan underwent surgery for cancer of the colon in June 1979 and later wrote movingly of his successful battle against the disease. He was among the first of Israel's native-born Sabra generation to win high office, moving up through the military ranks. He was appointed military chief of staff in 1954 and directed the army's 100-hour smash across the Sinai Desert to the Suez Canal in 1956. Dayan, who wore the eyepatch after his left eye was shattered by a bullet in World War II, won more glory as defense minister in the 1967 war but was widely blamed for Israeli shortcomings in the 1973 war. He was forced out of office when the late Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned in April 1974, but he made a comeback after Begin's conservative Likud bloc invited him to serve as foreign minister three years later. State television said Dayan's second wife, Rachel, 55, and daughter, Yael, were at his bedside. Dayan is survived also by his first wife, Ruth, whom he divorced in 1971, and two sons, Assaf, a movie actor, and Ehud, a farmer. Oreg 10/17/81 Obituary on Pages A6, 7. === Page 6 of 64 re: About a year ago I wrote to Mrs. Sadat at Cairo, and told her who I am, my powers and power-contacts... and requested that she ask her husband President Sadat to bring me and my family to Egypt and provide the UFO Base. This action on the part of Sadat would insure great help for Egypt from my power-contacts. I never did receive the graciousness of an answer. (Same as when I wrote to the Queen of England, ending England's great drought. And since that time England has come apart... after no answer or action from the Queen.) Owens - UFO attack on "higher ups" - Aug 10/7/81 ![Image of United Nations General Assembly] United Press International ers of the United Nations General Assembly observe a moment of silence for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated Tuesday === Page 7 of 64 San Francisco Chronicle Thurs., September 17, 1981 # CIA Chief Hurt CIA Director William J. Casey broke his leg when he fell down playing golf over the Labor Day weekend, an agency spokesman said yesterday. Dale Peterson of the CIA disclosed the 10-day-old injury to the nation's chief spy after a news photographer shot a picture of Casey walking into the White House on crutches. The spokesman said Casey, 68, fell on a Long Island golf course and fractured his right leg below the knee. He added that Casey hasn't missed a day of work. # Solidarity ties stir expulsion By THOMAS W. NETTER WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The Polish Communist Party Thursday expelled Bogdan Lis, the most prominent party member in Solidarity, because of his activities in the labor federation, the Polish news agency PAP reported. The move by the local party committee in Gdansk may signal an attempt to close party ranks and to warn other communists in Solidarity that they must choose between the party and the labor movement. By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH -- New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, was indicted Thursday in Manhattan on charges that he had filed false tax returns omitting more than $150,000 of his income in a three-year period. According to the indictment, Moon deposited $1.6 million in New York bank accounts in his own name, used the money for his own purposes and failed to report almost all of the interest, amounting to more than $100,000, from 1973 through 1975. It also said he had failed to report $50,000 in securities that he had received in 1973. The 12-count federal indictment also charged one of his top aides, Takeru Kamiyama, with assisting him and with committing perjury and obstructing the investigation. A church spokesman and lawyers for both defendants issued statements denying all the charges. If convicted, Moon and his aide could each face up to five years in prison for conspiracy. Each tax count also carries a maximum sentence of three years, and the obstruction and perjury charges carry five years each. SUN MYUNG MOON === Page 8 of 64 - 2/10 attack "higher ups" - Military officer fired from council after speech BY MICHAEL PUTZEL org 10/21/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - The top military officer on the National Security Council staff was relieved of his duties and ordered back to the Army Tuesday after saying in a speech that the Soviets have nuclear superiority and "are going to strike." A senior White House official said Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer was fired because he disobeyed a rule that requires all members of the National Security Council staff to clear their public remarks with Richard V. Allen, the staff director and President Reagan's national security adviser. In his speech, Schweitzer said, "If I had ever asked to get this speech cleared at the White House, I wouldn't have gotten it cleared. I told them what they was going to do, and they just said they hoped I wouldn't get them in trouble." "It is also clear that the speech does not reflect the president's thinking with regard to the state of world affairs," said the White House official, who asked not to be named. The aide said Schweitzer concurred in the action, taken by Allen at 7:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday after publication of an article about the speech in The Washington Post. "He thought it would be best to return to his normal duties in order to spare the administration any embarrassment because of his unauthorized remarks," the official said. Although the general caught White House officials by surprise, Schweitzer said in his speech Monday to the Association of the United States Army that his remarks had not been cleared and might get him in trouble. "Well, I think we are going to have to lay out the threat because the threat is believed not to exist," he said in the apparently extemporaneous talk. Allen said Schweitzer told him when the general was called on the carpet Tuesday morning that "he went further than he meant to" and was "abjectly sorry for having undertaken to make the speech and was also sorry about the content." Chief White House spokesman David R. Gergen said Schweitzer apparently understood his remarks were to be off the record and that no reporters would be present. "He thought he was among - quote - his 'Army buddies,'" Gergen said, although he acknowledged that did not mitigate the general's offense. Gergen did not say what Schweitzer's new assignment will be. There was no mention at Gergen's briefing of any possible loss of rank. Reagan himself said he did not agree with the general but regarded him as "a fine soldier" whose services in another post will continue to "be of great benefit to the country." Schweitzer is a highly decorated officer who served as deputy commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam in 1970 and later commanded the famed regiment in Europe after the war. He wears the Distinguished Service Cross, the military's second highest award for valor, three Silver Stars, and the Purple Heart with six oak leaf clusters, indicating he was wounded in battle seven times. Schweitzer, 53, joined the National Security Council staff in 1979 and earned a reputation among his colleagues as a "hard liner," even among the generally hard-line Reagan strategists. When Reagan became president, Allen named him director of defense policy. Asked during a brief photo session whether he had known of Allen's action in advance, Reagan said he did not and had been unaware of any "personnel problems." Asked if he agreed with Schweitzer's public statement that there is "a drift toward war," the president said: "No . . . I think this country could have been on a road that might be described that way when we were unilaterally disarming and letting the margin of safety disappear, the window of vulnerability get wider. That's why we're following the course we're following now, so there can't be a drift toward war." ROBERT L. SCHWEITZER === Page 9 of 64 October 15, 1988, Re: Hostile environment x target = catastrophe. Contacts The SIs just (2:38 PM) explained to me the "how" of their eliminating or crippling a President, Chancellor, Pope, World leader, Chief, top leader, etc etc after another! If you were to go deep under water, you would be entering a hostile environment and all things under water would be turned against you to destroy you. If you were to enter the Amazon jungle, all things in the jungle would be dangerous to you, the same way. It quite simply... the SIs have created a hostile environment on earth out of what would usually be a safe, normal environment for all "higher ups" on Earth!! The "higher ups" are now targets with all elements on earth turned against, and dangerous to, those targets ("higher ups": Pope, Sadat, Schmidt, Kekkonen, Eyskens, Figueiredo, Marcos, Kroesen, Madani, Dayan, Onoja, etc etc etc etc.) I.e. if you held up the "mirror of life" and put Sadat's name in front of it, the writing would be reversed (and so would 'Sadat's' fate) unless Nature's special process made the writing reflect right side up. Ridiculous? Not at all. You see upside down, but nature corrects it for you! $\\ \circlearrowleft \\ wens \rightarrow \\ \downarrow \\ \times PK Man \nearrow$ - mechanisms PEEK "peek" into the other-dimensional powers of the SIs PS... Quite frankly, this scares-the-hell out of me!! === Page 10 of 64 # Terrorists ambush top U.S. general - UFOs "higher ups" **GEN. FREDERICK J. KROESEN** HEIDELBERG, West Germany (UPI) -- Terrorists firing guns and anti-tank grenades Tuesday ambushed the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in Europe as he rode to work, slightly wounding him and his wife. The rear of the automobile was badly damaged and police said the car's armor plating probably saved Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, his wife and two other occupants from serious injury or death. It was the fourth terrorist attack on Americans in West Germany in two weeks and came two days after a violent anti-U.S. demonstration in West Berlin during a visit there by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Kroesen, 58, told a news conference after he was treated at the U.S. Army hospital for skin abrasions that his car was attacked by an anti-tank grenade and firearms as he was going from his home to army headquarters in Heidelberg. He said his wife, who was in the car along with his aide and a German driver, was cut by glass splinters but was fine. "We were under small arms fire," Kroesen said, adding either rifles or pistols were used. "The rear of the car was hit by an anti-tank grenade." He said the car then sped away and that American military police in an escort vehicle jumped out with their weapons drawn. The general said he could not "hear very well" because of the blast. The terrorists attacked from woods about 150 to 200 yards from a road on the edge of Heidelberg as the automobile stopped for a traffic light near the Karl Bridge, police said. Witnesses said they heard two explosions and police said it was possible two anti-tank grenades were fired at the car. After the news conference at U.S. Army maneuver headquarters in Hanau, Kroesen flew by helicopter to the war games involving 71,000 Americans soldiers that began Monday. The terrorists escaped without a trace although police surrounded the area after the attack. There was no clue to their identity although the left-wing Baader-Meinhof gang's Red Army Faction was suspected since West German intelligence agencies have received reports the band was plotting attacks on high-ranking Americans during the annual 2-week fall maneuvers. "I dont know who was responsible," Kroesen said, but naming the Red Army Faction he added, "I do know there's a group that has declared war on us and I'm beginning to believe them." Anti-American sentiment has been growing in West Germany, spurred by concern the Reagan administration's tough military could lead to a war in Europe. Kroesen told reporters the maneuvers would go on as planned. He said he thought his own security precautions were adequate and additional ones are not needed. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for bombing the U.S. Air Forces European headquarters at Ramstein Air Base Aug. 31, injuring an American general and 14 others. A day later, arsonists set fire to seven cars at the U.S. military housing-area in Wiesbaden. On Sunday, the residence of the U.S. consul in Frankfurt was firebombed, but there were no injuries. Kroesen, of Phillipsburg, N.J., assumed command of the U.S. Army in Europe on May 29 1979. He entered the army during World War II after attending Rutgers University. He won his officers commission at the Infantry Officers Candidate School. West German officials expressed regret at the attack and pledged to find the terrorists and protect Americans. ORG J 9/15/81 - UFOs "higher ups" # Iranian aide killed in blast By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An assassin posing as a questioner walked up to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's representative in the Iranian city of Tabriz on Friday and set off a grenade that killed himself, the official and six worshipers in the crowded square, Iran's state-run media reported. The blast, which Tehran radio said also wounded 12 worshipers, continued the 2½-month-old campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed at overthrowing Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalist regime. The government, also facing a rebellion by Kurds in the western provinces, announced that troops killed or wounded over 100 of them in a drive against the Kurds this week. Iran's official Pars news agency said the "terrorist was killed on the spot," while Khomeini aide Ayatollah Assadollah Madani was rushed to a hospital where he died in surgery. The news agency reported that the assassin, wearing a grenade around his waist, pretended that he wanted to ask a question and approached the 80-year-old Madani, the Friday prayer leader. "Suddenly the grenade exploded, severely wounding the Friday prayer leader and other worshipers," Pars said. Khomeini proclaimed the assassinated aide a martyr to his Islamic revolution and immediately appointed a replacement as his personal representative to Tabriz. ORG J 9/12/81 === Page 11 of 64 UFOs & "higher ups" # W. German terrorists attack U.S. Army's European chief HEIDELBERG, West Germany (AP) -- Terrorists hidden on a wooded hill fired Soviet-built grenades at a bulletproof car carrying the U.S. Army's European commander early Tuesday, smashing the rear window and causing slight cuts to the general and his wife, officials said. The attack against Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen Jr., 58, was the fourth on U.S. personnel in West Germany since the end of August, when the ultraleftist Red Army Faction proclaimed "war against imperialist war." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a TV interviewer in Washington that the attack "had to be viewed very seriously indeed. It seems to be part of a worldwide attempt to discourage any kind of defense of freedom." Kroesen told reporters in Hanau: "I don't know who was responsible. But I know there was a group that declared war on us, and I'm beginning to believe them." Kroesen, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., commands U.S. Army units as far away as Greece and Turkey in addition to about 200,000 troops stationed in West Germany. West German police said the attack took place at 7:18 a.m. as the general was riding to work in a metallic green, armored Mercedes along a suburban street near the Neckar River in the northeastern part of the city. The terrorists, firing from about 200 yards, hit the general's car as it was stopped for a traffic signal. Police said Kroesen's car was going about 40 mph, then stopped at a traffic light near the Army's European headquarters when the grenades hit the trunk of the car and exploded, causing heavy damage and peppering Kroesen and his wife, Rowene, with flying glass. "I was reading my morning message traffic in my notebook," Kroesen said. "There was an explosion behind me. The car stopped, and I looked to see if my wife was all right and waited to see what was going to happen next." After seeing no one was seriously injured, Kroesen said, the driver started the car and sped off in a shower of small-arms fire. FREDERICK J. KROESEN JR. Kroesen was driven to a U.S. Army hospital where he was treated for cuts in the neck and released. The general's adjutant, Maj. Phillip Bodine, and the driver escaped injury, an army spokesman said. In Karlsruhe, the West German prosecutor's office said the grenade was of Soviet origin. Police found a tent with sleeping bags, a radio with antenna and a shoulder-borne, Soviet-made grenade launcher in the woods about 200 yards from the scene of the attack, the prosecutor's office announced. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said use of the grenade launcher added "a new quality" to West Germany's terrorist scene. He said German authorities assumed the attack was the work of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Plans for attacks on U.S. military installations were found last Oct. 13 in the apartment of a gang member, Julianne Plambeck, who was killed in a traffic accident near Heidelberg. In Bonn, the West German government condemned the attack and pledged to "do everything for the security of U.S. troops who are stationed for the defense of Western Europe." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Kroesen in a message, "All upstanding Germans condemn most sharply this terrorist attack." The attack came one day after the visit to West Germany of Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., himself the target of an assassination attempt in Belgium two years ago. Haig, at the time NATO's supreme commander, escaped injury when a bomb exploded beneath his car near Casteau, Belgium. Commando Andreas Baader, a West German terrorist group named after the late Red Army Faction founder, claimed responsibility for the attempt on Haig's life. No arrests have been made in the case. Aug. 31 attackers set off bombs in the parking lot at the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Europe at Ramstein, not far from Heidelberg, injuring 18 Americans and two West Germans. The West German news agency, DPA, said it received a letter from the Red Army Faction claiming responsibility for the Ramstein blast and calling it the first stage of a "war against imperialist war." Greg 9/16/81 UFOs "higher ups" ## Briton Egged Portsmouth, England About 50 dock workers angered by threatened layoffs pelted British Defense Minister John Nott with an egg, empty beer can and other objects yesterday at the Royal Navy dockyard, witnesses said. SF Chron. 9/10/81 Associated Press === Page 12 of 64 M's husband at eye of storm oreg 9/18/81 LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's husband, Denis, came under fire Thursday for a letter he wrote on stationery from her official residence urging a Cabinet minister to authorize real estate development on a protected site in Wales. The London Times reproduced the letter on its front page and reported an official investigation probably would be launched into Denis Thatcher's "involvement in a controversial housing development." Officials of the Welsh Office, a government department in Cardiff, confirmed that the letter was missing from their files and appeared to have been taken from a mail trolley in the building. The letter on notepaper from 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's official residence, was sent to Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales. A spokesman for the prime minister said Denis Thatcher had a right to use the stationery because he lives at the same residence as the prime minister. Thatcher holds no government post. He identified himself in the letter as a consultant to Housing Development and Construction Ltd. The company was denied permission by local authorities to build a motel and 63 houses in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Thatcher's letter, which complained about an 11-month government delay in setting up an appeal, was addressed "Dear Nick," and signed "Yours, Denis." A note on the bottom bearing Edwards' signature advised his staff to look into the matter. President of Roman fires three top officials BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- President Nicolae Ceausescu fired three top government officials Saturday in a Cabinet shuffle reflecting concern over the communist country's continuing food shortages and ideological problems. The official Agerpres news agency said Angelo Miculescu was dropped as minister of agriculture and the food industry; Iosif Banc was fired as chairman of the central council of workers' control on economic and social activity; and Alexandru Ionescu was ousted as chief of the radio and television company. Last winter, Ceausescu announced an "agricultural revolution" intended to ease consumer woes, but meat, cheese, butter, sugar and other food items have been as scarce as ever. Dissatisfied with the agricultural performance, Ceausescu in a speech last week called on officials to change their "mentality from top to bottom" and demanded that they go out and work with farmers in the fields. "Even the deputy minister, the minister, the president of the academy of agriculture should put on their overalls, go out and work shoulder on shoulder with the farm workers," he said. No figures have been made public yet on this year's grain output, but it is said to be below the 23.7 million-ton production target. As in past years, reports in the official press again blamed delays in harvesting on poor labor organization, lack of spare parts, transportation problems and negligence. The state-run news media were criticized last summer for their apparent failure to discourage young Romanians from defecting to the West. There were also official complaints that the media were "not doing enough" to fight "retrograde, mystical conceptions, backward influences and mentalities inherited from the old (pre-communist) society or coming from the capitalist world in various forms." Romanian television had been broadcasting movies from Western countries two or three times a week, including the "Dallas" series, among other things. Agerpres said Miculescu will be replaced by Ion Matesu, a state secretary in the agriculture ministry; Banc will be replaced by Marin Enache, who was not identified further, and Ionescu by Ilie Radulescu, a Communist Party secretary in charge of ideology. oreg 9/20/81 UFOs "higher ups" Civilian in charge RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The military regime agreed Monday to accept civilian Vice President Aureliano Chaves as a "temporary substitute" for President Joao Figueiredo, who suffered a heart attack last week, the government announced. Figueiredo is expected to remain off the job for about two months. Chaves, who is to accept the post officially on Wednesday, will be the first civilian to run the presidency since a March 1964 military coup. oreg 9/22/81 UFOs "higher ups" Casey breaks leg while playing golf WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director William J. Casey broke his leg playing golf over the Labor Day weekend but hasn't missed a day of work, an agency spokesman said Wednesday. oreg 9/17/81 Associated Press Laserphoto SHIELD FOR POPE -- Pope John Paul II speaks from behind a bulletproof shield at his Castel Gandolfo summer residence. Security has tightened around the pontiff since the May 13 attack on his life in Rome. UFOs "higher ups" -- 9/17/81 oreg. === Page 13 of 64 Administration tactics don't dazzle Congress By OTIS PIKE Newhouse News Service oreg 9/27/81 WASHINGTON -- The economic program which the president fathered and the Congress mothered has turned into an ugly little monster, biting the hands of those who fed it. The economic program having turned on them, administration officials now are emphasizing foreign policy. The problem is, mother isn't having any part of it. The most publicized element of the foreign program has been the proposed sale of five Airborne Warning Control System planes to Saudi Arabia. There is something pathetic about the administration's effort to out-lobby the Israeli lobby. It flies an AWACS plane to Andrews Air Force Base and invites senators and representatives out to kick the tires, sit in the pilot's seat and stare at radar displays. That tells you that when Congress votes $188 billion for defense, it doesn't know much about what it is buying. The Pentagon, having spent a decade getting Congress to fund AWACS by telling them how great it is, now tells them about all its limitations and weaknesses in order to convince them it is OK to sell a few to the Arabs. While AWACS and the meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. were getting the foreign policy headlines, the House of Representatives has been busy scuttling Haig and the whole State Department. Don't blame this one on the Democrats; the Republicans did it. Sept. 17, the House considered the bill to authorize funds for the State Department, the International Communication Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting and the Inter-American Foundation for the next two years. It authorized $3.1 billion for fiscal 1982, $3.7 billion for 1983. Only one hour was allotted for debating the bill generally and, during that hour, not one person spoke against it. The bill was being handled by Rep Dante Fascell, D-Fla., a wise, popular and salty senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. The members of that committee, Democrats and Republicans, overwhelmingly supported the bill. Fascell was eloquent in presenting it: "We have had people brutalized, terrorized, killed. We have had our embassies burned, attacked. We have had hostages taken. . . . Our people who are doing this service on behalf of our country are in the frontlines." He pointed out that our State Department is the only one in our government which has been shrinking. It is the same size it was in 1959, and the bill being considered cut it by 550 more people. He said the Russians were outspending us "unbelievably" on exchange programs, cultural programs, scholarship and educational grants. He backed it up with statistics. He said he was presenting a "tough, barebones budget" and asked the House to support it. Republican Toby Roth of Wisconsin joined in: "We can have all the weapons and military hardware in the world, but nothing can compare to what people think, and we are not doing enough in that area." Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, senior Republican on the committee, said, "We must not jeopardize our ability to protect the national security by providing only insufficient resources." When the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee got through defending and praising the bill, and the full House started voting on it, they murdered it. By an unrecorded vote of 42-18, the committee cut half a billion dollars from the authorization for 1983. Then, by a record vote of 226-165, the House killed the whole thing. There were politics and gamesmanship involved. Democrats who normally vote for such things wanted to make the Republicans vote for it. It was, after all, the president's bill. It was to support Haig and his State Department. Only 40 Republicans voted "aye," while 131 voted "no." Democrats voted for it, but only 125-95. After the vote, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., needled, "If the Republican Party cannot and will not support its own president and secretary of State, how can we ask others to do so? . . . Maybe the minority party in the House has no confidence in the ability of the president or the secretary of State to carry out the foreign policy of the country." Republican Edward Derwinski of Illinois said, "We should understand that if we do not have a functioning government, we then have anarchy." Fascell asked that all members of the House be allowed five more days to explain their views in the Congressional Record, "and in that way they can vent their spleen on whomever they want." Analysis "UFOs" "higher ups" Belgian chief quits over split BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Premier Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin Monday after the center-left coalition broke over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said, "The king has accepted this resignation." It also said the king asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. The Eyskens government -- Belgium's 31st since World War II -- is made up of Christian Democrats and Socialists divided into Dutch- and French-speaking factions. Eyskens' 5½ months in office were marked by continuous disagreements within the Cabinet over mostly economic issues. Last Friday, Eyskens' French-speaking Socialist partners began boycotting Cabinet meetings when negotiations broke down over financial guarantees for the steel giant Cockerill-Sambre in Wallonia, Belgium's French-speaking southern half. Cockerill-Sambre said it needs at least $775 million in aid during the next four years. The government rejected a demand by banks that it guarantee the entire aid package and that angered the French-speaking Socialists who are strong in the the mines and steel plants of Wallonia. oreg 9/22/81 -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Indian Scandal Figure Quits Bombay Maharashtra state Chief Minister A. R. Antulay, accused of extorting millions of dollars to set up tax-exempt trusts, said yesterday he has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Antulay, the top elected official of the large western state and a close associate of Gandhi, has been accused in the Indian press and Parliament of using the prime minister's name to extort from $44 million to $66 million from businessmen in return for quotas of cement, sugar and ethyl alcohol -- scarce commodities whose supply is controlled by the government. Associated Press === Page 14 of 64 PA said in aisarray after top aides resign By MORTON MINTZ LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The Environ- mental Protection Agency was shaken Friday when the second of two asso- ciate administrators quit the top-level posts created by EPA administrator Anne M. Gorsuch shortly after her appointment by President Reagan, Frank A. Shepherd, 35, who has been in the agency since late June, left, with a letter telling Ms. Gorsuch "that my talents could be better used in pri- vate enterprise." Nolan Clark resigned Wednesday over what he termed "irrec- oncilable differences of style between myself and the administrator." "It's putting it mildly to say the agency is in disarray," said an EPA offi- cial who asked not to be identified. Shepherd, inexperienced in environ- mental law when he left a Miami law firm to supervise a staff of more than 100 EPA lawyers, was associate ad- ministrator for legal counsel and en- forcement. Clark was associate adminis- trator for policy and resource manage- ment. Shepherd refused to go beyond his letter, which, as is common in such situ- ations, mentioned unspecified "personal reasons" and the "pleasure" of having worked with Ms. Gorsuch. She was un- -UFO "higher ups"- Quebec aide held hostage the c tel. A rival Palestinian guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the killing. Majed Abu Sharar died Friday when the bomb went off in his room on the fourth floor of the Flora Hotel on Rome's tourist- famed Via Veneto FD= " highrate" U.N. general wounded UNITED NATIONS (UPI) - Palestin- ian guerrillas wounded the chief of staff of the United Nations peace-keeping force In south Lebanon as he drove through the Palestinian area of the U.N. sector, a U.N. spokesman said. "Armed elements" - the U.N. term for Palestinian guerrillas - fired 15 shots Friday at the car of Brig. Gen. James Onoja of Nigeria, which was hit from the front and from both sides of the road near the headquarters of Nigeri- an forces at Tayr Zibra, the U.N. spokes- man sai Dreg F 10/10/81 UFO, " higherwas"- LBJ accused of corruption WASHINGTON (AP) - Lyndon Johnson accepted envelopes "stuffed with cash" when he was vice pres- Ident and later used the power of his presidency to amass enormous personal wealth, according to a ex-" cerpts from a new biography. The biography, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," was written by Robert A. Caro, who in 1975 won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Robert Moses, a former New York city and state official who died earlier this year. The first of three volumes in Caro's biography of Johnson is to be published next year. Excerpts from it were published in the October issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Johnson, who died in 1973, was raised to power first in the House of Representatives and then ass U.S. senator from Texas by the emerging oil, 353. sulfur, defense and space industries of the Southwest, Caro says. "For years, men came into Lyndon Johnson's of- fice and handed him envelopes stuffed with cash," the Atlantic article says. "They didn't stop coming even when the office in which he sat was the office of the vice president of the United States. Fifty thousand dollars. in hundred-doi- lar bills in sealed envelopes, was what one lobbyist for one oil company testified that he brought to Johnson's office during his term as vice president." When Johsnon assumed the presidency in 1963, his aides were quoted as saying that estimates that put his wealth at $14 million were too high. "Privately, some now admit that it was far too low," Caro says. Although Johnson announced that he was putting all of his business affairs in a blind trust while he was president, he had private phone lines installed in the Oval Office to confer with Texas attorneys who ad- ministered the trust, the article says. "Johnson personally directed his business affairs, down to the most minute details, not infrequently working on those affairs, according to some of his attorneys, for several hours a day," Caro wrote. "In his direction of his business affairs, he did not hesitate to use the power of the presidency itself, and to use it with utter ruthlessness. And during his presi- dency, Lyndon Johnson piled atop the millions of dollars he had already made millions more," he said. orey 9/218, - "For "higherufes."- Gangland Struggle Feared Bridgeport, Conn. Two hit men gunned down reputed Mafia boss Frank Piccolo, awaiting trial in an alleged plot to extort money from entertainers Wayne Newton and Lola Falana, in a killing that could signal a gangland power struggle, police said yesterday. "If it's not part of a war, it's the beginning of one," said Police Inspector Anthony Fabrizi. SF Chron 9/21/8, United Press QUEBEC (UPI) - An armed couple heid the president of Quebec's provincial Legislature hostage for three hours, de- manding jobs and a chauffeur-driv- en car and discus- sing God, Satan and Ronald Rea- gan. One of them ate a mirror be- fore letting their baffled captive walk away un- harmed. National Assembly Presi- Vaillancourt dent Claude Vail- lancourt said a mån and woman stormed into his office waving pistols "like cowboys" and took over the office until they were seized by police. Police said Daniel Laflamme and Pauline d'Youville, both 30 and both of St. Hyancinthe, would appear in court Friday. He did not say what charges were being contemplated. As Vaillancourt and the couple talked, the man suddenly produced broken shards of a mirror and began chewing on them. Vaillancourt said the man told him "he was a disciple of Yvon Iva, who performs similar stunts in pub- Diego 9/25/81 9/2018, available for comment, having left Thursday' on an unannounced western trip. Shepherd created a flap in August when he held meetings with three in- dustry groups at which he reversed EPA's position on some controversial regulations for hazardous-waste per- mits and tentatively agreed to settle a court challenge on terms favorable to industry. He excluded Justice Department and EPA lawyers assigned to the case, lead- ing Justice Department lawyer Nancy Long to withdraw in protest. Sources including the agency official and a private environmental lawyer said Shepherd tired of bureacratic infighting and of "back-stabbing" by key underl- ings hired by Ms. Gorsuch before he took office. No "ideological incompatibility" ex- isted between Gorsuch and either Shep- herd or Clark, one of the source noid addi - UFO, "high color"- not Bomb kills PLO aide turn liber ROME, Italy (UPI) - The PLO infor- er" . mation chief was killed by a bomb that : exploded under his bed in a luxurious ho- - such === Page 15 of 64 # British Cabinet ministers fired in purge by Thatcher By JEFF BRADLEY LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fired three of her Cabinet ministers Monday in a purge of moderates and shuffled the posts of a half-dozen others in her Conservative Party government. The moderates have been urging Mrs. Thatcher to relent from her monetarist policies to ease the effects of Britain's worst economic slump since the Great Depression. They see an electoral threat from the newly formed middle-of-the-road Social Democratic Party at a time when Mrs. Thatcher's popularity has plummeted. Mrs. Thatcher dismissed Lord Soames -- the man who presided over the independence of Zimbabwe -- from his senior post as lord president of the council, leader of the House of Lords and civil service minister. She accepted the resignation of Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour, who also held the historic post of Lord Privy Seal, and dumped Education Secretary Mark Carlisle. Mrs. Thatcher announced a reshuffling of her Cabinet, moving another leading moderate, James Prior, from the Department of Employment to the Northern Ireland Office, where he replaces Humphrey Atkins. Atkins, like his predecessors in that job, failed to reconcile warring Roman Catholics and Protestants in the troubled province. He becomes Deputy Foreign Secretary. Also out was Lord Thorneycroft, 72-year-old chairman of the Conservative Party, an influential non-Cabinet post. He is replaced by Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson. Prior is succeeded by Norman Tebbit, previously a junior minister for industry and a zealous Thatcher supporter in the House of Commons. Prior's move to the Northern Ireland Office was "obviously a disappointment to him," a spokesman at his office said. Most prominent of the Cabinet moderates, he earned Mrs. Thatcher's disfavor by taking a cautious approach in seeking curbs on labor union power as demanded by Tory right-wingers. ## Brazilian chief hospitalized RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (UPI) -- President Gen. Joao Figueiredo suffered a heart attack Friday and was carried into a hospital on a stretcher, Brazilian news media reported. ## Car blast injures general A British army general was critically injured in a car explosion in London Saturday, Scotland Yard reported. A woman from a nearby house also was injured. Police sources said the victim was Lt. Gen. Sir Steuart Pringle, 10th baronet in a 300-year-old line. # Iran executes 156; blast kills top aide By United Press International Iranian authorities, taking revenge for bloody street battles, executed 156 dissidents. The official news agency reported Tuesday that a ruling party official was assassinated in a grenade explosion. A grenade hurled by a member of Mojahiddeen Khalq guerrillas killed Hojjatoleslam Abdolkarim Hashemi-nejad in the northeastern city of Mashad, the Pars news agency reported. The agency said the assailant also was killed in the explosion and a security guard and a student were wounded. Pars said Hashemi-nejad was killed soon after he finished a lecture at 8 a.m. He became the 107th prominent victim of assassins since the downfall of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr in June. Hashemi-nejad was secretary of the ruling Islamic Republican Party in Khorassan province and "one of the dedicated, committed clergymen of Mashad," the agency said. Reacting to Hashemi-nejad's death in a speech to clergymen broadcast by Radio Tehran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said "If their aim is to undermine Islam, these assassinations revive Islam; if their goal is to destroy the Islamic republic, these assassinations irrigate the Islamic republic." TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) -- Moshe Dayan, charismatic hero of Israel's Six-Day War who later advocated concessions to the Arabs he conquered, died suddenly of heart failure and will be given a state funeral. He was 66. ## General in hiding LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Former army commander Gen. Humberto Cayoja went into hiding Wednesday after calling on the military government to combat the cocaine trade and "restore morality" to the armed forces. In a letter to the President Celso Torrelio, who also is an army general, Cayoja said his reassignment to the army "active reserve" was "illegal and unjust." He said the assignment was "punishment" for his anti-drug stance while he was army commander and called on Torrelio to take action instead against the military officers implicated in Bolivia's billion dollar cocaine traffic. === Page 16 of 64 3M THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1981 # Iranian military chiefs killed in plane crash By FERESHTEH EMAMI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Four of Iran's top military men and an unspecified number of war wounded died in a transport plane crash, Tehran radio announced Wednesday. Authorities also said a plot was uncovered to kill the nation's chief justice and police chief. There was also a new round of street clashes in Tehran, and hit-and-run assassinations were reported in the provinces. The crash Tuesday night of a U.S.-made C-130 Hercules transport killed Defense Minister Musa Namju and three other military commanders returning from southwestern Iran's battlefront with Iraq, according to official communiques. The huge transport went down as it neared Tehran on a flight carrying an unspecified number of wounded troops and bodies of soldiers killed in the war with Iraq, the communiques said. Also killed were Maj. Gen Valeollah Fallahi, acting commander in chief of Iran's armed forces, former air force commander Javad Fakuri, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' No. 2 man, Mohsen-Rahim Kolahdoz. Cause of the crash was under investigation. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a speech of condolences, called on the country's 36 million citizens to defend Iran with "iron will and pride ... so that the blind-hearted people and the hypocrites and those who are in the West's embrace will know that the Iranian people and armed forces still live." While his reference was to the leftist Mujahedeen Khalq, he did not actually blame the group for engineering the crash. The Tehran newspaper Kayhan said the accident was due to "technical failure." In Paris, Mujahedeen leader-in-exile Massoud Rajavi suggested that Khomeini ordered the plane sabotaged, saying, "It is natural that Khomeini himself is a suspect in this because he hated officers like Fakuri." Rajavi said that after he and former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr escaped to Paris aboard an Iranian air force plane, "Khomeini accused Fakuri of complicity and relieved him of his leadership responsibilities in the air force." Fakuri was defense minister during Bani-Sadr's presidency but was described by Iranian observers as neutral in Iran's power struggles. Khomeini earlier this month relieved him of the air force command and made him an adviser to the joint chiefs of staff, a demotion. Tehran radio said a mass funeral would be held Thursday in front of the military academy in the capital for the victims, whose number was not reported. The government announced Wednesday that guerrilla hideouts of the Mujahedeen Khalq, which mixes Islamic tenets with Marxism, and the Marxist Fedayeen Khalq were raided and documents showing a new assassination plot seized. The regime said the national police chief, Col. Ibrahim Hejazi, and the chief justice of the Islamic Supreme Court, Abdulkarim Ardabili, were the targets. Ardabili is a member of the Interim Presidency Council, which has governed Iran since President Mohammad Ali Rajai was assassinated in a bombing Aug. 30 along with the prime minister. Iranians are to vote Friday for a new president, the second since Bani-Sadr's ouster three months ago that incited Iran's underground opposition to street violence. By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian investigators believe President Anwar Sadat's assassination was masterminded by a Moslem fundamentalist colonel who deserted from a high-level military intelligence post, an Egyptian source said Saturday. The source, who has access to Egypt's top military commanders, also said the assassins apparently planned to kill all of Egypt's top leaders -- including Sadat's successor, President Hosni Mubarak -- but ran out of ammunition. # 7 known dead in military air crashes The unrelated crashes of two helicopters and a light plane killed at least seven U.S. servicemen, military officials say, including four in a fiery wreck in New Mexico. Two deaths occurred in the crash-landing of a twin-engine plane on military maneuvers in Nevada, and a Navy man was missing and presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter off Virginia Beach, Va. All the crashes were Tuesday. Air Force personnel were trying to determine why the Super Jolly Green Giant helicopter crashed and burned near Grant, N.M., killing four of six crew members. The HH-53 helicopter went down at about 8,200 feet some eight miles north of Mount Taylor, said Capt. Art Dunn of Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The helicopter had been assigned to the 1550th Aircrew Training and Test Wing at Kirkland and was on a low-level training mission, he said. "It was a combat-type search and rescue mission, which requires them to fly about 50 feet above the ground." "The weather was good, but we had reports from a pilot in the area that there was a thunderstorm in the area," Dunn said. "Also, a 1550th member reported scattered showers." Two crew members were hospitalized in critical condition, Dunn said. The victims were identified by Dunn as Capt. J.P. Gant Jr., 31, of Meridian, Miss., the aircraft commander; 2nd Lt. Richard J. Wendin of Fairfield, Conn.; Sgt. Terry O. Chancey, 27, of Patterson, Ga.; and Sgt. Luis Caraballo of New York City. In Nevada, both Air Force officers aboard were killed in the military maneuvers at Tonopah Test Range. The plane crashed while trying to land at the Tonopah Municipal Airport, officials said. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Wallace said the plane was leased by the Department of Defense for joint Air Force, Marine and Army electronic warfare games. The Air Force identified the dead as Capt. Kenneth L. Hossler, 28, of New York City, and Lt. Jeffrey G. Snyder, 25, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Both were assigned to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. The plane carried electronic radar gear which Wallace said enabled it to identify aircraft. Military officials said the Navy helicopter crashed about a half-mile off Virginia Beach. Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Wessel, 31, of Virginia Beach, was missing and presumed dead. Three other crewmen were rescued, the Navy said. The UH-1N Huey helicopter was on a training flight from the amphibious assault ship Inchon when it radioed a distress signal and went down, Navy spokesmen said. Witnesses said the helicopter appeared to be in a controlled ditch before hitting the water. Navy officials said the cause of the crash was under investigation and that an effort would be made to salvage the helicopter. # Poland's Kania pressured, resigns By MICHAEL DOBBS LA Times-Washington Post Service WARSAW -- Poland's Communist Party leader Stanislaw Kania resigned Sunday in the face of mounting criticism by political opponents of his inability to meet the challenge posed by the independent Solidarity trade union. === Page 17 of 64 - UFOs vs "higher ups" - # Crime drops after police told to shoot By LINDEL HUTSON Aug 10/20/81 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Most types of crime are on the decline in Terre Haute nearly a year after Police Chief Gerald P. Loudermilk announced a "shoot-to-kill" policy. But the chief said Monday he's not sure that policy had anything to do with it. "We'd like to hope so, but we don't know for sure," Loudermilk said in a telephone interview from the western Indiana city of 70,000. "Our crime is down and our arrests are up. "If I can keep it down, I'll come out with another statement like that." Last November, Loudermilk told his 100-plus police officers to shoot first and ask questions later if confronted by a gunman. Loudermilk said he got the feeling his officers were afraid to use their guns and wanted to let them know "they're going to have my backing." "If they get shot at," he said, "I want them to shoot back -- I don't care if the person is 8 or 80. The gun doesn't give a damn if the person pulling the trigger is 16 or 60." No officer so far has had to shoot to kill, he said, "thank God." Loudermilk says crime is down because "we've got a young department and they're working very hard." In the first three months of 1981, all crimes but murder and aggravated assault showed a drop. Rape fell from 16 in the first nine months of 1980 to 12 this year, robbery from 97 to 58, burglary from 1,290 to 1,133, theft from 1,718 to 1,626 and auto theft from 290 to 195. But murder is up 33 percent and aggravated assault 173 percent. There were three murders during the same period of 1980 compared with four this year, while aggravated assaults jumped from 34 to 93. Loudermilk thinks murder and assaults are up because "we're living in a crazy society." He elaborated: "They're shooting the pope leaders around the world. Who knows, maybe violence on television is leading to it. It's a silly society." - UFOs & Project - "higher ups" - SF Chron. 9/23/81 # Thunderbirds in Action Two planes of the Air Force Thunderbirds aerobatic team put on this display of unusual flying last month during an air show at Medford, Mass. The demonstration occurred before the team's leader, Lieutenant Colonel David Smith, was killed in a crash during performance at the National Air Races in Cleveland. === Page 18 of 64 # Army stays silent on fatal air crash By John Snell and Steve Miletich P-I Reporters The U.S. Army yesterday identified six Fort Lewis soldiers and an official Army observer who died Monday night when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in the desert near Las Vegas during secret war games. Army officials and Fort Lewis personnel who were involved in the war games kept quiet about the accident yesterday and refused to discuss what may have led to the crash. One Fort Lewis spokesman said the Department of Defense ordered that reporters not be allowed to speak with the 61 soldiers who were injured. Lt. Col. Fred Ussery, chief public information officer at the installation, said he did not believe it was "appropriate" to speak with the men so soon after the accident. The crash occurred during a training exercise near Indian Springs Air Force Base, 50 miles north of Las Vegas. The exercise, which began Sept. 11, was conducted on the same desert field where commandos trained for last year's botched attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran. Most of the dead and injured were members of the Army's 2nd Battalion, 75th Rangers, who are stationed at Fort Lewis. Army spokesmen refused to say whether the Rangers were part of the nation's "Rapid Deployment Force," but the Rangers are said to be an elite group of highly-trained combat soldiers. The only other Ranger battalion is stationed at Fort Georgia. Army spokesmen at Fort Lewis and the Pentagon yesterday said only that the training mission was both "routine" and "classified." The Army acknowledged, however, that its routine training exercises normally are not classified. Seven military investigators specializing in the C-130 were flown to the crash site and began working to determine the cause of the crash. Other investigators scoured the site yesterday in search of smoke flares, grenades and other explosives scattered on impact. ### Plane's background A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman from Military Airlift Command headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., said it probably would take four to six weeks to complete the inquiry. The Lockheed C-130 is a four-engine tactical troop, freight and special-purpose transport used by the military since 1954. It can carry up to 175,000 pounds on take-off, and is large enough to accommodate 92 troops, 64 paratroopers, or 74 stretcher patients. It was used in the aborted rescue attempt in Iran and in the 1976 Israeli commando raid that freed hijacked jet passengers in Entebbe, Uganda. In Nevada, meanwhile, residents living near the base reported that runway lights at the desert airfield were turned off before the crash, apparently as part of the training exercise. Army spokesmen refused to discuss the reports, but acknowledged that the transport plane was providing its own lighting when it attempted the landing. ### Names of dead Members of the 75th Rangers returned to Fort Lewis yesterday, including six of the nine soldiers who were hospitalized with their injuries. The dead were identified as Lt. Col. William E. Powell, 42, Annandale, Va., the commanding officer of the Fort Lewis Rangers; Capt. Gregory E. Gardner, 34, Huntsville, Ala.; Pvt. Kevin E. Langley, 19, Pampa, Texas; Pfc. Lonnie J. Furr, 22, Rixeyville, Va.; Spec. 4 John P. Critselous, 20, Knox- See ARMY, Page A-3 # Army is silent about air crash From Page A-1 ville, Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Jimmie D. Bynum, 34, Waxahachie, Texas; and Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class John Williams, 32, Yelm, Wash., an Army observer stationed with the 158th Battalion at Fort Campbell, Ky. Army officials have said the men were killed when they were trapped inside the plane, which exploded and burned on impact "We don't really know anything more than what was in the papers this morning," said Edward E. Powell, a retired Air Force colonel in Annandale and Lt. Col. Powell's father. ### 'I'm so numb' "Tonight on the television, they had pictures of the plane on the ground," he said. The C-130 burned for four hours and was reduced to smoldering rubble. Powell added that his son's body was being returned to Virginia and would be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. "They're having trouble making positive identification," he said. "He was on the plane. That's positive enough. "I'm so numb, nothing bothers me today." Hospitalized at Nevada military hospitals as a result of the crash were Sgt. Victor R. Frias; Spec. 4 Peter E. Posado; 1st Lt. Floyd N. Miles; Pfc. Anthony C. Corriea; Pfc. Jamie W. Swank; Pfc. Vito S. Salvato; Sgt. Robert Ramiez; Pvt. Craig Parrish; and Capt. Raymond Knox, the U.S. Air Force-Army liaison officer for the war games. Lt. Col. Ussery said ages and hometowns of the injured were not immediately available. Army medical spokesmen said none of the injured men was in critical condition. Col. William E. Powell, 42, the commanding officer of the Fort Lewis Rangers, was among the desert crash victims. # Arafat aide killed ROME (AP) -- A bomb exploded under the hotel bed of a leader in Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization early Friday, killing him instantly, police and firemen said. Police and the Rome office of the PLO identified the dead man as Majed Abu Sharar, a member of the Central Committee of Arafat's Fatah faction, the largest element of the multi-factioned PLO. They said Sharar also was spokesman for the Unified Information Center of all PLO guerrilla factions. The attack was claimed by "the General Command of al-Assifa forces" in anonymous phone calls to news agencies in Rome and Beirut. The callers said Sharar was killed because he had left the "proper course of the Palestine revolution and the armed struggle." The al-Assifa Revolutionary Council is a dissident Palestinian group led by === Page 19 of 64 By United Press International Iran's defense minister and three other top generals, including the chief of staff and the revolutionary guards commander, were killed in the crash of a military transport plane carrying war dead and wounded to Tehran, Iranian state radio said Wednesday. The crash Tuesday night at a firing range outside Tehran dealt a severe blow to Iran's military, but an armed forces spokesman reached by telephone by UPI from Beirut said sabotage was not suspected "at the moment." Tehran Radio, monitored by UPI in Ankara, Turkey, and by the BBC in London, said the U.S.-made C-130 transport went down as it was returning from Ahvaz, Iran, with the military commanders and soldiers killed and wounded in the war with Iraq. It said the defense minister, Brig. Gen. Seyed Musa Namju; Gen. Valiollah Fallahi, acting chief of staff of the joint command; Gen. Kolah Douz, acting commander of the revolutionary guard; and Gen. Javad Faouri, former defense minister and air force commander, were among "a number of passengers" killed in the crash. In a message to the nation on the deaths of his military commanders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said, "It is up to the Iranian nation to commemorate them by increasing efforts and bravery and continuing their path." The regime declared three days of mourning Wednesday and expected to turn out for the martyrs' funeral of the four, the radio said. ... developed a technical fault and crashed at a firing range at Kahrizak," near Tehran. News of the deaths of Iran's top military leaders came as Iran's Revolutionary Guards foiled plans by leftist guerrillas to assassinate Iran's chief justice and the national police chief. The report, attributed by the radio to the guards, said the guerrillas were members of a female-led band of the Fedayeen Khalq, a leftist group that the Islamic regime labeled an "American grouplet." Forty-five members were arrested and printed material, arms and ammunition, bombs, machines for forging documents, forged bank notes and printing and duplicating machines were seized, the radio said. The report also said "documents had been discovered of plans to assassinate Ayatollah (Abdulkarim) Moussavi Ardabeli and the Iranian police chief." The former police chief was killed in the August assassination of the Iranian prime minister and president. Ardabeli, also called the prosecutor general, was named by Khomeini as one of the three members of the presidential committee that is filling in until the election Friday of a new president. The radio report said members of the group had killed eight Revolutionary Guards during bank robberies to finance their activities. The report came one day after another leader of Iran's Islamic regime was killed in a grenade attack attributed to an emerging guerrilla "suicide squad" willing to pursue martyrdom as fanatically as followers of Khomeini. The assassination of the ruling Islamic # 4 top Iranian generals killed in plane crash - UPI "higher ups" - UPI "higher ups" ## Reputed crime boss surrenders PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Reputed New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca and three other men surrendered to authorities yesterday on federal charges of labor racketeering. The indictments stem from an alleged kickback scheme involving union insurance contracts and were the result of joint grand jury investigations in Boston and Miami, the FBI said. Sixteen men previously were indicted in the probes. 9-25-81 Seat P.I. The Eyskens government -- Belgium's 31st since World War II -- is made up of Christian Democrats and Socialists divided into Dutch-and French-speaking factions. Eyskens' French-speaking Socialist partners began boycotting Cabinet meetings Friday when negotiations broke down over financial guarantees for the steel giant Cockerill-Sambre in Wallonia. Associated Press === Page 20 of 64 Rumor suit threatened # Post's response fails to satisfy Carter oreg 10/15/81 By ANN BLACKMAN WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Post doused a "hot new twist" with ice water on Wednesday, saying the rumor it published nine days earlier about a pre-inaugural bugging of Ronald and Nancy Reagan was "utterly impossible to believe." But Jimmy Carter's attorney said the Post's latest statement, an editorial, hasn't dissuaded the former president from considering libel action against the newspaper. And Carter's former press secretary, Jody Powell, declared "This (editorial) says to me that 'we didn't believe it was true when we published it, that we don't believe it now, but we defend our right to publish it.'" Post publisher Donald E. Graham said: "The editorial speaks for itself. I have no further comment." The Post's chatty "Ear" column reported on Oct. 5 that there was "a hot new twist" to the story that Nancy Reagan wanted Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to move out of the White House early so Mrs. Reagan could start redecorating. "They're saying," "Ear" reported, "that Blair House where Nancy was lodging ... was bugged. And at least one tattler in the Carter tribe has described listening in to the tape itself." Blair House, across the street from the White House, is the official government residence for important visitors. It normally houses foreign heads of state and others who would be upset at having the White House eavesdrop. The Carters' lawyer asked the Post last week for a retraction and public apology, and executive editor Benjamin Bradlee responded: "It will be perfectly obvious that there is no retraction in the paper." On its editorial page Wednesday, the Post said, "We weren't there. But everything we know about the presidency of Jimmy Carter suggests it was false." The Post said the point of the item was circulating and that it was "accurately reported." "It said there was a rumor around," the editorial said. "Based on everything we know about the Carter instinct and record on this sort of thing, that rumor utterly impossible to believe." That didn't sit well with Carter, who is on a two-day visit to Washington. "He finds it incredible," said his lawyer, Timothy Adamson. "They said they published a rumor, even if it was false." Adamson said the former president will make a statement on paper after reading the editorial and the following: "I consider the owners and publishers of the Washington Post responsible for their libelous action and for their failure and refusal to correct it in a timely fashion," Carter said. Moreover, said Adamson, Carter has not been dissuaded from pressing for a retraction and "a final decision." The word apology did not appear in the editorial. "Perhaps," Powell said, "the owners of the newspaper should take a little more interest in what out the door. It's clear that the editors are not doing it." Powell, who was a key figure in the Carter administration, said the Post's editorial was "arrogant and at the same time sort of pathetic." "The Post was saying, 'We're going to publish it because it was a rumor, even if it was false.'" Powell said he and Carter's lawyers are still discussing whether to file a libel suit. "The question is not how much money he has to get, but whether to go ahead with it," Powell said. Powell said Carter found the Ear item and the editorial that followed "wrong and unfair." "How can you make a mistake that hurts someone, and then people say they've made a mistake and won't do it anymore," Powell said. "This (editorial) says to me that we didn't believe it was true when we published it, that we don't believe it now, but we defend our right to publish it. In you, dear readers, didn't understand it, that's your fault." - UFOa "higherups" - ## Iranian prime minister resigns By United Press International Iran's prime minister has resigned to let new President Sayed Ali Khamenei choose a government and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has called for the brainwashing of children to create a new Islamic man. In a speech broadcast by Tehran Radio, Khomeini said, "We must start from the childhood and our sole purpose ought to be converting the Western man into an Islamic one." "Brains must be washed and be replaced by independent minds. If we perform this important feat, rest assured that no one, no power can harm us." Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani, who became prime minister when his predecessor Mohammed Javad Bahonar and former President Mohammed Ali Rajai were assassinated on Aug. 30, agreed to stay until the appointment of a new prime minister. Iranian sources predicted Mahdavi-Kani's reappointment and said the resignation Thursday was a constitutional formality expected after Khamenei's election Oct. 2. - UFOa "higherups" - ## Schmidt recovering BONN, West Germany (AP) -- Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a peaceful night and was reported in satisfactory condition Wednesday following heart surgery and the implantation of a pacemaker, government sources said. The West German government says Schmidt should be able to return to his office within a week. Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the vice chancellor, left the meeting of European Community foreign ministers in London and flew home Tuesday night. oreg 10/15/81 BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Billy McCullough, a leader of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association, was assassinated in Belfast Friday, and Ben Dunne Jr., the son of a chain-store tycoon, was kidnapped near the border with the Irish Republic. The Irish National Liberation Army, an offshoot of the almost exclusively Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army, said its men shot and killed McCullough to avenge the slaying of Roman Catholics by Protestant extremists. Security authorities speculated the INLA also was behind the abduction of Dunne. A police spokesman said McCullough, 34, was hit twice when a gunman riding on the back seat of a motorcycle driven by another man drew up beside his car and opened fire in the Protestant Shankill Road section of Belfast. The motorcycle later was found abandoned in the neighboring Catholic Falls Road district, an IRA-INLA stronghold. The McCullough killing heightened fears of renewed sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland. "It's hard to see the UDA letting McCullough go unavenged," a police source said. - UFOa "higherups" - # Gunmen kill Ulster leader oreg 10/17/81 === Page 21 of 64 jack anderson CIA Backroom deal WASHINGTON -- A scandal of extraordinary proportions involves Egypt's highest leaders and a group of former CIA and Pentagon officials in a backroom deal that gave a company with Palestinian connections the exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract to ship U.S. arms to Egypt. As I reported in a previous column, there is strong reason to suspect that corrupt Egyptian officials profited personally from the scheme, and that some of the arms shipments were diverted to Palestinian forces and other groups opposed to the late President Anwar Sadat. My associates Dale Van Atta and Indy Badhwar have conducted a major investigation into the affair. They interviewed knowledgeable Egyptian officials, military and intelligence sources and businessmen who were involved. They obtained dozens of secret cables and letters that confirm essential parts of the story. Baksheesh and nepotism are nothing new in the Middle East, but it is rare indeed when corruption can be traced to the very highest levels of government. Yet the trail of evidence in the Egyptian arms deal points to the two most powerful men in Egypt today -- the men who stood at either side of Sadat when he was assassinated, and who now effectively control the country. The two are Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak, and Defense Minister Abu Ghazala. On June 25, 1979, a few months after the secret arms-shipping deal was cut, Mubarak was given a detailed report on the affair. The report included the information that the shipping firm, Tersam, was not qualified and was secretly controlled by a Palestinian businessman named Ali Shorafa, operating out of the United Arab Emirates, a hotbed of anti-Sadat Palestinian supporters. A coded cable from Cairo on July 2, 1979, stated that "vice president in person is following this case closely." But a return cable the next day suggested it was unlikely Mubarak would pursue the scandal diligently, because "the vice president's brother-in-law is involved." A week later, another cable from Cairo gave assurance: "V.P. taking matters very seriously. Brother-in-law (flown to) Cairo." In the end, however, Mubarak did nothing to rescind the contract or hinder its execution. It is not clear whether the vice president ever told the incorruptible Sadat about the affair. The brother-in-law is Gen. Mounir Sabet, now stationed in Washington as chief of military procurement. Two years ago, he was an assistant military attache here, and was involved in the Tersam deal up to his ears. At a Washington meeting on June 14, 1979, for example, Sabet confirmed that Tersam had been awarded the shipping contract in secret, and offered one of the firm's competitor's half the profits if he'd keep his mouth shut. Sabet's boss in Washington that year was the military attache, Gen. Abu Ghazala. He too was deeply involved in the Tersam deal. I have a confidential letter signed by Ghazala and addressed to the Pentagon, dated April 2, 1979. It informed the appropriate officials "that the Egyptian Ministry of Defense has appointed TERSAM CO. as its exclusive agent . . . for all its military imports from the United States of America." For months thereafter, however, Ghazala repeatedly denied that Tersam had been given the contract. Far from being reprimanded for his part in the undercover deal, Ghazala was given an extension of his American tour of duty and a new home. He is now defense minister. On June 14, 1979, at the Army-Navy Country Club near Washington, Ghazala and Sabet led still another Tersam competitor to believe that his firm would get the lucrative shipping contract. Later that evening, an American associate of the two Egyptian military men offered the competitor a subcontract if he would make no fuss about the Tersam deal. The Egyptians were clearly worried that word of the behind-the-scenes arrangement with the Palestinian Shorafa would become known in Egypt. A third top-level Egyptian involved in Tersam was Gen. Kamal Hassan Ali, now deputy prime minister and foreign minister. At the time, he was defense minister. He was the one who authorized Ghazala's letter to the Pentagon stating that Tersam was the exclusive shipping agent for America arms. And in a secret letter from Ali's office dated April 17, 1979, Tersam's status as "permanent and exclusive agent" was confirmed. The letter stated that the agreement had been made in 1978. Yet Ali repeatedly lied to other Egyptians about the Tersam deal, and succeeded in blocking investigation of the affair. He also helped keep the facts from reaching Sadat, according to my sources. Contacts As you are probably now aware, "higher ups" are being neutralized by my UFOs like Fall leaves falling from the trees. Now, first read this xerox. Then see the photo on the attached xerox. 1 Ghazala is sneaking a look at his watch just minutes before the killers ran at Sadat guns blazing. (He wasn't interested in the parade in front of him or planes overhead. Timing was foremost on his mind!) 2 Mubarak's face is grim and tense... mouth clenched shut... as if he knows what is coming. All around him are smiling and relaxed. 3 Sadat, between Mubarak and Ghazala, was riddled. Why not Mubarak and Ghazala? 4 Sadat's body guard defense in front of the bandstand was sent away before the murderous attack, according to reports. Who was in charge of defense? Ghazala. Owens === Page 22 of 64 oreg 10/14/81 Associated Press Laserphotos THE GUN -- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, hatless Abu Ghazala moments before assassins attacked and killed effort that made it possible for the assassins to advance photo, sits in the reviewing stand flanked by Vice him Oct. 6. In viewing the lower photos, among others, U.S. unimpeded, middle photo, and for one of the killers to rest his Hosni Mubarak (on his right) and Defense Minister security experts have criticized the weak Egyptian security weapon on marble ledge and fire into the crowd, bottom. === Page 23 of 64 July 1, 1981 Dear Eva... I am heartbroken. The beautiful tiny diamond ring that you gave to me, is gone. All of my life I wanted diamond ring. When someone gives me one... it vanishes. The SIs (UFOs) took it. I had been wearing two rings on my right hand. Your Knight Ring and the tiny diamond ring. The Knight Ring represented me; the diamond ring Eva. Here is what happened. Last Wed. the SIs telepathed and instructed me to take Bean (they excluded Teddy for the 1st time. I found out why later) into deep woods in the Olympia Forest on the Canadian border. They gave no reason for their order. So Bean and I got our woods gear together, put it into our old van and drove 200 miles to the Olympia Deep Forest. The SIs directed us away from the main road deep into the dark forest to a tiny clearing surrounded by huge old trees. Mind you, no civilization around; no farms, no houses, no people... just huge trees all around and rotting logs on the ground. Bean and I "set up camp" in the tiny clearing. Made a circle of rocks to encompass our fire. Backed the old van up close to where the fire would be. Bean dragged up logs and branches and put them in a pile beside the fire circle. Then I heard Bean cry out "Look!" I looked up and he was walking out of the trees encircling us to the clearing holding something in his hands. He held it out to me. It was a brand new expensive corduroy jacket sheep-wool-lined... not a spot on it... to fit a 3-4 year-old baby! (When we brought it home and put it on Jerome, 3, it fit him as if it had been tailored to his measurements.) Bean went into the trees to find more wood and again emerged with something in his hands... two perfect toy cars. Remember now, we came into this deep deep woods blindly. And already we'd found a new coat and toys for Jerome! While Bean prepared the fire I decided to leave the small clearing and walk into the forest. When I did so, it was just like going === Page 24 of 64 onto another planet, or into a different world. "Eerie" is the only word to describe it. Nothing moved. No sign of life. The little light available had a peculiar, yellowish color. One might as well have been in a vacuum. No sound whatsoever. I made my way back to the clearing and informed him of my impressions and he told me that he'd been about to tell me the same thing. Dusk began to fall. There wasn't a sound anywhere... near us or far away. I began to find rocks with faces on them, on the ground. That is, holes for two eyes, nose and mouth. After I'd found a full dozen, near our van and around the fire, Beau began to find them, too, and we stored them in the van. It grew dark. He piled lots of wood on the fire. Earlier, Beau had requested that I signal my UFOs, in the way that I always did and I had done so... telepathing that there were "friends" below; to come down and visit us; that we were not afraid. (Occasionally I'll insert something I forgot to mention. Hence this. Before we entered the wooded area it was very cold in our van. Beau stopped the van and got me a warm jacket from the back. But later on when I took a walk in the same woods that looked like some other world it was as warm as summer! I took the jacket off and walked without it on. But when I returned to the small clearing from the deep woods it was ice cold again! Now let's resume where I left off.) The darkness began closing in on us. Not a sound anywhere. Now Beau and I had brought an ice cooler full of beer for Beau and pop for me. Plus bottles of drinking water. Yet we didn't get hungry or thirsty! === Page 25 of 64 I began to find more rocks with faces in the darkness, but illuminated by the glow from the camp fire. (Before we were through Bean and I found 20 "face rocks" which we put into the car. Later, on getting back home, we found that the faces had vanished... we threw them away.) The darkness by now was so intense that we could see nothing beyond the fire. In short, we were encircled by complete blackness with no sound whatsoever. We made coffee over the fire (couple of cups of coffee were all we were thirsty for.) Then Bean saw a huge UFO overhead. It was triangular with pulsating lights outlining it.* We watched it for a while, until it moved away. About 11 PM, I think it was, I suddenly became half-conscious (which is the only way I can describe it.) Bean and I briefly discussed the only two noises we'd heard in the woods, in the blackness of night... several hair-raising screeches and a dull thumping noise resembling the pounding of a mop against a wooden wall. Both noises, heard at different times, just lasted briefly. All the other hours had been a "deafening silence." I informed Bean that I couldn't stay conscious; took off my guns and laid them inside the back of the van (where I was standing); put my rings in the center of a handkerchief and knotted the four corners into a tight knot (I'd never done anything like this before in my life) and put the handkerchief with the guns; climbed inside the back of the van (after first handing Bean my .38 pistol for protection... I had never ever handed a gun to Bean before) and told Bean to close and secure the doors on the back of the van. He did so and I * When I turned my flashlight on it the light reflected back to us, as if we'd flashed the light into a mirror. === Page 26 of 64 laid down inside, still groggy and half-conscious, while Bean got into the front of the van, closed the door and became silent. I never did go to sleep. Tried to... but I couldn't sleep yet couldn't get conscious either. Meanwhile the utter darkness had closed in on us. Campfire, I suppose, had gone out. Some time later... I don't know when... Bean spoke through the mesh screen separating us and said, "Dad let's get out of here!" I said "If you want to." (I had no feelings about anything. Earlier in the evening, just after darkness had fallen, I had armed myself with the shotgun, beside the campfire while we were having a cup of coffee. I figured that anything could come at us from out of the forbidding dark surrounding us. Yet about an hour before I became groggy something came over me; I put up the shotgun in the van; and looked at the blackness we were enveloped in as a friend. I felt (illogically) that we were as safe as if we were in a bank vault.) Anyway, I heard Bean start up the van and begin to drive carefully out of the deep woods to the small road somewhere near. I just didn't care what happened, lying there flat on my back inside the back of the dark van. Suddenly the damndest sexual urge came over me, for no reason. (I haven't had sex for eight or ten years, because my wife simply discontinued it. Thus, a sex urge on my part is just about like a long lost memory.) I heard Bean swing the van off the === Page 27 of 64 small road and stop. "Dad," he called back to me, "here's a tiny off-road... dirt road. We'll park here and sleep." I raised up and looked out the front windshield. He'd parked on the left side of a tiny, muddy road (it had poured rain on this area, I guess... although now I think about it it had been dry as a bone where we'd been in the woods, I could see lots of water in a deep ditch to our left.) "Beau," I exclaimed, "you're on the wrong side of the road! If anyone comes along they'll hit us head on!" "Oh yeah!" he said and started up the van. I lay back down. I felt the van cut sharply to the right then the loud spinning of wheels in mud... and that was that. "Oh no!" I yelled at Beau. "Now you've done it! Get back here and open these doors so I can get out there!" You see, we were out in the middle of nowhere. Someone might come by in a day or two, then again they might not. He opened the back doors and I jumped out. Inexplicably he'd tried to make a U-turn on a tiny dirt road not much wider than a cow-path, with a deep ditch filled high with water and mud on both sides of the road. Our van was smack across the road, blocking the road completely, with the back end of the van plus back wheels sunk deeply into the ditch of water and mud completely. === Page 28 of 64 up over the wheels in soft mud to the body of the van! I got into the driver's seat and tried every trick I'd ever learned, to free the van. First to the right, then to the left, then straight ahead. Nothing. I tried "rocking." Haha. Nothing. This went on for some time and as it did my resolve to free the van got more and more powerful. While rocking the van I idly remembered the time, long years ago, when a car slipped off a jack in Los Angeles onto my left hand against the cutting edge of the curb (I'd taken the front right tire off). I'd thought "Oh no! With my left hand mangled I'll never be able to drum or type or do anything!" Magically, the entire front end of the car had raised up into the air! I'd snatched my hand free then the car had fallen again with a crash. It had just left a deep, livid crease across the back of my hand. I'd witnessed a miracle, and knew it, but couldn't explain it. As my mind dwelled on this old memory, I felt our van lift up and get firmly forward onto the road. "Dad!" Jean yelled, "how could that have happened? Your mind must have done it!" How we got onto the road straight I'll never know either, because we were still across the road with no room to turn around without going into one of the === Page 29 of 64 7 ditches... but the next thing I knew we'd driven off the tiny road onto the main dirt road. We went on until we reached Rt. 101, drove until we came to a small town, pulled over and managed a short sleep, at last. It was still dark when I came awake, started the van and got us to I-5. Daylight now. We drove a while and came to a restaurant, "Rib Eye." Went in and had breakfast. On leaving the place Bean said, "Look, Dad, there's an electronic machine that shows your heartbeat! Remember Omsi? Why don't you try it?" (Last year he and I had gone to OMSI at Washington Park Zoo in Portland. It's a place housing all kinds of scientific exhibits; planetarium, etc. They had had a machine which registered your heartbeat if you placed down the palm of your hand. I'd stood in line and watched the indicator bounce up and down across the screen as people tried it. When it came my turn I put my hand down... but there was just a straight line. No heartbeat was indicated. I tried several times with the same result. No heartbeat. "Watch this," I told Bean, "I'll will my heart to beat!" And suddenly the indicator went bouncing up. === Page 30 of 64 and down normally across the screen. It was spooky and scary. Something of the same sort had happened also at Mayo Clinic when they tested my heartbeat. I'd lain there for an hour or two, wired up. The doctor looked at the results and said, "Mr Owens, you told the nurse you were an expert at auto hypnosis and could control your heart beat. Did you do that on this test?" I told him no. Well, he said, you'll have to do it all over again. Anyway, with this machine you stuck your finger into a metal slot. Beau went first and the indicator jumped up and down across the screen and a number showed on the screen. 102, I think. I put my finger in... the same old straight line showed... and my number flashed... 00! Indicating no heartbeat But I have gotten ahead of things. Before going to the above restaurant, Beau and I pulled into a park beside the road so that I could unlock the back of the van, obtain my rings and put them on. I unlocked the padlock, took out the knotted handkerchief, untied it and the diamond ring was gone!! The four other rings were there, but the Queen's ring had vanished! Now we're talking about a locked van... me in it all the time... armed... nobody had come near the van... and the diamond ring has vanished! Regardless of the securely knotted handkerchief I searched the van and everything in it. No diamond ring! === Page 31 of 64 Now, back to the restaurant. It frightened me registering no heartbeat on the machine after the same thing had happened before (with a different machine) at OHSI in Portland. Beau and I walked from the restaurant to our parked van when suddenly Beau exclaimed, "Look, Dad!" He pointed to the side of the van. There were handprints everywhere. Tiny ones, one with 8 fingers (distinct fingerprints, not a "handroll") one with talons at the end of the fingers. Also there were numerous prints of lightning bolts!! (My sign, you know.) I took two cameras and made color photos of them all... both sides of the van were covered with prints. Before going into the woods the night before they hadn't been on the van. Beau and I returned then to Hazel Dell. We left everything in the van, went inside the house, and he went to bed and I fell into my bed. I slept without waking for 20 hours!! That was Friday. Saturday and Sunday I was like a robot or zombie. I seemed like another person entirely. Had no energy to the point that it was too tiring to think! The phone would ring and I was too tired to pick it up and talk to anyone. And Beau and I both had headaches. He took lots of aspirin. I sweated mine out. But the point is... there had been nothing in our sojourn into the woods to tire us. Then at night I began to have vivid dreams. In one dream a ravishingly beautiful female made sexual approaches to me. (On waking next morning I matched up this dream with a tremendous sexual feeling I'd had on Thursday night as I lay in the back of the van while the van drove === Page 32 of 64 out of the dark woods.) In another vivid dream Bean and I were in the woods and witnessed a black UFO come down through the trees. It was not solid... it split apart into shadowy sections until they reached the ground and humanoids appeared. They seemed like ordinary people except that their eyes had white around them... circles of white. (I described the dream to Bean and he said, "White, Dad? like the white of an egg?" Which was pin-point accurate, and a curious thing for him to say, because in the dream that was my thought... that the humanoids seemed to have the white of egg around their eyes.) I spent the entire day going over the van with a fine-tooth comb, as the saying goes. No diamond ring. It wasn't in anything nor was it anywhere. So I told Bean, "that does it. We have to go back. I have to search the ground where that van was parked near the clearing in the deep woods." "But Dad," he objected, "that's 500 miles!" "Don't care," I told him. "I had planned to be buried some day with that ring on. Eva gave it to me and that makes it precious." So on Monday Bean and Teddy and I began the long trip up to the Canadian border. (Here I will tell you that by this point I had come to the conclusion that Bean and I had been "taken" by the SI's === Page 33 of 64 in the woods the previous Thursday for the purpose of mating us with females that they provided. The powerful sexual feeling I'd felt as we'd left the woods must have been a hangover from whatever aphrodisiac they'd used to stimulate the mating. My dream later on had been a subconscious recall. Also, that is why the SIs had told us not to take Teddy on the trip!! He, at 10, was too young to mate. This occasion, remember, was the very first time Teddy had never accompanied Beau and I!) Well, hours later Beau somehow managed to locate that off-the-road-in-the-deep-woods clearing. All three of us went over every inch of ground. No siting.. So we drove back again towards home, far away. 3/4 of the way there Teddy got sick and began to vomit. Beau got sick and was trying to keep from throwing up. I was not sick like them but felt like there was a tremendous weight on me... did not feel like myself... I hunched over the steering wheel and willed myself to be able to make it the final stretch. By tremendous mental effort I managed to get the van home. Beau and Teddy threw up some more. We all three were "beat to the socks," as the saying goes. Had the SIs "taken" us 3 while we were alone in those isolated deep woods, causing the kids to be ill? Oh yes. A terrible, foul odor permeated the van while we were in the woods and the kids complained. === Page 34 of 64 In closing, let me say this. It was an utter impossibility for the diamond ring to vanish. So my UFOs took it. They had to. Why? It stood for "Eva" on my hand. The SI's angry with Eva? Nonsense. She only treated me with great kindness. Now... this sort of thing had happened before!! Years ago outside the town of Warminster, in England at midnight, I was on a tall dark hill, signaling to the SIs, when a "craft" came down to me! At the time I had on a turquoise ring set with an opal cross in the center. After I returned to the hotel in the small hours of the morning the ring had vanished from my hand! Next day I took a taxi out to the hill, climbed up to where I'd been the night before, and searched everywhere there. No ring. Went back to town and placed an ad in the paper offering a big reward to anyone in Warminster who could find that ring. On the day I was to leave Warminster the ring appeared in my hotel room! Again, an utter impossibility! Same thing happened when I got into Stonehenge by stealth after midnight, had my adventure then returned to my hotel room. My sheath knife had vanished during the action! It appeared the next day. How is England? Ted Owens (PK Man) - Knight of Swords - Beau Owens === Page 35 of 64 We respectfully urge all those receiving an invitation to respond matter what your opinion may be. WE FEEL THAT NO ORGANIZATION OR INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER WILL GO BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF THE PURCHASE OF ONE 18¢ STAMP. In our next issue, Vol.3, No.4, we will publish an up-to-date list of people who have responded thus far, including their preferences and opinions. We are optimistic that the proposed 1982 UFO SUMMIT "will" take place. We also feel many UFOlogists will be elated to be invited and realize that something of this nature has not been proposed a decade ago. DON'T let this opportunity go on by---now is the time to FORGET THE PAST AND CONCENTRATE ON THE FUTURE. The SBI is of the opinion APRO, CUFOS, MUFON, NICAP, PPCC, ICUFON, GSWI (and all the others to numerous to mention) have done and are still performing great tasks, as well as researchers working independently. However, the future of these organizations, individuals, and UFOlogy is at stake and the only alternative is to sit down, iron-out our problems and strengthen UFOlogy via the 1982 UFO SUMMIT. LET'S HELP OURSELVES TO HELP SAVE UFOLOGY...Now we anxiously await your replies. The following "INVITATIONAL LIST" consists of the organizations and individuals the SBI has invited to attend the 1982 UFO SUMMIT (arranged in alphabetical order by state; states left blank have no rep. as yet): ALABAMA= ALASKA= ARIZONA=Jim & Coral Lorenzen (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) ARKANSAS=Lucius Farish (UFO Newsclipping Service) CALIFORNIA=Riley H. Crabb (Borderland Science & Research Foundation) COLORADO= CONNECTICUT=George Earley DELAWARE= DIST. of COL.=John Acuff (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phen.) FLORIDA=John Lear (UFO Identification Bureau) GEORGIA=William Rachels (UFO Bureau) HAWAII= IDAHO=Jerome Eden (Planetary Professional Citizens Committee) ILLINOIS=Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Center for UFO Studies) INDIANA= (International UFO Registry) IOWA=Ralph C. DeGraw (Private UFO Investigations) KANSAS= KENTUCKY=Donald Elkins & Carla Ruecert (L/L Research) LOUISIANA= MAINE= MARYLAND=John Carlson (International Fortean Organization) MASSACHUSETTS=George Fawcett (New England UFO Study Group) MICHIGAN= MINNESOTA= MISSISSIPPI= MISSOURI=Tawani W. Shoush (International Society for a Complete Earth) MONTANA= NEBRASKA= NEVADA= NEW HAMPSHIRE= NEW JERSEY=Jim Moseley (National UFO Conference); Kenneth Behrendt (PROTEUS); Tom Benson (Sixth Quark Journal); Robert D. Barry (20th Century UFO Bureau); Stan Zebroski & Katherine Krogstad (VESTIGA). NEW MEXICO= NEW YORK= Pete Mazzola & Jim Fillow (Scientific Bureau of Investigation); Timothy Green Beckley (UFO Investigators League) Leonard & Sara Karnacki (Northeastern UFO Organization). NORTH CAROLINA=Wayne Laporte (Carolina UFO Network) NORTH DAKOTA= === Page 36 of 64 CALIFORNIA=Hayden Hewes (International UFO Bureau) OREGON= PENNSYLVANIA=Anthony & Lynn Volpe (DEVAL-UFO) RHODE ISLAND= SOUTH CAROLINA=Margaret Pine (Greenville UFO Study Group) SOUTH DAKOTA= TENNESSEE= TEXAS=Walt Andrus (Mutual UFO Network); Ray Stanford (Project Starlight International); John Schuessler (Project VISIT); Thomas R. Adams (Project STIGMA); Tommy Roy Blann (Texas Scientific Research Center for UFO Studies). UTAH= VERMONT= VIRGINIA= WASHINGTON= W. VIRGINIA=Gray Barker (Saucerian Press) WISCONSIN=Majorie Palmer (SEARCH magazine) WYOMING= Dr. Leo Sprinkle ANALYTICAL ORGANIZATIONS: NEW YORK=Maj. (Ret)Colman VonKeviczky (ICUFON) ARIZONA=William Spaulding (GSW) LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE: NEW YORK=Peter Gerstein INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS (USA) (Alphabetical order by last name) | | | |---|---| | BLOECHER, TED | MOORE, ALVIN, Cmdr. | | BLUMRICH, JOSEPH | MOORE, WILLIAM | | BOYES, WILLIAM | O'CONNELL, PATRICK/JOAN | | CERNY, PAUL | OTTO, JOHN | | CHOPS, ALBERT | OWENS, TED | | CLARK, JEROME | PAGE, THORNTON | | COYNE, LAWRENCE, Lt/Col. | PHILIPS, TED | | DAVIDSON, LEON | PITTS, BILL | | DRUFEL, ANN | RANDALL, KEVIN | | FULLER, JOHN | ROMAN, BONITA | | FOWLER, RAYMOND | RUHL, RICHARD | | FRIEDMAN, STANTON, Ph.D. | SALISBURY, FRANK | | GREEN, GABRIEL | SCHEAFFER, ROBERT | | GREENWALD, WALTER | STEIGER, BRAD/FRANCINE | | HENDRY, ALAN | STORY, RONALD | | HOPKINS, BUD | SACHS, MARGARET | | HALL, RICHARD | SCHNEIDER, ROBERT, Dr. | | HARDER, JAMES, Dr. | TIMMERMAN, JOHN | | HARRIS, JAMES | VALLEE, JACQUES | | HEIDEN, RICHARD | WATERS, DAVID | | HUNEEUS, ANTONIO | WEBB, DAVID | | GOODWIN, BILL | WEINSTEIN, MARVIN, Dr. | | JAN, ERNEST | WESTRUM, RON | | JEFFERS, JOAN | WHITEHURST, LINDY | | KEEL, JOHN | ZECHEL, TODD | | KORFF, KAL | | | KEYHOE, DONALD, Maj. | (Your Name) | | LANDSBURG, ALAN/SALLY | | | LAWSON, ALVIN | | | LEBELSON, HARRY | | | LOWENSKI, DAN | | | MACCABEE, BRUCE | | | MC CAMPBELL, JAMES | | === Page 37 of 64 - UFOs Sun Attack - Ter Strange Weather Blamed on the Sun Beijing Recent severe floods in China and abnormal weather in Europe and Africa were caused by the sun, according to a leading Chinese meteorologist. The Shanghai newspaper Wenhui Bao quoted the head of the city's meteorological research institute, Shu Jiaxin, as saying solar flares caused the floods in the upper Yangtze Valley, in the northern province of Shaanxi and on the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Sf Chron. 9/24/81 Reuters (See (4) on Xerox attached) === Page 38 of 64 2 Letter to Lawrence November 17, 1980 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 4 weeks === Page 39 of 64 # Space Aliens Kidnapped Her - Twice Oct. 6, 1981 Nat'l Enquirer Twice this year space creatures abducted a 47-year-old woman and whisked her off on frightening UFOs - where she was studied by eerie seven-foot aliens with yellow catlike eyes, no ears and pointed chins! Barbara Warmoth's bizarre experiences were verified when she told her story under hypnosis to a respected psychotherapist - and when she passed extensive lie detector examinations given by a veteran New York City police officer. "I'm a feet-on-the-ground-type person," the Franklin, Ohio, mother of six told THE ENQUIRER. "I've never been a believer in way-out science fiction or UFOs. But I've been abducted and released by space creatures. And I fully expect that I'll be taken again. Why me? I don't know." By JAMES McCANDLISH of UFO sightings in southwestern Ohio led investigators to issue a public plea for witnesses that Mrs. Warmoth, who is divorced, stepped forward. The UFO experts asked her to undergo hypnosis - and in hypnotic trances she vividly recalled being aboard UFOs on both February 15 and August 19 of this year. Mrs. Warmoth said she was asleep February 15 when an incredibly brilliant light filled her bedroom at 2 a.m. She leaped from bed and spotted a saucer-shaped craft hovering nearby. "The next thing I remember," she continued, "it was 3:15 a.m. Under hypnosis I learned I was actually aboard the UFO during that 1 hour and 15 minutes. "The interior of the UFO was circular and completely metallic. From the center of the ceiling a large column of light ran to the floor. And on the roof of the craft was a transparent dome. "Then a door opened and a strange seven-foot-tall creature approached me. It was garbed in a tight-fitting, gray metallic uniform, its head and face shrouded in a helmet. I could see yellow catlike eyes peering at me through openings in the helmet. "Through mental telepathy the creature told me not to be afraid, that he came from a planet called Antares and meant me no harm." After a brief ride on the UFO - at one point it hovered over a water-filled gravel pit - the space creature approached Mrs. Warmoth with a small boxlike instrument which had probes extending from it. "The creature ran the box from the top of my head to my toes - without touching me," she told THE ENQUIRER. "And then I was back in my bedroom." Astonishingly, on that very night, 54-year-old Dean Hill of Carlisle, Ohio, reported to police that he spotted a UFO - hovering over a water-filled gravel pit! Mrs. Warmoth's next close encounter took place last August 19 as she was driving along an interstate highway near her home - in broad daylight. This time she lost two hours after the blinding glare of the silvery UFO forced her to pull off the road. "The creature was dressed as before but this time its face was uncovered. I could see more than just slanted yellow eyes. It had no ears, a long, thin nose, pointed chin and thin, almost colorless lips. "The creature placed me in a large chair in a room that was like a laboratory - with electronic equipment everywhere. Then it gave me a glass of a greenish liquid." Suddenly, just as before, the experience was over. Cincinnati psychotherapist Robert Schneider, who conducted the hypnosis sessions, told THE ENQUIRER: "My training and approach to everything is skeptical. But I believe Mrs. Warmoth is telling the truth. She remembers her experiences in detail." And New York City police officer Pete Mazzola, who's also International Director of a UFO investigatory agency, the Scientific Bureau of Investigation, stated: "Barbara Warmoth is telling the truth. I spent 1 1/2 days interviewing her and putting her through lie detector tests. She passed with flying colors. This is one of the strongest incidents of UFO abduction documented." As for Mrs. Warmoth, though she's convinced the aliens will abduct her again, "I have no fear. They've never mistreated me. I've been told they mean me no harm - and I believe them." HYPNOTIZED, Barbara drew space alien with cat-eyes peering through helmet (right) and uncovered face showing sharp features and thin lips. (Note: Read the description of the above alien carefully! It is the same alien that towered over me one night in Philadelphia and whose face appears on the cover of my book, published in 1968. * It also got me while I was in my bedroom!! Since then, of course, I have, actually communicated with it on a daily basis, and have worked with it year by year by year! Owens * See attached === Page 40 of 64 # HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE By TED OWENS ILLUSTRATED SAUCERIAN PUBLICATION/CLARKSBURG, W. VA. === Page 41 of 64 # 'Bright Star' exercises to show U.S. commitment LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The United States plans to land Marines from amphibious assault ships at Oman and Somalia and drop 82nd Airborne paratroopers over western Egypt next month in the most dramatic demonstration to date of America's ability to aid its friends in the region, officials said Monday. To underscore the emerging alliance, and as a reaction to pressures from Libya, the plan calls for Egyptian and, tentatively, Sudanese troops to join the maneuvers in Egypt's western desert abutting Libya. The exercise, called "Bright Star," would be much larger than last year's 10-day exercise around Cairo, which involved only U.S. and Egyptian troops. This one is tentatively expected to last from Nov. 9 to Dec. 6 and involve U.S. ground, air and naval forces in exercises over thousands of miles. "The idea is to assure countries over there that we could come to their aid in a hurry," said one official, acknowledging that fears about Libya's stepping up military activity in Chad and Sudan added a sense of urgency to this second "Bright Star" exercise. Oreg 10/13/81 ## Contacts My UFOs have instructed me to notify you that they are going to attack these "Bright Star" Exercises (see clipping above) in order to wreck and/or damage the Exercises in order to show other countries that the U.S. cannot protect them! Since the Base has not yet been provided my UFOs assume that another large-scale demonstration is necessary. In "Bright Star" planes and helicopters should have accidents; U.S. personnel should make wrong decisions and errors leading to materiel and personnel accidents. The entire "Bright Star" Exercise will be one great rolling disaster for the U.S. and U.S. forces, according to my UFOs, who plan to make that happen. Owens === Page 42 of 64 October 9, 1981 11:12 AM Contacts: I am filled with fury! The landlord who owns our rented house came into our house and into my office, while I was working, and harassed and aggravated me about small things my children were doing which he does not like. He topped off his glaring-eyed lecture with "...and if you're dam kids can't take care of my property then you'll just have to move." His "property" is an old (50 years) house he built by hand. Windows won't open; no locks on windows; wood all over the house is rotten and crumbles away. But he has a system which has always worked for him. Let a renter complain in any way and he orders them out then rents to someone else who won't complain but will fix the old run-down house up at their expense (not the landlord's.) A broken window brought down all this vituperation on me today from the landlord. I asked him to fix it. I'd buy the new glass. He ordered me to have a glass company fix it. The point I am going to make is this: When PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. I am attaching my fury to the fact no Base has been provided, free of landlords. Let my SIs take action now against U.S. govt. Owens === Page 43 of 64 Oct. 2, 1981 Contact, Tonight at 6:15 PM I made contact with "Control" of my UFOs (SIs) with regard to their present activities. They astonished me by telling me (please pardon this because it sounds ridiculous) that I _am_ _Moses_! They explained that they had kept the "soul" (what Moses _was_) intact through the ages... and after they became successful in developing me they somehow inserted the soul of Moses into me. (They did not say what they did with my _own_ soul.) Owens === Page 44 of 64 HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MY UFO DOUBLE-CROSSED!! Owens === Page 45 of 64 April 14, 1980 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young. As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied. Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs. But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact. Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED. My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs. This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting. They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan. Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle. In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing. But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 46 of 64 Fuel leaks on shuttle Toxic rocket propellant leaked from a malfunctioning valve and spilled down the side of the space shuttle Columbia on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday morning, damaging a "limited number" of heat shield tiles. A space agency spokesman said that it is not known how many of the tiles will have to be replaced or if the second orbital test flight, set for Oct. 9, will have to be delayed. Wooly winter? - All signs, including the thick shag on the wooly worms, point to a long hard winter. Page 16 Protesters persist - Arrests have passed the 1,300 mark as protesters persist at California's Diablo Canyon nuclear energy plant. Page 15 Not afraid? - The avowed racist who was convicted of killing two black joggers in Salt Lake City has declared THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981 Fuel spill postpones second shuttle trip BY IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The second flight of the space shuttle Columbia will be delayed at least "one or two weeks" or even a month beyond its Oct. 9 launch date because a fuel spill unglued up to 250 of its heat-protective tiles, officials said Tuesday. George Page, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center, said a problem with a valve on ground equipment apparently caused the spill of a highly toxic oxidizer around the nose of the spacecraft. During the spill, which occurred during a fueling operation, two to three gallons of oxidizer soaked an area about 20 feet long and two to six feet wide, he said. Page said he hoped the heat-shield tiles suffered little or no damage and can be cleaned and reglued to the orbiter's skin on the launch pad. "In my view, we're down a week and maybe two weeks at best" if the only problem is the tile adhesive, he said. However, if the oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, invaded the maneuvering system of the spacecraft itself, the shuttle will have to be rolled back to the huge Vehicle Assembly Building for disassembly, Page said. That could create a delay "in excess of a month," he said. A full assessment of the damage was expected to take another day or two. Sixty-seven of the silica tiles either fell off or were removed during a day-long damage assessment operation which began after the 1:15 a.m. EDT accident. Six workers wearing protective suits and helmets worked throughout the day inspecting the tiles and trying to determine how many were involved. Fumes from the spill kept unprotected workers from the pad. The accident occurred when the oxidizer was being loaded into the forward tank of the orbiter's Reaction Control System, below and to the front of the astronauts' cockpit. Since the shuttle assembly sits on its tail at the pad, the spilled oxidizer splashed downward at least 18 to 20 feet, Page said. There was no possibility of an explosion because the system's hydrazine fuel had not been loaded. No one was injured. The Reaction Control System is used for Columbia's pitch, yaw and roll maneuvers during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. The tiles are among 31,000 that make up the orbiter's insulation shield against the high temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. They are made of a silica fiber compound and individually sized, fitted and bonded onto 75 percent of the orbiter's external surface. Their silica makeup is what kept the oxidizer from eating away at them, Page said. Shuttle delay looks longer By IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spilled propellant that unglued nearly 300 thermal tiles on the space shuttle Columbia also leaked into the craft itself, increasing the possibility that the ship will have to undergo lengthy repairs, officials said Wednesday. Moving the ship from its pad would delay the launch "in excess of a month" beyond the scheduled Oct. 9 date, shuttle operations director George Page said. It would also be a costly setback for the shuttle program. "Project officials are deciding whether or not to roll the shuttle vehicle back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, de-mate the orbiter and move it to the Orbiter Processing Facility for repair," said a status report issued late Wednesday on the Tuesday accident. A decision on whether to move the shuttle system or do the necessary repairs at the pad is expected by Friday, Page said. Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center, said a visual inspection in the orbiter's nose disclosed the contamination of the reactor-control system. But the extent of damage was unknown until a technician climbed into the system's pod and inspected it closely. That operation was to take place late Wednesday. The system contains a group of thrusters that control the pitch and roll of the space plane during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. "It's pretty sure that they are going to have to remove the pod," said Harris, following a one-hour telephone conference among officials and engineers of the various space centers around the country. "I don't think there's any doubt they're going to do it." He said it would be difficult to remove the 4,000-pound pod at the launch site because the orbiter is in a vertical position. But he said this decision would have to await a further conferences Thursday. If the damage is extensive, it also would be better to do the repair work with Columbia in its hangar in a horizontal position, he said. === Page 47 of 64 # Space Shuttle SF Chronicle 9/10/81 Thursday, September 10, 1981 The Seattle Times A 21 much closer to actual operations than the first mission, whose main purpose was simply to get to space and back in one piece. Green said many of the changes that have been made since the first flight were the result of relatively minor failures and shortcomings on the initial mission. As a result of the loss of several heat-resistant tiles on the front of the pod-like protuberances that carry small maneuvering rockets near the tail, higher-performance tiles have been put in their place to resist the buffeting during liftoff that knocked off and chipped the ones on the first flight. New upgraded tiles were installed in areas near the back of the maneuvering rocket pods, where higher-than-expected temperatures during re-entry caused felt and adhesive underlying tiles to split or "delaminate" before. Engineers also redesigned the fuel cells that provide electricity, and two more hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks for the fuel cells were installed because the mission will be longer. A motor assembly that points the orbiting maneuvering engine failed in the first flight (a backup took over), so a new one has been bolted in, and many of the smaller reaction control rockets used to fine-tune the shuttle's attitude in space have been fitted with higher-performance valves. In a week or so, an auxiliary power unit whose fuel-heater failed in the first mission will get a 10-minute "hot test" on the pad. The heater loss didn't stop the unit from producing power, but NASA engineers want to make sure it works as designed. Green said the breakdowns on the first flight were extremely minor "if you look at the complexity of this vehicle. On the Apollo missions there were many, many more." The exact cost of refurbishing the Columbia has not been calculated by NASA, a spokesman said yesterday, but the workforce in June, during the peak of repair activities, was 1000 Rockwell workers and 2200 subcontractors, plus 1100 NASA and other government employees. The payroll for such a force is around $500,000 per day. Preparations for the flight continued yesterday at thunderstorm-buffeted Kennedy Space Center as Engle and Truly climbed aboard the Columbia for a final checkout. Their scheduled activities included checks of the Columbia's communications, propulsion, and in-flight guidance systems, and a mock firing and cutoff of the shuttle's main engine. Thunder and lightning sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power supply problem. Richard Young, a spokesman at Kennedy Space Center, said all three ground power supply systems quit Tuesday night and engineers were baffled by the blackout. "We are still not sure of the reason for it, we probably won't know for a while," Young said. Yesterday's weather, with rain and lightning within five miles of Launch Pad 39-A, was bad enough to have delayed a real launching, Young said, but didn't alter the dress rehearsal. The next crucial test for the spacecraft, which takes off like a rocket and lands like a plane, is September 14, when supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuels will be loaded into the bullet-shaped external tank. ## NATION Compiled from news services # Columbia passes test simulating mock firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Computers took the space shuttle Columbia through a mock ignition and launch-pad engine failure yesterday -- one of the final tests to prepare the orbiter for its second trip into space. With Joe Engle and Richard Truly, astronauts, at the controls, computers simulated the firing of the shuttle's engines then shut them down at "T-minus-3-seconds" -- three seconds before liftoff in an actual launch. The failure of one of the Columbia's engines was programmed into the test, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, Dick Young, said. But testing shut-down procedures wasn't the purpose of the mock launch. It was just an easy way to end the test. The purpose, he said, was to look for last-minute bugs as the Columbia's scheduled October 9 launch date looms. What problems, if any, exist won't be known until engineers study the test, Young said. But it appeared to go smoothly. The mock launch, amid real thunderstorms and lightning, was delayed shortly by problems in the computer-simulation program that "fool" the shuttle into thinking its tanks are full and its engines firing, a space-center spokesman said. The bad weather sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power-supply problem. Next month's flight is the second of four test missions planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the shuttle is declared operational and is ready to begin flying scientific payloads into space on a routine basis. === Page 48 of 64 - UFOs Shuttle PK - # Shuttle tile replacement begins CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Round-the-clock re-installation of more than 350 heat protection tiles on the space shuttle Columbia began Tuesday, with space officials hoping to replace 20 to 30 tiles a day and keep the shuttle from falling too far behind schedule. "They're hoping to get up to 30 a day," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Hugh Harris said about the tedious refitting of the tiles. "But some days, of course, they won't be able to get that many." The vulcanizing adhesive which binds the silica tiles to the aluminum "skin" of the space plane was destroyed by a corrosive propellant, nitrogen tetroxide, during a fueling mishap last Tuesday. The accident, caused by a faulty fueling valve, has delayed the shuttle's second mission, originally set for Oct. 9, by several weeks. Officials hope to announce within two weeks a new launch date, expected to be in late October or early November. The decontamination of a steering mechanism compartment in the nose of the orbiter has been completed, but 16 of 26 thermal insulation blankets must still be replaced, Harris said. Workers were awaiting arrival of more of the insulation material from a company in Downey, Calif. Some of the blankets were soaked when the propellant leaked into the steering pod, which contains thrusters used to maneuver Columbia in orbit and re-entry. Other blankets were removed as a precautionary measure. No significant damage was found in the steering system. Harris said 352 tiles of the shuttle's Thermal Protection System were removed and another eight were to be taken off to inspect their backing. Most can be reused. Engineers also have decided to drain the nitrogen tetroxide already loaded into the rear maneuvering engines of the orbiter and run the fluid through a filtering system to check for iron nitrate. An investigation revealed that the spill of two to three gallons of the propellant was caused by the formation of iron nitrate at the point where a "quick disconnect" valve attaches to a service panel on the orbiter's nose. Technicians believe the iron nitrate was formed in the fuel lines leading from the storage tank and settled at the metal fittings of the valve. But they don't know what caused the formation. All fueling valves are to be disassembled and replaced if necessary. The tile work was taking place with the shuttle poised for liftoff on its launch pad. esy 9/30/81 === Page 49 of 64 Sept. 30, 1981 # Contacts Once again I attach my 1971 predictions from the book. Please note how current events are unfolding to bear out the predictions. "Empty houses..." for instance. Building new houses is down the drain now... average new house is $88,000.00! "Companies going broke..." and massive layoffs... and they sure are. And so on. - Owens === Page 50 of 64 A LANCER ORIGINAL--NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED # WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971 Love to my wonderful wife, Martha-sweetest woman in this world. Owens (PK Man) Will a looming national event bring joy--or sorrow--to your life? Will the war end? Does a world disaster threaten? What does the future hold for us all? America's greatest psychics reveal their astonishing predictions for what may be the most fateful year of our lives... by Brad Steiger, Warren Smith === Page 51 of 64 experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces. What factors in Ted Owens' life prepared him to become a "relay station" for Space Intelligences? "I was born February 10, 1920, in Bedford, Indiana, and I was considered dumb and stupid not only by my teachers but by my own family," Owens told us. "Even then, though, they were in awe of my ESP ability. Later I was tested and found to have an IQ of 150--genius begins at 140. "I've mastered 50 professions, lived in many, many places. My life has been fantastic, with hairbreadth escapes, brawls with professional wrestlers and gangs with knives. My life has been almost as amazing as the miracles that I have brought about through the SI powers," he said. Continuing in his thumbnail personality sketch, Owens reported: "My hobbies are jazz drumming, straight pool and snooker, knife-throwing, judo, stick-fighting, photography, healing kids who need it with my secret system from the SIs, and exploring strange places." Why has Owens' life followed such a varied and unusual pattern? "All these things have been forced on me by the SI's without my knowledge," he explained. "They were training me for future work with them. The many professions were necessary in order that I might master certain mental abilities and enable the SI's to set up a two-way 'radio' with me. I'm the only psychic I know of who can cause phenomena to happen and document it. I have a 'lock' on one branch of ESP called PK, psychokinesis, and I use it all the time to create literal miracles, which can be documented. When I say that a hurricane will come up this weekend, it's a toss-up to the bystander whether I am using precognition or actually causing the hurricane to come up!" 144 In answer to our query, "What lies ahead for the United States?", Ted Owens, the PK man, the "relay station" for Space Intelligences, related the following: I only wish that it could be nice, pretty, lovely, sweet, and wholesome. But it is not. With this uncanny sixth sense that I have, which has foretold events so accurately in the past, I can see what lies ahead very plainly. Now, if you are fearful or squeamish, then these predictions are not for you. Turn to something else; escape into an adventure story or a travel commercial. Don't look. If you have nerve and are willing to accept the possibility that my ESP can indeed see ahead into the future, then read on. First let me tell you that I cannot put this into a "time frame" of exact dates. I made a series of predictions in 1967 to government agencies, lawyers, scientists, etc., which have come true, but some of the predictions took longer to happen than I thought would be the case. Time is a fooler, when it comes to predicting. Also, I am not sure of the order in which these things will occur. What I am sure of is, they will occur. There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the U.S., which will cause havoc. I believe it will occur in the Southern Midwest. I see the White House in flames. Washington, D.C., will be a no-man's land. Militants will even poison the water reservoirs. At just about this time a brilliant young man, only about 20, will try to run for President, backed by the youth of all America. President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office. The U.S. wealthy will lose their riches, and I can see them shaking their heads in stunned disbelief, trying to imagine the lives ahead of them. I see empty houses every- 145 === Page 52 of 64 here, empty towns everywhere, as people who have lost their jobs and their homes wander around aimlessly. Everyone's broke. Businesses go broke. The U.S. will be virtually leaderless. The total government structure will begin to break down. Senators and congressmen will resign and quit in great numbers. As the U.S. Government breaks down completely, the Negroes will mass and grow in strength and power. They have spent a long time organizing in poverty, while the whites are just now being thrust into national poverty and are completely disorganized. Countries around the world at this point will begin to hate the whites, pointing out that the Pacific was a beautiful lovely place until the whites "civilized" it. That the Eskimo were a happy, thriving people until the whites "civilized" the North Pole area. That the Indians had a heaven in the U.S. until the whites came and brought civilization. And so on. And the countries around the world will turn their backs now, at this point in time, on the Americans in their trouble. Our military will be confused . . . general against general . . . admiral against admiral . . . and some in high authority will, in desperate frustration, try a missile attack on Russia. Russia then will blow up six to eight of our major cities, surround us with a ring of submarines (having first eliminated most or all of our own submarines) and carriers, and tell us to hold it right there or they will wipe out the U.S. completely. And the U.S. in its weak and disorganized condition will give in rather than be destroyed. Russia then will come in and remove our weapons and our best scientists and take them to Russia, leaving us in our shamed, confused, disorganized state. What it will be like in these days ahead to be living in the U.S.? There will be millions of cars just standing on the roads and streets . . . good, new cars . . . but no gas to go in them, no money to buy gas anyway or buy parts. No one to repair them, either. 146 People will be simply taking what they want, where they find it--shelter, food, etc. Death will be widespread. There will be no police, for the police will use what arms they have to take what they want when order goes and chaos reigns. There will be no newspapers, hospitals, television, radio--mass communication will no longer exist. There will be no mail, no post office department. The personnel in all of these departments and activities will be "heading for the woods" with their families to try to survive, somehow. People by the millions will be heading for the wide-open spaces to get away from the cities, which will be deadly jungles, deserted except for heavily armed gangs of killers, mostly colored. It is at this point in time that our new civil war will begin. Whites against blacks. Both races will slowly mass together, as they are able to communicate and pass the word, and killing "whitey" or "blacky" will be the order of the day, everywhere, without mercy. Other countries will be avoiding America like the plague. Canada and Mexico will have sealed their borders. Russia, meanwhile, will leave the U.S. to its misery, for America will no longer be a threat to Russian efforts at global supremacy. The weak and the old and the very young in the U.S., will perish during these terrible times, leaving only the strongest, the meanest, and the most resourceful. Then . . . the Asian race will come, streaming across the Alaskan Straits down into the U.S., and occupy it. They will take over Canada as well. Finally, they will take over Mexico, and this entire continent will be occupied by the Asian peoples. P.S. Our only hope of escaping this fate is to receive help from the UFOs, which are making friendly overtures to us now. 147 === Page 53 of 64 UFOs 6 Projects === Page 54 of 64 - UFO 6 Projects - S.F. Chronicle 9/10/81 # Manhattan in 'Bedlam' With Traffic Jams, Subway Delays New York An explosion and fire at a power generating station knocked out electricity in much of lower Manhattan for four hours yesterday, trapping office workers in elevators, snarling traffic, closing financial markets and creating chaos for homebound commuters. Traffic lights went out, telephones operated on emergency power and cars jammed intersections. City workers were stationed at busy corners, and some private citizens stepped in to direct traffic in the giant tie-ups. ## RUSH-HOUR BLACKOUT IN MANHATTAN From Page 1 restored to all areas four hours later. Paul Cohen, a Traffic Department worker at a downtown intersection, said that with street signals out, "people just do what they want. It's bedlam over here. There are a lot of tempers." "I've been sitting here for about one hour," said Rolando Reys as he listened to the radio in his idling sports car at Broadway and Chambers Street at about 6 p.m. Flashlights and candles lighted darkened stairwells for workers trapped in skyscrapers. Many people were drinking beer on the street. But many bars were closed because electric cash registers would not work. Telephones were switched to emergency power, but dial tones were slow in coming. Lines at downtown phone booths stretched 20 deep. Subways, with their signal lights affected, slowed to a crawl. Bus stops were jammed with displaced subway riders. Before power was restored, Lawrence Kleinman, a Con Edison spokesman, said there was no chance of the kind of problem that had blacked out the whole city in the past. "The problem is contained within the area that has been affected," he said. All police in lower Manhattan precincts were held on overtime, and officers from other boroughs were sent to Manhattan. Twenty hook-and-ladder trucks went to the rescue of those who were trapped. Mayor Edward Koch said at a news conference that the city was bearing up well under the problem, which affected only southwestern Manhattan. John Mulligan, a Fire Department spokesman, said there were widespread reports of people trapped in elevators. He said officials at Macy's at Herald Square said the department store's emergency lights had failed. Ellen Weiman of the city's Emergency Medical Service said three people were being treated for minor injuries at Macy's. At the power station, where the fire burned for 2½ hours, Deputy Fire Chief John Fogarty said, "We're not sure what caused the explosion or explosions. "But the explosion caused the transformer to burst its seams, spilling some of the 3000 gallons of lubricating oil that cools the transformer," he said. "That created a percolator effect. As the oil outside burned, more oil leaked out, feeding the fire." The city and much of the Northeast experienced a massive, overnight blackout on Nov. 9, 1965. Another major blackout, which lasted 25 hours, hit the city and Westchester County to the north July 13, 1977. Payton Shaw said he was walking past the power plant when the first of two explosions rocked the area. "The force of that explosion was enough to violently shake the car," he said. Brooklyn-bound lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge were closed to traffic for a while as thousands of workers trekked across in a scene reminiscent of the transit strike in April 1980. Angry motorists confronted police, and officer Ron Antoci said traffic was rerouted "after people just flooded across." The Transit Authority said all subway signals between Times Square and the southern tip of Manhattan were disrupted, and that there were delays on all lines in both directions. Officials said the delays would persist until the situation was resolved. Power was out at the New York and American Stock Exchanges, City Hall and the Board of Elections. But other office workers said they still had lights. Con Ed's Kleinman said early reports indicated that 52,150 customers -- ranging from small grocery stores to skyscrapers -- were affected. The 41-story headquarters of New York Telephone Co. at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue was blacked out. Spokesman Tony Pappas said emergency power for telephones was turned on from 42nd Street south. Associated Press === Page 55 of 64 HARLEM City College of N.Y. 125th UPPER WEST SIDE Elevated West Side Broadway Columbia University SPANISH HARLEM Central Park North 110th Guggenheim Museum UPPER EAST SIDE Metropolitan Museum of Art UPTOWN MANHATTAN American Museum of Natural History Lincoln Center 59th Carnegie Hall THEATRE DISTRICT Times Square GARMENT CENTER Empire State Building MIDTOWN Rockefeller Center 42d 34th Con Ed Plant The United Nations GREENWICH VILLAGE NOHO LOWER EAST SIDE SOHO LITTLE ITALY World Trade Center CHINATOWN FINANCIAL DISTRICT Battery Park Crowds gathered outside the Consolidated Edison generating plant (above) to watch firefighters battle the blaze that caused the blackout; in map (at left) shaded areas show where electricity was knocked out - UFOs & Projects - Turkish jet crash kills 2 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish air force F-4 Phantom fighter preparing for NATO exercises crashed Wednesday about 70 miles from Istanbul, killing its two pilots and injuring a soldier on the ground, officials said. It was the second crash in the area and the fourth involving a NATO plane in Europe in two days. On Tuesday an F-5 Turkish jet fighter slammed into a bivouacked infantry company preparing for a NATO exercise, killing 40 soldiers and injuring 67, officials said. Another NATO jet, an A-10, crashed south of Florence, Italy, Tuesday but the American pilot bailed out safely. A Belgian air force Mirage exploded above a factory 80 miles east of Brussels near the German border Tuesday, killing the pilot. All four incidents are under investigation. Military officials said the plane in the latest Turkish crash was taking part in preparations for the coming NATO exercises in western Turkey. oreg 9/24/81 - UFOs & Projects - Toll heavy in typhoon PEKING (AP) - Typhoon Clara caused heavy loss of life and damaged almost 82,000 acres of rice and sugar cane when it swept across southern Fujian province opposite Taiwan this week, the Guangming Daily reported. The newspaper report did not say how many people died when the typhoon struck last Monday night. It said the damage was heaviest in Nanjing, Ping-he, Zhangpu and Yunxiao counties where more than 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. In the Philippines, meanwhile, search teams recovered nine more bodies from the sea, raising to 49 the number of sailors killed when Typhoon Clara hurled a Philippine navy destroyer escort ashore on Calayan Island. oreg 9/26/81 === Page 56 of 64 Florida has second fatal shark attack ANNA MARIA, Fla. (AP) -- A man who bet a beer that he could swim three miles to a Gulf Coast island is the second person to die after a shark attack in Florida waters this year, officials say. Manatee County authorities said Mark Meeker, 26, a Tampa bartender, drowned after a shark took an eight-inch piece out of his right leg. Six weeks ago, a secretary died off the Atlantic Coast after being attacked by a shark. Meeker disappeared Tuesday afternoon after diving off Anna Maria City Pier in an attempt to swim to Egmont Key, three miles across choppy waters and strong tidal currents in the mouth of Tampa Bay. His body was found Wednesday morning, the drawstring of his bathing suit wrapped tightly around his right thigh as a make-shift tourniquet. Authorities said he drowned after either going into shock or becoming exhausted. Dr. Stephen Pelham, Manatee's medical examiner, said Friday that Meeker's wound was the result of a shark attack. "The marks are consistent with a shark bite," he said. Since sharks have several rows of teeth, a wound left by a shark will generally show other cuts above and below the bite. Meeker's leg had such cuts, he said. Manatee sheriff's deputy Mark Rominger said Meeker, Meeker's girl friend, Angie Tucker, and several other friends were on the pier on the south side of Tampa Bay when the bet was made. Rominger said the friends told him they became worried when they lost sight of Meeker after he was just a few hundred yards out. Shark's victim to swim again MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -- James Smodell, the 12th victim of a shark attack in Florida waters this year, vowed Monday to get back in the water as soon as doctors remove the 40 stitches used to close a wound on his right hand. Smodell, 19, was surfing with a friend about 200 yards offshore Sunday when his unseen attacker hit. There was a big splash and Smodell pulled his mangled hand from the water. "It was a feeling I'll never forget, I'll tell you that," Smodell said. "I just jerked my hand up and tried to keep it out of the water. It was bleeding real bad as I paddled in." Experts say the number of shark attacks and reported sightings is up this year but they do not know why. Two people have died as a result of the attacks. "Maybe the fish they are feeding on are in closer to shore," said Frank Murru, curator of fishes at Sea World. "At this time of year they are usually feeding on mullet." Smodell said he and his surfing partner had seen mullet schooling through the area prior to the attack, and on Saturday had spotted several sharks about five feet long. "They usually just leave you alone," he said. "We've seen more out there this year chasing small fish." Both victims who died from attacks apparently bled to death. Christy Wapniarski, 19, was attacked Aug. 14 while swimming to shore from a capsized catamaran with three other people. Her boyfriend, who couldn't bring her in, said it appeared the shark bit her thigh. Her body hasn't been recovered. Mark Meeker, 26, died Sept. 19 after being attacked while trying to swim Tampa Bay on a bet. The Manatee County medical examiner said the cause of death was bleeding from an eight-inch-wide gash in his right calf -- an injury consistent with a shark bite. Greg 9/29/81 - UFO & Projects - newsbreak 2nd Turkish jet crashes A Turkish air force jet crashed near the village of Alpullu Wednesday during military maneuvers, killing both crewmen. It was the second fighter plane to crash in as many days during the autumn exercises by troops gathered for the forthcoming NATO maneuvers. Greg 9/23/81 9-10-81 Seat. Times Target date set for power plant's return PASCO -- (AP) -- Officials of the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District say they expect to have the Russell D. Smith power plant back on line before the end of the month. The 6.1-megawatt generating plant is the nation's first low-head hydro plant to be constructed in an irrigation canal. It began producing power in early August, but was knocked out of service two weeks ago when a thrust bearing failed. - UFO & Projects - - UFO & Projects - Air crash kills 4 ALBSTADT, West Germany (AP) -- A West German army helicopter and a U.S. military aircraft collided in flight Thursday during NATO exercises, killing two American and two German servicemen, authorities said. The four bodies were found in the wreckage of an Alouette II helicopter and a propeller-driven "OV 10 Bravo" reconnaissance plane in southwest Germany, a German army spokesman said. He said the identities of the victims were not immediately available and that the cause of the collision was under investigation. The collision took place near the town of Albstadt-Ebingen, some 40 miles south of Stuttgart on the northeastern edge of the Black Forest. Greg 9/18/81 - UFO & Projects - Missiles overturn ALSFELD, West Germany (AP) -- A U.S. Army truck carrying three missiles overturned, seriously injuring two Americans and clogging traffic on a busy autobahn for 10 hours, an army spokesman said Saturday. The accident occurred Friday night on the Frankfurt-Kassel highway as the truck was pulling into a rest area. "There was never any danger of the missiles exploding, as technical safeguards prevent this in instances other than actual launch," an army statement said. Greg 9/20/81 - UFO & Projects - Texas to get aid WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan Tuesday declared Texas a major disaster area as a result of severe storms and flooding that began Aug. 30. Reagan's action makes federal funds available for relief and recovery efforts in designated areas of the state. Greg 9/23/81 === Page 57 of 64 Crash of C-130 leaves 7 dead - UFOs & Projects - oreg 9/22/81 INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FIELD, Nev. (AP) -- An Air Force C-130 transport plane carrying Army troops on a nighttime training mission crash-landed and burned early Monday as it approached a darkened desert air strip, killing seven soldiers and hospitalizing 20 others. The four engine turbo-prop was carrying 68 people, including nine crew members, when it hit the desert floor and skidded before bursting into flames about three-quarters of a mile short of the runway at Indian Springs at 12:20 a.m. "The sky was aglow, the plane was totally engulfed in flames," said Jessica Hilt, 25, a helicopter rescue nurse who flew to the scene. "There were a lot of men with arm and leg fractures. It was miraculous that there were no more serious injuries." Several Air Force sources said the runway lights at the remote landing strip about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas were shut off as part of the training mission, but Air Force officials refused to directly confirm or deny the report. "The aircraft was illuminating its own landing, that's all I can say," said Lt. Col. Mike Wallace, an Air Force public information officer. "We were using standard night operating tactics, and I'm not at liberty to discuss those tactics." The names of those killed were not immediately released, but Wallace said he believed they were all Army personnel. A Nellis Air Force Base spokesman said none of the 20 hospitalized was in critical condition, although some injuries were "orthopedic," such as broken arms or legs. At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said President Reagan had been informed of the crash and "expressed regret" at the loss of life. Wallace said the plane hit short of the runway, skidded and ruptured its fuel lines, starting what he said was a small fire which normally develops in that type of crash. But, he added, the blaze reached smoke grenades and flares used on the mission and quickly developed into "an extremely hot fire." The C-130 was attached to the 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas. The plane was taking part in a training exercise involving the Army's 9th Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Wash., to simulate Air Force-Army airlift operations in combat conditions. - UFOs & Projects - Search called off NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A search for three men missing after their Navy helicopter crashed at sea has been called off, but two of the three survivors were already back on duty Monday. The survivors were rescued from the water a half-hour after their SH-3 Sea King crashed at 10:15 a.m. Sunday 360 miles off Virginia while on a routine flight off the aircraft carrier Forrestal. The search for the missing crewmen was called off shortly after nightfall Sunday after the carrier and aircraft had covered the area, according to Cmdr. Jim Lois, spokesman for Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet here. oreg 9/15/81 - UFOs & Projects - Big fires tamed; more started All major forest fires in Oregon were reported controlled Thursday night, although lightning storms ignited at least 85 smaller fires during the day. In Washington's Olympic National Park, a 500-acre fire was burning out of control as firefighters hoped for some help from the weather. The Tin Pan Peak fire -- which had consumed a trailer home, a barn and a shed Tuesday night after covering 2,350 acres. About 200 firefighters were mopping up and watching hot spots in the Rock Point area Thursday night, the Jackson County sheriff's office reported. Richard Scowden, age unknown, an employee of Jackson County Fire District 5, was struck by a falling snag about 3 a.m. Thursday and was admitted to Providence Hospital in Medford. Scowden was "under observation," but his injuries were not considered serious, said Linda Gabrielson, information officer for the state Department of Forestry. Another firefighter was treated for minor burns. Oregon forestry officials have estimated the cost of fighting the Tin Pan Peak fire on private and federal land would be at least $408,842, Ms. Gabrielson said. No estimate of loss to homes and timber was available. The Hull Lane fire, 10 miles north of La Grande, was controlled at 6 a.m. Thursday after burning 850 acres. Lightning storms in southwest and central Oregon sparked 11 small fires on the Rogue River, four in the Mount Hood National Forest, 20 fires in the Deschutes National Forest and 20 in the Fremont and Malheur national forests, said Mike Gouette, a U.S. Forest Service regional assistant coordinator. "We're up to our ears in lightning fires," Gouette said, adding that none of the fires was more than 10 acres and none posed an immediate threat to expanded. More lightning strikes were expected throughout the night, he said. In Washington, Forest Service crews and helicopters were fighting a 500-acre fire deep in the heart of the Olympic National Park, about 30 miles south of Port Angeles. Don Jackson, assistant park superintendent, said the fire was believed to have been caused by lightning about 10 days ago but blew up Wednesday afternoon. The fire was burning in a scenic area at about the 5,000-foot level between Godkin Creek and Buckingham Creek on the Elwha River. About 30 men were on the fire lines, aided by three helicopters and a fixed-wing plane that was scooping water from a nearby lake and dumping it on hot spots, Jackson said. The Washington Department of Natural Resources rescinded, effective early Friday, orders that had closed the forests on the west side of the state from Canada to Oregon, in view of forecasts of clouds and possible showers. In Oregon, however, the U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Forestry reported that fire danger remained from very high to extreme, especially in the southern part of the state. oreg 9/18/81 - UFOs & Projects - Navy copter loss takes three lives NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- The USS Forrestal searched the Atlantic Monday for three Navy crewmen missing after their anti-submarine and rescue helicopter crashed. Three other men were rescued. It was the fifth aircraft carrier mishap this year. The Navy said it had no explanation why the SH-3 Sea King helicopter went down in "near perfect" weather early Sunday about 360 miles east of the Virginia coast as it returned from a routine mission of providing security for Forrestal jets on takeoff. The crash occurred 3 to 5 miles from the Forrestal. "According to reports, no one ... observed the impact and no one heard a mayday or distress call," said Navy spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Jim Lois. Lois described the SH-3 Sea King as "the most doggone reliable plane I've ever flown." The helicopter was attached to Anti-Submarine Squadron Three out of Mayport, Fla. Among the missing are Cmdr. Paul Lawrence Nelson of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the helicopter's two pilots and squadron commander. Identities of the other two missing men were not available early Monday. The three rescued crew members were reported in "good, stable condition." One was treated at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital for swallowing seawater and aviation fuel. oreg 9/14/81 === Page 58 of 64 80 new blazes # Lightning sparks Oregon fires Firefighters were aided by cooler weather and rain showers Friday as they faced about 80 new forest and range fires sparked by overnight lightning storms that struck from the Oregon-California border to the Columbia Gorge. Meanwhile, a 500-acre fire continued to burn uncontained in Washington's Olympic National Park but light showers kept the fire from spreading. The new Oregon fires included a 180-acre blaze in old-growth timber on the east flank of Black Butte, about 10 miles northwest of Sisters, according to the U.S. Forest Service. About 100 firefighters were fighting that fire Friday night. It was one of more than 50 sparked by lightning in Central Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, said Hubert Mapes, night fire coordinator for the Forest Service. The firefighters were helped by clouds and fog in the area, and a chance of showers was forecast for Saturday, Mapes said. The other fires were smaller, said Mike Gouette, assistant regional coordinator. No estimate of a containment or control time was made for the Black Butte fire, which did not threaten any homes. Forest Service crews also were unable to estimate a time of containment for another blaze that had burned about 100 acres some 20 miles south of Silver Lake. That fire was one of about 20 reported in Fremont National Forest, Gouette said. Several smaller fires were controlled or contained Friday in Willamette, Rogue River and Mount Hood national forests. The Oregon Department of Forestry reported 34 small fires in the Sisters, Bend and La Pine areas and four others in Klamath and Lake counties, but only one more than one acre. Spokeswoman Linda Gabrielson said about 100 firefighters had completed fire lines around a 100-acre fire near Foster Butte in Lake County. It was burning in logging slash. No estimated time of control was available, she said. Another earlier fire that was started by a truck accident on Interstate 5 burned more than 35 acres near Sexton Mountain, about 12 miles north of Grants Pass. It was controlled at 10 p.m. Thursday, Ms. Gabrielson said. About 20 miles to the southeast, fire crews continued to mop up after the Tin Pan Peak Fire, which burned 2,350 acres before crews controlled it Thursday night. Ms. Gabrielson said that fire, which burned a mobile home, a car and a barn, was caused by a discarded cigarette. About 1 p.m., crews controlled a 400-acre brush fire caused by lightning about 40 miles northeast of Lakeview, said Don Smurthwaite, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. BLM crews had extinguished a half-dozen other small fires by Friday, he said. Fire danger remained high in southern and eastern Oregon, and little precipitation was expected in the dry areas Saturday, Ms. Gabrielson said. Only a steady rain over a period of time would lower the fire danger, she said. Portland received 0.15 of an inch of rain as of 8 p.m. Friday, equaling the total rainfall in Portland for August, the National Weather Service reported. Partly cloudy weather was forecast for Saturday and Sunday after morning clouds, with a 20 percent chance of rain Saturday. Rain pelted the Oregon Coast and winds gusted to 50 mph in the Columbia River basin Friday night. oreg 9/19/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Storms ravage Southeast; 5 dead By United Press International Showers and thunderstorms moved from the central Gulf Coast Wednesday and up the Atlantic Seaboard. Rain-slick highways in Maryland and Alabama caused traffic accidents that killed five people and injured 23 others Tuesday. A cool Canadian air mass moved into the Plains region and parts of the Midwest Wednesday -- dropping some early morning temperatures to near 40 degrees. Illinois, Indiana and Michigan reported lows ranging in the mid-40s to low 50s. A frost warning was posted late Tuesday in North Dakota, where temperatures were expected to drop into the low to mid-30s. Severe thunderstorms in the Richmond, Va., area late Tuesday knocked out electrical power to about 5,600 residents. The Virginia Electric and Power Co. said service was restored early Wednesday to most of the customers. oreg 9/16/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Record chill hits Michigan United Press International Frost dusted parts of northern Michigan early Monday, setting record-low temperatures accompanied by frost warnings in the unseasonably early chill. In Sault St. Marie, Mich., a record low 30 degrees was recorded just before midnight, breaking a 1956 record set at a low 31 degrees. The thermometer rose 1 degree to 32 in the early morning hours. Thunderstorms were scattered over southern Florida into the early morning and storms and rainshowers were reported over Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Rain also doused areas from the Nebraska Panhandle and Colorado across the northern Rockies and over the northern Pacific Coast. Showers along the Pacific Coast were accompanied by winds in excess of 40 mph, but no damages or injuries were reported. Record cold temperatures stung more than two dozen cities from South Texas to the southern Atlantic Coast Sunday. Cold northwest winds of 50 mph whipped through Rapid City, S.D., and temperatures in the 30s were scattered from the northern Great Lakes to the Rockies. The mercury plunged to 29 degrees at Hibbing, Minn., the nation's cold spot. Temperatures dipped into the 40s and 50s for the third consecutive day in the Deep South. Record lows were set in 27 cities across the nation and cool weather hung over much of the eastern part of the country. oreg 9/21/81 === Page 59 of 64 Man swims on a bet, dies after shark attack ANNA MARIA, Fla. (AP) -- A man who bet a beer that he could swim three miles to a Gulf Coast island is the second person to die after a shark attack in Florida waters this year, officials say. Manatee County authorities said Mark Meeker, 26, a Tampa bartender, drowned after a shark took an 8-inch piece out of his right leg. Six weeks ago, a secretary died off the Atlantic Coast after being attacked by a shark. Meeker disappeared Tuesday afternoon after diving off Anna Maria City Pier in an attempt to swim to Egmont Key, three miles across choppy waters and strong tidal currents in the mouth of Tampa Bay. His body was found Wednesday morning, the drawstring of his bathing suit wrapped tightly around his right thigh as a make-shift tourniquet. Authorities said he drowned after either going into shock or becoming exhausted. Dr. Stephen Pelham, Manatee County medical examiner, said Friday that Meeker's wound was the result of a shark attack. "The marks are consistent with a shark bite," he said. Since sharks have several rows of teeth, a wound left by a shark will generally show other cuts above and below the bite. Meeker's leg had such cuts, he said. Sheriff's deputy Mark Rominger said Meeker, Meeker's girlfriend, Angie Tucker, and several other friends were on the pier on the south side of Tampa Bay when the bet was made. Rominger said the friends told him they became worried when they lost sight of Meeker after he was just a few hundred yards out. After trying to get a boat to go after him themselves, they alerted the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard used a helicopter and three vessels that evening but gave up the search at nightfall. The skipper of the private fishing boat Sea Jeep spotted the body the next morning. Aug. 10, Christy Wapniarski died after being attacked by a shark while struggling to reach shore a few miles off Daytona Beach. Miss Wapniarski, 19, was attacked while trying to swim to shore from a capsized sailboat. She died after a shark took a large bite out of her leg. Lightning sets new Oregon fires By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A moderately intense lightning storm moved across Southern Oregon and Northern California to set a series of small forest fires Wednesday night and further plague fire crews that have been battling the area since the weekend. "We haven't had rain in more than 70 days and every strike ignited something," said a dispatcher for the Rogue River National Forest. His remark was echoed by dispatchers for the Siskiyou and Klamath National Forests. Dispatchers added that because of the number of crews already in the area, none of the lightning-set fires appeared to be of major status. A forest fire on state and private land that threatened several homes between Rogue River and Gold Hill was trailed near noon Wednesday, but there is still no estimate for a time of control. Ralph C. Voris Jr., Oregon Forestry Department information assistant, said the blaze, known as the Tin Pan Peak fire, has cost $265,000 so far in suppression efforts. No damage figure has been set, but the fire burned a trailer home, some outbuildings and a car and slightly damaged six residences. Voris said about 200 firefighters remained on the line and that five tankers, 12 pumpers and three bulldozers still were committed. Cause of the fire has not been determined, but it began near the road close to Valley of the Rogue State Park. John Boro, an investigator for the state Department of Forestry, said the Mount Harris fire, which blackened 850 acres of private timber and grass lands 10 miles north of La Grande, was caused by a careless smoker. Boro said his investigation indicated an ashtray dumped from a vehicle along Mount Harris Road provided the embers to light the fire. No estimate of a control time has been made, but a trail was bulldozed around the fire late Wednesday. Six new man-caused fires were reported across Oregon Wednesday. Three were in the Astoria area, two in Southwestern Oregon and one in Eastern Oregon. All were brought under control. Aircraft made several water drops Wednesday on a small forest fire burning on a ridge in the Olympic National Park in Washington. The fire was sighted by the crew of a Forest Service reconnaissance plane about 40 miles south of Port Angeles. 3 lost in crash of Navy copter NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Three men were missing and presumed dead after an SH-3 Sea King helicopter with six men aboard crashed 350 miles east of the Virginia coast yesterday, the Navy said. Three of the crewmen were rescued about 25 minutes after the crash, and were reported in stable condition. Cmdr. Jim Lois, spokesman for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force, said no distress message was received from the helicopter before the crash and that no one observed the impact. The helicopter, attached to Naval Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron 3 based in Mayport, Fla., was flying a routine mission off the aircraft carrier Forrestal, which is returning to its home port in Mayport after a seven-month Mediterranean deployment. Other aircraft began a search after the helicopter was reported overdue, Lois said. Lois said a helicopter crew pulled the survivors from the ocean, and returned them to the Forrestal. Two of the survivors were being treated aboard the carrier. The third was flown to the Norfolk Naval Air Station, then transferred to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition last night. The spokesman said he had swallowed sea water and possibly some aviation fuel. The names of the missing and injured were withheld until relatives could be notified. Fire hits U.S. carrier; crew escapes injury TOKYO (UPI) -- A U.S. aircraft carrier operating in the Indian Ocean caught fire but no one was injured, the U.S. Navy announced Thursday. A spokesman for the Yokosuka-based 7th Fleet said the fire broke out Wednesday evening aboard the 60,300-ton USS America but that firefighters put out the flames before anyone was hurt. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The fire apparently did not impair the ship's operation. The America "remained capable of performing her mission" after the fire, the spokesman said. The Navy also said a SH-3 Sikorsky helicopter from the America crashed in the Indian Ocean but all four crewmen aboard were rescued safely. The cause of the incident was not immediately known. === Page 60 of 64 THE FAR SIDE / GARY LARSON I daresay there's a woman in Grass Valley who believes in UFO's U.S. needs a Malraux By PETE HAMILL NEW YORK -- In the heady days before the fall, Richard Nixon once confided to an interviewer that his favorite world statesman was Charles de Gaulle. He and de Gaulle, Nixon said, were very much alike. Among many distinctions evident at the time, however, one was crucial. De Gaulle's most intimate adviser was a great writer named Andre Malraux, author of "Man's Fate" and "The Voices of Silence." Nixon's principal adviser at the time was H.R. Haldeman, whose major literary effort had been the production of advertising copy for Black Flag insect spray. I thought about Malraux and Haldeman the other day while reading the testimony of E.L. Doctorow before the House Interior appropriations subcommittee, which was examining proposed cuts in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Doctorow is, of course, one of this country's finest writers. In his testimony, Doctorow tried to make clear that art is as important to a nation as guns. That is a difficult message to deliver to the gaggle of second-rate lawyers and slumming businessmen who so often make up our governments. But I will quote from Doctorow's words at length, because they got lost in all the hardfisted blather that issued from the supply-side seminaries during the budget discussion. To me, they are about nothing less than a vision of America. "I cannot avoid the feeling that it is senseless for me to testify here," Doctorow said. "People everywhere have been put in the position of fighting piecemeal for this or that social program while the assault against all of them proceeds across a broad front. The truth is, if you're going to take away the lunches of schoolchildren, the pensions of miners who've contracted black lung, the storefront legal services of the poor who are otherwise stunned into insensibility by the magnitude of their troubles, you might as well get rid of poets, artists and musicians. "I am waiting for a rising sound of protest from the halls of Congress, but I have not yet heard declared what we all know to be true -- that the so-called economic policy issuing from its government, for all its supply-side jargon and budgetary pieties, is a simple, undeniable eviction procedure, a brutal eviction not only of widows and children but all citizens except the already privileged, all interests except those of wealth and business. "And so in my testimony for this small program I am aware of the larger picture and, really, it stuns me. What I see in this picture is a kind of Sovietizing of American life, guns before butter, the plating of the nation with armaments, the sacrifice of everything in our search for ultimate security. "We shall become an immense armory. But inside this armory there will be nothing. Not a people but an emptiness. We shall be an armory around nothingness, and our true strength and security and the envy of the world -- the passion and independent striving of a busy, working and dreaming population committed to fair play and the struggle for some sort of real justice and community -- will be no more." I'm certain that this would be a better country if a man like Doctorow had regular access to a man like Ronald Reagan. Someone in the White House should speak for a human vision, for poetry, for social complexity, for life instead of death. Pete Hamill is a syndicated columnist. org 9/18/81 © 1981, Pete Hamill * Same can be said for the Powers and allies of PK man. Owens. Note: From the above will come a U.S. revolution unless Russia puts us out of our misery first. Owens UFOs & Projects Texas, Midwest Storms pound United Press International A cold front moved thunderstorms from central Texas through the Mississippi Valley and parts of the Ohio Valley on Tuesday. Tornadoes touched in Nebraska, Texas and Indiana but no injuries were reported. In Texas, a thunderstorm accompanied by sharp bolts of lightning crashed through the Dallas area, dumping almost an inch of rain at the Love Field airport. Blustery winds also caused some damage to airplanes. The storms were part of a system that moved across sections of west and north Texas late Sunday. oreg 9/15/81 === Page 61 of 64 Associated Press Laserphoto MISSILE MISHAP -- A U.S. Army missile launcher crashed through a guard rail on the Autobahn near Asslar, West Germany, during a training exercise. The vehicle, carrying an inert dummy round, plunged past two ramps headfirst to the ground, injuring five, when the steering failed. - UFOs & Projects - oreg 9/23/81 # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Jet hits soldiers ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A Turkish air force jet fighter crashed and exploded Tuesday in a bivouac area prepared for a NATO exercise and reporters at the scene said at least 100 Turkish soldiers were feared killed. Military sources said 26 bodies were counted, but they expected the toll to rise because a fuel dump was reported hit by the plane. Hospital sources said more than 100 soldiers, including dead and injured, were flown to Istanbul by helicopter from the crash site, near Babaeski, about 30 miles from the Greek border and 70 miles northwest of Istanbul. The Turkish military imposed a news blackout after initial reports that the jet that crashed was an F-104 and that at least 100 soldiers were killed. Turkey's military ruler, Gen. Kenan Evren, announced over state radio later that an F-5 crashed, and that there were "several casualties." - UFOs & Projects - ## Belgian pilot killed BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A Mirage jet fighter of the Belgian air force exploded Tuesday over a factory in eastern Belgium and crashed into a field near the German border, killing the pilot, police reported. They said the aircraft exploded near Welkenraedt, about 80 miles east of Brussels, and the cause of the explosion was not immediately known. A police spokesman said the cockpit of the French-built aircraft fell onto a factory building and the fuselage crashed into a field nearby, but they caused no injuries. Associated Press Laserphoto COPTER CRASH -- Unidentified investigator examines wreckage of NASA helicopter that crashed onto freeway 10 miles from San Jose, Calif., Friday, severing power lines and causing grassfire. Power to 23,000 homes was cut off. Crew member David Barth, 35, of Mountain View was killed, and the other occupant, Richard Ritter 34, of Cupertino, was listed in critical condition. oreg 9/12/81 === Page 62 of 64 Damp weather helps Northwest fire crews Wet, cool weather this weekend put a damper on scores of Northwest forest and range fires, including a Colville Indian Reservation blaze that burned about 5,000 to 6,000 acres in northeastern Washington. The reservation fire, about five miles east of Omak, was expected to be contained by Sunday morning, said Donna Cox, a U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs fire dispatcher. Crews had built a fire line around three-fourths of the grass and brush fire by early Saturday night, she said. Rain Friday night and calm weather Saturday "slowed it down really good," Mrs. Cox said. The fire was expected to be controlled by 10 a.m. Sunday, she said. First reported Friday afternoon as a 5-acre hayfield fire, the blaze spread rapidly as winds gusted to 30 mph. She said earlier reports to the BIA that the fire had burned 14,000 acres "come from a rural fire department that had its figures wrong." Pat Quill, a BIA fire control officer, said the fire apparently was sparked by a hay baler working in a hot, dry field. Campers in three mobile homes in the path of the fire were evacuated safely, and no injuries were reported among the 250 firefighters battling the blaze. Eleven firefighters were at the scene of a 500-acre Olympic National Park fire Saturday in northwestern Washington, while 20 U.S. Forest Service firefighters were rerouted and sent to the Colville fire, according to park ranger Woody Jones. The flames were still uncontained, but humid weather and temperatures in the lower 40s Saturday "put the fire in check," Jones said. Near freezing overnight temperatures were being forecast. "Looks like we got her now," he said. A fire is contained when it is surrounded by a line and its spread stopped and controlled when crews begin extinguishing it. The fire apparently was started by lightning more than a week ago, but it smoldered for days before spreading across the ridges of hemlock and fir. The eastern side of the fire, which was on a ridge with a 1,500-foot drop, remained a trouble spot because of the danger to the firefighters, Jones said. Another large fire had burned at least 1,000 acres and was out of control on steep, rocky terrain in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest some 45 miles northwest of Redding in Northern California. About 150 firefighters were trying to contain it. Oregon firefighters contained the 210-acre Black Butte fire near Sisters by 6 p.m. Saturday, said Hubert Mapes, night fire coordinator for the Forest Service. Crews hoped to have it controlled by 6 p.m. Sunday, Mapes said. About 500 persons were dispatched to fight that fire, which was burning on the wooded east flank of the butte. The 35-acre Gunsight fire, also near Sisters in the Deschutes National Forest, was controlled Friday night. Forest Service officials said lightning storms sparked 146 Oregon fires -- mostly small ones -- and 240 in Washington Friday night. However, the humid weather aided in controlling many of them. Don Smurthwaite, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman, said crews extinguished several small fires on BLM land and controlled a 400-acre fire Friday. He said the Plush fire was controlled about 1 p.m. Friday after it burned some 400 acres of brush 40 miles northeast of Lakeview. oreg 9/20/81 Social chaos could result, panel warns By WARREN BROWN LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- A government advisory panel warned Sunday that President Reagan's economic policies will result in fewer jobs, greater welfare dependency and a higher crime rate "that could lead to social chaos." The exceptionally sharp criticism was made in the final report of the 15-member National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, a congressionally created body whose members are presidential appointees. The 14-year-old council is to be abolished under the Reagan administration. Adding to the sting of the council's parting shot was a separate statement by its chairman, Arthur I. Blaustein, who accused the administration of "separating economic theory from social policy and pursuing the former at the expense of the latter...." "There is a price to be paid for the reduction of human and social services," Blaustein said. "That price is that these cutbacks will not reduce crime; they will increase it. They will not promote better family life; they will destabilize it. They will not increase respect for the law; they will weaken it." The council chairman said that Oct. 1, when the administration's $35 billion cuts in social and other federal spending take effect, "will be remembered as a day of infamy, for it will mark the worst massacre of social and human service programs in American history." oreg 9/21/81 B8 8/12/81 THE OREGONIAN, WE Radar balloon breaks away -- UFOs 6 Projects oreg WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 180-foot-long Air Force balloon that normally uses radar to watch for low-flying aircraft intruding into U.S. airspace has come down in the Gulf of Mexico after breaking away from its tether Monday night, Air Force officials said Tuesday. The unmanned balloon, called Seek Skyhook, snapped the 12,000-foot-long cable connecting it to 8/12/81. Cudjoe Key Air Force Station, Fla., and drifted some 65 miles west of Key West, officials said. They reported the Coast Guard was en route to recover it from the water. Air Force specialists describe the balloon as a radar early warning craft using "low-cost surveillance radar" to watch for low-flying aircraft that might be heading for the southeastern United States from the direction of Cuba. They said reports that the balloon carries equipment used for eavesdropping electronically on Cuba were incorrect. The loss of the balloon, they said, reduces somewhat the radar surveillance coverage, but they said land-based radar sites at Key West and Richmond, Fla. are able to watch over the area. === Page 63 of 64 Rust afflicts reactor heat exchangers By MATTHEW L. WALD New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- A major component of Consolidated Edison Co.'s 8-year-old Indian Point 2 nuclear plant is corroding far faster than originally expected, and the utility fears the plant may have to be shut down for a full year for repairs costing $100 million. The problem, involving rust in a bundle of tubing called a steam generator, also affects 16 other reactors around the country. Four of them have been shut down for the protracted, expensive repairs, and another is scheduled to shut down soon. Steam generators are designed to last for the 40-year life of a nuclear plant, but Con Edison estimates that repair at the 873-megawatt plant may be necessary sooner, possibly as little as four years from now. Rusting has also been found in the twin Indian Point 3 plant, which is 5 years old and produces 965 megawatts, but that plant's operator, the Power Authority of the State of New York, is making no predictions about it. Besides the repair costs, which will increase with inflation, shutting down the nuclear plant would force the utility to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the electricity that would be lost. The steam generators' tubes -- carrying hot, radioactive water from the reactor's uranium core -- are immersed in non-radioactive water that drives the plant's turbines. If the tubes crack or leak, the clean water is contaminated. At Indian Point 2, a leak during testing earlier this year caused a small release of radioactivity from the plant. Opponents of the Indian Point plants say that if the utilities announce plans to replace the steam generators, they will lobby for the reactors' retirement. "There is no evidence that the replacement is better than the original," said Robert Pollard, formerly a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff member assigned to Indian Point and now a nuclear safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group opposed to nuclear power. Indian Point 2's four steam generators and those at the four reactors that have been or are to be replaced were all built by Westinghouse about the same time, in the early 1970s. The Florida Power and Light Co. recently began replacement work on its Turkey Point Unit 3; Unit 4 will undergo the same repairs in coming months. The cost is put at $68 million each, plus about $750,000 a day for replacement power for each of the twin 666-megawatt units, but other repairs will be accomplished in the same shutdown. Southern California Edison's San Onofre 1, a smaller, 1968 Westinghouse unit in San Clemente, also shut down last year for repairs, at a cost of about $60 million plus power. It is not clear yet to the utility or the NRC whether the repair will entirely solve the problem. Besides Indian Point 3, reactors facing the possibility of replacement are Millstone 2 in Waterford, Conn., manufactured by Combustion Engineering and owned by Northeast Utilities; another Combustion Engineering plant, Palisades, in South Haven, Mich., owned by the Consumers Power Co.; and two other Westinghouse-manufactured plants, the Carolina Power and Light Co.'s H.B. Robinson 2 plant in Hartsville, S.C., and the Wisconsin Electric Power Co.'s Point Beach 1 in Two Creeks, Wis. All the plants have made attempts to stop the corrosion. oreg 9/21/81 # Ammo-laden jet explodes; 65 hurt - UFOs - 6 Projects - oreg 9/21/81 INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (UPI) -- An Air Force plane carrying live ammunition crashed and exploded in flames Monday in the Nevada desert, injuring at least 65 people, 21 of them seriously, Air Force officials said. An Air Force spokesman said 21 passengers and crew members of the C-130 cargo plane have been hospitalized with broken bones and other serious injuries suffered in the fiery crash. He said 44 people were treated for minor injuries and and released from hospitals. No deaths have been confirmed, but "there is a possibility there may have been others aboard the plane," said Col. David Wallace. "We still have people on the scene fighting the fire," he said three hours after the crash. There was no information on a possible cause of the crash. Wallace said a series of explosions that ripped the aircraft may have ignited fuel tanks. Shortly after the crash, Wallace said live ammunition was believed to have caused the explosions. The plane crashed one mile short of the landing strip at Indian Springs Air Force Base, an auxiliary facility to Nellis Air Force Base, Wallace said. The Air Force declined to say where the C-130 was based or to disclose its flight assignment, except to say it was on a routine night training mission. That type of aircraft normally is not assigned to Nellis or Indian Springs air bases. The giant cargo aircraft was landing during a routine training mission when the crash occurred at 12:20 a.m. PDT. C-130s routinely can be equipped for electronic warfare and parachute, resupply or cargo drops. The plane could have been carrying ammunition for cargo-drop training, an Air Force spokesman said. - UFOs 6 Project - # Hunters seek mad killer hog AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) -- Hunters with trail hounds gathered Friday to pursue a berserk 300-pound wild hog that has attacked seven horses and a mule -- mortally wounding two of them. Authorities warned residents not to leave their children outside alone. The "long-haired, long-tusked" boar, standing 3 feet tall at the shoulders, slashed a pony so severely Thursday that it had to be destroyed. Police summoned fired three shots at the hog but missed. State Department of Natural Resources wardens set out on the boar's trail with dogs and followed it into a densely wooded area before the hounds lost it. DNR spokesman Gib Johnson said the hunters waited until sunup, when the dew would hold the hog's scent, to resume the hunt. The unprovoked attacks on far-larger animals are unprecedented, Johnson said. "Nobody has seen anything like this pig," he said. "We can't explain it. This one has certainly raised some questions that haven't been raised before." === Page 64 of 64 # Blackout halts New York rush hour NEW YORK -- (UPI) -- An explosion and fire at a power station blacked out large sections of Lower Manhattan yesterday, shutting down Wall Street, trapping hundreds of people on elevators, halting subways and creating rush-hour chaos on the streets. It was the city's third major power failure in 16 years and lasted for more than four hours. Times Square turned into a sea of confusion as commuters fled stalled trains underground. Debbie Davis, 27, a paralegal secretary, said she was trying to get to her home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. "It's insane. I'm just furious. I'm not going to get home until 8," she fumed. "It's absolute havoc," said Nat Scheider, 59, a textile salesman who was heading for home in suburban Rockland County. "But I've lived in New York City all my life and nothing can upset me any more." No serious injuries were reported in the explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation near the East River, but it took 2 1/2 hours for fire fighters to extinguish the fire. The exact cause was unknown but fire fighters found oil leaking from a transformer. Mayor Edward Koch said police rescued about 300 people from stalled elevators in apartments and office buildings. City Hall was among the landmarks blacked out by the failure, but power was restored quickly by an emergency generator. Police rescued several hundred people trapped in stalled elevators in office and apartment buildings. High-rise dwellers hiked up pitch-black staircases with only lighted candles to guide them. The blackout extended from Times Square to the Battery, affecting 52,000 customers, including homes, businesses and skyscrapers. The failure occurred at 3:25 p.m. Full power was restored by Con Ed at 7:53 p.m. The blackout forced the American and New York Stock Exchanges, as well as many other businesses, to close early. Many buildings were evacuated. Subway service in Lower Manhattan came to a standstill as the system's lighting and signal operations shut down. But the trains, which operate on a separate power source, were able to reach the nearest station to evacuate passengers. Approximately 3.5 million people use the subway system in the evening rush hour. Thousands of workers walked home across the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. There were no reports of looting or vandalism as in the city-wide blackout on July 13, 1977. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8110 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 October 1981 Ted comments on article in National Enquirer Also is picture of a book or article that Ted Owens wrote but the article wasn't there--only the title page. I did a very quick Internet search and it created a connection to the Albuquerque museum 1962-1980. A New Mexico connection also reminds me that I believe Jeff said one of the largest collections of articles related to UFOs in located in the Albuquerque area. It might be worth a trip to see what info they have on Ted Owens. The book how to contact Space People is on Amazon Canada and also in Kindle Edition. 90 pages. A book. 90 pages. There was also a 2012 version on Ebay. The book cover and a reference to National Enquirer were stapled together so I made a copy and put them into the Special Reports folder. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b17aa786e1d33931ac80cbe8e284eba0.pdf 4a98274c478def5f4ee72adb8e7e3380 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5e39142f7f615ef277c6e16be515794d.txt 9896e4af40511420e2d28cc6eef2e658 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 52 Recession 'spreading' Factory production was down by eight-tenths of 1 per-cent in September, and the Federal Reserve Board sees the second straight month of decline as "another sign that the recession is spreading." Reductions in industrial output were widespread by major types of goods and by industry. The decline is the same as in July 1980, during the depth of last year's recession. MY UFOs (SIs) CONTINUE THEIR ATTACK ON THE U.S. STOCK MARKET AND U.S. ECONOMY (AS PER MY WARNING LETTER OF JUNE 2, 1981, COPY ENCLOSED) Owens Sept. 29, 1981 === Page 2 of 52 - Fed's attack economy - # Wall Street down early, comes back Columbian 9/28/81 NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market braced today for a predicted "blue Monday," but the selloff, after early widespread losses, was less severe than expected despite disarray on stock exchanges in Europe and Japan. By late morning, U.S. stock prices had begun a recovery from their initial drop. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks, down nearly 15 points at 10:30 a.m. EDT, cut its loss to 4.57 points, at 819.44, an hour later. In New York foreign exchange and bullion trading, the dollar was losing ground gained earlier in Europe and the price of gold on the Commodities Exchange Inc. was off $8.90 an ounce, to $421. Silver prices also were lower. Stock traders were still reeling from last week's large losses on the New York Stock Exchange when they came to work today amid reports of "mass hysteria" on the London Stock Exchange and the largest single-day drop in history on the Tokyo exchange. Dealers in London cited predictions last week by investment adviser Joseph Granville of major declines on the world's stock exchanges, including what he forecast to be a "blue Monday" today on the already weakened NYSE. "You have to look at today as a culmination of a decline that's been going on since June," said Larry Wachtel, first vice president at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. "Now it's reaching a climactic stage." Investors' concerns over high interest rates and the federal deficit helped push the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to a 16-month low. Many analysts say President Reagan's proposed reductions in federal spending are seen as insufficient in the markets, and in any case will not be received favorably in Congress. * See my letter of June 2!! (next Xerox) === Page 3 of 52 interested a new book is out having a description of my work in it: "UFO Encyclopedia" by Margaret Sachs. (Huge paperback.) June 2, 1981 Scientists and Contacts ... Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written a true and accurate account of my work. Their book... has been unfairly blocked from being published. (My UFOs say the matter is invalid, and I believe them.) My UFOs have communicated tonight... that if the Mishlove/Rogo book about my work is not truly bought for publication this summer and published... then they, the UFOs, will destroy the U.S. Stock Market, far worse than in 1929. The UFOs have my permission. Ted Owens "PK man" === Page 4 of 52 MARKET IN BRIEF UP 919 UNCH. 323 NYSE index 66.43 .... +1.47 S&P Comp. 115.53 ... +2.76 Dow Jones Ind. 842.56 .. +18.55 SEPT. 28 Volume 61.32 million Issues Traded 1,901 DOWN 659 Stocks dive in markets worldwide Story on Page One also By MARK S. SMITH LONDON (AP) -- The London Stock Exchange led a string of world markets into a breathtaking plunge Monday in trading that one broker likened to a tree fall without a parachute. About $6.4 billion in British stock value was wiped out of investors' accounts in a market already drained by two weeks of losses totaling $25.81 billion. The London Financial Times index of 30 industrials dropped 17.2 points to close at 457.5, roughly comparable to a drop of 31 points in the Dow Jones index of 30 industrials on the New York Stock Exchange. At one point, the London average was down nearly 30 points, but a closing rally cut the losses. "A trend, once started like this, usually goes too far," said John Brew, analyst for the London brokerage house Grieveson Grant. The downward trend hit the New York Stock Exchange in early trading, with the Dow Jones index falling almost 15 points. But a dramatic late rally pulled the Dow up to 842.56 at the close, up 18.55 for the day. The fall in the London market -- the worst-ever Financial Times index drop was 24 points in the midst of a change in government in March 1974 -- was just one of several spectacular falls in world markets Monday. In Tokyo, the Nikkei-Dow index for 225 major issues slumped 302.84 to close at 7,037.12, the worst single-day plunge ever. "It was as if the bottom of a bucket had fallen off," one Tokyo broker said. Stock market takes plunge as budget doubts persist By JAMES PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) -- An index of blue-chip stocks hit a 16-month low Thursday, and other issues were mixed as a skeptical market awaited President Reagan's proposals to further cut the federal budget. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which had been up nearly 6 points earlier in the day, fell 5.80 to 835.14, its lowest level since its 831.06 close May 21, 1980. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index fell 2.3 to 292.12, its lowest mark since June 24, 1980, when it finished at 289.46. Declines outnumbered advances by a 4-3 ratio on the New York Stock Exchange. Big Board volume totaled 48.88 million shares, against 52.70 million in the previous session. Prices had moved slightly higher by midday but retreated after a White House forecast for a fiscal 1982 federal deficit of $42.5 billion. Separately, the Treasury Department said the budget deficit in August narrowed to $5.12 billion but that for the current fiscal year it totaled $64.83 billion through August. MARKET IN BRIEF UP 629 UNCH. 435 NYSE index 66.42 ....... -0.32 S&P Comp. 115.01 ....... -0.64 Dow Jones Ind. 835.14 ....... -5.80 SEPT. 24 Volume 48.88 million Issues Traded 1,874 DOWN 810 newsbreak U.S. economy 'a lot worse' The nation's industrial production dropped by 0.4 percent in August, the biggest decline since last year's recession, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. A Chicago bank official, citing recent measurements of inventory buildup and lackluster retail sales, said the economy "is beginning to look a lot worse." In Hong Kong, shares plummeted to their lowest level of the year, 1,245.26 on the Hang Seng index, a drop of 105.75. In Zurich, the drop was the worst in 6 1/2 years, 5.3 points on the Credit Suisse stock index, which closed at 230.0. In Paris, the Bourse market indicator dropped 3.57 percent for the day, having been off by 4.76 percent at midsession. The Toronto stock market plunged 54.48 points in early trading but recouped to 1806.62 by 1 p.m., down only 5.86 points for the day. Other sharp drops were reported in Singapore, Frankfurt and Sydney. Dow Jones Average 30 Industrials Sept 25, 1981 1980 M J J A S O N D 1981 J F M A M J J A S 956.25 956.14 940.10 924.49 917.15 932.42 940.19 931.57 936.09 964.62 974.58 976.40 971.72 955.67 958.90 936.93 942.54 920.57 892.22 872.81 861.68 836.19 824.01 Low 805.20 High 968.72 Low 997.75 High 1026.35 High 946.25 Low 881.47 1020.35 1007.11 992.80 995.59 996.19 992.87 1006.28 972.78 933.34 August '81 April 1981 1980 === Page 5 of 52 London panic sets off $3.9 billion stock loss LONDON (AP) -- The value of stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange fell by more than $3.9 billion Thursday and the market plunged deeper into one of its worst slides in history following a sell signal by Wall Street guru Joseph Granville. Dealers talked of "utter confusion" and "hysteria" as the decline continued for a second day. A banner headline in the afternoon London Standard read, "Panic on the Stock Exchange." "In this mood anything can happen," said Alan Butler-Henderson, economic strategy chief at Hoare Govett stockbrokers. "The mood is negative enough to suggest that we have not seen the bottom of the slide yet." The Financial Times index of 30 industrial stocks, the mostly widely quoted barometer of the London exchange, lost 5.7 points over the day to close Thursday night at 489.1, after having been 17.4 points down only a half-hour earlier. The decline erased $3.93 billion from British stock values, bringing the two-day loss to $10 billion, according to Datastream International Ltd., a financial information service. At one point Thursday, the losses looked as though they would be even larger, but dealers said a "technical reaction" to the earlier price slump led to a late rally. British stocks took a 20.5-point plunge Wednesday after Granville gave sell advice in a London radio interview, saying "even an 82-year-old grandmother should be short on stocks." The interview was broadcast as brokers were coming to work and the market -- already nervous over predicted higher interest rates -- nosedived. It was the sharpest one-day decline since March 1, 1974, three days before former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath resigned following the Labor Party general election victory. That day, the market fell 24 points, to 313.8. Greg 9/25/81 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Wednesday, September 16, 1981 Industrials Decline 7.80 as Analysts Cite Fear of a Deep, New Recession - UFOs attack economy - By JAMES A. WHITE Stock analysts in growing numbers have come up with a fresh reason for the market's poor performance: fear of a deep, new recession. As evidence, they cite yesterday's stock action in which the market gave a weak shrug to short-term interest rate declines and then fell abruptly late in the session on continued slow volume. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had shown a modest 3.62-point gain at midday, deteriorated rapidly in late afternoon to produce a 7.80-point loss to 858.35. "We think what is bothering this market is the prospect of a recession over the next several quarters," says Alan R. Shaw, manager of market analysis for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. "The market is reacting in a classical way to the possibility of economic contraction." Alan Poole, research vice president at Laidlaw-Coggelhall Inc., says that the "effect of the recession will be highly visible by the end of the year and I think it will be much more serious than most people think." He discounts the widely cited belief that stock prices will recover as interest rates decline. "I think interest rates will drop as the economy gets worse, and in that case, both the market and the economy can go down together," Mr. Poole says. Abreast WAY. WA. 9-18-81 35 CENTS Losing Friends Reagan Program Stirs Worries in New Area: The Currency Markets Money Traders Have Doubts About Fight on Inflation, And Dollar Falls Sharply Is the Fed Under Pressure? By JOHN M. LEGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL President Reagan is suddenly losing his last friends on Wall Street--and on Threadneedle Street and Bahnhofstrasse, too. Foreign-exchange traders in New York, London, Zurich and other world financial centers were, until this week, the President's staunchest supporters. They stuck by him and drove up the value of the U.S. dollar to levels that hadn't been seen in years, even after the plunging bond and stock markets in this country signaled deep misgivings about his economic program. But now the sentiment in foreign-exchange markets has changed--with a vengeance. The dollar has dropped for seven days in a row, including a decline yesterday against most currencies (see story on page 10. Against the West German mark, the standard by which many traders measure the U.S. currency's movements, the dollar has plummeted 4% so far this week. It has sustained comparable declines against other major currencies. And the overall drop from its 1981 high on Aug. 10 now amounts to a staggering 11%--a "rather frightening" decline, says Eugene H. Rotberg, the vice president and treasurer of the World Bank. - UFOs attack economy - Mart hits 16-month low NEW YORK (UPI) -- Stocks plunged to a 16-month low Thursday when an early rally collapsed under the weight of news that indicated the economy, plagued by high interest rates and deficits, might be headed into a severe recession. Trading was moderately active as the Dow Jones industrial average, which had been ahead about three points at midday, skidded 11.51 points late in the day to 840.09, the lowest level since it finished at 831.06 on May 21, 1980. The Dow has fallen 32.72 points the past four sessions and technical analysts said selling accelerated after it failed to hold at its previous 1981 low of 851.12 set last week. The New York Stock Exchange index lost 0.99 to 67.83, a new 1980 low, and the price of an average share decreased 42 cents. Declines routed advances 1,170-355 among the 1,903 traded at 4 p.m. EDT. Investors still are worried about high interest rates, prospects of a huge federal budget deficit and a steep recession. Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton vice president, said "bad economic news is hurting the market, I think we're in a recession and I think its deepening." So do many other economists who were alarmed at a 10.7 percent drop in August housing starts. Greg 9/18/81 DOW JONES -11.51 === Page 6 of 52 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1981 # Stocks plunge to new lows By VARTANIG G. VARTAN New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- Prices plunged to new lows for the year on the New York and American Stock Exchanges Friday following an ominous forecast by Joseph Granville, a prominent market adviser, and investor disappointment over President Reagan's televised speech Thursday night. "The markets were reacting primarily to Granville's predictions and, secondarily, to the fact that the president's proposed new spending cuts were not judged sufficient," said Stewart J. Pillette, associate director of research for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. It was a day of shock encompassing Wall Street and Main Street. "Margin calls are going out to many people who bought stock on credit," a broker for one major firm declared. "And more margin calls probably will be issued next Monday." Total margin debt was last reported at a near-record $14.3 billion. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 11.13 points, to 824.01, finishing at its lowest point since May 15, 1980, at 822.53. Since this year's peak in late April, this most closely-watched barometer of the market has dropped 200 points -- marking the most sustained selloff since the infamous bear market year of 1974. The Amex market value index, composed of more speculative issues, sank 15.36 points, its second largest decline on record, to 278.76. Meanwhile, the bond market also experienced a sinking spell that sent government bonds to record yields exceeding 15 percent. On a European tour far from his home base of Holly Hill, Fla., the 57-year-old Granville sent fresh tremors through the stock market. In a telephone interview with the Dow Jones news service in Paris, he predicted that Sept. 28 "will go down in financial history as a Blue Monday." The investment adviser also said that he would not be surprised if the Dow industrials hit "the 700's" in the next few days. Earlier this week, Granville forecast that the Dow could slide to between 550 and 650 by the end of next year. Granville is best remembered for his "sell everything" advice to clients, delivered by phone calls and flash telegrams, that sent the Dow plunging nearly 24 points Jan. 7. Trading that day swelled to 92.9 million shares, shattering all volume records on the Big Board. Although he is credited with calling several major market turns in the last three years, Granville does not possess an infallible forecasting record. His critics point out that he missed the huge slide in stock prices in 1973 and 1974. "Stocks are on the bargain counter," he declared in April 1973, when the Dow was hovering around the 950 level. He remained optimistic through much of the following year, although the Dow did not hit bottom until Dec. 6, 1974, at 577.60. How do Wall Street professionals regard Granville? "I don't take him seriously," replied a partner at one investment firm. "The market's been declining for months and now he's jumping on it. He's like a Pied Piper. When he plays his flute, his followers listen." Meanwhile, President Reagan's speech Thursday night proposed $13 billion in additional spending cuts and $3 billion in increased taxes for the fiscal year 1982. "He proposed too little in the way of cuts for the federal budget," said David Jones, an economist for Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., dealers in government securities, stated. Stock prices have been spiraling downward since this spring under the pressure of investor worries about high interest rates, prospects for a swelling budget, signs of a business slowdown and -- more recently -- a surge of margin calls that often causes forced selling of securities. 3M MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 25 UP 156 UNCH. 222 DOWN 1,503 Volume 54.39 million Issues Traded 1,881 | | | | |---|---|---| | NYSE index | 64.96 | -1.46 | | S&P Comp. | 112.77 | -2.24 | | Dow Jones Ind. | 824.01 | -11.13 | While losses in stock market averages are measured in points, the attrition in actual market value has been enormous. Between the Dow's high in April and the close of trading Friday, the market value of 5,000 common stocks on the Big Board, the Amex and the over-the-counter arena plunged $255 billion, according to Wilshire Associates, a financial services firm in Santa Monica, Calif. This figure far exceeds the total assets of $160 billion invested in money-market mutual funds. Trading volume on the Big Board rose Friday to 54.4 million shares, the largest turnover in a month since Thursday's 48.9 million. === Page 7 of 52 Industrials Bump 16-Month Low, Closing at 840.09 in Active Trading By VICTOR J. HILLERY As investors focused on signs of a deteriorating economy, the stock market tumbled. The Dow Jones industrial average bumped its lowest level in almost 16 months in active trading. Analysts cited the Commerce Department announcement that housing starts fell 10.7% in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 937,000 units. There also was news that General Motors will cut truck production next week. In addition, analysts were reducing earnings estimates. The industrial average, down 21.21 points in the prior three sessions, skidded 11.51 points to 840.09, its lowest level since it closed at 831.06 on May 21, 1980. The transportation and utility indexes also were down sharply. More than 1,100 New York Stock Exchange issues lost ground, three times the gainers. Wall St. Journal London Quotes Sag; Last Week's Decline Was Biggest Since '76 9-21-81 A WALL STREET JOURNAL News Roundup Prices plunged Friday on the London Stock Exchange in nervous trading. Tokyo quotes advanced slightly. In London, the Financial Times industrial share index plummeted 16 points, to 515.4. The market's index fell a total of 38 points last week, the biggest drop since the sterling crisis of 1976. One major factor unnerving the London market, analysts said, is trader concern that a recent increase in British interest rates won't be adequate to bolster the pound and curb bank lending. Added to this was the poor performance on Wall Street Thursday and a gloomy comment by the Bank of England on near-term prospects for the British economy. President defensive as stock market dives By CLIFF HAAS WASHINGTON (AP) -- While President Reagan declared "I'm sure not going to take the blame" for a plunge in the financial markets, chief aides said Friday that the quest for a balanced budget by 1984 will require further cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, federal retirement and other benefit programs. But the administration backed off plans to cut minimum portions in the millions of school lunches served across the country. Budget Director David Stockman said that proposal was "a bureaucratic goof that we're going to change." Stock and bond prices plunged and interest rates rose on the markets Friday, an apparent indication that Wall Street wasn't encouraged very much by Reagan's economic address to the nation Thursday night. The Dow industrials dropped 11.13 points. Asked if he took the market's performance as a vote of no confidence, Reagan snapped, "That keeps us even." He said he wasn't bothered by falling stock prices "because I don't have any (stock)." As to why the market was down, Reagan said, "I don't know, but it started yesterday ... and I guess it's continuing on down. I don't know what the reason is, but I'm sure not going to take the blame." "I'm going to go by the phone calls and telegrams that have been coming in since last night's speech, and they are running 3- or 4-to-1 and better in our favor." Stockman confirmed that the administration was withdrawing a plan to cut the minimum portions of meat, vegetables, bread and milk that schools must serve to children. Meanwhile, Republican leaders said Congress likely will cut the defense budget next year by more than the $2 billion recommended by the president. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr., R-Tenn., said his colleagues "almost certainly" will go deeper. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois agreed, although he said a proposal from liberal GOP members to slash $9 billion from defense goes too far. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, Stockman and Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, met with reporters to amplify the president's pitch Thursday night for additional spending reductions. The president recommended across-the-board reductions of 12 percent in non-defense and non-benefit programs, slashing the federal work force by 75,000 jobs, cutting back on federal loan guarantees and abolishing the departments of Education and Energy to achieve $13 billion in savings for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Also included was a call for $3 billion in additional tax revenues through the elimination of "abuses and obsolete incentives in the tax code." "When we first announced our economic recovery effort last February, our national illness was clearly inflation. ... This new round of reductions is simply one more initiative in that effort" to fight inflation, the Treasury secretary said. He added that the hefty tax cuts Congress enacted this summer "would force us to live within our means. They would force us to continually examine our spending patterns and to reduce or eliminate those programs which aren't necessary or aren't working." Related stories on Pages B11 and C7. arg 9/26/81 === Page 8 of 52 # Sell-off punishes world's stock marts NEW YORK (UPI) -- Prices opened sharply lower on U.S. stock markets Monday in what flamboyant American market guru Joseph Granville predicted would be a "blue Monday" in Wall Street history. By midday, the London stock market suffered its worst setback in 7 1/2 years. The huge Tokyo stock exchange, where 600 million shares are traded daily, sustained the biggest drop on record for a single session. Stocks also skidded in Sydney, Australia, and in Hong Kong. A half hour after the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 14.27 to 809.74. Trading was hectic. Numerous stocks on U.S. exchanges were delayed in opening because of a heavy rush of orders. Gold plummeted more than $20 an ounce in early trading on European money markets. The dollar showed renewed strength abroad. Gold, silver, copper and grains opened lower on U.S. commodity markets. Last week Granville, who was on a European tour, issued a gloomy outlook for world stock markets and on Friday, he forecast Monday would be a "blue Monday" in U.S. financial history. Some panelists on the widely followed "Wall Street Week" television show said Granville's statements in Europe were "like hitting a person on crutches with a baseball bat" with the market already on the skids. Prior to last week, the closely followed Dow average fell 170 points since mid-June. When asked about Granville's prediction of a blue Monday, U.S. Budget Director David Stockman said on ABC's "Good Morning America" show Monday: "One day doesn't make a trend, and we're going to have to wait and see." In London, the Datastream computer calculated that $8.28 billion was wiped off market values by early afternoon, bringing to $23.58 billion the amount lost since the middle of last week. The Financial Times index of 30 Industrials on the London exchange plummeted 29.4 points to stand at 445.3 by the afternoon. The decline was the worst in London since March 1, 1974, when the index fell 32.8 points as the market opened and another 25.5 points within 30 minutes when it became apparent that then Prime Minister Edward Heath's Labor government was about to fall. # Stock prices stage dramatic rebound By MARTHA M. HAMILTON and JAMES L. ROWE JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service NEW YORK -- Wall Street was poised for a panic Monday that never occurred. With stock prices collapsing across Asia and Europe, prices plummeted at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange before staging one of the biggest one-day rallies of the year. By the end of the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average had climbed 32 points to close up 18.55 points. After a brief selling flurry that drove the Dow down nearly 15 points in the first half hour of trading, U.S. investors changed their minds about Armageddon. At the close the Dow had registered its biggest one-day gain since March 15, when the Dow barometer rose 19.09 points. Analysts said Monday's turnaround was the biggest mood swing they could recall. "It's possible it was a climatic ending to a bear market," said Leslie Alperstein, director of research at Bache Halsey Staurt Shields Inc., a major brokerage firm. Others, however, were less sanguine about a stock market that has dropped steadily since early July and has been in the doldrums since April, when the Dow average was 1,024. Donald I. Trott, chairman of the investment policy committee at the brokerage firm A.G. Becker, foresaw a volatile stock market Tuesday followed by a strong rally. Then, however, he saw a renewed decline in stock prices. Trott's firm handles transactions for many European investors, and when the day began at Becker, many of its clients had placed huge orders to sell their U.S. stocks. Many told their brokers to sell at prices substantially below Friday's closing prices, anticipating a substantial price decline at the opening of trading on the New York exchange, the world's biggest securities market. Those investors were saying, in effect, "I want out at any price," according to Trott. In Tokyo the Nikkei Dow Jones index fell 302.84 to 7,037.12, the biggest single-session drop in history, however, it was up 66.58 points in early trading Tuesday. In London, where stock prices have been sliding for two weeks, the Financial Times index was down 22 to 452.7, the biggest overall decline since 1974. The story was similar in Australia and in the rest of Europe and Asia. Selling was strong during the first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. About 17.5 million shares of stock changed hands, compared with 12.9 million Friday. But most of the sellers were either foreign investors or individual investors. "It was the medium-to-small investor who said, 'The sky is falling,'" according to Pat Ryan, chief trader at the Washington brokerage firm Johnston, Lemon & Co. Inc. When the Dow average fell below 810, about 10:30 a.m., however, the big institutional stock buyers -- pension funds, university endowments and insurance companies -- began to buy. The Dow average shook off all its losses by 1:30 p.m., then weakened between 2 and 3 p.m. But in the final hour of trading Monday it climbed more than 20 points. Florida stock prognosticator Joseph Granville -- who last January triggered a market panic here when he cabled the 3,000 subscribers to his market letter that they should "sell everything" -- made investors in Europe, Asia and the U.S. jittery last week when he predicted more bad times for stock prices and a "Blue Monday" on the New York Stock Exchange, during which prices would fall by record amounts. Related story on Page A13. === Page 9 of 52 An Appraisal 9-21-81 Wall St Journal # Despite Signs Low Point Is Near, Few Analysts See Reversal at Hand By CHARLES J. ELIA The stock market is being hammered by forces that aren't likely to let up for a while. Forced selling out of margin accounts, broad-scale reductions of earnings estimates and a gathering push by institutions into cash as their quarterly reporting deadline approaches are taking a heavy toll. Analysts say there could be a silver lining in the storm clouds if all this leads to a "washout" of sellers in a crescendo of volume. Though painful, such a selling climax could set the stage for a recovery in stock prices. But, although some market watchers are seeing some developments that usually appear near market low points, few believe conditions are ripe in the market for a reversal of the recent downtrend. Margin debt, the amount owed by those buying stocks on partial credit, dropped $600 million in August to $14.27 billion from its June-July record levels. But the amount of borderline margin debt increased substantially, and this deterioration in debt quality has exacted heavy costs in the stock market this month. "We estimate that another $1 billion to $1.5 billion of margin debt is gone since late August," says Ned Babbitt, president of Avatar Associates, which manages $50 million of assets. "We think there's more to go." Much of the margin-debt liquidation occurs when traders choose to avoid putting up more cash to hold stocks that have declined sharply in value. Many such decisions have to be made by 2 p.m. on the day after a trader gets a call to put up more money or be sold out, and this has contributed to abrupt price drops in late afternoon trading. Last Thursday, for example, more than eight points of the 11.51-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average occurred after 2 p.m. Brokers report that the pace of margin calls, which have been moderately heavy for several weeks, accelerated in the past few days. This element of forced selling has come into a marketplace characterized for some time by a marked unwillingness among investors to bid for stocks even in a declining market, a condition reinforced by the increasing frequency with which Street analysts have begun to cut earnings estimates. Thus, even a long-awaited decline in short-term interest rates and the first signs in a long while of firmness in the bond market last week haven't helped much to stop the market's descent. Furthermore, only a glimmer of the institutional nervousness that analysts equate with a selling climax has appeared. Last Wednesday and Thursday, blocks of 10,000 shares or more climbed to 42% of total New York Stock Exchange volume, with twice as many sold on downticking prices than on upticks. But few are funneling proceeds of such sales into other issues; rather, institutions appear more desirous of ending the quarter showing high cash reserves. Analysts expect to see broader and more panicky selling before they consider the market sold out and the decline arrested. Even though Big Board turnover has been increasing (it reached 48 million shares Thursday) over the low levels recorded earlier this month, "We haven't seen any meaningful increase" of technical significance, says Anthony Tabell, of Delafield, Harvey, Tabell, a unit of Janney, Montgomery Scott. "Basically, it would be good to see a washout day of 80 million shares," he says, an event he would consider more likely to mark the end of the market slide than the current situation. "The one thing the market is unlikely to do, based on history, is to quietly turn around and move slowly upward in an orderly fashion," he adds. "This would be a highly uncommon aftermath in a market which has developed the downside momentum this one already possesses. This market either will wash out or die, and if it dies it could be several months, possibly the end of the year, before any meaningful upside move takes place." Avatar's Mr. Babbitt, who has had 90% or more of the firm's funds in cash reserve for several months, says that his monetary and sentiment indicators have turned positive but that he's still lacking encouragement from his momentum studies. "We're beginning to be positive and we can move 35% to 40% of our cash into stocks pretty quickly, but we don't know when our third set of factors will improve. We're still waiting." ### Abreast of the Market **DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS WEEKLY CLOSE** WEEK ENDED SEPTEMBER 18, 1981 835.19 DOWN 36.62 **MARKET DIARY** | | Fri. | Thu. | Wed. | Tue. | Mon. | (a) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Issues traded | 1,886 | 1,908 | 1,896 | 1,896 | 1,897 | 2,116 | | Advances | 472 | 368 | 415 | 634 | 599 | 461 | | Declines | 1,027 | 1,157 | 1,102 | 820 | 930 | 1,463 | | Unchanged | 387 | 383 | 379 | 442 | 368 | 192 | | New highs | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 14 | | New lows | 245 | 170 | 129 | 74 | 74 | 422 | (a) Summary for the week ended September 18, 1981. **DOW JONES CLOSING AVERAGES** | | Friday | | Yr. Ago | Since | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | | 1981 | Change | % | 1980 | % Chg. | Dec. 31 | % | | Ind | 835.19 | -3.90 | -0.46 | 963.74 | -13.33 | -127.80 | -13.26 | | Trn | 345.51 | -2.26 | -0.65 | 346.52 | -0.29 | -52.59 | -13.21 | | Util | 104.34 | -0.93 | -0.88 | 112.34 | -7.12 | -10.18 | -8.90 | | Cmp | 327.08 | -1.95 | -0.59 | 355.98 | -8.12 | -46.33 | -12.41 | Ex-dividends of Detroit Edison Co. 42 cents lowered the utility average by 0.15. The above ex-dividend lowered the composite average by 0.08. **OTHER MARKET INDICATORS** | | | 1981 | Change | % | 1980 | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | N.Y.S.E. | Composite | 67.27 | -0.56 | -0.83% | 74.81 | | | Industrial | 76.59 | -0.73 | -0.94% | 86.99 | | | Utility | 37.86 | -0.23 | -0.60% | 39.17 | | | Transp. | 62.69 | -0.38 | -0.60% | 68.59 | | | Financial | 69.35 | +0.01 | -0.01% | 71.25 | | Am. Ex. | Mkt Val Index | 300.33 | -5.34 | -1.75% | 340.06 | | Nasdaq | OTC Composite | 184.27 | -1.44 | -0.78% | 195.33 | | | Industrial | 179.89 | -1.55 | -0.85% | 183.38 | | | Insurance | 179.89 | -0.74 | -0.41% | 183.38 | | | Banks | 130.37 | -0.68 | -0.52% | 116.54 | | Standard & Poor's 500 | 116.26 | -0.89 | -0.76% | 129.25 | | | 400 Industrial | 130.19 | -1.15 | -0.88% | 146.83 | | Wilshire 5000 Equity | 1217.585 | -11.013 | -0.90% | 1335.791 | Market value, in billions of dollars, of N.Y.S.E., Amex and actively traded OTC issues. **TRADING ACTIVITY** Volume of advancing stocks on N.Y.S.E., 11,904,000 shares; volume of declining stocks, 30,203,200. On American S.E., volume of advancing stocks, 1,215,300; volume of declining stocks, 3,936,000. Nasdaq volume of advancing stocks, 5,021,900; volume of declining stocks, 9,076,700. **Friday's Market Activity** A half-hearted stock-market rally attempt failed Friday and the Dow Jones industrial average slipped to another 16-month low in moderately active trading. === Page 10 of 52 - The attack economy - # Plants threat to economy, panel says JOHN HAYES the Oregonian staff SEATTLE -- The Washington Pub- Power Supply System has no chance continuing construction of its No. 4 No. 5 nuclear power plants without pardizing the entire Northwest econ- y, a two-state panel of business ex- tives said Friday. But a forced abandonment of the projects, expected to cost some $13 ion, could send the supply system receivership, allowing creditors to ach plants 1, 2 and 3. The result could ll be the largest economic shock the rthwest has ever faced -- an eco- nic catastrophe that could sacrifice rs of economic growth and jeopar- e the credit of regional institutions far into the future, the panel members said. The panel, whose report was eager- ly awaited by energy experts and bond analysts from coast to coast, stated that only one alternative offered hope of avoiding severe economic consequences without exposing the Northwest to power shortages in the early 1990s: halting construction of WPPSS plants 4 and 5 for up to 2 1/2 years, while a re- gional consensus is reached on whether the plants are needed. The panel members were appointed in late July by Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh and Washington Gov. John Spellman. Chosen for their experience in large business enterprises, they were George Weyerhaeuser, head of Weyerhaeuser Co.; Edward Carlson, president of UAL Co.; and John Elorriaga, president of U.S. Bancorp, the parent firm of U.S. National Bank of Oregon. Plants 4 and 5 are a regional "asset" worth preserving, Weyerhaeuser said. "While what is there is costly, it would be even more costly to duplicate with new construction elsewhere." "We approached our task as busi- nessmen, not power experts," Carlson said, opening a heavily attended press conference here to release the report. Among the panel's findings were: - A new, higher estimate of the cost of building plants 4 and 5, which originally was pegged at $3.2 billion. The panelists said the plants, 23 percent and 14 percent completed, would come in at about $13.2 billion if a way could be found around the financial obstacles in their path. - That if plants 4 and 5 were being planned by businessmen such as the pa- nelists, they would not have been start- ed before the total financial arrange- ment had been signed and sealed, Weyerhaeuser said. And, in a situation similar to the one confronting WPPSS, "Every effort would be made immedi- ately to reduce all further cash outlays, critically examine the need for the pro- ject and, most importantly, secure the financing needed before proceeding fur- ther." - The greatest danger the WPPSS managers have exposed the region to is that an abrupt financial collapse of pro- jects 4 and 5 could lead contractors to attempt to legally attach the supply sys- tem's assets, including plants 1, 2 and 3, leading to a decadelong economic and power supply crisis in the region. Though the Federal Bonneville Power Administration has purchased the even- tual output of the first three plants whether they ever produce any electric- ity or not and, in effect, is paying for their construction, the plants are owned by WPPSS and therefore are susceptible to takeover by supply system creditors. - In contrast to the energy deficits predicted by the BPA and the utilities for the late 1980s, the panel concluded that 2,400-megawatt capacity of plants 4 and 5 would not be needed to avert shortages until after the end of the dec- ade. - The costs of preserving the $2.25 billion already invested in the two plants should be spread evenly through- out the Northwest. If that is done, the cost of keeping the plants in cold stor- age for 2 1/2 years may be as low as $180 million, the panel members said. - If the region's aluminum indus- try, private utilities and public utilities that have not so far invested in the WPPSS program agree to help pay the cold-storage financing costs, electricity rates would go up regionwide by only about 0.1 cent, they said. Related stories on Pages A21-23. Oreg 9/19/81 - The attack economy - # Housing starts hit six-year low point WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's already se- vere housing slump worsened in August, with new construction of single-family houses hitting its lowest point since the government began keeping track more than two decades ago, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Overall, housing starts hit their lowest rate since February 1975, at the bottom of that year's recession. By all accounts, record high interest rates were to blame. Builders began construction on new single-family homes at an annual rate of 591,000 in August, a de- crease of 16.4 percent from July and the lowest rate since the government began keeping such statistics in 1959, Commerce officials said. Housing starts for all categories totaled an annual rate of 937,000 during the month, down 10.7 percent from July and not much above the 904,000 rate of February 1975, the report said. The only lower rate was the 843,000 of October 1966. In addition, the report said building permits for future construction fell 5.5 percent in August, the fourth straight monthly decline and an indication that no upswing is in sight. Starts had risen 1 percent in July, while permits fell 5.2 percent. "What's really happened is that the government statistics have finally caught up with reality," said Mark Riedy, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, a trade group whose members originate many of the nation's home loans. Oreg 9/18/81 === Page 11 of 52 Pessimism costs Dow 6.75 points By VARTANIG G. VARTAN New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- Stock prices sank Wednesday across a broad front as the Dow Jones industrial average barely missed setting a closing low for the year. The Dow fell 6.75 points, finishing at 851.60. Earlier, it was down more than nine points. This indicator closed at a 15-month low of 851.12 on Sept. 8 amid investor worries over high interest rates and the size of the federal budget deficit. Contributing to Wednesday's setback was a statement by Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, that recent declines in short-term rates do not signal that the Fed is easing its restrictive monetary policy. Volcker told the Senate Budget Committee that he believed the Fed remained "reasonably on target" in being able to manage the money supply. Although recent concerns about the stock market have centered on the high level of interest rates and the federal budget, Edgar W. Kann, managing partner of Ernst & Co., noted increasing worries over the prospect of lower 1982 earnings for many companies. "In order to lick inflation, the nation must go through a recession," he said. "I can see the Dow industrials falling as low as 750 by the middle of next year." Eastman Kodak fell 7/8, to 63 3/8, after dropping 1 1/2 points Tuesday in response to estimates of reduced 1982 earnings by some analysts. Noon rally fails; Dow down 36.62 New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The stock market continued to retreat Friday and set new lows for 1981 with selling pressure particularly evident on the American Stock Exchange. The broad setback encompassed virtually all market groups. The Dow Jones industrial average, unable once again to sustain a rally attempt around noon, dropped 3.9 points, to 836.19. This marked its lowest closing since 831.06 May 21, 1980. For the full week, the Dow fell 36.62 points, despite improving bond prices and declining short-term interest rates -- normally favorable factors for the equity market. Analysts noted that since June 15, the Dow has plunged 175 points, which constitutes one of the sharpest sustained declines within the last dozen years. Friday's volume on the New York Stock Exchange eased slightly to 47.4 million shares from Thursday's turnover of 48.3 million. Reflecting further weakness in natural resource issues, the Amex market value index fell 5.34 points to 300.33. It had set an all-time high of 380.36 as recently as Aug. 13. This week's drop in the index was 30.72 points. Investor concern over high interest rates and the size of the federal budget deficit has been cited repeatedly as the chief causes of the stock market decline in recent months. But additional concerns have been surfacing, according to analysts. "One factor in the latest weakness in stocks is that Wall Street has been slashing earnings estimates for 1981 and 1982," said John R. Groome, research director for the United States Trust Co. "Estimates are being cut for companies in numerous industries, including forest products, building, automobiles and chemicals. "As for falling prices on the Amex, I think that the increase in margin calls to brokerage-house customers who bought stocks on credit is another factor. A lot of people speculated by purchasing stocks on margin in hopes of takeovers." As one example of recent cutbacks in profit estimates, Joseph J. Doyle of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. lowered his earnings projections for stocks in the lodging industry earlier this week. "Lodging industry conditions in the past couple of months have gone from weak to weaker," he noted. Elsewhere, Eastman Kodak fell 1 point, to 61 5/8, Friday. It dropped 4 5/8 points on the week, after some analysts cut their earnings projections for 1982. MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 18 UP 473 UNCH. 386 DOWN 1,027 Volume 47.35 million Issues Traded 1,886 | NYSE index | | | |---|---|---| | 67.27 | -0.56 | | | S&P Comp. | | | | 116.26 | -0.89 | | | Dow Jones Ind. | | | | 836.19 | -3.90 | | Fed warning batters market NEW YORK (UPI) -- Stocks suffered their third straight loss Wednesday amid investor concerns about Paul Volcker's warnings on the economy, deficits and interest rates. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surrendered 7.80 points Tuesday, dropped another 6.75 points to 851.60, bringing its three-day loss total to 21.21 points. The New York Stock Exchange index lost 0.52 to 68.82 and the price of an average share decreased 11 cents. Declines topped advances 1,103-404 among the 1,885 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. Big Board volume totaled 43,660,000 shares compared with 38,580,000 traded Tuesday. Trading was halted on the Big Board from 12:36 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. when a fire alarm went off accidentally, forcing evacuation of the building on a rainy day. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker told Congress "inflation will not be brought under control without persistent restraint on growth in money and credit." He said a recent dip in the federal funds rates banks charge one another for overnight loans did not signal the board had eased credit. Most of the nation's major banks, responding to the federal funds rate decline, have cut their prime lending rate to corporate customers to 20 percent from 20 1/2 percent. This small decline disappointed many traders. DOW JONES -6.75 === Page 12 of 52 Rally fails; Dow posts 16-month low NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average slumped to a 16-month low Thursday as the stock market yielded to renewed selling pressure. Analysts said recession fears and concern over the federal budget deficit helped choke off an early rally attempt and send the market to its fourth consecutive loss. High-technology glamour stocks sustained some of the biggest damage. Metals issues also tumbled on word of the government's plans to begin selling silver from its stockpile beginning next month. Dow Jones' average of 30 blue chips, up almost 3 points in early trading, closed at 840.09, off 11.51. The average, which has fallen 32.72 points since the start of the week, stands at its lowest level since it finished at 831.06 on May 21 of last year. In early trading, analysts said the depressed prices of many stocks attracted some tentative buying. But they said it soon became apparent that the advance was attracting little support, and sellers took over again. Recession fears were reinforced by word at midafternoon that housing starts fell 10.7 percent in August to an annual rate of only 937,000 units, brokers noted. They also said the market was depressed by concern that falling stock prices might soon begin touching off stepped-up margin calls -- demands by brokers for additional collateral on stock purchases made using borrowed money. When stockholders in such cases are unable or willing to put up that collateral, the broker normally must sell stock from their accounts to bring them within legal credit limits. Such forced sales can put additional downward pressure on the market. MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 17 UP 368 UNCH. 382 DOWN 1,158 Volume 48.30 million Issues Traded 1,908 NYSE index 67.83 .......... -0.99 S&P Comp. 117.15 .......... -1.72 Dow Jones Ind. 840.09 .......... -11.51 Drop in prime rate fails to curb Wall Street slide NEW YORK (UPI) -- The stock market, which staged a midday rally, fell Tuesday even though most of the nation's banks cut their prime lending rate. Trading was slow. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surrendered 6.66 points Monday, lost another 7.80 points to 858.35. It had been ahead more than three points at midday and off a point at the outset. The New York Stock Exchange index shed 0.45 to 69.34 and the price of an average share decreased 19 cents. Declines topped advances 827-634 among the 1,895 issues traded. Big Board volume totaled 38,500,000 shares compared with 34,040,000 traded Monday, the slowest session in 5½ months. Investors apparently remained concerned that the Reagan administration would not be able to cut the federal deficit enough and that government borrowing needs would remain high, keeping pressure on interest rates. Wall Street registered concern that President Reagan reportedly said over the weekend he would propose only small defense spending cuts in order to try to put the budget in balance. Reagan, who insisted he would stick to his goal of a $42.5 billion deficit in 1982, met with Republican leaders who presented him with proposals to cut next year's budget $16 billion to $17 billion. Congressional sources said the proposals included more than twice the president's suggested cutbacks in military spending and 82 reductions in social programs. But no final decisions have been made. The Securities Industry Association, apparently tired of the harping from Washington, sent a letter to Reagan expressing its confidence in the long-term impact of his policies. The association also pointed out that it could not control the forces of the market. DOW JONES -7.80 The Sunday Oregonian SEPTEMBER 13, 1981 Market woes soften prices of NW stocks By DONALD J. SORENSEN of The Oregonian staff Since mid-June, the stock market has been in a tailspin that has dragged many stocks to bargain basement levels. And along with them have gone many Northwest issues. On June 15, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 1011.59. The next day it started down and kept going until last Tuesday when it hit 851.12, the lowest since June 3, 1980. That was a drop of about 16 percent in nearly three months. The sharp decline has raised havoc with Oregon and other Northwest stocks. Very few of them have escaped unscathed. For some, the losses have climbed to more than 40 percent. The largest setbacks were absorbed by Edwards Industries and Oregon Metallurgical Corp., each shedding nearly 50 percent of their value. Oremet has been one of the hottest stocks of the last two years, riding on the interest in strategic metals. Now, however, it is at its lowest level in more than a year. Edwards, a real estate and development company, has been under pressure for some time because of the difficulties of the housing industry. The slide has touched all segments of the regional market, but industrial issues have been particularly hard hit. Floating Point Systems, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Trus Joist, Intel, Tektronix and Precision Castparts all lost 20 percent or more. Forest products stocks such as Louisiana-Pacific, Bohemia, Medford Corp., Georgia-Pacific, Longview Fibre and Dant & Russell have been in the same range. Among consumer goods, Nike and Pay 'n' Save were big losers. Financial losers included Equitable Savings, off more than 20 percent. Comprehensive Care, a health care company and one of the strongest performers in the regional over-the-counter market the last two years, sloughed off more than 30 percent. Despite the plethora of heavy losses, a few local issues have been able to make a respectable showing, even registering some gains. These include Fred Meyer, Nordstrom, Fabric Wholesalers, Cascade Corp., American Guaranty Financial Corp. and Northwest Natural Gas. All of these either lost less than a point or gained a fraction. The accompanying table lists regional stocks that lost more than $1 between June 15 and Sept. 8, with closing prices on the two dates and the dollar and percentage losses. Bid prices are used for over-the-counter stocks. Prices have been adjusted for stock splits and stock dividends. === Page 13 of 52 Romantic island life grows more popular By RICHARD D. LYONS New York Times News Service CANARY ISLAND, N.Y. -- "This is heaven," Robert Langley said with a sigh as he sat in the glass-enclosed veranda of his new stone-and-wood vacation home on the St. Lawrence River. "I've always wanted to own an island." Langley, his wife, Lizbeth, and their five children are from Binghamton, N.Y. But they travel extensively and have lived abroad for long periods, and they say it is here that they have finally found the solitude they have been seeking. An increasing number of other affluent people appear to be seeking it as well, for in the last several years there has been a sharp increase in the demand for privately owned islands. Real-estate companies specializing in islands have sprung up in Manhattan, Miami and elsewhere. A new magazine called Islands is to start publication in California next month, and a series of events in this area of the Canadian border has apparently whetted appetites for ownership of one of the Thousand Islands, situated north of Watertown, N.Y. One reason was expressed by William Levy, a 64-year-old corporation president from Wilmington, Del., who bought St. Elmo Island, two miles southwest of here, last month. "I feel a lot more secure here," he said, explaining that he had enjoyed the outdoors for many years at a summer home in Ontario to the north. "I became disturbed by the increasing nationalistic feeling there, and I simply feel better being here." To achieve his heightened sense of security, he paid $150,000 for the island and its three-bedroom, two-bath house. One recent morning six boats were tied up at his dock, with more expected as other lunch guests arrived. Robert W. Kemp, president of the real-estate company that handled the sale of Canary and St. Elmo Islands, said the "Quebec scare," as the separatist movement is often called here, had helped fuel demand for island property. "There also appears to be an awful lot of money around here that once was in the stock market," he said, "but now is being invested in the sort of real estate the purchaser can enjoy as well as watch appreciate in value." The asking price for Canary Island, for example, rose more than 40 percent in the last two years, finally selling for more than $100,000. Some island properties in the river here in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties have risen dramatically in price in recent years, while others have not budged -- including the castle on Jorstad Island, a rose-hued granite building with a five-story bell tower and two huge boathouses, perhaps the biggest, most romantic white elephant on the St. Lawrence. Frederick G. Bourne, the Singer sewing-machine magnate, bought the island in 1896, then imported 90 Italian stonemasons to fashion a $4 million castle for his wife. Eight years in construction, it has 46 rooms and an indoor squash court, and it comes complete with suits of armor, medieval weapons, 18th-century furniture and a maze of secret passages inside the walls of the vaulted rooms. The 10-acre island, a sliver of which is in Canada, is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold George Martin, who are both ministers and who use it as a retreat for Bible study groups and missionaries. "I'm just hooked on this place," Mrs. Martin said recently over tea in the oak-paneled library. Yet the Martins, who have spent large sums of money maintaining and restoring the castle, conceded that its upkeep was beginning to overwhelm them. They have put it on the market for $5 million but concede that they would probably take a good deal less. "The engine of the motorboat conked out the other night and I had to paddle four miles," Martin said. "If someone had asked me to set a price at the time, I would have replied, 'Do you have a shiny dime?'" Sept. 20, 1981 Scientists & Contacts: This tiny island and "castle" would be perfect for my UFO Base!! To go into the why would take too long to explain to you. But I assure you, it would be perfect. It could probably be bought for 3 million. It would then take 1 million to put necessary equipment into the Castle (electronic, etc.) repair it, and defense it. The last million... $500,000 to pay off an important debt and $500,000 for expenses over a 3-year or 5-year period. Many of you have a connection somewhere that can bring this about, I urge you to do so quickly! Why? Because the UFO Base, whether this Castle Island or a huge lodge on a mountainside... is the only means of averting The Last War... WW III... according to my UFOs. Owens === Page 14 of 52 SEPTEMBER 21, 1981 New York Times News Service photo MAGIC ISLAND -- Jorstad Island, on the market for $5 million, offers a 46-room mansion with indoor squash court, a maze of secret passages, and collection of suits of armor, medieval weapons and 18th-century furniture. === Page 15 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # Crash kills Thunderbirds' chief By ALAN L. ADLER CLEVELAND (AP) - The commander of the Air Force Thunderbirds flying team was killed Tuesday when birds were drawn into the engines of his T-38A Talon jet, causing it to crash into Lake Erie upon takeoff from Burke Lakefront Airport. A second airman parachuted to safety from the flaming wreckage. An Air Force spokesman said the flock of birds drawn into the engines of the plane piloted by Lt. Col. David L. Smith caused them to malfunction. Smith, 40, became the second Thunderbird pilot to die this year and the 14th in the 29-year history of the precision flying squad, the Air Force said. Hundreds of spectators and countless downtown office workers watched in horror as the jet plunged into the lake. "I heard a sizzle... a hissing, sizzling and saw flames," said Kathy Nehamkin, suburban operations manager for a rental car agency, who saw the crash from her booth in the terminal. "I looked up and saw the plane. It was only a couple of feet off the ground. The pilot had the presence of mind and turned out over the lake to avoid crashing on the runway." Smith and Staff Sgt. Dwight Roberts, 31, the crew chief riding tandem behind him, both ejected from the plane. But while Roberts' parachute opened, enabling him to land safely on the 6,200-foot Burke runway, Smith's ejector seat chute did not have time to open, according to Gen. Wilbur L. Creech, commander in chief of the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Smith, originally from Rossville, Ga., died when he landed on rocks next to the lake and rolled into the water. Burke, from Lexington, N.C., was released from a hospital after treatment of minor injuries. Creech said the birds flew in front of the ascending jet and were sucked up by both engines. Flight interference from birds is not unusual, but Creech said the birds in both engines forced the engines to "flame out" and malfunction. The jet was climbing at a speed of about 185 mph, according to Jim Jannette, a spokesman for the Thunderbirds, who completed three days of participation in the Cleveland National Air Show Monday. Fifty members of the Las Vegas-based group - nine officers and 41 enlisted men and women - were in Cleveland with eight aircraft for the Labor Day weekend show. The T38A, lauded as the first supersonic jet used for fighter training, has been used by the Thunderbirds since 1974. Jannette said that since the death in May of Air Force Capt. David "Nick" Hauck, the Thunderbirds have been flying with only six of the T38A jets. Hauck died May 9 while performing in an air show at Hill AFB outside Ogden, Utah. LT. COL. D.L. SMITH UFOs war with US Govt. I have heavily PK'd Las Vegas! (Long ago.) Gwen oreg 9/9/81 - UFOs & Projects - # One killed, two injured in carrier plane crackup SAN DIEGO (UPI) - One crewman was killed and two others injured in the collision of two planes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Indian Ocean. The Navy said Monday Petty Officer 1st Class Garrel M. Powers of San Diego was killed in the accident. The names of the two injured men were not released pending notification of relatives. "From the details we have you can assume the dead and injured were flight deck people," a Navy spokesman said. Senior Chief Joe Ciokon of Pacific Fleet Naval Air Force headquarters said the accident occurred about 6 p.m. EDT Sunday when an A7E Corsair in a landing approach collided with an F-14 Tomcat taxiing on the carrier's deck. Ciokon said the crew of the F-14, from Fighter Squadron 51, ejected on deck and were recovered without injury. He said the Tomcat rolled over the side of the ship. The Corsair, from Attack Squadron 22, pulled up and landed later without incident, he said. The Navy did not give the carrier's specific location for security reasons. In an unrelated incident, a search and rescue operation was launched from the Kitty Hawk in an attempt to recover a crew member who fell overboard about 10 hours after the first accident, the Navy said. The Navy said it would not attempt to recover the $17 million F-14 because the water was too deep and refused to say if the two-man plane was carrying a missile. Five years ago, the loss of a similar plane armed with a Phoenix missile resulted in a multi-million-dollar salvage operation designed to prevent the Soviet Union from trying to recover the plane and its missile from the North Sea. In an unrelated incident, a Kitty Hawk crewman was lost overboard several hours after the aircraft accident. A search failed to find the crewman, whose identity was not released. The Kitty Hawk incident was the second fatal crash on a U.S. carrier in the past four months. A U.S. Marine Corps electronic combat jet crashed on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz, 60 miles off Jacksonville, Fla., on May 26, killing its three-man crew and 14 others. Forty five men were injured. oreg 9/8/81 Note: At this same approx. time on TV it was announced that also an airplane fell off the carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower and was lost. But... this did not appear in the Portland or Seattle newspaper! Gwen === Page 16 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1981 # AF plane downed by mistake EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) -- The Air Force has confirmed that one of its F-4 Phantom fighters mistakenly shot down another Air Force jet over the Gulf of Mexico last April, The Pensacola News-Journal says. The Air Force has blamed the mistake on an inadequate briefing, failure to follow procedures and a target plane that looked like one of the expensive F-4 jets, the newspaper reported Sunday. During an April 15 training exercise south of Panama City, Fla., an F-4 flown by Capt. Harry Cook fired a missile that struck another F-4, which then crashed into the Gulf. The $3.3 million jet's two-man crew ejected from the burning plane and was rescued. "I guess in the end analysis, the fact that I misidentified my wingman as the drone (target plane) was the main cause of the accident," Cook told military investigators. The fighter that went down was attached to the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ramstein Air Base In West Germany. The accident report was released by the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at U.S. Air Force headquarters in Europe, the newspaper said. An earlier report, obtained from the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center at Norton Air Force Base in California, indicated that Cook, who was piloting a jet designated as Star 01, said "Oh, my God" seven seconds after his navigator, 1st Lt. Bruce W. Radford, fired the missile. Both Radford and the navigator of the command plane, Star 05, could then be heard saying "Knock it off, knock it off, eject." Less than a minute later, after Capts. Malcolm Dixon and Charles G. Salee ejected from the stricken Star 02, the flight commander reported he could see "two good chutes." The earlier report, made public in July, drew no conclusions about the cause of the accident. - UFOs & Projects - # Jet crash, lightning set more NW blazes oreg J 8/20/81 By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Fire crews gained the upper hand Wednesday over the major forest and rangeland fires in the Pacific Northwest, but lightning strikes and a Navy jet crash set more blazes. At the same time, Bureau of Land Management fire bosses at Prineville in Central Oregon reported that the burning index, a measure to indicate the seriousness of the fire threat, was at 90 -- "the highest we've ever seen it." Lightning set 31 new fires Wednesday afternoon and evening in BLM lands in Eastern Oregon. A Navy EA-6B jet on a training mission from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Wash., crashed on the Olympic Peninsula Wednesday afternoon and the wreckage sparked a forest fire near the Hoh River. Firefighters in Oregon expected to contain a 3,000 acre blaze in brush and juniper on Steens Mountain Thursday. - UFOs & Projects - # Outage stalls shuttle test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The space shuttle Columbia "lifted off" Wednesday afternoon 3 1/2 hours behind schedule in a major dress rehearsal for its scheduled Oct. 9 launch. An electrical failure late Tuesday threw the simulated launch behind schedule. Problems later came up in computer programming, but officials said the programming problems were related to the simulation. At 3:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, as astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly sat in the Columbia's cockpit in full space garb, launch was simulated. 9/10/81 oreg 9/10/81 - UFOs & Projects - # T-Birds grounded NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (UPI) -- Officials at the home of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds precision flying team have canceled remaining performances because of the death of the team's leader. Lt. Col. David L. Smith, 40, died Tuesday when he hit the ground after ejecting from his T-38 "Talon" jet after it apparently struck a flock of birds on takeoff from Cleveland. Col. Michael Carnes, commander of the 57th Tactical Training Wing and Smith's superior, said "it was a routine departure -- no acrobatics involved." Carnes said birds being sucked into jets is not a common problem, but it is "one that we are constantly aware of." He said the Air Force will conduct an investigation of the crash, although "we have no doubt very seriously that the accident could have been prevented." 9/10/81 seat. f.r === Page 17 of 52 U.S. backs S. Africa UFOs "higher ups" - BY RANDALL ROBINSON On the evening of July 31 in front of his home in Salisbury, Zimbabwe, Joe Gqabi was shot to death. Gqabi headed the Zimbabwe offices of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC). The ANC, organized in 1912, is waging a military struggle to bring majority rule to Africa's last and strongest bastion of white supremacy, the Republic of South Africa. Both ANC and the government of Zimbabwe have charged the government of South Africa with responsibility for Gqabi's murder. South Africa remains silent. So, thus far, does the United States. And for good reason. U.S. policymakers knew well in advance of South Africa's plans to carry out a program of political assassinations against ANC leadership in Zimbabwe and the other nearby countries that host ANC operatives, Zambia and Mozambique. And yet, after announcing last spring a new policy toward South Africa of "constructive engagement," Washington did nothing to stop the murder of Joe Gqabi. Why? To help me find an answer, I put a different question to a State Department official recently. "When U.S. intelligence reveals that A is about to assassinate B, what criteria are used in deciding whether or not to warn B or dissuade A?" Answer: "We make such decisions on a case-by-case basis depending on who A and B are." Risking simplism, we help the side we want to win. In this case the current administration very badly wants South Africa to win. It perceives South Africa to be a reliable friend, a valid and stable regime, a militarily strong pro-Western fixture in southern Africa and, most importantly, a bulwark against the creepy crawling tentacles of godless communism. The other stuff that drives South Africa's majority of 20 million Africans to the brink of revolution, the administration chooses to overlook as a kind of courtesy to a friend. South Africa is the only country in the world that constitutionally enshrines racism and denies the majority of its citizens the right to vote on the simple basis of race. ANC prefers a system where all citizens of age are constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote. South Africa sets aside 87 percent of the land mass for a white minority of 4 million and the worthless remains for 10 times as many Africans. ANC would seek a unitary South Africa in which citizens irrespective of color are entitled to live and own land whenever they like. South Africa denies Africans freedom of speech, assembly, fair trial, the right to bearing arms and due process of law. ANC naturally believes this is wrong. In short, ANC favors a system much like the one we are said to have. Albeit, while last year some 1,300 South African government military officials visited the U.S., Oliver Tambo, the president of ANC, will now find his name on a State Department list of "undesirable" entrants. Why? Hell, let's be frank. Against the backdrop of its own racial preference and broad geo-political objectives, this administration doesn't care much about what happens to South Africa's black majority. Or perhaps it does inasmuch as it doesn't want that black majority overthrowing the established white government. After all, a friend is a friend no matter what he does. Joe Gqabi is dead. Symbol of a policy wrong. What does all this say about America? Randall Robinson is an executive of Transafrica, a Washington, D.C. based organization aimed at fostering resources between the United States and emerging African nations. orey P 8/22/81 UFOs "higher ups" - UFOs "higher ups" - Armed gunmen attack home of Iranian official By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The home of Iran's prosecutor-general was attacked Monday by opponents of the fundamentalist regime who threw grenades and engaged in a shootout with his guards, Tehran radio reported. The official, Ayatollah Rabbani Amlashi, remained inside the house and was not harmed during the 5:30 a.m. attack, according to the broadcast monitored here. Two attackers, one of the guards and a garbage collector were reported injured. Tehran radio said three of the attackers were arrested at the house, while others were captured after a chase to a nearby gasoline station. The official Pars news agency quoted Amlashi's guards as estimating up to 15 gunmen took part in the attack. Opponents of the Iranian fundamentalist regime led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have intensified their guerrilla warfare campaign since the June ouster of moderate Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president. The government has responded by cracking down on its opponents, executing more than 400 people and arresting scores of others. The attack on Amlashi's house took place shortly before Khomeini declared opposition leaders do not have the allegiance of even one Iranian in 10. orey 8/25/81 "Otherwise they would have stayed here," the 81-year-old revolutionary patriarch said in a clear reference to Bani-Sadr and Massoud Rajavi, the Mujahedeen Khalq guerrilla leader. Both fled to Paris on July 29 and were granted political asylum. In a 30-minute speech broadcast by Tehran radio, Khomeini called on the "deceived youths" responsible for the two-month campaign of bombings and assassinations to renounce their exiled leaders and repent. "Now that they clearly realize the treason committed by their leaders against our country and their pro-American attitude, there is no more excuse for them to remain as enemies of Islam. These youths should return to the bosom of Islam," Khomeini said. He denied as "propaganda conspiracy hatched by imperialists" claims by Bani-Sadr and Western news reports that the Tehran government had purchased arms from Israel for the war against Iraq. "We do not consider Israel important enough to establish relations with," Khomeini said in the speech delivered to a group of Iranian emigrants and police officers at his Hosseinieh Jamaran residence in Tehran. Israel has not commented on the reports in keeping with a policy not to discuss its arms sales. UFOs "higher ups" - Leader steps down THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Caretaker Premier Andries van Agt stepped down as parliamentary leader of his party Monday but said he still was available to head a new coalition government. Political observers said van Agt's decision to step aside as leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal Party would reduce his chances to become premier again if the attempt to form a center-left coalition succeeds. Van Agt will remain premier until formation of a new coalition government based on elections held May 26. UFOs 6 Projects - 500 villages flooded NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Monsoon rains and the flooding Ganges River swamped 500 villages in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, leaving thousands of people homeless, the United News of India reported Monday. The government said this year's summer monsoon had claimed 533 lives so far, caused estimated damage of nearly $300 million and flooded about 4 million acres of farmland. orey 8/25/81 orey P 9/11/81 UFO reported over China PEKING (UPI) - The official Chinese news agency said Friday an unidentified flying object spotted over Tibet July 24 also was seen in Peking and least 12 other provinces. In one account, peasants in Guizhou Province spotted an unusual "star," which in about two minutes sprouted a tail, encircling the center of the object in five spirals. === Page 18 of 52 # Explosion kills Iranian president, PM By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A powerful explosion ripped through the prime ministry in Tehran Sunday, killing Iran's president and prime minister, Tehran radio announced Monday. Five other people were killed in the explosion, and 13 others were wounded, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Tehran radio reported first that President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Hojatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar had been taken to a hospital. Hours later it reported they were dead. The Times of London correspondent in Tehran, Tony Alloway, said he was told "Mr. Rajai had lost his legs." Pars said three of the bodies were "burned beyond recognition" in the explosion and fire that followed. In a broadcast interview, Iran's Parliament speaker condemned the explosion as a "last-ditch effort by American hirelings," a term used by the clergy-led regime to describe its opponents. The speaker, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also said the two leaders were together in the room where the explosion took place. "Just as our evening session was due to start ... we heard the sound of an explosion, followed by a thick column of smoke rising from the prime minister's office building," the Parliament speaker said on the broadcast monitored in Beirut and London. "The session began, and it was only later that we learned that the explosion had occurred in a room in which President Rajai and Premier Dr. Bahonar were gathered with several others." Executive Affairs Minister Behzad Nabavi told Tehran radio some of the "14 or 15" people walked out of the room after the explosion. "But the rest suffered severe injuries and were taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, the president and the prime minister were among the latter group." Pars said ambulances and a helicopter were used to transport the injured and dead. The explosion at 3 p.m. local time in the stone-and-glass building touched off a fire, but Pars said the blaze was "fully under control" within 2½ hours after the explosion. Although no group claimed responsibility for the blast, the explosion highlighted the urban guerrilla campaign that secular leftist foes of the Islamic fundamentalist regime have been waging for two months. Iran has been rocked by political violence since the June ouster of moderate President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. June 28, an explosion at the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party headquarters in Tehran killed more than 70 political leaders, including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, considered the second-most powerful figure in Iran after revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Rajai, who had been prime minister of the revolutionary regime, was elected without serious opposition to succeed Bani-Sadr in July. Bahonar then was appointed to fill the vacant post of prime minister. Tehran radio said the Iranian Cabinet was called into an extraordinary session at sundown by Rafsanjani to discuss "important matters of state, including the explosion at the prime minister's office." The ayatollah's regime has arrested thousands of leftists and executed more than 470 "counter-revolutionaries" since the end of June. Bani-Sadr and top underground opposition leader Massoud Rajavi, who heads the underground Islamic-Marxist Mujahedeen Khalq organization, escaped from Tehran aboard an Iranian air force plane to Paris July 29. Both were granted asylum by France. They have been predicting that Khomeini's regime would not last more than a few months. In his message to the nation over Tehran radio, Rafsanjani said Iran's "Islamic revolution should, and would, continue its march" despite "unpleasant events, which we are always ready for." Associated Press Laserphoto MOHAMMAD ALI RAJAI Related story on Page A4. 8/31/81 === Page 19 of 52 - UFO "higher ups" - # Blast kills Iran officials; U.S., Bani-Sadr blamed By United Press International Iranian President Mohammed Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were killed in a bombing that demolished the prime minister's office and set off massive demonstrations Monday of mourners chanting "death to the U.S.A." Iran's decimated Islamic leadership convened an emergency committee to confront the latest crisis which was touched off by the Sunday night blast and the presidential council declared five days of mourning. Chanting "death to Bani-Sadr" and "death to the U.S.A.," crowds of mourners gathered in front of the Parliament building in Tehran to begin the funeral procession, the official Pars news agency said. Loudspeakers broadcast tape recordings of speeches by Rajai and prayers for the health of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Pars said. Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's Parliament, addressed mourners in front of the Parliament and said he was speaking to "an immense and unprecedented gathering of angry people -- angry people who have reached their limit . . . and who scream for revenge, punishment and justice." Khomeini told followers who gathered at his north Tehran home that the regime would be unshaken by the killings. "Whatever the office of those who are martyred . . . our nation will elect others in their place," he said. Tehran Radio said "several million" people took part in the funerals of Rajai and Bahonar. The daring Sunday attack came only two months after the devastating bombing of the ruling Islamic Republican Party headquarters killed 74 people and only a week after ousted President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr predicted five assassinations -- including Rajai and Bahonar -- would cause the fundamentalist Islamic regime to collapse. In Paris, Bani-Sadr denied any role in the bombing but said, "They (Rajai and Bahonar) themselves brought on their own deaths." The official radio said a government employee and an elderly woman walking on the street also were killed when the bomb exploded, engulfing the building in flames that singed trees across the street. "The room where the bomb exploded was completely demolished. No door or windows left," said a Revolutionary Guard who was on the scene within 15 minutes. "President Rajai and Prime Minister Bahonar have joined the army of the revolution's martyrs," Tehran Radio said, adding that the two men gave their lives "in the path of the prophets . . . for the cause of Islamic justice." The new council blamed "the enemy's fifth column, the servants of imperialism and Saddam" -- repeating the accusations against Iranian guerrillas, the United States and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made after previous assassinations. The exile headquarters of the left-wing Mojahideen Khalq guerrillas in France said the bombing was "a very natural response of the Iranian people to the crimes of Khomeini and to the executions of the Mojahideen." The regime has executed more than 600 opponents since Bani-Sadr was ousted June 22 and forced to flee to asylum in Paris. Tehran Radio gave no immediate details of the presidential council, but opposition sources maintained Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani constituted the provisional ruling body at a Cabinet meeting held 3½ hours after Sunday's 3 p.m. blast. It appeared likely that Rajai and Bahonar were "already dead at the time or in a hopeless condition," one opposition source said. One report said Rajai lost both his legs in the blast. Their time in office was brief. Rajai, who was prime minister, took Bani-Sadr's place as president after forcing his removal in June and Bahonar then succeeded Rajai. - UFO "higher ups" - # Official kidnapped GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Special army and police anti-guerrilla units pressed a nationwide search Wednesday for kidnapped Public Health Minister Roquelino Recinos Mendez, a military source said. The sources refused to be identified by name or give details for security reasons. Witnesses and friends of his family said Recinos Mendez, 57, a country doctor turned politician, was kidnapped Monday night a few yards outside his home in a residential area in the southwest section of the capital. Recinos Mendez is the only member of President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia's Cabinet who drove his own car and did not have bodyguards. The other nine ministers invariably go around in armored cars, followed by one or two. - UFO "higher ups" - # Egypt church leader exiled CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- The ousted pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church will be exiled to a desert monastery because he is "determined to oppose the state," President Anwar Sadat's official party newspaper reported Monday. Egypt's Parliament named a committee Sunday to review other tough new measures invoked by Sadat to combat political opposition and sectarian feuding between Coptic Christians and Islamic fundamentalists. Sadat ousted Pope Shenouda III Saturday for engaging in politics, a move greeted with mourning by Egypt's six million Christians in the overwhelmingly Moslem nation of 43 million. The newspaper Mayo, official journal of the ruling National Democratic Party, said the Coptic pontiff was responsible for inciting the Copts to violence in clashes with Moslems over a period of several years. === Page 20 of 52 UFO "higher ups" # Bombs hit embassy in Peru By KERNAN TURNER Oreg 9/1/81 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A string of bombings before dawn Monday struck the U.S. Embassy, the American ambassador's residence and four companies with U.S. connections, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Hours later a man was arrested when he tried to enter the House of Representatives with a package that congressional sources said contained nine sticks of dynamite. Police said later, however, that the package held a carton of sparklers and no dynamite. The man, identified as 44-year-old Santiago Chuquibaucaas, told police he had bought the fireworks for a birthday party, investigators reported. They said Chuquibaucaas was held for additional questioning. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. buildings. U.S. Ambassador Edwin G. Corr, who escaped injury, told reporters later that the explosions were part of a terrorist attempt to create confusion in Peru. Corr and his family were awakened by an explosion in their back yard. Corr, his wife, Susanne, and their 16-year-old daughter Phoebe were sleeping on the second floor facing the front yard of the palatial, colonial-style residence, when explosives were tossed over the back wall, the spokesman said. The Corrs' two older daughters had spent their summer vacation here but left recently to resume their studies at the University of Oklahoma. A police source said a Peruvian guard fired several times at a red vehicle speeding away from Corr's residence, but it was not known whether the vehicle was hit. Bombs exploded nearly simultaneously at the embassy and at the Ford Motor Co., the Bank of America, the local Coca-Cola bottling plant and the G. Berckemeyer and Co. administrative office, which represents the Carnation Co. in Peru. The milk company belongs to a family related to the late Ricardo Berckemeyer Pazos, former ambassador to the United States. The embassy spokesman said someone threw an explosive, believed to be several sticks of dynamite, over the front gate at the embassy building. The building faces a major downtown avenue. A Marine guard, who was the only person inside the U.S. mission at the time of the explosion, was protected by a bulletproof glass cage, embassy spokesman Joseph Marek said. "There was absolutely no warning," Marek said. "The assailants didn't identify themselves in any way, shape or form. They didn't leave any messages behind or call to identify themselves." Police bomb squads said they had not made any arrests or established a motive. In Washington, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said that while the United States is taking no extraordinary measures in response to the bombing of U.S. diplomatic facilities in Peru, "we are clearly taking precautions to protect the lives of American diplomats and civilians living and working overseas." Corr, a career diplomat appointed in November by President Carter, has maintained a low profile here and had good relations with the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, who took office a year ago. Belaunde's confirmation that Corr will soon be replaced by Frank Ortiz, a Reagan appointee, has brought severe criticism from local newspapers. Ortiz's nomination has not been presented to the U.S. Senate for approval, although State Department sources have confirmed it is imminent. The leftist press has accused Ortiz, who is political counselor of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, of being a CIA agent. UFO "higher ups" # Bahrain envoy dies MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Britain's ambassador to Bahrain, David Gordon Crawford, died of heart failure here Sunday, the Gulf News Agency reported. He was 53. Oreg 9/7/81 UFO "higher ups" # Junta picks new leader LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- This impoverished South American country, which gained independence from Spain 157 years ago, got its 192nd president Friday. The three-man military junta named junta member and army commander Gen. Celso Torrelio Villa as the new president. His designation came after three days of meetings by the junta that has been running Bolivia since Gen. Luis Garcia Meza stepped down as president Aug. 4. Air Force Gen. Waldo Bernal, senior member of the junta, made the announcement. It was expected that a new army commander would be named and he and the air force and navy commanders would return to their military duties. Torrelio Villa was installed in a ceremony at the presidential palace attended by the armed forces leaders. === Page 21 of 52 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Explosion kills Iranian prosecutor ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Iran's military prosecutor-general Ali Qoddousi was fatally wounded Saturday when a powerful explosion ripped through his office in downtown Tehran. It was the second major bombing this week against high-ranking members of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic regime. Qoddousi was the clergyman responsible for trying military personnel. He was rushed to the hospital with leg injuries and underwent surgery but died soon after, a hospital spokesman said. "Brother Qoddousi is martyred," he said. The spokesman gave no additional details. In another development, Tehran Radio said Iran's police chief died Saturday of injuries suffered last Sunday when a bomb exploded in the prime minister's office, killing President Mohammed Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar. The Tehran Radio report, monitored in Ankara, was the first news that police chief Col. Hushang Vahid Dastgerdi also was injured in last week's explosion. "I was 20 meters from the building when the bomb went off and I saw the terrace of the second floor collapse," Hojjatoleslam Reyshahri, the Islamic judge who heads the military courts, said in an interview with Pars following Saturday's attack. Reyshahri said Qoddousi's "leg was burned and he was rushed to the hospital," according to the Pars report, monitored in Ankara. "The explosion appears to have been in the middle of the building," a police spokesman reached by telephone said. Other witnesses reached by telephone said security forces set up road blocks around the wrecked building. Iran's chief justice, Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardebili, Friday empowered security forces to make mass arrests in the search for the those responsible for the bombings. Chief government spokesman, Behzad Nabavi, said Thursday that employees of the prime minister's office were arrested and the Mojahidden Khalq guerrilla organization was the prime suspect in the investigation into the bombing. org J 9/5/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - A2 2M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 # President ousted in Central Africa By GREG MacARTHUR PARIS (AP) -- The Central African Republic's army said it ousted President David Dacko Tuesday -- almost two years after a French-backed coup drove his cousin, self-styled emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, into exile and returned Dacko to office. Army commander Gen. Andre Kolingba announced on government radio in Bangui, the capital, that Dacko had agreed to step down because of ill health. Kolingba also said he took power because of six months of "political tension" in the country. It was the second time Dacko was been deposed from the presidency. The first was by Bokassa 15 years ago. The general suspended the constitution and called on ministers in the Dacko regime and his supporters to remain at their homes until further orders, government radio said. Reports from Bangui said Dacko was told to remain at his farm in Mokinda, about 60 miles from the capital. A broadcast on Radio Bangui said a military committee headed by Kolingba would replace Dacko. It said the membership of the Military Committee of National Redress would be announced Wednesday. All political parties have been suspended indefinitely, the radio said. The landlocked former French colony in the heart of Africa maintains close ties with Paris. In Cherbourg, France, Defense Minister Charles Hernu said the 1,600 French soldiers stationed in Central Africa would be consigned to their barracks. "I think what is happening now is a passing of powers," he said. He described the coup as "a purely Central African affair." A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the French ambassador in Bangui "had been informed in a letter by Mr. Dacko himself that he was handing over power to the army because of reasons of health." The spokesman added that Dacko, 51, was "believed to have heart problems," but a source at the Central African Embassy in Paris said he had heard no such reports. Dacko had been president from independence in 1960 until he was overthrown and jailed by Bokassa in 1966. Bokassa was driven into exile in a French-backed coup in 1979 and Dacko assumed the presidency. In his second shot at running the country, Dacko never managed to get a firm grip on its economic problems, which had been exacerbated by 14 years of Bokassa's extravagant rule. Last March, Dacko was elected to a six-year term after receiving 50.2 percent of the vote in a race against four other candidates, including former Prime Minister Ange Patasse. The losers claimed the election was rigged, and their supporters staged violent demonstrations in Bangui. Dacko declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew, which was lifted about a week later. In July, Dacko declared a state of emergency and banned all political parties but his own in a crackdown after the bombing of a Bangui movie theater in which three people were killed and === Page 22 of 52 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1981 - UFO "higher ups" # French envoy killed by gunmen in Beirut. By FAROUK NASSAR BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Three gunmen firing pistols and a machine gun killed French Ambassador Louis Delamare in a bloody afternoon ambush Friday. In Paris, the French government denounced the slaying as a "cowardly assassination" that apparently had been intended as a kidnapping. The 59-year-old career diplomat died in nearby Barbir Hospital 15 minutes after his Lebanese chauffeur rushed him there. The official coroner's report said Delamare sustained 11 gunshot wounds in the head, chest and right arm. The attack was close to the spot where U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy and economic counselor Robert O. Waring were kidnapped from their bullet-proof limousine in June 1976 during Lebanon's Moslem-Christian civil war. Their bullet-riddled bodies later were found. Delamare's assassins escaped, and Beirut newspapers said they had not received any claims of responsibility. The official Iraqi news agency said a pro-Iranian group calling itself the "al-Hussein Suicide Squads" claimed responsibility. The allegation by Iraq, which is at war with Iran, could not be confirmed independently. Lebanese government sources said authorities were investigating whether a pro-Iranian group staged the attack. A police spokesman, who declined to be named, said the assassins struck shortly after noon when Delamare was being driven from the French Embassy to his mansion in mostly Moslem west Beirut for lunch. As the ambassador's 604 four-door sedan trance to leaped f. spokesm. At fi ambassador's sedan at gunpoint and attempted to jerk open the doors," the police spokesman said. "When the doors held, the attackers opened fire on the ambassador from the right side window of the back seat." The spokesman said, "The assailants rushed back to their car. The (gunmen's) driver had kept the car's motor running as the three assassins staged the fatal ambush." In Paris, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said the attackers were trying to kidnap Delamare. He did not elaborate. A doctor at Barbir Hospital, who requested anonymity, said attempts to resuscitate Delamare's heart failed and he was pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m. French President Francois Mitterrand denounced the slaying of Delamare as "a cowardly assassination." The French Foreign Ministry in Paris issued a statement saying, "This criminal act can only serve to aggravate the tragic climate which covers Lebanon." In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan was "shocked and saddened by the news" of Delamare's death and extended his deepest sympathy to the ambassador's family, colleagues and friends. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim expressed shock at the slaying and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat sent a telegram to Mitterrand saying "condemns this crime." - UFO "higher ups" # Police slay terrorist chief BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Police shot and killed the leader of Spain's terrorist GRAPO gang in a gunfight Saturday after he refused a telephone appeal to surrender in his surrounded Barcelona hideout. A police inspector fatally wounded Enrique Cerdan Calixto, 31, after he leaped from his apartment window to a roof in his underwear and exchanged pistol fire with police for nearly an hour, police said. Cerdan had been hunted for 18 months after escaping from Zamora prison in northwest Spain, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for killing two policemen. He was the leader of the Maoist-line GRAPO -- the Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Group of the First of October -- and the last "dangerous" GRAPO chief still at large, police said. reg 9/6/81 - UFO "higher ups" # Explosion kills prosecutor By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Iran's general revolutionary prosecutor was assassinated in his Tehran office Saturday by a firebomb explosion so powerful it knocked the balcony off the building, officials said. He was the fourth senior official in the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime to be slain in a week. Tehran Radio also said a gunman was wounded in a shootout in front of Iran's parliament and a spokesman for the Iranian revolutionary police command said an investigation into a suspected coup plot was under way. The official news agency, Pars, said the revolutionary prosecutor, the Hojatoleslam Ali Qodussi, died in Tehran's Hospital 5 1/2 hours after he was from his bombed-out of Qodussi's funeral Radio Tehran, monitored in Beirut, said the bomb appeared to have been planted in the library room directly below Qodussi's second-floor office. The broadcast said the blast injured another man in the prosecutor's office. Pars quoted the head of the military's Islamic revolutionary courts, the Hojatoleslam Mohammad Reyshahri, as saying he was 20 yards from the building when the bomb exploded. "I saw the terrace of the second floor collapse," Reyshahri said. The state radio in its evening broadcast said the Supreme Judicial Council appointed the Hojatoleslam Hussein Musavi Tabrizi, head of the revolutionary court in northern Iran's East Azerbaijan Province, to succeed Qodussi. The council accused the United States of complicity in the latest assassination. The radio quoted a council statement as saying, "Once more the hands of American fifth column has out of the sleeves of the hypocrites in the form of Qodussi's murder." "One passenger returned fire and he was wounded. The cab driver and the rest of the passengers were arrested. None of the guards was injured," the state-run radio said. Parliament is in recess until Sept. 20, and it was not known if the shootout and the assassination of Qodussi were connected. However, a police spokesman, who requested anonymity, told The Associated Press in Beirut that the suspected plot was hatched by the Mujahedeen Khalq, the main underground leftist organization involved in a 10-week-old anti-government campaign of bombings and assassinations. This particular plot followed a series of recent clashes we have had with armed political organizations such as the Mujahedeen, the Peykar, and the Fedayeen Khalq," the spokesman said. He was answering a question about a report that the Islamic fundamentalist regime had broken a counter-attempt and === Page 23 of 52 - UFOs & Projects & attacks on Stock market!! Knocking out its "power" was symbolic!! - # Power outage darkens lower Manhattan By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK NEW YORK (AP) -- An explosion and fire at a generating station knocked out power to much of lower Manhattan for four hours Wednesday, trapping office workers in elevators, snarling traffic, closing financial markets and creating transit chaos for homebound commuters. Traffic lights went out, telephones went over to emergency power and police jammed intersections where traffic lights were out, creating paralyzing street gridlock. Traffic control agents were dispatched, and some private citizens stepped in to direct traffic to help solve the giant tie-up. An eyewitness said he heard two explosions at the Consolidated Edison station, but the company said it had not determined what caused the blast. Four hours after the blackout started, power was restored to all areas. "We know there was an explosion. What caused the explosion we're not sure. We lean toward some sort of industrial accident," said a fire department spokesman. Paul Cohen, a Traffic Department control agent standing in the middle of a downtown intersection, said that with traffic lights out "people just do what they want. It's bedlam over here. There are a lot of tempers." "I've been sitting here for about one hour," said Rolando Reyes as he listened to the radio in his idling sports car at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street at about 6 p.m. Mayor Edward I. Koch, who escorted one woman off the Brooklyn Bridge to a nearby hospital when she appeared faint, was happy with his city's behavior during the blackout. "I am told people are acting splendidly. In this city, when it rains, it pours," he said. Flashlights and candles lighted the way down darkened stairwells for workers trapped in skyscrapers. Many people were drinking beer on the street. But many bars were closed because they were without power and electric cash registers would not work. Telephone service was switched to emergency power, but dial tones were slow in coming. Lines of people at downtown phone booths stretched 20 deep. Subways slowed to a crawl with signal lights affected. Bus stops were jammed with displaced subway riders. Before power was restored, Lawrence Kleinman, a Con Edison spokesman, said there was no danger of the kind of problem that has blacked out the whole city in the past. "The problem is contained within the area that has been affected," he said. All police in lower Manhattan precincts were held on overtime and all task force members from other boroughs were dispatched to Manhattan. Twenty hook-and-ladders were dispatched to rescue those trapped. Koch said at a news conference that the city was bearing up well under the problems, which affected only the southwestern quarter of Manhattan. John Mulligan, a Fire Department spokesman, said there were widespread reports of people trapped in elevators. He also said that officials from Macy's department store at Herald Square said that the store's emergency lighting had failed as well. Ellen Weiman, spokeswoman for the city's Emergency Medical Service, said three people were being treated for minor injuries at Macy's. Deputy Fire Chief John Fogarty, one of the officers in command at the scene of the fire, which burned for 2½ hours before being put out, said: "We're not sure what caused the explosion or explosions." "But the explosion caused the transformer to burst its seams, spilling some of the 3,000 gallons of lubricating oil that cools the transformer," Fogarty said. "That created a percolator effect. As the oil outside burned, more oil leaked out, feeding the fire." 9/10/81 UFOs attack US economy The Stock Exchange closed down at 4. Note: my UFOs could not be more direct than this! Some time ago I wrote you and informed you that my Is a telepathed to me that unless the Base and/or Book was forth coming they would knock out and destroy America's Stock Exchange (a la 1929) some time in the Fall. Here they knocked out all power in the Stock Exchange... Their way of co-signing my message to you... of the deep gravity of the situation! Not only that but it follows the other bad news in this file! Owens === Page 24 of 52 BURGER KING Associated Press Laserphoto TRAFFIC TIE-UP -- Commuters on New York City's Avenue of the Americas look for alternate routes Wednesday after power outage stalled subways. === Page 25 of 52 Note: I warned some time ago that unless the Base and/or Book was forthcoming, the SI told me that they would attack and destroy the Stock Market (and U.S. economy.) This is the value they place on the Base and Book. Owens 9/9/81 PS... after that, MILK. "-U.S. economy attack" # U.S. economy starts steep downhill slide Oreg J 8/20/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - The national economy jolted into reverse in the spring quarter, declining even faster than first believed, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The inflation-adjusted gross national product, which raced ahead at an 8.6 percent annual rate in the first quarter, fell at a rate of 2.4 percent in the April-June period, pushing the economy halfway to one traditional definition of a recession - two consecutive quarters of negative GNP. Corporate profits, hampered by high interest rates as well as the weakening national economy, fell even more abruptly than the nation's output in the second quarter after rising in the January-March period, the new report said. But inflation began to subside as it often does when a nation's economic growth fades. The Commerce Department originally had estimated a 1.9 percent decline in second-quarter inflation-adjusted GNP - the total of the nation's output of goods and services - and the revision was relatively small. And it came amid speculation that the decline was no fluke and that the July-September quarter will not be much better. Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, conceded recently that "there's some possibility we're in a recession right now." And several private forecasting firms are predicting a negative GNP report for this quarter. However, analysts are agreed that there will be no steep downturn such as the decline at an annual rate of above 9 percent in the spring of last year, a recessionary plunge by all accounts. In fact, Otto Eckstein, whose Data Resources Inc. in Lexington, Mass., is forecasting negative GNP in the third quarter, was reluctant to say such a report would amount to a new recession. In a recession, he said Wednesday, people get laid off and business deteriorates drastically. The most recent government figures show employment actually rising, and business has not experienced an enormous deterioration, he said. Oreg J 8/18/81 # Stagnant mart plunges toward year's low mark NEW YORK (UPI) - The stock market, with little in the news background to stir up buying, plunged to its second lowest level of the year Monday as the investment community tried to figure out the course of interest rates and the economy. Trading was relatively slow. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks, which lost 7.42 points Friday, surrendered 10.18 points to 926.75. That put the Dow at its lowest level since 924.66 on July 22 and not far from the 918.09 finish on Dec. 16, 1980. The New York Stock Exchange Index shed 0.72 to 76.28 and the price of an average share decreased 31 cents. Declines topped advances 1,156-390 among the 1,891 issues crossing the New York Stock Exchange tape. | DOW JONES | |---| | -10.18 | Big Board volume totaled 40,840,000 shares, down from the 42,580,000 traded Friday. The slowed-down trading reflected Wall Street's concern about the Federal Reserve's report late Friday that the nation's basic money supply soared $5.1 billion in the latest week and loan demand shot up $3.69 billion as the result of takeover bids. Normally, those figures would hint that the Fed would be reluctant to ease its restrictive credit policies soon and that interest rates won't come down significantly anytime soon. But many analysts believe the latest figures were a fluke because of the speculative activity that went on during the protracted three-way fight for Conoco that Du Pont won. The companies involved lined up credit in the billions. There was little movement in short-term rates and that added to investor uncertainty. === Page 26 of 52 UFOs attack on US economy - (no book) # Inflation rate hits 15.2% orig P 8/25/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Inflation leaped back into double digits in July, with consumer prices up 15.2 percent at an annual rate - mainly because of rising food and housing costs, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. At the same time, the government said the real earnings of Americans plunged by more than in any month since May of last year. The Consumer Price Index for July was up 1.2 percent for the month alone after seasonal adjustment. If maintained for the next 12 months, the inflation rate would be 15.2 percent, the department said. The rate of increase has not been as high since March of last year. The major change for the month was in food prices, up 0.8 percent for the month. The overall inflation index had benefitted UFOs attack economy - (no book) # Mart suffers broad loss NEW YORK (UPI) - Despite a late rally in Dow Jones industrial average issues, the stock market generally suffered a broad loss Tuesday as Wall Street pondered the course of interest rates and inflation. | DOW JONES | | |---|---| | +1.72 | | The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 20.46 points Monday to a 13-month low, gained 1.72 to 901.83 after being down nearly 10 points to around 890 at midday. But the broader-based New York Stock Exchange index surrendered 0.34 to 72.58 and the price of an average share decreased 15 cents. Declines routed advances 1,256-345 among the 1,900 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. These figures said the paper value of all NYSE issues plunged $37.8 billion in the past two sessions. Late buying in blue-chip issues was done by bargain hunters who found stocks attractively priced after the recent slide. Also, many traders replaced borrowed shares they sold earlier in hopes the market would go down. Big Board volume totaled 50,000,000 shares compared with 46,750,000 traded Monday. The bond market, which fell to a record low Monday, steadied. The dollar was strong in international markets. Gold was lower. How long the market's rebound will last is not known. Analysts said Wall Street was stunned by the government's report that consumer prices rose 1.2 percent in July, the largest rise in more than a year. Analysts said the inflation figure means that interest rates are likely to remain high. orig P 8/26/81 - UFOs attack economy - (no book) # Bond market sinks to record low NEW YORK (UPI) - Bond prices sank to record lows Monday with the government and municipal market "almost in a rout" that could severely curtail the ability of states and cities to raise money for needed services. "The bond market is a disaster and it's the result of an inevitable collision between heavy Treasury borrowing crowding out the tax-exempt and private sector and the tight monetary policies of the Fed," David M. Jones, economist at Aubrey G. Lanston & Co. government bond house, said. The key Treasury long-bond (13 7/8s of 2011) had fallen to 95 5/8, bringing the yield to 14.55 percent. All Treasury issues from three to 30 years out were at record low prices. But hardest hit is the municipal market. The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority 12% of 2011, which sold last week at par, was down to 94 Monday and there's little hope that things will improve in the near-term. "Next Monday we're pricing a Washington Public Power Supply System issue that's guaranteed by the U.S. government at yields approaching 13 1/2 percent," a spokesman for Salomon Brothers said. "When a triple-A government-backed issue has to pay this kind of yield it doesn't look good for lesser-rated tax-exempts." Monday's rout came after the Federal Reserve reported an $800 million jump in the money supply in the latest reporting week on the heels of a $5.1 billion increase the week before. William V. Sullivan Jr., senior vice president at Bank of New York, said, "That eliminated any prospect for further softening in the federal funds rate from the current 17-18 percent range. "There's no retail buying in the second-ary market and as a result inventors are on dealers' shelves," Sullivan said. "You cannot own bonds yielding 14 1/2 percent and carry them in your inventories at 18 percent." Jones said the "crowding out" of the tax-exempt and corporate sectors by heavy Treasury borrowing has put the tax-exempt market in a "near crisis." "Top-rated companies have access to needed funds, but lesser-rated borrowers are loped off first and that's exactly what's happened to states and localities," Jones said. "The market has been flooded with housing and industrial revenue bonds and now borrowing for old-fashioned purposes such as highways and other essential services is being pushed back." orig P 8/25/81 === Page 27 of 52 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wednesday, August 26, 1981 SECTION 2 # Economic Fears Roil Bond Market, Putting Borrowing Plans in Disarray SIA attack economy BY TOM HERMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK--"Bonds. "The dawn of a new bull market. "Bonds are undervalued. . ." Well, if bonds were undervalued when Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith said that two months ago, they're even more undervalued now. Bond prices plunged to record lows this week. The persistent failure of interest rates to fall has created chaos in fixed-income markets, producing huge investor losses, at least on paper. The plunge has disrupted the borrowing plans of corporations and of city and state governments, many of which had expected to sell bonds this summer to partly free themselves from the burden of costly short-term debt. The most recent upward lurch in interest rates has helped send the stock market tumbling and made more intense the financial stresses in many industries, especially those related to housing. "It's doomsville for just about anybody connected with the building industry," says Jack W. Zimmerman, who owns a construction company, a real-estate management firm and a group of lumber stores in northern Michigan. An increasing number of companies, financial analysts expect, will scale back their plans for capital spending because they can't afford the interest. UFOs attack economy # Flies near LA prove fertile; spraying starts By JOHN RICE Greg 8/27/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The medfly crisis spread to Southern California Wednesday after two fertile flies were trapped near Los Angeles. Officials warned of "economic disaster" and made immediate plans to quarantine the area and begin pesticide spraying. Two of five Mediterranean fruit flies found Tuesday in the suburb of Baldwin Park were confirmed to be fertile. Three more flies were discovered Wednesday in the same region, 260 miles south of the 3,140-square mile area in Northern California that has been under quarantine. Maggots were also found in Baldwin Park, indicating at least two generations of medflies in the residential area 20 miles east of Los Angeles. "We could very well see economic disaster here," said Earl McPhail, agriculture commissioner in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. Aerial pesticide spraying started Wednesday night over a 9-square-mile area of Baldwin Hills, Irvine and West Covina, along with fruit-stripping and ground-spraying programs, said George Strathearn, deputy director of the state Food and Agriculture Department. An informal quarantine of 81 square miles was established around the area, with a formal quarantine decision expected by Thursday night, said county Agriculture Commissioner Paul D. Engler. A fertile fly also was confirmed Wednesday in Oakland, about 15 miles north of previous finds. Medfly project spokeswoman Annie Zeller said aerial pesticide spraying would start over a 12-square-mile area of the city Thursday night. The Southern California finds "will probably have an influence on whether other states impose a quarantine on the entire state of California," said Baker Conrad, spokesman for the Council of California Growers. But Karen Darling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said a statewide federal quarantine is not likely. "The threat of a statewide quarantine is no different than it was yesterday or last week," she said. "We don't see the medfly find in the largely urban area of Los Angeles makes a statewide quarantine threat." Total losses in crop sales and the cost of fighting the medfly could now reach $1 billion, said Jack King, spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation. "This is definitely a bad day and a setback," King said. The medfly quarantine includes all of San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties and parts of San Benito and Stanislaus counties. The medfly can prey on some 200 varieties of California produce with an annual worth of $4.7 billion. California is the leading -- or only -- producer of many fruits and vegetables, and a quarantine on its crops could lead to shortages of some produce nationwide, farm officials here say. Medfly fighters earlier in the day learned that Japan had refused to back off from strict restrictions on California produce designed to prevent the fly's spread across the Pacific. Officials in Tokyo announced that fruit imported from non-infested areas of California may have to be fumigated, and that fruit from infested areas will be entirely banned. === Page 28 of 52 8-28-81 Wall St. Journal # Stocks of Potential Merger Targets Flounder as Industrials Drop 10.18 - SI attack economy - By VICTOR J. HILLERY Recent speculative merger candidates floundered yesterday as the general market nose-dived. The Dow Jones industrial average bumped another 13-month low in trading of nearly 44 million shares. "There's increasing skepticism that the Reagan administration will be able to balance the budget," commented Julius Westheimer, partner at Baker Watts & Co., Baltimore. Investors feared that interest rates will have to continue at high levels for an extended period with a severe impact on the economy. The industrial average started yesterday with a drop of about seven points and ended at 889.08, down 10.18 points, and at its lowest level since it closed at 885.92 July 10, 1980. In its retreat since mid-June the index has lost 122.91 points. The transportation average also fell sharply yesterday, but the utility indicator rose. More than 1,000 New York Stock Exchange issues turned down, twice the gainers. "Except for the utilities, there wasn't any interest on the buy side," observed Dudley A. Eppel, senior vice president of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. "The public is out of this market--it's strictly institutional." The concern about interest rates weighed on the market despite cuts made yesterday by Marine Midland and other banks in the fee they charge on loans to brokers, to 18% from 19%. Also, the rate on federal funds, which banks lend to one another, slipped below 17%. "I'm afraid we'll see further weakness in the stock market until there's improvement in the interest rate and economic situation," asserted Art Ammann, research director at Boettcher & Co., Denver. **Abreast of the Market** Wall St. Journal WAY, WA 8-28-81 35 CENTS # Credibility Gap # Stocks' Drop Reflects Fear That Basic Flaws Mar Reagan's Program ## Skeptics See Growth Checked By Fed Policy as Deficits Expand U.S. Borrowing ## Were Taxes Cut Too Much? - SI attack economy - What ails the financial markets? Why do they seem to be sending disparaging signals about President Reagan's economic program--a program officially advertised as a problem-solving blend of tax cutting, budget paring, deficit ending and inflation fighting that Wall Street presumably would love? The stock and bond markets have been sinking like a stone dropped into the Potomac. The reason is a growing conviction that the Reaganite program is undermined by an inherent contradiction, say many economists all across the liberal-to-conservative political spectrum. *This article was prepared by Wall Street Journal staff reporters Lindley H. Clark Jr. and Tom Herman in New York and Kenneth H. Bacon in Washington.* Wall St. Journal 9-3-81 # Expected Drop In Interest Rates Depresses Dollar ## Currency Hits 7-Week Low Against the German Mark During Slow Trading Day "SI attack economy" By JOHN M. LEGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Expectations of lower U.S. interest rates and heavy selling on the International Monetary Market in Chicago drove the dollar sharply lower in thin foreign-exchange trading. The day's activity took the dollar to its lowest point against the West German mark in seven weeks, leading some specialists to conclude that market sentiment has turned against the U.S. currency for the time being. Despite a slight rise in some U.S. short-term interest rates, "people feel interest rates have peaked," said Victor H. Drapala, chief forward dealer at Marine Midland Bank, New York. | CURRENCY RATES | New York Wed. | Home Mkt. Wed. | New York Tues. | |---|---|---|---| | | (In U.S. dollars) | | | | British pound | 1.8510 | 1.8420 | 1.8390 | | Canadian dollar | 0.8363 | 0.8358 | 0.8300 | | | (In foreign units to U.S. dollar) | | | | French franc | 5.8100 | 5.8375 | 5.8775 | | Japanese yen | 229.30 | 230.05 | 230.30 | | Swiss franc | 2.1345 | 2.1520 | 2.1515 | | West German mark | 2.4230 | 2.4410 | 2.4515 | Based on average of late buying and selling rates. Home markets: London, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, Zurich and Frankfurt. | GOLD PRICES | | | | |---|---|---|---| | | (In U.S. dollars per troy ounce) | | | | Comex Wed. | London PM Wed. | London AM Wed. | Comex Tues. | | 434.00 | 430.00 | 431.50 | 426.90 | Comex based on settlement price for gold for delivery in current month on Commodity Exchange in New York. London based on morning and afternoon price fixings of five major dealers. The closely watched federal funds rate, which is the interest charged on overnight loans between banks, traded as high as 20%, up from the previous day's average 17.52%. However, the funds rate often trades wildly on Wednesdays, when banks must settle their reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve System. As a result, traders thought the high funds rate was "an aberration and will trend lower over the near future," Mr. Drapala said. "Interest rates went up again. Despite all of this, the dollar went down," said Horst Duseberg, executive vice president of European American Bank, New York. "It doesn't make much sense anymore." === Page 29 of 52 Stock market plunges NEW YORK (UPI) -- Despite a late rally, the stock market plunged to a 15-month low Tuesday as interest rates remained at near-record highs and brokers began to call on speculators to put up cash for their accounts. Trading was moderate as the Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 30.53 points last week, including 5.33 Friday, skidded 10.56 points to 851.12, the lowest level since it finished at 843.77 on June 3, 1980. DOW JONES -10.56 It had been down about 16 points at mid-afternoon, however, and came back toward the end of the session. Selling was pronounced from the outset following the Federal Reserve's report late Friday that there was a $1.5 billion surge in the nation's money supply, which put pressure on the board to keep credit tight. The New York Stock Exchange index dropped 1.31 to 68.24, a 1981 low, and the price of an average share decreased 56 cents. Declines routed advances 1,411-211 among the 1,887 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. The American Stock Exchange common stock index plunged 14.22 to 323.06, the lowest level in 1981. The price of a share dropped 69 cents. The National Association of Securities Dealers' NASDAQ index of over-the-counter issues lost 4.84 to 184.79, a 1981 low. Big Board volume totaled 47,340,000 shares compared with 42,760,000 traded Friday. The market was closed Monday for Labor Day. Rumors send mart skidding NEW YORK (UPI) -- The stock market, already battered by high interest rates and Labor Day holiday fever, plunged to a 15-month low following rumors that the nation's money supply is about to soar in the next couple of weeks. DOW JONES -17.22 The Dow Jones industrial average, which tacked on 1.52 points Wednesday, skidded 17.22 points to 867.01, the lowest level since it finished at 863.92 on June 10, 1980. Selling accelerated late in the day following rumors, according to some top analysts, that a leading advisory service was predicting that the nation's money supply would surge in the next couple of weeks. This speculation hit a lazy Wall Street late in the day as many investors were leaving early for the Labor Day holiday. According to the rumors, the burst in the money supply is expected to be reported by the end of the month. The New York Stock Exchange common stock index lost 1.31 to 70.25, a 1981 low, and the price of an average share decreased 56 cents. Declines routed advances 1,243-304 among the 1,867 issues traded. Blackout silences computers NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock exchanges closed early, financial computers couldn't "talk" to each other and telephones didn't work in the towers of the nation's financial crossroads yesterday after a power company transformer exploded in lower Manhattan. But traders in foreign exchange and currency markets reported little impact from the loss of power caused by an explosion and fire at a nearby power plant. "At 3:26 (p.m. EDT) the lights just went out," said Robert Balme, a New York Stock Exchange employee. "Five minutes later the bell rang" and trading was suspended for the day, about 30 minutes early. "People remained on the floor for sometime afterwards -- eventually they left." At the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York a few blocks uptown, emergency power units kept an uninterrupted flow of electricity to the computers. The computer system did fail for 27 minutes, however, for what may have been an unrelated reason, said Fed spokesman Richard Hoenig. Because of telephone and power failures nearby, banks were unable to make electronic transfers of funds and securities to the Fed, which in turn relays them, through its system, to banks around the country. Making matters worse, he said, the failure occurred on a Wednesday, the day banks settle their accounts for the preceding seven days. By JAMES A. WHITE Stock prices fell across the board yesterday in moderate trading that pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a 15-month closing low despite a mild recovery in the final hour. The industrial average, after showing a loss of 15.79 points at 3 p.m. EDT, finished with a decline of 10.56 points to 851.12, its lowest level since the close at 858.02 June 4, 1980. With the latest decline, the index has fallen almost 173 points from its eight-year high of 1024.05 April 27; more than 100 points of the slide have come in the past month. "In terms of the damage that has already been done, you would have to say that this is a climactic performance," said Larry Wachtel, first vice president of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc. He noted that the 860 level on the industrial average, which some analysts had hoped would provide the staging area to halt the downtrend, quickly evaporated in the morning under the weight of concern about continuing high interest rates and the federal budget. The drop in the industrial average brought its decline over the past six sessions to 41.10 points, including 5.33 points Friday. Volume rose yesterday to 47,340,000 shares from 42,760,000 Friday, with almost all of the increase coming in the last-hour rally effort. Declines outnumbered advancing issues by a seven-to-one margin. Trades of 10,000 or more shares totaled 605, against 649 Friday. Losses were deeper for many, less-seasoned secondary issues on the American Stock Exchange and over-the-counter market. Analysts said investors were forced to take a stand and buy some of the "beaten-down stocks," which would curtail further forced selling because of margin calls. Newton Zinder, vice president at E.F. Hutton & Co., also said that margin calls "were definitely picking up. We are at a climactic stage, with forced selling accelerating the decline." He termed the late recovery attempt a "slight technical rebound that has little significance." Oil issues were active and mostly lower. Exxon fell 5/8 to 31 1/4; Texaco, 5/8 to 35 1/4; Mobil, 3/4 to 27, and Belco Petroleum, 2 3/4 to 25 3/4. Superior Oil, whose chairman resigned Friday, dropped 2 5/8 to 31 5/8. Standard Oil (Ind.) fell 3 to 52 1/4. Zapata Corp. jumped 3 1/4 to 31 1/4; Occidental Petroleum rose 1 1/8 to 27 1/8. 'A Ticking Time-Bomb' Bache's Mr. Wachtel called the deterioration in margin levels "a ticking time-bomb waiting to go off." However, he said that investors may believe "this is the time to stand and buy some of these beaten-down stocks." === Page 30 of 52 9-10-86 sent P.S. - UFOs "symbolic talk" # Market inches up before Wall Street's power blew NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock prices edged upward yesterday before a fire at an electrical transformer in lower Manhattan blacked out much of New York's financial district and stopped trading 30 minutes early. NYSE trading was halted just after 3:30 p.m. EDT when an explosion and transformer fire knocked out a power plant on nearby 14th Street. The American Stock Exchange did not lose power, but closed anyway because the processing computer it shares with the Big Board was affected, said Eugene Caulfield, assistant vice president of the Amex's floor operations. UFOs attack economy 9-9-81 Wall St. Journal # Coal Producers Are Surprised, Worried As European Market Suddenly Turns Flat By CAROL HYMOWITZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The European market for the abundant U.S. supplies of steam coal has suddenly turned flat, surprising and worrying American coal producers. Nearly everyone in the U.S. coal business has been counting on booming exports of steam coal to European nations that want to reduce their dependence on oil. Last year, exports of the utility fuel surged to 26.8 million tons from 14.1 million tons in 1979; and total exports to Europe, which grew to 45.7 million tons from only 1.7 million in 1979, accounted for most of the growth. Consequently, many coal producers have been scrambling for spiraling sales overseas and building new mines and mine machinery, as well as new ocean port terminals, while railroads, barge-line companies and ocean shippers also have been expanding to meet the expected boom. But in recent weeks, demand for U.S. steam coal on the European spot, or cash, market--where more than 50% of all U.S. steam coal exported to Europe is traded--has slackened considerably, coal brokers say. Demand for metallurgical or coking coal, the kind the U.S. has been exporting for decades, also has weakened. Big coal producers and coal haulers who have long-term supply contracts say they're somewhat protected from the spot market slowdown. But some concede that European coal buyers aren't rushing to negotiate new contracts. And some customers overseas are even trying to renegotiate current contracts "so deliveries scheduled for this year won't be delivered until next year," says an executive at a coal trading company in New York. Wall St. Journal 9-10-81 # REVIEW & OUTLOOK - UFOs & Projects - ## Wall Street and the Budget President Reagan has returned from the West to discover that it's the White House, not Santa Barbara, that the Apaches are circling. They're all uttering the same blood-curdling cry: "Look what's happening on Wall Street!" We hope the President and his troops continue to avoid panic because this may prove to be the biggest test yet of their nerves. It calls for a cool- === Page 31 of 52 Crews contain blazes; lightning ignites more UFO 6 Projects Oregon 8/20/81 Most major range and forest fires in Oregon and Washington were reported contained by Wednesday evening, although afternoon lightning storms touched off dozens of smaller fires in Central and Eastern Oregon. A fire on Steens Mountain in Southeastern Oregon that had burned about 3,000 acres of brush and juniper was expected to be contained Thursday, fire officials said. An estimated 3,200 lightning strikes pelted Eastern Oregon between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, with a triangular area bounded by Burns, Prineville and Baker the hardest hit, said Don Smurthwaite, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management. At least 20 new fires, ranging from one to 100 acres, were started in Eastern Oregon Wednesday afternoon. The BLM also reported that lightning sparked 21 fires Wednesday morning on rangeland between Burns and Steens Mountain, but all were confined to two acres or less. The Venator Butte fire along the Oregon-Nevada border south of Lakeview had covered 5,500 acres of range before being contained about 7 p.m. Wednesday, said Bill Keil, a BLM spokesman. The fire was expected to be controlled about 10 a.m. Thursday. Two fires caused by lightning Monday merged to form the Venator fire before they were contained by a crew of 20 firefighters, aided by a bulldozer, a grader and four tanker trucks. The Bone Creek fire, east of Alvord Lake in the far southeastern corner of the state, covered 2,500 acres of rangeland before being contained about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Keil said. The fire was expected to be controlled about noon Thursday. Smurthwaite said, "A few other fires burned up to 900 acres, but they burn fast and then run out of fuel, making them comparatively easy to stop." Keil said a 10-acre fire near Prineville could be troublesome because of easterly winds and dry juniper. The Oregon Department of Forestry reported 13 lightning strikes on state land Wednesday morning and more by Wednesday evening, but none covered more than a half-acre before being controlled. The U.S. Forest Service reported that a 105-acre fire in the Hilgard area of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest near La Grande was contained Wednesday with the aid of 40 firefighters and aerial tankers. UFO 6 Projects Officials seek coliform source CENTRALIA, Wash. (UPI) -- An organic pollutant of unknown origin has contaminated four rivers in Southwest Washington and environmental health authorities say they are mystified. The pollutant, fecal coliform bacteria, was first discovered in the Skookumchuck River three weeks ago and forced closure to swimming of Schaefer Park in Centralia. Lewis County health officials confirmed Wednesday that coliform bacterial counts 20 times as high as what is normally considered the maximum safe level have been detected in the Newaukum River. Regional water samples also revealed high bacterial counts in the Deschutes River in Thurston County and the Chehalis River in Lewis County. Oregon 8/20/81 The bacteria can cause a variety of health problems including skin rash, respiratory difficulties and hepatitis. Health officials issued no warnings about the danger with the exception of the Schaefer Park and Skookumchuck River closure. An official with the Lewis County Environmental Health Department said no announcement of the high bacterial counts in the Newaukum River was made because there are no designated swimming areas on the river under the county's jurisdiction. County health officials checked sewage treatment plants in the area, but found no apparent source of the coliform bacteria. They had been unable to determine whether the samples taken from the rivers were human or animal bacteria. UFO 6 Projects Oregon 8/20/81 Dennis threatens new fury WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Dennis shrieked through North Carolina's desolate Outer Banks Thursday with gale-force wind and blinding rain and headed out to sea where warm Gulf Stream waters threaten to strengthen it into a hurricane. Pushing rain as far north as Maryland, the storm dumped up to 12 inches in some areas of the finger-like stretch of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast, populated with fishing villages and small resort towns. Some wind gusts reached 58 mph just off Cape Fear, N.C., but the brunt of the storm's sustained 55 mph wind stayed offshore. Some roads were under water and scattered power outages were reported, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. At least three storm-related deaths have been reported since Dennis came ashore Sunday in south Florida and then turned into the Atlantic for its northbound journey. Gale warnings were in effect from Cape Lookout, N.C., north to Chincoteague Inlet, including the Outer Banks and on Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point southward. Gale warnings were lowered south of Cape Lookout. At 6 a.m. the broad center of the storm was about 45 miles west southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Dennis was moving toward the northeast at about 15 mph and forecasters said it should move northeastward off the Outer Banks later Thursday. Highest wind was 55 mph, mainly in squalls, and forecasters said reconnaissance reports and surface observation indicated some strengthening was occurring as the storm moved toward the sea, increasing the likelihood it would reach hurricane strength later Thursday as it moved over the warm Gulf Stream. The storm, born Aug. 6, straddled land and water as it moved up the Carolinas' coast Wednesday, chasing boats, military aircraft and vacationers inland and naval ships out to sea. Cape Lookout reported gusts up to 46 mph Wednesday night, and rain that began falling well ahead of the storm caused flooding in some low-lying coastal areas, authorities said. In North Charleston, S.C., police said an elderly man and woman were killed in a two-car collision early Wednesday on a street inundated by rain. 9-2-81 Seat. Times First, Capitol Hills have power failure About 2,500 residents of the First Hill and Capitol Hill areas were left without electrical power about a half hour yesterday when part of a tree severed an overhead line at Crawford Place and East Union Street. Hugh McIntosh of City Light said the power outage occurred at 3:59 p.m. and was repaired by 4:35 p.m. The area was bounded roughly by East Republican Street, East Marion Street, the freeway and 23rd Avenue and 23rd Avenue East. UFO 6 Projects === Page 32 of 52 Storm claims 2; vacationers leave UFOs & Projects - Oreg 8/20/81 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Dennis crept along the East Coast Wednesday, claiming two lives as it passed South Carolina's historic cities and headed toward its coastal resorts. The National Weather Service said the storm could build to near hurricane force if it remained over the warm sea waters. Witnesses said highways out of the Grand Strand, South Carolina's popular beach resort area, were jammed with vacationers fleeing the oncoming storm. Gale warnings were up from Brunswick, Ga., to Virginia as Dennis roughly followed the path of Hurricane David, which left millions of dollars in damage and several dead along this part of the Eastern Seaboard in September 1979. "Everyone's gearing up for potential problems," said Ross Miller, director of the Emergency Preparedness Division of the South Carolina Adjutant General's Office. The Coast Guard in Charleston said that if conditions worsened, the Intracoastal Waterway would be closed so drawbridges would not interfere with the evacuation of residents from the outlying barrier islands. By midafternoon, authorities on several Charleston-area barrier islands were considering evacuating residents, but no final decisions had been made regarding residents on Folly Beach, Sullivan's Island, the Isle of Palms, Seabrook Island and Kiawah Island. Street flooding was reported in Charleston and Myrtle Beach. The deaths of an elderly man and woman in a traffic accident in North Charleston were attributed by local authorities to storm-related street flooding. About 70 A-10 jet fighters were moved from the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base to England Air Force Base in Alexandria, La. Jets from the Charleston Air Force Base and Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C., were sent to other airfields. But the Marine Corps decided to keep its jets at its air station in Beaufort. Seven of the smaller ships at the Charleston Naval Base, including destroyers, cruisers and frigates, were sent out to sea to avoid the storm. The Red Cross in North Carolina dispatched workers to staff emergency headquarters in Charlotte, Wilmington, New Bern and Myrtle Beach, S.C. At 6 p.m. EDT, the storm's center was near latitude 33.0 north, longitude 79.2 west, or about 50 miles south-southwest of Myrtle Beach. It had picked up northward speed to 15 mph, with top winds of 50 mph mainly in squalls to the east. "The center may move more parallel to the Carolina coast than earlier anticipated," said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "Should this occur, the landfall will be delayed and winds could increase to near hurricane force." "It just hasn't made up its mind yet," said John Purvis, chief of the National Weather Service's Columbia bureau. "The thing has curved more toward the northeast and it's skirting the coast more and more." Small boats were warned to stay in port. Forecasters predicted thunderstorms, gusty winds and possible tornadoes in the coastal regions of the Carolinas. ays drown UPI) -- Eleven Colombian realizing they would be de- on reaching port, jumped into the Houston ship channel in a desperate bid for freedom. Two drowned and four others are missing. The other five reached shore and were arrested. Harris County sheriff's officers resumed their search of the 40-foot-deep water Friday for the four missing men. Cholera erupts in Texas UFOs & Projects ATLANTA (UPI) -- Health officials are on the lookout for cases of cholera in two Texas counties after the death of one man from the disease and the hospitalization of another, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The CDC also said the spread of cholera could not be ruled out in diarrhea illnesses that 40 others in the two Texas counties, summer. Cholera, an acute intestinal disease, is transmitted mainly through ingestion of contaminated water. Oreg J 8/21/81 Cubans' release opposed ATLANTA (UPI) -- A small group of Cuban refugees were ordered released Friday by a federal judge, but government attorneys are arguing that 225 other detainees should remain in prison. Justice Department attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob late Thursday to stay part of the order he issued Wednesday releasing 381 Cuban refugees from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where they are detained. Storm Dennis downgrades CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) -- A hurricane for only a few hours, Dennis downgraded to a tropical storm Friday as it thrashed the North Carolina coast. Atlantic, the storm, with top winds of 75 mph, was about 75 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras at 11 a.m. EDT. It was moving north-northeast at 15 mph. UFOs & Projects Probe's key Story on Page One also Oreg J 8/27/81 By RICHARD COLBY of The Oregonian staff PASADENA, Calif. -- Nobody at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory really believes in the "Great Galactic Ghoul," the evil spirit, jokingly blamed for both Soviet and U.S. space probe failures in the early 1960s. After all, most missions have gone satisfactorily since then. But Bruce Murray, laboratory director, happened to mention the ghoul to Edwin Meese, counselor to President Reagan, when Meese visited the laboratory Tuesday. A few hours later, Voyager 2 developed a problem, and the ghoul suddenly was revived. Failure of a rotating arm on the space probe, however, came at a time when nearly all of the craft's important work near Saturn was completed, said the Voyager's chief project scientist, Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology. UFOs & Projects Storms hit Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms spread across the Plains into the Midwest and most of the Mississippi Valley Tuesday, flooding streets and knocking out power in northeastern Illinois. Lightning bored a hole through the roof of a house in Illinois late Monday. Oreg J 8/25/81 UFOs & Projects - Wave sweeps Scouts away HONG KONG (UPI) -- A mammoth wave crashed onto a remote beach, engulfed seven Boy Scouts on a camping trip and swept them out to sea, police said Tuesday. They said the freak wave drowned one 17-year-old. Rescuers fished out four of the boys. Two others are missing and presumed dead. The campers were with the 7th Hong Kong Scout Group and were on an outing to Tai Mong Tsai, a remote beach in the New Territories where they were watching 10-foot waves pound the beach when the giant wave came up. 8/18/81 Oreg J === Page 33 of 52 - UFde 6 Projects - oreg J 8/24/81 # 24 known dead in Japan in wake of Typhoon Thad TOKYO (UPI) -- Typhoon Thad, Japan's most powerful storm in 16 years, swept out to sea Monday, leaving at least 24 people dead and 18,000 homeless in flooding and landslides. Police said they fear the toll of death and destruction will climb as rescue workers search the 21,000 homes in 21 provinces hit by the typhoon's torrential rain Sunday. The rains washed away roads, railway lines, bridges and farm crops and left 24 dead, 100 injured and 19 missing. Thad slashed across central Japan and by Monday had crossed over the western edge of the main northern island of Hokkaido onto the open sea traveling 45 miles per hour with center winds of up to 65 mph. In Ryugasaki city, 40 miles north of Tokyo, an embankment along the nearby Kokai River gave way Monday, flooding muddy water into the small town of 15,000. Police ordered the evacuation of 5,000 homes in the city and by mid-morning more than 1,000 residents had fled to schools on high ground. Officials said the gap in the embankment had widened from 60 to 120 feet and some 2,500 homes were flooded. Efforts to reinforce the embankment were under way but authorities held out little hope of stemming the torrent of water pouring into the city and surrounding rice fields. Police said no casualties had yet been reported at Ryugasaki, but in the city of Suzka, on the main island of Honshu, a flash flood caused by a broken embankment washed away 10 residents. # 50,000 flee China flood PEKING (UPI) -- Most of the 50,000 people trapped by flooding in Shaanxi province have been brought to safety by rescuers, the official People's Daily reported Monday. Heavy rains had caused serious flooding in the central China province and "up to 50,000 people were surrounded by flood waters in the whole province," People's Daily said. The flooding had killed at least 13 people in Shaanxi and 51 in the neighboring province of Sichuan in a disaster that affected hundreds of thousands of people earlier this month. - UFde 6 Projects - # Four men hurt in crash of Forest Service copter UKIAH (UPI) -- A U.S. Forest Service helicopter attempting to land at a lookout station was buffeted by high wind and toppled 100 feet to the ground Sunday, injuring the pilot and three crew members. District Ranger David Price said the "helitac" crew, which delivers firefighters and equipment in Eastern Oregon, was making a service flight to the Madison Butte lookout about 25 miles west of Ukiah when the accident occurred at about 11 a.m. "They had a pretty strong head wind and were about 100 feet off the ground when the wind switched 180 degrees and they fell," Price said. Pilot Rick Morton, 34, Seattle, and crew members Greg Durfey, 33, Pendleton, and Steve Franks, 25, of the Ukiah area, were taken by air ambulance to St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton with back injuries. The other crewman, Miles Hancock, 20, Pendleton, was treated and released. Hospital officials said none of the injuries were serious. oreg J 8/24/81 - UFde 6 Projects - 8/31/81 # Spruce budworm blight hits epidemic scale DENVER (AP) -- The western spruce budworm has infested more than 1.2 million acres of forest land in Colorado and is moving into neighboring Western states, U.S. Forest Service officials say. The Denver Post reported in a copyright story Sunday that although the infestation has reached epidemic proportions in Colorado, no statewide or federal control program has begun. Because the infestation has become so widespread, any attempt to control it would be futile, John Lott, Colorado State Forest Service entomologist, said in interviews last week. "There is a lot that could have been done a couple of years ago, but not much that can be done now," Lott said. "If we had proposed a statewide aerial spraying program three years ago, it just would not have been tolerated. Now that the damage has set in, spraying probably would not work. It would be cosmetic." Lott said a chemical control program was not undertaken because the infestation was not expected to become epidemic. "We were fooled, and admittedly, we have egg on our face," he said. Budworms have become even more widespread than the pervasive mountain pine beetle, forestry spokesmen said. The budworm has infected more acreage that the pine beetle. The budworm, however, is slower to kill a healthy tree, taking up to five years. In the Rocky Mountain region, the budworm attacks Douglas fir, grand fir, white fir, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce and western larch. Forests from Wyoming to southern New Mexico have been infested with the budworm, the Post said. Along the Front Range of Colorado, more than 1 million acres of trees have been attacked by the insect, according to the Post. Major outbreaks have been reported in Montana, Idaho and Arizona, the Post said. The budworm has infested more than 148 million acres of forest in North America, and has threatened the timber industry, wildlife habitat and recreation in many forests. === Page 34 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # 2 drown, 3 vanish as strong ebb tide closes Columbia bar Greg J 8/24/81 - UFO "water attack" - ASTORIA (UPI) -- Two people drowned, three were missing and three others were injured when three boats capsized in a strong ebb tide along the Oregon and Washington coasts Sunday, the Coast Guard reported. Extremely dangerous sea conditions prompted the Coast Guard to close the Columbia River bar to pleasure boats for three hours Sunday afternoon, delaying the return of more than 150 vessels. Two boats capsized within moments of each other near the south jetty of the Columbia River, Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Mackey said in Astoria. Two brothers aboard one of the boats were reported in satisfactory condition in Ocean Beach Hospital in Ilwaco, Wash., a hospital spokesman said. They were identified as Sidney Harrel, 62, and Horace Harrel, 71, both of Milwaukie, Ore. Two aboard the other boat, a 16-foot pleasure craft, were killed and a third was missing, Mackey said. The dead were identified as Emil Smith, Port Orchard, Wash., and Lola Walls, Dysart, Iowa. Missing and presumed drowned was Kenneth Strohecker, Portland. All were about 80 years old. THE BAR, where the Pacific Ocean and the Columbia River meet, was closed to pleasure craft at 12:10 p.m. and reopened about 3:30 p.m., although Coast Guard motor lifeboats continued to warn weekend sailors to stay inside the main channel due to the treacherous bar conditions. The two capsizings off the river's south jetty were witnessed and reported to the Coast Guard by people aboard the boat Yellow Jacket, which picked up two people from the ocean. A Coast Guard motor lifeboat from the Cape Disappointment station near Ilwaco, Wash., retrieved the other two. The Coast Guard had nine vessels and two helicopters from nearby stations searching for other accidents among the estimated 500 small pleasure and commercial boats which departed before the bar closure. Fog hampered the aerial search, forcing the Coast Guard to drop smoke bombs to pinpoint the location of one overturned craft. Waves were reported at about 6 feet, but had been as high as 15 feet. A Coast Guard official said crews were experiencing difficulty keeping boats away from the bar during the closure. Some boaters were ignoring both radio and visual warnings. Lt. Cdr. John Sprague at the Cape Disappointment facility said his station responded to at least a dozen vessel breakdowns caused by extremely high seas. He said a maximum ebb tide around noon Sunday caused swells and large breaking waves, buffeting boats caught where the ocean and river meet. SEA CONDITIONS improved late Sunday as the tide turned, but a small craft advisory continued along the Oregon Coast for local rough bar conditions. The Coast Guard in Tillamook closed the bar there at 6 a.m. because of high seas. One fishing boat departed during the closure, as commercial boats are not affected by closure orders, which apply only to pleasure boats. There were three other boating accidents involving 14 people off Oregon Saturday as pleasure boaters and salmon fishermen out on the last weekend of the season crowded the seas. Irvin Bryant, 60, and Ronald York, 45, received compression fractures of the spine when a big wave struck their skiff off the Columbia's south jetty. They were listed in satisfactory condition Sunday at Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City. Another boater was treated for a neck injury in Astoria. - UFOs & Projects - # Power failure dims fair SALEM -- A portion of the Oregon State Fairgrounds plunged into darkness Wednesday night, and the fair was closed early after a Portland General Electric Co. transformer in northeast Salem failed. Some 40,000 persons were at the fair when the outage occurred at 10:40 p.m., affecting about a third of the north and west portions of the fairgrounds. It was at least 20 minutes before an emergency transformer had restored electricity to most of the grounds and 70 minutes before all electricity went back on, Fair Deputy Director Don Hillman said the fair generator did not go on immediately because its battery was dead. Three rides were affected by the outage, but two were on the ground, he said. An emergency generator restored power to one aerial ride, the ferris wheel, within about five minutes, he said. No injuries were reported, and there was only one instance of looting. Greg J 9/4/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Consulate bombed EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Two firebombs were thrown at the U.S. Consulate in Edinburgh Saturday, causing only minor damage and no injuries, police said. They said no motive was known. No other details were available. Greg J 9/6/81 === Page 35 of 52 - UFO 6 Projects - # 'He looked me in the eyes,' says 'lucky' shark survivor - UFO "ocean attacks" PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPI) -- Ted Best says he never will forget the eyes of the wounded Mako shark when it took his leg in its jaws -- and figures he's lucky to be alive with the memory. The 6-foot shark, apparently "out for revenge," attacked the 19-year-old snorkeler after he shot it with his spear gun. "I was pretty scared because I knew what they can do to you," Best said Monday, a few hours after surviving the attack. "When he hit my leg I didn't know how bad it was. "I just remember looking at his eyes. He looked me in the eyes. I'll never forget that." He came out of the encounter with a clean wound on his thigh that will keep him on crutches for at least four days. The shark departed with a spear wound. Best's was the second attack in Florida waters in two weeks. A 19-year-old girl was killed by a shark on the Atlantic side of the peninsula Aug. 10. Best said he was snorkeling in 12 feet of water Monday afternoon off the Gulf Island National Seashore Park, looking for shells about 50 yards offshore, when two sharks approached. "They went out of sight for about 10 or 15 seconds and I came up for some air and went back down," Best said. "No sooner had I found a shell and turned around and here he was a-comin'. He was putting it on pretty good. "The next thing I knew -- I guess it was a Mako -- he was right up on me. I hadn't provoked him. I hadn't shot a fish to make blood or anything. "They've always minded their own business, but these two looked like they were out for revenge or something," Best said. "I always carry a spear gun and I shot him. I pulled the spear out of him, but before I could get it back in the gun, he hit me." Best said the shark released his leg and moved away and he struck out for shore. One of the sharks followed him and he saw "a black form" behind him in about 7 feet of water, but it disappeared. Breaking his facemask on a piling in his haste to get out of the water, Best limped to his car and drove to the park ranger's station half a mile from the beach. From there, he was flown by helicopter to the hospital at Pensacola. He said his wound was "about 6½-by-7 inches across. I don't know how many punctures. I guess there's about a hundred -- all small ones." The deepest, he said, were about three-quarters of an inch. The important thing was that the shark let go cleanly, rather than ripping flesh from his leg. Greg J 8/25/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # GI cars in Germany burned in new attack By United Press International Seven automobiles were set on fire and destroyed at an American military housing area Tuesday in the second attack on an American installation in West Germany in two days, the U.S. Army said. In Frankfurt, an annex to a Social Democratic Party headquarters also was set on fire by terrorists in a campaign against American nuclear arms in Western Europe. The star of the Red Army Faction -- the name used by the leftist Baader-Meinhof terror gang -- was painted on the building along with slogans that read: "The SPD is carrying out atomic arming with the U.S. government." SPD are the initials of the Social Democratic Party. The burnings came less than 24 hours after a car-bomb exploded at the Ramstein Air Base, injuring 15 people arriving for work at the U.S. Air Force European headquarters. Two Americans, including a brigadier general, were still in the hospital Tuesday. In what the State Department labeled a "bizarre" outburst of anti-American attacks, bombs also exploded Monday in Lima, Peru, rocking the American Embassy, the ambassador's residence and factories and offices of four American companies. The Army said seven cars were set aflame early Tuesday at different locations inside the military housing area in Wiesbaden, 18 miles west of Frankfurt. The gas tanks of the cars apparently were punctured with an ice pick and the gasoline was ignited, the Army said. All eight cars were destroyed. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said in an editorial that hysterical attacks against the Reagan administration were fueling anti-American sentiment in West Germany and supplying terrorists with an excuse for attacks on Americans. With the outbreak of bombings in West Germany and Peru, a State Department official said it was a "bizarre weekend." But he added that there was no evidence the attacks were part of a new terrorist campaign against the United States. Greg J 9/1/81 - UFO 6 Projects - Seat Times # Whale sinks yacht 8-30-81 LONDON -- (AP) -- A British couple and their dog, rescued from the Atlantic Ocean after a whale sank their yacht, were aboard a Dutch freighter yesterday bound for Philadelphia, the Royal Air Force said. === Page 36 of 52 3M MAN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, AUGUST 30, 198 1: UPOR 6 Projects Showers break drought; wildfires still rage Light showers ended a 47-day dry spell in the light, variable winds, increased humidity and a tem- falling rock in the steep terrain. Portland area Saturday, while two fires continued to perature drop should improve conditions, Kiser said. spread elsewhere in Oregon. Strong winds kept more than 800 firefighters busy on two blazes that remained out of control Saturday evening in Klamath County. Winds of up to 25 mph caused the Coyote fire to jump lines in Southern Oregon timber land. The fire has burned an estimated 1,000 acres on private land and 3,000 to 4,000 in the Fremont National Forest, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bob Kiser. Kiser said about 360 firefighters were battling the man-caused blaze that began Friday in ponderosa pine about 50 miles northeast of Klamath Falls. There was no estimate on when the fire would be contained, but About 500 firefighters struggled to contain anoth- er blaze that had burned an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 acres of timberland about 15 miles north of Klamath Falls. The Sucker Springs blaze began on the Winema National Forest about 3:30 p.m. Friday and spread to state-protected private and federal Bureau of Land Management land. On Saturday firefighters were hampered .by 20- to 25-mph winds from the north- west, which caused the fire to jump lines and spread substantially, said Mark McKelvie, Oregon Depart- ment of Forestry spokesman. No houses were threatened by the fire Saturday, but one firefighter suffered a minor leg injury from a Meanwhile, firefighters controlled à 40-acre fire on Forest Service land, near Ukiah, about 50 miles south of Pepeleton power outage in parts of North and Northeast Portland caused several thousand Pacific Power & Light customers to lose electricity for 47 minutes Saturday, said Glenn Gillespie, PP&L spokesman, After a long dry spell, the light rains soaked dust that had collected on a ceramic insulator at Northeast 6th Avenue and Lombard Street, causing electricity to arc and set the pole on fire, knocking out a transmitter and a 57,000-volt line at 6 p.m. The outage interrupted service at three substations until power could be rer- outed. Portland had received 0.05 of an inch of rain by 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Clear skies were expected by Sunday afternoon with highs predicted in the 70s. - UFOR 6 Projecto Terrorists bomb U.S. air base RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, West Germany (UPI) - A bomb believed planted by ter- rorists damaged the headquarters building of the U.S. Air Force in Eurone Monday, injuring 18 Americans and two Germans, the Air Force said. Two of the Americans were seriously hurt and were being treated at the Land- stuhl.U.S Army hospital. The bomb went off in a parking lot outside the Air Force headquarters build- ing, which also serves as headquarters for the NATO air force for central Europe. The West German federal prosecutor's office said a preliminary investigation in- dicated terrorists were responsible for the bombing, the third this year at an Ameri- can installation. Police in southern Germany sought two automobiles seen near the guarded Ameri- can Air base near Kaiserslautern before the explosion. The Air Force announcement said the cause of the explosion in the parking lot had not been determined, but German po- lice said the bomb went off in an automo- bile, blowing its hood over a five-story building and injuring people within 100 yards. "Damage was limited to the joint head- quarters building and to vehicles in the parking area," the American announce- ment said. "Windows were blown out, partitions, interior walls, equipment and furniture received some damage !!! The U.S. Air Force fire department put out fires in vehicles, but there were no other fires, the announcement said. Of the injured, seven American Air Force personnel and two Germans were taken by helicopter to Landstuhl. The oth- er 11 were treated at Ramstein Air Base and released. oreg J 8/31/81 ENG. NETH. W.GERMANY BELGIUM · Bonn GERMANY LUX. · Kaiserslautern FRANCE Ramstein AFB 0 100 SEOUL, South Korea (UPI) - Typhoon Agnes hit South Korea with the heaviest ram of the century, flooding southwestern coastal areas and causing considerable loss of life and property, police said Thursday. The Central Anti- Disaster Headquar- ters in, Seoul report- ed 13 people killed and 13 others miss- news scope @ing in rain spawned by Typhoon Agnes swirling off the southern coast. The figures are expected to rise as com- munications are restored. A report by the official Yonhap news agen- cy said the 13 to 26 inches of rain during the two-day period killed 27. Another 14 were missing. The news agency said the rain also left 28,000 people homeless and destroyed 5,900 houses. Officials gave initial estimates of $8 million property damage OR 1 9/3/8 === Page 37 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - $\rightarrow$ $\phi$ $\lightning$ # Lightning causes new blackout DENVER (AP) - A lightning bolt knocked out electrical power Monday to more than 150,000 customers in most of Montana, southern Idaho, northern Wyoming and one Colorado town, utility spokesmen said. An estimated 150,000 Montana Power Co. customers east of the Continental Divide lost electricity when lightning hit a 340-kilovolt line between Four Corners, N.M., and Pinto, Utah, Montana Power spokesman Russ Cox said. The blackout just after midnight also affected 1,800 people in southern Idaho and 800 in southwest-ern Colorado. An undetermined number were affected in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. Montana Power lost its entire system - three coal-fired plants and 13 hydroelectric units. The plants tripped off automatically to protect themselves from a power surge from the lightning, Cox said. The Montana blackout last two hours in most areas, but Cox said some remote areas were still out after dawn Monday. Some Montanans were late for work because electrical alarm clocks went off late and Mountain Bell spokeswoman Crystal Hahn said the telephone numbers for a recording of the time "were really busy." The blackout did not affect Butte, Missoula and other points west of the divide, Cox said. There were apparently sufficient connections between Montana Power and Washington Water Power Co. to maintain service there, he said. Idaho Power Co. spokesman Bob Brown said hydroelectric units at Striker, Thousand Springs, Twin Falls and Shoshone Falls went out, affecting about 1,800 customers in Boise, Twin Falls and Salmon for two hours. In northern Wyoming, Buffalo, Sheridan and Lovell lost power for about 10 minutes, said Bob Tarantola of Pacific Power & Light Co. Seibert said Colorado-Ute Power Co. in western Colorado reported a 230-kilovolt line tripped, causing one coal-fired plant to shut down briefly and creating a blackout in Mancos, a town of about 800 people in southwestern Colorado. "They don't know for sure, but apparently it (the power failure) was due to lightning strikes on a 340-kilovolt line between The Montana Power Co. and the Four Corners area," Mark Seibert of Colorado Public Service Co. said. oreg 9/1/81 - UFOs & Projects - # 8 people lost; hundreds flee By United Press International National Guard troops stood watch in a steady rain Tuesday and police hunted for four people missing in flash floods that raked southern Texas. Three other young brothers were swept out of their beds and to their deaths. Lightning in Indiana was blamed in the death of an elderly man. A flurry of tornadoes and nearly a foot and a half of rain left hundreds of Texans homeless. Police evacuated one Texas jail - swimming to safety with four prisoners. Storm wind clocked at 92 mph off Galveston Island ripped a 450-foot freighter from its moorings Monday and slammed it into another vessel. Another band of explosive storms dumped gully-washing rain on the Midwest, sending Ohio residents fleeing from their homes in boats and washing out roads in parts of Wisconsin. In Indiana, lightning from a storm that flooded the northern part of the state and washed out several bridges was blamed for an early morning house fire Monday that killed Byran Titus, 84, of Fairmont. Floods in Texas forced more than 500 people - including 100 nursing home patients - from their homes in Hallettsville, Shiner and Moulton. More than 17 inches of rain soaked some areas. A dozen National Guard troops were ordered out in Hallettsville to assist in the evacuation and to prevent looting in downtown stores. In Shiner, a flash flood swept four young brothers out of their beds in a trailer home and carried them away. oreg 9/1/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Hundreds flee Texas floods By United Press International Torrential downpours and flash floods, legacies of a dying tropical depression, surged across parts of south Texas Monday and forced hundreds of people from their homes. To the north, a cold front sent thunderstorms rolling over the Plains and across the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Seaboard. Flooding was reported in parts of the northern half of Indiana and flash flood warnings were issued for many areas. Nearly 6 1/2 inches of rain deluged Bucyrus in northwest Ohio. Flash flood warnings were posted for nearby counties. Showers spread over parts of the Southwest and dotted southern Florida. Cloudy skies were the rule in much of the West, though fair skies graced California. Gully-washing rain swept south central and southeastern Texas. More than 9 inches of rain fell in the Seguin, Gonzales and Geronimo, Texas, area. San Antonio was doused by 2 to 4 inches of rain. Heavy rain in the Kenedy area forced the evacuation of about 300 people, police said. "The evacuations began about midnight and are continuing," police spokesman Bob Snow said. Part of the town was without telephone service and school officials canceled classes Monday. oreg 8/31/81 === Page 38 of 52 # Downpours flood Texas, Midwest THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 ## Five dead in south Texas flooding By MACK SISK SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Residents of south Texas kept an eye on rising rivers Tuesday as they began cleaning up the muddy mess from floodwaters that killed at least five people and forced hundreds from their homes. Rivers swollen by up to 18 inches of rain from the remnants of a tropical depression churned out of their banks in the Coastal Plains area Monday. Some rivers continued to rise Tuesday and heavy rains persisted. Seven tornadoes danced across Galveston Island, ripping a 450-ton freighter from its moorings, slicing the roofs off buildings and damaging an airport hangar. Downtown streets were inundated with up to 4 feet of water. Street flooding also was widespread in Houston. Lavaca County Sheriff Hilmer Woytek estimated 100 people were evacuated, including residents of a nursing home in Shiner. "We had 6 feet of water in the jail," the sheriff said. "It's the worst we've ever had." Gov. Bill Clements ordered a contingent of about 20 National Guardsmen to Hallettsville to prevent looting. Don Minear, owner of a discount store, said he lost almost everything when the store filled with 6 feet of water. Ila Stratman, city secretary in Shiner where 16 inches of rain fell, said 50 to 60 homes were flooded there. "We have five confirmed dead," said Linda Smith, a volunteer answering phones at the temporary sheriff's headquarters in an old telephone building. Gregory Hights, 16, saw his three brothers carried away by floodwaters that demolished their mobile home in Shiner: Glenn Hights, 17, Johnnie Hights, 15, and Bradford Hights, 13, drowned. Authorities said the bodies of two other victims were found Tuesday morning near Rocky Creek between Hallettsville and Yoakum. Hights said he was awakened about 2 a.m. by water lapping at the mobile home. The boys' mother was in the hospital and their father was away at work. He said he and his three brothers made it to a nearby house, but water began to flow in through a broken window. Hights said he and one of his brothers decided to get on the roof, but the house began floating away. "I panicked a little bit," he said. "I told myself to stay calm, that God would help us. I started crying and praying. It (the house) was moving real fast and then we hit a tree. The house just flew up. The roof just took me under. I saw John. He was calling my name. He said, 'Greg, Greg.' I couldn't do anything." ## Gypsy moth infestation battled in Salem area By PEGGY SAND Correspondent, The Oregonian SALEM -- While California battles the Mediterranean fruit fly, Oregon is having its own problems with the gypsy moth. "It's the most serious pest problem in the state," said Bill Wright, assistant administrator in the Oregon Department of Agriculture's plant division. State officials discovered an infestation of gypsy moths Aug. 1 in south Salem. Field workers are now combing the area, one-half mile in radius, to detect the moths so they can be destroyed in the caterpillar stage next spring. If the gypsy moth went unchecked, it could devastate trees statewide, Wright said. According to John Mellott, state entomologist in charge of the project, each caterpillar can eat a square foot of leaf surface every 24 hours. Last year, Mellott said, 5 million acres of trees were stripped by gypsy moths in the northeastern United States. If a conifer is stripped of its foliage, it will die, but a maple or oak can survive several seasons of stripping before it is killed. "In the Northeast, the trees looked like the dead of winter in the middle of summer," Wright said. The gypsy moth was brought to Massachusetts during the last century by a man who was experimenting with silk production. The gypsy moth is being brought to Oregon by persons who have vacationed in or moved from the Northeast. Last spring, Mellott said, one moth and egg mass in Salem was found through the efforts of a grade school child. Mellott was conducting a mini-course on the gypsy moth at five Salem schools and instructed the children to tell people who had come from the Northeast to call the agriculture department. The student gave the information to one woman who called to say she had moved from New England. Agricultural officials then investigated and found a moth at her home and destroyed the insect. The moths and their larvae can be brought from the East Coast on a variety of items such as recreational vehicles, toys or lawn furniture. Small traps to lure the moths have been set by agriculture officials throughout the state. Only one moth has been found in Oregon outside the Salem area -- in east Portland. Wright said, however, that the area did not appear to be infested. Mellott said several dozen moths have been detected by nine workers making a door-to-door search in the south Salem area. This winter, he said, agriculture officials will decide how the caterpillars will be destroyed when they hatch in the spring. Among the alternatives are pesticides and viruses. The gypsy moth consumes the foliages of many familiar Oregon trees such as oaks, apple, alder, birch and maples. Wright said Douglas fir is not known to be a favorite of the moth, but that the moth could be a potential threat to the timber industry. He said the most severe threat would be a quarantine on lumber shipments. Agriculture officials are urging all persons who have vacationed or moved from areas infested with gypsy moths to call the agency's plant division in Salem. === Page 39 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # Missile misses U.S. plane by several miles By FRED S. HOFFMAN 8/27/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - A missile apparently launched from North Korea at a U.S. Air Force spy plane missed the high-altitude jet by several miles, the Pentagon said Wednesday. "The crew of a U.S. Air Force SR-71 flying in South Korean and international air space reported sighting a contrail and subsequent air burst several miles distant," the Pentagon statement said. "The incident posed no threat to the aircraft, which landed safely." The statement did not flatly accuse the North Koreans of shooting at the "Blackbird" reconnaissance plane, but said, "If a missile was launched, it could have originated from any one of a number of missile sites in North Korea." In Santa Barbara, Calif., presidential counselor Edwin Meese III said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told Reagan of the incident during their meeting at Reagan's ranch Wednesday. "The president was concerned about it obviously," said Meese, who also attended the meeting. "But there weren't really enough details yet from the Defense Department. They were still evaluating the situation." Asked if the United States considered the incident a provocation and was thinking about responding, Meese said, "I think that's up to the Defense Department to evaluate the situation, which they are doing." Meese said, "No one was hurt and our plane was not endangered." He said it was flying in international and South Korean airspace but said he didn't know the nature of its mission. The SR-71, which the Air Force calls one of the fastest and highest-flying aircraft, travels more than 2,000 mph at altitudes above 80,000 feet. A successor to the U-2 spy plane, it carries a crew of two. The Pentagon said the plane involved in the Wednesday incident was on a "routine mission." The Pentagon refused to say how near the plane was to the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea or to North Korea itself. The Defense Department and the Air Force rarely discuss SR-71 operations, but it is known that the plane has been used in past years to spy on China and communist Vietnam. There have also been unconfirmed reports it has been used to photograph North Korea. The Pentagon said there have been no similar incidents in the past and that no other planes were involved. The incident comes a week after two U.S. Navy F-14 jets were fired upon by a pair of Libyan jets while the American forces were conducting training maneuvers off the Libyan coasts. The U.S. jets shot down the two Libyan planes. - UFOs & Projects - # U.S. protests N. Korean missile attack By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States Thursday condemned as "an act of lawlessness" North Korea's firing of a missile at a high-altitude American spy plane in South Korean and international air space. At the same time, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer warned that the United States "will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the future safety of our pilots and our planes." Fischer also asserted that "we intend to continue to fly these routine flights." President Reagan, vacationing in California, was told of the Korean incident Wednesday morning, about 8 1/2 hours after it happened, said spokesman Larry Speakes. He said Reagan was satisfied he had been informed of the incident soon enough. Reagan was not told of another such incident, the shooting down last week of two Libyan jet attack planes by U.S. Navy jet fighters off the Libyan coast, until about six hours after his aides learned of it. The Defense Department announced Wednesday night that an SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance plane, manned by a crew of two, "reported sighting a contrail and subsequent air burst several miles distant." The Pentagon said the plane was unharmed and landed safely. The wording of the Pentagon announcement indicated that the missile probably came from North Korea but did not say specifically. However, Fischer told reporters Thursday, "We now have confirmation that early yesterday (Wednesday) North Koreans fired a missile at a U.S. Air Force plane flying in South Korean and international airspace." Tensions between U.S. and South Korean forces on one side and the North Koreans on the other have frequently been high in the area along the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, and there have been a number of ground clashes over the years. In a harshly worded indictment of the North Koreans, Fischer expressed "serious concern at this act of lawlessness which constitutes a violation of international law, the Korean military armistice agreement and accepted norms of international behavior." In warning that the United States will act as necessary to assure the safety of U.S. pilots and planes in the future, Fischer did not indicate what measures would be taken. He said the North Koreans had not yet responded to a call by the U.S. command in Seoul for a meeting Saturday of the U.N. Armistice Commission "to protest directly to the North Koreans this violation of the 1953 armistice agreement." Meanwhile, Fischer said the United States is contacting the governments of China and the Soviet Union to request that they convey "our deep concern over this incident to North Korean authorities and that North Korea avoid any repetition of such dangerous activity." He noted that both China and the Soviet Union have friendship treaties with North Korea, and that China, a signatory of the 1953 agreement which ended the Korean War, is a member of the armistice commission. That commission, which meets at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, also includes North Korea, the United States and South Korea. === Page 40 of 52 # Engineers puzzled # scientists still baffled By ROBERT LOCKE PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Voyager 2's camera platform, jammed shortly after the ship sailed past Saturn, apparently came unstuck late Wednesday, although engineers said they still didn't know what the problem was or if it's really solved. "We are not permanently stuck," said program manager Esker Davis. "But... (the platform) is not operational yet," he said. Davis said mission engineers had been trying all day to command Voyager to rotate the jammed platform -- which also carries five scientific instruments -- about 1.2 degrees back. Instead by mistake they ordered it moved forward 10 degrees. Somehow, voyager successfully obeyed that command. # Storms hit East United Press International A cold front pushed thunderstorms along the southern Atlantic Coast and across the Gulf Coast region early Thursday. A tornado touched in northern Dade County in Florida, but no injuries were reported. Tropical Storm Gert headed east of the Bahamas Islands Thursday and storm warnings were posted over the southeastern and central part of the island. A storm watch also was issued for the northern part of the Bahamas. More than an inch of rain fell in heavy showers Wednesday in northern New England and the thunderstorms knocked out power to about 15,000 Connecticut homes. # Flood toll mounts PEKING (AP) -- Flooding from nearly two months of heavy rain has wiped out more than 2 million acres of wheat and soybeans in China's far northeast corner, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The summer rains killed about 2,000 people, the reports said. The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday that it has donated $25,000 to help buy food, clothing and fertilizer for victims of the floods in southwest China's Sichuan province, which suffered the largest number of casualties. === Page 41 of 52 # U.S.-NATO base bombed in Germany - UFOs "higher ups" By SIEGFRIED KNAUER RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, West Germany (AP) - A bomb believed planted by terrorists exploded outside the joint U.S.-NATO air command headquarters here Monday, wounding a U.S. general, 17 other Americans and two West Germans. The blast came at a time of growing opposition by many West Germans to U.S. defense policies. Two weeks ago an American military facility in Berlin was bombed, but there were no injuries. No one claimed responsibility for Monday morning's explosion. West German sources said it was believed to have come from a bomb placed in a Volkswagen sedan in a parking lot outside the headquarters buildings of the U.S. Air Force Europe and the NATO air command. The explosion, which occurred at 7:20 a.m., catching early arrivals for work, hurled passers-by to the ground, shattered windows and interior walls up to 100 yards away, witnesses said. A car engine was flung onto the roof of a five-story building, police said. The most seriously injured were Brig. Gen. Joseph D. Moore, assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of U.S. Air Force Europe, and Lt. Col. Douglas R. Young, an operations officer with the USAFE command. Both were reported in stable condition at the U.S. Army hospital in nearby Landstuhl, where they were taken by helicopter. Air Force officials said several other people were treated and released. "There were two loud blasts, one right after the other - Bam! Bam! - as if a Phantom jet had broken the sound barrier," said Staff Sgt. Harry Baske, an eyewitness. "It's a miracle that no one was killed," he said. "A half-hour later and there would have been a massacre." Shortly after the explosion, security guards sealed off the base to all but "mission essential" personnel. Military police in full battle dress and carrying M-16 rifles ringed the parking area. But Air Force spokesman Maj. Tracy McCollester insisted base operations continued normally. U.S. officials also stepped up security at other installations in West Germany, where some 260,000 U.S. troops are stationed. In Frankfurt, military police searched for bombs at the post exchange, the headquarters of the U.S. V Corps and other installations without turning up any more devices. The West German Federal Criminal Office took over investigation of the Ramstein explosion. The last bombing at a U.S. military installation took place Aug. 18, when two small pipebombs went off at a garrison in West Berlin. There were no injuries and damage was minimal. In 1972, four U.S. servicemen were killed in two explosions at V Corps headquarters and at the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg. Several members of the ultra-leftist Baader-Meinhof Gang were arrested and convicted in the attacks. After Monday's explosion, West German television quoted security sources as saying they were expecting a terrorist attack against U.S. facilities. The network said plans for an attack on the Ramstein base were found in the apartment of Baader-Meinhof member Julianne Plambeck, who was killed last year in a traffic accident near Heidelberg. Anti-Americanism has heightened in West Germany because of U.S. defense policies, particularly plans to station a new generation of U.S. missiles in Western Europe and President Reagan's decision to build neutron warheads. West Germans have staged numerous anti-war marches and rallies, some of them around U.S. military garrisons. Signs reading "No more war, Americans out" have been smeared on walls in several cities. The Christian Democratic Union, a conservative party in opposition to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's center-left government, blamed the Ramstein blast on anti-Americanism within "leftist circles" in West Germany. Peter-Kurt Wuerzbach, defense spokesman for the CDU, warned that if the anti-American trend continued, it could lead the U.S. government to re-examine its defense commitments in Western Europe. Bernhard Vogel, premier of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the base is situated, expressed his outrage over the "criminal attack" and called on West Germans to "stand together with the American friends" who helped guarantee the country's national security. The U.S. military has been the target of terrorist attacks elsewhere in Europe as well. Two years ago, Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., then NATO's supreme commander and now U.S. secretary of state, narrowly avoided injury in a bomb assassination attempt in Belgium. Oreg 9/1/81 === Page 42 of 52 # Fire, explosions blacken chemical plant Many fires + explosions have been caused over U.S. by the Egyptian Power, Owens By RICHARD READ of The Oregonian staff oregonian 8/30/81 KALAMA, Wash. -- Hundreds of containers of toxic chemicals exploded in fireballs visible up to 25 miles away during a fire that began late Friday at the Kalama Chemical Inc. plant. Two firefighters and two plant employees were injured, and an Oregon State Police trooper went to Columbia District Hospital in St. Helens complaining of dizziness after a thick cloud of smoke drifted toward him across the Columbia River while he was patrolling on U.S. 30. The two company employees were injured as they helped fight the blaze, said Greg Conn, production superintendent for the firm. Bradley Porter, 20, was treated for neck strain and released, and Donna John, 27, was admitted for acute lower back strain, the St. Johns Hospital spokeswoman said. Ms. John was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday evening. Firefighters Michael Imboden, 31, of Kalama and Stephen Morrill, 27, of Longview were treated for toxic inhalation and released, said a spokeswoman at St. Johns Hospital in Longview. The trooper, Ron Ruecker, 26, of Columbia City, was admitted for observation for possible toxic inhalation but was later released, according to a nurse at the hospital. Conn identified the chemicals involved as benzaldehyde, benzoic acid and phenol, which are used for industrial purposes ranging from plywood resin application to food preservation. Wayne Ostermiller, director of manufacturing for the company, said that approximately 500 50-gallon drums and 16,000 bags of chemicals were destroyed. He said the chemicals involved are reasonably flammable but not toxic when burned. Conn, however, explained that of the three chemicals, phenol is the most dangerous. Officer James Pine of the Kalama Police Department said firefighters "could feel a burning sensation on their faces ... The firemen said the back spray from their hoses felt like needles pressing against their faces." Ralph M. Rodia, assistant manager of the accident prevention division of the Oregon Workers' Compensation Department, told The Oregonian Saturday that phenol "is a deadly material" that can be absorbed through the skin. "It has a corrosive effect on skin tissue ... Fumes from smoke could lead to irritation such as the needlelike sensation reported by the firemen." Kalama Fire Chief Mike O'Neil said no cause had been established for the blaze, which sparked several spot fires during the late morning. "As far as we can tell, the fire started in the benzoic acid storage area, which is the confusing part since that chemical would have to reach 120 degrees centigrade to ignite," Conn said. There was no immediate damage estimate, according to company officials and the Kalama Police Department. Witnesses said flames reached 1,000 feet into the sky and billowed into a mushroom-shaped cloud. 8-30-81 Columbian ## Crash cuts power in La Center area Electrical power was cut to nearly 1,300 utility customers in the La Center-Pioneer area for up to 70 minutes Saturday after a car struck a guy wire, a Clark County Public Utility District spokeswoman said. Judy Hanke of the PUD said power was out to 675 customers from 11 to 11:51 a.m. and to 611 more from 11 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. The outage was caused by a car hitting a guy wire next to Timmon Road north of Summit Grove, breaking a support pole, she said. A 12 The Seattle Times 8-30-81 ## NATION Compiled from news services ## Storm brings tornadoes to Texas coast A tropical depression with top winds up to 35 miles an hour moved inland from the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, spawning at least two tornadoes in Southern Texas. No injuries were reported. A flash-flood watch was in effect along the coast of Texas and Louisiana as tides two to three feet above normal and up to five inches of rain were forecast. Shrimpers and some oil-rig workers returned to shore because of high seas. The depression formed Friday over the western Gulf of Mexico and moved inland yesterday. A mobile home at Aransas Pass, Tex., was destroyed by a tornado which also damaged a seaside lodge, police said. Officers reported a tornado in Hidalgo County, Texas, that caused minor damage at a mobile-home park near Mission. === Page 43 of 52 Utah propane blast Associated Press Laserphoto BLAST -- Plumes of flame shoot 1,000 feet above Kalama Chemical Inc. during fire at Kalama, Wash., plant Friday night. Hundreds of drums of toxic chemicals exploded in fire, forcing closure of nearby Interstate 5. === Page 44 of 52 Utah propane blast kills boy, injures nine Sunday, Aug. 2, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN MOAB, Utah (AP) -- An explosion at a propane storage plant sent a ball of fire roaring into an adjacent campground, injuring 10 people and forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 Moab residents, authorities said. An 8-year-old boy died Saturday after being burned in the Friday night blast, which Police Capt. Daniel Ison said apparently was touched off by lightning. Nine other people were injured, eight of them critically, in the 10:15 p.m. explosion at the Doxol Storage Plant north of this southeastern Utah town. Two of those injured were employees of the bulk propane plant, Ison said, while the rest were staying at the Slick Rock Campground. The dead boy was identified as Mike Davies of Montrose, Colo., according to John Dwan, spokesman for the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Rueben Scolnik, who was staying at the campground, said the explosion "was just like a movie scene." "My trailer lit up like a Christmas tree. I put my shoes on and that is what saved my life, because if I had left the trailer first, the blast would have got me," he said. "We had just turned the TV off and heard this explosion," said Charles Nye of Yuma, Ariz., another camper. "We just got the hell out of there, didn't even bother to close it up. The explosion blew some people right out of their tents. One man, about 50, was blown clear over to our trailer. We got him some help and then we took off." Ison said a main feeder line at the plant apparently ruptured and burned. "It appears a lightning strike may have ruptured a main feeder line," he said. Electrical power flickered off momentarily, then came back on, he said. The explosion then occurred with "about a 250-foot fireball," he said. The explosion knocked out power to about 7,000 households in the area for most of the night, forcing delays in airport flights and hampering communications, said Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland. Power was restored at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. John Maecham estimated 3,000 people were evacuated from the north end of town after the explosion. They were sent to churches and schools and were allowed to return home at about 3:30 a.m., after the fire was contained, Ison said. A small fire that had burned at the propane plant was extinguished Saturday afternoon, police said. Nyland said the fire had been fueled by gas leaking from a storage tank and a valve. "Nothing's burning out there now," said sheriff's deputy Alan West. "We're just picking up the pieces now." Ison said crews had to shut valves feeding three 20,000-to-30,000 gallon propane tanks before the fire could be contained. The ruptured line fed those tanks from two underground 5 million-gallon warehouses of propane and butane. "The tanks themselves did not explode," he said. Nyland said flames shot from the propane plant and struck vehicles parked in the back row of the privately owned campground. The injured were taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Moab and to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., and Children's Hospital in Denver. Spokesmen at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City said six of the injured were flown to the center's burn unit, with another awaiting transportation from Grand Junction. All of those taken to Salt Lake were in critical condition. Two people were in critical condition at Grand Junction and a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition in a Denver hospital. The blast was the second major explosion in Utah in two days. Early Thursday, a blast at an explosives manufacturing plant near Grantsville 20 miles west of Salt Lake City killed five people, sent a 500-foot fireball into the sky and left a 150-foot-deep crater. The cause of the Grantsville explosion has not been determined. Memorial services were held Saturday for three of the dead. Services will be held Monday for the other two. All the dead were Grantsville residents. # Power outage dims fair SALEM (UPI) -- Festivities at the Oregon State Fair were cut short at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday after an electrical failure left about 3,000 Salem area residents and the fairgrounds without power for up to three hours, officials said. About 40,000 people were attending the fair when the failure, caused by a transformer problem that idled two 13,000-volt Portland General Electric Co. lines, occurred, officials said. Traffic leaving the fair was snarled and homes as far north as Gervais were without power after the malfunction, officials said. Normally, the fair closes at 10 p.m., but because of the blackout it closed early, officials said. Although no one was stranded on rides, there was a 20-minute delay in starting the fair's backup power system, officials said. Bill Babcock, a PGE spokesman, said power was restored to all areas by 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Attendance at the fair has climbed to a six-day total of 412,262 for the event, which runs 11 days and ends on Labor Day. Last year, attendance for the first five days of the fair was 323,278, officials said. Fair organizers hope attendance will top 700,000 this year. === Page 45 of 52 Sunday, August 30, 1981 Columbian - 2 for 6 Projects - # Lightning strike causes major outage in West The Associated Press Lightning struck power lines in Arizona and set off a chain reaction Saturday that left more than a million people in California and Nevada without electricity for up to three hours, power company officials said. The lightning strikes isolated the two states from a power grid that distributes electricity through several Western states. Lights went dark and refrigerators and air conditioners were silent from Northern California to the Mexican border and east to Las Vegas, Nev. The shutdowns started at about 1:30 p.m. and lasted from nine minutes in Southern California to more than three hours in the Las Vegas area, where residents sweated out the failure in 107-degree heat. Nevada Power Co. officials said about 80,000 customers in the western section of Las Vegas were affected, but casinos escaped the blackout because they are in another part of the city. All power was restored by late afternoon. In Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, nearly one-third of the 3 million people served by Southern California Edison Co. were hit by a nine-minute blackout beginning at 1:32 p.m. Some 120,000 people in San Diego County also felt the outage, and in the city of Los Angeles, customers of the Department of Water and Power were affected. In Northern California, officials at Pacific Gas & Electric reported scattered outages from Chico, 160 miles north of San Francisco, to San Luis Obispo, 190 miles to the south. A Southern California Edison employee said the problems focused on the Pacific Inter-tie system by which West Coast utilities share electricity. California utilities automatically began drawing extra power from Oregon, and that drain felled another supply line, cutting off California and Nevada from the Northwest. California utilities were able to generate enough power on their own to bring their systems back up, but its was late in the evening before the power grid was restored. No outages were reported in Arizona or in Oregon. - 2 for 6 Projects - (2) Oregon Journal, September 4, 1981 # New storms threaten to hike flood waters United Press International Thunderstorms rolled from the Gulf Coast to Pennsylvania Friday, feeding already glutted rivers and streams and threatening to touch off new deluges in flood-swept Pennsylvania and Texas. Heavy rain also threatened to flood parts of West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Michigan. Remnants of tropical storm Emily, about 150 miles north of Bermuda, could move into middle and northern Atlantic states Friday. Forecasters said Emily was stationary Thursday, but was expected to reach hurricane intensity Friday. Storm wind was clocked at 70 mph in the Bermuda area. Authorities readied emergency evacuation plans Friday for the Johnstown, Pa., area and said families that just returned home after spending Wednesday night in emergency shelters could be forced to flee again if heavy rain persisted. In water-logged South Texas, floods kept hundreds of people from their homes and hampered the search for an elderly man who wandered off in a flooded area after being removed from his home by boat. Rain spread from the Gulf Coast to the southern and central Appalachians, Ohio and parts of Michigan. Other thunderstorms spread over parts of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Dalley, W.Va., got nearly 2 1/2 inches of rain. Pearsall, Texas, got nearly 1 1/2 inches of rain in an hour and Mobile, Ala., got more than an inch in 30 minutes. Up to 3 inches of rain caused scattered minor flooding in parts of southeastern Michigan. 9/4/81 9-2-81 Seattle Times # Low NASA-satellite orbits laid to engineer's fuel error WASHINGTON - (AP) - The failure of two satellites to achieve their desired orbits last month has been traced to an engineer's failure to make sure the launch rocket was filled with fuel, the space agency said yesterday. "It was simple human error," said Ken Senstad, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "It's the first time in memory that something like this has ever happened as far as I know." Although the Delta rocket's second-stage fuel tank was 260 gallons short of capacity, the two satellites launched August 3 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California made it into orbit and the scientific experiments they are designed for will not be affected, Senstad said. The mistake in loading fuel simply resulted in the two spacecraft achieving lower orbits than had been planned, the spokesman added. - 2 for 6 Projects - === Page 46 of 52 New flash floods threaten Texas By United Press International Texans mopping up floodwaters that killed five people braced Wednesday for more flash floods as new thunderstorms filled rivers already surging more than 20 feet over their banks. Hundreds of residents fled to higher ground. Flash flood watches were posted for the northern half of Louisiana and central and southeastern Texas, where between 1 and 4 inches of rain was expected. Officials said damages already have reached into the millions of dollars from 19 inches of rain that fell between Sunday and late Tuesday in south Texas, where some rivers were 20 feet above flood stage and rising. Police in Cuero, Texas, about 30 miles southeast of Hallettsville -- the scene of the worst flooding Monday -- evacuated about a dozen families after U.S. Weather Service officials predicted the Guadalupe River would rise a record 23 feet above flood level Wednesday. In Bucyrus, Ohio, heavy rains Tuesday flooded low-lying areas, leaving almost 6 1/2 inches of water. Disaster teams Wednesday were assessing flood damage to homes, businesses and churches. Off the Atlantic Coast, a tropical storm was reported early Wednesday about 550 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and 100 miles west of Bermuda. Forecasters said Tropical Storm Emily was expected to drift to the Northeast and increase in strength. In Shiner, Texas, three teenage brothers were swept from their beds Monday and drowned, and two men whose cars were washed away at Rocky Creek were killed Tuesday by the raging floodwaters. "I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn't rain more," Shiner Police Chief John Ideus said. He said officials were watching the weather Wednesday and were a "bit more prepared." The dead were identified as Glenn Highs, 17; his brothers Johnny, 15, and Bradford, 13; Herman Reyna of Yoakum, and Sam Goode Jr. of Hallettsville. The Department of Public Safety said rescue workers have accounted for all those reported missing, but the Lavaca County sheriff's office said as many as four people still might be unaccounted for. "Witnesses saw three people in a car get washed away," Lavaca County Deputy Sheriff Shella Perkins said. "Other people saw a man get swept away and we found his lunch bucket nearby." National Guardsmen were ordered to Hallettsville and other flooded Texas communities to prevent looting. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the areas around Houston, Appleby, Hallettsville, Shiner and Moulton. Officials said 180 nursing home residents near Yoakum had to flee because of high water. Most of the elderly and disabled crowded into the Yoakum Community Center. In Victoria and points downstream, the Guadalupe river Tuesday was running at 27 feet and expected to hit 30. Thunderstorms moved into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley Tuesday. A few showers doused New Mexico, Arizona, Northern Idaho and Montana and Washington Tuesday night. About an inch of rain hit Chattanooga, Tenn., and Millville, N.J. had a little more than an inch. (Picture on page 2) Cattle brucellosis reported in Idaho ST. MARIES, Idaho (AP) -- The first cases of cattle brucellosis reported in northern Idaho in 20 years have been found in the St. Maries area. Dr. Harvey Myers, an epidemiologist with the Idaho Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Health, said the disease was detected recently in two herds in the Benewah Valley. Seven cattle in a 15-animal herd and five in a 100-head herd were found to be infected, he said. He said he knew of no other cases north of the Salmon River. The disease affects the reproductive system, causing abortions. Vandals torch more American Army cars at German base BONN -- (AP) Vandals set fire to seven American-owned or rented cars at Wiesbaden and painted anti-American slogans on walls yesterday, a day after an explosion injured 20 people at United States North Atlantic Treaty Organization air command headquarters. Authorities ordered security strengthened at American military installations. Some of the vandalism was directed against buildings of the Social Democratic Party, leader of the government coalition -- apparently because of its agreement to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe. West Germany's federal criminal office reported no further developments in its investigation of Monday's bombing at Ramstein Air Base. Eighteen Americans and two West Germans were injured in the blast. Two of the injured remained hospitalized yesterday, the Air Force said. In Bonn, Federal President Karl Carstens deplored the attack. The third against American garrisons in West Germany this year, but the first to cause casualties, Carstens said in a statement that despite the bombing, most West Germans "remain convinced of the necessity of common defense in the NATO alliance and German American friendship." German and American officials said they had no proof yesterday's vandalist was part of a coordinated terror campaign against American facilities. The United States has about 290,000 military personnel in West Germany. === Page 47 of 52 - UFOs 6 Projects - # 5.8 quake jolts Southern California By KATHY HORAK LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An offshore earthquake with a punch equal to 1,000 tons of dynamite shook the southern half of California Friday, causing skyscrapers and bridges to sway and disrupting telephone service. No major damage or injuries were reported. The quake, which struck at 8:51 a.m., produced seismograph readings of 5.1 to 5.8 on the Richter scale. It was the strongest to hit Los Angeles since Feb. 9, 1971, when a quake registering 6.4 killed 65 people. Friday's earthquake was centered in the San Pedro Channel near Santa Catalina Island. It was felt from Arroyo Grande in San Luis Obispo County to the Mexican border 300 miles south. The quake occurred on Los Angeles' 200th birthday. "It may have been that the supernatural spirits were wishing Los Angeles a happy birthday," said Tom Sullivan, press secretary for Mayor Tom Bradley. A housekeeper cleaning a patio in suburban San Pedro said the temblor sent a quarter-inch-wide crack through the concrete. "I was standing out there cleaning, and I just watched the crack go along about 20 or 30 feet," said Leora Rousselle. "It was a horrible feeling." The 365-foot-high Vincent Thomas Bridge, which connects Los Angeles and Terminal Island, swayed, but was not damaged, the Bridge Authority said. All trains between San Diego and Los Angeles were halted while bridges were inspected. "We stopped at each bridge we came to so they could check for damage," said Mike White, who was aboard an Amtrak commuter train from San Diego to Los Angeles. On Santa Catalina Island, closest to the epicenter and 26 miles offshore from San Pedro, a Los Angeles County sheriff's department spokeswoman said a single strong jolt was followed by trembling ripples for about 20 seconds. "It shook us good," Carrie Prim said. "At first it was a real sharp jolt that really got your attention, then it kind of rolled after that, and the lights started swinging." Canned goods and bottles tumbled from shelves. "It was a little bit scary. We have those quart bottles on the top shelf, and you could see them touching against each other. It made a little bit of noise," said Tony Golen, assistant manager of Boys Market in Marina del Rey. The University of California at Berkeley about 400 miles from Los Angeles reported a Richter reading of 5.5, as did the UC seismograph in San Diego. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena reported that the quake registered 5.1, while the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo., put the quake at 5.8. "The reason these values are different is that it's an imperfect system on the first hand, and it's looking at different frequencies on the other hand," said Caltech seismologist Stephen Cohn. The California Division of Mines and Geology said a Richter reading of 5.5 is equivalent to a 1,000-ton dynamite blast. The 62-story First Interstate Bank building in downtown Los Angeles "started bouncing first. Then it started swaying," said Robert Baylor, who was in the executive dining room at the top of the building. The emergency telephone system at police headquarters in Los Angeles was briefly disrupted by the quake, said officers who quickly opened the city's Emergency Center in the basement of police headquarters. reg 9/5/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1981 # Flooded Amarillo soaked again AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- More rain fell Monday as crews with hastily installed pumps tried to empty Amarillo neighborhoods submerged under floodwaters 5 feet deep. Gov. Bill Clements, declaring a state of emergency, sent about 30 Texas National Guardsmen into the city Sunday. About 40 people were evacuated during the weekend as a manmade lake spilled from its banks and into apartment complexes and businesses, including the Western Plaza shopping mall. The Olsen Manor Nursing Home was emptied Sunday as water crept toward the building. The N.S. Griggs and Son funeral home had to move everything -- bodies and all -- to another funeral home across town, police said. All residents of one apartment complex were forced to leave after water caused serious structural damage. Evacuees were taken to a church and a Red Cross center set up nearby. Arthur Fields, owner of Afco Asphalt and Paving, offered Monday to bring free sand in his dumptruck to anyone who needed it. Amarillo police chief Jerry Neal said officers began issuing citations for "joyriding" to drivers who disregarded barricades and plowed their vehicles through flooded streets. Several businesses that normally close for Labor Day probably would have to keep their doors shut a little longer, waiting for the water to ebb, city officials said. Although less than an inch of rain fell in any 24-hour period during the weekend, the area already had been saturated by heavy rains through the past two weeks. Although the water pumps were designed to pump the manmade lake, crews Monday concentrated on the streets. Friday, the city commission approved the purchase of $250,000 worth of pumping equipment after heavy rains flooded businesses and knocked out electric and telephone service to some parts of town. The only flood-related injury reported was a woman who received an electric shock in her apartment. Electric service subsequently was turned off to a 10-block area hit hardest by the floods. Police quarantined the area after sewage began backing up. === Page 48 of 52 - UFO 6 Projects - # Ohio, Michigan cities flooded by rainstorms By The Associated Press Oreg 9/5/81 Floodwaters swamped streets in Ann Arbor, Mich., and filled thousands of Toledo, Ohio, basements Friday, and Hurricane Emily churned far out to sea in the Atlantic east of New York City. A cold front spread rain across the Appalachians and the Great Lakes region. Thunderstorms were scattered from Texas to Florida, across the southern Plains and the southern Rockies. More than four inches of rain fell on Ann Arbor. Six inches of rain fell Thursday on Toledo, covering streets with up to four feet of water and forcing officials to evacuate 22 homes. After a few hours of sunshine, drizzle returned to Toledo Friday, and stores reported heavy sales of pumps. Barbara Ashley said water reached nearly the first-floor ceiling at her home. She and her three children climbed out of a second-story window to the garage roof, where they were rescued by a fire department boat. Mrs. Ashley said her family has lived in the home 12 years, and flooding had "never been close to this bad." The Medical College of Ohio was forced to use back-up generators after water flowed into the basement, shorting out electrical circuits and disrupting telephones. Normal power was restored early Friday and no medical problems were reported. But a hospital spokesman said it could take up to two weeks before power is fully restored to the entire medical college campus. Flooding also forced the evacuation of four families along the Raisin River at Blissfield, Mich., and another four at Adrian, along the river. "Most of the rivers in Michigan have plenty of grasslands around them, so they don't generally have serious problems," said Gary Charson, a weather service hydrologist. Hurricane Emily swelled tides along the northern Atlantic Coast as it moved north. It was 700 miles east of New York City on Friday and was expected to weaken, but two oil companies stopped oil and gas explorations off the coast of Massachusetts due to high seas. Meanwhile, a tropical depression north of the Virgin Islands strengthened into Tropical Storm Floyd. Floyd was moving northwest, away from Puerto Rico. Skies were sunny over the northern Plains. - UFO 6 Projects - # Fires, outages hit wide area in West Seattle Times 8/30/81 Compiled from news services Forest fires burned out of control yesterday in southeastern Oregon, Idaho and Northern California and a power failure affecting Los Angeles, Sacramento and Las Vegas was believed to have been caused by lightning in Arizona. The shutdowns started at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday and lasted from nine minutes in Southern California to more than three hours in the Las Vegas area, where residents sweated out the failure in 107-degree heat. Nevada Power Co. officials said about 80,000 customers in the western section of Las Vegas were affected, but casinos escaped the blackout because they are in another part of Las Vegas. All power was restored by late afternoon. Outages affecting at least 350,000 customers in Southern California were reported from National City to Lakeside in San Diego County, in the city of Los Angeles and in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, officials said. In Northern California, officials at Pacific Gas & Electric reported scattered outages from Chico, 160 miles north of San Francisco, to San Luis Obispo, 190 miles to the south. A P.G.&E. spokeswoman said she did not know how many customers were affected. Utility officials said the power failures centered on the Pacific Inter-tie system by which West Coast utilities share electricity. The Bonneville Power Administration in Portland said a pair of lines feeding 500 kilovolts from Arizona to the Los Angeles area were hit by lightning which in turn shut down five lower voltage lines from Arizona to California and Nevada, said Gene Tollefson, B.P.A. spokesman. Idaho fire fighters contained a 38,000-acre range fire near Dubois yesterday morning. Meanwhile, a 650-acre timber fire burned out of control near Packer Creek about 50 miles east of Boise. Another 17,000-acre range fire burned out of control in the Big Desert area 40 miles west of Blackfoot, Idaho, but was expected to be contained yesterday. Two fires, both believed caused by man, broke out near Klamath Falls, Ore., Friday afternoon and were burning out of control late yesterday. In Northern California, a 1,200-acre fire was out of control in the Central Sierra Mountains despite the efforts of 800 fire fighters and aerial tankers from Boise. Washington fire fighters were mopping up near Enumclaw, where a fire was contained Friday after burning across 300 acres and damaging timber worth about $1 million. Jess Harper, 20, an inmate fire fighter from the Clearwater Corrections Center, was injured when he was struck by a rock. He was taken to the infirmary at the Corrections Center at Shelton where he was in good condition. === Page 49 of 52 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Deluge prompts SW flood alerts By United Press International Heavy rains across the Southwest threatened to flood low-lying areas and rain-swollen rivers in the desert slopes of California and parts of New Mexico and Arizona Tuesday. A deluge in the Hemet, Calif., area Monday forced at least 10 residents from their homes and drowned nearby alfalfa and onions fields. "This rainfall came down so suddenly that even sheriff's deputies couldn't move their vehicles," said Will Donaldson, a California Division of Forestry spokesman. "They couldn't see the roadway." The deluge struck at 5 p.m. Monday and by midnight the flood waters had subsided. Highway 74 in the center of the flood zone was reopened to traffic "with caution" just before midnight, Donaldson said. A man who said he was hit by lightning while climbing on Tahquitz Rock, 25 miles east of Hemet, during the storm escaped serious injury and was treated at a local hospital and released, Donaldson said. A flash flood watch was issued early Tuesday for the California mountains in Los Angeles, Inyo, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial and San Diego. A watch also was posted over Arizona and for southeastern New Mexico, including Roswell and Carlsbad. Torrential rains washed streets and fields Monday in Riverside County, Calif., trapping scores of people in cars and homes and closing a portion of Interstate 15. No injuries were reported. High waters and rockslides blocked Highway 90 west of Hillsboro, N.M., and flash floods were reported Monday night. Thunderstorms were scattered along the southern coast of Texas and from New York state through the Appalachians and southeastern Louisiana to the Atlantic Coast. Showers and thunderstorms pushed across the Midwest Monday, soaking Wisconsin, western lower Michigan, Illinois and western Indiana. Some rain also hit Arkansas and Florida Monday night. More than 1 inch of rain fell at Daytona Beach, Fla., in six hours and 1 inch fell at Chicago. Violent riptides forced Virginia Beach, Va., police to close beaches for the second time in two days. About 40 people were pulled from the water Sunday. oreg J 9/8/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Rain floods S. California area LAKEVIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Residents mopped up on Tuesday after muddy floods damaged more than 50 homes, and the National Weather Service warned that more thunderstorms were on the way. Forecaster Frankie Shaw said the new storms would be "scattered and spotty" and could affect areas of Riverside, San Diego and Imperial counties. Monday's rains triggered flash floods that swept down mountainsides. Hardest hit was the town of Juniper Flats, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, which was drenched under 4½ inches of rain and "hail the size of eggs," said Joanne Lee of the California Department of Forestry. Floodwaters and mud also surged into homes in Lakeview, Hemet, Homeland and Nuevo and snarled traffic when cars mired in the muck. No serious injuries were reported. Ms. Lee said her agency passed out 2,000 sandbags and more than 10 tons of sand Monday, but few had time to prepare. "We normally don't have floods this time of year, so people weren't prepared," Ms. Lee said. "Most people have their carpets and furniture soaked." "It done a heap of damage around here," said Nellie Vipone of Juniper Flats, a fire department volunteer. "The winds knocked over sheds and trees, and the hail broke windows and tore paint off buildings." "The furnishings in our living room and den are completely ruined," said her neighbor, Evonne Finch, as she surveyed the foot-deep mud and water in her house. In Lakeview, about eight miles north of Juniper Flats in the Lakeview Mountains, Don Havard said he and his wife Carol pulled out as the floodwaters neared. "We'd seen it tumbling down," Havard said. "It got worse and worse and we just gave up." oreg 9/9/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Torrential rains swamp Texas, East By United Press International South Texas residents mopped up on Wednesday after torrential rains swamped roadways and knocked out electric power. Lightning killed a motorcyclist in Texas and a man drowned on a flooded roadway in New York. Showers and occasional thunderstorms scattered over most of Texas early Wednesday into southeastern Wyoming, reaching across the eastern half of Nevada and the southeastern third of California. A flash flood watch was posted over much of central Utah until midnight. Heavy rains hit New York Tuesday and Domenico Bossi, 65, drowned when he tried to swim from his car on a flooded entrance ramp of the Bronx River Parkway, police said. Bossi's car plunged into 10 to 12 feet of water on the southbound entrance of the highway, police said. Highway police said the parkway ramp was later closed, but apparently flooded because of a water main break in the area. More than an inch of rain had fallen in the area Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms with 36 mph winds flooded the Flatbush terminal railroad station in New York and knocked out electrical power. Storm winds also cut power in parts of the Bronx and upstate New York. Long Island Railroad spokesman Michael Charles said the Flatbush terminal was inundated with 1½ feet of water late Tuesday, flooding major tracks and covering the station's switches and signal lights with sand and silt from nearby construction sites. About 15,000 Connecticut utility customers lost power early Wednesday when severe thunderstorms crashed through the state. The largest single outage was reported in Naugatuck, where about 8,300 customers were in the dark. Electricity was restored to most of the homes within hours. In Texas, Allan G. Wenzel, 23, was riding his motorcycle when lightning hit a freeway access road next to him and knocked him off the bike, a witness told police. oreg J 9/9/81 === Page 50 of 52 "Plague" Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN 7 # Quick-killing disease arouses concern in Miami MIAMI (AP) -- The Dade County medical examiner's office has been flooded with inquiries from alarmed neighbors of a 6-year-old boy who died of a rare disease that swept through his bloodstream in a matter of hours. Joel Adam Beatty first said he was feeling ill Sunday night. Monday he was watching television in the den when his mother went upstairs to make a bed. When she returned, the blond, blue-eyed boy had stopped breathing. Anne Sirman, a nurse who lives next door, tried to resuscitate the child on the kitchen floor. But by the time paramedics arrived at the Beattys' suburban Naranja Lakes home Monday, the boy was dead. Thirteen hours had passed since he first felt sick. Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner, said Joel died of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, caused by bacteria called meningococcus. The bacteria spread through the bloodstream, destroying vital adrenal glands and affecting blood coagulation. The syndrome usually claims five or fewer lives yearly in Dade County, but "this year we've had more than our share of cases," said Wetli. Joel's death is believed to be the ninth in 1981. A 49-year-old woman was hospitalized Monday suffering from the disease, officials said. 9-10-81 Seat. P.I. # In the jaws of a bear (Nature against humans) SPOKANE (AP) -- When a 700-pound grizzly bear burst from a mountain thicket and sank its fangs into 22-year-old Russ Lawrence's shoulder, the Spokane man thought he was about to become the animal's next meal. "I kept wondering if the grizzly was going to eat me or not," Lawrence said yesterday, recalling the terrifying attack Sunday in the northwest Montana section of Glacier National Park. "I kept asking the Lord if this was my time. I told myself that if the bear was going to eat me, I hope he makes it quick," he said. Lawrence and Willie Boltz, 23, of Sterling, Colo., were hiking at the 6,800-foot level of Heaven's Peak about five miles northeast of Lake McDonald when the bear attacked. "We were walking up a dry creek bed and Willie was about six feet in front of me, when all of a sudden I heard this crashing in the brush and then some really loud huffing and puffing," Lawrence said. "At first, I thought it might be a wolf. Then I saw it was a big grizzly bear. I yelled to Willie it was a bear and to run," said Lawrence. He described the animal as being 6 to 7 feet tall on its hind legs. "My instinct was to run," he said. "The bear was right behind me and I just knew he was going to jump me. I hit the ground and rolled up into a ball the best I could." As he dropped to the ground, however, the bear bit his shoulder. Three puncture wounds still remain. "After he bit me, the bear just kind of flew right over the top of me and I slid into a log. It took off after Willie," he added. Boltz said he saw the bear chasing him, so he ran into the brush and started climbing a tree. "I must have been about six feet up that tree and the bear was climbing right up after me," Boltz recalled. "I kicked him in the nose as hard as I could, but not before the grizzly gouged a chunk out of my boot." The bear tried to reach Boltz again, but got wedged between two trees. "I climbed higher," Boltz said. "I prayed all the time I was climbing that tree." After 10 minutes of stalemate, the animal ambled off. Once reunited, the two climbers headed back down the mountain, reaching Lake McDonald three hours later. Lawrence received first aid for his wounds. The two admit they were hiking in an area "off the beaten path" and that a park ranger had warned them it was grizzly country. # Sadat furious at U.S. media 9-10-81 Seat. P.I. MIT ABUL KOM, EGYPT (UPI) -- President Anwar Sadat assailed the American media yesterday for its coverage of his crackdown on dissent and lost his temper with one reporter, saying he deserved to be shot for asking a particularly sensitive question. "At another time I would have shot him, really," Sadat said, referring to NBC correspondent Paul Miller. "But this is democracy," he added. Sadat's temper flared at a rare news conference he called to defend a series of drastic measures he said were necessary to safeguard national unity and prevent trouble-makers from fomenting Moslem-Christian strife in Egypt. The measures included the arrest last week of some 1,600 people and the dismissal of the head of the Coptic Christian Church, Pope Shenoudah III. The government also took over some 40,000 mosques to prevent them from being used for political purposes. Sadat likened Egypt to a patient and himself to a doctor who prescribed an "electric shock" to jolt the nation to its senses and avoid a repetition of last June's bloody clashes between Moslems and minority Copts. He denounced the American media for what he said were "distorted" suggestions that Egypt was unstable and its characterizations of his crackdown as dictatorial. === Page 51 of 52 U.S. hit by teacher strikes Strikes by teachers are disrupting the opening of school this week for youngsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Michigan, Idaho and New York. Philadelphia was the only severely affected major city, so far, as teachers chanting "solidarity forever" were arrested on picket lines. According to the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, there have been less than 30 strikes by teachers this year, compared with 80 this time a year ago. The smaller American Federation of Teachers says it has had seven strikes so far this year, compared with 17 a year ago. 208 teachers arrested The Philadelphia School District called off the scheduled opening of classes today for 213,000 students because of the two-day-old walkout by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which represents 21,000 employees including 13,000 teachers. A police officer, who declined to be identified, said 208 picketing teachers were arrested and taken to the sheriff's detention center at city hall for violating an out-of-court agreement with the city school board to limit picketing to no more than four persons at any entrance of any school building. Eleven other smaller Pennsylvania school districts have teacher strikes affecting some 30,000 students. In Rhode Island, North Providence officials abandoned attempts to open school for 3,600 students yesterday when teachers refused to report to class without a contract. A total of 1,856 teachers struck seven school districts in Michigan: Chippewa Valley schools, Huron Valley schools, Madison schools, Walled Lake schools, Fraser schools, Decatur School and Sanilac intermediate schools. Long Island strike In New York, lay teachers at six parochial schools on Long Island and in the borough of Queens went on strike Tuesday, delaying the opening of one high school in Queens where 2,300 students are enrolled. Officials at four Long Island schools, where 8,700 student are enrolled, said classes began as scheduled yesterday. The remaining school in Queens is to open Monday. Thirty teachers went out on strike yesterday in a small eastern Long Island community, East Moriches. In New Jersey, Penns Grove in the southern part of the state was struck by more than 100 teachers Tuesday after talks broke off over salary. Also on Tuesday, Camden teachers voted to accept a two-year contract providing an 8.5 percent salary increase. In Idaho, about 40 Wilder School District teachers and aides began picketing the district's two schools yesterday after negotiations failed to produce a contract a day earlier. Classes were being held as usual, however, using substitute teachers. S. California Edison To Continue Idling Nuclear Power Plant By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter ROSEMEAD, Calif.--Southern California Edison Co. said additional problems at its San Onofre nuclear generating station will keep the plant idle until further tests of certain plant systems can be completed. The nuclear plant was closed last Thursday because of a malfunctioning voltage regulator. The closing was scheduled to last only about 24 hours but was extended when two valves failed to operate correctly during the closing. A spokesman said the utility wouldn't know how long the plant would be closed until it received an engineer's report. San Onofre was reactivated last month after being closed for about a year and a half to repair corroded tubes. A spokesman said the plant has been temporarily closed "about half-a-dozen times" since it reopened. Digging Out Dixie Carter of Lakeview (Riverside County) shoveled mud from around her house yesterday after sudden rains caused freak flash floods on Monday. The deluge closed roads in the area and damaged more than 50 homes in Lakeview, Hemet, Homeland and Nuevo. The National Weather Service warned that more rain could fall today. (Calif.) === Page 52 of 52 September 10, 1981 The SIs have telepathed not to waste my psi energy attacking the Portland Trailblazers, as I had planned. So that is off. Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8109 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/474b0643fd0443ddfd436cb4cd034245.pdf 74c25cee01dadaa87e162a69aabf1654 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/255b1d2b6e855b198d2fc4d7d3836df6.txt cc6ff89da4a4111e30ae50332f01ff3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 128 August, 1981 Scientists: Please, carefully notice: since warning Dr. Michlove re my UFOs attacking "higher ups" in government... note this file of Presidents, leaders of countries (and their close assistants) who have been under attack... attacks orchestrated from another dimension... from my UFOs!! * Owens * Because of no Base provided. Or book. === Page 2 of 128 UFO sighted over Tibet PEKING (AP) -- An unidentified flying object with six glowing rings was sighted last month in Tibet, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday. Xinhua said the sighting was made July 24 by the deputy director of the Tibetan Meteorological Bureau and confirmed by witnesses in Lhasa and three other cities. Oreg. 8/6/81 July 8, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I have explained to you before...my present work with my UFOs is as different from my old work (of making lightning strike targets; guiding hurricanes; having UFOs appear in a certain area; etc.) as night is different from day. During those years of documented, miraculous demonstrations it was I who was in control. Now it is my UFOs who are in control...while I, their only human two-way contact, report to the human race what it is that they are doing, and why. BUSILY SENT My UFOs have been busy at work since my last file to you. They have been striking at "higher ups" in government, leaving an easily-read pattern behind them. See the enclosed "UFOs 'higher ups'" file and you will understand. My UFOs began in the U.S. with Reagan and Brady, then began to move their work around the world...as leaders and presidents of other countries became hors de combat in one way or another. (Please keep in mind that my UFOs are not using powers that humans can use on Earth...i.e., they can direct certain of their power at the "idea" of leaders of countries and top governments being eliminated...their power flows through that "idea" and causes the idea to happen and come into reality. Being familiar with the way that my UFOs "think" it is my strong belief that their "get higher ups" power is wending its way back again, full circle, to the U.S. This power will not cease until the Base is provided. It will keep on working its way around the world to take out "higher ups" and leaders in WAYS many and varied, but always with the same result. Also enclosed is the "UFOs 6 Projects" file, containing newsclips which show the "tracks" of where the UFOs have been and what they have been doing, to put pressure on the U.S. Govt. and scientists to provide the Base. As you read the many-faceted chaos contained in the newsclips it might be well to read once again my initial letter to you explaining the "6 projects" of the UFOs (the attack on "higher ups" came afterward) so I have included a copy of that initial letter in this file, along with a few other pertinent copies sent you previously but which it would be well for you to re-read, if you care to do so. Plagues, pestilence, All of the fire, flood, explosions, and other wild, chaotic happenings revealed in the enclosed newsclips are effects, and my UFOs are the cause. There isn't much time to avert a nuclear shootout with Russia and my UFOs want that Base quickly...and they are willing to sledge-hammer the U.S. as well as other world governments (who could also provide the monies for the Base WOULD BE CHANGE if they so wished) until they get it, and then TO BRING able to TO the powers they are now using negatively TO POSITIVE, peace on Earth and help the human race. (Owens PK Man) August 4, 1981 Note: Read the last paragraph then note the chaos of air controllers striking, creating chaos in the federal government plus deadly air space. Do you think the SIs are not * IN A CLOCKWISE MOTION === Page 3 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Attacks by sharks worrisome By DAVID CHANDLER MIAMI (AP) - The cry "Shark!" is being heard with alarmingly increasing frequency in the waters off Florida and the Bahamas these days, leaving experts and experienced divers puzzled by the spate of attacks. "Some weird stuff is happening," Bob Marx, a 25-year-veteran diver, said as he recuperated in his Satellite Beach home from an attack by a 12-foot mako shark. He was attacked Aug. 7 while skin diving east of Little Isaac Bank in the Bahamas. "I've never seen anything like it," he said. "I've spent my life in the water, and this sort of aggressiveness never happens. It's like a magic potion is in the water and the sharks are freaking out." Marx's was the third shark attack reported in the Bahamas this year. Seven other swimmers or surfers have been struck off Florida, including 19-year-old Christina Wapniarski, who was killed when a shark tore apart her leg after a catamaran she and three others had been sailing capsized Aug. 11 off Daytona Beach. In a normal year, marine experts say, two or three shark attacks are recorded in Florida and two in the Bahamas. At the University of Miami, shark researcher Samuel Gruber said he had no explanation for the increased attacks. "I don't have any theories, except maybe that the reporting is getting better. For some reason there is a relatively high increase in the incidence of attacks," Gruber said. "I expect two attacks a year in Daytona, two a year in the Bahamas; occasionally someone gets bitten in the Keys." "We're working with sharks every day - tagging and tracking. I haven't seen anything different, nothing unusual except that there seem to be a lot of shark attacks." Orig 8/20/81 August 20, 1981 Scientists, Contacts: This newsclip is very important. It directly addresses itself to my letter to you of November 17, 1980, copy attached. In that letter read "(c) Ocean Attacks." Owens "It's like a magic potion is in the water -" He's right, of course. There is a "magic potion" in the water. Owens - Now see my files on getting the "List" - === Page 4 of 128 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Gwen 2/17/81 My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age! I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) 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In these bugs the glycerol accumulates inside the cells, preventing the delicate living interiors from freezing, while the fluid outside the cells freezes, producing ice crystals throughout their bodies. Duman finds that in some species such as hornets only the queens survive the winter. They mate just before going into hibernation and the eggs develop over the winter. FINDING OUR WAY IN RECENT years science has discovered that various creatures use many techniques to find their way about in this world. They use the polarization of the sun's rays, internal clocks, tiny magnets in their heads that serve as compasses and celestial navigation, and some (like Hansel and Gretel and their bread crumbs) lay chemical trails along the ground which they can follow on their return. Others, like a species of African stink ant called Paltothyreus tarsatus, find their way even when the sky is completely overcast and when the top layer of soil is removed, which eliminates using a chemical trail. Now Bert Holldobler of Harvard has announced their secret. He concludes that the midget brain of P. tarsatus carries a "snapshot" of the ant's surroundings as it leaves the nest. The ants locate themselves within this picture and only use other clues such as chemicals if the picture goes awry. Holldobler determined this by making an artificial sky for the ants, reproducing the patterns of the trees in the forest canopy. Then he turned this around and the ants set off for home in the wrong direction. It's reasonably obvious that this also is one of the ways humans find their way about. We have mental pictures of our surroundings, and I'm sure we would be equally confused if some giant cosmic scientist reversed our environment. BY CURTIS FULLER SEE BY THE PAPERS UFOs & Projects 23 THE TOOL USERS PALEONTOLOGISTS are taking a new look at old fossils to see if they have overlooked any evidence of human activity. 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Box 157, Port Crane NY 13833 Healing: Kathy Cook, 2307 Regency Ct., Fairborn OH 45324 Mediumship: Barbara Rogers, 200 Grace St., Oxford NC 27565 Out-of-Body: John Attamack, 707 Louise Circle, #281, Durham NC 27705 Premonitions & Prediction Bank: Dottie Ranville, 519 Margaret Dr., Fairborn OH 45324 Psychokinesis: Ted Owens Psychometry: Rick Brown, 400 Luray Ave #11-A Johnstown PA 15904 Techniques: Randall Kryn 1031 Winonah, Oak Park IL 60304. Anti-Crime Team: Jeff Atwood, 4406 Harrison Rd., Kenosha WI 53142. === Page 7 of 128 Contacts PS... if you will study this newsclip file carefully, keeping in mind my various PK attacks, it will be a parapsych education for you! Owens The enclosed file of chaos, accident, power wiped out, etc etc... was a caused effect by my three Powers, UFOs, Xtotae (Mayan Power) and Pyr Coe (Egyptian Power.) Take just one effect... power knocked out... caused by every conceivable happening! Fire, storms, airplanes, wind, cars, human error, etc etc. This is the way an idea which is PK'd works. Note that half of all Mexico was blacked out, and prior to it the experts said that it could not happen! (By the way, please take the "Four Projects Letter" sent to you not long ago and append it to the front of this file.) Elsewhere in this file you will find the pattern reflected in the newsclips which pertains to the Four Projects Letter. Although this information goes out to only seven contacts (scientists and friends) it is hoped that the U.S. government will learn === Page 8 of 128 of 1st, understand, and supply the five million dollar Base which the UFOs require (with me in it, to do my **positive** work for the human race.) If this does not occur within a reasonable length of time, then my UFOs will simply cause the U.S. to **go broke**... i. e., take the money away from America! (They have instructed me to pass this information on.) It is a sad joke that Reagan spent eight million dollars on his inauguration... enough to buy **two** Bases for my UFOs (they only require one.) Muhammad Ali, the fighter, made eight million dollars for one fight... enough to buy **two** UFO Bases (they only need one.) Thus it gets **sicker** and **sicker**, in the eyes of my UFOs. If this sort of thing continues, according to my UFOs, then the country of America, the United States, has no reason to continue to exist. Eve === Page 9 of 128 July 20, 1981 Scientists... I am being tracked and attacked by a Russian psi agent. The kind of character who can break your spine at 1/2 mile range, mentally. He's made one pass at me, and failed, because of my half alien mind. This is no joke. I am quite serious. And I know what I'm talking about. * Owens * The SIs have given me the proper counter attack for his next pass at me. === Page 10 of 128 Added note: Perhaps it is difficult for some of you to understand how my UFOs can cause leaders and Presidents to be fired, shot, resigned, and so forth. Let me explain. Take a "higher up"... a top echelon person of this or another government. My UFOs can cause some unstable person to attack him; cause him to be in a car wreck; cause people to turn against him and throw him out; cause him to develop a terminal illness; cause him to make wrong, self-destructive decisions (I got Nixon; he decided not to destroy his tapes, i. e., he self-destructed. If you think I didn't get Nixon, see my prediction published in a book "What The Seers Predict" before he self-destructed. It was without precedent. My UFOs and I, however, have great confidence in our ability to cause our effects!) If we do not get our UFO base soon - the power aimed at higher-ups will be escalated. Do you think the medfly plague in California is an accident? Not on your life. Ps-G-I, my Egyptian Power working with my UFOs, is causing the plague just the same as It did in Moses time when Moses worked with my UFOs and they inflicted the insect plague on Egypt. Keep on ignoring me... and watch the slow destruction of the United States and its "higher ups." Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 11 of 128 Guarding Reagan Since the assassination attempt on March 30, Ronald Reagan has become the best-protected U.S. President of modern times. Reagan not only wears his bulletproof vest on almost all public occasions, but members of the public who wish to hear him speak at conventions and dinners must first undergo metal-detector tests before being granted entrance. Moreover, the newsmen who cover the President are subject to search and examination by the Secret Service. In addition, Reagan's two California residences--the Sky Ranch, north of Santa Barbara, and the Pacific Palisades house he has for sale at $1.9 million--are guarded by Secret Service agents round the clock. Secret Service protection of the empty Pacific Palisades house may in fact be a violation of the law, which permits the expenditure of only $10,000 for the guarding of a second Presidential residence. Far more than $10,000 has been spent since the Reagans left the house eight months ago. But no one has seriously carped about the possible infraction. Sensitive to critics of its competency and its dubious record of protecting Presidents, the Secret Service is determined to safeguard this one from all possible harm. Reagan's daily schedule is no longer publicized in geographic detail; decoy limousines are driven and parked to confuse possible assassins; agents escort Reagan from one wing of the White House to the other; when he lands at out-of-town airports, Reagan is quickly hustled into a helicopter and flown to the landing site nearest his quarters to eliminate a lengthy motorcade. The Secret Service is executing a policy of "better doubly safe than sorry." PARADE AUGUST 9, 1981 9 "higher ups" warning! Plague alert given Reagan By MAUREEN SANTINI SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- President Reagan is taking precautions against bubonic plague, which was found last month near the mountaintop ranch where he is vacationing. "The White House was recently advised by the county health department of the possibility of bubonic plague being in proximity to Rancho del Cielo," said a statement issued Saturday by the traveling White House. "Routine precautions as recommended by the county health department are being taken." Those precautions include not handling wildlife and tucking trousers into boots, said deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes. The plague was found last month in a wood rat less than a mile from Reagan's ranch in the Santa Ynez mountains about 20 miles from here. Bubonic plague, which claimed many lives in Europe in the Middle Ages, has not been found in the ranch area since last month. Dr. Daniel Ruge, the president's physician, reported through White House press aides Saturday that he had been advised of the possibility of the plague before the president arrived here Thursday night. No thought was given to canceling the trip, however. Speakes said Reagan was taking "the normal precautions that his neighbors are taking." Asked whether there was any danger, the press spokesman replied, "If you disregard precautions, there's a possibility." Reagan was spending the day horseback riding with his wife, Nancy, clearing brush from trails and piling wood. A contingent of striking air traffic controllers planned to picket the gate outside Reagan's ranch Saturday, but there was little chance the president would see them because the gate is four or five miles from his adobe home. Asked whether Reagan would be informed of the picketing, Speakes replied, "Somebody may mention it, but it won't be any major briefing." 8/9/81 === Page 12 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Bolivia chief bows to rebels' demands By JOHN ENDERS oreg 8/5/81 LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, bowing to the demands of army rebels in eastern Bolivia, resigned as president Tuesday night and asked the three-man military junta to govern the country. In a brief speech from the presidential palace carried by the state-controlled radio network, the right-wing former army commander said: "Above any reasons of pride and vanity comes the fatherland. For this reason I have decided to turn power over to the junta of commanders. "I leave the presidency, but everyone should know I will remain alert to the possibility that this process we have begun may be sidetracked." His reference to "this process" was to his administration, which he had called a government of "national reconstruction." The junta, composed of the commanders of the army, air force and navy, was expected to meet with ranking military officers from throughout the country and name another president from their ranks. Observers said it was unlikely the junta would try to govern as a council, because such efforts at joint rule in the past have failed. There were indications before Garcia Meza made his nationwide address that the 52-year-old general would step down to avoid a bloody confrontation between his backers and the insurgents. Among the major charges made against his year-old government were wide-spread violations of human rights and alleged involvement of ranking officials in the illegal cocaine trade. The successful coup was the fifth attempt launched since May against Garcia Meza, who overthrew the civilian government of President Lidia Gueiler in July 1980. He had said months ago that he would resign Aug. 6 and have the junta name a successor, but then he reversed his position last month and said he would stay in office. === Page 13 of 128 Plane crash kills Torrijos BY INDALECIO RODRIGUEZ PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Gen. Omar Torrijos, the political strongman who forged the treaty with the United States giving Panama control of the Panama Canal, has been killed in a plane crash, the national guard reported Saturday. A spokesman said five others in the light plane also perished when it crashed Friday in a remote jungle area 60 miles west of the capital. He said the wreckage was found Saturday and the bodies have been recovered. "The guard leadership has met with President Aristides Royo and Vice President Ricardo de la Espriella to make arrangements for a state funeral," a statement released by the national guard said. Torrijos, 52, was commander of the guard, which serves as Panama's army. The statement said Torrijos' body will lie in state for 24 hours starting Tuesday morning, and the funeral will be held in the Don Bosco Church. A television announcement by Maj. Domingo O'Calagan said Torrijos' plane disappeared after taking off for the short flight between the cities of Penonome and Coclesito and the wreckage was spotted by the pilot of a search plane early Saturday. The national guard said Torrijos, the country's military and political leader for the past 13 years who once described himself as a "dictator with a heart," was making a routine check of guard outposts. He maintained a residence in the peasant community of Coclesito. A helicopter flew to the crash site to transport the bodies of the six victims to Panama City, the national guard said. Torrijos won agreement in 1977 with then-President Carter for the pact that turns sovereignty of the Panama Canal over to Panama by the end of the century. The controversial treaty was ratified in 1978, and Torrijos jumped into a canal lock during the celebration. Carter issued a statement from his home in Plains, Ga., calling Torrijos' death "a tragic loss for the people of Panama and all who admired him as a wise and effective leader." "I knew him personally as a dedicated and unselfish man committed to a better life for those who looked to him for leadership," Carter said. The White House said President Reagan "expressed his most sincere condolences to the family and Panamanian people" and announced he would send a delegation to the funeral. "Gen. Torrijos is one of the outstanding figures in Panama's history who repeatedly displayed profound concern for the welfare of the people of his country and who took an active interest in various regional matters," Reagan's statement said. "It is our expectation that our government will continue to work coop-ment." One well-placed Panamanian said at the time, "Torrijos was tired of being called dictator, and that was no small factor in his decision to step down and move ahead with some constitutional reforms." Although the title was abolished and the executive eratively to give meaning to the hope expressed publicly by Gen. Torrijos that our nations will live together peacefully." Col. Florencio Flores was named to succeed Torrijos as commander of the national guard during a meeting of the guard leadership and government officials, including President Royo. Flores, 50, was the guard's chief of staff, and diplomatic sources said he was considered second only to Torrijos in political power. Torrijos, born in Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, Feb. 3, 1929, was the son of schoolteachers. He studied in El Salvador's military school and graduated as a second lieutenant in 1953, returning here to hold a variety of military posts. He was named military aide to President Arnulfo Arias in Oct. 1968. Less than two weeks later, Torrijos and Col. Boris Martinez led a coup that toppled Arias. The next year, Torrijos effectively took sole power by exiling Martinez and taking the title of brigadier general. A newly elected assembly in September 1972 gave him full civil and military powers for a six-year term. In October 1978, Torrijos surprised Panamanians by stepping down after 10 years as chief of government. functions were passed to a new president, Torrijos retained control over the new government as commander of the national guard. The new president, Aristides Royo, was handpicked for the post and made no secret of his admiration for Torrijos. Associated Press Laserphoto TREATY SIGNED -- Then-President Carter embraces Panama leader Omar Torrijos in Washington after 1977 signing of Panama Canal treaty. Torrijos died in a plane crash Friday in Panama. Murder, suicide suspected BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Fernand Spaak, chief aide to the president of the Common Market and a member of one Belgium's most influential political families, was killed by a shotgun blast fired by his wife who then electrocuted herself in the bathtub of their Brussels apartment, police said Sunday. Police refused to speculate on the motives for what they labeled a murder-suicide. They said the 52-year-old statesman and his Italian-born wife, Anna Farina, were found Saturday morning by a son-in-law. Neighbors said the Spaaks had been separated for some time, and he was living alone in his sixth-floor apartment in a fashionable district of the capital. East German leader dies BERLIN (AP) -- East German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Kohl, who was the communist country's first diplomat to West Germany, died after a serious illness, the official East German news agency ADN reported Saturday. He was 51. Kohl played an important part in negotiations between the two Germanys after 1970 and became East Berlin's representative in Bonn from 1974 to 1978. The news agency did not identify the cause of Kohl's death. === Page 14 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Spanish king injured in fall MADRID, Spain (UPI) King Juan Carlos, Spanish head of state, left the Red Cross hospital in Madrid Monday after having spent the night for treatment of injuries received in a fall. The king assured journalists and bystanders that he was all right. He was hurt late Sunday in a freak accident at the Zarzuela Palace when he slipped and fell against a glass door. His injuries included extensive cuts and scratches on his arms. Juan Carlos 6/22/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # N-codes left behind President Reagan went to dinner early, and as a result he found himself without the codes he needs to launch a nuclear attack. Reagan unexpectedly left the White House 20 minutes ahead of schedule Tuesday night in a motorcade for a dinner honoring Dr. Loyal Davis, the stepfather of first lady Nancy Reagan. Among those left behind was Cmdr. Bill Schmidt, one of the officers who carries the black briefcase containing the codes, which are rarely more than a few paces away from the president when he leaves the White House. 7/16/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # China ousts party chief Hua Guofeng By MICHAEL PARKS LA Times-Washington Post Service PEKING - Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng has resigned, admitting "serious errors" of leadership, at the start of a meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee, Chinese sources said Monday. Hua, who had fought for a time to retain the post, is expected to be succeeded by Hu Yaobang, the party general secretary and the chief lieutenant of Deng Xiaoping, the powerful party vice chairman. The 215-member Central Committee is also discussing a controversial and long-delayed assessment of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung in an attempt to balance his achievements and mistakes, venerating him as a great revolutionary but abrogating most of his policies. Taken together, Hua's replacement, a long-expected but still difficult move, and the formal Mao reassessment will mark the end of the Maoist era in China. Serious differences on both questions delayed the meeting for more than nine months. Also on the Central Committee's agenda, the sources said, are a reaffirmation of the policy followed for the past 2 1/2 years under Deng's leadership, particularly the restructuring of the country's economy and his proposals for reorganizing the party. A full review of Chinese foreign policy, especially the emerging alliance with the United States, Japan and Western Europe, has also been drafted for the Central Committee's consideration, the sources said, and will probably be issued in July. 6/23/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Bomb wounds top Khomeini aide By United Press International A bomb planted inside a tape recorder exploded Saturday, injuring Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's defense aide during a mosque ceremony, Radio Tehran reported. The radio said Sayed Ali Khamenei was rushed to the hospital where he was to have surgery. There was no word on his condition. "At the beginning of this ceremony, a bomb that had been placed inside one of the tape recorders (in front of Khamenei to record his speech) exploded and wounded Mr. Khamenei," the radio said. The assassination attempt took place in south Tehran as Khamenei was speaking at a mosque ceremony after noon prayers, the radio said. "Details of the assassination attempt will be broadcast later," the radio said. Khamenei is Khomeini's representative on the policy-making Supreme Defense Council. Khomeini's other man on the council, Mustafa Chamran, was killed on the Susangerd front of the Iran-Iraq war earlier this week. Khamenei also is Tehran's chief religious leader, responsible for leading prayers. The attack on Khamenei came as the deposed President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, in a message sent to Iranians from his hideout, said he will "disclose documents and tapes" incriminating his fundamentalist foes, Turkish newspapers reported from the Iranian capital. The leading Turkish national daily Hurriyet's correspondent Bulent Eranac reported from Tehran that thousands of copies of Bani-Sadr's printed message were distributed across Iran and "caused a tumult among the people." The Gunaydin daily said tapes of Bani-Sadr's message recorded in his own voice also were available in Tehran. Bani-Sadr disappeared June 10 and according to a Kurdish leader based in Oslo, Norway, is living in west Iran's mountainous region, which is controlled by anti-Khomeini Kurdish guerrillas. 6/27/81 The former president was fired Monday by Khomeini and 50 people were executed on political charges, including support for Bani-Sadr, after the dismissal. 6/27/81 Khamenei is a leading parliament member from the Islamic Republican Party that led the campaign for Bani-Sadr's impeachment June 21. Khamenei also is Khomeini's personal representative on the nine-man Supreme Defense Council that handles the conduct of Iran's 9-month-old war with Iraq and is the council's official spokesman. Khomeini received groups assigned to the battlefront with Iraq and told them in a speech broadcast Saturday by Tehran radio: "There are wolves waiting in ambush, all of whom want to return this country to its previous (monarchical) state. Let them be disappointed." 6/28/81 Related story on Page A2. - UFOs "higher ups" - === Page 15 of 128 PM ousted in Bulgaria SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Veteran political figure Stanko Todorov was replaced Tuesday as prime minister of this Soviet bloc nation, the state news agency BTA said. Grisha Filipov, a Communist Party Politburo member and secretary of the party Central Committee, was named to the post and asked to present a list of new ministers to Parliament, BTA said. The announcement came as a surprise to Western diplomats who said it might have been the latest move in longstanding efforts of government and Communist Party Chief Todor Zhivkov to limit the accumulation of power by other politicians. "Zhivkov has a record of moving people around," one diplomat said. "This has been going on for the past 25 years." The change was expected to have no effect on the overall policies of Bulgaria, long guided by Zhivkov, and a firmly pro-Moscow member of the Warsaw Pact. The Bulgarian news agency said Todorov, 60, had been elected chairman of the country's newly elected Parliament. The change amounts to a demotion in Bulgaria's communist hierarchy. -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Japan's Ito resigns post in tiff over U.S. alliance TOKYO (UPI) -- Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito resigned Saturday in a dispute over Japan's military relations with the United States, and Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki immediately appointed former foreign minister Sunao Sonoda to replace him. Suzuki said Ito's resignation will have no effect on relations with Washington. The new foreign minister was serving as health and welfare minister. Ito told a hastily called news conference he submitted his resignation Friday night and resisted Suzuki's pleas to stay on. Also resigning was Vice Foreign Minister Masuo Takashima, the top career diplomat in the ministry, and the one thought to have contradicted Suzuki earlier in the week, escalating the dispute over the meaning of the term "alliance" as used following Suzuki's meetings in Washington last week with President Reagan. Ito's resignation was seen as a major setback for the Reagan administration, which has been pressing Japan to assume a greater defense role in the region. "In order to take responsibility for causing confusion over wording of the (U.S.-Japan) joint communique, I am resigning the post of foreign minister," Ito said. The word "alliance" was included in a joint communique issued in Washington May 8 after a two-day summit between Reagan and Suzuki to discuss defense issues between the two nations. Suzuki, facing sharp criticism at home over concessions to the United States on defense spending, denied the word implied a military alliance with Washington. But Ito told reporters Monday, "Of course, it would be absurd to talk about an alliance without a military sense." Suzuki immediately rejected Ito's remark and said he had merely repeated the phrase "U.S.-Japan alliance" coined by the late Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. -- Higher Ups -- Plane crash kills leader QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- President Jaime Roldos, his wife and seven other people were killed Sunday when their executive plane crashed in the Andes mountains near Ecuador's southern border with Peru, the presidential palace announced. Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado issued a statement saying the Cabinet and leaders of the House of Representatives met in emergency session, with Hurtado named to assume the presidency. House President Raul Baca Carbo was to replace Hurtado as vice president, it said. The report said there were no survivors aboard the British-built Avro, a twin turboprop plane. Other victims were listed as Roldos' wife, Martha; Defense Minister Gen. Marcos Subia and his wife; two military aides, Lt. Col. Hector Torres and Lt. Col. Armando Navarette; the pilot, Maj. Marco Andrade; a co-pilot, Lt. Galo Romo; and a stewardess, Solidad Rosero. -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Indian judge drops case in 'plot' to kill Mrs. Gandhi NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A judge Thursday dismissed the government's case against five men suspected of sabotaging a jetliner in an alleged plot to kill Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The case was thrown out by Bombay magistrate A.D. Kale after another defendant claimed he had been beaten into a false confession and India's Central Bureau of Investigation said it had failed to produce adequate evidence against the five. Authorities announced April 27 that about a week earlier control cables were found cut on an Air-India Boeing 707 that was scheduled to fly Mrs. Gandhi to Europe and the Middle East May 5. It was not clearly explained why the cables would have been cut so long before the scheduled start of Mrs. Gandhi's trip. The jetliner was repaired and resumed regular passenger service. Mrs. Gandhi made her official trip on another plane. Six employees or former employees of Air-India were arrested in the case. A senior airline technician, Suresh Imamdar, whose case was being handled separately from the five others, told the magistrate he was kicked, beaten and punched during interrogation by CBI officials and forced to confess. === Page 16 of 128 Blast kills Iran leader, 68 others -ufda "higher ups"- By United Press International The death toll rose to 69 Monday in the bomb attack that killed the heir-apparent to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other ranking members of the ruling Islamic Republican Party in the bloodiest blow to Iran's revolutionary government. Rescue workers are still looking for survivors or more bodies in the wreckage of the party headquarters that was destroyed by a powerful explosion Sunday night. The officials Pars news agency said at least two blasts ripped through the building as party chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti was addressing the regular weekly meeting. Beheshti, 52, supreme court chief justice, mastermind of the clergy's hold on power and regarded as Khomeini's successor, was killed along with at least four Cabinet ministers, six deputy ministers and 20 members of the Majlis (parliament). Khomeini, who rarely ventures from his north Tehran home, apparently was the only prominent figure not at the rally. Tehran radio quoted a coroner's spokesman as saying the known deaths stand at 69. The figure is expected to rise as the search of the rubble went on. Majlis Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who along with Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Rajai narrowly escaped injury in the attack, said the bombing was the work of "committed agents of the U.S.A." in league with Iraq. Other prominent officials also accused the United States of masterminding the attack, the severest blow to the Islamic regime since it toppled the late shah in February 1979 and seized power. Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Tehran in what Pars described as peaceful demonstrations. Witnesses reached by telephone said demonstrators carried the pictures of Beheshti and Khomeini and shouted, "We are the party of God and Khomeini is our leader" and "Death to the enemies of Islam." Khomeini called the attackers "savage beasts" and said, "martyrdom for several dear ones... will not force the nation to retreat. "Ranks will be closed," he said. "The cry of the nation will increase." Tehran Radio said Khomeini met in emergency session with government officials and named Prosecutor-General Ayatollah Seyyed Abdolkrain Musavi-Ardabili as Beheshti's successor as supreme court justice. Rajai urged Iranians to be calm but "report any suspicious matter" and declared Monday and Tuesday holidays. A week of mourning began immediately for the victims. Tehran radio said funerals for the "martyrs" would be held Tuesday and that it would be "one of the greatest funerals" ever witnessed in Tehran. The bombing followed a week of executions of supporters of ousted President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and opponents of the mullahs ruling Iran. Islamic militants searched the country for the dismissed president, who has gone into hiding. A total of 61 people have been executed since Bani-Sadr's impeachment last Sunday. oreg J 6/29/81 -ufda "higher ups"- Hua forced to resign PEKING (UPI) -- The Communist Party announced Monday that Hua Guofeng, the late Mao Tse-tung's hand-picked successor as chairman, has resigned, becoming the first party boss to be forced out of power in China. An official announcement also said Hua resigned as chairman of the military commission. Hu Yaobang, 66, a close associate of powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, who was the driving force behind the unseating of Hua, was named as the new party chairman. Hua was demoted to vice chairman, the announcement said. Deng assumed the post of chairman of the party's military commission, in effect making him supreme commander of the 4 million-member Peoples Liberation Army. oreg J 6/29/81 === Page 17 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Teen fires blanks at Queen Elizabeth By ED BLANCHE LONDON (AP) -- A British teenager, described as a jobless former marine wearing a Prince Charles and Lady Diana souvenir button, ran up and fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II from a range of 10 feet Saturday as she rode horseback through London in a pageant watched by millions. The monarch was startled but unhurt and continued on to the Trooping of the Color, the biggest ceremonial event of the royal calendar marking her official birthday. Several policemen and a scarlet-coated British army guardsman pounced on the young man, who reportedly had been waiting hours for the monarch to appear. As he was dragged away in handcuffs by agents of Scotland Yard's Special Branch, there were shouts in the crowd of "lynch him." Authorities identified him as 17-year-old Marcus Simon Sarjeant of Folkestone, England, and charged him under the 1842 Treason Act with "willfully discharging at the person of Her Majesty the Queen a blank cartridge pistol with intent to alarm her." The charge carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. Sarjeant was scheduled to appear Monday in Bow Street magistrates court. The 55-year-old monarch's horse, Burmese, reared at the noise of the blanks, and one witness reported that a "look of fear" flashed across the queen's face. Her husband, Prince Philip, and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, spurred their mounts to shield the queen, seen by thousands in the crowd and millions more watching on television. But Elizabeth, dressed in a scarlet military tunic and black riding skirt, controlled the horse, and within a minute she was again smiling and waving. Scotland Yard sources said the attack was certain to lead to a tightening of security around the royal family -- particularly before the July 29 wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Masses of visitors are expected to jam London for the event. Neighbors of Sarjeant described him as a "quiet, well-behaved" youth who "never got into trouble." Friends said he joined the Royal Marines last year but left after three months because he did not like the "bullying." The British military allows enlistees a three-month trial period. Sarjeant had been unemployed since leaving the military, his friends said, and was living with his family in a modern, three-bedroom home. "I have known him for some time now," said Sean Dixon, 16. "But I couldn't call him a close friend. He just wasn't like that. He never got close to anyone." A Scotland Yard spokesman said the gunman, who had been standing in the crowd lining the royal route, fired the blanks from a "good replica" pistol -- a realistic copy of a handgun that can be adapted to shoot bullets. The incident came as the queen was riding from Buckingham Palace to Horseguards' Parade for her annual inspection of the British army's elite Guards regiments. The inspection ceremony, in which she took the salute before 1,000 guardsmen, is known as The Trooping of the Color. It marks the monarch's official birthday and is the foremost event in the queen's year. April 21 is the queen's actual birthday. Greg 6/14/81 - newsbreak - - UFOs "higher ups" - # Junta seizes Bolivia A military junta took over the government of Bolivia Saturday, the Catholic newspaper Presencia reported. The newspaper said Gen. Humberto Cayoja has accepted the resignation of President Luis Garcia Meza and the army has taken control of La Paz. Greg 6/27/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Surgery planned AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lillian Carter, mother of former President Carter, will enter a hospital here Sunday for surgery to remove a small tumor near her left breast, her doctor said Friday. Dr. John H. Robinson said a preliminary examination indicated the tumor may be malignant, but the prospects for full recovery from the operation are good. Greg 6/27/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # 3 Spanish officers jailed MADRID (AP) -- The army ordered three officers imprisoned Wednesday in an investigation of a possible new plot against King Juan Carlos. Police said several civilians, including two senior government employees were being questioned for links to the alleged plot. A terse Defense Ministry statement announcing the officers' arrest said they had been placed in preventive detention for "possible signs of conspiracy." The statement did not link the arrests with an attempt against the 43-year-old monarch. Greg 6/25/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Leader attacked DUESSELDORF, West Germany (AP) -- A man on crutches attacked West German President Karl Carstens before an audience of about 1,000 people at a national convention of the handicapped, authorities said. The hefty 28-year-old rose from his wheelchair at the conclusion of a speech and shouted, "Now I want to say something. The resistance of the handicapped is not being taken seriously," according to witnesses at the meeting Thursday. The man identified by federal authorities as Franz Christoph, a childhood victim of polio, approached Carstens, who seated near the speakers' stand, and swung his body from his crutches, bumping the president, witnesses said. The mass circulation Bild-Zeitung reported Christoph rapped Carstens across the shin with his metal crutch. Carstens pushed Christoph away with his hand, and the president's bodyguards subdued him, police said. The man was not arrested, according to the Greg. 6/20/81 === Page 18 of 128 - UFO "higher ups" - # Ayatollah fires Iranian president By SCHEHERAZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dismissed Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr from office Monday and then appealed to the fugitive former chief of state to return to the Islamic revolutionary fold as a "writer and thinker," Tehran radio reported. The conciliatory move by the 81-year-old supreme leader appeared aimed at extracting the ousted president from an underground alliance with leftist and opposition activists at home and at stopping him from linking up with exiled monarchy supporters abroad. A sizeable portion of Khomeini's one-hour prerecorded broadcast speech was addressed directly to the 47-year-old Bani-Sadr, who has been reported moving from one hideout to another in Tehran since the final move to impeach him was mounted in Parliament a week ago. "I did not want what happened today to happen," Khomeini said of his dismissal of Bani-Sadr following an overwhelming vote by the fundamentalist-controlled Parliament Sunday, which proclaimed the Western-educated economist incompetent to stay in office. "But you did not listen to my advice. . . . You did not stop your interest in these corrupt and criminal (leftist) groups, and they drew you to your destruction," Khomeini said. The Tehran prosecutor's office said 25 people have been executed at Evin Prison since Saturday's street clashes, which pitted Bani-Sadr's supporters and three Marxist and Maoist groups against Islamic fundamentalists and Khomeini's revolutionary guards. Statements from the Tehran revolutionary prosecutor's office said 23 of the 25 people executed were leftist rioters from the Marxist-Islamic Mujahedeen Khalq, the Marxist-Leninist Fedayeen Khalq and the Maoist People's Workers Party. The other two were identified as journalist Ali Asghar Amirani, found guilty of "corruption on Earth," and another person described as a collaborator with the secret service of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The ayatollah appeared to offer to stop legal proceedings against Bani-Sadr when he said: "There is always room for repentance. Repent and take a step toward God, and God will accept your return. Your honor will return to you and so will your dignity." Shortly after Parliament's impeachment vote was announced, Tehran revolutionary prosecutor Ali Quddosi issued a summons to Bani-Sadr to answer charges of "anti-Islam and anti-revolution." Quddosi called for Bani-Sadr's arrest wherever he is seen and warned people against sheltering the former president or helping him flee the country. "We believe he is still in Tehran and hope we will arrest him soon," said an official at Quddosi's office when reached by telephone in Tehran from The Associated Press office in Beirut Monday evening. - UFO "higher ups" - # Prankster tests security PORTLAND HARBOR, England (AP) - A 19-year-old prankster tossed a package through the open window of Queen Elizabeth II's car as the monarch was passing through the seafront near here Friday, raising new concern about the royal family's security. Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were passing through a naval dockyard here when a young woman threw the parcel, containing a T-shirt and leaflet, into the car. Police grabbed the student, Joanne Disley, but later released her without charge because, they said, it was a college prank. June 13, during the Trooping the Color ceremony in London, the queen was startled by a youth who fired six blank shots near her. - UFO "higher ups" - # The world # Ex-minister dies in battle BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Former Iranian Defense Minister Mustapha Chamran was killed Sunday on Iran's western battle front where heavy fighting against Iraqi troops has been reported recently, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Chamran, who was the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's representative on Iran's Supreme Defense Council, "was martyred this morning in Dehlavieh," an Iranian village near Susangerd 21 miles from the Iraqi border, the news agency said. Tehran radio said later that Chamran and two people with him were killed when they were struck by fragments from a mortar shell. - UFO "higher ups" - # 2 gunmen wound Iranian candidate NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Two men shot and slightly wounded Habibollah Asgarowladi Musulman, one of the four pro-government Iranian presidential candidates, Monday in Tehran, Iran's official news agency Pars reported. One gunman was killed and the other committed suicide after capture, Pars said. In another development, Pars said the government-appointed education director in Iran's secessionist Kurdistan province was shot and killed by "armed insurgents." It identified the man only as "Yousefi" and did not disclose either the place or the date of the killing. Musulman, like the other three candidates, is a member of the ruling fundamentalist Islamic Republic Party. Pars said Musulman's right hand was slightly wounded when two gunmen opened fire on him as he was leaving his Tehran home. Musulman's bodyguards returned fire, killing one of the assailants and wounding the other, the report said. The second man committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill while being taken to prison after being treated in hospital, Pars said. One of the bodyguards was also wounded. The 49-year-old candidate reported from his hospital bed that he was in good condition and that he hoped he would soon regain his health "so that I can continue to serve the deprived masses," Pars said. The agency did not identify the assailants, and no opposition group claimed responsibility. The victim blamed the attack on the United States, Pars said. === Page 19 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # No. 2 Iranian among 24 killed in Tehran blast By SCHEMEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti, the No. 2 man of Iran's revolutionary regime, and at least 23 others were killed Sunday by an explosion that blew up the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party's headquarters in Tehran during a meeting of party leaders, Tehran radio announced. Others killed included Transport Minister Musa Kalantari, Energy Minister Abbaspur, Hojatoleslam Mohammad Montazeri, the Tehran prayer leader, and a number of members of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, the broadcast said. The government radio station said the bomb was planted by "mercenaries connected to the U.S.A." A statement from the Provisional Presidential Council, of which Beheshti was one of the three members, said the bombing was "an obvious sign of the despair and bankruptcy of the counterrevolution." Beheshti, the president of the Iranian Supreme Court, was regarded as the second-most powerful man in Iran behind Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Khomeini's probable successor. He was the leader of the Islamic Republican Party, which controls the Majlis and the government. The party led the campaign for the impeachment of fugitive ex-President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Pars, the official Iranian news agency, reported that at least 30 people were injured in the explosion. It said that by daybreak Monday workers were still digging in the rubble, but most of the bodies had been removed. About 90 people were inside the building when the explosion occurred, the news agency reported. The roof of the meeting hall collapsed and eyewitness reports indicated there was more than one explosion, according to the news agency, which said "counterrevolutionaries" were behind the explosion. An explosion less than one hour later wrecked Swiss Air's Tehran office, the news agency said. No one was injured in the blast. A booby-trapped tape recorder exploded Saturday at a crowded Tehran mosque where the Islamic Republican Party's chief spokesman and cleric, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was speaking. His shoulder and collarbone were injured. Amid the signs that secular nationalists have gone underground to violently battle the country's clergy-run government, the Iranian government executed eight more left-wing activists. Tehran radio announced that eight leftist Fedayeen Khalq members went before firing squads at daybreak Sunday in the Caspian Sea resorts of Chalus and Nowshahr and in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. They were found guilty of "corruption on earth" and taking up arms against the Islamic republic to "wage war against God," according to the broadcast. That raises to 62 the number of executions by government firing squads in nine days. Fedayeen Khalq is an outlawed Marxist-Leninist group that teamed with other leftists and nationalists in staging last week's anti-government riots to protest Bani-Sadr's impeachment and removal from office. The ex-president has not been seen in public in 18 days. Switzerland's Justice Ministry discounted Sunday a Kuwaiti newspaper report that Bani-Sadr had escaped to Switzerland. "He would need a visa to enter Switzerland," said ministry spokesman Ulrich Hubacher in Bern. "And none has been issued to him. And we have no evidence that he entered Switzerland illegally." Knowledgeable sources in Tehran reached by telephone from The Associated Press office in Beirut said there has been an increase in bomb attacks and riots in Iran's major cities since Bani-Sadr was impeached by Parliament last Sunday. The sources said they consider the bombings evidence that an underground urban guerrilla warfare by opposition groups is under way. Saturday's attempt to kill Khamenei came when he was speaking in a post-prayer question-and-answer dialogue with a mostly female audience at south Tehran's Abu-Zar mosque. oreg 6/29/81 The mass assassination came after a week of disturbances and violence touched off by the ouster of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the French-educated economist who led the opposition to the clergy. The Islamic... A2 - UFOs "higher ups" - TH # Violence growing in Iran 6/30/81 Story on Page One also By EARLEEN F. TATRO BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The Tehran bombing that killed 34 top Iranian government officials and scores of their fellow fundamentalists was the deadliest strike yet in what appears to be a fast-emerging campaign of violence by the secular opposition. # Analysis Among those killed in the destruction of the party headquarters was Supreme Court Chief Justice and party leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, revolutionary Iran's most powerful figure after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the explosion, but government officials blamed anti-clerical leftists, and beyond them the United States. Other Tehran observers reached by telephone also said they believed it was the work of the increasingly militant left. === Page 20 of 128 UFOs "higher ups" # Coup topples Gambian regime DAKAR, Senegal (UPI) -- Opponents of President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara of the West African nation of Gambia overthrew his regime Thursday while he was in London for the royal wedding. There were reports of gunfire in Banjul, capital of Africa's smallest nation, but no indication of whether there were casualties. First word of the takeover came from Radio Banjul, which said a National Revolutionary Council seized power from Jawara, the nation's leader since it won independence from Britain in 1965. The radio gave few other details, but diplomatic sources said reports reaching Dakar identified the new head of government as Kukli Sanya. It was not clear whether Sanya is an opposition political leader or a member of the Gambian Field Force, a paramilitary security organization that serves as the tiny country's army. But it is known that the Gambian Field Force took part in the coup. Communications installations were seized by troops and Banjul's airport was closed. Dawda's vice president, Assan Musa Camara, had been acting as chief of state in Jawara's absence. There was no immediate indication of Camara's whereabouts. The country, whose official name is The Gambia, is a sliver-like nation that is no wider than 30 miles. Its land area totals 4,361 square miles and lies astride the Gambia River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the subtropical West African coast. It has a population of about 600,000, a coastline 48 miles long and is bordered on three sides by Senegal. The capital of Banjul, formerly known as Bathurst, has a population of 40,000. Oreg J 7/30/81 ## Currents in the News "higher ups in govt." # Why Top Officials Are on Their Guard The attempt to assassinate President Reagan has spawned a torrent of threats against the Chief Executive that has authorities worried. Since Reagan was shot March 30, the Secret Service says it has investigated a "substantial number" of people declaring their intention to kill the President. Among them: * Edward Richardson, 22, was indicted after being picked up in New York on April 7. He was armed with a revolver. Police said he had vowed in several letters to kill Reagan as a result of a "prophetic dream" he had about John Hinckley, who is accused of shooting the President. * Steven Seach, 58, a Pennsylvania school-kitchen worker, was arrested April 6 after coworkers allegedly said that he mentioned the Reagan shooting and said he wanted to "finish the job." * Ronald Peppler, 23, a Los Angeles transient, was apprehended on April 8 by police who traced a phone call from a man threatening Reagan. * Harold T. Smith, 34, was jailed in Raleigh, N.C., on April 8 for allegedly threatening Reagan. He had spent six years in prison for threats against Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. Experts were not surprised by the surge of threats. "An assassination attempt stirs up similar thoughts that have been in the minds of many psychotic people," says Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist at Washington, D.C.'s St. Elizabeths Hospital, which handles mental cases that arise in the capital's court system. Although most threats against the President are made by mentally ill persons who rarely try to carry them out, all are checked by the Secret Service. Reason: A widely publicized crime often brings imitations. In 1975, just 17 days after Lynette Fromme pointed a gun at President Ford, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at him. Now that new threats against Reagan are pouring in, security is being tightened. More agents guard Vice President Bush when he makes public appearances. Major news organizations have agreed to a White House request to omit details when publishing Bush's daily schedule, and they are expected to do the same with Reagan's after he leaves the hospital. Hinckley is believed to have used a newspaper listing of Reagan's schedule to locate the President on March 30. Analysts predict that the next few months will be a tense time for high public officials. Says Eugene Stammeyer, a Washington psychologist: "The people ventilating their feelings now by making threats may be less dangerous than the typical assassin--those who brood in their rooms until they build up a head of steam and do something. They are the people who are really destructive." WIDE WORLD Suspect Richardson. Secret Service steps up protection for Bush. * one newspaper said 300 !! === Page 21 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Two top generals held in failed Bolivian coup By JOHN ENDERS LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - The Bolivian army's commander and chief of staff were arrested in an aborted coup Saturday against President Luis Garcia Meza, who seized power less than a year ago in this revolt-prone nation where the average government lasts little more than 10 months. "It failed because of the treason of some and the bribery of others," chief of staff Gen. Lucio Anez Rivera told The Associated Press by telephone from army headquarters after the brief, bloodless attempt failed to unseat Garcia Meza. He said he and Gen. Humberto Cayoja, the army's national commander, were under detention on the orders of Garcia Meza, who rallied the support of several armored units in La Paz to crush the coup. The government press office said: "Those responsible for the act of insubordination, which had a minimum of backing from a small segment of the Tarataca Regiment, have been relieved of their commands and will be judged in a military court of law." The statement said Garcia Meza remained president, "has the full backing of the armed forces and the general consensus of the populace." Anez Rivera claimed disaffected officers outside La Paz were carrying on the revolt, which started here at dawn when tanks and troops began massing in the capital, sealing off the roads and surrounding the presidential palace. A military communications transmission announced Garcia Meza had been "relieved" of the presidency. Despite the announcement, there were indications the rebellion was stumbling when commanders of the army, navy and air force closeted themselves at the army headquarters in an apparent effort to reach a consensus. Anez Rivera did not elaborate on why the revolt crumbled. He told the AP he and Cayoja were taken into detention, apparently a kind of house arrest, 20 minutes before he was reached by the AP. There were no reports of bloodshed in La Paz, although movement was strictly controlled. The overthrow of Garcia Meza would have installed Bolivia's 191st government since Simon Bolivar's independence fighters ousted the Spanish colonialists in 1825. The 52-year-old president acknowledged the steady erosion of his authority last month when, after two revolts in two weeks by district military commanders, he said he would step down as the army's commander and resign the presidency Aug. 6. Garcia Meza named the 47-year-old Cayoja to succeed him as army commander and army representative on the three-man governing junta May 26. Three days later, Garcia Meza replaced the navy's commander and junta representative, leaving only the air force command and junta seat, held by Gen. Waldo Bernal, intact. oreg 6/28/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - LONDON (AP) - Rioting flared anew in five English cities Monday night, with Leicester the hardest hit as street mobs battled police and looted shops in the 11th straight night of urban violence to grip Britain. A police spokesman in the Midlands city of Leicester said hundreds of youths, both blacks and whites, threw bricks, bottles and stones in a "concerted attack" on police. Other cities caught up in the latest frenzy of rioting were Derby and Nottingham, also in the Midlands, Liverpool in the northwest and Huddersfield in the north, police said. They said the violence was less serious than on previous nights. The Leicester spokesman said the trouble followed the pattern of the disturbances Sunday night and erupted in the predominantly black Highfields area, where mobs of youths set parked cars afire. Police who arrived on the scene ran into a hail of projectiles, he said. In nearby Derby, a police traffic office was set ablaze by youths hurling gasoline bombs, but the fire was snuffed out quickly and there were no injuries, officials reported. The new rioting came hours after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appealed to Britons to settle their differences. Her home secretary said convicted rioters would be put in army camps if there was no room for them in overcrowded jails. Moments after the prime minister issued her plea for peace, a protester threw a tomato, narrowly missing her. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said he was determined to see riot suspects brought swiftly before magistrates. He said plastic bullets, water cannon and armored vehicles would be made available to the nation's police chiefs. Whitelaw, in comments relayed by Conservative politician Edward Gardner, said rioters convicted of serious offenses would be put in army camps if necessary. More than 2,500 people have been arrested since the rioting started July 3, and the courts have moved into high gear to deal with them. Mrs. Thatcher spoke in Liverpool, the scene a week ago of the worst rioting since the violence started. London and six other English cities, as well as Dundee, Scotland, were hit by new disturbances Sunday night. "We have to try and get over it," the prime minister told a press conference after meeting with community leaders at Liverpool City Hall. "We have to pick up the pieces and build afresh." As she left the building, a tomato and several rolls of toilet paper were hurled at her from a crowd of 1,000 people protesting her economic policies. The tomato passed within inches of her head. The rioting in Dundee was the first to break out in Scotland during the wave of violence. Sixteen people were arrested as youths hurled firebombs at police vehicles and smashed shop windows. Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards told the House of Commons there was a "huge danger" that Wales would be the next to explode. org 7/14/81 === Page 22 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # American Nightmare And yet it goes on, and on, and on... Why? - Robert F. Kennedy on the murder of Martin Luther King, 1968 Suddenly, like a nightmare in instant replay, it was going on again: the faceless, rootless loner with a pistol and a lunatic mission washed up within shooting distance of the American Presidency and the American dream. Yet again, television screens burned with the sickening imagery of assassination-Ronald Reagan walking and waving through a misty Washington rain, a Saturday-night special pop-popping bullets out of a crowd, the bodies of White House press secretary James Brady and two lawmen blown hurt and bleeding to the sidewalk, the Secret Service slamming a stunned and wounded President into his limousine and racing against death to a hospital. The news this time was good for Reagan and the others, and the omens for their recovery were favorable. The most grievous wound of all was struck to the soul of a nation-the discovery that its public life is not yet safe from the fantasies of madmen or the shadow of the gun. "I Forgot to Duck": Whatever saving grace could be found in the carnage on T Street owed mainly to Reagan himself, grinning like the Sundance Kid into the face of death, and to the extraordinary resilience of the government he had inherited only 70 days before. The President walked into George Washington University Hospital on his own with his blood oozing away, an undetonated explosive bullet in his chest and his fighting spirit very much intact. "I forgot to duck," he kidded going into two hours of surgery. "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia," he kidded again coming out. His sang-froid spread to his colleagues, gathered in the White House Situation Room to install Vice President George Bush as acting President had the need arisen. It did not. Reagan resumed some semblance of command within eighteen hours-and the government, in the insistent word of the White House, "did not skip a beat." Yet the mere fact of the attentat by an overprivileged underachiever named John W. Hinckley Jr. was evidence enough that the eighteen-year death trip begun with the assassination of John F. Kennedy cannot yet be counted over. Hinckley, like most of his forebears in the American past, was the agent of no discernible cause larger than his own dementia-a Valium-dulled stew of rock songs, Nazi scriptures and an unrequited passion for the teen-age movie star Jodie Foster. But he is as well the child of the bloodiest generation in the history of America's public life and popular culture. JFK fell into the bull's-eye when Hinckley was 8, Malcolm X when he was 9, King when he was 12, Bobby when he was 13, George Wallace when he was 16, Gerald Ford when he was 20, Vernon Jordan and John Lennon when he was 25. He saved cuttings on some of them, and on their assailants, and read them to mean that murdering Reagan would be regarded-even honored-as a "historical deed." He was wrong, of course; the disturbing lesson of the attempt on Reagan was not that Americans condone or encourage public violence but that they have grown numb to it. Hinckley did have his admirers in isolated pockets-the seventh-graders in Tulsa who cheered this TV shooting as they had J. R.'s on "Dallas" a year ago and the occasional callers to radio phone-in shows asserting that Reagan got what he deserved. What was more disquieting was the widespread that's-life acquiescence with which * OR MY UFOs ... Lynene Instant replay: A pistol spat bullets, a stunned and wounded President was slammed into his car-and, beyond a line of fallen bodies, lawmen pinned Hinckley to the wall © Sebastiao Salgado Jr.-Magnum NEWSWEEK/APRIL 13, 1981 many more Americans received the news and switched channels to something else, once the initial vertigo wore off and the medical bulletins turned favorable. "Nobody was shocked," said Frank Mankiewicz, the old Kennedy hand who now heads National Public Radio. "Suddenly, it goes with the territory. Everybody knows what presidents do: they run for office, they push bills through Congress, they make speeches-and they get shot at." The swift return to what Reagan might call normalcy was due at least as much to his own iron-horse example, shaking off his wounds and his post-op pain as if he were 50 instead of 70 and chafing for his return to the White House as early as this week. "We could all say, 'Boy, that was a close one'," said Jack Casey, a Detroit political consultant. "The President signaled to us that life goes on." For a day likely to live as long as his Presidency, he was the Duke defending the Alamo, Teddy Roosevelt taking a slug in the chest en route to a speech and waving away help until he had finished. His approval rating in an ABC News/Washington Post poll bounced 11 points, overnight, to 73 per cent. "General Patton or George Gipp couldn't have done it better," a Pittsburgh political scientist said. "He'll have an image of an almost mythic hero about him now." He will need those resources and more in the weeks ahead, running the government from a sickbed through a particularly difficult passage. An Administration accustomed to running on delegated authority seemed to tick on nicely enough without him. But the crisis in Poland was heating dangerously near to what Reagan's men considered the flash point (page 62), with the President still in the hospital and his Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, freshly bruised by his rattled behavior in the first hours after the shooting. The Reagan economic package, moreover, was at a delicate moment of gestation. The Senate voted during the week to cut the budget deeper, by $2.8 billion, than Reagan had asked, and the Urban League's Jordan-himself scarred by sniper fire-pronounced it "no time to argue with a President." "Maybe the congressmen will feel sorry for me and pass my tax bill," Reagan told a visitor; still, he was champing to get back to work lest his program falter without him. ### Once again, a loner with a pistol fires on a President-and once again a nation stands in the shadow of the gun. The Wrong Track: The less tangible danger was that John Hinckley had shot up more than a President and his retinue-that his .22-caliber Röhm RG-14 had wounded the American spirit as well at a moment when it had seemed so promisingly on the mend. In surveys by Reagan's polltaker Richard Wirthlin, public support for the view that the nation has somehow "gotten off on the wrong track" had dwindled sharply, from 77 per cent last June to 47 per cent only a fortnight ago. But the attempt on Reagan's life brought home how fragile that spirit is and how resigned Americans have become to periodic armed assaults on it. It has become a given that the open society cannot surely identify the dangerous men and women in its midst, or keep them from moving about at will, or even prevent them from buying weapons meant only for murder. With Reagan's wounding, Congress rang with impassioned cries for tightened gun control-and defeated whispers that, however popular, it will not pass. To do nothing at all is to surrender to the possibility that the attempt on Reagan was not the last-that the shadow of the gun has become a deadly fact of American life. "Does anybody know what the guy's beef was?" Reagan mused, puzzling with the rest of the nation over the scrambled shards of John Hinckley's life. The real nightmare for America was that it didn't matter-that any crowd anywhere may conceal a tuned-out loser with a pistol in his pocket and a grievance to avenge in blood. PETER GOLDMAN 29 === Page 23 of 128 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1981 # After shooting - Mysterious fever hit Reagan By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (AP) -- A week after President Reagan was shot and wounded last spring he went through a second medical crisis -- a mysterious and persistent high fever that caused some of his doctors to think further surgery was necessary, says a medical writer who reconstructed the case. Little was told the public about the nature of Reagan's worrisome condition and one doctor went through a ruse to keep the George Washington University Hospital staff and the public from knowing that the president was sicker than generally known, according to John Pekkanen. Pekkanen, winner of several awards for his medical reporting, reconstructed Reagan's experience in a 15,000-word article in the August Washingtonian magazine. The article also says: -- The first official photograph of a smiling Reagan in a robe, standing with his wife, was cropped to take out a nurse, standing to Reagan's immediate left, holding a Pleur-evac device connected to a chest-tube coming out from under his robe. -- In a security lapse, a medical voyeur -- a doctor with no business being there -- wandered up to Reagan's bedside and stared intently at the president for a time. He refused to leave and had to be escorted away by hospital security people. -- When doctors were preparing to operate on Reagan to remove the bullet from his chest, they needed to know the caliber of the bullet. The FBI first told a Secret Service agent it could not say what it was. Then when the Secret Service agent shouted and insisted that the doctors had to know at once, the FBI incorrectly said the bullet was a .38-caliber. "If time had been a more critical factor, the misinformation about the bullet could have been more costly," Pekkanen wrote. Reagan's second medical crisis started on the Thursday night following the shooting on Monday, March 30. His temperature shot up to 102, his color worsened, he became more tired and his white blood count went up, Pekkanen said. The next day the fever continued and that night Reagan experienced chills. X-rays indicated fluid in the lungs, suggesting pneumonia. Surgeon Benjamin Aaron ordered a bronchoscopy to try to clear the bronchial tubes, the article said, and surgical resident David Gens was sent to pick up the black case which contained the bronchoscope. In checking it out, he lied to the nurse who asked who it was for, then taped over the case so others would not know what was inside. Although hospital spokesmen told of the president's rising temperature, they said nothing about the debate among the attending physicians over whether a second operation would be needed. Reagan was spitting up fresh blood, and that worried Aaron. That and the X-rays suggested to Aaron that Reagan could be vulnerable to a major lung bleed, the article said. "At one point," it said, "Aaron considered the possibility of going back in and surgically removing the left lobe, the source of the president's problem." Dr. Dennis O'Leary, chief medical spokesman, asked about Pekkanen's account Thursday, agreed that doctors were divided over whether a new operation might be necessary. "There were a couple of gatherings of consultants," he said. "The dilemma was an obvious one, because no one was sure the cause of the bad turn." "People ranged from the optimistic to the cautious and the concerned," he said. "We have hand-wringers like everyone else." He said nothing was told the public about the possibility of surgery because an operation was never imminent. An announcement would have been "inappropriately alarmist," he said. Finally, drugs took care of the problem. The fever broke on Tuesday, eight days after the shooting, and the crisis ended Thursday, Pekkanen wrote. The article revealed another sidelight of Reagan's hospitalization. It said that after Reagan's operation, nurse Joanne Bell had to scold him to get him to go to sleep. At 4:30 a.m. on the day after the shooting, she put a gauze pad over his eyes so he could sleep in the semidarkness of the recovery room. "Within seconds," Pekkanean wrote, "he had the pad off and was talking again. She walked back to the president's bed, took the pad in her hand, and said, 'Mr. President, in the most polite way I can tell you, when I put this over your eyes, that means I want you to shut up.' "He looked at her, winked, and took a 45-minute nap," the article says. Associated Press Laserphoto NURSE MISSING -- Medical writer John Pekkanen says in magazine article that first official photograph of president after assassination attempt eliminated nurse standing to Reagan's left. # Panama mourns Torrijos PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Panamanians Sunday mourned the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, the political strongman who died in a jungle plane crash and left a potential power vacuum at the southern tip of troubled Central America. A helicopter brought Torrijos' charred body to the capital Sunday. President Aristedes Royo and family members viewed the body, which was to lie in state Monday with the funeral to be held Tuesday. It was not known who would represent the United States, which planned to send a delegation, as did most countries in the hemisphere. === Page 24 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Drifter admits royal threats LONDON (AP) -- An American said to believe he is Jesus Christ reincarnated pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening the lives of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Magistrates ordered Ronald Zen, 42, of New York City, to undergo three weeks of psychiatric examination in custody before sentencing. "He believes he is born again as as a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Buddha being Jesus Christ," prosecutor Colin Cleugh said. Meanwhile, the British teen-ager accused of firing blank shots near the queen during a June 13 ceremonial parade was arraigned Wednesday. Marcus Sarjeant, 17, faces a maximum of seven years imprisonment for the action, which aroused widespread concern about the apparently lax security surrounding the royal family. No date has been fixed for his trial. Cleugh told the court Zen sent a padded envelope to the queen containing a painting of a bomb with the word "Boom!" next to it and a message: "This is the bomb to blow her to hell." The envelope was intercepted by postal workers. Zen also sent a letter to the London office of Time magazine threatening to kill Charles and Diana on their July 29 wedding day, Cleugh said. Another of Zen's letters -- this time to a London bank -- threatened to set fire to 100 London banks to "relieve the suffering of the world's poor." Under questioning, he told police he would not have been capable of carrying out the death threats, but "intended to damage property," Cleugh said. Zen, who had held more than 50 jobs since dropping out of high school, joined the Zen Buddhism cult last year and changed his name from Ronald Rosario Rampolla, the prosecutor said. oreg 7/2/81 Note: You think my UFOs attack on the world's "higher ups" isn't being noticed!! Owens - UFOs "higher ups" - news break NO WORLD LEADERS SHOT TODAY. TAPE AT TEN. BENSON THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC WASH. POST WRITERS oreg 5/26/81 === Page 25 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # But coalition holds # Portuguese chief resigns By PATRICK REYNA LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Francisco Pinto Balsemao resigned Monday as Portugal's prime minister since the 1974 revolution, but the three parties in his center-right coalition pledged to remain in power. The coalition, called the Democratic Alliance, met in emergency session after Pinto Balsemao resigned over a rift in his moderate Social Democrat Party that he said had made it "impossible to govern." In a statement released after that meeting, the Cabinet ministers expressed "unanimous support for and solidarity with the decision taken." "This is not the end of the Democratic Alliance," said Diogo Freitas do Amaral, whose conservative Social Democrat Center ranks second in the coalition. Goncalo Ribeiro Teles, leader of the tiny Monarchist Party, told reporters his group also would stay with the in the coalition to form the third Democratic Alliance government since 1976 and the 14th Portuguese government since the revolution. "The monarchists insist that the Democratic Alliance program be carried out with or without Pinto Balsemao," he said. Pinto Balsemao, a 44-year-old former journalist, was scheduled to hand in his formal resignation to President Antonio Ramalho Eanes at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The prime minister won a 37-15 confidence vote Saturday in the Social Democrat national council but resigned anyway. As the dominant coalition partner, the Social Democrats have the right to choose Pinto Balsemao's successor. But the party has not scheduled a national council meeting until next weekend, indicating a possible power struggle between hard-liners and moderates, political observers said. Pinto Balsemao co-founded the Social Democrats seven years ago with his predecessor as prime minister, Francisco Sa Carneiro, who died in a plane crash. He succeeded Sa Carneiro in January but was considered too liberal by many of the late prime minister's followers. One of the party's four vice presidents quit last month over political differences with Pinto Balsemao, and a second resigned as social affairs minister. The opposition Socialists said in a statement that the government's problems should not be taken as a sign of crisis for Portugal's democracy, which was formalized in constitution in 1976, two years after a military revolution ended 40 years of right-wing authoritarian government. A Communist Party statement repeated earlier calls for dissolution of Parliament, the establishment of a caretaker executive and holding of early elections. - UFOs "higher ups" - already negotiated over a long period of time and agreed to by all the delegations," the group said in a statement delivered by its chairman, Inam Ul Haque of Pakistan. ## Portuguese premier quits LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Premier Francisco Balsemao resigned Monday after failing to silence criticism of his leadership by rebels in his ruling coalition. The 43-year-old Social Democrat announced his resignation at a meeting of the party's national council. He had warned he would continue as party leader only if a confidence vote for him was unanimous. He was opposed by 15 members of the council. - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Portuguese regime quits LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Social Democratic Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao submitted the resignation of his 7-month-old coalition government Tuesday to President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. On leaving the presidential Belem Palace after an 85-minute audience, the 43-year-old lawyer and journalist said he presented his Cabinet's resignation and that Eanes would release a statement. "The government will continue to function until a solution is found," Balsemao said without indicating whether Eanes accepted the resignation. He said he "trusts the Social Democratic Party will find a solution" for the crisis, but in a clearly uncompromising mood, challenged the vocal party minority that forced him from office to find his successor. === Page 26 of 128 Judge links CIA head Casey to fund-raising scandal Stock Deals in the '70s - "UFOs" "higher ups" - S.F. Chron. 7/15/81 Accused CIA Official Quits Washington Max C. Hugel, hand-picked by CIA Director William J. Casey to be chief of the agency's clandestine operations, resigned yesterday because of allegations that he participated in fraudulent securities transactions when he managed an electronics business in the 1970s. Calling the allegations, made by two former business associates, "unfounded, unproven and untrue," Hugel submitted a letter of resignation to Casey. The letter said the allegations had become "a burden which I no longer believe is fair to impose on the administration, the agency," and his family. Casey immediately named John H. Stein, a career CIA employee, to succeed Hugel in the sensitive post of deputy director for operations. The charges and sudden resignation presented the Reagan administration with an unwelcome controversy at a time when it is trying to gain passage of major tax-cut legislation and avoid public airing of internal foreign policy disagreements. The immediate repercussions appeared to include a slight chilling in the relationship between the White House and Casey, who managed President Reagan's election campaign last year and has acted as a close adviser to the president. Officially, the White House said that Reagan was "saddened" by the events that led to Hugel's resignation. Officials, however, emphasized that Hugel was not nomi- Back Page Col. 1 CIA Chief Misled Investors In Former Firm, Judge Rules New York CIA Director William Casey and seven other members of a now-defunct New Orleans agribusiness firm knowingly misled investors in raising $3.5 million for the firm, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Charles Stewart of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said that Casey, a board member and secretary of Multiponics Inc., permitted distribution of a circular for a security offering that contained false and misleading details. The circular also omitted key facts about the company's financial dealings. Stewart ruled in an opinion disclosed yesterday. The judge's findings were contained in a partial "summary judgment" on May 19. The ruling came as a result of a suit filed in 1974 by investors in Multiponics, a firm that Back Page Col. 1 981 - "UFOs" "higher ups" Italy reshuffles military leaders ROME (AP) -- The Italian government reshuffled top military posts Saturday in response to the secret Masonic lodge scandal that brought down the 40th post-war Italian government last May. Premier Giovanni Spadolini's five-party Cabinet named Gen. Vittorio Santini, formerly commander of NATO land forces in southern Europe, as Italy's joint chief of staff. He replaces Adm. Giovanni Torrisi, who quit last week after being linked to the lodge scandal. Gen. Umberto Capuzzo, commander of Italy's para-military police Carabinieri was named new army chief of staff. - "UFOs" "higher ups" - Top Iranian theoretician gunned down By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Assassins in a speeding car shot and killed the top theoretician of Iran's ruling party Wednesday and Iranian firing squads executed 11 more persons, including a Harvard-educated cancer specialist. The deaths brought the number of leftists put to death in three days to 38 and the number of assassinations to 260 since former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted June 22. - "UFOs" "higher ups" - Iran ministers resign BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- All of Iran's cabinet ministers and ranking civil servants Saturday submitted their resignations to President-elect Mohammed Ali Rajai, the state-run news agency PARS reported. The move clears the way for Rajai, elected overwhelmingly in the July 24 elections, to choose a new prime minister. S.F. Chron. 8/1/81 === Page 27 of 128 A6 UFO, 6 Projects - laganas 75 goot. ) 13Meu, THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981 Iranians pack streets to mourn dead leaders BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - More, blow at the Moslem clergy-dominated than a million chest-heating Iranians screaming "Death to Americal' packed the streets of Tehran Tuesday at the mass funeral of 72 revolutionary lead- ers killed in a bomb blast. Banner-waving mourners shouted "America is the enemyy' as the six doz- en flag-draped coffins were carried from Parliament House to the martyrs' section of Tehran's Behesht Zahra Cemetery in a six-hour funeral. Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ru- hollah Khomeini blamed an under- ground Marxist group for Sunday's ex- plosion at the ruling Islamic Republican Party's central headquarters in Tehran. Khomeini, the 81-year-old patriarch of Iran's Islamic revolution, said in a message read over Tehran radio by an announcer that the blame for the bomb- ing rested with "blind hearts who claim to take part in crusades for the people." A literal translation of Mujahedeen Khalq, an opposition group that blends Islam with Marxism, is "people's cru- saders." "You are breathing your last breaths," Khomeini warned. "You are going to hell." Sunday's blast struck a devastating Islamic Republican Party only days af- ter it had consolidated its hold on Iran's revolutionary government with the ouster of moderate President Abolhas- san Bani-Sadr. The party's leader, Chief Justice Avatollah Mohammad Beheshti, was killed in the explosion, as were four government ministers, eight deputy ministers and 23 Parliament members. according to the latest Tehran radio toll. Beheshti, considered the second most powerful man in the country next to Khomeini, engineered Bani-Sadr's impeachment by Parliament June 21. Tehran radio said at least two of the victims were buried in their home- towns. At the beginning of the funeral, Par- liament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani told the mourners, "How can anyone ask us to let them go after this horrify- ing massacre?" The crowd roared back, "Death to the leftovers of the devil (America)." A spokesman for Tehran's revolu- tionary police said in a telephone inter- view that an undisclosed number of sus- pects had been arrested in connection with the bombing. -info, "higher ups"- Polish leader Kania faces party struggle Greg 5 -7/16/81 WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - A vicious power struggle to wrest control of the Polish Communist Party from Stanislaw Kania was reported under way Thursday, only hours after his predecessor Edward Gierek and six members of his disgraced regime were purged from the party. Sources at the party's emergency con- gress said all other issues had been swept aside by behind-the-scenes battles to win support from the 2,000 delegates in the Unprecedented secret ballot to choose a party leader. While the party struggle was under way in Warsaw, talks in the labor strong- hold of Gdansk to avert a strike by 40,000 Baltic coast dockworkers broke down Thursday and the leaders of the Solidarity union chapter went into emergency ses- sion to decide whether to walk out. Kania, who replaced Gierek last Sep- tember, faced a challenge by at least sev- en other candidates - four of them con- sidered pro-Moscow hardliners - in an increasingly wide-open race. The congress met behind closed doors Thursday to be- gin the lengthy selection of a newly ex- panded 200-member Central Committee with 70 alternate members, after which the party secretary will be elected by se- cret vote of the entire congress. "Personal issues and manipulation con- nected with them have become the chief item of the congress," a source said. The world Zambia tells pair to leave JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -Two American diplomats have been ordered to leave Zambia, appar- ently on spying charges, one of the dip- Jomats confirmed early Tuesday in a telephone interview from the Zambian capital, Lusaka. Michael O'Brian, head of the Lusaka embassy's information arm, the Interna- tional Communications Agency, added: "I would prefer not to comment." He confirmed, however, that Zambia had ordered him and David Fin- ney, a political first secretary, to leave "shortly." He said he did not know the exact charge against him but replied when asked about reports that he had been accused of spying, "I assume those are the charges." Ojeg 6/23/81 - 4For " higher wfor "- CIA faces Columbia 7/15/8. WASHINGTON (AP) - CIA Director William J. Casey faces a federal judge's ruling that he misled investors in a business venture in the late 1960s. The CIA's spy chier resigned Tuesday after allegations of stock manipulation Max Hugel, whose appointment irked career intelligence officers, resigned as the agency's deputy director of operations Tues- day. hours after The Washington POST published allegations that in 1974 he slipped information about a firm he headed to two "all Street brokers. -UFOs "higher we"- Labor leader succumbs WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fred J. Kroll, who in 1978 halted most of the coun- try's railroad traiffic with a nationwide strike, died Thursday after a long bout with leukemia. He was 45. Kroll was president of the Brotherhood of Rail- way and Airline Clerks and was one of the fastest- rising young labor leaders in the nation AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland called Kroll's death "a tragic loss for the labor movement." Funeral services will be held Monday in Bethesda, Md., where Kroll resided with his wife and three daughters. A delegation from the AFL-CIO Execu- tive Council, which opens its summer meeting in Chi- cago Monday, will attend ojeg57/31/8, the funeral. === Page 28 of 128 CIA spy chief resigns amid allegations By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN WASHINGTON (AP) -- Max Hugel, a millionaire outsider whose appointment irked career intelligence officers, resigned Tuesday as overseer of the CIA's spy network hours after a report that he slipped inside information about a firm he once headed to two Wall Street brokers. Hugel called the allegations by two former business associates, recounted in Tuesday's Washington Post, "unfounded, unproven and untrue." "These allegations ... have become a burden which I no longer believe is fair to impose on the administration, the agency, my family and the splendid men and women who work with me," he added in a letter of resignation to CIA Director William J. Casey. Casey accepted Hugel's resignation with "deepest regret" and immediately named career CIA official John Stein as Hugel's successor. At the White House, chief spokesman David R. Gergen said that Casey discussed the impending Post story last Thursday with White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and White House Counsel Fred Fielding, and that Fielding met later with Hugel. The Washington Star quoted sources Tuesday as saying Baker told Casey to get rid of Hugel, but Gergen said Hugel was not pressured to quit. "He resigned on his own initiative and with consultation with Mr. Casey," Gergen said. Gergen said he expected no official investigation, noting that a five-year statute of limitations applies to the kind of allegation made against Hugel. He said it will be up to Casey to decide whether to review why the CIA's background check of Hugel had not turned up the allegations. Although the CIA does not announce in-house appointments, it was learned in mid-May that Casey had selected Hugel, a 56-year-old New Hampshire executive who had worked with Casey on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, to be deputy director of operations. As "DDO," Hugel, whose intelligence background was limited to some postwar work with the Army in Japan, was in command of the agency's clandestine service. That made him responsible for intelligence-gathering around the world and for the CIA's most delicate work -- covert operations, such as supporting guerrilla fighters in some countries or attempting to influence foreign politicians. MAX HUGEL Former CIA officials immediately raised a howl of protest that Hugel was grossly unqualified, but Casey's closeness with Reagan allowed him the freedom to pick his own man. Casey defended Hugel as an aggressive businessman who had worked well as an organizer of ethnic groups in the Reagan campaign and would bring an independent view to the activities of the clandestine service. Eventually, Casey's predecessor in the Carter administration, Stansfield Turner, came to the nominee's defense, arguing that Hugel should be judged on his performance, not his background. Cord Meyer, a longtime CIA official who revealed Hugel's appointment in the newspaper column he writes, said: "I feel they recognized their mistake and moved quickly to repair it. I thought Casey was taking a very long gamble putting him in that job because of his inexperience, perhaps an unnecessary one because there were so many qualified men to fill it." Meyer hailed the choice of Stein, who he said has experience in CIA headquarters and abroad and has served for the past four years as deputy chief of operations. "I should think the troops would be well pleased with Stein," Meyer said. "It will improve morale all around." The State Department's 1974 Biographic Register lists only one John Stein, a Yale graduate now 48. The register shows that Stein served as a foreign service reserve political officer, a typical CIA cover, in Belgium, The Congo, Cameroon, Cambodia and Libya. The columnist said in an interview: "I've heard some rumors that the 'old boy' network was behind this, but that's not true so far as I know. I didn't know about this when I wrote the column, and apparently these men went to The Post on their own." Hugel went to the Post in person last Friday to challenge the charges the paper was preparing to publish. He was accompanied to the four-hour meeting by his lawyers and Stanley Sporkin, CIA general counsel. Upon learning of the information the paper planned to publish, Sporkin told Post editors he had to "make a recommendation," apparently to Casey about Hugel. Casey, who once headed the Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigates the kind of allegations made against Hugel, brought Sporkin to the agency earlier this year from the SEC, where he had built a reputation as a tough head of its enforcement division. Hugel released a statement Monday night through his lawyer, Judah Best, that said he had "never made a penny of unlawful profit or done anything else to bring discredit upon my company, my family, myself or the United States." The Post quoted New York brothers Thomas R. McNell, 49, and Samuel F. McNell, 47, as saying they and Hugel participated in a series of prohibited practices in 1974 to promote the stock of Hugel's electronics company, Brother International Corp. They said Hugel gave them inside information about the company's potential earnings in advance of disclosure to other investors and improperly funneled $131,000 to their brokerage firm, McNell Securities. === Page 29 of 128 - "UFOs higher ups" - # Stewart to retire from Supreme Court By KEVIN M. COSTELOE WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Potter Stewart, a longtime swing vote between conservatives and liberals, announced Thursday his retirement after 23 years on the Supreme Court. The vacancy sparked speculation over President Reagan's pledge to name the first woman to the nation's highest bench. Stewart, who personified a middle-of-the-road approach to interpreting the Constitution, gave no reason for the publicly surprising decision to leave the court July 3. "Now that it is time to go, I leave with the hope that the Supreme Court will be in good and wise hands," Stewart said in his retirement letter to Reagan, dated May 18. Reagan, who learned of Stewart's decision in a secret Oval Office meeting a month ago, said he has made no decision upon a replacement but added that he was "always" looking for a woman to appoint. "We have been quite some time just basically preparing for any future appointments," the president said. "There will be an announcement shortly." Reagan's choice will require Senate confirmation. The president's deputy press secretary 6/19/81 - "UFOs higher ups" - By JUAN M. VASQUEZ LA Times-Washington Post Service 6/28/81 MEXICO CITY - With astonishing speed, Jorge Diaz Serrano has gone from being one of the most powerful men in Mexico to being practically a non-person. The former director of Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly, Diaz Serrano was considered to be one of the handful of men who might become president of Mexico next year if he could overcome strong opposition within the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. His strength stemmed from the leadership of Pemex, which rose from 15th position among world oil producers in 1976 to No. 4, just behind the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and the United States, in 1981. But his status as a presidential contender - indeed, as a public figure - ended suddenly June 6, when he resigned from the government after failing to win backing for a politically unpopular $4-a-barrel reduction of Mexican oil prices. Other highly visible Mexican officials have fallen from grace from time to time, but the political demise of Diaz Serrano and its aftermath goes beyond the fate of one individual. It illuminates the political system of Mexico, the race for the presidency and the increasingly important role of oil. Much of the credit for Mexico's growth as a petroleum power was given to Diaz Serrano, a wealthy industrialist with a background in the oil business. He took over the powerful Pemex job after his close friend, Jose Lopez Portillo, became president in late 1976. Since then, Mexican production of crude oil has tripled to about 2.55 million barrels a day. The average volume of crude oil exports in 1980 was 827,750 barrels a day, almost an eight-fold increase over 1976. From 1976 to 1980, the annual value of oil exports increased from $311 million to $10.3 billion, giving the country the opportunity to overcome its Third World economic problems and develop into a fully industrial state. The oil discoveries opened a new chapter in Mexican history, raising political and social expectations as never before, and at the center of all the activity was Diaz Serrano. He was traveling to China one day, meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba another day, visiting Pemex installations all over Mexico, giving speeches frequently, and, in the process, garnering more media attention than any other government figure except, of course, the president. But since the day he left government June 6 and went into seclusion, Diaz Serrano has disappeared from the news, except as a target of criticism. From the president on down, no one mentions his name, even while discussing the simmering oil price controversy. A14 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981 - "UFOs higher ups" - # Not a team player # Drug agency chief quits under fire By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (AP) - Drug Enforcement Administrator Peter B. Bensinger resigned under fire Tuesday but expressed confidence that the Reagan administration would succeed in reducing drug availability. An administration official, who asked not to be named, had disclosed last week that the DEA leader would be replaced and Bensinger announced Tuesday that his last day would be July 10. "I'm leaving with no animosity to this administration, the Department of Justice or the White House. Each administration, and I've served in three, is entitled to its own team," he said. 6/17/81 And, he added, "I think a reduction in drug availability can and will be achieved during the Reagan administration and without my functioning as administrator." The official who discussed Bensinger's departure indicated that he was not viewed as a team player but rather had campaigned in Congress to protect his agency. "I don't need a reason as to why my tenure will be concluded next month," Bensinger told reporters at a morning news conference. === Page 30 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - TOP OF THE WEEK Newsweek APRIL 13, 1981 # The President's Close Call It was an American nightmare in instant replay--a deranged loner named John W. Hinckley Jr. (right) pumping a fusillade of explosive bullets into the President, his press secretary, Jim Brady, and two law-enforcement officers. Ronald Reagan, 70 years old and 70 days into his Presidency, walked through a serious chest wound with extraordinary bounce and grit, and the omens for the others were good. But the carnage in Washington placed the nation once again under the shadow of the gun. UFOs Reagan had barely reached the hospital when Newsweek began deploying a team of reporters and photographers for what became a 29-page SPECIAL REPORT on the assassination attempt and its consequences. The package includes an hour-by-hour account of the shooting and its aftermath, a close-up of Hinckley and his bizarre fantasy, the stories of how surgeons saved Reagan and Brady and how the government kept running without a full-time President, and separate articles on the psychological profile of assassins, on whether the risks they pose to public men can be cut--and on why prospects for gun control remain dim despite the shooting of a President. Page 25 - UFO attack on govt. "higher ups" - # Haig suffers double loss in infighting By JEROME R. WATSON Field News Service oreg 4/2/81 WASHINGTON -- On the eve of his Middle East diplomatic tour, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig is emerging as a double loser after embroiling himself unnecessarily in two controversies in recent days. Haig, believed still to harbor presidential ambitions of his own, has lost some respect and goodwill within the administration and may well have hurt his long-term political prospects. That is the view of some high administration officials, who also contend privately that Haig has come off a poor second best politically to Vice President George Bush -- a potential rival for the presidency in 1984. First came Haig's public and unsuccessful campaign to prevent President Reagan from naming Bush, instead of Haig, as his "crisis manager." This move shocked and angered top White House aides, who were astounded that Haig would violate one of Washington's most obvious, if unwritten rules: Never engage the president in a public fight if you work for him. Some Reagan aides privately viewed Haig's maneuvering on the crisis manager issue as a serious tactical misstep that raised questions about his temperament and judgment. After that flap, one White House senior staffer said, "Haig has privately threatened to resign eight or nine times already, but he hasn't made the threat directly to the president -- and if I were he, I wouldn't." ALEXANDER HAIG The implication was that Reagan, who abhors staff dissension, might not try to dissuade Haig from quitting. Some Reagan aides also maintained that Haig had further strained his relations with the White House by complaining to some of his associates that the White House had given the crisis post to Bush in order to promote Bush's political fortunes at the expense of Haig's. Such griping, if it really occurred, was seen as an unseemly display of ambition by an appointee of a president who was only recently installed in office and had not renounced seeking a second term in '84. Just as the dust was settling over Haig Flap Number One, along came Number Two -- seen by administration sources as much less significant than the first, but a debit for Haig, nonetheless. After Reagan was shot Monday afternoon, Haig and other Cabinet members gathered in the White House Situation Room, partly to be available if it were necessary to transfer presidential powers to Bush. A majority of the Cabinet can approve such a transfer when a president is disabled. Haig then decided it was necessary to assure other nations and the American public that the government was functioning normally. He therefore appeared in the White House briefing room to offer those assurances. Although this action had not been cleared with Bush or top Reagan aides, the White House later said Haig acted correctly. === Page 31 of 128 note: my UFOs influencing people to attack the "higher ups" in government - Gene - UFOs "higher ups" - # Government in Iran resigns; 22 executed By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Iran's government went through the formality of resigning Saturday to pave the way for a new Cabinet, authorities announced 22 more executions and ex-President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr moved from one Paris suburb to another to avoid assassins. His supporters in Iran shot and killed two revolutionary guards in a patrol car in the Caspian Sea town of Amol and set off a bomb that killed three fundamentalist Islamic politicians in the central city of Shiraz, the official Pars news agency said. Tehran radio quoted the president of Iran's military courts, Mohammadi Reyshahri, as saying seven persons have been arrested in connection with Bani-Sadr's escape from Iran to France aboard a military plane Wednesday. France granted him political asylum. The broadcast did not name the people arrested. Tehran radio's broadcast on the Cabinet said Mohammad Ali Rajai, Iran's prime minister and president-elect, accepted the resignations of all the ministers and asked them to remain until a new prime minister is chosen. Rajai was elected a week ago to replace Bani-Sadr. By DAN DORFMAN - UFOs "higher ups" - # inside business A federal judge has ruled that William J. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, knowingly misled investors in a $3.5 million fund-raising effort for a now-defunct New Orleans company, Multiponics Inc., while serving as a board member and secretary of that corporation. Judge Charles Stewart of the Southern District of New York concluded that Casey was one of a number of Multiponics officers and directors who permitted distribution of an offering circular in conjunction with the fund-raising effort when they expressly knew the memorandum contained both false and misleading information and omitted material facts that were detrimental to the company's prospects. The judge's findings - which were set forth in a "memorandum decision" last May 19 and have thus far escaped public disclosure - represent an outgrowth of a suit filed by unhappy Multiponics investors in October 1974. Multiponics was organized in January 1968 to engage in farming operations, the agricultural business and the acquisition of land in connection with these activities. The company subsequently went bankrupt in February 1971 after it was unable to raise sufficient financing to continue in operation. A public offering had been contemplated, but never came to pass. Casey, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and head of the Export-Import Bank during the Nixon and Ford administrations, refused to comment on Judge Stewart's findings. # 10th suspect to imperil Reagan held HATBORO, Pa. (UPI) - A 42-year-old man, at least the 10th person taken into custody for allegedly threatening President Reagan during the past two weeks, is being held under $50,000 bond. James T. McCaughey, a knitter with a local fish net company, was scheduled to be formally charged Monday with threatening to kill Reagan and assaulting a Secret Service agent who arrested him, authorities said. McCaughey, of Hatboro, Pa. - a suburb of Philadelphia - was taken into custody Saturday shortly after allegedly making a telephone call to the Secret Service, threatening Reagan, a Secret Service spokesman said. The rash of threats against Reagan has occurred following the attempted assassination of the president two weeks ago. Reagan, shot in the chest, returned to the White House Saturday after being hospitalized for 13 days. A Secret Service spokesman said McCaughey would be charged in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia with threatening to kill Reagan and with assaulting a Secret Service agent who arrested him. McCaughey already has been charged with assaulting two local policemen who assisted in his arrest. Ron Muller, owner of a meat and sandwich shop below McCaughey's apartment, described McCaughey as "a quiet guy, loner. I always saw him walking around by himself," he added. The other nine suspects who allegedly threatened the president's life were taken into custody in Raleigh, N.C., suburbs of Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Salisbury, Md., Marion County, Mo., St. Louis, Mo., and Tifton, Ga. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Nicaragua's 'Cmdr. Zero' resigns MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) - The Sandinista's famed "Commander Zero," Eden Pastora, resigned as Nicaraguan Deputy Defense Minister to join the guerrilla war "of another people" - presumably in nearby El Salvador. "I march to where there is the stench of gunpowder," Pastora said in a resignation letter Wednesday to Defense Minster Humberto Ortega Saavedra. "Believe me it is not easy to write this letter (considering) the real possibility of death in this new step in my life," he said. "I go moved by the Sandinista spirit and my quality as a provincial person, a mixture of worker and peasant." Pastora left Nicaragua for his farm in Costa Rica with deputy interior minister Valdivia Hidalgo Herrera, who also resigned his post Wednesday, Sandinista Commander Bayardo Arce said. A hero of the 1979 civil war that deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Pastora earned his nom de guerre "Commander Zero" in the spectacular August 22, 1978, takeover of the National Palace in Managua. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Nominee critical after fire President Reagan's nominee to represent the United States on the World Bank was reported in critical condition at a Washington hospital Monday with injuries suffered in a minor fire at the prestigious Cosmos Club. Wilson Schmidt, 54, was staying on the third floor of the club Sunday night when the fire started in an overstuffed chair, apparently from a discarded cigarette, District of Columbia fire officials said. === Page 32 of 128 Note: When my UFOs told me they were going to attack the "higher ups" in the U.S. government, (and I reported it to scientists in advance of this shooting) they were not just joking. I was. # What the Doctors Did "I can't breathe," whispered Ronald Reagan. He was sweating and gray-faced, sagging toward the floor as he walked into the emergency room and was lifted onto a wheeled table. Quick hands began stripping off his clothes. "We don't think he's hit," said a Secret Service man. "We think he broke a rib when we pushed him against the car." But a doctor had already spotted the bullet hole in the President's suit jacket--and the medical team at George Washington University Hospital that was to save the lives of the President and his press secretary was already well into its practiced routine. The President was exhibiting early symptoms of shock. Though alert, Reagan was gasping for air and sweating, and his blood pressure had dropped. Paged on the hospital's speakers, Dr. Joseph M. Giordano, head of the trauma team, hurried to the emergency room, where Reagan's blood pressure quickly recovered after he lay down. The doctor gave the President a local anesthetic and then inserted a tube into the lung cavity just beneath the bullet hole under his left arm. Other physicians and technicians drew blood samples, hooked up an oxygen mask and intravenous tubes to monitor blood gases and administer blood, and inserted a catheter to measure urine flow. On a chest X-ray, the bullet showed up as a white spot in the lower lobe of the left lung. It had torn a 3-inch furrow through the lung, deflating it as it went. But the physicians couldn't be sure whether they had spotted the entire bullet or whether fragments had broken off and struck organs in the abdominal cavity. Further X-rays of the abdomen reassured them. Meanwhile, the President continued to bleed steadily through the tube in his chest. Quickly, the trauma team set up more than a dozen units of blood and prepared for transfusion. Although Reagan is type O-positive, at first they used O-negative, which can be given to anyone regardless of his blood type, and later used O-positive to replace the 2½ quarts lost from the time of injury. In many such gunshot wounds, the lung reinflates and the bleeding stops when the chest tube is inserted, and the bullet can be left where it is without any risk. But Reagan continued to bleed. "What are we doing, Joe?" asked Dr. Sol Edelstein, chief of the emergency room. "Are we headed to ICU or are we headed to OR?" Edelstein wanted to know whether intensive care would be enough, or if an operation was urgent. Surgeon Benjamin Aaron, 47, decided to operate. As the team prepared for the 200-foot journey to the "heart room," fully equipped for major chest and heart surgery, Edelstein cautioned the technicians: "We are going slow, slow, slow." The President was propped at a 30-degree angle on the wheeled cart, or gurney, awake and talking to his wife and aides as he passed; his vital signs were still "rock stable," a doctor said later, and there was no need to risk anyone stumbling over one of the tubes threaded into him. In the operating room, the team gave the President an intravenous dose of the anesthetic thiopental sodium and then passed a tube down his throat so that a respirator could aid his breathing. Then they put him to sleep with nitrous oxide administered through a mask. "We will follow routine trauma protocol," Giordano announced to his colleagues. The first order of business was peritoneal lavage, a procedure to double-check for injuries in the abdominal cavity. Giordano made a small incision under the navel and pumped a clear liquid into the abdomen. The liquid that drained back out seemed free of blood, showing that no organs had been damaged. But to make sure, the fluid was sent to the lab for analysis. After 45 minutes Giordano turned his patient over to the thoracic surgeons, Aaron and Dr. Katherine Chaney. Incision: The President was turned on his right side with his arms taped in front of him. The team removed the chest tube to get more room and then made a 6-inch incision, from under the left nipple to the left side. The President's ribs were spread apart by a metal retractor and, wearing a lamp on his forehead, Aaron peered into the chest. He first removed a large clot of blood and then began searching for the bullet. The surgeon determined that neither the heart nor the aorta, the body's main artery, had sustained any injury. But failing to find the bullet, he ordered another X-ray--a side view of the chest. After half an hour Aaron found the "Devastator" explosive slug, removed it with a probe and handed it to a Secret Service agent, who carried it away in a metal cup. It had failed to explode on impact, but was flattened to the size and shape of a dime, suggesting that it had ricocheted off the Presidential limousine before striking Reagan. Aaron then sutured the tear in the lung, removed the retractor and closed the incision. Christoph Blumrich--NEWSWEEK ## How the surgeons treated Reagan's wounded chest and James Brady's injured brain. # Ohio congressman dies WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Tennyson Guyer, R-Ohio, died at his Washington home early Sunday, apparently in his sleep, his press secretary said. "There has been no official cause of death," said Joseph Jansen, who confirmed the news from the district office in Lima, Ohio. Jansen said Guyer's wife, Mae, told him the 67-year-old lawmaker apparently died peacefully. "Mrs. Guyer wasn't aware there was any problem until she awoke this morning and discovered him," Jansen said Sunday. Jansen said Guyer suffered "a slight heart attack about 1976," but there had been no complications. 4/13/81 "In fact, he had been in better health in recent years than at any earlier time," Jansen said. "He was getting along real well. He's been putting in a minimum of 10 to 12 hour days at the office and had shown no signs of any problems." Guyer, a member of Congress since 1973, was a senator in the Ohio General Assembly from 1959 to 1972 and was mayor of Celina, Ohio, from 1940 to 1944. In Congress, Guyer served on the House Veterans Affairs Committee and most recently headed the special House subcommittee investigating MIAs (missing In action) in Southeast Asia. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Carter denied privileges Former President Carter is not eligible for military commissary privileges, the White House military office said Tuesday. Edward V. Hickey, who heads the office, said Carter does not qualify for the right to shop at Defense Department commissaries, which sell food at reduced prices to military personnel and their families. Hickey said the question of whether the former president can shop at base post exchanges, which sell other goods, is up to the three service secretaries. Phil Wise, Carter's chief of staff, inquired several weeks ago whether Carter, who served as an officer in the Navy, is eligible to shop at the commissaries. The Defense Department ruled a few weeks ago that Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was not eligible for commissary privileges. The ruling followed disclosure that the household staff at the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas, had been shopping at area commissaries for about five years. 5/5/81 === Page 33 of 128 Flurry of threats target president - UFO. " higher yes"- WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Secret his aides know he would be loathe to go Service says there has been an upsurge in along with them. threats against President Reagan and Vice President George Bush since the assas- Sination attempt against the president last week. The Secret Service declined Wednesday to divulge the number of threats, but un- confirmed reports said there had been as many as 300 since Reagan and three oth- ers were shot by a gunman March 30. At least three men were picked up this week for allegedly making threats. They were: Edward Richardson, 22, arrested in New York Tuesday; Steven E. Seach, an employee at a suburban Philadelphia boarding school, arrested Monday; and Ronald Peppler, 23, described as a tran- sient, arrested Wednesday night in a Los Angeles Skid Row hotel lobby. Several inquiries are under way on pos- sible new security measures to prevent a repetition of last week's shooting. The recommendations will be turned over to the White House, which also has a study under way. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said nificance of what some have termed a on NBC's "Today" program the presi- failure by government agencies to moni- tor potential threats to the president. dent's schedule and travel plans probably will no longer be available for publication John Hinckley Ir because of the attempt on Reagan's life. Bush's appointments no longer are be- ing issued for publication. Regan said a decision on the president's schedule and on "how much publicity will be given his advance trips" will be made when he re- turns from the hospital. Regan said the FBI might seek more on the pa authority to deal with suspicious persons. ing wrift There also are suggestions Reagan's Regan sai publio appearances be limited, although Dnes 4/9/81 5. - "For "higher ups"- Kissinger loses spot on elite GOP council WASHINGTON (UPI) - Henry Kissinger, who rose to fame and power as secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been dumped from the board of the elite Council on Foreign Relations. Winston Lord, president of the 60-year-old private council, called the Kissinger bump a "fluke." But another group member said the opportunity to vote against Kis- singer "was too good to pass up ... The Washington Post reported Thursday that Kissing- er was defeated this week in his bid to be elected to a second term as a board member of the New York-based council, for years the international home of the Republi- can Party. Kissinger was one of nine candidates for eight board seats. Word trickled out Monday about the outcome of the vote, triggering some wrath and consternation among several council officials. David Rockefeller, the board's chairman, expressed his alarm in a formal statement. He said he was sure most of the 24 board members regarded Kissinger as one of the country's "most out- standing public servants" and "deeply regret his retire- ment from the board of directors as a result of the election." Lord, a longtime Kissinger aide, was quoted by the Post as saying the defeat of Kissinger is "really a fluke." OrRIN 6/19/8, oreg 7/29/8, - "FOR " higher where - Haig fires ambassador for 'indiscreet' remarks By GEORGE GEDDA 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert G. Neumann, who became U.S. ambassa- dor to Saudi Arabia just two months ago, has been fired because of "indis- creet remarks" he made about Secre- tary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. in a private meeting last week, informed sources said Tuesday. The sources said Neumann criticized Haig during a meeting with Senate For- eign Relations Committee chairman Charles Percy, R-III. Haig became aware of the remarks and fired Neu- mann within 24 hours after receiving White House authorization, according to the informants, who asked not to be identified. An aide to Percy refused to describe what Neumann told the senator. "He wouldn't do that because he wants am- bassadors to be able to speak to him freely," said the press aide, Scott Co- hen. "And also, he and Neumann are old friends so he would not do that." The session with Percy was attend- ed by a State Department note-taker and another official from the depart- ment's Middle East Bureau, according to a congressional source who asked not to be identified. with try at the Na three pis Oct. 9 - was in to The FE of the ar The world -1/01" higherape- Nationalist killed SALISBURY Zimbabwe (AP) - An assassin killed/a top officiabol a South African black national- ist movement in suburban Salisbury, authorities said Saturday, Joe Gqabi was shot and killed at point-blank range as he was leaving his home in Ashdown Park Friday night, Zimbabwe's information minister, Nathan Sha- muyarira, told reporters Gqabi's body was found outside his house in the middle-class suburb soon after the shooting. Police found a rifle, silencer and nine spent car- tridges near the scene of the shooting, Shamuyarira said. Shamuyarira condemned the slaying, but did not speculate who might have been responsible. Gqabi was a leader of the African National Con- gress, or ANC, the main black nationalist organization campaigning for an end to white-minority rule in South Africa. South African police sought him fo political offences. The ANC is outlawed in South Africa but ha offices in several black African nations, as well as i several foreign capitals. greg 8/2/8, "Here you have to have a delicate bal- ance between protection and politics." Re- gan said. "He's a politician. He likes to be with people; he was elected by people. Now, to prevent that man from getting close to people . . . is wrong, so we're going to have to balance that off." Bush has had extra security since the attack on Reagan, in evidence Tuesday night when he attended a dinner at the same hotel where Reagan was attacked. Noting that a Washington newspaper carried both Reagan's and Bush's sched- ules the day the president was shot, Bush's press secretary Peter Teeley said, "It's a different thing for reporters to know where he's going to be, as opposed to putting it in print." "I don't want this press office to be responsible for a man with a gun in his hands and the vice president's schedule in his pocket," remarked one White House aide. Meantime, Regan played down the sig- === Page 34 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Poles shake up cabinet, propose massive layoffs WARSAW, Poland (UPI) -- Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski announced a major cabinet shake-up Friday in a bid to revive the nation's faltering economy, a day after he told a Soviet-bloc economic summit Poland could solve its crisis on its own. The move, which involved condensing 11 economic related ministries into six and the firing of eight cabinet ministers, came a day after the government proposed a drastic austerity program, including laying off 1.2 million workers, to pull Poland back from the brink of bankruptcy. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, meanwhile, was expected in Warsaw later in the day, apparently carrying a warning from Moscow against liberalization before the Polish Communist Party Congress opens July 12. Jaruzelski's bold move was one of the most sweeping cabinet changes the Polish government has seen and the most extensive shake-up since the labor unrest began a year ago. The prime minister, an army general, announced the changes in a nationally televised address to Parliament which was winding up a two-day session on the nation's economic crisis. In one key post -- the mining and energy ministry -- Jaruzelski appointed another general, Czeslaw Piotrowski. Coal production has slumped heavily in the past year, especially since the five-day work week was instituted, and coal exports -- once Poland's chief foreign currency earners -- have dropped off, angering the Soviet Union and other East bloc allies. The government economic program presented to Parliament Thursday said the five-day week for miners was inviolable, and other means must be found to increase production. The prime minister flew back from the East bloc's COMECON economic alliance summit in Sofia, Bulgaria, to announce the changes. Jaruzelski had told the COMECON prime ministers' meeting that while Poles "appreciate the intentions" of a sharp Soviet warning letter last month, the belief has been strengthened that "the party, by reconstructing its leading role, is able to fulfill its historical mission (and) lead the country out of crisis with its own resources." Deputy Prime Minister Zbigniew Madej outlined the chaos in Poland's economy to the first session of Parliament Thursday, using nationalism to appeal for workers to immediately adopt the slogan "The homeland is in need." Madej, the planning commission chairman, said industrial output this year had dropped 18 percent in May and national income was predicted to drop 15 percent. Oregonian 7/3/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Reagan faith in Casey withstands court ruling By TERENCE HUNT Oregonian 7/16/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has full confidence in William J. Casey and wants him to stay on as CIA director despite a ruling he knowingly misled investors in a 1960s business deal, White House officials said Wednesday. The federal judge's May 19 ruling against Casey surfaced Tuesday within hours of Max Hugel's resignation as chief of clandestine operations. Hugel, a Casey confidante, denied allegations published in The Washington Post that he improperly slipped inside information on a firm he once headed to two Wall Street brokers. He said he was stepping aside to avoid having the allegations harm the administration and his colleagues at the CIA. While Reagan was publicly backing Casey, CBS said that Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., was telling his colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee that Casey should be replaced. Goldwater is chairman of the committee. Goldwater, who was not directly quoted, has been unhappy with the way Casey has been running the agency and was particularly perturbed by the appointment of Hugel, CBS said. But Cable News Network said Goldwater called the CBS story "a malicious lie." Cable News quoted Katherine Grammer, an aide to Goldwater, as saying that Goldwater had spoken to Casey Wednesday and told Casey the Senate panel would look into the charges. Ms. Grammer also told Cable News that Goldwater told Casey, "I think everything's going to be all right." The court ruling against Casey came in connection with an unrelated business deal in which a group of unhappy stockholders charged in a civil suit that Casey and other directors of a now-defunct firm misled them in attempts to solicit investors. - UFOs "higher ups" - By GEORGE LARDNER JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service Oregonian 7/16/81 WASHINGTON -- The CIA has a reputation for making the strictest security checks in the U.S. intelligence community, but its investigation of Max Hugel appears to have been a hurry-up, seven-day job that failed to sound even a mild alarm about his complex business career. Hugel, who held one of the CIA's most sensitive posts, wasn't particularly helpful himself. His dealings with two Wall Street brokers in the early 1970s involved what Hugel described as attempted "blackmail," but he said he saw no need to report this or other details of the acrimonious relationship when he joined the agency earlier this year. The CIA's investigation posed a sharp contrast to the measured pace outlined in an official description of the agency's standard procedure. Reaction from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee indicated that the Hugel matter could cause problems for the Reagan administration on Capitol Hill. As deputy director for operations, the post he resigned Tuesday, Hugel had access to the government's top secrets and directed the agency's global network of covert intelligence agents. The first interviews concerning Hugel were conducted by the CIA's Office of Security beginning Jan. 14, just one week before Hugel started work at the agency, and the last were completed on Jan 16. === Page 35 of 128 WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1981 # Brown denies illegality in misuse of computer By GEORGE REASONS LA Times-Washington Post Service SACRAMENTO - Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., his office wracked by unprecedented controversy over alleged misuse of a computer for political purposes and by charges of a cover-up, admitted Monday making blunders but denied doing anything illegal. In his first public defense since Wednesday, when the California Fair Political Practices Commission recommended a criminal investigation into actions of some of Brown assistants, the governor accused the commission of unfair tactics and called its charges of possible criminality "nonsense." The two-term governor, who wants to run for the U.S. Senate next year, insisted at a press conference that he was unaware that lower-level employees in his office were considering use of a state-leased computer for future Brown campaigns. Brown said the original plan for the computer was to expand his "outreach" communications with constituents throughout California, but "some political uses were considered without my authorization." Speaking in an almost non-stop staccato, the governor said, "I now believe that a number of mistakes were made in establishing and organizing outreach efforts from the governor's office. "Additional mistakes and even serious errors of judgment were made when the Los Angeles Times article appeared (Dec. 6) and the FPPC investigation got under way." In its report, the commission, which launched the investigation after disclosures by the Los Angeles Times, said it was unable to develop sufficient evidence to establish violations of the Fair Political Practices Act because the governor's office did not cooperate. "The commission cannot state with complete confidence that it has actually received all relevant documentary evidence, nor can it warrant that the information it does possess is entirely accurate," the report said. The governor insisted that his office cooperated fully with the commission. # Wildlife group calls for Watt's removal By G.G. LaBELLE WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's largest conservation organization broke its longstanding silence on Interior Secretary James Watt with a flourish Tuesday. It asked President Reagan to fire him. Jay D. Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, said the stand was taken after a membership survey demonstrated overwhelming opposition to Watt's policies after his six months in office. "Sad to say, we have reached the point where removal is the only option that we see open to the president," Hair said. "He places a much higher priority on development and exploitation than on conservation. . . . He pays lip service to environmental protection. . . . He is working to undermine or circumvent many of our basic environmental protection laws." Hair said the federation's poll showed Watt was "out of step not only with the views of conservation leaders . . . but with the mainstream of American thought on conservation issues." "He has quite frankly lost the confidence of Americans who are concerned about our environment," he said. Hair made the announcement at a news conference, saying he had just come from a meeting with White House officials at which he presented a letter to Reagan asking Watt's removal as secretary. === Page 36 of 128 - UFOs "higher up" - # Brady suffers major seizure **By EVANS WITT** WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary James S. Brady suffered a major seizure Monday, a new and worrisome side effect of the head wound he sustained in the assassination attempt on President Reagan March 30. The "grand mal" seizure struck Brady shortly after he had breakfast in his George Washington University Hospital room, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said. Doctors immediately treated the seizure with intravenous medication and anesthesia, Speakes said. At midafternoon, physicians at the hospital reported Brady still was under anesthesia in the recovery room, a statement issued by the White House said. The statement added that Brady was being monitored continuously by electroencephalograph, an electronic device which monitors brain waves. Brady's vital signs were reported to be normal at midafternoon. Such seizures are "not exactly unexpected in cases of this type," Speakes quoted Dr. Daniel Ruge, the White House physician, as saying. Experts say many brain injuries are frequently followed by seizures. Brady suffered massive brain damage when a bullet struck him in the forehead. This seizure may be only the first of a series that could trouble Brady for the rest of his life, Speakes said. A neurosurgeon not connected with the case said such seizures are common with injury to the frontal lobe of the brain, as sustained by Brady. If a series of such seizures should follow, this could mean post-trauma epilepsy, he said. The surgeon, who asked not to be identified, said this form of epilepsy if it develops can be controlled by drugs and has a good remission rate. Richard Ellis, a public relations representative at the hospital, described the seizure as a "sudden loss of consciousness immediately followed by a generalized convulsion." Ellis said a brain scan did not show a cause for the seizure and did, in fact, show continued healing of Brady's brain damage. He said the seizure's impact on Brady could not yet be assessed. "It can be very serious or not so serious," Speakes said. "They are still evaluating how it will affect Brady." Speakes said that such a seizure would not necessarily leave any noticeable effects. "In most cases, you are unchanged in your effects after the patient has come out of it," Speakes said. 8/4 - UFOs "higher up" - # Shotgun blasts wing Texas state legislator AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- An assailant who was apparently lying in wait fired four shotgun blasts at a state legislator Friday, wounding him in the left elbow, police said. Police said they had no suspects and knew of no motive for the shooting. Mike Martin, a freshman Republican from the East Texas town of Longview, was listed in good condition in Brackenridge Hospital. Leslie Smith, his former campaign manager, said four shotgun pellets struck Martin but passed through his flesh without breaking any bones. Smith said Martin, who crusaded to require the teaching of "creation-science" in the public schools, had received threats in the past but never reported them or took them seriously. "His attitude is he doesn't understand, if this is tied to the threats, why anybody would be interested in a state representative. The job just isn't that big a deal," Smith said at a news conference. Martin, 29, who has a wife, a 3-year-old son and a 6-week-old daughter, was shot at about 2:40 a.m. as he got out of his car in a trailer park where he is living in a recreational vehicle during a special legislative session. Martin's car, bearing official plates and a bumper sticker reading "I Am Bound for the Promised Land," was between him and the gunman. The passenger-side windows were blown out and the car had 17 holes in it. Police Lt. Pete Neal said the assailant apparently fired from about 90 feet away, based on the location of 12-gauge shotgun shells found. Lt. Neal said 90 feet was a "maximum range" for a 12-gauge shotgun with "double-0" buckshot. The lieutenant said it "would appear" that someone was lying in wait for Martin. Each shotgun shell contains nine pellets, according to Sgt. Robert Ballard, "and all it takes is one in a vital zone to kill." Smith said Martin had worked until about 11 p.m. with a secretary, Mary Booth, then went back to his legislative office to write letters. Smith said Martin habitually worked until 2 or 3 a.m. 8/1/81 - UFOs "higher up" - # Iranian murdered 7/24/81 Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran -- Hojatoleslam Hassan Beheshti, a cousin of assassinated Iranian strongman Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti and a candidate for parliament, was murdered Thursday, the last day of the country's violent campaign for the presidency and parliamentary by-elections. Hojatoleslam Mohieddin Fazel Harani, another parliamentary candidate, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the southern town of Eghlid, Radio Tehran said. Three of people were wounded in a flurry of some 100 bullets, the radio said. The presidential election, necessary because of the impeachment of president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, appears to be a shoo-in for Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai. His three opponents endorsed him earlier this week. About the only unknown will be the voter turnout. Radio Tehran said that Hojatoleslam Beheshti, a 36-year-old theology teacher, and his 4-year-old nephew were shot to death when Beheshti opened the door of his home in the central town of Isfahan to men saying they had a letter for him. The killers fled and have not been identified, but Radio Tehran called them "counter-revolutionary hypocrites." In a separate incident in Tehran, Mohammad Hassan Jamshidi, an Islamic security official, was shot and killed by two attackers at his home, the Iranian Pars news agency reported. The exact motive of Thursday's assassinations, the latest in a series of attacks and government reprisals, was not immediately known. But Radio Tehran blamed the Eghlid attempt on "the agents of America and the feudalists of the region." Hojatoleslam Beheshti's cousin, head of the ruling Islamic Republic Party (IRP), was killed in a devastating bomb attack at party headquarters here June 28. Four ministers and 27 deputies were among the 74 people who died in the blast. The latest assassination followed a warning Wednesday by Tehran revolutionary prosecutor Assadollah Lajevardi, who is known for his role in the execution of hundreds of opponents of the clerical regime. === Page 37 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # jack anderson ## Accidents aid Castro WASHINGTON -- Within less than three months, mysterious plane crashes have eliminated two of Fidel Castro's potentially most dangerous rivals in the volatile politics of Latin America; Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Ecuador's President Jaime Roldos. No one has made a connection between the Cuban dictator and the deaths of Torrijos and Roldos -- much less suggested that Castro's agents were responsible for the plane crashes. But stranger things have happened in the violence-prone political arena of Latin America. And there is no doubt that Castro has profited by the convenient departure of two charismatic leaders who had contested the Cuban's self-proclaimed role as the foremost voice of independence in the Western Hemisphere. Panamanian officials are still investigating the cause of the air crash that took Torrijos' life. Bad weather over the jungle was a reasonable explanation. But it may be more than mere coincidence that Torrijos' firm control of Panama -- and his successful negotiation of the treaty under which the United States relinquished control of the Panama Canal -- had won him respect across the Latin American political spectrum. On grounds of ego alone, that would have been enough to infuriate Castro. But Torrijos also had made no secret of his distaste for the Cuban dictator's support for leftist guerrillas in Central America. Torrijos' opposition to Castro was especially significant because he once had been one of the Cuban's closest allies. In 1974, for example, Torrijos was the first leader in the hemisphere to recognize Castro's government -- over the objection of the Organization of American States. After the Sandinistas' victory over Nicaragua's dictator Anastasio Somoza, Torrijos and Castro jointly agreed to give the new government "respectful help." But while Torrijos withdrew his military forces from Nicaragua, Castro sent in still more troops. Torrijos was furious, and cooperation between the two dictators ceased. In a confidential cable filed after Torrijos' death, U.S. Embassy political analysts in Panama warned the State Department that his absence "weakens the forces of reform and opposition to Cuban influence in the Caribbean area." State Department sources confided privately to my associate Bob Sherman that they expect U.S.-Panamanian relations to suffer as the result of Torrijos' death. President Aristides Royo is considered a weak leader who may well decide to use the United States as a scapegoat to distract Panamanians from their own very real problems. Adding to the problem is the fact that Torrijos co-opted a significant portion of his domestic political opposition by giving them jobs in the government. With Torrijos' iron control now gone, these political extremists of the right and left may feel free to pursue their own goals. Pulling Uncle Sam's beard is always a popular sport among political factions in Latin America, so the chaotic situation left in Panama by Torrijos' death can only hurt the United States. And whatever hurts the United States pleases Castro. It's UFOs!! The United States aside, Castro can contemplate the post-Torrijos situation in Panama with anticipation. The prospect of political turmoil, as various factions vie to succeed the fallen strongman, can only give Castro hope of yet another Caribbean conquest. Castroism thrives on chaos. org J 8/11/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Top Khomeini judge reported assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Assassins shot and killed the personal representative of Iranian leader the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the northeastern Iranian city of Gorgan Tuesday, Tehran radio reported. The official Pars news agency reported earlier that chief religious judge Seyyed Kazem Noor-Mofidi escaped the machine-gun attack on his entourage. But the later radio report said the judge, also leader of the Friday prayers, died in a hospital after the attack. Two bodyguards also were killed in the shooting, the radio said. org 8/12/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Attack hurts bishop MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- A man squirted liquid into the faces of Roman Catholic Bishop Matthias Defregger and a parish priest as they walked into a church in Munich Saturday. Both clergymen were slightly injured but it was not immediately clear what liquid the attacker used, police said. A police spokesman said the attacker, identified as a Munich clerk, refused to give any indication of his motive. He was taken into custody for questioning. The bishop was a major in the German army during the Nazi regime. At org 8/16/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Princess robbed MENTON, France (AP) -- Jewels reportedly worth $4.1 million were stolen from the Riviera villa of Princess Maria-Sol de Mesiade-Lesseps, a relative of Spain's King Juan Carlos, informed sources said Saturday. If the value is confirmed, it would be the biggest Riviera robbery since the theft of $18 million in jewels from the villa of a member of the ruling family of Qatar 12 months ago. The princess and local police would make no comment on the reports. org 8/16/81 === Page 38 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Power blackout hits south England, Wales LONDON (UPI) -- Breaks in three major power lines cut electricity to millions of homes, factories and hospitals in south and southwest England and Wales Wednesday in the worst accidental supply disruption since 1962. Ten counties lost power for between 90 minutes and 4 hours when three links in the National Grid electricity network failed within 10 minutes of each other soon after 9 a.m. (1 a.m. PDT), electricity officials said. A spokesman said it was the worst power failure not caused by industrial action since 1962. Aug 5/6/81 SAME DAY!! - UFOs 6 Projects - # Copenhagen hit by blackout COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- A break in an electrical cable plunged Copenhagen into darkness for two hours Tuesday night in a major blackout halting all trains, elevators, traffic lights and radio broadcasts. Police reported no major incidents, "but the full effects of the blackout will not be known until tomorrow morning," a spokesman said. "We have had extra patrols on the streets and although there has been some extra trouble and criminal activity, it has certainly not been as widespread as one might have expected." Aug 5/6/81 # Danes left in dark COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Government and public utility officials were investigating the cause of a massive power failure that left the Danish capital and the mainland of Zealand blacked out for as long as two hours Tuesday night. Joergen Gullev, a spokesman for the publicly owned Danish power company NESA, said as many as 1 million customers were affected by the power failure, which started shortly before 9 p.m. Aug 5/6/81 Note: See all the power blackouts caused by my UFOs throughout this file!! Also, these clips will show you how hard and persistently my UFOs are attacking "power" over the world!! (This could also apply to the "higher ups," Presidents etc who are being eliminated in one way or another... such leaders having, of course, "power." Owens === Page 39 of 128 51,788 *** - 2 of 6 projects (was against U.S. govt.) (Also, blow against U.S. economy promised.) # Air controllers told: Return By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air traffic controllers illegally walked off their jobs Monday and crippled commercial flights in the first nationwide strike of federal workers in history. President Reagan called them lawbreakers and a federal judge imposed accelerating fines that could total $4.75 million in a week. Reagan, taking a hard line, sought imprisonment of the strike leaders. But U.S. District Judge Harold Greene here refused to grant a government request that he imprison Robert E. Poli, president of the striking Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and 10 of his colleagues. Greene fined Poli $1,000 a day for the strike's duration but took no action against the other 10. Finding the union in contempt of court for ignoring an earlier back-to-work order, Greene said to allow such strikes "would be to invite chaos." The union will be fined $250,000 if the strike is not over by 8 p.m. Tuesday, Greene said; $500,000 more the next day; and $1 million a day for the next four days after that. Asked if he would obey the court, Poli said, "If the question is 'will the strike continue,' the answer is yes." Reagan said any striking controller who refused to resume work within 48 hours would be fired. Reagan was uncompromising. "I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law, and if they don't report for duty within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated," the president said. He noted that controllers promised not to strike when they took their jobs. Pictures on Page A8. More stories and photos on Page B4. But the strikers held firm under the pressure and said that no matter how much the union was fined, it had only $3.5 million in its treasury. "If we're all fired, I want to know who's going to work the airplanes," Poli said in response to Reagan's ultimatum. Criminal charges of violating the law against strikes by federal employees, which could bring a year in prison and fines of $1,000, were filed Monday night against 22 union members -- some of them leaders and some of them rank-and-file workers in 11 cities. In federal courtrooms across the country, federal judges, acting at the request of U.S. attorneys, signed temporary restraining orders requiring controllers in their regions to go to work. Some 2,500 supervisors and non-union controllers filled in for the absent controllers with military controllers standing by to help. But the nation's air traffic was disrupted and the airlines said they were suffering "severe financial losses." The Pentagon has ordered 370 trained military air traffic controllers to help handle plane movements in 12 major cities from coast to coast, it was announced Monday. The military controllers, all certified by the FAA, "will require instruction in local airspace and procedures, so it will be a period of days before they actually become operational," the announcement said. Administrator J. Lynn Helms of the Federal Aviation Administration estimated that 29 percent of the unionized controllers were ignoring the strike call and working. The FAA directed airlines to halve Monday's scheduled flights at 23 major airports, but Helms said by Tuesday 75 percent of the nation's 14,200 scheduled daily commercial flights might be permitted to operate. The government said it was safe to fly even with most controllers off the job, but a Federal Aviation Administration official in New York told of a "near miss" over northern New Jersey about noon Monday -- though it was not suggested the incident was related to the strike. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis vowed not to resume bargaining with the controllers' union until the strike ends. He said any controller still on strike at 11 a.m. local time Wednesday would never again get a job with the government. He said that was true no matter how many were on strike. But striking controllers appeared ready to stand fast. Doug Ramsey, president of a local in Salt Lake City, said of the president's threat: "If he figures on firing 13,000 controllers to solve the problem, he's in for a very rude awakening. It would take two to three years to hire enough controllers to get the air travel system back to the way it is now." "We may have a difficult time" replacing strikers, Lewis acknowledged but said the government would open new schools, if need be, to "start training people." FAA officials, speaking anonymously, acknowledged that firing large numbers of air controllers would create a severe problem. They noted it takes three years to produce a fully skilled controller. The airline industry estimated the strike might cost the U.S. economy a quarter of billion dollars a day. It was the first official nationwide walkout by any group of federal employees, although postal workers participated in a wildcat strike in the Northeast and other scattered locales in 1970. Three Air Force jets brought senators back to Washington in time to participate in the final debate and vote on Reagan's tax-cut proposals. Fifty-five senators signed a letter to be sent to all controllers warning that the Senate would block any settlement arising from an "illegal" strike. A new pay scale would have to be approved by Congress. oreg 8/4/81 === Page 40 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - (war against U.S. govt.) # CIA: Enemies laugh while friends despair By CORD MEYER ONG 8/8/81 WASHINGTON - Now that the smoke of dubious battle has cleared from William Casey's successful struggle to survive as CIA director, Reagan officials are trying to assess the real damage and to determine what can be done to repair it. Contrary to assurances that this episode has passed harmlessly away like a brief summer storm, President Reagan's ability to deal with foreign threats has been seriously weakened. As one Western European intelligence official remarked, "You have become a laughingstock among your enemies and the despair of your friends." He was not referring to the incidental damage done to the reputation of individuals involved in this affair but to the institutional wreckage left behind by the exposure of the first attempt by the Reagan administration to mount, via the CIA, a covert action operation of some size and significance. Whether the operation was aimed at strengthening the opposition to Col. Moammar Khadafy's dictatorial rule in Libya or directed at reducing Khadafy's influence in some other African country, the unhappy fact remains that such an operation was exposed even before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had completed their secret review. To guard against just this kind of security breach, the law providing for congressional oversight of the CIA covert action was amended last fall to reduce from eight to two the number of committees that have to be informed. The hope was that behind the closed doors of the intelligence committees with their good reputation for security, congressional reservations about any secret project could be resolved without devastating publicity. That hope has now been proved illusory. Although the identity of the leakers is not yet known, the chronology and content of their revelations throw a good deal of light on their motivation. Just as Casey was reeling under senatorial criticism for his appointment of the hapless Max Hugel, his judgment was brought further into question by a press story that the House Intelligence Committee had taken the unusual step of warning the president in writing against a covert operation in Africa that Casey had approved. Compounding the damage, the next leak charged that the secret plan called for an escalating paramilitary campaign against Khadafy and his possible assassination. Although Hugel had alarmed the House committee in his presentation, White House staffers, congressional sources and intelligence officials are convincing in their unanimous denial that the plan itself contained any authorization for assassination or paramilitary activity. By making a reasonable proposal appear wildly irresponsible, the anonymous leakers were trying by misinformation to kill two birds with one stone. Timing their revelations to coincide with allegations about Casey's past financial dealings, they obviously hoped to remove from the scene a man who is known to believe that discreet American support to democratic forces abroad may sometimes be necessary. Secondly, these faceless leakers are so opposed to covert action of any kind that the damage to American interests seemed a small price to pay for demonstrating that the congressional review process is bound to self-destruct. Certainly many will argue that this threat of unauthorized leaks makes any covert action impossible. Predictably, Khadafy has made the most of these exaggerated revelations and has posed on Libyan radio as an innocent target of CIA assassination plotting. Even more damaging is the apprehension that such self-destructive publicity fosters among our Western allies. Cooperation with friendly intelligence services is often essential to political action operations designed to keep alive a democratic movement under siege by heavily subsidized Soviet proxies. But European experts warn that it will be a long time before any foreign intelligence service dares expose itself to the hazards of the congressional review process. If this leak were the only recent one of its kind, it might be explained away as a unique aberration but in another damaging disclosure Carl Bernstein, in the July 18 issue of the New Republic, spelled out in excruciating detail the channels through which he claims the CIA is helping arm the Afghan rebels. In a mind-boggling mistake of judgment, the Voice of America broadcast this story in its English-language service to Russia and the rest of the world, appearing to officially confirm Soviet charges of American involvement. Instead of talking about how it intends to unleash the CIA, the Reagan administration's first priority is to find and leash the leakers. In the CIA, officers who had access to the African project are being required to take lie detector tests, and, if there was an internal leak, there is a high probability that the guilty will be identified and fired. But the members and staffs of the two congressional committees have accepted no such discipline. Until they do, their protestations of innocence must be taken with a grain of salt. Cord Meyer, a syndicated columnist, formerly served as an official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. === Page 41 of 128 - UFOs & Projects (attack on U.S. Govt.) - + "deadly air space" # Reagan to fire airport strikers oreg J 8/3/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Air traffic controllers walked off the job just after dawn Monday in defiance of a back-to-work order. President Reagan issued an ultimatum that strikers will be fired in 48 hours if they do not return to work. The administration also moved to impound the $3.5 million strike fund of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and to decertify the union. The Federal Aviation Administration said it asked the major commercial airlines to reduce their flights by 50 percent beginning at 8 a.m. PDT. "We hope to ease that later," an FAA spokesman said, adding the decision on what flights to cut rests with the carriers. The union said more than 80 percent of the 17,000 controllers were striking. Reagan, in an impromptu news conference at the White House, noted it is illegal for federal employees to strike and said: "I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of the law. If they don't report for work in 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated." U.S. District Judge Joyce Green ordered PATCO officials to appear in court at 5 p.m. Monday to show cause why union members should not be held in contempt of court for violating its back-to-work order. The Justice Department obtained the temporary restraining order before the strike began at about 7 a.m. local time. "We are bringing the full force of the Justice Department down on the controllers," said Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis. The strike forced one airline -- Pittsburgh-based USAir -- to cancel all of its flights until at least noon. Other airlines tried to continue their normal flight schedules, as supervisory personnel took over for the striking controllers. Of the 17,000 controllers nationwide, 15,000 are members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Train and bus lines reported their switchboards flooded with inquiries and reservations, and many people booked flights Sunday night to be sure of getting to distant cities before the strike Monday. "I don't want to get stuck or have to ride a bus all the way home," said Frank Singleton, a Detroit businessman who was in New Orleans but heading to Albuquerque, N.M., on the next leg of his trip. The strike could ground more than half the nation's 800,000 daily air passengers, cost the airline industry $80 million a day and idle up to 65 percent of all air traffic. The FAA said it had 2,400 supervisors and 150 military controllers available to replace the striking controllers, but they could handle only 40 to 50 percent of all air carrier flights. Most of the flights under 500 miles would be grounded. At the White House, spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan was "personally disappointed" at the walkout and directed decertification of PATCO and impoundment of the strike fund. Despite a temporary restraining order prohibiting the strike and threats of imprisonment and fines, it appeared early Monday that most union controllers obeyed their union and walked off the job. Jim Stakum, a PATCO official, said the union is prepared to stay out for at least one month, as picket lines were formed outside several FAA facilities. "I am ready to go to jail," said Steve Wallaert, president of Norfolk, Va., PATCO Local 291. PATCO said using "unqualified military personnel" as "strike-breakers" would "place the flying public at great peril." "Basically, what we're looking at first is safety," said Lewis. "We're going to do everything we can to keep it safe, but there are going to be delays." PATCO, seeking a 32-hour work week, better retirement benefits and a $10,000 raise that would put top controller pay at about $59,000 annually, rejected the government's last contract offer of a $50 million package and negotiations broke off at about 2:30 a.m.. (Related story, picture on page 2) - UFOs & Projects - ## Air Force grounds F-16 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Air Force says it has grounded the F-16 fighter-bomber for an undetermined length of time because of problems with its flight control computer. The force of 269 planes, most of them attached to the Tactical Air Command, was "temporarily restricted from flight" after one of the sleek single-engine jets crashed near Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Wednesday and killed the pilot, an Air Force spokesman said Friday. oreg J 8/8/81 - UFOs & Projects - ## Missing chopper sought KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) -- A search was conducted in the Gulf of Alaska on Saturday for a Coast Guard helicopter that apparently crashed with four men aboard while on a mission to help a disabled fishing boat. oreg J 8/8/81 === Page 42 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Savage summer storms sweep across England LONDON (UPI) -- Savage summer storms swept across England and dumped more than an inch of rain on the capital in just over an hour Thursday, flooding subways and shops, snarling traffic and knocking out equipment at Heathrow Airport. Thunderclouds plunged London into semi-darkness. In Manchester, where flooding 4 feet deep was reported, more than 3 1/2 inches of rain fell on the city, the most in a day since 1877. A tunnel carrying express trains from the north into London was flooded and subway passengers paddled out of King's Cross station, one of several to be shut down in the storms which lashed the city most of the day. Lightning knocked out transmissions from Capital Radio. The station was back on the air 15 minutes later, broadcasting "Raindrops are falling on my head." A spokesman for the Royal Automobile Club said flooding caused major traffic tieups, but it said roads were "not impassable." The storms terrified passengers in aircraft stacked over Heathrow. "We bumped up and down for over an hour and then there was a terrific flash and a bang and we thought the plane had been hit," said Grace Burnett of New York. "I've been in a lot of storms in the air, but this was the worst," said Joss Taylor, of Los Angeles. "It was a relief to get down." Flights to the United States were delayed and officials said the storms affected equipment used to transmit routing information to pilots. A TWA flight from Los Angeles carrying Natalie Cole, singer-daughter of the late Nat King Cole, was diverted to Manchester. A spokesman for the London meteorological center said 1.33 inches of rain fell in less than 90 minutes. "It was like somebody threw a bucket of water over you," he said. Scotland Yard reported severe flooding in central London and said its information room was working "flat out" to deal with emergency calls. Greg J 8/6/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Storms flail plains United Press International Storms scattered tornadoes across the central Plains, the Ohio Valley and the Northeast Wednesday. A small airplane headed for Nebraska crashed in a northeast Iowa cornfield during heavy rain Wednesday. The pilot and two passengers were injured. Thunderstorms developed late Wednesday over the northern Plains and moved into the upper Mississippi Valley early Thursday. Heavy rain threatened central Nebraska and Iowa with flooding Thursday. Up to 6 inches of rain fell in Nebraska Wednesday. A severe thunderstorm watch was posted Wednesday over central and eastern Minnesota. Greg J 8/6/81 - UFOs & Projects + # Nation's first commercial rocket fails MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas (UPI) -- Test-firing the engine of America's first commercial rocket was supposed to bring private enterprise into the space age. But something went wrong on an isolated Texas launch pad. The Percheron rocket blew its top. Engineers for Space Services, Inc. said they believe the failure of a tiny liquid oxygen valve sparked Wednesday's spectacular explosion of the slim white rocket, costing the fledgling venture $1.2 million and setting them back at least six months. No one was injured. "Welcome to the rocket business," said SSI spokesman Charles Chafer. The 55-foot Percheron rocket, scheduled for a test launch later this month, was nearing the end of a five-second "burp" test when the top two-thirds suddenly blew 200 feet into the air. Four chunks of the rocket's nosecone landed harmlessly back on the ground -- well clear of the closest observers, a team of engineers huddled 600 feet away in a nearby sandbagged trailer. The rocket's base stayed bolted to the launch pad through three explosions. "We're disappointed, of course, but we'll keep going," Chafer said. SSI believes it can place business communication satellites in space cheaper and faster than the government -- which currently has a five-year waiting list of companies. Greg J 8/6/81 === Page 43 of 128 # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Saboteurs hit power grid JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Saboteurs attacked the national electrical power-supply system -- hard-pressed to meet the demands of a Southern Hemisphere winter -- at three locations Tuesday, police said. The limpet mines that police said were used are trademarks of the outlawed African National Congress, which seeks the overthrow of South Africa's white-minority government. The congress, in a statement issued in Tanzania, claimed responsibility for two of the blasts. The black nationalist organization also has attacked power installations in the past. Police said the limpet mines, which can be attached to any metallic surface, blew up parts of major power stations at Camden, 130 miles southeast of Johannesburg, and Arnot, 100 miles northeast of Johannesburg. An electrical transformer under construction on the outskirts of the capital of Pretoria also was damaged, police said. All three attacks took place at about 2 a.m. No one was injured. The government-run Electricity Supply Commission refused to say how much the attacks on the rural power stations would affect the capacity of the country's national power grid. System shortages recently forced power cutbacks in selected areas. Commission spokesman C.J. Uys said the system was coping well, despite the explosions, "but we are working to a tight schedule, and our undertaking depends on matters not going awry." - UFOs & Projects - ## 25 die in monsoon NEW DELHI (AP) -- A four-day downpour resulted in the deaths of at least 25 persons and left 100,000 homeless in the city of Jaipur, about 120 miles southwest of here, authorities said Tuesday. More than 500 people were missing after 20,000 homes collapsed, roads flooded, airports closed, and power and water services were disrupted in what local authorities called the city's worst rains. An overflowing dam flooded at least six nearby villages, officials said. Monsoons that started June 1 have resulted in the deaths of 354 persons nationwide. oreg 7/22/81 - UFOs & Projects - ## China may seek flood-relief funds PEKING (AP) -- Chinese authorities are deciding whether to seek international disaster aid following the world's deadliest flood in 20 years, but officials were still inspecting the two provinces damaged in the deluge. Rescue efforts continued Tuesday along the subsiding Yangtze River while civil affairs officials toured Sichuan and Hubei provinces to determine the scope of the disaster that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives. The Chinese Red Cross Society said Tuesday it is discussing whether to seek international assistance. The United Nations office in Peking said it has not yet been notified of a request for aid. China, which long has rejected foreign disaster aid, already has accepted international disaster relief for the victims of a severe flood last fall in central Hubei province. The rain-swollen river -- China's biggest -- rolled safely through its most dangerous section Monday night, contained by massive dikes. The swirling water spared the vast central China plain in Hubei province, where the rice harvest is under way. The Chinese government reported that 200,000 people have been mobilized to guard the dikes along the Yangtze's lower reaches. oreg 7/22/81 === Page 44 of 128 Associated Press Laserphoto TOUCHDOWN -- Tornado whirls through North Dakota Thursday, menacing cities of Bismarck and Mandan. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Tornadoes rip area in N. Dakota By GORDON HANSON BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- At least four tornadoes born of fierce thunderstorms raked central North Dakota, leveling farm buildings, killing cattle and scattering haystacks and swathed grain. No injuries were reported. The farm area of Morton County, southwest of Bismarck, took the heaviest damage when two twisters roared through Thursday night. A huge funnel was visible from Bismarck and Mandan as civil defense sirens blared shortly after 6 p.m., but no town in the area was hit by a twister. Ron Raps of the National Weather Service in Bismarck said twisters were sighted in western and southern parts of the county, as well as parts of McLean and Wells counties. No estimate of total damage was available, but farmers reported barns and outbuildings were flattened, farm animals killed and injured and crops beaten down. The storm also downed power lines in southern Morton County, according to the sheriff's office. Raps could not estimate how many twisters swept through the region. "Those same clouds may go up and come down a few minutes later," he said. "We had reports of the same funnel cloud probably a dozen times. People see them from different directions, different towns." Raps said one twister tore along the ground southwest of Mandan for at least half an hour at the height of the storms. "It sounded like a freight train," said Willard Griffin, a farmer south of the town of Mandan who was working in the fields when a twister descended. Griffin said he lost 12 farm buildings, including a cattle shed, a hog barn, four granaries and a machine shop. Some of his pigs were crippled, and his haystacks were scattered in the winds. Griffin, his wife and son took refuge from a twister by crawling into a narrow culvert under a road. "You could just barely get into it," Mrs. Griffin said. "We could hear the tornado roaring as it went over us. A mouse was going around in there, and I didn't enjoy that much. And it was dark." John Richter, who farms near the town of Glen Ullin, finished swathing his grain moments before the tornado struck. As Richter watched from a nearby hillside, the twister cut a path 90 yards wide along a half-mile stretch of the field. "It took the grain up into the air and spread it around," he said. At the Clifford Nelson farm, a tornado picked up 23 head of Hereford cattle and slammed them to earth. Twenty were killed, and three with broken legs had to be shot. === Page 45 of 128 22 Oregon Journal, May 14, 1981 (2) Contacts Note: Remember, the U.S. power is what the SIR are attacking! Owens # Nation's electrical grid vulnerable to sabotage, war WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The United States is unprepared to respond to an attack on its electricity system that could cause coast-to-coast blackouts and resulting havoc, Congress has been warned. In a report released Wednesday, the General Accounting Office said damage to the national power grid through sabotage, terrorism or war could eliminate vital functions ranging from defense plants to hospitals. "The consequences of such a power outage could be staggering," the congressional watchdog agency said. "Without power, everything in our modern society naturally grinds to a halt." The GAO blamed the Energy Department for failing to make emergency plans as required by a 1969 executive order and again by Congress three years ago. It noted that an official of the agency's Emergency Electric Power Administration, in a December 1979 memo, said "resources to carry out this effort were insufficient and stated the program was barely alive." The GAO said the agency needs to beef up its administration and plans for managing a disruption and subsequent restoration of the system after attack. The report suggested Congress give the agency a deadline for developing the plans and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency monitor the effort. It said recent studies by the Corps of Engineers, the Energy Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency all found the complex electricity generation and distribution system highly vulnerable. The system is "the mainspring of our industrial economy" although it is taken for granted "until the lights go out," the report said. The 600 megawatts of installed electrical generating capacity supply 30 percent of the nation's energy needs by means of 365,000 miles of high-voltage lines. (and my UFOs!! Owens) -- UFOs & Projects -- # Rain, hail, tornadoes slash Iowa, Missouri By United Press International Severe thunderstorms that rapped Iowa and Missouri with tornadoes, hail and nearly 5 inches of rain, destroying several buildings and aircraft, moved into the upper Midwest Monday, slightly subdued. Up to 9 inches of rain Sunday swamped southeast Texas, forcing the evacuation of about 90 families in the Lake Livingston area. Some homes in the Onalaska area were reported completely under water. There were no injuries. Floodwater began to recede Monday. Thunderstorms moved into Iowa late Sunday, soaking some areas with nearly 5 inches of rain. Several buildings were destroyed, along with several airplanes at an airport near Osceola. No one was injured. Golfball-sized hail battered the Iowa communities of Corydon, Afton and Reinbeck, and Tarkio and Glenwood, Mo. Thundershowers Monday stretched from the Central Plains into the western Great Lakes, along the Gulf Coast and the south Atlantic Seaboard. More than a half-inch of rain fell at Marquette, Mich., and lesser amounts doused Wisconsin. Texas officials evacuated the Lake Livingston families when Long King Creek rose to dangerous levels. The families were taken to schools. "We evacuated 70 to 90 families in the entire county," Polk County Deputy Sheriff Bob Grissom said late Sunday. "We got them out before the water got high," Grissom said. "Now it's impossible to get through. But we've been lucky so far. We've had no casualties in the county." Lake Livingston is about 60 miles north of Houston. Grissom said some homes in the Onalaska area were completely under water. "We had to evacuate about 20 families during the night (from Onalaska)." oreg 6/8/81 -- UFOs & Projects -- # Ship runs aground NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The USS Detroit, a 795-foot supply ship, ran aground Wednesday in Chesapeake Bay at almost the same spot where the battleship Missouri got stuck 31 years ago. The Navy said the Detroit -- which carries extra fuel, ammunition, food and other supplies to service other Navy ships -- was nearly full when it went aground while heading into Hampton Roads. Navy spokesman Lt. Ross Kudlick said there were no injuries among the 500 crew members and no flooding or apparent damage to the vessel. Barges unloaded fuel Wednesday afternoon to lighten the 53,600-ton vessel in the hope it could be pulled off the sandbar at high tide. oreg. 6/11/81 === Page 46 of 128 At Satsop - 6 Projects PK - 4/3/81 # Radiation blamed on loose screws SATSOP, Wash. (AP) - Loose screws on a machine used to X-ray piping welds at the Satsop nuclear power plant construction site probably mean a Satsop worker was doused with a small amount of radiation, officials say. For some unknown reason screws were loosened on a metal faceplate on a radiography machine, a spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System said Thursday. WPPSS is building twin plants at Satsop. The machine contains a pellet of iridium-192, a radioactive metal which emits gamma rays, said Richard Romanelli. "He or she undoubtedly was exposed to some radiation, but it would have been a small amount," Romanelli said. WPPSS officials say they do not know who tampered with the faceplate. Removing the faceplate - if indeed it was removed at all - would not have given a person access to the iridium pellet, he added. The tamperer is in no danger from radiation and is not a danger to others, Romanelli said. The maximum radiation would have been equivalent to a dose received in a conventional X-ray, Romanelli said. "We'd like to find out who it was and why the device was tampered with. It's potentially hazardous to tamper with those kinds of devices and we'd like to educate (the person)," Romanelli said. The screws were discovered loosened on the 50-pound machine at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in a room in the WNP-3 reactor auxiliary building. The loosened screws were noticed by Tim Kitzberger, a licensed radiographer employed by Peabody Testing Co., which uses the equipment to test pipe welds. Under normal working conditions, the machine operator stands at a distance, triggering a cable that forces the pellet enclosed in a tube to emerge from the machine and expose the X-ray film, Romanelli said. The state Department of Labor and Industries and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission were notified of the incident, he said. In addition, a WPPSS health physicist arrived at the site Wednesday to determine how much radiation may have escaped from the machine. - 6 Projects PK - 3/24/81 # Snow halts traffic, cuts power By The Associated Press A spring snowstorm buried parts of Virginia and North Carolina with up to 2 feet of snow Monday, blocking roads and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. And at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, where 23 inches of snow fell, shopkeeper Winston Church said he had to make his way through the slippery snow to feed the bears and crack ice so the deer on the mountain could drink. Elsewhere in the state, the snowstorm broke records set half a century ago. The storm Sunday night and Monday dumped up to 20 inches of snow on some parts of southwestern Virginia. "You know how March is - just like a mule," said James Merriman, a plant operator at a filtration plant in Martinsville, Va., where 8.2 inches of snow fell. "You can't predict what it'll do." Virginia State Police said there was 10 to 14 inches of snow in Wythe, Smyth, Bland, Pulaski, Carroll and Bland counties. Falling thick on power lines, the snow wiped out service to more than 17,700 Appalachian Power Co. customers from Botetourt County south to the North Carolina border. Sunday, the North Carolina Highway Patrol closed Interstate 40 near Old Fort after traffic backed up. The patrol said the highway was expected to be out of service until late Monday. Records of more than 50 years fell in some areas of the state as the storm moved toward the Atlantic, harbingers of spring notwithstanding. lotte northeast to Kerr Lake. From 3 to 6 inches of snow fell from the Virginia border north of Raleigh-Durham southwest to the extreme southern mountains, and about 6 inches to nearly a foot of snow fell from Roxboro in Person County along the Virginia border to Greensboro and then southwest through the foothills. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Rocket test delayed MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas (UPI) - Technicians trying to put a private enterprise rocket into space are taking the weekend off and coming back next week for another attempt to fire up the engine. Attempts to ignite the engine for a 3-second test Friday failed because kerosene fuel leaked onto the black powder igniter. Twice technicians tried to set the engine off but twice they brought the countdown to zero and nothing happened. 5/1/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Cruise missile fails WASHINGTON (UPI) - For the first time in four tests, one of the Navy's Tomahawk cruise missiles, launched from a submerged submarine off the California coast, malfunctioned and crashed onto a test range in Nevada, the Navy has announced. The missile flew over California in its third launching from a submarine and the fourth in a series of tests using a new precision guidance system, the Navy said. 7/3/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Blame fixed on loose nut in nuclear plant shutdown CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - A mysterious rattle that forced the latest shutdown of Florida Power Corp.'s nuclear power plant here has been traced to a loose nut from the reactor's core, utility officials said Thursday. A preliminary analysis by Babcock & Wilcox, the plant's designer, indicated that a 1-inch threaded steel cylinder recovered from the reactor's steam system was a nut from the top of a tube that houses control-rod mechanisms. Confident that there would be no further complications, officials of the St. Petersburg-based utility said they planned to put the 825-megawatt unit back into service within the next few days. 4/3/81 "Taking into consideration the information provided by Babcock & Wilcox and our own detailed study, we have a high degree of confidence that we can go ahead with a restart in the next few days," said Florida Power spokesman Larry Shriner. "We feel very confident it's a safe thing to do." If the small metal cylinder is one of nearly 3,000 nuts in the reactor core, there should be no problem in restarting the unit, utility officials said they were told by the manufacturer's research plant in Lynchburg, Va. The utility also conducted its own study before the decision was made to put the plant back into operation, Shriner said. === Page 47 of 128 The day the cows flew - UFOs & Projects - # Twister slams E. Washington DEER PARK, Wash. (AP) -- While Neal and Loretta Cotner sat in their living room watching television, their cattle were sailing through the stormy skies of Spokane County, a neighbor says. The neighbor, Jerry Bisbee, says the twister that lifted the cows off the ground during Monday night's storm set them down again no worse for their journey. Bisbee, a neighbor of the Cotners, said the twister touched down just east of here Monday night, flattened a shed and gave the cows the ride of their lives. "It was just like a piece of dynamite hit it. The roof blew off, the sides blew out, the cows went flying," he said. Then, he said, the roof settled back down. No injuries were reported. Spokane County Sheriff's deputies said the wood-and-metal shed was leveled. National Weather Service specialist Jim Mitchell said he didn't know what caused the twister. The Cotners raise beef cattle and hay on their farm just east of Deer Park. Mrs. Cotner says they have six cattle and a week-old bull calf. "The neighbors say the cows were in the shed. Everybody saw it but us. We know Brownie (the mother of the newborn calf) was in there though. We know she went through the electric fence because it was busted and she was on the other side when we found her," she said. Brownie weighs a ton. Tuesday morning, the animals stayed in a far corner of their field. "They are not even coming in for water. They are staying a long way away. But we counted noses last night after it happened and they were all up and OK," Mrs. Cotner said. Another neighbor, Barbara Scott, along with her family watched what she could see of the twister. "We saw the twister and saw it sit down in the trees before we couldn't see anything anymore," she said. "I was trying to keep the four kids quiet. It was a black cloud about two blocks across and it definitely was a twister funnel came down out of it. There was a red hue and you could see through it. "It was beautiful just before the cloud came over. As the cloud went over our house, it poured. It wasn't drops, it was steady buckets." Mrs. Scott said there was other evidence of the twister, such as flattened flowers. oreg 6/24/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Rainstorms lash Midwest United Press International Rainstorms Monday battered New Mexico and the Midwest, where weekend storms packing tornadoes and hurricane-force winds downed power lines and spawned minor street flooding. The storms rolled across Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa with nearly 100 mph winds Sunday, knocking down trees and damaging some buildings. Flooding was reported in Nebraska, swamped by more than 3 inches of rain. oreg 6/29/81 - 6 Projects PK - # High radiation doses hit Japan N-workers TOKYO (UPI) -- A radioactive leak, hushed up for 40 days by the operators of a chronically defective nuclear power station, exposed 56 workers to high radiation doses in the worst nuclear plant accident in Japan's history, the company revealed Tuesday. The Japanese government, which lifted the lid on the cover-up Monday, ordered a complete review of the accident-plagued Tsuruga plant -- Japan's second-oldest atomic plant, and 21 other nuclear complexes across the country to prevent similar incidents. "This should never happen again," Rokusuke Tanaka, the Cabinet minister in charge of charge of nuclear facilities, told Parliament in a report on the worst nuclear accident in the history of Japan, which relies on nuclear plants for 16 percent of its electricity. The report said an estimated 45 tons of highly radioactive waste spilled from the storage tanks March 8 at the Japan Atomic Power Co's Tsuruga plant in a sparsely populated area on the Sea of Japan 225 miles west of Tokyo. The company admitted 56 workers were contaminated during a three-hour cleanup operation in which they hauled radioactive water from the plant in buckets and then mopped the floor March 8-9. Another cleanup was made April 15. oreg 4/21/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Lifeguards pluck 3,000 from sea LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Southern California lifeguards pulled about 3,000 people to safety as riptides caused by rough seas made weekend swimming hazardous, officials said Monday. None of the estimated 600,000 people who packed the beaches was reported drowned. However, crews searched for a teen-ager reported missing Saturday night while swimming with friends near the Hermosa Beach pier. Three other youths were rescued in that incident. An estimated 1,600 people were rescued in Los Angeles and Orange counties on Sunday, while about 1,300 were rescued Saturday in Los Angeles County alone. oreg 6/30/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes rake Midwest, Florida By The Associated Press A Missouri woman was killed and her son critically injured Sunday when a tornado blew apart their mobile home, authorities said. Tornadoes, heavy rains and high winds tore through much of the Midwest and Ohio Valley, felling trees and snapping power lines. Bonnie McClure, 23, was killed and her 2-year-old son Kennie critically injured when their mobile home was uprooted. In Florida, heavy thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes that briefly knocked out electricity at the Orlando International Airport and blew the roof off a house. The airport was shut down for a half-hour during the height of the storm. High winds tore down two tents and overturned a trailer at a fair near Lexington, Ky. Five persons were slightly injured, authorities said, including a man who was briefly trapped inside the overturned trailer. Lexington Mayor Jim Amato said damage in the city was "very extensive." In Missouri, where heavy rains triggered flooding in the central part of the state, authorities said a tornado extensively damaged Warrenton, about 40 miles west of St. Louis. oreg 6/22/81 === Page 48 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 21 die in Midland storms By United Press International Residents from Texas to Michigan, besieged by a three-day assault of tornadoes and flooding that left at least 21 people dead and thousands homeless, braced Tuesday for another round of fierce storms. Tornadoes struck again Monday - in Wisconsin, Indiana and Oklahoma - and severe flooding forced the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people in central Kansas. Storms that pummeled the Midlands from the Plains to the East resulted in at least 21 deaths in the last three days. Texas reported eight deaths, Ohio had six, Minnesota had three, Illinois had two and Pennsylvania and Maryland had one each. The damage may not be finished. Severe thunderstorms or tornado watches were posted early Tuesday from northern Texas into central Illinois. Showers stretched from southwestern Texas to the Great Lakes. Thunderstorms Tuesday drenched south central Texas, leaving up to 5 inches of rain in Kerrville. The National Weather Service said sharp rises were expected in a number of rain-engorged waterways. Since the Memorial Day weekend, flooding has taken 22 lives in the Austin and central Texas area and caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Heavy wind Monday night knocked down power lines and trees in central Illinois, and a tornado struck a motel and appliance store in Lafayette, Ind. Lightning late Monday struck a Little League baseball diamond in Lewisville, Texas. Two youngsters were injured. Some 13,000 homes in Minnesota's Twin Cities area were without power late Monday after a series of tornadoes ripped through the cities Sunday, leaving three people dead, 90 injured and up to $80 million in damages. Nearly 2,000 people were evacuated in waist-deep flooding in central Kansas, where the governor declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to help rescue flood victims - some from the roofs of their homes. The dike on the Arkansas River broke in five places Monday night, making an island out of the town of Great Bend, Kan., which had been flooded by 13 inches of rain in 24 hours. Pat Flack stood on the doorstep of her home in northwest Great Bend, watching as the waters surged through her front yard. "I really didn't think it would get up this high, but just two hours ago this yard was dry," she said. Said another resident, "This is an island, the whole city is. And it's getting deeper." Up to 3 inches of rain Monday soaked Madison, Wis., causing extensive damage to many homes and businesses. A 9-year-old Sun Prairie boy was seriously injured when he was sucked into a flooded culvert. United Press International WEATHER MENACE - Funnel cloud cut through south Minneapolis Sunday, leaving almost 100 persons hurt, thousands homeless and millions of dollars in damages. Minnesota and other Midland residents cleaned up Tuesday, bracing for a new wave of fierce storms. Vittorio was found along a highway outside Modena, near Bologna, early Tuesday. - UFOs & Projects - # Mexico City flooded MEXICO CITY (AP) - City residents swept, bailed and pumped water out of their homes Tuesday in southern parts of the capital, flooded after a day of heavy rain. Eleven flooding deaths were reported outside the capital, police said. Local newspapers said as many as 5,000 people abandoned their homes because of the flooding. # Mount Etna erupts CATANIA, Sicily (AP) - Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, erupted Tuesday with a powerful explosion from a crater on its west slope, authorities reported. The state institute of vulcanology here said the crater was spewing intense smoke, but there was no lava flow or seismic activity. In March, a major eruption forced evacuation of a nearby village. - 6 Projects - # Philadelphia Electric Closes Down a Unit Of Atomic Power Plant PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Electric Co. said it would remove unit No. 2 of the Peach Bottom atomic power station from service to replace a recirculation pump seal. Repairs to the seal are expected to take about five days, but Philadelphia Electric plans other maintenance that will require an additional five days. A company spokesman said the unit was being closed down manually, after the seal had failed. The utility said radiation wasn't released and plant personnel weren't injured. === Page 49 of 128 Malfunction damages Goldendale windmill GOLDENDALE, Wash. (UPI) -- A mechanical malfunction resulted in serious damage to a $6 million, 350-foot-tall windmill -- the world's largest model -- on a ridge overlooking the Columbia River, officials reported Monday. Three giant windmills built by the Boeing Co. under government contract to generate electricity were dedicated officially May 29 when Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., symbolically threw a switch tying them in to the regional power grid. But 11 days later, during a test of its ability to shut down in an emergency, the blade on one windmill failed to "feather" and it "went into an overspeed condition," said Joe Holmes, Boeing spokesman in Seattle. "The generator was damaged and will have to be replaced," he said. "There was damage to the drive train, too." Holmes said the amount of damage would be determined by a team of Boeing engineers who were sent to the scene to investigate. The two undamaged windmills were shut down after the accident and will not be operated until the engineers figure out how to prevent the problem from occurring again, he said. It is unlikely the damaged unit will be repaired before September, he said. Holmes said the malfunction was not a serious setback for the windmill program because it happened during the experimental stage and should help engineers improve the machines. "We don't welcome a malfunction, but when they happen, this is the time when we want it to happen," he said. Boeing built the machines for the Bonneville Power Administration on a 2,600-foot-high ridge overlooking the Columbia, 127 miles east of Portland, Ore. Each windmill is 350 feet tall with a single 300-foot-long blade -- looking something like a giant airplane propeller mounted on a cylindrical tower. The first "MOD-2" unit was completed in December; by April, all three machines were supplying power to the regional grid. At maximum capacity, each windmill can generate 2.5 megawatts of electricity. Together they could supply about 2,400 homes. Power from the demonstration models costs about 10 cents per kilowatt hour, which is not now competitive with other forms of generation. But Boeing estimates that "wind farms" of 100 or more such units could bring the cost down to a reasonable 4 cents to 5 cents per kilowatt hour. Holmes said Boeing is negotiating with other utilities around the nation to obtain orders for more windmills. The company has estimated the machines could be mass produced for about $2 million each. By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and DON HAMILTON Journal Staff Writers Poor weather and high winds Monday hampered recovery efforts on 11,235-foot Mount Hood and 14,400-foot Mount Rainier after separate climbing accidents Sunday claimed 16 lives. Officials said the mountaineering tragedies were the worst in modern memory for the two tallest peaks in the Pacific Northwest. Eleven climbers were buried under tons of glacial ice that tumbled down Mount Rainier in Washington and part of an Oregon climbing group of 16 was swept down the slopes of Mount Hood in a chain-reaction fall that left five dead and others injured. Rangers said that the accident on Rainier was the worst in the history of Mount Rainier National Park. A veteran rescuer on Mount Hood said the accident there was the worst since 1953, when 15 members of a church group were hurt while climbing the mountain. A ground party under the direction of Hood River County Sheriff Robert Lynch set out at daybreak Monday from the Cloud Cap Inn, at the 3,500-foot level of Mount Hood, in an effort to recover four bodies. Wind was reported blowing at 30 mph and fog enveloped the peak. The sheriff's office identified the dead as Jim Darby, 35, of Newberg; Garth Westcott, 35, of Bend; George Anderson, 36, of Boring, and Larry Young, 30, Corvallis. The fifth victim, Leah Lorenson, 30, of Vancouver, Wash., suffered a heart attack and died at 10:40 p.m. Sunday in Portland Adventist Medical Center as doctors vainly performed a "hands on" heart massage to revive her. The climbers were on a Mazama Club outing marking the first day of summer when they fell "just like dominoes" in an area near where two climbers were killed June 6. The tragedy occurred at about 12:30 p.m. when 12 members of the 16-member Mazamas climbing party slipped and fell to the 8,700-foot level in the Elliot Glacier area. Several climbers were roped together and started the domino-like effect, knocking others down the side of the steep ridge when they started falling, a spokesman for the Hood River County sheriff's office said. Members of the sheriff's office and Tornado-ravaged town sealed off by officials EMBERSON, Texas (AP) -- Authorities sealed off this tiny north Texas town Thursday to prevent looting following a tornado that flattened nearly two dozen buildings and injured 30 people. "Emberston is just gone. It just got Emberston. There's no doubt about it," said Lamar County sheriff's deputy John Williams after the twister, 200 to 500 yards wide, ripped through the town Wednesday night. In a three-minute rampage, the tornado leveled 22 buildings, including a church where a worship service was in progress. The twister knocked out power in the unincorporated town near the Texas-Oklahoma border, and utility crews worked Thursday to restore electricity and telephone service for its 80 residents. One insurance agent estimated damage would total at least $520,000. "It was so big, I never really saw a funnel, just a wall of debris coming at me," said one resident, Doug Winn. Eight people were admitted to hospitals in nearby Paris, but none of their injuries was considered serious, spokesmen said. Most of the injuries were "a lot of broken bones and shrapnel wounds from the whirling debris," Williams said. "Thank God, all the people are accounted for," Williams added. "Nobody is missing -- not even any little boys who might have been out smoking behind the barn." The tornado cut a two-mile-long swath of destruction, destroying two buildings in nearby Sumner before slamming into Emberston. === Page 50 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 50 felled by heat at Phoenix parade (2) Oregon Journal, June 18, 1981 17 By United Press International Scorching heat felled about 50 people at a Lions Club parade in Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday and fueled brush fires in California. The National Weather Service said there was no relief in sight. Temperatures soared to 109 degrees in downtown Phoenix Wednesday afternoon and hovered at 95 degrees during the night. Parade-watchers collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration, authorities said. "I hear they were dropping like flies over there," a National Weather Service forecaster said of the Lions' gathering, which attracted people from all over the nation. About 20 people were treated at Good Samaritan Hospital. "People just weren't used to the Arizona heat," a nursing supervisor said. "Basically, we just gave them liquids to drink and cooled them off. We checked them over and then sent them home." Flooded rivers in Indiana and Kansas, meanwhile, kept hundreds of residents away from their homes again Thursday, and firefighters in California sought to contain the last of several fires that erupted in broiling heat, killing a boy. Two deaths were blamed on storms Wednesday in the Southeast and Midwest. The heat wave still gripped Arizona and Northern California Thursday, with temperatures heading for the 100-degree mark. Thunderstorms pounded the Southeast Thursday, and scattered showers lingered over the Carolinas. Isolated thunderstorms soaked the upper Mississippi Valley into northern Michigan. - 6 Projects PK - # Salem power cut by crash SALEM -- A widespread power outage in the Salem area was caused near midnight Sunday when a car sheared off a power pole at Market and Evergreen streets, dropping several lines and shorting out connecting boxes. Salem police said the driver of the car, who was not injured, was cited for driving while under the influence of intoxicants. He was identified as Michael Anthony Rice, 26, of Salem. Portland General Electric Co. crews worked until after daylight Monday to restore power to the area. Oreg 5/4/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Wild weather claims 22 lives By United Press International Thousands of flood victims returned Wednesday to their homes in Kansas, but rivers from Texas to Vermont swelled to dangerous levels from storms blamed for at least 22 deaths. Sizzling heat Tuesday covered the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to New York, resulting in record electricity loads and the deaths of thousands of chickens. But a cold front pushed thunderstorms packing high winds over the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic Coast Wednesday. Winds were clocked at more than 60 mph across western New York and Pennsylvania. Near Pittsburgh, gusts downed trees and power lines. At least 22 deaths have been attributed to the four-day onslaught of tornadoes, flooding and thunderstorms -- eight in Texas, six in Ohio, three each in Minnesota and Illinois, and one each in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Hail and rain pelted downtown Richmond, Va., Wednesday afternoon, damaging trees and power lines. About 21,000 people lost power during the height of the storm. Wind up to 55 mph battered the Plains, causing scattered power outages in Nebraska and Minnesota. Two deaths were attributed to the storms -- a Virginia man who touched a powerline toppled during the storm, and an Iowa construction worker who was injured fatally when the wind blew part of a roof on him. Florida residents, baking under 100-degree temperatures for six days in a row, looked forward to a cooling trend Thursday, which forecasters said could bring afternoon rainshowers. Thousands of chickens have died in the heatwave, and power officials warned that electricity use might have to be cut. More than 450 people in Indiana stayed away from their homes because of flooding on the Little Calumet, Tippecanoe and Kankakee rivers. The Williams Ditch dike on the rising Kankakee near Shelby was holding with reinforcements of sandbags. Officials warned that a break in the dike could force evacuation of 2,000 people. In Kansas, the waters of the Arkansas River and Walnut Creek -- which flooded Great Bend with 6 feet of muddy water and damaged 2,430 homes -- receded. Many of the 4,000 people evacuated in Monday's flood returned home, but the Red Cross said up to 200 residents stayed in shelters Wednesday night. Oreg. 6/19/81 # Sugar feints with witch doctor CHICAGO (AP) -- A specter is hanging over Sugar Ray Leonard; the specter is a "witch doctor." That, Leonard said Thursday, is why he hasn't scouted Ayub Kalule in person for the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title bout in Houston. "Kalule's got a witch doctor and I want to stay clear of him," Leonard said from Houston in a telephone news conference. "I don't believe in it, but I want to stay my distance; I don't trust him. "I heard my mother and father talk about voodoo and witchcraft; there may be some truth in it." A gold medalist in the 1976 Olympics, the 25-year-old Leonard has since steamrolled to a 29-1 professional record -- including 20 knockouts -- and the World Boxing Council welterweight crown. Now the world junior middleweight throne beckons Leonard, and his opponent will be Kalule, a 5-foot-9, 154-pound Ugandan southpaw who is undefeated with 36 victories and 28 knockouts since 1976. The Leonard-Kalule bout, part of a triple-bill "Welterweight Astrowars" to be aired on closed-circuit television across America, will take place in the Houston Astrodome June 25. The 27-year-old Kalule, now a resident of Denmark, reportedly sent to his native Uganda for a "witch doctor" to help prepare him for his United States debut against Leonard. Officials of New York-based Top Rank Inc., which is promoting the bout, said in a press release handed out to reporters that Kalule's "witch doctor" has stopped tornadoes and floods and made crops grow. === Page 51 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Flames sweep California; hundreds abandon homes 6/16/81 SAN DIEGO (UPI) - Wind-whipped flames engulfed dozens of homes, forced hundreds to flee fires sweeping their neighborhoods and blackened nearly 12,000 acres of brush in the third day of a searing Southern California heat wave. The fires fueled by dry desert winds and 100-degree-plus mercury readings destroyed at least 15 homes and damaged 27 others in seven Southern California counties. Fast-moving flames traveling over a hill in the Rancho Bernardo section of San Diego County forced the evacuation of 100 families Monday afternoon. Fire officials said the families may be allowed to return Tuesday. To the north in Orange County, fire exploded through a housing tract Monday, leaving eight families homeless. Officials said the $2 million blaze was caused by "bottle rockets" - illegal fireworks. "The winds just took that fire and spread it all through the other houses," said Capt. Bill Simpkins of the Orange City Fire Department. "We've got some leads on a suspect and we're investigating it." Record-breaking temperatures soaring past the 100-degree mark combined with the dry, desert winds gusting to 40 mph made the atmosphere volatile - and ripe for fires. By 9 p.m., temperatures had cooled to only 85 in San Diego and 87 in Los Angeles. A 500-acre fire roared down a canyon into the fashionable section of Spring Valley in southern San Diego County, destroying at least five homes and damaging a dozen others. The fire was burning out of control at nightfall. In the 800-acre Rancho Bernardo blaze, the roofs of five homes were scorched by flames and 30 other homes were still in danger early Tuesday. Fire spokesman Bob Sawyer said the fire was still out of control and no one knew when it would be contained. In the southern portion of the county, two brushfires merged Monday afternoon to form a 1,500-acre blaze in the rugged Tierrasanta area. Elsewhere in Orange County, a home in Laguna Niguel sustained $60,000 damage and a home in the Cowan Heights area suffered about $175,000 damage. County fire spokesman Mike McKee said four firefighters suffered heat exhaustion in the Cowan Heights blaze and another was burned on his hands. In nearby San Juan Capistrano, a fire caused about $1.5 million damage to a nearly completed condominium. McKee said 13 of the 28 units were destroyed. Electrical wires downed by the high winds ignited a 30-acre blaze in one part of Orange County. In Riverside County, 16 fires were ignited by noon and some 7,000 acres scorched. All the fires were contained except for three 1,000-acres blazes in remote, uninhabited areas of the county. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry said one home and two structures were destroyed in a 100-acre fire at Lake Elsinore in Riverside County and one structure was lost in Rubidoux. The Air Force reported late Monday that a 650-acre brush blaze was burning unchecked on the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. "No missile launch pads of other buildings are threatened at this time," said Airman Robert Craig. In Los Angeles, a rash of small blazes kept firefighters busy, but no structures were lost. The largest was a 100-acre fire in the Mission Hills area, said spokesman Steve Ventura. An electrical fire in an apartment complex caused $160,000 damage and injured five firefighters. One firefighter was treated for second and third-degree burns on his upper body while the others were treated for smoke inhalation at Queen of Angels Hospital. Four major brush fires scorched about 500 acres in the county. - UFOs & Projects - # Vicious storms lash midlands; 13 perish By United Press International National Guardsmen patrolled streets Monday from Minnesota to Ohio, where a barrage of tornadoes and thunderstorms damaged hundreds of homes, knocked out power to thousands and injured nearly 150 people. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storms. In vicious weather assailing the nation's midsection during the weekend, four people died in both Ohio and Texas, two in Illinois and Minnesota and one in Maryland. Two others were missing in Texas. The Minnesota deaths included one man who died following Sunday's Twin Cities tornadoes and a man who was struck by lightning during a softball tournament at Long Prairie. Nine others were injured. More than 80 people were injured in Minnesota and Ohio reported at least 60 people injured. Five tornadoes swept through Minneapolis and St. Paul Sunday afternoon, flattening homes and cars and causing millions of dollars in damage in about 35 minutes. More than 100,000 people in the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas lost power during the assault. Authorities said they received numerous reports of looting in the areas struck by the tornadoes. Hardest hit was suburban Roseville, where the tornado shattered windows, flipped cars and mangled signs at the Har-Mar Shopping Center. As many as 50 homes were damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of trees were knocked down or uprooted, smashing cars. Thousands of people were evacuated in widespread flooding in Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, but most returned to their waterlogged homes Sunday. Thunderstorms hovered over central Texas for the sixth day Monday, where weekend storms flooded rivers and creeks with 13 inches of rain, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people. 6/15/81 === Page 52 of 128 UFOs & Projects # S. California fires spread Oreg J 6/17/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Blaze sears wine country Oreg J 6/22/81 NAPA, Calif. (UPI) -- A huge wind-whipped fire roared out of control through the Napa Valley wine country Tuesday, threatening several small towns. At least 39 plush homes valued from $250,000 to $500,000 were destroyed in the blaze authorities said was deliberately set. State forestry spokesman Nick Fowler said the blaze was sparked by four individual fires set within minutes and miles of each other along the Silverado Trail that runs along the eastern side of the lush vineyard valley, which provides much of America's choice wine. The vineyards and wineries, themselves, were said to be in no immediate danger. Darkness forced fire investigators from the scene late Monday, Fowler said, but they "came to the decision" the blaze was deliberately set. Seven people were treated for burns and smoke inhalation suffered in the inferno, which gained in fury as the four brush fires converged late Monday and swept through grass and brush dried by searing 100-degree temperatures. Officials said "several" firefighters also were injured slightly, but they could not say exactly how many were hurt. "This is fire country . . . but it's not been like this in 10 to 15 years," said Byron Carniglia, chief ranger of Napa-Lake County Forestry District. Carniglia said bulldozers were working through the night trying to halt the hungry blaze that already had cut an 11-mile swath through the valley and was burning its way toward the more populated town of Fairfield to the southeast. Near dawn, as fire officials prepared to launch airplanes laden with fire retardant chemicals, the blaze already had reached the dry, rolling hills 10 miles northwest of Fairfield, which straddles U.S. 80. Winds gusting up to 50 mph swept the fire along the Atlas Peak ridge, charring over 28,000 acres and destroying 65 structures. An army of 600 firefighters fought to contain the blaze, which left 200 residents homeless. Air tanker support was grounded for the night because of the dense smoke, which could be seen from San Francisco 50 miles to the southwest, and firefighters had to rely on 87 engines and other ground-support equipment to chase the fast-moving blaze. LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Firefighters enduring temperatures of more than 100 degrees fought blazes still raging Wednesday throughout Southern California, where flames have damaged or destroyed at least 40 homes and charred more than 35,000 acres of brush. Desert winds have diminished, but the sweltering heat, low humidity and tinder-dry brush still played havoc with firefighting efforts. Several fires that broke out earlier in the week were controlled by firefighters, but others remained unchecked and many more blazes erupted Tuesday in counties from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Fire fed by 105-degree temperatures and erratic winds destroyed three houses and damaged three others in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles Tuesday. Five prize Great Danes died in one of the homes. The biggest fire, a 10,000-acre blaze in Riverside County, temporarily threatened Mount Palomar space observatory and prompted voluntary evacuation of the small community of Aguanga Tuesday night. Three mobile homes were consumed by flames. Firefighters contained a 7,200-acre fire at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and predicted full control by dawn Wednesday. Fire spokesman Steve Vittum said no missile sites or buildings were threatened by the flames, but about a dozen cattle perished in the blaze. A rash of fires in San Diego County scorched more than 12,000 acres during a two-day period, destroyed five homes and damaged two others. A 4,000-acre fire in the exclusive Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego that damaged one house was almost under control Tuesday. An 8,000-acre fire in the Tierrasanta area also was expected to be contained. - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981 B2 255-8400 31 Associated Press Laserphoto WET WORK -- Madison, Wis., taxi driver bails water out of cab after 2½ inches of rain fell in three hours, flooding businesses and streets. Oreg 6/17/81 === Page 53 of 128 # At least 2 killed by summer's first storms - UFOs & Projects - **DANGEROUS SKY** - A white funnel cloud appeared during the weekend over Olathe, Kan., a far suburb of Kansas City, as part of a weather system that spawned storms that killed at least two people. A number of tornadoes were sighted in the Kansas City area but none touched down. United Press International - UFOs & Projects - **Twisters, rain sweep nation** United Press International A series of tornadoes touched down in eastern North Dakota late Thursday, and heavy rains prompted flood watches Friday in Arizona and Oklahoma, where up to 6 inches of rain caused flooding in some areas. A storm 25 to 50 miles east of Oklahoma City unleashed rainfall at rates of 4 inches per hour Thursday, causing flooding from Prague south to Seminole. About 6 inches of water flooded Oklahoma 51 about 3 miles west of Tahlequah, Okla. Greg J 7/31/81 United Press International Summer's first thunderstorms packing tornadoes, hail and torrential rain pummeled the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast for a second day Monday. At least two people died in the storms and thousands were left without power. Firefighters in northwestern Florida worked a fourth day Monday trying to contain a lightning-sparked fire that burned hundreds of acres near Panama City. Thunderstorms hovered over the Midwest and stretched to the Atlantic Coast into Florida early Monday in a repeat of action Sunday, the summer solstice. A flash flood warning was issued for west central Illinois, deluged with up to 6 inches of rain. At least two deaths were blamed on the storms - a Warrenton, Mo., woman killed when high winds swept through the town Sunday, and a death in the central Illinois community of Littleton. Nearly 30 injuries were reported in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. The storms Sunday hurled tornadoes from South Dakota and Minnesota across Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania and into eastern Florida, causing scattered property damage and power outages. Wind of up to 70 mph blew down trees at Fort Knox and Lexington, Ky., and across northern Iowa. Heavy rain accompanied the storms, dumping nearly 3 inches at Orlando, Fla., more than 2 inches at Parkersburg, W.V., and more than an inch at Findlay, Ohio. Six crews of firefighters stood guard Monday over a blaze near Panama City, Fla., that burned 700 acres of timberland and raged to within a quarter mile of the tiny bayfront community of Southport. The fire cooled down overnight but fire officials were not hopeful. "It'll jump its fire lines, we know that," said Ralph Williams of the Division of Forestry. "We know that it will after the sun and wind come up. We just don't know where." A brief storm hit Virginia with hail and heavy rain Sunday night, knocking out power to 10,000 residents in the Richmond area. Virginia Electric and Power Co. officials said power should be restored Monday. Fierce, straight-line winds, first thought to be a tornado, struck Missouri Sunday, damaging nearly a dozen houses in the Warrenton area and injuring up to 10 people. Heavy rain triggered flooding 3 feet deep that briefly stranded travelers in Jefferson City and swept away one car and a boat. Thunderstorms and tornadoes battered southern and central Illinois Sunday night, damaging buildings and leaving several hundred residents without power. Greg J 6/22/81 - UFOs & Projects - **Flooding in China takes heavy toll** PEKING (AP) - The heaviest rains in 32 years caused four rivers in southwest China's Sichuan province to overflow their banks, killing or injuring 40 to 50 people, stranding hundreds of thousands and inundating nearly 1 million acres of farm land, officials said Wednesday. Greg 7/15/81 === Page 54 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 14 die as violent thunderstorms hit Midwest Story on Page One also By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 6/15/81 Lightning, floods and tornadoes killed at least 14 persons as thunderstorms churned across central and eastern states over the weekend, forcing hundreds of homeowners to flee rising waters. Sunday afternoon, a storm system in Minnesota spawned tornadoes that chewed through the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. At least 76 people were injured, two of them critically, officials said. There were no reports of fatalities due to injuries, but one man reportedly collapsed and died of a heart attack as a funnel appeared. In Texas, authorities said two people drowned Sunday and two more were missing in the swift-flowing waters of the Pedernales River, swollen by heavy rains that have produced widespread flooding. One boy was dead and more than 100 were injured in flooding in Illinois, while a twister claimed livestock in Iowa, and hail piled nearly 2 feet deep on some parts of Nebraska. In the tiny Ohio community of Cardington, a tornado Saturday carved a path of destruction that Gov. James Rhodes said was proportionately the worst in the state's history. About 171 homes and 29 businesses were heavily damaged by the storm, which hit the community of 2,000 around 3:45 p.m. Saturday and left 50 people homeless. Killed were Donald W. Carson, a 9-month-old infant who died of storm-related injuries; Leo Bingman, described as being in his late 60s, who died of a heart attack; Thelma Olsen, 62, who died Sunday after being pulled from wreckage; and Maxine Danner, 67, whose cause of death was not available. About 100 Ohio National Guardsmen helped keep order and guard against looters Saturday night. Scattered looting was reported several hours after the storm. Flooding in Texas has claimed at least 20 lives in southeast Texas in the past three weeks, including two Saturday and two more Sunday. Witnesses told law enforcement officers that four people were swept away Sunday after they walked out into the swollen Pedernales River, stepping on rocks that were still above the water. But when they tried to return to shore they slipped and fell into the rushing stream. Two bodies were recovered, and law enforcement officials were searching for the other two persons. Many other central Texas rivers continued to spill from their banks Sunday as heavy thunderstorms pounded the waterlogged area with as much as 4 inches of rain an hour. Hundreds fled their homes in Austin, San Antonio, San Marcos and surrounding towns after the latest round of flooding began Saturday. Since Memorial Day, the floods have done at least $35 million in property damage, mostly in the Austin area. In northwestern Ohio, Rhodes declared the flood-ravaged town of Findlay a disaster area Sunday afternoon and called out 75 National Guardsmen. Findlay Fire Department spokesmen said about 400 people had to be evacuated because of the flooding. David Wobser, Findlay safety service director, said Rhodes surveyed the town after inspecting tornado damage at Cardington. Wobser said the flooding caused damage over about a 50-square-block area in Findlay. - UFOs & Projects - # Up to 3,000 die in Iran quake BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A strong earthquake rocked southeastern Iran early Thursday, and Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai said between 1,500 and 3,000 people were killed, Tehran Radio reported. Rajai told his countrymen the disaster was so large that "it is impossible to compensate for it without public aid and the revolutionary sacrifice of you heroic people." Earlier, a spokesman for the governor general's office in stricken Kerman province said between 1,000 to 1,500 people were killed. A Tehran Radio dispatch from the province said more than 1,500 seriously wounded were moved to hospitals. In Gol Bagh, hardest-hit village in the province, 500 to 600 people were injured and "rescuers still are pulling victims from the massive rubble," a spokesman for the governor general's office said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press here. Two-thirds of Gol Bagh's houses were destroyed and more casualties were feared in the area, which has 40,000 inhabitants, he said. Tehran Radio said food, medicine, blankets and Red Crescent -- Iran's Red Cross -- personnel were being flown in by helicopter; the injured were ferried out to undamaged hospitals on return flights. The quake registered 6.9 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. Spokesman Don Finley said the quake was centered around Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of Tehran. 6/12/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Power failure hits SW city 7/28/81 An estimated 1,000 customers of Portland General Electric Co. in the industrial area of Southwest Portland lost power Monday afternoon, according to a company spokesman. Dave Eagon said the outage occurred at 1:27 p.m. He said the area was near SW Thomas and Gibbs Streets, extending to SW Montgomery Street. Cause of the outage was not immediately known. - UFOs & Projects - # Twisters hit Minnesota 8/1/81 United Press International Thunderstorms carrying gales up to 60 mph pushed across the Northern Plains into the Southeast Saturday ahead of an advancing cold front. Two tornadoes touched down in Minnesota. Sizzling temperatures lingered over the Southwest. Bullhead, Ariz., became the nation's hottest spot with a 112-degree reading Friday. Heavy rains pounded the Mississippi Valley late Friday. More than 2 inches of rain fell in Lockwood, Mo., and more than 1 1/2 inches hit Kansas City, Mo. Two tornadoes touched down in a lake and an open field in Grant County near Hoffman, Minn., as heavy thunderstorms moved through the area. No injuries or damages were reported, officials said. Large-sized hail accompanied thunderstorms into South Dakota and southeastern Minnesota. Baseball-sized hail was reported northwest of Rapid City, S.D., near Whitewood, and golfball-sized hail pelted Alexandria, Minn. Temperatures Friday in western Texas surpassed the 100-degree mark. === Page 55 of 128 - UFO 61 Projects - # Israeli planes destroy Iraqi atomic reactor JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Israeli air force planes "completely destroyed" the Iraqi atomic reactor near Baghdad Sunday, the Israeli government said in a special announcement Monday. "On Sunday, June 7, the Israeli Air Force went out to attack the Ossirak atomic reactor near Baghdad," the announcement said. "Our pilots fulfilled their mission completely. The reactor was completely destroyed." The announcement said all the Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The government explained its surprise attack by saying, "For a long time, we have been following, with deep concern, the establishment of the Ossirak atomic reactor. Reliable sources have no doubt, and we have learned, that it (the reactor) is intended, despite the camouflage, to create atomic bombs." "The target of these bombs was Israel," the announcement said. The announcement said Iraq's ruler, Saddam Hussein, had announced Iraqi intentions outright. It said when the Iranians hit the reactor last October in the early days of the Iraqi-Iranian conflict, Hussein indicated the attempt had been in vain because the reactor was established for use against Israel. The Israeli announcement said the atomic bombs the reactor could produce, either with enriched uranium or plutonium, were of the same type that were dropped on Hiroshima in World War II. "Thus was created a danger to the existence of the nation of Israel," the announcement said, adding that highly reliable sources gave Israel two dates for the completion of the reactor and its activation -- the beginning of July 1981 or the beginning of September 1981. "In a short time, the Iraqi reactor would have become operational," said the announcement. "Under these conditions, the Israeli government could not have taken the responsibility for the reactor (which) would have been hot." "It would have been impossible in this way to hit it. Any attack on it would have caused a leakage of radioactive gen, where a police officer died trying of Mittenwald, where the Isar River re-c paddling a kayak drowned; and in the Austrian Tyrol and Vorarlberg provinces, where flooded streams swept away two people. been... tion of at whose dictation at all to drop the and on its population. Greg J 7/23/81 Greg J 6/8/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Tokyo blacked out TOKYO (AP) -- A violent thunderstorm caused a blackout that left about 100,000 houses without power for one to two hours Wednesday, a Tokyo Electric Power Company spokesman said. He said lightning struck more than 100 places, cutting power transmission lines and affecting other power facilities. # Four die in floods MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- Floods in southern Germany and along the Austro-German border killed four people, authorities reported Wednesday. Three were still missing. Bavarian police said the deaths were in the flooded Rothbach River near Regen, where a police officer died trying to recover a canoe; the Isar River near Mittenwald, where a British soldier paddling a kayak drowned; and in the Austrian Tyrol and Vorarlberg provinces, where flooded streams swept away two people. - "Power" attack - # Paper clip causes glitch SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Space officials blame a paper clip for one of the minor problems encountered during the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia in April. Joseph E. Mechelay, mission evaluation manager, said that an overlooked paper clip began floating around inside a power supply box, causing a short. When a circuit breaker failed to correct the problem, a switch was made to a backup supply. - UFO 6 Projects - # storms kill two, injure 30 By The Associated Press Greg J 6/9/81 Severe thunderstorms, spawning high winds and tornadoes, rolled eastward from the Illinois prairie into the hills of western Pennsylvania, leaving at least two people dead and injuring more than 30 others, authorities said Tuesday. In Wyoming, heavy rains in the rugged mountains adjoining Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks flooded highways and campgrounds Tuesday, and residents of the Shoshone River Valley were urged to move to high ground. Indiana authorities said 20 people were injured when twisters peppered the northern part of the state late Monday. Damage was estimated at $2 million. A tornado slammed into Churubusco, 10 miles northwest of Fort Wayne, where about half the town's buildings -- including several century-old wood-frame houses -- were damaged. Nearly every tree in town was uprooted, one state policeman said. Five people were injured near Peru, Ind., when a tornado tossed five mobile homes in the air. In Ohio, 66-year-old Winifred Reamsnider died of a heart attack and other injuries after her mobile home northeast of Columbus in Knox County was tossed by a tornado. Her husband, Ray, was injured. - Space Shuttle PK - # 2 firefighters die in Florida blaze CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Two volunteer firefighters, their tractor hung up on a stump, tried in vain to flee an onrushing brush fire before it engulfed them, killing both men. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Scott Manness, 32, and Beau W. Sauselein, 33, both of Titusville, Fla., were fatally injured Monday when the lightning-sparked fire turned on them in a wildlife refuge near the Kennedy Space Center. They were digging a fire line when a sudden shift of wind gusting to 45 mph swept flames back toward them. Donald Pfitzer, a spokesman for the agency, said Tuesday the men were fighting one of four stubborn brush fires. Greg J 6/10/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # India satellite falls from orbit NEW DELHI, India (UPI) -- India's sophisticated eye-in-the-sky satellite failed to stay in orbit Tuesday and began tumbling to Earth, the Press Trust of India said. "The mission of Rohini-2 satellite launched from Sriharikota on May 31 has failed and the satellite has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere," PTI reported. The Indian Space Research Organization said the satellite was getting hotter as it dropped through the denser layers of the atmosphere. Greg J 6/9/81 - UFO "higher ups" - # newsbreak # 'Blanks' fired at queen A man fired several "blank shots" a few feet from Queen Elizabeth as she rode on horseback Saturday at the traditional Trooping the Color ceremony near Buckingham Palace in London. No one was hurt. The man was dragged to the ground and arrested as police came running from all directions. Millions of television viewers witnessed the incident. Greg J 6/13/81 === Page 56 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Killer heatwave sizzles South United Press International Thunderstorms and tornadoes rumbled along the Gulf Coast Thursday but didn't bring enough rain to crack a sweltering heat wave that has killed eight people. Temperatures rose to 96 degrees and higher in the South Wednesday, before nighttime storms rolled in with high winds, hail and heavy rain. Forecasts called for sizzling temperatures past 100 degrees again Thursday. Eight people have died in the heat - seven in Georgia and one in Alabama. But authorities said some of the deaths were aggravated by the victims' dangerous efforts to cool off. Thunderstorms and tornadoes battered the Midwest late Wednesday, causing some property damage, but no injuries. The storms came just as residents in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa tried to clean up from devastating storms earlier this week that caused millions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and crops, and swelled rivers to flood stage. Flood warnings were issued Thursday for northeastern and central Missouri and northern Illinois. A thunderstorm watch was posted Thursday for southern Iowa, northern Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio. Firefighters in California contained a huge windswept brushfire in Napa County, which burned 23,000 acres, destroyed 120 structures and caused $30 million in damages. Lightning touched off more than 20 small fires in the Gila, Santa Fe and Cibola national forests in New Mexico. Heavy rains, hail, wind and thunder and lightning rocked southeast sections of Georgia, and a tornado struck a pasture near Okeechobee City, Fla. A twister near Claxton, Ga., destroyed a mobile home and knocked another off its blocks. Fierce winds tore down trees and power lines in Evans County, but authorities were unsure how many people were affected. The mercury rose to 96 degrees in Columbus Wednesday, when authorities found the seventh heat victim in the southwest Georgia city. Another heat-related death was reported in Phenix City, just over the state line in Alabama. Three of the victims were sitting in front of fans - a dangerous practice in a heat wave. "You're supposed to sweat," said Muscogee County, Ga., Coroner Don Kilgore. "If a fan is directly on you, it'll stop you from sweating. It dries your skin and that's one of the major symptoms of heat death." All but two of the victims were elderly. An 82-year-old victim was found under blankets in bed, with every window shut. The National Weather Service in Atlanta said this month may become the hottest June on record in Georgia, with temperatures averaging 81.6 degrees the past 23 days. It has not rained in Columbus since June 12. The National Center for Disease Control said approximately 200 people die nationwide each summer from heat-related causes. oreg 6/25/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes blast Twin Cities By GALE TOLLIN oreg 6/15/81 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Tornadoes chewed through the Minneapolis-St. Paul area Sunday afternoon, causing "extensive" damage as they smashed windows, ripped up trees and crushed cars. At least 76 people were injured, two of them critically, officials said. There were no reports of fatalities resulting from injuries, but officials said a man who was standing in his yard when a funnel appeared collapsed and died of a heart attack. A tornado that touched down in Roseville, a suburb just north of St. Paul, caused "extensive" damage, a Ramsey County sheriff's department spokesman said. The twister plowed through a small shopping center, leaving shattered windows, twisted metal and building insulation strewn across a parking lot. Several customers were cut by flying glass, and the roof of a nearby insurance firm was ripped off. A few miles to the southwest, in southern Minneapolis, officials said a tornado touchdown injured at least eight persons as it uprooted trees, sometimes smashing them into automobiles, and downed power lines. The roof was ripped from a park pavilion and dumped into a nearby lake. "It looked like a giant came through, chewed everything and spit it out," said Midge Docken, a resident of southern Minneapolis. In the absence of Gov. Al Quie, vacationing in Norway, Lt. Gov. Lou Wangberg ordered the 120 National Guardsmen dispatched to the Roseville area at the request of the Ramsey County sheriff's department in St. Paul. John Graff, chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities, said the storm system spawned at least three tornado funnels, and "each one was stronger than the one before." One touched down in southern Minneapolis, he said, while the other two appeared north of St. Paul. The twister that hit Roseville smashed into a restaurant, a car wash and the shopping center, where operators estimated about 500 people were shopping in a grocery store. An employee of the grocery store, Tim Rank, said he was in the produce department when he heard a tornado bulletin on the radio. Rank said he went to the front of the store to warn clerks and customers, and a few moments later the funnel appeared, headed for the store. Rank said he and other employees pushed customers to the rear of the store. He said he looked back just in time to see the front windows blown in. A man identified as Emmel Pennis 56, of Edina, south of Minneapolis, was rushed to Fairview-Southdale Hospital after he suffered a heart attack when the first tornado appeared. He died a short time later. - UFOs & Projects - # Twisters hit Texas United Press International Tornadoes and thunderstorms packing baseball-size hail raged through north central Texas Friday and Saturday, causing millions of dollars in damages, and two Iowa men were killed in a plane crash blamed on overcast skies. Tornado warnings were issued for portions of northeast Texas and western Louisiana Saturday and residents, keeping a wary eye on rain-swollen creeks, braced for more rain. A flash-flood watch also was issued for Oklahoma, except for the Panhandle. At least one person in Grand Praire, Texas, was slightly injured Friday by flying glass in the twisters, which uprooted trees and ripped off roofs. A thunderstorm that had moved through Dallas before dawn Friday was thought to have weakened a 30-foot branch on an old oak tree that fell into a group of spectators at the Byron Nelson Classic golf tournament, killing one man. oreg 5/9/81 === Page 57 of 128 Oregon Journal, June 10, 1981 Killer storms swamp Pennsylvania By United Press International Thunderstorms that sent floodwaters rushing through homes in Wyoming and Pennsylvania, causing millions of dollars in damage, spread Wednesday from North Dakota to the Ohio Valley. Stifling humidity choked the East Coast. At least one person was missing and presumed drowned in the thunderstorms -- a Pennsylvania man who was swept from his porch by rushing waters of the flooded Sage Run Creek. Six others were injured. A 22-month-old boy died of apparent heatstroke in Phoenix, Ariz., where temperatures reached 109 degrees Tuesday. Authorities said the child was left in a closed van while his parents worked nearby. The temperature in the van rose to 122 degrees. Severe thunderstorms gathered early Wednesday over North Dakota, and extended from the northern Plains to the Ohio Valley. Tornado watches were issued for parts of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Thunderstorms and tornadoes from the same system swept through the Midwest Monday, killing one person, injuring more than 20 others and causing more than $2 million in damage to homes and businesses. Pennsylvanians tried to mop up from storms that ravaged western parts of the state late Monday and early Tuesday with more than a half-foot of rain. Damage was estimated at more than $65 million in Venango County, which bore the brunt of the storm. Forty-one miles of highway were damaged and 15 bridges were washed out or rendered unusable. Rain finally subsided in Wyoming and Idaho, where a 3-inch downpour in 48 hours flooded rivers and washed out bridges, threatening homes and damaging property. Two lightning-sparked fires that burned about 107 acres of national forest land in New Mexico were brought under control Tuesday, but a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said dry woodland conditions make more fires possible. In the East, high temperatures combined with rising humidity to make most residents sticky and uncomfortable. Almost everyone, that is. "I love it. Hot weather is for poor people -- I'm one of them -- and grasshoppers," said Sarah Scott in Richmond, Va., where high humidity combined with a 93-degree reading. "Living is easy. Get a watermelon and sit under the shade tree. You can't do that in the winter." Rain in Pennsylvania flooded the Sage Run, Lower Lightning blacks area GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (AP) -- A lightning bolt that knocked out a power transformer left much of the Grand Canyon and its tourist facilities without electricity for 15 hours before service was restored with a portable substation, authorities said Tuesday. "All power was restored at 5:38 a.m.," said Martha McKinley, an Arizona Public Service Co. spokeswoman. "We were able to get a portable substation from Payson to Flagstaff, and that was installed and connected at 3:10 a.m." The outage affected the canyon's South Rim, where most of the lodging and other tourist facilities are located. Associated Press Laserphoto SPOUSE RESCUE -- Barrie Hampton, police department chaplain in Great Bend, Kan., carries his wife, Pat, also a city employee, through flood waters to her car. Thousands were evacuated earlier in the week from their homes in this central Kansas town of 17,000 and had to be shifted from shelter to shelter as the flood waters from the Arkansas River and Walnut Creek rose. Bus crash kills 3, hurts 37 CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- A runaway "gambler's special" tour bus lost its brakes coming down a grade and rammed broadside into a small station wagon Monday, killing three people and injuring 37 others, police said. The coroner's office identified the dead, all in the station wagon, as Gerald Wheat, 38; his wife Alma, 34; and their son Andrew, 11, all of San Francisco. A daughter, Robin, 8, suffered head injuries and was taken by helicopter to a Reno hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. The family had been visiting relatives in the Reno area. The Nevada Highway Patrol listed all 36 people aboard the bus as injured, although most suffered only bumps and bruises and were released after being treated at hospitals. Several were being X-rayed for possible broken bones. === Page 58 of 128 UFO & Projects Tornado rips Denver area DENVER (AP) -- A tornado tore through the Denver area Wednesday, injuring at least 40 people, many of them at a suburban shopping center that was badly damaged, officials said. It was one of at least a dozen twisters spawned by a powerful storm system. As evening approached, police began receiving scattered reports of looting, and the Colorado National Guard was called in to quell any trouble in suburban Thornton, the hardest-hit area. "An MP (military police) company of 100 armed men is taking position in the area," said John Truby, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "There's a great deal of chaos and damage up there, and we want to make sure nothing gets out of hand." There were also reports of looting in southwest Denver, where the tornado first touched down, and Denver police said they increased security there. Damage was scattered across at least 100 city blocks in Thornton and along a 30-mile line from southwest Denver to Fort Lupton, officials said. The worst damage and most of the confirmed injuries were reported in northeast Thornton, where the tornado tore off the roof of the D&B Shopping Center and smashed all the windows of an apartment building before continuing on a northeasterly path through part of neighboring Northglenn. Most of the injured were taken to Valley View Hospital in Thornton, where officials said 31 people were treated for cuts and bruises and released. Nine people were admitted, but their conditions were not known, a hospital spokeswoman said. But Truby said six people were seriously hurt, and one teen-age girl reportedly was in critical condition. An ambulance driver said one of the injured "was just knocked over by the force of the wind. He was walking along the street and it just bowled him over." One weather-related death was reported. A woman was hit by lightning near Brainard Lake in Boulder County, and two other women with her were injured, officials said. There was no immediate damage estimate. The storm not only inflicted damage on property but caused scattered electrical blackouts and interrupted telephone service, utility officials said. Streets were flooded and creeks overflowed after heavy rain and golf ball-size hail fell throughout the area, police said. Tornadoes are rare in the Denver area, although two have touched down north of the city during the past six days. The tornado struck first in Lakewood and southwest Denver shortly after 2 p.m. and skipped and churned along a 30-mile-long arc for the next hour or so, hitting in Thornton, Northglenn, Fort Lupton and near Platteville. The all-clear was sounded about 3:30 p.m. "There was one major tornado that rode through town and hit Fort Lupton," said forecaster Tom Schweid of the National Weather Service. "It hit Sloans Lake, stayed on the ground quite a while, went through the north business section through Thornton and hit Fort Lupton." Susan Gelck, one of people taken to Thornton's Valley View Hospital for treatment of minor injuries after the twister hit Thornton, said: "We looked out the window and saw a tornado ripping the roof off the Albertson's (grocery store) across the street. "Then as I was walking down the steps this man yelled at me, and I turned and saw the roof fly off the building behind me. I just stood there crying and screaming for a few minutes." UFO & Projects Ramming Japanese ship costs sub skipper's job TOKYO (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy stripped the veteran captain of command of a Polaris missile submarine and reprimanded him and another officer for the April 9 ramming of a freighter that killed two Japanese seamen, the U.S. Embassy said Monday. An embassy spokesman said U.S. officials had notified the Japanese government of the action, taken as the result of a continuing Navy probe of the ramming of the Japanese freighter Nissho Maru by the USS George Washington. They noted that the American officer can appeal. "The commander of the submarine was relieved of his command and was issued a letter of reprimand," an embassy statement said. "In addition, the officer of the deck was issued a letter of reprimand." Military sources said letters of reprimand usually block chances for promotion, and in most cases the affected officers resign their commissions. Cmdr. Robert D. Woehl, 41, was skipper of the George Washington, the first American submarine to carry Polaris missiles, and Lt. Roy Hampton was officer of the deck at the time of the "hit-and-run" incident in the East China Sea. The Nissho Maru sank within minutes the 13 survivors in the 15-man crew said. The survivors drifted in lifeboats for 19 hours before being rescued. The Navy did not report the accident to the Japanese for 36 hours. A preliminary Navy report said the sub made sonar contact with the freighter moments before the collision but the contact was not heard or acknowledged by the officer of the deck. The sub was at periscope depth -- not far below the surface -- on a training mission, trying to avoid detection by a Navy P-3C Orion patrol plane. The Navy said the sub surfaced after the collision but noted no distress signs from the Nissho Maru. Navy Secretary John Lehman Jr. said the United States had accepted liability for the collision and expected to pay damages estimated by the Navy at more than $4 million. Japanese lawyers notified the Navy they expected the claims for the loss of lives, the freighter and its 1,200 tons of raw cotton to be about $4.2 million. UFO & Projects Laser device fails Air Force test WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force's effort to develop a revolutionary laser weapon failed in a secret attempt to use high-intensity light to destroy a 2,000 mph target, it was learned Tuesday. "The test failed and we don't know why," said Col. Bob O'Brien, spokesman for the Air Force Systems Command, when asked about the airborne experiment over the China Lake, Calif., range Monday. Had it succeeded, the effort to destroy a supersonic air-to-air missile with a laser beam shot from a special laboratory plane would have marked significant progress toward a weapon that would change drastically the character of warfare. Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto also acknowledged failure of the test. O'Brien said a concentrated beam of light was aimed from a modified KC-135 plane at a Sidewinder missile that had been fired from an A-7 fighter-bomber. === Page 59 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MAY 31, 1981 3M # Taxiing jetliners lose way in Vancouver airport fog VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Passenger jets have gotten lost in the fog while taxiing to the terminal after landing at Vancouver International Airport, according to an airport official. However, equipment is being installed to prevent such incidents from recurring, said Dave Brandt, air traffic control tower supervisor. "There were a couple of occasions where airplanes got lost taxiing on the airport causeway" after landing in heavy fog last winter, Brandt said. A surface guidance system now being tested at Montreal's Dorval Airport will be installed in Vancouver this summer, Brandt said. The equipment is designed to let air traffic controllers keep track of airplanes on the ground and direct planes to the correct location. There is currently no guidance system for planes once they have landed in Vancouver. "It's the same as driving a car in the fog," Brandt said. "They (airplane pilots) are following the yellow lines and the yellow lines split up, and they follow the wrong one or something and they get lost." Brandt was asked about reports that 10 such incidents occurred last winter. "I thought there were a lot less than that, but I'm not sure," he said. In each incident, a major passenger plane wound up at the wrong airline terminal or used the wrong taxiing lanes, but none was involved in an accident, Brandt said. "I guess any time an airplane gets lost on an airport runway, it's serious," he said. When asked whether air travelers should be leery of landing in Vancouver during fog, Brandt said: "No, I don't think so. It certainly doesn't bother me." # Floods force evacuation HOUSTON (AP) -- Rising floodwaters in two southeast Texas counties Sunday forced at least 100 families from their homes, washed out a railroad line and collapsed two dams, officials said. "We've had a pretty good bit of major flooding in the west part of the county near Kickapoo Creek," said Polk County Chief Deputy Rick Voelker. "There are some houses under water there, and we've had major flooding in Livingston." He said about 30 families were evacuated near Kickapoo Creek west of Livingston and another 80 families had been moved along Long King Creek in Goodrich, eight miles south of the Polk County seat, and more evacuations were planned. Voelker said he had no reports of injuries or deaths in the three flood-stricken areas, but some families in Goodrich were refusing to leave their homes because they were afraid of looting. Two people died last week when floodwaters hit Central and South Central Texas after five straight days of rain. - UFO 6 Projects - 6/8/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # N-coolant leakage shuts power plant ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- Technicians began repairs Saturday on a cooling system leak that sent 10,000 gallons of radioactive water into the nation's largest nuclear power plant and forced the shutdown of one reactor, said a spokesman for the Brown's Ferry plant operators. Workers found the leak shortly after midnight around the stem of a discharge valve on one of two recirculation pumps in the drywell surrounding the reactor, one of three reactors at the huge plant, said Bob Boyer of the Tennessee Valley Authority. "We are looking at probably a day or so to finish the repairs," he said. "We are also going to do some other minor maintenance in there. If we don't have any other problems, we hope to have the unit back in service early this week." The leak, which began Thursday, posed no threat to plant personnel or to the public, said Jim Hufham, director of TVA's emergency control center in Chattanooga, Tenn. All the spilled cooling water was contained within the drywell and recirculated by a drainage system, and no radiation was released, TVA officials said. The drywell, with steel-reinforced concrete walls several feet thick, is the primary containment structure surrounding the reactor. It is "the first line of protection for plant employees and the public from the radiation generated by the nuclear reactor when it is operating," Boyer said. "Valve leaks are just real common occurrences," he said. "The unit was shut down primarily because of the location of the valve. If it were located in another part of the plant, we could have gotten to it and fixed it probably without shutting the unit down." TVA declared a "site emergency" at the plant when drains in the drywell indicated water was leaking at the rate of 21 gallons per minute, Hufham said. The nuclear plant is about 10 miles southwest of Athens, which has a population of about 14,000, and 10 to 15 miles northwest of Decatur, Ala., with a population of about 48,000. 6/24/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Rain, rain go away! By CHARLES B. STEERS Journal Staff Writer The man looked sadly at the diminutive tomato plants standing in rain-dappled puddles and then turned his face skyward. With water streaming down his lined face, he fixed his gaze on the menacing clouds and screamed: "Enough already!" This, most certainly, will be the Year of the Green Tomato. And it may very well be the Year of the Disappearing Strawberry and the Year of the Non-Existent Cherry. Frustrated gardeners, melancholy farmers, and disgruntled golfers are beginning to wonder if they should offer a sacrifice to the sun gods, or if they should be sticking pins into a voodoo doll of the weatherman. And they're not restricted to Oregon, either. Farmers in Washington are wondering if they'll be able to salvage any of the state's bountiful strawberry crop. Last year it was the volcano, this year over-abundant rain. What could be in store next year? Termites? This isn't a record rainfall for June -- yet. The wettest June on record, according to the National Weather Service was 1954 when the service measured 3.58 inches of precipitation at the Portland International Airport. As of 5 a.m., Saturday, this June's rainfall is 3.18 inches, only .4 of an inch from a tie with 1954 and there are 11 days to go. Oreg 6/20/81 === Page 60 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Rash of tornadoes, rains blister Wyoming to Texas United Press International Thunderstorms that hurled more than 20 tornadoes from Wyoming to Texas snapping power lines and trees, shattering windows and resulting in at least one lightning death, pounded the breadth of Texas with rain Thursday. Fifty people were injured in Denver, where nine tornadoes plowed through northwest suburbs Wednesday. One young woman caught in the twisters' path is in critical condition. A New Jersey woman hiking with two friends near the Continental Divide northwest of Denver was struck and killed by lightning during a hailstorm. Her two companions were slightly injured. Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm said he would declare an emergency to allow the National Guard and the state patrol to protect property from looters. Damage was extensive. The tornadoes snapped power lines, blew out windows, uprooted trees and ruptured a gas line, forcing evacuation of the nearby area, in their 45-mile path from Denver to Platteville. A forecaster for the National Weather Service in Denver said the tornadoes were the most severe in recent Denver history. In Michigan, lightning struck the outside wall of a first-grade classroom in Roscommon Wednesday, burning a 4-inch hole through the wall. None of the 20 children in the classroom were injured. Thunderstorms swept across Texas, dumping up to 5 inches of rain in eastern areas, and persisted Thursday. Flash flood warnings were issued for five counties Thursday. Several tornadoes were reported northwest of Lubbock, Texas, but there were no injuries or damage. The storms lumbered into Oklahoma, where one twister damaged a two-block area in south Oklahoma City and rainwater flowed 3 feet deep. Up to 3 inches of rain swamped southern Kansas, prompting a flash flood watch Thursday. Six tornadoes touched down in open fields near Greensburg, but no damage or injuries were reported. In Wyoming, two tornadoes touched down in rural areas -- one near Cheyenne and one near Casper. There were no injuries or damage. In the Denver area, where a young woman was injured, the suburb of Thornton was hardest hit. - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes spawn disaster declaration THORNTON, Colo. (AP) -- Gov. Richard Lamm Thursday declared four counties a disaster area after inspecting suburban neighborhoods where 46 people were injured and $9.5 million worth of property was destroyed in the worst onslaught of tornadoes ever recorded in the Denver area. The worst of about a dozen twisters sighted Wednesday cut a mile-long path through this city of 40,000 people, destroying at least 87 homes and causing most of the injuries. An estimated 600 buildings were damaged throughout the metropolitan area. One woman was killed by a bolt of lightning while hiking 50 miles northwest of Denver. Seven people remained hospitalized Thursday, one of them in critical condition. - UFOs & Projects - # Thunderstorms kill 3 By United Press International At least three deaths were blamed on fierce thunderstorms that pounded the southern Plains Wednesday and roared into the Tennessee Valley, urging rain-swollen rivers over their banks. Rivers rose near flood stage in Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee. Flash flood warnings were posted Wednesday for those areas and minor flooding was reported in Vernon, Texas, west of Wichita Falls. High winds clocked at more than 70 mph accompanied thunderstorms through the Plains and a series of tornadoes rolled through Texas. A cold front in the West that moved heavy rain into Utah caused some flooding and mudslides. About 8 inches of rain fell Tuesday in Oxford Dam, N.C. In Texas, tornadoes touched down in Rockport, Lakeview, Wellington, Matador and Crosbyton. A funnel cloud was also cited near Pittsburg, Texas. No damage or injuries were reported. A tornado was reported near Edmond, Okla., where winds were clocked at more than 70 mph. Large hail flailed Edmond and heavy rain continued Wednesday. Another twister was sighted at Hollis, Okla. Intense thunderstorms and winds clocked at 43 mph moved into Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. Authorities in Nashville said a man and his two young stepchildren drowned in a rain-swollen drainage ditch after a downpour. "The (drainage) ditches in these apartment complexes collect a lot of water," said Ray Burgess of the National Weather Service in Nashville. "They (the victims) were playing in it after it rained. "They just happened to be playing in the wrong spot." - UFOs & Projects - # Storms rip across U.S. United Press International Fierce thunderstorms rampaging across the Plains flung lightning bolts that knocked out power and left Oklahoma lawmakers in the dark, and a tornado touched down in South Dakota Saturday. Heavy rain pounded a swath of the nation from the Southeast to Texas' Rio Grande Valley on Friday. Tornadoes were sighted in Florida and a cloudburst caused minor flash floods at a Christian youth camp in Colorado. Fierce storms pummeled Rapid City, S.D., Saturday with hail and high wind and a tornado touched down 37 miles east of the community, but no injuries or damage were reported. === Page 61 of 128 GONIAN, JUNE 14, 1981 Tornado kills 3 - UFOs 6 Projects - Storms ravage Midwest, Texas By CAROL R. STERNHELL of The Associated Press Three people were killed and at least 45 were injured Saturday when a tornado tore through Cardington, Ohio, while in northern Illinois and south-central Texas heavy rains and flash flooding left two people dead and forced dozens to flee. Gov. James A. Rhodes called out the Ohio National Guard to secure the area and traveled to Cardington along with the head of the state disaster services agency, said spokesman Chuck Shipley. John Harbough, a supervisor at Morrow County Hospital in nearby Mount Gilead, said two people, including an infant, died during treatment and a third was dead on arrival. The infant was identified as 9-month-old Donald William Carson. The other identifications were withheld pending notification of relatives, Harbough said. As heavy thunderstorms swept through Illinois, Texas rivers and creeks spilled over their banks for the third straight day, closing streets and highways. A Chicago woman, Irena Zenullahi, 33, drowned when a dinghy she was aboard, caught by the sudden weather change, capsized in Belmont Harbor on the city's North Side, police said. The woman, who could not swim, and her three companions aboard the boat were pitched into the water. The three others swam to safety. In Texas, a Houston man drowned after a pickup truck he was in washed into Bedias Creek in Madison County at about 12:30 a.m. The body of Billy McFerrin, 45, was found at about 4:25 p.m. on a barbed wire fence about 15 feet from the truck, said Department of Public Safety Trooper Charles DeFord. Officials said McFerrin was one of four people who climbed from the truck after it plunged into the flooded creek. The other three reached safety. Late Friday, rescue workers in Frio County recovered the body of Alfred Breeden, 82, of Devine, who was swept away when a wall of water overturned a fire truck that was carrying him and three fellow campers to safety. The Ohio tornado "pretty well tore the town up," said Morrow County Deputy Sheriff Carroll Sears. "We've got buildings down, trees have been uprooted, power lines are down, we've got gas leaks, and people are injured." He said some people were trapped in damaged buildings. The tornado ripped through the community of about 2,000 at about 3:45 p.m., according to meteorologists. The Red Cross set up a disaster center at a school and the sheriff's office and the state Highway Patrol sealed off the town. Only residents and those involved in emergency operations were allowed-in. In Illinois, thunderstorms pelted the Joliet area, forcing as many as 100 east-side residents to leave their homes when Hickory Spring creek flooded its banks, said Fire Chief Ed Spahn. No injuries were reported, he said, but cars were stalled and viaducts were flooded. He said people were being encouraged to stay off the roads. orig 6/14/81 - UFOs 6 Projects PK - Ammunition plant blows RADFORD, Va. (AP) -- An explosion at the Army Ammunition Plant injured nine people Wednesday, a spokeswoman at Radford Community Hospital said. William H. Coughlin, spokesman for Hercules Inc., the firm that operates the sprawling explosives plant for the Army, confirmed there had been an explosion but gave no further details. The blast occurred about 1 p.m., a fireman at the Radford Fire Department said. Two of the injured were taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville by helicopter and another was flown to a Roanoke hospital, said Mary Alice Davis. The rest were treated at hospitals in this southwest Virginia town, she said. No other details were immediately available. orig 5/7/81 - Space Shuttle PK - Second man dies in Canaveral fire CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A firefighter died Tuesday of burns suffered in a blaze that killed another man when they were trapped aboard a bulldozer in a thunderstorm-fanned brushfire on Kennedy Space Center property, officials said. Beau Sauselein, 32, of Titusville, died at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville of third-degree burns on much of his body, officials said. He had been hospitalized there Monday in critical condition. Scott Maness, also 32, of Titusville, died Monday at the Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Mark Hess. The two firefighters were employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The 500-acre fire still was burning Tuesday but was under control, a NASA spokesman said. It was the first fatal accident this year for firefighters who have been battling a four-month string of more than 10,000 brush and timber fires that have consumed 441,000 acres in Florida during one of the state's worst droughts. orig P 6/9/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - Fierce storm rips East Coast states By United Press International Thunderstorms packing hurricane-force wind battered the Mid-Atlantic states, leaving more than 100,000 people without power Friday in Maryland and New Jersey. Dozens of Maryland residents were injured in the storm. At least four people were being treated at hospitals. Rain threatened new flooding in Missouri and the National Guard was called to Lafayette, Ind., in the wake of a tornado and a fierce storm. Forecasters predicted a cold front pushing downward from Canada by the weekend will break the South's heat wave that has killed eight people in Georgia and Alabama. More rain and thunderstorms were forecast Friday for Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware, lashed by savage storms Thursday. Wind clocked at 90 mph tore through Baltimore, Md., and in Allentown, Penn., 75 mph wind ripped a roof from a children's center and uprooted trees. orig P 6/26/81 === Page 62 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Texas braces for floods in continuing downpours By United Press International Texas braced for possible flash floods Friday from relentless rain that has inundated homes, triggered mudslides and been blamed for at least two drownings. One victim died trying to warn neighbors to flee. Thunderstorms caused by the hurricane season's first tropical depression unleashed a tornado Friday in Galveston, Texas, and dumped more than 2.5 inches of rain on the Gulf city. One injury was reported as a result of the storm, which also threatened to flood the Louisiana coast. Thunderstorms that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma stretched across Texas Thursday, dropping up to 5 inches of rain. Much of Texas was under a flash flood watch today, where rainstorms lingered. The tropical depression formed Thursday night over the western Gulf of Mexico and Friday was packing sustained wind of 35 miles an hour - centered about 75 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The twister that touched down on the west end of Galveston Island Friday damaged homes, an apartment complex and several cars. Police said one person was cut by flying glass. The body of a Fort Hood soldier was recovered from a tree near Florence, Texas. Authorities said the 30-year-old man drowned in Mountain Creek while trying to warn residents to flee their homes. "We understand he was down there to help warn people to get out, that the creek was up," said sheriff's spokesman Bert Wilkerson. "Normally, it is just a little trickle, but get a good rain and that son of a gun can get 300, 400 feet wide." A 10-year-old Waco boy was presumed dead after falling Thursday into a rain-swollen drainage ditch, which runs 14 blocks underground into the Brazos River. The search for his body continued Friday. The heaviest storms extended from near Waco to Laredo. The west Texas community of Fluvana got nearly 5½ inches of rain. # Storms in Midwest, Texas claim 20 lives By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press Authorities in Texas pulled more bodies out of swollen rivers Monday as the death toll from a weekend of torrential rain and tornadoes in the central and eastern parts of the nation rose to 20. States of emergency were declared in Kansas and Ohio as surging rivers and creeks went over their banks and roared into homes. In Minnesota, crews began clearing away trees and buildings flattened by a major tornado that skipped across Minneapolis-St. Paul and surrounding suburbs, killing two and injuring almost 100. In Ohio, officials continued tallying the damage from a twister that devastated the old mill town of Cardington, taking four lives. In addition, three people were killed by lightning and 11 people drowned in the thunderstorms, flooding and high winds which began Saturday from Texas to Maryland. National Weather Service forecaster Guy Gray in Kansas City, Mo., said the storms formed along a slow-moving cold front stretching from the Great Lakes to Texas. Showers were expected Monday from Texas through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and into New England. Up to 15 inches of rain fell overnight in parts of Kansas, forcing the evacuation Monday of hundreds of people in and around Great Bend, soaked by up to 4 feet of water. A few minor injuries were reported as volunteers took to canoes and rowboats to help rescue people from water-filled homes. Kansas Gov. John Carlin declared states of emergency in Barton and Pawnee counties. In Missouri, at least seven people were injured Monday as high winds surged through southeastern Kansas City, causing an explosion at a gas station, tossing cars around, blowing out store windows and flattening a doughnut shop. Authorities said they had not confirmed if the wind was a tornado, but homeowner Roy Vickers said there was no doubt in his mind that a twister had touched down. "It sucked 18 inches of water out of my swimming pool," he said. In Oklahoma, residents of a mobile home park and motel in Bristow were evacuated when 5.4 inches of rain fell in less than an hour. # Crash cuts Salem power SALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of people were without power early Monday after an automobile hit an electric pole, collapsing lines and shorting out connecting boxes, authorities said. Salem police said Michael A. Rice, 26, Salem, was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after he smashed into a power line at about midnight Sunday. He was not injured. About 1,000 Portland General Electric customers lost their power for an hour, spokesman Dave Eagon said. # Hanford reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The N reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation was shut down Monday morning for the seventh time since March 11. UNC Nuclear Industries spokesman Fred Park said the shutdown was caused by an overloaded motor on one of the pumps that supply cooling water to the condenser. UNC operates the reactor for the Department of Energy. When asked about the high number of shutdowns, Park said he didn't find the number too high. After an outage of 10 months, problems can be expected, he said. The reactor was out of operation during a 10-month labor dispute, which ended in March. # Flooding Kills 17 MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- Police reported 17 people killed, eight missing and "enormous damage" from flooding when a thunderstorm and torrential rains hit Oman Sunday. In the neighboring United Arab Emirates a hailstorm wreaked havoc and killed four people. A government statement reported that an unidentified freighter sank near the Oman shoreline Sunday and a small boat capsized in the storm. Highway traffic halted, and Oman police urged caution, warning that more torrential rains were predicted. In the United Arab Emirates, ships were ripped from moorings, houses were destroyed and thousands of livestock were killed as shelters crashed. === Page 63 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Fire damages ammo ship; 6 hurt NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- An engine room fire aboard a Navy ammunition ship, the third blaze aboard a Navy vessel in less than a week, injured six sailors and left the USS Nitro disabled in the Mediterranean Sea off Crete. The 512-foot ship with a crew of 315 was towed to a naval facility at Souda Bay on Crete for repairs, while the injured were flown to the Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Atlantic Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Mike Cherry said Tuesday the exact cause of the fire, which broke out Monday during operations 60 miles off Crete, was unknown. However, Navy officials described it as "a fuel oil fire." Although the Nitro was loaded with "all kinds of naval ordnance," Cherry said there was no danger of the ammunition exploding because it was stored a safe distance from the fire. It took firefighters 1½-hours to control the blaze. Because the fire disabled the ship's engines, the vessel was towed back to port. Two of the victims were identified as Donald J. Nicholson, 26, a machinist mate from Queens Village, N.Y., and Christopher Buckridge, 22, a fireman from North Valley Stream, N.Y. Both were in "guarded condition" as a result of eye burns and smoke inhalation. The four other victims, whose names were not released pending notification of their families, suffered "minor" smoke inhalation, officials said. The Nitro fire is the third blaze reported on a Navy vessel recently. Fourteen crewmembers were killed and 48 injured the night of May 26 when a plane crashed while landing on the nuclear carrier USS Nimitz off Jacksonville, Fla., and touched off a fireball. A "minor" fire broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise Monday night at the Bremerton, Wash., shipyard, but was quickly doused by ship's firefighters. Oreg 6/3/81 # Alabama nuclear plant leaks radioactive water By PHIL ORAMOUS ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- About 10,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from a reactor cooling system at the nation's largest nuclear power plant Friday, forcing the shutdown of a reactor but releasing no radiation into the surrounding area, officials said. The water was recirculated and purified and no one inside the plant was contaminated, according to Jim Huffham, director of emergency control for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the Browns Ferry power station near this northern Alabama town of 14,000 people. He said the accident posed no danger to plant personnel or the public. Joe Gilliland, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Atlanta, said there was "no major safety problem" at the plant. "We don't think it's very serious in terms of our emergency guidelines," Gilliland said. "Our designations for anything potentially serious range from an 'unusual event' to a 'general emergency.' It looks like this was an 'unusual event.'" he said. "It's something that requires immediate attention, but it does not necessarily mean there's any imminent danger." The water leaked inside a drywell, the primary containment structure which surrounds the reactor, according to TVA spokesman Gil Francis in Knoxville, Tenn. Oreg 5/23/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - - UFOs 6 Projects PK - # Soviet peak erupts MOSCOW (AP) -- A volcano erupted Tuesday night on the Soviet Far Eastern island of Atlasov and debris covered a town on a nearby island with ashes up to 10 inches deep, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The news agency said streets and buildings in the town of Severo-Kurilsk were covered with ashes and that schools had been closed. It made no mention of injuries and said businesses there still were operating. The report said the gas-and-ash cloud after the eruption in the Kurile island chain north of Japan went six miles into the air and drifted up to 625 miles. It was the first time the volcano had erupted in nine years, the report said. Atlasov island itself is uninhabited. The town of Severo-Kurilsk is on the nearby island of Paramushir. Oreg 4/30/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1981 # Twisters spark flooding in Gulf states By The Associated Press Tornadoes lashed parts of Texas and Louisiana Friday as a storm rolled in off the Gulf of Mexico with heavy rain that drenched central and southeastern Texas for a second day, spawning widespread flooding. A 10-year-old boy swept into a storm sewer the day before was found alive in central Texas, but two other people died in Texas and one was missing in Louisiana. Several people were injured by tornadoes in Louisiana, and residents of some low-lying areas in Texas were forced to evacuate. At Waco, Texas, 10-year-old Emiliyio Pena was found alive Friday afternoon by rescuers searching a 13-block-long storm sewer. The boy apparently was carried into the sewer Thursday after being swept into a creek while riding his bicycle with friends. In Louisiana, the heaviest damage reported Friday was at Louisiana College in Pineville, where a tornado damaged classroom buildings and knocked out power, a school spokesman said. One student was hospitalized after being hit by a falling tree limb. Most of the 1,250 students were evacuated, school spokesman Randy Wyrick said. Two factory workers were hospitalized after being slashed by flying glass, Pineville Fire Chief Henry Coleman said. Oreg 6/6/81 === Page 64 of 128 - UFOs Projects - THE Summer blazes blacken acreage in five Western states OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1981 3M A15 By The Associated Press Firefighters threw a line around a 73,000-acre brush fire in Idaho as California fire crews struggled Sunday to contain a slow-moving blaze that blackened 2,200 acres of overgrown brush. Meanwhile, scattered rain, cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped slow the advance of the more than 27 fires of at least 100 acres each raging across Alaska, and blazes in New Mexico roared through parched, remote forests. In Utah, firefighters controlled a blaze on an Army testing site. Nearly 800 people California helped fight a 3-day-old fire in the remote Ventana Wilderness. Fire information officer Steve Beck said four miles of fire line had been placed around the blaze, but "More than half the job still remains to be done." Firefighters were aided by air tankers and helicopters dropping water and retardant on the fire. Two horses and eight mules, usually used to ferry supplies to wilderness rangers, were being employed to bring in water and food to firefighters on the lines, said Beck. In Idaho, fire crews were beginning to go home after a range fire that was touched off by lightning near Shoshone was contained Saturday. The fire was the largest of three major Idaho range fires this week. Three firefighters were killed Friday while flying to the scene. In Utah, Interagency Fire Center spokesman Barry Wirth in Salt Lake City said a 5,200-acre range fire south of Dugway Proving Ground had been controlled late Saturday. The fire was started Thursday night by a lightning strike on Army land and spread south. Bureau of Land Management officials had declared the fire contained Friday, but gusty winds caused it to flare up again. The fire, which burned mostly in grass and sagebrush, was about 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Fishlake National Forest spokesman Ron Sanden said seven small fires were either controlled or contained in the southern Utah national forest, along with a fire on private property and one on BLM land. Crews were investigating whether one of the fires was set, whether deliberately or accidentally, but the rest were caused by lightning, he said. About 20 blazes, most of them smaller than four acres, were sparked by lightning in New Mexico forests. Scott Steinberg, fire information officer at Gila National Forests, said most of those fires were being fought by parachutists or airborne tankers. An Interagency Fire Information Center spokeswoman in Fairbanks said 69 fires were burning Sunday in Alaska, bringing the year's total to 573 fires. Blazes have destroyed more than 400,000 acres of timber and tundra - an area about half the size of Rhode Island - since the beginning of the year. The largest fire covers more than 187,000 acres near Dune Lake, southwest of Fairbanks. While there have been no injuries reported from the scattered fires, 40 elderly persons and children were evacuated last week from Minto because of heavy smoke from the Tatalina fire, which has blackened 73,000 acres of state-owned land west of Fairbanks. About 320 firefighters were battling the Tolovana blaze, which is raging five miles north of the Tatalina fire and has scorched 47,000 acres. - UFOs Projects - AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - At least four persons drowned and a search was under way Monday for at least 10 other others missing in the city's worst flooding in recent memory. "We've had four apparent drownings so far that we know of," said police Sgt. Larry Walker, "and there's probably going to be others out in the county." He said all of the victims were motorists caught in flash flooding that struck the city late Sunday. No identities were immediately released. Meanwhile, fierce thunderstorms packing golf-ball-size hail flung tornadoes across portions of the Midwest and Texas and flood waters ebbed in Montana, where hundreds of evacuated residents began to return to their homes Monday. One tornado, in Bartlesville, Okla., flattened several homes and injured four persons. Skies began clearing in Montana where the heaviest rains in two decades spawned widespread flooding. Hundreds of people in Cascade County prepared to return to their homes as civil authorities geared up for clean-up efforts. In Austin, city street and bridge crews estimated as many as 5,000 vehicles were stranded by high water that also forced the evacuation of an estimated 40 persons from their homes. "This is the worst flooding I can recall," Chief Doug Palmer, a 20-year fire department veteran, said Monday. - UFOs Projects - Monsoon swamps Bangkok BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) - Record monsoon rains have swamped Thailand's sinking capital, turning city streets into running streams with boats replacing municipal buses as the favored form of transportation. Bangkok, once known as the "Venice of the Orient" for its network of canals, was hit by the edge of a massive storm front from China that dumped a record 7.1 inches of rainfall on the city Sunday. Florida has 5 new sinkholes 5-15-81 Columbian ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Dominick Cipollone's garden has disappeared and a Tampa homeowner's driveway was swallowed up as five new sinkholes developed in central Florida, where drought is making the ground give way. Cipollone knew something was wrong Thursday when he went out to water his garden and couldn't find it. Where vegetables and wine grapes once flourished, a crater gaped. The crater - estimated at 50 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep - developed during the predawn hours Thursday in a residential area north of Winter Park, where officials still were watching a sinkhole that opened last week, estimated at 400 feet wide and almost 100 feet deep. A third central Florida sinkhole opened up Thursday in an orange grove area in Auburndale, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. It was reported as 60 feet wide, but only about 5 feet deep and nibbling at a roadway. Traffic was blocked, but no houses were threatened. Meanwhile, a hole about 20 feet wide and 15 feet deep was growing larger in a barren field north of Lakeland, and soil engineers planned a trip to Windermere to assess a sinkhole that began growing in the sandy soil on the edge of Lake Bessie and spread into the backyard of a home. The 75-foot wide crater had expanded to within 10 feet of a sundeck. Floods claim 175 in India NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Flash floods caused by monsoon rains marooned thousands of people in the western state of Gujarat Monday. The nationwide toll of flood-related deaths was placed at 175 by United News of India. The agency said authorities ordered the residents of more than 100 villages in Gujarat to flee to high ground because 14 dams were overflowing. Gujarat Irrigation Minister Amarsinh Choudhry told the state legislature in Gandhinagar that 46 persons perished in floods that swept away 3,284 cattle and wrecked more than 14,000 homes. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 14 more flood-related deaths were reported Monday, raising the toll there in three weeks of heavy rains to 105, UNI reported. The other deaths were reported at various locations in rain-lashed western and northern === Page 65 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Flash floods devastate Texas capital; 10 die By KEN HERMAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Flash floods turned gentle streams into torrents that swept through the Texas capital early Monday, killing 10 people, leaving eight others missing and carving a path of destruction that looked like "a week of hurricanes." "I think we are fortunate we didn't lose more lives, when you look at the devastation," Mayor Carole McClellan said as Austin began drying out from the vicious overnight flood. Austin Police Lt. R.R. Roundtree said at midday that eight people were confirmed dead. Later, he said two more bodies had been found. Four of the victims died in or near Shoal Creek, a usually quiet stream that cuts through a residential section of Austin and empties into Town Lake. Most of the other deaths involved motorists who got stranded in rising water and drowned. Police said one unidentified woman's body was found in the back seat of a Cadillac perched 12 feet above the ground in a tree. Another eight people were reported missing. Four of them were last seen in a canoe on Town Lake, said Curtis Weeks, public information officer of the Travis County sheriff's office. Up to 7 inches of rainfall, which fell from late Saturday night until early Monday morning, pushed Shoal Creek into homes, tearing out walls and soaking floors and furniture. "It looks like we had a week of hurricanes," Cam O'Keefe said as she looked at the damage. Mike Sheridan, a hotel night auditor, said he watched as a "whirlpool" in a drainage ditch swallowed a pickup truck, killing one man and injuring another. "I fear there are still people unaccounted for out there," he said, gazing at the ditch that usually carries no more than a trickle of water. Police cadets combed Shoal Creek for more bodies. Motorcycle police roamed the damaged areas, and two arrests on looting charges were reported. "People were carrying stuff out of some of the flooded businesses," one resident said. "I saw them carrying some barbecue grills and other stuff." The flood water reportedly swirled to depths of 20 to 30 feet, causing widespread damage in the business district. It receded as quickly as it collected, and schools opened on time Monday. The rainfall total at Austin Municipal Airport was only 4.13 inches, but there were unofficial reports of 6 to 7 inches of rain at various locations. Many Shoal Creek area residents emptied their homes early Monday, lining their yards with wet furniture. Doors and windows in many homes were washed away. "The woman in this house and her son were holding onto a tree on the front lawn," said Kayo O'Keefe, Cam's husband, as he looked at a house with a gaping hole in the garage wall. The O'Keefes helped throw a rope to the woman. Mrs. O'Keefe said water crashed off structures like waves bouncing off the coast. org 5/26/81 - UFO & Projects - # Montana rivers begin to recede org 5/26/81 HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Swollen rivers began returning to their banks and flood refugees began returning to their homes Monday as five days of rain over western Montana gave way to clearing skies, authorities said. "The flooding is receding throughout the state," said Col. C.L. Gilbertson, head of the state Disaster and Emergency Services office. "We don't anticipate any further flooding problems." State and federal officials, meanwhile, were trying to assess the extent of the damage left by the four-day flooding. Gov. Ted Schwinden planned to ask for federal disaster assistance. Weather service officials said more rain was developing west of the Continental Divide and would move east during the day. Hydrologist John Fasler said the new rainfall could amount to half an inch in some areas but probably would affect only smaller streams. They said the Clark Fork at Missoula was dropping and was expected to fall below flood stage by midday Tuesday. # Campers saved YELLOWWOOD STATE FOREST, Ind. (AP) - About 20 campers were rescued by conservation officers in boats, but a few others were stranded Monday after refusing offers of help when heavy rains flooded parts of Yellowwood State Forest, officials said. A small group of campers who didn't want to abandon their recreational vehicles elected to remain until the water receded enough so they could drive out of Horseman's Camp, said state conservation officer Jeff Atwood. "Several are relaxing and enjoying the sunshine," he said, adding there was "no high risk" because the campers who stayed behind were on dry land surrounded by water. Meanwhile, 25 residents of nearby Trevlac returned to their flooded neighborhood Monday after many spent the night in a church or the fire station. - UFO & Projects - # More eruptions hit island AGANA, Guam (AP) - Mount Pagan erupted twice Sunday, spewing huge clouds of smoke and ash and causing further devastation to the remote Pacific island of Pagan 300 miles north of here. No injuries were reported. A small team of scientists from Hawaii who were on the island studying the volcano reported they were safe after the two new eruptions. All 53 Pagan residents were safely evacuated after the volcano erupted May 15 for the first time in 55 years. The U.S. Trust Territory vessel Fentress was anchored offshore in position to rescue the scientists if necessary. The ship radioed news of the eruptions to the Marianas Islands capital of Saipan, 200 miles south of Pagan. The May 15 blast covered much of the island with ash and lava flows. The residents, including 32 children, fled their village and took refuge in seaside caves until they were rescued by a Japanese freighter the next day. They are now on Saipan, staying with relatives until they can return home. Sunday's eruption produced a new lava flow, descending from the 1,800-foot volcano with a 1,000-foot-wide, 20-foot-deep leading edge, according to information relayed to the Fentress by the scientists. The new flow covered the island's small dirt airstrip, which was already partially covered by a flow from the initial eruption, the scientists said. org 5/25/81 - 6 Projects PK - # N-unit leaks radioactivity SHIPPINGPORT, PA (AP) - A "minor, unplanned" release of radioactivity occurred early Saturday at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant's Unit 1, the Duquesne Light Co. reported. The release lasted about two minutes and presented no danger to the public, said utility spokesman Bill Ott. "The release occurred during an efficiency test of the steam generator system," Ott said. The steam generators normally do not contain radioactive material, but such material is used as a tracer for water droplets when tests are conducted, he said. "While this test was being performed, a feedwater control valve malfunctioned, causing a safety valve on one of the steam generators to open. Some of the low-level radioactive material was released to the atmosphere with the steam," he said. org 5/3/81 === Page 66 of 128 - UFO 6 Projecto - W. Montana rivers flood; search begun By BOB ANEZ HELENA, Moni (AP) - Rampaging rivers in Western Montana hooded homes, washed away roads mi knocked out power to at least one hospital Satur- day. Six people were feared missing, and more than 50 stranded schoolchildren had to be airlifted from a mountain camp. Almost all 800 residents of Belt, 20 miles east of Great Falls, were evacuated early Saturday because officials feared a nearby natural dam made of debris might give way. Fire Chief Gary Gray said the water began reced- ing later but would have to drop another 2 feet before residents would be allowed back. The National Guard used helicopters to rescue about 52 Helena schoolchildren and 10 adult counse- lors stranded in a mountain camp near MacDonald Pass. Motels in Helena were open to some of the more than 700 people stranded by floodwaters. Police watched for looters on Helena's streets, and the Na- tional Guard ferried people from remote areas. The flooding began Friday after two days of heavy Oljar said about 30 Guardsmen were at the school rainfall, striking hardest at Helena, Belt, Basin and with portable generators and other emergency equip- Deer Lodge. Gov. Ted Schwinden, who surveyed sev- ment. eral flooded towns by air, said Saturday that damage was "in the multimillions of dollars." Schwinden said he was "reasonably confident" the state could obtain a federal disaster declaration for the flooded counties, and federal officials suryeyed the areas to determine damage. The Boulder River School and Hospital, a facility for the mentally retarded 30 miles south of Helena, wawithout electrical power said Paula Walker, a spokesman for Schwinden. National Guard Col. John Associated Press Laserphoto HIGHWAY CLOSED - Flooding on the Little National Guard Maj. Gerald Wood said a helicopter crew was searching for a couple reported missing in the Crow Creek area in the Elkhorn Range west of Townsend. He said there may be as many as six Blackfoot River forced closure of Interstate 90 people missing in the area. near Garrison, Mont., Friday, while a few drivers risked getting through on a frontage road as ris- ing water cascaded over it. Water levels were rising in the Boulder River, but Ms. Walker said there were no plans to evacuate the institution. Lewis and Clark County sheriff's Deputy Bill Fleiner said more than 100 barrels labeled "toxic chemicals" belonging to American Chemet Corp. at East Helena were floating through East Helena and fields to the north. He said state disaster officials were asked to determine what was in the 55-gallon barrels. Ong. 5/24/81 - NÃO 6 Projecto- Twisters, rain pelt Midwest United Press International A band of thunder- storms pelted Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas with tornadoes, hail, gusty winds and up to 4 inches of rain that flooded streets of southern Missou- ri. Several homes and trail- ers were damaged or de- stroyed in the storms Sun- day, but there were no in- juries. The storms moved north Into St. Louis early Mon- day with heavy rain. Street flooding was report- ed in Union, Mo. A funnel cloud swept across Arkansas City. Kan., collapsing the roof of the city's civic auditorium. popping plate glass win- dows from a number of downtown businesses and destroying several trailer homes. Up to 3 inches of rain caused minor flash flood- ing in southern Missouri. The normally tranquil Blue River rose 7 feet above its banks in some sections of Kansas City, and many low-lying intersections were under water. The Rock Creek stream in nearby Independence, Mo., also was flooded. ereg 5/20 8 NE Portland 2 loses power A power line burned out Monday eve- ning at the Pacific Power & Light Knott Street substation knocking out electricity to several thousand Northeast Portland customers for nearly an hour. Power was out between NE Broadway, Schyler Street, Union Avenue and 13th Avenue, said PP&L representative Bar- bara Douglas. Work crews Tuesday will try to deter- mine the cause of the outage, she added. The power went out at 4:55 p.m. and was restored 58 minutes later. 5/18/86 ong = Tornado strikes Washington farmland MOSES LAKE, Wash. (UPI) - A tor- nado Monday afternoon touched down 15 miles southwest of the Grant County Air- port and roared through a farming area for about four minutes before dissipating. "We observed it at 4:30 p.m. and it dissipated at 4:34 p.m.," said an air traffic controller at the airport. The funnel moved northeast, "pretty much through open farm land." There were no reports of damage, said a Grant County Sheriff's Department rep- resentative. LIMFO 6 Projecto- Florida drought to continue MIAMI (UPI) - Weather forecasters expected no break Monday in drought conditions threatening south Florida with more giant sinkholes, a possible 50 per- cent water cutback to 4.5 million resi- dents, and spreading wildfires in the Ever- glades. "You're not going to like what I have to say," Donald L. Gilman, head of the Long Range Prediction Group of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Md., said Sunday. "The forecast for mid-May to mid-June is listed as less- than-normal precipitation for the whole of Florida and the southern part of neighbor- Ing states." oreg 5/20/81 === Page 67 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Plane crash kills 4, sets building afire REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A twin-engine U.S. Forest Service plane crashed into a warehouse Monday, killing all four men aboard and starting a fire that destroyed up to $10 million worth of firefighting equipment stored in the warehouse, officials said. Forest Service spokesman Royal Mannion said the equipment loss would hinder firefighting in northern California this summer and that equipment would have to be brought in from other areas. The pilot, who had just taken off on a flight to Chico to check another Forest Service aircraft, encountered trouble with one engine and was circling back to the field when the plane crashed into the warehouse roof, assistant airport director Hank Woodrum said. The dead were identified as Larry Pettibone, pilot and air unit manager; George Mendel, fire management officer; Joe Hohl, an electronics technician, and mechanic Roscoe Bertolucci, all based at the center. No one was reported hurt on the ground. "We were very fortunate to get everyone out of the building," said Glenn Bradley, deputy Forest Service supervisor. He said people were working in an office directly below the crashed plane. "There is nobody missing," he said, "and nobody (in the building) was hurt." Ernie Loveless, a spokesman for the California Division of Forestry, said the warehouse contained supplies estimated to be worth from $7 million to $10 million and ranging from hoses to parachutes to be used in nine Northern California counties. The fire also destroyed the Forest Service communications center for Northern California, administrative offices, a weather station and the base camp for airborne smoke-jumping teams, the Forest Service said. Warehouseman John Ramirez would have been in the burning building had he not been summoned to the complex office along with four other workers to pick up some wooden pallets. "It sounded like a big explosion, like - UFO 6 Projects - # Amid turmoil, U.S., Japan cut naval exercises THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1981 TOKYO (AP) -- Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to cancel the final two days of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan following public indignation over damage to commercial fishing gear during maneuvers, Japanese authorities said. It was the first suspension reported since Japan and the United States began joint naval exercises in 1957. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yoshinori Katori, said the U.S. Embassy informed the ministry late Thursday that it agreed to a Japanese request to end the joint exercises on Friday, two days earlier than originally planned. But the U.S. Embassy duty officer said Thursday night he could not confirm the report. Japanese fishermen claimed that warships caused more than $400,000 in damage to long-line salmon nets in the Sea of Japan last Friday, and additional damage in maneuvers this week. The newspaper Asahi criticized the Japanese Self Defense Agency for selecting a time for the maneuvers when the salmon fishing in the area is at its peak. A diplomatic battle continues over which of three navies -- American, Soviet or Japanese -- was to blame for damaging commercial fishing nets in the area. A Defense Agency spokesman quoted Joji Omura, director-general of the Self Defense Agency, as saying that, "So far there is a very small possibility that Japanese naval forces and U.S. naval ships are responsible for the incidents, but we have decided to suspend the joint exercises after discussing the incidents." Although damage to the fishing gear is believed to be relatively minor, and while it remains unclear whether U.S., Japanese, or Soviet ships in the area damaged the fishing equipment, the controversy has added to political trouble over Japan's military relationship with the United States. Last Saturday, Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito quit the government after domestic criticism that Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki let President Reagan maneuver him into a dangerous, new military relationship with the United States during a summit in Washington on May 7-8. Earlier, the April 9 collision between a U.S. Polaris missile-equipped submarine and a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea aroused Japanese public opinion, because the submarine crew did not conduct rescue operations. - UFO 6 Projects - # Sinkhole gobbles house, pool, cars WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- A giant sinkhole gulped down a house, six expensive imported cars, a camping vehicle and part of a car lot Saturday in this central Florida town, and devoured the deep end of a municipal swimming pool and the backs of business buildings. "It started last night, and it started growing really fast this morning," a police dispatcher who declined to give her name said Saturday afternoon. "When I was out there about an hour ago, it was at least two city blocks wide. You couldn't get close enough to the edge to see the bottom." Observers said the spreading hole, which severed water and power lines for a few hours, was as large as 1,000 feet wide and 170 feet deep by nightfall and was still growing a few inches an hour. "I think it's stabilizing right now," Barbara Nuss of the Winter Park police said Saturday night. "It's hard to tell this early if it's stopped for good. It'll stop for a while and all of a sudden a whole section will fall in." Sinkholes, common in much of Florida, often result when underground water tables are lowered, allowing soil to dry out and shrink. They also may form when water dissolves limestone layers. === Page 68 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Quake wreaks havoc with desert town By JERRY SCHNEIDER WESTMORLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook this desert community Sunday, destroying at least seven buildings and damaging more than 600 others, cutting off water supplies, damaging an irrigation canal and causing a road to "just sink out of sight." No injuries were reported. "It's a miracle no one was hurt," Mayor Ron Rodriguez said of the quake that registered 5.6 on the Richter scale and jolted people out of their beds in this community of 1,600. The quake struck at 5:09 a.m. PDT and caused extensive damage to this community, where many structures are built from adobe and red brick. Adobe is sun-dried clay. Westmorland was declared a local disaster area -- clearing the way for officials to seek state and federal assistance -- after Rodriguez and county officials surveyed the damage and tacked up condemnation signs. "Anything with adobe in it is in trouble, and any buildings that are damaged are being condemned," Rodriguez said. Demolition crews were busy Sunday afternoon leveling two badly damaged adobe and stucco commercial buildings that had been condemned as safety hazards. Thirteen other commercial buildings were damaged, as were 70 percent of the town's 900 homes. Six mobile homes were knocked off their foundations, and a bell crashed 20 feet to the ground from the steeple of St. Joseph's Church. Five of the homes were so heavily damaged they were condemned, but officials said the residents of four of them refused to leave. Officials could not immediately put a dollar estimate on the damage. Sunday's was the largest in a "swarm" of about 40 quakes above magnitude 3.0 that have rattled this area since Friday evening. Hundreds of smaller quakes also were recorded. Officials at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said they expected the seismic activity to continue for some time in this area. "There have been a great number of smaller (tremors) -- so many that we just can't keep track. The seismograph just keeps jiggling and jiggling," said Dennis Meredith, a spokesman for Cal Tech. The state Department of Transportation closed four-lane state Highway 86, the town's main street, for fear buildings along the street might collapse. It took 10 hours before workers restored the supply of drinking water. Meanwhile, potable water was trucked in from the nearby community of Calipatria and from private water companies. The Vail Irrigation Canal, an offshoot of the All-American Canal that brings water from the Colorado River to this agriculturally rich area, broke and caused some flooding before it was repaired. And scores of "mud pots" -- areas of bubbling mud -- were reported in fields. Meredith explained that mud pots, in which water is squeezed to the surface, are one of a number of soil anomalies that can occur after an earthquake. The quake was felt in a wide area of Southern California, from San Bernardino in the north, to Calexico on the Mexican border to San Diego on the coast. Slight tremors were barely felt in Yuma, Ariz., 55 miles southeast of here. Westmorland is just south of the Salton Sea in the Mojave Desert, about 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 20 miles north of the Mexican border. It is in the same area where, in October 1979, a devastating quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale injured some 100 people, destroyed 13 homes and businesses, and damaged 1,500 other buildings in nearby El Centro. - UFO 6 Projects - # Jet crash kills aerobatic pilot By RON BARKER HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) -- An Air Force Thunderbird aerobatic jet crashed Saturday during an air show for up to 80,000 spectators at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, killing the pilot. The victim was Capt. David L. "Nick" Hauck, 34, a native of Mingo Junction, Ohio, stationed at Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, Nev., Tech. Sgt. Dale Clements, a Thunderbird spokesman, said. No other injuries were reported. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said the jet appeared to have engine trouble. Clements said Hauck was the 13th Thunderbird pilot killed since the first team was formed in 1953. Two were killed performing in air shows and the rest died either in practices or en route to shows. His aircraft, a T-38 Talon jet, crashed in an open field about 250 yards short of the south end of the base runway at 3:18 p.m. The crash site was just outside the base's borders. Hauck, a 1971 graduate of the Air Force Academy, had been with the Thunderbirds for a year. He previously had been assigned to the Tactical Air Command and flew F-4 Phantoms. He was married and had two children. "I feel my flying with the Thunderbirds is an opportunity of a lifetime," Hauck was quoted in Air Force news release issued at the demonstration. "I'm honored to have been selected to represent the United States and the U.S. Air Force." The twin-engine jet was one of two planes performing at the time. The planes also perform in a six-jet team based at Nellis. The Thunderbirds were at Hill as part of the base's 40th anniversary celebration. The other pilot was not hurt. Between 75,000 and 80,000 spectators watched the planes perform intricate aerial maneuvers above the base runway. The crash site was not visible to the spectators. Air Force spokesman Capt. Phillip Johnson said the cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said the plane appeared to be having engine trouble, and there was no engine noise just before the crash. Johnson said the Air Force would investigate. The witnesses said that after its pass over the spectator area, the jet turned and headed toward the runway with its landing gear down. The plane passed over several homes in the area, then hit the ground and apparently cartwheeled before coming to rest on a small hill in the grassy field, witnesses said. Officials said two horses in the field were killed. The first indication the crowd had that an accident had occurred was when crash equipment was brought out and began heading toward the south end of the air base. The Thunderbirds began performing in 1953 and now fly Northrop T-38A Talons, supersonic jet trainers with a top speed of over 800 mph. In 1980 the team put on 92 air shows before an estimated total of 6 million people on its 210-day schedule. The team has performed before more than - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Belgrade flooded BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- About 250 buildings were destroyed and 5,000 more houses were under water in Belgrade Wednesday in the worst flood in 40 years. Tens of thousands of people were fighting the fast-rising waters of the Sava and Danube rivers, and 10 of Belgrade's 15 municipal districts were placed on partial "mobilization" alert. === Page 69 of 128 . wu system. - 6 Projects PK- Hail bombards Umatilla area PILOT ROCK (AP) - Authorities were assessing the damage Friday after a severe spring storm bom- barded parts of Umatilla County with hailstones the size of golf balls Thursday night. The hailstones broke windows, dented cars and mobile homes, stripped trees and caused some crop damage along a swath between Pilot Rock and Milton- Frepuster. "We've never seen anything like it," said Iris Doherty of Pilot Rock. "Some of the hailstones bounced 10 feet into the air when they hit." The hail broke windows in the Doherty home and outbuildings. "It beat screens right out of the frame," she said. "Everything's a mess," said a spokeswomen at the Umatilla County Road Department. "Mostly in the Weston, Athena and Milton-Freewater areas." County Commissioner Bob Ten Eyck said he saw newly seeded pea and wheat fields washed out around Athena and Weston. "There's lots of crop damage. A lot of real estate got moved last night. It looks pretty serious," Ten Eyck said. Hazel Weis reported 10 of her cherry trees downed on Winesap Road near Milton-Freewater. At Tum-A-Lum, northeast of Milton-Freewater, cherries and apples were damaged. Mud and debris washed onto county roads over a wide area, while trees blocked other roadways. At Pilot Rock, some residents picked up the big hailstones to save. "I got a half dozen of them and put them in my freezer," said Gordon Byrnes, a Pilot Rock city fire- man. Rancher Bill Etter reported three-quarter-inch hailstones pelted his farm. The storm caught Harper Jones, Pendleton, on Battle Mountain. He told the National Weather Service that bail broke his rear-view mirror and dented his car hood Deg. 5/2/81 MFO 6 Projects- Floods ebb in Alabama United Press International Seven-foot floodwaters that forced hundreds of Mobile, Ala., residents to cling to trees and evacuate their homes receded Thursday. Two separate ship collisions, injuring 85 people, were reported in dense fog along the Atlan- tic coast. A cold front moved into the Northwest Thursday, scattering rain and snow over Montana and plung- ing temperatures to near freezing levels. Traveler advisories were issued for Montana, Wyoming, Colo- rado and Idaho. Some snow fell in higher mountain elevations Wednesday and about 6 inches of snow covered Rodgers Pass in Montana. Thunderstorms swept the Rocky Mountains, spreading hall, high winds and tornadoes from Wyo- ming to New Mexico. No injuries were reported in the tornadoes although one twister near Tucumcari, N.M., uprooted trees and a power line. Storms soaked the Ala- bama Gulf Coast Wednes- day, dropping up to 13 Inches of rain in seven hours on Mobile. Floodwa- ters surged to 7 feet through thousands of homes, forcing some resi- dents to climb trees to avoid being swept away. ore J 5/7/81 - yFo 6 Projecto - Coal-fired plant shut down again BOARDMAN (AP) - Portland General Electric has shut down its 530-megawatt coal-fired power plant here, one week after it was restarted following 10 weeks of repairs. The breakdown is the third for the plant since November, and officials blamed a problematic turbine. PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said Wednesday that crews are taking the turbine apart but that they may not know until Sunday if it caused the current shut- down. The plant was shut in late November and restarted Jan. 22 after workers noted a vibration in one of three high-speed turbines that power the plant's massive generator. The plant was shut down again Feb. 12 for the same problem. Repairs were completed by Westinghouse Corp., the turbine manufacturer, and the plant was started up again April 27. Eagon said the plant was operating at 450 mega- watts when the vibration occurred again Tuesday. Although the company's Troian nuclear plant at Rainier was shut down for refueling May 1, Eagon said, the breakdown of the Boardman plant hasn't created a power-supply problem. He said spring runoff created surplus power at hydroelectric plants, which the company is buying. However, the company is unable to sell surplus power from the Boardman project to a California utility because of the shutdown, he said. org 5/8/81 Cruise ship loses powergl MIAMI (AP) - The SS Norway, the world's largest passenger liner, was re- ported dead in the water due to a power failure Friday night some 500 miles southeast of Miami, and company offi- cials said its 1,780 passengers would be transferred Saturday to two sister. The power loss is not as serious as one that paralyzed the 1.034-foot ship for 28 hours in August, said Fran Se- vick, a spokeswoman for Norwegian- Caribbean Cruise Lines. move in the water." "The ship is not blacked out," Ms. Sevick said. "It does have some electric- ity. It doesn't have enough power to She said the power loss was due to "intrusion of foreign materials into the boiler water system." She declined to elaborate but said it was not the same problem that struck the ship last sum- Ms. Sevick said the company decid- ed to transfer passengers to the Sun- ward II and the Starward because it was uncertain how long repairs would take. The two ships were en route Fri- day night to rendezvous with the Nor- way. (S. S. France - 6 Projects PK- ships. mer. way had been canceled. Ms. Sevick said a seven-day cruise scheduled to depart Sunday on the Nor- EDT to report the problem. Lt. Phil Centonze of the Miami Coast Guard station said cruise line offi- fals called the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office in Miami about 8 p.m. . "The owners and agents claim the situation is in hand and they're not ask- ing for our assistance," Centonze said. oreg. 5/2/81 === Page 70 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects PK - # Cargo ships collide in fog; no cr By R.D. GERSH PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- Two large cargo ships collided in dense fog Wednesday off the Virginia coast, leaving a diesel oil slick on the Atlantic and forcing 28 crewmen into lifeboats for more than two hours. No injuries were reported and both ships headed for port under their own power, spokesmen for the 5th Coast Guard District headquarters said. There was no immediate explanation for the 7:20 a.m collision 25 miles southeast of Cape Henry. The vessels involved are the 471-foot Hellenic Carrier, a Greek vessel, and the 820-foot Lash Atlantico, a U.S. Prudential Lines ship. The Hellenic Carrier "does appear to be leaking (diesel) oil," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Fred Maldonado. The ships would not be allowed into the shipping lanes leading into the port of Norfolk until the Coast Guard inspected them, he said. Twenty-eight crewman from the Hellenic Carrier huddled in lifeboats lashed to the side of their ship until they were picked up between 10:45 and 11 a.m. by the bulk carrier Eastern Saga, out of Hong Kong. They were transferred to the Navy destroyer Spruance, which was diverted to the scene from operations in the area. Neither the Navy nor the Coast Guard knew if the Spruance would bring them back to shore or if they would be transferred again. The Hellenic Carrier's captain, first officer and chief engineer stayed aboard to take it into Norfolk. An estimated 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled, but Maldonado said the slick 15 miles from - UFO 6 Projects PK - # April blizzards blast Britain LONDON (AP) -- The worst April blizzards of this century swept across the British Isles Saturday, piling snow drifts up to 6 feet deep, causing misery to humans, death to new-born lambs and destruction of early vegetable crops. Weather forecasters saw no respite. A spokesman for the Meteorological Office commented, "It could snow until June." He refused to say if he was joking. There was no immediate report of loss of life to humans, but farmers in England and Scotland said thousands of lambs born within the past week were wiped out by hypothermia or pneumonia. They are highly vulnerable shortly after birth, a National Farmers Union spokesman said. He also reported that early vegetables planted outside greenhouses suffered severe damage. Those grown in greenhouses will cost consumers more because farmers had to turn up the heat just when they normally would lower it. Royal Air Force rescue helicopters were out in what were described as appalling weather conditions to search for stranded motorists. "Disorientation" # 83 hurt as ships collide in fog NEW YORK (AP) -- A freighter and a commuter ferry with instrument problems collided in heavy fog Wednesday in New York harbor, injuring 83 passengers, none seriously, according to harbor and hospital authorities. Four of the injured were admitted to two hospitals in the area, said spokesmen at the institutions. There were differing accounts of which way the Staten Island ferry American Legion, carrying 2,500 passengers, was headed when it was struck amidship at 7:20 a.m. by the bow of the SS Hoegh Orchid. The ferry, with a bashed-in port side, returned to Staten Island under its own power. The freighter, with a 2- or 3-foot dent in its bow about five feet above the water line, went to a Brooklyn dock. The captain of the ferry, Joseph Zaccone, and his assistant, Francis Tanner, were reassigned to dock duty pending investigation, Transportation Commissioner Anthony Ameruso said later in the day. Ameruso, whose department runs the 2-million-passenger-a-year ferry service, said the boat "was following the normal procedures for operation in heavy fog -- use of radar, fog horn, radio contact and lookouts." The collision was the second major accident for the American Legion in 2½ years. On Nov. 7, 1978, 250 passengers were hurt when the ferry missed its Manhattan slip in fog and rammed a seawall. Passengers aboard the ferry saw the freighter coming, but indistinctly, "like a large gray shadow coming out of the fog," according to Matthew Bendix, 17, of New Brighton. "After we got hit, we interlocked and saw some of the crewmen from the freighter." The ferry had left Staten Island at 7:05 a.m. on the 5-mile, 25-minute run past the Statue of Liberty to the lower tip of Manhattan. The 515-foot Hoegh Orchid was Brooklyn-bound with a cargo of tea and coffee from Indonesia. There was no word of whether any in its crew of 28 to 30 were injured. - UFO 6 Projects - # Florida fire rages MIAMI (AP) -- Four wildfires in drought-stricken South Florida merged into one and raged out of control Sunday as state officials warned that "hardship" lies ahead unless the state gets rain soon. Forecasters said there was still no immediate chance that Florida would get the heavy rains it needs to end what may be the worst drought in state history. Fires and sinkholes have been among the most visible signs of the drought. No new sinkholes were reported Sunday; fire dispatcher Janet Miller at Everglades National Park said four blazes in the 570,000-acre Big Cypress Preserve had merged and the single blaze was being battled by about 15 firefighters. The Big Cypress fire forced the closing of Alligator Alley, one of only two east-west highways across the Everglades, for nearly a day. The highway was open to traffic Sunday. Fires in Orange and Seminole counties were controlled by Saturday, fire officials said. At least nine sinkholes have formed in the parched Central Florida earth in the past week. - UFO 6 Projects - # Grand Canyon darkened GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (UPI) -- Workers planned to hook up a portable electric substation at the Grand Canyon Tuesday to restore power. The popular tourist attraction was plunged into darkness when lightning struck a transformer Monday, forcing an estimated 2,000 visitors and an undetermined number of nearby residents to spend a night without power. === Page 71 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Trojan begins 10-week maintenance shutdown THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1981 3M The 1,100-megawatt Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier was being shut down Friday for annual maintenance and refueling, according to officials at Portland General Electric Co., which operates the plant. Bill Babcock, a PGE spokesman, said the plant would be inoperative for about 10 weeks. In the meantime, PGE will buy low-cost hydroelectric power from the Bonneville Power Administration and rely on its 550-megawatt Boardman coal-fired generating plant in Eastern Oregon to meet customer demand. Bart D. Withers, vice president of the utility's nuclear division, said some 500 additional workers will be involved in maintenance while the plant is down. Refueling will be performed by specialists from Westinghouse Electric Co., which designed the Trojan reactor system, though they will be assisted by Trojan personnel. It will be the third refueling at the plant since it went on line in December 1975, he said. Other major work scheduled during the shutdown include an inspection of the main generating turbine, replacement of seals in two reactor cooling pumps and plugging of the first two rows of tubes in two of the plant's four steam generators. The steam generators act as heat exchangers, transferring heat from the reactor cooling system to a steam-production system that powers the turbines and generators. Trojan was shut down earlier this year to allow repairs to leaks that had developed in steam generator tubes, allowing minute amounts of radioactive gas to be emitted into the atmosphere. - World Projects PK - # April blizzards batter Britain LONDON (AP) -- The century's worst April blizzards swept southward across England and Wales Sunday, leaving hundreds of motorists stranded in 5-foot snowdrifts, thousands of homes without electricity and seven people missing. Troops using Land-Rovers were called out to restore damaged power lines and tow snowbound cars, officials said. Agriculture groups said the situation "could be a disaster" for lamb raisers and "disastrous" for dairy farmers. They warned that croplands could be flooded when the snow thaws. "The weather has gone bananas," said a police spokesman in the Midlands industrial city of Birmingham, 100 miles northwest of London. Late Sunday, the London Weather Center predicted more snow falls over much of the Midlands and southern England through the night, with a gradual thaw predicted by Monday afternoon. It said the cold weather, sleet and rain would move to London and the southeast of Britain. Snow fell through most of the day on counties stretching in an arc from Lincolnshire, through the Midlands and Wales to Devonshire after hitting Scotland and northern England on Friday and Saturday. Temperatures, which average about 57 at this time of year, hovered around 32. Police in the worst-hit counties, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, Avon, Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the West Midlands, reported their busiest weekend this year. Two brothers, ages 21 and 12, were missing, feared drowned when a gas cylinder exploded aboard their yacht in heavy seas off the North Devonshire coast, police said. The brothers and a 16-year-old girl took the yacht out of Ilfracombe harbor, fearing it would be battered against the wharf by driving winds. The girl was rescued by helicopter. Oreg 4/27/81 Cape Canaveral, Fla. A fire came within two miles of facilities at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday before fire-fighters began to bring it under control, a Division of Forestry spokesman said. SF Chron 7/16/81 Fire Burns Close To Space Center The fire in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge had scorched up to 5000 acres of scrubland normally under water but dried by the lingering drought, said forestry official Ray Edwards. Associated Press WHO - 6 Projects - # Baseball-sized hail, winds batter Texas FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Thunderstorms pounded North Texas with baseball-sized hail, rain and winds up to 90 mph, killing one motorist, knocking out power and causing damage estimated Saturday at tens of millions of dollars. A similar storm killed one man in Oklahoma and injured eight other people, doing damage estimated at $2 million by the Highway Patrol. Hardest hit in Texas was Fort Worth and surrounding Tarrant County, where storms Friday night and early Saturday caused damage that could "as much as double" the $45 million in damage from a hail storm last year, said Ben Meyers of the county Civil Defense. Alan Moller, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that in Fort Worth "damage was intense and easily into the millions of dollars." Despite the widespread damage -- which included hundreds of broken windows, caved-in roofs and many downed power lines -- only two people in Fort Worth were injured. Both suffered minor cuts from flying glass. Near Aledo, west of Fort Worth, a tornado reportedly touched down Friday night, wrecking several mobile homes and injuring one man slightly. "The tops came off and the walls came down" on the homes when the twister hit, said resident Bill Pounds. On Saturday afternoon, two tornadoes swept Bell and Hill counties in Central Texas, about 75 miles south of Fort Worth. One twister damaged barns and a cotton gin, but no injuries were reported. "We had some looting in Lakewood, but we've curbed that pretty well," Tarrant County Sheriff's Sgt. J.P. Burns said Saturday. Lakewood is a Fort Worth neighborhood. At least three 18-wheelers were blown over on a Fort Worth freeway, said police Sgt. Larry Spigler. And the power outages knocked the Dallas-Fort Worth area's three major television stations off the air for a time. Heavy rain moved across Oklahoma and East and North Texas -- bringing up to 7.5 inches of rain in Burkburnett, Texas, some 130 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in other areas. Some flooding was reported, forcing scattered evacuations in Dallas, Arlington and Grand Prairie and washing out railroad tracks and closing two roads in Tarrant County. Oreg 5/10/81 === Page 72 of 128 5-10-81 Columbian # Jurors convict California trio in robbery trial Note: they caught the thing who shot up the place when I play pool. 5/10/81 By BILL STEWART Columbian Writer Three California men, referred to in a Vancouver trial as "three musketeers," were convicted Friday on charges stemming from a March robbery of a Hazel Dell tavern. The jury reached its verdict at 8:45 p.m., slightly more than seven hours after being handed the case by Clark County Superior Court Judge J. Dean Morgan. Morgan, who was playing the trumpet in the orchestra for the Peanut Gallery musical "Carousel," was called away during the first act to hear the verdicts. The weeklong trial brought tight security because sheriff's deputies feared a possible breakout attempt might be staged by the trio's friends. Some spectators were searched outside the court by a contingent of deputies armed with a portable metal detector. Judge Morgan, seeking to protect his jurors, kept them together day and night. Other than a brief scuffle in the stairwell to the jail, the trial was quiet. The scuffle resulted in bruises and a cut eyebrow for one suspect, and a window was shattered. One of the three defendants goes on trial Monday before the same judge on a charge of robbing Diamond Jim's Restaurant. And that man will be tried a week later with one of the others on a charge of being ex-convicts in possession of firearms. The defendants, and their verdicts from Friday, include: Peter Charles Acuna, also known as Anthony Wayne Blackhorse, 35, was found guilty of first-degree robbery of the Stable Tavern, guilty of second-degree assault by threatening a man with a gun during that robbery, guilty of first-degree possession of stolen property (a car), and guilty of second-degree possession of stolen property (money from the Stable). The seven women and five men in the jury also returned special verdicts which found Acuna used a deadly weapon in the robbery and assault, thus requiring a longer minimum prison sentence. Vincent Allabush Epker, 31, charged in the Diamond Jim's robbery, and Robert Leon Stanton, 27, were convicted on identical charges of possessing the car stolen from a Portland car dealer, possession of money from the tavern, and rendering criminal assistance to Acuna after the robbery. Deputy Prosecutor Roger Bennett withdrew a pending charge of possessing a firearm which had been filed against Stanton, saying there was insufficient evidence. That meant there are no other actions against Stanton, so Morgan agreed to sentence the man sometime this week. Sentencing of the other two was postponed until after their other trials are completed. The jury decided that Acuna robbed the tavern, and that the three then shared the money and a six-pack of beer. One of the three defense attorneys, in closing arguments, characterized the men as the three musketeers, a phase then repeated in Bennett's closing comments. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1981 - info 6 Projects - # Japanese N-plant ordered shut down TOKYO (AP) -- The Japanese government Tuesday ordered a nuclear power company to shut down its Tsuruga plant for six months while an estimated $1.1 million worth of safety measures are put into effect. International trade minister Rokusuke Tanaka previously pledged to "rigorously punish" the Japan Atomic Power Co. for its failure to report a series of radioactive spills at the reactor 200 miles west of Tokyo. Tanaka, touring the western Japan plant, said he would extend the shutdown unless he is satisfied by the security measures. Officials said the disciplinary action, the first of its kind ever taken against a nuclear power company was harsher than an indictment. The maximum fine that could have resulted under criminal prosecution would have been $465, Tanaka's aides said. The nuclear company announced five board directors will be reprimanded and 18 employees held responsible for the accidents will be disciplined. The punishments were not announced but were expected to be pay cuts. The latest leak, discovered March 8 and termed by authorities the worst in Japan's nuclear history, exposed 56 workers to low-level radiation. The company insists the workers were never in danger, and the International trade ministry said in a report that Tsuruga at no time threatened to become an accident similar to the one at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. - 6 Projects PK - # Outages, snow hit Spokane SPOKANE (AP) -- A wave of power outages blacked out about 25 percent of Spokane and some outlying communities Monday morning as a rare May 4 snowstorm made its way through the region. Some areas received an inch or more of snow, but most of it had melted by midmorning. However, Washington Water Power Co. spokesmen said not all the outages were weather-related. The outages blacked out traffic signals in many parts of the city, turning intersections into "free-for-alls" and causing a rash of minor traffic accidents, Spokane police said. The trouble started at 3:45 a.m. with equipment failure, said utility spokesman Stanley Witter Jr. That problem put a large area of Spokane out of commission until 6 a.m. Crews rerouted transmission service and restored power to most of that area, but scattered outages caused by the equipment problem continued through noon. At 7:23 a.m., the utility "lost a transmission line into the substation," Witter said. He said the fallen power line shorted out distribution lines, blacking out a large part of southeast Spokane. Witter said service to most customers was restored by 9:30 a.m., but several schools reported problems throughout the morning. Another area was blacked out when the same transmission line knocked out power at the Ross Park Substation, Witter said. oreg 5/5/81 === Page 73 of 128 - World & Projects PK - THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MAY 3, 1981 P8 # Violent rains bring death, destruction, chance of relief By ANDREW TORCHIA Oreg 5/3/81 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A month of violent rain has killed hundreds of people, threatened the lives of thousands more and drowned tens of thousands of goats and sheep in East Africa. But the rain, if it continues, promises the first good harvests in several years and partial relief from endemic famine. In Tanzania, the rain came as if in answer to a president's prayer. Julius Nyerere, asserting that his country faced the gravest food crisis in 20 years of independence, told 18 million Tanzanians in mid-March that a third of them could face starvation if it did not rain before the month ended. The weather met the deadline, breaking the worst drought in 40 years. Somalia's two main rivers, the Juba and Shebelle, were at their lowest levels in 30 years when rains came there. Hippopotamuses were standing shoulder to shoulder in shrinking pools, and the two rivers, the main water sources for more than 4 million Somalis and more than a million refugees from Ethiopia, were down to an estimated 10-day supply. Across a region stretching 1,875 miles north to south, peasants and Western aid workers rejoice in a seeming last-minute reprieve from a disaster of huge proportions. But food experts say there is no end in sight to eastern Africa's long-term food shortages, the result of changing diets and populations that grow faster than grain production. Spokesmen for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome say it is too early to say whether the rain has saved the region from famine. One heavy rain is not enough to restore crops, they say, and it takes years to rebuild livestock herds virtually wiped out by drought. Even in normal times, eastern Africa is no longer self-sufficient in the domestically grown cereals, mainly maize (corn) and sorghum, on which it depends. It has also become a heavy wheat importer because it grows little wheat, and demand, particularly in urban areas, is growing. By all predictions, Western donor countries, already providing tens of millions of dollars in food aid every year, are going to be asked for more in the years ahead. Allocations last year from World Food Program stocks included $18.8 million for Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. There were sizable additional donations from other agencies and individual countries. Donors from 27 countries and the European Common Market have earmarked $34 million and 1.56 million tons of grain for eastern Africa since September, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. A Western farm analyst in Tanzania said the rain may prevent an emergency. "The harvest definitely won't be normal, but it may just mean belt-tightening rather than famine," he said. After three years of poor crops, diplomats say Tanzania will need rain extending into June, longer than the usual wet season, to build up reserve stocks. Meanwhile, East Africans are coping with the most widespread floods in years. Floods killed at least 20 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, nearly a third of the population, in coastal Djibouti, the former French territory at the entrance to the Red Sea. After two years of severe drought, it rained more in five days there than in all of 1980. Flash floods in central Somalia threatened more than 70,000 Somalis and refugees. The country lacked helicopters and had only a few boats for evacuation. Dozens of other deaths were reported from floods and avalanches in the eastern region. Police said 13,500 goats and sheep were washed into Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Floods tore a 330-foot hole in a dam on an irrigation project at Katilu, which produces the only maize grown in the arid, nomad region near the lake. In Ethiopia, 12,041 sheep, 181 cattle and 142 camels were reported swept away by floods into the Rift Valley near Dessie, a northern administrative center. Here is a country-by-country rundown on food and weather conditions in East Africa: -- KENYA: Self-sufficient in maize until about four years ago, Kenya will import 450,000 tons of maize this year, according to statisticians. The United States is expected to donate 70,000 tons. The Food and Agriculture Organization reports that about 275,000 Kenyans are receiving famine relief, about the same number as last year. Livestock herds, cut in half by nearly two years of drought, could take 8 to 10 years to recover. Government forecaster Stephen Njoroge said: "Most areas of the country will get above-average rain. We are also forecasting a very good spread of rain over the season. We should have a good crop." -- SOMALIA: Deputy Planning Minister Mohammed Omar Giama estimates a grain deficit of 470,000 tons this year. Somalia is expected to produce 345,000 tons. The United States appears set to provide 60 percent of the donated food, aid officials say. -- TANZANIA: Farmers who planted four times last year and watched each crop wither are switching from maize to less palatable but more drought-resistant crops such as sorghum, millet and cassava. Foreign exchange reserves, needed to buy grain in world markets, are near zero. The Agriculture Ministry recently asked the Bank -- UGANDA: The rain has broken a drought in Karamoja, the arid and neglected northeast region where all 250,000 Karamojong tribesmen have been living on famine relief for nearly nine months. "We think we can stop the feeding entirely in August, after the harvest, if all goes well," said Nils Enquist of Sweden, the World Food Program representative. "Cattle raiding has subsided. The Karamojong are planting more than they have in years. They have never had it so good." - 6 Projects PK - # Reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The N reactor at Hanford was shut down Monday morning because of a suspected failure in one of the reactor's 16,000 fuel elements, a spokesman said. Oreg. 3/24/81 3-15-81 Columbia # Two-car accident cuts power to area A traffic accident that left a Portland woman with minor injuries also left 1,147 Cascade Park-area residents temporarily without power Saturday afternoon. Sheriff's deputies said the 2:45 p.m. crash occurred at Southeast McGillivray Boulevard and Chkalov Drive. The two-car crash caused an estimated $1,000 damage to a Clark County Public Utility District switching module, according to the report. Drivers were Thomas J. Terrill Jr., 1403 S.E. 147th Ave., and Ethel L. Morrison, Portland. Neither was cited. The woman was treated for minor injuries at St. Joseph Community Hospital and released, a hospital spokesman said. The crash left most of the customers without power for 50 minutes, a PUD spokesman said. He said 128 of the customers had to wait until about 5:45 p.m. for their power to be restored. The switching module is a metal box containing a mechanism that allows work crews to cut off power to specific areas. The module was not repaired Saturday, but workmen were about to run temporarily lines around it to restore power to the area, the spokesman said. === Page 74 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Florida farms dry up; federal relief sought MIAMI (AP) -- Florida's agriculture secretary asked for federal aid Tuesday to provide water to drought-stricken pastures, while fires continued raging across normally swampy parts of the southern half of the state. "Ponds and streams are going dry as the drought clings to the peninsular area" of Florida, Agriculture Secretary Doyle Conner wrote to the U.S. Agriculture Department. "Relief of any kind would be welcomed." Conner asked the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service to help farmers drill wells and install pipelines to pastures to relieve the feed-grass shortage. He said federal emergency feed assistance programs were in effect in 35 counties and seven more might be added. Water management authorities planned a meeting Wednesday on further restriction of water usage in populous southern Florida where, as of May 18, only 10 inches of rain had fallen since Jan. 1. During the same period last year, weather officials recorded 17.06 inches at Miami International Airport. Forest fires spread through southern Florida's Big Cypress Preserve, scorching more than 100,000 acres. New fires erupted in the central section of the state, authorities said. Late in the day, thundershowers in the Panhandle and off the Gulf Coast raised hopes for relief in hard-hit central and southern Florida. "That's an indication of the potential," said forecaster Bob Casey at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. About 7 feet of water is needed to bring the water level in Lake Okeechobee -- the central water supply for South Florida -- to its normal 17 1/2 feet above mean sea level. "I hate to say it, but we almost need a hurricane," said Larry Nunn, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District. Officials said the lake was within inches of the point at which water would stop flowing into the canal system -- Increasing chances the district would order water usage cut in half. Nunn said the water level in Lake Okeechobee dropped about another inch Tuesday, to a level of 10.74 feet above sea level. "The magic figure is 10.5," he said. "At 10.5 we experience great difficulty in moving any water to South Florida from the lake because it will have dropped to a point where it is equal to the level of land." oreg 5/20/81 - UFO & Projects - # Island ruled disaster area HONOLULU (AP) -- Acting Northern Marianas Gov. Francisco Ada declared volcano-ravaged Pagan Island a disaster area Tuesday and was considering asking President Reagan to do the same -- a move that would make the trust territory eligible for federal disaster funds. All of the island's 53 residents were evacuated Saturday, after a day of suspense in which authorities were uncertain whether they had survived the explosive blast that belched ash 40,000 feet into the air and sent lava streaming to within 300 yards of their village. They were picked up by the Japanese freighter Hoyo Maru after taking refuge from excessive heat and a rain of hail and lava in seaside caves. oreg 5/20/81 - UFO & Projects - # Rivers recede; many stranded By GARRY J. MOES HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Floodwaters receded Sunday in western Montana, but hundreds of people were still stranded by high water or unable to return to their flooded homes. More rain was forecast. In addition to the people evacuated after the flooding started Thursday, about 150 people were evacuated early Sunday from flooded homes along the Clark Fork River between Clinton and Missoula, on the western side of the Continental Divide. Five members of one family, including a 6-month-old child, were rescued in a National Guard helicopter Sunday morning from the Crow Creek area in the Elkhorn Mountains near Townsend, east of Helena, where they had been trapped by high water. The worst flooding was near Missoula, where the Clark Fork crested Sunday morning at 13.3 feet -- 2.3 feet above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service. Hundreds of homes and businesses also were flooded in other areas, principally in the Helena Valley just east of the Continental Divide. Scattered thunderstorms were forecast over western Montana Sunday and were expected to become more numerous Monday. The National Weather Service said some of the storms could produce brief heavy rain that could cause small streams to leave their banks again. State, federal and local government officials were assessing damage in preparation for a request for a presidential disaster designation and emergency funding. Sketchy preliminary estimates put the damages well into the millions of dollars. Gov. Ted Schwinden visited the state's flooded Boulder River School and Hospital for the severely handicapped, southeast of Helena, and said high water and loss of power and heat were posing a "really serious problem." "But they're hanging in there," he said. All of Boulder River's patients were being kept in one building. Electricity was restored by Sunday morning, but the facility was without heat. Schwinden praised National Guard troops and local law enforcement officers for preventing any "serious people problems, in terms of life-threatening situations." Emergency crews were ready for a break. "My wife and I are starting to wonder what our kids look like," said Rick Leavell, head of disaster services in Missoula County, whose wife has been working with him as a volunteer. At Belt, along Belt Creek southeast of Great Falls, officials said there was hope that scores of homeless people could return to their houses by Monday morning. Church services were canceled Sunday for two Helena Valley congregations -- Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church and Valley Baptist Church -- in the floodwater area. Officials of a new church nearing completion -- Green Meadow Community Christian Reformed Church -- said flood damage would delay its opening until June. Forecasters said the Clark Fork River would drop slowly Sunday but remain above flood stage. The crest was predicted to reach St. Regis near the Montana-Idaho border during midafternoon. oreg 5/25/81 3-31-81 # Aqueduct Shut LOS ANGELES -- Earth movement in the area of the big Sylmar earthquake has damaged the Los Angeles Aqueduct, forcing officials to close for repairs the 338-mile system that brings 60 percent of the city's water. United Press === Page 75 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - A24 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1981 # In Florida # 2 new sinkholes swallow land By IKE FLORES ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Two new sinkholes opened up Thursday, one just five miles from the huge sinkhole that has swallowed part of Winter Park. Police blocked off the areas and residents of threatened homes hurriedly moved out. A crater that threatened two homes here was discovered when Dominick Cipollone went out to water his garden -- and found it was gone. "There was this big hole and it hadn't been there last night," said Cipollone, 76. "You read about Winter Park but you never think it can happen here. But it can happen here." "I was shocked. I never expected that," he said as neighbors helped him move his belongings out of the two-bedroom house. While Cipollone and neighbor John McClellan were moving out of their homes on either side of the sinkhole in this suburban Orlando town, people living nearby "have been alerted as to possible evacuation," said John Spolski of the Seminole County Sheriff's Department. The crater was just north of the huge Altamonte Mall, one of Florida's largest shopping centers. A third sinkhole was reported Thursday in Auburndale, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. Auburndale police spokeswoman Angie Kidwell said no houses were threatened immediately by the 60-foot-wide, five-foot-deep sinkhole, which was nibbling at a road in an area of orange groves. Police blocked all traffic from the road, she said. Geologists said the sinkhole here was about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep in the center. "Nobody can guarantee anything, but I personally think the subterranean activity has ceased," said Seminole County engineer Bill Bush. The limestone cavern that created the hole when its top collapsed "may have filled itself up," Bush said. "We're going to stay here and monitor to see if there's any further danger, but the probability is it has stabilized." As spectators gathered, Seminole County deputies blocked off a three-block area. Utility workers cut off power to the two threatened homes and several other nearby houses. "It's frightening really," said Mary Williams, who lives near the Cipollone and McClellan homes. "When you don't know what you're going to find when you get up in the morning, that's something." Soil engineer Bryant Marshall said central Florida has a geological history of "ancient sinkhole activity." He said many of the lakes and other depressions in the region were formed by sinkholes thousands of years ago. "Due to the porousness of the area, we still have some of that sinkhole activity, as you can see," added Bush. - 6 Projects PK - # Twisters, storms slam nation By United Press International Thunderstorms hurled tornadoes across the South, destroying much of tiny Hurtsboro, Ala., and killing two people, then spread eastward Thursday. Westerners braced for another spring snowstorm gathering over Colorado. Storms packing hail and high winds Thursday stretched along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to New York -- remnants of fierce storms that left two dead and 23 injured in Alabama. Twisters struck Wednesday in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia -- one not far from former President Carter's hometown of Plains, Ga. Torrential rain, hail and lightning were reported from Mississippi to South Carolina. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Winds up to 75 mph and more than an inch of rain lashed Jacksonville, Fla., and hail pounded Cecil Field and Orange Park, Fla. Nearly an inch of rain soaked other areas of Florida. In the West, plagued this spring by a series of storms, another snowstorm was gathering in Colorado and northern Arizona. Greg J April 2, 1981 - UFO 6 Projects - # Power outage hits Dallas DALLAS (AP) -- A flash fire sparked by a flooded electrical vault knocked out power to a large part of downtown for about an hour Monday, stranding some people in high-rise elevators, officials said. Dallas Power & Light Co. turned off power to the northeastern quarter of downtown at about 10:30 a.m. CDT after the fire broke out, said Terry Griffin, community service manager. Heavy rains during the weekend flooded an underground electrical vault, where equipment is stored, causing an underground cable to short out, he said. The utility said most service was restored by 11:27 a.m. Greg 7/7/81 MONDAY, MAY 18, 1981 - UFO 6 Projects - # Weekend storms rock Arkansas; 5 injured By The Associated Press Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms roared across Arkansas late Saturday and early Sunday, leaving at least five people injured and more than 50 houses damaged. Some minor flooding also was reported. In Colorado, a welcome weekend storm dropped up to 11 inches of snow in tinder-dry mountains, where the forest fire hazard had been rated high, and also dropped more than an inch of rain on the eastern plains, officials said. In Arkansas City, Kan., a funnel cloud spawned high winds Sunday that tore off most of the copper dome at the Union State Bank and collapsed the roof at the civic auditorium, authorities said. The winds also caused roof damage at several downtown businesses and some homes, shattered some windows and knocked down trees in the south-central Kansas city of 14,000 people three miles north of the Oklahoma state line. No injuries were reported, but police estimated damage in the thousands of dollars. A tornado watch was issued Sunday for parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, and heavy rain in northwest Kansas was causing flooding along the Smoky Hill River. The Dumas area in southeast Arkansas was the hardest hit by the weekend storms, with preliminary property damage set at about $400,000, said George Cosey, director of the state Office of Emergency Services. 5/18/81 3-13-81 # Quarantine Ends SF Chronicle Newport Beach A quarantine has been lifted on seven miles of Orange County coastline where 6 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the ocean from a broken sewer line. However, Newport Bay, which received the bulk of the contamination, remained closed. Associated Press === Page 76 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Carrier's impending return sparks controversy By WILLIAM CHAPMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service TOKYO -- The impending return to port of the U.S. aircraft carrier Midway sparked a new anti-nuclear controversy Thursday, prompting Japan at one point to suggest that the ship's arrival be postponed. The mayor of Yokosuka, the carrier's home port, presented the top U.S. Navy official in Japan with a request to delay the Midway's expected return next week, and the city made a similar appeal to the Japanese government. The government, worried about the rising anti-nuclear sentiment, tentatively asked U.S. officials here if it would be possible to postpone the ship's docking, according to reliable sources. Officials at the U.S. Embassy threw cold water on the suggestion. By the end of the day, Japanese sources said the government would not press the issue with a formal request. But the fact that American officials were tentatively sounded out on the possibility of delaying the ship's port call was taken as a sign of the intense pressure felt by the government on the nuclear issue since the controversy erupted over U.S. ships carrying atomic weapons. A statement by Rear Adm. Donald L. Felt, however, expressed irritation at the Yokosuka mayor's request that the Midway stay out of port a bit longer, saying the effect on morale for 3,000 dependents would be "devastating" if the ship's return is delayed. Publication of statements by former American officials that U.S. ships have routinely carried nuclear weapons into Japanese ports began the controversy 10 days ago, forcing the government on the defensive. Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki persistently has denied those statements. The Midway has become the new focal point of attack by leftist and anti-nuclear forces, which have planned to stage a large demonstration when the ship docks at Yokosuka. It is expected June 5, although no date has been officially announced. The Midway carries F-4, A-6 and A-7 fighter and attack planes that normally are believed to carry nuclear weapons. It has been away from port since Feb. 23 on deployment in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Since the controversy erupted last week, public sentiment against nuclear weapons has been noted most frequently in port cities such as Yokosuka, where ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet call frequently. Yokosuka Mayor Kazuo Yokoyama presented a citizens' appeal to Felt Thursday, asking that the Midway's return be postponed because of "deep concern" about nuclear weapons. It said the docking would be "inappropriate" at a time when citizens have such "deep suspicions" about whether U.S. ships bring those weapons into ports or Japanese waters. Nuclear weaponry is still a sensitive topic in Japan. - UFO 6 Projects - # Trojan worker struck; clothing contaminated A Westinghouse Corp. employee preparing the reactor at the Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier for refueling had his clothing contaminated early Monday when he was struck by a piece of machinery used to loosen bolts on the reactor head. Bill Babcock, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co. which operates the plant, said it was believed at first that the worker, John Nix of Spartanburg, S.C., might have a broken leg, so he was transported to St. John's Hospital in Longview, Wash. Although Nix was only bruised, Babcock said, he was found to have picked up a small amount of radioactive contamination on his clothing. The "barely detectable" contamination was not found until Nix had reached the hospital, Babcock said, but no one received a serious exposure. The amount of contamination, Babcock said, was four to five times less than the natural radiation contained in the materials of a gas-fueled lantern mantle. There was no contamination of Nix's skin, he said. Babcock said the machinery that struck the worker had just been used to loosen the bolts on the reactor head and was being lifted clear of the reactor vessel by a small crane when it dropped, striking the worker as it bounced. The accident occurred about 1:40 a.m., he said. He said the contamination apparently occurred as Nix was moved into an air lock in the plant's reactor containment building and a protective suit was removed. "He must have brushed against something on the way in," Babcock said. The plant has been shut down since May 1 for refueling, and the reactor head must be removed to extract old radioactive fuel rods and insert new rods. Nix had returned to Trojan later in the morning, Westinghouse officials said, but was not expected to return to work until he had recuperated from his bruises. The mishap triggered what is termed an "unusual event" at the plant, which is the lowest category of accident that can occur. Accidents are labeled as unusual, emergency, site emergency or general emergency, depending upon their severity. Under the regulations of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, any accident must immediately be reported to county, state and federal governments. - 6 Projects PK - # Three Mile N-plant cites bankruptcy fear MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (UPI) -- The operator of the accident-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear power plant could go bankrupt at tax time next month, a senior plant official says. Robert Arnold, chief operating officer of General Public Utilities Corp. Nuclear Group, warned Wednesday that the plant's financial condition is "as serious as it has been since the (nuclear) accident" two years ago. The firm facing possible bankruptcy is GPU's subsidiary, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates Three Mile Island. The cost of the 1979 nuclear accident has been estimated at $3 billion, with $1 billion to go for decontaminating the highly radioactive facility and $2 billion to pay for replacement electricity. Arnold said Wednesday that Met-Ed needs $22 million from its banks to pay Pennsylvania taxes on April 1. === Page 77 of 128 Note: This is the ship I was on, - 6 Projects PK - Greg 5/3/81 ona. Gwene # Ill-fated cruise ship steams toward Miami By NICOLAS B. TATRO ABOARD THE NORWAY (AP) -- The SS Norway, the world's largest cruise ship, steamed toward Miami Saturday after its second breakdown in eight months left 1,780 passengers without electricity and water for 24 hours. Some passed the time watching the crew throw chickens to circling sharks. Others fumed. "This is definitely my first cruise and my last cruise," one woman yelled when all hot food service stopped Friday. She declined to be identified or say how much she paid for the seven-day cruise, which cost as much as $1,450 for some. Capt. Aage Hoddevik said the Norway received sufficient power to start again early Saturday. He insisted the ship was never in any danger during the outage and no passengers had suffered health problems. "Of course, it was not an emergency," he said. The Norway was expected in Miami Monday after canceling a scuba-diving stop. The Norwegian Caribbean Lines in Miami said the firm was working on a refund program, and that the boiler breakdown was not as serious as the electrical wiring outage that paralyzed the ship for 28 hours in August. The plush 15-year-old, 1,034-foot-long ship, formerly the SS France, underwent a $50 million renovation in 1980. But all the luxuries provided little relief for sweltering passengers during the ordeal. Ralph Doran, 38, of Toronto, bedded down under the lifeboats to get a breeze that his non-functioning air conditioner couldn't provide. "If I'd known we were going to camp out I'd have stayed at home and gone to the woods," he said. Anne Coyne of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said: "I love this ship and I would go again. It's a real Cadillac but maybe it's a lemon." She said she was grateful the ship was moving again. "I'd use an oar to row it there if necessary," she added after a night in an airless cabin. Eileen Newton of Fort Lauderdale, noting that many of the passengers had not been able to wash, said, "Now we want is the water. That's the worst part." 3-23-81 # Tourist from space? The as-yet unidentified flying, floating, glowing and screeching object seen by several persons up near the Trojan nuclear plant last Tuesday morning should win this area a few more headlines as the anniversary of Mount St. Helens' tantrum nears. It's certain that some will connect the UFO and the volcano, however much informed opinion suggests otherwise. Further investigation may reveal all the light and sound to have been related to drug smuggling, as law-enforcement officials at first suspected. Until that or some other revelation is nailed down, however, we'll all be free to speculate about the UFO. Our theory is that word of the volcano has passed through space to the Intragalactic Travel Agency, and Tuesday morning's event was the first tourist bus from Alpha Centauri making the Mount St. Helens tour. Maybe it was no such thing, but can all the committees trying to decide what to do with the mountain overlook the possibility? Probably. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Tornadoes slash Texas By United Press International A cold front gripped tornado-plagued Plains states and thunderstorms threatened flooding in Colorado and portions of the Southwest Friday. Five tornadoes touched down in Texas Thursday, including three near Sundown, southwest of Lubbock, and twisters were reported near Joplin, Mo., and Denver. No injuries were reported. Thunderstorms flailed Colorado, triggering a tornado watch Friday for the eastern part of the state. Sections of the Texas Highway 70 were submerged under more than a foot of water. Flash flood watches were posted Friday for the eastern foothills of Colorado, Kansas, southwest Oklahoma and the eastern panhandle of Texas. A cold front extended from Arkansas into the Plains region. A twister was sighted about 20 miles east of Joplin, Mo., and high winds toppled trees in downtown Joplin. Golf-ball size hail pelted the region. Winds blasted through Haskell, Texas at more than 60 mph and into Thalia, Texas at over 65 mph. Heavy rains, accompanied by golf ball-sized hail, lashed southwestern Arkansas and central Texas Thursday. In Frederick, Okla., about 3 inches of rain fell in an hour and water was 3 to 4 feet deep in some streets. About 3 1/2 inches of rain fell in a few hours at Monkato, Kan., where a flood watch was posted. Heavy rain fell as far north as northwest Nebraska, where more than 2 1/2 inches pounded the town of Valentine. A flash flood watch was still in effect for low-lying areas near Mississippi's Tombigbee River -- swamped by more than 9 inches of rain during the past few days. Rainshowers doused Iowa and dotted most of the Mississippi Valley. Some scattered showers lingered over the Atlantic Coast, hitting parts of northern Maine, and stretching into the eastern Ohio Valley. Clear skies prevailed over the Southeastern half of the nation, the northern Plains and over the Great Basin. Thundershowers fell Thursday over parts of drought-stricken South Florida where temperatures soared into the 90s. Greg 5/29/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Killer storms sock Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms pounding the Midwest with hail, rain and heavy winds for the fifth day spun tornadoes across Kansas and Missouri and unleashed lightning that was blamed for at least one death and two serious injuries. A woman in Kincaid, Ill., was electrocuted Monday night when lightning struck a telephone line while she was talking to her grandmother, causing the phone to explode in her hand. Christian County Coroner Thomas E. Doyle said Vicky Foster, 29, the mother of two children, was killed instantly. In Jackson Junction, Iowa, two high school girls were struck by lightning while crossing a field near Turkey Valley High School. They were in serious condition at a hospital Monday. In Rochester, Minn., with the storms that battered the Midwest Monday, downed trees and buildings and swelled rivers to near flood stage. At least one tornado and numerous funnel clouds raked Kansas, but no injuries. Greg 5/14/81 === Page 78 of 128 -6 Projects /K- N-sub's sonar detected fated ship WASHINGTON (UPI) - A U.S. nuclear missile submarine cruising at periscope depth made sonar contact with a Japanese freighter moments before colliding with the cargo vessel. But the Navy said Tuesday that the offi- cer directing the submarine's movement at the time did not acknowledge receiving the information. "At this stage in the investigation it is not clear that the collision could have been avoided had the sonar information Deen acted upon promptly," a Navy report said. ₡ Sonar contact is obtained by bouncing high-frequency sound waves off nearby objects. -The preliminary finding backed the submarine commander's report in saying the sub left the scene without attempting to pick up survivors because no one on the sub or in a nearby Navy plane knew the Japanese vessel was sinking. Japanese authorities filed a $2.7 million claim for damages against the Navy Fri- day in the collision of the USS George Washington and the Nissho Maru in the East China Sea, the report said. The small freighter, two of its crew and its cargo of 1,200 pounds of raw cotton were lost. The submarine sustained only minor damage to its conning tower. The 31%-page report was timed to coin- cide with the U.S. visit of Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, and was delivered to him in New York. It generally takes months for such a report to be completed. The collision provoked charges in Japan that the submarine, loaded with 16 nu- clear-tipped Polaris missiles, refused to surface and search for survivors because it did not want to risk exposing nuclear secrets. The collision occurred April 9 on a rai- ny, overcast morning with visibility rang- ing from good to poor, the report said. The sub was running at periscope depth en route to South Korea Drag 5/6/81 - calif. PK- Sewage dumped in harbor NEWPORT BEACH Calif (UPI) - The world's largest pleasure boat harbor and five miles of beach were quarantined be- cause a section of a pipeline burst, forcing officials to pump more than 6 million gal- lons of untreated sewage into the waters of Newport Harbor. Officials warned Sun- day that other places along the line could also burst. weg 3/8/81 UFO 6 Projects (Texas) - Texas flood death toll reaches 10 AUSTIN Texas (UPI) - Residents in the Texas capital dug out Tuesday from toot-deep mud left by the worst flooding in a half century. Cleanup crews pulling cars from mud-choked streams found 10 victims and fear the death toll will rise. A 7-inch downpour sent Shoal Creek - normally a picturesque, meandering stream - roaring out of its banks during the Memorial Holiday weekend, wreaking "damage in the "multi-millions" of dollars to homes and businesses. The four reported missing are believed drowned, including a woman and child swept away by the flood. Police and vol- unteers trudged along creek banks throughout the day in search of more bod- les. Mayor Carole Mcclellan immediately asked Gov. Bill Clements to declare Austin a disaster area. Authorities described the flooding as the worst in the city since 1935. While city crews pulled cars from streams and ditches, neighbors along Shoal Creek in one of the city's oldest and plushest residential areas, helped each other drag mud-covered furniture from their flooded homes to dry. "I've lived along this creek since 1947 and it's never been like this," said Sam Kinch Jr. as he surveyed Shoal Creek Boulevard and yard after yard filled with furniture. "It's miserable. These people are in shock." Heavy property damage also occurred in a commerical area near Shoal Creek, with at least five car lots in the area suf- fering extensive damage. The creek was choked with cars. Most of the dead were caught in cars washed from crossings by the rapidly ris- ing water that turned normally placid creeks in Texas' hill country into raging rivers, At one point, water from Shoal Creek lapped the bottom of traffic lights 30 feet high. The flood peaked early Monday before many residents awakened and by late af- ternoon, Shoal Creek had drained and pic- nickers and joggers enjoyed the sun in parks nearby. Others searched for friends who were missing. Johnny DeLeon and fellow workers from an auto dealership took off work to join the search. "We're looking for a friend's girl friend," DeLeon said, wringing water from his gloves and wiping sticky mud from his shirt. "She disappeared last night after 9 o'clock and hasn't been seen since. She was supposed to pick up her grand- mother at the hospital this morning, and she never showed up. Her car also is miss- ing." Later in the day, police confirmed his friend was among the dead. It also was a day for remembering heroes like Steve Treadwell, who saved a man barely clinging to a stop sign as wa- ter kept rising. "I couldn't turn my back on the old boy," said Treadwell. "I would have felt like a heel. Someone had to help him. The guy was obviously getting so tired, he was about to let go and he would have been sucked right up to the bridge and he would have drowned." Greg J 5 / 26/8, === Page 79 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Japan leaders fuel anti-U.S. fervor oreg 5/22/81 TOKYO (UPI) -- Japan canceled a joint navy exercise with the United States because of fishermen's protests and the main opposition party Friday announced a 20-day nationwide campaign against Japan's alliance with America. The latest strain in U.S.-Japanese ties came at the end of a week in which Secretary of State Alexander Haig put off a visit to Japan after disclosures that U.S. vessels armed with nuclear weapons have visited Japanese ports under a secret agreement. The Japanese government has steadfastly denied the existence of such a pact in the nuclear sensitive nation whose policy forbids the manufacture, possession or introduction of nuclear weapons because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. But the chief opposition Socialist Party planned to question the government policy Friday. The questioning will center on Japanese commitments to increase its defense budgets following a summit meeting between Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and Ronald Reagan, May 7-8, and the wording of the communique that spoke of a Japan being part of an alliance with the United States. "We will continue to pursue this matter at the Diet (parliament), but we need to generate a popular grass-root movement so that the issue will not peter out," said Party Chairman Kazuo Asukata. Asukata and party officials said the party will begin a 20-day nationwide campaign to protest the U.S.-Japan alliance with demonstrations in major cities and around U.S. bases. The protest, they said, will culminate with a rally of 100,000 Japanese on June 10. "The meetings will oppose the U.S.-Japan military alliance contained in the joint communique," Asukata said of the protests. Both the Japanese Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy said Friday they have called off a five-day Naval exercise in the Northern Sea of Japan because of fishermen's protests that U.S. naval vessels sliced salmon nets in the first week of the maneuvers. The U.S. contingent, a 12-ship squadron led by the missile cruiser Bainbridge, and 10 Japanese warships began steaming away from the the war game zone Friday. (Related picture, story on page 2) - 6 Projects PK - # Alaska peak spews steam GULKANA, Alaska (AP) -- Mount Sanford, a 16,208-foot peak in southeastern Alaska with no known volcanic history, spewed a plume of steam and ash Saturday, according to the pilots and passengers of airplanes flying nearby. The pilot of a Japan Air Lines 747 reported to the flight service station at Gulkana that a plume of steam and ash extended about 50 miles southeast of the peak in the Wrangell Mountains, about 200 miles northeast of Anchorage. Dana Anderson, who was at the Gulkana airport when the report came in, said she and some companions flew to within five miles of the summit. She said a steam plume was rising about 1,500 feet above the mountain and that ash was visible on the snow and ice as far as 15 miles south of the peak. oreg. 4/12/81 DEADLY TORNADO -- A funnel cloud in Minnesota slashes a swath in which two people were killed and almost 100 others were injured. The tornado in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area leveled several buildings. Associated Press Laserphoto A10 3M - UFO & P.T. - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1981 - UFO & Projects - # Fire stops reactor LOUISA, Va. (AP) -- An electrical transformer fire sent smoke billowing from a nuclear power plant Friday, frightening people who live near the isolated plant. There were no injuries and no release of radioactivity, and evacuation of the Virginia Electric & Power Co.'s North Anna plant was not required, Vepco spokesman August Wallmeyer said. He said the reactor shut down automatically and at no time was there any danger. The fire was extinguished in about an hour at the plant, which is about 90 miles southwest of Washington. === Page 80 of 128 - 6 projects PK - # Joyrider bent on ruin catches town dozing GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) -- A 47-ton stolen bulldozer was taken on a destructive pre-dawn joyride Friday, smashing 17 cars and trucks, snapping power poles and ramming through the walls of three apartment buildings, police said. Damage along a 2½-mile stretch of this sprawling coal mining town in northeastern Wyoming was estimated in the millions of dollars. No serious injuries were reported, but a policeman, who pumped shotgun slugs into the bulldozer's engine in a futile effort to stop it, sprained his ankle. About 30 people were evacuated from eight townhomes when the 24-foot machine, which stands 12 feet tall, cut into a natural gas line. Nearly a half mile of streets were torn up and six utility poles and a light pole were toppled during the hour-long siege. The bulldozer finally stalled after its driver bailed out and it crunched through the wall of an apartment building, police said. Police accused John D. Thompson of bailing out of the still-moving machine as it approached the occupied fourplex, police said. Thompson was being held Friday on $100,000 bond in the Campbell County Jail after he was arraigned in justice of the peace court on a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. But County Attorney Terry Preuit said he expected other charges to be filed early next week. "Before you can file a destruction of property charge, you have to have a ball park figure of what the damages were," he said. "That may be a little bit coming." Thompson's next court appearance will be in district court, where a judge will consider a defense motion that the man is mentally unfit to proceed with the criminal prosecution. No date has been set for that hearing. Gillette Police Chief Don Schneider said Thompson was arrested about 5:20 a.m. Friday after a policeman spotted him two blocks from the spot where the machine came to halt. Police declined comment on a motive. Police said the incident started about 3 a.m. when somebody stole the tractor from a lot on the east edge of Gillette. The bulldozer was the type used to strip coal in the mines that surround the city. The driver took off into an nearby residential section and started crushing cars, driving through utility poles, ravaging lawns and knocking down fences. DESTRUCTION PATH -- Vehicles and apartments lie in ruin after stolen bulldozer cut path The tractor finally came to rest on the garden-level floor of a fourplex apartment building after it crashed through the side and stalled, the roof of the building resting on its cab. J.C. Carnes, who lived in the lower apartment, said his bed ended up "curdled" in front of the tractor blade, but that the four people in the apartments escaped before the Caterpillar hit. Police said witnesses reported seeing a man bail out of the cab before its final crash. Dennis Tjaden, who lives in an adjacent apartment building, said he watched the bulldozer demolish his car, then drive out onto the street and head back toward his apartment building. It gouged into the corner of the building, ripping through Gillette, Wyo., early Friday morning. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. open a corner bedroom where a 9-year-old boy had been sleeping, he said. The machine then crashed through the wall of the neighboring fourplex and came to rest. Spot power outages were triggered by collapsing power poles. Gillette Fire Investigator Dave Mueller said the townhomes were evacuated when the gas line was broken by a "ripper tooth" mounted on the rear of the tractor to break up rocky soil. Police said the driver periodically lowered the tooth into the streets during his drive. 5/2/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Doomed jet 'held no secrets' United Press International DEATH SCENE -- Crews examine wreckage of an Air Force missile-satellite tracking plane in a field near Walkersville, Md. The aircraft blew up Wednesday and plummeted "like a fireball," witnesses said. All 21 persons aboard the plane were killed. WALKERSVILLE, Md. (UPI) -- Air Force research teams Thursday began investigating the mysterious crash of a $50 million missile-satellite tracking plane that apparently exploded on a training mission, killing all 21 persons aboard Military officials insisted that no classified equipment or materials was aboard the EC-135N, the military's version of the Boeing 707 jet, which was on a routine training mission from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Sources at Wright-Patterson said, however, that $50 million plane was carrying 30,000 pounds of computer equipment. The EC-135N tracks missiles and unmanned satellites. Andrews Air Force Base officials, who rushed research teams to the scene, said it could be weeks before the cause is determined. The FBI and Federal Aviation Administration also sent investigators. Witnesses said the plane appeared to explode in a "fireball," raining hunks of metal and military documents on the countryside. Military and civilian officials said radio and radar contact was lost with the EC-135N at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday when it was about 28,000 feet over Maryland. The aircraft was due to return to Wright-Patterson after making a U-turn over the Atlantic Ocean. Merhle Duvall said he heard "another jet" in the area as the EC-135N went down and speculated that the Air Force plane may have been trying to avoid the other jet in overcast skies when it began to go into a spin. However, Sgt. Cleveland Parker, a spokesman at Andrews Air Force Base, said he had "no report at all" of another plane in the vicinity. 5/7/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Storms kill 207 MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of families were homeless and at least 207 people dead after two tropical storms and a tornado struck in rapid-fire succession, officials said Sunday. Officials said tropical storm Lynn caused mud slides and brought torrential rain when it slammed across the main island of Luzon on Saturday. Bridges were torn out and three towns in the Aurora province northeast of Manila isolated. The official Philippine News Agency reported 10 fishermen drowned during the storm's approach. 7/6/81 === Page 81 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Hazardous problems targeted at nuclear plant **Aug. 5/11/81** ATLANTA (AP) -- The Savannah River Plant, the sole source of raw materials for U.S. nuclear warheads, has been experiencing problems that the plant operator says have "nuclear hazard potential," a newspaper reported Sunday. Aging equipment and human errors are threatening the safe operation of the 27-year-old nuclear reactors at the plant, 25 miles downriver from Augusta in South Carolina, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution said in their combined Sunday editions. The newspaper said its report was based on more than 700 pages of previously secret internal plant safety documents that were opened for a reporter's inspection by the U.S. Department of Energy. "The number of incidents due to personnel and equipment failures has been trending upward since 1975," according to one safety report covering the last half of 1978. It was prepared by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the contractor that designed and built the plant for the government and has operated it since 1953. "The exact causes are unknown," the report said, "but a combination of more thorough reporting of incidents, aging of equipment and personnel turnover are possible contributing factors." The plant's acting manager, Richard Denise, said the number and type of the reported incidents "is not considered alarming." In the most recent reports, Du Pont says that twice a week last year the plant suffered some incident that had "nuclear hazard potential." Each such incident created a risk of radiation exposure for workers or the public, the newspaper said. Such episodes totaled 38 in 1975, 54 in 1976, 49 in 1977, 72 in 1978 and 108 in both 1979 and 1980, the newspaper said. An example of such incidents, it said, occurred in May 1978 when a spacing device, used to separate reactor fuel elements stacked in an underwater storage area and to ensure against radioactive chain reactions, was found to be missing at one reactor. The device had been omitted for two years and no one had noticed. The upward trend was anticipated because of personnel turnover and increased requirements for reporting such incidents, said Denise, who formerly was assistant director for licensing for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "The number of incidents broadly defined as 'having nuclear hazard potential' are of concern, but an examination of the type and severity of these incidents established that this categorization is often not indicative of an actual nuclear hazard," he said. The plant, located inside a 300-square-mile pine forest just north of the Georgia border, originally had five nuclear reactors. The newspaper said three of those still were in operation. The newspaper said none of the reactor incidents ever has been announced publicly, and that the safety reports are not filed with any federal or state regulatory agency. Nevertheless, the newspaper said no employee ever has been injured by a radioactive process at the plant. - UFO 6 Projects PK - # 11 persons die as storms sweep over Midlands United Press International Thunderstorms that lashed the Plains from Texas to Michigan with heavy rain, wind and tornadoes spread to the Southeast Friday. At least 11 deaths and scores of injuries were blamed on the storms and dozens were left homeless. Persistent rainshowers stretched Friday from Texas to the Carolinas, already soaked by more than an inch of rain. Heavy rain was reported in Alabama, southern Mississippi and the western portion of the Carolinas. Texas was hard hit by fierce storms Thursday, and 22 tornadoes roared across southeast Missouri the night before. More than 30 people were injured and 80 left homeless in the Missouri twisters. National Guard troops helped weary emergency crews in cleanup duties Friday, as state officials promised aid was on the way. The storms were blamed for 11 deaths -- two in Texas and three each in Missouri, Michigan and Louisiana. Three people were killed in a head-on collision of a pickup truck and a car during a rainstorm in Benson, La. Michigan authorities said a small airplane crashed in rain and thick fog, killing all three men aboard. Rescuers searched three hours in dense fog before finding the wreckage. Two people were killed by tornadoes in Missouri, and an elderly man died of a heart attack when a twister struck his community. Near Houston, one man was killed while trying to land his small airplane at the height of a thunderstorm that roared across southeast Texas, flipping mobile homes and knocking out electrical power. A three-vehicle accident on a rain-slicked highway in Houston killed one person and injured several others. Parts of Texas were drenched with 2 inches of rain an hour. Wind up to 60 mph downed power lines, felled trees and overturned trailers and vehicles from Columbus to Beaumont. Twenty people were injured in Sealy, one of the hardest hit towns. The American Legion Hall was used as an emergency shelter. 4/24/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Cause of power outage sought NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Utility engineers searched Sunday for the cause of a power failure that left more than a quarter-million homes and businesses without electricity in steamy, record-tying July heat. Saturday's outage, which knocked out trolleys, traffic lights, air conditioners, telephone computers and radio stations across the city and up to 40 miles away, was first blamed on a tree entangled in power lines. However, "it's not resolved yet; it's still being studied," said Jack South Utilities. The power failure came as the monster hit a humid 96, tying a July record set in 1951. The blackout affected customers of three utilities and extended from Covington and Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain to the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. It began at 4 p.m. Most power was restored by 7:45 p.m. 7/20/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Copter crash kills four NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- A "Sea Stallion" cargo helicopter on a training exercise crashed Sunday on the deck of the amphibious landing ship USS Guam and burst into flames. Four Marines were killed and 11 other Marines and sailors injured, the Navy said. The helicopter smashed onto the deck of the 592-foot vessel and burned during amphibious maneuvers by a Pennsylvania Marine reserve squadron. All four Marines killed were aboard the helicopter. 7/20/81 # Building falls into bay SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Firemen doubt that anybody was inside an abandoned two-story building that collapsed through Pier 64 and into San Francisco Bay Sunday. "It sounded like an explosion and caved in quickly," said Jesse DeJesus, who was fishing nearby when the building collapsed. He said he thought he heard hammering from the direction of the building just before it fell. === Page 82 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Submarine collision still a nautical puzzle By J. RICHARD NOKES Editor, The Oregonian Oreg 5/8/81 THE PRELIMINARY report of the Reagan administration to the visiting Japanese prime minister concerning the tragic sinking of a Japanese merchant ship after a collision with an American submarine leaves major questions unanswered. They probably will not be answered until the results of a court of inquiry, and possibly a court martial, are known. The first report, in which the United States accepts responsibility for the collision and resulting loss of two lives, was issued hurriedly in an attempt to head off any unpleasant questions by Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki in his discussions with President Ronald Reagan. NOKES The submarine, the USS George Washington, was engaged in an exercise in foul weather in which Navy patrol planes were hunting the nuclear craft. At one point the George Washington raised its periscope and made radar sweeps without detecting the surface ship because of high seas. The boat's underwater sound gear (sonar) did detect the Japanese freighter when it was close by, and the sonar shack notified the conning tower, which failed either to note the information or to acknowledge it. That brings up serious question No. 1: Why did not the sonar officer keep repeating the information until it was acknowledged? It is mandatory procedure on shipboard for the officer of the deck, who is in operational command of the vessel during his watch subject to orders of the captain, to acknowledge any communication. The fact that such a piece of vital information was not acknowledged should have elicited immediate repetition from sonar. A second question would ask why the information was not received by the conning tower or why it was ignored if received. According to the report, the submarine's captain, Cmdr. Robert E. Woehl, ordered a search after the collision and saw the merchant ship but after short observation concluded it was not in any distress. He then ordered the submarine to an area about eight miles from the collision scene. This brings up other major questions: Why was the search for and examination of the Japanese vessel such a casual thing? Should not the captain of the submarine at least have exchanged signals with the merchant craft to ascertain if it were or were not in distress? Apparently, that vessel attempted to radio a distress signal, but its antenna was crippled by the collision. The submarine did advise a naval command in Japan of the collision but did not indicate its seriousness, so the shore command did not immediately advise either the Japanese government or Washington, D.C. Since a collision at sea, especially in peacetime, is one of the most serious of all sins in the Navy, this raises another serious question: When a nuclear submarine, one of the prides of the fleet, is involved, should not a shore command be alert to transmit the word to the highest authority at once instead of waiting 24 hours? So far there is no indication that under the seagoing rules of the road the freighter was anything but innocent of blame. Certainly the Japanese will not be quick to forget and forgive. - 6 Projects PK - # 5 burned by steam CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Five workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant were burned Sunday by non-radioactive steam that leaked during tests, a TVA spokesman said. Spokesman Alan Carmichael said no nuclear fuel had been loaded in Unit 2, where the leak occurred, and there was no danger of radiation. "They were disassembling a valve on a steam line and had closed others upstream," Carmichael said. "But when they started taking the valve apart, it began releasing steam and five men were burned." Oreg 4/20/81 Note: "Meteors?" Perhaps a PI message to Shealla # Meteors light sky MIAMI (AP) -- A spectacular meteor shower lit up the early morning Florida sky Sunday in a blue flash visible from the Keys to the Panhandle. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Nettles in Miami said that after receiving numerous inquiries about a mysterious light, he called the Civil Defense National Warning Center in Olney, Md., and was told it was "Lyrid's Meteor Phenomenon." "It's fairly common for this time of year," Nettles said. Gerald Mays of the Civil Defense warning center said the official explanation was a meteor shower, which he said was reported to the center at 12:59 a.m. Sunday and apparently was seen by people as far south as the Florida Keys and as far north as Panama City in the Panhandle. Oreg 4/20/81 Note: Ha ha! Not "marsh gas"? Owens # Aurora borealis # Light show prompts calls It wasn't Mount St. Helens, and it didn't have anything to do with the space shuttle. Rather, it was a spectacular and somewhat rare show of an aurora borealis that had Western Oregon residents staring into the sky Sunday evening. Callers from throughout the area reported a show of red, yellow, blue or green lights in the sky around 8:15 p.m. Norman Smale of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry confirmed that the lights were an aurora borealis, or "northern lights." Smale said that while such displays are not common in Oregon, Sunday's event was even more unusual in the range of colors observed. "We seldom see the yellows, the blues and greens here," he said. The phenomenon results when sunspots shoot out charged particles which are caught by the Earth's magnetic field. As they pass through the atmosphere, they glow, much like charged particles in a neon tube. The different colors result from different gases becoming ionized. The lights are most commonly seen in more northerly latitudes. Oreg 4/13/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Power outages shift shuttle tracking duty VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- Two power failures at this base that was to track the space shuttle's landing and coordinate with chase planes forced the work to be switched to Edwards Air Force Base less than an hour before touchdown Tuesday, the Air Force said. Vandenberg's primary power source failed at 8:55 a.m., and backup generators broke down when a cable burned out 45 minutes later, said Capt. Frank Bradley. The shuttle made a perfect landing at Edwards at 10:22 a.m. Oreg 4/15/81 === Page 83 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Predictable fallout from Trojan accident URGENT: The Trojan nuclear power plant shut down under emergency conditions this morning when a pump blew up in the face of an electrician... It was not immediately known whether any radiation was released. The preceding urgent news report, released last Monday by The Associated Press in New York, is a scare story, albeit an unintentional one. It earns that label not because of gross inaccuracies but because of incompleteness. In short, it was premature and speculative; consequently, it risked inciting panic. Ever since the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, the news media nationally have grappled with the problem of how news gatherers should respond to a real nuclear disaster. Our recommendation: with caution. Monday's initial reporting by KGW radio and, subsequently, The Associated Press suggests that caution and restraint can get sideswiped by perceptions that a potentially catastrophic event - a big news story - is breaking. That other major news agencies in Oregon did not leap on this wagon demonstrates that some of the media lessons learned from Three Mile Island are being observed. Nevertheless, there was predictable fallout from Monday's premature wire service report. News teams in New York and Los Angeles were alerted to prepare to fly to Oregon. A Japanese news agency was aroused. The inflammatory words in the "urgent" bulletin - "emergency," "blew up," "radiation" - sent false signals to other news agencies, suggesting to them that Oregon might be undergoing a Three Mile Island repeat. News agencies confronted with tips of a possible nuclear power plant accident should pin down the essential facts before presenting the story to the public. Responsible coverage of a potential or reported nuclear accident dictates verifying the details, preferably with a variety of sources. Single-source reporting on such a sensitive story - one that has the potential for panicking the public - serves everyone poorly. Oreg 4/23/81 - 6 Projects PK - Note: A message from God re ?? # Tornado levels church; toll of 9 dead feared TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A tornado smashed a country church filled with Easter worshipers Sunday night, killing at least four and possibly nine people, police said. Bixby police dispatcher Lloyd Blalock said an undetermined number of people were hurt when the Liberty Heights Freewill Baptist Church collapsed shortly before 9 p.m. The twister also slammed into a nearby trailer park, police said. Police said rescue workers were still searching 1 1/2 hours later for occupants of the church in Bixby, south of Tulsa. Police reports of the number of deaths ranged from four to nine. Details were sketchy after police cordoned off the area to reporters. Bixby sustained widespread storm damage, as power and telephone lines fell throughout the area. Blalock asked a radio station reporter to call the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Red Cross for him because his radio system was dead. The tornado was part of a severe storm that snapped power and telephone lines throughout the Tulsa area and destroyed an undetermined number of homes, authorities said. Cheryl Blonsky, a Red Cross worker, said officials were looking for space to set up a shelter for the homeless. A Civil Defense spokesman said police were asked to help control looting that broke out in Bixby soon after the evening storm abated. Oreg 4/20/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (UPI) - The N reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was shut down Wednesday morning when a speed control device failed on one of the reactor's drive turbines. The reactor could remain shut down for several days while repairs are made, officials said. The dual-purpose reactor is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by UNC Nuclear Industries. Oreg 4/16/81 - 6 Projects PK - - Note 6 Projects - # Car hits PGE pole; power loss results A car that crashed into a Portland General Electric power pole Sunday afternoon on Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard knocked out electricity for about 1,000 customers, a PGE spokesman said. A feeder line serving the Palatine Hills area of Southwest Portland and parts of downtown Lake Oswego lost power about 3 p.m., spokesman Bruce Landrey said. Power was restored in half the homes by about 3:22 p.m. and the rest at about 4:15 p.m., he said. The driver of the car was not injured in the crash, in the 11000 block of Terwilliger, Portland police reported. Oreg 4/20/81 # Power failures cripple island NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI) - Workers toiled Wednesday to restore electricity to the Bahamas, which has been hit by a 6-day-long series of power failures that left residents foraging for food and sparked a mass exodus of nearly 10,000 grumbling tourists. Lights blinked on in half the city's business district Tuesday, but after four hours they went off. The other half of the city got some steady electricity for the first time since Monday, when the whole of New Providence Island went dark after a weekend of partial power failures. The government-owned Bahamas Electric Corp. struggled to repair equipment they said fell into disrepair during a three-week slowdown by protesting employees. The general manager of the utility said he hoped to have power restored to residential areas by Wednesday night. Oreg 7/8/81 === Page 84 of 128 A6 2M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, APRIL 26, 1981 # 3rd leak at N-plant admitted TOKYO (AP) -- The Japan Atomic Power Co., under fire for covering up a major radioactive waste overflow last month, disclosed Saturday that 45 workers were exposed to radioactive waste in another unreported accident at the same plant in January. Power company officials said radioactive materials dripped out of three holes in piping connecting waste-water condensing tanks Jan. 19 and 21 at the Tsuruga plant 192 miles west of Tokyo. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which has been investigating plant operations since it was disclosed recently that 16 tons of radioactive waste water spilled out of a tank in a March 8 accident, said the January leak was small and confined to the tank room. Ministry officials said the 45 workmen involved in repairing the piping and cleaning up the waste were exposed to a maximum of 92 millirems -- a measure of radiation -- and an average of 55 millirems per day. The power company safety standard allows exposure of 100 millirems a day. Officials of the Tokyo-based power company said the leak was not reported because it was minor and occurred when the plant was closed for a periodic safety check. But ministry officials, who were said to be "chagrined" by the latest in a series of revelations of slipshod operations at the Tsuruga plant, ordered an immediate investigation into the leak. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a major daily newspaper, also reported that the radioactivity of the glutinous waste material was so high that work to fill up the holes had to be carried out with workers rotating every five seconds. The accident was the fourth this year that Tsuruga plant officials failed to report to the government. # Quake jolts Greece ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A strong earthquake rocked western Greece early Saturday, causing panic but no casualties or serious damage, authorities said. The Athens observatory said the quake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and was centered in the Ionian Sea, 175 miles northwest of the capital. Police said the tremor sent people in the town of Ioannina rushing into the streets as power supplies were cut and some houses sustained minor cracks. # Explosion in flight kills 21 aboard jet By LINDA DUFFIELD WALKERSVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A military jet exploded into a "ball of fire" over a farm Wednesday, killing all 21 crew members and scattering bodies, debris and possibly classified documents over a wide area, authorities said. Air Force Major William Campbell confirmed that all those aboard the sophisticated missile-and-satellite tracking aircraft were killed. Authorities at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington reported 20 bodies had been recovered by late Wednesday. Residents who witnessed the crash just north of this western Maryland community described the $50 million EC-135-A plane as a mass of flames before it struck the ground. "It looked like a ball of fire," said Edward Watson, vice president of operations for the Maryland Midland Railroad, which halted service on its line adjacent to the crash site. "It apparently blew up in the air," said A.E. Appleby, police communications officer at the Frederick state police barracks. The Pentagon said the aircraft, which looks like a Boeing 707 with a huge, bulbous nose, was based at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where it was assigned to the 4950 Test Wing. A Wright Patterson spokesman, Air Force Maj. Edward Robertson, denied reports that the jet was carrying classified documents. "There were no classified documents on board the airplane," he said. But a source in the Pentagon, who asked not to be identified, said Wednesday evening that there were classified documents aboard the aircraft. Robertson said an Air Force crew was on the scene, attempting to identify the bodies that had been found and to locate the missing body. The cause of the crash remained undetermined Wednesday evening. Robertson said he had no evidence that the plane had been sabotaged. "I don't have anything that would go one way or the other on that one," he said. The Air Force said the plane, an advanced range instrumentation aircraft, was carrying sophisticated radar equipment and equipment used to track missiles and satellites. It was on a test flight and left the base early Wednesday morning. The area in central Frederick County was sealed off by state police and military officials from nearby Fort Detrick were sent to the scene. Members of the media were taken in groups of eight to the site late Wednesday afternoon. "There were bodies all over the place," said state police Lt. Grover Sensabaugh, who was at the site shortly after the crash. Local radio stations were asked to broadcast state police requests that residents who found documents from the aircraft turn them in to local authorities, according to Jane English of WZYQ-FM in Frederick. # The nation ## Power line tower felled SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah Power & Light Co. tower carrying a 345,000-volt power line was chopped down by "saboteurs" Saturday, a company spokesman said, but there were no power outages. Grant Pendleton, the spokesman, said the three-pole, 90-foot wooden structure was toppled by someone wielding a saw or ax. He said the company was considering the incident "an act of sabotage" and that the FBI was investigating. However, FBI supervisor Bill Rumph in Salt Lake City said, "The facts do not indicate any jurisdiction by us." "That's a big line. It can carry at least 400,000 kilowatts. It's the highest voltage line on our system," Pendleton said. He said the line was a main transmission artery to the Four Corners area where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona meet. === Page 85 of 128 # Severe droughts causing devastation in many parts of world By CHRIS ANGELO The Associated Press From India to Africa to Brazil, drought has withered crops, dried up water holes and reservoirs and driven thousands, especially women and children, to unfamiliar lands in search of food and water. February storms broke the drought in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. Although weather officials described it as being one of the largest abnormally dry periods in the world, the effects were nowhere near the drought devastation in other parts of the world. It will be at least another few weeks before forecasters can say if there is any relief in sight for East African countries, where drought, combined with civil strife and impoverished economies, is causing the greatest human suffering. "I have talked to people who had walked 28 days to get to a food station, women who started with six children and arrived with only two. The rest died on the way," said a United Nations official who recently visited the East African region. He asked not to be identified. Many women in food-short, drought-stricken areas try to breastfeed children up to 6 years of age, said Beth Griffin of Catholic Relief Services in New York, one of numerous voluntary agencies providing aid. Often the women are so malnourished that they have stopped lactating and their last attempt to save their children fails. Women, children and elderly men crowd refugee camps and feeding stations, aid officials say. Younger men stay behind with their herds or have been killed in political violence. The East African drought affects Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and extends south to Tanzania. Also drought-stricken are parts of southern and western Africa, India, China, northeastern Brazil and Australia. The American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service estimates that about 15 million people are affected by the combination of drought and other problems in East Africa, where for several years rains have been insufficient or come at the wrong time or in such heavy downpours that there were droughts and floods at the same time. The outlook for this year's rains will be known in late March or early April, when the rainy season begins, he said. He said crop prospects for this year, however, are "very bad." There is no reliable estimate of drought-related deaths because many of those victims are nomads who move across borders or refugees fleeing political violence. Also, drought deaths cannot be separated from those of other refugees. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania said recently that his country "is facing its most severe famine in 20 years of independence." Three years of poor harvests have worsened the impact of drought, and the country no longer has the funds to buy large amounts of food abroad, he added. Leon Davico, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said two important riverbeds at a remote refugee camp in Somalia are dry and he has seen people "scratching the ground with their nails in an attempt to dig for water." Here is a summary of the situation in some of the other most seriously affected drought areas: SOUTHERN AFRICA -- In Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, South Africa, particularly KwaZulu and other parts of Natal province along the Indian Ocean, and South-West Africa, crops and cattle were affected in varying degrees in 1980. Water had to be trucked to many locations and some cattle died, but there were no reports of mass human starvation. In Mozambique, probably the hardest hit in southern Africa, two years of drought cut agricultural production in half. Now the problem is floods that have caused further crop losses and hampered relief operations, the official news agency AIM reported. South Africa, the breadbasket for much of Africa, will have to import wheat this year for the first time in more than a decade. But there also the problem now is floods. WESTERN AFRICA -- In general, the last rainy season, from April to September, was good and the situation is greatly improved from the severe drought several years ago, according to Galal Magdi, executive secretary of the U.N. Capital Development Fund and an adviser on the Sahel region. Aid is still needed and will be for about three more years, until development projects yield results, he said. INDIA -- In Rajasthan state, bordering Pakistan, three consecutive dry years have forced herders to seek pasture in neighboring states and farmers to switch to jobs on relief projects, building roads, deepening canals and working on mining projects. More than 15 million people, half the state's population, are suffering from the drought, but it has caused no deaths, Bhatnagar said. The situation is expected to worsen as people await the monsoon rains which normally arrive in July. BRAZIL -- Farmers in Brazil's drought-ridden, impoverished northeast flee by the thousands each year to urban coastal centers in search of a better life. But often they are trapped in a web of urban poverty, living in the shantytowns that border the wealthy neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities. Some 13 million people live in Brazilian states most severely affected by drought, which annually sears thousands of acres of crops and is blamed for the deaths of thousands of head of livestock. NORTHERN CHINA -- The area has received lower-than-normal rainfall for the past 1 1/2 years. A U.N. disaster relief coordinator's mission said the drought, particularly in Hebei Province, was the worst in 37 years. "More than 20 million people are seriously affected by losses of 30 to 50 percent" of agricultural production due to drought and floods, the officials said. AUSTRALIA -- Ninety percent of New South Wales, the country's most populous state, has been under a drought declaration for 18 months. Also affected in the southeastern part of the country are southern Queensland and parts of Victoria, and in the west, southwestern Western Australia. The drought is blamed for the loss of 5.6 million sheep, or about 4 percent of the national flock. Drinking water has been rationed in some areas. MEXICO -- Rainfall has been abundant so far this season, ending last year's prolonged drought, described as the worst in half a century. The most recent count indicated 40,000 cattle died and another 120,000 had to be slaughtered before reaching full weight, leaving herds 20 percent below normal this year. === Page 86 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # 11 tornadoes rip across Midwest By LINDA WEINSTEIN of The Associated Press 4/12/81 Tornadoes and thunderstorms packing high winds, heavy rains and hail tore through parts of the Midwest, injuring a dozen people and causing extensive property damage in at least three states, officials said. Nine tornadoes hit Iowa and two touched down in Indiana Friday, the National Weather Service said. Thunderstorms rumbled across parts of Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, producing flash floods and knocking out power in some areas. In Iowa, a tornado ravaged Melbourne, a town of 660 people in the central part of the state, Marshall County authorities said. Six people were slightly injured, and 65 were left homeless by the twister, which damaged 25 houses and several mobile homes as it cut a path a quarter-mile wide and nearly four miles long, officials said. Three other people were injured in an auto accident as the tornado swept five cars off a highway south of the town, authorities said. They were taken to a Des Moines hospital. The tornado, which touched down shortly after 6 p.m. Friday, also blew down power lines and damaged gas lines, which began to leak, the Marshall County sheriff's department said. Authorities also reported tornadoes in Wayne, Decatur and Marion counties. High winds in Sumner, a town of 2,200 in the northeastern corner of Iowa, caused heavy damage to at least two houses and also damaged a low-rent housing project for the elderly and three schools. No injuries were reported, however. Henry Hochberger, manager of the housing complex for the elderly, said several windows were broken by high winds and blowing debris. He said one woman had gone to bed just moments before a board crashed through a window where she had been sitting. Sumner Elementary School lost one-third of its roof, authorities said. Windows were reported blown out of the high school and the junior high also was damaged. In the Des Moines area, near-zero visibility, high winds and slick pavement were blamed for an accident in which three people, including a 2-year-old girl, were injured. - 6 Projects PK - # Navy accepts merchant ship collision blame By RICHARD HALLORAN New York Times News Service 4/21/81 WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr. announced Monday that the Navy has accepted liability for the sinking of a Japanese merchant ship after a collision with a U.S. nuclear submarine. The accident occurred April 9 when the George Washington, the first American submarine to carry nuclear ballistic missiles, and the Nissho Maru, a freighter carrying cotton, collided in the East China Sea. The captain and the first mate of the freighter were lost at sea while the rest of the 15-man crew spent 18 hours in life rafts before being rescued. They claimed that the submarine surfaced but left the scene almost immediately. Lehman's statement said the Navy had accepted liability "to preclude lengthy litigation and permit the Navy to enter promptly into negotiations with all involved parties." Japanese lawyers have advised the Navy, officials said, that total claims may come to $4.2 million. That would include compensation for the 2,350-ton Nissho Maru, 1,200 tons of cotton and claims made by survivors and relatives of the lost seamen. The quick action by the Navy also appeared to have been taken in an attempt to dampen a storm of criticism in Japan, where the incident has given anti-American elements an emotional argument against Japan's alliance with the United States. Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, who is scheduled to visit Washington early next month, has said that he intends to bring up the incident when he meets with President Reagan and other senior administration officials. The Navy is conducting an investigation by questioning the survivors of the sinking and the captain of the George Washington and its officers and crew in Guam, where the submarine sailed after the collision. Lehman's statement said that accepting liability "in no way is intended to predetermine the personal liability and responsibility of the commanding officer and the crew members of the George Washington." Cmdr. Robert D. Woehl was listed as the captain of the submarine. # Navy Declares War Against Stray Cats Norfolk, Va. The Navy has declared war on stray cats that have infiltrated the Norfolk Naval Air Rework Facility, destroying important documents, startling employees by jumping from under desks, and leaving their mark in other ways. The Navy at first set 15 cat traps that operate like rabbit traps. Although the traps worked, some facility employees began aiding and abetting the enemy. They put out food and water for the cats and liberated some of the trapped animals. Frank Purdy, a safety and health official, has warned employees in a message that "more drastic action" will be taken if they don't stop helping the cats. "I love cats," Purdy said in his message, "but the work site is not the place for them... This is causing unsafe and unhealthy conditions for both the employees and the cats." Six to 10 cats prowl the naval facility's offices and hangars, according to Sharon White, a spokeswoman for the huge complex at Norfolk Naval Air Station where about 4200 workers renovate jet planes and missiles. As for where the cats are coming from, she said, "We don't know for sure." Reports indicate that they may be from nearby Navy and civilian homes. SF Chronicle 3/13/81 Associated Press - 6 Projects PK - # Florida area requests aid WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Bob Graham was asked Wednesday to declare 16 counties a drought disaster area, as Lake Okeechobee fell to a record low 9.84 feet above sea level and temperatures soared. "We have been in touch with the governor's office and the Bureau of Disaster Preparedness, but we haven't received any formal word back yet," said Enid Atwater, spokeswoman for the South Florida Water Management District. If Graham grants the declaration, the district could become eligible for state aid, which district officials hope will pay for a possible cloud-seeding project over Lake Okeechobee, a vital source of fresh water for South Florida. The water district's governing board will meet Friday in Plantation Key to decide whether to begin seeding clouds. Ms. Atwater said the board probably would approve a seeding plan because the lowness of Lake Okeechobee is becoming more critical daily. "The reason we're under the gun is because the program is started by August 1st the meteorologists tell us there probably isn't any sense in starting it at all," she said. If the board approves the plan, seeding could begin by July 24, she said. 4/16/81 === Page 87 of 128 TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1981 - UFOs & Projects - # From wind turbine # Damaged generator, blade to be removed Crews next week will begin removing the 94-ton generator and 100-ton blade from atop the 200-foot tower of the world's largest wind turbine near Goldendale, Wash. The wind generator, one of three dedicated May 29, was damaged June 8 when the 350-foot blade failed to feather and ran too fast, burning out the generator, said Joe Holmes, a spokesman for Boeing Engineering and Construction Co. The last 45 feet of the tip of the blade is designed to feather automatically like an airplane propeller to maintain a constant speed of 17 1/2 revolutions per minute in any wind up to 45 miles an hour. In last month's incident, the speed of the rotor reached more than 20 rpms for a minute before it automatically shut down, Holmes said. He said the gear box, which steps up the 17 1/2 rpms to 1,800 rpms to turn the generator, was undamaged, but the generator will have to be replaced. The nacelle that houses the generator and blade also will be removed for further tests to help determine the cause of the malfunction. Cost of the repairs has not been determined, Holmes said. The experimental units, which cost about $4.6 million each, are financed by the U.S. Department of Energy. The project is administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Bonneville Power Administration, which will market the 7,500 kilowatts of power that will be generated by the three turbines when they are in full operation. The other two wind generators, which had been operating since December 1980, have been shut down until the cause of the June malfunction is determined. No date has been set for resumption of operational tests of the two undamaged units, said Gene Tollefsen, a BPA spokesman. The generators, designed to produce more power than any other operational wind turbine in the world, are located 17 miles southeast of Goldendale on the crest of the Goodnoe Hills. - UFOs & Projects - # Storms batter Asian coasts; toll hits 277 MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - Tropical storm Lynn sent giant waves crashing into 11 coastal towns, leaving more than 65,000 people homeless and bringing the death toll from two storms in the past week to 220, relief officials said Monday. "I have never seen waves as big as those," said Rosauro Francisco, 51, a former police chief in Palo, one of the storm-thrashed towns on Mindoro Island. Another storm lashed northern India Sunday, leaving 57 people dead and forcing more than 2 million to rush to high ground as swirling rivers flooded their banks, officials said. Soaked villagers clinging to their meager possessions waded through floods in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Tripura in an attempt to escape the rushing muddy water ripping apart their mud and thatch houses. Fifty-seven people drowned or were crushed to death by falling walls in the impoverished flatlands of Uttar Pradesh during a week of incessant rain, officials said. More than 5,000 villages populated by nearly 1.5 million people have been marooned as road and rail lines disappeared under brown water in Uttar Pradesh, they said. Lynn, meanwhile, was heading for Hong Kong, where the government opened its 124 typhoon shelters and the carrier USS Midway put out to sea to avoid causing havoc inside the storm-swept harbor. Lynn struck Friday and left 16 people dead and two missing. Tropical storm Kelly, which pounded the Philippines at mid-week, killed 194 people, the National Disaster Coordinating Center said. Org J 7/6/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Train spill forces hundreds to flee THORP, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds of people were evacuated for several hours in two northwestern Wisconsin counties Friday after a train derailed, spilling about 17,000 gallons of a corrosive chemical that formed a slow-moving cloud. Two Soo Line employees and a sheriff's deputy were taken to the hospital at Stanley after the chemical spilled from two holes in a tank car. The workers did not require treatment, but Deputy Mark Cattanach, 24, of Neillsville remained hospitalized. His condition was not immediately known. The derailment, three miles east of Thorp, caused formation of a cloud of gas that moved slowly to the northwest. Evacuations were ordered in the towns of Thorp and Withee in Clark County and the towns of Taft and Aurora in Taylor County. Dave Weitz, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said the chemical, acetic anhydrite, can cause respiratory and eye damage. It is described as corrosive rather than toxic. About 600 people sought refuge at Thorp High School, but most had been permitted to return home by midmorning after the chemical was neutralized with lime. Acetic anhydrite is normally used in the manufacture of cellulose acetate and is a dehydrating agent also used in the handling of fatty and volatile oils. - UFOs & Projects - # Blackout spoils vacations NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI) - Some 10,000 tourists who flocked to New Providence Island to enjoy its beaches, quaint Bahamian streets and lively casinos instead found sweltering rooms, dark restaurants and scant fresh water. Three days of flickering power outages became a total blackout Monday and tourists lured to the island by the annual "Goombay Summer" promotion fled from an airport getting electricity from emergency generators. "It's the worst vacation I ever had in my life," said Barbara Oliveto of New York City. Officials blamed the blackout on electrical equipment that fell Org J 7/7/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Official found shot to death DONORA, Pa. (AP) - A state official was found shot to death in his basement one day after a grand jury named him in an investigation of alleged government corruption. Authorities believe he killed himself. "I feel in my heart I did nothing wrong, but I know I can't stand the pressure I'll have to bear," said an unsigned note found beside the body of field auditor Lloyd Hickman, 60. Penn P 12/81 Org J 7/7/81 === Page 88 of 128 Subway wreck in NYC kills 1 NEW YORK (AP) -- One subway train plowed into the rear of another when 63-year-old signal lights failed outside a Brooklyn subway station Friday, officials said, killing a motorman and injuring more than 100 passengers. John Simpson, president of the Transit Authority, said the signal lights that failed had been installed in 1918, adding that their failure was only one symptom of the decaying transit system. The accident occurred less than 14 hours after the basic transit fare was boosted to 75 cents. The motorman of the Manhattan-bound No. 2 train that ran through the lights was pinned in the wreckage for about three hours after the accident and was pronounced dead when he was removed by emergency service personnel. Authorities said they did not know whether the motorman, who was identified as Jessie Cole, 36, died on impact or while rescuers tried to extricate him. Cole began as a conductor in 1970 and became a motorman in 1971, according to the Transit Authority. Simpson said the lights were under repair Friday and went out completely five minutes before the accident, which occurred at 1:50 p.m. He said the second train apparently went through a failed signal without making a radio check and rammed into the first train at about 10 miles an hour. "It would appear to be human error," Simpson said. But he acknowledged the failure of the signal lights provoked the mishap. An estimated 1,000 passengers were aboard the two trains. The city's Emergency Medical Service said about 100 people were injured, with 60 taken to three hospitals and about 40 treated at the scene. Two of the hospitalized passengers were unconscious and more than a dozen were taken out on stretchers, but hospitals later reported no critical injuries. The accident occurred outside the Utica Avenue station, when one No. 2 train ran into another. Both trains were Manhattan-bound, according to transit police. Police said service on the No. 2 line was terminated at Atlantic Avenue during the rescue efforts. The crash occurred the same day the basic fare was raised from 60 cents to 75 cents. Transit officials have said a second fare increase, to $1, may be necessary. 2 die in derailment TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) -- A freight train hit a bridge washed out by a flash flood Friday and two locomotives plunged into 25 feet of water, killing two crewmen. The accident, which occurred about 15 miles east of Trinidad, claimed the lives of the engineer and head rigman, said Joseph Reyes, a Colorado & Southern spokesman. Eugene flier, 4 others perish in Alaska crash ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- An Air Force team flew Tuesday to a remote landing strip in the Aleutian Islands to determine what caused the crash of a Strategic Air Command reconnaissance plane with a crew of 24 aboard. Five airmen were killed and a sixth was missing and presumed dead in the crash Monday, said Lt. Col. Floyd McKee, director of public affairs for the Alaska Air Command. The RC-135, a military version of a Boeing 707, crashed while landing on Shemya Island, 500 miles east of Siberia, after a five-hour flight that began at an Air Force base near Fairbanks. Killed in the crash were: Maj. William R. Bennett, 36, Eugene, Ore.; 1st Lt. Loren O. Ginter, 28, Collins, Mo.; Capt. Larry A. Mayfield, 34, Knoxville, Tenn.; Master Sgt. Steven L. Kish, 37, Williamsport, Pa.; and Staff Sgt. Harry L. Parsons III, 24, Chula Vista, Calif. Officially listed as missing but presumed killed was Staff Sgt. Steven C. Balcer, 24, Addison, Ill., an Air Force spokesman said. The 18 survivors, six of them seriously injured, were transported 1,400 miles to a hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage. The six were listed in serious but stable condition with injuries that included burns, severe bruises, a broken leg and fractured ribs, said McKee. "The airplane is down on a runway and it burned in an extremely hard fire," said McKee. Investigators from March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif., were sent to try to determine the cause. The RC-135 was outfitted as a "high-altitude collection platform used for worldwide strategic reconnaissance," the Air Force said. It began its flight at Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks. Wind rips into fiery east Texas By United Press International High wind that preceded the season's first tornadoes in the Southwest moved Wednesday into the tinder-dry region of east Texas, already charred by wildfires burning out of control. Winds and tornadoes Tuesday raked New Mexico and Texas, flipping mobile homes and bringing traffic to a standstill. There were no serious injuries. A funnel cloud was reported near Wichita, Kan., and thunderstorms gathered over Kansas and Oklahoma. Strong wind that whipped fires out of control in seven Southern states for the last four days subsided Wednesday, and forecasters said there was a chance of rain in some areas. But a Texas Forest Service spokesman predicted that Wednesday would be the worst day for fires in east Texas in a long time. Fires powered by 20 mph wind gusts already have charred 600 acres. The spokesman said 54 fires were reported Tuesday and some continued unchecked. Thousands of acres have been blackened from Florida to the Carolinas, routing residents from their homes and ruining millions of dollars worth of timber. In west and north Texas, two injuries were reported in tornadoes and high wind that toppled barns, clipped trailer homes and tore down power lines. In Gainesville, two men suffered minor injuries when wind gusting to 65 mph toppled a tree onto their vehicle. Severe thunderstorms drenched much of west and north Texas. Several tornadoes were reported in Denton County. Another tornado was spotted on the ground at Josephine, Texas, knocking down a barn, and authorities said other buildings were damaged by wind clocked at 50 to 60 mph. === Page 89 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Short circuit stops Trojan temporarily Oreg 4/21/81 The Trojan nuclear plant shut down for more than seven hours Monday and an electrician suffered first- and second-degree burns when a short circuit flared in the plant's electrical system that controls water supply to the steam-powered generators. The plant's reactor core was not involved in the accident, and no release of radioactivity was reported. Harald Johnsen, 37, of Longview, Wash., a Portland General Electric Co. electrician, was listed in stable condition with burns to the face and hands at St. John's Hospital in Longview, across the Columbia River from the 1,100-megawatt power plant. He was being kept overnight for observation, according to a nursing supervisor. Johnsen was working on an electrical circuit breaker to a service water booster pump in the plant's turbine building when the short occurred in the breaker, PGE officials reported. The booster pump helps raise the pressure of cooling water for various room coolers, emergency diesel units and auxiliary cooling units. The electrical mishap occurred at 8:54 a.m. when the plant was operating at about 88 percent of capacity. The plant went back on line at 4:10 p.m., gradually bringing capacity up to 40 percent. "The plant will hold at that capacity level for 24 hours, at which time conditions will be evaluated," said Dave Eagon, a PGE public information officer. Eagon noted that since April 13, plant operators had been decreasing its power capacity by about 1 percent daily to prepare for a complete shutdown May 1 for annual refueling and maintenance. That shutdown normally would last about 65 days, he said. It was not known yet how the Monday accident might affect the refueling and maintenance schedule, Eagon said. He added that PGE was studying the exact cause of the short circuit to determine if it was a mechanical failure or worker error. The short circuit caused the valves, which control the flow of water to the plant's four steam generators, to fail to properly control that flow of water, company officials said. When the water level in the generators then fell below a set minimum, control rods were automatically dropped in the reactor core, effectively shutting the plant down, PGE officials added. The generators produce the steam to turn the four power turbines at the plant. "The plant shut down exactly as it was designed to do," Bruce Landrey, another PGE public information officer, said. Landrey said the damaged circuit breaker was to an auxiliary water booster pump that was not in use at the time of the accident. He said the short circuit caused damage to the surrounding electrical system. Officials with the state Department of Energy who monitor the plant reported that Johnsen was using an electrical meter when the short circuit occurred. Jim Hanchett, a public affairs officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's regional office in Walnut Creek, Calif., said two NRC resident inspectors were assessing the company's response to the accident and that primary investigation of the accident would be done by PGE. "Right now, we don't have any problems with the way they are responding and following up," he said. He said electrical malfunctions are probably one of the primary causes of unscheduled nuclear reactor shutdowns across the country. If the malfunction was caused by workman's error, Hanchett said he would expect the company to "take some procedural steps to make sure the error is not repeated." - 6 Projects PK - # N reactor starts, stops RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The start-up of Hanford's N reactor was interrupted late Saturday due to the apparent malfunction of an oil pump on one of the reactor's drive turbines, officials say. The reactor was initially shut down March 31, when technicians had to replace malfunctioning components in a flow meter on one of the reactor's 1,003 process tubes. The start-up will be resumed, spokesmen said, when the nature of the malfunction is officially determined and the necessary corrections are made. The dual-purpose reactor produces plutonium and steam for electricity. It is operated for the Department of Energy by UNC Nuclear Industries. Oreg 4/5/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Southern forests in flames By United Press International Tired firefighters and forestry officials Thursday hoped that lingering rainshowers would turn to downpours to extinguish raging fires that have blackened thousands of acres of Southern timberland. An epidemic of fires has erupted from North Carolina to Texas in recent weeks, fed by high winds and dry conditions dating back to the drought of last summer. Arson, however, was blamed on fires in Texas and the Carolinas. Rainstorms Wednesday doused many of the blazes, but officials said a heavy soaking is needed to eliminate the fire threat. Oreg 3/19/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Soviet east flooded MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan has had as much rain in two days as sometimes falls in a whole year, and floods have killed three people and injured several, the government newspaper Izvestia said Friday. Izvestia did not say how many inches of rain fell, but said the flooding had washed away much acreage of planted cotton and caused unspecified property damage. The Soviet press also reported that an unseasonably late snowfall in the southern Soviet republics of Armenia and Turkmen damaged fruit trees already in bloom. Oreg 4/4/81 === Page 90 of 128 -6 Projects PK- # Killer tornado saws through Tulsa Drought disaster declared -6 Projects PK- TULSA, Okla. (UPI) - A tornado ripped through southeast Tulsa and its nearby suburbs Sunday night, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others - some in a church - and destroying dozens of houses and mobile homes. Four other bodies were found earlier and officials said all the victims came from a small mobile home park in Bixby that was wiped out by the twister which apparently touched down at least four times late Sunday. Killed were Zeak Taylor, 69, of Broken Arrow, who was visiting his daughter at the mobile home park; Michael McCaslin, 28; his wife Charlotte, 27; their daughter Tonya, 10, and their son Chris, 6. The Highway Patrol said 10 people were admitted to hospitals and dozens of others received less serious injuries. "They were flying people out of here so fast we really couldn't keep track. We lost all our power and everything, so it really made it rough," a Bixby police dispatcher said. The power was restored Monday. Public Service Co. of Oklahoma said 5,800 homes were without power for a time. Property damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Tulsa police blocked off a strip 1 mile wide and 2 miles long in an industrial section of south Tulsa and officials in Bixby also barricaded an area to prevent looting. The storm sent a cover over an apartment complex parking lot in Tulsa crashing onto cars. At least 56 people were injured and dozens of houses and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed as the tornado smashed through southeast Tulsa County, authorities said. A number of the injured were rushed by emergency helicopter to Tulsa's St. Francis Hospital. Hospital officials said of the injured, 46 people were treated at hospitals. Three people were listed in St. Francis in critical condition and and five others were in serious condition. Most of the injuries involved lacerations and fractures, authorities said. Witnesses said the tornado hurled a telephone pole through a pick-up truck. The Red Cross opened up a shelter in a Tulsa elementary school for people left homeless. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Bob Graham declared a disaster emergency Monday in parched Southeast Florida, freeing up to $100,000 in state money for a cloud-seeding project aimed at replenishing shrunken Lake Okeechobee. Florida has received only 2.5 inches of precipitation in this year's "rainy season," a far cry from the average 16 inches, according to Jack Maloy, South Florida Water Management district director. "We still don't seem able to break the back of this drought," Maloy told Graham. # Etna's lava oozing toward city, river CATANIA, Sicily (AP) - Molten lava streaming from Mount Etna threatened to engulf a nearby town of 12,000 people Wednesday and to cut the flow of water to a power station. The lava, which split from two to three streams Wednesday, is moving toward the Alcantara River, which meanders through the town of Randazzo. One of the streams stopped within half a mile of Randazzo, 25 miles north of Catania and perched on the northern slope of Europe's tallest and most active volcano. The lava cut two railway lines and has destroyed vineyards, woodlands and vacation homes in its path. No casualties had been reported. If the lava reaches the river, which provides hydroelectric power and irrigation to eastern Sicily, it could disrupt the water flow enough to cut the input to the power station. Professor Mario Cosentini of the Catania International Vulcanology Institute said the lava flow has slowed considerably. "If it keeps up its present pace the third stream may reach the river sometime overnight," Cosentini said. "The situation is fluid and unpredictable, but there seems to be no immediate danger to the people." Hundreds of soldiers and paramilitary police were standing by for possible evacuation of the town where some people fled their homes during the night, returning at daybreak. Experts continued helicopter flights over the volcano to check the situation. The volcano began showing signs of restlessness in late February with a series of minor eruptions. Numerous tremors jolted the area Monday and Tuesday, followed by a violent eruption early Wednesday. A spectacular explosion in 1979 killed nine tourists during the volcano's strongest eruption in 24 years. Since then the upper rim of the two mile high volcano has been closed to tourists. === Page 91 of 128 - 2150 6 Projects - # Giant sinkhole threatens town WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- A giant sinkhole gulped down a house, six expensive imported cars and part of a car lot Saturday in this central Florida town and was nibbling at other buildings and a municipal swimming pool. "It started last night, and it started growing really fast this morning," a police dispatcher said Saturday afternoon. "When I was out there about an hour ago, it was at least two city blocks wide. You couldn't get close enough to the edge to see the bottom." Observers said the sinkhole, which severed water and power lines for a few hours, was as much as 1,000 feet wide and 170 feet deep at 5:30 p.m. and was still growing a few inches an hour. Sinkholes, common in much of Florida, often result when underground water tables are lowered, allowing soil to dry out and shrink. They also may form when water dissolves limestone layers. Residents and owners of homes and businesses near the sinkhole, warned to leave until it stopped growing, hastily rented trucks and began moving furniture and inventories. The engulfed house was described as a small, wood-frame cottage. For most of the afternoon it was mostly intact, resting at a slant inside the hole, but later in the day it slipped from sight. - 6 Projects PK - # Florida fires still burning MIAMI (AP) -- Fires in southern Florida that have scorched nearly 100,000 acres of grasslands in and around the Everglades spread further Wednesday. Weather forecasters said no rain was in sight. "We need a good rain, 2 or 3 inches," said dispatcher Peter Karayeanes of the state Forestry Division in Dade and Monroe counties. But forecaster Allen Cummings of the National Weather Service in Miami said no relief was expected. org 4/9/81 Mysterious hole in Winter Park, Fla., is devouring town. The cars, all said to be expensive Porsches, were from a car lot on one side of the sinkhole, the Orlando Sentinel Star reported. City and utility crews worked to reroute severed water, telephone and power lines and police kept curious spectators from getting too close to the edge. By evening, the hole had eaten away the dirt around the swimming pool and it looked "like it's going to go," said Barbara Nuff of the Winter Park police. The backs of several businesses also began to fall into the pit, she said. The hole also ate a camping vehicle. org J 5/10/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Hundreds of fires rage across forests in South By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Wildfires by the hundreds crackled through tens of thousands of acres of woods and brushland of the South on Monday, fueled by blustery storm winds and unchecked by a sprinkling of rain. The fires, many of them deliberately set, have killed one man, injured several firefighters, and razed several buildings in a renewed outbreak that began over the weekend in Alabama, Florida, the Carolinas and the Virginias. In Alabama, where 5,488 fires so far this year have charred about 210 square miles -- more than was claimed all of last year -- 47 of the state's 67 counties were under a fire alert, including three added Monday. More than $5.7 million in timber already had gone up in smoke, officials said. Cynthia Page, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Forestry Commission, said thunderstorms which moved into parts of the state Sunday night did more harm than good with inconsequential rains and high winds "drying out the land that much faster and spreading the fires that were already burning." She said 201 fires covering 19,828 acres were still burning Monday. A home and a church were among several buildings destroyed. In the Florida Panhandle, a fast-moving fire had burned about 6,000 acres of prime pineland about 10 miles south of Bronson in Levy County and was still out of control late Monday afternoon in what officials called one of the most damaging fires in an already severe season. "It has got miles of dry woods ahead of it and the wind is blowing it fast," said District Forester Marvin Mills of Ocala. Winds gusting to 50 mph Monday uprooted trees in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and also fanned the fires that had claimed about 6,500 acres since the weekend. Tom Hegele of the North Carolina Forest Service said that of the 229 fires reported since Sunday more than a third were deliberately set. "I imagine it could be as high as 35 percent," Hegele said. "Arson appears to be higher than what we normally have." By Monday afternoon, Hegele said 36 fires, which blackened 580 acres, had been contained. - 6 Projects PK - # Twisters, hail wreak havoc over Midwest By United Press International More than 80 mph wind and blustery thunderstorms streaked across the Plains states into the Midwest Saturday, spawning hail and tornadoes and forcing a jetliner to make an emergency landing. At least three people were killed Friday and up to 30 homes were destroyed when a tornado touched down in West Bend, Wis. The twister lifted two railroad cars off the tracks and triggered power outages in the West Bend area. Another tornado in Oshkosh, Wis., blew off a 40-foot section of wall at a manufacturing plant south of Oshkosh. A 2-year-old boy was killed Friday when a series of tornadoes ripped through Iowa. Warren County officials said Gayle David Kennedy, of Sandyville, was being carried by his mother from their mobile home when high winds toppled a tree. A sheriff's deputy said the tree "landed on the kid's head." Thunderstorm and tornado warnings were posted over the Mississippi Valley Saturday. Winds up to 87 mph Friday in northern and central Illinois forced a United Airlines DC-10 to make an unscheduled stop at O'Hare International Airport. At least five people were seriously injured and 25 to 35 suffered minor injuries when the aircraft hit severe turbulence during a flight from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J. org 4/5/81 === Page 92 of 128 In Japan 4-26-81 Columbia - UFOs & Projects - # N-firm admits mishaps - World & Projects PK - TOKYO (AP) -- The Japan Atomic Power Co., under fire for covering up a major radioactive waste overflow last month, disclosed Saturday that 45 workers were exposed to radioactive waste in another unreported accident at the same plant in January. Power company officials said radioactive materials dripped out of three holes in piping connecting waste-water condensing tanks Jan. 19 and 21 at the Tsuruga plant 192 miles west of Tokyo. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which has been investigating plant operations since it was disclosed recently that 16 tons of radioactive waste water spilled out of a tank in a March 8 accident, said the January leak was small and confined to the tank room. Ministry officials said the 45 workmen involved in repairing the piping and cleaning up the waste were exposed to a maximum of 92 millirems -- a measure of radiation -- and an average of 55 millirems per day. The power company safety standard allows exposure of 100 millirems a day. Officials of the Tokyo-based power company said the leak was not reported because it was minor and occurred when the plant was closed for a periodic safety check. But ministry officials, who were said to be "chagrined" by the latest in a series of revelations of slipshod operations at the Tsuruga plant, ordered an immediate investigation into the leak. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a major daily newspaper, also reported that the radioactivity of the glutinous waste material was so high that work to fill up the holes had to be carried out with workers rotating every five seconds. It was the fourth accident this year that Tsuruga plant officials failed to report to the government in what has become a major scandal in this nuclear-sensitive nation. The plant was closed on April 1 when a worker disclosed that cracks in a cooling water tank on Jan. 24 had allowed the release of small quantities of radioactive materials. It then was revealed there had been a similar mishap Jan. 10. The company had failed to report these two incidents at the time and they did not become evident until a major spill, the third incident unreported by the company, was revealed a month after it occurred. After it was found that seaweed near the plant recorded levels of radioactivity 10 times normal, plant officials disclosed that on March 8 a worker forgot to shut off a valve and 16 tons of radioactive sludge poured out of a storage tank, with some seeping into the sewage system running to the sea. A total of 56 workers were engaged in cleaning up the spill, some using buckets and mops, but the company has denied that any worker was exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity. Newspapers reported that Koichi Takagi, mayor of Tsuruga City, a port town of 63,000 eight miles from the power plant, said that with the series of accidents "we can no longer trust the government. Every nuclear power plant in Japan should suspend operations for comprehensive checks." Japan has 22 operating nuclear reactors, supplying 12 percent of the nation's electricity needs. # Drought Areas of the World June '81 Oreg J - UFOs & Projects - Associated Press map PROBLEM AREAS -- Droughts (dark areas) throughout world are reported the severest of recent years. === Page 93 of 128 - Bermuda $\Delta$ Attack - # Agent Orange cleanup complex By MIKE HENDRICKS oreg 3/16/81 BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) - This city's tallest building, centerpiece of a modern, multi-million-dollar downtown government complex, is a landmark of the chemical age, an empty monolith filled with deadly dioxins. What started out as a routine electrical fire in the State Office Building on Feb. 5 eventually released some of the most toxic chemicals on Earth throughout the interior of the 18-story structure. Only a few people wearing protective garb and respirators are allowed inside. The 725 state employees, separated from their offices and files, are working elsewhere while officials try to figure how to make the building safe again. Officials who initially approved a routine cleanup, and called it off when the gravity of the situation was realized, are awaiting advice from a panel of international experts. Those who once thought the cost of the cleanup would run into the thousands of dollars are talking about millions of dollars. More than $1 million was spent on the aborted cleanup attempt. What happened in the building Feb. 5 apparently has never happened before in this country, but authorities say it could happen again in most of the nation's large office buildings. Binghamton Fire Chief Ed Faughnan says his investigators have not completed their study of the fire, but they do know that more than 180 gallons of coolant laden with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs, leaked out of the building's electrical transformer into the fire. The intense heat and oxygen combined with the PCBs to produce an even more deadly poison, dioxin, the same form of dioxin found in Agent Orange, widely used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Lawsuits by veterans in America blame Agent Orange for a host of physical ailments and birth defects. The poisons spread through the building, coating ventilation shafts, desks, drapes and restroom facilities with what appears to be a layer of black soot. In the early cleanup, contaminated water from toilets inside the building was flushed into the city's sewer system. The severity of the situation was not immediately understood. The deadliest chemicals were not discovered until eight days after the fire, after several workers had walked through contaminated areas without protection. "We've been trying to comprehend the magnitude of this incredible, astounding incident, which, quite frankly, none of us could believe was happening for the first time anywhere right here in quiet Binghamton," said Dr. Arnold Schecter, the Broome County health director. Schecter, who is a professor of preventive medicine at the state university's medical school here, walked through a contaminated area in his street clothes. He doesn't mince words when discussing the seriousness of the problem. "We now have a new environmental hazard to live with," he said in a recent interview. "We have a unique event here that could only happen in the 'chemical age.' Nothing quite like this has ever happened before, not in an office building this way, not in a city. What happened here had happened only in the laboratory. "The question that is raised by all this is: Do we have this health hazard in most office buildings across the country?" Transformers using coolant containing PCBs are common throughout the country, Schecter said. In 1979, after a similar, but less extensive, incident in Toronto, the Canadian government banned such transformers. The Binghamton fire and explosion came at 5:30 a.m., Schecter said. "If this had happened at 9 a.m. in a building like the World Trade Center (in Manhattan), there would have been a lot of dead people, and a lot of people whose health would have to be monitored the rest of their lives, and a lot of babies with health problems. There would be chaos," Schecter said. Still, as many as 500 people were exposed to the dangerous chemicals, including one pregnant woman who worked in an office in City Hall that shared a common cleanup workers who unknowingly tracked dioxins in with them, Schecter said. "We're faced with a problem we don't know much about," he said. "We don't know much about the medical consequences or exposure to low level PCBs and dioxins." The chemicals contaminating the building have been linked to cancer, are known to attack the liver and nervous system, cause fetal damage, and remain in the human body, he said. Two workers involved in the initial cleanup say they will sue the state, contending they were not informed of the dangers they faced. The reactions of state officials have ranged from alarm to attempts at humor. Gov. Hugh Carey, for example, offered to drink a glass of PCBs and clean the building with a vacuum cleaner. The remarks caused a small furor in Binghamton, and the governor later backed off, saying he had only meant to warn New Yorkers of what he called overreaction to the contamination. Schecter said that a glassful of the toxins in the building would kill Carey. "It's Agent Orange, essentially, not just PCBs in that building. They're all bad," he said. "Depending on the governor's system, he would be dead within a few minutes or hours." - UFOs 6 Projects - # New Orleans power restored after outage NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A power failure left more than a quarter-million homes and businesses without electricity for hours in humid, 96-degree heat Saturday, and utility officials said the cause of the outage might take days to trace. No emergencies or serious problems were reported from the blackout within a circle encompassing Covington and Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. The problem at first was blamed on a tree entangled with a power line leaving the Little Gypsy power plant at Norco, just west of New Orleans. But officials later ruled that out. Spokesmen for three power companies said power, which was interrupted at 4 p.m., was restored by 7:45 p.m. to almost all of the affected customers. The blackout came to an area that thrives on air conditioning at the hottest and most humid time of year. Not only air conditioners went out when the power failed. So did traffic lights, trolleys, radio stations and computers serving telephone circuits and other electronic systems. Hospitals and other emergency services immediately went to backup generators. Some people were trapped in elevators between floors at the downtown Hilton Hotel but were rescued quickly, police said, and the New Orleans Police Department computer bombed briefly, but no serious disruptions were reported. Those affected included about 180,000 of 200,000 customers of New Orleans Public Service Inc. in the city, another 100,000 or more people served by Louisiana Power & Light Co. in New Orleans' eastern and western suburbs, and some of the 40,000 others served by Central Louisiana Electric Co. in St. Tammany Parish. oreg 7/19/81 === Page 94 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Missouri readies for heat By United Press International A band of thunderstorms rumbled from the Plains into southern New England, threatening low-lying areas with more flooding Friday, and Missouri officials braced for a "lion in summer" heat wave. The 30-day National Weather Service forecast for July predicts peak daytime temperatures in Missouri to range between 87 and 97 degrees. Even though forecasters said the range is only 3 degrees above the normal high, state officials are bracing for what they call "the lion in summer." "A heat wave acts like a lion going through a pack of antelopes," said Hugh Mooney of the city's Health Division. "It picks off the weak ones." A year ago this week record-high temperatures were blamed for killing the sick and elderly people in St. Louis. When the heat abated in August, more than 100 people had died. Scattered thundershowers fell in southwestern Texas and southern New Mexico. In Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, more than 2 inches fell and about an inch hit in Lafayette, La. Another set of thunderstorms stretched over much of the East, from the lower Mississippi Valley to New York. Isolated thunderstorms in the South prompted a tornado in Florida. A twister reportedly touched down about 4 miles west of Carol City. No injuries or damages were reported. Flash flood watches were posted Thursday night and early Friday for southwestern Nebraska, western Maryland, northwestern Virginia and eastern Colorado. Torrential rains spawned flash floods in the southern Nebraska Panhandle. Albin, Neb., got 9 inches of rain. Up to 4 feet of water swamped a section along U.S. 30 near Bushnell, Neb. "There were some cars in it, but everyone got out all right," a Kimball County sheriff's dispatcher said. "Water is over the highway in that whole area." But the rain brought no improvement to moisture-short eastern Nebraska. The storm hit as crop experts announced a drought, freeze and plagues of insects had already cost Nebraska winter wheat growers more than $100 million in lost yields. About 2 inches of rain fell in Broken Bow, Neb. and more than an inch soaked Ainsworth, Neb. Heavy rain and flooding brought agricultural losses in Indiana to more than $1.2 billion - twice the amount originally estimated. Gov. Robert D. Orr announced the estimate Thursday, saying damages were equal to nearly one-third the total value of the state's average annual crop. Intense rains swept much of the East and the Southeast. Nearly 3 inches of rain fell at Pinson, Ala. And 2 inches of rain fell on the Birmingham, Ala., area in a few hours, flooding streets northeast of the city. Macomb, Miss., got an inch and a half of rain. Heavy rains also were reported in parts of Georgia and Pennsylvania, but there were no reports of flooding or storm damage. Another round of record cool settled over northern Florida, with temperatures in the 60s. But warm, humid weather hugged much of the rest of the South. Fair skies and balmy temperatures were the rule in the West. Oreg J 7/3/81 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1981 - 6 Projects PK - # Officials probe elevator fires By The Associated Press Oreg 4/9/81 Fire officials in Texas and Nebraska Wednesday began investigating explosions at two grain elevators that killed at least five people. The town of Bellwood, Neb., was evacuated because of fears that the weakened elevator would collapse on homes and businesses. "It looks like she's going to fall," Sheriff Leo Meister said of the Farmers Co-Op grain elevator in Bellwood, a town of 360 residents. A man was killed and two people critically injured Tuesday when the elevator exploded in a shower of tons of grain and concrete. Later in the day, firefighters began the dangerous task of draining two 29,000-gallon propane tanks located underneath the structure. In Corpus Christi, Texas, grain dust explosions and fires ripped the sides and tops off the Corpus Christi Public Grain Elevator's towering grain silos Tuesday. Four people died and 32 were injured. Two people were missing Wednesday. In the Gulf Coast city, workers on bulldozers and a huge crane removed huge chunks of concrete and tangled metal supports, glass and rubbish from the damaged silos. the elevator when it exploded. It can hold 5.6 million bushels. Firefighters on a huge crane doused several small fires still burning on the catwalk of the elevator tower and in the damaged silos, said E.E. Irwin, acting fire chief. Fires smoldered overnight on the roof and on a conveyor belt but had not reached the grain in the silos, Irwin said. Many of the damaged silos were empty or half full when the explosion occurred, he said. The crane also was used in the search for the missing. "That's the only way we'll get them out," Irwin said. "That structure just can't hold people. There are no floors left." - UFOs & Projects - # Floods claim 3,000 in China By PHIL BROWN Oreg 7/18/81 PEKING (AP) - Floods from a three-day downpour roared through China's most populous province, leaving 3,000 people dead, 50,000 injured and 400,000 homeless, officials said Friday. Houses crumbled, bridges collapsed and survivors were chased to high ground by the province's worst floods in 76 years, Sichuan provincial authorities said. By Friday, rescuers had saved all of the 300,000 stranded people, flooding abated, power was restored and most of the 650 affected enterprises resumed production, but river boat traffic was still suspended, authorities said. Water began receding as runoff poured into the mighty Yangtze River after more than 18 inches of rain fell in the southwest Chinese province between Sunday and Tuesday. "The major concern of the government is the 400,000 homeless masses who need the government to provide them with food and clothing and to help rehabilitate their production," said one provincial official. Sichuan's floods are the world's deadliest since October 1960, when 6,000 people died in one flood in Bangladesh and 4,000 in another. Losses have not been calculated, but more than 2 million acres of farmland were reported flooded and two-thirds of the crops ruined in the province, which has one-tenth of China's 1 billion people. === Page 95 of 128 Greg P. March 30, 1981 # Storms lash Midwest By United Press International Thunderstorms lashed the nation's mid-section, sending a tornado churning through Illinois farm country, and heavy rain drenched portions of the South Monday. A tornado touched down at Prophetstown, Ill., Sunday, and golfball-size hail pelted Buffalo Lake, Minn. High winds raked across Iowa. Property damage totaling thousands of dollars was reported in Illinois and Iowa, but there were no injuries. High winds swept westward into the Sierra Nevada and the northeastern foothills of Colorado. Wind gusts reached 50 mph at Boise, Idaho, Sunday and nearly 90 mph at Twin Falls, Idaho. Downpours stretched from the Mississippi Delta through the Ohio Valley Monday, bringing badly needed rain to parts of the midlands. Meridian, Miss., reported nearly 3 inches of rain late Sunday, Columbus, Miss., had more than 2 inches and 1 1/2 inches fell at Huntsville, Ala. Winds gusting to 55 mph lashed Gulfport, Miss. An inch of rain soaked most areas of Tennessee. More than half an inch of rain fell at Evansville, Ind., but officials, worried about the danger of fires in the state, hoped for even more moisture. Indiana forestry officials, coping with drought-like conditions, said Sunday two blazes during the week destroyed 350 acres. The tornado in western Illinois wiped out power in the Prophetstown area. "I was so scared I couldn't see straight," said Mary Gluff, a Prophetstown police spokeswoman. - 2R0s 6 Projects - # 3 fires rage in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Three major fires continued to rage out of control Monday in Utah, burning more than 72,000 acres, but the high winds and lightning that hampered weekend firefighting efforts died down. "The weather has definitely changed in our favor," said Melody Fairbourne, public information officer for the Interagency Fire Center in Salt Lake City. However, fire officials could not predict Monday when the blazes would be contained. The fires began Friday and Saturday when lightning ignited juniper, cheat grass and sagebrush near City in western Utah and at Promontory Point at the north end of the Great Salt Lake. Greg 7/28/81 TWISTER'S WRECKAGE -- A tornado whipped through the small south Alabama town of Hurtsboro Wednesday and virtually no structure escaped damage. The death toll was put at two with a score injured. - 6 Projects PR - # Tornado devastates Alabama town By SCOTT SHEPARD HURTSBORO, Ala. (AP) -- A tornado swept away shanty homes and splintered wood-frame dwellings in this Alabama hamlet Wednesday, roaring through with a force that "blew the town away." Officials said two people died, a score were injured and at least 160 were left homeless. Virtually no structure escaped damage, as the twister demolished walls, ripped off roofs, and wrecked homes and commerical buildings for about a half-mile on either side of the main thoroughfare through town. It leveled dozens of buildings in commercial and residential blocks, and left the town of 750 residents without water, power or communications. Eight people were hospitalized with injuries and 15 others were treated at hospitals and released, said State Civil Defense spokesman John H. Lewis. Lewis said 25 homes were completely destroyed, 12 were seriously damaged and 26 were moderately damaged, with some 160 residents either left homeless or forced to live with relatives or friends until repairs are made. Red Cross workers said a door-to-door check turned up only 20 people totally without shelter Wednesday night. "It literally blew the town away," said Russell County Sheriff Prentis Griffith of the twister, which struck at about 3 a.m. Sixteen Alabama National Guardsmen were sent to handle traffic control, said Civil Defense duty officer Richard Cartwright. Cartwright said that initially about 300 people sought shelter at a Red Cross aid station in the United Methodist Church. Lewis said water was being trucked in by the National Guard and that officials hoped the water system would be operational again Thursday. Alabama Power Co. officials said they hoped power could be restored by the end of the week. But they said perhaps 50 percent of the buildings couldn't accept power because of damages. Many of the homeless were poor people who live in wood-frame or shanty homes, officials said, adding residents of more expensive, sturdier dwellings also were forced out by the tornado. Greg 4/2/81 - 2R0s 6 Projects - # Rocket payload lost at sea TOKYO (AP) -- The instrument payload from a Japanese experimental rocket plummeted into the Pacific Ocean Sunday when a parachute failed to open, Japanese space agency officials said. Officials of Japan's National Space Development Agency sent search teams looking for the rocket nose cone containing the payload, but said the chances of recovery were "remote," the Kyodo news agency said. An NSDA announcement said officials were investigating the mishap. The 2.4-ton rocket was launched Sunday morning from Tanegashima Island in southwestern Japan to study whether high-quality semiconductors can be manufactured in the weightlessness of space, a space center official said. Greg 8/3/81 === Page 96 of 128 Blaze injures 16 in Las Vegas hotel BY PATRICK ARNOLD LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- A fire confined to a luxury suite on the fifth floor of Caesars Palace hotel-casino injured 16 people Wednesday and forced hundreds to flee the hotel's 12-story central tower, authorities said. It was the third sizable hotel fire in the gambling resort city in less than five months. Smoke poured from fifth-floor windows, and breaking glass showered the ground as people raced out to the parking lot behind the luxury hotel. Fleeing guests and hotel employees made their way past gamblers, who continued to play blackjack, roll dice and pull slot machine handles in the casino despite a strong smell of smoke, after the fire erupted at 10:05 a.m. Coincidentally, a convention of burglar and fire alarm companies is being held at Caesars Palace this week. "You'd never think you'd find yourself in the middle of a casino with a nightgown on," said hotel guest Helen Ginsburg of Denver. She and her husband, Morris, who were on the sixth floor just above the room that caught fire, said they reported the blaze to the hotel operator, then looked into the hallway and saw hotel maids pounding on doors to evacuate guests. "I was right across the hall when I heard the (smoke) alarms going off," said maid Linda Holmes. "When I got down by the pool I saw all the flames coming out the windows." Guests and employees later were allowed to return to all but the fifth floor of the hotel tower. The cause of the fire that erupted in a five-room suite was not known immediately, said Clark County Fire Capt. Ralph Dinsman. Nor was it known whether the suite was occupied. The blaze was in a portion of the 1,736-room hotel that had no sprinklers, but Caesars Palace is in the process of installing them in the area, Dinsman said. Fire alarms and smoke detectors in the area worked, he added. "We have 10 civilian injuries -- most of these are minor -- and six firefighters are injured. One is quite serious," Dinsman said. Fire Capt. Donald Warren suffered second-degree burns and was listed in satisfactory condition in the burn unit of Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Dinsman said he did not know how many of the injured were hotel guests. Caesars World, in a statement from Los Angeles, said none of the injured was a hotel guest but declined to identify any of them. The blaze broke out just across the street from the fire-ravaged MGM Grand Hotel, where a fire last fall killed 84 people. A fire Feb. 10 at the Las Vegas Hilton killed eight persons and injured 198. Firefighters encountered heavy smoke at Caesars Palace, and "when they opened the door of the suite they were met with intense heat," Dinsman said. He added: "This is the type of fire we have all the time at these hotels -- a one-room fire. But because of the smoke spread, it could have been minor or it could have been serious." Trojan, on 1 day, shuts off After less than 24 hours of operation, the Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier automatically shut down again at 7:40 a.m. Friday because of problems in a reactor cooling pump, Portland General Electric Co. reported. PGE spokesman Bill Babcock said the plant was operating at about 35 percent capacity when technicians noticed a high temperature reading for a bearing in one of the four big cooling pumps that circulate water in the reactor. The pump's oil level also was low. Crews were reducing power to examine the situation when the plant's control equipment "tripped" and shut it down automatically, Babcock said. PGE had intentionally shut down the installation May 1 for refueling and maintenance and did not restart the reactor until Thursday. It was taken up to 35 percent of its 1,130-megawatt capacity at the rate of about 3 percent per hour in preparation for some tests required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But then the automatic shutdown intervened. Babcock said Trojan may be inoperable "for a few days" while crews take care of the pump. The shutdown was not expected to affect power supply to PGE customers because streamflow in the Columbia River still was providing enough hydroelectric power to meet demand, he said. PGE had not anticipated taking the plant up to full power for at least another week, he said. Babcock said Friday's incident involved no release of radiation or radioactive material. Southeast ravaged by forest fires By The Associated Press Officials in the fire-ravaged Southeast have issued stern warnings to arsonists as this year's forest fires destroyed more than a half-million acres in three states, far surpassing the total damage from fires in 1980. Fires raged Saturday in thick pine timberland, brushland and marshes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Florida and Alabama despite bans on open-air burning. Officials blamed March winds sometimes gusting to 50 mph, lack of rainfall, tinderbox-dry debris from the 1979 hurricane Frederic and arson. At least six people have been arrested on arson charges in Florida, and officials said "several arrests" were possible in connection with fires on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. "Many of these fires are arson ... around half are deliberately set," said Paul Wills of the Florida Division of Forestry. "Some are set through bad motives and some through curiosity." Despite the widespread destruction of commercial timberland valued in the millions of dollars, an industry spokesman said the fires have had little impact on the lumber business because housing starts are down. More than 205,000 acres in Alabama have burned this year, topping 1980's total of 116,000 acres. While the northeast part of the state is under a fire alert, nine counties in the south have been declared drought areas. The declaration means penalties will be imposed against open-air burning in forests, grasslands, wild lands, marshes or trash. In Florida, where rainfall has been 12 to 18 inches below normal during the past six months, nearly 272,000 acres have been lost to fire in the first 2½ months of the year, said forestry spokesman Larry Amison. === Page 97 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # U.S. sub hits, sinks Japanese ship org J 4/10/81 TOKYO (UPI) -- A U.S. nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea, sinking the cargo ship and leaving 13 crewmen drifting in a rubber dinghy for 18 hours before their rescue by a Japanese destroyer, authorities said Friday. Two freighter crewmen are missing. The U.S. Navy said the USS George Washington, the first of the strategic Polaris missile subs, sliced into the engine room of the freighter Nissho Maru Thursday morning 110 miles southwest of Sasebo, Japan. The 2,350-ton freighter sank about 15 minutes later. The submarine, which was carrying Polaris missiles, sustained no damage to its nuclear plant or weapons systems, a U.S. Navy spokesman said. But a Pentagon spokesman said minor damage was done to the external area of the conning tower. None of the sub's crewmen were injured. The Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said two members of the freighter crew are missing. Thirteen survivors were found drifting 18 hours after the collision in a rubber dinghy 40 miles off the Japanese coast. Japanese officials said they did not know of the collision until Friday morning, nearly a day after the accident. The Japanese first received news of the freighter's sinking when the destroyer Akigumo picked up the survivors. The George Washington surfaced after the collision to offer assistance to the freighter, but "the vessel disappeared from sight due to poor visibility caused by fog and rain," a Navy statement said. U.S. aircraft operating with the submarine conducted a "low-level search of the area" after the crash but "sighted no vessels or personnel in distress," the Navy said. The submarine then submerged. The Navy refused to say where it went. "We do not discuss submarine locations," the spokesman said. The Navy statement, issued 36 hours after the accident, said American authorities "deeply regret this unfortunate incident" and that an investigation is under way. Asked why the accident was not reported immediately to Japanese authorities, a U.S. Embassy official said, "Such matters will be the subject of an investigation. "Further comments will not be appropriate at this time." Japanese officials quoted the survivors as saying they saw a black submarine surface at the rear of the ship after the collision and then dive out of sight. The George Washington was commissioned June 9, 1959, and was the West's first ship to be armed with ballistic missiles. The submarine has 16 tubes for Polaris missiles, but it was not immediately known whether it was carrying a full complement of the nuclear weapons. The sub is 381 feet long and has a normal complement of 140 crewmen -- 12 officers and 128 enlisted men. Japanese officials quoted the freighter's survivors as saying they saw a "star insignia bordered with a white line" painted on the submarine. Military experts noted that the area is one of the routes used by warships from the Soviet base at Vladivostok. The Soviet Union has 125 submarines, including 60 nuclear-powered craft, operating in the Far East, according to Western military figures. ![Map showing the collision area in the East China Sea between China, Korea, and Japan, near Kyushu and Vladivostok.] - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes strike BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- An estimated 7,000 residents of southeastern Louisiana were without electricity Saturday after tornadoes and high winds ripped off roofs and tore away power lines. No injuries were reported as three twisters and accompanying high winds and rains hopscotched through the area late Friday. The winds pulled the roofs from a country club at LaPlace and a bank at Walker. Gulf States Utilities reported Saturday that downed lines and other troubles stemming from the storms knocked out service to 5,800 customers in East Baton Rouge. Another 1,200 customers in other areas also were affected, said utility spokeswoman Priss Gallagher. One tornado was reported near Baton Rouge's Ryan Airport, but no damage was reported. Another tore a roof off a recent addition to the Belle Terre Country Club as 13 children and seven adults were sitting in the clubhouse. At the small Livingston Parish community of Walker, deputy sheriffs said a tornado touched down in the middle of town about 5 p.m., lifting the roof off the Livingston Savings Bank and scattering road signs. A sheriff's spokesman said the bank was closed when the twister hit. org 7/12/81 === Page 98 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # N-plant worker dies in plunge SATSOP, Wash. (AP) -- A Satsop nuclear power project worker fell 140 feet to his death Friday while working inside the WNP-5 reactor containment building, said Dale Dobson, Washington Public Power Supply System project manager. The victim was identified as Michael H. Critchley, 41, a boilermaker from Tacoma, said WPPSS spokesman Richard Romanelli. The man was welding on the containment building's steel shell for Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Dobson said. It was the third fatality at the project within a month. Two carpenters fell to their deaths March 9 while working on the WNP-5 cooling tower. Preliminary reports indicated the man had his safety belt tied to a hook that gave way when he leaned back to perform some welding, plunging him to the bottom of the containment vessel, Dobson said. However, Romanelli said later, "Our best information now is that Critchley was doing work that did not require him to be secured with a safety belt." Romanelli said other types of work at that elevation require workers to be secured. He said Critchley apparently was on scaffolding and put his weight on a steel cable-and-post system set up for protection. Somehow, it didn't support his weight and he fell, Romanelli said. Dobson said CB&I co-workers and other craftsmen walked off the job after the fatality in respect for the worker, not in protest. Ebasco Services Inc., the construction manager at Satsop, was flying corporate safety officials to the site to launch an investigation, Dobson said. A WPPSS safety team and CB&I investigators also will probe the accident, he said. Dobson said CB&I had logged 125,000 consecutive man hours without an accident before Friday's fatality. He said the company, which is fabricating and erecting steel walls inside the two reactor buildings, staged a party for its workers last month in celebration of the good safety record. - 6 Projects PK - # Spring storms leave 5 dead By The Associated Press Severe storms Thursday killed two people in Texas and tornadoes in southeastern Missouri left three dead and did about $10 million in property damage. In Texas, a young man was killed in an auto accident on a rain-slicked San Antonio street, officials said, and a man was killed in the crash of his small plane outside Houston. In Missouri, a 10-year-old girl died early Thursday of injuries suffered Wednesday night when a tornado leveled her South Prairie house. Other Missouri tornadoes flattened a bank in DeSoto, killing a bank officer, and an elderly man died of a heart attack after a twister damaged his home in Malden. There was one tornado reported in Texas Thursday, touching down in the Magnolia Gardens housing project in Beaumont. Heavy rains flooded streets and accompanying winds and lightning tore down trees and power lines, which started several house fires. There were no reports of injuries, and damage estimates were not immediately available. The Department of Public Safety also reported extensive damage to mobile homes in Sealy, where many people suffered minor injuries. An unidentified man died when a small plane crashed during a violent thunderstorm driven by 60-mph winds, police said. No damage or injuries were reported on the ground. In San Antonio, a 19-year-old man, who also was not identified, was killed when a car in which he was a passenger skidded on a wet street, struck another vehicle and slammed into a utility pole. The storm knocked windows out of several Houston buildings and downed power lines. Traffic was snarled by high water on freeways and streets. Scaffolding and a steel beam from the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower being built in downtown Houston apparently were blown loose by high winds and fell on top of the fifth floor of an annex to the Houston Chronicle building across the street. Projects PK - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1981 # Water leak shuts nuclear plant By MICHAEL HOLMES TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Leaking radioactive water has shut down the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, but no radiation escaped into the environment, utility officials said Tuesday. "There is no danger to employees or the public," said Roger Buehrer, spokesman for the Toledo Edison Co. He said the nuclear plant near Port Clinton was shut down Monday night and will not return to service for several weeks. The leak, located in a small tube in one of two steam generators, is less than a half gallon per minute. Although the water is radioactive, there is no danger of release of radiation in excess of Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards, Buehrer said. He said the word "leak" is almost misleading because the radioactive water is going "from one system to another." "It's not spilling onto the floor or going into the environment. It's in the system. It's being put back into a holding system." Buehrer said the leak began "almost imperceptibly several weeks ago." Toledo Edison officials decided to shut down for repairs now rather than later because electricity consumption in April usually is the lowest of the year. The company's coal-fired Bay Shore plant is expected to be back in service Sunday after six weeks of maintenance. === Page 99 of 128 # Computer failure - 6 Projects PK - # Columbia liftoff scrubbed by NASA By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Columbia, the grand hope of America's future in space, was grounded Friday for at least two days while specialists sought to find the snag in a computer program that halted the crucial, final count to lift-off on the space shuttle's trial flight. For six hours, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen were strapped into the Columbia cockpit, tilted skyward on top of 500,000 gallons of volatile fuel, waiting for the "go" command that never came. The $10-billion shuttle stood Earthbound when it should have soared. The nation, shut out of space flight for six years, had a little longer to wait. Computer trouble stopped Columbia. The countdown clock, which had been moving effortlessly to zero, stood still at 16 minutes. Instead of riding the first reflyable spaceship on its trial run, Young and Crippen crawled out of the hatch on their hands and knees, disappointment engraved on their weary faces. "It was just one of those things," Crippen said. "Y'all did real good," Young told his flight controllers. "We're sorry we didn't go." Experienced test pilots both, they didn't let the setback get them down. They talked with their families, ate dinner, and planned to be in bed by 4:30 p.m., just as they did to be rested for Friday's wake-up call. For Saturday, they scheduled two hours of flying, practicing emergency landings. Their next chance to fly the shuttle will come no earlier than Sunday morning - at 6:50 a.m. again - but officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had set no firm date. (On Portland television - if the launch proceeds - KGW plans to start live coverage Sunday starting at 3 a.m.; KATU and KOIN plan to start coverage at 3:30 a.m.) Hours after the flight was scrubbed, experts were still trying to find the hitch in a computer program that caused a backup computer to stop communicating with four primary computers. The computers control the spacecraft from liftoff to landing. Delays and postponements have always been part of the U.S. man-in-space program, and the shuttle has had more than its share. Its first flight comes two years and billions of dollars behind schedule. In the tense minutes between the launch target and the decision to scrub for the day, a Houston controller told the astronauts, "You have to excuse the delay, gentlemen; all the ducks weren't in a straight line." Said Young: "That's okay." The scrub came 3 1/2 hours after Columbia was to launch into the first of its 36 planned orbits. Later, when he followed Crippen out of the cockpit, Young plainly looked tired and discouraged. He managed only a wan half-smile. Crippen, too, as he crawled on his hands and knees out of the small opening, appeared weary. Both men had been described as eager to take the Columbia aloft and frustration showed on their faces. NASA experts isolated the problem in the program - or main set of instructions - fed into the five computers aboard the shuttle. But space center spokesman David Alter said, "That leaves 10 or 15 major test areas they still have to reach into." Another space center spokesman, Paul Bohn, said, "It could be a wrong letter or a wrong word in the program." "If we want to launch on Sunday, we'd have to have the problem well understood by late tomorrow," Neil Hutchinson, the launch team flight director at Houston, told reporters. "If we don't, it might be a while." "There are a lot of meetings going on, trying to understand the timing down to the millisecond," said Hutchinson. What was to have been the triumphant curtain-raiser on a new transportation system that would make up for America's absence in space, turned into a Friday morning fizzle. A half-million people endured miles-long lines of traffic and lost a night's sleep only to have to turn around and fight the same traffic going home again in sunny midday. Related story on Page A9. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Jumbo jet lands safely after losing all power THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981 By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - A United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 325 persons lost power in all four engines and dropped 13,000 feet Sunday, but each engine was restarted and the plane landed safely in Honolulu, federal and airline officials disclosed Wednesday. An investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board has interviewed the crew of the Boeing 747, but so far no reason has been found for the engine failure, said board spokesman Brad Dunbar. Each of the engines has been inspected and "found to be completely trouble-free," added FAA spokesman Fred Farrar. United officials said the airplane is back in service. They said that while the engines were out, the plane glided in a gradual descent and the passengers probably were not even aware of the problem. The incident over the Pacific Ocean about an hour east of Honolulu involved Flight 35, which was flying from Newark, N.J., to Honolulu with a stopover in San Francisco. Reports to the FAA and the safety board revealed that the Boeing 747's No. 1 engine stalled as the plane was cruising at 39,000 feet about 3:10 a.m. Honolulu time Sunday. Within seconds, the other three engines also flamed out. The crew attempted to use normal procedures for restarting engines during flight but were unsuccessful. The captain dipped the nose of the jetliner slightly to pick up speed and, using "ground-start" procedures, got the No. 1 engine started again, authorities said. A short time later, the other three engines were restarted. FAA and safety board officials could not say how long the engines were out. But United spokesman Charles Novak said in Chicago that the No. 1 engine was restarted "within seconds" and all three engines were running and stabilized in less than five minutes. The plane glided from an altitude of 39,000 feet to 26,000 feet while the engines were being restarted. Dunbar said the safety board would continue its investigation into the incident. He said the likelihood of all engines of an aircraft flaming out during flight is extremely rare and that in recent years he recalled only one other such incident, involving a jetliner flying off the Florida coast several years ago. === Page 100 of 128 - 6 Projects OK - # Shuttle shot put off 2 days Greg J 4/10/81 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- A puzzling problem in the space shuttle's vital electronic brains Friday forced a probable two-day delay in the launch of astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen on the first orbital test flight of the Columbia. Young and Crippen spent more than five hours lying uncomfortably on their backs in the shuttle's cockpit, only to learn that they will have to do it all over again. The problem concerned one of five computers in the revolutionary spaceship, the most advanced manned spaceship ever built. The pesky computer was unable to communicate with the other computers. The countdown came to within 9 minutes of blastoff at 6:50 a.m. when the computer problem developed. Hugh Harris, the launch control spokesman, said the earliest date the astronauts can take off on the shuttle's maiden test flight is 6:50 a.m. Sunday. The problem must be resolved before the ship can be cleared for takeoff. Crew fatigue was the overriding factor in the decision to call off Friday's launch try. After engineers in Houston reported "no joy" in an attempt to clear up the computer problem, launch director George Page and Richard Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center, made the "scrub" decision. The Columbia is the world's first reusable spaceship. Its launch has been set back more than 2½ years by a variety of technical problems. Friday's problems, however, were of the kind not unexpected on a new spacecraft during the final hours of the countdown to launch. It was apparent as the morning dragged on that the astronauts were getting tired of waiting. "How are you holding out up there?" Page asked the astronauts at one point. "Just laying here, you know," replied Young, the veteran flight commander who was strapped on his back in his spacecraft seat, a position doctors have said the crew could hold for no more than six hours. "Getting uncomfortable at all?" Page asked. "We're getting there, George," Young replied after a long pause. "We're getting there." The Columbia is the first manned spaceship to rely so heavily on computers to perform critical operations. There are four redundant main computers and then the backup which could take over to perform the most critical functions if all the other units should fail. Harris said Sunday is the earliest launch date, because it takes 24 hours to clear the ship's external fuel tank before it can be filled again with more than 500,000 gallons of frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The initial weather forecast for Sunday is encouraging. Air Force meteorologists said conditions similar to the excellent weather Friday are likely Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center and in surrounding areas were disappointed by the launch delay. Young, 50-year-old veteran of four spaceflights, and space rookie Crippen, 43, crawled into Columbia's two-level cabin at 4:19 a.m. after smiling and waving to spaceport workers when they left their quarters. "You wouldn't believe all the chow we have packed on this thing," Young said on a communications link to ground control center shortly after entering the spaceship's lower deck where the food is stored. - 4 F D & C Projects - # 27,000 without power in storm By United Press International Fierce thunderstorms packing 70 to 85 mph winds pushed across the southern Plains into the mid-Atlantic region, leaving about 27,000 people without electrical power. Temperatures soared past the 100-degree mark in the southwestern half of the nation. Thunderstorms continued Wednesday in Oklahoma and heavy rain poured into central North Dakota. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms fell Wednesday over the upper Mississippi Valley and northern Rockies. A mid-Atlantic thunderstorm Tuesday hit Virginia the hardest. Heavy rain poured into Oklahoma and Arkansas and scattered thunderstorms fell in southwestern Minnesota. About 27,000 people in Norfolk and Richmond, Va., were left without electrical power. Authorities reported extensive damage at Virginia Beach Junior High School, where windows were blown out and a wall collapsed. Greg J 7/24/81 - NFO "Power" Attack - Greg J 7/11/81 (A joke, but apt.) [Illustration of a woman sitting in a chair holding a paper labeled "ELECTRIC BILL" with a worried expression. A thought bubble shows a scene of fighter jets flying over a power plant labeled "POWER & LIGHT CO. NUCLEAR PLANT."] ELECTRIC BILL POWER & LIGHT CO. NUCLEAR PLANT. === Page 101 of 128 April 6, 1981 Scientists # 'Funny thing' in Forum (See page 22) # Kings oust Blazers game conference semifinal series against the Suns on Tuesday night. Kansas City is a team which has learned how to live with adversity. With 16 games left in the season, Phil Ford, who was NBA rookie of the year two years ago and started in every game last year, was sidelined with an injury to the orbital area of an eye and hasn't played since. At the time, the Kings seemed on their way to a third-straight playoff spot since Fitzsimmons took over the reins after the 1978 season. Without Ford, one of the NBA's premier guards, it didn't appear as if the Kings could make the playoffs for the third straight time -- something that hadn't happened to the franchise since it was called the Cincinnati Royals and Oscar Robertson was in mid-career in 1965. The Kings had lost their penetrator, the leader of the attack. Fitzsimmons had to regroup and slow the tempo down so that Kings could play without Ford. Early in the second period, with the Blazers leading 41-26, it appeared that the Kings wouldn't make it to Phoenix, and all the Blazer bags packed for a 5 o'clock departure from Portland Sunday afternoon would be checked through to Phoenix. "They had us on the ropes," admitted Fitzsimmons, who called timeout with his team trailing by 15 points. "We just told them no more bad passes, work the ball and get the game tight. A tight game was our game." THEN I STEPPED IN WITH Psi FORCE Two Southeast Conference products -- Reggie King (Alabama) and Ernie Grunfeld (Tennessee) -- were the key factors in the Kings' comeback. King, who scored only 25 points in the first two games, led the Kings with 28 points, 20 of them in the second half as Kansas City, which had taken its only lead of the first half with 11 seconds left at 49-48, four times opened up 12-point leads in the fourth quarter. Last night the Portland Trailblazers pro ball team had Kansas City down by 15 points and was threatening to run away with the game... so I stepped in and used psi-force to turn the game around and make certain that Portland was beaten. I have done this two years in a row. The reason for not allowing Portland to advance in the championship playoffs? Because my sons and I were humiliated on a Ch. 2 TV show in Portland. Since the Portland pro ball team is the big symbol for Portland... then I destroy the "symbol" each year. It isn't nice to double cross PK man! Owens === Page 102 of 128 # Four die as explosions demolish grain elevators CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) -- Searchers Wednesday hunted for three missing workers in the rubble of a 14-story dockside elevator, ripped by a series of fiery explosions apparently touched off by machinery sparks. Three men were known dead and 33 were injured. Several hours after the Texas elevator blasts, a grain elevator at Bellwood, Neb., exploded, killing one man and critically injuring two others. One witness compared the Texas blasts, which occurred as fine grain rolled into the elevator Tuesday, to an atomic bomb blast. Fires fed by plastic grain bags still were burning early Wednesday. Damage to the nearly gutted Corpus Christi complex, which consists of three clusters of silos and a 180-foot-high concrete control tower located beside a channel to the Gulf of Mexico, was estimated at $30 million. Four silos were blown apart and 54 of the facility's 153 silos were heavily damaged. An official of the Federal Grain Inspection Service said the facility, owned by Producers Grain Co-Op of Corpus Christi, was one of the "cleanest" in the nation and said the explosions could have been much worse if it had not been so well-maintained. Under the right conditions, an ounce of grain dust can be more explosive than an ounce of dynamite. To prevent such explosive conditions, the Texas company recently installed a dust collection system that cost about $3.5 million. Officials early Wednesday identified the three missing people as employees of the Nueces County Navigation District and a security guard. Searchers hunted for them throughout the night. Memorial Hospital identified two of the dead as Alfredo Canales, 52 and Richard Pierce, 44. The third victim, Jose Valdez, 32, died at Spohn Hospital. Thirty-three workers also were reported injured. Army and Coast Guard helicopters had to dart through smoke to airlift victims -- most suffering from burns -- to hospitals. The explosions occurred during the confusion of shift change, but the owners believed about 50 men were in the building at the time. Seven federal grain inspectors also happened to be on the scene -- within 20 yards of the source of the explosion. Six of the inspectors were hospitalized and two were in critical condition. As the grain dust exploded, heavy concrete silos crumbled to the ground and roaring fires raced through the elevator complex. Smoke was visible for miles away. Workers in an iron foundry a mile away felt the severe vibrations. "It blew one big piece of cement, about 10 to 15 feet wide and just as long, onto a nearby road," said Darrell Johnson, assistant manager of a grain terminal nearby. "It was at least 75 to 80 yards away and halfway imbedded into the blacktop." # Damage heavy -- # 8 die as storms rake Midwest By The Associated Press Fierce winds and tornadoes flipped cars and mobile homes Saturday and left behind a crazy quilt of wreckage in a half-dozen states. Eight persons died, and an estimated 125 people were injured. The National Weather Service said about 20 tornadoes and 121 severe storms were reported. Harry Gordon of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., called it "the most widespread storm system so far this spring." The storms also brought rain to the parched area. "They do some benefit, but they do some damage," Gordon said. The weather service said 11 tornadoes were sighted in Iowa, three in Wisconsin, two each in Nebraska and Kansas, and one each in Illinois and Oklahoma. Other reports said two tornadoes touched down in Missouri, and high winds also struck Indiana. Most injuries were minor, but the devastation was traumatic. "We had little children who had been cut by flying glass," said Jackie Wicklund of the West Bend, Wis., Red Cross. Three people died, and at least 50 were injured in West Bend when high winds wrecked 90 structures. The police chief estimated damage at $15 million, while the mayor estimated damage at $6 million. Three other people were killed in storm-related traffic accidents. "It's gone. There's nothing left. But the five of us are out and alive," Helen Urbaniak said of her West Bend home. A twister touched down in Calumet County, Wis., about 50 miles north of West Bend, injuring six people in a mobile home park. Rainstorms packing winds up to 90 mph lashed southwestern Illinois and parts of Missouri overnight. The storms wrecked houses, knocked out power and injured 20 people, 15 in Granite City, Ill., and five in Edwardsville. Extensive damage was reported in Edwardsville, a town of 11,000 people. Officials cordoned off the city Saturday, barring all but emergency vehicles, cleanup crews and residents. Guards were posted to prevent looting. In northwestern Illinois, some 130 cars were damaged by high winds in and around the Quad Cities Airport. Sixty houses were damaged in Milan, where police said three or four people were injured. During a thunderstorm, a 2-year-old boy from Sandyville, Iowa, was killed by a falling tree limb over the Missouri-Illinois border. Twenty-one of the 154 passengers were injured, and seven were hospitalized. The jetliner made an unscheduled landing in Chicago. In Joplin, Mo., a man was electrocuted when he touched a power line that had been downed by high winds. A friend was burned in a rescue attempt, and at least three other people were injured by high winds that raked the state. Officials said the storm system spawned at least two tornadoes in Missouri. One damaged grain storage bins, a cotton gin and a water plant in Malden, said police spokesman Vernon Earnheart. The other tornado tore the roof from a farm building in New Hampton, authorities said. Thunderstorms brought tornadoes, hail as big as golf balls, heavy rain and strong winds to Nebraska, sending temperatures plunging as much as 20 degrees in an hour Friday in Omaha -- from 73 degrees to the mid-50s. Two inches of rain fell in Milford. Many buildings were damaged or destroyed. In one case, a concrete block structure between two silos on a Lancaster County, Neb., farm was leveled except for a door frame and one tier of blocks, but the silos were untouched. Winds up to 94 mph were reported Friday in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, wrecking an airplane hangar and downing power lines. Major airports were closed briefly. # Electricity outage blackens Montreal MONTREAL (AP) -- A power station failure knocked out electricity to most of Montreal Island and nearby areas for about an hour during the morning commuter rush Wednesday. The outage affected an estimated one million electricity customers in and around this Canadian city. Hundreds of businesses were temporarily closed, and people were reported trapped for a time in downtown elevators. But authorities said the city's subway system used reserve power to get trains to the nearest station, and Dorval Airport continued normal operations with emergency power sources. === Page 103 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Fruit fly spraying plan ready By JOAN SWEENEY and TRACY WOOD LA Times-Washington Post Service LOS GATOS, Calif. -- If a last-ditch effort to get a restraining order fails Monday, the controversial aerial spraying to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly will begin just after midnight Tuesday in a heavily populated, 120-square-mile area in California's Santa Clara Valley. Although Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. originally opposed the aerial application of the insecticide malathion because of possible human health hazards, he reluctantly ordered it Friday and said that he was forced to do so by the Reagan administration. Brown acted after Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block threatened an immediate federal quarantine on California produce if the governor did not authorize the aerial spraying sought by California agricultural interests. Despite the federal concern, state officials said Sunday that Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger had refused to allow helicopters assigned to the spraying task to be based or to have use of any U.S. military bases in the area. Weinberger overruled Secretary Block and Navy officials who had given permission to base the choppers at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, state officials said. They had hoped to use the field 4 miles southeast of San Francisco for security, safety and convenience reasons. The Pentagon said Sunday that an immediate statement would be available on Weinberger's action. There has been strong opposition among some residents of the area to be sprayed -- which contains 315,000 homes and an estimated population of 787,500. Officials have reported receiving threats that the helicopters would be shot down. Asked if these threats were the reason that state officials had hoped to use Moffett Field, Jerry Scribner, deputy director of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and director of the Medfly project, said, "We aren't ignoring those threats by any means, but we aren't over-reacting to them." In announcing Weinberger's decision on the helicopters, Richard Rominger, director of the state Food and Agriculture Department, said, "He (Weinberger) had heard about the protests against the aerial applications, and he didn't want to be involved." Scribner said, "There seems to be a conflict between the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of defense." Rominger said that both he and Block had tried in vain to get Weinberger to change his mind. "He flatly refused after I argued with him for quite a long time," Rominger said. Meanwhile, a hearing was scheduled Monday morning in San Jose Superior Court on the request by Santa Clara County and several cities in the area for a temporary restraining order against the aerial spraying. A federal judge in San Francisco denied a similar request Friday. If the request is again rejected, the aerial spraying will begin at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday in the northernmost areas of the Medfly infestation that threatens California's multibillion-dollar agricultural industry. Project officials announced Sunday that the spraying area had been expanded into San Jose after maggots were found in three of the city's neighborhoods. A project spokesman said the spraying boundaries would probably expand again during the program. The first night of spraying will cover 19 square miles encompassing parts of the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. This area contains more than 100,000 homes. The choppers will move southward through the Santa Clara Valley on three succeeding nights to cover the entire infested area. The aerial applications will be repeated five times. The choppers will avoid sensitive areas such as hospitals and reservoirs, which officials said would be marked on the ground with portable searchlights and lighted balloons. The balloons - UFOs & Projects - # Huge Floods Hit China San F. Chr. 7/16/81 Beijing The heaviest rains in 32 years caused four rivers in southwest China to overflow their banks, killing or injuring 40 to 50 people, stranding hundreds of thousands and inundating nearly a million acres of farmland, officials said yesterday. The rains, accompanied by high winds that uprooted trees, began Sunday in Sichuan province, officials said. The Jialing, Fu, Tuo and Min rivers and their tributaries overflowed. Train service was interrupted by cave-ins and many highway bridges collapsed. Sichuan, with 100 million people, is China's most populous province. The official Xinhua news agency said water from the four rivers would converge today to form the greatest Yangtze River flood peak since 1949, and would threaten the Gezhouba dam, China's biggest hy-dro-engineering project, now under construction on the river. - UFOs & Projects - # U.S. units take trouncing in NATO competitions By JOHN J. FIALKA Washington Star Service 7/20/81 WASHINGTON -- Tank and bomber crews from what are supposed to be some of the most combat-ready units in the U.S. military have been beaten in several recent military competitions by their NATO counterparts. The poor U.S. showings, coming at a time when the Reagan administration's defense policy is focused on the need to buy more weapons, may offer further evidence that manpower and training problems are more critical than hardware needs. The most dismal result occurred last week, when a squadron of four U.S. B-52 bombers finished last among seven bomber squadrons competing in an annual Royal Air Force strategic bombing contest in England called "Double Top." The U.S. crews, part of a Strategic Air Command unit at Marham, England, finished 13th, 15th, 19th and 22nd among 22 bombers in the contest. They were beaten by crews of RAF Vulcans -- medium bombers which have far less sophisticated electronic equipment than the B-52H, the latest version of the B-52 used by the United States. Both bombers were first introduced in the 1950s. An Air Force spokesman admitted that the U.S. showing was the worst in the recent history of the contest, which the British have won consistently since 1976, the last time U.S. B-52 crews won it. Lt. Lou Lambert, a spokesman for SAC headquarters in Omaha, Neb., said SAC officials "have not yet analyzed why we did so poorly." An RAF source, who asked not to be identified, said the British fliers were stunned by the low U.S. showing. "Technically the B-52 should come out better," he said. "They have more redundancy, better avionics. The edge is the experience of our operators." The contest consisted of a series of low-level bombing runs under the same conditions and in the same Northern European environment that the B-52s would confront in their primary wartime missions. In a second major military competition, U.S. tank crews drawn from the 3rd Armored Division were beaten by units from Belgium and West Germany in the Canadian Army Trophy Competition, a tank shooting and maneuvering contest held in Germany in June. U.S. tankers, who have never won the contest since they first entered in 1977, finished 5,000 points behind the winning West German unit, 1,300 points behind the Belgians and barely 300 points ahead of teams from Canada and Great Britain. === Page 104 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 10 perish in vast heat wave 7/15/81 By United Press International Cooling rainstorms lingered Wednesday over the northern Plains but offered little hope of quenching a sizzling heat wave from Nebraska to Florida. At least 10 deaths were blamed on the heat, including a baby whose temperature rose to 109. More than a half-foot of rain and wind up to 63 mph lashed the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska Tuesday, dropping temperatures into the 90s. Only minor storm damage was reported. Remnants of the storms persisted Wednesday. But the mercury soared past the century mark in southern Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma into Georgia and northern Florida. Forecasters said the hot weather will last through Friday. At least 10 heat-related deaths were reported in the last four days of blistering temperatures and high humidity in Iowa. Five of the dead were elderly. The latest victims were 20-month-old Floyd Holmes Jr., Robert E. Bonstrom, 60, and John Kemach, 88, all of Des Moines. Bonstrom was found dead in his home Tuesday, officials said. Wednesday's edition of the Des Moines Register reported that two other elderly persons died from the heat Sunday. Bonstrom's death appeared to be heat-related, officials said, noting that there was no fan or air conditioner in the man's home -- where the temperature was about 95 degrees. The baby, who was found "unresponsive" in his crib Tuesday, had a body temperature of 109 degrees. Medical authorities tentatively blamed his death on heat stroke. Health officials advised older people to stay in air-conditioned areas. About 200 donated fans have been distributed to elderly and handicapped residents in Des Moines this week. Since Saturday, temperatures have peaked in the mid-90s across Iowa, with some locations reporting highs in the lower 100s. Humidity has been as high as 85 percent. Savannah, Ga., recorded 103 degrees, breaking the record of 101 degrees set in 1951. Jacksonville, Fla., hit the 102-degree mark and Daytona Beach, Fla., broke a 1946 record with a reading of 99 degrees. Fierce winds and rain swept the upper Plains. In Omaha, Neb., Warren Anderson, 11, suffered two broken legs and head cuts when he was pinned under a huge limb that fell from a tree near his home as a thunderstorm pushed through the city. He was pinned under the limb for 10 minutes before he was freed. Anderson and two other boys were playing in the street under the tree when high winds toppled two limbs. Anderson was taken to a hospital where he was listed in serious condition. In Plattsmouth, Neb., heavy rain triggered street flooding and wind knocked down power lines. Power outages were reported throughout the city of about 6,400. The basement wall of a home collapsed and at least four homes were damaged by falling trees. Many windows were broken by hail. "It's been a real zoo," said Connie Mossey, a police dispatcher. Wind damaged garages attached to two homes in Utica, Neb. - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1981 # N-plant shut down fifth time CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- The Crystal River nuclear power plant has been shut down for the fifth time this year, this time after a cooling fan and its backup both malfunctioned, Florida Power Corp. officials said Wednesday. The huge 825-megawatt unit was pulled out of service late Tuesday. It is expected to be out of service for 10 days to two weeks while the fans are repaired, said Larry Shriner, spokesman for the St. Petersburg-based utility. The 36-inch fans are used to cool essential cables and wiring in the reactor cavity -- an area between the reactor vessel and an inner shield wall in the containment building. No damage to the reactor was reported and no radiation release was detected, Shriner said. The first fan malfunctioned Monday and technicians switched to the backup, Shriner said. That fan malfunctioned Tuesday, the temperature went from a normal 120 degrees to 250 and a shut-down was ordered. "Too high a temperature from a lack of air flow could cause damage to the nuclear instrumentation system," Shriner said. The plant, which helps supply electricity to 805,000 customers, was taken off line in mid-February because of deteriorating pump seals. A few weeks later, a worker accidentally tripped an emergency signal that caused a shutdown. Later, a nut in the reactor core broke loose and set off an alarm system, again forcing a shutdown. And two weeks ago, lightning struck an electrical switching yard nearby, forcing the plant out of service. The fans were made by Babcock & Wilcox, which designed the Crystal River plant as well as the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa., that was damaged in 1979 in the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident. - UFOs & Projects - # Navy Fires Live Missile Accidentally Norfolk, Va. A live conventional missile was accidentally launched from a Navy destroyer toward the Caribbean resort island of St. Croix but apparently dropped harmlessly into the sea, the Navy announced yesterday. A Navy spokesman said the Harpoon missile, containing 215 pounds of "high explosive," was launched from its pad aboard the Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer Coontz Tuesday and disappeared without a trace. He said the Coontz tracked the missile on radar until it disappeared over the horizon. Lieutenant Commander Ken Pease said the missile "was programmed to detonate on impact. When it hit the sea, it would go off." Pease said the island of St. Croix was in the missile's trajectory and within its 60 nautical-mile range, but an "exhaustive search" turned up nothing to indicate it hit the island or any vessels. The Coontz, which was participating in exercises with 18 other ships, was about 50 miles southwest of St. Croix when the incident occurred. The Harpoon is programmed to find and destroy enemy ships. Navy officials said a target distance is set in its computer and it seeks the target on its own. Pease said he did not know how the Harpoon was fired, but noted it took place during routine maintenance preparatory to a test-firing Sunday. 7/16/81 === Page 105 of 128 - UFOs & Projects (This plague by the Egyptians as power as with Moses) # Disaster status sought as flies spread By LORETTA NOFFSINGER LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. asked President Reagan to declare three California counties a federal disaster area Wednesday, saying a spreading infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies is out of control. Brown's announcement came as officials learned that an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies had spread closer to rich California farm lands while efforts to destroy it by spraying pesticide from the air fell further behind schedule. "The increased magnitude of the infestation constitutes a disaster which is now beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the state and local counties, Brown told Reagan in a letter released Wednesday night. "California faces the threat of an economic disaster of unprecedented proportions by the virtual shutdown of the state's $14 billion agriculture industry by federal order," Brown added, referring to threats of a federal quarantine on California produce by the Reagan administration. Officials of a joint state, federal and local eradication program had expected to spray 45 square miles with the pesticide malathion by early Wednesday. But after two nights of spraying, only 7½ square miles had been covered with the sticky mist while the area known to be infested by the Mediterranean fruit fly grew by twice that much. Aerial spraying of malathion, a commonly used backyard pesticide, began in the hopes of halting the medfly in the residential neighborhoods of the Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco. Some agriculture officials have predicted doom for the state's $14 billion farming industry, which produces half the nation's fruit and vegetables, if the medfly spreads to nearby commercial farm areas and southeast to the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Brown said the quarantine of the three infested counties he is asking disaster funds for already has affected 11,000 farms, ranches and businesses at a loss of $4.2 million. Designation as a federal disaster area would make low-interest loans available to people, businesses and local governments that suffer losses because of the infestation and the fight against it. A spokesman in Washington said Wednesday that the White House had not yet received Brown's letter and had not been contacted by Brown on the request. The battle against the medfly began 13 months ago when the fruit flies were found in neighborhoods lush with peach, plum, orange, apricot, lemon and other fruit trees. More than $23 million has been spent in the unsuccessful attempt to wipe out the medfly, which officials think was imported here from Hawaii. The eradication effort received a setback Tuesday when an outbreak was discovered in Milpitas, a community to the east of the previous 129-square mile infested area. At a news conference Wednesday, project director Jerry Scribner said the Milpitas area had been added to the total spraying area. The new area is more than twice the size of the 7½-square-mile area sprayed by helicopter Tuesday and Wednesday, Scribner said, although the exact size was not known. The discovery raised fears that the pest had spread far beyond the original boundaries of the infested area. Scribner was particularly concerned because the newly discovered larvae were at least two miles apart. "It is disheartening in terms of the additional area that must now be included," he said. He said the spraying program was behind schedule because there was not enough time to prepare. In addition, mechanical problems have cut into the scheduled helicopter force. But Scribner was optimistic that the ground lost since early Tuesday, when the spraying began, would be made up. org 7/16/81 - UFOs & Projects # Fire destroys cable at Grand Coulee Dam GRAND COULEE, Wash. (AP) -- Fire broke out early Monday in an oil-filled, high-voltage cable tunnel that serves a generator at Grand Coulee Dam, the world's largest power producing dam, a Bureau of Reclamation official said. Nine cables that carry electricity to the dam's switchyard were destroyed, said bureau public affairs officer Craig Sprankle. The fire was believed to have started in a cable carrying oil to cool high-voltage cables, Sprankle said. The power unit was shut down while firefighters from the bureau's plant-protection unit and volunteers from nearby communities battled the smoky fire with water and foam, he said. "We can't get into the tunnel, but we can see when the flames are beat back, and we can see that nine cables have been destroyed in the upper end," he said of the mile-long tunnel. Sprankle said no power was lost because of the fire, although the capability to generate power was cut. He said the Bonneville Power Administration, which buys electricity from the dam's generators, switched to the Snake River dam system for the roughly 1,900 megawatts that the fire shut off. "What happens is that all the power goes into one big pool. When the fire started, the BPA threw a switch and power from the Snake River system entered that pool to make up the difference," he said. Damage could not immediately be assessed, Sprankle said. "They noticed smoke coming out of the tunnel about 1:45 a.m., and we've been up there fighting it ever since. We're trying to keep a concrete wall divider cooled down to prevent the smoke from spreading into another cable tunnel," he said before the fire was contained about noon. The gigantic concrete structure on the banks of the Columbia River produces 6,200 megawatts and has six of the largest electrical generators in the world. org 7/21/81 === Page 106 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects (2) Oregon Journal, July 21, 1981 # Midwest storms injure over 30 By United Press International Flash flood watches were issued Tuesday from Missouri to Pennsylvania, where sudden cloudbursts, winds up to 77 mph and a half dozen tornadoes snapped power lines, flooded streets and injured more than 30 people. The storms first whipped through Missouri and Illinois, leaving 25 people injured Monday in the St. Louis area and eight others hurt in Illinois. A tornado plowed through a mobile home park in suburban Tulsa, Okla., later Monday, overturning a dozen trailers and injuring several people. Power outages triggered by the storms left more than 107,500 people without electricity in Missouri and Maryland. The storm reached into Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Maryland late Monday and early Tuesday. A flash flood watch was issued for western Pennsylvania. Two rivers in central Missouri, inundated by rain the past two days, were above flood stage and rising. A fierce rainstorm rolled into Baltimore Monday, dumping a half-inch of rain in 20 minutes and knocking out power to about 7,500 people in the northwest section of Washington, D.C., and Prince George's and Montgomery counties. Thunderstorms and winds up to 63 mph battered western Pennsylvania, ripping roofs off two buildings, damaging several homes and downing power and telephone lines in a widespread area. In Wisconsin, minor street flooding was reported in Milwaukee and several twisters touched down near Oshkosh in Fond du Lac County. Charles Budnick said he grabbed his 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, and ran when a tornado flattened his barn. "I had just finished doing the dishes when all of a sudden I heard a loud sound of wind. I ran to the back of the trailer, grabbed my baby, ran outside and was going to run to the milk house (in the barn), but then I looked up and saw this funnel cloud bouncing up and down on top of the barn," Budnick said. "I then ran across the street and laid in the ditch covering my baby. It (the tornado) was long and narrow ... God it was spooky." - UFOs 6 Projects - # Fires consume rangeland By The Associated Press oreg 7/27/81 Fires sparked by lightning consumed about 79,500 acres of rangeland and juniper and aspen trees Sunday in what fire officials said was the worst rash of blazes in Utah in years. Four houses also were destroyed in the fires. The two biggest blazes were burning out of control near the western Utah community of Oak City, and officials feared the two might merge and threaten more property. In Idaho, Bureau of Land Management crews controlled an 87,000-acre range fire near Shoshone late Saturday. The blaze was the largest in Idaho this year. # Blast rocks propane plant ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- An explosion early Sunday destroyed a building where propane gas is produced, forcing a temporary evacuation of the area and leaving 700 customers without gas, authorities said. A railroad tank car holding 300,000 gallons of liquid propane behind the building and two tanks with 45,000 gallons were undamaged, but another tank filled with vapors buckled. If any of the cars or tanks had exploded, they would have destroyed all buildings on the street and threatened the business district about two blocks away, Fire Chief Jerald Fournier said. - UFOs 6 Projects - # 10 hurt, 3,000 flee in Utah propane fire MOAB, Utah (UPI) -- A bolt of lightning triggered an explosion at a giant underground propane reservoir Saturday, shooting flames 100 feet into the sky, seriously burning 10 people and forcing 3,000 others to flee a 10-square-mile area for four hours. Firefighters spent hours after the blast late Friday hosing down burning surface pipes and small tanks atop the reservoir to prevent fire from spreading into the reservoir itself and igniting the 5 million gallons of stored propane. "It's (the fire is) just about out now," Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland said at about 4 a.m. MDT. "We don't think there's any danger anymore so we're going to let people go back home." The Moab Police Department had evacuated a 10-square-mile business and residential area at midnight near the natural salt formation reservoir because officials had warned that if the main reserve of propane ignited "it could take everything within a mile-and-a-half radius with it," Grand County Sheriff's Sgt. John Meacham said. Nyland said propane pipelines feeding into the main reservoir had been shut to prevent further spread of the fire and officials would let the fires still blazing on a couple of 30,000-gallon propane surface tanks burns themselves out. Police said eight of the injured were tourists camping at a recreational camp ground separated from the reservoir by a fence. The other two were workers at the propane storage facility. Hospital officials said all ten were in "critical to serious" condition. "The trailers and the cars that were parked right next to the fence were just totally destroyed," one police official said. oreg 8/1/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # U.S. loses control of mine WASHINGTON (UPI) -- With the help of a French oil company, Canada has wrested control of one of the world's richest mines away from the United States over U.S. government objections. The development was part of a $3 billion acquisition of Texasgulf Inc., a major U.S. minerals and oil firm, announced Tuesday by the French-government controlled Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine, one of the world's 10 largest oil companies. As part of the deal, the Canada Development Co., which owns 37 percent of Texasgulf, will trade its shares for the Kidd Creek Mine, discovered and developed in the mid-1960s by Texasgulf as a major zinc, copper, silver, lead and cadmium mine. The mine is located on 110,000 acres near Timmins, Ontario. Its 1980 production was 4.3 million tons of rich ore. The U.S. government made a futile attempt to block the takeover two weeks ago when the Committee on Foreign Investment, headed by the Treasury Department, asked Elf Aquitaine and the Canadian company to put off attempts to buy Texasgulf stock. The firms refused. oreg 7/29/81 === Page 107 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - Tornadoes rip Plains states United Press International Thunderstorms that battered the northern Plains with tornadoes, hail and winds up to 75 mph whipped across the region again Monday. There were no reports of severe damage or injury. Thunderstorms persisted over southeastern Montana and the western Dakotas Monday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for most of South Dakota through the morning. Hail 2 inches in diameter pounded Billings, Mont., Sunday and winds up to 75 mph were recorded at Medora, N.D. Tornadoes struck Shelby and Hardin, Mont., and several twisters hit Minnesota. Another tornado was reported in south central New Mexico. The tornadoes knocked down trees and power lines in Red Lake, Minn. The storm also knocked out power for a brief time, and marble-sized hail shattered several business windows. Rainstorms also stretched from Arkansas to Michigan and over South Carolina. Storms in Arkansas Sunday dropped up to 2 inches of rain in one hour. 8/3/81 - UFO 6 Projects - Flood, snow kill 12 in Europe 7/23/81 VIENNA, Austria (UPI) - The Danube River, swollen by some of the heaviest rains in 124 years, flooded highways and rail lines and left provincial towns accessible only by boat Thursday although the high water was reported receding. The torrential rains coupled with a freak summer snowstorm left 12 people dead in eastern and western Europe. Floodwaters blocked the main highway and a railroad line along the Danube's right bank and traffic had to be re-routed because the river rose over the emergency level of 24 feet, officials said. But officials said the danger of a new crisis appeared over with an end to the heavy rains earlier in the week. A few villages along the Danube could be reached only by boat because of flooding in provincial areas of Austria. "We have had the heaviest rainfalls since 1857 in the past four days," an Austrian government official said. "The damage done by the floods cannot yet be estimated, but it will certainly run into millions of dollars." Four people were reported drowned in the Danube as a result of the flooding. In West Germany, four people, including a 2-year-old girl, were reported drowned in floods. Three mountaineers were found frozen to death in a remote hut blocked by avalanches in the high Alps of France. In Czechoslovakia, one person was drowned in the floods of the Vltava River in the western outskirts of Prague during rescue actions, the CTK news agency said. "Hundreds of houses had to be evacuated along the Elbe River that flooded large parts of the rural area near the town of Melnik in central Bohemia," CTK said. Floods on the Danube from Germany threatened Austria. - UFO 6 Projects - California steps up war on Medfly 7/25/81 LOS GATOS, Calif. (UPI) - California, target of quarantines by other states fearing spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly, is intensifying its attack on the destructive pest. Ground stripping of fruits and vegetables was expanded Friday to more than 900 square miles, including 26 cities. Officials said a 500-member "police force" of civilians and state workers will go door-to-door to enforce a massive stripping order issued to 1 million residents of the Santa Clara Valley. In Washington, D.C., five states told the U.S. Supreme Court that their quarantines against California produce are necessary to protect public health and local agriculture. The arguments were in response to California's challenge to the blockade of fruits and vegetables the states imposed to prevent the spread of the fruit fly. California earlier in the week asked the high court to stop Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina from "prohibiting or restricting the movement" of its fruits and vegetables. Trucks carrying California produce have been turned back at roadblocks in several states. California officials told the court that the states' restrictions are more severe than necessary. They also maintained that because the infestation is confined to three counties, the regulations are unnecessary because most produce being shipped is grown in other areas of the state. In the Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco, aerial spraying of malathion in the $53 million war to destroy the pest was increased to include 227 square miles of the three-county quarantined area where 161 nests of larvae have been found in such fruits as apricots, peaches and apples. Stripping of all fruit, originally ordered by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. July 1, was complied with only partially, prompting the stricter enforcement, officials of the eradication project said. The world - UFO 6 Projects - Floods hit in England LONDON (AP) - A line of violent thunderstorms swept across Britain Thursday, triggering widespread flooding but bringing some relief from the hottest weather of the summer. In the northwest industrial center of Manchester, where 3 1/2 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, a landslide damaged a major suburban highway. Other flooding was reported in Staffordshire and Cheshire, where a police officer said: "It has been almost like a monsoon for three hours. The drains could not cope." In London, floodwaters shorted out sections of the city's subway system, and the Blackwall tunnel under the River Thames was closed for a time. The black storm clouds were so dense that the capital's streets at noon were as dark as night. At Heathrow airport, a ground technician was knocked to the runway by lightning. His ears were singed, but he was otherwise unhurt, an airport spokesman said. 8/7/81 === Page 108 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Iranians say thousands may be dead in quake Oreg 7/30/81 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- At least 700 people were killed in southeastern Iran's second earthquake in six weeks, and the final death toll could be between 3,000 and 4,000, Iranian officials said Wednesday. First reports listed 700 people dead and 440 injured in the quake that struck Kerman province Tuesday night, and "efforts to recover the bodies of other victims are continuing," Tehran radio said. Abdolhossein Sayeh, governor-general of the province, told Iran's official Pars news agency that the final death toll from the quake could be between 3,000 and 4,000. He said that as many as 90 percent of the houses were demolished in some villages. Pars said rescue squads immediately started digging bodies and survivors from the ruins and evacuating the injured to emergency field hospitals set up at Kerman, the provincial capital. Helicopters were being used to fly in rescue teams and evacuate hundreds of wounded because the earthquake blocked mountain roads. A Pars correspondent reporting from the area said terrified people rushed into the streets when the first tremors struck, shouting "Allah Akbar" -- "God is great" -- and kneeling down to pray. The stricken area is less than 50 miles from the village of Goldbagh, flattened by a June 11 quake that killed 1,000 and injured 1,500 others. The Tehran Seismological Institute said the latest quake measured between 6.7 and 7 on the Richter scale. # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Mexico shaken MEXICO CITY (AP) -- An earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Mexico's Pacific Coast near the resort of Zihuatanejo Saturday night and rocked buildings in this capital more than 200 miles away, authorities said. No injuries or deaths were reported. A spokesman for the Tacubaya Seismological Center in Mexico City said the epicenter of the tremor was 217 miles southwest of the capital. It struck near the mouth of the Rio Balsas in the state of Guerrero, close to the industrial port of Lazaro Cardenas, the spokesman said. ## India floods take 41 lives NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Flash floods killed 41 people Sunday in Rajasthan, raising the 10-day toll of flood-related deaths in the northwestern state to more than 1,000, United News of India reported. The agency quoted local officials as saying floods in the Chaksu region, 155 miles southwest of New Delhi, destroyed 40 villages and killed more than 400 residents during the past three days. Army troops and government workers rescued nearly 7,000 marooned people Sunday, UNI said. Oreg 7/27/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Thunderstorms, twisters hit eastern U.S.; 5 hurt By United Press International Powerful thunderstorms carrying 60 to 70 mph wind hurled tornadoes into southeast Ohio and Virginia Tuesday. Five people, including two children, were injured. The storms left more than 3,000 Missouri residents without electrical power and gully-washing rains forced residents from flooded homes in Oklahoma and Indiana. A severe-thunderstorm watch was posted late Tuesday over eastern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay. A tornado hit both sides of the Ohio River at St. Marys, W. Va., and Newport, Ohio. The tornado ripped through four house trailers in a wooded area near Newport Township, Ohio -- injuring five people. Oreg 7/29/81 A Coast Guard helicopter plucked three persons from a sinking sailboat in Canadian waters of rainswept Lake Erie. The three, all identified as residents of Lorian, Ohio, were in good condition, authorities said. A tornado also touched down in Chantilly, Va. No injuries were reported. Strong 60 mph wind blasted Vienna, Va., and 70 mph gusts were clocked at Staunton, Va., and Hickory, N.C. Heavy rain in Hobbs, N.M., flooded streets and some houses and businesses, causing dozens of cars to stall. National Guard troops were placed on standby to assist in possible evacuations, said Joe Harvey, city manager. Storms dumped up to 8 inches of rain on northeast Kansas and Missouri Monday, flooding several highways and roads and forcing at least one family from its home near Brown Grove, Kan. Backed-up rain water triggered the collapse of a 100-foot section of a concrete block basement wall at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant at Topeka. There were no injuries. - UFOs & Projects - Oreg 7/28/81 By United Press International More than 6 inches of rain drenched the Midwest and East, stranding thousands of New York commuters and forcing 150 Missouri residents to flee the Salt River, swollen above flood stage Tuesday by a planned release of floodwaters. The violent thunderstorms, part of the same system that swirled across the Midlands during the weekend, brought gray skies and cool temperatures to the northern half of the nation. Heavy rain persisted from Texas to Indiana, where flash flood watches were posted through early Tuesday. In northeast Missouri, floodwaters that had backed up behind a temporary dam protecting the Clarence Cannon dam project coursed down the Salt River Monday, flooding fields and threatening homes and businesses. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the floodwaters to save the dam project by cutting a 400-foot-wide notch in the cofferdam. Officials went door-to-door warning about 150 people to leave their homes and farms in the path of the swollen river. The river was expected to rise 13 feet above flood stage at New London, Mo., Tuesday and even higher if more rain falls. "The only thing we know for sure is that it will go above 32 feet at New London," said Mel Doernhoefer, spokesman for the corps. "It depends on what kind of rain we get." Bob Mount, president of Airmasters Sheet Metal Inc. in New London, evacuated much of his equipment. "We expect to be in 5 feet of water when it is all over," he said. "It's going to be one heck of a cleanup." The floodwater release was expected to set construction back about a year on the $254 million project. === Page 109 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 5,000 feared dead as Iranian quake flattens villages ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- A powerful earthquake rumbled through Iran's southeastern Kerman province, killing at least 700 people and injuring 400 others, Tehran Radio said Wednesday. The area's governor said the toll could go to 5,000. The quake, measuring 7.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, was centered in the Anduhjerd region, 520 miles southeast of Tehran and 35 miles from the city of Kerman, the provincial capital, Pars news agency said. Tehran Radio, stressing its death toll of 700 was based on the first report from the area, said at least 40 deaths and 400 injured were in Kerman city. Kerman Governor-General Abdolhossein Saveh told Pars "4,000 to 5,000 people are predicted to have lost their lives" in the Tuesday evening quake. He did not elaborate on the estimate. The quake rocked the area at 8.53 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after Moslem residents of the area broke their Ramadan fast. It rumbled through and flattened villages in the Anduhjerd, Shahdad and Golbaf regions. "About 90 percent of the area has been destroyed and a great deal of casualties have been inflicted," Pars said. It said roads in the area were blocked and officials are trying to open them to speed rescue operations. Doctors were flown to the area to aid stricken residents, it added. Pars said rescue helicopters had trouble reaching the affected villages because of the height of the mountains in the region, but that a team of doctors had gotten to Kerman. The U.S. Geological Survey in Washington said the quake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. At least 3,000 people died when another quake struck the area June 11. Another 7.7 Richter quake in 1978 at Tabas, north of the Kerman region, killed more than 15,000 people. Pars said three days of mourning have been declared for the victims of the latest disaster. oreg J 7/29/81 Note: The Egyptian Power (helping my UFOs) is causing fires and explosions like this all over the U.S. & overseas. - UFOs & Projects - # Blast kills 5, levels building GRANTSVILLE, Utah (AP) -- A pre-dawn blast turned an explosives manufacturing plant into a fireball Thursday, leveling the concrete building and leaving "not a trace" of the five people working inside, officials said. A federal investigator said the blast may have been sparked by lightning or a mechanical malfunction. Another blast was averted after workers capped a leak in a 10,000-gallon tank of flammable material. "If all the people were in the plant -- five -- we can only assume they are all dead," said Tooele County Sheriff Walt Shubert. The concrete building was "blown away" shortly after 4 a.m. MDT by the first in a series of blasts, Shubert said. "There is just a hole in the ground" 35 feet deep where the plant was, he added. As fire from the first blast at the Mining Services International plant spread to containers of solid and plastic explosives, at least two other explosions occurred, officials said. "It's highly speculative at this point, but apparently some spark or some sudden shock set it off," Nicholas Dereta, resident agent for the Salt Lake City office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said Thursday afternoon. "It could have been a bolt of lightning striking the area -- that would have been enough of a shock to cause the explosives to detonate. It could have been some kind of machinery shorted." He said investigators had determined the center of the blast was in an area near the plant's holding tank, where explosives are stored in a semi-liquid form before packaging or further processing. The federal agency's investigation by three field agents and a support staff of three could take up to 10 days, Dereta said. Even then, investigators may never pinpoint the exact cause of the blast. "There are just too many variables and not much to go on when all you've got left is a ... crater. I'm not sure we'll be able to pinpoint exactly what happened," he said. Debris from the 4,000-square-foot building rocketed three-quarters of a mile in all directions, and there was "not a trace" of human remains in the wreckage, Shubert said. oreg J 7/31/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Generator fire to curb NW power By United Press International A cable fire that knocked out power production in three Grand Coulee Dam generators Monday will have an reduce federal power deliveries to California and Pacific Northwest utilities, a Bonneville Power Administration spokesman said. Gene Tollefson said before the fire broke out BPA "was running a heavy generation schedule," sending 3.8 million average kilowatts of power from the Columbia River system to California and 2 million to private Northwest utilities. He said this distribution of non-firm power was because of the availability of surplus water. Idle generators in federal Snake River dams were started up to replace the 1.9 million average kilowatts lost because of the Grand Coulee fire. "However, we can't do that for long -- only for a matter of hours," said Tollefson. He explained that operating more Snake River generators reduces the supply of water in the dams' reservoirs. "It is only a makeshift measure to carry out our schedules" of power deliveries, he said. A cutoff in this non-firm power deliveries to California and Northwest private power companies was likely in the near future, Tollefson said. He said because of the fire water from Grand Coulee reservoir was spilled over the dam at the rate of 90,000 cubic feet per second rather than going through the turbines. "We were planning on curtailing non-firm deliveries in any event because of the (forthcoming) lack of water and, at the same time, because of lack of water, thermal power plants like the Trojan nuclear plant (near Rainier) were being brought back" into production, Tollefson said. oreg J 7/21/81 === Page 110 of 128 SIs have begun their attack on U.S. economy. # jack anderson # Gold cheating bared **org 7/30/81** WASHINGTON -- With a minimum of publicity, Treasury agents have raided coin dealers in several U.S. cities and have seized fake gold Krugerrand coins. In Houston, for example, the costly counterfeits were so well minted that they even fooled jewelers. Most of the bogus coins were forged from lead and painted with gold. The forgers sought to capitalize on the public's covetous interest in almost anything that glitters. This raises a question that goes beyond petty scams: Could big-time criminals, with the right connections, tamper with the gold ingots in international commerce? In an earlier report, I revealed that ingots, certified as 99.9 percent pure, had been found by a variety of assayers to contain traces of silver, nitrate, copper, zinc, iron and other elements. The impurities would make a difference in value of thousands of dollars in a 1,000-ounce gold bar. The allegedly diluted ingots came from Engelhard Industries, one of the giants in the bullion business, whose spokesman said he was "shocked" at the discovery. If this should be at all typical of the ingots locked in the nation's bank vaults, the enormity of the scandal would be beyond normal newspaper adjectives. "We can make mistakes in other areas," said Engelhard's vice president, Joe Feldstein, "but in this case, we have to be purer than Caesar's wife." This raises still another question: Who oversees the purity of the precious metal that is traded on the open market? The disturbing answer is that the testing is controlled by a tight little cartel of bankers and refiners. They are loath to let the sunlight into their boardrooms or to change their archaic procedures, even when confronted with evidence of slipshodness. The only real test for purity is to drill holes in the ingots and analyze the shavings. But the refiners and bankers have successfully fought this procedure, arguing that it would damage the bars. The ASTM standard calls for holes in specified locations to chemistry of sample ingots. Spokesmen for the society acknowledge that the standards aren't designed to "prevent fraud" but merely to "facilitate commerce." But an ASTM insider told my society officials he could produce a gold bar loaded with impurities which would pass the standard. The hole-drilling, say critics, is an antiquated and inadequate method of preventing gold tampering. Some critics contend it is no more effective than the crude assaying method that the Greek scientist Archimedes discovered 2,200 years ago. He became so excited watching water overflow at a public bathhouse, according to legend, that he ran home without his clothes, shouting "I have found it!" What he had found was that some metals, being more dense than others, displace more water. He applied the lesson of the bathhouse to prove that his king's crown wasn't pure gold, but was flawed with alloyed silver. Far more than a king's crown is at stake in today's burgeoning gold market. Yet, incredibly, no one seems concerned about the ineffective testing standards. Officials of the Commodity Exchange, the gold trading market, appear indifferent to the possibility that bullion they are offering may contain impurities. And federal bureaucrats, who will raise a ruckus over the size of the paper used for letter writing, are not disturbed over the industry's testing methods. Wrote an official of the U.S. Mint: "We're not in the business of certifying or recognizing assayers or assaying techniques." In fact, the Mint referred inquiries back to the industry-dominated group which referred inquiries back to the Mint. **UFOs & Projects** **org 7/21/81** United Press International GERMAN FLOODS -- A West German soldier paddles an inflatable rubber boat around the village of Wasserburg, Monday to inspect damage caused by the worst floods in the Inn Valley since 1899. The valley flooded following a heavy downpour. Associated Press Laserphoto ROCKET EXPLODES -- Disaster strikes Thursday rocket engine test planned by Space Services Inc. on Matagorda Island, Texas, as rocket exploded, causing a brief unplanned launch. **Type PK + UFOs & Projects** # Test explosion setback to firm LA Times-Washington Post Service MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas -- The first private rocket designed to orbit the Earth blew into four pieces on the launch pad at the south end of Matagorda Island Wednesday, sending debris more than 500 feet in the air but injuring no one. Charlie Chafer, a spokesman for Space Services Inc. of Houston, which owned the rocket, said: "No cows, no alligators, no whooping cranes, no people are hurt. All I can say is: Welcome to the rocket business." It was a severe setback for the group of Texas entrepreneurs who hope to send the first commercial rocket into space. Chafer said the explosion will cost the firm $1.2 million and set back the fledgling rocket venture at least six months. "But we aren't going to stop. This is pretty damned exciting," he said. The explosion occurred at the end of a five-second test designed to determine whether the thrust from the engines would be adequate for a flight, scheduled Aug. 12. **org 8/7/81** === Page 111 of 128 400 miles Caspian Sea Tabriz Tehran IRAN Kerman Province IRAQ KUWAIT Persian Gulf SAUDI ARABIA Midwest storms claim three lives By United Press International Thunderous rainstorms that dropped nearly 6 inches of rain and hurled tornadoes across the Midlands pushed rivers near flood stage from Texas to Indiana Monday. At least three people drowned in the weekend storms and eight others were missing in the water. More than 1 1/2 inches of rain within two hours forced closure of a 10-mile stretch of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. Heavy rains also caused flooding in the New York subway system, and lightning knocked out rush-hour train service for 60,000 commuters from New Jersey. A flash flood warning was issued for northern Indiana, where Bowmen Creek spilled its banks near South Bend on Sunday. A flash flood watch also was posted in Texas over the lower Rio Grande Valley, south-central areas and the coastal bend. A wall of water up to 8 feet high crashed through a canyon filled with swimmers and campers east of Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, sweeping away as many as eight people. The body of one drowning victim was recovered, and about 20 people were rescued by helicopter. The search for victims was suspended late Sunday and was to resume Monday. Sheriff's Lt. Vincent Becerra said it had rained hard about 12 miles north and east of the canyon, but not in the camping area so the people were not expecting a flood. "Reports vary from 6 to 8 feet, a wall of water that came rushing down and caught the people by surprise," Becerra said. An Elkhart, Ind., firefighter and a man he was trying to rescue drowned in a rain-flooded drainage ditch Sunday. Two other men swept into the culvert were rescued from a drainage pond a block away. Thunderstorms and tornadoes rolled across northern Indiana late Saturday and Sunday, washing out two bridges near South Bend and damaging roofs and cars west of Lafayette. Goshen received nearly 6 inches of rain. More than 5 inches of rain soaked Kansas, closing at least one highway and a bridge and swirling floodwaters over streets. Heavy rain swamped three counties east and south of Pittsburgh, Pa., Sunday. Further south, more than 2 inches of rain hit Charleston, S.C., and 3.1 inches of rain fell at Waynesboro, Ga. Tornadoes were reported in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia. Winds subsided in Utah, allowing crews to make some headway in curbing 60,000 lightning-sparked fires that charred two mountain communities near Oak City, a Mormon community of 425 people. Firefighters controlled a 7,000-acre fire west of the Great Salt Lake and were cutting a circle around an 11,800-acre blaze on Promontory Point north of the lake. A tornado ripped the roof off a hotel in Indiana, Pa., forcing the evacuation of 40 guests. Windows were shattered and several cars were damaged, but no one was injured. A twister near Neese, S.C., lifted a mobile home and "when it came back down there wasn't much left," said a sheriff's dispatcher. QUAKE TOLL -- Death toll in Iran's Kerman province in second devastating earthquake in seven weeks is estimated at 8,000. 8,000 deaths est. in Iranian earthquake ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Working through the ruins of smashed villages in sweltering heat, rescue teams dug out scores of bodies Friday to raise to more than 1,300 the official death toll in Iran's devastating earthquake, Tehran Radio said. U.N. officials estimated 8,000 were killed. Tehran Radio said rescue workers recovered another 100 bodies from the rubble being cleared since the quake -- measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale -- struck southeastern Iran's Kerman province Tuesday night. In Geneva, the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization said an estimated 8,000 people were killed in the quake and another 1,000 hospitalized. Tehran Radio said searchers have recovered the bodies of more than 1,300 victims. Iranian relief teams Thursday flew more tents, food and medical supplies to as many as 60,000 people directly affected by the earthquake that hit Kerman province Tuesday, toppling buildings and flattening a string of villages. Medical teams sprayed the wreckage of buildings with disinfectant to prevent outbreaks of disease and Tehran Radio broadcast urgent appeals for baby food bottles. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dispatched a personal representative to supervise the airlift of supplies to the area of the country to Kerman, 60,000 miles south-east of Tehran. Bakeries as far north as Mashhad were ordered to prepare bread for the stricken area. === Page 112 of 128 (2) Oregon Journal, July 31, 1981 13 EXPLOSION DEBRIS -- Warren Wheeler of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms walks through the wreckage left by a series of explosions in a Utah plant that killed five persons. The workers vanished in a 50-foot crater left by the huge blast. Only their cars, behind Wheeler, remained. United Press International - UFOs & Projects - (caused by Egyptian Power, which is setting off fires and explosions everywhere. One # Utah explosive plant blast kills 5 GRANTSVILLE, Utah (UPI) -- Federal agents say they may never know what triggered three violent explosions Thursday that disintegrated a mining detonator manufacturing plant and its five workers. But residents of the small farming community of Grantsville will never forget the day a huge fireball reduced the factory to a moon-like crater on the western Utah desert. "We estimate the first blast had the force of 14 tons of TNT," said Nick Dereta, agent in charge the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Utah. "They never knew what hit them." The plant manufactured a high-intensity explosive used as a "booster charge" to ignite less-volatile blasting material used in mining. The booster is 1.4 times as powerful as TNT. Dereta said the cause of the blasts may never be determined. He said the explosions probably were accidental and may have originated in the plant's chemical mixing area. But another BATF agent, Warren Wheeler, said they might have been touched off by a lightning storm that buffeted the region 50 miles west of Salt Lake City during the predawn hours. All the victims who vanished in the explosions lived in the town of 3,000. Among them was one of Utah's outstanding high school athletes -- Phillip Diderickson, 18, who graduated from high school in June after winning state titles in football, baseball, basketball, tennis and track. "I can't remember anything that comes even close to this," said Larry Harrison, a resident for 16 years and coach at Grantsville High School. "This is a tragedy no matter what," Harrison said. "But when it hits a community the size of Grantsville, there isn't anyone who isn't touched by it. This will be a source of conversation here for a very long time." === Page 113 of 128 MOAB. Utab (AP) - An explosion at a propane storage plant sent a ball of fire roaring into an adja- cent campground, injuring 10 people and forcing the evacuation of some 3.000 Moab residents, authorities said. An 8-year-old boy died Saturday after being burned in the Friday night blast, which Police Capt. Daniel Ison said apparently was touched off by light- ning Nine other people were injured, several of them critically, in the 10:15 p.m. explosion at the Doxol Storage Plant north of this southeastern Utah town. Two of those injured were employees of the bulk propane plant, Ison said. The other injured were stay- ing at the Slick Rock Campground. The dead boy was identified as Mike Davies of Montrose, Colo., according to John Dwan, a spokes- man for the Unversity of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The explosionknocked out power to about 7,000 households in the area for most of the night, forcing delays in airport flights and hampering communica- tions, said Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland. Power was restored at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. John Maecham estimat- ed that 3,000 people were evacuated from the north end of town following the explosion. They were sent to churches and schools and were allowed to return home about 3:30 a.m. after the fire was contained, Ison said. A small fire burned at the propane plant through midmorning, police said. "It appears a lightning strike may have ruptured a main feeder line," Ison said. Electrical power flick- ered, and then came an explosion with "about a 250- foot fireball," he said. tson said crews had to shut valves feeding three 20,000- to 30,000-gallon propane tanks before the fire could be contained. The ruptured line fed those tanks from two underground 5-million-gallon warehouses of propane and butane. "The tanks themselves did not explode," he said. Nyland said flames shot from the propane plant and struck vehicles parked in the back row of the privately owned campground. The injured were first taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Moab and to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. Spokesmen at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City said six of the in- jured were flown to the center's burn unit, with another awaiting transportation from Grand Junction. All of those taken to Salt Lake were in critical condition. Two people were in critical condition at Grand Junction, and a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition in a Denver hospital. The blast was the second major explosion in Utah in two days. Early Thursday, a blast at an explosives manufacturing plant near Grantsville, 20 miles west of Salt Lake City, killed five people, sent a 500-foot fireball into the sky and left a 150-foot-deep crater. The cause of the Grantsville explosion has not been determined! Oreg 8/2/89 Raging fires sear southern Greece - "FOR 6 Projects / so Florida) Sink hole swallows lake SACRAMENTO, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico, never known for its abundance of water, is even drier now that a 31%-acre lake has disappeared down a funnel- shaped sinkhole Crystal Lake at Camp Wehinahpay in the Sac- ramento Mountains has disappeared down a sinkhole that suddenly appeared in the lake's limestone bottom. Roy Chrisman, camp ranger at the Consquistador Boy Scout Council retreat, said most of the fish that lived in the lake also disappeared down the sinkhole." However, Bob Dugas, scoutmaster of Troop 270 in Carlsbad, said about 40 fish were saved when they settled into a small pond at one end of the lake bed. He and Chrisman scooped up the fish by hand and trans- ferred them to clean water outside the lake, Dugas said. The hole in the lake's bottom looks like a 20-foot- deep funnel, Chrisman said. It is 12 feet in diameter at its top, in the floor of the lake, and 18 inches at its base. He estimated that it took about 10 hours for the lake, which is 8,000 feet high, to run dry. However, Chrisman said he believed the hole could be patched with concrete and drilling mud. "It seems very repairable," he said org 8/9/81 land, killed at least three people, of thousands of acres of wood- week, have destroyed hundreds The fires, some of which have been burning for a threatening the birthplace of the Olympic Games. ATHENS, Greece (UPI) More than 4,000 army troops aided by special firefighting planes and helicopters bat- tled fires raging across southern Greece, including one -UPos & Projection- Oregon Journal, August 7, 1981 (2) 16 birthplace of the Olympic Games across the river Alfios. The flames raged Friday within 5 miles of ancient Olympia, threatening the age-old giant pines around the half-million olive trees and 10,000 goats and sheep. more than 100,000 acres of forest and pasture land, a The blazes in the southern Peloponnese have destroyed factories and a cinema in the suburbs of Athens. scope news stroyed scores of houses, four injured 35 people - most of them firefighters - and de- === Page 114 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Defense satellite has new problem CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Air Force space engineers have stopped their new military communications satellite from wobbling in its orbit above the equator but they have not solved its electronics problems. There are problems with the power system of the satellite, which was launched Aug. 6 from Cape Canaveral as part of a worldwide communications network, the Air Force said Wednesday. The 4,100-pound satellite "wobbled" when fired into stationary orbit 22,300 miles over the equator. Gray said that problem has been overcome. oreg P 8/13/81 - UFOs & Projects (2) - Oregon Journal, August 13, 1981 # Trojan nuclear plant shuts itself down twice in week Oregon's Trojan nuclear power plant twice this week shut itself off unexpectedly, but both times returned to operation within a few hours, Portland General Electric Co. reported Wednesday. At 9 p.m. Sunday, the reactor shut down automatically after a water pump stopped circulating water to the cooling tower because of a false signal that oil pressure in the pump was low. The pump was not damaged and power production was resumed by midnight, PGE spokesman Bill Babcock said. At 1 p.m. Monday, technicians checking oil pressure switches on the plant's circulating water pumps inadvertently caused the reactor to shut itself off. The plant was producing power again by 4:30 p.m., Babcock reported. Last week, Trojan operated at 85 percent to 100 percent of capacity. Extreme heat outdoors kept the plant's cooling tower from functioning properly at full power production, so electricity output was cut back to a level that produced a volume of heated water the cooling tower could cope with. - UFOs & Projects - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant was shut down Thursday, probably for 45 to 50 days, because of broken blades on a turbine in a non-nuclear portion of the facility, its operator said. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District noticed high vibrations just before 4 a.m. in one of three steam-driven turbines that generate electricity at the plant, said district spokesman Brad Thomas. He said some of the blades on the turbine rotor appeared to have broken off, throwing it out of balance. Plant superintendent Pierre Oubre estimated the shutdown at 45 to 50 days, Thomas said. oreg P 8/14/81 - UFOs & Projects - # 200 lightning fires burn 20,000 acres Nearly 200 fires sparked by lightning burned across 20,000 acres of Oregon Friday night as firefighters struggled to contain the blazes. Friday afternoon, firefighters controlled a 7,230-acre blaze that had jumped fire lines about 25 miles north of Vale, said Don Smurthwaite, a Bureau of Land Management spokesman. A fire is "contained" when fires lines are built around it and it is kept from advancing. Firefighters have a blaze under "control" when crews begin to reduce its size. The rangeland fire north of Vale had been contained Thursday afternoon, but winds gusting to 50 miles per hour caused the flames to leap across fire lines Thursday night and head east. Firefighters who had been from the blaze the BL Another fire, reported at 4:30 p.m. Thursday on BLM and private land about 40 miles northeast of Burns, is expected to be contained by Saturday morning, Smurthwaite said. The fire had burned about 2,000 acres of grass and brush by late Friday, and officials could not estimate when it would be controlled. The blaze was one of about 40 lightning-caused fires reported by the BLM Friday. The fires on BLM lands have burned more than 12,000 acres. The state Department of Forestry reported 52 new fires, and the U.S. Forest Service reported 100 fires of 10 acres or less that either started during a night of lightning and thunderstorms or began Friday. The numbers fluctuated into the night. The largest covered about 1,500 acres of sagebrush and timber about 20 miles northwest of Burns. Crews contained that fire about noon Friday, he said. Smurthwaite said the thunderstorm that touched off the fires resulted in as many as 100 lightning strikes per hour, according to the BLM equipment that monitors such storms. State Forestry Department crews were busy Friday evening with 52 fires in Northeast and Central Oregon, said Linda Gabrielson, a department spokeswoman. The largest of those fires were the 700-acre Squaw Creek fire near Pendleton, a 350-acre fire south of Baker and a 450-acre fire near Unity. Ms. Gabrielson said crews had contained all the larger fires and most of the smaller blazes. A 700-acre fire started at midday Friday southwest of Maupin and was burning through grass, juniper and brush toward the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The cause of that fire, which started on private land, was unknown, Ms. Gabrielson said. Fire crews were carefully watching the skies, as the U.S. Weather Service forecast more thunderstorms for the northeastern part of the state Saturday afternoon. oreg P 8/15/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Soviets report heavy flooding MOSCOW (UPI) -- Dozens of villages were inundated and thousands of buildings destroyed in floods caused by torrential rains in the Soviet Far East, newspapers reported Wednesday. There was no report of casualties in the flooding that struck the Khabarovsk region, near the border with China. oreg P 8/12/81 === Page 115 of 128 - UFOs & Projects + Fla. PK - # Missile downs errant blimp CUDJOE KEY, Fla. (AP) -- A runaway military radar balloon was shot down by a U.S. Air Force fighter over the Gulf of Mexico to "preclude an airspace safety hazard," officials say. The 180-foot balloon, laden with $3.5 million worth of radar equipment, was located Tuesday. The experimental zeppelin, nicknamed "Airman Fat Albert," had snapped a 12,000-foot cable as it was being pulled home Monday night to Cudjoe Key Air Force Station, officials said. The tether broke during a "routine inhauling" because of impending stormy weather, 20th Air Division spokesman Sgt. Larry Reetz said. Fishermen spied the drifting balloon and gave chase. The search was joined by the Coast Guard, Air Force and Navy. "Fat Albert" was finally downed by missiles fired from an F-4 aircraft about 165 miles west-northwest of Key West after airmen spotted it at an altitude of 25,000 feet, Lt. Susan L. Hankey said from Fort Lee Air Force Station, Va. Air Force personnel planned to retrieve the downed balloon, she said. oreg 8/13/81 - UFOs & Projects + Nevada PK - # Floods devastate Nevada farm area oreg 8/13/81 OVERTON, Nev. (AP) -- Residents of the Moapa Valley were digging out from under tons of sticky mud Wednesday as disaster officials tried to assess the damage left by floods that swept through several small farming communities. Gov. Bob List asked President Reagan on Tuesday to declare the valley -- a fertile strip of green winding through desert -- a disaster area to make it eligible for federal funds. Two floods spawned by a thunderstorm Monday night swept through the valley and hit Overton, a community of 1,700 persons on the shore of Lake Mead, forcing some 700 people from their homes. There were no major injuries, although one elderly woman was swept away by a 4-foot wall of water and found Tuesday buried to her hips in mud. She was hospitalized in Las Vegas and reported in stable condition. Granville Bowman, the Clark County public works director, said officials had not yet determined the amount of losses. "If someone gave me $5 million right now, I bet you could spend it in a hurry up there," he said. He said the "majority of the homes" in the area were "hit some way or another." County health officials said drinking water in some areas of Overton, Glendale and Logandale was contaminated when pipelines from water wells were ruptured by the flood. Residents were urged to boil their drinking water. The first flood, which came when a levee ruptured in a canyon, swept without warning through a mobile home park and damaged many of its 120 residences. The second flood occurred about four hours later when small earthen dams on the normally placid Muddy River gave way. B4 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDI Beverly Gloucester Trains Collide Boston Atlantic Ocean MASS. AP - UFOs & Projects: Disorientation - # Trains collide head-on; 3 die By FRED BAYLES oreg 8/12/81 BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) -- A commuter train filled with homeward-bound sunbathers collided head-on Tuesday with a freight train channeled onto the same track because of construction. Authorities said at least three people were killed and 27 were injured. "Somebody got the wrong train orders," said Roger Bergeron, a Federal Railroad Administration inspector. "One of those trains was given the wrong information." The dead included either two or three bodies still inside the wreckage late Tuesday, said state police Detective Lt. Francis O'Connor. He said railroad offi- - UFOs & Projects - # Rains sweep India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Monsoon rains and flooding rivers swamped several districts of central and western Indian on Monday, knocking out power and communication lines and isolating oreg 8/11/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Power lines kill skydiver SHERIDAN -- A Kennewick, Wash., woman was killed Sunday when high winds blew her into Portland General Electric Co. power lines while she was skydiving. Katherine Marie Zettergren, 44, jumped with three companions when the wind blew her away from her colleagues and into the power lines near Rock Creek Road, west of here, said Yamhill County Sheriff Sgt. Jim Carroll. Carroll said Ms. Zettergren had jumped 43 times before the accident that killed her and knocked out power in the area. "She just didn't seem to come down in the jump area," said Kathy Raymer of Pacific Parachute Center. Ms. Raymer said the jump area is about 5 acres. Dr. Lloyd Ragan, Yamhill County medical examiner, said, "She had injuries but the cause of death was probably electrocution." oreg 8/10/81 === Page 116 of 128 upon 6 projects - # State still swelters in blistering heat Oregon continued to swelter Sunday as record temperatures drove residents to public pools and beaches, and plagued firefighters battling a blaze that burned 2,500 acres on the outskirts of Redmond. Before the Redmond fire, the U.S. Forest Service issued a special "red flag" alert Sunday. Forest Service firefighting crews in Oregon and Washington were alerted, and all days off were canceled, according to Tony Percival, a Forest Service spokesman. "A red alert means an east wind will sweep down the Cascade slopes over exposed slopes, drying out (the forests)," Percival said. "A west wind has more moisture in it, so this makes forest fire danger extremely high." "From now on it will be extremely dangerous," Percival said. "The high temperature is drying things out and the east wind (gusting to 40 mph) adds to the problem." Forecasters for the National Weather Service said the dry, hot weather would continue Monday and Tuesday with highs exceeding the 100-degree mark in many locations. The weather service hinted at some relief in its three- to five-day forecast, calling for a gradual cooling trend in Western Oregon. Highs Wednesday through Friday are predicted to be in the relatively cooler 90-100 range. Portland's high was 105 Sunday. The previous day's 107-degree high matched the city's record high temperature, which was set July 30, 1965. In Medford, where the temperature rose to a record 114 degrees Saturday, the high Sunday was 111 degrees. Eugene's 108-degree temperature broke that city's all-time high, and Salem's 108 matched its all-time high. Although the central and southern coastal areas reported cool temperatures in the 60s and 70s, Tillamook had a high of 102 and Astoria had a high of 96 Sunday. Firefighters controlled a 500-acre fire in Klamath Falls Sunday afternoon. The blaze destroyed a mobile home and threatened at least 42 other dwellings. The fire began Friday on private land adjacent to a 1,700-acre area that burned a week ago. Oregon Department of Forestry officials said about 300 firefighters were on the scene Sunday. There were at least seven recreation-related drownings during the weekend in the Portland area, but no substantial number of pet or livestock fatalities were reported from the heat. At Multnomah County's Rocky Butte Jail, 4,500 pounds of ice was delivered Saturday and Sunday in an effort to help inmates keep cool, officials said. The ice was set in front of fans to cool the air. Multnomah County Fire District 10 hosed off the roof to help keep temperatures bearable. Across the Columbia River at Vancouver, Wash., Clark County Jail inmates not satisfied with relief provided from the heat broke two wash basins in the north tank, causing flooding. Four light fixtures were also destroyed. The inmates were returned to their cells after cleaning the mess following the 1 p.m. disturbance, said Sheriff Frank Kanekoa. There were no injuries and no damage estimate was available. Meanwhile, in Portland, there were 10 cases of heat exhaustion reported Saturday to area hospitals, and hospital officials said persons began calling early Sunday seeking advice on how to stay cool and avoid heat-related problems. Portland area department stores reported increased demand for air conditioning units, fans and other cooling items. "We've sold everything we could get our hands on -- the warehouse is empty, and the phone is ringing constantly," said Bill Tryck, a manager of a Fred Meyer store in Beaverton. Minor power outages as a result of overloading, winds and overheated power lines were reported in Southeast and Southwest Portland. oreq 8/10/81 ### Northwest Temperatures | City | Temp | |---|---| | Seattle | 99 | | Spokane | 91 | | Yakima | 102 | | Astoria | 96 | | Portland | 105 | | Salem | 108 | | The Dalles | 105 | | Pendleton | 97 | | Eugene | 108 | | Redmond | 93 | | North Bend | 72 | | Medford | 111 | | Klamath Falls | 95 | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1981 2 for 6 Projects : 7.5 govt. war against # Two workers missing in rocket lab explosion By BOB ROBINSON KEYSER, W.Va. (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a rocket propellant laboratory along the Potomac River, scattering debris more than 1,000 feet and leaving no trace of two workers apparently killed in the blast, officials said. The explosion late Monday left a large crater where the wooden laboratory had stood. The concussion was felt seven miles away. It was the third fatal explosion in 20 years at the Navy Ordnance System Command's Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, a sprawling complex in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The center is operated by Hercules Inc. under a Navy contract. "It happened so quickly. It's just one big ball of fire, and it's over," said M.P. Thompson, Hercules manager of general services. Authorities could find no remains of Charles W. Folk, 26, of Mount Savage, Md., or Bruce Legeer, 25, of Cumberland, Md. Hercules officials said the men were inside the building at the time of the blast. Dr. James Bosley, Mineral County coroner, signed death certificates after viewing the scene. The blast scattered debris "a thousand feet away," said John Burch, the center's quality assurance director. "There is no building any longer." The 1,000-square-foot, wooden building was surrounded by timber and earth so that, in case of an explosion, the force would be vented skyward to protect propellants in other buildings. About 100 similar buildings are evenly spaced throughout the complex. "They're all designed to do exactly what it did -- contain an explosion right there," Thompson said. The explosion was felt in neighboring communities in West Virginia and Maryland, but Thompson said some workers in the 425-acre complex did not realize anything had happened. "I felt it in my apartment, and I'm seven miles away," said Steve Richards, a newsman for Cumberland, Md., radio station WTBO. "It was like a rumbling sound. The place shook like a bad thunderstorm." Propellants were mixed in the building for a variety of rockets and experimental models, Thompson said. A center spokesman said rocket propellant ingredients are classified information, but Thompson said all were explosive. === Page 117 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects "deadly spies + war against U.S. govt. - # Canadians balk at U.S. flight aid By United Press International Some flights between the United States and Canada were delayed or rerouted Monday as Canadian air traffic controllers, saying the strike by U.S. controllers has made border skies unsafe, refused to handle the traffic. The Air Transport Association, representing major U.S. airlines, reported controllers in Montreal and Toronto began refusing early Monday to clear flights into the United States. Delta Air Lines also said one of its flights was turned back at Montreal, where an Air Canada spokesman said some controllers were claiming equipment problems. No delays were reported in flights out of Winnipeg, Vancouver or Calgary. The Canadian government threatened disciplinary action against any controllers who refuse to handle U.S. flights. FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman said there had been "sporadic refusals" by Canadian controllers Monday morning, but he said the protest did not appear widespread. "All we can tell you is that there have been a couple of instances where they refused to grant clearances, but it's not very widespread. . . . It's been so minor that we haven't been able to get a handle on it," Feldman said. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis was optimistic. "A number of countries have started this," he said Monday, citing a turnaround over the weekend in France. "We've worked them all out. We're working with the Canadian government." However, the boycott threat forced U.S. officials to reroute international air traffic that normally flies over Canada and Feldman reported that Canada's government used some supervisors early Monday to handle some U.S. flights. "The Vancouver controllers have been replaced with three supervisors who are handling the traffic normally," Feldman said, after one flight from Alaska to Seattle was diverted over the Pacific Ocean. Transport Canada warned its air traffic controllers that every refusal to handle flights between Canada and the United States could result in a fine of up to $5,000 or a jail term of one year. Announcement of the boycott was made late Sunday by the Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which vowed to stop handling all but emergency U.S. flights to back up some striking 12,000 members of their U.S. counterpart, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. **org J 8/10/81** - UFO 6 Projects - # Fires scorch 83,000 acres By The Associated Press Forest fires raced unchecked across 83,000 acres of timber and brushland in five Western states Monday, chasing hundreds of people from their homes and sending at least 35 buildings up in smoke. Erratic gale-force winds and record heat that topped 100 degrees in places helped fuel the flames that pushed across parts of California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Utah. In Nevada, about 600 firefighters, backed up by three air tankers, battled a dozen fires started during a lightning storm Sunday. About 400 residents were evacuated, but they were allowed to return Monday afternoon. One of the fires, on Mount Rose about 15 miles south of Reno, had destroyed about 5,000 acres and 25 structures while the second was burning out of control over 2,600 acres halfway between Reno and Carson City. Officials were not sure how many of the structures were homes. Robert Platt, an emergency room physician at the Washoe County Medical Center, said several people were treated for smoke-related injuries. In Northern California, 10 fires had consumed nearly 43,000 acres and several buildings. The exact number of structures destroyed was not known because firefighters could not get into some areas. Temperatures in parts of Northern California were climbing toward 110, including the area of an 18,000-acre fire in Lake and Mendocino counties that destroyed at least 10 structures, including the Scott's Valley Community Center, at least two homes, a $150,000 microwave television relay station, a mobile home and two barns. There were reports of 20 homes burning, but Beth Tustin, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said firefighters had not been able to get in to check. "It's still too hot," she said. About 700 firefighters were battling that blaze, aided by six air tankers, six helicopters and 27 bulldozers. The Lake County sheriff's department evacuated the outskirts of Lakeport, a city of 3,800 residents about 110 miles north of San Francisco, as the fire headed that way Monday morning. Two other fires in the area burned about 3,800 acres, officials said, and a fourth, 18 miles north of Lake Berryessa, burned about 7,000 acres. Five homes were lost in a fire that burned 1,500 acres in the Inyo National Forest on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, according to Forest Service dispatcher Larry Armas. Officials said that fire was started by children playing with matches. East of Sacramento, in El Dorado County, a fire started by a traffic accident charred about 2,600 acres of timberland and forced officials to close Highway 50 in the area. In Idaho, a wind-whipped range fire ignited by sparks from a train eight miles east of Dietrich had claimed 30,000 acres of sagebrush and range grass and still was out of control, according to Dale Chatteron, a dispatcher for the Bureau of Land Management. More than 250,000 acres of grazing land in the Shoshone district of southern Idaho has been burned by range fires this summer. In Utah, winds up to 50 mph fanned flames over 2,000 acres of brush in Echo Canyon, near Coalville. The winds blew smoke over Salt Lake City, 40 miles away. **neg 8/11/81** === Page 118 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # No quick relief likely from high-rise mercury Ore. J. 8/10/81 Oregon's 1981 record-breaking heat wave entered its fifth day Monday with only slight relief expected by midweek, according to the National Weather Service. Elsewhere, thunderstorms were reported throughout the western United States to Arizona, but they were not far enough north to break the hot spell in the Pacific Northwest. Flash flood watches were posted over southwestern Utah and northern Arizona and a high wind warning was in effect over northern Utah. The hot spell in Oregon has contributed to a rash of fires and power outages, the latter blamed in part on the heavy demand for air conditioners. At least eight persons have drowned in Oregon during the heat wave. Portland area hospitals treated a number of cases of heat exhaustion. Temperatures in Portland rose above 100 Sunday for the third straight day and things look much the same for Tuesday with the high expected in the 100 to 105 range. Sunday's high reached 105, shattering the old Aug. 9 record of 102 set in 1967. The reading was still two degrees short of the city's all-time top of 107 set in July 1965. Another 100 or more degrees Monday will not set a new record for consecutive 100 degree days in Portland. In July 1941, the city saw five straight days with readings of 100 or more. The inferno started Thursday when temperatures reached 99. Friday saw a high of 102. Saturday it hit 107 -- tying the city's record high -- and Sunday saw a top temperature of 105, recorded between 3 and 4 p.m. at Portland International Airport, the city's official recording station. Some other high temperatures Sunday around the state included 111 in Medford, 108 in Eugene which was a record high, Salem 108, and Astoria 96, exceeding the record for the month. Several temperature records tumbled in Washington Sunday. Olympia's 104 degrees broke an all-time high and 99 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport tied the previous record. A record 97 degrees was recorded at Quillayute. Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies Monday were to resume searching for a man about 40 years old presumed to have drowned in the Sandy River Sunday afternoon after jumping from the Troutdale Bridge. For about two hours, deputies dragged the area where he was seen swimming about 5:30 p.m., but they quit when their boat developed problems. A 16-year-old Eugene youth drowned Saturday evening after his boat capsized at the mouth of the Nestucca River in Tillamook County. Mike Davis and a companion were boating in the surf at the mouth of the river when the accident occurred, said a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter from the Astoria air base spotted the body in the ocean Saturday night about ¾-mile south of the mouth of the river. But an attempt to retrieve the body failed when it slipped from its life jacket. A search helicopter returned to the area Sunday. Two boys drowned in separate incidents Saturday afternoon. Robert Richard Tweet, 10, of Milwaukie, died Saturday after he slipped from his inner tube on the Clackamas River near the west end of Cross Memorial Park. Rescuers found the youth pinned beneath a large rock, but were unable to bring him to the surface, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies said. Levi Harley Pesterfield, 5, of 2831 SE 59th Ave., drowned during a family picnic Saturday at Benson State Park. He was swimming in a designated area at the time. Emanuel Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival. Two men who drowned Friday in the Seine Creek inlet to Hagg Lake have been identified as Santiago Martin-Garcia, 19, and Abel Mandujano Martinez, 28, both of Cornelius. A spokesman for the Washington County sheriff's office said one of the men waded into the creek and called for help when he got in over his head. Two men went in to help, but Martin-Garcia's brother, Raymon, 25, was the only one to return. A door left open in the hot weather let in more than a cool breeze Saturday. An armed robber took advantage of the easy entrance and escaped from a Southeast Portland residence with jewelry and an undetermined amount of cash. The heat wave also set the scene for health problems, with the state Department of Environmental Quality terming the air "unhealthful" this weekend. They continue warning people with respiratory ailments to avoid exertion and to stay indoors. Portland communities may feel the effect in more ways than dripping foreheads, however. - UFOs & Projects (deadly air space) - # Pilots given fake commands WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Three times since air traffic controllers went on strike commercial aircraft have been radioed bogus commands -- once in Florida and twice over the center of the country -- the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The FAA, the Federal Communications Commission and the FBI all are investigating those incidents, FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said. "We have no evidence of who's doing it," he said. "We have nothing to do with anything like that," Robert Poli, president of the striking Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the "phantom voices" and investigations Friday. "If I found out about anything like that happening, I would turn the people in myself," said the union chief, who said he has warned striking controllers any type of sabotage would "destroy us." (There has been no interference with communications at Portland International Airport, according to Harold John, tower chief.) Sending a bogus transmission to a pilot would violate FCC regulations and any charges involving endangering public safety likely would have to come from the Justice Department, said Farrar. "In no case has a hazardous situation resulted. In each case, either the controller or pilot involved recognized the instructions as false and they were either ignored or countermanded," said the FAA spokesman. Ore. J. 8/14/81 (Related stories, picture on page 2) === Page 119 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # San Joaquin Valley faces spraying as pest spreads By PETE JACOBS LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) -- The Mediterranean fruit fly has spread to the San Joaquin Valley, the heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year farm industry, and officials said Friday that aerial pesticide spraying would be started immediately in the area. Worried agriculture industry officials said winds could spread the fly over the entire valley within days. The discovery Thursday of six of the crop-destroying flies in the town of Westley represents the biggest setback in state officials' 14-month effort to keep the pest from spreading from largely residential areas to important commercial farms. Authorities said aerial spraying of malathion would begin just after midnight Friday over a 30-square-mile area 12 miles southwest of Modesto. Gordon Tween, deputy director of the medfly eradication project who flew by helicopter to the newly infested area, said the federal government would quarantine at least 81 square miles by late Friday. "Quarantine is going to be tough in here because you've got commercial produce right next door that moves to other parts of the country and the rest of the world," said Tween, who called the latest discovery "a very grave risk" to the state. Three counties near San Francisco -- Santa Clara, Alameda and San Mateo -- already are under federal quarantine, which requires that produce be treated with chemicals or cold before being shipped from the area. More than 500 square miles of Northern California have been sprayed with malathion and more than $25 million has been spent on eradication efforts, but the fly has continued to spread. The pest lays its eggs in 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables; California grows half the nation's produce. Three flies were found Thursday in traps in Westley, 20 miles southwest of Modesto. They were confirmed as wild male Mediterranean fruit flies, said Richard Steffen, a eradication project spokesman. Previous spraying has been done by helicopter, but officials said they may bring in fixed-wing military aircraft. Project director Jerry Scribner ruled out blanket spraying of the San Joaquin Valley, saying massive spraying would cost the state millions of dollars and "you're not guaranteed you're doing anything but pushing the fly down to levels that are undetectable." immediate, we mean immediate. Today." The summer harvest of peaches, apricots, tomatoes and grapes is under way in the valley. California produces 66 percent of the nation's peaches, 97 percent of its apricots and 92 percent of its grapes. The state's aerial spraying program was ordered by a reluctant Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. when the federal government threatened a quarantine of the entire state, which farmers say could mean economic disaster. The latest area to be sprayed was Livermore, 14 miles west of the San Joaquin Valley. Three helicopters dropped bait laced with malathion on the city of 48,000 Thursday night after the discovery of a fertile fly there Monday. Project officials announced Thursday that an area north of Santa Cruz and outside the main quarantine area would be sprayed next week as a result of the discovery of a fertile fly there. A 9-square-mile area near Milpitas was added Thursday. In Sacramento, Assembly Minority Leader Carol Hallett said Friday that she will initiate impeachment proceedings against Brown unless he turns the fruit fly battle over to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She accused Brown and Scribner of "reacting to the medfly instead of taking the preventative measures called for long ago." Brown could not be reached for comment. Gray Davis, his chief of staff, called the impeachment threats "pure political posturing." - UFOs 6 Projects - # High wind, heavy rain lash central states region By United Press International Scattered thunderstorms packing 60 mph winds lashed the Midwest late Friday, dumping more than 5 inches of rain in Iowa and sparking a tornado in Illinois. No injuries were reported. Heavy rains pushed across the southern Rockies, through the Midwest and into the Northeast late Friday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued early Saturday over Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. A flash flood watch was also posted for Lake, Cook and Bureau counties in northern Illinois. Several highways in northern Illinois were closed because of flooding Friday, the Illinois Department of Transportation said. The Savanna, Ill., Fire Department said a tornado touched down at the southern edge of the city. No injuries or damages were reported. Blustery winds were clocked at more than 60 mph in Milledgeville, Ill., and Clinton, Iowa. About 5 inches of rain soaked Clinton, Iowa, and 2.5 inches of rain fell in Des Moines in just 30 minutes. Des Moines officials said water was standing 4 feet deep in some parts of the city. Madison, Wis., was hit with almost 2 inches of rain and almost an inch fell in Chicago. Heavy rains in the West prompted flash flood watches early Saturday for western Arizona. Richard Rominger, director of the state Department of Food and Agriculture, said the spread to the San Joaquin Valley "was really not unexpected. Entomologists have been predicting we'd be very fortunate if something like this didn't happen." "We anticipated that it might happen," said Clark Biggs, spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation, saying that prevailing southerly winds could spread the flies through the valley within a couple of days. "It scares the bejabbers out of us," said Les Hubbard of the Western Growers Association. State Assemblyman John Thurman, D-Modesto, chairman of the Assembly's Agriculture Committee, said the new find means "we must have immediate spraying of that area, and we must put out many more traps. And when we say === Page 120 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Fire danger remains high as crews fight NW blazes Oreg. 8/16/81 Fire danger continued high to extreme in Eastern Oregon Saturday as firefighters battled timber and rangeland blazes set off during thunderstorms late last week. Lightning has caused nearly 200 fires since Thursday, and at least six of those continued to burn out of control Saturday. A fire that burned 6,240 acres of private and federal land 50 miles northwest of Condon was contained by crews at 6 p.m. Saturday, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Firefighters expected to control that blaze by 10 a.m. Sunday. Don Hostetter, BLM public affairs officer, said a blaze near Vale called the Sheeprock fire covered 500 acres of federal land six miles north of Castle Rock by Saturday afternoon. Fire dispatchers could not predict a containment or control time for that fire Saturday night. A 7,200-acre fire 30 miles north of Vale that had jumped fire lines earlier this week was again contained late Friday. The BLM said the blaze continued to burn within lines into Saturday. About 50 miles to the west, firefighters worked to control a 2,000-acre blaze near Beulah Reservoir. That fire was contained Saturday. A fire is contained when fire lines are built around it and it is kept from advancing. It is controlled when firefighters begin to reduce its size. The King Mountain fire, five miles north of Unity, was controlled Friday evening after burning 700 acres of private grassland, said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry. The Salisbury Junction fire, 10 miles south of Baker, was contained Friday afternoon, and 80 firefighters were on the line Saturday working to control the blaze, Smith said. The fire covered 400 acres of private land. There is no containment time estimated for the Squaw Creek fire, 18 miles east of Pendleton, which has burned 750 acres, Smith said. Another fire in the same area also has not been contained, he said. The Telephone Ridge fire, 13 miles east of Pendleton, received five loads of fire retardant Friday after it began to spread rapidly, Smith said. The fire has burned 650 acres. Four miles south of Ukiah, a 90-acre fire also is uncontained, Smith said, adding that 80 firefighters were working to contain that blaze. Meanwhile, five blazes scorched nearly 1,500 acres in Idaho, and 35 small fires were reported scattered across Washington, The Associated Press reported. In Idaho, one blaze burned 800 acres of land about 20 miles east of Burley, said acting fire management officer Fred Wood. A few acres of private graze land were burned, but no buildings were threatened, he said. A second fire in Idaho burned 650 acres on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation about 15 miles southwest of Pocatello. It was contained Friday afternoon, Wood said, and declared out Saturday night. A third Idaho fire burned about 15 acres of mountainous area before crews extinguished it at 4 p.m. Saturday. All the Idaho fires were caused by lightning, Wood said. Lightning also sparked at least 35 small fires in Eastern Washington Friday in the Wenatchee National Forest. All the fires, which burned on less than an acre each, were contained quickly, but fire management officer Lana Thurston said more lightning-caused fires were expected. - UFOs & Projects - # 39 airmen drug probe suspects Oreg. 8/16/81 OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) -- Thirty-nine airmen, including 14 security policemen and nine who had access to sensitive information, are suspected of using or selling drugs at Offutt Air Force Base, the Air Force says. Master Sgt. Sam Curley of the base public relations office said Friday the 39 airmen were singled out in an investigation conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. "The investigations indicate that there was some on-duty use of marijuana," said Curley, who declined to release the names of suspects. "There was no on-duty sale or transfer of marijuana." Nine of the airmen, Curley said, had duties involving classified information or they worked in restricted areas. He would not elaborate. Offutt is the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command. Curley said the nine have been denied access to the information and restricted areas pending results of the investigation, which also involved amphetamines. The airmen are from nine units. The results of the investigation will be given to unit commanders who will decide what, if any, penalty will be imposed. Curley said the 14 security policemen have been removed from normal duties pending the outcome of reviews of their cases. Others allegedly involved are weathercasters, maintenance workers, medical technicians and medical administrative specialists. The units are the 3902nd Air Base Wing, the 3902nd Civil Engineering Squadron, the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, the 3902nd Security Police Squadron, Air Force Global Weather Central, the First Aerospace Communications Group, the Strategic Communications Division, the Ehrling Bergquist Regional Hospital and the 554th Intelligence Exploitation Squadron. "Seven of the airmen are allegedly involved with sales and transfer of marijuana and other dangerous drugs, while 32 are allegedly involved with the possession and use of marijuana," Curley said. Some of the investigations go back as far as last March, Curley said. He said he did not know when the cases would be resolved by the unit commanders: "It could take a week to a month for these reviews." Because "there are a wide variety of actions a unit commander can take," Curley said he would not speculate on possible penalties for airmen found guilty of using or selling drugs, but, "removal from the Air Force is an option for a proven serious offense." Curley said most of those under investigation have been airmen for less than five years and are between the ages of 18 and 26. === Page 121 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects # Fires blacken six Western states Record temperatures for the fifth straight day have sparked a series of fires in six Western states that have blackened thousands of acres of valuable forest, farm and rangeland, caused evacuation of hundreds of people and burned several homes. Fires were reported burning Tuesday in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California and Utah. The tinder-dry conditions have resulted in closing broad sections of Oregon and Washington forest lands to logging and other activities that might spark fires. Firefighters battled two out-of-control range fires in the Steens Mountain area south of Burns that have blackened more than 4,600 acres. One of the blazes, believed sparked by an unattended campfire near the Blitzen River 15 miles from Frenchglen, consumed an estimated 3,600 acres in a remote area that is difficult to reach. Another Steens fire, started by lightning, had burned 1,000 acres by Monday night. A fire in steep terrain south of Mount Ashland on the California-Oregon border destroyed a house near Colstin Monday afternoon and threatened to spread from the Klamath National Forest into the Rogue River National Forest. Conditions were termed "hot, dry and miserable" near Tiller, 30 miles southeast of Roseburg, where 200 firefighters succeeded in trailing a fire early Tuesday that consumed 500 acres and threatened a schoolhouse and several homes. Wayne Miller, administrative assistant for the Douglas Forest Protective Association, said no structures were burned but that it was touch and go for a time. A barn was reported afire Tuesday morning near Azalea. It was filled with animals and "millions of dollars of precious instruments." Another barn burned near Canyonville Monday night. A brush fire that blackened 3,000 acres on the outskirts of Redmond and caused evacuation of nearly 150 people was controlled Monday. It left at least six homes destroyed, four people injured and more than $1 million damage. A new brush fire was battled during the night Monday north of Redmond, but no homes were threatened. Flash floods and high wind added to the problems in Nevada where several hundred persons fled their homes. Major highways were closed because of the flooding. Police reported that several people were unaccounted for, although there were no confirmed deaths or injuries. At one point, temperatures in Las Vegas dropped within minutes from 100 degrees to 75 while 70-mph winds kicked up sand and debris. A range fire burned out of control Tuesday near Lake Tahoe, one of two that have turned 9,000 acres of suburbs and brushland into a federal disaster area. More than 2,000 firefighters were reported battling blazes in Western states, hampered by above 100-degree temperatures in many places and gale-force winds elsewhere. A large grass fire was reported near Rattlesnake Mountain on the Rockwell-Hanford facility in Washington, but no structures were threatened. In the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, dust kicked up from the crater of Mount St. Helens made visibility poor. oregon 8/11/81 # Dams collapse in downpour BY TIM DAHLBERG GLENDALE, Nev. (AP) -- Several earthen Muddy River dams collapsed as a "terrible downpour" lashed southern Nevada, releasing a wall of water that trapped an elderly woman in mud, drowned cattle and forced 700 Moapa Valley residents to flee. The dams burst as a fast-moving summer storm dumped more than an inch of rain on southern Nevada Monday night. The storm's 68 mph winds knocked out power at 100,000 homes in the Las Vegas Valley. "We worked the areas over and we feel there is nobody dead," said Lt. Don Wellington of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. An elderly woman was swept away when a four-foot wall of water rushed through an Overton trailer park. Wellington said Lillian Martin, 85, was found Tuesday buried up to her hips in mud. She was in stable condition at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas. Overton, at the valley's south end, was hardest hit. A police spokesman said the south end of the community was "under water." Authorities said up to 300 cattle were killed and 1,000 cattle were missing in the Moapa Valley, a dairy area about 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "There was a terrible downpour out there last night," said Red Cross spokeswoman Cathy Whitney. "At this point I'm really not certain about the true extent of the damage." Meanwhile, in Tucson, Ariz., about 40 families were evacuated from their homes as a 5-foot wall of water rolled through the Canada del Oro wash on Monday. Winds were clocked up to 80 mph as severe thunderstorms rolled across the state. The storm knocked out electrical service for about 100,000 Las Vegas customers of Nevada Power Co., said spokeswoman Jane Strobel. Traffic signals were out and tree limbs were reported down all over town. At McCarran International Airport, air traffic backed up over the storm until ground conditions permitted landings, said Federal Aviation Administration specialist George Mankey. - UFOs 6 Projects # More fruit flies found in Florida TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) -- The discovery of a fifth Mediterranean fruit fly in east Tampa sent spray crews Saturday into an area outside the original infestation zone. The discovery was outside the 17-square-mile spray area zoned by agriculture officials after the discovery of the other four Medflies, but still was within the 48-square-mile quarantine area imposed by federal and state agriculture departments. The discovery was a blow to agriculture officials, who had gone almost five days without any trace of a Medfly, and increased the threat to the state's $4 billion produce industry. A United Airlines 727 jetliner carrying 135 passengers from Chicago ran low on fuel and was forced to land at the tiny Needles, Calif., airstrip. The pilot landed safely on the 5,000-foot runway 100 miles south of here, and the passengers and crew were bused to Las Vegas. At Kingman, Ariz., a mobile home lost its roof and another was damaged in the winds. Rains caused flash floods there and in southern Mohave County, the National Weather Service said. Officials said the evacuation in Tucson began at about 3:30 p.m. but families were allowed to return to their homes early in the evening. Officials reported no injuries or major property damage in the flood, which began to recede about 5:30 p.m. === Page 122 of 128 -NFU 6 Projects - 16 Oregon Journal, August 13, 1981 (2) # Furious rain, wind, hail batter nation from South to California By United Press International Thunderstorms lashed parts of the South and the West Thursday as tornado-like wind estimated at 120 mph overturned 30 railroad cars and ripped roofs from buildings in Southern California. Heavy rain prompted flash flood watches Thursday in Arizona, southeast-ern Nevada and northern New Mexico. A flash flood warning was issued Wednes-day night for central Utah. Officials said the wind knocked over 30 cars of a freight train standing in a South-ern Pacific yard. About six of the cars were empty petroleum tank cars. "We estimated the wind at about 120 mph," said fire Capt. Felipe Aguilar. He said he thought the storm was a tornado. A National Weather Service spokesman in Indio could not confirm whether the blast was a tornado. A severe thunderstorm watch was post-ed late Wednesday for the southern tip of Nevada, southeast California and western Nevada. Dime-sized hail pelted southern Nevada about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. One-inch hail was reported about 70 miles east of San Diego, Calif. The furious 15-minute storm Wednes-day in Indio, Calif., unleashed wind that toppled mobile homes and damaged palm trees. Police said no injuries were report-ed, although blown-out traffic signals sparked a rash of minor car accidents. "It cut a path through the eastern por-tion of the city," said police Lt. Warren Holcomb. "It knocked down telephone and power poles and blew off portions of rooftops to numerous residences and busi-nesses." Tucumcari, N.M., got nearly 2 inches of rain in six hours and Clovis, N.M., got nearly an inch. A frontal system spread showers and thunderstorms into the south Atlantic and Gulf Coast states Wednesday. Stronger storms dumped hail at Phenix, Ala., near the Alabama-Georgia border. Firefighters sweating in sizzling heat slowly gained the upper hand over range and brush fires that charred more than 126,000 acres in five Western states, de-stroying dozens of homes and $30 million worth of timber. === Page 123 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - (Pyocne) # Moth damage soars in Northeast New York Times News Service ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gypsy-moth caterpillars did a record amount of damage in the Northeast in 1981, eating the leaves off trees covering at least 9 million acres from Maine to Maryland, according to estimates by forestry experts. That was twice the area defoliated last year, they said. "This is the greatest defoliation or infestation that has ever been recorded in the Northeastern United States," said Peter W. Orr, an official of the U.S. Forest Service at its regional office in Broomall, Pa. Next year will be as bad or even worse in the Northeast, Orr predicted, unless the moths -- which are in a stage of their life cycle when they do no damage -- are controlled by parasites, predators, weather or disease. Moreover, there have been indications that the gypsy moths were spreading across the nation, pest-control officers for the state said. Minor infestations have been reported in Virginia, West Virginia and Arkansas, and male moths have been trapped in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, and as far west as California. Previously, the moths were confined to the Northeast. Forestry experts disagreed on how long the gypsy-moth problem would last. "This should be the tail end of an upswing in the population cycle," said Dr. Warren Johnson, professor of entomology at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "Nature has a way of controlling population explosions." But Michael Birmingham, chief of the Forest Inspection and Disease Management Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, said, "We have had four years of gypsy-moth damage, and each year it seems to get a little worse." A more accurate indication of the 1982 crop of gypsy moths will come this fall, when teams of foresters go into the woods and start counting gypsy-moth egg masses. The economic effects of the damage caused by the moths, particularly in the loss of growth of timber trees, were described as enormous, although no precise figures were available. One estimate, made in the 1970s, indicated that timber losses could average about $14 an acre over a period of five years. If that figure holds, it could mean a loss in 1981 alone of at least $28 million for the Northeast. # California, Florida step up medfly attack By The Associated Press California crews expanded efforts to track the Mediterranean fruit fly Sunday after the discovery of an egg-laden fly outside a three-county area under quarantine because of the destructive pest. Meanwhile, authorities in Florida readied a single helicopter for a dawn pesticide assault Monday on a Tampa neighborhood where three dead medflies were found last week, the first trace of the tiny fly in Florida in 18 years. Supervisors of Santa Cruz County, Calif., where the fertile female fly was discovered, scheduled a meeting to discuss the problem Monday, the first day of the apple harvest. The fertile fly was found 30 miles outside a 267-square mile area under quarantine where officials announced Saturday the discovery of two other female flies, neither of them fertile. One was found in San Jose, and the other was discovered in nearby Morgan Hill, according to medfly eradication project spokesman Dick Thompson. An expanded, intensified attack on the pest was to be launched in California this week. But workers immediately began expanding their fly-trapping program. Florida officials set up traps in and around an area where ground-spraying crews doused trees with the pesticide malathion over the weekend in hopes of containing any possible fly infestation. In Texas on Sunday, state House members voted 100-1 to give Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown more authority and money to deal with the fly threat. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, allows the commissioner to order inspection of vehicles entering Texas for evidence of pests or diseases without first declaring a quarantine. oreg 8/10/81 === Page 124 of 128 - NFDA 6 Projects - # Canadians disrupt air traffic flow **United Press International** Trans-Atlantic travelers faced more delays and flight cancellations Tuesday as a boycott by Canadian controllers choked the flow of U.S.-European air traffic. Flights between the northeastern United States and Europe were rerouted south of Canadian air space -- cutting off the most direct flight path. The action by Canadian air traffic controllers also continued to disrupt some flights between the United States and Canada. At the same time, U.S. authorities braced for more possible snags because of plans by Australian controllers to refuse to handle U.S. flights, effective Tuesday. A similar boycott beginning Saturday is planned by Portuguese controllers. Dutch controllers said they will decide Tuesday or Wednesday whether to act. "There will be delays (in all trans-Atlantic flights) and the recommendation is that international travelers keep in contact with their own local carriers," said spokesman Dick Stafford of the Federal Aviation Administration. "We expect the delay situation to continue through the greater part of today." Groups representing foreign controllers charge that U.S. flights have become unsafe since President Reagan fired 12,000 controllers, now in the ninth day of a nationwide strike, and began manning U.S. control towers with non-striking controllers, supervisors and military controllers. Meanwhile, the Reagan administration Tuesday planned to resume its attempt to persuade an administrative law judge to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization as the bargaining unit for striking U.S. controllers, who walked out Aug. 3. Further federal court action also was pending Tuesday on massive fines against the union. A meeting to set long-term flight schedules until the air traffic system returns to normal -- the administration says it could take two years to rebuild the air traffic system -- was set Tuesday among airline representatives, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and FAA chief Lynn Helms. At New York's Kennedy Airport, some European flights arrived at least 10 hours late Tuesday, but airport officials said they expect no delays in departures. In Britain, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said the normal flow of summer season air traffic -- 450 flights a day -- had been cut to only four flights per hour because of the Canadian boycott. Airlines across Europe were given an average of five hours' notice of when each would be able to claim one of the quarter-hourly take-off slots, creating airport chaos and disappointment for travelers. At London's Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest, nine U.S.-bound flights were scrapped Tuesday morning, and a spokesman described the situation as "chaotic." British Airways, which canceled five U.S.-bound planes, put out a sign warning "it is impossible to predict times" and stopped checking in Canadian flights. William Robertson, head of the 2,200-member Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Association, charged Tuesday that "trans-border flight safety has been severely jeopardized" by the U.S. air controllers strike. - NFDA 6 Projects - # 5 days of searing heat bake state ### Official Portland scorching score The heat goes on, but relief is on the way. After a fourth straight day of temperatures of more than 100 degrees in Portland Monday, the National Weather Service is predicting a Wednesday high of 88 degrees. Tuesday, the temperature was expected to reach 98 degrees. Monday's all-time high of 107 degrees, recorded at 4:10 p.m., tied Portland's all-time high temperature, reached in July 1965 and matched Saturday, it was enough to shatter the Aug. 10 high of 102 degrees set in 1971. Dr. Larry Lewman of the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's office reported Tuesday that there has been a substantial increase in deaths of elderly people, "some of which may be heat-related." He added that some from heart or lung disease and the current heat wave introduced stress that they could not resist. Medford on Monday continued to receive the brunt of the onslaught of hot air as temperatures reached 110 and above for the fourth day in a row. Only once before -- in July 1940 -- had the temperature hit 110. High temperatures elsewhere around the Pacific Northwest included 109 in the Dalles; 107 in Salem; 106 in Eugene; 104 in Walla Walla, Wash.; 101 in Yakima, Wash.; and Olympia, Wash.; 98 in Seattle, and 99 in Pendleton. The heat provided the opportunity for what some might call sick humor in its 3:40 p.m. weather service wire report from the National Weather Service. In its sub-titled "the chance for measurable rain or snow," the weather service wire report told the chance: "zero through Tuesday night." Those seeking comfort from electric fans or ice for cool summer drinks were disappointed as area residents all but stripped local stores of those items. Liz Lane, of Beaverton, unsuccessfully searched for a fan in five department stores last weekend. There were some minor power outages and the problem was not as severe as it was last weekend. Main electrical circuits in many homes were tripping Monday night under the crunch of air conditioners. Portland General Electric was advising air conditioner users to let the machines off for a few hours to let the circuit cool down if the system shuts down, a PGE spokesman said. Many Portland residents returned to work Monday after a weekend of jostling through crowds at area beaches, lakes and parks in attempts to escape the heat. Many fled to the coast where regions of the Oregon Coast where temperatures were substantially lower. But many motorists grew heated anyway when faced with massive traffic jams along coastal roads. "It was a zoo around here Sunday," said Robert Moore of Otter Rock. "Traffic was bumper to bumper all day along the eight mile stretch between Newport and Otter Rock." At least 60 persons were treated at Portland area hospitals for heat-related ailments, according to a check by the Journal. Others have been flooding police switchboards with requests for help. Official high temperatures for Portland for the past week, as monitored by the U.S. Weather Service at Portland International Airport, were: | Day | Temp | |---|---| | Tuesday | 81 | | Wednesday | 86 | | Thursday | 88 | | Friday | 99 | | Saturday | 102 | | Sunday | 107 | | Monday | 105 | | Tuesday | 107 | === Page 125 of 128 - UFO_ 6 Projecto - Navy jets down 2 Libyan fighters oreg J 8/19/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two U.S. Tomcat fighters, fired at by a pair of Lib- yan warplanes, shot down the Soviet-built jets in a minute-long dogfight Wednesday over disputed waters of the Mediter- ranean Sea, the Pentagon said. The U.S. government formally protest- ed what it called the "unprovoked" attack by two SU-22 Libyan jets, which it said occurred "in international air space over international waters in the south-central Mediterranean Sea." However, a Libyan diplomat in London charged that the U.S. fighters violated his country's air space over a section of the Gulf of Sidra covered by a broad territori- al claim by Libya that is not recognized by the United States. A Libyan military spokesman, quoted by government-run Tripoli radio, charged that eight U.S. fighter planes attacked the two Libyan jets as they were carrying out "routine reconnaissance and inspection flights" over the Mediterranean. He charged that the incident "endangered world peace." THE PENTAGON SAID the F-14s, sta- GREECE SICILY Mediterranean Sea MALTA USS Nimitz REPORTED AREA OF CONFLICT Tripoli Benghazi Gulf of Sidra LIBYA 0 200 miles UPI BATTLE SCENE - Map details area where U.S. Navy fighters shot down two Libyan warplanes after they at- tacked the F- 14s from carrier Nimitz. tioned on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz, were taking part in a 6th Fleet exercise about 60 nautical miles off the Libyan coast when they were ap- proached and fired upon. They downed the Libyan jets with heat- seeking missiles, then returned safely to the Nimitz. The pilot of one of the single- seat SU-22s was seen parachuting from his downed aircraft, the Pentagon said. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the formal U.S. protest was lodged through diplomatic channels in Belgium. In Brussels, a special meeting of the NATO Council was called at American request. Diplomatic sources said the Unit- ed States was expected to inform the council of the attack and the downing of the Libyan jets. Weinberger, relying on the official U.S. position on the limits of Libyan sovereign- ty, insisted the 6th Fleet exercise was not intended to provoke Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy, whom the Reagan ad- ministration has labeled a ringleader of international terrorism. "No, I couldn't consider it a provocation because they are international waters," he told a morning news conference. "There's no basis for any claim in the area where this incident took place that they were national waters or anything other than international waters." IN LOS ANGELES, vacationing Presi- dent Reagan was awakened and informed of the attack at 4:24 a.m. Vice President George Bush, other members of the Na- tional Security Council and congressional leaders also were notified. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "We regret the attack that made it necessary to take the action," but reiterat- ed the U.S. position that the exercises were being held in international waters. The Pentagon said the U.S. jets were fired upon, then "took action in response and shot down both Libyan aircraft at 1:20 a.m. EDT." Weinberger and Gen. Phillip Gast, di- rector of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the two Libyan planes were flying north, away from Libya, and first were spotted by the American planes on radar. After making visual contact, one of the Libyan planes fired a Soviet-made Atoll missile while the other fired his guns at the U.S. planes. Both American aircraft answered the attack by firing AIM-9L Sidewinder mis- siles, which struck their targets, downing the Libyan planes. "THEY WERE FOLLOWING interna- tional rules of engagement that would govern this kind of situation and carried out their instructions and carried them out extremely well," Weinberger said of the response by the U.S. pilots. The SU-22 is one of the Sukhoi series of Soviet-built fighters - an updated ver- sion of the plane used by Syria during the 1973 war in the Middle East and is consid- ered a poor match for the more sophis- ticated F-14. Pentagon officials said the encounter lasted only about one minute. The Defense Department last week an- nounced that the 6th Fleet would hold maneuvers off the Libyan coast, within the 120-mile limit Khadafy has set for his country's territorial waters. As late as Tuesday, the State Depart- ment reiterated for reporters the Reagan administration's contention that the exer- cises would not encroach on legitimate Libyan territorial interests as recognized by the U.S. government. "The U.S. government is protesting through diplomatic channels this un- provoked attack, which occurred in inter- national air space over 60 nautical miles from nearest land," the Pentagon said Wednesday. Weinberger told reporters there was no reason to have expected the Libyan at- tack. However, less than 24 hours before the attack, an editorial by the government- run Libyan news agency JANA called the U.S. maneuvers "armed provocations" and vowed that Libya would "fight in defense" of its territory. "THE FACT THAT these maneuvers are taking place proves America's real intentions and proves the bloodthirsty ter- rorists are pressing ahead with their plans to continue their aggression against the Libyan people," the editorial said. The Pentagon said the 6th Fleet exer- === Page 126 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Dennis churns up Atlantic Seaboard MIAMI (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Dennis churned up the Atlantic Seaboard with renewed vigor Wednesday, leaving south Florida swimming in nearly 20 inches of rainfall. Forecasters warned residents along the Georgia and Carolina coasts to prepare for a possible hurricane. No injuries were reported in Dennis' three-day visit to Florida, but forecasters warned that the tenacious storm could become more of a threat to life and property in the next few days. Gale warnings were posted for the coasts of extreme northeast Florida, Georgia and South Carolina as the storm, with peak winds of about 50 mph, moved up the Atlantic off northeast Florida. The center was about 40 miles east-southeast of Jacksonville, Fla., and moving northward at about 10 mph. It was expected to maintain that course but slow somewhat later Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami warned of severe thunderstorms, gusty winds and the possibility of a tornado or two in the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina on Wednesday. It also said conditions generally favor strengthening of the storm's velocity but added that the proximity of land would slow the process. Forecaster John Hope said late Tuesday that if the storm did gain strength, it could approach hurricane strength of 74 mph during the day. Hope urged residents along the coasts of North and South Carolina to "monitor the progress of the storm closely as a threat to those areas will develop today if the storm strengthens and maintains its projected north northeasterly course." Many south Floridians who were hoping Dennis would help alleviate the state's months-long water shortage got more than they bargained for -- flooded streets, power outages, evacuations and snarled traffic. Over three days, Dennis dumped 19.83 inches of rain on suburban Kendale Lakes and 18.84 inches on the farming community of Homestead. Both are south of Miami. Forecasters, meanwhile, were watching a new tropical depression that formed Tuesday in the central Atlantic, 1,200 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Hope said the depression, with highest winds of 35 mph, is expected to move west for several days and could intensify into a tropical storm. - UFOs & Projects - # Lightning plagues NW firefighters By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Lightning, striking as frequently as five times per minute, ignited numerous fires Tuesday afternoon and night east of the Cascades in Washington and Oregon. Most of the blazes were small, however. About 20 fires were started in the Burns district alone in Oregon. Most of the blazes were small, however. Two fires merged into one 50 miles northeast of Lakeview and had blackened 5,000 acres by Wednesday morning, the Bureau of Land Management reported. Another 3,000 acres burned near Steens Mountain. There were scattered rain showers, sometimes strong enough to knock down wheat, but not where they were of much help against the fires, BLM officials said. Elsewhere in Oregon, planes dumped retardant on a lightning-caused fire near La Grande in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, and a stubborn fire 16 miles southwest of Klamath Falls that started Sunday was brought under control. Jim Fisher, spokesman for the Oregon State Forestry Department, said 21 new fires were reported on state-protected land, 13 of them lightning-caused. Eight were in the John Day area and five near Klamath Falls. All were under control and in mop-up stages Wednesday. Lightning set a substantial blaze in the Pasayten Wilderness in the Okanogan, Wash., area, abutting the Canadian border. It is in an area where crews must be brought in by helicopter, or hike three hours. Allen Gibbs, Okanogan National Forest spokesman, said significant winds were forecast for Wednesday afternoon, and the fire already is crowning, or burning from treetop to treetop. The blaze, however, is in an area of green meadows, and fire bosses hope to use them as a natural firebreak. More than 16,000 gallons of retardant were dropped on the blaze late Tuesday. Contained is a 388-acre fire at Blue Lake west of Tonasket, Wash. It has been burning out of control since Sunday. === Page 127 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Jet runs off runway; 3 passengers injured FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Pan American World Airways Boeing 727 ran off the end of the runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday while attempting to take off, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Firefighters and paramedics immediately evacuated the jetliner, said FAA spokeswoman Gerri Cook in Atlanta. Three passengers suffered minor injuries, and there was some damage to the aircraft, though the extent was not immediately determined, said FAA spokesman Jack Barker. Spokesman Dick Stull at Broward General Hospital said a woman was treated for possible head and neck injuries, and her husband was also being treated. A third man suffered a sprained ankle, Stull said. A short time later, a firefighter who had been sprayed in the eye with foam was brought to the hospital, Stull said. Cook said the landing gear of Pan Am Flight 953, bound for Houston and Las Vegas, collapsed when the jet aborted a takeoff, ran off the end of the runway and became mired in the mud. Barker said National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the scene, along with FAA inspectors. "It appears the pilot aborted the takeoff, but why we don't know," Barker said. The FAA spokesman said reports that a "mystery voice" had ordered the pilot to abort the takeoff were false. "That's the first thing I checked when I found out it was Fort Lauderdale," Barker said. Last week, several airports around the country, including Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, reported "mystery voices" had tried to give bogus instructions to pilots. The jet carried 58 passengers and a crew of seven, said Harvey Berman, an airline spokesman in New York. "I want to emphasize this had nothing to do with the air traffic controllers strike," Berman said. # Airliner, light plane nearly collide By WILLIAM G. BLAIR New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- An airliner carrying 118 passengers and a private light plane were reported to have nearly collided over New Jersey Sunday evening, but just how close they came was in dispute Monday between the pilots. The airline pilot, who filed a near-midair collision report with the Federal Aviation Administration after landing at Newark International Airport, claimed the private craft had flown within 200 feet of the larger plane, according to Irving Moss, a spokesman in New York for the federal agency. Moss said the private pilot, in an interview Monday with the FAA, maintained that the closest he got to the airliner was 2,000 feet. An investigation was opened into the incident, reportedly the second "near miss" over New Jersey since the unionized air controllers walked off the job Aug. 3. Moss said there were no injuries in the incident and "no indication of controller error." The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, the union representing the 12,000 controllers who went on strike, has been contending that the use of substitute controllers endangers the lives of air passengers. For one passenger aboard the fully loaded Boeing 737 of People Express Airlines, there was no doubt about the nearness of the light plane, which the FAA said was being flown by Richard R. Hough of Morristown, N.J. "I thought I was going to die," the passenger, Emanuel Kelmenson of Jericho, N.Y., said Monday. "It was right in full view, coming toward us at a right angle, and I thought it was going to shear off the wing." Both planes veered up and away from each other, he added. "I'd never experienced anything like that before -- right there in living color!" Kelmenson exclaimed. "I don't plan to fly again until things are back to normal." The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday at an altitude of 5,000 feet about 25 miles northwest of Morristown as the Boeing 737 was descending on its approach to Newark Airport. The plane, one of nine 737's that make up the fleet of the recently established airline, had left Buffalo at 6:35 p.m. Harold Pareti, manager of the People Express, said it "appears from the company's preliminary investigation that our flight was under positive air traffic control by the New York air traffic control center and was at its assigned altitude and location." "Upon visually sighting the other aircraft," Pareti continued, "the People Express captain took all of the necessary and correct procedures." The airline declined to identify the plane's captain. The FAA's Moss said the private plane, a Grumman Widgen, which seats five, was flying under visual flight rules at the time of the incident. These rules, he said, require the pilot to "look out for other planes and avoid them" but they do not specify the distance to be kept. Moss said Hough had told the FAA he "saw the People Express aircraft from a distance of 3,000 feet, made a right climbing turn and did not come any closer than 2,000 feet from the other aircraft." Nevertheless, Hough, a 63-year-old businessman with 20 years of flying experience, said in an interview with a reporter, "It was much too close for comfort." After the incident, Moss said, the Widgen continued its flight and landed at the Mercer County Airport near Trenton. aug 8/18/81 === Page 128 of 128 - Util 6 projects - "deadly air space" # Light planes collide over San Jose; 1 dead By JOHN RICE SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two light planes collided over San Jose and crashed onto the grounds of the main library Monday, killing one person and injuring two, police said. "They just crashed in midair," said Norma Rodriguez, a secretary at the library. "There was no other sound than the sound of the two planes colliding. I looked up and they were just spinning down toward the grounds." The 12:50 p.m. accident involved a Cessna 172 two-seater and a four-seat Piper Cherokee, both bound for San Jose Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration tower at the airport. The pilot of the Cessna, James Elbert Moses, 47, of Santa Clara, was killed, police said. The injured, both aboard the Piper, were Robert Short, 54, of Mountain View and pilot Bruce Marlow, 25, of Los Altos, according to San Jose Hospital spokesman Richard Peryam. He said they were both in stable condition. "They were talking to the tower, but they had the responsibility for separation between themselves," said an FAA spokesman, who hastily hung up the phone before giving his name. Both were operating under visual flight rules, he said. Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, also said preliminary indications were that the pilots were flying under visual flight rules and were not under the jurisdiction of controllers. "The tower had cleared the 172 to land, and the other plane had not contacted the tower for clearance," said FAA spokesman Alex Garvis. FAA investigators were sent to the scene, and firefighters were at the crash site. One plane landed in a grassy area just behind the library building, and another landed on top of two cars in the library parking lot, said Ms. Rodriguez. She was outside at the time. "I started running back to work. I thought they had landed right on top of the library," she said. ereg 8/18/81 3 Associated Press Laserphoto COLLISION DEBRIS -- Wrecked planes lie on ground near San Jose, Calif., library after colliding in midair Monday. One plane fell onto parked cars (upper right); the other landed across street. The pilot of one plane died. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8108 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e544da5f50516fa6771adeea809f5a79.pdf c8080e5d66332742a9a91f968f6f1c37 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/48603da94c6bde52b7115d5eab0ed837.txt 9567c514b9fed314e40196d7375db94f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 P.S. For those of you who might be interested a new book is out having a description of my work in it: "UFO Encyclopedia" by Margaret Sachs. (Huge paperback.) June 2, 1981 Scientists and Contacts ... Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written a true and accurate account of my work. Their book... has been unfairly blocked from being published. (My UFOs say the matter is invalid, and I believe them.) My UFOs have communicated tonight... that if the Mishlove/Rogo book about my work is not truly bought for publication this summer and published... then they, the UFOs, will destroy the U.S. Stock Market, far worse than in 1929. The UFOs have my permission. Ted Owens "PK Man" === Page 2 of 10 May 30, 1981 P.S. Interesting note: The SIs have told me that they are also going to attack U.S. scientists who conspire to block them and block me. Owens Scientists and Contacts As you know, from my letter to you of May 6... my UFOs told me that because their Base ($5,000,000) had not been provided (with me, PK Man, as the mainspring), they were going to attack the "higher-ups of government." I even telephoned this fact to Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco. Naturally I assumed this to mean the United States government since I was aware that my UFOs were "at war" with the U.S. govt. Then followed the shooting of President Reagan. Then the shooting of the Pope... and I began to realize that my UFOs had all humanity in mind. Then President Roldos of Ecuador was killed. Then President Mesa of Bolivia quit. Then President Rahman of Bangladesh was killed. And I realized that my UFOs were going to strike all around the world at "higher-ups in government (not only the U.S.). They are escalating their attack.. I can only hope that their Base is provided soon. Owens === Page 3 of 10 - UFO "Higher Ups" - (Reagan, Pope, Roldos) # Ecuador president killed QUITO, Ecuador (UPI) -- President Jaime Roldos of Ecuador was killed in a fiery plane crash in a mountainous border region near where Ecuadorian troops clashed with Peruvian forces in a brief border war earlier this year, the government said. All nine people aboard the Beechcraft SK-200 were killed in the crash Sunday afternoon, including the president's wife, Marta, and Defense Minister Gen. Marco Subia, a government statement said. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado immediately assumed the presidency for the remaining three years of Roldos' five-year term. Roldos, 40, was the youngest chief executive in the Western Hemisphere. The government announcement said the U.S.-built presidential plane crashed and burned near the village of Guanchañama, 30 miles north of the border between Ecuador and Peru. Reports from the crash site said the nine bodies were burned beyond recognition. Also aboard the plane were Subia's wife, two army colonels and three crew members. In Washington, President Reagan sent a telegram to Hurtado saying he and the American people were "shocked and saddened" to learn of Roldos' death. "Please accept our deepest condolences and our sympathy as we join the Ecuadorian people in mourning this terrible loss," Reagan's telegram said. Roldos was flying to an army outpost on the tense Ecuadorian-Peruvian border, the site of several bloody clashes in January, when the crash took place. Elected in 1979 as the candidate of the Popular Forces Party, he was swept to power in a landslide victory after nine years of civilian and military dictatorship. Born Nov. 5, 1940, in the tropical port of Guayaquil, Roldos graduated at the top of his law school class, was elected leader of a national student federation and later taught law and served as an assistant university dean. He served two years in the national legislature before it was closed by decree in 1970, and was a member of the commission that drew up a new constitution in 1978. Among other changes, the new charter lowered the minimum age for the presidency from 40 to 35, making Roldos' election possible. Roldos and his wife are survived by two teen-age daughters and a 10-year-old son. 5/25/81 - UFO "Higher Ups" - # Bolivian president gives up army control, says he'll quit By TOM FENTON LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- President Luis Garcia Meza, his authority eroded by two military revolts in as many weeks, stepped down as army commander Tuesday and said he would surrender the presidency Aug. 6. In a nationwide radio address during a ceremony in which he was replaced as army commander by Gen. Humberto Cayoja, the president pleaded for support, announced two other key army staff changes and called for a meeting of military commanders July 17 to choose his successor. July 17 is the first anniversary of the coup during which he seized power. Senior military officials said Garcia Meza decided to step down from the army command under strong pressure from district military commanders. Foreign political analysts based in La Paz saw the move as an effort to ease Garcia Meza out peacefully and avoid a bloody confrontation between units of the armed forces. Garcia Meza, who ousted a fledgling democratic government, has been unable to get U.S. recognition or international financing needed to restructure Bolivia's $4 billion foreign debt. "What we asked for was a restructuring in the military high command. He apparently has accepted our suggestions," Col. Felix Villaroel, army 6th Division commander, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Trinidad, 250 miles northeast of La Paz. Garcia Meza told military leaders at the ceremony Tuesday at Miraflores army headquarters: "It is my duty to ask you to collaborate with me to designate my successor July 17, so that we can turn over command of the nation next Aug. 6." The president also said Col. Lucio Anez would replace Gen. Jorge Aguila Teran as army chief of staff and that Col. Faustino Rico Toro would take Anez's job as head of the military academy in La Paz. Garcia Meza had commanded the academy before the coup. Garcia Meza said his regime was launched "with absolute unanimity," but admitted dissension had been growing. "I want to tell you we have done everything possible to carry out our mission despite the criticism ... and obstacles," he said. 5/27/81 === Page 4 of 10 Score: 5 so far, but recently the whole thing got out of hand. (1-7-81) "For higher ups" - (Rahman, Rafiq, Patu, Abdullah, Pasha, Anis, (2) Rana, Rahman.) {For your} Oregon Journal, May 30, 1981 # Bangladesh president assassinated ZIAUR RAHMAN ...slain by army rebels NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - A disgruntled general leading army rebels and separatist guerrillas assassinated President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh and eight aides in the city early Saturday, official Dacca radio reported. Gen. Manzur Ahmed, commander of the army in eastern Chittagong province, led mutinous troops and leftists agitating for independence in the attack. Under Zia, 45, commonly called Zia, impoverished Bangladesh had become one of the largest recipients of U.S. aid. The assassins shot Zia, two aides and six body guards as they slept in the district guest house at 3:30 a.m., the radio said. Bangladesh army Chief of Staff H.M. Ershad called on Manzur, whom Zia had demoted, according to the radio monitored in India. Vice President Abdul Sattar declared a national state of emergency, cutting all outside communications and halting all flights to and from Bangladesh, the radio said. Sattar put all major towns in Bangladesh under indefinite curfew. A radio announcer interrupted chanting from the Koran, Islam's holy book, to announce intermittently: "A grave emergency has arisen threatening the security of the country by internal disturbance." A council in Chittagong, where Zia proclaimed Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971, also took over the provincial radio station and proclaimed a revolutionary council had taken over the nation. Vice President Abdul Sattar took control of the government from Dacca, Zia's official assassination was announced over the state radio. Sattar called for the suspension of all individual rights during the indefinite state of emergency and declared a 40-day mourning period. Zia was assassinated in the midst of a major shake-up of ministers in his cabinet, but regional political observers and diplomats doubted the assassination was planned from inside Zia's government. Hasina Sheikh, a leading Zia opponent and the daughter of former President Mujibur Rahman, who died in a coup in Aug. 15, 1975, returned to the Bangladesh capital two weeks ago. She received a tumultuous welcome staged by Zia's chief opposition, the Awami League, and vowed to avenge her father's death and seize control of the Bangladesh government. "A grave emergency has arisen threatening the security of the country by internal disturbance," a radio announcer repeated between 15-minute stretches of the holy book, on Dacca radio Saturday afternoon. "There will be no change in the country's foreign policy," Sattar said, his voice choked with emotion. He said that cabinet ministers and the positions of the Election Commission, the communications closed down shortly before noon. Officials locked the gates to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi and closed their offices. The 45-year-old Ziaur, was swept to power by the army in 1975 following a period of turmoil in the Moslem nation after the assassination of Bangladesh's first leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He often traveled to Chittagong, a troubled hill district in eastern Bangladesh, to supervise his agricultural and social reforms. === Page 5 of 10 nation/world Iranian commission condemns Bani-Sadr ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr has been found guilty of violating the constitution and the case will be handed over to the public prosecutor, Tehran radio said Monday in a deepening of Iran's power struggle. Mohammad Yazdi, a representative of hard-line Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, also said Bani-Sadr's newspaper and several other publications are breaking the law, hinting that Moslem fundamentalists will tighten control of the media. A special three-man commission of inquiry, established by Ayatollah Khomeini in March to investigate the split between Bani-Sadr's moderates and Rajai's extremists, in a four-hour meeting Sunday concluded the president violated the constitution, the radio said. In the broadcast monitored in Ankara, Yazdi said the commission "by a majority vote deems it necessary to introduce the offender to the people and to hand in the evidence to the office of the public prosecutor." In a March 16 decree, Khomeini banned political speeches on the dispute between moderates and extremists and also set up the three-man commission to investigate. The commission found that "Bani-Sadr in his speech to air force personnel in Shiraz and in his last two newspaper interviews violated the 10-point order issued by the Imam (Khomeini) and acted at variance with the constitution." Details of Bani-Sadr's remarks were not cited by the radio and the president's office had no immediate reaction. Yazdi said Bani-Sadr's refusal to approve ministers named by Rajai following a recent vote in the fundamentalist-controlled Parliament was unconstitutional. PLO's top man in Brussels slain BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) -- A gunman Monday assassinated Naim Khader, the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Belgium, police said. Khader, 41, was hit by five bullets as he left his home at 9 a.m. in the suburb of Ixelles to go to his office. He was dead by the time an ambulance arrived. Police said the gunman, wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, fled on foot. He was first chased by a postman and then by a young man in a car, but they lost his trail. Police later found the raincoat and the umbrella a block away. Officers with police dogs went to the spot. Khader was the seventh PLO representative abroad to be killed in the past 10 years. Three PLO representatives were killed in Paris, one in 1972 and two in 1978; others were slain in Nicosia, in 1973, and in London and Kuwait in 1978. Khader was born at Zabadeh, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. He came to Belgium after the 1967 Middle East war and married a Belgian woman. He held a law degree from Brussels University and had worked unofficially for the PLO before he was appointed head of the organization's Brussels office when it was set up in 1976. He represented the PLO in the European Community as well as in Belgium. The PLO office in Brussels issued a statement saying the assassination of Khader "the authors of which are without any doubt the Israeli secret services, is added to the list of the numerous Palestinian victims of Zionist aggression." It called on "all friends who love democracy and freedom to condemn this aggression and to support the struggle of the Palestinian people." A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy said: "This type of accusation is not new. It has been the same in the past, notably after the assassination of the PLO representative in Paris, Ezzedine Kalak, Aug. 3, 1978. We know, however, that the different Palestinian movements kill each other." After the killing of the PLO man and his deputy in Paris in 1978, two Jordanians of Palestinian origin were arrested. They were sentenced last year to 15 years in prison. A spokesman for the Belgian foreign ministry said: "We condemn all violence from wherever it comes and we deplore that Brussels is no longer free from such attempts like there have been in London and Paris." Sympathy rebuffed PEKING (AP) -- Taiwan has refused to accept telegrams of condolence sent from Peking to relatives of Soong Ching-ling, the widow of Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Mrs. Sun, whose husband led the 1911 revolution that overthrew China's last emperor, died Friday of leukemia at the age of 88. Shortly before her death, she was named honorary president of China. === Page 6 of 10 Jeffrey (When are they going to listen? Ted) # Fiery jet crash on USS Nimitz kills 14 Note: This is a two billion dollar carrier separate from the 100,000,000 in planes!! Gwen By MATT BOKOR JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- An electronic warfare jet on a night training mission crashed in flames on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, killing 14 people, injuring 48 and damaging at least 19 other aircraft aboard the world's largest warship, Navy officials said Wednesday. A Navy helicopter pilot who flew to the 1,092-foot-long carrier after the crash reported seeing "just a big mess of aircraft." The accident occurred shortly before midnight Tuesday 60 miles off the Florida coast. The dead included all three crewmen aboard the EA-6B Prowler jet, which is used to jam enemy radar and radio signals. The Marine Corps jet is of a type that was temporarily grounded last year because of a history of fatal accidents. Based on initial reports from the scene, a Navy spokesman who asked not to be identified said the jet apparently "landed a little right of the center line, and on a carrier deck there isn't any room for an error like that." Cindy Williams said her husband, Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Williams, who was injured and evacuated to Jacksonville, told her he thought a bomb had exploded. "He told me he just couldn't get out of the way," she said. An apprentice hospital corpsman from the Jacksonville Naval Air Station who helped evacuate the injured said the situation on the flight deck was still confused a few hours after the crash. "People were still running around not knowing what to do," the serviceman said. "The sick bay was filled." GEORGIA Atlantic Ocean Jacksonville Crash On USS Nimitz FLORIDA Tampa AP The Navy said the cause of the crash was under investigation, and that results might not be released for six months. Vice Adm. George Kinnear, commander-in-chief of the Naval Air Forces Atlantic, flew to the warship from Norfolk, Va., the Nimitz's home base. The jet "crashed on impact" at 11:51 p.m., sparking a blaze that spread quickly to other aircraft on deck before ship firefighters extinguished it, said Cmdr. Jim Lois, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces Atlantic. "As far as I know, weather was not a factor," he said. Lt. Cmdr. Ken Pease, spokesman at the Navy's Norfolk air station, said it took 70 minutes to extinguish the fire. Pease said about 20 aircraft were destroyed or damaged. Destroyed were the EA-6B and three F-14 aircraft. There was major damage to four A-7 aircraft and one F-14 and minor damage to one F-14, five A-7s, one A-6, three S-3 helicopters and one H-3 helicopter. Lois said damage to the carrier was confined to the flight deck area. Capt. Larry Hamilton, chief public affairs officer for the Atlantic Fleet, said preliminary information was that the damage "was not extraordinarily heavy." "The carrier most likely will be able to do a quick turnaround," Hamilton said. The Navy withheld names of the dead and injured until all relatives were notified. But Lt. Col. John Haynes, a spokesman at the Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Air Station, where the jet was based, said the dead included the three Marines from his facility on the plane and 11 Navy personnel on the ship. He said the family of only one of the victims had been notified and that military authorities were unable to reach the families of the others. He said some of the relatives might have gone to Fort Lauderdale, which was to have been the ship's next port of call. A team of doctors was airlifted from the naval station here to the Nimitz to help treat 27 injured people in the ship's sick bay. Twenty people were flown to the Naval Regional Medical Center at Jacksonville for treatment, and one man was hospitalized in St. Vincent's Hospital in critical condition. Some 300 Navy personnel, an estimated 60 of them doctors, reported to duty in a recall of medical center personnel. Most of the injured were being treated for lacerations, second- to third-degree burns, internal injuries or fractures, officials said. === Page 7 of 10 May 28, 1981 Scientists and Contacts See my letter to you of May 6, 1981, attached. Note: Recently I warned most of you that my UFOs (SIs) had communicated and warned that the United States would be dealt a smashing blow, either militarily or politically or both. The SIs were not making a precognitive prediction. They were going to make it happen... and they did, by causing this terrible accident to U.S.'s largest nuclear warship, the Nimitz. All the SIs want... is their 5 million dollar Base in the mountains. Until they get it, they will continue to put this sort of negative pressure on the U.S. govt., U.S. scientists, and the "higher ups" of the world (who could easily supply their Base.) Ted Owens (PK Man) JET WRECK -- Aerial view of bow of USS Nimitz shows damage done to flight deck. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 8 of 10 May 6, 1981 10:30 P.M. Called P. Scott Rogo--he didn't pay attention -- said he had company. Called Dr. Mishlove -- told him the same thing: (1) A terrible political/military blow will be struck against the U.S. with in 30 days. (2) The SI's will destroy the Space Shuttle & NASA if the UFO Base is not soon provided. * Owens * Somebody must understand that the SI's are not bluffing. Owens 2 Space Shuttle PK -- Oregon Journal, May 6, 1981 (2) # Fall kills space site technician CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Kennedy Space Center officials are trying to find out why a construction worker fell more than 100 feet to his death while making preparations for the space shuttle's next launch. Anthony E. Hill, 22, of Rockledge, Fla., struck the concrete apron of Launch Pad 39B and was pronounced dead Tuesday at Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville. He had been working on the metal framework of the service structure for September's launch of the shuttle Columbia. Hill was the third technician to be killed at the center while working on the space shuttle program, and the 12th victim directly associated with space activities at Cape Canaveral. "We have no idea how it happened," said Clifton Reeves, project manager for Wilhoit, a structural steel construction firm based in nearby Titusville. Hill worked for Wilhoit, which had raised the planned 241-foot service structure to a height of 212 feet when the accident occurred. On March 19, two technicians for Rockwell International -- the space shuttle builder -- were fatally exposed to nitrogen released into the shuttle's aft engine compartment after a test. === Page 9 of 10 # Nimitz returns in disaster's wake United Press Interna **DEADLY CARGO** -- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz steams to its home port of Norfolk, Va., -- its flight deck littered with aircraft damaged in a night flying exercise mishap that claimed the lives of 14 crewmen and resulted in injuries to 48 others. A burnt portion of the EA-6b aircraft that crashed while trying to land on the flight deck is entangled in two F-14 jets that were damaged in the mishap. Damage is estimated at $100 million. Story on Page 18. oreg J 5/28/81 # Nimitz steams home to shocked families oreg J 5/28/81 NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- The nuclear carrier USS Nimitz steamed home Thursday carrying the bodies of 14 crewmen killed when an electronic warfare plane crashed on landing and ignited a deadly ball of fire that swept across the deck and injured 48 others. Twenty-seven crewmen injured in Tuesday's accident also were aboard the gigantic flattop, said Lt. Cmdr. Tony Hilton. All but four of the injured crewmen on board have returned to duty, he said. Relatives of crewmen were expected to line Pier 12 at the Norfolk Naval Base, but Hilton said the Navy had not planned a special welcome for the crew, which he said had been numbed by the tragedy off the Florida coast. A year ago Wednesday, President Carter joined a hero's welcome for the Nimitz on its return from a nine-month deployment in which the carrier served as a staging area for the unsuccessful commando raid to free the Americans held hostage in Iran. A team of Navy Safety Center investigators will determine why the Marine EA-6B jet missed its landing on the mammoth 92,000-ton carrier late Tuesday, hurtled into 19 parked jets and set fires that caused an estimated $100 million in damages to some of the Navy's most sophisticated warplanes. Lt. Cmdr. Bill McLoughlin of the Atlantic Fleet Headquarters said the senior official aboard the Nimitz has probably reviewed videotapes of the Prowler's crash-landing during a nighttime "electronic warfare exercise." All landings aboard the carrier are recorded, he said. The carrier left for its home port Wednesday, it had been bound for the Caribbean before the crash. Burned pieces of the EA-6B Prowler, an electronic warfare plane that missed its mark in a landing attempt on the Nimitz late Tuesday, had to be separated from two mangled F-14 Tomcat fighters. Prowlers stationed on the West Coast were taken out of service for two days in February 1980 following a series of crashes, Cmdr. Tony Hilton said Thursday. He said he believed 14 fliers were killed in the crashes. "But the crashes were all out on the West Coast," he emphasized. "They did not involve planes on the East Coast." A Navy spokesman Wednesday said the grounding was for "internal maintenance with fuel." Damage to the carrier, one of the world's two largest warships, and its 4 1/2-acre steel flight deck is described as "minimal." === Page 10 of 10 - UFOs warned! - # Nimitz, injured return to port NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Crewmen of the aircraft carrier Nimitz returned to their home port and the arms of 1,000 waiting relatives Thursday, and the ship's commander said a flight deck crash that killed 14 people and injured 48 occurred after a jet "drifted to the right" while landing. Damage was estimated as high as $100 million, and some of the 20 aircraft that were struck or burned in the crash and ensuing fire could be seen on the flight deck of the 1,092-foot-long, nuclear-powered carrier -- the world's largest warship. Some had their noses bashed in and others their tops cut off and wires hanging out. Capt. Jack Batzler, commanding officer of the Nimitz, who was on the bridge when the crash occurred just before midnight Tuesday off the northern coast of Florida, said the Marine Corps radar-jamming jet landed "not in the right position." "The EA-6B started with a fairly standard approach, slightly high ..., and the aircraft drifted to the right, hit three A-7s parked right of the bow line ... impacted with the first F-14," he said. The landing signal officer had called for more power, telling the pilot he was not in a good position for landing and should fly off for another try, Batzler said. He didn't do it, and Batzler would not speculate why, pending the official investigation. "Pilot error would be an obvious thing to jump to, but we don't for certain know if any other factors might have been involved," said Vice Adm. Gus Kinnear, Naval Air Forces Atlantic commander, who visited the ship Wednesday. Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin O'Brien, one of the firefighters who helped extinguish the shipboard blazes within 70 to 80 minutes, said the jet "came in and clipped a helicopter and then turned across a tractor and decapitated the person in it," "It clipped three A-7s, went broadside into an F-14 and finally flipped over onto the catwalk," he said. "Three people in the crash-and-salvage crew were killed when a missile went off 10 feet away. I was 30 feet away, but it blew in the other direction." The three men on the Marine electronic warfare plane were killed, along with 11 Nimitz crewmen on the deck. Several men said they were injured some 60 minutes after the crash in a secondary explosion that scattered shrapnel across the deck just as firefighters thought they had extinguished the blaze. One of the bodies was not recovered, Batzler said, "and we have not determined whether he remained on the ship or went over the side." Mrs. Alta Cragun of Orem, Utah, said she had been told her son, 1st Lt. Laurence D. Cragun, the crashed plane's electronics officer, was officially listed as missing at sea and presumed dead. The wreckage of the EA-6B and three F-14 Tomcats was dumped over the side Wednesday. The planes were too badly damaged to be repaired and posed a danger to the crews working on the deck, Batzler said. Three F-14s and four A-7s sustained major damage. Nine other planes received minor damage but were repaired within the day, according to Cmdr. Fred Lewis, the Nimitz's air wing commander. Dale Stewart, 19, with a bandage around his fractured knuckles, stitches up his chin and a piece of a tooth missing, had been on deck, under a plane. Associated Press Laserphoto NIMITZ HEADS HOME -- Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sails toward Navy base at Norfolk, Va., Thursday morning, following fatal crash of jet on flight deck Tuesday off coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8106b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/65261bfee284125738b96b6d006c6f6a.pdf 4506f6677cf4543ab5ff60032cf2dbd1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b19d29d700a777e727d2c0a100692ade.txt ed3a4d48b188de21136683083a82de9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 April 27, 1980 Mr. Steve Kelley, Oregonian Sports Columnist. I enjoyed the composition of your article re my parapsychological work (psi) "The Force Be Agin' You." And your piece of work was most accurate. The only mild rebuttal that I might make would be with regard to "He calls it documentation." Your readers might have been interested to learn that all of those pounds of books and magazines wrote about me and my work only after the authors had researched carefully the proper documentation in the various matters. I.e., I would certainly consider Stan Hochman's newspaper article "documentation." After all...as with the rest of those pounds of "documentation"...I earned it by performing for Hochman, as you know. It also would have been nice if your readers had been told that I have proper affidavits from prominent scientists to the effect that I have produced startling parapsychological phenomena...such as controlling a huge radar installation with my mind; producing UFOs to be seen by the police or to be photographed by scientists; and so on. Now, I have given the matter of the Trailblazers some thought. Since I am "treading water", so to speak...until I somehow get that Mountain Base that I told you about...I have made a definite decision with regard to the Trailblazers next year. I am notifying my scientist-contacts today...that I will use all of my psi-force powers to influence the Trailblazers next season (Fall and Winter of 1980/1981) culminating in their falling apart at the seams a la Eagles, Squires, Rams...and being eliminated at the Championship Playoffs, if they in fact get that far. I will track them, game by game, via TV and radio...and the scientists can watch the results of the psi-force attack, which should be devastating. The early part of next season for the Trailblazers should be easy for me to handle, due to the "lag effect" from my earlier work on them (that is what devastated them early in the season this year...the lag effect from the attack last season.) "Lag effect", by the way, is not my term...it is a scientific term, applicable to certain parapsychological phenomena. Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo discuss "lag effect" in the book which they have written about my work, "Earth's Ambassador". My UFO connection also approves of my stopping the Trailblazers cold next season because it will give me "combat practice" for the time ahead when my powers must be used against formidable foes (re the Otto Binder article in Saga). Cordially, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 2 of 7 The Oregonian SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1981 Morning after Steve Kelley The Force be agin' you Ted Owens had retired from sports. After using his supernatural power to put whammies on the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts and the Virginia Squires in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Owens was content to leave the world of sports and spend his time ending droughts and helping mankind. But Owens was forced out of retirement this season. Like Muhammad Ali, Owens came back to fight again. This time the opponent was the Portland Trail Blazers. The popular belief after the Blazers lost their playoff mini-series to Kansas City was that inexperience, impatience and troublesome shooting were responsible for Portland's early vacation. Owens says he knows better. The truth, according to Owens, is the games were out of the Trail Blazers' hands. They were the victims of PSI (psycho-kinetic) force. The force was against them. "They had no chance once the PSI force was applied to them as only I know how," said Owens, a Vancouver, Wash., resident, who says he carries out the earthly game plans of other-world intelligences. Owens predicted the Blazers' doom early in the season in a letter to The Oregonian and reaffirmed his belief in March that they were heading for a quick playoff exit. Blazers got away "I had a hell of a time beating them," admits Owens, a member of the high IQ club Mensa. "I had them zeroed-in early in the year (when they were 7-19), but then they managed to get away from me. "Against Kansas City I let them have everything I had. When Kansas City would have the ball, I would sit (in front of the television) as quiet as a mouse. I didn't want to draw attention to the court. But as soon as a Trail Blazer touched the ball, that's when I went to work. "I put the PSI force on the floor and an intelligence attaches itself to the Trail Blazers and makes them drop balls, make mistakes and miss the basket. It's beautiful. As the power builds up on the floor, the team falls apart. It follows along like a bird dog and waits until it spots a weakness. Then it jumps in and takes advantage." But why the Trail Blazers? What did they do to have this close encounter of the worst kind? Why did they have to meet Dr. No? "They didn't do anything," Owens said. "But I was supposed to be a guest on the TV show AM Northwest. I got to the show and they told me they were overbooked. I couldn't go on. "I was in shock. I decided I was going to have to play rough and teach them some respect. Since the Blazers are the symbol of Portland, I decided I was going to have to use the PSI force against them." For those who doubt Owens' mumbo jumbo about other-world intelligences, whammies and the like, he produces pounds of newspapers, magazines and books. He calls it documentation. Blazers powerless Philadelphia sports columnists write about the damage Owens did to the Eagles. Norfolk, Va., writers discuss the ruin he wrought on the Squires and Colts. Owens provides a book that lists him among the world's top 40 psychics. "I think that left alone, without the PSI force, the Blazers would have been successful in the playoffs," he said. "But once the force was built up, they were powerless to do anything about it. Poor (Jack) Ramsay would jump up and down in frustration when his players would fumble the ball, but it was out of his control." Now, Owens says his point has been made and the force is off the Blazers. "Sports is a superficial thing, but it's an excellent way to demonstrate PSI's power over a small group of men." In an effort to leave nothing to chance in their quest for a championship, maybe the Blazers should draft Owens and use his PSI power. If there's room for a team dentist, surely there is room for a team psychic. "Work for (owner) Larry Weinberg? You mean the Beverly Hills flash?" Owens asked. "Never. I think he has treated them very badly. To run a team properly you have to be near the team. "I think he (Weinberg) should be aware of something. I used the force on the Eagles and (owner Jerry) Wolman went broke. I used it against the Squires and (owner Earl) Foreman went bankrupt. . . . "I'm just saying that he should be aware that his fortunes could take a turn for the worse. It's very problematical." Kelley named sports columnist Steve Kelley, a sportswriter for The Oregonian since 1976, has been named the paper's daily sports columnist, Sports Editor Larry Shaw announced Friday. Kelley, who has covered the Portland Trail Blazers the past three seasons, will write a daily column appearing Thursday through Monday, Shaw said. The 32-year-old Kelley was named Oregon sportswriter of the year in 1979 and before covering the Blazers covered the Portland Timbers soccer team. He began his newspaper career with the York Dispatch in Pennsylvania and worked in the sports departments of The Daily Chronicle in Centralia, Wash., and The Daily Olympian in Olympia, Wash., before joining The Oregonian's sports staff. Kelley spent one year at the University of South Carolina and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1971. "Kelley will give The Oregonian an added dimension to its overall sports coverage," Shaw said. Steve Duin (pronounced dean) will assume Kelley's responsibilities of covering the Trail Blazers, Shaw said. 4/18/81 === Page 3 of 7 Bird, defense spark Celtics past 76ers 91-90 By ALEX SACHARE BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird's 23 points and brilliant team defense down the stretch, completed their remarkable playoff comeback Sunday by wiping out an 11-point second-half deficit and beating the Philadelphia 76ers 91-90. The victory moved the Celtics into the National Basketball Association's championship series against the Houston Rockets. "If you were writing a Hollywood script for the last game between Boston and Philadelphia, you couldn't write a better one," Celtics Coach Bill Fitch said. "I said it before the game and I'll say it again now: It's a shame somebody had to lose this series." Boston, which has had to rally in each of the last five games of this brilliant series, erased a seven-point deficit by holding Philadelphia without a field goal in the final 5:23. "That defense is no surprise," said M.L. Carr, Boston's rugged reserve guard. "We've been playing that kind of defense all year." And when it ended, the victory touched off a wild celebration that saw more than a thousand fans spill onto the court, surround the Celtics and usher them off the floor. "This is the greatest feeling that I have ever had as a professional athlete," Carr said. "When it ended, I felt like Sugar Ray Leonard when he won the gold medal at Montreal and blew kisses to the crowd. "I did the same thing." Naturally, the mood was entirely different in the Philadelphia locker room. "We had some opportunities," 76ers forward Bobby Jones said. "We had our chance but couldn't do it. It's an awful feeling. I can't say we choked because we were there at the end with a chance to win. But we lost and they won -- that's the bottom line." The 76ers led 67-56 during the third quarter and clung to an 89-82 advantage with 5:23 left in the toughly fought seventh game of the Eastern Conference finals. But Boston scored nine straight points, the last four by Bird, while holding Philadelphia scoreless for 4:54. Cedric Maxwell sank one free throw and Nate Archibald sank two, center Robert Parish made a turnaround jumper and Bird converted two free throws to tie the score 89-89 with 2:51 to go. Bird, the 1980 rookie of the year, then came back with a 15-foot bank shot from the left side for a 91-89 lead with 1:03 to play. Following a pair of turnovers, Philadelphia had a 3-on-1 fastbreak, and Maurice Cheeks was fouled by Gerald Henderson with 21 seconds on the clock. He made just one of two free throws to leave Philadelphia trailing by one. Carr missed a 20-footer for Boston, and Philadelphia's Bobby Jones gathered in the rebound and called timeout with one second left. Jones' inbounds pass bounced off Maxwell and hit the top of the backboard, and the Celtics had the emotion-charged victory. As the final buzzer sounded, more than 1,000 spectators from the capacity crowd of 18,276 at Boston Garden poured onto the famous parquet floor in a jubilant celebration. By winning, the Celtics became the fourth team in NBA history to capture a best-of-seven playoff series after falling behind 3-1. The others were the 1968 Boston Celtics, 1970 Los Angeles Lakers and 1979 Washington Bullets -- all of whom also did it in the semifinal round. Of the three previous comeback clubs, only the 1968 Celtics -- who also beat Philadelphia in the semis -- went on to take the title. The current Celtics are hoping to match that and win the 14th championship in the history of the tradition-steeped franchise when they take on the Rockets in the final, which opens here Tuesday night. The Celtics began their comeback by beating Philadelphia 111-109 here Wednesday night, hitting the last eight points of the game and holding the 76ers scoreless for the final 1:51. Friday night, the Celtics ended an 11-game losing streak in Philadelphia by rallying from a 15-point second-half deficit to win 100-98. And Sunday, they applied the finishing touch. 5/4/81 PHILADELPHIA 90 -- Erving 11 1-2 23, C. Jones 6 0-0 12, Dawkins 7 2-3 16, Hollins 10 0-0 2, Cheeks 3 6-7 12, B. Jones 5 3-3 13, Toney 4 0-0 8, Mix 2 0-0 4. Totals 39 12-15. BOSTON 91 -- Maxwell 9 1-5 19, Bird 8 4-7 23, Parish 7 2-2 16, Archibald 3 7-11 13, Ford 3 1-2 7, Robey 1 2-4 4, Carr 1 0-0 2, McHale 0 1-2 1, Henderson 2 2-2 6, Fernsten. Totals 34 22-35. | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Philadelphia | 31 | 22 | 22 | 15 | -- 90 | | Boston | 26 | 22 | 23 | 20 | -- 91 | Three-point goals -- Bird. Fouled out -- None. Total fouls -- Philadelphia 27, Boston 18. Technical -- Bird. A -- 15,320. SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS KNOWING After attending Duke University and Dr. J. B. Rhine in parapsychology, and learning that time and space are irrelevant in ESP... I went on through the years doing my own unique research in that field and discovered that not only time and space are irrelevant... but so is MASS. Now I have stumbled upon another amazing fact during my own research in psi-force. I have discovered "Displaced Lag Effect." "Lag Effect", as you know, is the continuation of psi phenomena after the psi-force project has been terminated, for a period of time. In 1968 I notified sports writers and others in authority that I would personally beat the Philadelphia 76'ers team by using my mind, over television and radio. At the time I notified them the Celtics were down 3 to 1 in the championship playoffs. That meant that I had to use my powers to make Philadelphia lose three straight games. And I did just that. My deed was documented and is on record. Now, just recently I stepped once again into the sports arena to use psi-force to stop the Portland Trailblazers in the championship playoffs. That, too, is documented. Following that, the Celtics once again lined up against the 76'rs... and once again the games became 3-1 in favor of the 76'rs. At that point I told my son, "You know, thirteen years ago this same thing happened and at that time I was in the picture with recent active work with psi-force against the Trailblazers re-activated that 13-year-old psi-force form, or mechanism, that I used then, now at this time in the Celtics/76'rs series?" And so it happened. The games became 3 and 2; 3 and 3... and last night, one more time, the Celtics came from 3-1 behind to win over Philadelphia. (See newsclip.) Since such a happening is a rarity (only the 4th time in history) I am convinced that the 13-year-old psi-force mechanism was re-activated. Thus, psi-force in this case worked something like the displacement effect in the Zener card experiment. I.e., once a psi-force mechanism is constructed it can once again come alive under the proper situation or conditions, if the original creator of the mechanism is tied into it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 7 May 4, 1981 Note: my UFOs communicated with me... to write this, below, at 12:15 P.M. today. -Owens # Scientists and Contacts You must remember... that I am able, with my half-alien mind... to apply psi-force to an idea, to make that idea come to pass. (Recall that it was published in a book some years ago that I would cause all whites to be driven out of Africa. Since then all hell has broken loose in Africa and whites have left that country in tremendous numbers.) Now, my UFOs want their Base. Do you realize that my UFOs and I are entirely capable of transferring terrorism from Ireland, Africa, etc etc here to the United States?!! The U.S. govt. got their Space Shuttle back safely. Now my UFOs want their Base. -Owens === Page 5 of 7 May 6, 1981 10:30 PM. Called D. Scott Rogo-- he didn't pay attention -- said he had company. Called Dr. Mishlove -- told him the same thing: (1) A terrible political blow will be struck against the U.S. in 30 days. (2) The SI's will destroy the Space Shuttle & NASA if the UFO Base is not soon provided. * Owens * Somebody must understand that the SI's are not bluffing. Owens 2 Space Shuttle PK -- Oregon Journal, May 6, 1981 (2) # Fall kills space site technician CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Kennedy Space Center officials are trying to find out why a construction worker fell more than 100 feet to his death while making preparations for the space shuttle's next launch. Anthony E. Hill, 22, of Rockledge, Fla., struck the concrete apron of Launch Pad 39B and was pronounced dead Tuesday at Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville. He had been working on the metal framework of the service structure for September's launch of the shuttle Columbia. Hill was the third technician to be killed at the center while working on the space shuttle program, and the 12th victim directly associated with space activities at Cape Canaveral. "We have no idea how it happened," said Clifton Reeves, project manager for Wilhoit, a structural steel construction firm based in nearby Titusville. Hill worked for Wilhoit, which had raised the planned 241-foot service structure to a height of 212 feet when the accident occurred. On March 19, two technicians for Rockwell International -- the space shuttle builder -- were fatally exposed to nitrogen released into the shuttle's aft engine compartment after a test. === Page 6 of 7 jack anderson # Pakistan aid perilous WASHINGTON -- Several weeks ago, I warned that the United States was inviting another Iran-style disaster in the Middle East by cozying up to Pakistan's hated dictator, Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq. Since then, according to the latest intelligence reports, the situation has deteriorated inside Pakistan. Yet the Reagan administration, instead of backing away from this potential nightmare, is planning to commit the United States even more deeply to Zia's unpopular, repressive regime. Secret foreign intelligence cables reviewed by my associate Jack Mitchell reveal that the "Shah Syndrome" is already beginning to materialize in Pakistan: American citizens have been assaulted in broad daylight on the streets of the country's largest cities -- for the sole reason that they are identified with the United States, which is supporting their detested dictator. Surrounded by shameless yes-men, Zia has delayed three times the free elections he promised, has instituted unprecedented martial law and has arrested and tortured thousands. He is caught in a vicious circle of his own making: The more he cracks down on his countrymen, the more unpopular he is and the more vocal his opponents become. This then causes him to tighten the screws still more. But though Zia sits precariously on a powder keg, White House policymakers seem determined to provide him with the latest in military technology. The reasons are the same as those advanced to justify support for the shah: The United States needs a "dependable ally" in the region to confront the Soviet Union, and Saudi Arabia must be protected to assure a continued flow of oil. But diplomatic sources warn that time may be running out on Zia, just as it did for the shah. Pakistan's highest judges have refused to go along with the general's kangaroo courts in which defendants are convicted without benefit of witnesses, lawyers or appeals. Lawyers have also shown their distaste for the dictatorship by openly supporting prominent colleagues who have been arrested on trumped-up charges and tortured. The recent burning of a DC-10 at the Karachi airport was officially termed an accident, but government insiders say it was sabotage. Still the repression continues. Newspapers carry photographs of cruel floggings, and the possibility has been discussed of punishing adultery by publicly stoning the transgressors to death. Education is deteriorating; Zia and his generals have closed down schools as a means of curbing opposition. The government has also increased censorship of the media. Yet it is this hated dictatorship that the White House seems determined to identify with, trying to prop up Zia's shaky regime with hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. If there are dissenting views in the administration, they have been effectively silenced by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The really sad part of this is that the administration's policy may actually help to achieve exactly the opposite of its intended goal: By helping Zia, we could drive the opposition -- which includes virtually all political parties -- and the people of Pakistan into Soviet arms. That would make Zia's downfall doubly disastrous for the United States. org 5/6/81 Note: The U.S. govt. provides hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan... which "goes down the drain"... yet will not provide PK man/UFOs with 5 million dollars for a UFO Base operation... which Base, once provided, could do more to aid the U.S. than all other foreign countries combined! Owens === Page 7 of 7 Scientists: I will appear on TV's "Faces + Places" May 14, throwing knives (of all things). For those of you who might be interested in my agility, coordination, digital dexterity etc at age 61... you perhaps could have an associate in this Portland-Vancouver area view the show and report to you. Owens **Thursday Evening Programs** See listings for details. | | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2 | Mork & Mindy | Bosom Buddies | Barney Miller (CC) | Taxi | 20/20 | | | 3 10 | Wilderness | Good Neighbors | Sneak Previews | To the Manor Born | Cousteau Odyssey | | | 6 | Waltons | | Magnum, P.I. | | Bob Newhart | | | 8 | Real Kids | | Movie: Dracula | | | | | 12 | Movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | | | | News | | **EVENING** **6 PM** 2 ABC NEWS-Frank Reynolds 3 10 INSIDE STORY-Magazine Hodding Carter anchors a scheduled report on the media's use of confidential sources. Also: Bob and Ray. [Pre-empts regular programming.] 6 CBS NEWS-Rather/Drinkwater 8 NBC NEWS-John Chancellor 12 KUNG FU-Drama Chief Dan George as a dying warrior in search of his preordained burial site. (60 min.) **6:30** 2 NEWS 3 10 EARTH, SEA AND SKY 6 M*A*S*H Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is enraged by a colonel (Charles Aidman) who seems to love his job-predicting casualties. 8 TIC TAC DOUGH-Game **7 PM** 2 FACES AND PLACES-Magazine Segments on a knife-throwing school; women's rugby. 3 10 STATEHOUSE '81 6 MERV GRIFFIN From Hollywood: Publisher Kal Rudman ("Friday Morning Quarterback"), the Marshall Tucker Band. (60 min.) 8 FAMILY FEUD-Game 12 HAPPY DAYS AGAIN-Comedy Richie (Ron Howard) makes his debut into journalism-loading papers onto trucks. Henry Winkler. Frank: Jed Cooper. Otis: Ted Gehring. Potsie: Anson Williams. # Inside Story **Covering the press that covers the news.** What are the rights and responsibilities of the press, especially to you, the news consumer? Hodding Carter anchors "Inside Story," a weekly half-hour magazine devoted to the examination of news-gathering, its problems and its performance. **Thursday 6 pm** **3 10** This ad made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting MAY 14, 1981 TV GUIDE A-79 # Faces AND Places MAGAZINE FOR AND ABOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Featuring: MARY STARRETT KEV REILLY RON CARLSON ELAINE MURPHY PATTY LOEW Get a free Faces and Places T-shirt for any story idea used on the air. Watch Faces and Places for details. WEEKNIGHTS 7:00PM KATU 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 April 3, 1980 CONTACTS (Scientists, et al) I presume that you have noticed...that I informed you in writing BEFORE the freakish, fatal accident at the Space Shuttle...that my UFOs were attacking the Space Shuttle. I presume that you have noticed...that I informed you in writing BEFORE President Reagan was attacked, shot...that my UFOs were going to attack those higher-ups* in the U.S. Government. Just one "coincidence" after another after another...isn't it. And when The Space Shuttle goes up next week...or whenever...my UFOs will be after it to destroy it...like a bolt of lightning going after and zapping a steel bridge. After which another "coincidence" will have occurred. Owens * I am, of course, assuming that President Reagan is a "higher-up" in the United States government. === Page 2 of 29 The reason the US govt won't supply its base even though it has enough documented proof for scientists -- all the govt. is interested in is what I have with my 3 powers, as a weapon. So they keep me under surveil. watching how far I can go with my 3 powers in a destructive, negative way. My personal powers now have squared over my previous 500 miracles! "A democracy can no longer survive or exist in this modern world" → 11/3/80 |||| . . . Nov. 10, 1980 Prediction: Pres. Reagan will expire in near future and Bush will take over (ex-CIA) then the CIA will be in the saddle calling the shots!! Gwen === Page 3 of 29 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 29 # Inquiries into rumor spread tale of gun assault on Bush THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 22, 1981 WASHINGTON (AP) -- For days, it's been the hottest rumor in a city that thrives on gossip about the mighty and powerful of government: that Vice President George Bush had been shot at and suffered a minor wound on a Capitol Hill street late one night. The rumor spread so quickly and widely that Bush, exasperated, finally asked the FBI to interview him about it last Friday -- even though the FBI was not conducting an investigation, according to The Washington Post. The Post, in Sunday's editions, traced the birth and spread of the rumor, detailing how efforts by various news agencies to track it down actually spread it further. The rumor has no basis in fact, the Post concluded. That was the same conclusion drawn by several Associated Press reporters who also heard it and tried to pin it down. White House press secretary James S. Brady was asked Saturday about the persistent rumor, and he insisted it was "without foundation." Depending on the teller, the story had various embellishments, but generally, the basis of the story was that Bush had been shot and grazed in the arm on a Capitol Hill sidewalk. The rumor began, the Post said, when a young woman artist ran into the street late one night last month, trying to help the victim of a traffic accident. At the scene, she saw a policeman she knew. He told her, she says, that Bush had been shot nearby. The policeman says he told her no such thing. When the artist, who declined to be named, returned to her apartment, she turned on the television and radio to hear more details but heard nothing. Seeking information, she then called both wire services, the Post and a television station. The woman told the Post she believed the policeman because she had come to know him several weeks earlier, when she had witnessed a murder and the policeman was one of the law officers who arrived. The day after the traffic accident, the artist told a friend what she thought she had heard the policeman say about Bush. In turn, her friend told two of his friends, including a person who worked for columnist Jack Anderson. From there, the rumor spread, the Post said, despite denials that anything like it had occurred. The denials came from the Secret Service, police, the U.S. attorney and Bush' press office. At one point, the newspaper said, two Post reporters visited a District police official, who denied that anything had occurred. But the reporters saw a pad of paper on his desk with Bush's name, the word "assault" and information about a time, date and place. Eventually, then, the rumor grew to include the word that the Post had a "police report" on the case. In fact, the newspaper said, the official's words on the paper were his notes of a conversation police had with a television reporter who had called to try to track down the rumor. When the rumors reached Bush, he was angry and unbelieving, the Post said. The rumor even became part of a White House press briefing Tuesday, the Post said, when Larry Speakes, President Reagan's deputy press secretary, was asked if Reagan "was concerned about the large number of rumors circulating" about the alleged incident. Speakes, according to the briefing transcript published by the Post, promised he would "check on the president's concern ... of the rumor of rumors." But none of the exchange was apparently printed or broadcast, the Post said. === Page 5 of 29 # President wounded by gunman, in good condition after surgery ## Press aide critical; 2 others hurt By JACK NELSON and GEORGE SKELTON LA-Times Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan was shot by a young gunman Monday and underwent immediate emergency surgery for removal of a bullet that lodged in his left lung. Doctors described his condition after an operation of less than two hours as good and said that his life was never in serious danger. Surgeons removed fragments of a .22-caliber bullet that had penetrated his lung by three inches. Three other persons were seriously wounded in the assassination attempt: White House press secretary James S. Brady, 40; Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, 31; and District of Columbia policeman Thomas Delahanty, 45. A bullet passed through Brady's brain, leaving him in extremely critical condition. John Warnock Hinckley Jr., 25, of Evergreen, Colo., was pounced on and arrested at the scene of the shooting by Secret Service agents and police officers. He was charged with attempting to assassinate the president and assault with intent to kill a police officer. Roger Young of the FBI described the weapon as a "Saturday night special" and said it was purchased at a Dallas gun shop. The gunman fired six shots in rapid succession at Reagan as the president and his party left the Washington Hilton Hotel following a speech to a union convention. He fired at close range, from a distance of no more than 10 to 15 feet from the president, witnesses said. The assassination attempt touched off an air of national crisis, with Vice President George Bush hurriedly flying back to the capital from a speaking engagement in Texas in case he was called on to assume presidential duties. The Senate adjourned early, and in New York City, both the New York and American stock exchanges halted all trading. Immediately after returning to Washington Monday evening, Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room: "I can assure the nation and a watching world the American government is functioning fully and effectively." Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Bush would preside over a Cabinet meeting Tuesday and would meet with congressional leaders later. Earlier, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and other members of the Cabinet gathered in the "situation room" of the White House, where all national crises are monitored. Haig, grim-faced and dressed in a pinstriped suit, appeared highly nervous as he told reporters in reply to their questions that he was "in control" pending Bush's return. After his operation, Reagan's condition was described by doctors as so good that he would be able to make decisions of state by Tuesday. Dr. Dennis O'Leary, dean of George Washington University Hospital for Clinical Affairs, said that the president was in the operating room for two hours, but 45 minutes of that time was spent making certain that there was no bleeding in the abdominal cavity. The bullet that hit Reagan entered under his armpit, ricocheted off his seventh rib and penetrated the lung. The lung collapsed, but physicians re-inflated it in the emergency room before the operation. The president received 2½ quarts of blood in transfusions prior to the operation, but none during the surgery. Dr. O'Leary said that the bullet and fragments of it never came closer than several inches from Reagan's heart. He said the president was "an excellent physical specimen" and despite his age of 70, was "physiologically young." O'Leary said his "guesstimate" was that the president could be well enough to leave the hospital within two weeks. There is no reason to believe that there would be any significant postoperative problems, O'Leary said. The surgery was performed by two physicians on the hospital staff -- Benjamin Aaron, a cardiovascular surgeon, and Joseph Giordano, head of the hospital trauma team. Reagan was smiling and walking on the sidewalk outside the hotel, approaching his limousine, when several persons in a small crowd nearby shouted, "Mr. President." He turned toward the crowd as shots rang out. The president looked stunned as a Secret Service agent quickly shoved him into the waiting limousine. The car sped off to George Washington University Hospital. He walked unassisted into the hospital, holding his right hand to his left chest, a spot of blood showing on his shirt. And he remained conscious before the operation, joking with aides and friends who visited him. Reagan said to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck." And he told a close friend, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., "Don't worry about me. I'll make it." Greg March 31, 1981 === Page 6 of 29 Associated Press Laserphotos ACTION, REACTION -- As shots are fired, President Reagan stops waving to crowd, top, looks back toward sound and grimaces as fast-reacting Secret Service agents hustle him into his limousine outside a Washington hotel Monday. Reagan, wounded by one bullet that penetrated his side, was rushed to a hospital. === Page 7 of 29 He winked at James Baker, White House chief of staff, as he was being wheeled into the operating room and told his physicians, "Please tell me you're Republicans." Despite the president's joking, the shooting and the seriousness of the injury left Washington and much of the country in a state of shock. The Senate was reconvened shortly after 6 p.m. by the majority leader, Sen. Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn, so that Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., an Episcopal priest, could deliver a prayer for the president, another for the other victims and a third one for the country. In his prayer for the president, Danforth said, "Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy. . . . Restore him to health." Praying for the country, Danforth said, "Grant us thy help in this hour of need." The FBI, which assumed jurisdiction of the investigation into the shooting, said that it had no indication that anyone except Hinkley was involved. "All the information we have now points to the fact that he was the only one," an FBI spokesman said. A light rain was falling as Reagan, bareheaded, walked toward his car and waved at the crowd outside. Hank Brown, a cameraman for ABC-TV who filmed the shooting, said the suspect did not say anything, but "just opened up and continued squeezing the trigger." The gunman was among a cluster of several persons, including reporters and onlookers, who were standing behind a velvet rope used to cordon off the crowd. Pandemonium broke out as the shots were fired. Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty all slumped to the sidewalk. Mike Deaver, a top Reagan aide, and several other aides accompanying the president ducked at the sound of gunfire and escaped injury. An aide carrying the "black box" suitcase containing emergency communications equipment scampered to safety and then disappeared, apparently accompanying the president to the hospital. The scene, filmed by television crews and telecast repeatedly across the nation, was chaotic. Three victims were crumpled on the sidewalk, bleeding profusely, and officers, many with drawn guns, swarmed over the gunman and yelled to onlookers to "Get back. Get back." The Secret Service agents brandished Uzi's, Israeli-made submachine guns that the service has been using for several years. Brady, pudgy and balding, known for his affability and sense of humor, lay face down. He raised his head once or twice and then was still. Someone placed a handerchief under his head but a pool of blood had already formed on the sidewalk. A handgun was lying near his head. The other victims lay nearby, almost within reach of Brady, both lying still. Washington suddenly became a city of wailing sirens as ambulances rushed to the scene to carry the wounded to hospitals. # Hinckley kin asked to dine with Bush son HOUSTON (UPI) -- The brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., the man accused of shooting President Reagan, was to have been a dinner guest Tuesday night at the home of Vice President Bush's son, Neil, the Houston Post said in a copyright story Tuesday. Neil Bush, who lives in Denver, said Monday his family knew the Hinckley family because they'd made large contributions to the vice president's campaign. He said he once met Scott Hinckley, but could not recall meeting his younger brother, who is accused of shooting Reagan and three other men Monday. Bush's wife, Sharon, said the dinner was canceled. Scott Hinckley is vice president of his father's Denver-based oil firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp. He could not be reached for comment. 3/31/81 === Page 8 of 29 CIA eyes hocus-pocus March 30, 1981 WASHINGTON - In James Bond circles, nothing is too farfetched to be dismissed. The Central Intelligence Agency, for example, has been toying for years with the idea of using extrasensory perception in its work - spurred on by the suspicion that the Russians have somehow succeeded in opening an ESP gap. I've already reported on the Pentagon's $6-million-a-year research to develop ESP weapons that can brainwash or incapacitate enemy leaders by thought transfer, deliver nuclear bombs instantaneously thousands of miles away by psychic energy, or even create a protective "time warp" to make incoming Soviet missiles explode harmlessly in the past. These wacky projects have support from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reports that the Russians have been doing intensive research in the field for nearly 50 years. The DIA even credits the omnipotent Kremlin scientists with successfully demonstrating ESP's deadly potential on insects, a possibility that should bring joy to farmers and backyard gardeners - and strike terror in the insecticide industry. The CIA, though historically less alarmist about the Red Menace than the Pentagon spooks are, has also been monitoring Soviet ESP research and pondering the possibility of less bizarre psychic weapons. A top-secret report on the subject by a CIA scientific expert has been examined by my associate Dale Van Atta. The analysts estimated that "the Soviet military and KGB have had a covert applied parapsychology program since the mid-1960s." This was the period when the CIA was experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs on unsuspecting Americans and with foot powder that would make Fidel Castro's beard fall out. The CIA warns that the Soviets may be "ahead of the U.S. in parapsychology." Evidence of Soviet progress is sketchy because the Kremlin's voodoo scientists, the CIA suspects, have gone undercover. Intelligence sources estimate that at least 200 Soviet experts in various disciplines are working on ESP weapons development. The CIA report identified several specific areas of suspected Soviet study: - "Electrostatics of telekinesis," or the ability to move objects by mental concentration. - "Extremely low frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for information transmission." This may have been what the KGB was up to when it bombarded the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation for nearly 20 years. - Application of theories involving links between the way the human brain and electronic computers operate. - Remote monitors and stimulators to determine - or influence - another person's physical condition by telepathy, like a Haitian witch doctor might try. - High-frequency analysis of an electroencephalogram - a sort of wiretapping of someone's brain waves. The area of Soviet ESP research that really has the CIA's mouth watering is the possibility of "remote viewing" by telepathy from thousands of miles away. Who'd need a mole in the Kremlin if a psychic sitting at a desk in Washington could zoom in mentally on a super-secret Soviet missile site or a Politburo meeting? === Page 9 of 29 April 8, 1981 Best wishes to my friends, Jeffrey and Janelle Mishlove... from Ted Owens (Bogardé) === Page 10 of 29 # 'And Don't Move' (Martha Owens is the distaff half of Bogarde and Lovella, a knife-throwing act which works clubs throughout the West but the couple lives in Phoenix. Her husband, Ted, began throwing knives as a hobby and turned professional at 21, both as an instructor and as a performer. Mrs. Owens is a relative newcomer to show business. In her story she tells how she came to be in it and reveals some of her reactions on stage.) ### by Martha Owens THE NEXT TIME YOUR husband throws a dirty shirt on the floor, think about me. Mine throws knives at me. Around me, I mean. He set me straight on that the first time I met him. I asked what a big board leaning against a wall was for and he said a knife-throwing act. "You mean somebody lets you throw knives at her?" I asked. "Around," he said, "not at." "She must be crazy!" "You want to try?" he asked and I told him, not me. A FEW WEEKS LATER he asked me again. I don't know which part of me, Czech or Cherokee, said yes. I had seen him work in the meantime and it looked safe enough. He told me how to stand with my hands folded and elbows pulled in close. "And don't move," he said, but he could have saved his breath. I was too scared to. "I never hit anybody yet," he said when he walked away. I guess he said that to make me feel better. It did help a little but not enough to keep me from thinking to myself, I hope he doesn't break his good record with me standing here. THE FIRST ONE HIT somewhere near my left ear. I didn't see it coming because he told me not to look at him. I heard it hit though. It made the same "thonk!" a broom handle makes banged on a table. I felt it hit, too, so hard it made my head bob. I was all set to let it go at that but he was reared back to throw another one so I stood still. He threw six all told, three down each side even with my head, waist and legs. "That wasn't too bad, was it?" he asked. I STEPPED AWAY from the board and took a quick look at where I had been standing. "It was all right, I guess," I said, "but, boy, I sure wouldn't want to make a living that way!" "Why not?" he asked me. "We could work up an act." I don't remember exactly what I said then, but I let him know quick I didn't think much of the idea. He asked me a lot of times after that and finally convinced me, but he had to marry me to make me say, yes. TED HAD WORKED with partners before, and solo too, but he wanted our act to be different. He had seen others at nightclubs and places like that and on TV, and he wanted to outdo them. He came up with some tricky ones he says only we do. For example, he throws a knife through a hat (with me in it!), throws backwards looking in a mirror, and throws 20 knives into a five by six foot board which, when you figure how much room I take up, doesn't leave much room! There are some things we do only one other act does, he says, like busting a balloon I hold in my teeth and a blindfold throw. I got kind of a creepy feeling when he told me how he got the idea for the blindfold throw. He said when he was a kid he saw a movie with Eric Von Stroheim playing the part of a knife-thrower whose wife was fooling around with another man. He, her husband, decided to kill her by missing on purpose. He figured he could say it was an accident and, being blindfolded and all, nobody could prove it was murder. I wasn't doing anything wrong, but even so...! WE WORKED ABOUT A year and a half before Ted was satisfied we were ready. Our first appearance was on a TV show in Seattle (we appeared on the Steve Allen Show later on) and then we began working nightclubs. A funny thing happened at one place--and with the blindfold throw, too! The only time I move my hands is when I tap a thimble at the place where Ted is to throw. Some heckler tried to be funny and tapped on his table behind Ted. My husband turned around and made like he was going to throw that way. I don't know who was scared the most. I yelled and the people at the table ducked. I guess he shook them up so they'll never try that again. Usually, though, people are quiet during our act. Nightclub managers have told us we scare people sober which Continued, next page. === Page 11 of 29 Continued from page 21. is pretty good publicity for our act and more business for the nightclub. WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, I was supposed to pull the knives out of the board while he announced what we were going to do next. Some were buried so deep, I had a dickens of a time. One night I got hold of a real stubborn one and put my knee up against the board so I could get a real tug at it. The audience laughed and Ted didn't know what was going on until he turned around and looked. That was enough for me and now he pulls them out. I didn't want to look like a nut. Our act is pretty serious so we play it straight. Sometimes in the part where I hold a balloon in my teeth, Ted will build up suspense a little by missing once or twice on purpose. To be frank about it, it makes me jumpy too. I want him to get it over with fast, but not for the reason most people think. I've learned to live with knives hitting close to me, but balloons popping scare me. People think I'm kidding when I tell them that, but it's the truth. Most people have the wrong idea about a knife-thrower's partner. Either they think she is scared green or bored stiff. With me, it's somewhere in the middle. WORKING ALL THIS while with Ted has taught me to trust his skill, but at the same time I know what could happen. Once a reporter asked me what I thought about while the act is going on. I guess he thought I was going to say I thought about what I was going to fix for lunch the next day or about a dress I had seen in a store window because he looked surprised when I told him: "I think about those knives." Bimbo's 365 Club SAN FRANCISCO "HOME OF THE GIRL IN THE FISH BOWL" === Page 12 of 29 $30 on tickets to "Funny Girl" on Broadway, and then had to leave at intermission. His wife was stricken with appendicitis. Jimmy Conway's, has engaged Alan Franks as manager. Honey is needed at home where her husband Lew is recuperating from a heart attack. . . . Willard L. Dougherty, former national sales manager with RKO-General radio in Boston, has joined WRCP, Rust Craft Radio's new local outlet. . . . Restaurateur Frankie Bradley has 4000 reasons for worrying about "Drat! The Cat!" . . . Richard Levinson and William Link, who started here as Mask & Wig scripters, are writing "The Courting of Millie Standish," which Steve Allen plans as a vid series to star his wife, Jayne Meadows. . . . Incidentally, the knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella, who were featured on "The Steve Allen Show," have moved into town. THEY TELL US: Jimmy Toppi says the $5000 he is giving Louis Rodriguez is the biggest guarantee he ever handed out in his long career. Louis gets the 5G's when he meets Johnny M . . . MARCH 14 Evening sibling. R. G. Brown, Marian Mercer, Osmond Brothers, New Christy Minstrels, Nick Castle dancers, Colin Romoff orchestra. (60 min.) 5 PETER GUNN--Mystery "Death Across the Board." Wealthy sportsman Harley Bernard would like to know who murdered his stable manager. Gunn: Craig Stevens. Bernard: Robert Warwick. Scooter: Ned Glass. Rousseau: James Lydon. Wally: George Selk. 11 13 NEWS :20 9 NEWS--John Willis :30 5 DRAGNET--Police A man is kidnapped and Friday and Smith have the job of finding the kidnapers and victim. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 9 TRAILS WEST--Drama As a joke two miners offer their friend a great deal of money if he will wed the homely waitress. Aggie Filene. Virginia Lee, James Best, Steve Mitchell. 11 PAUL COATES--Interview 13 COUNTRY MUSIC TIME :00 2 5 7 9 NEWS 3 6 8 10 NEWS 4 COLOR NEWS--Jack Latham 11 TOM DUGGAN--Interviews 13 MOVIE--Mystery Starlight Theater: "Man on the Run." (English; 1950) An Army deserter becomes innocently involved in a killing. Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey. (90 min.) :15 4 COLOR JOHNNY CARSON 9 MOVIE--Comedy "Sitting Pretty." (1948) A suave and sophisticated stranger is hired as a baby-sitter and works wonders with three children. Clifton Webb, Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara. (90 min.) :20 5 STEVE ALLEN--Variety Steve's guests include Alexander King, singer Joanie Sommers, jazz pianist Pete Jolley and the knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella. Donn Trenner orchestra. (90 min.) :30 2 MOVIE--Melodrama Late Show: "She Devil." (1957) L.A. TV Debut. A tuberculosis victim is injected with a new serum. The cure works but the patient undergoes a mysterious change. Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Albert Dekker. (One hour, 45 min.) 3 10 COLOR JOHNNY CARSON 6 MOVIE--Comedy "Good Sam." (1948) A department-store manager has a reputation as an incurable Good Samaritan. Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe. 7 BAT MASTERSON--Western "The Secret is Death." Bat tries to find out why the town of Cheyenne has been hit by a crime wave. Bat: Gene Barry. Garrickson: John Larch. Ellie: Allison Hayes. Calhoun: George Neise. 8 STEVE ALLEN--Variety Steve's guests include comedian Louis Nye and singers Buddy Greco and Jennie Smith. Donn Trenner orchestra. (90 min.) 12:00 7 MOVIE--Drama "Lady in Distress." (1942) A husband is consumed by an insane jealousy of his wife. Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas, Hartley Power. (90 min.) 12:30 11 MOVIE--Drama "The Mighty McGurk." (1946) A young English orphan attaches himself to an ex-heavyweight champion who is now working in a Bowery saloon. Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell. (Two hours) 12:45 9 MOVIE--Drama "Rachel and the Stranger." (1948) During the early pioneer days, a man and his bride settle in the Ohio frontier territory. Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully. Late news follows the movie. 1:00 4 NEWS 1:15 2 MOVIE--Comedy "His Excellency." (English; 1956) The appointment of a new governor of Arista, an island in the Mediterranean, sets off a series of events that keep the island in turmoil. Eric Portman, Cecil Parker. Late news follows the movie. 2:30 11 MOVIE--Double Feature 1. "Northwest Passage." See Sunday 1:30 P.M. Ch. 11 for details. 2. "Billy the Kid." (1941) The young outlaw is hired as a "persuader" by the czar of the countryside. Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard. TV GUIDE A-75 THURSDAY If She Looked At Him With A Wife's Eye-View === Page 13 of 29 The Hat Trick "With me in it!" 'And Don't Move' Continued from page 21 SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! WED. THRU SAT., THE FANTASTIC BOGARDE' And LOVELLA SHOWS AT 10 P.M. and 12 A.M. "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" . . . FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! . . . FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN T.V. SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! === Page 14 of 29 BEACON Thursday, December 19, 1963 # Knife-Throwing Target Shakes Without Music By JIM WATTS Beacon Staff Writer Pardon me, if my typing is twisty. Not dance-like, exactly, but shimmery. I'm more or less still shaking from an experience foreign to Caspar Milquetoasts: I was a target for a professional knife-thrower. A fellow from Arizona, Ted Owens, is in town appearing at the Stardust Supper Club in the act, Bogarde and Lovella. He's Bogarde when working; Lovella is his wife, Martha. He hurls daggers at her as she leans against a king-sized backboard. The point is (no pun intended) he pins a border of steel around her and nobody flinches but the audience. My anxiety? Well, to get this story, Bogarde, who also is a hypnotist and mind-reader, assured me a first-person account would not be valid unless I subbed for Lovella. Sort of a practice session. As a rule, most practice sessions--rehearsals really--are chock full of flaws. This ran through my mind and I could picture myself chock full of punctures if Bogarde wasn't up to snuff. I don't know which world Bogarde was in at the time he propositioned me for blade bait: Hypnotic or mind-reading? It would seem he surely must have been in a hypnotist mood to be able to convince this one of the non-danger involved standing up there while he threw weapons my way. If he had been in the mind-reading temper, he surely would have been on my wave-length and detected the misgivings swirling around in my head. Apparently, Bogarde was merely in a knife-throwing frame of mind. In any event, hypnotized or no, I played the pigeon. Bogarde emphasized my main contribution was to stay rigidly still. This works well in theory, but at face-down-time, with that steel coming at you lickety-split, some have a compulsion to dance--and with no music! Nonetheless, this writer stood reasonably composed, though some viewers maintained it was because of a state of shock. The first knife thudded into the backboard a hair's breadth from my left ear. I wasn't sure whether I really heard it go by, or whether part of the hearing organ was attached to the blade and I was getting delayed sound--like maybe an echo. Before I had time to worry, however, knife No. 2 thonked into the board on my right, microbes away. Rapidly now came knives Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6. I was surrounded by silverware with no penchant for eating. Somehow, the appetite had waned, much like my ambition for a long life. Came the applause and I reawakened. Anybody who says there isn't a little ham in all of us had better not tarry around a packing plant. Because, when that clapping started, yours truly forgot his moments-before cowardliness and despite amateur status in the entertainment department, took three bows before he realized the folks were cheering Bogarde, not the stiletto fodder. Two or three colas later, the shakes set in, though, friends and it's then one appreciates Methuselah's wisdom. Nowhere in the Bible, I am told, does it relate anything about Methuselah being the foreground part of a knife-throwing act. But, then, really, who wants to live 900 years with rock 'n' roll, taxes and Ben Casey? Bogarde and Lovella appear three times nightly at the Stardust Club, at 9:30, 11:30 and 1:30. OTHER BITS: Impressionist Gary Wells and exotic dancer Angel Wild are winding up their second busy week at the T-Bone Entertainment Restaurant. Bub Calvert and the T-Tones have backed them superbly . . . An added attraction at the Stardust Club Friday and Saturday nights will be the singing-comedy team of Jay Hoyle and Sue Wilson, a fresh young combination that proved a hit last week . . . The Debonaires play Friday and Saturday nights for dancing at The Combo Club, from 10 to 2. Featuring Larry Hurst on lead guitar, the group has Junior Prater on saxophone, Tom Beard at the piano, Jim Block on drums and Johnny Holt plucks the base. The Debonaires claim to play anything on request, from rock 'n' roll to jazz and back to blues . . . Steve Manor and The Shadows hold forth at Seneca Lounge and the Mark IV combo plays for dancing at The Beefeater Inn . . . Tonight, at Civic Playhouse, Norman Lee and his orchestra play for dancing at a Christmas party open to the public . . . The Elmer B Trio is at the Spur Club Friday and Saturday nights, and there is public dancing nightly at the Sunset Club. ## Superstitious Note LOS ANGELES -- If you are superstitious, please note: When Richard Boone was injured in that auto accident, he was in the process of filming a show for this program. It was show No. 13. VICTORY THIS AD AND ONE PAID ADMISSION ADMITS 2 1.--"MISFITS" Clark Gable-Marilyn Monroe 2.--"JACK THE GIANT KILLER" Kerwin Mathews 3.--"TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE" Chubby Checkers New Year's Eve Dance Wichita's Biggest New Year's Party Dance to the Tune of BOB HUNTER'S LANCERS Full 7 Piece Band Complete Food Service from 6 p.m. Dancing from 10 'til 2 Floor Show 11:30 p.m. Noisemakers, Serpentine & Balloons $6.00 per couple--No stags Make Reservations Early AM 3-5002 CIVIC PLAYHOUSE Christmas Party? Let us cater your office Christmas party. We handle all the details--you enjoy yourself. T-BONE Be modern with MOEN NEW KITCHEN FAUCET === Page 15 of 29 NO CONTENT === Page 16 of 29 CHAMPAGNE RUE 365 BIMBO ΣΟΣ AM '64 === Page 17 of 29 BIMBO'S 3 6 5 RUSTY DRAPER REVUE LES BOGARDES 3 SHAGGY GORILLAS LUNCH DINNER === Page 18 of 29 LAVISH REVUES BIMBO'S 3 6 5 THEATRE Restaurant ARTHUR LEE SIMPKINS THE MARQUIS FAMILY LANDIS DANCERS WORLD'S BEST DINNER HOME OF THE GIRL IN THE FISHBOWL FINEST THEATRE RESTAURANT ANYWHERE === Page 19 of 29 ACME CIRCUS OPERATING CO., INC. PRESENTS THE WORLD'S LARGEST CIRCUS CLYDE BEATTY - COLE BROS. CIRCUS Roland Butler PERMANENT ADDRESS VAN SKIKE BUILDING, SARASOTA, FLORIDA ---------- Contract and Agreement ---------- To whom it may concern : This 13 day of May, 1965. I Charles Fuller, side show manager of Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus. Agree to pay the sum of $300.00 - Three Hundred Dollars for services rendered as described below. Amount to be paid to Mr. Bogardi Owens, as agent and sole representative of afore named acts, This amount is to be payment in full for services rendered at Philadelphia Penn., Circus Grounds May 20th thru May 31st 1965. Mr Bogardi Owens agrees to present the acts known as Bogardi & Lovella, and consisting of Knife Throwing (2 people) + 1 girl to asst. when needed. Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus also agree to furnish meals at the show cookhouse for any persons working as performers is afore said acts. Due to the dangerous nature of these acts, Clyde Beatty Cole- Bros. Circus assume no responsibility or liability for injury or disablement to any persons involved in presenting afore said acts. Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus also agree to furnish, without charge transportation from Washington D.C to Philadelphia Penn., for persons required to present afore said acts. This agreement made and signed this 13 day of May, 1965 between Charles Fuller as party of the first part and Mr. Bogardi Owens as party of the second part. Signed : Charles L Fuller Party of the first part. Bogardi Owens Party of the second part. DEC 7 1979 Martha Washington Owens === Page 20 of 29 12TH ANNUAL BE PREPARED EAGLE SCOUT RECOGNITION DINNER === Page 21 of 29 PLAYBOY GRAND OPENING SAN DIEGO COUNTY COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Twelfth Annual Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner PROGRAM MASTER OF CEREMONIES .......... WILLIAM E. GOETZE Program Chairman J. HARVEY CHAMBERS .......... WELCOME Council President EAGLE SCOUT CHRIS THOMAS .......... INVOCATION Post 946, Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church DINNER OPENING CEREMONY .......... ORDER OF THE ARROW Honor Camping Society ENTERTAINMENT .......... PRESENTED BY REGIS PHILBIN Town Criers Bogarde - Lovella SPECIAL GUEST .......... PETER GRAVES Television Star EAGLE SCOUT ROBERT MURPHY .......... OUR EAGLE SPEAKER Troop 147, El Cajon Trinity Catholic Church JOHN ACKERMANN Scout Executive JAMES DEMPSEY .......... GUEST SPEAKER President, General Dynamics-Astronautics CLOSING CEREMONY Jerry Lee Pecht H.M.S. BOUNTY ROOM Thursday, February 21, 1963 . SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (DEL WEBB'S) OCEANHOUSE === Page 22 of 29 PLAYBOY GRAND OPENING 3596 University Avenue • San Diego 4, Calif. Friday and Saturday evening, June 14 and 15, 1963 From 8:00 P. M. PLAYBOY features an all new Cocktail Lounge and Night Club open to the public. DANCING • COCKTAILS • ENTERTAINMENT ★ Jack Cooper ★ Bob Montaque ★ C. C. Jones Floor Shows -- Featuring BOGARDE & LOVELLA The most dangerous and exciting knife-throwing act in the world. Extra Sensory Perception -- Hypnotism Mind Reading Three Performances -- Fri. & Sat. 9 - 11 - 1 P. M. From the Desk of: REGIS PHILBIN Ted: Thanks so much for the fine show Thursday night. Everyone enjoyed it very much and I've received some excellent comments on it. I'm enclosing a clipping you left with me sometime ago. Thought you might like to keep it. Good luck with Steve Allen. Best, Regis Philbin 14 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Fri., Aug. 9, 1963 Orien W. Fifer Jr. He Doesn't Wear Trenchcoat, Either Nice guy, too. ********** A lot of folks migrate to Phoenix. Insurance men, auto salesmen, carpenters, newsmen and about every other type of wage earner. But something new has been added in recent weeks. The knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella, man and wife, has taken up residence here with their children. A few months ago they appeared on the Steve Allen TV show, and Bogarde framed him in foot-long knives. ********** TEN UNIVERSITIES are represented in the 17 new interns at Maricopa County Hospital. The University of Oklahoma leads the list with four: Thomas Alexander, Donald Ferrell, Curtis Kimball and Larry Young. The others: Sherman Butler, Stanford; James Coles, University of Colorado; Michael Edwards and Alan Suddard, University of Minnesota; Edward Gross, University of The Philippines; Daniel Gutierez and Alan Stutz, University of Illinois; William Koch, Ariel Thomann, and John Sherman III, Baylor; John Melvin, University of Texas; Richard Raynor, Missouri, and John Wick, Temple. One of these days out-staters may be the exception. That is, when Arizona has its own medical school. KABC-TV NEWS CARL GEORGE AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY ABC TELEVISION CENTER HOLLYWOOD 27, CALIFORNIA NO 3-3311 === Page 23 of 29 NEIL MORGAN April 10 and he'll face a noisy reception planned by San Diego's Committee to Entertain Patrick O'Connell, made up of his admirers in the San Diego Rowing Club. Among them will be Superior Court Judge Vincent A. Whelan, John Howley and Clyde O. Davee, all of whom have visited O'Connell in Ireland. . . Ted Owens, the San Diego knife thrower who appeared last Friday night on the Steve Allen TV show, depends on more than a steady throwing arm to hit the mark. He's trained in auto hypnosis and extrasensory perception. . . A law violator appeared in Municipal Court, alert enough to notice that the label on Judge Donald Smith's cigar read "Crooks." MEMO FROM OUR MAN FRIDAY: "Dear N.M. A note signed by the 'Observer of All the Team Work' says he read the item about Louis Lieblich, the director of the United Jewish Fund having a Catholic secretary, and says there's another mentionable team at the Jewish Community Center. On Executive Director Joe Astor's team are Carol Parkerson, a Lutheran; Mary Schneider, a Catholic, and Lorraine Hudson, a Presbyterian." College Area Kiwaniannes are holding their annual benefit rummage sale tomorrow at the College Grove Center. Featured offering is a wooden shaft number 6 iron, valued by its owner at $1,500, and priced for quick sale at $1.75. . . State mortgage bankers' idea of a "survival kit," which they issued to each of their convention delegates at the Hotel del Coronado, included aspirin and headache powders, stomach alkalizers and adhesive bandages. . . Members of the Oceanside-Carlsbad TOPS club, the weighty reducing society, hold their meetings at the Oceanside Moose Lodge. . . Elizabeth Taylor checked in at Hotel del Coronado, but she didn't cause much of a flurry. This Elizabeth Taylor was a Camp Fire Girl from Glendale. PLAYBOY IN SAN DIEGO "Where the Brightest People Meet" 3596 University Avenue • San Diego 4, California • Phone 281-0937 June 17, 1963 Dear Bogarde: We appreciated the high-calibre quality of your truly amazing entertainment during our Grand Opening for our Playboy Club. We wish to recommend highly any of your acts to those night clubs seeking unusual entertainment. Best regards. Sincerely, Bob Michaels, Manager. === Page 24 of 29 W. Beach Biloxi # SHOW CLUB W. Beach Biloxi ## Greatest Show On The Gulf 9 P.M. Continental Style THE FANTASTIC # BOGARDE' And LOVELLA "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN TV SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! ### SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! * Others In The Show Include Camile, The Pocket Size Edition Of Jane Russell, Bunny Holiday Dancing The Way Her Mother Never Taught Her. Carla and Honey Bare You Can't Afford To Miss . . . BUNNY HOLIDAY Daring Doer ********** CARLA KNIGHT . . DARLING DANCER CAMILLE . . . Tiny Tripper HONEY BARE . . . Petite Posturer # The RUSTY DRAPER Show MAY 3-20 with cast of 35 featuring BOGARDE and LOVELLA Open 365 days of the year # BIMBO'S 365 THEATRE RESTAURANT 1025 Columbus Ave. GR 4-0365 LUNCH DINNER AFTER THEATER === Page 25 of 29 HOTEL Buena Vista SAFFORD, ARIZONA MATADOR COCKTAIL LOUNGE • Featuring our "Moment of Truth" Special ARENA DE TORO • Dancing and Refreshments under Arizona Stars EARL V. PERRIN General Manager IN THE SHADOW OF MT. GRAHAM REFRIGERATED December 16, 1963 Bogarde c/o Southwest Booking Corp. Hotel Westward Ho Phoenix, Arizona Dear Bogarde; We here at the Buena Vista Hotel want to commend you on the fine show that you and Lovella performed during your recent engagement at our Matador Room. You have a fine versatile act which certainly draws customers attention. Needless to say, your shows stimulated a jump in business. The people of Safford are still talking about the death defying performance. Also many expressed amazement over your mind reading and hypnotic feats. Best of luck in all your future bookings and we hope to see you and Lovella soon. Best personal regards. Sincerely, Earl V. Perrin SAFFORD'S LARGEST & FINEST ON U. S. HIGHWAY 70 === Page 26 of 29 X TH INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE -3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 - REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL - HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. === Page 27 of 29 ### Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States ### Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness ### Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpretor D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS ### American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus ### Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards === Page 28 of 29 # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 29 of 29 DEAF OLYMPICS SPONSORS HONORED Gerald Jordan of Gallaudet College (left), chairman of the Deaf Olympics to be held here June 27-July 3, presents Olympic cuff links and passes to Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y.; Justice Byron White, and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., honorary sponsors.--Star Staff Photo. Kennedy Asks Support for Deaf Olympics United Press International The Senate was asked yesterday by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D-N.Y.,) to give "wholehearted support" to a series of Olympic Games where the Athletes will never hear the shouts from the crowd. Kennedy told his colleagues that more than 1000 athletes from 29 nations will compete in Washington June 26 through July 3 in the 10th annual International Games for The Deaf. "Surely these games inspire and challenge young men and women burdened by deafness to aspire to wider roles of leadership and usefulness in society," he said. President Johnson is honorary chairman of the games and the sponsors include Kennedy, Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, (R-Mass.,) and Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8104b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/08075c0e4ea6203e442fffbe5a3791c6.pdf 9e4d22f11bdc5ee15e70f47b0ebfea83 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9d71ca36f90de1d8777a7ae5371b8a36.txt 26631764e800a4b50f8928b5962af003 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MY UFOs DOUBLE-CROSSED!! Owens === Page 2 of 2 April 14, 1980 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young. As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied. Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs. But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact. Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED. My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs. This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting. They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan. Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle. In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing. But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 139 Vancouver # Second UFO sighting reported A second unidentified flying object emitting a "motor-like noise unlike an airplane or helicopter" has been reported in the Portland metropolitan area. Glenn Turner, 6901 SE Division St., said he saw a red light, appearing to be about two feet long, moving from northeast to southwest about 10 p.m. Wednesday near SE 168th Ave. and Division St. He added that it moved with a foreign sound, but he thought it was some kind of combustion engine. "I worked 16 years at Moffatt Naval Air Station and am familiar with aircraft noises and this, didn't sound like them" Turner reported. Tuesday night, Oregon State Police officers, St. Helens policemen and a CB operator at Ridgefield, Wash., reported seeing an orange light descend into the Columbia River and later become airborne again. As it rose, it emitted a whiny noise. Note: My SI's are making sure that my message gets across! Owens 3/20/81 Wednesday, Mar. 18, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN # UFO group seeks data on sighting By THOMAS RYLL Columbian Writer Bright orange lights and a strange noise over the Columbia River between Ridgefield and Woodland Tuesday morning have attracted the attention of a UFO investigating organization in Chicago. J. Allen Hynek is founder of the eight-year-old Center for UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) Studies. He said in a telephone interview this morning that a Sandy, Ore., "investigator" for the center would be interviewing witnesses. They say they saw a glow and heard a loud screeching noise between 4 and 5 a.m. The event has bewildered several law enforcement officers who saw the lights. They included Sgt. Russ Yokum of the St. Helens, Ore., Police Department and Oregon State Police Trooper Tom McCartney. "I always look for a natural explanation," said Hynek, former chairman of the Northwestern University astronomy department in Evanston, Ill. "This was a good sighting in that it has many witnesses who are independent." Hynek said his organization gathers information on strange sightings from over the world. Paris Allen Braden, of Sandy, who joined the organization less than a week ago, will be interviewing witnesses, Hynek said. Braden reportedly has worked at a similar job in Oklahoma, although Hynek said he was "not sure of his experience." Donald Atkin, a Ridgefield citizens band radio operator, reportedly saw a light in the fog near his house and talked with McCartney and Yokum. Atkin broadcast the whining sound - like a ship's sonar - over his radio and it was tape-recorded by one of the officers. The eerie noise, which may have been distorted somewhat by the CB radio, was broadcast numerous times by Portland radio stations Tuesday. An announcer on KGON, a rock music station, said on the air Tuesday afternoon that dozens of callers had asked to hear the recording. "It was a whining sound, not like any aircraft engine I have heard," Trooper McCartney said. A spokesman for the state police office in Columbia City, Ore., said officers combed the area of the sighting Tuesday and found no evidence of an aircraft landing. Several callers reported the event and their information was checked out but nothing found, she said. "This is not something we're going to start pursuing," said Dick Henderson, head of the Federal Aviation Administration district office in Hillsboro, Ore. No aircraft have been reported missing in the area, with the exception of a light plane that disappeared Feb. 9 between Pearson Airpark at Vancouver and Clark County Aerodrome. Henderson speculated the light might have been a flare and said it might have been a helicopter or float-equipped aircraft involved in an illegal drug delivery. Henderson flew to Mount St. Helens Tuesday and said he examined the sighting area from the air. "If somebody knew what they were doing they might have been able to land there," Henderson said. "But I don't know what the surface is like." There are numerous low, flat areas in the vicinity. Hynek of the UFO center said his organization is a group of scientists "who have become interested in this problem." He said he asked the investigator to locate the witnesses on a map and draw lines of sight in an attempt to pinpoint the location of the strange lights. He (CB radio operator Atkin, who could not be reached by The Columbian this morning) saw a flare or at least a glow in the sky and heard some kind of noise," said Henderson. "I don't know. It could be a prank. It was St. Patrick's Day, you know." === Page 2 of 139 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 139 # Inquiries into rumor spread tale of gun assault on Bush THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 22, 1981 WASHINGTON (AP) -- For days, it's been the hottest rumor in a city that thrives on gossip about the mighty and powerful of government: that Vice President George Bush had been shot at and suffered a minor wound on a Capitol Hill street late one night. The rumor spread so quickly and widely that Bush, exasperated, finally asked the FBI to interview him about it last Friday -- even though the FBI was not conducting an investigation, according to The Washington Post. The Post, in Sunday's editions, traced the birth and spread of the rumor, detailing how efforts by various news agencies to track it down actually spread it further. The rumor has no basis in fact, the Post concluded. That was the same conclusion drawn by several Associated Press reporters who also heard it and tried to pin it down. White House press secretary James S. Brady was asked Saturday about the persistent rumor, and he insisted it was "without foundation." Depending on the teller, the story had various embellishments, but generally, the basis of the story was that Bush had been shot and grazed in the arm on a Capitol Hill sidewalk. The rumor began, the Post said, when a young woman artist ran into the street late one night last month, trying to help the victim of a traffic accident. At the scene, she saw a policeman she knew. He told her, she says, that Bush had been shot nearby. The policeman says he told her no such thing. When the artist, who declined to be named, returned to her apartment, she turned on the television and radio to hear more details but heard nothing. Seeking information, she then called both wire services, the Post and a television station. The woman told the Post she believed the policeman because she had come to know him several weeks earlier when she had witnessed a murder and the policeman was one of the law officers who arrived. The day after the traffic accident, the artist told a friend what she thought she had heard the policeman say about Bush. In turn, her friend told two of his friends, including a person who worked for columnist Jack Anderson. From there, the rumor spread, the Post said, despite denials that anything like it had occurred. The denials came from the Secret Service, police, the U.S. attorney and Bush' press office. At one point, the newspaper said, two Post reporters visited a District police official, who denied that anything had occurred. But the reporters saw a pad of paper on his desk with Bush's name, the word "assault" and information about a time, date and place. Eventually, then, the rumor grew to include the word that the Post had a "police report" on the case. In fact, the newspaper said, the official's words on the paper were his notes of a conversation police had with a television reporter who had called to try to track down the rumor. When the rumors reached Bush, he was angry and unbelieving, the Post said. The rumor even became part of a White House press briefing Tuesday, the Post said, when Larry Speakes, President Reagan's deputy press secretary, was asked if Reagan "was concerned about the large number of rumors circulating" about the alleged incident. Speakes, according to the briefing transcript published by the Post, promised he would "check on the president's concern ... of the rumor of rumors." But none of the exchange was apparently printed or broadcast, the Post said. === Page 4 of 139 Jeffrey IMPORTANT !!! Monday, March 23, 1980 CONTACTS Yesterday my UFOs (SIs) took, captured, my two sons and myself and today we are more dead than alive! What happened is as follows: Yesterday morning, Sunday, my UFOs communicated ("the Call") and told me to take Beau (18) and Teddy (9) out into the woods. Remember, my UFOs appeared in multiples over this general area a week ago and were seen by many reputable witnesses; police, etc. I told Beau, but couldn't figure out how to do it because we had no money and were out of gas for the old van. Beau said he'd saved up about four dollars in his "piggy bank" and would use this for the gas that we needed. We dug up a local area map...and decided on a place we hadn't been, Battleground Lake Park, about 8-10 miles from Vancouver. We chose an isolated location, and built a fire. After dark Beau said "Dad, why don't you signal the SIs to come to us?" Teddy said "Oh, no, please, Dad...don't! If I saw them I think that I'd die." Well, I decided to do it, and proceeded to signal them in the way that I do. Afterward the kids and I roasted some hot dogs on sticks and cooked some coffee over the fire. It became as dark as ink around us. Beau and Teddy said that they smelled a skunk. We heard a loud metallic "whack!" at the location of our old van, Tuffy, and investigated with drawn gun, but could find no looter. Next we heard a woman screaming. Sounded like she was a block away. Simultaneously dogs, wolves and coyotes by the dozens...plus ducks in the nearby lake...raised hell by barking, howling and quacking. Next a UFO appeared in plain sight before us, through the woods. It was a blazing white "star" that would appear brightly for a bit, then vanish to a glow (like the old-fashioned sparkler firework that would throw off sparks for a bit then all that would be left was a glow of heat from the empty sparkler)...then it would appear at a new angle, or new location, flare up into brightness again, then vanish and glow briefly...here, there, high, low. Shortly after this Beau and Teddy heard "somebody" running in the dark within ten feet from us near the van...Beau said must have been wearing heavy boots because it sounded like that. I grabbed the flashlight and gun but once again couldn't find the "looter". Then Beau yelled he'd heard a noise 20 feet away and I turned the flashlight there and we saw some creature about 2-3 feet long, white with black spots, vanishing from view. Funny thing is, no one of us could identify it as an animal of any sort. Then Beau and Teddy said that they smelled a skunk very strongly. We searched the area of the campsite (see receipt enclosed) but could find no skunk. Teddy asked me, "Daddy, what time is it? You should watch your watch, just in case the SIs capture us!" I gave him points for being so dam smart at age 9. (Remember the missing time for me two nights in a row at that old abandoned castle in Scotland some years ago...and I was checking the time every minute or two.) At 8:10 PM I grew sleepy; so did Teddy and we crawled into the back of Tuffy and went to sleep underneath blankets while Beau stayed up. About 1 AM Beau woke us. There was that woman screaming again at the top of her lungs...and about 50-100 dogs, coyotes and wolves barking and howling. Quite a ruckus. Teddy and I got up and we built a new fire. Soon we got the distinct impression that we were being watched, and figured that it might be some camp looters planning to jump us (it is common now in parks and camps in Washington) so we packed up our gear and drove out away from Campsite 19. We drove a ways away to a new campsite. For some reason Teddy and I couldn't stay awake at all...so we went to bed again in Tuffy, while Beau stayed awake in front of the van. After a while he yelled that the same big ball of fire with a tail that we'd seen some years ago in Southern Oregon had flown over the van. Then he and Teddy smelled the skunk smell again. It began to rain heavily. I simply couldn't awaken. I was fully conscious and keenly aware of all that was going on...but couldn't get up and be counted "awake". Next Beau said that he saw, in the rear view mirror, a "black cloud in the shape of a cigar" just over our van. Next there was a loud "whump" on top of our van. Beau and I theorized that perhaps a * The "screaming" mentioned herein is the same "screeching" noise witnesses heard last week from UFO seen here! The SIs put another magic stick in our van! We discovered it today, Tuesday. === Page 5 of 139 PS... during the night action of the van shaking and rolling us around... I could hardly breathe and coughed continually. Ted. 2 cougar had jumped on top of our van (one had, some years before, in southern Oregon). We listened for the sound of padding footsteps of some animal. But no footsteps. Then the van began to shake. The shaking actually threw us around inside the van. I yelled at Beau that perhaps it was an earthquake. Teddy was scared witless, naturally. We rolled around inside that van like marbles in a skillet for what seemed like quite a long while. I heard one single loud scratching noise. Suddenly Teddy sat up and yelled "Dad, something pushed me on the head!" I told him to lie back down again. All through this action I kept trying to go back to sleep; just the opposite of my combative character. And I might point out that at no time was I asleep per se. I was in a state between asleep and awake. Like hypnosis, I suppose. (The same thing happened when we took Millie, a friend of ours, out into an isolated area to call out the UFOs and eight of them appeared.) Finally all three of us managed to get to real sleep; Beau up front, Teddy and I in the back, with the rain pouring down with its drumming noise on the metallic van top. Daylight finally arrived and we awake and started to drive off for home. I asked Teddy what he had meant during the night when he said that "something pushed his head." He said that something had "pulled his hair, tickled his feet, and pinched his arm" (his right arm, in three different places that he indicated, and then it was that I knew we'd been drawn up into the UFO that Beau had seen... accounting for the loud roof noise...resulting in our being rolled and shaken about inside the van...and in a physical exam of some sort given to Teddy.) Oh yes, and let me mention here that while we were being rolled around hours before inside the van Beau had called to me that the car lights wouldn't turn on. I told him to try the strong flashlight. (I'd put in two new batteries, tested on my battery tester.) He said that the flashlight wouldn't turn on, either. This morning, on returning home, I discovered that my two watches and alarm clock that I had carried in the van...were all wrong. The left hand watch, a Universal Geneve, had stopped completely. It is usually quite accurate. The right hand watch, an Omega, was 8 minutes wrong. The Alarm clock was 8 minutes wrong also. And to add to that...when we left the first campsite (19) our car wouldn't work right...motor kept going dead and Beau had to keep starting it up again. It never does that. So undoubtedly (to me) a UFO had affected our van and my time pieces, and us. Arriving home Beau and Teddy collapsed into bed and slept for hours and hours. And I fell asleep in my chair in my study. Also my wife and baby fell asleep some time ago (it is now 6 PM) and are in fact still deep asleep. Ted Owens (PK Man) Bo Owens Teddy Owens PS...I forgot a few details. Along with the van lights and flashlight not turning on...Beau reported that our van compass, attached to the dashboard...was spinning wildly...also both kids got sick at their stomachs (Teddy wanted to throw up)...also Beau got out of the van early at daylight and examined it and found tiny footprints on the roof and hood...humanoid, about six inches long, with three toes. The heavy rain washed them all away later but one...and I got a photograph of it with my camera after returning home. It's still there. The footprints were in a reddish stain. (This same thing happened to us long years ago in Arizona.) PS... another "detail" I forgot to mention... after the kid and I came to, we found that our van had been moved or displaced 50 feet away! PS also Beau up in front of the van, told me that the steering wheel was turning by itself!! inside the van === Page 6 of 139 Note: Campsite 19, (see below) where UFO and accompanying phenomena occurred, appeared, for my sons and I last night at Battleground Park, Wash. WASHINGTON STATE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION CAMPING PERMIT (PLACE IN HOLDER AT CAMP SITE) NAME: LAST FIRST M.I. Owens Ted DATE SITE NO. VEHICLE LICENSE NO. STATE 3/22/71 19 CLG-71 Wash TE TR MH PC O NUMBER OF PEOPLE 3 | | FEE | NIGHTS | TOTAL | |---|---|---|---| | HOOK UP SITE | $ 4.50 | X | $ | | SURCHARGE | | X | | | NON-HOOK UP SITE | 3.50 | X | | | CAMPING RESERVATION FEE | | | 4.50 | | ORANGE L D HOOK UP SITE | 2.25 | X | | | ORANGE L D NON-HOOK UP SITE | 1.75 | X | | | WHITE PASS - DAY | FREE | | | | GREEN PASS | FREE | | ANNUAL FEE | | DAY USE RESERVATION | | | $5.00 | | GROUP CAMPING AREA | | RES. FEE | | | FEE $.25 + | SURCHARGE X | NO. PEOPLE X | NIGHTS | TOTAL -> $ CHECK OUT TIME IS 3:00 P.M. CAMPER-PLEASE SEE REVERSE SIDE P & R 0-220 (6-79) A217298 Owens Crude sketch of footprint in red stain left on our car from last night. Owens (it is a bigger in size than this.) Ted === Page 7 of 139 March 24, 1981 Added notes: Since our UFO encounter at Battleground the kids and I have discovered the following: - My hair has turned yellow on the back of my head. - There are large deep purple scars on Bean's right and left arms, as if a clamp had been attached to both sides of the arm, producing "instant" purple scars. - On my right arm and right leg are five sets (twos) of needle marks! Like .. . . .. etc. Also one triangle of needle marks .:. (All twos marks are perfectly concentric!) Triangles too. - Teddy is covered all over with needle marks in twos and several triangles, plus one puffy needle mark below his larynx at the base of the throat, perfectly centered. - We couldn't get Bean to strip to examine him. I think the UFOs programmed him to refuse it. We wouldn't have known most of this if Millie Miller hadn't asked to come over and inspect us. The results... were scary!! PS... at campsite 19 my left wristwatch stopped shortly after 8 PM. At 8:30 PM sharp the same screeching sound began. Owens PS... also have discovered that since Sunday and the encounter there's a bald spot on the back of my head that wasn't there before! Another brain modification? ϕ === Page 8 of 139 SPACE SHUTTLE January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA...they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure...one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time...and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base...with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base...will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program...or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values...an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous...except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning...one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge...THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness...and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 9 of 139 nation One dead in space shuttle accident CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Space agency and Rockwell International engineers, operating under government secrecy, Friday investigated the nitrogen gas accident that killed one technician and marred an otherwise successful dry-run launch of the space shuttle Columbia. Five Rockwell International technicians were stricken Thursday after completion of the mock launch when they entered the shuttle's engine compartment, filled with nitrogen during the dry run as a fire prevention step. Deprived of oxygen, the five began suffocating immediately. One technician, John Bjornstad, 50, of Titusville, died and the other four were hospitalized. One was in critical condition Friday. A fireman who pulled them to safety also was treated. Engineers of both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Rockwell, the shuttle contractor, immediately began investigations. Tape recordings detailing activity on launch pad 39-A have been impounded. Richard Barton, a spokesman for Rockwell International, said he was in the launch area with a reporter from National Geographic magazine and they both heard a "return to work" signal before the accident occurred. "It came over the P.A. system," said Barton. "I heard it. (The reporter) heard it. It was about 8:45 or 8:50 a.m." -- about two hours after the mock launch. Hugh Harris, NASA's chief spokesman at the Kennedy Space Center, would not confirm or deny the report, saying such information is privy to the NASA team investigating the accident. It was not known if someone erred by failing to stop the nitrogen purge of the engines or by failing to warn the workers to stay away. They would not have smelled anything peculiar on entering the deadly compartment. The rehearsal, with astronauts Robert Crippen and John Young in full suit and taking the cockpit controls, was one of the last major tests that the nation's first reusable rocket plane will be put through before making its maiden launch, tentatively set for April 7 -- and already more than two years behind schedule. The accident is not expected to affect the launch date. Thursday's mishap was the first death associated with a launch or pre-launch operation since astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a launch pad flash fire during an Apollo countdown test in January 1967. Space agency officials said that nitrogen, the major component of air, is harmless but in this case replaced the oxygen needed for breathing in the engine area. Barton said breathing nitrogen has a suffocating effect. Soviets rearrest dissident MOSCOW (UPI) -- Anatoly Marchenko, one of the most longstanding Soviet dissidents who has spent most of his adult life in labor camps and prisons, has been rearrested on unknown charges, dissident sources said. Marchenko, 44, has been living outside Moscow since his release from a labor camp sentence about a year ago. FATAL SCENE -- Workers in December 1980 file photograph examine chamber of space shuttle Columbia, where one man was killed and five others injured in accident Thursday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At time of picture, spacecraft was in vertical position, but it was in horizontal position Thursday. (No pictures of the shuttle were allowed Thursday) Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 10 of 139 Space shuttle accident kills 1, hurts 5 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- One worker was killed, a second was critically hurt and four others nearly asphyxiated Thursday when they entered a nitrogen-filled engine compartment of the space shuttle Columbia after a rehearsal for next month's launch, NASA officials said. The accident marred a "super" dress rehearsal of the shuttle's first launch at the Kennedy Space Center, but space agency officials in Washington said the accident was not a result of any flaw in the shuttle and that there would be no change in the launch schedule. The shuttle, delayed repeatedly by technical problems in the past two years, is to lift off sometime during the week of April 5. It was the first launch-pad fatality at the space center since a Jan. 27, 1967, flash fire killed three Apollo I astronauts during a pre-launch test. Five Rockwell International employees were working in the aft section of the orbiter near the engine compartment when they were overcome shortly after 9 a.m. EST, officials said. A Kennedy Space Center security guard also was overcome when he went in to help. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesmen said it was unclear why the five men went into the compartment. "Right now, we just don't know what they were doing in there," said space center spokesman Chuck Hollinshead. "It all happened in a matter of minutes, and we haven't had time to interview people yet to find out exactly what procedure they were doing." But Rockwell spokesman Dick Barton said the men apparently entered the compartment after hearing an announcement clearing technicians to return to work on the launch pad. "I just happened to be in the area, and I heard the announcement: 'Clear for return to normal work.' Regretfully, it was not," Barton said. "They were just doing their normal jobs. All our people were waiting around for the test to end. The guy who died was the senior mechanical technician, and each of our men was assigned different duties in the compartment." Added another Rockwell official, who asked not to be identified, "It was a goof-up." The technicians apparently removed an access panel and entered the compartment, unaware it had been purged of oxygen and filled with pure nitrogen. "The aft portion of orbiter normally is filled with nitrogen to get all the oxygen out," said space center spokesman Rocky Raab. "That is done to prevent fires in that area and to prevent anything explosive from seeping in there." The workers, unaware they were moving into a "nitrogen purge" zone, were felled quickly by the lack of oxygen, Raab said. "There is no way you can see or smell that you're moving into an area that lacks oxygen," Raab said. "The whole compartment is purged. We insert nitrogen to get rid of the oxygen and other gases. It is normally a closed area, and you can only get into it by going through access panels." As officials evacuated launch pad 39-A as a precaution, emergency medical teams treated the men at the scene and then rushed them to the Major Health Facility at the space center. Doctors worked frantically on John Bjornstad, 50, of Titusville, but he died aboard a helicopter en route to the Titusville hospital, Raab said. Another technician, Forrest Cole of Merritt Island, Fla., was stabilized, flown to the Titusville hospital and later airlifted to Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, where he was placed in intensive care in critical condition with brain and lung swelling. A third man, William Wolford of Rockledge, Fla., was hospitalized in Melbourne for observation. The three others were released after treatment, officials said. The two other Rockwell technicians were identified as Nicholas Mullon and Jay Harper, and the security guard, an employee of Wackenhut Corp., was identified as Don Largent. Wackenhut spokesman Dick Wilson said Largent and other guards helped rescue the Rockwell workers. NASA and Rockwell officials quickly appointed boards of inquiry to investigate the accident. Charles Gay, director of the Expendable Vehicle Program, was named to head the NASA committee. The incident came shortly after NASA officials proclaimed that the rehearsal "went super." === Page 11 of 139 television Greg P 3/20/81 # Country's no fad for Akins By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Western duds, country music, drawls and good old boys are all the rage these days, and wallowing in the glory of it all is Claude Akins, a man ahead of his time. His name alone is redolent of squeaking fiddles, weathered faces, yokel patois and down-home values. As the star of NBC's "Lobo," in which he plays a hick sheriff from Georgia's outback assigned to special duty in Atlanta, Akins can gawp at tall buildings and wonder at sleek ladies and indoor plumbing with the best of 'em. Providence quarried Akin from a block of Americana. His Cherokee ancestry is clearly chiseled into his strong face. He's broad-shouldered and barrel-chested. The timbre of his voice rivals Mount St. Helens. Akins, moreover, is the quintessential square in the best sense. He is a God-fearing man who has been married to wife Therese for almost 30 years. But until recently he was typecast as an uncouth character. Good old boys, for the most part, were depicted in TV and movies as rednecked bigots, criminals, racists and all-purpose heavies. FOR WHATEVER reason, country folk, especially Southerners, did not unite to fight the image, not even to appeal to the ACLU as other groups or minorities almost certainly would have done. So Claude spent a large share of his acting career playing rube heavies in the likes of "The Caine Mutiny" and "From Here To Eternity," clodhopper comedy roles in movies and episodic TV. Claude, however, should never be mistaken for the characters he plays. Although he was born in the hamlet of Nelson, Ga., Akins was reared in Bedford, Ind. and attended Northwestern University. He is a sophisticated man in many respects whose early background included Shakespeare. He came to Hollywood in 1950 after starring in "The Rose Tattoo" on Broadway. "They made a heavy out of me right away," Akins said good-naturedly. "I guess my size and my face convinced them I would make a good menace. I didn't mind. Even when I played the worst sort of villain I tried to sneak in some good qualities so the people would feel sorry for me when I died. "Everything turned around when I starred in 'Movin' On' for a couple of years on TV. It was a success because it was about the work ethic and a decent, honest man who liked to help people. "And that's what I think is happening around the United States right now. People are turning back to their rural roots, a return to solidarity. I think that's the reason so many people, including me, voted for Reagan. "It's reflected in popular country music, like the lyrics of Merle Haggard's new song about Muskogee, Okla. The words of Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson tell a story people want to hear. "GOOD OLD BOYS aren't the heavies anymore. Everybody enjoys seeing Burt Reynolds pictures when he plays country boys. "It seem to me, people are looking for something lasting and good, and what is more lasting and secure for a mobile society which works for big, impersonal corporations than the land itself? "The old verities have to be pretty strong to overcome the freaky '60s when all the music and values went goofy. That began to fade in the '70s when the country was running scared internationally. "There's a simplicity in country dress and music which everyone can understand. The kids of the '60s are now paying taxes and things look different to them. If they burn things down now, they've got to pay for them." Akins is convinced "Lobo's" popularity reflects the times. He asks, "Where else in TV is the central figure a sheriff con man? And where else is the main character surrounded by the funniest man in TV -- Mills Watson who plays Deputy Perkins -- and the most gorgeous guy on the tube -- Brian Kerwin who plays my other deputy and is the finest young actor in town? "You put these three country boys down in the middle of Atlanta where they aren't wanted and you've got a truly original set of circumstances. "THE MOST IMPORTANT thing of all is that the show is genuinely funny. The crew ruins about a third of our takes because they're laughing so hard." "Lobo" has had indifferent ratings, often pre-empted for NBC specials, confusing viewers. It has never been aired more than two consecutive weeks, making it a part-time series opposite "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley." In its first year, "Lobo" was set in Orly Hot Springs. The move to Atlanta was a network brainstorm to hype the big city ratings. Note: As you know, I was raised in Bedford, Indiana. As I recall Claude Akins went to school with me. We got into a fist fight one day that lasted a half an hour. His dad worked for my grandpa. Grandpa was Vice President of Indiana Limestone. Akins' dad worked in the stone quarry. Then he got onto the Bedford police force as I recall and got to be Chief. One day us kids went into the police station (next door to the house where I lived) and Akins' dad fired a .45 pistol behind my back, into the floor to scare me. I jumped a foot in the air. Owens === Page 12 of 139 Jeffrey March 18, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have taken it upon themselves to back up; place their "signature" -- on the document which I wrote to you two days ago (copy of which is attached). You may safely assume, therefore, that that particular document contains great importance to my UFOs. That is, my UFOs want that document taken quite seriously. Here is the most peculiar chain of events as they happened: Two days ago (Tuesday) I was in my study at work on one of my research projects when my UFOs communicated. I jotted down the gist of their communication so that I could type it and xerox it next morning and mail it to you. Suddenly the phone rang. It was my friend, George Delavan, calling from Des Plaines, Illinois. He was inquiring about my work. I read the UFO communication to him long distance. Next morning, Wednesday, I typed up the UFO communication, xeroxd it, and mailed it off to you. (By the way, I also mailed the new, huge "4 Projects File" off to you on Tuesday morning, the day before...same day the UFOs communicated with me.) Later in the day on Wednesday there were television broadcasts about UFOs being seen in this area. I immediately went out and got newspapers and sure enough, the night before, Tuesday night, UFOs were in this general area at the time they communicated with me. Were seen and heard, that is, by reputable witnesses. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... also note herein that power was knocked out in Portland on Monday, 3/16/81... "for no apparent reason." (See newsclip herein.) Close proximity to UFOs usually results in power out. PPS... I explained to Scott Rogo when he visited me that my UFOs had told me that they had three UFOs near me at all times in order to monitor me. Evidently they decided to let themselves be seen in order to strengthen my credibility with humans. (The files you get, etc.) === Page 13 of 139 Tuesday March 17, 1981 The Columbian Section 2 Page 9 UFO Area has close encounter; no one knows what kind By BILL STEWART Columbian Writer It could have been little green men -- what more appropriate on St. Patrick's day? -- or perhaps it was an illegal drug delivery. But whatever it was, a lot of officials were scurrying around this morning along the Columbia River between Ridgefield and Woodland. There was talk of an airplane crash and of an unidentified flying object. Some residents reported seeing an "orange ball" in the sky. An Oregon State Patrol trooper even tape-recorded the noise that accompanied a red glow in the sky. Coast Guard officials were somewhat miffed, after sending two boats to the scene, to discover that no one reported that the "crashed" object later "uncrashed" and flew away. A Ridgefield man apparently saw something and discussed it on citizens band radio. That conversation was overheard by a Washington State Patrol trooper, who relayed it to Vancouver where it was telephoned to the Clark County Sheriff's Office. That report was of a "big red glow, and a loud screeching noise when the object went into the river." Ridgefield is about two miles east of the Columbia. Dick Henderson, director of the Federal Aviation Administration area office in Hillsboro, Ore., speculated that the object might have been a craft heading to or from the Scappoose, Ore., airport, or, he speculated further, might have involved a drug operation -- especially since there was a 56-minute gap between first and last sighting. Henderson said there were no aircraft reported missing or overdue in the area. The aviation official also said some of the details, such as the noise reported, did not match helicopter or high-performance aircraft sounds. Coast Guard spokesman Norm Swenson said the Oregon police report at 5:05 a.m. resulted in the scrambling of a crew to run a 32-foot patrol boat from the Portland station to St. Helens, Ore. A private boat from the Coast Guard Auxiliary was dispatched from St. Helens. "The Portland boat got all the way there and found nothing," Swenson said today. "Someone reported it down but did not report it when it went back up again." Cascade Helicopters, based at Scappoose, said it had no units in the air at that hour. === Page 14 of 139 Columbia River UFO oreg J. 3/17/81 # 'Big orange ball' eludes police By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Sure and 'twas St. Patrick's Day, a time known for hoaxes, but when people report a flying object -- even a bright orange ball -- going into a river it must be investigated. Particularly when the sighting is verified by officers of the law with such names as Patrick Gallagher, Thomas McCartney and Dick McGrew. At 4:44 a.m. Tuesday, the log of the Oregon State Police station at Milwaukie recorded a call reporting that "a big orange ball" hovered a few minutes and then went into the Columbia River near St. Helens. Subsequently, the unidentified flying object was seen to emerge from the river and fly off into the dawn. State police and the Columbia County sheriff's office sent patrol cars to the area. The Coast Guard put a boat into the water at Portland to head for St. Helens and dispatched a helicopter from Astoria. Trooper Thomas McCartney and two sheriff's deputies saw the object and recorded its sound, according to Officer Pat Gallagher of the OSP district headquarters. When it started up again, some 45 minutes after the initial plunge, it reportedly did not sound like it was powered by an aircraft engine. "It didn't sound like any aircraft I'm familiar with," Gallagher said after listening to the tape recording. Meanwhile, a citizens' band radio operator, identified only as "Lucky 13," told officers he watched the object from Ridgefield, Wash., and took a picture of it before it went into the river. He said it sounded like a turboprop aircraft. When the object emerged from the water, fog distorted the view for observers. And Warrant Officer McGrew of the Coast Guard said the fog delayed arrival of the Coast Guard boat from Portland. State police received several conflicting reports about the object, including that its lights were seen to go off and on. In a short period, 10 different entries about the object were entered on the log at OSP headquarters. Police checked the control towers at Portland International and Hillsboro airports, plus the Air Force and Emanuel Hospital, which has a helicopter ambulance, but no one had a report of an aircraft which might have been in the area. State Police Cpl. Fred Barmore said there was a chance that a helicopter was involved in some illegal activity, such as making a narcotics delivery or pickup. "You have to investigate a thing like this," he said. There were others, however, who suspected leprechauns were at work. HA HA! O'Looley ## 1,200 homes lose power Electric power was cut off early Monday to approximately 1,200 North Portland homes and businesses for about 50 minutes. A malfunction occurred in underground cables leading to Portland General Electric's substation at 6616 N. Lombard St. PGE spokesman Steve Mueller said the power outage began about 6:50 a.m. when three separate cables "went out for no apparent reason." After restoring service, company crews were trying later in the day to find the cause of the malfunction. Oreg J. 3/17/81 === Page 15 of 139 # Police, CBer report UFO An investigator with the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago will be dispatched to Portland later this week to look into the reported sighting of an unidentified flying object Tuesday morning near the town of St. Helens. An Oregon State Police trooper, a St. Helens police officer and a citizens band radio operator in Ridgefield, Wash., all claim to have seen two large orange balls hover over the Columbia River about 4:25 a.m. The CB operator, Donald Atkin, transmitted the sound made by the second object over his radio, and state police Trooper Tom McCartney recorded it. "The recording is like nothing I've heard before," said Mark Rodeghier of the Chicago center. "It's a rather odd sound, like a high-pitched machine. It's not the sound of a helicopter or a plane." The center is a non-profit association of scientists formed in 1973 to act as a clearinghouse for information on UFO sightings. Investigators have some technical background and are given instruction in questioning witnesses. Some investigators for the center live in Washington and Southern Oregon, Rodeghier said, and one will be sent to Portland this week. "We are going to get a tape of the sound and bring it to Chicago, where an acoustical expert on our staff will analyze it," he said. "He will be able to tell if it is a hoax." The incident began when McCartney was in the St. Helens police station. He heard, via the police radio, St. Helens police Sgt. Russ Yokum say that he had spotted an orange ball in the sky. Yokum said he wanted someone to confirm the sighting. McCartney went to the Columbia County Courthouse and met Yokum. From there, they said, they saw a bright orange dome. While watching the object, McCartney and Yokum, via a radio in McCartney's patrol car, heard Atkin report that he saw an orange object near his home in Ridgefield, which is across the river from where McCartney and Yokum were standing. The two officers moved to higher ground and said they spotted a second orange ball, which appeared to be on fire and looked like a downed plane. They said the first ball disappeared. McCartney called his dispatcher, who checked with the Portland airport, which reported no planes in trouble. Atkin then reported that the craft had gone into the river but said he had taken a picture of it before it hit the water. A U.S. Coast Guard boat was sent to the scene but was recalled after Atkin reported that the craft had taken off. Atkin and Yokum could not be reached for comment Tuesday. McCartney released all information about the incident through a written news statement. A Federal Aviation Administration official in Portland said his agency would not investigate the incident. 3/18/81 === Page 16 of 139 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... of [?] my son Beau, a [?] === Page 17 of 139 Jeffrey THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1981 # The Northwest ## Pair saved by bulldozer Two U.S. Geological Survey scientists were rescued Wednesday night from the swollen Toutle River by a bulldozer operator who drove his vehicle halfway across the swift current and pulled them from a sand bar to safety. Steve Johnson of Castle Rock, Wash., a bulldozer operator for C. Mourer Construction of Puyallup, Wash., was told of the men's plight by Charles Mourer, president of the company who saw them from shore. The firm has been excavating mud in the area, about 1 1/2 miles downstream from Interstate 5. The men, wet but unhurt, were identified as Charles Swift of Tacoma and David Meyer of Vancouver, Wash. "He had to go down the river a mile and a half to get at them," Mourer said in a telephone interview. "It was good, tough water, but he brought them out." The incident began about 6 p.m. and ended around 8. The men were with the USGS Water Resources Division and had been taking water samples when they became stuck. Mourer said Johnson drove the bulldozer some 750 feet into the middle of the river, plucked the men from a sandbar where their boat had run aground and drove them through the water to safety. The boat was removed from the sand bar Thursday morning. "The problem was deep water between them and the shore on both sides," Mourer said. "They couldn't walk to shore. We had removed volcanic debris there on another contract and Steve knew the area." ## Suspect arrested VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man who allegedly robbed the Stable Tavern in Vancouver early Thursday was captured after the bar owner and bartender went across the street to an all-night restaurant and found him drinking coffee. The incident began at about 1:45 a.m. when a man, brandishing an automatic pistol, entered the bar, ordered patrons to lie on the floor, fired one shot into the ceiling and fled in a car with a bag filled with money. After things calmed down, the two employees went across the street for coffee. There they recognized the robbery suspect. Clark County Sheriff Frank Kanekoa said Anthony Wayne Blackhorse, 35, was arrested early Thursday morning and charged with first-degree armed robbery and possession of stolen property. Robert Leon Stanton, 26, and Vincent Allabush Epker, 30, later were arrested and charged with first-degree possession of stolen property, possession of a sawed-off shotgun and possession of marijuana. All three men, whose addresses were unknown, were being held Thursday in Clark County Jail. Note: This below happened at the Stable Bar & Pool Room last night. (It's a block from home; I go there a Thursday night to play pool.) Last night was Thursday. I was coming over to play but fell asleep watching TV, and missed the shooting. If I had been there, I guarantee you there wouldn't have been anyone on the floor to be robbed!! Scott Road played pool with me at this place (it's in his & Dr. Mishover's book) and Scott knows my character. Had I been on the end of this man's gun... it would have sounded like 7-7-7!!!, cause I ain't clockin' the "robber" trip!! - Owens === Page 18 of 139 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th Vancouver, Wash 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 MAR 18 PM 1981 THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE USA 15c Dr. Jeffrey Michlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 19 of 139 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR MAR 30 PM 1981 U.S. POSTAGE 35 To Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 20 of 139 jack anderson Pentagon goes sci-fi WASHINGTON - If you thought "Star Wars" was just an expensive fantasy of George Lucas, you are mistaken. The Pentagon is spending millions of dollars on research that sounds like science fiction, including efforts to destroy Soviet missiles with the power of thought. At a secret, guarded laboratory in the basement of the Pentagon, a small band of scientists is working on projects that would make Jules Verne blush. They are exploring the possibility of using ESP, psychokinesis, and other parapsychological phenomena for military purposes. This long-distance telepathic influence or visualization of nuclear events is enthusiastically urged the world through the power of positive thinking. Proponents of ESP weaponry say it is as revolutionary as the atomic bomb. What physicists say is another story. Supporters of "psychic warfare" claim that psychic weapons sank the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963. They also say the Soviet nuclear disaster in the Urals in 1958 was caused by a long-distance explosion. The justification for the Black Projects Brigade's secret budget - at least $6 million last year - is that there is an ESP gap between the United States and the Soviet Union, where intensive research has been going on since the 1930s. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Russians have already demonstrated the lethal potential of psychokinesis weapons on flies and even frogs. In fact, the late Josef Stalin hoped to develop ESP weapons as a stopper equalizer in the days of American nuclear monopoly. Stalin's successors in the Kremlin, sophisticated though they are, seriously believe they can develop such thought-provoking, not to say mind-blowing, devices as "hyperspatial howitzers," which can transmit a nuclear explosion in Siberia to the White House faster than the speed of thought. Or, in the words of one report, Soviet scientists are working on "photonic barrier modulators," which can filter human brain patterns and induce death or illness from miles away. There even is speculation that the microwave radiation the Soviets beamed at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1953 to 1975 was some kind of an ESP attempt at mind control. U.S. scientists have yet to offer a scientific reason for the low-level microwave transmissions, which were apparently harmless. When my associate Ron McRae queried some respected physicists on ESP weaponry, the response was general skepticism. One scientist, between guffaws, compared the psi-tech forest project to a World War II attempt to train seagulls to drop their guano on the periscopes of German submarines. But it's no joke to the psi-p team in the Pentagon basement. They believe, for inspiration, the psychic warriors have posted a sly quotation on the headquarters wall. It's from the late Admiral William Leahy, chief of naval operations in World War II, and it says: "The a-bomb is the biggest fool thing we have ever done... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert on explosives." CHAZ OWENS CONTACTS This article is amusing to me. Why? Because no one else in the entire world has the tremendous psi-force power(s) that I have and have proven hundreds and hundreds of documented times. Yet these government tales-in-the-woods sit in their secret basement room trying to make a quantum jump to my level of knowledge and ability. That... is amusing. Owens === Page 21 of 139 2 # jack anderson # Dabbling in dark arts WASHINGTON - Last month, I revealed a Pentagon secret that raised eyebrows from coast to coast. To the thousands of skeptics who wrote in, no, I don't take hallucinogens. The brass hats are. Indeed, dabbling in the dark arts. They are seriously trying to develop weapons based on extrasensory perception. If the research is successful, the next war could be won presumably by casting an evil eye on Moscow. The true believers are convinced that our national security can be preserved only by spending millions of dollars on such comic-strip concepts as the "hyperspatial howitzer," which supposedly could transmit a nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert to the gates of the Kremlin with the speed of thought. Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C., for example, is a respected five-term congressman and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. He has advocated psychotronic weapons with the tenacious courage of some death-defying marvel. He has teetered but ever righted himself on the trembling high wire, keeping his balance against the unseen push and pull of mighty interests, inching his way forward a few more yards to his goal. By Pentagon standards, not much money has been invested on psychic warfare - a trifling $6 million. Rose thinks the United States should be spending a lot more money on these ethereal weapons. "They could make every other weapon obsolete," he told my associate, Ron McRae, urgently. The congressman is quite correct; the Buck Rogers weapons would certainly make plain old nuclear bombs obsolete - if they should ever work. One such weapon, it turns out, has been blessed with an Air Force contract. It's an anti-missile system that would throw a time warp over the North Pole. Incoming Soviet missiles would fly into the time warp and explode harmlessly in the past - perhaps blowing up Cmdr. Robert Peary or, if the time warp mechanism was tuned to really high frequency, killing a few dinosaurs. The National Security Agency, to cite another example, has tried to use ESP to crack Soviet codes. When the agency's computers have failed to break the secret codes produced by the Kremlin's computers, the NSA technicians have enlisted the help of local astrologists and palm readers. So far, according to my sources, the swamis have been no more successful than our computers. But the Ouija-board warriors are still trying. Reporting on the bizarre research that goes on in the Pentagon is not without its hazards. Several self-styled psychics have accused me of being an unwitting victim of Soviet success in the field. I am, they say, acting under long-range Kremlin hypnosis intended to persuade the American populace that Pentagon attempts to close the "psychotronic weapons gap" with the Soviet Union are a ridiculous waste of money. I must confess that long-range hypnosis, like the hyperspatial howitzer, happens to be one of the key weapons in the voodoo warriors' arsenal. But there are more skeptics than advocates. One critic of ESP warfare, physicist Martin Gardner, characterizes the budget for psychotronic weaponry as a monetary "black hole," into which bad research sucks good money forever. Others suggest the ESP efforts should be classified as "Top Stupid." The lips of Pentagon spokesmen, meanwhile, are sealed. They will not confirm or deny that the programs exist. GET A HORSE!: As a freshman member of Congress, Rep. James Coyne, R-Pa., is no big wheel on Capitol Hill. But at least now he can get around on his own wheels, without a chaperon. After driving for weeks on a learner's permit, Coyne finally got his driver's license. Most of Coyne's troubles stemmed from speeding violations - three in the last few years - but one suspension involved an argument over a fine for driving with an expired inspection sticker. He's currently being sued by two youths as the result of a collision last April. Coyne insists he has learned his lesson - and he recently passed his driver's test. "The three-point turn was tough, but I executed it flawlessly," he said. "Now if I can only get Mom and Dad to let me have the car on Friday nights." org II 2/5/81 === Page 22 of 139 Contacts PS... if you will study this newsclip file carefully, keeping in mind my various PK attacks, it will be a parapsych education for you! Owens The enclosed file of chaos, accident, power wiped out, etc etc... was a caused effect by my three Powers, UFOs, Xtotae (Mayan Power) and Pyr Cor (Egyptian Power.) Take just one effect... power knocked out... caused by every conceivable happening! Fire, storms, airplanes, wind, cars, human error, etc etc. This is the way an idea which is PK'd works. Note that half of all Mexico was blacked out, and prior to it the experts said that it could not happen! (By the way, please take the "Four Projects Letter" sent to you not long ago and append it to the front of this file.) Elsewhere in this file you will find the pattern reflected in the newsclips which pertains to the Four Projects Letter. Although this information goes out to only seven contacts (scientists and friends) it is hoped that the U.S. government will learn === Page 23 of 139 of it, understand, and supply the five million dollar Base which the UFOs require (with me in it, to do my positive works for the human race.) If this does not occur within a reasonable length of time, then my UFOs will simply cause the U.S. to go broke... i.e., take the money away from America! (They have instructed me to pass this information on.) It is a sad joke that Reagan spent eight million dollars on his inauguration... enough to buy two Bases for my UFOs (they only require one.) Muhammad Ali, the fighter, made eight million dollars for one fight... enough to buy two UFO Bases (they only need one.) Thus it gets sicker and sicker, in the eyes of my UFOs. If this sort of thing continues, according to my UFOs, then the country of America, the United States, has no reason to continue to exist. Owen === Page 24 of 139 Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Owens 2/17/81 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State: Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age: I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. === Page 25 of 139 2 (2) UFO (SI) war vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 26 of 139 The Psychic Science Special Interest Group, Inc. President & PSI-M Editor Rich Strong 7514 Belleplaine Dr Dayton OH 45424 (513) 236-0361 Trustees Kathy Cook Peter Lewis Don Ranville Ellen Rogers Dick Uhen Rich Strong Membership: Ellen Rogers 9410 SW 190th St Perrine Fl 33157 Librarian: Lynn Holland 2279 Berrycreek Dr Kettering OH 45440 Book Review Editor: Wilma Kupfer 27591 Mills Av, #J Euclid OH 44132 Interest Area Editor Coordinators: Auras/Mediumship: Barbara Rogers Dowsing: Leon Woodworth Healing: Kathy Cook Out-of-Body: John Attamack Premonitions: Dottie Ranville Psychometry: Dennis Rick Brown Regional Coordinators: North Central Kathy Cook Rocky Mountain Marilyn Skiba 7 Feb 80 Dear Ted, Thanks so much for the packet of materials; I had just sent some copies of Psi-M to Jack Anderson the previous day. I'm sending a package of S.I.G. materials to you at book rates in another mailing which I hope you may find of some value. We seem to be working towards the same objectives; maybe it would be good to share activities and resources. In Particular, and within the framework of our current operations, we're looking for a Coordinator-Editor for the area of PK. If you feel this would be worthwhile for you, we would be happy to print your thoughts as a regular article in Psi-M. It is necessary that you be a Member of the Sig, of course. Also, Harper Fowley has asked for a presentation at the Derbytown A.G.; I'd be happy to share the platform with you at that time, if you are planning to attend. ? Other than Sig activities, I suppose that other things will be happening; I assume you know what I mean by this and why I do not know exactly what they will be. Best, Rich Note: This is in Mensa. Owens. * A Non-Profit Educational and Scientific Research Non-Private Foundation Corporation of Ohio for the purpose of promoting the awareness and practice of the psychic sciences and arts for the benefit of the community (no political or religious activities). === Page 27 of 139 The Mississippi River at Memphis: 'It could snow every day until spring and we would still be short of moisture' Mike Maple SPECIAL REPORT - 4 Projects PK - # The Browning of America Just outside Phoenix, which gets less than 8 inches of rain a year, the fountains shoot high into the arid air, gurgling defiance of the laws of evaporation, advertising the subdivisions whose green lawns eat further and further into the Arizona desert. But in parts of the Texas High Plains, the water that made farms green with cotton and melons is giving out; land is now brown with tumbleweeds, which farsighted agronomists are investigating as a cash crop. And in stately Greenwich, Conn., surely one of the last places from which civilization will vanish, suburban patrons guard water like Bedouins, and town officials lay plans for slit-trench latrines against the not-too-distant day when the reservoirs may run dry. **Drought, waste and pollution threaten a water shortage whose impact may rival the energy crisis.** For decades, Americans have used water as though their wells would never fail. But in just a few months they have come to realize how close to bottom they really are. Twice in the past year, the great engine that fills the nation's reservoirs and runs its streams has gone awry, dumping rain uselessly over the ocean and parching the land. It has made farmers edgy about next summer's crops and Easterners panicky about next week's baths; some communities report less than a month's supply of water in their reservoirs. The big snow and rainstorm across the country last week may have signaled the breakup of the dry weather pattern, but it will take a spring of more than twice normal rainfall to bring the Northeast's reservoirs back to a safe level before summer. Rain, in fact, is not the answer to the nation's most serious water problems. Even in the driest years, rain across the country enormously exceeds water use. The trouble is that the nation's water resources are badly out of balance. The Northwest has a big surplus, for example, while the agricultural states of the Southwest scrap for the last salty dregs from the Colorado River. The water wars Hollywood made famous in "Chinatown" have erupted once again, as dry Los Angeles tries to tap its wet neighbors to the north. The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to divert water so farmers can grow crops on arid land, but that creates trouble of another kind; mineral residue from decades of irrigation has poisoned once fertile soils. Pollution is a problem, too. Acid rain is killing the fish in Adirondack lakes, and America's drinking water has been tainted with substances as exotic as PCB's and as commonplace as highway salt. Most alarming of all, vast underground reserves of water, deposited over thousands of years, have been seriously depleted in a matter of decades. All water comes as rain from the sky, but 92 per cent of it either evaporates immediately or runs off, unused, to the oceans (page 30). One-quarter of the water that irrigates, powers and bathes America is taken from an ancient network of underground aquifers. In 1950, the nation took 12 trillion gallons of water out of the ground; by 1980, the figure had more than doubled, and each day, 21 billion more gallons flow out than seep in. Water from the great Ogallala Aquifer (map, page 28), which stretches from West Texas to northern Nebraska, is being used up, as irrevocably--and some 26 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 28 of 139 David Stoecklein-Photounique Irrigation sprinklers in New Mexico: 'The West never accepted the wisdom of God when he didn't put all the water there' would say as wantonly--as the oil that lies beneath it. "It varies, depending on where you are," says Nebraska water planner Michael Jess, "but there are some people projecting that as early as the year 2000, there will be parts of Nebraska with their water supplies so depleted that farming may never return." The nation's water outlook now is frighteningly reminiscent of the oil outlook a decade ago--affording, cynics say, a matchless opportunity to make the same mistakes again. And in this pinch, Saudi Arabia is not going to be of much help. Hidden Costs: The energy crisis and the water shortage are inextricably linked. The limiting factor in irrigation tends to be the high cost of electricity to run the pumps as the water table recedes. California's vast State Water Project uses almost as much electricity to pump water around the state as all the people of Los Angeles use--and beginning in a few years, when the old cheap contracts expire, farmers are going to see that cost reflected in their water rates. Lack of water threatens some of the 30 gasohol plants planned in Iowa, and may limit the development of oil shale in Colorado; another Battle of the Little Bighorn looms over a proposal to divert water that now flows through a Crow Indian reservation for a coal-slurry pipeline. With the Mississippi River at historic lows in recent weeks, barges were backed up for as long as five days awaiting dredges to clear a safe channel between Cairo, Ill., and Memphis--a reminder that water-borne transport is usually the most energy-efficient way to move goods. Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products--in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher--they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table. The water that will make next year's steaks lies frozen now in the subsoil of the Corn Belt, and within the next few weeks Ted Spiegel--Black Star NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 (COVER) 27 === Page 29 of 139 THE WATER CRISIS: ITS CAUSES GO DEEPER THAN THE WEATHER America's most immediate water problem started when a high-pressure ridge of air stalled over the West this winter, forcing moist Pacific winds to detour north over Canada. The resulting weather pattern has simultaneously parched the Northeast, the Southeast and large parts of the nation's midsection--but the best meteorologists don't know why. What's worse, rivers and lakes from Pittsburgh to Portland are polluted with acid rain, chemicals like PCB's and coliform bacteria from sewage. Below ground, water is being withdrawn from an ancient network of aquifers faster than it is flowing in. As fresh water moves out, salt water seeps in from oceans or underground salt deposits; aquifer water containing 3 per cent sea water may remain undrinkable for thousands of years. HIGH-PRESSURE AREA DROUGHT WIND PATTERN Acid rain contaminates lakes in the Adirondack Mountains. LOW-PRESSURE AREA Colorado River NORMAL WIND PATTERN Mississippi River AREAS OF SEVERE DROUGHT WASH. N. H. VT. ME. MONT. N. D. MASS. ORE. IDAHO MINN. WIS. S. D. WYO. MICH. GREAT LAKES R. I. CONN. N. J. DEL. MD. IOWA PA. NEB. NEV. OHIO IND. ILL. UTAH COLO. MO. W. VA. VA. KANS. KY. CALIF. ARIZ. N. C. TENN. OKLA. ARK. S. C. N. M. MISS. ALA. GA. TEXAS LA. FLA. SURFACE-WATER POLLUTION COLIFORM-BACTERIA POLLUTION PCB, PBB AND PVC POLLUTION LONG ISLAND SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OGALLALA TUSCALOOSA OCALA TEXAS GULF MAJOR AQUIFERS AREAS OF GROUND-WATER DEPLETION SALINE-WATER INTRUSION Sources: U.S. Water Resources Council; NOAA/USDA Joint Agricultural Weather Facility Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK 28 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 30 of 139 - 4 Projects RK - SPECIAL REPORT farmers will have to decide how much grain it will support. Much of the nation's farmland is dangerously dry, following a hot, dry summer and a snow-poor winter. Last week's blizzard helped, "but it could snow every day until spring and we'd still be short of moisture," warns Sam Knipp of the Kansas State Farm Bureau. With heavy precipitation, farmers will plant more corn, the most water-sensitive major crop; if it stays dry, many will probably plant soybeans, sorghum and milo. In Iowa, where last summer's blazing drought brought back memories of Dust Bowl desolation, at least some farmers seem to have decided. "I don't think I'll be planting quite as heavy as usual," says Wilbur Mann, who farms 357 acres near Moorhead. "I'm going to leave more space between the rows, the same as we did in the '30s. Nineteen-eighty was the closest I've seen to those days. I sure hope 1981 isn't any closer." Around New York City, the period most often evoked by the drought was the mid-1960s, when a series of dry years threatened to empty the city's upstate reservoirs. At the worst of that crisis, the reservoirs were down to 25 per cent of capacity. This time the drain has been frighteningly swift. The reservoirs, literally brimming with water after last spring's rains, emptied to 31 per cent before last week's storms. Pray for Rain: New York, which declared a drought emergency Jan. 19, faced the problem in the way it knows best. It began a public-relations blitz, led by the irrepressible Mayor Edward Koch, who posed for the press shaving in the approved manner, with the basin filled and the tap closed. Measures like that helped the city reduce its daily water use by 150 million gallons. But beyond that there was little anyone could do but pray for rain--preferably late at night so fickle citizens would not peer from their windows and wrongly conclude that the need for conservation was past. Even harder hit were smaller cities and towns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, some of which were reduced to scavenging for water in abandoned strip-mine pits. In eastern Pennsylvania, residents have been put on a spartan 40-gallon-per-day regimen, enforced by fines and jail terms. The Northeast and Midwest were victims of the same phenomenon: a high-pressure ridge anchored over western Canada that forced the moisture-rich winds from the Pacific far north of their normal course, where the arctic wrung them dry before they dipped back over the United States. A low-pressure region on the East Coast, meanwhile, sent Gulf storms spinning far out over the Atlantic, bypassing thirsty Easterners like New York taxicabs at rush hour. A stable high-pressure system had also caused last summer's dry weather, but in both cases it was the persistence of the pattern that was so unusual and destructive. Meteorologists groped for explanations: in ocean temperatures, in the sunspot cycle, even in the dust sent sky-high by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Theories that the Northeast was entering a long period of drought were guesses at best. But a disconcerting report came from Columbia University climatologist Edward Cook, who studied three centuries of Hudson River Valley tree rings and discovered that what the Northeast now regards as normal weather has in fact been an unusually stable interlude. "The period from 1900 to 1960 was less variable, with fewer extremes of wetness and dryness, than the preceding 200 years," he found. That stable era may now have ended--but it was during those years, and for those conditions, that the Northeast's water systems were planned and built. Easterners may not have been thinking much about the Ogallala Aquifer last week, but it could soon be as familiar to resource-minded Americans as the North Slope. Named after an Indian tribe that once roamed the High Plains, it is perhaps the largest underground reserve of fresh water in the world--an estimated 2 billion acre-feet* trapped in sand, gravel and silt laid down by the rivers of the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. As the ancestral *An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover 1 acre 1 foot deep; it is the equivalent of 325,851 gallons. NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 1925 1955 Photos by Ted Spiegel--Black Star Measuring the damage: A telephone pole records how land sank because of a half century of pumping in the San Joaquin Valley, a farmer inspects the soil for salt damage from irrigation 29 === Page 31 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT streams cascaded down--and eroded--the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains, they carried along sand and gravel to the lowlands. In time, the flood plains coalesced, and since rain was plentiful during Pleistocene times, water saturated what is now the aquifer. Eventually it was trapped between a layer of impermeable shale on the bottom and an erosion-resistant cap rock on top. Bottom: Those ancient waters now trickle through West Texas cotton fields and spurt from the quarter-mile-long arms of center-pivot irrigation systems, making hundreds of circles of green corn in the Nebraska plains. Each year farmers withdraw more water from the Ogallala than the entire flow of the Colorado River. But because sparse rain barely penetrates to the aquifer, very little water flows back in. Water tables are falling from 6 inches to 3 feet a year, and, on average, the Ogallala has 40 years of useful life remaining; in some localities the bottom will be reached much sooner. A. Wayne Wyatt, manager of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 in Lubbock, Texas, likens the problem to "taking money out of a checking account faster than you put it in; sooner or later, you're going to come up with a zero balance." Already, irrigated acreage is declining in five of the six states that draw water from the Ogallala, with predictable results: lower yields and a shift down the water scale from corn crops to cotton or sorghum. Northwest of Lubbock, where 20 inches of rain marks a lush year, farmer Y. F. Snodgrass has had to cut back his irrigated land from 80 acres to 50 in the past few years; he harvested 375 pounds of cotton per acre on the irrigated land, 25 pounds on the dry land. "I just cannot cover the territory with the water I have," he told NEWSWEEK'S Ronald Henkoff. Through the 1970s, corn production in the High Plains of Texas averaged over $170 million a year. Gerald Higgins, an economist with the Texas Department of Water Resources, predicts that "corn will disappear from the Texas High Plains within the next few years." Texas law acknowledges that the underground water will run out eventually: farmers get a ground-water depletion allowance, just as wildcatters get one for oil. But like most states, Texas lets its farmers pump away. The last American frontier is underground, where miners, developers and big farmers race each other to the bottom of the aquifer. "They get rich quick," notes Berkeley geographer Richard Walker, "and when the bonanza is over, they expect the Feds or the state to bail them out." The land bears the scars on its surface: so much ground water has been drawn up by Arizona cotton and alfalfa farmers that the desert floor between Tucson and Phoenix is laced by cracks up to 25 feet wide. For years, Houston slowly sank as water was sucked from beneath it; California's San Joaquin Valley has dropped by nearly 30 feet in some places. The compacted subsoil loses its capacity to hold water, so that even if pumping stopped the aquifers could never fully recharge. There are innumerable large and small aquifers underlying the United States, supplying nearly one-half its drinking water. Unfortunately, their complex geology does not conform to property lines or state boundaries. "One well can change the entire hydrologic configuration," observes Georgia state geologist William H. McLemore. "When an industrial pump is turned on in Jesup, its effects can be seen in Savannah," 40 miles away. Heavy pumping from the Ocala Aquifer has created a "cone of depression" 50 miles wide beneath Savannah and is slowly sucking ocean water toward the city's wells. It is not a problem yet, and may not be for years, but engineers are studying whether it may someday be necessary to reinject fresh water into the aquifer to re-establish the pressure balance. Pollute: A nation's health can be read in its water, and not even 4 trillion gallons of rain a day can dilute the results of decades of folly and greed. Rain falling through the sulfurous air of the Northeast occasionally reaches the ground with the acidity of lemon juice, poisoning fish in the high Adirondack lakes. Salt spread on icy roads has leached so deeply into the aquifers supplying dozens of Massachusetts communities that citizens on low-sodium diets have been warned to drink bottled water. Cattle feedlots in Iowa, pesticide-laden potato fields in Long Island and bacteria from human sewage have all contaminated precious ground water. Municipal treatment plants can clean and recycle biologically polluted water. But they are not much help when it comes to chloroform, benzene, PCB's and the whole spectrum of chemical pollutants that have been found Christoph Blumrich--NEWSWEEK HOW THE NATION SPENDS ITS WATER The supply from the sky is plentiful, but the United States can use only a tiny fraction of what it gets. So the nation is overdrawing its ground-water supply. (All figures are in billions of gallons per day.) Precipitation 4,200 Evaporation 2,787 Streams to Canada, Mexico and oceans 1,328 Input into ground water 61 Withdrawn from ground water 82 Deficit: 21 Domestic 7.3 Power generation 1.4 Manufacturing and minerals 8.2 Public lands 1.4 Agriculture 87.7 Consumption 106 Source: U.S. Water Resources Council 30 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 32 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT in the wells of many states--and that may prove to be carcinogens. A growing number of Americans are afraid to drink the water that comes into their homes, and the situation will get worse as scientists learn to detect pollutants with even more frighteningly polysyllabic names. Engineer Robert Weimar of Camp, Dresser & McKee summed it up: "The hysteria is caused by quantum leaps in evaluating what's in the water." Laymen sometimes naively think of aquifers as swift-running underground streams, and assume that they cleanse themselves like a river. But water moves sluggishly underground--perhaps only tens of feet a year--and purifies itself slowly, if at all. Had the town fathers of Bedford, Mass., known that, they probably would not have situated an industrial park right above the aquifer that supplied 80 per cent of their drinking water. Bedford had to close its wells when tests found trichlorethylene, and the town now buys most of its drinking water from surrounding towns. "The contamination of ground water is almost irreversible," warns James E. Smith, a top Environmental Protection Agency official. "Once it's done, there's damned little you can do about it." Even the seemingly innocent practice of irrigation can cause ecological havoc. Irrigation water carries dissolved salts, which build up in poorly drained soil as the water evaporates and eventually make it impossible to grow most crops. By 1990, as much as a quarter of California's immensely productive San Joaquin Valley could be threatened. The situation is reversible, although at great cost. Farmers can take their land out of production for two to five years, wash it clean with huge quantities of water and then install perforated drainage pipes underground. In the San Joaquin, the Interior Department has begun to build # Israel: Good to the Last Drop By American standards, Israel is a hydrological disaster area. Its 25 inches of annual rainfall--a drought in many other countries--falls at the wrong time in the wrong place, soaking the remote northern hills in winter while leaving the south and center dry in the summer. The Sea of Galilee, Israel's only reservoir of fresh water, lies 696 feet below sea level and miles from major population centers. And Israel's Arab neighbors bitterly dispute rights to the Jordan River, the largest of its three meager streams. Yet no one goes thirsty in Israel. An eclectic mixture of age-old habit and computer-controlled engineering squeezes every last drop out of what water there is. Since 1950 the country has increased its water utilization from 17 per cent to almost 95 per cent. Experts attribute such success largely to shrewd planning. When Israel became a state in 1948, the founding fathers immediately proclaimed all water a national property and entrusted it to an independent agency known as the Tahal. "We did not wait for a crisis," recalled Yaacov Vardi, a founder of Tahal. "We spent money, we used our best brains, we worried. And, of course, we knew that our backs were against the wall." **Clouds:** As its first priority, the Tahal began collecting water from every possible source. Along Israel's 125-mile-long coast, engineers dug 30 wells per mile to trap 10 billion gallons of fresh water annually before it could seep out under the sea. Planes regularly seed clouds with silver iodide to encourage rain, while kibbutzniks and farmers burn the chemical in special generators on the ground. The land and air attacks on clouds have swollen rainfall by about 15 per cent. The Tahal distributes its bounty through a system of canals, pipes, tunnels and wells. Each year it channels close to 90 billion gallons of fresh water across the length and breadth of Israel. So flexible is the system that its pipes served Israeli troops stationed at the Suez Canal before the recent pullback from Sinai. At Avdot, deep in the Negev desert, ecologists from Ben-Gurion University have refurbished a 2,000-year-old network of dry riverbeds and stone-lined conduits to direct the runoff of rain from the hills to nearby fields. Modern technology ensures that farmers use no more water than their produce requires. Sprinklers have given way to drip irrigation. Computers monitor air temperature, humidity and wind speed and adjust the amount of water delivered to the roots of the crops. In one test, a region that had yielded 9.52 tons of melons per acre using sprinklers produced 17.2 tons with drip irrigation. Genetic engineers have also joined the battle to preserve water. A miniature peach tree developed by government scientists can be planted at the astonishing density of 3,200 trees per acre (compared with the normal 120). Because the trees grow so close together, they can be drip-irrigated and their fruit harvested quickly. Researchers have divided all fruits and vegetables that are grown in Israel into four categories, according to their tolerance for salt. This allows water managers to stretch scarce irrigation water by mixing fresh and brackish supplies. New varieties of cucumbers, tomatoes, melons and peppers, developed by careful cross-breeding, thrive in water whose salt content is five times greater than normal. **Fees:** Israel actively encourages its citizens to save water, combining the carrot of public-service announcements with the stick of stiff fees. Jerusalem households pay 25 cents for their first 4,227 gallons of water each month, but 50 cents for each 264 gallons beyond that. No industrial plant can be built unless water commissioner Meir Ben-Meir has approved its water-recycling plan. "To get a license to dig a private well is via dolorosa," says Ben-Meir. Not every scheme has worked. An experiment to prevent evaporation from the Sea of Galilee by covering it with alcohol failed when winds blew aside the cover. An effort to retain moisture in the soil by spraying it with silicones proved too expensive. Still, Israel has exported its hydrological know-how to 28 countries. "What we've done is take the existing knowledge and apply it on a large scale," said Yaacov Vardi. "We used all Israel as a laboratory." PETER GWYNNE with MILAN J. KUBIC in Jerusalem  Shlomo Arad *Plastic-covered tomatoes: Moisture control* NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 35 === Page 33 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT by the mountains they found instead; as it is said in the West, water flows uphill to money. Water has inflamed far more passions in the West than whisky, and by far the greatest clashes have been over the Colorado River. It is an insignificant river in the nation's over-all water picture; with an annual flow of 13.5 million acre-feet, it is about the same size as the Hudson--but so vital to the West that barely 10 per cent of its waters are allocated to Mexico. Because of a tangle of interstate compacts and court decisions, Mexico and the seven states through which the Colorado flows actually have legal rights to use more water than it contains; until now, luckily, the states have not taken their full shares. But that may change by the late 1980s, when the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project will begin delivering more than a million acre-feet a year to fast-growing Phoenix and Tucson. The water the CAP will provide years from now is already being fought over in court, as Arizona challenges the Interior Department's decision to allocate one-fourth of the project's flow to a dozen small Indian tribes. California--which for decades has consumed part of Arizona's share of the river water as well as its own--will have to surrender much of its neighbor's share. California's water economy faces some difficult adjustments, and Los Angeles, particularly, is not likely to give up much water without a fight. One of the oldest Western water wars, in fact, is now seething again in southern California. It pits the Los Angeles Bryce Flynn--Picture Group **Worrying: Waiting on line to buy safe water in Massachusetts** what is essentially a sewer for 4 million acres of farmland: the "San Luis Drain," a $300 million, 188-mile concrete ditch, will carry irrigation runoff north to the Sacramento River Delta near San Francisco. The last hundred miles have yet to be built--and it remains to be seen if President Reagan's Interior Department will allocate the funds to complete it. Damage: An even more mind-boggling project is well under way southwest of Yuma, Ariz., where the depleted Colorado River crosses into Mexico burdened with the irrigation runoff from 150 nearby farms. After the Mexican Government complained that its allotment of Colorado River water was too salty to be of use, the Interior Department conceived a $356 million desalting plant to remedy the damage done to the river--sucking up nearly 100 million gallons a day, removing most of the minerals and then depositing the water back into the riverbed. The project includes a separate canal paralleling the river to drain the brine into the Gulf of California. (The plant will work by reverse osmosis, passing the water through a membrane impermeable to salt molecules. In theory the process can be applied to sea water, but it would be much more expensive because sea water is saltier.) Such grand projects are in the great tradition of the Far West, where for decades the meager supply of water has been stretched by adding liberal amounts of money--frequently the Federal government's. (In return, Westerners point out, they feed much of the rest of the country.) "The Western states never accepted the wisdom of God when he didn't put all the water there," the EPA's Smith wryly observes. Nor have they been stymied Adrian Wecer--Kappa **Conserving: Washing the diapers with the bath water** water-supply system against the residents of Inyo County, 250 miles to the north. The first round was fought more than 60 years ago, when a dam and aqueduct began diverting the Owens River to slake the thirst of the growing city. Desperate farmers tried to blow up the aqueduct, a tactic that some darkly hint has been only temporarily shelved. The renewed war, which so far has been fought mostly in the courts, was touched off in 1970 when Los Angeles built a second aqueduct to the Owens Valley and began pumping ground water through it. No one denies that Los Angeles bought the legal rights to the water in the early years of the century; but valley residents question the city's moral right to turn their settlement into a desert. Huge Surpluses: By reaching a long arm north, southern California has managed to keep its water supplies growing faster than its multiplying population, and there has usually been plenty left over to sell at bargain prices to the big Central Valley farmers. "In a normal year," asserts Berkeley's Walker, "the water projects 36 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 34 of 139 have huge surpluses. And agriculture plans on those surpluses." But with supplies from the Colorado River due to decrease, the water-hungry south is looking even farther north. A new battle is raging over the Peripheral Canal--a proposal to cut a 400-foot-wide ditch, 43 miles long, around the eastern rim of the Sacramento River delta, drawing off billions of gallons into the mouth of the great California Aqueduct. Gov. Jerry Brown strongly supports the $5 billion-plus project, but opponents have forced the issue to a referendum, which must be held by June of next year. San Franciscans envision the canal sucking so much from the Sacramento River that salty bay water would back up into the delta, a potential ecological hazard. More important, they see it as the first step of a massive water grab ultimately aimed at drawing off their last free-flowing rivers. Their fears are not groundless: history records many grand proposals to convert the Northwest into a watershed for Los Angeles and the Central Valley farmers. Rivers as far away as the Snake in Idaho and the Yellowstone in Montana have been eyed covetously. Plans have been proposed to tap the Columbia River, although the energy required to lift it over Oregon's mountains may have stood in the way; one engineer suggested a $20 billion fiber-glass pipeline to parallel the coastline along the ocean floor. Grandest of all schemes was the proposed North American Water and Power Alliance, which would have run water from the Yukon down to Mexico and from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, at a cost estimated in 1964 at $200 billion. Walker dismisses all such schemes as preposterous. "It reflects the water users' conviction that there's no need to worry about conservation when there's a whole continent to go after," he says. "There's no end to peoples' imagination when there's a buck to be made." Tidal Backwater: Nature has a way of reasserting itself over such hubris. The West might do well to study a report by two Louisiana State University professors who recently concluded that not even the Army Corps of Engineers will be able to stand against the Mississippi River when it decides to switch its channel at a point 250 miles upstream from New Orleans. The shift--which Professors Raphael G. Kazmann and David B. Johnson say is inevitable and could come as early as next spring if the river floods--will send North America's biggest river cascading down the peaceful path of the Atchafalaya River toward Morgan City, La.--ripping out highways, gas and oil pipelines and anything else in its path. The new channel would leave New Orleans on a tidal backwater without drinking water; it would also do $4 billion or more of damage in carving its path to the sea. The Army Engineers are confident that a $216 million construction project will keep the river in its present channel, but pessimists point out that the Mississippi has switched back and forth along many paths since long before the Army Engineers came on the scene. "It's going to be a mess," Kazmann warns. Whether or not the West learns to defer to nature, there are signs that it is bowing to economic reality. Voters in Tucson--who recalled three City Council members in a revolt against higher water rates in 1976--have decided to accept a rate hike after all, and have cut their per-capita consumption by more than a quarter. The government's century-old policy of encouraging the settling of the West through cheap water is increasingly viewed as an anachronism; there is no need to lure settlers to the Sun Belt. The old pork-barrel approach to Western water projects in Congress is also breaking down. "We've gone four years without a new water-projects-authorization bill," observes Gerald D. Seinwill, acting director of the U.S. Water Resources Council. "There are new members [of Congress] who see they can be re-elected without bringing home a dam." Farmers are beginning to realize that they can no longer use 90 per cent of the water in some Western states. As Arizona's cities have boomed, central Arizona farmers have grudgingly agreed to limit the amount of ground water they use--a possible first step toward a state buy out and retirement of their lands after the year 2000. That will be expensive, but by no means the most painful adjustment the nation will have to make. The rain will continue to fall, but Americans will have increasingly difficult decisions to make about what to do with it on the ground. Piping pure drinking water hundreds of miles to wash cars and sprinkle lawns may no longer make sense. The aging cities of the Northeast may have to spend billions to replace their leaky water mains. New York, which began talking about metering all of its water during the last big drought, may finally have to do it--if only to learn how much water it loses to leaks each year; the city puts the figure at 3 per cent, but one New York state official maintains the loss is five times that. In Colorado, a handful of self-sufficient homeowners have already installed the hydrologic equivalent of the all-solar house: a $15,000 system to treat and endlessly recycle every drop of water used in the home. Americans who have learned to car pool may soon be pooling pools as well. Maximum Efficiency: Farmers have begun to lay expensive pipes that drip a measured quantity of water right at a plant's roots, replacing open furrows and sprinklers that sloshed water all over the landscape. Laser-guided earthmovers grade huge fields as flat as hockey rinks, for maximum efficiency in spreading water. The U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix has developed infra-red thermometers that can scan acres at a time from the air and identify, by elevated leaf temperatures, which fields need water. Measures such as these will help the nation stretch its water supplies, but in the long run Americans will have to learn that the era of cheap water, like the era of cheap energy before it, is over. Even while the airborne thermometer is being tested in Phoenix, the University of Arizona in Tucson is studying the economic potential of tumbleweed, a ragged shrub that flourishes throughout the West on almost no water. Shredded and pressed into logs, it makes a very nice fireplace fuel. It is unlikely, though, to take the place of corn--and it is a sad irony that the nation that made its deserts bloom may soon be scrounging them for weeds. Recycling: A closed home system uses and reuses 1,500 gallons Ted Spiegel--Black Star JERRY ADLER with WILLIAM J. COOK in Washington, STRYKER McGUIRE in Texas, GERALD C. LUBENOW and MARTIN KASINDORF in California, FRANK MAIER in Chicago and HOLLY MORRIS in Atlanta NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 37 === Page 35 of 139 - UFOs Over My Area - oreg. 2/14/81 # Earthquake rattles Eugene to Seattle An earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale shook Western Oregon and Western Washington late Friday, rattling dishes, windows and even large buildings, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Forest Service/U.S. Geological Survey volcano information center in Vancouver, Wash. said the quake did not appear to be related to Mount St. Helens. The center said aftershocks were recorded for several minutes after the initial tremor. The quake began at 10:09 p.m., as measured by the University of Washington's geophysics program, which said the epicenter was 25 miles east of Centralia, Wash. The earthquake that immediately preceded the massive May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. Callers quickly swamped news media and police and fire telephones with inquiries. The Oregonian logged calls reporting the quake as far west as Forest Grove and east of Sandy. The tremors were felt as far north as Everett, Wash., as far south as the Eugene-Springfield area and in the Yakima Valley east of the Cascades. "It's big, and it was definitely felt in Seattle," said Steve Bryant, a spokesman at the University of Washington geophysics center. "It shook for a long time, the strongest we've had here," said Thelma Vink, a resident of Longview in southwest Washington. "Certainly things were swinging here, though nothing fell off." In Yakima, located in central Washington, a quake "was felt all over the whole Yakima Valley," said Roger Clark. "I guess it shook some furniture here and there." In Olympia, "It rattled this building and the light fixture was swinging about half an inch," said Associated Press newsman Bill Mertena. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in a local area. A 7 reading is a 'major' quake, capable of widespread heavy damage. A reading of 5 is considered capable of causing considerable damage. A 5.5 quake is five times stronger. Contacts This happened here last night. My son Beau and I were in my office when suddenly the floor began waving up and down like a boat rocking in water. It lasted quite a while. Then we ran and wakened Teddy (9) and snatched up the baby (3) and ran outdoors into the open, just in case the old house fell in. However, what is important is... the night before I told Beau that my SIs (UFOs) could cause an earthquake by being over an area!! I feel that the SIs, who monitor my every thought and action, were demonstrating this for us!! Their reality Ted Owens (PK Man) Beau Owens Feb. 14 1981 === Page 36 of 139 note: where I live, Irene Ore P. 2/14/81 # Strong quake rattles Portland, NW areas SEATTLE (UPI) -- A "big" earthquake centered near Mount St. Helens rolled through much of the Northwest Friday, shaking buildings in Seattle and Portland and touching off a rush of phone calls from thousands of people who thought the unpredictable volcano might be erupting. University of Washington scientists said the earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter Scale and put its center about 12 miles north of the volcano near Elk Lake, an area that has been seismically active ever since the catastrophic eruption on May 18. Minor aftershocks continued into the night around the earthquake's center, according to Steve Bryant, spokesman for the University of Washington geophysics department. Authorities reported the 10:11 p.m. quake was felt as far north as southern Canada, as far south as Salem, Ore., and as far east as Yakima, Wash. "It had a soft, wavy, kind of rippling effect," said Dick Swigert, dispatcher with the Lewis County Sheriff's Office in Chehalis, about 40 miles from the volcano. "It was very strong," said Swigert. "We're on the fourth floor of a solid concrete building and we felt it for a full minute." Thousand of people jammed the sheriff's office with phone calls asking if the earthquake was caused by the volcano, Swigert said. Police in Seattle said they received hundreds of calls from worried residents, many wondering if the earthquake was somehow connected to Mount St. Helens. Some said they could feel everything shake for about 10 seconds, about the same length reported in Portland. Bryant said the quake lasted 10 minutes and 50 seconds at its center. According to A. B. Adams, geophysicist at the University of Washington, the earthquake was not associated with the movement of magma within the volcano or the growth of its lava dome. Rather, it was part of an ongoing movement of faults located just north of the volcano, he said. The epicenter of the quake was reported to be almost directly north of Portland and several Portland-area police agencies and east of Kelso, Wash., at a point of critical stress in an Oregon-Washington geological "shoving match," according to a recent theory published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. The theory says that Western Oregon, from the Cascades to the coast, is being pushed out into the Pacific Ocean by a spreading bulge in the Oregon-Nevada high desert. The moving block includes half of the Washington Cascades, but not coastal Washington. It stretches from Mount Rainier down through Oregon to Redding and Eureka, Calif. # Jittery callers flood telephone lines here Telephone switchboards at The Oregon Journal, local radio and television stations and several Portland-area police agencies lighted up like Christmas trees with calls from residents who felt the shake. Several excited callers said they felt their homes and buildings shake moments after the earthquake. One caller said her swag lamp "swung back and forth like a pendulum" while others reported glass shaking in their cupboards. A police dispatcher said the jolt knocked the "IN" and "OUT" mailboxes off a desk at the Portland Police Bureau's East Precinct. Some residents said their pets reacted "strangely" during the quake's duration. One nervous caller asked: "That wasn't a neutron bomb, was it?" But police throughout the area reported no major damages from the earthquake locally. Spokemen for both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power & Light Co. also said they had received no reports of any power outages or other electrical problems from the quake. However, telephones were ringing literally off the hook at Pacific Northwest Bell offices in Southwest Washington and Northwestern Oregon. PNB spokeswoman Esther Nelson said the number of operator assisted calls made within an hour after the 10:11 p.m. quake was 150 percent higher than those normally recorded during that same time period. But other than a few delays in connecting the calls, she said the phone company experienced no serious operational problems. Linda Raybern, of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, said OMSI seismographs recorded the earthquake's duration as 8 minutes 15 seconds, although the heaviest duration was about 90 seconds. === Page 37 of 139 FATE MAGAZINE 500 Hyacinth Place, Highland Park, Illinois 60035 Area Code (312) 433-4550 February 10, 1981 Ted Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 Dear Mr. Owens: Thank you so much for sending us a copy of Scott Rogo's article "The Strange Odyssey of Jan Leslie" from UFO Report. We had not read this before--at least I had not--and it certainly is interesting. In fact, it's amazing that you can teach someone to do this. But then we have followed your career for many, many years and in itself it is amazing. We are in the midst of our first blizzard of the winter and I am torn between finding it very beautiful -- the hawthorn tree outside my window is completely in bloom in white. It is never this full of blossoms in the spring. But the driving is hazardous and we have had to give up a trip to the Chicago Loop where Curt was scheduled to give a talk at a meeting honoring a friend of ours. Almost every one has left the office because of the danger of being stuck along the highway in the dark. But we live only 10 minutes from here and so should not have a problem. It is always nice to hear from you. Best wishes, Mary Margaret Fuller Mary Margaret Fuller Editor === Page 38 of 139 - 4 Projects PR - # If There's No Relief From Drought- Water shortages, barren ski slopes and stunted wheat-that's only the beginning of economic losses unless rain and snow bring relief. The crunch of a severe drought is now spreading across much of America, raising alarms about crop damage and higher prices for food next summer. In late January, millions of New Yorkers and others living along the East Coast came under strict orders to cut down on water consumption or pay stiff fines. Resorts in the western part of the U.S. have been closed much of the winter because a lack of snowfall left ski slopes barren. Barges are stranded in the Mississippi River by low water. On the Great Plains, the vital winter-wheat crop is stunted and in danger of being blown away by dust storms. Unless heavy rain and snow fall before spring, farm economists fear that agricultural losses could run into the billions of dollars and send food prices soaring far beyond the 12 to 14 percent increase that government economists have projected for 1981. When it all started. The trouble began last summer when lack of rain and record-high temperatures scorched the nation's midsection, damaging wheat, corn, soybean and peanut crops and killing millions of chickens and turkeys. The drought has since spread east and west, leaving few areas of the country untouched. One of the hardest-hit regions is along the East Coast, where climatologists describe the drought as the worst in 15 years. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that water in the lakes and rivers from Connecticut to Mississippi is averaging only 79 percent of normal for this time of year. New York City's reservoirs have dropped to 29 percent of capacity, and the city could run out of water in four months without rain or heavy snow. The Delaware River, one of the region's most important sources of water, is flowing at 32 percent of capacity. About 7.5 million people in Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York are under restrictions against washing cars at home, watering of lawns and other nonessential uses of water. Restaurants are not serving any water unless requested by patrons. Violators in many areas are subject to fines of up to $1,000. New York City has doubled the number of water inspectors to enforce the ban. Police are instructed to issue tickets for abuses they spot while on patrol. New York City residents have been asked to voluntarily limit daily water consumption to less than 90 gallons per person, 30 to 35 gallons less than normal, or face greater restrictions-"waterless days," for example. In the Washington, D.C., area, the Potomac River is flowing at only 81 percent of normal. The nearby Occoquan Reservoir is down to a 45-day supply of water, forcing officials in suburban Virginia to declare a water emergency. Persons caught washing cars, watering lawns or operating ornamental fountains are subject to a $500 fine. Parts of the Midwest also continue to suffer. The Chicago area has received only 15.3 inches of snow, compared with a normal average of 23.2 inches for this time of year. In Kansas, reservoirs are drying up and underground-water tables are falling, leaving many small towns with a precarious water supply. The community of Hamilton has been hauling water from nearby Eureka since mid-January. The municipal lake for Edgerton, south of Kansas City, is dry, and the town is buying water on an emergency basis from Olathe. The Mississippi River, one of the nation's main transportation arteries, is flowing at about 90 percent below normal, causing barges to run aground in narrow, shallow channels. Boats that get through cannot carry full loads. At one point, 97 towboats and 1,600 barges had to wait while a dredge worked frantically to cut a new path through the river bottom's heavy sand. The Corps of Engineers estimates that the barges carried enough cargo to fill a line of semitrailers stretching from New Orleans to Philadelphia. ![A dry lake that provided water to Edgerton, Kans., reflects the severity of drought in the Midwest.] A dry lake that provided water to Edgerton, Kans., reflects the severity of drought in the Midwest. "Losses to operators are running well into the millions of dollars," says John Donnelly, president of the Nashville-based Ingram Barge Company. At Memphis, where river traffic was closed in early January, the Mississippi is at the lowest stage since record keeping began in 1934, says Chief Petty Officer John Davis of the Coast Guard's headquarters in that city. "The cheapest juice." The Tennessee Valley Authority's hydroelectric production is the lowest since 1945. Warns a spokesman for the massive system: "Hydroelectricity is the cheapest juice you can get. It could have an impact on electrical rates." Growers in Volusia County, Fla., which claims to supply 70 percent of the world's ferns used in floral arrangements, blame the drought for an estimated 20 million dollars in losses. The damage occurred in mid-January when the underground-water table dropped 10 to 15 feet in 8 hours, causing well pumps to suck mud. The water was needed to provide a continual spray that protects the tender ferns from freezing. "A third of our business went down the tube in one night," laments Larry L. Loadholtz, Volusia County's extension agent. Dry weather in Western states has residents recalling the devastating U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 9, 1981 49 === Page 39 of 139 1976-77 drought that caused millions of dollars in economic losses and forced some communities to curb water use. Heavy rains and snow in late January brought a measure of relief to the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states; however, meteorologists say that much more is needed before the drought is broken. The National Weather Service reports that California rainfall in mid-January was below the level of the same time in 1976, when the drought began. San Francisco received a heavy downpour on January 28, but city officials warned that rainfall since June 30 has totaled slightly less than 6.2 inches--which is about half of the 12.06 average. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is so worried that it has voted to spend $75,000 on seeding clouds over the city-owned reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada. The project will begin in early February if the drought continues. # Drought's Wide Reach - [x] Extremely severe drought - [ ] Severe drought - [ ] Moderate drought USN&WR map--Basic data: NOAA/USDA Joint Agricultural Weather Facility The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and other Western mountain chains was averaging about 70 percent of normal in late January. The runoff from the snow into streams, rivers and reservoirs provides about 75 percent of the region's water supply. "Even if we get normal snowfall in the next three months, we would be only 50 to 70 percent of normal by the end of the season," declares Tom George, director of snow surveys for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Oregon. Western ski-resort operators are hoping that late-season snows will enable them to recover from what so far has been a disastrous period. "It's the worst ski year ever at Breckenridge," says Art Bowles, vice president of Breckenridge Ski Corporation in Colorado. The resort, located 70 miles west of Denver, closed December 28 because it did not have equipment to make artificial snow. Bowles reports that 250 workers were laid off and that lift-ticket revenues were down 25 percent from last year. In late January, only 10 percent of the ski runs in Steamboat Springs, Colo., were open. The town estimates that it has lost 6.5 million in business. At Mount Ashland in Southern Oregon, only three workers were on the job through most of January, compared with a normal 97. At the same time, only 200 of the usual 1,000 ski-industry employes at Mount Hood in Oregon were on the payroll. As devastating as they are, the economic losses this winter are insignificant when compared with what could happen if the drought is not broken before the spring-planting season for corn, soybeans and other crops. Carl Anderson, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, predicts that a continuation of the drought could cause an 18 percent increase in U.S. food prices. The only crop seeded so far is the winter wheat that is grown mainly on the Great Plains from northern Texas to Nebraska. Farmers report that their crops are stunted by a lack of moisture. "This is as bad as it was in 1936, as far as the moisture and weather are concerned," says Clee Ralston, who farms near Augusta, Kans. High winds, too. Without snow that usually covers the fields at this time of the year, the wheat crop is vulnerable to the sudden cold snaps that often hit the Plains states in late winter. The high winds that usually start whipping across the plains in February pose another danger. "If we get wind before we get moisture, we could lose a lot of wheat," says Robert Huser, who farms near Syracuse in western Kansas. Adds Ellis Burton, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Denver: "If we stay dry through February, we'll have a brown cloud from the east slope to the Kansas border." Although planting time is still more than two months away, corn and soybean farmers in the Midwest also are worried. Iowa, the nation's top corn producer, has received only 5.5 inches of snow since October, and subsoil moisture is inadequate in 81 percent of Illinois, the No. 2 corn producer. Bob Swanson of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture says this winter is the driest in nearly 100 years. In spite of the dry weather, many farmers remain optimistic that enough rain will fall during the spring months to allow the planting of their crops. If not, then the country is in for some hard times. Says Texas Agricultural Commissioner Reagan Brown: "We need 1981 to be a good crop year. We have no real backlog of grain in storage. If we have another drought, it would be terrible, an absolute disaster for this country." DUANE HOWELL--DENVER POST Snowless ski slopes this winter have idled workers at resorts in Colorado and other Western states. 50 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 9, 1981 === Page 40 of 139 --- Return of the Crashed Saucers and Little Men --- # LETTER/ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GRAY BARKER (After typing letter below I went through it and drew in some crude boxes for you to check as you go along and find items that interest you. This does not obligate you to order, but will help to remind you when you're ready to fill in order blank.) Catalog No. 11 Dear Friend, Well, here's another brand-new catalog with many exciting new items, and this one will outdate any previous sales literature you've received from us. Before going into our "pitch" on what's new I'd like to thank our regular readers for the excellent response to our last mailing. I also want to thank those who wrote us, helping us get the rough edges off our new computerized mailing list. Some of you who were subscribers to GRAY BARKER'S NEWSLETTER but who weren't on the computer as such checked their name codes, and let us know so that we could correct this. We're not sure we have all of these instances corrected, so again we ask you to check the code right on top of your name on our mailing label. If this code begins with "X11" or "X15," this means that you are a subscriber and that your subscription expires with No. 15. In this case you should have received this catalog inside the No. 11 NEWSLETTER. If you are not a subscriber your code probably begins with "C" such as "C80," which means your last purchase from us was in 1980 (No need to pay any attention to the rest of the code it can tell us how much and what sort of material you ordered). This code can be sorted by the computer so that we can eliminate names from which we have not received orders in quite some time, and so cut down our costs for unwanted mailings. If your code reads "X11" this means your subscription expires with this issue, No. 11, and that we'd appreciate your sending in your renewal. The Crashed Saucers - [ ] If you aren't a subscriber you'll certainly want to send in for the current No. 11, for it follows up on the fascinating material on crashed saucers and their occupants, allegedly retrieved by the military. This is because of the tremendous interest generated by the new book by William Moore and Charles Berlitz titled "The Roswell Incident," and by the release of the popular movie, "Hangar 18" (which we reviewed in the last issue). And since Moore/Berlitz have brought to light some information about a mysterious nobleman, Baron Nicholas E. Von Poppen, and how, as a scientific metals photographer, he was employed to photograph a crashed disc and its occupants, I've decided it is time to finally tell all of this bizarre story -- Since the Baron is now deceased and can no longer be threatened with deportation for talking. Elgar Brom has set down all of these events in a fascinating new book. It is of large, 8 1/2 x 11" size with easy-to-read type and illustrated by space artist Carol Ann Rodriguez. It is excitingly written and difficult to put down once you have the first chapter. Order "SAGASHA -- THE MYSTERIOUS DUST FROM OUTER SPACE" ..........Just $7.95 New Tape Recordings - [ ] Our cassette tape recordings continue to grow in popularity, particularly since we have been adding new contemporary material to our list of historical recordings. If you don't have a cassette player you're missing out on an opportunity to be up to date on a lot of UFO material. You can find recording playback machines at a nearby discount store at very low prices, and you might check your newspaper for ads on them. Take a look at what we've added since our last catalog. - [ ] "HOW TO CONTACT UFO'S" by Ted Owens. We've been trying for months to get Ted Owens to make us a master tape which could instruct us on how to utilize some of the same remarkable powers imparted to him by the SI's (Space Intelligences), but until now he has elected to keep his instruction on a one-to-one or small, in-person group basis. Naturally, Owens' time is limited and such instruction is costly. Now with inexpensive cassette tape, more people can benefit from his teachings. Most of you know about Owens and his remarkable "track record" of making valid prophecies; of his abilities to make UFOs appear at will, and his powers to bring on or stay off natural calamities such as droughts and hurricanes. At last you can hear the dynamic voice of Owens as he explains how half of his brain is UFO, the other half human; how his claims have been backed up by scientists. And although you, yourself, may not possess these powers, he instructs you on how to employ your own natural psychic powers (although they even may be dormant) to not only influence daily events, but to bring about UFO sightings! For a limited time, while our supply lasts, we will include one of his coded SI discs, containing the powerful symbol of the SI's and which are purported to bring good luck and increase your psychic powers! But let me qualify what I have just said: I am personally still skeptical about all of this, but not quite skeptical enough to fail to warn you to use extreme caution in exercising the powers he can help you develop. Not all UFOs have proven to be friendly (lately we have had the abduction cases!). Be sure to have at least one other person with you when you try the contact experiment. Hidden deep within many of us are tremendous powers that lay dormant. If Ted Owens can help you to unleash these powers, be careful! You wouldn't want to drown all of your neighbors in a flood!!! All of our tapes are priced at $7.95 each. - [ ] "UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE" by Stanton Friedman. Friedman is an atomic scientist now devoting full time to UFO research. Friedman takes a scientific "nuts - [ ] "DOCUMENT 96 (Containing the German Saucer Story and Startling Evidence that UFOs may also be U.S. Military Devices)" We published this large 8 1/2 x 11" 124-page lavishly illustrated book back in 1968. Our edition of 1000 copies sold out quickly and it has long been out of print. Yet it has been one book customers have regularly inquired about. But due to rising printing costs and tight money we were never able to bring out another regular edition. Frankly, this is a book we didn't expect would sell at the time of publication, but it fascinated us personally. Written by a scientist (using the pseudonym of Frank Martin Chase), it was partly technical in nature, and explored the then relatively unpopular theories of Nazi and U.S. military UFO origin. But the book was profusely illustrated by the author, offering 30 full-page drawings. They were both of technical nature, and interesting treatments of actual landing cases, with illustrations of the occupants as described by witnesses. Customer inquiries about this book have stepped up considerably after the leak about "Project Stealth" and publicity about The Philadelphia Experiment. So we again are making this interesting work available. ..........$25.00 These Michael X. books which we dropped from our last catalog, are once again available, but as Limited Edition Reprints: - [ ] YOUR PART IN THE GREAT PLAN $6.95 - [ ] VENUSIAN HEALTH-MAGIC $12.95 Books by Daniel W. Fry again available in Limited Editions Reprint, but this volume combines two books, previously titled THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT and ALAN'S MESSAGE TO MEN OF EARTH. This combination volume is now titled just "THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT" and is available at just ..........$12.95 UFO Authors in Search of a Publisher - [ ] If you have written a worthwhile book, but cannot find a publisher, or if you cannot afford the tremendous cost of bringing this out through a subsidy publisher, why not talk to us. If you can furnish such a book, already prepared in clear typescript, maybe we could reproduce a limited number of copies without demanding an arm and a leg. We might also be able to sell some copies for you. - [ ] THE SAUCERIAN Issue No. 1. Almost 30 years ago I laboriously cranked out 200 copies of a 31-page magazine which I called THE SAUCERIAN, not knowing what I was getting myself into. Goodness, my arm was sore after doing this on a manually cranked office spirit master printing machine! It was not exactly a MAD magazine but it did sell for 25¢ which, indeed, was pretty "cheap." Three years ago I sold my last remaining spare copy at $50.00. Due to the light blue printing of the "Ditto" process, we could not reproduce the magazine itself, but found we could reproduce the backs of the master sheets which were typed with a ribbon installed. Although the type comes up clear and highly readable, there is a great deal of toning to the pages. The cover has a reproduction of an eye-witness drawing === Page 41 of 139 MEN IN BLACK Cadillacs & Laser Beams By JOHN KEEL And Others AN MIB ADVISORY/ INFORMATION PACKAGE MIB in huge black Cadillac terrorizes Jersey couple -- Mystery Man nabbed on Long Island -- MIB in Ohio -- MIB seize young man's UFO photos -- Answers on the way -- Much More! More than 115 large 8½ x 11" pages of UFO/MIB items, articles, photos and drawings. Through the pages of rare back issues of SAUCER NEWS you can view actual photo of MIB and his huge Cadillac, read how editor invited to meet MIB, UFO convention delegates followed, Researcher Hushed Up--More! Photo of USSR-held UFO occupant! Contained in Issues Nos. 69, 70 & 73, $3.00 ea. If purchased separately, now all three in MIB Info Package for only $4.95. Order now, supply limited! MIB INFO PACKAGE $5.95 FRANK E. STRANGES Ph.D. PRESENTS *MORE THAN 50 Photographs of UFOs, and UFO Investigators & Personalities! SAUCERAMA REVISED ENLARGED FIFTH EDITION $5.95 You are about to read a comprehensive report regarding the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects. By introducing this subject through the media of bookstores, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television, Universities, Colleges, High Schools and Church groups, the author has attempted to produce sufficient information not only to stir your imagination, but also to encourage healthy thoughts regarding the possibility that Earth IS being visited by beings from other planets . . . a possibility, that according to many scientists may become a REALITY in this generation. Flying Saucerama PUBLICATIONS BY GENE DUPLANTIER SPACEDUST Articles By: * Gray Barker OUTERMOST WAS DR. JESSUP MURDERED BY THE 'SILENCE GROUP'? STRANGE CASE OF DR. M. K. JESSUP The mystery of Dr. M.K. Jessup is one of the strangest in the history of Ufology. His death, officially labeled "suicide", has been widely questioned by researchers who knew the noted astronomer and UFO investigator well. There was, for example, the case of the strange annotated books, and the secret edition of one of Dr. Jessup's books titled "The Varo Edition". These annotations, together with letters from a mysterious Carlos Allende, told of an alleged secret Naval experiment and of disappearing ships and men. "THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. M.K. JESSUP" is a volume which explores these mysteries, along with other facets of Jessup's strange actions before death. Did Jessup follow up his intention, outlined in letters to close friends, to communicate after death? Dr. Jessup's interest in psychic and occult subjects is explored fully, with verbatim quotations from the famous Mark Robert. Did Jessup "Know too much"? Did he take his own life rather than to face the terrifying truths he had learned? THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. M.K. JESSUP", (Edited by Gray Barker) will help to clear up some of these mysteries. No. 406-600 $7.95 NEW! tapes EXCITING NEW AUDIO CASSETTE TAPE RELEASES Tape 25: HOW TO CONTACT UFOs by Ted Owens. At last you can hear the dynamic voice of Owens as he gives you practical instructions for inviting UFOs to land, and to increase your natural powers. Use these psychic powers to bring about events you will into being. $7.95 Tape 35: UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE by Stanton Friedman, an atomic scientist now devoting his full time to UFO research. Explains in every-day language how it is possible for UFOs to come from outside our solar system. $7.95 Tape 36: AFTER THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY by Betty Hill. What has happened since the abduction of Barney and Betty Hill by UFO occupants? Learn how she is still in contact with them. $7.95 Tape 26: THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT by Gray Barker. Hear this spellbinding account direct from the lips of Gray Barker, along with other investigators and witnesses. An exciting audio record of one of the greatest coverups in U.S. history! $7.95 Tape 30: THE COMING POLAR FLIP by John White. Leading scientists, and psychics as well, predict a disastrous change in the Earth's Axis! $7.95 Tape 31: UFO PROPHECIES by Jane Allyson. Hear how she was contacted from outer space, and what the space people predict for our futures. $7.95 Tape 32: STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE by oceanographer Jim Thorne. Thorne tells how an expedition he formed encountered strange forces and how Atlantean ruins were discovered. $7.95 Tape 33: MY CONTACT WITH VISITORS FROM SPACE by Marc Brinkerhoff, who has been contacted by space beings since he was only six years old. $7.95 Tape 34: THE CONTACTEE ENIGMA by John Keel. This new tape, recorded in 1980, follows up Keel's "Men In Black" tape and tells us what has happened since his earlier tape lecture. $7.95 See Opposite Page For More Tapes === Page 42 of 139 FLYING SAUCERS IN THE BIBLE by Virginia Brasington. A lively, though reverent and non-sectarian approach to UFO sightings and events from Genesis to Revelation. You'll want to take a new look at The Bible after perusing this revealing work...$17.50 EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION by Don Elkins. This first book by Elkins consists almost entirely of communications from space people..........$25.00 FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR, OR HAVE THE POLES REALLY BEEN DISCOVERED by Marshall B. Gardner, 1920. Possibly the earliest "Hollow Earth" book..........$17.50 BOOK OF ADAMSKI AT LAST-MANY SECRETS OF GEORGE ADAMSKI ARE REVEALED IN... "GRAY BARKER'S BOOK OF GEORGE ADAMSKI" Expert Believes George Adamski's photos are REAL... Moon Probes confirm Adamski's claims... Adamski tells "How to know a space man if you see one"... Adamski's Fight with the Silence Group. REPRINT...$17.50 PIONEERS OF SPACE by George Adamski. The privately printed and controversial first book by Adamski which commands as much as $200.00 on the rare book market (If you can find it)..........$35.00 THE CASE FOR GEORGE ADAMSKI'S CONTACTS WITH FLYING SAUCERS, privately printed by Richard Ogden and very rare. Volume 2 Only available at this time, (Vol 1 to be released when we obtain original)..$25.00 A SPACE WOMAN SPEAKS by Rolf Telano. Rare book contains messages from a female space person....$7.95 FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR by Dr. Raymond E. Bernard. This is the book, long out of print, which preceded his famous HOLLOW EARTH book..........$15.00 THE HOLLOW EARTH by Dr. Raymond E. Bernard. This is the original Saucerian Press edition, which contains additional material at the end of the regular text..........$25.00 (Note when ordering this edition be sure to state it is the reprint, for we have another edition of this book elsewhere in this catalog) "THE BOOK OF SPACE SHIPS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE EARTH" By the God of a Planet Near The Earth & Others Have space people communicated with Earth. Anonymous scientist says "Yes"! Here are the amazing messages of the space people from the various planets in our solar system. Widely acclaimed by our readers. Whether you are a skeptic or a believer in saucers you'll be impressed by these messages of love, advice and scientific information. REPRINT....$17.50 only, and this brings everything up to date. The following listings are available for $1.00 each and a SACE. The $1.00 can be deducted from your first order of $10.00 or more. FATE MAGAZINE back issues (we have hundreds) UPDATED BOOKS STILL UNSOLD FROM MY OCCULT LIBRARY I'M SELLING. RAY PALMER'S FLYING SAUCERS (Sace only, no charge for this). (We can also supply a long, detailed printout listing every issue of FLYING SAUCERS, along with authors included and subjects discussed in each issue for printout charge of $20.00). THE SHAVER MYSTERY AND THE INNER EARTH By TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY At long last the TRUTH about the most astounding mystery of our time can be told without unneeded psychic trimmings and distorted editing. Direct from the pen of Timothy Green Beckley comes the book that is officially approved by Richard Shaver himself. In this volume you will learn the amazing truth as to the actual origin for the Flying Saucers and why they are coming to Earth. You'll read some of the most hair-raising and chilling accounts ever put down on paper. Such as the disappearance of Steve Brodie and his capture by the Dero. Of attacks on surface people by various creatures whose existence cannot be denied. REPRINT..........$25.00 "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" By Ted Owens The runaway best-selling Saucerian Book. Ted Owens tells us about his communication with the "SI's" (Space Intelligences). He has been able to predict the great Eastern Blackout, influence the occurrences of Hurricanes, and perform other marvels as a result of this vast knowledge he obtained from beings not of this Earth. Owens (known as "The Philadelphia Prophet") tells YOU in this book how YOU can contact the "SI's" and obtain wonderful benefits from the superhuman knowledge you can obtain. Warning! If you are not sincerely interested in contacting these beings, or if you wish to use these great powers for selfish purposes, do not order this book. It is powerful medicine! The "M" DISC, containing the symbol of the Space Intelligences has worked wonders for many people as a parapsychological focal point for these great powers. Many readers have acclaimed "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" as the most important book ever published in this field. REPRINT..........$12.95 SMOKING, YOU MAY WANT TO USE AS A CANDY TRAY. $3.00 'PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CRYONICS' BY UFO RESEARCHER MICHAEL G. MANN, NOT ABOUT UFO'S BUT ABOUT 'FROZEN DEATH' ILLUS. 40-PP $2.00 'PROBE, THE CONTROVERSIAL PHENOMENA MAGAZINE SUMMER 1967. PUB BY JOSEPH L FERRIERE & ARMAND LAPRADE. 8 1/2 X 11", 64PP SPECIAL FEATURING AL K BENDER & THE MIB. 10 PP OF PHOTOS. $3.00 'PROBE, SPRING, 1967 (RARE) KEELEY, HENDER- SHOT 'SPECULATIONS ON HOW EARTH-MADE SAUCERS MIGHT FLY. $5.00 'RAY PALMER'S NEWSLETTER' SPECIAL ISH DEVOTED TO EXPOSE OF KENNEDY ASSASINATION & ANALYSIS OF ZAPRUDER FILM. $7.50 'SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' ED BY G BARKER 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 14-PP BOOKLET. OTIS T CARR'S PLAN TO BUILD FLYING SAUCER. TEXT OF CONTROVERSIAL 'STRAITH' LETTER TO GEO ADAMSKI FROM U S STATE DEPT. REJECTED AS SPURIOUS BY GOVT. $3.00 'SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' VOL 4 NO 1. 32-PP 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 BOOKLET. VISIT WITH AL K. BENDER AFTER HUSHUP BY MIB W/PHOTOS. FAMOUS MONGUZZI PHOTOS OF SAUCER & OCCUPANT. DERO & TERO. $5.00 'THE SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' 6-PP 8 1/2 X 11 FORMAT. 2 DIFF ISSUES: NO 16 - T LOBSANG RAMPA WRITES ABOUT UFO'S.......... NO 17 - LARGE FOTO OF OTIS T CARR'S HIS SAUCER MODEL. $1.00 EA. 'THE SAUCERIAN REVIEW' EDITED BY GRAY BARKER. 1956 6X9 PB 99 PP. REVIEW OF 1955 SAUCEREVENTS. ARTICLES BY JESSUP, ADAMSKI, HOPKINSVILLE KY 'INVASION' - CANADIAN FS STATION. MANY ILLOS. FINAL ISSUE OF 'THE SAUCERIAN' THOUGH THIS ONE PUBLISHED AS AN ANNUAL. A FEW COPIES LEFT AT $25.00 'THE SAUCERIAN' SPRING, 1955. SAME FORMAT AS 'SAUCERIAN REVIEW'. 62 PP. STRANGE CASE OF OLIVER LARCH BY F EDWARDS. ARTICLES BY ADAMSKI AND JESSUP. STRANGE MESSAGE RECEIVED BY RADIO LISTENERS DURING JOHN OTTO'S BROADCAST DIRECTED TO SPACE PEOPLE. $15.00 RARE UFO PUBLICATIONS FROM 1950'S, 60'S, MANY PUBLISHED BY SMALL UFO RESEARCH GROUPS. HAVE MANY DUPLICATES OR CAN PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY TWO-SIDED REPRODUCTIONS. WE ARE NOW DEVELOPING COMPUTER ACCESS TO THIS MATERIAL, AND OUR ABILITY TO QUOTE YOU IS IMPROVING DAILY. ----------UFO BIBLIOGRAPHIC COMPUTER ACCESS---------- S.A.U.C.E.R.S. IS ENGAGED IN AN EXTENSIVE DATA PROCESSING PROJECT WHICH EVENTUALLY WILL ACCESS A LARGE BODY OF UFO AMATEUR & PROF PRESS SERIALS. WE WELCOME INQUIRIES FROM FUNDED PROFESSIONALS. ************************************************** ORDER FROM: GRAY BARKER, BOX 2228, CLARKSBURG, WV 26301 U.S. ADD $1.00 PER ORDER PP & HNDLG. Send us your Want List Of Out-Of-Print Books and Other Publications. === Page 43 of 139 74 FATE Chesley W. Carter, Newfoundland senator and chairman of the Canadian Senate's Health, Welfare and Science Committee, is a staunch and outspoken champion of further radionics research. He thoroughly studied the results of Dr. Klich's work and expressed his feelings in no uncertain terms: "About Dr. Klich's radionic experiment near Fredericton," he told me, "I have to admit that the circumstances surrounding it were terribly inefficient and ineffective. The forest area he treated with radionics had the lowest spruce budworm egg count anywhere and Dr. Klich was forced to carry out his test under great pressure with inadequate equipment and far too hastily. Personally, I fully advocate further experiments under more ideal conditions. I think the results that have been achieved so far fully justify further experimentation, sufficiently extensive to answer all questions and carried out under such conditions as to provide definite proof either for or against the efficiency of the radionics method." Professor Brown, on the other hand, seemed to have a clear understanding of the opposition. Klich was depressed by the apparent double-dealing and trickery of the opponents of radionics, Dr. Brown said, adding, "I know Dr. Klich has become discouraged with the present setup. It appears that provincial forestry authorities depend on the federal forestry authorities and the refusal of the federal forestry division to explore the radionics method while at the same time endorsing the chemical method, raises the suspicion that there may be a tie-in somewhere with the chemical industry. "The cost of the radionics method is only a fraction of the cost of chemical spraying and the potential savings alone justifies a fuller investigation . . . If there is truth in it, sooner or later the truth will come out because the truth cannot be suppressed forever." Not forever, perhaps, but long enough to waste the most productive years of scores of lives and hold back human progress. "Like electricity or dowsing," the Record reported, "no one can explain radionics . . . Dr. Ray Brown of the University of New Brunswick and Dr. Frederick Conron deserve medals for their courage in making positive statements about [psionics]. Most scientists are so fearful of losing face or tarnishing their image that they prefer to remain anonymous, or even to be negative, regardless of the cost to their country . . ." RADIONICS and psionics represent a true study of the workings of mind and its influence on the real world. Because of a few exaggerated claims made by overzealous amateurs 50 years ago, however, practically the entire scientific community now ignores the case for or against psionics; the door seems to have been effectively and forever closed. Personally, I think the door should be opened. I've spent many years looking into the matter and my firsthand experience in the use of radionics quite frankly scared hell out of me. But the truth will eventually emerge, as it must. In his book Lifetide, Dr. Lyall Watson observes, "The stuff of parapsychology, supernature and the occult is partly flotsam, thrown up to the surface of life by currents and eddies in the Lifetide . . . Some of what is in the tide is useful and significant and some is bound to be senseless and absurd . . ." Dr. Watson points to Carl Gustav Jung's admonition: "The best, just because it is the best, holds the seed of evil, and there is nothing so bad but good can come of it." Long after Dr. Abrams' monumental breakthroughs in radionics we know only a little more about the capacity of the unconscious. But it does seem to be inextricably intertwined with Universal Mind, its workings transduced (foggily by some, with crystal clarity by others) by the brain; its capacity therefore must be limitless. At least we now realize that it is indeed possible for mind -- whether through psionic devices or new as-yet-unsuspected kinds of circuitry -- to be directly aware of what is happening to people and things beyond the five physical senses. When we consider that the molecular biologists tamper with and manipulate genetic material in laboratories everywhere, risking bizarre crossovers such as human/animal and even human/spider genes, it doesn't seem possible that these same scientists are terrified by the possibilities of the misuse of psionics. Jeffrey THE GREAT PSIONICS PUT-DOWN 75 Wouldn't it be truly awesome to learn that a group of human beings somewhere suddenly developed the power to influence distant objects, to affect the growth of forest and farmers' crops? Suppose tomorrow's headlines shouted that this group could now control hordes of insects or any other living creature, the health of human beings, even their brains? Who would be safe from such an invincible enemy? One who could strike tracelessly from any distance? Are such things possible with psionics? Is this what terrifies some scientists? If so, they would be well-advised to reconsider. Such things may already have happened -- and if they have, it stands to reason that they are happening now. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination. I'm deeply concerned but I'm also optimistic because -- from what I've seen and experienced -- Universal Mind seems to have decreed specific kinds of human development to come at certain points of the space-time continuum. Call it a Higher Power or whatever you will. I'm firmly convinced that the freedom of humans to do themselves serious or irreparable harm is severely limited. And this applies to our use of germ warfare, genetic manipulation, super-intelligent machines, atomic holocausts -- or psionic control of the entire biosphere. Of course this is what I am talking about!! "Project PK" Ted O. A GRAVE UNDERTAKING THE CITIZENS of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., apparently regard leadership of the city as a grave undertaking. The city's last four mayors -- Luther Kniffen, John Morris, Walter Lisman and Thomas McLaughlin -- have all been funeral directors. -- Tom Mooney. === Page 44 of 139 Piatees, Gr - 4 Projects PK - 3 4/6/81 # Another quake frays Greek nerves ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Another strong earth tremor rocked Greece early Thursday, causing few casualties and little damage, but the nearly constant vibration of the earth during the day frayed the nerves of the normally cool Athenians. "I feel my nerves stretching to breaking point," said Marianna Veremis, a secretary who was leaving the capital city in search of an open area. "I feel like screaming. I can't even cry. I'm afraid of what I might do. I feel this mounting fear and each time I wonder if I'll survive the next one (shock)." Police said 176 houses in rural areas collapsed and hundreds of walls were cracked by a tremor Wednesday measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, and by Thursday's largest tremor, measuring 5.8. Two people died of heart attacks apparently sparked by fear, and several dozen were injured. "I can't go back to my house alone, just the thought terrifies me," said a 32-year-old journalist, who had stayed at her desk and worked stolidly through quakes Feb. 24-25 measuring 6.6 and 6.3 on the Richter scale. Those quakes left 18 dead and caused some damage to the Parthenon and other antiquities. Cars were parked in squares, open spaces and on the median strips of main roads for their owners to use as a refuge overnight. Some people pitched tents by the side of the highway between Athens and Piraeus. Car dealers moved their new stock out of showrooms they feared might collapse. The quakes all stem from an epicenter in the Gulf of Corinth 42 miles west of Athens. They would have caused much more damage if their source were on land instead of in the sea, according to seismologists. But the dozens of tremors have frightened many of the 3 million inhabitants of the capital, some of whom thought their city would never be touched by an earthquake. In recent history, the city, built on a rock, has never felt more than a minor tremor. - 4 Projects PK - # Killer winter storms sweep across nation By The Associated Press 4/6/81 A capricious late winter storm surprised the urban Northeast with almost a foot of snow in some places Thursday, while renewed floods and mudslides blocked highways in California and torrential rains washed parts of the Southland. On Staten Island in New York, a tractor-trailer rig plowed into a disabled bus in the midst of the snowstorm, killing one man and injuring 10 others. In Tallahassee, Fla., where 5 inches of rain fell during the night, a man drowned when his car was swept from a flooded street into a lake. A 31-year-old Los Angeles man was killed Wednesday night when traffic backed up on the Artesia Freeway and his car was hit from the rear, immediately bursting into flames. As the unpredictable snowstorm approached New York City, where up to 10 inches was expected before it was over, chief meterologist Ben Scott of the National Weather Service at Newark International Airport said, "It's the kind of situation that turns my hair gray." Scott said the hazardous traveling conditions would grow even worse during the night. "We're expecting the temperature to drop to the low 20s, and the wet snow will freeze," he said. And more wintry storms were expected to sweep across the country in the coming days. In Colorado, where as much as 22 inches fell earlier this week, weather forecaster John Lein said if an approaching storm gets any stronger "we'll all be digging out our cars again this weekend." Steady rain -- and heavy snow in some areas -- fell on much of Southern California, posing a serious flood threat to already soaked canyon areas. La Tuna Canyon Road in the Tujunga-Sunland area of Los Angeles was closed by mudslides, and one lane of the Santa Monica Freeway in Santa Monica was closed by flooding. Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was closed by snow. Avalanche warnings remained in effect at Mount Baldy, where one skier was killed and another briefly trapped by a slide last weekend. === Page 45 of 139 PENTAGON # Anti-war movement emerging in America By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) - Disturbed by increased U.S. military involvement in El Salvador, a fledgling anti-war movement is emerging in America, and it is drawing support from veterans of Vietnam War protests of a decade ago. On campuses and at churches, the new peace movement has conducted teach-ins and vigils to protest the sending of more U.S. weapons and military advisers to El Salvador's embattled junta. A hunger strike and "day of solidarity" are planned for later this month. And in May, the hallmark of the anti-Vietnam War era will return: a march on the Pentagon. "There is a tremendous awareness that this (U.S. involvement) looks like what happened around Vietnam," said Heidi Tarver, coordinator for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. "People are saying, 'We're not going to be taken in again.'" Ron Kovic, a former leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, said hundreds have been attending West Coast campus teach-ins against President Reagan's Salvadoran policy. Because of the Vietnam experience, he said, opposition to growing U.S. involvement in El Salvador "has been very sophisticated and has come very quickly...." "The protest is inevitably going to build, and it will involve Vietnam Veterans Against the War.... I don't think another American boy should have to die for another mistake." Janet Shank of the North American Committee on Latin America said initial teach-ins on El Salvador's civil war attracted mostly members of religious groups or others with longstanding interest in Latin America. But she said the "second wave" of those attending the teach-ins consists of "people who are middle-age now, but were active in the Vietnam era." Sister Pat Haggerty says her Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church has been flooded with requests for speakers on El Salvador. The talks have been attracting "a wide cross-section" of people, she said. "There is a lot of indignation about how (facts about El Salvador's civil war) have been repressed in the U.S. media and misrepresented by the State Department," Sister Haggerty said. She argued that instead of being an example of Soviet expansionism - as the State Department has suggested - the conflict is a "people's struggle for liberation and against repression." The teach-in, a favorite tactic of anti-Vietnam War activists, has been the main tool of critics of Reagan's Salvadoran policy. But like the Vietnam protesters of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Salvadoran activists plan to intensify their protests through the spring with vigils, hunger strikes and demonstrations. Critics of the U.S. policy plan to stage a demonstration in Ottawa during Reagan's visit to Canada next week. A "national day of solidarity," preceded by a two-day hunger strike, is scheduled March 24 to mark the first anniversary of the murder of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, a critic of the ruling junta. That protest is being sponsored by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an umbrella group organized last October by religious and left-wing organizations concerned about Latin America. It claims 85 chapters nationwide. Some protest groups also are coupling their opposition to increased military aid to El Salvador's junta with attacks on President Reagan's proposed cuts in social programs. "U.S. - Hands off El Salvador! Money for Jobs, Human Needs, Not for the Pentagon," reads a flyer for a May 3 march on the Pentagon scheduled by a group called the Peoples' Anti-War Mobilization. The newly formed group is a coalition of student and civil rights groups, liberal and left-wing religious leaders, and former anti-Vietnam War activists. Among the sponsors are anti-war figures Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Harvard Professor George Wald and author Noam Chomsky. But the leadership of the new movement appears to be coming primarily from religious groups, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, which has been active in peasant reform movements throughout Latin America. Earlier this week, nearly the entire leadership of the U.S. Catholic Church called for a cutoff of U.S. weapons shipments to El Salvador, favoring instead a negotiated settlement to the civil war. THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1981 # Storm buffets two-state area By The Associated Press A snowstorm driven by winds gusting to 50 mph plastered Colorado and southwestern Nebraska with snow up to 2 feet deep Wednesday, blocking highways, closing schools and causing numerous traffic accidents. The near-blizzard conditions in Colorado forced the closing of eight interstate and state highways and turned out schools in Denver, where 9 inches of snow fell, and several other communities. "We've had so many accidents in Douglas, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, we can't begin to count them all," said state patrol dispatcher Douglas Rolfe. "Our officers can't go to all the accidents, and motorists have been instructed to exchange names and phone numbers and make accident reports within 24 hours." No deaths were reported Wednesday, but a cross-country skier was killed Tuesday in an avalanche in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado where 2 feet of snow had accumulated. The National Weather Service said a succession of four or five storms was expected in the area during the next week to 10 days. As the storm moved into Nebraska, forecaster Jim Zoller of the National Weather Service in Omaha said, "They're getting awful close to blizzard conditions in Chase County right now, and power lines are threatened by this wet snow and wind." In Colorado, Interstate 70 was closed from Aurora to Limon, where 6-foot drifts were reported. Colorado 40 from Limon to Kit Carson also was blocked, the state patrol said. Rolfe said roads were impassable from Denver to areas east of the foothills. Other highways closed included portions of Colorado 52, Interstate 25, Colorado 83, Colorado 86, Colorado 24 and Colorado 94. Weather forecasters urged residents to stay off the highways except in emergencies and predicted the storm would continue in parts of the state through Thursday. The storm was caused by an intense cold front that moved into the area of the Colorado-Kansas border early Tuesday morning, said National Weather Service spokesman John Lein. "The cold spot is bumping moisture from the Texas Gulf area into the state," Lein said. "The circulation off the cold spot is moving the storm all over the state." === Page 46 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Frigid arctic air blasts Northeast into deep freeze By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press This tough young winter landed another heavy blow Saturday, stunning the Northeast with record subzero cold that swooped down from Canada. Forecasters warned residents to guard against frostbite as the mercury dropped as low as 38 degrees below zero in New England. Strong winds made it feel as cold as 80 below. Troubleshooters in New York City brought in volunteers to help answer thousands of calls from apartment dwellers complaining of no heat. Even colder weather was forecast for Sunday. Automobile clubs were deluged with calls to jump-start cars with dead batteries. The arctic blast, which followed a similar assault Christmas Day, set records in many areas normally accustomed to severe cold. The reading of 21 below zero at Alpena, Mich., broke the record of 3 below set Jan. 4, 1979. Burlington, Vt., also had a record minus 21. But the coldest spots in Vermont were Georgia and Milton, where the thermometer plunged to 38 degrees below zero. At the top of Saddleback Mountain ski area in Rangeley, Maine, the temperature was also 38 below. While a spokesman for the resort said some skiers had been out on the slopes, he added, "They're all in the lodge now." The National Weather Service said a storm system over the Gulf of St. Lawrence pulled the arctic air down from Canada and was generating northwesterly winds that created a chill factor of 30 to 80 degrees below zero. The frigid air plunged southward across the Plains and gradually spread over the Ohio Valley. Readings were below zero from the Dakotas to Michigan with temperatures from 20 below to 30 below zero across northern Minnesota. Snow spread over much of the upper Ohio Valley, and snow squalls south of the Great Lakes left 8 inches in six hours in Erie, Pa. In the meantime, fog settled over the Pacific Coast and the western Gulf Coast regions, reducing visibility to near zero in southeastern Texas. The fog forced cancellations or diversions of dozens of flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The National Basketball Association game in Phoenix between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Phoenix Suns was postponed because the Sonics' flight did not stop in Seattle to pick up the team. Louisiana state police shut down Interstate 10 bridges on both sides of New Orleans, saying the fog was so thick troopers couldn't even find cars already involved in "a batch" of accidents. One accident on the westbound bridge involved 12 to 15 cars, troopers said. Unlike last winter, which dumped precious little snow on the Northeast and brought the $3.5 billion ski industry to the brink of bankruptcy, the record cold and small but frequent snowstorms this season have been a boon to winter sports enthusiasts. Even in the frigid cold Saturday, skiers were out in some places in New England. At the base of the Sugarloaf ski area in Carrabassett Valley in Maine, it was 15 degrees below zero, and a strong wind was blowing. But a spokesman said skiers were on the slopes. "It's been an excellent week," he said. In New York City, Frank A. Dell'Aira, assistant commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said that because of budget cuts his department is unable to handle thousands of complaints from tenants without heat. Another housing official said he asked employees of the Central Complaint Bureau to volunteer to work extra hours this weekend, assisting 22 regular workers answering phone calls about the lack of heat. The American Automobile Association in Milwaukee had received 130 service calls by 10 a.m. Saturday -- three times the normal amount -- and expected 300 by afternoon. Oveg: 1/4/81 - Nevada PK - # Lady Luck quits Nevada's resorts By MITCHELL LANDSBERG RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The year 1980 may be recalled as the year recession gutted Nevada's golden goose. A bombing at Harvey's Resort Hotel at Stateline, a tragic fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, and sidewalk killings Thanksgiving Day in Reno all left the impression that Lady Luck finally may have deserted the state's glittering casinos. More ominous still was the news that Nevada's "recession-proof" industry might be dependent on the outside economy after all. For the first time in anyone's memory, inflation outstripped the growth of gaming revenues during at least one quarter of 1980. During the third quarter of 1980, casinos took in $636 million, up by 7.76 percent from the $590.3 million they took in during the same period in 1979. But third-quarter inflation hovered at around 14 percent. "Things are not too good," said Gaming Control Board member Jack Stratton at the time. "We're a little concerned." Nevadans have been keeping a wary eye on Atlantic City, N.J., where gross gambling revenues of $1.05 billion were reported from May 26, 1978, when the first casino opened, through November 1980. More casinos are opening regularly, and with higher air fares, the fear is that many Eastern gamblers may be choosing the Atlantic Coast resort instead of Nevada. For Nevada, the year started out on a gloomy note, with casino operators in the northern part of the state trying to figure out where their winter business had gone. "This town is a bummer right now," said veteran Reno gamer Pick Hobson in January. "Inflation is our biggest problem -- nothing hurts us more." About the same time, University of Nevada-Reno economist Bill Eadington was pondering the future of the industry. "Analyzing the situation is so difficult," said Eadington, "because there are so many factors involved. Right now, nobody can say with any certainty how the industry will change and react to challenges over the next few years. But we do know there's some catching up to do on the demand side." Spring came and several major Las Vegas resorts announced layoffs. By the end of summer, casino operators were admitting the recession was beginning to hurt. In September, the accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath announced the results of a survey showing that 62 percent of the state's gambling operators felt the recession had a negative impact on business. On the Las Vegas Strip, 88 percent said their business had been seriously hurt. "The times are just tough, by gosh, tough all over," said Stratton in November. He added that, contrary to his earlier belief, "we're not recession-proof." Of course, the economy was not all that was hurting Nevada gaming. There was the problem of image. The disasters did not help. Nor did the problems of the Aladdin. When the state Gaming Commission shut down the Aladdin Hotel's casino in Las Vegas July 10, it was the largest casino closure in Nevada history. The shutdown climaxed more than a year of legal maneuvering between hotel owners and state officials. 12/27/80 === Page 47 of 139 - Nevada PK - Oreg. P. 11/28/80 RENO, Nev. (UPI) -- Three Oregon residents were among 27 injured when a woman veered her black Lincoln Continental onto a bustling sidewalk in the heart of Reno's casino district Thursday. Jean Kohler, 51, of Lebanon, Ore., was reported in serious condition in Washoe Medical Center. Anna Massingham, 36, of Fall Creek, Ore., was in satisfactory condition. Daniel Massingham, 41, also of Fall Creek, was treated and released. Five persons struck by the woman's car were killed. Two other Pacific Northwest residents, Bob Haun, 44, and Shirley Haun, 45, of Emmett, Idaho, were injured. Haun was listed in serious condition. Police said Friday that the woman apparently planned to kill as many holiday gamblers as she could. Terrified pedestrians dived frantically into casinos and behind parked cars Thursday afternoon when the motorist sent her car careening for more than a block down the crowded sidewalk on the city's main street in front of three casinos. Police Lt. Dick Kirkland said the woman, identified as Priscilla Ford, 51, of Reno, muttered vulgarities as she was escorted into police headquarters. She was charged with five counts of murder and 21 counts of attempted murder. Bail was set at $500,000. "It would be very difficult to believe that this thing could have been an accident," he said. Another police official said Ms. Ford made a voluntary statement that she had planned the rampage. Police Capt. Don McKillip said he could give no explanation for the act, but that the woman apparently was trying to kill as many holiday gamblers as she could. "The victims looked like mannequins," a witness said. "There were bodies on the hood and windshield of the car and it just kept going." The black Lincoln Continental knocked down dozens of people on the sidewalk in front of the Cal-Neva Club, Harrah's and Harold's Club casinos. It struck several other cars and sped under the glittering gateway arch across Virginia Street that heralds the northern Nevada resort town as the "Biggest Little City in the World." Police estimated there were more than 1,000 people on the stretch of Virginia Street at the time. Ms. Ford was arrested when the car had to slow in heavy traffic. Kirkland said the woman, who suffered no injuries herself, last worked as a gift wrapper at Macy's department store. Three critically injured victims of the auto rampage underwent surgery at Washoe Medical Center, where 17 persons, many of whom suffered broken arms and legs, were kept overnight. Ten others were treated and released for minor injuries. Washoe Coroner Vern McCarty identified the dead as Paul A. Nitzel of Sunnyvale, Calif.; Josephine Starkey, 53, Sparks, Nev.; Jolene Cranmer, 20, New York; Iva Britain, 80, and John Koschella, 60, both of Reno. - Four Projects PK - # First cholera case since 1978 reported ATLANTA (AP) -- Florida has reported the first case of cholera since 1978 in a person who has not traveled outside the United States, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The center, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said the patient was a 46-year-old woman who experienced diarrhea, abdominal cramps and vomiting on Nov. 29. Tests indicated the woman had eaten some raw oysters from an approved area of Apalachicola Bay in the days prior to her illness, the CDC said. An investigation is under way to determine if the woman contracted the disease from eating the oysters, which can carry a cholera-producing organism in their fecal material. In recent months, routine monitoring of portions of Apalachicola Bay that are open to oyster harvesting has shown fecal coliform levels to be within the limits required by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, the CDC said. Oreg. 12/20/80 - Calif. PK. - # Police told to kill dogs CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) -- Police have been ordered to shoot stray dogs in this border town following the discovery of a sixth rabid dog, and Imperial County health officials say they fear they are "sitting on a keg of dynamite." There have been no reports of humans catching the disease, but 28 children and adults, including an 8-month-old infant, have undergone anti-rabies treatment. All of those cases were precautionary, but three of the victims had been bitten by a rabid dog. Calexico Police Chief Humberto Hernandez ordered his officers Friday to begin shooting on sight all stray dogs. A similar order has been in effect in Mexicali, across the border in Mexico. Health officials say more than 100 dogs have been destroyed in Calexico, El Centro and Brawley. "The only way to stop this thing before we get human (victims) is to get all the dogs off the streets," Imperial County Public Health Director Dr. L. Lee Cottrell said Friday. Oreg. 12/14/80 - Calif. PK - # Air Force destroys secret satellite - PK vs. U.S. Govt. - VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) -- An Air Force missile ferrying a satellite into space veered off course Monday night and had to be destroyed by radio command. Capt. Thomas Clarkson said the non-explosive Atlas booster missile carrying a "classified" satellite was destroyed as a safety precaution and came down far out in the ocean. The missile, described as "bigger than a Minuteman and smaller than a Titan" missile, was launched at 11:18 p.m. and destroyed seven minutes later after it inexplicably deviated from its flight path. Oreg. P. 12/9/80 === Page 48 of 139 - Nevada PK - # 100 hurt in blaze at Vegas Hilton By PATRICK ARNOLD LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- A fire erupted and "jumped from floor to floor" at the 30-story Las Vegas Hilton Tuesday night, injuring more than 100 people and shooting flames 100 feet up the side of one of the world's largest hotels. Clark County Coroner Dick Mayne said there were no fatalities. The blaze, reported at 8:07 p.m. and brought under control by about 9 p.m., followed by less than three months the disastrous fire at the nearby MGM Grand Hotel in which 84 people died and more than 700 were injured. Some guests at the 2,783-room stone-fronted Hilton broke windows and screamed frantically for help after the fire erupted on the southeast corner of the eighth floor and quickly spread as high as the 24th floor, sending smoke wafting over the nearby Las Vegas Strip. Helicopters evacuated people from the roof, and ambulances rushed to the hotel. Several sheets could be seen hanging from eighth-floor windows. Authorities at Desert Springs Hospital said they had received 100 people who were being treated for smoke inhalation. "The most seriously injured were taken by helicopter from a convention center near the Hilton to Valley Hospital. An emergency room spokesman at Sunrise Hospital said that facility was receiving "a bunch" of injury victims, most of them suffering smoke inhalation. He said none had burns. Some injured guests also were being taken to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Witnesses said that while the flames were at their height, people were hanging out of windows and authorities were telling them to get back inside. Authorities also lifted some people off the roof in helicopters, said Rodney Davis, desk officer at the nearby Royal Americana Hotel. He said half the building was dark and that the flames for a time reached up the side of the building at least 100 feet. Capt. Ralph Dinsman, a Fire Department spokesman, said the blaze started from unknown causes on the eighth floor and then "jumped from floor to floor." More than two hours later, white smoke was still pouring out of the building but the flames were subsiding. A Hilton reservations spokesman in Los Angeles said four conventions were under way at the fully booked hotel. "Yes, there is a large fire at the Hilton. I've got to go," said an unidentified official who answered the Fire Department's telephone number. A desk clerk who answered the telephone at the hotel said there was a fire but that he did not have time to talk. He then hung up the phone. Andy Williams and Juliet Prowse were among the performers booked for Tuesday performances in the showroom at the Hilton, which is about two miles from the 26-story, 2,076-room MGM Grand Hotel. In an interview following the MGM Grand fire, Fritz Huebler, manager of the Las Vegas Hilton, said his hotel "has the highest degree of safety. Like everyone else, we review it every month or so." === Page 49 of 139 Casino hotel fire kills 8, hurts 300 LAS VEGAS (UPI) -- The second deadly fire to strike a crowded Nevada gambling resort in less than three months blazed Tuesday night through the Las Vegas Hilton, the largest hotel in the United States, killing at least eight persons and injuring about 300. Police suspected arson and questioned four persons, but no charges were filed and all were released. "At this time we think someone other than the persons questioned started the fire," a police spokesman said. "We have no leads on other suspects. We have determined that there is definitely evidence of arson." Trapped guests in the 2,783-room hotel screamed from broken windows, made makeshift escape ropes of torn sheets, scrambled for helicopters on the roof and plunged to their deaths from upper floors. Helicopters circled the smoke-shrouded roof. A spokesman for Valley Hospital said its helicopter ambulance took off 20 people and the fire department airlifted firefighters to the roof. The 30-story hotel -- second largest in the world after the Rossiya in Moscow -- is only about two miles from the MGM Grand Hotel, where 84 people died in a blaze Nov. 21. The Hilton blaze was a nighttime sequel to the MGM fire, which broke out during the day. "You couldn't help but think of the MGM fire," said singer Andy Williams, appearing at the Hilton with dancer Juliet Prowse, who was getting dressed for his show when he was told to leave the building. "I'm glad it was handled so well. "It's a shame. It's not good for Las Vegas to have two fires so close together." Ed Knowels, a Toledo bank executive staying at the hotel, said "no fire alarms" were activated during a fire. In a telephone interview with station WSPD in Toledo, Knowels said, "There were no fire alarms in this hotel. "My wife heard a commotion in the hall and went to the door; people were going down the fire escape. We heard people coming down the hall saying the hotel is on fire. "Luckily we were on the second floor, (and) when we got to the ground level we went out and could see the flames in what they call the east wing of the hotel. "This is 30 floors up. The sight was something I'll never forget. People were breaking out windows. It was pure panic." Knowels said the hook-and-ladder companies could not get above the 10th floor. "There was one woman... they had broken out a window. I assume her husband, had his arms around her from the back in a bear hug," he said. "She was completely hysterical. She wanted to jump out. He had to restrain her. I saw that go on for 20 minutes." Fire Chief Roy Parrish called the fire "suspicious," saying three separate fires had erupted. Parrish said the main fire broke out near an elevator lobby on the eighth floor and smaller fires broke out later on the second and third floors. Three of the bodies were found near that eighth floor lobby, according to coroner's officials. "We strongly suspect arson and we are treating it like it is arson," Police Sgt. Darrel Huff said. The fire erupted with "an explosive type of force," he said, and "the presence of arson investigators is more than a routine circumstance." Fire department Capt. Ralph Dinsman said he had received reports of a smaller, fourth fire that were still being investigated. Police questioned and released four men, including one a witness saw "acting suspiciously on the ninth floor just after the fire started," Huff said. The man was detained when the witness pointed him out to police in the crowd watching the blaze, Huff said. By daybreak, the Clark County fire department had identified all but one of the eight victims. "There may be as many as 10," said Deputy Fire Chief John Pappageorge, "But I stress maybe because sometimes you get double counts." The hundreds of guests forced to flee, leaving their belongings behind, were put up at other Las Vegas resorts. Hilton officials said they would be allowed to return to their rooms later in the day to retrieve their luggage. Hospitals reported treating 242 patients -- 29 of whom were firefighters, and more than 100 of whom were admitted overnight. About 200 others were treated at an emergency medical facility set up in the city's convention center. Many were treated for smoke inhalation and released -- including entertainer Natalie Cole, daughter of the late Nat "King" Cole -- but 103 were held for treatment of more serious injuries. The most serious fire broke out about 8 p.m., broke a window and "hopped from floor to floor" up the outside of the building to the roof, the fire chief said. As usual, even in disaster it was difficult to discourage the hard core gamblers whose business built such lavish resorts. As flames billowed from the upper stories, a security guard ran through the ground floor casino, insisting to gamblers: "This is the last hand and I do mean the last hand." === Page 50 of 139 - Nevada HK = # Arson blamed in fire at Vegas Silverbird LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- Arson was to blame for a fire that forced the evacuation Tuesday of about 1,000 casino patrons at the Silverbird Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, fire officials said. The fire was definitely arson, said Clark County Fire Department spokesman Ralph Dinsman, who described the fire as "very minor." He said fire officials had no suspects. "It was very suspicious in nature from the time we first arrived," said Dinsman. There were no injuries in the fire, which quickly was brought under control by firefighters. Arson also was blamed for a fire Feb. 10 at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel which killed eight people and injured 200 others. Former Hilton busboy Philip Cline has been charged with murder and arson in that case. A smoky fire at the MGM Grand killed 85 people last November and injured 704. Tuesday's fire caused minimal fire damage to a basement room below the showroom stage and smoke damage to other areas of the basement, fire department officials said, adding that 14 units responded to the blaze. Oreg. 3/5/81 === Page 51 of 139 NATIONAL AFFAIRS egate Edythe C. Harrison, a founder of one of the groups. "No more." Falwell's problems don't end in Virginia. Moral Majority says it has chapters in all 50 states, but because each group is allowed to adopt its own agenda and tactics, the loose network has already caused some discomfort for Falwell. In Maryland, Moral Majority leaders recently condemned a bakery for selling gingerbread figures that were explicitly sexual. Business soared as a result. In California, a Moral Majority spokesman this month joined in announcing a $3 million media crusade against San Francisco's large and powerful gay community, comparing homosexuality to murder and calling for capital punishment. It was too much even for Falwell, who called it a "strange deal... that to me is ridiculous and unthinkable." Falwell hopes to remain above such local frays and says he has "no problem censoring my own people publicly," if they go too far. Moral Majority has hired Charles E. Judd, a political consultant with Republican Party experience, to run training sessions for his local leaders around the country. Moral Issues: The big question is just how far Falwell intends to take religion into politics. Not very far, he insists. His principal concern, he says, is his ministry, a multifaceted operation that includes the 18,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, the weekly "The Old-Time Gospel Hour" now televised on 380 stations and two schools. He recently set up a fully tax-exempt educational foundation to help in fund raising, and he now expects his "total ministry" will collect $70 million in 1981--up $10 million from 1980. He is offering free editorials to more radio stations, hoping to bring the number to 250 stations, and he expects to apply for TV licenses to run 100 of the new "mini-stations" the Federal Communications Commission is now considering. His message, Falwell says, will be less explicitly political than heretofore. "I want to stay with the moral issues totally--the human life amendment... strengthening the traditional family, the Christian school movement." But the line between religion and politics is very thin on such issues as abortion and school prayer, and some politicians in Virginia worry that Falwell is determined to play a behind-the-scenes role in state politics. The test will come this year in the race for governor, which will probably pit Democratic Lt. Gov. Charles Robb (Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law) against Republican Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman. If Falwell does use his pulpit as a partisan platform, he may well become a controversial issue in the election--raising once again the question of the proper role of the church in American politics. MICHAEL REESE with HOWARD FINEMAN in Virginia # Fire in Las Vegas--Again Kansas City marketing executive Jerry Ingram parted the curtains of his ninth-floor hotel room and saw shards of glass raining down on the swimming pool below. He dashed into the hallway and jumped into an elevator with two other men. The car went only one floor before the doors burst open into an inferno. Ingram crawled through the burning hallway and eventually reached safety, but his two companions were later found dead near the elevator. On the sixteenth floor, Bruce Glenn of Plymouth, Minn., dangled from a towel he had attached to his window, then lost his grip and plunged to his death. On the tenth floor, Harry and Lorraine Gaines from Los Angeles retreated to their bathroom and stuffed wet towels under the door and in the air ventilator, all to no avail. The elderly couple was found dead of smoke inhalation. For the second time in three months, flames raced through the elevator shafts, hallways and up the sides of a lavish Las Vegas hotel last week. Fire fighters evacuated more than 4,000 guests and employees from the 2,783-room Las Vegas Hilton--including more than 100 in helicopters from the roof. But the fire claimed eight lives, injured 242 people, caused $10 million in damage--and prompted renewed calls for Las Vegas hotels to upgrade their outmoded fire-protection systems. Like the MGM Grand Hotel, where a spectacular fire last November killed 84 people, the east-wing section of the Hilton that burned had no sprinklers, no smoke detectors in rooms, no public-warning systems and only a manual-pull alarm system that apparently failed to work. Deliberate: Authorities immediately suspected arson and arrested Philip Bruce Cline, a 23-year-old Hilton busboy who had called in the first alarm. Cline, who had quit school in the ninth grade, had a history of psychiatric problems and had worked briefly at other Las Vegas hotels, including the MGM. Under questioning, Cline told police he had accidentally set some eighth-floor curtains ablaze with a marijuana cigarette while committing a homosexual act. But authorities were not convinced. Three other fires had broken out while fire fighters battled the first--one in a second-floor storage room, one in a third-floor service elevator and one in a ninth-floor fire hose that had been stuffed with combustible material. One couple said they saw stairway doors propped open with room-service dishes in what seemed a deliberate attempt to draw smoke to other floors. Police were still searching for other leads, but meanwhile they charged Cline with eight counts of murder and one count of arson. If convicted, he faces the death penalty under Nevada law. MELINDA BECK with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas Smoke engulfs the Hilton Hotel, suspect Cline: A case of arson? UPI photos 24 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 52 of 139 Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 Note: My prediction printed in a book years ago. Owens === Page 53 of 139 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 === Page 54 of 139 - Nevada PK - Close-Up of America # What Gambling Does for--and to--Las Vegas **Day and night, from blackjack to baccarat, the action goes on in a desert oasis. Behind the profits, however, is a much different story.** LAS VEGAS Maggie, the nearsighted cocktail waitress, sees how to get money for the $1 blackjack table. She pawns her eyeglasses. Bert, the bankrupt dentist, caps off another caper. He charges airline tickets to his credit cards and sells them for stakes to shoot craps. Forget blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps. In Las Vegas, the most attractive odds you can find are the people themselves. There's "Pittsburgh Al," who works as a casino card dealer and spends his time off as a player and admits, "If I break even, it's a win." And 6-foot-1-inch Janet, who dances bare-breasted in the Folies Bergere and lives at home with her mother, a Nevada state senator, to save money for college. And Benny Binion, who keeps 1 million dollars cash on display in his casino and who mutters, after losing $777,000 to a player on one roll of the dice, "I didn't feel nothin'." Round-the-clock the action flows, round and round the wheel of fortune goes, slows, and up comes a lucky number: One billion, four hundred and twenty-three million, six hundred and twenty-three thousand, one hundred and two. That's dollars. And that's how much Las Vegas took from its gambling guests in gross winnings over the past year. Just how lucky this tinseled town is, is another matter. Other numbers keep turning up, too. There were 34,257 serious crimes last year--including 92 murders--giving Las Vegas the nation's highest per capita crime rate. There are 10,000 prostitutes active in the city--a number equal, according to Census Bureau figures, to 1 out of every 9 women in the area between the ages of 15 and 39. The state has the highest alcoholism rate in the country and a suicide rate more than double the national average. All that's in addition to a storm of casino and hotel fires, including two this winter that killed a total of 92 people and injured more than 900. A federal law-enforcement official says, in wonderment, "When I first came here, I kept asking myself, 'This is part of America?'" Indeed it is, and what happens here has implications for the rest of the nation. Other states--notably New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, California, Florida and Louisiana--are flirting with the notion of licensing casinos as New Jersey did in Atlantic City in 1978. This is the 50th-anniversary year of that experiment in Nevada--and what it has done for, and to, the state is clear. **The playground grows.** In 1931, when the first casino opened legally, there were 91,000 people living in the state--and 300,000 cows. Old-timers say Las Vegas had five blocks of paved streets, and the way out of town was a dirt road to Los Angeles that took three days to drive. Today, Nevada is the nation's fastest growing state, with 799,000 residents. Gambling is the most important industry, contributing 100 million dollars, or nearly half the state's annual tax revenues. Because of this jackpot, there is no state income tax, and the sales tax is only 3.5 percent. Las Vegas now is a clean and sprawling city that sparkles, under blinking, rippling neon signs that tower hundreds of feet above the casinos along "the Strip." An estimated 65 percent of all jobs in the state are due, at least indirectly, to the gambling industry, and in Las Vegas, median family income is $21,000, ranking it in the nation's top 10 percent. The city has come to call itself the live-entertainment capital of the world. At least, it is a prime source of income for some of the most famous performers. Jerry Lewis gets $75,000 a week for one show a night. Frank Sinatra is paid $50,000 for each of his 1-hour shows. Wayne Newton, because he performs here year-round, makes 10 million dollars annually--spent conspicuously on two Rolls Royces, a Bentley, three Mercedes-Benzes, a helicopter and a house so huge that it is one of the two landmarks pointed out by airline pilots during approaches. The other is Boulder Dam. Drawn by the gambling and lavish shows, 656,024 convention delegates came last year and dropped 227 million dollars. Many players fly in from as far away as Hong Kong and Macao, for, as local columnist Elliot Krane puts it, "You don't have to know the language to understand topless dancers." Las Vegas boasts that it has the most extensive convention facilities of any place; 45 major hotels with nearly 48,000 rooms. Because gambling is so profitable, hotelmen say they can charge $50 for a room that would cost $100 in New York or San Francisco. "I'd be a fool to say gambling has not been good for the state," says Harry Reid, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Commission. "This is just a big hunk of desert. It's the seventh-largest state in landmass, but only on a small bit of that will a blade of grass grow. People come here, and what they spend comes from some place else. It's not made on the tables." Yet Reid argues that any state trying to follow Nevada's lead will find that social costs far outweigh Casinos' neon signs that cost as much as 1 million dollars each keep Las Vegas brightly lighted from dusk to dawn. 66 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 9, 1981 === Page 55 of 139 any economic benefits. Although the state seeks an image of mob-free gambling, Reid admits, "organized crime is still around." He also notes that because of their economic power, the casinos are to Nevada what cattle are to Wyoming, what oil is to Oklahoma. So it is that Senator Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), who counts President Reagan as "best friend," also has spoken of his "good friendship" with Morris B. "Moe" Dalitz, identified by federal agents as a founding member of the national crime syndicate. So it was that Dalitz was named "Man of the Year" here by the local cancer society in 1977, and his tribute was read by a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. And so, too, did the Gaming Control Board decide on February 11 that another friend of the President's, Frank Sinatra, who was barred from Nevada's gambling industry for 17 years because of purported ties to organized crime, could now be licensed for a role in managing Caesar's Palace, whose top two officers have been banned by New Jersey gambling authorities for being too close to the mob. The Justice Department's organized-crime strike force has tried for over a year to ferret out Mafia links to the casinos--and in the process has outraged the state's political leaders. Senator Howard Cannon (D-Nev.) has called for a congressional review of strike-force operations. Nevada's senior federal judge, Roger Foley, has called the strike-force chief here "schizophrenic." Another federal judge, Harry Claiborne, who lunches often with casino owner Binion, says the strike force is "a bunch of crooks." And Senator Laxalt has accused the strike force of harassing the gaming industry and said he will use his influence with the Reagan administration to cut back the probe. "Now I feel," complains a federal investigator, "like I'm in the front lines fighting, and a truce is being negotiated behind my back." But Nevada, too, has reason to feel embattled. Trouble and tragedy have turned up for the past year as regularly as snake eyes on the crap tables. Last November 21, a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel took 84 lives and injured more than 700. On February 10, a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton, for which a busboy has been charged with arson, killed eight and injured more than 200. In other incidents, arsonists set fires that were quickly extinguished at the Dunes and at the Royal American, and flames damaged or destroyed several other casinos around the state. Indicative of how vital gambling is here, the MGM Grand fire put 4,500 employees out of work--and the state's jobless rate shot up 1.4 percent. Gaming revenues also have been squeezed as a result of the nation's economic problems in general, by soaring airline-ticket prices in particular, and by competition from Atlantic City casinos to some extent. Casino operators profess not to be worried by competitors and at the same time warn that any other states that follow the Nevada example are likely to be sorry. Gambling has worked well here, they say, because the state is relatively isolated and has catered to those who can best afford it. Putting casinos in metropolitan areas, they claim, will tempt people who cannot afford to lose. "If I lived where there was no legal gambling," says a casino manager, "I'd do everything in my power to keep it out because of the dirty money. Look, there's big money out on the floor today from drugs. A guy robs a bank or makes a drug score, he comes in with $20,000 and we don't ask him where he got it. We're not the FBI. The type of people it brings into the community--I take their money but I wouldn't take them home for dinner." Disdain for those who gamble is voiced by many along the Strip. Buck, a retired casino owner, says, "I always classed them with that religious group called the Penitentes. They always try to punish themselves. They're not satisfied until they're broke." That firm belief is why casino operators are unworried when a player wins big. Walt Devlin, once a high roller, says one time he won $20,000 at blackjack, and the pit boss told him, "Anything you want to eat or drink, any woman you want, we'll get it for you. Just don't take the money down the street because you're just renting it." Devlin, now director of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling, Inc., and no longer a betting man, is a case study of the "degenerate" gambler: "I've gone through three marriages, been arrested six times and imprisoned twice for passing bad paper, locked myself in a mental institution, made two suicide attempts, tried 19 different religions and blown something like 5 million dollars." According to research by the University of Michigan, there are an estimated 1.1 million compulsive gamblers nationwide and only 12 hospital beds available for their treatment. Recently, says Devlin, the gaming industry in Las Vegas has begun offering financial support for research and treatment of pathological gamblers. Gaming tables like this roulette wheel net the casinos millions of dollars nightly. Golden heart? For all that it's a city that panders to greed, Las Vegas can be--some times in some ways--a soft touch. One day a bum walks into Binion's Horseshoe and asks the owner for a free drink. No, says Binion, but treats him to a steak. At Christmas, the Stardust and Fremont hotels gave 1,003 food baskets to the poor. The Frontier and Union Plaza casinos open their midnight shows free to airmen from nearby Nellis Air Force Base. Entertainers like Bill Cosby, Liberace, Rich Little and Joan Rivers perform free each year to raise money for a children's home. What startles visitors is that behavior considered immoral elsewhere is acceptable here. Prostitution is legal in Nevada--except around casinos, where the management doesn't want hookers taking gamblers away from the tables. Yet prostitutes operate illegally and openly in the best hotels, often with the connivance of the bell captain, because, as a casino manager says, "It all goes together, like tonic with gin, like sauce on spaghetti." One night a stranger asks a woman at a bar what she does, and she says, "Oh, I'm a shill." She explains that hers is a respectable job; she is paid to play baccarat, with chips provided by the casino and which she can't cash in, to lure players to the table. Las Vegas is different from any other place because, for good or bad, hypocrisy hardly exists. That lets columnist Elliot Krane define the town as one where "you don't have to have any credentials so long as you have money." That also defines honesty--as it is understood on the playing tables of Nevada. In the words of Senator Laxalt, "We do up front what most states do in the back room." By JOHN S. LANG U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 9, 1981 67 Haha!! Bull!! Note: I can state personally + accurately that Las Vegas is vicious and cruel to the poor!! Irene === Page 56 of 139 # Vegas Death Toll Of 100 Expected - Nevada PK- ## Bodies Still Hunted SF Chron. 11/24/80 By Katy Butler Chronicle Correspondent Las Vegas The death toll in the disasterous MGM Grand Hotel fire -- which authorities concede could have been prevented -- is expected to exceed 100 when bodies still buried in the blackened ruins of the 26-story luxury hotel are uncovered, weary fire officials predicted here yesterday. With 83 confirmed deaths, it has already become the second-worst hotel fire in U.S. history, and one official gloomily predicted that it will turn out to be the worst. Uncounted hundreds are recovering from injuries received in last Friday's fire in Las Vegas, and authorities have listed more than 300 guests of the mammoth gambling complex as missing. The vast majority of those not accounted for, however, are presumed to have left Las Vegas and returned home. Yesterday, searchers were slogging through the blackened, watery cavern that was once an elegant casino, moving pieces of the fallen ceiling in an effort to find more victims. "When this is over and all the bodies have been counted," predicted Fire Battalion Chief Leroy Leavitt, "we're going to find this will be the biggest hotel fire in the nation's history." The worst U.S. hotel fire occurred on Dec. 7, 1946, when 119 people died in the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta. Leavitt said bulldozers might be needed to remove tons of charred debris that tumbled into the basement and gaming area as a result of the blaze, which might have smoldered for as long as eight hours in the ceiling above the hotel's first-floor delicatessen. When completed in 1973, the MGM Grand's casino had no fire sprinklers -- which building codes now require for new highrise hotels in Las Vegas -- but its safety features were approved under a questionable ruling by then-Building Inspector John Pisciotta. "There's no question the fire could have been stopped if the Back Page Col. 5 - Texas PK- UPDATE Newsweek 12/22/80 ## Summer Drought: A Grim Harvest "It like to make a beggar out of me, the heat wave did," says Alabama farmer Irby Davis. The drought that singed the nation's midsection last summer suffocated hens in Georgia, produced cotton bolls no bigger than bumblebees in Mississippi and beans the size of BB's in Arkansas. "I've been in agriculture all my life," says Louisiana Secretary of Agriculture Robert Odom, "and this is the worst year for farmers I have ever seen." The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has estimated agricultural losses between $13 billion and $16 billion. Texas was the state hardest hit. The temperature in Dallas topped 100 degrees on 42 consecutive days. "I don't think there was a single commodity that wasn't hurt in a bad way," says a spokesman for the Texas Department of Agriculture, which has estimated crop and livestock loss at just over $1.5 billion--or a full 15 per cent of the state's 1979 cash receipts in agriculture. Don Enger, who has 1,100 acres of cotton in the high-plains area of Texas, got only four-tenths of a bale per acre, against a full bale last year. He stands to lose $25,000. Says Enger stoically, "I don't want to give the impression we're starving to death. Our life-style won't be affected that much, but my farming will. I won't purchase new farm equipment next year, I'll put down less fertilizer and I'll plant in a skip-row pattern. You learn to cope. It's all part of farming." Some growers actually profited. Because he had enough water for irrigation, Enger's brother-in-law, Boyce Middlebrook, weathered the drought and harvested almost 1½ bales per acre. Now, with the general cotton shortage, he is getting top prices. "He's just one of the lucky ones," notes Enger, "and very few of us were lucky." The meager harvest comes at a bad time for farmers. The credit crunch that sent planting loans soaring last spring forced Enger and Davis: Beans the size of BB's and bolls no bigger than bumblebees === Page 57 of 139 Smoke rises from the M-G-M Grand: A rush for the choppers like the fall of Saigon Photos by Dusty Willison-Sipa-Black Star raced through the casino's "eye in the sky," a concealed catwalk fitted with one-way mirrors through which security men monitored the gaming. At that early hour the tables below were nearly empty, and the handful of diehard gamblers at first ignored the smell of smoke. "Some were still demanding one last play," a croupier said. "But we closed and left-fast." A wall of flame suddenly roared through the hall, and gardener Ray Hutchison, working outside, looked up to see a frantic exodus. "The casino girls were running out with cash drawers in their hands, and dealers were running out stuffing chips in their pockets," he said. Behind them, ten stragglers burned to death. Confusion: The flames quickly incinerated the casino's highly flammable Hollywood decor. Somehow, the alarm system failed: investigators said its controls, located in the basement, had quickly melted in the raging blaze. Dense, acrid smoke poured up the elevator shafts and stairs, and on the floors above, sleeping guests awoke to confusion and terror. A scream woke New York retailer Thomas Bowman; he ran upstairs to try to rescue his wife's parents. "Hundreds of people were yelling, 'Don't go up!'" Bowman recalled. He went up anyway, and saved them. By 7:30, smoke was trickling through the upper floors and Rich Stamer, alone in suite 533A directly above the burning casino, could smell it. Above Stamer's balcony, a woman was trying to shinny down a rope; she lost her grip and fell. Stamer was deluged with shards of glass as the occupants of higher floors smashed out their windows. On the ninth floor, Tom Bowden prepared to clamber down a fire ladder. "When I got onto the ladder, I discovered blood all over me. At first I thought I had been cut-but it was blood falling down from the floors above." Dozens of fire trucks ringed the burning hotel and hundreds of dazed guests wandered around the grounds in their night clothes. Paramedics ministered to the injured and a makeshift morgue opened across the street. In all, officials estimated, nearly 8,000 guests and employees had been in the M-G-M Grand when the fire broke out; firemen found the last terrified survivor late that evening. "People panicked," was a hotel guard's explanation for the toll. But the charred ruin posed questions of its own: why the alarm system failed, and why, most of all, Las Vegas officials had never required sprinklers in the casino. TOM MORGANTHAU with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas "Nevada PK" Hook-and-ladder rescue and the pleasure palace's burnt-out portico: Where were the sprinklers? Newsweek 12/1/80 43 === Page 58 of 139 - Nevada PK - Los Angeles Times Kerkorian and his fire-gutted Las Vegas hotel: A leisure-time empire on the line UPI # MGM's Dicey Future The death count from the MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas mounted to 84, with another 500 on the injured list. Local fire officials said preliminary investigation of the wreckage disclosed several major violations of the fire code, and lawyers filed the first of what is expected to be a series of multimillion-dollar negligence suits against the company. And on Wall Street, skittish traders last week bid MGM Grand stock down 31 per cent, saddling the company's controlling shareholder, Kirk Kerkorian, with a $64 million paper loss. Indeed, the hotel company seemed beset on all sides, its reputation in disturbing disrepair and its financial future in serious question. MGM Grand is one-half of the leisure-time empire Kerkorian formed last June when he split the old M-G-M properties into a film company and a hotel-casino concern. MGM Grand had profits of $34 million in the year ended Aug. 31, most of it from the Las Vegas operation; it has a second hotel in Reno, and plans to shell out $200 million to open a third in Atlantic City. Chairman Fred Benninger assured investors that the company had "adequate insurance" to cover all its losses and that it continued to be "financially sound." But many gambling analysts had their doubts. They agreed that the insurance would cover the costs of remodeling the Las Vegas hotel for a reopening now set for next July. But they were not sure that the company's liability coverage--widely estimated at around $30 million--would be sufficient to protect MGM Grand should it be found guilty of negligence. The first suit, filed by eighteen guests from Mexico, asked $175 million in damages. It will be years before the liability questions are finally settled. Meanwhile, even Benninger concedes that ground-breaking for the proposed Atlantic City hotel-casino, originally scheduled for early next year, will have to be postponed for "several months." It could take a lot longer than that. MGM Grand has borrowed $40 million for initial construction on the project and has set aside another $35 million from its internal cash flow. But that leaves $125 million still to be raised--and given the company's cloudy outlook, the money will not be easy to obtain. "I just don't think they'll go into Atlantic City in the foreseeable future," says analyst Alan Snyder of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a Los Angeles brokerage firm. Heavy Debts: Given all the uncertainties, many observers were surprised last week when Benninger said MGM Grand would continue paying its 44-cent-a-share annual dividend. "It would be more responsible for them to omit the dividend," says gambling-industry analyst Dennis Forst of Bateman, Eichler, Hill & Richards in Los Angeles. But for Kerkorian, the decision may be a blessing: he has borrowed heavily in his attempt to add Columbia Pictures Industries to his stable (NEWSWEEK, Oct. 13)--pledging his holdings of MGM Grand, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. and Columbia itself as collateral--and he may well need the $7 million annual dividend on his hotel shares to meet his obligations. Only Kerkorian himself knows how leveraged he really is and whether he will continue his run at Columbia, and last week he was unavailable for comment. But for the moment, at least, his investment in MGM Grand Hotels looked as uncertain as a roll of the dice at a Vegas casino. HARRY ANDERSON with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas forced to step down before Bally Manufacturing was granted a temporary license for Bally's Park Place. But Bally is not yet home free; the commission says it has evidence that the firm is closely tied to organized crime, and it could well turn down Bally's application for a permanent license when hearings are completed next year. Finally, general manager William Dougall and director of operations Paul Syphus were ordered out at Harrah's Marina, owned by Holiday Inns, while the commission investigates charges that they were involved in a prostitution ring that serviced high rollers at Harrah's Las Vegas operation. Harrah's permanent license also could be in jeopardy. The Jersey sweep may even have repercussions in Nevada, where Jack Stratton, a member of the state's Gaming Control Board, says his group will now study any new information uncovered in New Jersey that might warrant re-examination of Nevada's casino operations. Canceled Plans: Predictably, there are growing complaints that the commission has gone too far and could eventually cut the flow of jobs and tax dollars the gaming industry has produced. Resorts International, the Dunes Hotel and Holiday Inns are all said to have abandoned plans to construct new facilities in Atlantic City, primarily because of the commission's tougher stance. And in the wake of the fire at its Las Vegas hotel-casino, MGM Grand Hotels seems likely to postpone its plans to expand eastward (box). But there are no immediate signs that the commission is about to ease up--even if it runs the risk of wounding the gambling goose that lays all those golden eggs. "Our people want to do their own investigations and do them thoroughly," says Ben Barowsky, a spokesman for the gaming commission. "This is not a driver's license; when it comes to a casino, you must prove your integrity again and again." Given the history of the gambling business and the state's new tough stance, the Atlantic City licensing battle may just have begun. TOM NICHOLSON with DAVID T. FRIENDLY in New York and bureau reports NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 59 of 139 "SPACE SHUTTLE" January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS (see below) is typical "Earth procedure." And something government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA...they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure...one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time...and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base...with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base...will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program...or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values...an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous...except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning...one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge...THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) wens One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness...and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 60 of 139 "Most cassettes are afraid of me." -Stevie Wonder- A lot of cassette makers have probably considered asking Stevie's opinion about their performance. But he's such a perfectionist, they may have been scared off. Not TDK. TDK SA's Super Avilyn magnetic particle revolutionized high bias cassette music. No rock is too hot to handle. Classical music keeps all of its dynamic range. Jazz sizzles without a hiss. There's headroom for all the challenge and drama of music. For Stevie, "It's a little music machine that delivers the best sound, for its size, I've ever heard." There's good reason. Its 250 components are checked thousands of times; 1,117 checkpoints for the shell alone. And SA is guaranteed a lifetime.* Enough to please any perfectionist. * In the unlikely event that any TDK cassette ever fails to perform due to a defect in materials or workmanship simply return it to your local dealer or to TDK for a free replacement. © 1980 TDK Electronics Corp., Garden City, N.Y. 11530 Supplier to the U.S. Olympic Team Look for TDK in bright new packages SA-C90 @TDK TDK The Amazing Music Machine. UPDATE D. Ford Connolly The Fishers at Johnson Space Center: 'He's still learning things I already know' # The Astronauts: Ready for Launch For the astronauts, the final months are the hardest. Technical problems have plagued the space shuttle, but NASA now plans to launch Columbia this spring, and pilots John Young and Bob Crippen are getting ready for the maiden voyage. "They're working twelve hours a day, six days a week, and they spend the seventh day reading the things they didn't have time for during the other six," says former astronaut Alan Bean, who supervises the crew's training. The shuttle, which carries a seven-man crew, is a unique space vehicle. It will rocket into orbit, return to earth, refit and fly again, like a standard airplane. Its mission: to ferry people and equipment into space for experiments and repairing satellites. The shuttle may also be used to build military bases in space--or even as a platform for laser weapons. Columbia and three sister craft are already booked for 42 flights through 1984, and NASA has 80 astronauts training at Houston's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Unlike the homogeneous corps of the past, the group includes eight women, three blacks and one Hispanic. Many are scientists or physicians, rather than military officers. New technology makes their training remarkably sophisticated. In practice sessions, computers allow instructors to program complicated emergencies. Recently, NASA created 40 different malfunctions for a simulated orbital flight. The five computers aboard the orbiter carry more information than Apollo or Skylab and represent a move toward astronaut autonomy. The shuttle pilots will be less dependent on the Mission Control Center in Houston and tracking stations around the world. The space rookies advance through a strict regimen. Last year's recruits still do classroom work, studying everything from astronomy to orbital mechanics. Others have already moved to technical assignments. Guion Buford Jr. is writing an instruction manual for the third and fourth payloads, which consist of research projects sponsored by Canada, France, Belgium and Japan. Kathryn Sullivan, a geologist, has practiced shooting infra-red photographs from a B-57 jet. In the process, she set a new, unofficial altitude record for sustained flight by a woman: 63,300 feet. **Revised Opinion:** Bean says the women have performed well. In a simulated water landing, 50 trainees wearing parachutes took turns dropping off the back of a moving boat and trying to get their heads above water quickly. "Only two went to that position on the first try, without any coaching," says Bean. "Two women. I always thought we were letting women do what was instinctively a man's job. I don't think that anymore." Anna and Bill Fisher would agree. Anna, 31, joined the shuttle program in 1978; her husband was selected last June. As a result, she says, "Bill is still learning things I already know. Just last night, I was giving him some advice--on how I handle radio calls and set up things for doing an instrument-landing approach." Anna is drawing up plans for a work station outside the shuttle where an astronaut can repair some of the tiles that keep the craft cool during re-entry. At 5 feet 4 inches and 110 pounds, she occasionally has trouble with physical tasks. But when that happens, says Anna, "I have no hesitation in asking a man to give a hand." EILEEN KEERDOJA with LOUIS ALEXANDER in Houston NEWSWEEK/JANUARY 5, 1981 === Page 61 of 139 1/23/81 - Space Shuttle (NASA) PK - # Door knocks rocket awry CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A door from the top of a launch tower fell onto a Delta rocket Thursday, knocking the rocket from its upright position and into the tower, space agency officials said. No one was injured. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesmen said the damage was "considerable". The rocket was being prepared for a satellite launch March 12 when the accident, believed the first of its type in NASA history, occurred. The incident had no connection with the reusable space shuttle, which is scheduled for its first launch on March 17 from another pad. "Officials don't know how much damage has been done, and nobody knows whether the launch will have to be delayed," said NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. reg. 1/23/81 <u>Contacts</u>: Perhaps you thought my <u>warning</u> of Jan. 5, 1980, re NASA... had no validity. Read that letter of warning again! This incident is not targeted on the Space Shuttle. Not yet. But the <u>Power</u> is <u>there</u>... and <u>working</u>. Owens ( PK Man ) === Page 62 of 139 Dec. 29, 1980 Contacts: Just now (6 PM) the SI informed me that if the Base were not provided before the NASA Space Shuttle goes up, then they will destroy it! (80 billion dollars down the drain.) over Ted Owens SI warning re destruct! # U.S. shuttle transported for final tests Photo on Page One CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Bolted nose-up across a huge crawler-transporter, America's first space shuttle was mounted on its launch pad Monday for final tests before its maiden flight to space and back next year. Several thousand spectators and space program workers turned out to watch the orbiter Columbia's snail's-pace journey from its assembly building, marking a major milestone in the program. "If you don't believe how great this is, wait till March. Just wait till March," said John Young, the astronaut-pilot who is to command the Columbia's first flight, scheduled for March 14. The entire shuttle assembly -- orbiter, external tank and twin rocket boosters -- was rolled out on its mobile launching platform Monday morning after a five-week checkout in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building. The shuttle's 3½-mile trip to launch pad 39A took about eight hours, with the transporter crawling along a rock-covered road at 1 mph or less. Once there, a snag developed in transferring the mobile launching platform to which the shuttle was attached onto the pad. A NASA spokesman said a small steel access tower on the pad's surface had to be cut away. The entire operation was completed at 8:05 p.m. EST. "I'm looking forward to a very successful launch at the end of March," said Kennedy Space Center director Dick Smith, shortly after the 10 million-pound load began its trip to the pad. But Smith and George Page, the shuttle launch director, said they believed simulated countdowns, engine test firing and other work necessary at the pad would delay liftoff to the end of March or early April. The reusable craft is designed to be a space "freighter," ferrying satellites, scientists and various research projects into orbit and back to Earth. Young and co-pilot Robert Crippen, dressed in blue flight suits, were on a wind-blown platform Monday with officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other dignitaries. The next milestone for the $8 billion program, now three years behind schedule, will be a cluster-firing of the Columbia's three engines about Feb. 10. === Page 63 of 139 # Shuttle stakes high as rehearsal nears - 4 Projects PK - By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Standing on the launching pad here, a decade of fitful development behind it and the future of the nation's space program riding on its success, the space shuttle Columbia is primed for a critical ground test that could clear the way for the revolutionary flying machine's maiden orbital voyage, scheduled for early April. A countdown rehearsal, identical to the real thing in almost every respect, is set to begin after midnight Monday at the Kennedy Space Center. All systems in the spaceship, a 184-foot-tall cluster with the delta-wing orbiter Columbia mounted on a huge fuel tank and bracketed by two solid rocket boosters, will be activated and checked out. Fuel will be pumped in and the tanks pressurized. Then, if no unresolvable problems arise, Columbia's three main rocket engines will be ignited at 7:43 a.m. Wednesday, throttled to full power and shut down after only 20 seconds. The spaceship will be held to the pad by eight metal bolts while instruments monitor the engines' performance for any disturbing sputterings or vibrations, anything to suggest that they are less than ready for the planned three-day, 36-orbit test flight. Watching with the greatest personal interest will be the astronauts for the first mission, John W. Young and Capt. Robert L. Crippen of the Navy. Awaiting the results with them will be the thousands of engineers and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who have known so many frustrations -- the project is three years behind schedule and, depending on who is counting, at least $1.5 billion over budget -- and who cannot help but feel the pressures attending the first flight. Much is at stake, for these reasons: -- This will be the first time that American astronauts have ventured into space in almost six years, since the Apollo-Soyuz joint mission with the Soviet Union in July 1975. This will be the first time in the American space program that a new rocket system or a new craft has been flown into space by astronauts without at least one prior unmanned test. Chimpanzees preceded astronauts aboard Mercury, and automated shakedown flights were conducted first for Gemini, Apollo and the Saturn 5 moon rocket. -- The shuttle is the most complex flying machine ever built. A hybrid airplane-spacecraft, the shuttle orbiter is the first space vehicle designed to return to a runway landing so that it can be flown again and again. NASA predicts that this will eventually make going into space less expensive and more common. -- Columbia is intended to be the first of a fleet of shuttles, with four or five ships in operation by the mid-1980s as a versatile space transportation system replacing nearly all of the present throwaway rockets. The shuttles will haul satellites into orbit and service others and also serve as a platform from which scientists can conduct experiments. Future space operations by NASA, the Defense Department, other government agencies, the European Space Agency and other foreign customers will be increasingly dependent on the shuttles. Young and Crippen speak of the risks of the first shuttle flight with considerable reluctance. They are test pilots, and the acceptance of risk is a condition of employment and, it would seem, an expression of their being. "We obviously think it's safe or we wouldn't be flying it," Young said recently at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. As for taking up a spaceship that has not previously been tested unmanned, he said: "Every spacecraft before that we've flown unmanned the first time, we could have flown it manned and been successful." No one still active in the NASA astronaut corps has had more experience with more spacecraft than Young, who turned 50 in September. He was the pilot on the first manned test of the Gemini spacecraft in March 1965 and the following year commanded the Gemini 10 mission. He flew to the moon twice on Apollo, once with Apollo 10 in the lunar-orbiting flight that preceded the first landing and as the commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission. The 43-year-old Crippen, on the other hand, will be making his first trip into space, though he has been waiting since 1966. That was when he was selected as a research pilot for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which was canceled before anything got off the ground. He joined the NASA astronaut corps in 1969 and served on several support crews for the Skylab project. Org. 2/15/81 Org. 2/16/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Test postponed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A critical test-firing of the space shuttle Columbia's main engines has been pushed back 24 hours, until Thursday, because bad weather delayed last-minute repairs and preparations, a space agency spokesman said Sunday. Spokesman Mark Hess said Kennedy Space Center officials agreed at a one-hour meeting Sunday to postpone the test-firing until 7:45 a.m. Thursday. The countdown for the test is to begin at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Hess said. He said officials from National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C., were due at Cape Canaveral Monday to give the final go-ahead for the firing of the shuttle's three main engines. If final approval is given, a launch dress rehearsal will be conducted Monday evening, Hess said. The reusable shuttle, designed to blast off like a rocket and glide back to Earth like an airplane, is targeted for launch on April 7. The $8 billion program already is three years behind schedule. === Page 64 of 139 - SI Destruct - # Professor keeps eye on outer space law By DAVID SPEER JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- When the space shuttle rockets into space this spring, a University of Mississippi professor wants to make sure it doesn't run afoul of the law. Dr. Stephen Gorove of the Ole Miss law school is an expert on how domestic and international law applies to outer space. He has published two books on space law -- the most recent being "The Space Shuttle and the Law" -- and helps put out The Journal of Space Law, the only journal in the world devoted exclusively to the legal problems arising from trips beyond our world. "Really, the launching of the space shuttle will probably be the most significant event that has taken place since the beginning of the Space Age," Gorove said. "I think that the potentials are just enormous. "It is going to open up my field -- insurance, legal problems, criminal jurisdictions, civil liability. It's an enormous field which is opening up entirely new possibilities for government and industry." Gorove said the thorniest question of law, as it applies to the shuttle, is when and where the craft is considered a spaceship and where it might be considered an airplane. "Space law should be applied to the shuttle," he said. "In the current state of the technology, it is a spacecraft. If it is going to someday in the future fly as an aircraft flies, then we will have to take another look at it." The question of spacecraft or airplane is important because different laws apply to the two types of vehicles, he said. Space law is set down in four principal treaties, which set jurisdictional boundaries and liability limits and help officials deal with problems of liability in case of accidents and in insurance coverage, Gorove said. A fifth treaty -- the moon treaty -- is currently being considered by the United States. Although much of space law is taken up with civil responsibility, insurance and damage claims, the question of criminal jurisdiction also has been raised with manned space projects such as the space shuttle or future space colonies. obs. 2/17/81 # Test begins for shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A crucial countdown rehearsal began Monday night that will determine if the space shuttle Columbia is ready to carry two astronauts into orbit in April on its maiden voyage. The 2½-day test, already delayed 24 hours, was intended to exercise all elements of the shuttle's system for the first time. The countdown started at 7:15 p.m. EST when electrical power was fed into the reusable space vehicle. If there are no problems, the test will end at 7:45 a.m. EST Thursday when the count reaches zero and the space shuttle's three main engines are fired for 20 seconds while the vehicle remains locked on its launch pad. The shuttle is targeted for its first launch on April 7. - Shuttle PK - # Repairs may delay launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Repairs on the space shuttle's huge external tank are being delayed by modifications to the launch tower complex -- and the delay threatens to set back plans for an early April launch, space agency officials said Wednesday. A team of 20 specialists arrived here this week to begin repair work on insulation on the tank, damaged in a fuel-loading operation Jan. 20. But they can't begin the job, expected to take 13 days, until special access platforms are finished. Officials said the changes to the shuttle's launch tower were about a week behind schedule, threatening an early April launch date. The tank was damaged when extremely cold fuels were pumped in, causing an outer layer of insulation to come unglued from the tank's aluminum walls. The tank's 1.5 million pounds will provide the basic thrust to get the reusable shuttle into orbit. The repair work is expected to begin this weekend. Meanwhile, leaders of striking machinists and maintenance workers have scheduled another negotiating session with Boeing Services International and a federal mediator Thursday. Some 1,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off their jobs Feb. 20, minutes after the successful firing of the shuttle's main engines. They are in dispute with Boeing over cost-of-living increases tied to their salaries. obs. 4/5/81 === Page 65 of 139 - Shuttle PK - # Strike mars successful shuttle test By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Columbia, the flagship of America's space shuttle fleet, proved Friday that at long last it is ready to ferry men into orbit as its three powerful engines fired in a critical, 20-second test that spewed flame and thunder over the launch area. "The operation of the engines was fantastic," said launch director George Page. "It raises the confidence of everyone here that we can proceed toward a launch in early April." But the optimism was tempered when, right after the test, more than 800 machinist union members walked off their jobs at the shuttle launch pad in a labor dispute with the Boeing Co. The strike, which came without warning, initially jeopardized some post-firing operations, including defueling and purging fuel tanks. Richard Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center, said the machinists performed vital support operations and a prolonged strike could force postponement of Columbia's planned April 7 launch date. Smith said Boeing has a strike plan including the use of outside help to do the machinists' jobs, but until it is implemented he could not forecast the impact of the walkout. oreg 2/21/81 The machinists timed the strike to gain maximum attention. They said they walked out after the firing so they wouldn't be made scapegoats if the exercise was delayed. But the labor problem was forgotten for a while Friday as space agency officials savored Columbia's success in clearing the last major hurdle on its way to changing the way America operates in space. It was a bright spot after a series of technical problems that delayed Columbia's orbital debut more than two years. "I'm still a little dazed at this point that those final hours of the countdown went so smoothly," Smith said. - Shuttle PK - # Shuttle test off schedule CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Launch crews fell far behind Tuesday in the countdown rehearsal for the space shuttle Columbia, raising the possibility a crucial test-firing of the ship's engines might be delayed by yet another day. The test firing, set for Thursday, will determine whether -- after delays of more than two years -- the Columbia is finally ready to carry two astronauts into space in April. Project officials called a hasty meeting Tuesday night after the rehearsal, which started Monday night, fell six hours behind schedule. They announced later they were adding an additional 8-hour, built-in hold in hopes the firing can still be conducted Thursday. oreg 2/18/81 - Shuttle PK - oreg J. 2/21/81 # Strike perils shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Labor unrest suddenly has become the primary threat to an early April launch of the space shuttle Columbia, the rocket plane grounded for more than two years by technical trouble. Fifteen minutes after the Columbia passed a crucial 20-second test firing Friday, hundreds of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off their jobs at the Kennedy Space Center. - Shuttle PK - # Strike imperils launch of U.S. space shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Union and company officials met with a federal mediator for 3 1/2 hours Monday and then recessed talks over a machinists' strike which threatens to delay the space shuttle Columbia's first flight. The parties "are so far apart" the mediator recessed negotiations to let them reconsider, said Al Evenson, labor relations manager and chief negotiator for Boeing Services International. Another session was expected in about a week. Over 1,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers went on strike Friday after the successful testing of the shuttle's main engines. The strikers seek higher wages, a cost-of-living allowance and better insurance and retirement benefits. Boeing has assured Kennedy Space Center officials the walkout will not delay the April liftoff of the reusable space vehicle, which is designed to carry satellites, scientific projects and astronauts into orbit, then return to Earth on airplane-type wings. Company supervisors and others will fill in for the absent workers. Evenson said over 100 supervisors have arrived from other Boeing operations. "In addition, we plan to hire as many local workers as we need to continue operations," he said, adding he could not estimate how many would be hired. Space Center Director Richard Smith said Friday that the walkout "jeopardized" the timetable of the shuttle, already two years behind schedule. "We feel we'll be able to meet the launch schedule and support shuttle activities," Evenson said Monday. The machinists, who earn an average of $10.50 an hour, control generators, the loading of fuel and the purging of fuel lines. Boeing is also responsible for building and maintaining access platforms on the launch pad. The most recent machinists' strike against Boeing was three years ago and lasted 111 days. oreg 2/24/81 === Page 66 of 139 # Plagued by costly delays, first space shu One First of three articles By PATRICK YOUNG 3/1/81 Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON -- The United States is looking ahead to a time when astronauts roar into Earth orbit almost routinely. But that all depends on the space shuttle -- a craft 12 years in the making, two years late, 27 percent over budget, untested in space and plagued by problems. Columbia, the first shuttle intended for inhospitable space, awaits its maiden voyage from launch complex 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its crew -- astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen -- also await the flight, now scheduled no earlier than April 7. They repeatedly express the view that Columbia will carry them without serious mishap through their 54 1/2-hour mission. "We obviously think it's safe or we wouldn't be doing it," Young says. It is not a view shared universally. During its development, the shuttle has suffered well-publicized problems with its main engines and the "tiles" that protect it from the intense heat of re-entry. Despite Columbia's successful engine test Feb. 20, some still wonder whether these troubles have been completely corrected. The shuttle, by any standard, is a craft bold in concept and remarkable in advanced technology. The approximate size and weight of a DC-9 jetliner, it is designed to roar into space like a rocket and land like a glider, time and time again. It is, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration likes to boast, the world's first reusable spacecraft. With it, the agency envisions frequent flights and space feats impossible with expendable rockets and the one-use-only craft of the past -- the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules. "The shuttle will turn out to be much more than any of us can project right now," predicts Alan M. Lovelace, NASA's acting administrator. "Once we successfully fly, it will provide so many opportunities for growth and applications that I think even the most visionary people will turn out to have underestimated it." The Pentagon, too, is counting on the shuttle's success. And while people in and out of NASA familiar with the craft express confidence that the shuttle will succeed, they realize a disastrous failure would cost far more than the lives of two astronauts. "The shuttle is the mainstay of everything we have coming up in space in the next 10 years," says Jerry Grey of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "NASA has so much riding on the shuttle that a major failure could mean the end of the civilian space program." "That is an extreme view, and I don't think it will happen. But the public is not ready for a failure. If the shuttle should fail, it would remove all of NASA's credibility about its ability to operate." NASA officials don't see their future as quite that bleak. But they acknowledge that a disaster would provoke a major reassessment of NASA and the shuttle program by the public and Congress. Over the years, NASA has earned a reputation for solving the most delicate of space problems -- from guiding spacecraft to pinpoint rendezvous with distant planets to bringing home safely the three Apollo 13 astronauts after an explosion crippled their craft on the way to the moon. Now it faces another difficult challenge in bringing the shuttle to its full potential. "NASA has staked its future for a decade on this so far untested vehicle," says Noel Hinners, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and a former associate administrator at NASA. "Over the next few years it has got to make it work." In a nation seemingly rediscovering its pride of nationhood, the space shuttle could prove symbolic of a new beginning. It could put Americans back in space, working regularly in an environment dominated for nearly six years by Soviet cosmonauts. The last three American astronauts in space rendezvoused in Earth orbit with two Soviet cosmonauts in 1975. Since then, the Russians have sent aloft more than three dozen humans. Cosmonauts have logged more than twice the 22,493 hours American astronauts have spent in space, and two Russians hold the record for the most time on a single flight -- 185 days. "I feel a bit embarrassed nationally by how the Soviets have outrun us, given our resources," says a university scientist long active in the space program. If the United States is to re-establish its pre-eminence in manned-space operations, the shuttle is vital. The nation has no other way to launch astronauts, and it would take a decade to develop a new manned craft. The shuttle concept evolved from a "what next?" study that began in September 1969, two months after the first manned landing on the moon. Such missions as a manned flight to Mars were considered and rejected by a presidential committee. The wave of the nation's space future, the committee suggested, should be a reusable spacecraft. NASA spent two years on cost, engineering and design studies. The project won President Nixon's approval in 1972. Under pressure from the White House to keep costs low, the space agency estimated the shuttle's development costs at $5.1 billion in 1971 dollars. The program's projected cost through the first four shuttle flights is now $9.6 billion in 1981 dollars, equal to $6.5 billion in 1971 dollars -- a cost overrun after inflation of 27 percent. During most of the 1970s and even now, much of NASA's financial resources went to the shuttle, leaving other space programs wanting. "Science and applications suffered a great deal by the fact the shuttle was the central focus of the space program; that is a matter of firm fact," says James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, discoverer of the Earth-girdling radiation belts that bear his name. Among the projects postponed or delayed because of the shuttle's costs: Galileo, an orbiter and atmospheric probe to Jupiter; a twin-craft look at the sun's two poles called the International Solar Polar Mission; and the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar, a craft to Note: Ten billion down the drain if the five million Bra does not appear. Gwen === Page 67 of 139 - Shuttle PK - # Comeback In Space **America's first shuttle into space could have a big impact on future exploration--and on energy, science and military strategy, too.** KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. America's comeback in space rests heavily on the stubby wings of a new-style spaceship named Columbia, poised now for its maiden voyage. Already two years behind schedule and still facing critical tests before its launch, Columbia carries the hopes of a nation that once ruled supreme in space, but which has not sent astronauts into orbit for half a decade. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials feel that the delays have been used well because Columbia is the most sophisticated flying machine ever built. The program has cost 8.8 billion dollars so far--3 billion over budget--and three more shuttlecraft are being constructed. **New era.** "If the orbiter flies as we expect, then America will have the best spacecraft in the world," said one space official. "It will carry us into a new era, a revolution in space." Columbia is the first element in a space-transportation system that experts believe one day will shuttle people into and out of orbit on a routine basis. It is expected to turn space from a pioneering frontier into a settled domain of human activity. The shuttle will make it possible to transfer cargo to and from space at a fraction of the cost of old, expendable spacecraft. Experts forecast it will lead to factories and laboratories and, one day, perhaps, even cities in space. The first shot in this revolution comes in April when the Columbia will be launched from here on a 54½-hour, 36-orbit flight that will be a crucial test of the space-shuttle concept. For political reasons, in this age of cut-to-the-bone budgets, the first flight of Columbia may be the most important mission ever for NASA. Should the craft experience a major failure, space officials worry that it would be difficult to get from a cost-conscious administration and a skeptical Congress the funds needed to recoup. "This is probably the toughest flight we've ever had," said Robert Thompson, manager of the space-shuttle-program office. "It's very important to the nation." If shuttle flight is a success, man may take advantage of the environment of space, where there is no air or gravity, for unique jobs. Already planned is a space telescope that will orbit at 310 miles, far above the obscuring influence of clouds and smog. It will give a view of the stars 50 times sharper than anything on earth and open vistas never before seen. The shuttle will be able to haul into space the building blocks for vast structures where people could live. Many industrial processes that are impossible on earth can be performed in orbit. As one astronaut noted: "We could move the filth of our factories out of earth's envelope and into limitless space." Space factories may be able to produce useful metals and alloys, crystals of unique purity and size for the electronic industry, and medicines impossible to make on earth. Communications satellites, for the first time, will be recoverable. As a result, they could be built more cheaply. If they broke, the shuttle could return them to earth for repairs. This alone may save millions of dollars. For the U.S. military, the shuttle is considered essential. It will launch navigation and spy satellites vital for defense in an uncertain world. Even energy problems could find a solution with the shuttle. It could be used to dispose nuclear-energy wastes in space. Or shuttle crews could construct a satellite to harvest sunlight, beam it to earth as microwaves, which could then be converted to electricity. For a craft that carries such formidable responsibility, the space shuttle lacks the grace and sleek lines of a modern airship. On the launch pad, the shuttle system resembles an ungainly silo flanked by huge pointed candles. The winged orbiter clings to the silo side, almost as an afterthought. **Two years late, but on the launch pad at last, the Columbia is being prepared for an April mission.** **Huge fuel tank.** The silo is a massive tank that will be loaded with 1.6 million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen to fuel the main rocket engines aboard the orbiter during launch. The candles actually are two powerful solid-fuel rocket engines that, with the main engines, will hurtle the spacecraft into orbit. The solid-fuel engines burn for only 2½ minutes but consume 1 million pounds of propellant and travel almost 180 miles. Then they are jettisoned, parachuted to the ocean and recovered for reuse. Columbia itself is a gawky, delta-winged craft that fits well its nickname of "Dumbo, the space truck." The crew, which can include up to seven astronauts, rides in a double-deck cab that, by Apollo standards, is spacious. The backbone of the craft is a 60-foot-long cargo bay that can hold up to 65,000 pounds. The 122-foot-long orbiter is a combi- U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 23, 1981 === Page 68 of 139 nation of spacecraft and airplane. Although it is launched by rocket engines, as are conventional spacecraft, it returns to earth to land on a runway, as does an airplane. While other spaceships are used once and discarded, Columbia will fly repeatedly for 100 missions or more. From the complex of rocket engines in its stern to the electronic brains in its bow, the space-shuttle orbiter incorporates the most advanced flight technology yet developed. Its three main rocket engines are more complex than the Saturn engines that launched Apollo missions to the moon and pound for pound are five times as powerful. Yet the shuttle engines have a precision that was undreamed of in the Apollo days. They are controlled with a throttle, and every part is monitored. A computer, for instance, tests each valve 50 times a second to make sure the rocket operates smoothly. Ten years of research and testing went into development of a tile shield that covers the underside of the spacecraft like an overcoat of bricks. The tiles, made of a foam silicate, protect the spacecraft from the 2,000 degrees of heat generated during the return from orbit to earth. They are so efficient at dissipating heat that they can be handled by the bare hand within seconds after glowing cherry red. But the tiles are also fragile. They can be dented easily with a fist, and workmen must wear white gloves when installing them, a tedious job that takes hours for each piece. There are more than 30,000 tiles, and no two are alike. Each was designed for a specific place on the hull and must be installed within tolerances of thousandths of an inch. Five computers on the Columbia monitor every system aboard the spacecraft. Astronauts can order them to give reports on a televisionlike screen in the cockpit. The computers also guide the spacecraft during liftoff and re-entry, the most critical times of each mission. Theoretically, according to engineers, # From Launch to Launch: How Space Shuttle Will Work Orbiter flies in space for up to 30 days. Rocket engines Cargo bay carries 32½ tons External fuel tank is discarded 10 minutes after launch. Crew compartment can carry 7 astronauts 2. Solid-fueled rocket engines are jettisoned 2½ minutes after launch and parachuted to the ocean for recovery. 5. Re-enters atmosphere; tile shield glows red from heat. 1. Launch. 6. Lands on runway. 7. Refurbished in 2 weeks for new mission. U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 23, 1981 59 === Page 69 of 139 the shuttle orbiter could be brought to an earth landing without the touch of an astronaut, though this is unlikely to be tried. While in space, the orbiter is controlled by small rocket thrusters. In the atmosphere, it is guided by flaps on wing and tail, as is an airplane. When Columbia is returning from orbit, it enters a region of hypersonic speeds where no winged craft has flown before and control is uncertain. Says Christopher C. Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Center: "There's no wind tunnel in the world that can test all of the Mach numbers [supersonic speeds] the orbiter will encounter." This unknown factor substantially raises the risks of the first mission. Experts admit that they are apprehensive about this part of the first flight and will breathe more easily when it's over. "Get me beyond that first flight, and the risks are a lot less than going to the moon," says Kraft. "On the cheap." Development of the shuttle system followed a tortuous path of problems and low funding. NASA officials admit they tried to build the shuttle "on the cheap" and that some of the short cuts in design and testing proved disastrous. The tiles were found to be inadequate for the stresses they would confront and had to be strengthened. A system for bonding the tiles to the hull did not work, requiring months of redevelopment. Rocket engines exploded and burned with frightful regularity, and a research team had to be called in to correct the trouble. The problems continue. A test loading of supercold propellants in the silolike tank last month caused part of an insulation blanket to separate from the tank's hull. The problem delayed a final rocket test firing until this week and caused the first launch date to be pushed back by weeks. These and all the other problems are being solved, but no one will know how well until the gray, early hours of launch day in April. On that day, the flight crew, veteran astronaut John Young and rookie Robert Crippen, will strap themselves into the cockpit, their windows looking straight up into the Florida sky. Ninety minutes later, pumps start propellant flowing at the rate of half a ton per second, and the main rocket engines burst to life. They strain against lock arms for 6 seconds as the engines build up thrust. The whole shuttlecraft rocks 19 inches forward, and the astronauts, if they choose to, can watch the launch tower move slowly past. Then it rocks back, and in that moment the solid rocket engines ignite, providing 5 million pounds in additional thrust. Almost instantly, the craft is streaking toward space. In 2½ minutes, it is 27 miles up and 150 miles down range. The solid rockets fall away, and the main engines continue to fire. At about 10 minutes, the main engine propellant is expended, and the large tank, the only part of the system not reused, drops away to burn up in its fall to earth. Two smaller engines ignite, fed by on-board propellant, and the Columbia is drilled into orbit. For two days, Young and Crippen test systems aboard the spacecraft, including a critical exercise of the large cargo-bay doors. Then, while the craft is over the Indian Ocean, they fire the two small rocket engines to slow their flight. This drops them out of orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. Columbia is precisely angled to take the intense heat caused by atmospheric friction. Tiles on its hull glow red. There are no propulsion engines running. Columbia is now a glider plane, using its immense speed to fly. Within minutes, it crosses two oceans and approaches the U.S. mainland. Young rocks the craft left and right to lose speed as it streaks over the coastline south of Monterey, Calif. The astronaut guides the craft over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., makes a steep left turn and aims for a landing on a runway in a dry-lake bed. The wheels touch at 200 miles an hour, and the craft rolls thousands of feet before coming to rest. At that point, says a space engineer, "We'll all breathe again." - [ ] By PAUL RECER, who also wrote the next article # Enter the Specialist-- A New Breed Of Astronaut **In the shuttle era of space travel about to open, the military-type elite of past glories is making room for others--including women.** JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Tex. Shannon Lucid is a 38-year-old matron with three children, a house in the suburbs and a fondness for gourmet cooking. She's also an astronaut. John Lounge wears glasses, enjoys playing chess and reading history, and one day hopes to become a construction worker. He's an astronaut, too. William and Anna Fisher are physicians who specialize in the emergency treatment of people injured in auto accidents, bar fights and domestic disturbances. They also are astronauts. These and scores of others are members of a new style of astronaut corps that is preparing to lead America into a new era in space. They are unlike any group ever before selected. No more are American astronauts strictly an elite company of military-trained test pilots assigned mainly to Astronauts Robert Crippen, left, and John Young spend hours in the cockpit of Columbia testing systems and practicing for their crucial mission. 60 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT === Page 70 of 139 Important Note: (I phoned this communication sent me by my UFOs to Rogo.) Owens The SIs are going to destroy everything in orbit around the Earth!!! Satellites; all; everything!! Owens 3/7/81 === Page 71 of 139 Projects PK - "Power" Attack # Blackout affects 1.5 million in Utah, nearby states By RON BAKER SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A power failure struck all of Utah and parts of Idaho and Wyoming Thursday, knocking out electrical service to more than 1.5 million people, cutting off radio and television stations and disrupting telephone service. Ski lifts, elevators and traffic signals also lost power during the blackout, which occurred at 11:38 a.m. MST. By 6:30 p.m., 95 percent of Utah Power & Light Co.'s 450,000 customers had their electricity back, according to David Mead, a spokesman for the company. By that time, five of the company's 12 operating coal-powered generating units also were back on line, he said. One man was injured in Provo when he pried open the door of a stuck elevator and fell four floors, dislocating both knees. Hospitals quickly switched to standby power. A spokesman for University Medical Center in Salt Lake City said an open heart operation continued even as the lights flickered. Further operations scheduled for Thursday were postponed. Temperatures in the region were cold, with the afternoon reading at Salt Lake City in the 30s. Many people use natural gas for heat, but the electrical failure meant furnace fans were out of service. The Western Area Power Administration blamed the blackout on a downed 230,000-volt power line extending from Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona to Sigurd, Utah. But Mead said the downed line, near Antimony, Utah, couldn't be solely responsible. "It may have been a contributing factor, but I can't believe it would cause all this," he said. Another UP&L spokesman, Grant Pendleton, said that after the system was fully restored, engineers would be able "to do the detective work" necessary to find the cause of the outage. That could take a day or more, Pendleton said. Mead said the utility was bringing in power from neighboring utilities in Idaho and Arizona to restart its six coal-powered plants. Automatic safety devices shut down the plants, he said. Some business telephones were knocked out of service when phone exchanges, which depend on local power, went down. oreg. 1/9/81 "Power" Attack PK 40 die in hailstorm ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- At least 40 persons were killed by a fierce six-minute hailstorm that flattened brick homes and uprooted trees and electricity poles in a northeast Pakistan community, official reports said Saturday. 3/7/81 Associated Press Laserphoto BLACKOUT -- Utah Power & Light Co. officials try to find cause of power blackout affecting 1.5 million people in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. === Page 72 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # TVA reactor's alarms fail in control room CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Civil defense authorities were put on alert for about an hour Monday when operators at the Sequoyah nuclear power plant said they had lost electricity to control room alarm systems. The alert was declared over at about 3:30 p.m. EST when the Tennessee Valley Authority, operator of the plant, said it had completely restored power to the alarms, which would sound in case of a breakdown or other plant emergency. TVA spokesmen said similar power failures have occurred twice within the past few weeks at the $1.9 billion plant north of Chattanooga. None of the outages presented a major problem because the plant's reactor is out of operation while maintenance work is being done, said spokesman John Schlatter. Monday's power failure did not affect the control room instruments themselves, Schlatter said. "The instruments still worked. The operators could still read the instruments, but the alarms to the instruments were off," he said. "It's just an alert that something is not exactly right," Larry Suiter, deputy director in Nashville for the state Office of Emergency Preparedness, said. He said he was unable to say what caused the power failures. Suiter said civil defense authorities in Hamilton and Bradley counties were notified. Sequoyah is located in northern Hamilton County about 15 miles north of Chattanooga, and the area within a 10-mile emergency planning radius of the plant cuts into Bradley County. Last Wednesday, a site emergency was declared when an operator incorrectly opened a valve that allowed radioactive water to fall on 14 plant workers inside the reactor building. TVA officials said the operator misunderstood a verbal order. That emergency was declared over after about 30 minutes and health checks showed the men had suffered no harmful radiation contamination, TVA said. The federal utility's plant generates electricity for a TVA network that serves 2.7 million customers in Tennessee and parts of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. oreg. 2/17/81 - "Power" PK - # Nuclear plant leaks BORSSELE, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch nuclear power plant was closed down for repairs after some "slightly radioactive" steam escaped through defective packing around a manhole cover, a spokesman for the Zeeland electricity authority said Wednesday. He said there was no danger in what he described as a minor leakage and the steam was confined within the plant, a 465-megawatt unit feeding power into the national grid. The spokesman said the steam leakage occurred Monday during the starting-up process after an eight-week closure to replace nuclear fuel and carry out a general overhaul of the seven-year-old plant. The plant is expected to be operating again by the weekend, he said. oreg. 4/5/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Storm causes flooding along coast Oregon coastal rivers were receding Monday night after a major storm front swept across Western Oregon earlier in the day, causing some minor flooding. Another winter storm was expected to hit the northern coast about noon Tuesday, and the National Weather Service said the area probably would remain in jeopardy of flooding through Wednesday. Monday's storm brought gusty winds and balmy temperatures to much of the state. The mercury hit an unseasonable 62 degrees in Portland between 3 and 4 p.m., a record for the date. The state's warmest city was The Dalles, which recorded 63 degrees. Occasional showers with partial clearing was forecast for Tuesday morning in Portland, with heavy rains later in the day. High temperatures around 60 were again expected. Monday's storm resulted in several downed power lines in the Portland area, which left several thousand persons in Aloha, Cedar Hills and Milwaukie without electricity for brief periods in the late afternoon. In Tillamook County, where some rivers went over their banks early Monday, streams were receding slowly by evening and flooding pressures had eased considerably. Mary Priss, Tillamook County director of emergency services, said Monday night that the Wilson, Trask, Kilchis and Tillamook rivers were going down as rains slackened. She said there was still some high water at the edges of U.S. 101 north of Tillamook, but the highway was passable. At one time Monday, the highway was covered with upwards of 5 inches of water. County officials had been bracing for an expected new storm Monday night, but Ms. Priss said the front was approaching slower than expected and would not reach the area until about noon Tuesday. About 250 homes and businesses lost electricity for about an hour Monday morning in Tillamook when winds gusting to 55 mph knocked tree limbs down on power lines. The Coast Guard lighthouse at Yaquina Head also suffered a 90-minute outage, but emergency generating equipment kept the light in operation. In Washington state, six rivers were expected to crest Monday night above flood stage, but authorities planned no evacuations and property damage was seen as minimal. Flood warnings were in effect mostly for nearby fields and roads -- for the Elwha, Satsop, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Snohomish and Chehalis rivers. A Seattle forecaster for the National Weather Service said that although heavier rains had stopped by late Monday, a new storm could continue the threat of flooding Tuesday and Wednesday. The forecaster said Monday's rainfall was far less intense than the Christmas weekend rains that caused $9 million property damage in Snohomish, Cowlitz and Skagit counties. The Cowlitz and Toutle rivers near Mount St. Helens had considerable rises early Monday, but by late afternoon had crested and were receding fairly rapidly. ly. oreg. 2/17/81 === Page 73 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # 'Destruction derby' on I-5 By BENNY EVANGELISTA JR. of The Oregonian staff 1/4/81 A Clackamas man was killed in a traffic accident in East Multnomah County Tuesday morning, and early morning commuters on Interstate 5 across the Columbia River found that scores of other accidents caused by black ice and fog had backed up traffic as far as Hazel Dell, Wash. Heavy fog was again forecast for Wednesday in the Portland area. About 50 vehicles were involved in the Tuesday accidents on Interstate 5, including a truck leaking cold liquid nitrogen. In another accident, an ESCO Corp. tractor-trailer jackknifed and spilled sand containing a small amount of low-level radioactive zirconium onto the Sauvie Island Bridge roadway. Officials said the spill was not dangerous. At about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, Norman Neal Howze, 22, of Clackamas was killed when a pickup truck he was driving went out of control on a curve as it traveled west on Northeast Glisan Street, shearing a utility pole at the base near Northeast 205th Avenue and ejecting Howze, said Bart Whalen, Multnomah County sheriff's department spokesman. The utility pole held a Portland General Electric Co. local feeder line and power was knocked out in the immediate area for about 46 minutes, said PGE spokesman Bill Babcock. Later on Interstate 5, traffic had been slowed, possibly by a number of small, unreported accidents, before the first major wreck, a multi-car accident near North Marine Drive, was reported at about 5:50 a.m., said Lt. Dan Noelle, Portland police public information officer. As Officer Vernon Bowers arrived, his patrol car was struck by another vehicle, Noelle said. Traffic slowed even further when a motorcycle fell over, and other drivers stopped to help, Noelle said. Officer Dave Kline, who came to help Bowers with the first accident, had his patrol car struck by a truck over the Columbia Slough at about 6 a.m., Noelle said. At around 6:05 a.m., an Airco Industrial Gases tractor-trailer, hauling about 5,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen to Boise, Idaho, changed lanes to avoid the snarl ahead and collided with another truck, said Bob Fletcher, Airco distribution superintendent. Fletcher said truck driver John Nolten stopped the truck about 200 yards down the road, where the liquid nitrogen leaked from a damaged valve onto the highway. The nitrogen created a visible vapor, which "intensified the fog already there," according to Noelle. A third car changed lanes, but a fourth, driven by Ellis H. McMillan, 81, collided with the second car, which then hit the first car, Noelle said. McMillan was cited for following too close to the car in front of him, Noelle said. The drivers were treated for minor injuries and released from nearby hospitals. At about 9:30 a.m., the ESCO Corp. tractor-trailer carrying zirconium sand slipped on ice and jackknifed while crossing the Sauvie Island Bridge, said Whalen. No injuries were reported, but sheriff's deputies were concerned that the radioactivity in the "three to four yards" of sand spilled would pose a danger to the area. However, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, which was contacted about how to handle the spill, and ESCO said the amount of radioactivity in the zirconium was so small that it did not qualify as hazardous waste. "At that point it became a destruction derby," Noelle said. Police estimated that about 50 vehicles in both directions, including about four other tractor-trailers, were involved in accidents of some kind, bringing traffic to a grinding halt for some time, Noelle said. On Interstate 84 at about 9:05 a.m., three persons were slightly injured in a three-car chain reaction pileup in clear weather and dry roads, Noelle said. A car driven by June S. Kloeppel, 56, slowed near Northeast 21st Avenue before reaching flares set for a stalled car that had been cleared, Noelle said. A second car driven driven by Julie Ann Bradley, 20, slowed behind the first car, Noelle said. "Power & Rain Attack" # The nation Oreg. 12/9/80 # Ice storm kills seven By The Associated Press An ice storm blamed for at least seven deaths caused a "demolition derby" on Midwest highways Monday and left thousands without electricity in subfreezing weather from Oklahoma to Minnesota. The snow and freezing rain that moved across the Plains over the weekend formed a glaze of ice an inch thick that tore down power lines and made driving impossible in many areas. Trucks jackknifed into ditches, and stalled cars were abandoned where they stood. Cars literally slid out of driveways with the slightest push. Hundreds of schools were closed and several interstate highways were impassable. Two Nebraska teen-agers were killed at Waterloo Saturday night when their car went out of control on icy U.S. 275, authorities said. One-vehicle accidents on slick roads in Otoe, Lincoln and Hall counties Sunday claimed three lives, and a truck driver was killed Monday when his rig skidded out of control on icy Interstate 80 in Omaha. As the ice storm moved into north-central Kansas Sunday, Orville Hess, 33, of Halstead was killed when his car skidded on the icy pavement of Interstate 70 east of Goodland and rolled over. - 4 Projects PK - # Electricity restored SHERIDAN (AP) - Electricity was out for less than 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon in a wide area southwest of Salem. Sheridan District Manager Roger Meyer of Portland General Electric Co. said the outage, covering about 500 square miles, affected 8,000 customers. He said homes and businesses in Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde were without power for 12 minutes, and customers in Amity and Dayton were without power for 21 minutes. Meyer said an undetermined number of customers in the Coast Range between Sheridan and Lincoln City also lost power. Meyer said the outage apparently was caused by work on a Bonneville Power Administration line that disrupted service at PGE substations in Amity, Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde. Oreg. 1/29/81 === Page 74 of 139 oreg 2/17/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Flood waters recede; new storm due soon A lull between storms allowed flood-swollen rivers across the Pacific Northwest to recede somewhat early Tuesday, but the National Weather Service warned that the flood threat is not over. The next Pacific weather system was reported racing toward the coast, packing more rainfall. At the same time, gale warnings were expected to be flying again and the combination of wind and sea conditions was expected to create mid-day high tides about a foot above normal. The high tide at Tillamook Tuesday - highest for the month - was forecast for 8.9 feet at 11:16 a.m. Most Oregon rivers with flood potential had crested or were expected to crest Tuesday morning and the weather service hydrologist at Seattle said a similar condition should prevail in Washington state. The Wilson River at Tillamook was still over its banks, but the sheriff's office said there were no problems with the high water. Gusty winds Monday afternoon and evening caused a few reported minor power outages in the Portland metropolitan area. One which effected the Cedar Hills Shopping Center lasted from 3:10 to 5:02 p.m., Monday. An estimated 250 homes and businesses were without power for an hour early Monday in Tillamook. The Yaquina Head Coast Guard lighthouse also lost its primary power for a brief period, but operated with emergency generating equipment. - 4 Projects PK - # Fallen limb cuts power Two power outages apparently caused by a tree limb falling on a feeder line left 1,500 West Linn homes without electricity for about two hours Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman for Portland General Electric Co. said. The first outage occurred near the Marylhurst Education Center at 5:57 p.m. and affected about 750 homes, spokeswoman Sheri Anderson said. The second outage occurred about 6:30 p.m. and was related to the first, Ms. Anderson added. Another 750 homes along a one-mile stretch of Oregon 43 were affected, she said. oreg 2/25/81 - 4 Projects PK - oreg 2/21/81 # All power nearly restored SEATTLE (AP) - Almost all Western Washington residents who lost electrical service in a major windstorm Thursday had their power restored by Friday evening, authorities said. The pre-dawn storm Thursday knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers in the Puget Sound region. However, by Friday evening only 175 customers in Puget Sound Power & Light Co.'s service area were without electricity, including 100 people in Thurston County, 50 in Bremerton and 25 in Pierce County, said utility spokeswoman Debbie Miller. In Seattle, City Light said fewer than 50 customers were without power Friday. Tacoma City Light estimated fewer than 2,000 customers were without service early in the day, and the Snohomish County Public Utility District had restored service to all but a dozen customers. The windstorm also toppled two radio and television towers in Tacoma and claimed one life before vanishing as quickly as it came. KTPS-TV, Channel 62, and KTOY-FM, both public stations, remained off the air Friday. KTPS manager Bob Slingland said limited television service might resume next week. Meanwhile, flood warnings remained in effect Friday for the Chehalis and lower Yakima rivers, with a forecast of increasing rain. During Thursday's storm, the National Weather Service clocked winds gusting at 40 to 50 mph in the Seattle area and 60 to 65 mph gusts at Hood Canal. - 4 Projects PK - # New England storm upsets power, traffic By United Press International Strong winds raked New England Thursday, swirling the more than 2 feet of snow from a storm that knocked out power to thousands of homes and snarled traffic, but was "gold from the sky" for ski resort owners who thought the season was lost. The storm, centered over the Atlantic east of Cape Cod, Mass., launched its second-day attack Thursday with rain, snow and high winds. Gale warnings were issued for the coast from Maine to Massachusetts. Travel advisories were posted for most of southern New England and a storm warning stretched up to Maine. Another storm gathering in the Southwest brought thundershowers and hail to California and snow in the mountains of California and Nevada. More than a foot of snow fell in the Sierra Nevadas Wednesday as a chilling storm that dumped rain and hail in the San Francisco Bay area moved inland. oreg 2/26/81 === Page 75 of 139 - Power & Rain Attack - # Pacific storm batters region (4 Projects PK) 2/20/81 By JOHN PAINTER JR. of The Oregonian staff A Pacific storm hammered the Pacific Northwest from Eugene to Seattle early Thursday, killing a Seattle man and causing power outages and extensive damage throughout the region. Bradford Brown Felton, 31, died of head injuries suffered in the storm, Seattle police said. A King County deputy medical examiner said Brown died after he climbed naked to the roof of his apartment about 3 a.m. Thursday and was blown off, falling 40 feet to the pavement. Brown was "apparently intoxicated," the medical examiner's report said. Rain, wind and lightning blew away tree limbs, set off burglar alarms and caused minor flooding and widespread annoyance, but no serious damage was reported locally. As late as Thursday afternoon, lightning, hail and winds up to 40 mph were reported in East Multnomah County. In the Portland metropolitan area, pre-dawn winds gusting to more than 60 mph dropped tree limbs on electric utilities' feeder and tap lines, causing widespread power outages. Lightning strikes also blew out fuses on power poles. The two biggest Portland-area outages were in Clark County, Wash., where 11,350 customers lost power about 2:45 a.m. when high winds downed a power line supplying four substations. That outage encompassed the Vancouver Mall, Hazel Dell and Minnehaha areas. HERE The second outage affected 5,700 customers, mostly commercial, including the Clark County Public Utility District building in downtown Vancouver. Camas and Washougal, Wash., also suffered larger outages than did Portland. The outages in Portland ranged in size from a downed feeder line in the Northeast Killingsworth Street area, which left about 450 homes without electricity, to severed tap lines that darkened one to 24 homes each. Among the Portland victims of power losses was the National Weather Service, whose teletype service was inoperable for about five hours. Spokesmen for Portland General Electric Co. and Pacific Power & Light Co. said the outages were widespread. Homes in the West Hills and parts of Washington County were dark, as were residences in North, Northeast and Southeast Portland. There were also blackouts in Salem, Gresham, Brightwood, Zigzag and Government Camp, according to Dave Eagon, a PGE spokesman. He added that at 2:30 a.m., 50,500 PGE customers were without power. Repair crews were on the street about 3 a.m., and spokesmen said power was restored quickly. The major damage in the Portland area was at Holly Farm Mall in Oak Grove, where winds ripped about 6,500 square feet of colored metal roofing off the upper portion of the structure. Throughout the metropolitan area there were reports of limbs down and windows blown out, but the incidents were not extensive. To the north, the storm's toll was greater. More than 100,000 persons were without electricity in Western Washington early Thursday, and winds gusting to 65 mph blew down two broadcast towers in Tacoma. Walla Walla reported gusts to 75 mph. The weather service reported minor lowland flooding along streams in Western Oregon and Washington. The Army Corps of Engineers said an access road bridge was washed away at a dam project on the Toutle River near Mount St. Helens, but there was no damage to equipment. Along the coast, traffic reportedly was snarled by mudslides on roads in Lincoln and Tillamook counties. Oregon 6 near Tillamook was reduced to one-lane traffic because of a slide. In Portland, forecasters predicted decreased winds Friday, with a slight chance of showers. Sunny, dry weather was expected for the weekend. The high Friday was expected from 55 to 60 degrees. - power Attack PK - # Copter makes forced landing Oreg. 3/1/81 A helicopter carrying two men to measure snow levels made an emergency landing in Mount Hood National Forest Saturday when the engine "disintegrated," a Multnomah County sheriff's spokesman said. Neither man was injured when the five-seat craft, owned by Columbia Helicopter Service of Aurora, landed at about 12:17 p.m. about six miles southwest of Bonneville Dam in the Larch Mountain area, said pilot Dwight Reber, 38, of Aurora. "We're sitting up there fat, dumb and pretty and all of a sudden, things start to happen all over," Reber said. The tail section struck the ground first before the helicopter came to a halt in a field about 10 feet from a few large tree stumps, Reber said. Reber and Stan Fox, age and address unavailable, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, completed their 20 minute snow survey mission before contacting rescuers, Reber said. Both men were picked up by a helicopter from Horizon Aviation Inc. of Aurora and taken to Troutdale Airport about 2½ hours after the crash landing. Reber said he had begun landing procedures about an eighth of a mile from the landing site and was 100 feet from the ground when he noticed a sudden drop in power. Fox reported hearing an explosion, Reber said. Reber pulled the nose of the helicopter up to get as much wind power as possible to turn the helicopter rotors, the "hairiest 'flare' landing I've ever made," he said. "That's what saved our lives," Reber said. "The guy beside me couldn't believe it." The engine "just blew up," but the landing was so soft that the rest of the craft was not damaged, Reber said. Reber and Fox were on a monthly contract mission to survey snow depth and density levels for the Department of Agriculture and were making the last stop of the day when the engine failure occurred, Reber said. Note: Lots of these past months, planes & copters. - Gwen - 4 Projects PK - # Tragedy averted PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A small airplane crash-landed on a busy residential street Wednesday, just missing a nursery school and homes and blacking out 1,000 homes and businesses when it knocked over a utility pole. Roofers at work on a nearby home pulled the bleeding pilot, Lee Demetz, 39, of Doylestown, from the plane's smoking wreckage. He was taken to Nazareth Hospital where he was treated for lacerations of the head and back injuries. "It's a miracle," said Roslyn Karwitz, principal of the nursery school, where 120 boys and girls were at the === Page 76 of 139 - "Power" Attack - # Storm leaves path of woe Photo on Page One By The Associated Press A powerful Pacific storm dumped 2 feet of snow in the mountains and almost 3 inches of rain in the lowlands, triggering mud slides, flooding and power outages Monday in California as it pushed across the Rockies. A skier was killed in an avalanche, a boy was swept four miles down a rain-swollen drainage channel and the Goodyear blimp was slammed to the ground and ripped open when the storm moved into California Sunday. As it marched eastward, the storm also pounded much of Utah, Colorado and Arizona with heavy snow and rain, creating hazardous driving conditions. In California, the storm left damage from the Mexican border to the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles. In Mission Valley near San Diego, 24 people were evacuated from an apartment house when nearly 3 inches of rain collapsed the ceilings of two apartments and leaked into other units. Mud slides closed roads in Mission Valley and La Tuna Canyon in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland. Water up to a foot deep on the Long Beach and Santa Monica freeways hampered commuters Monday morning and flooding also was reported on many city streets. Lightning and winds up to 35 mph caused power blackouts in many areas, and a truck hit a power pole in the North Park area of San Diego, knocking out the lights for hours in 750 homes. Bozidar Govorcin, 31, of San Pedro, Calif., died after being buried under 6 to 8 feet of wet snow Sunday in an avalanche on Mount Baldy. His brother, skiing with him, also was trapped in the snow but escaped serious injury. Heavy snow Sunday stranded a group of Girl Scouts near Big Pines in eastern Los Angeles County and a group of Boy Scouts in San Gabriel Canyon. All were reported safe. org 3/3/81 ADVERTISEMENT - "Power" Attack PK - # Faulty valve idles N-plant KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A valve malfunction Saturday shut down a reactor at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant near Decatur, Ala. In addition, a fire damaged a computer at the utility's nuclear plant being built near Spring City, Tenn., officials reported. Meanwhile, TVA engineers began initial phases of a procedure to restart the first reactor at the Sequoyah nuclear plant near Soddy Daisy, Tenn. The unit has not been operating for several months while engineers try to correct kinks in the machinery. TVA spokesman Steve Wynkoop said the automatic shutdown of the Unit 2 reactor at Browns Ferry occurred shortly after midnight as technicians tested one of eight main steam isolation valves. One valve failed to close fast enough, causing an imbalance in the steam lines and triggering the shutdown. The reactor should resume operating this weekend, Wynkoop said. He called the shutdown routine and unrelated to a radioactive leak at a separate unit of the plant Friday morning. More than 80 workers fled a unit at Browns Ferry at about 9:30 a.m. Friday when radioactive gas leaked from a valve that should have been closed during a repair. No one was overexposed to the radiation and there was no public health threat, officials said. The workers returned to the plant by noon. At the construction site of the Watts Bar nuclear plant near Spring City, Tenn., a short circuit apparently sparked a fire in a digital computer system in the communications room of the facility's control building Saturday morning, Wynkoop said. The plant fire brigade extinguished the flames within 30 minutes. The computer system controls the alarm system for the plant's switch yard, main transformers and some generator functions. One of the two reactors at the $2 billion facility is scheduled to begin operating next year. The plant is midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga. org 4/8/81 === Page 77 of 139 BUSINESS # A Cruel Winter's Tale The weather gods must be angry. All last week the Eastern Seaboard was locked in a deep freeze as arctic winds swept as far south as Miami. In other regions temperatures were warmer than usual, and that was almost as bad: the long run of dry, balmy days compounded the damage of the drought that has plagued much of America since last spring. From the ice-bound fishing villages of Massachusetts to the snowless ski slopes of California, the forecast was the same--hazardous economic fallout unless the winds shift soon. The frigid East was clearly hardest hit. Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King declared an "energy emergency" last week when the state's distribution and storage systems for natural gas could not keep up with stepped-up demand. He ordered all gas-heated schools to close and asked non-residential customers of the Boston Gas Co. to lower thermostats to 55 degrees. The state has been promised Federal intervention to bring an extra 24 million cubic feet of natural gas through Boston Gas pipelines, but King warned of a possible "industrial shutdown." Food was airlifted to Nantucket, whose sea routes to the mainland were clogged by ice, and fishing fleets were frozen into their harbors up and down the coast. Gloucester landings were down to just 451,000 pounds of fish a week, compared with 1.3 million pounds a year ago. Consumers will pay the price: scallop-lovers can expect to pay at least an extra $1 a pound in weeks to come, and lobster prices will soar to $7 a pound or more--$2 higher than last year's level. Juice Gap: Consumers will also be paying more for orange juice. Florida farmers tried to save citrus groves by warming them with smudge pots or spraying them with water so the ice formed cocoons against the frost, but state officials estimated that 20 per cent of the orange crop will be wiped out. That means 49 million fewer gallons of frozen-juice concentrate this year, and Brazil, the world's leading exporter, quickly suspended its own shipments, hoping to cash in on a runup in international prices. Florida's huge tourist industry was suffering, too. The coveted lounge chairs by the pool at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel were empty, and Eden Roc Hotel manager Frank Thorn reported that 20 per cent of his bookings were not showing up. Some travelers showed, then quickly turned tail. Marilyn Radovsky, president of Caramar International Travel Corp. in Long Island, N.Y., sent a group of clients to the Florida Keys, only to get a call the night of their arrival "asking would I please get them out of there and to someplace warm." High and Dry: In many states around the country the problem was less winter chill than it was water. With reservoirs at the lowest level in two decades, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware declared water emergencies. In the Midwest the water level has fallen dramatically in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, causing massive traffic jams of barges and tugboats. And farmers fear that the lack of snow cover on crops seeded last fall may leave them vulnerable to winter winds. The sparse snowfall in the Rockies and California's Sierras has practically crippled the West's ski areas. Six of Colorado's 32 ski resorts were closed last week, and others were advising expert skiers not to bother. Even at big areas such as Vail, which have enough snow-making equipment to make up for Mother Nature's stinginess, business was below par. The West's plight was the East's delight, and skiers were flocking in record numbers to the slopes of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Unfortunately, there is very little relief in sight. Last week the National Weather Service released a 30-day forecast predicting continued subnormal cold for the East, sun-baked warmth for the West and dry weather almost everywhere. Whatever the weather gods hold, they apparently have not been propitiated. MERRILL SHEILS with bureau reports Sunning skiers at Vail, icebound Massachusetts harbor and Florida oranges in an icy cocoon: The economic effects will linger long after the bad weather passes Kevin Galvin John Dickerson--Today 68 1/26/81 NEWSWEEK === Page 78 of 139 Bern. Δ PK (Disorientation) # Snowfall drives out Utah smog By GEORGE TIBBITS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- After seven weeks of nearly non-stop fog and smog, Utah's first major winter storm of the year dumped up to four feet of much-needed snow on ski areas and Wasatch Mountain watersheds. A foot of snow had fallen in parts of Salt Lake City by Saturday morning, clogging streets and causing dozens of minor traffic accidents. Poor visibility contributed to a close call Friday at Salt Lake International Airport when an Air Force jet clipped wires on a high-voltage power line. The jet landed safely. Thick, clammy fog and smog besieged the Salt Lake Valley for all but three days between Dec. 6 and Jan. 24, causing mental health officials to worry about the psychological effects of the dreary weather on residents. Mental health centers reported an increased number of contacts over the holidays, with many people saying the fog was making them irritable, frustrated or depressed. A low pressure system pushed the murk out of the valley a week ago, but the smog still was having an effect over the weekend. Utah Power & Light Co. officials said several minor power outages occurred when contaminants left by smog on utility pole insulators became wet and shorted out lines. -- 4 Projects PK -- # Snow, rain, wind rake California By United Press International Strong winds gusting up to 60 mph moved in Wednesday on the heels of a snowstorm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow in Nevada and Northern California, offering hope to ski resort operators who feared a completely disastrous season. The storm brought rain to lower elevations in California, easing fears of a drought. San Francisco received nearly 2 inches of rain Tuesday. Storm warnings were issued along the Northern California coast, where 60 mph wind raked Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, and gale warnings were issued for central California and Oregon. Inland, storm warnings were posted for the mountains of northern and central California and the Tahoe Basin of Nevada. A travel advisory for strong winds also was in effect for the southwestern mountains of California. Light snow fell from the Dakotas to New England, and much of the Southeast had rain. The San Francisco rainfall pushed the city's seasonal total since June 30 to 6.19 inches -- still only half of the 12.06 average. More than 2 feet of snow covered the mountains of western Nevada, coming as a financial lifesaver to ski operators who have seen more rocks than snow on the slopes. Mount Shasta, Calif., got 8 inches of new snow. Winnemucca, Nev., got 2 inches. Forecasters said the storm could dump up to 4 feet of snow before moving on Thursday. Some ski resorts in California may be able to open for the first time this season because of the new snowfall. Those that have opened will be able to expand their operations. In California's central valley, rain meant foothill grass might start growing, giving relief to livestock growers who have been forced to buy hay to feed their cattle. Still, the storm caused problems for some people. Thousands of Incline Village, Nev., residents were without power for an hour Tuesday when a 120,000-volt line transmission failed. Avalanches were feared in some mountain areas. oreg 1/28/81 -- 4 Projects PK -- ## Electricity restored SHERIDAN (AP) -- Electricity was out for less than 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon in a wide area northwest of Salem. Sheridan District Manager Roger Meyer of Portland General Electric Co. said the outage, covering about 500 square miles, affected 8,000 customers. oreg 1/30/81 -- 4 Projects PK -- ## AF jet clips power lines SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An Air Force jet fighter landed safely Friday at Salt Lake International Airport after clipping wires on a high-voltage electrical transmission line, an Air Force spokesman said. The accident caused lights to flicker in the Salt Lake area, but power was diverted from the transmission lines to avoid a major blackout, said a Utah Power & Light Co. spokesman. The pilot of the F105 was not injured, although the plane received some light damage to its wing tanks and a landing gear plate. oreg 1/31/81 -- "Power" Attack -- # The world ## Earthquake injures 30 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- An earthquake rocked the Colombia-Venezuela border Wednesday, injuring at least 30 people. Officials said the tremor collapsed two church towers, damaged houses and downed power lines. There were no reports of deaths. In an interview broadcast from the Colombian border town of Cucuta, Caracol Radio quoted a fireman as saying the tremor was the strongest felt there in three decades. Cucuta, with a population of 350,000, is in northeastern Colombia, three miles west of the border and 250 miles northeast of Bogota, the capital. Cucuta hospitals reported admitting 30 injured in the first hour after the quake struck, the radio said. The broadcast reported the quake cut 50 percent of the city's telephone and electric service. Venezuelan authorities measured the tremor at 5.2 on the Richter scale. The quake, which hit at 12:36 p.m. EST, had an epicenter 220 miles northeast of Bogota. oreg 11/27/80 === Page 79 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - (Power outage) # Outage hits 11,000 homes VANCOUVER, Wash. - About 11,000 Vancouver-area homes were without power for 40 minutes Thursday night when a car hit a power pole guy line. The line snapped, tangling with transmission lines and shorting out five substations. The pole was at the corner of Northeast 72nd Avenue, just outside of the city limits, according to Mick Shutt, communications manager for the Clark County Public Utility District. Shutt said the accident occurred at about 5:40 p.m. oreg. 1/23/81 - 4 Projects PK # Storms pound California with big waves, wind, rain oreg. 1/24/81 LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Pacific storm sent waves crashing onto the Southern California shoreline Friday from San Luis Obispo to Mexico, smashing pleasure boats and eroding beaches as the first drenching rain of the year splashed the area. Meanwhile, a blustery storm eased its assault on the Northern California coast, moving eastward to dump long-awaited snow on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. As rain fell after daybreak in Southern California, authorities searched for an unidentified 17-year-old Marine swept to sea by raging waves Thursday as he stood at the edge of Ocean Beach cliffs in San Diego. Waves reached as high as 18 feet on west-facing beaches, while some swells mounted up to 25 feet. They tossed around 100 beached twin-hulled catamarans in Santa Barbara Harbor, 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, hurling the boats into parking lots and into each other. At the same harbor, a 41-foot sailboat was hurled into Stearns Wharf and two people aboard had to be rescued by firefighters. "It has been pretty rough - even rougher than last year, wild. We started getting the really big waves on Monday and by Wednesday every other wave was breaking over the rocks," said Marge Benke of Carpinteria, whose Santa Barbara County beachfront home was splashed by waves Thursday. Some 250 miles south, heavy pounding by breakers up to 18 feet high brought down an abandoned portion of the Imperial Beach pier near San Diego and broke up part of a concrete parking lot at Carlsbad State Beach Park. Cars and several pedestrians were sloshed down an ocean-front street Thursday in Imperial Beach. More than 3.5 inches of rain Thursday drenched Eureka, breaking a record for the date set in 1972. Strong winds toppled trees and power lines and caused a 40-minute power outage in Quincy. Winds of up to 45 mph damaged seven fishing boats in Trinidad, 17 miles north of Eureka, and waves up to 16 feet smashed through a 60-foot section of seawall near Ferndale, forcing the closure of Matolle Road, a major route in the area. Some residents of Rio Del Mar south of Santa Cruz had to be evacuated briefly after swells of more than 20 feet broke over a seawall and shattered windows on several houses. - 4 Projects PK - # Snow, rain finally fall as storm buffets West LOS ANGELES (AP) - A powerful Pacific storm pumped high winds across California Wednesday, heaping mounds of snow on High Sierra winter resorts, dumping rain on thirsty lowlands and apparently causing a fatal plane crash. The National Weather Service predicted another storm could reach the state by Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Pacific storm's leading edge dumped up to 6 inches of welcome snow in the Colorado Rockies, breaking a two-month snowless spell in that popular ski resort region. The National Weather Service said a high pressure system that had been parked over the West's Great Basin for two months had shifted eastward, allowing moisture to enter the area. Snow also was expected to fall in Utah, another resort area where snowfall has been light this winter. In Newhall, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, a twin-engine courier plane carrying bank checks crashed shortly after taking off in the teeth of gale-force winds shortly after midnight Wednesday, killing its pilot and a passenger, authorities said. The Beechcraft 18 took off for Las Vegas from Van Nuys Airport at 12:25 a.m. and disappeared from control tower radar screens a short time later. Neither victim was immediately identified. Winds from the storm, the second to hit the state in a week, reached 70 mph as it lashed the San Francisco Bay area and tore trees out of the ground in the Valencia-Newhall area, as well as power lines in West Los Angeles, where 44,000 customers of the city Department of Water and Power lost electrical service briefly. Some 30 California Conservation Corps workers were sent to the Sacramento River delta to strengthen a levee, which was eroded by wind-driven water. Officials said there was no immediate danger any of the delta's rich farmland would be flooded, but added that high water next weekend might create problems. Rain caused traffic snarls during the morning rush hour in Southern California, where trucks jacknifed or overturned on several major freeways and "fender benders" were plentiful, said California Highway Patrol Officer Lou Barrett. There were reports of two to three feet of snow in the Sierra. oreg 1/29/81 === Page 80 of 139 Snow, mudslides - 4 Projects PK - # Fresh storm lashes California By RICHARD DE ATLEY of The Associated Press The third Pacific storm in a week swept into California Thursday, choking mountain roads with snow and threatening to unleash mudslides in rains whipped by winds that hurled an oak tree through the front of a Northern California nursing home. "This storm is now intensifying as it moves into the state," National Weather Service forecaster Don Webster said. Forecasters originally predicted the latest storm would be the weakest of the lot. But the weather service issued midmorning bulletins for the northern and central parts of the state, warning of severe weather from the storm, including powerful thunderstorms, funnel clouds, gusty winds and heavy downpours of rain. The California Department of Transportation announced temporary closure of several mountain highways due to heavy snow, or required chains on all vehicles except four-wheel drives. Snow levels for northern mountains were expected to drop to 3,500 feet and to 4,500 feet for southern mountains. The storm was expected to diminish by Friday afternoon, followed by a weekend of fair, blustery weather, the weather service said. A winter storm warning for snow, gusty winds and up to three inches of rain was issued for Southern California. Residents whose houses survived brush fires that wiped out hundreds of homes in San Bernardino and Los Angeles kept a close watch on the denuded hills, using sandbags and makeshift water channels to ward off flooding and mudslides. Downtown Los Angeles recorded 1.65 inches of rain from the storm as of Thursday. The California Highway Patrol said flooding, rocks and mudslides had made the Pacific Coast Highway from Los Angeles north to Malibu dangerous for all travel. Part of one busy boulevard in the Los Angeles foothills was described as "curb-to-curb mud." In Pebble Beach, 130 miles south of San Francisco, the storm washed out first-round play in the 40th Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament. Flooding and power blackouts were reported on the Monterey Peninsula, where more than three inches of rain had fallen on the tourney's three courses since Tuesday. oreg 1/30/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Rainstorms threaten start of Crosby golf PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A series of Pacific storms, producing what has come to be known as "Crosby weather," lashed the Monterey Peninsula and threatened to disrupt the start of the 40th Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament. The first of two fronts swept over California's central coast Tuesday and dumped about 2 inches of rain on the three courses used for the famed event. The courses were flooded. The waters reached into the pro shop at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. Pools and puddles formed in bunkers and low-lying areas of the fairways. Winds accompanying the storm ripped limbs from trees that knocked out power lines to more than 1,000 customers. The courses were closed to practice Tuesday and opened only half the day Wednesday when sun broke through briefly in the morning. But the National Weather Bureau warned that the sunny period was merely a lull between storms. Another larger, probably wetter storm was expected before the Thursday start of the 72-hole tournament. "If we get another one like the last one, we're probably out of business, at least for Thursday," said Jack Tuthill, tournament director for the PGA Tour. He toured the courses, Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and Spyglass Hill, Wednesday and found them "not too bad. Spyglass is probably the worst. They're wet, but they're playable - right now. If we get more rain, well, we'll just have to wait and see." In any event, Tuthill said, so-called winter rules would be in effect, with players allowed to lift, clean and place balls in the squishy, soggy fairways. Jack Nicklaus, who will play with former President Ford as his amateur partner, flew down to the desert at Palm Springs Wednesday to find a practice facility. He was scheduled to return for his tee time Thursday at Cypress Point. The format calls for the 168 pros, each with an amateur partner, to play one round on each of the three courses before the field is cut for the final round Sunday at Pebble Beach. "It's going to be Mud City out there," said Tom Watson, the four-time player of the year and leading money winner who is opening his 1981 campaign in this, one of his favorite tournaments. "I'm pleased with the way I'm swinging the club. I'm eager to get started," Watson said. oteg 1/29/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Plane down, 2 walk away MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver, Wash., pilot and his passenger escaped injury late Monday when their single-engine airplane made an emergency landing south of Mukilteo, authorities said. The pilot was identified as Marvin Alfred. The identity of the passenger was not immediately known. Alfred was on a trip from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle when his plane lost power near Paine Field in south Snohomish County. He said he did what he was supposed to: "I went through the checklist as I should have ... pushed the mixture in, switched tanks, made sure the mag was on ... Beyond that, it's only by the grace of God that anybody lives through anything." Shortly after 6:30 p.m., the plane came to rest on an embankment along State Route 525 two miles south of Mukilteo. oreg 2/17/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Quake jolts Bay Area SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPI) - A moderate earthquake jolted a wide swath of the San Francisco Bay Area early Thursday, brief-ly knocking out power in one area and rousing people from their beds, but causing no injuries or damage. The University of California seismographic station said the 4:48 a.m. quake registered 4.5 on the Richter scale and was centered about 8 miles east-northeast of San Jose - the second moderate quake to shake the area in little more than a week. oteg 1/15/81 # Power outage affects 1,000 Portland General Electric Co. customers in the Cedar Hills area were without power from 3:10 p.m. to 5:02 p.m. Monday after wind blew a tree over lines near U.S. 26 at Southwest Murray Road. About 1,000 customers were affected by the outage, a PGE spokesman reported. === Page 81 of 139 (2) Oregon Journal, January 16, 1981 # declared in East quantitites. Unless it can be mass-produced synthetically, it will remain scarce and costly. Mrs. Karafotas, who suffers from usually incurable cancer of the lymph nodes, received 3 million units, or three one-thousandths of a gram, in her first injection. The test goal is doses as high as 198 million units. tal's subway system. Authorities said 24 pedestrians were injured, one fatally, in traffic accidents in the city. No reports of injuries were available from other parts of the country. The blackout hit Mexico City during the morning rush hour Thursday. - 4 Projects PK - Storm assaults Japan TOKYO (UPI) -- Heavy snow in northern and western Japan has killed another seven persons in the past three days, raising to 50 the number who died in blizzards this winter, authorities said Friday. The three-week winter storm, one of the worst in recent decades, also has destroyed houses and paralyzed traffic, and damage has been reported in a third of Japan's provinces, police said. New tremor jolts Italy NAPLES, Italy (UPI) -- For the second day, an earth tremor sent citizens fleeing into the streets early Friday in the region devastated by Italy's Nov. 23 killer earthquake, police reported. Police said there were no reports of new casualties. Blackout sweeps Mexico MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- A massive power outage lasting for six hours cut off electricity in most of Mexico and trapped more than 40,000 commuters in the capital's subway system. - 4 Projects PK - Former Rep. Celler dies NEW YORK (UPI) -- Emanuel Celler, a member of the House of Representatives for a half-century who wrote much of the country's major civil rights legislation, died of pneumonia Thursday at his Brooklyn home. He was 92. A family spokesman said Celler was ill for several months and developed pneumonia earlier in the week. Celler first won election to the House in 1922, and it was the only elective office he ever sought. In 1972, after 25 terms in the House and 22 years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Celler was ousted in a hard-fought Democratic primary race by Elizabeth Holtzman. She relinquished the Brooklyn seat in 1980 so she could pursue her unsuccessful attempt to run for the U.S. Senate. - 4 Projects PK - # Midwest, East thaw from cold By The Associated Press The Midwest and East warmed up Saturday after record cold that contributed to at least 10 deaths. But homeward-bound holiday travelers were hampered by snow and freezing rain in the mid-Atlantic states and fog that shut airports in California for several hours. South Carolina got its first snowstorm of the season as 4 inches fell in the Charleston area Saturday, snarling traffic on icy roads. Twenty cars piled into each other on the Cooper River Bridge in one accident, but no one was seriously injured. Light snow fell over much of southeastern and south-central Virginia, where bridges and overpasses were treacherous. North Carolina's central and southern coastal counties were dusted with up to an inch of snow. In southeastern Georgia, sleet, freezing rain and snow knocked down trees and utility lines, cutting off power to 4,000 Savannah Electric & Power Co. customers during the night. The Georgia State Patrol said one man died after his vehicle skidded on an icy bridge. Around the nation, 293 people had died in traffic accidents by Saturday afternoon since the start of the Christmas holiday Wednesday evening. The National Safety Council estimated that 650 to 750 might be killed before the weekend officially ends at midnight Sunday. Most parts of the Midwest and Northeast had readings in the 20s and 30s Saturday, after three days of temperatures that often plunged below zero. - 4 Projects PK - # Siberian By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The "strange" Siberian cold wave punishing the East stunned Florida on Tuesday with a record killer freeze from Tallahassee to Miami that hung icicles on orange trees and glazed vegetables in their fields. Florida Power & Light Co. was forced to impose rotating 20-minute blackouts on cities along the entire peninsula as the coldest weather since the turn of the century put a strain on generating plants in many areas. The power outages affected about 250,000 homes and businesses. In Massachusetts, Gov. Edward J. King declared a statewide energy emergency Tuesday, urging customers of Boston Gas Co., New England's largest natural gas company, to lower their thermostats or risk school and factory closings. Records for the coldest day ever in January fell across the Southeast -- 7 degrees in Wilmington, N.C., 8 degrees in Tallahassee, Fla., and 14 in Savannah, Ga. -- while many cities of the Northeast logged new lows below zero. The deaths of two people in Florida, one in Tennessee and another in Virginia were blamed on the cold as the toll mounted. A city agency in New York reported it has received 9,500 calls this week from tenants complaining of no heat or hot water, bringing the total to 65,000 since Christmas Day. Mayor Edward Koch personally stepped in to investigate the problem. An organization of utilities serving most of New England reported a record use of electricity for the first 12 days of January, up more than 12.5 percent over the same period last year. Customers of Philadelphia Gas Works were asked to lower their thermostats 5 to 20 degrees because of potential shortages. The cold wave that has fishing boats frozen to their docks in New England and fuel barges ice-bound in Chesapeake Bay may have wiped out 20 percent of Florida's bountiful orange crop, the equivalent of 49 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, citrus officials said. Temperatures ranged from 20 to 26 degrees in most of the citrus belt of Florida. === Page 82 of 139 THE OREGONIAN, TUE # Harsh, brutal cold keeps grip on East By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A lingering freeze that slipped in from Canada petrified most of the nation east of the Rockies Monday, stalling countless cars, threatening power blackouts in some regions and pushing temperatures to record lows in more than 20 cities from Georgia to Maine. At least five deaths -- other than traffic fatalities -- were blamed on the brutal cold that moved into the Northeast over the weekend. In Boston Monday, a man and his 4-year-old son were overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Police said the fumes came from a gas space heater that was the only source of heat in their apartment. In Philadelphia, a 66-year-old man found Sunday covered with a single blanket in an unheated trailer died from what hospital authorities described as severe exposure and possible cardiac arrest. In Bucks County, Pa., an 86-year-old man was killed when he slid down an embankment and fell through the ice into a shallow stream, and at Braddock, Pa., a 65-year-old man froze to death when he stumbled and fell in the snow outside his house Saturday night. Cities along the Eastern Seaboard reported the coldest Jan. 4 in history ranged from Athens, Ga., with 11 degrees, to Caribou, Maine, with 20 below zero. Temperatures were below zero from the Upper Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley to the Northeast and were below freezing in northern Florida. Car batteries went dead, fuel lines froze, water pipes burst, ships crunched through ice-clogged waterways and electrical generators were pushed to their limits. Automobile clubs couldn't keep up with the service calls. A number of schools closed when their heating systems failed. In New York City, the Central Complaint Bureau tried in vain to get help to thousands of residents huddled in apartments with no heat, with the wind chill outside making it feel as if it were about 30 degrees below zero. "The old people are the worst," said Dorothy Bonadie, one of the bureau's phone operators who lost heat and hot water in her own apartment Christmas Day, but got it back two days later. "You hear from a 90-year-old lady who says she has to stay in bed all day because there's no heat in her apartment. Then she starts to cry. The old people just keep talking and crying." A spokesman for the bureau, which got 8,074 calls Sunday and 2,475 more by noon Monday, said it will take a week to respond to all of the complaints. In Philadelphia, the mayor's Fuel Service hotline reported getting about 2,000 calls between Friday and early Monday from people with heating problems. In Hartford, Conn., city officials also reported getting "hundreds" of calls from disgruntled apartment dwellers. "It's the worst I can remember," said Jim Nanny, supervisor of the Hartford housing code enforcement office, who has been taking complaint calls at the office for 14 years. With record subfreezing temperatures across North Carolina -- 6 degrees in Greensboro and 8 in Asheville -- Duke Power Co. warned of possible rotating blackouts unless its customers voluntarily cut back consumption of electricity. "We're not crying wolf," said Alex Coffin, a spokesman for the utility. "This is an emergency. We have a critical strain on our system caused by the extreme cold weather." Utilities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts also reported that consumption of electricity was at record levels. The cold also forced at least two schools to close Monday in Massachusetts. The 420 students of Pioneer Valley High School were sent home when the water supply system froze, and the pupils of St. Thomas the Apostle elementary school in West Springfield were dismissed when the heating system failed. Maryland authorities also closed seven schools in Prince Georges County. # Snow, cold grip Europe PARIS (AP) -- Heavy snow and freezing temperatures in Europe this week have cut off electricity to parts of France, sent killer bands of wolves into provincial Yugoslavian sheep pens and caused a massive traffic snarl in Brussels, Belgium. As the worst winter onslaught of the century persisted in the southeastern portion of the United States, several European nations across the Atlantic were experiencing one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recent years. One of the hardest hit areas has been France, where new snow fell Tuesday in the south near the Pyrenees Mountains on the Spanish border. Parisians were surprised with a rare snowstorm Monday. Record demands for electricity and downed power lines have left six of France's 90 department-states without any electricity. Some 480 technicians have been working to fix the lines, but officials said it is doubtful power can be restored before the end of the week. Stores have run out of candles in the blacked out regions, and fur-lined after-ski boots are in heavy demand. In Limoux in the Mediterranean coast, snow collapsed the roofs of three buildings. In one, the falling timbers destroyed 2,000 bottles of the town's famous sparking white wine, Blanquette de Limoux. Tens of thousands of Italians left homeless by the massive Nov. 23 earthquake struggled with snow and icy rain that have pelted southern Italy for five days. The temperature rose above freezing for the first time in a week in some quake-stricken areas of Southern Italy, but many of the roads remained blocked by up to three feet of snow. More than 140,000 of the the homeless still live in tents, campers and railway cars after refusing relocation to government-requisitioned hotel rooms and villas away from their towns and villages. Health officials said many children and the elderly are suffering from respiratory ailments. Schools have reopened, and truckloads of relief material, including toys for children, arrive almost every day from other parts of Italy and overseas, the officials said. === Page 83 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Vast storm brings more woe to frozen East By DAVID L. LANGFORD Of The Associated Press A vast storm assaulted much of the eastern half of the nation with freezing rain, sleet and snow Tuesday, bringing more trouble to a region stung by a record four-day cold wave that has killed at least 14 people. While cities along the Eastern Seaboard posted new low temperatures, highways across the Midwest turned to menacing sheets of ice. Some superhighways were blocked, and many schools didn't open because buses couldn't run. In St. Louis, Cincinnati, Peoria, Ill., Cleveland and down to the Tennessee Valley, cars slid into ditches and trucks jackknifed. As the the storm moved eastward, the frigid weather moderated slightly, but the mercury was expected to plummet again with its passing. Ann Arbor, Mich., was ticketed for up to 10 inches of snow, with lesser amounts in the East. Apartment dwellers in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago continued to complain by the thousands that they had no heat. The deaths of 13 people, not counting traffic fatalities, have been blamed on the big freeze that moved in last weekend to make the first week of January one of the coldest on record in the Northeast. The deaths, mostly the result of exposure, occurred in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. For example, Jennie N. Guerrant, 88, of Maidens, Va., was found lying outside her house by two high school students whose family had cooked her meals and cut her firewood for years. Exposure also was cited as the cause of death of Carmelo Vasquez, 46, who was found living in an abandoned house with no heat in Atlantic City, N.J., while the temperatures dropped to near zero. A truck driver was killed Tuesday when his rig went out of control on an icy highway near Hardy, in northern Arkansas, and struck a guard rail. He was identified as A.L. Stoelting, 44, of Mooresville, Ind. With frost reaching as far south as Florida, cities posting new record temperatures Tuesday included Atlantic City, with 4 degrees, and Baltimore with 8. In Toms River, N.J., 10,000 residents were without electricity for 9 1/2 hours after a Jersey Central Power & Light Co. transformer failed Monday night. Power was restored Tuesday morning. oreg 1/7/81 As the temperature fell to 12 degrees -- with the wind-chill factor making it feel 2 below zero -- police drove through the shore community using loudspeakers to awaken residents and urge them to leave for warm buildings. An emergency shelter was set up at a local high school. The freezing rain Tuesday morning snarled traffic throughout much of eastern Missouri. Numerous schools were closed, and a number of accidents were reported. The highway patrol said jackknifed tractor-trailer trucks blocked Interstate 44 in St. Louis. Schools also were closed in five counties in Southern Illinois, an underpass on U.S. 51 north of Centralia was closed for several hours, and Interstate 57 was blocked at Kinmundy by an overturned truck. "Power Attack" - # 97 women, children die in fire DANACIOBASI, Turkey (AP) -- As weeping peasant women washed the bodies, bulldozers and the village men dug trenches Tuesday to bury the 97 women and children killed when a propane lantern touched off a flash fire at an engagement party. None of the men at the Monday night party in a stone cottage perished because, following rural Turkish tradition, they were in other rooms, segregated from the women. According to one of the men, the lights went out because of a power failure, and in the confusion a baby knocked over a propane lantern and some of the gas leaked out. When the lantern was lit, the gas exploded in a burst of fire that ignited other propane lanterns and the flames engulfed the room. Among the dead was Dondu Daggelen, the newly engaged 16-year-old girl. The tragedy occurred in her parents' home. Only some 50 village women were not at the party, and they were joined by women from the area to wash and wrap the bodies, loaded aboard horse-drawn wagons and dump trucks. Many of the bodies were those of infants. Men who were not straightening the sides of the burial trenches with shovels stood on the snowy hillside, chanting Moslem prayers. Officers from the martial law command arrived in Danaciobasi, 75 miles southeast of Ankara, and milled about. Yasar Evci, 47, lost his wife, 6-year-old daughter, sister-in-law, niece and grand-niece. He said he heard the women scream and tried to enter their room but was driven back by the intense heat. He was burned on the hand. oreg 11/26/80 === Page 84 of 139 Wind-driven storm sweeps Midwest; 7 killed - 4 Projecto Mx - By LOUISE COOK of The Associated Press org- 2/11/81 Driven by high winds, the biggest storm of the winter swept from the Rockies to the eastern Great Lakes Tuesday, bringing blinding snow and bone-chil- -ling cold that contributed to at least seven deaths. Tornadoes struck to the south, meanwhile, killing at least one person in Texas and hitting a grade school in Alabama. Two of the students, a bus driver and another employee were seriously injured. The snow - and the wind that made it feel like 40 or 50 below zero in many places - stretched from Montana to Ohio, sending shivers through more than a dozen states. Schools were closed, and officials plead- ed with people to stay home and keep off icy roads where drifting, blowing snow made it hard to see more than a few feet. The road conditions were blamed for fatal acci- dents in Iowa, Michigan and Kansas. There was a massive pileup Tuesday on Interstate 80 at Altoona, Iowa, and police officer Kenneth Kincaide said four people were killed. A 16-year-old girl from Eaton Rapids, Mich., was hit by a car as she walked to school Tuesday morning, and a Lost Springs, Kan., woman died Monday night when her car collided with a truck. A snowmobiler who became separated from his party near West Yellowstone, Mont., Saturday was found frozen to death across the border in Idaho Monday night. "It's a killer storm moving in," said Al Zimmer- man of the sheriff's department in Walworth County in southeastern Wisconsin. Forecasters predicted 1 to 6 inches of new snow, with winds of up to 35 mph Tuesday night. The National Weather Service said Tuesday after- noon that a blizzard warning was in effect for eastern Nebraska and added that near-blizzard conditions pre- valled across Kansas and Iowa. Winter storm warn- ings continued in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Mich- igan, Wisconsin and Kentucky. The snow accumulations, however, were not like- ly to be big enough to ease the drought in most parts of the country. The weather service says it takes 10 inches of snow to provide the amours of moisture in 1 inch of rain, although the amount varies depending on whether the snow is-wet or hry. Scattered power failures were tied to the cold. Between 400 and 500 homes in Helena, Mont., many of which use electricity for heating, were without power for more than three hours Tuesday morning in temperatures of 27 degrees below zero. The cold in Montana even forced a ski area, Bridger Bowl, to close for the day. There were warnings that driving would become more dangerous as the day wore on, and airports reported delays and, in a few cases, closings. "It is highly recommended that persons cancel all travel plans this afternoon and evening as travel will be near-impossible," said the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa. "Right now, it's getting worse as the day goes along," said Cliff Schlough, maintenance superintend- ent for the Dane County Highway Department in Madison, Wis. "We're looking for 40-mile-per-hour winds tonight and then it will be really bad. ... The roads might not be plugged up, but you won't be able to see." Temperatures in Denver dropped 13 degrees in one hour as the cold front moved into Colorado. The high- 2-17-81 POISON PLANT ON RAMPAGE A POISONOUS giant weed is rapidly spread- ing across the eastern U.S. and causing an epidemic of painful skin disease, ac- cording to top plant ex- perts. The plant, the giant hogweed or cow parsnip, inflicts an agonizing rash on those who handle it in direct sunlight. The weed has already gained a firm foothold in New York, and scientists fear it is becoming much more widespread. "Nobody has done a careful study of its range or origin," said Dr. Peter A. Hyypio, a botanist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. ** We think it was in- troduced into this country as an ornamental plant, although that's only an educated guess." The hogweed's spectac- ular size makes it attrac- tive as an ornamental plant. It grows up to 20 feet tall in the first year, its umbrella-like clusters of white flowers blooming in late June or early July. Children who use its hollow stems as peashoot- ers or "telescopes" often suffer painfully for their unwitting contact with the plant's poison sap. The irritating chemical in the plant is psoralen. It raises large blisters that result in a burning sen- sation and can easily be- come infected, according to Vancouver, B.C., Can- ada, skin specialist Dr. John Mitchell. After the blisters, ugly brown marks appear. These may last for years. The rash is often mis- taken by doctors for impetigo, a contagious disease. The way to beat the blisters is to apply cool compresses and protect them from infection. If they do become infected, see a physician, Dr. Mit- chell advises. Anyone noticing a giant hogweed growing in his neighborhood this spring should cut it down before it grows to full size. Since the irritating substance only becomes active in sunlight, "Cut it on a cloudy day or at night," said Dr. Mitchell, "and then stay out of the sun next day." Inches overnight. were closed Tuesday because of the snow, and the state House of Representatives canceled its afternoon session. The National Weather Service forecast up to 6 inches of snow during the day, with an additional 4 Schools in more than a dozen Michigan counties hazardous throughout the state. way patrol said drifting snow, combined with fog and winds gusting up to 35 mph, made driving conditions === Page 85 of 139 - Bermuda Attack - # Plane crashes kill 12 holiday travelers By The Associated Press Twelve people flying to Thanksgiving dinner engagements were killed Thursday in the crashes of two private planes in Washington and Idaho. In Washington, six members of a Yakima family died on a flight to Seattle when their plane crashed and burned in bad weather east of Mount Rainier National Park, authorities said. Yakima County sheriff's deputies identified the victims as William Cahoon, 38, a real estate agent and civic leader who owned the twin-engine plane; his wife, Nyle; his mother, Mildred; and the couple's three children, Erin, 10, Doug, 16, and David, 12. Mike O'Connor, duty officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle, said the plane went down 4½ miles north of Mount Baldy, east of Chinook Pass, after the pilot reported engine trouble on a flight from Yakima to Boeing Field in Seattle. Weather in the area was "extremely bad," with snowshowers and low clouds, O'Connor said. After a radio message in which Cahoon said he was returning to Yakima, "radio and radar contact with them was lost," O'Connor added. Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Ward said ground crews used U.S. Forest Service roads to reach the crash site, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, four hours after the initial report and found the wreckage still burning in the fog. The bodies were not immediately recovered, he said. He said George Cahoon, the pilot's brother, told authorities the family was headed for a Thanksgiving dinner in Seattle. "Apparently they lost an engine," Ward said. "I think power went out, possibly a fire. They did have navigational problems, because they radioed to us they were turning around ... to go back." O'Connor said it was unusual to find a crash site that quickly under such conditions. "It was too sloppy weather to have any kind of an air search," he said. "Normally, you don't get that lucky." William Cahoon was active in several civic organizations, including the Jaycees, Chamber of Commerce and YMCA, and in state and local organizations of real estate agents. At Driggs, Idaho, a small twin-engine plane carrying six people and a dog nose-dived into a fiery crash just several hundred feet short of the Driggs airport runway, said Teton County Sheriff Ted Trout. Visibility was about 100 yards at the time of the early morning crash, he said. Trout said he received a call shortly after midnight from a farmer's wife who said she heard a plane in trouble above her home. By the time he arrived, Trout said, the plane had crashed and was in flames. All the victims apparently died instantly, he said. Two bodies had been thrown from the plane, and all six were burned beyond recognition. The victims were identified as James Clay of the San Francisco area; his three children, Stacey, 17, Cameron, 13, and Mitch, 11; and his brother, Charles Teague Clay of Lake Tahoe, Nev. The sixth victim was Perry Anderson of California. The group had flown from California to Driggs to spend Thanksgiving. Trout said the crash apparently occurred at 12:07 a.m., the time a watch worn by one of the victims stopped. - 4 Projects PK - # Tornado hits schoolhouse in Alabama BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) -- A tornado ripped through several buildings Tuesday, including a school where 1,000 children were in class, and authorities said 62 people were injured, four of them seriously. Owen Liles, principal of the Bay Minette Middle School, said he heard the tornado coming as it dipped down from a fast-moving storm system about 8:30 a.m. and ran to warn the students on the intercom. But by then the windows were tearing out of the building and the roof was coming off. The tornado also hit a few small businesses and several homes in the area, and some of the injured came from those places. Nine nearby houses were destroyed by the twister, and 15 were extensively damaged, according to the Red Cross. State troopers said that after the tornado passed through, roads leading to the area were closed because of downed power lines and natural gas leaks. But many parents rushed to the school in blinding rain to check on their children. Police described the scene as "an awful mess." Fifty-seven people were treated at Bay Minette Hospital, where administrator Gary Farrow said the injuries were "primarily superficial." He said four were referred to other hospitals, four were admitted for further treatment and there could be more as the examinations continued. Two students with serious injuries were taken to South Alabama Medical Center at Mobile. Tommy Johnson, 14, suffered head injuries and underwent surgery late Tuesday. Fred Munsey, 13, also had head injuries. Both students were listed in guarded condition. A bus driver and a canteen worker at the school also were seriously hurt. A door struck the canteen worker, Sarah Harris. The bus driver was not immediately identified. === Page 86 of 139 - "Power" Attack - ITALY # The Quake: 'The End of Fifteen hours after the earthquake that devastated southern Italy last week, a health officer radioed a desperate message from the village of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi. "Eighty per cent of the town has been destroyed," he cried. "Hundreds of people are buried under the rubble, but so far no one has come ... The road is open. Why has no one come?" A full day after the earthquake, the first outsiders arrived in the mountain village of Teora. "Are you the rescuers?" exclaimed the first man to run up to them. "Thank God, you've come. There are 300 people under this rubble and some of them are still alive." The new arrivals were not rescuers. They were journalists. Two days after the quake, help arrived in Sinerchia, another village in the Apennine mountains. But it consisted of food, not digging equipment. "There are people under there screaming, 'Help, don't let me die like this'," wailed one resident. "And they bring us food." *Digging out: After the town of Balvano was flattened (left), the street became a morgue (bottom left); in Avellino, rescue workers dug through rubble to reach the living--and to bring out the dead* AGF ADN Kronos TEAM Claire A. Nivola-NEWSWEEK ITALY Power out * Aversa * NAPLES * Pompeii * Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi * Avellino * Lioni * Teora * Calabritto * Laviano * Salerno * Eboli * Balvano * Potenza * Brienza ITALY Rome Naples YUGOSLAVIA Adriatic Sea Tyrrhenian Sea 0 100 Miles NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 87 of 139 the World' The earthquake was Europe's deadliest in 65 years. The tremor shuddered from Sicily to the Alps (map). Around the epicenter in southern Italy, always a regional synonym for poverty, nearly a hundred towns crumbled into rubble. "It was the end of the world, enough to drive you mad," said Father Salvatore Pagliocchi, the parish priest in Balvano, where the church collapsed during Mass, burying 50 people. The quake badly damaged historic ruins that had survived at Pompeii, and demolished a nine-story apartment building in Naples. The official count of the dead stood at more than 3,000, and some rescue workers predicted that it might climb to 10,000. The tragedy was compounded by the ineptitude of the Italian Government. It minimized the quake at first and was slow to take action when the dimensions of the devastation became clear. When the relief operation finally began, it was bumbling and disorganized. Many people who survived the quake died later in swirling snowstorms for lack of housing, food or medicine. Both President Alessandro Pertini and Pope John Paul II toured the ravaged area and quickly discovered that the furious villagers wanted to see rescuers instead. Pertini fired the prefect of hard-hit Avellino Province for incompetence and unleashed a blistering attack on the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. "There have been serious failures," he declared. "Whoever has failed must be punished." Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni quit in response, but Forlani refused to accept his resignation for fear that his whole government might fall. It was still possible, however, that the final aftershock of the earthquake might be the collapse of Italy's latest house-of-cards government. 'No Reports': The quake began at exactly 7:36 p.m.; stopped clocks all over southern Italy attested to the time. The tremors recorded 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale--strong enough to do vast damage in an area inhabited by 7 million people, many of them living on precarious mountain slopes. Everywhere, buildings collapsed; many victims died instantly, while debris buried others alive. But the first report on Italy's state-run television said: INTERNATIONAL "Fortunately, there are no reports of damage or loss of life." The Interior Ministry clung doggedly to the figure of 350 dead--and turned away some international aid--long after aerial photographs showed village after village atumble with destruction. When Pertini saw the destruction for himself, he broke into tears. "There are no words," he said to survivors in Potenza. "They die upon the lips." Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, a poor farming town of 4,000 people east of Naples, was one of the hardest hit. NEWSWEEK'S Elaine Sciolino arrived there after the earthquake. Her report: The blue and white welcome sign--"Benvenuti a Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi"--still stood at the town's entrance. But now it was difficult to imagine what Sant'Angelo once looked like. The quake hit suddenly, and after about 40 seconds all but a few buildings had crumbled. Nothing was left in the central piazza; the city hall and the only café, the Corrado Bar, were gone. Collapsed walls exposed abandoned rooms of houses that were still standing--furniture in place, chandeliers undamaged, paintings and rosaries still hanging on walls. Usable roads were blocked by cars filled with people from the north in search of their families. Twenty-four prisoners, freed when the jail collapsed, decided to direct traffic instead of fleeing. They had nowhere else to go. The town's official death toll was several hundred, but about a thousand people were still missing. There was hope that some of the missing still were alive: 42 hours after the quake, a middle-aged woman was 'Enough to drive you mad' (clockwise): An anguished Pope comforts the injured in Potenza; in Laviano, a woman's body hangs from the ruins of her home, while soldiers prepare coffins for the victims Michel Ginies--Sipa-Black Star Arturo Mari--Sipa-Black Star Michel Ginies--Sipa-Black Star NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 51 === Page 88 of 139 INTERNATIONAL pulled from the rubble of her apartment, conscious but unable to speak. She was rushed to a makeshift hospital (the regular hospital had collapsed, killing an unknown number of patients). There was no one in charge of the rescue efforts--or, for that matter, in charge of what was left of the town. The mayor and his family, most of the town's other officials, the parish priest, the local union representative and the police chief were all believed dead. 'It's Chaos': Fire brigades set up tents and a soup kitchen on the town's sports field, and there seemed to be enough food, water and blankets. But rescue operations were haphazard. "Would you believe that there is not one blowtorch in the whole town?" a fireman asked as he tried to cut through a metal barrier with a wire cutter. A major of the Italian Financial Police was in tears as he said: "It's chaos. There's absolutely no coordination. I was sent here to help, but what can I do?" When Pertini arrived, a man whose sister was buried raged at him: "Why have you come here? It's just publicity for television." Many villagers were left to dig for their relatives themselves. One man, who lost his wife and one of his three children when their modern five-story condominium crumbled, dug with his bare hands for twelve hours to rescue his 11-year-old son. When he finally got to the boy, he embraced him--and watched the child die in his arms. "They all might have been saved if help had come," he said softly. "How many more are still trapped in there?" The situation in Sant'Angelo was repeated over and over, not just in ramshackle villages, but even in Naples, where at least 15 per cent of all the buildings suffered serious damage. Thousands of people, either homeless or terrified of another quake, camped out in piazzas and other open spaces under tents made of any available material, including cardboard held together with string and tape. City officials, fearing an outbreak of disease, sent a Sanitation Department truck around the piazzas to spray the crowds with disinfectant. Black-marketeers made the most of the situation, doubling the price of bottled water and charging as much as $1,000 for a wooden coffin. And prisoners in Naples's maximum-security prison tried to break out in the chaos, setting off riots in which four prisoners were knifed, one fatally. Said Clemente Lepre, a male nurse at a makeshift hospital: "This city is possessed by fear." But fear was quickly giving way to rage at the government's inefficiency. In one village 150 people sat on railroad tracks to protest the lack of aid. President Pertini was berated at every stop on his tour. When he landed at the tiny town of Laviano, one man cried out: "The helicopter should have arrived yesterday for the rescue, not today for the spectacle." The other well-meaning and anguished visitor from Rome, Pope John Paul II, quickly sensed the mood of despair. "For those who tell me they can no longer pray, I say, pray with your suffering," he advised the survivors in Balvano. Even the Pope did not receive the warm welcome that usually greets his visits. "With every passing moment our hope of finding survivors dwindles," said one top-ranking rescue official. "Now we have the Pope, and hundreds of officials had to be mobilized for him." The government was so oblivious to the scale of the disaster that for two days it turned down an offer from the United States of 1,000 tents and five helicopters. The Swiss offered medicine, the West Germans a military field hospital and the French a team of surgeons--and they all received the same chilly initial response. Five days after the quake, one colonel involved in the relief operation estimated that half of the afflicted villages still had not been reached by military aid teams. In Laviano, the mayor complained that local men who had been working in West Germany and Switzerland reached the town before the army did. When Rome finally got into action, it had no emergency plan, although successive governments had been talking about drawing one up for ten years. Asked about the government's crisis program, Giuseppe Zamberletti, head of the commission to aid earthquake victims, snapped: "What general plan? Everybody has his own general plan, and they all contradict each other." Forlani's Christian Democratic government had a litany of excuses: the earthquake happened on a Sunday night, when the Cabinet was playing host to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; the terrain of the stricken area was hilly and difficult; communications and roads were cut by the quake, and rescue efforts were hampered by thick fog and even thicker traffic jams. "It's impossible to make a national plan of public security for cases like this," insisted Interior Minister Rognoni. "It's not like wartime." Such excuses roused President Pertini to react. Looking haunted, he appeared on television. "There was not the immediate aid that there should have been," he declared. "Groans and cries of despair rose up from the ruins of those buried alive." That was an unprecedented slap from an Italian President, whose office is largely ceremonial. Rognoni promptly resigned "to relieve the government of tensions." But Prime Minister Forlani, turning down the resignation, had his own view: "The words of the Chief of State were not directed at criticizing the government work." Scandal: In fact, almost everyone was criticizing the government. Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, whose party belongs to the ruling coalition, declared: "There was too much inaction, too many delays." Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer offered to form a new government. No one took his proposal too seriously, but all the criticism came at a bad time for Forlani's six-week-old government, already reeling from a scandal over oil-price fixing. While the politicians argued, the situation was getting even more desperate for the survivors. Snow had begun to fall. Some campsites were ankle deep in water, and many of the later deaths were attributed to exposure to the rain, wind, cold and snow. Rescuers continued to pull a few survivors out of the rubble. But some villages were simply bulldozed and sprayed with formaldehyde to prevent infection from rotting corpses. Forlani approved a $1.3 billion relief package for emergency aid and housing. But many of the survivors were aware that 35,000 people were still living in makeshift housing after losing their homes in a Sicilian earthquake nearly thirteen years ago. If Forlani fails to survive his own crisis, the fall of an Italian Government would be a minor casualty of another historic trauma for the Italian nation. Stunned survivors: 'Cries of despair rose from those buried alive' Sipa-Black Star JOHN BRECHER with ELAINE SCIOLINO in southern Italy and RITA DALLAS in Rome NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 52 === Page 89 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Stubborn cold wave in Eastern U.S. taxes utilities, patience By DAVID L. LANGFORD Of The Associated Press A persistent cold wave that has set records almost daily since Christmas pushed another cloak of painful arctic air into the East on Monday, forcing emergency measures to keep people warm. The Canadian blast sent temperatures to new lows in nearly two dozen communities from Florida to Massachusetts, far below zero in many areas. As natural gas started running out in parts of Massachusetts, more than 15,000 schoolchildren were told to stay home. Some factories closed. Lights flickered and went out for a time in a few cities as the increased demand for electricity over-taxed generating facilities. Citrus growers in Florida spent the night in their groves, burning fires to save the tender fruit. Even colder weather was on the way. Ice-breakers plowed through choked waterways, trying to keep shipping lanes open. Water pipes froze in hundreds of homes in Baltimore and a break in a main line shut off all the water for the 1,500 homes and business in Smyrna, Del., from late Sunday until late Monday morning. Apartment dwellers in New York City, where the mercury dipped to a record-tying 2 degrees Monday, threatened a rent strike unless something was done immediately to restore heat to thousands of homes. About two dozen residents of a city housing project, chanting "no heat, no rent," picketed outside the Housing Preservation and Development Agency. They claimed 14 of the 20 buildings in the Cooper Square urban renewal area had been without heat or hot water during the cold wave. "Babies are put to bed bundled in snowsuits, and apartments are heated by keeping ovens going all night," said one tenant, Ese Varses, who carried her 7-month-old daughter on her arm as she picketed. Elizabeth Martinez, who lives in the Bronx, was one of about 50 people who sought shelter from the cold Sunday in a National Guard armory. She told what it's like living in an apartment with no heat, with children 1 and 2 years old. "My little one's hands were green and swollen from the cold," she said. "The water was frozen in the toilet bowl, and to wash my children, I got pans of water from across the street and heated it on my electric stove." The mercury was below zero Monday across most of the northeastern quarter of the nation, including portions of the Ohio Valley, with Old Forge in the Adirondacks of New York reporting in at 43 below. Among cities reporting record sub-zero temperatures were Beckley, W.Va., minus 3; Harrisburg, Pa., minus 4; Hartford, Conn., minus 14; Newark, N.J., minus 1; Providence, R.I., minus 8; Williamsport, Pa., minus 12. Paul Carpenter of the National Weather Service in Kansas City said the cold wave "looks like it could continue for a while." "It looks likely to continue for a week or two," he said. "but it's impossible to say when it could change." Oreg. 1/13/81 # Storm claims 12, slows yule travel - 4 Projects PK - By United Press International A snowstorm swirling across the nation's breadbasket prompted a spate of minor traffic accidents during morning rush-hour traffic in Chicago and threatened to create hazardous driving conditions for holiday travelers. A winter storm that began early Tuesday along the East Coast moved over the Atlantic early Wednesday. The storm left 12 dead -- four in Virginia, three in South Carolina, two in Maryland and one each in Georgia, Kentucky and New Jersey. Most of the victims were killed when autos skidded out of control on icy highways. The new snowstorm, moving east across the upper Midwest, was blamed for deaths in Iowa and one in Kansas. Police said a 10-month-old infant was killed and six persons were injured late Tuesday when two cars collided on an icy road near Bassett. A middle-aged woman was killed when her car slid into a Greyhound bus and then rolled into a ditch on ice-coated Iowa Route 6 near Lewis. Police said three bus passengers were treated for injuries. Two to 4 inches of snow fell in Chicago and surrounding suburbs, sending many early morning motorists skidding off highways and into other cars. Heavy, wet snow snapped power lines serving several north suburbs, leaving 2,000 homes without power for a short period of time early Wednesday. # Winds Disrupt Area Clark County Tribune 2-24-81 Winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour knocked out power lines and ripped branches from trees early Thursday morning, causing traffic tie-ups for early morning commuters. The wind and raging storm hit its hardest about 2:30 a.m., resulting in hazardous driving conditions and flooding in low areas around the county. Tree limbs, trash cans, and various other loose items, blown about by the high winds, added to the dangers. "Power" Attack PK === Page 90 of 139 4 Projects PK THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981 3M # Florida's citrus, vegetable crops suffer losses Story on Page One also By IKE FLORES ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The first killer freeze in four years may have destroyed up to 20 percent of Florida's bountiful orange crop Tuesday as temperatures broke records set as long ago as 1886. As growers braced for more frigid temperatures to come, Gov. Bob Graham, declaring an emergency, lifted weight limits on trucks hurrying frozen citrus to processors. Farther south in the "winter vegetable basket" of Dade County, the nation's largest producer of vegetables this time of year, officials said it also appeared damage to crops could be severe. National Weather Service spokesman Alvin Samet in Miami said Tuesday capped a five-day period among the "top 10" coldest since 1911. Officials at Florida Citrus Mutual, a cooperative based in Lakeland representing 15,000 growers, put their loss at the equivalent of 49 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, or about 36 million 90-pound boxes. Orange juice prices jumped as reports of the damage reached commodity markets. On the New York Cotton Exchange, the price of frozen concentrate futures rose by 5 cents a pound, as much as is allowed to increase in a day's trading. The latest increase brought the price to 88 cents a pound. Damage to grapefruit was less serious. Records fell with the thermometer throughout Florida early Tuesday, with a reading of 8 degrees in Tallahassee that broke a 1971 record of 11, and a morning low of 13 in Jacksonville, 2 degrees below the previous January record set 95 years ago. In Tampa, a 22-degree reading broke the record set in 1905. Miami had 32, the coldest for the date since 1962, and tourists seeking respite from cold weather back home shivered on Miami Beach, where a record low of 36 broke the 43-degree mark set in 1962. At least two deaths were blamed on the cold. A St. Petersburg man apparently rolled over a charcoal grill he was using to heat his apartment and died in the resulting fire. A Jacksonville man apparently fell asleep outdoors and died of exposure. Utility companies reported record demand forced rotating blackouts from Miami to the Florida-Georgia border. Florida Power & Light, the state's largest electric utility, said peak demand reached an estimated 10.7 million kilowatts Tuesday morning, topping the record 10.55 million the previous night, spokesman Luis Muniz said. "The rotating outages of up to 30 minutes each were required to balance demand with supply," he said. The interrupted service affected approximately 250,000 of the company's 2.1 million customers, he said. Bobby McKown, Citrus Mutual executive vice president, said, "Preliminary assessments indicate most growers expect damage to be on a par with the January 1977 freeze, when the equivalent of 50 million boxes of oranges and juice yield was lost." The winter vegetable area south and west of Miami was severely hit. "We have suffered a severe freeze," said U.S. Agriculture Department spokeswoman Jo Ann Dellinger. Oreg. 1/14/81 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1980 -- 4 Projects PK -- Oreg. 12/25/80 # Man survives 27,500-volt jolt SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- A 24-year-old man who grabbed power lines and received a 27,500-volt electric charge as police watched was in serious condition with burns and a broken neck, officials said. "We are amazed that he survived," a spokesman for the Connecticut Light & Power Co. said Tuesday. The Florida electric chair voltage that ended the life of convicted murderer John Spenkelink last year was 2,250 volts. Police said Bernard Smart of Springfield, Mass., slammed his car Monday into a storage building at the local Springfield Sugar & Products Co., where he worked, then climbed a utility pole. Ignoring pleas to climb down, Smart grabbed two power lines carrying 27,500 volts, police said. His body created a short circuit, blowing a fuse and knocking out power to more than 2,100 electric customers. The explosive force of the spark knocked Smart 25 feet to the ground. He broke his neck in the fall. A physician who treated Smart when he arrived at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield said Smart was alert and had a normal heartbeat. Except for leg burns, he showed no ill effects from the electric shock, the doctor said. "It doesn't seem to have affected him," he said. "I can't explain it. I don't know why it didn't do more." Power company officials said they had been told Smart had been fired early Monday, but police said they could not confirm his job status. === Page 91 of 139 # NW rivers bulging in record warm spell By STAN FEDERMAN of The Oregonian staff Wet and warm weather, which produced flooding rivers and record high temperatures around Western Oregon, was expected to continue Friday as a new storm headed toward the Pacific Northwest. Washington state was expected to bear the brunt of that storm. Regional river forecasters late Thursday warned that the Clackamas River near Clackamas was expected to rise 3 feet above its 13-foot banks at about 4 a.m. Friday. Residents living along the river in the area were cautioned to keep abreast of further forecasts on radio and television and to remain in touch with local authorities. Four rivers in the Tillamook area spilled over their banks by midafternoon Thursday and major flooding occurred in the town's main business district. The problem was aggravated when a 10-foot span of dike holding back the Kilchis River broke two miles north of the city, allowing the water to spill into nearby pastureland and flood U.S. 101 with upwards of 4 feet of water. Police were allowing only trucks to move through the area late Thursday night. The Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers all surged over their banks near Tillamook. Several homes along the Wilson River were surrounded by water, according to Mary Priss, coordinator for Tillamook County Emergency Services. She said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was attempting to repair the Kilchis dike -- and also was inspecting a dike on the Wilson near the city that showed several breaches. Elsewhere the National Weather Service issued flood warnings for the Siuslaw River and Coquille River basins. The South Fork of the Coquille was expected to go 4 feet over its banks at Myrtle Point during the night. The Mapleton area east of Florence on Oregon's central coast had 5.3 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. Thursday. High water brought traffic to a snail's pace on Oregon 126 east of Florence. Flood warnings were also issued for the Marys River at Philomath, Luckiamute River at Suver in Polk County and South Yamhill River at Whiteson. Other flood-troubled spots included Harrisburg along the Willamette River north of Eugene and the Johnson Creek drainage in Southeast Portland. The raging creek went over its banks by as much as 2 to 3 feet Thursday, causing huge "lakes" in some Southeast Foster Road areas. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Department blocked off the road between Southeast 103rd and 112th avenues Thursday night because of high water. The barricades were expected to remain through the night. A rock and mud slide above U.S. 30, the scenic Columbia River Highway in the Columbia Gorge, blocked both the highway and Union Pacific Railroad tracks one mile east of Multnomah Falls. The slide occurred shortly before noon Thursday. Two trains had to be rerouted to the Washington side before Union Pacific crews cleared the tracks by 6 p.m. Police indicated that the old highway would not be cleared until at least Friday morning. A tree fell on a Portland General Electric power line before noon Thursday, just west of the Southwest Canyon Road tunnel, creating a power outage affecting 1,000 homes, the Washington Park Zoo and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Service was restored by 1:30 p.m. Officials said wind apparently felled the tree. Despite the almost constant rain Thursday, four cities, including Portland, registered record high temperatures for Christmas. Portland recorded a high of 64 degrees at 10 p.m. Thursday, easily beating the old yule day mark of 59 degrees set in 1972. Pendleton, Eugene and Salem also reported record temperatures Thursday. Forecasters predicted occasional rain with some clearing periods Friday and Saturday for Portland and the Willamette Valley. They said a new storm is moving toward the Pacific Northwest but said Washington state should bear the brunt of it over the weekend. Mild temperatures were expected to continue with highs in the low 60s and lows near 50 degrees predicted for Friday in the Portland area. "Portland's previous Dec. 26 high mark is 59 degrees -- and we're probably going to see that broken also," said a National Weather Service spokesman. In Southwest Washington, flood alerts were issued for smaller rivers such as the Washougal and Wind, but there were no warnings for major rivers such as the Toutle, Cowlitz, Kalama or Lewis. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesmen said the Toutle and Cowlitz -- close to the Mount St. Helens volcano -- were remaining "well within their banks." Unhappy ski resorts saw the rains wash away any hopes for holiday skiing. Timberline skiing on Mount Hood was closed Thursday because of rains and high winds, but officials said they hoped to reopen Friday. Additional details on Page B4. === Page 92 of 139 AY, DECEMBER 26, 1983 Note: Simultaneous record "warm" on West Coast. # East has white Christmas, shivers in sub-zero cold By The Associated Press Northerners bundled up Thursday for a frigid but white Christmas as arctic air swept the eastern half of the nation and temperatures plummeted to record lows in dozens of cities. One of the coldest spots was Old Forge, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, where the morning low was 36 degrees below zero. One of the region's perennial cold spots, atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, had a reading of 34 degrees below zero on Christmas Eve, but that didn't bother Jeff Tirey, who spent Christmas in a weather observatory atop the peak in the White Mountains. Tirey, a weather observer, had a Christmas tree in the observatory and planned a traditional turkey dinner with a fellow observer and a guest. The icy weather interfered with the annual re-enactment of Gen. George Washington's Revolutionary War crossing of the Delaware River. Shore activities at Washington Crossing, Pa., went on as usual, an official of the event said, but the actual crossing of the river was canceled because of ice on the river and high winds that produced a wind chill factor of 40 degrees below zero. At Albany, N.Y., the Christmas temperature read 20 degrees below zero at 9 a.m. EST, but gusty winds produced in a wind-chill equivalent of 67 degrees below zero. In nearby Syracuse, N.Y., where the temperature plummeted to 22 below, about 4,000 people were without power for six hours after a failure of switching equipment. Power was restored at 8 a.m. EST. Power also was out temporarily for about 2,400 people in the Connecticut towns of Bethany, Southington and New Canaan. New York City was warmer, at 1 degree below zero at 8 a.m. EST, but that still shattered a 108-year record for Christmas Day. The previous record there for the date was 4 degrees above zero, according to the National Weather Service's National Severe Storm Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. Detroit also nipped a record of 7 below set in 1872 with a 7 a.m. EST temperature of 8 below zero. And the 8 below at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport broke a record 6 below set in 1924. Temperatures fell to 7 below in Boston at 9 a.m. -- the coldest Christmas since 1957 when it also was minus 7. Worchester, Mass., had a reading of 10 below zero. Blustery northwest winds that gusted to 40 mph produced wind-chill factors of 70 degrees below zero. New records of 10 degrees were set in Roanoke, Va., and Lynchburg, Va., according to the weather service. The old records were 12 degrees, set in 1976 in Roanoke, and 14 degrees, set in 1930 in Lynchburg. Old records also were broken in several New Jersey cities. In Newark, the temperature plummeted to zero, well below the 1968 record of 11 degrees, and Atlantic City recorded a temperature of 9 degrees. The old record in the gambling city was 10 degrees, set in 1896. Few regions besides the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley saw Christmas-morning snow, but much of the nation got at least a dusting from snow that fell the day before. St. Louis had its first white Christmas since 1967. Travelers' advisories for snow were posted Christmas Day in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Associated Press Laserphoto RECORD COLD -- Judy Hybrandt of Los Angeles protects face as temperatures in New York City dipped to 1 degree below zero Thursday, making it coldest Christmas there in 108 years. === Page 93 of 139 Oregon Journal -4 Projects PK- Blazers need glass slipper - page 17 Wellness Bag is back - page 41 FINAL EDITION Final ********** Wednesday, January 9, 1980 15c # Storm paralyzes Portland; thousands without power ## Gorge buried by deep snow By ROLLA J. CRICK and PHIL HUNT Journal Staff Writers Ice and snow combined Wednesday to shut down highways, schools and disrupt power service both in Portland and throughout much of the Pacific Northwest - on the anniversary of the January 1979 freezing rain storm that devastated Portland. Hood River and Cascade Locks were buried under a deepening blanket of snow. ### Journal delayed Because of a power outage that struck The Journal plant early Wednesday, today's edition is a combination of the 2, 3 and 4 dot editions. Power went out at 3 a.m. and was not restored until 5:30 a.m. Because of the single, earlier edition, there are no closing stock market figures, although a summary of stock market activities is on page 9. snow, ranging up to 5 feet in places, while hundreds of people were being housed under emergency conditions in armories, schools and churches. Skamania County, Wash., across the Columbia River from Hood River, battled a blizzard and many people were stranded in cars and awaiting rescue along Washington State Route 14. The only vehicles allowed to move were four-wheel drive rigs with chains on all four wheels. The National Weather Service posted freezing rain and snow warnings for the Portland metropolitan area and issued travel advisories for locally heavy and blowing snow in the Columbia Gorge and through the Cascades. A 2-inch additional accumulation of snow was predicted for Portland and snow showers were expected to continue through Thursday. Johnson Creek, a perennial trouble spot for flooding in the Portland area, was rising and expected to crest about noon today. Oregon people were advised Bell said it had about 1,500 to 2,000 phone lines reported down and anticipated the number would rise during the day. General Telephone Co. said that service between East Multnomah County and Portland was out. Most Portland area public schools and colleges were not operating Wednesday as snow continued to fall during the day. Schools in Southwest Washington also were out. At mid-morning Wednesday, with the weather worsening in Eastern Multnomah County, the sheriff's office reported people were stranded with live electric wires draped over their cars because of broken power poles near SE 90th Ave. and Powell Blvd. INTERSTATE 80N was closed from 181st Avenue to Hood River because of blizzard conditions. An avalanche caused closure of Oregon Highway 35 between Hood River and U.S. 26 across Mount Hood. Seattle, which was hit hard Tuesday, continued to have its problems Wednesday with 5 to 6 inches of snow downtown and more in outlying areas. Schools, many offices and some buildings were closed while police expressed fear Seattle might experience a repeat of its paralyzing snow storms of 1950 and 1916. The Journal was without power for 2 1/2 hours, forcing it to combine two Wednesday editions into one. When power was off in the Oregonian-Journal building, it stopped operation of computer terminals and delaying production of newspapers. Newsroom crews operated with candles and manual typewriters to gather and record what was happening. About 40 to 45 stranded motorists in the Columbia Gorge were to the Bonneville Dam auditorium for the night and schools at Cascade Locks and Hood River were turned into emergency shelters. Picture coverage of the ice and snow storm that struck Northwest Oregon is on pages 8 and 16. Sheriff's deputies were using their vehicles Wednesday RAMP JAM - Five big tractor-trailer rigs and an assortment of smaller vehicles slithered and bumped into each other and against guardrails early Wednesday on the freeway ramp from I-405 off the Fremont Bridge leading to US 30. A few above, the freeway was caught in the ice. # Mayor declares state of emergency By NELSON PICKETT and DIANE CARMAN Journal Staff Writers Portland prepared to pull all stops Wednesday to aid citizens left without food, power and emergency medical care. Mayor Connie McCready recessed the City Council meeting Wednesday morning to declare a "limited state of emergency." That gave her the legal authority to he will recommend to the mayor that an emergency shelter be established at a local high school, possibly David Douglas. He said he was coordinating efforts with the American Red Cross and the Portland School District. He said he also would recommend that the city designate a single emergency number at the Kelly Butte Communications center to handle calls for food, shelters. "Our first priority is to remove down trees blocking streets," Lindberg said. "We're just going full blast with tree crews along major arterials," he said. Lindberg said one of his major concerns was the fact that a "substantial number" of Portlanders would continue to be without heat or electricity for at least another 24 hours because of downed power lines. The county's 14 snow plows have been operating continuously since early Tuesday, Tom Lynch, director of Operations and Maintenance, said. There are about 900 miles of roads in the county to clear with about 200 miles of them considered arterial, he said. "Our next big worry is what happens # Outage closes schools BEAVERTON - A power outage closed the Beaverton High School and left as many as 4,000 residents without power for 2 1/2 hours Tuesday. Dave Eagon, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co., said the outage was caused by a "fault" in the 40,000-kilowatt substation that serves the area. The failure, which occurred about 10 a.m., was not weather-related, he said. Full power was restored by 12:35 p.m. Joe McArthur, planning engineer for the utility's Western Division, said power crews were hampered in their efforts to repair the failure because they were snarled in traffic jams, the result of traffic lights that were out of service. McArthur said the affected area was generally bounded by Allen Boulevard, Murray Road, Center Street and SW 98th Avenue. 12/10/15 === Page 94 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # East, Midwest glisten from deadly ice, snow By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An arctic snowstorm paved the way for Santa's sleigh across much of the nation Wednesday, bringing record sub-zero cold to some areas and the first white Christmas in years to others. Treetops glistened from the northern Rockies, across the Midwest into Massachusetts, where despite the Currier & Ives pictures on Christmas cards, there has been enough snow to measure only 20 times in the past 109 celebrations of the holiday. St. Louis was destined for its first white Christmas since 1967. But if the snow fulfilled a dream for children, romantics and ski lift operators, it was a nightmare for others. The wind-driven snow, which left accumulations of 1 to 4 inches in most areas, was blamed for at least seven deaths as cars and trucks skidded out of control in numerous accidents in the path of the storm. At least 13 people had been killed on icy highways the day before. A shuttle bus carrying senior citizens back from a Christmas Eve lunch slid out of control in Glen Aubrey, in south central New York, killing two and injuring 10. In Kansas City, Kan., a Trailways bus skidded and overturned on Interstate 70 during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring 25 passengers, including six who were hospitalized. In Ohio, six people were injured in a 15-car accident on Interstate 70 east of Zanesville. A bitterly cold Christmas Day was in store for most areas covered by the arctic air. Pence, Wis., reported 11.5 inches of snow and the thermometer was below zero from northern Montana to Minnesota. In central North Dakota, Roseglen measured a low of 31 below. A record set in 1917 was broken when the mercury dipped to 28 below in Williston, N.D. The reading was the same in Glasgow in eastern Montana. It was 12 below in Minong, Wis. In Chicago, which got 4 inches of snow, flights in and out of busy O'Hare International Airport were delayed for up to 30 minutes. Power was knocked out for about 2,000 homes in the suburbs of Schaumburg and Des Plaines. An Eastern Airlines flight from New York City to Albany was forced to return to New York without landing because of heavy snow. In Colorado, where the storm left a half a foot of snow in the mountain ski areas, authorities said it also left a sheet of ice on the interstate highways in the Denver area. Denver police reported dozens of accidents, including five major multicar pileups at the peak of the rush hour. Among those killed on the slick highways was Jordes Holm, 66, whose car skidded and hit a tractor-trailer rig about three miles west of Canton, S.D. In Wisconsin, Sylvia Hanes, 30, of Oconto, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a pickup truck on U.S. 41, six miles north of Oconto. Oreg. 12/25/80 "Power Attack" # 3,000 homes lose power Portland General Electric Co. repair crews Friday will inspect three underground transformers that exploded and blacked out 3,000 Southwest Portland homes for about two hours Wednesday night, a company spokesman said. The three 25-kilowatt transformers may have exploded because water leaked into their underground vault at Southwest First Avenue and Harrison Street, said spokesman Bruce Landrey. But no definite cause had been determined, he said. The explosion caused only minor damage and no reported injuries. A power surge shot through feeder lines to a substation and darkened street lights and homes around Southwest Marquam Hill Road, Southwest Barbur Boulevard, Southwest Corbett Avenue and Southwest Macadam Avenue, Landrey said. Electricity was fully restored by about 10:15 p.m., he said. The nearby University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital have separate feeder lines and were not affected by the outage, Landrey said. Oreg. 11/28/80 - 4 Projects PK - # Two counties lose power MANTEO, N.C. (AP) -- Repairmen were trying to restore power to two counties that lost electrical service Sunday morning during bitter cold weather. Forestry stations and homes with heat were taking in shivering victims of the outage. Authorities in Dare and Currituck counties took emergency steps after power was knocked out to the Atlantic coast counties, leaving thousands of people without heat. A spokesman for Virginia Electric and Power Co. said as many as 15,000 people were affected. He said workers hoped to have the power back Sunday night. - 4 Projects PK - "Power Attack" # Freak mishap blacks out Clark County VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A car snapped a guy wire supporting a power pole Thursday evening, setting off a chain reaction that blacked out 13,900 customers of Clark County PUD from 40 minutes to 3½ hours. The outage ranged from Orchards north to Battle Ground. An estimated 11,000 customers were without power for 40 minutes and the remainder for the longer period. A spokesman for the utility said that when the guy wire broke it flipped onto distribution lines and then onto higher voltage transmission lines serving five substations. The mishap occurred on NE 72d Avenue south of 99th Street. There was some damage to the distribution lines, the utility spokesman said. Oreg J 1/23/81 "Power Attack" # Power failure delays newspaper Failure in an underground power cable left the Oregon Journal newsroom without power for nearly two hours Tuesday morning. The power was out from approximately 5:20 a.m. to 7:05 a.m., leaving electronic editing equipment useless. The 2-dot edition of The Journal was delayed by the outage. Later editions of the newspaper were not expected to be affected. Oreg. J. 12/2/80 === Page 95 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Arctic cold, snow slap upper Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An arctic storm Tuesday attacked the upper Midwest with blinding snows and subzero cold that glazed highways and sent hundreds of cars and trucks skidding, resulting in at least four deaths. Snow driven by winds of 35 mph accumulated up to 8 inches deep as the storm swept across parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. The mercury dropped to 18 degrees below zero at International Falls, Minn., the coldest spot in the contiguous states. It was 15 below at Valentine, Neb. Slick highways and driving snow were blamed for two traffic deaths in Nebraska, one in Iowa and one in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, which got its heaviest snowfall since February, state police warned motorists to stay off the treacherous highways. The snow, generally about 5 inches deep in most of the state, fell on top of ice that formed following earlier rains in some places. U.S. 151 near Mineral Point, Wis., was blocked for about three hours during the night when a semi-trailer rig uprooted 30 feet of guardrail and overturned. No injuries were reported. The snow was whipped around by northerly winds up to 35 mph. Gale warnings were posted on Lake Michigan. Some homes lost electricity as the high winds and ice tore down power lines. A spokesman for Wisconsin Electric Power Co. in Milwaukee said extra work crews were called out. In Milwaukee, the storm produced the heaviest snow since Feb. 25, when 5.6 inches was recorded. The fast-moving storm dumped up to 8 inches of snow on parts of Michigan in its sweep toward the East. Schools were closed in Alpena because many of the roads in the area were impassable and visibility was reduced to a quarter-mile. Freeway speed limits were reduced to 20 mph along Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan because of the billowing snow. All of the main roads in the Upper Peninsula were snow-covered and slippery. Nebraska authorities said sleet and light snow contributed to two fatal accidents in the Omaha area. William H. Payne, 55, of Omaha was killed when his semi-trailer went over a bridge embankment. John A. Benham, 78, of rural Anita, Iowa, died when his car went out of control. Ore. 12/3/80 - "Power" Attack - # Blast causes power outage An explosion in a Portland General Electric Co. underground vault in downtown Portland Wednesday night knocked out power for several hundred PGE customers and businesses and some radio and television stations. Dave Eagon, PGE spokesman, said crews were working to restore power that went out at 8:19 p.m. after the explosion in the underground vault at SW 1st Ave. and Harrison St. He said PGE crews were attempting to determine the cause of the explosion. Eagon said the power outage covered a large area of Southwest Portland, extending to Council Crest, where some of Portland's television and radio transmitter towers are located. He said it not known how many customers were left without power, but added that three feeder lines, each capable of serving up to 1,000 customers, were knocked out. Ore. P. 11/27/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Seven die in explosion, fire as tank truck, train collide KENNER, La. (AP) - A tank truck carrying a flammable liquid collided with a train and exploded in a residential section of this New Orleans suburb Tuesday night, killing seven people, deputies said. Ruth Barnett, a spokeswoman for the Kenner police, said the victims included six people who died when a nearby bar, Chuck's and Buck's, burned to the ground and a 6-month-old girl was killed in an automobile caught in the blast. The truck driver, identified as Glendon R. Russey, 36, of Baton Rouge, a driver for Mobil Oil, was booked into jail on seven counts of negligent homicide, officials said. The blast and ensuing fires plunged the area into darkness due to electrical outages and forced the evacuation of 200 to 300 people from surrounding homes. Only shattered hulls remained of four vehicles caught in the blast - an 18-wheeler and its cab, another tractor cab, a pickup truck and a car at the crossing. A gaping hole remained where the tank exploded. The first blast, followed by other explosions, blew down utility poles and set others afire. Two hours later, firemen were still toppling burning utility poles while electrical lines crackled overhead. The train, an Illinois Central Gulf freight, was quickly moved out of the area. Apparently unaffected by the blackout was the New Orleans International Airport, just a few blocks away. Ore. 11/26/80 === Page 96 of 139 # Blustery storm punishes Oregon "Power" Attacks - Ore J 12/22/80 An estimated 1,000 people in the Milwaukie area were without electric power for more than two hours Sunday night as a "baby" storm dropped trees into power lines in a salute to the official beginning of winter. The southern edge of the storm caused a rash of traffic accidents in the San Francisco area and was blamed for two deaths on the Golden Gate Bridge. More than an inch of rain fell on Portland, and wind gusts to 60 miles an hour raked the Tillamook area. A spokesman for the Tillamook County sheriff's office said, "It was a baby storm, but it knocked a few trees down and some power lines before it quieted around 4 a.m." The storm moved into Idaho by daylight, but gale warnings continue to fly along the coast. A flood warning for Tillamook County also remains in effect, but authorities said the amount of flooding will be minor. The Wilson River near Tillamook is expected to crest at 11.5 feet, the Nehalem River at Foss is not expected to reach flood stage and the Nestucca, Siletz and Alsea Rivers elsewhere on the coast are within their banks. Portland General Electric Co. reported that it restored power to Milwaukie customers by 10:45 p.m. Sunday. Other scattered outages were reported at Gresham, Oregon City and Salem. The storm pushed out of Oregon the fog that caused air stagnation advisories and pollution alerts through much of last week. It also caused a rise in temperatures to the 50s and low 60s. Thick fog returned to California, however, on Sunday, causing a multi-car pileup on the San Diego Freeway near Long Beach. Three people were injured. Bitter cold prevails in the Northeast. It was 21 below at Massena, N. Y., 20 below at Limestone, Maine. The American Automobile Association in Boston reported receipt of "about 125 calls an hour" from people with dead batteries and frozen fuel lines. A Brookline, Mass., fuel company reported 200 weekend calls from people who ran out of coal or oil and many of them had no money with which to buy fuel. Oregon Journal, December 1, 1980 27 # nation Nevada PK + "Power" Attack ## High wind fails to halt Reno gaming RENO, Nev. (UPI) - Wind gusting to 80 mph knocked out power to thousands of homes in the Reno area during the weekend but failed to disrupt gambling. The casinos just turned on their auxiliary generators. Storm-force wind early Sunday knocked down trees, snapped or pulled down power lines and shattered billboards. Downtown Reno was without power for nearly an hour and 5,000 area homes had no electricity for several hours. ## news scope Nevada PK 12/1/80 Ore J ### Treatment refused BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) - A Buffalo newspaper says a woman accused of killing six persons and injuring 25 others when she drove her car through a crowded Reno, Nev. street, declined treatment after being psychologically evaluated at a mental health clinic. Priscilla Ford, 51, was tested at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center in late 1978 and early 1979, the Buffalo News reported Saturday. A preliminary diagnosis showed Mrs. Ford might be paranoid and schizophrenic, but she refused treatment and also refused to take medication, the News said. The paper quoted sources at the psychiatric center as saying Mrs. Ford talked about "decapitating people" during evaluations. "Bermuda Triangle Attack" ### Radar fails, planes just miss NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - A radar breakdown at Norfolk International Airport over the weekend left 16 local airports without radar and might have led to a near-collision between an airliner and a light plane, authorities said. An air traffic controller said a close call came about 2 p.m. Sunday, when a 110-passenger U.S. Air flight bound for New Orleans narrowly missed a twin-engine Beechcraft near West Point, Va. === Page 97 of 139 VOL. 130 -- NO. 37,573 ★★★ MON Hundreds die as earthquake jolts Italy IDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1980 66 PAGES 20 CENTS "Power" & Rain Attack- By CLARA HEMPHILL NAPLES, Italy (AP) -- A massive earthquake struck southern Italy Sunday night, killing more than 350 people and injuring hundreds of others as scores of buildings, including at least one church, collapsed, officials reported. They expressed fear the death toll would rise as rescue teams reached tremor-isolated towns in the mountainous area. Officials said more than 100 people perished in the town of Balvano, 75 miles east of Naples, and most of the victims were crushed when a Roman Catholic church caved in during evening services. The parish priest, the Rev. Salvatore Pagliuca, told an Italian reporter: "There were at least 300 people at the Mass tonight, including many children. The front wall collapsed as people were trying to get out." The priest's vestments were ripped and covered with dust from his efforts to free some of the victims. Balvano has a population of about 3,000. In Aversa, north of Naples, authorities said the belltower of a 16th century church collapsed and killed the parish priest, his mother and another woman. Another 70 persons were reported killed in Pescopagano, near Balvano, where a hospital, homes and the police barracks were damaged. Other death reports came from police and rescue teams reaching stricken towns and villages. Early Monday, authorities had received reports of damage in 29 cities and towns, with some buildings up to five stories high toppled by the quake and its aftershocks that rattled Italy from Sicily to the Alps. A heavy fog hung over much of the disaster area as the government sent in bulldozers, tents and medical teams. Trains were halted south of Naples, and traffic was blocked on highways. Police in Naples said inmates panicked at the Poggioreale prison, and officers hurled tear-gas grenades and fired submachine guns into the air to block an attempted escape. The first jolt hit Naples as many people were sitting down for their Sunday evening dinner. Thousands of people in this port city 120 miles south of Rome jammed the streets, afraid to return to their homes. Local officials called for spotlights to aid rescue teams and asked for tents for the homeless. Doctors canceled a strike scheduled for Monday so they could care for the injured. In Potenza, 90 miles east off Naples and near Balvano, an official said virtually all of the city's 50,000 residents fled to nearby hills and were spending the night in their cars or out in the open. Police said eight bodies were removed from a collapsed building in Potenza, and a television reporter there said hospitals were filled with the injured. Police also reported at least eight people were killed in Naples, including a 7-year-old child. The Interior Ministry said the quake's epicenter was at Eboli, a town near the Bay of Salerno and 30 miles southeast of Naples. The ministry reported the main shock struck at 7:34 p.m. and was followed by seven others over the next six hours. Authorities said Naples, Salerno, Avellino and Potenza were the major cities affected. Army and police helicopters flew over the area at dawn to survey the damage. Officials said fires broke out in some towns because people left their stoves on as they fled their homes. Firefighters pulled two babies, still alive, from rubble in the town of Serino. The quake cracked walls of a hospital clinic in Sorrento, 17 miles southeast of Naples, and toppled the cathedral belltower in Avellino, 28 miles east of Naples. The U.S. Geological Survey at Golden, Colo., reported the quake registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. Rescue efforts from the north were hampered by damaged road and rail links, and telephone and electricity lines were down in many places. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo, a native of the area, interrupted his talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who were in Rome on an official visit. Luigi Iannone, who was driving near Salerno when the quake struck, told rescuers: "I saw the buildings move like the waves of the sea, and the electric cables and trolley car lines dropped onto my car. It was something terrible." In Naples, a city of about 1.5 million people, news photographer Franco Effe said the hospitals were crowded with injured. "Everyone is in the street. There's lots of panic," he said. === Page 98 of 139 © Bart Bartholomew--Black Star A flaming horizon, San Bernardino devastation: The worst conflagration in a decade NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Fire Storm in California Grapefruit-size balls of fire--pieces of what had been roofs--hurtled at 90 mph past the ears of stunned fire fighters in the North Park section of San Bernardino, Calif. Nearby, a rescue vehicle screeched to a halt before one of the hundreds of homes in the neighborhood that had been reduced to cinders and a chimney. In the front yard lay the scorched bodies of Earl Welty, 83, and his wife, Edith, 82, who had been caught in the raging, wind-swept flames as they tried to run for shelter. Cradled in the old man's arms was a puppy, also burned to death. Twenty miles away, in Waterman Canyon below the peak of Mount Baldy, Joseph Cimino spent frantic hours moving his horses to safety and watching houses literally explode. "We couldn't save my daughter's house," he recalled later. "The winds were terrific. It was like a rainstorm--but of fire." In tindery hillside areas stretching 100 miles from Malibu on the coast to San Bernardino inland, the "devil winds" swept across southern California again last week, propelling fires that incinerated holiday turkeys in abandoned homes and caused the worst damage in a decade. The latest wave of fires--coming only days after blazes had destroyed 73 houses and 60,000 acres of property--claimed four lives, 323 homes, 150 other buildings and 84,000 acres of land. Officials estimated structural damage at $42 million and watershed damage at another $40 million. The destruction is practically a seasonal hazard for residents in the region's scenic hills and mountains. Each fall, high-pressure weather fronts build up over Nevada and Utah, creating warm desert winds--the Santa Anas--that sweep through mountain passes to the low-pressure areas along southern California's coast. The area is almost always extremely dry, and a single spark can create a blaze that moves like a giant blowtorch. Hurricane Force: The worst property damage was in San Bernardino's North Park, dubbed "Chimney Row" by survivors. One fire broke out nearby just as a new round of Santa Anas came roaring down the mountainside, gusting to hurricane force and leaving inhabitants little time to react. "I ran out my back door and saw the back wall on fire," said one woman. "By the time I ran down the driveway to the front of the house the whole place was gone." A few tried to save their homes by hosing down the roofs; one man suffered a heart attack in the process. Officials said they found unspecified "incendiary devices" where the fire began. 'Chimney Row': In the inferno, no time to react Photos by Len Lahman--Visions An abandoned campfire started another blaze at the foot of Thunder Mountain near the Mount Baldy ski area. June Mitchell, 24, one of hundreds who tried to clear out, loaded her Volkswagen with her skis, books, records and pets, then walked away to say goodbye to neighbors. Somebody stole the car. Along the Ventura Freeway--at the same spot where a huge 1970 fire had started--a power transformer blew up, sparking flames that the winds carried down Malibu Canyon toward the seacoast. The biggest fire, in which officials suspected arson, began near Lake Elsinore and burned 28,000 acres. By the end of the week the winds eased and fire fighters managed to bring most of the fires under control. President Carter declared three counties disaster areas, enabling property owners to qualify for low-interest Federal loans, and there was little doubt that most would choose to rebuild, many of them on the same sites. But even those who escaped the fire must still worry about the water next time: when the rainy season finally arrives, it will almost surely trigger floods and mud slides across the fire-denuded landscape. DENNIS A. WILLIAMS with MARTIN KASINDORF in San Bernardino NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 - "Power" Attack - 39 === Page 99 of 139 Following arrest - Power "Attack" - Note: Here, Vancouver. Helicopter pilot's lice. By BENNY EVANGELISTA JR and STEVEN K. WAGNER of The Oregonian staff The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the license of a 24-year-old helicopter pilot Tuesday afternoon for "recklessly endangering lives" during a high-flying journey this week that authorities said stretched from the Portland-area to the Oregon coast. The pilot, Gregory L. Bonome, who gave home addresses at both 12656 S.E. Stark St. and in Clatskanie, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, driving an aircraft under the influence of an intoxicant and violating air traffic regulations, said Vancouver, Wash., police Capt. Robert King. Bonome's father posted $500 bail Tuesday morning, King said. Richard Henderson, chief of the FAA's General Aviation District Office at the Portland-Troutdale Airport, said Bonome's license was revoked under unusual, "emergency revocation measures" that were "the most extreme thing we can do as far as enforcement." He said reports that Bonome on Sunday and Monday had made numerous unauthorized landings, had flown after allegedly consuming alcohol and had piloted in "a reckless manner endangering the lives of himself, his passengers and those on the ground were serious enough to demand immediate revocation of his license." Vancouver police arrested Bonome after a helicopter landed in a parking lot at Clark College, shortly after clipping a power line at Interstate 5 and 29th Street in Vancouver at about 9 p.m. Monday. Kimberly Brooks, 19, of Scappoose, a passenger in the helicopter, was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting reckless endangering, King said. A $300 bail was posted by her family Tuesday morning, King said. A second woman fled from the helicopter after it made the bumpy landing at Clark College, but she was not being sought by police, said King, who added that her identity was not known. No injuries were reported, but the downed I-5 power line started several small fires in bark dust along the highway, King said. Power went out in about 1,100 homes in the surrounding area for as long as three hours and 40 minutes said Mick Shutt, a spokesman for the Clark County Public Utility District. Bonome said in an interview Tuesday that he did not have anything stronger than coffee during the eight hours before landing in Vancouver. FAA rules prohibit pilots from flying within eight hours after drinking alcohol. King said a fifth of alcohol was DOWNED CHOPPER -- Heliocopter pilot Greg Bon (right) talks with craft's former owner, Arden Danie in Clark College parking lot in Vancouver, Wash., T "It was foggy and nighttime and I didn't see the wire," Bonome said of the I-5 power line. "I hit it, the copter jiggled and I took the first spot that was lighted and pulled in. "I looked at the damage and got a gun stuck in my face," Bonome said. King said when Washington State Patrol troopers arrived where the copter had landed, they had to turn off the craft. He said it took authorities a while to figure out how to turn off the helicopter engines. "There were five or six cops in the front seat trying to figure out how to shut it off," Bonome said. "It was kinda funny." Also on Monday, Bonome was cited in Cannon Beach for illegally landing his craft within city limits at about 4:30 p.m., said Cannon Beach police Cpl. Steven Barnett. Barnett said Bonome told him he landed in Cannon Beach "to have a drink at a local establishment." After the citation was issued, a helicopter was reported to have "buzzed" the Cannon Beach City Hall and downtown businesses, Barnett said. at the Hillsb copter land close to the up," Hender At about sheriff's de had landed and gold Hu away Park sheriff's Ca Bonome of any cou after lettin away, Klev ported to th At about at the Rock Union area pilot had lan "for a few be Multnomah Terry Lorz s the Flower l lot at 14542 after midnigh "I don't kn crashing in there," Lorz shrouded the Greg 12/17/80 === Page 100 of 139 Ice storm glazes Plains while East basks 12/9/80 By United Press International The southern fringes of an ice storm, blamed for eight deaths in the Plains, dumped up to 6 inches of snow in the New Mexico mountains and glazed highways in Oklahoma and Kansas Tuesday. Record warm temperatures sent the mercury climbing in the East Monday. Baltimore recorded a high of 74, breaking a record of 73 degrees set in 1966. Allentown, Pa., basked in 76-degree weather. Below-freezing temperatures stretched from Wyoming to Lake Superior. Winds gusting to 58 mph persisted in New Eng-land. Snow and freezing rain stretched across Oklahoma and Kansas, with an inch reported at Gage, Okla., and Dodge City, Kan. The storm also swept the Texas Panhandle with snow and ice. Heavy rains soaked Arkansas, with Jonesboro and Little Rock recording more than an inch. The ice storm glazed streets and sent cars skidding from Texas to Iowa, killing eight people. Six persons died on ice-slicked roads in Nebraska, one in Kansas, and one in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported Interstate 40 from Oklahoma City west to the Texas state line was covered by a solid sheet of ice. A bus carrying students from Concho Indian School careened into another vehicle late Monday near El Reno, Okla., killing one person in the auto. Power lines encrusted with ice knocked out power in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and rain-soaked telephone cables in Oklahoma City left 19,000 residents without phone service. The freezing rain and drizzle, turning to snow overnight, persisted in Kansas for a second day, triggering scores of traffic accidents and killing one man. "We have had nothing but accidents," said a Wichita police dispatcher. "I couldn't begin to tell you how many injuries." Frozen power lines left thousands of residents in Salina and Russell, Kan., without electricity. A transformer in Hutchinson, Kan., was knocked out, leaving 1,500 people without power or heat. The Salvation Army provided temporary shelter for some. Scattered snow showers spread a coat of up to 6 inches over northern and eastern New Mexico, dropping power service to Albuquerque. Some 50,000 public utility customers lost electricity early Monday morning. A 45-minute blackout for the University of New Mexico took place at noon and evening classes in Albuquerque public schools sent students home running at noon. === Page 101 of 139 Calif. PK - "Power" Attack # Fire peril eases in seared California oreg p. 11/26/80 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) -- Hot, howling winds that drove demon brush fires through Southern California's exclusive neighborhoods for three days, turning them into charred war zones and killing at least four persons, began to diminish Wednesday. Winds packing gusts up to 90 mph dipped to 30 mph in most areas, giving the 4,000 firefighters on the lines some hope of containing the eight separate fires that have so far blackened more than 50,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 500 homes, some valued up to $750,000. "The winds have died down and we have been able to hold the fires," said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Charles Coval. There were no estimates on when the fires would be controlled. Four persons, including an elderly couple, died Tuesday in the swift-moving flames that forced more than 15,000 residents to flee -- many with only the clothes on their backs. Thousands who had left their homes in terror Monday returned Tuesday to incinerated neighborhoods that resembled a scorched war zone. In some cases, looters had picked through the charred rubble for valuables that didn't melt or go up in smoke. Specially trained Air National Guardsmen from Wyoming were called in to join California and Texas units in battling flames in the San Bernardino National Forest. By afternoon, four C-130 air transports and 22 Air Guardsmen from Cheyenne, Wyo., were flying missions, dropping thousands of gallons of retardant over the fire. The most destructive blaze, the 12,800-acre arson-caused Waterman blaze, was blamed for an estimated $29.5 million damage -- $25 million in property losses and $4.5 million in watershed damage. At least 268 structures were destroyed and 66 were listed as damaged in the foothills above San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Acting Gov. Mike Curb declared the fire-stricken regions of San Bernardino County disaster areas, opening the way for formal requests for federal aid and loans. Fire officials said late Tuesday that the fire "has been quiet" and that the blaze was 10 percent contained. Earlier, Earl Welty, 83, and his wife, Edith, 82, were caught in the firestorm. The couple's charred bodies were found in their front yard. The old man was clutching his dead puppy in his arms. Another victim, Joseph Benjamin, 54, collapsed while helping neighbors water down home his home, and he later died. Rosa Myers, 64, suffered a fatal heart attack while being evacuated from her home, which was not destroyed. At least 65 persons, most of them firefighters, were treated for minor eye injuries and the effects of the choking, black smoke. Eight looters were arrested Monday night. Troops were ordered in to patrol burned-out neighborhoods. The Mount Baldy fire, caused by an abandoned campfire and the biggest blaze at 14,500 acres, destroyed 12 vacation cabins and still was raging out of control Wednesday morning in heavy timber. A 4,000-acre blaze, set by an arsonist about 10 miles southwest of Waterman Canyon, briefly threatened the community of Rancho Cucamonga. One home was destroyed and the 25,000 residents were told to prepare to evacuate. Another blaze, started by a downed power line about 6 miles east of the Waterman fire, was reported 60 percent contained early Wednesday. In San Diego County, a 700-acre blaze erupted Tuesday afternoon along Interstate 15 in the Poway area. No structures were threatened immediately. The Trabuco fire, burning 7 miles north of Lake Elsinore, destroyed four homes and was raging out of control early Wednesday after scorching 8,000 acres. Another 7,000-acre blaze near Lake Elsinore was unchecked. In Los Angeles County, a 2,600-acre blaze in Malibu Canyon was reported 95 percent contained late Tuesday. [Map of Southern California showing fire locations in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside Counties] LOS ANGELES COUNTY Agoura Angeles National Forest San Bernardino Nat'l Forest Crestline San Antonio Heights San Bernardino SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Los Angeles ORANGE COUNTY Cleveland National Forest Riverside Corona RIVERSIDE COUNTY Elsinore Pacific Ocean === Page 102 of 139 # Dying winds slow spread of California brush fires "Power" and Rain Attack -> + Calif PK LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Erratic wind that whipped firestorms across 50,000 acres of Southern California -- causing the destruction of scores of homes and $25 million in damage -- died down early Monday and slowed the advance of the flames. Wind that gusted up to 90 mph at times Sunday and fanned several blazes on tinder-dry hillsides decreased to 10 to 20 mph. Fire officials estimated the fires could be contained later Monday or on Tuesday if the wind does not kick up. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes and at least one death was blamed on the fires. At least 61 homes were destroyed and 30 others were damaged. Entire communities were evacuated with some people fleeing with only the clothes they wore. There also were scattered reports of looting and people suffering from smoke inhalation. The wind blew down power lines, sparking a 100-acre fire in Malibu and knocking out water pumps, adding to the confusion in some areas where residents struggled to hose down their houses with falling water pressure. "THE FIRE knocked out the water system because there was no electricity," said Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Dick Friend. "Most of the houses that burned had swimming pools with a large water supply right there that wasn't tapped, but we couldn't get at it." In some neighborhoods, the flames raged in virtual firestorms as the winds picked up red hot chunks and tossed them from house to house. The Bradbury and Duarte area 40 miles east of Los Angeles, had $25 million in damage as flames raced across 12,000 acres. Los Angeles County fire spokesman Jim Davids said the blaze was 30 percent controlled, but burned out of control on the northern flank towards the Angeles National Forest. Nearly the entire population of the exclusive foothill community of Bradbury was evacuated as 13 homes valued at $500,000 each exploded in flames and four others were damaged. In Duarte, 36 homes were destroyed and 24 were damaged. Four homes were destroyed in Duarte and 24 were damaged. Most of the 15,000 residents of Bradbury moved out early Sunday. One of them, Dr. John Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to save his property. WORLD FAMOUS race driver Mickey Thompson saved his Bradbury home using fire extinguishers from the dozen race cars in his garage. Six of the cars were left a twisted mass of black metal. A brush fire in the hills of the Sunland area, 10 miles northwest of downtown, destroyed at least eight ranch-style homes as residents led dogs and frightened horses through the snowstorm-like swirl of ash. The Sunland flames traveled southeast towards Burbank and Glendale and scorched about 10,000 acres of brush. One Burbank neighborhood less than 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles was forced to evacuate late Sunday, but a Burbank city fire spokeswoman early Monday said no homes were threatened. "We hope to have the fire contained by this morning if the wind doesn't pick up," said Sandy Hawthorne. evg: 11/17/80 === Page 103 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Snowstorm puts skids under life back East By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A storm that left the cow towns and oil cities of West Texas and Oklahoma mired in snow a foot deep sped eastward into the Appalachians and the Middle Atlantic states, a weatherman's surprise that paralyzed traffic, closed schools and shut off power to thousands. The accumulation of up to 17 inches was the heaviest November snowfall on record in places and the deepest at any time of year during the last decade in other areas. Three traffic deaths were blamed on the storm, including two people who were killed when a church bus flipped over Sunday on a rain-slickened highway near Luling, Texas, also injuring 36. "We got a bunch of ice and a bunch of snow on top of that," said a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety in Lubbock, where 11 inches had accumulated by Monday morning. "It all adds up to one big problem. It's slick and hazardous any way you want to go out of Lubbock." By midday, the storm system had reached Appalachia, spreading the first snow of the season 1 to 4 inches deep in an area from West Virginia's Northern Panhandle to the Laurel Mountains of Pennsylvania. Eight inches of snow blanketed Pittsburgh, interrupting school bus service for homeward-bound students. Some youngsters waited three to four hours for a ride home, said Pat Crawford, a school district spokeswoman. Operations at Pittsburgh International Airport were running about 20 minutes late "and getting longer," operations manager Jim King said. Crews were busy plowing runways to keep them clear. A spot check of Pennsylvania State Police barracks turned up numerous reports of skidding and sliding accidents, but no serious injuries were reported. "Some lanes are tied up because of accidents and because people can't get up the hills," a spokeswoman for the state police said. "Nobody has their snow tires on." Later in the evening, snow began to fall in New York and New Jersey, with up to 6 inches expected in some rural areas by morning. In New York City, a crew of 227 salt spreaders was put on alert, while New Jersey officials said the snow and freezing rain would provide welcome moisture for the parched northern part of the state. A spokesman for the American Automobile Club in Oklahoma City said hundreds of motorists were calling for help. "Most of the wreckers are getting stuck," the spokesman said. "We've lost four so far." Oregon 11/18/80 Associated Press Laserphoto COLD TROUBLE -- Roxy Rider and Bud Ansley inspect their demolished carport and damaged cars Monday following snowstorm in Amarillo, Texas. The snow was measured at 4 inches, with up to a foot elsewhere in the state. === Page 104 of 139 - 5th vs U.S. Govt Attack - # 13 perish in AF plane crash CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force transport plane en route to desert maneuvers with Egyptian troops as part of a U.S. Rapid Deployment Force crashed at an Egyptian air base, killing all 13 aboard, U.S. officials said. A U.S. Embassy spokesman and the Pentagon in Washington said the six crew members and seven passengers, all Air Force personnel, were killed late Wednesday. The plane crashed as it approached for landing at the Cairo West Airbase, where about 700 men from the Rapid Deployment Force, half the battalion-sized contingent headed for the joint exercise, arrived Wednesday. The rest of the contingent began arriving Thursday. The embassy spokesman said the crash occurred shortly before midnight. The cause and details were not known. An investigation is being conducted, he said. The aircraft, flown by a crew from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state, was participating in joint exercises of the American Rapid Deployment Force and Egyptian military forces. Names of the dead were being withheld until relatives are notified. The 100,000-member Rapid Deployment Force is being readied by the Pentagon for possible use in the event of any threat to Western access to Persian Gulf oil. The joint exercises are scheduled to last 12 days. About 700 men from the 101st Airborne Division, led by the RDF commander, Lt. Gen. Paul Kelly, arrived Wednesday at Cairo West airfield. About as many were to land on successive flights throughout Thursday to bring the total contingent's strength to 1,400. Backed by 12 A-7 warplanes, the troops will to stage joint maneuvers with the Egyptians, sometimes using live ammunition, in vast stretches of desert surrounding Cairo West airfield. The base, one of Egypt's largest, is about 40 miles west of Cairo near the desert highway connecting the capital with the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The American troops came in C-141 and C-5A Galaxy transports. The airlift, which includes support personnel and equipment, involves about 100 flights. - "Power + Rain Attack" - # Human error blamed for air traffic mix-up CLEVELAND (UPI) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has concluded that a technician caused the electrical problem that knocked out the Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center Tuesday night, causing diversions or delays for about 200 aircraft over the eastern United States. FAA spokesman Warren Hollsberg said the failure of the center's primary power and the subsequent failure of back-up generators caused 113 aircraft to be diverted out of the Cleveland center's air space and that 95 others were delayed en route or on the ground. Holsbert said the Cleveland Center failure, believed to be the first such loss of both primary and main back-up power at an FAA control center, began when an FAA technician was preparing to do preventive maintenance on the power system. "As he was taking the back off a switching box to the power conditioning system, he dropped it," he said. "It was made of metal and it apparently fell across an electrical bus and shorted it out. There was such a large surge of voltage that it caused the transformer to blow out and that's where the difficulty arose." He said the FAA concluded, "It was a human error." - 5th vs U.S. govt. - # U.S. pilot dies in plane crash SARAGOSSA, Spain (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed and his co-pilot injured in the crash of their F-4 Phantom jet, which was brought down by a collision with a bird. The Phantom, based in Spangdahlem, West Germany, was on a practice firing run Thursday at the Bardenas Reales range in Navarre province in northeastern Spain when the accident occurred. The Spanish Civil Guard said the body of the dead officer was discovered amid the wreckage of his F-4, 15 miles from the firing range. The Civil Guard said the co-pilot was found 3 miles from the downed plane, suffering from severe shock. Both men paratuted from the plane, the police said. The co-pilot told Air Force authorities the plane crashed after flying into a large bird while executing a firing practice maneuver. - U.S. Beam. Attack - # Air traffic controls fail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The automatic portion of the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Albuquerque did not function for 12 minutes over the weekend, but a Federal Aviation Administration official said no delays or near misses were reported. Chuck Ricketts said the outage probably was caused from within the system's computer programming. Air traffic controllers used a backup system, a broad-band radar system. The center controls air space from the California border to about 150 miles east of Amarillo, Texas. U.S. Beam. Attack - # Air control systems break down By BOB SECTER LA Times-Washington Post Service LOS ANGELES -- The computer that tracks all aircraft over Southern California and a key piece of equipment relied on as a backup mechanism were out of order simultaneously for more than an hour earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times learned Thursday. "Disorientation" The rare double failure Tuesday caused delays and confusion in the air traffic system and forced air traffic controllers to resort to operations that one controller described as more appropriate to "the days of the DC-3 than of the 747." While some controllers complained of tense situations caused by the simultaneous breakdowns, no near misses of aircraft were reported during the episode, which lasted from 1:40 p.m. to 2:43 p.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration records. Still, John Calipault, president of the Ohio-based Aviation Safety Institute, an independent industry watchdog group, described the situation caused by the twin failures as "potentially catastrophic." === Page 105 of 139 # nation/world ~ "Power" & Rain Attack ~ + Berm. $\triangle$ Attack # Freak tropical storm veers in Gulf NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Jeanne, a freak November hurricane that quickly lost its punch, became more erratic Thursday and took a northwesterly course. Jeanne wandered Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico to about 325 miles south-southwest of New Orleans, centered at latitude 25.5 north and longitude 91.5 west, leaving forecasters uncertain of the storm's landfall. Little change is expected until Friday. The National Weather Service predicted the storm would remain on a general northwesterly course Thursday, moving at 5 to 10 mph. It had been moving west. Berm. $\triangle$ 11/14/80 Winds accompanying the tropical storm are just below hurricane force at 70 mph, and gale-force winds extended 200 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Forecasters warned that tides ranging up to 4 feet above normal along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas posed a continuing threat of beach erosion along the Texas coast. Before the storm lost its hurricane status late Wednesday, it dropped almost 2 feet of rain and cut power in Key West, Fla., before moving into the central Gulf of Mexico. Although the waters receded rapidly, damage to cars and businesses was estimated at almost $1 million. One Key West resident took advantage of the flooding to water ski down Main Street -- pulled by a pickup truck. Jeanne covered little ground Wednesday, moving fewer than 100 miles westward. Forecaster Joe Pellisier at the National Hurricane Center predicted that Jeanne would move into colder, drier air Thursday or Friday and lose still more strength. "I don't think this storm will come ashore as a hurricane -- probably not even as a tropical storm," he said. "It's just a matter of watching its course and keeping abreast of where it is -- but as far as taking any action, that would be premature," he added. Before Jeanne passed into the Gulf of Mexico, it forced evacuations in Cuba and damaged the tobacco crop. Swells of 15 feet were reported near Brownsville, Texas, posing the threat of beach erosion. Tides were expected to run up to 4 feet above normal. More than 3,500 offshore oilfield workers in the Gulf of Mexico fled as Jeanne approached, causing millions of dollars of losses in production and through the cost of evacuations. 10 Oregon Journal, November 13, 1980 (Z) ~ She vs Govt. ~ U.S. - Berm. $\triangle$ Attack - # Army seeking clues to crash of helicopter in S. Oregon Army authorities Thursday were probing the cause of a helicopter crash in Southern Oregon Tuesday that killed three Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers. Copter parts were to be taken back to Fort Lewis to determine what happened. The wreckage of the Huey chopper was found at mid-morning Wednesday, and the Jackson County sheriff's office in Medford said all three aboard the aircraft were dead. The military helicopter was one of five on a training mission between Roseburg and Medford, according to Army officials at Fort Lewis. It disappeared Tuesday afternoon in foggy weather. "The weather was real bad," an Army spokesman said. "It was foggy. Four choppers got off, the fifth one disappeared in the fog." Those aboard the helicopter were the pilot, co-pilot and the crew chief, all from Fort Lewis. Their names were not immediately released. An air and ground search was conducted until dark Tuesday after the helicopter was reported missing about 2:35 p.m., and the search was resumed with about 40 participants at daybreak Wednesday. The helicopter was found about 10 a.m. in the Anderson Butte area 10 miles south of Medford. The Army spokesman said the helicopters were dropping off some Army Rangers Tuesday who were on a demolition exercise. All five copters were from B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry at Fort Lewis. The wreckage was strewn across the forest floor at site approximately 500 yards from where the helicopter had taken off. It was discovered when part of the search party noticed a gash in the trees apparently caused by the blades of the aircraft. - Berm. $\triangle$ Attack - **Copter, news team missing** BOCA RATON, Fla. (UPI) -- A helicopter carrying an NBC news team that covered the evacuation of Haitian refugees from Cayo Lobos in the Bahamas is reported overdue at its Boca Raton base Thursday, and Radio Bahamas said it has crashed. Three NBC-TV journalists and a pilot were aboard the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, chartered out of Boca Raton when it vanished in the Caribbean. Radio Bahamas said the helicopter crashed Wednesday night in the waters off South Andros, killing all aboard. The Coast Guard began Berm. $\triangle$ 11/14/80 === Page 106 of 139 - "Ponce" & Rain Attack - + Calif PK # Thousands flee MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1980 # California brush fires By TAMARA JONES LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thousands of residents fled hillside homes Sunday as brush fires fanned by powerful winds raced across 30,000 acres in six Southern California communities, destroying more than 100 homes -- some valued at more than $1 million. Officials blamed at least one of the largest fires on arson. One man died of a heart attack as he fled his burning home in the Bradbury area, where the worst fire destroyed or damaged 80 homes, officials said. Mickey Thompson, a race driver, suffered minor burns when flames engulfed his house in the same area. Smoke and ash blown by the northeasterly Santa Ana winds fell over much of the area, in some cases several miles from any of the fires. "It looks like evening here. There's no sun to be seen," said William Baker of San Clemente where the sky was darkened by smoke from a blaze 30 miles away. A fire burned for a time above Pacific Palisades, where the home of President-elect Ronald Reagan is situated. But city fire officials said the blaze was contained and never threatened any homes. Residents of Bradbury, a rustic community of less than 10,000 people 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, were advised by authorities to evacuate after a roaring firestorm covered 10,000 acres. Sheriff's deputies arrested two looters as they allegedly searched the ruins of homes, valued up to $1.3 million. Mary Stratton fled her $300,000 home just before it burned to the ground. "Of course, we'll rebuild -- look how lucky I am just to talk about it," she said. John Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart attack as he fled his burning neighborhood, said officials at Santa Teresita Hospital. The Bradbury fire started Saturday and then was blown out control by early morning winds gusting to 90 mph. The other fires erupted Sunday and also were fed by the high northeasterly winds. In Riverside County, near Lake Elsinore, 12,500 acres were destroyed and one home under construction burned in less than five hours as 50 mph winds pushed the blaze toward the community of Fallbrook. Riverside County sheriff's deputies said they believed the fire was arson and said they had an unidentified man in custody. In Carbon Canyon, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, several horses died and two homes were damaged when fire scorched 5,500 acres. The blaze was threatening the small community of Olina, as well as petroleum storage tanks and a nearby warehouse containing ammonium nitrate, an explosive fertilizer. A 8,500-acre fire that destroyed eight homes in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland crested a ridge overlooking Burbank, and residents of some apartments on the edge of that city and nearby Glendale were advised to evacuate, fire officials said. "The fire is almost on top of us. It's just a few hundred feet from us. This is a terrifying experience," said Burbank resident Jack Elwood who said he was going to hose down the top of his house. Two homes were destroyed near Malibu when a fire erupted at 5:30 a.m. and quickly burned through 100 acres, but the blaze was reported extinguished a few hours later. As fire trucks struggled up the narrow hillside roads of Bradbury, residents frantically moved down the roads to safety, some in hastily packed station wagons jammed with belongings, others leading bucking horses. Many homes burned to the ground before men and equipment could reach them. In some cases, firefighters were able to get to burning residences but watched helplessly as flames destroyed the structures because there was no water pressure. The high winds had knocked out power to booster pumping stations in the hilly area. About 30 animal control officers from the Los Angeles City Department of Animal Regulation who were participating in the current city workers' strike went back to work to rescue animals in the Sunland fire, said Francis Keane of Volunteer Services to Animals. Hundreds of firefighters were on the line battling the blazes, and the state Office of Emergency Services said more personnel were being called in from the northern and central part of the state to aid in fighting the fires. The sprawling Angeles National Forest just north of Los Angeles was closed early Sunday due to high fire danger as humidity dipped to 11 percent in Southern California, the National Weather Service reported. === Page 107 of 139 # Powerful earthquake rocks West Coast ## Temblors rattle S. Oregon towns By DAVID EINSTEIN EUREKA, Calif. (AP) -- The most powerful earthquake in Northern California in more than a half-century shook a 500-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast early Saturday, knocking homes off foundations and injuring five people when a car and truck plunged from a collapsed highway overpass. Scientists said the quake measured between 6.6 and 7.1 on the Richter scale, and one resident of this coastal community said it "felt like the end of the world." But overall damage was believed slight in the largely rural area. The tremors were felt in several Southwestern Oregon communities. Chairs, desks and beds shook in Brookings, Klamath Falls and Medford, witnesses said. "One guy called this morning to complain that he'd been thrown out of his waterbed," said Terrie Yock, a dispatcher for the Brookings Police Department. "You bet we felt it." Ms. Yock said the shaking began about 2:29 a.m. "It woke me up," she said. "The doors were rattling and the bed was shaking." Similar tremors were felt in Klamath Falls and Medford, although there were no reports of damage or injuries. "It was kind of moderate," said Kathy Davis, a Klamath Falls police officer. Carlene Hunt, a Medford Police Department dispatcher, said her switchboard became "jammed with calls, more calls than we could handle" shortly after the quake. "I barely felt it," she said. "I think it was aftershocks." Police officials in Roseburg and Eugene said the quake was not felt that far north. Mayor Bob Iles of Rogue River said it felt "like a train coming through the house." "I felt the house move," Iles said. "The windows were making kind of a tick-tock noise." "Could you tell me what happened last night?" Ruth King of Grants Pass asked in a call to the sheriff's office. She said she was awakened when her house "began moving." Wayne McKy, 47, a native of the Grants Pass area, said it was the first time he had felt an earthquake in the area. "The candy dish lid was shaking," said former Southern California resident Elizabeth Kempin of Colonial Valley, near Grants Pass. "But I did wonder if I was dreaming." Five members of a Eureka family were injured, two critically, when their car crashed off a shattered overpass on U.S. 101 and a pickup truck smashed down on top of them, police said. The truck driver sustained minor injuries. The quake, at 2:28 a.m., temporarily knocked out electricity to some 7,500 homes, but Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said power was quickly restored. It was the most powerful quake in the area since a 7.2-magnitude tremor on Jan. 22, 1923. Don Finley of the National Earthquake Information Service at Golden, Colo., said that the last time there was a larger earthquake in the 48 contiguous states was Aug. 17, 1959, when a 7.1 magnitude quake at Hebgen Lake, Mont., killed 28 people and injured many others. At least 10 aftershocks in excess of 4.0 Richter were recorded in the two hours following the quake. The strongest was 4.9, according to the University of California at Berkeley. "It scared me to death," said Josie Byrd, 39, of McKinleyville, about 15 miles north of Eureka. "I felt like I was on a ship. My whole bed was rocking." Scientists disagreed on both the quake's magnitude and epicenter, but they agreed that Eureka, a city of 24,000, was close to the focal point. The University of California Seismographic Station in Berkeley said it registered 6.6 on the Richter scale of ground motion and placed the epicenter 10 miles southwest of here. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said it measured 7.0 and was centered 20 miles northwest of Eureka. Meanwhile, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu placed the magnitude at 7.1. It said there was no evidence the quake generated a tsunami, or tidal wave. At least one person was treated for a heart attack at Eureka General Hospital, a spokesman said. Two houses in Fields Landing, seven miles south of here, were shaken from their foundations, and a house in nearby Humboldt Hill was set afire by a candle being used when the power went off, authorities said. No injuries were reported. Windows shattered and goods fell from their shelves, merchants said. However, no major damage was reported. Some gas and water mains also ruptured. A closed PG&E nuclear reactor and two fossil-fuel power generators at nearby Salmon King were undamaged, said Al Seefeldt, a division marketing supervisor. The two operating generators shut down when circuit breakers tripped, he said. The quake did no damage to the building containing nuclear fuel for the reactor, which has not been used in four years, he added. The Richter scale measures the release of energy as indicated by ground motion. A 7.0 quake is considered "major," capable of causing widespread, heavy damage. The 1906 San Francisco quake, which claimed 700 lives, occurred before the scale was developed but has been estimated at 8.3. === Page 108 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack - Ore P. 11/7/80 # Five-inch rain reported in volcano area A major Pacific storm dumped an estimated 5 inches of rain near Mount St. Helens Thursday night, but the main rivers remained below flood stage despite the runoff from the volcano's deluded slopes. The downpour also left nearly 4 inches of rain in the north coastal mountain areas of Western Oregon and Western Washington. A total of 1.63 inches of rain was recorded by the National Weather Service in north of the mountain recorded 5 inches of rain. A National Weather Service hydrologist at Seattle said the amounts were so high he would term them as "unofficial," but elsewhere in the state the storm did dump almost that much water. At Frances, in the coastal drainage system, 3.3 inches were recorded as the official figure. Snoqualmie Pass got 3 inches. At Cinebar, northwest of Mount St. Helens, 2.1 inches were recorded and at and 1.80 inches at Newport. The weather service warned of potential problems from trees toppling as high winds batter them and the root systems give way in the soggy ground. Flooded streets were problems throughout the area, as leaves clogged storm sewers and puddles swelled into ponds blocking off some neighborhood streets. The wet weather is expected to continue through the weekend, with showers and partial clearing periods forecast for Saturday and winds gusting up to 20 mph at times. Portland. Gusty winds whipped power lines, causing minor outages in Beavercreek, Orient, Colton and along Bridgeton Road, according to spokesmen from Portland General Electric and Pacific Power & Light Co. Residents kept a wary eye on high water in the ash-choked Toutle and Cowlitz rivers in Southwest Washington and the Wilson and Nehalem rivers near the Oregon coast. The weather service reported at dawn Friday that the rain was tapering off and all major streams in the area were expected to remain below flood proportions. The Toutle River near Silver Lake crested about 7 a.m. and the Cowlitz River at Castle Rock was expected to crest at 10 a.m. The Cowlitz was expected to show a total rise of 5 feet from Thursday morning by the time it crested at Castle Rock and forecasters predicted it would rise another 1 1/2 feet at Kelso by the time it crested there Friday afternoon. Despite the heavy rains, the weather service said it would take a lot more rain before the rivers would reach flood stage. The rivers "have been quite low and now are not anywhere near flood stage," a spokesman said. A network of precipitation gauges is expected to be installed around Mount St. Helens soon. Meanwhile, one gauge at Mount Mitchell south of the volcano was reported to have collected 4 inches of rain in 24 hours and one at Abernethy Peak Ohanapecosh, in the upper Cowlitz basin, 2.8 inches fell in 18 hours. Strong winds raked the volcano during the storm, but it remained seismically quiet. Some minor flooding was reported in a Cowlitz River tributary that was not affected by the May 18 eruption that sent tons of debris down the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers into the Columbia River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that the extra water from the latest storm was being contained by a retention barrier the corps built east of Camp Baker. The corps is rushing dredging of the Cowlitz to create a channel allowing greater water flow and plans to continue dredging as conditions warrant during the winter. During heavy rains last weekend, the corps estimated the retainment dam along the South Fork of the Toutle trapped 50,000 to 100,000 cubic yards of silt. The U.S. Geological Survey has predicted 400 million cubic yards of silt will wash off the volcano's slopes and into the Cowlitz or Columbia this winter. There was some ponding in places along the lower Cowlitz Thursday night due to local runoff and water from Arkansas Creek backed up and over the Highway 411 detour. Power outages were reported in Eugene and Tillamook, where high winds were a problem. Rainfall was recorded at 1.51 inches at Eugene, 1.11 inches at Brookings, 1.77 inches at Olympia, 1.34 inches at North Bend, .99 of an inch at Seattle - "Power" + Rain Attack - ## Tigard area loses power TIGARD - A major part of Tigard was without power for more than an hour Friday morning when a mechanical failure occurred at a Portland General Electric Co. substation. Ore 11/14/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - ## Leaks hit 2 nuclear plants By The Associated Press Small leaks of radioactive gas were reported Sunday at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant at Lusby, Md., and at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant at Delta, Pa. The radioactive gas released from the Calvert Cliffs plant posed no threat to the public or plant employees, plant officials said. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. said the leak - which released about two-hundredths of a millirem of radiation at the plant's boundary - was caused by a faulty valve mechanism in the plant's water purification system. The release at Peach Bottom's Unit 2 reactor reached 44 percent of the maximum amount permitted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Philadelphia Electric Co. Ore 11/17/80 === Page 109 of 139 Power + Rain of Mack - # Record snow overpowering in Northeast By The Associated Press A record November snowstorm blamed for 16 deaths across the nation assaulted the urban Northeast with unexpected intensity Tuesday, crippling communities unprepared for foot-deep snows so early in the season. In much of New England it was the heaviest snow ever to fall so early in November. Some areas recorded more than half as much snow as fell all of last season. The snow, more than a foot deep in places from Pennsylvania through New England, snapped leaf-laden tree limbs, ripped down power lines and left thousands of homes without electricity. Motorists caught without snow tires or chains skidded into ditches and slammed into other cars and trucks in chain-reaction pileups. "There were footprints on the Parkway," said a Port Authority bus driver in Pittsburgh who encountered numerous motorists walking away from their stalled cars. In Massachusetts, where accumulations ranged from a few inches to 10 inches in the Berkshires, several communities were caught with their snowplows in mothballs. "It took the city by surprise," said Pat Crawford, a spokeswoman for the city schools in Pittsburgh, where students at five elementary schools were stranded when the snow started falling Monday afternoon. The snowstorm, which left record November depths of up to 17 inches in parts of West Texas and Oklahoma Monday, signaled the start of a good ski season in New England. In New Hampshire, 8 to 10 inches had covered the southern part of state, with almost 12 inches reported in Springfield. Forecasters said never had snow been so heavy so early in November since records have been kept. Earlier, two traffic deaths in Texas on a rain-slick road and one in Oklahoma were blamed on the storm, which in one day left eight times the normal November snowfall in Oklahoma. As the storm moved eastward, four people died in separate snow-related road accidents in Ohio, three were killed in similar accidents in New York, two in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey. In addition, a 9-year-old boy in Armstrong County, Pa., was found dead in his backyard swimming pool after he went outside to shovel snow, and deaths were reported in Concord, N.H., and Holyoke, Mass., when two men suffered apparent heart attacks from shoveling snow. Oreg. 11/19/80 === Page 110 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Satsop crane mishap third to strike project SATSOP, Wash. (AP) - Shifting topsoil or a snagged load may have caused the third major crane accident in 15 months at the twin nuclear power project near this Grays Harbor County town, an engineer said Tuesday. Larry Shapiro, an engineer for Zurn Industries Inc. of Tampa, Fla., said insurance investigators had identified two possible reasons why a 40-ton concrete column fell 55 feet and broke into pieces at the bottom of a reactor cooling tower Monday. The pre-cast column broke free and fell from a massive crane with a 150-ton lifting capacity after dangling precariously for about 30 seconds, enough time for workers to get out of the way and escape injury, said Mary Ann Johnson of the Washington Public Supply System. After the massive chunk of concrete fell from the boom of the crane to the bottom of the shell of the WPPSS No. 5 reactor's cooling tower, the boom fell across the circular top of the tower shell and broke into four pieces, she said. Parts of the boom still dangled from guy wires Tuesday, she said. Damage was estimated at $200,000, but the accident probably will have little if any effect on construction schedules, she added. Zurn, based in Tampa, Fla., has a $25.2 million contract to build the two cooling towers. Shapiro said the reason for the accident "was not pinned down exactly." Outside engineers probably will visit the WPPSS No. 5 reactor site "to make the engineering evaluation" of the accident, and a final report may be issued within a week or two, Shapiro said. One possibility was that the column "was snagged... on some reinforcing bar" atop the tower and then unbalanced the crane when it snapped free, he said. "We know that the load had touched the reinforcing bar," Shapiro added. The other potential cause was that ground shifted beneath the crane. Shapiro said the ground in the area is mostly a mixture of soil and gravel over sandstone. The No. 5 reactor is less far along in construction than the neighboring No. 3 project, where the cooling tower was capped on Friday. In August 1979, the cab of a Zurn crane was crushed by a falling support form for one of the cooling towers. The driver fled in time to escape injury. Three workers received minor injuries last May in the spectacular collapse of a 500-foot stationary derrick crane, a multimillion-dollar accident later traced to bolt fatigue. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Valve idles TVA reactor CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant, beset by equipment trouble during preproduction testing, may remain shut down most of this week, TVA spokesman Steve Goldman said Sunday. The plant was shut down automatically last week because of pump problems, but plant operators had hoped to put the $1.46 billion plant back in operation Sunday for 50 percent power trials on Monday. New problems with a pressure control valve are delaying startup of the plant, 15 miles north of Chattanooga, he said. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Con-Ed blamed WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (UPI) - The head of a task force investigating the leak of 100,000 gallons of water that flooded the Indian Point No. 2 nuclear power plant, said Wednesday he believed the accident was the result of "operator problems and design problems." Victor Stello, head of the Nuclear Regulation Commission's office of inspection and enforcement, told reporters after a day-long hearing in White Plains he felt Con Edison's procedures and the design of the plant in Buchanan produced the problems that led to the flooding. === Page 111 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # 23 inches of rain hits Key West in 24 hours KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- A record of more than 23 inches of rain in 24 hours inundated Key West Tuesday, leaving streets flooded and clogged with abandoned cars, closing schools and blacking out electricity and telephone service in some areas. The rain, which already had broken an all-time 24-hour mark of 19.88 inches on Nov. 13-14, 1954, continued to fall Tuesday evening at the rate of one to two inches an hour, National Weather Service forecaster Ray Boucher said. Late Tuesday night, however, radar indicated the heavy thunderstorms that had hung over the Lower Keys were moving south over the Florida Straits at about 10 mph. Forecasters said the torrential rains should slow and that only moderate to light rain was expected over the next several hours. The deluge was not connected to Hurricane Jeanne, which was stalled late Tuesday night about 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, Boucher said. The thunderstorms had stalled over Key West -- the southernmost point of the continental United States -- early Tuesday and didn't budge all day, Boucher said. The rains had extended into the middle of the island chain, but he said Key West was the only island with such heavy rainfall. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in the Lower and Middle Keys and motorists and boaters were advised to avoid travel until the weather cleared. The Key West police department asked residents and visitors to stay off the streets, and Monroe County school officials said all schools in the Keys would be closed Wednesday. A spokeswoman at the sheriff's department in Key West said some people were evacuated on four-wheel-drive vehicles, but could give no details. Southern Bell Telephone Co. asked people to use their telephones only in emergencies. Many residents reported trouble making calls and there was no power in some areas. "It's deep," one policeman said of the water flooding the streets. "We've got some streets with four feet of water. We've got cars floating down the street." oreg. J. 11/12/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Downed wire blacks out Douglas area SUTHERLIN (UPI) -- Parts of central Douglas County were without power for more than an hour Saturday evening when a wire fell across a 115,000-volt transmission line in Sutherlin, Pacific Power & Light Co. reported. The community of Sutherlin was blacked out for nearly two hours and Oakland was without electricity for more than 1 1/2 hours before service was restored, PP&L spokesman Glen Gillespie said. Winchester and some areas surrounding Roseburg were blacked out for brief periods, he said. The outages began shortly after 5 p.m. Sheriff's deputies said witnesses reported three loud explosions at a transformer in Sutherlin. Rescue crews were dispatched to the scene when a "live" wire fell to the ground. No injuries were reported. oreg. J. 11/10/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Twisters, snow hit South, Plains By United Press International Three tornadoes ripped through southern Mississippi, overturning trailer homes and downing power lines, and the first snow of the season fell in many areas from the central Plains to the lower Ohio Valley. Travelers advisories were in effect early Tuesday across eastern and southern Nebraska, extreme northwestern Missouri and much of Iowa, covered by 6 to 7 inches of snow. Several persons were reported injured late Monday by the twisters, which caused widespread damage near McComb and Eunice, Miss. At Morrow, Miss., the National Weather Service said two trailer homes were toppled, power lines were downed and trees were ripped up by the twisters. The tornado near Eunice caused crop damage and also downed trees and power lines. Heavy thunderstorms produced high winds, hail and nearly 5 inches of rain across southern Louisiana and Mississippi, prompting flash flood warnings. More than 6 inches of snow fell at Grand Island, Neb., established a record for the month of October. More than a half-foot of snow fell on the Colorado Rockies. A travelers' advisory was issued in northwest Iowa as the snow changed to slush on the roadways. Iowa residents shrugged off the early snowfall. "It's happened before," said Weather Service spokesman Andrew Brewington in Des Moines, where 7 inches of snow fell Monday. "Last year, here in Des Moines it (the first snow) was received Nov. 12. Snowfall is just one of those things." "This is not really anything ... it's unusual, but not earth-shattering." Showers and thundershowers were reported from eastern Tennessee to southern Louisiana. Light snow fell early Tuesday across parts of Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. Light rain and snow fell from the Mississippi Valley to the mid-Atlantic Coast states. oreg. J. 10/28/80 === Page 112 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power blackout puts vote in dark While many Oregonians knew the outcome of some races even before they went to the polls, some voters in Northeast Portland were in the dark -- literally -- when they made their choices Tuesday. A brief power outage at Woodlawn School, 7200 NE 11th Ave., caught some voters inside their curtained booths at Precincts No. 3004 and 3006. However, quick-thinking clerks rummaged for flashlights and cigarette lighters so voting could continue. Power was restored to the school in about 15 minutes, but one relieved precinct worker that the period "seemed a lot longer." Oreg. J. 11/5/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Winter attack hits early in Midwest United Press International A blustery storm brought up to a foot of snow and an early winter to eastern Montana and western North Dakota early Thursday, knocking out power and creating hazardous driving conditions. The National Weather Service said heavy, wet snow and gusts to 40 mph reduced visibility to near-zero. A bus bound for Minot, N.D., carrying 11 persons skidded off the road late Wednesday about 7 1/2 miles north of Kenmare. Kenmare Patrolman Tim Zeltinger said the snow delayed rescue efforts but it didn't appear anyone was seriously hurt. "That bus is just buried," Zeltinger said. "We've just been getting a whole slew of snow. We get snow early, but not this much." The storm knocked out power from Havre to Big Sandy, Mont., and as far south as Loma early Wednesday. Montana Power Co. district manager Charles Cox said winds and heavy snow pushed down about two dozen utility poles and snapped power lines, causing the blackout. A half-foot of snow fell at Lewistown, Mont., and more than a foot was reported at the higher elevations in the mountains. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Snow swoops down on Rockies, East By United Press International Heavy snow in the central Rockies amounted to 8 inches in Montana and 4 inches in Wyoming and Colorado, while thunderstorms swept portions of the Southern Plains. The first snow of the season fell Sunday on the triangle of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, and a massive cleanup began in New Jersey, where powerful wind caused millions of dollars in property damage and forced more than 170 persons from their homes. Heavy snow warnings were in effect for the mountains of central Colorado, and travel advisories were issued from southwestern South Dakota to eastern Colorado. The heaviest snow reported was in Great Falls, Mont., where up to 8 inches fell. Thunderstorms swept through western Oklahoma and north-central Texas. Rain changed to snow over portions of South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa as temperatures fell during the night. About 6 inches of snow fell in the Terra Alta, W.Va., area, with about 3 inches remaining on the ground by noon. Three-inch snowfalls were common in other mountainous areas, and the mercury plunged to 17 degrees at Snowshoe, W.Va. Up to 5 inches of snow fell in northeast Ohio. Three inches of snow fell in northwest Pennsylvania, and up to 2 inches layered higher elevations of the Laurel Mountains. Advisories for stockmen and hunter were posted over southwestern Montana, and travel advisories were issued for parts of Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska. New Jersey cleanup operations were centered in Cumberland County, especially along the Delaware Bay, where more than 170 people were forced to flee. Residents were returning to their homes Sunday to assess damage. "All along the bay they were hit hard," said civil defense worker David Yates. Reports of damage to homes, cars and boats were "in the millions. They're still counting it up," he said. High wind also battered New England as crews began to clean the debris from a furious rainstorm Saturday. Three deaths were reported in Connecticut, one a Milford firefighter who drowned Saturday when his rowboat overturned. Oreg. J. 10/27/80 # Oil drilling rig drifts in Pacific KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) -- An ocean-going, oil-drilling rig with 18 men aboard remained adrift but secure early Saturday in 35-foot North Pacific seas about 400 miles south of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Island chain, the Coast Guard reported. Spokesman Jeff Moustafa said heavy weather snapped the tow line between the oil rig, "Dan's Prince's," and the Dutch tug "Smit New York" Wednesday night, leaving the rig to bob in high swells. The weather also reportedly destroyed the rig's helicopter pad. Oreg J. 10/18/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - Note: Have you noticed how many oil rigs have caught on fire or blown up or fallen down since the SI's began their "Power" attack? Owens === Page 113 of 139 Bad valve blamed in blast NEW CASTLE, Del. (UPI) -- Leaking fumes caused an explosion at an Amoco plastics plant that killed five workers and injured 28 others, a state investigative team says. A report released Thursday by the state fire marshal's office and the Delaware Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the fumes escaped through a leaking valve Tuesday as polypropylene was being pumped from a reactor at high pressure. The escaping vapor rose and mixed with the atmosphere, causing the explosion, the report said. oreg. 10/25/80 Note: Have you noticed how many mysterious, unexplainable, "blasts" and explosions have taken place all over the U.S. since the SI's have begun their attacks? Owens -- "Power" & Rain Attack -- THE OREGONIAN, THUR # Drilling rig goes down; crew of 18 evacuated KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- An offshore drilling rig from which 18 crew members were evacuated sank early Wednesday in the stormy North Pacific about two hours after capsizing while under tow, the U.S. Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported. The 18-member crew of the platform Dan Prince was evacuated Monday night by the Coast Guard cutter Boutwell, which reported the sinking after periodic checks Tuesday night. At 5:25 a.m., the rig sank in deep water about 600 miles south of Kodiak, rescue center spokesman Lt. Tom Nichols said. Sonar tracking lost the platform as it descended below 200 feet, he said, adding that he is uncertain how deep the water is at that location. The cutter remained on the scene, waiting for daylight to see if there was any debris to be picked up and whether an oil slick would result. The Coast Guard estimated there were about 1,500 barrels of fuel oil aboard the platform. When the Boutwell checked the rig at 3:45 a.m., it discovered the triangular platform was on its back with its three 75-foot legs sticking up in the air, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Fancher. The tug Smit New York cut the tow line when the rig went bottom up, he said. Earlier, Fancher had predicted that the rig would sink before the night was over because it was taking on water and the seas were too rough to put anyone aboard to refuel pumps to control flooding in two leaking ballast tanks. Seas were running about 14 feet with 18-knot winds. Loose gear rolling around on deck added to the problems, the Coast Guard said. The platform, owned by Scout Shipping of Monrovia, Liberia, was on its way from Norton Sound on Alaska's northwest coast to Ivory Coast, Africa, when a severe storm last Thursday tore the helicopter pad loose. The pad sliced through the towline and the rig drifted for two days until the weather moderated enough to reattach another line. Under the battering of 25-foot seas and 50-knot winds, cracks 8 to 12 feet long appeared along the base of the 208-foot-long deckhouse. Originally, plans were to tow the platform to Honolulu. Then it was decided that Seattle would be a better destination, but the deteriorating condition of the rig finally made it impossible to move it anywhere, Fancher said. The rig went down about 1,000 miles from where the luxury cruise ship Prinsendam sank earlier this month, he said. oreg. 10/23/80 # The nation -- "Power" & Rain Attack -- # Snowstorm kills 3 By The Associated Press A blinding snowstorm across the Rocky Mountains downed power lines, closed roads and killed three people, two of whom died in a train wreck during a blizzard in Wyoming. Tornadoes in the Plains injured at least seven people Thursday, and two twisters that swept through southwest Arkansas early Friday injured several people. The extent of those injuries was not immediately known. In Wyoming, where as much as 2 feet of snow fell during autumn's first snowstorm, two Union Pacific trains collided Thursday afternoon near Laramie, officials said. Two men were killed, and two others were seriously hurt. "We know it was blowing very hard up there," according to Union Pacific spokesman Joe McCartney, who said the weather was probably a factor in the crash. One train crashed into the rear of the other train, authorities said. The storm also contributed to the death of a Colorado man whose light plane crashed while he was attempting an instrument landing at the airport in Rock Springs, Wyo., officials said. The snow forced the closing of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Walcott Junction and the closing of two sections of U.S. 287. In Montana, authorities reported that 2 to 4 feet of snow accumulated in some mountain regions. The snow clogged roads near the 10,940-foot Beartooth Pass south of Red Lodge. oreg. 10/18/80 === Page 114 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Tornado lashes trailers, injures four in Louisiana LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- An unstable air mass hanging over Texas and Louisiana on Saturday spawned a tornado that lashed a Lafayette trailer park, injuring four people, authorities said. As the storm shifted back into Texas it "became better organized," dropping hail the size of golf balls in San Antonio, said Robert Johns of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City. The twister struck the Shiloh Place trailer park in Lafayette during a heavy rainfall and was on the ground about 15 seconds, witnesses said. One trailer was ripped from its moorings and tossed over three parked cars before it fell the ground in splinters. A second trailer was blown to pieces, and a third was overturned and shoved against another trailer, authorities said. Vermillion, Lafayette and St. Landry reported from 3 to 6 inches of rain in six hours Saturday, and a flash flood watch for the southern half of the state was in effect until midnight. Julian Nevarez, National Weather Service forecaster in charge for New Orleans, said the heavy weather evolved from a series of squall lines that preceded a cold front into Louisiana. 10/19/80 # The world - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Typhoon hits Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Floods unleashed by Typhoon Betty washed away scores of houses Tuesday as the most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines in 10 years headed for the country's main island of Luzon with winds reaching 161 miles an hour, officials said. The Philippine National Red Cross said at least 440 people were homeless after floods triggered by continuous heavy rain destroyed their houses in Albay Province, 200 miles southeast of Manila. No casualties were reported. A weather bulletin said the typhoon, earlier expected to hit land Wednesday morning, had picked up speed and now was headed for a landfall in the town of Casiguran, 137 miles northeast of Manila. 11/5/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Plutonium canister recovered RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A plutonium storage canister which ignited earlier this month and contaminated two workers was recovered Friday from the sealed-off laboratory, officials of Rockwell Hanford said. The incident occurred Oct. 9 at the Z Plant while two workers were performing what spokesmen described as a routine packaging procedure. Rockwell spokesman Hal Lindberg said the canister was recovered without incident. He said the recovery was the first entry into the contaminated laboratory since the incident occurred. Cleanup crews had been working to decontaminate rooms around the laboratory and, with that out of the way, they said they were able to concentrate on the laboratory itself. The canister contained less than half an ounce of the plutonium oxide powder, Lindberg said. The container burst open when the oxide ignited, apparently by spontaneous combustion, he said. Officials at the time said it was the first known incident of such a circumstance ever occurring. They said they will now begin trying to find out why it happened and to see what steps can be taken to prevent it from happening again. 11/1/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # 50 Workers at Atom Plant Exposed to Low Radiation New York SF Chron: 10/24/80 About 50 Consolidated Edison Co. workers were exposed to a low level of radiation when they tried to repair a 100,000-gallon water leak at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant, the utility said yesterday. The exposure last Friday, amounting to nine or 10 millirems, is not unusual for employees who maintain the reactor, said Pat Richardi, a utility spokeswoman, adding: "It's about half as much as you'd get from a chest X-ray." The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and utility officials were at the reactor yesterday trying to determine the damage caused by the leak. The leak was caused by a faulty weld in a 10-inch pipe that carries water to cool the reactor. The reactor halted when the malfunction occurred, and the water has been pumped into holding tanks where it will remain until it can be processed to remove any radioactive particles, Richardi said. Associated Press - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Shuttle power shut down The federal space agency is trying to find out what caused an automatic shutdown of a test version of the space shuttle's main power plant. The power plant developed trouble and shut down 10 seconds after it was ignited for a planned 581-second firing Monday, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The agency said the problem was in one of the three clustered engines. The power plant was being tested near Bay St. Louis, Miss. The first manned flight of the shuttle, scheduled for March 10, is not expected to be affected by Monday's problems, the agency said. 11/5/80 === Page 115 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - 80 3M A9 # New fire imperils homes LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A fire of suspicious origin headed into an unpopulated area after burning 15 square miles like a blowtorch Tuesday, and Southern California's "devil wind" pushed another fast-moving fire that threatened expensive homes in Ventura County. One firefighter was seriously burned by the first blaze, which threatened homes in Orange County as it roared across nearly 8,000 acres of canyons and oil lease land in Santa Ana Canyon. The fire destroyed two oil wells and reportedly burned to death some cattle trapped on blazing pasture land. As the Santa Ana Canyon blaze sped away from the residential area, firefighters turned their attention to a brush fire 100 miles to the northwest in Ventura County. "This one is just going crazy on us. It's moving in two different directions now," said Ventura County fire spokeswoman Diane Morgan. With the fire racing toward the ocean, expensive homes in the Thousand Oaks-Newbury Park area were imperiled. As Orange County residents had done only hours earlier, the Thousand Oaks homeowners donned bandanas against the choking smoke and began dousing shingle roofs and dry grass with garden hoses in an effort to keep the flames back. Mike Smith, a resident of the exclusive Lynn Ranch area of Thousand Oaks, said the flames were within a quarter-mile of his house. "We can hear the cracking sound of the fire, and the animals are all going crazy," he said. "Our dogs are running in circles. . . . A couple of neighbors have already packed their cars." At least 2,500 acres had burned about five hours after the blaze erupted at 8:45 a.m. Arson was suspected in the Santa Ana Canyon blaze since the fire started in two places, according to Bev Tinker, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry. As winds gusted up to 50 mph, flames blackened 7,000 acres 30 miles east of Los Angeles in Santa Ana Canyon, for which the legendary "devil wind" was named decades ago. Forestry Department spokesman Ted Pfeiffer said the blaze has "the potential of destroying a lot of structures." The winds also caused a power blackout in Yorba Linda. The oil wells were destroyed and a liquid propane gas tank was threatened near Prado Dam, where the fast-moving fire started, the Forestry Department said. Construction worker Gary Ridley was working on one of the many new housing tracts in Santa Ana Canyon when the fire suddenly roared in. "The flames were jumping at least 500 feet across the new home pads that were built and are coming this way," said Ridley, who fled. Diane Taylor, a resident, said she could see flames from upstairs windows in her $180,000 home in Yorba Linda. "It was scary," she said. Fourteen families evacuated voluntarily to a Red Cross center in the gymnasium at Anaheim's Canyon High School. eteq. 10/29/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - By ALAN K. OTA of The Oregonian staff 11/9/80 Thunderstorms raked Portland Saturday with what city officials called the most intense rains of recent years, flooding basements and causing logjams of traffic at 100 water-gorged intersections as residents ducked for cover and bailed out. Dick Schmidt, in charge of city street crews, said that the short, intense storms that occurred between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. were as strong as any the city has seen in the last century. "The intensities for short durations were in the range of hundred-year storms," he said. The National Weather Service reported that just over half-an-inch of rain fell at Portland International Airport, outside the storm's center, between midnight and 4 a.m. Saturday. But a weather service forecaster who declined to be identified said that accumulations of up to 2 inches may have occurred in other harder hit parts of the city, falling mainly around midday. Residents of the Southwest Portland hills were greeted earlier Saturday morning by a smattering of hail. At the height of the rainstorm, the city Public Works Bureau received telephone calls reporting 100 flooded intersections and 30 homes with basements flooded by backed up sewers, mostly in the Southeast and Southwest areas of town. Three emergency street crews were called into action at 11 a.m. Ken Upshaw, who dispatched the crews, blamed the high number of flooded intersections on the intensity of the rains and on strong winds earlier in the week that littered streets with gutter-clogging leaves. "We think that last week all the winds dropped all the leaves. It was weird really. All the leaves suddenly fell off," Upshaw said. "Then so much rain fell that the system couldn't handle it." The flooding was not confined to low-lying areas. At midday, "Even places where it was sloped and normally should have drained, water was piling up fast," Upshaw said. He praised numerous residents who helped street crews by unplugging leaf-jammed sewer grates with rakes and shovels, reducing the scope of the water problems. "A lot of them have been through this before," he said. The heavy rains also were blamed for a power outage that affected a portion of downtown Portland Saturday night. Glen Gillespie, a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said the rain flooded an underground electrical vault, interrupting service from about 7:30 p.m. to 9:26 p.m. in the area between Southwest Harrison Street and Columbia Boulevard from Fourth to Fifth avenues. # The world - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Quake toll at 36 AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- Severe earth tremors rippled through this North African city Saturday, injuring at least 36 persons and further damaging what remained of the city after a death-dealing earthquake last month, the Algerian Press Service reported. The news agency said 13 persons were critically injured and evacuated to hospitals at Oum-Drou, Sendjas and Oued Rhiou. The others were given first aid treatment. Most injuries were caused by falling debris from buildings damaged Oct. 10 in the earthquake that virtually destroyed the city, leaving 400,000 people homeless and at least 10,000 dead or missing. Many of Saturday's casualties were people who had returned to their damaged homes after tent housing was filled. eteq. 11/9/80 === Page 116 of 139 - "POWER" + Rain Attack - # Storm batters East; outages extensive By The Associated Press A storm packing gale-force winds and heavy rain rolled northward along the East Coast Saturday, knocking out power to nearly 200,000 homes in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, and forcing the evacuation of undetermined numbers of people in low-lying areas. Ships were stranded in the turbulent Atlantic, coastal roads were closed by flooding and erosion, and homes and buildings were damaged by flooding and winds that gusted up to 75 miles per hour. A coastal flood and storm warning was in effect for the southeast coastal region of New England, and gale warnings were posted for the Connecticut shoreline. Residents of two shoreline towns in Connecticut and a 15-mile-wide strip of southern New Jersey on the Delaware Bay were evacuated. "The situation is really messed up," said Massachusetts State Police Cpl. James Sartori. "It's a dangerous situation." Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Brien said waves as high as 20 feet along the New Jersey coast impeded relief efforts, and a state police spokesman said low-lying coastal areas in Cumberland and Cape May counties were under at least 3 to 4 feet of water. "A lot of the people are staying," O'Brien said. "People in Cape May, where the water is not quite as high, are just taking their belongings and climbing up high in the house. They seem more concerned with protecting their belongings from looters than anything else." A volunteer firefighter evacuating residents in a suburb of Milford, Conn., was swept away and drowned when his boat capsized. Rescuers used boats to evacuate at least 50 people in Milford and about 40 in Fairfield, officials said. "There is heavy torrential rainfall throughout the state," Sartori said in Massachusetts. "There are 60 mph winds with gusts up to 70 mph on most Interstate routes. Flooding is definitely a problem in most of our lower basin areas." He blamed two highway accidents, which left one person in critical condition, on poor visibility and slippery roads. National Weather Service officials said the 2- to 3-inch rainfall marked the beginning of a return to normal rainfall in the region, which has been beset by drought. But water company officials in New Jersey noted that this year's rainfall was as much as 15 inches below average, and they expect no change in Gov. Brendan T. Byrne's mandatory water rationing order in 114 northern New Jersey communities. The weather service said the storm was spawned along the South Carolina coast Friday and intensified as it moved north into New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center at Governor's Island, N.Y., said six vessels were in distress off the Atlantic coast. Search efforts had failed to locate the sailing vessel Alguearan, about 300 miles off the coast of Delaware, said Brian Taylor, a spokesman at the center. He did not know how many people were on board. The 300-foot Panamanian freighter Ocean Endeavor ran aground less than 50 yards off Barnegat, N.J., Saturday, Taylor said, but it did not appear to be leaking any of its 45,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Thad Allen in Atlantic City, N.J., said the 14 crew members chose to remain aboard the Ocean Endeavor until it floats free or is towed off. The Coast Guard cutter Point Battan was damaged by 20-foot seas as it began a mission to aid another sailing vessel, the Myra, reported in distress about 300 miles off the Delaware coast with an undetermined number of people on board. The Point Battan limped back to port, and the Liberian tanker Navios Crusader was standing by the Myra. oreg. 10/26/80 Winter Attack # Winter arrives in Europe oreg. 11/5/80 LONDON (AP) -- Winter came early to much of Europe Tuesday, producing unseasonably cold weather with below freezing temperatures and ice and snow hazards. Worst hit in Western Europe by the freak late-fall conditions were Austria and West Germany, where motorists already had been hindered by snowfalls. In West Germany, 23 Alpine passes were closed as temperatures dipped into the upper 20s. Traffic was congested on many roads in Austria, where snow has not fallen this early since 1929. Farmers were taken by surprise and attempted to complete fall chores. Eight inches of snow fell in the Italian Alps. Tarvisio, a town near the Austrian border, had a record low for the date of 19 Monday, while motorists were warned to slow down on the superhighway between Bologna and Florence. Temperatures in Paris were near freezing for the second straight day. In the Vosges Mountains, the thermometer dropped to 5 degrees. Below average temperatures accompanied by fog, frost and gales hit Britain. Although skies in London were clear and fall colors richer than usual, overcoats and scarves were pulled out early. In the Netherlands, ice skaters headed for the canals to take advantage of the early freezing conditions. In Eastern Europe, temperatures in Czechoslovakia dipped dramatically with snow falling two weeks earlier than usual after a spell of record mild weather. In Yugoslavia, farmers called in extra help to harvest wheat, corn and sugar beet as snow covered their land. Wolves in Serbia have been descending on villages devouring dozens of sheep. Some of Europe escaped the wintry weather. Sweden and Finland had normal conditions for this time of year, while Portugal had a late burst of summer sun. === Page 117 of 139 - "Power" and Rain Attack - A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1980 # Atlantic searched for lost ship By KARL SWANSON NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. and Canadian aircraft searched the Atlantic again Sunday for a freighter missing with a crew of 33 for more than two weeks. Officials said a freak storm added a "possibly ominous element" to the disappearance. The 522-foot Poet was reported missing Oct. 25, the day after it left Cape Henlopen, Del., with a load of corn bound for Port Said, Egypt, the Coast Guard said. As many as 10 aircraft from the United States, Canada and other points have searched up to 400 miles offshore without sighting the freighter. The aircraft have covered thousands of square miles of ocean. The day after the Poet set out a freak storm lashed the sea off New York and Massachusetts, roughly the area the ship was cruising. High wind and waves and heavy rain that day added a "possibly ominous element," a Coast Guard spokesman said. The Poet should have radioed its position daily, but as of Sunday no contact had been made. It did not pass through the Straits of Gibraltar on Saturday as scheduled. The Poet, registered in the United States, is owned by the Hawaiian Eugenia Corp. of New York. No representative of the company could be reached for comment Sunday. The Coast Guard knew little of the Poet beyond the length, number of crew, destination and that it was a troop carrier before being converted to haul corn. 980 (2) Calif. "PK" IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ![Photograph of a collapsed railroad embankment and flooded area] United Press International WIPED OUT -- A makeshift Santa Fe railroad embankment that collapsed Thursday destroyed $3 million in crops and threatens the water supply of 1 million people. Burrowing beavers and the weight of daily train traffic are blamed for weakening the levee. oreg. 10/25/80 === Page 118 of 139 - CALIF PK - Note: I warned Jeffrey this was coming up soon. Saturday, November 8, 1980 15¢ # Major earthquake shocks California, south Oregon EUREKA, Calif. (UPI) -- A severe earthquake early Saturday jolted the Northern California coast along an extension of the San Andreas fault, smashing windows, toppling store goods and snapping a major highway overpass. Several injuries but no deaths were reported. By some measurements, the quake was the strongest to hit the continental United States in more than a year. The earthquake at 2:36 a.m. shook a 500-square-mile area from southern Oregon to the San Francisco Bay Area and measured between 6.6 and 7.1 on the Richter scale. A U.S. Geological Survey reading of 7.0 made the quake the strongest to hit the lower 48 states since a quake of the same intensity struck the Mexican border near El Centro, Calif., on Oct. 15, 1979. It was the largest quake in the earthquake-prone Eureka area since a 7.2 quake in 1923. Jim Marrone of the University of California seismograph station in Berkeley fixed the facility's estimate of magnitude to 6.6 and placed the center about 10 miles northwest of Eureka, barely in the Pacific Ocean and about 250 miles north of San Francisco. Four aftershocks were felt in the hours after the temblor, which struck about 50 miles north of where the main San Andreas fault swings west into the Pacific. Seismological centers in Hawaii and Japan said there was no danger from tidal waves. A tidal wave after the 1964 Alaska quake left 13 dead in Northern California. There were reports that some homes were knocked "out of alignment" with their foundations by the latest quake. The sheriff's office at Eureka reported that an overpass 8 miles south of Eureka collapsed onto Highway 101. Two cars fell 30 feet onto the rubble below, which closed the highway, a major coastal link between California and Oregon, for two hours. "Two vehicles went with it when it went," said an officer at the scene. The Highway Patrol said two adults and three children inside one of the vehicles were injured, some seriously. The "jaws of life" -- huge metal-cutters -- were used to remove them from the wreckage. The lone occupant of the other car was not injured. None of the injured was identified immediately. A firefighter quoted the driver of one car as saying he thought he had a flat tire, then saw blue lights on the horizon -- apparently from arcing power lines -- and realized there was an earthquake. === Page 119 of 139 # Thousands flee rubble - "Power & Rain Attack" # Quake rocks Mexico; toll at 31 By JOE FRAZIER City 10/25/80 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A deadly earthquake ripped through southern Mexico Friday, sending tens of thousands of people fleeing into the streets as adobe and brick buildings crumbled. Mexico City skyscrapers rattled and swayed. Authorities said at least 31 people were killed. Hardest hit was the town of Huajuapan de Leon, near the epicenter of the quake. The Red Cross said 15 persons perished and more than 250 were injured when a crowded public market building, two hospitals, a secondary school, the city hall and scores of houses collapsed. Two deaths were reported in the nearby village of Acatlan. Roads into the Huajuapan de Leon and Acatlan were blocked by earthslides, and the federal government dispatched three police helicopters to assist rescuers. Marie Gomes of Hayward, Calif., said she was sitting in her 11th-floor room of a Mexico City hotel "when the chair began to sway. I remembered that people told me to get into a doorway in case of an earthquake, so I did and prayed to God it would stop shaking." Four students and a teacher were reported killed in the town of Tehtuitzingo, southeast of Mexico City, where a school building collapsed. Seventy other children escaped unhurt. To the south, three deaths were reported in San Pedro Yeloixtlahuaca, but the Red Cross had no details. In the historic city of Puebla, 70 miles east of Mexico City, officials said at least 180 children suffered minor injuries when they panicked at a sports event and fled, falling over one another. Red Cross officials in Puebla said at least two children died in the village of San Mateo Xolco when dozens of houses collapsed. They said the quake destroyed about 70 percent of the rural village, which lies between the volcanos Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. The officials said a woman was killed in central Puebla and two others perished when a wall near a prison fell on them. Police in Mexico City said one man died here when he was hit by a falling beam. The Red Cross said two persons died of heart attacks, apparently related to the quake, and about 40 persons were treated for injuries and hysteria in the capital. A professor and a student were hurt when a wall fell on them at Metropolitan University. The quake, felt in a broad belt over south-central Mexico and northern Guatemala, was centered about 150 miles southeast of Mexico City and registered 6.5 on the Richter scale -- a jolt capable of doing severe damage, according to the U.S. Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo. The tremor came at 8:55 a.m. and lasted for more than a minute. It was felt as far away as Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala 600 miles to the southeast, and in the Mexican gulf port city of Veracruz. Mexico City police said the quake shattered windows and caused gas leaks that started some fires. Two policemen were hospitalized with burns suffered while trying to stop a gas leak. === Page 120 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # olcano's fiery eruption rows ash to Coos Bay By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A light hit-and-miss dusting of volcanic ash was reported as far south as Coos Bay early Friday following the sixth major eruption of Mount St. Helens. The restless volcano cut loose with a roar at 9:58 p.m. Thursday, sending a glowing lightning-laced plume of ash 8 miles high. Within minutes, gritty gray pumice was falling on Cougar, Wash., 12 miles south-west of the volcano. Ash fell in parts of the Portland metropolitan area by mid-night, at Newport on the Oregon Coast at 4:10 a.m., and at Coos Bay, 250 miles from the volcano, near 6 a.m. As in the June 12 eruption when ash blanketed the Portland area, police advised motorists to cut speeds to reduce the amount of ash blowing in the air. Heavy fog was more of a problem than the ash in many parts of Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon. The total amount of ash expelled by the volcano in the new eruption seems to be less than in previous major blasts, so the effect on the Northwest is not expected to be as severe. The eruption was short-lived. All seismic activity had ceased by 10:30 p.m. For the first time, a fiery red glow was seen by Forest Service pilots as the eruption began and scientists said it undoubtedly was molten rock. Steve Malone, a spokesman for the University of Washington Geophysics Department, said the glow may have occurred during other eruptions, but this was the first time the mountain has erupted at night under clear skies. "No doubt it was the magma . . . and it was red hot," Malone said. "It was highly gas-charged, so that it explodes quite violently." There was no indication of a flow of molten debris down the side of the mountain as in the massive May 18 eruption when 1,300 feet of the mountain was blown away, 250 square miles was turned into a lunar-like wasteland and 62 persons were left dead and missing. Pilots reported that the red glow inside the volcano's mile-wide crater was visible until nearly midnight. Scientists were waiting for a good look at the inner crater to see what had happened to the lava dome that built up inside of it after the last major eruption on Aug. 7. Don Peterson, U.S. Geological Survey scientist in charge of the Mount St. Helens project, said the Thursday night eruption "was the kind of event that could have poked a hole in the lava dome." The eruption was predicted at 8:42 p.m. as being "imminent." The warning came following several "Class B" tremors and an earthquake at 7:02 p.m. measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale. Because tremors continued, as they have before previous major eruptions, a volcano alert was issued. The U.S. Forest Service put out an advisory saying, "There are several minor continued seismic actions at this time and it is felt that an eruption may be possible or may be imminent." Just before the advisory, the volcano rumbled and shot a plume of ash and steam 1,000 feet skyward. Seismologists at the University of (Continued on page 2) * ![Map of Oregon and Washington showing ash pattern from Mount St. Helens] ASH PATTERN -- Newest Mount St. Helens eruption moved ash mainly southwest with light fallout reported in Hood River, Portland, Vancouver area, Salem, Newport and Coos Bay. oreg. J. 10/17/80 === Page 121 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - A10 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1980 # Snow buries Rockies; tornadoes cuff Plains By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The first major snowstorm of autumn attacked the Rocky Mountain states Thursday, clogging roads with chest-high drifts and ripping down power lines while tornadoes whipped through the Plains. Twisters smashed houses and barns and injured several people in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma, while 10-inch snows crippled towns and cities such as Billings, Mont. In Wyoming, the storm, which started moving in Wednesday, apparently contributed to at least one fatal auto accident and the crash of a light plane that killed one man. In Freemont County, searchers Thursday found six of eight people who had been lost in the rugged mountains, but two teen-age hunters were still missing. Caught in the path of one of the tornadoes was Randy Gordon, 26, of rural Burden, Kan., who watched the roof of his house being snatched away. "I just heard the thing starting to crunch, and I told my wife to hit the floor," Gordon said. "I just kind of heard a growling noise, then I heard the wood spitting." Along the Rocky range from New Mexico to Montana, the story was much the same: Highways were closed, schools were out and the heavy wet snow snapped tree limbs that brought down power lines leaving thousands of homes without power. In Wyoming, where 10 inches of snow accumulated in Rawlins and elsewhere, Interstate 80 was closed from Cheyenne to Walcott, more than 100 miles to the west, the Highway Patrol said. Laramie, Wyo., got 8 inches, and a patrol spokesman said all highways serving the home city of the University of Wyoming were closed. The 9,000-student university canceled classes, as did Albany County public schools. U.S. 287 was shut off between Rawlins and Casper, the patrol spokesman said. In Montana, the state Highway Department said snow up to 4 feet deep clogged roads near the 10,940-foot Beartooth Pass south of Red Lodge. The scenic highway along the Wyoming border will not be reopened until spring. Oreg: Oct 17, '80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Backhoe cuts line, darkens Macadam An underground power line severed by a backhoe caused a temporary outage to customers of Portland General Electric on Macadam Avenue Thursday afternoon. Oreg. 10/17/80 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Storms sweep Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms, tornadoes and damaging winds swept through the central Plains, ripping the roof off a home in Nebraska and overturning cars in Colorado. A winter storm system brought heavy snow to the northern Rockies, with up to 7 inches reported in some spots. Nearly a dozen tornadoes were reported in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado late Wednesday. The twisters overturned cars east of Boulder, Colo., said the National Weather Service, and damaged homes and farm buildings near Wichita, Kan. A tornado tore the roof off a home near North Platte, Neb. Winds of 60 mph blew through Kansas City, and hail the size of softballs was reported in the Nebraska Panhandle. J.P. 10/16/80 === Page 122 of 139 (note: My UFOs are causing all this fracas. Oil + gas are a "power" form. "Power + Rain Attack" - Owens) THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1980 - Greg. 9/24/80 # Retaliation for Iraqi bombing of Iranian refinery may hit home in West Story on Page One also By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM New York Times News Service LONDON -- The reported Iraqi bombing of Iran's huge Abadan refinery represents a significant blow to Iranian industry. Diplomats fear retaliation that could be felt throughout the Western consuming world. Lloyd's, the London society of insurers, was tripling rates for cargo moved in the area and issuing only 24- and 48-hour coverage amid diplomatic warnings that Iran might try to block passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage at the mouth of the Persian Gulf that separates Iran and Oman, in an attempt to interrupt Iraq's oil sales to other countries. Such a move would shut off the key flow of oil to the West, for more than 40 percent of the non-Communist world's oil supply moves through the gulf daily to international markets. The Persian Gulf is the outlet for oil exports not only from Iran and Iraq, the world's second-largest oil exporter, but also from Saudi Arabia, which is the largest, and Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain. Although some of these nations have alternate outlets, the bulk of their oil is shipped through the Persian Gulf. The oil industry estimates that Iran produces roughly 1.5 million barrels a day, and it exports less than a million barrels. The United States imports no oil from Iran. Of the two nations, Iraq is clearly the more important factor for global supplies. Its daily rate of production is 3.5 million barrels, and 3.3 million barrels of that are exported. The principal purchasers of Iraqi oil, industry sources say, are France (500,000 barrels a day), Brazil (400,000), Italy (200,000) and Japan (200,000). The United States, directly or indirectly, receives about 100,000 barrels of Iraqi oil a day. There has been a glut of crude oil on international markets, with the daily rate of production running 2 million to 3 million barrels more than demand. Enough oil for 100 days of global consumption is already present in stocks of oil stored throughout the world. **Map of the Region** - TURKEY - Tigris R. - Euphrates R. - SYRIA - Tabriz - Caspian Sea - Tehran - Nineveh - Mosul - Kirkuk - Hamadan - Qasr-E-Shirin - Sumar - Baghdad - IRAQ - IRAN - Dezful - Ahvaz - Abadan - Basra - Shatt al-Arab - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT - Persian Gulf - 0 200 MILES THEATER OF WAR -- Map shows major cities bombed in Iran and Iraq. The dotted line locates the 300-mile front along which Iraqi ground forces struck Tuesday, as reported by the state-run Baghdad radio. Diplomatic sources in London said that an Iranian warning Tuesday -- that all waterways adjacent to Iran were war zones and that all ships were to stay out -- was the first signal that international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz could be impaired. So far, these sources said, the only hazards to navigation have been in the Shatt al Arab estuary that divides Iraq and Iran and where the fighting is centered. "At the start of the fighting, we just didn't anticipate that things were going to get that bad," said one Western diplomat here who has regional responsibility for the Persian Gulf. === Page 123 of 139 Greg Oct. 1980 "Power" + Rain Attack # 20,000 feared dead in Algerian quake By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- Ambulance sirens wailed ceaselessly through this devastated Algerian city Saturday after the second killer earthquake in 26 years flattened most of the buildings, and officials feared as many as 20,000 people might have perished. The cries and moans of trapped victims could be heard from under tons of rubble more than 24 hours after Friday's midday quake largely destroyed this normally quiet market city. Rescuers amputated arms or legs of some of the victims in order to free them. Food and drink were passed to some of those trapped. In Algiers, officials said between 5,000 and 20,000 inhabitants of Al Asnam and surrounding towns may have died in the disaster. There was no official toll of the victims, and a spokesman for the Algerian Red Crescent, the equivalent of the Red Cross, said it was impossible to make an accurate estimate. Medical teams and supplies were being sent from many nations at the appeal of the Red Crescent. Roads to the city were scarred by gigantic cracks and clogged with convoys of cranes, bulldozers, ambulances, water trucks and relief supplies converging from all parts of the country. There was almost no local equipment available to move the giant blocks of steel and concrete that held many of the victims. The city of 125,000 inhabitants, located astride a major seismic fault 150 miles west of Algiers, was devastated by an earthquake 26 years ago. On Sept. 9, 1954, Al Asnam -- then called Orleansville -- was virtually destroyed. More than 1,600 inhabitants were killed and about 15,000 seriously injured. "This was far worse than 1954," lamented an old man grimly surveying the wreckage from a street corner. Friday's quake registered 7.5 on the Richter scale, according to a seismological station in France. Some of the seriously injured were taken to distant hospitals by helicopter. Four camps were set up for the homeless survivors. More than 6,000 tents were distributed by the military authorities, together with blankets, clothing and emergency food supplies. Throughout the city, electricity, water supplies, telephones and sewers were cut, and officials said they could give no estimate of how long it would take to restore them. There were reports of serious damage and heavy casualties in mountain villages between Al Asnam and the Mediterranean coast. The towns of Oued Fodha, El Attif and Sendjaf were reported hardest hit. The reports could not be confirmed because highways and bridges suffered extensive damage and many of the villages were cut off. Al Asnam's four-story hospital was a near-total ruin. Several high-rise apartment blocks, built to house low-income families left homeless by the 1954 quake, were demolished. The city's largest hotel, the Chelif, was wrecked, and its concrete roof lay at ground level. Rescuers said 350 guests and staff members were believed to have died in the building. One rescuer said some victims were freed after trapped limbs were removed in emergency amputations with knives or axes, without anesthetic. === Page 124 of 139 --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # New tremors panic ravaged Al Asnam By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Oreg. 10/14/80 AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- A new series of aftershocks rumbled Monday through Al Asnam, panicking the terrified survivors of the earthquake that devastated this city and hampering desperate rescue efforts. Twenty miles south, the mountain village of Bordj Bounaama was leveled, but no one was killed, the official Algerian news agency reported. The shock, felt at 8:45 a.m. local time, destroyed 40 to 50 empty houses in the village and registered 5 on the Richter scale. An unknown number of villagers and at least 30 houses were destroyed there in the first earthquake Friday. The tremors felt in Al Asnam, some also registering a 5 on the Richter scale, caused no apparent damage. But for the tens of thousands of homeless, the reminder of last Friday's catastrophe was enough to drive them from their tent camps in terror. In an apparent effort to prevent further panic, the news agency issued a communique declaring, "There is no reason to fear the mild earth tremors still being felt from time to time." The rescue efforts, more urgent for the knowledge that time was running out for those still alive in the ruins, kept up around the clock. Teams of workers using cranes and giant earthmovers pried apart the concrete and twisted steel to save the injured and retrieve the dead. The official count of bodies was 1,600, but the Algerian Red Crescent relief organization estimated 5,000 to 20,000 dead. There was no government estimate, but some officials said there was reason to hope the toll would be lower. Algeria began a week of mourning for its dead, and the government declared the entire province of Al Asnam, with more than a million inhabitants, a disaster area. President Chadli Benjedid organized emergency measures from a tent headquarters in the city. More than a fifth of the population is believed to have been affected in some way. Outlying villages that had been cut off by landslides and ruined bridges yielded more dead and injured as army helicopters flew south and north into the remoter areas between Al Asnam and the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of injured have been rescued and hospitalized, but the greatest need was to reach those trapped in the wreckage since the quake flattened many of the city's buildings and badly damaged most of the rest. More than 1,600 died in a 1954 quake here, and a police officer said that more than a week later people still were being found alive in the ruins. "With that precedent in mind, we do not intend to give up hope of finding survivors for a long time yet," the officer said. Small children who lost their parents in the disaster wandered aimlessly through the streets. Teams organized by a women's group gathered them up, and others were cared for by volunteer families or by any relatives who could be located. There was no electricity in the city, and generators powered the floodlights for all-night rescue operations. French and Swiss Alpine rescue teams with avalanche dogs joined the thousands of troops, police, firemen, construction workers, miners and civilian volunteers hunting in the rubble for anyone left alive. --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # Flood kills 240 Nigerians IBADAN, Nigeria (AP) -- Floods that surged through this provincial capital last weekend have killed at least 240 persons and police were continuing their search for bodies, the Nigerian News Agency reported Wednesday. Police initially reported 33 persons dead in flooding caused by a 12-hour rainstorm Sunday. The news agency, quoting newspaper reports here, said the mortuary was "packed" in this city, the capital of Oyo province in southwestern Nigeria. Oreg. Sept. 4, '80 --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # Explosion cause sought PEKIN, Ill. (AP) -- Inspectors searched Tuesday for the cause of two coal-dust explosions that flashed through Commonwealth Edison's Powerton generating plant before dawn, injuring some 15 workers. The blasts may have done more than $100 million worth of damage to the plant and may force it to stay shut down for six months or more, the utility said. "There was fire everywhere," said Dave Cannon, who was working at the time of the 4 a.m. explosion. "It followed up all the belts, and that was it. I felt the heat and it knocked me down." Oreg. 10/14/80 === Page 125 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack # Rains Pound West Texas San Angelo, Texas Heavy rains brought by the remnants of tropical storm Danielle pelted a wide area of Texas yesterday, sending torrents of water down creeks and rivers. Flash flood watches and warnings were posted from west of Austin to just east of the Midland-Odessa area. Little property damage was reported, but the rain hampered travelers by causing minor street and highway flooding. Some ranch roads were temporarily closed by high water. The National Weather Service warned stockmen and campers in semi-arid areas of possible high, fast-moving water in creekbeds and rivers dried out after the three-month drought. The rain Monday and yesterday -- up to nine inches in a 24-hour period at Paint Rock, east of San Angelo -- was also attributed to the storm, which came ashore last weekend. SF Chron. 9/10/80 Associated Press -- "Power and Rain Attack" # The world # 6 die in typhoon TOKYO (AP) -- Typhoon Orchid ripped through the southern island of Kyushu and parts of western Japan Thursday, killing six people and injuring 33 before moving out to sea, authorities reported. One person was reported missing after Orchid moved into the Japan Sea and appeared to lose some force. Police said more than 3,100 houses were flooded and domestic airlines canceled more than 200 flights on 82 routes, including those to Tokyo and Osaka. By evening, police said 137 landslides had occurred and four small boats sank in the storm. In the last two days, parts of Kyushu recorded 28 inches of rain. Org. Sept. 12, 1980 -- "Power" + Rain Attack - Org. Sept. 19, 1980 # Floods, burst dam claim 100 in India By BRAHMA CHELLANEY NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A burst dam and flash floods caused by torrential rains killed at least 100 people and marooned about 87,000 in southeast India, according to reports received from the stricken area Thursday. The rains brought to 1,700 the number of deaths throughout India from cloudbursts, windstorms, washouts and floods since the annual summer monsoon began three months ago. The latest flash floods damaged or wrecked more than 50,000 houses, four bridges, two power generating stations, highways and railroads in the southern states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, the United News of India reported. Officials said they expected more deaths to be discovered in the two states, which have been cut off from the rest of the country by the swirling waters. Orissa Revenue Minister K.C. Lenka said after an aerial survey that he "saw thousands of people perched on rooftops and trees. I fear heavy loss to life and property," the news agency reported. The reports said food packets were being airdropped over the flood-ravaged region and that authorities were removing bodies, including those of three government officials. An earthen dam on the flooded Bansadhara River in Orissa state broke, sending a tide of water rushing through Korapur county, about 350 miles southeast of Calcutta. All-India Radio said the torrent left two towns with a combined population of 52,000 under 10 feet of water. It swept away hundreds of cattle and damaged most of the homesteads in the district, the news agency reported, and "only three buildings could withstand the fury." Electric power and communications lines were broken, cutting off the area from outside contact, the radio reported, and railroad service was suspended in the area. It said the dam broke after four straight days of incessant rain. In neighboring Andhra Pradesh state, flash floods swamped more than 92 villages. === Page 126 of 139 Note: UFO war against U.S. Govt. Owens 9/8/80 SPECIAL REPORT ![Image of a shut-down steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio] John Alexandrowicz Shut-down steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio: As the great industrial engines slow, the nation's standard of living is in jeopardy # An Economic Dream in Peril In the chronicles of the wealth of nations, there has never been anything quite like America. Its vast natural resources provided the raw material for ever greater riches as they fired a prolific industrial engine that was the envy of the world. Decade by decade, Americans produced and enjoyed an ever growing cornucopia of goods and services. Generation after generation gained in material well-being and in confidence that its children would do even better. If the streets were not actually paved with gold, as some immigrants imagined, Americans could at least expect that a pot of plenty lay just over the horizon. But lately the rainbow seems to have blurred--or even broken. For the past decade, Americans have watched helplessly as the purchasing power of paychecks has been mercilessly eroded. They have raided their savings, sacrificing future security to present needs. Many of their jobs are in jeopardy--and some have disappeared forever. Meanwhile, they have seen once-proud industrial plants age and close. The flood of foreign imports that jams every highway and clutters every store counter is an ominous reminder that the competition is gaining. No longer can the poor count on working their way steadily toward a better life. And no longer do Americans share the great expectations of generations past. For the first time, public-opinion polls show that the average U.S. citizen is not at all sure that his children's lot will be better than--or even as good as--his own. What has gone wrong? Every expert has a pet villain, from a purported erosion of the work ethic to the indisputable rise of OPEC. Labor leaders cite foreign competition. Businessmen blame high taxes, bruising regulation and the U.S. Government's deficit spending. Economists excoriate the stop-go fiscal and monetary tactics of Federal policymakers. And everyone cites the insidious inflationary spiral that has plagued the American economy since the Vietnam War. The truth is that it is most likely a witches' brew of all these ills that is sapping the vitals of industry and slowing the growth of America's productive capacity (page 53). Economist Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems to be on the mark when he calls it "death by a thousand cuts." Prescriptions: Last week Jimmy Carter unveiled his plan for reversing the decline--a politically timely package that addresses everything from job creation to business-tax reform. "We have the greatest human and physical resources of any nation on Autoworkers picket Toyota dealer in Michigan: A pet villain for every group ![Image of autoworkers picketing a Toyota dealer with a sign that reads "CARTER LETS AMERICAN WORKERS DOWN"] Eric Smith--Gamma-Liaison 50 NEWSWEEK/SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 127 of 139 "Power" + Rain Attack # Indian dam overflows; 36 more die in floods BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) -- Flood waters overflowed India's largest dam, swamped power lines, flooded towns and plunged the state of Orissa and its 25 million residents into darkness Saturday. Local officials said 36 people were killed in the flooding, boosting the week's death toll to more than 260. The nationwide flood fatality toll since the start of the annual monsoons this summer now has passed 1,750, according to unofficial reports, and the Flood Control Division forecast more torrential rain and windstorms through Monday. Indian army helicopters lifted off into choppy gray skies over Bhubaneswar on Saturday, carrying American-labeled food packages to victims of this flood-ravaged areas, where many were said to be clutching to life atop trees or perched on rooftops. The rain-swollen Mahanadi River swept over 200-foot-high Hirakud Dam about 300 miles southwest of Calcutta after six days of uninterrupted rain. The waters submerged high tension lines and knocked out electric power in the entire state. Officials appealed to adjoining states for power and said some electricity could be restored by Sunday morning. Military units worked to reach thousands of people marooned in Orissa and adjoining Andhra Pradesh state, which border the Bay of Bengal in southeastern India. Many areas were cut off, and the casualty toll was expected to rise. The United News of India said 1.3 million cubic feet of water per second was sweeping over Hirakud Dam into the heavily populated Delta downstream. Water surged through the streets of Sambalpur, one of the state's largest cities, downstream from the dam, All-India Radio reported. Ore. Sept 21, 1980 World "Power" + Rain Attack # Troops take power plants SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Troops took over the country's five electric power plants, which had been occupied by disgruntled workers for 23 hours, and returned electricity to the capital Friday afternoon. Officials said no one was injured the military operation. About 100 armed national guardsmen backed by two small tanks surrounded the Soyapango power plant on the outskirts of San Salvador, forcing 250 electric workers to evacuate it. Technicians had restored power to all parts of the capital by 3 p.m., 23 hours after the blackout began. It was not known immediately if electric power was returned to the rest of the country, but officials said national guardsmen also took over the four power plants that had been occupied outside San Salvador. A national guard captain who declined to be identified showed reporters three automatic rifles, a submachine gun, two gasoline bombs and a dozen explosive devices he said the workers had inside the Soyapango plant. Jose Morales Erlich, a member of the ruling junta, said in a national radio broadcast the government conceded to the workers' demand to rehire 35 compatriots discharged for participating in a an unsuccessful general strike last week called by the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Front. Ore. 8/23/80 "Power" + Rain Attack # Power Failure Pollutes S.F. Bay A electrical failure at the San Jose sewage treatment plant has led to the discharge of 4 million gallons of partially treated sewage into San Francisco Bay. It was the second spill caused by an electrical failure in as many months, and the latest in a series of spills that have plagued the Peninsula facility for some time. Plant officials reported that a short circuit in the electrical system Sunday shut down power in the secondary treatment system for nearly two hours Sunday. Sewage treated in the plant's primary system had nowhere to go but into the bay, they said. Mayor Janet Gray Hayes has asked for a report on the problem from plant officials. S.F. Chron. Oct. 1, '80 "Power" + Rain Attack # Winds cut city power High winds caused two power outages in parts of Portland Thursday night and Friday morning. In the Friday outage, 1,500 customers lost power for nearly two hours when winds blew a tree limb into a Portland General Electric Co. substation at Southeast 49th Avenue and Stark Street, said PGE spokesman Steve Mueller. The power went off at about 4:50 a.m. in the area from Northeast Halsey Street to Southeast Division Street and from 32nd Avenue to 50th Avenue, Mueller said. Thursday night, 890 Pacific Power & Light Co. customers lost power for 25 minutes when winds blew a tree across lines at Northeast 46th Avenue and Siskiyou Street, said PP&L spokesman Leonard Bacon. The outage affected homes in the area between Northeast 39th and 46th avenues, and Northeast Siskiyou and Stanton streets, Bacon said. Oreg. 10/11/80 This was the former S.S. France that first to France on oil # 'Dead' ship regenerated MIAMI (AP) -- The generators of the SS Norway were restarted late Tuesday, after the ship was left stranded at sea without power and crew members said the propellers on the world's largest cruise ship would be turning again early Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. The 1,035-foot Norway had been dead at sea about 150 miles north of Caicos Island in the southern Bahamas since 1 a.m. Tuesday, said Maggie Dukes, spokeswoman for Norwegian Caribbean Lines. The Norway was carrying 1,600 passengers and a crew of 840, officials said. Oreg. 8/20/80 === Page 128 of 139 Associated Press Laserphoto HIGH WATER -- Flood waters surround home and crane in Kenna, W.Va. Water rose so fast in some areas that there was no time to save items. "Power" + Rain Attack # Governors request help as rain, floods continue By The Associated Press Flash floods and storm rains renewed an assault on mountain communities of West Virginia and neighboring Kentucky, and authorities appealed to Washington for help Friday, saying, "We can't take any more." Gov. Jay Rockefeller asked President Carter to declare 17 West Virginia counties a federal disaster area following a week of severe flooding that has devastated entire communities. The governor said preliminary estimates of the damage already have topped $8.5 million, and that the $300,000 in available state emergency funds was not nearly enough to pay for temporary housing and assistance for hundreds left homeless. Friday, in neighboring Ohio, Gov. James A. Rhodes requested Carter to declare five counties in the eastern part of the state a major disaster as a result of flooding earlier this month that left damage estimated at about $6.9 million. Tuesday, Carter approved a request from Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh for federal assistance in cleaning up after recent flooding that caused an estimated $42 million in damage and killed nine people in that state. No deaths or serious injuries have been attributed to the latest storms. The overnight rains brought fresh flooding to parts of Kanawha, Putnam and Roane counties in West Virginia and much of neighboring southeastern Kentucky, where the National Weather Service said 3 to 4 inches fell in a two-hour period. "Power" + Rain Attack # Leak shuts nuclear plant in Tennessee CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Operators at the Tennessee Valley Authority's new Sequoyah nuclear plant discovered a water leak Sunday and shut the reactor down about six hours after it began generating electricity. TVA spokesman Steve Goldman said workers at the plant near Chattanooga discovered a leak in the sealed water supply tank about 5 a.m. and shut down the operation two hours later. Goldman said the plant had been generating electricity at about 30 percent capacity for five hours when operators found the leak. "This is normal for a new machine," Goldman said. "It's like a new car. It has bugs." On its first attempt at operation Friday, the reactor was taken to 10 percent capacity for 90 minutes when it had to be shut down because of a high water level in a steam turbine's drainage tank. Steam from reactor-heated water spins the turbine that cranks the power-producing generator. Once everything is working properly at the $1.46 billion plant, TVA officials say they plan to gradually increase operation until full power is reached in early November. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed granting TVA full-power licensing at the Sequoyah plant for about a month while commissioners debated whether the reactor building could withstand the internal pressure of hydrogen gas in a serious reactor accident. At Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., hydrogen produced in the reactor filled the sealed building around the reactor and officials feared it would explode. The accident occurred Sept. 28, 1979. Since then, NRC officials have granted two full-power operation licenses, one to Sequoyah on Sept. 16. Bermuda Δ Attack # Sky fireball Soviets' rocket debris TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A flaming ball that streaked across the skies and plunged into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week apparently was the fiery remains of a Soviet rocket that had been in orbit for seven years, according to the North American Air Defense Command. The brilliant streamer appeared to come down in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of Tampa Bay at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. At first it was thought to be a meteorite or possibly a burning aircraft. U.S. Coast Guard patrol boats and a sheriff's helicopter searched the area for about 90 minutes until reports of other sightings across the southeastern U.S. ruled out the possibility of an airliner crash. Del Kindschi, a NORAD spokesman in Colorado Springs, Colo., said the object probably was a rocket body used to launch a Soviet satellite called Cosmos 549 on Feb. 28, 1973. NORAD keeps a catalog of satellites, spent rockets and other debris in orbit around the Earth. === Page 129 of 139 Note: This in contrast to "Customs treatment of PK Man!!!" - Evans # Get Out of Town # --In a Hurry ## Special care for Chip Carter In a small bar in Mexico Beach, Fla., Jimmy Carter's eldest son Chip was drinking beer with several other young men on the afternoon of July 20, 1977. His companions included the skipper of the Foxy Lady, a drab work boat that Carter, who was vacationing that month with then Wife Caron and Son James at her family's house near Panama City, had chartered on several occasions. Indeed, Carter was arranging with the owner to use the Foxy Lady for a fishing trip with 20 or so friends. Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia. From an informant, U.S. Customs Service officials had learned that as much as four tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana was due to arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers. But then Customs officials suddenly learned that Chip Carter was drinking beer with the owner of the Foxy Lady. Not only was the boat to be used in the smuggling, but the owner had tipped off the law about the operation. Authorities suspected that several of the young men in the bar might also take part in the smuggling. Officials then and today have no indication that Chip knew anything about the illegal activities of his drinking buddies. Nonetheless, until now, the tale of his possible entanglement in a drug bust has been carefully hushed up, chiefly to save his father from embarrassment. TIME has learned that the Customs officials' initial fear was that the smugglers might spot Chip's Secret Service escorts and call off the operation. The officials thus informed the Secret Service only that a major drug raid was planned soon and that they should take special care not to let Chip out of their sight. Customs officials told the agents nothing about the expected involvement of the Foxy Lady and her owner. Two Secret Service agents went to the office of Larry Chambers, then Customs patrol supervisor for the area, to find out about the raid. They mentioned that Chip would soon be going fishing aboard the Foxy Lady. Chambers recalled last week that he nearly fell out of his chair when he heard the news. "Jesus Christ!" he exclaimed, "That's a boat that is going to be seized in the dope bust." According to Chambers, one of the agents replied, "My God! Chip is out right now drinking beer with the owner and some other young guys." Chambers immediately called his supervisors, and within minutes Deputy Commissioner of Customs Robert Dickerson, who is now director of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, called him back from Washington. Soon, Secret Service Director Stuart Knight, Treasury Under Secretary Bette Anderson and Dickerson headed for the White House to consult with Robert Lipshutz, who was the President's legal counsel. While Knight and Lipshutz went into the Oval Office to tell the President about their predicament, Dickerson phoned Chambers, who told him that there was nothing to implicate Chip with the drug ring but that "he could get hurt [during the raid] or he could jeopardize the case." According to Dickerson, Knight and Lipshutz "came back [from the Oval Office] with the word to get Chip out." Dickerson further told Chambers that the President would soon phone his son and tell him to leave Panama City, within 15 min. of the call, Dickerson says. Chip was taken by the Secret Service by car to Plains, Ga., leaving his wife and son behind. She later substituted for him at a news conference with local reporters. Asked last week why Chip was whisked away so quickly, Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin first said that it was for reasons of safety. Then he conceded: "Perhaps saving the President from political embarrassment did have something to do with it." Chip could have been held for questioning by law officers if he had been in the immediate area at the time of the raid, especially because of his chat in the bar with some of the suspects and his plans to charter the boat. The raid went off as scheduled: shortly after midnight on July 21, the Two-Too Much unloaded 1,000 kilos of marijuana into the Foxy Lady and more into three much faster boats. The boats sped to shore and crept through inlets to some old docks. When the marijuana was transferred to three trucks, the circling planes switched on their spotlights, while law enforcement officials moved in. Not a shot was fired as they arrested 18 people, ages 20 to 34, and confiscated the marijuana, the Two-Too Much, three smaller boats, seven cars and trucks and 16 weapons, including pistols, shotguns and Army AR-15 rifles. The Foxy Lady and her infor- FOXY LADY MEXICO BEACH, FL. The craft that the President's son was hiring for a fishing expedition Exclaimed the Customs man: "That boat is going to be seized in the dope bust!" Campaigning for his father Whisked away by the Secret Service. TIME, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 25 === Page 130 of 139 Note: Not a meteorite! one of my UFOs. # Meteorite interests scientists By BARBARA CURTIN Correspondent, The Oregonian SISTERS -- Staff members of a Eugene planetarium hope to begin searching this weekend for a large, "extremely rare" meteorite that reportedly fell west of here Sunday morning. William Suggs, director of the Lane Educational Service District Planetarium, said he has received 20 to 25 calls this week from central Oregonians who saw a meteor streak across the sky about 10 a.m. Sunday. "All of them agree that it was very brilliant, blue-white in color, and that it passed across the sky in a generally east-west direction," Suggs said. "In a number of cases, the witnesses saw a dark object fall to the ground after the flame went out." Meteors -- pieces of heavenly matter that burn as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere -- are often seen at night. However, daytime reports are "extremely rare" and suggest that the piece of falling matter was very large indeed, Suggs said. The last comparable instance occurred during the early 1970s. Witnesses all over the Western states, including the crew of a commercial airliner, reported seeing a fireball streak across the sky in broad daylight, Suggs said. The resulting meteorite -- the object that survives a fall through the Earth's atmosphere -- might measure several feet in diameter and weigh several hundred pounds, Suggs said. Geologists and astronomers are anxious to study such meteorites to learn more about what the universe is made of and the forces that move it. If the meteor has a high metallic content, it could be sensed by special instruments aboard an aircraft. That would simplify the process of searching the rugged, forested area, Suggs said. "Metallic" meteorites, composed of nickel and iron, make up 77 percent of the meteorites found on Earth. "That's because they're so dense that you know right away you have something different," Suggs said. Less common are "olivene" meteorites, composed of a lighter rocky material, he said. Some meteorites are combinations of the two types. A large meteorite would likely have come from the asteroid belt, Suggs said. It would probably have no connection with the Perseid meteor shower the Earth passed through in mid-August. Those meteors are smaller and composed of material left over from comets, Suggs said. They rarely survive the friction of the fall to Earth. Oregon State Police Trooper Kent Brandon was one of those from the Prineville area who saw the fireball cross the sky. oreg: 8/29/80 "Power" & Rain Attack - # Floods claim 900 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Devastating floods from the annual monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh have taken almost 900 lives and forced 7 million people from their homes, news reports said Tuesday. Worst-hit was Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, the country's most populous region, where 677 deaths have been reported since the flooding began in June. The nationwide death toll in India was placed at about 875. The United News of India said 2 million Indians were homeless after floodwaters entered towns and villages in the sprawling state. It added that about 20,000 villages were damaged by rising waters that covered 6.9 million acres of land. Indian army troops joined civilians in manning 900 boats in massive rescue operations in Ballia county in eastern Uttar Pradesh to evacuate marooned villagers, UNI reported. Troops were placed on alert to assist civil authorities with rescue work in Bihar state, UNI said. In West Bengal and Assam states, in eastern India, troops in boats shifted thousands of flood victims to higher ground. Twenty-five persons were reported to have been swept to their deaths Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh and 12 deaths were reported in Assam state. 8/20/80 Aug 21-1980 Seattle Times # Lightning kills 10 people ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Ten people were killed by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm in Sawat District, 200 miles northwest of Islamabad, press reports said yesterday. The Seattle Times P.O. Box 70, Seattle, Wa. 98111 === Page 131 of 139 - "Power" and Rain Attack - Thursday, October 2, 1980 The Seattle Times E 3 # Cyclone in India kills 12, injures 25 BOMBAY, India - (AP) - A cyclone struck India's western state of Maharashtra, killing at least 12 people and injuring 25 others, the United News of India reported yesterday. Local officials said the storm damaged hundreds of homes and knocked out power and communication lines in Dhule County, about 170 miles northeast of Bombay. - World "Power" & Rain Attack - TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1980 # Hundreds flee floods in three Eastern states By The Associated Press. oreg. 8/19/80 Heavy rains overflowed streams and rivers Monday in parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania already saturated by several days of rain, triggering flash floods and forcing hundreds of people from their homes. Rapidly rising floodwaters reached roofs in some parts of northern West Virginia, and the National Guard was called out in the Morgantown area to help open emergency shelters. Many residents lost electricity and telephone service, and two radio stations in Morgantown were knocked off the air. Several highways were blocked by water and debris. "I've lived here 32 years, and I've never seen anything like this," said Alice Conner, who lives along Middle Grave Creek in West Virginia's Marshall County. "We can never remember rain in the Morgantown area this severe," said Phil Zinn of the National Weather Service. He said 3.79 inches of rain had fallen in 6 1/2 hours. About 200 families were left homeless in the small mining community of Osage, W.Va., near Morgantown, and officials said about two dozen flooded houses were damaged beyond repair. Storms, some accompanied by heavy lightning, began building in eastern Ohio late Sunday night and moved into northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania early Monday. The region has had heavy rainfall for the past several days. Up to 6 inches of rain sent small streams over their banks and left the Ohio towns of Wellsville and Salineville under knee-deep water. Mudslides closed parts of Ohio 45, Ohio 39 and Ohio 7, and a gas main ruptured in the center of Wellsville. Many homes in Wellsville lost electricity, and some of the nearly 5,900 residents sought shelter on higher ground. Sheriff's deputies in Salineville, a town with about 1,700 residents, worked through the night to clear debris that had floated onto roads. In Pennsylvania, about 100 people had been evacuated briefly from their homes in the Pittsburgh area and in Greene County, about 50 miles to the south, but flash flooding was described as minor. "Everything's pretty well under control," said Bob Davis of the Greene County Emergency Management Agency. === Page 132 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - Ore. J. 10/10/80 # Eight contaminated by plutonium blaze RICHLAND, Wash. (UPI) -- A small amount of scrap plutonium powder being packed for storage unexpectedly flashed into flames, contaminating eight workers at Hanford Atomic Reservation with the deadly radioactive substance. An unidentified man and woman, who were handling the container of plutonium oxide in a top-secret laboratory Thursday, underwent several hours of scrub-downs to remove the fine powder from their skin. The extent of their contamination will not be known, however, until body scans can be performed, possibly Friday. Two other workers were found to have ingested a small amount of plutonium powder, but were sent home pending treatment with a chemical "chelating" agent to help remove the substance from the body. The four other contaminated workers were treated and released immediately. The fire itself caused no damage to the laboratory in the Rockwell Hanford Co. "Z" Plant, part of the nation's nuclear weapons program, but the room was sealed Friday for cleaning and investigation purposes. Thursday's contamination incident was the latest in a long series at Hanford, which has handled large quantities of radioactive materials since it was created during World War II to develop the first atom bomb. The fire left Hanford officials puzzled because plutonium oxide, unlike metallic plutonium, does not normally flash to flame. One Rockwell official said it was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing happening. Peggy Bennett, a public relations representative for Rockwell, said the two workers had placed about 10 to 15 grams of the scrap radioactive substance in a small "slip" container about the size of a tuna fish can, which was then placed in a plastic bag and sealed. The bag was to be placed in what she termed a "food can" for storage until later reprocessing. "At the point they were putting the slip can into the food can, there was a poof," she said. "The flames came up and the operator extinguished the fire very quickly." - "Power" & Rain Attack - Ore. J. 10/10/80 # Short Trojan shutdown noted Oregon's Trojan nuclear power plant shut down automatically last Friday but was restored to service in less than seven hours, Portland General Electric Co. reported Thursday. The shutdown occurred while work was being done on control circuits of Trojan's main electrical generator, PGE said in the plant's operations report covering the seven days ending Oct. 8. PGE spokesman Bruce Landrey said it appeared that some action taken during that control circuit work sent a signal to the control system indicating something was wrong that required the plant to shut down, when in reality nothing was wrong. The Friday incident marked the first time that Trojan was out of service since completion of the plant's annual refueling and maintenance July 17. The shutdown occurred at 2:01 p.m., power generation was restarted at 8:30 p.m. and full production was reached at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, PGE reported. During September, Trojan operated at an average of 98.9 percent of capacity output, producing 768.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power outage kills salmon WOODLAND, Wash. -- An electrical outage caused the loss of 1,000 adult salmon in a collection facility Thursday below Merwin Dam on the Lewis River. Dr. Roy Hamilton, fishery biologist for Pacific Power & Light Co., said power was temporarily lost to pumps circulating water through the fish collector. A disturbance on the regional grid caused the generating unit at the dam to shut down at 2:47 p.m. By the time power was restored, the concentration of salmon already had died for lack of enough oxygen in the water. About 80 percent were chinook and the rest coho salmon destined for trucking above the dam and artificial spawning at Speelyai hatchery operated by the power company. In spite of the loss, says Hamilton, there will be enough eggs to supply the hatchery because additional salmon are arriving at the collecting facility and 2,000 already are in the hatchery holding pond. Ore. J. 10/10/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Doctors list two 'safe' after plutonium mishap RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Doctors who tested a man and woman exposed to deadly plutonium while working on the Hanford nuclear reservation said Friday that neither received internal contamination above federal occupational standards. Dr. Bryce Breitenstein of the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation reported both the Rockwell-Hanford scientists were released following preliminary examinations, said U.S. Department of Energy spokesman Bob Newlin. "They will continue to be monitored for the foreseeable future to be sure that any lingering contamination is expelled from the body," Breitenstein said. He also said no ill effects were expected. The woman has no "internal deposition," said Newlin. The man received lung exposure "at or below allowable occupational standards," while his general internal contamination level was "well below standards," the DOE official said. Eight employees of Rockwell-Hanford, which processes plutonium under contract to the DOE, were exposed to plutonium oxide Thursday when a container of scrap plutonium the size of a tuna fish can flashed in flame, Newlin said. One man who was detained received a sunburn-like burn on the back of one hand. Officials said the powdery substance scattered after the flame occurred. The man used a dry chemical fire extinguisher to douse the blaze. It was the second accident involving radioactive materials at the large southeastern Washington nuclear reservation in a week. Ore. J. 10/11/80 === Page 133 of 139 - California Attack - # Disastrous Delta Flooding Blamed on Burrowing Beaver SF Chron. Sept. 29 '80 By Stephen Magagnini Chronicle Correspondent Holt, San Joaquin County A burrowing beaver may have caused a levee break that drowned 5700 acres of ready-to-harvest farmland in the San Joaquin Delta 10 miles west of Stockton. That theory was advanced yesterday by farmers, engineers and state and local officials who have been battling the flooding since late Friday. Yesterday they prayed that the roiling waters would not rupture a fragile 5½-mile stretch of railroad track, less than three miles southeast of the breach. That track is all that protects three East Bay Municipal Utilities District aqueducts 40 yards away. They supply drinking water to more than a million residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties. If the soft Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way doesn't hold, an additional 45,000 acres of farmland could be flooded. A fleet of barges and a chain of hydraulic railroad cars dumped tons of rock and dirt into the 275-foot-wide, 50-foot-deep levee breach and along the north side of the railroad tracks as the floodwaters, agitated by northwesterly winds up to 15 miles an hour, chewed in some places to within six feet of the tracks. The waters began to seep under the railroad embankment at numerous points, and officials feared that two- to-three foot waves, coupled with a high tides last night and 10 a.m. today, might cause the levee along the track to buckle. Four 12-person California Conservation Corps crews placed canvas along the slope of the railroad track and fortified the seepage points with sandbags. By yesterday, the flood had destroyed about $5 million worth of corn, tomatoes, beets, sunflower seeds, millet, asparagus and potatoes that were within days of being harvested, said the local reclamation district engineer, George Rabb. About 60 full-time workers and several hundred seasonal workers were left jobless. The effects will be Back Page Col. 5 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Bangkok flooded BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Flooding in this sprawling capital of 4.2 million residents reached the critical level Friday. Several low-lying areas were submerged in chest-high water. The Education Ministry ordered schools closed for an indefinite period and many city dwellers in the worst affected areas resorted to boats as a means of transport. It took four hours for some motorists to inch their way through the 16 miles of traffic from the airport to downtown Bangkok. Oreg. 10/4/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Storm becomes hurricane MIAMI (UPI) -- The seventh tropical storm of the Atlantic season, about 200 miles southwest of Newfoundland, has become Hurricane Georges. Forecasters said two others, Earl and Frances, could reach hurricane strength Monday. None was considered a threat to land. Hurricane forecaster Miles Lawrence said that if both Earl and Frances become hurricanes while Georges still is, it would be "unusual, but not completely unheard of" to have three simultaneous Atlantic hurricanes. Oreg. J. 9/8/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - 10/8/80 Oreg. J. # 2,000 await evacuation after eruption PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (UPI) -- Police prepared Wednesday to evacuate 2,000 villagers living near Mount Ulawun, which erupted Monday night with the force of several atomic bombs. The 7,500-foot volcano on New Britain Island spewed ash 7 miles into the sky Tuesday, blocking out the sun. Although reports indicated the initial explosion had ended, rock and ash still were falling over an 18-mile radius and authorities were uncertain whether the volcanic activity had ended. "We are keeping a close watch on the volcano and at this stage there is a 50-50 chance we'll have to move them (the villagers)," a police spokesman in Port Moresby said. Four government launches are standing by to evacuate the villagers if the ash continues falling or if there is a further eruption, he said. The tribesmen of New Britain refer to Mount Ulawun as "the father." The volcano is the highest peak on New Britain and has been active off and on since the early 1960s. Its last major eruption was in 1978. About 300 villagers from the Ulamona Catholic Mission at the foot of the volcano already have left the area by foot or by canoe. No casualties have been reported yet, although lava is reported to have destroyed many village plantations and gardens on the side of the volcano. Volcanologists in the East New Britain provincial capital of Rabaul, 80 miles southeast of Mount Ulawun, said the volcano erupted with the "equivalent of several atomic bombs" and could be felt up to 43 miles away. === Page 134 of 139 - "Power & Rain Attack" - # DELTA FLOODING From Page 1 SF Chron. 9/29/80 felt throughout the San Joaquin Valley as truckers, mechanics, cannery workers and warehousemen have been idled by the disaster. "It's a chain reaction," said Vasco Giannini, 61, who owns 1900 acres of farmland along Highway 4, about a mile and a half from the railroad track. Giannini said that if the track doesn't hold, Upper Jones Tract - 5000 acres to the south - and Roberts Island - another 40,000 acres to the east - could be wiped out. Friday afternoon, fishermen discovered a break in the earth-and-stone levee at Empire Cut on the west side of Lower Jones Tract, more than 5000 acres of rich farmland belonging to 20 landowners. Water from the Middle River poured over the below-sea-level island, submerging 20 buildings, an elementary school and the Nomellini Duck Club, Rabb said. Telephone lines were knocked out, and Pacific Gas and Electric lines were shut off yesterday and will have to be rerouted before the waters knock them over, officials said. Within two days, the island was under 25 feet of water. No one was reported missing or injured, but 10 families lost their homes and 200 residents of Lower Jones Tract and several neighboring islands had been evacuated, officials said. The biggest loser was Five Star Farms, whose holdings included 2500 of the 5700 flooded acres on Holland Tract. Rudolfo Mussi, who owns 40 percent of Five Star, said 400 acres of sunflower seeds and another 1700 acres of corn were ready to be harvested this week and 400 acres of beets "maybe next month and we never picked one hair. We lost over $2 million ourselves." a beaver den. Dutra Construction, the Rio Vista firm hired by the reclamation district to fill the break and fortify the railroad tracks, teamed with a Lodi trucking firm and used 32 trucks to haul tons of riprap rock to the levee around Lower Jones Tract. The firm, whose crews have been working round-the-clock since the break, has two crane barges dumping rock at the break and another 16 barges hauling from 4000 to 6000 tons of rock a day. But Rabb said it will take about a ton of rock to fortify each foot of the 5 1/2-mile track under ideal conditions; to close the breach will require "a minimum of 70,000 tons of rock and 150,000 cubic yards of earth fill." It will take from 45 to 60 days to fortify the track and plug the More on the flood on Page 2 gap in the levee and another four months to pump out the flooded island, said Bill Dutra, the firm's owner. He estimated the total cost of the reclamation at $5 million. Dan Nomellini, a contractor, engineer, attorney and trustee for the local reclamation district, worked hard yesterday to try to persuade the State Water Resources Board to ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide money and manpower for the rescue effort. Jim Savage, a a self-described "old-time flood fighter" with the Corps of Engineers, said the railroad embankment "is an unknown." The Santa Fe Railroad built the embankment and the adjacent channel in 1906 using a fill of mud and interwoven weeds with no compaction, Johnston said. "It's all peat," he said. "You kick it with your feet and it blows away. In 74 years, the water never hit it - until Saturday night." Mussi, 66, said he's been farming in the Delta since 1932, "and I never had something happen to me like that. I got no experience with the flood. I think it was (caused by) an earthquake or a beaver hole because we're around it (the levee) all the time." Bill Helms of the State Flood Control Center discounted the earthquake theory. (A quake of 4.4 on the Richter scale 22 miles south of Stockton Friday hit after the levee gave way.) Other officials, including Rabb, supported the beaver theory. Bob Johnston, superintendent of Dutra Construction, said beavers, muskrats and other rodents burrow into the levees above the water line, but an unusually severe winter caused higher tides that may have flooded # Viewers Torch Radio Tower That Fuzzed TV Sugarloaf Key, Fla. Television viewers angered by a new radio transmission tower that marred their TV reception apparently were responsible for a fire that knocked WVFK-FM off the air, officials said yesterday. Police said arson is suspected in the $75,000 blaze, which halted the two-week-old station's programming Monday night. "It was sabotage," said station owner E. Stratford Smith. WVFK's transmitter is in this Florida community, about 20 miles north of the station's studios in Key West. The fire destroyed the transmitter, the building housing it and other equipment. Smith, who offered a $1000 reward, said he is uncertain when the station might resume broadcasting. Smith said many callers had complained of interference with reception of broadcasts from Miami. SF Chron. 9/10/80 Associated Press === Page 135 of 139 Columbian 9/21/80 # Collision "Power & Rain Attack" Evergreen High School's football game was called and nearby residents missed a crucial scene of "Shogun" Friday night when a car smacked into a power pole and doused the lights. According to sheriff's deputies, the crash occurred at 9:20 p.m. when a white Chevrolet swerved into an oncoming car driven by Wesley M. Hansen, 15604 N.E. 18th St., in front of the high school, 14300 N.E. 18th St. The Hansen car veered to the right and ran into a power pole, breaking it off. The Chevy turned around and returned, hitting the broken pole lying in the street and ramming the Hansen car again. The driver then pulled over and ran away on foot, according to the report. Betty J. Hansen, also of 15604 N.E. 18th St., was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Community Hospital with reported back and neck injuries. She was treated and released. Officers confiscated the Chevrolet and were looking for the driver Saturday. The collision disrupted power to an estimated 1,200 households and officials at the Evergreen-Battle Ground game called it quits, giving Evergreen a 12-0 victory in the third quarter. Meanwhile, area residents were without power for about 40 minutes, just enough time to miss the big battle scene in "Shogun." Power was restored to most homes by 11 p.m., officials said. Battle Ground fans who went home after the interrupted game discovered about 2 a.m. Saturday that their power had been cut off when another car struck a power pole at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road and Grace Road. Power to about 4,350 homes in Battle Ground, Brush Prairie, Hockinson, and La Center was cut, but restored to all by 9:15 a.m. Saturday, said Clark County Public Utility (Note: this a 2nd one) "Power & Rain Attack" # 2000 Towns Flooded in North India New Delhi Rain and flooding rivers swamped about 2000 villages yesterday, killing 43 people and displacing thousands in Uttar Pradesh state. The United News of India quoted officials in Lucknow, capital of the nation's most populous state, who said that the flood toll in the state had risen to 1578 since the summer monsoon began three months ago in northern India. Water overflowing the banks of the Ganges, India's largest river, and its tributaries have submerged 42,591 villages and damaged or destroyed 4.5 million houses in Uttar Pradesh, the hardest hit state, UNI reported. Military units were conducting massive rescue and relief operations in southeastern India, where about 350 people perished in the past week, UNI said. Air force helicopters dropped thousands of food packets over the flooded region yesterday, and troops rescued almost 6000 stranded persons in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states. S. F. Chron. Sept 25, 1980 Associated Press "Power & Rain Attack" # Texas hit by floods; heat gone WICHITA FALLS, Tex. (AP) -- Floodwaters from a weekend of torrential rain sloshed into homes and across highways in North Texas on Sunday and a brutal heat wave was broken across the Lone Star State. With more than 8 inches of rain reported at some places within a 24-hour period ending Sunday morning, the National Weather Service posted flash flood watches and warnings for almost all of North Texas. Rain continued to fall on waterlogged prairies and flatlands. Rising water inched into houses in several communities from the Red River to Abilene. The Texas Highway Department reported several roads closed by water. "We had some flooding in houses last night and a shelter was opened for feeding people," said Red Cross worker Jan Beal in Wichita Falls on Sunday. "The Wichita River is full to overflowing and if we get more water there's not going to be any place for the runoff to go. "I'm just not convinced that it's over with. We're playing the waiting game and that's the toughest game to play." S. F. Chron. Sept. 29, 80 San Francisco Chronicle 13 Disoriented? U.S. Bern. Attack Tues., Sept. 23, 1980 # A Wrong Turn Into East Germany Hildesheim, West Germany Three U.S. soldiers lost their way yesterday during NATO maneuvers in northern West Germany and strayed across the border into East Germany, a military spokesman said. A statement from Allied spokesmen at Hildesheim, center of the largest NATO maneuvers in the area since World War II, said the driver of a U.S. Army medical vehicle lost his way and took a wrong turn in darkness and dense fog. The soldiers, members of 17th Engineer Battalion, Second Armored Division, inadvertently crossed the unmarked border with East Germany, tried to reverse, but found their vehicle stuck in mud, the spokesman said. The soldiers "realized where they were, removed all maps, weapons and equipment from the quarter-ton vehicle and returned to West Germany, abandoning the mired vehicle," the statement said. United Press === Page 136 of 139 - "Power + Rain Attack" ✓ Viet Typhoon Death Toll Budapest At least 134 people died and 47,000 homes were ruined in a typhoon and subsequent floods this month that hit six of Vietnam's northern provinces, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported yesterday from Hanoi. It said the typhoon Ruth was the worst to reach Vietnam since 1955. SF Chron. Sept 24, '80 Associated Press 9-24-80 Seat. Times Typhoon leaves 47,000 homeless BUDAPEST, Hungary - (AP) - At least 134 people died and 47,000 homes were ruined in a typhoon and subsequent floods this month that hit six of Vietnam's northern provinces, the Hungarian news agency reported yesterday from Hanoi. It said the typhoon Ruth was the worst to reach Vietnam since 1955. Contacts Fill in on SI's pro football "gift." Explain "Time Distortion" The world - "Power + Rain Attack" Rebels hit power plant ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Insurgents sabotaged an electric power substation in the Afghan capital of Kabul and authorities have increased security in response to a new wave of guerrilla attacks, Western diplomatic sources said Thursday. The attack on the power station ended a lull that Western sources attributed to successful infiltration of underground groups by Afghan government agents. The sources, quoting reliable Afghan residents, said the substation was near Kabul University campus. In apparent reaction to the renewed underground activity, security has been increased at government offices. Soviet forces, here since December to help the Marxist regime fight insurgent Moslem tribesmen, put five armored personnel carriers outside Radio Afghanistan headquarters. Oreg: 9/26/80 - "Power + Rain Attack" Fish die at dam WOODLAND, Wash. - A loss of power to pumps in the fish collector caused the loss of about 1,000 adult salmon at Merwin Dam Thursday. An early morning power disturbance on the regional grid caused one of three generating units in operation at the dam to shut down, said a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates the Lewis River dam. By the time the power was restored to the fish collector pumps, the salmon in the collector were lost. - "Power + Rain Attack" Storm spins floods MEXICO CITY (AP) - Heavy rains spun from Tropical Storm Hermine caused flooding in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Chiapas Thursday, driving thousands of persons from their homes, authorities said. Thirteen persons were reported missing in the two states, located east and southeast of here. In Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas, two small dams broke and two bridges across the Pan-American highway gave out, but no injuries were reported, police said. Authorities evacuated about 2,000 persons in low, lying areas to higher ground. Oreg: 9/26/80 - "Power + Rain Attack" 17 die in Japan flood TOKYO (AP) - Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southwestern Japan on Saturday killed 17 people and injured 34, police said. Police said the rains in Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, destroyed 46 houses, partially damaged 39 others and flooded more than 18,000, affecting about 20,000 people. Oreg: 8/31/80 Rebel's son slain === Page 137 of 139 Storms in Midwest; Air Crash Kills Three "Power" & Rain Attack St. Louis A raging storm caught a small plane approaching a St. Louis airport through early-morning fog yesterday. The craft crashed two miles short of the runway, killing three Baptist ministers. A blast of autumn-like air moving east over the Plains collided with hot weather and touched off thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes, unroofed houses, snarled air traffic and toppled power lines. Takeoffs and landings were interrupted by the storm at Lambert St. Louis International Airport late Tuesday. A single-engine plane apparently making a landing approach to Spirit of St. Louis Airport early yesterday crashed in heavy rain and fog, killing the ministers. A fourth clergyman was critically burned. Killed were the Rev. Donald W. Lombard, 36, of O'Fallon, Mo.; the Rev. Lawrence P. Thompson, 45, of St. Clair, Mo., and the Rev. Russell B. Spurgeon, 47, of suburban Maryland Heights. The survivor, the Rev. Kenneth P. Spilger, 30, of suburban Glasgow Village, suffered second- and third-degree burns and was in serious condition at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur. The clergymen were returning from a one-day religious seminar in Kansas City when the rented plane, piloted by Spurgeon, went down, authorities said. Two tornadoes tore up homes in the Coweta, Okla., area. Winds felled power lines in northeastern Oklahoma late Tuesday, causing power outages and lightning sparked several fires in the area. Lightning set two oil tanks ablaze near Haskell, Okla. "All they can do is stand by and wait for it to burn out," said a Haskell police spokesman. Temperatures plunged as the storms moved through Oklahoma. In Tulsa, the high Tuesday was 101. Yesterday morning the temperature was 50. Thunderstorms that raked Illinois late Tuesday and early yesterday left thousands of residents without power. United Press S.F. Chronicle Sept. 18, 1980 9-23-80 Last Times Tropical storm hammers Belize, Yucatan; 'Kay' roars in Pacific Compiled from news services note: Another came hits where I was. MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Hermine punished parts of Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with wind and rain yesterday. The storm's highest winds remained 5 miles an hour shy of hurricane strength at 70 m.p.h. Forecasters said Hermine's overland journey was almost certain to weaken it and keep it from blossoming into the season's seventh hurricane. In San Francisco, the National Weather Service said yesterday that Tropical Storm Kay, with winds up to 90 miles an hour, was 1,500 miles southwest of San Diego. The storm was moving northwest at about 12 miles an hour, the Weather Service said, with sustained winds of 70 miles an hour and gusts to 90 miles an hour. The storm was expected to weaken in the next 24 hours. "Power" & Rain Attack Lab fire exposes 8 ATOMIC POWER RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Eight employees of Rockwell-Hanford Operations were contaminated in a plutonium fire at the Department of Energy's Hanford site near here Thursday. A small container of plutonium scrap caught fire and was immediately extinguished in a plutonium processing facility, said Jim Donahue, Rockwell-Hanford personnel director. The eight requested that their names not be released, Donahue said. He said the material was confined to the laboratory and adjacent hallway, which have been sealed off. Two employees who received contamination were undergoing decontamination at the site, he said. One of the two received a minor burn to the back of his hand while extinguishing the fire, Donahue said. Six employees were slightly contaminated during recovery but were decontaminated and released, he said. Diag: 10/10/80 "Power" & Rain Attack Storms hit Midwest United Press International Violent thunderstorms lashed the Midwest, downing power lines and prompting officials to interrupt takeoffs and landings at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. Temperatures were varied across the country, with searing heat in the Deep South. High winds drove sheets of rain across Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan Tuesday. 9/17/80 === Page 138 of 139 9-23-80 Seattle Times Up to 20 inches of water covers downtown Black River Falls, Wis. "Power + Rain Attack" # Floods peril dams on Mississippi **United Press International** Relentless rain marked the end of summer in Wisconsin yesterday. Roads were blocked in the western part of the state and dams along the Mississippi River were in danger of being washed away. Up to 6 inches of rain fell on Wisconsin over the weekend, triggering mudslides and sending muddy water spilling over river banks. Several roads were buried by mud and water and some rural bridges were washed out, officials said. No deaths or injuries were reported, though residents were forced from their homes in Galesville and the Black River Falls area. Officials said the rain had caused $500,000 damage to roads in Jackson County. Officials in Black River Falls said up to 20 inches of water covered Main Street when the Black River overflowed its banks. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. "I talked to an old-timer who said this is the first time there has been water on Main Street since 1911, and that's the year the town got wiped out," said Arthur Frederikson, emergency government director for Jackson County. Deer hunters were stranded by high water in rural areas but officials said they were in no danger. Game officers rescued three hunters by boat. === Page 139 of 139 SF Chronicle Sept. 11, '80 # Quake Experts Convene To Study an Earth Puzzle By Charles Petit Science Correspondent Pasadena Strange activity that seems to be increasing beneath the crust of California impelled some of the nation's leading seismic experts to convene yesterday for a series of meetings that may one day result in the first official government prediction of an earthquake. The session was the first meeting of a semi-official panel of top government and university earthquake scientists trying to puzzle through the mounting evidence that movements as yet poorly understood are shifting the surface of Southern California. Nobody at the meeting claims to know what is going on along the southern stretch of the San Andreas fault system. But they know the ground is stretching and relaxing in odd ways while emitting fluctuating amounts of radon gas, shifting its magnetic field and causing water levels in wells to go up and down in seeming concert with the occurrence of earthquakes. And it appears that general earthquake activity not just in Southern California but in the whole state and perhaps the whole Western hemisphere is on the rise after a 15-year period of relative quiet. As a result, the experts are now planning to meet frequently and regularly to compare the results of their observations and to determine when or whether to take the first steps toward an official quake prediction. Barry Raleigh, coordinator of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Prediction Program, headquartered in Menlo Park, called the meeting on the campus of the California Institute of Technology both because Southern California appears overdue for a big quake, and because of the tremendous amount of confusing data pouring from the networks of instruments that dot the fault-ridden region. "If we have a seismic gap anywhere in the United States that deserves study, Southern California is it," he said. ## Militants Demand Ban on Newspaper Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe Militants of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's party demanded yesterday that the country's biggest daily newspaper be banned -- a protest against groups opposing a plan to move 17,000 armed guerrillas into this community outside Salisbury. As was the case Tuesday, copies of The Herald, whose owners and senior editors are white, were burned while demonstrators chanted war songs, waved flags of the ZANU-PF Party and carried signs. United Press dous improvements in understanding of earthquakes in recent years, "we are not in the prediction mode yet." "But if we don't keep all our data in a central file someplace, we really have no hope of ever predicting earthquakes," he declared. The geological survey recently formed a group called the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Panel, and a similar body exists on the state level. However, no agency before yesterday existed specifically to analyze the vast amounts of data that might lead to a prediction. In addition to the geological survey and Caltech, members of the ad hoc committee formed yesterday come from the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara campuses of the University of California. Its chairman is Dr. Don Anderson, director of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory. At the meeting yesterday, to be followed by others every few months, members of the panel as well as other earth scientists reviewed some of the unsettling indications that something unusual is going on beneath the southern third of the state. Karen McNally, a Caltech researcher disclosed how dramatical ly earthquake activity has stepped up statewide since 1977. Quakes such as the Mammoth Lakes swarm earlier this year, the Imperial Valley quake last October and the Livermore earthquake in January indicate that after a period of quiescence "what we are witnessing may be a return to historically higher seismic activity." For instance, she said, between 1932 and 1956 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater struck California an average of every 10.7 months. From 1956 to 1977 the interval increased to five years, but since 1978 it has stepped up in tempo to every six months on average. Moreover, many of the recent quakes lie in a band from the Imperial Valley near the Mexican border to Mammoth Lakes, almost due east of San Francisco. Whether it is coincidence or not, this is the belt carrying most of California's volcanoes less than 3 million years old, and is the southern extension of the zone of volcanism that includes Mount Lassen, Mount Shasta and Mount St. Helens. But Caltech geophysicist Clarence Allen said it is unlikely there is any direct cause-and-effect relationship between Mount St. Helens and California earthquakes. Ha ha! Try the St. ! $\theta$ ## L.A. Teachers Still Aren't Assigned Los Angeles With the start of school only a week away and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on busing expected any day, thousands of teachers still didn't know yesterday where they would be working amid the uncertainty surrounding court-ordered desegregation. And this, teachers union officials said, may lead to scores of formal union grievances filed against the district on behalf of disgruntled teachers. Associated Press Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 93 Polish strikers claim By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER GDANSK, Poland (AP) -- Strike leaders claimed Wednesday that government negotiators agreed in preliminary talks to meet their main demand of independent trade unions. But Poland's deputy premier indicated later that bargaining was not over on the point. Such an agreement would hasten the end of Poland's worst labor crisis in a decade and give workers in a Soviet-bloc state their own unions for the first time ever. "There is general agreement between strikers and the government on forming free and independent trade unions," Andrzej Gwiazda, one of the workers' negotiators, told reporters after emerging from closed-door preliminary talks with government officials. But Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski said on Gdansk radio and television Wednesday night that "these demands have to be discussed within the present trade union," which is run by the state. He said negotiations would resume Thursday. At the same time, in Moscow the official Soviet news agency issued a tough commentary attacking "anti-socialist" elements within Poland that it said were striving to push the Soviet ally "off the socialist road." There was no overt sign, however, that Moscow was planning to intervene in the Polish crisis. Little detail was available on the reported agreement, and it was not clear what further approval was needed at higher levels of the government. The strike leaders had said earlier they would be willing to back off on many of their other demands if the government would concede on the issue of free trade unions. If unions independent of the government are established, analysts said, it could mean a loss of power for the Communist Party unprecedented in the Soviet bloc. The strikes have already advanced beyond a level many thought possible in the East bloc, and have prompted Poland's shaken leadership to warn of "events that could lead to a national catastrophe." The demand for free trade unions appears to amount to a scrapping of controlled unions prevalent in the Soviet bloc. The Gdansk workers' list of 21 demands also includes offers of free elections, a more open government structure, as well as of the release of political prisoners. Reports of an agreement on unions "are serious reminders from Poland's leaders that they remain a socialist power," the Soviet news agency Tass said from the border. Storm whips sea MIAMI (AP) -- A strong system of disturbed weather churned through the Atlantic east of the northern Windward Islands Wednesday and forecasters said there was "a good chance" it would develop into Tropical Storm Danielle. But the tropical depression, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and centered roughly 550 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, did not have the same characteristics as Hurricane Allen when it formed in the same area earlier this month, Paul Hebert, forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said. Allen killed more than 200 people during a rampage through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. oreg. Aug. 28, '80 === Page 2 of 93 -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Earthquake devastates 10/11/80 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- An earthquake devastated the city of Al Asnam and its surrounding rural areas Friday and the government reported "thousands of victims." The first tremor was far stronger than a quake that killed 1,657 people in the same city 26 years ago. A spokesman for the Information Ministry said late Friday that it was too early to give a death toll, saying rescue workers were still searching shattered buildings and homes. The quake struck the city, 150 miles west of Algiers, at 1:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. PDT) and was followed by a second tremor two hours later lasting more than a minute. Al Asnam has 125,000 inhabitants. The official Algerian news agency APS described the quake as "a catastrophe" but did not give a precise number of how many people were killed or injured. The government mobilized army, air force, police and civil defense units for an emergency relief operation to help the injured and homeless and search for bodies in ruined buildings. Civil and military workers evacuated many injured people, APS said. The government reported whole apartment buildings had collapsed. Old and prefabricated buildings on the outskirts of the city also shuddered and fell, causing more casualties, the officials said. "Large fissures, some deep, run across the countryside and in some places the road has collapsed," APS said. "Whole families are gathered at the roadside, having fled their ruined homes." Officials closed roads leading into the city for safety reasons and security services turned back "the curious," APS reported. Communications with the market and manufacturing town were cut. There was no immediate estimate of the number of victims, but the official radio said first reports indicated the quake damaged 80 percent of Al Asnam's buildings. APS said the earthquake destroyed the city's main hospital, central mosque and courthouse and leveled the civil defense headquarters, main department store, a girls' high school, two large housing complexes and many other buildings. The quake affected a number of surrounding towns, including Ain Defla, Beni Haoua, El Abdia and Sendjaf, APS said, adding that about 10 percent of the houses and some larger buildings such as mosques and factories were destroyed there. In 1954, an earthquake measured at 6.4 on the Richter scale leveled Al Asnam, then called Orleansville. Friday's quake was measured at 7.5 on the scale at a seismological station in France. The U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake information center said the quake was followed three hours later by an aftershock that registered 6.2. -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Twisters, rain rip Midwest United Press International A band of late summer tornadoes and thunderstorms swept through the upper Mississippi Valley, downing power lines and damaging homes. At least eight persons were treated for minor injuries. Three tornadoes touched down near St. Cloud in south-central Minnesota late Wednesday. Eight residents of the Bel Claire Acres mobile home park were treated and released from a St. Cloud hospital after the tornado ripped through the park. Police restricted all travel into and out of the area to residents while rescue squads helped injured persons. Damage estimates were not immediately available. Another twister downed trees and felled power lines in Stearns County. A spokesman for the sheriff's office there said several gas lines also were broken during the storm. 9/4/80 -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Short kills power to Florida homes CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- A loose test lead triggered a short-circuit which shut down the Florida Power Corp. nuclear plant at Crystal River and cut off power to thousands of homes around the state, a company spokesman says. Service was restored soon after the Tuesday outage, said Florida Power spokesman Bill Johnson. The 825-megawatt unit was at full load when the mishap occurred around 1 p.m. Johnson said about 60,000 customers of Jacksonville Electric and Miami-based Florida Power & Light were affected. Florida Power Corp., based in St. Petersburg, serves some 750,000 customers in 32 counties along the Florida Gulf Coast. 9/1/80 # Floods sweep India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Six people were missing Sunday after floodwaters swept away a car near Jabalpur, central India, the United News of India reported. In Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, officials and army troops used boats to evacuate thousands of marooned villagers in Banda district where rain-swollen rivers flooded large areas. UNI said that at least 500 villages in Banda, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi, were hit by floods from the Ken and Yamuna rivers. It did not report any casualties. More than 1,000 deaths have been reported nationwide since the annual floods began in June. About 800 have died in Uttar Pradesh. === Page 3 of 93 Seattle Times 9-24-80 # Pacific tropical storm acts more like a hurricane MIAMI -- (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Hermine, intensifying rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico after lashing Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula, built up to near hurricane strength yesterday and headed for the Northeast Mexican coast. The National Hurricane Center said that at 6 p.m. Hermine was centered near latitude 19.6 north, longitude 94.6 west, about 100 miles east-northeast of Veracruz, Mexico. The storm's top winds, which were down to 45 miles an hour when it emerged into the Southwest Gulf of Mexico early in the day, had intensified to 65 m.p.h., and Hermine was headed west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. Officials at Mexico's Meteorological Service said the storm was headed toward offshore oil rigs in the Gulf. Hermine, just 10 m.p.h. shy of becoming a hurricane, was expected to reach that status late last night. A forecaster, Miles Lawrence, said the storm was expected to remain on a west-northwest course through today. SF Chronicle 9-3-80 # Violent Storms In Tulsa Area Tulsa, Okla. Thunderstorms brought as much as six inches of rain to the Tulsa area yesterday, and two teenagers were injured by lightning during the downpour, authorities said. Streets in some areas were flooded, and thousands of homes and businesses were without power in the eastern section of the city and nearby Bixby. Rainfall averages of one and two inches were common throughout the northeast section of the state, weather officials said. Fourteen-year-old Charles Arthur of Bixby said he was helping pump gasoline at the convenience store where his father works when he was stunned by a bolt of lightning. "I thought I'd been electrocuted at first. It knocked me to my knees, but I got up and started running for cover," he said. "It turned my arms blue and red and purple all at the same time." The youngster was treated for minor burns, and released from St. Francis Hospital. Sixteen-year-old Tammy Ryan, also of Bixby, was struck by lightning on the way to school. Officials at St. Francis said she was admitted for observation, and was in good condition. Associated Press By HAYNES JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- In this tall end of summer, when millions of Americans are on vacation and the pace of national life slows, ominous sounds fill the airwaves. The talk is of weapons and war, strength and survival. The Republican presidential candidate evokes Vietnam as a "noble cause" and warns darkly of the precedent of Korea, "our first 'no-win war,' a portent of much that has happened since." The Democratic administration, countering charges of national military weakness, responds with rhetoric of its own and lets it be known we have developed a wondrous new weapon, an "invisible plane" code-named "stealth" whose configuration defies enemy radar. The radio reports the rumor that five American hostages have been executed in Iran, stirring further forebodings. It is as if somehow, in this lazy season of drift at the beginning of a new decade, we are stumbling into an abyss with no one capable of checking the fall. The analogy with the summer of 1939 just before war began, when an American living in Paris wrote in his diary that "everyone's daily life seems to be saturated with these feelings of apprehension," is, one hopes, false. But as an indication of the kind of discourse we will be hearing in the next two months of the presidential campaign, last week's words hardly in- oreg: Aug. 26, '80 San Francisco Chronicle 5 Wed., Sept. 3, 1980 # Dam Bursts Above Town -- 12 Die Arandas, Mexico At least 12 persons drowned and up to 50 are missing in a flash flood triggered by the rupture of an aging dam high above the town of Arandas, rescue officials said yesterday. They said Red Cross workers and rural policemen were wading into waist-high mud along the banks of the Colorado River in search of more victims. The wall of water swept away at least 50 homes === Page 4 of 93 - "Power" & Rain Attack - D8 3M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, SEPTEMBER 7, 1980 # Tropical storm brings rain, flooding to Texas BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- This Texas port and its neighboring cities were awash in floodwaters Saturday, drenched by up to 17 inches of rain as newborn Tropical Storm Danielle splashed inland and collapsed. One woman was known to have drowned and police were searching for two more people who might have been in a car with her when it plunged into 20 feet of water in a flooded Beaumont underpass, according to Police Sgt. Martin Goldbeck. Almost every street and highway was flooded in this city of 116,000 people Saturday morning, and the scene was much the same in nearby Port Arthur. While there were no big evacuations, numerous residents were forced to flee as the water rose during the night. Many residents in the area chose to remain in their homes, barricading their property with sandbags. "We've got flooding all over the city," Goldbeck said. At Port Arthur, a police spokesman who declined to be identified said 60 to 80 percent of all the streets in the city were flooded. City dump trucks were used to patrol the streets of Port Arthur, an industrial community of 60,000 near the Texas-Louisiana border. "Our regular police cars just won't make it in the deep water," the spokesman said. Tornado warnings and flash flood watches were issued for most of southeastern Texas. Danielle -- the fourth named storm of the 1980 hurricane season -- also spawned a tornado northeast of the Texas community of Alvin. Oreg. Sept. 7, 80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Thunderstorm rakes Tulsa TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Violent thunderstorms dumped as much as 6 inches of rain on the Tulsa area Tuesday, and two teen-agers were injured by lightning during the downpour, authorities said. Streets in some areas were flooded and power was knocked out to thousands of homes and businesses in the eastern section of the city and nearby Bixby. Thunderstorms averaging between 1 and 2 inches were widespread throughout the northeast section of the state, weather officials said. Charles Arthur, 14, of Bixby, said he was helping pump gas at the convenience store where his father works when he was stunned by a bolt of lightning. "I thought I'd been electrocuted at first. It knocked me to my knees, but I got up and started running for cover," he said. "It turned my arms blue and red and purple all at the same time, but the color is starting to come back." The youngster was treated for minor burns and released from St. Francis Hospital. Sixteen-year-old Tammy Ryan, also of Bixby, was struck by lightning while going to school. Officials at St. Francis said she was admitted for observation and was listed in good condition. Oreg. Sept. 3, 1980 Associated Press SF Chronicle 9-3-80 # Etna Ends Eruption Catania, Sicily Mount Etna ended a one-day eruption yesterday but volcano experts kept away from the mountain for fear it would begin blasting lava and boulders into the sky again. United Press === Page 5 of 93 --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- # Metro notes ## Waste bill gains ballot An initiative designed to prohibit transportation of non-medical radioactive waste into Washington for storage will be put to voters in that state in the upcoming Nov. 4 balloting. The sponsors of Initiative 383, the Don't Waste Washington Committee, reported they have 124,888 valid signatures, and needed only 123,711. The committee is attempting to prevent Washington from being the site of a national storage area for spent nuclear fuels. Initiative 383 would not affect any radioactive waste generated within Washington, according to committee statements. The Seattle-based group is concerned about the safety of nuclear waste transportation. ## Power restored Power was restored early Sunday morning to West Portland and Gresham after separate power outages that lasted less than two hours, a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman said. Spokesman Bruce Landrey said unidentified persons threw steel barricades off the Southwest Vista Avenue bridge over Canyon Road, hitting a 13,000 volt power line and causing an outage from 2:38 a.m. to 3:42 a.m. Area of the outage was from Northwest Overton Street to Southwest Market Street, and from Southwest 21st Avenue to Washington Park, Landrey said. A car struck a power pole at Southeast 223rd Avenue and Stark Street at 12:22 a.m., causing outages in the Gresham area, Landrey said. Power was restored in different areas at 1:37 a.m. and 2:21 a.m., he said. ## Volcano stays quiet The Mount St. Helens volcano was "extremely quiet" overnight Saturday, a spokeswoman for the University of Washington Geophysics Program, which monitors the mountain, said Sunday. She said a few rockfalls and small avalanches near the crater were measured, but there was no major seismic activity. ## Closure scheduled Beginning Sept. 1, Northeast 96th Avenue south of Lombard Street will be closed to traffic for three weeks during working hours. Robert E. Johnson, Multnomah County traffic engineer, said the closure is necessary because contractors for the Port of Portland will be moving large amounts of fill material across the road. 9/1/80 --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- ## Rain spreads across nation United Press International Showers and thunderstorms dotted the nation from the Gulf of Mexico through the middle and northern Atlantic Coast and from Texas to the Rockies. In New England, Rumford, Maine, received nearly an inch of rain and the communities of Bridgeport, Conn., and Washington, N.H., both received nearly three-quarters of an inch late Tuesday. 9/3/80 === Page 6 of 93 oreg. Sept. 2, '80 # The nation - "Power and Rain Attack" ## Poison found in residents AJO, Ariz. (AP) -- People living near a Phelps Dodge Corp. smelter have absorbed high levels of arsenic and copper, according to a recent federal study. But the report, prepared by the Research Triangle Institute for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Disease Control, does not say what concentrations might jeopardize the health of residents here or in other test sites in New Jersey, Oklahoma and Montana. The report was released last week. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has said the death rate from lung cancer increases consistently with an increased degree and duration of exposure to arsenic. to about half the city's 18,000 residents, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the storm, which hit shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday as scattered thundershowers swept through Maine and other parts of New England. ## Wedding costs job EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- A teacher who is married to a divorced man has won a delay of her dismissal from a Catholic high school here, but she says she's been told to find a new job for the 1981-82 school year. The Evansville diocese prohibits employment in the schools of divorced Catholics who remarry. Although Debra Willis does not directly violate that rule, church and school officials say it still applies because of the divorce and remarriage of her husband, Gary, a Baptist. ## Winds cut power WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) -- Electrical service was back by Monday morning after a fierce thunderstorm with high winds that had uprooted trees and telephones and knocked out power ## Pliers win standoff DALLAS (AP) -- Police say a man who allegedly accosted another man with a screwdriver but was fended off with a pair of pliers has been arrested for investigation of aggravated robbery. - "Power & Rain Attack" # Mollusks close nuclear plant LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) -- Unit Two of Arkansas Nuclear One near Russellville is jammed up with clams and Arkansas Power and Light Co. officials don't know when they will get it back in operation. The power plant unit was not put back on line as expected Monday, primarily because the reactor was still infested with thousands of Asian clams. Last week, AP&L officials discovered the pesky mollusks were slowing the flow of water through a backup cooling system of the reactor. They worked all weekend to flush them out of the water supply, spokesman Gene Harrington said, but enough remained Monday to keep the reactor shut down. Harrington said the problems began when larvae slipped through water filters, lodged in flow tubes and matured into large clams. A similar problem has plagued nuclear reactors all over the country, he said. oreg. P. Sept 16, '80 Oreg. Sept. 2, 1980 # Crew escapes unharmed as gas well explodes MANSFIELD, La. (AP) -- Flames shot 200 feet above parched woodlands near this northern Louisiana city Monday after a nearly completed natural gas well blew wild, authorities said. The four men working on the rig got off just before it caught fire and were unhurt, said Larry Oswald, general manager of the C.L. Morris Drilling Co., which owns the well. "All I know is we just hit a pocket of gas and the well come to see us," said an unidentified C.L. Morris employee. Oswald said the blaze started within seconds of the blowout. He said Boots and Coots, a Houston company which specializes in fighting oil and gas fires, was called to the well, which exploded between 4 and 5 a.m. as the crew was getting ready to drill. About $350,000 to $450,000 worth of equipment was destroyed, Oswald said. "There's no telling what damage it may cause by the time it's gotten under control," he said. DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Deputy Kenny Roberts said that in addition to engulfing the rig, the blaze melted a fuel line and 500 gallons of diesel fuel poured onto the ground, where it caught fire. "It didn't explode. It's just burning," he said. The fire spread to a nearby forest, extremely dry after a summer of high temperatures and little rain, but the fire was quickly controlled, Roberts said. 9-23-80 SF Chronicle # Pigeons Black Out Bay Homes - "Power & Rain Attack" Seven thousand Oakland residents lost electrical service yesterday when pigeons on a 12,000-volt line took off in unison, causing two wires to touch and short circuit, a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokesman said. Power was restored to all but 600 customers within 90 minutes of the 9:17 a.m. incident at Staten Avenue and Van Buren Street near Lake Merritt. The spokesman said restoration of power to the remaining customers was expected by late yesterday. === Page 7 of 93 - "Power & Rain Attack" - Sect. Times 9/25/80 # Tropical storm Hermine blamed for eight deaths VERA CRUZ, Mexico - (UPI) - The tropical storm Hermine bore down on the heart of Mexico's Gulf Coast yesterday with winds gusting up to 74 miles an hour and claimed its first eight victims - far to the south in Guatemala. "There are strong and violent winds from the north, and Hermine is very close," said Dr. Cesar Luna of the Mexican Meteorological Service in Vera Cruz. The storm was lashing the city with heavy rain, and Luna said it could come ashore between Santecomapan and Punta Roca, towns 16 miles apart about 75 miles north of Vera Cruz. Guatemalan police said a mudslide triggered by Hermine's rains buried a bus late Tuesday 45 miles west of Guatemala City, killing eight people, four of them children. Other mudslides closed the Pan American Highway that runs through the heart of Guatemala. # Two killed by quake in Japan TOKYO - (UPI) - A powerful earthquake, the second in two days, jolted Tokyo and surrounding towns early today, killing at least two people and injuring 59, police said. The quake, registering 6.4 on the Richter scale, was the most powerful to hit Tokyo in six years and was followed by four minor tremors, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said. Two elderly persons, one in Tokyo and the other in neighboring Kawasaki City, died of heart attacks attributed to the quake shaking the area, police said. At least 59 people were injured from falling objects, authorities said. The temblor yesterday registered 6 on the Richter scale. A2 THE OREGON # Few takers Vietnam env - "Power & Rain Attack" By PETER ARNETT NEW YORK (AP) - Olive branch extended, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach moved purposefully along the corridors of this year's United Nations General Assembly. His country was in its 35th year of continuing war, at odds with weather that has buffeted rich rice lands with two devastating typhoons in a recent month, and isolated politically from much of the world. He had come on an annual mission to seek accord with former enemies, and peace with the present ones. But there were few takers. "We are prepared to proceed with - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Thunderstorms rip Midwest, kill flier Oreg. J. Sept 23, '80 By United Press International Violent thunderstorms from Oklahoma to the Ohio Valley killed at least one man and injured several others. The storms, with 65 mph winds and large-size hail, turned afternoon skies black Monday and brought torrents of rain. A line of violent thunderstorms moved into southern Illinois late Monday, leaving at least one man dead. John Riddle, 27, of Orient, Ill., was killed when his Cessna 150 plowed into a wooded area during a violent thunderstorm shortly after takeoff from a Benton, Ill., airport. In Michigan, at least three persons were injured as the storms tore through the state. Detroit Edison Co. spokesmen said about 25,000 customers were without service in southeastern Michigan because of the storms, which struck the southwestern part of the state at midafternoon and then rolled eastward, hitting hard in extreme southeastern lower Michigan. Monroe County sheriff's deputies said the storms caused extensive damage north of Monroe, Mich., ripping up dozens of trees, power lines and telephone poles. "We've really got a mess down here, I don't know if it was a tornado or what, but it just went through and tore up everything," Sgt. George Hill said. There were scattered reports of street and highway flooding, as well as downed trees, power and telephone lines throughout the tri-county Detroit metropolitan area. Heavy thunderstorms in southern Indiana produced several reports of funnel clouds. Trees were uprooted by what authorities called "straight line" winds in some areas. The showers were produced by a cold front that sent temperatures plummeting from the 80s, before the storms hit, to the 60s. - "Power & Rain Attack" # Typhoon hits isle, China PEKING (AP) - Typhoon Norris killed three people and dumped about a foot of rain on Taiwan and then hit China's largest city of Shanghai, causing at least two deaths and numerous injuries, flooding, power failure and damage to grain crops, according to reports reaching here Friday. The typhoon struck Thursday in Shanghai, where the ground had already been saturated by about 20 days of rain, reports said. Oreg. J. 8/30/80 - "Power & Rain Attack" # Winds rake town ADA, Okla. (AP) - Two persons were injured - one critically - and thousands of dollars in damage was caused by high winds that roared through this southern Oklahoma town. The wind storm Thursday evening collapsed the roof of a bank's covered parking lot onto several cars, ripped the roof off a lumber yard, knocked down power poles and shattered numerous windows, said Gene Smith, Ada civil defense director. Oreg. J. 8/30/80 === Page 8 of 93 old model gun (sets off) begins or terminates SI & coded action. "Power & Rain Attack" Television crews cry over lost juice VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Television crews said they were disappointed Friday when they arrived in Vancouver for a weekly Mount St. Helens news briefing. The briefing was held at the Bonneville Power Administration's J.D. Ross Complex, which has been without power for several days. As a result, film crews faced the prospect of being unable to use their lighting equipment. "What do you mean there's no power?" asked a KATU cameraman after Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Joyce Routson informed him an auxiliary power system would have to be set up. There was reason to complain: The Ross complex is located adjacent to a Bonneville power substation. Ore: 9/28/80 A2 . 3M THE OREGONIAN, TUE Aug. 26, '80 "Power & Rain Attack" The world Temblors' toll 13 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Strong earthquakes that rocked the northern Indian state of Kashmir early Sunday killed at least 13 people and injured at least 40 others, the United News of India reported Monday. Three of the injured were reported in critical condition. The news agency said at least 80 houses were destroyed in the two tremors, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. More than 500 homes were damaged. UNI said the casualties could climb higher because the government was awaiting reports from inaccessible parts of the state. First reports Sunday said only three had died. The report said many cattle also perished in the quake, whose epicenter was near Dharamsala, 240 miles north of New Delhi. Reports from Pakistan said the tremors were felt in Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, but no damage or casualties were reported. 9/13/80 Storms rip two states United Press International Thunderstorms driven by high winds ripped through Kansas and Missouri, tearing the roof off of an apartment building in Kansas City, Kan., and causing power outages throughout the two-state area. "Power & Rain Attack" "Power & Rain Attack" 4 dead, many lost in Mexico flood ARANDAS, Mexico (UPI) -- A rain-swollen river spilled over its banks and washed away dozens of homes, killing four persons, injuring three others and leaving scores missing and perhaps dead, authorities said Tuesday. "It was panic," said Maria Ramirez, a nurse at the Social Security Hospital in Arandas, a town of about 30,000 about 200 miles northwest of Mexico City in the state of Jalisco. "Near the river it looked like a hurricane." "The authorities said there are only four dead, but there are a lot of missing," she said. Most homes within a block of the Colorado River that flanks the town were washed away by the swirling waters, she said. Ore. S. Sept 2, '80 === Page 9 of 93 A2 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1980 # The world ## Etna erupts; lava reported CATANIA, Sicily (AP) -- Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, rumbled and spewed molten rock Tuesday, but authorities said the eruption posed no immediate threat to the island's residents. A northeastern crater at an altitude of 8,400 feet opened up with a violent explosion, hurling rocks into the sky. The blast opened two more craters -- one at the top and the other at the base of the 10,958-foot summit. Clouds of smoke and ashes covered the area, but by late afternoon they began to drift toward the sea, authorities reported. Two lava flows were reported to have emerged from the craters, but authorities, after studying their speed and the route, said there appears to be no danger to nearby villages. ## Ganges floods city NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- India's largest river, the Ganges, flooded much of Benares, a holy Hindu city, and 19 more people drowned in flood waters in northern India, reports said Tuesday. Several areas of Benares, 500 miles southeast of New Delhi, were under knee-deep water and hundreds of people were evacuated to safer places, the United News of India reported. Almost 1,150 flood-related deaths have been reported in India since monsoon rains began in late June. chief, took control of the archipelago's largest island, Espiritu Santo, in late May. Papua New Guinea forces, brought in by Lini's government to quell the remnants of the rebellion, captured the last rebel stronghold Sunday and [missing text] Stevens. 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Leder [missing text] daughter [missing text] ## Te [missing text] a [missing text] === Page 10 of 93 Oregon Journal, September 22, 1980 11 Drenched Wisconsin fights floods By United Press International High water carried away rural Wisconsin bridges and threatened dams along the Mississippi River, prompting the National Weather Service to issue flash flood watches on the first day of fall. Five inches of rain hit Trempealeau and Jackson counties, Wis., Sunday, with more possible Monday. No deaths or injuries were reported Sunday, but 40 persons were evacuated from their homes. Flash flood watches also were in effect for extreme southeastern Minnesota, where the Root River was nearing flood stage. Wisconsin officials said weekend rain caused an estimated $500,000 damage to roads in Jackson County, and the Black River Falls business district incurred thousands of dollars of damage when the Black River overflowed its banks at noon Sunday. At one point, two La Crosse County sheriff's deputies had to abandon their squad car because of high water. "We need a barge, not a squad car," one officer told his dispatcher by radio. Wisconsin 53 was closed Sunday north of Galesville because of mud slides. Washouts and mud slides also caused heavy damage in southwest Jackson County near Melrose, officials said. In Windsor, Conn., 90-degree heat was blamed for sending 16 persons to hospitals. Ore. J. Sept. 22, '80 8/21/80 Disabled ship heads to Miami By DAN SEWELL MIAMI (AP) -- The SS Norway, the world's largest cruise ship, began steaming slowly back home Wednesday after a power failure that had left the luxury vessel's 1,600 passengers without running water or air conditioning and the ship motionless for a day. The ship was moving at 13 mph (usual cruising speed is 16 mph) and was about 533 miles east-southeast of Miami by Wednesday afternoon, said officials of Norwegian Caribbean Lines, the ship's owner. It was expected back in Miami on Friday, a day ahead of schedule. The ship's bars would remain open until it gets back to Miami, and passengers, who paid from $630 to $1,415 per ticket, will receive 100 percent refunds in Miami, plus a 50 percent discount on a future seven-day cruise, said Ric Widmer, NCL vice president of marketing. "The ship is cool and fully air conditioned, the plumbing is working properly and the kitchen facilities are functioning normally. All scheduled meals are being served with regular menus," he added. NCL at first only canceled Wednesday's scheduled stop in the Virgin Islands and added a Friday stop in Nassau to the Norway's seven-day cruise schedule. But after several hours of delay in getting the ship moving Wednesday, NCL scuttled the alternate route and ordered the Norway back to Miami. In addition to the passengers, the ship carried 800 crew members. "Most of the passengers really wanted to go to St. Thomas and they weren't satisfied with the change," Widmer said. "The captain of the Norway and the management of NCL have decided that in the best interest of the passengers on board and to assure adherence with the scheduled departure (of next week's cruise) this Sunday, the Norway would return directly to Miami," Widmer said. A breakdown in the 1,035-foot ship's electrical switching system was blamed for the power failures that left the ship dark and hot Tuesday. Beer and soft drinks were passed out and cold meals were served in place of the usual chef-prepared dinners. The generator was restored late Tuesday night, and engines were restarted early Wednesday. But the ship had fallen a day and a half behind schedule while adrift about 150 miles north of the Caicos Islands in the southern Bahamas. (Note: This is the ship that was the S.S. France ... which the family and I once sailed on to France! Owens) === Page 11 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Flood toll rises MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- New rain storms hit the southern Philippines Monday, and flood waters inundated seven more towns in a region where relief workers have reported 198 deaths from month-long flooding. A Red Cross spokesman said the floods, triggered by downpours that began Dec. 19, had left several thousand people homeless. The official Philippine News Agency said at least 16 people were missing. 1/7/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Record cold grips eastern U.S. By United Press International Three men fell to their deaths in a series of accidents on a fog-shrouded bridge on the Ohio Turnpike, and temperatures dropped to record lows Friday as arctic cold chilled the Midwest and Northeast for the second consecutive day. A thick fog hovering over an Ohio Turnpike bridge in Fremont, Ohio, led to the deaths of three men -- Richard Hill, 36, Seaford, Del.; Earl T. Gregory, 37, Uniontown, Ohio; and Roy Rogers, 28, Mosherville, Mich. Ohio Highway Patrol Sgt. Michael Porter said the series of accidents involved 11 vehicles late Thursday. He said a tractor-trailer rig driven by Hill slammed into the rear of another truck at the bridge, throwing Hill out of the cab and over the bridge guard rail to his death on the ice-covered river 60 feet below. Porter said Gregory and Rogers both died a few minutes apart when each man, stopped by accidents on the bridge, stepped over the guard rail and fell to his death on the ice. Witnesses said the fog was so thick the victims apparently were not aware there was no ground on the other side of the guard rail. Record low temperatures iced the eastern third of the nation. The mercury dropped to 8 below Friday in Providence, R.I., breaking a 13-year record of minus 5. Subzero temperatures were recorded throughout Ohio. Findlay had a record 10 below, Youngstown 7 below, Toledo 11 below and Cleveland 5 below. Pennsylvania also had its share of subzero readings, with Tobvanna checking in at minus 15, Philipsburg at 6 below and Bradford had a minus 4 reading. The temperature nosedived to 18 below zero in Watertown, N.Y., early Friday and the National Weather Service forecast similar readings for much of New England and the Northeast. Subzero temperatures in New York City forced at least 107 elderly and poor residents, some without heat or hot water for weeks, into a heated shelter provided by authorities. "We all sleep together in our clothes," said Deborah Harvey, who took her four children to the public shelter in search of a warm place to sleep. "It's so cold. For us there was no Christmas or New Year's. The kids complain, but they know mommy can't help it." A 52-year-old Boston man, Henry Humbrick, was found frozen to death Thursday after he apparently fell down his front steps. Scattered snow wafted lightly across the Plains and into the Great Lakes region from North Dakota to Michigan. Light snow also fell early Friday in portions of New York State and West Virginia. Skies were clear along the Eastern Seaboard through the eastern gulf states and the southern Rockies. Isolated showers and clouds dotted the Pacific Northwest and fog lingered over the valleys of central California. (Related storm stories on page 16) === Page 12 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Worst Eastern snow in 25 years kills 30 - Power + Rain Attack - By United Press International A wind-driven snowstorm that buried northwestern Pennsylvania under 2 feet of snow - the worst in 25 years - unleashed its fury on the Northeast again Wednesday, including parts of New York state, where snow already was "waist-deep." Travel advisories were issued Wednesday for the eastern Great Lakes. Forecasters said the area could get another 4 inches of snow before the storm abates. Snow squalls buried Erie, Pa., with 12 inches of snow Monday and up to a foot more on Tuesday. Erie Mayor Louis Tullio said it was the worst storm since 1956. Schools closed, more than 100 travelers abandoned their cars on Interstate 90 and Pennsylvania officials declared a snow emergency. Western New York was deluged with more than 18 inches of snow. Up to 5 inches of snow blanketed Connecticut. The storms that brought winter back to much of the nation this week were blamed for at least 30 deaths. Strong wind whipped across the northern Plains to the Northeast, dropping temperatures to single digits and below zero. The cold front prompted freeze warnings in Florida, where Tallahassee had a low of 21 Wednesday. Tampa recorded a high Tuesday of 50 degrees, the coldest ever for Feb. 3. Red Oak, Iowa, notched a record 16-below. Shenandoah, Iowa, plunged to 19 degrees below zero. Both readings broke records set in 1956. The temperature at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., which had a record 26 below Tuesday, was 11 below Wednesday. In Pennsylvania, four brothers trapped overnight on Presque Isle Bay near Erie, where they were ice-fishing when the snowstorm hit, found their way to safety Tuesday. To keep warm during the night, they had to burn their fishing poles. Five members of a Milltown, Ind., family - including four youngsters - died Tuesday when a fire apparently caused by a wood-burning stove swept their two-story frame house on one of the coldest nights of the year. Three persons drowned in Minnesota - a man when his car plunged through the ice of the Mississippi River and two teenage boys when their snowmobiles went through thin ice on George Lake. A Vermont man died in a fall on ice and a New York truck driver was killed in a collision during a blinding snowstorm. Sixteen other persons died earlier in highway accidents blamed on icy roads, three died in a North Carolina fire Sunday and a cross-country skier was killed in an avalanche in Utah. Wind up to 30 mph raked the storm along the eastern shore of Lake Erie in New York. The Chautauqua County community of Cassadaga reported "waist-deep" snow. Aug 2/4/81 United Press International HELPING HAND - Good neighbors pitch in to help uncover a car buried under 24-inch snowfall in Erie, Pa. A wind-driven snowstorm has buried western Pennsylvania, and more is expected. === Page 13 of 93 Projects PK - (Power Attack) # Radioactive leaks prompt shutdown at Trojan plant By DON BUNDY of The Oregonian staff ONG 1/23/81 The Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier will be shut down next Friday to repair leaks in tubes that contain radioactive reactor cooling water, allowing radioactive gases to escape into the atmosphere. Bill Babcock, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co., which operates Trojan, said the leaks are well within limits established by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and would have no significant impact on the environment. The leaking tubes are within four steam generators housed in Trojan's reactor containment building. The steam generators serve as giant heat exchangers where reactor cooling water travels under high temperatures and pressures through a network of tubes surrounded by water. The water turns into steam when it comes into contact with the hot pipes. Leaks in the tubes allow the radioactive reactor cooling water to contaminate the steam, which is piped to the generating turbines and then to a condenser, where it cools and changes from vapor back into water. Babcock said the problem was that radioactive gases contained in the steam would not condense into liquids. The turbines and condensers operate in a vacuum to reduce friction and increase power production, but since gases in the system will not condense, those gases must be drawn out to maintain the vacuum and prevent pressure from building up. Babcock said the gases drawn out pass through a filter and past radiation monitors before they are discharged into the atmosphere. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission permits Trojan to emit five millirems of radioactivity each year. If the gases being emitted now were to continue to escape for a full year, they would represent less than 1 percent of the NRC limit, Babcock said. He added that Trojan has never exceeded the limit. Millirems measure the health effects of radiation exposure, and five millirems are equivalent to radiation exposure a person would receive on a round-trip coast-to-coast jet flight because of his relative closeness to the sun. Presently, 300 gallons of water a day from Trojan's reactor cooling system are leaking into the steam system, Babcock said, while the NRC allows 1,440 gallons of leakage per day for all four of Trojan's steam generators. Babcock said each steam generator contains more than 3,000 reactor cooling tubes. He said the leaks were detected in July, but by August had produced only two to five gallons of leakage per day. Subsequently, power production at Trojan was reduced to 40 percent of the plant's 1,100-megawatt capacity. When it was brought back up to full capacity, the leakage began to increase, Babcock said. "The holes are so small that they are self-plugging," he said. "If you don't disturb the system and there are no temperature changes, then little particles will lodge in the holes and plug them." However, when the system is disturbed, the particles plugging the holes are dislodged, causing the leakage to increase. Babcock said Trojan would be shut down for about two weeks starting Jan. 30 and the steam generators would be drained and the leaks located. The leaking pipes then would be blocked off and no longer used, he said. Babcock said that when the leaks were first detected, PGE officials hoped they would not increase significantly before April and could be repaired during Trojan's scheduled 45-day refueling shutdown. However, when the leakage steadily increased, it was decided to go ahead and repair the system before the NRC limit was reached. Babcock said PGE officials expect no problems replacing the electricity normally generated by the plant. Replacement power will be obtained by increasing production at the new Boardman coal plant in Eastern Oregon and through power purchases from other utilities, Babcock said. Projects PK - # Rain adds to quake woes JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI) - At least 1,700 people are trapped on mountain slopes in rugged Irian Jaya province, where a major earthquake last week killed 261 persons, officials said Monday. Bad weather has prevented rescue helicopters from reaching 1,700 villagers who face starvation in the Jaya Wijaya mountains, officials said. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the open-ended Richter scale, jolted the province, 2,200 miles east of Jakarta, Tuesday, triggering massive landslides that swept away village huts, roads and cut off communications in the area. ONG 1/26/81 === Page 14 of 93 - "Power" Attack - # Iran claims its oil exports continue, while Iraq's stop By The Associated Press Iran is exporting oil without difficulty through the Persian Gulf and selling it to its allies despite its 90-day-old war with Iraq, Iran's deputy minister of oil said Saturday. He said Iraqi oil production had ceased. Meanwhile, diplomatic sources in Damascus, the Syrian capital, reported a series of explosions last week in Iraq's oil center of Kirkuk had brought Iraqi crude oil supplies - exported via Syria - to a total halt. There was no immediate comment from Iraq. Hasan Sadat, who headed Iran's delegation to last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Indonesia, told a news conference in Tehran that Iran's first priority in resuming oil exports was to look after its friends "who have helped us during the war." Sadat said the second priority was to supply countries who did not participate in the U.S.-sponsored economic embargo against Iran following the seizure of the 52 U.S. hostages 413 days ago. "We will sell to countries that helped us during the U.S. sanctions," said Sadat. He has directed Iranian oil affairs since Oil Minister Mohammed Jawad Bequir Tunguyen was taken prisoner in late September by Iraqi troops near Iran's oil refining city of Abadan. Sadat mentioned no countries by name and refused to disclose how much oil Iran was exporting, saying the matter was considered a military secret. "The Iraqis are ready to spend a lot of money to know the amount of oil we are exporting," he said. Asked about Iraqi exports, Sadat said Iran had learned through intelligence reports that Iraq was not producing oil at this time. Sadat also indicated negotiations had resumed with the Soviet Union over the resumption of exports of natural gas. Gas exports were cut off nearly a year ago when the Soviets balked at stiff price increases imposed by Iran. Mideast analysts in Beirut have said Iran was getting out some exports through the Persian Gulf oil terminals on the islands of Kharg, 120 miles southeast of the embattled Shatt al-Arab estuary, and Levan, 400 miles south of the waterway. The analysts said there were no firm estimates of Iranian exports, but they were believed to be in the vicinity of 100,000 barrels daily compared with pre-war figures of 700,000 to 900,000 barrels a day. Oreg D. 12/21/80 Note: Oil is one form of "power" of even - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Powerful storm leaves 5 dead By United Press International A powerful storm that paralyzed New Mexico and West Texas with 3-foot snowdrifts and left five persons dead edged into the Texas Gulf Coast region Wednesday with heavy rains and high winds. The snowstorm, which dumped up to 16 inches of snow from the southern Rocky Mountains to West Texas Monday and Tuesday, lost intensity as it moved southward. Gale warnings were issued for the southern Gulf Coast of Texas from Brownsville to Port Arthur. More than an inch of rain doused Corpus Christi and Alice. Light snow dusted the already snow-laden northern and western portions of Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The storm reached as far north as the Oklahoma panhandle, with 6 inches of snow recorded in Boise City and Guymon, Okla., before it turned to rain. Five deaths were blamed on the storm - three in New Mexico and one each in Oklahoma and Wyoming. A 10-inch blanket of snow covered West Texas and piled up in 3-foot drifts, bringing schools and businesses to a close and creating nightmarish conditions on snow-packed highways. Lubbock was buried under nearly 10 inches of snow, bringing the city's snowfall for the month to more than 21 inches, and breaking a 24-year-old record for the most snowfall in one month. Frigid temperatures and blustery 25 mph winds from the northeast iced roads, which became littered with abandoned vehicles. Oreg D. 11/26/80 Columbian 11-9-80 # Growers blame volcano for causing heavy rains YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Fruit growers in Benton County claim ash eruptions from Mount St. Helens helped trigger unusually heavy rain that caused $27 million in damage to their crops. Bumper cherry crops were forecast until June 13, when 18 hours of steady rain caused the fruit to split. Damage problems were later compounded when cherries became soft during shipment because of water they had absorbed. Members of the Benton County Emergency Board agreed Thursday to forward the $27 million disaster damage assessment to the state, after meeting with several orchardists from Benton and Yakima counties. William Zabel, a Benton County cherry grower, told the county board National Weather Service officials in Portland "are quite sure the particles that were emitted acted as a seeding process. There was rain forecast but the particles caused it to rain longer or more intensely. We wouldn't have been hurt if it hadn't rained for 24 hours straight." The volcano had major eruptions on May 18, May 27 and June 12. Will Gerlitz, a Benton County extension agent, said statistics show there 1.49 inches of rain in May and .84 inches in June recorded at Prosser. - "Power" + Rain Attack - The St. G - "Power" Attack - # Winds close Egyptian port ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) - Hurricane-force winds whipped 20-foot seas along Egypt's Mediterranean coast Thursday, pounding more than 50 ships anchored outside this port which was closed for the second day by foul weather. Cairo radio reported 58 vessels waiting at anchor beyond the harbor at Alexandria, Egypt's largest port. Wind gusts were measured at about 80 mph, the broadcast said. Oreg D. 12/12/80 === Page 15 of 93 - Calif. PK - greg: 11/29/80 # Wind shift helps firefighters; area declared disaster By RICHARD DE ATLEY SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds shifted favorably for firefighters Friday, turning the Panorama fire away from the edge of a small town as President Carter declared three California counties disaster areas because of five days of flaming destruction. The office of Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. estimated fire damage in Southern California since Nov. 15 at $64,795,200, including $50,812,500 damage to private property. An estimated 106,275 acres of watershed have been destroyed, the governor's office said. Two fires were contained Friday as 6,000 firefighters, aided by aerial tankers, managed to whittle to five the 10 major fires that have burned 82,750 acres of brush and timber, destroyed or damaged 310 homes and claimed four lives since Monday. The Panorama fire had threatened Devore for the third straight day, burning four sheds on the outskirts of town Friday morning. But then northeasterly Santa Ana winds turned southwesterly, reversing the flames, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Evan Griffith. "I think this is the break we've been looking for," Griffith said. But the fire did not completely reverse itself and was burning brush untouched during its threatening descent toward Devore. "It's all watershed being burned now," Griffith said. While the mostly evacuated town seemed out of danger, residents were being advised against returning immediately. The arson-caused 21,800-acre Panorama fire destroyed 280 homes, damaged 47 and destroyed or damaged 53 other structures. Devore was threatened again Friday after the fire jumped a containment line. In the Panorama fire alone, property damage was estimated at $28.8 million and watershed worth an estimated $6.5 million had been lost. The fire had taken four lives and caused 2,194 injuries, all but 36 classified as minor. tinued to wane Friday, but isolated gusts of up to 50 mph were reported. Monday, the winds gusted at 100 mph, sending white-hot flames from the Panorama fire onto hundreds of homes in the northern San Bernardino suburb of Northpark. Aerial tankers, some capable of dropping 3,000 gallons of fire retardant, went aloft Friday despite gusts through Cajon Pass -- always one of the windiest spots in Southern California. Devore is in the middle of the pass. "There's no immediate danger to people right now," said a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. Interstate 15 through Devore was closed to traffic Friday after the blaze jumped the freeway. Elsewhere, winds abated. The 2,355-acre Sycamore fire, five miles east of the Panorama blaze, was contained Friday as was the 6,800-acre Lakeland fire in Riverside County southwest of Lake Elsinore. At the lake, some homes and roads still lie under water from last winter's floods. Three other fires in San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles counties were controlled Wednesday and Thursday. Residents and firefighters have made three straight days of back-porch stands at several homes in Devore, where one $40,000 house was the only home known to have burned. It caught fire Wednesday. "I haven't slept or seen a shower or bath since Monday," said Devore resident Jim Leslie as he cleared brush from his home. "This fire cost a week's work for my father and myself." Carter's declaration covers San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties, making fire victims eligible for low-interest federal loans. Brown requested the declaration Thursday. "It's devastating," Brown said of the destruction after touring the fire area and eating Thanksgiving dinner with firefighters. "It's like some kind of a war zone." Northeasterly Santa Ana winds con- Newsweek 12/1/80 ## "Power" Attack ## The Lake That Vanished Away Lake Peigneur in southern Louisiana is only 3 or 4 feet deep, but it's a good spot for shrimping and catching catfish. Leonce Viator Jr. and his nephew, Timmy Doré, were out fishing one afternoon last week when, suddenly, a giant whirlpool formed alongside Jefferson Island, a 640-acre rise near the southeast shore, and the lake began draining under them like an unplugged bathtub. "The lake started to dry up. It seemed to me the world was coming to an end," Viator said. "I told Timmy we better get out of there." The two managed to struggle safely back to dry land. But within an hour, a yawning crater had emptied the shallow 1,300-acre lake and swallowed up almost everything on or near it--including five houses, nine barges, eight tugboats, two oil rigs, a mobile home, most of the Live Oak botanical gardens entirely, authorities ordered it evacuated. Total Loss: By the weekend, the situation appeared to have stabilized--though water continued pouring in from neighboring bayous and marshes, through the drained lake and down the crater. Although no one was hurt in the spectacular collapse, property damage was enormous. The ill-starred Texaco drilling rig alone was worth $5 million--and Diamond Crystal Salt Co., which owns the Jefferson Island mines, declared its operations there a total loss. The company would not say how much the Jefferson mines were worth, but it promptly slapped Texaco, Inc., with a lawsuit asking for "many millions of dollars" in damages. Texaco officials claimed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with Diamond Crystal's knowledge, had given them permission to drill off Jefferson Island. "We don't know what shafts are down there," said Texaco spokesman Max Hebert. "If someone had come to us and told us not to drill that well, we would not have drilled." Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK === Page 16 of 93 # 'It's raining fire' in California Seattle Times 11/25/80 - Calif. PK. - "Power & Rain Attack" - SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - (UPI) - Screaming winds gusting to 100 miles an hour fanned several fires out of control yesterday, charring more than 13,000 acres of brush and timber and destroying at least 240 homes and other buildings. Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate. Six fire fighters were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and eye irritation. Police reported scattered looting in this area 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and National Guard units were dispatched to the scene to patrol. Officials said two of the fires were "man-caused" and all were raging out of control. A 4,000-acre blaze that erupted shortly before noon in Waterman Canyon north of San Bernardino was pushed by high winds down toward a housing tract at the base of the mountains. LaVae Martinez, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said 240 structures had been destroyed and a minimum of 150 of those were homes. "It's probably much higher than that," she said. Fire officials said later at least six separate fires were burning in San Bernardino. "It looked like it was raining fire," one resident said. A 1,500-acre fire that broke out in San Bernardino yesterday afternoon less than 4 miles east of the first blaze was burning an undetermined number of homes on Route 330, leading to Big Bear Lake, and threatening the huge Shadow Mountain Trailer Park, officials said. A spokeswoman said the fire was about 5 miles north of Patton State Hospital, but the 1,200-patient institution was not yet threatened. Officials said several buildings on the campus of Cal State San Bernardino were burning and several structures at Arrowhead Springs, a former resort that now serves as international headquarters of the Campus Crusade for Christ organization, were engulfed. Authorities closed Highway 18, the main route to the San Bernardino Mountain resorts, because of the raging flames. Miss Martinez said the Waterman Canyon fire was started by an arsonist and was being driven by 45-mile-an-hour winds - gusting to 95 miles an hour. Authorities ordered the evacuation of hundreds of families from a large residential area on the northern edge of San Bernardino and established a relief center at the National Orange Show Grounds. In the Angeles National Forest, about 20 miles west of the Waterman Canyon blaze, a third fire, fanned by winds gusting to 100 miles an hour, charred more than 8,000 acres on the slopes of Mount Baldy, a popular ski resort. About 500 year-round residents of Mount Baldy Village were urged to evacuate, but fire fighters managed to protect the village and no homes were reported destroyed. Brush fires in five Southern California counties earlier this month charred more than 50,000 acres, destroyed more than 60 expensive homes and resulted in one death. Seattle T 11/25/80 - 4 Projects PK - MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - The worst floods to hit the southern Philippines in two decades sent more than 300,000 people fleeing to high ground and claimed at least 71 lives, authorities said Monday. Heavy rains during the past 26 days caused rivers to swell and inundate six provinces 450 to 600 miles south of Manila. In some low-lying areas, only television aerials could be seen poking through a sea of brown water, authorities said. The Ministry of Social Services said 331,000 people were evacuated. About 165,000 of them were left homeless. Eleven more deaths were reported Monday, bringing the overall death toll to 71, mostly by drowning. Some of the deaths were caused by intestinal and respiratory ailments. The Manila Weather Bureau said heavy rains were reported pelting the area Monday. But in Manila, the weather has been fine the past month, with the sun occasionally breaking out of generally cloudy skies. - 4 Projects PK - # Cutter's skipper faces court-martial NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Saying it would allow "a fine officer to defend his actions," a Coast Guard official Monday ordered a court-martial for the captain of the cutter Blackthorn, which collided with another ship in Tampa Bay and capsized, killing 23 guardsmen. Admiral Paul A. Yost, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, said the panel of officers will determine whether Lt. Cmddr. George J. Sepel was negligent in the Jan. 28, 1980, accident on Florida's Gulf Coast. Yost said the Blackthorn's officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. James R. Ryan, would face non-judicial punishment, a less serious proceeding. "There is no presumption of guilt," Yost said. "This is the opportunity for a fine officer to defend his actions." The accident occurred as the Blackthorn, based in Galveston, Texas, was leaving Tampa Bay and the 586-foot tanker Capricorn, loaded with 151,611 barrels of oil, was headed in. The marine board that investigated the collision decided there was human error on both sides. === Page 17 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Investigators swarm over site of fatal crash oregon. 1/22/81 SPOKANE (AP) -- A 13-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board began its investigation Wednesday into the crash of a Cascade Airways commuter plane that killed seven people and injured two others. But it could be months before the federal investigators can decide what caused the Beechcraft 99 to crash on its approach to Spokane International Airport shortly before noon on Tuesday, said team spokesman Brad Dunbar. Visibility was near the minimum safe limit when the twin-engine commuter plane clipped a hill, crashed and burst into flames four miles short of the runway. The pilot was landing with the aid of instruments because of fog, said Burleigh Stokes, deputy chief of air traffic controllers at the Spokane airport. Meanwhile, a team of pathologists and forensic dentists at Sacred Heart Medical Center tried to positively identify the charred bodies of six men and one woman killed in the crash two miles west of Medical Lake. That, too, could take a long time, said Dr. Lois Shanks, Spokane County coroner. Dental records of all the victims were sought from their families. Cascade officials said the dead included Capt. David Weinberger of Seattle, the pilot, and First Officer Paul Davis of Walla Walla. A Cascade official said a passenger manifest was used to tentatively identify the other victims. They were listed as Dr. Roger Hamstra, Denver; Carolyn A. Law, Yakima; Dan Dolan, who was employed in Yakima and has relatives in Casper, Wyo.; Ron Robertson, Crystal, Minn.; and Andrew Breland, Seattle. The two survivors, thrown from the severed tail section, were James Eagle, 37, Yakima, co-owner of several Spokane restaurants, and Stephen Tarnoff, 30, Federal Way. Sacred Heart Hospital said Eagle was in critical condition. The plane was en route to Spokane from Moses Lake. The flight originated in Seattle and stopped in Yakima. The flight's schedule called for a 10-minute stop in Moses Lake, but it remained on the ground for more than an hour. Jim Abrams, a Jet Air Inc. employee who refuels Cascade planes in Moses Lake, said the plane did not refuel or require maintenance. He said he presumed it was waiting for fog to lift in Spokane. Tarnoff, in stable condition at Deaconess Hospital with a fractured leg, told his wife by telephone there was no warning that the plane was going to crash. "He told me he was sitting by the window, and the first thing he realized was looking out the window and seeing trees come flying by," said Schlinda Tarnoff, 27. "He tried to say something, but couldn't. He put his head between his legs, and the next thing he remembers is being thrown out of the plane and the fire," she said. Tarnoff was reluctant to take the flight, she said. "My husband called me before he took off and said he was feeling really apprehensive about it. He hates to fly, especially in small airplanes," she said. The crash of Flight 201 was the first that involved loss of passenger lives in the Spokane-based commuter airline's 12-year history, said spokeswoman Vicki Kellogg. The plane blipped off radar screens at the airport at 11:28 a.m. After striking the hill, it traveled about a half-mile and plunged 300 feet to the ground. The pilot "should have been approximately 1,000 feet higher, probably about 4,000 feet or a little higher," said Airport Director Floyd Creasman. "Why he was low, I don't know." Elevation of the airport is 2,372 feet. Did the pilot radio for help? "Not that I know of," Creasman said. "There's no indication of any abnormalities," said Tim Komberece, Cascade's director of flight operations. "The whole thing doesn't make a damned bit of sense. Not one damned bit." A2 3M THE OREGONIAN - 4 Projects PK - # The world ## AF crashes fatal to 10 HAMSTEIN, West Germany (AP) -- Two U.S. Air Force planes crashed in Europe Wednesday at separate sites and at least 10 servicemen were killed, the U.S. Air Force and other sources said. Eight crewmen were dead and one was missing after a C-130 transport crashed on take-off from this air base near the Franco-German border, the Air Force reported. In Spain, a U.S. Phantom F-4D jet crashed 60 miles northeast of Guadalajara, killing its two occupants, Air Force sources said. An Air Force statement said the German crash site was within the Weilerbach storage area just northeast of the Ramstein base. There was no damage to the ammunition storage site, and there were no injuries on the ground, a spokesman said. He declined to identify the victims pending notification of next of kin. oregon. 1/15/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Snowstorm shocks East By The Associated Press A heavy snowstorm forecasters didn't see coming until they "looked out the window" mired the cities of the Northeast in half a foot of snow Wednesday, boggling traffic and closing schools. Two people killed on icy roads in Maryland brought to 19 the number of deaths blamed on the unusually harsh winter weather in the East in this first week of the new year. Much of New England already has been coated with more snow than fell all of last winter. The storm, which dumped up to a foot of snow in a sweep from the Michigan through the Ohio Valley into New England, left 5 to 7 inches in New York City and its suburbs where forecasters had predicted 1 to 3 inches. Wilmington, Vt., got 8 inches in six hours. Accumulations ranged from 8 to 12 inches in northwest Pennsylvania. oregon. 1/8/81 === Page 18 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Nuclear plant fire baffles authorities PARIS (AP) -- French authorities say they have been unable to determine the cause of a fire at a nuclear reprocessing plant last week that resulted in the contamination of three people. A labor union at the plant contends as many as 400 people were affected. French newspapers Saturday charged officials with attempting to cover up the severity of last Tuesday's incident at the plant in La Hague, near the coastal city of Cherbourg on the English Channel. A fire that broke out in a silo containing nuclear waste was extinguished in a few hours, but not before three workers were contaminated by high-level radiation from the fumes, plant officials said. The labor union covering the plant's 2,500 workers contended that as many as 400 others were contaminated to a lesser degree. "It was a very serious accident that officials have vainly tried to hide," the tabloid Le Quotidien said in a front page article Saturday. The daily Le Matin reported that contamination traces had been found six miles from the plant. oreg. 1/11/81 # Doomsday clock advanced The hands of the nuclear doomsday clock now stand at four minutes to midnight, reflecting international tensions that are pushing the world closer to nuclear disaster, a group of scientists said Wednesday. Editors and advisers of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous clock ahead three minutes because "hard-liners" have taken control in both the East and the West. "People are actually discussing the possibility of winning a nuclear war," said Dr. Berard T. Feld, editor of the magazine. 1/15/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Quake jolts California SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) -- A widely felt earthquake struck San Benito County early Wednesday morning, sparking phone calls to officials from Monterey to Marin. No damage or injuries were reported from the 3:42 a.m. quake. Its magnitude was put at 4.5 on the Richter scale by the University of California-Berkeley seismographic station. The quake was centered just west of San Juan Bautista, about 80 miles southeast of San Francisco, seismologists said. # Doctors settle lawsuit JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A man who claimed he was permanently disabled after being prescribed too much medication has settled his malpractice suit out of court for $950,000, his attorney says. The settlement came as the trial was about to begin. Paul David Curl, 39, said in the suit that he suffered "permanent ... neurological deficits" after doctors prescribed too much Dilantin, a drug commonly used to treat seizures. Four doctors and four insurance companies and malpractice funds were named as defendants in the suit. Their lawyers either declined comment or couldn't be reached. - 4 Projects PK - # Meningitis hits Marin SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) -- Marin County health officials are baffled by an outbreak of bacterial meningitis that has killed one youngster and struck 11 others in the past two months. Dr. Theodore Hiatt, the county's chief of public health, said Tuesday the outbreak apparently has been confined to Marin, where it has hit all parts of the county. oreg. 1/8/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Japan storm clears; rescue efforts begin TOKYO (UPI) -- Thousands of army troops and policemen began full-scale rescue work Friday, digging Japan out of its worst snow storm in 18 years, officials said. National police officials said the storm that began Dec. 28 left 33 persons dead and 31 missing. Dozens of houses were destroyed or damaged and more than 100 persons were injured. A government mission led by Kenzaburo Hara, director-general of the National Land Agency, flew to Toyama in northern Japan for to inspect damage in the region. Weathermen said blue skies returned for the first time in nearly two weeks along Japan's coast, which received the brunt of the storm. Police said 28 persons were reported dead in 11 provinces along the coast, the nation's least-developed area, which is marked by rugged mountains. The dead included eight persons caught in an avalanche that crushed four houses in the small village of Sumon in Niigata province Wednesday. Police said 17 mountain mishaps were reported in storm-lashed peaks in the Japan Alps, killing five mountaineers. A search was under way for 31 others who were missing. Nineteen others were injured, nine of them seriously, they said. The storm, descending from a massive Siberian cold front, piled up 11 inches of snow, isolating remote towns and villages. It was the worst snowfall since 1963, weather forecasters said. oreg. 1/9/81 === Page 19 of 93 Greg J. 1/7/81 ROWF ROWF RAWF! WOOF GROWL ROWF! EARTHLING! TO MARK THE BEGINNING OF EARTH YEAR 1981, I HAVE COME TO LAY AT YOUR FEET THE SECRET OF ETERNAL PEACE! IT'S HOPELESS. - 4 Projects PK - # 4 Eastern states declare water emergency By JOHN J. GOLDMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service NEW YORK -- Governors declared a water emergency Thursday for 21 million people in parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware as a prolonged drought caused levels in reservoirs to fall dangerously. Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York City said a similar proclamation would be issued for the city in the next few days, and he called for extensive voluntary conservation until formal mandatory plans were announced. Meeting in Trenton, N.J., the four governors, all members of the Delaware River Basin Commission, said they planned to limit water withdrawn from the Delaware by New York City and some municipalities in New Jersey. Rainfall in the Delaware River basin has been down 30 percent since May. The basin commission controls water use for a 13,000-square-mile area of the four states. "We are trying to make this a matter of consciousness-raising," Koch said. He attended the governors meeting in Trenton along with Mayor William Green of Philadelphia. New York City and municipalities near it are facing the most serious water shortage in more than a decade. Little rain during the summer and a smaller-than-anticipated snowfall have left New York City's reservoirs at 32 percent of capacity -- the lowest level in 15 years. New York City takes 800 million gallons of water a day from the Delaware River. Under the new conservation measures, however, the city will receive 520 million gallons. Delaware River water, stored in three reservoirs, normally supplies half the city's daily needs. The rest of the city's water comes from reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains and in nearby Westchester County. The emergency declaration was the first step -- barring unexpected precipitation -- in an escalating series of conservation measures. Officials in New York City are considering banning the use of fire hydrants to clean streets and halting car washing except by businesses that recycle water. More extreme plans also are being examined, including restricting the flow of water into apartment houses and office buildings. For the time being, however, the stress will be on voluntary conservation. Greg J. 1/16/81 Note: PK Man needs 5 million for a Base with which to use UFO Powers to block a nuclear war (nuclear clock is now 4 minutes to 12) and help the human race. Instead... Reagan spends 8 million on Inauguration dildoes, and so on and so on. To quote the above: "it's hopeless." Too many stupids in the human race for it to survive! Owen === Page 20 of 93 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Pauline Lubens-Trenton Times Low water: Kelly leads his troops across the Delaware River, the depleted Lake Tappan Reservoir in New Jersey # Drought in the Northeast On Christmas morning former Philadelphia City Councilman John B. Kelly Jr. led his detachment of Revolutionary War soldiers down to the Delaware River. What they saw was disheartening: the four boats that were to carry them across the river to New Jersey, in the annual re-enactment of Gen. George Washington's crossing of 1776, were locked in ice. Worse, Kelly saw that even if the boats could be freed, the river was too low-30 inches below normal-to land on the Trenton side. So for the first time since the pageant began in 1952, the disappointed band of Continentals marched into New Jersey on the bridge at Washington Crossing. It was the coldest Christmas on record in much of the Northeast-the temperature fell to 29 below zero in Buffalo, N.Y.-and the cold snap has aggravated a drought that has plagued New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware for six months. Last month the Delaware River Basin Commission issued a "drought warning," calling on the 20 million people who get all or part of their water from the shrunken river to cut consumption. Just before Christmas the commission cut back New York City's allotment of Delaware River water from 800 million gallons a day to 560 million. Mandatory rationing, backed by fines, is in effect in six northern New Jersey counties and in eastern Pennsylvania. New York City's reservoirs, normally nearly full at this season, stand at 38.5 per cent-a fifteen-year low. The shortage developed quickly, helped along by a lack of planning for a sunny day. New York's reservoirs were brimful after a wet spring, but the rains stopped in June, and July and August were hot and dry. By the end of September precipitation in the area was 10 inches below normal. The city, hearing the gurgle of danger grow louder, began a crash program to plug leaks in its ancient water mains. It was too late to begin metering residential water use, although the idea had been advanced since the droughts of the mid-1960s. 'At the Brink': In northern New Jersey the drought showed just how archaic the state's water-delivery system is. A patchwork of small private and municipal water companies compete with each other with little coordination. "New Jersey's water-supply system constantly stands at the brink of disaster," warns Darryl F. Caputo of the Upper Raritan Watershed Association. The long-range solution may be a state authority to consolidate water delivery. "We have more water companies in the state than we have municipalities," laments Environmental Protection Commissioner Jerry F. English, who is asking for the power to merge weak water companies, a pipeline network to share what water is available and funds to build two new reservoirs. Conservation efforts in the four-state region have cut water use, but not by enough. New Jersey and Pennsylvania officials had hoped to reduce consumption by 25 per cent; the actual cutback has been closer to 10 per cent. Unlike last summer, when drought struck the Southwest, there are no cattle bones whitening by the roadside as warnings to the citizens of Newark or Brooklyn. "People in major cities have a visceral view of water," observes Delaware Basin Commissioner Tim Weston. "If it comes out of the tap, everything is OK." In New York City water use has actually increased as the city's population has gone down. To raise water-consciousness, Mayor Edward Koch made a well-publicized appeal to restaurants to serve water only when the customer requests it. This week a television-and-poster campaign will make its appearance, intended to turn millions of city youngsters into volunteer drought-police, timing their parents' showers and taking soundings on their sisters' baths. It is not likely that anyone will go thirsty in the Northeast soon, but restrictions on industrial water use-even plant closings-are a possibility by next summer. In a severe emergency New York would turn to the Hudson River-but could pump only about 70 million gallons a day, of questionable quality, compared to its 1.5 billion-gallon daily consumption. A happier solution would be plenty of rain, although by now the amount of rain needed would probably be enough to cause flooding. The problem is aggravated by the early freeze, which prevents moisture from soaking into the ground. Water officials, scanning the cold blue skies for signs of rain last week, took little comfort from the National Weather Service forecast for the rest of the winter: cold-and drier than normal. JERRY ADLER with SUSAN AGREST in New York and bureau reports NEWSWEEK/JANUARY 5, 1981 New York warning Don't let the water run while your father is shaving. === Page 21 of 93 - 4 Projects PK # 3 injured in Navy plane crash OAK HARBOR, Wash. (AP) -- Three Navy Reserve members were injured Sunday as they jumped from a P-3A aircraft after it crashed in a landing attempt at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, base officials said. The P-3A, a four-engine turboprop plane used in anti-submarine warfare, crashed without prior indication of mechanical or other problems in clear, calm weather "right in the center of the runway, right in the center of the field," said Lt. Richard Chandler. "As I understand it, they were in a landing configuration and then it just crashed," Chandler said. "It just happened right out of the blue." He said the $22 million plane "turned on its (right) side," causing the wing to tear partly out of the fuselage. Leaking fuel caught fire, and all seven persons aboard leaped from the aircraft, he added. "Evidently, everyone was strapped into their seats, anticipating a normal landing," Chandler said. In bailing out, Chief Petty Officer William L. Beckey, 34, of Oak Harbor, suffered a back injury, while Chief Petty Officer James E. Stensland, 38, of Redmond, and Lt. Cmdr. Richard B. Hawley, 33, of Ellensburg, each suffered a broken leg, Chandler said. He identified the others on the flight as the pilot, Lt. Cmdr. William L. Goodman, 34, of Auburn; the co-pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Ken Krull, 36, of Kennewick, and two other crew members, First Class Petty Officer Carter J. Tull, 33, of Preston, and Lt. John W. Hersch, 30, of Seattle. Six of those on the plane were from Reserve Patrol Squadron VP-69 and the seventh was from Reserve Patrol Squadron VP-0122, Chandler said. Damage to the plane was extensive, and investigators were summoned to determine the cause of the crash, he added. - 4 Projects PK org. 1/19/81 org. 1/12/81 # Arctic air numbs New England By The Associated Press A fresh blast of arctic air swirled into the already frozen Northeast on Sunday, snarling traffic on ice-clogged waterways from New England to Maryland. Foot-long ice blocks bobbed in Chesapeake Bay where the Coast Guard restricted navigation to steel-hulled boats. Maryland State Police used a helicopter to rescue Robert Meredith late Saturday after his 41-foot boat was trapped in ice on the bay. Meredith, an oysterman, shivered in near zero temperatures for 11 hours before being rescued. "I had a stove, but the cold just overpowered it," he said. "It was 5 degrees when I got on the helicopter. They explained to me I wouldn't last until morning." Traffic through the Cape Cod Canal was suspended Friday when large ice floes blocked the waterway, which permits ships to bypass the Massachusetts cape, saving 150 miles. The canal's principal users are barges carrying petroleum products from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Rhode Island to Boston, Chelsea and Revere in Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine, and Newington, N.H. The poor sea conditions also cut ferry service to Nantucket to one round trip a day, a spokesman for the service said. The spokesman said the 5,000 year-round residents of Nantucket, an island 36 miles off the Massachusetts coast, are "pretty well stocked" with supplies. "It would take maybe two weeks of that (no ferry service) before they have real trouble," he said. In Florida, citrus growers called a freeze watch Sunday after the National Weather Service predicted temperatures as low as 28 degrees. Florida Citrus Mutual in Bartow planned to monitor weather conditions throughout the night and issue an alert if heaters and smudge pots were needed. Two gas companies in eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod, serving 84,000 customers, declared a gas emergency Saturday as the continued cold weather depleted their supplies. The Lowell Gas and the Cape Cod Gas companies asked schools and factories in the area to close Monday and Tuesday to help conserve the natural gas supply. Lowell Gas blamed the emergency on higher demand, the colder-than-normal winter and transmission problems. The frigid Canadian air also dropped temperatures well below zero from the eastern Dakotas through the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes, but no records were set. Along the eastern seaboard, the temperature slipped to 2 in Atlantic City, N.J., and to 4 below zero in Providence, R.I., both records for the date. And the coldest spot in the nation was Watertown, N.Y., where the mercury hit 32 below zero on Sunday morning. The temperatures dropped to 9 Sunday morning in New York City. High winds and bitter cold forced officials to cancel racing at Aqueduct. A spokesman said the track planned to reopen Monday. City officials said that since the cold weather began Christmas Day, they have received nearly 400,000 calls from residents complaining about no === Page 22 of 93 -4 Projects PK- Oregon Journal, January 26, 1981 190 drown as flood hits S. African town CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) - A / Lungsburg, and 21 of 34 residents at an wall of water ripped through the farming on age home drowned in their beds un- town of Laingsburg Monday, drowning cole to escape the floodwaters. nearly 200 people and leaving thousan* homeless in the worst natural disaster South Africa's history. Police said as many as 190 people are feared drowned in flash floods, which burst dams, washed out bridges and stranded trains. Police said the figure could go higher as reports trickle in from outlying villages. The entire southern Karoo region, a normally arid region the size of Ohio, was declared a disaster area by Prime Minister Pieter Botha. Police reservists from all over the coun- try were flown in to help civil defense teams, and 14 helicopters from Oudt- shoorn air base dropped medical teams and supplies. Five persons who clung to a roof for almost 12 hours were rescued by a heli- copter, but two others drowned when they slid off a roof as a helicopter ma- neuvered to pick them up. Thousands of people were left homeless in Laingsburg, 170 miles northeast of Cape Town, when the usually sedate Buf- falo River - fueled by three days of heavy rains - burst its bank in the pre- dawn hours and roared through the main streets. Three dams burst, adding to the torrent. All roads into the area were cut off by rockslides and water. A bus loaded with at least 50 black commuters was swept off a bridge near "The town is gone, finished. Most of it As underwater," said police Col. Herman Morkel. "It looks like a battlefield. Cars are piled on each other and bodies are all over the place," he said. A tent city housing victims has sprung up near the police station - one of the few buildings not under water .... The natio. -4. Projects PK- Train crash injures 76 NEW YORK (AP) - A rush-hour train jammed with 800 passengers "slammed into a steel bumper guard at the Staten Island ferry terminal Mon- day morning, injuring 76 people. Eight were hospitalized. Most of the injured were standing when the train slammed into the bump- er and were hurt when they fell. The force of the crash knocked the bumper guard into a waiting room wall. "There was broken glass. Everyone went flying on top of one another," said Julia Barbaccia of Staten Island, a pas- senger in the second car of the four-car train. "I have no idea what happened." said William Chase, a conductor whose Torehead was cut in the accident. "I was waiting for us to make our stop. We were going slow and normal like it is all the time and suddenly everyone was on the floor." An electrician checking the train later said devices to protect its nine sets of brakes from ice and snow had not been activated. No reason was given for the failure. -4 Projects PK- Salt Lake fog depresses city for 11/2 months org /24/81 GEORGE TIBBITS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 11/2-month-long siege of fog and smog is driving people nuts in Salt Lake, mental health officials say, while ski resort operators in the nearby mountains are going broke this snowless winter. The National Weather Service offered hope Fri- day, saying the thick, clammy stick-in-the-throat murk should break by the weekend. Forecasters also said there was a good possibility of some snow for the nearly barren Wasatch Mountain ski resorts, which have lost millions of dollars. Residents have gotten used to forecasts predicting an end to the fog, only to wake up to more, but this time, says weather service meteorologist Rich Doug- las, there's a "strong chance" of getting cloudy and wet weather. Since Dec. 6, Salt Lake has had just three fog-free days. The fog has contributed to hundreds of minor traffic accidents and closed Salt Lake's airport for days before the Christmas holidays. Worse, says Kent Griffiths, director of Cotton- wood Hospital's counseling center, some people are angry and frustrated about the weather in a way he's never seen before. He says the workload at his and other mental health centers has been heavier than usual, with many people complaining about the fog. Rick Bangerter, assistant director of the Salt Lake County Crisis Intervention Center, says there was an 8 percent to 10 percent increase in calls over the holidays, with many callers saying the weather was making them depressed. Griffiths conducted an informal survey among about 100 hospital staff members and center clients, asking, "How's the weather affecting you?" "It was amazing," he said. "People had an immedi- ate response. They hated it." People said they were "more irritable, more grumpy, more snappish," Griffiths said. "People were talking about it and expressing a lot of anger," he said. "Even on the (television) news now, they're joking that they're threatening to shoot the weather man if it doesn't change." Salt Lake Valley is a natural bowl that traps tem- perature inversions. Fog and smog build when moist surface air is trapped by colder air at higher altitudes. This year, unusually strong high pressure has kept Jout air-clearing wind and storms, Douglas says. The same high pressure mass that allowed arctic air to freeze the East earlier this month kept Salt Lake residents in the murk. But he said high pressure over Utah has started to shift east, which could allow southwestern air to move in, possibly bringing showers and snow === Page 23 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Fog, snow, ice disrupt travelers By The Associated Press org: 12/30/80 A mantle of fog shrouded cities on both coasts Monday, disrupting travel by airplane or car, while much of the Midwest endured another assault of freezing rain and snow. Airports were closed for a time in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, New York and Boston as dense fog settled over wide areas around the country. The fog spread from Southern California to Oregon on the West Coast and from Virginia to Maine in the East. In the heartland, icy conditions on the highways caused numerous accidents. In Wisconsin, where up to 5 inches of snow fell before the storm moved on Monday morning, at least three deaths were attributed to slick roads. Maryland had dense fog as well as slippery roads, forcing authorities to close a four-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Hancock for several hours during the night. Snow and freezing rain fell from Wisconsin, across northern and central Illinois into Ohio and Michigan. The thermometer took another dip in New York, glazing roads in the upstate areas. Icy conditions and fog were blamed for a 44-car pileup on Interstate 84 near Stormville Mountain late Sunday afternoon. - 4 Projects PK - # Stuck truck, smashed dock snarl commuter ferry runs SEATTLE (AP) - Ferry service on the Hood Canal and Vashon Island runs was disrupted by accidents Monday, snarling commuter traffic during the evening rush hour, Washington state ferry officials said. Commuters were forced to drive some 100 miles around Hood Canal after a truck became stuck on the South Point loading dock, blocking access to the ferries at 1 p.m. through the night. Earlier Monday, the trouble-plagued ferry Issaquah rammed the dock in West Seattle, knocking the Fauntleroy terminal out of service for three to four weeks. Ferries on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth run were re-routed to the downtown ferry terminal at Pier 52. "We're saying it's pilot error" in the Fauntleroy accident, said ferry system spokeswoman Karen Stern. Capt. Bob Beaudry was relieved of command after the collision, and an investigation was ordered, she said. "Contractors estimate it will take three to four weeks for repairs," she said, but an estimate of the damage and further details on the accident were unavailable. "The ferry made a hard landing at Fauntleroy," said spokeswoman Alice Collingwood. "The boat apparently was not damaged and nobody was hurt." The Coast Guard inspected the Issaquah after the collision and said it could return to service, she said. A steel gate on one end of the vessel was bent by the collision. org: 12/30/80 Note: my prediction to Dr. Mishlove!! Owens # The President Takes A Painful Ski Spill UPI The Carters leaving Bethesda: Bad break It seemed a perfect antidote for the President's post-election blues. Enough snow had finally fallen in the Catoctin Mountains for cross-country skiing, and nobody was looking forward to it more than Jimmy Carter. He spent 90 minutes on the trails of Camp David last Saturday morning, and headed out again after lunch with his wife, Rosalynn, White House physician William Lukash and several others. But on a nature trail behind Aspen Lodge, one of Carter's skis struck a rock and he pitched forward--smashing his left elbow and shoulder into the snow-covered ground and fracturing his left collarbone. (PYRCRE) Despite "considerable pain," according to Lukash, Carter walked back to the lodge. The doctor fitted him with a sling and a figure-eight harness to immobilize his shoulders, then a helicopter flew them to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington. There X-rays confirmed the break--near where the clavicle joins the breastbone--while Carter joked about it. The First Patient must take painkillers for several days and wear the harness up to eight weeks. But since Carter is right-handed, the injury was not expected to impede his official duties--or his plans to attend the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day. face-to-face interviews with the finalists for Secretary of Agriculture; otherwise, Reagan did business by telephone and tapped several of his nominees without having met with them at all. He seemed rather to be clinging to his last weeks of private life at home with Nancy and, for Christmas, his four children. The President-elect confessed his sadness to a group of reporters admitted during the holidays for a peek at his tree. "At the same time, there's an eagerness on the part of both of us to get on with it," he said--but plainly not quite yet. Newsweek 1/5/81 PETER GOLDMAN with THOMAS M. DeFRANK, ELEANOR CLIFT, GLORIA BORGER and HOWARD FINEMAN in Washington === Page 24 of 93 OKS: 1/5/81 # Freeze deepens in North, East - 4 Projects PK - By MICHAEL KUCHWARA of The Associated Press Bitter arctic air remained frozen over much of the nation Sunday, keeping temperatures below zero from Minnesota into New England for the second day in a row. One death was attributed to the cold snap, and hundreds of patients were evacuated when a Cleveland hospital lost heat. Meanwhile, citrus growers in north and central Florida began to brace for a freeze expected in their areas Monday morning. Forecasters said Sunday that even the Everglades in South Florida could have frost by Tuesday morning, which would mean trouble for winter vegetable growers. The mercury dropped to 3 below zero in Cleveland early Sunday as 270 patients were transferred from Mount Sinai Hospital after a boiler explosion knocked out the hospital's heating system. "We carried out the transfer on the grounds that we couldn't take any chances," an unidentified hospital official said. "The hospital never did get cold. It had just started getting cool when the boilers were put back into operation," said hospital spokeswoman Ruth Jacobowitz, adding evacuated patients were returning to their rooms Sunday. A maintenance worker suffered minor injuries in the Saturday blast, which snapped natural gas lines to the boilers. About five hours after the heat went off, Ms. Jacobowitz said, hospital workers began transferring patients to other medical facilities nearby. First to be moved were those in intensive care units, mothers and their infants and pediatric patients. All but 90 were transferred before the boilers were restarted early Sunday. The icy storm system swept into the Northeast Saturday from Canada, bringing snow squalls from the Great Lakes and Upper Ohio Valley into western New York. The frigid blasts chilled already frozen areas even further Sunday. Old Forge, N.Y., a village in the Adirondacks, recorded 42 below zero, while several cities along the Canadian border, Potsdam, Watertown and Plattsburgh, all shivered in readings of 30 below or colder. "Nothing will start, nothing will move this morning," said state trooper Chris Judd in Herkimer County in eastern New York. Hardly anything was moving in Portland, Maine, where the temperature sank to 18 below. The American Automobile Association said it received more than 70 calls an hour Sunday from motorists asking for help in reviving dead batteries. "We just totally destroyed the record," said National Weather Service meteorologist Dean Gulezian, describing frigid conditions in Houlton, Maine, as the temperature plunged to 41 below. In Wisconsin, where the mercury slipped to 12 below zero in Green Bay, 7 below in Milwaukee and 5 below in Madison, the Weather Service listed sky conditions in Madison as "ice crystals - when it's so cold that the precipitation just sort of freezes right out of the air." Residents of Embarrass, Minn., were more than red when the temperature sank to 45 below Saturday night and temperatures across Minnesota were not much higher Sunday. International Falls reported 37 below and Bemidji recorded 35 below. In New York City, where the temperature sank to 5 Sunday morning, the city's Heat Complaint Bureau added 13 extra people to its 35-member staff to handle calls from cold apartment dwellers. Perry Lindsay Jr., the bureau's director, said complaints were expected to exceed the number received Christmas Day, when some 1,200 people telephoned the bureau in a single hour. Several Northeastern cities experienced record low temperatures for Jan. 4, including Providence, R.I., 9 below; Worchester, Mass., 7 below; Windsor Locks, Conn., 7 below; Syracuse, N.Y., 18 below; and Binghamton, N.Y., 9 below. - 4 Projects PK - # Arctic wind buries, chills U.S. east of Great Lakes By United Press International Arctic air blasted the East Saturday, leaving parts of Pennsylvania buried in 9-foot snowdrifts, confronting New Yorkers with flesh-freezing cold and battering the Carolinas with winds too strong to measure. The onslaught of road-glazing snow and cold weather, in its third day, has been blamed for at least three traffic deaths - one in Michigan and two in Pennsylvania. Weather station attendants at North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain estimated winds hit nearly 140 mph atop the 5,964-foot mountain Friday. Winston Church, manning the weather station, said the winds broke the wind meter, which only has a capacity to read winds of up to 100 miles per hour. The mountain resort area is closed for the winter and the weathermen are the only people who remain on the mountain. Winds of up to 60 mph howled across Pennsylvania. Snow already on the ground was whipped up into blinding clouds, then stacked in 9 foot drifts in parts of Somerset County. The mountains of Maryland were buried in up to a foot of snow. Ice and snow made the going slippery from Maryland to New Hampshire and snow squalls pestered the Great Lakes region. The storm sent temperatures plummeting to zero and below as it thrust through the Northeast. Roads soaked by a runoff from snow melted by warm weather Thursday and early Friday froze, making travel hazardous. Up to 5 inches of snow stacked up in sections Massachusetts south of Boston and other parts of the state got 2 inches or more. Rhode Island got up to 4 inches of snow and southern New Hampshire got 3. Classes were canceled Friday in Westerly, R.I., public schools, where classes had been scheduled to make up for a month-long teachers' strike in September. "The cold will be accompanied by very strong winds and chill factors will be generally in the dangerous category," forecasters said. In New York City, forecasters said zero temperatures would be made even more chilling by 30 mph winds, which would push the wind-chill to nearly 50 below - cold enough to freeze exposed flesh. oreg. 1/3/80 === Page 25 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Deadly nationwide flu epidemic looming ATLANTA (UPI) - Traditional influenza indicators, including the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in major cities, edged toward a nationwide epidemic Thursday, the national Center for Disease Control said. Preliminary information indicates a fullblown flu epidemic is under way in activity out there," a CDC official said Wednesday, adding that one indicator - the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in 121 major U.S. cities - pointed toward a growing health problem. "Pneumonia and influenza deaths are again over the epidemic threshold for the fourth consecutive week," said John Brennan, a public health adviser with the CDC. He said the exact number would not be known until the CDC compiled its weekly report Thursday. Brennan said the Pacific and mountain states as well as the New England area sporadic flu activity now are having regional outbreaks. People 65 or older are advised to get flu vaccinations, Brennan said. He described the vaccine "amantadine" as being 70-80 percent effective against three types of influenza - B-Singapore, A-Brazil and A-Bangkok. A-Bangkok, the virus that is causing most of the recent illness, the CDC said, is a comparatively new virus against which most people have no natural immunity. Therefore, it is capable of spreading and causing extensive illness. Greg V. 1/8/81 New York state, with other states reporting regional or sporadic outbreaks. Most of the cases were blamed on the virus A-Bangkok, a prototype of the A-Hong Kong microbe that touched off a worldwide influenza epidemic 12 years ago. "There appears to be a lot of influenza appear to be the principal contributors to excess mortality, but pointed out: "These data are not complete as yet and must be looked at in light of morbidity (the number of flu cases) and laboratory data." Officials trying to gauge the severity of the outbreak said they still were studying information collected by the CDC's extensive influenza surveillance network, which includes state health departments, hospitals and "sentinel physicians." Brennan, who said reporting of flu cases had been delayed by the holiday, noted that in addition to increased deaths, some states that had been reporting only - 4 Project PK - ### NYC coldest in 108 years NEW YORK (UPI) - The temperature in Central Park plunged to zero degrees Thursday, breaking New York's 108-year Christmas Day record, the National Weather Service reported. The record was set at 6:30 a.m., when the thermometer dropped to 3 degrees. It broke the previous record of 4 degrees, set in 1872. At 7 a.m., the temperature dropped to 2 degrees. And at 8 a.m., it fell further to zero. Greg V. 12/25/80 - 4 Project PK - # Fruit fly emergency declared SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A state of emergency declared by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. may help stave off more quarantines by foreign countries on California-grown fruit, says the head of the state's effort to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. "That, in many ways, may be the chief benefit of the declaration," said Jerry Scribner, a deputy director of the state Agriculture Department. Brown's declaration Wednesday made Santa Clara and Alameda counties eligible for special state aid to combat the fly, which has been a problem since June. Traditional eradication efforts, such as ground spraying of pesticides, have failed to stem the infestation, and agriculture officials fear the flies may spread to other prime agricultural areas, including the San Joaquin Valley. About 500 square miles is under state quarantine, meaning fruit cannot be shipped out of the area unless it's fumigated. Several countries already ban the importation of unfumigated fruit, and others have threatened to slap on a quarantine of any California fruit because of the outbreak. The emergency declaration plan calls for selective ground spraying and quarantine removal and disposal of all fruit and vegetables that could be nesting places for the so-called medfly. The state Office of Emergency Services was directed by Brown to coordinate the mobilization of the California Conservation Corps, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Fish and Game Department and the spraying crews of the state transportation Department. In addition, Brown ordered Frank Schober Jr., commander of the state National Guard, to call for guard members to be mobilized. Greg V. 12/26/80 === Page 26 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - H8 # Dreaded Asian bug on loose By DALE RUSSAKOFF Times-Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A tiny Asian beetle hiding inside a burlap bag slipped into the United States this fall and traveled inconspicuously to a spice warehouse in Moonachie, N.J. Then, on Oct. 27, a government inspector found it. Now, a federal agency, Congress, two Baltimore spice companies and a dozen other businesses in five states have mobilized in a massive, expensive scramble to search out and destroy the dreaded khapra beetle before it multiplies. The beetle, one-eighth inch in length, is the world's most destructive pest for stored grain and food products, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It ruined millions of dollars of American grain in the 1950s and 1960s and was eliminated only after a $15 million, decade-long campaign. Almost 15 years later, the khapra beetle is back. First sighted on Oct. 27 at the Mincing Spice Co. in New Jersey, it has since turned up in 13 other sites, including four in Baltimore. And the search for what one official calls "the fearsome invader" goes on. U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors across the country expect to spend the next month tracking down every item that had contact with the contaminated spice bags. Then they will inspect all concerns that handle spices and used bagging, a USDA official said. So far, he stressed, no beetles have been found in grain supplies. "The fear is not that we will have a major infestation in the Northeast," said USDA's Don Woodham, the nationwide coordinator of the khapra beetle project. "The fear is that with the normal movement of cargo, it will find its way into the grain industry." The beetles came closest to grain in the port of Baltimore, one of the nation's main grain-exporting points and the site of three large grain elevators. Agriculture inspectors found the beetles in a little-used warehouse on a pier operated by the Chessie System, but not in grain supplies. Baltimore inspectors also found the pests in three other locations -- the historic McCormick Co. building, which emits scents of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon that waft over the popular Inner Harbor; Baltimore Spice Co. in Garrison; and Premium Bag Co. in East Baltimore -- making that city the leader so far in the number of khapra beetle sightings. The discovery of the beetles generated tremendous publicity in the old port city, conjuring up images of "The Beetle That Ate Baltimore," and causing public relations traumas for the spice companies. "We didn't find it funny at all," said Jack Felton, spokesman for McCormick. "We never had anything like this before. The rumor got out that the place would be closed for two weeks, that the place was infested." In fact, beetles were found only on the first floor and on the roof, not in areas where they could contaminate spices, Felton added. "This company was founded in 1889 and there's never been any question of the integrity of our product," he said. Once inspectors found the beetles, the search-and-destroy mission ran into a bureaucratic roadblock: there was no money left in the Agriculture Department budget to fumigate the contaminated plants. Congress had not appropriated money for khapra beetle fumigation since the mid-'60s, when the pest was eliminated in the United States, and virtually all of the $2.5 million in contingency funds were exhausted in a battle against the Mediterranean fruit fly. 12/26/80 - 4 Projects PK - # Floods force Canadians to evacuate HOPE, British Columbia (AP) -- Evacuations were under way here Friday as record rainfall and warm temperatures created massive flooding in southwest British Columbia and Vancouver Island. In addition, washouts, mudslides and the threat of avalanches closed major highways, snarling holiday travel plans for thousands and leaving much of the province cut off from the rest of Canada except by air. In Hope, located about 70 miles east of Vancouver in southern British Columbia, a new riverside subdivision of expensive homes was evacuated as a logjam holding back about 26 feet of water on the Coquihalla River showed signs of giving way. About 2.8 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period and the forecast called for continued heavy rain Saturday. Adding to the problems was warm weather which melted the snowpack and created avalanches and mudslides. The Coquihalla, a tributary of the Fraser River, was blocked about four miles upstream from Hope. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that if a barricade of debris piled up by a logjam at a narrow rock gorge collapsed, a sizable portion of the town would be under water about 20 minutes later. In Princeton, 40 miles east of Hope, Mayor Sandra Henson said a trailer park was threatened by the Chilameen River. Authorities could not say when the floodwaters would crest in either community. The Trans-Canada Highway through the Fraser Canyon was closed by a washout 10 miles north of here. Also severed were Canadian Pacific Rail's main line at Gordon Creek and the Canadian National main line at Hope. 12/27/80 === Page 27 of 93 AY, DECEMBER 27, 1980 -- 4 Projects PK -- oreg. # East, South freeze as S. California suns, NW soaks. By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A Siberian deep freeze pushed the mercury to historic lows from New Orleans to New England and floods washed across the Pacific Northwest on Friday, while record December warmth lured thousands to the beaches of Southern California. Temperatures dropped more than 100 degrees from the West Coast to the East Coast, like a frozen steak broiled only on one end. More than 2 inches of rain in 24 hours in western Washington and Oregon swelled rivers over their banks, closing some highways and prompting evacuations of low-lying areas. In the East, where the thermometer plummeted as low as 26 degrees below zero, cars refused to start, some trains quit running, and city officials were deluged with thousands of calls from tenants complaining of no heat. "We're getting bombarded," said Frank Gesualdo, chief of the city code enforcement office in Newark, N.J. "Some landlords don't provide enough heat, some buildings are old. Even the good homeowners, because of the economic pinch, are bringing the heat up slowly." On Christmas Day in New York City, officials reported getting 1,200 complaints about no-heat in just two hours. At least six people were found dead of exposure on city streets in Washington, Boston, Chicago and Latrobe, Pa., and Philadelphia authorities said the cold contributed to the death of one man there. Others died in dozens of fires as heaters were turned on full force. Fire officials in Shirley, Mass., blamed the cold weather and a faulty wood stove for a fire that claimed the lives of a family of four. "It's the only thing that could have caused it," said Rudy Kurtyka, deputy fire chief. "We found it stocked up with wood. I imagine they were really pushing it because it was so cold." Boston authorities blamed the cold for the death of a man found unconscious by police. Two homeless residents of Washington, D.C., died of exposure Christmas Day. Another man was found dead in the doorway of a building in Philadelphia and authorities said that he appeared to have been ill, but the cold contributed to his death. The cold was also blamed for the deaths of a man found dead at the train station and one found half-frozen into a snowbank Thursday in Chicago. New Orleans reported a record 27 Friday morning. It was 26 below zero in Burlington, Vt., and 2 below in Atlantic City, N.J. Some other subzero records included: Elkins, W.Va., -11; Portland, Maine, -20; Boston, -4; Concord, N.H., -13; Hartford, Conn., -14. Forecasters blamed the cold on a high-pressure front that drifted in from Siberia. By contrast, Los Angeles had its warmest Christmas Day on record, a balmy 85 that drew 300,000 to the beaches of Southern California, with more of the same on Friday. There were similar readings in Arizona, but in Miami, tourists who had fled to Florida found chilly weather in the 40s. # High-flying thief puzzles police ISLIP, N.Y. (UPI) -- A 727 jet was stolen from Hollywood-Burbank Airport and flown cross-country in a zigzag pattern, landing a day later at a Long Island airport, where the locked aircraft was surrounded Monday by puzzled police. No suspects were in custody. "We have no idea how to get into this thing," said Suffolk County Duty Officer George Hayes. "The door's not open and the boarding gate isn't down. I don't see how you get down out of this thing and close it up again." Burbank Police Sgt. Frank Miller said the Boeing airliner, owned by Bahamian-based Constance Leasing, was stolen Saturday night from the facilities of Tiger Air Services, Inc., where it was being refurbished. Tiger employees contacted Federal Aviation Administration controllers at Palmdale, Calif., who traced the plane to over Las Vegas, where it descended, changed its course and headed toward Denver, Miller said. Controllers said the plane, which normally requires three people to operate and had fuel for three hours, then backtracked to Tuba City, Ariz., changed its course again and headed for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where it landed in Fort Worth for several hours to refuel and then took off again, Miller said. "An air controller in Memphis (who spoke with the pilot) indicated the pilot had a foreign accent," Miller said, but added nothing else was known about the plane thief or thieves. Miller said traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., followed the plane to New York where it landed Sunday at MacArthur Airport in the Long Island community of Islip. Suffolk County police told Burbank police the plane had been recovered -- more than 26 hours after the plane was stolen, Miller said. 4 Project PK === Page 28 of 93 4 Projects PK # Ice glaze has East in snarl By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Newborn winter on Tuesday spread a layer of ice from Georgia to New England that caused hundreds of traffic smashups and at least 10 deaths, while thousands of holiday travelers were stranded in fog-bound airports in the West. Cars and trucks smacked into each other like shuffleboard pucks as freezing rain and snow turned roads and highways into "sheets of glass" from Atlanta to Atlantic City, N.J., and beyond. "God knows how many accidents there have been," said one police officer in Richmond, Va., where authorities stopped counting at 230 and were only investigating collisions involving injuries or damage of more than $500. Rush hour came to a crawl in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, where an inch of snow fell in one hour and then turned to rain that quickly froze. A bus turned over on Long Island as the treacherous combination reached New York City. School children got an extra day of Christmas vacation in many communities. Icy roads were blamed for accidents that killed four people in Virginia, two people in Maryland and South Carolina and one each in Georgia and Kentucky. Up and down the Eastern seaboard, the story was much the same. "We have so many accidents we can hardly tell one from another," said a state police dispatcher on the John F. Kennedy Highway in Maryland. "It was like an ice rink," said police Lt. James Tynan in Brigantine, N.J., where a bridge was iced over. "The cars were getting halfway up and then slipping down into other cars." "All shady spots and all bridges are solid sheets of ice," said Lt. W.H. Elroad of the South Carolina state police in Greenville. "We've had our share of wrecks." "The best thing people could do would be just stay home," said a state police officer in Delaware, where the highways were strewn with jackknifed trucks and abandoned cars. "It's crazy to drive in this weather." 4 Projects PK # Sneaky storm slows East to a crawl By United Press International A surprise storm spread ice and snow across much of the East early Tuesday, snarling rush-hour traffic from Washington to New York and causing a flurry of minor traffic accidents. Some schools not already closed for Christmas vacation called off classes. Freezing rain surprised the nation's capital in the early morning, encasing Washington-area roads in ice and forcing many area schools to close. More than 150 cars veered off ice-glazed roads in Richmond, Va. The ice storm, which began around 4 a.m., prompted police to urge motorists to stay home and kept buses off the roads for several hours. Minor traffic accidents were reported across the Washington area. Virginia and Maryland State Police reported many jackknifed tractor trailer trucks blocking traffic along Interstate 35 near Interstate 495. Snow and ice swept through southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and northern Delaware, turning the morning rush hour into a nightmare. About 35 schools in the Delaware Valley closed for the day and about 35 more postponed opening for one or two hours. Rain began in Philadelphia about 3:30 a.m. and turned quickly to snow. Philadelphia reported an inch of snow and the accumulation was thicker in southern New Jersey. Authorities said traffic slowed to 10 mph or less on Interstate 95 and the Schuylkill Expressway during rush hour. Police reported many fender-benders in the Philadelphia suburbs but no major accidents were reported. Light snow pushed north and east into New York City, slowing rush-hour traffic. The storm took the area by surprise, striking just hours after forecasters said the region's prospects for a White Christmas appeared dim. Bone-chilling temperatures broke records Monday in New England and light snow fell in the upper Midwest. New England again appeared to be the cold spot of the nation with sub-zero temperatures reported in Maine early Tuesday. Near-zero temperatures were reported in the northern Plains. Readings in the teens were common throughout the Great Lakes region. Thick fog swirled across the runways of airports throughout California early Tuesday, causing intermittent closures of airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. The fog closed Los Angeles International Airport for the third straight day, forcing planes to divert to nearby facilities - when they were open. Heavy fog enveloped the airport about 1:45 a.m., forcing the cancellation of about 25 flights since midnight. In the Bay Area, San Francisco International Airport shut down from 9 to 9:30 p.m. The dense fog moved in on Oakland International, about an hour later, and both were closed off and on throughout the night. Patrolman Cornelius Robinson of Richmond, Virginia's capital, said more than 150 accidents were reported late Monday and early Tuesday, including one 32-car pileup on I-64 near the Shockoe Valley Bridge. "It's incredible outside," said one police dispatcher. "The cars are backed up and there are people stranded all over the place. There's just no traction." Police cautioned that only those motorists who absolutely must go out should try to drive on the slippery streets, which sent many cars spinning like tops as they slid uncontrollably into one another. === Page 29 of 93 # Crash survivor believes pilot erred - 4 Projects PK - SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) -- One of two men who survived a commuter airline crash that killed seven persons Tuesday said from his hospital bed Wednesday he believes the pilot who died in the crash miscalculated his approach to Spokane International Airport. Steven Tarnoff, 30, Federal Way, Wash., said that despite earlier reports of heavy fog, he could see the runway at Spokane International shortly before the plane scraped several trees and then slammed into a hilly slope Tuesday morning, 3 miles short of the runway. "The next thing I knew (after the scraping sound), we were making a forced landing. It became more and more violent. We finally came to a dead stop. At that time I didn't believe it was happening, I thought I was having a dream. I looked around me and there was a lot of smoke. People were just lying in the aisles. I got up and didn't realize my ankles were broken. "I drug myself out the emergency door and rolled about 10 feet away from the plane, only to see one other gentleman. I rolled back to the plane and begged the man to roll with me. I dragged him with his belt. I managed to get him down the hill. I then rolled another 10 feet and layed there. I didn't believe it had happened. It wasn't until the rescue team got there that I realized it had really happened." The "other gentleman" apparently was the other survivor, James Eagle, 37, Spokane, who remains in critical condition with multiple injuries. Initial reports said the plane burst into flames on impact, but Tarnoff said there was "black smoke" coming from the plane, which apparently was gutted by fire a few minutes later. He said as far as he could tell, no one else was moving around after the crash. He said he was not "blown" out of the tail section, but, rather, was sitting in the middle of the craft. Tarnoff, an ex-Navy man who now works for a pharmaceutical firm, said he sensed they were about to crash when he heard the scraping sound beneath the plane. "It sounded like when you are driving your car near a tree or some bushes." He said there was no sudden loss of power nor even any warning that something was amiss, other than sound. "Someone said just before the crash that it felt like we were in in for a rough landing. I shot back that it was more than a rough landing and put my head between my legs. Nothing else was said, by the pilot or anyone. "I'm only speculating, but I think he (pilot David Weinberger, Walla Walla) hit a small fog bank that he didn't realize was there. There's no question in my mind that he made a mistake. The visibility to the airport was clear. We could all see it. And we did get into a little fog, but not to the extent that you couldn't see it. I'm not knowledgeable enough to discuss equipment, but as a passenger, I could see the landing strip." There also was a lot of lateral movement (by the plane), back and forth, before scraping and the crash, Tarnoff said. Asked if he had heard from NTSB officials or Cascade Airways since the accident, Tarnoff said: "I've heard from no one and I'm extremely annoyed at that. Not so much as an apology from the airlines. I couldn't be angrier at this time about that." Then, he added: "The only thing I feel right now is a great deal of relief. I'm very fortunate to be alive." Tarnoff was traveling with one of the men who didn't survive, Dr. Roger Hamstra, Denver. The two were to address a medical meeting Tuesday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. The other victims were the co-pilot, Paul Davis, Walla Walla; Caroline Law, Yakima; Hamstra, D. Dolan, R. Robertson and Andrew Breland. Hometowns of the last three were not immediately available. Ore. 1/22/81 ## Ships collide in dense fog LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Two large merchant ships collided Saturday in dense fog 18 miles off the coast of Oceanside, and one sustained "pretty heavy damage" and began taking on water, a Coast Guard spokesman said. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the 9:40 a.m. collision of the Philippine-registered Trans-Ocean Ram and the Claire A. Tsavliris, a Greek-registered ship. Ore. 12/23/80 ## - 4 Projects PK - ## Nuclear lab truck righted FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- Air Force personnel used a crane Saturday to right a Department of Energy truck that overturned while carrying classified material to a federal nuclear laboratory in New Mexico. The 18-wheel truck overturned Friday on icy Interstate 25 about 10 miles north of Fort Collins, Colo. It was rerouted Saturday to Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, where its contents will be loaded onto another truck, a DOE spokesman said. DOE officials declined to say what was in the truck. The vehicle was en route from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., to Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico when the accident occurred, said David Jackson, an Energy department spokesman in Albuquerque, N.M. No one was injured in the accident, officials said. Armed guards from the Air Force and the Department of Energy cordoned off the area for 19 hours, rerouting traffic onto a service road. I-25 was opened Saturday morning, the state patrol said. "There is no hazard to the public as a result of this accident, other than what would have happened through any other truck accident," said Jackson. Jackson said the truck's payload was classified information and that the truck was designed to "withstand any kind of accident." Ore. 12/23/80 === Page 30 of 93 Calif. PK # LA remains in fog's grip; air traffic halts for 6 hours LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Heavy fog shrouded Los Angeles for a second day Monday, disrupting the flights of hundreds of jetliners for six hours and jamming airports with stranded holiday travelers. Visibility in some places was reduced to a few feet during the day, causing numerous traffic accidents. Weather forecasters called for more of the same Tuesday. "We'll still have extensive fog along the coast," said National Weather Service spokesman Al Dascomb. "It'll probably be as bad as it's been." Late Monday, Dascomb said earlier predictions that low clouds would replace the fog Monday night and Tuesday morning proved premature. Instead, cold air was expected to continue moving from the ocean over the warm land, creating more fog. The fog closed Los Angeles International Airport for six hours after dusk Sunday and blocked incoming flights until 10 a.m. Monday. "The whole system is backed up," airport spokesman Alfred Dubiel said. "Our closure affects airports all over the country. They're delaying flights at Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose -- anybody that feeds airplanes into this system. I imagine hundreds of flights are affected." 12/23/80 Nevada PR # Auto ignites jet fuel spill LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- Thousands of gallons of jet fuel gushed from a ruptured pipeline west of the Las Vegas Strip Monday and at one point erupted in flames, sending up a fireball, authorities said. The spill, which forced the closure of several major streets, apparently was ignited by a spark from a passing automobile, said Capt. Ralph Dinsman of the Clark County Fire Department. No injuries were reported. The automobile "ignited the fumes, sending a ball of fire 40 to 50 feet into the air, burning telephone and electric lines," Dinsman said. 12/23/80 Project PK 12/80 # 'Round, 'round went the car -- by itself FOLSOM, Calif. (UPI) -- A teen-ager who left his car idling in a parking lot while he visited a store was somewhat surprised when he returned to find the driverless vehicle zooming around in circles on the street. The car, which had a gear defect, performed its circular self-drive for 20 minutes Saturday but fortunately avoided any pedestrians or other vehicles. Firefighters finally managed to stop the runaway car by dousing it with 250 gallons of water. "It was the strangest sight," Folsom firefighter Russ Acker said. "At first we thought there was someone in it trying to hit the cops. It would spin into the street and then into the parking lot and then back into the street again, over and over. It looked like something out of the movies." Although the car's door was open, police and spectators feared to enter it. They called the Fire Department to spray the runaway vehicle in hope of shorting out the electrical system. The torrent of water finally flooded the carburetor, officials said. The unidentified driver, who had been trying to repair a defective gear shift, left the vehicle idling in the parking lot while paying a brief visit to the supermarket. Project PK # Workers flee nuclear plant SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A false alarm warning of high radiation levels prompted evacuation of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant for an hour Monday, the plant's operator reported. Radiation monitoring instruments apparently were at fault, said Jeff Marx, spokesman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. He said the instruments indicated high radiation levels outside the plant at 8:50 a.m. 12/23/80 Calif. PR # Sewage fouls beaches LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Sunshine and temperatures approaching the 80s lured thousands of Southern California sun-worshipers to the beaches during the weekend -- despite the stench and health hazards from raw sewage polluting 7 miles of shoreline. Health officials closed the beach to swimmers indefinitely because of a ruptured sewer siphon that allowed millions of gallons of raw sewage to flow into the ocean. Authorities managed to plug the siphon Sunday, but said it will be midweek before the affected beaches are free of pollutants. 12/15/80 Fla. PK # Florida's red tide studied TITUSVILLE, Fla. (UPI) -- Researchers planned more tests Tuesday in an investigation of the red tide that has caused irritation to the eyes, noses and throats of residents along the tourist beaches of Florida's east coast. Since Nov. 17 the red tide -- caused by rapid growth of bacteria in seawater -- has been moving steadily south from St. Augustine, sending wind-borne toxins shoreward. 12/9/80 === Page 31 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Canine disease level remains high By JOAN LAATZ Journal Correspondent oreg. 12/30/80 SALEM -- Canine parvo virus, the highly contagious and often fatal disease that causes intestinal hemorrhaging in dogs, is continuing to take its toll in Oregon, according to state Department of Agriculture figures. No one appears more surprised than Dr. Mike Daly, epidemiologist for the department, who said he had believed that the number of cases had significantly decreased since this summer when it was reported to have reached epidemic proportions in some areas. However, a check this week of recent reports from veterinarians around the state revealed that the number of cases reported in November reached an all-time high of 2,061. Of that amount, 1,183 cases occurred in Multnomah County. Daly said he hadn't checked the reports recently and had thought the disease peaked in September when 1,382 cases were reported in the state. "I'm surprised by the figures. I guess we just weren't hearing much about it," Daly said. "I was talking to some veterinarians yesterday (in Salem) and they said they're still seeing it, but not in the numbers they were before." He said he thought the disease had run its course and moved on to another area, which is characteristic of many diseases. Dogs are highly susceptible when a new disease strikes an area, but, after a while, they "become immune to an extent," Daly said. Reports for October and November show that the number of cases of parvo virus have increased steadily since what was believed to be the peak in September. November showed the greatest jump, with an increase of more than 700 cases over the 1,354 reported in October. Incomplete figures for 1980 (December reports are not yet available), show a total of 5,995 cases of parvo virus reported in the state. The majority of those occurred in the Portland area "because that's where the population is," Daly said, but the disease appears to have touched most parts of the state. Some areas, including Harney County in Eastern Oregon and Jefferson County in Central Oregon, "have been completely unscathed," he said. Figures on deaths resulting from parvo virus are not available, but according to Daly, "There were quite a few." Despite increasing figures, Daly was quick to caution against alarm. The increase in reported cases may be due to late arriving laboratory confirmations, he said. The reporting system "is never that accurate," he said, and reports frequently run at least one month behind. He said many of the cases reported in November actually may have occurred one or two months before. Veterinarians are reluctant to report cases as parvo virus until lab confirmations are made, Daly said. The Agriculture Department sends cards to all veterinarians in the state each month asking them to report parvo cases. Daly said the cards are not always returned promptly. An increase in awareness of the disease also could explain the rise in reported cases, according to Daly. He said recognition of parvo virus, a fairly new disease believed to be a mutation of feline distemper virus, "is not that easy of a diagnosis." He added that symptoms, including marked lethargy, accompanying fever, vomiting and diarrhea, are very similar to poisoning. Dogs can be protected against parvo virus if they are vaccinated. Although the vaccine was in short supply last summer, Daly said, it now appears to be readily available. According to veterinarians, parvo virus is spread primarily through dog feces and vomit and can live on the ground for years. Although the virus is not known to affect humans or other animals, it can be transmitted by them. Humans can carry the virus on their shoes, skin or clothing. Veterinarians suggest that persons who come into contact with an afflicted dog wash their clothes and bodies with a solution of one part bleach to 30 parts water. ---------- - 4 Projects PK - # Misfortune on the trail The accident along the cross-country trail he was skiing near his Camp David retreat is an unfortunate way for President Carter to conclude his presidency. It may, however, have been symbolic of the woes that pursued his four-year stewardship. Many a time the Carter administration set off on a course of action, only to have it end in shambles because of accident or events beyond its control. It would fight inflation and find the nation plunged into recession. It would concentrate on recession only to see inflation heightened. The president would negotiate a release of the hostages in Iran, only to learn the people on the other side lacked authority to carry out their commitments. So he would send in a commando raid to save the hostages, and then see it fail in helicopter breakdowns in a desert storm. World peace would be pushed through detente with the Soviet Union, and then break down under the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Even the more successful initiatives in an energy policy for the nation and peace in the Middle East had their unforeseen frustrations. Such has been the plight of the presidency of Jimmy Carter. He did not need the broken collar bone as a final blow. But he got it honestly, continuing to be active to the end. We wish you a speedy recovery, Mr. President, and a minimum of discomfort as you complete your duties. oreg. 12/30/80 === Page 32 of 93 - Calif. PK - Org J 12/3/80 # Plane collision raises brushfire deaths to 7 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) - Two air tankers used to bombard flames during the devastating Southern California brushfires collided during a picture-taking exercise on their way home, killing two men in a fiery desert crash. Killed in the crash were pilot Clyde Alford, 50, and Ron Letness, about 30, also of Tucson. Pilot Ken White, 56, and co-pilot Gary Garrett, 41, both of Tucson, were uninjured. The deaths raised the toll to seven killed in the nine-day siege of major brush and timber blazes that have destroyed 383 homes, blackened 80,000 acres and caused $72 million in property damages in Southern California. The four-engine propeller-driven planes, under contract to the U.S. Forest Service to dump water and fire retardant on brushfires, hit one another Tuesday afternoon over Indio, Calif., on their way back to Arizona. Officials said the air tankers made contact as one plane passed over the other during a special photo exercise. The reason for the maneuver was not known. One of the converted C-54 aircraft crashed to the barren desert floor and burst into flames, killing its two occupants and strewing debris over a 3-mile-wide area. The other tanker made an emergency landing at nearby Palm Springs Airport, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles, without injuring either of the two men inside. "It was the worst thing I've ever seen," said witness Dave Baldridge, a construction foreman with Southern California Edison. "It was just flat." - M. De vs. U.S. Govt. - # Driver accused of ramming sub GROTON, Conn. (UPI) - A peace protester has been charged with commandeering a van and ramming it into a $1 billion Trident submarine during launching ceremonies for another Navy sub. Peter J. Demott, 33, of Baltimore, was charged with criminal trespass and reckless endangerment and was held on $25,000 bond pending a hearing Monday in New London Superior Court. The incident Saturday went largely unnoticed by about 4,500 people attending the launching of the USS Baltimore, a fast-attack submarine, at General Dynamics Corp.'s Electric Boat Division shipyard. No one was injured in the incident and a shipyard spokesman said damage to the Trident "appeared to be negligible, but the van was badly wrecked." The spokesman said the van's driver was unloading the vehicle in an area roped off from the public when DeMott commandeered it. He backed it up to the unfinished, unnamed Trident, slamming into its rudder five times before stopping. The behemoth, 900-foot, 18,750-ton vessel, the first of seven Tridents, moved to the side about one foot, witnesses said. When asked why he did it, DeMott replied, "For peace." A second man from Baltimore was arrested several hours earlier when he laid down at the shipyard gates at the start of a local protest by about 25 anti-nuclear demonstrators. The $450 million Baltimore is part of the Navy's new Los Angeles 688 Class fast-attack submarines. org. 12/15/80 - "High In Government" PK (as told to rep. have) # U.N. officials die in crash DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - A light aircraft crashed 70 miles northwest of this East African capital, killing 10 people, including eight United Nations officials, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday. One of the dead was identified as an American. He said the crash occurred Friday night and that remains of the crash victims were being brought to Dar es Salaam. The dead were identified as K.K. Apeadu of Ghana, the U.N. Development Program representative to Tanzania; H.M. Caspari, an American, the UNDP assistant representative; Caspari's British wife, Helen Lewis-Jones, Tanzanian coordinator for the United Nations food and population program; M. Poikolainen of Finland, a Tanzanian-based Food and Agricultural Organization program officer; J. Mfuru, a Tanzanian and UNDP program officer; D.C. Ea and K. Baldwin, both Rome-based British officials of the FAO, and H. Chen of China. org 12/7/80 - M. De vs. U.S. Govt. - # 'Dead' satellite back on line NEW YORK (AP) - An X-ray astronomy satellite that had been out of commission since an unexplained failure in August has inexplicably resumed operation, scientists announced Wednesday. The resumption means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite, known as the Einstein Observatory, should provide another four to six months of data on X-rays from space, said Harvey Tananbaum of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Launched in November 1978, the satellite has already outlived its design life of one year. But scientists had hoped to extend it to three years by a careful hoarding of its gas propellant. The satellite has made the most detailed survey ever of X-ray emissions from stars, galaxies and the distant, mysterious objects known as quasars. X-rays reveal the presence of high-energy processes that cannot be detected with visible light or radio waves. Its future was thrown in jeopardy when two of its four gyroscopes would not restart after they were shut down by an on-board computer error Aug. 27, Tananbaum said. At least three gyroscopes are needed to point the satellite's X-ray telescope. Scientists were forced to use the remaining gas to keep its solar panels pointed toward the sun. Virtually all observing was halted. But Saturday, after hundreds of attempts to restart the two gyros, one of them began working again. "It's sort of like hitting the side of your television set to try to stabilize the picture. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don't," Tananbaum said. org. 12/11/80 === Page 33 of 93 # Pine beetle epidemic surges through forests south of Bend By JIM KADERA of The Oregonian staff After devastating more than 1 million acres in Northeast Oregon forests, mountain pine beetles have reached epidemic levels in the public and private forests south of Bend. The outbreak in the Umatilla, Malheur and Wallowa-Whitman national forests killed more than 1 billion board feet of lodgepole pine in a decade. The epidemic in the Deschutes, Winema and Fremont national forests and on adjoining lands will take about two decades to kill more than 500 million board feet of lodgepole, according to U.S. Forest Service estimates. Just as happened in the northeastern forests, a variety of problems and opportunities await public and private timberland managers. The problems include salvaging pine stands before commercial values are lost, the danger of fire in dead, unlogged stands, and local efforts to spray residential pines to delay losses. Opportunities include reforesting and managing new stands to avoid some of the problems that lead to a beetle outbreak. The epidemic south of Bend is not an expansion of the same beetle population from the other forests. It began because of the same type of conditions that enable outbreak, according to Paul Some 147,000 infested lodgepoles and 11,000 Ponderosas were tallied on 60,000 acres in the Fremont forest. The losses were 103,000 lodgepoles and 3,000 Ponderosas on 58,000 acres in the Winema. Recreationists will observe effects of the epidemic when they return to their favorite campgrounds in the next few years. Unless the outbreak can be slowed, once-scenic recreation sites will be stripped of pines in a short time. The Deschutes forest expects to release a beetle management plan to the public in February, according to Greg McClarren, forest information officer. A rough draft of the plan suggests that four approaches are available, depending on objective and amount of timber infested. "Logging will be the first line of defense on public and large private lands," the draft states. "This method would utilize the wood by cutting and milling the trees before the beetles have had a chance to spread. "Cutting infested trees for firewood is another use. However, the material cannot be left in the forest or stored in wood piles where the beetle can emerge and spread to other trees. Infested wood can be treated to prevent beetle survival." A second tactic would be to delay loss of most lodgepole stands by five to ten years by logging the dense overma- Washington PORTLAND Oregon Bend Crater Lake Klamath Falls California EPIDEMIC -- Areas most affected by beetle outbreak are near Newberry Crater, Crane Prairie and Wickiup reservoirs and Wanoga Butte. "wild fire" spread to the larger and more valuable Ponderosa pines, he in- # Rain, warmth trigger rash of Idaho floods By The Associated Press Triggered by a week of steady rain and unseasonably warm temperatures, northern and western Idaho creeks and rivers began flooding Friday, washing over roads and bridges and threatening some homes. "It doesn't appear that it's very serious as of yet," said Paul Massie of the state Disaster Services headquarters in Boise. "But there's always the potential." After days of steady rain, plus temperatures in the high 50s that melted snow up to the 11,000-foot level, many northern Idaho streams were near flood stage. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings Friday for Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai and Shoshone counties in northern Idaho. The agency said the Coeur d'Alene River at Enaville reached 74.1 feet by late afternoon, 2 feet above flood stage. The river was expected to rise to nearly 75 feet by early Saturday. The St. Joe River at St. Maries was at 32.1 feet. Flood stage is 32.5 feet. The river was expected to peak at 38 feet Saturday. The Coeur d'Alene River at Calder, which has a flood stage of 43 feet, was expected to reach 47 feet by daybreak Saturday. Just west of Pinehurst, Shoshone County road crews were working to shore up a dike on Northbank Road to prevent the flooding of 24 homes. "We are in danger of losing the dike," said county spokesman Earl Howard. Support beams on the Fourth Street Bridge in Pinehurst were being washed away by logs and debris from the high waters, Howard said. Stanley G. Witter Jr., spokesman for Washington Water Power Co., said rain and high temperatures were producing more water than hydroelectric stations could use for generation, so excess water was being spilled over dams. "We don't like to see the snowpack disappearing in the mountains at this time of year, particularly when loads are down as they are now," said Witter. Because of the mild weather, power loads have been running about 60 percent of normal the last couple of days, he said. Massie said his reports from people in the area indicated little concern, with few homes threatened. The weather service reported the Weiser River in western Idaho reached flood stage of 9 feet by 5:30 p.m. Friday. === Page 34 of 93 # Flooding threatens towns, closes highways By KATHY McCARTHY of The Associated Press (Washington) residents put away their Christmas presents and pulled on their hip boots Friday as balmy temperatures and drenching rains forced rivers over their banks, washing away houses and closing roads. Also, temperatures in the high 50s and low 60s melted what was left of a light snowpack in the Cascades. The National Weather Service in Seattle predicted heavy rains would not ease before Saturday. The worst flooding has been reported in Snohomish County, where dozens were evacuated from the communities of Index, Darrington, Sultan and Verlot and officials worried about the strength of dikes. "Right now, I'd say it's worse than it has ever been in 100 years," said Sultan Mayor Harold Love. No major problems were reported in Southwest Washington's Cowlitz and Toutle river areas downstream from Mount St. Helens, where authorities had worried that silt deposits from the volcano's May 18 eruption would limit the rivers' carrying ability, despite dredging efforts. However, high water forced closure of northbound lanes on the Interstate 5 bridge over the Toutle River in Cowlitz County. Traffic temporarily was reduced to one northbound lane after U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials became concerned that support structures for the bridge had been weakened by the heavy runoff, said Jim Addison, corps spokesman in Portland. By midevening, northbound traffic was rerouted altogether. Addison added that corps officials were concerned about sediment washing down the Toutle since a spillway failed Thursday on one of the river's containment dams north of Camp Baker on the north fork. Chuck Bellinger, a corps engineer at Castle Rock, said information on the damage to the containment dam's spillway was sketchy. He said a similar dam on the south fork of the Toutle was working as designed. Washington 504 was closed at Kid Valley on the Toutle, downstream from the volcano, after a bank washed out at the approach to a temporary pontoon bridge thrown up to replace a bridge destroyed in the mountain's May 18 eruption. In 1975, floods considered the worst of the century in Washington caused an estimated $70 million in damage. Hundreds were evacuated and six died two years later, in December 1977 flooding. In some places, the worst may be yet to come. The Skagit River, predicted to crest late Saturday at 11 feet above flood stage, was expected to threaten downtown Mount Vernon, said county flood control engineer Don Nelson. He said the threat matched that of a 1951 flood. Skagit County officials planned feverish sandbagging efforts in Mount Vernon. Nearly half an inch of rain fell Friday morning at Quillayute, Wash., on the Olympic Peninsula and Seattle reported 1 1/4 inches in the past two days. Forecasters said major flooding was in progress or predicted for several Western Washington rivers, including the Elwha, Skagit, Snohomish, Skykomish and Snoqualmie. Several other major highways were closed by high water and numerous county roads were disabled. Some residents were plucked from their homes by air and boat near Monroe, where an emergency center was set up. Authorities said at least seven houses were swept away in Index, seven in Sultan and two or three near Darrington. The main road leading to Index, a community of 500, was cut off. Darrington's drinking water supply was knocked out when a pipe broke Tuesday, Lewis said. Another 75 to 100 people were evacuated from Cape Horn in Skagit County. McLaughlin said the Skykomish basin probably was experiencing flooding as severe as any in the last 20 years and added that residents between Monroe and Snohomish should leave the area. In Pierce County, the Nisqually River crept within four feet of the McKenna Home for the elderly and handicapped, but it was then holding steady. Buses were readied to evacuate the 135 patients, if necessary. Tacoma City Light was forced to release water periodically Friday from its Alder Dam, upstream on the Nisqually, but the river did not inundate McKenna. Cranes were dispatched to break up a log jam that threatened an old U.S. 99 bridge over the Nisqually River on the Thurston-Pierce county line, said Lt. Chuck Graef of the Thurston County sheriff's office. A Red Cross shelter was set up to handle any lower Nisqually flood victims. A few people also left their homes along the sparsely populated Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Several families of the Lower Elwha band of the Clallam Indians left their low-lying reservation. Major highways disrupted Friday included U.S. 12 over White Pass, closed between Morton and Packwood due to high water, and U.S. 2 over Stevens Pass, closed from Monroe to Baring because sightseers were hampering evacuation efforts. High water, mudslides and fallen trees on U.S. 101 on the Olympic Peninsula cut that highway at several points Friday, forcing detours. The rain was brought in by warm air flowing from near the Hawaiian Islands to the Pacific Northwest, forecasters said. ## Volcano erupts MARION ISLAND, Indian Ocean (AP) -- A long-silent volcano has erupted on this remote island 1,152 miles southeast of Cape Town causing no injuries or property damage, the South African transport affairs department said. The island, one of the Prince Edward chain, is a South African possession. About 20 weather and research technicians are its only inhabitants. The eruption scattered elephant seals that normally feed near the volcano, but attracted penguins who warmed themselves near the lava, officials said. ## Flooding extensive MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Police said rain-swollen rivers and melting snow caused extensive flooding Saturday in large areas of northern and central Spain, damaging crops and property but taking no lives. Officials evacuated scores of people from small villages along the rivers and reported rail and telephone communications cut in portions of the Basque area including Santander, Leon and Burgos provinces. === Page 35 of 93 Red tide can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Earlier this year, PSP contamination forced Maine officials to ban shellfishing along the state's coast after several people were hospitalized. Steps were being taken to ban shellfishing from Jacksonville south to Cocoa, but that probably would not go into effect until the state conducted more tests, King said. Nevada quake rattles Lake Tahoe, Reno TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) -- An earthquake registering 5.1 on the Richter scale shook the Sierra Nevada north of Lake Tahoe Friday but, aside from broken dishes, little damage was reported. The tremor was felt most distinctly in Nevada, Sierra and Plumas counties, but people in Sacramento and Reno, Nev., also felt the jolt. "It was quite strong here and we felt it all right," said Allene Wright at the Loyalton Sierra Booster, a biweekly newspaper in Sierra County. "At my daughter's across the street, things fell off the mantel." The University of California Seismograph Station at Berkeley said the quake, which struck at 10:21 a.m. PST, was centered between Truckee and Reno, north of Lake Tahoe, a lightly populated mountainous area. Sheriff's offices at South Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Nevada City, Quincy and Grass Valley reported many telephone calls including a few reports of broken dishes. The Nevada County sheriff's office said a woman near Cedar Ridge reported a cracked ceiling and a loosened chimney pipe. A caller told the Grass Valley Union newspaper there were waves on Donner Lake, near Truckee. In Reno, alarmed guests at Harrah's 26-story hotel said they felt the earthquake strongly on the upper floors. A security guard at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City said chandeliers in the lobby began to sway. The Richter scale is a measure of ground movement as registered by seismographs. Every increase of one number, say from 4 to 5, indicates a 10-fold increase in magnitude. A quake registering 5 can cause considerable damage in a populated area. The north Lake Tahoe area was shaken by two earthquakes 40 minutes apart Sept. 12, 1966. They were measured at 6.0 and 5.3, according to University of California records. The earthquake that triggered the destruction of San Francisco in 1906 has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale, although it occurred before the scale was devised. 'Red tide' blamed for mist By MATT BOKOR DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Toxic "red tide" has been blamed as the culprit behind an irritating mist that has plagued hundreds of people on North Florida beaches and health officials say they are relieved to know it was nature's work all along. "It could have been a lot worse," said Frank Landrove, environmental health director in Volusia County. "By a lot worse, I mean it could have been man-made." Residents and tourists here had been complaining for almost two weeks of irritated throats, eyes and noses because of the mist that seemed to be rising off the sea. It got so bad Wednesday that lifeguards in the Daytona Beach area were told to leave their towers. Some donned surgical masks to filter out impurities that were blamed on the red tide, a microorganism that in concentration can give seawater a reddish tint. Officials said they had a hard time detecting red tide because it did not turn the sea red or cause a large fish kill. Some dead fish were reported in the New Smyrna Beach area, and officials said more reports could come in. Dr. Hubert King, Volusia County's health director, warned residents and beachgoers to use common sense and leave areas if they feel uncomfortable. Landrove advised people with respiratory problems to remain indoors until the problem is resolved. Wind-whippe Pictures on Page E10 By PAUL SIMON SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds up to 50 mph flung flames from one town to another Wednesday and forced the evacuation of a mountain hamlet as a flock of Southern California brush fires raged out of control for a third day. Four people have died and more than 350 homes have gone up in smoke as 65,000 acres have been consumed by 10 separate fires fanned by the treacherous southerly airflow called the Santa Ana, or "devil winds," that sweeps down from the mountains. Damage is estimated at $44 million and officials say the rash of fires, engaging about 2,000 firefighters, is one of the worst in California history. An 11th blaze broke out Wednesday 100 miles to the northwest in the Los Padres National Forest and rapidly burned more than 2,000 acres in Ventura County. Officials said winds were light and no structures were in the path of the fire. The most destructive blaze, the 13,000-acre Panorama Canyon fire, had moved north out of San Bernardino and into the rural town of Devore. But winds shifted and pushed the fire back uphill toward the mountain hamlets of Rim Forest and Twin Peaks. The entire community of Rim Forest -- about 50 homes 10 miles east of Devore -- was evacuated. Earlier, the flames played hopscotch === Page 36 of 93 # San Bernardino invaded # California fires sear 100 homes By YARDENA ARAR SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds howling up to 95 mph sent three fires roaring through 13,500 tinder-dry acres of forest and brush Monday, setting 100 to 200 houses aflame and forcing hundreds of foothill residents to flee. The most serious was the 8,000-acre Panorama fire that started about 75 miles east of Los Angeles in the Upper Waterman Canyon in the San Bernardino National Forest north of the city. Fanned by the high, northeasterly Santa Ana winds, that blaze swept down the hills and stormed through a 10-square-block area within San Bernardino city limits. "There are fires reported all over the city," said San Bernardino fire spokesman Jimmy Jews. "We have one block that has been destroyed. We're talking $80,000, $90,000, $100,000 homes, four- to five-bedroom homes." Debbie Ottoson, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said between 100 and 200 houses were destroyed or damaged in the Panorama fire. "We won't have a definite structure count until the fire is contained," she said. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Debbie Salow said the fire was believed arson-caused. Jews said between 300 and 400 homes had been evacuated, with residents fleeing to centers in the National Orange Show grounds and Richardson Junior High. But some stayed. Harold Willis said it took only about an hour and 15 minutes for his $350,000 home on a bluff commanding a 180-degree view of the San Bernardino Valley to go up in smoke. "The fire came down in a huge ball (from the hill above)," Willis said. "It was just like a holocaust. Then the fire went over the house and started on down the hill below. We thought we had escaped. "But apparently some sparks blew in under the garage door and started a fire inside the garage. By the time we discovered it, it was just too late to get any fire trucks up here. There were just not enough to go around. They had houses burning all over the place, so we just stood there and watched it burn." No deaths and only minor injuries were reported. Jews said the fire's advance appeared to have slowed down by early evening. About three miles to the east, the Sycamore fire burned several structures and more than 500 acres of brush in the City Creek area. Ms. Ottoson, the state forestry spokeswoman, said that fire was moving southeast toward the Highland area, threatening more homes. The third fire was in the Mount Baldy area of the Angeles National Forest, about 20 miles west of San Bernardino. At least one summer cabin and 5,000 acres of timber went up in flames that had advanced to within less than a few hundred yards of Mount Baldy Village and were still on the move. Officials feared the entire village might be destroyed. "It's all around us," said Jean Adams, whose husband, Earl, owns the Snowcrest Lodge several miles north of Mount Baldy Village. "It's real close. Everyone was asked to evacuate, but we've decided to stay." She said firefighters were making a stand at the Zen Center across the road from the lodge. In the village, fire vehicles lined the main street and crews fought desperately to keep flames from racing down the western ridge and into the town. Monday's fires came just 10 days after firefighters controlled a 6,600-acre Bradbury fire, which developed about 20 miles southwest of Mount Baldy and in six days destroyed 55 homes and damaged 27 others for a loss of $25 million. One man died of a heart attack when he fled the flames. Angeles National Forest planning chief Art Smith said the Baldy fire apparently began "in an abandoned campfire in the Baldy Notch area near the top of the ski lift" and then was pushed southwest toward the village by the high winds. Both national forests were closed to all public entry except for residents and persons with special permits. The high winds, which were expected to last through Tuesday, precluded use of air tankers to fight the blaze. One light plane that did attempt a reconnaissance flight was unable to see the flames. # Bombed casino to reopen in May THE OREGONIAN, STATELINE, Nev. (AP) -- The Lake Tahoe hotel-casino shattered by an extortionist's bomb Aug. 27 is expected to be back in full operation by May. Vice President Richard Kudrna said the 11-story Harvey's Resort Hotel would be rebuilt at a cost of $12 million, which would be borne by the resort's insurance company. The repair will cover "everything that needs to be put back the way it was before the incident," Kudrna said. The main casino and two restaurants were back in business two days after the bomb blast. The 196 hotel rooms, a restaurant on top of the hotel and a portion of the casino have been closed because of structural damage caused by the explosion. The bomb went off shortly after an attempt to meet an extortionist's demand for $3 million in exchange for information on how to disarm the bomb went awry when the alleged extortionist failed to show at the drop site. The FBI is continuing its search for the extortionists, but neither its investigation nor a $200,000 reward fund has succeeded in turning up any suspects in the case. # 3 die in air crash ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) -- Three people were killed Saturday when two military aircraft collided during a test flight just offshore of Seacliff Park here, authorities said. Wreckage of the Hughes YAH-64 helicopter and T-28 single-engine airplane fell about a half-mile off the Encinitas coastline and into the town as well. San Diego County lifeguard Sgt. Bill Hunt said debris was scattered throughout a wide area of the ocean. The T-28 pilot parachuted to safety after the crash. "We felt the impact, an explosion, and saw debris falling into the water," said Greg Villanueva, a 40-year-old architect from nearby Irvine, who saw the accident. === Page 37 of 93 4-Projects PK Currents in the News # U.S. Will Feel Cold's Impact for Months Unusual winter weather--too cold in the East and too dry nearly everywhere--is causing problems that will plague Americans for much of 1981. Already evident are jumps in food and fuel costs--the result of temperatures that froze gardens and groves in Florida and forced shivering Easterners to turn up the heat. Even after winter ends, its repercussions will linger. This year's grain crops may be short as a result of too little snow this winter. Water shortages are likely to worsen in much of the East and parts of the West. Behind the nation's uncommon winter is a weather system rooted on the other side of the globe. Arctic air from ice floes off Siberia crossed Canada and caused record-low temperatures on the Eastern Seaboard. A persistent high-pressure zone over the Rocky Mountains--which funneled the Arctic air into the East--blocked arrival of moisture-bearing storms from the Pacific. It all spelled trouble for millions of people. While hundreds of ski-resort workers were laid off in the Rockies, welfare recipients lined up outside the governor's office in Rhode Island to demand money for heating fuel. Natural-gas supplies ran so low in Massachusetts that Governor Edward King ordered the closing of gas-heated schools. Many businesses in New England shut down for lack of heat. Heating-oil bills topping $400 a month became a reality as refiners jacked up prices. The cold wave boosted utility bills in the Washington, D.C., area alone by 10 million dollars a week. Waterways were frozen from the St. Lawrence River south to Chesapeake Bay. Prices of fish, lobsters and oysters nearly doubled as fishermen left nets and dredges on icebound boats. Northerners who fled to Florida to escape the cold wound up walking on the beaches in overcoats. Citrus growers watched helplessly as up to 20 percent of their orange crop froze on the trees. Wholesale prices jumped sharply. Also wrecked by the Florida freeze were crops of lettuce, beans, tomatoes, peppers and squash. Within days, supermarkets across the U.S. boosted produce prices 25 percent or more. Florida's vegetable growers quickly began preparing new crops that may help bring prices down by spring. But citrus prices are likely to remain high for many months if damage to the state's orange trees proves lasting. In some areas, alarm over the winter's drought rivaled concern about the cold. The Delaware River Basin Commission--made up of the governors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware--declared a drought emergency after a dry spell shriveled water supplies to the lowest level in 15 years. The order banned such activities as noncommercial car washing and routinely serving water in restaurants. Western farmers, hit by drought last summer, feared they were not getting enough snow to provide moisture for a good 1981 grain harvest. In South Dakota, snowfall is 75 percent below normal. Governor William Janklow warned: "We're looking at a disaster the likes of which we haven't seen since the '30s." Still another problem: Barges ran aground on the Mississippi River, which fell to its lowest level in 111 years. The National Weather Service, seeing little relief ahead, says the weather through mid-February is likely to stay unusually cold in the East and abnormally dry in the West. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 26, 1981 "Power" & Rain Attack # Quake rescue efforts chided By CLARA HEMPHILL NAPLES, Italy (AP) -- Rescue teams used trained dogs Wednesday to sniff out people buried alive in the rubble of the Italian earthquake, Europe's deadliest in 65 years. Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni resigned, apparently in response to charges of delay in aiding the victims. The Italian military command said the death toll had reached 3,000, and 1,300 people were missing after the Sunday night quake. The Interior Ministry said more than 2,000 bodies had been recovered but gave no precise figure. The Interior Ministry released the text of Rognoni's resignation letter to President Sandro Pertini. He said he was quitting "to relieve the government of tensions that would tend to frustrate its activities, which absolutely must be freely carried out at this time." Rognoni added, "I have a tranquil conscience." The Cabinet fired the government's representative in Avellino, the hardest-hit province, and Pertini went on national television to criticize rescue operations. "Those who failed must be punished," he declared. The reason for dismissing the Avellino official, Attilio Del Befalo, was not given, but local Communist Party officials and the press had criticized him for delays in getting aid to victims. The military command said the quake injured 5,000 and made 200,000 homeless when it struck the poverty-stricken southern region. The quake damaged the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, Naples Archeological Superintendent Fausto Zevi said in a statement. He said the ruins, 14 miles southeast of Naples, suffered damage in about 100 places but provided no details. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The quake also destroyed 1,000 objects and cracked walls in the Naples National Museum, Zevi said. Rain fell in some parts of the disaster zone and the national weather bureau forecast heavy showers Wednesday night, turning to snow by the weekend in mountains where many villages were stricken. "We need food and clothes but mainly we need arms to dig," said Raffaele Farese, an elderly man in Conza, a village east of Naples where hundreds are still missing. "It would be a miracle if anybody is still alive but that (digging) is the only way to save any body." In Lioni, a hill town east of Naples, Marta Enza stood vigil over a pile of concrete where her sister, Anna, and a 3-year-old niece still are buried. "The soldiers aren't coming here yet because only two are buried here," said Marta's fiance, Sergio Brux, staring at 30 soldiers pulling bodies from the rubble of an apartment building. Military search teams rescued a woman alive nearly three days after the quake from the ruins of her home in Santomenna, near Salerno. They pulled out two others alive in Sant' Angelo dei Lombardi, north of Conza. === Page 38 of 93 # 4 die in firestorm in San Bernardino By PAUL SIMON SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Four people died and about 400 were injured in a firestorm fed by erratic winds up to 60 mph that churned across the foothills of San Bernardino, charring 257 homes and forcing thousands to flee. Tuesday, officials called it the worst fire in the city's history. Acting Gov. Mike Curb declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County, citing property damage estimates of $44 million. The fire was one of nine raging across 50,000 acres of brush and timberland in Southern California, damaging or destroying more than 300 homes and forcing the evacuation of an estimated 10,000 people. In San Bernardino, an industrial city of 115,000, a fire believed caused by arson erupted Monday and swept across the northern edge of the city. Thousands of people abandoned their homes as the fire charred 12,000 acres in the city and in the San Bernardino National Forest to the north. "We just thought it would stay up there for awhile. Then everyone started running," said Caroline Moseman, whose home in the North Park area of the city was destroyed. About 1,900 firefighters battled the San Bernardino fire, the worst of the fires burning in five counties. But aircraft could not be enlisted in the fight because of the high winds. Firefighters bulldozed swaths of brush or timberland to hold the fires in check. In some areas the firefighters sought to block the blazes by starting their own controlled fires, called "back-fires." The charred bodies of an elderly couple were found in their yard by sheriff's deputies after their children reported them missing, said city fire spokesman Jimmy Jews. One San Bernardino man suffered a fatal heart attack while watering down his property to ward off the fire, and a woman died of a heart attack after being evacuated from her home, Jews said. At least 257 homes were either damaged or destroyed in that blaze, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Joanna Guttman. Jews said at least 180 of the homes were in ruins. "Without a doubt, it is unequivocally the worst fire we've ever had," he said. Police said they arrested four looters in the city's fire-stricken North Park area. Except for California 15 and 138, all roads into the fire area were closed Tuesday. Curb, speaking in Los Angeles for Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who was in Washington, D.C., said his emergency declaration would make low-cost loans available to stricken residents. He said 400 people were injured. Few serious injuries were reported. Meanwhile, seven homes were destroyed and another 56 damaged in the Indian Truck fire south of Lake Elsinore, and two cabins burned in a fire on Mount Baldy. The fires came only 10 days after the 6,600-acre Bradbury fire, about 20 miles south of Mount Baldy, which caused $25 million damage and one death. The 10,000-acre Indian Truck fire consumed seven homes and damaged 56 structures in the Holy Jim and Trabuco Canyon areas of Orange County. Firefighters were trying to keep the flames away from about 175 homes valued at $500,000 to $1 million in the exclusive Costa de Caza area. About 80 of Costa de Caza's 500 residents left voluntarily, and the Joplin Boys Camp also was evacuated. The fire flared up Monday in Riverside County, seven miles north of Lake Elsinore, and during the night jumped a ridge into Orange County. The Mount Baldy fire, the first of the blazes to flare up, swept through 10,000 acres of timber in the Angeles National Forest and was heading southwest toward the more populated San Antonio Heights and Cucamonga Canyon areas. It had destroyed two cabins, but firefighters managed to keep it from slipping into the canyon village, most of whose 1,000 residents had left. Meantime, a fire in the hills above Rancho Cucamonga, about halfway between the San Bernardino and Mount Baldy fires, had burned between 150 and 200 acres. The Grand Fire three miles southwest of Lake Elsinore had blackened 5,000 acres and prompted evacuation of residents of Lakeland Village. A fire in the Prado Flood Control Basin about 15 miles northwest of the lake, near Corona, destroyed a dairy and 300 acres of brush and was almost fully contained and half controlled Tuesday morning. Los Angeles County fire officials reported 40 percent containment, but five miles of open line remained on a brush fire that broke out early Tuesday and blackened 2,600 acres as it raced down Malibu and Stokes canyons toward the ocean. Some residents in Malibu and Stokes canyon, about 30 miles west of Los Angeles, were being evacuated, and two major area roads were closed, the California Highway Patrol reported. County fire spokesman Dick Friend said the fire burned parallel to a 1970 blaze that eventually burned all the way to the coast and destroyed 200 homes for a loss of $16 million. About five miles east of the big fire in San Bernardino, a fire that had blackened about 3,000 acres of brush-covered hillside in the San Bernardino National Forest was reported 25 percent contained. Some 490 U.S. Forest Service employees from 16 national forests in Oregon and Washington are helping to fight brush and forest fires in southern California this week. The largest contingent from the Northwest is the 60 firefighters dispatched from the Roseburg-based Umpqua National Forest. Related story on Page A6. === Page 39 of 93 B2 . 3 + W THE THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1981 # U.S. experts deny volcano affects weather in Japan SEATTLE (AP) -- U.S. Weather experts deny claims by their Japanese counterparts who say the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens is responsible for an unusually severe winter in northern Japan. "We can't rule out the possibility that the volcano had some effect," said Murray Mitchell, a senior climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration center at Silver Spring, Md. "But I, for one, am not convinced we can blame such things on any one factor such as a volcanic eruption." In a telephone interview, Mitchell said the massive plume from the eruption contained too little sulfur dioxide to form sulfuric acid droplets that would linger for months in the upper atmosphere, screening sunlight from the Earth and altering climate conditions. Two Japanese meteorologists began mentioning Mount St. Helens as a possible weather villain when northern Japan continued to experience the heaviest winter snows in two decades. The severe winter followed an unusually cool summer that caused severe crop damage. Motokazu Hirono, a geophysicist at Kyushu University, said radar probes of the stratosphere over Japan detected ash-induced aerosol particles five to six times normal density. "There seems to be some shielding effect from volcanic ash in the atmosphere," Hirono said. "The dynamics of the atmosphere are very complex," he continued, "but the possibility that the volcano has changed Japan's weather is there." The heavy snowfall in Japan has resulted in at least deaths and almost 500 injured. "I agree with the Japanese completely that the dynamics of the atmosphere are very complex," Mitchell said. "I think the weather has been unusual in many parts of the world, both last summer and this winter both." "I, for one, am not convinced we would not have most of this 'unusualness' coming at us even if there were no volcanic eruptions anywhere in the world, even if the sun were pouring radiation at us at exactly the same amount all the time." Mitchell said U.S. climatologists, who concentrate on North America, explain cold weather in the East and cold and drought in the West by factors such as unusual temperature distributions in # N.J. water crisis deepens By ROBERT HANLEY New York Times News Service TRENTON, N.J. -- Mandatory water rationing was extended from 114 to 202 communities in New Jersey Saturday, and Gov. Brendan Byrne ordered all of them to begin drafting emergency preparation plans for "possible failure of water supply systems." In a news conference permeated by an atmosphere of growing crisis, Byrne said that "maybe" a 40-day supply of water remained for about 3 million people in the northeastern part of the state, and his aides for the first time raised the possibility that firemen may be ordered to let buildings burn if reserves slump to a 10-day level. The prospect of unextinguished residential or industrial fires was described by Col. Clinton L. Pagano, superintendent of state police, as a last-resort contingency to save the last remaining water for drinking. "The drought situation is critical," the governor asserted, stressing again fices, schools and factories. Pagano disclosed during the conference that planning was nearly complete for a series of increasingly severe water-saving steps his emergency preparedness staff would propose to the governor as supplies dwindle. The initial proposal, he said, would come at the 30-day reserve level and include shutdown of industries using the heaviest volumes of water. Those closings would continue to broaden as supplies diminish, and if the forced conservation does not prevent a final 10-day supply, firemen responding to alarms would be under orders only to save people from burning buildings and not use hydrants, Pagano said. In the event that reservoirs and faucets do run dry, Pagano also disclosed that his staff is currently drawing plans to marshal tanker trucks and freight cars to haul water from vast and still bountiful groundwater acquifers in southern New Jersey, particularly in the Pine Barrens in Ocean County to # Meningitis strikes throughout Texas By SHARON HERBAUGH HOUSTON (AP) -- Health officials vaccinated students, teachers and staff members of a southside Houston elementary school Monday, hoping to curtail an unprecedented meningitis outbreak that has killed 10 people and afflicted at least 53 others statewide. Dr. Robert A. MacLean, deputy city health director, said inability to pinpoint the source of meningococcal meningitis prompted the decision to vaccinate the 765 pupils, faculty and employees of Dodson Elementary School, where five pupils have been stricken by the disease and one has died. Last week, health investigators took more than 1,500 throat cultures and 150 blood samples from Dodson teachers, pupils and their relatives in an effort to determine the source of outbreak at the predominantly black school in a poor section of downtown Houston. Results of the throat cultures showed 10 percent of those sampled were carriers, people who are infected with the disease without becoming ill. Officials said the figure was no greater than expected. Health officials said detailed investigations must be done on cultures of ill patients to determine whether the disease was transmitted by one person. Houston Independent School District officials also sent more than 400 letters to parents of Fondren Elementary School students Monday, explaining that a 5-year-old kindergarten pupil had contracted the deadly and contagious disease. However, MacLean said, no vaccinations are planned at Fondren, located in southwest Houston. Ten Texans have died and 53 others have been stricken with meningococcal meningitis since Jan. 1, according to Jan Simons of the Texas Health Department in Austin. She said the figure will rise as reports, delayed in the mail, are received from city and county health departments. === Page 40 of 93 # Blazers tackle road 'chuckhole' Note: When I pursue a team with pai force, below Journal Sports Writer Gwen is what happens. BY KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer SAN DIEGO -- Dressing the transit system in fancy clothes was folly from the start, the native New Yorker smirked. He pointed out to the Trail Blazers some new buses crawling the streets, nice looking buses in that sea of yellow cabs. These buses had glass in the place of graffiti, big hunks of glass which ran all the way down from a rib at the top of the bus to halfway down its waist. "Look nice," said the citizen, "but look at the glass. Nearly every pane is cracked. What they didn't think about was all the chuckholes in the streets. The bus hits one of those and a pane of glass breaks." Maybe it didn't occur to the Blazers at the time, not when they were in New York last weekend for a game with the Knicks. But the message was obvious. Aren't the Trail Blazers lucky that the upper halves of their bodies aren't windows. Talk about chuckholes. Now the Trail Blazers can tell you about chuckholes in the road. Here they are for a meeting with the San Diego Clippers tonight still looking for that first road win of the season. And this is the 14th time they have marched. On top of that, they've seen their luck grow increasingly sour even at home and they now tote a string of five losses in a row into this game, and have lost 16 of their last 20. Talk about chuckholes. Let the Trail Blazers tell you about theirs. Take it by the numbers. In the first road game of the season the Blazers were at Utah. The Jazz opened the second quarter with a 12-2 run. The Blazers lost by 10. Game No. 2 was at Golden State. Early in the third period, the Blazers were ahead by 19. By the end of the quarter it was tied. The Warriors won by three. Game No. 3, at Seattle. The Blazers were down by 14 in the first period, down by 17 in the second. They lost by 13. Game No. 4, at San Antonio. It was an even ball game most of the way until the Spurs ran six points in a row inside the last four minutes. The Blazers lost by eight. Game No. 5, at Kansas City. The score was tied early in the third period before the Kings ran a string of 14 in a row. The Blazers lost by 17. Game No. 6, at Los Angeles. The Lakers swaggered into a lead of 25 points in the third period, then had to hang on as Blazers missed three shots in the final seconds. Lakers won by one. tried to catch up. They lost by four. Game No. 11, at Boston. Wipeout. Wipeout. Wipeout. This whole night was a chuckhole, the Celtics up by 23 in the first quarter, by 31 later and the Blazers losing by 25. Game No. 12, at Philadelphia. The Blazers where ahead by four at the half, then opened the second half by shooting 1-for-17 from the field. In the midst of that, the 76ers outscored them 17-2. The Blazers lost by 13. Game No. 13, at New York. The Blazers were down by 12 with the fourth quarter's start. They did come back for a lead, then lost it on a three-pointer at the buzzer. New York won by one. How are those for chuckholes? In every Blazer game on the road, it seems, there has been a big one, a period when no shot (Continued on page 39) ★ Game No. 7, at Dallas. No part of the game was good for the Blazers. Still they trailed by only five in the third period when the Mavericks went on a 15-4 tear. The Blazers lost by seven. Game No. 8, at Denver. This one was close all of the way, the Blazers ahead by seven in the third period before losing by two. Game No. 9, at Phoenix. In this game, the Suns went on a 13-4 spree, scored nine in a row, then scored eight in a row another time. Blazers lost by 12. Game No. 10, at Atlanta. The Blazers fell behind by 17 in the first quarter, then - Bern. Δ Attack - Disorientation # Firefighters die as planes collide orig. 12/3/80 PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Two Arizona men helping fight Southern California brush fires were killed Tuesday when two C-54 air tankers collided during an aerial photography session. The men who died, pilot Clyde Alford, about 50, and Ronald Letness, about 30, both from Tucson, were in a four-engine plane that crashed and burned in the desert after the collision, police said. The pilot of the second firefighting plane, Kenneth White, 56, and his co-pilot, Gary Garrett, 41, managed to land safely at Palm Springs Airport, 10 miles away. White and Garrett, also of Tucson, were uninjured. Sgt. Keith Stinson of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Alford apparently misjudged the location of the second plane after flying under it. The tail section of Alford's plane was damaged and one of the other plane's left engines was clipped. The plane that made it back to the airport had visible damage to one wing flap, officials said. Rescue crews had difficulty reaching the crash site in rugged terrain about 25 miles east of Palm Springs. The plane's wreckage was reported scattered over a three-mile area. Stinson said all four men were believed to be employees of a Tucson firm that had a firefighting contract with the U.S. Forest Service. Both planes had taken off from Hemet-Ryan Airport in Hemet and were returning to Tucson. The last of the big brush fires that scorched six counties was contained Tuesday after 423 homes and cabins and more than 140 square miles of timber and brush were scorched. # ★ Blazers minus Kermit for 5th straight game (Continued from page 35) will fall but all hope comes tumbling down. Of course there have been some untidy matters at home, too. A person could cite the game in which the Blazers were ahead of Kansas City by 19 in the second quarter but lost the game by one point. Or one could mention the game with Milwaukee when the Blazers were leading by eight at the end of the first period, then saw the Bucks run 18 in a row and eventually win by four. There was a meeting in Portland, too, with tonight's foe, the Clippers, in which the score was even in the fourth period before San Diego scored eight in a row, then went on to win in overtime. How about the home game with Utah? The Blazers were even at 75-75 in the fourth quarter, then saw the Jazz swing off on an 18-6 spree, finally winning by eight. Chuckholes. Let the Trail Blazers tell you about chuckholes. Missing for the Blazers tonight -- for the fifth game in a row -- will be Kermit Washington. He's still out with a pulled stomach muscle. But lucky the Trail Blazers are, lucky that their injuries haven't been more serious considering the size of the chuckholes they keep running into. But, really, are they running into them or digging them? === Page 41 of 93 Calif. PK- 12/1/80 Greg. P. # Rats scurry from brush fires; flooding likely SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) -- All but one of Southern California's devastating brush fires was contained Monday, but authorities warned of two new dangers -- disease-carrying wild rats and winter flooding. The starving rats moved down the charred slopes around San Bernardino during the weekend to search the wreckage of fire-ravaged homes for food. U.S. Forest Service officials said winter rain come could send floods rolling down the hills. That could prove as devastating as the fires, which killed four and caused over $70 million in damages. Police shot dozens of the wild rats during the weekend. The hungry rodents had left 140 square miles of still-smoldering high desert brush and mountain timber in the San Bernardino National Forest. "There's some real big ones up there," Sgt. Brad Hilder said. "We're concerned with two areas -- disease and injury. These things are about 10 inches long and they carry all sorts of diseases." Rats are known to carry bubonic plague, and police said that if the sudden rodent infestation continues, they will call in health authorities and pest control agencies to get rid of them. More than 2,000 firefighters worked through the night battling the last of the seven major brush fires still not contained Monday -- the week-old fire in the Cleveland National Forest, 15 miles southeast of Orange, Calif., where 29,000 acres had been charred. Instead of encircling the blaze and letting it burn out within a fan-shaped perimeter, the firefighters worked along a 7-mile line that ran down slopes and dipped into canyons to save every acre possible, said John Corbett, a Forest Service spokesman. Firefighters hoped to have that blaze fully contained Monday. Another fire that burned 6,000 acres in the Los Padres National Forest, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, was fully contained in the rugged, remote mountains, but firefighters did not expect to get it fully under control until later Monday. The brush fires destroyed a total of 320 homes and 49 sheds and garages, blackened about 80,000 acres, racked up $50 million in personal property damage and $22 million in damage to the watersheds, and created the possibility of serious winter flooding. Greg. 12/2/80 # Secret Service auto bumps Reagan car LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Secret Service vehicle carrying the usual weaponry to protect a president from attack bumped into the back of Ronald Reagan's limousine Monday. The president-elect was not injured. "The governor is fine. He suffered no ill effects," said David Prosperi, a press spokesman for Reagan. The accident occurred when Reagan's motorcade stopped abruptly for a red light. Larry Schief, a Secret Service spokesman in Los Angeles, said the accident resulted from a brake problem. Bern. Attack # Strange mist puzzles scientists in Florida ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -- An "alien" substance in the misty sea air has nauseated beachgoers and residents and killed dozens of seagulls and other birds along a 45-mile stretch of Florida's east coast during the past week. Scientists are puzzled by the source of the colorless, odorless substance, which causes stinging eyes, scratchy throats, coughing fits and nausea. No one has been hospitalized as a result, but Volusia County Health Department Director Dr. Hubert King said that hundreds of people between Flagler Beach and New Smyrna Beach have experienced temporary discomfort since the problem was first reported Nov. 17. King said Audubon Society members found "several dozen dead birds, primarily seagulls, a heron or two and some sandpipers" at New Smyrna Beach near where residents have complained of the hay-fever-like symptoms. So far, scientists are baffled and say they have no idea what killed the birds or what the substance is except that it is some kind of "particulate or gaseous" matter. "We are looking at air pollution per se -- industrial, chemical or natural matter of some type," King said. Greg. P. 11/27/80 Bern. Attack # Fire on cutter kills man NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An engine room fire aboard the Coast Guard cutter Durable killed one man Thursday as the vessel moved through the Gulf of Mexico toward homeport in Brownsville, Texas, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The spokesman at Coast Guard district headquarters in New Orleans said the Durable was dead in the water and the aircraft carrier Lexington was steaming to its aid. Greg. J. 12/5/80 Nevada PK # Plane crash kills two MARYSVILLE, Wash. (UPI) -- A 41-year-old pilot and his unidentified woman passenger were killed Sunday in the flaming crash of a twin-engine plane into a brushy backyard, the Snohomish County Sheriff's office reported. Robert Ericksson of Redmond and the passenger died instantly in the crash of the Cessna 320 about six miles northwest of Marysville. The plane, based at Paine Field in Everett, was returning from Reno, Nev. when it went down and burst into flames on impact at 3 p.m., about 150 yards behind the home of Joe and Jeanne Bridges. Greg. P. 12/1/80 === Page 42 of 93 # Bitter cold, snow snarl East Coast By United Press International A blustery snowstorm preceded a bitter cold drop in temperatures Wednesday in New York, creating hazardous driving conditions and making life miserable for morning rush hour commuters. A cold blast of Canadian air dropped temperatures into the teens and below in the Great Lakes and New England. At least three weather-related deaths were reported. Ohio residents woke up Wednesday to 2 to 6 inches of new snow. Up to 14 inches of snow covered some northern Ohio counties where strong winds were expected to cause blowing, drifting and hazardous driving conditions. From 2 to 3 new inches of snow fell in southwestern Pennsylvania; Allentown and Erie reported 4 inches. Travel advisories were posted for the western portion of the state, where many schools were closed. Roads were snow covered over all of Indiana Wednesday, making travel dangerous. Indiana's northwest area was the hardest hit, with many schools closed and strong winds caused drifting. Another 4 inches or more was expected in the area near Lake Michigan. Five inches of snow had fallen by morning rush hour and another 2 inches were expected before the storm ended Wednesday in New York, already reeling from a potential drought, a flu epidemic and thousands of unheated homes. City officials called in 344 sanitation workers two hours early Wednesday to man snow plows and clear the way for commuters. No major traffic tieups or accidents were reported. Railroads and transit authority officials expected minor delays but no major problems. New York public schools were open as usual, but several suburban school systems canceled classes because of the snow. In sharp contrast to the bitter cold of the East are the relatively balmy temperatures in the Northwest. But those enjoying the mild winter in the Pacific Northwest may not realize that the weather is so good it could bring on a power shortage next summer. Power watchers -- not to mention ski resort operators whose season is in financial ruins -- are concerned over the dwindling snowpack in the Cascade Range brought on by mild temperatures and heavy rainfall during the past few weeks. "What we've got so far is pretty sick," Bob Davis, a snow survey supervisor for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, said Tuesday. "In the Yakima Basin, it looks like we're in the 40 percent-of-normal category. In the Wenatchee Basin, it's a little less, probably 35 percent." The snowpack is currently at the same levels of 1977, when a severe drought ravaged the state. However, Davis said so far this year there is a higher water content in the snow, which means more power generation. Davis said the prospect for more snow soon isn't too good. "The 30-day outlook is for more of the same," he said. "If it doesn't improve, we're going to be hurting for water." Tennessee school children in 14 counties and three cities got the day off Wednesday because of snow and ice. Schools in Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri had to cancel classes Tuesday. Warm weather embraced the Southwest, with the mercury climbing to 80 degrees in Los Angeles Tuesday. But a band of bitter cold air -- with temperatures ranging from below zero to the 20s -- stretched across the Great Lakes into New England, making the day nearly unbearable for hundreds without heat in their homes. New York Mayor Edward Koch opened an armory in Manhattan, complete with 700 cots and blankets, for the more than 2,000 poor and elderly residents who live in apartment buildings without heat and hot water. With temperatures well below freezing, the city received 2,322 calls from heatless tenants. One caller who boiled water and kept her oven turned on for heat said it was "amazing people have to go through these things in this day and age." # Haywire robot destroys self GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI) -- Researchers say a robot, undergoing testing for use in the nuclear industry, ran amok at the University of Florida's Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics and destroyed itself. No one was hurt in the accident last weekend, but the robot, a multi-jointed mechanical shoulder, arm and hand that appeared to develop a mind of its own thrashed about to its own destruction, officials said Wednesday. "We had a hardware failure," said graduate student Harvey Lipkin, the only person present during the incident. "We believe the automatic control system went haywire, burned out a component and the arm was driven with force into its supporting stand. It ripped the shoulder off. It happened before I could hit the 'kill' switch." Lipkin said he was safe behind the control desk out of reach of the robot's metal arm, but added, "If someone had been standing there they could have been hurt badly." The young operator said the accident pointed up the need for better cut-off controls on the device, which is being developed under government and industry grants for industrial uses, including the maintenance of nuclear reactors, in environments considered hostile to humans. By DON DUNCAN SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington's "banana-belt" smugness has been severely jolted the past 10 months by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, extensive flooding and tree-toppling winds. The truth is, except for hurricanes, tornadoes and interminable heat waves, "God's Country" has tasted most of the heavy artillery in nature's varied arsenal. Since last April, the natural-disaster box score reads: Sixty-five presumed dead, countless animals lost, tens of thousands of acres of timber toppled, scores of homes destroyed, millions of cubic yards of volcanic ash spread around the world, rivers choked with mud. The eventual pricetag: over a billion === Page 43 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Bad weather closes roads, rail lines into B.C. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Freak weather has turned the Christmas holiday into a nightmare for thousands in British Columbia as washouts, mudslides, freezing rain and threats of avalanches closed all major highways and rail lines into the province. Rain combined with melting snow from unseasonably high temperatures drastically raised river levels in many southern areas of the mainland, with Squamish, Princeton and Hope the main danger spots. Rain also forced closure of highways on Vancouver Island, while in the north ice and snow combined to stall travel. At least $3 million to $4 million damage has been done to highways, with damage reports still coming in, Highways Minister Alex Fraser said Saturday. Two helicopters and a hovercraft were evacuating residents of Squamish and Brackendale, two communities about 30 miles north of Vancouver. More than 500 people were evacuated from low-lying homes in the area Saturday and were being housed in schools at higher elevations. Volunteers at Princeton, about 120 miles east of Vancouver, were piling sandbags along river banks Saturday as the Tulameen River began to rise again. Emergency officials at Hope, about 80 miles east of Vancouver, said residents evacuated Friday because of flood danger could be returning home late Saturday. About 60 residents of an expensive new subdivision were evacuated when RCMP and emergency personnel feared that collapse of a logjam in the flood-swollen Coquihalla River would release a 25-foot-high wall of water onto the community. But police said later that water was making its way around the jam, diminishing the threat. # 'This is ridiculous,' Billy Ray says points 'don't m- By KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer Billy Ray Bates and hard times have met before. Born the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who died when Bates was six, Billy Ray knows something about scratching it out. And he knows something about batting, about hanging tough, something about not losing hope when there doesn't seem much reason to keep it. It wasn't until last spring when the Trail Blazers, in their desperation of the moment, signed him out of basketball's minor league, a place where his star finally had a chance to shine after he had flunked tryouts with Houston and Philadelphia. And things took an upturn. And now Billy Ray, after that folk-hero spring of last season, sits in puzzlement along with the rest of the Trail Blazers and tries to figure out what's happening. Tuesday night in Memorial Coliseum the Trail Blazers returned from a four-game string of defeats on the road to make it five losses in a row, getting knocked off by the poor-record New Jersey Nets 118-105. Overall, the record now is 16 losses in the last 20 games as the Blazers continue to stumble and tumble with only the expansion Dallas Mavericks owning a worse record than their own. Billy Ray's thrust, the third-quarter work of rookie Kelvin Ransey and the second-half work of Calvin Natt were about the only things the Blazers could look back on and label as positive. === Page 44 of 93 THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981 3M D5 Vancouver flight - PK - # Search for plane foiled by bad weather VANCOUVER, Wash. - Bad weather prevented an air search Wednesday for a single-engine plane that vanished Monday afternoon during an eight-mile flight over Vancouver, a spokesman for the Washington Division of Aeronautics said. Ground search teams from the Civil Aeronautics Patrol, the Clark County sheriff's department and the Coast Guard checked a few leads Wednesday but found no trace of the plane or its pilot, Don Rudebaugh, 28, said sheriff's Sgt. Sid Larrabee. Rudebaugh, a mechanic and pilot for Aircraft Specialties of Vancouver, left the Clark County Aerodrome about 1 p.m. for an eight-mile southwesterly flight to Pearson Airpark, where the plane was due for repairs, Larrabee said. Two Coast Guard boats patrolled an area on the Columbia River near the Interstate 205 bridge, where an oil slick was sighted Wednesday morning, but found no trace of the plane, Larrabee said. John Trudel of Troutdale, who is co-owner of the plane with Al McKenzie of Gladstone, Ore., said a plane was tracked by Portland International Airport personnel flying at a low altitude toward Vancouver Lake on what would have been a normal low-altitude approach to Pearson Airpark. The plane vanished from the tracking screens shortly thereafter, Trudel said. An Aircraft Specialties spokesman said Rudebaugh was "a well-qualified pilot," and Trudel said he was baffled that the plane would vanish "in the strangest set of circumstances I've ever heard of." He said the weather at the time "was bad, but not what an instrument pilot would call bad weather." Trudel discounted the theory that Rudebaugh flew somewhere else with the plane. "He is very conscientious and has a good reputation as a pilot," Trudel said. "And in the cold weather, he didn't even take his jacket with him." - 4 Projects PK - # Europe struggles in heavy snow LONDON (UPI) - Heavy snowfall, high wind and avalanches have swept across Europe, stranding a prime minister, grounding a princess and causing numerous deaths. In Greece, a snowstorm and icy wind prevented Princess Margaret of Britain from taking a helicopter trip Thursday to the ancient theater of Epidavros. Instead she went shopping in Athens and toured the Benaki Museum. Greeks shivered in freezing temperatures and snow blocked a national highway near Lamia and Larissa while gales delayed domestic flights. Four persons, including a 4-day-old infant and a 62-year-old pensioner, reportedly died of hypothermia. Avalanches killed four German tourists in the Arlberg region of Austria during the week and 6,000 persons were stranded in ski resorts. Continual snowfall brought 10 feet of fresh snow, and skiers were warned not to leave their lodges. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who was vacationing at Lech, Austria, had to wait three days before he could be flown out in a helicopter Wednesday. Palermo, Sicily, had its first snowfall since the winter of 1962. It knocked out electricity in the city for three hours Thursday, caused traffic jams and forced closure of the airport. The storm began before dawn and by the time residents went to work their cars were covered with 4 inches of snow. In central Tuscany, frigid temperatures iced the main highway linking northern and southern Italy. More than 50 vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction collision. Six days of some of the worst snow since 1968 have blanketed Switzerland. Roads were closed, mountain passes blocked and villages cut off. A doctor and his wife escaped unhurt when an avalanche swept away their Alpine chalet in Evolene. Oreg 1/9/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Wind, snow bring misery to wide area By The Associated Press Deadly winds pushing heavy thunderstorms roared out of the Great Lakes Wednesday after dumping more snow on the Midwest. Winter's meanest storm caused flooding and power outages from Florida to New England but also brought welcome rain. The death toll rose to 27. Fog snarled air traffic in New York City, and snowdrifts of up to 5 feet forced police to close highways in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where 14 inches of snow fell overnight, and some communities declared snow emergencies. In the Carolinas, windstorms killed three people, damaged homes and businesses and brought down power lines. Power outages also were reported in Georgia, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania. Records for low temperatures were set or matched in at least a dozen cities, including North Platte, Neb., where a minus-22 reading tied the mark established in 1899. Three men froze to death in Colorado, Idaho and Iowa. Bitter cold froze natural gas wellheads and power-plant feeder lines in Texas, forcing utilities statewide to declare an emergency and ask residents to curb demand. Two men burned to death in a Fort Worth apartment, and authorities said they had been using the kitchen range for heat. Temperatures along the western Gulf Coast were in the teens Wednesday after hitting highs in the 70s and 80s Tuesday. Meanwhile, the deaths of seven people in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin were blamed on the strain of shoveling snow. Slick highways forced authorities to cancel school for youngsters from the plains of Oklahoma to the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Oreg. 2/12/81 === Page 45 of 93 Are aliens just watching us or getting set for invasion? Nat'l Examiner 2/17/81 2 spokesman John Williamson. "If the satellite had exploded, there would be at least one piece that would have shown up on radar. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can track an object no bigger than a basketball 23,000 miles up, so they would have certainly located some-thing," said Williamson. "If it had been pushed into a different orbit by a malfunction of its engine, NORAD would have located it when it reached its nearest point to Earth. But that hasn't happened either," said Williamson. Barry thinks aliens may have been watching the Sat-com 3 ever since its launch from Cape Canaveral. "Cape Canaveral seems to be one of the favorite checkpoints for UFO activity. UFOs are usually reported in heavy concentrations around the Cape three days before a launch," he said. The satellite should have stayed in its orbit for years, according to Jim Kukowski, a spokesman for NASA, which handled the satellite's launching. "It was a communications source for television programs and telephone calls. Another Satcom satellite will be launched in June to replace it. But we just don't know what happened to the first one," he said. --by NAOMI WADE 1 ONE of our satellites has vanished in space, and scientists fear it was snatched out of its orbit by UFOs! The 1-ton Satcom 3 communications satellite disappeared suddenly from radar screens -- its fate remains a bizarre mystery. "A few seconds earlier it was working beautifully and sending back all kinds of data. Then it simply vanished," said Robert Barry, head of the Twentieth Century UFO Bureau in Yoe, Pa. "Someone out there is showing a lot of interest in our activities down here. We already know that UFOs have been scrutinizing our satellites, and this isn't the first time a satellite has vanished mysteriously," Barry told the Examiner. The $20-million satellite may now be in the hands of curious aliens, examining it for information. "I suppose they'd want the same thing from it as we would want from one of their spaceships," said Barry. "But imagine if they had plucked a manned spacecraft from orbit! The implications would be tremendous," he added. Satcom 3 is just another entry on a growing list of incidents between Earth spacecraft and UFOs. "The Soviets have lost satellites of their own. Their Molniya satellite disappeared the same way, and we know that our Gemini missions and the Soviets' Salyut space lab were buzzed by UFOs," said Barry. RCA, which owned the Satcom satellite, is puzzled as to its whereabouts. "We've lost our satellite and we have no idea what happened to it," said RCA === Page 46 of 93 - UFOs vs. U.S. Govt - over: 11/14/80 # Rapid deployment test undeterred by deaths By LISETTE BALOUNY CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The fatal crash of a U.S. military transport plane marred Thursday's start of operation Bright Star, the first test of America's rapid deployment force to defend Western oil supplies in the Middle East. The 11 men and two women aboard the C-141 were killed, military authorities said. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the plane, one of several involved in the 1,400-person military exercise, was on its final approach to an Egyptian military airport when it crashed into the desert dunes "in a fireball that lit up the night sky." The plane crashed two to five miles short of the runway at Cairo West Air Base during a banking turn under clear night skies just before midnight Wednesday, according to Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington. He said an investigation had begun but that the Air Force had no idea of the cause. The plane was attached to the 62nd Airlift Wing based at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma, he said. The joint exercises of about 1,400 Army troops and airmen include units from the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Ky. An Egyptian Defense Ministry spokesman said Bright Star would continue. Pentagon officials have stressed that the joint Egyptian-American operation was planned well before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf war between Iran and Iraq. They say the two-week exercise is to give the Americans the desert practice they need to live up to the U.S. commitment to defend the Western oil supplies pumped from Mideast oil fields. The war has cut off oil production in Iran and Iraq, and the fighting threatens the Strait of Hormuz, through which sail tankers bearing much of the world's oil. The charred debris of the giant transport plane, which was capable of carrying 154 people, was spread over more than half of a square mile northeast of the base. A spokesman from McChord said, "It was carrying supplies for the rapid deployment exercise, and that's why there were so few on board." Military police surrounding the site told reporters and photographers that they had orders to shoot anyone approaching the area. In Washington, defense officials said reports indicated the plane was carrying some unspecified explosives, liquid oxygen equipment, trucks and spare parts. An embassy spokesman in Cairo said the explosion may have been caused by the fuel but discounted the possibility that weapons on board were to blame. American military officials, including the operation's commander, Marine Lt. Gen. Paul X. Kelly, were on the site investigating the debris, the guards said. A similar crash three months ago killed two Americans. Their F-4E, one of 12 fighter bomber jets, was involved in operation Proud Phantom, a joint U.S.-Egyptian exercise that lasted 90 days. It was designed to give American pilots and crewmen experience in the fiercely hot Middle East deserts. The cause of that crash is still under investigation. In Washington, the Air Force said the dead included Airman 1st Class Karen L. Marti of Springfield, Mass.; Senior Airman Martha M. Misko of Chatsworth, Calif.; Capt. Patrick A. Welsh of Vancouver, Wash.; Capt. Bradford B. Hirschi, who was born in Cedar City, Utah; Senior Airman Raymond J. Bianchi of Buffalo, N.Y.; Senior Airman Geoffrey L. Galvin of Houston, Texas. Also killed were Staff Sgt. David L. Harer of Cape May, N.J.; Tech. Sgt. Lonnie G. Hoye of Lewiston, Idaho; Staff Sgt. Gary T. Payne of Clear Lake, S.D.; Senior Master Sgt. Gerald J. Stryzak of Horsham, Pa.; Tech. Sgt. Robert S. Tuggle of Satellite Beach, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Glenn R. Williams of Wheelersburg, Ohio. The 13th victim's name and hometown were not released pending notification of next of kin. The bodies were flown to the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein, West Germany, then to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, military authorities said. Gen. Mohsen Hamdi, an Egyptian Ministry of Defense spokesman, said at a news conference arranged before the crash that any such incident would not affect the military operation. Hamdi said the joint exercises, scheduled to run until Nov. 25 when the last Americans leave Egypt, represent "continuing military cooperation between the United States and Egypt." But he reiterated that although the Egyptian government was allowing American forces to "use" base facilities, it was "not giving permanent bases." - U.S. S.S. A. Attack - # Coast Guard ends search NEW YORK (AP) - Terming the decision "regretful," the Coast Guard Monday ended the 10-day search for the missing freighter Poet and announced that a marine board will begin an inquiry into the mysterious disappearance. Vice Admiral Robert Price called union leaders representing the vessel's 34 crew members to Governors Island to inform them of his decision, reached when aerial crews found no trace of the vessel. The 500-foot ship disappeared after it left Philadelphia on Oct. 24, bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a cargo of 13,500 tons of corn. 11/18/80 === Page 47 of 93 - Ben. Attack? - E26 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1980 # Oil workers evacuated; rare hurricane stalls "Power" + Rain Attack MIAMI (AP) -- Oil companies began evacuating hundreds of workers from rigs and work barges in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday as a rare November hurricane stalled 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans. Hurricane Jeanne reached minimal hurricane status at midmorning when its sustained winds hit 75 mph, 1 mph above the threshold. It was expected to hold its position through Tuesday with little change in strength, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. "The steering currents in the vicinity are just about balanced," said forecaster Joe Pelissier. "There's no air flow tending to move it in any direction ... the large-scale atmospheric pattern has more or less stagnated. This could go on for the next two days." At 5 p.m. EST, the storm hadn't moved in three hours and still was centered near latitude 24.0 north, longitude 87.5 west. Gale-force winds extended outward 150 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south as Jeanne and a large high-pressure system over the eastern United States combined to cause rough seas over the north-central and northeast gulf, areas dotted by offshore oil rigs. Small-craft operators along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Tarpon Springs, Fla., were advised to remain in port, and marine interests elsewhere along the northern gulf were advised to be aware of the storm's movement. Pelissier said the hurricane probably wouldn't strengthen and might weaken as it sat churning in the gulf. "I'm rather surprised it became a hurricane at all," he said. "There's been a couple cold fronts through the gulf this fall and that makes the air a little cooler and drier than it is in September. As soon as some of this drier air penetrates the circulation it would have a weakening effect." Forecaster Gil Clark said the stall was first indicated in reports from Air Force reconnaissance planes that flew through the storm Tuesday morning. Earlier reports indicated the storm was moving to the north-northwest at about 6 mph. Clark also said that the new information prompted forecasters to relocate the estimate of the storm's center to a point south and west of the position the center reported earlier. The last November hurricane to hit land struck Miami on Nov. 4, 1935, said public service forecaster Alvin Samet. One hit the Tampa Bay area on Nov. 30, 1925, and one swept across the Florida Keys on Nov. 15, 1916. All three were minimal hurricanes, Samet said. He said there have been other November hurricanes that did not reach land. Jeanne achieved tropical-storm status with sustained winds of at least 39 mph on Sunday as it moved northward through the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba. The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30. Although local and state government in Louisiana took a Veterans Day holiday, some agencies called in workers Tuesday to monitor the storm. Chevron USA Inc. said it probably would evacuate about 900 offshore workers and other oil companies -- Gulf, Shell and Texaco -- said they were closing down some operations and moving in everyone but those required to keep operations going. "We don't fool around in these situations," said spokesman Newell Schindler of Chevron. "About 9 a.m., we gave the order to secure and shut in as necessary," Schindler said. "We are now moving in all large, movable equipment like work barges and so forth." The weather service said residents in the 16 Louisiana parishes should check supplies of canned food, bottled water, flashlight and radio batteries, and other emergency provisions. Even if it doesn't hit New Orleans, Lamieux said his board expected the "effects of high winds, and combined with the high pressure system north of us, will give us higher tides." "The high tides should affect the lake (Pontchartrain), the Industrial Canal, the Intracoastal Waterway and other connected waterways," Lamieux said. Ore. 11/12/80 Ore. 11/13/80 # The North Copter crash takes 3 lives TALENT (AP) -- Rescue teams removed on Wednesday the bodies of three crew members of an Army helicopter that crashed on a fog-shrouded butte in southwestern Oregon. Officials at Fort Lewis, Wash., identified the victims as Warrant Officer Charles M. Falcone, 29, the pilot; 2nd Lt. Andrew W. Stocker, 24, the co-pilot; and Pfc. Gerald F. Court, the crew chief. Searchers in an Army helicopter spotted the wreckage early Wednesday after noticing that several trees had been sheared off on Anderson Butte, about 20 miles south of Medford near the Oregon-California border. The Huey helicopter, on a training mission from Fort Lewis, was with four others and about to return from the butte area late Tuesday, Fort Lewis spokesman Steve Stronjvall said. "The first four made it off in the fog with no problems," Stronjvall said. "The fifth was lost in the fog." 3 die in helicopter crash JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- Three servicemen died and one was seriously injured Sunday when a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crashed and caught fire during a demonstration at an air show at Joliet Park District Airport, authorities said. No one on the ground was injured. "It hit the ground, it bounced up, flew in the air, and the tail section just kind of broke off and it nosed over sideways," said Dan M. Collins, 18, an airport employee who witnessed the crash. "Then the fuel caught fire." Sgt. H.G. Washington, a Marine public affairs officer, said the helicopter was part of the Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 776 of the Marine Air Control Group 48 stationed at Glenview. === Page 48 of 93 - Berm. A Attack - AY, NOVEMBER 13, 1980 # Storm's threat called minimal MIAMI (AP) -- Jeanne, the most powerful hurricane to work its way so far north in the Gulf of Mexico this late in the season, drifted slowly south of New Orleans Wednesday and forecasters said it may not reach land with any punch. The chilly waters of the Gulf sapped the strength of the storm, the first November hurricane in 14 years. At 5 p.m. EST Wednesday, the storm, with winds of 75 mph, was centered about 400 miles south of New Orleans, near latitude 24.0 north, longitude 90.0 west. Gale-force winds extended 150 miles north of the hurricane and 100 miles to the south. The storm was moving west at about 5 mph. But forecasters said it was doubtful that Jeanne would reach land with any significant force. "Everything's against it," said Gil Clark of the National Hurricane Center. "It probably won't make it to land." Jeanne, the first Atlantic-area hurricane to form in November since 1966, was farther north and west than any tropical storm recorded so late in the season. "We've had a few in the Gulf before, but never one that's made it this far north and west," Clark said. "Our records go back to 1886." "We think it's going to weaken, because it's completely surrounded by dry air from a front that's pushed from behind, plus the water temperature is rather cool," he added. Meanwhile, a Coast Guard spokesman in Miami reported Wednesday that a commercial barge sent from Key West, Fla., several days ago to pick up a disabled Coast Guard helicopter began taking on water in heavy seas south of the hurricane Tuesday and sank moments after its three crewmen were rescued. The 85-foot motorized barge Acquarius sank 270 miles west-southwest of Key West, according to the spokesman, Greg Robinson. The amphibious helicopter has been floating in the Gulf since last Thursday, when it lost power while on a routine patrol, Robinson said. He said the cutter Dependable, which has been standing by the helicopter since taking its crew aboard, rescued the barge crewmen. org. 11/13/80 - U.S. Berm. A Attack - ? # Helicopter crash kills three fliers JOLIET, Ill. (UPI) -- A Marine helicopter performing at an air show stalled for a split second, catapulted to the ground and burst into flames, killing three servicemen and seriously injuring another, police said. Several thousand persons at the Joliet Park District Airport's 50th anniversary celebration Sunday witnessed the accident, but all were more than a half mile from the crash site. The UH-1 "Huey" helicopter, stationed at Glenview Naval Air Station, stalled as it pulled up sharply from a low-level, high-speed pass, witnesses said. A rear rotor touched the ground and the copter flipped over and exploded on impact in a grassy field. "It was on a maneuver at the east end of the airfield, going straight up when it seemed to stall," one witness recalled. "It came down and started skipping across the field and, in the process, started breaking apart." Two of the four servicemen on board were dead at the scene, police said. The other two were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in critical condition, but one died 2½ hours later. Marine Maj. Joseph Hutton said police and firefighters crawled underneath the twisted wreckage and cut a hole through the bottom of the craft to reach the victims because the doors were jammed. Charred pieces of metal were strewn about the field. Military officials have not determined the cause of the crash, and pilot error has not been ruled out, Hutton said. org. Sept. 22 '80. - U.S. Bermuda A Attack - # Foul fumes fell diners HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) -- Police and health officials tried to determine Saturday what triggered the release of noxious fumes that sickened 60 people at the Sleigh House Restaurant. The restaurant was closed at least until Monday, but another restaurant about a mile down Dixwell Avenue, Jimmies, reopened Saturday following an apparently similar, but smaller, incident in which at least one person was sickened Friday night. Police said they believed the two incidents, which occurred within half an hour of each other, were unrelated. The first incident occurred at the Sleigh House Restaurant, where 60 people, many of them attending a wedding reception, were overcome by fumes, police said. Initially, police said they believed the Sleigh House problem was caused by an exhaust leak from a gas-fired hot water heater. Police continued their investigation Saturday, joined by state health officials and arson experts, but no further information on the cause of the leak was available. org. 9/21/80 U.S. "A" Attack? Early PK. # Smog warning issued in LA LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Elderly people, small children and people with breathing problems were told to stay indoors and avoid strenuous activity Friday as officials issued the second health warning in two days because of heavy smog in Southern California. Air quality inspectors checked factories and power plants again to make sure they complied with strict air pollution rules, as the oxidant-sulfate smog stung people's eyes and lungs. The same brown smog that had settled on Los Angeles on Wednesday remained in the air Friday. org. Sept. 6, '80 === Page 49 of 93 Boys ride eight hours when driver gets lost GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Two hyperactive boys were back with their parents in Lowell Wednesday morning after their school bus driver got lost on the tangle of interstate highways outside Boston on her first day on the job and took the youths on an eight-hour ride. They wound up 70 miles past their destination, on the opposite end of the state, with the bus out of gas, police said. A police search had been under way for several hours in eastern Massachusetts when Jeffery Mason, 10, Ronald McGaunn, 11, and their bus driver, Shirley Allard, were discovered out of gas on Interstate 91 near Greenfield, about 70 miles west of their intended destination, late Tuesday afternoon. The two boys, described by their parents as hyperactive, had been picked up from their homes about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday for the 20-mile ride to the Gaebler School in Waltham. "I still don't believe it," said the bus driver, Mrs. Allard, 45, of Lowell. "I will turn in my resignation. It was just a wasted day. I just want to go back home. "They thought I was kidnapping the children," she said. "For cripes sake, I have six grandchildren." Greenfield police were called in on the case after the station wagon school bus, belonging to the S&S Transportation Co. of Lowell, was towed into a Greenfield service station. Mrs. Allard didn't have the cash to cover the $32 fee and couldn't contact anyone at the bus company. When the three arrived at the police station, there was an all-points bulletin on the teletype for the missing boys, police said. "After questioning her, we are satisfied she was just lost," said Greenfield police Sgt. Joseph Gagner. "As far as we are concerned there is nothing criminal." Nevada nuclear test site leaking radioactive gases LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- "Small amounts" of radioactive gas leaked from the site of an underground nuclear test, but the gas was not expected to pose a health hazard, the Department of Energy said Friday. The gas, which began seeping Thursday night after a test earlier in the day, had not left the confines of the 1,350-square-mile Nevada Test Site, said department spokesman Dave Jackson. Jackson said the gas leak was detected as soon as it occurred by sensitive instruments and that radiation monitoring teams were immediately sent into the area, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "The weather conditions are such that we do not believe it will leave the test site," Jackson said. "There is no indication of a health hazard on the test site, and there have been no accidental exposures to radiation from the seepage." He said the radioactive gas "has not been detected beyond the borders of the test site and is not expected to leave the Nevada Test Site." The National Weather Service said there were light and variable northwest winds at the test site Friday morning. The winds were only about 5 mph, not strong enough to blow the radioactive gas from the the test site, said weather service spokesman Lester Dodd. Cause of blast baffles officials FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) -- About 2,000 people returned home Saturday while investigators puzzled over the cause of a chemical plant explosion that sent a cloud of poisonous chloride gas into the air. Two plant workers were seriously hurt, and 16 other people were treated for smoke inhalation in the Friday night blast, which damaged several mixing chambers and a smokestack at the Great American Chemical Corp. plant. City officials ordered an evacuation of nearby areas. About a half-mile of the area's major highway, Massachusetts 12, remained closed Saturday, and local freight traffic on the Boston & Maine Railroad was rerouted. "Everybody was allowed to return to their homes at about 2 a.m., although some chose not to until things settle down more," police Lt. Edward Gallant said Saturday. Firemen continued to pour water on one of the mixing chambers Saturday to keep it cool until the remaining vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride gas could be removed, fire department officials said. The fire marshal, meanwhile, was expected to spend several days trying to pinpoint the cause of the blast. The plant, about a mile from downtown Fitchburg and 45 miles northwest of Boston, combines gases and water to make plastic pellets used in the manufacture of toys and other products. The injured employees were working in the plant's processing center when the mixing chambers apparently overheated and exploded, knocking down one of the concrete walls of the building, authorities said. It was not immediately clear how many of the factory's 15 mixing chambers were involved. The injured men were admitted to a hospital with burns and cuts. Deputy Fire Chief James Keane said automatic sensing devices at the plant detected leaking gas shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. He and other firefighters responded and saw a "thick, heavy, white, dense cloud lying near the ground" when they arrived at the plant. "I got out of my car and started ordering the men to take their positions when it exploded," Keane said. === Page 50 of 93 SEPTEMBER 21, 1980 # Military secretive - SI vs. U.S. Govt - U.S. Bermuda Attack - # Titan II warhead 'lost' after blast By STEVE BREWER DAMASCUS, Ark. (AP) -- Air Force rescue workers had to search through debris-strewn pastures for a nuclear warhead after a Titan II missile silo exploded in Arkansas, according to a sheriff and others who monitored military radio transmissions. Conway County Sheriff Carl Stobaugh said he learned from the transmissions that the warhead atop the intercontinental ballistic missile was hurled several hundred feet in the pre-dawn blast Friday that killed one Air Force sergeant and injured 21 other maintenance workers. He said he learned that the warhead had not been moved by Saturday night and that the Air Force was working on it at the site. Neither the Pentagon nor the Strategic Air Command in Omaha, Neb., would comment on the location of the warhead or whether the missile was armed with a nuclear weapon. The Washington Post quoted a government source as saying the Air Force was planning to truck the warhead from the Damascus site "as soon as possible" to the Little Rock Air Force Base and then to another site for study. In an arrangement worked out between the Air Force and Arkansas state officials, the Air Force must notify state law enforcement authorities if it plans to move any nuclear weapons so the state can provide a convoy, the newspaper said. Bob Lyford, Gov. Bill Clinton's aide for emergency services, said no such request for police escort had come into the governor's office. Transcripts of radio transmissions monitored by the Arkansas Gazette while rescue workers were searching for the injured indicate that the warhead was clearly lost for a time. At one point came this exchange: "Air Force to Command One. Anybody that goes along that area now, have them look around to see if they can pinpoint the warhead." "Roger, I understand. Is there any danger as far as approaching it and radiation?" "At this particular point, it's unknown, but no one thinks so at this point." According to Stobaugh, the transmissions said the warhead, which was eventually recovered intact, was catapulted 300 to 400 feet in the blast, which left a debris-strewn crater 250 feet wide. Lt. Gen. Lloyd Leavitt, SAC vice commander, told reporters at a news conference Saturday at Little Rock Air Force Base that the missile was reduced to bits and pieces. He flew to Arkansas Saturday morning and said he "looked in the hole where formerly the missile was." "We have about the worst case we could have in terms of a Titan accident," he added, but he said it was important that there were no civilian injuries. Leavitt referred to the incident as a "catastrophic failure of the Titan II." He also refused to discuss whether a warhead was on the missile, repeatedly turning the question aside. Leavitt said the Air Force does not know which of several possibilities caused the explosion but that an investigation board has been empaneled and has begun its probe. When questioned about the shattering of the 740-ton concrete and steel silo door, Leavitt said it was easier to destroy from the inside. The door had been publicized as being adequate to withstand all but a direct nuclear hit. Leavitt said portable vapor detectors carried by Sgt. David Livingston and Sgt. Jeff Kennedy "pegged," or registered, the highest level possible on the equipment while the two were inside the silo early Friday. The highest possible reading was still below explosion level, Leavitt said. The two were ordered out when the equipment "pegged" because the officials said conditions were not safe even with special suits. Leavitt said the men did nothing to cause the explosion, to the best of his knowledge. "We don't know which of several elements caused the explosion," he said. Air Force Secretary Hans Mark had said Friday that there was "absolutely no evidence of radioactive debris in the area" and that "the warhead is not in danger of being ignited because it was designed with fail-safe devices." Related story on Page 4 === Page 51 of 93 Chemicals poison Caribbean - Bermuda Attack - By MARLISE SIMONS LA Times-Washington Post Service MEXICO CITY -- A mysterious discharge of highly toxic chemicals into the Caribbean off the northern coast of Puerto Rico has caused two deaths in the Dominican Republic and poisoned millions of fish in one of the world's richest fishing grounds. The Dominican government has banned all fishing until further notice, issued nationwide warnings against seafood consumption, and seized all fish in markets, shops and restaurants as waves of dead fish continue to wash ashore in that island nation. Although the dangerous chemicals probably will be diluted over the next several days, there is rising concern that the poisoned waters will be carried northwest toward the Bahamas and the Florida coast, where American and other fleets work important fishing grounds. Reached by telephone, Dominican authorities said they had already found several unmarked 55-gallon barrels in the area with liquids containing mercury, chlorine, sulfur and phosphates. Because there have been no reports of sea accidents, they said they believed the substances were dumped deliberately. Navy Capt. Narciso Almonte, director of the Dominican Department of Fisheries, said that on the basis of the currents, the chemicals were believed to have entered the water near the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico. First evidence of the disaster came Tuesday when Puerto Rican fishermen found thousands of dead fish floating in the water off their western coast. Vast blankets of dead fish then began to appear on the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic. The currents carried the poisoned waters and dead fish both to the north and the south coasts of the island of Hispaniola, which the Dominican Republic shares with Haiti. Despite immediate government warnings on radio and television in the Dominican Republic, presidential spokesman Franklin Dominguez said, at least two persons have died and some 90 have suffered ill effects. To trace the cause of the disaster, Dominican officials said they were in touch with their counterparts in Puerto Rico, where fishing was also halted in certain areas. The officials said they had not discovered any hints of the origins of the chemicals because the barrels they found showed no writing or symbols of any kind. Almonte said analysis of the chemicals in the barrels "coincided exactly with the analysis of the water, the dead fish and the seaweed." Almonte said in a report that two types of liquid were discovered in the barrels: "One was very dark, one light. Both were very thick, with a strong smell." Oregonian Sept 15, '80 - U.S. Berm. Attack - Explosion Rocks Oakland Rail Yard A deafening explosion yesterday in the West Oakland Southern Pacific Railroad yard was heard 15 miles away and shattered windows in nearby structures, but it caused only minor injuries to two workmen. Southern Pacific officials and the Oakland Fire Department are investigating the cause of the explosion, which occurred at 8:15 a.m. in a metal shed where tools and welding equipment, including acetylene gas, were stored. A Southern Pacific spokesman said workmen Anthony Ruiz, 25, of Oakland, and Glenn Cozzetti, 27, of Hayward, entered the garage shortly before the blast and boarded an uncovered work truck. When Cozzetti turned on the ignition the explosion occurred. The metal walls of the shed were blown out, windows within a 100-foot radius were shattered, pipes in the building were bent and much of the equipment in the area was damaged, Southern Pacific spokesman Stan August said. Ruiz and Cozzetti were taken to Providence Hospital with first and second degree burns on their faces and hands. "It looks like we have a bad sunburn," Cozzetti joked on the phone from his hospital room. "We're lucky to be alive." He said "everything happened real fast. The explosion was so loud my ears were ringing. We just ran out of there thinking there would be a fire." Southern Pacific's August said a fire did not follow the blast, and there were no subsequent explosions. "We're trying to find out how it happened. Right now it's still a mystery," he said. Fire department officials said the explosion appeared to have been an accident. SF Chronicle Sept 24 1980 - U.S. Berm. Attack - Deadly sheep virus in state Seat Times 9/25/80 YAKIMA -- Blue tongue, a deadly sheep virus which has appeared in Washington three times in the past 10 years, is decimating a Wapato flock, authorities say. The present outbreak of the virus, which is transmitted by a biting gnat, began in Pasco during the last week of August, says Dr. John Doherty, state veterinarian for the Department of Agriculture. Blue tongue also has been reported in various other places in Eastern Washington. "The number of deaths statewide has been very few, other than in the Yakima area," said Doherty. "The highest mortality has been in the flock at Wapato." Les Weaver and his wife Janice, of Wapato, bought their entire === Page 52 of 93 - U.S. Bern. Attack # Advice offered on tampon risk Oreg. 9/27/80 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- U.S. Surgeon General Julius Richmond says women can avoid risk of toxic shock syndrome if they stop using tampons. "If any woman has any questions about her use of tampons, she should get in touch with her physician," Richmond said in a speech Thursday night at the Upstate Medical Center. "There are other products that she can use if she doesn't wish to use tampons." The disease, which has killed at least 29 women since 1975, has been linked to use of tampons, but researchers are trying to determine just what the link means. The Center for Disease Control has received reports of 299 cases of toxic shock this year, and the Food and Drug Administration has warned women to avoid using Procter & Gamble's Rely brand, which has been linked most often to the disease. Procter & Gamble earlier this week recalled the product from store shelves. Doctors are confused by the relationship of the disease to tampons, Richmond said. "In the process of improving them, they may have introduced a harmful agent," Richmond said. Mort Lebow, a spokesman for Richmond in Washington, said the surgeon general's advice lays out the specifics of the problem but was not a flat-out recommendation that women stop using tampons. "It's a personal decision on their part," the spokesman said. - Braining & Effect # Pair talk lost pilot to airport Members of an airborne traffic reporting team from a Portland radio station were credited with an air rescue Friday morning when they led a 29-year-old pilot to a safe landing at Hillsboro Airport after she apparently became lost in low clouds. Lynn Padgham, a graduate student at the University of Oregon, said she was on a flight from Daniels Field near Eugene to Pearson Airpark in Vancouver, Wash., when she ran into thick clouds near Portland International Airport. "I was flying visual reference at about 3,500 feet," Ms. Padgham said, "and when I ran into thick clouds I dropped my altitude to about 2,500 and the clouds were still too low to see the ground. "I turned around instead of into the clouds and was circling trying to decide what to do." Traffic reporter George Rusk and pilot Mick Hickethier of KYXI radio had heard her radio calls for help and managed to make visual contact with her. They then lead her into the Hillsboro Airport. "I was very grateful to the guys," Ms. Padgham said, "that they picked up the call and realized I was pretty scared." The flight was one of the requirements in Ms. Padgham's study toward a private pilot's license. Oreg. Sept 13, '80 ...on confi... the helicopter ... Naval authoritie... scene. Identities of the ...e not immediately availab... # 7 Die at Air Show BIGGIN HILL, England (AP) -- A British-piloted American World War II bomber crashed at an air show yesterday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and killed its seven-man crew. Scotland Yard said two of the dead were American airmen stationed in England. A witness said the twin-engined A-26 Invader nose-dived into a grassy bank, narrowly missing a street of houses, and "disintegrated in a big ball of flame." Scotland Yard identified the Americans as Chief Master Sgt. Donald Thompson, whose wife was at the airfield when the plane crashed, and Sgt. Kevin Vince, 24, both based at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire. Neither Thompson's age nor either man's home town was available. - U.S. Bern. Attack # Copter Tragedy JOLIET, Ill. (UPI) -- A military helicopter demonstrating maneuvers === Page 53 of 93 - Boom. Δ Attack - DAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1980 # Amtrak on 100 inju DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) -- An Amtrak passenger train stopped on the tracks was struck head-on by a Conrail freight near the Dobbs Ferry station Friday afternoon, and police estimated that as many as 100 persons were injured. A congressman said the Amtrak train was on the wrong track. There was no initial report of fatalities, and a spokesman for one hospital where between 30 and 40 injured passengers were taken said most had cuts and bruises but did not require hospitalization. Rep. Peter Peyser of New York, one of the first persons at the scene, said the freight train was supposed to be the only train on the track. "How this Amtrak train got on the same track is a mystery," he said. Three of the Amtrak cars derailed and fire broke out in a food service car, apparently because of a short-circuit on the electrical third rail. Screaming passengers kicked open windows in order to escape, according to one reporter at the scene. Hospitals reported treating a total of 88 persons and admitting 14, including at least two crewmen. Others were treated at the scene. "We had just stopped. There was a crash. The other train ran into us," said Dr. Dennis Fabian of New York City, a passenger on the Amtrak train, which carried about 225 passengers. "It wasn't as bad as it could have been. A few people were hysterical and there were some crying children," he said. A witness, Mark Walter of Dobbs Ferry, said the Amtrak train passed him and stopped. "I saw this freight train coming around the bend. There was a big crash, a screeching for about 10 seconds. The Amtrak train moved backward." Conrail spokesman Bob VanWagoner said it was the first head-on collision in 10 years involving Conrail trains. "It is Conrail's responsibility to know where the trains are," he said. He added that the Amtrak train passed a control tower in Tarrytown to the north of Dobbs Ferry. The injured were taken to five area hospitals including Dobbs Ferry Hospital, St. John's Riverside in Yonkers, White Plains Hospital, Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown and Westchester Community Medical Center in Grasslands. "It sounded like an earthquake" when the two trains hit, said Bob LaColla, an employee at the Chart House restaurant near the station. "The Amtrak train is still pretty much on the track and the freight just climbed right up on top of the engine. The bottom of the freight motor is sitting on top of the Amtrak train. It just kind of crushed it," he said. "We have no guess even at this point about the cause," said Jung Lee, an Amtrak spokesman. Amtrak officials said at about 4:30 p.m., Amtrak train 74, the Empire State Express, collided with the Conrail freight train that was bound for Albany from the Bronx. - N.S. Germ. Δ Attack - Seattle Times 9/17/80 # Rare red tide kills fish throughout Caribbean SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- (UPI) -- Scientists speculated yesterday that millions of dead fish found floating throughout the Caribbean recently may be victims of a rare area-wide outbreak of "red tide." At least one person died in the Dominican Republic after eating a poisoned fish, authorities said. Red tide, which recently forced authorities in Maine to close the state's coastline to most fishing, occurs when certain sea algae multiply at an unusually high rate, tinting the ocean red and consuming so much oxygen that fish literally smother. Authorities have reported massive fish kills from the Bahamas, south to the Dutch island of Curacao just off the coast of South America, west to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and east to Puerto Rico. Officials in Curacao urged local fishermen to stay in port and asked residents to stop eating fish until further notice because of this week's fish kill there. "Apparently, it has been occurring in the whole Caribbean," said Omar Munoz, executive director of the Caribbean Fisheries Management Council in San Juan. Several scientists contacted agreed that reported fish kills seemed to have been caused by red tide or a similar phenomenon, but said no one had proved this. "Such a widespread outbreak would be unusual for the Caribbean," said Jack Dammann, head biologist for the Caribbean Fisheries Council. Richard Hoogland, in charge of the National Institute of Marine Sciences' regional environmental office in Florida, said the recent passage of Hurricane Allen, coupled with water temperatures several degrees higher than the usual high 80s, may have led to an outbreak. Scientists said Allen and other storm conditions, combined with warm temperatures, would help such algae to flourish. === Page 54 of 93 Greg J. 11/5/80 SI vs. U.S. Govt. Wednesday. # Reagan demolishes Carter November 5, 1980 15¢ SI vs. U.S. Govt. # Four airmen injured in missile accidents PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) -- Air Force officials may be taken to task for their failure to swiftly report two chemical leak accidents that injured four servicemen working at Titan II missile sites near Tucson. Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz, whose district includes the area encompassing 18 missile sites, will "certainly ask the Air Force why he and other members of the delegation weren't informed of this," an aide told UPI on Friday night. Ken Burton, a press aide for Udall contacted in Washington, disputed Air Force official's contention the incidents this week were "minor." "Coming on the heels of the accident in Arkansas, four people hospitalized . . . what can I say," Burton said. "Considering the history of this weapon and some of the problems that occurred elsewhere, I wonder if the public would agree this was just a minor incident." The first accident occurred Tuesday when a small amount of oxidizer leaked from a pump in an equipment area adjacent to a missile silo near Benson, according to an Air Force statement released Friday. In an unrelated accident Thursday at a missile silo near Oracle Junction, two crewmen working with testing equipment were exposed to "re-agent" -- a chemical used to detect oxidizer vapors -- when a small amount of that chemical leaked. There are 18 Titan II missile sites surrounding Tucson. Arizona is one of three states, Kansas and Arkansas being the others, that contain the missiles. "I want to stress in both cases that no evacuation was necessary and none was undertaken," Major John Alexander said. "At no time was there any danger to any civilians. It was not in a missile launch duct, both (incidents) were in equipment bays. The equipment that was involved was physically separate from the missile itself." Greg J. 11/5/80 "Not a satellite" - Greg # UFOs on election night declared satellite pieces BEND (UPI) -- The "unidentified flying objects" that lighted Northwest skies election night were parts of a satellite reentering the earth's atmosphere, Federal Aviation Administration officials said Wednesday. The satellite, which was sighted as far north as Everett, Wash., and as far south as Eugene, is a "classified matter," an FAA spokesman said. Central Oregon police agencies said scores of callers reported the UFOs about 7 p.m. David Taylor, a Bend builder, described the sight as "glowing objects emitting some kind of vapor trail." He said, "You couldn't distinguish any shape, but they flew side by side and maintained the same altitude, distance apart and speed." Taylor said the UFO flew quietly and had no blinking lights, which normally indicate manmade aircraft. The FAA spokesman indicated the object probably broke up as it entered the atmosphere. There was no report that it landed. Greg J. 11/6/80 === Page 55 of 93 - Calif. PK - Note: The below entries occurred soon after I informed Jeffrey that the SIs were modifying their attack to go after high officials in govt. (They took care of Carter & Co. too!!) Gwen # Other Levees Are In Danger SF Chron. 10/24/80 By Stephen Magagnini and Scott Blakey Chronicle Correspondents Holt, San Joaquin County The aqueduct carrying drinking water for more than a million Bay Area residents was threatened yesterday after a section of a Santa Fe railroad embankment, holding back the flood of a September levee break, ruptured under the wheels of a lumbering freight train shortly after 2 a.m. Millions of gallons of water crashed against the pipeline's support pylons and inundated the 5200-acre Upper Jones Tract on which they stand. "There is a potential for damage - a potential for all kinds of things," said a clearly worried David Vossbrink, a spokesman for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which owns the water pipeline. The flood also threatened a pipeline carrying jet fuel from the Port of Stockton to Travis Air Force Base. The 275-foot break in the levee was expected to grow by another 20 or 30 feet, but the flow of water gradually lessened yesterday afternoon as the water level began to equalize on each side of the ruptured embankment. A temporary telephone line running beside the Sante Fe roadbed - replacing lines destroyed in the September flood - was severed by the embankment's collapse, cutting service to nearly 100 families in the sparsely populated area, about 40 miles east of San Francisco. Three farm families still living in the tract were evacuated in the pre-dawn hours as the floodwaters, at an estimated 11 million gallons a minute, poured through the breach and slid across the fields. Five other families who had lived on the tract had left after the first levee break. No lives were lost, and no injuries were reported, but railroad locomotives were pitched into the Back Page Col. 1 - UFOs vs. Govt. - # Hospitalized Stennis due to remain 'few more days' BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Sen. John C. Stennis, admitted to Keesler Air Force Base hospital for observation after complaining of abdominal pain, will remain hospitalized for "another day or two," a base spokesman said Saturday. Stennis, 79, spent a good night Friday night and his abdominal condition continued to improve, the base spokesman said. Rex Buffington, a spokesman in the senator's Washington office, said Stennis took part in a series of recent Democratic Party gatherings to promote the re-election of President Carter and complained of stomach problems Thursday night after an address in McComb. Stennis checked into the hospital about 3 a.m. Friday. Eph Cresswell, a Stennis aide, said the senator was in good health and had few problems since a gallbladder operation several years ago. Stennis was shot in the stomach and left leg when attacked outside his Washington home in 1973, but had fully recovered from those injuries. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a long-time member of the chamber's Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, was first elected to the Senate in 1947. He is an attorney and served 10 years as a state circuit judge before his election. Greg. Nov. 2, 1980 - UFOs vs. Govt. - # Solon in critical condition after heart attack at mall LAUREL, Md. (AP) - Rep. Gladys N. Spellman, D-Md., remained unconscious and in critical condition Saturday after suffering a heart attack while campaigning for re-election. Her opponent ceased campaign activity and said "our prayers are with her." A spokeswoman at the Greater Laurel-Beltsville Hospital said Mrs. Spellman's heart rhythm stabilized Saturday morning, more than 12 hours after she had been brought to the hospital from a nearby shopping mall where she was judging a Halloween costume contest. Lissa Vogt, the spokeswoman, said the next few days would be crucial in determining the 65-year-old third-term Democrat's recovery. Mrs. Spellman represents Maryland's 5th District. "In any heart attack, the first 48 hours are crucial for the patient," said Ms. Vogt. "It can go either way." Mrs. Spellman "is just holding her own," she added. Mrs. Spellman, who had suffered a heart attack once before, had been on the campaign trail since the May primary when she defeated her only Democratic opponent by a nearly 8-to-1 margin. She has been considered the overwhelming favorite to beat Republican challenger Kevin R. Igoe, a former budget analyst in the Treasury Department. Igoe, who has never held elective office, could not be reached for comment. Margaret Beazley, office manager at the Igoe for Congress headquarters in College Park, said in a prepared statement: "Our prayers are with her and her family. We have ceased all campaign activities." Mrs. Spellman was stricken at about 6 p.m. Friday at the Laurel Town Center Mall while campaigning. The mall is part of a shopping complex where an assassination attempt was made on former Alabama Gov. George Wallace in May 1972, on the eve of his victory in Maryland's presidential primary. Greg. Nov. 2, 1980 === Page 56 of 93 - Calif. PK - Oreg. P. 11/7/80 SHREDDED METAL - The side of a compressed air chemical plant in Richmond, Calif., was blown out Wednesday by a nitrous oxide blast. There were no injuries. United Press International # Nitrous oxide blast shreds plant RICHMOND, Calif. (UPI) - A tanker truck being loaded with nitrous oxide exploded at a compressed air chemical plant Wednesday night, blowing out three sides of the building and jolting residents up to 50 miles away. The only worker inside the plant was not injured, despite being knocked down by the tremendous blast. There were no serious injuries among residents who breathed the non-toxic fumes or were struck by flying glass. The truck, containing 36,000 pounds of nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas," blew up inside the three-story Puritan Bennett Chemical Corp. plant and burst into flames, sending a huge cloud of non-toxic vapor into the sky. Flying glass and metal fell 3 miles away, and area residents covered their mouths to avoid inhaling the gas. Authorities tried Thursday to determine what caused the tanker to explode about 9:00 p.m. PST. Firemen wore air tanks to fight the flames, which were extinguished an hour later. Damage is expected to top $1 million, a company spokesman said. Note: I informed Jeffrey before this 7.0 quake that the SI's planned to strike San Francisco area with a 7.0 quake! Owens Aftershocks rumble - Aftershocks of Saturday's earthquake in Northern California and Southern Oregon jarred the California coast Sunday and early Monday. The earthquake Saturday measured 7.0 on the Richter scale. Oreg. P. 11/10/80 === Page 57 of 93 Note: I told Millie Miller before this happened that my UFOs would "blow up missile sites" NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Arkansas's Missile Scare Just before 3 a.m. last Friday the sky over Damascus, Ark., turned bright white. Seconds later a thunderous explosion jolted the area and a gigantic red-orange cloud billowed into the air. Chunks of debris, some as big as cars, tumbled to earth. "What the hell happened?" shouted a stunned local news photographer. "The son of a bitch blew," an Air Force captain screamed back. A Titan II missile had exploded in its silo, and though it was not known to the public at the time, the blast catapulted the missile's multi-megaton nuclear warhead into an empty field 200 yards away. The warhead--hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima--was never in danger of detonating, and officials said no radioactive debris was released. But it was the scariest accident in the history of the country's ICBM program. One airman, Sgt. David Livingston, died of chemical pneumonia after inhaling toxic fumes; another was in critical condition. Twenty more were hurt and about 1,400 people were evacuated from the area. Some blamed the incident on the Titan II's liquid-fuel system, which they believe is inherently unsafe. But Air Force Secretary Hans Mark insisted that was not the case. "The problem here was not one of equipment failure," he said. "The problem was a pure [human] accident." As Air Force officials explained it, a maintenance team was working on the third level of the 146-foot-deep silo the evening before the explosion. One of the technicians accidentally dropped a wrench socket and it fell 70 feet, puncturing the thin skin of the missile's first-stage fuel tank. Toxic vapors from the aerozine-50 fuel began to rise, and the workmen evacuated the silo. A fire--perhaps ignited by a spark from the falling wrench--flared in the engine, triggering an automatic-sprinkler system that poured 100,000 gallons of water into the silo. The water doused the fire but failed to cover the leak. With the vapor concentration in the silo still rising, the missile crew ordered a standard emergency evacuation of everyone within 2 miles. Combustion: About six and a half hours after the fuel tank was punctured, two members of a specially trained emergency team entered the silo's access chamber in preparation for plugging the leak. They found that the vapor concentration was still rising--and the mixture of vapor with oxygen in the air increased the chance of spontaneous combustion. Just as the workers were leaving the access chamber, the vapor did explode--setting off the rest of the fuel in the missile. The force of the blast was stupendous, demolishing the 750-ton concrete roof of the silo and hurling the warhead out of the silo. Experts said there was no chance that the warhead itself might go off. Its core of plutonium is surrounded by a ring of enriched uranium wrapped in another ring of high explosives; all the outer-layer explosives must be fired at precisely the same instant to trigger a nuclear reaction. The accident did set off a chain reaction of fear in the surrounding community. "My first thought was that we were all going to die," said one eyewitness. Within hours most residents within a 10-mile radius had relocated in a high-school gymnasium or a National Guard armory. It was precisely the sort of situation Arkansas legislators had long fretted about. Only three days before the accident, Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas had won passage of a measure calling for early-warning systems at all 54 Titan II sites, which are in Arkansas, Kansas and Arizona. Phase-out? The liquid-fuel Titan is the biggest and oldest ICBM in the U.S. inventory. Since deploying it in 1963, the Air Force has switched to solid-fuel missiles. Plans were made to begin phasing out the missiles in the early 1970s, but Henry Kissinger ordered them kept as bargaining chips during the SALT I negotiations. Now they are kept in service more for political than strategic reasons. They are a tiny fraction of the 1,054 ICBM's in the U.S. arsenal, but they are so big they enable the U.S. to compete with the Soviet Union in the megatonnage numbers game. But the cost has been significant. In 1963, 53 workmen were killed when a welder's torch sparked an explosion in an Arkansas silo. In 1978, seven people were hospitalized in Damascus after toxic vapor seeped into the air. Nevertheless, in the ensnarled politics of strategic balance, it is unlikely that the Titan will be retired anytime soon. DENNIS A. WILLIAMS with DAVID C. MARTIN in Washington and RONALD HENKOFF in Arkansas *The damaged silo in Arkansas: Should the Titan II be retired?* 1 Workman drops wrench, which falls 70 feet. 2 It punctures thin metal skin of missile, and fuel vapors fill silo. 3 About 8 1/2 hours later, vapor and rocket fuel explode, blowing roof off silo. Missile disintegrates and warhead is catapulted 200 yards from silo. WARHEAD CONCRETE SILO ROOF ENGINE VAPOR PUNCTURE Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK *The warhead landed 200 yards away* NEWSWEEK/SEPTEMBER 29, 1980 33 === Page 58 of 93 Note: my UFOs cleaned out Carter & Co. Remember, there was war against U.S. govt and Carter was head of the govt. - Owens # Pollsters split over failure to predict landslide By KENNETH REICH LA Times-Washington Post Service Leading national pollsters were in deep disagreement -- and squabbling among themselves -- Wednesday as to just why their surveys gave no clear advance indication of the lopsided Ronald Reagan victory. Reagan's nationwide victory margin in the popular vote was 10 percentage points. Executives of the Gallup and CBS-New York Times polls insisted that there was a big last-minute trend to Reagan and that they completed their polling just a little too early to catch it. "The same thing happened with Harry Truman in 1948," a Gallup official lamented. But executives of the Louis Harris and NBC-Associated Press polls insisted just as strongly that there was no such last-minute trend and that it was false perceptions of the prospective voter turnout and inadequate "weighting" of raw poll data that led to errors. Outside the polling business, political experts tended not to be so understanding. "It was another collapse of polling," said one California Democrat who had said weeks ago that President Carter's chances in California were "zero." "They missed it again. It was a volatile election and they missed it." Barry Sussman, director of a Washington Post national poll that saw President Carter leading Reagan 47 percent to 43 percent five days before the election, said that as far as he was concerned, both sides of the other poll argument were right, and he might not be so eager to the last week of the next el "If you're wrong, you look silly and if you're right, no one remembers," he said. The Los Angeles Times Poll conducted its last nationwide survey one month before the election, from Oct. 5-9. It showed Reagan leading Carter 40 percent to 36 percent. Some of the pollsters, searching for explanations, were not kindly to each other, or to their critics and questioners. David Neft, executive vice president of the Harris poll, described reports of a big Reagan trend at the end of the campaign as "absolute nonsense." "There was no trend," he said. "From the time after the debate (a week before the election) we got the same results. We had it 45-40 for Reagan. The undecideds were 15 percentage points." "Polls are subject to error," he said, pleading, however, that this election had seen "one of the most dramatic late shifts ever recorded." Even the White House got into the argument. A Carter aide said that presidential pollster Patrick Caddell's surveys had shown the President leading Reagan as late as Saturday "but then the bottom dropped out." With the exception of the Harris organization, the latest public surveying was done Saturday afternoon. Harris, polling until Monday, showed Reagan with a 5-point lead and called the election for him. - UFO war against U.S. govt. - Owens # Light on the Road to Damascus Titan terror explodes in the Arkansas hills Shortly after sunset one day last week, a maintenance worker on the third level of a silo housing a 103-ft. Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors -- just get out." And with good reason. At 3:01 a.m., as technicians gave up trying to plug the leak and began climbing from the silo, the mixture of fuel and oxygen exploded. Orange flames and smoke spewed out, lighting up the sky over Damascus. The blast blew off a 750-ton concrete cover. One worker was killed; 21 others were hurt. Officials reported that no radiation leaked from the missile, which was tipped with a multimegaton nuclear warhead. But the explosion was the second accident of the week involving U.S. nuclear weapons: the first was a fire at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak., that damaged a B-52 bomber thought to be carrying 32 short-range, nuclear missiles. The incidents reopened the debate over the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, particularly of the 54 liquid-fuel Titan II missiles, which date from 1963. 18 of them are based in Arkansas, the rest in Arizona and Kansas. Air Force Secretary Hans Mark, a rocketry expert, insists that the Titans are not obsolete and are "a perfectly safe system to operate," despite 40 mishaps in ten years, two of them resulting in deaths or injuries. At the very least, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas demanded, the Air Force should set up a more effective warning system for Titan II sites. Said he: "Right now we are using the Paul Revere method -- word of mouth." What was once a Titan II missile silo is now a gaping crater, 250 ft. wide === Page 59 of 93 14 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1980 - Berm. Δ Attack - # Salem pilot's body lifted from crash ASHLAND (AP) -- State police removed the body of a Salem man from the wreckage of a light plane Thursday on the northeast slope of Mount Ashland in Southern Oregon. Lt. Jerry Norris said the victim, Gerald B. Bull, 55, was alone in the single-engine plane. Norris said the wreckage was spotted by an Oregon Aeronautics Division search plane that began looking for the missing aircraft Thursday morning. The plane had been reported missing Wednesday night, Norris said. The search plane found the wreckage after detecting signals from an emergency transmitter. The transmitter automatically begins sending signals upon impact. Mount Ashland is a 7,523-foot peak 10 miles south of the town of Ashland near the Oregon-California border. The Federal Aviation Administration was to begin Friday trying to determine the cause of the crash. State police said the plane's tanks still had fuel in them. Associated Press Laserphoto DEATH PLANE -- Wreckage of the plane that carried Salem businessman Gerald B. Bull, 55, to his death lies on the northeast slope of Mount Ashland, 10 miles south of the town of Ashland. The body of Bull, pilot and only occupant of plane reported missing late Wednesday, was removed by state police Thursday. Oreg 10/18/80 08/12/01 # Detonation injures five - Bermuda Δ Attack - LA GRANDE (AP) -- An explosion injured five men, two critically, while they worked on a gas pipeline project near here Monday afternoon, Oregon State Police said. Edward J. Elliott, 34, Bend, suffered fractures and burns after a powerful explosives charge accidentally detonated, Trooper John Smith said. Elliott was listed in critical condition at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande. Clarence Harris, 54, La Grande, received massive head injuries from the explosion and was transferred in critical condition to Kadlec Hospital in Richland, Wash., officials said. James Welch, 36, Redmond, and Norman E. White, 22, La Grande, received multiple cuts and bruises from flying rocks and debris. They were listed in satisfactory condition at Grande Ronde Hospital. Louis Ellis, 60, Lyle, Wash., was treated and released, officials said. "They were blowing ditch for this new pipeline," Smith said. "They still haven't been able to figure out what happened." - Bermuda Δ Attack - # Gas fire seen for miles PAMPA, Texas (AP) -- A spectacular fire touched off by a natural gas explosion and visible for more than 100 miles was brought under control early Tuesday when gas company workers shut off the flow of gas, officials said. The explosion sent smoke and flames an estimated 2,000 feet into the air Monday night. The fire caused the sky to glow and was visible as far away as Hutchinson, Kan., and Altus, Okla., more than 120 miles away, officials reported. The noise of the explosion was heard 40 miles away. No one was injured before the fire was brought under control, according to Roberts County Deputy Sheriff Robert Cowlins in Miami, Texas. Oreg 10/22/80 === Page 60 of 93 - Bermuda $\Delta$ and "Power" Attack - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980 3M B REVIEWING THE RUINS -- Investigators and photographers use crane to observe wreckage of industrial helicopter that crashed Monday on store roof in City of Industry, Calif. One worker was killed and two others suffered minor injuries after aircraft lost power while installing air conditioning unit. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 61 of 93 Calif PK Oreg: 10/5/80 A24 3M # LA gets little relief from smog LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The weekend brought the promise of some relief for Southern Californians who have suffered through five days of thick smog and sticky heat. But officials warned that despite the easing of conditions which trapped the pollution inside the mountain-ringed South Coast Air Basin, it may take several days for the thick cloud of smog to dissipate. In Imperial County, a crop-duster's plane crashed in heavy fog early Saturday morning about five miles northeast of the town of Imperial, killing the pilot. The plane burst into flames on impact, sending off clouds of toxic fumes from its load of chemical pesticide. The pilot was identified as Homer V. Ward of the tiny community of Calipatria along the Salton Sea. Glenn Wyler of the Air Quality Management District in suburban El Monte said the inversion layer -- atmospheric conditions that act like a cap holding the smog inside the basin -- raised to 2,000 feet Saturday. "Ordinarily, that is enough to help bring a little more relief than it has," Wyler said. "But because of the stagnation condition, it is taking a little longer than usual to bring down the smog levels." During the smog siege last week, the inversion layer of warm air was as low as 800 feet. Second-stage smog advisories -- warnings that the ozone content of the air has passed dangerous levels -- were issued for five consecutive days, from Monday through Friday, as the tea-colored cloud squatting over the populous region got increasingly thicker and residents curtailed many outdoor activities. U.S. Bom. Attack? # Bomber crashes BIGGIN HILL, England (AP) -- A British-piloted American World War II bomber crashed Sunday at an air show commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Its seven-man crew was killed, and Scotland Yard said two of the dead were American airmen stationed in England. A witness said the twin-engined A-26 Invader nosedived into a grassy bank, narrowly missing a street of houses, and "disintegrated in a big ball of flame." Oreg: 9/22/80 Bermuda Attack # High seas stall efforts to secure drifting rig KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- Ten-foot seas in the north Pacific stalled efforts Saturday to secure an oil drilling platform drifting helplessly for a third day with 18 men aboard, the Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard spokesman said the weather was improving, lessening the danger to the men aboard the platform Dan Prince, but he added, "There's always some element of risk." The tugboat Smit New York and the cutter Boutwell were standing by the platform early Saturday about 740 miles southwest of Kodiak. A Coast Guard damage control team was waiting for the seas and 21-knot winds to subside before boarding. The 208-foot, triangular Dan Prince was set adrift late Thursday when 60-knot winds and 40-foot seas knocked loose a helicopter pad that cut the tow cable between the platform and the Smit New York, the Coast Guard said. The falling pad caused some damage and flooding but no injuries, the platform's crew reported. "There's three feet of water awash on the main deck, but the bilge pumps are handling it. Nobody is 'hyper' about it at this point," Coast Guard Lt. Jim Hatfield said early Saturday. "We're going to put some men aboard and determine the damage. And hopefully it can continue its trip," he said. The Dan Prince was under tow from Norton Sound on Alaska's northwest coast to the African nation of Ivory Coast. The platform is owned by Scout Shipping of Monrovia, Liberia, and operated by J.L. Offshore Drilling of Copenhagen, Denmark. Oreg: 10/19/80 California PK # LA still coughing LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Residents who would like to step outside for a breath of fresh air are out of luck -- and out of clean oxygen -- as smog-laden haze continues to hang over the city. Only high desert and mountain areas in the four-county Los Angeles basin were expected to escape the unhealthful air Thursday, weather forecasters said. Oreg: 10/10/80 Y, SEPTEMBER 27, 1980 U.S. Bom. Attack # The nation Oreg: 9/27/80 # Silo town falls ill GUY, Ark. (AP) -- A fog that looked like a "light snow" blew into this tiny community shortly after a Titan II missile silo exploded five miles away last week, and officials say about two dozen residents, including the mayor, have been sick ever since. The residents are complaining of nausea, burning sensations in their noses, throats and lungs, and dry, salty lips, although none apparently has become ill enough to be hospitalized. Benny Mercer, mayor of the community of 200, puts the blame squarely on the toxic fumes that seeped from the silo. Lt. Gen. Lloyd R. Leavitt, vice commander of the Strategic Air Command, said Air Force calculations indicated toxic fumes had not reached Guy and, in fact, had not gone more than one mile from the silo. But Mercer said the fog, which arrived about an hour after the explosion, melted within 15 minutes and the Air Force did not take measurements soon enough to detect it. The silo blew up last Friday after a wrench socket dropped by a workman ruptured a missile fuel tank. One person was killed and 21 were injured. The warhead from the missile was ejected from the silo and was later taken to a weapons plant in Amarillo, Texas, to be analyzed. === Page 62 of 93 'Bigfoot' visits ON. P. 10/9/80 farmer MAYSVILLE Ky) (UPI) - Authorities are investi- gating reports of the sight- Ing of a large, long-haired creature with "glowing animal-like eyes" at the Isolated home of a Mason County farmer last week- end. Charles Fulton, 39, told county authorities he fired with two shots a .22-caliber pistol, but said it seemed not to affect the creature, which loped off at a "slow-motion kind of gallop." Fulton and his family were at their rural home in a heavily wooded area watching television last Saturday night when another child came into the living room and said some- one was turning the back door knob. Thinking the child was playing a prank, Fulton made him sit and watch TV. "A few minutes later, something liked to have tore my front door off," Fulton told authorities Wednesday. He said he opened the door and saw a creature more than 7-feet tall stand- ing there, covered with long whitish hair. "It was standing on two feet like a human and its head was taller than the door frame, which is 6 foot 8," Fulton said. Opening the door appar- ently startled the creature, which ran off the porch. Fulton went back in, put on his coat and got the pis- tol. He then went to the back yard, where he spot- ted it standing between an outbuilding and the house. It was then he noticed its "glowing eves and hair like a horse's mane," he said. "I fired at it twice from about 30 feet away and don't see how I could have missed." He said the creature turned slowly and "ran off at a slow-motion gallop." His wife, Wanda, 36, and several of the children said they also saw the Creature from inside the house. Tuntun uiscounted ine possibility the creature was a bear because of its upright position, and said it certainly was not à man in costume. The sighting was the first of an ape-like crea- ture in Kentucky for more than two years. At that time, motorists on the Pen- nyrile Parkway In western Kentucky saw a large hai- ry creature bound off into the woods. Robert Gardiner, 40, a big game hunter for 20 years, is convinced he has found the lair of Bigfoot in the hills of southern Ohio near McArthur. note: The the Big foot creatures alvinox. 20 fect from my boys & I in northern California had glowing red eyes " and silvery whitish hair, name as this Ky report Ovens Org. 10/11/80 - Calif " PK"- Asbestos discovered In aqueduct By RICHARD DE ATLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) - Heavy con- | centrations of asbestos have been found in the California Aqueduct, which sup- plies drinking water for 12 million peo- ple, but water officials said Friday that the water was safely filtered before reaching anybody's faucets. "We're not aware of any studies that Indicate there's any health haz- ards," said David Kennedy, assistant general manager of the Metropolitan Water District. Asbestos is a known cause of can- cer, but Kennedy said that more than 99 percent of the fibrous mineral is re- moved by water district filtration plants and that customers are receiving no more than they normally would get from their surroundings. Some 129 communities in Los An- geles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties use water from the Metropolitan Water District. The aqueduct also feeds small water districts in Avenal, Bakersfield and the Antelope Valley, which also have safely filtered their water. The aqueduct, which runs 440 miles between the San Joaquin Valley and Riverside over the Tehachapi Moun- tains, apparently picked up the mineral In rain runoff from asbestos mines just south of Coalinga in Fresno County about 175 miles north of Los Angeles, Kennedy said. Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s office asked the state Department of Re- sources Friday to submit a plan to ¿ dredge sediment from the aqueduct south of Coalinga, said Brown aide Gray Davis. Such a project could cost $2 mil- lion and take five to six months to com- plete, he said. Changing the runoff flow around the aqueduct near Coalinga is another possibility, state water officials sug- gested. The affected area of the aqueduct was designed so that "upland drainage goes Into the aqueduct to increase the flow when they get a flood," said John Gaston, chief of the Sanitary Engineer- Ing Section for the state Health Services Department in Sacramento. Gaston said the runoff was designed "long before we had any idea that as- bestos was a problem" and at the in- stigation of the federal government, which supplied funds for the joint pro- ject. - 4.5. Bron. A Allack- Encephalitis widespread 8/4/ 9/27/80 ATLANTA (AP) - Unusu- ally widespread outbreaks of encephalitis, which causes in- flammation of the brain, have been reported in the United States this year, particularly along the Gulf Coast, the na- tional Center for Disease Con- trol reported Friday. St. Louis encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease, has hit hardest in Houston, which has had 18 confirmed cases and 12 suspected cases, the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Two deaths were reported in the area. Eight other con- firmed cases were reported in neighboring Gulf Coast coun- ties. One case of another strain of the disease, eastern equine encephalomyelitis, occurred In Michigan. It was the first case in Michigan of a human contracting the disease, which usually affects horses, the CDC said. Also Plave in new Mexico! The standard for measuring asbestos is millions of fibers per liter, but tests of aqueduct water taken below the Teha- chapis, 80 miles south of Coalinga, showed billions of fibers per liter, "The filtration process is ... getting 99 percent of it out," Kennedy said. Asbestos is everywhere in the state, health officials have said. The state rock, serpentine, is a type of asbestos, and the fibers float freely in the atmos- phere. There are no standards for accept- able levels of asbestos in drinking wa- ter, and most tap water In the state has a "background level" of 10 million to 20 million fibers per liter, Kennedy said. The problem was discovered after officials In the city of Thousand Oaks, monitoring their system because it used asbestos pipes, found levels higher than estimated and asked the water district to run tests. "We started running some samples and gradually tracked the thing down over the last four to five months," Ken- nedy said. === Page 63 of 93 hat him nie Hunt- ing. escapees. Mrs. cover blades in four scheme three other in- in getting st .. said. ties said the blades June 27. ed on new inc with conspiracy & charges resulted fro operation involving pay state officials for ate insurance contrac .. police officer Despite th relative calm black, low-in neighborhood. ing 14 juvenif they refused t said. e attacks, police reported in the predominantly come north Philadelphia Twenty people, includ- es, were arrested when o leave the area, police (ed to theft ARIO, Calif. (AP) - A car be- g to a missing Brink's employee ated in the $1.55 million theft of 4,250 gold Krugerrand coins from the security firm has been found at Ontario International Airport, police said Wednesday. Rick Cunningham, a 21-year-old employee in Brink's Los Angeles gold vault, has been missing since June 25, the day before the theft of the 180 pounds of South African coins was dis- covered. Cunningham was charged with two counts of grand theft July 3. "There have rock and brick ous," said a po District station identified. been a few incidents of throwing, nothing seri- lice officer at the 22nd who asked not to be Aug. 28, '80 Illness kills boy ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A rare but deadly disease caused by an amoeba found in Florida freshwater lakes has claimed its fourth victim - a New York youngster who spent his vacation swimming at Walt Disney World's River Country. The disease, encephalitis, attacks and brain, doctors Florida children ea appears to have be of another youngst Protests continue PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Angry youths attacked three news photogra- phers after storming out of a communi- ty meeting here in the second straight night of violence following the fatal shooting of a black youth by a white the Shutter OUR === Page 64 of 93 - UFO Attack - # Band illness baffles health officials By PHIL ORAMOUS oreg - 10/18/80 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Baffled health officials and physicians searched Friday for the cause of an illness that struck nearly two dozen members of a high school band simultaneously during a football game. The entire 140-member Carver High School band was rushed to hospitals Thursday night after several fainted following a halftime performance. Twenty-two were admitted and treated with a universal antidote. An undetermined number of others, who showed symptoms, were treated and released. All of those admitted were listed in stable condition Friday, and hospital officials said some might be released Friday. The students had consumed soft drinks from a concession stand, and some had eaten candied apples from a convenience store before the game. Dr. William Roper, Jefferson County's health officer, said his agency was investigating. And a Health Department spokeswoman said the food service division and disease surveillance unit had joined forces in the search for the cause. Officials gave no indication when they expected results from tests on the youngsters and on the foods consumed. At first doctors suggested the soft drinks could have been poisoned. But not all members of the band had the symptoms, which included chest pains, headache, stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting. Several parents in a hospital waiting room said their children had stopped for candied apples on the way to the game, and one hospital was conducting tests on apples at the store. "It would sound like someone put something in the drinks," said Phillip Rogers, a pharmacist at the Poison Control Center at Children's Hospital. He said he based his conclusion on a report from a physician at one of the hospitals. "The symptoms really don't fit the pattern of food poisoning," Rogers said, adding that it normally takes 12 to 36 hours for its symptoms to begin. Police Capt. Richard Lambert said police learned last week of threats against the band and had provided extra security at last week's game. There were no incidents. Lambert said the threats were linked to juvenile gangs operating in the guise of high school fraternities. Sgt. John Rumsey of the family services division said police would wait for the results of the Health Department investigation before considering its own investigation. The incident occurred during a game against Glenn High School at Lawson Field in east Birmingham. # Schools warned on tampon sales oreg - 10/18/80 SALEM (AP) - A warning has been issued to state education officials asking that doctors and attorneys be consulted on whether tampons should be banned from school restrooms. Verne A. Duncan, state superintendent of public instruction, issued the warning Thursday to 311 local superintendents and community college presidents. He asked officials to make sure that no restroom dispensers carry Rely tampons, the brand closely linked with toxic shock syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease mostly suffered by menstruating women. "If the machines have other tampons, we have asked that a check be made with local health authorities for what to do with them," said Bentley Gilbert, Duncan's executive assistant. "If they are dispensing tampons, we have asked them to check with their legal counsel and insurance companies," he said. He said state Health Division officials recommended the warning because of heavy publicity about possible connections between tampons and toxic shock syndrome. "We just sort of want to double remind people about the risks of using tampons, but tampons have not been ordered out of the schools," said Kristine Gebbie, Health Division administrator. "The thinking is, if a woman became ill or was to die of toxic shock, the practice would be to sue everyone you could think of," Gilbert said. No Oregon school has been named in lawsuits associated with toxic shock syndrome. The state Health Division has reported 17 confirmed cases of toxic shock in Oregon, but none resulted in death. Those affected in Oregon were women between the ages of 13 and 36. Note: if outbreak of toxic shock, bubonic plague, etc. New Fla. plague. # More pet stores under quarantine Rabies By The Associated Press Two Bird Hut pet stores in Southeast Portland were placed under quarantine Friday by state and federal agriculture officials after it was learned that their birds might have been exposed to Exotic Newcastle disease. The disease, which can kill birds and poultry, produces symptoms similar to a cold. The disease has not been confirmed at the Bird Hut shops, said William Prichard of Salem, veterinarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He said test results should be available by Wednesday or Thursday. Prichard said a customer bought a blue and gold macaw from a Portland shop that received a shipment on Aug. 22 of contaminated exotic birds from Pet Farms in Miami. The customer then traded the macaw to the Bird Hut, which already had a blue and gold macaw. One of the macaws was at the Southeast Division Street store and one was at the store on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard. As a precaution, Prichard said, both shops were placed under quarantine. The shops cannot sell or receive birds until after test results are available, Prichard said. If Exotic Newcastle disease is confirmed, he said, the shops will be under quarantine for 30 days. Prichard said 556 birds that either had Exotic Newcastle disease or had come into contact with it have been killed in Oregon in the past two months. The birds were at 12 stores. Exotic Newcastle disease was confirmed at Safari Pets and Pet Kingdom in the Portland area and the White Whale Pet Shop in Klamath Falls, Prichard said. Quarantines at those shops soon will be lifted, and they, like all the other shops, will be reimbursed for destroyed birds, Prichard said. oreg - 10/18/80 === Page 65 of 93 4 San Francisco Chronicle Wed., Oct. 1, 1980 - Berm. ┳ Attack - "Reorientation" # Army Secret On Page 1 SF Chron. 10/1/80 Brownfield, Texas An Army team that was airlifted into this South Plains town on a secret training exercise got lost, and found itself on the front page of the local newspaper. The six-man team -- armed with machine guns and other weapons, and dressed in military garb -- was dropped at the Brownfield airport Friday, and was "to get in and out without notice," Army Major Tony Caggeiano said yesterday at the Pentagon. The team was to have ended its mission at an auxiliary Air Force base nine miles north of town, Caggeiano said, but ended up at Ruben Martinez' farm house six miles east. Martinez called the Terry County sheriff's office, which dispatched deputies. Brownfield News Editor Don Arnwine intercepted the call on the police monitor and went to investigate. Arnwine met the sheriff's squad car returning from the farm and noticed some soldiers in the car. He followed the car to the sheriff's office and photographed the men. At that point, Arnwine said, a sheriff's deputy told him, "I want that film." Arnwine refused. He said he was told it was a matter of "national security." "Your boss will hang if the pictures are printed in the paper," the deputy said. Arnwine ran the story Sunday after getting little, if any, information out of the various military branches. He also enlisted the aid of U.S. Representative Kent Hance, D-Lubbock. Martinez said the six men arrived at his house during a rainstorm about 9 a.m. They identified themselves as being from the Army, and asked to use the telephone. Martinez became suspicious and refused. He offered them shelter in his barn, where they changed into dry clothing and ate food they were carrying. Martinez told Arnwine that the men later returned to the house and began knocking on the door and peering through the windows. He then called the sheriff. When Sheriff Homer Parker arrived, he ordered the six men to unload their weapons. Martinez told Arnwine, and they did. Associated Press - Bermuda ┳ Attack - "Reorientation" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1980 # Jetliners avoid midair crash ATLANTA (AP) -- A midair collision between two Eastern Airlines jetliners approaching Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport was averted when one pilot took "evasive action," the Federal Aviation Administration said. The near-miss occurred at 8:18 a.m. Tuesday, about nine miles northeast of the airport, FAA spokesman Jack Barker said. Eastern Flight 399, a Boeing 727 carrying 121 people (114 passengers, seven crew), and Eastern Flight 453, a Lockheed L-1011 carrying 191 people (180 passengers, 11 crew), both were approaching the airport on the city's south side at an altitude of about 6,000 feet, Barker said. The pilot of the Boeing 727 took "evasive action -- I don't know if he flew up, down or what" to avoid a collision, Barker said. The FAA began an investigation of the incident, Barker said. Human error evidently caused the near-collision, but it has not yet been determined whether air traffic controllers or the pilots were responsible, he said. "We're playing back computer tapes of what happened" and interviewing pilots and controllers, Barker added. The tapes include conversations between pilots and the flight tower, and between controllers and their supervisors, he said. Both aircraft have been grounded for examination, he added. Eastern officials had no comment on the incident except to say the matter was being investigated by the FAA. Flight 399 was on the final leg of a trip from Charlotte, N.C., to Atlanta via Greenville, S.C., Barker said. Flight 453 was heading to Atlanta after stops in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. According to map calculations, the incident occurred over populous DeKalb County, just southwest of the Atlanta suburb of Decatur. - U.S. Bermuda ┳ Attack - # Man dies in explosion of derailed oil tank car CUSTER CITY, Pa. (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a derailed oil tank car being emptied by cleanup workers Saturday, killing one person and seriously burning two others, authorities said. Susan Torrey, a spokeswoman for nearby Bradford Hospital, said the dead man was Phillip Winter, 31, of North Collins, N.Y. She said two men were listed in critical condition with burns. Seven others, including firefighters and cleanup workers, suffered from shock and inhalation of petroleum fumes. Two were hospitalized in satisfactory condition, she said. Winter was employed by the Winter Railroad Service of North Collins, according to a company spokeswoman. Bradford Fire Chief T-------------------- id the explosion occurred as workers used a high-pressure pump to empty oil from the derailed tank car. "There was no fire," Shay said. "But it could have been a vapor explosion from inside the tank." Bradford Fire Capt. John Rimer said two men were working inside the tank car when the explosion occurred. One of the two was covered with crude oil, he said. A third man on the cleanup crew was outside the tanker. The men were clearing debris from a train derailment Wednesday night that forced about 100 people to flee their homes for several hours. More than 20 cars of an 84-car freight carrying crude oil and caustic soda jumped the tracks near this McKean County community. - U.S. Berm. ┳ Attack - # Error vents radioactive gas HADDAM, Conn. (AP) -- A small amount of radioactive gas was released into the atmosphere Friday when a chemist opened the wrong valve while making routine tests at the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant, officials said. The release at 10:55 a.m. lasted 3½ minutes and did not pose a public health hazard, said Anthony Nericcio, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities. Oregon 9/27/80 === Page 66 of 93 This is why the SI's warned Millie & me not to go into Bermuda Triangle!! Nation 10/30/80 Illinois State Representative Yourell's photograph of the Kalia III, dinghy and body # Drugs and Death on the High Seas ## A Bahamian triangle of smugglers and unwary skippers A soft warning to the thoughtful skipper on the possibility of hijacking. The U.S. Coast Guard advises owners of yachts cruising in the Bahamas and Caribbean to be very careful about taking on hitchhikers and paid hands. Even a rescue at sea should be approached with caution. It is an unusual cautionary note in these days of pleasure cruises in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, where the legends of bloodthirsty pirates like Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte survive only in tourist brochures. But the warning, published in the respected Yachtsman's Guide to the Bahamas, is aimed at putting modern skippers on their guard against today's version of piracy: yachtjacking by drug smugglers who use tiny Bahamian cays as bases for shipping cocaine and marijuana from Latin America to South Florida. Just how many yachts have fallen prey to smugglers is unknown; unless the boats or debris from them turn up, the U.S. Coast Guard lists missing yachts as "overdue pending further developments." But skippers in marinas along the Florida coast are increasingly convinced that many of them are not simply missing. Three incidents in particular have heightened boatowners' apprehensions: * In the logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood and littered with debris, including Patti's spectacles and bikini bra. Yourell told TIME Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Cate: "I haven't seen anything as bad since the South Pacific in World War II." Yourell radioed the authorities, who sent a plane to fly over the cay. But by the time the police arrived by boat a day later, the body had apparently slipped into the sea and disappeared. Nassau authorities inexplicably claimed that there never had been a body until Yourell angrily made public his photographs of the scene. Bahamian authorities now acknowledge that a constable aboard the plane spotted the body and that the yacht was a shambles as described by Yourell (though they insist, despite accounts from at least three eyewitnesses, that there were no shotgun holes or embedded pellets in the yacht). * Retired Armonk, N.Y., Businessman Lester Conrad, 68, and Philadelphia Stockbroker Walter Falconer, 60, set out in calm weather five months ago aboard Conrad's sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because of its speed (22 knots), 3,000-mile cruising range and six-ton cargo capacity. * Thomas Loberg, 63, and Wife Rignor, 62, believe that they and their 47-ft. cruiser Rig-n-Tom were nearly lured to disaster near Chub Cay last year by a fake S O S. The radio caller mysteriously requested Rig-n-Tom's position rather than giving his own. A traveling companion, Pat Vaughan, happened to be reading about misleading distress calls in The Island, Peter Benchley's fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began chasing Rig-n-Tom. The intruder veered away, however, when Loberg put his yacht under the lee of a friendly sailboat. Such close encounters on the high seas have caused many skittish yachtsmen to arm themselves before sailing in Bahamian waters, despite the authorities' insistence that there is no cause for concern. But there is no denying that the drug trade is booming in the small cays. Says Skip Nichols, 33, a Fort Myers marina operator: "Right where Kalia III was found, I have watched drug transactions with my binoculars." There are so many isolated cays--at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago--that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots have become notorious among yachtsmen, including Norman Cay, just 30 miles from Pipe Cay. Norman Cay is four miles long and has an airstrip and marina. The key was once a happy watering hole for passing sailors, but it has been declared off limits to them by a new owner. Bahamian authorities raided Norman Cay last January, arrested 30 people and seized an undisclosed quantity of cocaine and marijuana. Many Florida-based yachtsmen accuse Bahamian authorities of being reluctant to act against the smugglers for fear of jeopardizing tourism. This is denied by Bahamian officials, who insist that the islands remain a peaceful playground for yachtsmen. Still, warns Skip Nichols, "If you're not careful, you can get run over by those high-powered drug boats." TIME, SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 === Page 67 of 93 Calif. PK # Smog still heavy LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The lungs of Southern Californians labored through the seventh straight day of a choking combination of fog and smog Monday. Also, poor visibility prompted the diversion of some airplanes. Conditions were predicted to worsen Tuesday. Except for the mountains and deserts, skies throughout the four-county air basin were expected to be unhealthful for everyone again Tuesday, the Air Quality Management District said. Airplanes were diverted from Burbank Airport because of early morning fog and they continued to avoid the airport in the afternoon, said chief air traffic controller Dean Cooper. "Some of them are not coming in, perhaps because of the haze," Cooper said. The inversion layer, which had lifted somewhat to 2,000 feet during a weekend respite from rush-hour freeway fumes, dropped to 1,000 feet Monday and was expected to drop to the 800-foot level which predominated last week. reg. Oct 7, '80 -- Berm. Δ Attack -- # Search near end for lost freighter NEW YORK (AP) -- The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that it would suspend its search for clues to the mysterious disappearance of the 12,000-ton freighter Poet if nothing turned up Thursday. "Tomorrow will be the last active day of the search," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Craig Jud said. "If nothing turns up, the search will be suspended pending further developments." Any clues found at a later date could re-open the investigation, he added. On Wednesday, six airplanes -- three Coast Guard, two Navy and one Air Force -- searched an area of 16,640 square miles 500 to 1,000 miles south of the southern tip of New Jersey and east of Delaware Bay. The searchers have now covered more than 200,000 square miles, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The 552-foot vessel sailed from Philadelphia on Oct. 24 bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a cargo of grain. It was last seen passing Cape Henelopen, Del., and has not been heard from since. The search began Nov. 8 after five days of broadcasts to other ships produced no word of the Poet. The ship's disappearance was more puzzling, Jud said, because it happened in a highly trafficked area and despite the presence on board ship of a self-activating Emergency Long Range Transmitter, which triggered by exposure to salt water. The transmitter sends off signals for anywhere from two to 10 days once activated, he said. As hopes waned, Cathryn Warren, whose husband Leroy A. Warren Sr. is captain of the ship, said she was "very, very worried." Her daughter, Gail Von Bussenius, reached at the Warren's Bel Air, Md., home, said: "We're just waiting to see what's going on. Mostly, we're just waiting to hear from the rescue squads ... the Coast Guard. "We haven't heard anything from the company," she added. 11/13/80 -- California PK -- 10:35 PM July 27, 1980 on phone Jeffrey Mishlove 7.8 on Richter quake closing in on California in hours, days, or a few weeks. Irene Warning to Jeffrey Mishlove -- I thought earthquakes. She thought otherwise. Irene # Continuing smog grips LA area in choke-hold By RICHARD DE ATLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Under a tea-colored blanket brewed by a burning sun and pollution, people wept and wheezed Thursday as eye-stinging smog kept its choke-hold on Southern California a third straight day. Temperatures were a little cooler Thursday after the hottest Oct. 1 in 74 years. The smog was expected to ease as fog and low clouds raised the inversion layer holding polluted air over the region. However, the Air Quality Management District predicted the smog would continue Friday and suggested motorists stay home this weekend. Wednesday's high of 97 in Los Angeles was the hottest since 1906. "This has been the worst two weeks for as long as I can remember," said John Strycula, coach of the Citrus Junior College football team in the San Gabriel Valley suburb of Azusa, one of the areas hardest hit by smog. "We go more for mental preparation than physical exertion at times like these," he said. "There's no heavy running or anything like that." "I just pray I don't run out of ice cream like I did last Friday," said Tony Naranjo, manager of the Friendly Freeze ice cream stand in Azusa. Usually only a Southern California phenomenon, the smog spread its brown pallor to the San Francisco area Wednesday and caused the first Bay area smog alert since Oct. 2, 1978. San Jose choked on its worst smog in two years as temperatures jumped to 97, the highest for the date. A survey of hospitals Thursday showed few patients were checking in with respiratory complaints resulting from the smog, but Los Angeles County Health Department spokesman Tony Tripi warned: "It may be that smog is killing us by inches." reg. 10/3/80 === Page 68 of 93 "Power + Rain Attack" At Least 30 Die In Mexican Rains Mexico City 9/29/80 At least 30 people died and the homes of 175,000 others were damaged in southeastern Mexico after three days of torrential rain caused by tropical storm Hermine, government officials said yesterday. Reuters Japan Volcano Erupts Tokyo Mount Shintake, on Kuchierabu island 43 miles south of Japan's southern island of Kyushu, erupted yesterday for the first time in nearly 4 1/2 years, spewing smoke and dust 6600 feet high. SF Chron. 9/29/80 United Press Mosquitoes kill 40 head of cattle Note: Birds knock out power. A buzzard knocks down a govt. craft. Mosquitoes attack! Just note. Gwen COLLEGE STATION, Texas (UPI) -- Huge flocks of mosquitoes, hatched by the floodwaters of Hurricane Allen, have killed cattle by draining their blood, officials say. The experts said the mosquitoes have been brought under control but that at least 40 head of cattle died on one ranch in only the second recorded instance of mosquitoes killing cattle in the United States. Mosquito eggs are dependent upon water to hatch, and the summer drought kept the eggs deposited in the fields of the coastal plains from hatching until Hurricane Allen shoved ashore in August. With Hurricane Allen came high tides, and the marshes of Brazoria County, south of Houston, were included in the floods. With the floods came the mosquitoes. "I've never seen anything like it -- I can't remember when the mosquito population got quite this bad," said J.C. McNeil IV, director of the Brazoria County mosquito control office. Stephen Perry Jr., who owns a ranch near Jones Creek, lost nearly 40 head of cattle. Although Perry could not be reached for comment, experts said the likely cause of death was loss of blood from attacks by mosquitoes. Dr. Bruce Abbitt of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&M was involved in autopsies of three of the animals. "The interesting point (of the autopsy) was the cattle were anemic," he said. "They had very little blood left in them." Air Force jets collide over Britain; 2 killed LONDON (UPI) -- Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbolt jets collided over England's North Sea coast on Tuesday and one of the pilots drowned in the frigid sea along with a British airman who tried to rescue him. The other American pilot, Maj. Stephen P. Kaatz, 36, parachuted over land and was not injured, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said. The two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt-II jets collided during a training flight from the Royal Air Force base in Bentwater, Suffolk, to the Wainfleet Range 100 miles north in Lincolnshire. The second pilot parachuted from the stricken plane and landed in the wind-swept North Sea but soon was spotted by a RAF Sea King rescue helicopter. With the helicopter fighting a stiff wind, a British airman was lowered by cable to the pilot, but became entangled in the straps of the American's parachute, an RAF spokesman said. "When they were being winched aboard, the wind spun both men around and they got further entangled in the helicopter's cable," the spokesman said. The RAF first said the helicopter pilot cut the cable, but a spokesman later said the cable had snapped and was not cut. Within minutes a U.S. Air Force "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter was on the scene and hoisted the American and Briton aboard, but both were dead, the RAF spokesman said. S.F. P. 11/8/80 === Page 69 of 93 Gwen 10/5/80 # Study links Monday, heart attack fatalities VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A study shows that for men who die of heart failure without any prior record of heart trouble, the chances are better than 1 in 3 that Monday will be the fatal day, a Canadian cardiologist says. Dr. Simon Rabkin is a member of a team studying 3,983 men who were eligible for pilot training in World War II and still were physically fit in 1948. Since the study began in 1948, 63 men without any record of heart problems died suddenly of heart attacks, and 22 of them died on a Monday. Totals for other days of the week were seven on Tuesday, six on Wednesday, 13 on Thursday, five on Friday, four on Saturday and six on Sunday. "Usually, you would expect this to be spread out evenly over the week," Rabkin said in an interview. Because women weren't included in the survey, Rabkin said he couldn't speculate on whether Mondays are dangerous for them. Results of research by a University of Manitoba team, including Rabkin, now of Vancouver, appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of American Medical Association. The article said two-thirds of the places where the 63 men died suddenly were known. Three out of four deaths reported at work occurred on Monday, while seven of 15 deaths at home were on Monday, and 10 of 23 deaths at other locations occurred on Monday. Among men who died of heart trouble after earlier cardiac problems and among men who died of cancer, no significant difference was found among the days of the week, Rabkin said. He said the question of whether the day of the week was a factor in heart-attack deaths rarely had been studied before. The men surveyed live in all parts of Canada and cover a wide range of occupations and social strata. A study in a Scottish hospital suggested that Monday was a bad day for sudden heart-related deaths but failed to take into account whether the patients had previous heart trouble, Rabkin said. A study of U.S. death certificates from 1962 to 1966 showed a small bulge on Monday, but previous heart trouble wasn't considered in that study, either, he said. 10/17/80 Note: I am sure I know the answer to what puzzles the scientists. For men who work, brain waves do not maintain a constant rhythm or speed. These mens' minds are geared to working all week, Mon. -- Fri., relaxing over the weekend... then snapping back like a rubber band to begin over again on Monday. And sometimes the "rubber bands" break! (On the "snap-back.") Gwen === Page 70 of 93 Wed., Oct. 1, 1980 San Francisco Chronicle 5 U.S. Govt PK # Pilot Earns His Wings -- And a Buzzard's Too Milton, Fla. A student pilot was forced into his first solo flight and landing after his Navy trainer plane collided with a turkey buzzard at 2500 feet and his instructor bailed out, officials said yesterday. The student safely landed the T-34C, the crumpled buzzard still in the cockpit, at a civilian airport at Brewton, Ala., after the collision Monday, a Navy spokesman said. According to the spokesman, the student, Marine Lieutenant S. R. Hoenie, was knocked unconscious and the instructor, Marine Captain Dean Lucas, was temporarily blinded when the buzzard crashed through the canopy. "The glass was swirling around the cockpit and flew straight into the instructor's face," the spokesman said. "He suffered temporary loss of vision and was cut around the eyes." Lucas, an instructor at Whiting Field near Milton in the Florida Panhandle, then bailed out of the plane, apparently thinking the student had done the same, the spokesman said. But Hoenie hadn't, and the craft was without a pilot for a few seconds. "The unconscious student may have slumped over in the cockpit and the instructor wasn't able to see him," the spokesman said. "Nobody knows what happened for certain." Hoenie regained consciousness and realized he was alone just north of the Brewton airport, according to the spokesman. "We don't know whether the plane was flying straight and level. But it was at such an altitude that he was able to regain control of the plane," the spokesman said. "He'd never soloed before, but he landed without incident." The instructor, meanwhile, parachuted safely north of Brewton. He was taken to a hospital and treated for cut around the eyes and on the upper part of his body. Hoenie suffered a shoulder injury. Associated Press Note: Birds also knocked out Power!! See "Power" PK file. G.W. U.S. Govt PK # Hang Glider Crash At China Lake Kills Navy Pilot SF Chron. 10/1/80 China Lake A Navy pilot died yesterday when the motorized hang glider he was flying crashed during tests at China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Commander Dennis E. Becker was in a low-level flight when the lightweight aircraft tumbled onto dry-bedded Mirror Lake, said base spokesman S. G. Payne. The craft, the Mitchell Wing 10-B, is one of several light craft being tested by the Navy for possible military use, Payne said. Becker was one of five Navy personnel assigned to the project. # Plague Closes Park Sacramento Bubonic plague among ground squirrels has forced officials to close Plumas-Eureka State Park near Blairsden in southern Plumas County. SF Chron. 9/30/80 Associated Press # PCBs Pollute Huge Area In Oakland By Dale Champion California's largest known PCB waste contamination problem has been uncovered at General Electric Company's big east Oakland repair yard, and cleaning up the pollution could cost millions of dollars, the state Department of Health Services disclosed yesterday. The highly toxic wastes, spilled over 40 years from heavy electrical equipment using PCB insulating fluids, are spread over the 24-acre GE property at East 14th Street between 54th and Seminary avenues. "It looks like the cleanup costs will be in the multi-millions of dollars," said Harvey Collins, chief of Health Services' hazardous materials management section in announcing the massive pollution problem. Collins said one solution under consideration is the removal of more than 200,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil, a project estimated to cost between $30 million and $50 million. Probings for PCBs -- polychlorinated biphenyls -- at the GE yard, Collins said, show that the contamination reaches to depths of 15 to 20 feet. The chemical compounds, which are extremely stable and highly resistant to fire, have been identified as the cause of numerous serious health disorders and are suspected of causing cancer. They also are a major environmental hazard, especially in waterways, where they can enter the food chain and magnify in concentrations as they move from smaller SF Chron. Oct 1, '80 Back Page Col. 4 === Page 71 of 93 Orig 10/17/80 # Atlanta probes child slayings, disappearances By PEGGY WALSH ATLANTA (AP) -- Police began organizing door-to-door foot patrols Thursday and community leaders signed up volunteers for weekend searches as the investigation intensified in the unsolved slayings and disappearances of 14 black children. The action came one day after police revealed that the body of a youth found in 1979 has been identified as one of six black children previously listed as missing. The identification of the body of Alfred James Evans, 14, of Atlanta brought to nine the number of children under age 15 killed in Atlanta or south suburban East Point in the last 15 months. Five other black children are still missing. The body of Evans, who was suffocated, was found last July four days after he disappeared, but positive identification by dental records was not made until Wednesday. Police officials gathered Thursday to plan a door-to-door campaign to gather information about the killings and disappearances. Angelo Fuster, Mayor Maynard Jackson's press secretary, said "hundreds of policemen" would be on the patrols, and the City Council was considering a curfew for children under age 15. Meanwhile, the United Youth Adult Conference, a non-profit social services agency, scheduled searches over the next several Saturdays of areas where children were reported missing. "We've had more than 200 volunteers so far," conference spokeswoman Helen Taylor said. "All sorts of people are volunteering their time and services. We've had medical technicians, off-duty policemen, students, everybody. They all want to help find something to solve this thing." This Saturday's search will concentrate on the area where 7-year-old Latonya Wilson, the only female among the missing children, was reportedly taken from the bedroom of her home on June 22. The slayings of the children, combined with the deaths of four black toddlers and a black teacher in a furnace explosion at a day-care center Monday, has riddled the black community with fear and distrust. Police have said the furnace explosion was an unrelated accident, but some blacks have expressed fear that the incidents are somehow connected. Jackson, who like most of the city's hierarchy is black, held news conferences each day this week, urging parents to discourage Halloween "trick-or-treating" and calling for a $100,000 reward for information about the dead and missing. The fund already totals $30,000. Parents' groups and religious leaders have coordinated efforts in recent weeks to provide children with safety tips, and neighborhood businesses have organized to provide safe places for children to go if they are afraid. The latest victim was Charles Stephens, 12, whose asphyxiated body was found a week ago. Contacts: As a top world psychic... I know that the Klu Klux Klan is behind the above. Doing it * Also, am sure that they are using the facilities of the Atlanta S.P.C.A. "humane" Society to asphyxiate the little children (a la dogs & cats.) the symbolism of dogs... or animals with negro kids... appeals to their twisted evil minds. Owens (PK Man) * They are trying to provoke an open war between blacks and whites! === Page 72 of 93 Fate Mag Nov. 1980 # Update . . . . . . . . By Jerome Clark DOES TIBET HAVE A "LOCH NESS MONSTER"? A Peking newspaper story this past June reports that a remote Tibetan lake harbors a dangerous monster "as big as a house." The creature, described as having a "very long" neck and "comparatively big" head, is said to have killed a farmer who was rowing in a small boat on the lake, which is located 420 miles from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. MOVE OVER, NESSIE -- HERE'S CHESSIE! Meanwhile, back in the United States, two separate groups of people claim to have seen a creature swimming in the waters of the Potomac River. Near Oak Grove, Va., 59-year-old farmer Goodwin Muse, who with his wife and four friends saw the thing on June 14, says, "It looked like a snake . . . from 10 to 14 feet long" and about five inches in diameter. It was visible for 15 minutes as it swam 40 to 50 feet offshore. On June 22, several persons spotted it from a boat. Their description matched Muse's except that they put its length at 25 feet. In 1978, 30 persons saw a similar creature on the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay. Reporters dubbed it "Chessie." (1980) (1980) BIGFOOT LEAVES BIG FEET IN IDAHO. Residents of rural Fort Hall, Idaho, believe a Sasquatch family left huge tracks in the area recently. The prints, discovered over a two-week period between late June and early July, were eight, 12 and 16 inches in length and somewhat wedge-shaped. The middle-sized prints had four toes, apparently the result of a deformity. Authorities did not speculate on the identity of the presumed animals but in mid-July, Fort Hall policemen heard weird screeching sounds and smelled a "strong pungent odor" -- phenomena traditionally associated with Bigfoot. JEANE DIXON SEES THE FUTURE . . . As a professed psychic Jeane Dixon has far more 78 Note: Several years ago I wrote to Dr. Max Vogel, a scientist for Mensa... and told him that I'd bring UFOs and the Loch Ness monster "to Chesapeake Bay. Following that many people saw the Loch Ness monster in Chesapeake Bay. This seems to be a second series of such sightings. This has been a caused happening (by myself). Owen === Page 73 of 93 near area where Teddy and I linked up and merged with the ancient Mayan power, Xtoloc. We were Uzmal THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 9, 1980 15 # Cancun carefully planned paradise By GLENNA SYSE Field News Service CANCUN, Mexico -- Pronounce it Khan, as in Genghis, then coon as in raccoon. Emphasis on the second syllable please. And note that it helps if you raise your right shoulder on the coon and squint a little with the left eye. Certainly plan to look superior. If you've been here, you're entitled, because you're way ahead of the crowd. This sun-smooched resort on a sliver of sand off the northeast coast of the Yucatan didn't even exist seven years ago. The Mexicans just invented it. In fact, the story is that it is a computer baby. The government south of the border decided that Acapulco, Cozumel and Puerta Vallarta were not all things to all sun-and-sea freaks, so they decided to start from scratch. They got out the machine and into it they programmed such things as climate, accessibility, history, fishing, sights to be seen, etc. And Cancun was born. And so here it is, a carefully planned brand-new paradise for swimmers, snorklers and sybarites, not to mention manufacturers of Coppertone and maps. A decade ago it was just sunrise and sunset, dunes and a few Mayans. Now 30,000 live here, mostly to service the lineup of luxury hotels, restaurants and shops that are sparsely dotted along the skinny snake of sand, 14 miles long and just one-quarter of a mile wide. Great care has been made to protect the environment and keep the neon dim. They say Cancun is never going to be a honky-tonk, and I hope they keep their word. To date, it is unsullied -- a place to get away from it all without giving up room service. There's one subject to get rid of up front. Cancun is 130 miles from Chichen Itza, where the mighty pyramid El Castillo reigns. And it is close to other famous Mayan ruins. Tulum is a 75-mile trip. It is a small walled city on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean. Photo by BARBARA JORDAN CHICHEN ITZA -- El Castillo pyramid, reached with a 130-mile drive through the jungle, is one of the remarkable Mayan ruins to visit during a stay in Cancun, Mexico. The ride through the scrubby jungle was of some interest, especially when they say that anteaters and jaguars are out there along with iguanas, spider monkeys, ocelot, deer, turkeys and wild pigs. But even jungles get repetitious after a while. There is a stop to snorkel at Xel-Ha, a natural aquarium with all kinds of bright little fish darting through the coral, and to lunch by the languid lagoon at Akumal Beach. Once in Cancun there is golf on an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones course; shopping (you are expected to bargain) at the Mauna Loa and El Parian shopping centers, although I did best at the La Casita downtown; go parasailing for $25; fish for tuna, marlin, sailfish, mackerel or grouper; or explore the state of Quintana Roo and visit its capital Chetumal; or sample Cozumel. One voyage is a must, and that's the cruise on the Fiesta Maya to Isla Mujeres. It's a happy ship, well-supplied with rum, a live orchestra and a glass bottom in need of Windex. As it churns along the peninsula, one can see workers on the shore, some busy with chisels, others languishing in hammocks, which in itself is the pleasant dichotomy of the Mayans, the friendliest and warmest people one could ever meet. === Page 74 of 93 Note: Fascinating! My phone call to Miben SF last week when I told him the SI's were going after top U.S. govt. individuals. Owen # Miss Lillian undergoes hip surgery AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lillian Carter, President Carter's 82-year-old mother, was reported in good condition Thursday evening after undergoing surgery for a broken hip. "Miss Lillian withstood the two-hour operation extremely fine and now is in the recovery room," said Dr. John H. Robinson III, her attending physician. Mrs. Carter tripped on a rug about 8 a.m. as she got up to turn on a television set, said James R. Griffith, administrator of Americus-Sumter County Hospital. She was admitted to the hospital about 9 a.m. During the late afternoon operation, a team of physicians including an orpedist and an internist inserted a pin in Mrs. Carter's right hip, Robinson said. "We do not anticipate any unusual problems for she is in good condition," he said. "It's too soon to determine how long she will be required to remain in the hospital." On hand at the hospital during the surgery were Mrs. Carter's son, Billy; his wife, Sybil; and Mrs. Carter's daughter, Gloria Carter Spann, Robinson said. The physician said he spoke with President Carter earlier in the day by telephone. "She is in good spirits and is receiving the usual medication for such treatment," Griffith said prior to the surgery. "Her physician said it was just a fractured hip which could be repaired by surgery." White House press secretary Jody Powell said the president spoke by telephone with his sister and his mother's doctor about the accident. Powell said the president's mother relayed a message to her son through the doctor that Carter shouldn't worry and she would talk to him "when I get through messing around with the doctors." Powell said no decision had been made on whether Carter would go to Georgia to visit his mother. Mrs. Carter was born Aug. 15, 1898, in Richland, Ga., about 20 miles from Plains, and earned a nursing degree at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She was married in 1923 to James Earl Carter Sr., a peanut farmer and businessman. Org. Oct 3, 1980 Note: In pursuing daily activation of the Mayan-UFO PK map it seems that it causes explosions everywhere... ships explode, oil rigs explode; # Eight hurt as coal dust explosion levels factory CINCINNATI (UPI) -- Coal dust was blamed Thursday for a massive explosion that leveled a foundry factory, injured eight workers -- four critically -- and left one person unaccounted for. A search was under way for a man who had made a delivery to the Hill & Griffith Co. factory near the time of the explosion Wednesday. The whereabouts of Robert Wifke, 34, co-owner of the Wilke Sheet Metal Co., were unknown. Listed in critical condition Thursday at General Hospital were factory workers Floyd Coldiron, Raymond Bruney, Paul Ganghoff and Rodger McGuffy. Less seriously injured were two other workmen and a couple employed at the factory. The explosion leveled the 100-by-400-foot brick and timber building where 15 persons were working and caused a three-alarm fire. "I couldn't see because the coal dust was too thick," said employee Bill Thesing. "There was coal dust all over the place. It was pitch black. You couldn't see your hand in front of you." Fire Chief Norm Wells blamed the explosion on the coal dust. "This is a factory that manufactures foundry equipment. They use pulverized coal in their process, so we suspect it was a coal dust explosion." Tuesday, two coal dust explosions at Commonwealth Edison's coal-fired plant in Pekin, Ill., injured seven persons -- one still in serious condition -- and caused $100 million in damages. Thesing was not injured by Wednesday's blast but said he was "rolled" by the force of the explosion. "I was sitting in a chair with wheels on it in the shipping office about 20 feet away from where the explosion was," he said. "I heard a big blast and it started my chair rolling. It gave me a helluva ride. I remember hitting the wall." Org. J. 10/16/80 The papers are full of such massive explosions. I am certain that it is caused by my current activity. Owen 10/17/80 === Page 75 of 93 "Time" Distortion (i.e. a different age or time.) (The SI & I were badly treated by Los Alamos "Time Distortion" & other scientists in New Mexico! U.S. Beam - Attack - ? (Guene) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1980 # Age-old scourge bubonic plague ## on rise in New Mexico By MATT MYGATT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Bubonic plague -- the scourge that littered the lanes of medieval Europe with bodies -- has struck 11 people in New Mexico this year, killing three of them. Bubonic plague is a rare disease, but it hits New Mexico harder than any other state. "There is no question that the disease is endemic in the rodent population in New Mexico," said Dr. Jonathan Mann, assistant state director for health promotion and disease prevention. Fleas transmit the disease from animals to humans -- a pet dog or cat might kill an infected rodent, a flea might hop from the rodent to the dog and the dog might carry it home. The disease can be transmitted between humans when it reaches the pneumonic stage, the victim's coughs spewing the virulent plague organism into the air to infect other humans. However, New Mexico has never registered a human-to-human plague case. "The risk of plague is higher in adolescents and children," Mann said. "This probably has to do with their relationship with dogs and cats -- they maybe are more likely to have close contact with the dogs and cats." Plague symptoms include a high fever, a general feeling of sickness usually accompanied by painful swelling of the lymph glands in the neck, underarm and groin areas. In the 30 years since 1949, when a Taos physician who had seen plague cases in California diagnosed the first one in New Mexico, 97 people have caught the plague. Seventeen of them died. Forty-four of the cases occurred in the first 25 years of that span. But in the past five years, there have been 53. "Clearly, the number of cases is increasing significantly," Mann said. "This is the first century of our experience with plague in the United States, and it's too early to know how it's going to behave. It may die out, or it may become a more difficult problem in the years to come." The plague reached this country around 1900, Mann said, when disease-ridden fleas hopped rides on freighters from China, then jumped ship on the shores of California. "From 1900 to 1908, all cases that occurred in the United States were from urban rat populations," Mann said. "In 1908, the first case of human plague from exposure to a squirrel was noted in California." "It apparently spread from its beachhead in the California port cities from urban rat populations to wild rodent populations all over the Western United States," he said. "Plague is considered a medieval disease, but it's not," Mann continued. "It was only basically in the late part of the last century and the early part of this century that the mysteries of how it is transmitted, how it spreads and how it exists in nature were discovered." === Page 76 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Death toll rises to 50 in storm By United Press International The season's worst attack battered the East Coast with howling winds, rain and snow for the second day Thursday, aided by bitter cold that left the Midwest under a sheet of ice. At least 50 deaths were blamed on the storm. High-wind warnings were posted from southern New England into New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and gale warnings were issued from New Jersey to Florida and Mississippi. A freeze warning was posted over north-central Florida and Texas. The storm, which dumped more than a foot of snow from Colorado to Michigan, moved into the Northeast Wednesday and spread rain and snow down the Eastern Seaboard. Arctic air, combined with fierce wind, dropped wind-chill factors down to a life-threatening 84 below in the Midwest and headed east. The storm was blamed for at least 50 deaths -- eight in Iowa, seven in Illinois and New York, five in Kansas, four in Louisiana and three each in Texas and Missouri. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan each reported two storm deaths and Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania each had one. org. 2/12/81 org 2/25/81 # U.S. drops Hells Angels case SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- The government's multimillion-dollar attempt to prosecute Hells Angels motorcycle club members and associates for conspiracy in drug trafficking failed after two trials and almost 14 months in the courtroom. When a second trial jury declared itself deadlocked but leaning toward acquittal Tuesday, U.S. Attorney G. William Hunter said he would not seek a new trial. "Justice has been done," said Hunter, who estimated the government spent $4 million to $7 million in the long case. Defense attorneys, however, estimated the government cost of trying to prosecute the club members at between $10 million and $20 million. A mistrial was declared by U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick when the nine-man, three-woman jury said it was deadlocked hopelessly after 10 days of deliberation totaling 46 hours. Note: And I can't get the five million ufo. Base to save the human race! Owens - Attack - # Search fails to find plane VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Ground crews continued to search Friday for a single-engine plane that disappeared Monday during a five-minute flight over Vancouver, said the search coordinator, Newell Lee of the Washington state Division of Aeronautics. Lee described the disappearance of the plane as "very mysterious and very puzzling." He said the search is focusing on the area around Lewisville Park north of Battle Ground. Don Rudebaugh, 28, a mechanic and pilot for Vancouver-based Aircraft Specialties, left the Clark County Aerodrome Monday afternoon on an eight-mile flight south to Pearson Airpark where the plane was to have been repaired. Helicopters from the 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron in Portland had helped in the search and were standing by in case they are needed, Lee said. Fixed-wing aircraft will be employed as soon as weather allows them in the air, he said. org. 2/15/81 Note: A few days later Vancouver earthquake. Owens - 4 Projects PK - # Thousands flee floodwaters PORT JERVIS, N.Y. (AP) -- More than half of the 4,000 people driven from their homes on both sides of the rain-swollen, ice-clogged Delaware River began to return to their houses Thursday evening, officials said. The flooding occurred in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when a huge ice jam at the New York-Pennsylvania border sent the river over its banks. A state of emergency remained in effect in the twin cities of Port Jervis and Matamoras, Pa. The mayors of the two cities closed schools Thursday so the buildings and city churches could be used as temporary shelters. "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life," said Mayor Joseph Ricciardi of Matamoras. Most of the homes in the Pennsylvania town were without heat Thursday night, and authorities said many families had moved to higher ground to stay with relatives. New York Gov. Hugh Carey asked the federal Small Business Administration to declare Orange County a disaster area Thursday. Carey's office said an initial survey of the flood's effects in Port Jervis showed damage to 101 commercial and manufacturing establishments and 525 single-family residences. About 500 basements in Matamoras were flooded and about a dozen homes suffered structural damage from the ice, officials said. The hardest hit part of Port Jervis was the lower half of the city on the riverfront. The private Doctors Sunnyside Hospital was closed and its 27 patients were evacuated to St. Francis Hospital in the uphill section of the city. org. 2/13/81 - Attack - # Hunt continued for lost plane PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) -- Two helicopters and two fixed wing planes resumed the search Saturday for a light plane with one occupant missing since Thursday, a state Aeronautics Division spokesman said. The craft failed to land after the pilot requested runway clearance. "The weather is spotty in spots but it is expected to get better this weekend," said LeMoine Stitt, spokesman for the division, which is coordinating the search. On Friday, an air search of the rain-drenched northern Olympic Peninsula failed to find any sign of the plane or its pilot, Jim Perkins of Sequim. org. 2/15/81 === Page 77 of 93 Quake rocks Greece; 12 die, hotels topple ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- The official death toll Wednesday rose to 12 with scores injured in an earthquake that collapsed four hotels in towns around Athens and forced residents of the capital to sleep outdoors or flee the city. The earthquake, recorded by the Athens Seismological Institute at 6.6 on the open-ended Richter scale, struck Tuesday night and was followed by a series of strong aftershocks. Police reported 12 persons died because of the earthquake and 55 were injured. With the exception of government offices, where many failed to appear for work, all offices, schools and banks in Athens were shut Wednesday. The only shops open were food stores. Four hotels collapsed near Corinth. A railway bridge connecting Athens with the region was closed and landslides forced detours on the highway to the area. Villages and small towns between Athens and the epicenter suffered more than the capital. One of the 12 people known dead was killed in Vrahati, a town along the Corinth Gulf coast, when an eight-story hotel crumbled. One person was missing and feared dead in the ruins. In Megara, 30 miles southwest of Athens, four people died and 10 were injured by falling masonry, authorities said. In Halkis, one woman was killed, and in Vrahati, a woman was found dead under debris, authorities said. In Athens, a woman died of a heart attack in the middle of the street and another was killed when she jumped from her second-floor window, police said. In Corinth, where some damage was reported in old buildings, 34 people were hospitalized for injuries. The institute said the epicenter was in the Gulf of Corinth, 44 miles west of Athens, around a group of small islands known as the Alcyons. Athens has been relatively immune to earthquakes but Corinth is a frequent victim. In Athens, many people took blankets and spent the night in public squares or parked cars. org 2/25/81 SITE OF QUAKE -- A strong earthquake rocked Athens and other parts of Greece, killing at least 12 persons and toppling hotels in towns around Athens. - 4 Projects PK - Jet crashes on runway; 34 injured By JACKIE HYMAN SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- An Air California jetliner with 109 persons aboard crash-landed Tuesday while trying to avoid another plane on a runway at John Wayne Airport, injuring at least 34, officials said. The plane's fuselage was cracked open, an engine was torn from a wing and its landing gear was ripped off. The twin-engine Boeing 737, Air California's Flight 336 from San Jose, was carrying 104 passengers and five crew members when the crash occurred at dusk as the plane was landing at the airport in Orange County, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Most of the injuries were minor, said Thomas Kaminski, director of communications for Air California, a commuter airline serving California, Nevada and Oregon. "Apparently there was another aircraft on the runway," said a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman who asked not to be identified. The Air California pilot "was issued a go-around" to keep circling the airport, the spokesman said, "but we're not sure if he heard it." The FAA spokesman said the plane "made a hard landing and then bounced and went into the dirt to the right of the runway. Apparently the landing gear was down. "It was torn off when the plane went into the dirt." The plane came to rest in a dirt and grass area that separates the airport's two north-south runways. "The left engine is gone, it's broken off," said George Thomsen, president of Thomsen Aviation at the airport. "The airplane is cracked in the center. It didn't actually separate completely. The aircraft is broken. It's lying over on its left wing with the right wing in the air." Air California officials said the plane's nose wheel gear collapsed, toppling the plane sideways and dragging the right wing along the runway. A fire broke out in the right wing, wheel well and fuselage, but firemen from a station only 200 yards away blew the flames away from the passenger section while the plane was evacuated. Passengers left the plane via emergency evacuation chutes. org 2/18/81 - 4 Projects PK - Temple damaged ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Worried archaeologists Friday reported significant earthquake damage to the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis, symbol for 2,500 years of the glory of ancient Greece. The ancient marble columns, which have survived fire, invasion and air pollution erosion over the centuries, suffered cracks that experts described as serious although they were barely noticeable to a reporter's eye. The cause of the damage was an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, which struck Greece with shattering force Tuesday night. It was followed by 652 aftershocks in 24 hours from an epicenter in the Gulf of Corinth, 60 miles southwest of Athens. The quake left 15 persons dead. org 2/28/81 === Page 78 of 93 - $\Delta$ Effect - (Disorientation) # Toll at 13 after quakes rock Athens By GILLIAN WHITTAKER ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Panicky Athenians streamed out of the city Wednesday after Greece was hit by two strong earthquakes that killed 13 people and injured dozens of others in collapsed houses and hotels. The quakes damaged the east and west faces of the famous Parthenon, including two corner columns of the ancient temple on the 2,500-year-old Acropolis overlooking Athens. Police said five people were reported missing after the quakes hit the country during the night. The capital city was almost deserted by midafternoon as people drove into the countryside, fearing that more buildings might collapse in new tremors. "People must understand that they are suffering unnecessarily by staying out in the open now if they are sure that their houses are safe," Premier George Rallis said on a tour of the worst-hit areas. "Houses that didn't suffer from either the first or second large quakes have proved that they can stand." The two quakes registered 6.6 and 6.3 on the open-ended Richter scale. Their epicenter was 42 miles west of Athens in the Gulf of Corinth, the Athens Seismological Institute said. Corinth, 40 miles west of Athens, was one of the hardest-hit cities. The shocks destroyed five hotels in the area around the gulf and collapsed more than 200 houses, police said. The quake was the strongest in Athens in recent years. Many Athenians panicked when lights went out and windows shattered. Thousands spent the night in the open, huddled around makeshift fires or wrapped in blankets. # Sighting spurs rare-bird alert WARRENTON (AP) -- A Siberian sandpiper, never before seen in the continental United States, has been spotted at the mouth of the Columbia River, prompting a rare-bird alert. "This is probably the rarest bird to occur in Oregon in at least a decade and possibly the last century," bird expert Thomas J. Crabtree said Friday. Crabtree, a member of the board of directors of the Audubon Society's Salem chapter, took color photographs of the bird Tuesday at Fort Stevens State Park. He said bird watchers were coming from Seattle and other points in Oregon and Washington in hopes of getting a glimpse of the sandpiper. "We call it a rare-bird alert," Crabtree said. "But it's not a formal declaration of the Audubon Society." The spotted redshank is 11 inches long. It is gray with a white breast and red legs. The bird has been feeding alone on a south jetty northwest of Astoria. Crabtree said he could not tell whether it is a male or female. Crabtree, a deputy state public defender who is a member of Oregon Field Ornithologists, said the bird's presence on the West Coast is comparable to having a Canada goose show up in Japan. Two species of spotted redshanks breed in the northern parts of Asia and Europe, Crabtree said. A few members of the European group, which breeds in Norway, have been seen in the summer along the Eastern coastline of the northern United States and Canada. This is the first spotting anywhere in the continental United States of an Asian redshank in the winter, Crabtree said. He said the birds migrate southward to Japan and Indonesia. But at this time of year, Crabtree said, the sandpiper normally would be heading north to breed in Siberia. "It must be terribly confused," said Crabtree, who speculated that the bird made a wrong turn and came down the Canadian coast instead of going down the Siberian coast. Crabtree said an Audubon Society publication, "American Birds," and another book, "Rare Birds of the West Coast," have no records of an Asian sandpiper seen this far south. He said there are 16 recorded sightings in the Aleutian chain. In 1970, he said, an Asian spotted redshank was seen near the Reifl Bird Refuge near Vancouver, British Columbia. oreg. 2/28/81 "We were out almost all night," said pensioner Costas Zorios as he slumped in his car with his wife and two grandchildren. In Kinetta, between Athens and Corinth, teams worked for eight hours to save Evanghelos Bouraias, a hotel owner who had been trapped in the ruins of his collapsed hotel. Schools were closed in all areas affected by the quakes. Rallis said most school buildings had withstood the shocks, however, and would open Thursday. The premier added that it was up to local authorities to persuade people to return to their homes. All military units and public services were placed in a state of readiness to deal with emergency situations. The Athens Seismological Institute said 465 tremors registering more than 3 on the Richter scale were recorded after the first shock. Of those, eight registered between 4.5 and 6.3 on the scale. Eng 2/26/81 # Bus hurtles off highway, killing 10 QUANTICO, Va. (AP) -- A commuter bus crashed through a guardrail on Interstate 95 Wednesday afternoon and hurtled down an 80-foot embankment into a creek. Police said at least 10 people were killed, including the driver, and 14 were injured. "The bus driver just went off the right side for no apparent reason. It's very mysterious," said State Trooper S.G. Gregg, who was in charge of the investigation at the scene about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. "As he started to the right lane everything was normal," said Wayne Richey, a Colonial Heights truck driver who witnessed the crash. "All of a sudden he just kept going to the right... right into the guardrail, skimmed the guardrail, hit the corner of the bridge (over the creek) just like a piece of paper being blown by the wind. He just went airborne over the side of the bridge." Donald Harvey and Wayne Mason, two Fairfax County firefighters who witnessed the accident, helped some of the injured from the bus, which came to rest on its side in Chopawamsic Creek in about a foot of water. The front of the bus was demolished. State police closed the southbound lane of the highway so U.S. Park Police helicopters could land to take victims to hospitals. "It was complete chaos, mainly in the front of the bus," Mason said. "The motor was still running. We turned that off, and water was running through the bus." Gregg said it had not been determined if the driver had a heart attack or if there was a mechanical failure. Gregg 2/19/81 === Page 79 of 93 - my personal PK on Enquirer for their double-cross. Gwen (2) Oregon Journal, March 3, 1981 19 # TV star set to battle tabloid in court HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- The National Enquirer, the supermarket tabloid that it is the most widely circulated newspaper, has long targeted celebrities as topics for discussion. Personalities have long criticized what they call The Enquirer's cheap shots, the so-called "inside story" of their romantic flings, divorces and personal problems. And this week, the motion picture, television and recording industry will be watching closely as Carol Burnett tackles the media giant in a multimillion-dollar libel suit. Miss Burnett claims an item printed in the paper five years ago presented her as being drunk and disorderly at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, arguing with Henry Kissinger and spilling wine on a diner. The star filed suit soon after the article appeared, refusing to settle out of court, saying, "Every time they tried to settle I said: 'No. I want to go to trial. You are the bad guys." Much of the paper's five million circulation can be traced to its stories of marital strife, broken romances, alcoholism and drug addiction among celebrities, often attributed to "friends" or "insiders." Miss Burnett, champion of many stars who also are suing The Enquirer, plans to appear Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, asking $5 million damages. The trial is expected to start the following week and will probably last for about two weeks, court sources said. Watching with interest will be Dolly Parton, Ed McMahon, Phil Silvers, Rory Calhoun, Shirley Jones, Paul Lynde, Hedy Lamarr, Rudy Vallee and others who have accused The Enquirer of abusing them in print. A total of nine other celebrities have filed suits against the tabloid seeking a total of $62.5 million. "This is the first time anyone has gone to court with The Enquirer," said Marty Ingels, who with his wife Shirley Jones is suing the newspaper for $10 million. "It's an important day for all of us. If Carol wins her suit, it will open the floodgates for the entire field of libel." The Enquirer called Miss Jones "a crying drunk" and said Ingels cheated his movie-star clients. It quoted a Parton friend as describing her as "the Genghis Khan of country music," said Calhoun was dying of cancer, and called Miss Lamarr a pathetic recluse and Lynde a drunken trouble-maker. McMahon, accused of undergoing a face lift among other things, sued the newspaper for $2.5 million, saying The Enquirer "preys upon the public's appetite for scandal and gossip." "Carol's spent more in attorney's fees (an estimated $200,000) than she'll ever collect from The Enquirer," Ingels said. "But she encouraged us to hang in there." Miss Burnett said the implication that she was a heavy drinker triggered her suit. She said she would stay with the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. "If this sucker goes for 50 years, I'm going to be there in a rocking chair facing the jury." William Masterson, an attorney with the New York law firm of Rogers & Wells, will represent The Enquirer. "Our defense against Miss Burnett's charge is that even if the item was incorrect, it wasn't defamatory," he said. "Even if there were some inaccuracies or if it were harmful, it was retracted in April 6, 1976," Masterson said. The item was printed March 2, 1976. Miss Burnett denies there is any truth to the item except that she was in a restaurant and did meet Kissinger. Enquirer publisher Generoso Pope Jr., who publishes the paper in Lantana, Fla., and his top spokesmen say they discourage fabrications and have dismissed three or four staffers in a decade or so for faking news. Ingels charged The Enquirer contacts sources, generally people who come in brief contact with celebrities (waiters, hair-dressers, doormen) and pays them cash to "recall" situations or conversations that never took place. === Page 80 of 93 Note: Copy of letter I sent to VP George Bush. Owens This communication is of the utmost importance to you. Who are the most dangerous humans in the world? The key people who invented and are furthering atomic and nuclear power? Hitler? No. Before going further let me state that I attended Duke University and am a member of Mensa, the high-IQ organization of the world (upper 2% of world's population). If you will read the enclosed book (in the hands of publishing people in New York and written by a scientist, also an expert in the field of parapsychology) === Page 81 of 93 2 then you will understand that I am the most dangerous human being that the world has ever known. (Please do not misunderstand me and misconstrue the above. This is not a "threatening" letter. The book will explain what kind of letter it is.) You have absolutely no one in your intelligence agencies, or in your government... with my abilities, and in this letter I am placing these abilities within the reach of yourself and President Reagan, to help the United States. === Page 82 of 93 - Blazer PK - ore 12/1/80 # Pressure's on Ramsay to right Blazers Thanks in no small measure to rumored signs of life in their two most recent road losses, the Portland Trail Blazers were able to return home Sunday without having to wear disguises to avoid public ridicule. But any continuation of the sorry performances offered by this talent-thick team and funny masks may yet find their place in the Blazers' wardrobe. Let's face it, the Blazers of 1980 stink. They were a better team last year when injuries and questionable trades debilitated the troops faster than Coach Jack Ramsay could say, "If we run our offense and play the way we know we can play, we can still have a very good basketball team." You've heard that before, and so has everyone in the National Basketball Association. But as this interminable season lurches into December one important fact has become crystal clear -- the Blazers are going nowhere, probably not even out of the Pacific Division cellar. With 30 percent of the schedule completed, the Blazers already have crapped out in the playoff game. If anyone thinks Portland has a chance to gain a berth, then certainly post-season hopes must exist for those bad jokes in Cleveland and Detroit. Both have better records than the Blazers. After 25 games, Portland has managed only four more wins than the Dallas Mavericks, the only team in the 23-team league with a worse record. Seldom in sports do teams with such blatantly obvious talent take the gaspipe so early. This is a team, you have to remember, that plucked five first-round draft choices in the past three years, yet it plays as if the roster is stocked from Claudia's AAU team. Bart Wright Fact: Portland has won 7 of 12 home games against a collection of 11 opponents which has included only four teams with winning records. Fact: Portland has lost 13 of 13 road games. Fact: Projected at that percentage over the balance of the season, the Blazers would finish 23-59. Fact: To reach the standard playoff measuring rod of 45 wins, the Blazers need 38 more in their remaining 57 games, which translates to a .667 winning percentage. Could they win 20 of their remaining 29 home games? Sounds unrealistic, but if you care to dream and can accept that record it means Portland would have to go 18-10 on the road to attain 45 wins. That's impossible for a team that discovers ways to lose with a two-point lead and five seconds to go as it did in New York Saturday. Countless theories are sure to be advanced to explain this collective choke job, but the collar has to be tightest around Jack Ramsay's neck. Ramsay's knowledge of basketball is on a par with any coach on the globe, and it surpasses most. But complicated play diagrams don't win in the NBA, players do. The trick is to stockpile the talent, keep the troops happy and run teams out with the exploitation of individual skills. The Blazers' lineup and the inner roles of each player change almost daily, leaving players confused and frustrated. In one game, for example, Mychal Thompson might be a center, a power forward and then a quick forward. Against Philadelphia Friday, rookie Kelvin Ransey had a bad shooting day but dished out eight assists in the first half. A couple of early mistakes in the second half and Ransey was strapped to the bench. This season's playoff hopes may be over, but if the Blazers are to play close to their potential in the last four months, Ramsay should take off the chains. That same strategy might make him a winner in Detroit where persistent rumors have him landing next year. Owner Larry Weinberg has delivered a vote of confidence in the coach, but that will wane as the dollars dwindle, which they are at the closed circuit telecasts at the Paramount. The Blazers averaged 1,546 a night last season at the Paramount, but it has tailed off to around 1,000 a night this year. Only winning will improve the financial picture, and with the talent on hand, responsibility for the win-loss column falls on the coach. December 2, 1980 CONTACTS Note: I controlled the above "Trailblazer" pro basketball team last year, and wrecked them. They are the "symbol" for Portland, where my boys and I were insulted, mistreated. It isn't nice to mistreat and insult PK Man. Pursuant to my nature I am continuing the wrecking process this season also. (You have last year's file.) I track this team by TV and radio with my alien mind... and then strange things happen to them! Owens === Page 83 of 93 Judge Jeffrey - in "10 year file" should be my PK of the Beatles. (67 to 70) Contacts B-17 bomber. Atl. & Pac. poisoned w/ 100,000 drops 1/3 of barrels are leaking. Affects oxygen produced by oceans. Oxygen reduction affects animal life on earth. 1/2 to 1/3 oxygen diminish. Affects dogs, cats, horses, first... before humans! (4 dogs, 100 bites, kills) Zoo animals die, 4. Elephant dies. === Page 84 of 93 It's like me + 3 Powers are an "overlay" over the US! If no base (5 mil) is forthcoming shortly - I'll take money away completely from US 11/10/80 The SI's told me last night that they are going to give me a new Power!! Gwen Contacts What I have done, so miracle, is now squared (as in math power). 7 billion to Iran for hostages? 400 million to Chrysler - but no measly 5 million for the UFO Base Note: I am standing on the sideline, watching my UFOs put together a machine of absolute ruin & disaster for the U.S. govt. (because they are refused their base) while the scientists & govt. try to ignore me & my UFOs! Gwen === Page 85 of 93 Contacts Pliers jumped out of my hand. Next day loaf of bread jumped off of grocery store shelf. Next day candy bar jumped off of grocery store shelf. Then the scissors moved & hung Jan. 2, 1980 5 logs jumped off a stack of logs 20 feet away w/ Beau & me watching. NO way it could happen. Note: Constant phenomena, "Poltergeist" in character, psychokinetic in effect, which is occurring near me almost daily now (Jan. 30, 1981). Gwene Tonight... my tray of food jumped off the table. Several hours later my scissors jumped off the table. 10/17/80 Nov. 20, 1980 Bottle opener jumped off the table! Later... at Keil's grocery a carton of Coca Cola jumped off the shelf five feet away. John the manager saw it. Scratched his head in puzzlement. === Page 86 of 93 Outbreak hits NW hospital SEATTLE (AP) -- Harborview Medical Center staffers are keeping a close eye on pneumonia cases after an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease there, Dr. George W. Counts, chief of infectious disease at Harborview, said Saturday. Counts said he doesn't think Legionnaires' disease was involved in deaths at the hospital. "I don't think it was involved in the deaths, although there is no way to exclude that it had a role," he said. The disease was first discovered at Harborview in lung tissue samples from four patients who died there between four and seven weeks ago. It also was found in another patient, who was treated and recovered. The disease is suspected in two other cases, said Dr. Harold E. Laws, Harborview medical director. Counts said Saturday that the four patients who died were in the intensive care unit and were affected with Adult Respiratory Disease Syndrome -- an advanced respiratory shock. Legionnaires' disease "is a pneumonia," Counts said. The symptoms are similar and both diseases are most likely to occur in hospital patients who are seriously ill, in trauma from serious injury, or just getting out of surgery. He said hospital staffers are especially observing patients with respiratory problems, both in and out of intensive care. He said Legionnaires' disease is not communicable, nor is it necessarily fatal. "If patients are treated with erythromycin, a fairly common antibiotic that doctors are very familiar with, then most cases will recover," Counts said. "Those that don't get treated have a fairly high fatality rate," he added. The disease was first found in 1976 at the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia. Since then, "much of the mystery about Legionnaires has been cleared up," Counts said. The source of the infections seems to be within Harborview's 300-bed facility, Laws said. TSS believed widespread DETROIT (UPI) -- New studies reveal that toxic shock syndrome strikes many more women than previously believed, making it almost as common as measles. A federal disease specialist says the mysterious and often-fatal ailment is on the increase. Dr. Bruce B. Dan, an epidemiologist with the federal Center for Disease Control, said Wednesday that there also is additional evidence that TSS, which has been linked to the use of tampons, is triggered by an unidentified strain of a common germ. But Dan cautioned that federal officials are not yet ready to take any action beyond warning women of the potential dangers. In a presentation at the 108th meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dan said recent data in Utah and Wisconsin show the syndrome occurs as frequently as 15 out of every 100,000 menstruating women. Dan The nation Disease hits Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An outbreak of a form of dysentery among mentally retarded children at county nursing homes led to the death of a 7-year-old boy and the closing of school, the Utah Department of Health reported Thursday. In addition to that child, who died of complications, 10 children were infected with shigellosis and officials said 50 to 60 more residents appeared to have symptoms of the disease. Operators of three nursing homes and the Utah State Training School at American Fork have been ordered to prevent patients from leaving and visitors from entering, the health department said. Craig Nichols, state director of communicable disease control, said the staffs and residents of all the affected homes have been put on antibiotics to stop the spread of the infection while survey teams try to find the source of the outbreak. Nichols said Thursday that he hoped to locate the source in 10 to 14 days. Health officials became aware of the outbreak Nov. 13 when a nursing home reported several cases of diarrhea among retarded children, Nichols said. Officials declined to name the nursing homes but said the death did not occur at the Utah State Training School. Note: Yet another "plague"! Owen Gonorrhea outbreak reported in LA ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest single outbreak of a relatively new strain of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea has been reported in Los Angeles, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The outbreak "is going to be much more difficult to bring under control" than earlier outbreaks because the cases are "from almost every health district in Los Angeles County," said Dr. Paul Wiesner, director of the CDC's Venereal Disease Control Division. From Aug. 1 to Oct. 17, 149 cases of the strain -- which is caused by penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae or PPNG -- were reported in Los Angeles County, the CDC reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That raises the total for 1980 to 175 cases, compared to 11 cases reported in the county from March 1976 through December 1979. "It's the single largest outbreak of PPNG in the country," said Wiesner. Note: A few of the "plagues" resultant from the Four Projects. Owen === Page 87 of 93 The reason the US govt won't supply its base even though the Uprosh has enough documented proof for scientists -- all the govt. is interested in is what I have with my 3 powers, as a weapon. So they keep me under surveil. watching how far I can go with my 3 powers in a destructive, negative way. My personal powers now have squared over my previous 500 miracles! "A democracy can no longer survive or exist in this modern world" $\rightarrow$ 1/3/80 Nov. 10, 1980 Prediction: Pres. Reagan will expire in near future and Bush will take over (ex-CIA) then the CIA will be in the saddle calling the shots!! Owen === Page 88 of 93 Sept. 12 1980 Talk about Synchronicity this after a radio announcement by Hal Owen said a female pilot in a plane headed for Vancouver, Wash., from Eugene, Ore, became disoriented and had to be led in to a landing by another airplane!! Contacts I'm here, connected with and able to use far more power than all the other power on earth combined... yet I must use it negatively, destructively... until someone gives my UFOs + I our safe base! Owens 10/26/80 === Page 89 of 93 UFO vs U.S. Org. N. 9/26/80 # Mideast war could trigger money economic chaos Note: The SIs may very well use this method of attacking the U.S. govt. by causing such a situation. Owens United Press International Giant oil tankers still moved slowly into the Persian Gulf Thursday on the fourth day of the Iran-Iraq war, but energy specialists warned a prolonged shutdown of Gulf shipping lanes could drive the United States into the worst depression in its history. The United States and its European allies held discussions on the formation of an allied naval force to protect the 24-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf through which 40 percent of the Free World's oil flows. Some 17.3 million barrels of oil pass through the strait each day. The United States imports 2 million barrels a day of Persian Gulf oil, or about 9 percent of total U.S. oil needs. Japan relies on the gulf for about 70 percent of its oil and Western Europe for 45 percent. In Paris, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz told French President Giscard d'Estaing that Iraq does not want to interfere with shipping in the Gulf. In New York, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said the Carter administration has "contingency plans for an interruption of oil supplies, but we do not think that will happen." But Western observers expressed concern that Iran would attempt to blockade the Strait of Hormuz to put world pressure on Iraq to withdraw from Iranian territory. Iraq claimed its forces had seized Khorramshahr, Iran's major oil port. The fighting has forced the two warring OPEC nations to halt oil exports totaling 2.7 million barrels a day. Iraq, which had been exporting about 2 million barrels daily, said it would begin moving its oil exports to Tripoli through a 550-mile pipeline that has a capacity up to 1.4 million barrels a day. In Paris, the International Energy said several tankers entered the Gulf through the Strait Thursday despite some insurance-related delays. An estimated 30 ships waited outside the gulf until assured of berthing space to avoid high insurance surcharges for time spent in a war-risk zone, the IEA said. The economic livelihood of the industrialized world is at stake in keeping the Persian Gulf open. Three oil pipelines from the Gulf States now move little more than 2 million barrels a day. Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill told Congress Monday that the United States has enough oil in stock to withstand a foreign oil shock that lasted longer than the four-month Arab oil embargo in 1973. But a recent Library of Congress study estimated the loss of 2 million barrels a day of Persian Gulf oil would reduce U.S. economic growth by 2.3 percent, add 2.5 percentage points to the U.S. inflation rate and raise pump prices by 98 cents a gallon over a two-year period. However, a sustained Gulf cutoff would exact a far heavier economic toll because it would activate the IEA's emergency trigger mechanism under which the United States and 19 other nations have agreed to share oil supplies. Analysts said the United States, which produces 55 percent of its own oil needs, would be subject to a 40 percent oil shortage under the IEA trigger and unprecented economic hardship. "The United States would withstand the loss of 2 million barrels a day of imported oil by rationing gasoline, lowering speed limits, setting thermostats below 65 degrees and burning more coal," a U.S. oil economist said. "But if the United States adhered to the IEA trigger, we'd be cut back from current consumption of about 18 million barrels a day to less than 12 million barrels and sharing a 40 percent crude shortage with everybody else," he said. "It would mean a worldwide depression of unprecedented proportions." === Page 90 of 93 20 Oregon Journal, October 21, 1980 (2) television "Power & Rain Attacks" # CBS documentary dissects Saudi Arabia's oil reserves By KENNETH R. CLARK UPI Television Reporter NEW YORK (UPI) -- The CBS News crew doesn't just report in a documentary. It dissects -- and the scalpel correspondent Ed Bradley wields Tuesday night on Saudi Arabia cuts exceedingly fine. Bradley leads the camera through an increasingly vulnerable treasure chest containing one-fourth of the world's known oil reserves and succeeds in a series of interviews in proving his opening contention that, "We have no treaty. . . no written commitment, but we have no choice but to defend it." The oil picture that unfolds in Bradley's narrative is unsettling. "Without Saudi Arabia's oil, the entire northeastern United States would be plunged into darkness," Bradley says by way of introduction. "Without it, our military and economic alliances would collapse." But oil, as an exposed jugular vein for the Western world, isn't the only subject of "CBS Reports the Saudis," slated to air at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Channel 6. In 60 sweeping minutes, Bradley paints a picture of people in an ancient culture whose only law is the Koran and whose view of a 20th century they've never quite joined reflects the desert where "survival of the fittest" is more than just a phrase. Within that matrix lies a possible thorn for some. Try as he will -- and in several interviews, he patently does try -- Bradley is unable to find a single Saudi woman who will condemn the system that condemns her to a lifetime beneath the veil. As headmistress of a once-unheard-of school for girls, Cecille Rouchdy comes across about as liberated as a woman can get. But she bristles at Bradley's prodding about the Saudi lack of equality between men and women. "Why should you always look upon it whatever is different from your society is wrong?" she asks. "In this society, they still feel a woman should be protected. And why shouldn't we? If we can be spoiled in our society, why do you want us to be unspoiled. . . ? We're happy to be protected. . . You keep saying, 'equality.' I think it's jealousy." Western feminists are not likely to applaud, but anyone who sincerely wants to know what's happening in the volatile Persian Gulf where World War III may be in gestation will find this documentary illuminating. BRADLEY WHEN CHARLES KURALT comes off the road Oct. 27 to anchor the CBS "Morning" news, he'll bring along a weatherman with a reputation for having a crystal ball secreted somewhere among his isobaric charts and barometers. Gordon Barnes will report from Washington, and one anecdote from the sports world precedes him. It seems last December, the Minnesota Vikings -- about to meet Los Angeles in the National Football League playoff -- asked Barnes to give them a weather forecast for the day of the game. He said rain, so the Vikings asked for a rainy training ground. He sent them to Tucson, Ariz. While the Rams practiced beneath sunny skies on a dry field, the Vikings scrimmaged in mud and drizzle. They came out of it to beat the Rams -- in the rain. THE OPENING GAME of the World Series was to NBC what a cup of chicken soup is to a man with a head cold. The network captured 51 per cent of the massive New York audience and 45 per cent of the one in Chicago with its televised play-by-play. The A.C. Nielsen Co. estimates the game was seen in 25.6 million homes, nationwide -- a figure that breaks down to 68 million people. That's the largest audience for a World Series opener in television history. But it still has room to grow. As of Sept. 1, Nielsen says the United States has 77.8 million homes with television sets. === Page 91 of 93 oreg 11/14/80 WE ALREADY HAVE A TOXIC AND ATOMIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM Note: The above picture accurately illustrates what will absolutely happen in time ahead to the United States if Ted Owens (PK Man) is murdered or dies before his time (due to human cause); or if The Base is not supplied to Ted Owens and his UFOs in near time ahead. Owens PS it will not result from "atomic wastes." === Page 92 of 93 Why not try a really impossible demonstration ?? The SI's + I, Xtolac + Pyro... focus on the sun and the moon to cause one hell of an anomaly !!! Note: 10/17/80 Made this note in September, then Note: the newsclip below re the major flare on the sun, with others to follow... was caused by a combination of UFO - Egyptian - Mayan - action. About a month ago the SI's communicated and told me that something more drastic would have to be done since Mishlove's book was rejected; the Base has not been forthcoming; I have no funds or proper tools and so on. I made this note, and called George Delavan and Millie Miller... (perhaps I mentioned it also to Dr. Mishlove and Wayne Grover.) The SI's stipulated no material PK map and gave me a mental PK map to use (same as the Bermuda Triangle effect on the U.S. now in effect.) Owen 10/17/80 - Sun + Moon PK Attack - Solar flare disturbance expected BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) - Scientists predict a major flare on the surface of the sun will produce magnetic storms in the Earth's atmosphere and disrupt some communications. Tom Metzger, duty forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the X-3 flare began about 1:38 a.m. EDT Tuesday and peaked 34 minutes later. Metzger predicted a minor storm in the Earth's magnetic field beginning tonight. He said the storm could affect radio communications, radar power relay and satellite systems. The official also said the solar region where the flare originated is expected to produce more flares. 10/15/80 === Page 93 of 93 - Sun & Moon PK - # Large solar flare spotted BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- Federal scientists reported a major solar flare, but say it is not expected to disrupt communications on Earth. Thomas Metzger, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster, said the flare occurred at 6:42 a.m. PST Wednesday. It was detected by sensors aboard NOAA satellites in orbit 22,000 miles above the equator. Metzger said the flare occurred in a "very large," active sunspot region that had just rotated into view of the Earth. 11/7/80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8103 (1 of 2) Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 March 1981 two folders Yes, there are two March 1981 folders. I named there March 1981 (1 of 2) and March 1981 (2 of 2). 1 of 2 has dates mostly in many months of 1980 2 of 2 has dates covering many months of 1980 and 1981 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ab83a28c5b75ef66abf40848093ca8f0.pdf 55b14d6fb485172bd89406affd288733 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6298de52024889a423f9bb01aca12e95.txt 68ba490a380d524321f842785008a282 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 22 Power outage hit parts of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho NEVADA IDAHO Burley UTAH Salt Lake City Evanston Glen Canyon Dam Colorado River WYOMING Rock Springs MONTANA CANADA ARIZONA NEW MEXICO COLORADO # Outages continue in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Isolated power outages were reported in Utah Friday as residents returned to work and play following a statewide blackout whose cause continued to elude utility engineers. At 11:38 a.m. Thursday, the lights went out in Utah Power & Light Co.'s service area stretching from the Utah-Arizona border to southern Idaho and Wyoming. A few major power lines popped, elevators froze, ski lifts dangled above the slopes and many businesses and schools closed early. Power began coming back in some areas within an hour after the blackout, and by 6 p.m. electricity was back in all but a few areas. Company officials said Friday that a "key element" in the state's biggest blackout was difficulty with a 345,000-volt transmission line in Salt Lake County. But they discounted earlier reports from the Western Area Power Administration that the failure of a 230,000-volt power line near Antimony, Utah, could have caused the outage. # 'One in a million' event cuts power in three states SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- Power company officials say a "one in a million" series of events shut off electricity to 1.5 million people in three Western states for up to seven hours, snarling traffic, closing offices and stranding people in elevators and on ski lifts. Lights began flickering across Utah at 11:30 a.m. Thursday and within minutes the entire system of Utah Power and Light Co. shut down. The power went off throughout Utah and in several small communities of southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming. It was nearly seven hours before the utility restored power to all of its customers. Downtown Salt Lake City was blacked out for almost three hours. A Brigham Young University student, Simon Tang, was severely injured when he tried to exit a stuck elevator in a dormitory and fell four floors. He underwent surgery and was listed in serious condition Friday. Utah Power spokesman Grant Pendleton said engineers won't know the exact cause of the blackout for two or three days, "but all the evidence points to a one in a million sequence of events, any one of which wouldn't have knocked out the system by itself." A 230,000-kilowatt line from Glen Canyon Dam snapped near the small town of Antimony in south-central Utah when a cross-bar on a tower collapsed, he said. At the same time, three high-voltage lines in the Salt Lake Valley malfunctioned. Surges in the line tripped automatic switches, which cut off the Utah Power system from interconnecting grids. They also shut down the company's seven steam generating plants. CONTACTS Remember when I knocked out the power in five States in 1967 (documenting it fully in advance of the fact)? Well, here I've done it again my current "Power Attack PK". I also have a huge bundle of similar, if smaller, power knockouts to xerox and send you (whenever I get some money to xerox it, then mail it out to you.) Owene 1 === Page 2 of 22 Blackout snarls Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The failure of three power generators early Thursday blacked out more than half of Mexico, stranding commuters and creating rush-hour traffic jams here, and cutting power to Acapulco and Guadalajara, the nation's second largest city. The blackout struck this capital city of 15 million at 7 a.m., the height of the morning rush hour, trapping people in subways and elevators. An estimated 2 million automobiles were snarled in a massive traffic jam after traffic signals failed. City officials mounted an evacuation effort to free passengers from the subway system. No accidents or deaths were reported during the first hours of the failure. Officials said the outage had shut down the entire electrical supply grid for Mexico, from the Nayarit state on the northwest coast to Chiapas state on the southern border. They said it was impossible to estimate how many people or how wide an area were affected. The blackout had little or no effect on home heating, since most people do not have central heating and temperatures were expected to rise into the 70s. Ironically, the blackout came 24 hours after federal electrical official Alberto Escofet Artigas told union electrical workers that greater installed capacity in the Mexican power system would mean "no blackouts in 1981." Power was out here for a full hour at first and returned sporadically for about 30 minutes during the next three hours. The Federal Electricity Commission said they were trying to bring power in from a generator in Matamoros on the northeastern extreme of the country near Brownsville, Texas. org. 1/16/81 2 === Page 3 of 22 Dec. 27, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove You will recall that I phoned you a while back and told you that my SI's were going to attack high up in government. Since then President Carter's mother broke something and went into hospital; President Carter was wiped out in the election; and today President Carter broke his collar bone. Owen Note: This is different, (second-sending.) Owen === Page 4 of 22 - Prediction to Dr. Mishlove - orig. 1/12/81 # Diverticulitis hits Sen. Baker WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker was admitted to a Washington hospital Sunday evening for treatment of an intestinal disorder that is giving him "considerable pain," an aide to the senator said. Baker, R-Tenn., began to experience abdominal pain shortly after a noon appearance on the NBC television program "Meet the Press," according to spokesman Ron McMahan. Later Sunday, Baker was admitted to Sibley Hospital. McMahan said the senator's doctors have issued a preliminary diagnosis of acute diverticulitis. The spokesman said Baker is in no danger but "he is in considerable pain." Diverticulitis is an inflammation of the intestinal tract that results from the formation of a small pocket, or diverticulum, in the intestinal wall. McMahan said Baker would remain in the hospital so that doctors could perform a series of tests, including X-rays and blood tests. These were expected to take at least 48 hours. McMahan said that until those tests are complete, he could not say how long Baker might be hospitalized. Baker currently is a central figure in the hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations committee on the nomination of Alexander M. Haig Jr. to be secretary of state. Baker has a history of intestinal problems, McMahan said. He suffered an attack of diverticulitis once before, "about three years ago," according to the aide. Baker was placed in a room near his wife Joy, who has been at Sibley Hospital for the last four weeks, suffering from a gastric ulcer. McMahan said Mrs. Baker is expected to be released later this week. - Prediction to Mishlove - # O'Neill taken to hospital WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. was treated Tuesday night at Bethesda Naval Hospital for a prostate inflammation. O'Neill, who has had prostate problems in the past, was flown by helicopter from the Capitol to the hospital. After the brief treatment, he walked out and was driven home, an aide said. O'Neill "was in pain" when he went to the hospital, said his aide, Gary Hymel. Terry Shook, a spokesman for the hospital, said it "was just a minor prostate problem. He seemed to be in no real distress" when he left. orig. 1/7/81 - St warning - # President fights pain WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter is "still pretty uncomfortable" the day after a skiing accident in which he broke his left collarbone, a spokeswoman for the White House said Sunday. However, spokeswoman Kate King pointed to a meeting Carter was holding Sunday with three Algerian diplomats at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to show the president was "not out of commission." Carter broke his collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope on the grounds of the Camp David compound. He was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in a Washington suburb for X-rays and treatment. Then he returned to Camp David. White House spokesman Rex Granum said at the time that Carter was given medication for pain and fitted with a harness to hold his shoulders in place. Carter will have to wear the harness six to eight weeks, but Granum said the president did not expect to greatly curtail his activities. orig. 12/29/80 === Page 5 of 22 # Carter breaks collarbone in cross-country skiing fall By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter broke his left collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., the White House said. White House spokesman Rex Granum said Carter was flown by helicopter to the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where X-rays showed he had fractured the clavicle near where it connects to the breastbone. "The president was skiing down a slope when one of the skis caught on a rock and he fell on his elbow, left elbow and shoulder," Granum said. Granum quoted Carter's doctor, Rear Adm. William Lukash, as saying the president was in "considerable pain." The president was given medication for the pain, Granum said, and probably will require medication for several days. He said Carter was placed in a "figure-eight harness" to keep his shoulders immobilized and will have to wear it six to eight weeks. Carter does not plan to curtail his activities and will go to New Orleans as expected next week for the Sugar Bowl, the presidential spokesman said. "He'll be able to shake hands and write because it's his left arm," Granum said, adding that the president is right-handed. Granum said that although the president was in pain, he was not in a bad mood. "He was joking about it with people at Bethesda," he said of the injury. Carter left the hospital about 5 p.m. to return to Camp David. His wife, Rosalynn, was with him as he boarded the helicopter. The president was smiling and waved to reporters with his right arm. He was wearing a tan raincoat, but his left arm was not through the sleeve. Associated Press Laserphoto AFTER THE FALL -- President Carter climbs the steps of his helicopter on the grounds of Bethesda Naval Hospital Saturday. Carter was flown to the hospital for treatment after he fell and broke his collarbone while cross-country skiing near the presidential retreat at Camp David. Capt. Bart Sleemnos, chairman of the Bethesda orthopedics department, as well as by Lukash. Carter, who is 56, has frequently cross-country skied during his four years in office, Granum said. He said Lukash was with Carter skiing, along with Mrs. Carter, Marine aide John Kline and two Secret Service agents. The accident took place about 3 p.m., Granum said, during Carter's second skiing outing of the day. The presidential spokesman said that, specifically, Carter had fractured the medial aspect of the left clavicle, the part of the collarbone nearest the breastbone. The collarbone connects the breastbone to the shoulder. "This is, incidentally, the same clavicle he fractured as a midshipman at the Naval Academy in a jujitsu class," Granum said. He said Carter was skiing down a slope on a nature trail in about 3 inches of fairly fresh snow when he fell. Asked how steep the slope was, he said he didn't know. After the accident, Carter went back to Aspen Lodge on the grounds at Camp David, a short walk, and Lukash put the president's arm in a sling and immobilized his shoulder, Granum said. The president underwent a full physical examination last January, and Lukash said then that Carter was in excellent health and fully capable of dealing with the strain of the Oval Office. === Page 6 of 22 Tues. Night 1/20/81 (Message from SI 2) Fly Contacts xerox All forms of OD creatures + aliens turned loose onto higher US Govt. Yes, this is a war! Unseen, nothing any one one understand... but a real war!! (Note: Beau was in room with me when this message came in. After, a plastic case jumped out of the waste basket near Beau) === Page 7 of 22 Jan. 17, 1981 Jan 1-21-81 postmark Contacts: If you are not hearing much from me, do not imagine that I am inactive! I am just broke, that's all. No money to xerox... personal possession in the pawn shop... but... this has nothing to do with my incredible powers. The SIs and I are more active than we've ever been! And the xerox file, if I can ever afford to get it done, will spell out that fact. Russia's threat, is not America's #1 fear. My UFOs are. They are sure, they are consistent and they are deadly. And they always keep their word! Owens === Page 8 of 22 Jeffrey November 21, 1980 Vice President Elect George Bush 710 North Post Oak Road Suite 208 Houston, Texas 77024 Dear Mr. Vice President: This communication is of the utmost importance to you. First, for the sake of credibility, let me state that I attended Duke University and am a member of Mensa, the prestigious high-IQ organization of the world...upper 2% of the world's population. If you will read the enclosed book ms. then you will understand that I must be the most dangerous human being that the world has ever known. The book was written by a scientist; co-authored with an expert in the field of parapsychology. It is a scientific, critical analysis of my work based on documentation with scientists over a period of over ten years. My work is in the field of "psi force"...which is much, more more powerful and deadly than nuclear force or any of the other forces found in physics. You have absolutely no one in your intelligence agencies...or anywhere else in your government community...with my abilities. In this letter I am placing these abilities of mine at the disposal of yourself and President Reagan as a major tool to mend and heal the many and varied problems confronting the United States at this point in time. Should you have any questions with regard to the "how" it could be done, using "psi force"...I would be glad to discuss them with you. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 9 of 22 super-psi power (from page 102) thinking the took rides in telepathic "computers" im-ited their ficti...heir minds to ward off lusions, says Kenselves; screen the UTs with "mind-ray atoms" to about cra... people around them from won't bombardment; * To utilize their "healing hands" where needed, and also project the "heal-ing green" color to the mentally wounded; * To release victims from "sleeping sickness" caused by a psi sleep-ray that blacks-out the brain. Remember the So-viet experiments in "ESP knockout forces" which worked at distances of up to 2,000 miles. * To form "psi army units" for "ESP counterattacks." As this eerie battle of minds continues the unknown legion of human channels is mobilizing according to the above plans, and is forming a formidable psi com-mando force that will crush the Sino-Soviet-Mutant alliance in its bid for world power. Also mentioned is what will happen af-ter the war. Millions of "casualties" will be healed by the BKs psi miracles and a "psi peace corps" will be formed. By the time the psi-war horrors end, all people on earth will finally be aware that "oc-cult" forces are a reality and that human-ity will emerge into a new "Psi Age." The change will be more revolutionary than that brought about by the discoveries of steam power, electricity, nuclear power, computers, or space rockets. It's important to note that Ted Owens' role in the psi-war picture is most unusu-al. He has been uniquely trained it seems to wield awesome PK-powers and perhaps has a special task to fulfill when zero-hour comes--the "unknown mission" he has been told about by the SIs. Think of Ted Owens guiding or even creating storms that strike Russia, hurl-ing great lightning bolts on Red China, aiming PK forces to wipe out enemy psi-stations, sending ESP "static" into Sino-Soviet psychotrons. One almost would think that Ted's enormous mind-over-matter powers were developed by the SIs only for some great future battle. Consider Ted's latest memo. He men-tions that he asked the SIs about his re-cent "mind expansion" in which he talks directly to "Control" and also handles PK of greater power. "They did an odd thing," he says. "Showed me (in mental pictures) a tiny firefly in a bush, blinking off and on. With each blink, the light around the firefly got brighter, covered more area. Soon the entire bush was ablaze with the firefly's light. Then the area around the bush lit up; then the en-tire valley... and the countryside. Then the blaze illuminated several states... off and on, off and on. Finally, they took me high up where the astronauts go... looking down, and seeing that entire por-tion of the globe blazing with the light, off and on..." Ted is quite puzzled by this strange "answer" from the SIs. Could it be a sym-bolic preview of how he will be helping de-fend America in the psi-war? Of how his great PK-power, like a tiny firefly at first, will begin to grow and protect greater and greater areas of the U.S., of how his terrif-ic psi-potential eventually will form a "mental shield" over North and South America? The "off and on" aspect is significant, because the brain operates in "pulses" or in pulsating brain waves. The Soviet sci-entists often refer to "psi pulsations" in their research. Thus it is quite possible that Ted Owens is our ultimate weapon to destroy the psi-might the enemy will turn against America. Let us sincerely hope so. If not, we face psi forces that will blow all the minds in America and make us a nation of brain-less slaves--unless we fight back with the psi-aid of the saucer entities. * THE END # NEW DRUG SCANDAL *(Continued from page 53)* on the cough reflex." (Italics have been added to emphasize that the various chemicals in a cough mixture can actually work against each other.) There's no evi-dence that a combination of drugs is as ef-fective as a full dosage of a single drug that works directly on the particular cough. Also, whenever drugs are used in combination there's an increased danger of adverse side effects. Mouthwashes. If you believe all the claims for mouthwashes you've heard on television commercials over the years, you're in for a terrible letdown. The NAS-NRC study is, to say the least, skep-tical about all those pretty-colored gar-gles. It says that their medicinal value is about equal to that of salt water, and sug-gests that mouthwash manufacturers be made to drop all those claims about their products controlling breath odor, destroy-ing bacteria that cause bad breath, and re-lieving throat pain. A year later the FDA went to work. Posting a notice in the *Federal Register* it formally advised the makers of nine brands of mouthwashes to stop making such claims in their ads. The nine brands involved were: Pepsodent Antiseptic Mouthwash, Cepacol Mouthwash Gargle, Micrin Oral Antiseptic, Betadine Mouth-wash Gargle, Isodine Gargle & Mouth-wash; also Tosis, Sterison, Kasdenol, and Tyrolarsis mouthwashes. Then, in November 1971, the FTC got after Listerine, which has a hold on nearly half the $200 million a year mouthwash market. The FTC charged Warn-er-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., which makes Listerine, with falsely advertising that Listerine prevents or cures sore throats and makes colds or sore throats milder than they might have been. It also objected to an ad which claims that kids who gargle with Listerine twice a day have fewer colds and miss fewer days of school. Predictably, Warner-Lambert is denying and fighting the false advertising charge. And the TV commercials for Lis-terine still say, "Kills germs--the kind that can give you bad breath." Sleeping Aids. The Senate Subcom-mittee on Small Business, headed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, recently heard a lot of testimony on the efficacy of popular sleep-ing remedies. Over 90 nonprescription sleeping aids are available to the general public. Most contain an antihistamine called methapyrilene hydrochloride. Anti-histamines can make one drowsy, but this particular one, methapyrilene, was report-ed to have just about the weakest hypnot-ic effect of all the antihistamines. FDA Commissioner Edwards was asked to testify about the efficacy and risk of sleeping aids containing methapyrilene. Dr. Edwards said, "The efficacy is ques-tionable, let's put it that way... We don't feel that the risk of the dose that is commonly being used is significant, but there is a risk in regard to this particular drug if used in large enough amounts. And obviously it can be used in large enough amounts if you take enough of this par-ticular drug." You should understand that antihista-mines of any kind, including this one, re-act in accordance with a person's physi-ological makeup. Instead of being se-dated, some persons react the opposite way--they're made restless and nervous. According to Dr. Edwards, other frequent side effects are: mouth dryness, blurring of vision, dizziness, ringing in the ears, and gastrointestinal irritations. Quite a list! Can sensitive users be identified before-hand? Not at all--so there's an apparent danger to many people. Want more data? Three well-known in-vestigators have made carefully con-trolled studies of how methapyrilene hy-drochloride acts on sleep. They found that 40 milligrams of the chemical is no more effective than a placebo (sugar pill) when tested in either normal or insomniac per-sons. The drug failed to hasten the onset of sleep or to improve the quality of sleep. Note again that this involved 40 milli-grams; the average sleeping aid pill you buy at your drugstore contains only 25 milligrams. One important effect meth-apyrilene had was in suppressing that phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Move-ment (REM) sleep. When REM sleep is suppressed on one night it can lead to in-creased REM sleep on subsequent nights--accompanied by unpleasant dreams and nightmares! This reaction in turn can lead a person to resume taking the drug in the belief that he needs it for restful sleep. Thus a psychological de-pendency can be created--great for sales, but not for health. Pain Relievers. Analgesic products--the medical term for pain relievers--represent the biggest volume of consumer spending in the OTC market. In 1969, the most re-cent year for which statistics are avail-able, we spent $102.2 million for aspirin and other ingredients like Bufferin and Anacin. Another $95 million went for non-aspirin products used to relieve head-ache, arthritic pain, and rheumatic pain. Note that the largest amount Ameri-cans spend goes for products that combine aspirin with other ingredients. More is spent on these products because they cost more; obviously, they cost more because they contain several drugs instead of only one. So the big question, the one we all have a right to ask, is this: "Are these more expensive combination drugs any more effective than plain old aspirin, which can be gotten for as little as 20 *(Continued on page 106)* === Page 10 of 22 PREMIERE ISSUE # SCIENCE DIGEST NOV/DEC 1980 $2.00 ## RITUAL AND DECEIT YOUR BRAIN'S REPTILE HERITAGE ## CANNIBALISM IN AMERICA TODAY ## BEYOND DARWIN A NEW VIEW OF EVOLUTION ## AMAZING MACHINES THAT MOVE PLANETS ## JASTROW THE CASE FOR UFOs ## NO JEALOUSY FOR AMOROUS LEPCHA TRIBE PLUS LIQUID PEOPLE, SCIENCE OF LIVE SEX RESEARCH, H-BOMBS ON MARS, STAR OF BETHLEHEM 0 75470 08702 === Page 11 of 22 BY ROBERT JASTROW Can you imagine a form of life as far beyond man as man is beyond the worm? Science assures us that such highly evolved beings must exist on the stars and planets around us, if life is common in the Universe. These extraterrestrials are not like the flower children in Close Encounters of the Third Kind or the cowboys of Star Wars. They are creatures whom we will judge to be possessed of magical powers when we see them. By our standards, they will be immortal, omniscient and omnipotent. They are the kinds of creatures who would be capable of a trip to the Earth from another star. How can these bizarre notions be supported by science? Here is the evidence. One hundred billion stars like the Sun surround us in our galaxy alone; according to indirect but solid astronomical evidence, many have planets made of the same ingredients as the Earth; these planets have water and air and the same vicissitudes of climate as the Earth; the molecules on their surfaces enter into the same chemical combinations, subject to the same laws of chemistry and physics, as molecules on our planet. All the necessary elements for the evolution of life are present--simple, unthinking life at first and complex, intelligent life later on. On the basis of these considerations, I believe that life is common on the many planetary systems in the cosmos. Moreover, recent discoveries in astronomy prove that if life exists on other planets in the Universe, most of this life is far older than life on the Earth. The discoveries relate to the so-called Big Bang theory, which holds that the Universe began with a gigantic explosion. The Big Bang theory has now been proved to be a fact by the Nobel Prize-winning work of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who discovered the remnant of the primordial flash of light and heat that filled the Universe at the time of the great explosion. In other words, they discovered a relic of events that actually took place shortly after the beginning of the world. Although many astronomers had resisted the Big Bang theory, the Penzias-Wilson discovery has convinced very nearly the last doubting Thomas. The importance of the Big Bang in a discussion of UFOs and life on other worlds is that it tells us when the world began; it tells us the age of the Universe. An astronomer can calculate on the back of an envelope how long ago the Big Bang occurred. That moment marked the birth of the Universe. The result of the calculation is that the Universe came into being 20 billion years ago. The Earth, on the other hand, was born only 4.6 billion years ago. That result comes from measurements of the ages of meteorites and from the ages of the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Since meteorites and the moon are relatively unchanged samples of solar-system material, dating back to the birth of the planets, their age is thought to give a good estimate of the age of the Earth. Thus, many planets circling distant stars are 5, 10 and even 15 billion years older than the Earth. It follows that the Earth is a very recent arrival in the cosmic family of planets, and man is among the youngest denizens of the Universe. Of course, the fact that life elsewhere is older than man does not necessarily mean that this life is more intelligent. However, other scientific evidence suggests that this is likely to be the case. Throughout the last 300 million years of life on Earth, only one seemingly universal trend can be discerned in evolution; this is the trend toward greater intelligence. Since before the fishes left the water, the most intelligent form of life present on Earth in each era has been the rootstock out of which new and still more intelligent forms have evolved. The line of increasing intelligence stretches unbroken from the fishes to the reptiles to the mammals, the primates and man. Apparently, intelligence--which permits a flexible response to changing conditions--has a greater survival value than any other single trait. Now we come to a critical point. Why should a line of evolution that has proceeded unchecked for hundreds of millions of years suddenly stop at the particular level of intelligence that we call "human"? Homo erectus had less brain power than Homo sapiens has; the successors to Homo sapiens should have more. If the past is any guide to the future, our descendants a billion years from now will surpass us in intelligence. And if the Earth is typical of planets in the cosmos--and everything we know in astronomy and geology tells us that it is--intelligent beings who live on planets billions of years older than the Earth have already reached that advanced level of intelligence that our successors will only achieve in the distant future. This argument, proceeding step by step on the basis of evidence acquired in the basic scientific disciplines, leads to the conclusion that life on other worlds is not only billions of years older than man, but also billions of years beyond him in intelligence. What does a billion years mean in the evolution of intelligence? For an answer, look again at the fossil record. One billion years ago, the highest form of life on the Earth was a simple, wormlike animal. The creatures who dwell on planets a billion years older than the Earth must possess an intelligence that surpasses ours by as much as we surpass the mindless, soft-bodied creatures who burrow through the soil of our gardens. These considerations bring me full circle to my opening statement: According to the best scientific evidence, intelligent # THE CASE FOR UFOs By the end of this century, we should know if we're alone in the cosmos. Scientific evidence indicates superior beings from other worlds are apt to find us. === Page 12 of 22 U F O s | Name | Age | Chance for Life | |---|---|---| | A. ALPHA CENTAURI | Approx. the same as the Sun (4.6 billion years) | Good*. This triple star is about as old as the Sun, thus was formed when the Universe had large amounts of carbon, oxygen and other elements essential for life. | | B. BARNARD'S STAR | Old as the Universe (20 billion years) | Poor. Too old, no carbon, etc., available when this star formed. | | C. WOLF 359 | 20 billion years | Same as above. | | D. LAL 21185 | 20 billion years | Same as above. | | E. SIRIUS | 300 million years | Poor. It is a young star; any life would be primitive. | | F. UV CETI | Uncertain | Poor. It is a flare star, emitting bursts of lethal, ionizing radiation. | | G. ROSS 154 | Younger than the Sun (?) | Fair, if star is not too young. Red color means star may not emit sufficient light of suitable wavelength for photosynthesis. | | H. ROSS 248 | 20 billion years | Poor. Too old. See note on Barnard's star. | | I. EPSILON ERIDANI | Approx. the same as the Sun | Good chance for planets and good chance for life. BEST BET. | | J. ROSS 128 | Same as the Sun | Good chance for planets; fair chance for life. See Ross 154. | | K. L 789-6 | 20 billion years | Poor chance for life; too old. | | L. 61 CYGNI | 20 billion years | Same as above. | *Double or triple stars such as Alpha Centauri are often classified as poor for life because any planets around these stars would be thrown out of the system by the changing force of gravity. However, recent calculations show that if a planet is close to one of the stars (less than one-quarter of the distance between them) its orbit is stable. (Right) THE DOZEN NEAREST STARS outside our solar system. (Above) Dr. Jastrow's estimate of the chance of life for each. life on other worlds is likely to be as far beyond man as man is beyond the worm. Why is it so important, in a discussion of UFOs, to establish a scientific foundation for the existence of races more intelligent than man? The answer is related to the fact that the distances between the stars are so enormously great. If a UFO reaches the Earth, its crew must have covered those enormous distances somehow; they must have started out from someplace beyond the edge of our solar system. They cannot come from the Earth's sister planets, because no intelligent life exists in this solar system except on our own planet. All the evidence acquired by NASA spacecraft in the past few years regarding Venus, Mars and Jupiter points to that conclusion. It follows that UFOs, if they arrive here, have come from another star. There is the rub. The closest star to the Sun is 25 trillion miles away, and it would take one million years to cover that enormous distance with the fastest rockets known to man. Our science and engineering are not adequate to meet that challenge; a trip to the stars is beyond our reach at the present time. But in another billion years, our descendants--possessed of highly evolved minds and with a science and engineering far beyond ours--should be able to undertake an interstellar voyage. And what our descendants can do a billion years in the future, other races, a billion years older and more evolved than man, should be able to do today. My conclusion is that UFOs--visitors from another star--are a scientifically sound concept because science tells us that it is reasonable to believe in the existence of forms of life older and far more intelligent than man. Has the Earth already been visited by these older, more advanced beings? The first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel records a remarkable incident that took place several thousand years ago. After an account of what seems to be a landing and an exploration by unusual beings, apparently metallic in construction, verse 24 describes their departure: "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters. . . ." Anyone who saw a Saturn V rocket take off will remember that the thunderous roar sounded like Niagara Falls. Nothing man-made except the launch of a rocket sounds like that. Are such visits occurring at this moment? Dr. Allen Hynek has made a study of reported UFO sightings and concludes that several are unmistakably UFOs--Unidentified Flying Objects. He cannot say whether these unidentified objects have come from another star, but there are good reasons for believing that such extraterrestrial contacts--either visitors or messages--are more probable today than ever before in the history of our planet. Since about 1960, television stations scattered across the Earth have been spraying their signals into space at a million-watt level. In the course of the last 20 years, that expanding shell of television signals, moving away from the Earth at the speed of light, has traveled 240 trillion miles; it has now swept past more # EZEKIEL'S UFO Have extraterrestrial beings already visited us? Ezekiel's account of the "wheel" in the Old Testament has been called an accurate description of a flying saucer, perhaps with windows or lights, that landed on Earth thousands of years ago: ". . . behold, a whirlwind came out of the north . . . and a fire . . . and out of the midst of the fire . . . came the likeness of four living creatures. . . . And every one had four faces, and . . . four wings . . . and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass . . . their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps . . . [each had] one wheel upon the earth. . . . The appearance of the wheels. . . was like unto the color of a beryl . . . and their appearance and their work was . . . a wheel in the middle of a wheel. . . . As for their rings they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them. . . . And when the living creatures . . . were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. . . . And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters. . . ." Ezekiel 1:4-24 King James Version Robert Jastrow is Professor of Earth Science at Dartmouth College and Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. 84 Science Digest--Nov/Dec 1980 Opening illustration by Guy Fery === Page 13 of 22 2 Oregon Journal, January 12, 1981 (2) Note: In a book published some years ago I warned readers that Las Vegas and Nevada were PK'd and not to go there! Owens (MGM HOTEL FIRE AT LAS VEGAS, BOMBING AT LAKE TAHOE ETC.) United Press International FATAL CRASH -- A chartered, "gambler's special" bus, returning to California from Las Vegas, Nev., skidded on a rain-slicked desert highway near Palmdale, Calif., and came to rest on its side Sunday. One man died and 27 were injured in the wreck that threw some passengers 30 feet from the bus. === Page 14 of 22 THEY HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE TED OWENS--Space Intelligence Agent and outstanding psychic who not only forecasts major events but has hexed them to happen RON WARMOUTH--New York-based seer whose stock market predictions have earned fortunes for his housewife and film-star clients WITCH HAZEL--America's miniskirted practitioner of "white magic," whose spells work for good, not evil, in the new age of witchery DOC ANDERSON--Georgia's backwoods mentalist whose uncanny foretellings of earthquakes and other major world disasters have astounded scientists everywhere Plus KOMAR, the prophet who receives messages while lying on a bed of nails, COUNTESS AMAYA, the gypsy seeress, REVEREND MARION OWENS, the psychic photographer, and world-renowned psychometrist DOROTHY SPENCE LAUER These are just some of the internationally acclaimed mystics you'll meet in these pages... prophets, mystics and clairvoyants whose predictions in the past have proven astonishingly accurate. Do they now hold the answers for 1972? NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED--COVER PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. === Page 15 of 22 CONTEMPORA BOOKS $1.25 78682-125 # WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1972 Will a new president bring great joy to America--and to you? Will your money buy more or less? Is a cancer cure in the offing? DOROTHY SPENCE LAUER, DOC ANDERSON and 17 other famous psychics reveal their amazing forecasts for the critical year that lies ahead . . . BRAD STEIGER WARREN SMITH === Page 16 of 22 Russia will be astating droughts followed by floods. The schor chaotic condition. Farmer vote will be im- localities elections. The elderly who resent prevailing come out to vote in a strong block. newspapers in different localities will disappear the scene. # Ted Owens, Predictions From Space Intelligences In a letter dated May 23, 1971, we received from Ted Owens, the man who claims he serves as Earth's intermediary for Space Intelligences, details of "one of the most exciting things" that he had ever done. "You know, of course," he reminded us, "how I have documented in advance . . . creating three simultaneous hurricanes . . . guiding hurricanes against the predictions of the Hurricane Center in Miami . . . ending droughts . . . creating droughts . . . making UFO's appear over cities . . . and so on, for about 250 miracles. Here is a new one. For the first time I have gone one-on-one with a molten, lava-belching volcano!" The astounding Ted Owens told us that he had specified to columnist Larry Maddry of the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that he would try to save Sant-Alfio, Sicily, the village that lay in the path of erupting Mt. Etna, by Sunday, May 23rd. In the letter, Owens told me that his UFOs had saved the village, and he went on to tell us exactly how it happened. "Last Thursday, I read where the fiery molten lava was pouring down on this town of Sant-Alfio in Sicily. The news item read that the lava couldn't miss--the people and the town were directly in its path. So I picked up the phone and called Larry Maddry, reporter for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk and told him that I would use my considerable powers 134 and telepath to the UFO intelligences that I am linked up with to save this village and its people. On that day, Thursday, I sent a letter to him (Maddry) backing it up in writing with copies to Otto Binder and two scientists who are overseeing my work. (It is thoroughly documented.) "I used a shotgun approach--my own brain, plus telepathing to SI control--to bring this about. "Saturday night, two days later, the fiery flow of lava--a mile wide and eighteen feet deep--burning up everything in its path, miraculously diverted and flowed to one side of the town, saving the 4,000 people there. "No finer demonstration of SI power would you ever want to see. I told four very responsible people two days in advance specifically what I was going to try to accomplish. And I accomplished it." Along with his letter, Owens sent a newsclip that headlined, "Lava diverted past town." According to the Associated Press, a "flaming river of lava" from Mt. Etna was suddenly diverted from the village of Sant-Alfio and had begun a two and one-half mile path down the Cavagrande Canyon to the sea. The new course had no town or village in its path. A few days later, Owens sent us a full-page story in the Virginian-Pilot that chronicled "The Day Heywood Hale Broun Came to Town." The reason for CBS' colorful sports essayist's coming to Norfolk had been to interview Ted Owens on his amazing documented ability to, ostensibly, psychically "zap" professional football teams. Owens is a prolific letter writer to his "contacts," and we receive on an average of two letters a week advising us on the activities of the Space Intelligences and their Earthly emissary. We must admit that he has told us which teams have been singled out to be on some kind of cosmic smear list, and, fantastic as it may seem, something invariably happens to key players on those teams. Of course, one does not have to be voodoo'ed to sustain a barrage of injuries in the less-than-gentle world of professional football. On April 3, 1971, Ted Owens sent the following open letter to all pro football teams: 135 === Page 17 of 22 "The attached newsclip (telling about Johnny Unitas' injury and Tom Matte's attack of bleeding ulcers) is a special delivery letter to you from my SI's (UFO intelligences). What am I talking about? "Weeks ago, Don Klosterman, General Manager of the Colts, dropped me a line inquiring about my reason for using "PK" (psychokinesis) on the World Champion Colts. I answered and explained that I must demonstrate each year my incredible powers by holding back the winner of the Pro Championship the preceding season, as I have done with the Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and now must do with the Colts. "I warned Mr. Klosterman and Mr. Rosenbloom, Sr. specifically and clearly that my mental attack had already been placed in motion against the Colts, was affecting them now, and if they intended to hire me (for $100,000) they had better do it quickly before the PK began to tear the team apart. (You don't believe this? Then check with the two gentlemen.) "They ignored me (always a terrible mistake, but no one seems to learn from it) and two of their fine stars are zonked, Unitas and Matte, both in the same hospital at the same time, both struck down in the same time period of 24 hours. "Also, just recently, my number two PK target, the Cowboys, have had two star players . . . and one of their coaches zonked. "And the regular season hasn't even begun yet! "I keep on giving these fantastic demonstrations of how my 150 or more other-dimensional powers can take pro teams apart, stop them cold, etc., yet none of them seems to want this hair-raising power on their side! This, to me, is unbelievable. "Last year, I stopped approximately fifty million dollars worth of pro football teams. This coming season . . . let's see, what's thirteen times ten million?" The May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated took official notice of the PK man in their "People" section: ". . . back in February Owens decided to cast a spell upon the Baltimore Colts. And charge $100,000 to unhex them. Now, was it Owens' fault that Johnny Unitas tore his Achilles' tendon, Tom Matte got appendicitis and Sam Havrilak sprained his ankle? Well, when a Philadelphia writer challenged Owens to 'prove you can do something' the PK man announced he would hex Tom Woodeshick of the Eagles, and within 15 minutes, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting. Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom has dropped Owens a polite note requesting him to remove Baltimore from his list of losers. 'If you will advise me as to a course of action which we could follow . . . I will do whatever I can to comply,' Rosenbloom wrote. But the question seems to be, will he come across with $100,000?" Although Ted Owens generally limits his sports activities to hexing football teams with PK, he claims that he also whammied a basketball team this year when coach Gene Shue of the Baltimore Bullets made the mistake of publicly refusing Owens' offer of assistance over television. "They had a right to refuse the PK man," he said, "but not over television." Within moments of the insult to his pride, Owens telephoned the Baltimore Sun and told them that he would have his revenge. The Milwaukee Bucks downed the Bullets 102 to 83. "I sat by my television set and followed the game play by play," Owens told us. "Everytime the Bullets got the ball, I called in power on the court so they would make mistakes. My power would then throw off their timing and make them miss their shots. After the game, the Bullets admitted that they got enough shots at the basket to have provided them with a winning margin, but they simply could not get their shots through the hoop!" In last year's annual, we told you Ted Owen's incredible story of how he has established mental contact with the SI's, who are using his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. Owens, who was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920, says that he first acquired his contact with the Space Intelligences one night in 1965 when he was living in Fort 136 137" === Page 18 of 22 Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared and came floating toward their automobile. No space-suited aliens stepped forth to converse with Ted, but he writes in his book *How to Contact Space People*: "From that day on, my life changed radically . . . while in Fort Worth, I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers, I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Ted, a married man with three sons in addition to his daughter, Lornie, is also a member of Mensa, the high intelligence society, proving, at least to several peoples' satisfaction, that he is no dummy on any level of consciousness. "Not only are my regular ESP powers outstanding in the world," Ted told us, "but combined with these powers, I am able to communicate with, and receive answers from, UFO intelligences--and prove it! I am able to utilize these powers from their world, or dimension, in this, our own dimension and world." Owens prefers to call his strange friends "Spatial Intelligences," and he says that they have "fantastic, awesome powers." Ted Owens claims that he is the only psychic in the world who can cause and create major national and international events to happen. He says that he had documented such occurrences time and time again. He points out Otto Binder's articles in Saga magazine, his frequent letters to "contacts," and the fact that he is working ". . . under the scrutiny of three of the world's best scientists, two of them internationally famous." One of the scientists, Owens says, has given him a notarized affidavit pertaining to one of his psychic feats. "At present I am using my powers and the SI powers to try and stave off a Russian nuclear strike," Owens told us ominously. "If you're reading this now, we will have been successful!" In regard to his predictions, Owens reminded us that he 138 would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because ". . . in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is." Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is." The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues." Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972: **Weather Phenomena** During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods. In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida. Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados. **Money and the Stock Market** By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit. **Animals, Birds, and Fish** Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy 139 === Page 19 of 22 those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time. In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works. ### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life. ### Rains in Africa In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was. 140 ### Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. ### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making ... and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. ### Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 === Page 20 of 22 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 The above discussed sports demonstration can possibly be shelved in the event that one of the above-named teams should hire me to help it. In this case, I shall remove the thirteen-team PK attack and simply help my team win as many games as it can, which should be considerable. You will know if this happens, because it should appear in the newspapers--if the team allows it to be publicized, that is. After making his predictions for 1972, Ted Owens informed us that if he should receive the financial backing to carry out certain SI assignments, much of what he had prognosticated would not come to pass. "Because then I will be using my powers to stop wars all over the Earth, to stop hating, killing, and corruption, to stop pollution of all kinds, and so on," he said. How will we know if Ted obtains the necessary backing to carry out his work? "I will issue a statement to the newspapers which will probably be carried nationwide, and you will see it," he told us. "The only thing that will not be changed is the space-PK. Earth must be cleared up first; mankind must be brought back into proper balance with Nature. And that will take years to clear up, with me working full time with the SI's. God bless you, and keep you!" And there we have Ted Owen's predictions for another year. Owens never fails to stir up controversy with his SI point of view, and program hosts who have had him as a guest on radio and television talk shows state that he always keeps the lines humming. Interested readers may contact Ted Owens, the PK man, at Box 3134, Norfolk, Virginia 23514. 143 === Page 21 of 22 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 5 FEB 1981 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE Owens 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research 3101 Washington St San Francisco, Calif. 94115 with born other in outer even in charge... THEY merely reporting the act. Sincere Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens UFOs are doing is typical "Earth" procedure." And something can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped idency by certain key individuals. Once he attained y they are repaid by him with key government s so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they pay back, those that give them their goal. gave me the following message to by the time the Space Shuttle is estroy the Space Shuttle (which has communicate with is myself, and I am ions Room inside the Mountain Base when dy placed the mechanism for the ie into activation. (I.e., the to 10 nuclear bombs which are ed to the Space Shuttle right now away, to go off after launching.) sons for this weird procedure... one their "other-dimensional" time and er, between now and then gives the uttle time to "build up" in intensity. Man at the center of the Base and defuse the destructive OD force the Space Shuttle not only will be do what they can to aid in the ay, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. ts associated NASA program... or truction. ion dollar project balanced against lly and quite ridiculous... except After all, I hit two space shots and as it was in launch mode, and the ightning). And this time I am not ing the shots in the matter. I am de. One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness... and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 22 of 22 What the UFOs are doing (see below) is typical "Earth procedure." And something government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA..........they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure..........one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time..........and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base..........with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base..........will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program..........or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values..........an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous..........except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning..........one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge..........THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness..........and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. 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ELECTR Swiss C to shave guarante head gua More barga tastic FISHI FM HI RIFLE MOVIE BEADE FLASHI TRANSI CARDIG SPINNI STOP W WRIST MODEL WATER Prod THE ME TED OWENS - FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer - but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder === Page 2 of 5 istration by David Packman 0 wan pow it? Wei his Q. A. to de mus enou Q. A. that I use Bullw Q. A. exerc scienc to for tional the m in th ing at Heav Ali, Cham ling name Q. H tra The weapons are silent, invisible, and many times deadlier than bombs and bullets. For example, there's a "knockout" force capable of dropping people in their tracks at a distance of 2,000 miles; there are "impulses" that can kill plants and birds (and possibly men); and there's "suggestology," the transmission of telepathic commands to large groups of people who obey them blindly and instantly. These are but a few of the fantastic new parapsychological armaments that are being developed--and tested--in ESP laboratories around the world, especially in Russia and Red China. Has WW III started and is the U.S. at this very moment suffering a # PSYCHIC PEARL HARBOR 16 - [ ] SAGA === Page 3 of 5 istration b Our want power it? We Weigh his ans Q. Wh mu A. Ba Al to deve muscles enough Q. Isn A. Yes ing that is a I use a Bullwor Q. Wh A. The tion exercise science to four tional n the mos in the ing athl Heavyw Ali, W Champi ling Ch name o Q. How trai Jac jun sho res wit Bul **One eminent American scientist, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, stated emphatically: "There are four known forces in the universe--gravitational, electromagnetic, and two nuclear 'binding' forces. If psi force proves real it will be the fifth power in the cosmos and the greatest of them all!"** Unlike all previous wars in the norma sory and physical world, all the psi-gun pointed *one way*--from the Sino-Soviet B ward the heart--or brain--of the U.S. Ar doesn't even know yet it's being attack cause it's both an undeclared war an undetected war, so far. Fortunately, this incredible battle of has barely begun. The enemy has devise the crudest mental weapons; they are mental rather than operational. There time for America to build up a psychic ament for protection, or even retaliatio enemy, however, is banking on American and ignorance of the "occult" to win. That this weird psi-war is already und is apparent to those whose minds are o the existence of paranormal powers. Ye open minds, especially among the auth are rare in the Western world. How people here in materialistic, no-nonsense ca believe in simple basic telepathy, let mental levitation, astral projection, pr tion, psychokinesis, and all the other un 18 ☐ SAGA === Page 4 of 5 Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help amazon.ca amazon.ca Delivering to Balzac T4B 2T Update location Books Search Amazon.ca All Amazon Haul Best Sellers AmazonBasics Prime Deals Store Electronics New Releases Home Music Books Sports & Outdoors Home Improvement Automotive Health & Household Mercy - Watch Books Advanced Search New Releases Amazon Charts Best Sellers & More The Globe & Mail Best Sellers New York Times Best Sellers Children's Books Textbooks Kindle Books Audible Audiobooks Livres en français Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult > UFOs HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE By TED OWENS Audible sample Follow the author How to Contact Space People Paperback - Dec 15 1969 by Ted Owens (Author) 3.4 (15) See all formats and editions New Saucerian presents the original version of psychic Ted Owen's "How to Contact Space People!" Owens, a Native of Virginia, astounded the world with his many predictions, particularly in the field of betting and gambling. He claimed to be able to change the course of hurricanes, tornados, and other tragic events with his mind - and the help of the Space Brothers. These reprints have been handled with the utmost care, and in some cases are better than the originals (which were hastily printed on small presses). Report an issue with this product | Print length | Language | Publication date | Dimensions | ISBN-10 | |---|---|---|---|---| | 96 pages | English | Dec 15 1969 | 21.59 x 0.56 x 27.94 cm | 1497512409 | See all details There is a newer edition of this item: Kindle Edition $9.99 Available instantly Audiobook $0.00 with membership trial Paperback $24.74 Other New from $24.74 $24.74 FREE delivery Tuesday, April 14 on your first order Or fastest delivery Sunday, April 12. 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(24.1 x 18.9 cm) **Classifications** Photography **Credit Line** Albuquerque Museum, gift of The Outlook **Object number** PA1982.205.214 **Description** Ted Owens sits on a couch amongst piles of books and papers. The surface of the couch on either side of him and a coffee table in front of him are filled with stacked and opened publications. Pictures and posters are propped up on the back ledge of the couch which lean against an ornately patterned wall. The pictures and book covers depict various creatures and alien-like figures. Some of the books are his own authored nonfiction, "How to Contact Space People." Ted is balding and has a very large, fluffy, groomed beard and mustache. He wears a lot of jewelry including multiple necklaces, a large silver cuff bracelet and multiple large rings. He wears a button-down short-sleeved shirt with two pens in his breast pocket. He hovers his outstretched hands over one another and looks at the camera without a smile. "How to Contact Space People" was published in 1969. Ted Owen was out-spoken about being abducted by alien intelligence who imported knowledge into him which included supernatural powers, such as controlling weather and natural forces. **On View** Not on view **Terms** **Locale** Page 1 of 2 https://albuquerque.emuseum.com/objects/136324/ted-owens-on-how-to-contact-space-people Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 81x Saga Magazine article about Ted Owens Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 February 1981 Article mentioning Ted Owens "Ted Owens--Flying Saucer Missionary by Otto O Bonder. Unclear on name of publication. Saga Magazine? Pages cover, 16 and 18,. I made a copy and put in Special Reports folder. Also, there are several yellow post-it notes in articles in February 1981 that appear rather new. No idea what they are there for. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e7b05c7883e986cd703898857147ce41.pdf fd0c554fc53f7bd9cf60aa0a5bd2c73a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c6460cfd0945ac10579df053fa4e3462.txt c19d18305cab3e885ac7faafb4231f05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 2 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the 'Pattern' whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 2 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age: I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 801117 Letter to contacts https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b2f05303f79e19df27f941cdf7130025.pdf 1e8befe01c7924ee318efb00c4370d21 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/251bae23c2b222271da463239c5978e0.txt 99163c06b231501223b373b641492278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 The discovery of mystery marks in a barley paddock near Ogilvie has led to speculation that they might have been made by an unidentified flying object or UFO. Bulging newspaper cutting files show that UFOs are not unknown in Australia which has the highest frequency of sightings in the world. They have caused a stir over Meekatharra and been shot at over Eucla--to mention just a couple of stories. MICHAEL PARRY talked this week with a leading Perth ufologist and to others who are firm believers that there really is something out there besides space. # 'It landed for repairs' Perth Weekend News (Australia) June 28, 1980 (Continued) Mystery marks reported last week on a farm near Geraldton--probably were left by a UFO which landed after malfunctioning. That is the personal theory of George Hume, spokesman for the Perth UFO research group, who visited farmer Eric Parker's property at Ogilvie, 80km from Geraldton, to examine the marks. He found the four circular marks, 1.3m across and evenly spaced 8.7m apart, had left depressions 10cm deep in the barley paddock. "I believe it was a UFO which put down to repair a malfunction," Mr Hume said. "In my own experience they don't land unless they have to. "They are obviously of a superior technology, but they do have malfunctions." Mr Hume believes in UFOs and that they come from other worlds. This belief is based on more than 30 years' study of the subject. Mr Parker, on the other hand, was very sceptical about such things--until he found the marks three weeks ago. ## Quiet At first he kept quiet about them. He wanted to be sure they were not a hoax. But then, when he could find no earthly explanation for them, he contacted the UFO group. Mr Parker drives a 14-tonne truck and even when fully laden it leaves little impression on the ground. He believes whatever made the marks would have had to weigh 100 tonnes. "We didn't find radiation in our tests but we did find extra carbon deposits from earth from the last ring." The research group will record the Ogilvie markings and hope one day it will all make sense. "The trouble is there is never any conclusive proof, but I believe there are so many different types," Mr Hume said. Mr Hume . . . "Other worlds" Note: My UFOs put their "signature" on working with me to end the Australian drought. Owens "Whatever it was couldn't have been man-made," Mr Parker said. "I never believed in UFOs before. But I do now." Mr Hume, who visited Ogilvie with the group's investigator, Jim Cooper, took samples of the earth for analysis. He also interviewed a neighbouring farmer, Kevin Chick, who saw a light rising from the general vicinity of the marks on the night of June 1. "This was at 1am but he didn't say much at the time because he thought he might just have been tired and imagined it," Mr Hume said. "But he did mention it to his wife who corroborated this. He said he saw a light going up, which is unusual. We get them reported coming down but rarely going up." Mr Hume said the marks were unique and he knew of no other reports of anything similar. There were no approach marks of any sort and he was convinced something had landed, then taken off again. There were no burn marks near the depressions, unlike the five indentations or rings found in Sawyer's Valley last year and studied by the group. === Page 2 of 2 PERTH WEEKEND NEWS DATE 28 JUN 1980 ---------- ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO Actual photos of UFOs are few and far between, but this picture is a classic of a sighting on July 16, 1952. It was taken by a photographer in the U.S. Coast Guard at the Salem, Massachusetts air station. The objects flying in V formation were reported as being brilliant white and circular in shape. The picture was taken through a window screen with a size 4/5 camera at infinity, 1/50 of a second, and the sighting was corroborated by a companion witness and later officially released. # They all laughed at sighting story In the early hours of June 17, 1969 Vern and Wendy Durant, of Coolbellup, saw a flying object hovering over the Wesfarmers warehouse in South Fremantle. The incident was not reported in local newspapers -- the Press, radio stations, police and other bodies all laughed at the Durants. I saw an account of their experience in Flying Saucer Review, an unspectacular little British publication which investigates and reports unusual UFO cases. Today, 11 years after the sighting, Wendy Durant is still a firm believer in UFOs and is adamant that the events she saw that night actually happened. "We had a cleaning contract at Westfarmers and were busy inside about 5am when a man came in and said he'd just seen a UFO," she said. "I didn't hear him properly, but Vern told him to go away, we were busy. "The man went out then rushed in again to say the thing was taking off. "We went outside and the whole sky was lit up like daylight. We saw this thing shaped like a barrel about 10 metres long go up and move towards the Newmarket Hotel. "Then it swooped back again and my husband picked up a brick to throw at it." The Durants, who had their children with them, decided to go home. They pointed the object out to a number of early-morning travellers, including a milkman who panicked and drove away at the sight of the UFO. "The man who first told us about the UFO was a big fellow, usually so calm and self-assured," she said. "That night he was terrified. He had run his car into a ditch avoiding the thing which he said was battleship grey in colour and on the ground at one point. "I never believed in UFOs before but I have since. I can understand people who have never seen anything doubting us--friends still pull our legs when we mention it--but it did happen." * The Perth UFO research group meets on the second Thursday of each month at 14 Aberdeen Street. Visitors are welcome. The group's office number is 2716604. (Continued) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800628 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/79c45230b053440ee46c6fb03c925480.pdf 70bd654a1edea4fba4ec322d376c8477 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9ceffec80af4a6469ec7742e51eff493.txt a2f24bce0622d9f2a455c9f790fa404a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 Note: I notified Dr. Mishlove others sometime ago that my UFOs (SIs) were going to war against the U.S. until The Race is provided. Owens U.S. News & World Report June 2, 1980 # Tomorrow. A LOOK AHEAD FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL Newsgram 2300 N Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 Disaster after disaster--natural and man-made, at home and abroad--are crowding in on Jimmy Carter, bedeviling him and the country. On the Pacific Coast, eruption of Mount St. Helens will scar the Columbia River basin, disrupt thousands of lives and the local economy for decades. Not much the President can do about that, except inspect--and send money. In Florida, the vicious form of racial violence that engulfed Miami hints at a new type of urban strife--more coldblooded, calculated than in the '60s. In New York State, 710 families may be uprooted, moved from the Love Canal area--first of what could be many victims of contamination from chemical dumps. Overseas, the President is routinely being blind-sided by allies. . . . On Iran, Britain's default on the promise to impose meaningful sanctions could unravel the international effort to free the American hostages. On Afghanistan, many of the allies are bucking Carter, refusing to boycott the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of that country. On the Mideast, the Western Europeans threaten to undercut Israeli-Egyptian talks by endorsing creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank. On East-West relations, the French are getting more and more two-faced, playing games with the Kremlin and eroding what's left of American leadership. Across the Pacific, the military takeover in South Korea threatens to split that country, hobble its economy and prompt North Korea to make trouble. Chances that Carter can persuade Seoul's generals to relax their grip are slim. Over all, Carter looks hexed, facing many complex riddles all at once. Down on Main Street, the economy is not going by the book, either. The recession now is shaping up as a "V" downturn--like this: A sharper drop than anticipated, then a rebound early next year. That's the way more and more economists see it. Plenty of signs of a rapid slide are flashing, making Carter's talk of a mild slowdown unlikely-- Growth in people's income came to a standstill in April, prompting consumers to spend less money for the first month since June, 1979. Industry is operating plants at the lowest level in three years. Profits are falling--down 2.6 percent last winter, after adjustment for inflation. Retail-store sales are punk. The jobless, now numbering more than 7.27 million, are increasing, could reach 9 to 10 million before peaking. To hear the country's purchasing managers tell it, the economy sagged dramatically (over) U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 11 === Page 2 of 5 June 2, 198 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT this is Florida Sure, an "act" from my man. "lingering frustration". If I am de-pilled, the U.S. will go. - Irene # Rage in Miami A Warning? Three days of racial fury left 15 persons dead--9 blacks and 6 whites--took a financial toll of close to 200 million dollars. As the smoke cleared, the country wondered whether the rioting was an omen. A nation stunned by the worst outbreak of racial violence in 13 years is asking: Does the Miami eruption signal a return to the turmoil that afflicted America's big cities in the 1960s? The answer people want to hear is "No." But black leaders and many others see chilling evidence that frustrations in the nation's ghettos may once again be nearing the boiling point. Cited are the deepening recession, growing unemployment and sharp cutbacks in social services--all of which are eroding the gains made by blacks in the early 1970s. What's more, the hostility between blacks and police is again on the rise in many communities. In some cities, too, friction is growing between black residents and other minority groups, mainly Hispanics. **Danger: Flammable.** "I would pray and hope and work that there would be no more violence in our cities this summer," declares Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "But when you have these kinds of depressed conditions, you create the classic symptoms for a riot." The conditions that fueled the Miami outburst are seen as far from unique. Asserts the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "There is a Miami in every American city." The racial violence in Miami, the worst in this country since 43 persons died in a 1967 riot in Detroit, claimed the lives of 15 persons--9 blacks, 6 whites--and injured more than 300. Damage was estimated at nearly 200 million dollars from a wave of fires and looting that lasted for three days before subsiding on May 20. What set off the Miami disorders was a police-community conflict, raising fears that similar tensions elsewhere might have the same effect. "There is no single issue that ... has the potential for serious disorder as police use of deadly and excessive force," says Robert Lamb, Jr., a regional director of the U.S. Community Relations Service. The Miami rampage began on the evening of May 17 after the acquittal by an all-white jury of four white police officers accused of bludgeoning to death Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance salesman who had sped through red lights on a motorcycle. Angry blacks took to the streets, chanting McDuffie's name and charging that this was only one in a string of recent incidents in which police escaped punishment for brutalizing black citizens. In many other cities, too, police episodes have deeply aroused feelings in the ghettos--feelings that local black leaders fear could erupt into violence with the right chain of events. **Bruised expectations.** Whatever the spark, the basic tinder would be economic frustration, the experts say. For many blacks, the hopes raised after the riots in the 1960s--for better jobs, schools, housing and social services--have been dashed. While the outright segregation that once spurred black protests has vanished, other hurdles to joining the mainstream of American life remain. "Blacks can now sit in restaurants and use the restrooms, but those businesses are still owned by whites," says Shirley Porter, president of the New Orleans NAACP. "Our economic involvement has not grown since the '60s." Black hopes were raised during the Vietnam War, a period in which the economy was steadily expanding. Now the nation is being buffeted by double- Where Death, Destruction Reigned (Map of Miami showing areas of greatest violence, Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach, and Downtown) U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 19 === Page 3 of 5 2 out of the 3 have been PKd by me. Owens happens," reports Jim Hayes, director of a New Orleans community group. Some black and race-relations experts also are encouraged by President Carter's decision to dispatch Atty. Gen. Benjamin Civiletti to Miami to investigate the longstanding complaints against the local police and prosecutors. Federal officials asked a grand jury to consider civil-rights charges against the four officers acquitted in the McDuffie case, and Civiletti pledged that all members of the troubled community would get "a fair shake." Whether this response will be seen as a positive signal by blacks in other cities is open to question. In the days following the Miami uprising, sporadic violence broke out in Tampa and continued in Wrightsville, Ga., where trouble began in April. Some blacks insist that calm will prevail only if there is a broad attack on WIDE WORLD During the 1967 riots, Newark looked like the stage set of a war movie. their basic social and economic problems--not merely more studies like those produced after the disorders of the 1960s. "Americans have tragically short memories," offers Miami's Professor Dunn. "A commission will be appointed, boards and panels will meet, and not a damn thing will be done, and that's why I'm worried." He adds: "The tragedy of Miami is the country's tragedy. It could happen anywhere." *This story and the one that follows were written by Associate Editor David F. Pike, with reporting assistance from Jeannye Thornton in Washington, Linda Lanier in Miami and the magazine's nine domestic bureaus.* 22 # In Three Cities, Uneasy Calm--And Rising Fears The ingredients for violence exist in any big city--and many small ones. Here, in profiles of three cities, are reasons why there is worry. **New York City.** "There is a seething type of calmness here," says Isaiah E. Robinson, Jr., chairman of the city's Commission on Human Rights. "It's like a powder keg about to blow." Civil-rights leaders cite two major factors that could lead to trouble. One is the deteriorating economy, which has produced a jobless rate estimated at 40 percent among nonwhite youths. The other is a feeling among minorities that they are being forced to bear the brunt of the city's financial cutbacks. Mayor Edward Koch is castigated for his plan to close a municipal hospital in Harlem. "That action tells us they don't care whether we're sick or we die," says Horace W. Morris, executive director of the New York Urban League. Mayor Koch believes that race-related riots could break out in any big city--and he blames the federal government. "The conditions of the urban centers are abominable, and it is a result of federal neglect," he says. **Cleveland.** This city was rocked by rioting in 1966, and many of the problems that caused that outburst still have not been solved. One continuing source of tension here, as in Miami, is bad relations between blacks and police. In a city that is about half black in population, nearly 90 percent of the police are white. Last year, an FBI agent was fatally shot in a Cleveland housing project. U.S. Representative Louis Stokes, a black, recalls: "When they brought the body out, the crowds there cheered. That, to me, was a symbol of police-community relations." Feelings such as these surfaced again last month when a black city councilman charged that police handcuffed him and threw him in a police car as he was helping a family in his district. The black community feels there is delay in investigating that incident. Other tensions are building up in Cleveland. Large-scale busing for school integration is to begin next autumn. An open-housing program has raised blacks' suspicions that it is being used to move them out of the inner city and weaken their political power. They remember what happened in Hough, the preponderantly black section where the 1966 riots took place. Today Hough "is almost a deserted city," says William Wolfe, president of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland. Blacks have gained some power in city government. They hold 14 of 33 city-council seats and once elected a black mayor. But that doesn't solve the blacks' problems, says Stokes. He predicts: "What happened in Miami could happen in any major city today. The nation is playing with a powder keg." Says Larry Hines, an official of the Urban League: "I'm not predicting a riot. But Cleveland is ripe for racial unrest." **Newark.** Many buildings that were wrecked in the 1967 riots here still lie in rubble--and still smouldering is the black anger that precipitated those riots. About 65 percent of Newark's residents are black, and many others are Hispanic. The estimates of unemployment among nonwhite teen-agers range as high as 80 percent, and one civil-rights leader believes that the economic statistics portend a summer of unrest. Other factors, however, could work to contain trouble. One is the ascendance of blacks to political power. Newark has a black mayor, a black majority on the City Council and a black police director. Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson says that it is police-community conflict--not the economy--that sets off racial riots. He points hopefully to the community-relations program of the Newark police. "As long as we don't have any incidents of police abuse, then we'll have very little chance of an explosion," he says. "The ingredients are here to cause a riot," says Bobbie Cottle, acting president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Newark. "But I'm optimistic that we're doing some of the right things to abort trouble." U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 === Page 4 of 5 "Linger effect" Power Attack; also California warning. Owens # Exploding Volcano: Full Impact Yet to Come U.S. News & World Report June 2, 1980 **Weather, crops, fishing and timber industries--and taxpayers, too--will feel the fury of nature's attack at Mount St. Helens.** The impact of the devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington will be felt for months--and perhaps years--to come. * Crops such as wheat and apples have been badly damaged by the volcanic fury, and later growth also may suffer. * The timber industry in the Northwest could require years to recover. * Weather will be affected over much of the earth, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. * Water supplies in some Northwestern communities have become so clogged that a major cleanup effort is necessary. * Fish in nearby streams were killed by the millions, and shortages of some species appear likely in future years. * Electrical power in parts of the Northwest may face disruptions. * Transportation routes--from river shipping to highways--will require extensive repairs. * Long-term--but as yet undetermined--health problems may have been created. Many of these problems could be aggravated considerably if Mount St. Helens continues to erupt periodically, as it has in the past. Agricultural experts are particularly worried that the spread of more ash could kill much of the Northwest's wheat crop. Even without further emissions of ash, the cost of repairing damage inflicted by the eruption may exceed 1 billion dollars--with much of that to be paid for by local, state and federal taxpayers. President Carter, who flew to Washington on May 21 to assess the damage, declared the state a major disaster area, thus making residents eligible for low-interest loans. **Bomblike blast.** The devastation began on May 18, when an explosion, estimated at 500 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, ripped off the top 1,200 feet of the 9,700-foot volcano near Vancouver, Wash. In less than seven days, a cloud of volcanic gas containing some toxic chemicals and minute particles of radioactive substances spread over most of North America. Scientists say that within several months the cloud--invisible to the naked eye in most regions--will cover the Northern Hemisphere in the stratosphere above 55,000 feet. It is expected to last about two years before completing its fall to earth. The environmental effects are considerable, although they tend to decrease as distances from the volcano increase. The greatest economic impact is expected to be to the agriculture and timber industries in Washington and Idaho. The logging industry in central Washington suffered the greatest initial economic damage--estimated at 500 million dollars or more. Officials say that some small logging companies may never recover from the loss of equipment--and enough trees were lost to build 200,000 single-family homes, roughly a fifth of the number of housing units to be started this year throughout the U.S. Forest companies have not completed surveys of the damage, but many experts believe the destruction will not appreciably affect the price of lumber to consumers in the long run. At present, the lumber industry is working at far less than capacity because so little new housing is being built. The impact of the destruction of timber may be felt, however, when home building revives. Another consequence of the explo- Volcanic convulsions May 18 caused numerous deaths and left a broad band of destruction across three states. The logging industry could take years to recover from volcano's blast. Initial Path Of Volcanic Ash Noon, May 18 Mount St. Helens erupts 8:29 a.m., Pacific daylight time, on May 18 Noon, May 19 Noon, May 20 Noon, May 21 Note: Scientists expected the volcanic cloud to disperse over North America in a matter of days. USN&WR map U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 29 === Page 5 of 5 Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and covered farm animals and crops over a wide area. In some sections of western Idaho, ash drifts of 1 foot or more were reported. Other damage resulted from mudslides and floods caused by material dislodged by the mountain. Many homes, bridges and highways were devastated and shipping channels were clogged by silt. More than two dozen vessels were trapped in the harbors in or near the Columbia River--the major port of Portland, Oreg., in particular. Officials said it could take a year or more to clean up Portland's shipping channel. Damage to water routes was estimated at 15 million dollars. The explosion also took its toll of roads and communication lines, which were disrupted over wide areas of Washington and Idaho, leaving thousands of persons stranded. Still another worry: Blowing and shifting ash will clog electrical generators or transformers, disrupting electrical supplies in large portions of the Northwest. Geologists have redoubled their studies of the mountain to try to determine whether any more big eruptions are imminent. They hope instruments will reveal considerably more about origins of the spectacular explosion of Mount St. Helens that occurred 8 minutes after a moderate earthquake. **Blowing its top.** Some scientists think the tremor may have triggered the eruption. Geologists say the peak exploded following the buildup of pressure from gas and magma--molten rock--inside the mountain, which had lain dormant for 123 years. The blast emitted thousands of tons of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, and its aftereffects were responsible for at least 30 deaths. Another hundred or so residents and campers who had decided to remain near the mountain despite previous upheavals were still missing in late May. The most immediate damage from the blast, which created a mile-long crater on the north side of the mountain, occurred as a glowing avalanche of hot ash and gases raced 17 miles down the Toutle River Valley. Huge trees were blown down like matchsticks, and dozens of bridges and homes were wiped out. The initial blast also destroyed hundreds of deer, elk and other wildlife. Some geologists believe the emissions of ash from the volcano may continue for as long as 20 years. Says Sam Frear, a Forest Service official in Washington: "We're entirely at the mercy of the mountain." U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 - [ ] Pacific Ocean Active and dormant volcanic areas USN&WR map # Violence From the "Ring of Fire" The eruption of Mount St. Helens signals increased earthquake and volcanic activity around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, including the U.S. mainland. Scientists say this "ring of fire," containing more than 60 percent of the world's 600 known active volcanoes, is showing signs of some of the greatest potential volcanic violence in recent history. The area extends in a broad semicircle from the west coast of South America up to Alaska and down the western side of the Pacific Ocean and through Japan and Indonesia. Scientists already have predicted that, in addition to continuous volcanic activity around the ring, large earthquakes are likely to occur in Japan, Alaska, California and Mexico in the next few years. Seismologists also say the eruption of Mount St. Helens could mean that such seismic activity will prove to be more extensive than they had forecast. About 50 volcanoes have been active in the U.S. during recorded history. Almost all are along the U.S. portion of the ring of fire in the Cascade Mountains of California, Washington and Oregon, on the Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian and Hawaiian islands. **Plates and hot spots.** Scientists explain volcanic activity in that area of the U.S. by a new geological theory called plate tectonics, which maintains that the earth's outer face is composed of about a dozen huge plates. As these constantly moving plates slip and slide over each other, the immense pressures inside the earth cause volcanoes to erupt through weakened points in the planet's crust. The Pacific's ring of fire is the result of such activity, geologists say. The almost continuous volcanic activity in the Hawaiian Islands is not caused by such plate movement, however, but by a stationary hot spot in the earth's crust, according to scientists. As the massive Pacific plate moves over this hot spot, new volcanic islands are created. Geologists have watched Mount St. Helens far more carefully than others on the U.S. mainland, since it has been more active and more explosive during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the contiguous United States, according to a government scientist. **A critical study.** Because much still needs to be learned about volcanoes, scientists hope that the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which could continue for years, will give them a chance to study nature's mightiest display as never before. As one geologist explains: "Volcanoes are windows through which the scientist looks into the bowels of the earth." Many experts believe that this intense study of Mount St. Helens will provide little evidence that the incident foreshadows anything like the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 or Krakatoa, also in Indonesia, in 1883. The Krakatoa explosion, which scientists say released energy that was equivalent to nearly 30 hydrogen bombs, caused tidal waves that killed 36,000 people in Java and Sumatra and cooled the earth's climate for nearly two years. "I'd say this eruption of St. Helens is rather typical of volcanic eruptions," said Murray Mitchell, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist. "It's the kind of thing you expect to happen somewhere around the world every few years." 31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 May 18, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Foundation 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: I have successfully located and linked up with the ancient Mayan entity left by my UFOs ages ago to guard the Mayan mental treasures (located in or near key pyramids and temples, just as the Egyptian entity was created and left to guard the mental treasures in the key pyramids of Giza Valley and surrounding area)...and I now have full access to its powers. Its name is Xtolac; it is the very first humanoid entity of the three powers that I am now linked up with, and close friends with. The trip to Yucatan was most interesting, and the details will be contained in this report. It should be of great value to the human race, because no other human being has, or could, do what I have done and am doing. Remember the background: my mind is half-alien, half-human...made that way by the UFOs that "captured" me long years ago. My mental (telepathic) contact with my UFOs is "Control"...the dark, shadowy face on the screen with which I exchange communication. And I have access to, and can use, the infinite powers of my UFO friends, just as they agree to the project or demonstration. You are aware of the voluminous documentation over the years which bears all of this out, and which will withstand scientific scrutiny. My second mental, telepathic contact is "PyrCre"...the deadly Egyptian entity whose powers I have access to...and what is even more important to me, is my close friend. (Thank God for that!) I mention the above because it will be a most important and relevant factor in this report, later on. Some odd things occurred on the trip...my glasses case containing expensive sunglasses vanished from my leather case, never out of my possession. Teddy's Mickey Mouse watch and best blue jacket vanished. In Merida Teddy was holding our room key which was attached to a thick plastic handle...and the key dropped off. I examined it closely and could see no way that this could have happened. There was no opening in the metal ring holding the key to the plastic. Later, in Cancun, I was holding our hotel key attacked to a thick plastic handle and the key dropped off. Again, upon examination, I could see no way for it to occur. Upon returning home my son Beau came to me with a look of astonishment on his face. He held two halves of a huge comb that he carries. He had been combing his hair when the comb suddenly fell into two pieces. The unusual angle is that the comb is unbreakable. And today my key ring containing the key to my study, among others, simply vanished into thin air. Oh yes, and while Teddy and I were at the Mariott Hotel in Marina del Ray, California, one of my Yucatan tapes, side 7 and 8, vanished from my room table. I suppose that this suggests some form of poltergeist phenomena, unless my UFOs are trying to tell me something. At any rate...not long ago I was in my study at home when my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to go to Yucatan and find the Yucatan entity, intelligence, and make full contact with it. This after ten years of waiting for their signal on it. (In Cape Charles, Virginia, in 1970, I had planned to do this very thing...obtained maps, contacted a Robert Skalnak Smith down there as a likely guide...but the UFOs didn't give me the go-ahead on it. So, I waited === Page 2 of 9 2 and waited, for ten years, until they did give me the go-ahead recently. I immediately called "Irish" (Mille Miller) who had moved to an apartment near us here in Vancouver from San Francisco, and discussed the matter with her. At the time I had exactly $24 and some pawn tickets. She said that she would get back to me on it. (As you know, Irish was responsible for my being able to get to see the scientist in France; go to Scotland and England to get my brain remodified by my UFOs; then got me to Egypt where I linked up with the Egyptian power.) Shortly thereafter she called and said that she had gone to a bank and obtained a loan (which would take her three or four years to pay off, so that this trip could be made. The UFOs had told me that I would need $5,000; Irish could only obtain $4,300...$700 short. I mention this point because later in the report you will note how accurate my UFOs were in their estimate. I then got in touch with George Delavan, who agreed to cover my home expenses during my absence (George, as you know, has kept me going in my work and research consistently, month after month, year after year). I obtained proper maps of the Yucatan area from AAA, which warned me about Guatemala being dangerous at this time for Americans (my plan entailed going to Mayan ruins at Guatemala). I set up Irish with my checkbook to pay my bills while absent; with correspondence she could answer for me; access to my daily mail; and switched my phone calls over to her to cover. Now, my UFOs had instructed me to take Beau with me (my 17 year old). I sounded him out on it, but he was completely negative to the idea. This wasn't like Beau at all...we've been on many adventures together, and he has always been eager. So I sounded out Teddy on going with me (my 9 year old). He jumped at the chance. Then I understood. Teddy, Beau and I had been "taken" by my UFOs on numerous occasions these past recent years...and of course we had been programmed, done with the consummate precognitive skill of my UFOs. Thus, it was meant to be, and evidently my UFOs wanted me to understand the "why" of it. Irish brought the money to me; I bought an expensive camera that would be needed on the trip, plus other supplies, and ordered the round-trip plane tickets, paid off a big bunch of bills that required being taken care of, and we were ready, Teddy and I. We flew to L.A.*, then switched planes from United to Western, I think it was, and went on to Mexico City. The last time I had been in Mexico was 25 years ago; so I had forgotten most of my Spanish, but remembered that the Del Prado was a good hotel, and that Sanborn's on Madero was one hell of a good restaurant. So we checked in at the Del Prado. By this time I had used up 3/4 of my first expensive tape when it suddenly went haywire...the same thing that had happened in Scotland and in England...and I had to chuck it away. I wanted to linger in Mexico City for a few days while we grew accustomed to Mexico, the climate, the people...and I needed to obtain some necessary tools to use in Yucatan and Guatemala. (In my duffle I had brought a bullet-proof vest; a blackjack; two fine throwing knives from my old night-club act; a brass knuckles, and an old WWII British Commando knife which has a blade that slides out of the handle. We were headed for jungle and possibly jaguar (el tigre, tiger) and the lord knows what else...also crazy militants a la Iran, in Guatemala...and I fully intended to be armed in some way to protect Teddy and myself, if possible.) Oh, let me back up a wee bit...on the plane to Mexico City there was a young girl, Nancy, age 23...in the company of another female (tough and poisonous; yuk) and Nancy and I conversed a bit. She wanted to read the small amount of literature about me and my work that I always take with me out of the country for identification purposes. When we reached Mexico City Nancy went her way, we went ours. * The night before leaving Teddy was ill with 102° fever. I called Irish and she got him well. === Page 3 of 9 3 Back at the Del Prado, I began to acquaint Teddy with some Spanish words and phrases. And he learned them quickly. I wanted to take him to the Plaza de Toros on Sunday for the bullfights, but drat our luck, it was closed down for four weeks, so he had to miss that. In the big park just opposite our hotel Teddy met a little boy, Juan, in an odd way. Teddy was flying his toy helicopter and it flew up into a tree, about fifteen feet up. I was scratching my head, wondering how to retrieve it for Teddy when suddenly a little boy Teddy's age, dirty and in raggedy clothes, scooted past us, shinnied over a fence, went to the tree, shinnied up the tree and got Teddy's toy. He brought it back down to us with a big smile on his face and in his eyes. Then he walked away. I stopped him and sent him and Teddy over to an ice-cream stand for ice-cream treats. The little boy was ocho anos, eight years old; had no mother or father; carried an open cigar box containing little candies which he sold at the park just to get something to eat to keep him alive. Well, he and Teddy played all afternoon together, sailing the helicopter. Juan spoke no English whatsoever, and Teddy no Spanish (just buenos dias; adios, and muchas gracias.) But they didn't need a common language. Never did see two kids have more fun together. That night I couldn't sleep, and at 4 AM woke Teddy up and we went out to find a restaurant. Just one was open. On the way over to it we passed a darkened shop doorway and curled up inside, fast asleep, was a tiny boy, dirty and raggedy, and I explained to Teddy that there were thousands of such little boys asleep in doorways all over Mexico City this night, most of them hungry, without a home or mother or father. We went to the restaurant and Teddy got a fried chicken meal. I drank about five orange juices (for a long time now I've had no appetite for food whatsoever). While seated inside the restaurant we witnessed a sad sight. Another tiny boy, about six years old, dirty and raggedy, waited just outside the front door of the restaurant, watching the restaurant manager like a hawk. The instant the manager would turn his back on the front door the tiny street urchin would dart inside the restaurant and hide behind chairs and tables and work his way to the side room of the restaurant. There he would beg scraps of food off the diners and, with his hands full of food scraps, backtrack out of the restaurant, still hiding behind chairs and tables with his eye on the manager, until he'd managed to sneak back out the front door. I strolled over and looked through the window. Up at the corner were five other little dirty street urchins, his friends, and he was sharing the scraps with them. Teddy and I watched in amazement as he repeated this operation five times while we were there, successfully, without being caught by the manager. Then I understood why. One time the manager half-turned, glimpsed the tiny hungry lad, and quickly turned away with his back to the boy. He wanted it to happen. Wanted the kid to get his food for the day. Probably, I explained to Teddy, the manager had himself been one of these street urchins when he was little. Teddy couldn't eat his chicken, so we wrapped it in a large napkin and took it with us. As we neared our hotel we looked inside the dark doorway and that tiny boy (about 5) hadn't moved, his arm underneath his head for a pillow. I said to Teddy, "Why don't we give him your chicken?" Teddy brightened up at that so we shook the boy gently; he half woke up and we gave him the bundle of chicken. He snatched it out of my hand, put it underneath his head so that no one could steal it, and went back to sleep. I put some pesos into his other little hand, and Teddy and I went back to our hotel room. In the morning we checked the doorway again and the tiny boy was gone...but the bundle of chicken was still there, untouched. I theorized that the police had found him and taken him away to get him into a barracks that they have for such kids (with a hot meal in the morning before they are turned loose again) and the police hadn't bothered with the chicken. === Page 4 of 9 3 1 / 2 While in Mexico City I obtained the only English newspaper in the hotel... and to my surprise there was an article about Jeffrey Mishlove getting his doctorate... the only human in the world to do so in the field (I sent you a copy of it.) Another strange thing occurred... while at the Del Prado Teddy began to draw one picture after another... pictures of a god, or entity... which I could only recognize as Mayan or Aztec. So I theorized that the Mayan Power we were seeking was talking through Teddy. The god in the pictures had nine eyes, nine toes, etc. (Note: I put them into my wallet... I just walked over to take them out and add to this file... and they are gone. Vanished.) The picture was like one of those seen on the wall of a temple. Next he began to draw some more pictures... I secured one and it was of PyrCre, the Egyptian Power. * The hundreds of dollars, meanwhile, were flowing out. The Del Prado hotel bill for three days was $160.00. One single breakfast of two fruit plates and five glasses of orange juice was $9.00. A taxi cost $10 to $20 to get about, and to the airport. I could easily see that we wouldn't be able to complete my whole plan, financially. We had four areas on the map to get to, even before Guatemala. I figured we wouldn't be able to get to more than two of the areas... and forget Guatemala! In order to get to all of the areas, and Mayan ruin locations, and Guatemala, we'd need $3,000 to $5,000 more, than we had. It was most amusing that before we left Vancouver, I didn't really know where we were going, or what we'd do when we got there. Just like previously in Scotland and England... but the UFOs had shown me the way. In this case I thought, even while in Mexico City, that Merida was in Quintana Roo province. Ha ha. Later I discovered that it is in the province of Campeche. Just to show you how little I knew. In my hotel room at the Del Prado I broke out the map and made my plan. We'd fly to Merida and rent a car. Then we'd drive down to Uxmal and set up a base there because there are ruins and pyramid at Uxmal that we have to get to. * Also in Mex. City I found a pocket knife for my knife collection I'd been seeking for 30 years! Bought two of them and named them "Eeny" + "Meeny." But when we flew back to Los Angeles a Customs agent took Eeny + Meeny away from me. I was furious!!! === Page 5 of 9 3 1/2 (In Merida, Yucatan, at Hotel El Balam (Jaguar) In the small swimming pool at the hotel an amusing thing occurred. Teddy was beside the pool when a little bird with a white stripe on its head flew down beside Teddy...and won't leave Teddy's side! It's been there for half an hour, about a foot away from Teddy. Teddy talks to it, and it chirps back to Teddy. (This is out of sequence...but I might forget it, and it is very important. After we returned from our trip to Vancouver, Teddy and I were alone in my study watching TV when suddenly the screen went blank and filled with what looked like white clouds...and a low voice talked to us; I don't know for how long...not in English, but a weird sort of language...then the regular show came back on. This had happened once before in Cape Charles, Virginia, when Beau and I were watching a TV show alone...and the picture went off and there, sitting looking at us, were five humanoid creatures...but not human...just staring at us...after a bit the regular show came back on.) (Back in Merida) That night the Power in the area made telepathic contact with me...and told me that el tigre, the jaguar, was not the Power of the Mayans, as might be thought. Instead it's something like a huge snake or serpent with colored feathers...of course that put me in mind of PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, which resembles a huge owl but covered with colored feathers. The next thing that happened was that that little bird flew inside our room in the hotel (no screens on the doors or windows...all open...we're on the second floor). It seemed determined to get to Teddy. We got the car at Hertz next day. Had a lot of trouble, because we didn't have a credit card, and they couldn't comprehend cash...made them suspicious. Took us an hour to rent it. A good car, we named it "Smoothy"...had to put up $635 in cash just for a deposit alone! Refundable later on when we got to Cancun. === Page 6 of 9 4 (Backtrack to Mexico City) Still concerned about proper weapons for our ultimate destination... I scanned some taxi drivers until I found the right one... and Teddy and I took a cab ride. I told the driver that I needed a gun; where could such be obtained? He told me that a gun was illegal in Mexico, and that I had better not get one. Then another thought occurred to me... 30 years previously I had seen a certain type of knife in a movie... a springblade. I broached this to the driver, and he smiled and drove us quite a distance to a large store... and dam if that store didn't have the exact knife that I had been searching for for 30 years! (I collect pocket knives, I might add. It's a psychological thing going back to my childhood when my granpa raised me and he bought me Buster Brown boots with a pocket-knife in them... and I loved granpa dearly and somehow this spread on to pocket knives later in life; their collection.) I bought two of the knives. Then I had the driver take us to Chalpultepec Park and Lake and Zoo. Finally, we prepared to take Mexicana Airlines from Mexico City to Merida, in Yucatan. It is a small airline, and the only link between Yucatan and Mexico City; air-link, that is. Guess who flew on our small plane with us? Nancy and her companion. Teddy and I had arranged to name our trip "Project Jaguar" before we even left Vancouver and started. So synchronicity struck. Merida turned out to be a sprawled out little town of 50,000 (largest "city" in Yucatan). Its streets and shops somehow reminded me of the narrow streets of Paris. Its two good hotels downtown faced each other. Now, before leaving Vancouver the booklet AAA gave me said that in Merida there was a good hotel called Casa de Balam. So I told the cab driver to put our things out in front of this particular hotel. We were chatting, the driver and I, in Spanish, when he amazed me by telling me that "Balam" meant el tigre, jaguar. I hadn't known that; the meaning of the word 'balam'. We got up to our room in this hotel, where I found a hand-made clay ashtray with a large Mayan jaguar in bas relief on it (which I immediately impounded into my duffle and replaced with an expensive ash tray I bought in a shop in town next day). I then took Teddy down around the corner to an open-air cafe, owned and run by a man who couldn't speak a word of English, and I ordered two bowls of sopa lima, lime soup, for Teddy and I, and some cold beers. I invited the owner to sit with us and have a beer. And I got the shock of my life. Suddenly I was speaking fluent, I mean fluent, conversational Spanish, with the owner! Remember, I hadn't been in spanish territory or spoken the language for about twenty-eight years! And even back then most of my 'language' was comprised of hand-gestures and mime to bolster the few words and phrases I could put together. But here and now, I was speaking in a solid flow of Spanish! Suddenly I understood. In 28 years my mind had become very powerful, in a psychic way... and I was probing his mind telepathically and coming up with words and phrases fluently out of HIS mind! We lined up a car, and I shuddered at the expense. 10,000 pesos for two weeks. That's without gas, motels, food. I see them about it tomorrow at the agency. Next day: Hertz gives us fits! No credit card? Just cash? They were very suspicious and made me put up $635 U.S. in cash just for a deposit, besides all the other costs. OK. The car seemed like a good one, and Teddy and I named it "Smoothey" because it did drive so smoothly and so fast (at one point or two I did 150 mph in it). The entire Hertz staff stood outside the Balam Hotel watching Teddy and I anxiously as I tried to go around the block and get pointed in the right direction for Uxmal, in the frantic traffic that is common to Yucatan and Mexico. But we finally got untracked, and on the right road out of Merida. === Page 7 of 9 5 QUAINT We drove for quite a long while through quaint villages with houses having thatched roofs, and like that, and women carrying vases and bundles on their heads...much like they did beside the Nile River in Egypt. Finally we reached the ancient ruins of Uxmal, and a hotel beside the jungle nearby. The Mision Hotel. We got there late in the afternoon, and the ruins are closed up by the authorities at 6 PM...and unlike England and Scotland there would be no climbing over high, spiked walls here. They have guards and patrols here. Now, at this point Uxmal was simply the starting point for us. I have sixteen other key points spread out all over Yucatan that I thought necessary to get to. We checked in at the Mision Hotel...and who was at dinner? Nancy, with her woman companion, that's who, in the dining room. Some coincidence. The same two who were on the plane with us from Mexico City, then from Mexico City to Merida. Everything up until now had been to get Teddy and I in the right place, all set, to make our run. We were set now, in the right place to begin...and hell, half our money was gone already from all expenses incurred so far. I couldn't see how we'd possibly reach our objective...to link up with the Mayan Power. Wednesday...we're on the edge of the jungle...and we dearly love all of the jungle sounds. Birds of all kinds calling to each other...anteaters running around...and so forth. I've got it on tape. There's a very strange ticking noise on the tape recorder that's never been there before (or after, either). There are colored flowers all around; tall palm trees; thick underbrush and jungle; all kinds of colored birds flying around. I'll get some photos to show the beauty of the place. Last night I had a terrible nosebleed. Not just a nosebleed. It poured and poured. One of the worst nosebleeds in my life. And being an ex-ring fighter I've had some dandies, in my time. Teddy and I started for the ruins, then I discovered that the car was short of gas and oil...and we had to turn around and drive back towards Merida to the town of Muna, the nearest gas station. That's the way it is down here, or over here, wherever. You can drive 50 miles before you find a gas station. Or a 100. So you have to be very careful, especially with what you are paying for the distance on the car. One thing that startles me is...I can read all the Spanish road signs with no problem. Teddy and I pulled off at a thatched hut restaurant in the middle of nowhere, and I got some cold beer. And we bought the two tiny daughters of the owner some candy. We bought some small, woven baskets for home. Then, chatting with the owner in Spanish, I made a discovery. He said, with great feeling...that he was not Spanish, although that was the language we were speaking. He said I am Mayan, not Mexican. The word for cat in Spanish is gato...but in Mayan it is cet. So, darned if these folks aren't almighty proud of their Mayan ancestry, and language! (Note: I didn't pick any Mayan words out of the air, like I'd been doing with the Spanish!) === Page 8 of 9 6 Oh, by the way, this morning for breakfast Teddy and I had fruit plates... at the Hotel... just to show you the expense involved here... on a plate was one little piece of watermelon, two little pieces of pineapple and three little slices of cantaloupe. One plate wasn't enough for Teddy, so he had two plates. We also drank five glasses, small, of orange juice. The bill came to $15.00 U.S. This is interesting enough to mention... I asked Teddy if he knew why I was here. He said sure, you are working. I said no, I'm not working. He said then you're playing. No, I said, I'm not playing, either. I am hunting... just like some people hunt lions and tigers, I am hunting... but what I'm hunting is a brain, thousands of years old... a brain that can't be seen. It's here somewhere in this tip of Yucatan, and that's what we're searching for now. I found an old tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Uxmal, and telepathed to Control and PyrCre and asked their assistance in making friends with the Mayan Power that exists in Yucatan in the same way that PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, exists in Egypt. I told them that I come as a friend; not to rob the Pyramids or try to seek treasure... and that I respectfully request permission from the Mayan Power to approach it, telepathically. Then PyrCre and Control of the UFOs made a cross (or "X") of light over my location... each one made a beam of what seemed like light so that they intersected over my location... la cruce de luce... at Uxmal... they showed it to me in my mind... and evidently this is the only way that I could approach the Mayan Power that exists... so I wait now to see what happens. I have just met with The Mayan Power. It wasn't what I thought it would be, at all. It was a huge face, like that of PyrCre, but completely different. This was the face of a wrinkled old man, but it had great beauty in it. Peacefulness. It had a headdress on top, with all colors of the rainbow... like feathers... I told this old man that I was seeking wisdom, knowledge and understanding... I was a friend requesting permission to approach him. He said then, "look into my eyes and you will have wisdom, knowledge and understanding"... and I looked into his eyes and there were no eyeballs at all, like human eyes would have... but there was the sky and Nature and azul... blue sky, blue water... all of Nature and Nature's secrets were in his eyes. His eyes weren't eyes like your or my eyes... they were like windows that you could look through... there was beauty that words could not express. After a short while he said, "it is enough for now" and the face faded and I had knowledge that while I had been looking into his eyes I had been receiving encapsulated knowledge which would unfold as time went by and as my mind would be able to absorb it. So there is no doubt now... I have linked up with The Mayan Power. It's a great relief... because I didn't know what to expect... whether it would be like a jaguar, a snake, or whatever. But instead, a leathery old, crinkled, reddish-colored face... humanoid. I didn't notice a nose or mouth or ears much... just the face and eyes and headdress... but great beauty and peacefulness emanated from The Mayan Power. Tranquility, if you will. I just thanked Control of my UFOs and PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, telepathically, for making it possible for me to approach The Mayan Power. Without the cross of light that they laid down over this location I am sure that I could not have approached The Mayan Power. It is sort of like a secret door... or a time window... that they opened for me... and only they could have provided it. Amazing. I am making a list of questions now to ask The Mayan Power the next time I contact it. Tomorrow, I suppose. What's it called? How many times do I approach it to be taught? Can I contact it the same as Control and PyrCre from anywhere? And is there another location in Yucatan that it would want me to go while I am here? === Page 9 of 9 7 While I think of it...Teddy and I have been finding beautiful red flowers... which suddenly appear on our table, or on the ground in front of us...they seem to come from nowhere...and just a few minutes ago, after I made successful contact with the Mayan Power, Xtolac, a beautiful shirt just simply appeared in front of us on the ground, brand new, and it fit Teddy to a t. Both Teddy and I believe that it is a "magic shirt" that Xtolac, The Mayan Power, wants him to have and wear. Teddy and I returned to our room at The Mision Hotel in Uxmal...when an odd thing happened. Our room opens onto a patio overlooking the grounds...and there is a tree next to our patio. Well, into this tree flies a little bird...seemingly the very same little bird that followed Teddy around in Merida...it has a white stripe on its head. It sings and chirps to us...flies inside the door of our room then back out again onto a limb of the tree. Always the same limb. Teddy and I name it White Top (it has a yellow breast). It just stays ther, hour by hour, on that same limb, chattering at us. Down below us there is an anteater (here called oso armaguerra, or something like that); also little baby spotted deer with their mama...the babies about as big as my hand. Wednesday night...I am explaining the Mayan Power to Teddy; that it covers the ancient key Mayan pyramids and temples like an invisible blanket...or an x-ray effect, guarding them -- but that its "personality" or characteristics are totally different than its brother Egyptian Power, PyrCre, in that it is not destructive. PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, can be infinitely destructive, to a degree beyond human comprehension. And the SIs (my UFOs) can be very rough when they want to be, too, with their Powers. But the Mayan Power deals with beauty, tranquility, creativity, wisdom, knowledge, understanding...its makeup is entirely different than PyrCre or the SIs, and to get what it is...the essence of it...down onto paper in English is well-night impossible. I have seen it and experienced it, but can hardly describe it to others of the human race. Just to look through the eyes of Xtolac...is an experience of indescribable beauty and perhaps I should say "goodness". Note: I get no feedback on all my xeroxing... and since this takes lots of time and trouble, I think I'll pass on the rest of it. Get tired of "talking to myself." Owens 8/20/80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800518 Letter to Jeff Mishlove UFOs and Mayan entity https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a80e6d7d5d588fb4fa8b281c1678d428.pdf 5a121d6d78ff91075cb0f11a3334f776 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/832b310c82500580efd40bef32b71cd6.txt e0a6a63c80d7233ceb62f700d510af55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 May 15, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: I have now finished my experiment in knocking out "power" and power sources. The tail-end of that file will reach you as soon as I can get it pasted up and xeroxed. Now, beginning today, I will utilize my own powers...the powers of my UFOs (Control)...the powers of and the newly-found powers of Xtolac (Mayan Power), a living entity thousands of years old that my mind joined up with in Uxmal, Yucatan, while I was there recently... to bring tremendous and long-lasting rains to Australia, which is stricken with a killer-drought... and to India, in the midst of its worst drought in 70 years... and to Africa, where millions of people are starving and dying because of drought. In a bit will fill you in on the why of it, as soon as I get my Yucatan Report typed up. while I am at it...I will work to bring rains all over the world. Tremendous rains everywhere on earth. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 2 of 2 WORLD RAIN PROJECT MAY 15 1980 UFO (ESPECIALLY AUSTRALIA, AFRICA AND INDIA), TO END DROUGHTS RAINS ON THE WORLD UFO UFO UFO (XTOLAC) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800515 Letter to Jeff Mishlove and knocking out power drawing as part of letter https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f64fb30fab6d0d95b7fd20c995568202.pdf cf1af98a8fb8230f7763502469c30e46 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/56b6f6af257e01d126a043f7f03b4e94.txt 482777fc8d3fa229dd7f3abeb403cd26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 June 8, 1980 Mr. H. L. Hingorani Researcher, "Life Beyond" Foundation Harnik House 9, Sadhu Vaswani Road Pune 411 001 (India) Dear Sir: Re yours of May 23, 1980. You ask if I can travel to India and give some kind of exhibition...etc. I can improve on your suggestion. My powers can save India. As I understand it India is in the worst drought in 70 years. Very well. I can end that drought and save India. Not only that, I can do many, many other things to help India get onto balance, grow, and become a healthy country. And a happy country. (the Black Book.) No, I cannot send you a "copy" of that which the UFOs have entrusted me with. You offer me a visit to India...or at least you are "tempted" to do so...for several months, expenses paid. Thank you, that is very kind of you. However, the only way that I could come to India would be if the top leader of India (President, Premier, etc.) would send me a round trip, first class air ticket, with assurance that I would be the guest of the government of India for a week or two weeks (the maximum time that I could spend there.). It is of utmost importance, of course, that my personal security be assured while in that country. I am not interested in a fee, monies, or whatever, for saving India. Time is of the essence, however. I have no interest in "after we die" and so forth. Sorry about that. You can secure a scientific report about my work from Washington Research Center, 3101 Washington Street, San Francisco, California, 94115, written by scientists for scientists. Many, many books have written about me and the miracles that I have done. Too many to list here. Enclosed you will find some xeroxd material which might give you some idea of what it is that I do. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 * I am, even now, using my vast powers to bring rains to India to end its drought completely; yet I could do it much more effectively if I could be there if even only for a few days. * Enclose $10.00 for it, if you send for it. * I do, however, greatly appreciate any financial contribution to my work and research from any === Page 2 of 5 H. L. HINGORANI RESEARCHER. "LIFE-BEYOND" FOUNDATION HARNIK HOUSE, 9, SADHU VASWANI ROAD, PUNE 411 001. (INDIA) PHONE 23013 Ted Owen s- The UFO Prophet, 200 N.E. 76 St., Vancouver, WA-98665., USA. Date 23-5-80. Respected friend of humanity, Sub: Search & Research on 'Whether life consciousness continues beyond physical death and whether it could be contacted rationally by persons yet living on this earthly plane." We have come across your advertisement of page 21 of Fate Magazine-Dec-79, which is worded as under: "Secrets of The Masters". The only training of its kind in the world. By Ted Owens, the UFO Prophet. See Feb. 1979 FATE Magazine article by scientist (re Owens psychic work). Read about Ted-Owens in "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson, Putnam's, hardcover; "Occult America". by John Godwin. Double day, hardcover: and "UFO Trek", by Warren Smith, Zebra Paperback. Can you kindly device some scheme for a visit to India, for some kind of Exhibition to prove to the world that super powers are possessed by your Holiness. It is stated that you have complete hold over secrets of the Black-Book given to your goodself by Aliens from another dimension. Could you kindly favour us with the copy of the syllabus which you have created for ordinary human being. Your mind training system can only be digested with the help of your other dimensional powers of the master, Ted Owen and because U.F.O. gave this extraordinary secret system to Owens to teach to certain Key humans, in its easily understandable arrangements. Please send complete booklet with details---------- After reading the details of your further advertisement we are tempted to invite your Holiness for a visit to India atleast for two months and all your expenses while travelling in India and lodging and boarding will be met with this Foundation. === Page 3 of 5 Recently we have received a book "After we die, what then ?", published by George Meek, Metascience Corp, publication division, Franklin-NC-USA). Please study this in depth and inform us your reactions for the, same. We are very much impressed with the language and the pictures and the experience of the author including the photography of the departed person e.g. Fig-20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shortly before his death and Fig-21 photograph of his produced at his request by Spirit helpers two months after his death. Please help us in the research rationally and scientifically and send us some literature or typed letters to enable us to progress in this research. In the service of humanity, (H.L.HINGORANI) ---------- Ted Owen s- The UFO Prophet, 200 N.E. 76 St., Vancouver - WA-98665. U. S. A. ---------- भेजनेवाले का नाम और पता:- SENDER'S NAME AND ADDRESS:- H. L. HINGORANI Researcher, "Life-Beyond" Foundation HARNIK HOUSE, 9, SADHU VASWANI ROAD, PUNE 411 001, (INDIA) भारत INDIA 30 भारत INDIA 30 INLAND LETTER इस पत्र के अन्दर कुछ न रखें NO ENCLOSURES ALLOWED === Page 4 of 5 May 28, 1980 "Report From the Readers" Fate Magazine I have just recently returned from Yucatan, and examined my mail which had accumulated in my absence. There was a copy of June 1980 Fate Magazine, and in your section there was an article: "Ted Owens, where Are You?" written by a Stan Farnsworth. Now, although I get dozens of such requests each month from all over the world...to modify the weather here, there and everywhere... I could easily recall Mr. Farnsworth's letter. You see, I use my psychic ability to "probe" those who write to me, and quite often I am correct with my results. Certainly, I was correct with Mr. Farnsworth. I perceived that here was a person with a nasty twist of mind; a person eager to make fun of me in some way. Therefore I tossed his letter into my 'nut' file. (Quite obviously, anyway, I cannot go "marching off in all directions" and modify the weather all over the globe for every Tom, Dick and Harry who demand it.) Your readers might just as well know, therefore, that I am not available to them...my time and energy...upon demand...to satisfy any of their psychic requests. I channel my time and energy, very carefully, in order to obtain maximum results. It occurs to me that perhaps your readers might like to know just what I am doing around the world with regard to weather. I will enlighten them to this extent: to help a friend of mine in Canada, Mr. Fred Oshanek, box 28, Sask., Canada, S0A 3T0. I have known Mr. Oshanek for years. He is a very fine person. And I have changed the weather for him, during those years. Recently he wrote to me and told me that the farmers need rain, and I have replied to him that I will bring him and his friends all the rain that they need, for their farms. A Mr. Bruce Kell, 4 Torrington Road, Strathfield, Australia, NSW 2135, wrote to me on April 9, 1980, and informed me that much of Australia was in terrible drought, and the lives of billions of people and animals were on the line. Would I bring Australia rains? I told him that I would do so, and since then rains have come to Australia (although I have not finished the job yet; much more rains are needed until the drought is completely over...and I will finish ending that drought for Australia.) (I also sent a letter at that time to the leader of Australia, Hon. Frazier, informing him of my action.) And because Africa and India are caught up in killer droughts, I am going to bring tremendous rains to those countries, continents, in order to end those droughts. In the days, weeks and months ahead. Millions and millions of people's lives are at stake. All right, enough of weather. Now, in my copy of July, 1980, Fate magazine I note an article, "Holy Moses" in which a Judith somebody criticizes me and my work. (She seems to be very stupid; why doesn't she send to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove at 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115, and include $7 plus airmail costs for a scientific report on my work...if she thinks that I am invalid?) At any rate, in order to answer her article I merely have to refer to her last paragraph: "Finally, his claim that the UFO entities aim to improve the human race is, as we Cockneys say, a bloody nerve! If this is their aim, history shows they are prime bunglers. We can look back on 1000 years of === Page 5 of 5 2 humanity's troubles -- from Attila the Hun through Hitler and his Nazi cutthroats. Where were the UFOs and the "SIs" through all this?" The answer is simple, JG. Humanity had, and still has, too many Judith Gees... both in the layman field and in the scientific field... so that attempts by UFOs to help and improve the human race were mainly neutralized by Judith Gee types. I am positive that Moses, Ezekial, John The Baptist and others working with and for the UFO angels had their Judith Gee attackers too, at those times. In closing, I read the excellent article written about Dr. J. B. Rhine by Martin Ebon. It was a shock to me because no word had come to me that Dr. Rhine had passed away. Long years ago I was his secretary and engaged in some psychic experimentation with him, and he dictated his book to me to type for him, "The Reach of the Mind," published by William Sloane and Associates. Certainly, Dr. Rhine and his wife, Dr. Louisa Rhine, have to be two of the finest scientists that the world has ever known, in their chosen field. But I was surprised at an error on Mr. Ebon's part. He states that they "had no son." They certainly did have a son. His name was Robbie, and he was a fine boy. The Rhine's adopted Robbie because some years passed and they were childless. After his adoption then they had three daughters (natural children). I only mention this because I do not think it fair to Robbie to be left out of the "credits"... i.e., being the son of such famous parents. (Perhaps something occurred and the Rhines do not want the above mentioned... therefore it would be best not to bring it up, yes?) Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800505 & 8005028 & 800608 letters to and from Fate Magazine https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9dda99b11a267680e2881c54ccf2294d.pdf d2267be9e662c0657b98756e092f8c51 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e7c5735c8facf357043f856bbf53e26e.txt bf93a37ad5cf5eedbe36ac2f2285167b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Jeffrey Mishlove c/o Washington Research Center 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 April 28th '80 Dear Jeff, I am in the process of writing my own paper. Could you ask Ted if I can have permission to use his term SIs the next time you see him or correspond with him, or could you tell me where I can get in touch with him. I wrote to an address in Fate magazine somewhere in Oregon. Could you ask Ted if he got my letter? Most importantly could you reinforce upon Ted that he must be more aware of the struggle between good and evil, and his role in that struggle. The spiritual underworld exists as sure as you and I exist. It is a kind of anti-spirit which can convert to spirit and spirit can revert back to it, with the loss of energy of course. This is part of the quantum aspects of the spiritual which I explore in my paper. Let him remember, and let all others who do the same remember, as I'm sure they know in their hearts and needn't be told, that converting spirit into anti spirit by means of distorting it, and reaping the benefits of the energy given off by this destruction, is of benefit only to the individual perpetrator of the evil, and contributes to the 'natural' state of the universe which is atrophy, or the dissipation of energy and the consequent dissemination of matter. Time is also altered but I won't go into that here. Let is suffice to say that turning the supernatural, parapsychological and panaphysical to evil means is a sure way to the rapid destruction of the human race, and according to the strength and efficiency of that evil power and Mr. Owens' is no doubt considerable, the effect will be far greater than you have in fact imagined. I think with some simple, carefully well placed guidance, I and other people, and the intelligences who are assisting us, can bring Ted round to the side of good, in no time at all if he lets us. Times have changed since Moses. And times have changed since Jesus a thousand years later. What we need now is a universal (international) spirituality, working to steer humanity toward future harmony with the Divine Order of the Universe, and this can only be done in conjunction with the Great Will behind that Divine Order which is in everyone of us. On the other side however we have the inevitable abyss. Mr. Ted Owens must, instead of helping us to rush towards that abyss, start helping is to put the brakes on. Yours Sincerely, === Page 2 of 2 6-20-80 P.S. Jeffrey I hope I haven't been too outspoken about Ted's evil qualities, but I feel it is wrong to pussy foot around issues never uttering anything but non-committal trivia, like the politicians and other establishment figures. I can only assume they have the same level of comprehension in private as they do in public. Look at the current situation in the world and see if I'm not right in saying I think this is a cause of a lot of the difficulty, of people not getting up and saying what they think even if they're wrong. At least it might bring out something in other people which they might not of even known they had. Could I impose upon you still further and ask you to some address of of people, Vallee, Harder, Sprinkle & Schwartz in particular. I think they would make a splendid partnership of one sort of another. I too am in need of a lot of help and guidance having embarked on this adventure only slightly more than a year ago. 6/20/80 Jeffrey: Someone should enlighten this dumb humans what my primary aim is to save 3 billion humans on this earth... utilizing the power of my UFOs, the Egyptian Power and now the Mayan Power. And what I am fighting for is a home to do it from. Best to you & Janelle... Ed O & Wena * No other requisite. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800428 Letter to Jeff Mishlove from Ted Owens https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/aa0adf4563cf80e27b24071dcbf7a520.pdf 76e1e9b741c9a506c4935366bd9cb9f2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1b68955b700aa37172cb6ab7ea137a7d.txt d8c2d0660c3a2e2e5969e55965e37921 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 Soviets, East Germans running Afghanistan By BARRY SCHWEID Oregonian JAN 23, 1980 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of Soviet bureaucrats have moved into Afghanistan to run the government and East German intelligence agents are helping to operate the security system, administration sources disclosed Tuesday. Afghan administrators are being dismissed and, in some cases, executed, as the Soviets attempt to tighten their hold on the pro-Moscow government of Babrak Karmal, the sources said. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said, meanwhile, that the Soviets were airlifting more troops into the country now that Kabul airport has reopened after a severe snowfall. He said there were some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the Soviets have taken over direction of the Foreign Ministry and security, with East German intelligence agents assuming the role they also play in South Yemen and Angola. Moslem guerrilla resistance to the Soviet intervention is persisting, Carter said. He said that while intelligence reports are sketchy, Soviet casualties in the monthlong penetration of the Moslem country may have reached 2,000. The Soviets have had advisers in the country for about two years, trying to influence succeeding Marxist governments toward a more pro-Moscow line. Since last month's overthrow of President Hafizullah Amin and his succession by Babrak, viewed by the Carter administration as a puppet, the Soviets have assumed a more prominent position in governmental operations. "The advisers are being a lot more active, and the new administrators have joined them," said one U.S. official who asked not to be identified. President Carter has called the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan "the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War." In an address Wednesday night he is expected to announce a series of measures he hopes will contain Soviet expansion in Southwest Asia. According to some reports, the Soviets have been training Baluchi tribesmen to foment dissent in neighboring Pakistan. However, a State Department statement said officials could not "confirm with any degree of specificity either that such training is taking place or, if it is, where the training is being carried out." The Baluchis are a restive minority in Iran and Afghanistan as well as Pakistan. Some analysts hold the view that Pakistan's central government could be subverted by exacerbating Baluchi unrest. Jan. 23, 1980 Jeffrey Mishlove: As you know, before Russia attacked Afghanistan I phoned you (and Dr. Monteith) and told you that my SIs told me to warn that the U.S. was in deadly danger, hour by hour, day by day in a way therefore non-existent. Either you or Henry asked and I said an immediate threat of World War Three. So I *warned before the fact. Ted Owens (PK Man) *my SIs (or "The Phenome... I am very proud of Scott's book! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800123 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1cf702aa2ea4a302365a39164f98ccff.pdf 73e5e1abba01989e14a113c265170224 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7aec6455e710298d8df4c8f8031ff49b.txt d247c13875261c61e244d33d45d0e33f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Dec. 27, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove You will recall that I phoned you a while back and told you that my SIs were going to attack high up in government. Since then President Carter's mother broke something and went into hospital; President Carter was wiped out in the election; and today President Carter broke his collar bone. Owene === Page 2 of 2 # Carter breaks collarbone in cross-country skiing fall BY HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter broke his left collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., the White House said. White House spokesman Rex Granum said Carter was flown by helicopter to the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where X-rays showed he had fractured the clavicle near where it connects to the breastbone. "The president was skiing down a slope when one of the skis caught on a rock and he fell on his elbow, left elbow and shoulder," Granum said. Granum quoted Carter's doctor, Rear Adm. William Lukash, as saying the president was in "considerable pain." The president was given medication for the pain, Granum said, and probably will require medication for several days. He said Carter was placed in a "figure-eight harness" to keep his shoulders immobilized and will have to wear it six to eight weeks. Carter does not plan to curtail his activities and will go to New Orleans as expected next week for the Sugar Bowl, the presidential spokesman said. "He'll be able to shake hands and write because it's his left arm," Granum said, adding that the president is right-handed. Granum said that although the president was in pain, he was not in a bad mood. "He was joking about it with people at Bethesda," he said of the injury. Carter left the hospital about 5 p.m. to return to Camp David. His wife, Rosalynn, was with him as he boarded the helicopter. The president was smiling and waved to reporters with his right arm. He was wearing a tan raincoat, but his left arm was not through the sleeve. The president was taken by car from the hospital to the waiting helicopter. Granum said Carter was treated Associated Press Laserphoto AFTER THE FALL -- President Carter climbs the steps of his helicopter on the grounds of Bethesda Naval Hospital Saturday. Carter was flown to the hospital for treatment after he fell and broke his collarbone while cross-country skiing near the presidential retreat at Camp David. Capt. Bart Sleemnos, chairman of the Bethesda orthopedics department, as well as by Lukash. Carter, who is 56, has frequently cross-country skied during his four years in office, Granum said. He said Lukash was with Carter skiing, along with Mrs. Carter, Marine aide John Kline and two Secret Service agents. The accident took place about 3 p.m., Granum said, during Carter's second skiing outing of the day. The presidential spokesman said that, specifically, Carter had fractured the medial aspect of the left clavicle, the part of the collarbone nearest the breastbone. The collarbone connects the breastbone to the shoulder. "This is, incidentally, the same clavicle he fractured as a midshipman at the Naval Academy in a jujitsu class," Granum said. He said Carter was skiing down a slope on a nature trail in about 3 inches of fairly fresh snow when he fell. Asked how steep the slope was, he said he didn't know. After the accident, Carter went back to Aspen Lodge on the grounds at Camp David, a short walk, and Lukash put the president's arm in a sling and immobilized his shoulder, Granum said. The president underwent a full physical examination last January, and Lukash said then that Carter was in excellent health and fully capable of dealing with the strain of the Oval Office. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8012 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a1476067d42a94e3b5888d9b040ff965.pdf 3b6d351ab9b329a84db9d02e9a8b4f76 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/dc9bdd0a7398c496902527c7e62fb8f2.txt f4eb9bd73563dbc2cf930a4cc38a95a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 Nov. 22, 1980 Jeffrey CONTACTS: I have a huge file of pertinent documentation to xerox and send to you, along with a 2-page cover letter of explanation. However... right now I've just enough money to feed the family for five days... a big stack of bills which I cannot pay... so... I will have to wait 4-8 weeks to be able to afford sending you the xerox file that you need to match up with the cover letter. Yet, I am going to send the cover letter herein. Keep it on ice and later, when the file it matches up with arrives, append it to that file. Cordially, Ted Owens ( PK Man ) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8011 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/09a0f1c923cf28eed861ac80a4c1c7f5.pdf f5841a88e02df631c4fd2665e4ff4f49 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/959ae6d4bd322e4b6e2689073849fed4.txt a54d7d9edcb8b7e3035344ab7b34b017 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/328bf408349b4f5c4922f382ecfaa086.pdf 980ccd6958962cbc80410cf4b931834e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4854f1a0be3869f70978033d4570ce5c.txt e8bb62bed18fc8a90e76f5059a9bd6d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 10-6-80 Owens: working with Greenpeace calling off all negative demonstrations Steve McQueen, offered to heal cancer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8010 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Feb 10 2026 Yes just one document in October 1980. Just by chance I asked Jeff about the note and he Said it was his notes from a phone call with Ted Owens. Lewis https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/45e64ca06ac536b25876e12cbea6d1c6.pdf fc92bad1c13f5f871e7f4c0a20552a52 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2f11ffbb04bfe262159a01f1ed942a0c.txt 255907207107343810e3983c8932f6d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) $\theta$ $ℇ$ Sept. 3, 1980 CONTACTS Something most unusual has taken place re my work with UFOs. First, to sum up: The UFOs have tried to get a Base for me to work from, so that I would be able to utilize their powers properly to help the human race en toto, block wars, and so on. Ali can make 8 million dollars in one night fighting, but the U.S. Government is unwilling to put up 5 million for the UFO base. The UFOs are, therefore, at war with the U.S. Government... (and I am quoting them)... until such time as the U.S. Government cooperates with them by providing said Base. * Last Monday they communicated with me and gave me a special message to pass on to you. It involves California. However, my own human choice must agree with the UFOs in order for them to carry out their plan for California, and I chose for the first time to disagree with them... at least, for the nonce. (I point out here that before I can take any action and utilize the special abilities that they have given me I must communicate with the UFOs and get their permission on it, so this procedure is a two-way procedure.) This Monday they communicated with me again. They want to do three things, and I gave my human permission for them to do so. (1) They are going to build a superior "intelligence" into the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico... designed to attack the United States. (2) They are going to utilize a form of "time distortion" against the United States. (3) They are going to build "disorientation" into the United States at a very high level. The resultant effects from these procedures will escalate until the Base is provided, as mentioned above. Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) * also they told me to warn President Carter that a foreign country wants Reagan as President and has put the machinery in motion here with hired killers to eliminate Carter. I phoned this info to Scott Rogo yesterday, hoping that he could tip off Carter (Remember Pres. Johnson and the flare? Nixon & Cubans? I was correct then!) Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND OR 972 3 SEP 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 2 of 2 Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) $\theta$ $͇$ September 5, 1980 CONTACTS I have astounding news for you! Day before yesterday I sent you a notice that my UFOs were taking three new actions to put pressure on the U.S. Government for their Base. These actions are entirely foreign to the previous 400-odd "miracles" they have brought about and which I have documented, some of which have been described in the scientific report by Dr. Mishlove; also the book which Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written about my work. I sent you what they told me to tell you...but I was greatly puzzled about "disorientation" and "time distortion" and giving the oceans a super-intelligence with which to attack the U.S. coasts. For one thing, in documenting this new development, what would I look for in the newspapers? I.e., how does one document a disoriented and time-distorted nation and government? INSTEAD, Also for the very first time...my UFOs instructed me NOT to make up a "PK Map" ON PAPER. They telepathd the necessary picture for me to activate mentally. The extraordinary thing about this ploy is...even if I were given hypnotic drugs or put under hypnosis...it would be utterly impossible for me to describe in words or writing the "PK Map" picture they gave me to activate! At any rate...last night at 9:30 PM they communicated and explained to me quite clearly what was puzzling me! What they have done is...place a "cover" or "lid" over the United States which will give off the VERY SAME EFFECTS as the mysterious effects through the years in THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE! I.e., you might say that they have TRANSFERRED the Bermuda Triangle phenomena to the United States proper! And as I understand their communication...the effects of this action will selectively affect most...the U.S. Government! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens $͇$ P.S. To explain to me the difference between all previous phenomena the UFOs have brought about and this new phenomena... the difference is analogous to a simple game of chess compared to a game of chess played on six levels simultaneously!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8009 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c850cd8e36b2398acd46929825065e8d.pdf a725c092208c6ded4faf7da056d7c0d1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f7799ef9714ce780a759fd2699250240.txt ce65476f33e805f5b7facb64ceca5f4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 63 LIFE/STYLES Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug. 5, 1980 8/5/80 # Did St. Helens Cast a Shadow Over Weather Of the World? World Power and Rain Attack By Julie Smith The volcano, some say, is making the world's weather all ash backwards. Mount St. Helens is being blamed for Texas baking, England soaking and Seattle graying. In England, an eminent climatologist says St. Helens could be the culprit. "IS the volcano affecting the weather?" Here is the response of weather watchers most knowledgeable about the possibility: It is unlikely but not to be discounted that the May 18 volcanic eruption is changing the earth's climate. First a discussion of dust particles, for example, plummeted to nighttime levels. "There are pockets as it were of ash being detected around the world still from that eruption," says J. Murray Mitchell, senior researcher for climatology at the Environmental Data and Information Service in Maryland. It takes a sensitive laser beam to see the ash. The layers are roughly estimated to be a half mile thick and 500 to 1,000 miles long and a few hundred miles wide. "But the amount of ash still up in the high atmosphere is so small" Note: It isn't Mt St. Helens changing the world's weather. It is PK Man's "Power and Rain Attack!!" Owens === Page 2 of 63 # UFOs & Psychic Experiences Linked to Natural Disasters **By LARRY MASIDLOVER** UFOs spotted in the vicinity of Washington's Mt. St. Helens before the volcano erupted add astounding new evidence to a massive computer study that links natural disasters with UFO sightings. Strange, hovering craft appeared just prior to the explosions, according to Robert Gribble, an official of Seattle's National UFO Reporting Center. "The first eruption was in March and we had a series of sightings just 50 miles northwest of the mountain in January," he said. "People were reporting large triangular-shaped objects moving at very low altitude. "Then a few weeks before the major eruption of May 18, a family made a daylight sighting of two large silver disc-shaped objects about 50 miles west of the mountain in January. "What's more, over the years we've come up with several hundred cases where UFO sightings have come either prior to, during or immediately after earthquakes," he said. Dr. Henry Monteith, a top government scientist who has spent years personally researching UFO reports, explained that UFOs probably cluster around natural disasters out of sheer curiosity. "Volcanic activity, for example, would be of extreme interest to the occupants of UFOs," he noted. Canadian scientist Dr. Michael A. Persinger recently finished a huge computer study which linked UFO sightings not only with natural disasters, but also poltergeist activity and psychic phenomena. His findings correspond with the sightings near Mt. St. Helens in Washington state. "Many UFO and unusual psychic events occur before the manifestation of a severe earth jolt or volcanic explosion," concluded Dr. Persinger, who analyzed more than 6,000 reports from all over the world of strange and unusual events of the last 160 years. "Many often occur in bursts some months or weeks before the occurrence of mid-magnitude seismic shocks." And these psychic events and appearances of UFOs may actually someday help us predict natural catastrophes, he says. **SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE in 1906 (above) followed reports of psychic experiences. And recent eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington (right) came shortly after UFOs were spotted near the volcano.** Dr. Persinger, associate professor of psychology and director of the environmental psychophysiology laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, cited these startling examples: * On April 16, 1906, "a number of people in San Francisco received psychic experiences that something odd was about to happen," Dr. Persinger said. * "Two days later, the business district of San Francisco was destroyed by the great quake. At that same time there was a violent eruption of Vesuvius in Italy, volcanic eruptions in the Canary Islands and eruptions in Japan." * In 1967, dozens of people in Caracas, Venezuela, reported that they saw "little men, odd-shaped objects and ghosts before and after a July 31 earthquake." * In July 1972 in Missouri, there were various reports of giant humanoids, obnoxious smells, hairy creatures, UFOs, fireballs and disembodied voices -- during a huge solar storm. * Between July 7 and July 27, 1966, many people in the Salt Lake City area of Utah reported sighting a giant bird "usually described as a prehistoric flying reptile. Following that, balls of fire were reported in Utah and other parts of the country." * Just days before a series of earthquakes struck the Gulf of California region in March of 1969, there was a nationwide rash of UFO sightings. The same period saw widespread reports of strange creatures and humanoids. * In March of 1974 fish fell from the sky over northern Australia. And several months after that, the city of Darwin, in that region, was devastated by a cyclone. NATIONAL ENQUIRER Page 5 === Page 3 of 63 Aug. 6, 1980 # Heavy rain hits Kansas United Press International Thunderstorms stretched from the Texas Panhandle through the middle Mississippi Valley, bringing up to 5 inches of rain to parts of Kansas and causing property damage in Oklahoma. Heavy rain and lightning storms also flashed from New Jersey to New England Tuesday, causing power outages, downed power lines and the death of one motorcyclist who was struck by lightning. Vermont police said James Kelley, 22, of Melrose, N.Y., and a companion pulled their motorcycles off U.S. Route 7 and into a clump of trees to wait out a heavy thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning struck Kelley about 6:30 p.m., killing him. His companion was admitted to Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington. The heat wave returned to Dallas, Texas, where temperatures again rose above 100 degrees Tuesday after a one-day respite. Temperatures also passed the century mark in Oklahoma, and state officials said a severe water shortage will spread throughout the state if there is no relief from the six-week drought. Thunderstorms brought some welcome rainfall to Kansas -- but maybe too much in some areas. The National Weather Service reported 4 1/2 inches at Elmo, near Salina, and nearly 5 inches at Ellenwood. The thunderstorms hit central Kansas at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, causing numerous power outages. # Missouri, Kansas Get Needed Rain Kansas City Thunderstorms soothed drought-parched farms in Missouri and Kansas yesterday. Nearly 2.5 inches of rain soaked Topeka, Kan., which had gotten less than an inch and a half of rain the previous two months. The heavy rains over eastern Kansas and northern Missouri brought some relief to the drought-parched area, but triggered widespread minor flooding. The storms marked a second straight day of rain for some areas. The two-day rainfall for some sections of Kansas exceeded 5 inches. Aug 7-1980 S.F. Chronicle United Press # 30 Kids Drown in Storm Jakarta More than 30 schoolchildren drowned in a storm about 900 miles northeast of Jakarta last week, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. United Press Aug 6-80 S.F. Chronicle Aug 1-1980 Seat Times # Grass fires hit many areas Fast-moving grass fires blackened thousands of acres of parched land in the Midwest, West and Southwest yesterday. High winds, lack of rain and general drought threatened to make the situation worse. About 250 grass and woods fires in the past few days have destroyed 6,000 to 7,000 acres in Missouri. Idaho fire fighters yesterday contained a 6,200-acre blaze 20 miles east of Grasmere, after extinguishing a 920-acre range fire north of Mayfield late Wednesday. Both fires were caused by lightning. === Page 4 of 63 - "World" "Power" "and Rain Attack" - # Dangerous Hurricane Allen threatens Jamaica By IKE FLORES KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, one of the most dangerous storms ever in the eastern Caribbean, pummeled the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it brushed past and headed for Jamaica with winds of 170 mph. At least two persons were reported killed in Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The killer storm claimed 16 lives Monday in a devastating blow at the tiny island of St. Lucia. Eight deaths had been reported earlier, and officials said eight more bodies were found Tuesday in the towns of Soufriere and Choiseul. A radio distress call said two persons perished when a boat capsized in the wind-tossed harbor of Port au Prince, the Haitian capital, as the eye of the storm swept within 20 miles of Haiti's southwestern coast. Haiti's national radio said there was heavy damage in the coastal cities of of Les Cayes and Jacmel, and it was feared there were some deaths. It said the roofs of many buildings in Les Cayes blew away, roads were washed out and there was heavy flooding. An official at the Agricultural Ministry in Port au Prince said it was believed that the coffee crop, a major source of income for Haiti, had been virtually destroyed. Jamaica is expected to receive the full force of the hurricane early Wednesday, and Prime Minister Michael Manley went on national radio and television Tuesday night urging residents in low-lying areas to "move out now." He added, "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurricane Center in Miami was asked about the possibility of the hurricane making a landfall in the United States, and said that was "something we won't know about for two or three days. A lot can happen to it after it goes through the islands, but nothing immediately indicates any strong signs or strong chances" it would strike the United States. Miami, the closest U.S. city, is about 575 miles north-northwest of Kingston, but Cuba lies between Jamaica and Miami. At 9 p.m. EDT, the U.S. National Weather Service in Miami said the "one-in-a-century type storm" had maximum winds of 170 mph and was about 20 miles south of the southwestern tip of Haiti and 180 miles east-southeast of Kingston. It said the hurricane, moving at about 20 mph, had turned slightly toward the northwest but was expected to resume a more west-northwesterly course. It said Allen's eye was located near latitude 17.8 north and longitude 74.0 west. The service said hurricane-force winds extend 60 miles to the north and 40 miles to the south, with gale-force winds fanning outward 175 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. It reported hurricane warnings were in effect for Jamaica and southwestern Haiti, gale warnings were up for the southern zone of the Dominican Republic and a hurricane watch was ordered for the Cayman Islands. Strong winds and heavy rains would spread over eastern Cuba Tuesday night, the service said. Havana Radio reported Cuba's five eastern provinces, including Guantanamo, where the U.S. Navy has a large base, were placed on alert. The most recent storm to cause serious damage in Jamaica had winds of 75 mph -- less than half the force of Hurricane Allen -- when it struck on Aug. 17, 1951. That storm, unofficially called Charlie by weather forecasters, killed more than 150 people, caused severe damage in Kingston and destroyed the city of Port Royal. No hurricane has been potentially more destructive than Allen since Hurricane Camille caused widespread death and destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast in 1969. Manley's government announced the closing of the international airports at Kingston and Montego Bay as of 7 p.m. and ended all bus service in Kingston as of 8 p.m. The government airline, Air Jamaica, suspended all flights Tuesday afternoon. Kingston radio stations asked that churches remain open to receive refugees. The opposition Jamaica Labor Party, locked in an election campaign with the ruling People's National party, said it was suspending political activities and instead would aid storm victims. Ralph Brown, minister for local government, said the first effects of Allen should be felt at about 3 a.m. Wednesday. At midday Tuesday, Kingston's streets were clogged with traffic, and nobody was seen boarding up windows or stocking up on supplies. "But that's typical of Jamaicans," said the owner of one small shop downtown. "They want to make sure it's really headed this way before they do any work to prepare. Everybody always waits until the last minute." In Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, 12-foot waves crashed against the seawall along the oceanside Avenida George Washington. In addition to the deaths on St. Lucia, Allen caused extensive damage on the eastern Caribbean island nation of 115,000 people. Roofs were ripped off numerous buildings, including the main hospital, in Castries, the capital. Agriculture Minister Peter Josie, in a radio address to St. Lucians, said, "This is certainly a time of crisis. It is time to come together and work to rebuild this country." He said people were jamming emergency relief headquarters seeking food. Tyrone Sutherland, a weather officer at the town of Vieux Fort near St. Lucia's southern coast, estimated 70 percent of the buildings there were damaged. Officials in Barbados, just south of the point where Allen entered the Caribbean from the Atlantic on Sunday night, reported 125 homes damaged, power lines down and almost 100 fishing boats destroyed or damaged Monday. They said they had received no reports of deaths or serious injuries. The hurricane was so intense that Puerto Rico, 250 miles away, received gusts up to 70 mph that knocked down trees, closing many roads Monday. Civil defense officials in San Juan said that by early afternoon Tuesday all but one road had been cleared. Hurricane Allen has the destructive potential of hurricanes that claimed 2,400 lives in Cuba in 1932 and more than 2,000 lives in Puerto Rico in 1899. It is a Category 5 storm, the worst level on the Miami hurricane center's scale of destructive force. Forecasters say Allen is only the sixth or seventh Category 5 hurricane in this century. - "World" "Power" and Rain Attack - === Page 5 of 63 World "Power" and Rain Attack Hurricane Gains Force, Rends St. Lucia CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, the most intense storm to ravage the eastern Caribbean in this century, delivered a devastating swipe at St. Lucia island yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes and causing at least eight deaths, officials reported. Planning Minister Michael Pilgrim called it "a national disaster." Weather service officials in Puerto Rico said the killer storm was still gaining strength, with winds peaking at 160 mph. Based on the plunging barometric pressure in the eye of the storm, the officials said it was the most intense hurricane to move through the eastern Caribbean's hurricane alley in this century. Allen, also the first hurricane of the season, swept just north of Barbados and south of St. Lucia and then moved westward, churning the open sea with its fury. Hurricane watches were ordered in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola. Weather service officials said the storm probably would not strike any land area for at least 12 hours, but Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands should expect heavy weather. Barbados was pummeled as Allen passed and there were unconfirmed reports of two storm-related deaths there. St. Lucia officials said there were eight known deaths on the small island and the toll was expected to rise as rescue teams looked for missing persons. The savage winds blew away part of the roof over wards at Victoria Hospital in Castries, the capital of St. Lucia. But Pilgrim said the greatest damage was inflicted in the Vieux Fort area at the southern tip of the island. Telephone service was disrupted, but Pilgrim said reports from Vieux Fort indicated the zone was "in a terrible state." He said his own home in the southern district had been "smashed apart." Uprooted trees fell across power lines and blocked roads, Pilgrim said, and torrential rains caused mudslides in some areas. A Venezuelan navy ship visiting Castries ran aground and scores of small boats were swept away, other officials said. All reports indicated that the banana crop, St. Lucia's main source of export earnings, was heavily damaged. World "Power" and Rain Attack Hurricane hits Barbados; winds, rain cause havoc BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, the first hurricane of the season, lashed this Caribbean island with gusty winds and heavy rain Sunday night, toppling power lines and flooding low-lying areas. There were reports of roads blocked by fallen trees in the sparsely populated northern part of the island. Hundreds of Barbadians went to community hurricane shelters but thousands more remained in their homes, and traffic was still moving on streets with the eye of the hurricane less than 40 miles to the east. By 8:30 p.m. much of the Bridgetown area was without electricity and the island's television station was knocked off the air by the power failure. Bridgetown's international airport was shut down Sunday afternoon. Supermarkets and hardware stores, usually closed on Sundays, opened for business in the morning so people could make last-minute preparations for the storm. Windows in some houses were boarded up as officials put the island on full hurricane alert. Barbados, with a population of 250,000, is 1,700 miles northeast of Venezuela. Residents of other Caribbean islands also were getting ready for Hurricane Allen, which was thrashing the sea with winds up to 125 mph. At 9 p.m. EDT, the National Weather Service office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said that the center of the hurricane was near latitude 13.2 north and longitude 59.5 west, placing it very near Barbados. It reported the storm was moving toward the west at about 20 mph, and a slight turn toward the west-northwest with a decrease in forward speed was expected during the next 24 hours. Maximum winds are 115 to 125 mph near the center, the weather service said, and gale force winds extend 125 miles to the north and 75 miles to the south. === Page 6 of 63 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Hurricane death toll hits 25 Aug 6, 1980 KINGSTON, Jamaica (UPI) - Mighty Hurricane Allen's 135 mph winds battered Haiti and the northeast coast of Jamaica Wednesday, then took dead aim at the tiny Cayman Islands and western Cuba. Allen's assault on the Caribbean left 25 people dead and caused millions of dollars in damage to Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Haiti and Jamaica. Hurricane forecasters warned that even though Allen's winds had dropped from a high of 170 mph, the storm could gain strength and if it continues on course "will go through the Yucatan channel and on into the Gulf." "Allen is not a dying storm," Miami hurricane forecaster Gil Clark said. "He has just lost strength because of his passage through the land masses. There is still the possibility the hurricane will become extremely severe again." In Jamaica, rising water covered roads along the bay at the capital of Kingston and the explosion of transformers on power poles could be heard over the howling winds. One death was reported when a man was electrocuted by a fallen electrical wire. Most of the damage was along the northeast coast where flooding inundated several towns. In the capital of Kingston the winds eased and the rain stopped. The city was coming back to life with pedestrian and motor traffic. But vultures could be seen circling eerily in the sky. There were four deaths reported unofficially in Haiti, where many more were injured by corrugated tin roofs - commonly used on shacks built by the poor - hurled through the air. Three people in Jeremie, on the northwest coastline of the southern peninsula, drowned and a child died in Port au Prince when a house collapsed on him. The hurricane killed 20 people in its slash across the Windward Islands before it hit the southwestern tip of Haiti with peak winds of 170 mph. It lost some power over the mountains. "Allen is moving towards the west-northwest at 20 mph," hurricane forecaster Neal Frank said. "The center is expected to pass over the Cayman Islands this afternoon and over western Cuba late tonight and early Thursday." At 6 a.m. PDT, the center of the storm was skirting the north-central coast of Jamaica 215 miles east of Grand Cayman Island and 115 miles east-southeast of Cayman Brac. Air Force reconnaissance reports indicated the central pressure was 956 millibars, or 28.23 inches of mercury. Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 135 mph with hurricane force winds extending outward 55 miles to the north and 35 miles to the south of the center. Gale force winds extended outward 175 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. Clark said it was too early to know whether the storm would pose a threat to Mexico or the United States. But, he said, "if it turns into the Gulf it could hit the United States." Beverly Lewis in the Office of Disaster Preparedness said many roads in Kingston had been blocked by fallen utility poles and live wires were popping in the streets along the waterfront. Allen, described by forecasters as the third "great hurricane" of the century, made a slight shift to the north late Tuesday, causing officials to order a hurried evacuation of posh resort areas along Jamaica's northern coast. The area was reported safe from the harshest of Allen's winds early Wednesday. Ms. Lewis said the small parishes of St. Thomas and Portland, on the less densely populated northeast corner of the island nation, were expected to get the worst of the hurricane's fury. People fled the massive flooding on the northeast coast and crammed into emergency shelters on higher ground. Communications systems remained intact over most of the island, but intermittent power failures were reported frequently. As an emergency measure, radio stations were allowed on the air only one at a time to update residents on the storm. Ms. Lewis said more than 100 schools, churches, community centers had been opened as shelters in the two provinces. Volunteers pressed every car, bus and truck into the evacuation effort, she said. "Police in both parishes reported that people have heeded our appeal to leave their homes and go to the shelters," she said. Hurricane forecaster Paul Hebert said, "This is the most intense hurricane the eastern Caribbean has ever seen." The streets of Port Au Prince, Haiti's capital, were clogged with fallen trees and rubble. Telephone service between the city and the impoverished southern section of the island, where Hurricane Hazel's 125 mph winds killed an estimated 1,000 people in 1954, was out. Allen ranks No. 5, the highest rating of intensity. Storms that devastated the Florida Keys and just below the 1935 Labor Day Storm that devastated the Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast in 1969, which wrecked the Camille. === Page 7 of 63 CONTACTS August 6, 1980 Using my own psi-force methods and working in collaboration with my UFOs, The Egyptian Power and The Mayan Power... I have discovered to my own satisfaction that I can indeed control all or part of Earth (in specific ways) (weather, situations, ideas, populations.) There is no doubt whatsoever about it, in my experienced estimation; my work in coming to this conclusion, was not based on scientists or scientific procedures. It could not possibly be since the forces that I am working with do not have power physics that fall within the area of Earth science. Only my half-human, half-alien brain could properly evaluate my procedure and results. And it has done so. The work is valid. Owens (PK Man) PS... Should any humans kill me... even instantly... then a post-effect, which has been set up by myself and the UFO, quite like a post-hypnotic procedure, will be activated and the Earth and most of the human race === Page 8 of 63 - World "Power" + Rain Attack - Hurricane Allen death toll reaches 68 By IKE FLORES Oreg - Aug. 7, 1980 KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Hurricane Allen roared toward western Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night, leaving behind at least 68 dead and a swath of devastation stretching more than 1,000 miles across the Caribbean. The furious storm raked Jamaica with 100 mph winds and torrential rain earlier Wednesday and skirted the Cayman Islands on its way north and west. Hurricane-whipped waves dragged a dozen people from their homes and into the sea at Port Maria on Jamaica's north coast, killing five of them, according to Jamaican news reports. One man was electrocuted by a downed power line and two others died in storm-related incidents. Officials feared the toll would rise dramatically with reports from isolated areas. The death count so far: 8 in Jamaica, 41 in Haiti, 3 in the Dominican Republic and 16 on the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia where Allen struck on Monday. In nearby Dominica, one person was missing and feared dead. Extreme western Cuba and the Isle of Pines were expected to suffer from the storm late Wednesday and early Thursday, and Allen's violent eye was expected to approach the northeast portion of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early Thursday, the National Weather Service said. If the storm threatens the United States it is not expected to be for several days. New Orleans, La., is 700 miles north-northwest of Havana. A gale warning was issued for the Florida Keys, on the northern fringe of Allen's course Wednesday night. Small boats along Florida's coast, 50 miles south of Fort Myers, were warned to stay in port. The storm, about 400 miles southwest of Miami, was moving west-northwest at 20-25 mph toward the Gulf of Mexico. In its 9 p.m. EDT report, the weather service said Allen had taken a slight westward turn and the eye of the storm was near latitude 20.3 north and longitude 82.3 west, or 180 miles south of Havana and 300 miles east of Cozumel, Mexico. Hurricane-force winds spread 75 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Gales extended outward 200 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. The weather service said Allen's sustained winds of 135 mph were expected to surge again after it moved away from the Cayman Islands and aimed for western Cuba and Mexico. Port authorities in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and oil-rich Campeche Bay suspended all navigation in the area and warned ocean-going ships to take "maximum precautions." They said they took the action not only because of Allen but also because of a tropical depression hovering over Campeche Bay. The port authorities said they also are keeping in close touch with Pemex -- the Mexican state petroleum monopoly -- because of its many offshore rigs. Eastern Cuba has already had a brush with the storm. Havana Radio quoted civil defense officials as saying more than 110,000 people were evacuated Wednesday from low-lying areas in the five eastern Cuban provinces. Electricity was reported out in parts of Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana, and 17,000 people were evacuated. Jamaican officials reported heavily damaged crops, saying the banana crop was hit severely. Prime Minister Michael Manley announced a $1 million allocation to farmers who lost their crops and estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people remained in shelters and evacuation centers. === Page 9 of 63 Aug 7-1980 S.F. Chronicle # Super Hurricane Allen Churns Toward Cuba **Kingston, Jamaica** Killer Hurricane Allen, already blamed for 49 deaths in a devastating surge across the Caribbean, battered Jamaica with 100 mph winds and blinding rain yesterday, then roared past the Cayman Islands heading for western Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. The storm tore at the southern part of Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, overnight before crashing into this island's normally tourist-packed northern coast. Amateur radio operators reported up to 40 percent of the houses were destroyed near Les Cayes on Haiti's southwestern coast. At least 30 deaths were confirmed in Port au Prince and the area due south of the Haitian capital, a U.S. Agency for International Development official said. Officials feared the toll would rise dramatically with reports from isolated areas. The death count so far: 30 in Haiti, 3 in the Dominican Republic and 16 from Monday when Allen slammed into the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia with 175 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Allen's sustained winds of 135 mph were expected to surge again after it moved away from Jamaica to the open water near the Cayman Islands and aimed for Cuba. The storm, some 400 miles south of Miami, was moving northwest at 20-25 mph toward the Gulf of Mexico. Fringe winds from Allen began Back Page Col. 1 - world "Power" and Rain Attack - # KILLER HURRICANE ALLEN **From Page 1** whipping Florida's Keys last night, and forecasters urged Keys residents to secure their boats and any loose objects around their homes. Havana Radio quoted civil defense officials as saying more than 110,000 people were evacuated yesterday from low-lying areas in the five eastern Cuban provinces. Electricity was reported knocked out in parts of Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana, and some 17,000 people were evacuated. Port authorities throughout Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and oil-rich Campeche Bay suspended all navigation in the area and issued radio warnings to ocean-going ships to take "maximum precautions." They said they took the action not only because of Allen but also because of a tropical depression hovering over Campeche Bay. The port authorities said they also are keeping in close touch with Pemex - the Mexican state petroleum monopoly - because of the many offshore rigs. Behind the hurricane, Jamaican officials said there was a general power failure along the northern coast because transmission lines were torn down. Communication with the area was cut off. Sketchy reports received by the government-run Jamaica Radio said parts of Port Maria, on the northern coast due north of Kingston, were under five feet of water and many houses were destroyed in Port Antonio, a city said to have felt less of the storm's fury. Hurricane Allen had pounded the end of Haiti's southern peninsula with heavy rain and fierce winds Tuesday night as the storm's center passed within 20 miles of the tourist town of Les Cayes, officials said. Many of the peninsula's 300,000 residents are poor peasants who live in flimsy primitive huts. The Haitian Agriculture Ministry feared the effects of the storm on the nation's coffee crop, a major source of income. Associated Press === Page 10 of 63 Storms in Dakotas, Wisconsin leave death, injury, fire in path by United Press International Aug 8, 1980 Seat Times Lightning set pastures ablaze in South Dakota yesterday and thunderstorms and tornadoes surged from the Dakotas to Wisconsin, smashing homes and businesses and killing at least three people. A 13-year-old girl from Maryland was killed yesterday by a wind-hurled tree branch at Trout Lake in Northeastern Wisconsin. Authorities said she was on a canoeing expedition and was camping in the area when the storm struck. One man was electrocuted by storm-felled power lines in the village of Birchwood, Wis., late Wednesday. A barn collapsed under the wind's assault in Wisconsin's Burnett County, killing a farmer who was inside milking cows. At least five people were injured by a twister that raked the tiny hamlet of Colfax, N.D., ripping up crops and causing widespread damage. Two of the five were hospitalized but neither was seriously hurt. Lightning touched off a fire that blackened about 2,800 acres of pasture land in South Dakota's Hand and Buffalo counties early yesterday. Fires raged in drought-stricken grasslands of Northeast Oklahoma. Four fires officials said they apparently were set by an arsonist. $ heta$ $ ext{\lightning}$ world "Power" & Rain Attack 3 die in Midwest storms United Press International Tornadoes and thunderstorms that already have killed three persons in Wisconsin again cut a swath through the north-central portion of the country from Minnesota to upper Michigan. Thunderstorm activity was prevalent in Wisconsin and Minnesota early Friday for the third straight day. Tornadoes and high winds that hit Wisconsin late Wednesday continued into Thursday and have been blamed for the deaths of two men and a 13-year-old girl. ereg. P. Aug. 8, 1980 Residents of the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Mobile, Ala., braced for Hurricane Allen, battening down property and purchasing survival supplies. Officials said a hurricane watch could be posted for Brownsville Friday night if the storm, packing 150 mph winds, continues on its present path. Showers and thunderstorms extended across the lower Great Lakes and in the West from southeastern Wyoming into the Nebraska panhandle. Showers also were scattered through New Mexico. "Power" & Rain Attack Floods Kill Hundreds New Delhi Swollen by torrential rains, India's holiest river, the Ganges, has flooded hundreds of villages and killed more than 360 persons in the disaster-striken state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said yesterday. S.F. Chron. 8/8/80 United Press === Page 11 of 63 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - Aug 8-1980 Seattle Times # India's Ganges River floods hundreds of towns; 366 die WORLD Compiled from news services NEW DELHI -- Swollen by torrential rains, India's holiest river, the Ganges, has flooded hundreds of villages and killed more than 360 people in the disaster-striken state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said yesterday. The Ganges, worshiped by millions of Hindus, has risen above its banks along its entire 900-mile course through Uttar Pradesh, the Northeastern Indian state whose population of about 100 million is roughly half that of the United States. Since heavy rains and massive flooding hit a month ago, the death toll in the state has risen to more than 500, with 366 of those deaths attributed to the Ganges and its tributaries, the officials said. The latest reports from the region said the Ganges and its tributaries have submerged hundreds of villages, forcing residents to higher ground and leaving cholera and jaundice in their wake. Several major towns were under several feet of flood water. Most of Jaunpur, an ancient town of about 50,000 people, was flooded by the Gomti River, and half the population had moved to higher ground, officials said. In the mountainous region of Garhwal bordering China, 40,000 people were stranded by landslides caused by heavy rain, the Press Trust of India reported. Flood control officials were working against the clock to release water from two dams across the river from the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganges that was 6 feet over the flood level. === Page 12 of 63 Aug 8 - 1980 Seat Times # Wall collapses in textile fire Fire fighters scramble to avoid a collapsing wall at the DJH Facemate Corp. textile mill in Chicopee, Mass. Fire broke out Wednesday when lightning struck a four-story warehouse. The blaze raged for about 15 hours, wiping out a second building. The mill's owners said they hope to have the plant running again early next week. === Page 13 of 63 World Power and Rain Attack Hurricane lashes Yucatan resorts, threatens Texas By GORDON MOTT orig. 8/8/80 MERIDA, Mexico (AP) -- Hurricane Allen roared north of the Yucatan Peninsula early Friday and into the south-central Gulf of Mexico, leaving 72 dead in its 1,200-mile rampage and aiming its killer force in the direction of Brownsville, Texas, less than 600 miles away. The U.S. National Weather Service reported at midnight that Allen was moving west-northwest at 18 mph and "if the present course and speed continues a hurricane watch will be required for portions of the Texas and northeast Mexican coast early Friday morning." It said the storm was located about 585 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, that highest winds were 165 mph and that "Allen continues to be an extremely dangerous hurricane." The weather service said hurricane-force winds extended 75 miles north and 50 miles to the south of the eye, and that gale-force winds extended 200 miles north and 100 miles south. Allen's fringes pounded Isla Mujeres and other pleasure resorts on the Mexican peninsula Thursday before moving north toward the Gulf Coast of the United States. The storm surged as it churned through the 150-mile-wide Yucatan Channel, which was closed to navigation by Cuba and Mexico. Tens of thousands of people fled the storm, which already had caused millions of dollars in damage on several islands. No casualties were reported by the mayor of Isla Mujeres, but 800 residents fled. About 5,000 people fled Cancun, the lush resort on the Yucatan mainland -- across from Cozumel where about 4,000 people fled their palm-thatched homes, officials said. On the eastern side of the peninsula, authorities mobilized Red Cross workers and declared an emergency. 400 emergency workers and sent 100 to communities in South Texas. Residents of the resort areas on South Padre Island on the Texas coast were boarding up their homes and businesses. The weather service said Allen "is now the strongest ever observed in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the second strongest Atlantic hurricane in modern records. Several others, however, have claimed many more lives." The most intense hurricane of modern times was the unnamed, so-called Labor Day hurricane of 1935 that hit the Florida Keys with winds that varied from 200 to 250 mph and killed more than 400 people. Allen had basically followed a west-northwest route since building to hurricane force off the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia early Monday morning. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said Thursday the hurricane battered Isla de la Juventud, the "Island of Youth" formerly called the Isle of Pines, 30 miles off Cuba's western coast, ruining its citrus and tobacco crops. There were no reports of casualties on Isla de la Juventud, although the island was crowded with 25,000 high school students from Third World countries there to study on scholarships. Havana radio reported three people were electrocuted as fringes of the hurricane howled past Cuba Tuesday. That brought the death toll to 72, including eight in Jamaica, 41 in Haiti, three in the Dominican Republic and 16 on the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In nearby Dominica, one person was missing and feared dead. About 2,500 oil rig workers fled their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as far north as Texas and Louisiana, and a spokesman for Pemex, Mexico's state petroleum monopoly, said about 2,000 workers and technicians had been moved from offshore installations in oil-rich Campeche Bay. A helicopter evacuating oil workers crashed 60 miles off the coast of Louisiana, and the Coast Guard said at least four of the 13 persons aboard were found dead. The Red Cross alerted an estimated Cuban officials have evacuated more than 200,000 people and 46,000 cows in seven provinces because of the storm. They included 20,000 people from the Isla de la Juventud, about 90 miles south of Havana, and 17,000 people from Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana. Earlier, the hurricane pounded Jamaica's northern coast, sweeping about a dozen people into 20-foot seas, drowning five of them. Note: Just several months ago Teddy (my son) and I went to Merida and the UFOs linked up my alien mind with the ancient Mayan power, Xtoloc. Teddy and I then went to Cancun! (Cancun Caribe). After our return home I began my World "Power" and Rain Attack with Xtoloc beaming blue rays across the Earth to cause psi-force effects. Owens 8/14/80 === Page 14 of 63 Fri., Aug. 8, 1980 San Francisco Chronicle 3 # Allen Gains Fury, Menaces the Gulf Merida, Mexico Hurricane Allen, now the second strongest storm on record, howled past the Yucatan resort islands with 185-mph winds yesterday on a wobbly path toward the western Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane, killer of at least 83 people on its rampage through the Caribbean, drove 2600 tourists, most of them Europeans and Americans, out of plush hotels on Isla Mujeres and Cancun, where 75-mph winds and 18-foot waves whipped the beaches. The full brunt of the hurricane was tearing into the dense jungles on the unpopulated northeastern tip of Yucatan. Forecasters said Allen's uncertain path and a large high pressure system over the southeastern United States made it impossible to predict where the storm might strike next. At 6 p.m. yesterday, the Miami Hurricane Center said if the storm continues its slow west-northwest track, "it will be necessary to issue a hurricane watch for portions of the Texas coast early today." Coastal residents from Alabama to Mexico already were making preparations for Allen, which was the third most intense hurricane on record when it ravaged Haiti Tuesday with 170-mph winds. It lost much of its strength on the mountainous island. But Allen's winds increased to 185 mph as the storm swept into the Yucatan Channel, and the central pressure fell to a new low, 26.55 inches, making it the second mightiest Atlantic hurricane ever. Only the 1935 Labor Day storm that killed 408 people in the Florida Keys was stronger. The Hurricane Center said, however, that with part of the storm over land, Allen might once again lose some of its strength. Cuba escaped with a glancing blow after the center of the storm passed south of the island yesterday. But the islands east of Cuba still were counting the dead and the damage. Initial damage reports from only two islands, St. Lucia and Martinique, came to $60 million. Haiti reported 50 deaths, and the toll is expected to rise. There were 17 dead in the Windward Islands, most of them on devastated St. Lucia; six in Jamaica, three in Cuba and three in the Dominican Republic. In addition, at least four people were killed in the crash of a helicopter evacuating workers from offshore oil rigs in the Gulf. Nine others were missing. On the Yucatan island of Cancun, about 1100 tourists were forced to flee the Sheraton, Camino Real and Club Med beachfront hotels (also Cancun Caribe!!) Military transport planes from the United States, Venezuela, Great Britain and Canada were flying food, medical supplies, portable toilets and radios to St. Lucia, hardest-hit of the Windward group. The storm virtually wiped out the tiny island's banana crop, and officials estimated damages at more than $10 million. United Press === Page 15 of 63 - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Powerful earthquake shakes three nations By FREDDY CUEVAS PUERTO CORTES, Honduras (AP) -- A powerful earthquake shook eastern Central America just before midnight Friday, causing at least one death and collapsing dozens of buildings in towns along the Caribbean coast, authorities reported. They said the quake, centered in the Gulf of Honduras off this old banana port, registered between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale. It struck here at 11:47 p.m. -- 10:47 p.m. PDT -- and was felt in much of Honduras, Belize and parts of Guatemala. Almost all of the reported damage was in Puerto Cortes or in the nearby Guatemalan town of Puerto Barrios. But Honduran officials noted that communications had been knocked out to many villages on the coast and in the northern Honduran hills. The tremor sent tens of thousands of terrified residents in all three countries fleeing from their homes, authorities said. The only fatality reported was a man in the city of San Pedro Sula, 30 miles south of here, who suffered a heart attack when the tremor struck, the Red Cross reported. Puerto Cortes fire department officials said at least 75 wooden houses collapsed here, and three persons were injured by falling walls or ceilings. Part of a hotel also crumbled, and a refinery of Texaco Caribbean and a rail line owned by United Brands were damaged, the officials said. In Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, two houses collapsed, but there were no injuries reported. In Belize City, about 100 miles north of the reported epicenter, authorities said the quake was felt but there were no reports of damage. The area of Belize between here and Belize City is sparsely populated. The tremor was not felt in Guatemala City, 200 miles southwest of the epicenter, or in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, 150 to the southeast. org. Aug. 10, 1980 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Villagers poisoned KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Forty-five people died and 65 were seriously ill from eating poisonous wild mushrooms and berries in Nepal villages where drought and recent severe earthquake damage have caused food shortages, an official source said Saturday. The source said the government has rushed medical teams to the villages in Surkhet district, 180 miles southwest of Katmandu. A strong earthquake July 29 jolted 11 villages in the far northwest region of this mountainous central Asian kingdom, killing at least 83 persons and injuring 700 others. org. Aug. 10, 1980 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Winds crush trailers TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- More than 50 trailers at three suburban mobile home parks were smashed as thunderstorms packing winds with gusts of hurricane force swept through metropolitan Phoenix. Only minor injuries, most caused by broken glass, were reported from Sunday evening's storm. Most of the trailers are used mainly by winter visitors and were vacant. Capt. Gary Ells of the Tempe Fire Department said that many residents of the parks got out when they felt their homes shaking in the wind. Jim Bond, a free-lance photographer, said some of the mobile homes, which were flung as far as 200 feet, "looked like a giant had stepped on them. They were all smashed apart." org. 8/12/80 === Page 16 of 63 ## Allen Weakens but Texas Feels Its Punch CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) -- Hurricane Allen rolled ashore yesterday, flooding coastal cities and causing heavy losses in Texas' citrus crop, then spawned numerous inland tornadoes that caused widespread damage and 20 injuries. The once-gigantic ocean storm, however, spared the state the overwhelming disaster that residents had feared. Allen was downgraded to a tropical storm at 5 p.m. as it rolled up the Rio Grande through Laredo toward the northeastern Mexico mountains. It had hit the coast at an almost unpopulated stretch of ranchland. "We've been blessed," said Gov. Bill Clements of the hurricane's less than spectacular landfall. "There's a great difference between what we anticipated and what we received. I think we've handled it very well. But God's handled it better." Brownsville, predicted target of the storm that killed 128 people in an awesome, 4,000-mile course across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, escaped with downed power and telephone poles, a chaos of debris on city streets and the short-lived annoyance of failed electrical and fresh water service. As 110 mph winds and 9-foot tides moved up the coastline, a few boats and yachts were sunk and beachfront houses were flooded. But the most obvious damage and the only injuries occurred later, when tornadoes spawned from inland squalls struck San Marcos and Austin in central Texas. Twisters were spotted at a half-dozen other locations around Texas. At San Marcos, a twister hit a nursing home, campground and apartment complex, injuring 20 people, three seriously, including some people who had fled the coast in advance of Allen. "The nursing home and the apartments had some damage, but the injuries came from the campground," said Gary Nelson, assistant administrator of the Hays Memorial Hospital. The biggest twister hit Austin's airport, destroying three hangars, a National Guard weather truck and 60 planes, including one owned by Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, and damaging three more hangars and another 30 to 40 aircraft. The swirling cloud skipped over the World of Pentecostal Church across the street from the airport where 1,500 people were attending services. "We all got down and prayed," said Bill Moran, who was in the church. "We were thanking God after it passed on. We're still singing songs and celebrating." Despite widespread damage along the coast and from the isolated tornadoes that struck both rural and metropolitan areas yesterday, celebration was common throughout south Texas and northeastern Mexico, where 146,000 people had crowded into refugee centers to ride out the storm. A crippled Liberian tanker loaded with 11.8 million gallons of crude oil was rocked by hurricane-force winds, but remained firmly aground off the coast near Corpus Christi. Coast Guard officials said the 37 crew members were safe and that the vessel was in no immediate danger of breaking up. From its beginnings as a small cluster of clouds and wind off the coast of Africa 11 days ago, Allen had grown into the second-largest hurricane ever born in the Atlantic, peak winds eventually reaching 185 mph. It killed 128 people in its journey through the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and scores of thousands of Texans fled inland as it approached the U.S. mainland. But, having moved to within 40 Back page, Column 1 *World* "Power and Rain Attack" *Oregonian* Aug. 11, 1980 === Page 17 of 63 The Star 8/12/80 # WHY OUR WEATHER # HAS TURNED CRAZY By MICHAEL MUNRO THIS summer's blistering record-breaking heat wave is the awesome beginning of a series of parched summers and bitterly cold winters around the world, according to leading weather experts. The STAR's meteorologist, Barry Schilit, said the earth was entering a 30-year period of famine, droughts, floods and extreme summers and winters. "For the next 30 years or maybe even a little longer we will be faced with a trend of severe temperatures at both ends of the barometer," he said. "For the past 40 years, scientists and meteorologists around the world gauged our present weather patterns and set the range of our temperatures. "But what we are now learning is that those years were only 'pussycat years.' Years when Mother Nature was simply very kind to us and did little harm." Schilit believes the globe will return to the Dust Bowl period of the turn of the century, the Twenties and most of the Thirties. "Now many scientists regard the Dust Bowl period as the normal and average natural activity on earth," he said. Schilit's theory is supported by Edward Carlstead, chief forecaster for the National Meteorological Center in Washington, D.C., who said our present weather pattern had occurred in the past 25 or 30 years. "It runs in sort of a cycle but we have not yet been able to determine why or how," he said. "We know what caused that unbearable heat wave across the U.S. but can only guess as to how it actually happened." Carlstead said the parched and cracked 16-state belt which suffered through the 29-day heat wave was caused by hot air locked in the atmosphere centering on the Midwest, U.S. "Because of the lack of winds across the continental U.S., the high pressure or hot areas interlocked and couldn't move out of their position," he said. "It took several high pressure spots to be in particular areas at the same time for the phenomenon to occur." James Wagner, a meteorologist with the prediction branch of the Climate and Analysis Center of the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., said the heat wave would be... === Page 18 of 63 - "Power" and Rain Attack - Seattle Post-Intl. Aug. 12, 1980 Haiti Finds 140 Bodies in the Mud United Press International Officials on the island of Haiti, wrecked a week ago by Hurricane Allen, reported yesterday the discovery of another 140 bodies in the muddy ruins of the country, pushing the death toll from the storm's trip from the Lesser Antilles to the coast of South Texas to almost 275. Allen raked Haiti with 170-mph winds last Tuesday when the storm passed the island on its way toward the Gulf of Mexico and eventual landfall on the tip of South Texas. Officials, digging steadily since the storm clouds cleared, initially had reported 80 deaths. Haitian Planning Minister Edouard Berrouet said yesterday, however, that reports from the field by U.S. and Haitian search teams had increased the total to 220. "This is the worst hurricane damage we have ever had," Berrouet said. He said most of the fatalities were in isolated rural villages which had only mud and stick homes, and he said the number of dead may go higher. He estimated 165,000 makeshift homes had been destroyed. With the new deaths, Hurricane Allen's toll was: Haiti, 220; St. Lucia, 16; Dominican Republic, 3; Jamaica, 8; Guadeloupe, 1; Cuba, 3; 13 in an evacuation helicopter crash off Louisiana; 4 in an oil rig off Louisiana, and between 4 and 7 deaths in South Texas. Police in Corpus Christi, just north of where Allen's eye crossed the coast, found two bodies: one woman in her 70s who repeatedly refused police help in leaving her car, stalled in flood waters, and a man whose body was found in his flooded home. Two other Texans suffered heart attacks and died during the storm and police in Galveston reported one fisherman was missing and that they received eyewitness reports of two other fishermen being swept away in high waves. In Corpus Christi, Lt. William Chako said late Saturday police in North Beach saw the woman's car stalled on a peninsula prone to flooding but the woman would not accept police help. "She had opportunity to get out, she refused us the first time," Chako said. "The second time she said a gentleman she knew was going to take her out." Chako said he did not know what happened to the man, but he apparently never showed up. The car was found completely submerged. The second death in Corpus Christi was that of a man who was found in his North Beach home. Hurricane Allen's winds -- once clocked at 185 mph -- dropped to 30 mph Monday as the storm continued to break up and spread dark clouds over Texas and Northern Mexico. Those clouds, however, dumped torrential rains that in some areas broke months-long droughts but in other areas pushed swollen rivers over their banks and sent hundreds fleeing their homes. Even as Texas Gov. Bill Clements toured the muddy coast, the National Weather Service was posting flash flood warnings throughout southern and western Texas where rains between 5 and 12 inches had been falling for 24 hours. Clements flew over the most heavily damaged areas -- the citrus rich Rio Grande Valley and the Brownsville-to-Corpus Christi coastal area -- and also observed a Liberian tanker driven aground with 37 crewmen and 20 million gallons of crude oil by Allen's winds. State meteorologist Tom Larkin said Allen was virtually dead over the Mexican mountains, 90 miles northwest of Laredo. "The center separated from the main mass of thunderstorms and showers," he said. "It continues to dissipate." === Page 19 of 63 Texas nurses bruises. 'Allen' dissolves over Mexico BY SUSAN STOLER HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- The remnants of Hurricane Allen, once described as the second strongest Atlantic hurricane of the century, dealt Texas a parting blow with widespread flooding Monday and dissolved into a soggy mess over Mexico. The storm failed to deliver the knockout punch forecasters anticipated, but Texas was nursing bad bruises in places and at least two deaths were believed caused by the storm. A deluge that brought up to 16 inches of rain to some areas drove thousands from their homes Monday, but many others among the 200,000 storm evacuees began heading home. Corpus Christi police reported finding two apparent hurricane victims in the city's North Beach area. The bodies of Ruby Bohler, 63, and her small dog were found in a partially submerged station wagon that had been washed into a ditch, police said. She was believed to be the storm's first victim in the United States, not counting two others who died of heart attacks. Later in the day, police found the body of a 52-year-old man along the North Beach shore. He was not immediately identified, and the circumstances of his death were not known. Department of Public Safety troopers had reported three people drowned Monday on flooded State Highway 44 as they tried to return to Corpus Christi, but later said the three were rescued on the highway -- considered impassable because of high water -- when floodwaters swamped their cars. All three were reported in good condition. Virtually all roads were closed by high water from Port Aransas and Corpus Christi, on the middle coast, to the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Roads were open elsewhere, and the Red Cross said all but 25,000 of the 106,000 people who sought refuge in 236 emergency shelters had left Monday. Serious flooding was reported in the Hill Country of Central Texas and in the Big Bend of Southwest Texas. "This is the worst flood we've ever had," said Mayor Ronald Case of Edinburg, a community of 20,000 where 13 inches of rain fell. To the south, Nueces County Commissioner J.P. Luby, after a boat tour of Mustang Island south of Port Aransas, said a 4,000-foot-long seawall was destroyed. And County Judge Bob Barnes estimated total damage in the Corpus Christi area alone would top $100 million. In the Coastal Bend evacuated about 2,000 people to shelters in the Alice area and about 450 to Kingsville as 16 inches of rain built floods 5 feet deep. National Guardsmen and volunteers helped. About 850 were sheltered in an Edinburg junior high school Sunday night after floodwaters rose to four feet. The National Guard was called in because there weren't enough fire departments, a resident said. "We'd go to a house to pick up somebody and all the neighbors would run out of their houses and climb on the truck," she said. "We had people wading through four feet of water to get to shelters." The National Weather Service predicted the Nueces River, near Corpus Christi, would rise to seven feet above normal. Barfield Bay, near Kingsville, had tides 9 to 10 feet above normal. About 2,000 evacuees spent the night in Hidalgo County shelters, with 500 more in La Joya, said Red Cross spokesman Jerry Lessard, which already had been closed. About 850 were sheltered in an Edinburg junior high school Sunday night after floodwaters rose to four feet. The National Guard was called in because there weren't enough fire departments, a resident said. "We'd go to a house to pick up somebody and all the neighbors would run out of their houses and climb on the truck," she said. "We had people wading through four feet of water to get to shelters." The National Weather Service predicted the Nueces River, near Corpus Christi, would rise to seven feet above normal. Barfield Bay, near Kingsville, had tides 9 to 10 feet above normal. === Page 20 of 63 - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Streams Flood And Chase Off Ohio Families UPI Rain-swollen streams surged over parts of Ohio yesterday, chasing scores of families from their homes. Remnants of Hurricane Allen doused south Texas, spurring floods but easing a long and deadly drought. Potent storms that thundered across Ohio, dumping eight inches of rain in 36 hours in some areas, sent rivers and streams surging over their banks. Scores of families fled the rising waters of Leatherwood Creek in the eastern Ohio hamlet of Quaker City. Most of the village's 600 residents were forced from their homes. Seattle P. Int. 8/13/80 ---------- A2 Aug. 13, 1980 THE OREGONIAN, # The world # Toll hits 650 in monsoon NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Monsoon rain fell and river flooding continued Tuesday in northern India as the nationwide toll of flood-related deaths rose to at least 650, news reports said. The highest number of casualties occurred in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, where at least 430 people died, the Press Trust of India said. The Ganges River, regarded as holy by millions of Hindus, overflowed its banks in many places, submerging vast areas of cropland and sweeping into hundreds of villages, the United News of India said. - World "Power and Rain Attack" - ---------- - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Disaster declared President Carter has declared parts of Texas major disaster areas because of the damage from Hurricane Allen, the White House announced Tuesday. The declaration permits the use of federal funds in relief and recovery efforts in areas of the state hit by the storm last weekend. Oreg. 8/13/80 ---------- - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Chopper Crash Cuts Power Electric power from Ellensburg to Moxee was cut for more than 2 1/2 hours yesterday when an Army helicopter crashed into a Bonneville Power Administration line. There were no injuries, but the 9:15 a.m. crash ignited a small brush fire, which was quickly extinguished. Capt. Michael Thomsich, spokesman at the Yakima Firing Range, said the two-man observation helicopter from Fort Lewis was checking fence lines when a main rotor severed the line. The mishap occurred three miles north of Yakima, between the firing center and Yakima. Seattle P. Intel. 8/13/80 === Page 21 of 63 "Power" + Rain Attack - LUMBER'S WAREHOUSE/SHOWROOM Associated Press Laserphoto CRUISING - Cambridge, Ohio, residents boat past partly submerged warehouse Thursday after rains caused flooding in eastern Ohio town. # Rain still falling in Ohio, but floodwaters receding Aug. 8/15/80 CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) - Light rain fell early Thursday, but water was receding from this city's worst flood in almost half a century. The Guernsey County sheriff's department said Thursday that floodwaters dropped about 2 feet overnight. Houses and businesses remained flooded, however, and families who left home to escape rising water continued to stay with friends on higher ground. The sheriff's department directed traffic away from streets blocked by water. Ohio 40 eastbound, Ohio 209 to the south and Guernsey County Road 35 were closed. The National Weather Service said showers and thunderstorms were expected in Ohio through Thursday night. Four to 8 inches of rain fell here in a 48-hour period this week. The weather service called the flood the worst since 1935, when Wills and Leatherwood creeks reached a depth of 25 1/2 feet. Officials estimated the damage at $25 million. The area is a flood plain. Mayor C. Charles Schaub said residents are accustomed to high water, but nothing this bad. No injuries have been reported. Wednesday, water receded slowly and evacuated families stayed at the homes of friends and family on higher ground. Al Justus, Columbus division representative of the Red Cross, said the organization set up shelters in local churches, but they have not been used. === Page 22 of 63 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power plant deactivated SACRAMENTO Calif. (AP) -- The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which shut down automatically after an equipment failure earlier this week, was put into "cold shutdown" Wednesday to allow inspection of a steam turbine. In an automatic shutdown the reactor and its cooling system are kept warm, allowing a fast resumption of power generation, but under cold shutdown the entire plant is deactivated, said Cindi Rich, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. She said it can take a week to 10 days to resume full power production after a cold shutdown. The plant had been scheduled to be put back in service Wednesday. The plant shut down Tuesday morning when a power inverter failed, giving a false instrument reading of high water pressure in the nuclear reactor, according to utility spokesman Jeff Marx. While the plant was shut down, utility technicians did some "routine maintenance" that had been scheduled for Saturday. Ms. Rich said a "cold shutdown" was ordered after it was decided that problems with a turbine required closer inspection. oreg. 8/14/80 # Brush fires burn areas in 3 states By The Associated Press oreg. 8/15/80 A 10,200-acre fire in rugged brushland northwest of the Grand Canyon was contained Thursday in the largest of a series of brush fires in Western states. In northeastern Utah a 2,015-acre blaze cleared hikers from a popular back-packing area, and a 6,000-acre range fire spread north of Boise, Idaho. The fire 15 miles north of the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park in northwestern Arizona was started by lightning Tuesday, said Jack DeGolia of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He said 67 firefighters, four aerial tankers, five ground pumpers, two helicopters and one spotter plane fought the blaze, which was contained about noon. A smaller fire in steep and inaccessible Snap Canyon, 50 miles southeast of Littlefield in northwest Arizona, spread to 1,000 acres after jumping a road. DeGolia said 50 firefighters were expected to bring it under control during the night. The two major Arizona fires were among seven ignited in BLM ground by Tuesday night's lightning. The five others were controlled earlier. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Barry Wirth said 440 firefighters and a 60-member support crew were fighting the Murdock Basin fire in the Wasatch Forest, about 20 miles east of Kamas in northeastern Utah. Officials feared afternoon winds would spread the blaze. The fire, first reported Monday, is southwest and moving toward the High Uintas Primitive Area, but Wirth said the primitive area was in no immediate danger. The blaze has forced the evacuation of a number of hikers. Wednesday, 25 campers were moved away from Echo Lake and others were evacuated from Marshall Lake as a precautionary measure. The Idaho range fire near Horseshoe Bend doubled in size from Wednesday night to Thursday and dusted Boise with a fine layer of ash. === Page 23 of 63 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power plant deactivated SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which shut down automatically after an equipment failure earlier this week, was put into "cold shutdown" Wednesday to allow inspection of a steam turbine. In an automatic shutdown the reactor and its cooling system are kept warm, allowing a fast resumption of power generation, but under cold shutdown the entire plant is deactivated, said Cindi Rich, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. She said it can take a week to 10 days to resume full power production after a cold shutdown. The plant had been scheduled to be put back in service Wednesday. The plant shut down Tuesday morning when a power inverter failed, giving a false instrument reading of high water pressure in the nuclear reactor, according to utility spokesman Jeff Marx. While the plant was shut down, utility technicians did some "routine maintenance" that had been scheduled for Saturday. Ms. Rich said a "cold shutdown" was ordered after it was decided that problems with a turbine required closer inspection. oreg. 8/14/80 # Brush fires burn areas in 3 states By The Associated Press oreg. 8/15/80 A 10,200-acre fire in rugged brushland northwest of the Grand Canyon was canyoned Thursday in the largest of a series of brush fires in Western states. In northeastern Utah a 2,015-acre blaze cleared hikers from a popular back-packing area, and a 6,000-acre range fire spread north of Boise, Idaho. The fire 15 miles north of the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park in northwestern Arizona was started by lightning Tuesday, said Jack deGolia of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He said 67 firefighters, four aerial tankers, five ground pumpers, two helicopters and one spotter plane fought the blaze, which was contained about noon. A smaller fire in steep and inaccessible Snap Canyon, 50 miles southeast of Littlefield in northwest Arizona, spread to 1,000 acres after jumping a road. DeGolia said 50 firefighters were expected to bring it under control during the night. The two major Arizona fires were among seven ignited in BLM ground by Tuesday night's lightning. The five others were controlled earlier. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Barry Wirth said 440 firefighters and a 60-member support crew were fighting the Murdock Basin fire in the Wasatch Forest, about 20 miles east of Kamas in northeastern Utah. Officials feared afternoon winds would spread the blaze. The fire, first reported Monday, is southwest and moving toward the High Uintas Primitive Area, but Wirth said the primitive area was in no immediate danger. The blaze has forced the evacuation of a number of hikers. Wednesday, 25 campers were moved away from Echo Lake and others were evacuated from Marshall Lake as a precautionary measure. The Idaho range fire near Horseshoe Bend doubled in size from Wednesday night to Thursday and dusted Boise with a fine layer of ash. === Page 24 of 63 August 15, 1980 Contacts I hope that you are paying close attention to these files that I am sending you. Using my psi-force powers, my UFO contact, my Egyptian contact, my Mayan contact... I am working daily to knock out power around the world and create violent storms and rainstorms and lightning attacks (my symbol: $\theta$) around the entire world! Owens === Page 25 of 63 HAVOC -- Residents of Brady's Bend, Pa., survey the devastation to their community caused by flash floods. "Power & Rain Attacks" # 7 die in Pennsylvania flooding BRADY'S BEND, Pa. (AP) -- Flash floods spawned by heavy thunder-storms swept across mountainous west-ern Pennsylvania Friday, drowning at least seven people, washing away build-ings and cars and burying roads under mudslides. A county coroner said the dead in-cluded a couple and their 4-year-old daughter. One woman said she saw the family swept from the top of a pickup truck. "They all got out of their truck and sat on the roof and started yelling for help," said Helen Bartoe of Brady's Bend. "But no one could reach them." Gov. Dick Thornburgh declared a disaster emergency in eight communi-ties in the three-county flood area, which had been saturated by heavy rain during the past 10 days. The declaration makes it easier for local governments to begin cleanup and sets up a traffic-con-trol system. "Streams were full out of their beds. It swept whole homes away. There was just no stopping it," said Marc Hillwig, director of the Armstrong County Emergency Management Agency, who flew over the area Friday morning. He estimated damage would exceed $1 mil-lion. About 500 families live in the flood area of Butler, Armstrong and Clarion counties. All of the victims drowned, said Armstrong County Coroner Robert Welch. He said an undetermined num-ber of people were not accounted for. Welch identified the victims as Hes-ter Crissman, 67; E.R. Custer, about 60, and his wife, Bertha, 62; and Wilson Robinson, no age available, his 36-year-old wife, Betty, and their 4-year-old daughter, Amy, all of Brady's Bend. The identity of the seventh victim was not available, but state police said the body was found in the Allegheny River near Ford City. At least one body was pulled from the rampaging Allegheny River. Hospitals reported four people were treated for minor injuries. State highway crews were dis-patched to the area to remove mud and debris from blocked highways. Two mass care centers were set up for resi-dents unable to return home. The National Weather Service said a series of thunderstorms began Thursday afternoon and continued for eight hours, until just after midnight. The flooding was centered in a 20-square-mile area about 60 miles north of Pitts-burgh. Brady's Bend, a small town on a horseshoe bend of the Allegheny, was among the worst hit, having received up to 4 inches of rain. Orig. 8/16/80 # Firefighters return to bases The 400 firefighters who fought and controlled the stubborn 515-acre Bohemia Creek forest fire near Oakridge began returning to their bases around the state Friday. The fire started at noon Monday and was fought through the week by U.S. Forest Service personnel. No new fires were reported Friday morning on Forest Service lands. Also under control Friday was a 140-acre range blaze about 10 miles from Madras. Don Smurthwaite, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management, said the fire was one of four lightning-caused fires that broke out Thursday. The other three, smaller ones in the Lakeview area, were also controlled by Friday. Crews with the state Department of Forestry con-trolled nine man-caused fires throughout the state Thursday and Friday. None of the fires reached large proportions. A 500-acre brush blaze near Chief Joseph Dam in Washington was reported controlled Friday morning by Steve Robinson, spokesman for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Robinson said his department's major concern was the Mount St. Helens area. "There are still hundreds of fires beneath the ash in the devastated area around Mount St. Helens," he said, "and we are approaching the most precarious time of the year from the standpoint of dry winds in the downed timber around the mountain." If the area at fairly high velocity," Robinson added that if the downed timber around the mountain were fired into a major blaze, "it could be a bigger catastrophe than the May 18 eruption itself." He said firefighting crews were working in the devastated area daily, using infrared film to locate hot spots beneath the ash. "The trees are in a very dry condition," he added, "and we are trying to locate and extinguish as many of the hot spots as we can before the late August and September winds begin blowing through the area." Orig. 8/16/80 === Page 26 of 63 Aug. 16, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove D. Scott Rogo Today the Sts (my UFOs) communicated to me the following intelligence: "When the book you have written about me and my work appears in bookstores across the land, as it is written ... then they will withdraw their war against the U.S. government."* (As they did once before against Cape Kennedy when I became a member of Mensa. And they kept their word then.) This is their word on it. So the sooner your book is published and in bookstores, the sooner the U.S. govt. will begin to "get the breaks." Owen * For not providing the Base that they want === Page 27 of 63 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Outages tied to weather SEATTLE (AP) - More than 5,000 Puget Sound homes were without electricity for up to two hours Sunday as an unusually strong weather system sent 30-mph winds through the region. City police said they responded to several distress calls from overturned sailboats and cordoned off several downtown streets because of blowing debris from a skyscraper under construction. No injuries or damages were reported. The largest power outage occurred in the Queen Anne Hill area, where 2,500 customers of Seattle City Light were without electricity for about 90 minutes. The municipally owned utility also reported several smaller shortages. City Light spokesmen said warm summer weather caused trees to grow faster than normal and the first strong wind of the season sent many branches crashing into power lines. Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which serves some 500,000 customers in nine Western Washington counties, reported three major outages that left 1,500 homes without electricity. Chris Curtis of Puget Power said customers on Bainbridge Island and in the Hollywood Hills and the Inglewood areas of Bothell experienced major outages caused by falling trees and branches. Kerry Edwards of the Snohomish County Public Utility District said outages affected about 1,000 customers - about 600 in Brier, 125 in Edmonds, and 250 on south Camano Island. Aug. 18, 1980 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Rains offer relief in Plains, Midwest By The Associated Press Heavy rains finally drenched parched farm land in the Great Plains and parts of the Midwest during the weekend, providing some relief for brown and dry pastures and fall-seeded crops. But the steady showers that extended from Montana and Wyoming eastward into the Dakotas and south to Kansas were too little and too late to help the spring-planted wheat and corn crops in some areas. "The growing season is over," Tom Conlon, superintendent of the North Dakota State University agriculture station at Dickinson, said. "We expect a frost in 30 days. For all practical purposes it's no help. The pastures are all overgrazed, and any benefit to the grain crop is long past." The storm system that began Saturday in southern Idaho and moved across Montana into South Dakota produced some heavy rainshowers. Glendive, Mont., recorded 4 inches of rain Saturday, more than since the official crop season began April 1. In Eastern Montana, the Bureau of Land Management reduced its fire danger rating on its grazing and timberland from "moderate" to "low" after an inch of rain dampened the dry area. Meteorologist David Olsen of the National Weather Service in Billings, Mont., said the rain, combined with expected cooler temperatures, would improve dried up and overgrazed Montana pastures. "This is certainly going to help them out," he said. In Nebraska, agriculture officials said the wetter weather was too late for already-damaged crops, such as corn, but could help such summer plantings as sorghum and soybeans. More than 2 inches of rain fell early Sunday in Omaha, flooding streets and basements in the northwest section of the city. South-central Kansas was drenched by more than 4 inches of rain Saturday night, with some flooding reported in Wellington, south of Wichita, in low-lying areas and city streets. Several twisters swirled through Kansas Saturday, tearing the roofs off barns and damaging Redwing Airport in Augusta. No injuries were reported, but damage at the airport was estimated at $1 million. Rains earlier in the week helped the Illinois soybean crop. "This could ward off a disaster, but we won't have a record soybean crop this year," grain analyst Gary Ellis said of the Illinois Farm Bureau after Wednesday's and Thursday's rainfall. Corn yields will be down in Illinois to 108 bushels per acre - compared with 128 bushels per acre last year. # Pennsylvania flood toll reaches $42 million BRADY'S BEND, Pa. (AP) - Damage estimates in this flood-ravaged community climbed to $42 million Sunday as state and local officials added up totals to enable Gov. Dick Thornburgh to request a federal disaster area declaration. Joseph Ketchum of the state Department of Community Affairs said Thornburgh would make a formal request Monday. The declaration would allow residents to apply for low-interest loans to rebuild homes and businesses. Thornburgh declared parts of three counties a state disaster area Friday. Meanwhile, officials and volunteers slushed through a blanket of mucky debris Sunday to search for a woman and 2-year-old boy believed missing in the Sugar Creek flash flooding, which killed at least seven people. Doubling in size late Thursday as more than 4 inches of rain fell within a half-hour, the creek overflowed and swept away at least seven houses and more than 100 cars. Flooding continued Friday. Police said heavy machinery was brought in Sunday to clear debris and vegetation from the banks to aid the search. "We have volunteer workers tearing apart debris piles still looking for the missing persons," said Marc Hillwig, Armstrong County civil defense director. About 360 people were staying with friends, relatives and others who volunteered living quarters. State police on Pennsylvania Route 68 were allowing only residents, their relatives and officials into the area. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said damage to private property in Butler, Armstrong and Clarion counties was estimated at $25 million. The cost for public property was set at $17 million, he said. Aug. 18, 1980 === Page 28 of 63 August 1, 1980 Jeffrey... Just a note confirming my phone call to you informing you that the SIs (UFOs) are readying an 8 on the Richter scale earthquake for California (entire length) in hours, days or weeks. Owens (PK Man) === Page 29 of 63 (A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) South Western Times Bunbury DATE July 1. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # GALE-FORCE WINDS LASH SOUTH-WEST THE weekend's early sunshine gave no hint of Sunday's gale-force winds which littered the South-West with damage. Gusts of up to 48 knots (90 km/h) ripped through Bunbury and surrounding areas, accompanied by 20 mm of rain. The mid-winter storm blacked out large parts of the South-West, while fallen trees and power lines were an ever-present danger to motorists. In Bunbury, the local State Emergency Service group was put on stand-by at the height of the storm, around midday. At the woodchips berth the extreme force of the winds caused a 46,000-tonne carrier to drift away from its berth. Extra ropes were passed to the ship and two tugs were called in to keep the giant ship in place. The tugs were kept on stand-by until 3 am yesterday when harbour master Bob Allsop considered the danger had passed. Captain Allsop said that the ship's wind gauge recorded more than 90 km/h at the height of the crisis. In Victoria street, drinkers at the morning session at the Bunbury Hotel got a shock when the roof covering the hotel's verandah was peeled back by the wind. Fallen trees were also reported on the Old Coast road, but there were no accidents. Strong winds also caused another traffic hazard when water from Leschenault Inlet was blown across the road at Australind. ## Blackouts SEC crews worked throughout the afternoon repairing faulty fuses and fallen power lines which caused temporary blackouts in some areas. There were no major break-downs like the one which left Mandurah without power for most of the day. The only favourable legacy of Sunday's storm is likely to be the rain, an Agriculture Department spokesman says. Farmers welcomed it, although the strong winds may have damaged some vegetable crops. The damage exposed three of the hotel's rooms to the driving rain and hotel staff worked frantically to save furniture. ## Struggle Staff on the roof struggled in the wind and rain to nail down sections that were only partly damaged. The wind also knocked down the hotel's TV antenna and drove it through the kitchen ceiling. No one was hurt, but damage is estimated at thousands of dollars. At Dardanup, council employees worked in appalling conditions to remove several large trees which blocked the Dardanup-Boyanup road. But their efforts could not save one Perth motorist who failed to stop in time to avoid a falling tree. The man was unhurt, but his van was extensively damaged. === Page 30 of 63 Thursday, July 3, 1980 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Heavy rain in most NSW Moderate to heavy rains were received over most of W during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded on the South West Slopes, where 110mm fell at Cabramurra, followed by 104mm at Tumbarumba and 101mm at Khancoban. Most consistent rains fell on the Central West Slopes, with most stations registering 25-35mm. Bundie headed the registrations in the North West Slopes with 43mm. Other falls included 40mm at Bendemeer and 20mm at Premer. On the Central Tablelands, Orange topped with 68mm followed by Hill End 60mm, and Wyangla and Mudgee with 45mm. Moderate rains were recorded on the Plains areas, including 28mm at Gulargambone, 21mm at Tottenham and Coonamble, and 17mm at Trangie. # The week's rainfall Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended July 1, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: **UPPER WESTERN:** Milparinka 6, Tibooburra 5, White Cliffs 5, Wilcannia 3, Wanaaring 4, Louth 6, Tilpa 5, Bourke 7, Byrock 12, Brewarrina 12, Collarenebri 7, Coolabah 10, Ford's Bridge 6, Gulgong 14, Enngonia 3. **LOWER WESTERN:** Broken Hill 10, Menindee 17, Pooncarie 26, Wentworth 10, Balranald 6, Euabalong 24, Ivanhoe 19, Mossgiel 14. **NORTH-WEST PLAINS:** Boomi 2, Mungindi 14, Walgett 9, Bellata 6, Bogabilla 3, Moree M.O. 2, Narrabri West 15, Burren Junction 6, Wee Waa 10. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Carinda 12, Coonamble 21, Girilambone 15, Nyngan 13, Warren 13, Trangie 17, Narromine 21, Quambone 23, Condobolin 30, Peak Hill 15, Tottenham 21, Trundle 2, Tullamore 14, Gooloogong 15, Bogan Gate 26, Yalgogrin North 19. **RIVERINA:** Barham 21, Cargelligo 16, Darlington Point 15, Griffith 14, Gubbata 13, Hay 19, Maude 20, Moulamein 3, Rankins Springs 15, Ardlethan 17, Ariah Park 18, Carrathool 19, Conargo 18, Coolamon 14, Deniliquin 20, Finley 20, Grong Grong 16, Henty 26, Howlong 29, Jerilderie 14, Lockhart 18, Narrandera 20, Rock 20, Tocumwal 21, Urana 18, Whitton 14. **NORTH-WEST SLOPES:** Ashford 10, Barraba 8, Bingara 10, Bonshaw 6, Delungra 11, Gravesend 9, Warialda 8, Yetman 6, Bendemeer 43, Boggabri 15, Breeza 12, Gunnedah 18, Manilla 16, Mullaley 17, Nundle 43, Premer 20, Quirindi 27, Somerton 14, Tambar Springs 5, Tamworth M.O. 21, Werris Creek 27, Willowtree 28, Woolbrook 32. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Binnaway 16, Coolah 48, Coonabarabran 33, Dunedoo 27, Mendooran 25, Tooraweenah 28, Canowindra 32, Cudal 24, Dubbo 29, Eugowra 25, Forbes 32, Manildra 33, Molong 36, Parkes 37, Wellington 30. **SOUTH-WEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 18, Burrinjuck Dam 69, Cootamundra 34, Grenfell 49, Gundagai 36, Junee 20, Kootawatha 38, Quandialla 31, Stockinbingal 28, Temora 28, Wyalong 21, Young 43, Adelong 108, Albury 47, Batlow 141, Cabramurra 138, Holbrook 36, Humula 82, Reservoir 38, Khancoban 82, Tarcutta 44, Tumbarumba 107, Tumut 67, Wagga 30, Wagga M.O. 33. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 14, Bundarra 13, Deepwater 13, Emmaville 15, Glen Innes 17, Guyra 17, Inverell 12, Tenterfield 11, Tingha 18, Uralla 28, Walcha 31, Drake 17, Lower Creek 1. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 45, Rylstone 30, Bathurst 32, Blackheath 12, Cowra Airport 34, Hill End 60, Katoomba 13, Kurrajong Heights 4, Lithgow 27, Mt Victoria 16, Oberon 53, Orange Airport 68, Rockley 44, Springwood 3, Trunkey Creek 47, Wyangala 45. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 1, Canberra M. 24, Cooma 1, Delegate 12, Frogmore 41, Goulburn 12, Gunning 34, Nimmitabel 1, Queanbeyan 18, Taralga 65, Yass 39, Canberra City 31, Adaminaby 26, Berridale 5, Dalgety 1, Perisher Valley 103. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 1, Yamba 1. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Dorrigo 1, Kempsey 1, Bulahdelah 2, Forster 1, Gloucester 1, Laurieton 2, Port Macquarie 1, Sugarloaf Point 4, Taree 2. **HUNTER:** Cessnock (Nulkaba) 7, Clarence Town 3, Denman 18, Dungog 4, Gresford 5, Jerrys Plains 18, Maryville 3, Merriwa 18, Murrurundi 44, Newcastle (Nobbys) 3, Norah Head 1, Paterson 4, Raymond Terrace 3, Scone 14, Williamtown M.O. 3. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 1, Bowral 8, Camden Airport 3, Jervis Bay 3, Kiama 1, Picton 2, Robertson 4, Wollondilly 4, Wollongong (Uni) 2, Nowra (RAN) 2. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 14, Braidwood 7, Gabo Island (Vic.) 3, Green Cape 11, Merimbula Airport 2, Milton 2. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 1, Bankstown 2, Concord 1, Cronulla 4, Epping 2, Gordon 2, Hornsby 2, Hurstville 3, Mascot M.O. 1, Mosman 1, Palm Beach 3, Pymble 2, Randwick 1, Sydney 1, Turramurra 2, Wahroonga 2, West Lindfield 2, Glenorie 3, Liverpool 2, Penrith 1, Richmond M.O. 3, Westmead 1. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 5-25 25-UP # INTERSTATE RAINFALL Most of the Continent received moderate falls over the past week with heavier falls in the south east. There were moderate falls in most districts of Tasmania with heavier falls in the northern half of the State. Maximum fall was 110mm at Lake Mackenzie. **TASMANIA** Northern 11 mm, Southeast 3, West Coast 44, East Coast 5, Derwent Valley 3, King Island 4, Midlands 8, Central Plateau 6. **QUEENSLAND** Peninsula South 2 mm, North Coast (Barron) 24, North Coast (Herbert) 19, Central Coast (East) 3, South Coast (Moreton) 2. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** De Grey 6 mm, Fortesque 63, West Gascoyne 96, East Gascoyne 22, Murchison 71, North Coastal 28, Central Coastal 74, South Coastal 39, Central North 17, Central South 21, Eucla 4, South Eastern 32, North Eastern 4. **VICTORIA** Mallee 0.1 mm, Wimmera 0.3, Western 3, North Central 0.8, Central 15, Northeast 0.1, Gippsland 2, Metropolitan 4, Ouyen 0.8, Apsley 2, Weeraproinah 11, Shepparton 0.6, Broadford 4, Rosebud 16, Omeo 0.6, Pt. Hicks 9, Cheltenham 6. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Western Agricultural 1 mm, West Central 3, East Central 2, Murray Valley 1, Murray Mallee 1, Upper Southeast 3, Lower Southeast 2. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July and best rains are indicated on the Far North Coast. But rainfall should be light on portion of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. Reasonably good rains are indicated on the Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina during August, with light to moderate rains elsewhere. Rainfall should be poor during September, with moderate rains in October. DISTRIBUTION: Showers are indicated on July 3. === Page 31 of 63 B. KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA 6 July 1980 Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Please remove my photo from your Healing Wall. Please sever all connections with me, viz: no postal or telephonic communications whatsoever. Please do not use my name and address in any articles or publications but instead permit me to retain some anonymity with initials e.g. "Mr. B.K. of Sydney, Australia." Please do not contact me in any way shape or form whatsoever, and I shall hope you accept my sincere regrets. To-morrow 7th July I shall write to explain this unfortunate but necessary decision. Please do not use my letters for publication. With best wishes and personal regards from Bruce. === Page 32 of 63 THE MERCURY, HOBART DATE 11 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO upsets radio station AN unidentified flying object at Swansea early last night put an amateur radio station off the air. The operator of the radio station, Mr Maurice Glover, said a strange noise through his transceiver blocked transmission for a few minutes. He went outside and saw a brilliant circular white object drop from the sky and pass about 50 metres above Swansea Lodge, a boarding house at Swansea on the Tasman Highway. Another radio operator in Launceston reported sighting the same object moments later. ---------- NEWCASTLE MORNING HERALD NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. DATE 29 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO investigation UFO experts will make a six-month investigation in the Cape Otway district of western Victoria to try to uncover more information about the disappearance of Mr Frederick Valentich. Mr Valentich, 20, disappeared without trace in a hired Cessna 182 on the night of October 21, 1978, after reporting to Melbourne Flight Control that he was being buzzed by a shape that was 'not an aircraft'. ---------- Geelong Advertiser Victoria DATE July 7. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Fresh move on mystery Victoria's UFO buffs are making another attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of pilot Freddy Valentich near Cape Otway in 1978. The Victorian UFO Research Society has appealed to people who might have witnessed unusual phenomena around the time Valentich disappeared to contact them so the information can be assessed. Valentich's light plane vanished on a flight to King Island in October, 1978. Just before his disappearance, Valentich had radioed that a strange object was hovering above him. The society's vice-president, Mr. Paul Norman, said yesterday his group was keen to solve "one of the greatest mysteries in Australian aviation history". "There is solid evidence that UFOs were seen in the area," he said. "There were a lot of reports from the Warrnambool area of strange noises and there are other reports of compass deviations in the Cape Otway area. "We will interview any witnesses of phenomena, check out any photographs that may have been taken, investigate landing sites, and of course we will respect confidentiality if people desire." Mr. Norman said the society was in contact with the top researchers and scientists in the field, and its reports went to sister organisations world-wide. === Page 33 of 63 World "Power" + Rain Attack # Thousands evacuated # Hurricane bears down on Texas By SUSAN STOLER BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, a "pulsating" storm that has killed at least 87 people on a Caribbean rampage, bore down on the Texas coast Friday, roiling the Gulf of Mexico with super-charged winds and chasing thousands of people inland. Forecasters said the hurricane could strike the United States Saturday. Friday night, first evidence of the storm was due in the Port Lavaca area, north of Corpus Christi. Weather forecasters in Victoria said a 15- to 20-foot surge of sea water preceding the storm would reach San Antonio Bay, Port Lavaca Bay and Espirito Santo Bay before midnight. The forecasters said flooding could reach inland as far as one mile and that a total evacuation should be completed by then. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the 450-mile Texas coast, where a hurricane warning had been issued Friday morning for all but 50 miles. Officials said 14,000 people were evacuated from Port Lavaca, about a third of the way from Corpus Christi to Galveston. A seven-mile traffic jam developed on U.S. 37 from Mustang Island to Corpus Christi, officials said. And Friday evening in Galveston, traffic on Interstate 45, a heavily traveled, 40-mile corridor to Houston, was "at a standstill," said Melody McLellan of the Galveston County Civil Defense Office. Allen killed at least 87 people in the Caribbean and a helicopter with 13 aboard went down off the coast of Louisiana during the evacuation of an oil rig. Friday, two days after the helicopter crash, police reported at least four men missing when a drilling barge overturned in the gulf as it was returned to harbor. An undetermined number of people were rescued. The hurricane was rated extremely dangerous by the National Hurricane Center, which gave it a rare Category 5 ranking -- the highest possible. The center said Allen was the second most powerful Atlantic storm on record. The strongest was an unnamed 1935 storm, nicknamed the Labor Day storm, which killed 408 people in the Florida Keys. In Fort Worth, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Scott said Friday afternoon: "Our best guess is that the center of the storm will touch land somewhere north of Corpus Christi, but we won't make a definite prediction until six to 10 hours before landfall, and we don't expect that until tomorrow afternoon. "We have told every location from Brownsville to Louisiana that evacuation would be wise," he added. At 8 p.m. CDT, Allen's eye was about 275 miles east-southeast of Brownsville -- and traveling west-northwest at 15 mph. Highest sustained winds were measured at 150 mph, up from 135 mph earlier in the day, the weather service said. Hurricane-force winds extended outward 75 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Gale-force winds extended 200 miles north and 100 miles south. The weather service predicted tides could be as much as 15 to 20 feet above normal at some points. That would flood most escape routes from the offshore islands. "We have a potentially extremely dangerous storm," weather service meteorologist Andy Anderson said in a briefing in Dallas. "It essentially fills the Gulf of Mexico. Radar shows we are going to have a lot of the Texas coast affected." Thousands of people fled as Allen skirted the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico Thursday. Fifteen-foot waves crashed into the northern peninsula, but officials reported no injuries or serious damage. Allen has kept to a west-northwest route across the Caribbean and into the gulf since it became a hurricane near the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia Monday. It damaged coffee, banana and tobacco plantations, destroyed countless flimsy peasant huts and knocked out power and communications lines during its rampage through the islands. Anderson said Allen probably would bring some temporary relief to north-east Texas cities suffering from a 2-month-old heat wave. "But after the hurricane has gone inland and dissipated and is no more," he added, "it will depend on what kind of system we find ourselves in. What I'm saying is it could just be temporary relief." Anderson said Allen is a "relatively well-behaved storm as far as track" and described it as "pulsating" because wind speeds build to 200 mph, then drop to 135 mph. Related stories on Page A10. Associated Press Laserphoto HURRICANE PICTURE -- A satellite picture taken Friday afternoon shows the spiraling bands of heavy rain and thunderstorm clouds associated with dangerous Hurricane Allen in the Gulf of Mexico. === Page 34 of 63 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA 7th July 1980 Mr. TED OWENS, 200 NE 76th STREET, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 USA Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Thank you but please do not use my name and address in any articles or publications. It should be sufficient to use initials such as: " Mr. B.K. of SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA". Thank you. And now I think we should dissolve all ties that have been so carefully nurtured by respect and gratitude and good will. For my part, my Repatriation (Veterans') Department medical doctor- psychiatrist insists that I drop all contact and that I withdraw completely and immediately for my own state of health. Therefore under medical direction I am bound in honour to conform to orders of withdrawal or else I lose the honours of war. Let there be no recriminations but let good will remain for your special endeavours on behalf of suffering humanity. Regretfully on my part, I advise that the old signs and symptoms are re-appearing and these are danger signals to the trained medical practitioners. So "Thank you" but that's the finish or I am finished. Please do not use this letter for publication. With best wishes, Bruce === Page 35 of 63 Thursday, July 10, 1980 The LAND SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY National Market Guide Light rain in most NSW Light rain was received over most of New South Wales during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded on the South West Slopes with Cabramurra and Batlow receiving 56 millimetres, and Burrinjuck Dam recording 28mm. Reasonable falls were also recorded on the Southern Tablelands, with 43mm at Perisher Valley, followed by 19mm at Thredbo, and 16mm at Crookwell. On the North West Slopes, Bendemeer topped with 34mm, followed by Woolbrook with 15mm and Willow Tree with 13mm. Consistent falls were registered on the Central Tablelands. Orange received 30mm with Oberon and Trunkey Creek recording 20mm. In the Riverina, Tocumwal recorded the highest fall of 15mm. INTERSTATE RAINFALL Most of the continent received moderate falls over the past week with heaviest falls in the Southern states. Consistent rains fell in Tasmania and Victoria with Lake Margaret in Tasmania registering the maximum fall of 122mm. The heaviest falls in Victoria were recorded at Wonthaggi and Trafalgar, which both registered 54mm. Moderate falls were registered in South Australia with the top fall at Stirling, which had 36mm followed by 34mm at Bridgewater. TASMANIA Northern 53 mm, Southeast 33, West Coast 64, East Coast 37, Derwent Valley 21, King Island 47, Midlands 15, Central Plateau 37, Flinders Island 47. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Fortescue 1 mm, West Gascoyne 3, East Gascoyne 5, Murchison 2, North Central 7, Central Coastal 32, South Coastal 31, Central North 6, Central South 14, Eucla 4, South Eastern 6, North Eastern 8. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Northwest 8mm, Far North 11, Western Agricultural 25, Upper North 35, North east 16, Lower North 67, West Central 34, East Central 55, Murray Valley 26, Murray Mallee 20, Upper Southeast 29, Lower Southeast 34. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 6-25 26-UP DARWIN PERTH ADELAIDE SYDNEY The week's rainfall- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended July 8, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology. UPPER WESTERN: Wilcannia 1, Angledool 14, Bourke 7, Brewarrina 1, Byrock 3, Cobar M.O. 6, Collarenebri 2, Coolabah 7, Enngonia 2, Ford's Bridge 9, Lightning Ridge 5, Louth 2, Tilpa 2. LOWER WESTERN: Menindee 1, Pooncarie 4, Wentworth 7, Balranald 8, Euabalong 20, Ivanhoe 1, Nymagee 11. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Boomi 13, Burren Jctn. 3, Gwabegar 11, Pilliga 6, Baradine 21, Bellata 5, Bogabilla 8, Garah 12, Moree M.O. 5, Narrabri West 8, Pallamallawa 8, Wee Waa 4. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Carinda 10, Coonamble 13, Girilambone 5, Gulargambone 4, Narromine 11, Nevertire 7, Nyngan 3, Quambone 11, Warren 6, Bogan Gate 14, Condobolin 18, Peak Hill 16, Tottenham 4, Trundle 16, Tullamore 4, Ungarie 11, Yalgogrin Nth. 14. RIVERINA: Barham 7, Cargelligo 17, Carrathool 13, Darlington Pt. 13, Goolgowi 4, Griffith 6, Gubbata 8, Hay 8, Hillston 7, Maude 11, Moulamein 8, Rankin Springs 17, Wakool 3, Ardlethan 5, Lockhart 15, Narrandera 11, The Rock 19, Tocumwal 20, Urana 9, Whitton 15. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 13, Barraba 9, Bingara 13, Bonshaw 7, Croppa Ck. Rawdon 19, Delungra 14, Gravesend 9, Warialda 15, Yetman 12, Bendemeer 33, Blackville 12, Boggabri 12, Breeza 12, Gunnedah 14, Manilla 13, Mullaley 6, Nundle 23, Premer 16, Quirindi 18, Somerton 11, Tambar Springs 16, Tamworth M.O. 21, Werris Creek 15, Willowtree 17, Woolbrook 31. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 7, Coolah 5, Coonabarabran 23, Dunedoo 15, Tooraweenah 23, Canowindra 12, Cudal 23, Dubbo 5, Eugowra 9, Forbes 15, Manildra 12, Molong 17, Parkes 18, Wellington 14. SOUTHWEST SLOPES: Barmedman 18, Burrinjuck Dam 36, Cootamundra 26, Gundagai 14, Junee 10, Koorawatha 24, Quandialla 11, Stockinbingal 12, Temora 21, Wyalong 16, Young 27, Adelong 27, Albury 23, Batlow 56, Cabramurra 78, Holbrook 22, Hume R'voir 21, Khancoban 10, Tarcutta 10, Tumbarumba 31, Tumut ville 25, Glen Innes 23, Guyra 19, Inverell 12, Tenterfield 13, Tingha 10, Uralla 24, Walcha 27, Drake 1, Lower Creek 2, Tabulam (Muirne) 1. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 3, Mudgee 23, Rylstone 10, Bathurst 24, Blackheath 1, Cowra A/port 8, Hill End 28, Katoomba 2, Lithgow 9, Mt. Victoria 5, Oberon 26, Orange A/port 36, Rockley 11, Springwood 1, Trunkey Ck. 34, Wyangala 30. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 5, Canberra M. 7, Cooma 2, Crookwell 21, Frogmore 25, Goulburn 6, Nimmitabel 2, Queanbeyan 9, Taralga 15, Yass 3, Canberra City 8, Adaminaby 11, Berridale 3, Dalgety 1, Perisher Valley 60, Thredbo (C'back) 21. NORTHERN RIVERS: Murwillumbah 1. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 1, Gloucester 1, Taree 1. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 1, Clarence town 6, Denman 4, Gresford 1, Jerry's Plains 7, Mulbring 1, Murrurundi 25, Paterson 4, Scone 2, Singleton (Army) 1, SOUTH COAST: Bega 1, Braidwood 2, Eden 2, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 18, Green Cape 3, Merimbula A/pt. 1, Montague Is. 3. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 1, Baulkham 1, Bankstown 1, Epping 1, Five Dock 1, Gordon 1, Hornsby 1, Hurstville 1, Mascot M.O. 1, Mosman 2, Palm Beach 1, Turramurra 1, Wahroonga 1, West Lindfield 2, Auburn 1, Liverpool 1. SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. Rainfall should be moderate in a large part of New South Wales during July, with best falls on the Far North Coast. Light rains are indicated on part of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. The Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina should receive reasonably good rains during August with light to moderate rains in the rest of the State. Generally poor rainfall should occur during September, followed by === Page 36 of 63 B. KELL, 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA JULY 11th, 1980 MR. TED OWENS, 200 NE 76th Street, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Having sent several newsclippings over the past few weeks or even months, you may be wondering where is the NEW SOUTH WALES WEATHER REVIEW for May 1980 as published at the Bureau of Meteorology in SYDNEY N.S.W. ? As I explained already, the Publications section is over one month behind because of a breakdown in the machine which prints the Monthly Review and because of a strike by the Administrative and Clerical Officers of the Public Service for a 5 per cent interim pay rise. The strike takes the form of go slow and lack of service to the public. I won't be surprised if they never publish the M.W.R. for May 1980 but I shall certainly be very annoyed. Meanwhile we just have to wait patiently. I have covered the blizzard and previous UFO sighting as best I can: ie June 8-13th and June 28-29th (reversed) respectively. Sometimes there is a newspaper blackout on these events especially if there are more lurid feature articles available to the local press. Thank you for your continued interest Yours faithfully, Bruce Kell ( BRUCE KELL ) === Page 37 of 63 I had told Bruce that I wished the Aussie govt. would send me a thousand a month (to cover our living expenses) while I give Australia the rain it needs to recover from its terrible drought. Evidently he gave it a go, with negative results. Bruce 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA July 13th, 1980 Dear Ted, Revered Sir, It was naive of me to believe that an individual could approach a politician holding sway in government and receive a reply. In the first place the politician is surrounded by a buffering of bureaucracy and secretaries who make sure that nothing difficult or touchy is placed on the politician's desk. Therefore any letter to a leading politician must run a gauntlet of disinterested people whose role is to keep the politician out of touch with grass roots requests. In this way existing governments are voted out rather than alternative governments are voted in. If we look to history e.g. Bastille Day (France) is celebrated July 14th, U.S.A. Independence Day is celebrated July 4th, there are many examples. Best wishes Bruce === Page 38 of 63 EDITOR - PUBLISHER: VLADIMIR GODIC 2A CASTLE AVENUE, PROSPECT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5082 TELEPHONE: (08) 445435 ASSOCIATE EDITOR: HOLLY I. GORISS 27 EASTWOOD STREET, BABINDA, QUEENSLAND 4861 AUSTRALIA TELEPHONE: (070) 671297 UFO Research Australia newsletter July 14, 1980 Mr Ted Owens Mr B. Kell 4 Torrington Road STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 Dear Mr Kell, Many thanks for your letter of July 6 and the request to send the information on UFO sighting and Adelaide tornado to Mr Ted Owens in the U.S.A. I regret, but we were unable to find any information on the above in the Adelaide press or elsewhere and we received no reports on these incidents. May I suggest you write to Mr Jeff Bell of UFO Research (WA) who may be able to help you especially since Kalgoorlie is situated in the Western Australia. You may not be aware of the fact that I have resigned from my position as the Liaison Officer for the UFO Research (SA) in order to concentrate all my efforts on publishing the UFO Research Australia Newsletter, and that this position has now been taken over by Mr Keith Basterfield. The official address of the group is now GPO Box 497, Adelaide SA 5001, and any future requests in regards to UFO sightings etc., should be directed to him. Your $ 6.00, which you sent for the postage to Mr Owens is being returned herewith. I have received your subscription order for the Newsletter for Mr Ted Owens for which I thank you and enclose the receipt. I have posted Vol 1 No 1 and Vol 1 No 2 newsletters to Mr Owens today via Air Mail as requested. Yours sincerely, (V. Godic) P.S. The address of UFOR (WA) Mr Jeff Bell UFO Research (WA) 84 Acton Ave. RIVERVALE WA 6103 === Page 39 of 63 PERTH DAILY NEWS DATE 16 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Storm leaves pa of destruction By Kim Jordan People at Falcon, south of Mandurah, were faced with a clean-up today following yesterday's 90 seconds of destruction. A cockeyed-bob hit the small community yesterday afternoon, smashing windows, ripping roofs apart and sending tree branches flying. The force of the wind was so great that photos from wrecked cars, punctured car tyres and planks of wood littered the Bunbury Highway metres from the damaged homes. Jack Booth, of Thera Street, the worst hit in the housing area, said the wind hit with tremendous force. "It sounded like a train. "I found a piece of asbestos had gone into one of my car tyres. Bits of branches and trees across the road littered our back yard," he said. Ralph Noble and his wife Lorna were hit hard. The winds blew in front windows of the house and the force of the air in the house ripped the ceiling and the roof tiles into the air. Their son Andrew, 13, slept in the front room of their house and was shattered around him. Large bangsi trees in the Noble's backyard was splintered by the wind. People living in Falcon said State Emergency Service workers, the police and the SEC were on the scene within 10 minutes of the wind hitting. Mandurah police were today making a full assessment of the damage at Falcon. The drought in the Central Wheatbelt was also hit by high winds yesterday. Crops, only centimetres high and struggling to survive, were further damaged by the dust storm. * The Weather Bureau forecasts a fine day with light winds for today and morrow with a maximum of 18 degrees. An overnight low of 7. # Heat wave total reaches 1,100 dead United Press International National Guardsmen are distributing fans to parched residents of St. Louis and Kansas City to provide relief from the killer heat wave blamed for more than 1,100 deaths in the South, Southwest and Midwest. Missouri Gov. Joseph Teasdale Friday ordered 250 guardsmen to relieve weary volunteers who have carried hundreds of fans to the elderly and poor. "They (guardsmen) may be working as long as this heat lasts," said Bruce Jacques, a spokesman for the governor. "There are a growing number of needy who need the fans. These people may have to be on the job for several weeks, depending if the heat breaks." Teasdale also requested the state be declared a disaster area, calling upon President Carter to provide $20 million in federal funds to pay residents' soaring utility bills. A total of 1,105 heat-related deaths have been reported nationwide. Missouri has been hit the hardest, with some 264 deaths blamed on the searing heat. Another 138 people have succumbed to the heat in Tennessee; 120 in Arkansas; 96 in Texas; 92 in Alabama; 85 in Georgia; 74 in Kansas; 62 in Illinois; 55 in Mississippi; and 35 in Oklahoma. Louisiana and Kentucky both have recorded 23 heat deaths and nine other states report one or more. While Teasdale was issuing his call for federal help, a group of psychics holding a convention in St. Louis predicted cool breezes were not long away. Members of the Psychic Entertainers Association predicted the heat wave would abate in exactly 10 days. In Oklahoma, the state government turned to God for help. Gov. George Nigh, saying he had received numerous calls and letters requesting the action, issued a proclamation declaring Sunday as a day of prayer for rain. "Oklahomans in time of great need have traditionally turned to God through prayer and sought his help and guidance. Therefore, I, George Nigh, do hereby declare Sunday, July 20, a special day of prayer for rain and call upon all Oklahomans to join with me in this endeavor," the proclamation said. # Typhoon hits China HONG KONG (UPI) -- Typhoon Joe, packing winds of more than 100 mph, bore down on southern China Tuesday but first took its toll on Hong Kong, bringing the crown colony to a virtual standstill. Two persons died in Hong Kong as the typhoon approached and 59 others were injured by broken glass and falling debris. The deaths occurred when scaffolding on a construction site collapsed hurling one workman to the ground and killing one passerby. The typhoon roared through the northern Philippines Monday. === Page 40 of 63 P.O. Box 92, NORTH PERTH. 6006. W.Aust. 22nd. July 1980. Mr. Ted. Owens, 200 N.E. 76th. Street, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON. 98665, U.S.A. (Copy to Mr. Bruce Kell) Dear Mr. Owens, Herewith the only information which I have been able to locate regarding the report of sightings in the Kalgoorlie Area. The Perth U.F.O. Research Group, although it has one or two members residing in or near Kalgoorlie, did not receive anything other than the information contained in the clipping from the local (Perth) daily, "The West Australian". Much the same information is contained in the clipping from the Kalgoorlie (bi-weekly) "The Kalgoorlie Miner" which is printed in Perth by (I think) the "West". Sorry that I am unable to give any further news, but in order to help you get some idea of the area mentioned in the clippings, I have included a map on which the towns (in some instances only localities) are marked. You probably know that this is a particularly sparsely populated region and was the area (very roughly) where Skylab finally ended. I trust that this will be of some use to you and that you will be able to fit the reported facts. If either the writer or Perth U.F.O. Research Group can be of any further assistance please don't hesitate to ask. Regards from Perth, Western Australia !! Stanley E. Harper HARPER. === Page 41 of 63 A2 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1980 # The world ## Soviet writer flies to West LA Times-Washington Post Service MOSCOW -- Vasili Aksyonov, one of the Soviet Union's most popular novelists and screenwriters, left Moscow Tuesday to live in America, ending years of censorship tussles and escaping a total ban that had been slapped on his works here. Aksyonov, 47, his wife, Maya, and three other family members flew to Paris Tuesday afternoon to travel and live abroad on two-year Soviet exit visas. He plans to settle in the United States and has invitations to work and teach from several universities. Aksyonov's departure achieves much for Soviet authorities, who long have been eager to ensure his silence here while avoiding the kind of Western criticism that internal exile or a political trial would trigger. A member of the so-called "fourth generation" of new Soviet writers who emerged to stir up the Moscow literary world during the Khrushchev thaw of the early 1960s, Aksyonov has been a particular target of the authorities for the past two years. ## Priests beseeched VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Priests in Europe and North America should volunteer to serve in poor areas of Latin America and the Philippines to help relieve the shortage of Roman Catholic clergymen there, the Vatican said Tuesday. "The faithful are in danger of falling away from the Christian life," and a "sharp drop" in the number of priests worldwide "has severely plagued the church during the last 10 years," the Vatican said. ## Floods hit India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- More than half the population of India has been displaced or otherwise affected by monsoon rains and floods, and the situation in the northern states is "turning from bad to worse," an official spokesman said Tuesday. Reports from across the country said torrential rains, high water and earthslides have caused misery to nearly 350 million people in 11 states since late June. Floods claimed at least 32 more victims Tuesday, All-India Radio said, raising the three-week death toll to 380. The houses of 50 million people have been reported damaged or wrecked and countless others were forced to seek temporary refuge from the water. Associated Press Laserphoto ACTOR ILL -- Peter Sellers suffered a heart attack Tuesday and was rushed to a London hospital. He has had a series of heart ailments over the last six years and wears a pacemaker. He is in intensive care. July 23, '80 === Page 42 of 63 # Photographing a mystery Here are the key figures in the Ogilvie UFO mystery that developed late last week. When farmer Kevin Chick of East Ogilvie, (pictured, right) was out seeding three weeks ago on a cloudy night, he was startled at 1am to suddenly see a light rise up in the air from his neighbor's property, and disappear up into the mist. He rang his neighbor Eric Parker the next morning and said "Hey Eric, you'd better watch out. Something strange was in your paddock last night - perhaps it's the little green men paying you a visit." The two men laughed and forgot about it, until three weeks later when Eric and his brother ran over four deep indentations in a paddock near Eric's house. As Kevin put it "when you actually see such perfect and symmetrical 'pads' left in the ground and the earth compacted as if a huge weight had caused it, well, it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck." Eric Parker (above) demonstrates the size of one of the pads which were still plainly visible after three weeks of heavy rain. Lindsay Bolton (below) and his little school of eight pupils came down to the paddock and carefully measured the pads. Each was exactly 1.3 metres across and 8.7 metres apart. "I have put it down to some heavy force that can't be explained. I don't really believe in that UFO stuff," Lindsay said. Eric Parker and his wife Marlene feel strongly that they must have had a visit from some strange craft but there are no scorch-marks on the ground, and a bank of trees nearby looks undisturbed. Was it a UFO? And why did it land in Eric Parker's paddock? The whole thing remains a mystery, but the deep indentations bear silent testimony to the fact that something had been there. As one man said "If it makes a return visit, I won't hang about to find out if the inhabitants are friendly, that's for sure." - [x] Pictures Ted Smith - [x] Story Zara Bellett === Page 43 of 63 A2 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1980 # The world ## Soviet writer flies to West LA Times-Washington Post Service MOSCOW -- Vasili Aksyonov, one of the Soviet Union's most popular novelists and screenwriters, left Moscow Tuesday to live in America, ending years of censorship tussles and escaping a total ban that had been slapped on his works here. Aksyonov, 47, his wife, Maya, and three other family members flew to Paris Tuesday afternoon to travel and live abroad on two-year Soviet exit visas. He plans to settle in the United States and has invitations to work and teach from several universities. Aksyonov's departure achieves much for Soviet authorities, who long have been eager to ensure his silence here while avoiding the kind of Western criticism that internal exile or a political trial would trigger. A member of the so-called "fourth generation" of new Soviet writers who emerged to stir up the Moscow literary world during the Khrushchev thaw of the early 1960s, Aksyonov has been a particular target of the authorities for the past two years. ## Priests beseeched VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Priests in Europe and North America should volunteer to serve in poor areas of Latin America and the Philippines to help relieve the shortage of Roman Catholic clergymen there, the Vatican said Tuesday. "The faithful are in danger of falling away from the Christian life," and a "sharp drop" in the number of priests worldwide "has severely plagued the church during the last 10 years," the Vatican said. Associated Press Laserphoto ACTOR ILL -- Peter Sellers suffered a heart attack Tuesday and was rushed to a London hospital. He has had a series of heart ailments over the last six years and wears a pacemaker. He is in intensive care. from bad to worse," an official spokesman said Tuesday. Reports from across the country said torrential rains, high water and earthslides have caused misery to nearly 350 million people in 11 states since late June. Floods claimed at least 32 more victims Tuesday, All-India Radio said, raising the three-week death toll to 380. The houses of 50 million people have been reported damaged or wrecked and countless others were forced to seek temporary refuge from the water. World "Power" and Rain Attack -- ## Floods hit India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- More than half the population of India has been displaced or otherwise affected by monsoon rains and floods, and the situation in the northern states is "turning July 23, '80 === Page 44 of 63 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) Geraldton Guardian DATE June 24. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730. SYDNEY. 2001 === Page 45 of 63 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1980 # world # Kidnappers seize 3 teens FLORENCE, Italy (AP) -- Three masked kidnappers broke into an isolated villa near here Friday and seized two teen-age daughters of a prominent West German television commentator and their cousin as they were sunbathing, police and Interior Ministry officials said. Abducted were Susanne Kronzucker, 15, and her sister Sabina, 13, daughters of television moderator Dieter Kronzucker. Also seized was Martin Wachtler, 15, son of an agricultural engineer, they said. The family was visiting the villa on vacation. The kidnappers entered the villa at Barberino, 22 miles south of here. They locked the Kronzucker parents in a storeroom, seized the children and drove away. # Typhoon hits Luzon MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Typhoon Kim, the second tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this week, walloped the northern island of Luzon Friday with peak winds of 115 miles an hour, triggering massive flooding in Manila and elsewhere. There were no immediate reports on casualties. The official death count from Typhoon Joe, which roared across Luzon on Monday, reached 31, and eight other people were reported still missing. Reports from Vietnam and southern China said Joe caused massive damage when it struck those coastlines in mid-week. A spokesman for the Philippines weather service said Kim, its winds down to 115 miles an hour from 137 mph, came ashore in northeastern Luzon, where officials said Typhoon Joe had left more than 300,000 people homeless. The two storms caused millions of dollars in damage to crops and property on Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. Hardest hit was Isabela province, 120 miles northeast of Manila. Note: this quake was caused by "Power & Rain Attacks". Owens # Rare quake shakes 14 states By The Associated Press Org: 7/28/80 A "very rare" earthquake centered in northern Kentucky rattled residents Sunday in at least 14 states from Michigan to South Carolina and in parts of Canada. No deaths or injuries were reported, but hundreds of buildings in Kentucky sustained damage, mostly minor. Don Finley of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake registered 5.1 on the Richter scale and was centered about 45 miles southeast of Cincinnati and 50 miles northeast of Lexington, Ky. He said a preliminary reading of 5.8 had been lowered after further checks. He said there was no known record of other earthquakes in that area. Waverly Person, a geophysicist with the survey's National Earthquake Information Center, said quakes were "very rare" in that part of the United States and that eastern quakes rarely register above 4.0. Scientists said that unlike California earthquakes, which are triggered when two large plates of the earth's crust move against each other along one of several faults, Sunday's quake occurred in an area that has only one plate and no fault. Scientists are not certain what causes earthquakes that are centered in the interior of a plate. The earthquake was felt in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Alabama, and also was recorded in southern Ontario. At Detroit's Tiger Stadium, 40,000 baseball fans watching the Tigers battle the Oakland A's noticed the stadium sway, and were told by the announcer that they had felt an earthquake. "The fans all looked at one another, but there wasn't a stampede to get out," said police officer Mike Werner, who was stationed in an upper deck. For the most part, the quake caused mainly puzzled and excited those in its path. Telephone calls from residents who felt something were reported at police and sheriff's offices in places as widespread as Asheville, N.C., and Cairo, Ill. "I was upstairs when the radiator started to jiggle and then the whole house rattled," said Fran Zaniello, a college English instructor who lives in Fort Thomas, Ky., about 20 miles south of Cincinnati. "I went downstairs and said, 'Hey, I just felt an earthquake,' and everybody laughed." In Maysville, Ky., 70 miles northeast of Lexington on the Ohio River, state emergency officials said an estimated 200 buildings were damaged. Most of the damage was merely broken windows and chimneys, but some of it was more severe. Near the Kentucky state capital of Frankfort, 25 miles west of Lexington, Joel Mans said the earthquake "busted the whole back side of my house" and that other homes in his subdivision had similar damage. "It knocked me out of my chair," said Sgt. William Krueger at the Indiana State Police Operations Center in Indianapolis. He said calls were coming in "from all over." Switchboards at Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tenn., radio stations lit up with calls shortly before 3 p.m. Residents reported dishes rattled for several seconds. The tremor was felt throughout the central Ohio area as well as in the Cincinnati and Cleveland areas. === Page 46 of 63 (2) Oregon Journal, July 28, 1980 25 # Rare earthquake rumbles through U.S. mid-section By United Press International A moderate earthquake centered in Kentucky -- the region's first in almost 50 years -- shook and shattered windows from Alabama to Canada, toppled chimneys, knocked ornamentation off Cincinnati's City Hall and rocked Detroit's Tiger Stadium while a game was in progress. No serious injuries were reported in Sunday's temblor, which measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. It shook an area from Alabama to southern Canada and from Illinois to North Carolina for about 15 seconds, causing some damage. The quake toppled chimneys, fractured building foundations, broke windows and terrified people. Seismologists said it was centered in Marysville, Ky. -- about 45 miles southeast of Cincinnati and 50 miles northeast of Lexington, Ky. -- believed to be the first ever recorded in northern Kentucky. The quake surprised seismologists but not psychic Barry Bowman of Middletown, Ohio. Just hours before the tremor hit, Bowman predicted Ohio would be hit by an earthquake this year. Alyine Dunn, who lives about 9 miles west of Frankfort, Ky., said, "My sister and I were sitting on the couch when we felt it. I looked at her and she looked at me and I thought we'd lost our senses. "A pot of flowers was vibrating on the television and the grandfather clock, which hadn't been running, began chiming, and two old kerosene lamps nearly vibrated off the shelves. We could also hear the garage door springs rattling," she said. Cincinnati police said ornaments and bricks were shaken from the City Hall and damaged a sidewalk and steps, and the chimney at St. Paul's Church was shaken away. A street near the City Hall was blocked for about two hours by the falling bricks. The quake rocked Tiger Stadium in Detroit and Cleveland Municipal Stadium, where rain delayed and eventually washed out the Indians' game with the California Angels. **MICHIGAN** Detroit Lake Erie **OHIO** **INDIANA** Cincinnati W. VIRGINIA Lexington VIRGINIA Bristol **KENTUCKY** **TENNESSEE** === Page 47 of 63 July 28-1980 Oregon Journal # Severe lightning storms lash broiling Southwest By United Press International The hot, dry weather that has broiled the Southwest for weeks produced a series of lightning storms that touched off brush fires, the largest of which burned 2,000 acres on the eastern slopes of Mount San Jacinto in California. Heavy thunderstorms brought large hail and high wind to the upper Midwest late Sunday. Fires still were burning Monday from the U.S.-Mexican border to as far north as the Sequoia National Forest. "Old Mother Nature is working against us," said California fire spokeswoman Linda Donaker. She said containment efforts are hampered by the "very remote, very steep and very rocky terrain." "The wind is very, very erratic," she said. "We've got thunderheads you wouldn't believe. We're getting a lot of lightning strikes out here." Carlos Garza of the National Weather Service said the weather pattern is not particularly unusual. "This is normal for the summer time," Garza said. "We have a little bit of moisture moving in from the Gulf of Mexico, and with the heating, we are seeing a lot of activity." "There are thunderstorms throughout the desert, but no measurable rain has been reported from the Mexican border to Palm Springs," he said. "We are seeing a gradual decrease in the moisture, so the situation should ease some in the next day or so." In Arizona, firefighters Sunday fought dozens of lightning-caused blazes. In all, more than 44,000 acres of northwest Arizona desert and rangeland burned during the weekend. Thunderstorms covered a wide area from the lower Mississippi Valley across the Tennessee and Ohio valleys to the lower Great Lakes. Storms also were reported along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and southern Rockies. The National Weather Service reported that large hail pelted South Dakota and Minnesota late Sunday. The hail was accompanied by high wind that downed trees in Backus and Park Rapids, Minn. Strong wind also was reported in the South as part of another band of storms. In Lufkin, Texas, wind gusting to 58 mph was reported. Wind damage also was reported at Alexandria and Verda, La. Earthquakes rock N. India, Nepal Seat Times July 31-80 KATMANDU, Nepal -- A series of earthquakes rocked Northern India and this mountain kingdom, collapsing houses and killing at least nine persons in the foothills of the Himalayas, it was reported yesterday. A quake Tuesday measured 6.7 on the Richter scale. More than 20 small quakes -- the strongest registering 5.2 on the Richter scale -- occurred until midday yesterday. Seat Times July 31-80 # Rain floods Ukraine, damages crops MOSCOW -- A prolonged period of heavy rain in the agriculturally important Ukraine has caused extensive flooding and damaged crops, homes and utilities, the Soviet press reports. There was no mention of casualties. Aug 1-1980 Seattle Times # Quakes claim 16 lives NEW DELHI -- (AP) -- The death toll from a series of earthquakes in Northern India and Nepal was placed at 16 yesterday, United News of India said. It listed 13 deaths in Pithoragarh district, bordering the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Oregonian DNESDAY, JULY 30, 1980 # No major fires reported # Lightning sweeps E. Oregon A Tuesday afternoon lightning storm swept through the Vale-Burns areas, close on the heels of a lightning storm Monday that ignited 63 spot fires. Bureau of Land Management officials said all of the spot fires were controlled, and no large fires were reported after the Tuesday lightning strikes. Fire danger remained high in the eastern part of Oregon, and the lightning fronts were moving eastward into Idaho. The U.S. Forest Service reported scores of lightning strikes in the Fremont, Deschutes, Ochoco and Malheur forests, but all were quickly controlled. Crews mopped up on the fires Tuesday, using aerial drops of retardants in some cases. Crews with the State Department of Forestry Tuesday were battling a 50-acre timber blaze on Edgewood Mountain, about three miles northeast of Klamath Falls. Light winds caused additional problems at the fire, being fought by about 50 firefighters, aerial retardants and a dozen pieces of ground equipment. Firefighters contained a fire south of Forks, Wash., that burned over 130 acres of forest land and $1 million worth of state-owned timber. Explosives crews had to blast firefighting trails into the rugged Olympic Peninsula mountain area. Note: the kids and I planned, on a map, to vacation at Spirit Lake near Mt. St. Helens. Then the volcano blew up and wiped out Spirit Lake. Next we planned, on a map, to go to Lost Lake near Mt. Hood. Then Mt. Hood acted up and alarmed the experts. Finally we planned, on a map, to drive to Forks for a vacation in the nearby woods. - World "Power" and Rain Attack - === Page 48 of 63 Storms Bring Some Heat Wave Relief Dallas Roving storms yesterday eased a heat wave that has been blamed for more than 1200 deaths in 24 states, and provided Arkansas farmers with prayed-for rains. But Dallas -- cooled by rain Monday -- got another day of 100-degree heat yesterday. The storms were not extensive enough to help substantially the crops and rangelands in much of the Midwest and the Plains states. Billions of dollars in crops, cattle and poultry have been wiped out by the heat. Food Industry officials said prices would rise substantially. Forecasters disagreed whether the nation had seen the last of the killing heat. In Dallas, forecasters had said the 100-degree weather was over. But temperatures climbed at midafternoon and pushed to 100 degrees again. A summer-long drought ended abruptly in eastern Arkansas. Up to 6 inches of rain doused the Arkansas communities of Wynne and Marianna in four hours, prompting flash flood watches. And cool weather came with the storms. The storm system also brought cooler weather to beleaguered Missouri and Kansas, but significant rainfalls failed to materialize in the two parched states. Temperatures dipped to the 70-degree range in St. Louis, where more than 100 heat-related deaths have been reported since July 2. Hundred-degree weather that seared New Jersey and New York ended yesterday as the storm system that cooled the midlands pushed eastward. The mercury soared to 102 degrees in New York City on Monday, and water and power use soared with it to record levels. But the temperature was only in the 80s at midday yesterday. In Chester, Mass., the mercury climbed to 101 degrees Monday. Then a storm blew up. Nearly a half foot of rain doused the area; 60 mph winds toppled trees, and hail pelted houses and cars. The storm system also ended a brief run of record heat in Baltimore and parts of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. July 31-1980 Seattle Times Rain helps fight California fires A half inch of rain moistened parched areas of Southern California yesterday, helping fire fighters contain some of the more serious of the dozens of blazes that have blackened thousands of acres in central and southern parts of the state. In Arizona, where lightning storms have set off new fires every night for more than a week, fire officials shuttled fire fighters and equipment from blaze to blaze. Lightning strikes in sun-baked undergrowth have caused most of the fires, which have been fanned by gusty winds. Temperatures in the 100s and rugged terrain have hampered fire fighters. 7-24-80 Seat. Times Volcano blows top in Soviet Far East MOSCOW -- (AP) -- A dormant volcano on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted in a 2-mile-high tower of ash and gases, the Russian news agency, Tass, said yesterday. The report said that the razor-backed peak, dormant for the past 30 years, exploded into activity in the sparsely populated region, blasting away a lake that had formed in its crater, but no injuries were reported. It did not say when the eruption occurred. Volcanologists boarded airplanes to view the 6,500-foot-peak. The mountain is 40 miles east of Petropavlovsk, in a region dotted with volcanic peaks. Tass said the peak, Mount Gorely, has a series of 11 smaller craters, and that scientists called it "one of the most interesting subjects for study." Since 1975, specialists have been watching the growth of neighboring volcano, the first time, they say, that scientists are able to observe the birth of a new mountain. The scientists said they accurately predicted the eruption, which began with a series of earth tremors on the mountainous peninsula. Among their projects, the Kamchatka scientists are trying to harness volcanos as an energy source and have 100 separate geothermal sources on the peninsula. July 28, 1980 Oreg Journal Clouds black out London LONDON (UPI) -- Freak clouds 6 miles thick blacked out London during the Weekend and brought the worst July thunderstorms in a decade. "I've never known it so black in day time," said a London Weather Center official of Saturday when the center's sunlight meter dropped to a reading of zero. During the heavy rain, power supplies to some villages were cut off, roads were flooded and two women golfers were hospitalized with injuries from a lightning bolt. - World "Power & Rain Attack" - === Page 49 of 63 # Photographing a mystery Here are the key figures in the Ogilvie UFO mystery that developed late last week. When farmer Kevin Chick of East Ogilvie, (pictured, right) was out seeding three weeks ago on a cloudy night, he was startled at 1am to suddenly see a light rise up in the air from his neighbor's property, and disappear up into the mist. He rang his neighbor Eric Parker the next morning and said "Hey Eric, you'd better watch out. Something strange was in your paddock last night - perhaps it's the little green men paying you a visit." The two men laughed and forgot about it, until three weeks later when Eric and his brother ran over four deep indentations in a paddock near Eric's house. As Kevin put it "when you actually see such perfect and symmetrical 'pads' left in the ground and the earth compacted as if a huge weight had caused it, well, it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck." Eric Parker (above) demonstrates the size of one of the pads which were still plainly visible after three weeks of heavy rain. Lindsay Bolton (below) and his little school of eight pupils came down to the paddock and carefully measured the pads. Each was exactly 1.3 metres across and 8.7 metres apart. "I have put it down to some heavy force that can't be explained. I don't really believe in that UFO stuff," Lindsay said. Eric Parker and his wife Marlene feel strongly that they must have had a visit from some strange craft, but there are no scorch-marks on the ground, and a bank of trees nearby looks undisturbed. Was it a UFO? And why did it land in Eric Parker's paddock? The whole thing remains a mystery, but the deep indentations bear silent testimony to the fact that something had been there. As one man said "If it makes a return visit, I won't hang about to find out if the inhabitants are friendly, that's for sure." * Pictures Ted Smith * Story Zara Bellett === Page 50 of 63 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, Washington 98665 U. S. A. June 5th, 1980 Dear Mr. Owens, Revered Sir, Under separate cover, further documentation is forwarded as requested. I hope we have no quarrel with these figures for rainfall which are acquired and tabulated at great cost to the government of the commonwealth of Australia. Although the rainfall individual figures may be unaudited, you can be sure that the auditor-general provides that the costs associated with acquiring and tabulating those figures are subjected to rigorous audit procedures acceptable to general business practice. Oliver Twist was the name of a novel written by the nineteenth century English writer Charles Dickens. As a young boy in an orphanage, so the story goes, but you would know the story of how Oliver asked for "More". The writings of Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century helped bring about the stirring of the social conscience which led to much needed reforms in England. Donation for $280 is enclosed with best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship Respectfully, Bruce BRUCE KELL, 4 Torrington Road, STRATHFIELD, N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA === Page 51 of 63 (Australia) Thursday, June 12, 1980 'The LAND' 53 # SECTION 5 -- WOOL -- STOCK -- PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Most NSW rain in South ### INTERSTATE RAINFALL The continent remained mostly dry over the past week, with some scattered light falls near the coast and ranges. In Western Australia there were widespread showers over the lower south-west coast, with lighter falls on the north coast and agricultural areas. Maximum fall was 19 mm at Dwellingup. Queensland received scattered light falls in the peninsula and east coast districts, with a top fall of 25 mm at Sandy Cape. In South Australia there were light to moderate falls in most districts except the interior. Heavier rains fell in the upper north area, with a maximum of 33 mm at Bruce. **QUEENSLAND** Peninsula South 6 mm, North Coast (Barron) 1, North Coast (Herbert) 13, Central Coast (East) 5, Central Coast (West) 2, Central Highlands 10, Central Lowlands 2, South Coast (Curtis) 19, South Coast (Moreton) 27, Darling Downs (East) 30, Darling Downs (West) 26, Maranoa 14. **VICTORIA** Mallee 12 mm, Wimmera 11, Western 10, Northern 6, North Central 10, Central 16, Northeast 6, Gippsland 27, Metropolitan 13, Mildura 26, Halls Gap 18, Weeaproinah 33, Tungamah 14, Wallaby Creek 29, Powelltown 65, Mt Hotham 23, Tanjil Bren 87, Ringwood 20. **TASMANIA** Northern 16 mm, Southeast 25, West Coast 26, East Coast 61, Derwent Valley 14, King Island 14, Midlands 17, Central Plateau 21, Flinders Island 33. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** North Kimberley 0.2 mm, De Grey 4, Fortescue 47, West Gascoyne 53, East Gascoyne 29, Murchison 31, North Coastal 16, Central Coastal 42, South Coastal 40, Central North 10, Central South 10, Eucla 12, South Eastern 18, North Eastern 9. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Northwest 12 mm, Far North 4, Western Agricultural 28, Upper North 26, Northeast 12, Lower North 26, West Central 36, East Central 40, Murray Valley 25, Murray Mallee 24, Upper Southeast 20, Lower Southeast 18. Except for light to moderate falls in some districts, there was little or no rain in New South Wales during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded in the Illawarra region, reaching 32 mm at Jervis Bay, followed by nine mm at Kiama and two mm at Berry and Robertson. Leading recording on the South Coast was 11 mm at Gabo Island (Vic.). Other falls in the area were two mm at Green Cape and Eden. Bombala and Nimmitabel headed the registrations on the Southern Tablelands with four mm, followed by two mm at Frogmore and Dalgety. Two mm of fresh snow fell at Thredbo. In the Hunter the top registration was 12 mm at Norah Head, with six mm at Raymond Terrace and three mm at Newcastle. # The week's rainfall-- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 10, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: **UPPER WESTERN:** White Cliffs 2, Wilcannia 4, Angledool 2, Bourke 5, Brewarrina 10, Byrock 11, Cobar M.O. 6, Coolabah 17, Enngonia 5, Ford's Bridge 3, Lightning Ridge 4, Louth 0.6 Tilpa 1. **LOWER WESTERN:** Broken Hill 13, Menindee 13, Pooncarie 13, Wentworth 22, Balranald 3, Euabalong 5, Ivanhoe 6, Nymagee 10. **NORTH-WEST PLAINS:** Boomi 3, Mungindi 1, Walgett 4, Baradine 10, Bellata 2, Bogabilla 3, Garah 2, Moree M.O. 1, Narrabri West 3, Pallamallawa 1. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Carinda 5, Coonamble 14, Gilgandra 16, Giritambone 8, Narromine 11, Nevertire 14, Nyngan 5, Quambone 9, Trangie 1, Warren 8, Bogan Gate 11, Condobolin 5, Peak Hill 8, Tottenham 5, Trundle 9, Tullamore 7, Ungarie 4, Yalgogrin Nth. 5. **RIVERINA:** Barham 6, Cargelligo 6, Carrathool 9, Darlington Pt. 6, Goolgowi 9, Griffith 13, Gubhata 4, Hay 4, Hillston 13, Maude 10, Rankin Springs 13, Wakool 8, Ardlethan 13, Ariah Park 10, Berrigan 13, Conargo 9, Culcairn 8, Deniliquin 6, Finley 10, Grong Grong 7, Henty 9, Howlong 18, Jerilderie 10, Leeton 5, Lockhart 9, Narrandera 10, The Rock 10, Tocumwal 12, Urana 7, Whitton 8. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Ashford 3, Barraba 4, Bingara 4, Bonshaw 7, Croppa Ck, Rawdon 5, Delungra 2, Gravesend 2, Warialda 3, Yetman 3, Bendemeer 10, Blackville 13, Boggabri 7, Breeza 8, Gunnedah 11, Manilla 4, Mullaley 5, Nundle 20, Premer 9, Quirindi 19, Somerton 8, Tambar Springs 9, Tamworth M.O. 7, Werris Creek 17, Willowtree 17, Woolbrook 12. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Coolah 14, Coonabarabran 17, Dunedoo 16, Mendooran 15, Tooraweenah 37, Cudal 14, Dubbo 17, Eugowra 8, Forbes 15, Manildra 9, Molong 9, Parkes 16, Wellington 15. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 6, Burrinjuck Dam 15, Cootamundra 14, Grenfell 5, Gundagai 11, Koorawatha 7, Quandialla 7, Temora 11, Wyalong 7, Young 6, Adelong 12, Albury 14, Batlow 13, Cabramurra 20, Holbrook 12, Hume R'voir 17, Khancoban 13, Tarcutta 10, Tumbarumba 15, Tumut 16, Wagga 11. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 9, Bunclarra 4, Deepwater 11, Emmaville 6, Glen Innes 4, Guyra 7, Inverell 2, Tenterfield 3, Tinpha 5, Uralla 8, Walcha 6, Drake 2. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 14, Rylstone 16, Bathurst 16, Blackheath 11, Cowra A/port 7, Hill End 23, Katoomba 11, Kurrajong Hts. 7, Lithgow 19, Mt. Victoria 18, Oberon 21, Orange A/port 21, Rockley 12, Springwood 5, Trunkey Ck. 20, Wyangala 5. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 5, Canberra M. S, Cooma 3, Crookwell 8, Delegate 4, Frogmore 8, Goulburn 3, Gunning 8, Nimmitabel 10, Taralga 5, Yass 13, Canberra City 5, Adaminaby 1, Berridale 2, Dalgety 5, Perisher Valley 4, Thredbo (C'back) 8. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Bulahdelah 3, Forster 2, Sugarloaf Pt. 5, Taree 1. **HUNTER:** C'nock (Nulkaba) 6, Clarence town 9, Denman 7, Dungog 6, Gosford 8, Gresford 10, Jerrys Plains 8, Mangrove Mtn. 25, Maryville 7, Merriwa 8, Moonan Flat 19, Murrurundi 21, N'castle (Nbys) 9, Norah Head 22, Paterson 11, Raymond Tce. 15, Scone 15, Singleton (Army) 8, Stroud 4, Williamt'n M.O. 10, Wyong 8. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 2, Bowral 3, Camden A/pt. 5, Campbelltown 3, Greenwell Pt. 4, Jervis Bay 32, Kiama 10, Picton 3, Robertson 8, Wollondilly 5, W'gong (Uni.) 3, Nowra (RAN) 1. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 1, Bega 2, Braidwood 4, Eden 4, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 12, Green Cape 2, Merimbula A'pt. 2, Montague Is. 2, Moruya Hds. 2, Pambula 2. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 7, Bankstown 5, Bexley 7, Bondi 7, Concord 10, Epping 7, Five Dock 7, Gordon 5, Hornsby 9, Hurstville 6, Mascot M.O. 8, Mosman 7, Newport Bch. 9, Palm Beach 9, Pymble 7, Randwick 10, Sydney 8, Turramurra 8, Waverton 5, West Lindfield 5, Auburn 9, Glenorie 8, Liverpool 4, Richmond M.O. 4, Westmead 9. # SEASONAL FORECAST ### Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Good general rains should be experienced throughout New South Wales during June, with heaviest rains on the North Coast and portion of the Northern Tablelands. Rainfall should be moderate in a large part of the State during July. Light to moderate patchy rains are indicated during August and September. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas during October. Distribution: Rain is indicated on June 14. === Page 52 of 63 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY National Market Guide Good rain in most NSW Good rains fell in most regions of New South Wales during the past week, with heavy falls recorded in some areas. On the Central West Slopes, Coonabarabran headed the registrations with 88 mm, followed by Binnaway with 60 mm, and Mendooran and Tooraweenah with 35 mm. Cabramurra received the highest rainfall in the Southwest Slopes with 88 mm. Other top falls in the area were 60 mm at West Wyalong, 57 mm at Blow, and 55 mm at Burrinjuck Dam. Moderate to heavy rains were received in the western areas of the State. These included 34 mm at Angledool, 29 mm at Collarenebri, 25 mm at Bourke and 23 mm at Lightning Ridge. On the Northwest Plains, Baradine topped the registration with 44 mm, followed by 37 mm at Wee Waa, and 34 mm at Boggabri and Narrabri. The coastal areas also received good rains. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 6-25 26-UP Interstate RAINFALL Most of the continent received widespread rains over the past week. In Queensland there were general falls with occasional heavy rains on the north and central coasts, and in the southeast corner. Innisfail topped with 84 mm, followed by Cape Moreton with 42 mm, and Nannaford 41 mm. General rain fell over most areas of Western Australia, including 60 mm at Kalbarri, and 62 mm at Onslow. In South Australia there were light to moderate falls in all districts with heavier falls in the north. Maximum fall was 53 mm at Jamestown. Victoria received light falls in most districts, with heavier falls at Warburton 26 mm, Mt Beauty 23 mm, and Cape Otway 11 mm. Northern Territory had light falls over most of the Top End and over the Alice Springs area. The week's rainfall UPPER WESTERN: Tibooburra 2, White Cliffs 2, Wilcannia 1, Angledool 34, Bourke 9, Brewarrina 7, Byrock 2, Enngonia M.O. 5, Collarenebri 29, Coolabah 1, Girilambone 4, Ford's Bridge 1, Lightning Ridge 23, Louth 7, Tilpa 1. LOWER WESTERN: Broken Hill 11, Menindee 15, Pooncarie 6, Wentworth 1, Balranald 1, Euabalong 27, Ivanhoe 6, Oxley 13. NORTH-WEST PLAINS: Boomi 16, Burren Junction 21, Gwabegar 33, Mungindi 27, Pilliga 30, Walgett 33 Baradine 44, Bellata 30, Bogabilla 62, Garah 20, Moree M.O. 7, Narrabri West 52, Pallamallawa 16, Wee Waa 49. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Carinda 24, Coonamble 90, Gilgandra 46, Girilambone 36, Gulargambone 59, Narromine 17, Nevertire 42, Nyngan 41, Quambone 23, Warren 31, Bogan Gate 74, Condobolin 16, Coolamon 25, Culcairn 17, Forbes 84, Ungarie 32, Yalgogrin North 17. RIVERINA: Barham 1, Cargelligo 13, Carrathool 6, Darlington Point 10, Goolgowi 11, Griffith 9, Gubbata 37, Hay 14, Hillston 21, Maude 17, Moulamein 2, Hay Springs 19, Wakool 9, Ardlethan 14, Jerilderie 5, Barellan 55, Berrigan 4, Corowa 16, Coolamon 25, Culcairn 17, Deniliquin 5, Finley 27, Grong Grong 23, Henty 12, Howlong 9, Jerilderie 6, Leeton 16, Lockhart 11, Narrandera 20, The Rock 18, Tocumwal 34, Urana 4, Whitton 15. NORTH-WEST SLOPES: Ashford 27, Barraba 27, Bingara 35, Bonshaw 39, Cherry Creek, Rawdon 21, Delungra 24, Gravesend 18, Warialda 20, Yetman 50, Bundemeer 33, Blackville 49, Boggabri 38, Gunnedah 37, Gunnedah 46, Manilla 26, Manley 44, Nundle 65, Premer 44, Quirindi 36, Somerton 77, Tambar Springs 38, Tamworth M.O. 70, Werris Creek 44, Warialda 47, Woolbrook 22. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 60, Coolah 59, Coonabarabran 89, Dunedoo 38, Mendooran 51, Tooraweenah 34, Canowindra 16, Cudal 41, Dubbo 72, Eugowra 20, Forbes 45, Manildra 36, Molong 51, Parkes 50, Wellington 48. SOUTH-WEST SLOPES: Barmedman 69, Burrinjuck Dam 66, Cootamundra 51, Gundagai 14, Junee 10, Grenfell 42, Quandialla 32, Stockinbingal 75, Temora 56, Wyalong 50, Adelong 56, Albury 15, Batlow 66, Cabramurra 91, Holbrook 11, Hume Reservoir 13, Khancoban 33, Tarcutta 37, Tumbarumba 44, Tumut 37, Wagga 18, Wagga M.O. 19, Young 26. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Armidale 8, Bundarra 12, Deepwater 42, Emmaville 46, Glen Innes 29, Guyra 21, Inverell 24, Tenterfield 4, Tingha 24, Uralla 14, Walcha 10 Bonalbo 51, Lower Creek 31, Tabulam 12, Tabulam (Muirne) 16. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 49, Mudgee 37, Rylstone 25, Bathurst 21, Blackheath 29, Blayney 10, Cowra Airport 32, Hill End 62, Katoomba 52, Kurrajong Heights 15, Lithgow 20, Mt Victoria 39, Oberon 39, Orange Airport 41, Rockley 28, Springwood 20, Trunkey Creek 28, Wyangala 30. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 18, Canberra M. 27, Cooma 20 Crookwell 33, Delegate 13, Frogmore 20, Goulburn 74, Gunning 52, Nimmitabel 32, Queanbeyan 21, Taralga 43, Yass 63, Canberra City 39, Adaminaby 19, Berridale 29, Dalgety 21, Perisher Valley 27, Thredbo (C'back) 23. NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 32, Casino 25, Grafton 21, Kyogle 22, Lismore 27, Maclean 29, Mullumbimby 14, Murwillumbah 28, Tweed Heads 38, Yamba 45. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 11, Bellingen 12, Coffs Harbour M.O. 10, Dorrigo 14, Kempsey 7, Macksville 11, Meldrum 14, Nambucca Heads 1, Smoky Cape 8, Bulahdelah 9, Comboyne 6, Forster 2, Gloucester 16, Laurieton 4, Port Macquarie 4, Sugarloaf Point 3, Taree 14, Wauchope 5. HUNTER: Cessnock (Nulkaba) 21, Denman 24, Dungog 17, Gosford 25, Gresford 17, Jerrys Plains 17, Mangrove Mountain 29, Maryville 59, Merriwa 34, Moonan Flat 28, Mulbring 18, Murrurundi 40, Newcastle (Nobbys) 19, Norah Head 14, Paterson 17, Raymond Terrace 10, Scone 32, Singleton (Army) 19, Stroud 11, Williamtown M.O. 18 Wyong 18. ILLAWARRA: Berry 27, Bowral 27, Camden Airport 37, Campbelltown 29, Greenwell Point 26, Jervis Bay 16, Kiama 28, Nowra (Council) 12, Picton 89, Robertson 92, Wollondilly 21 Wollongong (Uni.) 52, Nowra (RAN) 13. SOUTH COAST: Araluen 5, Batemans Bay 6, Bega 26, Bodalla 6, Braidwood 6, Candelo 11, Eden 43, Gabo Island (Vic.) 76, Green Cape 51, Merimbula Airport 43, Milton 11, Montague Island 14, Moruya Heads 6, Pambula 41. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 22, Balgowlah 21, Bankstown 22, Bexley 46, Bondi 18, Concord 17, Cronulla 29, Enpping 18, Five Dock 26, Gordon 23, Hornsby 17, Hurstville 38, Mascot M.O. 22, Mosman 23, Newport Beach 22, Palm Beach 31, Pymble 20, Randwick 21, Sydney 25, Turramurra 24, Wahroonga 17, Waverton 21, West Lindfield 26, Auburn 22, Glenorie 20, Liverpool 20, Penrith 50, Richmond M.O. 12, Westmead 3. VICTORIA Mallee 1 mm (Manangatang 5), Wimmera 0.4 (Harrow 3), Western 4 (Weeaproinah 20), Northern 3 (Cobram 29), North Central 4 (Alexandra 13), Central 4 (O'Shannassy 16), Northeast 9 (Walwa 20), Gippsland 3 (Wilson's Promontory 11), Metropolitan 4 (Bayswater 9). TASMANIA Northern 13 mm, Southeast 6, West Coast 87, East Coast 3, Derwent Valley 22, King Island 9, Central Plateau 18, Flinders Island 18. QUEENSLAND Peninsula North 3 mm, Peninsula South 3, Lower Carpentaria 5, Upper Carpentaria 25, North Coast, Barron 37, North Coast, Herbert 79, Central Coast, East 77, Central Coast, West 47, Central Highlands 35, Central Lowlands 21, Upper Western 5, Lower Western 4, South Coast, Curtis 28, South Coast, Moreton 29, Darling Downs, East 16, Darling Downs, West 33, Maranoa 41, Warrego 30, Far South West 8. WESTERN AUSTRALIA North Kimberley 14 mm, East Kimberley 0.2, West Kimberley 18, De Grey 7, Fortescue 9, West Gascoyne 18, East Gascoyne 1, Murchison 27, North Coastal 20, Central Coastal 47, South Coastal 29, Central North 15, Central South 15, Eucla 9, South Eastern 13, North Eastern 2. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Northwest 13 mm, Far North 4, Western Agricultural 9, Upper North 19, Northeast 20, Lower North 19, West Central 1, East Central 1, Murray Valley 2, Murray SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Rainfall should be good throughout New South Wales during June, with heavy rain on the North Coast and part of the Northern Tablelands. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July with light to moderate patchy rains during August. Similar conditions are indicated during September. Moderate rains are expected in a large part of the State during October. Distribution: Rains are indicated on June 5 and 6. Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 3, in millimetres as recorded by the === Page 53 of 63 Daily News, Thursday, June 12, 1980 # Hundreds report Kalgoorlie UFO KALGOORLIE, Today: Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object over Kalgoorlie last night resulted in hundreds of calls to local radio stations. The Kalgoorlie manager of the ABC, Stanley Brown, said though descriptions of the UFO varied, the reports all indicated that the object entered the atmosphere to the north-east of the city and travelled in a southern trajectory towards Esperance. Sightings of the object were received from there and from as far east as Eucla. He said the first report at 7.51pm had come in from Mr Jack Cashman, of North Kalgurli Mine, who had seen a large object, bright at the front and trailing a yellow green and white tail about 10 degrees above the horizon. ## Skylab Mr Cashman had described the sighting as similar to those that accompanied the re-entry of Skylab into the earth's atmosphere on July 12 last year. Mr Brown said workers at the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter had simultaneously reported the object travelling at between 400 and 500 metres. They had claimed the object appeared to have two sections, a large leading section trailed by a smaller section. To many it appeared not so much as a meteor or satellite, as an actual craft. Mr Bill Barrett, of Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie, confirmed this but added another section which he said followed the other two. A worker at Somerville, with two of his friends, was next to report sighting the object. He said it appeared to be about 30 metres long and was visible for five minutes. The passage of the object was accompanied by flames and sparks though there had been no noticeable noise or rumbling as had been heard at the time of Skylab. Mr Brown said local commercial radio announcer Mr Clive Murray had reported receiving many similar calls about the same time. The most spectacular of these was from truck-driver Ron MacDougall who was driving on the Esperance Highway towards Norseman on his way to Melbourne. Mr MacDougall claimed to have seen the object actually leaving the ground in an area near Salmon Gums, though he accepted angles could be deceiving. The area of his sighting coincided with a report late last year of an object falling on the same area, though searches conducted by the Esperance Civil Defence Organisation failed to find any evidence at the time. Mr MacDougall said he watched the object for about 15 minutes Australians report UFOs: PERTH (Australia) (AP) -- Australians in the bush country who witnessed last year's fiery plunge of Skylab are seeing things again. Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object have been reported over Kalgoorlie, 370 miles east of here. The manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Kalgoorlie, Stanley Brown, said he received hundreds of calls Wednesday night reporting various descriptions of a fiery object in the sky. Aug. 18, 1980 === Page 54 of 63 THE KALGOORLIE MINER, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1980 # UFO brings hundreds of telephone calls Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object in the sky above Kalgoorlie on Wednesday night resulted in hundreds of calls to local radio stations. The manager of the ABC in Kalgoorlie, Mr Stanley Brown, said that though descriptions of the UFO varied, the reports all indicated that the object entered the atmosphere to the north-east of Kalgoorlie and travelled in a southern trajectory towards Esperance. Sightings of the object were received from that town and from as far east as Eucla. The first report at 7.51pm had come in from Mr Jack Cashman, of the North Kalgurli mine, who had seen a large object, bright at the front and trailing a yellow, green and white tail, about 10 degrees above the horizon. Mr Cashman had described the sighting as similar to those that accompanied the re-entry of Skylab into the earth's atmosphere on July 12, last year. Mr Brown said workers at the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter had simultaneously reported the object travelling at between 350m and 450m. They had claimed the object appeared to have two sections, a large leading section trailed by a smaller section. To many, it appeared not so much as a meteor or satellite as an actual craft. Mr Bill Barrett, of Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie, confirmed this, but added another section, which he said followed the other two. A worker at Somerville, with two of his friends, was next to report sighting the object. He said it appeared to be about 30m long and was visible for five minutes. The passage of the object was accompanied by flames and sparks, though there had been no noticeable noise or rumbling as had been heard at the time of Skylab. Mr Brown said that a local commercial radio announcer, Mr Clive Murray, had reported receiving many similar calls at about the same time. The most spectacular of these was from a truck-driver, Mr Ron MacDougall, who was driving on Esperance Highway, towards Norseman, en route to Melbourne. Mr MacDougall claimed to have seen the object actually leaving the ground in an area near Salmon Gums, though he accepted that angles could be deceiving. The area of his sighting coincided with a report late last year of an object falling on the same area, though searches conducted by the Esperance Civil Defence Organisation failed to find any evidence at the time. Mr MacDougall said he watched the object for about 15 minutes and believed it had risen from a spot about 600m from where he was, at a speed of 500 km/h to 650 km/h. He reported being terrified by his experience. Mr Brown said there had been reports recently of an American spacecraft in trouble and it was conceivable that its re-entry into the atmosphere accounted for last night's sightings. However, there had also been unconfirmed reports that a Russian space vehicle, similar to Skylab, was experiencing problems. It was coincidence that the object sighted this week seemed to be travelling along a trajectory almost identical to that followed by Skylab, though in the opposite direction. The Department of Transport in Kalgoorlie confirmed last night that many calls had been received. The duty officer at the Kalgoorlie Bureau of Meteorology had first reported the object to the DOT. A subsequent check revealed no aircraft in the area which could have fitted any of the descriptions received. === Page 55 of 63 Thursday, June 19, 1980 THE LAND 59 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY # National Market Guide # NSW rain mostly coastal Rain in NSW during the past week was mostly confined to coastal areas. Heaviest falls were recorded on the Mid-North Coast where Port Macquarie received 79 mm. Other top falls in the area included Smoky Cape 74 mm, Sugarloaf Point 31 mm, and Forster 27 mm. In the Northern Rivers area, Cape Byron recorded 45 mm with Mullumbimby and Yamba each recording 15 mm. Leading registration in the Hunter last week was 57 mm at Newcastle, followed by 39 mm at Gosford and 29 mm at Williamtown. Most centres in the Illawarra registered good rains with heaviest falls being 69 mm at Jervis Bay, 18 mm at Wollongong and 16 mm at Robertson. On the Southern Tablelands, Perisher Valley received 75 mm, Adaminaby 12 mm and Cooma four mm. Cabramurra headed the registrations on the Southwest Slopes with 27 mm followed by 21 mm at Khancoban, 10 mm at Adelong and four mm at Cootamundra. The only other area of the State to record rain was the Northern Tablelands, but falls were light. Glen Innes topped with five mm followed by Tenterfield with two mm. No rain was recorded in the Western areas of the State or on the Plains. # INTERSTATE RAINFALL Dry conditions prevailed over most of the Continent during the past week with isolated moderate falls in some areas. In Queensland, there were isolated heavy falls on the north coast with lighter falls in the peninsula area. Maximum fall was 48 mm at Innisfail. Western Australia received scattered moderate falls in the north coast and far south west. Top recording for the week was 51 mm at Barrow Island followed by 40 mm at Learmonth and 15 mm at Hamelin Pool. TASMANIA Northern 31 mm, Southeast 11, West Coast 44, East Coast 5, Derwent Valley 2, King Island 10, Central Plateau 6, Flinders Island 7. QUEENSLAND Peninsula North 1 mm, North Coast (Barron) 3, North Coast (Herbert) 9, Central Coast (East) 1, South Coast (Curtis) 2, Darling Downs (East) 3, Warrego 2, Far Southwest 1. VICTORIA Mallee 7 mm (Manangatang 15), Wimmera 12 (Minyip 22), Western 10 (Woorndoo 22), Northern 7 (Tatura 14), North Central 11 (Wallaby Creek 23), Central 17 (Kinglake 37), Northeast 9 (Bonegilla 17), Gippsland 14 (Tamil Bren 49), Metropolitan 20 (Preston 30). WESTERN AUSTRALIA North Coastal 0.6 mm, Central Coastal 6, South Coastal 19, Central North 0.6, Central South 7, Eucla 12, South Eastern 8, North Eastern 1. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES DARWIN BRISBANE SYDNEY ADELAIDE PERTH NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 85, Casino 5, Grafton 15, Kyogle 9, Lismore 13, Maclean 53, Mullumbimby 33, Murwillumbah 19, Tweed Heads 40, Yamba 53. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 26, Bellingen 49, Coffs Hbr. M.O. 63, Dorrigo 47, Kempsey 59, Macksville 22, Meldrum 28, Smoky Cape 163, Bulahdelah 44, Comboyne 71, Forster 97, Gloucester 35, Laurieton 104, Pt. Macquarie 134, Sugarloaf Pt. 45, Taree 103, Wauchope 77. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 21, Clarence-town 16, Denman 11, Dungog 16, Gosford 39, Gresford 14, Jerrys Plains 14, Mangrove Mtn. 44, Maryville 39, Merriwa 8, Moonan Flat 6, Mulbring 7, Murrurundi 7, N'castle (Nbys) 53, Norah Head 63, Paterson 23, Raymond Tce. 31, Scone 3, Singleton (Army) 2, Stroud 41, Willamt'n M.O. 33, Wyong 41. ILLAWARRA Berry 8, Bowral 10, Camden A/pt. 13, Campbelltown 20, Greenwell Pt. 25, Jervis Bay 94, Kiama 28, Picton 12, Robertson 17, W'gong (Uni.) 35, Nowra (RAN) 11. SOUTH COAST: Batemans Bay 1, Bega 1, Eden 4, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 11, Green Cape 3, Merimbula A/pt. 3, Milton 5, Montague Is. 1, Pambula 3. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 24, Balgowlah 52, Bankstown 19, Bexley 43, Bondi 46, Concord 23, Cronulla 68, Epping 43, Five Dock 47, Gordon 54, Hornsby 43, Hurstville 19, Mascot M.O. 50, Mosman 48, Newport Bch. 40, Palm Beach 53, Pymble 54, Randwick 38, Sydney 30, Turramurra 27, Wahroonga 52, Waverton 45, West Lindfield 39, Auburn 25, Glenorie 38, Liverpool 23, Penrith 13, Richmond M.O. 19, Westmead 25. # The week's rainfall- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 17, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: LOWER WESTERN: Menindee 3, Pooncarie 2, Wentworth 1, Balranald 2. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Bogabilla 2, Moree M.O. 1. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Ungarie 2, Yalgogrin Nth. 3. RIVERINA: Carrathool 1, Griffith 1, Hillston 1, Maude 1, Moulamein 3, Wakool 2, Conargo 2, Coolamon 11, Deniliquin 4, Finley 4, Henty 4, Tocumwal 6. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 1, Barraba 2, Bingara 1, Bonshaw 3, Delungra 2, Warialda 2, Yetman 2, Bendemeer 9, Blackville 3, Boggabri 1, Breeza 8, Gunnedah 7, Manilla 7, Nundle 3, Premer 1, Quirindi 3, Tambar Springs 1, Tamworth M.O. 4, Werris Creek 5, Willowtree 2, Woolbrook 15. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Manildra 1, Parkes 1, Coonabarabran 1. SOUTHWEST SLOPES: Burrinjuck Dam 12, Cootamundra 5, Gundagai 9, Koorawatha 1, Wyalong 1, Adelong 16, Albury 3, Batlow 33, Cabramurra 31, Holbrook 3, Hume R'voir 3, Khancoban 26, Tarcutta 12, Tumbarumba 23, Tumut 27, Wagga 3, Wagga M.O. 4. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Armidale 7, Bundarra 2, Deepwater 6, Emmaville 5, Glen Innes 11, Guyra 6, Inverell 1, Tenterfield 17, Tingha 1, Uralla 5, Walcha 5, Bonalbo 6, Drake 12, Lower Creek 6, Tabulam 9. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Mudgee 1, Rylstone 4, Bathurst 2, Blackheath 19, Cowra A/port 1, Hill End 8, Katoomba 33, Kurrajong Hts. 26, Lithgow 21, Mt. Victoria 22, Oberon 14, Orange A/port 3, Springwood 20, Trunkey Ck. 5, Wyangala 2. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 2, Canberra M. 1, Cooma 4, Crookwell 7, Delegate 4, Frogmore 2, Goulburn 3, Nimmitabel 6, Queanbeyan 1, Taralga 4, Canberra City 2, Adaminaby 13, Dalgety 2, Perisher Valley 32, Thredbo (C'back) 24. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July with the best rains on the far North Coast. However, rainfall should be light on portions of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. Reasonably good rains are indicated on the Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina during August, with light to moderate patchy rains elsewhere. Generally poor rainfall is indicated during September. Moderate rains should occur in a large part of the State during October. Distribution: Showers are indicated on June 22 to 26. === Page 56 of 63 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) Geraldton Guardian DATE June 24. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730. SYDNEY. 2001 === Page 57 of 63 Thursday, June 26, 1980 -- THE LAND 55 SECTION 5 WOOL -- STOCK -- PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Heavy rain on NSW coast Heavy rains continued along the NSW coast during the past week with isolated lighter falls inland. Heaviest falls were recorded in the Northern Rivers district where 98mm fell at Cape Byron. Other falls in the area included 23mm at Yamba and 14mm at Casino. Most consistent rain fell on the Mid-north Coast. Top falls were 47mm at Comboyne, 39mm at Bulahdelah and 35mm at Forster and Port Macquarie. Newcastle headed the registrations in the Hunter with 47mm, followed by Williamtown with 32mm and Raymond Terrace with 26mm. The Illawarra and South Coast recorded light to moderate falls with a maximum of 14mm at Berry. Bateman's Bay followed with 11mm. On the Southwest Slopes, Khancoban topped with 12mm. The only other falls were four mm at Batlow, Cabramurra and Wagga. The Tablelands areas received general rains with most falls under 10mm. Top registrations included nine mm at Deepwater, seven mm at Emmaville, five mm at Thredbo and four mm at Orange and Wyangla. The only other region to record any rain was the Central West Slopes where Molong and Parkes received three mm and Forbes two mm. ## INTERSTATE RAINFALL Except for isolated heavy falls in Western Australia, the Continent remained mostly dry over the past week. Maximum fall in WA was 120mm at Nyang, with 46mm at Onslow, and 36mm at Carnarvon and Learmonth. **QUEENSLAND** North Coast (Barron) 10mm. North Coast (Herbert) 40, South Coast (Moreton) 7, Darling Downs (East) 3. **TASMANIA** Northern 18mm, East Coast 6, Midlands 8, Derwent Valley 1, Central Plateau 12, West Coast 27, King Island 28, Flinders Island 4. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Northwest 8mm, Western Agricultural 18, Upper North 6, North-East 1, Lower North 12, West Central 24, East Central 23, Murray Valley 8, Murray Mallee 7, Upper South-East 12, Lower South-East 17. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** West Kimberley 0.4mm, De Grey 9, Fortesque 32, West Gascoyne 12, East Gascoyne 22, Murchison 14, North Coastal 15, Central Coastal 22, South Coastal 23, Central North 7, Central South 5, Eucla 12, South Eastern 15, North Eastern 15. **VICTORIA** Mallee 5mm (Walpeup 10), Wimmera 9 (Halls Gap 39), Western 11 (Wecapromah 35), Northern 6 (Avoca 14), North Central 10 (Trentham 22), Central 10 (Gisborne 18), Northeast 7 (Mitta Mitta 19), Gippsland 3 (Inverloch 12), Metropolitan 11 (Box Hill 18). # The week's rainfall -- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 24, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Bogan Gate 1. **RIVERINA:** Darlington Pt. 1, Ardlethan 1, Ariah Park 2, Berrigan 4, Coolamon 1, Culcairn 1, Finley 1, Grong Grong 1, Jerilderie 2, Lockhart 1, Narrandera 2, Tocumwal 2, Urana 2. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Bendemeer 1, Woolbrook 2. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Cudal 3, Forbes 2, Manildra 1, Molong 3, Parkes 3. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 1, Burrinjuck Dam 2, Cootamundra 2, Gundagai 3, Wyalong 2, Young 1, Batlow 4, Cabramurra 4, Hume R'voir 1, Khancoban 12, Tarcutta 3, Tumbarumba 4, Tumut 2, Wagga 1, Wagga M.O. 4. **NORTHWEST TABLELANDS:** Armidale 1, Deepwater 9, Glen Innes 7, Guyra 1, Tenterfield 4, Bonalbo 2, Drake 2, Lower Creek 1. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 1, Katoomba 2, Lithgow 1, Mt. Victoria 2, Oberon 1, Orange Airport 4, Trunkey Ck. 3, Wyangala 3. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 1, Cooma 2, Crookwell 2, Frogmore 1, Nimmitabel 1, Taralga 1, Yass 2, Adam-inaby 2, Dalgety 2, Perisher Valley 4, Thredbo (C'back) 5. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 102, Casino 14, Grafton 2, Kyogle 4, Lismore 5, Mullumbimby 11, Murwillumbah 2, Tweed Heads 7, Yamba 23. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Bellingen 7, Coffs Hbr. M.O. 10, Dorrigo 21, Kempsey 9, Meldrum 8, Nambucca Hds. 9, Smoky Cape 23, Bulahdelah 39, Comboyne 49, Forster 44, Gloucester 18, Laurieton 49, Pt. Macquarie 35, Sugarloaf Pt. 34, Taree 14, Wauchope 23. **HUNTER:** Clarencetown 28, Dungog 21, Gosford 6, Gresford 19, Maryville 37, Murrurundi 2, N'castle (Nbys) 47, Norah Head 22, Paterson 12, Raymond Tce 26, Scone 2, Stroud 16, Williamt'n M.O. 34, Wyong 2. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 15, Bowral 2, Greenwell Pt. 6, Jervis Bay 14, Kiama 9, Robertson 6, Wollondilly 3, W'gong (Uni.) 3, Nowra (RAN) 7. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 11, Bodalla 2, Braidwood 1, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 8, Green Cape 1, Moruya Hds 4. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 6, Bankstown 1, Bexley 8, Bondi 9, Concord 4, Cronulla 1, Epping 4, Five Dock 1, Gordon 3, Hornsby 2, Hurstville 5, Mascot M.O. 5, Mosman 5, Newport Bch 11, Palm Beach 8, Pymble 4, Randwick 6, Sydney 8, Turramurra 4, Wahroonga 3, Waverton 7, West Lindfield 4, Auburn 2, Glenorie 3, Westmead 1. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. A large part of New South Wales should receive moderate rains during July, with the best falls on the Far North Coast. Light rains are indicated on part of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. The Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina should receive reasonably good rains during August, with light to moderate rains occurring in the balance of the State. Poor rainfall should occur during September, although moderate rains are indicated in many areas during October. Distribution: Showers are indicated in June 29. === Page 58 of 63 10 -- SPORT -- JUNE 29, 1980 COMMONWEALTH BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY # WEATHER A cold, strong and gusty south-westerly airstream is circulated between a low pressure system centred south of Tasmania and a high cell near the head of the Bight. This broad airflow has brought widespread shower activity and snowfalls to the ACT region in the wake of a front now in the Tasman Sea. Expected developments: Pressure systems are expected to move slowly eastwards. Cold, windy, showery conditions will persist for another day or so although showers should become confined to the higher parts of the ACT. Strong, gusty westerly winds will ease and conditions will clear as the high pressure approaches early in the week. Yesterday's weather: Rain eased to showers in the morning but mostly overcast conditions persisted over the region. Snowfalls were reported about the ACT ranges. Westerly winds were strong and gusty, and maximum temperature were a few degrees colder than average. Elsewhere: For the 6 hours to 3pm, mainly light scattered showers were reported in the southeast inland quarter of NSW, and local light showers were reported in the far west and coastal parts. Nil falls were reported elsewhere. The highest recorded registration was 17mm at Perisher Valley. Snowfalls occurred in the Central and Southern Tablelands and the Southwest Slopes. Temperatures ranged from below normal to well below normal in inland parts and near normal along coastal parts. Extremes of maxima were 23 degrees at Murwillumbah to minus 3 degrees at Perisher Valley. Northwest to southwest winds were chiefly moderate to fresh, but strong to gale force at times. CANBERRA YESTERDAY Temperature: 3am 4, 9am 3, 3pm 5, 9pm 5, max to 9am 11, 9am to 3pm 6. Minimum Screen 3. Grass -1. Humidity: 3am 87pc, 9am 81pc, 3pm 82pc, 9pm 70pc. Evaporation: 24 hours to 3pm 7.2mm. Rainfall: Average annual rainfall for past 40 years 633. Rainfall for 1979 398.4. Rainfall to date for 1980 257mm. Corresponding period 1979 213mm. Average for June 37mm. June rainfall for 1979 4.8mm. June rainfall to date 35.5mm. 24 hours ended 9am 25.6mm, 12 hours ended 9pm 3.0mm. Wind (km/h): 3am NNW/11, 9am NNW/19, 3pm N/19, 9pm NW/28. Maximum gust NW/78, at 0910. Barometer: 3am 1002, 9am 1001, 3pm 1000, 9pm 1001. FORECASTS FOR TODAY WARNINGS: A strong wind warning and a sheep weather alert are current. CANBERRA: Cold with fresh to strong westerly winds. Showers becoming confined to the ranges and falling as snow above 1000 metres. Forecast maximum: 9 degrees. Canberra Lakes: Westerly 20-25 knots. CAPITALS Forecasts | City | Max | |---|---| | Sydney, windy | 15 | | Melbourne, showers | 12 | | Brisbane, fine, windy | 20 | | Adelaide, showers | 14 | | Perth, fine | 19 | | Hobart, showers | 10 | | Darwin, fine | 32 | Yesterday's temperatures and humidity | City | Max | Hum 3pm | 9am | 3pm | pc | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Canberra | 6 | 3 | 81 | 82 | | | Sydney | 15 | 11 | 47 | 44 | | | Melbourne | 12 | 7 | 71 | 62 | | | Brisbane | 22 | 15 | 64 | 38 | | | Adelaide | 15 | 7 | 76 | 82 | | | Perth | 16 | 5 | 76 | 39 | | | Hobart | 9 | 8 | 93 | 100 | | | Darwin | 30 | 21 | 74 | 46 | | The cloud pattern over Australia at 2.20pm yesterday # The world NEW YORK, Saturday (AAP-AP). -- Weather yesterday: | City | Min | Max | |---|---|---| | Hong Kong, rain | 26 | 29 | | London, variable | 10 | 20 | | New York, cloudy | 21 | 28 | | Paris, cloudy | 11 | 17 | | Rome, clear | 19 | 27 | | Singapore, cloudy | 26 | 32 | | Tokyo, cloudy | 23 | 28 | | Toronto, cloudy | 19 | 29 | Amsterdam cloudy 15 19, Athens clear 24 34, Bahrain clear 30 37, Bangkok clear 28 31, Beirut unavailable, Belgrade rain 15 22, Berlin cloudy 10 17, Bogota rain 10 17, Brussels cloudy 5 20, Buenos Aires clear 8 13, Cairo clear 22 38, Caracas clear 20 29, Chicago cloudy 19 33, Copenhagen clear 11 18, Curitiba clear 6 14, Denpasar clear 24 34, Dublin clear 8 19, Frankfurt rain 11 18, Geneva rain 10 16, Helsinki cloudy 14 19, Honolulu clear 22 30, Jakarta clear 25 34, Jerusalem clear 19 32, Johannesburg clear 6 19. Kiev clear 11 22, Kuala Lumpur cloudy 24 32, Lima cloudy 15 18, Lisbon clear 12 25, Los Angeles clear 19 32, Madrid clear 11 27, Manila cloudy 23 33, Mexico City cloudy 12 23, Miami rain 23 32, Montreal cloudy 22 28, Moscow clear 14 25, New Delhi cloudy 25 34, Nicosia clear 22 41, Oslo cloudy 11 15, Rio de Janeiro rain 16 28, San Francisco clear 12 21, San Juan cloudy 26 33, Sao Paulo cloudy 14 15, Seoul cloudy 17 24, Stockholm cloudy 14 18, Sydney cloudy 10 18. UNSPORTING WEATHER # Rain plays havoc with fixtures Rain seriously affected local sporting fixtures yesterday, causing many cancellations and postponements. All Canberra League soccer games, except those played in Cooma, and all junior league soccer were cancelled. All junior Australian football matches were cancelled. Junior rugby union grades seven to 11 were called off, but all other games were played. The Marist College first XV match against Daramalan College was cancelled. Canberra district minor rugby league under-14 representative training was cancelled. Schools cross country were cancelled and the schools' cross country competition at Lotus Bay was cancelled. All senior women's hockey games were postponed, but today's games will be played. They have been transferred to the Deakin Mint playing fields. All junior boys' hockey was cancelled. All grades of Belconnen netball were cancelled, as well as all matches that were to be played at Southwell Park. The Canberra Greyhound Club made late arrangements to run a small fixture yesterday to enable interstate bookeepers to field. Training for the Canberra South Marching girls' teams was cancelled. The second round of the AWA Clarion-Polymedia sprint rally series, which was to be held at Blewitts Pine Forest today, has been postponed. === Page 59 of 63 Australia June 29, 1980 # Canberra Times # Winds bring rain and snow to the ACT ## Woman dies in storm Winds gusting up to 45 knots brought snow and plenty of rain to Canberra, Queanbeyan and the high country yesterday. Sheep-weather, high-wind and road-weather warnings were issued last night and a spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology forecast continuing cold and wind with snow in the higher parts of the Territory. In Canberra a maximum temperature of 9 degrees is expected today. The bureau reported that 1.2mm of rain had fallen over Canberra between 9am and 3pm yesterday and snow had fallen at Orroral Valley, Honeysuckle Creek and North Belconnen. "I can guarantee you it won't stay on the ground", he said, but it might be visible on the hills around the city if conditions were good. Falling trees caused minor damage to two houses in Warramanga and Wanniassa during strong wind about 9pm on Friday, Canberra police said. Snow was falling around the Kosciusko Chalet yesterday afternoon and the verdict from a spokesman there was, "It'll certainly last. It's just a little difficult getting out the back door." Forty-five centimetres of snow and winds gusting up to 45 knots had been recorded. The Basin Poma and Pulpit T-bar lifts were both operating. A 34 year-old woman was killed instantly on the South Coast yesterday when she was struck by the bough of a tree which broke off during a wind storm. She was working with her husband on the property they own at East Lynne, a small town north of Batemans Bay, when the storm began. The police at Batemans Bay said last night they could not issue her name until her relations travelling overseas had been informed of her death. Despite the wind, many people ventured out on the slopes and several of the area's nine lodges were full. The word from Perisher was similar. The snow "hasn't stopped all day it's unbelievable. Hopefully it'll keep up for a while". There was "heaps of snow" (40cm) and "quite a few" people skiing. The Mitchell, Bass, Flinders and Sturt lifts were all operating as were the Burke, Captain Cook and Scott lifts at Smiggin Holes. Thredbo, too, got its share. There was 25 to 30cm of new-packed snow and chains were needed 10 kilometres out of Jindabyne. Graders had been working clearing roads since the fall began during the night. Chains were required on the Kosciusko Road from Waste Point to Perisher, on the Alpine Way from Penderlea to Thredbo Village, on the Guthega Road from Island Bend turn-off to Guthega and on the Snowy Mountains Highway from Adaminaby to Talbingo. The Alpine Way was closed from the Khancoban end, the Smiggin Holes to Perisher creek link road was closed to all traffic, as was the Cabramurra-Khancoban road. These conditions could change at any time and travellers were advised to check with the Cooma Visitors Centre for reports of the latest conditions. Canberra police said yesterday afternoon that the Mount Franklin road was closed at Condor Creek and was impassable in some areas, even for four-wheel drive vehicles, and the Corin Dam road was closed at its intersection with the Tidbinbilla road. Both roads were covered in snow and dangerous and people were warned to stay away. The Boboyan road was also closed due to deep snow. The Canberra races, and junior soccer, junior Australian football and junior boys' hockey matches were cancelled yesterday because of the weather. 'Going to the dogs'. -- Sport 1; 'Unsporting weather'. -- Sport 5 === Page 60 of 63 - World "Power" & Rain Attack - 12 SPORT - JUNE 29, 1980 Canberra Times Australia # Rainy days Sad sight at Canberra races yesterday - the betting ring deserted after the day's racing had been cancelled because of heavy rain. === Page 61 of 63 # High winds maul Blue Mountains Canberra Times, June 30, 1980 Australia SYDNEY: Westerly winds reaching 100km/h flattened fences, tore down powerlines and trees and unroofed at least 70 houses in the Blue Mountains yesterday. In a day of howling winds and of huge seas off the NSW coast: A state of emergency was proclaimed covering the Blue Mountains towns of Katoomba, Leura, Blackheath and Medlow Baths. At least 96 calls for help were answered by State Emergency Services teams. Six men, two injured, were rescued by a container ship off Terrigal, central NSW coast, when the seas threatened to sink their powerless 11-metre trawler. A man was drowned and another was rescued when they fell into the swollen seas off Sydney beaches. Civil-emergency rescue teams in the Blue Mountains estimated last night that damage would reach tens of thousands of dollars. A Katoomba Council spokesman said last night, "The winds blew hard in the morning and then came these huge, sustained gusts exceeding 100km/h. Tiles just flew everywhere and sheets of iron and timber went sailing into backyards and on to footpaths and streets. "We lost power for most of the day and even tonight complete power won't be on until the morning. Literally dozens of power lines came down and crews from the electricity department will have to work flat out for hours yet". Most damage was done to Wentworth Falls, Katoomba and Blackheath. Dozens of homes, shops and buildings were unroofed and windows smashed. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to the elegant Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Baths. At the Assembly of God Bible College at Katoomba students ducked for cover and sprinted inside as trees were blown over. A big section of the college roof was sent flying into the quadrangle within seconds, narrowly missing the running students. More than 20 girls were sleeping in their rooms at the college when the wind began tearing at the roof. "The roof was going up and down and we knew it was going to come off", the college administrator, Mr Henry Baskerville, 57, said. "We evacuated the girls downstairs to a safer place but all we could do was sit and wait". Part of the roof and porch of the Blue Danube Motel in Katoomba collapsed about 7.30am as guests began sitting down for breakfast. "There was a big bang and the power went off", one of the proprietors, Mrs Lilly Ujvary, said. The State emergency controller for the Blue Mountains, Mr David Sanson said, "We had to get one elderly couple from a house in Tablelands Road, Wentworth Falls, because the windows had blown in. The whole place was vibrating in the wind and we thought it was going to come down". The police reported that the Great Western Highway between Katoomba and Mount Victoria had been closed several times during the day because of fallen power lines and uprooted trees. Mr Sanson said the only people injured were two SES workers who had suffered minor abrasions when part of a garage wall collapsed on them as they were trying to secure the roof of a house in Wentworth Falls. Six rescued as trawler sinks. -- Page 3. === Page 62 of 63 Canberra Times To serve the National City and through it the Nation (AUSTRALIA) MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1980 18 Pages, plus TV-Radio Guide liftout. Price 20 The moods at ski resorts last night were mixed - some jubilant about the heavy snow falls, but others exhausted after a chaotic weekend clearing roads and rescuing people. Police and rangers were searching last night for the rider of a motor cycle found abandoned about 5.30pm yesterday on the Alpine Way, near Pilots Lookout. Jindabyne police said last night that the bike, registered in Queensland, had keys in the ignition and carried some of the rider's personal belongings. Poor visibility and 60-knot winds caused buses to slide off the road and a few minor accidents. A spokesman for the Kosciusko National Park said conditions were "pretty bad" and labelled the people who moved around in the area as "slightly insane". A spokesman for the Cooma Visitors Centre said it was the worst blizzard in the mountains for eight years. Mr Walter Spannering, of Guthega, said last night it was a "dull picture" with 60 people, including 30 adults from the Canberra YMCA, staying there last night unable to get out. A family from Croydon Park, Sydney, Mr and Mrs Gleb Kondakows, and their two children, finally arrived at Guthega at 10.30pm on Saturday night after leaving Sydney at 4.30am. Last night Mrs Lydia Kondakows, still trapped at Guthega, said it was an "experience of a lifetime". The family had reached the park gates at 1pm on Saturday and had been told the road was open but chains were required. But, about an hour later, their car had got stuck near the cross-section of the Links and Guthega roads. Mr Spannering had come down to them at 4pm and had gone on to Jindabyne to seek help from the Department of Main Roads, which operates the Sno-cats in the area. He had returned at 5pm but there was still no Sno-cat. He had given the family a lift in his utility, but it, too, had got stuck. Three of the men then walked nearly seven kilometres in blizzard conditions to Guthega. They had returned to the family with Mr Spannering's Sno-cat. At the same time a DMR Sno-cat also arrived. The family had arrived at Guthega about 18 hours after leaving Sydney. Their car is still abandoned on the road. A spokesman for Thredbo, Mr Ludwig Rabina, was more enthusiastic about the weekend, describing it as "bloody fantastic". There was about 45 centimetres of snow in the village and he predicted beautiful skiing when the weather cleared. Operators at Perisher and Thredbo have been packing the snow all weekend, but both resorts reported a quiet weekend, with about 500 visitors each. A spokesman for Perisher, Mr Harold Droga, said there was about 90 centimetres of snow in the valley. The Alpine Way was closed between Thredbo and Khancoban and chains were needed from Penderlea to Thredbo. Similarly, on the Kosciusko road chains were needed from Wilsons Valley to Perisher and on the Snowy Mountains Highway from Adaminaby to Talbingo. The Guthega road was closed from the power station to Guthega, but it was expected to open late last night. The Smiggin Holes to Perisher link road and the Cabramurra-Khancoban roads were closed. A woman killed when the bough of a tree she was sitting under fell on her at a property at East Lynne, about 20 kilometres north of Batemans Bay on Saturday, was Mrs Janette Clayton, 34, of East Ryde, Sydney, police report. Her husband, Mr John Clayton, 46, was knocked unconscious by the bough. When he regained consciousness, he took his wife to Batemans Bay Hospital, but she was dead on arrival. The couple had been clearing land on the property and were taking a spell when a storm struck. === Page 63 of 63 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - # Graziers facing stock losses By FRANK LONGHURST Canberra Times June 30, 1980 Australia # No power 'till today' Power could not be restored to the Brindabellas until today because "there was too much snow and it was too dangerous", a spokesman for the ACT Electricity Authority said late last night. The electricity was cut off at 3.55am yesterday. Mr Peter Dowling, of 'Brindabella' station, said the road was closed from Piccadilly Circus, where there was 30 centimetres of snow, to Mount Franklin, where there was 60 centimetres of snow. Graziers in the ACT and surrounding districts are expecting to lose from 10 to 15 per cent of their livestock if the weather of the past couple of days continues for a day or two. The most vulnerable stock are early lambs, new-shorn sheep and pregnant ewes. Graziers will find little comfort in the forecast for today, which predicts showers, falling as snow in the higher parts of the ACT, with cold, fresh to strong westerly winds and a maximum of 10 degrees after an overnight minimum of three degrees. The Weather Bureau has issued a sheep-weather alert for today. No stock losses were reported by district graziers over the weekend although sheep-weather alerts had been issued. Mr Richard Glover, grazier, of Bowning, said last night that the cold snap over the weekend was beginning to cause problems as some graziers in the area had already begun shearing and the shorn sheep now had to be sheltered. He expected the shearing season, which normally began in the first week in July, to be held up by at least a week as sheep which were penned awaiting shearing had to be turned out until the weather improved. No lamb losses were reported as the lambing season had not yet begun, but pregnant ewes were being sheltered and handfed. Mr Glover said there would be "significant losses in shorn sheep and early lambs if this weather continues for another day or two. "The continuous sleet and rain with cold wind all day is the type of weather that kills stock, as they will not move around to feed but stay in one spot all day". Other graziers in the ACT and surrounding districts expressed fears for stock if the rain and cold winds persisted. Widespread hand-feeding will be necessary over the next few days and beyond if the weather does not improve. In Canberra, storm damage was limited to fallen trees - 12 across roads - power-line breaks and some roof tiles lifted in Belconnen, Watson and Downer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8008 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e39264f8713c936509134668705a8eec.pdf 4c3891654193075104bd0e9a2b9ef4ff https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/89b947dbf867889e75ac4c1a6986dad1.txt 65c4019b876877630e0469d178f86246 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY. DROUGHT REVIEW AUSTRALIA NUMBER 120 Issued July 1980 I got this in my other job and saved it for some other time. It is a classic. It has done more to help me understand himself than anything else I have read. It is as rare as England! "Get lost, Owens." Ted === Page 2 of 5 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY GPO Box 1289K MELBOURNE VIC 3001 STATEMENT ON DROUGHT ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY ON 8 JULY 1980 The Director of Meteorology, Dr J.W. Zillman, said today that on the basis of the five-month period ending 30 June 1980 only a few relatively small pockets of severe rainfall deficiency remain in Australia. Parts of the Northwest Plains, in the vicinity of Moree, New South Wales, constitute one such area; the other is made up of the southern section of the New South Wales South Coast and parts of East Gippsland and northeastern Victoria. On the basis of a three-month period, on the other hand, a small area around Corrigin and Kondindin, in South Central Western Australia, is also in a severely deficient rainfall situation. In addition to the above, some areas of the country continue to be in a state of serious rainfall deficiency. Rainfall in June over most of Queensland - except for parts of the North Coast - was much below average. This has lengthened the period of serious deficiency in the southwest of that State. In New South Wales, much of the Hunter district and a small area of the Northwest Slopes are in a similar condition for the five-month period, despite near average June rainfall. Much of the New South Wales Northwest Plains, and extending over the border into Queensland's West Darling Downs, is also seriously deficient in rainfall, on this basis. Further south, serious deficiencies continue on the South Coast and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and in northeastern Victoria. In contrast to the areas of rainfall deficiency, parts of Australia received rainfall that was very much above average for June. Most significantly, the De Grey, Fortescue and Gascoyne districts in Western Australia were in this category, and damaging floods occurred at Carnarvon. Rainfall was also very much above average for June in the Southeast of Western Australia, in the Lower North of South Australia, and in East Central Victoria. The map shows the extent and severity of rainfall deficiencies at the end of June, while the tables provide statistics of rainfall in and near the affected areas. === Page 3 of 5 INTRODUCTION In June average to well above average rainfall occurred over most of southeastern Australia, much of which was associated with a storm towards the end of the month. Falls over the far southeast of New South Wales were, however, very much below average. In Western Australia rain bearing systems that moved southeastwards across the upper west coast caused very much above average June rains in the Fortescue, West Gascoyne, Murchison and Southeast districts. In the southwest of the State, the month's rainfall was about average apart from a below average amount in the North Central district. June rainfall was well below average over most of Queensland and extending into inland northern New South Wales. Greater than average rainfall for the three months (April to June) was received over a wide area of country extending from the northwest coast of Western Australia, across the interior of that State, and through South Australia into western New South Wales and northwestern Victoria. The West Gascoyne and Murchison districts of Western Australia received record amounts of rain for this period. Heavy rain in May resulted in greater than average falls for the three months April to June between Bundaberg and Port Macquarie. Elsewhere in southern Australia the three months' rainfall totals were chiefly about average, the main exception being the very much below average totals over the extreme southeast corner of the continent. Very much below average rainfall totals for this period were also recorded in Queensland's Far Southwest district. Western Australia In June very much above average rains occurred in the Fortescue, West Gascoyne, Murchison and Southeast districts. The Kimberleys were rainless, which is usual for June. Elsewhere the month's rainfall was average or above, except for a below average amount in the North Central district. The three-month rainfall, April to June, showed a similar pattern. There was an extensive area of very much above average rainfall extending from the northwest coast across the interior with the West Gascoyne and Murchison districts receiving record amounts. In the North Central district, rainfall was much below average for this period. Northern Territory In June the usual rainless conditions were experienced in the southern areas except for some isolated rain around Nhulunbuy in the Arnhem district. The Alice Springs district received some light falls. The three month's rainfall, April to June, varied from above average in the Roper-McArthur and Alice Springs districts to below average in the Arnhem and Victoria districts. === Page 4 of 5 South Australia June rainfall was mostly above average with well above average amounts in the Upper and Lower North, West Central, Murray Valley and Murray Mallee districts. For the three months rainfall totals were above average throughout except for average totals in the Lower Southeast district. Districts recording very much above average totals were the Far North and the Lower North. Queensland June rainfall was well below average, being rainless in many districts, the only exceptions to this being the average to above average totals recorded in the South Peninsula and North Coast districts. Rainfall for the three months varied from above average in the Herbert, East Central Coast, and Moreton districts to very much below average in the North Peninsula and the Far Southwest districts. New South Wales June rainfall was mostly about average. However much above average totals were recorded in the Lower Darling district and very much below average totals were recorded in the Northwest Plains (East), South Coast and Snowy Mountains districts. The three-monthly rainfall was also mostly average. However, the Lower Darling and Northern Tablelands (East) districts received very much above average amounts for this period, while the South Coast and Snowy Mountains received very much below average amounts. Victoria All districts received average or better than average rainfall for June. Very much above average totals were recorded in the East Central district. The three-monthly rainfall was well above average over most of the west of the State and average elsewhere. Nevertheless, very much below average totals were recorded in East Gippsland. Tasmania June rainfall was average, except for a below average amount in the Derwent Valley district. The three-monthly totals were average in all districts except Midlands and Southeast where totals were below average. === Page 5 of 5 QLD Windorah ● Hungerford ● Goondiwindi ● BRISBANE Walgett ● Tamworth ● SA NSW Merriwa ● Wyong ● SYDNEY ADELAIDE ● CANBERRA ● Beechworth ● VIC MELBOURNE ● Sale ● Launceston ● TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies based on a selected network of telegraphic reporting stations. Serious Deficiency Severe Deficiency Rainfall deficiencies 5 months 1 February - 30 June 1980 Rainfall deficiencies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 46 Jeffrey - "Power" and Rain Attack - July, 1980 # Violent wind buffets Utah; SW roasting Oregon Journal By United Press International A squall line of violent wind clocked at up to 70 mph shocked Salt Lake City, tearing a gaping hole in the copper dome of the state Capitol, downing trees and causing an undetermined number of power outages. In the Southwest, where the oppressive heat wave again baked a three-state section of the Sun Belt, authorities said the record temperatures are linked to as many as 51 deaths and forecasters said a tropical storm may be needed to blow the deadly high pressure system out of the area. High wind blew into Salt Lake City at about 5 p.m. Monday, uprooting trees and shattering windows in buildings. A number of minor injuries were attributed to the gale. Utah Gov. Scott Matheson said the damage to the state Capitol was so extensive the entire copper dome topping the building probably will have to be replaced. The wind ripped through the metal covering, exposing the wooden framework beneath the copper panels. A Utah Power & Light Co. spokesman said the heavy wind and lightning produced by the squall "played havoc" with the utility's distribution system. Medical authorities were able to confirm heat was the primary cause of 27 deaths in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, most of them elderly people without air conditioning, and it appeared to be a contributing factor in another 28. The searing heat also killed 3½ million chickens in Arkansas, curtailed activities at children's summer camps in Texas and filled transient emergency shelters in Dallas beyond capacity. In Dallas-Fort Worth, a record high of 105 Monday made it the hottest June since 1898, when the National Weather Service first began keeping records, and a spokesman said the outlook for the next two weeks is grimly familiar -- "above normal temperatures and no precipitation." Showers were scattered across the western half of the nation early Tuesday, reaching from the Great Basin and Southern Plateau through the Central Rockies and into Northern Minnesota. Strong wind ripped through Hayes, S.D., and hail peppered Kanosh in Western Utah. Kanosh also received more than an inch of rain in less than an hour. Skies were clear over most of the Pacific Northwest and the southern half of the nation while clouds covered New England, parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. Repair crews worked Monday to restore power to about 31,000 utility customers left in the dark by storms in Maryland and by the worst storms to hit parts of Southern Illinois in two decades. UPI BREEZY -- Wind up to 70 miles an hour Monday ripped away a large portion of the copper sheathing from the dome of the Utah State Capitol. Gov. Scott Matheson said the dome is so badly damaged it probably will have to be replaced. === Page 2 of 46 # Encounters of the first kind in the Manly area To a growing number of people UFOs are more than pie-in-the-sky optical illusions easily explained as meteors, weather balloons and headlights on clouds. Particularly in Manly-Warringah, which is right in the thick of things. Manly-Warringah has one of the highest percentages of sightings in Australia, says Frank Wilks, president of UFO Projects of Australasia. "It has more sightings than can be accounted for by the number of people in the area," he said. "Most sightings in Australia are on the east coast, where the bulk of the population is, but places like Frenchs Forest, Narrabeen and Palm Beach have had more than their fair share of sightings over the years." One of the latest sightings was by people in Bambara Road, Frenchs Forest. Last Saturday night something that looked like a smoke ring, with lights around the edge, hovered over the street then moved off slowly. It was seen by about 10 people. By Harriet Veitch Mr Wilks is investigating it. "I try to get to every sighting I hear of," he said. "Mind you, I've had some nuts over the years and I no longer jump out of bed at 3 am." "For some reason there are many good sightings in Manly-Warringah and off the coast there." "Not just strange lights in the sky, but things that can be called unidentified flying objects." According to Mr Wilks most UFOs around are seen moving along "lines" above the ground, as though they were following a road. Mr Wilks and some friends have plotted a line, roughly north/south, along the east coast of Australia, but he does not know why Manly-Warringah seems to have been singled out by whatever UFOs are. To Page 7 # UFO 'sighted' over street From Page 5 "Manly-Warringah has had some of the most interesting sightings in Australia," Mr Wilks said. "Years ago someone saw a strange creature cross the road in Narrabeen; in the 1960s a draughtsman sketched a UFO he had seen on a beach and there have been some good sightings off the coast." "There was one where a fisherman went out to investigate some lights because he thought someone was in trouble." "The sea was very rough but where the lights had been was a circle of calm water. His radio wouldn't work but his diesel engine did." "For some reason we aren't sure of, UFOs stop petrol engines but not diesels. It has probably something to do with the electrical system." When Mr Wilks investigates a sighting he works backwards, trying to work out how something was caused, rather than assuming something was there to cause it. He likens the calm water to the way water is flattened by the down-draught of a helicopter, but there was no helicopter around. Mr Wilks thinks there may have been a UFO above the fisherman, and its force-field was holding down the water. "UFOs seem to have some sort of force-field that prevents them hitting things; they appear to deflect around objects then get straight back on course," he said. The RAAF also takes reports of UFOs and investigates them, and will investigate the latest Frenchs Forest sighting. Mr Wilks says the RAAF often amuses him with its explanations offered for UFOs. "Usually the air force says it was a weather balloon or a meteor," he said. "Once it said both to two separate people about the same sighting." === Page 3 of 46 ## "Power & Rain Attack" TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1980 Oregonian Associated Press Laserphoto TORNADO STRIKES -- Residents of trailer park in Aberdeen, Md., inspect rubble after tornado struck Sunday, injuring 10 residents and wrapping one home around a telephone pole. # Tornado damage heavy; 35 injured BALTIMORE (AP) -- A string of hurricane-force thunderstorms and apparent tornadoes that whipped across Maryland caused millions of dollars worth of damage, authorities said Monday. Electricity was still out to more than 29,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area, which appeared to have sustained most of the damage from Sunday's storms. At least 35 people were injured in storms that packed winds gusting up to 90 mph, police and hospital officials said. The most seriously hurt, Patricia Taylor, 28, of Baltimore, was listed in fair condition with back injuries. She was injured when a tree fell on her car. National Weather Service teams were inspecting debris and damage in parts of Baltimore and in Baltimore and Howard counties to see if the storms actually were tornadoes. Baltimore Public Works Director Frank Kuchta estimated that damage from the storms in the city alone totaled several million dollars. At the Baltimore Zoo, where five people were injured when an apparent tornado touched down in the children's section, workers from the city Forestry Service cut up large trees toppled by the winds. Associated Press and United Press International "Power and Rain Attack" # Storm damage extensive in Maryland BALTIMORE (AP) -- A string of hurricane-force thunderstorms and apparent tornadoes that whipped across Maryland caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Electricity was still out to more than 29,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area, which appeared to have suffered most of the damage from Sunday's storms. At least 35 people were injured in storms that packed winds gusting up to 90 miles an hour. The most seriously hurt, Patricia Taylor, 28, of Baltimore, was listed in fair condition with back injuries. Seattle Times 7/1/80 The Southwest's worst heat wave in more than 25 years continued to take a heavy toll yesterday, with at least 61 deaths blamed on the triple-digit temperatures, crops withering in the fields and timberland going up in smoke. Fires racing through parched forests in Colorado and Arizona had blackened more than 36,000 acres. Poultry farmers in Arkansas, where millions of chickens died in sweltering coops, predicted losses could reach $5 million. Cows in Texas reportedly were giving less milk than normal. The mercury surged again in Texas, where temperatures over the weekend set new records. Wichita Falls recorded 110 degrees. It was 105 degrees at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 102 at El Paso, 100 in Lubbock and Abilene and 103 in Waco. Readings generally were three to four degrees higher Sunday. The mercury has topped 100 degrees in most Texas cities for more than a week, about three weeks in El Paso. Wichita Falls recorded 117 on Saturday, Dallas had two straight days at 113, flanked by two days at 112. Similar highs were reached in Oklahoma, where forecasters called it the worst heat wave since 1953. Texas medical examiners say heat stroke has claimed 10 victims and the deaths of 35 other people were potentially related to the heat. In the Texas heat wave of July 1978, 24 people died of heat-related causes. Doctors in Oklahoma said eight people had succumbed to the heat in that state, including a young Army officer who collapsed on a training field at Fort Sill and died early yesterday at a hospital. Health officials in Arkansas, counted eight victims of the heat, including six who died of heat stroke. In Dallas County, Texas, where 30 of the heat-related deaths were reported, the ages of the victims ranged from 6 months to 103 years. But the infant was the only victim under 50. Texans were urged to stay out of the blazing sun and keep their air conditioners or fans going. The Dallas Power & Light Co. said people who need air-conditioning to stay healthy should not turn off the cooling units to save on electric bills. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported that a highway near Drumright, Okla., had buckled due to extreme heat. A spokesman said State Highway 99 had warped -- with a strip of pavement about 24 feet wide and 3 feet long rising to a height of almost 4 feet. === Page 4 of 46 - Power and Rain Attack - # Thunderstorms, tornadoes sweep through Missouri KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Thunderstorms packing 80 mph winds and spawning at least five tornadoes swept across central and eastern Missouri Wednesday, unroofing businesses in Cuba and damaging a hospital in Festus. At Osage Beach, officials said Greg Deffenbaugh, 8, was seriously injured when high winds tore the roof off a wing of his parents' motel and dropped it on him. He was transferred to a Columbia hospital after surgery at Lake of the Ozarks hospital. Other minor injuries were reported at the hotel, which authorities said was heavily damaged. In Festus, patients at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital had been evacuated to hallways when the storm struck. "We had 10 or 12 windows blown out, some in areas where patients had been," said Mary Bean, evening supervisor. "And our southeast roof is damaged -- some of it is off." The National Weather Service said a small tornado touched down at Cuba in Crawford County, a second was sighted near Gerald in Franklin County and a third at Vineland in Jefferson County. Paul Wilcox of radio station KTUI was in Bourbon when a tornado touched down. "I saw people's faces go from smiles at having some rain to horror when it got black," he said. "It got black as midnight." Oregonian 7/3/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Thunderstorms kill two Oregon Journal 7/3/80 By United Press International At least two persons were killed in violent thunderstorms packing winds up to 80 mph that struck five states, stripping off roofs, overturning mobile homes, knocking out power and almost causing a mine disaster. Looting was reported in Missouri and Illinois. The relentless Sun Belt heat wave, blamed for 120 deaths, moved into its 11th day Thursday, forcing water rationing in some areas. Parts of southern Illinois were devastated Wednesday by the second major storm siege in less than a week. State disaster officials estimated Wednesday's storm damage at $15-$20 million. Looting was reported in West Frankfort, Ill., and much of a six-county area was under curfew. Gayla Musgraves, 7, drowned while boating with her family in Lake Kinkaid near Murphysboro, Ill. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through portions of Kentucky, claiming the life of Frank Bishop, 32, who was killed by a tree that fell on his mobile home in Edmundson County. In Missouri, high winds blew a motel roof into a swimming pool and a 9-year-old boy was seriously injured. Scattered looting was reported in Festus. Storm winds gusted to 80 mph in both southern Indiana and Illinois. About 200 miners were trapped in the Ziegler No. 4 mine east of Johnston City, Ill., because of a power failure. The men got out safely when emergency power equipment was brought in to assist them. KSGM radio station announcer Bob Scott stayed on the air while the storm roared through Chester, Ill. "I've never been scared before but I was scared today," he said. "I looked out a picture window and saw the new metal roof of Randolph County Courthouse blow off in huge sheets -- some of it hitting the side of our building." Dozens of mobile homes were overturned and hospital spokesmen reported 55 persons injured in Carbondale and Murphysboro, where officials scrambled to find emergency housing for homeless storm victims. === Page 5 of 46 Town left powerless by twister 7/5/80 SULLIVAN, Mo. (AP) -- Two days after a tornado touched down nearby, the lights were still out in this central Missouri town on Friday. So were the freezers, refrigerators and air-conditioners. "Everything that I had in the refrigerator has been spoiled," said Barbara Snider. "I really thought the power would be on by the next morning." Widespread outages were reported Wednesday in the wake of a severe thunderstorm that lashed eastern Missouri and Illinois. One tornado spawned by the storm touched down in Cuba, about 16 miles west of Sullivan, causing an estimated $5 million damage. At the request of Gov. Joseph Teasdale, state disaster officials toured the area to see what could be done. But Cuba Mayor Carl Hunt was not optimistic about getting state aid. "They didn't seem to think we were bad enough," said the mayor Friday. "And I've got news for them: they don't know what they're doing, as usual." Many people have found friends with power and stored their perishable food. Severe storms rip Midlands; eight perish 7/4/80 By United Press International Thunderstorms that lashed a wide area of the nation's midsection were blamed for at least eight deaths and 100 injuries. National Guard troops were ordered to duty to guard against looting in storm-ravaged sections of Illinois and Missouri. Scattered showers and thunderstorms were reported early Friday from Nebraska to the Dakotas. A tornado touched down near Selby, S.D., 20 miles east of Mobridge, late Thursday and wind damage was reported to the south at Akaska. Wind gusting to 70 mph was reported in other parts of the state. High wind whipped Miles City, Mont., and golfball-size hail battered Liberal, Kan. Showers also were reported over parts of Wisconsin and Illinois and as far south as northwest Texas and central Kansas. Widely scattered showers dampened the Atlantic Coast and the Pacific Northwest. A twin-engine plane crashed in a thunderstorm Thursday at Rockford, Tenn., killing all five persons aboard, authorities said. Civil Air Patrol spokesman Frank Thornburg said the plane was en route to Troy-Oakland Airport near Detroit from St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport in Florida. One death was reported in Illinois, one in Kentucky, and another in Indiana as a result of thunderstorms. Looting plagued sections of Illinois and Missouri and National Guard troops were ordered to duty. Curfews were imposed in some areas. Estimates of storm damage in Illinois alone ran to $20 million. (Related story on page 25) === Page 6 of 46 this is the big one!! They now know!! Owens "Power" and Rain Attack Balky reactor spurs call for shutdown tests By STAN BENJAMIN Oregonian 7/4/80 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided Thursday to order test shutdowns of 24 nuclear power plants in an effort to find out why an Alabama plant mysteriously balked during a routine shutdown last weekend. Victor Stello, the NRC's director of inspection and enforcement, told the commission that the reactor -- Browns Ferry Unit 3 -- was brought to near-zero power generation despite the malfunction and there was no risk of an accident. But the unexpected, and still unexplained, shutdown failure raised concern in the NRC because of the vital importance of the mechanisms which control a reactor's power production and which are relied on to shut it down instantly in an emergency. Further tests and studies will be conducted on the Alabama reactor this weekend in an effort to determine the cause of the malfunction, he said. On Monday, the NRC staff will telephone the operators of the 24 other boiling water reactors around the nation and tell them how to test their shutdown mechanisms. No Oregon or Washington plants will be included in the test shutdown. Stello said the staff may order both manual and automatic shutdowns, from low-power levels, to make sure the systems are working properly and to gather detailed information which might help explain the Browns Ferry failure. Such tests, he said, would take each reactor out of operation for about 2½ days. According to an account of the Browns Ferry incident given by Stello: Last Saturday, Browns Ferry Unit 3 near Decatur, Ala., underwent a routine, gradual shutdown for maintenance. Operators reduced its power level to 30 percent of full power and then threw the "scram" switch to complete the shutdown. Control rods should have slid quickly into the reactor among its radioactive fuel rods, interrupting the exchange of atomic particles -- neutrons -- which creates the power-producing "chain reaction." The rods slid into place in one-half of the reactor. In the other half, 13 control rods slid completely into place while 76 others moved only partially into position. The operators hit the switch again and 16 more rods moved completely into place. Another try, and 22 more rods moved into position. When the operators prepared for another try, a water level sensor took over and automatically triggered still another "scram" which finally moved the rest of the rods into place -- 12 minutes after the first attempt. In an emergency or accident requiring rapid shutdown, the loss of 12 minutes could create serious problems, even worse, until the malfunction is explained, the possibility remains that whatever caused it could on another occasion interfere more severely with the control rods. But in such an unlikely case, a reactor still can be shut down by injecting into its cooling water a "poisoning" chemical that stops the chain reaction even without the control rods. Note: my psi-force attack to knock out "power" and cause rainstorms... has been so successful that the Fed NRC, noting nuclear plants being knocked out all over the U.S., is shutting down 24 nuclear plants in order for tests to be held. Note the words "mysteriously" and "unexpected" above. Owens === Page 7 of 46 the people speak Oregon Journal July 4, 1980 # Let's stop scare talk about ash A few days ago I heard a reporter say that Gov. Atiyeh is declaring the state of Oregon a disaster area. The Oregon Journal June 13 sketch, showing the ashfall zone after the June 12 eruption, shows that ash fell on a small part of the northwest corner of Oregon only. The tremendous publicity about the ash problem in Portland and the governor's declaration have given the rest of the country the idea that the state of Oregon is covered with ash. Recently I talked on the phone with my sister from another state. When I mentioned that we were planning to cut firewood in the forest, she said "How can you in all that ash?" My opinion is that 90 percent of the state is ash free. The campgrounds are clean. It appears that people involved with the Portland area see that area as Oregon state. I have seen nothing in the newspapers or heard nothing on TV news saying that most of Oregon is untouched by ash. Why not mention that, too? Barbara Weir 4785 Hutson Drive Parkdale In the Oregon Journal June 21 (p. 3.) I see that money is being allotted "to combat the adverse publicity from Mount St. Helens' eruption." Since the publicity came in the form of news, it seems that news would be good media for changing this ashy picture of our state. For openers, there could be those clinic buckets filling up daily with the torsos of tiny human beings. History is eloquent with the fate of nations practicing infanticide. None has ever gotten away with it. We are daily, insultingly, fracturing the Divine Law given to mankind on that other belching mountain long ago, accompanied by the roll of thunder and the flashing of lightning. Three out of four Oregonians refuse to honor their Creator by any kind of regular worship. Apparently the only way left for Him to get our attention was to give us a sudden sample of what "volcanic wrath" really means. Can anyone peering into that fiery cauldron ever again lightly dismiss the reality of hell? "Stop! Look! Listen to Him!" Isn't that the message from the mountain? Hylde M. Pike 16052 S. Springwater Oregon City # Volcano a warning? In other words, the Creator of the beautiful Mount St. Helens wilderness has us by the short hairs. What might we have been doing wrong here in Oregon and Washington that could cause His anger to erupt? Oregon Journal July 4, 1980 Dr. Mishlove: This gentleman, Mr. Pike, states the case precisely and accurately!! I have told the scientists that my work, and powers, parallel that of Moses, of Biblical days. I also warned the scientists before Mt. St. Helens even got started that my UFOs (Moses' "Lord") and Pyr-Cee, the Egyptian Power, were going to create a terrible destructive effect... as a sample of what they can do (see above "sample,") unless the Base were supplied to me in order to save countless hundreds of millions of people! My warning was not heeded; the Base was not forthcoming; therefore the SIs and Pyr-Cee gave us a slight sample of the back of their hand... Mt. St. Helens! Ted Owens (PK Man) 7/11/80 === Page 8 of 46 Midwest rain lingers; Southwest stays hot By The Associated Press Rain lingered Thursday over parts of the Midwest, a reminder of deadly thunderstorms that killed six people in four states, while the Southwest suffered through another day of a killer heat wave in its 12th day. Damage from tornadoes and thunderstorms topped $20 million and power was out in many communities. In Indiana, road crews used snowplows to clear mud from highways. The University of Evansville canceled Friday classes when water lapped at the tops of doors in some low-lying classrooms. The heat-related death toll reached 101, with 61 in Texas, 19 in Arkansas, 14 in Oklahoma, five in Kansas, and one each in Mississippi and Missouri. The Mississippi victim was a Vicksburg man who died of heatstroke -- the state's first heat-related death during the spate of triple-digit temperatures. The temperature at Dallas reached 108 degrees at 3 p.m. Thursday, breaking the record for the 11th straight day but had dropped to 107 by 5 p.m. Other Texas temperatures reported at 5 p.m. were 113 degrees in Wichita Falls, 105 in Abilene and 103 in Waco. A line of thunderstorms extended from the Atlantic Coast to the Plains, stretching as far as central Oklahoma. The temperature in Oklahoma City reached 105, tying the daily record set in 1894. The low in Tulsa was 80, with the high climbing to 103. A National Weather Service forecaster in Oklahoma said scattered showers could be "an indication of some improvement" in the heat wave. "I still think it will be hot, but maybe only in the upper 90s to 102," said the forecaster who asked not to be identified. North of the thunderstorms, temperatures were sharply lower, and Chicago set a low temperature record for the date with a reading of 51 -- one degree off the mark set in 1968. Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky were hard hit Wednesday night by raging winds and rain, hail and tornadoes, and the storms also rumbled through Missouri and Louisiana. Storm-related deaths numbered four in Kentucky, two in Illinois, and one each in Indiana and Missouri. Three of the dead were children swept away by flash floods. Damage in Illinois was estimated at more than $20 million and six counties were declared disaster areas by Gov. James R. Thompson. Fifty people were treated at hospitals for injuries, and officials estimated up to 60,000 people lost power for a time. Among the hard-hit communities in Illinois, where storms swept an area bounded by the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, was West Frankfort, a city of 8,900. The local National Guard unit patrolled the streets Thursday, watching stores where windows were blown out. Much of the city lost power and an overnight curfew was in effect there and in several nearby communities. 54 Oregon Journal, July 2, 1980 (2) # Rain douses Arizona timber fires By United Press International Rain quenched a rash of Arizona timber and range-land fires and state officials are optimistic the worst of the fire season is over. In Colorado, however, the upcoming Fourth of July holiday continued to make fire watchers very nervous. Firefighters Wednesday mopped up damage from Colorado's largest forest fire ever. The state kept in force a stringent ban on open campfires and outdoor smoking that will be especially crucial with the numbers of people expected to flock to mountain forest areas for the holiday weekend. "We've got to keep our guard up," said Forest Service spokesman Jerry Chonka. "We have had a little cooler weather and some rain, but the situation still is critical." Widespread rain in Arizona allowed firefighters Tuesday to extinguish most of the dozens of lightning-caused blazes that dotted the state, while fire crews managed to get lines around others. === Page 9 of 46 "Power and Rain Attack" # Death toll reaches 106 as heat wave holds on Oklahoma July 5, 1980 By The Associated Press The killer heat wave entered its 12th day Friday in the South and Southwest with the death toll at 106, and a health official in Texas said even more people might die while celebrating the holiday outdoors. Heat-related deaths were reported in seven states: 61 in Texas, 21 in Arkansas, 16 in Oklahoma, 5 in Kansas and one each in Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri. Scattered thunderstorms brought some clouds and rain to west-central Texas, but the moisture evaporated soon after hitting the ground -- dried up by triple-digit temperatures. More than two dozen Texas cities recorded temperatures of 100 or more Thursday, but on Friday a shift in wind direction from southwest to southerly brought slightly cooler air from the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas-Fort Worth had 104 in its 12th consecutive record hot day. Wichita Falls had 107 and Lubbock, El Paso and Amarillo were in the 100s, but the rest of the state had temperatures in the 90s. * Dr. Elliot Salenger, head of the Dallas County Health Department, said deaths could increase over the long holiday weekend. "People will go running, jogging, sunning," he said. "They'll be drinking alcohol and get dehydrated. They'll go on with their holiday plans even though it's over 100 degrees." He said many would not alter holiday plans despite relentless heat, "and they'll get sick and some will die." The National Weather Service said there was no sign of cooler weather in store for the next 10 days -- possibly longer. Elsewhere in the nation, scattered thunderstorms were reported, with heavy storms in Kentucky and Indiana. In Louisville and Lexington, Ky., high winds wrecked a garage and uprooted trees, ripping part of the roof from television station WKYT. All Fourth of July activities in Lexington were called off because of the storm, said WKYT news director Ken Kurtz. No injuries were reported. A severe thunderstorm swept through Topeka, Kan., Friday night, damaging part of the concrete roof on grandstands at the Shawnee County Fairgrounds just after the start of a Fourth of July concert, authorities reported. Four minor injuries were reported. The continuing heat wave brought water shortages to parts of Oklahoma, and the water tanks were empty in Noble, a town of about 2,000, leaving only the water that was still in the lines. Voluntary water rationing was under way in Tulsa and McAlester. Many heat victims were elderly people living alone in homes without air conditioning. Some, found alive with body temperatures of 106, were plunged into ice water by medical workers in vain attempts to save their lives. State and local officials have pleaded with residents to stay quiet and keep air conditioners running, despite the drain on electric power facilities. In Arkansas, the state Office on Aging has ordered air conditioned senior citizens centers opened to the poor and old. The heat wave has created record demands for power, water, beer and such appliances as air conditioners and fans. In some areas, farmers say they will need federal aid if rain does not fall soon on their crops and pastures. === Page 10 of 46 Oregonian "POWER & RAIN ATTACK" Jeffrey # Thunderstorms, twisters buffet U.S. midsection The Associated Press JULY 6, 1980 Thunderstorms and tornadoes raged through the nation's midsection Saturday knocking out power to more than 100,000 residents, killing one man and injuring at least 20 people. Meanwhile, the death toll from the 13-day heat wave in the South and Southwest climbed to 137. Rain, wind and tornadoes hit parts of Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, and claimed one life in Michigan. At least 12 people were injured in Ohio, three in Missouri, four in Indiana and one in Michigan. On the East Coast, a violent thunderstorm ripped through much of Virginia, killing one person, knocking down trees, overturning small planes and boats and leaving thousands with out power. An unidentified fisherman at Waller Mill Pond in York County died when a tree or tree limb blew into his boat and caused it to sink, the York County Fire Department said. Eleven people involved in boating mishaps were rescued from the James and York rivers, authorities said. Officials in Texas said heat-related deaths seemed to be abating, and medical examiners reported no heat deaths linked to outdoor Fourth of July activities. The latest victims were like most of the others -- elderly people in homes without air conditioning. Dallas broke its 13th consecutive daily temperature record with a 103-degree reading, while Wichita Falls hit a record-breaking 106. Galveston was the state's cool spot, with a 90-degree reading. Alabama reported its first apparently heat-related death when the body of Elijah Frank Gibson, 59, of Columbiana was found Saturday slumped over the steering wheel of his car. Meanwhile, about 100,000 customers of Commonwealth Edison Co. in the Chicago area were left without power by a thunderstorm early Saturday that packed winds up to 82 mph. No injuries were reported in the storms that swept the north and north-central parts of the state. Some 35,000 people elsewhere in Illinois were still without power from storms earlier last week. Crews worked to restore electricity, but utility spokesmen said it might be Sunday before power was fully restored. In Bloomington, Ill., Mayor Richard Buchanan said a two-block downtown area "looks like a war zone" with heavy damage to roofs and blown-out windows. Early estimates of damages caused by Ohio storms topped $1 million and were expected to go higher as officials began evaluating the wreckage. High winds overturned a mobile home in Zahn's Corner, near Piketon, and injured five people inside. They were treated at a hospital. Widespread power outages were reported in parts of rural north-central and northwest Ohio, and in areas of Columbus and Toledo. Many roads were blocked by fallen trees. There were reports of heavy property damage in Ohio's Logan County where at least six persons suffered minor injuries. One person was slightly injured in Paulding County, where a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department said a tornado wrecked two homes and a barn and damaged three houses. Power was out in much of downtown Lancaster, Ohio, a city of 40,000, and police asked motorists to stay off the roads because of fallen trees. In Quincy, Mich., Zelda Fickel, 64, of Montpelier, Ohio, died of a broken neck when high winds toppled a 4-foot-diameter tree on a trailer at a campground, sheriff's deputies said. About 1,200 customers in the Detroit area lost power temporarily. Three tornadoes were reported in northeast Missouri. One overturned a mobile home in Sublette and tossed a nearby camping trailer down a hill, injuring three people slightly. The others overturned mobile homes and damaged a machine shed and barn in Knox County. === Page 11 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - Australia 158 SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, JULY 6, 1980 158 # CROWDS JAM SKI RESORTS AFTER HUGE SNOW FALLS RECORD crowds poured in to ski resorts this weekend after the first big falls of the season. Following a week of blizzards and huge snowfalls, resorts saw sunshine for the first time in seven days. Blizzard conditions have prevailed in the NSW Alps since last Friday week, bringing with them the best falls of snow since 1968. When the sun peeped through yesterday thousands of skiers poured into the snowfields. Accommodation was at a premium and hundreds of visitors spent the night camped in their cars outside the National Park's limits. At daybreak they moved in to the resorts and by 7.30am ski lift ticket offices were doing a roaring trade. At Thredbo all but the sponars and karel T-bars were operating. ## High winds, icy roads But visibility was reduced to 100m on the high Crackenback area. At Perisher more than 8000 people poured in by 9.30am to use the 12 T-bars operating. High winds prevented the use of the chairlifts and skiers were restricted to the lower levels. The average depth of snow at Perisher was 109 cm - 67cm more than at this time last year. Thredbo reported an average depth of 85cm and both resorts had excellent skiing on 12cm of new, overnight snow. Visitors to Guthega had to contend with icy roads, blocked in parts by drifts of snow up to one metre. Roads into Thredbo were open and although chains were not required to get in to the resort, the Alpine Way became jammed with skiers who had panicked. Instead of following instructions, they put chains on their vehicles and a long line of traffic banked up in the early morning. ## Skiers stranded Department of Main Roads workers used all available machinery to open the road to Perisher Valley and Smiggin Holes and traffic flowed freely all morning. On Friday night about 50 skiers were stranded in the Perisher area by an enormous two-hour dump of snow and had to use tracked vehicles to get back to their lodges. The road to Smiggin Holes had drifts up to one and a half metres and many cars became snowbound. They were towed out of the area at first light so that traffic could flow freely. The present high hanging over New South Wales is locking the resorts in to continuous snowfalls and although the weekend was fine, more snow has been predicted for this week. An added bonus for NSW skiers visiting both Thredbo and Perisher is that draught beer is flowing freely. The areas are being supplied from Victoria. While the NSW Alps are experiencing these huge falls of snow, New Zealand is suffering. Snowfalls on both islands have been poor and have restricted the ski tourist trade All Victorian resorts have reported excellent falls. === Page 12 of 46 84 Acton Avenue, RIVERVALE WA 6103. July 8th, 1980 Mr. B. Kell, 4 Torrington Road, STRATHFIELD NSW 2135. Dear Bruce, Thankyou for your letter of July 6th. I am sorry to say, that I do not have any documented material on the case you mentioned. To my knowledge, there were radio reports about the sighting and very little appearing in our press. During a newscast on radio, mention was made of a truck driver who claims to have seen an unusual solid object land in a paddock, in the area of the reported sightings. As I have been unsuccessful in locating this witness, my investigations are at a complete standstill. Should I uncover more data I shall be more than happy to forward the information to your friend in the U.S. Sorry I have not been of much help and I do thankyou for your interest. Yours Sincerely, Jeff Bell UFO RESEARCH (W.A.) === Page 13 of 46 (2) Oregon Journal, July 10, 1980 15 nation "Power" and Rain Attacks # Indiana tornado kills 2, hurts 23 Oregon Journal July 10, 1980 By United Press International Two persons died and more than a score were injured by a tornado that ripped through Rushville, Ind., crushing residents inside their demolished homes and snapping power lines. Afternoon temperatures Wednesday soared past the 100-degree mark over the Southwestern deserts, the southern and central Plains and the lower half of the Mississippi Valley. Since the heat wave began more than two weeks ago, 233 persons have died in heat-related incidents in 10 states. The tornado ripped through Rushville, a small town about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the twister swooped down on the community, sending the walls crashing in around many residents. "One man said he was closing a window when it hit. He said there was no wind or anything and then the house just literally exploded," said the Rev. Paul Palusko, pastor of Main Street Church. "Another man said his house was just leveled around him, flat as a table." Myrtle Sweet was thrown from her mobile home when the storm crashed through her lot. Rescue workers found her body in a vacant field several yards from her demolished trailer. "Three or four homes were completely demolished," said a spokesman for the Rushville Police Department. "People were crushed in the houses and were taken to hospitals by private cars. Some were taken to Indianapolis. We don't have an accurate injury or death count at this time." ![Photograph of a demolished airplane hangar with damaged light aircraft inside.] United Press International HANGAR DEMOLISHED -- Wind of more than 100 mph hit Waterloo, Iowa, causing major damage to Waterloo Municipal Airport. Dozens of private planes and hangars were demolished Tuesday, including this hangar at Neiderhauser Airways, a private flying service at the airport. === Page 14 of 46 (2) Oregon Journal, July 10, 1980 15 # nation "Power" and Rain Attacks # Indiana tornado kills 2, hurts 23 Oregon Journal July 10, 1980 By United Press International Two persons died and more than a score were injured by a tornado that ripped through through Rushville, Ind. crushing residents inside their demolished homes and snapping power lines. Afternoon temperatures Wednesday soared past the 100-degree mark over the Southwestern deserts, the southern and central Plains and the lower half of the Mississippi Valley. Since the heat wave began more than two weeks ago, 233 persons have died in heat-related incidents in 10 states. The tornado ripped through Rushville, a small town about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the twister swooped down on the community, sending the walls crashing in around many residents. "One man said he was closing a window when it hit. He said there was no wind or anything and then the house just literally exploded," said the Rev. Paul Palusko, pastor of Main Street Church. "Another man said his house was just leveled around him, flat as a table." Myrtle Sweet was thrown from her mobile home when the storm crashed through her lot. Rescue workers found her body in a vacant field several yards from her demolished trailer. "Three or four homes were completely demolished," said a spokesman for the Rushville Police Department. "People were crushed in the houses and were taken to hospitals by private cars. Some were taken to Indianapolis. We don't have an accurate injury or death count at this time." United Press International HANGAR DEMOLISHED -- Wind of more than 100 mph hit Waterloo, Iowa, causing major damage to Waterloo Municipal Airport. Dozens of private planes and hangars were demolished Tuesday, including this hangar at Neiderhauser Airways, a private flying service at the airport. === Page 15 of 46 --- "Power" and Rain Attack --- Oregon Journal 7/11/80 # Lightning, tornadoes kill at least six By United Press International Tornadoes claimed at least two lives and injured nine others in South Carolina and lightning-charged thunderstorms killed four people in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Lightning killed two hikers at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, a farmer in Shelby County, Ky., and a 15-year-old boy who was struck in Virginia while three brothers watched. Surfside Beach, S.C., Police Chief Henry Meeks said young Donald Everett Tench Jr. of Charlotte, N.C., was killed while sitting on the bench during a Little League baseball game. In Sumter County, S.C., a tornado toppled a dugout during an intramural softball game at Shaw Air Force Base, killing an airman and injuring at least eight other persons. In Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Dispatcher Anne Anderson said lightning struck the Double Springs Gap Shelter, killing two backpackers and seriously injuring a third, 2 miles south of the heavily traveled trail. A dairy farmer was struck and killed by lightning while attending a Holstein cattle show at the Shelby County Fairgrounds in Kentucky. Three other men were injured, one critically. tive sterilizations and say medical reasons sometimes used to justify the procedure at some Catholic hospitals are insufficient. In a seven paragraph statement Thursday, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops said contraceptive sterilizations were "forbidden and totally alien" to the mission of Catholic hospitals. --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- # Iowa winds leave airport in shambles WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) -- Winds clocked at up to 105 mph shrieked through northeastern Iowa early Wednesday, causing damage estimated at more than $5 million at the Waterloo airport alone. The winds tossed light aircraft and National Guard helicopters around, ripped the roof from a large hangar containing 12 twin-engine or larger planes and wrecked 22 of, 32 hangars containing one aircraft each. The five members of the Larry Baker family of Dunkerton just northeast of Waterloo suffered minor injuries when the winds overturned their mobile home. Baker said he suffered bruised ribs and broke some bones in his hand when he broke out windows to get his children out. Charles Lowjowsky, a mechanic at the airport, escaped injury when the wind lifted the front end of an Ozark Airlines DC-9 about 10 feet off the ground. He said he was in the DC-9 and all he could do was "ride that baby until it came down." Oregonian July 10, 1980 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JULY 13, 1980 3M C7 # cano disaster plan is available in Hood River schools, churches and private homes, the group was told. But a number of warnings notes were voiced. If eruption of the mountain causes flooding down its northern slope into the Hood River drainage, the floodwaters could wash out a number of bridges that provide escape routes from the upper valley. Hood River City Manager Bruce Erickson said flooding also could take out water supply lines from the area's two major water sources, Crystal Springs and Cold Springs. In the event of a severe eruption, Bonneville Power Administration would cut off power supply lines to the Hood River valley to eliminate arcing and other fire hazards, said Ted Perry, Hood River Electrical Cooperative manager. And flooding down the Hood River undoubtedly would wash out Pacific Power & Light Co.'s Powerdale Dam and generating plant on the river, which supplies power to the city, said PP&L Manager Roy Cederstam. Lynch said planners selected the 15-mile evacuation zone because Middle Mountain, southwest of the central valley community of Odell, provides a natural barrier and because in the St. Helens blast area the severest damage was confined to about 15 miles, Lynch said. In addition, law enforcement units can easily control access to the 15-mile zone, by road blocks at Tucker Bridge on Oregon 281 and west of Hood River on Oregon 35. The 2 1/2-hour meeting ended with Hood River Police Chief Dick Kelly asking, "Has anyone heard any reports about the mountain?" After a short period of silence, Kurahara looked around the room and said, "Did anybody hear anything?" === Page 16 of 46 "Power" & Rain Attack THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1980 3M C5 # Utilities handle load as heat wave persists By The Associated Press The unrelenting heat wave in the South, Southwest and Midwest is bringing record-breaking electricity demands to utilities and may bring record-breaking bills to consumers who have to pay for the power. "Each day we go on, the air conditioners stay on longer," said Neil Nelson, construction manager for the Northern States Power Co. in Sioux Falls, S.D. "Everybody wants to keep cool." Utility officials contacted in an Associated Press survey Friday said they were managing to meet the demand for electricity without problems so far. Charles Kelly, director of corporate communications for the Arkansas Power and Light Co., said a new nuclear power plant has helped produce the record amounts of electricity needed. "You begin to be a little more nervous the longer it goes on," said Kelly, "but we don't anticipate any problems." An unofficial tally by the AP, compiled from local reports, indicates more than 330 people in 14 states have died of heat-related causes during the heat wave, now in its 20th day in some areas. The toll includes 87 deaths in Texas, 83 in Arkansas, 39 in Missouri, 33 in Oklahoma, 30 in Tennessee, 15 in Mississippi, 13 in Kansas, 11 each in Georgia and Illinois, five in Louisiana, four in Alabama, three each in Kentucky and Indiana and one in Nebraska. In Dallas, the temperature has topped the 100-degree mark every day since June 23, with the thermometer hitting an average of 105 degrees most days. In contrast, the average temperature in the period from June 23 to July 6, 1979, was 97 degrees. "Some of the bills are as high as 94 percent greater than the same billing period of 1979," said Jim Lawrence of the Dallas Power & Light Co. He added, however: "You have to keep in mind that last summer was extremely cool for Dallas, and we had a (9.7 percent) rate increase last October." Another Dallas Power spokesman, Don Wilson, said usage set an all-time record of 2.29 million kilowatts (2,290 megawatts) July 2, but he said capacity is 4.6 million kilowatts (4,600 megawatts). South Dakota communities, produced 202 megawatts of electricity Thursday afternoon, a record, but below the company's capacity of 269 megawatts. "It's the biggest peak we've experienced in the history of our system," said Gene Tagtow, the utility's manager in Huron, S.D. "It's strictly because of the air conditioning." All three Nebraska public utilities have broken previous record usage levels this week. The Omaha Public Power District, for example, set a Thursday afternoon record of 1.35 million kilowatts (1,350 megawatts), according to spokesman Roger McCarthy. "We've been fortunate. The equipment has worked very well through the hot spell." McCarthy said customers' bills would "depend on how they watch that thermostat. There's going to be increases." Ed Crosby of the Alabama Power Co. said, "Homeowners can expect high bills, but there's no way to estimate a percentage or money figure yet." He said demand reached a record Thursday, 6,760 megawatts of electricity Thursday, breaking a 1978 mark of 6,670 megawatts. "We are coping," he said. Kelly said Arkansas Power and Light will try to help customers. The number of "cooling hours" during which customers are using air conditioners is 200 percent more this year than it was last year, he said, adding: "We'll have many people getting well over $200 monthly bills. Certainly we'll try to cushion the impact." The utility is advertising a special plan that allows customers to average payments over an entire year. Hal Hudson, a spokesman for Kansas Power and Light Co., Kansas' largest, said the estimated average residential use of electricity is up by one-third -- from 750 kilowatt hours a month to 1,000 kwh. He also said rates have risen since last year, increasing 21 percent and pushing the cost of 1,000 kwh to $55.47. Hudson said Kansas Power has been able to meet the demand for electricity, although there have been isolated outages because the heat is blowing neighborhood transformers. Northwestern Public Service Co., which serves 51,762 customers in 108 === Page 17 of 46 Reactor shutdown successful MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The first of two shutdowns ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission went smoothly Saturday at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant while officials prepared to fix a leaky valve, a spokesman said. "Everything was successful. There were no problems whatsoever," spokesman Steve Stoll said of the shutdown that began at 8 a.m. and was completed at noon. He said the plant would "cool down" for about seven hours Saturday before two technicians climbed into the dry well surrounding the reactor to try to repair the leak. The NRC has ordered Vermont Yankee and 23 other reactors to conduct test shutdowns within the next two weeks to try to determine why a similar plant in Alabama refused to shut down on command two weeks ago. It took operators at the Alabama plant 12 minutes and several tries to shut down the reactor after they had reduced power to about 30 percent. Stoll estimated that the Vermont plant would be brought back to full power Saturday night and then reduced again early Sunday when a mandated "automatic" shutdown test would be conducted. Officials at the plant had planned to wait for the required shutdowns to fix the leaky recirculation valve. But Stoll said they decided to conduct the shutdowns this weekend because the leak "is the type of thing that could get worse." The leak, first noticed Thursday when radiation monitors showed a slight increase in levels within the dry well, is "only a whisk of steam," Stoll said. He said officials did not know how much radioactive water had escaped. Stoll said technicians would enter the dry well, remove old packing in the valve and replace it with new packing. "It will be very simple maintenance," he said. The weekend shutdown marks the third outage for Vermont Yankee in the past month. The reactor shut down June 13 to replace a valve that was leaking thousands of gallons of radioactive water into the containment area. On June 17, a drain valve failed, tripping an automatic shutdown. Stoll estimated that the repairs and tests would be completed and the facility back to full power by Monday morning. Oregonian July 13, 1980 REMEMBER WHEN THEY USED TO BLAME LOUSY WEATHER ON THE CHINESE A-BOMB TESTS? WE NOW HAVE A NEW SCAPEGOAT! BRITISH BLAME WIMBLEDON RAINS ON MOUNT ST. HELENS === Page 18 of 46 D32 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1980 Associated Press Laserphoto FATAL ACCIDENT -- Tacoma City Light electrician Gordon W. Egan is administered to after he came in contact Tuesday with a 110,000-volt power line at a substation, triggering a blackout of a large part of the Tacoma metropolitan area. Egan, of Tacoma, died later in a hospital. World "Power" + Rain Attack # Fatal contact with line blacks out large area Oreg. 7/16/80 TACOMA (AP) -- A 58-year-old Tacoma City Light electrician suffered fatal injuries when he came in contact with a 110,000-volt power line Tuesday, and the incident triggered a power outage that blacked out a major portion of the Tacoma metropolitan area, a utility spokeswoman said. The electrician, identified as Gordon W. Egan of Tacoma, was badly burned in the accident and died about an hour later at St. Joseph Hospital, said Sue Veseth, assistant manager of the utility's media office. Ms. Veseth estimated that some 75,000 customers, or more than three-quarters of those served by the utility, were without power for approximately an hour late Tuesday morning after the accident at the Cowlitz Substation. Nearly all of Tacoma and large areas of surrounding suburbs stretching from Gig Harbor to Lakewood, McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis were without power during the outage. Local hospitals switched to emergency generators, Pierce County's law enforcement communications system was disrupted temporarily and traffic lights throughout the county were shut down by the outage. Details of the accident were sketchy, but sources said a Tacoma City Light crew was working on a two-way 110,000-volt transmission line that can handle power being transmitted in or out of the substation. A City Light spokeswoman said the crew was moving one end of the line from one terminal to another. Service on several Pacific Northwest Bell telephone exchanges, including many of the phone numbers for Pierce County's emergency services, was disrupted during the outage because of overloaded circuits, said Bernie Kanesta, a telephone company spokeswoman. The problem was caused by "people calling to find out what the power outage was all about," she said. World "Power" and Rain Attack # Thunderstorms tear across mid-America Oreg. By United Press International 7/17/80 Violent thunderstorms ripped across the midsection of the nation, causing extensive damage and at least four deaths from Wisconsin to New England. Three dozen high-temperature records Wednesday were broken from the South through the Midwest, and the death toll from the heat wave rose to 807. The storms moved eastward from early morning to late afternoon Wednesday, traveling from Minnesota to New York. Early morning thunderstorms threatened to upset the Republican National Convention in Detroit and closed Chicago's O'Hare International Airport -- the nation's busiest -- for about an hour. A Chicago man vacationing at a summer home on Magician Lake in Cass County, Mich., was killed when a tree smashed into the cottage where he was sleeping. In Chicago, Streets and Sanitation Commissioner John Donovan said cleanup could cost $200,000 and take 10 days. He called the storm "one of the biggest ones we've had in a few years." The storms dumped more than an inch of rain and sent wind gusts of 65 mph across New Jersey. Spokesmen for three utility companies said power was knocked out to more than 45,000 residents. A man was killed outside Wilmington, Del., late Wednesday while sawing a fallen tree knocked over by heavy wind. Authorities said the man touched a fallen power line and was killed immediately. === Page 19 of 46 20 Oregon Journal, July 16, 1980 (2) - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Tornadoes, high wind lash Plains United Press International Police in Eau Claire, Wis., declared a state of emergency and ordered all businesses closed Wednesday to deter looters taking advantage of a destructive blast of tornadoes and high winds that ripped through the city late Tuesday. The relentless heat siege that has plagued the Southwest, South and Midwest continued Wednesday with no end in sight. The death toll from the heat has risen to more than 700. Tornado and hail-laced thunderstorms whipped through the northern Plains and moved as far east as the southern Appalachians Tuesday, causing wind damage to some homes in Minnesota and killing geese in South Dakota. Several tornadoes and winds of up to 112 mph were reported in the Eau Claire area late Tuesday night and early today. Deputy Fred Hoversholm said the storm knocked out electrical service to most of the county and ripped roofs off some buildings. No fatalities were reported, but there were several injuries. "It's just a mess," Hoversholm said. "Everything is shut down." Businesses were asked to remain closed today and only emergency travel was allowed on the streets. Hoversholm said the Eau Claire Sheriff's office had received scattered reports of looting. Tornado watches were in effect early today for parts of Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. Tornadoes touched down in Miami, Fla., near Northville, S.D., and in Arco, S.D. In Missouri alone almost 200 people have died from possible heat-related causes. In Dallas, which has recorded 24 straight days of 100-plus temperatures, officials said there has been an increase in child abuse caused by a summer version of "cabin fever." The Carter administration agreed to provide the $7 million in emergency federal funds to purchase or rent fans, air conditioners and provide transportation and other support services for the elderly and low-income in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Kansas. === Page 20 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Soviet food production hard hit by weather MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet citizens may have to rely on cabbage, bread and potatoes to keep their stomachs full this winter. Figures released Wednesday showed milk production down 4 percent and meat production down 1 percent during the first six months of 1980, and newspaper accounts said foul weather was playing havoc with the nation's vegetable crops. In some area, vegetable crops "are lying under water" following heavy rains, the newspaper Leninist Banner said. Some fresh fruits and vegetables are available in the private farmers' markets in Moscow, but they are nearly twice as expensive as they were this time last year. The weather, the historic foe of Soviet agriculture, has not helped a bit. There was a late spring in most areas. Important fruit-growing regions in the southern republics were ravaged by a surprise heavy frost and even snow. And the western, or European, part of the Soviet Union is suffering a cold, rainy summer. An editorial Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda complained about the quality of the fruit and vegetable crops now ripening. It mentioned a state farm in the southern republic of Azerbaijan that delivered a crop of fresh cabbage of which 23 percent was spoiled by the time it got to market. "Time is pressing, and all installations (for storage) should be built and ready for the harvest," Pravda warned. "One should not permit the crop to spoil, to perish." Reports continue filtering in to Moscow of major population centers in the provinces that are virtually out of meat, milk and butter. People with friends or relatives in Moscow have come to rely on food parcels - "some sausages" - sent by train. The Economic Gazette, a Soviet weekly, said the output of milk on all Soviet farms was down so far this year by 1.473 million metric tons and that pork production was down 932,000 head. Oreg. July 17, 1980 world - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Heavy rains flood farmland in Poland WARSAW (AP) - Heavy rains, in some parts of Poland the heaviest in 250 years, resulted in the flooding of 2.5 million acres of cultivated land, Polish radio reported Tuesday. Especially hard hit were the western and northern Polish provinces, the report said. Flooding also caused problems in urban transportation in the city of Bydgoszcz. In Grudziadz, northern Poland, the swollen Vistula river forced some factories to stop working. Oregonian July 16, 1980 # Fierce Storms Kill 10 Berlin - World "Power" + Rain Attack Ten people were killed in southern East Germany during the weekend by fierce thunderstorms that uprooted trees and tore down electricity lines, the official ADN news agency reported yesterday. June 16 1980 SF Chronicle Associated Press === Page 21 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # Violent storms sweep upper Midwest; 3 killed By The Associated Press Violent thunderstorms swept the upper Midwest Wednesday, killing three people, leaving scores of communities without electricity and disrupting meetings of at least two delegations to the Republican National Convention in Detroit. Meanwhile, the heat wave, which has killed nearly 700 people, continued to bake sections of the South and Midwest. The Massachusetts delegation to the GOP convention hustled to the basement of its Plymouth, Mich., hotel when a tornado watch was posted for the area. The power went off as the Michigan delegation was meeting with former Republican presidential contender George Bush at a hotel near the Detroit airport. "I guess God was mad at George Bush for releasing his Michigan delegates," said Michael McLaughlin, the state's commerce department director and a Bush delegate. Winds gusting to 80 mph smashed Lessenger Junior High School on Detroit's northwest side, breaking windows and injuring two summer-school students. The storm flooded two 50-foot sections of Interstate 94, a main artery into Detroit, forcing police to blockade one lane of the freeway. A 10-year-old boy was killed when debris fell on him at his parents' home on Magician Lake near the town of Sister Lakes in southwestern Michigan, officials said. In Ann Arbor, Mich., employees of the National Weather Service and other government workers fled their third-floor offices in a federal building when an 80-foot glass wall began shaking violently during the storm. At historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., the storm smashed windows in the replica of the Wright Brothers bicycle shop while at nearby Ford Motor Co. offices, spokesman Paul Preuss said, "The telephone system is practically kaput" because of the storm. Air controllers evacuated the control tower at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for a short time, closing the airport for an hour Wednesday morning. Winds of more than 75 mph damaged a DC-8 cargo jet, and two smaller planes were blown over. Some 100,000 people in the Chicago metropolitan area were without power because of the severe rainstorms. Fierce thunderstorms Tuesday night in Minnesota downed power lines, overturned mobile homes, felled trees, knocked out telephone service and broke windows in many buildings. Up to 3 inches of rain fell in some areas as winds gusted up to 86 mph. A woman drowned in Prior Lake near Minneapolis when a pontoon boat capsized. Another woman died in northwestern Wisconsin when her mobile home was knocked over in a rural area between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The Eau Claire airport reported winds of 112 mph which knocked out much of the power in this city of 45,000. Electricity still had not been restored by early Wednesday, authorities said. Thunderstorms early Wednesday morning moved from eastern Nebraska across the upper Mississippi Valley into Wisconsin, with tornadoes in west-central Wisconsin and Minnesota. The central and eastern Gulf region also had thunderstorms, and scattered showers were reported in New England. The heat prompted Alabama Gov. Fob James to declare a state of emergency Tuesday. A state of emergency was put into effect Monday in Missouri. Associated Press Laserphoto ONCE MORE! -- Elaine Sims of Ann Arbor, Mich., moans over latest disaster to her automobile after high winds toppled a tree onto her car which she had just gotten back from a repair shop. Thunderstorms packing winds up to 80 mph raced across southern Michigan Wednesday morning. Arg. July 17, 1980 === Page 22 of 46 Oregon July 10, 1980 # Heat ties record in Dallas; forecast offers no relief By The Associated Press Temperatures at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport hit 100 degrees again Thursday, marking the 25th consecutive day the temperature has been 100 or higher in the area and tieing a record set in August 1952. Nationwide, an unofficial count by The Associated Press shows a total of 935 heat-related deaths in 19 states. The hardest hit state is Missouri with 234 deaths -- state health officials said the toll in a normal year is 10. The National Weather Service said that although thunderstorm activity over the Gulf of Mexico had increased in the past week, a good sign for a potential change in Texas' torrid weather, there was no end in sight of the heat wave. Fred Ostby, director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, predicted at least another five days of searing weather in the South, Southwest and Midwest. Ostby wouldn't make any prediction beyond that. "It's a very tricky business, trying to predict when this thing will end and break up," Ostby said. Forecasters say a routine high-pressure system stalled over Texas in late June and then expanded to cover the Midwest and South. Ordinarily, easterly jet streams keep air masses moving and mixing with low-pressure systems, creating cool air and thunderstorms. But that hasn't happened, and meteorologists can't explain why it hasn't. Georgia Gov. George Busbee declared a state of emergency as hospitals across the state reported sharp increases in emergency room visits and admissions because of the heat. Note: ① I hate Texas with a purple passion, of all the U.S. States... because I was double-crossed not once but twice in Texas, on a major scale, which caused me grievous harm. Anyplace, or anybody, doing such a thing to Ted Owens, the PK Man, is thereby doomed to terrible retaliation from other-dimensional Powers. This action has occurred over and over and over again, thru the years, as an individual would double-cross me and then later would be killed in a car crash or drop dead unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage or whatever. I could cite a dozen such happenings. ② In all of my major demonstrations of psi-force, and working with my UFOs (control of Florida, etc.) strange, mysterious things occur which the authorities cannot explain (or which haven't happened in this century, or haven't happened in several hundred years, etc.) $\Theta$ Owens === Page 23 of 46 MANLY DAILY DATE 14 JUN 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Strange lights appear again in coast skies **By Spencer Ratcliff** Strange things continue to happen in the skies over Manly-Warringah, with yet another UFO sighting reported yesterday. Sixteen people have now reported seeing a total of three different unidentified flying objects in the past few days. The first mystery object was spotted over the Frenchs Forest-Belrose area last Saturday night. It was described as "a smoke ring with lights around it". The RAAF and a Sydney group called UFO Research Project are investigating. Yesterday another witness to the smoke ring object spoke up, but described it as "a light red flare with a pale centre". The witness, Mrs Peggy Irvin, of Beaconsfield Street, Newport, was baby-sitting her three grandsons at the time. "We were watching television when we looked out the window and saw what looked like a red flare," Mrs Irvin said. "The object hovered high in the sky for a couple of minutes and then moved lower in a southerly direction and hovered again. "We were not frightened because it was so far away, but I am convinced it was a UFO." A second UFO was reported over the Hawkesbury-Dee Why area on Tuesday night, and a third sighting came to light yesterday. "It was three bright orange rings positioned in a triangle," Mrs Wendy Robertson, of Milga Road, Avalon said. "I was driving back from exercise classes at Narrabeen, and as I turned into Whale Beach Road from Barrenjoey Road, I saw the object. "It was really luminous -- I couldn't take my eyes off it." Mrs Robertson's sighting was at 8.50 pm. * See Page 5 (Continued) === Page 24 of 46 Glowing UFO Spotted Over Buenos Aires June 16, 1980 S.F. Chronicle Buenos Aires An unidentified flying object "buzzed" Buenos Aires city airport Saturday night and was also sighted in several western provinces of Argentina, airport officials reported yesterday. Control tower officials at Aeroparque on the shore of the River Plate told journalists that a glowing, spherical craft with a misty halo appeared a few hundred yards away flying slowly toward them. It finally soared away and disappeared, and control tower instruments registered nothing, they said. The pilots of two airliners waiting to take off also sighted the object. Airline officials in the city of Cordoba saw a luminous ring, and an unidentified flying object was sighted in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe. Reuters Note: Just interesting. Volcano blamed for rain LONDON (AP) -- A British scientist says dust from Mount St. Helens volcano is the likely cause of Britain's cold, rain-sodden summer that soaked Wimbledon tennis last week and is bringing a flood of grumbles to the London Weather Center. Staff at the center have grown so tired of members of the public blaming them personally for the weather that they issued a statement Thursday aimed at putting the record straight. Professor Hubert Lamb, founder of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, says dust from the volcano has merged into a veil covering the northern part of the hemisphere. "The quantity of dust emitted by St. Helens could be as great as that which came from the great explosion at Krakatoa, which caused a noticeable cooling of global weather," he said. The explosion on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 caused massive destruction and created tidal waves that killed thousands. Britain also had cold, wet summers in 1903 and 1912 following severe volcanic eruptions in different parts of the world, Lamb said. Last month was one of Britain's wettest Junes in more than 100 years, the London Weather Center said, although final figures have not yet been worked out. July 1 was the coldest July day in London for 34 years, with a maximum reading of 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The summer of 1978 was even worse, the center's statement said, while a spokesman added: "Believe it or not, we are just as fed up with the weather as everyone else... It will improve eventually, and it's not the end of the world." === Page 25 of 46 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) The Geraldton Guardian DATE June 20. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO evidence at Ogilvie? **Farmers at Ogilvie, 70km north-east of Geraldton, believe that four circular depressions that look like landing pads, found on a property, could have been made by an unidentified flying object.** The "pads" are 1.3 metres in diameter, 10 centimetres deep and evenly spaced at 8.7 metres apart. They are in a soft barley paddock, but are rockhard. There are no tracks leading to them except those of a 7-tonne tractor owned by the property owner. The owner, Mr Eric Parker, who until now has never believed in UFOs, said today that the tractor's marks were no way compared to the apparent pads. He said that he and his brother had been spreading the crop with urea when they came across the pads, which could have been caused by at least a 100-tonne weight. "Whatever it is, it couldn't be man-made," Mr Parker said. "I never believed in UFOs before, but now I'm just about a strong believer." A farmer on a nearby property, Mr Kevin Chick, said he saw a light rising from the ground on the Parker's property two weeks ago. He said he did not report the sighting because, he thought his eyes might have been playing tricks. "I couldn't say if it was a UFO," he added. Mr Chick said: "It was one o'clock in the morning and you're half asleep; you can't be sure what you've seen. "You sometimes see lights coming down, but I definitely saw a light going up. "I mentioned it to the wife and she just laughed. "I've been over to see the pads and the whole paddock is soft but the pads are very hard." Ogilvie schoolteacher, Mr Lindsay Bolton, took his class of eight to see the pads and measure them. It is his exact measurements which have been reported. "They were circular, indented, and rock hard," said Mr Bolton. "They have been compacted by a very heavy weight. "We could only look at them, measure them, and we came back and discussed them." === Page 26 of 46 Note: Vancouver was put on a world-wide map before daily and weekly news-papers in the USA, in spotlight By STEVEN K. WAGNER The Oregonian, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash. - For an area roughly the size of Torrance, Calif., Clark County has spent more than its share of time in the national spotlight this year. "Can you believe what's happened already in 1980?" said one Vancouver resident. "And local residents aren't sure what to make of it. "I'd suspect they'll have a really big impact," he said. "Who wants to come out here with this kind of stuff happening?" Cindy Garden was more optimistic. "Maybe it's Vancouver good," she said. "And maybe it's kinda very good. It's something to think about. Maybe we're jinxed or something." Rapidly melting snow caused a hillside to collapse onto an 81-car Burlington Northern train carrying deadly anhydrous ammonia through Ridgefield. Nineteen cars, including two tank cars carrying the material and four engines, were derailed and 20 families were urged to evacuate their homes. Killed were train engineer Charles Maughlin, 53, and brakewoman Koral Watters, 24, both of Seattle. Ms. Watters was believed by National Transportation Safety Board officials to be the first female crew member in American rail history killed while performing her duties. On Feb. 10, less than a month later, authorities got their first break in the legendary, eight-year-old Dan Cooper skyjacking, the nation's only unsolved airliner hijacking. Brian Ingram, 8, found about $6,000 of the $200,000 Cooper escaped with when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet Nov. 24, 1971. The money was found on a beach near the Columbia River in Vancouver. Ingram's parents, Dwayne and Patricia Ingram, of Vancouver, gave the money to FBI agents, who announced the find Feb. 12. Cooper parachuted late Thanksgiving Eve over Ariel, authorities believe. He was on a Portland to Seattle flight, and no trace of him or the money had turned up until the Ingram find. A month and a half later, on March 27, Mount St. Helens - northeast of the county - became the first volcano in the 48 contiguous United States to erupt since Mount Lassen blew its top in 1917. It was not until May 25, though, that Clark County felt the physical effects of the volcano. That afternoon a major eruption occurred on the mountain. Volcanic ash heavily dusted Vancouver, forcing motorists and pedestrians to wear surgical masks and cloth to keep from breathing the ash. Since the first eruption, scientists from around the world and federal emergency crews have based their operations in Vancouver. "The notoriety will help the area," one resident - who would not identify himself - said of the exposure. "It'll put the area on the map." "All the signs around here say 'Welcome to Vancouver, USA.' Now people will know we're that place across the Columbia river instead of 300 miles north (in Vancouver, British Columbia)," Merle Pederson of Vancouver said he expects the notoriety to have a major effect on the county. Power attack Winds rake Great Falls GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A vicious windstorm with gusts up to 80 mph battered Great Falls Wednesday night, uprooting trees, toppling power lines and ripping roofs off several homes. One man suffered minor injuries and was treated at a hospital and released. No damage estimate was available. Residents reported seeing a black funnel cloud sweep toward the city of 54,000, but the National Weather Service said the storm, which struck at 7:20 p.m., was not a tornado. Kathy Parish said she saw a black cloud heading toward her apartment building. "It just got real black, and we headed for the ground floor," she said. "The whole building shook - then it just took the roof off the building." The winds tore four light planes from their moorings at Great Falls International Airport and downed power lines throughout much of the city, including lines to Montana National Guard headquarters. 6/26/80 === Page 27 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - THE MERCURY, HOBART DATE 23 JUN 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE - AUSTRALIA G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY, 2001 # Willy-willy cuts path of destruction PERTH. - Hundreds of homes were damaged by a willy-willy which tore a three kilometre path of destruction through Shoal Water Bay, south-west of Perth on Saturday. Roofs were torn off, windows smashed and fences demolished by the freak gust. The willy-willy, which residents described as like a tornado, swept through the area about 1 pm. Power lines were brought down and police and volunteer firemen blocked off roads. Firemen from Rockingham said that the willy-willy swept in from the north over the ocean and belted into Shoalwater Bay. It carved a 100-metre wide path, ripping out trees and scattering debris, towards Safety Bay. Dozens of emergency servicemen and firemen clambered over roofs with tarpaulins to give protection to the damaged homes. One resident, Mrs Lorraine Cooney, said the gust hit with an enormous bang. Trees in her front garden were snapped off and scattered into a neighbor's yard. At another house two young children were home alone when the gust ripped tiles from their roof and scattered sheets of iron across their yard. Petrice Davidson (12) said that when the winds hit she told her seven-year-old brother Kali to get under his bed. "We were watching TV and heard loud thunder and the willy-willy came," she said. "Kali was looking out the window and tiles were scattered everywhere and bits of plaster fell off the ceiling. "It was pretty scary." Her father, Mr Dean Davidson, estimated it would cost about $5,000 to repair the roof of his home. A total of 38 houses were severely damaged and others had minor damage. No injuries were reported. # Blizzards to the ski The Weather Bureau warning of blizzards in the Southern Alps has skiers smiling for the first time this season. Gale force winds reaching 60 km/h accompanied by heavy snowfalls were forecast for last night and today. They were expected to bring the first good coverings of the season to the Snowy Mountains slopes. Although resorts were gearing up for a rush by frustrated skiers, early reports from the mountains yesterday said conditions were poor. Cross-country skiers were warned to stay on poled ski trails because of the high winds. Roads to the resorts were still open last night - except the Cabramurra-Khancoban road and the Ke was c Creek. Mot to becaus wind c Cold winds the B with li ing fr the cl at Liv Daily Telegraph June 28, 1980 Henry Baskerville, 57, said. "We evacuated the girls downstairs to a safer place but all we could do was sit and wait," he said. About an hour later the wind ripped the roof off the three-storey building and hurled it into the street. Police closed roads in the area as sheets of roofing iron crashed into the street and nearby buildings. Part of the roof and porch of the Blue Danube Motel in Katoomba collapsed about 7.30 a.m. as guests began breakfast. "There was a big bang and the power went off," said one of the proprietors, Mrs Lilly Ujvary. The Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath was also damaged by the wind. Despite the widespread damage rescue workers had to move only two families from their homes. === Page 28 of 46 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - 2-THE AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980 # State to bear brunt of $4.5m flood bill THE West Australian Government will bear the brunt of the $4.5 million loss resulting from flooding of the Carnarvon area on Sunday. Even as people were being evacuated from their houses, the Minister for the North-West, Mr Ian Laurance, and representatives of local authorities were meeting to set up a disaster relief committee. The biggest claim will come from vegetable growers in the area. Their crops are worth $4 million a year and it is estimated that half has been destroyed. Banana plantation owners seem to have fared better, losing about $500,000 of an annual crop worth about $3 million. But this figure could rise rapidly if floodwater does not drain away within the next three days. Much of the damage to plantations came when a levee bank 16km upstream from the town burst on Sunday, washing away crops but bringing a reprieve to Carnarvon by allowing the Gascoyne River to drop. It had already flooded outer suburbs and threatened to sweep through the town centre. Property damage has been estimated at $2 million. The State Government will make cash grants to relieve personal hardship and industry can apply for loans. Interviews to assess personal cases will start today. The Carnarvon Shire clerk, Mr Allan Taylor, welcomed the Government's early moves and said it was important local residents saw quick action. He said the shire would also have to meet heavy bills to replace roads washed away by the flood. But Mr Taylor said the most damaged residential area in east Carnarvon could have been protected. "The State Government has had a levee plan on the drawing boards for the area and even offered $4.5 million for its erection, but community resistance stopped the program," he said. # Floods subside Flooding appears to be subsiding in the West Australian town of Carnarvon and officials believe the danger has passed unless more rain falls. More than 100 people were lifted from properties around the town when a flood levee burst. 3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 24, 1980 3 # Praying for a dry spell RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Carnarvon, Western Australia, are praying that no more rain will fall in the next few days. Floodwaters stopped rising early yesterday as people inspected damage to their homes in the town's eastern suburbs. The waters had stopped only a few centimetres below the front steps of many homes but damaged furniture and carpets in others. Gascoyne Road in flooded Carnarvon STRANDED residents row to and from their homes THE FINANCIAL AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980-3 === Page 29 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - 2-THE AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980 # State to bear brunt of $4.5m flood bill THE West Australian Government will bear the brunt of the $4.5 million loss resulting from flooding of the Carnarvon area on Sunday. Even as people were being evacuated from their houses, the Minister for the North-West, Mr Ian Laurance, and representatives of local authorities were meeting to set up a disaster relief committee. The biggest claim will come from vegetable growers in the area. Their crops are worth $4 million a year and it is estimated that half has been destroyed. Banana plantation owners seem to have fared better, losing about $500,000 of an annual crop worth about $3 million. But this figure could rise rapidly if floodwater does not drain away within the next three days. Much of the damage to plantations came when a levee bank 16km upstream from the town burst on Sunday, washing away crops but bringing a reprieve to Carnarvon by allowing the Gascoyne River to drop. It had already flooded outer suburbs and threatened to sweep through the town centre. Property damage has been estimated at $2 million. The State Government will make cash grants to relieve personal hardship and industry can apply for loans Interviews to assess personal cases will start today. The Carnarvon Shire clerk, Mr Allan Taylor, welcomed the Government's early moves and said it was important local residents saw quick action. He said the shire would also have to meet heavy bills to replace roads washed away by the flood. But Mr Taylor said the most damaged residential area in east Carnarvon could have been protected. "The State Government has had a levee plan on the drawing boards for the area and even offered $4.5 million for its erection, but community resistance stopped the program," he said. # Floods subside Flooding appears to be subsiding in the West Australian town of Carnarvon and officials believe the danger has passed unless more rain falls. More than 100 people were lifted from properties around the town when a flood levee burst. 3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 24, 1980 3 Gascoyne Road in flooded Carnarvon STRANDED residents row to and from their homes # Praying for a dry spell RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Carnarvon, Western Australia, are praying that no more rain will fall in the next few days. Floodwaters stopped rising early yesterday as people inspected damage to their homes in the town's eastern suburbs. The waters had stopped only a few centimetres below the front steps of many homes but damaged furniture and carpets in others. THE FINANCIAL AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980-3 === Page 30 of 46 - "Power" Attack - Oregon Journal June 26, 1980 # NW dam operators begin sickout By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and MIKE WEISS Journal Staff Writers Supervisory personnel Thursday took over powerhouse operations at U.S. Army Corps of Engineer dams in four Western states as civilian, hourly employees began a sickout in protest of what they claim is an inadequate pay boost. Nearly 80 percent of hourly personnel at federal dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers were off the job Thursday morning. As many as 400 powerhouse operators and maintenance personnel in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho could be involved if the action spreads to all regional dams operated by the Corps. The sickout involves power installations on the river systems. However, Corps officials vowed to keep power flowing through the Northwest by using management personnel. A spokesman for the workers, who asked not to be identified, said they intend to maintain the sickout until midnight Sunday. "The Corps has pushed people to the point where we have to protest," he said. The spokesman said the 4.66 percent wage increase Monday triggered the sickout because the workers, a non-union group, don't negotiate their wages and expected about a 12 percent wage hike. He said public law specifies the wages should be adjusted to an average of what employees at private utilities are earning and the Corps' increase falls substantially short of that figure. One example given was that journeymen electricians earn $12.50 an hour in public utility employment while Corps employees receive $11.76, even after a recent 4.6 percent adjustment. The job action was first detected Wednesday at Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, where at least half of the 60 power trades personnel who ordinarily work at the dam failed to report for their shifts. There was a pledge from the management staff at Chief Joseph Dam to keep operations going. "We intend to keep it operating at full installation. Diana Smith, a Corps representative in Portland, said the sickout was because of a 4.66 percent pay raise granted workers May 25 under the Carter administration's proposed wage-price guidelines limiting the amount of pay increases granted. Civilian personnel called in sick at The Dalles, John Day, McNary, Ice Harbor and Little Goose dams. Corps officials awaited shift changes early Thursday before assessing the impact of the job action. Ms. Smith said hourly personnel at Libby Dam in Montana earlier indicated they would join the sickout if McNary workers were off the job, but there was no immediate word whether they had refused to work. power, depending on whether we have any problems," said Leon Moraski, a Seattle-based engineer for the Corps, which operates the hydroelectric facility. Mary Thomas, a public information officer for the Corps, said the Chief Joseph Dam walkout involved the powerhouse operators, electricians and powerhouse mechanics. Chief Joseph Dam is in Central Washington, downriver from the giant Grand Coulee Dam. Grand Coulee is operated by another federal agency. Graveyard shift workers at McNary Dam near called in sick early Thursday and officials there said six supervisory personnel were keeping the facility operating. Normally 65 employees work at the Sources at Dworshak Dam near Orofino in Northern Idaho said personnel there were on the job Thursday. Dworshak is the only Corps-operated dam in the state. Also reported operating normally was Detroit Dam on the Santiam River in Oregon. Charles Cook, chief of operations at McNary, said he and the five other supervisory personnel keeping the facility operating are prepared to stay at the dam until hourly workers return to their jobs. He noted that the dam largely is automated and officials anticipate no difficulty if equipment does not break down. Cook said McNary workers called in sick, complaining of "whatever (ailment) they could think of." === Page 31 of 46 "Power" Attack - + Rain Attack # Texas heat wave leaves two dead By United Press International Clyde Millican ignored the record heat wave searing Texas and kept his air conditioner switched off, intent on saving energy and whatever he could of his $300-a-month Social Security income. The 78-year-old retiree died of heat stroke -- one of two victims of a heat wave that has set records across Texas for three days and brought El Paso a record 17 straight days of 100-degree-plus weather. The National Weather Service said Friday that there is no relief in sight for Texas. Dry weather also persisted in the northern Plains, gripped by a drought that has withered crops and rangelands and inflicted millions of dollars in damage. Hot, dry weather and high winds combined in Colorado to spread a forest fire over as many as 5,000 acres in the White River National Forest. The blaze was first spotted in a 500-acre area of the northwestern Colorado forest but quickly spread because of the dry winds. Millican was found unconscious in his Dallas home Tuesday -- when the temperature hit 106. Authorities said the elderly man had just a table fan to stir the air. Relatives said he lived on a fixed income and was attempting to save on his utility bill by not turning on the air conditioner. The medical examiner Thursday ruled that Millican died of heat stroke. In Fort Worth, a man working outside on his house Tuesday was overcome by heat and was rushed to a hospital, his body temperature at 106 degrees. He died of heat exhaustion, authorities said Thursday. The temperatures in Dallas-Fort Worth hit 113 Thursday -- the hottest day in history. In the Dallas suburb of Garland, the heat felled the power system several times. Water shortages were reported in much of Texas. McAllen, Brownsville, Pharr and Raymondville, all in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, ordered water rationing. "We are having a little bit of a problem," said McAllen Public Works Director Jim Stinson. "We're pumping about as much water as we can produce." Thundershowers, however, spread over the South and dotted scattered sections of the Northwest. Heavy thunderstorms and high winds buffeted portions of New York state, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines in Orleans and Genesee counties. Hail the size of golf balls pelted Biloxi, Miss., and Daytona Beach, Fla., got nearly an inch and a half of rain in four hours. Showers stretched along the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Delaware and scattered thundershowers dotted parts of North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana and Idaho. Officials said the Montana rains did nothing to ease a drought that has withered parched farm and ranch lands in the eastern part of the state. Winds gusting up to 80 mph blew across South Dakota, where temperatures of more than 100 degrees baked residents of Rapid City, Pierre, Philip and Pickstown. 6/27/80 === Page 32 of 46 --- "Power" Attack --- # 'Sickout' spreads to federal dams throughout NW By JOHN PAINTER JR. June 27, 1980 of The Oregonian staff A "sickout" protesting pay raises spread to 19 federal hydroelectric dams in Oregon, Washington and Idaho Thursday, as officials began preparing demand notices ordering workers back on the job. At least 120 hourly workers, who are non-union federal employees, stayed at home to protest a 7 percent wage increase for fiscal year 1980. The raise was at least half a percentage point below the pay levels recommended by the National Council on Wage and Price Stability. Returning workers must have a note from their doctors if they claimed illness as a reason for absence, said Diana Smith, an Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman. Otherwise they will receive no pay for missed work. The government also had the authority to discipline workers for an "illegal strike" because walkouts are forbidden by federal law, she said. About 40 percent of the approximately 300 hourly employees at 18 of 21 of the Northwest power dams operated by the corps were out, officials reported. The action also involved Grand Coulee Dam, operated by the federal Water Power Resources Bureau. Although details of the so-called sickout were difficult to obtain, Ms. Smith said it was her understanding that the movement began last weekend at Grand Coulee. The dispute there, triggered by slightly different issues, apparently prompted some hourly workers -- mechanics, electricians, janitors and powerhouse operators -- at Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River to start a four-day sickout. But active leadership of the movement appeared Thursday to be at McNary Dam on the Columbia immediately below Chief Joseph. There, workers called on all workers at dams to call in sick. John Vollner, a senior operator at McNary and apparently a spokesman for disgruntled employees, said the government had not kept its agreement to pay them on a par with private industry. According to Vollner, the 7 percent wage ceiling imposed by the Carter administration as an inflation fighting measure left federal workers about $1-per-hour behind their private sector counterparts. However, John Ulrich, a corps spokesman, said the difference was 50 cents-an-hour; the difference between the $12.26 base pay level asked and the $11.76 granted. Hourly workers at dams earn between $7.05 and $15.53 hourly. The workers received a 2.33 percent wage hike last October and an additional 4.66 percent last month, for a total pay boost of 6.99 percent. In Washington, D.C., Mike Gelb of the Council on Wage and Price Stability confirmed that its wage guidelines were "generally higher" than the administration's lid. He said the council's wage recommendations ran between 7.5 percent and 9.5 percent. The facilities most directly affected by the sickout were Chief Joseph, McNary, John Day, The Dalles and Bonneville dams on the Columbia River; Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor dams on the lower Snake River and Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana. === Page 33 of 46 Australia 86 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saturday, June 28, 1980 # NUGAN IS SENT FOR TRIAL The chairman of Nugan Group Ltd and three employees were committed for trial for conspiracy yesterday. The Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr C. R. Briese, found there was sufficient evidence to go before a jury after a hearing which began in Central Court in 1978. The four men are Kenneth Leslie Nugan, described as the head of Australia's largest proprietary fruit and vegetable packing and distributing company, Robin Edgar Shearer, Thomas Anthony Hill and Robert Lyle Jones. They were charged by the Corporate Affairs Commission with Francis John Nugan, who committed suicide in January. They allegedly conspired to defeat the course of justice at Sydney between May 2, 1973, and May 26, 1978. Mr Briese committed them for trial at the current sitting of the Supreme Court. # WEATHER, SHIPPING SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 27-6-80 TIME NOON (Map showing weather patterns over Australia with labels like Pt Hedland, Alice Springs, Townsville, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, and HIGH/LOW pressure systems) | ISOBARS | 1016 | SEAS | WINDS | RAINFALL | |---|---|---|---|---| | (Value in millibars) | | Slight S1 | Calm 0 | 60km/h | Previous | | COLD FRONT | | Moderate M | 10 km/h 40km/h | | | | WARM FRONT | | Rough R | 20 km/h 100km/h | 24 hrs. | | | | Very Rough VR | 40 km/h and over | | | DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY - World "Power and Rain Attack" - # FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these warnings and forecast for today: WARNINGS: A graziers alert is current for the slopes and highlands. A strong wind warning is current for NSW coastal waters from Sydney to Nowra and a gale warning for the southern highlands and coastal waters south from Nowra and adjacent ocean waters. STATE: Rain areas will contract to the East and South, but some snows and local thunderstorms are expected as cold to SW NW winds tend cold west to SW reaching gale force at times on the southern highlands, some snow is expected about the Snowy Mountains. Seas will be moderate to rough offshore on a low swell. CITY: Rain periods easing to a shower or two with the chance of a thunderstorm as NW winds tend colder gusty westerly in the morning. Sunny periods developing. Seas moderate to rough offshore on a low swell. SYDNEY WATERS: A strong wind warning is current. NW winds 20/30 knots tending west to SW in the morning. Rain periods will ease to showers. Seas will be rough offshore on a low swell. There is a chance of a thunderstorm with the change. NORTHERN RIVERS: Some rain clearing during the day. NW winds freshening to 15/25 knots and tending W to SW. Seas moderate offshore. Low swell. MID NORTH COAST: Some rain clearing during the day. NW winds freshening to 15/25 knots and tending W to SW. Seas moderate offshore. Low swell. HUNTER: Rain clearing early in the morning but a few showers persisting. NW winds freshening to 20 to 25 knots and turning cool. Gusty W to SW in the morning. The chance of a thunderstorm with the change. Seas moderate to rough offshore. Low swell. SOUTH COAST AND ILLAWARRA: A gale warning is current for NW winds 30 to 40 knots turning W to SW 30 to 40 knots in the morning. Rain clearing to a few showers and the chance of thunderstorms. Seas becoming very rough offshore. Low swell. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Rain easing to a few showers later in the day. NW winds strengthening and turning colder W to SW during the day. A sheep weather alert is current. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: NW winds becoming strong and squally and turning very cold W to SW early in the morning. A few showers and the chance of a thunderstorm with the change. Some sleet on the peaks. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Very cold W to SW winds. Strong and squally. Showers and thunderstorms. Snowfalls above 1000 metres. Winds reaching gale force in parts and a gale warning and graziers alert are current. === Page 34 of 46 Oregonian June 28, 1980 -- "Power" Attack Associated Press Laserphoto SPILL IN BAY -- Barge bearing 85,000 barrels of fuel oil for Florida Power & Light Co. plant at Bradenton, Fla., near Tampa Bay, leaks into bay waters. Another barge was to pump it out. Barge sprang leak after grounding in channel leading from Gulf of Mexico into Tampa Bay. -- Rain Attack -- Note: This area. July predicted to be cooler, wetter than normal By LEVERETT RICHARDS of the Oregonian staff July 2, 1980 Forecasters were predicting partly sunny weather Thursday in the wake of thunderstorms that stripped some trees, shrubs and gardens of foliage in the Beaverton and Tigard areas late Wednesday. But the outlook for the next month is for lower than normal temperatures and higher than normal rainfall throughout the Willamette Valley. Thunderstorms that flooded streets and struck trees with lightning bolts in the Beaverton area also added to the woes of Willamette Valley farmers. Those who grow cherries for the maraschino market have suffered serious losses from rains cracking their fruit even before it is ripe, said Tom Valterza, Department of Agriculture spokesman. "Their cherry crop is not a total loss, but it is not up to normal," he said. Strawberries have suffered from rot due to the rain as well as from heavy ash fallout in some areas, he said. The prolonged rainy, cloudy weather has hit the hay crop in the Willamette Valley particularly hard, he said. "Much of the hay crop is still standing, well past its prime, because it has been too cool and wet to cut. It loses its nutritive value fast once past its prime," he said. Farmers who have cut their hay have suffered heavy losses from mold and rot for lack of drying weather. Others have chopped their hay and let it ferment for use as silage, he said. "This will mean a hefty increase in prices for livestock owners who have to buy their hay," he said. Growers of row crops also will suffer if they don't get some growing weather soon, he added. "It is the wettest year since 1971 so far," Valterza said. Light rain was recorded throughout most of Western Oregon overnight, but thunderstorms dumped up to an inch in isolated areas. === Page 35 of 46 June 28, 1980 -- "Power" Attack Associated Press Laserphoto SPILL IN BAY -- Barge bearing 85,000 barrels of fuel oil for Florida Power & Light Co. plant at Bradenton, Fla., near Tampa Bay, leaks into bay waters. Another barge was to pump it out. Barge sprang leak after grounding in channel leading from Gulf of Mexico into Tampa Bay. -- Rain Attack -- Note: This area. July predicted to be cooler, wetter than normal By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff July 27, 1980 Forecasters were predicting partly sunny weather Thursday in the wake of thunderstorms that stripped some trees, shrubs and gardens of foliage in the Beaverton and Tigard areas late Wednesday. But the outlook for the next month is for lower than normal temperatures and higher than normal rainfall throughout the Willamette Valley. Thunderstorms that flooded streets and struck trees with lightning bolts in the Beaverton area also added to the woes of Willamette Valley farmers. Those who grow cherries for the maraschino market have suffered serious losses from rains cracking their fruit even before it is ripe, said Tom Valterza, Department of Agriculture spokesman. "Their cherry crop is not a total loss, but it is not up to normal," he said. Strawberries have suffered from rot due to the rain as well as from heavy ash fallout in some areas, he said. The prolonged rainy, cloudy weather has hit the hay crop in the Willamette Valley particularly hard, he said. "Much of the hay crop is still standing, well past its prime, because it has been too cool and wet to cut. It loses its nutritive value fast once past its prime," he said. Farmers who have cut their hay have suffered heavy losses from mold and rot for lack of drying weather. Others have chopped their hay and let it ferment for use as silage, he said. "This will mean a hefty increase in prices for livestock owners who have to buy their hay," he said. Growers of row crops also will suffer if they don't get some growing weather soon, he added. "It is the wettest year since 1971 so far," Valterza said. Light rain was recorded throughout most of Western Oregon overnight, but thunderstorms dumped up to an inch in isolated areas. === Page 36 of 46 I am daily using psi and other dimensional force to control world weather... and this action is causing weather anomalies. Owens Oregonian June 29, 1980 # Searing heat continues; death toll at 18 DALLAS (AP) -- City and electric power company officials pleaded with residents Saturday to keep home air conditioners running or seek public shelter from a heat wave that already has been blamed for at least 18 deaths. The mercury climbed to 117 in Wichita Falls Saturday afternoon, breaking the all-time record high of 116 set Friday. The record high for June 27 in Wichita Falls was 108, set in 1928. At 4 p.m., it was 112 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, breaking the record for the date of 103 set in 1930. Dallas-Fort Worth registered 113 for the second day in a row Friday, the highest ever recorded. The early summer heat wave pushed temperatures to the 100-degree mark for the fourth straight day Saturday in Oklahoma. Residents of Albuquerque, N.M., endured their seventh straight day of 100-degree weather. Palm Springs, Calif., reported a reading of 110 degrees at midafternoon. In Los Angeles, midafternoon readings were in the mid-80s, and Los Angeles County lifeguards said beach attendance was high. Kansas and Missouri, however, got a breather from the hot spell, with Saturday's readings in the 80s and 90s. The artificial turf at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium registered 140 degrees Friday night, and the city set a record at 108. At least 18 people in Texas have died of heatstroke or natural causes possibly aggravated by the heat. Hospital emergency rooms have been swamped with heat exhaustion and heatstroke victims. Dallas County medical examiners said the heat could have played a role in the deaths by natural causes of three people brought in Friday night and early Saturday. Field agent Bill Lene said autopsies would be performed on five more people who died Saturday to see if the heat was responsible. "Any time you have a big shift in the temperature, there are more people dying ... in un-air-conditioned areas," Lene said. "We can't always determine if the heat brought on the deaths, but it figures in the investigation. When it's 95-100, we don't see this." Officials reported an illegal alien was found lying on a street near a hospital in the border city of Laredo. The unidentified man had a temperature of 110 and was immersed in ice water, but he died Thursday. At least five of the Dallas-area victims were found in homes with either no air conditioning or broken units. One man had turned the coolers off to save money. ## Why Texas Swelters Low pressure over Oklahoma traps high pressure over Texas ********** Southwesterly winds bring warm air from higher elevations into the low pressure system ********** Air builds-up at higher levels and is pulled downward by the high pressure system ********** Warm falling air prevents clouds from forming ********** The air is trapped in the system becoming stagnant and warmer Ft. Worth Dallas Southwesterly Winds - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Texas still sweltering; storm rakes Maryland Columbia 6/30/80 By The Associated Press Rapidly moving weather systems spawned tornadoes and violent thunderstorms in parts of the North and Northeast, but oppressive heat still baked Texas and other sections of the South and Southwest today. A sudden storm hit Baltimore late Sunday afternoon, injuring dozens and leaving thousands without power. A tornado touched down in a crowded children's zoo and high winds overturned a stage at a German folk festival at the Baltimore waterfront. In addition, authorities said at least five people were reported missing in boating accidents in Maryland as a result of the storm. In Illinois, two men were killed in a fire in a mobile home which authorities said was struck by lightning. Authorities in Alabama said heavy thunderstorms rumbled across the central part of the state Sunday evening, causing widespread power outages and at least three injuries in the Tuscaloosa area. Hail, high winds and thunderstorms were recorded across most of New York state Sunday afternoon and evening, leaving some roadways flooded, power out in spots and tree branches strewn about, but apparently little major damage. The National Weather Service in Buffalo said at least four funnel clouds drifted over western New York, but none apparently touched down. In Ulster County, where heavy rains caused severe flooding in March, more than 3 inches of rain fell in one downpour but authorities said streams were within their banks Sunday night. Meanwhile, the week-long heatwave that has been blamed for up to 42 deaths in the Southwest persisted. The heat has been also blamed for aggravating forest fires in Arizona and the Colorado Rockies. In Wichita Falls, Texas Sunday, the mercury reached a record 112 degrees. === Page 37 of 46 Oregonian June 29, 1980 - "Power" stack - (nuclear shut down) # After 4 minutes Radioactive gas venting halted MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Radiation alarms sounded four minutes after authorities began releasing radioactive krypton gas from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant Saturday, forcing a delay in the long-awaited venting effort. Tests showed no excess radiation was released in the 8 a.m. incident, but officials ordered tests Saturday night to work out problems with radiation detectors. The radioactive gas was released into the reactor's containment building when the system was damaged by overheating on March 28, 1979, in the nation's worst accident involving a commercial reactor. The gas must be removed before workers can begin cleaning up the building. A picnic celebrating the long-awaited venting effort was held through the afternoon near the plant. Met Ed employees and their families wore buttons reading "Friends and Family of TMI." Police reported no mass exodus of anxious residents, and some people even had garage sales advertised as "Krypton Venting Sales." Saturday's venting was stopped because the alarms indicated that excessive amounts of radioactive particles were being released. Later tests by Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operator, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated the readings were not accurate and that the releases were the minimal amount expected. Harold Denton of the NRC said the problem occurred because the initial rush of krypton through the monitors causes an overly high reading before the flow stabilizes and the monitor settles to a true reading. The alarm that caused the delay was on a monitor designed to detect radioactive dust particles that may escape filters as the gas is pumped from the building. Sensors to detect radioactive gases such as krypton did not go off. "What happened was the monitor saw krypton and thought it was particulate," Denton said. During a five-hour testing period that began at 5 p.m., authorities planned to process the krypton at a very slow rate and watch the response of the radiation monitors. But the testing was shut down temporarily at 7:08 p.m. because thunderstorms in the area hampered off-site monitoring, said Met Ed spokesman David Crippen. The off-site monitoring mainly involved "people out in the field with instruments," Crippen said. "We just can't have them standing out there in thunderstorms." The test venting had increased the flow of air through the system from 5 to 10 cubic feet per minute at 5 p.m. to 75 cubic feet per minute when the procedure was shut down shortly after 7 p.m., Crippen said. No abnormalities were observed, he added. Robert Arnold, chief of the recovery effort for Met Ed, said the earliest that routine venting would resume would be 2 p.m. Sunday. Crippen said Saturday night's temporary shutdown was not expected to delay that. Arnold said a few thousand curies of krypton could be released during the testing period. The containment building holds gas with radioactivity of 57,000 curies. Denton said the instrument response was not foreseen because it had not been tested with sufficient amounts of krypton. Up to 300 cubic feet of air passed through the system before the shutdown, releasing 12 curies of krypton gas to the air. That was just a fraction of the 57,000 curies to be emitted during the next two to four weeks. === Page 38 of 46 - World "Rain" Attack - 6/29/80 # Rainy weather wreaks havoc with Wimbledon courts, play By WILL GRIMSLEY WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- One of the British newspapers Saturday carried a half-page cartoon showing Wimbledon's Center Court completely engulfed in water, a rescue boat in the background and an umpire on his stand beneath an umbrella, pointing. "Miss Navratilova went down just about there!" the caption says. Such is the story of the 103rd All England Championships, plagued by intermittent showers, thunderstorms and hailstorms, delays and frustrations. Oldtimers say they don't remember a more miserable Wimbledon in terms of weather. Fred Hoyles, the official referee, said the tournament was 100 matches behind going into Friday's play and at least one full round off schedule. "We managed to pick up 20 matches Friday, when there was no interruption for the first time this week," Hoyles said. "If there is no other rain, we hope to pick up 20 or 30 a day." Squalls still were playing around the southeast coast of England as the first week drew to an end, and there was no assurance that the tournament would get a blessing for the final week's competition. Forecasts have been favorable. However, Londoners long ago learned that "favorable" in a weather forecast means "don't bet on it." While the blue-coated All England committee is gritting it out and loyal fans are taking the punishment without a whimper, the weeping skies are getting on the nerves of the competitors. "I was tiptoeing over the court, it was so slippery out there," said defending champion Martina Navratilova after being forced to three sets by South Africa's Tanya Harford. "I was afraid I might hurt myself. I couldn't tell whether the ball was going to bounce two feet high or five feet to the left." John McEnroe, the U.S. Open champion and No. 2 seed here, complained that players weren't able to adjust themselves properly to the conditions. "Half the time you don't know when you're going on or how long you'll play," he said. Tracy Austin, second-seeded in the women's division, agreed with McEnroe. "It's exhausting just waiting around the locker room," she said. "You think you may play in 40 minutes, and then the rain will come. Then you get on the court, play 30 minutes, come back and wait some more. On Tuesday, I stayed around until 7 o'clock and still didn't get to play." Forced to three sets by Barabara Potter in Saturday's third-round match, Austin said: "The court was so chopped up, I couldn't return service. I felt I was playing in a mud puddle." Associated Press Laserphoto WEATHER EYE -- Defending Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova peers from dressing room window. Scene has been rainy since famed English tennis tournament began last week. Billie Jean King, six-time singles champion and holder of a record 20 Wimbledon titles in all divisions, said the backlog was particularly tough on players entered in more than one event. "You play one match and then rush out and play another," she said. "It's very exhausting. You can't concentrate on the singles, for instance. You don't want to let your partners down." Billie Jean is the tournament's "iron woman," teaming with Navratilova in women's doubles and Dick Stockton in mixed doubles. Several other players are in two events. Bjorn Borg, seeking his fifth straight men's crown, concentrates on singles. The intermittent storms have been sweeping old Wimbledon since the first day, in and out, causing delays lasting from a few minutes to several hours. Friday -- the fourth day -- was the only session of the opening week that managed to be completed without interruption. There was a slight delay at the opening of Saturday's play, but the rain subsided and the program continued under leaden skies on soggy grass. But the fans, armed with raincoats and umbrellas, continued to queue up for close to a mile on Church Road, waiting to get into grounds where many are lucky to catch a glimpse of one match. === Page 39 of 46 Note: Using my Powers, am going to get rain and food to World Owens EAST AFRICA A Harvest of Despair The world's hungriest continent reels under a new famine After the famine that killed an estimated quarter of a million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade, Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"-a euphemism for widespread famine- 23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports: From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases. The situation is not likely to improve in the near future. The FAO warns that "unfavorable crop conditions" now prevail in almost every nation in East Africa and that without massive infusions of outside aid, several million East Africans may starve; thousands are dying every day. Says Robert Kitchen, a United Nations official in Nairobi: "From the Red Sea south, this area is on a collision course with disaster." The tragedy is in part the result of drought. For the past two years, the normally dependable rains that usually begin in March have arrived behind schedule-or not at all. This has disrupted planting from Somalia to Mozambique. In Kenya, a six-week delay in the rainy season contributed to a decline in milk production from 700,000 liters to 400,000 liters a day; milk, butter and baby formula virtually disappeared from the stores. Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because farmers stopped planting, the country cut off the shipments to Uganda after supplying only 80 tons, and was forced to buy heavily on international grain markets after accepting a U.S. donation of 60,000 tons. In Tanzania, the lack of modern storage facilities forced the government to export 259,000 tons of grain and other food stuffs last year-almost enough to cover the 280,000-ton shortfall it expects in 1980. The natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched to the area by the post-Amin regime have often joined in the attacks on the local populace. In late May, Tanzanian soldiers barged into the Catholic hospital in Abim, dragged away five patients, including a six-year-old boy, and shot them to death outside the hospital gate. A week later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse." What is needed is a complete overhaul of food production systems in the region: irrigation networks to increase the harvests, modern silos in areas like Tanzania to store the surplus, and better distribution methods to get the food to those who need it. But even if these ambitious plans are vigorously carried out, they cannot save the multitudes that are starving now. Says an FAO food expert: "No matter what we do now, millions will die." Adds World Food Council Executive Director Maurice Williams: "I wish I could say I had hope for the future, but I fear that we are headed for a period of permanent food crisis in Africa." Unable to feed her child, a woman in Karamoja begs at a mission "No matter what we do now, millions will die." 34 TIME, JUNE 30, 1980 === Page 40 of 46 Australia MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1980 Sydney Morning Herald 32 PAGES 20 CENTS* - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Wind tears through Blue Mts By RICHARD MACEY Strong winds which lashed the Blue Mountains yesterday left widespread damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Police, State emergency workers, fire-fighters and volunteers, some from as far away as Blacktown, had answered 96 calls for help by 6 pm. The wind, which reached 110 km/h, spent most of its force in Wentworth Falls, Katoomba and Blackheath, where dozens of homes, shops and buildings were unroofed. ## 'Roof going up and down' More than 20 girls were sleeping in their rooms at The Assembly of God Commonwealth Bible College in Katoomba when the wind began tearing at the roof about 3 a.m. "The roof was going up and down and we knew it was going to come off," the elderly couple from a house in Tablelands Road, Wentworth Falls, because the windows had blown in," the State Emergency Controller for the Blue Mountains, Mr David Sanson, said. "The whole place was vibrating in the wind and we thought it was going to come down," Mr Sanson added. "The winds were incredible," Mr Sanson said. "They were the strongest I have seen in my six years up here." The roof of another home in Tablelands Road was torn away as a workman, Mr Paul Janovics, hid inside. ## Two hurt as wall collapses "I was really scared," he said. "The wind only lasted a second but that was enough to rip off the roof and do about $2,000 damage." Builders completed the house only on Friday. Two State Emergency Service workers suffered minor abrasions when part of a garage wall collapsed on them as they were trying to secure the roof of a house in Wentworth Falls. In the Snowy Mountains, the worst blizzard for eight years blocked roads and stranded weekend travellers. A spokesman at the Cooma Visitors' Centre said the whole of the mountains area was covered with an average 75cm of snow after heavy falls which began on Friday night. Travellers at Guthega were still snowed-in last night. Many people had to be carried from Thredbo in cross-snow transports. The weather bureau expects snow to continue above 1,000 metres in the Snowy Mountains. PAGE 3: Pictures of damage; story of rescue in high seas. === Page 41 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # South sizzles as tornadoes batter East Oregon Journal 6/30/80 By United Press International Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms battered states from the Atlantic to the Midwest, forcing panic-stricken visitors to flee for cover at the Baltimore Zoo. Another round of oven-like temperatures was expected to bake the Southwest Monday. Clean-up and utility crews worked to restore power and clear away debris from a series of violent thunderstorms Sunday that raked parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. The Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said relentless heat was responsible for at least five deaths. Another 25 in the Dallas area and three others in Fort Worth are being investigated as possibly heat-related. Brutal heat also was responsible for four deaths in Oklahoma and three in Arkansas, for an area-wide total of 40 possible heat deaths. With the exception of a 6-month-old girl, the Dallas victims have been older than 50, most of them unable to afford air conditioning. Jack Paup of the National Weather Service said North Texas' temperatures likely will moderate slightly during the next few days before the heat wave eases on Thursday. "Each day will probably be 1 to 2 degrees cooler than the day before," he said. "But it's still going to get up above 105 for a while." Dallas recorded a record 108 degrees Sunday, with the mercury peaking at 112 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Triple-digit temperatures caused an Oklahoma highway to explode. About 4,000 people were enjoying an afternoon in the Baltimore Zoo Sunday when a tornado ripped through the grounds, downing hundreds of trees, injuring three persons and killing three birds. Trees fell on top of animal cages, killing two storks and a vulture and causing an estimated $50,000 in damages. Most of the zoo's 12,000 animals were unharmed. "It was pretty scary. My kids were doing pretty good until the adults started screaming and hollering," said Lawrence Littleton of Salisbury. "We rushed to the elephant home. A couple of people fell and were trampled." In a nearby trailer park, a tornado injured 10 persons, overturned six trailers and damaged or destroyed 18 others. Raging thunderstorms and 75 mph winds raked Southern Illinois, leaving up to 60,000 residents without electricity and causing up to $300,000 in damage in what some officials said was the worst storm in two decades. Power company technicians and clean-up crews worked Monday to clean up debris and restore power to about 20,000 residents. Hardest hit was Murphysboro, a town of about 10,000, where three tornadoes were sighted and Mayor Michael Bowers declared a state of emergency. Thunderstorms knocked out power for almost 30,000 homes in three southern Pennsylvania counties. Fires started by lightning caused minor injuries to 14 firefighters who battled blazes in Dauphin County and in Eden, Pa. "Power + Rain Attack" ## Leak shuts nuclear unit RED WING, Minn. (AP) -- Northern States Power Co. will shut down one unit of its Prairie Island nuclear generating plant because of a radioactive leak, a company spokesman said Tuesday. Steve London, media services supervisor, said Unit 1 would be shut down because the "leakage rate has increased." He would not supply any figures. The leak was discovered late Saturday night in the steam generator of Unit 1, utility spokesman Wayne Kaplan said Monday. "The leak is barely detectible and has not affected plant operations," Kaplan had said in an announcement Monday. "The total amount of radioactive gas being vented into the atmosphere is well below the limits allowed for safe operation of the plant." He said officials had not determined the cause of the leak, which was described Monday as .006 gallons of radioactive water per minute. Oregonian 7/2/80 "Power" Attack ## N-shutdown 'safe' KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman said Saturday an early morning shutdown was carried out safely at a unit of the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama despite a malfunction involving the reactor's control rods. "There was no release of radioactive material," TVA spokesman Mike Butler said. "There was no danger to the public." Butler said 68 of 185 reactor control rods failed to fully insert in the reactor core when the unit was manually tripped to begin a four-day shutdown to repair a leaking feed water line. Oregonian 6/29/80 === Page 42 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Maryland twisters injure 34 Seattle Times 6/30/80 BALTIMORE - (AP) - At least 34 persons were injured yesterday and power was knocked out as a line of tornadoes and thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high wind swept through Maryland, authorities said. The injured included five persons hurt when a twister touched down in the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo, police reported. About 61,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area remained without electricity after the storms, which had at one time knocked out power to up to 100,000 customers. A major highway south of the city was blocked by toppled lines and trees. On Chesapeake Bay, Maryland marine police reported five people missing in boating accidents. Two of those were occupants of a rubber raft which capsized near Fort Smallwood in Baltimore County. Marine police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across Chesapeake Bay. City hospitals reported at least 22 injured. They included those from the zoo, at least eight others hurt while attending a German festival in the city's Inner Harbor, and two city fire fighters whose engine swerved off a road to avoid a tree that crashed in front of them. Ten persons were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, state police said. Hospital officials said the other injuries were to persons in scattered locations. According to a police spokesman, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, Ritchie Highway, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. The tornado hit the zoo around closing time. Five people were taken to hospitals. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage, and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the other injuries. No animals escaped, zoo officials said, but several birds in the zoo's collection were killed when a tree fell on top of them. A zoo official said there were about 4,000 people at the zoo when the tornado hit. - World "Rain" Attack - # Mexico rain not enough MEXICO CITY (AP) - Rain sprinkled the scorched farm lands of northern Mexico last week, but a yearlong drought is still causing crop and livestock damage and threatening the supply of electricity to Mexico City and its suburbs. "The rains are going to help a little, but not enough," said Manuel Muruato, a weather bureau official in the northern state of Chihuahua. He said heavy rains had fallen in the mountainous regions of Urique, Chinipas and Guadalupe y Calvo, along the Chihuahua-Sonora state border. But there was only light rainfall in the lowlands around Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, where there are more cattle ranches and farm land, Muruato reported. Temperatures in the drought area are still peaking at 107-111 degrees, according to weather office reports. Oregonian 6/29/80 - drought fair - === Page 43 of 46 - "Power" and "Rain" Attack - # 34 injured as tornadoes rip Maryland Oregonian June 30, 1980 **By LINDA DUFFIELD** BALTIMORE (AP) - At least 34 people were injured Sunday as power was knocked out as a line of tornadoes and thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high wind swept through Maryland, authorities said. The injured included five people hurt when an apparent twister touched down in the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo, police reported. About 61,000 homes and businesses in the metropolitan Baltimore area remained without electricity six hours after the storms, which had at one time knocked power to up to 100,000 customers. A major highway south of the city was blocked by toppled lines and trees. On Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Marine Police reported five people missing in boating accidents. Two of those were occupants of a rubber raft which capsized near Fort Smallwood in Baltimore County, they said. City hospitals reported at least 22 injured, including those from the zoo, at least eight others hurt while attending a German festival in the city's Inner Harbor and two city firefighters whose engine swerved off a road to avoid a tree that crashed down in front of them. Hospital officials said the other injuries were to people in scattered locations. Two other injuries were reported by Marine Police - a woman in shock and a child who swallowed water. They were taken to hospitals after being removed from a boat on Chesapeake Bay. Ten persons were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, state police said. Two of the injured - one from the zoo and one from a boat accident in the Chesapeake Bay - were flown to University Hospital's shock-trauma unit in critical condition. Marine Police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across the Chesapeake Bay. One man was injured when his boat sank in high winds and he was struck by a second boat. One of those at the shock-trauma unit was an unidentified woman whose leg got caught in part of the stage at the Inner Harbor when it was blown over. "The storm hit at 4 p.m. and the stage was the first thing to go. People were everywhere and they were hit by flying debris and they were slipping and falling in the mud, but the crowd was fantastic, there was no panic," said Pamela Somers, operations director for special events for the city. According to state police spokesman William Clark, Ritchie Highway, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. Clark said three other tornadoes touched down in St. Marys County in southern Maryland late Sunday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police Sgt. George Bewley said the tornado "slammed into the zoo around closing time..." Five people were taken to hospitals from the zoo, according to officials. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the other injuries. "No animals escaped to the best of our knowledge," said Zoo Director Steve Graham. But he added that several birds in the zoo's collection were killed when a tree fell on top of them. - "Power" Attack - # Dam workers face discipline over 'sickout' The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awaited shift changes Friday to see if nonunion civilian hourly employees would heed a warning that they face disciplinary action if they continue their "sickout" over a federal wage freeze that limited government pay increases. Several hundred powerhouse operators and maintenance personnel joined the sickout at 18 dams in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to protest what they view as an inadequate wage boost. McNary Dam workers were calling in sick again Friday after only two of 60 hourly employees showed up Thursday. The dam near Umatilla has the earliest morning shift change of the hydroelectric facilities on the Columbia River system in Oregon. Army Corps of Engineers supervisors have taken over jobs normally performed by the hourly employees and officials have pledged to keep electricity flowing from turbines installed in the dams. Oregon Journal 6/27/80 Related story, page 4 === Page 44 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # Tornados, Wind And Rain Injure 30 in Maryland June 30, 1980 BALTIMORE (AP) -- A series of tornados, accompanying heavy thunderstorms and high winds, swept across Maryland late yesterday afternoon, injuring at least 30 people, authorities said. Maryland Natural Resources Police said two occupants of a rubber raft were missing and presumed drowned in Chesapeake Bay. City hospitals reported at least 20 injured, including four persons hurt when what police said was a tornado slammed into the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo. Eight of the 20 were injured, some by flying debris, at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, a waterfront park where a German festival was under way, according to Pamela Somers, operations director for special events for the city. Ten people were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, authorities said. Two of the injured -- one from the zoo and one from a boat accident in Chesapeake Bay -- were flown to University Hospital's shock-trauma unit in critical condition. Marine police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across Chesapeake Bay. One man was injured when his boat sank in high winds and he was struck by a second boat. Charles Franklin, a spokesman for Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., said at least 100,000 customers in the metropolitan area were without power last evening and said there was no indication when the power would be restored. One of those at the shock-trauma unit was an unidentified woman whose leg got caught in part of the stage at the Inner Harbor when it was blown over. "The storm hit at 4 p.m. and the stage was the first thing to go. People were everywhere and they were hit by flying debris and they were slipping and falling in the mud, but the crowd was fantastic, there was no panic," Mrs. Somers said. According to state police spokesman William Clark, Ritchie Highway, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. Police Sgt. George Bewley said the tornado "slammed into the zoo around closing time...." Four persons were taken to Provident Hospital from the zoo, according to zoo officials, police and hospital officials. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage, and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the fourth injury. === Page 45 of 46 Note: Using my powers, am going to get rain and food to this part of the World Owens EAST AFRICA # A Harvest of Despair ## The world's hungriest continent reels under a new famine After the famine that killed an estimated quarter of a million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade, Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"--a euphemism for widespread famine--23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports: From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases. The situation is not likely to improve in the near future. The FAO warns that "unfavorable crop conditions" now prevail in almost every nation in East Africa and that without massive infusions of outside aid, several million East Africans may starve; thousands are dying every day. Says Robert Kitchen, a United Nations official in Nairobi: "From the Red Sea south, this area is on a collision course with disaster." The tragedy is in part the result of drought. For the past two years, the normally dependable rains that usually begin in March have arrived behind schedule--or not at all. This has disrupted planting from Somalia to Mozambique. In Kenya, a six-week delay in the rainy season contributed to a decline in milk production from 700,000 liters to 400,000 liters a day; milk, butter and baby formula virtually disappeared from the stores. Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because farmers stopped planting, the country cut off the shipments to Uganda after supplying only 80 tons, and was forced to buy heavily on international grain markets after accepting a U.S. donation of 60,000 tons. In Tanzania, the lack of modern storage facilities forced the government to export 259,000 tons of grain and other food stuffs last year--almost enough to cover the 280,000-ton shortfall it expects in 1980. The natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched to the area by the post-Amin regime have often joined in the attacks on the local populace. In late May, Tanzanian soldiers barged into the Catholic hospital in Abim, dragged away five patients, including a six-year-old boy, and shot them to death outside the hospital gate. A week later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse." What is needed is a complete overhaul of food production systems in the region: irrigation networks to increase the harvests, modern silos in areas like Tanzania to store the surplus, and better distribution methods to get the food to those who need it. But even if these ambitious plans are vigorously carried out, they cannot save the multitudes that are starving now. Says an FAO food expert: "No matter what we do now, millions will die." Adds World Food Council Executive Director Maurice Williams: "I wish I could say I had hope for the future, but I fear that we are headed for a period of permanent food crisis in Africa." Unable to feed her child, a woman in Karamoja begs at a mission "No matter what we do now, millions will die." 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8007 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bca25d2caf9b99a839d095acb3084138.pdf 2a952fa1cc2621c9d38b0ce1e769c883 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/defd07e82af3a79da6f5e55071db2527.txt 369014b105a683b0d508c02b3e6a6344 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 D. SCOTT ROGO 18132 SCHOENBORN ST. NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA 91324 (213) 993-1799 JUNE 5, 1980 DEAR TED: I JUST GOT IN FROM NEW YORK, AND WANTED TO SEND YOU AN UPDATE ON THE BOOK. THERE, I GOT THE WHOLE STORY AS TO WHY HBJ REJECTED THE BOOK. THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT WAS GIVEN THE GO AHEAD BY THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. SHORTLY AFTER THE CONTRACT WENT OUT, SHE RETIRED FROM THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS. THE NEW MAN IN CHARGE DECIDED, FOR FINANCIAL REASONS, TO CUT BACK HARCOURT'S LIST AND FELT THAT "PSYCHIC BOOKS" WOULD BE THE FIRST TO GO. SO THERE WAS NOTHING SINISTER IN THE LOSS OF THE CONTRACT. PRENTICE-HALL IS CURRENTLY TAKING A BEATING ON A UFO BOOK THEY ISSUED, SO THEY ARE NOT DOING ANY UFO BOOKS AT PRESENT. OUR BOOK IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF BALLANTINE BOOKS AND DIAL PRESS. I WILL HEAR FROM THEM IN DUE COURSE. BEST WISHES Scott === Page 2 of 2 June 8, 1980 Dear Scott, Saga did 5 articles about me with Otto Binder. Following which Saga replaced the Editor who had OK'd the articles on me and my work and from there on in "PK Man" was persona non grata in Saga. Nunca mas. Nothing "sinister" there either, right? Owen * also, Otto dropped dead. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 # Crippling drought hits SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) - Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Out-back areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned. 4/7/80 **news scope** April 9, 1980 Prime Minister of Australia Dear Sir: I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services. For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented. You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man). A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work. If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers." I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true. # Southern Australia === Page 2 of 4 - World "Power" Attack - Note: Antolin is in Puerto Rico. Power knocked out. Also Power knocked out in Israel - twice! - 0 - April / 29 - 80 Ted: Hello!!! Here I am. Better. Ted, although late, I have to inform you of the many appearances of UFOs, and their occupants in the island since October '79. Just two weeks ago there was a blackout in the whole island and many UFOs were seen in Ponce, in the south, and over Levittown, in the north coast of our island. There were (seen) occupants of UFOs of all sizes and aspects. That's all now, Ted. Health and happiness to you and the kids. Yours, Antolin From: A. Rodriguez, Jr., 1362, San Bernardo, Altamesa, P.R. 00921 === Page 3 of 4 June 16, 1980 Jeffrey - World Rain Attack - Australians report UFOs PERTH Australia (AP) -- Australians in the bush country who witnessed last year's fiery plunge of Skylab are seeing things again. Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object have been reported over Kalgoorlie, 370 miles east of here. The manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Kalgoorlie, Stanley Brown, said he received hundreds of calls Wednesday night reporting various descriptions of a fiery object in the sky. Note: Experts following this file are well aware that I am employing powers from my UFOs (SIs) as well as The Mayan Power, Xtoloc, to produce vast rains onto Australia to end that country's dangerous drought. This appearance of UFOs over Australia at this time is the signature of my UFOs affixed to my rain project. I.e., they are saying, in effect, "Owens' UFOs are here in Australia, working to bring the vast rains that he wishes." Owens P.S. also note that the SIs, Xtoloc, & I have produced rains in Australia in spite of the fact that the drought was predicted to last for six months. === Page 4 of 4 Well then, let me put it this way. Return my two spring blade knives or California will probably be wrecked. By UFOs. Owens 6/8/80 May 20, 1980 Inspector John Paresi U.S. Customs c/o Mexicana Airlines San Luis Valdez Baggage Service 500 World Way, International Airport Los Angeles, California 90045 Gentlemen: This is the most unusual letter that you will ever receive, and perhaps the most important letter you will ever receive...although it deals with a trifling matter. Two pocket knives, spring-blade type, were taken from me by U.S. Customs not long ago. You will recall. I had a bulletproof vest and other items in my duffle bag because I was trying to protect my 9-year old son and myself in Yucatan and I thought Guatemala. I respectfully request...that U.S. Customs send to me the two pocketknives taken away from me. Please. I collect pocket knives, and I had searched for this particular type for 30 years and finally found them in Mexico...only to lose them to you. I plead my case with you now. They mean nothing to you. As "contraband" they are not supposed to fall into the hands of criminals for criminal use. I am not a criminal and never have been. They were to be used for letter-openers. You must be assumed that these knives are dangerous. That is most humorous. In my mind, I have controlled the area of San Francisco...and you can check with a scientist on that: Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. To do that I had to knock out electrical power in the S.F. area, bring freak storms and lightning attacks, and produce a UFO that could be photographed by scientists there. You can obtain a copy of the scientific report on that from Dr. Mishlove for $7. Area 415, 346-7770, phone. I controlled the state of Florida...ran hurricanes over it; changed its weather, and other things...you can check on it with an Air Force weather expert, Mr. Wayne Jones, 3270 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, (305) 968-2261. A scientific investigator has written a full book on my work in this regard: B. Steiger, 11327 Dearborn St., Northridge, California, 91324, Area 213, 363-1721. Is it quite obvious that if I can control a city, a state...then that is indeed far more dangerous than having in my possession two pocket knives, is it not so? I pledge to you...these knives would not be used for any criminal action. ...the very existence of California might well depend on your decision. Two pocket knives. It sounds ridiculous, but I urge you to contact the above. There is a hard-cover book written by Colin Wilson called "Mysteries" which describes my work in detail; also "Occult America" by John Godwin (Doubleday, 1972) and other books written about my incredible work. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Feb 8, 2026 June 1980 was a huge month incorporating a lot of articles covering April May and June. There was a very strong theme Australian weather and also a tremendous amount of letters. I went the extra mile of creating a lot of folders to categorize the themes and letters to make them easier to find. Australia does appear as a theme in some months but it was very big for June material. Lewis https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9deff7bc651cb1236da80879a37d8468.pdf 81d642da379611e4a265a916d9eeab75 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8b617541a2665d43f42957ce6e724bd3.txt d671570c57bfe54215b77e61822ce953 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 19 FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1980 Oregonian "POWER" ATTACK (LINGER) # Barricades to ring storm-stricken city GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities said Thursday that they plan to seal off this suffering city of 40,000 people where tornadoes crushed 700 homes and businesses and left water and power systems in shambles. Police Chief Howard Bacon said law enforcement officers and the 260 National Guardsmen helping patrol the streets would throw up barricades at all entrances to the city Friday, sealing the town off for the weekend to keep away looters and sightseers. Meanwhile, an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew remained in effect. "We want to keep away people who would like to come in here and see the damage," Bacon said. "We're sealing the city of Grand Island off. It's better to be safe than sorry." Authorities said four persons were killed during Tuesday night's furious assault by up to seven twisters. Two other residents died after suffering apparent heart attacks while cleaning up the mess. Four persons were arrested Wednesday night and early Thursday for violating the curfew or petty theft, and another was charged with assaulting a police officer. But Bacon said that generally, "looting has been minimal." While the city strived to return to normal, Mayor Robert Kriz said officials were worried about the possibility of fire breaking out in the city, which had been without water pressure for nearly 48 hours. "This is scaring us," said Kriz as crews worked to restore electrical power to homes and businesses. "We're scared that the businessmen will turn on the juice, and that the building will have been shaken and damaged, and that there will be an explosion and fire," the mayor said. Other city officials said arrangements had been made with fire departments in nearby communities to rush water tank trucks to Grand Island should a blaze break out. City Attorney Keith Sinor said the tornadoes left about 700 structures, including more than 50 businesses, uninhabitable. Assistant City Attorney Bill Shreffler said 34 persons were "unaccounted for" Thursday afternoon. Sinor emphasized, however, that the 34 are not considered dead or missing because many could have been out of town or staying with relatives and not in contact with city officials. Scores of volunteers, including private construction firms with heavy equipment, began biting into the rubble that covers five separate areas of devastation. TV broadcast on this announced World "Power" Attack # Twisters hurt 80, damage 3 states By The Associated Press Tornadoes and violent thunderstorms roared through Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, smashing mobile homes and injuring more than 80 people. Philadelphia police said a motorist was killed when a tree fell on his truck. Western Pennsylvania bore the brunt of the de- Owen massive Power blackouts!! Owen THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1980 3M A9 struction, with nearly 80 persons taken to four hospitals in the region, most of them with minor cuts and bruises. At least three injuries were reported in Maryland and four in West Virginia. The storms were part of a system that lashed the Midwest over the weekend and on Monday, killing two persons and injuring at least 35 in four states. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said between seven and 12 twisters touched down in a path from the extreme northern end of Westmoreland County east to Indiana County. At Edgewood Estate Mobile Home Park in Armstrong County, witnesses said between 50 and 75 units were blown apart. About 60 park residents were taken to area hospitals. June 4, 1980 === Page 2 of 19 - "Power" Attack (Linger Effect) - Oregon Journal, June 4, 1980 # Twisters kill five in 3-state sweep By United Press International Late spring tornadoes devastated parts of Pennsylvania, Nebraska and West Virginia, killing at least five persons, injuring scores of others and leaving thousands homeless. In Grand Island, Nebraska's third largest city, at least five persons were killed when a series of tornadoes swept through Tuesday night, leveling most of the business district, tearing roofs from at least four apartment complexes and trapping residents in their homes with downed power lines and collapsing walls. Most electrical, gas and water service was knocked out throughout the city of 32,000. Hospitals neared capacity with injured and utility crews were out in full force trying to fix power lines and stop gas leaks. Tornadoes also ripped through southern Ohio and Maryland, injuring several persons. High winds snapped power lines in Washington, Virginia and Maryland. Thunderstorms whipped by 60 mph winds crashed into New York at rush hour Tuesday, toppling utility poles and snarling traffic for millions of commuters. Flights at local airports were delayed up to an hour by the storms. In Pennsylvania, heavy rain accompanied by winds of up to 65 mph hit the eastern part of the state, cutting off electricity to 50,000 Philadelphia residents and claiming the life of Steven Paolino, 27, who was killed when a tree struck by lightning fell on him. Nine tornadoes destroyed more than 250 mobile homes and injured 150 persons in what the National Weather Service called the "largest tornado outbreak ever" in western Pennsylvania. One of the hardest hit areas was Apollo, Pa., in Armstrong County. "It took about 50 (mobile) homes," said Rich Cappo of Apollo. "Thirty of these are completely destroyed. Some of those homes are stacked three high." In Kiski Valley, about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, more than 200 mobile homes were toppled and 15 homes damaged. "It's a disaster area," an eyewitness said. "Trailers are strewn around like matchsticks." A 35-mile-wide thunderstorm spawned at least four and up to seven twisters in Grand Island within a three hour period, said a National Weather Service meterologist. Millions of dollars in property damage was reported and more than 1,000 people were left homeless. About 27 persons were reported missing. At least eight persons were injured, including four members of one family, when a tornado stormed through Preston County West Virginia. Police said the tornado touched down at least five times in the West Virginia communities of Reedsville and Kingwood, destroying at least three houses and seven mobile homes. - "Power" Attack - # Layoffs begin RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A major contractor for Hanford nuclear projects Nos. 1 and 4 has begun laying off workers as part of an expected weekend shutdown at the two plants. Layoffs began Tuesday. Fred Read, project manager for Atkinson-Wright-Schuchart-Harbor, said members of four unions who are refusing to show up for work are forcing all his firm's operations to grind to a halt. AWSH employs about 2,450 of the 4,000 people working on the projects. The work stoppage is expected to stop all work at the plants. K.F. Nowakowski, spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System, said other contractors will stop working when they run out of things to do. Ironworkers were hit first by the layoffs. A total of 525 ironworkers left the two plants Tuesday, said ironworkers union spokesman Pat Sanders. Electricians and other workers are also being laid off, he said. Oregonian June 5, '80 - "Power" Attack - # Bolts to blame SATSOP, Wash. -- Overstressed bolts in a crane boom probably caused the collapse of a 500-foot steel tower crane at the construction sites of two nuclear power plants here May 28, results of an ongoing investigation indicate. The tower crane fell apart after it was struck by the broken boom, causing millions of dollars of damage and slightly injuring three persons when it fell into the Project 3 Reactor Auxiliary Building. Orville Trapp, Washington Public Power Supply System manager of engineering. Oregonian June 8, 1980 - World "Power" Attack (Linger) - # Israel suffers second power outage TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israel suffered its second nationwide power failure in eight months Tuesday. Utility officials said they did not know the exact cause of the blackout. Some factories, hospitals and newspapers switched over to their own emergency generators, but most of the country shut down early when the electricity failed shortly after 3 p.m. Oregonian June 4, 1980 === Page 3 of 19 "Power Attack (Linger)" # Power surge ties up traffic SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A power surge at a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. substation Wednesday knocked out a 10,000-volt power feed line to the Municipal Railway, leaving several thousand commuters stranded. The surge at 7:32 a.m. also caused a momentary power loss affecting most of the San Francisco bay area, said Dennis Pooler, a PG&E spokesman. Except for the Municipal Railway outages, there was no substantial loss of electrical service to utility customers, he said. The effect on the city transportation system was more substantial. "We are really in a bind," said Jim Leonard, director of public affairs for the Public Utility Commission. Leonard said six trolley lines in the city were not operating and that diesel buses were being routed to pick up stranded commuters. "That, of course, will leave the diesel bus routes short," he said. Pooler said the power surge was caused by a "flashover" at the PG&E Martin substation that caused a 230,000-volt transmission line to be knocked out for a few seconds. The surge caused a ripple effect to other substations throughout the bay area, he said. The surge apparently was caused by early morning rain. "We're not sure, but apparently some water seeped into the substation where some dust had settled," Pooler said. "The dust acted as an electrical conductor, causing an arc, or flashover." Oregonian June 5, 1980 "POWER" ATTACK # Twister hits three states By The Associated Press A tornado churned through parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania late Friday, knocking down a number of rural buildings, trees and power lines, but causing no serious injuries, authorities said. Two children suffered minor cuts and bruises when their mobile home in Carroll County, Ohio, was demolished by the twister, according to the Carrollton Fire Department. Several unoccupied buildings near the residence also were damaged, a spokesman said. The twister then spun through Jefferson County, Ohio, around 8 p.m. A farmer told the county sheriff's office he saw the tornado pass along a ridge, uprooting trees amid a cloud of flying debris. Oregonian June 7, 1980 WORLD RAIN ATTACK # Storm slashes Scots NAIRN, Scotland (AP) -- A freak tornadolike storm struck this seaside resort Thursday, flipping over dozens of vacation trailers and blowing out windows. Nine persons were reported injured, two seriously. The scene at the town's trailer park was like "something from a war," said a witness. "There's nothing left -- just pulp." More than 40 trailers were overturned. Torrential rain, accompanied by thunder, lightning and large hailstones, quickly flooded roads in the northern Scottish town, situated near the battlefield of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scottish Highlanders were defeated by the English army in 1746. "It was more like a tornado than anything else. It was all over in 10 minutes, but everything came to a standstill," said town official Fiona Campbell. "It was like the tropical storms you see on the pictures. I have never seen anything like it in my life." Oregonian June 6, 1980 === Page 4 of 19 Saturday, June 7, 1980 15¢ # Experts find volcano blast odd mystery By JAMES LONG Journal Staff Writer How did Mount St. Helens erupt violently enough to flatten 12 miles of forest without killing any of its known victims by the blast? This is one of many mysteries facing scientists in the wake of the May 18 eruption that took the lives of at least 24 persons and left another 50 missing. Although the eruption has been compared with a 25-megaton nuclear bomb explosion, not even the three victims found within a mile of ground zero were killed by the blast, Dr. Don Reay, King County, Wash., medical examiner, said Friday. "This has been one of the surprising things, the general lack of blast injury," agreed Dr. Larry Lewman, assistant Oregon medical examiner whose office performed eight of the autopsies. Of the 22 victims studied thus far, three died of burns, 17 died of apparent suffocation from inhaling large amounts of hot ash, and two died of delayed lung failure from inhaling hot ash, the doctors reported. Tim Hait, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist, said the USGS, too, is puzzled by the lack of explosion-caused deaths. "It's one of the fascinating questions that has come up, and we've certainly wondered about it," Hait said. "Trees were knocked down 12 miles to the north. Cameras were knocked off their tripods. "There were a lot of signs of blast. But as to why people didn't show an effect, I have nothing to contribute. We (USGS) have no hypothesis right now." At the University of Oregon Center for Volcanism, professor Gordon Goles speculated that the shock wave of the eruption was sub-lethal because it moved perhaps at the speed of sound rather than supersonically. "A supersonic shock wave moves faster than the atoms in the air can get out of the way," Goles explained. "This means there is high energy at the front of the wave, and a vacuum behind it. People get compressed and decompressed very rapidly. This is what happens in a blast and why it kills." Although most of the victims died as an immediate result of ash-plugged air passages, the medical examiners also found signs of potentially fatal heat damage in the lungs. Reay said the hot ash -- estimated at 300 degrees Fahrenheit many miles from the crater -- did two things in the lungs: * Seared the mucous lining, causing swelling and an accumulation of fluid. * Seared and impaired the cilia, tiny hairs that grow in the throat and on top of lung cells and pass large, invading particles out of the lungs like a bucket-brigade. "Most of these people were overcome so quickly that the thermal effects didn't make any difference," Reay added. The only people whose deaths were attributed directly to burns were members of a prospecting party working within a mile of the crater when the eruption occurred, Reay said. Oregon Journal A normal-speed sound wave doesn't pile up a battering-ram of air atoms and doesn't create a vacuum behind itself although the total amount of energy can still be extremely large, Goles went on. "A rough illustration," he said, "is that a man can lean into a strong wind without being blown over -- but a billboard might be knocked down because the wind is pushing on a larger surface. "We could guess that the trees went down mainly because they present a large surface area for a shock wave to push on." Goles, too, said he was "surprised" by the medical examiners' findings that people weren't killed by blast. He said the evidence will have an important bearing on determining the physics of the eruption, "although it's tragic and unfortunate that the evidence comes to us this way." According to Lewman and Reay, the normal signs of percussive deaths are ruptured eardrums and other organs affected by sudden compression and decompression. Note: The Mt St Helens explosions... a warning from the SIs and Pyrlve!!! Owens * + RE the Base === Page 5 of 19 Oregon Journal June 11, 1980 "Power" Attack and Florida Demonstration (Linger Effect) # Twister slams Palm Beach By United Press International hurricane strength! A tornado packing 92 mph winds ripped through the Palm Beach International Airport, damaging or destroying 40 to 50 small aircraft and causing an estimated $1 million in damage. In Columbus, Ind., a workman was killed when a gust of wind during a violent thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon lifted the roof from a condominium under construction and hurled it to the ground, striking Walter Eugene Hamilton, 52. A second worker was treated for arm and rib pains and later released from a local hospital. The thundershowers in the West Palm Beach storm dumped more than 2 inches of rain on the county. Power lines were down in many areas and trees toppled. Florida Power & Light Co. reported scattered power failures affecting about 500 families. The National Weather Service said the tornado at Palm Beach International Airport touched down shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday. The damage estimate of $1 million was made by Alan Richter, the county Civil Defense communications coordinator. He said there were 40 to 50 planes damaged or destroyed -- some of them flipped onto their backs. Tornadoes also swept through portions of Texas, Colorado and Kentucky, causing no injuries and only minor damage. The Great Lakes region remained unusually cool with night temperatures nearing the freezing mark, but the mercury climbed past 100 degrees in the southwestern desert Tuesday afternoon. The official hot spots reported in Arizona included Coolidge and Casa Grande with 112 degrees. Tucson and Phoenix trailed with 106 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered from west Texas to eastern Colorado and lingered over the Atlantic seaboard. The National Weather Service reported much of the nation suffered near record-breaking severe weather during the past two weeks, including about 350 tornadoes that killed six people. Preliminary figures showed 1,000 reports of severe weather received at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. Forecasters issued nearly 100 severe thunderstorm and tornado watches during the period from May 25 to June 7, in addition to numerous warnings issued by local National Weather Service offices. Preliminary figures for the states having the most tornadoes during the period included: Indiana 35, Iowa and Nebraska 29, South Dakota 28, North Dakota 27, Minnesota 26, Kansas 23, Illinois 21, Texas 18, Ohio 16, Wisconsin 15 and Pennsylvania 13. In Buffalo, N.Y., where the sight of snow is usually nothing new, June snow has become a novelty. The National Weather Service said traces of graupel, a hard snow somewhere between sleet and regular snow, were recorded early Wednesday. Oregon Journal, June 16, 1980 (2) # "Power" Attack Storms, tornadoes kill four By United Press International Weekend tornadoes and thunderstorms ripped through Maryland and Virginia, killing at least four persons and cutting off electricity to thousands in suburbs around the nation's capital. Much of the Midwest was pummeled by high wind and heavy rain. More than 100,000 power outages were reported Sunday in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs surrounding Washington, D.C. Two tornadoes touched down in northern Virginia in Fairfax County. A boat capsized Sunday in a reservoir near Laurel, Md., drowning a 5-year-old boy and his uncle. Divers searched for the boy's body Monday. A day of sailing on the Potomac River turned into an ordeal for a party of four when their boat capsized in winds gusting to 65 mph, killing one person who was caught in the rigging of the boat. Police reported another man was struck and killed by a tree. The National Weather Service warned that the upper Great Lakes region may be in for unusually cool weather for late spring. Frost warnings were posted Monday for extreme northern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. === Page 6 of 19 WASH. SEATTLE WENATCHEE ABERDEEN TACOMA 90 OLYMPIA ELLENSBURG 5 YAKIMA LONGVIEW MT. ST. HELENS ASTORIA WOODLAND VANCOUVER Columbia River TILLAMOOK PORTLAND HOOD RIVER THE DALLES ARLINGTON SALEM 0 75 NEWPORT ORE. Miles OREGON JOURNAL newsmap by Morrow FALL ZONE -- Shaded area indicates where ash from Thursday night eruption of Mount St. Helens fell. Ash covered 4,500 square miles. As an early morning rain began to fall, the ash turned to slippery muck and travel became extremely hazardous in some places. "It's terrible out there," said Cindy Johnson of West Linn, who drove into Portland early Friday. "It was just like somebody was dumping mud on you. It was like mud clods coming down." There was no major traffic problem on Interstate 5 in Oregon, but the Washington State Patrol said several automobiles stopped operating north of Vancouver when their air filters became clogged with ash. U.S. 30 from Portland to St. Helens was hazardous, and drivers were limited to 15 mph. Portland police, wearing face masks and goggles, waited out the heaviest part of the ash storm in fire stations, precinct (Continued on page 1A) ★ June 13, 1980 CLAUDIA J. HOWELL/Oregon Journal GHOST TOWN, U.S.A. -- Main Street in Vancouver, Wash., U.S.A., has an eerie appearance as ash from Thursday night's Mount St. Helens eruption descends on the city. Areas north and west of Portland reported the heaviest accumulations of the gray, dust-like ash. "Power" Mark Oregon Journal June 13, 1980 Continued === Page 7 of 19 "Tower Attack" June 13, 1980 Oregon Journal # St. Helens eruption spews grit over 4,500-mile area By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writers With a boom heard more than 135 miles away, Mount St. Helens spewed volcanic ash 10 miles high late Thursday night and spread the gray grit over 4,500 square miles in Oregon and Washington. The eruption -- the third major blast of atomic force since May 18 -- left dozens of Pacific Northwest towns coated with the fallout, caused evacuation of 1,500 persons near the mountain and brought an order for a limited state of emergency Friday in Portland. A huge dark, anvil-topped mushroom cloud was spotted by an Eastern Airlines crew as their jetliner passed near the peak about 9 p.m. Thursday. The major eruption, which took place at 9:11 p.m. and coincided with a violent harmonic tremor, was described by an observer aboard a U.S. Forest Service plane as looking "like an atom bomb -- very, very black, mushrooming way up." Radioing back to ground geologists at the volcano watch center in Vancouver, Wash., the observer declared, "This is really a dandy!" He said the plume was two to three miles across, very dark, with no steam apparent in the volcanic cloud. In rapid order, the Oregon emergency operations center in Salem was activated, Portland Mayor Connie McCready ordered city police into a Phase 2 alert, and a flash flood warning was put into effect for streams running off the mountain toward populated communities in the Columbia River Basin. A 15 mph speed limit was ordered in the city. Some areas around Portland reported a quarter-inch covering of ash during the night, and city officials said there was more ash on the streets than fell when the mountain last exploded May 25. Airspace in a 150-mile radius of the mountain below 55,000 feet was closed by the Federal Aviation Administration and all commercial flights in and out of Portland International Airport were cancelled. The FAA later gave the go-ahead for flights to resume at 6:15 a.m. Friday after a 6½-hour ash fallout warning was lifted by the National Weather Service at 5 a.m. Friday. No injuries were reported during the period of heavy eruptions, which extended from 9 p.m. Thursday to 2:15 a.m. Friday. The ash began falling rapidly in the metropolitan area like heavy gray snow about 11 p.m. Thursday. Counties in Oregon reporting substantial dustings of the ash were Multnomah, Clatsop, Lincoln, Tillamook, Columbia, Yamhill, Clackamas, Washington and Marion. In Washington, the ash hit Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania, Wahkiakum and Lewis counties. Light fallout also was reported as far north as Tacoma and as far east as Hood River. From winds at approximately 35,000 feet, the ash drifted out over the Pacific Ocean on a southwesterly air flow. Winds at 50,000 feet carried more ash northeasterly from the mountain to give Yakima and Spokane a light dusting but not enough to measure. Weather forecasters said that ash blown over the Pacific could move back inland somewhere over Northern California and then sweep around northeast as far as Idaho within the next 48 hours. **Additional volcano coverage is on pages 1A, 1B, 7 and 14 of today's Journal** Continued === Page 8 of 19 # *Ash spews over 4,500 square miles (Continued from page 1) buildings and restaurants responding only to emergency calls. Most people were reported taking the situation calmly, however, as the morning commuting hour began. Persons were advised to stay home and indoors and do not drive unless absolutely necessary. The ashfall came as events of Portland's annual Rose Festival moved toward the climatic Grand Floral Parade Saturday. City crews were flushing downtown parade route streets in preparation for the march and cars were kept off the line of route. When the ash began falling like heavy gray snow, the downtown waterfront Fun Center was closed early Thursday night. Navy ships, which have arrived for the festival, were docked along the seawall when they received an unwelcome new coating to match their military gray exteriors. The tiny mountain community of Cougar, now accustomed to evacuation, was buffeted by marble-sized chunks of pumice and other volcanic debris as a heavy smell of sulfur hung over the town. Most of the 15 remaining Cougar residents left their homes immediately, although a few soon returned. Cowlitz County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Covington said, "Some of the diehards don't believe it's really serious. They came out and after a while they went back in again." Other more populated areas also were evacuated as emergency officials recalled the May 18 eruption that left scores of people dead or missing and devastated 156 square miles around Mount St. Helens. The flood watch, ordered at 10 p.m. Thursday, was a precautionary measure. People were told to be prepared for quick action in case of sudden rises in the streams in the Toutle, Kalama and Lewis River basins and the Cowlitz River downstream to the Columbia. Schools in Clark County, Wash. which still were not closed for the summer, were shut down Friday. Some power outages were reported as the combination of rain and ash shorted out electric lines. In the Hazeldell area of Vancouver, 8,400 homes were darkened at 1:50 a.m. Friday when five substations were put out of operation. By mid-morning, all but 2,800 homes were back on line. In Portland, 200 to 500 customers of Portland General Electric in the southwest section of the city lost power. Pacific Power & Light Co. reported it lost two transmission lines, one to Woodland, Wash., and one to Merwin, Wash., but no customers were affected. A spokesman said it was thought the heavy ashfall caused trees to collapse on the lines in the Lewis River area. No problems were reported at the Trojan nuclear plant near Rainier, 30 miles from the volcano, where filters have been installed over all intake systems. Pete Rowley, chief spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the latest eruption appears to be of less intensity than the Sunday, May 25, blast even though more ash was reported this time on the ground in Portland than experienced in the dusting 18 days ago. The eruption came on the eve of a Friday the 13th high earth tide created by the moon's near approach to the Earth. The upcoming earth tide had created fear that the volcano was ready to blow again. Rowley pooh-poohed the idea originally, saying such an occurrence "would set science back about 10 years." Friday, he hedged his stand somewhat. "I cannot attribute this steam and ash eruption to a moon-tide theory, but I also cannot discount it." By dawn Friday, the mountain had stopped venting. Harmonic tremors, which indicate movement of magma inside the volcano, had subsided. The University of Washington Geophysical Center in Seattle reported "a very large event" recorded on its earth movement machine at 9:11 p.m. Thursday. Most of those evacuated Thursday night near the danger zone were loggers who have returned to the area. When the mountain erupted, the military and civilian search and rescue operation at the Toledo, Wash., airport was called back into service, although there were no reports of anyone unaccounted for throughout the long night. "Power Attack" Oregon Journal June 13, 1980 Continued === Page 9 of 19 # As 'neighbor' blows # Cougar residents wait it out By JULIE TRIPP of The Oregonian staff "POWER ATTACK" JUNE 14, '80 COUGAR, Wash. -- A frog, bravely or maybe just plain stupidly, croaked a 12:30 a.m. greeting Friday from near the swimming pool at the Lone Fir Resort here, while a German shepherd, left behind in the evacuation rush, barked defiantly at the sky that rained pumice pinballs. Besides the brave -- or stupid -- news crew, there was not a living soul in downtown Cougar. The tourist resort that has been the jumping off point in the past for countless vacationers and fishermen was an ashen, eerie ghost town, enlivened only by the spitting and crackling of short-circuited power lines. The never-say-die Cougar residents traveled five miles west to Jack's Sporting Goods and Cafe, but they didn't leave the danger zone. They returned to their homes Friday at dawn after keeping an all-night vigil during the worst ash fall and pumice shower this Southwest Washington town has seen since Mount St. Helens awoke in March. Twenty of them spent the night at the cafe, refusing to return through the gritty rain outside that guaranteed to ruin cars along with dispositions. Once they knew the mountain's ashy brooding would drive them no greater distance, they settled in to wait it out. It started around 9 p.m. Thursday, while Dottie Elmire was watching "Barnaby Jones," and Renee Corso was in the shower. Mrs. Elmire runs the Cougar Store and Ms. Corso works for the U.S. Forest Service. "You could hear the mountain whooshing, it sounded like a waterfall," said Mrs. Elmire. When Ms. Corso heard the sound "like wind in the trees," and after she received a warning phone call from the Forest Service, she grabbed her coat and ran outside to find her neighbors and get her car. "About halfway down the road, I realized I was getting hit in the head with rocks," she said. Chunks of pumice from one-half to one inch in size beat down on her. Not far away, 6-year-old Scottie Livingston got in the car while his mother and other relatives gathered up the dogs. Alone in the car, the boy became frightened by the pounding of pumice, the noise and confusion. "Scottie kept yelling 'Help me! Help me!' on the way down from Cougar," said his mother, Lois Livingston. The boy calmed down when the family reached Jack's Sporting Goods. By late evening he was telling people, "This is my first volcano, you know." "Mine, too," said Jean Ragsdale, who owns the store with her husband, with a tone that makes you believe she hopes it'll be her last. The ash at Jack's was about a quarter of half-inch deep, getting thicker closer to the volcano and towards Cougar, where it piled up to about an inch. The electricity, which threatened to go out all night with spasmodic blackouts, finally quit at 7 a.m. and was out for three hours or more. Limbs across lines and blown transformers had taken their toll. Another refugee at Jack's, the retired Harvey Halverson, passed the pre-dawn hours by sweeping ash off the cafe carpet, and grumbling lightheartedly about his futile attempt with his wife to get some disaster assistance from federal officials in Kelso. "Those disaster people," he said, then paused. . . "The only thing they put out is their breath, and they draw that in again." Elizabeth Reese, the doughty 84-year-old who runs Reese Store and has lived near Mount St. Helens for 47 years, stayed at her home near Jack's. Friday she reported that she is "doing just fine among the ash particles" and that the rain is helping wash it away. "We can live with it, I guess, if this is the way St. Helens is going to treat us," she said. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD NO FUN -- Jean Ragsdale shows size of pumice stone that fell on Cougar, Wash., Thursday night. Continued === Page 10 of 19 # Rain holds down ash problems Photos on Page E4 By STAN FEDERMAN, LESLIE L. ZAITZ and JOHN SNELL of The Oregonian staff POWER ATTACK JUNE 14, 1980 Mount St. Helens remained relatively quiet Friday night, except for an occasional plume of white steam, in the wake of a Thursday night eruption that left a blanket of ash over lawns, homes and cars throughout Western Oregon and Washington. The six-hour eruption, the second-most violent since the mountain reawakened March 27, scattered a thin layer of gritty ash from Seattle as far south as Medford and from The Dalles to the Pacific Ocean. However, a steady, oft-times heavy rainfall that began within hours of the blast and lasted all of Friday helped wash down most of the ash in Portland and Vancouver, Wash. The Portland Rose Festival Association said it would continue with its scheduled events, including Saturday's Grand Floral Parade. Portland public works crews labored Friday to flush streets clear along the parade route. The National Weather Service predicted cloudy skies for Saturday morning with intermittent drizzles, which were expected to end shortly before the parade begins at 10 a.m. A rainy morning would please state health officials. If it doesn't rain and the volcanic ash dries and becomes stirred up, they recommend that parade participants and spectators alike wear face masks or stay away entirely. Seismologists at the University of Washington reported late Friday that Mount St. Helens was resting quietly. The frequency of small earthquakes on the mountain also continued to decline, they said. "The mountain is essentially dead right now, seismically," said Pete Rowley, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. But he added that though silent now, "it (the mountain) could do the same thing again it did Thursday night." concern that an all-day Friday "cleanup" of the ash by both public and private water customers had sharply lowered water reserve levels. White steam plumes from the mountain continued on and off Friday, while visibility remained poor. Washington State police reported varying amounts of ash accumulations on highways; some had large amounts of it, others were practically bare. Portland International Airport reopened Friday morning, after shutting down for several hours earlier to avoid ash-related problems with aircraft. Additional details on Pages E1, E3. A Geological Survey helicopter crew that landed on the north flank of the mountain Friday may have found the reason for the "red glow" that some observers reported during Thursday's night's eruption. Rowley said they found evidence of large incandescent pyroclastic (hot ash) flows in the Spirit and Clearwater Lake areas, and in the upper Toutle River Valley. About 20 persons were evacuated from areas immediately surrounding the mountain Thursday night, but they were allowed to return to their homes Friday. There were no reports of injuries, deaths or missing persons resulting from the latest eruption. "Evacuation is an advisory thing," said Rhonda Brooks of the Washington Department of Emergency Services. She said she had no idea how many persons might still be in the "red zone," which extends in a 20-mile radius around the volatile mountain. Some 13,000 Vancouver families were without electricity from one to five hours Friday as heavy ash loads on power lines caused outages in the Clark County Public Utility District. Vancouver officials also expressed === Page 11 of 19 "Power" Attack # Colorado reactor has leak PLATTEVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- Electrical generation at the Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant was shut down Tuesday because of a malfunction which caused a minute release of radioactivity into the reactor building, the plant's operating company said. Public Service Co. of Colorado said the helium circulator system at the plant malfunctioned at about 6 a.m. Officials said a small amount of radioactivity escaped into the reactor building but that there had been no measurable release into the atmosphere. Don Warembourg, Public Service's manager of nuclear production, said radiation monitors at the plant boundary showed no increase in normal background levels. "The problem in the helium circulator at no time presented a safety problem to the plant employees or the public," Warembourg said. "The helium circulator problem is a reliability problem, not a safety problem." Warembourg said a modification to the helium circulator system would be made when the plant is shut down for refueling early next year in order to prevent any recurrence of the problem. Public Service officials said they hoped to get the plant back in operation within the next couple of days. They said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm had been notified of the incident. Fort St. Vrain, which has the only high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in North America, has been beset by a series of minor incidents over the past few years, including a small fire in its turbine room, a perplexing series of temperature fluctuations in the reactor core, and other instances where small amounts of radioactivity were released into the atmosphere. Oregonian 6/18/80 === Page 12 of 19 Sunday March The Atlanta Journal and # Elberton Unveils Mystery Stones United Press International ELBERTON, Ga. - The northeast Georgia community of Elberton - "the Granite Capital of the World" - attempts to return to normal following Saturday's dedication of six massive granite monoliths constructed in the spirit of England's Stonehenge and shrouded in as much mystery. Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monuments were conceived and paid for by an anonymous group who sent a front man using the pseudonym of Robert Christian to the grave-marker shop of Joe Fendley last June. Between 200 and 300 people turned out Saturday as U.S. Rep. Doug Barnard pulled a sheet of black plastic from the monument. Barnard told the windswept crowd that the 10 "guides," short pieces of advice for future generations carved in various languages on the stones, warned that the United States must preserve its resources because society and government are limited. When Fendley was first told of the mysterious project, he called Wyatt Martin, president of the Granite City Bank, and asked him to meet with Christian. "As soon as I heard his accent, I knew he wasn't from Alma or Waycross," Martin said, but what Christian had to say was more important than the way he spoke. Christian told Fendley and Martin that he wanted to erect a monument, suitably inscribed, which would act as a guide for generations which would succeed the present one - a generation he partly expects to be all but wiped out in a nuclear war. has been no public opposition despite the potential controversy of the first guide, which comes out strongly in favor of birth control. "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature," the inscription reads. The others are primarily common sense suggestions. Martin said he knows the true identity of the mysterious Robert Christian, but he says he will keep it a secret. "When I die, the secret will die with me," he said. Martin said Christian told him he represented a small group of individuals who were interested in the future of mankind and felt it incumbent upon themselves to leave a mark for others to follow. "He said he had visited the standing monuments throughout Europe and was particularly impressed with Stonehenge," Martin said, "but Stonehenge has no purpose, it is up to man's imagination." Stonehenge, a circle of huge stones in southern England, is believed to have been erected in stages almost 5,000 years ago. Scientists are not sure who erected the stones, or why. The most probable explanation is the monument served as an astronomical laboratory or sort of open-air temple, or both. After visiting rock quarries throughout the United States, Christian came to Elberton, the home of 30 granite quarries and 65 granite plants. A sign in the center of town proclaims the city is the granite capital of the world. Christian directed the effort to build the monument, Fendley supervised the cutting of the stones, and Martin acted as a funnel for the financing from the anonymous group. The six stones weigh a total of 107 tons. Four of the slabs, each 6 feet wide and 16 feet tall, are placed in a partial circle with a center stone, or gnomon, which is 3 by 16 feet, and a capstone, which is 6 by 9 feet. Each of the four major stones is inscribed with 10 guides, or quasi-religious precepts, in eight languages representing the current major population groups - English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, classical Hebrew, Swahili, Hindu and Spanish. The top slab of Georgia Guidestones is shown at left. Each of the four major stones is inscribed with 10 'guides,' or quasi-religious precepts, in eight languages representing the current major population groups - English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, classical Hebrew, Swahili, Hindu and Spanish. The capstone has been inscribed with an additional message - "Let these be guidestones to an age of reason" - in sanscrit, Babylonian cunieform, Egyptian heiroglyphs and classical Greek. A hole has been bored through the gnomon to align with the North Star and two slots were cut to align with the midwinter and midsummer solstices. A hole was also cut in the capstone to provide a sundial. The site selected is a small hilltop on the northern edge of Wayne and Mildred Mullenix's Double-Seven ranch. Under provisions of the sale, Mullenix will retain grazing rights to the land for two more generations and will generally keep it under his supervision with several special provisions, including a prohibition against planting shrubbery above nose-height within the five-acre plot set aside as the monument ground. There are plans to eventually encircle the present monument with additional stones aligned to follow the moon, providing a complete astrological pattern. 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OMEGA Photo NEAR YOUR HOTEL # DRIVING IN MEXICO Now you have digested the speed limits, highway signs and rules of the road as they apply to Mexico. But something seems a little wrong: out of place, so as to speak. You quickly realize theory and reality are miles apart. At the last stop sign you heeded, everyone behind you honked his horn, and getting around those "glorietas" circles would cause your mother-in-law to have a cardiac arrest; not such a bad idea, but the thought came much later. Apparently, you conclude, the rules of the road as you know them are out in Mexico. Anarchy is what you finally conclude after going through the standard name calling game of; "they're all mad, crazy, bonkers, nuts, etc." After a while it's not the accidents you've seen, it's just you're amazed you haven't seen tenfold more. Ah, but you see amigo, there are rules, it's just the subtleties are not easily discernable. Here are some ideas to keep you out of trouble: 1.- Like in sailing, there is an overlap rule. Simply stated means whenever you overlap the car on your left or right side you have the right of way. 2.- Never worry about what is behind you, just make sure you overlap the guy on your sides. 3.- Never give a signal to pass, you are merely inviting to be cut off. Never give up your position unless it means instant death to the other guy, and then think about it twice-time permitting. 4.- Never expect a break, unless you're a blond female, preferably with blue eyes. 5.- If your going to mess with the other guy, make sure you have more power than he does. If you don't, ignore him 6.- Sorry ladies, but in Mexico beware of women drivers. 7.- Stay away from buses. They are merciless. The same for trucks, except they don't move so fast. 8.- Be prepared, when you are passing, for the other guy to accelerate so you will be caught in no man's land entering the curve or coming over the hill. He is out to kill you, make no mistake. The way to prevent this is by taking a look at the car the other guy is driving and his age. Remember the more power under the hood rule. 9.- There is nothing wrong in passing on the inside, even if it means getting over on the dirt shoulder. Not recommended with less than ten years driving in Mexico experience, but it may happen to you so don't be surprised. 10.- "El que pega-paga". Universal rule meaning he who hits-pays. 11.- Never confide in any right of way rules except the overlap rule, so you are best off not knowing them. 12.- Never ignore a cattle crossing sign. I mean never. Assess the terrain around you, it is usually indicative of cattle in the area or not. Now there is a lot more we can say on the subject, but this hopefully will give you a good start on the survival game. 10 GUIDE magazine === Page 14 of 19 Oregonian A6 3M May 8, 1980 THE OREGONIAN, Associated Press Laserphoto ETHIOPIAN FAMINE -- Leaf-thin child cries in refugee camp for drought victims near Kenyan border. Area has been without rain for two years, and an estimated 1.5 million people have been forced into refugee camps to be kept alive by food "bombings" from relief organizations. === Page 15 of 19 Seattle Post-Intelligencer May 8, 1980 # Heartbreaking Cry of Hunger -AP PHOTO ********** A LEAF-THIN child puts his hands to his head and cries for food in a refugee camp for drought victims in the Ethiopian province of Gemy Gofa near the Kenyan border. The area has been without rain for more than two years. An estimated 1.5 million people throughout Ethiopia and neighboring countries have been forced into famine camps where they are barely kept alive by food dropped by plane given through various relief organizations. === Page 16 of 19 # POPE VISITS AFRICA DROUGHT AREA Continued from 12th Page dresses he has made in each of the African nations he has visited. The pontiff's appeal came at a time when conditions in the Sahel have improved. An international aid program is now focused on efforts to get at the roots of some of the region's problems--which reached their worst in the drought of 1972-74--and which include overgrazing and practices that speed erosion. In turn, these ills led to widespread famine and the deaths of tens of thousands from starvation. The hope of the aid program directors now is to improve basic food production to minimize the impact of future droughts and to develop reserves of food for such emergencies. The Pope had flown to Upper Volta from Accra, the capital of Ghana. He received a motorcade welcome featuring a dozen bands blaring African songs of worship and celebration as he drove past the multitudes along the paved but dusty main street--between mud walls, stalls and tiny shops. The Pope was in Upper Volta for just over five hours, but his appeal for the Sahel gave the stopover special significance. He said he was addressing his plea to the international organizations already involved in trying to solve the problems of the region, to individual nations, asking from them "generous aid." He also called on scientists to find ways to halt the spread of the desert. Crisis after crisis has occurred for the nations of the Sahel, as drought, erosion and a variety of related problems have led to starvation, the loss of valuable forage, grazing and crop land and the death of millions of livestock. The streets of Ouagadougou, a city of contrasts, are lined with trees, their lush spring foliage surprising when contrasted with the dessicated outlying districts. Most streets are unpaved and dusty, like the square where the Pope celebrated Mass, but a lush lawn was growing in front of the residence of the president, Gen. Sangoule Lamizana. The Pope's visit to Upper Volta and his coming here brought him for the first time to nations where animists, or spirit worshipers, are in the majority and where Muslims outnumber Christians--4 to 1 in Upper Volta, 2 to 1 in the Ivory Coast. "The Muslim Community of Upper Volta Extends Its Spiritual Saluations," a banner over the main street of Ouagadougou proclaimed. In his address to Catholic bishops there, the Pope urged mutual respect between Catholicism and Islam and collaboration for the common good. A4 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1980 # Millions in Ethiopia face famine threat, journalist reports By HARALD MOLLERSTROM STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A new famine caused by a severe drought threatens millions of Ethiopians, according to officials from relief agencies and a journalist who recently visited the stricken East African country. If major relief efforts do not begin soon, hundreds of thousands of people may die of starvation, Swedish journalist Lisbeth Hellberg quoted Ethiopian officials as saying on a tour of the stricken region. The Soviets regularly help Ethiopians crush guerilla movements. But one official, when asked if the Russians had offered assistance in dealing with the famine, was quoted as telling the Swedish journalist, "We've got friends who help us with military hardware, but when we need other assistance we have to turn to the West." Ms. Hellberg said she saw only one Soviet helicopter bringing in food to the stricken area. About 1.5 million people are living in famine camps and more refugees come in each day, officials say. Ms. Hellberg visited a refugee camp at Kalem, near a dried-out river at the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, and said she saw about 5,000 starving people arriving daily. She visited a small village which had lost 5,000 animals in recent weeks and where the population only had boiled water with sugar to eat, she said. "The area has not seen rain for the last two years. We saw people digging holes several meters down in the river bed with their hands without hitting water -- nothing but soil. Seven hundred people died at that camp the week before we arrived," she told The Associated Press. Hakan Landelus, secretary general of the "Save the Children" agency, who also visited Ethiopia, said: "It is impossible to describe the situation with words." "When Ethiopian Social Minister Kassa Kabede told me that more than 5 million inhabitants were directly affected by the drought, I thought the figures somewhat exaggerated," he said, adding the famine is much worse than he expected. Ethiopian officials apparently held back information about the situation at first, thinking they could handle it themselves. But the country is running out of relief supplies, so in a desperate attempt to receive aid, officials took representatives of Western embassies and 30 foreign relief agencies on a nationwide tour, Ms. Hellberg said. At a camp in southern Ethiopia, the journalist said she saw 230,000 people starving and refugees pouring in daily. In Ogaden, a province disputed by Somalia and Ethiopia, two old DC-3 planes are airlifting four tons of food each day to Jijia and Debre-Dawa, but about 30 tons a day are needed. In that province, more than 1 million out of 3 million people are starving, Ms. Hellberg said officials told her. Another 500,000 animals have died in the last three months, she added. "There were people who had traveled 300 kilometers (187 miles) on camels only to find a poisonous waterhole," she said. Officials fear the crisis will reach the proportion of the Wollo province famine in the early 1970s which claimed 200,000 lives. "If there is no rain we will have 10,000 more refugees within a week and about 100,000 before the end of this month," Agelle Ashenati, a health ministry official, was quoted by the Swedish journalist. "The entire country is hit by the drought, but the Southern parts have taken the worst brunt," Landelus said. "The country needs water, food and medicines." Ms. Hellberg said Ethiopian authorities have been sending assistance to the stricken regions since January but that the government is running out of supplies. === Page 17 of 19 12 Part I-Sun., May 11, 1980 Los Angeles Times * # Pope Appeals for African Drought Aid By LOUIS B. FLEMING Times Staff Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast-In the dust of a sun-baked square in Upper Volta, the heart of the stricken Sahel, Pope John Paul II on Saturday sounded a world appeal for the victims of the region's persistent drought. "I, John Paul II, bishop of Rome and successor of Peter, raise my voice pleading for I cannot be silent when my brothers and sisters are threatened," he said. "I raise the voice of those who have no voice, the voice of innocent people who are dead because they lacked bread and water, the voice of fathers and mothers who have seen their children die without understanding or who still see in their children the effects of the hunger they have suffered, the voice of generations to come who must not live any longer with this terrible threat weighing on their lives." Above, as he spoke, 45 broad-winged vultures circled slowly in a hot wind. The appeal was made at midday in Ouagadougou, the capital of Upper Volta, one of the world's poorest nations, before the Pope flew here to Abidjan, the capital of one of the continent's most prosperous nations and the last stop on his 10-day tour of Africa. Close to a million people lined the streets of this thriving West African city to give him a welcome equal to that at his first stop eight days ago in Kinshasa, Zaire. On Saturday night the Pope celebrated Mass in a 50,000-seat stadium under a huge lighted cross, and Ivorian television broadcast the ceremony live to Christians around the world via satellite. He was praised on arrival earlier in the day by the nation's president, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, for speaking out on world issues. At Ouagadougou, a quarter-million people filled the shadeless central square, ignoring temperatures over 100 degrees to hear the pontiff. "It is a question of international justice," he said, "above all toward nations that too often face these threats while others find themselves in geographic and climatic conditions that, by comparison, one must call privileged." Sounding a call for more international help for the Sahel, the six-nation sub-Saharan region of more than 20 million people that has experienced devastating drought, he insisted: "Solidarity in justice and love must not know frontiers or limits. Hear my appeal. Everyone, I beg you, hear this appeal, hear these voices from the Sahel and of all these nations that are victims of the drought, without exception. And to you I say: 'God will reward you.'" It was his major address of the day and the single most important statement on social justice in a series of addresses. Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 Note: Very luminous. The Pope can only "appeal." But PK Man can get the job done. - Owens Oregonian # Famine strikes Africans By BOB DIETZ May 10, 1980 KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-Drought and war have forced millions of starving people into refugee camps in Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, and hundreds of thousands face famine, relief officials said Friday. Thousands already have died. Crops maturing in the fields offer hope that the shortages in Uganda will ease by July. But food reserves are vanishing. The situation is growing more critical every day. Only the relief distribution programs have kept it from getting out of hand," John Woodland of Oxfam, the British aid group, said Friday. The World Food Program, another relief agency, estimates 500,000 face famine in Uganda. Corruption, inefficiency, indifference and low morale have embittered many aid experts here, officials said in interviews. Most agencies have sidestepped the government in distributing food, they said. "I wouldn't dream of using the government to distribute what we bring in. Too much of it would simply disappear," an aid official said. Black market food prices exacerbate the situation, officials say. Half-liter containers of milk, officially pegged at about 35 cents, are sold illegally on Uganda street corners for about $3.50. In war-torn Ethiopia, officials this week turned to the West with a desperate appeal for drought relief. Relief officials estimate 1.5 million people are in refugee camps. Ethiopia's rulers, who apparently suppressed news of the disaster earlier, took Western diplomats and relief agency representatives on an official tour. Ethiopian officials said that in the Ogaden region alone more than a million of the region's 3 million people are starving. === Page 18 of 19 Rains - WORLD RAINS - THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1980 # face disease, rustlers in battle to live By BOB DIETZ KAABONG, Uganda (AP) - Several times a week, Sister Rosetta walks in the fields around the mission school and collects bodies to bury in the cemetery. "More people have died here in the last two months than in the previous 20 years," said the 35-year-old Italian nun, surveying more than 15 fresh graves. "A student told me he can't walk 50 steps in the bush without coming upon a body. And yet, if we had transport and medical facilities, we could treat these people. They wouldn't have to die." The fields of Karamoja, a vast undeveloped area in northeastern Uganda, have produced little this year. Three years without rain have scorched the region, arid at the best of times. Disease rakes the nomadic population of 400,000 Karamojong cattle-herders. Armed gangs, immune to reprisal, destroy entire villages, killing hundreds and seizing any cows that have survived the drought. Famine is gripping parts of Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Kenya and Uganda for the second time in seven years, turning millions into refugees and killing tens of thousands of people. Karamoja's problems are among the most severe in this nation of about 13 million people. Rain returned six weeks ago and in a few days painted a deceptive green across the hills around Kaabong, a remote settlement of 1,000 persons near the Kenyan border. The rain was too late and too heavy. Some planted fields became swamps and relief trucks foundered on rutted, muddy trails. Some plots are beginning to sprout but the chickpeas and maize won't mature for at least 45 days. Until then, relief supplies are the only hope for tens of thousands. Western aid officials say only 2,400 tons of emergency food have reached the region this year; 60,000 tons are needed in the four-month period to avert starvation. When food shortages developed in Kenya, officials kept 8,000 tons of maize meal they had agreed to supply. Ethiopia made 4,000 tons available but the food must be flown to Karamoja at a cost of $23,000 for each shipment of 30 tons. Only the United States and Oxfam, the British relief agency, have provided funds, and the airlift is going slowly. Political instability and corruption in Uganda cause many donors to shy away. Melissa Wells, American head of the United Nations Development Program in Uganda, estimates that 100 persons a day starve to death in Karamoja. A Roman Catholic priest says the daily figure could be as high as 500. Since the Karamojong culture allows burial only for clan chiefs and their first wives, many dead lie where they fall. Sometimes parents strip the clothes from dead children and leave the bodies near the mission. Students help lift the bodies from furrows and thickets, wrap children in white sheets and bury them at the mission with adult corpses, two or three in each unmarked grave. Decayed bodies are burned in the fields. The Rev. Elia Ciapetti, senior priest at the Catholic mission, says about three-quarters of the cattle in Karamoja - hundreds of thousands of animals - have been taken by armed gangs. Since the Karamojong consider their herds as money in the bank, the normally poor region has been plunged into deeper poverty from which it will take years to recover. Robber gangs rule supreme after defeating elements of both the Tanzanian and Ugandan armies in skirmishes that took hundreds of lives. The Tanzanians, who stayed on after expelling dictator Idi Amin a year ago, pulled back to the administrative town of Moroto several weeks ago. The Ugandan army, weaker than the Tanzanians, has made no serious attempt to gain control. Rustlers use automatic rifles and anti-tank grenades looted nine months ago from an Amin armory in Moroto. Gangs of 200 or more live in the bush, undetected until they attack. There seems little chance in the immediate future that the government will be able to defeat the outlaws militarily. In their half-starved condition, thousands of Karamojong have died of cholera and other diseases. Some 100,000, a quarter of the population, are believed to have fled the region, spreading disease and increasing pressure on limited food stocks elsewhere. Foreign aid personnel say cholera and typhoid fever have killed more than 1,000 in the past month around Mbale, Uganda's third-largest town, south of Karamoja. Neighbors of the Karamojong have reacted violently. Reports of stonings of refugees are common. At Katakwi, in the Teso area, villagers fearing Karamojong incursions put their household goods on their heads and drive their cattle 10 miles south every night. Hastily organized militia groups, armed with scavenged weapons, are posted every few miles along the main road leading from Karamoja. Around the mission, hundreds assemble every morning, holding empty bowls in hope that food will be distributed. More than 320 children live at a mission orphanage set up three weeks ago for famine victims. === Page 19 of 19 As 'neighbor' blows # Cougar residents wait it out By JULIE TRIPP of The Oregonian staff "POWER ATTACK" JUNE 14, '80 COUGAR, Wash. -- A frog, bravely or maybe just plain stupidly, croaked a 12:30 a.m. greeting Friday from near the swimming pool at the Lone Fir Resort here, while a German shepherd, left behind in the evacuation rush, barked defiantly at the sky that rained pumice pinballs. Besides the brave -- or stupid -- news crew, there was not a living soul in downtown Cougar. The tourist resort that has been the jumping off point in the past for countless vacationers and fishermen was an ashen, eerie ghost town, enlivened only by the spitting and crackling of short-circuited power lines. The never-say-die Cougar residents traveled five miles west to Jack's Sporting Goods and Cafe, but they didn't leave the danger zone. They returned to their homes Friday at dawn after keeping an all-night vigil during the worst ash fall and pumice shower this Southwest Washington town has seen since Mount St. Helens awoke in March. Twenty of them spent the night at the cafe, refusing to return through the gritty rain outside that guaranteed to ruin cars along with dispositions. Once they knew the mountain's ashy brooding would drive them no greater distance, they settled in to wait it out. It started around 9 p.m. Thursday, while Dottie Elmire was watching "Barnaby Jones," and Renee Corso was in the shower. Mrs. Elmire runs the Cougar Store and Ms. Corso works for the U.S. Forest Service. "You could hear the mountain whooshing, it sounded like a waterfall," said Mrs. Elmire. When Ms. Corso heard the sound "like wind in the trees," and after she received a warning phone call from the Forest Service, she grabbed her coat and ran outside to find her neighbors and get her car. "About halfway down the road, I realized I was getting hit in the head with rocks," she said. Chunks of pumice from one-half to one inch in size beat down on her. Not far away, 6-year-old Scottie Livingston got in the car while his mother and other relatives gathered up the dogs. Alone in the car, the boy became frightened by the pounding of pumice, the noise and confusion. "Scottie kept yelling 'Help me! Help me!' on the way down from Cougar," said his mother, Lois Livingston. The boy calmed down when the family reached Jack's Sporting Goods. By late evening he was telling people, "This is my first volcano, you know." "Mine, too," said Jean Ragsdale, who owns the store with her husband, with a tone that makes you believe she hopes it'll be her last. The ash at Jack's was about a quarter or half-inch deep, getting thicker closer to the volcano and towards Cougar, where it piled up to about an inch. The electricity, which threatened to go out all night with spasmodic blackouts, finally quit at 7 a.m. and was out for three hours or more. Limbs across lines and blown transformers had taken their toll. Another refugee at Jack's, the retired Harvey Halverson, passed the predawn hours by sweeping ash off the cafe carpet, and grumbling lightheartedly about his futile attempt with his wife to get some disaster assistance from federal officials in Kelso. "Those disaster people," he said, then paused. . . . "The only thing they put out is their breath, and they draw that in again." Elizabeth Reese, the doughty 84-year-old who runs Reese Store and has lived near Mount St. Helens for 47 years, stayed at her home near Jack's. Friday she reported that she is "doing just fine among the ash particles" and that the rain is helping wash it away. "We can live with it, I guess, if this is the way St. Helens is going to treat us," she said. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD NO FUN -- Jean Ragsdale shows size of pumice stone that fell on Cougar, Wash., Thursday night. Continued Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Even good rai # in their thousands # Drought set to linger for six months Thirty per cent of NSW farmers will have to endure the drought for at least another six months. But rain could save thousands of other farmers whose properties are now gripped by the drought. For rain to be effective it has to come before the first winter frosts, which stop the growth of feed for farmers' stock. The first frosts have already hit the tablelands and southern NSW. In the north-west of the State there has been no rain for up to two years. There is no adjustment facilities for stock to graze in unaffected areas in the whole of NSW. The nearest agistment is at Longreach in central Queensland, 1500km by stock route from Armidale and 2000km from Cooma, two of the worst affected drought areas. As a result two-thirds of the State's farmers are hand-feeding their stock. But for many graziers this will soon become financially impossible -- it would cost $650 to hand feed a cow for six months. ## Affected areas Many farmers are slaughtering stock and this number will soon spiral. In the Hillston area about half-a-dozen farmers have already slaughtered their entire stock of several hundred cattle and several thousand sheep. Many farmers have kept only a handful of selected young breeders and others are holding out in the hope of rain. All of the State's 17 main irrigation dams are below normal capacity. Seven are less than 40 per cent full. They are: Burrinjuck (near Yass, 33 per cent of capacity), Blowering (Tumut, 23), Keepit (Gunnedah, 39), Wyangala (Cowra, 35), Dartmouth (Albury, 39), Hume (Albury, 27) and Chaffey (Tamworth, 17). ## Below normal Here's how some of the worst affected areas have been hit: BOURKE had its last big rainfall 16 months ago and has been declared a drought area for a year. Stock numbers are 50 per cent down on average, with half of these on agistment in Queensland since mid-1979. The rest are foraging in the scrub for feed. WALGETT has been a drought area since last May. It has not known a good rainfall since December 1978. Farmers say their stock is already weak and will be in trouble by winter. There has been virtually no wheat crop this year and there is little hope of any next year. ARMIDALE will have no pasture growth until September. All streams have dried up, and there has been little rain since November. Stocks are 30 per cent down on normal. Record numbers have been sold at local sales by farmers unable to provide sufficient feed. It has been almost impossible to buy hay. MUDGEE experienced its last big rainfall in October, but was only declared a drought area last month. Fodder and water are going quickly. A spokesman for the Pastures Protection Board said the situation was desperate. FORBES has had only brief scattered showers during the past six months and has been listed as drought-stricken since January 1. Most dams are almost dry and even if good rain came now there would be no suitable winter growth of fodder -- only green shoots full of water. YASS had some rain in February but it was patchy and missed many properties. There is little feed and hay and grain is very expensive. The June wheat-sowing is in danger because good rain is needed to prepare the paddocks. Most cattle are being hand-fed. # Parts of NSW still hit by drought In spite of above-average rainfalls in May, parts of New South Wales are still suffering severely from drought, according to the acting Director of Meteorology, Mr R. B. Crowder. He said one drought area in particular is along the NSW Queensland border including the North-West Slopes and Plains. Other areas include parts of the Central and Southern Tablelands, the South-West Slopes and the South Coast. The rainfall for May was the highest on record for the North Coast, Northern Tablelands and Central Western Plains. The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, June 7, 1980 COOMA had its last good rain in February last year. There have been a few showers since but nothing to encourage much-needed pasture growth. Ironically the only rain which fell last month was on Cooma Show Day. Farmers have been hanging on to cattle in the hope of rain but have been selling sheep in large numbers. A spokesman for the Pastures Protection Board said the Monaro district had not had worthwhile rain for about a decade. BEGA's dairy production is slipping. There was a big storm in January but the rain was so heavy that most of it ran off the land and only a fraction soaked into the soil. HILLSTON has not had a good rainfall for about three years. Most properties still with stock remaining, now rely on underground bore water. But Mr Max Watson of the Pastures Protection Board said: "Once this dries up it will be the end." === Page 2 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed, April 9, 1980 11 # Drought 1980: 'portents of a disaster' ## Call for water bores The State Opposition Leader, Mr Mason, said yesterday that a massive, co-ordinated water-boring program was needed to lower water shortages in drought-affected areas of NSW. He proposed that the existing subsidy of 25 per cent of the cost of putting in new bores be increased to 50 per cent. From the outskirts of Sydney to the central slopes of the western plains, NSW is withering under drought. Throughout the State pastures are brown and bare, many farm dams have dried up and homesteads have run out of water. When expensive hand-feeding of fodder cannot be afforded, stock are beginning the slow march to starvation. Drought 1980 is different to those of recent decades. It is not restricted to the semi-arid western regions but has struck even the normally drought-free eastern districts of the State. More than 75 per cent of NSW has been officially declared drought affected. This was the scene inspected yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Hallam, on the first day of a tour of the drought areas. At the end of the day at Walgett he said: "This drought has all the portents of being a widespread disaster. "It's different to other droughts because it covers such huge areas of the State and at the same time other States are also suffering. "Even if rain falls soon the situation is critical. But if we don't get rain it will be a national disaster. "At stake is the NSW 50 million sheep herd, six million cattle and the welfare of 75,000 landholders." The 37-year-old minister, who was allocated the agriculture portfolio only four weeks ago, walked through the dry beds of farm lands, saw the hand-feeding of cattle and listened at woolshed gatherings to the requests of landholders for assistance. At Camden, dairy farmers requested a 6.5c-a-litre increase in the price of milk to help overcome their drought problems. # Major crisis: cattlemen From JOSEPH GLASCOTT in Walgett Mr Bob Wilson, chairman of the Dairy Farmers' Association, said dairy farmers in the district were buying fodder from as far away as Victoria at up to five dollars a bale to help save their herds. Mr Rowan Moore, of Glenmore, said he was struggling to maintain his milk quota by spending up to $300 a week on fodder. His father, 93-year-old Mr Val Moore, a pioneer of the Camden district, said it was the worst drought he could remember, except perhaps for 1901. Camden dairy farmers said Sydney might face milk rationing if the drought continues. At Mudgee farmers said the district was in a critical situation. Unless rain fell in the next two weeks there would be no pasture growth for winter. The veterinary inspector for the Mudgee Pasture Protection Board said graziers had the choice of allowing stock to die, sending them on agistment, of which little existed, or hand-feeding at exorbitant prices. One grazier, Mr George McDonald, of Rylstone, asked for assistance to send starving stock to abattoirs for production of meat meal. Mr Gil Wahlquist, secretary of the Mudgee Wine Grape Growers' Association, said Mudgee's vineyard harvest would fall by 30 to 60 per cent this year. At Walgett, Mr Hallam was told that most farm dams were dry. There had been no run-off rain since 1977. Mr Hallam promised to consider requests from graziers for increased low-interest drought loans, and increased subsidies for the cartage of water and fodder. The most critical drought in 50 years combined with falling US beef prices faced Australian beef producers with a major recession, the Cattlemen's Union president, Mr Maurice Binstead, said yesterday. The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Hallam, has declared 44 of the State's 58 Pasture Protection Board districts drought areas. All areas in the State have received lower than average rainfall over the past nine months. For most districts, it is the worst drought since 1964. Mr Binstead said the long-term consequences were alarming. Federal and State Governments must realise that drought conditions were creating a state of emergency and current relief provisions had to be reassessed. The seriousness and spread of the drought through much of eastern Australia meant the only alternative for cattlemen was to sell stock now before their condition deteriorated further, resulting in short-term market depression. Meat prices would initially fall as the producers were forced to sell but prices would rise again as production fell. "Fluctuating export prices have severely damaged industry confidence and uncertainty will be increased by drought conditions," he said. Smaller producers were selling out and there was no incentive to increase the national herd, reducing potential to increase export earnings. Mr Binstead said Australian consumers would once again pay the penalty for lack of stability in the cattle industry. A more immediate impact would be felt in country towns and cities, where severely reduced cash flow for cattlemen meant sharp falls in sales of machinery, materials for improvements and general commodities, and reduced employment opportunities. The Pastures Protection Board provides subsidies for farmers in drought-declared areas to help them to move fodder, livestock and water. Drought loans are provided through the Rural Bank. The Water Resources Commission is having no difficulty in meeting irrigation demand this summer but many town water supplies are affected. Dams feeding the metropolitan area are at 73 per cent of capacity and the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board says water restrictions are unlikely in the near future. === Page 3 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Friday, June 6, 1980 # CONCERN **Drought aid to Q** CANBERRA -- The Federal Government has agreed to provide further drought assistance to Queensland. Prime Minister Fraser said the Federal Government's decision followed an approach from the Queensland Premier. # Bjelke wins big drought aid boost The Federal Government is to provide further drought assistance to Queensland, the Prime Minister said yesterday. Mr Fraser told the annual convention of the United Graziers Association of Queensland that the Government's decision followed an approach from the Queensland Premier Mr Bjelke-Petersen. The announcement incorporates extensions to the National Disaster Financial Assistance arrangements. From today: THE maximum concession applicable to road transport concessions will be increased from 40c to 50c a kilometre for a loaded cattle truck, and from four cents to five cents a tonne a kilometre for fodder and water. THE freight concession on water cartage will be extended to the carriage of water on properties to points beyond the farm gate. This concession, however, will not apply to transport of water between points within farms. A 50 per cent concession will apply to the cost of transporting essential machinery and equipment to affected properties to or from where fodder is available. This concession will apply only to equipment which is an essential part of drought mitigation practices. IN addition and because of the severity of this drought, the rate of concession payable on all rail and road transport movements of fodder, water and stock will be increased from 50 per cent to 75 per cent. This additional concession will apply for the duration of this drought only. Joh . . . . . . . . . . concession With thanks and felicitations yours respectfully, Bruce Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA. Encl $10-- WHO is YOUR "EGYPTIAN POWER" ? === Page 4 of 21 2 THE SUN Friday, May 9, 1980 2 # FLOODS SWAMP DROUGHT TOWNS 5/9/80 RISING floodwaters and landslides have isolated the northern NSW town of Bellingen, blocked three lanes of the Pacific Highway near Lismore and cut many minor roads. People went to work by boat in Bellingen today as heavy rains broke the 10-month drought with a vengeance. The Weather Bureau predicts more rain and State emergency services in the north are on full alert. Moderate to major flooding is expected at Murwillumbah, Lismore, Nambucca and Kempsey. "There is a lot of water north of Taree and more areas are expected to go into flood," a Weather Bureau spokesman said. "It could get much worse." Some northern centres have had 304mm (12in) of rain during the past four days -- too much for the parched land to handle. === Page 5 of 21 # STORMS # SWAMP # NORTHERN # NSW | | | | |---|---|---| | DROUGHT | HIGHWAY CUT | MURWILLUMBAH | | BROKEN HILL | FLOODING | LISMORE | | | | CASINO | | | | COFFS HARBOR | | | ARMIDALE | BELLINGEN | | | GALE WARNING | | | | | NEWCASTLE | | | SYDNEY | | | | WOLLONGONG | | "Daily Telegraph" Australia May 10, 1980 Continued === Page 6 of 21 Sydney Morning Herald FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 AUSTRALIA MAY 10, 1980 # Dry areas of north are flooded State Emergency Services in northern NSW were preparing for possible major flooding last night as further heavy rain was forecast for areas formerly listed as drought-stricken. The dramatic change from drought to flood in the area has occurred within 48 hours. Flood warnings were issued yesterday for the Tweed, Richmond, Bellinger, Nambucca, MacLeay and Hastings, Wilson and Clarence Rivers. But overall, the drought has not been broken yet. There has been only light rain west of the Great Dividing Range. More is needed, according to the Weather Bureau. In the northern coastal areas there has been widespread minor flooding. Bellingen, north west of Nambucca Heads, was isolated for most of yesterday. About 30 people were evacuated from their homes at Marx Hill, near Bellingen, when the Bellinger River rose to 6.8 metres at noon. A spokesman for the State Emergency Services at Grafton said he expected the position to ease overnight. The Pacific Highway was blocked about six kilometres south of Nambucca Heads last night as the Nambucca River continued to rise. ## Heaviest rainfall The heaviest rainfall reported by the Weather Bureau was at Meldrum, just south of the Queensland border, where 369mm fell in the 36 hrs to 9 pm. Heavy pockets of rain fell in the upper reaches of the Clarence River. Although the situation was beginning to ease last night further rain would cause minor flooding. Several major roads in the area were cut by minor flooding, including the Pacific Highway north and south of Grafton. Traffic was forced to use a high-level bypass. The Gwydir Highway, west of Grafton, was cut for several hours at Mulligans Bluff after a 13-metre landslide. Further south, a State Emergency Service spokesman at Taree said many of the roads and bridges to Wauchope had been closed by floods along the Hastings River. Caravan parks at Lismore and Murwillumbah have been evacuated. At Lismore, declared a drought-stricken area only eight days ago, some flooding was expected. A policeman said: "The river is rising steadily and is expected to reach its peak about 6 am. "No one, however, is prepared to guess how extensive the flooding will be." ### TODAY'S WEATHER Metropolitan: Rain. Windy. Max temp: City 21, Liverpool 21. Pollution: Low. NSW: Rain with heavy falls Central and North Coast. PAGE 31: Full details, map and flood warnings. === Page 7 of 21 Continued (Australia) May 10, 1980 More than 5000 people around Bellingen on the NSW north coast are cut off by the flood-swollen Bellinger River which has swamped major access roads. And for many other northern NSW communities, the worst is yet to come. Lismore received minor flooding and the situation is expected to worsen today. More general rain is forecast for today. In Sydney, the forecast is wet but easing tomorrow. Late last night, the Richmond River had risen to 10m at Lismore and was expected to break its banks early today. Co-ordinator of the State Emergency Service in Lismore, Mr Bob Phillips, said people had already been evacuated and more would probably leave their homes today. An SES officer in Casino said last night: "It doesn't look good." # Storms lash towns From P1 In the second rescue, three crew members of the 10m sloop Ible were rescued in heavy seas off Taree by an Indian freighter, the Apj Karen. The freighter's captain said the three men, Trevor Hancock, of Sydney, Jim Lee, of Cremorne, and Stephen A. Godman, of Frankston, Victoria, were all in good health and sleeping off ## Vans moved "We expect a lot of farmers at small towns such as Woodburn will be hit. "It's no good trying to sandbag the river banks if it breaks its banks, that's it." At Lismore, SES workers expect the crisis to come early today. "If the river goes over 10m it will flood the business area of the town," one said last night. "A lot of business people have stayed back tonight to make preparations for the peak. "If it's over 10 metres they'll have to move their goods out . . . if they've got time." Yesterday, most minor roads around the two towns were cut by floodwater and more than 60 caravans were moved to higher ground from low-lying caravan parks. A flood boat was used to take a sick child from the township of Lester, 10 km south-west of Lismore, after it was feared floodwater would cut off the town. At Bellingen, emergency workers used boats to ferry supplies over flooded roadways, and two families in East Bellingen were evacuated to save them being cut off. But by last night, local authorities were confident the river would recede enough to allow normal access to the district today. Bellingen was worst-hit among the NSW northern coastal towns. Light rain also fell on many of the State's drought areas but there was not enough rain to substantially ease the situation. For the six hours to 3 pm yesterday, Broken Hill received 3mm, Narrabri, 19, Walgett, 7, Armidale, 12 and Coonamble, 11. In Sydney, falls of about 3mm caused minor traffic delays, but there were no reports of major flooding. ## Holed Six yachtsmen were snatched to safety as one yacht sank and another was set adrift in stormy seas off the coast north of Sydney yesterday. Three crew of the 9m sloop Kehaar were winched aboard the Wales rescue helicopter about 2 pm after their yacht was holed and dismasted by a huge wave and washed on to Long Reef. The Kehaar, sailing from Newport to Elizabeth Bay, was towed off the reef by the helicopter and a surf rescue jet boat, but she sank soon after being taken in tow by the police launch Nemesis. The three men, Andy Devine, 38, of Bronte, Guy Monteith, 21, of Potts Pt and Allan Nagy 20, of Maroubra, were not hurt. Continued P2 === Page 8 of 21 4--THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN May 10-11 1980 # Homes flooded, sport cancelled after record rain By HARRY DAVIS RAIN which has lashed Brisbane for a week, causing evacuations and traffic chaos, eased on Friday, too late to save many sporting events from cancellation. The deluge of 355 millimetres (14.2in) which fell in the first nine days of the month up to 9am on Friday already exceeds the previous record of 352mm (14in) for the whole month set in 1876. Brisbane also had its heaviest 24-hour rainfall on record with 149mm (5.9in) recorded at the weather bureau in the 24 hours to 9am on Friday. The previous 24-hour record was 142.7mm (5.6in) set on May 9 last year. Police and State Emergency Service volunteers used rescue boats to evacuate families from flooded houses in low-lying outer suburbs. Large areas of drought-stricken north-western NSW received soaking rain, bringing fresh hope to thousands of farmers. The NSW north coast, which was gripped by drought last week, is now preparing for serious flooding following 425mm (17ins) of rain in some districts. Gales and rain have cut roads, ruined vegetable crops, inundated pastures and sugar cane crops, and ripped out banana trees. The rain in Brisbane caused the cancellation of the Oaks Day race meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday. This was replaced by an emergency meeting on the sand course at Albion Park. Many other sporting events, including major football fixtures, were either postponed or transferred to other grounds. The annual City-Theiss Toyota rugby league match, scheduled for Sunday, may be played at Lang Park on Tuesday night. A decision will be made after a ground inspection on Saturday. All metropolitan rugby league fixtures have been postponed until Sunday week. Rugby union games set down for Ballymore Park at the weekend have been put off but officials were still seeking alternative grounds late on Friday. In soccer, ground inspections by the referees association will decide whether matches in Divisions 1 and 2 will go ahead. Both divisions are involved in the Soccer Pools. Matches in Divisions 3 to 8, Colts divisions and South-East Queensland League have all been postponed. The State League game between Mt Gravatt and the North Queensland team, Mareeba, at Dittmar Park, Mt Gravatt, has also been postponed. Australian rules under-17s and under-19s matches scheduled for Saturday have been postponed and a decision on other club fixtures on Sunday will be made late on Saturday. Women's athletics and hockey and men's cricket fixtures have been cancelled. === Page 9 of 21 THE SUN-HERALD, MAY 11, 1980 # Mother's Day starts off sunny Heavy rains have now cleared NSW, after breaking the drought in some areas and easing it in others. ### Mike Bailey's WEATHER Mothers' Day promises to be mostly fine, although there will be some cloud and the chance of afternoon showers in some districts. Coastal areas will again be mild to warm and humid, with fog, mist and cloud this morning. Sydney's temperatures should reach the low to mid 20s and winds will be light to moderate northwest to north-east. Seas and swell, which have been heavy for the past few days, are abating and will be less dangerous for boating or even surfing today. A cooler south westerly change will enter the south-west of the State today, bringing a few showers and isolated thunderstorms. That change should reduces both humidity and temperature levels as it moves across to the coast in the next day or so. Talking of movement, the low pressure system responsible for much of the heavy rain over the past few days really took flight in a hurry on Friday night - and moved in a most unusual direction. It had been off the southern Queensland coast for about four days when it shot through like the proverbial "Bondi tram," and moved south-west through Dubbo in Central Western NSW. Strong winds and some of the best rains for months accompanied its passage, and showed again just how quickly our weather can change from drought to minor floods. Dorrigo is a classic example of the contrasts. That area was declared drought stricken on May 1, and just 10 days later it has recorder 584 mm of rain. The town is second only to Mullumbimby, with 610mm so far this month. While the rain has provided a needed boost to crops such as oats and barley, it has come a little too late to boost pasture growth prior to winter. SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 10-5-80 TIME NOON NOTES ON THE CHART: The low responsible for heavy to flood rains along the NSW northern coasts has moved south-southwest wards. It is now centred over the Riverina and should continue southwards. Rain is contracting into southern parts of the State and should ease to showers. In the north it should be mainly dry. Another low and cold front have crossed the Bight. A colder change should spread over southern inland NSW. Some showers and thunderstorms are expected with this system. Fogs will be widespread. **Northern Rivers:** Early morning fogs. Isolated showers but mild with sunny periods. NW to NE wind 10-15 knots. Flood warning current for the Richmond River. Outlook Monday: generally dry with NW to NE winds. **Mid North Coast:** Early morning fogs. Flood warning for Clarence and Macleay rivers. Mild day with showers and chance of isolated thunderstorm. NW to NE winds 10/15 knots. Seas mainly slight. Moderate easterly swell. **HUNTER:** Morning fogs. A shower or two but sunny periods. NE winds 10-20 knots. Further outlook: generally dry and cool. **South Coast and Illawarra:** A strong wind warning is current for E to NE winds 20-30 knots at times at first but easing. Showers or rain periods will also ease to a few showers. Outlook Monday: generally dry with cooler westerly winds. **Northern Tablelands:** Morning fogs. Light to moderate NW winds. A shower or two with cloudy periods. Further outlook: generally dry with NW winds. **Central Tablelands:** Morning fogs. A shower or two with moderate NW winds. Further outlook: generally dry with cooler SW to W winds. **Southern Tablelands:** Morning fogs. Cloudy periods with rain periods or showers, mainly in south. Risk of a thunderstorm. Winds freshening. **North West Slopes and plains:** Mild with cloudy periods and a shower or two at first clearing. Morning fogs. Light to moderate W to NW winds. Outlook Monday: generally dry and mild. **Central West Slopes and Plains:** Rain or showers easing. Overnight or morning fog areas. Light to moderate NW winds. Outlook tomorrow: Generally dry. Cool SW winds. **South West Slopes:** Cloudy with rain periods easing to a few showers during day. Risk of thunderstorm. Winds tending west to SW. **Riverina MIA:** A few showers persisting with the risk of a thunderstorm as winds tend colder moderate SW. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool with westerly winds. **Lower Western:** Becoming generally dry with winds tending cooler SW to S. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool. **Upper Western:** A few showers persisting with the risk of a thunderstorm. Winds tending colder moderate SW. Outlook tomorrow: Generally dry and cool with westerly winds. **RAINFALLS** In the 24 hours to 9 am yesterday general rain fell over NSW. Falls were heavy in the north and central coasts, northern tablelands, north-western slopes and plains districts and in the Blue Mountains region of the Central Tablelands and light to moderate with isolated heavy falls over the remainder of the State. Highest reported falls included: 145mm at Meldrum (Lower North Coast), 125mm at Dorrigo (Lower North Coast) and 120mm at Katoomba (Blue Mountains), and inland, 85mm at Nyngan (Central West Plains), 56mm at Narrabri West (North West Plains) and 37 mm at Hillston (Riverina). By yesterday morning winds were moderating along most of the coast and rain and drizzle was easing and gradually contracting Southwards. Rainfall at Observatory Hill 21mm, highest reported suburban fall 66mm at Glenorie. ## SYDNEY BRIEFLY Early fog and mist patches. A partly cloudy day with the chance of a few late showers. Mild to warm and humid. North-east to north-west winds. Seas abating to slight on a decreasing swell. Max temperature in the low to mid-20s. === Page 10 of 21 AUSTRALIA DAILY TELEGRAPH, Monday, May 12, 1980 Australia, Africa, India Special - World Rain Attack - # Floods easing as rain stops The NSW north coast flooding eased yesterday and no more rain is forecast for at least a few days. Flooding peaked on Saturday in the area after several days of rain and heavy storms. At Lismore, the town most affected by the floods, the crisis came at 7 am on Saturday. The Richmond River reached a height of 10.31m - just 20cm below a major flood classification. Many roads were closed and farmers were forced to move stock to high ground. But yesterday, cattle and sheep were brought back to the lower paddocks. The Pacific Hwy near Kempsey and Grafton was covered by waters yesterday afternoon but the route was officially open, with detours bypassing the worst areas. At Grafton, the Clarence River reached 6.4m at 3 pm on Saturday. According to State Emergency Service measurements, that made it a major flood although they reported damage and disruption were minor. The major rivers in the area - the Clarence, Tweed, Hunter and Richmond - were still swollen yesterday but levels were dropping. The storm causing the rain has moved south-east into the Tasman Sea. ## Drizzle The tail of the storm will bring thunderstorms to the south-east corner of NSW today but the rest of the State, including the drought-stricken western areas, will remain dry. Broken Hill, Narrabri, Walgett, Armidale and Coonamble all had falls under 20mm on Friday, as did Bourke, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. But it was little more than drizzle. To noon yesterday no falls had been reported since Saturday morning. But the rain was too light to ease the drought. SYDNEY can expect a dry day with sunny periods and a temperature range of 14 to 24 deg C. Frosts are expected on the NSW Northern Tablelands. === Page 11 of 21 AUSTRALIA # It was the driest April of the century Coastal areas of New South Wales will have more drought-easing showers in continuing cool and partly cloudy conditions this morning. But sunny periods will return as the rain contracts to the north later in the day. Some drizzle patches moved across the western side of the ranges in the past day or so. They were not nearly enough to relieve the areas worse affected by the drought, and today will bring more dry and mostly sunny weather warmed by winds slowly turning northerly. Winds near the coast will continue to be mainly south-east to easterly in the 5 to 15 knot range, with mainly slight seas on a low swell. Sydney's maximum temperatures will be in the low 20s -- continuing to be rather mild to start the school holidays. That old saying about time being "as slow as a wet week" seems to have special connections with the city's weather in the opening days of May. For the second successive year, we've begun the "merry merry month" with persistent showers. Rainfall for just the first three days of May is already ahead of the total for April -- which at 12 mm was the driest for that month so far this century. The first week of May last year was close to the wettest in all of 1979, with 98mm dumped on the city, but it came from a system different to the one bringing us the current moisture. A coastal trough, fed by moist south east winds from a strong and very slow-moving high pressure system just east of Bass Strait, is responsible this time. Last year, it was an upper atmospheric trough moving down from Queensland, which brought a better spread of rain across the State -- again aided by a slow moving high, typical of late autumn. That system failed to give anything like the snow and hail reported around Bargo last Wednesday night, triggered by very cold air in the upper atmosphere. On the subject of snow, school holiday skiers won't find immediate joy in our Snowy Mountains, where resort operators are still waiting for the first falls of the autumn. Around Sydney, fogs are likely to become more widespread in the next day or so as the skies clear. This will allow the cool nights to chill moist air for a spread of the fog patches so far confined mainly to the Western Suburbs and the Blue Mountains. This city usually has more fogs in the months of April, May and June than at any other time of the year -- but there's been little evidence of that so far, a pattern again similar to 1979. ## Mike Bailey's WEATHER ### SYDNEY BRIEFLY Early cloud and showers, breaking to sunny periods. Light to moderate south to south-east winds. Mainly slight seas, low swell. Maximum temperatures in low 20s. SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART 3-5-80 NOON ISOBARS -- 1016 -- (Value in millibars) COLD FRONT WARM FRONT SEAS Slight Moderate Rough Very Rough WINDS Calm 10 km/h 20 km/h 40 km/h 60 km/h 80 km/h 100 km/h RAINFALL Previous 24 hrs. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE -- BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY -- SYDNEY NOTES ON THE CHART: A strong high pressure system is located east of Tasmania and is only slow moving. This system is maintaining a moist SE to NE flow along the NSW coast with resultant showers. Further west of the divide generally dry weather is being experienced with NE winds. An upper air trough now moving over southern New South Wales will cause local thunderstorm activity in the south east of the State as it moves eastward. Little change however is expected in the general pattern REGIONAL FORECASTS Northern Rivers: Some showers, heavy at times but easing with SE to NE winds 15/20 knots. Cool to mild. Further outlook: Mild, a shower or two, NE winds. Mid North Coast: Some showers easing with SE to NE winds 10/20 knots. Cool to mild. Further outlook: Mild, a shower or two, NE winds. Hunter: Some showers, the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. E to NE winds 10/20 knots by day. Cool. Further outlook: Cool to mild with NE winds and a shower or two. South Coast/Illawarra: Some showers mostly clearing but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Cool with E to NE winds 5/15 knots. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool to mild with NE winds. Northern Tablelands: Cool and cloudy with some drizzle mainly in the east. Risk of thunderstorms developing. Light to moderate SE/NE winds. Central Tablelands: Some morning fog or frost patches, afterward mostly clearing but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Winds E to NE, light to moderate NE. Cool. Outlook: Generally dry and mild with northerly winds. Southern Tablelands: Early morning fog or frost patches. Sunny periods but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Winds light E to NE, mild to with northerly winds. North West Slopes and Plains: Some cloud with a shower or two possible eastward. Morning fog or frost patches. Winds tending light NE. Further outlook: Mild and dry with NE winds. Central West Slopes and Plains: Morning fog patches on top parts and highland frosts, though a risk of thunderstorms developing in the east. Light NE winds. South-west Slopes: Morning fog patches and highland frosts. Mild and partly cloudy day with the risk of thunderstorms developing. Light NE winds. Riverina/MIA: Mild mostly sunny day with light NE winds. Further outlook: Mild, northerly winds. Western: Mild and mostly sunny with light to moderate NE winds. Further outlook: Mild to warm, northerly winds. Lower Western: Mild and mostly sunny with light NE to N winds. Further outlook: Mild to warm northerly winds. TIDES TODAY Fort Denison: High 5.01 am (1.4 metres); 4.40 pm (1.6 metres). Low 11.02 am (1.3 metres); 11.06 pm (1.7 metres). SUN, MOON SUN: Rises 6.32 am, sets 5.11 pm. MOON: Rises 8.19 pm, sets 9.43 am. PLANETS | | Rises | Sets | |---|---|---| | Mercury | 5.41am | 4.45pm | | Venus | 10.05am | 7.27pm | | Mars | 1.51pm | 0.46am | | Jupiter | 1.48pm | 0.50am | | Saturn | 2.47pm | 2.25am | WORLD WEATHER | | | | |---|---|---| | Amsterdam, clear | 12 | 18 | | Athens, cloudy | 13 | 21 | | Bahrain, clear | 24 | 28 | | Bangkok, clear | 27 | 32 | | Beirut, clear | 16 | 19 | | Belgrade, cloudy | 13 | 18 | | Berlin, cloudy | 4 | 12 | | Bogota, clear | 7 | 21 | | Brussels, clear | 8 | 15 | | Buenos Aires, clear | 8 | 17 | | Cairo, sandstorms | 18 | 38 | | Chicago, clear | 13 | 21 | | Copenhagen, clear | 4 | 12 | | Curitiba, cloudy | 12 | 22 | | Denpasar, clear | 23 | 33 | | Dublin, clear | 8 | 11 | | Frankfurt, clear | 7 | 20 | | Geneva, cloudy | 9 | 15 | | Helsinki, clear | 0 | 8 | | Hong Kong, cloudy | 21 | 25 | | Honolulu, cloudy | 21 | 29 | | Jakarta, cloudy | 24 | 32 | | Jerusalem, clear | 16 | 30 | | Johannesburg, clear | 10 | 22 | | Kiev, cloudy | 9 | 20 | | Kuala Lumpur, rain | 24 | 33 | | Lima, clear | 18 | 23 | | Lisbon, cloudy | 10 | 18 | | London, cloudy | 8 | 15 | | Los Angeles, cloudy | 14 | 19 | | Madrid, cloudy | 6 | 18 | | Manila, cloudy | 24 | 35 | | Mexico City, cloudy | 10 | 25 | | Miami, cloudy | 19 | 28 | | Montreal, cloudy | 9 | 23 | | Moscow, cloudy | 10 | 20 | | Nadi, fair | 21 | 32 | | New Delhi, clear | 27 | 40 | | New York, cloudy | 16 | 23 | | Nicosia, cloudy | 11 | 26 | | Oslo, clear | 6 | 17 | | Paris, cloudy | 10 | 20 | | Rio de Janeiro, cloudy | 18 | 34 | | Rome, clear | 9 | 22 | | San Francisco, cloudy | 16 | 17 | | San Juan, clear | 25 | 32 | | Sao Paulo, cloudy | 16 | 27 | | Seoul, clear | 9 | 22 | | Singapore, rain | 25 | 33 | | Stockholm, clear | 8 | 12 | | Taipei, cloudy | 21 | 26 | | Tel Aviv, cloudy | 18 | 30 | | Tokyo, clear | 10 | 20 | | Toronto, cloudy | 10 | 18 | | Vancouver, cloudy | 8 | 22 | | Vienna, clear | 8 | 16 | === Page 12 of 21 RAIN LIFTS CROP OUTLOOK Page 3 MAY 15, 1980 "THE LAND" NEWSPAPER SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 0-25mm 50-100mm 25-50mm 100mm+ The above is a sketch map of the state of New South Wales one of the "Eastern States" of Australia. It shows the recent rainfall THANK YOU Approx conversion factor: 100mm = 4 inches of Rain Bruce Kello P RE E === Page 13 of 21 Rain brightens outlook "The Land" Newspaper (Australia) May 15, 1980 # Record crop now possible Hopes for a near-record wheat crop received a boost this week following widespread rain across the State. Wheatgrowers had planned to increase the area under wheat by five per cent to 3.4 million hectares before the drought conditions set in. But further follow-up rains will be needed in the next three weeks for this sowing to eventuate. Principal winter cereals agronomist with the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll said if good weather prevailed for the rest of the season a crop equal to the record 6.6 million tonnes of 1978-79 was still possible. The Riverina had already received follow-up falls and sowing was well underway. But he said it was generally too early for many farmers in the north to start sowing wheat. Coonamble agronomist, Mr Greg Fenton said some district farmers would not risk waiting for follow-up rain and would start sowing wheat in the next week. At Dubbo the regional director of agriculture, Mr Brian Clinton said farmers west of the city were getting ready to sow lupins, oats and barley. Some wheat could be sown he said but farmers would generally wait for further falls. Wagga agronomist, Mr Ken Simmons said the follow-up rain was just what farmers wanted. Farmers were still preparing their ground but the bulk of the district's wheat crop would be sown in the next two weeks. Bourke agronomist, Mr Doug Campbell said the rain was scattered with about 14mm falling near the town and at Cobar. But at Nyngan up to 75mm fell and many farmers were ready to start sowing. At Griffith, Department of Agriculture officer, Mr Pat Keenan, described the rain as a "beautiful" follow-up. Falls of between 30 and 40mm as far out as Hillston were reported and most farmers would soon be sowing. Moree agronomist, Mr Max McMillan said there was little rain in the western part of the district but in the east falls were up to 200mm. Many farmers would sow forage oats and barley. Follow-up rain was needed for sufficient sub-soil moisture to sow wheat. At Gunnedah up to 62mm were reported giving farmers the chance to "line up" wheat seedbeds according to district special agronomist Mr Rob Browne. Farm manager of Auscott Pty Ltd, Warren, Mr Neil Sowerby with one of 38 pickers valued around $50,000 each held up by rain last weekend. The farm at Warren received around 70 mm, while properties 15 miles west received up to 125 mm. # Rains delay cotton harvest The rain of the past week has had little effect on the cotton harvest which is more than half over according to Namoi Valley Co-operative agronomist Mr Andy Mengersen. "Generally I think everyone is thrilled with the rain as it takes much of the pressure off the area", he said. Mr Mengersen said the rain was variable but in areas where it was heavy the main effects on the cotton would be the delay in picking. Some cotton could be down graded in quality but it was too early to tell. This week "The Land" presents a special Cotton Feature starting on page 25. === Page 14 of 21 Rain brightens outlook "The Land" Newspaper (Australia) May 15, 1980 Record crop now possible Hopes for a near-record wheat crop received a boost this week following widespread rain across the State. Wheatgrowers had planned to increase the area under wheat by five per cent to 3.4 million hectares before the drought conditions set in. But further follow-up rains will be needed in the next three weeks for this sowing to eventuate. Principal winter cereals agronomist with the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll said if good weather prevailed for the rest of the season a crop equal to the record 6.6 million tonnes of 1978-79 was still possible. The Riverina had already received follow-up falls and sowing was well underway. But he said it was generally too early for many farmers in the north to start sowing wheat. Coonamble agronomist, Mr Greg Fenton said some district farmers would not risk waiting for follow-up rain and would start sowing wheat in the next week. At Dubbo the regional director of agriculture, Mr Brian Clinton said farmers west of the city were getting ready to sow lupins, oats and barley. Some wheat could be sown he said but farmers would generally wait for further falls. Wagga agronomist, Mr Ken Simmons said the follow-up rain was just what farmers wanted. Farmers were still preparing their ground but the bulk of the district's wheat crop would be sown in the next two weeks. Bourke agronomist, Mr Doug Campbell said the rain was scattered with about 14mm falling near the town and at Cobar. But at Nyngan up to 75mm fell and many farmers were ready to start sowing. At Griffith, Department of Agriculture officer, Mr Pat Keenan, described the rain as a "beautiful follow-up." Falls of between 30 and 40mm as far out as Hillston were reported and most farmers would soon be sowing. Moree agronomist, Mr Max McMillan said there was little rain in the western part of the district but in the east falls were up to 200mm. Many farmers would sow forage oats and barley. Follow-up rain was needed for sufficient sub-soil moisture to sow wheat. At Gunnedah up to 62mm were reported giving farmers the chance to "line up" wheat seedbeds according to district special agronomist Mr Rob Browne. Farm manager of Auscott Pty Ltd, Warren, Mr Neil Sowerby with one of 38 pickers valued around $50,000 each held up by rain last weekend. The farm at Warren received around 70 mm, while properties 15 miles west received up to 125 mm. Rains delay cotton harvest The rain of the past week has had little effect on the cotton harvest which is more than half over according to Namoi Valley Co-operative agronomist Mr Andy Mengersen. "Generally I think everyone is thrilled with the rain as it takes much of the pressure off the area", he said. Mr Mengersen said the rain was variable but in areas where it was heavy the main effects on the cotton would be the delay in picking. Some cotton could be down graded in quality but it was too early to tell. This week "The Land" presents a special Cotton Feature starting on page 25. === Page 15 of 21 SYDNEY MORN. HERALD MAY 17, 1980 # Down on the farm in droughty country denly appeared in the distance framed by the bleak sides of a road cutting. It was a bright exhausted shade of blue. We seemed to be rushing towards a blighted quarantine area, another planet. In autumn, this country is usually emerald green. But now the bare hills look like upturned earthenware bowls; the uncultivated paddocks are indistinguishable (except up close) from the freshly-ploughed ones, all uniformly brown. Around Cowra, in the central west, the last good rain -- in August -- was followed by grasshopper hordes. Now they and the grass have vanished. There's no sign of the once-reliable lucerne, either. The Department of Agriculture estimates that the three types of lucerne aphid (the spotted, the blue and the pea aphid), all accidentally imported since May 1977, cause about $30 million worth of damage to the State's lucerne crop each year. How did the creatures get here? No one knows. Many people in country towns keep horses, and let them graze on vacant lots, but they have to buy hay during the drought. So at present it costs more to keep a horse in hay than a car in petrol -- about $30 a week. In some paddocks around here there's nothing above ground-level except crows and camel-melons. The melons are noxious -- they send horses blind. Their small relative, the paddy-melon, is reputedly poisonous but so bitter that it would take remarkable willpower to eat one. Only children like these hardy vegetables: they throw the little ones at each other and hollow out the big ones to make jack o'lanterns. The crows sit there confidently, sleek drought kings who feast on dead sheep. Water-diviners are kept busy these days, looking for the fabled "underground stream." Some diviners use the traditional forked stick, but most favour metal -- a piece of bent fencing wire, or even grandmother's wedding-ring on a thread. These diviners, usually old men, seem to have great faith in their own powers -- as do the property-owners who engage them. They are a great annoyance to the bore-sinking contractors who are called in after the diagnosis and told where to dig -- for the underground stream is a myth except in limestone country, and this is porphyritic granite. The drought brings out generosity in some people, meanness in others. Old feuds are shelved as neighbours share water (for dams and wells are drying up all over the place). On the other hand, some farmers deliberately graze their stock on the reserves and the road (known as the "long paddock"), thereby conserving their own land and destroying the feed for legitimate drovers. We're told about a recent duststorm, the worst in local memory. Sometimes you couldn't see your outstretched hand, and never more than 10m ahead. It blew for about seven hours. Thousands of tonnes of good topsoil were airborne; there are drifts of soil like snow against the fences. The paddock soil is loosened by overstocking -- of sheep, horses, cattle. When the grass is gone, it's dust. Sometimes taking to the "long paddock" is the only way to keep stock alive. They have to face the hazards of traffic as well as thirst. Sheep, because of their teeth and jaw structure, can forage where cattle can't, grubbing out grass stems and roots from almost underground. They are the gambler's pieces: during a drought, you can buy them cheaply -- perhaps from a bankrupt property further inland. If it rains there's a good profit -- and if it doesn't, the sheep starve quietly to death. But overstocking isn't always due to greed. It's easy to miscalculate. One farmer describes the misfortune of his 40 fowls: he had to economise, and was feeding them a quarter of a kerosene-tin of wheat each day. "Jeez, I knew I was underfeeding those poor chooks," he said, "but I didn't realise how starved they were till a willy-willy came along and picked them all up -- carried them right across a little dam. Some fell in -- the heavy ones." As we're driving along a dirt road, we see a fine wallaby sitting in a paddock; we stop, walk to the fence: he doesn't flinch, just stares back. The search for food has brought him out of the bush. In the bush, there's no evident damage. The natives are tough. The little lichens that crunch underfoot now will soften like sea-sponges when it finally rains. Only the kangaroo tracks everywhere are signs of distress. When we left Cowra the useless-looking clouds were still hanging about, as they'd been for days. Occasionally they'd produced a sprinkle, "enough to lay the dust." But it takes at least 50mm of consistent rain to break a drought like this. It was a nightmare trip back to Sydney: soon the wind and rain began; the car leaked, as usual, and gusts of wind kept lifting its bonnet -- we had to fasten it down with luggage straps. Curtains of rain lashed the road -- as with the dust storm, you couldn't see more than 10m ahead. Nature specialises in ironies: back there in the droughty country, it hadn't rained at all. === Page 16 of 21 THANK YOU FOR COASTAL RAIN AND FOR RAIN ON NE corner of New South Wales. BUT NEXT PLEASE? 14 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, May 17, 1980 14 (AUSTRALIA) The dam is nearly empty and the horse is almost belly-deep in the mud as he stretches for the last of the water. The grasshoppers have been and the rains haven't come; only the crows are eating well in the Central West. SALLY McINERNEY has just returned from a visit to her home town near Cowra. It was a long way from downpour-sodden Sydney. SOME people think that when it's raining on them it's raining everywhere else as well. Indeed, when you're caught in one of the coast's special deluges it's hard to believe in the simultaneous existence, not more than a couple of crow-flights away, of droughty country where there's been no real rain for nearly a year. Last week I went - for a couple of days - to the district classified as the Central Western Slopes and Plains. It's quite a long journey, particularly in an old Renault 4. Sydney was wet and cold when we set out; the Blue Mountains were wintry, with wind and scudding rain. At chilly Lithgow the sun sprang out for a second, as if to prove it still existed, and that was the last sight of it until we reached the drought country - which sud- $ ightarrow$ CONTINUED === Page 17 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saturday, May 17, 1980 7 NEXT PLEASE? # DRY TOWN IN DAM UPROAR Hundreds of angry Mudgee residents attended a protest meeting yesterday over the State Government's failure to complete the Windamere Dam. Shops were closed in the drought-stricken town, in central western NSW, for the meeting in the RSL Club. In 1970 the Windamere Dam project, which was to augment Mudgee and Gulgong's water supply, as well as provide water for irrigation, was announced by a State Liberal MP, Mr Jack Beale. The dam was to have cost $10 million. Some local people said the project was an election ploy to return the Askin Liberal Government. Nothing happened until 1973 when the Whitlam Labor Government gave a grant to Mudgee Shire Council for by-pass road construction. Last Tuesday, Mudgee Shire Council imposed further stringent water restrictions, the most severe in the area's history. Unlike other towns, Mudgee has received hardly any rainfall in the past month and the water situation is critical. The vegetable industry is threatened with extinction as the Cudgegong River which supplies Mudgee's water, has stopped running Shire president Mr A. W. Cox, told the meeting the council was "snubbed by the State Minister, Mr Gordon, who found time to go to Dubbo to welcome a few animals at the zoo but could not come to Mudgee." Mr Cox said: "Is it any wonder that after 10 years, $20 million spent on property resumptions and no work being done, that we are so angry?" Mr Jim Curran, State MP for Castlereagh, whose electorate next year will be enlarged to contain Mudgee and the Windamere Dam area, told the meeting the dam would now cost $46.5 million. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) (AUSTRALIA) MAY 17, 1980 # DROUGHT AID 'DODGING' Good falls of rain in some parts of NSW had not ended the drought, Country Party leader Mr Punch said yesterday. Mr Punch said drought relief was still necessary in many areas and even in areas where rain had fallen drought relief measures should not be forgotten. A drought co-ordination committee should be formed, with representatives of primary producers organisations, chambers of commerce, pastures protection boards, councils and government departments which would constantly review drought relief needs. It was also essential that a national committee be established with representatives from all States to look at ways of minimising the effect of drought. Mr Punch said the best way to combat drought was prevention measures. ## Hand-outs Under the present system, farmers who spent money at the right time and money on drought relief measures on their properties were often disadvantaged compared with those who did nothing themselves and looked to governments for hand-outs as soon as a dry spell began. It was the role of government to provide assistance between droughts to help landholders to prepare for the recurring dry periods. Mr Punch said that through the present drought the NSW Government had tried to avoid giving aid. It had tried to blame the Federal Government and had ignored the impact of the drought in urban areas. Mr Punch said even where rain had fallen, the benefit would be limited because winter was near. === Page 18 of 21 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, May 27, 1980 # TOWN WANTS A PIED PIPER TO RID IT OF MICE Mudgee, in the NSW central west, is looking for a modern-day Pied Piper. First the town was hit by drought. Now it is mice. With the worsening of the drought and the almost non-existent supply of fodder for sheep and cattle, field mice are invading Mudgee homes in their thousands. Shops have sold out of mouse traps and poison bait is almost unobtainable. One resident told a special meeting of the local council that mice in plague proportions had entered her's and neighboring homes. ## In bedroom Another said: "I have lived here for 12 years and we have never had any mice until now. "They even come into the bedroom." But the assistant health surveyor, Mr Peter Wakeling, said: "I am unaware that there is such a problem." Mr and Mrs G. Wesley, of Third St, said it was "ludicrous" that the health surveyor knew nothing of the problem. Mr Wesley said: "I have complained about it to the council at least twice." Councillor Carmel Croan said: "I want to know why it wasn't followed up and brought to councillors' notice." The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 3, 1980 # Largest sowing in years possible Recent rains may lead to the largest wheat sowings in NSW in the last decade. Mild climatic conditions are also expected to boost pastures in some of the worst drought-affected areas. The principal winter cereals agronomist of the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll, reported in The Land newspaper last week, said the rain had fallen at the right time for major sowings in the central and northern grain districts. Much of the southern and Riverina districts were already sown and the total could now reach 3.4 million hectares of wheat, said Mr Komoll. This compared with the record 4.03 million in 1968-69. However, substantial rain would have to fall in the northwest for the state to be able to reach the 6.6 million tonnes crop of 1978. Falls had been recorded around Tamworth, the Liverpool Plains and north and west of Moree which had missed much of the rain two weeks ago. === Page 19 of 21 SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 28.5.80 TIME 9 a.m. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these forecasts and warnings for today: WARNINGS: Strong wind warning for coastal waters. Gale warning for the Tasman Sea. STATE: Showers and thunderstorms in the east, tending to rain on the south coast but clearing north of the Hunter. Becoming dry on the western plains. Wide-spread morning fogs. Light to moderate SW to SE winds inland, SW to SE winds, strengthening along the coast with seas rising to rough. Increasing swell. METROPOLITAN: Some morning showers and fog patches, then fine. Cool southerly winds strengthening on the coast. Seas rising to rough. Moderate swell. NORTHERN RIVERS: Early showers and morning fog patches, clearing to a fine day. NW to SW winds gradually strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. Seas offshore. Moderate swell. MID-NORTH COAST: Some early showers, storms, and fogs, clearing to a fine day. NW to SW winds strengthening during the day and reaching 20-30 knots in coastal waters with seas rising to rough offshore. A preliminary strong wind warning is current. HUNTER: Morning fog areas. Some showers or thunderstorms clearing to a fine day. Light W to S winds strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. A strong wind warning has been issued. Seas rising to rough and moderate swell. ILLAWARRA, SOUTH COAST: Rain periods and local thunderstorms with some heavy falls. SW to SE winds strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. Seas rising to rough. Moderate swell. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Morning fog areas then fine and cool. W to SW winds becoming fresh at times. RAINFALL Rainfall of 5mm or more for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: UPPER WESTERN: Angledool 34, Bourke 21, Brewarrina 6, Collarenebri 29, Coolabah 8, Lightning Ridge 23, Louth 7. LOWER WESTERN: Broken Hill 8, Menindee 14, Euabalong 24, Ivanhoe 5. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Boomi 13, Barren Jctn 17, Moree 10, Narrabri 22, Pallamallawa 13, Wee Waa 37. CENTRAL WESTERN PLAINS: Canbelego 26, Coonamble 72, Gilgandra 38, Girilambone 13, Gulargambone 41, Narromine 9, Nevertire 3, Nyngan 11, Quambone 31, Warren 11, Bogan Gate 6, Peak Hill 6, Tottenham 9, Trundie 8, Ungarie 24, Yalgogrin Nth 31. RIVERINA: Cargelligo 13, Carrathool 5, Darlington Pt 10, Goolgowi 6, Griffith 6, Gubbata 28, Hay 9, Hillston 6, Maude 6, Rankin Springs 19, Henty 10, Howlong 9, Lockhart 11, Narrandera 17, The Rock 15, Tocumwal 30, Whitton 11. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 8, Barraba 8, Bingara 23, Bonshaw 6, Rawdon 11, Delungra 6, Gravesend 11, Warialda 10, Amman 10, Bendemeer 10, Blackville 37, Boggabri 24, Breeza 23, Gunnedah 18, Manilla 10, Mullaley 33, Premer 33, Quirindi 16, Somerton 20, Tambar Springs 43, Tamworth 11, Werris Creek 23, Willowtree 18. CENTRAL-WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 60, Coolah 30, Coonabarabran 78, Dunedoo 21, Mendooran 35, Tooraweenah 34, Canowindra 6, Cudal 16, Dubbo 5, Eugowra 18, Forbes 11, Grenfell 10, Molong 16, Parkes 10, Wellington 19. SOUTH-WEST SLOPES: Barmedman 32, Burrinjuck Dam 45, Cootamundra 42, Gundagai 30, Junee 10, Koorawatha 17, Quandialla 23, Stockinbingal 42, Temora 31, Wyalong 43, Young 5, Adelong 35, Albury 15, Batlow 48, Caouramurra 25, Holbrook 8, Hume R'voir 12, Khancoban 5, Sydnecurra 12, Tumbarumba 33, Tumut 35, Wagga 15, Wagga MO 17. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Inverell 6, Tingha 8. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 22, Mudgee 26, Rylstone 14, Bathurst 5, Blayney 7, Cowra 13, Lithgow 13, Oberon 13, Orange A/port 21, Trunkey Ck 9, Wyangala 17. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Canberra M 21, Cooma 14, Crookwell 13, Delegate 8, Frogmore 6, Goulburn 10, Gunning 18, Nimmitabel 11, Queanbeyan 18, Taralga 12, Tumut 35, Canberra City 31, Adaminaby 18, Berridale 23, Dalgety 16, Perisher Valley 17, Thredbo (C'back) 17. NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 13, Murwillumbah 10, Tweed Heads 26, Yamba 5. MID NORTH COAST: Gloucester 5. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 5, Denman 18, Dungog 6, Gosford 13, Gresford 6, Jerrys Plains 12, Mangrove Mtn 12, Maryville 35, Merriwa 15, Moonan Flat 10, Murrurundi 21, Paterson 5, Scone 19, Singleton (Army) 6, Williamtown MO 6, Wyong 10. ILLAWARRA: Berry 6, Camden A/pt 7, Campbelltown 5, Jervis Bay 11, Kiama 7, Nowra (Council) 8, Robertson 6, W'gong (Uni) 6. SOUTH COAST: Araluen 5, Bega 8, Braidwood 5, Candelo 11, Eden 12, Green Cape 10, Merimbula A/pt 9. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 5, Baigowlah 6, Bexley 5, Bondi 7, Gordon 5, Mascot MO 6, Mosman 7, Newport Bch 12, Pymble 5, Sydney 5, Turramurra 5, Waverton 7, Auburn 5, Glenorie 7. SHIPPING EXPECTED ARRIVALS Today SEA PRINCESS, Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, no time. XAIO SHI KOU, Point Piper Anchorage, no time. SHINNICH MARU, Bank Anchorage, no time. MARCONA, 7 Darling Harbor, no time. EXPECTED DEPARTURES Today ADUARA, 11 Woolloomooloo, no time. WAITAKI, 4 Darling Harbor, no time. TRICOLOR, 5 Darling Harbor, no time. ALEXANDRIA, 7 Glebe Island, no time. CHUBA MARU, 4 White Bay, no time. TIDES Tomorrow: HIGH: 8.40 am (1.4m), 8.50 pm (1.8m). LOW: 2.42 am (0.3m), 2.23 pm (0.4m). SUN: Rises 6.49, sets 4.54. DAILY TELEGRAPH, Thursday, May 29, 1980 Bruce Kell (Australian Correspondent) 4 Torrington Road Strathfield 2135 New South Wales (NSW) Australia === Page 20 of 21 STORE STOCK REVIEW Sydney Morning Herald Friday May 30 1980 # Rain brings widespread relief Good falls of rain over a widespread area of NSW during the week have broken the drought in some parts with falls of over three inches. Special sales of sheep and cattle since late last week have been well attended with main strength stemming from Victoria, South Australia and Southern NSW. Before the rain which began last Tuesday, values for stock were irregular with poorer conditioned sheep and cattle cheaper. However better quality lines were generally firm to dearer. The joint special cattle sales at Barraba and Manilla on Wednesday saw a particularly strong market for weaner age lots and included excellent sales such as Hereford heifers, 5 to 7 months, poor and stunted making $92 and the steer portion $108. Poll Hereford steers, 14 months $232, Hereford cows, aged and joined to Herefords, $198. At Casino all but one pen was sold from the yarding of 1,500 on Monday, with South Australians and Victorians providing strong competition against local restockers. Sales included, Hereford steers, 18 months, $203, 12 months and very good quality $181, 10 months, $144, Hereford heifers 14 months $148, 10 months $135 and 8-9 months $129. Values were from $5 to $20 cheaper at the big Roma (Qld) yarding of about 9,400 cattle with mature steers experiencing the biggest loss. Bullocks sold from $228 to $328.50, steers 20-24 months $165.50 to $250.50, weaner steers, $51 to $162.50, heifers 12-15 months $84.50 to $160.50 and cows and calves $132.50 to $247.50. At the Narromine First Cross Breeders Sale on Wednesday all 4,500 sheep were cleared but values were below prices expected. Top price was $42.50 for 360 July-August drop ewes which went to Cootamundra. Other sales included 120 July drop $42, 150 June-July drop $38.50, 230 July drop $36 and 125 March-April drop $38.50. Prices rose for good quality sheep by up to $3 at the large yarding of $3,000 at Deniliquin with widespread Victorian restocks competing with buyers from South Australia and the local district. Bristow: Frank SYDNEY MORNING HERALD NEW. SOUTH. WALES FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1980 THE NEXT DOOR ON THE RIGHT IS THE E DEPARTMENT. CHAP TIMING HOW LONG HE DID HIS BREATH IS BRISTOW ONE FOR CHIEF # Drought over, big wheat crop likely Timely State-wide rain has not only marked an end to the drought, which was beginning to cause deep concern to the sheep and cattle industry, but has set the scene for a bumper wheat crop. Rain has fallen at the right time for major wheat plantings in the central and northern grain districts. In addition generally mild weather should now give pastures a boost in the worst affected of the drought regions. Throughout most of the State's rural producing areas (except the far west) there has been good rainfall in the past few days. In most regions it has been of the order of 75mm. The good rain will halt the rundown in stock, placing some upward pressure on meat prices in the short run. While this week's rain was a welcome relief to farmers they need good following rains to ensure that they will see a good grain crop in the spring. PAGE 9: On the path of a drought-resistant wheat strain. PAGE 14: Stock review. NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA === Page 21 of 21 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Friday, May 30, 1980 39 # WEATHER, SHIPPING ## FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these forecasts and warnings for today: **WARNING:** Strong wind warning for coastal waters south of Moruya heads. Gale warning for central Tasman Sea Ocean waters. **NSW:** Showers and thunderstorms on the far south coast and southern alps. Some showers or drizzle on western slopes of the ranges contracting southwards. Mainly dry on the coast and on western plains. Morning fog areas. Winds mainly W to SW, of light to moderate strength inland, and moderate to fresh on the coast, winds strong at times on the south coast, seas slight inshore, but moderate to rough off the south coast. Low to moderate swell. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Fine. 10-15 knot W to SW winds. Seas slight, low to moderate swell. **MID NORTH COAST:** Fine. 10-15 knot W to SW winds. Seas slight, low to moderate swell. **HUNTER:** Early fog patches and few showers, clearing to fine. W to SW winds 10-20 knots. Seas slight inshore, low moderate swell. **ILLAWARRA SOUTH COAST:** Some showers and thunderstorms in the south, but dry north from about Moruya Heads. A strong wind warning is current. South of Moruya 20-30 knot W to S winds. Northwards from Moruya, 15-20 knot SW to W winds. Seas slight to moderate inshore. Moderate swell. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Morning fogs and drizzle on the west side clearing to fine and cool. Moderate W to SW winds. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Drizzle and fog areas on west slopes breaking in the afternoon. Dry on the east side. Cool W to SW winds. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Some thunderstorms in the south at first, showers through the day, cool to cold, gusty W to SW winds. **NORTH WEST SLOPES AND PLAINS:** Fog and drizzle areas in the east clearing to generally fine afternoon. Cool. Light to moderate W to SW winds. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES AND PLAINS:** Drizzle and fog areas clearing to mainly fine cool, partly cloudy afternoon. Light to moderate SW winds. **UPPER WESTERN:** Early fogs clearing to fine and cool to mild. Light winds. **LOWER WESTERN:** Morning fogs. Fine cool partly cloudy afternoon. Light winds. # RAINFALL Rainfall of 5mm or more for the 24 hours as at 9 am yesterday: **UPPER WESTERN:** Coolabah 5. **NORTHWEST PLAINS:** Gwabegar 10, Baradine 6, Bellata 12, Bogabilla 26, Garah 5, Narrabri West 18, Wee Waa 12. **SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART** DATE 29.5.80 TIME NOON (Map showing weather patterns over Australia with labels for Pt Hedland, Darwin, Alice Springs, Townsville, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart. Isobars marked 1000, 1004, 1008, 1012, 1016.) | ISOBARS | 1016 | SEAS | WINDS | RAINFALL | |---|---|---|---|---| | (Value in millibars) | | Slight | Calm | | | COLD FRONT | | Moderate | 10 km/h | Previous | | WARM FRONT | | Rough | 20 km/h | 24 hrs | | | | Very Rough | 40 km/h | | | | | | 60 km/h | | | | | | 80 km/h | | | | | | 100 km/h | | | | | | and over | | DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Coonamble 18, Gilgandra 8, Girilambone 22, Gulargambone 18, Narromine 37, Nevertire 17, Nyngan 29, Quambone 20, Trangie 24, Warren 32, Bogan Gate 60, Peak Hill 74, Trundle 68, Ungarie 8. **RIVERINA:** Maude 11, Ariah Park 22, Barellan 39, Coolamon 5, Leeton 8. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Ashford 19, Barraba 17, Bingara 10, Bonshaw 33, Coppa Ck, Rawdon 10, Delungra 15, Gravesend 7, Warialda 10, Bendemeer 18, Blackville 12, Boggabri 14, Gunnedah 24, Premer 10, Quirindi 16, Somerton 55, Tamworth MO 45, Werris Creek 13, Willowtree 19, Woolbrook 11. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Coolah 13, Dunedoo 9, Mendooran 16, Cudal 19, Dubbo 44, Eugowra 11, Forbes 33, Manildra 18, Molong 26, Parkes 30, Wellington 21. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 33, Burrinjuck Dam 11, Grenfell 19, Gundagai 7, Junee 24, Koorawatha 12, Temora 19, Young 31, Adelong 16, Batlow 9, Tumbarumba 7. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 6, Bundarra 10, Deepwater 38, Emmaville 42, Glen Innes 28, Guyra 18, Inverell 15, Tingha 16, Uralla 9, Walcha 6, Bonalbo 25, Lower Creek Tabulam 11, Tabulam (Muirne) 16. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Gulgong 16, Mudgee 10, Rylstone 7, Bathurst 15, Blackheath 18, Cowra Airport 11, Hill End 13, Katoomba 45, Kurrajong Hght 14, Lithgow 15, Mt Victoria 23, Oberon 20, Orange Airport 19, Rockley 13, Springwood 14, Trunkey Creek 13, Wyangala 10. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Canberra M 5, Crookwell 16, Goulburn 47, Gunning 34, Taralga 27, Yass 30, Canberra City 7, Perisher Valley 5. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 19, Casino 24, Grafton 21, Lismore 25, Maclean 27, Murwillumbah 18, Tweed Heads 12, Yamba 40. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 9, Coffs Hbr MO 10, Dorrigo 14, Kempsey 6, Macksville 10, Meldrum 14, Smoky Cape 7, Bulahdelah 5, Gloucester 11. **HUNTER:** C'nock (Nulkaba) 7, Denman 6, Dungog 10, Gosford 8, Gresford 10, Mangrove Mtn 17, Maryville 7, Merriwa 13, Moonan Flat 15, Murrurundi 11, N'castle (Nbys) 9, Paterson 7, Raymond Tce 5, Scone 7, Singleton (Army) 8, Stroud 6. **ILLAWARRA:** Bowral 23, Camden Airport 27, Campbelltown 15, Greenwell Pt 15, Jervis Bay 9, Kiama 13, Robertson 82, Wollongong 15, W'gong (Uni) 42, Nowra (RAN) 5. **SOUTH COAST:** Milton 9. **METROPOLITAN:** Ashfield 13, Balgowlah 10, Bankstown MO 14, Bexley 34, Bondi 6, Concord 13, Cronulla 22, Epping 12, Five Dock 11, Gordon 12, Hornsby 11, Hurstville 19, Mascot MO 8, Mosman 13, Pymble 11, Sydney 11, Turramurra 16, Wahroonga 13, Waverton 8, West Lindfield 16, Auburn 15, Glenorie 6, Liverpool 9, Penrith 45, Richmond MO 9. # SHIPPING - [ ] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Newspaper articles Australia https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/3c3263277e5fbc66a3bea62e106d7dea.pdf 45fb947e82d963ef7f4912647884e4aa https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/25fff12d03f80d774c6c8c0007104b30.txt a2b5c5f1c10639e657cf094f28a328fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 a Sydney newspaper (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, April 9, 1980 # NSW farmers slaughter stock Please RAIN is needed ARMIDALE is a city in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales ++++++++++ KEMPSEY is a city on the North Coast of New South Wales. ++++++++++ BOURKE WALGETT ARMIDALE KEMPSEY GILGANDRA MUDGEE HILLSTON FORBES HAY YASS COOMA BEGA SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN - [x] Won't recover until spring even with rain - [x] Will recover if rain falls before first frosts - [ ] Not badly affected by drought The worst affected areas of drought-stricken NSW === Page 2 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Thursday Island - Wyndham - Katherine - Weipa - Cooktown - Cairns - Willis Island - Broome - Derby - Hall's Creek - Normanton - Tennant Creek - Townsville - Port Hedland - Mt Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Mundiwindi - Alice Springs - Longreach - Rockhampton - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Oodnadatta - Charleville - Taroom - BRISBANE - Wiluna - Laverton - Cook - Tarcoola - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Eucla - Ceduna - Port Augusta - Tamworth - Dubbo - PERTH - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - Vagin - Esperance - ADELAIDE - CANBERRA - Albury - Albany - Horsham - Portland - MELBOURNE - Sale - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES April 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km 1:27 500 000 Thursday Island === Page 3 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Katherine - Wyndham - Derby - Broome - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Port Hedland - Mundiwindi - Alice Springs - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Wiluna - Laverton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Cook - Tarcoola - Eucla - Ceduna - PERTH - Wagin - Esperance - Albany - Thursday Island - Weipa - Cooktown - Cairns - Willis Island - Normanton - Townsville - Mt. Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Longreach - Rockhampton - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Charleville - Taroom - Oodnadatta - BRISBANE - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Port Augusta - Mildura - ADELAIDE - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - Horsham - CANBERRA - Albury - Portland - MELBOURNE - Sale - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES 3 months - 1 February to 30 April 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km ---------- 1:27 500 000 === Page 4 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Weipa - Thursday Island - Katherine - Wyndham - Cooktown - Willis Island - Cairns - Normanton - Townsville - Broome - Derby - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Mt. Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Port Hedland - Alice Springs - Longreach - Rockhampton - Mundiwindi - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Charleville - Oodnadatta - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Wiluna - Marree - Bourke - Moree - BRISBANE - Laverton - Cook - Tarcoola - Tamworth - Grafton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Ceduna - Port Augusta - Eucla - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - CANBERRA - ADELAIDE - PERTH - Horsham - Esperance - Albany - Portland - Sale - MELBOURNE - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES 3 months - 1 March to 31 May 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km 1:27 500 000 CP-157 === Page 5 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Thursday Island - Weipa - Katherine - Wyndham - Cooktown - Derby - Normanton - Cairns - Broome - Willis Island - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Townsville - Mt Isa - Hughenden - Port Hedland - Mackay - Longreach - Alice Springs - Rockhampton - Mundiwindi - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Carnarvon - Charleville - Oodnadatta - Wiluna - Meekatharra - BRISBANE - Laverton - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Geraldton - Cook - Tarcoola - Kalgoorlie - Tamworth - Port Augusta - Dubbo - Eucla - Ceduna - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - ADELAIDE - CANBERRA - PERTH - Horsham - Albury - Esperance - Albany - Sale - Portland - MELBOURNE - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES May 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km ---------- 1:27 500 000 CP-157 === Page 6 of 8 Mansfield VIC Wilsons Promontory Rainfall deficiencies 3 months 1 February - 31 May 1980 QLD Bundaberg Augathella Taroom Adavale Roma Kingaroy Durham Downs BRISBANE St. George Cunnamulla Tenterfield Tibooburra Walgett Armidale West Kempsey SA NSW Dubbo Newcastle SYDNEY West Wyalong ADELAIDE CANBERRA Kiandra VIC Moruya Heads Shepparton Bendigo Ararat MELBOURNE Gabo Island Sale Colac Wilsons Promontory Serious Serious Deficiency Severe Severe Deficiency TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies - 1 Dec 1979 to 31 May 1980 Rainfall deficiencies 1 DEC 79 to 31 MAY 80 FROM TEXT: IN PARA. 4, THE WORD "IN" SHOULD CODE "NEW SOUTH WALES". === Page 7 of 8 BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RAINFALL MAP OF NEW SOUTH WALES FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS ONLY M 2 SCALE IN KILOMETRES 0 100 200 400 at Latitude 33° S QUEENSLAND CORAL SEA AUSTRALIA SOUTH SEE INSET TASMAN SEA VICTORIA DISTRICT RAINFALL SUMMARY | DISTRICT | MEAN FOR APR. | PERCENTAGE DEPARTURE | From normal | |---|---|---|---| | 46 Western (Far North-west) | 34 | 205 | | | 47 Western (Lower Darling) | 83 | 701 | | | 48 Western (Upper Darling) | 17 | 25 | BELOW | | 49 Western (South-west Plains) | 46 | 100 | ABOVE | | 50 Central Western Plains (S) | 30 | 15 | BELOW | | 51 Central Western Plains (N) | 11 | 47 | | | 52 Northwest Plains (W) | 8 | 82 | | | 53 Northwest Plains (E) | 2 | 95 | | | 54 Northwest Slopes (N) | 4 | 93 | | | 55 Northwest Slopes (S) | 3 | 93 | | | 56 Northern Tablelands (W) | 5 | 88 | | | 57 Northern Tablelands (E) | 39 | 72 | | | 58 Upper North Coast | 33 | 77 | | | 59 Lower North Coast | 31 | 66 | | | 60 Manning | 4 | 96 | | | 61 Hunter | 1 | 98 | | | 62 Central Tablelands (N) | 7 | 85 | | | 63 Central Tablelands (S) | 16 | 64 | | | 64 Central Western Slopes (N) | 5 | 87 | | | 65 Central Western Slopes (S) | 2 | 96 | | | 66 Metropolitan (B) | 15 | 84 | | | 67 Metropolitan (W) | 15 | 84 | | | 68 Illawarra | 16 | 84 | | | 69 South Coast | 10 | 85 | | | 70 Southern Tablelands (Goulburn-Monaro) | 10 | 85 | | | 71 Southern Tablelands (Snowy Mountains) | 39 | 35 | | | 72 Southwest Slopes (S) | 21 | 36 | | | 73 Southwest Slopes (N) | 40 | 11 | ABOVE | | 74 Riverina (E) | 39 | 39 | | | 75 Riverina (W) | 39 | 39 | | Rainfall for APRIL Ending 9 a.m. 30/4/80 Rainfall totals are shown in millimetres. Issued by direction of the Director of Meteorology under the authority of the Minister for Science. PROJECTION Albers Conical Equal Area with two standard parallels 16° 30' S. and 34° 30' S. Above average rainfall Issued from the Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney N.S.W. on 1/5 19 80 at NOON am/pm Prepared by the Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne. August 1977 === Page 8 of 8 Mansfield VIC Wilsons Promontory Rainfall deficiencies 3 months 1 February - 31 May 1980 QLD Bundaberg Augathella Taroom Adavale Kingaroy Roma BRISBANE Durham Downs St. George Cunnamulla Tenterfield Walgett Armidale Tibooburra West Kempsey SA NSW Dubbo Newcastle SYDNEY West Wyalong CANBERRA ADELAIDE Kiandra VIC Shepparton Moruya Heads Bendigo Ararat MELBOURNE Gabo Island Sale Colac Wilsons Promontory SA = SOUTH AUSTRALIA QLD = QUEENSLAND VIC = VICTORIA NSW = NEW SOUTH WALES TAS = TASMANIA Serious Rainfall Deficiency Serious Deficiency Severe Rainfall Deficiency Severe Deficiency TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies - 1 Dec 1979 to 31 May 1980 31 MAY 1980 FROM TEXT: IN PARA. 4, THE WORD "IN" SHOULD READ "NEW SOUTH WALES" OFFICIAL CHART PREPARED FROM OFFICIAL FIGURES Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 New South Wales weather maps misc https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/875b5b9221c122243c8ff02a0b5fee2d.pdf 746093e0778cf62662af9846887fa0cb https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e1e6049ff012a9d0b4bddba13e575656.txt 9187650a78a3f93d21646ec54d121eb5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 15 Note: These earlier newsclips from Australia became misplaced and am just now getting them to you. Please put in World Rain Attack "in proper date order. Owens, 6/18/80. BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th St., Vancouver WASH 98665 U.S.A. April 9th, 1980 Dear Mr Owens, Having dispatched a letter of request to you this day in which I sought your aid in dispersing this drought which covers New South Wales (one of the states of Australia) and, indeed, most of the Australian continent, I now send some news-cuttings in confirmation. Yes, Mr Owens there is a drought and your help is needed to bring drought-breaking rains and good follow-up rains. I hope you give your human choice and permission. Thank You But for many graziers this will soon become financially impossible -- it would cost $650 to hand feed a cow for six months. **Affected areas** Many farmers are slaughtering stock and this number will soon spiral. average, with half of these on agistment in Queensland since mid-1979. The rest are foraging in the scrub for feed. WALGETT has been a drought area since last May. It has not known a good rainfall since December 1978. Farmers say their stock is already weak and will most dams are almost dry and even if good rain came now there would be no suitable winter growth of fodder -- only green shoots full of water. YASS had some rain in February but it was patchy and missed many properties. There is little feed and hay and grain is very expensive. BEGA's dairy production is slipping. There was a big storm in January but the rain was so heavy that most of it ran off the land and only a fraction soaked into the soil. HILLSTON has not had a good rainfall for about three years. Most properties still === Page 2 of 15 D/10 Mr. Bruce Kell 4 Torrington Road Strathfield NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA I began this work for Aust. late! But I use a nap until July 15. Owens MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver. WASH. 98665 U.S.A. April 9th 1980 Dear Sir, You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S.I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S.I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission. Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start. How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You. Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief? Best wishes Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK Note, Dr Mishlove: Mr Kell asks for rain on New South Wales... and more specifically (see his ltr of April 3 enclosed) on Armidale & Kempsey. I get it done; to do. See enclosed. Owens June 9, 1980 === Page 3 of 15 D/10 OK Mr. Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver . WASH. 98665 U. S. A. April 9th 1980 Dear Sir, You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S. I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S. I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission. Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start. How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You. Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief? Best wishes Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK === Page 4 of 15 MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76TH Street Vancouver WASH. 98665 U.S.A. BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 Dear Ted, Thank you for the UFO Disc and the thoughtful inclusion of magazine material and copy of letter to the P.M. concerning the Australia-wide drought. The P.M.'s name is MALCOLM FRASER. He has often been quoted as the originator of the phrase "LIFE WASN'T MEANT TO BE EASY" and being a farmer-grazier-rancher-cattleman as well as academically qualified, he should appreciate the vagaries of nature especially lack of rain. However he could not send public money. I had no idea you would approach him personally. By the way the full version of the above quotation is from George Bernard Shaw: " LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY MY CHILD BUT TAKE COURAGE IT CAN BE DELIGHTFUL " So please, Ted, use my small contributions towards bringing rain to Australia, especially those parts of New South Wales which include Armidale (Northern Tablelands) and KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) === Page 5 of 15 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 Disc and the give material and concerning the MALCOLM FRASER as the originator IT MEANT TO BE EASY rancher-cattleman qualified, he should of nature especially not send public money. would approach him version of the above Bernard Shaw: BY MY CHILD small contributions tralia, especially those include Armidale KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) AIR MAIL PAR AVION rec'd. 270.00 check Letter. Am going to send Aust. drought AUSTRALIA 15c Forest Kingfisher AUSTRALIA BARRIER REEF ADDRESS MAIL TO PRIVATE BOX NO. IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver WASHINGTON 98665 U.S.A. C. 270 Ric on Wall no "Course..." (Northern Tablelands) and === Page 6 of 15 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76TH Street Vancouver WASH. 98665 U.S.A. Dear Ted, Thank you for the UFO Disc and the thoughtful inclusion of magazine material and copy of letter to the P.M. concerning the Australia-wide drought. The P.M.'s name is MALCOLM FRASER. He has often been quoted as the originator of the phrase "LIFE WASN'T MEANT TO BE EASY" and being a farmer-grazier-rancher-cattleman as well as academically qualified, he should appreciate the vagaries of nature especially lack of rain. However he could not send public money. I had no idea you would approach him personally. By the way the full version of the above quotation is from George Bernard Shaw: "LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY MY CHILD BUT TAKE COURAGE IT CAN BE DELIGHTFUL" So please, Ted, use my small contributions towards bringing rain to Australia, especially those parts of New South Wales which include Armidale (Northern Tablelands) and KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) === Page 7 of 15 2. I am aware that help is needed for your work and research and I am aware that should you place my photo on your Healing Wall, any healing would be maximised. However my first thought and object in contacting you, was to ask assistance and intercession to bring rain to this parched continent of Australia. I doubt if you would respect me very much if I now choose to dump Australia and concentrate on my own personal needs. Additionally I know you have advertised a course for $50 so I feel I could take this course personally (plus extra for say $20 AIR MAIL postage). total - - - - - - - - - - $ 70 Maybe I could include a donation which could be halved as being towards drought relief of Australia $ 100 personal relief through "Healing Wall" $ 100 I trust this arrives safely cheque for $ 270 Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. Please excuse bank check but it is difficult to obtain United States Currency to the ABOVE amount. BK. === Page 8 of 15 8 June 1980 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 100 NE 76th Street Vancouver Washington 98665 U.S.A. Revered Sir, This short article from a recent newspaper should be of interest to you in your research and development. Regretfully news editors are "on strike" or a more detailed article may have been printed. Best wishes Respectfully, Bruce BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA P.S. $10 encl. === Page 9 of 15 Mr. TED OWENS, (PK MAN) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, WASH. 98665 U.S.A. 12th June 1980 Dear Mr. OWENS, Revered Sir, I should have some further visual aids before the end of the month but I wondered if you care to view the enclosed chart as soon as possible because of the immediate relevance of the figures in a time-wise sense. There is no doubt that two cities mentioned in a previous note, have been placed just outside the area of serious rainfall deficiency. Thank you for your continued interest and for retaining your objectives . With best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD, N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA === Page 10 of 15 Friday June 13th, 1980 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. Dear Mr Owens, Revered Sir, Unfortunately there is a hold up in preparation of the Monthly Weather Review for New South Wales for May 1980. However, I enclose the M.W.R. for N.S.W. for April 1980 together with some rainfall maps for Australia (April also) and a rainfall deficiency map for South-East Australia. The latter map I have already forwarded to you under separate cover. Once again I thank you for your continued interest, with best wishes for yourself and your auspicious friendship. Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA. P.S. ENCL $20 === Page 11 of 15 Mr. TED OWENS (PK MAN) 200 NE 76th STREET, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. 18th June 1980 Dear Mr. Owens, Revered Sir, I enclose two more rainfall maps prepared at the BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY and I hope they are suitable for your research purposes. Thank you for your thoughtful enclosures with your recent letters. The prospects which open before you are certainly scintillating, interesting and exciting. Unfortunately, the publishers HARCOURT, BRACE representative in Australia says that Earth's Ambassador is not listed in the 1980 catalogue. I shall write direct to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlowe for a copy unless the local rep. is able to find it in a supplement to his normal catalogue. Thank you again. We have been distressed to learn of the devastation caused by the exploding volcano Mount St Helens. Our T.V. newsprogram showed the volcanic ash settling like dirty snow over the city of Portland. OR but fortunately some rain helped to wash the ash away. Again, best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship, Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL, 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA P.S. Encl $20. === Page 12 of 15 6-26-80 postmark Jeffrey June 24, 1980 Dear Bruce: Let us not stand on formality. I will call you Bruce; you call me Ted. Thank you very much for the $40 that I received today to help in my work. (What I really need is about a thousand a month for a year, to do what I have to do. What Australia needs is a vast amount of rains, everywhere; what I need are the monies to keep on bringing the rains to Australia. But I realize that of course you could not supply that; it is a pity that the country of Australia, somehow, could not.) The information that you have just sent re the month of April (the official reports) is excellent; superb. Thank you so much. Do try and secure much the same for May, if and when you can, all right? Now with regard to the book that the scientist has written. Not long ago the Editor of which Mr. D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Mishlove informed me that Harcourt Brace, had wanted the book very much and given them an advance of $5,000 to write it...had had their Editor resign, and a new Editor was hired...who negated the book and took half of the advance monies back. So the scientists now have the book in the hands of two other publishing houses in order to have it published. I have a complete copy of the book in ms. form, and it is a marvelous work...a scientific, critical evaluation of ten years of my work under the observation of scientists. Since no one else in human history (after biblical times) has been able to perform what I can do and document it satisfactorily with scientists...the book, naturally, is one of a kind. Never one before like it, and there will never be another like it. It is possible that Dr. Mishlove might furnish you with a copy of the manuscript, if you covered the expense of xeroxing it, postage, etc. It runs to about 300 pages, I believe, and is very big and heavy. There is no need to be "distressed" about Mt. St. Helens. It is one of my demonstrations (negative) to pressure the U.S. Government into providing me with a base so that I can do the kind of work that I want to, around the world, from that secure base. (Other negative demonstrations are also at work.) Years ago I gave a positive demonstration with a volcano in Sicily...Mt. Aetna...stopping it and saving the villages on its side from lava flow. Yes, much ash has fallen onto Portland and onto my city, Vancouver, which is close to Portland. My family and myself all wear special NIOSH TC-23 masks outside in order to filter out the microscopic silica contained within the ash which fills the air. (About 70%-80% silica; tiny, microscopic "knives" which the lungs cannot expel once inhaled and which will chop up the lungs on the inside within 3-5 years time ahead. My last giant demonstration was to control the State of Florida (Miami, etc.,) for one complete year. For information about that you can write to an Air Force weather expert who observed the demonstration from beginning to end and who is writing a book about it. His name is: Mr. Wayne Grover, 3282 Parade Pl., Lantana, Florida, 33462. You can tell him that now I am doing with you what I sort of did with him...except this time I am controlling an entire continent instead of just a State in the U.S. My work in controlling Florida is discussed in length in "Earth's Ambassador" by Dr. Mishlove and Rogo, incidentally. * which will cost 2-5 million dollars (also covering my expenses for 5 years to get the "world" job done. === Page 13 of 15 2 It occurs to me that perhaps I should go into the methodology that I am using to bring about the results that I am bringing, and will bring, onto Australia...vast amounts of rain. Floods, most probably, overall, but that cannot be helped. You, Bruce, are my "forward artillery observer" in Australia. As you know, in a war someone often must sneak through enemy lines with a radio, find enemy artillery, and radio back the position of the artillery so that his own side can then shoot missiles, cannon, etc., in order to eliminate the enemy artillery. You are my eyes and ears in Australia, and you "radio" me via your maps and information so that I can do my work. I, in turn, am the "forward artillery observer" for the UFOs that I work with and for...and have for long years, documented with scientists. (This, too, is discussed at length in "Earth's Ambassador".) It is my duty to use a "PK Map", a map of Australia, (crudely drawn, it is true;) utilizing the psi-force symbols to be placed into action each day by my UFOs. Each day I "activate" this special map of Australia,...that is, putting the psi-force into action mentally...and telepathing the whole thing to my UFOs...who then make the necessary weather changes for Australia, to bring rains (that is why UFOs were seen there recently.) Close liaison, therefore, is necessary between myself and my UFOs. Joining us in this is The Mayan Power, Xtolac, with whom I just recently made contact in Yucatan, for the first time...being guided by my UFOs to the right place to do so and instructed by them in just how to go about it safely. You make inquiry about as is Xtolac The Egyptian Power, "PyrCre"...short for Pyramid Creature. This is a living entity...invisible, true, but so are X-rays and they can also be deadly. It was placed in the Giza Valley area ages ago by my UFOs in order to guard the key pyramids and temples in the area. Not from robbery of gold, silver and jewels...but to guard the priceless wisdom and knowledge left there for those to come with an alien brain who know how to "tap" these "libraries" of infinite knowledge. My UFOs took me there, to the "key" places, and instructed me in how to link up with the tremendous living entity there (its name is not really PyrCre, but I am not allowed to divulge the real one...so it must be called PyrCre). Also I was given an encapsulated "dose" of in my mind the priceless wisdom, knowledge and understanding...which slowly unfolds as time passes and as my half-human, half-alien brain is able to absorb it safely. I hope that the above gives you a bit of insight into the giant picture of which the majority of humans would only be able to see a tiny corner of. (Improper English, but correct thought.) Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... after I end Australia's drought completely I'll send you a copy of my UFO file! === Page 14 of 15 Mr. Ted Owens P.K. Man 200 NE 76th Street VANCOUVER WASH. 98665 U.S.A. Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA 16th May 1980 Dear Ted, I enclose some newsclippings reference the breaking of the drought in certain parts of Australia, in particular the north coast and the northern tablelands for which I specifically asked your help. Thank You. Please understand the need for "follow up" rain. I have not heard from you since sending a bank check on April 30th. Perhaps I shall enclose S.A.E. with this short note. (AIR MAIL is always expedient) Thank you for the UFO Disc. (I sent $10 to Western Research Center but perhaps it went astray.) Trusting you are keeping well and enjoying life, Yours faithfully, Bruce. === Page 15 of 15 Mr. Ted Owens PK man 200 NE 76th Street VANCOUVER WASHINGTON 98665 U.S.A BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 MAY 17, 1980 Dear Ted, Yes. You have shown what you can do for one part of Australia and I have already forwarded to you by AIR MAIL, documentary ie. newspaper evidence of ending the drought for those specified areas. I now enclose some more drought clippings for areas which have not received 'your considerable attention, with the plea "NEXT PLEASE?" Thank you for listening to my plea and prayers. With best wishes yours faithfully, Bruce Kell. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY # DROUGHT REVIEW # AUSTRALIA NUMBER 119 Issued June 1980 === Page 2 of 3 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY GPO Box 1289K MELBOURNE VIC 3001 STATEMENT ON DROUGHT ISSUED BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY, 6 JUNE 1980 The acting Director of Meteorology, Mr R.B. Crowder, said today that rainfall during May had been above average over much of eastern Queensland, northeastern New South Wales and on parts of Tasmania's east coast. Districts in which rainfall for the month was near the highest on record include the North Coast, Northern Tablelands and the Central Western Plains in New South Wales and parts of Moreton and the East Darling Downs in Queensland. Extensive flooding occurred around Grafton, New South Wales, in the first half of the month. During the three months ending 31 May 1980, near to or above average rain has fallen over much of Australia. Exceptions to this include far western Queensland, the areas around Gladstone in Queensland, Moree in New South Wales, and a band from the Great Dividing Range to the coast, southwards from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and including northeast Victoria and Gippsland. One large area of continuing severe rainfall deficiency (for the 6 months ending 31 May 1980) is along the New South Wales-Queensland border, and includes parts of the Darling Downs and the Northwest Slopes and Plains. Other smaller areas of severe deficiency exist in far southwest Queensland, the Hunter and Central Tablelands in New South Wales, and parts of the lower Northeast and West Gippsland in Victoria, with === Page 3 of 3 pockets in Victoria's West Central District, west of Melbourne. In Queensland, for the six month period December 1979 to May 1980, parts of the Darling Downs, Warrego, Maranoa and far southwest districts are still in a situation of serious rainfall deficiency. In New South Wales, parts of the Northwest Slopes and Plains, the Northern Tablelands and the Hunter and Manning districts are still experiencing a serious deficiency. This is in contrast to the extreme northeast of the State, where the flood rains brought a break to the drought during the month. The far southeast of New South Wales, and much of eastern Victoria, is still in a seriously rainfall deficient situation, with parts of the New South Wales Central and Southern Tablelands, the Southwest Slopes and the South Coast being affected, together with much of northeastern Victoria and Gippsland. Parts of central Victoria are also in a situation of serious rainfall deficiency. A significant easing of the drought situation along the east coast of Tasmania resulted from the widespread rain that fell in the last week of May. The map shows the area and severity of rainfall deficiencies, and the tables give statistics of rainfall for selected stations in and near the affected areas. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Australia Drought Review Statement no 119